2009-09-03
Original: 2009-09-03 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A woman with mime-style face paint (dark eye markings, painted features) sits at a table across from a red-haired man, who is shown from behind in the foreground. She holds her hand up near her face, miming as if talking on a telephone, smiling.
Panel 2: The mime woman sits with arms folded/crossed, looking down, expression subdued.
Panel 3: The mime woman holds both hands up flat, palms out, as if pressing against an invisible wall (classic mime gesture), smiling, while the red-haired man watches from the foreground.
Panel 4: The red-haired man sits alone at the table, looking off to the side with a slightly perplexed, downcast expression. The woman is gone.
Caption (below the comic): It took about ten minutes to realize the mime had broken up with me.
Votey: A man with a troubled, slightly hurt expression looks down at his own raised hand, which is making an obscene gesture — extending his middle finger at him.
Panel 2: The mime woman sits with arms folded/crossed, looking down, expression subdued.
Panel 3: The mime woman holds both hands up flat, palms out, as if pressing against an invisible wall (classic mime gesture), smiling, while the red-haired man watches from the foreground.
Panel 4: The red-haired man sits alone at the table, looking off to the side with a slightly perplexed, downcast expression. The woman is gone.
Caption (below the comic): It took about ten minutes to realize the mime had broken up with me.
Votey: A man with a troubled, slightly hurt expression looks down at his own raised hand, which is making an obscene gesture — extending his middle finger at him.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. A man with red hair sits at a table across from a woman wearing mime face paint. In panel one she mimes talking on a phone; in panel two she sits with arms folded, subdued; in panel three she presses her flat hands against an invisible wall, the classic mime 'trapped in a box' gesture. In panel four the man sits alone at the table looking confused and a little sad. The caption reads: 'It took about ten minutes to realize the mime had broken up with me.' The joke: her silent mime gestures were actually her breaking up with him, but he didn't understand until she'd already left. Votey aftercomic: a man looks down with a hurt expression at his own raised hand, which is flipping the middle finger at him.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.