2009-09-22
Original: 2009-09-22 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title text (above the comic): MAKE YOUR OWN MATRYOSHKA DOLL! EACH ARGUMENT FITS INSIDE THE NEXT UNTIL YOU REACH THE TRUTH [CUT ALONG THE ORANGE LINE]
The comic is drawn as a series of nested, trapezoidal panels stacked vertically, each smaller and inside the next (matryoshka-doll style), all showing the same dark-haired woman in a pink top and green pants breaking up with someone (the "you" she addresses, who is off-panel / the reader).
Panel 1 (outermost): Woman: "There are many beautiful souls in this universe, but I need a soulmate."
Panel 2: Woman: "It's not you, it's me."
Panel 3: Woman: "It's not you, it's your face, hair, body, and teeth."
Panel 4: Woman: "I saw you masturbating and adjusting your fantasy football league at the same time."
Panel 5 (innermost / the "truth"): Woman: "There are many beautiful souls in this universe, but I need one with a bigger penis."
Votey:
A bearded man and the woman lie together in bed.
Man: "Tell me the real reason!"
Woman: "I sorta... thought you were the XKCD guy."
The comic is drawn as a series of nested, trapezoidal panels stacked vertically, each smaller and inside the next (matryoshka-doll style), all showing the same dark-haired woman in a pink top and green pants breaking up with someone (the "you" she addresses, who is off-panel / the reader).
Panel 1 (outermost): Woman: "There are many beautiful souls in this universe, but I need a soulmate."
Panel 2: Woman: "It's not you, it's me."
Panel 3: Woman: "It's not you, it's your face, hair, body, and teeth."
Panel 4: Woman: "I saw you masturbating and adjusting your fantasy football league at the same time."
Panel 5 (innermost / the "truth"): Woman: "There are many beautiful souls in this universe, but I need one with a bigger penis."
Votey:
A bearded man and the woman lie together in bed.
Man: "Tell me the real reason!"
Woman: "I sorta... thought you were the XKCD guy."
Alt text
A vertical SMBC comic with the header "Make your own matryoshka doll! Each argument fits inside the next until you reach the truth [cut along the orange line]." Five trapezoidal panels are nested one inside the next, like a Russian nesting doll, each showing the same dark-haired woman in a pink top breaking up with an unseen partner, her excuses peeling back toward the real reason. From outermost to innermost she says: "There are many beautiful souls in this universe, but I need a soulmate"; "It's not you, it's me"; "It's not you, it's your face, hair, body, and teeth"; "I saw you masturbating and adjusting your fantasy football league at the same time"; and finally, at the center/truth, "There are many beautiful souls in this universe, but I need one with a bigger penis." Votey: the woman lies in bed with a bearded man, who demands, "Tell me the real reason!" She replies, "I sorta... thought you were the XKCD guy."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.