2010-02-05
Original: 2010-02-05 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A man with combed hair (the missionary) approaches another man (the smiling man) at his door.
Missionary: Hey! May I tell you about the Lord Jesus Christ?
Smiling man: Sure! Come on in!
Panel 2: The smiling man holds the door open into a dark interior.
Panel 3: The missionary stands in the dark room, confused, as a tall shadowy figure looms.
Missionary: What the--
Panel 4: Close on the missionary, alarmed, with a panicked thought; he is being grabbed/pulled.
Missionary (thought): !!!
Panel 5: The missionary falls, screaming, down a long deep shaft/pit.
Missionary: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH (a very long scream stretching down the entire tall panel)
Panel 6 (bottom of the fall): The tiny figure of the missionary continues to fall down the seemingly bottomless pit.
Panel 7: The man (now shown as a red-haired man) jolts awake in bed next to a woman.
Red-haired man: GAH!
Panel 8: He sits up in bed beside the woman.
Woman: I had THAT same horrible dream!
Panel 9: The two of them, close together.
Red-haired man: The one where you're a Jehovah's Witness?
Woman: YEAH.
Votey: A person sits hunched at a desk, pen in hand, with a large thought bubble.
Thought bubble: I'M TIRED OF COMICS THAT COULD EVER FIT IN A BOOK!
Missionary: Hey! May I tell you about the Lord Jesus Christ?
Smiling man: Sure! Come on in!
Panel 2: The smiling man holds the door open into a dark interior.
Panel 3: The missionary stands in the dark room, confused, as a tall shadowy figure looms.
Missionary: What the--
Panel 4: Close on the missionary, alarmed, with a panicked thought; he is being grabbed/pulled.
Missionary (thought): !!!
Panel 5: The missionary falls, screaming, down a long deep shaft/pit.
Missionary: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH (a very long scream stretching down the entire tall panel)
Panel 6 (bottom of the fall): The tiny figure of the missionary continues to fall down the seemingly bottomless pit.
Panel 7: The man (now shown as a red-haired man) jolts awake in bed next to a woman.
Red-haired man: GAH!
Panel 8: He sits up in bed beside the woman.
Woman: I had THAT same horrible dream!
Panel 9: The two of them, close together.
Red-haired man: The one where you're a Jehovah's Witness?
Woman: YEAH.
Votey: A person sits hunched at a desk, pen in hand, with a large thought bubble.
Thought bubble: I'M TIRED OF COMICS THAT COULD EVER FIT IN A BOOK!
Alt text
A very tall vertical SMBC comic. A neatly combed man knocks on a door and asks, "Hey! May I tell you about the Lord Jesus Christ?" The man at the door grins and says, "Sure! Come on in!" and holds open a door into a dark room. Inside, a tall shadowy figure looms over the visitor, who says "What the--" Then, alarmed, he is seized and plunges screaming down an extremely long, narrow pit, his scream drawn as an enormous stretched-out "AAAAAAAH" running the full towering height of the panel; his tiny falling body grows smaller toward the seemingly bottomless bottom. He then jolts awake in bed shouting "GAH!" next to a woman, who says, "I had THAT same horrible dream!" He asks, "The one where you're a Jehovah's Witness?" and she replies, "YEAH." Votey: a black-and-white drawing of a cartoonist hunched over a desk with pen in hand, thinking in a big bubble, "I'm tired of comics that could ever fit in a book!" -- a self-deprecating joke about the comic's absurd height.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.