2011-11-14
Original: 2011-11-14 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: An elderly man lies in bed.
Dying man: "Aw. It's a shame life only lasts nine months. My end draws closer every second. It's been a life well-lived, and I..."
Panel 2: A bright light appears.
Dying man: "*GASP!* A light! Aah. The embrace of the afterlife. So bright. I can only imagine what sublime beauty waits beyond the pale of eternity."
Panel 3: A doctor (in a surgical cap and mask, green scrubs) is seen.
Dying man: "What the- where are the golden gates?!"
Panel 4: A woman with red hair (the mother) lies beside the doctor, both looking on.
Dying man: "Where are the ageless angels?!"
Panel 5: A close-up of a baby's startled face, wide-eyed.
Panel 6: The baby's wide eyes again.
Panel 7: The newborn baby wails, held in the doctor's hands.
Baby: "WAAAAAAAAAAH!"
Votey: A close-up of a man's face. He says, in a speech bubble: "GIVE ME BOOBS."
Dying man: "Aw. It's a shame life only lasts nine months. My end draws closer every second. It's been a life well-lived, and I..."
Panel 2: A bright light appears.
Dying man: "*GASP!* A light! Aah. The embrace of the afterlife. So bright. I can only imagine what sublime beauty waits beyond the pale of eternity."
Panel 3: A doctor (in a surgical cap and mask, green scrubs) is seen.
Dying man: "What the- where are the golden gates?!"
Panel 4: A woman with red hair (the mother) lies beside the doctor, both looking on.
Dying man: "Where are the ageless angels?!"
Panel 5: A close-up of a baby's startled face, wide-eyed.
Panel 6: The baby's wide eyes again.
Panel 7: The newborn baby wails, held in the doctor's hands.
Baby: "WAAAAAAAAAAH!"
Votey: A close-up of a man's face. He says, in a speech bubble: "GIVE ME BOOBS."
Alt text
A vertical SMBC comic. An old man lies dying in bed, narrating that life "only lasts nine months" and that his end draws near after a life well-lived. A bright light appears and he rapturously describes the afterlife's sublime beauty beyond eternity. But instead of golden gates he sees a masked doctor in green scrubs; he demands, "Where are the golden gates?!" and "Where are the ageless angels?!" The next panels reveal his point of view is actually that of a newborn: a baby's wide, startled eyes, then the infant wailing "WAAAAAAAAAAH!" in the doctor's hands beside a red-haired mother. The joke: the "nine-month life" was gestation, and his death is actually being born. Votey: a close-up of a man's face flatly demanding, "GIVE ME BOOBS."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.