2012-03-12
Original: 2012-03-12 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (color):
A boy in a Peter Pan costume stands at an open window at night, one arm flung toward the starry sky, grinning. Three children watch him from inside the room.
Peter Pan figure: "SECOND STAR TO THE RIGHT AND STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING!"
Panel 2 (color, set against a black starry sky):
The scene turns to horror. The three children and the Peter Pan figure are now flying through the dark night sky. One child in a yellow nightgown is curled up rigid and terrified. Another child, in blue, hunches in midair clutching himself with a pained, scared expression. The Peter Pan figure clutches his own face in panic, mouth open. A girl in a pink dress, hair streaming upward, claws at her own face screaming. All of them look terrified rather than delighted.
Votey:
A scratchy black-and-white drawing of a smug-looking man leaning on his elbow at a desk.
Man: "PETER PAN IS UNREALISTIC!"
A boy in a Peter Pan costume stands at an open window at night, one arm flung toward the starry sky, grinning. Three children watch him from inside the room.
Peter Pan figure: "SECOND STAR TO THE RIGHT AND STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING!"
Panel 2 (color, set against a black starry sky):
The scene turns to horror. The three children and the Peter Pan figure are now flying through the dark night sky. One child in a yellow nightgown is curled up rigid and terrified. Another child, in blue, hunches in midair clutching himself with a pained, scared expression. The Peter Pan figure clutches his own face in panic, mouth open. A girl in a pink dress, hair streaming upward, claws at her own face screaming. All of them look terrified rather than delighted.
Votey:
A scratchy black-and-white drawing of a smug-looking man leaning on his elbow at a desk.
Man: "PETER PAN IS UNREALISTIC!"
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Panel one, in color: a boy dressed as Peter Pan stands at an open window at night, arm thrown toward a starry sky, grinning, as three children watch. He shouts, "SECOND STAR TO THE RIGHT AND STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING!" Panel two, against a black star-filled sky: the same four kids are now flying through the night, but instead of joy they are gripped with terror -- one child curled rigid in a yellow nightgown, a boy in blue hunched and clutching himself, the Peter Pan figure clutching his own face in panic, and a girl in a pink dress with hair blown upward clawing at her face and screaming. The joke: actually flying off into the night sky would be horrifying. Votey (a separate scratchy black-and-white panel): a smug man leaning on his elbow at a desk declares, "PETER PAN IS UNREALISTIC!" -- the stereotypical pedantic critic missing the point.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.