2012-03-19
Original: 2012-03-19 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A pregnant woman with reddish hair and round glasses, wearing a green V-neck shirt, smiles.
Woman: "ONCE I GIVE BIRTH, I'LL BE LIKE SPIDERMAN."
Panel 2: The same woman grins and gestures, against a purple background.
Woman: "AHA! THERE WE GO!"
Panel 3: A nighttime city rooftop scene. The woman leans out and flings a baby (in a diaper) across a gap, the baby attached by a red umbilical-cord-like line to her hand, swinging it like Spider-Man's web.
Panel 4: The woman swings from the red umbilical cord between dark buildings, gripping it overhead with both hands, laughing wildly.
Woman: "HAHAHAHAHA!"
Panel 5: Years later, against a red background. A grown person with glasses (the now-adult child, seen from behind) faces the older mother, who has grey-brown hair and round glasses.
Grown child: "MOM, WAS I EVER A DISAPPOINTMENT?"
Mother (uneasy expression): "...OF COURSE NOT."
Votey:
A rough sketch panel. The mother, in glasses, leans over the bearded grown child who is holding a paper.
Mother: "YOU NEED TO SLEEP MORE"
Woman: "ONCE I GIVE BIRTH, I'LL BE LIKE SPIDERMAN."
Panel 2: The same woman grins and gestures, against a purple background.
Woman: "AHA! THERE WE GO!"
Panel 3: A nighttime city rooftop scene. The woman leans out and flings a baby (in a diaper) across a gap, the baby attached by a red umbilical-cord-like line to her hand, swinging it like Spider-Man's web.
Panel 4: The woman swings from the red umbilical cord between dark buildings, gripping it overhead with both hands, laughing wildly.
Woman: "HAHAHAHAHA!"
Panel 5: Years later, against a red background. A grown person with glasses (the now-adult child, seen from behind) faces the older mother, who has grey-brown hair and round glasses.
Grown child: "MOM, WAS I EVER A DISAPPOINTMENT?"
Mother (uneasy expression): "...OF COURSE NOT."
Votey:
A rough sketch panel. The mother, in glasses, leans over the bearded grown child who is holding a paper.
Mother: "YOU NEED TO SLEEP MORE"
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic. In the first two panels, a pregnant red-haired woman in glasses and a green shirt happily declares, "Once I give birth, I'll be like Spiderman," then exclaims "Aha! There we go!" In the third panel, on a dark city rooftop at night, she flings her newborn baby across a gap; the baby is tethered to her by its long red umbilical cord, used like a Spider-Man web-line. In the fourth panel she swings between buildings hanging from the umbilical cord, laughing maniacally. The final panel jumps years ahead against a red background: her now-grown child asks, "Mom, was I ever a disappointment?" and the older mother, looking uneasy, replies, "...Of course not." Votey (bonus panel): in a rough sketch, the mother leans over her bearded adult child, who holds a paper, and says, "You need to sleep more."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.