2012-10-05
Original: 2012-10-05 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (text on a pink plaque):
The eyes may be the window to the soul, but the softest things in your body degrade most quickly. Your hair will linger on long after you die. It's the part of you that's most dead. It's the part that won't notice the stilling of your heart and chilling of your blood. And yet it's the part you take the most care of. The part you hope the world appreciates. Because in your heart you know nobody will ever understand what your life meant, so you might as well burnish the lie.
Panel 2 (no dialogue):
A frowning, sad-looking woman with dark hair holds up a large yellow bottle of conditioner. The bottle has a blue star on it and a handwritten label reading: "The Human Condition(er)".
Votey:
A simple sketch of a person with messy/full hair sitting and looking up wistfully, with a bottle resting nearby. No text.
The eyes may be the window to the soul, but the softest things in your body degrade most quickly. Your hair will linger on long after you die. It's the part of you that's most dead. It's the part that won't notice the stilling of your heart and chilling of your blood. And yet it's the part you take the most care of. The part you hope the world appreciates. Because in your heart you know nobody will ever understand what your life meant, so you might as well burnish the lie.
Panel 2 (no dialogue):
A frowning, sad-looking woman with dark hair holds up a large yellow bottle of conditioner. The bottle has a blue star on it and a handwritten label reading: "The Human Condition(er)".
Votey:
A simple sketch of a person with messy/full hair sitting and looking up wistfully, with a bottle resting nearby. No text.
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. The first panel is a wall of somber text on a pink plaque: "The eyes may be the window to the soul, but the softest things in your body degrade most quickly. Your hair will linger on long after you die. It's the part of you that's most dead... And yet it's the part you take the most care of... Because in your heart you know nobody will ever understand what your life meant, so you might as well burnish the lie." The second panel shows a frowning, sad-eyed woman with dark hair holding up a large yellow bottle of hair conditioner adorned with a blue star and a handwritten label reading "The Human Condition(er)" -- the meditation on death and meaningless hair-grooming is revealed to be a punny shampoo-bottle slogan. Votey: a small black-and-white sketch of a person with full, messy hair sitting and gazing upward wistfully, a bottle resting beside them.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.