2013-04-21
Original: 2013-04-21 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title (banner across top): EVERYONE'S BRAIN IS A DORIAN GREY
Panel 1:
A woman holding a small book (fantasy novel) faces a man in a yellow shirt and blue tie, who looks angry.
Man: "YOU CAN'T SPEND YOUR WHOLE LIFE READING FANTASY NOVELS! GROW UP!"
Panel 2:
The woman, now looking determined/defiant, points off-panel toward another person whose face is partly visible at the right edge.
Woman: "THIS FACE GETS OLDER. I STAY THE SAME AGE."
Votey:
A man with a tired/bored expression listens to a speech bubble.
Woman (off-panel speech bubble, first): "YOU USE THAT JOKE A LOT."
Reply speech bubble: "IT GETS OLDER. I STAY THE SAME AGE."
Panel 1:
A woman holding a small book (fantasy novel) faces a man in a yellow shirt and blue tie, who looks angry.
Man: "YOU CAN'T SPEND YOUR WHOLE LIFE READING FANTASY NOVELS! GROW UP!"
Panel 2:
The woman, now looking determined/defiant, points off-panel toward another person whose face is partly visible at the right edge.
Woman: "THIS FACE GETS OLDER. I STAY THE SAME AGE."
Votey:
A man with a tired/bored expression listens to a speech bubble.
Woman (off-panel speech bubble, first): "YOU USE THAT JOKE A LOT."
Reply speech bubble: "IT GETS OLDER. I STAY THE SAME AGE."
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic titled "EVERYONE'S BRAIN IS A DORIAN GREY." Panel 1: an angry man in a yellow shirt and tie scolds a woman holding a fantasy novel, shouting "You can't spend your whole life reading fantasy novels! Grow up!" Panel 2: the woman, looking defiant, points at the man and declares "This face gets older. I stay the same age" - casting his aging face as the painting of Dorian Gray while she remains young in her fantasy-fueled mind. Votey (bonus panel): a weary-looking man hears someone say "You use that joke a lot," and tiredly replies "It gets older. I stay the same age" - recycling the same line about the joke itself.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.