2013-04-27
Original: 2013-04-27 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single illustrated panel):
A woman with long dark hair and a man named Jon (an older man with gray hair) stand by a window at night, looking out at a starry sky. The woman has a hand on the man's shoulder.
Woman: WHY DO I FIND YOU STARING INTO THE DARKNESS SOME NIGHTS? WHAT IS IT JON?
Woman: IS IT A SECRET SO DARK THAT THE SHARED KNOWLEDGE WOULD ALWAYS BE A WEDGE BETWEEN US?
Jon: YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND.
Woman: UH... YEAH.
Line graph beneath the panel:
Y-axis label: DESIRE TO OWN ALL STAR WARS COLLECTIBLES
X-axis label: AGE (marked 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80)
The curve rises to a large hump peaking around age 10-15, then drops to near zero through the 30s. Starting around age 40 and continuing into the 70s, a series of tall narrow spikes appear, several reaching very high.
Votey:
A rough hand-drawn man's face. Speech bubble: EVERY MAN CARRIES A SECRET WOUND INSIDE.
A woman with long dark hair and a man named Jon (an older man with gray hair) stand by a window at night, looking out at a starry sky. The woman has a hand on the man's shoulder.
Woman: WHY DO I FIND YOU STARING INTO THE DARKNESS SOME NIGHTS? WHAT IS IT JON?
Woman: IS IT A SECRET SO DARK THAT THE SHARED KNOWLEDGE WOULD ALWAYS BE A WEDGE BETWEEN US?
Jon: YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND.
Woman: UH... YEAH.
Line graph beneath the panel:
Y-axis label: DESIRE TO OWN ALL STAR WARS COLLECTIBLES
X-axis label: AGE (marked 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80)
The curve rises to a large hump peaking around age 10-15, then drops to near zero through the 30s. Starting around age 40 and continuing into the 70s, a series of tall narrow spikes appear, several reaching very high.
Votey:
A rough hand-drawn man's face. Speech bubble: EVERY MAN CARRIES A SECRET WOUND INSIDE.
Alt text
An SMBC comic. Main panel: at night, a woman with long dark hair rests a hand on the shoulder of an older gray-haired man named Jon as they stand at a window looking out at a starry sky. The woman asks, "Why do I find you staring into the darkness some nights? What is it Jon? Is it a secret so dark that the shared knowledge would always be a wedge between us?" Jon replies, "You wouldn't understand." The woman responds, "Uh... yeah." Below the panel is a line graph titled "Desire to own all Star Wars collectibles" on the Y-axis versus "Age" on the X-axis (10 to 80). The curve forms a big childhood hump peaking around age 10-15, falls to near zero through the 30s, then spikes sharply upward again from age 40 onward into the 70s. The joke: Jon's brooding "secret wound" is really just a recurring middle-aged urge to buy Star Wars collectibles. Votey (aftercomic): a crudely sketched man's face with a speech bubble reading, "Every man carries a secret wound inside."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.