2013-06-21
Original: 2013-06-21 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A young man with orange hair stands looking up at a tall mountain across a valley. He says: "If I could just get to the top of that mountain, I'd be happy."
Panel 2: The man climbs up the side of a steep rock cliff.
Panel 3: He continues climbing higher up the purple-tinted cliff face.
Panel 4 (close-up): The man, now older and balding, peers over an edge.
Panel 5: A close-up of the man's face, now elderly with wrinkles, smiling slightly.
Panel 6: Another close-up of his elderly face, looking weary/serious.
Panel 7: The old man, now white-haired, stands among snowy peaks and tall green crystal-like formations at the summit.
Panel 8: Close-up of the old man at the top, looking out. He says: "I couldn't see these down there."
Votey: An elderly man lies in a bed. A speech bubble (from an unseen second person) says: "You've never seen a mountain, have you?" The old man, with glasses, replies: "Why?"
Panel 2: The man climbs up the side of a steep rock cliff.
Panel 3: He continues climbing higher up the purple-tinted cliff face.
Panel 4 (close-up): The man, now older and balding, peers over an edge.
Panel 5: A close-up of the man's face, now elderly with wrinkles, smiling slightly.
Panel 6: Another close-up of his elderly face, looking weary/serious.
Panel 7: The old man, now white-haired, stands among snowy peaks and tall green crystal-like formations at the summit.
Panel 8: Close-up of the old man at the top, looking out. He says: "I couldn't see these down there."
Votey: An elderly man lies in a bed. A speech bubble (from an unseen second person) says: "You've never seen a mountain, have you?" The old man, with glasses, replies: "Why?"
Alt text
An eight-panel SMBC comic, read top to bottom as one tall strip. In the first panel a young orange-haired man gazes up at a distant mountain and says, "If I could just get to the top of that mountain, I'd be happy." Successive panels show him climbing a steep cliff face, growing visibly older as he ascends. By the upper panels he is an elderly, white-haired man. At the snowy summit he stands among tall green crystalline rock formations and says, "I couldn't see these down there" - the lifelong climb let him discover beauty invisible from the valley below. Votey (bonus panel): An elderly man with glasses lies in a bed; an unseen speaker asks, "You've never seen a mountain, have you?" and the man replies, "Why?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.