2013-07-01
Original: 2013-07-01 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
A couple lies in bed at night in the dark, talking. A woman speaks the long anxious monologue; a man lies beside her and responds.
Panel 1 (woman):
DO YOU EVER LAY AWAKE AT NIGHT AND WANDER IF THE BABY INSIDE ME WILL NEVER STOP GROWING?
Panel 2 (woman):
THAT IT WILL NEVER ESCAPE MY BODY BUT WILL JUST GROW AND GROW UNTIL IT'S BIGGER THAN YOU THEN BIGGER THAN THE HOUSE THEN BIGGER THAN THE CITY?
Panel 3 (woman):
UNTIL IT'S JUST SOME MASSIVE ABERRATION OF THE REPRODUCTIVE IMPULSE CREATED BY EVOLUTION AND HARDENED BY LIFE, CULMINATING IN THIS ONE BEING WHOSE IMPORTANCE DWARFS AND SHAMES THAT OF ALL OTHER LIFE FORMS IN THE HISTORY OF CREATION?
Panel 4 (woman):
AND THEN IT'LL KEEP EXPANDING UNTIL IT AND I, FOUND IN THE MOST INTIMATE CONNECTION, COLLAPSE INTO A BLACK HOLE AND IN THE CONSUMMATE ACT OF MOTHERHOOD WE SACRIFICE OUR BODIES TO CALVE AN INFINITY OF NEW UNIVERSES?
Panel 5 (man):
MOST NIGHTS I THINK ABOUT WORK, OR STAR WARS.
Panel 6 (woman):
I DON'T THINK THE PREGNANCY HAS QUITE HIT YOU FOR REAL YET.
Panel 6 (man):
MOSTLY STAR WARS IF I'M BEING HONEST.
Votey:
A close-up of the man's grinning face. Speech bubble: PEW! PEW! PEW!
Panel 1 (woman):
DO YOU EVER LAY AWAKE AT NIGHT AND WANDER IF THE BABY INSIDE ME WILL NEVER STOP GROWING?
Panel 2 (woman):
THAT IT WILL NEVER ESCAPE MY BODY BUT WILL JUST GROW AND GROW UNTIL IT'S BIGGER THAN YOU THEN BIGGER THAN THE HOUSE THEN BIGGER THAN THE CITY?
Panel 3 (woman):
UNTIL IT'S JUST SOME MASSIVE ABERRATION OF THE REPRODUCTIVE IMPULSE CREATED BY EVOLUTION AND HARDENED BY LIFE, CULMINATING IN THIS ONE BEING WHOSE IMPORTANCE DWARFS AND SHAMES THAT OF ALL OTHER LIFE FORMS IN THE HISTORY OF CREATION?
Panel 4 (woman):
AND THEN IT'LL KEEP EXPANDING UNTIL IT AND I, FOUND IN THE MOST INTIMATE CONNECTION, COLLAPSE INTO A BLACK HOLE AND IN THE CONSUMMATE ACT OF MOTHERHOOD WE SACRIFICE OUR BODIES TO CALVE AN INFINITY OF NEW UNIVERSES?
Panel 5 (man):
MOST NIGHTS I THINK ABOUT WORK, OR STAR WARS.
Panel 6 (woman):
I DON'T THINK THE PREGNANCY HAS QUITE HIT YOU FOR REAL YET.
Panel 6 (man):
MOSTLY STAR WARS IF I'M BEING HONEST.
Votey:
A close-up of the man's grinning face. Speech bubble: PEW! PEW! PEW!
Alt text
A six-panel comic shows a couple lying in bed in the dark at night, drawn in deep purple tones. The woman delivers an escalating, anxious monologue while the man lies beside her. She asks if he ever lies awake wondering whether the baby inside her will never stop growing, growing bigger than him, the house, the city, until it becomes a massive aberration of the reproductive impulse that dwarfs and shames all other life in the history of creation, eventually collapsing with her into a black hole and, in the consummate act of motherhood, calving an infinity of new universes. The man replies flatly, 'Most nights I think about work, or Star Wars.' She says, 'I don't think the pregnancy has quite hit you for real yet.' He adds, 'Mostly Star Wars if I'm being honest.' The votey (bonus panel) is a black-and-white close-up of the man's gleeful grinning face with a speech bubble reading 'PEW! PEW! PEW!'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.