2014-04-25
Original: 2014-04-25 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man: Wooooooohaaaa!!!
Ghost: Who are you?
Man: Your ghost!
Panel 2:
Man: Oh my god... wait. I'm not dead yet. How can I have a ghost?
Ghost: In the future, time machines. Then back to your teen years.
Panel 3:
Ghost: But teenage you is a really bad ghost. So he runs over future you.
Ghost: Future you becomes ghost you. Ghost you finds teenage you really annoying. So ghost you waits until teenage you becomes present you before making contact.
Panel 4:
Man: So... what do you want?
Ghost: You must avenge my death! Build a time machine and go kill teenage us.
Panel 5:
Man: But... if I kill him, we both cease to exist.
Ghost: Remember when he asked a girl out through a KFC drive-thru window, and he thought she said yes, but she was actually trying to tell the next customer about available Cole Slaw sizes?
Panel 6:
Man & Ghost (together): We will make him pay.
Votey:
Unseen speaker (off-panel): So, what's SMBC about?
Woman: Mostly time travel.
Man: Wooooooohaaaa!!!
Ghost: Who are you?
Man: Your ghost!
Panel 2:
Man: Oh my god... wait. I'm not dead yet. How can I have a ghost?
Ghost: In the future, time machines. Then back to your teen years.
Panel 3:
Ghost: But teenage you is a really bad ghost. So he runs over future you.
Ghost: Future you becomes ghost you. Ghost you finds teenage you really annoying. So ghost you waits until teenage you becomes present you before making contact.
Panel 4:
Man: So... what do you want?
Ghost: You must avenge my death! Build a time machine and go kill teenage us.
Panel 5:
Man: But... if I kill him, we both cease to exist.
Ghost: Remember when he asked a girl out through a KFC drive-thru window, and he thought she said yes, but she was actually trying to tell the next customer about available Cole Slaw sizes?
Panel 6:
Man & Ghost (together): We will make him pay.
Votey:
Unseen speaker (off-panel): So, what's SMBC about?
Woman: Mostly time travel.
Alt text
A six-panel black-and-white comic. A man is startled by a translucent ghost that looks like a younger version of himself. The ghost explains it is the man's own ghost: in the future, time machines exist, so the ghost traveled back to the man's teen years, but teenage-him was a bad ghost and ran over future-him with a car, turning future-him into the ghost now present. The ghost found teenage-him annoying, so it waited until teenage-him grew into present-him before making contact. The man asks what the ghost wants; the ghost demands the man build a time machine and kill their teenage self to avenge its death. The man protests that if he kills the teen, they will both cease to exist. The ghost reminds him of the time their teenage self asked a girl out through a KFC drive-thru window and mistook her describing available cole slaw sizes for a yes. In the final panel, man and ghost declare in unison: 'We will make him pay.' Votey (aftercomic): an off-panel voice asks a woman with long hair, 'So, what's SMBC about?' She deadpans, 'Mostly time travel.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.