2014-05-15
Original: 2014-05-15 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Green-skinned witch (holding up a nesting doll, to a blonde girl): CHILD! I HAVE MADE YOU THIS NESTED DOLL!
Panel 2:
Witch (opening the doll, a smaller doll inside): INSIDE THIS DOLL IS ANOTHER DOLL.
Panel 3:
Witch (holding an even smaller doll): INSIDE THAT DOLL IS YOU.
Girl: OUT.
Panel 4:
(The girl walks away through a field, holding the tiny doll. No dialogue.)
Panel 5:
Girl (sweating, panicked, holding the doll up): THIS CAN'T BE! SOMETHING CAN'T CONTAIN ITSELF AND BE CONTAINED BY ITSELF! IT DEFIES SENSE! OH GOD I CAN FEEL MY MIND UNMAKING ITSELF AND-
Panel 6:
Another girl (off to the side): HEY, GALLY! YOUR HAIR LOOKS DUMB!
Panel 7:
(The blonde girl, now looking annoyed/normal, distracted from her crisis. No dialogue.)
Panel 8:
(The girl smashes the doll on the ground.) SFX: SQUISH!
Panel 9:
(The girl walks away looking content/relieved.) SFX: THINKING.
Votey:
Text at top of screen/comic frame: THE COMIC CAN SEE YOU!
A shadowy figure sitting in front of a large computer monitor (we see the back of the monitor), thought/speech bubble: HEH. JOKES.
Green-skinned witch (holding up a nesting doll, to a blonde girl): CHILD! I HAVE MADE YOU THIS NESTED DOLL!
Panel 2:
Witch (opening the doll, a smaller doll inside): INSIDE THIS DOLL IS ANOTHER DOLL.
Panel 3:
Witch (holding an even smaller doll): INSIDE THAT DOLL IS YOU.
Girl: OUT.
Panel 4:
(The girl walks away through a field, holding the tiny doll. No dialogue.)
Panel 5:
Girl (sweating, panicked, holding the doll up): THIS CAN'T BE! SOMETHING CAN'T CONTAIN ITSELF AND BE CONTAINED BY ITSELF! IT DEFIES SENSE! OH GOD I CAN FEEL MY MIND UNMAKING ITSELF AND-
Panel 6:
Another girl (off to the side): HEY, GALLY! YOUR HAIR LOOKS DUMB!
Panel 7:
(The blonde girl, now looking annoyed/normal, distracted from her crisis. No dialogue.)
Panel 8:
(The girl smashes the doll on the ground.) SFX: SQUISH!
Panel 9:
(The girl walks away looking content/relieved.) SFX: THINKING.
Votey:
Text at top of screen/comic frame: THE COMIC CAN SEE YOU!
A shadowy figure sitting in front of a large computer monitor (we see the back of the monitor), thought/speech bubble: HEH. JOKES.
Alt text
A nine-panel SMBC comic. A green-skinned witch presents a blonde girl with a Russian nesting doll: "Child! I have made you this nested doll!" She opens it: "Inside this doll is another doll." Opening again to a tiny doll: "Inside that doll is you." The girl flatly replies "Out." and walks away across a field holding the tiny doll. She suddenly panics, sweating, gripping the doll: "This can't be! Something can't contain itself and be contained by itself! It defies sense! Oh god I can feel my mind unmaking itself and-" Another girl interrupts: "Hey, Gally! Your hair looks dumb!" The girl, now merely annoyed and snapped out of her existential spiral, smashes the doll on the ground (SQUISH!) and walks off content. Votey: the words "THE COMIC CAN SEE YOU!" sit above a black silhouette of a person hunched in front of a large computer monitor, the back of the screen facing us; a thought bubble from the figure reads "Heh. Jokes."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.