2014-06-12
Original: 2014-06-12 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Frank: Death?! But I'm not dying!
Death (a hooded skeletal figure with a scythe): Ugh. This conversation again.
Panel 2:
Death: When you were 10, your belief that girls are gross died. When you were 16, your desire to smoke pot all day died.
Panel 3:
Death: When you were 40, your belief that politics was winnable died. When you were 52, your belief that you'd never get tired of sex died.
Panel 4:
Death: You are always dying, Frank. You are dying like it's a bad habit.
Panel 5:
Frank: Yeah, okay, maybe I won't take your whole consciousness today. But I gotta take something. Back to the land of shadows!
Panel 6:
(Death drags a small dark shadowy figure away from Frank.)
Panel 7:
Frank: What'd you get?
Death (now a small figure walking off into the dark): Sense of self as a meaningful construct.
Panel 8:
Death (a tiny figure in the distance): Cooooool.
Votey:
Frank (close-up of his smiling face): I feel so much better!
Frank: Death?! But I'm not dying!
Death (a hooded skeletal figure with a scythe): Ugh. This conversation again.
Panel 2:
Death: When you were 10, your belief that girls are gross died. When you were 16, your desire to smoke pot all day died.
Panel 3:
Death: When you were 40, your belief that politics was winnable died. When you were 52, your belief that you'd never get tired of sex died.
Panel 4:
Death: You are always dying, Frank. You are dying like it's a bad habit.
Panel 5:
Frank: Yeah, okay, maybe I won't take your whole consciousness today. But I gotta take something. Back to the land of shadows!
Panel 6:
(Death drags a small dark shadowy figure away from Frank.)
Panel 7:
Frank: What'd you get?
Death (now a small figure walking off into the dark): Sense of self as a meaningful construct.
Panel 8:
Death (a tiny figure in the distance): Cooooool.
Votey:
Frank (close-up of his smiling face): I feel so much better!
Alt text
An eight-panel SMBC comic. A bald man named Frank is visited by Death, a hooded skeletal figure with a scythe. Frank protests, "Death?! But I'm not dying!" Death sighs, "Ugh. This conversation again." Death explains that Frank is always dying piece by piece: at 10 his belief that girls are gross died, at 16 his desire to smoke pot all day died, at 40 his belief that politics was winnable died, at 52 his belief that he'd never get tired of sex died. Death tells him, "You are always dying, Frank. You are dying like it's a bad habit." Frank concedes Death can take something today, and Death drags away a small dark shadowy figure, declaring, "Back to the land of shadows!" Frank asks, "What'd you get?" Death, now a tiny figure walking off into darkness, answers, "Sense of self as a meaningful construct," and adds an unenthused "Cooooool." Votey (aftercomic): a close-up of Frank's smiling face saying, "I feel so much better!" The joke: losing his sense of self as a meaningful construct is a relief to him.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.