2014-06-23
Original: 2014-06-23 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title banner: DIVORCE STRATEGY: MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR CUSTODY TIME
Panel 1:
A woman with reddish hair and round glasses, wearing a blue shirt, leans toward a young boy with brown hair (seen from behind).
Woman: So, has Daddy shown you his real face yet?
Woman: The one he hides under the mask.
Boy: What face?
Votey:
Wordless. A man stands holding a baby in his arms. Behind him, in the foreground, is the large rounded silhouette of a pregnant belly. The man looks worn and unhappy, glancing sidelong.
Panel 1:
A woman with reddish hair and round glasses, wearing a blue shirt, leans toward a young boy with brown hair (seen from behind).
Woman: So, has Daddy shown you his real face yet?
Woman: The one he hides under the mask.
Boy: What face?
Votey:
Wordless. A man stands holding a baby in his arms. Behind him, in the foreground, is the large rounded silhouette of a pregnant belly. The man looks worn and unhappy, glancing sidelong.
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Title banner: "DIVORCE STRATEGY: MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR CUSTODY TIME." The main panel shows a red-haired woman in glasses and a blue shirt leaning toward a young brown-haired boy (seen from behind). She asks conspiratorially, "So, has Daddy shown you his real face yet? The one he hides under the mask." The boy replies, confused, "What face?" The joke: a divorced mother trying to plant suspicion about the father in their child, who has no idea what she's talking about. The votey (bonus panel) is a wordless black-and-white drawing of a tired-looking man holding a baby, with the large silhouette of a pregnant belly in the foreground beside him — implying the exhausting, overwhelmed reality of parenthood that underlies the bitterness.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.