2014-11-28
Original: 2014-11-28 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (Man with a mustache, in formal attire):
Man: I once thought my wife and I had grown to hate each other.
Panel 2 (The man, looking dramatic):
Man: That her loathing for me appeared sudden.
Panel 3 (The man gesturing toward a rabbit pulled from a hat / a small kangaroo-like animal):
Man: Like magic.
Panel 4 (The man standing behind a table):
Man: But it turned out to be like magic in the real world.
Panel 5 (The man speaking earnestly):
Man: It was there all along. Only nobody looked hard enough.
Panel 6 (A red-haired man / child speaking to the magician, who replies grimly):
Red-haired man: Yaaayyy! Now, do the trick where the rings come apart then go back together!
Man: No magic can make that happen.
Votey:
A man with a long face looks on, exclaiming "JESUS". A woman with curly hair is turned away. A small child's head appears at the bottom.
Man: I once thought my wife and I had grown to hate each other.
Panel 2 (The man, looking dramatic):
Man: That her loathing for me appeared sudden.
Panel 3 (The man gesturing toward a rabbit pulled from a hat / a small kangaroo-like animal):
Man: Like magic.
Panel 4 (The man standing behind a table):
Man: But it turned out to be like magic in the real world.
Panel 5 (The man speaking earnestly):
Man: It was there all along. Only nobody looked hard enough.
Panel 6 (A red-haired man / child speaking to the magician, who replies grimly):
Red-haired man: Yaaayyy! Now, do the trick where the rings come apart then go back together!
Man: No magic can make that happen.
Votey:
A man with a long face looks on, exclaiming "JESUS". A woman with curly hair is turned away. A small child's head appears at the bottom.
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A mustached man in formal magician's attire delivers an increasingly bleak monologue framed as a magic metaphor. Panel 1: 'I once thought my wife and I had grown to hate each other.' Panel 2: 'That her loathing for me appeared sudden.' Panel 3, gesturing as if doing a trick: 'Like magic.' Panel 4, standing behind a table: 'But it turned out to be like magic in the real world.' Panel 5: 'It was there all along. Only nobody looked hard enough.' Panel 6: a red-haired child cheers 'Yaaayyy! Now, do the trick where the rings come apart then go back together!' and the man grimly answers 'No magic can make that happen' — the punchline turning his divorce metaphor literal. Votey aftercomic: a long-faced man stares in dismay and exclaims 'JESUS' at the bleakness, while a curly-haired woman is turned away and a small child's head pokes up at the bottom.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.