long-distance
Original: long-distance on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
First man (in green shirt): How's your lady?
Second man (in blue shirt): Oh good. It's tough doing long distance, though.
Panel 2:
Second man: We try to find time to talk. But it never seems to happen.
Panel 3:
First man: And when she really really needs me, I'm never right there for her.
Panel 4:
Second man: And I dunno... It's hard to feel together when you don't sleep in the same bed.
Panel 5:
First man: But she lives with you.
Panel 6:
Second man: I meant long emotional distance.
Votey:
A man looks down at his phone with an annoyed expression, a speech/thought bubble reading: "Another text on my birthday? God she's clingy." His phone sits on a table in the foreground.
First man (in green shirt): How's your lady?
Second man (in blue shirt): Oh good. It's tough doing long distance, though.
Panel 2:
Second man: We try to find time to talk. But it never seems to happen.
Panel 3:
First man: And when she really really needs me, I'm never right there for her.
Panel 4:
Second man: And I dunno... It's hard to feel together when you don't sleep in the same bed.
Panel 5:
First man: But she lives with you.
Panel 6:
Second man: I meant long emotional distance.
Votey:
A man looks down at his phone with an annoyed expression, a speech/thought bubble reading: "Another text on my birthday? God she's clingy." His phone sits on a table in the foreground.
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. Two men talk. The first man (green shirt) asks how the second man's (blue shirt) lady is. The second man says it's good but tough doing long distance: they try to find time to talk but it never happens, and when she really needs him he's never there for her. He adds it's hard to feel together when you don't sleep in the same bed. The first man, confused, points out: "But she lives with you." The second man clarifies: "I meant long emotional distance." The joke: he's emotionally neglecting his live-in partner and reframing it as the hardship of a long-distance relationship. Votey: a hand-drawn man scowls at his phone, thought bubble reading "Another text on my birthday? God she's clingy." — showing he resents her attention even on his own birthday.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.