dad
Original: dad on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with red hair (the mother), wearing a blue beanie and holding a drink, speaks excitedly to a younger man with brown hair in a green shirt (her son).
Mother: "Mom and I thought you were shipwrecked and killed! But you're in a boat full of naked ladies, cruising the seven seas!"
Son: "Honestly, I do not anticipate this scenario."
Caption below the comic:
This is the main risk of traveling back in time to stop a parent's death.
Votey:
A hand-drawn sketch of a man's face looking weary and unhappy.
Text: "Can I join you? The future sucks"
A woman with red hair (the mother), wearing a blue beanie and holding a drink, speaks excitedly to a younger man with brown hair in a green shirt (her son).
Mother: "Mom and I thought you were shipwrecked and killed! But you're in a boat full of naked ladies, cruising the seven seas!"
Son: "Honestly, I do not anticipate this scenario."
Caption below the comic:
This is the main risk of traveling back in time to stop a parent's death.
Votey:
A hand-drawn sketch of a man's face looking weary and unhappy.
Text: "Can I join you? The future sucks"
Alt text
A two-panel-style SMBC comic. In the main comic, a red-haired mother in a blue beanie holds a drink and excitedly tells her brown-haired son in a green shirt: "Mom and I thought you were shipwrecked and killed! But you're in a boat full of naked ladies, cruising the seven seas!" The son replies flatly, "Honestly, I do not anticipate this scenario." A caption beneath reads: "This is the main risk of traveling back in time to stop a parent's death." The joke: a time traveler who saves a parent's life may invent an awkward, embarrassing cover story for their reappearance. The votey is a rough sketch of a weary, unhappy man's face with the handwritten words "Can I join you? The future sucks" — implying the parent would rather escape to the present.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.