pressure
Original: pressure on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (top-left): A man with gray hair and white sunglasses, wearing a green shirt, leans in.
Man: SALLY! A WATCHED POT NEVER BOILS.
Panel 2 (top-right): A young girl named Sally (the man calls her Sally), with black hair and a pink shirt, stares intently with a furrowed brow.
Sally: WAIT. BUT, A STOVETOP CAN REACH 350 CELSIUS. AND MY VISION CAN KEEP THE WATER FROM BOILING? MY EYES ARE EXERTING A PRESSURE OF 3000 NEWTONS PER SQUARE CENTIMETER ON THIS WATER.
Panel 3 (middle-left): Sally sits at the table glaring at a pot on a red stovetop burner, looking determined.
Panel 4 (middle-right): A speech balloon emerges.
Sally: I HAVE SO MUCH POWER!
Panel 5 (bottom-left): Close-up of the man's face (glasses, mustache) looking nervous.
Man: IT'S... IT'S JUST A FIGURE OF SPEECH.
In the background Sally grins manically.
Panel 6 (bottom-right): A black panel. Sally, eyes glowing/grinning with golden energy around her head, looms.
Sally: NO.
Final panel (bottom, wide): The man is flung backward, his green shirt and a long red cape/coat flaring out, an aged terrified expression on his face, with a jagged red burst reading SKRNCH! Sally, seen from behind in a purple shirt and pink shorts, stands in a powerful stance having apparently thrown him.
Votey:
Handwritten caption on a plain panel: "Sally later found work as a hydraulic press."
Man: SALLY! A WATCHED POT NEVER BOILS.
Panel 2 (top-right): A young girl named Sally (the man calls her Sally), with black hair and a pink shirt, stares intently with a furrowed brow.
Sally: WAIT. BUT, A STOVETOP CAN REACH 350 CELSIUS. AND MY VISION CAN KEEP THE WATER FROM BOILING? MY EYES ARE EXERTING A PRESSURE OF 3000 NEWTONS PER SQUARE CENTIMETER ON THIS WATER.
Panel 3 (middle-left): Sally sits at the table glaring at a pot on a red stovetop burner, looking determined.
Panel 4 (middle-right): A speech balloon emerges.
Sally: I HAVE SO MUCH POWER!
Panel 5 (bottom-left): Close-up of the man's face (glasses, mustache) looking nervous.
Man: IT'S... IT'S JUST A FIGURE OF SPEECH.
In the background Sally grins manically.
Panel 6 (bottom-right): A black panel. Sally, eyes glowing/grinning with golden energy around her head, looms.
Sally: NO.
Final panel (bottom, wide): The man is flung backward, his green shirt and a long red cape/coat flaring out, an aged terrified expression on his face, with a jagged red burst reading SKRNCH! Sally, seen from behind in a purple shirt and pink shorts, stands in a powerful stance having apparently thrown him.
Votey:
Handwritten caption on a plain panel: "Sally later found work as a hydraulic press."
Alt text
An SMBC comic. A gray-haired man in a green shirt and white sunglasses tells a black-haired girl, Sally: 'SALLY! A WATCHED POT NEVER BOILS.' Sally stares intently and replies with a wall of physics text: 'WAIT. BUT, A STOVETOP CAN REACH 350 CELSIUS. AND MY VISION CAN KEEP THE WATER FROM BOILING? MY EYES ARE EXERTING A PRESSURE OF 3000 NEWTONS PER SQUARE CENTIMETER ON THIS WATER.' She glares at a pot on the stove, then declares 'I HAVE SO MUCH POWER!' The man, now nervous, says 'IT'S... IT'S JUST A FIGURE OF SPEECH.' In a black panel Sally's grinning glowing face replies simply: 'NO.' In the final wide panel, Sally has flung the man backward, his red coat flaring like a cape and his face aged with terror, amid a jagged red 'SKRNCH!' burst; she stands triumphant in a power stance, seen from behind. Votey: a handwritten caption reads 'Sally later found work as a hydraulic press.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.