purity
Original: purity on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Father (off-panel, to his daughter): But you put on a purity ring when you went off to college! That ring was a promise!
Panel 2:
Daughter: Dad, I didn't understand what I was promising! I fell in love!
Father: What swine are you cavorting with, girl?!
Panel 3 (small panels, the father gripping/confronting the daughter):
Father: Give me the ring!
Daughter: Papa...
Father: Give it to me!
(Wordless panels: close-ups of the angry, sunglasses-wearing father and the distressed daughter; she hands a yellow/gold ring to his outstretched hand.)
Caption banner: LATER...
Final panel:
(The daughter lies in bed at night, looking pained, clutching a thick blue book to her chest; a teddy bear sits beside her.)
Book cover: APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Votey:
A close-up of the gold ring. Tiny text engraved on the inside of the band reads: "Nothing useful"
Father (off-panel, to his daughter): But you put on a purity ring when you went off to college! That ring was a promise!
Panel 2:
Daughter: Dad, I didn't understand what I was promising! I fell in love!
Father: What swine are you cavorting with, girl?!
Panel 3 (small panels, the father gripping/confronting the daughter):
Father: Give me the ring!
Daughter: Papa...
Father: Give it to me!
(Wordless panels: close-ups of the angry, sunglasses-wearing father and the distressed daughter; she hands a yellow/gold ring to his outstretched hand.)
Caption banner: LATER...
Final panel:
(The daughter lies in bed at night, looking pained, clutching a thick blue book to her chest; a teddy bear sits beside her.)
Book cover: APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Votey:
A close-up of the gold ring. Tiny text engraved on the inside of the band reads: "Nothing useful"
Alt text
A six-panel comic. A father with dark hair, mustache, and white-lensed sunglasses confronts his young adult daughter. Father (off-panel): 'But you put on a purity ring when you went off to college! That ring was a promise!' Daughter: 'Dad, I didn't understand what I was promising! I fell in love!' Father, gripping her angrily: 'What swine are you cavorting with, girl?!' He demands across small panels: 'Give me the ring!' She pleads, 'Papa...' He insists, 'Give it to me!' Distraught, she places a gold ring into his outstretched hand. A banner reads 'LATER...'. In the final panel the daughter lies in bed at night with an anguished expression, a teddy bear beside her, hugging a thick blue textbook titled 'APPLIED MATHEMATICS' to her chest. The joke: her forbidden 'love' is math, not a person. Votey: a close-up of the gold ring, with the inside of the band engraved in tiny script: 'Nothing useful'.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.