pet-peeve
Original: pet-peeve on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
Caption (yellow banner at top): PET PEEVE: PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO TAKE CREDIT FOR THEIR OWN GOOD WORK.
Man (with reddish hair and a suit, eyes closed, speaking with mock humility): "I don't think of myself as a genius. I'm really just a vessel. A simple, homely vessel, into which, as it happens, all of the muses have poured their sweetest honey, year in year out since the moment I was born."
Votey:
The same man's face, drawn in loose sketch style, looking smug. Speech bubble: "I am but a conduit for total fucking brilliance"
Caption (yellow banner at top): PET PEEVE: PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO TAKE CREDIT FOR THEIR OWN GOOD WORK.
Man (with reddish hair and a suit, eyes closed, speaking with mock humility): "I don't think of myself as a genius. I'm really just a vessel. A simple, homely vessel, into which, as it happens, all of the muses have poured their sweetest honey, year in year out since the moment I was born."
Votey:
The same man's face, drawn in loose sketch style, looking smug. Speech bubble: "I am but a conduit for total fucking brilliance"
Alt text
A single-panel SMBC comic. A yellow caption banner reads: "PET PEEVE: PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO TAKE CREDIT FOR THEIR OWN GOOD WORK." Below, a smug man with reddish hair in a suit and tie speaks with his eyes closed, performing false modesty: "I don't think of myself as a genius. I'm really just a vessel. A simple, homely vessel, into which, as it happens, all of the muses have poured their sweetest honey, year in year out since the moment I was born." The joke is that his "humility" is the most grandiose self-praise possible. Votey (aftercomic): a loose hand-drawn sketch of the same self-satisfied face, with a speech bubble dropping all pretense: "I am but a conduit for total fucking brilliance."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.