sui-generis
Original: sui-generis on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A car drives toward a school. Child (from the car): "MOM! YOU CAN'T PULL RIGHT UP TO SCHOOL! YOU HAVE TO DROP ME OFF A FEW BLOCKS AWAY SO THE KIDS DON'T SEE ME WITH YOU!"
Panel 2: Inside the car, the mother (brown-haired woman with glasses) is driving; the red-haired child rides in the back. Mother: "WHAT? WHY?" Child: "BECAUSE MY ENTIRE IDENTITY STEMS FROM MY SELF-CONCEPTION AS A SUI GENERIS HEROIC FIGURE!"
Panel 3: Close-up on the child's face. Child: "ALL PEOPLE LONG FOR A SUCCESSFUL IMMORTALITY PROJECT — A WORLDLY MEANS BY WHICH TO HURL ONE'S CHARACTER AGAINST THE HOARY FACE OF ENTROPY."
Panel 4: The child continues. Child: "IF I'M SEEN WITH YOU, IT REIFIES THE FACT THAT I WAS BORN BY CONVENTIONAL MEANS FROM TYPICAL PEOPLE WHOSE HOPE FOR A TASTE OF THE GREAT FOREVER HAS BEEN EATEN AWAY TO NOTHING, ONE COMPROMISING LIFE-CHOICE AT A TIME."
Panel 5: Close-up of the mother gritting her teeth angrily and gripping the steering wheel.
Panel 6: The car peels off across grass. Child: "MOM! YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DRIVE ON THE LAWN!" Mother: "I THINK I CAN GET TO YOUR HOME ROOM CLASS BEFORE ANYONE STOPS ME."
Votey: Extreme close-up of the furious mother's face, teeth bared. Caption above her: "HE CAME FROM MY VAGINA!"
Panel 2: Inside the car, the mother (brown-haired woman with glasses) is driving; the red-haired child rides in the back. Mother: "WHAT? WHY?" Child: "BECAUSE MY ENTIRE IDENTITY STEMS FROM MY SELF-CONCEPTION AS A SUI GENERIS HEROIC FIGURE!"
Panel 3: Close-up on the child's face. Child: "ALL PEOPLE LONG FOR A SUCCESSFUL IMMORTALITY PROJECT — A WORLDLY MEANS BY WHICH TO HURL ONE'S CHARACTER AGAINST THE HOARY FACE OF ENTROPY."
Panel 4: The child continues. Child: "IF I'M SEEN WITH YOU, IT REIFIES THE FACT THAT I WAS BORN BY CONVENTIONAL MEANS FROM TYPICAL PEOPLE WHOSE HOPE FOR A TASTE OF THE GREAT FOREVER HAS BEEN EATEN AWAY TO NOTHING, ONE COMPROMISING LIFE-CHOICE AT A TIME."
Panel 5: Close-up of the mother gritting her teeth angrily and gripping the steering wheel.
Panel 6: The car peels off across grass. Child: "MOM! YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DRIVE ON THE LAWN!" Mother: "I THINK I CAN GET TO YOUR HOME ROOM CLASS BEFORE ANYONE STOPS ME."
Votey: Extreme close-up of the furious mother's face, teeth bared. Caption above her: "HE CAME FROM MY VAGINA!"
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a yellow car approaches a school as a child yells from inside, "Mom! You can't pull right up to school! You have to drop me off a few blocks away so the kids don't see me with you!" Panel 2: inside the car, a brown-haired mother with glasses drives while her red-haired child explains that his entire identity stems from his self-conception as a "sui generis heroic figure." Panels 3 and 4: close-ups of the child delivering an absurdly grandiose monologue about everyone longing for a "successful immortality project" to hurl one's character against "the hoary face of entropy," and how being seen with his mom would prove he was born by conventional means from typical people. Panel 5: a close-up of the mother gritting her teeth in fury, gripping the wheel. Panel 6: the car peels off across the school lawn; the child protests, "Mom! You're not supposed to drive on the lawn!" and the mother replies, "I think I can get to your home room class before anyone stops me." Votey (aftercomic): an extreme close-up of the mother's enraged, teeth-bared face with the words "He came from my vagina!" above her — her threatened revenge for the kid's embarrassment.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.