a-human-peacock
Original: a-human-peacock on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Friend (to Sally): SALLY, DO NOT GO FOR HIM. THE GUY IS A HUMAN PEACOCK.
Panel 2:
Friend: THERE'S A BIG FLASHY TAIL AND YOU CAN'T HELP BUT LOOK. BUT IS HE GOING TO BE KIND? IS HE STABLE? IS HE SMART? IS HE FUN? YOU CAN'T TELL ANY OF THAT!
Panel 3:
Sally: YEAH. YEAH, I GUESS THAT'S TRUE. BUT GOD... HE'S JUST SO...
Panel 4:
Sally: BEAUTIFUL.
Friend: LOOK AWAY!
Panel 5:
(No dialogue. The friend holds out a hand to block Sally's view as a man with an enormous peacock-style fan of eyed feathers comes into view.)
Votey:
A man's face in profile. A speech bubble nearby reads: SQUACK?
Friend (to Sally): SALLY, DO NOT GO FOR HIM. THE GUY IS A HUMAN PEACOCK.
Panel 2:
Friend: THERE'S A BIG FLASHY TAIL AND YOU CAN'T HELP BUT LOOK. BUT IS HE GOING TO BE KIND? IS HE STABLE? IS HE SMART? IS HE FUN? YOU CAN'T TELL ANY OF THAT!
Panel 3:
Sally: YEAH. YEAH, I GUESS THAT'S TRUE. BUT GOD... HE'S JUST SO...
Panel 4:
Sally: BEAUTIFUL.
Friend: LOOK AWAY!
Panel 5:
(No dialogue. The friend holds out a hand to block Sally's view as a man with an enormous peacock-style fan of eyed feathers comes into view.)
Votey:
A man's face in profile. A speech bubble nearby reads: SQUACK?
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. In the first three panels, a woman warns her friend Sally against a man, saying "Sally, do not go for him. The guy is a human peacock. There's a big flashy tail and you can't help but look. But is he going to be kind? Is he stable? Is he smart? Is he fun? You can't tell any of that!" Sally replies, "Yeah, I guess that's true. But god... he's just so... beautiful," while the friend shouts "Look away!" In the final wide panels the friend flings out an arm to block Sally's view, and the man is revealed: an ordinary-looking guy with a giant, fanned peacock tail of green feathers, each tipped with a staring eye, spread behind him. Votey: a close-up of a man's face in profile beside a speech bubble that says "Squack?"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.