stage-fright
Original: stage-fright on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman with red hair (standing): I always get scared when I go on stage to read from my book. I always feel like nobody actually wants to be there. Nobody wants to see me.
Panel 2:
Woman with dark hair (seated, glasses): You wanna know a trick? Just pretend everybody in the audience is naked.
Panel 3:
Red-haired woman (smiling): Ha! Brilliant! That works!
Panel 4:
Caption: SHORTLY...
(Red-haired woman stands alone on a stage with red curtains, holding her book.)
Red-haired woman: It didn't work.
Panel 5:
(Close-up of the red-haired woman's face in profile, looking out at rows of empty audience chairs.)
Votey:
(Extreme close-up of the red-haired woman's face, drawn in loose sketch style.)
Text: Unless they turned invisible.
Woman with red hair (standing): I always get scared when I go on stage to read from my book. I always feel like nobody actually wants to be there. Nobody wants to see me.
Panel 2:
Woman with dark hair (seated, glasses): You wanna know a trick? Just pretend everybody in the audience is naked.
Panel 3:
Red-haired woman (smiling): Ha! Brilliant! That works!
Panel 4:
Caption: SHORTLY...
(Red-haired woman stands alone on a stage with red curtains, holding her book.)
Red-haired woman: It didn't work.
Panel 5:
(Close-up of the red-haired woman's face in profile, looking out at rows of empty audience chairs.)
Votey:
(Extreme close-up of the red-haired woman's face, drawn in loose sketch style.)
Text: Unless they turned invisible.
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a red-haired woman stands and confides to a seated dark-haired woman, "I always get scared when I go on stage to read from my book. I always feel like nobody actually wants to be there. Nobody wants to see me." Panel 2: the seated woman replies, "You wanna know a trick? Just pretend everybody in the audience is naked." Panel 3: the red-haired woman brightens, "Ha! Brilliant! That works!" Panel 4, labeled SHORTLY...: she stands alone on a curtained stage holding her book, saying flatly, "It didn't work." Panel 5: a profile close-up of her face gazing out at rows of completely empty audience chairs, revealing the real reason it didn't work is that nobody showed up. Votey: an extreme sketchy close-up of her face with the caption "Unless they turned invisible."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.