geopolitics
Original: geopolitics on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman with dark curly hair: How do you feel about the state of geopolitics today?
Man: Great!
Woman: Rawr?
Panel 2:
Man: I used to have this dream where I was being chased by a werewolf. As it gets closer and closer, my legs grow smaller and smaller, until I find myself unable to move closer to safety. I find myself frozen, hurtling forward as my muscles grow weak until I can no longer move.
Panel 3:
Man: And then... then I feel the gummy breath of the beast as it's teeth slowly approach my throat.
Woman: Rawr?
Panel 4:
Man: But you stopped having that nightmare now?
Man: No. It just doesn't seem so bad anymore.
Woman: Rawr!
Votey:
A giant set of jaws/teeth lunges in from the upper right toward a small cloud-like, smiling sleeping figure.
Voice: Are you doing okay?!
Woman with dark curly hair: How do you feel about the state of geopolitics today?
Man: Great!
Woman: Rawr?
Panel 2:
Man: I used to have this dream where I was being chased by a werewolf. As it gets closer and closer, my legs grow smaller and smaller, until I find myself unable to move closer to safety. I find myself frozen, hurtling forward as my muscles grow weak until I can no longer move.
Panel 3:
Man: And then... then I feel the gummy breath of the beast as it's teeth slowly approach my throat.
Woman: Rawr?
Panel 4:
Man: But you stopped having that nightmare now?
Man: No. It just doesn't seem so bad anymore.
Woman: Rawr!
Votey:
A giant set of jaws/teeth lunges in from the upper right toward a small cloud-like, smiling sleeping figure.
Voice: Are you doing okay?!
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. In panel one, a woman with dark curly hair asks a man, "How do you feel about the state of geopolitics today?" He answers "Great!" while she says "Rawr?" In the long second panel, the man describes a recurring nightmare: he is being chased by a werewolf, and as it closes in his legs shrink until he can't move, leaving him frozen and hurtling forward as his muscles weaken. In panel three he continues, feeling the gummy breath of the beast as its teeth approach his throat; the woman again says "Rawr?" In panel four the woman asks if he stopped having the nightmare, and he replies, "No. It just doesn't seem so bad anymore," with the woman exclaiming "Rawr!" The joke: current geopolitics has made his terrifying werewolf nightmare feel comparatively tame. Votey (bonus panel): a huge set of monster jaws and teeth lunges in from the upper right toward a small, smiling, cloud-shaped sleeping figure, with a voice asking, "Are you doing okay?!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.