the-library-of-heaven
Original: the-library-of-heaven on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: An older woman with gray hair speaks into a banana held like a telephone.
Gray-haired woman: "Sweetie, I need you to fly home."
Voice on phone: "What? Why?"
Gray-haired woman: "It's your father... it... it doesn't look good..."
Panel 2: Caption: "Later that day..." A woman with red hair rushes in, looking alarmed.
Red-haired woman: "Where's Dad? Is he all right?!"
Panel 3: A bald older man sits in a chair, now sporting a goatee, looking mildly annoyed.
Bald man with goatee: "I'm fine. I just decided to grow a goatee, okay?"
Panel 4: The three of them stand together — the bald goateed man seated, the gray-haired woman and the red-haired woman behind him looking concerned.
Gray-haired woman: "It doesn't look good."
Red-haired woman: "I think we should pull the plug."
Votey:
A hand-drawn two-axis chart. The vertical axis runs from "dark" (bottom) to "light" (top). The horizontal axis runs from "low class" (left) to "high class" (right). A diagonal arrow runs through the origin, labeled "shame" at its upper-right end and "pride" at its lower-left end.
Gray-haired woman: "Sweetie, I need you to fly home."
Voice on phone: "What? Why?"
Gray-haired woman: "It's your father... it... it doesn't look good..."
Panel 2: Caption: "Later that day..." A woman with red hair rushes in, looking alarmed.
Red-haired woman: "Where's Dad? Is he all right?!"
Panel 3: A bald older man sits in a chair, now sporting a goatee, looking mildly annoyed.
Bald man with goatee: "I'm fine. I just decided to grow a goatee, okay?"
Panel 4: The three of them stand together — the bald goateed man seated, the gray-haired woman and the red-haired woman behind him looking concerned.
Gray-haired woman: "It doesn't look good."
Red-haired woman: "I think we should pull the plug."
Votey:
A hand-drawn two-axis chart. The vertical axis runs from "dark" (bottom) to "light" (top). The horizontal axis runs from "low class" (left) to "high class" (right). A diagonal arrow runs through the origin, labeled "shame" at its upper-right end and "pride" at its lower-left end.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a gray-haired woman speaks gravely into a banana held like a phone, telling her child "Sweetie, I need you to fly home," and when the voice asks "What? Why?" she says "It's your father... it... it doesn't look good..." Panel 2, captioned "Later that day," a red-haired woman rushes in alarmed: "Where's Dad? Is he all right?!" Panel 3: a bald older man sits in a chair, now wearing a new goatee, looking annoyed: "I'm fine. I just decided to grow a goatee, okay?" Panel 4: the man sits while the two women stand behind him looking grim — the gray-haired woman says "It doesn't look good," and the red-haired woman says "I think we should pull the plug." The joke: the dire "it doesn't look good" turn of phrase was literally about the goatee being unflattering, not a medical emergency. Votey: a hand-drawn graph with a vertical axis from "dark" (bottom) to "light" (top) and a horizontal axis from "low class" (left) to "high class" (right); a diagonal arrow crosses the center labeled "shame" at the upper-right (high-class, light) end and "pride" at the lower-left (low-class, dark) end.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.