forgetfulness
Original: forgetfulness on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Hooded skeletal figure (a Charon/Death-like ferryman in a red robe): To enter the land of shadows, you must cross over the river of forgetfulness.
Panel 2:
Red-haired man: You've told me that, like, four times now.
Panel 3:
The red-haired man (only his arm and a small speech bubble visible): I.
Panel 4:
Wide shot of the two in a small boat on a dark river at night.
Red-haired man: God I hate this place.
Votey:
Close-up of the red-haired man's face, looking puzzled.
Red-haired man: Wait who the hell are you?
Hooded skeletal figure (a Charon/Death-like ferryman in a red robe): To enter the land of shadows, you must cross over the river of forgetfulness.
Panel 2:
Red-haired man: You've told me that, like, four times now.
Panel 3:
The red-haired man (only his arm and a small speech bubble visible): I.
Panel 4:
Wide shot of the two in a small boat on a dark river at night.
Red-haired man: God I hate this place.
Votey:
Close-up of the red-haired man's face, looking puzzled.
Red-haired man: Wait who the hell are you?
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a hooded, skeletal ferryman in a red robe (a Charon/Death figure) tells a red-haired man, "To enter the land of shadows, you must cross over the river of forgetfulness." Panel 2: the red-haired man replies, "You've told me that, like, four times now." Panel 3: the man starts to say "I." Panel 4: a wide nighttime shot of the two sitting in a small boat on a dark river; the man says, "God I hate this place." The joke: the river of forgetfulness keeps making him forget the conversation, so it repeats endlessly. Votey: a close-up of the red-haired man's puzzled face as he asks the ferryman, "Wait who the hell are you?"—his memory has reset again.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.