communication
Original: communication on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A woman speaks to a man with red flame-like hair.
Woman: I feel like we don't communicate well.
Panel 2: The man (red hair) responds.
Man: Yes! We need to talk more.
Woman: Shh. Shutup.
Panel 3: The man stands holding up a flag, beginning a demonstration.
Man: In order to better convey emotions, I'll be borrowing a method from 18th century seafaring and raising flags when we're in visual range of each other.
Panel 4: The man holds up a flag.
Man: This flag indicates anger.
Panel 5: The man holds up another flag.
Man: This flag indicates sorrow.
Panel 6: The man holds up another flag.
Man: This flag indicates stress.
Panel 7: The man holds up another flag.
Man: This flag indicates that my ship's nets have caught on an obstruction.
Panel 8: The man holds up another flag.
Man: We probably won't use that one very often.
Panel 9: The man holds up a green flag, looking around, having raised his eyes from where the woman was.
Man: This flag indic... Hey! Where'd you go?
Panels 10-12: The man, now alone, gestures and looks increasingly confused and distressed as he realizes she has left.
Panels 13-14: Abstract emotional panels — an orange panel with a jagged black tear/lightning shape, then a green panel, the man looking stricken.
Panel 15: Wide shot of an empty dining room. The woman sits alone at a table far across the room, and a sad face is hung on the wall above her.
Votey: A loose line-drawing of a person's profile in mid-speech, with a speech bubble.
Speaker (the profile figure): Men and women just speak different languages.
Woman: I feel like we don't communicate well.
Panel 2: The man (red hair) responds.
Man: Yes! We need to talk more.
Woman: Shh. Shutup.
Panel 3: The man stands holding up a flag, beginning a demonstration.
Man: In order to better convey emotions, I'll be borrowing a method from 18th century seafaring and raising flags when we're in visual range of each other.
Panel 4: The man holds up a flag.
Man: This flag indicates anger.
Panel 5: The man holds up another flag.
Man: This flag indicates sorrow.
Panel 6: The man holds up another flag.
Man: This flag indicates stress.
Panel 7: The man holds up another flag.
Man: This flag indicates that my ship's nets have caught on an obstruction.
Panel 8: The man holds up another flag.
Man: We probably won't use that one very often.
Panel 9: The man holds up a green flag, looking around, having raised his eyes from where the woman was.
Man: This flag indic... Hey! Where'd you go?
Panels 10-12: The man, now alone, gestures and looks increasingly confused and distressed as he realizes she has left.
Panels 13-14: Abstract emotional panels — an orange panel with a jagged black tear/lightning shape, then a green panel, the man looking stricken.
Panel 15: Wide shot of an empty dining room. The woman sits alone at a table far across the room, and a sad face is hung on the wall above her.
Votey: A loose line-drawing of a person's profile in mid-speech, with a speech bubble.
Speaker (the profile figure): Men and women just speak different languages.
Alt text
A SMBC comic. A woman tells a red-haired man, "I feel like we don't communicate well." He enthusiastically agrees, "Yes! We need to talk more," and she snaps, "Shh. Shutup." He then announces that to better convey emotions he'll borrow an 18th-century seafaring method and raise signal flags whenever they're in visual range. He proceeds to hold up flag after flag: "This flag indicates anger," "...sorrow," "...stress," then "This flag indicates that my ship's nets have caught on an obstruction," adding, "We probably won't use that one very often." Mid-demonstration he holds up a green flag, starts "This flag indic..." then looks up to find she's gone: "Hey! Where'd you go?" The final panels show him alone and distressed, ending on a wide shot of an empty dining room where the woman sits at a far table beneath a sad face hung on the wall. Votey: a loose sketch of a person's profile speaking, with the caption "Men and women just speak different languages."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.