failure
Original: failure on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A small desert island with a single palm tree, alone in the ocean. A thought/message bubble floats above it reading:
"MY WHOLE LIFE HAS BEEN ONE STRING OF FAILURES. PLEASE SEND HELP."
Panel 2: Close on a bearded, long-haired man (the castaway) rolling up a note and stuffing it into a glass bottle.
Panel 3: The man on his island winds up and hurls the corked bottle out over the water.
Panel 4: The bottle crashes down on a distant shore in a dramatic explosion/impact burst, smashing on the sand.
Panel 5: A second bearded, long-haired man stands on the beach holding the recovered note (papers scattered around him from the smashed bottle). A speech bubble points to him:
Man on shore: "YOU MISSPELLED 'FAILURE.'"
Panel 6: Wordless action panel — figures in motion on the sand, the castaway and the man on shore meeting.
Footer text: "THIS COMIC BROUGHT TO YOU BY BUYERS OF SOONISH. CLICK FOR MORE INFORMATION."
(Site credit: smbc-comics.com)
Votey:
Loosely sketched, line-drawing style. The castaway (now shown as a bearded man) has a speech bubble:
Castaway: "Then how'd you know I meant to say failure?"
The man on shore replies, smaller bubble:
Man on shore: "Come on, man."
"MY WHOLE LIFE HAS BEEN ONE STRING OF FAILURES. PLEASE SEND HELP."
Panel 2: Close on a bearded, long-haired man (the castaway) rolling up a note and stuffing it into a glass bottle.
Panel 3: The man on his island winds up and hurls the corked bottle out over the water.
Panel 4: The bottle crashes down on a distant shore in a dramatic explosion/impact burst, smashing on the sand.
Panel 5: A second bearded, long-haired man stands on the beach holding the recovered note (papers scattered around him from the smashed bottle). A speech bubble points to him:
Man on shore: "YOU MISSPELLED 'FAILURE.'"
Panel 6: Wordless action panel — figures in motion on the sand, the castaway and the man on shore meeting.
Footer text: "THIS COMIC BROUGHT TO YOU BY BUYERS OF SOONISH. CLICK FOR MORE INFORMATION."
(Site credit: smbc-comics.com)
Votey:
Loosely sketched, line-drawing style. The castaway (now shown as a bearded man) has a speech bubble:
Castaway: "Then how'd you know I meant to say failure?"
The man on shore replies, smaller bubble:
Man on shore: "Come on, man."
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a lone desert island with one palm tree in the open ocean, with a message bubble above it reading 'MY WHOLE LIFE HAS BEEN ONE STRING OF FAILURES. PLEASE SEND HELP.' Panel 2: a close-up of a bearded castaway rolling a note into a glass bottle. Panel 3: he hurls the corked bottle out to sea. Panel 4: the bottle crashes and smashes on a distant beach in a burst of impact. Panel 5: a second bearded man on that shore holds the recovered note and says, 'YOU MISSPELLED "FAILURE."' Panel 6: a wordless scuffle/meeting on the sand. The desperate cry for help is answered only with a spelling correction. Footer: 'This comic brought to you by buyers of SOONISH.' Votey (a rough sketch panel): the castaway protests, 'Then how'd you know I meant to say failure?' and the other man flatly answers, 'Come on, man.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.