kids-3
Original: kids-3 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman: I really think I only want two kids.
John (man with red/orange hair): Not... not five?
Panel 2:
Woman: Five? Ha! Oh, John, can you imagine us with five kids?
Panel 3:
John: I...
Panel 4:
John: No, of course not.
(The woman stands behind John, who holds a hand thoughtfully to his face.)
Panel 5:
John stares blankly ahead. A thought bubble shows him standing proudly with five children clustered around and clinging to him.
Votey:
John's face, drawn in loose sketch style, with a speech bubble: "Maybe if I just stole kids!"
Woman: I really think I only want two kids.
John (man with red/orange hair): Not... not five?
Panel 2:
Woman: Five? Ha! Oh, John, can you imagine us with five kids?
Panel 3:
John: I...
Panel 4:
John: No, of course not.
(The woman stands behind John, who holds a hand thoughtfully to his face.)
Panel 5:
John stares blankly ahead. A thought bubble shows him standing proudly with five children clustered around and clinging to him.
Votey:
John's face, drawn in loose sketch style, with a speech bubble: "Maybe if I just stole kids!"
Alt text
A four-panel comic plus a small follow-up panel. A woman and John, a man with red hair, talk. She says she really only wants two kids and asks, laughing, if he can imagine them with five kids. He hesitates ('I...') then agrees, 'No, of course not.' In the final wide panel John stares ahead, blank-faced, while a thought bubble reveals his secret fantasy: him standing proudly surrounded by five children all clinging to him. The follow-up panel is a loose sketch of John's face saying, 'Maybe if I just stole kids!' The joke: John desperately wants a big family and is privately scheming about how to get more children.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.