pedant
Original: pedant on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (with curly hair and glasses): Honey, you're too pedantic. It's driving us apart. Here, I made a graph of how pedantic you've become.
Panel 2:
(A man with glasses listens, sweating nervously. No dialogue.)
Panel 3:
The woman holds up a whiteboard showing a line graph with an upward-sloping line. The horizontal axis is labeled "pedantry."
Votey:
Man (off-panel speech bubble pointing at his face): Pedantry causes time, right?
(The man's face is drawn looking blank/uncertain.)
Woman (with curly hair and glasses): Honey, you're too pedantic. It's driving us apart. Here, I made a graph of how pedantic you've become.
Panel 2:
(A man with glasses listens, sweating nervously. No dialogue.)
Panel 3:
The woman holds up a whiteboard showing a line graph with an upward-sloping line. The horizontal axis is labeled "pedantry."
Votey:
Man (off-panel speech bubble pointing at his face): Pedantry causes time, right?
(The man's face is drawn looking blank/uncertain.)
Alt text
A four-panel comic. Panel 1: A woman with curly dark hair and glasses speaks earnestly to a man, saying, "Honey, you're too pedantic. It's driving us apart. Here, I made a graph of how pedantic you've become." Panel 2: A close-up of the man with glasses, sweating nervously and saying nothing. Panel 3: The woman holds up a whiteboard with a line graph showing an upward-sloping line; the horizontal axis is labeled "pedantry." The joke: instead of addressing the emotional point, the man's pedantic instinct is triggered by the graph itself. Votey (aftercomic): A close-up of the man's blank face with a speech bubble reading, "Pedantry causes time, right?" — he nitpicks the graph's implied causation (mistaking the x-axis variable for a cause) rather than hearing his partner's concern.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.