wants
Original: wants on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (header banner): WHAT I OUGHT TO WANT
Figure (a smooth, featureless person resting their head on a desk/book): WISDOM...
Panel 2 (header banner): WHAT I ACTUALLY WANT
Text (over a grassy hillside landscape where a tiny figure runs joyfully): HAPPINESS...
Panel 3 (header banner): WHAT I BEHAVE LIKE I WANT
Figure (a wide-eyed, exhausted-looking person staring at a phone/screen): TINY BITS OF INFORMATION THAT I WILL IMMEDIATELY FORGET.
Bottom caption: THIS BONUS COMIC BROUGHT TO YOU BUY BUYERS OF THE NEW LOVE-THEMED SMBC COLLECTION! CLICK FOR MORE INFO.
smbc-comics.com
Votey:
Handwritten title at top: NEWS THAT MADE ANGRY
A scene of a person with curly hair holding a phone/tablet, their face wide-eyed and distressed, with two cats (cat faces) drawn nearby. Lines of scribbled, illegible text fill the top of the panel suggesting an article or feed.
Figure (a smooth, featureless person resting their head on a desk/book): WISDOM...
Panel 2 (header banner): WHAT I ACTUALLY WANT
Text (over a grassy hillside landscape where a tiny figure runs joyfully): HAPPINESS...
Panel 3 (header banner): WHAT I BEHAVE LIKE I WANT
Figure (a wide-eyed, exhausted-looking person staring at a phone/screen): TINY BITS OF INFORMATION THAT I WILL IMMEDIATELY FORGET.
Bottom caption: THIS BONUS COMIC BROUGHT TO YOU BUY BUYERS OF THE NEW LOVE-THEMED SMBC COLLECTION! CLICK FOR MORE INFO.
smbc-comics.com
Votey:
Handwritten title at top: NEWS THAT MADE ANGRY
A scene of a person with curly hair holding a phone/tablet, their face wide-eyed and distressed, with two cats (cat faces) drawn nearby. Lines of scribbled, illegible text fill the top of the panel suggesting an article or feed.
Alt text
A three-panel SMBC comic about the gap between aspiration and behavior. Panel 1, banner "WHAT I OUGHT TO WANT": a calm, featureless person rests their head on a desk and thinks "WISDOM..." Panel 2, banner "WHAT I ACTUALLY WANT": a tiny figure runs freely across a sunny green hillside, captioned "HAPPINESS..." Panel 3, banner "WHAT I BEHAVE LIKE I WANT": a wide-eyed, frazzled, exhausted-looking person stares blankly at a glowing phone screen, thinking "TINY BITS OF INFORMATION THAT I WILL IMMEDIATELY FORGET." The joke contrasts the lofty things we say we want with the compulsive phone-scrolling we actually do. A caption notes the bonus comic is sponsored by buyers of the new love-themed SMBC collection. The votey aftercomic, titled "NEWS THAT MADE ANGRY," shows a distressed curly-haired person clutching a phone amid scribbled illegible feed text, with two cats nearby — a person being upset by online news.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.