anger
Original: anger on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A man holds up a phone, agitated, looking at the screen.
Man: "THIS MEDIA PERSONALITY MAKES ME ENTIRE LIVING BY INFURIATING PEOPLE!"
Panel 2: The man turns toward the viewer, still angry, jabbing a finger.
Man: "AND NOW WE'RE MAKING ME ANGRY!"
Panel 3: Close-up of the man's face, brow furrowed.
Man: "WELL, I'LL JUST SHOW HIM."
Panel 4: A wordless scenic panel — an empty beach/shore under a pink-orange sky, time passing.
Panel 5: Two people (a man and a woman) sit talking happily at a cafe window. A sign below the window reads: "Coffee · Pastry · Tea · S..."
Panel 6: The same two people stand close together, smiling at each other (a budding romance).
Panel 7: A wordless panel of people walking outdoors among trees — life moving on.
Panel 8: A group of people gathered together indoors at a warm social event, time having passed.
Panel 9: A gravestone in a grassy field.
Gravestone: "HERE LIES STEVE JONES" / "NEVER CLICKED THAT LINK"
Votey:
A single panel showing a gravestone.
Gravestone: "HERE LIES WEINERSMITH" / "CLICKED THOSE LINKS BUT DID COMICS ABOUT HOW OTHER PEOPLE SHOULDN'T"
Man: "THIS MEDIA PERSONALITY MAKES ME ENTIRE LIVING BY INFURIATING PEOPLE!"
Panel 2: The man turns toward the viewer, still angry, jabbing a finger.
Man: "AND NOW WE'RE MAKING ME ANGRY!"
Panel 3: Close-up of the man's face, brow furrowed.
Man: "WELL, I'LL JUST SHOW HIM."
Panel 4: A wordless scenic panel — an empty beach/shore under a pink-orange sky, time passing.
Panel 5: Two people (a man and a woman) sit talking happily at a cafe window. A sign below the window reads: "Coffee · Pastry · Tea · S..."
Panel 6: The same two people stand close together, smiling at each other (a budding romance).
Panel 7: A wordless panel of people walking outdoors among trees — life moving on.
Panel 8: A group of people gathered together indoors at a warm social event, time having passed.
Panel 9: A gravestone in a grassy field.
Gravestone: "HERE LIES STEVE JONES" / "NEVER CLICKED THAT LINK"
Votey:
A single panel showing a gravestone.
Gravestone: "HERE LIES WEINERSMITH" / "CLICKED THOSE LINKS BUT DID COMICS ABOUT HOW OTHER PEOPLE SHOULDN'T"
Alt text
A nine-panel comic. A man stares furiously at his phone and rants that a media personality earns a living by infuriating people — and that it's working on him: "AND NOW WE'RE MAKING ME ANGRY!" He vows, "WELL, I'LL JUST SHOW HIM." The following panels show time passing without him taking the bait: a quiet empty beach at sunset, then him meeting a woman at a cafe (a sign reads "Coffee · Pastry · Tea"), falling for her, walking through a leafy outdoors, and enjoying a warm gathering of friends. The final panel is his gravestone: "HERE LIES STEVE JONES / NEVER CLICKED THAT LINK" — the joke being that ignoring rage-bait freed him to live a full, happy life. Votey (aftercomic): a second gravestone reading "HERE LIES WEINERSMITH / 'CLICKED THOSE LINKS BUT DID COMICS ABOUT HOW OTHER PEOPLE SHOULDN'T'" — the cartoonist self-deprecatingly admitting he takes the bait but moralizes against it.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.