submarine
Original: submarine on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Child: Mama! I'm drawing a submarine!
Panel 2:
Child (holding up a drawing labeled "Submarine"): Here's the kitchen and here's the dining room and here's where the toy shelves are and there's the library.
Panel 3:
Mother: You have all this stuff at home, but you don't use it. What difference would a submarine make?
Panel 4:
Mother (face contorted, shouting): What inside you died and why didn't it take the rest of you with it?
Panel 5 (after "LATER..."):
The mother lies in bed. A man sits up beside her, reading a book.
Man: Wow. You grounded him for that?
Mother: I think it's wonder. Wonder died.
Votey:
The man, lying in bed, says: Better take away his crayons too.
Child: Mama! I'm drawing a submarine!
Panel 2:
Child (holding up a drawing labeled "Submarine"): Here's the kitchen and here's the dining room and here's where the toy shelves are and there's the library.
Panel 3:
Mother: You have all this stuff at home, but you don't use it. What difference would a submarine make?
Panel 4:
Mother (face contorted, shouting): What inside you died and why didn't it take the rest of you with it?
Panel 5 (after "LATER..."):
The mother lies in bed. A man sits up beside her, reading a book.
Man: Wow. You grounded him for that?
Mother: I think it's wonder. Wonder died.
Votey:
The man, lying in bed, says: Better take away his crayons too.
Alt text
A four-panel comic. A small child excitedly tells his mother he is drawing a submarine, holding up a crayon drawing labeled "Submarine" and narrating its features: a kitchen, a dining room, toy shelves, and a library. The mother coldly replies that he already has all that stuff at home and doesn't use it, so what difference would a submarine make. In the next panel her face twists into an over-the-top shout: "What inside you died and why didn't it take the rest of you with it?" After a caption reading "LATER...", the mother lies in bed while a man sits up beside her reading. He asks, "Wow. You grounded him for that?" She answers, "I think it's wonder. Wonder died." The joke: she's treating the death of the child's sense of wonder as if it were the kid's offense. Votey: the man, now lying down, adds deadpan, "Better take away his crayons too."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.