friendship
Original: friendship on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A man sits at a laptop, typing. His thought bubble reads: "GOSH, WHAT A GOOD FRIEND I'VE GOT."
Panel 2: Close-up of the same man, looking warmly emotional. His thought bubble reads: "I... I LOVE HIM. WE'RE REALLY BROTHERS. WE'VE SEEN SO MUCH TOGETHER. SO MANY THINGS HAVE MATTERED."
Panel 3: A silhouette of the man against a black background, in shadow.
Panel 4: The man, now seen from behind, hunched at his laptop. His thought bubble reads: "BETTER WAIT TILL HE'S DEAD TO SAY ANYTHING NICE." On his laptop screen, a small chat window shows a person and the message: "Fuck you, you ginger freak."
Votey: A person with curly/wavy hair sits at a computer, a heart inside a thought bubble floating above their head, looking lovingly at the screen. The monitor displays the typed message: "Kiss my big red b[...]" (text cut off at the edge of the screen).
Panel 2: Close-up of the same man, looking warmly emotional. His thought bubble reads: "I... I LOVE HIM. WE'RE REALLY BROTHERS. WE'VE SEEN SO MUCH TOGETHER. SO MANY THINGS HAVE MATTERED."
Panel 3: A silhouette of the man against a black background, in shadow.
Panel 4: The man, now seen from behind, hunched at his laptop. His thought bubble reads: "BETTER WAIT TILL HE'S DEAD TO SAY ANYTHING NICE." On his laptop screen, a small chat window shows a person and the message: "Fuck you, you ginger freak."
Votey: A person with curly/wavy hair sits at a computer, a heart inside a thought bubble floating above their head, looking lovingly at the screen. The monitor displays the typed message: "Kiss my big red b[...]" (text cut off at the edge of the screen).
Alt text
A four-panel comic. In the first three panels, a man typing at a laptop has increasingly heartfelt thoughts about a friend: "Gosh, what a good friend I've got," then "I... I love him. We're really brothers. We've seen so much together. So many things have mattered," shown over a warm close-up and then his shadowed silhouette. In the final panel, seen from behind, his thought is "Better wait till he's dead to say anything nice" — and the joke is revealed: his laptop chat screen actually shows him typing the insult "Fuck you, you ginger freak" to that very friend. The contrast between his loving inner thoughts and his harsh outward words is the punchline. Votey aftercomic: a curly-haired person sits at a computer with a heart in a thought bubble above their head, gazing lovingly at the screen while typing the affectionate-insult reply "Kiss my big red b..." (cut off), mirroring the same loving-thoughts-but-trash-talking-words dynamic.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.