body-language
Original: body-language on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with red hair and glasses (to a woman): Texting is bad because it doesn't capture body language.
Panel 2:
Red-haired man (grinning, leaning in): So I made an app that captures the expression on your mouth and the position of your body and transmits it along with your words.
Panel 3:
Red-haired man (handing her a phone): Here, try it out.
Panel 4:
On the phone screen, a text-message conversation:
First message bubble: Do you like my new app?
Reply bubble: yes.
(The reply bubble contains a tiny crude drawing of a person with an unimpressed/deadpan face and a hand making a dismissive gesture, representing her transmitted expression and body language alongside the word "yes.")
Votey:
A tall figure with a large dark scribble of hair (the woman) holds up a small tablet/device and says: You are the next Steve Jobs.
Man with red hair and glasses (to a woman): Texting is bad because it doesn't capture body language.
Panel 2:
Red-haired man (grinning, leaning in): So I made an app that captures the expression on your mouth and the position of your body and transmits it along with your words.
Panel 3:
Red-haired man (handing her a phone): Here, try it out.
Panel 4:
On the phone screen, a text-message conversation:
First message bubble: Do you like my new app?
Reply bubble: yes.
(The reply bubble contains a tiny crude drawing of a person with an unimpressed/deadpan face and a hand making a dismissive gesture, representing her transmitted expression and body language alongside the word "yes.")
Votey:
A tall figure with a large dark scribble of hair (the woman) holds up a small tablet/device and says: You are the next Steve Jobs.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a red-haired man in glasses tells a woman, "Texting is bad because it doesn't capture body language." Panel 2: grinning, he says, "So I made an app that captures the expression on your mouth and the position of your body and transmits it along with your words." Panel 3: he hands her a phone, saying "Here, try it out." Panel 4: a phone screen shows a text chat. One bubble asks "Do you like my new app?" The reply bubble says "yes" but includes a tiny crude doodle of the woman with a flat, unimpressed face and a dismissive hand gesture, revealing that her transmitted body language flatly contradicts the polite word. Votey: the woman holds up a small device and deadpans, "You are the next Steve Jobs."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.