wisdom-3
Original: wisdom-3 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (caption: BEFORE HAVING KIDS...):
A tidy, well-dressed woman stands in a store holding a baby, with three other calm children around her. A second woman with a shopping basket comments to her.
Woman with basket: How can she be so grumpy? She has 4 well-behaved, happy kids!
Panel 2 (caption: AFTER KIDS...):
Close-up of a man (the speaker), resting his hand near his chin, looking thoughtful.
Man: By Christ, what did it cost her psyche to get FOUR of them to act polite and have decent haircuts?
Panel 3:
Close-up of the grumpy mother, looking haggard, tired, and hollow-eyed.
Speech bubble: She walks among us, but she is no longer here.
Votey:
Thought bubble: It took seven hours to get him to wear a clip on tie.
Below the bubble, a person's strained, exhausted face with a single sweat drop.
A tidy, well-dressed woman stands in a store holding a baby, with three other calm children around her. A second woman with a shopping basket comments to her.
Woman with basket: How can she be so grumpy? She has 4 well-behaved, happy kids!
Panel 2 (caption: AFTER KIDS...):
Close-up of a man (the speaker), resting his hand near his chin, looking thoughtful.
Man: By Christ, what did it cost her psyche to get FOUR of them to act polite and have decent haircuts?
Panel 3:
Close-up of the grumpy mother, looking haggard, tired, and hollow-eyed.
Speech bubble: She walks among us, but she is no longer here.
Votey:
Thought bubble: It took seven hours to get him to wear a clip on tie.
Below the bubble, a person's strained, exhausted face with a single sweat drop.
Alt text
A multi-panel comic. Top panel labeled 'BEFORE HAVING KIDS': in a store, a composed, well-dressed mother holds a baby while three other calm, neat children stand near her; a passing shopper with a basket says, 'How can she be so grumpy? She has 4 well-behaved, happy kids!' Bottom-left panel labeled 'AFTER KIDS': a thoughtful man with hand to chin says, 'By Christ, what did it cost her psyche to get FOUR of them to act polite and have decent haircuts?' Bottom-right panel: a close-up of the same mother, now haggard and hollow-eyed, with a speech bubble reading, 'She walks among us, but she is no longer here.' The joke: raising well-behaved children quietly destroyed her from the inside. Votey (aftercomic): a strained, exhausted face with one sweat drop and a thought bubble reading, 'It took seven hours to get him to wear a clip on tie.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.