socializing
Original: socializing on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A blonde woman speaks to a brown-haired woman.
Blonde woman: I want my kids to go to school so they get properly socialized.
Panel 2: Silhouette image of an adult walking a small child along by the hand on the left, and on the right an adult pushing a stroller. A speech bubble emerges from the silhouettes.
Voice: By high school?
Reply: Yes, why?
Caption banner: DECADES HENCE.
Panel 3: The now-older brown-haired woman (the former child, grown up) speaks.
Grown woman: I don't like my boss so I told all the boys at work that she is a TOTAL SLUT and she knows I did it but she can't say ANYTHING because she KNOWS I'm more popular than her.
Panel 4: The blonde mother, now older, replies warmly.
Mother: You've grown up so beautifully.
Votey:
Hand-lettered word at the top of an otherwise blank panel: Bitch.
Below it, a line-art drawing of a woman's smiling face.
Blonde woman: I want my kids to go to school so they get properly socialized.
Panel 2: Silhouette image of an adult walking a small child along by the hand on the left, and on the right an adult pushing a stroller. A speech bubble emerges from the silhouettes.
Voice: By high school?
Reply: Yes, why?
Caption banner: DECADES HENCE.
Panel 3: The now-older brown-haired woman (the former child, grown up) speaks.
Grown woman: I don't like my boss so I told all the boys at work that she is a TOTAL SLUT and she knows I did it but she can't say ANYTHING because she KNOWS I'm more popular than her.
Panel 4: The blonde mother, now older, replies warmly.
Mother: You've grown up so beautifully.
Votey:
Hand-lettered word at the top of an otherwise blank panel: Bitch.
Below it, a line-art drawing of a woman's smiling face.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic about "socialization." Panel 1: a blonde woman tells a brown-haired woman, "I want my kids to go to school so they get properly socialized." Panel 2: a black silhouette scene of a parent walking a small child and a parent pushing a stroller; a voice asks "By high school?" and the answer is "Yes, why?" A pink caption banner reads "DECADES HENCE." Panel 3: the child, now a grown woman, says, "I don't like my boss so I told all the boys at work that she is a TOTAL SLUT and she knows I did it but she can't say ANYTHING because she KNOWS I'm more popular than her." Panel 4: the blonde mother, now older, smiles and replies, "You've grown up so beautifully." The joke: "properly socialized" turns out to mean learning cruel, popularity-driven social cruelty. Votey: a near-blank panel with the hand-lettered word "Bitch" above a simple line drawing of a smiling woman's face.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.