the-point
Original: the-point on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A semicolon (the parent) speaks.
Semicolon: I want him to be raised like I was - pausing sentences, but letting them proceed.
Panel 2: A period (the other parent) responds angrily.
Period: No! Goddammit he's a period and he'll be end of sentence punctuation and THAT IS THAT.
Panel 3: Caption banner: YEARS LATER.
The semicolon parent sits at a bar next to their grown child, an exclamation point, with two shot glasses on the bar.
Semicolon: Neither of my parents ever really got me.
Exclamation point: DAMN!!!!
Votey:
A speech bubble reads: But why?
Below it, three punctuation marks are lined up: a semicolon, an exclamation point, and a question mark.
Semicolon: I want him to be raised like I was - pausing sentences, but letting them proceed.
Panel 2: A period (the other parent) responds angrily.
Period: No! Goddammit he's a period and he'll be end of sentence punctuation and THAT IS THAT.
Panel 3: Caption banner: YEARS LATER.
The semicolon parent sits at a bar next to their grown child, an exclamation point, with two shot glasses on the bar.
Semicolon: Neither of my parents ever really got me.
Exclamation point: DAMN!!!!
Votey:
A speech bubble reads: But why?
Below it, three punctuation marks are lined up: a semicolon, an exclamation point, and a question mark.
Alt text
A four-panel comic where punctuation marks are characters. Panel 1: a semicolon says, 'I want him to be raised like I was - pausing sentences, but letting them proceed.' Panel 2: a period angrily replies, 'No! Goddammit he's a period and he'll be end of sentence punctuation and THAT IS THAT.' Panel 3, labeled 'YEARS LATER': the semicolon and a grown-up exclamation point sit together at a bar with two shot glasses. The semicolon laments, 'Neither of my parents ever really got me,' and the exclamation point exclaims 'DAMN!!!!' - the joke being their child grew up to be an exclamation point, neither a semicolon nor a period. Votey: a speech bubble asks 'But why?' above a row of three punctuation marks - a semicolon, an exclamation point, and a question mark - drawn as little characters.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.