half-full
Original: half-full on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with reddish hair (holding a glass): Do you see this glass as half full or half empty?
Panel 2:
A bald, bearded man looms in from the side: Half full.
Reddish-haired man: Correct!
Panel 3:
Reddish-haired man (drinking from the glass, looking pleased): Half full... OF POISON.
Panel 4:
The reddish-haired man collapses, dying/foaming, as the bald bearded man leans over him angrily.
Bald bearded man: WHAT GOOD IS YOUR OPTIMISM NOW?!
Votey:
A speech bubble emerges from someone lying on the ground:
Speech bubble: I'll come out of this stronger!
Man with reddish hair (holding a glass): Do you see this glass as half full or half empty?
Panel 2:
A bald, bearded man looms in from the side: Half full.
Reddish-haired man: Correct!
Panel 3:
Reddish-haired man (drinking from the glass, looking pleased): Half full... OF POISON.
Panel 4:
The reddish-haired man collapses, dying/foaming, as the bald bearded man leans over him angrily.
Bald bearded man: WHAT GOOD IS YOUR OPTIMISM NOW?!
Votey:
A speech bubble emerges from someone lying on the ground:
Speech bubble: I'll come out of this stronger!
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a man with reddish hair holds up a glass and asks, "Do you see this glass as half full or half empty?" Panel 2: a bald, bearded man answers "Half full," and the reddish-haired man replies "Correct!" Panel 3: the reddish-haired man drinks from the glass and gleefully announces "Half full... OF POISON." Panel 4: the reddish-haired man collapses, dying, while the bald bearded man leans over him in fury and shouts, "WHAT GOOD IS YOUR OPTIMISM NOW?!" The joke: he poisoned himself just to win a half-full/half-empty optimism argument. Votey (aftercomic): the poisoned man lies on the ground, still defiantly optimistic, with a speech bubble reading "I'll come out of this stronger!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.