love-7
Original: love-7 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Little girl (excited): MOMMY I'M GONNA MARRY BILLY!
Woman (the mother, with flowing reddish-brown hair and glasses): OH?
Panel 2:
Little girl: HE HAS FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVEN POKEMON CARDS! I COUNTED THEM!
Caption (below, narration): Later, Ellen married for love, which is fleeting, instead of the solid reliability of very rare cards. She has never had a moment of joy since.
Votey:
Speech bubble (from an unseen speaker): I CHOOSE YOU, BOBBY. BUT IT IS TOO LATE.
[The panel shows a sketchy, indistinct figure/blob hunched over, suggesting a defeated or collapsed figure.]
Little girl (excited): MOMMY I'M GONNA MARRY BILLY!
Woman (the mother, with flowing reddish-brown hair and glasses): OH?
Panel 2:
Little girl: HE HAS FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVEN POKEMON CARDS! I COUNTED THEM!
Caption (below, narration): Later, Ellen married for love, which is fleeting, instead of the solid reliability of very rare cards. She has never had a moment of joy since.
Votey:
Speech bubble (from an unseen speaker): I CHOOSE YOU, BOBBY. BUT IT IS TOO LATE.
[The panel shows a sketchy, indistinct figure/blob hunched over, suggesting a defeated or collapsed figure.]
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A little girl excitedly tells her mother, a woman with long reddish-brown hair and glasses, "Mommy I'm gonna marry Billy!" The mother replies, "Oh?" Panel 2: Close on the smiling mother as the girl explains, "He has four hundred and seven Pokemon cards! I counted them!" A caption beneath reads: "Later, Ellen married for love, which is fleeting, instead of the solid reliability of very rare cards. She has never had a moment of joy since." The joke: the mother regards marrying for rare-card wealth as the wiser, more reliable choice than love. Votey (aftercomic): A single panel showing a sketchy, hunched, indistinct figure with a speech bubble saying, "I choose you, Bobby. But it is too late." — a melancholy Pokemon-battle callback to a love that came too late.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.