short
Original: short on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Child (sitting, reading): Dad, life seems so short.
Panel 2:
Father (reclining in armchair): It doesn't have to.
Panel 3:
Father (close-up, smiling): You know what I did? I discovered what I love early and then I never did it.
Panel 4:
Child (off-panel/looking up): Didn't even try!
Panel 5:
Father (close-up): Now the days seem to drag on forever. And ever. And ever.
Panel 6:
Father gestures, mouth open mid-tirade.
Panel 7:
Child (calling out, hand to mouth): Mom! Dad's speaking from a place of profound remorse again!
Panel 8:
Father (wide-eyed, distressed): I am immortal!
Votey:
Father (calmly, with a small smile): Dammit, I enjoyed yelling there for a second.
Child (sitting, reading): Dad, life seems so short.
Panel 2:
Father (reclining in armchair): It doesn't have to.
Panel 3:
Father (close-up, smiling): You know what I did? I discovered what I love early and then I never did it.
Panel 4:
Child (off-panel/looking up): Didn't even try!
Panel 5:
Father (close-up): Now the days seem to drag on forever. And ever. And ever.
Panel 6:
Father gestures, mouth open mid-tirade.
Panel 7:
Child (calling out, hand to mouth): Mom! Dad's speaking from a place of profound remorse again!
Panel 8:
Father (wide-eyed, distressed): I am immortal!
Votey:
Father (calmly, with a small smile): Dammit, I enjoyed yelling there for a second.
Alt text
A four-row comic. A child tells their dad, who is reclining in an armchair, that life seems so short. The dad replies, "It doesn't have to." In close-up he explains, smiling, "You know what I did? I discovered what I love early and then I never did it." The child cuts in, "Didn't even try!" The dad goes on, "Now the days seem to drag on forever. And ever. And ever," gesturing as he rants. The child calls out with a hand to their mouth, "Mom! Dad's speaking from a place of profound remorse again!" The dad, now wide-eyed and distressed, declares, "I am immortal!" Votey: the dad sits calmly with a faint smile and says, "Dammit, I enjoyed yelling there for a second."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.