uncanny
Original: uncanny on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: An older woman in a red top, with curly gray hair and glasses, looks anxiously up at a man in surgical scrubs and a green surgical mask.
Woman: "Is he okay? How did the surgery go?"
Panel 2: The masked surgeon, holding his hands together, speaks earnestly.
Surgeon: "I'm about to tell you, but first, you should know I have a firm belief that uncanny, baffling memories are preferable to straightforwardly sad ones."
Panel 3: Close-up on the woman's worried, teary face.
Woman: "So..."
Panel 4: Close-up on the surgeon, who has raised one finger and is sucking from a yellow balloon labeled "HELIUM," preparing to speak in a high squeaky voice.
Votey:
A single panel. The surgeon's face is at right, looking sad/regretful, with a large speech bubble coming from him. Inside the bubble, in tiny squeaky handwriting, he says: "I'm so sorryyyyyy"
Woman: "Is he okay? How did the surgery go?"
Panel 2: The masked surgeon, holding his hands together, speaks earnestly.
Surgeon: "I'm about to tell you, but first, you should know I have a firm belief that uncanny, baffling memories are preferable to straightforwardly sad ones."
Panel 3: Close-up on the woman's worried, teary face.
Woman: "So..."
Panel 4: Close-up on the surgeon, who has raised one finger and is sucking from a yellow balloon labeled "HELIUM," preparing to speak in a high squeaky voice.
Votey:
A single panel. The surgeon's face is at right, looking sad/regretful, with a large speech bubble coming from him. Inside the bubble, in tiny squeaky handwriting, he says: "I'm so sorryyyyyy"
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: an anxious older woman with gray curly hair and glasses looks up at a surgeon in a green mask and asks, "Is he okay? How did the surgery go?" Panel 2: the surgeon clasps his hands and says, "I'm about to tell you, but first, you should know I have a firm belief that uncanny, baffling memories are preferable to straightforwardly sad ones." Panel 3: close-up of the woman's worried, teary face saying "So..." Panel 4: close-up of the surgeon raising one finger and sucking from a yellow balloon labeled "HELIUM" so he can deliver the bad news in a ridiculous high-pitched voice. The votey (aftercomic) shows the surgeon with a large speech bubble; inside, in tiny squeaky handwriting, he says "I'm so sorryyyyyy" — the helium making the patient's death announcement absurdly squeaky.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.