ohyesrobot.ordoliberal.com

clouds-3

Original: clouds-3 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Panel 1:
Woman: Do you see anything in the clouds?

Panel 2:
Man (off-panel/reclining): That one looks to me like a lonnnng pathway and at the far end there's a lady with a sad face looking back over the path.

Panel 3:
Woman looks at him, puzzled/concerned.

Panel 4:
The man lies on his back on the grass, hands behind his head, frowning with a single tear/sweat drop on his face.

Panel 5:
Cloud-skywriting/banner trailing from a small jet across the sky reads: SHEILA, WILL YOU MARRY ME?

Votey:
A loose line-drawing of a reclining figure with a speech bubble:
Man: She's probably still down for sex even if she leaves the path.

Alt text

A five-panel SMBC comic. A woman and a man lie on the grass cloud-gazing. She asks if he sees anything in the clouds. He says one looks like a long pathway with, at the far end, a sad-faced lady looking back over the path. The woman looks concerned. The man lies frowning, a tear or sweat drop on his cheek, lost in the gloomy vision. The final panel pulls to the sky, where a small jet trails a skywriting banner that reads 'SHEILA, WILL YOU MARRY ME?' — revealing the man is melancholically interpreting an actual marriage proposal in the clouds as a metaphor for heartbreak. Votey: a rough sketch of the reclining man with a speech bubble adding, 'She's probably still down for sex even if she leaves the path.'

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.