cog
Original: cog on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Patient (a woman with light hair, lying on a therapy couch): Doc, you ever feel like you're just a cog in a vast machine?
Panel 2:
Therapist (a woman with dark hair and round glasses, holding a notepad): No. "Cog" implies purpose and order. "Vast" implies that any of this is important.
Panel 3:
Therapist: I prefer "gunk growing on a dying shrub."
Panel 4:
(The patient lies on the couch, looking blank/contemplative. No dialogue.)
Panel 5:
Patient: Accepting pointlessness is weirdly good for my anxiety.
Panel 6:
Therapist: No one who cares about you will be alive in 100 years.
Votey:
(Close-up of the classic SMBC wide-faced character.)
Caption: Due to inflation, free now means 4 dollars.
Patient (a woman with light hair, lying on a therapy couch): Doc, you ever feel like you're just a cog in a vast machine?
Panel 2:
Therapist (a woman with dark hair and round glasses, holding a notepad): No. "Cog" implies purpose and order. "Vast" implies that any of this is important.
Panel 3:
Therapist: I prefer "gunk growing on a dying shrub."
Panel 4:
(The patient lies on the couch, looking blank/contemplative. No dialogue.)
Panel 5:
Patient: Accepting pointlessness is weirdly good for my anxiety.
Panel 6:
Therapist: No one who cares about you will be alive in 100 years.
Votey:
(Close-up of the classic SMBC wide-faced character.)
Caption: Due to inflation, free now means 4 dollars.
Alt text
A six-panel comic. A light-haired woman lies on a therapist's couch while a dark-haired therapist in round glasses takes notes. Patient: "Doc, you ever feel like you're just a cog in a vast machine?" Therapist: "No. 'Cog' implies purpose and order. 'Vast' implies that any of this is important. I prefer 'gunk growing on a dying shrub.'" The patient lies there absorbing this. Patient: "Accepting pointlessness is weirdly good for my anxiety." Therapist, deadpan: "No one who cares about you will be alive in 100 years." Votey aftercomic: a close-up of a wide, blank-faced character with a speech bubble reading "Due to inflation, free now means 4 dollars."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.