garden
Original: garden on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (DAY 1 GARDENING):
Gardener (a person with flame-like hair, kneeling in a field): This is fun, but I need more soil.
Panel 2 (DAY 10):
Gardener (standing, gesturing wildly at the landscape): Those leaves could be soil. Old grass. Old food. It could all be plants. ALL OF IT.
Panel 3 (DAY 100):
Gardener (shouting from beside a parked car/truck): Wife! Look at all that animal poop! It could be turned into carrots! Get the shovel and come with me and if someone shoots trespassers run but do not drop the soil.
Panel 4 (DAY 1000):
Wife (standing in a doorway, holding papers, gesturing at the gardener): So, you were just gonna flush that without talking to me first.
Votey:
Wife (off-panel, in a large speech bubble): Think of someone other than you, for once.
The gardener stands below, head bowed, looking distraught/teary.
Gardener (a person with flame-like hair, kneeling in a field): This is fun, but I need more soil.
Panel 2 (DAY 10):
Gardener (standing, gesturing wildly at the landscape): Those leaves could be soil. Old grass. Old food. It could all be plants. ALL OF IT.
Panel 3 (DAY 100):
Gardener (shouting from beside a parked car/truck): Wife! Look at all that animal poop! It could be turned into carrots! Get the shovel and come with me and if someone shoots trespassers run but do not drop the soil.
Panel 4 (DAY 1000):
Wife (standing in a doorway, holding papers, gesturing at the gardener): So, you were just gonna flush that without talking to me first.
Votey:
Wife (off-panel, in a large speech bubble): Think of someone other than you, for once.
The gardener stands below, head bowed, looking distraught/teary.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic charting a gardener's escalating obsession with soil over time. Panel 1, labeled DAY 1 GARDENING: a flame-haired gardener kneels in a green field and says, "This is fun, but I need more soil." Panel 2, DAY 10: the gardener stands gesturing at the landscape, declaring, "Those leaves could be soil. Old grass. Old food. It could all be plants. ALL OF IT." Panel 3, DAY 100: the gardener shouts beside a parked vehicle, "Wife! Look at all that animal poop! It could be turned into carrots! Get the shovel and come with me and if someone shoots trespassers run but do not drop the soil." Panel 4, DAY 1000: a weary wife stands in a doorway holding papers and says flatly, "So, you were just gonna flush that without talking to me first" - implying the gardener now wants to compost human waste from the toilet. The joke is the obsession growing from harmless gardening to wanting to recycle literally everything, including bodily waste. Votey (bonus panel): the wife, off-panel, says in a large bubble, "Think of someone other than you, for once," while the dejected, teary-faced gardener stands below with head bowed.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.