come-from
Original: come-from on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Child: Mom, where did I come from?
Mother: Cabbage patch.
Panel 2:
Mother: Your father and I were in a cabbage patch and something about the summer and the hot air and the life growing in every direction just hit us and WHAMMO found my neck wedged between two heads of bok choi screaming in ecstasy.
Panel 3:
Child: Dad said it was a stork.
Mother: We DID also get busy behind the zoo stork exhibit.
Panel 4:
(The child stands silently, looking uneasy. The mother turns away.)
Panel 5:
Mother: I guess you came from either a cabbage patch, the stork, or the alleyway behind KFC.
Child: I would like to withdraw my question.
(The mother stands with a hand over her mouth, thinking; the child stands small in the corner.)
Votey:
Text in a hand-drawn box: When you die it goes right back up.
Child: Mom, where did I come from?
Mother: Cabbage patch.
Panel 2:
Mother: Your father and I were in a cabbage patch and something about the summer and the hot air and the life growing in every direction just hit us and WHAMMO found my neck wedged between two heads of bok choi screaming in ecstasy.
Panel 3:
Child: Dad said it was a stork.
Mother: We DID also get busy behind the zoo stork exhibit.
Panel 4:
(The child stands silently, looking uneasy. The mother turns away.)
Panel 5:
Mother: I guess you came from either a cabbage patch, the stork, or the alleyway behind KFC.
Child: I would like to withdraw my question.
(The mother stands with a hand over her mouth, thinking; the child stands small in the corner.)
Votey:
Text in a hand-drawn box: When you die it goes right back up.
Alt text
A five-panel comic. A child asks their mother, "Mom, where did I come from?" The mother answers, "Cabbage patch," then launches into a graphic explanation: she and the child's father were in a cabbage patch when the summer heat and growing life overwhelmed them and "WHAMMO" she found her neck wedged between two heads of bok choi, screaming in ecstasy. The child says, "Dad said it was a stork," and the mother replies that they also got busy behind the zoo stork exhibit. The child stands looking increasingly uneasy. Finally the mother concludes the child came from "either a cabbage patch, the stork, or the alleyway behind KFC," and the child, small and overwhelmed, says, "I would like to withdraw my question." Votey (aftercomic): a plain hand-drawn box with the text, "When you die it goes right back up."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.