stages
Original: stages on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title: ALL LIFE STAGES EXPLAINED WITH ONE VARIABLE:
A hand-drawn line graph.
Y-axis label: HOW WELL YOU KNOW HOW TO BE THE AGE YOU CURRENTLY ARE
X-axis label: YOUR AGE (marked 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100)
The curve starts at the very top of the y-axis near age 0, stays high through about age 10, then plunges sharply down to near zero around the late teens/age 20. From there it slowly, jaggedly climbs back upward across the rest of life, rising gradually through old age (100+) but never returning to the early peak.
Votey:
WHEN YOU DIE IT GOES RIGHT BACK UP.
A hand-drawn line graph.
Y-axis label: HOW WELL YOU KNOW HOW TO BE THE AGE YOU CURRENTLY ARE
X-axis label: YOUR AGE (marked 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100)
The curve starts at the very top of the y-axis near age 0, stays high through about age 10, then plunges sharply down to near zero around the late teens/age 20. From there it slowly, jaggedly climbs back upward across the rest of life, rising gradually through old age (100+) but never returning to the early peak.
Votey:
WHEN YOU DIE IT GOES RIGHT BACK UP.
Alt text
A hand-drawn line graph titled "All life stages explained with one variable." The vertical axis reads "How well you know how to be the age you currently are" and the horizontal axis reads "Your age," marked from 10 to 100+. The curve starts extremely high in early childhood, stays high through about age 10, then crashes sharply down to near zero around age 20, and afterward slowly and jaggedly climbs back up over the rest of life without ever regaining the early peak. The joke: little kids are great at being their age, adolescence/early adulthood is where you have no idea, and you gradually relearn it as you get older. Votey (aftercomic): a roughly drawn empty black-bordered square with handwritten text reading "When you die it goes right back up."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.