transitory
Original: transitory on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A Buddhist monk in orange robes stands in a grocery store aisle, gesturing toward a woman with long dark hair who pushes a shopping cart.
Monk: AH, BUT THE HAPPINESS THAT CHEESE DIP WILL BRING YOU IS ILLUSORY!
Shopper (woman with the cart): OH GOD THESE GUYS.
Caption (below the panel): The easiest solution to inflation: hire 100,000 buddhist monks to shame consumer demand downward.
Votey:
Close-up of a distressed face.
Voice (from off-panel speech bubble): BUT ILLUSORY HAPPINESS IS MY FAVORITE KIND OF HAPPINESS!
A Buddhist monk in orange robes stands in a grocery store aisle, gesturing toward a woman with long dark hair who pushes a shopping cart.
Monk: AH, BUT THE HAPPINESS THAT CHEESE DIP WILL BRING YOU IS ILLUSORY!
Shopper (woman with the cart): OH GOD THESE GUYS.
Caption (below the panel): The easiest solution to inflation: hire 100,000 buddhist monks to shame consumer demand downward.
Votey:
Close-up of a distressed face.
Voice (from off-panel speech bubble): BUT ILLUSORY HAPPINESS IS MY FAVORITE KIND OF HAPPINESS!
Alt text
A two-panel comic. Main panel: inside a grocery store aisle, a smiling Buddhist monk in orange robes raises a finger toward an annoyed woman with long dark hair pushing a shopping cart. The monk says, "Ah, but the happiness that cheese dip will bring you is illusory!" The woman thinks, "Oh god these guys." A caption below reads: "The easiest solution to inflation: hire 100,000 buddhist monks to shame consumer demand downward." Votey panel: an extreme close-up of an anguished, frowning face with worried eyes, with a speech bubble protesting, "But illusory happiness is my favorite kind of happiness!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.