adverbially-2
Original: adverbially-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A student (a man with dark hair) raises a question to a professor (a woman with curly brown hair and round glasses).
Student: "Professor, can I put an adverb here?"
Panel 2: Close-up on the professor.
Professor: "Good question. Let's consult the ghost of Ernest Hemingway who oversees all writing."
Panel 3: A huge ghostly green face billows up in smoke and screams.
Ghost: "NO"
Panel 4: The student and professor stand small in the foreground against the green smoke, looking on.
Panel 5: Close-up on the student's face.
Panel 6: A thinning green smoke trail.
Ghost (small bubble): "Ah."
Panel 7: The student looks up.
Student: "I see."
Panel 8: The professor, near the looming ghostly figure, looks alarmed and gestures with both hands.
Professor: "SHH! WE CAN HEAR YOU!"
Votey:
A single hand-lettered note, written as if it continues the ghost's instructions, beside a loose sketchy scribble of a fish/marlin:
"Also kill a marlin and drink some good wine and say \"and\" a lot."
Student: "Professor, can I put an adverb here?"
Panel 2: Close-up on the professor.
Professor: "Good question. Let's consult the ghost of Ernest Hemingway who oversees all writing."
Panel 3: A huge ghostly green face billows up in smoke and screams.
Ghost: "NO"
Panel 4: The student and professor stand small in the foreground against the green smoke, looking on.
Panel 5: Close-up on the student's face.
Panel 6: A thinning green smoke trail.
Ghost (small bubble): "Ah."
Panel 7: The student looks up.
Student: "I see."
Panel 8: The professor, near the looming ghostly figure, looks alarmed and gestures with both hands.
Professor: "SHH! WE CAN HEAR YOU!"
Votey:
A single hand-lettered note, written as if it continues the ghost's instructions, beside a loose sketchy scribble of a fish/marlin:
"Also kill a marlin and drink some good wine and say \"and\" a lot."
Alt text
An eight-panel SMBC comic. A male student asks his professor (a woman with curly hair and round glasses), "Professor, can I put an adverb here?" She replies, "Good question. Let's consult the ghost of Ernest Hemingway who oversees all writing." A giant green ghostly face erupts from smoke and screams "NO". The student and professor watch as the smoke billows. As the green smoke thins, the ghost adds a small "Ah." The student says "I see." The professor, looking alarmed and gesturing, hushes him: "SHH! WE CAN HEAR YOU!" The joke: Hemingway's famously terse, anti-adverb writing style is literalized as an overbearing ghost who can hear everything. Votey aftercomic: a hand-lettered note continuing the ghost's advice, next to a rough scribble of a marlin/fish: "Also kill a marlin and drink some good wine and say 'and' a lot."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.