human-level
Original: human-level on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
A man with reddish hair sits hunched on the floor in a dimly lit room, knees drawn up to his chest, looking sad. Behind him looms an enormous black dog-like creature, its open jaws filled with sharp teeth and a single glowing eye. The word "DEPRESSION" is written in large letters running diagonally up the creature's body/fur.
Caption below the comic:
This isn't one of those comics where feelings are labeled. It's just a man next to a giant dog with "depression" shaved into its fur. The man is quite happy outside of times when he's going to be murdered by a giant dog.
Votey:
HE ALSO HAS A NON-METAPHORIAL BURMESE PYTHON NAMED ANXIETY
A man with reddish hair sits hunched on the floor in a dimly lit room, knees drawn up to his chest, looking sad. Behind him looms an enormous black dog-like creature, its open jaws filled with sharp teeth and a single glowing eye. The word "DEPRESSION" is written in large letters running diagonally up the creature's body/fur.
Caption below the comic:
This isn't one of those comics where feelings are labeled. It's just a man next to a giant dog with "depression" shaved into its fur. The man is quite happy outside of times when he's going to be murdered by a giant dog.
Votey:
HE ALSO HAS A NON-METAPHORIAL BURMESE PYTHON NAMED ANXIETY
Alt text
A man with reddish hair sits hunched and miserable on the floor of a dark room, knees pulled to his chest. Towering behind him is a huge, menacing black dog-monster with sharp teeth, an open maw, and a single glowing eye. The word "DEPRESSION" is written in large letters across the creature's fur. The caption reads: "This isn't one of those comics where feelings are labeled. It's just a man next to a giant dog with 'depression' shaved into its fur. The man is quite happy outside of times when he's going to be murdered by a giant dog." The joke deadpans that the looming dread isn't a metaphor for depression but a literal lethal beast. Votey (aftercomic): a hand-drawn framed box of text reading "HE ALSO HAS A NON-METAPHORIAL [sic] BURMESE PYTHON NAMED ANXIETY," extending the gag that his mental-illness creatures are real animals rather than metaphors.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.