dear-bees
Original: dear-bees on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A red-haired man (praying, eyes closed): "Dear Bees, I..."
Off-panel voice (in a separate speech bubble): "Don't you mean 'Dear God'?"
Panel 2:
The red-haired man: "No. I keep praying to you for stuff and I get nothing. I'm switching to bees."
Panel 3:
The man (hands together, praying): "Dear Bees, please continue helping flowers doink while providing candlewax and honey."
Panel 4:
Narration / the man reacting: "Oh look! An extravagant and unlikely prayer DELIVERED ON IMMEDIATELY."
Panel 5:
The man, eyes closed, hands together in prayer, smiling. (No dialogue.)
Panel 6:
The man stands with arms outstretched on a balcony/ledge, exasperated. (No dialogue.)
Panel 7:
Close-up of the man's face, eyes closed in a pained/annoyed expression, with a dashed line indicating something. (No dialogue.)
Panel 8:
A voice from above (the "Bees," in a caption-style bubble): "Steve, I am not answering your prayer to make all those anime girls real. It's creepy."
The man (named Steve), arm raised, shouting up: "Bees-damn you!"
Votey:
A stylized close-up drawing of a face. Caption/speech: "They are anime WOMEN."
A red-haired man (praying, eyes closed): "Dear Bees, I..."
Off-panel voice (in a separate speech bubble): "Don't you mean 'Dear God'?"
Panel 2:
The red-haired man: "No. I keep praying to you for stuff and I get nothing. I'm switching to bees."
Panel 3:
The man (hands together, praying): "Dear Bees, please continue helping flowers doink while providing candlewax and honey."
Panel 4:
Narration / the man reacting: "Oh look! An extravagant and unlikely prayer DELIVERED ON IMMEDIATELY."
Panel 5:
The man, eyes closed, hands together in prayer, smiling. (No dialogue.)
Panel 6:
The man stands with arms outstretched on a balcony/ledge, exasperated. (No dialogue.)
Panel 7:
Close-up of the man's face, eyes closed in a pained/annoyed expression, with a dashed line indicating something. (No dialogue.)
Panel 8:
A voice from above (the "Bees," in a caption-style bubble): "Steve, I am not answering your prayer to make all those anime girls real. It's creepy."
The man (named Steve), arm raised, shouting up: "Bees-damn you!"
Votey:
A stylized close-up drawing of a face. Caption/speech: "They are anime WOMEN."
Alt text
An eight-panel SMBC comic. A red-haired man kneels in prayer saying "Dear Bees, I..." and an off-panel voice asks "Don't you mean 'Dear God'?" He answers that he keeps praying to God and gets nothing, so he's switching to bees. He prays for the bees to keep helping flowers pollinate while providing candlewax and honey, and is delighted when this "extravagant and unlikely prayer" is delivered on immediately. Encouraged, he prays again, but in the final panels he stands frustrated as a voice from above replies, "Steve, I am not answering your prayer to make all those anime girls real. It's creepy." Steve shakes his fist and yells, "Bees-damn you!" In the votey aftercomic, a stylized close-up of a face delivers the punchline correction: "They are anime WOMEN."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.