last-wishes
Original: last-wishes on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (red hair, glasses, in green shirt, sitting at the bedside of an elderly man lying in a hospital bed): I haven't got long now. Listen, when I die, I don't want a lot of fuss. No big ceremony or fancy gravestone.
Panel 2 (close-up on the elderly man in the bed, oxygen tube on his face):
Elderly man: All I want is for my body to be plasticized and fitted with an outboard motor so it can cruise the Atlantic coast forever, scaring the shit out of children on vacation.
Panel 3:
Woman (leaning in): Oh, can you make the mouth open and close?
Panel 4 (close-up on the elderly man, mouth wide open):
Elderly man: Like WAH-WAH-WAH-WAH-WAH-WAH-WAH!
Panel 5 (the man laughing/shouting, the woman looking on):
(no dialogue)
Panel 6 (wide shot, the man in bed and a standing figure in silhouette beside him):
Nurse: Sir, I'm just your nurse. This is a conversation for your family.
Elderly man: For some reason they won't speak to me.
Votey:
Elderly man (speech bubble): If it's too expensive, just plasticize my head.
Woman (red hair, glasses, in green shirt, sitting at the bedside of an elderly man lying in a hospital bed): I haven't got long now. Listen, when I die, I don't want a lot of fuss. No big ceremony or fancy gravestone.
Panel 2 (close-up on the elderly man in the bed, oxygen tube on his face):
Elderly man: All I want is for my body to be plasticized and fitted with an outboard motor so it can cruise the Atlantic coast forever, scaring the shit out of children on vacation.
Panel 3:
Woman (leaning in): Oh, can you make the mouth open and close?
Panel 4 (close-up on the elderly man, mouth wide open):
Elderly man: Like WAH-WAH-WAH-WAH-WAH-WAH-WAH!
Panel 5 (the man laughing/shouting, the woman looking on):
(no dialogue)
Panel 6 (wide shot, the man in bed and a standing figure in silhouette beside him):
Nurse: Sir, I'm just your nurse. This is a conversation for your family.
Elderly man: For some reason they won't speak to me.
Votey:
Elderly man (speech bubble): If it's too expensive, just plasticize my head.
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A red-haired woman in glasses sits at the bedside of a frail elderly man lying in a hospital bed with an oxygen tube. She says she hasn't got long and doesn't want a big funeral. He replies that all he wants is for his body to be plasticized and fitted with an outboard motor so it can cruise the Atlantic coast forever, scaring the shit out of children on vacation. She asks, 'Oh, can you make the mouth open and close?' He demonstrates with his mouth open wide, yelling 'Like WAH-WAH-WAH-WAH-WAH!' In the final wide panel, a silhouetted figure stands beside the bed and says, 'Sir, I'm just your nurse. This is a conversation for your family.' The man replies, 'For some reason they won't speak to me.' Votey: a loose sketch of the man, his speech bubble adding, 'If it's too expensive, just plasticize my head.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.