bullying-2
Original: bullying-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Angry man (heavyset, dark hair): "When I get done with you you're gonna wish you'd never been born!"
Panel 2:
Child (red hair, glasses, looking thoughtful): "Why wouldn't I just wish you had never been born?"
Panel 3:
The man (now looking unsettled, sitting): "Because I'm a complex person with a rich inner experience? How could you wish for me to not be?"
Panel 4:
The man, covering his face with one hand, distraught: "I'm... sorry?"
Child (small, standing in the background): "I've never been so hurt! Never!"
Votey:
The child (off-panel, in a speech bubble): "The real problem is your rude response to my abuse."
A drawing of the man's face looking pained / on the verge of tears.
Angry man (heavyset, dark hair): "When I get done with you you're gonna wish you'd never been born!"
Panel 2:
Child (red hair, glasses, looking thoughtful): "Why wouldn't I just wish you had never been born?"
Panel 3:
The man (now looking unsettled, sitting): "Because I'm a complex person with a rich inner experience? How could you wish for me to not be?"
Panel 4:
The man, covering his face with one hand, distraught: "I'm... sorry?"
Child (small, standing in the background): "I've never been so hurt! Never!"
Votey:
The child (off-panel, in a speech bubble): "The real problem is your rude response to my abuse."
A drawing of the man's face looking pained / on the verge of tears.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a heavyset, dark-haired man looms angrily over a small red-haired child in glasses and shouts, "When I get done with you you're gonna wish you'd never been born!" Panel 2: the child calmly replies, "Why wouldn't I just wish you had never been born?" Panel 3: the man, now seated and unsettled, says, "Because I'm a complex person with a rich inner experience? How could you wish for me to not be?" Panel 4: the man covers his face with his hand, distraught, mumbling "I'm... sorry?" while the tiny child in the background declares, "I've never been so hurt! Never!" The joke: the would-be abuser is emotionally devastated by the child turning his own threat back on him, and the dynamic flips so the abuser becomes the wounded party. Votey (aftercomic): a drawing of the man's pained, near-tearful face, with the child saying off-panel, "The real problem is your rude response to my abuse."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.