future-3
Original: future-3 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A young man with flame-like red hair (Bob) recoils in shock at a bald, elderly man who has appeared.
Red-haired man (Bob): BOB! IT'S YOU! YOU FROM THE FUTURE!
Red-haired man (Bob): WHAT?!
Panel 2:
The elderly future self speaks earnestly.
Elderly man: LISTEN, YOU'VE GOT TO STOP ENGAGING IN HARMFUL BEHAVIORS JUST TO SPITE PEOPLE WHO TELL YOU TO GET HEALTHY! THEY CARE ABOUT YOU AND WHEN YOU'RE MY AGE...
Panel 3:
The red-haired man stands with arms crossed, suspicious. The elderly man gestures.
Red-haired man (Bob): WHAT THE... OH DAMMIT! YOU JUST MENTALLY DECIDED TO TAKE UP SMOKING DIDN'T YOU?
Panel 4:
Close on the red-haired man's face, furious, as the elderly future self stands hunched and defeated in the background.
Red-haired man (Bob): DIE, JUDGY FUTURE SELF?
Elderly man: FUCK YOU ME!
Votey:
A nearly blank panel. In the center is a tiny, deliberately illegible scrawl of microscopic text with an exclamation point beneath it, far too small to read.
A young man with flame-like red hair (Bob) recoils in shock at a bald, elderly man who has appeared.
Red-haired man (Bob): BOB! IT'S YOU! YOU FROM THE FUTURE!
Red-haired man (Bob): WHAT?!
Panel 2:
The elderly future self speaks earnestly.
Elderly man: LISTEN, YOU'VE GOT TO STOP ENGAGING IN HARMFUL BEHAVIORS JUST TO SPITE PEOPLE WHO TELL YOU TO GET HEALTHY! THEY CARE ABOUT YOU AND WHEN YOU'RE MY AGE...
Panel 3:
The red-haired man stands with arms crossed, suspicious. The elderly man gestures.
Red-haired man (Bob): WHAT THE... OH DAMMIT! YOU JUST MENTALLY DECIDED TO TAKE UP SMOKING DIDN'T YOU?
Panel 4:
Close on the red-haired man's face, furious, as the elderly future self stands hunched and defeated in the background.
Red-haired man (Bob): DIE, JUDGY FUTURE SELF?
Elderly man: FUCK YOU ME!
Votey:
A nearly blank panel. In the center is a tiny, deliberately illegible scrawl of microscopic text with an exclamation point beneath it, far too small to read.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A young man with flame-like red hair startles as a bald, elderly version of himself materializes. The young man shouts, "BOB! IT'S YOU! YOU FROM THE FUTURE! WHAT?!" Panel 2: The elderly future self pleads earnestly, "LISTEN, YOU'VE GOT TO STOP ENGAGING IN HARMFUL BEHAVIORS JUST TO SPITE PEOPLE WHO TELL YOU TO GET HEALTHY! THEY CARE ABOUT YOU AND WHEN YOU'RE MY AGE..." Panel 3: The young man crosses his arms, suspicious, and snaps, "WHAT THE... OH DAMMIT! YOU JUST MENTALLY DECIDED TO TAKE UP SMOKING DIDN'T YOU?" The joke: the future self time-traveled to lecture him, but the act of thinking about quitting made him spitefully take up a new vice. Panel 4: Close-up on the young man's furious face as the defeated old man hunches in the background. The young man yells, "DIE, JUDGY FUTURE SELF?" and the old man retorts, "FUCK YOU ME!" Votey (bonus panel): An almost entirely blank panel containing only a tiny, deliberately unreadable scrawl of microscopic text with an exclamation point beneath it, too small to make out.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.