costume-2
Original: costume-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (in green witch-style hat, answering the door): AND WHAT ARE YOU LITTLE GIRL?
Panel 2:
Girl (in a gray wig, holding a microphone): A GHOST. THE SPIRIT OF YOUR DEAD DREAM TO BE A FAMOUS SINGER.
Panel 3 (close-up on the man's distraught face):
Man: EVERY DAY! EVERY DAY IN THE OFFICE WAS A STEP AWAY FROM BROADWAY AND I KNEW IT! CHARLOTTE TOLD ME TO GO AND IT WAS ALWAYS NEXT YEAR AND NOW THE YEARS ARE GONE AND THEY TOOK MY VOICE WITH THEMMMMMMMMMMM
Panel 4 (the man collapsed sobbing over a step/porch with a jack-o'-lantern beside him; costumed trick-or-treaters approach):
A costumed kid: THE INTEL WAS GOOD!
Another costumed kid: GRAB EVERYTHING WHILE HE'S DOWN!
Votey:
The man's face, eyes wide: FRANKLY, I'M DEPRESSED!
Man (in green witch-style hat, answering the door): AND WHAT ARE YOU LITTLE GIRL?
Panel 2:
Girl (in a gray wig, holding a microphone): A GHOST. THE SPIRIT OF YOUR DEAD DREAM TO BE A FAMOUS SINGER.
Panel 3 (close-up on the man's distraught face):
Man: EVERY DAY! EVERY DAY IN THE OFFICE WAS A STEP AWAY FROM BROADWAY AND I KNEW IT! CHARLOTTE TOLD ME TO GO AND IT WAS ALWAYS NEXT YEAR AND NOW THE YEARS ARE GONE AND THEY TOOK MY VOICE WITH THEMMMMMMMMMMM
Panel 4 (the man collapsed sobbing over a step/porch with a jack-o'-lantern beside him; costumed trick-or-treaters approach):
A costumed kid: THE INTEL WAS GOOD!
Another costumed kid: GRAB EVERYTHING WHILE HE'S DOWN!
Votey:
The man's face, eyes wide: FRANKLY, I'M DEPRESSED!
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a balding man wearing a green pointed witch-style hat opens his door on Halloween and asks a trick-or-treater, "And what are you little girl?" Panel 2: a small girl wearing a gray wig and holding a microphone replies, "A ghost. The spirit of your dead dream to be a famous singer." Panel 3: an extreme close-up of the man's stricken face as he breaks down: "Every day! Every day in the office was a step away from Broadway and I knew it! Charlotte told me to go and it was always next year and now the years are gone and they took my voice with themmmmm." Panel 4: the man collapses sobbing over his porch step next to a jack-o'-lantern while a group of costumed kids (a dinosaur, a ghost, others) close in; one says "The intel was good!" and another shouts "Grab everything while he's down!" The joke: the children used his crushed dream as a deliberate distraction to loot his house. Votey: a close-up of the man's wide-eyed face declaring, "Frankly, I'm depressed!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.