foam
Original: foam on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (a woman lying face-down on a patio, asleep):
Woman (Susan): "...AND... AND WHEN I AWOKE I WAS LAYING ON THE PATIO OF A SUBURBAN TOWNHOUSE. LATTE FOAM WAS DRIBBLING OUT OF MY MOUTH."
Panel 2:
Susan: IT WAS OAT MILK.
Another person (off-panel): IT'S ALRIGHT SUSAN. LET IT OUT SUSAN.
Panel 3:
Susan: I HAD A JOB IN DATA ENTRY, TWO CHILDREN, ELEVEN PAIRS OF YOGA PANTS, AND A SPOUSE WITH EARNEST OPINIONS ON CRAFT BEER!
Panel 4 (a group of people seated in a circle, as at a support-group meeting):
Susan: UNSWEETENED OAT MILK.
Group members: WE'VE BEEN THERE. WE'RE HERE WITH YOU.
Panel 5 (a bearded man in glasses, a fellow group member, speaks):
Susan (recounting the craft-beer spouse): "HE JUST KEPT TALKING AND TALKING AND TALKING ABOUT HOP QUALITY BUT IT ALL TASTED THE SAME!"
Panel 6:
Spouse (quoted): THIS USES "NELSON SAUVIN" WHICH IS A VARIETY FROM NEW ZEALAND.
Susan (quoted reaction): WOW. NEW ZEALAND.
Panel 7 (a woman holding a glass, looking distressed):
Woman: IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE THIS WAY! WHAT DID I DOOOOOO!?
Panel 8 (caption: TEN YEARS EARLIER; a shadowy figure offering a glass to a young Mickey-Mouse-like cartoon character):
Figure: HEY THERE, YOU WANNA TRY A LITTLE... ADULTHOOD?
Panel 9 (the cartoon mouse character looking up):
Mouse character: ADD A LITTLE...
Panel 10 (the mouse character now looking angry/wary, a hand with a bottle beside it):
(no dialogue)
Caption beneath the final panels: Putting a Disney World in every nation is the cheapest way to end war forever.
Votey:
(A close-up of a worried-looking person's face inside a panel, a speech balloon above:)
"JUST A TASTE OF BRAN FLAKES. JUST A TASTE, TO SEE WHAT IT FEELS LIKE."
Woman (Susan): "...AND... AND WHEN I AWOKE I WAS LAYING ON THE PATIO OF A SUBURBAN TOWNHOUSE. LATTE FOAM WAS DRIBBLING OUT OF MY MOUTH."
Panel 2:
Susan: IT WAS OAT MILK.
Another person (off-panel): IT'S ALRIGHT SUSAN. LET IT OUT SUSAN.
Panel 3:
Susan: I HAD A JOB IN DATA ENTRY, TWO CHILDREN, ELEVEN PAIRS OF YOGA PANTS, AND A SPOUSE WITH EARNEST OPINIONS ON CRAFT BEER!
Panel 4 (a group of people seated in a circle, as at a support-group meeting):
Susan: UNSWEETENED OAT MILK.
Group members: WE'VE BEEN THERE. WE'RE HERE WITH YOU.
Panel 5 (a bearded man in glasses, a fellow group member, speaks):
Susan (recounting the craft-beer spouse): "HE JUST KEPT TALKING AND TALKING AND TALKING ABOUT HOP QUALITY BUT IT ALL TASTED THE SAME!"
Panel 6:
Spouse (quoted): THIS USES "NELSON SAUVIN" WHICH IS A VARIETY FROM NEW ZEALAND.
Susan (quoted reaction): WOW. NEW ZEALAND.
Panel 7 (a woman holding a glass, looking distressed):
Woman: IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE THIS WAY! WHAT DID I DOOOOOO!?
Panel 8 (caption: TEN YEARS EARLIER; a shadowy figure offering a glass to a young Mickey-Mouse-like cartoon character):
Figure: HEY THERE, YOU WANNA TRY A LITTLE... ADULTHOOD?
Panel 9 (the cartoon mouse character looking up):
Mouse character: ADD A LITTLE...
Panel 10 (the mouse character now looking angry/wary, a hand with a bottle beside it):
(no dialogue)
Caption beneath the final panels: Putting a Disney World in every nation is the cheapest way to end war forever.
Votey:
(A close-up of a worried-looking person's face inside a panel, a speech balloon above:)
"JUST A TASTE OF BRAN FLAKES. JUST A TASTE, TO SEE WHAT IT FEELS LIKE."
Alt text
A black-and-white-style SMBC comic that frames mundane suburban adulthood as if it were a drug-addiction recovery story. A woman named Susan, shown face-down asleep on a patio, tells a support group: she awoke with latte foam dribbling from her mouth ("It was oat milk"), and confesses she had a data-entry job, two children, eleven pairs of yoga pants, and a spouse with earnest craft-beer opinions. The group says "We've been there, we're here with you." She bitterly recalls her spouse droning on about hop quality and New Zealand beer varieties. A distraught woman cries, "It wasn't supposed to be this way!" A flashback caption ("Ten years earlier") shows a shadowy figure offering a young cartoon mouse character a glass, saying "Hey there, you wanna try a little... adulthood?" The mouse looks tempted, then wary. A final caption (an unrelated tacked-on gag) reads: "Putting a Disney World in every nation is the cheapest way to end war forever." Votey: a close-up of a worried person whose speech balloon continues the addiction metaphor with bran flakes: "Just a taste of bran flakes. Just a taste, to see what it feels like."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.