energy-2
Original: energy-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman with dark hair (running): "Wait, did you run ahead of me every morning just so I could draft behind you?"
Panel 2:
Woman: "By being the lead runner, you add kinetic energy to the air behind you as a byproduct. That's wasteful."
Panel 3:
Woman: "I can surf along those vortices, making my jog faster and more efficient."
Panel 4:
Man: "Which would leave you more energy..."
Woman (smiling): "For love."
Panel 5 (lower, both seated reading):
Man (holding paper): "Nope, nope. Nobody wants aerospace-themed romance novels."
Woman (holding paper): "But I have four hundred uses for the metaphor 'wake turbulence.'"
Votey:
Text on page being read: "She knew, that night, she would be HIS horizontal stabilizer."
A distressed-looking person: "STOP! NO!"
Woman with dark hair (running): "Wait, did you run ahead of me every morning just so I could draft behind you?"
Panel 2:
Woman: "By being the lead runner, you add kinetic energy to the air behind you as a byproduct. That's wasteful."
Panel 3:
Woman: "I can surf along those vortices, making my jog faster and more efficient."
Panel 4:
Man: "Which would leave you more energy..."
Woman (smiling): "For love."
Panel 5 (lower, both seated reading):
Man (holding paper): "Nope, nope. Nobody wants aerospace-themed romance novels."
Woman (holding paper): "But I have four hundred uses for the metaphor 'wake turbulence.'"
Votey:
Text on page being read: "She knew, that night, she would be HIS horizontal stabilizer."
A distressed-looking person: "STOP! NO!"
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic. A dark-haired woman jogs and explains to a man that by running ahead of her, he adds kinetic energy to the air behind him, which she can 'surf' on like vortices, making her own jog faster and more efficient. He notes this would leave her more energy, and she smiles and says 'for love.' In the final panel the two sit reading manuscript pages; the man says nobody wants aerospace-themed romance novels, and she counters that she has four hundred uses for the metaphor 'wake turbulence.' Votey: a person reads aloud a line from her novel, 'She knew, that night, she would be his horizontal stabilizer,' while another person recoils in horror shouting 'STOP! NO!'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.