immortal-3
Original: immortal-3 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (man standing alone on a pier at dusk, viewed from far away):
Narration (the man's thoughts): I don't worry about living a great life.
Panel 2 (the man on the pier, closer, looking out over the water):
Narration: I don't fret over whether I've ever made anything lasting.
Panel 3 (close-up of the bespectacled father with two children approaching in the background):
Narration: I plan to achieve immortality through my children.
Panel 4 (close-up of the father smiling, with a child speaking to him):
Narration: Their bodies are most likely to be compatible with my head when it's time for the transplant.
Child: Whatcha thinkin' about, dad?
Father: You getting enough exercise? Exercise is important.
Votey:
Father (grinning, slightly manic expression): Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to have a smoke.
Narration (the man's thoughts): I don't worry about living a great life.
Panel 2 (the man on the pier, closer, looking out over the water):
Narration: I don't fret over whether I've ever made anything lasting.
Panel 3 (close-up of the bespectacled father with two children approaching in the background):
Narration: I plan to achieve immortality through my children.
Panel 4 (close-up of the father smiling, with a child speaking to him):
Narration: Their bodies are most likely to be compatible with my head when it's time for the transplant.
Child: Whatcha thinkin' about, dad?
Father: You getting enough exercise? Exercise is important.
Votey:
Father (grinning, slightly manic expression): Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to have a smoke.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. The first two panels are wide, painterly shots of a lone man standing on a wooden pier at dusk, gazing out over calm water under an orange sky. Over panel one his narration reads, "I don't worry about living a great life." Over panel two, "I don't fret over whether I've ever made anything lasting." In panel three the scene cuts to a close-up of the same man, now a bespectacled father, with two children walking toward him; his narration continues, "I plan to achieve immortality through my children." In panel four, a close-up of the father smiling warmly, his thought concludes the dark joke: "Their bodies are most likely to be compatible with my head when it's time for the transplant." A child off-panel asks, "Whatcha thinkin' about, dad?" and he deflects cheerfully, "You getting enough exercise? Exercise is important." In the votey aftercomic, a rough doodle of the father's wide-eyed, slightly unhinged grinning face says, "Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to have a smoke" - undercutting his concern for his children's healthy bodies.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.