Forever
Original: Forever on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with orange hair (on a beach, holding a lamp/genie vessel): I wish to live forever!
Panel 2:
Green genie (with white turban, beard): Ha! Hahaha! You forgot to wish to stay young forever! Now you will decay!
Panel 3:
Caption: HUNDREDS OF YEARS LATER...
Green genie (sitting on a couch next to a skeleton): Hey! Start feeling ennui! You're the walking dead, scorned by the living!
(The orange-haired man is now a skeleton, holding a game controller.)
Panel 4:
Skeleton (formerly the man): Goth chicks are way into me now.
Green genie: Stop it!
Votey:
Close-up of the grinning skeleton.
Skeleton: I can last way longer in sex because I have no nerve sensations.
Man with orange hair (on a beach, holding a lamp/genie vessel): I wish to live forever!
Panel 2:
Green genie (with white turban, beard): Ha! Hahaha! You forgot to wish to stay young forever! Now you will decay!
Panel 3:
Caption: HUNDREDS OF YEARS LATER...
Green genie (sitting on a couch next to a skeleton): Hey! Start feeling ennui! You're the walking dead, scorned by the living!
(The orange-haired man is now a skeleton, holding a game controller.)
Panel 4:
Skeleton (formerly the man): Goth chicks are way into me now.
Green genie: Stop it!
Votey:
Close-up of the grinning skeleton.
Skeleton: I can last way longer in sex because I have no nerve sensations.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: On a beach, an orange-haired man holding a magic lamp says "I wish to live forever!" Panel 2: A green-skinned genie in a white turban laughs triumphantly: "Ha! Hahaha! You forgot to wish to stay young forever! Now you will decay!" Panel 3: Caption reads "Hundreds of years later..." The man is now a skeleton sitting on a couch playing a video game. The genie, beside him, taunts: "Hey! Start feeling ennui! You're the walking dead, scorned by the living!" Panel 4: The skeleton calmly replies, "Goth chicks are way into me now," and the exasperated genie shouts, "Stop it!" The joke is that the genie's curse backfires because the skeletal immortal is perfectly happy. Votey (bonus panel): A close-up of the grinning skeleton adding, "I can last way longer in sex because I have no nerve sensations."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.