Convexity
Original: Convexity on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Main comic:
A man with dark hair leans in toward a smiling woman with reddish hair, delivering a pickup line.
Man: "WANNA COME BACK TO MY PLACE AND PERCEIVE THE TWISTED MENACE AND SUSPENSE LURKING LEERINGLY IN THE CRAZILY ELUSIVE ANGLES OF CARVEN ROCK WHERE A SECOND GLANCE SHOWS CONCAVITY AFTER THE FIRST SHOWS CONVEXITY?"
Woman: "OOOOOH."
Caption (below panel): The Lovecraft Pickup Line Technique: low success rate, unspeakably high reward.
Votey:
A woman with curly hair speaks, eyes half-closed in delight.
Woman: "WE'RE ALREADY FLOATING IN A GREEN VOID, AND THIS IS JUST ICING ON THE CAKE!"
A man with dark hair leans in toward a smiling woman with reddish hair, delivering a pickup line.
Man: "WANNA COME BACK TO MY PLACE AND PERCEIVE THE TWISTED MENACE AND SUSPENSE LURKING LEERINGLY IN THE CRAZILY ELUSIVE ANGLES OF CARVEN ROCK WHERE A SECOND GLANCE SHOWS CONCAVITY AFTER THE FIRST SHOWS CONVEXITY?"
Woman: "OOOOOH."
Caption (below panel): The Lovecraft Pickup Line Technique: low success rate, unspeakably high reward.
Votey:
A woman with curly hair speaks, eyes half-closed in delight.
Woman: "WE'RE ALREADY FLOATING IN A GREEN VOID, AND THIS IS JUST ICING ON THE CAKE!"
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic about a 'Lovecraft Pickup Line Technique.' In the main panel, a dark-haired man leans toward a smiling red-haired woman and says: 'Wanna come back to my place and perceive the twisted menace and suspense lurking leeringly in the crazily elusive angles of carven rock where a second glance shows concavity after the first shows convexity?' The woman responds with a dreamy 'Oooooh.' A caption reads: 'The Lovecraft Pickup Line Technique: low success rate, unspeakably high reward.' The humor comes from rephrasing seduction in the ornate, dread-laden prose style of H.P. Lovecraft. In the votey (bonus panel), a blissful curly-haired woman, eyes half-closed, says: 'We're already floating in a green void, and this is just icing on the cake!', implying the pickup line worked and reality has dissolved into a cosmic-horror dreamscape.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.