Effigy
Original: Effigy on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman with blue-green hair: STEVE, I WISH YOU'D JUST TALK TO ME AND STOP BEING PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE.
Steve (man with red hair): PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE? HOW SO?
Panel 2:
Woman with blue-green hair: YOU'RE BURNING ME IN EFFIGY.
(An effigy of the woman, depicted as a figure with blue hair and an angry face, burns at a stake. A sign hung on it reads: "never compromises on dinner plans.")
Panel 3:
Steve looks away, unconvinced.
Woman with blue-green hair: OH MY GOSH, YOU... WOW, HONEY THAT WAS JUST A RANDOM EFFIGY I WAS BURNING.
(A burning effigy is visible.)
Panel 4:
Steve looks toward the burning effigy at the stake.
Woman with blue-green hair: THOUGH I CAN SEE WHY YOU WOULD THINK THAT. BUT HOW'S YOUR DAY GOING?
Votey:
A roughly-drawn face (similar simple style) appears at right with a speech bubble: "you hungry or...?"
Woman with blue-green hair: STEVE, I WISH YOU'D JUST TALK TO ME AND STOP BEING PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE.
Steve (man with red hair): PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE? HOW SO?
Panel 2:
Woman with blue-green hair: YOU'RE BURNING ME IN EFFIGY.
(An effigy of the woman, depicted as a figure with blue hair and an angry face, burns at a stake. A sign hung on it reads: "never compromises on dinner plans.")
Panel 3:
Steve looks away, unconvinced.
Woman with blue-green hair: OH MY GOSH, YOU... WOW, HONEY THAT WAS JUST A RANDOM EFFIGY I WAS BURNING.
(A burning effigy is visible.)
Panel 4:
Steve looks toward the burning effigy at the stake.
Woman with blue-green hair: THOUGH I CAN SEE WHY YOU WOULD THINK THAT. BUT HOW'S YOUR DAY GOING?
Votey:
A roughly-drawn face (similar simple style) appears at right with a speech bubble: "you hungry or...?"
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. A woman with blue-green hair confronts a red-haired man named Steve, asking him to talk to her and stop being passive aggressive; Steve asks how he's being passive aggressive. She replies, 'You're burning me in effigy' — and beside them stands a flaming effigy of her (a blue-haired figure with an angry face tied to a stake) wearing a sign that reads 'never compromises on dinner plans.' Steve looks away skeptically as she backpedals: 'Oh my gosh, you... wow, honey that was just a random effigy I was burning.' In the final panel, with the effigy still ablaze, she deflects: 'Though I can see why you would think that. But how's your day going?' The joke: she's the one being passive aggressive while accusing him of it. Votey: a crudely drawn face with a speech bubble asking, 'you hungry or...?'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.