Cave
Original: Cave on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman with gray-blue hair in a red sweater: You ever worry that nothing matters?
Woman with dark hair, glasses, and a blue vest: That's a stupid existential fear.
Panel 2:
Woman with glasses: If nothing matters, then it doesn't matter that nothing matters.
Panel 3:
Woman in red sweater: I don't mean like whether it matters to YOU. I mean in the cosmic sense of ultimate purpose.
Panel 4:
Woman with glasses: There are hungry people on this planet and you're worried about some sort of free-floating ghost of matteringness and whether it's haunting the universe? Your life must be GREAT!
Panel 5 (the two women walking together along a dirt path):
Woman in red sweater: Well what makes YOU anxious at night?
Woman with glasses: I have trouble keeping friends for some reason.
Votey:
A person (seen at left edge): I have a particular culture.
An Easter Island moai (stone head) statue: SHUTUP! NO!
Woman with gray-blue hair in a red sweater: You ever worry that nothing matters?
Woman with dark hair, glasses, and a blue vest: That's a stupid existential fear.
Panel 2:
Woman with glasses: If nothing matters, then it doesn't matter that nothing matters.
Panel 3:
Woman in red sweater: I don't mean like whether it matters to YOU. I mean in the cosmic sense of ultimate purpose.
Panel 4:
Woman with glasses: There are hungry people on this planet and you're worried about some sort of free-floating ghost of matteringness and whether it's haunting the universe? Your life must be GREAT!
Panel 5 (the two women walking together along a dirt path):
Woman in red sweater: Well what makes YOU anxious at night?
Woman with glasses: I have trouble keeping friends for some reason.
Votey:
A person (seen at left edge): I have a particular culture.
An Easter Island moai (stone head) statue: SHUTUP! NO!
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic showing two women talking. One has gray-blue hair and a red sweater; the other has dark hair, glasses, and a blue vest. Panel 1: the red-sweater woman asks, "You ever worry that nothing matters?" The glasses woman replies, "That's a stupid existential fear." Panel 2, glasses woman: "If nothing matters, then it doesn't matter that nothing matters." Panel 3, red-sweater woman: "I don't mean like whether it matters to you. I mean in the cosmic sense of ultimate purpose." Panel 4, glasses woman, exasperated: "There are hungry people on this planet and you're worried about some sort of free-floating ghost of matteringness and whether it's haunting the universe? Your life must be great!" Panel 5, the two walk together down a dirt path; red-sweater woman: "Well what makes you anxious at night?" Glasses woman, deadpan: "I have trouble keeping friends for some reason" — the joke being she dismisses her friend's anxieties so harshly that her own friendlessness is unsurprising. Votey: a small bonus panel where an off-screen person says "I have a particular culture" and a large stone Easter Island moai head shouts back, "Shutup! No!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.