Shorthand
Original: Shorthand on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title/caption (top of panel): DISCOVERY
Narration banner: Any time the name of a city is used as shorthand for a festival, you can do this.
Panel 1:
A man with dark hair (left): My ass made its debut at Cannes.
A woman (right): What?
Panel 2:
The man: My ass. It debuted at Cannes this summer. George Lucas was there.
Votey:
The man (offscreen speech bubble): My talk about how the reptiloids control Earth will be at Davos this year.
(Below the bubble, the woman is drawn with a wide-eyed, alarmed/uneasy expression.)
Narration banner: Any time the name of a city is used as shorthand for a festival, you can do this.
Panel 1:
A man with dark hair (left): My ass made its debut at Cannes.
A woman (right): What?
Panel 2:
The man: My ass. It debuted at Cannes this summer. George Lucas was there.
Votey:
The man (offscreen speech bubble): My talk about how the reptiloids control Earth will be at Davos this year.
(Below the bubble, the woman is drawn with a wide-eyed, alarmed/uneasy expression.)
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic captioned "DISCOVERY," with a narration banner reading "Any time the name of a city is used as shorthand for a festival, you can do this." A dark-haired man stands talking to a woman in a city street. In the first panel he says, "My ass made its debut at Cannes," and she replies, "What?" In the second panel he clarifies, "My ass. It debuted at Cannes this summer. George Lucas was there" — using the city name to make a mundane or absurd statement sound like a prestigious festival event. Votey: a close-up of the woman, drawn wide-eyed and uneasy, as the man's speech bubble (from offscreen) continues the joke: "My talk about how the reptiloids control Earth will be at Davos this year." Her alarmed face conveys that the bit has tipped from silly into unsettling.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.