Creative
Original: Creative on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (labeled "NORMAL PEOPLE:")
Child (a kid with flame-like hair): I wrote a story!
Adult (a man in a red shirt, holding the pages and reading): Wow! My gosh, kids are so much more imaginative than adults!
Panel 2 (labeled "TEACHERS:")
Child: I wrote a story!
Teacher (the man in the red shirt): Could the story be titled "Basically Harry Potter but starring me?"
Child: What?
Teacher: Nothing. Wow. A story!
Votey:
Teacher (offscreen / large head at right): I bet you only wrote about Star Wars when you were a kid.
Other person (a small figure at lower left): That's different.
Child (a kid with flame-like hair): I wrote a story!
Adult (a man in a red shirt, holding the pages and reading): Wow! My gosh, kids are so much more imaginative than adults!
Panel 2 (labeled "TEACHERS:")
Child: I wrote a story!
Teacher (the man in the red shirt): Could the story be titled "Basically Harry Potter but starring me?"
Child: What?
Teacher: Nothing. Wow. A story!
Votey:
Teacher (offscreen / large head at right): I bet you only wrote about Star Wars when you were a kid.
Other person (a small figure at lower left): That's different.
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Both panels show a child with flame-like hair excitedly saying "I wrote a story!" to a man in a red shirt holding the pages. Panel one is labeled "NORMAL PEOPLE": the man enthuses, "Wow! My gosh, kids are so much more imaginative than adults!" Panel two is labeled "TEACHERS": the man asks, "Could the story be titled 'Basically Harry Potter but starring me?'" The child says "What?" and the man backpedals, "Nothing. Wow. A story!" The joke is that teachers, having seen it all, recognize kids' stories as derivative knockoffs. Votey (aftercomic): a small figure on the lower left tells the large-headed man, "I bet you only wrote about Star Wars when you were a kid," and he defensively replies, "That's different."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.