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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for March 30, 2015
Transcript:
Daaad! Daaad! There is a monster under my bed! Let me get this straight. Some creature lives under your bed 24 hours a day. Every night, as darkness falls, he jumped onto its roof and start yelling and screaming for me to come and eradicate it. But the creature under the bed is the monster? You're the monster, boy. So you basically replaced fear with guilt? It was the quietest emotion I could think of.
Ida No almost 10 years ago
Self-pity involves a lot of whimpering, so yeah, guilt IS quieter.
Brass Orchid Premium Member almost 10 years ago
It seemed like a good idea until he started the fire under the bed. Who could have guessed that he would accept his inner demons as more valid than the judgment of others and act on his own feelings, proudly accepting the disapproval of others as a sign of his superiority?
Olddog1 almost 10 years ago
1. Tell the kid monsters can’t stand the smell of toothpaste, go brush your teeth.2. Take the legs off the bed.
emptc12 almost 10 years ago
Inner, silent screams work their way to the surface eventually.
Stephen Gilberg almost 10 years ago
Sheesh, he could’ve just given the monster’s perspective and left it at that.
scyphi26 almost 10 years ago
He actually has a good point. I’d probably say the same thing to my own kids (though though gentler, just as something to give them food for thought).