David Willis

Unused strip for September 4, 2024

Added 2024-09-04 12:09:06 +0000 UTC

Look, it's the original unused version of today's strip! okay so it looks a little familiar

I wrote it, and though I thought it was a good, necessary interaction between Joe and Joyce, I worried that it'd change the vibe of the rest of the storyline's strips. And so I tried a less on-the-nose, more funny version:

Breaches the topic, but leaves things at a place where I can more-seriously follow up on it later! Maybe! I dunno. Hrm. No.

So I rewrote the last two panels to be entirely different. Now it's just a continuation of Walky/Dorothy's conversation. Hi, Jacob!

And so this was going to be the published version of this strip for... seven months. Just sitting on my hard drive and uploaded to the website, like this. And then it got time for it to go up, and I remembered I had those original versions, and I sat down, and thought about it, and showed Maggie the early versions, and she thought the Joe/Joyce panels were better. And with the perspective of 8 months of buffer past this strip, I decided the Joe/Joyce panels worked fine and wouldn't actually wreck the rest of the storyline.

And Maggie preferred the on-the-nose version, so I went for the actual original strip, and literally yesterday I drew the two final panels as we saw them.

Because while I thought I'd swing back and put that moment in somewhere else, in 8 months, I did not! And it's probably a smidge more important than Jacob rubbing Lucy's awesomeness in Walky's face. As much as I enjoyed it.