David Willis

Unused strip for April 14, 2024

Added 2024-04-14 14:43:20 +0000 UTC

i went into my hard drive to pull out an earlier version of today's strip, but looks like i have something saved for yesterday's strip as well! so here it is

an unused strip

which became the used strip

See, I was worried initially that, in my long, storied history of comics, that I've had too many drunken nose-boops. Or just too many nose boops in general, sober or otherwise. And so I was like, am I falling into a rut? I asked Wack'd, who has a good handle on Shit I've Done, and also I asked my wife, who is also an expert on these things, but in the meantime, I drew up this alternate version:

...wherein instead of the nose boop, Joyce momentarly loses her balance, while sitting. And it's fine! I guess. Dorothy's response doesn't really follow through anymore, but I'm skipping over a potential rut, right?

anyway both wack'd and maggie disagreed that this was a rut, and honestly neither could remember a pattern that i was remembering, and so... i went back to the original version and completed it, and we got the final strip as-it-is: