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Lost strip, 2006: The Story of Molly Sanders
🕑 Added 2024-07-08 19:41:59 +0000 UTCI was fishing about in the archives for some artwork for this week's strip, and wound up in completely unrelated waters. This often happens when I go digging in the archives, which are organized about as well as Earth's orbiting debris field.
Anyhow, I chanced upon this late-2006 follow-up to the promised backstory of Molly Sanders (which didn't actually happen until the wedding arc in 2008, when you met her extended clan). It needed art, but the bones were there, so I filled it in for the sake of completeness.
Comments
Ethan White
So wait, does Molly have an old timey Irish accent?
Brandon Rahhal
Sometimes marriage is just the worry that you accidentally trapped the person you love in a cage of your own faults. Or something like that, I forget the original line and the archive search sucks.
Brandon Rahhal
Legend of the Obra Dinn it ain't.
John Ashton
James Cameron watching this in an editing bay all just throwing things around and yelling about the lack of pre-drowning romance.
Oppido
I'm still waiting on that chicken recipe.
Douglas Wykstra
Pretty sure Molly's family is Catholic, seeing how one of her brothers was made a Saint.
Geoff Hayton
I’ve never been sure how to bring Molly up in these comments.
Stavro
"None too pleased" rang true for me too
Toilet Cobra
Beef is imagining one of those hard-hitting documentaries where the camera cuts back and forth between a shell-shocked interviewee and a CGI ship sucked beneath the waves, meanwhile Molly is imagining her life as a divorcee
Oppido
Can't Beef just go watch Sidney Yamahata if he wants to hear about kids dying?
Jenn
Oh my God this is basically me trying to get story details out of clients
Josh Fireland
I’m Team Beef on this one, the story could use a few more peppers in the gumbo.
Ste & Danni JM
They did work it out, in that they worked out that what they both wanted/needed/were only capable of was the fine Swiss watch balance of a relationship where you loathe your partner precisely as much as you loathe yourself
Ryan Costa
I like the idea of being glad they were not Catholics coming to the future United States and unwittingly implying it was good that Protestants drowned in the ocean.
Bungus Bronbo
That's all well and good (sincerely, this is pretty fuckin cool) but for FUCK'S sake, who ate ray's dang nachos?
GruntyGinMan
The Original Sanders Tragedy
Anthony Thompson
Oh no! Not the Right Honorable Reverend Stephen J Hatt!
Miles
it's funny, I hear Molly's accent in this one in a way I usually don't
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
Like what kind of hardtack porridge were they eating?
Shepton
What kind of hat though?
Matt Mitchell
Jesus, Beef. Also ouch re the Beef/Molly marriage being implied as “tragic”…I always hoped they’d work it out’
