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
So wait, does Molly have an old timey Irish accent?
Ethan White
2024-09-20 18:25:50 +0000 UTCSometimes 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
2024-08-06 19:17:14 +0000 UTCLegend of the Obra Dinn it ain't.
Brandon Rahhal
2024-08-06 19:15:18 +0000 UTCJames Cameron watching this in an editing bay all just throwing things around and yelling about the lack of pre-drowning romance.
John Ashton
2024-07-09 14:39:52 +0000 UTCI'm still waiting on that chicken recipe.
Oppido
2024-07-09 12:21:57 +0000 UTCPretty sure Molly's family is Catholic, seeing how one of her brothers was made a Saint.
Douglas Wykstra
2024-07-09 05:20:15 +0000 UTCI’ve never been sure how to bring Molly up in these comments.
Geoff Hayton
2024-07-09 02:01:08 +0000 UTC"None too pleased" rang true for me too
Stavro
2024-07-09 00:42:34 +0000 UTCBeef 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
Toilet Cobra
2024-07-08 23:23:51 +0000 UTCCan't Beef just go watch Sidney Yamahata if he wants to hear about kids dying?
Oppido
2024-07-08 21:49:18 +0000 UTCOh my God this is basically me trying to get story details out of clients
Jenn
2024-07-08 21:30:09 +0000 UTCI’m Team Beef on this one, the story could use a few more peppers in the gumbo.
Josh Fireland
2024-07-08 20:48:28 +0000 UTCThey 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
Ste & Danni JM
2024-07-08 20:28:47 +0000 UTCI 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.
Ryan Costa
2024-07-08 20:24:30 +0000 UTCThat's all well and good (sincerely, this is pretty fuckin cool) but for FUCK'S sake, who ate ray's dang nachos?
Bungus Bronbo
2024-07-08 20:19:13 +0000 UTCThe Original Sanders Tragedy
GruntyGinMan
2024-07-08 20:05:35 +0000 UTCOh no! Not the Right Honorable Reverend Stephen J Hatt!
Anthony Thompson
2024-07-08 19:59:05 +0000 UTCit's funny, I hear Molly's accent in this one in a way I usually don't
Miles
2024-07-08 19:56:54 +0000 UTCLike what kind of hardtack porridge were they eating?
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
2024-07-08 19:50:17 +0000 UTCWhat kind of hat though?
Shepton
2024-07-08 19:46:18 +0000 UTCJesus, Beef. Also ouch re the Beef/Molly marriage being implied as “tragic”…I always hoped they’d work it out’
Matt Mitchell
2024-07-08 19:44:41 +0000 UTC
