David Willis

Unused strips for February 8-10ish, 2025

Added 2025-02-10 16:42:37 +0000 UTC

Originally I had a strip which speed-ran the past three strips, getting us to Rich Mullins in five panels! But I don't think the pacing worked for the tone I was trying to set. You're not really with Joyce on this personally-inflicted cliffhanger unless there are some ... well, personally-inflicted cliffhangers. And so I stretched it out into more strips.

As I stretched the sequence out, I had a version that ended in, you guessed it, Joe getting kneed in the balls. It's funny! I like it! ...but i was trying to get to rich mullins, but whatever, maybe i'll keep writing this anyway

An unfinished continuation from the groin-kneeing. It's still funny! But I keep remembering, wait, the point of this sequence was to set up Joyce's relationship with music for the rest of the storyline. It's a loadbearing story point! I've horribly swerved.

Okay, so I try to patch things up to put me back on course. I change the punchline to be about Joyce earworming Christian music. See? Look. It's sort of back on track, sort of.

Nope. Nope, things are funny, but they're not where I needed to go, and the patch-up is insufficient. Time to.... throw most of this away and get back to the original intent. The third strip is once again about Rich Mullins, as God intended. It was good Rich Mullins art, anyway. I'd hate to've thrown it away. And so:

also i guess at some point i put a morning sunrise color filter on there