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I 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.

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Comments

Matt Mitchell

Jesus, Beef. Also ouch re the Beef/Molly marriage being implied as “tragic”…I always hoped they’d work it out’

Shepton

What kind of hat though?

Julie (HiDeeHoGal)

Like what kind of hardtack porridge were they eating?

Miles

it's funny, I hear Molly's accent in this one in a way I usually don't

Anthony Thompson

Oh no! Not the Right Honorable Reverend Stephen J Hatt!

GruntyGinMan

The Original Sanders Tragedy

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?

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

Josh Fireland

I’m Team Beef on this one, the story could use a few more peppers in the gumbo.

Jenn

Oh my God this is basically me trying to get story details out of clients

Oppido

Can't Beef just go watch Sidney Yamahata if he wants to hear about kids dying?

Thickolas

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

Stavro

"None too pleased" rang true for me too

Geoff Hayton

I’ve never been sure how to bring Molly up in these comments.

Douglas Wykstra

Pretty sure Molly's family is Catholic, seeing how one of her brothers was made a Saint.

Oppido

I'm still waiting on that chicken recipe.

John Ashton

James Cameron watching this in an editing bay all just throwing things around and yelling about the lack of pre-drowning romance.

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.

Ethan White

So wait, does Molly have an old timey Irish accent?