Unused strip for June 8, 2023 (Patreon)

thinkin' to myself, hey, i feel like might've had an unused strip from around here, and lo, I had

Here we see Joyce dither on announcing her atheism, followed by her mom expressing some extremely Fundamentalist Evangelical anti-semitism.  You see, everything we learned about Jewish folks was within the narrow parameters of (our translations of) the Old and New Testament, and the fact that there's, been, like, 2000 years of history since then is entirely lost on us.  All our shitty disses are based on half-formed, outdated information that we've specifically curated.

And then Joyce (via the cartoonist) was kind of a little gentile know-it-all about it, which I wasn't sure I liked, and then she allowed Joe to unhinge his jaw about it, which was fine, but I'd rather Joe have lost his cool over divorce in general.  I think it'd be a better character moment if it's about him attempting to be a boyfriend for the first time.  Also, I think it's funnier (and more real) if it's not an outburst pre-approved by Joyce.

This visit should be about Joe wrapping his head around undealt-with feelings, not him being compelled to react to Carol's dumb bigotry.  So we got this instead: