Everything was going smoothly in this week, and this whole story, until Panel 3 of this strip. Lizz’s comment felt like it came out of nowhere. Contrary to some on here, I do think Syndicate censorship is to blame. I have 2 theories as to what happened:
1) Originally, P3 of the M 8/26/19 strip was going to show Doc collapsing from an OD. I don’t think this likely since Tracy’s remark in P3 of that strip fit so perfectly as a retort to Doc’s rant.
2) More likely, originally, either the Tu 8/27/19 strip or the W 8/28/19 strip was going to show Doc collapsing from an OD. That what ended up as this day’s W 8/28/19 strip was originally going to be the Th 8/29/19 strip.
Years earlier, Curtis had shown Measles dying of an OD. He probably thought he could show that here, especially if Doc was always going to survive, albeit comatose, only to be abruptly told at the last minute that he couldn’t show that. So he had to scramble as best he could. I’ll do some more theorizing in the next few days’ strips.
Retroactively theorizing on the inexplicable
Everything was going smoothly in this week, and this whole story, until Panel 3 of this strip. Lizz’s comment felt like it came out of nowhere. Contrary to some on here, I do think Syndicate censorship is to blame. I have 2 theories as to what happened:
1) Originally, P3 of the M 8/26/19 strip was going to show Doc collapsing from an OD. I don’t think this likely since Tracy’s remark in P3 of that strip fit so perfectly as a retort to Doc’s rant.
2) More likely, originally, either the Tu 8/27/19 strip or the W 8/28/19 strip was going to show Doc collapsing from an OD. That what ended up as this day’s W 8/28/19 strip was originally going to be the Th 8/29/19 strip.
Years earlier, Curtis had shown Measles dying of an OD. He probably thought he could show that here, especially if Doc was always going to survive, albeit comatose, only to be abruptly told at the last minute that he couldn’t show that. So he had to scramble as best he could. I’ll do some more theorizing in the next few days’ strips.