The last dozen comics have had a secret.
As the sick elephant saga was winding down, I thought to myself, “Surely I can’t just drop back into gag-comics-as-usual. It would feel too abrupt!”
So I decided I would write another series, one that wouldn’t feel like a series but that could still work on multiple levels.
All the comics since the elephant saga have ended have been part of this series, starting back with #1437 in November and continuing through today’s #1448.
I wasn’t sure if anyone would notice, or let me know if they did. So I mentioned on Twitter that the recent comics were all linked in some way, and asked if anyone had figured out how.
Anna had:
Dusted off a literally years-old Twitter account to reply to this, because nothing baits an internet pedant better than getting to be first to the punch: They’re all remakes of the first Wondermarks, or at the very least feature lines/characters from them!
— Anna Carlsson (@Notebooked) January 5, 2019
More specifically, they’re fifteen-years-later looks on the characters. (Dean-O killed his wife’s mother fifteen years ago, Chorncey’s been dry a decade and a half, the Scotsman’s piano “must be near twenty years old”, Jesson’s pal was eating maps years before the first iPhone.)
— Anna Carlsson (@Notebooked) January 5, 2019
If you want to see what Anna’s talking about, start with comic #001 in one tab and comic #1437 in another — then read forward in both timelines, and check out where the journey leads you.
