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[[SANDRA has collapsed.]]
GREGORY: Sandra! What’s the matter?
SANDRA: Oh, the world, the WORLD, THE WORLD!
Society is slowly folding in upon itself and SMOTHERING those of us foolish enough to have taken solace beneath its comfortable drape!

SANDRA: Whatever shall we DO? How will we SURVIVE? How can we ever consider bringing CHILDREN into this world?
GREGORY: We’ll manage!
Our children will grow up NATIVE to the changed civilization to come. They will escort us gracefully to the final death of all that we understand.

SANDRA: Gregory.
My darling.
I–I fear I will not birth robust children.
What if they come out STRANGE? What if they have TWO HEADS?
HOW WILL ANY OF US FARE?

GREGORY: SHHHHH, now. We will always find a way.
If they have two heads, we will simply sell them to the circus.
SANDRA: GREGORY I HAVE ALREADY CHECKED.
THE CIRCUSES ARE UP TO A THREE-HEAD MINIMUM.

{{Header: adapt to WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: SOON: ‘Hold still, both of you. That cantaloupe is only secured on there with tape.’}}

#573; One Too Few transcribed by in

[[SANDRA has collapsed.]]
GREGORY: Sandra! What’s the matter?
SANDRA: Oh, the world, the WORLD, THE WORLD!
Society is slowly folding in upon itself and SMOTHERING those of us foolish enough to have taken solace beneath its comfortable drape!

SANDRA: Whatever shall we DO? How will we SURVIVE? How can we ever consider bringing CHILDREN into this world?
GREGORY: We’ll manage!
Our children will grow up NATIVE to the changed civilization to come. They will escort us gracefully to the final death of all that we understand.

SANDRA: Gregory.
My darling.
I–I fear I will not birth robust children.
What if they come out STRANGE? What if they have TWO HEADS?
HOW WILL ANY OF US FARE?

GREGORY: SHHHHH, now. We will always find a way.
If they have two heads, we will simply sell them to the circus.
SANDRA: GREGORY I HAVE ALREADY CHECKED.
THE CIRCUSES ARE UP TO A THREE-HEAD MINIMUM.

{{Header: adapt to WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: SOON: ‘Hold still, both of you. That cantaloupe is only secured on there with tape.’}}

#573; One Too Few transcribed by in

[[SANDRA has collapsed.]]
GREGORY: Sandra! What's the matter?
SANDRA: Oh, the world, the WORLD, THE WORLD!
Society is slowly folding in upon itself and SMOTHERING those of us foolish enough to have taken solace beneath its comfortable drape!

SANDRA: Whatever shall we DO? How will we SURVIVE? How can we ever consider bringing CHILDREN into this world?
GREGORY: We'll manage!
Our children will grow up NATIVE to the changed civilization to come. They will escort us gracefully to the final death of all that we understand.

SANDRA: Gregory.
My darling.
I--I fear I will not birth robust children.
What if they come out STRANGE? What if they have TWO HEADS?
HOW WILL ANY OF US FARE?

GREGORY: SHHHHH, now. We will always find a way.
If they have two heads, we will simply sell them to the circus.
SANDRA: GREGORY I HAVE ALREADY CHECKED.
THE CIRCUSES ARE UP TO A THREE-HEAD MINIMUM.

{{Header: adapt to WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: SOON: 'Hold still, both of you. That cantaloupe is only secured on there with tape.'}}

SOON: 'Hold still, both of you. That cantaloupe is only secured on there with tape.'

#573; One Too Few

  — November 24th, 2009

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20 years ago (in photocomic form)

June 9, 2026 by David Malki !
A young David Malki !, Steve Carey, and Ryan North, June 2006.

The computers tell me it was 20 years ago, June 9, 2006, that I arrived in New York for my first-ever comic convention as an exhibitor, MoCCA.

It was an important trip for me, a milestone in what would go on to become my career.

I wrote a little reminiscence on Patreon (free/unlocked) — including a first-since-then reprint of the photocomics I made at the time, documenting the trip!

Read the rest here: [ 20 Years Ago (In Photocomic Form) ]


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