David Willis
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Unused strip for June 23, 2025
🕑 Added 2025-06-22 14:01:27 +0000 UTCSo when I finished this strip originally, I hadn't visited Indiana University in almost 5 years -- that pandemic (and later repeated poorly-timed school-aged-children illnesses) really threw off my annual visiting schedule! I'd been surviving a bit off of Google Streetview, but, hey, guess what, Google Streetview doesn't go into fields!
And so I drew this strip with... my best memory of what that entry into Dunn Meadow looks like. There's trees. There's a river. There's some buildings behind everything that I can obscure with trees. The ol' college try.
This year I finally got back into Bloomington, and, oh, hey, uh, hrm. Lots of stuff is actually going on in this real-life location! There actually... is no other place to enter Dunn Meadow from that direction than across a bridge over the river. (The same bridge that Amber and Danny would appear on a few times a decade of strips ago.) Joyce and Dorothy can't just... materialize out of some fake woods!
And so when I got back home, I redrew the background to match reality. And... ended up retooling a lot of backgrounds in the coming sequence to massage better into realness. There shouldn't be any trees at all on this side of the bridge -- it's all meadow -- but I do break that a few times.
Hey, it's the same meadow that Dina clever-girled Ross inside of, and I made up a whole dang jungle in there. It happens.
Comments
Kimberly Herman
so....ironically...if there are still barriers and stuff up, that's literally BECAUSE of the real life protests that happened. they closed off parts of it to supposedly fix damage caused by the protests
BBCC
It's cool to learn this location was where a bunch of other stuff happened! An eventful place in DOA history. And hopefully the thing with Ross will be the worst thing that happens
