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No. 709: The future's so bright I gotta wear shades

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The future's so bright I gotta wear shades

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/itoons/?comic=709

Strip by: Conor

Narration box: On this day in 1776, the Declaration of Independence established the United States of America as separate from Great Britain...
{A shadowed figure sits on a hill watching as a thermonuclear explosion detonates behind a city skyline.}
Narration box: Happy Independence Day!
{The figure is revealed to be Mary Worth wearing sunglasses, who smiles as the explosion engulfs Santa Royale, and presumably herself...}

The author writes:

Over at The Comics Curmudgeon, ectojazzmage posted in response to today's [note: at the time of submission] Mary Worth, "Remove the text and you could interpret this strip as Mary watching the apocalypse from a hilltop." Reading that, I quickly bunged this up in GIMP and decided it works pretty well even if you leave the text in.

Original Mary Worth strip: 2023-07-04 (via The Comics Curmudgeon). Photo of Castle Bravo nuclear test explosion via Atomic Heritage Foundation.