Full page today.  Lots explained.  If you’re new to the comic, you will want to read the “Road Trip” storyline and all of this will make sense.  This really wraps up the “Lost Weekend” story very well as we now know who the mystery man was that paid off their debt and bought Lorraine’s special home brew beer Old Hemp 420.

Yes, I have planned all along to reveal that it was Dr. Carlin who was the mystery man, but I did not have a good way of doing it.  The Polaroids as a flashback device finally dropped into my fried brain last week!  Yes, I wrote this last week.  The core has been around for a long time, but with the Polaroid angle, I  had to rewrite it all.

One note… the Devil is coming back to taunt Bud one more time.  (She’s in the 5th panel)

Okay, any questions you can post in the comments and I’ll do my best to explain them.  I am taking the rest of the week off to do commissions.  Gotta keep everyone happy.  Also, I’m just tired.  Age does that sometimes. 🙂

It is ABOUT time I used this song!  Boston’s debut album was worn out on my turntable several times.  And this song perfectly describes not only Dr. Carlin’s situation, but really the whole root of what 1977 is about... sex, drugs and rock and roll!  So, after nearly 5 years, I finally get around to  using Boston’s “Smokin'” as the tune of the day!  Light ’em if you got ’em and crank this sucker up!

httpvh://youtu.be/5GzMx9CnhVk

Note: This post originally had Elton John’s “Burn Down The Mission” as the featured song, but as what few brain cells that are still firing in my head woke up, I realized that Boston’s song was SO much better in so many ways!  Sorry about that!