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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
This might become my canonical folklore about the moon.
https://www.gocomics.com/wallace-the-brave/2025/01/05
(I would've just linked to it instead of embedding the image, but I wanted to add the alt text.)
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- Sunday comic of "Wallace the Brave" for 2025-01-05. By Will Henry. Panel 1: Wallace (a young child) is standing on a large rock surrounded by other children. He's looking up and says, "The moon wasn't always up there in the sky." Panel 2: Wallace's narration continues: "It used to live here, on *Earth*. A guardian of the ocean and forests." We see a large giant looming over the landscape seemingly composed of gray stone. Panel 3: "Until the wicked Moltentitus emerged from a volcano to challenge the moon." A giant red dragon-like creature bursts from a magma spewing volcano. Panel 4: "The moon was victorious, but felt enormous guilt for the destruction it had caused." In a flaming landscape, the moon giant stands over a vanquished Moltentitus. Panel 5: "So it curled into a ball and banished itself to outer space." The moon giant jumps into space and curls into a ball. Panel 6: "Every day since, the ocean reaches out to console her grieving friend - the moon." A watery figure reaches upward out of the ocean towards the moon in the sky. Panel 7: We return to Wallace on the rock where he concludes, "That's why we have the tides." One of the children below him, wiping away a tear, says, "So sad. So incorrect." (remote)
