Cut from Issue 8's Cover A by Chris Fason: Gary Bee mid-flight with his signature warm grin, red "5" on his chest fluff, and arm outstretched against the blue sky and cloud streaks. Issue 8's first Cover A cut, joining the montage and story-page cuts.
The bun-haired bee leans right over the honeycomb frames mid-shout, gripping the orange hexagon borders like a window sill — the montage spread's grumpiest resident making her feelings known. Sixth confirmed cut from the honeycomb montage.
Bee 103, hand to chin and brow furrowed, thinking it over in her sky-blue hexagon on the montage's second page — the skeptic softening after a day of watching Gary's kindness. Companion cut to "Buzz Off!": the same character's arc from scowl to second thoughts.
Gary in his purple varsity jacket crouched on the flower-shop window ledge, with Ms. 82's reflection in the glass above. From the sequence where he coaxes the elderly bee out of the shop.
Bee 413's psychedelic dream: the little bee trudging across a pink alien landscape toward a lone purple flower, under the caption "My dream felt like static electricity!" One of the issue's four dream vignettes.
Ms. 82's big, sad bespectacled face by the flower-shop window, the shop interior behind her. The lonely beat that Gary's kindness overturns.
A pure flower cut from the honeycomb montage: red gerbera, white daisy, and purple asters packed edge to edge inside the orange hexagon borders. No characters, no dialogue, matched on art and border style alone.
The Queen Bee, crowned and beaming in her purple feather boa, calls for the next dreamer against the dark red backdrop of Sally Bee's hornet-beast dream. From the dinner-table dream-sharing ritual that anchors the issue.
Second all-flora montage cut: pink tulip, yellow crocus, and blue hydrangea, with Gary's hand just visible in the neighboring hexagon above. Companion cut to the Daisy Field hex.
Extreme close-up of Gary Bee's shocked face against the blue sky — the beat in the garden where the teasing bees buzz past him. Pure cartoon reaction-panel energy.
The back of Gary's head, antennae up, as he takes in the meadow and hedgerow from the ledge, the quiet establishing beat before the garden sequence. Companion in spirit to Issue 8's other behind-the-head cuts.
Ms. 82 resting her head on Gary's shoulder, both eyes closed, against a warm red background, the tender embrace hexagon from the montage spread.
The elderly bee airborne at last, waving as she soars over the meadow, the payoff panel of the flower-shop sequence, with the montage's orange panel borders visible at the frame edge.
Close-up of hands exchanging a sparkling clump of pollen, cut from the honeycomb memory montage of Gary and elderly Ms. 82's day together. A wordless act-of-service vignette — the emotional core of the issue in one hexagon.
Gary Bee seen from behind, wings spread, flying upward through the white space between hexagon panels on the montage spread. A rare cut capturing the issue's signature honeycomb page architecture itself.