Ah dunno
on January 28, 2015 at 12:01 amChapter: Summer Love
Characters: David Walkerton, Sal Walters
Location: Island in the Bermuda Triangle #1
Yeah, Sal is kind of an unlikable genocidal monster, but I like that this begins to be slowly balanced by this sisterly demeanor she develops towards Walky. It’s like how Darth Vader killed planets full of people and also some Jedi kids, but it’s cool now because he saved his own son from the Emperor.
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That expression in the last panel says to me: ‘That makes me sad, ‘cuz Ah had dibs on ya.’
You may need to recalibrate your incestometer.
It’s incest, sure. Her expression still says “best friend with a crush about to tell you to make a move on the girl you have a crush on”.
Hell, it’s not like they grew up together, so I’d be more concerned about Walky being an authority figure with power to order her around than the incest. As long as they both consent(true consent from a place of similar power and maturity), who cares?
That’s just… Kind of super creepy. Like super-duper-über creepy.
It also has a basis in actual biology, though. They grew up separate, so the Westermarck Effect (a sort of anti-sexual imprinting) never took effect. Unfortunately, that means that GSA (genetic sexual attraction) would be more likely to occur. That’s a side-effect of assortative mating, an observed phenomenon where people with similar genotypes tend to end up together more often than those with different features (of course, there’s a great deal of disassortative mating as well, that’s prevented humanity from being inbred to the point of constant physical deformity).
So… yeah. Given that they did NOT grow up together, and are now both adults with active sexual impulses, scientifically they would be somewhat likely to be attracted to one another.
Now, I don’t like to believe that in regards to Sal and Walky, but Kamino and Vik may be incorrect in their reading, but they’re not invalid.
I see it as more, “dangit, ah liked someone once…” but thank you for that =p
You’re welcome!
At what time of day is this supposed to update, anyway?
It updates at midnight Eastern, but it’s perpetually on DST, so it’s 23:00 EST updates during the winter.
Sal’s not an unlikeable genocidal monster. She’s totally a likeable genocidal monster.
Her battles with the Head Alien are motivated by “There can only be one.”
It worked for the highlander.
Even after reading through the whole IW! and J&W! archives, I never thought of Sal as a monster. Severely broken and prone to doing really messed up shit, but ultimately still a good person.
I think it’s the severely broken, with a mix of self-loathing on top, so her moral compass is so screwed she genuinely doesn’t know anymore and why should she even care at this point really and then it’s just really easy to tumble down the hole all over again.
The only real monster who comes to mind is Blaine. Everyone else in the Walkyverse is too damn likeable.
Oh, and Penny. Mary’s just a bitch.
Would have been funnier if he was eating something, also RANDOOOOOOM
I love Walky’s coughing reaction even though he was not drinking anything or given any reason to cough
“Walky, I am your sister.”
“That’s not–wait, what did you say? I sort of spaced out there for a moment.”
“I am your sister, you dork.”
“Nah-uh!”
“Look into your mind. You know it to be true.”
“Wait, let me think for a moment……NO! NOOOOO!!!!!!”
“Walky, you can kill Head Alien. He has foreseen this. It is your destiny! Join me, and together, we can rule the world as sister and brother! Come with me. It is the only way.”
I agree with Spencer. I never saw Sal as a monster.
Bent yes, but not broken, and doing her damnedest to make the ones responsible pay for it. A bit single minded about it, but she is good at what she does.
I like her regardless. And especially in the ‘down the road averse.’
I see her as a sympathetically broken monster. What she does and the things she’s willing to do are monstrous, but it comes from a fundamentally broken psyche, not an evil one.
In Vader’s defense (?), he didn’t actually personally have planets destroyed, he just stood around allowing Tarkin to do it and generally supporting the organization responsible.
But yeah, total ax-murderer with the kids and such. Those darn wacky prequels.
Sal, though… I’m gonna need to see more of this strip before I could really call her ‘genocidal’. She jumped a little too easily to “acceptable losses” during the initial battle of the comic, but given that it was within the scope of her assignment and training (…for an organization that abducts and actually kinda enslaves it’s workers unwillingly… I mean, remember how Joyce got involved), that’s more like a poor judgement call made under stress, rather than her taking full initiative to go around slaughtering people.
Unless we’re going with the logic that she’s a monster because she’s killed various other people, yet passed up several opportunities to kill Danny. I hear Danny is basically a truck-summoning MegaHitler here in the Walkyverse.
The difference with Vader is he didn’t kill anyone we really cared about.
And in the Dumbiverse, now that she’s not a genocidal monster, her sisterly demeanor all but evaporated.
Hey now, Tarkin’s the one who killed planets. Vader only killed children and Imperial officers. He’s practically one of the heroes!
No…. No, I’m pretty sure having vague empathy for the village idiot does not even BEGIN to excuse what she’s done.
Since when does killing 13 enemy combatants translate to being a genocidal monster? Am I missing something here?
You’re missing *Spoilers.* Also *Spoilers.*
Now I want to know what Sal would be like if playing Undertale…….