Am I cramping your style?
on June 30, 2016 at 12:01 amIt’s October 12, 2001, and a David Willis strip can only name four girls who are around, and only one of them is a lesbian. Huh.
(It’s funny when Daisy showed up in Dumbing of Age ten years later and was into ladies and some folks were OH SHE’S A LESBIAN NOW TOO, HUH????)
(dudes, 2001)
(2001)
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CLEARLY you retconned the whole thing
#didmysarcasmnotcomethrough
(re: Daisy, to be clear)
Actually, he did it to shut up the Daisy/Jason shippers, who were getting loud at the time.
It’s not a retcon. It’s playing with the fabric of time.
Is there any difference, really?
Originally… Uh. Yeah.
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Also,
I kinda like how Joe still seems to care about Joyce. They really do bounce off each other well in a true friend sort of way.
Yeah, they were even teasing each other back in Roomies!. That’s what friends do, right?
It’s what me and mine do.
But there’s always an undercurrent of playfulness.
You forgot to comment upon the awfulness that’s Walky’s choice of words: MINE and TAKEN. Remember, folks: Women are objects for men to claim as their possession! Jeez, Walky, can’t you just say: She’s with me?
“Mine” is pretty weird. “My girlfriend” would have worked better, IMO, but this might be because I’m not a native English speaker.
(2001)
To my recollection (which may be poor) this may be the first mention of a non-heterosexual character in your work, Willis.
If it’s not too prying to ask, where does that rate on the whole “transitioning out of fundie land” thing?
what about sal’s hypothetical bisexual erotic dancing teacher
I wonder if Willis knew things far enough ahead for that last panel to be intentional?
How many years into It’s Walky are we now (and the poll is still about the transition)?
The strip changed to It’s Walky around mid-December 1999, so just shy of two years at this point.