Autographed photo
on December 15, 2020 at 1:01 amChapter: Tales Told out of School
Location: Squad 128's apartment
Concurrently in Shortpacked!, I showed Mike in bed in his room, with a conspicuous photograph on his nightstand. It was the silhouette of a hatted person. Readership was ablaze: OMG, does Mike miss Dina??? Did he love her after all???? DOES MIKE HAVE FEELINGS?!?!?!!
Meanwhile, over in Joyce and Walky!: this strip. Because sometimes it’s fun to troll.
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I mean I am still wondering what Mike’s true feelings about Dina were.
he seemed to make his feelings clear when he sobered up
Then why the expression when Dina died?
Also I wonder how he would react when he finds out Dina got brought back to life.
Almost nothing is as menacing as Mike just standing around doing nothing
Gotta say, that’s funny.
OH MY GODS – THANK YOU!
I bought the set after the fact rather than reading Joyce and Walky as it was released, so I never got this joke before. I’m not sure I even would have had I done so since we never see the front of the photo Walky is holding.
But now, with the commentary, it’s so good! I love me some meta trollage.
I never even noticed the photo on Mike’s nightstand in that Shortpacked strip. I was more focused what everyone else was doing.
I always wondered what the context here was and why Mike was just standing there.
Bet Mike never got hold of Walky’s autographed picture of John Denver, though.
The implication is he did and that’s Walky’s Bob Denver photo in Shortpacked!
Jen, you’ll never see this unless you do a re-read, but just in case: Bob Denver and John Denver are different people. Needful is making a great little joke
I basically have no idea who Bob Denver might be, so I immediately read this as “John Denver,” and imagined Walky hunting him down the way Doonesbury’s Uncle Duke with.
…I think I like my headcanon better.
Bob Denver was Gilligan on Gilligan’s Island, but your headcanon is still better.
Why do I think that that photo is now in Mike’s “Stuff I stole to torture my colleagues but don’t want to see anywhere in my life” footlocker?