Bob or Venus
on November 26, 2012 at 12:01 amChapter: Obligatory Flashback Sequence
Location: Danny and Joe's dorm room
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Joyce’s potential baby names are taken from Beast Wars folks, specifically story editors Bob Forward and Larry DiTillio, voice director Susan Blu, and voice actor Venus Terzo. Years later I’d go back to this strip when naming Joyce and Walky’s kid-from-the-future, dubbing him Bobby Walkerton. Even later, Bob Forward would write the foreword to Shortpacked! Book 3. Life is weird.
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Does he know you named a kid after him? And does this mean the first Willis son will be Larry? Or Joel after your secret mistress?
I told him once. However, it was in the middle of some probably embarrassing fanboy gushing, so I dunno how that fared.
Wait a sec, Bobby’s name is a deliberate callback to this specific strip?
I’m impressed.
Me too. It always pleases me whenever writers have works that run for a long time, and they reference events that they wrote about years ago and most readers have forgotten.
Especially when it’s a throwaway gag like here. Blatant set-up is one thing, but reference-mining on this level takes skill. Hell, I didn’t even get this and I can tell you most of the SEMME Squadron rosters off the top of my head.
So Joyce and Walky both picked out Bobby as a name for their imaginary son?
Perhaps Joyce told Walky at some point.
C’mon, we all know how their relationship works: Joyce decides they are going to do something, Walky makes a hilarious joke about not wanting to do it, and then they do it.
And THEN they “Do it.”
For Joyce, who at this point probably knows near nothing about transformers or the related artists yet, wouldn’t “Venus” be the name of a pagan goddess and thus an impossible name for her child?
Obviously you haven’t heard of Venus Lacy, who won an Olympic gold medal for the United States in 1996! Clearly Joyce is a fan.
Nice save. I wonder if Wikipedia had a hand in it. 😉
I think Venus (Roman name) would more acceptable than Aphrodite (Greek name)!
I know I’m late to the party on this strip, but I wondered if you have any Idea how this monologue goes after it runs off the page here. I figure you must have had some planned out because you can see the top of the next line.
Originally posted:
December 3, 1997