Boop!
on April 17, 2017 at 12:01 amAnother secret:
Sal lived because I drew this as a lark to myself and made it real. The first panel was always going to be real, with Danny, lingering over Sal’s crumpled form, unsure if this is the end. And then I drew the next panel with her booping him on the nose because I had been drawing sad angsty fights for SO LONG at this point, and it was a personal relief. I was TIRED, y’all. And so I kept it, inked it, colored it, and decided these first two panels of what would otherwise be a full Sunday-style page would be the next update.
Sal would live.
I would tell more stories about Sal.
Even if most of them would be of her in an orange jumpsuit.
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Sal, you’re supposed to sound out a sloth call first!
Ah don’t think sloths make a lot of noise…
That’s why it’s perfect!
Thank you guys! 😀
Do I want to know why you’re thanking them?
I have a friend who’s EXTREMELY IRRITATED by “oh noes they died SIKE THEY ALIVES” plots but overall I think this was a good move
also I think the Related Comics is writing out the next plot:
We’re in.
Sal, what are you doing down here?
Running now!
…no regrets.
Hey, Cheesey! THINK FAST!
Squad 283 is out cold!
Sal, you’re suspended
How is this possible?
Here she comes.
Hypocrites
Mine is of similar relevance:
Super-powered zombies
Killed any conversation
Danny — You carry Sal!
You kept all this from me?
LIES
The story continues…
What’s my weakness?
Dammit, Tony!
The Hell is this?
Pay grade
To Hell with it
I just like mine. It’s poetic.
January
We have to get in!
Prison
One part of you
Only once
Mine appears to be the plot of Roomies!:
So what are we here for?
College Ho!
Will not be saving you
Danny, you’re drunk!
Are Joyce and Sal all right?
Since I’m rubbish at writing poetry, I instead present a humble fanfic:
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Sal had heard it a million times, the same overbearing wisdom from both the people that raised her, and the woman who claimed to be her mother. Even Big Boss had said it, and, in her nightmares, she could hear Head Alien, Monkey Master, and The Cheese whispering it in an eerie chorus like the voices in the book of Revelations that chanted ‘holy holy holy’. Again and again in such forboding tones had she had heard this so-called nugget of wisdom:
“You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.”
But Sal would show them. Sal would show them all…
XD that reminds me of a greeting card my parents had and never sent (I wonder why??)
“I thought of you today, so I went out to the garden”
(inside)
“to pick my nose”
Yeah, I think it helps that usually those things are used to milk false tragedy and then oh whoops they were alive all along, whereas this was in a sequence of “oh god is she..?” And so served as more of a “nope, she’ll make it” de-escalation.
I’m glad you didn’t decide to kill off Sal. I don’t like her very much at this point in the Walkyverse, but I’d rather see her in prison than dead.
Y’know, Danny really needs some therapy for being a civilian through Ruth’s death, Joe’s ‘death’, and then… this.
“Therapy”? What’s that?
The….ra….py?
Is that, like, booze or something?
What? That’s how I deal with stressful but good storytelling. Lemon drops, anybody?
Only Danny? Sal could use some as well.
I can understand being unsure whether or not to kill off a character – that’s always a tough call because, even other than the ‘is it a good story? Is this a stupid way to go? Am I using death as a cheap gimmick or will this set off a zillion unfortunate tropes?’ pile of insecurity, characters are your capital. Once they’re dead, you can’t just tell stories about them anymore. You gotta go through the whole ‘they’re dead, how’re they back and acting now?’ thing and depending on your setting that can be kinda impossible.
Also, since she’s my favourite of your characters, I’m REALLY REALLY glad you didn’t kill off Sal and end her story here.
Originally posted:
August 6, 2002
So wait, you came up with that before Sombra?! Before Nora?!!! Parts of my life have been a lie
The origins of books runs deep into history itself.
what if she missed and poked his eye?
Amazing out-of-left field tone shift, I love it! The sheer goofiness is what really makes it.
Baby, youre gonna be so hot with a peg leg
It’s kind of blowing my mind that the ending you eventually came up with was not the ending you had in mind from the start.
This strip is incredible and I won’t hear a bad word said about it.
You’re not crying, I’m crying
Wait