Down the aisle
on October 30, 2021 at 12:01 amChapter: Merger and Restructuring
Characters: Agatha Larsen, Amber O'Malley, Jon Gustavo, Malaya Eugenio, Mike Warner, Mr. Warner, Mrs. O'Malley, Mrs. Warner, Ninja Rick, Robin DeSanto, Rose Xandria Pepper, Ultra Car, Zaph Tran
Location: Shortpacked!
Ah, there’s Amber and Mike’s parents. I was wondering where they were. (obviously Blaine wasn’t invited because he’s dead and also we hate him)
Also, it’s where Ninja Rick, Ultra Car, and Malaya are. Is the person in the pink dress next to Zaph supposed to be Rose? Maybe? I’ll tag it thusly. In this universe, she’s probably family, so she should probably be there. (And also she’s Drunk Mike’s coworker, so)
Anyway, Amber recalls that time Mike audio-recorded Jacob banging Amber’s mom. That will probably not be recurring in Dumbing of Age.
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Audio recorded and re-edited into a marriage proposal.
Obviously it won’t happen in Dumbing of Age. Mike’s dead.
OR IS HE?Yes, he is.Also, there are several other issues with that idea…
OR IS HE
(Yes, he is.)
BUT WE HAVEN’T SEEN THE BODY.
(he most likely is, but still, no body…)
But can his ghost do the recording, like a reverse-EVP?
PROBABLY not? So that’s a definate maybe, right?
Danny still not tagged in yesterday’s strip.
HE’S AN ALIEN INFILTRATO-*is clocked out*
And Mike is inadvertently commando. What’s not to love about that! Put the drawers away, Robin, nothing to see here.
So who in the audience said “wait what?”, because I feel like there’s a lot of possible candidates here
I assumed it was Amber’s mom who said that, but it really could be any number of people attending this wedding.
Could be Amber’s mom, could be Jacob depending on whether or not they explained that part to him (damn I hope they did, at least in a shortened version). Theoretically, it could be Lucy, who just applied for the job here today and may or may not be present to realize how WEIRD this place is, or the McAwesome’s people who don’t know Sober Mike (except Agatha, who may or may not be here.)
Ethan, Robin, and Leslie at least were all present for the proposal IIRC, so they know exactly what happened. I think all the ex-SEMMF people here would hear that and go ‘yeah, that checks out’ so I doubt it’s one of them. Most of the Shortpacked employees who don’t live with Robin were marginally more grounded, so I could see them not knowing but they’re also probably at least somewhat used to Mike – the way Jacob got screwed over in that power play was a lower blow than usual, but still within the bounds of Mike Being Mike.
… If I scrolled up again, I would have remembered Agatha’s here. Hoo boy, my brain is not functioning right now.
I assumed Jacob especially since Stacy seems unconcerned her
thanks, phone, typing out here only to delete the last letter as I hit Post
also thanks brain somehow mixing up panel order so my comment makes no sense
“Also, it’s where Ninja Rich, Ultra Car, and Malaya are.”
Is Ninja Rich like Ninja Rick’s brother or somethin’? 😀
He changed his name when he heard they got eaten and misunderstood
What’s with Agatha and Ultra-Car?
Agatha’s cheerful, friendly, and knows UC’s parents. (She’s also likely to have been invited because Mike has a second job at McAwesome’s while drunk, where Agatha works.)
UC is grumpy because A: it’s her default state of being, puny fleshbags, and B: the last time she went to a wedding, she ended up in the parking lot while robot monkeys got thrown through the church, and it turned out her mom had been replaced by an alien months ago. Said Mom is still missing over two-three years later.
Incidentally, this is the first time Agatha’s appeared in the reruns since the original Final Battle of It’s Walky!, where she was seen having a brush with
deatha Martian’s tentacles: https://www.itswalky.com/comic/stop-them/Agatha is Mike’s other coworker who was also a former squadmate back at SEMME
actually shit you might have meant what that Agatha and Ultra-Car are doing in this comic specifically rather than what they’re doing here
I’m assuming Agatha is being overly friendly and this annoys Ultra-Car, notorious grouch that she is
It’s Walky! Agatha was kind of an unremarkable character for me, so I forgot that her defining characteristics were the opposite of Malaya’s.
…did Rose’s last name change in the tags? I’m pretty sure it was something like “Brie” when this page went up last night. Some kinda cheese anyway.
It was, but the Xandria Pepper name was given for the Dumbing of Age version on social media when Jennifer moved dorms.
It would, granted, be hilarious if Rose’s last name was Brie in a universe where her defining trait was being an Amber expy, and X-P in the universe where her defining trait is a love of cheese.
…I literally just got the meaning of Zaph’s last name two days after this was posted. I feel like an idiot now.