Here we go, the third and final portion of It’s Walky! begins with this strip. And in it, we’re introduced to one of its major villains???? Sort of???? I guess “antagonist” fits better, as Bart O’Ryan does have some pretty good points as we go along. It’s just that, much like Ghostbuster‘s Walter Peck, despite essentially being right, he gets in the way of our heroes, and that makes him A Bad. And also just like Walter Peck, he’s kind of a jerk about everything, so we don’t feel too bad about it.
Bart O’Ryan gets his last name from the same place Ruth’s Ryan does — I knew a lot of jerky Ryans at the time. I assume that “Bart” is also a reference to the name of somebody/ies who got under my skin, but heck if I can remember anymore.
I know folks are going to ask, so, yeah, he exists in the Dumbiverse. I know where he is.
wait why did that newsreel pick up a sound effect
and, like, what’s the location tag on this one? “television”???
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Soon, we’re ignoring that SEMME DID stop those aliens? Hello? Anybody? Bueller?
*sooooo
Why not tell the military about thess Alien threats?
In fact. O’Ryan does argue something along those lines a few years from now.
I mean technically, blowing up North America would in fact have thwarted Head Alien’s plans. He says as much.
Spite! Thwarting extraterrestrials since we imagined they were after our water! YOU WANT IT NOW THAT WE POLLUTED IT, HUH???
…. wait, we did what?
…. DOWN WITH THE CLEAN WATER ACT! PROTECT THE HOMEWORLD! CLINTON WAS A REPTILIAN AGENT!
he was so much better in Lawesome!, anyway
but really, what wasn’t?
LAWSOME is where Bart finally earned respect!
Too much fanservice.
No way. LAWSOME was a masterwork of subtle comedy.
Too bad it only has 5 strips. My favourite part was when Mike jump kicked stuff.
it was such a kick in the nuts when it ended
This first one in response to the newspost is kinda funny XD
Too much beer?
The Hell is this?
Don’t even think about callin’ yer Tarantuguns
giggle giggle HEE HEE HEE HEE
Unbelievable.
The being who ruined my plans!
So make stuff up
I’ll see you off
NO mercy!
There’s no Nachitos left!
LINDA MITCHELL
Get on the rooftop
She’d never act like YOU
Plagued with a sense of normalcy
LIES
Sal…. sis.
I’m involved now.
Human male
Let me elaborate.
Grandfatherly
C’mere, Daniel!
Gig is up
My GIRLFRIEND
Just fer you!
Play with the guns
Okay, this line-up amused me.
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Who’s the girl?
You’re creepy.
Quiet time
I have to do SOMETHING
Ah hope you’re disgusted with yourself
We know this human
I LOVE CATS HONEST
Anybody got any ideas?
Could anything be more dreadful?
Effin’ Dina
This Bart is a busy guy. Somehow he managed to sign up hundreds of clients in a single day?
maybe one client with a GoFundMe sign-up sheet
…. which would have involved a 6 year delay for GoFundMe to be invented.
… and perhaps another 2 years for it to be called GoFundMe.
Third and final? This is pretty much a halfway point, isn’t it? This isn from August 2002, pretty smack-dab between December 1999 and November 2004.
Unless Roomies counts as that first third?
It’s Walky! is divided into three sections: Beginning, The Martian Empire, and The Power Of Cheese. This is the first strip of that third section.
I’m assuming he works for a law firm, and that firm either has a team that reaches out to people or had a lot of people looking to sue SEMME.
I’m guessing he moved very fast to get out an 800 number onto the public airwaves. It was too quick for an ad buy, so I’m guessing he managed to drop his contact info into some on-site live reporting.
Originally posted:
August 18, 2002
Very suspicious that he’s obtained hospital security footage of something he should in no way be aware of. (plus, who’s the person that outed Sal as being culpable? She wasn’t even wearing a SEMME shirt during this event, so video of her on the scene wouldn’t give it away.)
I don’t know whether or not you’re being coy, but a few years from now, a line of dialogue does suggest that O’Ryan does have some insider contacts.
Someone at the hospital probably leaked it to the news.
I remembered that Joyce and Walky’s kiss ended up on the news somehow, but I completely forgot about Bart O’Ryan.
I of all people have been a huge critic of Semme, but damn dude everyone has only known about their existence for a day and there’s already someone on the news bitching about how they’re not doing their job right, even though I doubt he has full knowledge of what their operation is.
So Bart isn’t supposed to be Bill O’Reilly?
The “B. O’R.” connection seems like a lot to ignore.
Why can’t he be both?
There’s a (minor spoiler’s warning) comic where Bart appears on Bill’s show. So he could only be both if we think that Bill was narcissistic enough to devote a show to interviewing himself.
Presumably the news added a stock explosion sound effect to that video. I mean they need to punch it up. It would be boring if it was just a building blown up by a flying saucer in silence.
It’s funny how this is playing out though. In this universe people have started the lawsuits the very next day. I suspect if this happened here in the dark timeline (i.e. reality) half the world would be tweeting the other half about how the whole thing was obviously fake and just a false flag operation. Nobody was in that building when it exploded and all the weeping family members are just actors.
Even if it didn’t go quite that far I’m pretty certain a majority of people would just refuse to believe that aliens attacked Denver.
Did you know at the time of this strip that you were moving into the final act? Or were you contemplating further “seasons” at this point?
It’s Walky! had a planned ending at this point.
That’s some awfully specific stalking in the last panel.
oh hey it’s that guy
I think a better question about SEMME, rather than why their agents are making out, is why their agents are pressganged minors. This isn’t a civilization where that kind of thing is publically accepted, is it?
In other words, if you’re going to go after SEMME’s methods, rather than judging the teenagers, judge the people abducting them and forcing them to be agents and their training methods. I.E. Big Boss, Professor Doc, and so on.
They’re not teenagers though, I’m pretty sure Joyce was 2 years in to collage when she joined.
Sal and Walky were the only ones who joined in during their teens that we directly know of (ok maybe Beef too) and even then Sal was 18 when she met Jason and they met up with SEMME.
Walky and Beef are a more problematic thing entirely as we don’t know their timeline prior to that night at the hospital with Joyce and the aliens. Beef was part of SEMME by then and Walky is established to have joined at about the same time as him but exactly when that was is debatable (they were probably at least 18 too). Everyone else is at least as old a Joyce or older, so early twenty-somethings not late teens.
If he really wants to stick it to SEMME he should point out that no one knows what their name means.
“Say the line, Bart.”
‘I represent the hundreds of dead or injured from SEMME’s negligence.’
“YAAAAAAAAAAAY!”