Joyce and Walky!

Doing this a second time around, The Cheese’s narrative boxes can give away more hints to who he used to be, now that the cat’s out of the bag.

Also, one of the perks of writing peeks into alternate universes is that you can have plausibly dead major characters on cliffhangers such as this.  All folks are potentially disposable!  I hear Marvel’s What If…?s have a pretty high body count.