The filename for this strip titled it “gayinthisuniverse,” which is a reference to a question somebody asked at the beginning of Dumbing of Age, specifically whether “Ethan [was] gay in this universe.” It was that line of questioning that got me to put forth the rule that everyone keeps their same sexual orientation regardless of universe, just to, you know, keep everyone from asking me who’s still gay all the time. Anyway, yes, Ethan is gay also in this universe.
Here is Pamela, Galasso’s previously-unseen-cuz-she-was-dead wife/partner/consort/mother-of-his-child! We’d never seen her before. This is her debut, as this is apparently a universe that goes by some different rules than the one Leslie Slidersed from! I’m sure why she’s here and also alive is going to be nothing of pertinence. I’m definitely not using this Joyce-and-Walky!-sequel-story to also fill in some Shortpacked! lore, goodness no!!!! would i do that
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TFW you come to read the comments and there arent any.
Ethan is in a relationship with a woman and trying to pretend he’s straight? I guess this really is a DoA crossover.
Ethan is not trying to pretend he’s straight here as far as I can see. Are you saying that mutual respect and a love of batman jokes is a hetero thing?
I would not call marrying a woman a gay thing.
Wedding and bedding are two things.
I think it’s more along the lines of Ethan never doing enough introspection to realize he is gay.
I mean, it’s a parallel universe. Probably lots of people alive who would normally be dead and vice versa. That’s even the reason that Leslie is here in the first place – to find a non-dead Rachael. No reason to suspect anything untoward.
… none… at… all…
idk why you WOULDN’T put the ending of Millennium in X-Files
no wait
the ending of Batman Beyond in JLU?
The ending of Millennium led directly into The New Guardians, which featured both Snowflame the Cocaine Powered Supervillain and the Hemogoblin, the vampire who spreads AIDS, so Millennium can just go take a flying leap, thanks very much.
…
oh.
There’s a TV series by that name?
… never mind.
It is my fondest hope that it turns out by the end of Dumbing of Age that actually, no one in the Walkyverse was straight.
Except like, Dawson. The straights can have Dawson. (He’s appeared in DoA with a tag, he’s fair game.)
“It is my fondest hope that it turns out by the end of Dumbing of Age that actually, no one who was a good person on aggregate in the Walkyverse was straight” isn’t as catchy!
Reasonable. I made the joke with Dawson because he’s like. A mostly-amusing caricature of insufferable straight dudes. No one wants to talk about Blaine and his sexuality.
That might take a while
We’ve got time
I’m definitely on team ‘her official relationship title was partner or consort,’ myself.
Galasso said Consort, she said Partner.
Exactly, you get it.
And Pamela usually said ‘partner’ while implying ‘in crime,’ obviously.
Leslie probably shouldn’t have assumed that everything was the same in an alternate universe.
She didn’t. She said she would check to see if she (Leslie) was someone punchable in this universe.
Is there a compiled list of DoA “rules”? =>Same Orientation, No Major Characters Die, etc.
I mean, there’s definitely going to be a large asterisk next to “no major characters die” if that’s one of the rules.
I mean, yes, but it only occurred with a timeskip to gloss over the most immediate grieving, so.