Hard up for liquor
on April 24, 2014 at 12:01 amChapter: Caught in the Act
Characters: Alice Chen, David Jones, Eric Schtuppenstein, Jennifer Billingsworth, Margaret Browning, Mary Bradford, Mike Green
Location: Alice's house
Hey, have a bunch of College Roomies from Hell!!! cameos!
Also, Eric. Â He’s into sweater vests and self-righteousness, apparently. Â I made up his last name just right now.
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“Schtuppenstein”
Considering what happens later… extremely subtle on your part, Willis. 😛
I dunno, Thumpasprung just has a better ring to it…
What I want to know is who the hell does Schtuppenstein know at this party. Maybe it’s just Willis’ limited art style at this stage, but he just doesn’t look like a party kind of person.
Willis posted modern-style Eric on his Tumblr.
http://itswalky.tumblr.com/post/83183047505/hey-wouldnt-it-be-hilarious-if-i-redrew-roomies
Yeah, that Eric looks like a party person.
It’s clear to me now.
Once Shortpacked! wraps up, Willis intends to start another comic, chronicling the adventures of Eric Shtuppenstein.
Slipshine subscription required.
Middle name Von.
Are the CRFH! dudes staring at Mary… or Eric
I Googled “Schtuppenstein”.
There were exactly four results, none of them this page.
Considering he *just* made up the name, that’s not really a surprise–don’t think even Google is THAT fast to index.
Now, coming up on a year later, there are nine results! The five new results are all about Eric Schtuppenstein.
I do like the two with their quizzical expressions of “Wow. That Mary chick has no ass.”
She lost it to an evil wizard.
Is it just me, or is one of the guests a midget, and are two of the others openly staring at Mary’s ass?
Hello Eric, who is being introduced now and only exist to prove how annoying Mary is (like we needed proof)
And so, THIS begins.
This, this is the reason why Mary goes from “unlikable” to “The most hated character in the Walkyverse this side of Blaine O’Malley.”
I think I like Mary better than I like Faz.
I agree, Mary is better than Faz. Wen on the other hand perhaps not as much >;D
At least Faz is humanized by the whole “never knew his father” thing.
Somehow I hated Mary and I don’t even remember reading this storyline. Seriously, I thought Roomies! ended immediately after the trip to Mount Rushmore.
Margaret! In a roundabout way, if it weren’t for Margaret, I probably wouldn’t be reading this.
No tentacle on Mike. Was this actually before the boys got mutated, or did it just not make it across universes?
Really? That sounds like an interesting story.
Convoluted, but probably not particularly interesting.
Lo these many moons ago I read Clan of the Cats (which I haven’t even checked in years… I have no idea whether it’s even still alive or not), which had a crossover with CRFH!!!, and I kept reading CRFH!!! after the crossover mostly because of Margaret. CRFH!!! got me onto the Keenspot forums, where I got involved with the Avalon fan community – I was an Avalon reader before that, but hadn’t gotten onto the forum. There was a lot of overlap between the Avalon and It’s Walky! fandoms (the Anomalie storyline late in IW! is actually set at hiatus-frozen Avalon High, and Sal’s school uniform in DoA is the Avalon High uniform), so I started reading IW! pretty much because everyone else was, and went back and read Roomies! after catching up with the IW! archives because I concluded that it was necessary backstory, and didn’t quit during the summer road trip because I was already hooked by It’s Walky!. And *mumblemumble* years later, here I am!
You reminded me of Clan of the Cats which I used to read to, so I checked it out — it looks like it was running pretty regularly up to the end of 2010 but then after that slowed down to 4-5 updates a month, to 1-2 updates every few months, to basically not updating since mid-2012. I guess just this month he said there’s going to be a new story soon but who knows.
Incidentally I also discovered Willis’ work through Avalon.
I discovered Willis’s work through Atop the Fourth Wall.
I AM EMBARRASSED TO SAY I DISCOVERED WILLIS THROUGH GONTERMAN
[but through the April Fools’ exchange, to be fair]
I think I discovered Willis through a banner add for It’s Walky somewhere. There’s a reason I don’t ignore or block those things — find loads of fun new webcomics that way.
I had been reading CRFH for some time when the author mentioned that she had originally wanted to call it “Roomies,” but that the name had already been taken. So I decided to find out which jerk* had swiped the name out from under her, and here I am, years later. (I think Roomies had merged into It’s Walky by then, but I cannot remember.)
*I recall feeling quite indignant about the whole thing. I was pretty young though…
Well, Mary’s going to get SOMETHING hard up her lower area…
Obviously Eric is a dentist/nursing student- just look at that scrub top.
Originally posted:
October 3, 1999