I haven’t found him
on August 4, 2021 at 12:01 amChapter: Speak Now
Location: Denver, Colorado, Joyce and Walky's apartment
If your car isn’t hovering over a round hilltop, can it really be said to be going very fast?
love the sign that just says “mall”
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That might actually be worse than anything Carol’s said in Dumbing of Age so far.
If you look at it funnily enough, that sign says Wall. M is a smidge scribbly.
It’s actually not a mall sign but a billboard. It was going to say “Walky phone home!!!” but Becky (or possibly Robin) got bored partway through.
They made the text too big and ran out of room.
Or maybe the billboard company charged by the letter.
It definitely looks way more like ‘Wall’ than ‘Mall’.
And even more like Wali.
That samples are necessary to resurrect, Mrs Brown.
*Those
Is there a specific amount of sample needed for resurrection?
I don’t think it was ever made explicit.
Just explicitly.
At least enough to rebuild his entire genome from the half-helixes contained in each cell.
According to Willis’s site commentary for that scene from what I recall, they actually used some of Walky’s blood – something about the two of them having done the deed so much that they’d begun to chafe at each other.
*winces in pain*
Y’know, speaking of both “Becky” and “Mom,” I wonder what happened to Bonnie in this universe? Like, I more or less assume that the only reason this Ross hasn’t done anything worse than he has is that Becky’s still in the closet here, and that he’s more or less at the same level of awful here as DoA Ross was before the plot kicked off. He was probably just as horrible to her. Did Bonnie die here too? Or is she still alive out there, somewhere, having escaped Ross’s clutches?
(I recognize that this is largely unrelated to the content of this specific strip but I doubt it’s a real non-sequitur to anyone reading DoA right now, which is probably all of us)
Would genuinely be amazed if somebody reading this wasn’t also reading Dumbing of Age.
I’ve stopped. The rollercoaster between slice-of-life and action-adventure got to me too much. I don’t mind when the Walkyverse does it because it’s supposed to be sci-fi fantasy, but DoA is supposed to be realistic and it verges on the improbable in those sequences.
It’s been slice-of-life since the murder/kidnapping sequence wrapped up. (And I cut that chapter some slack re: suspension of disbelief because it wrapped up a decade of plot.)
Last September basically kicked off a ‘season 2’ soft reboot, and time-skipped ahead to sometime in the middle of January. Not sure when you stopped reading, but this is the first strip:
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-11/01-this-bright-millennium/andwereback/
I stopped just at the last strip of chapter 9, as the signals were coming that the next chapter was going to be a doozy. I might get to that at some point.
Oof, yeah if you thought anything in the first nine books was “too unrealistic” then you wouldn’t like Book 10 very much. That covers the entire fight/kidnapping/chase sequence, which needs a bit more suspension of disbelief. But like Willis said at the time, it was intended to be a darker climax for the story up to that point.
I don’t want to get too spoiler-y here, but if you want a TL;DR summary just leave a “what did I miss in Book 10” comment over on today’s DoA and we’ll fill you in. (Or just breeze through it all in one whack.) So far, Book 11 is a return to the first few books’ character-driven slice of life tone.
I’m working from the beginning of Book 11 right now, but I will take your offer into consideration. (I’ll probably just read Book 10 in a go one day, just to get the bandage off.)
Don’t say “we” can still make grandchildren, Carol
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AH WELL IT’S NOT LIKE YOU CAN GET CREEPIER I GUESS?? *knock on wood*
I mean, she’s pretty dang creepy already.
Nice of Optimus to show up and help search in the first panel!
Wonder why he’s not tagged.
Defeats the point of being a robot in disguise if he’s labeled right?
Glad I’m not the only one who thought that truck looked like him.
It’s actually that one truck from Roomies!.
So Becky drives like the Mom from Calvin and Hobbes
Or the Duke boys.
That car’s not hovering, it’s clearly balancing on one wheel.
No matter the universe, she can still be God awful
I guess that stuff stays no matter the continuity