I met David
on July 29, 2015 at 12:01 amChapter: That Seventies Strip
Location: The Walkertons' Texas home
Man, this flashback was pretty important to the rest of the strip, wasn’t it. Like, the entire foundation of the back half of It’s Walky! is kind of built upon it. Though, man, once you see the actual Martians at the very end, seeing Linda clock one easy-as-you-please really establishes her as some kind of amazing powerhouse superhero retroactively. Yeah, I establish that the Martians have tentacles here, and four years later I had to incorporate that feature into the larger character model. And I wanted to make them huge and scary, so the tentacles are really the tip of their anatomy’s iceberg.
David there is vaguely modeled after Austin Powers. He didn’t have a last name until me having to give him one now, but guess what it is.
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so was David supposed to look like you?
read the second paragraph
ah sorry bout that
So what you’re saying is that you look like Austin Powers.
I always just assumed he was Austin Powers in disguise.
I had assumed that until today’s commentary. Especially when you consider David’s fate (actually, I’m kinda unclear as to what his eventual fate was).
here
http://walkypedia.wikia.com/wiki/David
heavy spoilers by the way
He eventually fakes his own death, then spends his twilight years editing the Transformers wiki.
Technically, I suppose you could also make that apply to Shortpacked!‘s Ethan…
IS IT SPADE I BET IT’S SPADE
I would have guessed “Willis.” Your second paragraph decanonizes what I had considered the greatest author self-insert in comics history!
Except he’s already a SEMME agent. 😀
Maybe he’s also a clone.
But that’s nothing compared to…well….
Ah, but author/creator powers trump those of The Deity Whose Name Should Possibly Not Be Spoiled.
The Walkertons are practically their own little soap opera, aren’t they?
All family’s, groups, campus’s, neighbors in this strip are their own little soap operas, methinks.
Huh. I always figured this guy was a self-insert joke.
Oh that’s funny, I’d always thought he’d been a self-insert. Granted, I was basing this off the name and the glasses… and that’s about it.
I’m glad to have been proven wrong.
Come to think of it, this is the third David to be introduced in the comic, isn’t it.
What kinda of chump name is David?
that sounds like the name of a guy who argues with people online about Transformers
Or that makes jokes about batman…
or explores conspiracy theories about aliens!
hmm wait
Or is a gnome!
Come to think of it, has Walky’s first name actually been stated in-comic yet? Not counting the retroactively-added Ruth flashback story, I mean.