Joyce, I overheard something I think I shouldn’t have
on February 25, 2019 at 1:01 amChapter: Consummation
Characters: Daisy Conrad, David Walkerton, Grace Svenson, Joyce Brown, Mandy Kowalski, Marcie Diaz, Sarah Clinton
Location: New York, New York, SEMME Complex
Top: look sarah that’s personal information
Bottom: this is, uh, when i start killing everybody off
Top again: uh oh look at walky, seems like he’s started seeing the Bottom Strips
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Sarah, what
Yeah, why is that relevant?
Because she hates Joyce; really hates everything about her character and personality to the point where she has to think hard about whether humanity’s long-term survival is more important to her than hurting Joyce.
It, uh, might have something more to do with Joyce having been an emotionally stunted crazy stalker when they were roommates. It’s understandable Sarah might be hesitant to put the fate of the world in the hands of the Joyce she knew then. The covered up murder doesn’t help either.
It also bears mentioning that SEMMF is a fancy government agency with a whole bunch of agents; Sarah has no reason to believe that these two specific bozos are the key to saving humanity. Hell, the readers arguably don’t know that at this point (okay so the new first strip gives it away but shhhhh), and there’s like three people alive in the comic itself who know the road to victory, none of whom have shared that knowledge. Maybe Sarah deserves the benefit of the doubt?
Joyce is real smooth in this one.
This is my last Serenade~
Oh, um… Bye Mandy.
You could say that Grace’s answer to Mandy’s plead from the previous strip blew her mind. (I’m sorry)
Jeeze, I didn’t even notice that til you mentioned it ^@__@^;;
You know, I was kinda hoping for a little more commentary wise about the killing everyone off thing. I’m curious about the thought process, both the original and your thoughts on it now looking back.
There’s a good chance that you’re planning something like that in the future, but if not, I would like to request some musings in that direction at some point as I had some similar instincts when it came to stories I wrote back in the early 2000s that I now look back on rather differently.
I don’t remember all of this arc and I’m kinda wondering how far into the future the bottom strips are compared to the top. I’m hoping there’s still enough time before the stuff in the bottom strips happens so that Walky can prevent Mandy and others from being killed.
Walky in the last panel: “Hey what’s going on down there it seems less uncomfortable than what’s happening up here.”
Frankly Joyce gave the question the answer it deserved.
Pow!
Sarah, if that seriously is an issue, either this isn’t that important or, alternately, you are still nursing such an improbably disproportionate grudge against Joyce that humanity’s long-term survival actually matters less to you than spiting her.
Eh, there’s some logic to it even if it is a stretch. The whole clone-murder situation happened because Joyce was wound too tight and basically couldn’t handle being human. It’s not unreasonable for Sarah to be thinking in terms of what drove Joyce over the edge in the first place.
Still, though. There are more immediate concerns than a Freudian psychoanalysis, Sarah.
for real, what’s going on with walky
HE CAN SEE THE FUU-TURE!