Ms. Eables, will you please send Robin in
on June 8, 2018 at 12:01 am
Aw yeah it’s mothereffin’ Robin! This is her first real appearance, not counting me slipping her retroactively into my redraw of the first storyline.
She is another harbinger of this strip’s doom, in a sorts. When I added her to the cast, I expected her to outlive the webcomic and hop over to whatever webcomic I did next. I had no solid ideas yet of what kind of strip I would do next, but I wanted Robin to be in it. Unlike everyone else in the main cast, she wouldn’t have much baggage. And neither would Mike, since, well, despite him having been around since Roomies!, he’d been pretty Teflon to baggage.
Mike, who in this strip is apparently being punished for being punched in the face a bunch by Walky. This is lampshaded in the webcomic itself in a few days. Linda tries to explain herself. Tries!
More on Robin tomorrow.
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I pity the squad that got Mike as their new team member.
Robin’s old squad, that is.
Lateral move.
I mean, I don’t know if it really qualifies as punishment to be moved into a squad without Walky in it
Tony would probably welcome such punishment
So would most SEMME staff at this point, really
The only reward in the ranks of SEMM
FE is escape. That’s what the E stands for.And the only reward in the ranks of the comment section is broken tags. Alas. Only one letter was supposed to be crossed out.
I… relate to this strip a little too well at the moment
(they switched me up at work)
[think I’m doing just about as well as Robin does]
Best character (after Dina) appears!
It’s funny you mention Robin moving on to the next strip, because that’s how she felt in my first read-through.
Having read ShortPacked! first, robin’s interactions with walky always felt a little off-kilter, like she didn’t quite fit, but it definitely felt on purpose.
Honestly, Robin comes close to taking over the strip after this point. She’s really only prevented from doing so by Walky and Joyce being the main characters.
I’m actually kinda glad to see Robin’s first appearance. She’s like the Pinkie Pie of the Walkyverse.
Sometimes, having super-speed saves you a lot of time. It does bizarre things to everyone else’s peace of mind, though!
…and SEMME’s stockpile of Cadbury Cream Eggs, probably.
I love the way Robin’s hair seems to be flung forward, as if she had been going really fast and then stopped suddenly. Walky better hide his stash.
Hello, Robin!
Hooray! Robin’s here! 😀
Mike’s questionable status at the end of the last arc, the way Joyce paused before saying hospital in yesterday’s strip, and him being moved to another squad today. I wonder if Mike isn’t being the trial run for SEMME’s martian resurrection tech. (Idle plot guessing since I haven’t read It’s Walky before.)
AFAIK, at this point the only functional Martian Resurrection Chambers which SEMME is aware of are located in the now-sealed-off Martian Embassy.
And now I’m so excited for a webcomic that’s not about being drunk and depressed!
(Yes! It’s Robin!)
Oh wow. I read all of Shortpacked, but this is my first trip through It’s Walky!, hadn’t really realized she debuted this soon.
“soon”? Even counting only It’s Wally and not Roomies, we’re 5 years in.
Woo, Robin! I read all of Shortpacked before this, and she’s my favourite character in that by quite a wide margin.
Yay! After Dina’s death I needed this.