My secret sexy weakness to pitifulness
on November 9, 2021 at 12:01 amThis is the last strip from the Amber/Mike storyline, and after this we’re skipping ahead… a little. A couple months. In between this and then, I guess I (re)introduce Lucy as a main cast member? Huh! I was wondering where she was in the wedding groupshots. I guess she hadn’t appeared properly yet.
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I imagine it’s harder to find similar alternate universes than different alternate universes.
I feel like it’s the opposite. How many alternate universes are out there where the only change is a single person making a left turn instead of a right turn? That’s probably not gonna drastically alter a whole world.
Gonna pretend you’re not setting up a Doctor Who story with Donna Noble.
Yeah but how easy is it to track down those specific universes?
Depends what the structure of the multiverse is, but it’s entirely reasonable that more similar universes would be closest to each other, as they likely branched more recently (assuming that’s how the multiverse works). Meaning accidental or random pokes are likely to hit a more similar universe than a less similar one.
Depends on whether that person is Donna Noble, I guess
At least one, if Dr. Who is right.
Maybe it’s more like a tree than a grab bag – if you hop to the next branch over, it split off from yours more recently so it’s likely to be pretty similar. If you want to find something different, you have to go much further.
Pretty much how I always viewed it
Who ya gonna call?
GHOST FOURSOME!
Bust a ghost, bust a nut, same difference
I’ve learned a new sex word today!
…I honestly didn’t think that would keep happening in my 40s.
Yeah, knowing that Joe eventually decided in Shortpacked! here that replacing Rachel with an alternate Rachel wouldn’t feel right, it was kinda weird to read Joyce and Walky! pages where he considered the possibility. Especially since that page came out after this one, and that it’s relatively safe to assume that anyone paying for J&W subscriptions was also following Shortpacked!
It doesn’t seem weird to me. He needs to consider the possibility in order to reject it.
Are we SURE Joe wasn’t secretly replaced by Richard?
I know, right? I’m certainly not convinced.
Nah, Richard is secretly Walkyverse Joe!
He can’t replace Joe if he was always Joe.
So is the DeSanto/Bean wedding going to follow after the Rescue Rachel storyline?
Probably not? That’s very much a Shortpacked! thing, and this is specifically covering the bits of Shortpacked! that wrap up loose ends from the other comics
Lucy had previously featured in your comic about why New 52 Starfire was a bad idea, but had not interacted with the main cast.
She literally picked up an application and left the page before this storyline started. The one where Sal is sneaking in for the wedding. You missed a wedding, Lucy!
The day of the wedding was actually the very same day Lucy applied for a job at Shortpacked!.
Yeah, she had shown up properly but wasn’t attached enough to the rest of the cast to stay after-hours for the manager’s wedding.
For some reason, the talk of other Rachels makes me think of that lyric from “I’m Going To Go Back There Someday”.
“There’s not a word yet
For old friends who’ve just me.”
Maybe since, even if Joe met one of these Rachels, maybe that knowledge he has of her helps, or maybe it is instead a huge hindrance, because she will not be his Rachel. She’ll be homemade chicken nuggets, rather than Chicken McNuggets. Maybe better, maybe worse, but perceptibly different.
God I love this era so much ❤️
Maybe those couple months of other stuff in between the strips related to this arc is why I forgot about some stuff in the middle that led up to what happens later in this story arc.
other Rachel… ha