Our daughter.
on September 28, 2021 at 12:01 amThis is essentially Sal and Jason’s big final moment. Originally, I’m sure, I had some grand plan to get them back together, obviously, but since the beginning of Joyce and Walky!, like, Marcie became a real person over in Dumbing of Age, and it felt absolutely wrong and terrible to have Jason dump her for Sal while she was hospitalized. (I mean, I also didn’t originally intend for them to get together while Marcie was hospitalized, but it kind of happened and you can’t really ignore that sort of thing once it’s the reality within your story, so.) But Marcie was kind of a plot device, and then she became a person, and I figured that this bittersweet moment of Jason and Sal bonding over their could-have-been daughter was good enough. Not everybody has to get together at the end. You can decide they do, if you want.
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I figure he thought “feels” didn’t carry a relationship and that’s why he’s sending
herthese kids homeBUT WHO REALLY KNOWS
maybe they threesomed up w/ MarcieWHO EVEN KNOWS
I wonder what that ship’s called
Marcie was in Squad 48. She wouldn’t mind. It’d probably break Jason’s proper little British brain, though.
I’m pretty sure that there is little in the way of sex that a Proper Englishman isn’t open to … except of course talking about any of it.
This reminds me of something from Justice League Unlimited (spoilers, I guess). Green Lantern meets his and Hawkgirl’s son from the future, but decides not to break up with Vixen just because time travel says he’s supposed to end up with Hawkgirl.
I’ve always thought that was pretty silly of Green Lantern. Like, he KNOWS he ends up with Hawkgirl, and so the longer he stubbornly refuses to leave Vixen, the likelihood that she has to suddenly die in order to maintain historical integrity sharply increases. He’s just gonna get her murdered.
Unless it’s him eating crackers in bed so much that she leaves him, I dunno. But that hadn’t been a problem yet!
I think one of the tie-in comics has pretty much exactly that happen.
I always thought of it as GL saying ‘Says who? The future is malleable. I’m not gonna live my life on a POSSIBLE future.’
I’m actually glad for it. They could presumably have had something after It’s Walky if things had gone different, but at this point? They aren’t good for each other, and the series has shown that repeatedly. Jason is clearly looking for something else at this point and Sal needs to figure herself out. Do some soul-searching, because this is the second time in her life she’s tried to interject herself into an ex’s life after they’ve gotten involved with someone else.
Which is funny because Jason spent years pining over her to begin with.
Yeah, their relationship isn’t as completely dysfunctional as it is over in DoA, but they’re not good for each other, at least not right now. Maybe some later point, after a boatload of therapy for both of them. Maybe not. Jason’s clearly still got just enough of a torch for Sal that I could see it being an issue in his relationship with Marcie, but we don’t actually see them together enough to know if it ever had been an issue before alternate universe kids and near-death experiences came into play. Who knows.
… Why does Sal and Jason’s kid look like Marcie?
That may be a point in favour of the polyamory theory
Honestly, I find it quite plausible that there’s at least one timeline out there where Joe or Dina or somebody else created technology to let three people have a kid that shares 33% of DNA with each of them.
Really, though, when it comes Paige (the kid seen here) looking more like Marcie than Jason, I think the issue is largely down to the fact that there are usually wide gaps between any two appearances of a given Future Kid, and their character designs tended to drift quite a bit as a result of both the gaps and the degree to which Willis’ art changed during these gaps. Which often has the effect of making them no longer resemble the people who they’re supposed to be the kids of. Even within the wedding material her design has drifted quite a bit– she appears to have lighter hair when Head Alien first attacks the wedding, and in the strip immediately before this one her nose actually does look somewhat like Jason’s.
It doesn’t help that we almost never see these kids’ eyes, thanks to the goggles.
It’s the goggles.
Good question. I thought that was Marcie in yesterday’s page.
I was kinda hoping Sal and Jason get back together, though I know they’re an incredibly unhealthy couple. At least they sometimes talk to each other, while Marcie didn’t seem to talk to Jason at all (and I’m pretty sure she’s not mute in this universe).
Don’t you just HATE when a character becomes a real person in the story?
I’m of two minds on it myself. On one hand, yeah, yay, more characters to play with and find potential in and on the other DAMMIT, there go my plans. They always pick the worst timing too. XD
I think the main thing I’ve always wanted here is for Sal to be happy. She always seems to get the short end of the stick.