Petty and incompetent
on March 29, 2014 at 12:01 amChapter: The Power Booster Rod
Location: Storage and Lockdown
Man, shooting that guy in the head sure would have solved a hell of a lot of problems. But nope! You get five more years of comics.
Man, shooting that guy in the head sure would have solved a hell of a lot of problems. But nope! You get five more years of comics.
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Actually, why DIDN’T they execute the guy?
It’s a REALLY long and convoluted story that gets explained by the psycho lady in (I think) the second to last story arc of It’s Walky.
This is the second time you’ve lampshaded the fact that killing Head Alien would’ve been the best idea in the comic itself.
How the hell did SEMME last with that level of knowing incompetence?
It didn’t.
Pure numbers. Almost every SEMME mission is shown to result in large casualties until they finally start running out.
Was it ever explained in the comic? Because I remember near the end of It’s Walky I think we got a reason but nothing specific.
If I remember correctly it had something to do with the fact that Linda Walkerton created abductees together WITH HA. She donated her Martina blood to the project. So he might have been considered an asset in the larger looming fight agains the Martians.
On top of it all you have dimension hopping British ninjas manipulating EVERYBODY and all sides.
So have you come up with an excuse for SEMME since then?
Hey, ‘Felicity’! That’s topical.
My best guess is, every time they sent someone to just shoot H.A., they made the mistake of letting him talk, and they ended up turning the gun on themselves.
It’s called “It’s Walky!” not “Smart People Making Smart Decisions”.
Actually, it’s still called “Roomies!”. Because it’s about the wacky hijinks H.A., Clyde, not-Clyde, and the Power Booster Rod get up to while rooming together in SEMME’s alien jars, I guess.
What is a “Felicity”, and why would it be on a fridge magnet?
Late-’90s sitcom starring some chick’s hair. No idea why it would be on a fridge magnet.
I could be wrong but didn’t that have Amy Jo Johnson of Power Rangers fame?
Wait, they put the Power Booster Rod in with the aliens?
SEMME is an acronym for “We Make Bad Decisions”
In retrospect, the chosen acronym was a bad decision.
Well, it’s just an ordinary tree branch that the wacky Aliens are worshipping or something because they’re stupid and crazy. We probably won’t ever see it again. I mean, if Willis remembers it exists, it might ascend to the status of “running gag”, but it’s not like it’s actually a powerful plot-important artifact or anything, right?
Look at the wacky Aliens worshipping an ordinary tree branch! Hahahahaha!
For the same reason the Aliens are still alive.
On a semi-related note, the containment tube art confuses me. The curvature of the tube walls and the vertical lines imply they’re a row of separate tubes, but the Power Booster Rod is in two tubes.
Maximum security. No pets.
Fortunately, the facility where the PBR ends up doesn’t have that latter restriction.
Are you implying that Danny is a pet?
His namesake Daniel is.
‘Wanker’?
Does that not count as a bad word or something?
…Now that I think about it, when I was a kid, I had a Dragon Ball Z videogame where a guy’s catchphrase is “Don’t play stupid with me, wanker!”
Um.
Man, I was thinking that- given all his issues that he was just starting to work through I’m very surprised that Willis used the word “wanker”. Given that it’s a swear word that refers to masturbation…
Maybe he just knew it was a British insult at the time?
Originally posted:
September 5, 1999