Psyche! Evaluation! page 1
on March 7, 2015 at 12:01 amChapter: Psyche! Evaluation!
Characters: David Walkerton, Dina Sarazu, Head Alien, Jason Chesterfield, Joyce Brown, Mike Warner, Professor Doc, Sal Walters
Location: Columbus, Ohio
In 2004 I did a five-page It’s Walky! story for Keenspot’s Free Comic Book Day anthology. At the time It’s Walky! was in the middle of a very convoluted ending, and so I set this story during the first year and used it to set up the general premise and characters. You know, as an introduction to new readers, as one would want to present something to strangers. I’ve decided it takes place chronologically at this point in the archives due to a number of competing factors that I had to wrestle with.
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I was just reading that sampler recently. Interesting coincidence.
Aw man, this is gonna screw up your Sunday strips on Sunday setup!
Now taking bets on how many team members remembers what attack formation “S” is. The starting over/under is 2.5.
I’m gonna bet “Jason and Mike”, but Mike feigns ignorance to spite him.
Walky, that’s an interesting euphemism for crapping yourself.
I wondered if that’s what Walky meant, likely it is.
Professor Doc looks merely irritated at being a hostage. Then again, Professor Doc always looks irritated.
Silly question, but was there a specific reason the alien attack was set in Columbus, Ohio?
That’s where Willis lives.
I like the way this looks.
Nice sense of depth with the blending
Dina still just wants to check her email.
Sudden art shift!
Huzzah!
Awesome! I didn’t think there was any more later-skill-level-Mr-Willis-produced It’s Walky material until very late in the series. It’s a treat to see it done in early Shortpacked-o-vision.
One odd thing I think about with the art style change, though, is Jason’s hair. It was a lot more square in the olden days, and became round later on. Was there a reasoning behind that?
Might be related to the factors mentioned in the commentary for this strip:
http://www.itswalky.com/comic/efficient/
It’s interesting looking at that strip and hitting the “Previous” button and noting that Jason’s hair is noticeably more jagged in appearance just between the two consecutive strips. Once freed from the straight-line tyranny of the calligraphy pen, perhaps the evolution towards more-rounded character designs was inevitable.
Or maybe he just liked it better that way. I just like to theorize about stuff 😀
Hmm, makes as much sense as anything.
Uh… When did they get captures exactly and how?
Also, I’m not sure you’re using the right term there. Psych and Psyche are not the same thing, hell they’re pronounced differently because you actually say the “e” in the latter.
The capturing was off-screen, presumably. Based on this timeline it’d be sometime after Dina was talking to Alex in the last comic.
Maybe Dina got tired of waiting to check her e-mail, so she went to the public library where Professor Doc gets his top-secret research documents with his mundane library card that keeps a record of all his check-outs, but Head Alien laid a trap for them at the library by disguising one of his robots as the ‘Card Catalogue’ computer! And then, a few hours later, brought them here to regroup with this attack in Ohio that squad 128 had just arrived on the scene of.
Joyce is being propelled by farts.