Pumpkin!
on December 19, 2015 at 12:01 amChapter: And It Will Go Well With Thee
Characters: Linda Walkerton, Sal Walters
Location: The Walkertons' Texas home
“But first ya gotta pay a subscription ta Slipshine! S’how Ah keep my beak wet!”
“But first ya gotta pay a subscription ta Slipshine! S’how Ah keep my beak wet!”
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Right, I forgot that Linda was not-totally-awful for a while before she was totally awful.
She’s forcing herself on someone she barely knows and trying to act like a mother, which she hasn’t earned. Still pretty awful.
I know, but she’s not actively justifying abandoning a child.
Instead she’s just pretending she didn’t whiel neglecting the kid she kidnapped and pretended was hers.
Linda is an oddity, to put it lightly. She had to do some pretty messed up shit for what she saw as the greater good.
I mean, she still acknowledges Beef whenever he’s around. The only reason we think he’s being neglected is because the comic itself neglects him.
Well, and because towards the end of the strip he explicitly says so.
I still think that was a genius plot twist.
But like, it seems kind of unfair to say “Linda neglects him” when the entire universe neglects Beef. We never see him do anything and he just immediately gets phased out of the strip when Walky and Sal become important, but he still appears with his family every once in a while.
He appears and Linda ignores him completely. They treat Beef the same way Sal gets treated in DoA.
I guess she’s trying to be a mother to Sal. I can’ really fault her for doing this.
Ya and sal did kind of come to her for a mother figure.
In her defense, I think this is her way of trying to make up for that. It’s not well-done, and it comes at the expense of dropping one of her other children like a sack of potatoes, but I do think she’s trying.
She’s just incredibly bad at it.
“Anyway, tell me everything about your se…erh I mean your life so far”.
Heh, Sal’s getting onto a dresser (it looks like). Looks like she took a liking to Joyce’s coping mechanism.
It’s a refrigerator!
I have always remembered the conversation on the refrigerator. It just stuck out to me for some reason.
Somehow I feel like the emotional life story Sal is about to tell is going to seem kind of amusing to me the whole time just because of the fact that she’s sitting on a refrigerator
Oh.
OH, IT’S A KITCHEN! I always thought it was a bedroom. It looked like Linda was getting ready for bed.
I thought se was washing dishes.
hahaha. she reminds me way too much of IRL mom who totally didn’t raise me but likes to pretend in her own head that she did and that she’s a responsible adult. it’s like Linda is compensating for not being there at all until recently by really overdoing the motherly act.
I’m really sorry for that. I don’t know it personaly, but some of my friends went through this and the neglecting parents tried to get close to them. All I can say is that your father is one hell of a man for raising you.
hahahaha. your assumptions make me laugh/cry. oh heck no. my dad was a miserable excuse for a human being who let me be raised in the same house as a violent grandmother and a cousin who constantly sexually molested me and my sisters. basically it’s a miracle i am not more messed up. although this is a day later, i felt this needed to be said. i like your deadpool icon, btw.
Ditto. Shit parents are one thing, but shit parents convinced of their own greatness are of a magnitude worse.
I love how she freaks out and frantically runs for the top of the fridge like a smothered house cat.
I know just how Sal is feeling at this point. I don’t like Anyone doing the squeeze routine on me, if I don’t know them – including distant relatives.
Guess because my entire family were not huggers, none of them. A kiss on cheek from mom, a pat on the back from dad – the height of emotionalism.
My best friend was an other story, her entire family, of which she had lots and lots, were all huggers, squeezers, and patters. Took a bit of getting used to, but they meant well. So, after the first few dozen times, I stopped climbing the refrigerator.
“Keep my beak wet”? That’s a new one to me. Thanks Urban Dictionary!
showing up several years too late to say that this comic was originally published the day I was born (according to the wayback machine)