RRUNK!
on April 30, 2018 at 12:01 amThese past few strips, todays, and tomorrow’s… I drew them all in one night. I stayed up until the wee hours of the morning, and I cranked out an entire week’s worth of comics. And this strip… it was not a great headspace. It was definitely not a great place to put my brain. I sat and hashed out with myself…. “What would I be thinking if I assumed I was going to die in a few seconds?” And out came this terrible, terrible monologue Dina has with herself, in the chamber, alone. Waiting to die.
It’s a color strip. On a Friday.
A bad sign to be sure, but there’s that final, hopeful panel, the RRUNK!.
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“But when you’re gone, who remembers your name? Who keeps your flame? Who tells your story?”
Eliza
I do.
It may not have been a great place mentally, but it’s a great strip in the “stays with you” sense.
Oh, David…
This is what popped into you asked yourself that question?
…same tbqh
Yeah that’s a really shitty headspace to be in, no matter what time of day it is.
I’m not sure what to say about that commentary, so I’m going to settle on I think you are super cool, Willis.
Penny comes in and takes Dina’s hat and they go out for ice cream.
While eating ice cream Penny apologises to Dina for what happened and asks her if she wants to work for them. Knowing that nobody in Semme likes her she accepts.
And that’s how Dina, hopped up on unlimited power after unlocking the secrets of the universe, became the final boss of It’s Walky!
…god dammit past me now i wanna see that boss fight
This was a quicker arc than most in The “It’swalky” storyline but it still manages to give you a feeling of dramatic tenshin, better so than a lot other parts of the story besides the end.
See this monologue the first time I stopped to wonder if her self loathing had really gotten that bad; but then I realized of course it did I just didn’t stopped to notice just like most of the characters in story didn’t which gave me a somewhat slight meta feeling.
Now the focus of the story and everyone els in story are paying attention because of what’s transpiring. Willis might not have thought the process of making this didn’t go over well but I still feel like the writing was done well since it has it’s maritz even if Willis just winged it.
Sometimes when you just write out your head you get lucky and manage to get a more human element in the story.
You’d think they’d have made a way to deactivate the bomb in case it’s accidentally set off. Then again, they made it so just dropping it could set it off.
Well, you know, Dina, there is a halfway option. That bomb has a handy timer on it. So you could risk waiting until there’s just one second left, rushing outside while the bomb goes off, and then rushing back in. Yes, you’ll probably die by being shot, but there’s a faint rational chance that you’ll make it. As in, you’ll have a 1% chance of survival instead of a 0% chance of survival. Just saying.
I don’t think her reflexes are fast enough for that (rushing out when the bomb reaches 0:01), even as an abductee; and furthermore, while the timer may read 0:30 in the first panel, a lot of that time has already been used up by her internal monologue – most of which is spent berating herself for not being able to think of a way to get out of here.
That little RRUNK of hope.
dina please no you’re not a waste you’re wonderful don’t oh no please don’t
You’re wrong about everyone hating you, Dina. Most of these people are too self-absorbed and thoughtless to care about you at all.
I’m REALLY hoping we don’t get any “Who?” punchlines, even though they were be perfectly at home.
Jeez, this is just as bad as it was the first time.
Doesn’t help that Dina is one of my favorite characters.
“Oh yeah; there’s also the time-delay deadlock.”
…1…
Awwww, hell. Dina’s going to survive this, isn’t she?
Way to get my hopes up there, Willis. Damn you!
Oh, good! She’s going to live.
It’s not a good headspace, but it’s certainly what I’d expect Dina to be thinking after what recent events have been doing to her self-esteem.
Hang in there, Dina. I believe that you’ll find your place (before dying of something else later).
This just kinda sounds like you were depressed more than anything.
This physically hurts to read. There’s not much more I can say.