She’s gone again
on August 1, 2014 at 12:01 amI am moving this month, starting Monday. Which would be no big thang any other dang month, but this is the month I’m supposed to start drawing new It’s Walky! pages when this previously-redrawn storyline runs out of previously-redrawn pages. Well, I can’t draw THREE DAILY WEBCOMICS while MOVING, so I’m gonna slightly postpone the new It’s Walky! pages by only running stuff weekdays instead of all seven days a week. That should put me in the clear until about September. So see you on Monday.
The content of this page, if I recall, was entirely new. Walky doesn’t just tag along uninvited, because why would he think he’s needed? He’s lab help, and Joyce and Jason are the sweet alien fighters. But in this version Joyce needs him, so he’s given a reason to follow. It makes him more of a reluctant hero, which tends to be a crowdpleaser.
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WHAT WAIT YOU HAVE THIS MASSIVE DOA BUFFER
But the buffer can always be bigger. They say that when the buffer reaches above the sky… that….. something will happen…
…I had a Gargoyles joke somewhere in me, but sadly it is lost.
You never know, Willis’s Butts Disease could become worse, and we’d be glad for the massive buffer while he recovers.
but… the sky touches the ground…
The Walky-wedding has been cursed to sleep, until the buffer rises above the clouds!
Right, because I like drawing DoA. I’m not going to quit doing what I love.
Silly question, but if I’ve got it right this means that you will eventually redraw most of “It’s Walky”, so that if we want to see the original artwork we’ve got to buy the books?
Clever like a fox, you are…..
No. Only the first storyline is being redrawn.
I am not sure why I have to keep saying this. Hell, I’ve already said it again just five posts down.
You don’t have to QUIT, just like, PRIORITIZE–draw 2 Walky v.2 for each 1 DoA or whatever
THEN WALKY IS OVER FASTER AND YOU GET YOUR MAGGIE AWARDS
Woah, you’re actually are redrawing pages. Considered mind blown.
Alright Walky! Now you can bang somebody’s mom!
Had no clue you were going to continue to redraw this comic. I thought we were going to get the older strips re-published.
I’m ok with waiting until Monday for the next strip now. I have DoA to keep me company anyway.
Redrawn strips only for the first storyline.
Do whatever works best for you, Willis!
You know, some people would say that this is why you have a massive buffer on Dumbing of Age.
But not you, I hope, given that said people would clearly be acting ungrateful for all the hard work Willis puts into his comics, especially since he’s upgrading It’s Walky! for us.
Well said.
Ugh moving. My sympathies, Mr. Willis.
I’ll miss having new comics on the weekend, but I’m much more psyched for redrawn comics, so I’m entirely okay with a few sacrifices to see them happen.
Special operative soldier doesn’t know how to drive, they trained in everything except for that one thing.
I think you’re overestimating the amount of training they gave her on everything else.
The transit system was supposed to be fool-proof!
She’s there to fight Aliens, not do anything else.
She can breathe in space but not drive a stick.
The book was written by guys, and guys are born knowing how to drive a stick. ;Ϸ
you could always just, put up the old comics?
We voted against that
Could you post on weekends the old versions of those comics that are running on weekdays? I’d probably like to see (and compare) them in chunks rather than as whole storyline after it ends (assuming that’s even you plan).
I agree it would be great to have the comparison.
This is not a bad idea.
Assuming, of course, that it isn’t a huge pain in the ass to do.
It’d make it pretty confusing to read through. You’d start a plot and suddenly it would start again. Over and over.
Just on weekends. With a pretty clear distinction in art style. For only a month. I really don’t think it would actually confuse anyone who was reading these.
The goal of this website is to run everything in proper, consecutive order, so no. Seriously, the thing I hate about the old website is how it hops around material at random. I’m not doing that again.
Also, dude, we’re only talking like maybe three or four weekends. There’s more than eight strips to run that I’m replacing.
I meant in the blog posts, just like the two you already posted.
Oh, OK… I thought that one of the purposes was to look back at how your artwork and storytelling techniques developed. You wouldn’t want to see clips from the Star Wars Special Editions in a history of filmmaking in the 70s.
If that was true, I wouldn’t have put up the poll asking which version of the story folks wanted in the first place.
Fair enough. Good luck moving! I’m in the middle of that myself. Shoulda started earlier, it’s a huge pain in the ass. Glad to see you’re taking the time you need for it
This is such a refreshing reprieve from the awfulness that was the latter part of Roomies! It’s weird, but I like Walky & new Joyce already so much that I can’t wait for them to start kissing. It’ll probably take a while though.
The meaning of “Oh, wow, a nickel!” took some time to sink in. But apparently Walky is just the liftboy tonight. That really provides some perspective on the nature of his position within SEMME. It’s also clearly a case of the farmer-boy-in-love-with-the-princess trope.
I don’t follow.
All I got out of the nickel thing is that Walky is easily distractable.
Maybe I’m weird for thinking like this, but I had presumed Willis would have started back into the redraws once he’d dedicated himself to them, rather than the original formula, so as to avoid this kind of thing by getting himself a buffer here similar to the DoA one, much like the fact this is a republish was granting him prior to this point.
Since there’s no edit function here, also I wanted to make a Mike Slackenerny comment ;D
Art-wise, the full-body (well, three-quarters) Joyce looks fantastic; everything from the her pose to how the panel itself is narrow to show how she is holding the elevator door back open again.
He found a nickel in the doorway? Good thing it’s not a penny. J.D. would be toast.
Walky found the key to banging your mom
This is why Mike antagonizes him in particular
WALKY HAS DISCOVERED HIS SECRETS
Good luck moving, Willis! May your boxes be light and your weather cool and dry.