The Wedding, page 5
on August 31, 2021 at 12:01 amChapter: The Wedding
Characters: Amber O'Malley, Charles Walkerton, Daniel, David Walkerton, Jared Brown, Jocelyne Brown, Jonathan Brown, Joyce Brown, Justin Brown, Mr. Brown, Mrs. Brown
Location: The Wedding Church
Charles Walkerton and Daniel are here! Looks like Linda’s persona non grata.
And everyone sits down as Joyce arrives at the front, while I am incredibly INCREDIBLY lucky to have not clearly drawn all of Joyce’s siblings in this panel. Yes, Mrs. Brown, sit directly in front of one of them. Cover their face and where you might’ve seen a tie. This… gives me room to make a change later.
Joyce musses up Walky’s hair. It was combed, and this just will not do.
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Is THAT why you’re keeping Jordan under wraps in DoA
(j/k you’re doing that for the sheer torture value)
I notice the distinct absence of a particular family member who would ordinarily be at a wedding. GOOD. Hope they took her out of solitary, since nobody deserves that, but thank Cheese they didn’t let her out of prison for this.
Also thank Cheese you didn’t draw Sibling #5 clearly. I say like we don’t all already know who Sibling #5 is…
Also, minor note, but Amber should be tagged. Her hair is distinctly visible to the left of Leslie, obscured behind Carol and Sibl– okay it’s Jocelyne I’m not going to pretend her presence is a spoiler she’s in the tags we all know it’s her
Oh, was she already Jocelyne at this point? I assumed the person with the pointy beard was a still-closeted Jocelyne. Is that Justin, then?
Willis’s original conception didn’t have Jocelyne being out here (she didn’t even exist yet) but she appears at this wedding in the strips that were made after she was introduced in DoA.
Jocelyne wasn’t out to Willis yet before they got into writing the Freshman Family Weekend storyline, that’s not the same as not having appeared. If you check her tag, this isn’t the first Walkyverse strip she’s tagged in by any means.
Nope, it’s the second. The first is Joyce looking at a portrait of her siblings, and in the notes Willis says he only decided Joyce’s unnamed siblings were the same people as her DoA siblings because he wanted to include Jocelyne in the Walkyverse.
So Jocelyne has, retroactively, appeared before now, but she still didn’t exactly exist as a character.
The Brown siblings weren’t actually characters in the Walkyverse, they were basically just cardboard cutouts filling space in scenes. Joyce knows to fight because she had five brothers (one of whom could be retconned to be a sister when Willis wanted to bring Jocelyne in,) they all failed to provide grandkids to Carol, end of importance to Brown siblings. So yeah, Jocelyne didn’t exist yet because Willis only started writing her for Freshman Family Weekend, even as ‘Joyce’s brother’ until he figured out she was not.
So the front row brothers are Sir Not Appearing In Dumbing Of Age #1 and Sir Not Appearing In Dumbing Of Age #2, right?
Willis posted a picture of the siblings with everyone named on Tumblr here.
Going by this image, I think the front row is Carol, then Jordan (the big round glasses), then Jared (the only male sibling with visible irises). Behind them is Jocelyne (face obscured, allowing Willis to retcon her in), then… Jonathan and Justin, though I’m not sure I have those two in the right order.
Jared looks like he might have originally been intended to be the sibling in the photograph who was eventually retconned into Jocelyne, but he matches the other one well enough.
My thinking was that Goatee brother was Justin, and Jordan is the brother mostly obscured by Jared, but there are definitely more design similarities between goatee brother and baby!Jordan than goatee brother and baby!Justin
Jordan’s not tagged, which means he’s not in the strip.
Vindication!
Trans girls can wear ties
Anyone can wear a tie, really.
I mean, Linda is in jail so that’s not surprising. Hopefully not in solitary anymore though, yikes.
Charles in Panel One is all, “Damn, Daniel!”
(that was a relevant, and not obscure, reference back then right?)
I’m pretty sure that meme didn’t start until at least a few years after this strip was made.
Also Charles looks like he’s aged a decade or two since his last appearance
I mean, I kinda assumed the other siblings were behind the rightmost panel border. What kinda pew only seats three people?
A pew-pew-pew?
…I know you said you think you drew this in 2012, but are you positive? I ask because I found an old comment where Wack’d said that for two whole years, the last panel of J&W! was Joyce ruffling Walky’s hair.
…Linda’s in jail
Five of Joyce’s siblings are visible. Two on the front row, three on the row behind. Only four of them are tagged. Jordan Brown is not tagged.
Last panel: No matter in which universe, women all agree about Walky, “The hair stays”.