The Wedding, Page 8
on September 3, 2021 at 12:01 amChapter: The Wedding
Characters: Amber O'Malley, David Walkerton, Dorothy Keener, Head Alien, Jason Chesterfield, Joyce Brown, Mike Warner, Sal Walters
Location: The Wedding Church
In a surprising move, Robin UNtying her hair to ready for battle! Hair up is her formal look, but now it’s time to get down.
Dorothy and the Head Alien having the same general silhouette (when hunched over) wasn’t planned, but I put it to use!
I’ve decided to tag both? Like, you could put forth the case that this is Head Alien and not Dorothy and doesn’t strictly count as a Dorothy appearance, but it’s more useful, searchwise, I think, to have this scene pop up in the results when you look for Dorothy. I’m gonna be tagging thirty people per page anyway, what’s one more.
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Robin going for that slipknot ponytail but forgetting it has to come out on its own during battle
There’s something oddly sweet about Mike covering Amber.
Gave me a double-take, since I’ve spent so much more time in the Dumbiverse, that I have to remember that this is the timeline where Mike has superpowers and Amber doesn’t.
Plus, he actually has a heart on this side of the Internet.
I don’t have that problem, the Shortpacked versions of it’s original cast are the still the ‘main’ ones in my mind, but yeah it’s so weird how different some of the characters are
DoA!Amber and Walkyverse!Amber are barely recognizable as the same character
And yet both can become Amazigirl.
She may not be an abductee, but Amazigirl has her own powers.
https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/criticism
Still my favorite superpower of anyone, anywhere.
I ran a DC Adventures game for a while where the mayor of the town styled himself Lord Mayor Galasso, and his mild-mannered assistant, Amber, was secretly Amazi-Girl.
Most of Amazi-Girl’s stats were actually based on the DoA version, but I gave her a 1-point Immunity: Criticism.
It actually came up in combat at one point when she tussled with the PCs. One of them had a summon that had an ego-destroying psychic debuff attack that he tried to use on her. I was absolutely gleeful when I got to have Amber announce, “Amazi-Girl is immune to criticism!“
Beyond the general retroactive weirdness of seeing an Amber who’s useless in a fight, seeing Mike doing this hits very differently than it must have before certain events happened in DoA.
I mean it’s her body, even if she’s not in control of it. People still get tagged as corpses and body parts so she should still be tagged as herself I feel.
Willis is like “I meant to do that!”
Honestly I would have believed him if he did say that was intentional.
When even Robin is going straight into “Time to Throw down” mode you know the opponent ain’t to be taken lightly. Then again this happens well after the Head Alien fight in Shortpacked right? So she’s probably had more than enough of Alien’s bullshit at this point.
For our Shortpacked! crew at least, I’m pretty sure this happens before then from memory. At least, from what I’ve gathered from the vague hints in Willis’s commentary as well as people in the comments section letting things slip.
This absolutely has to happen before
No, this is well before. Mike and Amber will have their own wedding before what goes down in Shortpacked!.
This is way before that story. That story was actually specifically created to resolve a dangling plot thread from this one while this was in Development Hell.
As a general rule, any Walkyverse story where Joe has a beard has to happen after this one, since the events of this story are explicitly stated in Shortpacked! to be the point in time where he started growing one. (Not linking because that story’s getting rerun here).
It’s so surreal to see the Head Alien actually make facial expressions, now that he’s in a body that doesn’t require a helmet to survive in Earth’s atmosphere. Like, the expressive visor thing is probably one of my favorite things about Head Alien, for as little sense as it makes if you try to think about him as anything other than a cartoon character, so seeing him with an actual face– and Dorothy’s, at that– is super weird.
Not sure what… his? her? their? I’ll go with their… pose is meant to look like, here. It’s probably meant to say “tremble before me,” but coming from Dorothy’s body, with grabby-hands, mere hours after she tried to convince Walky to elope with her instead, it looks more like they want to grab his butt. And possibly Joyce’s too, if we take the other hand into account. Which, amazingly, might just be a new level of creepy for Head Alien, especially since Dorothy clearly isn’t consenting to any of this.
I remember when this story finally resumed after two years that Willis mentioned on Tumblr that it was the allure of being able to give Head Alien faces that brought them back to it.
Are we certain it wasn’t the allure of Head Alien cleavage?
No, see, you just don’t get it. They’re totally gesturing like they’re grabbing Walky’s butt. And making it very clear just how far apart his cheeks will be once they finish ripping him a new asshole.
Since he’s in Dorothy’s brain and not his own body, it’s Head!Head Alien.
In-Your-Head Alien
Head² Alien?
Head Alien Head! (HAH!)
I like how Robin’s arm extends into Walky’s panel.
I almost forgot to make this joke, “I object!- oh wait I was to soon? Well whatever you get what I mean.”
Alright
Let’s kill ‘er
I thought the silhouette would be Head Alien in a new alien body, not HA possessing Dorothy. Don’t know why I thought that since HA was pretty much already possessing her when she got Walky stuck in the middle of nowhere earlier.
So she/Heady just burst into a room full of overpowered abductees looking for a fight? Bad idea.