These aren’t really even mine.
on November 28, 2018 at 1:01 am“But Jason says every little thing helps when incognito.”
“Have you tried not wearin’ that jumpsuit?”
“Ah’m actually trying to not wear this jumpsuit at this very moment!”
(oh, right, she herself placed the pager call, maybe i should read ahead in my own comic so i don’t ask questions that are already answered by myself 15 years ago)
(i shoulda tagged those glasses an “oversized comedy prop,” huh)
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well it’s not like Sal to go little lolololol
also I think it’s super fun to re-read my own work like, WOW, Past Me was a genius!
*gets to the end of the unfinished script with no idea how it continues*
…PAST ME IS AN IDIOT
Past Me is a jerk who always expects me to do the dishes and eats up all the good snacks.
As a software developer, Past Me is an absolute imbecile who should never have been allowed into the profession.
“Who wrote this code? It’s an affront to all coding standards and logic!”
“Oh, it was me last month.”
“Meh. Future Me can fix it.”
Past me was supposed to exercise and eat better.
I always thought smiling Sal in a jumpsuit was so DAMN HOT.
She’s friggin cute when she’s not grumpy, or threatening to destroy the world.
Especially when she’s wearing glasses.
That did send Danny into a Marten Reed style “huhbuhbgh” in lieu of actual words.
“You know, you can still burst through walls if you want?”- 😉
” There will be no wall bursting tonight if I have anything to say about it.”-😕
“Okay she’s fine have your way, you come to the back door if you want to.”-😞
” oh okay thank God you understa- Hey wait no wait a minute.”- 😲
Screwed this up…maybe I Should stop typing these comments out on my phone.
This universe’s Sal has learned how to be subtle, just not for very long.
Not cool, Sal.
Willis missed a big opportunity here for Danny not to have recognised Sal until she takes off her ‘disguise’. You can then have about a dozen strips about Sal raging about the ‘Clark Kent Effect’.
Oh, that’s where the glasses came from? Is that the entirety of the disguise she wore to come here?? I sincerely hope Jason is wearing a goofy fake nose and moustache (and possibly Groucho eyebrows) that were previously attached to the glasses until they decided to split their one disguise in half.
Terrible flashbacks to the very earliest Roomies strips. Have we progressed so little?
I think part of the point with Sal Wackiness Around Danny is that it’s always an act she puts on for him so it would always feel a touch forced, and Sal’s never actually gotten over Danny to stop trying.
That said, once again, yeesh. I do think we hadn’t yet gotten to the point where Willis realized shit like last strip made Danny a massive jerk and Sal pretty damn creepy.
I think there was probably a little bit of a desire at the time to make this arc a throwback as part of the finale, to sort of tie things back to the beginning.
Also, if you’re remembering the comic as it was presented here, it’s important to remember that we saw this stuff from a chronological-in-setting perspective, not the order it was written in. “College Ho!” was not the beginning of roomies, that was already a while later (as was “Roomies Redux” and possibly other things I’m forgetting; and of course, the much more recent “Year Zero” remake).
The writing improvements were a gradual process, and I think some of the biggest strides were made later, over the course of Shortpacked! (although there are several memorable steps along the way in It’s Walky!, and even in parts of Roomies!).
Also, there’s a couple different philosophical approaches for what it’s appropriate to write about, I think. You can totally write characters as jerks and creeps; the issue isn’t the character’s ethics, but whether you’re implying that their behavior would be okay in real life. If the work is meant to be in a more absurd fictional context, or if the characters aren’t meant to be role models, I think some weird behavior can be fine. (But to dump a big truck of salt on my own perspective, I genuinely like Faz as a character, so.)
Yeah things definitely improve over the course of Shortpacked.
In a wackyverse I’m okay with a lot, but that last strip REALLY rubbed me the wrong way. I’m just extremely not onboard with cheating, I think, which puts me in the wrong mindframe for this whole scene.
Yeah, cheating is no good, Billie has been pretty clear about wanting monogamy, and Billie and Danny have both historically been terrible about communication in their relationship, so this is icky on Danny’s part.