She can tell you what the yellow stripe means, but she can’t tell you what SEMME means. No one can. Not even me.
Gird your loins, folks, it’s the first appearance of Mike. And also Tony and Beef, sure, whatevs.
She can tell you what the yellow stripe means, but she can’t tell you what SEMME means. No one can. Not even me.
Gird your loins, folks, it’s the first appearance of Mike. And also Tony and Beef, sure, whatevs.
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Clearly it’s long for SEMMF
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I feel like Jason and Tony should be switching guns. Something about a Brit in a suit with a *shotgun* just doesn’t make sense.
Prooty sure that’s an assault rifle. Most shotguns have either a butt or a grip, and this weapon seems to have both.
Yeah, probably…but that thing under the barrel looks like (don’t know what it’s called) where pump-action shotguns keep their shells, and I can’t see an assault-rifle magazine.
…I think the takeaway here is probably “As evidenced by this wall painting, the ancient Willis people had only a rough concept of military weaponry.”
Pretty sure Willis’ lack of reference material for either of those guns at the time is what’s confusing everyone about what they actually are.
Yeah – it should totes be a sawn-off, if you’re to respect the classics.
(Come on now … long-barrel 12-bores are about the only firearms we can legally own unless part of the police or armed forces. It’s about as British as a gun gets, unless you’re going to timewarp back to the 30s and have people running around with pocketable revolvers)
Nah, should be an English Longbow. Can’t go wrong with the classics.
I’m struggling to imagine him jumping out of thin air with a longbow.
We’re so close to the It’s Walky, I can almost taste it.
I worked it out back around the start of this year as right about this coming New Year… seems appropriate to me that we get into IW! then too ;D
More like July.
July 9 if I’ve done my math right, and assuming there are no more unpublished strips.
So redhead girl dies, and within an hour its ALIENS OMG.
What’s your point?
I seem to recall Joe has a line later on during It’s Walky where he refers to this entire night as the Great Shitstorm of Something-or-other, but I can’t remember anything more specific than that. Shame, because it’s a pretty fitting way of describing it.
What’s the summoning ritual for Wack’d, again?
1999. Great Shitstorm of 1999.
Shit shower. The great shit shower of 1999.
Thank you, both of you!
And the summoning ritual is saying “Wack’d” three times while looking in a mirror with the lights off. Reversing it requires you to sing “Hooked on a Feeling” three times consecutively with no breaks in-between.
That is a pretty intense un-summoning ritual! But that’s OK, we wouldn’t want to un-summon you anyway.
“Hooked on a Feeling”, which ve r sion? The HOOGACHUGGA version or the original?
…as if a million moms all cried out at once.
… I eventually got that this was a “Mike fucked all of them for a nickel” joke, but at first I thought it was a reference to that group of homophobes who boycott Archie Comics and stuff.
I raise questions at this. Why would people boycott Archie?
Gay characters.
From Cracked:
Thanks, I was about to start a countdown to the first “fucked your mom” joke, but this saves me the bother 😀
Soldier Enhancement Monitoring and Management Envoy
Soldiers for Elimination of Maurauding Martians and Extraterrestrials
Sardonic Equation Montage Mesozoic Equestrians
… wait, what are we doing again?
So ‘Ere’s Monkey Master, Everyone!
Society for Extraterrestrial Monitoring, Mitigation and Elimination?
The question is what it may have stood for back when it was “SEMY” instead, and quite how DW came up with it. (Then carefully nursed it all those years … ahem)
Society for Extraterrestrial Management, Yeah.
Super Extreme Mega Mutilating Enterprise.
Scandalous Endeavour Must Merrily Flourish
Society for the Enhanced Murdering of Martians, Etc.?
(first time reader here) my sister posits Saving Earth from Many Many Entities (or Many Mean Entities)
Many Malicious Entities?
That first panel would probably work better in color.
And lose the underboob crosshatching?! Nevar!
Uh-oh! Sal and the agents of SEMME are about to have those ET’s go MIA in the HFIL!
You’re having FWA, aren’t you?
Why no, I’m not having Furry Weekend Atlanta. Thanks for asking, though.
It also means that we are reaching the beginning of the end of Danny’s Cast page domination. His wide lead as having the most appearances now begins to slowly shrink, until he gets shoved far, far down the list.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
Well, I say it like it’s a thing.
Mike is trying to attack the aliens dick first.
Because they look like your mom.
Jason’s putting his britja training to good use with that brilliant danny disguise
also, mikes pose makes me laugh
You laugh but a future cliffhanger hinges on us thinking that Jason is Danny.
Wait, really?
Yes, really. It works better in execution than in theory.
How do you even pronounce SEMME?
Is it “seem”?
Seh-me.
How can… in what way… you can’t… eh?
No, English doesn’t work like that. SEME might be ambiguous and be either “seem” or “semi”, but the doubled consonant keeps the first E short. It’s “Sem”, then either “Me”, “My” or “Meh” largely dependent on your own accent.
It’s Mike! And… some other dudes who died. But who were memorable enough I distinctly recall them dying!
Hey Jason is still around too!
Yeah, him and Sal are both in that one, but they’d already appeared before. They don’t count, they continue to be relevant.
Last panel games, match the fates to the names!
1) Survived.
2) Died, resurrected, living death in retail.
3) Died.
4) Murdered one of the others in the panel, survived.
5) Died, resurrected, died, no one cared.
a) Sal
b) Jason
c) Tony
d) Mike
e) Beef
Hover for answers!
(I hope that works.)
Wait, “Steve”? Did Beef have this mystical “actual first name” at any point during IW’s initial run?
I know he HAD a first name, it got used a couple times, but I don’t remember if that’s it. Remembering things about Beef is hard since he disappeared for so long so often.
He receives it six strips from now and gets one more mention five years down the line–though by then it’s “Steven”, meaning either Beef is a nickname of a nickname or Willis done goofed.
Yeah, it was Johnny Bravo.
OH GOD TONY’S HEAD ISN’T ATTACHED TO HIS BODY
Nah he’s just got a really narrow neck
Seasonal Employment and Military Mauling Enterprise.
“Seasonal employment”? Please, like Willis would ever write about retail.
Indeed, Beef has a first name and his last is Walkerton even.
Yes, that yellow stripe would show up better in color
SPOILERS
How is that a spoiler? Beef is the first Walkerton we meet.
It’s even in the freaking tag.
Spoilers for unobservant people!
Wow Jason, you sure are Danning it up back there.
Strategic Effort to Mitigate Martian Encroachment
Sounds good, 8/10, would retronym again.
Super Experimental Mother Molestingforanickel Effort
What I like is the slow build and introducing each character gradually. 😉
I see Mike’s first appearance and I’m all like, bring back Lawesome.. and then I’m like, wait, is that what it was called? Whatever, bring it back. ;P
Ah, Yeah Shit’s bout to get real up in here…oh, wait we still have a few more strips with Danny and how Ruth’s death effects him don’t we?
And I seem to recall a trip to BotCon.
Even knowing this was coming, the genre whiplash is palpable. But I guess that’s why the strip name changed after this. And also why David Willis created Dumbing of Age years later.
Um, am I the only one who finds it funny that SEMME is just one letter off from seme (as in seme and uke)? With all the Walkyverse fans who are shippers, I figured someone would have made that connection already.
66 comments? Wow. IW must have been really popular.
Obviously it means they’re the top. The extra m is for ‘more topping’.
Wow, the comment section over here at Roomies! is really picking up…you know we’re kinda getting close to IW! finally. I always thought this was kind of an abrupt transition.
Boy howdy, once you were out of that college newspaper, it took like a month and a half to go full on alien nonsense.
The IW is approaching
Better Semme than ukke eh ?
…But mostly Mike.
It’s nice seeing Beef like this.
Yeah…
Originally posted:
April 16, 1999
Hey, look. . . Tony’s head isn’t attached to his body.