This is a GOOD THING.
on January 4, 2019 at 1:01 amWondering if It’s Walky! would have been stronger if it just ended here. Walky and Joyce drop the burden placed on them by prior generations and just go live somewhere out of the way while everything important is solved by other people who weren’t kidnapped into the roles they serve. It’d definitely be a little more subversive than the inescapable Big Fight At The End that the narrative is definitely making happen no matter what.
also it helps to forget all the dying that happens while walky and joyce actually try this out
maybe instead headcanon the narrative twisting a different direction to make this the happy ending
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I mean, maybe in the pre-graphic-novel-Year-Zero this would work as an ending, but…
“I don’t want you to win. I’m not, like, on your side.“
there’s a trope for that
Must… not… click… on… time sink… website!
Maybe it’s the fact that I’m starting my binge of season 3 of ASOUE tonight, but I’m reminded of The End.
Even if they might try to leave the land of adventure for the security and relative safety of the land of far away.
Danger will follow. And safety is relative.
You can’t hide forever, but you everyone deserves a breather.
I doubt they’d stay away. Just, y’know wait. Until things got bad and their protagonist sense startdd calling them to action again.
Oh, season 3 is out?
*ponders whether she is in the right mindset to watch it* Probably not.
It’s better if you just look elsewhere for your entertainment unless you enjoy cold breakfasts, kidnapping, terrible dances, wanton villany, chef’s salad, morse code, olives, and a number of terrible answers to some terribly phrased questions.
That would have been interesting. Hm.
I’m imagining this segueing directly into the “domestic bliss” of the “Joyce and Walky” comics. Possibly with the occasional “cut” to the war in progress. That… actually might have worked really well. Huh.
Now I’m just getting Radiant Historia flashes.
I need to get back to that game.
Well if I were them I’d be eager to get the hell out of Dodge and not be involved in an epic end of the world fight I knew I was going to die in and didn’t sign up for.
*Reads Commentary*
Hooray, it’s the last page until “It’s Pregnancy!” happens and everyone is fine!
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I fear a story about Joyce getting knocked up by her first boyfriend the first month she becomes sexually active would not have helped her character development any.
Sure, they should definitely hide and let the military handle the Martian invasion. What could possibly go wrong with that plan?
With Semme shutting down they must have confiscated most of their equipment which they can probably use to make weapons that can hold the martians. But given the fact that the martians are pretty close to Earth I doubt they have enough time to research something.
re: commentary: I don’t know… If I was reading these as they first went live, I’d feel like this strip would be a weak note to end on, leaving a lot of the story unresolved. “Whoops we got shut down, oh well! Now the main antagonists and the impending invasion are someone else’s problem!” just feels like an escape from a plot that’s written itself into a corner to me, and that absolutely hasn’t happened here.
Would Joyce and Walky start running soon after, and would it have to deal with resolving the martian invasion cliffhanger and the consequences of the title characters going off the grid?
Yup. We get these few strips of them trying, then segue into Joyce and Walky – but just the romantic comedy bits, no lead up to HA or all that.
Then the world ends in fire halfway through a gag about Joyce’s new friend Becky.
Well, remember, Joyce and Walky would occasionally flash over to the Militarized version of SEMME (led by Jason) fighting various alien things (Monkey Master, the giant cake thing that Mike eventually kills in Shortpacked, etc). I imagine that would have happened on a larger scale.
I would be happy to leave them here except, as a reader who started with Shortpacked! way after IW disappeared from the net… I gotta have that context.
I gotta see THAT death, you know?
A personal journey where the main character finally finds peace of mind but the story is incomplete? No way! End of Eva that s***.
It would be a good thing, really. I mean, their superpowers have served them well against Head Alien and his plots, but a full-scale invasion? Realistically that would be a better job for the military. Super-strength doesn’t do much good against an airstrike.