Here’s where J&W! gets all timey wimey. I have this story track and this separate gag strip track, and I’m writing them sort of at the same time. And sometimes mistakes are made.
Now, Walky finds out Billie’s pregnant in a story strip right before he grabs his team to head off to Linda’s cell. And then they fight Head Alien II and the future kids, yadda yadda yadda. Meanwhile, this stand-alone Saturday strip runs where Walky has already learned Billie’s pregnant and he asks her how long until the birth and she says three months.
The next time we see her is in the Day Of Wedding strips in which the kid is already born. And Jason says that it’s been “weeks” since the fight with Head Alien II.
See the conundrum?
Well, this is basically the only place this strip can go, between Walky learning of the pregnancy and the kid being already born. And I’m just gonna run out the rest of the stand-alone Saturdays too, why not. That can be the “three months” or “weeks” or whatever you want to call them. Weeks can be three months! It’s just a little stretchy. And the next storyline makes it feel like it’s not long after the previous one. It feels pretty urgent!
hmm maybe that baby popped out early, who knows, it happens
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What do we say when they’re pregnant with their third kid?
More groaning?
“you know how those things are made, doncha?”
Maybe the apparent time shenanigans is due to HA2 messing with things?
Machete accidentally punched the timestream and now Jason Todd’s alive again.
No. No referencing Bawl-Baby Prime. Bad Regalli.
Fun fact: it is scientifically impossible for me to not hear Linkara’s Super-Bongo-Primadonna voice when reading Danny dialogue in Roomies. Once you hear it, you can’t un-hear it.
I mean Dina coming back to life thanks to holes in reality caused by excess diversity is basically the Walkyverse equivalent to that.
“timey wimey”
I was all set to write a comment congratulating you on getting into “Mizz Stephanie Who” and then I remembered, oh, right, of course… TV Tropes.
And yeah, Billie’s pregnancies do have an alarming tendency to fuck up the laws of space and time, don’t they? Oh well, I’ve wrapped my head around far worse continuity mistakes. As long as everything happens more-or-less in order, it’s easy enough for me.
this is totally time babies
Three months are twelve weeks, everything checks out. It’s weird to say it like that, but Jason’s British so it all works out. No need to analyze it any further. Move along, citizen.
that’s only six fortnights
Eh, wait’ll you’re my age. Three months is “a few days ago.”
“but it was just the other day…!”
I think if the recent events have taught us anything, it’s that time means nothing; it is only 2020 forever.
And we’ve definitely had weeks that felt like 3 months. And a bunch of memes about the year that was march 2020.
I’m head alien now? sweet
Technically all of recorded history is “a number of weeks” ago, once it’s at least 14 days in the past. That number just gets impractically large.
Jason’s the best kind of correct on that one.
I’d probably feel differently if I had kids, but since I don’t I pretty much agree with Walky on this. If they’d stop crying so loudly when I happen to be nearby that’d be nice.
So when you’re pregnant with twins do you get both of these feelings at once?