W-Walkerton?!
on May 13, 2016 at 12:01 amNow this is a very important strip, but probably not for an obvious reason. Take a look at Walky’s hair in panel three. It’s all wet and ruffled and, hey, guess what, it’s basically going to stay like that forever. It tries to “snap back” over the next few strips, I think, but I realize that the shabbier, less geometric look is a zillion times more superior, and I ultimately keep it. This is now Walky’s hair, forever.
So, yeah, Walky’s hair has technically been wet for like 15 years.
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Hmm walky, it was your parents in there, too. Stop smiling.
Nah, it was Beef’s bio-parents, Sal’s adoptive parents. No relation to Walky at all.
Oh man, Beef is probably going to be pissed when he finds out his true parents are dead. Unless Semme manages to being them back to life.
Wait … 15 years? I’ve got 15 more years of this comic to read?? Please tell me there is an Richie someplace I can speed read through, I’ve never been able to concentrate years on anything.
Is an archive …i hate autocorrect
There was an archive, but I think it was taken down to allow for these reposts. However, there’s not fifteen years more of “It’s Walky.” This strip was simply fifteen-ish years ago, and Willis still draws the character.
Semantically speaking, it wasn’t taken down BUT Willis lost access to update it, so the next best thing was to get a new host and redirect the URL, IIRC.
I have the opposite with my site–somehow I lost the pw to my domain host but can still update the site. Not like I have content to update, but if I ever needed to migrate it, I’d either have to let the name lapse or just but a new domain entirely.
http://www.joyceandwalky.com/d/20010825.html
have fun!
Since that has been posted by someone other than myself, I’ll just add that when I archive binged the Walkyverse back in 2011 (or maybe 2012) it took me all of 30 hours of reading over two weeks to catch up to the then current Shortpacked. Now It’d likely take all of 50 Hours to read all of the Walkyverse and catch up on DoA from the beginning.
1. There’s only (pfft, ONLY) about three years and a few months of It’s Walky left. After that, there’s something between five and six years of Joyce and Walky. But that was only updated three times a week, so when uploaded daily it should take about two and a half years.
1.5. “Fifteen years” simply refers to the real-life time between Willis first drawing “wet”-haired Walky and present day.
2. The non-Shortpacked Walkyverse can be (almost) entirely viewed on joyceandwalky.com. Until, I guess, we get to the actual Joyce and Walky (that archive could have originally been viewed on itswalky.com before the URL got taken for this website).
There might be a Richie. There was a Chuck for the first year or two, but he hasn’t been seen in years.
Oh. So it actually WAS seaweed.
Would I lie?
Walky has the world’s only supply of Jheri Straight.
It’s also an important strip because, in hindsight, if feels like Walky’s facade is finally slipping and letting it show how much of a badass he actually is.
OOOOHH!
I liked Walky a lot, but I could never remember why when I thought back about him after I finished It’s Walky.
I guess it’s moments like this.
He’ll catch a cold!
So, then, no more knife-sticking-out-of-the-forehead hair? Then truly, this is momentous.