We’re just wasting our time.
on May 3, 2019 at 8:54 pmIt’s May the Fourth, so here’s a Star Wars-related It’s Walky! anecdote!
In the early-to-mid ’00s, there seemed to be a general consensus that one of the bigger problems with the Star Wars prequels was that there were no normal-ass everyperson characters. Everyone was a special kick-ass Jedi, or a Queen/Senator, or literally The Chosen One. There were no Han Solos, no Landos, no ragtag team of rebel forces. And here I was, in the middle of this zeitgeist, with a story about A Chosen One and superpowered commandos.
Except Jason!
Jason was normal.
Jason was my Han Solo, maybe?
And so I made a conscious choice to amp him up in this final battle. Give him some gravitas, and not have him be there just to play second-fiddle to Walky and Sal and Joyce. I mean, the story was too filled in at this point for it to be narratively satisfying for him to actually save the day, but I could draw a couple extra circles around him in highlighter.
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Whoa, did I time travel? Hooray!
Also, Jason may regret that soon.
You make it sound like you made this decision too last-minute for it to feel satisfying, but to me this feels like where Jason’s arc always should have gone. It probably would have been perfect if he had done this a bit earlier, when they were still up against the Britjas, their brainwashees, and Beef. Then he could’ve been the hero in the fight against his own “family.” Waiting to do it here with the Martians feels more like a switch in his brain just randomly flipped from “follow orders” to “I’m getting too old for this shit.”
There were still people he respected in charge then, no?
That anecdote prob does explain why I liked him so much despite having kind of a rough start in IW! (and, tbh, DoA)
Jason must be pretty strong if he managed to knockout Alan through his metalic suit.
And Sal’s ladyboner grew three times that day.
Honestly, I never had a problem with every character being an awesome badass non-normal person.
Mostly because everyone in the OT was also an awesome badass non-normal person.
Let’s see here…
Magic-Space-Wizard Luke.
Potential Magic-Space-Wizard and Princess Leia
Han “I took literal distance off an incredibly dangerous smuggler’s run by flying as close as physically possible to a black hole in order to warp spacetime to make it shorter” Solo.
Chewbacca, giant furball with a miniature rail-gun who can rip your arms off, who was named for the first leader of modern Wookiee civilization, and likely would have taken that position had it not been for the Empire.
Baron Administrator Lando Calrissian, who flew entirely by the seat of his pants for most of his life and who’s luck only ever seemed to run out when he bet against Han Solo.
Well, before nonsense recons, it was Han “I don’t know the difference between units of speed and units of distance and so I’m making up some nonsense that I hope you don’t notice oh god please hire me I need the money my piece of crap spaceship is falling apart and a low level crime boss wants to kill me” Solo.
Nope. That’s with the nonsense retcons.
Without them, it’s as I described: He flew as close to the blackholes as possible without getting stuck in the gravitational field in order to warp spacetime to physically make the distance shorter.
The original script from 1976 was a retcon?
If Jason was supposed to be like Han, then who was Chewbacca?
By the way, RIP Peter Mayhew.
Hey Walky would you ever consider describing in a tumblr post or something, what your queue and post and site admin process looks like? I can’t be the only ops and web deployment geek of your fan number!
Both this site and DoA’s are built around WordPress, and I presume they’re set up to auto-post the next comic in the queue on a regular schedule.
I’m extremely second-guessing not calling you David or Willis or Mr. Willis, IDK????? ohgod
So did he punch Alan in the human head, or the alien head?
First one, then t’other.
Alan’s alien body fits almost entirely in his human suit’s torso, his visor ends up about where your sternum is. My money’s on the human head, for more knocking-you-over leverage.
http://www.itswalky.com/comic/lies/
“Jason was my JarJar Binks.” – Joking, just thought of him immediately when you were saying all the prequel characters were overpowered. XD