You CAN be leader, Walky.
on October 17, 2017 at 12:01 amChapter: Crash Course
Characters: David Walkerton, Joyce Brown
Location: Underwater Alien headquarters
Time for a soft retcon for Walky’s backstory that essentially sets him at how the narrative still understands him today: An intelligent kid who is a goofball to avoid expectations and responsibility.
Versus, you know, just the one-dimensional goofball.
(Joyce and Walky! would add a Dorothy-shaped wrinkle later on.)
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I feel like I adopted this method of leadership for my temporarily-managerial role at work
it’s similarly failing, evidenced by the fact I’M THE BOSS
Walky’s a big loser virgin!
Dina’s still not talking to you?
She’d want to know stuff
Investigative reports
Down to business
Walky’s a big loser virgin!
Dina’s still not talking to you?
She’d want to know stuff
Investigative reports
Down to business
didn’t mean to do that twice, whups
He needed to be told twice.
Yeah, it’s no fun being the boss. I’m glad they laid all of us off, so I could get a job not being the boss anymore.
The longer this commentary goes on, the more it seems that It’s Walky was just retcons layered on top of retcons, like a giant retcon cake.
Or maybe it’s a retcon onion.
Yeah, but cake is the better analogy because It’s Walky is (mostly) good.
But then there are things like Dina dying, which can make you cry, like an onion.
I know about the book, but is there a soft copy of Joyce and Walky! available somewhere?
I think Willis made it available to Patreon subscribers a while back.
There is!
A retconion!
I think more stories are like that than you would think.
Except, traditionally, stories get written and re-written in private and then dumped out into the open as complete projects. Roomies/IW/Shortpacked is an opportunity to watch Willis hone his storytelling craft over the course of years.
And now with commentary telling us when he was changing things after the fact.
There’s always been serialization as far back as at least Dickens.
Originally posted:
February 4, 2003
I wonder if the rest of the team appreciates their having this conversation while they tread water.
A nother Retcon that worked, not only is he smart but he’s a damn good actor.
If you value your life
Hey, sis, where were ya today?
Few questions to ask
Could anything be more dreadful?
Get on the rooftop
Was it really a retcon for you at the time? Back then, for me this scene was the payoff of Dina’s “he’s always thinking” foreshadowing.
Responsibility is hard and so is leadership. However, sometimes you have to step up because there’s no-one else qualified to do it.
Billie said that?! What a jerk!
In my one year of high school band, I was first-chair trombone. There were two guys in the section who were at least as good as me, but purposefully tanked their chair auditions so they wouldn’t have high expectations placed on them.
What really rankles is that when we played graduation, they insisted that because we all knew they were really better than me, they should perform the first chair parts with the upperclassmen and I should play third chair, even though during our classroom practices I’d played first chair.