Joyce and Walky!

1. 
   ShadowWing Tronix

   August 28, 2014, 8:38 pm | #

   I think the new version of why Joyce wanted Walky on the mission and Walky not wanting to be works better.

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     Dave

     August 29, 2014, 12:21 am | #

     Maybe I’m nuts, but I’m partial to the old ones. I feel like the redone strips have too many knowing winks towards what happens down the line that don’t need to be in the very first storyline.

     • 
       Charles

       August 29, 2014, 11:48 am | #

       Agreed, actually. But… I don’t get the “synonym for expert joke”… Anyone?

       • 
         pizza2004

         August 29, 2014, 1:11 pm | #

         It’s alliteration. He says Alan the Alien Expert, so with a synonym for expert that starts with A it would be AAA.

         • 
           Platypus

           August 29, 2014, 11:58 pm | #

           Aficionado
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       Gigafreak

       August 30, 2014, 1:18 pm | #

       Can you point out which of the “knowing winks” are extraneous? For example I’m pretty sure anything involving Alan has to be shown now, because he won’t be getting more screentime for a while.

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         Dave

         September 1, 2014, 1:47 am | #

         Spelling out just how important Walky will be from the very first page (from the commentary, even Mr. Willis now thinks that was premature), Sal and Walky’s heads being next to each other from the same angle making it very obvious how much they look alike, Walky’s surprising strength mentioned directly alongside abductees being surprisingly strong…funnily enough, Alan’s I think is just fine. I’d have that reaction if I were holding a severed head too, regardless of its species.

         I don’t know, maybe I’m being too picky. You’ve got to plant seeds somewhere, and some of these might not seem as obvious if I didn’t already know where they were going. The new strips are obviously better, I just wish they were playing with more of its cards face-down.

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           Gigafreak

           September 7, 2014, 2:34 pm | #

           http://www.joyceandwalky.com/d/20000223.html
           So, uhh, is this foreshadowing better than the new one? Because aside from the hints that Walky’s mind was repeatedly wiped in the past (which would not be part of the new version’s standalone graphic novel because that was back in Roomies), this is all there was before Joyce gives the Deus Ex Walky-na at the end of the storyline and just announces that Walky was an abductee.
         • 
           ahecht

           December 15, 2014, 3:20 pm | #

           Yeah, I mean, who would’ve thought that a character named “Walky” would be important in a comic strip called “It’s Walky!”?
2. 
   Jason

   August 30, 2014, 12:32 pm | #

   Fourth strip: Damn Professor! You’re such an asshole!
   Fifth strip: I echo Joyce’s “huh?” I thought he was thinking of a particular word and trying to make some kind of innuendo.

   I really like the art in the seventh strip.
3. 
   Sporky

   August 31, 2014, 12:03 am | #

   “Apparently so”? Really? Man, that line really benefited from a second draft.
4. 
   Missymumu

   July 12, 2015, 8:55 am | #

   Petition to refer to Alan as the Alien Aficionado from this point forward

   • 
     Borg

     August 28, 2019, 3:54 pm | #

     I prefer “Alan the Allen Authority.”

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