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.
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.
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.
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.
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 think the new version of why Joyce wanted Walky on the mission and Walky not wanting to be works better.
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.
Agreed, actually. But… I don’t get the “synonym for expert joke”… Anyone?
It’s alliteration. He says Alan the Alien Expert, so with a synonym for expert that starts with A it would be AAA.
Aficionado
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.
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.
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.
Yeah, I mean, who would’ve thought that a character named “Walky” would be important in a comic strip called “It’s Walky!”?
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.
“Apparently so”? Really? Man, that line really benefited from a second draft.
Petition to refer to Alan as the Alien Aficionado from this point forward
I prefer “Alan the Allen Authority.”