Really? Other than the one plane thing in the “Season 1” finale, we’ve gotten almost no hints they exist and now they’re being revealed to have been the motivation and controllers of some very very specific events.
It may be a retcon, but Sal trying to wipe out a whole continent because she was brainwashed is better than her doing so because she genuinely thought it was a good thing to do.
Retcon Confirmed!!! Well I can close that chapter in my life, I always thought you did this a lot and I always loved your spontaneous organization of events that didn’t go well together but somehow made them fit. It was that kind of creative outlet that led me to continue to read your comics years later and I haven’t yet been bored or frustrated. But yea, thanks for that. Something I always wanted to ask you and I just knew I’d probably, eventually, just maybe find out by reading your little mini reviews. So ya, its not that big of a deal, but at least it will silence that voice that asks it now and then. “was that part of the plan? or was it creative planing?”
And now for the most generic complement ever. You rock Willis!
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A retcon it may be, Sal, but it’s also a huge mens rea violation.
Yup. It’s one of the reason we actually have a an exception for hypnosis in a lot of criminal codes.
Yeah, I feel like ‘mind control’ would fall under ‘not guilty by way of coercion’.
Wait, you mean this plotline wasn’t originally planned? Weird.
Really? Other than the one plane thing in the “Season 1” finale, we’ve gotten almost no hints they exist and now they’re being revealed to have been the motivation and controllers of some very very specific events.
“well if it feels like a retcon, and it looks like a retcon…”
Joe! Wait!
I dunno about you…
Five major groups
My ex
This is war
Quack.
Ooh, I’m really looking forward to some in-depth commentary on this one.
It may be a retcon, but Sal trying to wipe out a whole continent because she was brainwashed is better than her doing so because she genuinely thought it was a good thing to do.
Yeah, I mean, it’s a little rough but it’s better than having attempted genocide on Sal’s rap sheet.
Well it was a perfectly well placed retcon because I didn’t notice.
It was the yellow space bug’s fault, Sal Jordan’s conscience is as untouched as the driven snow
An Institute For Higher Learning
Ah hate most people more than anythin’
Better traction
Mashed potatoes
SPOOM!
Retcon Confirmed!!! Well I can close that chapter in my life, I always thought you did this a lot and I always loved your spontaneous organization of events that didn’t go well together but somehow made them fit. It was that kind of creative outlet that led me to continue to read your comics years later and I haven’t yet been bored or frustrated. But yea, thanks for that. Something I always wanted to ask you and I just knew I’d probably, eventually, just maybe find out by reading your little mini reviews. So ya, its not that big of a deal, but at least it will silence that voice that asks it now and then. “was that part of the plan? or was it creative planing?”
And now for the most generic complement ever. You rock Willis!
Strips like this, I think, encapsulate some of the major flaws of It’s Walky!. It’s really reliant on exposition and retcons when it needs to be.
Originally posted:
January 8, 2003
It IS a well-placed retcon. And it finally sheds light on what the deal was with the whole Linda file scene.