Friendships are complicated.
on May 1, 2020 at 12:01 amChapter: Gift of the Walki
Characters: David Walkerton, Joyce Brown
Location: Joyce and Walky's apartment
oh i see joyce is recontextualizing her and walky’s courtship as “easy” now, she murdered her clone because it represented her repressed desire to go to town on him anybody
This is the last strip of the storyline proper, and as you can see, it has Walky growing out his hair more than seen in the Saturday stand-alone strips, so it got moved here. THE FEEDS CONVERGE
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I have no idea what Joyce is saying in the first sentence of panel 2…
“You’d think you just decide to be friends and that’s it, but nope, sometimes there’s dumb shit in the way.”
There’s some weird grammar in that panel, replacing “there” with “it” makes a little more sense.
I’d replace “there” with “they” personally. “You’d think they wouldn’t create a lot of emotional baggage.” just flows better than “You’d think it wouldn’t create a lot of emotional baggage.” After all, the previous line was about Freindships, so going from plural to singular would read weird.
Replacing ‘create’ with ‘be’ also works. I wager (since this is how I tend to end up with such abominations in my writing) that Willis started with ‘there wouldn’t be’, then decided ‘they wouldn’t create’ sounded better, and because of the similarity of the words didn’t notice he hadn’t fully edited it.
The grammar kinda confused me too.
What are humans good for if not recontextualizing the past? I myself am considering going pro-level.
“Even Becky, who seems generally straight”
*snicker*