G-Gotcha!
on February 4, 2017 at 12:01 amChapter: Exposed
WHOOPS I GUESS ALIENS AND SEMME ARE PUBLIC NOW in a general sense, but also, y’know, there’s stuff like Danny, Sarah, and the Browns learning Joyce isn’t actually a missionary to Bulmeria, but instead fights Aliens on the down-low. Â Also, we learn Howard has a television. Â He’s probably looking cross ‘cuz Star Trek was pre-empted. Â …wait, why isn’t he in line for Episode 2? Â PLOT HOLE.
s’fun to blow things up every once in a while
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I mean, I’m pretty sure this plot point was just you wanting to not have to deal with the whole secret agent thing anymore.
Originally posted:
May 19, 2002
I figured Howard’s cross because seeing Joyce on TV reminded him of Danny, who he has plenty of reason to hate. At least until space is involved. (Is that vague enough for the new readers?)
Since I have no idea what you’re talking about. Let’s go with yes.
This is also, I now realize, the first Monkey Master is learning of this…
Howard clearly watched Episode 2 at midnight. He’s going back to watch it again this evening, but right now he’s at home because he’s been practicing that genocide and talking about sand pick-up line in the mirror.
That, or three years of hindsight on Episode I made him so mad he skipped Episode II, possibly. “I’ll show them! I’ll wait until it’s on VHS and then I’ll just rent it!” as he shakes his fist.
Please, no real nerd actually follows through on threats like that. I’ve got friends who did that exact thing for Episodes II and III, but they were always first in line when release day rolled around. Fandoms breed Stockholm Syndrome.
Episode 1 annoyed me so much that I’ve only seen Episode 2 because a friend had the DVD on while I was playing Lego with his daughter (her plot and acting were better), and still haven’t seen Episode 3. (Darths & Droids is my headcanon for 3.)
Sadly, I have to say Ep 3 is the best of the prequels. Ep 1 was a solid enough movie, but, like Duke Nukem Forever, was never going to live up to decades of hype. Ep 2 has a reasonably good plot outline, but only about 20 to 30 minutes of good runtime with a plot that didn’t need anything near the runtime of the film to cover. Ep 3 is no Empire, but it’s the best of the four films in the series that Lucas directed IMO. Darths & Droids does all of them so much more enjoyably than the films though that I kinda hope they go ahead and do the other canon SW TV shows and films once they wrap Jedi (I so want to see how they’d handle Kylo’s personality).
@Proto Plenty of us do. I did see Ep2 and Ep3 in theaters, but not for weeks after they released and not at full price, for example, and plenty of other properties I have given up much more fully and easily when they released dreck and looked to keep doing so.
Too bad SEMME doesn’t have devices like in Men in Black to erase peoples’ memories of this event. I know they have devices that can erase all of a person’s memories, but not anything like the flashy-things in MiB that only erase a single event.
As someone who didn’t get to see these strips in the original runs, i’m wondering how far in are we? And how many more years of strips do we have to go?
Well, Mr. Random says this one aired in 2002, and Wikipedia says that Shortpacked started in 2005, so I’d say something under three years.
Shortpacked! was concurrent to the dwindling down of the Walkyverse. The latest Joyce and Walky! is dated Saturday, September 4, 2010 (though these were weekly-ish for several years).
The last mainline It’s Walky! strip was October 27th, 2004.
There were $100 Theatre IW! strips and Joyce and Walky! strips after that, but I’m not sure whether we’re actually going to see those here.
The $100 Theatre strips are in the archive, it was the J&W subscription that I’m not sure we’re going to get– David *did* say he would be running those as well, but I’m not gonna hold him to it.
…and I say that as someone who *didn’t* pay to see it at the time (money issues.)
ohey Sarah
Also, Dina clearly does have some degree of abductee powers, because she didn’t get Gwen Stacyed when Walky caught her.
Didn’t the Browns figure out she didn’t go to Bulmeria anyway with the whole with-Joe visit, though
Also, wasn’t Howard more of a Trekkie? So he wouldn’t be seeing STAR WARS, OF COURSE
http://www.itswalky.com/comic/even-more-phantom-menace/
Even Trekkies can like both.
Danny thoughts don’t count!
Just saying it doesn’t HAVE to be a plot hole
That’s what I was gonna say! They knew the letters were coming from Colorado.
What’s the Cheese objecting to, and why does it take so long for him to do something about it?
They figured out she wasn’t a missionary, but they didn’t know she was an alien fighting secret agent.
I’m saying they aren’t LEARNING that she didn’t become a missionary, they are having it reinforced.
Wait, does Howard actually know any of the people there? Even Ruth barely knew who Joyce was, and Howard was even more peripheral.
Maybe Mike was his former babysitter or something.
Howard probably knows Joyce – he was hanging around Danny and Joe in the same period she was, between the beginning of his freshman year (Joyce’s sophomore year) and the Great Shit Shower of ’99.
He may have run into Walky when he visited IU to find Joyce’s friends – I think he was housemates with the others at that time – and he almost certainly knows Walky from childhood – they lived in the same neighborhood, he’s the same age as Billie and Walky, and his sister was not just Billie’s babysitter, but Walky’s as well.
There’s an outside chance he’s run into Dina at some point… she was at IU, too, but considering the size of the campus, I think it’s unlikely.
There isn’t specific in-strip confirmation of any of this, though.
I never really got how they stood out so much just because they wear yellow stripes on their clothes, seems like to much of a common fashion design to make out the similarity.
It’s probably because they were all wearing the stripe. It’s either a uniform or a bunch of pals who coordinate their outfits. Who also have super powers.
Yeah, the first time you see a person in a yellow striped T-shirt jump several stories it doesn’t really register, but when multiple people in yellow stripes start exhibiting superpowers, you see a pattern emerge.
You know I just realized that Dina doesn’t ever wear a yellow stripe. I mean, it made sense when she was just a lab assistant, but you’d figure she’d start wearing one after she became a field agent.
Well, she keeps her coat closed, so MAYBE her green shirt does have a yellow stripe, but we can’t see it?
Left-most microphone reporter person seems to be giving Mike’s elbow a rub, and he doesn’t look too happy about it.
Hey, it’s like the series finale of Heroes! (Which they apparently retconned when they tried to do that soft reboot a few years ago?)
I blame the writer’s strike for that show going to absolute shit after the first season.