I am going to die.
on December 9, 2018 at 1:01 amChapter: Ridin' Fences
Characters: David Walkerton, Sal Walters
Location: SEMME downtown housing building
I mean, we’re all going to die, Walky.
I really have no idea how I woke up one day and found myself writing a “the hero has scary visions of the future!!!!!” story. I hate those! I hated those at the time! Optimus Prime has one of those stories every other hour. And I really did wake up one morning in 2004 and think… waitasecond. How did I get here, doing this thing? I’ve become what I hate.
It happens sometimes, you know.
At least Sal’s here to dispel with any reverence for the trope.
meanwhile, ten years later in transformers comics:
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I like this strip because Sal is totally fucking right about how Walky is full of crap, but expressing it in the most bonkers (aka the most Sal) way possible. “What if I RIPPED YOUR ARM OFF THEN bro”
Yeah, what’s wrong with a nice facial tattoo? Same effect, but it’s much easier to continue shoving two fistfulls of chips directly into your piehole when you have a nice lightning bolt pointing at your mouth and also two fists.
They don’t even need to go that far. Walky could get a haircut or just start combing his hair a different way even and then see if his hair was the same as it is now or different in the vision.
It has to be something permanent (and preferably easily noticeable) as you risk something like Joyce deciding she liked Walky’s older hair cut one day, and then just BOOM! Walky dies as she styles his hair in his sleep.
Even with a removed arm (in this universe), there is still the chance of him dying, getting resurected (regaining the arm), and then dying again to fufill the vision.
So clearly getting a tattoo of a butt on his face is the only sane solution!
Damn, I was honestly thinking this was just like in MTMTE even as I was scrolling down.
Actually he did have one arm huh
Yyyyup. Hence his sudden look of panic.
No, that was Joe, assuming this is the strip you’re referring to (if it’s something else, link please!).
The strip in question hasn’t happened yet and that’s all I’ll say on the matter 👀
“…oh. Left or right?”
Checkmate, atheists!
It feels like you caught yourself early when you found out you were doing this trope and made it into a deconstruction.
I love that look on Sal’s face in the last panel.
Sal really does have a disarming smile. 😀
That was awful. Nicely done.
Also I like how alt timelines don’t seem to factor in for him.
Still fits in better with the overall arc of things than everyone’s sudden bizarre obsession with the Cheese’s identity (or, rather, their sudden bizarre conviction that the Cheese hasan identity).
Well, the Cheese is a sapient being, so obviously he has an identity. But, you know, it’s ‘the Cheese’.
Walky’s trash can is full of Arbys receipts, isn’t it.
Lucky guess.
There’s only one solution: Monitor EVERYTHING.
Either that or stand perfectly still in one spot so you can’t cause the future to happen.
Just take a finger or something, not the whole arm! Or shit, cut your hair differently! Shave all your hair off!
With Sal, you never know if she’s kidding or if she’s having one of her psychotic episodes and is actually going to do it.