I come from, well, the future.
on August 27, 2019 at 12:01 amI didn’t have time to recolor this one, so it’s just smart-blurred and sized up and sharpened from the original web version. Sorry!
The previous strip was teased as the final $100 Theater strip, and then this one showed up the very next day, rather than the following Saturday. Surprise! Additional cliffhanger, for free!
Kids From The Future Trope is silly, but I planned to lampoon the bajeezus out of it. So here we go.
Tomorrow: Joyce and Walky!.
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Looks like Bobby wasn’t feeling so good. (sorry, couldn’t come up with anything better)
so then who threw MM back there ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(yeah I know it’s a lampoon but I for real get kinda angry when this kind of paradox is taken seriously)
Alt-HA hadn’t killed his parents in the future of that strip yet.
I get ya. Did you see Looper? If so, what did you think about it?
For that matter: Willis, what did you think of Looper?
I’d imagine Bruce Willis was likely fond of it. That’s the Willis you meant, right?
That’s actually what came to mind, and that movie makes me SO ANGRY but not for why you’re thinking
Like, I caught the ending first, and idk, whatever, I thought maybe if I saw it from the beginning I’d be able to ignore the paradoxes
Then there’s the whole “mutilation porn” sequence that both horrifies me and makes me want to punch the writer into paste (also I still flinch whenever I hear the neighbour using the power saw)
If you’re getting caught up in that type of thing than this strip alone has “Who does HA2 think he’s directing that last comment towards?”
Though for all we know whenever he starts contemplating killing anyone whilst alone he might might a habit of making pointed comments toward hypothetical time traveling future children juuuust in case there’s a situation like this.
At least he’s not seven feet tall and covered in guns.
What’s going to happen to the archive at joyceandwalky dot com?
I hope it sticks around in some form, as I enjoy comparing and also contrasting.
it’ll technically exist on a server, but joyceandwalky.com will start pointing here.
Is there any way to get the old site on different URL?
Internet Wayback Archive?
Honestly, I’ve been counting down the days until I can leave that old server behind forever. Long story.
The Back to the Future references now include Bobby’s mode of disappearing. I like that it ties back to the reference from…yesterday.
(I seriously though it was at least three strips ago. *sigh* It’s been a loooong day…)
I was actually curious if you would start posting J&W or Shortpacked! next, I guess Joyce and Walky! it is.
Shortpacked’s website is still functional. Roomies/IW/J&W’s wasn’t.
Shortpacked isn’t gonna be posted here, it’s kind of its own separate thing.
Which is too bad. I’d be interested in reading David’s commentary on the story Shortpacked! comics.
Likewise.
While I appreciate the higher res, I am here daily for the Willis commentary. I love getting the inside view of his creative process.
Wait, so does this mean HA succeeds in killing Walky and Joyce before Bobby is born? Because I could’ve sworn there was at least one strip in Shortpacked where we saw Bobby as a baby or something.
I think it means time travelling kids from the future don’t make sense, and no conclusions can be drawn from their existence, disappearance, or any of the absurd paradoxes inherent in the concept.
I’ll… have to disagree.
Marty in Back to the future was a Kid from the Future.
And his appearance was plot relevant, and at the same time his disappearance was plot explained very well because he specifically changed his past with his actions. His conditions were making sense in the specific laws of time travelling in the movies.
This shows that, the trope, can indeed be used correctly and with good drama.
Ofc some other creations don’t make that much sense and fail :P.
(Personally, I find it weird here, that the “thoughts” of Head alien 2, and not his actions, suddenly change the future, and erase Bobby. Mostly I guess this is a tongue-in-cheek, and as a try to parody it, and does not exist as an actual relevance to the plot.)
Sorry, I love BTTF, but no, it doesn’t make sense.
Marty stops his parents meeting, and then his older siblings very slowly start fading from a photo. It doesn’t affect him at all until several days later. Because why? Because drama!
Also, when he does start fading, his corrections to the timeline (getting George in a headspace where he’ll challenge Biff) are already in place, and he does nothing else to alter it between then and George actually challenging Biff, at which point everything’s fine again.
Great film, but don’t think about how the time travel works too much. (Especially don’t think about what happened to the Marty from the new 1985.)