Oh hey, a Sunday strip! I guess that means yesterday’s comic was a Saturday strip. Yeah, once Ruth kicked it, I figgered that not only did I kind of have more story to tell than five installments a week, but I’d been out of a physical newspaper for quite a bit, and I didn’t need to fit within their publication margins anymore. I could do what I wanted! So here’s a Sunday.
It’s not the original coloring. These Sunday strips you’ll be seeing from now until about the end of the first year of It’s Walky! are gonna be recolors. I don’t have the original files for those at printable size, and with books and stuff, you do whatcha gotta do.
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Girls are almost like people? WHOA!
Key word being Almost !
At least so does my “Playa’s book”
Joyce should punch him instead, then when he starts crying she’ll feel sorry enough for him again to hug him.
i didn’t expect JOE to be the only person reacting to Ruth’s death in a reasonable, not-incredibly-selfish way, but here we are.
So, what’s really to blame for that last Joe line; Joe’s character, or young Willis’s writing?
Definitely Joe’s character. I doubt think 1990s!Willis saw his womanizing as something to be sympathized with, even if it didn’t make him an actively terrible person.
It’s definitely Joe.
I took it as Joe trying desperately to reassert the womanizer personality after being hit so hard by Ruth’s death.
Uuuugh, that last Joe line. And the comic was going so well, too!
Whoa, color!
Almost made me think I was visiting Dumbing of Age for a second…
Kudos on the Sunday strip actually showing up on a Sunday, Willis!
…..huh. So it has. Amazingly, then, this should be the case for basically foreve– aw, wait, no, there’s some errant guest strips which the absence of will throw stuff off.
Couldn’t they be included?
I am not putting David Gonterman on this website, no.
Who is David Gonterman?
but it’s of internet historical significance!
According to tvtropes, he’s some dude who did a few crossover strips with Willis. Tropes claims he now regrets these strips for some reason, and I would infer from Willis’ comment that the case is the same on his front. As for why? Not a clue.
http://www.commuterbarnacle.com/gonterman/APRILFOO.GIF
Technically it’s not on your site, it’s just linked to your site. <_<
And it's still as incomprehensible as it was the first time.
Oh god, I remember that strip…
“Note: This would read better if read rearlier [sic] last month. When Sal was knocking off earthlings right and left.”
What is this, I don’t reven.
Oh lookit all you cute li’l internet virgins who have NO idea who David Gonterman is!
Basically, he was a wannabe webcomic artist who wrote tons of Sonic the Hedgehog/Sailor Moon/Power Rangers fanfiction with blatant self-inserts, racism, homophobia, incest, and terrible art and writing up the wazoo. He then drew his own “original” webcomic about people wearing living fursuits with more obvious wish fulfillment.
His guest strip tried to integrate his batshit insane comic with Willis’s. It did not work.
Google will turn up plenty of Walkyykins. I do not recommend actually looking at it, though, unless you’re really into not just “so bad it’s awful” but “so bad it can’t even be satirized effectively, because nothing you can say to mock it is worse than the actual thing”.
Then perhaps you would be willing to upload a new guest strip(s) instead? I’m sure there are plenty of folks here who’d do ’em if the call was announced. (not me, I’m no artist)
@Becky
That sounds hilarious!
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So… why did Willis EVER collaborate with him, then?
From what I remember Willis and him were randomly assigned to each other for a Keenspot crossover event or something. Oddly enough nobody else in the Keenspot community wanted anything to do with Walkyykins. :p
Wasn’t a Keenspot crossover, but a general purpose webcomics crossover.
Joe is really the only one showing human feelings for Ruth’s death. Even with that last remark, which is just Joe being Joe: he cared.
When you’re young you don’t see ‘it’ happening to you or yours-and when it does It takes awhile to sink it. Joe feels it now. Good guy, poor chose of an memorial rememberance.
Joyce is looking at Joe’s speech bubbles in panel 5
I only really noticed with a full-page strip, but Young Willis was doing a lot of experiments with shifting camera angles during dialogue round about now.
But aren’t these the same ones that showed up on the IW! website?
Some of the ones on itswalky.com aren’t the original colorings either.
I want to see more of “police guard guy.”
He gets fired and becomes a janitor. An almighty janitor chosen by destiny.
Lu-Tze?
Looking forward to the rest of the Sunday comics. Can’t help but wonder what the rest of the cast’s reactions would have been if they’d, y’know, gotten individual reactions.
Dammit Joe, you were so close to getting this right.
God dammit Archer….I mean Joe!
Originally posted:
March 28, 1999
This might be the single best strip in the original run of Roomies!
Joe and Joyce both feel like the characters that they’ve become in the years since, instead of the usual flat over-the-top nutcases they tended to be in this comic, and apart from the generally crappy art of these early comics this honestly feels like Willis could’ve written it yesterday.