Keep lookin’ forward
on May 6, 2017 at 12:01 amChapter: Catching Up
Characters: Charles Walkerton, David Walkerton, John Walters, Linda Walkerton, Martha Walters, Sal Walters, Steve Walkerton
Location: Alabama somewhere
i realized that sal was legit supervillaining it up for a while, but i think not offering beef the jacket that belonged to his birth mom might be the dickest of her moves
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Originally posted:
August 25, 2002
Would it have fit him, though? =p
Something’s wrong here
Ugh, I’m DONE.
I don’t know what I’m doing, Sal
So what are we here for?
You don’t hate me
hahaha okay this is too good
He was his work, and his work is you
I’m going to be sick.
Without Walkerton
Wh–
Hey, Walky.
The sequel no one asked for.
Out the window
The Duck’s seen worse
Someone might hear you!
Where are YOU going?
A needle pulling thread
AAAAAAA!
Sal’s… parents?
Stuffed him into his locker
This is supposed to be MY PLACE
What a crock!
Right?
Seems kind of a waste to just leave that jacket there. Even if it wouldn’t fit Beef, she could’ve given it to a homeless person or something.
~Symbolism~ tho
Beef didn’t even know his birth mom though? I mean that she didn’t even consider it is kinda dickish but I’m not sure he’d care
Still he must be pretty upset that he never got the chance to meet his biological parents.
I’m torn – on one hand, yeah, Beef might like to have it, but on the other, Sal is the one with actual memories of Martha and an emotional relationship with her – she should get to ‘return’ the jacket if she wants and I can see how that’d be emotionally fulfilling.
tl;dr – I am conflicted.
I’m roughly the same age as Martha Walters. How ’bout dat?
I feel like beef is wasted potential as a character, like god knows how much development he has had off screen when you sit and think about everything he’s been through. He becomes enlisted in a secret war then finds out that he’s adopted and now his own foster parents are probably forgetting he even exist because his mom is kind of replacing him with Sal and now he’s never going to get to meet is blood relative parents. All this happening to one person who’s being down played the hole story.
No wonder he does what he does later on
I want to see “It’s Beef!” tbh.
I’ve been working with kids and I totally adopted Yahtzee’s nomenclature of “Richard Maneuver”.
I don’t see why not offering Beef the Jacket is a dick move in even the slightest way. She was only his biological mother, not his real mother.
There’s no reason she, or her outerwear, should matter to him in the slightest.
Finally, one person who gets it. Not all of us give a crap about meeting our bio family.
While I know this feeling well (having been adopted an all) I know and accept that not everyone feels the way I do regarding my disinterest in knowing my bioloical family as more than a concept. With that in mind I agree with Willis that not making the offer and letting it be up to Beef whether or not he cared was a dick move.
But the only definition of a mother IS biological. A mother doesn’t have to raise you, or even care about you, she is still your mother by definition, and considering all the various things we inheret through genetics, including diseases, it’s never unimportant who your biological parents are.
A parent is not necesseraly the same as your caretakers, even though we tend to call them parents too, confusingly enough.
Nah. I mean, knowing who your gene donors were can be useful for medical purposes, but your parents are the ones who raised you.
Fine then. For clarity’s sake, I will rephrase my comment. aHEM:
“I don’t see why not offering Beef the jacket is a dick move in even the slighest way. She was only his mother, not his Mom. There’s no reason she, or her outerwear, should matter to him in the slightest.”
Better?
To every friend of mine who’s adopted and has talked about it, the people that raised them are their parents. There is not, as you say, only one definition of what a parent is. That’s really not how language works.
Ehh, to be fair though, his mother dropped him like a sack of potatoes the moment Sal came back into her life. I can imagine Beef wanting some sort of closure about his other parents, especially considering they never made the choice to give him up.
I’m not getting the symbolism of Sal leaving Martha’s jacket on the tombstone. Returning it to her? If that’s it, why return it rather than keepsaking it? I have things of my parents that it never occurred to me to leave on their graves.
It’s the symbolism of leaving the past(jacket) behind, so she can start looking forward I guess.
I kinda read it as “Welp, shedding you and taking on Linda as my REAL mom! After all, you were only kinda abusive, and she’s a full fledged psychopath — you couldn’t possibly compete with that!”
For what it’s worth, I’d read Sal taking up the jacket as the start of her descent here…it essentially marked her first taking up with Semme, eventually learning of her birth mother, and all the conflicted feelings before and after that point. It included her killing Tony – her boyfriend/secret lover – early in on the story. Sal leaving the jacket behind felt like her leaving that part of her life behind, the part that had tattered her soul much as the jacket was tattered, due to the manipulation of Head Alien (as well as others).
And if Beef really wants it, he could go back an hour later and snatch it, right?
Why does the tombstone have a five-pointed star?
Observe, the expert attention to detail! Davis cuts off Sal’s jean leg at the thigh to accommodate her cast! What a masterful, professional cartoonist he is! So meticulous! ^_^
So… how you figure she pulled those tight jeans on this morning, oh clever one? 😀
(snicker)