Now, now
on August 1, 2015 at 12:01 amChapter: That Seventies Strip
Characters: Linda Walkerton, Sal Walters
Location: The Walkertons' Texas home
“by which I mean ‘later, later'”
There was an out-of-order Christmas strip originally shoved between yesterday’s and today’s since it was actually December 25 (2000), but I’ve moved it to the end of this sequence because it’s August 1 (2015) so who cares when that Christmas strip runs.
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It creeps me out how cheerful she is here. She’s more distressed at the fact that people wore yellow pants in the 70’s than she is at sending her only daughter off to be raised by strangers.
She looks more embarassed, if you ask me.
How did “Walkerton” & Beef get switched? Girl, you mean how did YOU and Beef get switched!
Oh, good, it’s not just me that line’s bugging.
Sal’s a Walkerton too!
But she probably doesn’t mean herself, so yeah
I always interpreted it as Sal’s refusal to internalize, at least subconsciously, that Linda is her mom due to the traumatic way she lost the family and life she knew before SEMME. She came to grips fairly readily with Walky being her brother, seeing as that was a role she never had before in her life, but replacing the family she grew up knowing and loving is a much taller order psychologically.
I have to agree with that. Sal never seemed to be happy with knowing Linda was her mother. But, Walky as her brother not all that hard to accept. Like looking in mirrors.
Would anyone be happy learning Linda was their mother? He’s possibly the worst parent in the entire Walkyverse. Yes, worse than Blaine.
Nah for me worst parent would probably have to go to Dargon
Dargon is what happens when Billie goes wrong with hastily gluing back on letters to her cheerleader outfit.
I dunno, “actively using your children as pawns in your plans” and “ignoring your child because they aren’t useful to your plans” are pretty close.
You can’t hold him responsible for his sartorial decisions! Everyone was tasteless in the 70’s!
“If you won’t tell me how Beef and me were swapped can ya at least tell me how many DeSanto siblings there are?”
See the number of stars in the sky… yeah, that cubed.
Hey, I wore brown plaid bell-bottoms in the ’70s. Things were strange back then.
Are we just gonna ignore that Cap said, “Language”?
As someone who completely missed the 70s and most of the 80s, I’ve actually formed the opinion that modern fashion is kind of depressing in terms of how boring all the colors are supposed to be. Bring back wacky bright colors in all sorts of random places, I say! And bring back big glasses too, those are cooler, just look at huge circular anime glasses. And bigger hair, short hair on everyone gets really boring.
If we’re going by Linda’s dialogue in the past few strips, though (which is presumably all that Sal’s heard in the story/conversation), how does Sal know David was wearing yellow pants… or that the fabric was from the pants?
Well that doesn’t seem manipulative at all. Sure, let’s keep major secrets so I can keep forcing you to come back.
Jesus Christ you’re being horribly manipulative here Linda