One night I went to see him
on July 30, 2015 at 12:01 amChapter: That Seventies Strip
Location: David's apartment, The Walkertons' Texas home
This has always been one of my favorite strips.
Sal may have suddenly gained the strangest, begrudged respect for her mom. Â I mean, that’s what Sal respects. Â Murdering lots of things. Â And Linda murdered all the things.
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“well, once you pop, the fun don’t stop”
IN A ROW???
+1
TRY NOT TO KILL ANY MARTIANS ON THE WAY THROUGH THE PARKING LOT!
I always feel bad when I hit a martian with my car.
Speaking of Jen Aside….
Is that a Clerks reference?
This was a fun strip. Just the fun little implications at the end.
HA HA mass murder.
“So after murderin’ an entire species, y’all just sit here retired-like and pretend like there isn’t a whole world o’ blood on yer hands? Like it never happened?”
“Well, it’s the done thing, dear. Didn’t you ever watch Star Trek The Next Generation?”
“Nah. Too busy thinkin’ my parents were dead. Turns out they just didn’t want me. An’ that reminds me, where’s Beef?”
“Who?”
Yep, genocide! Oh, we have fun.
Guess the want to commit genocide runs in the family.
Aww, why would you want to commit m–
oh wait
Um. Am I in time to point out something about next strip before it comes out? In the last panel, “overdo” should be “overdue”.
Heh. Now I feel kinda like a time traveler trying to avert a tragedy before it happens, even though you probably would have caught it anyways. Also, a typo probably does not quite qualify as a “tragedy”.
…I should go to sleep.
Ya, your a everyday Sam Beckett
But you couldn’t stop him from spelling Kindergarten, kindergarden…that was a sad day for people who get oddly weird about simply spelling mistakes.
Nor could he save you from your simple mistake. Not that it’s any big deal, really. I just found it sadly appropriate that your comment about getting weird about such mistakes would contain one itself. (Unless, of course, it was intentional and meant as a subtle friendly jab at those people…)
Friendly jab
with a bit of hypocrical humor.
“Of course not all of them. Do I look like some kind of genocidal maniac?
“I just killed enough of them to get them all stirred up, figured you could finish the job when the rest of them get here. You’ve got ‘genocidal maniac’ written all over you.
“No, seriously. Have you seen your SEMME psych profile?”
“Mom if they did psych profile at SEMME not a third of us would be allowed near a weapon”
That’d explain why hardly any of them actually carry weapons!
I mean, seriously, they let WALKY in there.
* Linda whips out a folder stamped “CLASSIFIED”, flips it open to reveal a official form with a photo of Sal paperclipped to it:
Psychological Profile
Name: Sal Walters (Walkerton)
DOB: 4/1/1980
…
Scrawled across Sal’s picture several times in Sharpie is “genocidal maniac!!!”
“Mom, that’s your handwriting.”
Well, yeah. Hard to tell which one did it, all those tentacles tend to make ’em all look alike. Didn’t want to miss the guilty one.
Love this strip.
It seemed like a reasonable course of action at the time.
“No, just the ones conveniently nearby!”
This is the early warning sign that Sal routinely goes several extra miles beyond the normal requirements, even when that is self-evidently unhealthy.
“Conveniently nearby” meaning “in the same solar system”.
“I… I killed them. I killed them all. They’re dead, every single one of them. And not just the men, but the women and the children too. They’re like animals, and I slaughtered them like animals. I hate them!”
“This…sounds like you’re quoting from a bad movie…”
Linda’s pretty bad ass.
Suddenly it occurs to me someone may have set it up to frame the martians and have Linda kill them.
H.A. would never do anything like that.
Dunno, aren’t there other possible villains too ?
Of course not. Where would you get a silly idea like that? Have we seen any other villains?
Ah, nothing brings families together like a little planetary genocide.
Oh just your regular old wife and mother with the weight of genocide on her soldiers, no biggie.