One of our better landings
on November 5, 2015 at 12:01 amChapter: It's Walky!/Melonpool Crossover
Location: Devils Tower
And that was the Melonpool/It’s Walky! crossover! Thanks, Steve Troop! Back to nonstop terrible art starting tomorrow, until suddenly my life drawing classes take hold a few months from now.
That’s not the last we’ll see of Melonpool in It’s Walky!, though. It’ll be a few years, but he’ll turn up again.
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I assume we’re supposed to recognize that rock formation in the last panel as something connected to UFOs in pop culture, but I’m drawing a blank at the moment.
Yeah, it’s like this means something!
Close Encounters
For reference.
The potatoes crack suggests Idaho, if memory serves
(I have the books… in storage)
It’s Devil’s Tower in Wyoming, and gets about 400,000 visitors per year (though most of them have the sense to remain at the bottom).
Ahhh, I remember that I always thought it was Idaho!
(I grew up without being able to watch most things that were not recorded off the Free Disney Preview Weekend or whatever)
The only reason I understand the potato joke is thanks to this years’ Homestar Runner Halloween cartoon.
Try Devil’s Tower National Monument in Wyoming. The potatoes reference is a call back to the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind
It’s… NOT RIGHT! NOT RIGHT!
A fire…at a Sea Parks?
Wait, so… isn’t Sal stuck up there with them? Did she just climb down off-panel?
The ufo movie of the 1980’s? I think it was the 80’s.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Meaning you actually make person to person contact with an alien.
The protagonist had an encounter with a saucer buzzing his truck in the desert. Since then he couldn’t stop thinking of a mesa shape he couldn’t identify.
He obsessed over it, one night he’s sitting at the table making a mesa out of his mashed potatoes when suddenly there is a tv bulletin of ufo activty at Devil’s Tower. (and yes, his wife has been planning for some time to take the kids and move back with her mother, ’cause he’s gone bonker’s bugshit).
There is your tmi onthe mesa + potato comment.
Not in the desert, in rural Ohio.
So, this storyline was being drawn right around the time my marriage was breaking up. I was just drawing them by the skin of my teeth. Anyway, after I’d drawn that last panel, I realized that Sal, Joyce and Walky were supposed to be at the bottom of the panel — that “potato” line was supposed to be Walky’s — anyway, rather than spend another hour correcting it, I decided to go back to fighting and just gave the line to Mayberry instead. I’ve always regretted not fixing it.
Actually, it’s okay. In many ways, it’s actually quite plausible that Sal would have immediately led the other two off in a huff about not being allowed to kill any aliens today, leaving your characters to sit down and think about the learning that had occurred for them that day.
“It’s not like mountaineers would try to climb it or check what’s on top of it.”
Popular culture knowledge fail.
Still, so long as Sal can talk Big Boss into not nuking them from orbit (just to be sure) they should be okay.
#NotAllAliens
I would love to see some webcomics crossovers with Dumbing of Age.
You mean like
… Oh no, the anti-crossover ninjas got them before they could finish!
I’ve been holding onto this story for awhile, now.
I’ve come to learn I’m something of a webcomic junkie. I read a lot of them; I don’t know the exact number, but I feel it’s currently around three dozen or so. I also have this tic where, if I start reading a story/watching a show, I absolutely *have* to start it from the beginning. With webcomics, I also try to read *all* of an artist’s work.
By the time I encountered the Walkyverse around 2010, I had already read through several webcomics that were several thousand pages in length each, but none stretched 13 years long. Initially undeterred, I decided to press on anyway (since I had already decided to read Dumbing of Age). This was as far as I was able to get before I finally succumbed to fatigue. I’ve never been happy about that; I always wanted to binge-read it like I had so many before, but ultimately, this was my last true attempt at doing so with any webcomic.
I still pick up new webcomics and try to read their entire archive; some of which are long and I eventually finish them. Most of the time, though, I’m forced to read them much slower, if I want to avoid burnout again.