Prologue
on December 15, 2021 at 1:01 amOne more emotional suckerpunch for the road.
In the original Robin-Pulls-The-Drama-Tag story, there was an unexplained epilogue where we see Galasso go into the basement, ignite a fireplace, and burn the tag as he stared down at it in contempt. What was that about?
Now we know. I done recontextualized your asses!!!!
Also: this webcomic about a toy store sure has some thoughts about death
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What happens to the new Drama Tag Leslie brings in?
Does Galasso burn that one too or is it stored away somewhere?
I have the feeling it was a metaphorical cremation, and the tag doesn’t do anything in and of itself once pulled
a last send-off, as it were
If you look really, REALLY closely at the two Galasso Stares panels between the two comics, his expression here is ever-so-slightly less stoic than it was in the original courtesy of some very slight tweaks to eyebrow positioning. That suggests that this isn’t the original tag he’s burning, but the new one.
or these last two panels are a continuation of the original scene. Galasso angrily burns the tag (original panel), stares down at it angrily (original panel), then starts to think about Pamela dying (second to last panel here), and slumps into the chair in grief (last panel here). Makes sense from his “is it faulty?” that maybe he’s blaming the tag for Pamela dying and that’s why he’s angry at first
I remember getting a lot of feels when I read this the first time
…what are all these feels still doing here T_T
That final wordless panel says so much.
You only get one chance to do a moment like this with a character like Galasso, and it’s all too easy to blow it. But his grief is so palpable even with just one panel. Absolutely breaks your heart.
It also completely recontextualizes the emotions in the penultimate panel from the original epilogue strip while only BARELY changing the positioning of Galasso’s eyebrows.
Shit, these reruns are almost over, aren’t they
I think there’s one more page for this storyline, but not sure what’s gonna be after that.
More Shortpacked stories or straight to the final roomies story from Book 2?
Could always bring in the final story from Shortpacked!, since that has Dina in it.
eh, that doesn’t really tie into IW apart from resurrecting Dina.
It would be interesting to see a new comic showing how Dina and Becky meet in this universe though (since they’re a couple here too according to Willis)
That’s during the Shortpacked! finale, isn’t it? We see them together in one frame, and again in one of the April Fool’s updates.
Not to say it couldn’t be expanded upon…
I wouldn’t mind it if after this is done, Willis resurrected the walkyverse to show us the resistance against the sogmaster
actually the frame of Dina and Becky together was a separate pic made after the finale.
Aw dang, you’re right! I could’ve sworn that panel of them fighting soggies while jumping a motorcycle was part of the climactic end sequence…
Last we heard a few weeks ago, the current estimate is it ends on 12/23 with the Roomies Book Two stuff.
Yeah, I’m wondering what’s left before this rerun ends.
Of note, this is likely to be “our” Conquest’s only tagged appearance in the entirety of the reruns.
Smol Conquest looks kinda like Joyce, doesn’t she.
It adds a little more bite to that first strip of shortpacked too, doesn’t it? Of course it’s not just a toy store. To galasso, it was everything.
Bummer there ain’t no way to revive the dead… hey wait….
Just kidding. In this case the revive tube would revive her as super sick so its pointless. But it was Mike who said it..
Yep, it’s distinctly noticeable that even if Galasso maybe doesn’t have the SAME resurrection tech as we know exists (given the whole ‘would have had to find DNA to resurrect Jeshua,’) said tech has the same crucial limitation – it can heal injuries, but not chronic disease, which is why Walkyverse Reagan faked his dementia and I believe death. Pamela, dying as she did of a terminal illness, can’t be resurrected.
How the Galasso family came to have such power in the first place? We may never know.
… not sure if joke?
Joyce explained it to Amber at her and Mike’s wedding. Joyce gave Galasso the blueprints and Mike’s bloody shirt.
Galasso wasn’t who she leaked the blueprints to, it was someone else.
(Galasso’s method of resurrection, whatever it is, explicitly isn’t the Martian Resurrection Machines.)
And as an added bonus, now we know how Galasso got interested in resurrection tech so he could bring back dead people in response to someone’s offhand comment! Not that I think anyone had really questioned that, but still.
(Side note: for some reason I had it in my head that that was connected to Mike’s resurrection too.)
You’re not wrong. It was obliquely referred to here:
– http://www.itswalky.com/comic/no-prize/
It’s not clear. It’s not explicitly stated it was Galasso who resurrected Mike. King Daniel is positive it isn’t, and I believe so too, but I can’t remember why.
Interesting, I never interpreted Galasso’s expression in either comic as signifying contempt. Stoicism in the face of loss maybe, but not contempt.
I did see this comic as reframing Galasso into a tragic figure clinging to his delusions to stave off unbearable loss instead of just a dickhead.
The defining element of the Walkyverse has been its ability to draw pathos from absurdism, so this strikes me as perfectly in-line with that.
A divine artifact is a stray branch, Sal nearly beats Walky to death with a segway, and a toy store owner mourns his wife as a reality-altering piece of paper burns in front of him.
We kinda stringently keep drama and comedy apart when in truth they are often the same thing, just seen from different eyes.
So Galasso went and got rez tech just to prove that he could do what he promised Pamela. Then, he respected her wishes not to bring her back. That’s surprising amounts of character development.