So I saw Billie the other day
on June 12, 2015 at 12:01 amOh, right, Walky has a de-twinned brother. Let’s remember he exists before forgetting about him again for a few months!
Oh, right, Walky has a de-twinned brother. Let’s remember he exists before forgetting about him again for a few months!
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Grunt.
(I always was interested in the relationship these two shared. I was a little… Disappointed they never got the full amount of screentime I thought they deserved. Still, they seem like siblings here.)
Same.
I dunno, I’ve always thought these two’s relationship was interesting.
“Let’s remember he exists before forgetting about him again for a few months!”
Which is kind of a plot point way way WAY down the line.
I was just thinking, “No way anything bad could come of this!”
A plot point that mostly falls on it’s face because who the hell cares about Beef by that point? Gotta be invested in the character for a betrayal and death to matter. All this does is make everyone involved look horrible.
Which was… kind of the point? Many developments close to that point tend to emphasize that our protagonists aren’t as much paragons of good (or, in one particular case, evil :P) as they’d like to think they are.
I thought that’s what made it so great. Beef has just enough significance as a character that what happened ends up being a huge event, even if it killed off even less important characters.
If it were basically any other character, Daisy, Tony, maybe one of those background agents, it wouldn’t be nearly as shocking.
Side note, what’re the rules on spoilers here? IW! ended over a decade ago, but I’m not certain what we’re allowed to discuss.
But it’s not shocking, because by the time it happens readers have likely forgotten that Beef even exists.
It WOULD be a fantastic twist if Beef had appeared a little more frequently, so he was always around but just out fo focuss. Add in that since he only talks in grunts and none of the family seemed to be all that close to him in the first place and it’s nowehere near the shock and WHAM it should have been.
Eh, I found it very effective — we don’t see a lot of Beef (Which is actually part of the point), but it’s established very clearly in his few appearances that he and Walky are extremely close — empathy for how Walky must have felt made that sequence hard to deal with for me, personally.
Gruuunt.
No, no. Once more, with inflection.
>Gruuunt.<
Hey, watch your potty mouth.
What? No. I specifically avoided emphasizing certain parts so that nobody could conjugate that from it.
Back to the Beef-to-English Collegiate Dictionary, I guess.
*looks at tags*
Wait, Beef has a name? A name other than ‘Beef’?
Have you ever known anyone to be given the name “Beef” at birth?
(Wait, don’t answer that.)
…but, yeah, “Beef” was always Steve Walkerton’s nickname.
Well considering in an alternative universe his name really is just beef…
What universe was this?
I think people took Roz’s mention of “Can you believe his name is Beef?” as confirmation.
…yeah, at no point does she say that’s the name on his birth certificate. His name is Beef because people call him Beef. He was born Stephen Walters.
Beef! Good grief, she’s practically your sister.
A translation of Beef’s grunts
Panel 1: Where?
Panel 3: Did she mention me?
Panel 4: Are they doing it?
Panel 5: (to obscene to translate)
actually that was word-for-word what he said, just making pretend bedroom noises
Walky apparently understands hulkenese
Seems odd that you had a comic about a government agency and their team muscle and most physically imposing member apparently goes forgotten.
To be fair, he transferred to a different team after Year Zero…
OMG! Beef is Groot!
Shoulda made them triplets.