OooOOooooh! Sudden second-meaning for this storyline’s title, “Stalemate.” It’s not just that Walky’s a stale mate, it’s also about the stalemate between SEMME’s forces and the Aliens that The Cheese wants to maintain! Oh how clever. I gift myself a cookie.
Anyway, the abductees are getting stronger. This is my band-aid over them not appearing to have superstrength early on, because they didn’t, even though now they clearly do. But, see, now they can do sweet-ass superhero stuff, yo!
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It is incredibly weird to me that you felt them not having superpowers needed to be bandaided over. The idea that there was a point in the narrative where they didn’t had never occurred to me over the course of any of my previous readings until this version of the site went up.
I am slightly disappointed there was never an arc where Walky trains away from SEMME before making a dramatic return
That wouldn’t fit his style.
It does if you use Walky’s definition of “training”: eating Doritos and watching cartoons.
I had never really closely examined that last panel before. (To be fair, it was way smaller before.) Is Walky complaining about childproof caps after twisting the neck off a bottle of ketchup?
…maybe colorado enacted a safety cap on ketchup bottles law in 2002 but then repealed it cuz it was dumb? Or maybe walky’s just a doofus
Childproof condiment bottles are the worst.
I bet Jason put the cap on because he was worried about Walky’s dietary health.
I don’t get why maintaining the balance is so important to the Cheese. Isn’t it better if things are unbalanced in favor of good? I don’t remember if the Cheese’s motivation for maintaining the balance was ever explained.
Fan Theory: The Cheese is insane.
It says “Neutral” on his character sheet.
I don’t think either side qualifies as “good” in this case.
It is–dude just straight-up went crazy from the loneliness of immortality and forgot what the hell he was meant to be doing.
Which circles back to the question of ‘why was he trying to maintain the balance?’
In retrospect, if given a choice between a world run by Linda Walkerton, the Head Alien, or Sal, I’d have to say that “none of the above” is a pretty good answer.
Originally posted:
April 12, 2002