What Walky wanted came true! …even the part where he loses his hair, apparently, weird flex
I’m not sure how far in the future this is. Do the abductees age at the same rate that regular humans do? They’re pretty sturdy and they can regenerate injuries better, so who knows. This might be 100 years from now, or it could be 2050.
Though I guess, SPOILERS, the Martians don’t murder everybody in 25 years. WHOOPS.
This was… the last update! The absolute, definite end of It’s Walky!, and this cast, for forever and ever! Except the very next day, I started posting comics from the newspaper run of Roomies! Redux, which you already saw way back 6 years ago, slotted back into where they fit into the timeline. Seeing Joyce go from late It’s Walky! Joyce to Early Roomies! Joyce was definitely a bit of whiplash. But we’d go forward in the timeline again soon enough. Late January 2005, in fact, just a few weeks after the beginning of Shortpacked!. So…
Tomorrow: We exhume this corpse and beat it for cash.
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The vision shows the X-Treeem mug as well, lol. We have to give it to Walky though, that mug was worth every cent if it resisted that many years.
could be a repro
It died a messy death, and was resurrected with Martian technology.
That’s why the handle is on the opposite side of the mug, now.
But the Giant Comedy Prop has the last laugh!
Which corpse?
Shortpacked? I’d be down for commentary on that. It’s what got me into this whole WillisVerse.
or Joyce & Walky? You know, one of the ones Willis lost access to updating?
*Tim Allen grunt of intrigue*?
There must be a story behind that!
Nah.
It’ll just be the entirety of a series starring Mike and a certain lawyer.
If it is I’m looking forward to it.
Joyce & Walky! dude
Hells yes!
The corpse of a horse, of course.
Of course!
Go right to the source, exhume the horse.
and then beat it…because that’s what you do with a horse’s corpse(or so I’m told)
And no one can talk to a horsie corpse.
Because it’s very dead!
(Please tell me I’m not the only one applying these comments to the Mister Ed theme song…)
It’s not just you. But I think it’s just you… and me.
Mike’s?
$100 Theater.
I’m assuming it’s a horse corpse, then.
Beat! It! Beat! It! Woooo!
(I am very excited.)
Don’t you make me repeat it!
Honestly, Martians VS Soggies is probably the culimination waiting to happen.
As long as they’re not Martian Soggies.
So It’s Walky comes to a close. I should probably say something poignant.
…
Un.
Hm.
I found Dumbing of Age first, so It’s Walky was always the Alternate Universe to me. And I started it by clicking random links on the TvTropes page, so I really had no clue what was going on. I didn’t exactly provide myself with the best experience.
Still, it was really neat to see these “same” characters in these very different scenarios, and I think going from Dumbing of Age to the Walkyverse is bound to be a more interesting jump than the reverse.
Honestly, with the fun I’ve had reading through It’s Walky, I should tru to check out other authors who have developed to Universes for
the same cast. Don’t know why I haven’t done so yet.
Is that a common thing? I’d always thought it was fairly unique to Willis’ work.
Transformers in particular has done this many, many times.
Star Wars too since Disney got the licence.
What? Revisiting old characters in a new context? It’s a pretty common thing, especially in comics. Every adaptation, every reboot of a universe, most multiverse stories, every What If…? or Elseworld, every time an existing character is incorporated into an ongoing universe…
It’s been a while since I last read It’s Walky to the end. Now onward to beating this dead horse!
Spoiler: that’s not the sun they’re looking at, it’s a mass of Soggies.
it only took them a decade to get there…
I came in from a writer’s note on the Angels 2200 site. I think it might even have been just after Walky lost his arm. I had no freaking idea what was going on, but I could see that there really was a story going on. So I went on the archive binge from hell. By the time Joe and Rachel had the regeneration chamber online, I knew the whole story from the first day in college, and I was active on the forums. I remember how tranquil the regeneration sequence seemed after reading a couple of thousand strips daily for a, month?
I may have lost my sanity, but at least on the day this update came up, I knew what the XTreem mug was.
Well, glad I stuck around and got closure on this. Started reading in late high school, round 2002, lost touch in mid-2005 (Bad Times). Found it again in 2016. Caught up, stayed current. Worth it.
Reminds me of my own experience but in a roundabout way. My first was Shortpacked, and I read the early days but lost track of it for several years when I was getting burned out at work and then had housing problems. When I came back, I was curious about Dumbing of Age and started reading it, initially thinking it fit into the timeline with Shortpacked somehow… only to find out about Roomies and It’s Walky. Caught up all of DoA, then all of Shortpacked, and then all of this archive, and have been following the dailies since. Neat to see how it all happened!
There was also “special bonus one-time-only It’s Walky comic!” a week before $100 Theatre started. I don’t remember it being posted here yet, but I guess it would fit during Joyce & Walky strips?
Love the ending.
Nor do the Soggies?
No the soggies murdered the Martians
Or it could be the next Halloween and they’re in old people costumes.
It’s funny, in retrospect, that I wasn’t particularly perceptive when this first ran, and I thought it was literally that same evening, they were just chillin’ on the porch
I genuinely love that—especially with the Year Zero Redux—It’s Walky! begins with a “once upon a time” page and ends with “they lived happily ever after”.
Uh, going by Willis’s commentary and the callback to Walky’s “vision” of their future, I realise now that the big white orb is meant to be the sunset sun. All this time starting from the day this was originally posted, I was sure that it was a massive explosion and it was a sort of hint to the untold battle foretold by Joyce between the returning Martians and the abductees’ kids.
Looking into the future from the past from the future.
Heavy.
I’m Batman and I can breathe in space.
Oh man, now we get to see life after saving the world. Domestic bliss isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.