The Martians are gone.
on July 21, 2019 at 12:01 amWell here’s a big wide shot! This is… everybody random who’s still alive, basically. Oh, hello, future wife, who I’d only been dating for a few weeks at this point. I had a good feeling about this one.
Some other cartoonists have gone on the record as wanting to avoid putting girlfriends and boyfriends in their strips, just in case they break up with them later and it’s weird for them to read back in their own work. Me? Eh. I’ve never dated anybody so awful I wanted to blot them out of my memory, so I guess I’m lucky that way, I dunno. Comics are always a snapshot of where you were at the moment of creation. It’s kind of like an old photo album, but with aliens.
Speaking of which, I drew Stan the Alien here, but I think he’s dead? Stan’s the one with the pointy Teletubby hat, anyway. Maybe another Alien inherited it.
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Is Walky implying that he wiped the martians soldiers from existence? Like the equivalent of a Thanos Snap?
Pretty sure that’s the implication, yeah, with the whole Earth glowing Power-Booster-Rod-Yellow a couple of strips ago and us having previously been told that the Martians were mounting attacks all across the globe.
That’d be pretty bonkers considering how much moral weight the narrative (tries to) put on the initial Martian genocide by Jason’s Father’s Organization.
I assumed Walky zapped them to some uncharted reach of space it’ll take an eternity for them to get back from.
I mean, not that forced relocation is great, but (in this theoretical circumstance) it’s miles better than genocide.
Yeah, I figured he poofed them off somewhere but the emphasis on “gone” was to underline their comment about coming again in 25 years; they’re gone for now but don’t get all cocky thinking they’ve been killed off.
I mean, I wouldn’t count wiping out the soldiers as “genocide” – I’m not by any stretch under the impression he destroyed the Martian homeworld or anything of that sort, just the invading army.
I think that when you have complete and total power over an enemy and they have no chance of stopping you, and you choose to destroy them–genocide might not be the exact right word, but it’s definitely not a morally good action.
It’s going to take them forever to get back from the Delta Quadrant.
Rather than somewhere random, he might have sent the invading martian army back to wherever the martians live now. Assuming that sort of thing is within the power booster rods’ power.
Or, maybe he sent them to a dimension where the Genocide of Mars didn’t happen? That seems more in the power rods’ power set.
“What did you say? Answer me!”
“They’re GONNNNNNNE!!”
Besides Maggie, I think the only other girlfriend you put into the comic was waaaaaay back in Roomies and only as a fourth wall breaking gag about how you weren’t putting out a real strip or something.
I thought I had heard a rumor that Sal was based on an ex-girlfriend. That was long ago, though.
Sal appeared in high school strips, so it was a VERY long time ago.
Yes, exactly.
Ok so the estimated number of deaths though the entire story is about…53. (Both seen and mentioned in passing)
So who is it in Panel 1 that stole Joyce’s jetpack?
I thought Joyce’s jetpack was in her vest, which she gave to Billie to wear. So maybe there’s another person in SEMMF with a jetpack? Or maybe that person has the ability to jump really high.
Who is that standing valiantly on top of [I think] the SEMMF Building?
I always like how Walky slips into Cheese-ese with that “GONE”.
**clicks on the Stan the Alien tag**
He doesn’t seem to be in his previous comic… posted in 2016. Unless he failed to get tagged in his death comic, he seems to have mostly just not shown up in a long time.
His 2016-posted appearances are flashbacks; he dies in a 2014-posted comic.
That is a very… …statuesque pose, Billie.