This place is a mess.
on July 20, 2019 at 12:01 amChapter: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Characters: Danny Wilcox, David Walkerton, Howard Lesse, Jennifer Billingsworth, Joe Rosenthal, Phil the Janitor, Rachel Jackson, The Cheese, Ultra Car
Location: Final battle wasteland
Ah! Phil! When I was a kid writing/drawing Ultra Car stories, Phil was the COMEDY RELIEF. And by that I mean he said “I reckon” a lot. That was the joke. I was not great at jokes.
Anyway, here’s Phil, for exactly one panel. Hi, Phil!
The Ultra Car subplot got kinda sidelined, huh? I think it’s for the best. We got, like, all the character development we technically NEEDED out of it, we just kind of left all the potential hijinks on the table. But the finale was a little crowded already as it was, and something had to be squeezed out. Hope you enjoy the after-the-fact summary. And the Phil.
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Danny’s always outdannying himself
Yeah seriously.
Billie, you can do so much better than that self-centered jerk.
“The Adventure on the Destiny” deleted scene could be a bonus feature on the DVD.
instead, we got a boring Joyce and Walky strip that outran its comedy years before…
See, I had always assumed Phil was at least a partial reference to Roger Wilco from the Space Quest games.
Maybe with a little of Futurama‘s Scruffy, the Planet Express janitor.
I thought that was the joke.
Having the previous main character just show up after the fact.
I have no qualms saying that it was a cheap cop-out and lazy writing in not finishing the subplot outright. It was interesting, it was different, it involved your oldest characters- it was supposed to be full circle closure, that didn’t give them any closure at all! It just brushed them aside. It was lazy, and it felt like you cheated us by building up to something that had no payoff.
Danny seems to have completely failed to notice that Billie is wearing only a half-vest over her bra, and no shirt.
Must be from the adrenaline rush. I mean, he went to space with his old car, fought zombie austronauts and blew up a mothership.
Danny’s a hero, but he’s still kind of a dick. Totally unintentionally, but still kind of a dick.
I remember when I first read this strip, lo these many years ago, and thinking, “Yep. That’s Peak Danny.”
Over a decade later James Roberts will use this same catch up device in Lost Light.
I mean Danny is Dannying here, but you can hardly blame the guy for wanting just one big heroic moment only to find out that while you were out another guy became god.
Maybe that’s why Batman is so angry, he does so much good but then his bestie is like “Oh hey I saved all of existence today, what have you been up to, Bruce?”
I dunno, I think finding out how that subplot ended via breathless recap works pretty well here, since it doubles as a setup for the punchline.
“Helped us escape using a variety of common household tools” is much funnier as a throwaway line than it would have been if shown, too.
This. MacGyvering can be cool when it’s shown, but it’s funnier when it’s delivered as a throwaway line.
“Dude’s cool! He built a fusion drive from a rubber band, a bar of soap and a pack of Twizzlers!”