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on July 22, 2019 at 12:01 amChapter: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Characters: Danny Wilcox, DaveL, Honey Bun, Jason Chesterfield, Joe Rosenthal, Joyce Brown, Lith, Robin DeSanto, Sal Walters, Ultra Car
Location: Final battle wasteland
And this is how we get Walky back, I guess!!!!
It has been pointed out a heck of a lot that just a hair won’t be enough DNA to bring Walky back. My current no-prize is that Joyce and Walky humped each other so raw that they chafed blood into each other. Gross, right? But we gotta build a new Walky, y’know?
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I was assuming his jizz, but I’m sure there’s an assortment of Walky cast-off on Joyce’s person
Sperm are haploid though, they’d only have half of his genes.
But 50% of the sperm has one half, the other 50% has the other. His entire genetic code is in there somewhere.
That’s not the way it works. There are 2^23 = 8388608 possible sperms. You’d need to find two that had no matches in order to get a complete Walky.
But the thought is hillarious, that Joyce has to admit what she and Walky had been doing so that Walky can be saved.
There’s a lot more than that, because the chromosome pairs get shuffled together during meiosis.
But the solution is simple: just get more than two. Where there’s two sperm there’s lots of sperm.
There’s more to semen than just sperm. They can probably salvage some diploid cells.
I’m sure the science will hold up on that.
Yeah, the sperm wouldn’t be useful (the DNA gets all randomized up during the split), but the rest of the semen would be. Body fluids indeed.
there’s likely hair, saliva, and skin cells from Walky on her, that’s a bit of DNA to go alongside the DNA from his semen…
also you can just fish the condoms out of the trash
DUMPSTER DIVING TO SAVE A LIFE
I was assuming it was his semen and/or sperm as well until now.
I love Joyce’s face in that last panel. Perfect time to break out the animesque.
Oh here I thought they just used what was left over from that hotel room coverd in spunk they left….also nasty but I don’t know if it’s worse then the actual explanation.
I was going to say it was better, but then I realized that if they hadn’t thoroughly cleaned the room, who knows what other DNA might be in there?
I’m sure they can easily get a condomful.
Yeah, I had always assumed it was one (or several) of the big box o’ condoms that had useful DNA in it for this. It was properly set up in the story!
Let’s be realistic, he’s a 20-something guy so there’s blood, semen, saliva, hair, mucus, and skin cells in his room alone!
They don’t have to have banged hard enough to draw blood, Walky drew it on his own and it likely was still in his hamper in his dirty clothes
I’m gonna join the crowd saying “I thought it was the used condoms”. It actually feels like it was better set up by the story, and like many said, while sperm wouldn’t be useful, the rest of the semen would.
Actually, I had forgotten about the condoms on my original read-through (the second one, too), and assumed they got Walky’s DNA from inside Joyce. It was only this read-through that I remembered the condoms. :/
Same.
Yeah, also forgot about the amusing condom acquisition and just assumed they were going to be swabbing out Joyce.
Awkward
Or ah… I dunno. Maybe an arm would do?
http://www.itswalky.com/comic/im-uneven/
Or those masses of blood soaked into Joyce’s jeans.
Yeah even if the arm somehow wasn’t there, there should still be plenty of blood near the remains of Walkertron
Or all over his robot’s cockpit, for that matter.
Really, going Joyce-diving is probably the least efficient way they could have gone about this, other than a cheesy “hey good thing we boned” moral.
“His DNA was easy enough to obtain, he left it all over town. … Not remotely what I meant.”
You know that trope “What Happened to the Mouse?” I just realized that for the Walkyverse…what happened to the Cheese? We never see him in this world again.
Well, there have been three people inhabiting it: David, Dexter, and Walky.
Of those three, David seems to have pretty much vanished when Dexter took over, Dexter was wiped out of it by Alan’s final sacrifice, and then Walky’s not gonna be staying in there with an option to get yoinked back into a living body. So the Cheese is, for all intents and purposes, dead as a doornail.