Here is the actual first It’s Walky! strip, which published on December 25, 1999.  As Professor Doc’s exclamation suggests, the title of the webcomic in its infancy was actually Walkerton!, but some dumb town in Ontario had the domain name so quickly the strip was retitled It’s Walky!, sort of inspired by my IRC nick at the time.   But no one owned itswalky.com!  It was mine!  All mine!
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Our hero, ladies and Gentlemen.
Truly the hero for the ages. 😛
You might say he is “The Hero of Ages”.
Oh thank god. I was starting to think I only remembered the comic being called that because of the games.
…games?
I would also like to know of this.
Before the webcomic, he made some video games using the Klik & Play engine called Walkerton with a prototype version of the It’s Walky! Cast.
Are they still around anywhere.
Here’s an example http://www.caiman.us/scripts/fw/f3856.html
Awwwww yeah
Ahh, the whole series is in the related titles to the right of that page. Cool.
Oh, my God! This morning I thought the concept of video games. Well, more or less. I imagined a video game arcade with 4 co-op, like TMNT-Turtle in Time, Captain Commando, or Dungeons and Dragons Tower of Doom.
SEMY-Automatics?
It was a very simple computer game along the lines of Virtua Cop and, for its boss fight, Battle Clash/Metal Combat. One stage is played as Joyce and one as Walky, and the boss fight is played as a transforming mecha. They wield handguns and you click on Aliens to shoot at them, or in the mecha fight you can charge up a more powerful shot by not firing for a few seconds.
I don’t think I have the files anymore. I’ve switched computers since I played it.
…I’m not sure if Walky or Joyce ever actually fire handguns in the comic ever. Walky’s shown HOLDING one at least once, and he’s holding one in his concept art too, but I don’t remember him ever firing one. And Joyce only ever uses that enormous cannon of hers for ballistic purposes, so yeah. I guess when you’ve got super strength, bullets are less important.
…Orrrrr that. I am not familiar with that one.
…Text-based game, anyone?
The title listed below the strip has one exclamation mark when the quote it’s pulling from has two.
0/10 would not buy again
…More seriously, what the hey is that thing in front of Dina’s bed there? That black thing?
It’s Walky!…’s right shoe. Notice its absence on his foot and its conformation to Willis’s awful way of drawing feet.
Ah!
Barely looks like a shoe, but I see it now.
It’s actually the jet-black rabbit that appears sporadically in the background throughout the entirety of Willis’s work. Some say it symbolizes death, while others think it’s actually Ruth’s ghost, as the appearances started soon after her death. That theory was mostly put to rest when it first appeared in dumbing of age though. It’s all very mysterious.
My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.
I think it’s Walkerton(!!)’s shoe.
So it’s quoting the first exclamation mark, but not the second. I don’t see the problem.
Now if the strip had one exclamation mark and the title had two, that would be serious business.
I am desperately trying to work out the chain of events here. Walky tripped out of his shoe, then…there was a snake thing…and…um…a computer tower? I dunno.
I think that’s supposed to be the computer’s cable or something.
How does Astro Boy’s hair figure into things?
Oh, hey!
Dina was in the first strip all along!
I never noticed…
Aha! So her stealth skills were legendary in THIS continuity as well!
She can literally sneak up on you in her sleep!
It’s mine, you understand? Mine! All mine! Get back in there! Down, down, down! Go, go, go! Mine, mine, mine! Huwahahaha!
Damn son! This must be how the people who unearthed Pompeii felt!
Who is that in the bed next to Dina’s?
i think it’s skeeter from “doug”
Being that he’s in SEMME HQ wouldn’t that make him “Super Skeeter” instead? Everybody should look out for a guy walking around with his tighty whities on the outside in the next few strips.
Holy shit Doc’s mouth is terrifying.
Wait… I read this before the new strips, and I don’t remember this. I remember standing on a rooftop.
Originally posted:
December 25, 1999
But not on the joyceandwalky.com website. I don’t know where to find it originally.