Your boy for your smoochie-coochies
on August 28, 2019 at 12:01 amHere, folks, it’s Joyce and Walky! I dumped both Roomies Redux and It’s Walky! $100 Theater in the trash and replaced it with this. If you paid $2 a month, you got put on a list to be mailed a link to a page full of new strips, updating every Tuesday and Thursday. These were an ongoing storyline, segmented roughly by month. But I didn’t want to leave anyone out. I also drew a free strip for everyone on Saturday, updated to the regular website.
This paid my rent for a long, long time.
Thankfully for me, and for you folks here, they’re no longer integral to my financial solvency (yay, Hiveworks and Slipshines and Dumbing of Age in general), so I can now throw these at your faces for free. (and I sell them collected to, like, three people a year these days, so)
I’m… not sure exactly in which order many of these strips should go, since there’s a lot of continuity-less Saturday gag strips sprinkled among all the story stuff. And the Saturdays lasted through an extremely long Tuesday/Thursday drought. Eventually I’m gonna have to stuff those runaway Saturdays back into the Tuesday/Thursdays like a herniated colon. So, uh, fingers crossed, let’s make a non-mess of this???
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Cues up Cliff Richard on the hacked Muzak…
Wrong strip?
that Jolky merge in panel 2 is a bit disconcerting
although there are times it actually feels like intense groping still isn’t close enough 🤔
We are off to a great start I see. Can’t wait to see the shenanigans those 2 go through.
I HAD been wondering what your plan was going to end up being with these. The pay-for strips were sort of the elephant in the room.
I was hoping for this though, I’ve enjoyed your commentary.
The modern renderings of old timey Becky and Dorothy are kind of weirding me out.
I haven’t read these in years and I’m fairly sure I ended up stopping getting the paid strips at some point along the way, but are there any significant breaks in the story where it’s easy to stick a long run of the standalone strips?
I associate Dorothy and Becky with Dumbing of Age so much now that it feels almost uncanny to see them in the banner like that.
Also, yeah, I was always curious how the Joyce and Walky! strips would reconcile with the whole “chronological order” idea the site had going. It almost feels like the timelines of the pay strips and the free strips deliberately conflict with each other as much as possible.
It’s going to be hard getting used to Becky with non-rad hair.
Honestly, I like the Walkyverse version of Dorothy, but Walkyverse Becky is basically a non-entity to me.
This will be my first ride through the Joyce and Walky archive, so I’m only familiar with their DoA counterparts.
It was Walky.
Boy you can, uh, tell what size these were supposed to be viewed at, huh
Nope! Sure can’t. I assume this one?
Ha! I was one of those three people this past year!
An apt metaphor, as you are familiar with perforated colons.
Technically that is talking. Nauseatingly cutesy talking, but still talking.
This is what I’ve been waiting for since this new site started.
I’ve read through J&W many times (both the free and paid strips), and I have to tell, this is my favourite creation of yours. I’m really looking forward to seeing how you resolve the chronology issues.
Same here. But I was in college and too broke to think about paying for the sub. Once I emailed offering an Optimud Prime cardboard cutout I had procured from the Transformers movie DVD release in exchange for a free few months… I don’t blame Willis for not answering me. But I loved the Saturdays so I’m excited to see the whole thing now!
I don’t blame you for trying. He must’ve already had it!
I remember a couple years back when I first discovered Willis’s work I wanted to buy the Pay-To-See Joyce and Walky Comics and My Mom (Even though I had already bought a ShortPacked! and Roomies! trade off the store) wasn’t comfortable with my handing my Email out to get the link. She was a very nervous woman when it came to the Internet.
Joyce has pretty much completely returned to her original/modern hairstyle here, as opposed to the one she got post-Melonpool-crossover.
It’s better.