You’ve seen my office
on November 7, 2021 at 12:01 amChapter: Merger and Restructuring
Location: Shortpacked!
Hey, remember how Joe and Robin were almost almost a thing in It’s Walky!? Well, looks like we’re backing up to that mood. Leslie is shocked! She has not read the backlog of strips.
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So… about that babysitting gig you have
Wait was this before or after the “Robin starts world peace by sleeping with a guy” story arc?
After. They’ve already broken up because of that, and now that Leslie wants to get back together, well…
Yep. By this point they’ve been broken up a while and Malaya’s romance with Leslie has come and gone.
I’ve read this already and know how it turns out, but still–
DAMN YOU WILLIS!
I totally forgot this happened.
Also, I know this isn’t why, but it also feels like Robin would be the type to cut off any emotional conversation with making out, as a strategy.
It still feels really weird that Joe’s definition of growing up is apparently getting married (and possibly have babies).
I mean, I find that definition weird anyway, but coming from Joe, of all people…
Obviously not everyone who grows up gets married and has kids, but it does seem to be the normal thing that most people do eventually when they grow up.
I mean, when you feel like you haven’t grown up, you do tend to look around and think “So what’s everyone else doing differently that makes them grown up and I’m not?” And if you don’t want to stop having an office that makes it surprising you don’t own a toy store, it has to be something else.
That, and Joe did have a longterm monogamous relationship with someone he loved dearly and misses and had a (robot car) kid with, and he’d still be with her if she hadn’t been replaced by an alien and is now utterly lost somewhere in the multiverse. He wants that particular happy ending because he had it, and now Rachel’s gone through no fault of either one of them. Like, he’d probably have still handled a standard breakup badly, but by this point she’s been missing for a couple years and he is very much still not over her.
(And given the other women he had nebulous potential Feelings for were Robin, who is here, and Joyce, who he never really had a chance with, I can see there being some messy longing emotions in play right now because he is in fact lonely and longing for an emotional connection with someone again.)
An advice columnist phrased it as sort of, if you see everyone else around you is getting cupcakes, but you’re not, you’re going to feel left out, like “Where’s MY cupcake?”
Until you either get the cupcake, or realise you don’t actually want the cupcake bc you see all the diapers and baby carriage and daycare costs for the cupcake
(the analogy did fall apart about there, intentionally)
“With the happy ending, you get egg roll!”
Leslie and Apples to Apples? Does this DofA strip sorta work as a callback, or meaningful echo?
It works as people play the game and stores sell the game
The characters never seem to read the comments either. So much unsolicited free advice going to waste.
The first time through for me this was arguably the saddest moment in Shortpacked. Though not in the whole Walkyverse.
**shows up late**
**reads comic**
… hot…
(while I prefer Robin and Leslie emotionally, I always found Robin/Joe to be a very hot combo)