itswalky

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Do you ever worry the sliding timescale will make something too dated? Such as mentioning She-ra on Netflix or Jennifers fake ID saying she was born in 1993?

well leslie's gender studies class doesn't exist anymore, so, yeah, sometimes

[itswalky]

Do you ever miss working with full pages instead of only comic strips?

Nah. There's a simplicity in working only left to right until you run out of space. Full pages start introducing more variables. Two rows? Three rows? Four rows? Crazy angled rows??? FULL PAGE SPLASH?????

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So did you think James Dobson was already dead when you mentioned him in the touchy-touchy strip?

No! I just write to a sliding timescale, and figured he'd be dead sooner than later. Dude was like 85! Unfortunately, it was later.

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i can't believe this is how i find out

wishing a very happy day today to becky macIntyre specifically

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tumblr we've gotta have a talk about your autocropped thumbnail images

[itswalky]

Dina is riding a triceratops! Your argument is invalid.

You’ve pledged to make the prototype happen!  The prototype’s happened!  It’s been approved!  And now, starting today, we have the final campaign.  From now until September 9, if you haven’t already pledged for Dina, you can HOMPK! yourself over to Makeship and put in a preorder!

Ships December 3!  Don’t miss out on her!

[itswalky]

not sure there are any panels that AREN'T foreshadowing joyce/dorothy

Tomorrow's Strip: Joyce to Joe.

Walky explains in the final panel, "It's ok. It's her love interest an' he comes back as a werewolf."

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folks knocking at my door again for this take so reblogging

Was rereading the old Its Walky archives and found this bit of commentary which I thought was funny, given the current DOA strips. Granted, I love the current arcs, but I was wondering when/if your attitudes shifted from 2017?

been waiting for this one

i think a few years ago, my wife pointblank asked me, "hey... none of your college characters have never ever cheated, have they" and I thought, nope, none of 'em

i write... completely wonderful perfect college freshmen who've never had a messy terrible end to a relationship

even asher, who, as walky points out early on, is "villain-coded," makes absolutely double-sure his relationship with jennifer is over before agreeing to make out with ethan even a little

everybody always in my strip makes sure to give every relationship's end its due diligence, to exhaustive ends, to the point that lucy has to throw shade at walky for waiting a handful of days after getting dumped before moving on, because THAT is where the narrative has set the moral event horizon

and at some point, i'm like

let freshmen be freshmen

they're horny idiots

[itswalky]

You’ve pledged to make the prototype happen!  The prototype’s happened!  It’s been approved!  And now, starting today, we have the final campaign.  From now until September 9, if you haven’t already pledged for Dina, you can HOMPK! yourself over to Makeship and put in a preorder!

Ships December 3!  Don’t miss out on her!

[itswalky]

genuinely so obsessed with this twitter post

[itswalky]

Okay, is Monkey Master called that cause Head Alien considered Gorillas above monkeys and they for, their master, or as a space alien did he not know that apes are a different thing from monkeys?

he just likes alliteration

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[itswalky]

was on the winning team, we all know what's up

[itswalky]

does this really need to be recontextualized, seems pretty textualized already

Recontextualization is a hell of a drug.

[itswalky]

earlier that day:

I think the biggest plot hole in DOA to this day still is, and probably always will be; how the FUCK did Becky get the giant plush raptor into Dina's room! It's like 6 times her size!

[itswalky]

look becky slipped the giant velociraptor plush delivery guys a fifty (from campaign funds) for carrying it up three flights of stairs and shoving it through a door

because the elevator would be too small

easy peasy!

I think the biggest plot hole in DOA to this day still is, and probably always will be; how the FUCK did Becky get the giant plush raptor into Dina's room! It's like 6 times her size!

[itswalky]

Hey, are there any plans to release some of the older bonus strips for free? Been reading through the comic and felt bummed when Jocelyne got two strips before she appeared for the third time in the comic. Feels bad that seemingly a decent chunk of her narrative is behind a paywall. Of course, I know it's not a massive paywall or anything. I don't mind if free old bonus comics just won't happen. Just, I wanted to ask if it would ever be a possibility.

Sometimes I put up individual older bonus strips if I think they're pertinent to something I want to talk about in public, like that Joyce's Pharmacist and her Not-Dorothy Wife strip! Y'know, on a case-by-case basis, if not being able to talk about it explicitly leaves a giant hole in The Discourse or whatever.

For what it's worth, like, I try to make sure the bonus strips aren't really a chunk of "the narrative." They're all just small moments with characters that don't move their story forward! On purpose. If it were narratively important, I wouldn't bonus strip it. I'd find a way to put it into the comic somehow. (and that's happened, where I came up with an idea for a bonus strip, but it was too integral to something, or was an idea i could flesh out better, and ended up doing something else that was smaller)

and yeah the paywall is just a dollar, so