Booster should still read her fanfic and likecommentandsubscribe
look, BOOSTER is not at fault, please don’t take it out on them, even in a passive-aggressive snark like that
although what are the odds Walky secretly was glad Joyce took over so she could do the heavy lifting but he could conveniently step in and say “SEE I SHOULDA DONE IT” if she missteps like that
There was a bonus strip of him and Carla that makes it clear he really wanted to do the introductions himself, so I don’t think he had any sinister intentions.
I had completely forgotten about that! And yet if Walky had REALLY been adamant about doing the introductions, he wouldn’t have let Joyce do it, saying HE was the host, not Joyce
but eh, laziness takes over
(I get the Rule of Drama, mostly musing out loud here in my posts)
I feel like you’re both giving Walky too little and too much credit. Too little because I don’t think he would want to potentially inflict emotional trauma on someone to get a one up on a woman he doesn’t like. And too much because… well, that kind of implies a level of empathy and understanding that says he could predict both Joyce’s introduction and Amber’s response ahead of times, and this is the guy who couldn’t understand why his girlfriend might not be into jean-pyjamas.
Well, I am under the impression that she barely looked at them (if at all), so it stands to reason she wouldn’t comment on their face or looks.
As for the name, many people do introduce themselves with a nickname rather than a name when in an informal setting, which might be her assumption as well, even if Joyce’s interjection of “They/Them” has the potential to tip her in the right direction.
I…think clif was implying that Booster actually is Mike.
Needfuldoer
Booster does kind of look like they could be Mike’s player 2 pallet swap, but with shorter hair.
BBCC
They really really don’t imo. I don’t see any similarities. Mind you, I didn’t even see it with the silhouettes so.
Diane
That might be the difference then, not seeing the silhouette. I looked at the silhouettes, and Booster ended up filling, what was to me, the Mike shaped silhouette. And even before then, it was iffy, because the hair was too short. But the silhouette was around the right height and I though “oh, maybe he lost hair cause head trauma”. But really, they ain’t that similar at all.
MW
Well, aside from their uncanny knack for reading people. Booster does seem (at least thus far!) to be what would happen if you gave Mike’s strengths to someone with, ah, a bit more warmth, let’s say.
BBCC
I’m gonna be honest, I thought the most Mike shaped silhouette was Danny’s.
Needfuldoer
Agreed. I thought Booster’s silhouette was going to be Mike but with his trademark gravity-defying hair chopped off. (It’s not unrealistic that the hospital would have buzzed him to treat his head wounds, and it wouldn’t grow back to the way it was in just three months.)
Aside from that, their heads are a similar shape (pointy chin, squared-off hair in the back) and they’re both very similar in build and height.
That reveal was a well played red herring.
BBCC
It wasn’t a red herring. Willis didn’t foresee anyone mistaking that silhouette for Mike. Much like me, he didn’t see it.
Needfuldoer
I missed that. Did he say it over on Patreon?
That reveal was a well played unintentional red herring.
thejeff
I think it basically worked because we were looking through the silhouettes trying to match them up with characters.
Danny’s might look like Mike, but it’s also the only clearly Danny shaped one. There was no one else in the known cast that Booster’s silhouette could be.
And honestly, it still looks like Mike to me.
BBCC
I think it was in the comments not too long after Booster showed up or it might have been on twitter.
But yeah, it was a very handy little unintentional red herring.
I’m still a bit unclear on how you think it will be “dealt with”. He could have died as long as two and a half months ago. It’s likely that the group period of mourning, the announcements to the students, the period where grief counselors are available from the Uni are all over and the only thing we’ll see is the continuing effects on the people who were actually close to him. And there are very few of them.
Spencer
Well, that’s part of the problem. We the audience got blindsided by Mike’s death being casually dropped in panel 2 of a strip about Lucy awkwardly flirting with Walky.
The cast has skipped over the part where they’re deep in grief but the Mike fans in the audience are playing some serious catch up.
showler
Okay, but why do you expect things to happen in the comic that Willis seems to have intentionally skipped over? People talking about Ruth announcing his death at the meeting and such?
BBCC
Also….most of the main cast weren’t close to Mike, at best. He was a dick to everyone all the time and most of them didn’t like him. I don’t doubt they’re sad he’s gone because nobody deserved that and he went out trying to save people, but most of them are probably through the worst of it, if not finished mourning.
thejeff
The point being that though they’re through it, we’re not. Because it was offstage.
I just came out as nonbinary on my Facebook for National Coming Out Day – like, literally, two minutes ago. And like, bisexual too I guess but I don’t know how people wouldn’t have already known that part.
I am pleased with myself but also anxious out of my fucking mind. I considered but then deleted a part saying, “Please do not be mean to me about this or weaponize my identity against me.”
230 thoughts on “Replacement”
Ana Chronistic
ok, not so Slipshiningly then
…
Booster should still read her fanfic and likecommentandsubscribe
look, BOOSTER is not at fault, please don’t take it out on them, even in a passive-aggressive snark like that
although what are the odds Walky secretly was glad Joyce took over so she could do the heavy lifting but he could conveniently step in and say “SEE I SHOULDA DONE IT” if she missteps like that
Sirksome
I really hope Walky didn’t think that cause that’s pretty awful.
Doctor_Who
There was a bonus strip of him and Carla that makes it clear he really wanted to do the introductions himself, so I don’t think he had any sinister intentions.
Ana Chronistic
I had completely forgotten about that! And yet if Walky had REALLY been adamant about doing the introductions, he wouldn’t have let Joyce do it, saying HE was the host, not Joyce
but eh, laziness takes over
(I get the Rule of Drama, mostly musing out loud here in my posts)
Ana Chronistic
I will excuse Walky if Joyce is stronger than both Walky and Booster (very likely)
thejeff
No necessarily physically stronger, though that’s quite possible, but she can sweep them all along just by force of personality.
GreyICE
I feel like you’re both giving Walky too little and too much credit. Too little because I don’t think he would want to potentially inflict emotional trauma on someone to get a one up on a woman he doesn’t like. And too much because… well, that kind of implies a level of empathy and understanding that says he could predict both Joyce’s introduction and Amber’s response ahead of times, and this is the guy who couldn’t understand why his girlfriend might not be into jean-pyjamas.
Doctor_Who
Don’t think of Booster as Mike’s replacement. Think of them as more of a sequel.
Mike 2: Electric Boostaloo
Mike 2: The Boostering
Dorm Wars Episode V: The Boostpire Mikes Back
Live Booster or Die Mi-sorry, Amber
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Amber: I’ll live…Mike didn’t.
…too soon?
Deanatay
You’d be surprised what you can live through.
^A knife that cuts both ways^
King Daniel
A phone does it better.
Wack'd
Hey, Amber expressed this sentiment without throwing any shade at Booster’s name, face, or style!
Recent events may have given me the impression this is a high bar.
Zor
I mean, Joyce actually got it right this time. She’s learning quick
Wack'd
I wasn’t necessarily referring to the characters.
asmodai
Well, I am under the impression that she barely looked at them (if at all), so it stands to reason she wouldn’t comment on their face or looks.
As for the name, many people do introduce themselves with a nickname rather than a name when in an informal setting, which might be her assumption as well, even if Joyce’s interjection of “They/Them” has the potential to tip her in the right direction.
Chris
She’ll live. The way Mike didn’t.
Moriarty70
I feel better. My brain went “Mike didn’t” after reading her line. I think Mike would respect it.
Kella
That’s how I heard it too and it punched me in the gut.
Sirksome
Yeah uh…Amber’s not doing to well and that was totally uncalled for.
BBCC
AMBER NO we finally got the comment section off that ‘Booster’s replacing Mike’ train!
Wack'd
Though I’m sure they’ll be thrilled she’s transparently miserable about it.
Agemegos
All aboard!
Toot! Tooot!
BBCC
NO. I am dismantling this railroad. 😛
King Daniel
And don’t forget to melt down the engine and carriages for scrap, too
BBCC
Well, of course. I’m not an animal. 😛
Jamie
Oh, I get it. Ships are for ill-advised relationships, but trains are for pains and also when the comments section becomes a trainwreck.
clif
I view it as less of a Booster is replacing Mike train and more of a Booster is the second coming of Mike for reasons train.
BBCC
I have less of a problem with those.
King Daniel
I…think clif was implying that Booster actually is Mike.
Needfuldoer
Booster does kind of look like they could be Mike’s player 2 pallet swap, but with shorter hair.
BBCC
They really really don’t imo. I don’t see any similarities. Mind you, I didn’t even see it with the silhouettes so.
Diane
That might be the difference then, not seeing the silhouette. I looked at the silhouettes, and Booster ended up filling, what was to me, the Mike shaped silhouette. And even before then, it was iffy, because the hair was too short. But the silhouette was around the right height and I though “oh, maybe he lost hair cause head trauma”. But really, they ain’t that similar at all.
MW
Well, aside from their uncanny knack for reading people. Booster does seem (at least thus far!) to be what would happen if you gave Mike’s strengths to someone with, ah, a bit more warmth, let’s say.
BBCC
I’m gonna be honest, I thought the most Mike shaped silhouette was Danny’s.
Needfuldoer
Agreed. I thought Booster’s silhouette was going to be Mike but with his trademark gravity-defying hair chopped off. (It’s not unrealistic that the hospital would have buzzed him to treat his head wounds, and it wouldn’t grow back to the way it was in just three months.)
Aside from that, their heads are a similar shape (pointy chin, squared-off hair in the back) and they’re both very similar in build and height.
That reveal was a well played red herring.
BBCC
It wasn’t a red herring. Willis didn’t foresee anyone mistaking that silhouette for Mike. Much like me, he didn’t see it.
Needfuldoer
I missed that. Did he say it over on Patreon?
That reveal was a well played unintentional red herring.
thejeff
I think it basically worked because we were looking through the silhouettes trying to match them up with characters.
Danny’s might look like Mike, but it’s also the only clearly Danny shaped one. There was no one else in the known cast that Booster’s silhouette could be.
And honestly, it still looks like Mike to me.
BBCC
I think it was in the comments not too long after Booster showed up or it might have been on twitter.
But yeah, it was a very handy little unintentional red herring.
Jay
I won’t be off this train till mikes death is dealt with dammit!
BBCC
We are taking apart the train, you need to leave. 😛
showler
I’m still a bit unclear on how you think it will be “dealt with”. He could have died as long as two and a half months ago. It’s likely that the group period of mourning, the announcements to the students, the period where grief counselors are available from the Uni are all over and the only thing we’ll see is the continuing effects on the people who were actually close to him. And there are very few of them.
Spencer
Well, that’s part of the problem. We the audience got blindsided by Mike’s death being casually dropped in panel 2 of a strip about Lucy awkwardly flirting with Walky.
The cast has skipped over the part where they’re deep in grief but the Mike fans in the audience are playing some serious catch up.
showler
Okay, but why do you expect things to happen in the comic that Willis seems to have intentionally skipped over? People talking about Ruth announcing his death at the meeting and such?
BBCC
Also….most of the main cast weren’t close to Mike, at best. He was a dick to everyone all the time and most of them didn’t like him. I don’t doubt they’re sad he’s gone because nobody deserved that and he went out trying to save people, but most of them are probably through the worst of it, if not finished mourning.
thejeff
The point being that though they’re through it, we’re not. Because it was offstage.
NinjaNick
Yes, you will.
Suet
Well, who is gonna speedrun through the stages of grief now?
DoA: Door peeking necessary
Doctor_Who
Well, I’m definitely not going to go through the stages of grief.
In fact, how dare you imply that I should! I have better things to do!
Though tell you what, I’ll do the first two if you handle the rest.
Wait, that was three! Sigh, guess I might as well finish, not like I’m good for much else.
But you know what? This was cleansing. Thank you for suggesting it!
Michael Haneline
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Savail
Take all my internets.
clif
I reserve my Internets, but that was still impressive.
Reltzik
Well, it’s been months and she’s still on depression, so it’d be us and not Amber.
Megan Rivera
Oh no, Amber……:-(
ADLegend21
Yikes.
SuperFroakie82
🙁
SuperFroakie82
Dang auto emojis! If I type a colon and a left bracket that means I wanna type a colon and a left bracket!
Axel
the worst are upside down smilies, typed specifically so it wouldn’t emoji
Stephen Bierce
*plays Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” on the hacked Muzak*
Ray
“Funeral for a Friend”?
Opus the Poet
Love Lies Bleeding
Demoted Oblivious
The wheels on the bus.
MW
If we’re going the comical route, I feel like Mike might appreciate the irony of “Freefalling”.
MW
Or “Free Fallin'” rather, my mistake.
Tarpo
Booster is the replacement for Mike who was the previous Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher
Doctor_Who
Tom Riddle really wanted to be Walky’s roommate, so when he didn’t get it he cursed the position.
clif
I prefer to think of it as Mike being the dark arts teacher.
Yotomoe
JUST MAKE OUTTheKelliestKelly
I just came out as nonbinary on my Facebook for National Coming Out Day – like, literally, two minutes ago. And like, bisexual too I guess but I don’t know how people wouldn’t have already known that part.
I am pleased with myself but also anxious out of my fucking mind. I considered but then deleted a part saying, “Please do not be mean to me about this or weaponize my identity against me.”
Wack'd
Hey! Congrats, and welcome to the club!
I get the anxiety. Folks can be cruel. And I think you’re really brave for doing it anyway. You’re more than entitled to be pleased with yourself.
Wizard
For anybody who has to be told that, it probably wouldn’t help.