Most likely serious. Their similarly rather basic tastes and sense of humor is the common ground where a relationship between them flourished in another universe.
It really does hit the right balance of comedic repetition and surrealness to be far, far funnier than it has any right to be.
Also, since Walky can reuse two-thirds of the art five bucks a strip sounds slightly less insulting.
Bicycle Bill
“…and I can recycle like two-thirds of the art!”
Nothing new there. Garry Trudeau reused his background art so much it was like he was drew one panel, Xeroxed it four times, and just changed the dialog on each panel.
Lurra
I was *just* reading that he, specifically, was a comic artist who always did each panel fresh rather than ever reusing art, so I’m curious where you read that.
In the StBeals comics author’s reddit comment (u/stbeals) about copied art, in response to a reader who finds copy/paste at to be distracting and lazy: “I will say that Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury), who famously has panel after panel of the same image, is right with you on this. Even though there’s a repetition, he draws each panel separately.”
The man is an artistic genius, don’t besmirch his reputation by comparing him to some lowly comickers.
Demoted Oblivious
I thought I already did yesterday. Or maybe it was the day before. Of course an appropriate tribute may have been to copy and paste the comment (since I cant change the comment art).
Bicycle Bill
to Lurra — can’t remember where I read it because it was so long ago (during the Nixon administration/Watergate era). The fact of the matter is that, whether it is true or not that each individual panel was redrawn, his backgrounds were so very repetitious to the point that it DID look like he was Xeroxing a single frame, and many writers of the time made mention of it. example aexample b
However, when that same style of cartooning wins you a Pulitzer Prize, I guess that will effectively silence most of the critics.
thejeff
If you look closely at those strips, although they use similar framing – and the second uses exactly the same camera shot throughout, the actual lines are different every time. He’s using a technique a lot of comic artists would use to by lazy but he’s not actually taking advantage of it to be lazy.
Look at any of the bushes in the White House scene from panel to panel, for example.
Emperor Norton II
“However, when that same style of cartooning wins you a Pulitzer Prize,”
If you think his style of drawing very similar panels is what won him the Pulitzer prize, I suggest you might one day start reading the actual content of his strips.
Well that didn’t work. Uh, just pretend it looks like loss.
Regalli
The real loss is that I was so primed to expect this that even without the formating, it’s somehow still legible.
Spencer
Loss memes make me laugh like that weird little puppet guy Jabba has in Star Wars, but I gotta be honest, I feel bad sometimes.
Like, the whole strip was inspired by Buckley’s then-girlfriend going through a miscarriage right? putting that to paper seems like what artists *do* when they feel things.
I don’t know much about the surrounding context because I haven’t thought about CAD in at least 10 years, but I’m skeptical that Loss memes ballooned to the point where we just throw them without knowing that we’re laughing at that time some guy we don’t know went through a personal tragedy.
You ever see that “I have the power of God and Anime” kid? I laugh my ass off at the video but then I think whether he’s going to have to put up with that the rest of his life, because someone recorded being a kid on camera.
BBCC
The strip was inspired by an ex-girlfriend who he had an unplanned pregnancy and miscarriage with in college. He also posted a parody of the strip on its ten year anniversary so if he does have sad memories about the event, he seems to at least be in good humour about the memes.
Spencer
Ah.
Needfuldoer
He didn’t turn into a sad, depressed sack of tears for the rest of his life.
(That’s almost a direct quote from the news update under Loss when it went up.)
I don’t think he posted a new update per se, he replaced loss.jpg with a version that had Birdhair pulling some weird, smug face in the last panel. The original version went back up the next day.
BBCC
That’s the parody he posted, yeah. It was a temporary replacement but it was a thing.
Sirksome
I don’t think these two are ready for the sophisticated storytelling required to produce a loss.jpg caliber strip. Let them cut their teeth with a few strips about how big the original xbox controller was, or a few “just randomly ninjas are in this comic now” strips first.
Regalli
This is true. Loss.jpg is one of those things you have to build up to over years, laying groundwork and honing your craft.
Also, now I’m trying to rearrange the LAWsome panel structure into loss.jog’s so uh.
I disagree.
Garfield minus Garfield takes what is a quite mediocre comic at its core and turns it into a surreal work of art about depression, loneliness, and mental breakdowns while at the same time making it funnier. It’s a masterpiece.
“A beat panel consisting of Joyce and Walky looking at each other” has a high chance of being the most-frequent panel across Willis’s collective works.
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Jade
I love Joyce saying it’s a good idea.
Thag Simmons
It can be interpreted sarcastically or seriously and it’s funny both ways
Pylgrim
Most likely serious. Their similarly rather basic tastes and sense of humor is the common ground where a relationship between them flourished in another universe.
Deanatay
I mean, for a webcomic, the premise is sound.
Demoted Oblivious
Also, in DoA canon we now have a panel of Joyce looking at Walky’s crotch saying, “Oh, dang, that’s good.”
Ana Chronistic
that sounds LAWsome and also one of the guys they should kick is the fourth wall
Cholma
Bingo! This is how Mike returns to DoA.
Jhon
And gets kicked in the last panel of every strip?
That could be popular.
Schpoonman
I’d read it.
butts
see i was expecting a joke about Roomies! but i appreciate Willis giving some love to their true masterpiece
Regalli
It really does hit the right balance of comedic repetition and surrealness to be far, far funnier than it has any right to be.
Also, since Walky can reuse two-thirds of the art five bucks a strip sounds slightly less insulting.
Bicycle Bill
“…and I can recycle like two-thirds of the art!”
Nothing new there. Garry Trudeau reused his background art so much it was like he was drew one panel, Xeroxed it four times, and just changed the dialog on each panel.
Lurra
I was *just* reading that he, specifically, was a comic artist who always did each panel fresh rather than ever reusing art, so I’m curious where you read that.
In the StBeals comics author’s reddit comment (u/stbeals) about copied art, in response to a reader who finds copy/paste at to be distracting and lazy: “I will say that Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury), who famously has panel after panel of the same image, is right with you on this. Even though there’s a repetition, he draws each panel separately.”
Astaphe
We’re not going to mention Ryan North here?
Mravac Kid
The man is an artistic genius, don’t besmirch his reputation by comparing him to some lowly comickers.
Demoted Oblivious
I thought I already did yesterday. Or maybe it was the day before. Of course an appropriate tribute may have been to copy and paste the comment (since I cant change the comment art).
Bicycle Bill
to Lurra — can’t remember where I read it because it was so long ago (during the Nixon administration/Watergate era). The fact of the matter is that, whether it is true or not that each individual panel was redrawn, his backgrounds were so very repetitious to the point that it DID look like he was Xeroxing a single frame, and many writers of the time made mention of it. example a example b
However, when that same style of cartooning wins you a Pulitzer Prize, I guess that will effectively silence most of the critics.
thejeff
If you look closely at those strips, although they use similar framing – and the second uses exactly the same camera shot throughout, the actual lines are different every time. He’s using a technique a lot of comic artists would use to by lazy but he’s not actually taking advantage of it to be lazy.
Look at any of the bushes in the White House scene from panel to panel, for example.
Emperor Norton II
“However, when that same style of cartooning wins you a Pulitzer Prize,”
If you think his style of drawing very similar panels is what won him the Pulitzer prize, I suggest you might one day start reading the actual content of his strips.
Lingo
Oh goddammit, I predicted this, but I was just joking!
Mravac Kid
No jokes are safe in the expanded Walkyverse.
Demoted Oblivious
Would you kindly joke about the stock market, and or the lottery numbers in Canada? It’s for a, uh, study!
Lingo
GameStop and AMC will go up again! Ha, ha?
Sirksome
Also Walky can always default to the two guys sitting on a couch talking about video games genre!
Vukodlak
Then add a robot built out of a PlayStation.
Some1
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Some1
Well that didn’t work. Uh, just pretend it looks like loss.
Regalli
The real loss is that I was so primed to expect this that even without the formating, it’s somehow still legible.
Spencer
Loss memes make me laugh like that weird little puppet guy Jabba has in Star Wars, but I gotta be honest, I feel bad sometimes.
Like, the whole strip was inspired by Buckley’s then-girlfriend going through a miscarriage right? putting that to paper seems like what artists *do* when they feel things.
I don’t know much about the surrounding context because I haven’t thought about CAD in at least 10 years, but I’m skeptical that Loss memes ballooned to the point where we just throw them without knowing that we’re laughing at that time some guy we don’t know went through a personal tragedy.
You ever see that “I have the power of God and Anime” kid? I laugh my ass off at the video but then I think whether he’s going to have to put up with that the rest of his life, because someone recorded being a kid on camera.
BBCC
The strip was inspired by an ex-girlfriend who he had an unplanned pregnancy and miscarriage with in college. He also posted a parody of the strip on its ten year anniversary so if he does have sad memories about the event, he seems to at least be in good humour about the memes.
Spencer
Ah.
Needfuldoer
He didn’t turn into a sad, depressed sack of tears for the rest of his life.
(That’s almost a direct quote from the news update under Loss when it went up.)
I don’t think he posted a new update per se, he replaced loss.jpg with a version that had Birdhair pulling some weird, smug face in the last panel. The original version went back up the next day.
BBCC
That’s the parody he posted, yeah. It was a temporary replacement but it was a thing.
Sirksome
I don’t think these two are ready for the sophisticated storytelling required to produce a loss.jpg caliber strip. Let them cut their teeth with a few strips about how big the original xbox controller was, or a few “just randomly ninjas are in this comic now” strips first.
Regalli
This is true. Loss.jpg is one of those things you have to build up to over years, laying groundwork and honing your craft.
Also, now I’m trying to rearrange the LAWsome panel structure into loss.jog’s so uh.
I blame you all.
ian livs
Really liking the matching smug grins in panels 2 and 5. These absolute dorks
Leorale
Hooray, LAWsome! Please somebody link it for maximum Mike & Jason ridiculousness.
Leorale
Ah! Found it. It wasn’t Jason after all, but it’s still comedy times.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/blog/lawsome/
Regalli
Thank you, I had missed this context and my life is now forever enriched by the knowing.
Octopus Ink
I think that’s still more clever than Garfield Minus Garfield.
Sunny
I disagree.
Garfield minus Garfield takes what is a quite mediocre comic at its core and turns it into a surreal work of art about depression, loneliness, and mental breakdowns while at the same time making it funnier. It’s a masterpiece.
Demoted Oblivious
The voices in my head unanimously agree! G-G is a cathartic breakdown.
Suet
That premise is a sketch.
How many strips in until the kicker accidentally kicks itself?
K. Ivan Ruppert
Minimum six.
Cattleprod
Oh jeez and it’s really about him processing Mike’s death, like how Lawsome needs to be handled in the gritty reboot.
Stephen Bierce
Your Kicks just keep getting harder to find…
General Tekno
Ah, so “Ouch, My Balls: The Comic.”
AbacusWizard
This comic strip would be awesome, or, as they say in France, l’awesome.
Rotunda
This is the third consecutive comic with a beat panel consisting of Joyce and Walky looking at each other. Just saying.
MM
Eventually the panel structure will all be the same, and then Mike will return, and things will be kicked. Willis is just easing us into it.
Mydnyt
And every time all the little goblin in my brain does is scream “NOW KISS FOR FUCKS SAKE!”
Madock345
“A beat panel consisting of Joyce and Walky looking at each other” has a high chance of being the most-frequent panel across Willis’s collective works.
BBCC
Yaaaaay, LAWsome returns!
Bagge
Joyce knows quality wen she sees it.
Spencer
Important lore question: Does Wen exist in DoA?
King Daniel
I’ll believe it Wen I see it.
He Who Abides
She hasn’t shown up yet, but thanks for reminding me that I’m curious how Faz is doing post-time skip.
Keulen
I really hope not. One Faz-like character is more than enough.
Bagge
all I know for certain is that if Wen exists in this universe, she is Quality Wen
Kernanator
“Oh, Like You’re Some Genius Cartoon-Drawing Person!” would be a good book title.
Clif
DOA 11: ‘An I Can Recycle Like Two-Thirds of the Art.
Keulen
DoA Book 11: Oh, Dang, That’s Good
Andrusi
With a cover made entirely (other than the title) by using the freehand select tool in MS Paint to copy pieces of previous covers.
Spencer
Ultimate LAWsome by Mark Millar
Nono
This is the guy who came up with living in a trampoline park, Joyce. He’s certainly got creative ingenuity down at least.
Honestly, Walky should just go into a creative writing degree.
Mark
Hey! I own that shirt, Walky!
jeffepp
So, when does it hit her that she and Walkie are alone, in her room, so close together, looking into each other’s eyes…
Demoted Oblivious
When the mailbox kicks her.
Madock345
And he’s so deliciously caramel, in the words of Dorothy
Raen
Well, this a deep cut.
Demoted Oblivious
And Raen knows the deep.
Juanoku