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We were too in the thick of the Book 8 Kickstarter endgame for me to plug it at the time, but the second of March's Patreon bonus strips went live a few days ago! It's about Tony and Beef! You may remember them as "barely appearing in this webcomic" and "beating the crap out of each other currently in It's Walky! reruns."
Patreon bonus strips are viewable to patrons who pledge at any amount! So if you're logged in, you can see it or any of the other dozens of bonus strips from months past.
167 thoughts on “Fake tweetin’”
Ana Chronistic
“Robs, it’s called ghostwriting, THAT’S LEGAL“
Marsh Maryrose
Beckers would totally call her “Robs.”
Otl1999
If Becky was impersonating (as opposed to satirizing) Robin using her (Becky’s) own Twitter account, it would be a violation of Twitter’s ToS, but might or might not be illegal. (Given that Robin is a Congress critter, I wouldn’t be surprised if it is.)
However, if she was using Robin’s own account (meaning she was accessing it without authorization) it is definitely illegal – the only question is whether it would be a misdemeanor or a felony. Again because of the Congress thing, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a felony.
If there is little or no money involved, then whether it would be pursued legally or not likely depends in large part on what was said (as the other person) – defamatory or fraudulent statements likely would be pursued. The Congress thing would make it more likely that there would be legal action regardless of what was said.
But regardless, since it is Robin’s account – illegal.
Ana Chronistic
I mean, if we aren’t getting 45 for all the dubious shit HE’S instigating with tweets, what’s the diff
ego
it’s the difference between having being Mcconnell’s constituent, and Pelosi’s.
ǝ snow ʍousɐ
Didn’t they show Becky guessing Robin’s Twitter password? I seem to remember that.
thejeff
Robin handed over her phone to play with. Becky tweeted as her openly then and accessed her authentication while she had the phone.
Doctor_Who
“You are now subscribed to The Clu Gulager fan newsletter.”
“No, I want gulags.”
“Order for one gross of galoshes has been placed.”
“Goo. Log.”
“Top result for Poo Blog: Hi, I’m Walky, and welcome to my-”
“Dammit!”
Clif
Your mind is frightening.
BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
Machine intelligence truly is the way of the future. The stupid, stupid future.
Ana Chronistic
Alexa is leading the way
Bryan Langley
cant stop giggling….
ValdVin
“We meet again. And this time…in pants” would make a great book title
Archivist
Or the name of one’s sex tape. …Nega-sex tape?
ValdVin
Well, as the start of a Slipshine, it certainly beats “I’m here to deliver your pizza and/or clean your pool”.
Bagge
“This time I have pants… OR DO I?”
(spoiler: She does not)
marianne
You’ve been played Rob, it was all a ruse. You don’t go to college with David Walkerton for three years without knowing what the “Funky Cold Medina” is.
Dean
“Representative DeSanto, are you sure you’re wearing pants?”
(looks down)
“…well played”
ValdVin
Yeah, Robin’s statement does sorta assert facts not yet in evidence.
Keulen
We really can’t be sure until Robin stands up.
Needfuldoer
She’s wearing a pencil skirt in her character model for this chapter.
Lieutenant Dan
So… not pants, then.
Needfuldoer
Nope. Just one pant, but it’s double-wide.
ValdVin
Point made. But if there’s anyone in the cast who can lose a piece of vital clothing between the “dressing room” and “on set”, it’s our Genki Girl Robin.
William Leonard Reese Jr.
. . . .What is Robin’s plan here? Because she is very much RIGHT and she could easily have Becky prosecuted for this. . .buuuut that doesn’t seem to be her goal here.
Mollyscribbles
Put herself in better negotiating position when hiring her new social media manager. Say Becky could be arrested for technically starting the job prior to being hired and she won’t try asking for back pay.
jmsr7
Yeah, i’d say that this is an attempt to hire Becky. Especially since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been saying the stuff that she’s been tweeting, and look how popular she is! So Willis may be doing an arc about that, either with Robin being the comic’s equivalent of her or Robin advocating the same stuff.
In other words, i bet Robin has let Becky tweet for this amount of time as a way of seeing if it will recover her popularity and get another chance at congress since her party has disavowed her. After all, if it failed, she could just claim to have been attacked/hacked by liberal activists in a smear campaign as a way of getting back in the good graces of republicans/christians (i’ma attacked by Satan, y’all!).
So what Robin does with Becky here will depend on what she thinks offers her the best shot at holding her congressional seat in the next election. It’s up to Willis to decide what the effects of Becky’s texting has been. Fingers crossed!
Wraithy2773
Aye, fits with Becky getting her (very meager) paycheck a few days ago, that seems like a logical place to take this scene :).
darkgloomie
Doesn’t Willis have months worth of buffer at least? This storyline was probably conceived way before AOC started making waves
Sarda
I would consider it possible, though not incredibly likely, that he would have went back to change just the content of becky’s tweet in the last strip to reference recent events.
That said, she’s also not really saying anything particularly new.
Marsh Maryrose
The buffer watch stands at 11 weeks right now. I don’t think it’s been longer than three months since the twins arrived.
The AOC dance video went viral Jan. 4, so it would have been a week or two old when he drew this.
But I think the AOC thing is just detail. I think even back when we last saw Robin sitting in the parking lot while Rachel spoke of redemption being a story, even then Willis had the general outline of Robin’s arc in his mind. AOC is a nice framework for that outline, but I’ll bet the same storyline would have happened with or without her.
Archivist
I have missed Robin so much.
timemonkey
Huh, she actually noticed.
Gojira
Is familiar with what a gulag is, but has no idea how United States law works. Yup, she’s a republican.
Axel
I’m not sure she actually knows what a gulag is, other than a scary sounding word
Eldritch Gentleman
If she tried enough she could probably… I don’t know accuse Becky of Internet terrorism and send her to Guantanamo?
Dafydd
Wait, that’s Robin? Why does she look like she’s 15?
Doctor_Who
She moisturizes.
AeromechanicalAce
It reflects her mental Age.
Evan
She’s like Cyclops, she’s basically only capable of appearing in control of herself with glasses on, otherwise things get crazy.
Regalli
I think it’s that T-shirt, it deages something fierce.
jmsr7
Also, when she’s appearing politically, she wears glasses and a suit and ties her hair up in a ponytail. She’s going for the “Sarah Palin” look as part of her ‘republican politician’ image. When she’s relaxing she looks more like herself – hair down, jeans and t-shirt.
butts
For a second I thought it was Riley, before I noticed the eyes.
Sunny
I can see it. Panels 3, 5, and 6 are very much Riley-esque.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Actually, this *is* Riley. Congresswoman DeSanto has vanished. She is on an important committee and her absence will have dire consequences. So Aide has recruited Riley to impersonate her. Elevator shoes, padded bra, makeup experts, dialogue coaches, the works.
Amazing what people will do for a promise of an unlimited lifetime supply of cereal.
moon
her dialogue, while in character, doesn’t help her case
Stu
Incidentally, has Ryan been located and/or arrested as-yet? I remember he was part of Robin’s campaign team, but can’t recall much beyond that (and her genuinely being kind of horrified about it).
Pablo360
Pretty sure he’s in the hospital.
Doctor_Who
Guessing he’s in the hospital or jail, depending on how badly Amber messed him up.
I like to think he’s in a bed right across from Ross.
Stu
Ooh, yeah, I kinda forgot about that.
Eldritch Gentleman
Probably still in hospital, not that much time has passed since Amber shanked him.
Owlmirror
RECAP: Ryan managed to survive the tag team of Sal and Amazi-Girl by using the surprisingly effective tactic of running away.
But then Ryan decided to actually go on the offensive with a knife (and not, I repeat, NOT, a cell phone) against Dorothy and Amber. Amber pushed Dorothy inside the building doors so that she was facing Ryan alone. Ryan seemed to think that this gave him some sort of tactical advantage.
Amber severely corrected his misunderstanding.
Regalli
The way Joyce described him when talking to Joe implied he’ll be in the hospital for quite some time. The more incidental dialogue related to the stabbing also makes it sound like Amber did a real number on him. (I keep thinking but can’t find Walky having a line including the phrase ‘eviscerated’.)
Also he was an intern, so losing him was nothing compared to her firing her staff.
DailyBrad
Ryan’s alive, but pretty royally sliced up from the sounds of things. Additionally, several girls came forward after the attack to accuse him of doing exactly what he did to Joyce, so while his family’s trying to sue Amber’s, he’s also got plenty of other problems.
Fart Captor
Robin fired her entire staff because they were reluctant to fire him
Khyrin
They weren’t reluctant to FIRE him… they just wanted to quietly let him go and distance The Candidate from ‘Ryan’ because Ryan is date-rapist (bad) who was more popular than Robin as of her Lamp-theft.
Bagge
She didn’t fire the lamp.
The lamp is all she has left now
Amazi-Stool
But why does she address the lamp as ‘Zoomer’ and not as ‘Alexa’?
Kinoko
The sad thing is, even with three other girls coming forward against him, I doubt he’ll go to prison when he gets out. He’s got a rich/influential father. He might get expelled from the university? Maybe?
thejeff
It’s been implied that he hasn’t even woken up yet. The question may not come up.
He might get some sympathy for the injuries, but otoh assault with a deadly weapon on camera is a harder rap to beat.
RicardtheDragoon
I don’t think I fully appreciated the advantages of seeing facial expressions through hair in a comic before this strip.
Doctor_Who
You mean that isn’t translucent cellophane on her head? There goes my entire worldview.
butts
what if becky’s hair is just… actually like that, though
LeslieBean4shizzle
I thought Becky was blushing really hard for some reason.
Or I did for the first several panels. I figured it out by the end.
… it still looks like a blush to me.
Reltzik
Yeah, that’s definitely the result of flexing capillum.
emeraldbeacon
Becky has some impressive TransHAIRency…?
Needfuldoer
Becky’s hair is actually a transparent orange polycarbonate, like some old iMac G3s were made of.
DSL
Yeah, and what’s the deal with all the black lines? Real people don’t have lack outlines!
Sharkfin Bangs
Every single face in every single panel is a Classic ™.
Andr3wtime
Seeing Becky’s face through her hair reminds me of when you can glitch the camera in Minecraft to see through the ground to find tunnels.
Roborat