Do you mean “intentional” or that we should contemplate and “discuss amongst members of a jury”? Either could be erotic in this context. Gives a whole new meaning to a hung jury.
Daniel M Ball
IIRC they advertised “Hung Jury” as a gay porn in the 1990s.
and yet 74% of us fools still voted for Walky to get the gig. The hubris. The senseless flailing at the tide of fate.
Eldritchy
What is democracy to a god.
Felix
Wait, this is a democracy? Since when?
milu
New poll: Should the story actually take the results of these polls into account from now on?
• nah
• no
• haha nope
Clif
Flawed poll. There’s no option for “GOOD LORD, NO!!!”
3oranges
In D&D settings gods depend on the worship of followers for their strength, and sometimes I think are shaped by their belief. If that isn’t the demos (people) having the power, what is?
milu
Ok you joke but that sounds essentially like some sort of populist autocracy. Very much not a cracy of the demos
Clif
An anti-elitist dictatorship you say. Or are you redefining either populist or autocracy?
milu
that i what i’m saying, yes
TachyonCode
If believers come preloaded with beliefs AND evidence-based reasoning underlying those beliefs, it’s just deterministic theocracy at that point.
Also this formula is surprisingly common not just in webcomics but in manga as well. Every read Katekyo Hitman Reborn? It follows this method almost exactly.
It’s called Roomies! and can be read at itswalky.com
Sirksome
I tried reading Roomies a few times but it’s a lot to read. Also I tried reading Shortpacked a few times but it’s a lot to read. And then I’ve also tried re-reading DoA once, but it’s a lot to-.
I do feel like I’m missing out sometimes cause apparently there’s hidden knowledge and references in DoA to the other comics like apparently Joyce and Walky were married?!?!…And Ruth I guess died in a car crash once. Crazy!…Also I guess Robin had super speed and actually a bunch of people apparently had super powers I don’t know. Carla was a car once? I could go on forever just on stuff I’ve read in the comments.
fridge_logic
I was once the same way, Then I started reading Its Walky because Willis was republishing the strips a day at the time from basically the start of the big Aliens arg (Apparently there’s alien pre-plot in Roomies) and I tried reading Roomies but it felt like it was taking too long to get good (I much prefer Willis’ current writing).
That said by the start of It’s Walky Willis is writing longform in a dedicated way, where Roomies eventually transitions into it.
I read Roomies but couldn’t really get into It’s Walky, so I read Shortpacked! and then picked back up at Joyce & Walky
eskimolos
I’ve read ALL OF IT, but I came in when It’s Walky was 3/4ths done, then stuck with through Joyce and Walky (an aside there – Joyce/The Wife of Willis were pregnant around the same time I was! It was fun, my daughter is about the same age as the Willis kids), and followed to Shortpacked and DoA.
To this day I’m still grateful that Willis updates daily, DoA is the only daily comic I follow, and enriches my cold, dull weekends.
davidbreslin101
I found “Shortpacked” and “DoA” round about the same time and archive-binged both. I just found it entertaining that the comments were full of references to the characters’ exotic deep-space adventures from another strip. I later read Roomies, but got distracted about a year into It’s Walky and never got back to it.
Regalli
Shortpacked initially, binged all the previous Walkyverse over a couple weeks in college I mostly don’t remember due to Undiagnosed Hormonal Bullshit, hopped onto Dumbing of Age sometime mid-Book Three (I think I’d been reading Shortpacked for a few months by then, but not 100% sure.) Got into Transformers as a direct result of it, Willis be Damned.
Feel like that’s more often gag concepts gaining depth than “I ALREADY have an epic scale idea: Now to disguise and spoon feed it.
Cris
I wouldn’t be so sure about that one, when my room mate and I wrote a comic this is pretty much exactly what we did. Ours was a mundane-college-gag-a-day prequel for our epic sprawling mafia story we’d been mentally building on for years, and by the end of 60 strips we’d barely introduced four of the 20+ main cast.
And off the top of my head, I can think of at least one other comic by a friend that took a similar approach, throwing the characters they’d been playing with since grade school into a more casual gag-based format that shifted into long form story as they got more comfortable writing.
I think a lot of authors have large internal casts of recurring characters with sprawling backstories, but because of the scale of those stories it takes a while for them to get on the page, or an ‘AU’ of them is used instead.
It’s a _hallway_, by definition the are only 2 walls so there is no fourth wall.
Unless it’s a dead end, maybe with a little window, and a valence with little violet curtains and a vase with some cloth flowers. Some fluffy maybe, like a hydrangea. And a little crystal unicorn hanging in the middle to catch the morning sunlight and add a slight dystopian feel to your guests welcome. Add a sitting chair with big cushiony arms and your guests will delight in sitting their to enjoy their tea or read a book.
Is that unlimited first tier self-referential humour? Or are we permitting arbitrarily finite layers of meta (n.b. we cannot permit infinite layers of meta humour, since within the scope of human endeavor an infinite can never be achieved (n².b. Those who are managing the first layer are discussing limits to first tier physics again. This must be raised at the next board if we can get quorum (n³.b. the third tier entities are having discussion about the meta level of their next meeting in the context of noting a meta alert about the first and second tier entities (…(n’.b. wut?))))) references?
Might be overreaching a bit there Joyce…
Tho I suppose it is better than Walky over in the next sofa (couch?) being unable to get past a single paragraph.
What? You don’t believe in the farting monkey that also rides a t-rex idea? That’s gonna be adapted into a animated series with six seasons and a movie one day!
also consider Dinosaur Comics. That has even less of a premise than what Walky’s come up with. And it’s been running for like 18 years. Also, dinosaurs.
187 thoughts on “Prequel”
Ana Chronistic
and then a few years after college… PORN-LORD BROWN
Doctor_Who
If this whole saga ends with Joyce drawing porn, the journey will have been so worth it.
timemonkey
She’s already drawn dicks all over her wing.
BarerMender
The porn was always inside her.
King Daniel
Phrasing
He Who Abides
Deliberate.
Demoted Oblivious
Do you mean “intentional” or that we should contemplate and “discuss amongst members of a jury”? Either could be erotic in this context. Gives a whole new meaning to a hung jury.
Daniel M Ball
IIRC they advertised “Hung Jury” as a gay porn in the 1990s.
Pylgrim
Willis has been warning us for a while that Joyce is autobiographic.
milu
and yet 74% of us fools still voted for Walky to get the gig. The hubris. The senseless flailing at the tide of fate.
Eldritchy
What is democracy to a god.
Felix
Wait, this is a democracy? Since when?
milu
New poll:
Should the story actually take the results of these polls into account from now on?
• nah
• no
• haha nope
Clif
Flawed poll. There’s no option for “GOOD LORD, NO!!!”
3oranges
In D&D settings gods depend on the worship of followers for their strength, and sometimes I think are shaped by their belief. If that isn’t the demos (people) having the power, what is?
milu
Ok you joke but that sounds essentially like some sort of populist autocracy. Very much not a cracy of the demos
Clif
An anti-elitist dictatorship you say. Or are you redefining either populist or autocracy?
milu
that i what i’m saying, yes
TachyonCode
If believers come preloaded with beliefs AND evidence-based reasoning underlying those beliefs, it’s just deterministic theocracy at that point.
Adam Black
on the last Day of the DOA strip,
Willis legally changes his name to Julia Gray,
& leads the war against the Soggies
Despite Rage
and transitions… but in a twist that surprises nobody, he transitions into a robot
Clif
built in the shape of a giant monkey.
Riding a dinosaur.
Clif
Don’t ask what the container of compressed gas is for.
Adam Black
but what Kind of Car does the dino-Julia transition into ?
Adam Black
er TransFORM into a Car, i mean. ( not transition ) ;
Adam Black
< although I bet the in- juliaverse , Julia Gray is obsessed
with an 80s cartoon: "Trans-Humans: Dinos in Disguise"
about a Marooned group of feathered Space-Lizards who try to blend in to life on earth by becoming humanoid Robots.
Sirksome
I mean I’d read it. Proof being that I’m reading this which I assume is the reboot of whatever real life Willis comic Julia Grey is a reference to.
Sirksome
Also this formula is surprisingly common not just in webcomics but in manga as well. Every read Katekyo Hitman Reborn? It follows this method almost exactly.
poofdepoof
It’s called Roomies! and can be read at itswalky.com
Sirksome
I tried reading Roomies a few times but it’s a lot to read. Also I tried reading Shortpacked a few times but it’s a lot to read. And then I’ve also tried re-reading DoA once, but it’s a lot to-.
I do feel like I’m missing out sometimes cause apparently there’s hidden knowledge and references in DoA to the other comics like apparently Joyce and Walky were married?!?!…And Ruth I guess died in a car crash once. Crazy!…Also I guess Robin had super speed and actually a bunch of people apparently had super powers I don’t know. Carla was a car once? I could go on forever just on stuff I’ve read in the comments.
fridge_logic
I was once the same way, Then I started reading Its Walky because Willis was republishing the strips a day at the time from basically the start of the big Aliens arg (Apparently there’s alien pre-plot in Roomies) and I tried reading Roomies but it felt like it was taking too long to get good (I much prefer Willis’ current writing).
That said by the start of It’s Walky Willis is writing longform in a dedicated way, where Roomies eventually transitions into it.
Here’s the start of itswalky:
http://www.itswalky.com/comic/plagued-with-a-sense-of-normalcy/
a/snow/mous/e
I read Roomies but couldn’t really get into It’s Walky, so I read Shortpacked! and then picked back up at Joyce & Walky
eskimolos
I’ve read ALL OF IT, but I came in when It’s Walky was 3/4ths done, then stuck with through Joyce and Walky (an aside there – Joyce/The Wife of Willis were pregnant around the same time I was! It was fun, my daughter is about the same age as the Willis kids), and followed to Shortpacked and DoA.
To this day I’m still grateful that Willis updates daily, DoA is the only daily comic I follow, and enriches my cold, dull weekends.
davidbreslin101
I found “Shortpacked” and “DoA” round about the same time and archive-binged both. I just found it entertaining that the comments were full of references to the characters’ exotic deep-space adventures from another strip. I later read Roomies, but got distracted about a year into It’s Walky and never got back to it.
Regalli
Shortpacked initially, binged all the previous Walkyverse over a couple weeks in college I mostly don’t remember due to Undiagnosed Hormonal Bullshit, hopped onto Dumbing of Age sometime mid-Book Three (I think I’d been reading Shortpacked for a few months by then, but not 100% sure.) Got into Transformers as a direct result of it, Willis be Damned.
Archivist
Feel like that’s more often gag concepts gaining depth than “I ALREADY have an epic scale idea: Now to disguise and spoon feed it.
Cris
I wouldn’t be so sure about that one, when my room mate and I wrote a comic this is pretty much exactly what we did. Ours was a mundane-college-gag-a-day prequel for our epic sprawling mafia story we’d been mentally building on for years, and by the end of 60 strips we’d barely introduced four of the 20+ main cast.
And off the top of my head, I can think of at least one other comic by a friend that took a similar approach, throwing the characters they’d been playing with since grade school into a more casual gag-based format that shifted into long form story as they got more comfortable writing.
I think a lot of authors have large internal casts of recurring characters with sprawling backstories, but because of the scale of those stories it takes a while for them to get on the page, or an ‘AU’ of them is used instead.
Jamie
Someday I’ll have to go and read It’s Walky! from start to finish, rather than… whatever it was I did.
jothki
I’ll confess that there are probably webcomics that I’ve read entirely backwards. Nothing on that scale, of course.
misanthropope
“You start out dead, get that out of the way. Wake up in an old people’s home, feeling better every day.”
also, i aver that reverse order is the correct way to read a textbook, at least in the math-adjecent fields.
crow
I mean, I’d read any comic strip if I saw it in a newspaper
Wagstaff
“No breaking the 4th wall in the halls!”
Renadt
Detention for you!
When will you learn?
Demoted Oblivious
It’s a _hallway_, by definition the are only 2 walls so there is no fourth wall.
Unless it’s a dead end, maybe with a little window, and a valence with little violet curtains and a vase with some cloth flowers. Some fluffy maybe, like a hydrangea. And a little crystal unicorn hanging in the middle to catch the morning sunlight and add a slight dystopian feel to your guests welcome. Add a sitting chair with big cushiony arms and your guests will delight in sitting their to enjoy their tea or read a book.
Demoted Oblivious
ugh.. “there”
KSClaw
I mean, *gestures at other comics that started in newspapers, and are considered epic today*
Deanatay
Nah, those guys are a bunch of Doones, Willis will Bury them! I’ve seen so many webcomics Bloom and bust I’ve lost County!
Geneseepaws
Begrudgingly upvoted, now I’m thinking Opus and Boots.
He Who Abides
Nice Peter? Is that you?
Nono
Joyce already does online stories of Julia Gray?
Prince Mech
Yeah she has been for a few months in canon now
Liquid Len
But not the ones Amber wants to read
Rycan
I’m not so sure about that…
Reed
they’ve developed self awareness, shut it down.
C.T Phipps
That’s why Skynet nuked humanity!
Casi
I knew that Willis was the reason for skynet going rogue.
He Who Abides
Damn you Willis.
dej
Nahh I don’ t see an audience for anything like that
Casi
How about, all her Julia Gray characters are working at the Friendly Local Game Store/Comic Shop? Some sort of Alternate Universe type deal.
ReFlex76
The meta is strong with this one.
milu
Good… good…. Let the shameless self-referentiality flow through you
Keulen
Meta! Unlimited meta!
Demoted Oblivious
Is that unlimited first tier self-referential humour? Or are we permitting arbitrarily finite layers of meta (n.b. we cannot permit infinite layers of meta humour, since within the scope of human endeavor an infinite can never be achieved (n².b. Those who are managing the first layer are discussing limits to first tier physics again. This must be raised at the next board if we can get quorum (n³.b. the third tier entities are having discussion about the meta level of their next meeting in the context of noting a meta alert about the first and second tier entities (…(n’.b. wut?))))) references?
Clif
Perhaps you’re overthinking it.
Mr D
Might be overreaching a bit there Joyce…
Tho I suppose it is better than Walky over in the next sofa (couch?) being unable to get past a single paragraph.
Sirksome
What? You don’t believe in the farting monkey that also rides a t-rex idea? That’s gonna be adapted into a animated series with six seasons and a movie one day!
milu
also consider Dinosaur Comics. That has even less of a premise than what Walky’s come up with. And it’s been running for like 18 years. Also, dinosaurs.
Thulcandran
I mean, it’s fine for Dexter & Monkey Master fanfic, but that’s also what Daisy will say.
BBCC
Willis, be nice to the 4th wall! It didn’t do anything to you.
King Daniel
You can’t prove that
Stephen Bierce