Unused strips for September 23, 2025
Added 2025-09-23 16:41:08 +0000 UTCI had a few different endings to this Jennifer/Walky sequence. Originally, I had Walky muse about other people who've had things "way worse than me an' were left to themselves," which is meant to indicate Ethan, who lost a friend and/or sex partner and was largely left to be all emo by himself for four months. And so Walky leaves to crawl up into Ethan's bed Jennifer-style and ends up wedging himself between Ethan and Asher, who's also still up there. I liked it! ...but it's kind of a super stretch to get to that sudden left-turn, and I couldn't find a better way to connect the dots to make it make better sense to me, other than having Walky flat-out state to the audience: "ETHAN! I'M TALKING ABOUT ETHAN!!!"
Plus I wanted this sequence to really focus on Jennifer and Walky. This was detouring from that. So I started over.
This second take got to be too listy. And it left things in a place I didn't want to leave them, for worse transitions to later story stuffs. So I threw this out, too!
And ended up with this strip of concentrated Jennifer/Walky interaction. There's that faux-sibling vibe I was looking for.
Comments
In my headcanon, now, the final strip (Jennifer kicks Walky outta his own bed) is followed up by the sketch strip of him back in bed (he is unhurt and quickly returned) and going through his sad list while Jennifer threatens to buy him a Nintendo.
Michael Steamweed
2025-09-26 17:37:52 +0000 UTCI need that walky sandwich
areyoshi
2025-09-26 16:48:09 +0000 UTC
