Joyce and Walky!

FIRST OF ALL: ROOMIES! BOOK 2 IS ON SALE FOR LIKE FIVE BUCKS RIGHT NOW, IN CASE YOU MISS IT ALREADY

So here we are, the first page of the “revised” It’s Walky! that I drew back in 2005 or so.  Maggie was all like, dude, early It’s Walky! looks not-so-great, but what if you redrew the first storyline to sell as a graphic novel or something?  And I was all, huh, that sounds like a good idea, why not.  And so I started doing it.  I had just started Shortpacked!, which updated M-W-F at the time, and I hadn’t started Joyce & Walky! yet, and so I had some spare drawing hours to burn.

Since it was intended to be published as a stand-alone, I needed to establish some foundational things that you’d need to know going in, what with the absence of Roomies! to set you up for things.  And so here is the first page.  We get some important looks into the cornerstones of late Nineties culture — your Bill Clinton, your Matrix, your Sluggy Freelance.  You get the idea.  It also kind of lampshades how important Walky is a little too much too soon, but whatcha gonna do.

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