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''Joyce & Walky!'' got taken out of mothballs on May 13, 2012, with three updates since then. Willis says he's unsure how long updates will keep up.

 

 

'''''Roomies!'''''

* [[Art Evolution]]: [http://joyceandwalky.com/d/19970908.html This] is what the first strip of the entire canon looked like. [http://www.dumbingofage.com/ This] is the latest strip of ''Dumbing of Age''. '''Same artist.'''

* [[Ascended Extra]]: Billie—started as a background character living with Ruth and was revealed to be both her childhood friend and the ''Roomies!'' cast's [[One Degree of Separation]] to Walky a year or so later.

* [[Book Ends]]: The comic begins and ends with Danny on the phone with his girlfriend and scolding Joe for climbing up out the window to the girls' dorms, trying to get him to think of the consequences. The first time, Joe's response shows his obliviousness to the concept of dealing with your actions; the second time, Joe [[Character Development|has actually considered the potential ramifications]] (if only the favorable ones) and decided to do it anyway.

* [[Can't Get Away with Nuthin']]': Drink one beer, and {{spoiler|you'll proceed to get totally drunk and a close friend of yours will GET KILLED saving you from your own stupidity}}.

* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: Ruth's {{spoiler|death}} brought the strip's consequence-free hijinks to a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|screeching halt]].

* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Joyce. Worth noting that she's jealous over someone that's not actually hers.

** The first of many. Willis make multiple background appearances throughout his comics, and later on becomes Ethan's [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis]] in ''Shortpacked''.

* [[Disneyfication]]: Parodied with ''Roomies!'' issue two, which has Danny, Joe and Joyce watching "Disney's ''[[Hansel and Gretel]]''".

* [[Can't Hold His Liquor]]: It takes a mere sip to get Sal and Walky passed out.

* [[Cat Fight]]: ''So'' many, most involving Sal.

* [[Cerebus Retcon]]: Pretty much ''everything''.

** Using ''[[The Sound of Music]]'' as torture goes from being just plain [[Suckiness Is Painful]] to having a subliminally-painful, ''[[Scanners]]''-like effect on abductees imprinted on them in youth, and Joyce's immunity becomes a plot point.

* [[Cloning Blues]]: Anti-Joyce, whose murder by the original would lead to severe repercussions.

* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: [[Two Words: Obvious Trope|Four words]]:''The Sound of Music''

* [[Contractual Genre Blindness]]: Head Alien just enjoys playing the Villain too much for his own good.

* [[Crossover]]: With ''[[Melonpool]],'' twice, and both times it had a lasting effect on ''Walky'''s storylines.

** And another with ''[[Fans]]'', which seemed more concern with advancing both character sets' emotional arcs.

* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Sal, through much of the series.

* [[Death Is Cheap]]: Averted, despite the heroes having access to a Martian Resurrection Chamber by the end of the comic. Only one person can use it at a time, the process takes nine months, and you need a sample of DNA from the subject. {{spoiler|And the martians are very thorough when it comes to preventing their enemies from returning, so most of the SEMME agents who died in the finale are staying dead. It's very fortunate that Joyce happened to have...''acquired'' some of Walky's genetic material shortly before the battle}}.

{{quote|{{spoiler|'''The Wanderer''': No! Our ''universe'' will ''die'' a slow ''energy death''! What ''motive'' do you have against the ''countless'' innocents that inhabit your ''native world''?!}}

{{spoiler|'''Dargon Chesterfield''': You robbed me of my ''heir''. I will rob you of your ''future''.}} }}

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Toward {{spoiler|Alan}} and the law-abiding Martians; in the epilogue, toward now-assimilated aliens.

* [[Flight]]: Part of what makes Joyce special is that she can use the flying pack effectively.

** [https://web.archive.org/web/20131011032305/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20040227.html In this "vision," how many arms did you have?]

* [[Fragile Speedster]]: Robin, though it's mostly emotional fragility rather than physical - she's about as strong as the others.

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Sal.

* [[Funetik Aksent]]: Sal.

* [[Gambit Roulette]]: Britjas, just...Britjas.

* [[Genki Girl]]: Robin.

* [[Heroic Sociopath]]: Mike.

* [[Sued for Superheroics]]: Done completely straight and deadly serious.

* [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]]: But it doesn't work the last time Head Alien tries it.

* [[In Vino Veritas]]: When he gets drunk, Mike turns ''nice''!

* [[Let's Wait a While]]: Though in Joyce and Walky, it's not so much "Wait until the time is right to have sex" as much as "Wait until Joyce can think about sex without going catatonic or psychotic."

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: At least 90% of the characters on that page up there were introduced for or major players in this one. The [http://scorpius.spaceports.com/~carnildo/itswalky_all.html unofficial stats page] lists 247 named or otherwise identifiable characters.

* [[Loud of War]]: The aliens use ''The Sound Of Music'' as a form of mental torture.

* [[Love Martyr]]: Dina.

* [[Mysterious Parent]]

* [[Never Bareheaded]]: Dina is never seen without her trademark safari hat, even when sleeping or suspended upside down. In the entire series, she takes it off exactly once: {{spoiler|when she is about to die.}}

* [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]]: The Head Alien is a pretty funny guy... who also happens to singlehandedly ruin several characters' lives.

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] Dizzy and hyperactive as he is, Walky is not nearly as dumb as he acts, (he was a straight-A student) but he prefers to play the fool to avoid responsibility. (And he has trouble breaking the habit of a lifetime when responsibility is ultimately forced upon him.)

* [[Separated at Birth]]: {{spoiler|Sal and Walky.}}

* [[Shoot the Dog]]: Sal shooting Tony, in a [[Story Arc]] appropriately entitled "Kill Your Friends".

* [[Shrinking Violet]]: Dina, although {{spoiler|she sadly doesn't get a [[Beautiful All Along]] moment}}.

* [[Small Girl, Big Gun]]: Joyce, to the point where it becomes a [[Running Gag]].

* [[Throwaway Country]]: Invoked by the Head Alien, who figures no one would notice if he just froze Canada. "God''damn'' was I right!"

* [[Time Stands Still]]: The Head Alien creates a device that can do this and tests it on Canada.

* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: Billie actually dares to challenge [[Dark Action Girl|Sal]] over Danny and manages to give a surprisingly good account of herself due to martial arts training and a childhood spent fighting with Walky.

* [[Totem Pole Trench]]: In [https://web.archive.org/web/20110814021028/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20020210.html this] '' strip, Joyce and Dina use a more specific version to pretend to be Jason.

* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Willis had way too much fun with Joyce and Walky's. By the time it was released it had the force of a small thermonuclear device.

{{quote|''[[Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex|Man of steel.]] [[Averted Trope|Woman of steel.]] [[Funny Moments|Bed of Kleenex.]]''}}

* [[Unrobotic Reveal]]: Alan.

* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Often - usually after Head Alien has pushed one of them a little ''too'' far.

* [[Upper Class Twit]]: Subverted: Jason is British and upper class, wears a bowtie almost all the time, and had a rich and powerful father, but is in fact more serious and competent than most of his squad.

* [[The Voiceless]]: Marcie. She ''may'' actually be mute, and [[Dumbing of Age|definitely is in another universe.]]

* [[We Named the Dog Indiana]]: Joyce's dogs, Walkies and Daniel. Both times, she had been mindwiped of the respective boy's existence, and it was unintentional. When introducing Walky to her parents, they believe Walky was named after the dog. He retorts with an Indiana Jones reference.

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: The Purple Aliens, whom the SEMME agents happily slaughter by the saucerful.

* [[Left for Dead]]: Head Alien II does this for Sal and D.J., in spite of Monkey Master's insistence that D.J. still has vital signs and he should finish the job.

* [[Married to the Job]]: Jason, kind of. While he ''does'' love his job, his issues are mostly unrelated to that and he considers his [[Secret Agent|career choice]] is a convenient scapegoat for said issues.

{{quote|'''DJ:''' I shouldn't be interacting with you to begin with. I only initiated it for my own selfish reasons. So I deserve any ire thrown my way. This was stupid, plain and simple. But hey, principals mean diddly squat without the experiences to back them up, right?}}

* [[No Dialogue Episode]]: Joyce and Walky's wedding ceremony.

* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: Sal gives Head Alien II a damn good thrashing {{spoiler|while having just undergone organ transplants.}}