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carla's parents are the opposite of batman's because they have... no Chill

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Minzoku Bokumetsu

"HELICOPTER PARENTS? HELL YEAH WE HAVE HELICOPTERS"

Andrea Andrew

Good parents, if somewhat casual about how wasteful they are about helicopter trips and expensive food.

Dan Rabin

Very literal helicopter parents, I see.

C

I wonder if Carla will have this conversation in person.

tifani

Okay they’re very cute

Ben Wray

"You can meet her after you dismantle the military-industrial complex."

Smoochie

Y’know, between Walky’s parents (especially his mom), Carla’s parents, Raidah, and Hank we’re really touching on what big tent party has come to mean in the modern day. …And all that comes with it.

tifani

Didn’t Dorothy already call dibs on that?

Ria

You know what's compelling about this is that it really doesn't feel constitutively out of character for billionaires to love their kid this insanely much? Like, there's something narratively resonant in this degree of passion being so hyperspecific and self-centered (inasmuch as the family as a social construct is very "close" in moral field to the self)

Kelly (they-them)

Really thought you were going to say Carla's parents are the opposite of Batman's parents because they're alive, not because they aren't chill

C.T. Phipps

"We can meet as soon as we finish our meeting with Hydra."

Maude Reads Things

My favourite thing about these two is how much they love their daughter. It will probably stay that way given the circumstances

JC

Carla looks truly happy.

Lazuli

points for being supportive

Harold

"We just wired you $200. Take her to Long John Silver's, on us - we have it on good authority that's where the sapphic couples in Bloomington like to go!"

Tom @ Magic Chopstick Games

I mean, TIL that Mark Zuckerberg’s kids are named Maxima, August, and Aurelia, so these two are already lapping the competition

GundamBradley

I love that Carla loves her parents and gets along so well with them, but yeah, it's going to be tough whenever the topic of Ruttech's business comes up, as I am sure it will.

MrShoggoth

…I have to make the parents of all the characters in my novel like these two, don’t I?

Astariel

Still adorable. Still making it really hard for Carla to get to the real reason she's calling. I've been wondering, from what we little we know of them and what they seem to have passed on to Carla, if they're more into the tech side of things than the business. More Steve Wozniak than Steve Jobs, as an analogy. It's possible they leave the money side of things to money people rather than dealing with all the contracts and stuff themselves.

ArdieBea

@tifani I think it's going to take all of us, this time.

ArdieBea

Very. very likely if there's even a fleeting resemblance to the Walkyverse originals.

Karl Moore

Yyyyyep. Bigotry, fetishization, classism, nepotism, genocide apologia. These are all customs and creeds you can find amongst Democrats, the people who are (theoretically) supposed to be on our team, standing shoulder to shoulder with us to defend our civil liberties and the lives of those who fall into the grasp of our empire. If not for the two party system we would never associate with these guys, but here we are, clinging to the same life raft hoping to survive the hurricane of fascism. But when it passes, and it will pass, we will need to start building our own ship.

Smoochie

@Karl …Fuck dude, I felt this in my soul.

KittyKai

🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

shiftdruid

DORK. HES A DORK AND HE LOVES HIS DAUGHTER. THEY LOVE HERRRR FUCK GOD DAMN IT WAILING IN TEARS

Logibear

God, just imagine having Emil's energy in your life. Just pure unadulterated joy about your daughter finding love... Shame that a prerequisite for happiness in the modern age is having a billion dollars to your name.

Logibear

Wild seeing Joyce in that strip with the banner for the Slipshine next to it

5099 5618 v2.0

Does that sound ominous to anyone else?

5099 5618 v2.0

@tifani She needs the help, especially since she's so distracted, lately.

5099 5618 v2.0

@Dan Rabin I wonder if it's a standard helicopter or some kind of Osprey-esque hybrid.

5099 5618 v2.0

(if they're Flettner-rotor super-fans, I will be highly amused)

Logibear

Also, immediately asking if your daughters girlfriend has dietary restrictions is like the greenest of flags for being a supportive parent.

5099 5618 v2.0

Hank Scorpio! That's who these two remind me of. Headcannon: Carla is Hank Scorpio 's granddaughter[1] [1] - God-daughter is also acceptable.

5099 5618 v2.0

@Andrea Andrew "It's one banana, [Carla]. How much could it cost? 10 dollars?"

MrShoggoth

Ooof, that hurts to read nowadays

Tessea

No chill...... *groans* Yeah. These two are adorable. And I love seeing Carla with a genuine smile. I hope it goes well when/if they have a talk about Bulmeria. I don't really know why, but I'm extra happy to see Carla's family is close.

Terra Bruder

Fuck. Of course the war supporting billionaire monsters are great parents. 😢

Shane Wegner

Corporate helicopter operation costs average $1,500-$2,000 an hour.

Shane Wegner

For the the less comic nerdy among us, in most continuities Batman’s parents were killed by a mugger named Joe Chill.

Alexandra Falk

I do like that they have features of Joe and Rachel (beard, freckles) without being them. Great design work, Willis! ✊️

William Lewis

Oh... Christ. Who the fuck is chopping onions under my desk?

William Lewis

My parents were not the kind to afford helicopters, heh, but they were really cool all in all. Still I don't know what would have been the reaction had I actually brought a boyfriend home in the still pre-AIDS 80's... These days? Dad would probably be ok because at 90, wtf? be you. Mom, a really good Catholic woman? well, I'd take him to her stone at the 'yard and say "mom, here he is. Hope that's ok."

William Lewis

Both of my sisters would be freaking until hell freezes over, but I digress... 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Smoochie

Beard, freckles, head shape—you can like…Almost see how Willis took Rachel and Joe as the baseline before expanding.

Empress of Robots

Making Carla's parents absolutely adorable, warm, and utterly fantastic is such a delicious twist. It's also a heartbreaking contrast to the difficult position Jocelyne is in now vis-a-vis her much less good/supportive parents (although Hank might not be the worst when Jocelyne comes out after his reaction to Joyce). Delicious narrative potential.

Tim Mitchell

Literal helicopter parents. Seeing that level of parental support warms my heart. I’m hoping this keeps going well, because there is an uncomfortable conversation coming.

marcus erronius

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see any sex in this strip? Neither explicit nor implicit nor mentioned... And isn't Carla ace?

David M Willis

Typically, when somebody claims there's too much gay sex, I increase the gay sex, but Carla's a sex-repulsed asexual woman, so you've actually got me in a pickle.

Harold

Now would be a great time for that surprise Joe/Walky reveal we've all been waiting for

Harold

Also, petition to change the title of the comic to NOTHING BUT GAY SEX

zee

Oh god immediately got less cute with the helicopter mention. Fuck they're so rich (derogatory) P sure I went to school with people who could do that

Kelly (they-them)

The good authority is Robin DeSanto's Twitter feed - Becky posted about it one day when she was still campaign manager

Kelly (they-them)

Fuck, I didn't know the mugger's name was Joe Chill. The joke is so much funnier now, thank you Shane

Kelly (they-them)

Do you think Carla's parents are far enough way to justify air travel? Or do you think they're like, an hour's drive in bad traffic?

Mariah

I feel like if you have problems with gay relationships this is not the comic for you.

Mariah

Im pretty sure to this kind of person two women holding hands is the same thing as gay sex so you are good.

Mariah

put the whole cast in gay relationships just to piss off this person specifically.

The Lurker

I thought it was because they were alive… and good parents from what we see here, clearing their schedules to meet the new one in Carla’s life.

Astariel

I'm pretty sure we were told that the anti-trans law that Harrison got overturned on Carla's behalf and with her parent's financial support was a state law, which would mean they live in Indiana somewhere. Whether anywhere in Indiana is far enough from Bloomington to justify air travel is a judgment call.

el

Unrelated, but does anyone know which strip is the one where amber specifically uses a different term other than "transform" for a transformers-like toy to protect the transformers copyright/trademark

el

Thank you!! Seems like I misremembered this strip lol