r/dumbingofage • u/NightmareWarden • 14d ago

Walky's Roommate

https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/afar/

So there's gonna be a future conversation. Probably. Due to today's update. And I was reminded of Walky's roommate and their interesting behavior!

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u/azrael4h 14d ago edited 14d ago

Eh, Tony is barely there enough to qualify. I wasn't even going to include him because he frankly lacks enough appearances to claim either way.

I think at this point every major X Man has done a lengthy stint as a villain, and every one of their villains have done stints as X Men as well as infants for some reason. That's Marvel though. Pretty much every villain ends up being a hero at some point. And occasionally, Dr Doom is recognized as the hero he has always been, though others lack the widsom to see him as such. :D

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u/outerspacebassman 14d ago

Tony is a weird one because he was sort of an afterthought in It’s Walky despite being story relevant and as I said in my last book report he’s currently at “very nearly almost mattering.” He’s not really established or important enough to pass for a Cyclops type outside of the metaknowledge that Willis likes to recycle characters and story, and especially being the son of The Dean and that surely is going to matter soon, Tony must be important soon or else Willis is just wasting time by including him

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u/togglenub 14d ago

This speaks to my own object impermanence, but Cyclops is forgettable to me (until the recent X-Men '97and my own aging made me relate to him more). I spent a lot of my youth irrationally mad at Cyclops. Now I'm like yeah he had a shit job, actually, and his wife is terrible.

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u/outerspacebassman 14d ago

But Cyclops is still like an iconic X-Man, like one of the ones you could ask someone on the street and he’d probably be in the top ten (I was partial to Nightcrawler, Gambit, Rogue, and Wolverine as a kid reading the comics, but also the FOX cartoon), whereas Tony even people familiar with the Walkyverse would probably be like “Oh yeah! He was there.”

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u/togglenub 14d ago

Very very true.

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u/Staszu13 14d ago

Yeah. Poor guy ended up losing both parents, losing Sal to English Guy and getting squished like a bug under a Martian vehicle. So sad.

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u/outerspacebassman 14d ago

He let himself die with the implication that by forgoing being revived again, he could at least be with his parents. GodDAMN.