In this episode we cover a quick bit on the history Kevin n Kell and Sabrina Online. We also talk about how we love Ruth, the inherent downsides of serial production, how flaws make us and our art resonate with people like AI never can, and how the world doesn’t respect us when something traumatic happens.

CW: Character Death, almost but not quite suicide

Episode 4 link dump

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Read Roomies! starting here for episode 4

http://www.itswalky.com/comic/premarital-hanky-panky/

and ending here for episode 4

http://www.itswalky.com/comic/leaving-anything-behind/

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Author's criticism of the way they handle Ruth

http://www.itswalky.com/comic/one-day-part-2-page-6/

The last Roomies published in the IDS

http://www.itswalky.com/comic/your-last-roomies-in-the-ids/

The car crash art

http://www.itswalky.com/comic/act-with-integrity/

Billie mourning

http://www.itswalky.com/comic/empty-room/

Intro and outro music is Super Hero by Aaron Bilodeau

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Scanner's social media — 18+

https://bsky.app/profile/ascannersparkly.bsky.social

Tasrill's Social Media — 18+

https://bsky.app/profile/tasrill.bsky.social

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Referenced in this episode:

Box Office for 1999

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/date/1999-01-01/

Billboard Top 100 for 1999

https://web.archive.org/web/20201019174336/https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1999-01-02

Francis Fukuyama - The End of History

https://ia803100.us.archive.org/33/items/THEENDOFHISTORYFUKUYAMA/THE%20END%20OF%20HISTORY%20-%20FUKUYAMA.pdf

Kevin and Kell

https://www.kevinandkell.com/

Beastars

https://mangadex.org/title/f5e3baad-3cd4-427c-a2ec-ad7d776b370d/upload?tab=art

Funny animal

https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Funny_animal

Commodore Amiga

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga

Amy the Squirrel

https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Amy_the_Squirrel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6pFcvbfQXg

Linux Fox

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/xenia-linuxfox

Sabrina Online

https://www.sabrina-online.com/index.html

Sabrina animations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88enb56Kubk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSXMpXFtawU

Batman: The Killing Joke

https://archive.org/details/TheKillingJoke_201804/mode/2up

JFK - Mr. X scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zSnolpYkCA

Author is asked about Sabrina Online

https://itswalky.tumblr.com/post/783579917851951104/was-reading-through-roomies-for-the-first-time-i

Keenspot

https://www.keenspot.com/

'Change my mind'

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/steven-crowders-change-my-mind-campus-sign

Disco Elysium - Egghead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CWIIok6tFk

WKD

https://www.wkd.co.uk/

Elbonia

https://dilbert.fandom.com/wiki/Elbonia

McDonalds in the Pentagon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9MwU-_OUrQ

Mandy

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6998518/

Thunderpaw

https://thunderpaw.co/

Benji Lee (repoghost)

https://www.repoghost.com/

Planetes

https://mangadex.org/title/3be16cf9-fe5c-431e-b528-98551d3d3bb0/planetes

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contact us at [email protected]

What exactly is a web comic when the world wide web doesn't exist? Would David Willis listen to System of the Down in 1998? Also Ruth is here and we finally have someone to push back at Danny.

Episode 3 link dump

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Read Roomies! starting here for episode 3

http://www.itswalky.com/comic/home-away-from-home/

and ending here for episode 3

http://www.itswalky.com/comic/bells-and-whistles/

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Ruth's defense of nerds

http://www.itswalky.com/comic/comiconference-page-6/

Joyce tries her best to be sexy

http://www.itswalky.com/comic/wiggle-my-butt/

Joe's room of sex

http://www.itswalky.com/comic/joe-at-home-for-christmas/

Intro and outro music is Super Hero by Aaron Bilodeau

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Scanner's social media — 18+

https://bsky.app/profile/ascannersparkly.bsky.social

Tasrill's Social Media — 18+

https://bsky.app/profile/tasrill.bsky.social

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Referenced in this episode:

Billboard Top 100 for Fall 1998

https://web.archive.org/web/20201116204533/https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1998-08-08

Box Office for Fall 1998

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/date/1998-07-31/

Howard Zinn on Saving Private Ryan

https://www.howardzinn.org/collection/private-ryan-saves-war/

Beta Band Three EPs scene in High Fidelity

https://youtu.be/0eBh6xipKYk?si=PPNogAn0KsUhweg7&t=93

ARPANET

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

Project Xanadu

https://www.xanadu.net/

Serial Experiments Lain

https://archive.org/details/lain-vhs-englishsubs-japaneseaudio

CompuServe

https://www.compuserve.com/home/about.jsp

The Bulletin Board System

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bulletin-board-system-bbs-history

Usenet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet

Erik Millikin (Witches and Stitches)

https://ericmillikin.com/about

alt.pave.the.earth

https://alt.pavethe.earth/

https://www.wired.com/1994/07/alt-pave/

T.H.E. Fox

http://www.greenreaper.co.uk/THEFox/thefox.zip

Where the Buffalo Roam

https://www.shadowculture.com/wtbr/

Doctor Fun

https://web.archive.org/web/20171102183222/http://www.ibiblio.org:80/Dave/drfun.html

Where could my pipe be?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAh9oLs67Cw

Peanuts punch

https://static0.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/peanuts-linus-lucy-psychiatry-booth.jpg

Keemstar's anxiety advice

https://junglejim4322.tumblr.com/post/747593321654976512/thank-you-keemstar-for-providing-the-world-with

I'm from the government and I'm here to help

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhYJS80MgYA

Crisis on Infinite Earths timeline

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fquestion-about-crisis-on-infinite-earths-and-companion-v0-qembypsvjsjb1.jpeg%3Fwidth%3D6495%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dd41592ee285273b711ea0762d2e7789802a1cd0c

Mother's Basement order

https://imgur.com/ruM6oIO

Dinotopia

https://www.scribd.com/document/867860565/OceanofPDF-com-Dinotopia-the-World-Beneath-James-Gurney

Color and Light by James Gurney

https://ia802907.us.archive.org/28/items/Color_and_Light_James_Gurney_English/Color_and_Light_James_Gurney_English.pdf

Habits (Terrible Terrible Terrible) by Lauren Monger

https://www.tumblr.com/terribleterribleterrible

https://mega.nz/file/14tzGArI#GJVpT9n0k7QzsFGSTvWNfG57LFEn2lJV7X6ydBvIen4

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contact us at [email protected]

Read Roomies! starting here for episode 2 http://www.itswalky.com/comic/moolah/ and ending here for episode 2 http://www.itswalky.com/comic/packed-and-ready/

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The art style clash when Round One meets the original comic http://www.itswalky.com/comic/round-one-page-12/

The roommate spite comic http://www.itswalky.com/comic/sarahs-previous-roommate/

Roomies critiquing itself http://www.itswalky.com/comic/men-and-marriage/

Intro and outro music is Super Hero by Aaron

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Scanner's social media — 18+ https://bsky.app/profile/ascannersparkly.bsky.social

Tasrill's Social Media — 18+ https://bsky.app/profile/tasrill.bsky.social

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Referenced in this episode:

1. Box Office for 1998 https://www.boxofficemojo.com/date/1998-02-01/
2. The Duster song popular on TikTok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcYvDZKLQJ0
3. The Pavement song popular on TikTok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrBJhi0RNvk
4. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction https://www.marxists.org/chinese/pdf/europe/walter-benjamin/benjamin-1936.pdf
5. Understanding Comics https://archive.org/details/understanding-comics/
6. American Comics: A History by Jeremy Dauber
7. The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics Edited by Bill Blackbeard and Martin Williams
8. The Inter Ocean Jr. — The Ting Lings go a fishing https://jenikirbyhistory.getarchive.net/media/saalburg-1894-05-22-inter-ocean-jr-the-ting-lings-go-a-fishing-52a38c
9. The Yellow Kid https://cartoons.osu.edu/digital_albums/yellowkid/1896/1896.htm
10. Little Nemo in Slumberland https://archive.org/details/LittleNemo1905-1914ByWinsorMccay/mode/2up
11. Krazy Kat https://ibb.co/35rvHh4Y
12. East Village Other https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Village_Other
13. Zap Comix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zap_Comix
14. Mr Natural "Does the Dishes" https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_gdns/7735759758
15. Indiana school newspaper comics page, February 23, 1998 https://x.com/damnyouwillis/status/1517320952702509058
16. Shen Comix bike stolen comic https://x.com/shenanigansen/status/930177304533147648
17. Guy hitting the propeller in Titanic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz4JSTXuP9E
18. Girl Dinner https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/girl-dinner
19. Concept art for Marathon by Craig Mullins https://marathon.bungie.org/story/Craig_Mullins.html
20. Liberty Leading the People https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Leading_the_People
21. The Bechdel Test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test
22. Dykes to Watch Out For presents The Rule https://dykestowatchoutfor.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/The-Rule-cleaned-up.jpg
23. Battle Angel Alita https://www.omoi.com/series/battle-angel-alita/read/5128c511-7407-4a49-a8f5-da8661ffafff

Paperworld, by our friend Phi https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/paperworld/list?title_no=686767&page=6

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contact us at [email protected]

The start of the adventure... or at least the start of the jokes. Adventure will take a little bit to show up.

Read Roomies! starting here http://www.itswalky.com/

and ending here for episode 1 http://www.itswalky.com/comic/its-war/

Intro and outro music is Super Hero by Aaron Bilodeau

Scanner's social media — 18+ https://bsky.app/profile/ascannersparkly.bsky.social

Tasrill's Social Media — 18+ https://bsky.app/profile/tasrill.bsky.social

Referenced in this episode.

1. Billboard Top 100 for 1997 https://web.archive.org/web/20191216040744/https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1997-09-13
2. Box Office for 1997 https://www.boxofficemojo.com/date/1997-09-10/weekly/
3. Example newspaper comic https://ibb.co/ZPwy2bp
4. Kinsey Scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_scale
5. Dumbing of Age https://www.dumbingofage.com/
6. xkcd https://xkcd.com/
7. Dominic Deegan https://www.dominic-deegan.com/
8. The late Scott Adams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams
9. You TPed our room? animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9KFsDKVohw
10. Common Era https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era
11. Transformers Wiki https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Main_Page