Charles and Linda Walkerton are the parents of Walky and Sal. Linda was a pretty dang important character in the Old Universe’s It’s Walky!, sort of like how Gendo Ikari was important in Evangelion. She’s only five years younger here than she was in It’s Walky!, but I think she’d look relatively younger than that because she’s not a former government field agent in charge of running a super-stressful anti-alien organization which hopes to, uh, cancel the apocalypse, which probably would age you like it would the Presidency. So these are the younger, hipper Walkertons. As before, Linda’s a few years older than her husband.
Of course, the other major difference between them in Dumbing of Age and the Old Universe is that Linda and Charles actually raised Sal rather than hiding her across the country with a pair of foster parents. Here they only sent her across the country to go to a boarding school. Oh, Linda. Your parenting ideas are weird and arcane.
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What does Linda do in this universe? Does she work for the government as well?
Also, there wasn’t the whole [redacted] business that probably messed with her genes and I’m sure didn’t do anything to help how she aged.
After all the horrible horrible people that Freshman Family Weekend has brought upon us, it’s nice to see some parents who don’t seem to be (not yet anyways) angry/scary/insane.
So why did Linda send Sal to a boarding school? And if boarding school is a good idea, why not send Walky as well?
I think there was shoplifting involved.
More like armed robbery.
I think you need to reread the comic, sir.
Ah, so it has been covered, and I’ve just forgotten. Okay, thanks.
I take it that Linda still wears the pants in this family, given that we’re speaking as though she’s the only one making parenting decisions here.
Maybe I need to go reread IW, but has Linda’s skin lightened up a bit? I seem to remember her being a little darker.
But then I guess that could be due to most of the old strips being in black and white and my mind filling in the blank space with her and Walky sharing skin tone.
It’s Walky! had no set color palette for the characters. I always rechose them from memory for color strips. Back then, everyone had a dozen skin tones.
I don’t think I ever intended for her to be dark-skinned, though. Her family history is thoroughly Anglo-Saxon.
I’m a bit new to your comics so I don’t know if this has been brought before, but if I may ask: What is Mr. Walkerton’s ethnic background?
He’s mixed race, half white and half black.
Ah, thank you for clearing that up for me.
The whole time I’ve been reading I thought he was Hispanic.
Yeah, I thought the same thing for many years.
See, I’d been assuming he was Native. Which I suppose reflects my local demographic more than anything else…
I can understand that, part of the reason I thought he was Hispanic is because I have a very similar skin tone and I myself am half Hispanic.
They’re adorable, only more so in the comic itself. Linda Walkerton kinda resembles Joyce, which makes a lot of sense in the old continuity. So that’s Adorable Mom #2 right after Mrs. Keener. 🙂
Bring back Walkypedia, PLEASE!!! Its strange and powerful transdimensional convolutions baffle even the mighty Internet Archive Wayback Machine!! Only you have the power, Willis!!! YOU MUST BRING WALKYPEDIA BACK TO LIIIIIIFE!!!!!
I don’t actually have the power. It is dead.
Wait a minute, what about the guy who becomes the Cheese? (Walky is named after him, but he’s… not? the father?)
What happened to him in this universe?
Probably died a different, Martian-free way.
… from eating too much cheese fondue.
Wouldn’t raising Sal also age you like the Presidency? Even without having to constantly replace windows and walls…
See: Boarding School.