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by David M Willis on September 13, 2010 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - Move-In Day
└ Tags: becky, carol, charles, dina, haruka, jennifer, joyce, linda, mike, ryou, walky

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  1. Thomas Wrobel
    Thomas Wrobel
    September 15, 2010 at 2:59 pm | #

    I said something about the nice art/angle/colours before, so I’ll say it again.
    Nice art/angle/colours. It just works.

  2. NorthSteve
    NorthSteve
    September 15, 2010 at 10:09 pm | #

    Mike, Walky, Joyce, Billy….and is that Dina I see talking to her parents? Or some other girl with a hat?

  3. MrGBH
    MrGBH
    September 16, 2010 at 7:54 am | #

    It’s Dina Sarazu. Wiigii!

    • Zem
      Zem
      February 23, 2011 at 9:12 am | #

      I just noticed, but, she’s obviously taking the hat-wearing genes from her parents 😀

      Or maybe the HAT genes from her parents.

      http://itswalky.com/d/20030415.html

      • Josh
        Josh
        July 2, 2013 at 12:16 pm | #

        She takes if off as the last thing she does before she dies.

  4. Screennameless
    Screennameless
    September 16, 2010 at 11:48 am | #

    OMG Dina and Mike!!! *is ecstatic* My two faves, in the same comic, and neither is dead yet! 😀

    • No0ne
      No0ne
      November 12, 2010 at 3:38 pm | #

      Yet…

    • turkishproverb
      turkishproverb
      November 23, 2010 at 11:45 pm | #

      This might get confusing

  5. agentksilver
    agentksilver
    October 5, 2010 at 11:46 am | #

    I’ve carried giant bags of stuffed animals to multiple apartments, and they are not that heavy. Mrs. Brown, you are a weakling.

    • MrGBH
      MrGBH
      October 6, 2010 at 11:58 pm | #

      You obviously don’t own enough bags of stuffed animals.

  6. Tomb
    Tomb
    October 13, 2010 at 5:33 am | #

    How can Mike be everywhere?!?
    Is their a Mike’s Theorum such as for Dibbler in Discworld?

  7. Shift
    Shift
    October 15, 2010 at 8:50 am | #

    I think I see Amber in line as well.

  8. jathanielxx
    jathanielxx
    November 12, 2010 at 8:07 pm | #

    Is this…Read Dorm at IU?!?!

  9. Dev
    Dev
    December 3, 2010 at 6:29 pm | #

    Ohmygosh. I just started reading this and I am STOKED to know the setting of this strip. Hoosierrrrrs!

  10. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    April 7, 2011 at 10:36 pm | #

    And to think that I only own one plushie.

  11. Milehigh
    Milehigh
    April 13, 2011 at 2:22 am | #

    Johnny bravo, lefthand corner first panel, sitting on a couch.
    Do the monkey with meh!

    • George
      George
      May 20, 2011 at 1:10 am | #

      Wow… before you said that, I had not noticed how much a black-shirt-wearing Mike looks like a pre-muscles JB.

      • Dayne
        Dayne
        September 2, 2011 at 12:11 am | #

        or Johnny Quest…

  12. Lee
    Lee
    August 4, 2011 at 10:22 pm | #

    I remember the first time I read this strip, I thought that the old woman in the last panel was Becky, and she had to carry so many bags of Joyce’s stuffed animals that she became an old woman, but now I’m rereading it and I feel stupid.

    • Ragnal
      Ragnal
      September 14, 2011 at 7:46 pm | #

      To be honest, Joyce’s mom looks like she’s about to keel over. Like, GEEZ she looks old…

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        January 19, 2012 at 4:32 am | #

        She will be wanting grandbabies before she dies.

      • Jenny Creed
        Jenny Creed
        July 19, 2013 at 11:58 am | #

        She’s carried a LOT of stuffed animals.

  13. Rhys
    Rhys
    October 20, 2012 at 11:49 pm | #

    So… is the redheaded dude in the top left corner Howard? Because I spy some Spock ears…

    • David
      David M Willis
      April 2, 2013 at 3:13 pm | #

      Those are the elbows of the girl in front of that person. It’s not Howard.

  14. Reiku
    Reiku
    October 25, 2012 at 1:11 pm | #

    anyone notice that Linda Walkerton is there? guess she was a good mom in this case, lol

    • MLEst1
      MLEst1
      January 1, 2016 at 6:48 am | #

      And yet, even if only because of the angle, Sal still isn’t included in this family get-together ;P

  15. Joebo
    Joebo
    April 18, 2013 at 11:10 am | #

    Wait, why is Walky in the room talking to his parents when Billie is still standing at the head of the line? Walky was behind her.

    • Anna1090
      Anna1090
      August 21, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

      I was about to ask the same thing.

  16. Lis
    Lis
    May 24, 2013 at 2:13 am | #

    My previous (male) roommate left two giant bags of stuffed animals when he left our apartment. I found them 4 months later when I was moving out and had no idea what to do with them so I just left them there.

  17. Nathan
    Nathan
    September 14, 2013 at 3:27 pm | #

    Confession. When I first saw this one, the only other character I saw was Mike, and I thought he was Johnny Bravo.

  18. Beau Chambers
    Beau Chambers
    August 21, 2015 at 11:01 am | #

    Just re-read through what’s available of It’s Walky! for the first time in ten years and I’ve just started this… I must say, just as I clicked to go to the next comic, I noticed Mike and had to back track. Seeing all the characters acting natural in a new environment put quite a smile on my face.

    Can’t wait to keep reading and see where this strip goes.

    I bid the possibility of sleep farewell.

  19. Mousa The 14
    Mousa The 14
    March 31, 2016 at 9:15 am | #

    Oh god, Mike’s already here.

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