Trivia / Roomies!, It's Walky!, Joyce and Walky!

• Creator Backlash:
  • David Willis is not proud of the April Fools collaboration he did with the infamous David Gonterman. Really not proud.
  • Also, in the commentary he provides for the original Roomies! strips, expect some "What the hell was I thinking" comments whenever past!David Willis's fundamentalist beliefs crop up.
  • Willis feels that this strip should be entered into the "Webcomic Museum of Awful Mistakes." He's not much prouder of the later similar jokes either.
  • Willis was even getting tired of Roomies! while he was still writing it, as he admits that the final strips were made without much effort, and his original comments on the penultimate strip he says that he just got sick of the characters and their preachiness, though Willis later clarified he was also in the throughs of depression at the time.
• Creator's Pest:
  • Willis retroactively considers the original incarnation of Danny this, to the point where he has said that Ruth "shoulda let Danny die and then gone on medication and married Billie," instead of sacrificing her life to save his. Unlike Guns, however, this didn't stop Willis from including him in Dumbing of Age, albeit as a Memetic Loser.
  • Willis's dislike of It's Walky!'s Guns is on record, and she's one of the few characters who he has stated will not appear in Dumbing of Age ever.
• Popularity Redo: Of sorts. A Roomies! storyline in which Joe enters an inventors contest and loses to one Tom Chestnut is a recreation of one of his childhood comics—the main difference, besides sheer quality, is Joe entering a hoverboard and Tom a robotic, video-game playing catgirl in the redone version, as opposed to Ultra-Car and a potato washer in the original.
• Schedule Slip: Multiple for Joyce and Walky!, which resulted in the finale only being half-finished. It would take five years for Willis to complete it.
• Similarly Named Works: There were not one, but two other webcomics called Roomies: an obscure one from 2007, and a longer-lived one from 1999-2008. Both are now defunct.
• What Could Have Been:
  • There is, somewhere on the Willis family's hard drives, a fourteen page comic of Joyce and Walky having sex, a proto-Slipshine comic, as it were. According to Willis, he drew it for his now-wife Maggie, who's quite proud that she got him to do it.
  • There were nearly a few comics at the end of the 'It's Pregnancy' story arc about Carol trying to bribe Walky into giving her his scrubs so she could see her grandchild being born, but at the time It's Pregnancy was being drawn, Willis got too busy with caring for his own newborns, and by the time it was reran he had forgotten how it was supposed to end.
  • Speaking of It's Pregnancy, Willis did point out that it wasn't completely autobiographical because he and Maggie had twins, while Joyce and Walky only had one. He laments the missed opportunity and notes he really should have seen this coming, given how often he writes about twins.
  • Ruth was nearly the one that appeared from the Soggies Portal in Shortpacked! instead of Dina, but Willis couldn't remember where 'The Last Roomies! Story Ever, Promise!' (a story arc where most of the original Roomies cast visits Ruth's grave) came continuity wise in relation to the ending of Shortpacked, so went with Dina instead.

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