The Softer Side
Amy has returned! It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that she was just avoiding Mike after he and Ryan were running around asking all sorts of awkward questions. You can assume that Michelle told her what was up and she simply chose not to be found. Or you can invent some grand adventure to fill the time between now and New Years. I’ll leave that up to you.
I just want to make it clear that, while she is something of a troublemaker and can be moody and self interested, she is not evil. It is only that Mike seems to think she is. And it’s hard to blame him, after she hit him on the head with a pipe, even if there were mitigating circumstances.
On another note, check out the little Back to the Future reference. I know everything that happened in that movie was supposed to be accidental, but I imagine that somewhere behind all of those insane coincidences in those (incredible) movies, there was have been some sort of drug or alcohol use. How else do you reach 88 miles per hour in a mall parking lot? Even being chased by “Libyan Terrorists” seems fishy. What if Marty imagined the whole thing?
88 MPH in a mall parking lot is no big deal. Unless you’re actually driving a Delorean. Those things were slow as sin. In all seriousness, my 1991 Jeep pickup truck is faster than that, and its not even Twister rated.
It’s a good thing he had all those jiggawatts then in the flux capacitor then. But really, it all just reinforces my Marty McFly was high the whole time theory.
It’s nice to see someone so bad actually be nice for a change. At least she’s not as evil as Guy from Twogag. Also, is it just me or is Mike getting greener with each panel?
I think its just you. Looks the same to me.
And I’m pretty sure Amy just wishes she was the girl that Mike hooked up with and disappeared to cry in the corner for the past month’s worth of comics.
I’m pretty sure Ryan used exactly the same color in every image.
And no. That is one thing that would never happen.
Look at her eyes in the last frame. Dtf if I ever seen it.
Speaking of alcohol and Back to the Future, ever wonder what happend to the original booze hound, loser family Marty left behind? By traveling back in time and changing his present he in fact created an alternate time line (as per described in Back to the Future 2 when they returned to an alternate Hill Valley) leaving the ORIGINAL timeline intact, somewhere in space-time, where Doc Brown is dead and Marty is missing. His mom would tripple her booze intact, and George would spiral into a fit of depression, costing him his job, and probably sending him into the bottle with his wife.
Kinda sad, really.
The split timeline thing was stupid. They could have wrapped things up a lot more neatly with a unified timeline. Hell I don’t think they even needed to have that conversation to justify going back to 1955 to steal the Almanac back before the future was altered.
The blackboard conversation was ABSOLUTELY necessary. Keep in mind this was probably one of the first time travel movies that played around with alternate time lines to a mainstream audience. I remember a lot of people having trouble keeping up with Back to the Future 2 when it first came out, because we’ve never been challenged to think of time travel in that fashion before. Now it’s so common place they can quickly mention “alternate universe” and we automatically get it.
As far as wrapping things up neatly with a unified time line… perhaps. I enjoy the split time line theory. I find it interesting to think that the original timeline will be missing the original time traveler, and every time that time traveler (from the newly created timeline) travels back in time “the first time” he’ll be creating another time, over and over and over again until infinite, each time displacing the actually inhabitant of the new time line he created.
I think the scene creates the room for more holes than it fills. I doubt it was the creator’s intent to have a situation where the original unchanged timeline is intact and continuing without Marty in abject misery.
My opinion is that the baseline in Doc’s chart only a frame of reference. It doesn’t exist anymore. But then the concept of time splitting sort of covers the paradoxical nature of time travel. Almost. I prefer the closed loop version, where the traveler doesn’t realize that they already time traveled, and as a result can’t actually change anything. Or like in Harry Potter, where they think they change things, but actually just reenact the way things already happened from a different point of view.
Nice to see this come up again and Amy’s softer side.
Amy is the most passive aggressive Florence Nightingale I’ve ever seen!