Origin
Talky Walky was discovered by Colonel Weird while he was answering a distressed call. Weird originally found himself outnumbered by a gang of robots when Talky swooped in on a flying saucer to save him. Talky had sent the distress call because she was disappointed by her people’s lack of curiosity. She requested Weird take her with him on his adventures. Thus began a long and trusted friendship.
Creation
Talky made her debut in Black Hammer #1 by Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston.
Major Story Arcs
Welcome to Rockwood
When Spiral City was under attack by the Anti-God, Walky was recruited into the fight with Spiral’s other heroes by Starlok. When Black Hammer hit the Anti-God with his cosmic hammer, it caused a bright light. They found themselves teleported to Rockwood on a small farm for 10 years. Walky spent most of her time on the farm constructing space probes to try and figure out where they are and how they can escape, while doubling as the farm’s unwilling housekeeper.
They were settling into some kind of routine, but that was uprooted when Lucy Weber appeared. She was the daughter of their fellow superhero, Black Hammer, who died trying to leave the perimeter of Rockwood. She believed all the heroes had survived the event and wanted to find them. She couldn’t remember how she got here though.
Age of Doom
Walky realized readings she took from Lucy’s arrival might hold the secret to getting her team or at least a probe beyond the perimeter locking them in. Before she could accomplish anything, Walky was shot by Weird, who wasn’t ready for the team to leave. At the last second, Walky was able to upload her consciousness to a nearby rocket.
Now that Lucy remembered everything she could explain the town of Rockwood to the others. They were all asleep in stasis pods on Col. Weird’s ship in the Para-Zone while their minds were kept in a magical illusion caused by the Cabin of Horror. This was due to a pact between Weird and Madame Dragonfly to save the universe. The killing of the Anti-God threw off the balance of light and dark. Weird and Dragonfly needed to take the heroes out in order to retain that balance. Lucy’s dad was killed when he tried leaving Weird’s ship and was exposed to the Para-Zone energies. With everyone awake, Weird took it upon himself to set auto-pilot to leave the Para-Zone.
Unfortunately, leaving the Para-Zone simply put them in yet another fabricated reality. Walky was the only one to remember their previous lives. She sought out Lucy and convinced her to find the black hammer so Lucy could get her memories back and then track down all their other friends. She needed their help to take on the Anti-God, who was targeting their new reality.
Lucy receives a message from her father and Starlok. In order to defeat the Anti-God, the superheroes have to disappear again. Rather than kill them, Lucy convinces them to voluntarily re-enter the imaginary farm land, while she stays back as defender of Spiral City.
Cosmagog
While all the other heroes were sent back to the farm, Talky got lost in time and space so badly that memories of her were wiped from her friends. Col. Weird, who had the closest bond with Talky felt something missing. This also caused him to inadvertently reject the farm and become unstuck in time.
After a long confusing quest through his own timeline, including drawing the map that pointed Weird to the Para-Zone in the first place, he finally remembered Talky. He found her floating in the Para-Zone. Once rescued, Weird gave controls of his ship to Talky letting her choose there next destination for the first time in their partnership.
Reborn
Talky and Weird have been trying to map the Para-Zone thanks to Talky’s new invention, Archive, an organic supercomputer. Archive finds an anomaly, so Weird goes for a space walk to investigate. He finds Doctor Andromeda and an evil variant fighting in the Para-Zone.
Character Profile
- Height: 6’0″
- Weight: 301 lbs
- Eye Color: None
- Hair Color: None
- Citizenship: New Technopolis
- Marital Status: Single
- Occupation: Space adventurer, inventor, explorer
- Known Relatives: Archive (son)
- Distinguishing features: Walky is a robot, whose front facing LEDs glow green
Powers and Abilities
Walky’s robot body is capable of great strength and durability. Her artificial intelligence is the most advanced known given her genius-level intellect. Is armed with a thermal plasma torch gun.