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Wait… does she ever break the fourth wall? Or are you simply refering to her tendancy to hang down from the top of the frame and such. In either case, just imagine the parties she’d throw if she were hanging out with Joe and Deadpool.
Well she does hang around the screen at the end of episodes sometimes to adress the viewer. Next thing you know she’ll tell the kids not to try something at home.
The parties would probably get out of hand.
Also Deadpool is crazy enough he would probably hit on her :p
I don’t know what show this is supposed to reference, but I do know that assuming makes an ass out of you and me. I…ahem…assumed that’s what Mongoose here was talking about.
Yeah. My mom always said it on a regular basis. Nineteen years of living with the old broad hearing it twice a week and this is the first I’ve heard of the saying being referential.
My mom says it on a regular basis, and she’s a huge fan of The Odd Couple, so whenever she said it I figured it was because of the scene I linked to above you. I guess I just assu—
I concur. I remember a couple of times I spent time with female classmates in their dorms just to get away from other idiots or talk to de-stress from accounting classes gone horribly, horribly wrong.
Then I found the pleasure of telling the professor I would do the work in the dorm, “telecommute”, and just watch Miami Vice marathons all day.
Okay, Dorothy, shut the hell up. You were the one who ended the relationship. If you’ve got a problem with him moving on, then build a bridge and get over it.
No, the first part of your statement is totally accurate. Every person ever is entitled to one romantic relationship in their lifetime. If they fuck that up, they never get to have one ever again.
Oh, and that’s why she’s upset by his speed. By moving on first he’s forced her into the position of the member who can never move on. It’s like a race. It all makes sense now.
Yeah Dorothy, that totally sucks that you’re single forever man. Who knew Danny was gonna get back on the horse like some kind of horse-mounting machine.
I think Dorothy is starting to realize she’s not as important as she thinks. It’s good for Dan to move on, but she’d prefer he moon over her for a month or longer because she was such a big part of his life. College life hasn’t been as bad for her as Billie, but even the newspaper assignment is beneath her and she knows it.
“Or longer” is the operative phrase here. It would be extremely ego-gratifying for Dorothy if Danny carried a torch for her until he died of old age. After living a cold, empty life spent pining hopelessly for her. Get over yourself, Dorothy, you ain’t that special.
Yep. You don’t get to whine about how quickly someone moves on if you’re the one who takes the “I’m doing this for your own good” stance and kills the relationship.
I do still maintain that her criticisms here are rude. There’s nothing here worth dropping the civility over, though I don’t think anyone’s debating that.
Also, there is literally no hint here that they are dating.
See, peopel do this weird thing called “making friends,” in which they talk, or share interests. It is often not related to sexual intercourse at all. In fact, sometimes people can make friends with other humans of the opposite sex!
My 2 cents: Look at it from Dorothy’s view: Last she saw Danny, he was broken the hell up making a big deal about -them- breaking the hell up. She’s no saint and it would be bad writing if everyone in the comic was mature.
Face it: us older people say far more petty things all the time. Who are we to throw rocks?
I agree that this is a legitimate reason for her to feel shocked. Four days ago he was talking about marriage. On the other hand, there’s feeling shocked and then there’s talking trash. By being reactionary instead of thinking before speaking, she’s crossed the line from justifiably surprised to bongoy.
Dorothy’s taller by about an inch and a half. No biggie. The only differences is Dorothy has her bangs over her forehead and blonde and Amber’s is brushed and brown hair.
And their faces are completely different shapes, and their glasses are different, and their mouths are different… it’s like they’re completely different people altogether!
Seriously, I don’t see how you people (lol) think they’re so similar looking.
It may be due to the Only Six Faces trope in play, that and the fact that Joe declared Amber to be a brunette Dotty clone which hints on how similar they look.
I think Joe is just showing us that They All Look The Same to Him. They’re probably not that similar; just both attractive and with a few features in common.
It could be that Danny has a type or it’s just Willis mocking all the bongoing the fans who started with Shortpacked! did about “blonde Amber”. Or both.
Incidentally, their boobs are different, and Joe would so notice that.
If this is some of that “wingman” stuff that Joe is supposedly “best at,” he better ride that Roz scandal for all it’s worth, because much like K-Fed, he isn’t going to build himself a future with his TALENT.
I mean, yeah, okay, it does LOOK like Danny just went out and found a substitute-Dorothy. But I’m not sold. I can’t really see Dorothy moonlighting as a masked avenger or Amber as an investigative journo.
Poor Danny actually handled panel 1 about as well as he plausibly could have. But if he manages to hold on to shy Amber in the face of this crapstorm, I’ll be astounded.
Lol. Way I see it everyone’s entitled to a type. I don’t see why people get creeped out when the new partner shares similarity with previous partners. The man knows what he likes and there’s nothing wrong with that.
They don’t think they look a like, and I agree that’s not what Danny thought either. Based on how they met and interact, it’s just pure coincidence. he noticed that had a lot in common and is diggin that. Hell, they aren’t even dating. they flirted a little and now they are going to play some vidya games.
s: Dorothy’s gonna guilt trip him, Dannos gonna try to defend himself, Amber might step in and this spark some sort of rivalry between them? D///x I hope I’m wrong.
Exactly! but then where does Amazi-girl come in unless…
I get it! dorothy will pretend to have a rivalry with her alter ego, so she can get more press coverage! Brilliant!
Guys Guys Guys. Remember, Superheroes always go for the Reporter. Superman/Lois Lane, Batman/Vicki Vale, Spider-man/ Eddie Br. . .should have stopped sooner. Anyway, So we’ll get some nice Amazi-Girl-Dorothy make out sessions.
Though come to think of it, She actually already saved Billie, so I guess Billie would be her make out reporter.
The webcomic Between Failures, a comic Willis is also familar with, has been going on for over 4 IRL years and less than a week has gone by in Comic Book Time.
What’s even weirder is when as the dumper the dumpee acts as if they expect you to be jealous, and seems disappointed when you aren’t. Really the entire post-relationship game is just a clusterfuck of confusing awkwardness.
‘Chest Windows’ has the same number of syllables as the word ‘Transformers’…now use those two words in place of that word in the classic theme song…now scream in terror as the realization dawns that this earworm will be stuck in your head for the next few days.
You’re welcome.
Ladies.
To play the Devil’s Advocate:
Dorothy’s been deliberating for months over what she’s supposed to do regarding Danny. He followed her to school so she’s feeling super guilty over it and then he immediately finds someone else after she finally ends it. If she knew it would have been that easy she wouldn’t have kicked herself so much over it.
I think she isn’t in the position just because she said earlier how it would have been a greater gift to break up with him sooner, implying she lost feelings even before when she actually broke up with him. Plus, he’s not dating her, he just likes her, that’s human nature to find someone attractive and try to go after it.
Now, I’m kinda torn on my feeling here. On one hand, I can totally appreciate Dorothy’s disgruntled “So just four days” remark. After all, the idea that your ex has moving on hurts, even if you were the one to break up with them. Seeing it happen after less than a week is worse.
But on the other hand, Dorothy broke up with Danny. She has no say in his dating life anymore. Did she expect him to spend the rest of his life whining about how he lost her and never moving on?
But then again, its only been four days. That kinda suggests Danny’s feeling for the relationship weren’t as strong as we were led to believe.
But THEN AGAIN, Danny and Amber aren’t doing anything yet. Yes, Danny flirted a bit with Amber, but they haven’t gone on an official date or had sex or made any formal declarations about a relationship.
So, in short, I understand both sides, and neither are right nor wrong in my opinion. They’re both kinda screwed up.
The relationship could have meant the world to him, and I’m pretty sure it did. Still no reason not to seek out new pastures. The old one is unavailable to him now.
I don’t really see how the speed with which he moves on is indicative of how much he valued the dead relationship. Unless this is just Dorothy playing hard to get, in which case she really needs to get better at that. Is there like a gamefaq or rulebook we could direct her to?
Dorothy can just go to hell. While yes, Danny is a lame push-over for boyfriend material, Dorothy is one of those spoiled girlfriends that only thinks about herself. If she wants a career with a specific school, that’s fine, but to ditch someone on the first day of moving to campus like that, that is insulting!
Then, she complains not because Danny isn’t with her, but because Danny has something she doesn’t have! She sees her status in life as “single” or “in a relationship” in the same way she would see her social status defined by the type of luxury car she drives, or the brand of soda she drinks.
The fact Danny and Amber are relatively happy and understand each other just further gets under her skin, because it rubs salt into the wound of “oh, my life based on acquisitions isn’t going as planned!” with “someone who is less than me has more than what I have!”
This is kind of annoying, but it’s not unrealistic. A lot of women can be this self-contradictory, without even noticing.
That said…
Really, Dorothy? REALLY? Dump him to focus on your schoolwork, and get upset when he’s actually moving on? I mean, geez. It’s almost like you enjoy him stalking you.
IRL I bet half of you would think Danny’s a dick for moving on so fast. I wouldn’t, but I’m just saying. Dorothy may not get a say but the upset is understandable.
I’ve had a girlfriend I broke up with start working her way through my social circle before the week was over. I can genuinely say I lost no sleep over it. Puzzling more than anything else really. Briefly wondered if she was trying to get back at me before deciding that train of thought was just narcissism speaking and moving on.
I’d be far more concerned about WTF is wrong with my friends at that point. There are RULES, man. There’s a CODE. The current and past girlfriends of your friends are off limits. The speed at which she moved on would be discouraging, but only in the sense that I would be worried she had been cheating on me. Dorothy knows better, and so doesn’t have anything to be grumpy about.
Depends on the person, really. I’ve seen one relationship that broke up and one member was expected to move on immediately and ridiculed for not doing so, and the other moved on and got hate for it.
I’m not quite sure I’d take it as far as you did. Acquisitions are an integral part of life. Whether you seek skills, joy, power, or more tangible things a life where one does not seek to acquire is a life unlived.
I also don’t feel we have sufficient evidence to believe she wants relationships exclusively for social status. I have a feeling she never would have been dating Danny in the first place if that was the case. He’s probably more damaging to the ol’ status than being single ever could have been, and lord knows a smart go-getter like her with looks and money could do way better than Danny from a social status perspective anyway.
That aside I agree wholeheartedly. Quite self centered, a bit of a dick, and might I add massively weak willed as well? If she had even half a spine she would have taken care of all that danny business long before any of this was an issue rather than just waiting and expecting him to choose a different school.
“So just four day, huh?”
What, no! You dumped him, Dorothy! You did it to set him free, for his own good, as you said. you have NO FUCKING RIGHT to complain that he is moving on, doing exactly what you wanted him to do.
Being snarky about how your former boyfriend is devlopping new relationship is simply firbidden to you. Jalousy and ressent are feeling are feeling you are not allowed to have. You wanted it that way, you have it!
Now enjoy that danny is moving over you. The only words you are allowed to pronounce is “I am happy for you and hope you will be OKEY”.
I’m gonna be kinda pissed off if Amber gets scared off of this tentative relationship because Dorothy and Joe decide to be assholes at their first meeting.
Am I the ONLY one who doesn’t seem to think that Dorothy needs to burn at the stake for being a little upset that her ex-boyfriend’s already bringing home other girls not even a full week after they broke up? I mean, sure, she’s the one who dumped him (and for his own sake, since he would’ve just wasted his future away with her), but that doesn’t mean that she can’t still have feelings. :/
Seriously, if this was in real life, people would be saying Danny’s a manwhore.
No, but seriously I don’t think I’d have any complaints if she displayed hurt feelings after leaving. Getting all critical of Danny’s lovelife to his face though, in a manner that paints him as some form of common floozy no less, is just so far from classy. It’s not that she’s upset, it’s that she’s apparently so upset that she can’t even maintain a civil facade for the five minutes it takes to get out of there, or that she’s just such a self centered, rude, and petty person that she doesn’t even care to be polite about all this. I mean, I can literally think of no way to interpret this behavior positively.
She’s not demonic or anything. We’re just seeing a bit of an uglier side to her personality right now.
Well, it’s not like she’s even being that horrible about it. She’s not screaming, or hitting, or even saying really anything that nasty. Sure, that could all change in tomorrow’s strip, but today’s strip? All she said was, “So just four days, huh?”
And yeah. This isn’t a way to interpret this behavior positively. Dorothy’s not being the most polite of people here, I’ll concede that. But she’s hardly being as horrible as some of these comments are making her. She made one comment, guys. Calm down.
It may have been one comment, but it was still highly uncalled for, especially considering that she broke his heart those four days ago.
Now, I’m not saying she’s a horrible person for it. To be honest, I can’t say I wouldn’t want an ex to pine for me for a whil, or at least take their time getting over me. That’s just human ego at work. And she actually does have a bit of right to feel a little hurt. The way Danny acted before made it seem as though she were the most important thing in his life. To see him move on so quickly would raise some speculation as to the sincerity of said behavior.
But one of the cruxes here is, that there’s no real basis for her to accuse Danny of anything. Making the comment she did, in the tone her expression implies means her jumping to conclusions and judging him for them when all he’s done so far is walk into his room with a friend who happens to be female. Did he flirt with her, yes? Does he want something to come out of this? Who can say? In any case, Dorothy knows none of this, and yet she still took it upon herself to open her snippy little trap.
Yeah, it was a human thing to do, likely any one of us would have done it. I can’t say I wouldn’t. But it was still a harsh move on her part.
As for the harsh response she’s getting, weeeelllll…We’re still getting to know her character here. So far, she hasn’t done much to garner sympathy in her corner. I think she did Danny a service in breaking up, sure, buts she’s still coming off as very cold. It’s not the type of character that drums up much support, and one that many people are the most eager to dump on.
tl;dr version: She done goofed, and I don’t think a lot people like her yet.
Yeah, I get that. I dunno, I just think that she’s young and emotional. She was damn near to tears when she and Danny were discussing Yale and Danny’s hope that she’ll change her mind about it. I think she just needs some time to mature.
But I guess until then, it’s off to the stake for her~
I don’t think she needs to burn at the stake. I don’t think anyone does. I think she has every right to feel at least little jealous if he had a new girlfriend.
I think she’s overreacting a little bit when they’re still just friends/acquaintances though.
While I’m thinking about it… the fact that they’ve spoken in stereo twice in two strips is certainly not helping them make their “we’re totes not a clones” argument. Just saying, it’s a little weird.
Of course, the contrarian in me now notices lots of differences, like the height thing, the next, the hair (duh), and the fact that Amber’s complexion is less pale. (She has that cute blush, too!)
How could you skip over the fact that Amber’s got bigger boobies???
Since the poll seems to agree that boobies are more important than political integrity, they should surely take precedence over height, hair, and such!
Well done, Willis. I haven’t laughed that hard at a compositing joke since South Park put a very obvious and clumsy compositing line between Cartman and Evil Cartman.
Ouch. Poor Danny. It always sucks when you see your ex when you’re with your current, and it’s only a week after they dumped you.
Mostly because my ex only dumped me because he was high, and I refused to get back together with him.
BUT YOU HAVE A GOOD REASON. Don’t let her guilt trip you into ruining this for yourself. Because she WILL try. All exes are crazy for at least a week, I swear to Cheese.
I’d like to be the outsider who doesn’t get it, but unfortunately these characters are just so damn well written I can’t help but get emotionally invested. Still, the part of me that likes to think I’m a Freudian Psychoanalys keeps whispering “Transferrence… transferrence”
I was going to write a scathing, trolltastic attack on your post, but then I saw your user handle and now my brain has been muddied by a flood of Awesome.
Thank you nitpicker, but you might want to write a scathing, trolltastic attack anyway since I don’t know why you think my handle is particularly awesome.
I… I understand everyone saying that Dorothy has no right to be jealous, and think so as well. But what I think the point was, was that he was so broken up about them breaking up that four days seems like a complete turnaround. I’d be confused if someone i broke up with acted like Danny and then a few days later had another girl on his arm.
I find it weird that so many people are going “Dorothy broke up with Danny, so he has every right to date someone else and Dorothy shouldn’t be jealous” but come on–this guy chased you to college, wanted to marry you, and then when you break up with him, apparently has a new girl four days later? If I were Dorothy, I wouldn’t be jealous, I’d be stone-cold PISSED. It would be one thing if Dorothy cheated on Danny, but by latching onto someone else, it’s like he doesn’t value what they had anymore. Just because Dorothy broke up with him doesn’t mean she still doesn’t care about him (I mean, she’s still talking to Joe), but the way Danny’s acting gives the impression that their entire relationship was worthless.
I’m a little disappointed that Joe of all people hasn’t thought of the best way to prove that they’re clones. One of them may have changed the drapes, but it’s doubtful she would have dyed the carpet, so to speak.
Yeeah I admit it’d have been cooler if Dorothy gave him a pat on the back for his progress. These are modern times after all. We do not have to act jealous because it’s socially expected anymore.
I think the thing everyone seems to be missing is that Danny isn’t armed with a bottle of Tequila (Panty peeler!) and a Chick flick (Although, in Amber’s case, MLP may count as the latter) He’s starting a basically healthy friendship.
Is he supposed to avoid all contact with girls until Dorothy’s arbitrary deadline is satisfied? Screw that, his game is nowhere close to that good. Get while the gettin’s good. Godspeed Danny, You fancy bastard.
(Wrong webcomic, I know, but I went on an HE bender and I love the way that sounds.)
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Ladies and gentlemen, Joe has gained Deadpool powers. May the gods help us.
Thatm eans he gets to party with Pinkie Pie, that’s not too bad.
Wait… does she ever break the fourth wall? Or are you simply refering to her tendancy to hang down from the top of the frame and such. In either case, just imagine the parties she’d throw if she were hanging out with Joe and Deadpool.
Well she does hang around the screen at the end of episodes sometimes to adress the viewer. Next thing you know she’ll tell the kids not to try something at home.
The parties would probably get out of hand.
Also Deadpool is crazy enough he would probably hit on her :p
Great, now I want fic.
Ther are already Pinkiepool comics on E621.
Does that make his life goal “sleep with Bea Arthur” (even though she’s dead)?
Now, THAT sex tape would be a scandal!
Oh God, the mental image… ARGH!
Don’t worry. This is one of Willis’ comics. If it happened, he’d travel back to 1970 or something to do it!
I’ve seen Bea Arthur in Mame. Still not a pleasant image.
Bea Arthur is DEAD. O_O
So will he start talking to the yellow boxes that sometimes appear on the comic?
if he evolves the white box too then he could probably just take over the comic himself.
well… him and the ladies
Has anyone heard anything about the movie?
In a perfect world, it would be 3-D, and Deadpool would lean out of the screen to make yellow box comments.
Half of me thinks she has a point (Only four days after a painful breakup, and he’s already pickin’ up girls? The cad!).
But then the other half of me wonders why she thinks she can be judgmental about his love life anymore.
Plus she broke up with him. He’s allowed rebound!
And really, they broke up a lot earlier then that. He just didn’t consciously know it then. But she did.
And we can’t forget that she also was trying to sit with people in the cafeteria to create an illusion for Danny so he wouldn’t think she was alone.
All of that aside, he’s not even doing anything yet. She just assumed. I don’t see where she has room to get jealous.
And yet, she still gives him the GLARE OF DOOOOM.
Women are allowed to assume and get away with it. Men aren’t. Its simple lol
You do know what happens when you assUme, don’t you? ^_^
No, but I know what happens when you reference a forty-year-old TV show on a website full of twenty-somethings.
Was there a questionare about how old the readers of DoA are that I missed?
I know that I would be well above the average age-wise but I would guess the age be more like 25-35 age bracket myself.
I’m 19, & I know about that. So age doesn’t necessarily make much of a difference.
I don’t know what show this is supposed to reference, but I do know that assuming makes an ass out of you and me. I…ahem…assumed that’s what Mongoose here was talking about.
Show = Benny Hill
Theno = old.
No, actually. The Odd Couple.
I think. It may have been used before that, but this springs instantly to mind whenever I hear it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfvTwv5o1Qs
You get responses like “wait, that’s a TV show reference?”
Wait, no, that’s _you_ for saying it’s a TV show reference. Seriously, it’s a well-known saying.
Yeah. My mom always said it on a regular basis. Nineteen years of living with the old broad hearing it twice a week and this is the first I’ve heard of the saying being referential.
My mom says it on a regular basis, and she’s a huge fan of The Odd Couple, so whenever she said it I figured it was because of the scene I linked to above you. I guess I just assu—
*facepalm*
I know that the saying is decades old at least, the most recent version I heard from a TV series was NCIS.
“Women are allowed to get angrier than men about double standards!” -Tina Fey
Complete agreement. However, the heart isn’t logical about these things.
On one hand, they could easily be platonic classmates, in which case what is Dorothy complaining about.
On the other, how would Danny get a platonic GIRL classmate to come to his room, hmm…
Danny used Flirt on her, remember?
As I recall, it was super-effective.
I had plenty of platonic girl classmates come to my room in college; it’s part of the college lifestyle.
(And I went to their rooms and a few times hid from RAs under the bed when I was there after hours.)
I concur. I remember a couple of times I spent time with female classmates in their dorms just to get away from other idiots or talk to de-stress from accounting classes gone horribly, horribly wrong.
Then I found the pleasure of telling the professor I would do the work in the dorm, “telecommute”, and just watch Miami Vice marathons all day.
Well, they were talking about DS’s and pokemon.
Well of course Dorothy’s gonna be jealous… Nothing’s sexier than trading pokemon!
No wonder she was upset, Danny never traded Pokemons with her.
She’s the one who dumped him. I would do the same and hook up with another girl as soon as possible just to piss her off.
Okay with that being Joe’s first reaction, I’m leaning towards him still being a nerd in this continuity.
Willis needs SOMEONE to plug in the Transformers joke afterall
Plugging in is an interesting choice of words given today’s Shortpacked.
Joe can plug in anything, even jokes.
With Lil’ Joe.
In the FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
*sigh*
You broke the meme!
I believe that was PedanticJerkass’ intention, am I right?
I’m sorry, this is off topic… What’s your username a reference to?
Because to me it looks like a really, really obscure Animorphs reference… and I just don’t see how that’s possible
Dan’s kinda doing a Walky face
Glad I’m not the only one who thinks so.
Holy crap, so can I!
You need to squint…
Get over it blonde Amber.
poor poor bastard…
Dora or Amber. DOA. Dumbing of Age.
Clever!
Okay, Dorothy, shut the hell up. You were the one who ended the relationship. If you’ve got a problem with him moving on, then build a bridge and get over it.
agreed
Thirded.
Fourthed
Fifthed (Not pleaing it)
Imma go sixth this.
Seventhed.
eighthed
C-c-c-c-combo breaker…
(ninthed)
and a half!
Tenthed.
Wait, do you have to start from one again after the combo breaker?
137thed.
What? Its early and I’ve had no coffee and you expect me to do math?
9001thed.
Because maths.
That’s not right. You went OVER NINE THOUSAND!
(Oh, and Nth-ed)
Infinity-th!
And the motion passes with 11-0.
Actually, right now it’s 9003-0 apparently.
No! He must never be allowed to date again!
…actually, yeah, I totally agree with ya.
No, the first part of your statement is totally accurate. Every person ever is entitled to one romantic relationship in their lifetime. If they fuck that up, they never get to have one ever again.
Nut-uh. Only ONE member of every relationship is limited. The other one can move on at will!
Oh, and that’s why she’s upset by his speed. By moving on first he’s forced her into the position of the member who can never move on. It’s like a race. It all makes sense now.
Yeah Dorothy, that totally sucks that you’re single forever man. Who knew Danny was gonna get back on the horse like some kind of horse-mounting machine.
with any luck he’ll be an amber mounting machine.
Sorry, he’s gay. Maybe she can have Ethan.
Wait, isn’t Ethan gay?
I found that “horse mounting machine” line hysterical and am now trying to find a way to use it in every conversation I ever have ever XD
It will be a difficult task sadly…
I think Dorothy is starting to realize she’s not as important as she thinks. It’s good for Dan to move on, but she’d prefer he moon over her for a month or longer because she was such a big part of his life. College life hasn’t been as bad for her as Billie, but even the newspaper assignment is beneath her and she knows it.
Lol. Egotism. Oh how it entertains me.
“Or longer” is the operative phrase here. It would be extremely ego-gratifying for Dorothy if Danny carried a torch for her until he died of old age. After living a cold, empty life spent pining hopelessly for her. Get over yourself, Dorothy, you ain’t that special.
Yep. You don’t get to whine about how quickly someone moves on if you’re the one who takes the “I’m doing this for your own good” stance and kills the relationship.
I mean, this is what you said you wanted, right?
Unfortunately, Dotty’s reaction makes sense due to the simple fact that human emotional are often some of the most stupid things in this universe.
Maybe she shouldn’t break up with the dude if she has so many emotions attached to his choice in female company? Just sayin.
She may still be correct in dumping him, but from what I have observed IRL and fiction, emotional ties rarely unbind quickly.
She wqs worried that he wouldn’t ever let go, so for him to presumably find someone so quickly would be ‘jarring’ to say the least.
Fair enough. I can accept that.
I do still maintain that her criticisms here are rude. There’s nothing here worth dropping the civility over, though I don’t think anyone’s debating that.
We will just have to wait until the next comic to see if the shit will end up hitting the fan or not.
i’m thinking friday instead.
Dorothy has no right to be mad, she dumped him, he’s free to get another girlfriend, sure it was only 4 days, but still
Also, there is literally no hint here that they are dating.
See, peopel do this weird thing called “making friends,” in which they talk, or share interests. It is often not related to sexual intercourse at all. In fact, sometimes people can make friends with other humans of the opposite sex!
LIES!
She’s just been interviewing Joe; I imagine platonic probability goes way down in his presence.
4 DoA days but also 7 IRL months.
My 2 cents: Look at it from Dorothy’s view: Last she saw Danny, he was broken the hell up making a big deal about -them- breaking the hell up. She’s no saint and it would be bad writing if everyone in the comic was mature.
Face it: us older people say far more petty things all the time. Who are we to throw rocks?
I agree that this is a legitimate reason for her to feel shocked. Four days ago he was talking about marriage. On the other hand, there’s feeling shocked and then there’s talking trash. By being reactionary instead of thinking before speaking, she’s crossed the line from justifiably surprised to bongoy.
C’mon Joe, Dorothy is taller than Amber.
And Dr. Evil was taller than Mini-me.
Only because Amber doesn’t have a stool to stand on!
…cuz, see, she’s Amazi-Girl.
Obviously, dorothy must be amazigirl in a brown wig, Amber is too short to be a superhero.
no she’s spider car.
Dorothy’s taller by about an inch and a half. No biggie. The only differences is Dorothy has her bangs over her forehead and blonde and Amber’s is brushed and brown hair.
And their faces are completely different shapes, and their glasses are different, and their mouths are different… it’s like they’re completely different people altogether!
Seriously, I don’t see how you people (lol) think they’re so similar looking.
It may be due to the Only Six Faces trope in play, that and the fact that Joe declared Amber to be a brunette Dotty clone which hints on how similar they look.
I’m so glad you didn’t include a link. I have class today.
Linking to TvTropes would be a cruel thing to do to someone who needs to work/study.
Or sleep ><
I think Joe is just showing us that They All Look The Same to Him. They’re probably not that similar; just both attractive and with a few features in common.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OnlySixFaces
And the fact that you have a Mike gravatar makes that post SO IN CHARACTER.
It was so worth the It’s Walky! “clipping” and making a new ID, just for the Gravatar. ^_^
Oh, and the dozen moms and the associated nickels.
It could be that Danny has a type or it’s just Willis mocking all the bongoing the fans who started with Shortpacked! did about “blonde Amber”. Or both.
Incidentally, their boobs are different, and Joe would so notice that.
Most of the Nurse Joys are different heights. But even then only Brock can tell them apart.
And, if I remember correctly, the Officers Jenny have different skirt lengths
Way to go on the cock block Joe
Paging Danny’s spine…
…Oh, right, he’s still developing that. Darn.
We got an eta on that yet?
2 hours after the death of a close friend?
I shouldn’t lol, and yet I do. In doing so I confirm my humanity.
You know, it was totally meant to be somber and morbid, but you laughing about it made me laugh the second hardest I’ve laughed today.
Wait a minute. Joe can see through the 4th wall? And Danny’s picking up Amber after 4 days after a painful breakup?
a dorothy clone? maybe she was just a blond Amber clone
Hey, a guy is allowed to have a female friend he has a crush on. You can’t expect him to be alone forever, he has to have a social life!
Agreed.
If this is some of that “wingman” stuff that Joe is supposedly “best at,” he better ride that Roz scandal for all it’s worth, because much like K-Fed, he isn’t going to build himself a future with his TALENT.
I mean, yeah, okay, it does LOOK like Danny just went out and found a substitute-Dorothy. But I’m not sold. I can’t really see Dorothy moonlighting as a masked avenger or Amber as an investigative journo.
Poor Danny actually handled panel 1 about as well as he plausibly could have. But if he manages to hold on to shy Amber in the face of this crapstorm, I’ll be astounded.
Lol. Way I see it everyone’s entitled to a type. I don’t see why people get creeped out when the new partner shares similarity with previous partners. The man knows what he likes and there’s nothing wrong with that.
Actually, I think that Joe’s duties as wingman are temporarily suspended until he deals with this clone problem.
You can’t be too careful with clones. If they bite you, you might turn into one.
They don’t think they look a like, and I agree that’s not what Danny thought either. Based on how they met and interact, it’s just pure coincidence. he noticed that had a lot in common and is diggin that. Hell, they aren’t even dating. they flirted a little and now they are going to play some vidya games.
Hopefully this’ll blow over.
I ALWAYS PREDICT THESE HORRIBLE THINGS!!!!!!!!!! DX
So what is your next prediction then, if you don’t me asking.
s: Dorothy’s gonna guilt trip him, Dannos gonna try to defend himself, Amber might step in and this spark some sort of rivalry between them? D///x I hope I’m wrong.
If this comes to pass, it would count as proof that the Drama Tag has well and truly been pulled.
The Drama Tag in this universe came pre-pulled.
where is amazi-girl when you need her? there’s peace that needs to be kept!
Dina’s probably behind her door.
(Aka the Amazicave.)
hahaha
You know… this could set up a Dorothy/Amber rivalry, which will be reflected in Intrepid Reporter Vs. Amazi-Girl.
Arch-enemies!
what are you talking about? Amber isn’t a reporter
That’s Ultracar’s job.
Yes, Amber isn’t a reporter but Dorothy is.
Exactly! but then where does Amazi-girl come in unless…
I get it! dorothy will pretend to have a rivalry with her alter ego, so she can get more press coverage! Brilliant!
Guys Guys Guys. Remember, Superheroes always go for the Reporter. Superman/Lois Lane, Batman/Vicki Vale, Spider-man/ Eddie Br. . .should have stopped sooner. Anyway, So we’ll get some nice Amazi-Girl-Dorothy make out sessions.
Though come to think of it, She actually already saved Billie, so I guess Billie would be her make out reporter.
But I thought Dorothy was Amazi-Girl…How would they make out.
Also, I actually know people who would love the imagery of Spider-man/Eddie Brock. I might draw something later today.
there’s no room for jealousy at Princeton.
Best policy ever. How to be best school.
So, is Amber Bizarro-Dorothy, or is Dorothy Bizarro-Amber?
Depends, what do you think came first, the chicken or the egg?
Trick Question: Everyone knows that the rooster came first.
The ‘real’ answer is that Amber and Dotty are both modified opposite-sex clones of Faz.
The terms “sex clones” and Faz do not belong in the same sentence together.
Not unless you include “lobotomised” in that sentence.
Lobotomized faz sex clones would be better? You have some strange fetishes even by my standards, and that’s saying something.
Not quite the sentence I was thinking of but yes it is true, I have developed some strange fetishes, all thanks to the internets.
fazarro?
Fazilet, Fazzella, Fazmina, oh so many possibilities.
Eh… so Danny has a type Joe, so what?
Also, has it really taken 3/4ths of a year to go 4 days? Cannot help but be impressed by the convolution of the storyline.
Willis himself said that he wants time to move slower in DoA than it does in QC.
Is that even possible?
Well in theory time could start going backwards but that kind of wacky hijinks would never take place in a Wilis comic.
YES CERTAINLY.
The webcomic Between Failures, a comic Willis is also familar with, has been going on for over 4 IRL years and less than a week has gone by in Comic Book Time.
Poor Dan. He finally finds someone new to play video games with, and BAM.
And I reiterate:
DUDE! COCKBLOCK! NOT COOL!
And why do the dumpers ALWAYS complain about the dumpee finding someone new?
Because we don’t lock ourselves away in a tower and mourn over being dumped?
What’s even weirder is when as the dumper the dumpee acts as if they expect you to be jealous, and seems disappointed when you aren’t. Really the entire post-relationship game is just a clusterfuck of confusing awkwardness.
Awwwkward
Is it just me, or is Dorothy looking directly at Amber’s chest in panel 4?
Amber is too. She’s just using her peripherals.
Isn’t that the first thing girls do when they meet?
…hence the need for CHEST WINDOWS.
‘Chest Windows’ has the same number of syllables as the word ‘Transformers’…now use those two words in place of that word in the classic theme song…now scream in terror as the realization dawns that this earworm will be stuck in your head for the next few days.
You’re welcome.
Ladies.
To play the Devil’s Advocate:
Dorothy’s been deliberating for months over what she’s supposed to do regarding Danny. He followed her to school so she’s feeling super guilty over it and then he immediately finds someone else after she finally ends it. If she knew it would have been that easy she wouldn’t have kicked herself so much over it.
Exactly my sentiment.
Does DoA Joe have a declared major yet, or is his major “Female Anatomical Studies”?
F.A.S.?
Probably still a scientific or engineering degree.
That’s what I’m leaning towards, but new continuity and all …
And yes, F.A.S., since that’s what Joe is. (FAST).
Just as long as he is FAZ.
I think she isn’t in the position just because she said earlier how it would have been a greater gift to break up with him sooner, implying she lost feelings even before when she actually broke up with him. Plus, he’s not dating her, he just likes her, that’s human nature to find someone attractive and try to go after it.
Because once people started thinking the character look similar they just had to milk the joke as much as it’s worth XD
I think Joe just blew up the forth wall there!
Now, I’m kinda torn on my feeling here. On one hand, I can totally appreciate Dorothy’s disgruntled “So just four days” remark. After all, the idea that your ex has moving on hurts, even if you were the one to break up with them. Seeing it happen after less than a week is worse.
But on the other hand, Dorothy broke up with Danny. She has no say in his dating life anymore. Did she expect him to spend the rest of his life whining about how he lost her and never moving on?
But then again, its only been four days. That kinda suggests Danny’s feeling for the relationship weren’t as strong as we were led to believe.
But THEN AGAIN, Danny and Amber aren’t doing anything yet. Yes, Danny flirted a bit with Amber, but they haven’t gone on an official date or had sex or made any formal declarations about a relationship.
So, in short, I understand both sides, and neither are right nor wrong in my opinion. They’re both kinda screwed up.
The relationship could have meant the world to him, and I’m pretty sure it did. Still no reason not to seek out new pastures. The old one is unavailable to him now.
I don’t really see how the speed with which he moves on is indicative of how much he valued the dead relationship. Unless this is just Dorothy playing hard to get, in which case she really needs to get better at that. Is there like a gamefaq or rulebook we could direct her to?
Not unless you can grab an multidimensional one. Billie and Sal are probably the only ones who’ve dated Danny more than she has.
Dorothy can just go to hell. While yes, Danny is a lame push-over for boyfriend material, Dorothy is one of those spoiled girlfriends that only thinks about herself. If she wants a career with a specific school, that’s fine, but to ditch someone on the first day of moving to campus like that, that is insulting!
Then, she complains not because Danny isn’t with her, but because Danny has something she doesn’t have! She sees her status in life as “single” or “in a relationship” in the same way she would see her social status defined by the type of luxury car she drives, or the brand of soda she drinks.
The fact Danny and Amber are relatively happy and understand each other just further gets under her skin, because it rubs salt into the wound of “oh, my life based on acquisitions isn’t going as planned!” with “someone who is less than me has more than what I have!”
This is kind of annoying, but it’s not unrealistic. A lot of women can be this self-contradictory, without even noticing.
That said…
Really, Dorothy? REALLY? Dump him to focus on your schoolwork, and get upset when he’s actually moving on? I mean, geez. It’s almost like you enjoy him stalking you.
I’m Walky now. Walkies are cool.
IRL I bet half of you would think Danny’s a dick for moving on so fast. I wouldn’t, but I’m just saying. Dorothy may not get a say but the upset is understandable.
I’ve had a girlfriend I broke up with start working her way through my social circle before the week was over. I can genuinely say I lost no sleep over it. Puzzling more than anything else really. Briefly wondered if she was trying to get back at me before deciding that train of thought was just narcissism speaking and moving on.
I’d be far more concerned about WTF is wrong with my friends at that point. There are RULES, man. There’s a CODE. The current and past girlfriends of your friends are off limits. The speed at which she moved on would be discouraging, but only in the sense that I would be worried she had been cheating on me. Dorothy knows better, and so doesn’t have anything to be grumpy about.
There’s a time limit on that, though. How long depends on the friendship, like for Joe, it was afterwards, but most of the time, it’s at least a year.
Depends on the person, really. I’ve seen one relationship that broke up and one member was expected to move on immediately and ridiculed for not doing so, and the other moved on and got hate for it.
Danny x Amber is my favorite ship in this entire comic, so Dorothy can suck it. For a nickel.
(P.S. I’m not a compsci major…)
Did Joe just break the fourth wall or is that just me?
I’m not quite sure I’d take it as far as you did. Acquisitions are an integral part of life. Whether you seek skills, joy, power, or more tangible things a life where one does not seek to acquire is a life unlived.
I also don’t feel we have sufficient evidence to believe she wants relationships exclusively for social status. I have a feeling she never would have been dating Danny in the first place if that was the case. He’s probably more damaging to the ol’ status than being single ever could have been, and lord knows a smart go-getter like her with looks and money could do way better than Danny from a social status perspective anyway.
That aside I agree wholeheartedly. Quite self centered, a bit of a dick, and might I add massively weak willed as well? If she had even half a spine she would have taken care of all that danny business long before any of this was an issue rather than just waiting and expecting him to choose a different school.
Was supposed to be in reply to goatman95111. Oops.
“So just four day, huh?”
What, no! You dumped him, Dorothy! You did it to set him free, for his own good, as you said. you have NO FUCKING RIGHT to complain that he is moving on, doing exactly what you wanted him to do.
Being snarky about how your former boyfriend is devlopping new relationship is simply firbidden to you. Jalousy and ressent are feeling are feeling you are not allowed to have. You wanted it that way, you have it!
Now enjoy that danny is moving over you. The only words you are allowed to pronounce is “I am happy for you and hope you will be OKEY”.
I’m gonna be kinda pissed off if Amber gets scared off of this tentative relationship because Dorothy and Joe decide to be assholes at their first meeting.
lol Joe gets so serious points for the well placed quip =)
I just realized that Dorothy’s upset at Danny ‘finding’ someone else ‘after four days’ when SHE’S the one who dumped him!
Guess her high and mighty plans that didn’t want to get dragged down by Danny didn’t include the fact the thought she was irreplaceable in his life.
How do YOU feel now Dorothy? I hope it sticks in your craw like a missile fired from a 1970’s Battlestar Galactica Viper.
Am I the ONLY one who doesn’t seem to think that Dorothy needs to burn at the stake for being a little upset that her ex-boyfriend’s already bringing home other girls not even a full week after they broke up? I mean, sure, she’s the one who dumped him (and for his own sake, since he would’ve just wasted his future away with her), but that doesn’t mean that she can’t still have feelings. :/
Seriously, if this was in real life, people would be saying Danny’s a manwhore.
Yes. Burn her! Burn her I say!
No, but seriously I don’t think I’d have any complaints if she displayed hurt feelings after leaving. Getting all critical of Danny’s lovelife to his face though, in a manner that paints him as some form of common floozy no less, is just so far from classy. It’s not that she’s upset, it’s that she’s apparently so upset that she can’t even maintain a civil facade for the five minutes it takes to get out of there, or that she’s just such a self centered, rude, and petty person that she doesn’t even care to be polite about all this. I mean, I can literally think of no way to interpret this behavior positively.
She’s not demonic or anything. We’re just seeing a bit of an uglier side to her personality right now.
While I agree she’s being rude, it’s kinda eclipsed by Joe’s rudeness. I mean, that’s not even bro-polite.
Well, it’s not like she’s even being that horrible about it. She’s not screaming, or hitting, or even saying really anything that nasty. Sure, that could all change in tomorrow’s strip, but today’s strip? All she said was, “So just four days, huh?”
And yeah. This isn’t a way to interpret this behavior positively. Dorothy’s not being the most polite of people here, I’ll concede that. But she’s hardly being as horrible as some of these comments are making her. She made one comment, guys. Calm down.
It may have been one comment, but it was still highly uncalled for, especially considering that she broke his heart those four days ago.
Now, I’m not saying she’s a horrible person for it. To be honest, I can’t say I wouldn’t want an ex to pine for me for a whil, or at least take their time getting over me. That’s just human ego at work. And she actually does have a bit of right to feel a little hurt. The way Danny acted before made it seem as though she were the most important thing in his life. To see him move on so quickly would raise some speculation as to the sincerity of said behavior.
But one of the cruxes here is, that there’s no real basis for her to accuse Danny of anything. Making the comment she did, in the tone her expression implies means her jumping to conclusions and judging him for them when all he’s done so far is walk into his room with a friend who happens to be female. Did he flirt with her, yes? Does he want something to come out of this? Who can say? In any case, Dorothy knows none of this, and yet she still took it upon herself to open her snippy little trap.
Yeah, it was a human thing to do, likely any one of us would have done it. I can’t say I wouldn’t. But it was still a harsh move on her part.
As for the harsh response she’s getting, weeeelllll…We’re still getting to know her character here. So far, she hasn’t done much to garner sympathy in her corner. I think she did Danny a service in breaking up, sure, buts she’s still coming off as very cold. It’s not the type of character that drums up much support, and one that many people are the most eager to dump on.
tl;dr version: She done goofed, and I don’t think a lot people like her yet.
Yeah, I get that. I dunno, I just think that she’s young and emotional. She was damn near to tears when she and Danny were discussing Yale and Danny’s hope that she’ll change her mind about it. I think she just needs some time to mature.
But I guess until then, it’s off to the stake for her~
I don’t think she needs to burn at the stake. I don’t think anyone does. I think she has every right to feel at least little jealous if he had a new girlfriend.
I think she’s overreacting a little bit when they’re still just friends/acquaintances though.
While I’m thinking about it… the fact that they’ve spoken in stereo twice in two strips is certainly not helping them make their “we’re totes not a clones” argument. Just saying, it’s a little weird.
I have a couple friends who always date girls who look like the other girls they’ve dated.
Yeah, it’s called “having a type”. I’m not someone who “has a type” but it’s a thing that exists and Joe should get over it.
Of course, the contrarian in me now notices lots of differences, like the height thing, the next, the hair (duh), and the fact that Amber’s complexion is less pale. (She has that cute blush, too!)
next = necks, not sure how that happened ;-P
How could you skip over the fact that Amber’s got bigger boobies???
Since the poll seems to agree that boobies are more important than political integrity, they should surely take precedence over height, hair, and such!
This is only true if political integrity trumps height, hair, etc..
Transitive property.
The shape of their faces is also slightly different.Dorothy is rounder while Amber has a bit of a pointed chin.
Well done, Willis. I haven’t laughed that hard at a compositing joke since South Park put a very obvious and clumsy compositing line between Cartman and Evil Cartman.
Ouch. Poor Danny. It always sucks when you see your ex when you’re with your current, and it’s only a week after they dumped you.
Mostly because my ex only dumped me because he was high, and I refused to get back together with him.
BUT YOU HAVE A GOOD REASON. Don’t let her guilt trip you into ruining this for yourself. Because she WILL try. All exes are crazy for at least a week, I swear to Cheese.
Well Joe, it looks like you’ll see the difference if she ever puts on a corsett…
People get really invested in these fake relationships between made up people, don’t they?
They’re real to us, Macaroni…They’re REAL to US…
-sniffle-
Are you saying this as someone who also does the same thing OR as an outsider wondering why we carry on the way we do over these made-up people?
I’d like to be the outsider who doesn’t get it, but unfortunately these characters are just so damn well written I can’t help but get emotionally invested. Still, the part of me that likes to think I’m a Freudian Psychoanalys keeps whispering “Transferrence… transferrence”
I was going to write a scathing, trolltastic attack on your post, but then I saw your user handle and now my brain has been muddied by a flood of Awesome.
Thank you nitpicker, but you might want to write a scathing, trolltastic attack anyway since I don’t know why you think my handle is particularly awesome.
Is it me, or does Dorothy look like she’s got some severely chipped teeth in that last panel?
OH MY CHEESE.
Danny has the Walky frog look in the last panel!
The REAL reason Dotty is so upset!
http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2011/6/1/524c3a6f-d892-48fe-9530-32dbc0483047.jpg
so…in comic time, it’s only been FOUR DAYS?
…i totally missed that. whoa.
I… I understand everyone saying that Dorothy has no right to be jealous, and think so as well. But what I think the point was, was that he was so broken up about them breaking up that four days seems like a complete turnaround. I’d be confused if someone i broke up with acted like Danny and then a few days later had another girl on his arm.
Is she really on his arm, though? Can ex-girlfriend vision see a thread connecting their pinkies that nobody else can perceive?
I find it weird that so many people are going “Dorothy broke up with Danny, so he has every right to date someone else and Dorothy shouldn’t be jealous” but come on–this guy chased you to college, wanted to marry you, and then when you break up with him, apparently has a new girl four days later? If I were Dorothy, I wouldn’t be jealous, I’d be stone-cold PISSED. It would be one thing if Dorothy cheated on Danny, but by latching onto someone else, it’s like he doesn’t value what they had anymore. Just because Dorothy broke up with him doesn’t mean she still doesn’t care about him (I mean, she’s still talking to Joe), but the way Danny’s acting gives the impression that their entire relationship was worthless.
I’m a little disappointed that Joe of all people hasn’t thought of the best way to prove that they’re clones. One of them may have changed the drapes, but it’s doubtful she would have dyed the carpet, so to speak.
And thus were even MORE slash fics born…
Yeeah I admit it’d have been cooler if Dorothy gave him a pat on the back for his progress. These are modern times after all. We do not have to act jealous because it’s socially expected anymore.
I think the thing everyone seems to be missing is that Danny isn’t armed with a bottle of Tequila (Panty peeler!) and a Chick flick (Although, in Amber’s case, MLP may count as the latter) He’s starting a basically healthy friendship.
Is he supposed to avoid all contact with girls until Dorothy’s arbitrary deadline is satisfied? Screw that, his game is nowhere close to that good. Get while the gettin’s good. Godspeed Danny, You fancy bastard.
(Wrong webcomic, I know, but I went on an HE bender and I love the way that sounds.)
Well played, Willis. Well played.
(Damn You Willis.)
…Ok now I can’t wait for Faz to make his (in)glorious appearance.