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September 20, 2023

Hank

by David M Willis on June 26, 2013 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - Answers in Hennessy

└ Tags: hank the giraffe, marcie, sal

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  1. Jackson
    Jackson
    June 26, 2013 at 12:01 am | #

    Hank is the giraffe? I am so confused.

    • Undrave
      Undrave
      June 26, 2013 at 1:31 am | #

      For a second I thought it was Beast Wars Neo Longrack…

  2. Tioras
    Tioras
    June 26, 2013 at 12:02 am | #

    That might cause some issues with seeing while riding.

    • Resne
      Resne
      June 26, 2013 at 2:48 am | #

      WAY TO GO, WALKERTON.

  3. otusasio451
    otusasio451
    June 26, 2013 at 12:02 am | #

    Well…giraffe. Why not?

  4. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    June 26, 2013 at 12:02 am | #

    GASP! Is there a full moon going on? Did she drink X-Tra Strength Hair Tonic?

    IS SHE SECRETLY A RABID WOLVERINE???

    • Geminia999
      Geminia999
      June 26, 2013 at 12:05 am | #

      She has wolverine’s original planned backstory, the one where he isn’t a mutated person, but actually a mutated Wolverine.

    • Jenny Creed
      Jenny Creed
      June 26, 2013 at 4:12 am | #

      Is she secretly a descendant of Samson? That’d explain both her spectacular badassness and why she doesn’t cut her hugely inconvenient hair.

    • Ivan
      Ivan
      June 26, 2013 at 11:45 pm | #

      With the pace here? She hasn’t even rinsed her cooter yet!

  5. DanMan9820
    DanMan9820
    June 26, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

    Who the hell is Hank?

    • Mkvenner
      Mkvenner
      June 26, 2013 at 12:04 am | #

      The giraffe.

      • Drunken Nordmann
        Drunken Nordmann
        June 26, 2013 at 9:38 am | #

        There’s a giraffe?

        Oh.

    • Dave Van Domelen
      Dave Van Domelen
      June 26, 2013 at 12:10 am | #

      Perhaps a hank of hair.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        June 26, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

        A hank a’ hank a’ burnin’ love.

    • Fezzam
      Fezzam
      June 26, 2013 at 12:16 am | #

      Hank is Joyce’s dad

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 26, 2013 at 12:18 am | #

        Joyce’s dad is a giraffe? No wonder she’s so messed up.

        • desolation0
          desolation0
          June 26, 2013 at 1:08 am | #

          Needing to live up to such lofty expectations.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            June 26, 2013 at 1:12 am | #

            Also thought her that premarital necking is wrong.

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              June 26, 2013 at 5:03 am | #

              thought = taught

        • NMascis
          NMascis
          June 29, 2013 at 2:29 am | #

          Damn Christian girraffes!

      • Fezzam
        Fezzam
        June 26, 2013 at 4:15 am | #

        And the tag is changed on me… So much for my attempt at sluthing.

    • captainswift
      captainswift
      June 26, 2013 at 12:21 am | #

      Hank is an African even-toed ungulate mammal, the tallest living terrestrial animal and the largest ruminant

      • Zap Rowsdower
        Zap Rowsdower
        June 26, 2013 at 12:28 am | #

        Also kosher to eat if your shochet can find the right place on the neck to slit.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          June 26, 2013 at 12:40 am | #

          I would have thoght that as long as you cut the jugular, that wouldn’t matter, but who wants to have to get on a step-ladder just to slit some creature’s throat anyhow?

    • DanMan9820
      DanMan9820
      June 26, 2013 at 1:03 am | #

      I come back to this thread an hour later to find that Willis has changed ‘Hank’ to ‘Hank the Giraffe’.

    • Taigan
      Taigan
      June 26, 2013 at 3:23 am | #

      Real Answer: Hank the Giraffe is an advocate of safe partying at Indianna University. He has a twitter account: https://twitter.com/HankatIU

      • Bizze
        Bizze
        June 26, 2013 at 10:41 pm | #

        I went to that twitter, saw that the giraffe was named Hank, then saw that the Red Panda was named Rusty, and guffawed. I bet there’s a red fox named Dean on the premises, or perhaps a Malcolm in the butterfly rooms.

        • Patrick McGraw
          Patrick McGraw
          June 27, 2013 at 8:31 am | #

          There should also be a badger named Brock.

    • Gaiash
      Gaiash
      June 26, 2013 at 9:18 am | #

      As a Nerdfighter I feel it’s important to answer that question with this
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHA-Sjw7XE8

  6. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    June 26, 2013 at 12:04 am | #

    Excellent follow up to yesterday.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      June 26, 2013 at 12:09 am | #

      Are you saying Sal’s tear ducts produce hair?

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        June 26, 2013 at 12:12 am | #

        Are you implying Sal is capable of crying?

      • Mkvenner
        Mkvenner
        June 26, 2013 at 12:12 am | #

        Now I am! 😀

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 26, 2013 at 12:18 am | #

        Is this a new meme forming?

  7. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    June 26, 2013 at 12:04 am | #

    This reminds me of Pirates of Dark Water somehow.

    • Mkvenner
      Mkvenner
      June 26, 2013 at 12:05 am | #

      I feel very old all of a sudden.

  8. Jaqzz the Koala
    Jaqzz the Koala
    June 26, 2013 at 12:04 am | #

    I always assumed Marcie was silent/used sign language because she was deaf, and she would read lips to communicate. Is she just mute?

    • David
      David M Willis
      June 26, 2013 at 1:01 am | #

      She is only mute.

      • Lu86
        Lu86
        June 26, 2013 at 1:13 am | #

        Is it so very wrong that I assumed it was a “Catcher in the Rye” thing?

        • Kamino Neko
          Kamino Neko
          June 26, 2013 at 2:54 pm | #

          Catcher in the Rye thing?

          • Lu86
            Lu86
            June 26, 2013 at 6:43 pm | #

            “I thought what I’d do was, I’d pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn’t have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something, they’d have to write it on a piece of paper and shove it over to me. They’d get bored as hell doing that after a while, and then I’d be through with having conversations for the rest of my life. Everybody’d think I was just a poor deaf-mute bastard and they’d leave me alone.”

      • Rin
        Rin
        June 26, 2013 at 9:23 am | #

        ahh, useful! I was coming down with the same question. In hindsight I guess ‘why we never see Sal signing, but I always figured Marcie was lipreading (no small task).

      • Annie
        Annie
        March 13, 2014 at 1:33 am | #

        I know I’m late, but I’m so glad I found this. It’s been driving me crazy as to whether Marcie is Deaf and we just don’t see Sal sign a lot to her, whether she’s Deaf and lip reads, whether she’s deaf or hard of hearing enough that she can hear most conversations, but prefers not to voice or what.
        Every scenario had elements within the comic that were off and suggested that wasn’t quite it. When I first stumbled upon this comic (yup. I’m one of those weirdos that started with DoA. And only quite recently too.) I just assumed the little details that were off were a result of the artist not knowing these subtle things about Deaf culture and Deaf/deaf/hard-of-hearing people, but now that I’ve read all of DoA to date almost twice, all of Shortpacked, and a bit of Walky I know that just cant be the case.
        Willis, you are delightfully thorough even when it comes to little-known cultures or even randoms that you could get by with not worrying about the details. It’s one of the many, many things I love about your comics.
        But, knowing that I was back to being completely confused and completely frustrated by what Marcie’s story might be. So, even though I’d love to know more about Marcie, for now I feel satiated with this little piece of informations.

  9. Romanticide
    Romanticide
    June 26, 2013 at 12:05 am | #

    Nothing that can’t be fixed with some mouse , but oh well it’s her hair not mine even if it looks kinda similar.

    • Wombat
      Wombat
      June 26, 2013 at 12:36 am | #

      How much of a mouse? If a whole one, it would probably tangle things up worse as it crawls around. If part of one… well I don’t see that helping much…

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 26, 2013 at 12:42 am | #

        A rat a day keeps the split-ends away. 😛

      • andiemus
        andiemus
        June 26, 2013 at 12:42 am | #

        Just the antlers.

        • Wizard
          Wizard
          June 26, 2013 at 10:59 am | #

          Exactly what kind of mouse are we talking about here?

      • Hawkwing
        Hawkwing
        June 26, 2013 at 8:06 am | #

        They couldn’t find a mouse, so they went for a giraffe instead. This does not end well for Hank, I’m afraid.

      • Romanticide
        Romanticide
        July 6, 2013 at 3:52 pm | #

        she cold get a temple mouse like those in digger and ask it to help styling it 😛

    • hmrc4evr
      hmrc4evr
      June 26, 2013 at 1:02 am | #

      Well she won’t have to worry about it later.

      Just like the saying goes ‘hair today, gone tomorrow’

  10. Rock And Roll Martian
    Rock And Roll Martian
    June 26, 2013 at 12:05 am | #

    Having finally consumed the host organism, Sal’s hairdo dons a motorcycle helmet to conceal its true, horrifying form.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 26, 2013 at 12:07 am | #

      That reminds me of howif the Medusa from Modest Medusa live long enough, their ‘hair’ will adsorb the medusa’s body.

      • Not now
        Not now
        June 26, 2013 at 12:14 am | #

        I knew I was forgetting a webcomic! Since my computer bluescreened into oblivion, I lost my list of bookmarks. Thank you!

      • Dicrel Seijin
        Dicrel Seijin
        June 26, 2013 at 4:39 am | #

        I must thank you. I didn’t know about Modest Medusa. I lost twenty or so minutes just clicking through from the beginning.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          June 26, 2013 at 5:05 am | #

          Yeah it’s a pretty good webcomic, slowly going from a gag a day to a serious more interesting story line.

          • Roborat
            Roborat
            June 26, 2013 at 2:55 pm | #

            New webcomic to read! Yay!

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 26, 2013 at 12:07 am | #

      It has been known to turn men to stone. It made Jason ROCK HARD.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 26, 2013 at 12:09 am | #

        Sal’s hair deserves its own tag.

      • AgentKeen
        AgentKeen
        June 26, 2013 at 12:14 am | #

        Jason’s secret fetish: Cousin It. It’s why he and Penny didn’t last.

    • Nono
      Nono
      June 26, 2013 at 5:12 am | #

      Sal is a Parasect?

  11. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    June 26, 2013 at 12:05 am | #

    I haven’t seen a giraffe in a school series since School Rumble.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 26, 2013 at 12:08 am | #

      This schools not anime enough. Needs more toast in mouth.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 26, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

        Sal has expressive hair almost like Tenma, so all it needs is comic misunderstandings and tsunderes… wait….

    • Milosh
      Milosh
      June 26, 2013 at 12:52 am | #

      What about Clone High?

      “There is NO RULE that says a giraffe can’t play football!”

  12. Aras Pabedinskas
    Aras Pabedinskas
    June 26, 2013 at 12:09 am | #

    First Helmet I have ever seen with a moustache and eyebrows.

  13. Juliecat
    Juliecat
    June 26, 2013 at 12:10 am | #

    why is the giraffe apparently urinating from the center of its chest?

    • AgentKeen
      AgentKeen
      June 26, 2013 at 12:13 am | #

      I found a picture of the real thing, it’s actually chained down.

      (But I thought that it was poo before realizing it must be a fake giraffe)

      • TheKelliestKelly
        TheKelliestKelly
        June 26, 2013 at 2:12 am | #

        Thank you! I was wondering what that was

  14. timemonkey
    timemonkey
    June 26, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

    Sal, ugly hair is nothing to be ashamed of, lots of characters suffer from it.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 26, 2013 at 12:13 am | #

      Unlike Mike, who suffers from the very similar, Stupid Hair.

      • AgentKeen
        AgentKeen
        June 26, 2013 at 12:15 am | #

        It’s not stupid hair, it’s Escher hair.

        • Kernanator
          Kernanator
          June 26, 2013 at 12:19 am | #

          His Hair Is a Friggin’ Escher Print.

  15. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    June 26, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

    She’s a Fabulous Furry Freak Brother!

  16. AgentKeen
    AgentKeen
    June 26, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

    So Hank the Giraffe is a local Indiana thing? Any story behind it?

    • Mathew
      Mathew
      June 26, 2013 at 12:16 am | #

      You can follow him on Twitter!

      https://twitter.com/HankatIU

      He tends to advocate safe partying practices.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 26, 2013 at 12:49 am | #

        He must be using a special kind of PC to be able to twitter at all.

  17. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    June 26, 2013 at 12:12 am | #

    At least Sal’s hair is immune to ‘helmut hair’.

  18. Geminia999
    Geminia999
    June 26, 2013 at 12:13 am | #

    So, is Marcie actually mute or is it just a character trait?

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 26, 2013 at 12:14 am | #

      She’s mute.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 26, 2013 at 12:20 am | #

        She’s mute in the same way that Link from Zelda is.

        • Geminia999
          Geminia999
          June 26, 2013 at 12:22 am | #

          So you’re saying she isn’t mute then? Cause Link can talk, he just doesn’t.

          • timemonkey
            timemonkey
            June 26, 2013 at 12:23 am | #

            He does, we just don’t see/hear it.

        • Rex Hondo
          Rex Hondo
          June 26, 2013 at 12:23 am | #

          She just grunts and hollers inarticulately a lot?

        • xKiv
          xKiv
          June 26, 2013 at 8:20 pm | #

          Well, excUUUUse me, Mongoose!

  19. Shobo
    Shobo
    June 26, 2013 at 12:13 am | #

    Wait, so can the girl signing hear? Did I miss that?

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      June 26, 2013 at 12:17 am | #

      She’s not deaf, just mute.

    • John
      John
      June 26, 2013 at 12:20 am | #

      Marcie can hear but not speak. I don’t think it’s been spelled out explicitly in the comic, but she doesn’t seem to have any trouble understanding what people are saying when she can’t see their mouths, and Willis has confirmed it.

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      June 26, 2013 at 12:23 am | #

      Why would you assume she’s deaf? Sal’s spoken to her in every appearance.

      • Joe
        Joe
        June 26, 2013 at 10:58 am | #

        If she was deaf, she might also be a very talented lipreader.

  20. Z3tto
    Z3tto
    June 26, 2013 at 12:30 am | #

    A rare instance of reverse helmet-hair.

  21. The Blot
    The Blot
    June 26, 2013 at 12:36 am | #

    What’s a giraffe?

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      June 26, 2013 at 12:40 am | #

      It’s what my parents call each other.

      Also, a mammal with a neck that must be terrible to throw up through.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 26, 2013 at 12:44 am | #

        They use their necks to blugeon each other during mating season.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          June 26, 2013 at 12:55 am | #

          Nothing says kinky sex like beating someone to death with your neck.

          • Joe
            Joe
            June 26, 2013 at 10:59 am | #

            I think it’s actually for when the males are fighting over a female.
            There are videos of it on youtube. They make this horrible slapping sound.

    • Jenny Creed
      Jenny Creed
      June 26, 2013 at 4:07 am | #

      A miserable pile of secrets!

      • Renadt
        Renadt
        June 26, 2013 at 7:18 am | #

        Enough talk! Have at you!

        • Jenny Creed
          Jenny Creed
          June 26, 2013 at 11:42 am | #

          Something something mankind ill needs a savior something!

  22. Kennerly
    Kennerly
    June 26, 2013 at 12:51 am | #

    Marcie isn’t mute. She just refuses to speak so no one will recognize the voice of Amazi-Girl!

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 26, 2013 at 12:55 am | #

      That’s my canon.

      • andmangrewproud
        andmangrewproud
        June 26, 2013 at 11:07 am | #

        Now I’m picturing an old-school sitcom with a one apartment set and a laugh track about a bunch of single twenty-somethings who sit around shipping fictional characters called “That’s My Canon!”

  23. Packy
    Packy
    June 26, 2013 at 1:28 am | #

    I wonder if Marcie and Hank were engaging in premarital hanky… eh, nah. That would be too tall a tale.

  24. Darth Cariss
    Darth Cariss
    June 26, 2013 at 1:29 am | #

    I hope for Marcie and Sal’s sake that Hank isn’t the giraffe from Resident Evil 6.

  25. vuragado
    vuragado
    June 26, 2013 at 2:10 am | #

    Dat hair!

  26. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    June 26, 2013 at 2:28 am | #

    Sal and Mike have something in common. Gravity defying hair.
    A giraffe, well why not?

  27. sandbridgekid
    sandbridgekid
    June 26, 2013 at 2:59 am | #

    Hank is an aquatic, seabird, a northern aviforme, penguin analogue, now extinct. Or one -half of the Vlogbrothers.

    • ninja_jesus
      ninja_jesus
      June 26, 2013 at 3:13 am | #

      I was gonna ask if Willis was a nerdfighter, hehe. DFTBA

  28. Steve
    Steve
    June 26, 2013 at 4:14 am | #

    I like Sal with wild hair. It helps differentiate her from the awful person she is in the other timeline…

  29. Björn
    Björn
    June 26, 2013 at 4:40 am | #

    Shobo might have assumed that Marcie got by by reading people’s lips–something that would have been plausible in previous strips, but not in this one where Sal’s hair is wearing a helmet.

    • Björn
      Björn
      June 26, 2013 at 4:41 am | #

      Gosh darnit, that was supposed to have been a reply to one of Timemonkey’s posts above.

  30. Anonymous
    Anonymous
    June 26, 2013 at 5:14 am | #

    ‘Tis (the) awesome.

  31. Josh
    Josh
    June 26, 2013 at 5:53 am | #

    I mustache you a question.

    • WebComicGeek11
      WebComicGeek11
      June 26, 2013 at 12:44 pm | #

      But I will Shave it for later

  32. Scott
    Scott
    June 26, 2013 at 7:33 am | #

    Am I the only one who thinks she looks the slightest bit like a Power Ranger with that helmet on? >_>

  33. FacedownNinja
    FacedownNinja
    June 26, 2013 at 8:18 am | #

    Some say she fights aliens, others say that she can bench press a truck, but chooses not to due to a pending legal battle with Ford. All we know is, she’s called The Sal.

  34. hmrc4evr
    hmrc4evr
    June 26, 2013 at 9:00 am | #

    I’ll be the first to call it–

    Hank is Amazi-Girl!! See it’s the perfect disguise; not only does he change size and gender he changes species..and from an inanimate object to a living creature!

    Last one is tricky–someone needs to blink first.

  35. Dr.Midnight
    Dr.Midnight
    June 26, 2013 at 9:02 am | #

    Does Hank the Giraffe move around? Because in the Google images I found he seems to be in several different locations…

    • Ben
      Ben
      June 26, 2013 at 11:09 am | #

      Yeah, he does. He likes to visit special events like orientation and such.

  36. Animal
    Animal
    June 26, 2013 at 10:09 am | #

    Is it just me, or is the giraffe… leaking?

    • Ben
      Ben
      June 26, 2013 at 10:58 am | #

      He’s chained down because he was stolen on more than one occasion.

      • Neospector
        Neospector
        June 26, 2013 at 9:34 pm | #

        They make chains out of water now?
        Does that mean I can be an earth bender?

  37. Ben
    Ben
    June 26, 2013 at 10:57 am | #

    Just thought I’d throw this in here in case anyone was wondering: http://streetsmart.indiana.edu/

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      June 26, 2013 at 2:48 pm | #

      Wait, he finds Larry the Cable Guy inspirational? Hank is now dead to me.

  38. Hermitix
    Hermitix
    June 26, 2013 at 12:45 pm | #

    Isn’t this… Kind of the same joke again?

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      June 26, 2013 at 3:03 pm | #

      No, see, the hair is now POPPING OUT OF HER HELMET.

      Also, there is a giraffe. Giraffes make things 20 times funnier. This is a fact.

  39. Kitty
    Kitty
    June 26, 2013 at 3:19 pm | #

    I’m….I’m so confused! Save us Hank save us from the wtf!

  40. LuckyStar7
    LuckyStar7
    June 26, 2013 at 4:26 pm | #

    I FEEL YOU, WALKERTON.

    • xKiv
      xKiv
      June 26, 2013 at 8:24 pm | #

      Way to go, Walkerton.

  41. Jingah
    Jingah
    June 26, 2013 at 6:43 pm | #

    I didn’t notice the giraffe until I read the alt text. derp

  42. Sir Robin
    Sir Robin
    June 26, 2013 at 6:48 pm | #

    I guess the hair signifies one thing …

    http://youtu.be/lQlIhraqL7o

  43. QuantumPolagnus
    QuantumPolagnus
    June 26, 2013 at 6:55 pm | #

    Is the giraffe peeing?

  44. Pseudowolf
    Pseudowolf
    June 26, 2013 at 7:13 pm | #

    This giraffe. Is it, perchance, steam powered? (Google it now, thank me later)

  45. xKiv
    xKiv
    June 26, 2013 at 8:25 pm | #

    So today we learn … Hank’s in Hennessy?

  46. LtSaraD
    LtSaraD
    June 26, 2013 at 9:21 pm | #

    i know that feels!

  47. Brady Kj
    Brady Kj
    June 29, 2013 at 6:35 pm | #

    But her hair’s awesome! Why is she hiding it? Why do so many people have contempt for curly hair that sticks out everywhere? And why is it most common among people who claim to want to be attractive, when their bizarre hair-straightening ritual proves they don’t?

  48. Vree
    Vree
    June 30, 2013 at 3:47 pm | #

    Sal: “Okay, I admit it. Your ride is cooler.”

  49. Nathan
    Nathan
    June 30, 2013 at 9:57 pm | #

    Fix it! I can’t deal with Sal’s hair like this!

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