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See? He IS Joyce!
That was my exact first thought.
Mine too.
Nah, at least I’ve got some sympathy for Joyce.
I dunno, I don’t have sympathy toward Joyce when I read Roomies’ early strips. I only grew to like her during Walky and Joyce & Walky pace.
“DANNO THAT WAS YOUR TICKET OUT OF NOT-LIKEABLENESS AND YOU BLEW IT”
Even his parents…
Now all he has is nice shoes and availability.
Nononono Danno (From Hawaii Five-O old and new version) are awesome. Danny.. is not.
Amazi-Girl is the bestest Canadian GF ever!
Umm, Sal isn’t Canadian.
But Ruth is…
She became a Canadian citizen after she escaped from her school once and drove cross country just to spite her parents and the country they live in.
Except For the fact that would only work if one of her parents was already a Canadian citizen or in the process of becoming one (if under 18).
Silence, you reasonable person. There’s no place for your sort here. =P
Considering that in The Walkyverse Sal was shown to be very similar to her mom, and I’m not sure but I think it’s implied She was like Her mother, we can assume that there is an unbroken chain of the family going back dozens of generations. It’s the only logical conclusion.
Are you saying that Sal’s great ancestor was Leia Organa?
Thank you for this. That made my day.
Sal doesn’t play by your rules.
Except this a law not a rule. The RCMP is only polite when the press is watching.
what does the RCMP have to do with becoming a citizen? The RCMP are similar to the American FBI. Except they also do parades with red costumes and horses…
you are more likely to run into a RCMP constable than a Canada Border Services Officer.
I don’t think I’ve ever actually encountered a Mountie, but I almost got busted for kidnapping by Canadian Border Services one time.
They also engage in massive corruption, deal in drugs, take bribes, abuse prisoners and have murdered several people.
But the border services people are so nice! At least over here on the far west coast. Trying to get back is terrible, but the Canadian side are so pleasant!
I’ve once read somewhere that if you committed a crime in Canada, the Mounties would hunt you down – wherever you go.
Cue images of a Mountie walking out of the waves on a beach in Spain, gunning down a fugitive and disappearing again.
Where I’m from we theorize that the main reason for the US not spying on Canade is fear – fear of the Mounties.
“The Mountie always gets his man”
Haven’t you seen Due South?
There are very few things that can truly piss off a Mountie, but when they do…
Actually they can only do that in case of crimes against humanity and crimes commited within 24nmi of the coastline. If you flee across the border after commiting any crime other than a crime against humanity the have follow the same process as everyone else.
I thought it was the result of American beer.
No wait, it was the result of making love in a canoe. I knew it was fscking close to water in some respect.
Sal was bitten by a radioactive Canadian chain-smoking biker, thus giving her the powers of AMAZI-GIRL! (And a penchant for motorcycles, smoking and giving The Man the finger.)
I want to know how she got bitten
Sheer lust on the biker’s part … couldn’t help himself. He then avoided the knee in the ‘nads, but then Sal planted her right fist in his solar plexus, a left to the jaw, then she picked him up and threw him through the bar’s front window. The biker still thinks it was worth it.
But where would she get the urge to fight crime in the night?
Unless that’s a trait all Canadians posses.
Duh.
Um, why are we talking about Sal? Isn’t Amazi-girl Amber?
Or am I missing something?
Running joke. We the audience know that Amber is Amazi-Girl, but at various times someone will say how X is really Amazi-Girl and cite “evidence”. Other people will either run with it, or cite “counter-evidence” to show how X isn’t Amazi-Girl, but Y is.
Right, I realized that after I posted my comment. LOL
Silly me, the joke went right over my head.
Ohhhh, I wish you could meet my girlfriend! My girlfriend who lives in Canadaaa~
It’s Avenue Q day at IU!
Meanwhile, Walky is singing ‘I’m not wearing underwear today, no I’m not wearing underwear today…’
GET A JOB!
I thought she was Finnish?
Okay, I’m convinced that these are Mike’s parents.
No, his parents are actually extremely nice, at least in the Walkyverse
…Maybe Mike and Danny were swapped at birth?
That’d be pretty cool to see.
…Dammit, that makes so much sense.
Does that mean that Mike accidently did his own mum for a nickel?
Accidentally?
Nothing Mike does is an accident.
Now I’m picturing Mike starring in Oedipus Rex.
…as your Gravatar seems to be illustrating…
Alternate punchline: …for 5 drachma.
I was actually thinking that myself, but more due to character design and hairstyle stuff.
Wow. Danny’s family are assholes.
Hey, lay off them! They are coping very well with having a child who is such a disappointment, thank you very much. Considering that they had to deal with 18 years of Danny in the house, they are practically saints.
What is STAGGERING is how often I hear people make such sweeping statement and mean them, often in spite of good impressions in a petty ‘I was right about you!’way.
This though pattern must be stopped. Where are you, sociology man?
…Okay, I can’t tell. Are you speaking in favor of Thor’s comment, or against it?
Against. His parents are being cruel. On purpose. Note that they are walking away from him.
Danny’s parents seriously bother me. They were making me get frowny feelings since the last strip where they suddenly seemed to hit a flat note when Danny said he and Dorothy broke up, but now I really am not a fan. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if the way they are treating him here is somehow linked to the reason why Danny was so annoying at certain points.
Keep in mind the relevation that he and Dorothy had broken up came after they saw Dorothy’s parents and chatted cheerfully with them and suggested they all go out to lunch later as though their children were still dating, thus demonstrating to the Keeners that they have NO IDEA what’s going on in their son’s life. Then he made a tasteless joke about their other son dying in Afghanistan, which is probably something they legitimately worry about often.
Sharon’s line still bothers me. She asks her son whether his current girlfriend is better than his ex, and when he refuses to answer, automatically assumes the answer is no.
Maybe he just doesn’t want to comment because his answer could get back to either one of them and piss them off. I mean, it’s not like she’s asking in a closed car, with only family or close friends. She’s asking in the middle of campus, where anyone nearby could be friends with one or the other.
They’re fictional, who cares?
I care?
If characters don’t make you care, something has gone wrong somewhere.
hey that rhymed! You’re a poet and you didn’t even know it
Kaci, don’t be deceived. Kernanator knows. Kernanator knows all.
Kernanator is Roablock with access to a computer.
But… but… but I’M fictional!! : (
Wait, are you -actually- Elan, then? ;p
Come on, wouldn’t any of us walk away from Danny, given the chance?
No. I quite like the guy.
Being cruel to their children is a favored hobby of many parents.
It doesn’t mean they don’t love as well.
Being cruel in ways that aren’t likely to cause emotional trauma is a favored hobby of parents. For instance, holding your kids down and tickling them is a classic. So is threatening to bring out the embarrassing pictures when they bring a date home. Belittling your child? Not so much.
Yeah, Danny’s parents aren’t just being dicks, they’re being emotionally and psychologically abusive.
Long story short, Danny gets his Danny-ness from his parents’ sorry example. I mean, come on, they were going on about how much of a good life plan clinging to someone else’s like a parasite is before they learned it wasn’t going to happen! Something tells me Danny’s brother CHOSE the army over college to get away from this sinking ship full of shoes…and availability….Hmmm, wonder how man pairs of shoes Danny’s Dad owns?
Assuming Danny didn’t learn everything about being Danny from how they raised him, yes. Who else is confident that neither Dorothy nor her parents have any idea this is how Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox treat their son when they, or anyone else they want to put on airs for, aren’t around?
That last bit, seeing Danny’s parents in that light reminds me of my girlfriend’s parents, to a very frightening degree
I’m going to start posting this every time I see someone “hate” a webcomic character for behaving a certain way: “Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.”- Mel Brooks
Comedy ain’t pretty folks.
Danny’s parents are… kind of terrible. “You’re not dating Dorothy anymore? Begone, son.”
“Now I remember why we got rid of you”
Dorothy was a girl who was going places, son. Places far away where we wouldn’t have to deal with you. And you messed that all up, as expected. Where did we fail, Sharon? We wound up with the wrong child in Afghanistan somehow.
Haha.
“You wish now that our places had been exchanged. That I had died and Boromir had lived.”
“Yes. I wish that.”
Digging a hole, Danny, digging a hole.
I think he already hit bed rock about 4 days ago and is waiting for the heavy drilling equipment to he ordered arrive. Delivery time be 10:30pm and 10:35pm Friday.
Or he can try several dynamites.
That is two steps backward.
Yeah, Danny’s parents are dicks.
BAD PARENTS. BAD RANDALL. BAD SHARON. YOU APOLOGIZE TO YOUR SON RIGHT NOW!
Why doesn’t he have to apologize for being so LAAAAAAAME.
He plays a vital role in the superhero – secret-identity dynamic, so it’s necessary.
Because you can ignore being lame and relegate yourself to Minimal social contact. Being dicks to your children either makes them LAAAAAAAAME or INSAAAAAAAANE! (With a portion being emotionally distraught)
Especially if you do that to your child’s FAAAAAAACE.
You are dating princess peach?
NO!
…Samus…
…and she’s in another castle at this time.
That’s what she says when she’s not in the mood.
Just because mario’s a plumber, doen’t mean he knows how to ‘fix her drainhole’ properly.
Is THAT why my mom asked Joe for a plunger?
Yes and when that didn’t work, she got herself one of those plumbing-snakes.
Amber. Her name. Is Amber. AMAZI-GIRL IS AMBER YOU TWIT HOW HARD IS IT TO PUT TWO AND TWO TOGETHER OH MY GOD IS THERE ANY WONDER WHY DOROTHY BROKE UP WITH YOUR IDIOTIC ASS?!
…wow, that was more rage-y than I expected. >_> Where’d that come from?
You need to take a chill-pill bro.
Inside you the dark side is.
I always found the Light side and Dark side stuff to be trite. Where are the people that just want to play with magic and fuck the applications this is neat.
They aren’t taught magic because they don’t A) want to rule the universe, or B) rule the universe by withholding all emotion and influencing events through subtle mind control. C) have fun with powers, is strictly forbidden.
THEY!!!!!!!!!!!!,,,,,…………. . . . . . Wait.
Shun the non bliever! She knows not of the force.
shuuuuuunnnnnnn
Amazi-Girl is AMBER?! You’re crazy, Amazi-Girl is obviously Dina.
You’re all nuts, I think we all know that it’s Mike, messing with us all…
No, it’s Jason, sans bowtie.
Nice idea. But we’ve seen Jason sans bowtie.
Amazi-Girl is Danny, obviously. It’s all very Fight Club-esque.
I have had this exact same thought.
But we’ve never seen Amazi-Girl and Galasso in the same place at the same time. Coincidence? I think NOT!
But he said Fight Club-esque – therefore it has to be someone we have seen her in the same scene.
Okay that one is possible.
You realize that Danny’s stupidity is what drives most of the plot lines with Danny in them, right?
You can only hold in your Danny rage for so long before it changes you.
We can expect Amazi-Girl to become a supervillain in just a few short months.
You either break up with Danny a hero, or stay with him long enough to become the villain.
Well, it’s only been a few weeks, and he’s not the sort to investigate. I’d try to compare it to some real-life circumstance, but sadly we don’t have costumed heroes running around.
http://www.reallifesuperheroes.com/
Yes we do.
See, this is why you need to insult Danny casually every day, so it doesn’t build up.
This could go a long way to explaining why Danny kind of sucks; he was raised to.
Now I’m worried about Randy.
No, Randy is the beloved child, probably a few years older, who was really good all along at things and giving the parents something to compare Danny to and find him wanting.
Go on Danny. Tell them. WHY ARE YOU SO ASHAMED OF DATING A SUPERHERO?! She’s awesome man. Stop being dumb.
Maybe they know about what happens to their significant others…
Hint: It involves fridges.
No, no, that only happens if their S.O. is a woman. Danny’s in the clear.
But if he reveals that he’s dating Amazi-Girl, he just might end up being Stuffed Into A Fridge.
….again.
Cuz if you say I’m dating a superhero, his parents will say, “BULLSHIT” and what do you say after that.
You point at them with crazy eyes and go, “YOU’LL SEE! YOU’LL ALL SEE!” and walk away dramatically with the paranoid look back every now and again.
Then you direct them to the dozen or so witnesses or even Dorothy herself for verification. They may not be able to verify he’s dating her but they can verify she’s real.
Even if they believe Amazi-Girl is real, I doubt very highly they’re going to believe she’s Danny’s girlfriend, which is the point he’s trying to make.
And the point the parents are making is that they think he’s making her up.
Yes? I don’t see how that contradicts that they’re probably not going to believe Danny is dating a superhero even if the superhero is a real person. So bringing out the character witnesses is not going to help Danny any.
Appropriate avatar is appropriate.
Is she better than Dorothy? Weighs normal college student/ex-girlfriend vs. superheroine/girlfriend. Danny, the correct answer is “yes.” Learn this lesson well, your current girlfriend is always better than your ex. Always. (Especially if it’s your current girlfriend asking.)
1) You speak the Truth.
2) Still a f%@&ed up question though.
Yeah, anyone who’s asking that question is looking for trouble.
And making it double.
They’re gonna direct the world to devastation.
And unite all peoples within their nation
The rage will unite all peoples within their nation.
To blur the line between truth and love.
And extend their reach to the stars above.
They would need a rocket to blast off at the speed of light.
Surrender the question or prepare to fight!
“MEOWTH! Dat’s riiight!”
AH! TALKING CAT!
Okay, so they’re both Wilcocks.
Seriously, asking someone to compare girlfriends is a terrible idea, unless one of them is totally awful, because no matter what, you piss somebody off.
That is a pretty big dick move.
Possibly a logical phallusy.
They don’t care. They’ll be schlong gone for most of the fallout.
A slippery grope argument?
It’s even more awkward when both of them are in the same room when the question is asked.
Er, this is all strictly hypothetical, of course.
Wow, that is a dick move. Look, it’s easy. If someone breaks your heart, you just blast them with your fusion cannon. Why must you fleshlings make everything so difficult?
It’s fun.
You know what else is fun? Taking over a hydroelectric plant to conquer the world with!
Most people don’t have fusion cannons. I do, but after a while you need to put it away or the cops will find you, and over use makes it no fun anymore.
Funny, Megatron, I don’t recall you enjoying it that much at the time.
I know all the comic titles tend to be quotes from the actual comic, but I feel that “Love +” would also have made a good title for this one with that punch line.
It’s not really their business who he dates. He’s in college, he doesn’t need their approval or their permission. Man up spineless Danny.
It will be their business when he brings a girl home and says ‘here meet my parents’.
On the other hand…I wouldn’t bring anyone home to meet these two.
You could bring home Dorothy. She’d be good enough. Or you could just settle for someone who wasn’t imaginary.
The worst part is telling his parents who his new girlfriend is would make them believe him less. I mean would you believe someone if they said their girlfriend was Amazigirl, the campus superhero?
But he’s not the only one who knows about her, he can go up to basically anyone he knows and get them to back up that she exists. Dorothy is actively trying to write an article on her.
Dorothy doesn’t even know Danny is dating her, does she? Her reaction is going to be priceless.
He actually told her back when he found out she was dating Walky. Her reaction was “Ohmygod let me interview you!!”; she didn’t respond to the dating part of it at all. (It’s possible she thinks he was exaggerating the relationship, which would have been understandable under the circumstances, but she did definitely believe he’d been spending time with Amazi-Girl.)
Surprised they don’t think he’s gay and making up a girlfriend as cover.
I think they know him well enough to know he’s not gay, but something much worse. A loser! XD
Danny being gay would be less disappointing.
Actually, I think it’s 50/50 they bump into Ethan, who introduces himself as a friend of Danny’s, and they pick him up on their gaydar and go “Oohhhhhhh!” And ask Ethan to have lunch with all of them.
I stand by my decision to dub these two as Sharon and Randal Wilcock. It just seems more fitting for some reason…
So Dorothy and Amber both kinda look like Danny’s mom. Coincidence?
In that… they wear glasses?
I guess their faces are structured kinda similar, too.
Not really… Amber and Dotty have very round heads. Sharon’s is very pointy.
Well, I guess this is just more proof that I am terrible with faces.
Not as much as Danny looks like Dorothy’s dad.
Danny’s mom’s hair got less gray.
Wow, this conversation happened a lot earlier than I thought. I expected another week or so.
Shitty parents are shitty
Yes, mom. My new girlfriend is better than Dorothy, in the sense that she wants to be with me, and Dorothy does not.
Y’know what this situation needs to get really Dannied up? For Danny to get Amber to pose as his girlfriend in order to “prove” that she really exists.
Bonus points if the Wilcocks don’t believe she’s actually dating him.
Yes!
Don’t you think that gambit is a bit overused in situational comedies? Oh wait….
Ah, but then there’s the twist where his parents don’t believe it and both parties know. That has definitely not been… Oh, wait.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen it with the twist that the girl posing as the girlfriend actually is the girlfriend, but the boyfriend doesn’t know that.
But then, I don’t watch a lot of sitcoms.
This. DO IT, WILLIS. DOOO IIIIIT.
Hmmmmmmm…
I stand by my statement yesterday. “Go fuck yourself, mom and dad!”
“Is she better than Dorothy?” Seriously? People actually say that?
With my brother’s girlfriends, yeah. He finally got a good one after going through the crazies.
I’ve never fully understood the hate for Danny, in all honesty. What I can’t understand is why some people are supporting his parents here when they’re being awful and are probably to blame for him being unlikable in their eyes.
Hear, hear! Danny has some big flaws (like his selective stupidity) but they cause him so much trouble that I see no reason to add hate on top of it. The only really bad thing he’s done is the way he “dumped” Amber.
I would say Danny is The Woobie to me, but apparently, people who cause their own suffering don’t count.
Yeah! Danny is a good egg, good egg dammit.
Danny’s a self-centered manchild. And his parents are jerks too. Apples don’t fall far from the tree.
Danny is hardly the only one to fit that description. Walky, Joe and Ethan are also self-centered man-children, yet Danny is the only one that gets the hatred poured on him.
Actually, of the four, Joe’s pretty balanced. He’s interested in doing things he likes, sure, but only if the person he’s doing them with is also going to enjoy themselves. We’ve never seen him be dishonest with anybody, or be cruel or intolerant of others. He might be a little full of himself, but I wouldn’t call him self-centered. And actually, of those four, I’d rate Walky and Ethan -below- Danny in my estimation. I mean, Danny’s pathetic, sure, but Ethan went from deceiving Joyce about his sexuality to deluding himself about it, and Walky is…kind of an ass. And by kind of I mean seriously and completely.
Walky would actually have to grow up a bit to be an ass. Right now he’s simply acting like a child in an adult body, enjoying his newfound freedom to do whatever he wants – which is mostly watch cartoons, eat unhealthy foods, and wear pajamas all the time – yet conflicted and confused by these strange new feelings about girls.
Agreed on ‘self-centered’, but ‘manchild’ is a bit harsh. Danny’s, what, 18? 19? Of course he’s still got growing up to do. He’s barely stopped being a child-child.
I understand the hate for Danny, although to the extent I share it, it’s an overflow of my own self-loathing, because I can easily see myself doing everything he does, and hating myself for it.
His parents, on the other hand, are just jerks.
Yeah, Danny’s a tool, but he’s also young and his toolishness has caused him trouble. And his parents are serious jerks. No one deserves that.
What a family of schmucks. I can’t wait to hate them even more than I already do!
Oh wow, his mom is awful as well.
Come to think of it, his mother looks rather like mine does. I should probably have realized this was A Sign we weren’t going to get along.
To be fair, I had a similar reaction from my mom when I split up with a girlfriend of mine (who she really liked) in high school. And my mom’s a great mom.
But, Danny’s not exactly making a case for himself.
So I guess the entire point of this storyline was for Willis to see if he could make someone less likeable than Danny.
Good job…?
Oh sure, everything sounds ridiculous when you say it out loud
Yeah, not liking Danny’s parents one bit. Makes me feel even more sorry for him.
Danny could’ve chose a better way to phrase that last part.
I imagine that if Danny’s parents ever met Amber and Amazi-girl, they would immediately figure out Amazi-girl’s identity and just assume that their son was playing some kind of identity-porn game with his girlfriend.
The jury’s still out – he might actually be playing an identity-porn game with Amber. You know, to show her that it was Jem’s job to tell Rio about her double-life, not his responsibility to figure it out, or to cheat on her with her. (Personally I doubt he is, but it would be AWESOME if it turned out he was.)
He could be, but I feel like he’s deliberately oblivious. I can’t believe that if he knew then he’d still seem so clueless, especially to the audience.
I’m fairly that’s what everyone who’s met Amber and Amazi-Girl would think.
*sure.
Its like Danny was raised by two Mikes, but he is not awesome like Mike, its a shame…
And now we know *why* Danny is the way he is. You’d suck, too, with parents like that.
Wow!!! I can’t belive I read all those comics in a weak!!!
It’s like I finally pressed the last link and it showed up over and over and I was… “Is this a bug??? It can’t be over!!!!!”
Hey though, the Wii U has a facetime feature. Now you can say this statement and not sound like a complete loser!
Danny, dear lord your parents suck. WHO CARES IF SHE BROKE UP WITH HIM, HE’S YOUR FUCKING SON.
I don’t think their attitude has anything to do with the fact that she broke up with him. I think the first layer is annoyance that he didn’t tell them before they embarrassed themselves talking to Dorothy’s parents, the second layer is annoyance at Danny’s really unfunny reference to his brother’s potentially life-endangering presence in a foreign country, and the third layer is an understandable note of skepticism in Danny’s claim that he already has a new girlfriend who he cant give the name of and who they can’t meet and who really isn’t his right hand he swears.
Thank you. Everyone is acting like his parents are the worst people ever, but everything he’s saying is super sketchy, and worthy of earning their distrust. Before he told them, way too late, what happened, they were trying to be supportive and parent-y.
After that the switch turned just like that. Yet they wonder why their son hides things from them and lies and cracks really awful jokes.
People like that fucking love to rub it in your face that you had secrets and lies like that’s some sort of crime. Never examine why they personally are always the last to hear about anything and have to dig through some convoluted bullshit to get there.
Wonder how many of these parent weekends they get invited to? How long before Danny just stops calling and talking to them about what’s going on in his life.
Danny’s biggest problem with his parents is that he’s only freshly moved out and hasn’t yet clued in that they don’t have to know anything but what he chooses to tell them anymore, and that can easily be nothing.
Their biggest mistake is thinking their opinions still hold weight. They don’t get to be judgmental assholes and expect him to keep coming home at the end of the day anymore. If it’s not pleasant to talk to them about his breakup or whatever weird situation he’s got going with his new girlfriend then pretty quickly they just stop hearing about that shit.
We have known Danny’s parents for like 5 minuites, and you’re already talking about “people like that”. Excuse me if I think you’re being a bit presumptuous.
I am. This is one of those things that I thought of later in the night like “Wait, did I right that?” and came back to find that indeed I had.
Still, I don’t think too highly of the whole “they were totally supportive until we stopped” defense.
*write
*until they stopped
*sigh* These guys certainly do Something for my family name. I think the dad’s detracting from it though.
He was dumped because of his awkwardness,incompetence, and complete lack of intellegence
He was dumped because he was in love with what COULD be and not with what WAS. He’s awkward socially, certainly, but he hardly seems incompetent nor is he unintelligent. If he could have gotten into Purdue, and is right about being able to survive some of their course requirements then he isn’t dumb. (Or so I’ve heard. I went to a different school that’s still solid in engineering but probably not as well known as Purdue for its CS.)
Yeah because that doesn’t make her sound like a dating sim at all.. lol