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I would hope if you’re getting in a relationship with someone, you’d actually bring up if you have an STD as to not spread it to the person you’re dating. Would think it would kind of fuck up the relationship and all.
They don’t always know, though. I had a friend who ended up with herpes, even though she’d come into the relationship a virgin and they’d been monogamous (with condoms) for two years.
Ended up he was a non-symptomatic carrier. Could have been avoided if he’d had a blood test before they stopped using the condoms, but since he hadn’t ever presented symptoms of anything, it didn’t occur to them.
It’s not like STDs are spontaneously generated when unprotected sex occurs. Given that I’m pretty sure the full extent of these two’s sexual contact network is the two of them plus Dorothy, I don’t think they really need to worry about STDs.
Technically, I don’t think it’s ever been stated that neither of them have had partners other than the cast so far… Hell, Amber easily could have hooked up at some point.
Amber is a socially withdrawn freshman in college. Her only friend as a kid was Ethan, who we know she never had sexual interactions with for obvious reasons. She stayed with him for quite some time before they split apart, at which point she returned to being a social recluse hiding out in her room all the time. Though we do know she knows Mike, and that they were a thing in shortpacked, still, that’s there and this is here.
I think we have a very firm grasp on Amber’s sexual history, it’s Danny that is uncertain actually, Danny himself has only had sex with Dorothy, but Dorothy’s past is a total blank, who knows, maybe she dated someone before Danny and picked something up with no visible symptoms, then passed it onto him without realizing. Unlikely, but a bit more likely than Amber having ever had sex (unless her father raped her or something, but that’s evil even for him)
I’m almost certain – because her sexual frustration is one of the issues driving the Amber/Amazi-Girl divide – that her abortive encounter with Ethan on prom night was the closest Amber got to getting laid up to the night Amazi-Girl and Danny didn’t get it on only because her costume made it difficult.
We know Dorothy took Danny’s virginity. We saw their breakup, we know what Danny’s been up to since (a close encounter with Billie, but I don’t think either of them got their pants off), and I find it completely inconceivable that Danny could have been with anyone else while dating Dorothy. Dorothy cheating on Danny is maybe not completely impossible, but I find that extremely unlikely as well.
It’s true that we don’t know for certain Dorothy’s history before she dated Danny, but given how long they dated before they had sex (two years; compare to the three weeks it took her and Walky), I suspect Danny took Dorothy’s virginity as well. Even if not, I think her comment about finding guys who aren’t virgins implies that anyone she might have slept with before Danny was also a virgin, so that only maybe extends the network by a dude or two before closing it off that way, too.
And, yeah, herpes, but condoms aren’t reliable protection against herpes anyway. Hell, abstinence isn’t reliable protection against herpes.
A lot of people have herpes without knowing it (especially HIV1, which 80% of the population has) and can contract it orally without sexual contact (e.g. being kissed on the cheek by a relative).
It still should be standard practice going into a sexual relationship for you both to get tested. If nothing else, not all STDs are -only- transmitted through sexual conduct. Danny’s doctor could have mixed up needles, or he could’ve accidentally used Joe’s toothbrush. It’s unlikely, (especially since I imagine Joe is pretty careful himself) but the smart thing is just to never take it for granted.
Had a friend who got herpes after being in a monogamous relationship and using condoms with him for two years. Ends up he was a non-symptomatic carrier.
STDs don’t always present symptoms; some of them don’t even show up in blood tests for like six months after infection. Best bet is to assume someone has been exposed and doesn’t know it, and use condoms and get a blood test before you go off them. A blood test could have saved my friend from a really nasty, permanent issue, but because he wasn’t presenting any symptoms, unfortunately they both assumed he was clean.
Moichandising! Moichandising! Where the real money from being a superhero is made. Amazi-Girl: the T-shirt, Amazi-Girl: the Coloring Book, Amazi-Girl: the Lunchbox, Amazi-Girl: the Breakfast Cereal! Amazi-Girl: the Flame Thrower!!
I’ve never heard a mustache say anything nice about a mask. Of course, until yesterday, I had never read about two copies of the same person talking through their bow ties.
Ignore the previous reply if that “How!” was supposed to be the stereotypical Native American greeting and not a question with mistakenly used punctuation.
I’m rooting for mask AND no mask. Probably first mask, then no mask, just for logistical reasons.
“Because I love every part of you and there’s no part I don’t want to be with right now.”
Whatever happens tomorrow, Amber deserves to hear that. Danny’s good at saying things like that when they’re codependent and pathetic, let’s have him break it out where it’s appropriate for once.
No way, he’s already done sexy stuff with her, had sex with Dorothy, and almost with Billie. I’m aware it’s possible to do that and still be gay (to cover up), but I feel like that’s much less prevalent now that homosexuality isn’t illegal, and it seems oddly subtle for Danny anyway.
Both are actually at a stable place in their lives and have been a fairly happy couple for years by that point. Imagine if the comic had been released during the ‘I’m blackmailing you into being my boyfriend, and when you bring up my dad I punch you in the face’ period.
That says more about you people who still want to see it despite the icky creepiness than it does anything else.
Let the woman work out some of her issues, attain something resembling sanity, something where the entire comment section won’t scream that Danny banging a dude even if they break up first would shatter her like a dry and brittle twig. Then let her get mad laid.
um, thanks?
personally, a lot of the reason I was pushing amazi-girl/danny so hard in the first place was because there were less issues around consent and power than with sal/jason, and no matter what, david was going to do a slipshine with one of the pairings, but whatever you want to assume about me or anyone else is fine, I guess
I don’t assume anything about you, I simply find your taste in pairings to be a tad icky in it’s current state.
Though I am disturbed you find the supposed power difference (though Sal has physically dominated him the entire time, and it’s been pointed out if they get caught she gets a slap on the wrist and he gets fired, not to mention he didn’t even change her grades over it to begin with so he’s literally wielding nothing over her) more offputting than a woman who had a complete psychological breakdown, is dependent on an alternate persona to properly control her emotions, has traumatic flashbacks just seeing certain people and has displayed an irrational and uncontrollable tendency to turn to violence when she gets upset.
If Amber and Danny were about to bang AFTER she’d seen a therapist or even just given up Amazi-Girl as a separate life I’d have the same reaction to this as I have the last two, mild curiousity towards any unseen character development and indifference towards the sex. As things stand my reaction is ‘ew, just no, not now‘. Though I will concede Danny/Amber in any form is more interesting than Sal/Jason, as there’s literally nothing but sex between them.
oh gee, sal pushed him around a couple of times, problem solved?
it turns out that yes, I have problems with a legitimate power imbalance between a white man and a black woman who often struggles to convince people that her problems even matter
maybe I’m biased in that way
I’m uncomfortable with danny using amber to deal with his sexual insecurities, and I’m generally uneasy with everything going on to begin with, but at least they’re both students, at least there isn’t that inherent power differential behind their relationship
I know what you’re saying, but maybe I have a useful perspective on this: I was a math TA and then a math professor for years.
I would never, never have sex with a student while he or she was in any of my classes, even if that student initiated the relationship. It is incredibly inappropriate: not only does it raise questions of favoritism, but it opens the door to other, less appropriate, relationships. If Jason had really wanted Sal, then he could and should have waited; it he didn’t, then he should have gently but firmly said “no.”
@ JWLM oh, I agree, it’s messed up, I’m not in any way on the Sal/Jason ‘ship. I’m not really sure why we’re revisiting a pairing from the Walkyverse that went nowhere in the first place, but I assume Willis has plans.
To be fair, while Danny has in no way done anything wrong, if he had told her “I spent time with your ex-boyfriend and I got really turned on by him,” I think that would have pretty effectively killed Amber’s sexy-times mood.
Different universe. In this one, Ethan telling her he was gay was one of the more traumatic experiences of her life, and Danny apparently repeating that, with Ethan…I know it’s different and on a rational level I’m sure she’d be able to understand that, but her emotional reaction would not be “Oooh, hot!”
So maybe if they can be honest with each other as Danny figures out his feelings for Ethan, they can figure out how to handle a polyamorous open relationship, maybe? And everyone can be happy?
I don’t think that Danny is cut out for polyamorous relationships with anyone. He’s WAY too into being monogamously faithful for him to feel good about smooching more than one person.
Actually, that was one of the main reasons I thought it might fly.
From a meta perspective, Danny’s been set up from the beginning as being this super devoted, eyes-laser-focused-on-one-true-love dude. (I think Willis called him a serial monogamist somewhere.) And, well, it hasn’t served him as well in his relationships as one would expect. Since it’s a college coming-of-age type story, I wouldn’t be surprised if part of it was Danny growing and changing and learning that he doesn’t have to be that person he was when he got here, and that he can like multiple people and it’s not that big a deal.
As much as I think this analysis would fit well into eventual OT3 (along with Amber fantasizing about dude on dude, Amber saying that her and Ethan would have married, and Ethan saying more recently that he wanted to be able to take care of Amber forever), I’m not actually sure Willis wants to go there. He’s pretty vocally supportive about LGBT+ stuff (understatement of the year), but I can’t remember him saying much about poly, and long-term poly relationships at that.
he hasn’t said anything about it, really, but that doesn’t mean he takes issue with it
someone asked him about it a little bit ago, and he said it depended on if they were willing to share
Her unhealthy relationship with Ethan ends, she’s exposed to another thing she’s never experienced (polyamory), and if she can move past hurt feelings with Ethan and they stay friends, she might get two new friends in Danny and Amber. I fail to see how this ends badly for Joyce beyond short term pain that’s likely to happen eventually anyway.
This will either end as an advertisement for a slipshine or insane drama. Considering the past week or so, please be advertisement. You made me ask for this to end in porn, no freaking clue how to feel on that note.
Oh don’t fuck, then how will you shake the fact Amzi-girl was in your room when people could hear “Oh god, yes!” Then you got people asking your stupid ass “You fucked Amazi-girl, who is she?” by everyone except maybe Joyce.
You do remember he was freely telling people he was dating Amazi-Girl earlier on, right. His social circle is small enough that it didn’t really get out but it’s never been a secret.
Is anybody else wondering if Amazigirl is still wearing her pajamas under the suit after investigating all day? She definitely appeared to be wearing them when she suited up in the morning.
well, to copy/paste what I said from patreon…
wait ok
is she “everything he needs right now” for heterosexuality reassertion purposes?
or is it because he misses her and being intimate with her?
and does he feel unfaithful because of ethan? is that the implication?
Let us not forget he also had that weird moment with Amber at the restaurant. He does not yet know Amber is Amazi-Girl so he is probably also feeling bad about that as well. He knows he has romantic feelings for Amber, but turned her down because he was already seeing Amazi-Girl… if anything that might be what he feels the worst about.
I think it is the “I had a sexy thought about someone else” thing that just happened, which he realizes in this panel is not the same as being unfaithful.
I’m a big fan of Amber/Amazi-Girl, but I almost feel like this “I have been ignoring and avoiding you, but now that I’m here, let’s have sex” thing is one if the most messed-up things she’s done so far. Am I alone in thinking this? (I did not have a chance to read all l of the comments yesterday.)
Eh.. in the scheme of things not really. she needed to go figure out her emotions by herself because it involved a lot of stuff that is big in her life. So it’s more that “they’re dating but she pushed hi maway because she needed to deal with it. now she’s dealt with he stuff and wants closeness”
Not everything is sharable with loved ones,
But has she dealt with it? All this praise for her as Amazi-Girl is positive reinforcement for the alter ego. Seems like she’s still ignoring and compartmentalizing.
It’s definitely not the most messed up thing she’s done (see: every encounter she’s had with Sal), but, no, you are definitely not the only one. Amber has been incredibly evasive and deceptive, and I think this is just one in a series of attempts to ignore her problems.
Honestly, I’m kind of surprised Willis is considering Slipshining this, after pulling the breaks on a Ruth/Billie one. (Not that that should have happened either.)
It’s hard to Slipshine Ruth/Billie sexy times. What’s he supposed to draw? Half undressed girls puking into toilets together and then passing out side by side?
Eh, yeah, Ruth and Billie is alot more outwardly depressing/we’ve given up on ourselves/puking in toilets. That would be really hard to slipshine. I shouldn’t really have compared the two.
I mean, I still think this situation is fucked up, but not really any more than Sal/Jason (which I like alot), and certainly less than Billie/Ruth.
It’s really because this situation touches a nerve with me in a way the others don’t. Amber trying to project this idealized persona of herself, not knowing how to deal with her anger, preferring people’s disdain and indifference to their sympathy, minimizing her past traumas, ignoring and avoiding talking about her problems… I identify more closely with these than with the other characters’ issues. And since I know personally how destructive they are, I’m really uncomfortable with Amber and Danny romanticizing Amazi-girl, who embodies all these problems. When Amber and Danny are ready to just be Amber and Danny, warts and all, that’s a different story.
So I know logically romanticizing alcoholism or a t.a./student relationship isn’t any better but I instinctively find it alot less squicky and alot more sexy than this.
Naw, cuz then Danny’d be monolouging for about 20 minutes about her.
“She was coming onto me hard…I didn’t have the heart to tell her what had happened earlier. It’d been a while since I’d seen her and I already knew she was everything I needed at this moment. I stop her before she leaves and hold her close. She pulls around and looks at me with those eyes. Those Sure and confident eyes and asked me if I’d rather have the mask on or off. I couldn’t tell if it was a loaded question or a hell of a kinky suggestion. Was she asking for me if I wanted to fuck the geeky girl who gets me or the wild stallion I knew I couldn’t control…”
Wait, Amber’s a virgin, right? Considering I assume the failed prom night would have been her first real attempt, and that was only a summer away from college.
It’s all part of the performance. It’s like when someone reads you a book and they do all the voices. You know which character is talking but where’s the drive? THE PASSION?
Remember the alt text here. I don’t know whether it’s a tremendously loaded question (do you want to make love with AG or with Amber?) but if it is, then the voice is absolutely right unless and until Danny says “No mask, no costume. I want *you,* Amber.”
If the mask stays on, sexytimes will likely happen because Danny prefers the “mystery” (he could probably willfully forget who’s under the mask for the time being) and because Amber prefers herself as Amazi-Girl. But if the mask comes off, I honestly don’t know if they *would* have sex. Taking off the mask means shedding the emotional armor, and I don’t know if either of them are ready for that.
yes, which is why he told her to stay away after they hung out with danny’s parents
being around her was dangerous for his relationship with amazi-girl
Is THAT why Walky was looking for Sal… to see if she knew if they still had the ears so he could lend them to Danny in exchange for the shoes from earlier
It’ not just that. Yes, he really liked her, was attracted to her and most probably still is.
But right now, the primary concern for him is to prove to himself that he is stil a hetero. This isnt about AmaziGirl. Any willing girl would do. If Billy’s “journalism” incident had happened now, he would not have stopped her either.
nah man. Just reread the first two panels of this strip. Danny’s biggest character trait has always been his loyalty. He’s worried he may have been unfaithful to Amber just because he got aroused by someone else, even though he didn’t actually do anything! To suggest that Danny would happily bang any girl just to feel heterosexual shows you don’t really get Danny, because he’d likely drop out of college before he intentionally cheated on his significant other.
Hm. You DO raise a good point about loyalty. The last panel in the prev comic showed him really worried about his heterosexuality though, hence my comment.
Doesn’t Ethan KNOW Danny’s dating Amber? He shoulda shielded himself from how lovable the guy is. Bro Code applies for gay guys too. Don’t get the hots for your bro’s main squeeze.
While Raphael is the mostobvious association for our raging superheroine, and Leonardo matches up on color, I have to put my vote in for Michelangelo..
But Sal promised she would do any gross perverted kink Jason wanted to! (“look, ah’ll do anythin’, ah’ll dress up like a gaddurned pony, jus’ name it”)…I, for one, am really looking forward to seeing Sal’s impersonation of Applejack.
He said he PLANNED Sal/Jason, but the poll seems like an invitation to change his mind.
Man, epic reunion between the couple who curbstomped and spat on Blaine and who might only last another day or two before Ethan swoops in and sweeps Danny away… or “No, I hate YOU more and your ideas about math are stupid, Episode 3 of 78?” I don’t really see why this should be a hard choice.
The fact that it’s “episode 3 of 78” is why I voted for them. We have plenty of Dan and Amber in this story, and plenty more to come soon, and almost no Sal/Jason. With D/A, it would be “episode 78 out of 600”. As a weirdo who likes these porn stories for the plot as well, I’d rather see the rarer couple.
Well, we’re both plot-fans. I’m under the impression that the thing Sal and Jason has isn’t going anywhere for a while yet, whereas in a couple of months, the window for a warm, sex-positive encounter between these two MAY have closed, as Danny’s interest in Ethan seems pretty certain to rise. Sure, there are always flashbacks, but they’re not quite the same.
I don’t know what it is, but this whole situation makes me feel uneasy. I mean I know Danny is using her in this situation to reaffirm his sexuality to himself, but she’s using him as well. She’s not really bothered about his concerns and idk if you liked someone that much you would at least hear them out i guess, instead of brush it off with ‘well it was just an idea cause im in a good mood’
Yeah, I’m on the uneasiness wagon as well. Not so much because they’re using each other – which seems really low-level to me – but because Amber’s compartmentalization makes me sad. If Amber shows up, yay. If not… the whole thing will just feel icky.
Mask and gloves for Amber; blindfold and ropes for Danny. She can tie him up and ravish him while saying in her gravelly voice “Amazi-Girl has you now, Danny. You are helpless before me.” They’re gonna need a bunch of Amazi-condoms tonight.
AGH. The parts that are bad bother me – she still compartmentalizes, she didn’t hear him out, unresolved issues on both sides, part of his desire comes from a bad place – but there are good parts too….
Goddammit, I have become so invested in this relationship! I wasn’t until very recently, but now… Yeah, this whole thing with Ethan has suddenly made me care about Amber + Danny a whole lot more. Huh.
While this is going to end in disaster, I at least want to appreciate Amber being in the best state we’ve seen her all comic. She’s in a great mood, and she (seems to) take both Danny’s hesitance and his belief that he’s “unfaithful” in stride and with respect. The Amber we first met would have panicked at Danny’s reaction. The Amber who beat her dad to a pulp would have assumed Danny meant he’d slept with Sal, and turned into a mass of sobs and rage.
But this is David “Damn You Willis” Willis, so I give this great mood another two comics, then it all comes crashing down when Danny cries out Ethan’s name in a fit of passion.
This is about what I expected from Danny, except that he resolved it in a short amount of time. I like Amazi-girl’s reaction in this comic. She knows him so well.
Well, we can’t have A/D/E until we have a good ship name for them, right? I mean, ‘DAmbEt’ (silent b as in lamb) sounds to good to be true, doesn’t it?
oh dang, that’s good
the only problem is, it should be emphasized danny’s in the middle, as ethan’s not going to be interested in anything more than a friendly, platonic relationship with amber
I think Ethan could get into another romantic-but-not-sexual relationship with Amber. And yes, the more I hear about this ship, the more it grows on me. Do Ethan and Amber have making up to do? I thought the reason they broke up was because Ethan is gay, and even then, Amber spent the summer defending him to his parents.
The healthiest relationship involving those characters, at least. And it ranks pretty highly overall, considering the other relationships in this comic.
On the bridge of Amber/Danny ship:
Sir we are managing to plug the holes left by the collision with heretical Ethan/Danny ship, and are even recieving help from Ethan/Danny/Amber ship.
YES! Full steam ahead to sexxy times, no mater the emotional costs!
Though I think when Willis finally ends things for DOA, it’s just going to end up being one big orgy with every character having sex with each other at once
How many people, in what arrangement? Are we talking star, V, multiple V with shared endpoints, or some non-Euclidean nightmare in multiple dimensions?
Damnit Willis don’t jerk me around on this. I gots to know where the Danny-AmaziGirl thing is going. Does she wear the mask or not? Its burning me up inside
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Good thing Amber brought an Amazi-sock for the door
You were just waiting to cut and paste at 12:01 weren’t you
I have no idea what you’re talking about, ma’am.
it’s okay, david used what he said on patreon for the hovertext too
Well, if she ran out of Amazi-condoms I hope she has an Amazi-pregnancy test or she’s on the Amazi-pill.
Some Amazi-contraception in place at least.
REALLY Amazing Girls don’t need it – they swallow!
..uh…
Ok I guess technically oral sex does work as contraception, since it’s not piv…
Doesn’t prevent stds, though, so you’d still want a condom or dental dam or something.
I would hope if you’re getting in a relationship with someone, you’d actually bring up if you have an STD as to not spread it to the person you’re dating. Would think it would kind of fuck up the relationship and all.
They don’t always know, though. I had a friend who ended up with herpes, even though she’d come into the relationship a virgin and they’d been monogamous (with condoms) for two years.
Ended up he was a non-symptomatic carrier. Could have been avoided if he’d had a blood test before they stopped using the condoms, but since he hadn’t ever presented symptoms of anything, it didn’t occur to them.
It’s not like STDs are spontaneously generated when unprotected sex occurs. Given that I’m pretty sure the full extent of these two’s sexual contact network is the two of them plus Dorothy, I don’t think they really need to worry about STDs.
Technically, I don’t think it’s ever been stated that neither of them have had partners other than the cast so far… Hell, Amber easily could have hooked up at some point.
It was stated that Dorothy took Danny’s virginity, and he went from Dorothy to Amazegirl pretty quickly (a day?).
It’s true that Amber’s history hasn’t been established.
Amber is a socially withdrawn freshman in college. Her only friend as a kid was Ethan, who we know she never had sexual interactions with for obvious reasons. She stayed with him for quite some time before they split apart, at which point she returned to being a social recluse hiding out in her room all the time. Though we do know she knows Mike, and that they were a thing in shortpacked, still, that’s there and this is here.
I think we have a very firm grasp on Amber’s sexual history, it’s Danny that is uncertain actually, Danny himself has only had sex with Dorothy, but Dorothy’s past is a total blank, who knows, maybe she dated someone before Danny and picked something up with no visible symptoms, then passed it onto him without realizing. Unlikely, but a bit more likely than Amber having ever had sex (unless her father raped her or something, but that’s evil even for him)
I’m almost certain – because her sexual frustration is one of the issues driving the Amber/Amazi-Girl divide – that her abortive encounter with Ethan on prom night was the closest Amber got to getting laid up to the night Amazi-Girl and Danny didn’t get it on only because her costume made it difficult.
We know Dorothy took Danny’s virginity. We saw their breakup, we know what Danny’s been up to since (a close encounter with Billie, but I don’t think either of them got their pants off), and I find it completely inconceivable that Danny could have been with anyone else while dating Dorothy. Dorothy cheating on Danny is maybe not completely impossible, but I find that extremely unlikely as well.
It’s true that we don’t know for certain Dorothy’s history before she dated Danny, but given how long they dated before they had sex (two years; compare to the three weeks it took her and Walky), I suspect Danny took Dorothy’s virginity as well. Even if not, I think her comment about finding guys who aren’t virgins implies that anyone she might have slept with before Danny was also a virgin, so that only maybe extends the network by a dude or two before closing it off that way, too.
And, yeah, herpes, but condoms aren’t reliable protection against herpes anyway. Hell, abstinence isn’t reliable protection against herpes.
A lot of people have herpes without knowing it (especially HIV1, which 80% of the population has) and can contract it orally without sexual contact (e.g. being kissed on the cheek by a relative).
But this is Danny we’re talking about. Unless messing everything up is a symptom of an STD, he’s clean.
It still should be standard practice going into a sexual relationship for you both to get tested. If nothing else, not all STDs are -only- transmitted through sexual conduct. Danny’s doctor could have mixed up needles, or he could’ve accidentally used Joe’s toothbrush. It’s unlikely, (especially since I imagine Joe is pretty careful himself) but the smart thing is just to never take it for granted.
Joe isn’t careful, he’s just immune to consequences, or at least he was in “Its Walky.”
Had a friend who got herpes after being in a monogamous relationship and using condoms with him for two years. Ends up he was a non-symptomatic carrier.
STDs don’t always present symptoms; some of them don’t even show up in blood tests for like six months after infection. Best bet is to assume someone has been exposed and doesn’t know it, and use condoms and get a blood test before you go off them. A blood test could have saved my friend from a really nasty, permanent issue, but because he wasn’t presenting any symptoms, unfortunately they both assumed he was clean.
Potentially a Syphilis symptom actually it’s mind effecting… I’ve seen too much House M.D.
Amazi-Girl has her line of merch already?
Moichandising! Moichandising! Where the real money from being a superhero is made. Amazi-Girl: the T-shirt, Amazi-Girl: the Coloring Book, Amazi-Girl: the Lunchbox, Amazi-Girl: the Breakfast Cereal! Amazi-Girl: the Flame Thrower!!
kids love this one
Totally read that in Mel Brooks’ voice…thank you for that!
You mean Amazi-T-shirt, Amazi-Coloring Book, Amazi-Lunchbox, Amazi-Breakfast Cereal and Amazi-Flamethrower.
Don’t ruin the referential joke with pedantry.
The “everything I need bit” really bugs me but I can’t put my finger on specifically why…
That would be Danny trying too hard to convince himself.
because danny is using amber to tamp down his own insecurity about his sexuality?
THAT IS THE QUESTION
No, that was a statement.
Mask! And handcuffs! Possibly rope or duct tape. And a strap-on so I can convince myself I’m not gay.
Mask! Definitely. And handcuffs! Possibly rope or duct tape. And a strap-on so I can convince myself I’m not gay.
So, she was enjoying the bit with Mike.
wait I got it
THE MAXX
Noice.
Of please….. Too bad.
Danny needs a mustache to compliment the mask.
I’ve never heard a mustache say anything nice about a mask. Of course, until yesterday, I had never read about two copies of the same person talking through their bow ties.
Bless you, JWLM.
But would she want it on or off?…..Too bad.
“Do you want it with the mustache on, or off? ……Too bad.”
Nailed it!
This can’t end well…
Or it could end amazing!
It could end Amazi-well!
Have you seen Amber’s behind? She ALWAYS ends well.
I have read that some men are predisposed towards such.
I’ve heard that such men can’t lie about it either.
http://youtu.be/W7yOB8BdpoM
I fancy callipygous expanse and I cannot prevaricate?
I had to switch to the Mike Grav to Like this post.
Like!
Liked!
How !
1. (random) cock-blocking
2. getting cold feet
Ignore the previous reply if that “How!” was supposed to be the stereotypical Native American greeting and not a question with mistakenly used punctuation.
That word is spelled “hau”
I know (I looked it up before making that post above), I’m still entertaining the possibility that it was used incorrectly in various ways.
By the way, you used the wrong Simpsons reference yesterday. You still get points for the double entendre.
I would think that the AmaziSock flag could definitely cause cold foot.
Where there’s a Danny, there’s a way.
A way to screw it up, y’mean. He almost blew the chance at Amazi-sex. Which is really difficult since it’s HER IDEA!
He blew the chance at Billie-journalism, and that was her idea, too.
Mask or no mask poll:
Mask
Mask and cape.
Mask and cape and utility belt.
You are my kind of freak, and I fully support this sentiment.
Belts can chaive.
chaive chaff.
Chafe…
And “Yes”.
Rash fetish, problem solved.
yes
First round with the mask on, second one without it and keep the boots on.
oh yeah, knocking boots all night!
… sorry, the pun was there, I had to.
I feel like right now Danny needs to be with someone more…. I guess human would be the optimal term here. I’ll say No Maskl
Mask on… then taken off and used to tie up Danny.
-cough-
Or Mike
Mask on. Cape on.
the problem is it unzips in the back
({OʭO) This is
(<{ʘʭʘ) So Sexy
Mask please!
Curses, foiled by the internet confusing things for html tags T^T
Try < for < and > for >
Mask. An Ethan mask, to be specific.
OF COURSE MASK!
Also, how are people doing that thing with hover-text? I want to put “Superhero points, remember?” in “mask”.
I think it’s a Patreon thing…
It’s HTML wizardry. Type:
(abbr title=”Hypertext”)Words(/abbr)
but with < brackets instead of (
Did someone say Mousovicus Texticanum!
.oy sdrawkcab ti diD
It helps to actually put some text in the alt text field…
Just rip the important parts off.. buy a new costume in the morning.
Mask
I don’t care as long as NO BOOTS
[srsly, totally nude except foot coverings bothers me]
But bare feet get you bothered?
HOT AND
[actually, it’s more an aesthetics thing… that, or but one side effect of being unsettled by Sonic the Hedgehog porn]
….That’s a good reason..
OK, mask on, cape off…wait, how about cape on mask off? Ok, um mask on, cape on…*panic* did we dry mask on cape off?
Is there a statistician in the house?
I’m rooting for mask AND no mask. Probably first mask, then no mask, just for logistical reasons.
“Because I love every part of you and there’s no part I don’t want to be with right now.”
Whatever happens tomorrow, Amber deserves to hear that. Danny’s good at saying things like that when they’re codependent and pathetic, let’s have him break it out where it’s appropriate for once.
(And if it’s too soon for “love”– and it probably is– then swap that word out for “want.”)
I’d say “No mask”.
I understand that ‘mask’ has the whole kink factor, but they can do the kink roleplay anytime they want, let their first time be mask-free.
“could you wear these glasses?”
…way to danny it up.
Mask and glasses. Best of both worlds.
She should get a mask that doubles as glasses. Unless her mask already does that.
MEGAVOLT GOGGLES
You have seen my winter face protector then? http://opusthepoet.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/mask-on-step-4.jpg?w=480
This one is better… https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/c0.0.403.403/p403x403/526925_4760657409110_811567341_n.jpg
It’s baffling that “glasses” isn’t an explicit option in the poll.
Oh this is going to end in a fantastic way…I can already feel the storm building
Fantastic good, or Fantastic Willis?
A “happy ending”?
Possibly fantastic, as in history repeating itself for Amber, after Danny’s day…
at least that’s what I keep dreading (for Amber’s sake, anyhow).
Oh. Oh GOD no.
No way, he’s already done sexy stuff with her, had sex with Dorothy, and almost with Billie. I’m aware it’s possible to do that and still be gay (to cover up), but I feel like that’s much less prevalent now that homosexuality isn’t illegal, and it seems oddly subtle for Danny anyway.
As a bi dude, the only time gay thoughts made trouble for me with a girl was when I wasn’t into her. This doesn’t seem to be the case with Danny here.
Foreboding music.
“we keep our masks on. it’s better that way.”
nooooo
This. In order.
http://youtu.be/wRTa89tQS34
http://youtu.be/eeEz9oE17ac?t=1m29s
We KEEP our masks ON. It’s BETTER that WAY.
Wow he almost fucked that up again.
Good sir, I believe the proper term is “Danning”.
Everyone! To Shipshine!
Cuethe spinning logo scene transition.
Wait, is that a spelling error or something intentional?
Unlikely. The couple is nowhere near emotionally stable, so any porn of it would carry a feeling of ickyness and generally feel uncomfortable.
An emotionally stable relationship? In a DAVE WILLIS comic? Blasphemy!
did you forget amber x mike’s slipshine already?
Both are actually at a stable place in their lives and have been a fairly happy couple for years by that point. Imagine if the comic had been released during the ‘I’m blackmailing you into being my boyfriend, and when you bring up my dad I punch you in the face’ period.
You can have an emotionally stable relationship and still engage in consensually violent sex.
I would argue the alternative (jason/sal) is also unstable, with the added squick factor of unbalanced power dynamics
And we’re not paying to read a while comic of them fucking, now are we?
but… we are?
that’s literally what we’re choosing between in the poll
you should probably read this
That says more about you people who still want to see it despite the icky creepiness than it does anything else.
Let the woman work out some of her issues, attain something resembling sanity, something where the entire comment section won’t scream that Danny banging a dude even if they break up first would shatter her like a dry and brittle twig. Then let her get mad laid.
um, thanks?
personally, a lot of the reason I was pushing amazi-girl/danny so hard in the first place was because there were less issues around consent and power than with sal/jason, and no matter what, david was going to do a slipshine with one of the pairings, but whatever you want to assume about me or anyone else is fine, I guess
I don’t assume anything about you, I simply find your taste in pairings to be a tad icky in it’s current state.
Though I am disturbed you find the supposed power difference (though Sal has physically dominated him the entire time, and it’s been pointed out if they get caught she gets a slap on the wrist and he gets fired, not to mention he didn’t even change her grades over it to begin with so he’s literally wielding nothing over her) more offputting than a woman who had a complete psychological breakdown, is dependent on an alternate persona to properly control her emotions, has traumatic flashbacks just seeing certain people and has displayed an irrational and uncontrollable tendency to turn to violence when she gets upset.
If Amber and Danny were about to bang AFTER she’d seen a therapist or even just given up Amazi-Girl as a separate life I’d have the same reaction to this as I have the last two, mild curiousity towards any unseen character development and indifference towards the sex. As things stand my reaction is ‘ew, just no, not now‘. Though I will concede Danny/Amber in any form is more interesting than Sal/Jason, as there’s literally nothing but sex between them.
oh gee, sal pushed him around a couple of times, problem solved?
it turns out that yes, I have problems with a legitimate power imbalance between a white man and a black woman who often struggles to convince people that her problems even matter
maybe I’m biased in that way
I’m uncomfortable with danny using amber to deal with his sexual insecurities, and I’m generally uneasy with everything going on to begin with, but at least they’re both students, at least there isn’t that inherent power differential behind their relationship
@timemonkey
I know what you’re saying, but maybe I have a useful perspective on this: I was a math TA and then a math professor for years.
I would never, never have sex with a student while he or she was in any of my classes, even if that student initiated the relationship. It is incredibly inappropriate: not only does it raise questions of favoritism, but it opens the door to other, less appropriate, relationships. If Jason had really wanted Sal, then he could and should have waited; it he didn’t, then he should have gently but firmly said “no.”
@ JWLM oh, I agree, it’s messed up, I’m not in any way on the Sal/Jason ‘ship. I’m not really sure why we’re revisiting a pairing from the Walkyverse that went nowhere in the first place, but I assume Willis has plans.
He almost Danned it up and told her about Ethan, didn’t he.
Told him what ? That he hung out with her Ex ?
That he imagined pressing his lips against his but didn’t cuz he’s super faithfull and also still attracted to ladies?
To be fair, while Danny has in no way done anything wrong, if he had told her “I spent time with your ex-boyfriend and I got really turned on by him,” I think that would have pretty effectively killed Amber’s sexy-times mood.
Or it would havemade it stronger.
Different universe. In this one, Ethan telling her he was gay was one of the more traumatic experiences of her life, and Danny apparently repeating that, with Ethan…I know it’s different and on a rational level I’m sure she’d be able to understand that, but her emotional reaction would not be “Oooh, hot!”
Amazi-girl spend some time with his Ex to, although the only one who was fantasizing about them doing it was Daisy.
And me.
And like 90% of the comments section.
So maybe if they can be honest with each other as Danny figures out his feelings for Ethan, they can figure out how to handle a polyamorous open relationship, maybe? And everyone can be happy?
You can always hope for the best.
If it weren’t for that piece of baggage between Ethan and Amber, polyamory would have been possible.
“If we both fuck Danny, everyone’s happy”
I think polyamory actually has a shot in the long run with these three.
In the short run I think it’s going to be tears and break-ups and resentment over the past and guilt and Joyce being very confused.
I don’t think that Danny is cut out for polyamorous relationships with anyone. He’s WAY too into being monogamously faithful for him to feel good about smooching more than one person.
Actually, that was one of the main reasons I thought it might fly.
From a meta perspective, Danny’s been set up from the beginning as being this super devoted, eyes-laser-focused-on-one-true-love dude. (I think Willis called him a serial monogamist somewhere.) And, well, it hasn’t served him as well in his relationships as one would expect. Since it’s a college coming-of-age type story, I wouldn’t be surprised if part of it was Danny growing and changing and learning that he doesn’t have to be that person he was when he got here, and that he can like multiple people and it’s not that big a deal.
wow I love this
I love you, winter
Aww, thank you, Kerry! You’re too sweet to me!
I think it’s a good idea as well… and good explanation…
eh *blushes*
As much as I think this analysis would fit well into eventual OT3 (along with Amber fantasizing about dude on dude, Amber saying that her and Ethan would have married, and Ethan saying more recently that he wanted to be able to take care of Amber forever), I’m not actually sure Willis wants to go there. He’s pretty vocally supportive about LGBT+ stuff (understatement of the year), but I can’t remember him saying much about poly, and long-term poly relationships at that.
I’ll just be over here, over-analyzing this strip: http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1804
he hasn’t said anything about it, really, but that doesn’t mean he takes issue with it
someone asked him about it a little bit ago, and he said it depended on if they were willing to share
Yeah, I am completely enamored with this idea. That is a coming of age story I’d like to read, and especially one I’d like to see with Danny.
And then there’s Joyce to consider…
Her unhealthy relationship with Ethan ends, she’s exposed to another thing she’s never experienced (polyamory), and if she can move past hurt feelings with Ethan and they stay friends, she might get two new friends in Danny and Amber. I fail to see how this ends badly for Joyce beyond short term pain that’s likely to happen eventually anyway.
Ha ha. Danny figuring out how to handle something. You are a card.
It’s just occurred to me that Danny’s been having sex with Amber while she’s been using her Christian-Bale-Batman voice.
Maybe her gravel voice is sexier than Batman’s.
Like Lauren Bacall’s? No disrespect, she was a great woman.
I wish I could remember what her voice sounded like but I wasn’t able to find a soundbite of hers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MheNUWyROv8
This took me literally three seconds
When I searched, all I found was footage of her but without her voice.
“Why don’t you shave, and we’ll try it again.” Lauren Bacall soundbite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhW9l-N77U0
Guess I don’t know how to do links on this site.
Danny hasn’t been doing that at all. Danny has heavy petted her while she was doing it, though.
Your definition of sex may vary.
Some peope think using someone else’s body as a masturbatory aid is sex.
“I did not have sex with that woman!” — William Jefferson Clinton
“Oh, yes, you did!” — Ken Starr
DR. GIRLFRIEND https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N27vbMK-nXg
Dat “three pack a day voice.”Since 1980…9ish.
More Dr. Girlfriend.
Oh Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling….
She’ll clean out his pipe.
Finally, all that Mario pays off!
Unless Plasma Mongoose is making a Cabin Boy reference.
Something like that.
Funny thing, I knew what you meant, I just have this compulsion to associate all sorts of things with references.
This will either end as an advertisement for a slipshine or insane drama. Considering the past week or so, please be advertisement. You made me ask for this to end in porn, no freaking clue how to feel on that note.
Your avatar being Joyce makes your comment quite more interesting.
That’s so funny, I was just wondering the same thing. I’m gonna still vote for mask.
twenty bucks says that sex with her is always… amazing? huh? anyone…? someone already made that joke didn’t they…
Mike could give you Amazi-Sex as well.
But he’d charge you a nickel.
And then kick you in the crotch and call you demeaning words.
Who’s to say that’s overly different from what’s about to happen?
If he charged you a nickel, then he wouldn’t be giving you Amazi-Sex, he’d be prostituting the sex worker involved.
Oh don’t fuck, then how will you shake the fact Amzi-girl was in your room when people could hear “Oh god, yes!” Then you got people asking your stupid ass “You fucked Amazi-girl, who is she?” by everyone except maybe Joyce.
“I don’t know, she kept the mask on.”
Would you ask Mary Jane who Spiderman is? Only Green Goblins and Venoms do shit like that. You super villain assholes.
“Then why are you wearing it right now?”
And now I’m imagining Amazi-Girl going “Oh god, yes” in her Christian-Bale-voice.
Sort of like this.
You do remember he was freely telling people he was dating Amazi-Girl earlier on, right. His social circle is small enough that it didn’t really get out but it’s never been a secret.
I voted for mask, as did…everyone else apparently. We’re a depraved cabal.
With luchador fetishes apparently?
Please someone recreate this scene with Batman and Bane! Tom Hardy version, original version, any version, whatever.
Also Zorro. And Batman.
Is anybody else wondering if Amazigirl is still wearing her pajamas under the suit after investigating all day? She definitely appeared to be wearing them when she suited up in the morning.
That outfit has got to be SO HOT. Take this from a guy who had to wear a band uniform over his street clothes. And that wasn’t even skin tight.
What, no comments about Danny saying ‘I’m an idiot’ yet?
The comments section surprises me.
At this point it’s just common knowledge. we didn’t even notice cuz everything he says looks like “I’m an idiot”.
He has a phrase named after his level o fidiot “danning” I think that boat’s been overloaded already
well, to copy/paste what I said from patreon…
wait ok
is she “everything he needs right now” for heterosexuality reassertion purposes?
or is it because he misses her and being intimate with her?
and does he feel unfaithful because of ethan? is that the implication?
Maybe that, and maybe because of hanging around playing Mario Kart with Sal. Probably a mix of both.
I don’t think he really spent much time thinking about sal that way though
the only people he’s really seemed “tempted” around are amber and ethan
I’m assuming because of what happened with Ethan AND because he’s missed her.
Let us not forget he also had that weird moment with Amber at the restaurant. He does not yet know Amber is Amazi-Girl so he is probably also feeling bad about that as well. He knows he has romantic feelings for Amber, but turned her down because he was already seeing Amazi-Girl… if anything that might be what he feels the worst about.
he does know amber is amazi-girl though…
But he didn’t know at the restaurant.
he didn’t, but why would that make him feel unfaithful now that he does know?
I think the answer to all of your questions is “yes”.
I think it is the “I had a sexy thought about someone else” thing that just happened, which he realizes in this panel is not the same as being unfaithful.
I’m a big fan of Amber/Amazi-Girl, but I almost feel like this “I have been ignoring and avoiding you, but now that I’m here, let’s have sex” thing is one if the most messed-up things she’s done so far. Am I alone in thinking this? (I did not have a chance to read all l of the comments yesterday.)
I thought it felt weird too
I love amber and I love danny/amber, but it feels all wrong, for some reason
I just assumed that’s what all girls did. And guys just learn to roll with the punches.
You and me both Yotomoe… you and me both…
It’s only been like that for like, a day though.
Eh.. in the scheme of things not really. she needed to go figure out her emotions by herself because it involved a lot of stuff that is big in her life. So it’s more that “they’re dating but she pushed hi maway because she needed to deal with it. now she’s dealt with he stuff and wants closeness”
Not everything is sharable with loved ones,
But has she dealt with it? All this praise for her as Amazi-Girl is positive reinforcement for the alter ego. Seems like she’s still ignoring and compartmentalizing.
It’s definitely not the most messed up thing she’s done (see: every encounter she’s had with Sal), but, no, you are definitely not the only one. Amber has been incredibly evasive and deceptive, and I think this is just one in a series of attempts to ignore her problems.
Honestly, I’m kind of surprised Willis is considering Slipshining this, after pulling the breaks on a Ruth/Billie one. (Not that that should have happened either.)
It’s hard to Slipshine Ruth/Billie sexy times. What’s he supposed to draw? Half undressed girls puking into toilets together and then passing out side by side?
Eh, yeah, Ruth and Billie is alot more outwardly depressing/we’ve given up on ourselves/puking in toilets. That would be really hard to slipshine. I shouldn’t really have compared the two.
I mean, I still think this situation is fucked up, but not really any more than Sal/Jason (which I like alot), and certainly less than Billie/Ruth.
It’s really because this situation touches a nerve with me in a way the others don’t. Amber trying to project this idealized persona of herself, not knowing how to deal with her anger, preferring people’s disdain and indifference to their sympathy, minimizing her past traumas, ignoring and avoiding talking about her problems… I identify more closely with these than with the other characters’ issues. And since I know personally how destructive they are, I’m really uncomfortable with Amber and Danny romanticizing Amazi-girl, who embodies all these problems. When Amber and Danny are ready to just be Amber and Danny, warts and all, that’s a different story.
So I know logically romanticizing alcoholism or a t.a./student relationship isn’t any better but I instinctively find it alot less squicky and alot more sexy than this.
To us it’s been awhile since they’ve seen eachother, but in the strip hasn’t it been only a day or two?
Eh, after the latest developments between Billie and Ruth, I’m kind of jaded.
Amber stop being sexy in the batman voice. you sound like a rapist.
Robert…Everyone wants to fuck batman. The sooner we all admit it the sooner we can move on.
Batman vs Harrison Ford.
Sophie’s Choice.
Don’t think you can rape the willing.
I think technically you can, but that requires dubious consent, such as through youthful inexperience or mind altering substances.
You cant rape the willing.
You can’t rape a willing person who is capable of reasoned consent. Any other sexual act, whether apparently consented to or not, is rape.
He’s going to Danny it up all in her bizness.
amazigirl has the dreamworks poster look on her face last panel
Danning things at speeds previously unknown to Man or Dan.
Baby, you can leave the mask on.
Faithful
Specifically, Old Faithful. Danny will be doing the impersonation work.
Somehow I don’t see him lasting 91 minutes.
Second coming in 91 minutes…
So now we see how much Frank Miller/Scott Lobdell Danny reads.
Naw, cuz then Danny’d be monolouging for about 20 minutes about her.
“She was coming onto me hard…I didn’t have the heart to tell her what had happened earlier. It’d been a while since I’d seen her and I already knew she was everything I needed at this moment. I stop her before she leaves and hold her close. She pulls around and looks at me with those eyes. Those Sure and confident eyes and asked me if I’d rather have the mask on or off. I couldn’t tell if it was a loaded question or a hell of a kinky suggestion. Was she asking for me if I wanted to fuck the geeky girl who gets me or the wild stallion I knew I couldn’t control…”
Don’t forget to pepper that paragraph with randomly emphasised words
“–I wanted to fuck the geeky girl who gets me or the wild stallion I knew I couldn’t control…”
–I keep hearing Amazi-girl’s lines in Crazy Steve’s voice. Yomotoe’s not helping. XD
/swoon
I will answer “no mask” to the poll, but I want it to be known I mean it in the loaded way
Nice try, Miles Mayhem.
I’ll get you next time, Trakker!!!
re the poll
TUXEDO KAMEEEEEEN!!!!
Mask on….oh and leave the gloves on too. Kinky.
Wait, Amber’s a virgin, right? Considering I assume the failed prom night would have been her first real attempt, and that was only a summer away from college.
Great. Now I, too, am curious as to if this is the case or not… WILLIS OR FELLOW READERS… WE NEED ANSWERS!
unless she shacked up with mike directly after, I doubt it
One is not born, but rather becomes, a virgin.
I always assumed that since Ethan made that discovery on top of her, most definitions of virginity were nullified.
The flashback suggests that he couldn’t become aroused, and that’s when he first admitted to himself that he was uninterested in women.
The mask may or may not come off, but either way I’m predicting that Amber won’t be making an appearance.
Agreed.
“Amazi-Girl voice or AMber voice?”
Seriously though, why’s she still talking like that?
It’s all part of the performance. It’s like when someone reads you a book and they do all the voices. You know which character is talking but where’s the drive? THE PASSION?
The door is still open, for one thing.
It’s so when Danny says “Oh [my] God” while performing a sex, she can say “SWEAR TO ME!”
Remember the alt text here. I don’t know whether it’s a tremendously loaded question (do you want to make love with AG or with Amber?) but if it is, then the voice is absolutely right unless and until Danny says “No mask, no costume. I want *you,* Amber.”
Did… did Amber just play Danny into having sex with her?
Appropriate gravatar is appropriate.
If the mask stays on, sexytimes will likely happen because Danny prefers the “mystery” (he could probably willfully forget who’s under the mask for the time being) and because Amber prefers herself as Amazi-Girl. But if the mask comes off, I honestly don’t know if they *would* have sex. Taking off the mask means shedding the emotional armor, and I don’t know if either of them are ready for that.
Also, someone remind me: is Danny attracted to Amber as *just Amber*?
yes, which is why he told her to stay away after they hung out with danny’s parents
being around her was dangerous for his relationship with amazi-girl
Right, right! Thanks!
yes
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/04-just-hangin-out-with-my-family/dynamic/
+
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/04-just-hangin-out-with-my-family/didnt/
Yes, although all this is factually moot because he knows they’re one and the same. Psychologically though…
On the question in the hover text: Can’t it be both?
When does this strip update anyway? It’s 10 in the morning here and 130 comments already.
12:01 Eastern Standard/Daylight time (UTC-5/4).
It updated 43 minutes before your comment.
Damn, just eight minutes too soon.
Danny’s “gun” sure is “loaded”, but is it loaded for Amber, Amazi-Girl or Ethan?
Mask on.
On Danny, that is.
This got hella sexual hella fast.
Mask. Also, Chasity Churchmouse ears for Danny.
Amazi-Girl will make him a servant, alright.
Is THAT why Walky was looking for Sal… to see if she knew if they still had the ears so he could lend them to Danny in exchange for the shoes from earlier
That avatar saying that comment
Wow, I didn’t expect Danny to not fuck that up.
So Danny threw over Amber, because he thought he was Amazi-girls boyfriend when he wasn’t. Amber knew this at the time, and knows it now.
If Danny answers ‘the Mask’ I hope that Amazi-Amber marches her self the hell out the door.
If he answers ‘no Mask’ good on him but still a problem for Amber.
Self admitted Danny is looking to ‘assert his heterosexuality’ and there’s his assertion standing in front of him. He’s using her again.
I agree. He is using her. But then I think she is kinda using him too.
They are both a bit fucked up right now.
“I used her, she used me, but neither one cared: we were getting our share.”
And the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mRFWQoXq4c
“Nope not walkin’ into that question, in fact I need to meditate.”
You mean Danny might want to have sex with the woman he’s been dating and is attracted to and has just asked him to have sex with her?!?
That monster.
It’ not just that. Yes, he really liked her, was attracted to her and most probably still is.
But right now, the primary concern for him is to prove to himself that he is stil a hetero. This isnt about AmaziGirl. Any willing girl would do. If Billy’s “journalism” incident had happened now, he would not have stopped her either.
nah man. Just reread the first two panels of this strip. Danny’s biggest character trait has always been his loyalty. He’s worried he may have been unfaithful to Amber just because he got aroused by someone else, even though he didn’t actually do anything! To suggest that Danny would happily bang any girl just to feel heterosexual shows you don’t really get Danny, because he’d likely drop out of college before he intentionally cheated on his significant other.
Hm. You DO raise a good point about loyalty. The last panel in the prev comic showed him really worried about his heterosexuality though, hence my comment.
I guess we will see.
Danny Dans it up by breaking Ethan’s heart!
Doesn’t Ethan KNOW Danny’s dating Amber? He shoulda shielded himself from how lovable the guy is. Bro Code applies for gay guys too. Don’t get the hots for your bro’s main squeeze.
Ethan is pretending to be straight anyway.
The question is, does the white-on-dark-blue speech indicate a growly “batman voice”? Cause if it does, this just got weird(er)
Oh of course it does. For some reason though, I keep thinking “I’m the one who knocks!” Instead of anything Batman said in those movies…
Knocking is more personal than ringing the door bell. I always knock, so people know it’s me.
I’m not Jessie Pinkman.
I believe kicking the door off its hinges and spraying the room with gasoline is the way of showing someone you care.
You wouldn’t if you didn’t.
That’s always been the assumption, but then Ethan and Danny confirmed it when discussing Amber/Amazi-girl before their, erm, encounter on the grass.
“If you put the mask on, I can pretend you’re Ethan.”
This is number #37 in the list of “Answers Danny Should Not Give”.
Whats number 36 on that list?
“Leave it on. I’ll call you Leonardo.”
she’s up for that
curses, why did my tablet have to break now of all times
Speaking of up, when will the new store be? I can’t find any hints online!
and that’s a guy. Let’s try dina.dina.dina@gmail.com …
Leonardo, or Venus?
That is she who shall not be named!
So the fandom continues to punish a good character idea for a poorly written show?
Donatello, DUH
While Raphael is the mostobvious association for our raging superheroine, and Leonardo matches up on color, I have to put my vote in for Michelangelo..
He IS the ‘party dude’, after all~
Shredder: The Contrarian’s Hero.
THE BLUE SPIRIT
Did she ask to bang danny in the Amazi-girl voice?
Wait… is Dan not Danning this up? The mind, it boggles!
Don’t worry, he’ll find the best moment to apply his Dannish charm.
WITH THE MASK
ALWAYS WITH THE MASK
Either way….
GO FOR IT ALREADY, YOU TWO!!!!!!
Oh Danny. Everyone thinks other people are attractive. It’s what you DO about it that matters.
Double mask.
I think the best response here is “I’ll leave that up to you. I love you in or out of it.”
The worst response would be “But I don’t have a mask…”
No, worst response would be “Son of Mask”
Okay, yes, point well made.
This (at least for the best response.) That guarantees we won’t get it. #WillisCartoon
My vote for worst response is “Can you use your teeth for putting it on?”.
VOTE SAL / JASON!!!
Sal is awesome, but I like Danny more than Jason (in general, and to see having sex)
But Sal promised she would do any gross perverted kink Jason wanted to! (“look, ah’ll do anythin’, ah’ll dress up like a gaddurned pony, jus’ name it”)…I, for one, am really looking forward to seeing Sal’s impersonation of Applejack.
You mean of Rainbow Dash.
She’s already channeling Applejack.
Someone needs to draw Sal in a horse mask.
new poll!
Vote Danny/Amber for next Slipshine!
yesssss
WE’RE WINNING GUYS
/dances
for great justice!
My God everyone is having a sex tonight!
I say once with the mask, and once withOUT.
Now the question becomes, in which order?
Flip a coin. Two-headed with a scratched-out side, if at all possible.
Now the question becomes, which side represents the mask?
YES! They are teen with extra hormones. Once with to stay in this moment, then again without because they need to be real with each other.
I wonder how many people voted for Amber/Danny just to spite Willis? Voting really seemed to pick up again after he tweeted he wanted Sal and Jason.
clearly it picked up after I spurred people on to vote for amazi-girl/danny
>.> <.<
He said he PLANNED Sal/Jason, but the poll seems like an invitation to change his mind.
Man, epic reunion between the couple who curbstomped and spat on Blaine and who might only last another day or two before Ethan swoops in and sweeps Danny away… or “No, I hate YOU more and your ideas about math are stupid, Episode 3 of 78?” I don’t really see why this should be a hard choice.
The fact that it’s “episode 3 of 78” is why I voted for them. We have plenty of Dan and Amber in this story, and plenty more to come soon, and almost no Sal/Jason. With D/A, it would be “episode 78 out of 600”. As a weirdo who likes these porn stories for the plot as well, I’d rather see the rarer couple.
Well, we’re both plot-fans. I’m under the impression that the thing Sal and Jason has isn’t going anywhere for a while yet, whereas in a couple of months, the window for a warm, sex-positive encounter between these two MAY have closed, as Danny’s interest in Ethan seems pretty certain to rise. Sure, there are always flashbacks, but they’re not quite the same.
I am going to hold out hope for a Danny Sandwich.
nice grav, danny
I don’t know what it is, but this whole situation makes me feel uneasy. I mean I know Danny is using her in this situation to reaffirm his sexuality to himself, but she’s using him as well. She’s not really bothered about his concerns and idk if you liked someone that much you would at least hear them out i guess, instead of brush it off with ‘well it was just an idea cause im in a good mood’
Hmmmmm.
Yeah, I’m on the uneasiness wagon as well. Not so much because they’re using each other – which seems really low-level to me – but because Amber’s compartmentalization makes me sad. If Amber shows up, yay. If not… the whole thing will just feel icky.
Anybody else here reminded of Watchmen? It might not go well without the mask.
No mask — so that anyone walking down the hall doesn’t hear Amazi-Girl’s voice during sex coming out of Danny’s room, just Amber’s.
OK just a quick reminder about how much I want sex with a someone who cracks heads for fun. Good thing I see therapists tomorrow.
So you can meet the therapists’ other patients?
(I hope you stay safe.)
Mask and gloves for Amber; blindfold and ropes for Danny. She can tie him up and ravish him while saying in her gravelly voice “Amazi-Girl has you now, Danny. You are helpless before me.” They’re gonna need a bunch of Amazi-condoms tonight.
MASK. DEfinitely mask
The prophylactic qualities of masks are overrated.
If you go mask, then you can claim, and perhaps prove, you had sex with Amazi-girl
first mask on, then… mask off
Anyone called OT3 yet?
“No, wait, I’m an idiot.” ~ Danny’s QOTY.
AGH. The parts that are bad bother me – she still compartmentalizes, she didn’t hear him out, unresolved issues on both sides, part of his desire comes from a bad place – but there are good parts too….
Goddammit, I have become so invested in this relationship! I wasn’t until very recently, but now… Yeah, this whole thing with Ethan has suddenly made me care about Amber + Danny a whole lot more. Huh.
On the compartmentalizing front, this could be therapeutic for her, having Danny bridge her two lives.
Until he brings up his crush on Ethan in the worst possible way…
While this is going to end in disaster, I at least want to appreciate Amber being in the best state we’ve seen her all comic. She’s in a great mood, and she (seems to) take both Danny’s hesitance and his belief that he’s “unfaithful” in stride and with respect. The Amber we first met would have panicked at Danny’s reaction. The Amber who beat her dad to a pulp would have assumed Danny meant he’d slept with Sal, and turned into a mass of sobs and rage.
But this is David “Damn You Willis” Willis, so I give this great mood another two comics, then it all comes crashing down when Danny cries out Ethan’s name in a fit of passion.
This is about what I expected from Danny, except that he resolved it in a short amount of time. I like Amazi-girl’s reaction in this comic. She knows him so well.
“You’re all I need right now. But… how do you feel about inviting Ethan over some time?”
“Mask or no mask?”
Amber definitely knows how to get the boys.
I smell a Slipshine coming on!
suddenly, in the middle of the sexing, Dina comes in and shows affection via light physical contact.
Dina doesn’t come in, she was behind the door the entire time!
Danny is going to made a 2×1. Because he will have sex with Amazing-Girl and Amber at the same time. Oh Yeah.
Mas.
That isn’t a typo.
@damnyouwillis — Talk about false dichotomies. I want Amber/Danny/Ethan, the healthiest relationship right now and the one that is most interesting.
I really want ethan/danny/amber too, but until ethan and amber make up, dorky is still probably the healthiest
Well, we can’t have A/D/E until we have a good ship name for them, right? I mean, ‘DAmbEt’ (silent b as in lamb) sounds to good to be true, doesn’t it?
oh dang, that’s good
the only problem is, it should be emphasized danny’s in the middle, as ethan’s not going to be interested in anything more than a friendly, platonic relationship with amber
I think Ethan could get into another romantic-but-not-sexual relationship with Amber. And yes, the more I hear about this ship, the more it grows on me. Do Ethan and Amber have making up to do? I thought the reason they broke up was because Ethan is gay, and even then, Amber spent the summer defending him to his parents.
>healthiest relationship
>ethan and amber + danny
>can I have some of what you’re smoking
The healthiest relationship involving those characters, at least. And it ranks pretty highly overall, considering the other relationships in this comic.
Suggesting any one of those three, much less all three, has the maturity for that is pretty rich.
On the bridge of Amber/Danny ship:
Sir we are managing to plug the holes left by the collision with heretical Ethan/Danny ship, and are even recieving help from Ethan/Danny/Amber ship.
YES! Full steam ahead to sexxy times, no mater the emotional costs!
What about … Ethan/Danny/Amber/Joyce?
Though I think when Willis finally ends things for DOA, it’s just going to end up being one big orgy with every character having sex with each other at once
mask or no mask. what does that mean? I thought they were going to play mario kart
Annnnd — it’s decided. And I’m loving the extra emphasis on the question.
Aah I’m still worried about Amber. She does seem happier, but it seems like a turbulent and fragile kind of happy.
These must be those insane bedroom shenanigans that Joe mentioned.
It’s the good kind of IBS!
Can we all agree on this?
Mask. Right?
Yes. . . but on who?
Least it’s a good expression for that statement. I still think it would have been better to be Dina with the mask over her hat.
<—- waiting for the glass egg that is Amber's Psych to completely shatter.
4th panel, whenever Amber shoots Danny that look, I just melt. Way too fucking sweet but I love it that way.
Danny, the correct answer is: “Lady’s choice.”
MASK DANNY, THE ANSWER IS MASK
How is “yes” not the most answered answer in the poll?
because it was added later, after a bunch of people already cast their votes
i am going to need a big ole polyamorous relationship to be completely pleased
How big?
How many people, in what arrangement? Are we talking star, V, multiple V with shared endpoints, or some non-Euclidean nightmare in multiple dimensions?
Non-Euclidian sex brings new meaning to the word “Lovecraft”.
My wish. They start with the mask, but the night ends without it. Amber needs to be appreciated for herself and not just the mask.
Mask or no mask. Who is asking?
I don’t have a mask fetish…
Danny should ask her to go get her glasses instead.
Pretty sure I see a mask on http://itswalky.tumblr.com/post/96950718882/page-3-last-preview-for-a-while
My policy is that I don’t buy porn, but jeeze Willis makes that tough.
Damnit Willis don’t jerk me around on this. I gots to know where the Danny-AmaziGirl thing is going. Does she wear the mask or not? Its burning me up inside
Thank Cheese Danny’s still into girls or Amber’s gonna get a complex.