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yay! awkward walky having the emotional age of a middle schooler.
that’s always/every Walky.
gah help i do not understand relationships
Neither does Walky. You are not alone.
I think you meant to say emotional range of a teaspoon.
smooth move, Ex-Lax
Nailed it!
Question now is whether he’ll ever be allowed to again.
If she’s asking for permission to sit with him, that seems like it might be a bad sign…
I know. She’s actually probably going to apologize for freaking him out with love.
“She blinded me with Romance!”
That is not what the 80s told me she blinded people with.
If you don’t be quite I’ll blind you with Violence.
Quiet*
What a riot.
That doesn’t help my webcomic diet.
Zoot Suit Riot?
Grapefruit diet!
I dunno. I don’t think I buy it.
But maybe I should try it.
I’ll go check with my friend Wyatt.
All of you, if you have a kite, you should go fly it.
I don’t think so. She probably doesn’t know how upset he is either, and doesn’t want to just force herself on him, in public, not even in a sexy way.
Yeah, she’s all kinds of mature and considerate. Hopefully she’s had a little bit to reflect that their changing feelings demand that they redefine their relationship together. Only, using smaller, less relationshippy words for emotionally-stupid Walky.
Why is the comments section only as mature as Walky on the matter? You can love someone and still consider the relationship temporary. Dorothy already proved she’s capable of that with Danny.
What I want to know is why you think it’s somehow more mature to be incapable of being in a long-term, committed relationship ^O__o^;;
That’s reading a lot into their comment. I’m pretty sure they are implying it is more mature to be able to accept that not every relationship has to be long-term, regardless of feelings.
It is a long term, committed relationship. 4 years is a long time to most people. It just isn’t permanent.
But to answer the question asked, I actually don’t. What’s immature is not understanding the possibility that a relationship can be temporary by design, and still involve two loving parties. This is a possibility that is generally ignored.
Not saying you can’t! Relationships can be completely important and meaningful and special and loving, even if they’re going to end before one of you dies of old age (or gets hit by a truck). I hope that they can redefine it as a loving and temporary relationship, and figure out whether they each want to continue it, knowing full well that it’s going to hurt to eventually break up.
Hey, nobody’s getting hit by a truck here!
One step away from classic Walky doofy eyes…
Cmooooooon…
You’re doing the rambling thing, Walky.
Ya that tends to be a recurring thing I thought you got over that.
I like when boys are charmingly incapable of concealing the truth.
That’s why I train myself to believe my own lies! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
I go with having such an intricate system of folding and diverging webs of lies so that I forget the underlying truth I was concealing in the first place and tend to just go for whatever sounds plausible and situationally polite/proper.
I can’t remember the last time I was honest with myself. It’s actually become a bit worrying. This morning I woke up and realized I was not, in fact, the leader of a criminal empire centered mostly around potatoes and demon worship.
It was disappointing, to say the least.
That’s easily remedied. Potatoes grow fast.
Yeah, you’re totally not. Keep telling yourself that.
… But now what am I going to do with all these potatoes?
… And what am I going to do with all these demons?
Put them to work writing sub-routines in Linux.
That would require an additional ‘a’.
Happy Thanksgiving assholes
It’s Black Friday, genius. Read the scroll text.
Its 9pm where I’m at man.
You’re both wrong. It’s been Christmas since Hallowe’en.
Why? Because OCT 31 = DEC 25.
I’ll show myself out now…
I celebrate HEX 19.
Just as a matter of curiosity — if HEX (as in HEXidecimal) is the prefix used to indicate base 16, then what is the prefix used if one was using base 6?
Probably SEN for “senary”.
Seriously? “SEX”
You can now all smirk like 12 year olds.
For all the radixes (radii?) without formal names, it’s just ‘radix 6’ or ‘base 6’. Radix 6 is also heximal, however. And as mentioned senary is also correct.
Oh…my god. That actually works.
Now I’m wondering what other easter eggs are hidden in the programming of reality.
The smiley on Mars shown in the Watchmen comic and movie actually exists!
November comes from the word for 9. So Nov~Nonary system.
25 base 10=27 base 9=November 27.
So this year Christmas isn’t just Halloween–it’s also Thanksgiving.
That’s actually the nonary system so it should be NON 27 but who cares?
Oh wait! Apparently it can be called the novemal system, so it does work! Thanks, Wikipedia!
October to January should be one big holiday super month! Happy HallowChristGiving! Everything you buy is half off until you spend to much and inevitably return it next year!
That’s not far off from the current system. Of course, we’d need a holiday on Sept 34 as well… Although that might prove difficult. I guess you could say that it’s Guy Fawkes’ Eve.
Happy HallowThanksMas to you too.
Here ya go — Happy Everything!
11:15 PM Thursday night is still Thanksgiving. Dang Eastern Time Zone people…
Thanksgiving ain’t over until the food’s gone. There shall be no leftovers.
DOROTHY, YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN. JEEZ!
Calm down? This is a new concept to DoA
Time to throw something at Dorothy.
Throw the Pepsi at her !
That’s what got him into this mess in the first place.
Throw a fart at her!
“Do you like… bread? I’ve got French loaf!”
Haha even.
Love the hovertext. Nice going Willis…sop.
Since she’s off panel at the start of the strip, I choose to believe Dorothy is already staring directly at Walky when he’s desperately hoping she doesn’t see him.
smooth as ever Walky, you sly devil you.
Quick, Walky, put on a fake accent and pretend to be El Walkyo, Mexican exchange student.
YES
Pretending to be a foreign student. Wouldn’t be the first time — especially at Indiana University.
If it continues, good for them.
If it ends, it was good while it lasted.
This probably the best thing Walky could have said in this situation
Amusingly, yes. Dorkiness can defuse tension at times… Though he doesn’t seem to have been thinking ahead that far.
I don’t know about that; she looks unimpressed.
This is me avioding confrontation with people I don’t want to talk to.
Im sad to say that that was me in highschool…and i wasn’t even dating her!
Oh I have always suffered with a severe case of foot in mouth disease too. It’s better than it used to be but it flares up now and again
That’s the problem with thinking with your mouth. You well learn the taste of your foot.
(and by “you” I mean “I”.)
“You’d better appreciate me. I can get a new girlfriend like THAT who’s farts smell WAY worse than yours!”
:And SHE has some kind of weird one-sided lesbian thing going with Joyce TOO!”
Which is what I like in a girlfriend. Freckles and wanting to bang Joyce.
Wouldn’t you rather have a girlfriend who had freckles and was wanting to bang *YOU*?
Why do these have to be mutually exclusive
Walky really doesn’t handle this stuff very well at all does he?!
BSOW – Blue Screen Of Walky.
Dorothy this fight isn’t over ! Unless you say so…no good there are something I want to talk about, well not really I was hoping you would give me more time to come up with a plan to approach you. (please leave)
That is a good point to throw down a smoke bomb, or shout “Smokebomb” while making some handgesture, before fleeing into the night.
“Lightningbolt!”
“Magic Missile!”
Amnesia peppers!
Pocket sand!
That sounds familiar.
Walky La Smoking Bomber!
Well, that’s just about all the bases covered there Walky.
DAMN YOU WILLIS
BLACK FRIDAY IS NEVER HAPPY
Sure it is. You just have to barricade yourself in with a gaming console and/or stack of books, avoiding human contact. Weapons and pets optional.
That is literally how I spend every single day.
Good save Walky…
In his case, I think it’s ‘Equivocation save Walky’.
Translated from Walkyspeak to english this roughly means: “I’m really sorry for hurting you, I still care about you and I want to work this out’ which is really the best response he could have given.
I suppose we’ll see with tomorrow’s strip whether Dotty’s so adept at translating it.
She responds by wearing ladles on her ears and singing the national anthem while standing in a bucket of frogs, so I think it’s safe to say there were some communication problems.
“You look pretty, unless your mad then your suffocating me you cow!. Unless your not mad then I’m sorry…Tell me what I should be!”
That’s some strategic word vomit right there, Walky.
Ah Dorothy, he called you pretty now you can stop being mad at him! Yay!
You, Dot, are a very pretty girl today.
(Left-handed toons reference)
Thank you Yakko and Wakko.
Walky, covering all your bases is a good idea in a lot of situations.
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This isn’t one of them. Just say yes, and talk things out like an adult.
well he DID end by being super honest…
Walky? Mature adult?
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Kaunisenkeli never said that he had to act like a mature adult.
Is this about the whole getting to xth base thing? Sounds interesting for sure.
Smooth Walky smooth.
Walky doesn’t do smooth. He is Rocky Road.
God-damn… i just realised i am walky incarnate; I literately do this every time I screw up -.- Dammit Willis.
I don’t really get it why they are all supposed to be avoiding each other like plague now but whatever, maybe I’m just slow
I mean it’s not like I ddn’t have my share of awkward situations but weren’t they all buddy buddy like just a few strips ago
Maybe I’m just twisted or something, but sometimes when I hear the words ‘Black Friday’ I instead hear the song ‘Friday’ by Rebecca Black play. Then I turn off the lights and cry myself to sleep.
Deer-in-the-headlights Walky
Dorothy knows how to work with this
I always hate when I read an entire web comic in a day and then i have to wait for more of this wonderful amazingness
Welcome to the wait of feels.
One of the most idiotic things about western society is that men are raised to think that these two things are the hardest to say: Admitting you really love someone, and that you were an idiot to your beloved. American men are raised to be emotional cripples, and that’s sad.
That and American football top the list for me.
I agree that teaching people to be dishonest about their feelings is idiotic, but I think you’re wrong to single out American or even Western culture. I seems to me that in Western countries there is at least a sense that enforced gender stereotyping has many unhealthy effects, and we’re making progress toward fixing it, however slowly… While in non-western cultures, sexism is far more extreme, and far more brutally enforced.
Painting these issues with a broad brush isn’t helpful.
I sometimes think that women aren’t allowed to be angry, and men aren’t allowed to be hurt/sad, and both of these rules are ridiculous and harmful.
Amen.
Agreed about the first.
On the second: I will fight you with knives. NFL licensed knives.
So… walky is actively attempting to be passive aggressive. No wonder he’s imploding.
No, I think he was hoping out loud that Dorothy would choose to be passive aggressive by not sitting with him, and thus he would avoid a conversation about feels that he is woefully unprepared to deal with.
Don’t get how she would actually want to be with him at this point.
Because?
That caramel bod?
Calling it now: “My Level Of Standoffishness Is Fluctuating” is totally the title for the next DoA book.
If it isn’t, it should be!
Aww, but couldn’t it also be “Burgers Put Me In Existential Ennui”?
Walky is just so freakin’ adorable.
Happy black out!
I think Walky is and has been being Walky. He does love her but don’t want to be defined by that or anything else but his choices on what to be defined as. If he does that he loses his self identity in his opinion.
The Man Child Dam broke and a flood of ifuckedup swamped the plains of Walkerton.
That’s actually pretty good communication on Walky’s part, sort of! He could’ve done much worse. He could’ve thrown his utensils at her head and run out of the room with a creepy look on his face.
Gotta give it to Walky, at least he’s honest.
I wouldn’t mind having an 18 year old’s body, but I sure as hell don’t want the 18 year old brain!
30% probability her next question is “why would I be angry with you?”. From her point of view she brought it up before he was ready.
That is a salad and I’m glad someone at the table finally brought some food.
Dorothy looks very intimidating in panel 4 with those long legs and subsequently pants while it looks like walky left most of his pants at home in every other panel (pay no attention to the small triangles in panel 1)
He’s quite good at having no idea how to be angry on purpose