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by David M Willis on February 6, 2018 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - Faz Is Great
└ Tags: mike, walky

Discussion (152) ¬

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    February 6, 2018 at 12:01 am | #

    “why Mike, I didn’t know you cared”

    “I don’t, just verifying”

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      February 6, 2018 at 8:44 am | #

      “Sounds like you need help. With surrendering.”

      *pulls out whip and bondage gear*

      • LeslieBean4Shizzle
        LeslieBean4Shizzle
        February 6, 2018 at 11:34 pm | #

        I approve of this plan. Then again, I approve of most things that involve bondage.
        Alt: Next, on Slipshine!

  2. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    February 6, 2018 at 12:01 am | #

    But from his bed can he see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch milkshakes?

    • Portland
      Portland
      February 6, 2018 at 11:53 am | #

      He can see that from his heart.

  3. AnvilPro
    AnvilPro
    February 6, 2018 at 12:02 am | #

    Mike refuses to let Walky give up. Then there will be nothing for him to ruin.

    • Aggrax
      Aggrax
      February 6, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

      To be fair, Mike also has to live in that room, which mean he has to smell Walky right now. It is likely unpleasant.

  4. Madock345
    Madock345
    February 6, 2018 at 12:02 am | #

    So anyone else suspect Mike just got in this morning? 😉

  5. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    February 6, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

    It’s probably a bad sign that I am finding Walky here very relatable.

  6. Bagge
    Bagge
    February 6, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

    Ah, living the high life as a bachelor, I see.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      February 6, 2018 at 12:16 am | #

      Yeah, if I saw someone eating like that, I’d assume they were living the “high” life as well.

      • Geneseepaws
        Geneseepaws
        February 6, 2018 at 7:08 am | #

        And then there’s Miller High-Life, which means for Mike it’s Miller time?

  7. Yumi
    Yumi
    February 6, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

    Ahh, college.

  8. Delicious Taffy
    Delicious Taffy
    February 6, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    To be honest, that milkshake sounds deliciously atrocious.

    • Laladoria
      Laladoria
      February 6, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

      If you have Steak n Shake where you live, I recommend stopping in for one 😄

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        February 6, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

        There’s one just half an hour away, by car. I love eating there, so this is a hot tip.

        • cajunburger
          cajunburger
          February 6, 2018 at 12:58 am | #

          Steak and Shake has the best ideas for shakes, and thus they are burdened with terrible service as a result of their (delicious) hubris.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      February 6, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

      It’s a real thing. There’s Lucky Charms milkshakes too. And probably others, my current diet does now allow for such things very often.

      …I envy Walky.

    • JohnF
      JohnF
      February 6, 2018 at 1:43 am | #

      No, sardine milkshakes are atrocious. Walky’s one is just life threatening.

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      February 6, 2018 at 4:15 am | #

      I’d second guess a crunchy shake and ask when the milk expired.

    • Chronos
      Chronos
      February 6, 2018 at 11:11 am | #

      I think you mean “atrociously delicious.”

      • Kaunisenkeli
        Kaunisenkeli
        February 6, 2018 at 10:24 pm | #

        I don’t know why, but when I read this I heard it being said by the leprechaun from those old Lucky Charms commercials (no idea what their commercials are like now).

    • Yet_One_More_Idiot
      Yet_One_More_Idiot
      February 6, 2018 at 2:32 pm | #

      I think you have your words the wrong way round.

      Atrociously delicious = e.g. deep fried Mars bars, bacon butties, or Black Forest Gateau.

      Deliciously atrocious = e.g. mixing every single liquid you have in your house right now in a blender, and then drinking it.

      • Khno
        Khno
        February 7, 2018 at 8:26 am | #

        I don’t get how Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte (or even Schwarzwaldtorte) compares with fat food rendered fatter combos…

  9. ashely
    ashely
    February 6, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    it concerns me that the storyline is called “faz is great”. anyone else?

    • Stephen Bierce
      Stephen Bierce
      February 6, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

      Very much so, as a matter of graph.

      • Willinwoods
        Willinwoods
        February 6, 2018 at 9:57 am | #

        The graphing hands
        graph all they can
        Faz for himself
        after all

        (It is the greatness of Faz)

        Everyone has respect for Faz

    • Teddae
      Teddae
      February 6, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

      i didn’t even notice till you pointed it out. i’m scared.

      • Inahc
        Inahc
        February 6, 2018 at 12:21 am | #

        I’m pretending it doesn’t exist for as long as possible 😛

        • Some1
          Some1
          February 6, 2018 at 1:12 am | #

          Look upon Willis’ works, ye mighty and dispair.

      • jeffepp
        jeffepp
        February 6, 2018 at 1:19 am | #

        The fact that Willis is pointing it out on twitter, while giggling meniacally, I’m sure, doesn’t help.

    • 3oranges
      3oranges
      February 6, 2018 at 12:15 am | #

      Surely Faz is great enough that it should be proclaimed without him having to, you know, show up.

      • Some1
        Some1
        February 6, 2018 at 12:25 am | #

        I’m honestly confused on how you can have an entire storyline about Faz. Although perhaps it will be revealed that Faz was homeless for the last couple months (has it been a couple months? Dumbing of Age time is confusing) after Blain got the shit kicked out of him.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          February 6, 2018 at 1:42 am | #

          Presumably, he’d still be able to live with his mother if that was the case.

          • Kamino Neko
            Kamino Neko
            February 6, 2018 at 4:33 am | #

            Given how Blaine likely met her (based on how they met in the other universe, and the fact that he’s mobbed up in this universe, too), I wouldn’t be surprised if she was in jail. And his dad either dead, in the clink, or on the run.

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          February 6, 2018 at 11:05 pm | #

          It’s definitely not been a couple months. It’s around the middle of October and Blaine was here in the third week of September. It’s been about a month.

          • Clif
            Clif
            February 7, 2018 at 1:19 am | #

            Faz could have been in delivery all that time.

    • McBogue
      McBogue
      February 6, 2018 at 12:25 am | #

      I find it concerning because the last time we saw Faz was because Blaine was around.

      According to the timeline, it’s been a little over three weeks since Amber laid the beatdown on not-so-dear-old dad.

    • brasca1
      brasca1
      February 6, 2018 at 12:28 am | #

      Not all that concerned with Faz, but if he’s back then Blaine can’t be all that far behind.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      February 6, 2018 at 12:29 am | #

      I’m definitely concerned, since in the first time we saw Faz in this comic he was brought to the college by Amber’s dad.

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      February 6, 2018 at 4:16 am | #

      I was only worried about Faz. And then the other commenters mentioned Blaine so now I’m triply worried.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      February 6, 2018 at 8:51 am | #

      This storyline name has been on the Chapter List for a while – Willis always pre-names his chapters, and puts them on the Chapter list.

      So, yeah, I’ve been worried for months.

      Then again, maybe Willis is just taunting us. Maybe Faz doesn’t actually appear in ‘Faz Is Great’. Maybe it’s just his way of tormenting us? Wouldn’t that be great? *fragile, broken laugh*

  10. Passchendaele
    Passchendaele
    February 6, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    Mike presumably won’t exist for the next few hours. 😛

    • Jhon
      Jhon
      February 6, 2018 at 9:55 pm | #

      Berkeleyan Idealism?

  11. Laladoria
    Laladoria
    February 6, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    This is not going to go over well when midterms are over…

  12. Beef
    Beef
    February 6, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

    Oh no. Dorothy’s gonna blame herself D:

  13. Archivist
    Archivist
    February 6, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

    If Mike is giving you basic good advice, you know things are bad.

    • cesium133
      cesium133
      February 6, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

      Mike just doesn’t want to put up with the smell.

      • DarkoNeko
        DarkoNeko
        February 6, 2018 at 3:28 am | #

        Can’t blame him

  14. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    February 6, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

    *plays the “Nacho Man” parody of The Village People’s “Macho Man” on the hacked Muzak*

    • Stephen Bierce
      Stephen Bierce
      February 6, 2018 at 12:33 am | #

      There Is More Than One Way To Be Nacho…
      This is the one I remember. I’m not a Simpsons fan.

    • DarkoNeko
      DarkoNeko
      February 6, 2018 at 3:28 am | #

      Nacho nacho maaaaaaan
      I gotta be~ a nacho maaaan

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        February 6, 2018 at 8:55 am | #

        “I’m single! Unattached! I’m MY OWN MAN.

        …

        Not-ch-yo’s!”

  15. NerdHerder
    NerdHerder
    February 6, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

    FAZ INCOMING

  16. threePwny
    threePwny
    February 6, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

    Dammit Walky, that is a classic symptom of depression! I should know! We’re four weeks into classes and I’ve been to only four German classes! Don’t do it!

  17. Derek
    Derek
    February 6, 2018 at 12:11 am | #

    ah to be able to eat like an 18-year-old again

    • PB
      PB
      February 6, 2018 at 2:32 am | #

      Remember eating cookie dough at 2 in the morning? Yeah, me too.

      • Fart Captor
        Fart Captor
        February 6, 2018 at 7:46 am | #

        Sometimes I would buy a roll of it with no intention of baking it, and just eat it like a candy bar

        • Jordan
          Jordan
          February 6, 2018 at 12:06 pm | #

          I would get a brownie tray (or whatever they’re called), line the bottom with store-bought cookie dough, put Oreos on top of that, then put the brownie mix on top of that and bake it. Absolutely delicious.

  18. nothri
    nothri
    February 6, 2018 at 12:13 am | #

    Dorothy is gonna be pissed is Walky ends up becoming president due to a sugar rushed infused blackout.

    • Stoodmuffin
      Stoodmuffin
      February 6, 2018 at 12:16 am | #

      HA HA HA oh shit that’s actually funny. Rbin might be too though that’s HER gig

    • Stoodmuffin
      Stoodmuffin
      February 6, 2018 at 12:16 am | #

      Robin*

      Also, WHERE did you get your avatar? ???

      • DarkoNeko
        DarkoNeko
        February 6, 2018 at 3:27 am | #

        probably Slipshine

        • Stoodmuffin
          Stoodmuffin
          February 6, 2018 at 3:33 am | #

          my thoughts exactly, I just wasn’t sure I missed a strip or something

          • nothri
            nothri
            February 6, 2018 at 9:44 pm | #

            Slipshine, indeed. It was basically about Billie “helping” Ruth take a shower.

  19. nothri
    nothri
    February 6, 2018 at 12:13 am | #

    IF Walky…

  20. Stoodmuffin
    Stoodmuffin
    February 6, 2018 at 12:15 am | #

    When MIKE is the voice or reason, Walky. MIKE.

    MIIIIIKE.

    Do I have to say it again?

    • Jordan
      Jordan
      February 6, 2018 at 12:07 pm | #

      When he’s doing it and doesn’t have a clear motive to cause pain and misery, then it’s really worrying.

      • Stoodmuffin
        Stoodmuffin
        February 6, 2018 at 12:11 pm | #

        indeed

        • nothri
          nothri
          February 6, 2018 at 9:47 pm | #

          I figure that Mike has a very specific calendar for how he’s going to crush each and every person’s hopes and dreams, and the whole damn schedule will be thrown off if Walky falls into a pattern of self-destructive behavior. Mike must therefore intervene and help Walky out of these doldrums if he is to destroy him later.

  21. Badeyes
    Badeyes
    February 6, 2018 at 12:15 am | #

    If he keeps that up he’ll go from Walky to Waddley…

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      February 6, 2018 at 4:18 am | #

      And then from Waddley to Rolly.

  22. nobodybasically
    nobodybasically
    February 6, 2018 at 12:18 am | #

    I take it Walky also doesn’t believe in pants?

    Otherwise he should be using this break as an opportunity to wear those pajama jeans again.

  23. Marsh Maryrose
    Marsh Maryrose
    February 6, 2018 at 12:28 am | #

    I am guessing that this is probably one of the most autobiographical strips Willis has ever done.

    • Some1
      Some1
      February 6, 2018 at 12:32 am | #

      So just replace Mike with Maggie and classes with Dumbing of Age?

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        February 6, 2018 at 12:35 am | #

        And toddlers.

        • Some1
          Some1
          February 6, 2018 at 1:13 am | #

          Problem Solved!

          • Some1
            Some1
            February 6, 2018 at 1:14 am | #

            https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B_AzEeIGznU

  24. Rukdug
    Rukdug
    February 6, 2018 at 12:28 am | #

    Mike: “Oh fuck he’s gonna make the room reek even worse now.”
    Me: “I hope Mike suffers.”

    • Jordan
      Jordan
      February 6, 2018 at 12:08 pm | #

      If Mike suffers, he’ll make sure to spread it around.

  25. Arianod
    Arianod
    February 6, 2018 at 12:46 am | #

    Well, that was quick.

  26. Ainara
    Ainara
    February 6, 2018 at 12:59 am | #

    Now this storyline name I very much don’t agree with

  27. Some1
    Some1
    February 6, 2018 at 1:05 am | #

    Look I’m sorry but as someone who relishes in the suffering of most of you guys, let me give my reaction to the commenter’s reactions to the storyline title.

    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    You may continue.

  28. newllend(henryvolt)
    newllend(henryvolt)
    February 6, 2018 at 1:06 am | #

    It looks more like your trying to eat your pain away Walky.

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      February 6, 2018 at 4:19 am | #

      Post break-up eating – it’s what most humans do.

  29. kitty
    kitty
    February 6, 2018 at 1:28 am | #

    here is kitty’s finnish word of the day!

    siitin (penis)

    hahahaha

    have a nice day!

    • hof1991
      hof1991
      February 6, 2018 at 8:20 am | #

      https://youtu.be/djpnsqdNabM

      siitin on my own, not by myself.

    • Chronos
      Chronos
      February 6, 2018 at 11:16 am | #

      Perkele…

      (the only Finnish word I knew before I read your comments!) 😛

  30. Someguy
    Someguy
    February 6, 2018 at 1:30 am | #

    Alright Willis, you don’t scare me! You wanna do a fax storyline? WELL BRING IT ON! I’d actually like to see how this plays out

  31. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    February 6, 2018 at 1:31 am | #

    Walky’s regressing back to before his brain recognized object permanence.

    • Eldritch Gentleman
      Eldritch Gentleman
      February 6, 2018 at 5:35 am | #

      This is quite terrifying. Not only was Doty his impulse control but she seems to have been also most of his higher brain functions…

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        February 6, 2018 at 7:26 am | #

        Or you know, depression as a result of a breakup – disguised as “I’m free!”
        Not that uncommon, really.

        Partly why this “pause”, rather than letting them catch up and sort themselves out is likely to leave both of them in worse shape.

        • Eldritch Gentleman
          Eldritch Gentleman
          February 6, 2018 at 8:07 am | #

          Might be it’s just… Walky is so hard to take seriously.

  32. kitty
    kitty
    February 6, 2018 at 1:31 am | #

    how did you find these pictures of me?

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      February 6, 2018 at 6:38 am | #

      Quick! Put masking tape over your webcamera!

  33. @zombieundergrnd
    @zombieundergrnd
    February 6, 2018 at 1:32 am | #

    Doesn’t Walky realize if he fails out Dorothy is going to blame herself for not being there to support him.
    And then when she cracks and never becomes President and the world becomes a flaming fireball, it will be all his fault?

  34. LateCustomer
    LateCustomer
    February 6, 2018 at 1:40 am | #

    Should I be concerned that Mike seems to be giving a sh*t about Walky here?

    • newllend(henryvolt)
      newllend(henryvolt)
      February 6, 2018 at 2:19 am | #

      😨….shit your right, When Mike actaully starts caring you know things are probably really bad.

    • Nono
      Nono
      February 6, 2018 at 6:09 am | #

      More like Mike doesn’t want his room to smell like cheetos and McNuggets all year round.

  35. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    February 6, 2018 at 1:47 am | #

    And now the bed is full of pointy Nachito fragments. That’s why you don’t eat chips in bed, Walky!

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      February 6, 2018 at 5:01 pm | #

      “That’s how you get ants” -Archer

  36. Savail
    Savail
    February 6, 2018 at 1:49 am | #

    *sees name of storyline*
    *sees Valentine’s Day approaching*

    Nope. Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      February 6, 2018 at 9:06 am | #

      You realize, of course, that if Faz shows up on Valentine’s Day… he’ll be coming after Dina.

      After all, Dina tied him up with rope. Faz has watched several Internet videos that indicate this means she desires his body. While Faz has several other potential lovers on his stalking list, his notes indicate that Dina is the most vulnerable, and therefore the most receptive to his advances. Let the wooing commence!

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        February 6, 2018 at 10:38 am | #

        Eh, bring it on.
        Dina can handle him. He tries anything there, he’ll wind up mailed to the Amazon. And that’s if Becky doesn’t get involved.

  37. Coco Pommel
    Coco Pommel
    February 6, 2018 at 1:55 am | #

    …. Why do I get the feeling that even if Mike likes to be a jerk, sometimes, he uses being a jerk as a front to actually be a good guy without copping to it because he likes being seen as a jerk so people don’t expect anything else out of him?

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      February 6, 2018 at 7:27 am | #

      Because Mike is messing with you on a meta level, setting you up to believe he isn’t just a jerk, so that the betrayal when he again reveals that he is will be more painful.

      • Clif
        Clif
        February 7, 2018 at 1:22 am | #

        This.

  38. BenRG
    BenRG
    February 6, 2018 at 1:56 am | #

    I’m guessing one week before Walky either ends up in the Emergency Room or some of his friends need to make an intervention. Either way, I’m expecting a bucket-load of Dorothy angst in response.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      February 6, 2018 at 7:30 am | #

      I wonder if the reaction would be like this if we saw one of the girls respond to a breakup by drowning her sorrows in ice cream. What’s the difference, really?

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        February 6, 2018 at 7:50 am | #

        How much ice cream? Walky looks to have enough junk food for a small Super Bowl party on his bed. And that’s on top of the McNuggets.

      • BenRG
        BenRG
        February 6, 2018 at 11:37 am | #

        If the’d eaten enough to be so clearly nauseous as Walky is in panel 1? Yes, I’d have been just as concerned.

      • Sam
        Sam
        February 6, 2018 at 3:24 pm | #

        If they were doing exactly as Walky is, I would be just as concerned.

        But it would honestly depend on who exactly it was you were referring to.

        Most girls that we know have a friendly relationship with Joyce, who would likely check up on them if she knew they missed a class. Whereas I wouldn’t expect her to check on Walky for a couple of days because they don’t get along as well and honestly, I can’t think of anyone else off the top of my head who would think to check on Walky.

        I wouldn’t have expected Mike to check in on Walky AT ALL even though they are roommates.

        And I don’t expect Walky to really be willing to listen to people either until they actually force him to.

        So like, if they had the exact same style of context as Walky, yeah, I would be just as concerned, but I don’t know any girls personally who while crying over a tub of ice cream wouldn’t contact a parent or a friend or a sibling or would let themselves wallow over it to the point of missing classes.

        Like, the context matters here that Walky is the exact kind of person to let himself wallow and spiral and ignore all the consequences.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          February 6, 2018 at 5:31 pm | #

          It’s the next morning! You don’t know anyone who wouldn’t screw up a night and maybe the next day over a breakup?

          Sure, if he actually wallows and spirals, then it’s an issue. But it hasn’t even been 24 hours. Frankly, I knew quite a few people who would have gone out, gotten plastered and been in much worse shape the next day – but not spiraled into alcoholism. Hell, I’ve done it.

          • Brotato
            Brotato
            February 6, 2018 at 6:51 pm | #

            The point is that Walky’s personality means he very well COULD spiral, hard. He avoids his feelings, his responsibilities, and anything that isn’t easy. If there was a girl in the cast who acted remotely like that – which, there is, her name is Becky, though even she isn’t at Walky’s level of avoidant & irresponsible – and she responded to a breakup in this way, then yes, we’d be just as worried.

            Yes, some of the commenters are overreacting. Yes, it’s only the next morning.

            But that has absolutely nothing to do with his gender.

  39. PB
    PB
    February 6, 2018 at 2:33 am | #

    Walky no don’t do this to yourself.

    I know you’re in mourning/relieved at your imagined freedom but THIS WILL BITE YOU IN THE ASS SO HARD IT’LL SCAR YOU IN YOUR TWENTIES.

  40. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    February 6, 2018 at 2:39 am | #

    Walky may be a slob but he is going to be very NEET if he’s not careful.

    • Chronos
      Chronos
      February 6, 2018 at 11:21 am | #

      cute

  41. acher4
    acher4
    February 6, 2018 at 2:43 am | #

    *Sees the new storyline title
    Oh for f… sake…noooooooooo!!!

    😛

    • Zaxares
      Zaxares
      February 6, 2018 at 5:08 am | #

      Search your feelings. You know it to be true. 😉

  42. Torra
    Torra
    February 6, 2018 at 2:49 am | #

    I don’t understand the new storyline title

    • Sunny
      Sunny
      February 6, 2018 at 3:03 am | #

      It merely states the truth.

      • DarkoNeko
        DarkoNeko
        February 6, 2018 at 3:25 am | #

        Or what Faz think is the truth, anyway

        • Sunny
          Sunny
          February 6, 2018 at 11:18 am | #

          Faz is great, if Faz thinks something is true, it logically follows that it must be true or else Faz wouldn’t think it were true. Logic!

  43. Eldritch Gentleman
    Eldritch Gentleman
    February 6, 2018 at 2:50 am | #

    Damn this is basically a kid version of becoming a hopeless homeless alcoholic O_o

    • hof1991
      hof1991
      February 6, 2018 at 8:23 am | #

      After a college breakup, I did the adult version of that minus the homeless part. I may have done that before the breakup too though.

  44. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    February 6, 2018 at 3:13 am | #

    Well that went down fast.

  45. Stoodmuffin
    Stoodmuffin
    February 6, 2018 at 3:33 am | #

    Oh god I’m not danny i’m WALKY.

  46. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    February 6, 2018 at 4:13 am | #

    Quit while you’re ahead, Walky. That metabolism of yours is going to give way eventually.

  47. Architex
    Architex
    February 6, 2018 at 4:33 am | #

    Got a strong drive to just throw the entire Walky and his sheets in a washing machine

    • Just a Ian
      Just a Ian
      February 6, 2018 at 5:35 am | #

      sounds like a good idea 😛

      • Stoodmuffin
        Stoodmuffin
        February 6, 2018 at 12:37 pm | #

        I can agree to that. Should throw myself in too

  48. Wendylynn
    Wendylynn
    February 6, 2018 at 7:40 am | #

    I was a philosophy major at IU… I’ll just show myself out.

  49. Danny
    Danny
    February 6, 2018 at 9:34 am | #

    Oh geez. This hits way too close to home for me. Freshman year of college, I pretty much let myself go. The next year all my friends had dropped out due to partying and skipping class. I finally found a good crowd and got my shit together, but damn this brings back memories.

  50. Mandy
    Mandy
    February 6, 2018 at 9:43 am | #

    This is actually really nice of Mike. Maybe the makeouts left him in a good mood.

    • Stoodmuffin
      Stoodmuffin
      February 6, 2018 at 12:38 pm | #

      Maybe he’s…. love drunk?

      thank you thank you I’ll see myself out

  51. Wendy
    Wendy
    February 6, 2018 at 10:29 am | #

    Is Mike…concerned?

    Is Ethan rubbing off on him?!

    (Literally and figuratively.)

    • Chronos
      Chronos
      February 6, 2018 at 11:22 am | #

      I suppose Ethan managed to get a rise out of Mike…

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      February 6, 2018 at 11:39 am | #

      It’s difficult to imagine but Mike DOES occasionally care for people. It’s just that his way of expressing it tends towards the backhanded or even openly and counter-productively abusive (his attempt to help Amber comes to mind).

      I think his problem, like lots of people, is that he imagines everyone ultimately thinks the way he does so he always expresses things in the way he’d understand to be helpful.

      • Brotato
        Brotato
        February 6, 2018 at 6:56 pm | #

        You’re the first commenter I’ve seen who seems to grasp that Mike isn’t the literal worst & does care/have emotions, while also not praising his “unique style of helping people.” (Read: abuse.)

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          February 6, 2018 at 9:11 pm | #

          Mike isn’t the literal worst – he’s not Ross or Ryan or Clint or Blaine or even Mary.
          The jury is definitely still out on whether he cares about anyone or anything. There’s been very little sign of it so far.

    • Remmington Steele
      Remmington Steele
      February 6, 2018 at 1:13 pm | #

      Nah.

      This is just the best way to get at Walkie in his current sugar zombie state.

  52. Regalli
    Regalli
    February 6, 2018 at 11:38 am | #

    I missed the storyline title the first time around, but guys it gets worse. Last time we got Faz we also got BLAINE.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      February 6, 2018 at 11:40 am | #

      Blaine is still hospitalised, AFAIK. I’m wondering if this is going to be about Amber trying to be a good sister and helping Faz break away from his control.

      • segnosaur
        segnosaur
        February 6, 2018 at 1:07 pm | #

        I think its been a couple of weeks at least (comic book time) since Amber/Amazigirl beat up Blaine. I suspect that whatever injuries he’s had probably would have healed enough to be discharged.

  53. Remmington Steele
    Remmington Steele
    February 6, 2018 at 1:10 pm | #

    I think, therefore I am
    I’m pink there I’m spam

    *proceeds to eat self

  54. Hari
    Hari
    February 6, 2018 at 1:38 pm | #

    I’ve known people like Walky when I was at IU. They just kind of float and coast and sometimes got themselves into academic trouble.

  55. Ninjamaid
    Ninjamaid
    February 6, 2018 at 4:11 pm | #

    DoA!Mike seems a little less extreme than IW/SP!Mike. Of course, as far as we know he’s never killed anyone, or been a secret agent. Less grand scale asshole and more kind of a jerk, but one that’d put a minimum effort to check up on you. Maybe punch your enemies for you.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      February 6, 2018 at 5:26 pm | #

      Or he’s just an asshole, without even the redeeming feature of helping to save the world.

      But people keep trying to read good into him.

  56. DEG1377
    DEG1377
    February 6, 2018 at 6:44 pm | #

    Goddammit.

    Walky is me…

  57. signalfirefly
    signalfirefly
    February 6, 2018 at 8:51 pm | #

    Showing your age, Willis. They haven’t been called Nacho Cheesier in years.

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      February 6, 2018 at 10:09 pm | #

      …you do realize they’re nachitos, not doritos, in this universe, and so i can call them whatever i want, right

  58. Raibean
    Raibean
    February 6, 2018 at 10:49 pm | #

    I, too, want to be Diogenes when I grow up

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