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by David M Willis on October 13, 2010 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - Move-In Day

└ Tags: danny, dorothy

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  1. MrGBH
    MrGBH
    October 13, 2010 at 12:02 am | #

    It’s about dang time.

  2. agentksilver
    agentksilver
    October 13, 2010 at 12:04 am | #

    The little white dots by her head made me think that the last two panels were imaginary.

    But good for Dorothy! She did not beat around the bush. Good girl!

    • R
      R
      October 13, 2010 at 12:28 am | #

      Yeah, it’s too bad they’re streetlights… I don’t know why, I think I just don’t like it when characters break up. Oh well, it was kind of coming from the get go.

      • Trae Dorn
        Trae Dorn
        October 13, 2010 at 7:19 am | #

        Sometimes breakups are for the best.

        There are a few times in my own life where I would say that getting dumped was the best thing that could have happened.

        • R
          R
          October 13, 2010 at 2:53 pm | #

          Yeah. At least she didn’t drag it out. It’s horrible when those things drag on and on.

          • No0ne
            No0ne
            October 15, 2010 at 2:02 am | #

            My first girlfriend avoided me for a week before she got u the nerve to break up with me… OVER THE PHONE… seriously… get guts

    • JDavis
      JDavis
      October 13, 2010 at 6:05 am | #

      You have now left the entire remainder of the comic up to the interpretation of “this is all in Dorothy’s head as she imagines what will happen if she actually breaks up with Danny”

      … Good job.

      • JDavis
        JDavis
        October 13, 2010 at 6:07 am | #

        (Also, Garfield is dead)

        • Jenny Creed
          Jenny Creed
          July 19, 2013 at 3:07 pm | #

          No no, Garfield is slowly going insane trapped in an abandoned building.
          See http://garfield.com/comics/vault.html?yr=1989&addr=891023 and the following five strips.

          Meanwhile, this comment thread feels like the comic is trying to gaslight us. That’s a first.

      • Kas
        Kas
        October 13, 2010 at 7:37 am | #

        Well, great. That’s how I’ll be reading it now.

    • Raistandantilus
      Raistandantilus
      October 13, 2010 at 9:10 am | #

      If it really were all in her head, that would make the ‘Through the Looking-Glass’ reference that much more appropriate.

  3. Jabberwocky
    Jabberwocky
    October 13, 2010 at 12:07 am | #

    Poor Danny.

    His soul just got crushed.

    • Tomb
      Tomb
      October 13, 2010 at 12:30 am | #

      He doesnt even realize it yet though. So its gonna go on for a bit longer…

      • hobotron
        hobotron
        October 13, 2010 at 12:50 am | #

        Well, we can only hope Danny doesn’t get his bike stolen anytime soon, or else his soul really will be crushed.

        • Rowen Morland
          Rowen Morland
          October 13, 2010 at 10:41 am | #

          Maybe Sal will steal it…

  4. David Herbert
    David Herbert
    October 13, 2010 at 12:09 am | #

    Well, quick like ripping off an old band-aid. Good for her, but I hope she does allow him some closure if he needs it. Though he might start stalking her.

    • kommunaut
      kommunaut
      October 13, 2010 at 12:23 am | #

      START stalking her? He followed her to her school!

      • MrGBH
        MrGBH
        October 13, 2010 at 12:27 am | #

        And he pretty much just told her his greatest desire is for her to give up her dreams and stay with him for her entire life.

  5. Tomb
    Tomb
    October 13, 2010 at 12:31 am | #

    From one Dan to another I should slap him over the head.

  6. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    October 13, 2010 at 12:52 am | #

    Bummer. 🙁

  7. Katosen
    Katosen
    October 13, 2010 at 1:48 am | #

    Ooo, Danny, you should have thought that saying through or not have said it at all.

  8. Shifter Comic
    Shifter Comic
    October 13, 2010 at 2:06 am | #

    Yeah I gotta be honest, I was with Danny up until he said “Maybe you’ll change your mind.” I would’ve dumped him if I were her based on that line of reasoning alone.

  9. Chad from Canada
    Chad from Canada
    October 13, 2010 at 3:05 am | #

    Yeah… With a girl like that, who has been talking about going to an Ivy league school her whole life… You just don’t say that shit… That’s a special kind of stupid right there. I hope they still don’t make em that stupid in this reality… Or were all hooped… Completely, absolutely, positively, out-and-out BONED… The future is grim ladies and gentlemen…

    • Milosh
      Milosh
      October 13, 2010 at 5:28 am | #

      It’s called being young… we all get to be stupid for a while.

  10. Kamino Neko
    Kamino Neko
    October 13, 2010 at 3:26 am | #

    I was all set to feel bad for poor, Dumbass Danny…then he went and said that stuff in the first panel…

  11. SP!Reader
    SP!Reader
    October 13, 2010 at 5:12 am | #

    Let me see if I got this straight: Dorothy has obviously been thinking about breaking up with Danny for a while, but instead of doing it before, she waits until he has already enrolled in the same college as her and then simply kicks him aside just because he DARES to “stand in the way” of her going to Yale – and people think Danny’s the one in the wrong?
    He’s definitely naive, maybe even a bit dumb, but Dorothy was kind of a jerk here. There were much better ways for her to go about breaking up with him than this.

    • MrGBH
      MrGBH
      October 13, 2010 at 10:46 am | #

      I agree that Dorothy’s a coward, but don’t forget that Danny’s a pathetic clinger. It’s just that realisation’s finally hit Dorothy and she’s decided the misery of guilt over crushing Dannys soul is better than the misery of Danny crushing her soul.

      • Chad from Canada
        Chad from Canada
        October 13, 2010 at 1:05 pm | #

        Truth be told, given Danny’s personality, I would bet that if she broke up with him before hand… He’d have followed her anyways, clinging to the chance that they would still end up together.

    • wynne
      wynne
      October 17, 2013 at 1:39 pm | #

      No, fuck Danny. She clearly didn’t expect him to follow her, she clearly didn’t want him to follow her, but she also didn’t want to be the “bongo” who dumped him. So she put it off, because she felt guilty.

      She’s been trying to break up with him for months. Danny’s just too self-absorbed to realize it.

  12. Aeron
    Aeron
    October 13, 2010 at 6:57 am | #

    Only a girl could become angry in the face of such optimism and hopefulness.

    • Trae Dorn
      Trae Dorn
      October 13, 2010 at 7:13 am | #

      Umm no. Most people would be mad if the person who supposedly loved them’s greatest hope was that you’d give up on your dreams.

      Seriously.

      • Kas
        Kas
        October 13, 2010 at 7:39 am | #

        I don’t know, I didn’t really view it as Dan meaning it that way, though… he’s too stupid to realize that’s what it can come off as. He just doesn’t see why this one school isn’t good enough.

      • Aeron
        Aeron
        October 13, 2010 at 3:49 pm | #

        Why is it Danny’s fault if she’s there voluntarily? All he did was hope that she’d enjoy being there with him so much she’s stay.

        Dorothy on the other hand just made the little time she intends to spend there (Barring unforeseen problems) very very difficult for both of them.

        Tell me again, who’s being childish here?

        • Trae Dorn
          Trae Dorn
          October 13, 2010 at 9:07 pm | #

          I didn’t say Dorothy was the pinnacle of maturity either

        • wynne
          wynne
          October 17, 2013 at 1:51 pm | #

          So you think she shouldn’t break up with him because…. it’s difficult? More difficult than going through the motions of a relationship she doesn’t want for at least two years? People break up all the time.

  13. XtraLargeRyan
    XtraLargeRyan
    October 13, 2010 at 7:33 am | #

    Woah. Did I miss something? :/

    I probably suck like that. Why did she just dump him?

    • beeftony
      beeftony
      October 13, 2010 at 11:27 am | #

      You apparently missed the last two strips.

      • captainswift
        captainswift
        October 13, 2010 at 11:59 am | #

        Actually, every strip Dorothy has been in since she was introduced. It’s what she’s been wanting since we’ve met her.

  14. MarkLar
    MarkLar
    October 13, 2010 at 7:45 am | #

    He needs some quality bro time to get through this.
    Then Joe bangs dorothy, thus breaking the code of bro and friendships are ruined through the entirety of university. sighs. what would life be without a little drama?

    • Wackd
      Wackd
      October 13, 2010 at 5:41 pm | #

      Fun.

  15. Joebo
    Joebo
    October 13, 2010 at 7:55 am | #

    I think now is a good time for my relationship predictions for this universe:
    DannyXJoyce
    WalkyXBillie
    JoeXevery girl not yet mentioned

    • n8
      n8
      October 13, 2010 at 8:04 am | #

      Joyce with anyone but Walky would just seem so wrong. Alternate reality or no, it just feels bad to contemplate.

      • beeftony
        beeftony
        October 13, 2010 at 11:29 am | #

        It’s not that they can’t end up together in the end, but it would be boring to put them together right away. But then I’m one of those people who likes experimenting with weird pairings (Joe/Ruth FTW).

      • Suzushiiro
        Suzushiiro
        October 13, 2010 at 1:04 pm | #

        Agreed that it would feel wrong. The other Walkyverse couples, yeah, I don’t think it’d be a big deal to pair them differently, but J&W have gotten way too much material dedicated to their pairing to pair them differently here.

        I can see them becoming the beta couple (look it up on tvtropes) of this universe, precisely because making them go through a billion trials as a couple in this universe too would be retreading old ground.

    • Kyle
      Kyle
      October 13, 2010 at 10:19 am | #

      Honestly i think DannyxRuth would be awesome.
      Some times the spineless need someone hardcore to straighten them out.

      • Tomb
        Tomb
        October 14, 2010 at 12:35 am | #

        Literally if he was with Ruth.

        • thatgirlwiththeglasses
          thatgirlwiththeglasses
          December 22, 2010 at 3:37 pm | #

          I’d like to see that! 😀

    • MrGBH
      MrGBH
      October 13, 2010 at 10:47 am | #

      What about Joe and Roz? I think that would work.

      • agentksilver
        agentksilver
        October 13, 2010 at 1:46 pm | #

        Oh, new OTP!

    • thatgirlwiththeglasses
      thatgirlwiththeglasses
      December 22, 2010 at 3:54 pm | #

      I’d actually like to see WalkyXBillie…temporarily, anyway.

  16. n8
    n8
    October 13, 2010 at 8:02 am | #

    Dorothy get’s Joe’d in 3…2…1…

  17. Emily
    Emily
    October 13, 2010 at 8:06 am | #

    Ok, I get it now. Besides everything annoying about Danny, he straight up doesn’t take her seriously.

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      October 13, 2010 at 10:47 am | #

      I would have put it “Dorothy takes herself way too you gotta be kidding it’s not all about you seriously.”

  18. Leaflet
    Leaflet
    October 13, 2010 at 8:52 am | #

    Is it me or is Danny somehow managing to be more messed up than Joyce in this incarnation?

    • Suzushiiro
      Suzushiiro
      October 13, 2010 at 12:54 pm | #

      Yeah, relative to Roomies it seems like they toned down Joyce a bit and shifted what they took from her over to Danny.

      • R
        R
        October 13, 2010 at 4:16 pm | #

        Maybe. I remember Roomies’ Danny being pretty love-struck, but it was with Sal. It didn’t come up much because she wasn’t there.

        • Wackd
          Wackd
          October 13, 2010 at 5:39 pm | #

          He also took it kind of hard when she broke it off with him over the phone.

  19. Deviltrig
    Deviltrig
    October 13, 2010 at 9:03 am | #

    Danny seems a little less devastated at first than I had hoped… can’t wait for the Danny angst

  20. ziggy78eog
    ziggy78eog
    October 13, 2010 at 9:15 am | #

    I like the second panel. Dorothy finally realizes that any long-winded, apologetic goodbyes will not work; she knows she just has to say, and just walk away.

    And now with that over with, how long until Dorothy gets “Joe’d”?

    • agentksilver
      agentksilver
      October 13, 2010 at 1:47 pm | #

      Thirty minutes. I’m assuming this is happening at exactly 7:30, so…year, 8:00 it will happen.

  21. Zudarkness
    Zudarkness
    October 13, 2010 at 9:34 am | #

    That was quick. Danny can be a little slow on things expecially when it comes to relationships… One should never spend lots of money on college so they can stau with one girl.

  22. Piccolo
    Piccolo
    October 13, 2010 at 9:37 am | #

    Dorothy could always go to Yale as a grad student. That’s waaaay more likely than her getting in as a transfer student anyway – they take very few transfers every year.

    Also, I think she would have taken Danny’s comment much better if she hadn’t already been annoyed with him and wanted to break up. “I want to be with you” is generally not such a bad thing to hear when you’re hearing it from someone you want to be with, too.

  23. Drpepperfan
    Drpepperfan
    October 13, 2010 at 10:32 am | #

    Wow Dorothy, you are such a bongo.

    • beeftony
      beeftony
      October 13, 2010 at 11:32 am | #

      In fairness, Danny is a clingy idiot who can’t see things from anyone’s point of view but his own and assumes the rest of the world does too. Doesn’t mean he can’t change, but it takes something like this to bring that about.

      So no matter how you slice it, this relationship was doomed from the start.

      • Drpepperfan
        Drpepperfan
        October 13, 2010 at 12:34 pm | #

        It’s not so muh the breaking up, but the way she does it. Getting angry faced, telling him they’ve broke up in one sentence and then walking off? Now that is nasty.

        • beeftony
          beeftony
          October 13, 2010 at 9:00 pm | #

          Danny just suggested that she give up her own dreams so she would fit in with his fantasy. That anger is perfectly justified.

  24. Stephen
    Stephen
    October 13, 2010 at 10:53 am | #

    Finally! This is the moment Danny’s soul snaps like a Twix bar! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! face
    I’ve been waiting for this for so long.

    • beeftony
      beeftony
      October 13, 2010 at 11:33 am | #

      You’re enjoying this a little too much.

      And I don’t see his soul snapping yet.

      • Stephen
        Stephen
        October 13, 2010 at 2:46 pm | #

        You don’t say it while it’s snapping, the idea is that you announce that it’s going to snap and then it does and it is glorious.

    • gk
      gk
      October 13, 2010 at 9:17 pm | #

      comments like these with an avatar of a character’s face makes me assume that that’s what their personality is like sinc ei dont’ know them as well XP

  25. Chad from Canada
    Chad from Canada
    October 13, 2010 at 1:09 pm | #

    I think Dorothy may be too smart to get Joe’d… Too much self confidence… But of course, that ain’t gonna stop Joe from trying… Repeatedly…

  26. Protonos
    Protonos
    October 13, 2010 at 3:25 pm | #

    >__< She had to be more specific. that was not clear enough why they were through!! He's a weird guy though lol

  27. Cha
    Cha
    October 13, 2010 at 6:27 pm | #

    Dorothy might wanna clarify that a little. Saying “We’re through” could just mean “We’re through with this conversation”, if you’re not thinking of it as the break-up sense.
    Of course, if I met a guy like Danny, I probably wouldn’t have gone out with him in the first place.

  28. Ragnal
    Ragnal
    October 13, 2010 at 8:08 pm | #

    Seriously? I think it’s pretty clear when someone in a relationship tells the other person they’re through, it’s done with. the relationship’s over.

    And my god, I can’t believe Danny doesn’t get it either. Never thought I’d use this Linkara quote, but…”THIS! IS MY CLUE STICK!” *THWACK! THWACK! THWACK!*

  29. night walker
    night walker
    October 13, 2010 at 8:57 pm | #

    hey just wanted to say good work on the spin of from joyce and walkey I can’t wait to see sal!!! scince in joyce and walkey she’s the complete oppisite of a christian catholic girl

  30. Jonathan Russell
    Jonathan Russell
    October 13, 2010 at 9:51 pm | #

    Looks like Danny is….. Down in the dumps.
    YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

  31. Freyre
    Freyre
    October 13, 2010 at 10:01 pm | #

    I think the next strip will be mike telling danny that he fucked Dorothy when he blinked and now he’s going to Danny’s mom’s place

  32. Shift
    Shift
    October 14, 2010 at 4:27 am | #

    This is just sad. I mean on one level its sweet that Danny supposedly cares enough about Dorothy to believe they’ll always be together, but on the other hand, he way to immature. Dorothy has plans for her life, and Danny assumes that she’ll be willing to pass those up for a high-school relationship.

    And honestly, he can’t be that dumb.

    • Jonathan Russell
      Jonathan Russell
      October 14, 2010 at 9:04 pm | #

      He never asked her to pass up her plans, he asked her to include him in her plans.

      • Shift
        Shift
        October 15, 2010 at 1:49 am | #

        He’s not asking it upfront, no, but that’s because he’s being passive aggressive about it. Subtle remarks hinting at what he REALLY wants.

        He’s suggested to her that she’ll change her plans and want to stay there because of him. Its not hard to miss the subtle hints and back-hand way he’s essentially saying “you should totally stay her because of me”.

        He wants to spend their lives together and feels that personal ambitions and dreams are secondary to being together. If she were to forgo her greatest ambition, he would be totally fine with it. He’s afraid to move on, and is using their relationship and his comfort zone.

  33. DeWeese07
    DeWeese07
    March 9, 2011 at 5:20 pm | #

    just blasted through the back logs of SHORTPACKED and am now reading this comic… love your work Mr. Willis!

    p.s. Dorothy and Amber could be twins! 😀

  34. KORF
    KORF
    December 21, 2011 at 11:02 pm | #

    Please tell me that was a reference to the band Through the Eyes of the Dead.

  35. fabforest
    fabforest
    August 10, 2014 at 12:12 pm | #

    that death stare on panel 2

  36. RandomPerson12
    RandomPerson12
    October 15, 2014 at 8:59 pm | #

    I cant’s tell who is more of an idiot: Walky or Danny

  37. nothri
    nothri
    November 6, 2014 at 6:37 pm | #

    Say what you will about Danny, this was a really crappy way of ending things.

  38. chris73
    chris73
    May 12, 2015 at 6:12 pm | #

    Interesting to go back and re-read these comics especially since Dorothy herself is starting have doubts so Danny was kinda right all along

  39. Mousa The 14
    Mousa The 14
    March 31, 2016 at 10:07 am | #

    Hey Danny, there’s this huge river in Egypt I need you to look up to describe yoiu right now.

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