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September 28, 2023

Drama

by David M Willis on November 9, 2010 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - Uphill From Here

└ Tags: dorothy, sarah

Discussion (85) ¬

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  1. Qaxis
    Qaxis
    November 9, 2010 at 12:01 am | #

    I’m pretty sure she already messed that rule up.

    • Alice Macher
      Alice Macher
      November 9, 2010 at 12:09 am | #

      Yup. The drama tag came pre-pulled. As Willis said during Dorothy’s breakup arc:

      Oh, drama will be frequent. And of course it’s early, so nobody can go all crying that Dumbing of Age used to not be about drama and can we bring the jokes back?

    • David Herbert
      David Herbert
      November 9, 2010 at 1:37 am | #

      But Sarah, she could be a friend. You don’t want to be stuck with Joyce, do you?

      • No0ne
        No0ne
        November 9, 2010 at 2:27 pm | #

        I’d take Joyce anyday over Dorothy…

        • Dahlia
          Dahlia
          November 10, 2010 at 12:01 am | #

          seconded!

          • The Other Mike
            The Other Mike
            January 26, 2015 at 5:12 am | #

            I’d take Ruth over both of them. No, I do not mean either of them. I mean both of them.

  2. Cassidy
    Cassidy
    November 9, 2010 at 12:08 am | #

    Oh blonde amber, your so much fun to make fun of (in my head)

    • Darth Cariss
      Darth Cariss
      November 9, 2010 at 12:14 am | #

      Maybe one day I’ll be able to look at her and not say “Blonde Amber?” right away before realizing who it is.

      • Matt
        Matt
        November 9, 2010 at 12:51 am | #

        I can’t wait for a Halloween comic where Amber and Dorothy put on blonde and brown wigs respectively and accidentally trade lives.

        • No0ne
          No0ne
          November 9, 2010 at 2:26 pm | #

          That would never work, Dorothy has ears!

    • Ragnal
      Ragnal
      November 9, 2010 at 12:30 am | #

      Dorothy’s hair isn’t all one big thing of hair and has style to it anyway, so I don’t see how it’s all that much like Amber’s at all.

      • Trent
        Trent
        November 9, 2010 at 1:43 am | #

        It’s mostly the glasses.

    • Chris
      Chris
      November 9, 2010 at 12:39 am | #

      I wish that they each had different styled glasses at least O_o

      • Cassidy
        Cassidy
        November 9, 2010 at 1:09 pm | #

        its the eyebrows. im sure of it.
        or maybe the nose.
        but probably the shape of her head.

        • Cassidy
          Cassidy
          November 9, 2010 at 1:10 pm | #

          OH MY GAWSH. I GOT SAL ON THE PC AND BILLIE ON MY IPOD. LIFE=COMPLETE.

          • XtraLargeRyan
            XtraLargeRyan
            November 9, 2010 at 1:25 pm | #

            better save the icon so you can use it once it hanges then :/

          • XtraLargeRyan
            XtraLargeRyan
            November 9, 2010 at 1:26 pm | #

            changes. I meant changes.

          • Pagannerd
            Pagannerd
            November 9, 2010 at 8:45 pm | #

            Wait, what?You can do that? How? Please, Just incase I get a good avatar.

  3. Dave Van Domelen
    Dave Van Domelen
    November 9, 2010 at 12:17 am | #

    This table reserved for college drama.

    • dchorror
      dchorror
      November 9, 2010 at 8:48 am | #

      College is about half teenager. It’s the adult drama table.

  4. Bickendan
    Bickendan
    November 9, 2010 at 12:30 am | #

    Oh, poor Sarah… she’s going to get dragged into all teh Drama(tm) whether she wants to be or not.

    • No0ne
      No0ne
      November 9, 2010 at 2:28 pm | #

      Kicking and screaming all the way…

      • Rusty_Unycorn
        Rusty_Unycorn
        November 9, 2010 at 10:09 pm | #

        In the FAAAACCCCCEEEEE!

  5. JackNapier
    JackNapier
    November 9, 2010 at 12:39 am | #

    Y’know, I keep forgetting that this is still only Day 2 in their universe.

  6. LurkerAbove
    LurkerAbove
    November 9, 2010 at 1:09 am | #

    You know, I remember reading about not wanting to draw characters in green (due to Shortpacked! influence), then now I see two characters, plus the mess hall, in greeeeeeeeeeeen. It’s a green world. 😛

    • Chad from Canada
      Chad from Canada
      November 9, 2010 at 2:38 am | #

      Its not Shortpacked green though, so its ok. More of a dark, forest green rather than the Bathroom Porcelain green…

      • Confuzor
        Confuzor
        November 9, 2010 at 12:25 pm | #

        Still, it was pretty obvious that this strip was brought to us by the letter “green”.

  7. Pariah Jones
    Pariah Jones
    November 9, 2010 at 1:30 am | #

    Is that Amber eating with Ethan in the background?

    • Someone
      Someone
      November 9, 2010 at 1:37 am | #

      Looks more like Ruth sitting with a possibly Ethan, and an extra/girl I don’t recognize.

      • Kamino Neko
        Kamino Neko
        November 9, 2010 at 2:10 am | #

        Ruth’s hair is red and squarish, this girl’s is brown and roundish, like Amber’s.

        The same goes for their glasses.

        Also, without assuming the girl is Amber, assuming the dude is Ethan becomes something of a non sequitur…. (Actually, even assuming it IS Amber, the head seems too narrow to be Ethan’s.)

        • Kamino Neko
          Kamino Neko
          November 9, 2010 at 2:28 am | #

          On the other hand, it’s too long for Amber. So…probably nobody we know.

          • Eolirin
            Eolirin
            November 9, 2010 at 2:53 am | #

            Everyone seems to think it’s a girl, but could it be Alex?: http://www.itswalky.com/d/20040328.html

            Last panel in this one looks very similar, though the hair is a bit redder: http://www.itswalky.com/d/20040329.html

          • Kamino Neko
            Kamino Neko
            November 9, 2010 at 8:48 am | #

            Oh, now, that could be. Hair isn’t quite matching on colour, yes, but it’s got the right general shape and length, and the glasses are…well, at least as right as can be guessed at from the quarter-face view…

          • David
            David M Willis
            November 9, 2010 at 8:53 am | #

            I would think Alex’s most distinguishing characteristic would be the computer screen in front of his face.

          • Drpepperfan
            Drpepperfan
            November 9, 2010 at 11:52 am | #

            Alex was a cool character, shame he didn’t get more screentime, here’s hoping for more in DoA!

      • skies
        skies
        November 9, 2010 at 1:04 pm | #

        I’m convinced the person in the blue shirt is a Sokka cameo.

        (I mean, of course it’s not, but I choose to believe anyway. o3o)

  8. Beachfox
    Beachfox
    November 9, 2010 at 1:38 am | #

    Is that Sidney Yus in the background there?

    I’m going purely by hairbun on that one.

    • Trent
      Trent
      November 9, 2010 at 1:42 am | #

      That looks NOTHING like Sidney. Sidney is black. That girl is tannish/yellowish. Also, Sidney’s hair is some crazy ponytail.

  9. Trent
    Trent
    November 9, 2010 at 1:40 am | #

    I cant decide if I like Phoebe or not.

    • Trent
      Trent
      November 9, 2010 at 1:41 am | #

      Ugh, Not Phoebe. Dorothy. Why did I call her Phoebe?!

      • Trae Dorn
        Trae Dorn
        November 9, 2010 at 7:50 am | #

        Because no one told you life was gonna be this way. Your life’s a joke, you’re broke, you’re love life’s D.O.A.

        …see what I did there?

        • beeftony
          beeftony
          November 9, 2010 at 11:46 pm | #

          *clapclapclapclap*

  10. Shifter Comic
    Shifter Comic
    November 9, 2010 at 2:49 am | #

    This is more in response to Monday’s comic, but something I observed when I was in college was that people who spent all their time doing drugs and drinking and shrugging off their studies weren’t back for their sophomore year. And don’t get me wrong, there was BIG difference between people who did pot and drank on the weekends and the people who made it their life’s passion. But despite the image TV and Movies give of college being one big party, if you didn’t put in the actual WORK your classes required, the schools wouldn’t put up with you. I had a roommate who decided he just didn’t feel like going to class anymore, reasoning that, “I paid for the semester. They won’t kick me out.” Well… the fine print said they COULD, and after two weeks of playing hookey he was expelled and evicted from the dorms. Chances are, Sarah’s roommate wouldn’t have been back the next year weather she had narced on her or not,

    • dchorror
      dchorror
      November 9, 2010 at 8:53 am | #

      But we don’t know who Sarah’s previous roommate is. For all we know, she was rooming with the type of person who could function while intoxicated.

  11. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    November 9, 2010 at 3:34 am | #

    Save your drama for your mama!

    Sorry, can’t resist. 😛

  12. Drpepperfan
    Drpepperfan
    November 9, 2010 at 3:57 am | #

    OMGTHEYLOVEEACHOTHERSARAHXDOROTHYFTWLOL

    • Joebo
      Joebo
      November 9, 2010 at 7:58 am | #

      //smack//

  13. Lulhut
    Lulhut
    November 9, 2010 at 5:00 am | #

    You fool! You’ve created a time paradox!

    • Joebo
      Joebo
      November 9, 2010 at 9:24 am | #

      you see, that’s why I don’t write time-travel stories. Paradox’s annoy the crap out of me.

  14. Joebo
    Joebo
    November 9, 2010 at 8:03 am | #

    You know, I’m cool with the whole, lets go to another group once these people have reached their destination thing. But I was kinda hoping to get to see who their prof was.

    • David
      David M Willis
      November 9, 2010 at 8:54 am | #

      You will. This is just an intermission.

    • dchorror
      dchorror
      November 9, 2010 at 8:56 am | #

      Time to start the pool on when we will see the first professor and who it might be, if not a new character.

      • begbert2
        begbert2
        November 9, 2010 at 10:42 am | #

        Five internet bucks on RoboVac!

      • Drpepperfan
        Drpepperfan
        November 9, 2010 at 11:51 am | #

        Im betting it’s Les. Or Robin!

        • Kamino Neko
          Kamino Neko
          November 9, 2010 at 5:30 pm | #

          They’re at math, and we’ve already seen Les is an English prof (in that crossover strip). Robin as a prof is problematic with Roz as a freshman. (A decade age difference is not impossible, but it’d be unusual without a few other siblings between.)

      • No0ne
        No0ne
        November 9, 2010 at 2:15 pm | #

        My money is on Jason, I’ve heard/been promoting rumors he’s the professor of math.

      • dchorror
        dchorror
        November 9, 2010 at 2:33 pm | #

        It helps to actually bet something, like Begbert2 did.

    • Gianni
      Gianni
      November 9, 2010 at 6:01 pm | #

      Professor Doc? Just a thought.

      • Akilika
        Akilika
        November 9, 2010 at 6:34 pm | #

        I’m kind of hoping for Professor Doc to be a professor! But I forget which class this is supposed to be, so it might not make sense.

  15. ziggy78eog
    ziggy78eog
    November 9, 2010 at 9:15 am | #

    It has been my experience that there is no such thing as a “Teenage Drama Free Zone” anywhere on a college campus. This is especially true with underclassmen. The only way to escape the drama, on any regular basis, is to live off campus.

    • Osaru Sensei
      Osaru Sensei
      November 9, 2010 at 9:33 am | #

      True dat.

    • Akilika
      Akilika
      November 9, 2010 at 6:36 pm | #

      On the other hand, it is occasionally *hilarious*. Particularly when you get a couple of folks together to complain about how person X is such a bongo because she acts like a friend to your face but then talks about you behind your back. 😛

  16. Joebo
    Joebo
    November 9, 2010 at 9:20 am | #

    Is it weird that I had a dream about Dina trying on hats last night?

    • Osaru Sensei
      Osaru Sensei
      November 9, 2010 at 9:40 am | #

      … Only slightly.

      • No0ne
        No0ne
        November 9, 2010 at 2:23 pm | #

        Hey he could be dreaming about her trying on dinasaur (yes that is a lame pun indeed) undergarments…

  17. Zem
    Zem
    November 9, 2010 at 11:41 am | #

    As the jester said to the king: “Then how’d YOU get to sit in that chair?”

  18. Rowen Morland
    Rowen Morland
    November 9, 2010 at 11:48 am | #

    Urgh, I always recoil from Sarah’s character.

    • Drpepperfan
      Drpepperfan
      November 9, 2010 at 11:50 am | #

      I’m the same way, but with Dorothy instead.

    • Xelgaex
      Xelgaex
      November 9, 2010 at 9:38 pm | #

      Yeah I’ve kind of felt that way since she was introduced. I mean enthusiastic Christian roommates might be a little annoying. And I’ve been trying to assume that the druggie roommate really was a problem. But I’m starting to think she might just be a jerk.

  19. XtraLargeRyan
    XtraLargeRyan
    November 9, 2010 at 1:23 pm | #

    do i sense a friendship coming on? 😀

  20. Richie9999
    Richie9999
    November 9, 2010 at 1:28 pm | #

    You’d think that all of that high school drama would stay behind once you graduated and were at college but sadly it is not so.

    • dchorror
      dchorror
      November 9, 2010 at 2:36 pm | #

      Sure it does. That’s when you get involved in the college drama. Like your roommate turning you in for drugs instead of your parents turning you in for drugs.

    • JackNapier
      JackNapier
      November 9, 2010 at 5:39 pm | #

      Most of it stays behind if you let it. If you take it with you when you leave though, well, that’s just your own damn fault.

  21. Shift
    Shift
    November 9, 2010 at 2:38 pm | #

    I’m totally with Sarah on this. I LOATHE pointless drama, especially when people try putting me in the middle of it or bring it to me. She didn’t even give an introduction. Just sits down and starts talking about boyfriend drama.

    But I get the feeling that Sarah is like me, in that everyone comes to us with their drama for some unknown reason.

    • Dahlia
      Dahlia
      November 9, 2010 at 11:58 pm | #

      s: Yeah, I agree that is kinda rude….

  22. Jabberwocky
    Jabberwocky
    November 9, 2010 at 2:49 pm | #

    I didn’t know Olive Oyl went to IU.

    • Jabberwocky
      Jabberwocky
      November 9, 2010 at 10:53 pm | #

      No, seriously, now I wanna see a DOA Popeye.

  23. Tiger
    Tiger
    November 9, 2010 at 5:33 pm | #

    Silly, Sarah. The only drama-free table, teenage or otherwise, is an empty table!

    • dchorror
      dchorror
      November 10, 2010 at 12:09 am | #

      But then the table is lonely. Is that not drama?

  24. benenator
    benenator
    November 9, 2010 at 6:14 pm | #

    Green goop will make anyone cranky if it isn’t prepared right. 8~J

    Especially your mom’s FAAAAAAAACCCCEEE. When it was made from her femurs. For a nickel.

    • TexasNinjaBuzzard
      TexasNinjaBuzzard
      November 10, 2010 at 2:47 am | #

      Man, you’re gonna look like friggin’ Nostradamus if Willis tosses up the fanart I sent him last week.

      …Whiiiile he was at a convention, which occurs to me now was probably not the best time to send him anything.

      • benenator
        benenator
        November 11, 2010 at 1:06 am | #

        Nostradamus? The Man of A Million History Channel Biographies?

        Heck no.

        However . . . fanart link please? 8~D

  25. JesseJanitect
    JesseJanitect
    November 9, 2010 at 6:34 pm | #

    Random thought: Wouldn’t Joyce make a hilarious GodGoth?

  26. Dahlia
    Dahlia
    November 9, 2010 at 8:23 pm | #

    Gosh I feel like such a nerd: My good friend and I had this whole huge debate about Dorothy.

    She thinks Dorothy is innocent and impressionable and ponders how she could not know about the Head Alien and Semme (since sge thinks Dorothy sounds too good to actually listen to the main antagonist unless she didn’t know he was the main antagonist)

    I think shes vulnerable and possibly knew (or should have known) something! I mean, even if she didn’t….a small alien telling you your middle-school crushs future wife will kill him shoulda rang some bells!

    I think the head alien is a lying SoB and making that BS up :/ but alas, Dorothy is impressionable and vulnerable, so listening to him in her state of mind is sort of like doing something stupid while runk or something…

  27. nothri
    nothri
    November 6, 2014 at 7:27 pm | #

    🙂 I like Sarah a lot more in this universe.

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