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Elf

by David M Willis on December 27, 2011 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - Pajama Jeans
└ Tags: amber, ethan, mike

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    December 27, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

    She was an elf.

    Then she took an arrow to the knee.

    • meanderling
      meanderling
      December 27, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

      OH NOOOOO–
      *explodes*

    • Mkvenner
      Mkvenner
      December 27, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

      That joke is getting old.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        December 27, 2011 at 12:07 am | #

        Only getting old? It got old over 9000 hours ago.

        • ShadowWing Tronix
          ShadowWing Tronix
          December 27, 2011 at 12:11 am | #

          OK, you just made a baby cry.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            December 27, 2011 at 12:19 am | #

            Baby Jesus?

            OH MY!

            • Rex Hondo
              Rex Hondo
              December 27, 2011 at 2:01 am | #

              If it’s actually Jesus, then you should totally have him take a look at that knee.

        • Tucker
          Tucker
          December 27, 2011 at 5:09 am | #

          You sure it wasn’t 1006?

      • Mkvenner
        Mkvenner
        December 27, 2011 at 12:20 am | #

        I should know, I took a frying pan to the knee.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          December 27, 2011 at 12:37 am | #

          Better your knee than your femur, you need those to live.

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          December 27, 2011 at 12:55 am | #

          Oh yeah? Well I took a door to the knee.

          • NakedDumblydore
            NakedDumblydore
            December 27, 2011 at 1:01 am | #

            I took a glass coffee table to the knee. Y’know, after I put the rest of my leg through it.

          • Bickendan
            Bickendan
            December 27, 2011 at 2:40 am | #

            One of my friends was riding a horse who spooked, dropped him, dragged him and he ended up taking a brick wall to the knee 10 years ago.

            It still hasn’t fully healed.

            • TSED
              TSED
              December 27, 2011 at 8:08 am | #

              My dad took a hockey goal post to the knee over 40 years ago. He still has a limp.

              • Animal
                Animal
                December 27, 2011 at 11:13 am | #

                12 gauge to the knee, 35 years ago.

          • shadowsneakz
            shadowsneakz
            September 30, 2015 at 1:08 pm | #

            O Rly? I got a kick to the knee. By my friend. I was pissing him off.

        • Mkvenner
          Mkvenner
          December 27, 2011 at 4:10 am | #

          Wow no one got the TF2 reference.

          • Mkvenner
            Mkvenner
            December 27, 2011 at 4:57 am | #

            I took jarate to the other knee.

            • Tucker
              Tucker
              December 27, 2011 at 5:07 am | #

              Boink!

            • Pickle
              Pickle
              December 27, 2011 at 12:02 pm | #

              I would take a Jarate to the knee, but I already took a bullet to the head

              • Tucker
                Tucker
                December 27, 2011 at 12:47 pm | #

                And a fire to the face. And a rocket to the junk.

                • Tucker
                  Tucker
                  December 27, 2011 at 12:54 pm | #

                  -clears throat- To the FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!

              • The Other Mike
                The Other Mike
                January 29, 2015 at 1:14 am | #

                Well, that’s what you get for trying to outsmart boolet.

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        December 27, 2011 at 12:52 am | #

        Yeah and why do people always took an arrow to the knee? Why don’t they take an arrow to the elbow or the foot or both?

        • Dragon
          Dragon
          December 27, 2011 at 1:17 am | #

          because that’s the only way to become a security guard and people need jobs?

        • Jenny Creed
          Jenny Creed
          June 4, 2013 at 4:01 am | #

          It’s an old Norse expression that means “I got married.”

          And now your mind is blown by someone who hasn’t played Skyrim.

      • Drunken Nordmann
        Drunken Nordmann
        December 27, 2011 at 3:34 am | #

        Memes never get old least they would stop being childish.

        • Drunken Nordmann
          Drunken Nordmann
          December 27, 2011 at 3:37 am | #

          Otherwise, not lest. Sometimes I should use a dictionary in case I’m not sure what some words mean.

          • Historyman68
            Historyman68
            December 27, 2011 at 3:51 am | #

            It works, it sounds like an old prospector giving advice.

            • Drunken Nordmann
              Drunken Nordmann
              December 27, 2011 at 6:23 am | #

              That’s really flattering. English is not my native language, so I always fear to make a mistake.

      • tyren22
        tyren22
        March 25, 2013 at 2:26 pm | #

        It got old a month after the game came out, and yet I still hear it 2 years later.

        At least it’s not with irritating frequency though.

        (GREETINGS FROM THE FUTURE!)

    • Spazman
      Spazman
      December 27, 2011 at 2:03 am | #

      I used to make that joke. then I took an arrow to my FAAAAAACE

    • AckAckAck(Now with sugar powered speedster!))
      AckAckAck(Now with sugar powered speedster!))
      December 27, 2011 at 7:18 am | #

      I don’t think that’s a proper way to tell the joke….

  2. meanderling
    meanderling
    December 27, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

    Mike is totally checking out Amber’s ass in the last panel.

    • David Herbert
      David Herbert
      December 27, 2011 at 12:04 am | #

      Actually it looks more like the back of her head. He likes her hair, I guess?

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        December 27, 2011 at 12:08 am | #

        or he noticed a bald spot…

      • Spammy McSpamster
        Spammy McSpamster
        December 27, 2011 at 12:12 am | #

        He has experience recognizing her from the back of her head.

        In an alternate universe anyway.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          December 27, 2011 at 12:15 am | #

          Why would he know that…. OOOOOOOH! I see… 😀

        • Tucker
          Tucker
          December 27, 2011 at 5:02 am | #

          Well, we already know that Mike is a sort of unfeasible. Perhaps he’s actually transcended individual universe and possibly even the Cheese to become a multi-dimensional reality walker – simultaneously experiencing all universes at once. Britja’s: eat your heart out. The hyper-potent dick-itude of Mike’s being outperforms all of your tech.

          Clearly this is the only way to explain his less grumpy look and general interest in the physical being of Amber.

          Mike’s all up in your mom, breaking your mind.
          All your moms are belong to Mike…for a nickel; he’s a good guy and pays. Mike’s not a freeloader.

      • sarpiedon
        sarpiedon
        December 27, 2011 at 1:50 pm | #

        He’s thinkin, “Superman da Ho!”

    • agentksilver
      agentksilver
      December 27, 2011 at 12:19 pm | #

      Yeah, he totally is. Mike and Amber transcend spacetime.

  3. Wack'd
    Wack'd
    December 27, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

    I’m going to write World of Warcraft / Angry Birds crossover fiction now.

    • Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
      Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
      December 27, 2011 at 12:09 am | #

      I wonder how that would work, sounds like an interesting idea

      • Tucker
        Tucker
        December 27, 2011 at 12:59 am | #

        http://roosterteeth.com/archive/?id=3015

      • Rognik
        Rognik
        December 27, 2011 at 11:45 pm | #

        Don’t forget to make it a slash fanfic to make it truly appalling.

        • The E-man
          The E-man
          December 29, 2011 at 1:52 pm | #

          By appalling, you mean AMAZINGLY PERFECT

  4. David Herbert
    David Herbert
    December 27, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    You’d think Ethan would know by now.

  5. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    December 27, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    *is picturing Amber as a Dwarf*

    • Stephen Bierce
      Stephen Bierce
      December 27, 2011 at 12:11 am | #

      *is picturing Amber as a GNOME*

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        December 27, 2011 at 12:13 am | #

        “There’s no race like gnome…”

        • Twentydragon
          Twentydragon
          December 27, 2011 at 12:38 am | #

          Well, lemme give you a taur of the place…

        • Ancestral Hamster
          Ancestral Hamster
          December 27, 2011 at 1:16 am | #

          “Once you go gnome, you never go home.”

    • eerilychildish
      eerilychildish
      December 27, 2011 at 12:17 am | #

      Do you honestly see her playing Alliance? I figured her for a troll shaman or some such.

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        December 27, 2011 at 12:20 am | #

        I thought she make a Rogue or Hunter.

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          December 27, 2011 at 12:20 am | #

          I did spell it right, right?

      • gangler
        gangler
        December 27, 2011 at 12:25 am | #

        Is she a Paladin in WoW too? Depending on when this is taking place her only option for Horde Paladin would be Blood Elf, and you know how she feels about the elves.

        • Fluffy776
          Fluffy776
          December 27, 2011 at 12:31 am | #

          Didn’t the Cata add on allow the um Turion (the cow race. Haven’t played in a while and never played one) to be Paladins?

          I picture her as a Horde player. But she just seems like the kind of girl that would yell “Blood and thunder!” more than anything else 😛

          • Aizat
            Aizat
            December 27, 2011 at 12:42 am | #

            I think you mean the Tauren.

          • gangler
            gangler
            December 27, 2011 at 12:51 am | #

            Yes, that’s why the year was a variable in it. I actually thought Cata was much more recent though. Looking at the date it was released I can’t really see any reason to believe it takes place pre-cata. My mistake.

            • Monocle
              Monocle
              December 27, 2011 at 1:25 am | #

              The strip does still seem to be in Fall 2010, so no Tauren Paladins yet. Tauren Pallies did not go live till the last full week of November of that year, and we know her Paladin character has been around a bit.

              She has to be Alliance then, since before this the only Horde Pallies were Blood Elves.

              Thinking she is probably a Dwarf or a Draenei.

              • David
                David M Willis
                December 27, 2011 at 1:32 am | #

                Dumbing of Age does not take place in any specific year.

                • Tucker
                  Tucker
                  December 27, 2011 at 5:04 am | #

                  For more information on this phenomena, please refer to the provided literature.

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  December 27, 2011 at 6:17 am | #

                  So it’s the year 20XX, how very Mega-Man.

                • Zuche
                  Zuche
                  December 27, 2011 at 9:57 am | #

                  And that specific year in which it does not place is most certainly not 1095.

                • Tucker
                  Tucker
                  December 27, 2011 at 12:48 pm | #

                  I just hope it’s not 1942.

                • Icalasari
                  Icalasari
                  December 27, 2011 at 3:22 pm | #

                  …So it could take place in the future? …With these being the great great great great grandchildren of the characters in Shortpacked and It’s Walky!, with said characters being very eerily like their ancestors!

                  …Damn somebody fucked uo the progression of technology…

                • Tucker
                  Tucker
                  December 27, 2011 at 6:36 pm | #

                  It’s actually going to be the year 3000. We just haven’t met Bender yet.

                • Slipdance
                  Slipdance
                  December 27, 2011 at 6:42 pm | #

                  Maybe it takes place in the not too distant future. Next Sunday, A.D.?

                • Tucker
                  Tucker
                  December 27, 2011 at 6:55 pm | #

                  There was a guy named Joel,
                  Not too different from you or me.

                  (that goes way back pre-Mike)

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      December 27, 2011 at 11:48 pm | #

      I think she’d look hot with a beard.

    • Gee
      Gee
      February 7, 2013 at 10:16 pm | #

      More blood for Armok?

  6. Confuzor
    Confuzor
    December 27, 2011 at 12:05 am | #

    TFAnimated poster!

    …I want one…

    • Spiffster13
      Spiffster13
      December 27, 2011 at 12:30 am | #

      Question is, is it Dina’s or Amber’s?

      And I would have pegged Amber to have a My Little Pony Poster up somewhere…

      • ryan
        ryan
        January 3, 2012 at 10:09 am | #

        neither. it’s ethan’s poster.

    • Zababcd
      Zababcd
      December 27, 2011 at 3:03 am | #

      How can you tell that it’s a TF Animated poster? As far as I can see, someone took a sledgehammer to the Google Chrome web browser logo then photographed the destruction and put it on a poster. Assuming you’re talking about the poster visible in the comic.

      • Chrisby
        Chrisby
        December 27, 2011 at 7:29 am | #

        I can easily spot Optimus, Bumblebee and Prowl, and that big green thing in the back is definitely Bulkhead.

  7. Aizat
    Aizat
    December 27, 2011 at 12:15 am | #

    Who wants to be a pointy eared, snobby, so full of themselves, smug, xenophobic, magic addicted hippies? To me, the only good races are humans, dwarves, orcs(the good kind, not the chaos ones), lizardmen, catpeople and hawkmen.

    • eerilychildish
      eerilychildish
      December 27, 2011 at 12:21 am | #

      You forgot the Pandaren, everyone loves the Pandaren.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      December 27, 2011 at 12:28 am | #

      If I ever played WoW, I might very well choose a Forsaken character.

      • Just for kix
        Just for kix
        December 27, 2011 at 1:09 am | #

        *shoots an arrow at plasma mongoose’s knee*

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          December 27, 2011 at 2:03 am | #

          Thank goodness for Leg Armour.

          ^_^

  8. Akari
    Akari
    December 27, 2011 at 12:20 am | #

    Man, I want that Batman shirt.

    I also always enjoy seeing these three interact, no matter what the universe. They’re wonderful. 😀

  9. KresyAntics
    KresyAntics
    December 27, 2011 at 12:24 am | #

    Heck No! She is Chuck Norris!

    • Spiffster13
      Spiffster13
      December 27, 2011 at 12:32 am | #

      Chuck Norris?

      Nope! Chuck Testa

  10. Dave McCoy
    Dave McCoy
    December 27, 2011 at 12:33 am | #

    LOK’TAR

  11. Sam
    Sam
    December 27, 2011 at 12:35 am | #

    Third panel.

    Eyeball behind the hair.

    Creepin’ me out.

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      December 27, 2011 at 11:50 pm | #

      We need to get you some anime. Your head would explode.

  12. NakedDumblydore
    NakedDumblydore
    December 27, 2011 at 1:01 am | #

    C’mon, Ethan. Even Amber has standards.

  13. Ter
    Ter
    December 27, 2011 at 2:14 am | #

    Mike’s look says otherwise, Amber.

    Now I can’t help but think maybe there was some crazy cosplay sex if Mike/Amber ever became canon in this universe.

    • Ter
      Ter
      December 27, 2011 at 2:15 am | #

      OH GOD I DID NOT INTEND. WHERE DID MY THUMBS UP WALKY GRAVATAR GO?! D:

      • fellixe
        fellixe
        December 27, 2011 at 12:47 pm | #

        You’ve been Joed

        • Tucker
          Tucker
          December 27, 2011 at 12:49 pm | #

          …in the bum.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            December 27, 2011 at 11:07 pm | #

            …for a quarter.

            • Tucker
              Tucker
              December 28, 2011 at 1:03 am | #

              …like your mom.

  14. Zababcd
    Zababcd
    December 27, 2011 at 3:29 am | #

    I only played WoW for a few months, years ago, and yet I still have this nagging desire to defend my character… but elves really are annoying.

  15. Zaxares
    Zaxares
    December 27, 2011 at 3:42 am | #

    But elves are awesome! D:

    • Zababcd
      Zababcd
      December 27, 2011 at 3:48 am | #

      Elves are awesome when they are druids (and effectively, Night Elves). Also when they make toys in Santa’s workshop.

      • f.p.
        f.p.
        December 27, 2011 at 6:26 am | #

        Clearly the most awesome is when they are druids making toys in Santa’s workshop.

      • Rognik
        Rognik
        December 27, 2011 at 11:52 pm | #

        you forgot about the cookie-makers.

  16. AckAckAck(Bizarro Roz)
    AckAckAck(Bizarro Roz)
    December 27, 2011 at 3:53 am | #

    The sexier the female character in MMORPGs the more probability that it’s a G.I.R.L

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      December 27, 2011 at 4:02 am | #

      Which is why some people prefer to play tabletop games.

      • Tucker
        Tucker
        December 27, 2011 at 5:05 am | #

        You know it’s bad when people turn to table-top games to get away from the awkward, gender-bending interactions.

        • AckAckAck(Now with sugar powered speedster!))
          AckAckAck(Now with sugar powered speedster!))
          December 27, 2011 at 7:16 am | #

          It will be more awkward if one of the male table top player propose to role play as a girl.

          • Aizat
            Aizat
            December 27, 2011 at 9:43 am | #

            Well, at least you know that the girl is really a dude.

            • Tucker
              Tucker
              December 27, 2011 at 12:49 pm | #

              Point to Aizat!

              • Mrelegos
                Mrelegos
                December 27, 2011 at 5:15 pm | #

                And hey, if you’re going to spend all night in your parents basement pretending to be an elf, you might as well at least have some friends over.

                • Tucker
                  Tucker
                  December 27, 2011 at 6:37 pm | #

                  Aizat’s point has been transferred to Mrelegos forth-with.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      December 27, 2011 at 6:26 am | #

      Considering MMORPG stands for Many Men Online Role-Playing Girls, is it really surprising?

      • Tucker
        Tucker
        December 27, 2011 at 12:50 pm | #

        Much Malnutrition Or Really Pissed Girlfriends.

  17. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    December 27, 2011 at 4:07 am | #

    I’M IN DESPAIR! MY LACK OF COMMENTING ON THIS COMIC UNTIL THIS MOMENT HAS LEFT ME IN DESPAIR!

    …That said, Amber would probably never use a sword either. She’s always struck me as more of a bow and arrow type to me.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      December 27, 2011 at 4:22 am | #

      Really? She’s more of a knife or gun user to me.

      • Zababcd
        Zababcd
        December 27, 2011 at 4:32 am | #

        My guess is human paladin wielding a two-handed mace.

        • Lothyna
          Lothyna
          December 27, 2011 at 4:45 pm | #

          Gnome Rogue…. >.>

      • Rognik
        Rognik
        December 27, 2011 at 11:55 pm | #

        Magic all the way, baby…

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      December 27, 2011 at 6:24 am | #

      @Kernanator: So you have watched Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei recently then eh?

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        December 27, 2011 at 3:31 pm | #

        No, but I did read Unequally Rational and Emotional. Their running gags are catching.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          December 27, 2011 at 4:39 pm | #

          I see, I asked that cos “I’M IN DESPAIR! (Rant of the moment) I’M IN DESPAIR!” is Despair-sensei’s catchphrase.

          • Kernanator
            Kernanator
            December 31, 2011 at 6:54 pm | #

            I know. Ishitoki is a character there. He shows up a lot.

  18. buttsecks
    buttsecks
    December 27, 2011 at 12:00 pm | #

    But only after someone stole her sweetroll.

  19. Kelsey
    Kelsey
    December 27, 2011 at 12:51 pm | #

    She has integrity, that girl.

  20. Freefall
    Freefall
    December 27, 2011 at 1:29 pm | #

    Did anybody else have the World of Warcraft side ad and laugh?

  21. sarpiedon
    sarpiedon
    December 27, 2011 at 1:42 pm | #

    I go to the Freshdesk website one freaking time and forever shall it dominate the ads on this site…and Shortpacked…
    Is there another Wecomic Willis has so the ad can continue is global domination…

  22. Lothyna
    Lothyna
    December 27, 2011 at 4:44 pm | #

    Hey now, Elves are awesome. xD

  23. Tucker
    Tucker
    December 27, 2011 at 7:32 pm | #

    I can’t believe nobody noticed the pupil that has been emancipated from Amber’s eye!

  24. Sili
    Sili
    December 27, 2011 at 8:52 pm | #

    They forgot Dina at the beach, didn’t they?

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      December 27, 2011 at 11:56 pm | #

      Wrong party. Walky, Billie, Joyce and Sal abducted Dina; Mike and Ethan were… doing other stuff.

      • Sili
        Sili
        December 30, 2011 at 2:11 pm | #

        They is a lovely, waffly word. “They” can refer to whoever.

        (Thanks.)

  25. JA
    JA
    January 4, 2012 at 10:57 pm | #

    Good girl, Amber. As we all know, elves are the most hated race.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVwYKtgFYCc&feature=relmfu

  26. MrMyerst
    MrMyerst
    December 31, 2015 at 4:08 am | #

    So bit late here, but… we know that the dumbingverse and questionable content universe have crossed over…

    My new head canon is that amber and marigold are in the same guild.
    It… Pleases my sense of humor.

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