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by David M Willis on April 24, 2012 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - The First Step Towards Recovery
└ Tags: dorothy, joe, joyce, leslie, walky

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  1. Blob Marley
    Blob Marley
    April 24, 2012 at 12:01 am | #

    D’aww, she’s still being nice and kind of into him. Woot.

  2. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    April 24, 2012 at 12:01 am | #

    “I AM RUNNING FOR VICE PRESIDENT”

    • Scoops!
      Scoops!
      April 24, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

      I am Amazi-Girl!

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        April 24, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

        I’m Batman

        • Doctor_Who
          Doctor_Who
          April 24, 2012 at 12:20 am | #

          I KNOW!

          • PrincessCarlos
            PrincessCarlos
            July 10, 2012 at 6:45 pm | #

            It’s bigger on the inside!

        • SlenderTroll
          SlenderTroll
          April 24, 2012 at 12:25 am | #

          I’m a man dressed like a bat.

          • Blob Marley
            Blob Marley
            April 24, 2012 at 1:06 am | #

            If I am a man then I’m a bat of a man.

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              April 24, 2012 at 2:06 am | #

              So you are a man who likes to bat off? 😀

              • Kernanator
                Kernanator
                April 24, 2012 at 2:12 am | #

                And it’s going, going, gone! That pun is out of here!

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  April 24, 2012 at 2:17 am | #

                  It had to go somewhere. 😀

                • Kernanator
                  Kernanator
                  April 24, 2012 at 2:23 am | #

                  It went into your mom. For a nickel.

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  April 24, 2012 at 2:25 am | #

                  Bruce Wayne did it for a nickel? But he is a multi-billionare.

                • GenericScreenName101
                  GenericScreenName101
                  April 24, 2012 at 2:27 am | #

                  *sigh* … Its a home pun…

                • fellixe
                  fellixe
                  April 24, 2012 at 4:20 am | #

                  Now I imagine Bruce leaving somebody’s Mom the giant penny.

                • AckAckAck
                  AckAckAck
                  April 24, 2012 at 4:27 am | #

                  I read it “Now I imagine Bruce leaving somebody’s mom the giant penis”

                  Brain, please don’t go to the gutter mmmkay.

                • Hiredg00n
                  Hiredg00n
                  April 24, 2012 at 4:46 am | #

                  yes please AckAckAck, get your mind out of the gutter….

                  you’re blocking my light ^_^

                • waldosan
                  waldosan
                  April 24, 2012 at 3:30 pm | #

                  your mind did a different person’s mom; IN THE GUTTER!

                • madd
                  madd
                  April 24, 2012 at 3:41 pm | #

                  If Bruce Wayne does it for a nickle … and he’s a multi-billionare … dang … that’s a whole lot of moms.

            • Maycroft
              Maycroft
              April 24, 2012 at 8:45 am | #

              “Joe is the winner of the pool”

            • Izzy
              Izzy
              April 24, 2012 at 8:19 pm | #

              I am the man for whom the bell tolls

        • Scoops!
          Scoops!
          April 24, 2012 at 9:03 am | #

          I’m Spartacus!

          • Kryss LaBryn
            Kryss LaBryn
            April 24, 2012 at 1:05 pm | #

            No, I’M Spartacus!

            • Wack'd
              Wack'd
              April 24, 2012 at 4:16 pm | #

              I’m Spartacus and so’s my wife!

              • Shippy McShipper
                Shippy McShipper
                April 24, 2012 at 5:53 pm | #

                I am more spartacuser than thou!

        • Nerdman
          Nerdman
          April 24, 2012 at 12:55 pm | #

          “And I’m the Flying Grayson!”

          Ah…… Starkid reference…

          • Pickle
            Pickle
            April 24, 2012 at 3:00 pm | #

            I’m Batwayne

            • TacosForever
              TacosForever
              April 24, 2012 at 3:12 pm | #

              I mean Bruceman!

  3. David Herbert
    David Herbert
    April 24, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    “I’m going to chop Joe’s dick off.”

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      April 24, 2012 at 12:29 am | #

      OH NOES, NOT HIS LITTLE JOE!! :p

      • Izzy
        Izzy
        April 24, 2012 at 12:54 am | #

        His little joe is his coffee mug. You’re think of his big joe

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          April 24, 2012 at 2:07 am | #

          You’re getting little Joe and cup of Joe mixed up here.

          • Izzy
            Izzy
            April 24, 2012 at 3:38 am | #

            Why woUld you put a mug in a cup? That makes no sense

            • Shadlyn Wolfe
              Shadlyn Wolfe
              April 24, 2012 at 6:28 am | #

              This exchange wins all the prizes.

          • BugBerry
            BugBerry
            April 24, 2012 at 7:19 am | #

            where is Bazooka Joe in all this?

            • madd
              madd
              April 24, 2012 at 3:43 pm | #

              I’m still waiting for Hoss …

  4. OhHayMike
    OhHayMike
    April 24, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    Well, I gotta say, that’d probably not do any favors for Walky’s already damaged ego.

    • Blob Marley
      Blob Marley
      April 24, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

      But I’m pretty sure she’s about to do him a huge favor.

      (Sexually.)

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        April 24, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

        Mike did your mom a huge favor for a nickel

        • madd
          madd
          April 24, 2012 at 3:44 pm | #

          If he got paid, then it wasn’t a favor.

          • moonracer
            moonracer
            April 24, 2012 at 7:38 pm | #

            The favor was that he only charged her a nickle.

      • fellixe
        fellixe
        April 24, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

        Maybe she’ll sweep him under her rug?

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          April 24, 2012 at 12:20 am | #

          with his ‘telescopic brush’.

          • Izzy
            Izzy
            April 24, 2012 at 3:39 am | #

            Swallow his mcnuggets?

            • AckAckAck
              AckAckAck
              April 24, 2012 at 4:28 am | #

              Mcnuggets Milkshake?

              • waldosan
                waldosan
                April 24, 2012 at 3:32 pm | #

                give him a blow job (c-c-c-c-c-combo breaker)

                • Izzy
                  Izzy
                  April 24, 2012 at 4:29 pm | #

                  WhAt?! No, I was thinking more like he hand feeds her mcnuggets. Circling them around her mouth first.

                • Blob Marley
                  Blob Marley
                  April 24, 2012 at 5:43 pm | #

                  They lovingly mold the chicken ooze into McNuggets together as Unchained Melody plays in the background.

  5. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    April 24, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    Joe has a pool full of lesbians. Just like he always dreamed.

    • Blob Marley
      Blob Marley
      April 24, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

      Is it next door to the lego penthouse? Because that would be the sweetest neighborhood ever.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        April 24, 2012 at 12:14 am | #

        Only if it’s adjacent from McAwesome’s

        • Doctor_Who
          Doctor_Who
          April 24, 2012 at 12:22 am | #

          Do you think in this universe there is a much better pizza place across the street from Galasso’s?

          • BugBerry
            BugBerry
            April 24, 2012 at 7:23 am | #

            probably Awesomehut or Awesomo’s

        • Blob Marley
          Blob Marley
          April 24, 2012 at 12:22 am | #

          Or McLovin’s?

          • Slagathor
            Slagathor
            April 24, 2012 at 8:45 am | #

            Italian McDonalds

  6. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    April 24, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    And let’s see if she can embarrass him any more.

    • TacosForever
      TacosForever
      April 24, 2012 at 12:38 am | #

      I know, right? No matter what she’s going to say, I feel like it would be less embarrassing for everyone involved to wait until after class. Also, poor Leslie. She’s just trying to teach her gender studies class.

      • AckAckAck
        AckAckAck
        April 24, 2012 at 4:30 am | #

        Leslie: Dammit, nothing done in my class, screw it, I will give all of them As. They already earn the drama tag long ago.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          April 24, 2012 at 7:09 am | #

          Eventually she’ll realize when they all start to glaze over and just start talking about sci-fi

          • Aria
            Aria
            April 24, 2012 at 1:22 pm | #

            Approximate number of women with names in the original Star Wars: 2. Approximate number of males: 500. I’m sure she could get a whole day of lecture out of it.

            • Blob Marley
              Blob Marley
              April 24, 2012 at 2:07 pm | #

              Hard to tell with some of those aliens. Also, pretty much everybody who shows up on screen has a name. They just don’t mention most of them. Also, for better or for worse (depending on who you ask) the combat forces in Star Wars are largely gender-segregated, so in a movie about war it’s not all that surprising that the male characters get lead roles and the women don’t.

            • Fignewton of my Imagination
              Fignewton of my Imagination
              April 24, 2012 at 3:21 pm | #

              Did Mon Mothma ever talk to Leia? I don’t think so, also Luke might as well be a woman.

  7. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    April 24, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    *Dorothy grabs Walky* This is MINE. This is where my children come from.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      April 24, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

      They’re going to be the laziest kids in the whitehouse!

      • Wack'd
        Wack'd
        April 24, 2012 at 4:18 pm | #

        Well at least they won’t be the laziest man on Mars.

    • Blob Marley
      Blob Marley
      April 24, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

      lol, bonus points for reference

    • Jimmy
      Jimmy
      April 24, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

      To make it perfect she’d have to grab Walky’s crotch.

      • KresyAntics
        KresyAntics
        April 24, 2012 at 1:31 am | #

        If only she could find his penis for a nickel at this given moment.

  8. Vivvav
    Vivvav
    April 24, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

    I’m just waiting for the look on Billie’s face.

    • Bekah
      Bekah
      April 24, 2012 at 12:13 am | #

      Billie’s not in that class, is she? Pretty sure she’s not.

      • Sporkaganza
        Sporkaganza
        April 24, 2012 at 12:24 am | #

        Hence the waiting, I would presume.

        • Sensedog
          Sensedog
          April 24, 2012 at 12:35 am | #

          Joyce is in the class, and the look on her face would be priceless to say the least.

          …Of course, that is assuming Dorothy will announce what many would like her to announce. I’m not going to assume that she will, however. The announcement could really be anything.

          • Bekah
            Bekah
            April 24, 2012 at 3:09 am | #

            What does Joyce have to do with the look on Billie’s face?

            • Thomas
              Thomas
              April 24, 2012 at 8:10 am | #

              Didn’t you guys have a meme going about Billie’s face?

              • carl320
                carl320
                April 24, 2012 at 8:55 am | #

                You mean Biliie’s FAAAAAAACE?

                • Rycr
                  Rycr
                  April 24, 2012 at 11:46 pm | #

                  And to think, we almost didn’t have our daily dose of FAAAAAAACE.

  9. Jimmy
    Jimmy
    April 24, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

    “CANNONBALL!”

  10. Sensedog
    Sensedog
    April 24, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

    …I’m not going to get my hopes up again until we actually find out what exactly Dorothy will announce.

    • AckAckAck
      AckAckAck
      April 24, 2012 at 4:32 am | #

      “I love TACO! I love it so much!”

      And then they have sex, the end.

      • TacosForever
        TacosForever
        April 24, 2012 at 3:11 pm | #

        By “they” do you mean Dorothy and the butt taco? Because that would be interesting.

        • Shippy McShipper
          Shippy McShipper
          April 24, 2012 at 6:00 pm | #

          Obviously Ack means everybody in the class.
          Except presumably Joyce; her soul would spontaneously combust her body and ascend, then reincarnate as the newly incoming child of one of them.

  11. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    April 24, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

    Of course he does.

    • George
      George
      April 24, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

      I wonder what odds I’d get on Joyce?

      • Blob Marley
        Blob Marley
        April 24, 2012 at 12:11 am | #

        I’d put even money on Joyce being motosexual. I saw the googly eyes she was making at Sal’s bike.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          April 24, 2012 at 12:24 am | #

          Joyce wants to motorboat Sal’s motorbike.

          • Blob Marley
            Blob Marley
            April 24, 2012 at 12:36 am | #

            Vroom vroom, baby.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        April 24, 2012 at 12:18 am | #

        Joyce has had two disastrous romantic entanglements with guys in the past week, and is working on a third with Ethan as we speak.

        At this rate Joyce’ll give up on men by the end of her first semester. The Sal will let her brush her hair, and her fate will be sealed.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          April 24, 2012 at 12:20 am | #

          It’s official…Joyce has had more romantic entanglements throughout the first week of College than I have had through all of college.

          • Pat
            Pat
            April 24, 2012 at 1:06 am | #

            Me too. But my single one was *much* more successful.
            Or at least it lasted a little longer.

          • Izzy
            Izzy
            April 24, 2012 at 3:42 am | #

            Through all of college? I got yOu beat. She’s had more than I’ve had my whole life

          • Yotomoe
            Yotomoe
            April 24, 2012 at 7:12 am | #

            >,> dangit…I meantz high school…I haven’t been to college for long enough for that to be wierd yet.

  12. cb5
    cb5
    April 24, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

    DON’T DO IT DOROTHY NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

    • Bekah
      Bekah
      April 24, 2012 at 12:12 am | #

      I have to wonder what you think she’s about to say.

      • cb5
        cb5
        April 24, 2012 at 12:20 am | #

        She is gonna tell the class that she and Walky were chillin’ together the night before even though it isn’t any of their business because he feels upset that no one knows about the connection they had.

        • Bekah
          Bekah
          April 24, 2012 at 3:08 am | #

          Yeah. Me too.

          Why is this a bad thing? It’s a effort to show that she isn’t embarrassed of him. Kind of nice, considering how dickish she came off yesterday, I think it’s the least she could do.

        • AckAckAck
          AckAckAck
          April 24, 2012 at 4:34 am | #

          So? that’s how to encounter Mike’s attacks. And I think she’s going to do it right.

  13. Ridureyu
    Ridureyu
    April 24, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

    Walky is really good at passive-aggressive guilt-tripping.

    • Sensedog
      Sensedog
      April 24, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

      I think that with Walky, it was unintended. Considering the trolling that Mike just pulled-off, the passive-aggressive guilt tripping would be a drop in the bucket by comparison.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        April 24, 2012 at 12:15 am | #

        I’m sorry I’m so bad at life.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          April 24, 2012 at 12:26 am | #

          Was that a demonstration of passive-aggressive guilt you did just then? 😛

  14. MR C
    MR C
    April 24, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

    Joe, master of subtlety

    • Bekah
      Bekah
      April 24, 2012 at 12:14 am | #

      Sometimes, master debater.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        April 24, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

        And sometimes a Mass Debater. He can handle the crowds that Joe.

        • fellixe
          fellixe
          April 24, 2012 at 12:24 am | #

          Because he’s a cunning linguist.

          • Blob Marley
            Blob Marley
            April 24, 2012 at 12:35 am | #

            His diction is really impressive.

            • Yotomoe
              Yotomoe
              April 24, 2012 at 12:38 am | #

              It’s a huge asset to his personality

              • AngryBamboo
                AngryBamboo
                April 24, 2012 at 9:57 am | #

                He’s also a master baiter, he can bait anybody into losing their cool and getting aroused…i mean excited…i mean…screw it.

                • Kryss LaBryn
                  Kryss LaBryn
                  April 24, 2012 at 5:48 pm | #

                  He’ll go to great lengths to pull it off.

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  April 24, 2012 at 8:13 pm | #

                  His ability to stand erect on a moments notice makes him hard to beat.

          • Izzy
            Izzy
            April 24, 2012 at 3:48 am | #

            Dude. Cunnin’ Lynguists are one of my favorite hip-hop groups. Smart hip-hop. If you like the style of music but don’t like the current popular stars lyrical content, check em out.
            Sorry for advertising other forms of enjoyment and entertainment other than your comics, Willis
            XP

            • AckAckAck
              AckAckAck
              April 24, 2012 at 4:35 am | #

              I bet he’s a good pianist.

              • MR C
                MR C
                April 24, 2012 at 11:33 am | #

                all the girls love it when he uses his pianist…….skills

            • Sodomuffin
              Sodomuffin
              April 24, 2012 at 4:07 pm | #

              They do have stunning English.

  15. SkepticJ
    SkepticJ
    April 24, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

    This by far the most exciting Gender Studies class.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      April 24, 2012 at 12:20 am | #

      Yeah, if this was what I missed by being an engineering student, I’m kinda jealous.

      Heck, I only ever had one lesbian teacher, and she wasn’t anywhere near as cool as Leslie.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        April 24, 2012 at 12:22 am | #

        Few people are as cool as Leslie. I just want to give her a high five.

      • poofdepoof
        poofdepoof
        November 19, 2014 at 5:00 pm | #

        I’m an engineering student taking Gender Studies, so it is possible.

  16. Jar
    Jar
    April 24, 2012 at 12:19 am | #

    Goddamn it Dorothy why are you talking over Leslie’s word balloon SOME OF US ARE HERE TO STUDY THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF MASCULINITIES AND FEMININITIES.
    Just kidding, I’m here for the easy English credit.

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      April 24, 2012 at 12:29 am | #

      As Willis said on his twitter soon after posting, Joe’s comment is a good illustration of the exact assumptions about women that Leslie’s talking about.

      • Jar
        Jar
        April 24, 2012 at 1:00 am | #

        I’m aware. I read that on his tumblr. I was just making a reference to an earlier strip 😛

  17. Jehosaphat
    Jehosaphat
    April 24, 2012 at 12:27 am | #

    “Darth Vader is Luke’s father, there I said it.”

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      April 24, 2012 at 12:39 am | #

      spoiler alert man!
      Now I can’t even watch the movies.

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      April 24, 2012 at 1:27 am | #

      Dorothy’s got a bit of the ol’ Mark Hammil hairdo herself.

  18. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    April 24, 2012 at 12:27 am | #

    Joe has a pool on Dotty being a lezzo huh, I wonder who else in this pool and what are the odds.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      April 24, 2012 at 12:30 am | #

      I think Joe’s pool is like…all girls that aren’t presently doing Joe. And even they are still in his pool.

      • iSaidCandleja-
        iSaidCandleja-
        April 24, 2012 at 12:35 am | #

        Nah, Joe obviously only started the pool in a misguided attempt to make Danny feel better.

        • Kernanator
          Kernanator
          April 24, 2012 at 1:59 am | #

          That… actually sounds like something Joe would do. It combines sweet with stupid.

        • Historyman68
          Historyman68
          April 24, 2012 at 4:47 am | #

          That does sound like something Joe would do, but he seems like enough of a meathead to me that he’d consider your ex-girlfriend be(com)ing a lesbian to be a bad thing. Some guys act like you were such a bad boyfriend you “turned” your girlfriend gay, but I think it’s a lot more realistic to consider that her being a lesbian was probably why the relationship didn’t work in the first place.

  19. AliaPie
    AliaPie
    April 24, 2012 at 12:36 am | #

    …You would, Joe. You would.

  20. Daeva
    Daeva
    April 24, 2012 at 12:40 am | #

    “-ahrm-…

    …I am Iron Man.”

  21. Erienne
    Erienne
    April 24, 2012 at 12:43 am | #

    You people are all missing the big picture.

    The announcement is so obviously that she’s pregnant.

    …And Joyce is the father.

    • Blob Marley
      Blob Marley
      April 24, 2012 at 12:48 am | #

      Holy shit, Dotty is an Asari? It all makes sense!

      • L
        L
        April 24, 2012 at 5:40 am | #

        Embrace eternity Blob!

      • L
        L
        April 24, 2012 at 5:42 am | #

        Also, does that mean we’re gonna see Dotty get it on with some Hanar in a future game?

        • Blob Marley
          Blob Marley
          April 24, 2012 at 2:18 pm | #

          Dotty/Blasto is now an official ship.

  22. TemplarKnight
    TemplarKnight
    April 24, 2012 at 12:49 am | #

    Leslie, can you repeat that, I couldn’t hear you over these 2 talking about sweeping each other’s rugs.

    • AckAckAck
      AckAckAck
      April 24, 2012 at 4:37 am | #

      I think they need high powered vacuum cleaner :p

  23. John Madden
    John Madden
    April 24, 2012 at 1:01 am | #

    I forsee a slap in Joe’s immediate future.

  24. Aegon01
    Aegon01
    April 24, 2012 at 1:10 am | #

    Has Leslie even HAD a class that wasn’t interrupted by somebody’s personal business?

    • Dice
      Dice
      April 24, 2012 at 3:59 am | #

      Well, this time it’s relevant, right? Dorothy’s presumably about to announce that she’s avoiding presidential-career college work to watch Dexter: Monkey Master with a boy in a taco shirt. Leslie can use this as an example in her lecture.

  25. Ter
    Ter
    April 24, 2012 at 1:30 am | #

    Stay classy, Joe.

  26. LiC
    LiC
    April 24, 2012 at 1:40 am | #

    I never thought that Walky would have such low opinion of himself like he does in this strip. Yeah, he’s a dork (which is why I love him), but he always seemed completely okay with that fact. I never really got the impression that he thought himself below other people.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      April 24, 2012 at 2:02 am | #

      Maybe it isn’t so much about him as it is about him believing that he’s lowering Dorothy’s standing.

      • Blob Marley
        Blob Marley
        April 24, 2012 at 2:03 am | #

        This. Walky’s just feeling down because he’s concerned that he’ll basically just be really bad for Dotty and bring her down – a feeling with which I can totally empathize.

        • LiC
          LiC
          April 24, 2012 at 12:11 pm | #

          But that’s kinda my point. He feels he’ll bring down Dorothy and that he’d be bad for her, simply because of who he is. He feels like he’s beneath what she deserves and even admits that if their roles were reversed, he’d not want to acknowledge someone like him either. 🙁

          • Sharogen
            Sharogen
            April 24, 2012 at 3:45 pm | #

            You just proved your earlier point. People who think like that might have a tough exterior, but once that cracks everything crumbles. We are normally pretty good at keeping up a strong front until we are alone, but in a situation like this it’s just too much. Dorothy was already hurting Walky, but she couldn’t see it. Mike forced her to see just what she was doing to him.

          • madd
            madd
            April 24, 2012 at 3:56 pm | #

            I don’t think he’s ever cared about what anyone else thought before. Now he cares what Dorothy thinks and it’s just kind of hit him, because of Mike’s assessment and Dorothy’s embarrassment, that maybe he’s not exactly what she’s consider good boyfriend material.

    • AckAckAck
      AckAckAck
      April 24, 2012 at 4:38 am | #

      He’s still a decent guy. I bet he already realize that he embarrase Dorothy, but Doroty want to make amend by saying something…..

  27. begbert2
    begbert2
    April 24, 2012 at 1:55 am | #

    “Walky and I are going to have sex. Right now. So I’m going to need you guys to help us push some desks together…”

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      April 24, 2012 at 2:10 am | #

      Leslie: “But practical isn’t until next class, today it is strictly theory.”,/i>

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        April 24, 2012 at 2:15 am | #

        Theory can be nice too, sometimes. Just be careful not to go overboard, or you won’t have anything left for the practical exam. 😉

  28. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    April 24, 2012 at 2:10 am | #

    “I love Wa-Wa-Walkmen!”

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      April 24, 2012 at 2:14 am | #

      That is sooo 80s!

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        April 24, 2012 at 2:17 am | #

        Yeah. We’re going back. Back to the 80’s.

        Remember the “I love you- ukeleles!” joke from early in Order of the Stick? I was trying to go for something similar, but I couldn’t think of something that began with “Wa”.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          April 24, 2012 at 2:23 am | #

          It has been so long since I read OotS from the beginning, I no longer recall that part.

          • Kernanator
            Kernanator
            April 24, 2012 at 2:37 am | #

            It was back when Haley and Elan still had Unresolved Sexual Tension.

        • Heavensrun
          Heavensrun
          April 24, 2012 at 11:13 am | #

          Water guns. Wampas. Walks in the park. War reenactments. Wall paintings. Wal Mart. Whoppers. (spellings different, but phonetically it starts similarly. Hell, that one might actually work towards improving Walky’s mood, too.

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      April 24, 2012 at 4:51 am | #

      I do love the Walkmen. Great early-2000s post-punk, with a great sound. I just barely missed a chance to see them, and I’m still bummed.

  29. The E-man
    The E-man
    April 24, 2012 at 2:26 am | #

    I’m sorry if this is dumb, but what did she do to make him feel crappy? What I’ve read was her saying that women care about her jobs more than relationships sometimes. It wasn’t aimed at him. Then she got embarrassed because Mike started discussing her personal life in the middle of class. I guess that has to do with him….but I still don’t understand…

    • Aydr
      Aydr
      April 24, 2012 at 2:30 am | #

      Look back over the last couple comics again and really think about how he might feel.

    • TheCerpent
      TheCerpent
      April 24, 2012 at 3:11 am | #

      Even though most people don’t seem to notice it, Walky is actually incredibly smart. He even admitted it, earlier, when Dotty came over and was watching cartoons with him. And based on the last couple weeks of comics, he’s also able to pick up on subtext. Dorothy has shown several times now that she’s embarrassed to be associated with him, and is picking apart his appearance. Then Mike aims several missiles, apparently at Dorothy. However, if you pay attention, the most insulting remarks aren’t for her, but rather the “hypothetical” focus of her attentions.

      • Historyman68
        Historyman68
        April 24, 2012 at 5:29 am | #

        Don’t forget Billie also criticized Walky’s appearance. Despite his sunny disposition, a lot of that can add up sometimes. Like Billie was pushed and pushed until she finally decided to journalism a complete stranger, Walky’s been criticized past his normal happy-go-lucky attitude.

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      April 24, 2012 at 10:51 am | #

      I’m gonna disagree with all the previous posters. Walky didn’t start looking down when Mike started bashing his appearance; he started looking down three comics ago when Dorothy argued that now, jobs are more important than settling down. To which Walky mournfully responded that he was okay with not settling down, he’d just like not to be thrown under a bus, please, thanks.

      At which point Mike helpfully stepped in and helped Dorothy demonstrate that she was horribly embarrassed by the fact she had made out with Walky in the first place, painting it as being entirely due to Walky’s personal failings, thus finishing Walky off. But though Mike guided the finishing blow, Dorothy started it, and it was always about what Dorothy thought of him, not about Walky’s appearance alone.

      • Aegon01
        Aegon01
        April 24, 2012 at 3:15 pm | #

        Yeah, and Mike doesn’t give a shit if Walky puts his PJ’s back on when he gets to his dorm room, but he knows Dorothy does.

  30. AckAckAck
    AckAckAck
    April 24, 2012 at 4:42 am | #

    Alright Dorothy, this the time for you to make your stand. You want to be a leader in the future you should know damn well you have to shed your indecisive nature of your high school ideal.

  31. The Aussie Bloke
    The Aussie Bloke
    April 24, 2012 at 7:54 am | #

    This can only end in stupid.

  32. Thomas
    Thomas
    April 24, 2012 at 8:20 am | #

    Miss Bean, do I have your permission to correct you on a point of grammar? “Media” is plural. Hence, “the media portray” instead of “portrays”. Thank you for your attention.

    • Bekah
      Bekah
      April 24, 2012 at 9:03 am | #

      When it’s referring to more than one medium (eg: canvas and clay), you’re correct. When it’s referring to the collective entity (ie: print, television, internet news services) it’s a collective noun, and therefore is singular, and therefore, “portrays” is correct.

      • Thomas
        Thomas
        April 24, 2012 at 10:54 am | #

        Thank you for your reaction. I stand corrected. I have some trouble seeing the media as a collective entity with a singular conservative view on women, though. Leslie’s own focus on mass culture is apparent here, I think.

  33. Luke
    Luke
    April 24, 2012 at 9:12 am | #

    So… what’s Leslie saying in the second panel? And why is nobody else wondering this yet?

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      April 24, 2012 at 10:37 am | #

      “Some believe that perceived differences between the genders are merely a social construct not based on biology, but on learned behaviors from our parents and peers.”

      I think.

  34. Danielle
    Danielle
    April 24, 2012 at 10:13 am | #

    WOOT

  35. Thomas
    Thomas
    April 24, 2012 at 11:06 am | #

    O, and the last panel kind of reads from what Leslie says in the previous panel! Like, totally! How come nobody’s yet noticed this?

    There you are, Willis! Happy to oblige. 🙂

  36. Mal
    Mal
    April 24, 2012 at 12:12 pm | #

    “I just saved a ton of money by switching to Geico.”

    • TacosForever
      TacosForever
      April 24, 2012 at 3:07 pm | #

      This wins.

  37. Wack'd
    Wack'd
    April 24, 2012 at 4:39 pm | #

    I know, I know, we’re not supposed to bring up the old world, so if you’re not familiar with Willis’s past work just skip this.

    If Dorothy doesn’t want Joe thinking she’s a lesbian she should probably have Walky get a haircut.

  38. Valdrax
    Valdrax
    April 24, 2012 at 8:26 pm | #

    Anybody else think that this was Mike’s intention all along?
    To force her to either accept Walky or to break it off with him?

    (Going with the theory that DoA Mike is “nice without being nice.”)

    • Sensedog
      Sensedog
      April 24, 2012 at 9:14 pm | #

      Since he never changes his default facial expression, it is hard to guess Mike’s exact motives aside from being an asshole for the sake of being an asshole.

      Anything is possible, I suppose. Just because someone is an asshole doesn’t mean that they are evil.

      • Valdrax
        Valdrax
        April 24, 2012 at 9:16 pm | #

        Yeah. The thing that gets me about this incident is that (other than his Twitter shenanigans), this is the first time we’ve seen DoA Mike be a pure asshole without any mitigating motive.

        Which I why I think there has to be one.

  39. Zart
    Zart
    April 26, 2012 at 4:16 am | #

    So I guess no one noticed or bothered to point out that it “media” is plural? At least it is in my “mother”language. Very un-academic of that teacher, and unfitting to her character to make such a mistake, even orally.

  40. Zart
    Zart
    April 26, 2012 at 4:17 am | #

    * -it

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