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by David M Willis on November 16, 2012 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - If the Shoe Splits
└ Tags: danny, walky

Discussion (89) ¬

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    November 16, 2012 at 12:01 am | #

    Well, THAT worked.

    • Resne
      Resne
      November 16, 2012 at 11:19 am | #

      Honestly it went about as well as could be expected when Walky and Dorothy get to planning at 8:30 in the morning.

      • Valdrax
        Valdrax
        November 16, 2012 at 2:27 pm | #

        Well now, that’s just not Presidential material, is it?

        • Resne
          Resne
          November 16, 2012 at 2:42 pm | #

          Depends on the president.

          I mean James Buchanan would have done it.

          • Jabberwocky
            Jabberwocky
            November 18, 2012 at 12:24 am | #

            Nah, more of a William Harrison thing.

  2. David Herbert
    David Herbert
    November 16, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    Curses, the one thing we couldn’t have predicted.

    • Petre Pan
      Petre Pan
      November 16, 2012 at 11:27 pm | #

      Is that sarcasm I detect?

      • David Herbert
        David Herbert
        November 18, 2012 at 3:58 am | #

        *Looks at sarcasm detector* Are you kidding? This baby’s going off the charts.

  3. Melvin Schlock
    Melvin Schlock
    November 16, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    Smo-o-o-oth.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      November 16, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

      …as sandpaper.

      • Rufus Saltus
        Rufus Saltus
        November 16, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

        30 grit

        • Raticate5
          Raticate5
          November 16, 2012 at 12:20 am | #

          used as toilet paper

          • Axel Bordelon
            Axel Bordelon
            November 16, 2012 at 9:47 am | #

            You aren’t from this comic…. WARNING WARNING, we have a breach in security that involves…….. questionable content.

            • Whittier
              Whittier
              November 16, 2012 at 8:06 pm | #

              Laugh of the Day™, thanks.

    • Khrene
      Khrene
      November 16, 2012 at 12:17 am | #

      As cheap Vodka.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      November 16, 2012 at 12:33 am | #

      As crushed ice.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      November 16, 2012 at 12:45 am | #

      As barbed wire.

    • Chaos_Priest
      Chaos_Priest
      November 16, 2012 at 12:48 am | #

      As road rash.

    • slicedtoad
      slicedtoad
      November 16, 2012 at 1:18 am | #

      As Quebec’s roads.

      • Drunken Nordmann
        Drunken Nordmann
        November 16, 2012 at 3:25 am | #

        As my cheek.

        • Jackson
          Jackson
          November 16, 2012 at 6:54 am | #

          As your face!

          FAAACE!

      • Tylertlat
        Tylertlat
        November 16, 2012 at 10:39 am | #

        As Michigan’s roads.

    • madd
      madd
      November 16, 2012 at 12:57 pm | #

      As extra crunchy peanut butter?

      • fatemaster1
        fatemaster1
        June 19, 2014 at 9:17 pm | #

        As broken glass.

  4. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    November 16, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    Will Amazi-Girl walk out of his room???

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      November 16, 2012 at 12:32 am | #

      She will stick to the ceiling as a bead of sweat drops from her nose right next to Walky who will look up to find her gone.

  5. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    November 16, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    Walky may have high INT scores but obviously he used WIS as his dump stat.

    • ASmellyOgre
      ASmellyOgre
      November 16, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

      All comments should be made in this context.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        November 16, 2012 at 12:12 am | #

        Walky attempts a SAVE roll against his diplomacy and rolls a 1.

        • Raoullefere
          Raoullefere
          November 16, 2012 at 4:02 am | #

          Yep. Crit fail, opposite effect achieved. Roll for initiative.

      • TPman
        TPman
        November 16, 2012 at 12:50 am | #

        Danny’s detect ulterior motive roll succeeds.

    • Vabolo
      Vabolo
      November 16, 2012 at 1:00 am | #

      Joe never splits the party, his high CON score allows him to keep it going all night long.

  6. Sensedog
    Sensedog
    November 16, 2012 at 12:09 am | #

    Joe could be in Billie’s room for all we know.

    Or really, any room occupied by a female. Too many doors on which to knock, not enough time.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      November 16, 2012 at 12:15 am | #

      If the room is arocking, DON’T come aknocking.

      • Khrene
        Khrene
        November 16, 2012 at 12:20 am | #

        If the room is arocking, Joe giving a cocking…

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          November 16, 2012 at 12:29 am | #

          If the room is arocking, call a seismologist, because that’s dangerous.

          • Andiemus
            Andiemus
            November 16, 2012 at 2:39 pm | #

            Pffft. In san francisco we don’t even pause while we walk of it’s less than a IV-VIII.

            • Kernanator
              Kernanator
              November 16, 2012 at 10:10 pm | #

              Yeah, when other places would be “OMG an earthquake AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!”, the Bay Area is like, “Eh.”

              • Wack'd
                Wack'd
                November 18, 2012 at 4:17 pm | #

                “What do you think? 5.1?”

        • Mogotoo
          Mogotoo
          November 16, 2012 at 12:30 am | #

          If the handle has a stocking, don’t bother with unlocking.

          • Roborat
            Roborat
            November 20, 2012 at 3:25 pm | #

            It the handle has a condom, they’re already done.

          • Roborat
            Roborat
            November 20, 2012 at 3:27 pm | #

            If the handle has a condom, they’re done.

            • Roborat
              Roborat
              November 20, 2012 at 3:32 pm | #

              Aargh, sorry for double post, and different errors in each one. Well, make one corrected post out of the two

  7. SkepticJ
    SkepticJ
    November 16, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

    I wonder why Danny looks angry in the last panel. Admittedly, it’s an odd question, but unless he knows about Walkothy, I am surprised that he seems mad.

    • Bronze Knight
      Bronze Knight
      November 16, 2012 at 12:13 am | #

      He was really looking forward to hanging that bead skirt before class.

      • Bronze Knight
        Bronze Knight
        November 16, 2012 at 12:19 am | #

        Bed*

      • Khrene
        Khrene
        November 16, 2012 at 12:22 am | #

        Its a bed KILT.

      • Ancestral Hamster
        Ancestral Hamster
        November 16, 2012 at 1:03 am | #

        Or wearing it …

    • Mogotoo
      Mogotoo
      November 16, 2012 at 12:28 am | #

      Maybe he just gets asked for his shoes a lot.

    • ASmellyOgre
      ASmellyOgre
      November 16, 2012 at 12:34 am | #

      The proper portmanteau for that is “Dorky”

      • lightsabermario
        lightsabermario
        November 16, 2012 at 4:43 am | #

        That is AMAZINGLY perfect. I can’t believe I hadn’t thought of that.

    • Blob Marley
      Blob Marley
      November 16, 2012 at 12:45 am | #

      Has he seen Walky and Dot together already? I thought he might have seen them together already.

  8. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    November 16, 2012 at 12:24 am | #

    Walky: Master of Conversation.

  9. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    November 16, 2012 at 12:27 am | #

    You should have said you were taking a survey, Walky. You need help with your goofy, sitcom cliche, lying.

  10. Zap Rowsdower
    Zap Rowsdower
    November 16, 2012 at 12:47 am | #

    Looking at that last panel in both expressions, head angles, and statements, Danny isn’t wearing pants, is he.

    • Hannover Fist
      Hannover Fist
      November 16, 2012 at 7:09 am | #

      He’s wearing a skirt.

      • Harry
        Harry
        November 17, 2012 at 7:27 am | #

        A bed skirt.

  11. TPman
    TPman
    November 16, 2012 at 12:48 am | #

    Smoooooth.

  12. GenericScreenName101
    GenericScreenName101
    November 16, 2012 at 12:51 am | #

    No wrries Walky, for it is not the size of the shoe but how you walk which matters.

    *shuffels away in comically large clown shoes*

  13. Chaos_Priest
    Chaos_Priest
    November 16, 2012 at 12:57 am | #

    Now initiating akward pause.

    • lightsabermario
      lightsabermario
      November 16, 2012 at 4:47 am | #

      That is perfect coming from that avatar.

      • Chaos_Priest
        Chaos_Priest
        November 17, 2012 at 3:34 pm | #

        What do you mean?

  14. nothri
    nothri
    November 16, 2012 at 1:23 am | #

    So, taking all bets here folks. How awkward is this gonna get? I’m hoping that Amber is hiding somewhere back in that room under a bedsheet for maximum awkwardness!

    • Noel Schornhorst
      Noel Schornhorst
      November 16, 2012 at 1:37 am | #

      I’m hoping Dina’s hiding under a pile of bedskirts with no idea how she got there or why.

    • Legasher
      Legasher
      November 16, 2012 at 3:27 am | #

      Did you know your Gravatar was Joe when you wrote that? ‘Cause that’s awesome.

    • Raoullefere
      Raoullefere
      November 16, 2012 at 3:59 am | #

      Offhand, I’d say that Danny, if he were anyone but Danny, wouldn’t be thinking about redecorating while he has a girl in his room. especially if she’s been there all night.

      But this is Danny, and DoA Danny (as opposed to R Danny, who seemed to have a touch, if only a touch, more machismo) at that. So I suppose all bets are off.

  15. Noel Schornhorst
    Noel Schornhorst
    November 16, 2012 at 1:37 am | #

    Walky and Danny should make out….

    ….

    NOW!

    • Shade
      Shade
      November 17, 2012 at 2:26 am | #

      Seconded.

  16. Aegon01
    Aegon01
    November 16, 2012 at 1:41 am | #

    When you think about it, this is really the only thing that could have happened.

  17. Geegles
    Geegles
    November 16, 2012 at 1:46 am | #

    Gonna be honest, I am in love with Walky’s big eyes.

  18. Just for kix
    Just for kix
    November 16, 2012 at 2:34 am | #

    Walky’s head is like an acorn.

  19. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    November 16, 2012 at 2:34 am | #

    So, either Danny knows, or Walky just walked in on an akward moment?

  20. AJBulldis
    AJBulldis
    November 16, 2012 at 6:11 am | #

    KICK HIS ASS DANNY.

  21. Jimmy
    Jimmy
    November 16, 2012 at 6:33 am | #

    In the 3rd panel Walky looks like Oliver Twist asking for more gruel, and in the last panel Danny’s reaction is about the same as Mr. Bumble’s.

    • Andiemus
      Andiemus
      November 16, 2012 at 2:36 pm | #

      SSSSHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOEEEEEESSSSSSS?!??????!

  22. Sir Robin
    Sir Robin
    November 16, 2012 at 7:33 am | #

    Kick his ass Danny!!!

    • Tarkada
      Tarkada
      November 16, 2012 at 9:41 am | #

      Why? Walky has done nothing wrong so far. Dating someone with an Ex is not a wrong doing and out of Danny or Joe, Walky knows Joe from classes so it would be more proper to speak to him about shoes.

      • Sir Robin
        Sir Robin
        November 17, 2012 at 8:01 pm | #

        I just want to see who would win

  23. axekickerdwarf
    axekickerdwarf
    November 16, 2012 at 9:03 am | #

    I don’t know, I look at Dannys face and think he’s incredibly unimpressed that this conversation might (however unlikely) lead to him getting mugged for his shoes.

  24. Bill Murphy
    Bill Murphy
    November 16, 2012 at 9:52 am | #

    Time to try plan B!

  25. JBO
    JBO
    November 16, 2012 at 10:06 am | #

    “Well his feet are about 15 Inches long.”

  26. Arturo
    Arturo
    November 16, 2012 at 10:10 am | #

    To quote from Homer (Simpson)-
    “Is he coming on to me…?
    … Oh my god he IS coming on to me!”

  27. AckAckAck
    AckAckAck
    November 17, 2012 at 2:01 am | #

    Walky: Can you turn around, close your eyes and count to 10? Please?

    Danny: Why are you holding a brick?

  28. Acedia
    Acedia
    November 17, 2012 at 1:16 pm | #

    Is it just me or does anyone else extremely dislike danny.

    • Tunasammich
      Tunasammich
      November 18, 2012 at 3:58 pm | #

      It’s just you, I luff Danny

  29. Dexter
    Dexter
    November 18, 2012 at 11:52 am | #

    Can we just take a moment to appreciate that this strip is composed entirely of varying shades of brown?

    • Zababcd
      Zababcd
      November 18, 2012 at 5:17 pm | #

      Brown is difficult to define, but for me (from an MS Paint colour analysis perspective), it has a hue between red and yellow (not inclusive). MS Paint says that the wall at the back is yellow. However, because I can do more than just analyse colours in MS Paint, here is a colour-corrected version that is all brown for you:
      Colour-Corrected Brown Dumbing of Age Image

  30. Mancuso
    Mancuso
    November 21, 2012 at 5:56 am | #

    I keep coming back to this strip and it keeps cracking me up. Every time. Walky’s fingers fer chrissakes…

  31. averystrangeplace
    averystrangeplace
    April 2, 2013 at 10:11 pm | #

    Walky is one suave mothereffer.

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