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by David M Willis on March 14, 2014 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - I Was a Teenage Churchmouse
└ Tags: danny, grace, mandy

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  1. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    March 14, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    OH THE UNLIKENIESS OF IT ALL!

    • Aeyt
      Aeyt
      March 14, 2014 at 2:35 pm | #

      DUDE! TOTALLY! hilarious complete

  2. Regalli
    Regalli
    March 14, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    AH HA! WE HAVE FOUND A LADY NOT WEARING A HOODIE DRESS!

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      March 14, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      Just a Hoodie. She’s halfway there.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        March 14, 2014 at 1:08 am | #

        –LIVIN’ ON A PRAYER!!
        (You’re dumped.)

        • nothri
          nothri
          March 14, 2014 at 1:21 am | #

          (Screw you, that song is awesome!)

          Take my hand…

          • IncadescentFlame
            IncadescentFlame
            March 14, 2014 at 2:59 am | #

            And we’ll make it I swear.

            • Astrum
              Astrum
              March 14, 2014 at 4:00 am | #

              You give lo-ove… a bad name!

              • NaughtbutaHoax
                NaughtbutaHoax
                March 14, 2014 at 11:54 am | #

                COOL DRINKA WATER SHE’S A SWEET SURPRISE

            • Parnifia the Bastard
              Parnifia the Bastard
              March 14, 2014 at 9:33 am | #

              WHOOO-OH!

              • Sambo
                Sambo
                March 14, 2014 at 11:17 am | #

                LIIIVIN’ ON A PRA-YER!

                • N0083rP00F
                  N0083rP00F
                  March 14, 2014 at 12:26 pm | #

                  Bwooda Bwooda Bwooda

                  {yeah – my onomatopoeia is not the best }

                • Arkantos
                  Arkantos
                  March 14, 2014 at 11:33 pm | #

                  Tommy used to work on the docks…

                • Kinoko
                  Kinoko
                  March 15, 2014 at 1:09 am | #

                  Union’s been on strike. He’s done on his luck. It’s toooouugh…

                • Leorale
                  Leorale
                  March 17, 2014 at 8:44 am | #

                  http://joyceandwalky.com/d/20060114.html

  3. Caffienated
    Caffienated
    March 14, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Burn the newspapers Danny.

    • KingMabel
      KingMabel
      March 14, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      Turn them into mulch. Better for the environment.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        March 14, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

        Turn them into paper airplanes. Better for the entertainment.

        • Cephalo the Pod
          Cephalo the Pod
          March 14, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

          Turn them into fake documents. Better for the embezzlement.

        • thecanvashat
          thecanvashat
          March 14, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

          Turn them into skin better for insides yes.

          • arank11
            arank11
            March 14, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

            The escalation of this conversation happened frighteningly quickly

            • Jen Aside
              Jen Aside
              March 14, 2014 at 12:21 am | #

              Turn them into ladders for better escalation

              • JA
                JA
                March 14, 2014 at 2:19 am | #

                Turn them into paper-mache, for the art students.

                • I don't know what to put here.
                  I don't know what to put here.
                  March 14, 2014 at 5:30 am | #

                  Turn them into admission forms, for better administration.
                  Turn them into condoms, for better ejaculation.
                  Turn them into high school grades, for required participation.
                  Turn them into plane tickets, so I can take a vacation.
                  I LIKE RHYMING.
                  DON’T JUDGE ME.

                • StClair
                  StClair
                  March 14, 2014 at 5:55 pm | #

                  Pesticides for fumigation, high-performance lubrication
                  Metal roofing, water proofing, multi-purpose insulation

                • Khantalas
                  Khantalas
                  March 14, 2014 at 6:20 pm | #

                  You know how much I hate that song for being nearly impossible to sing? Very very much.

                • Hoboturtle
                  Hoboturtle
                  March 14, 2014 at 6:49 pm | #

                  Someone write this down and turn this into a song in a disney movie.

                  Or a rock song, either way.

                • rytsuryn
                  rytsuryn
                  March 14, 2014 at 7:50 pm | #

                  what about paper-mache for the art appreciation

                • Jen Aside
                  Jen Aside
                  March 14, 2014 at 11:07 pm | #

                  Let it go, let it go!
                  Can’t hold it back any more.
                  Let it go, let it go!
                  Turn away and slam the door.
                  I don’t care what they’re going to say.
                  Let the news rage on.
                  The press never bothered me anyway.

                • Makkabee
                  Makkabee
                  March 17, 2014 at 1:07 am | #

                  Careful — if you sing that song enough, DoA cast members will start turning into lesbians.

    • Keroshino
      Keroshino
      March 14, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

      And then Danny became the Pyro!

      • Whatev
        Whatev
        March 14, 2014 at 7:01 am | #

        Do you believe in magic?

        • N0083rP00F
          N0083rP00F
          March 14, 2014 at 12:27 pm | #

          In a young girls heart

    • Jaxx Sentinel
      Jaxx Sentinel
      March 14, 2014 at 3:17 pm | #

      Turn them into paper mache’ , make a giant amazi=girl statue

      • Jaxx Sentinel
        Jaxx Sentinel
        March 14, 2014 at 3:18 pm | #

        for my entertainment ^

  4. Kevin
    Kevin
    March 14, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    This is the first time someone has a good shot of her in the daytime, right?

    • Kaiden
      Kaiden
      March 14, 2014 at 1:33 am | #

      Indeed. Amazi-Girl might need a better disguise, methinks.

  5. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    March 14, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Ah yeah. Right

  6. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    March 14, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    “Have you ever noticed you never see Superman and Clark Kent in the same room?”

    “DUH! Why would Superman hang out with a loser like Clark Kent?”

    • MM
      MM
      March 14, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      I dunno, Bruce Wayne seems to think he’s all right.

      • Chest Manly
        Chest Manly
        March 14, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

        That brain dead billionaire playboy? Who cares what he thinks! He’s just an flighty idiot with no real judge of character.

        • AgentKeen
          AgentKeen
          March 14, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

          Well dang… took too long.

          • MM
            MM
            March 14, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

            I’m sure Wally West couldn’t possibly help you with that problem.

            • mumbly_joe
              mumbly_joe
              March 14, 2014 at 10:41 pm | #

              I have no idea who that is

      • AgentKeen
        AgentKeen
        March 14, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

        Bruce Wayne’s just a playboy. He’s a terrible judge of character and probably just an idiot.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      March 14, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      That’d be like Billionaire Bruce Wayne hanging out with that Philistine, Batman.

      • momomelon
        momomelon
        March 14, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

        whoah. that’s TOO crazy, and we’d all know about it.
        every one knows bruce wayne can’t keep a secret!

  7. licoricepencil
    licoricepencil
    March 14, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    I like them. I want more of them.

    • licoricepencil
      licoricepencil
      March 14, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      Also it’s my birthday yaaaayyyyyyyyyy

      • Jay Eff
        Jay Eff
        March 14, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

        Happy Birthday!

      • -Sentinel-
        -Sentinel-
        March 14, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

        Happy birthday!

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        March 14, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

        Happy birthday!

      • I don't know what to put here.
        I don't know what to put here.
        March 14, 2014 at 5:23 am | #

        FUCK YOU.

        Also, happy birthday.

      • licoricepencil
        licoricepencil
        March 15, 2014 at 12:29 pm | #

        You guys are the bestest. Even you I don’t know what to put here.

    • -Sentinel-
      -Sentinel-
      March 14, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

      Which is which, again? Been a few years since my last Old Walkyverse binge.

      • Bill
        Bill
        March 14, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

        Grace is the redhead with the hoodie and the glasses; Mandy is the blonde.

        • Bill
          Bill
          March 14, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

          Oops!  Got that backwards.
          Mandy is the redhead (or is that auburn?); Grace is the blonde.

        • Cephalo the Pod
          Cephalo the Pod
          March 14, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

          No, it’s the other way around.

        • dropded
          dropded
          March 14, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

          Correct, if you totally reverse it.

        • Bill
          Bill
          March 14, 2014 at 1:31 am | #

          Proof that Mandy is the redhead.

          • LQ
            LQ
            March 14, 2014 at 2:45 am | #

            Proof that Grace is the blonde. Also, the only strip where Grace appears without Mandy. (This being the only strip where Mandy appears without Grace.)

  8. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    March 14, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Yes. If either of those two things were really happening, we’d have to be in a fictional world writen by a transformers geek or somethin’!

    • newllend
      newllend
      March 14, 2014 at 12:27 am | #

      And it would be getting closer to spring break and The new Smash Bros would STILL NOT BE OUT!

      • nekobawt
        nekobawt
        March 14, 2014 at 3:00 am | #

        just like ethan! *rimshot*

        • StClair
          StClair
          March 14, 2014 at 5:43 pm | #

          nice. *claps*

  9. Thanks, I'll Have Another!
    Thanks, I'll Have Another!
    March 14, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Statler and Waldorf for the Millennial Generation.

    • IncadescentFlame
      IncadescentFlame
      March 14, 2014 at 3:03 am | #

      I vote Lesothosaurus for the Millenial Generation. He’s sure to do a better job of reforming healthcare.

      • Gamaran Sepudomyn
        Gamaran Sepudomyn
        March 14, 2014 at 12:02 pm | #

        Best avatar for this comment.

  10. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    March 14, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    I like that line:”…as likely as Billie and Ruthless having a thing.”

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      March 14, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

      We know that ship has sunk, you would need a shipload of pingpong balls to raise that one up again.

      • Rutee
        Rutee
        March 14, 2014 at 1:15 am | #

        Pft, they’ve come back from far worse than that. All we know is they’re having a tiff, atm.

      • nothri
        nothri
        March 14, 2014 at 1:50 am | #

        Plasma Mongoose, if you have any love for your femurs you’ll bite your tongue and never speak this damn dirty lie ever again!!!

        (By which I mean to say that I respectfully disagree with your analysis)

    • tinfoil theory
      tinfoil theory
      March 14, 2014 at 4:29 am | #

      And by “thing”, they mean lesbian babies.

      • I don't know what to put here.
        I don't know what to put here.
        March 14, 2014 at 5:21 am | #

        And by lesbian babies, they mean my penis.

    • BlackIo
      BlackIo
      March 14, 2014 at 9:58 am | #

      In all fairness, somebody has to have picked up on all the time Billie is suddenly spending in Ruth’s room.

  11. Jack Finch
    Jack Finch
    March 14, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Twoferone speculatin’
    Damnable fine work Mr Willis.

    • I don't know what to put here.
      I don't know what to put here.
      March 14, 2014 at 5:20 am | #

      JACK SAID A SWEAR!

      • Jack Finch
        Jack Finch
        March 14, 2014 at 10:06 pm | #

        Don’t tell my sister.

  12. Tunaro
    Tunaro
    March 14, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    I thought Greek choruses were s’posed to sing and talk in rhyme.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      March 14, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      So Grace and Mandy are meant to be like A-ko and B-ko the shadow girls from Utena?

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        March 14, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

        as long as they aren’t Tate Otoko and Yoko Otoko

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          March 14, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

          Not familiar with those two characters.

          • Jen Aside
            Jen Aside
            March 14, 2014 at 12:20 am | #

            the last one in the article: http://flyingfullforceblog.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/the-bishoujo-confusion/

          • Opus the Poet
            Opus the Poet
            March 14, 2014 at 12:46 am | #

            All I could find was a cast list for an anime called “Comic Party” with the character descriptions of “slim guy” and “fat guy” respectively.

      • nothri
        nothri
        March 14, 2014 at 1:47 am | #

        DO YOU KNOW DO YOU KNOW HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEWS?

      • Romanticide
        Romanticide
        March 14, 2014 at 2:34 am | #

        Wonder I wonder, do you know what I wonder?

      • bibulb
        bibulb
        March 15, 2014 at 12:28 pm | #

        I was gonna go with Crystal, Chiffon, and Ronette, but the Shadow Girls work just as well.

        (OMG, swap those out! Little Shop of Horrors becomes creepier, and Utena becomes Brill-Building-licious!)

  13. John
    John
    March 14, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Just be glad Mandy and Grace weren’t listening to you naming Amber out loud just a second ago, Danny!

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      March 14, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      NOONE LISTENS TO DANNY.

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        March 14, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

        Danny’s a great confidante, because even when he spills the beans, no one listens.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        March 14, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

        He should go around loudly announcing that Amaz-Girl is Amber. Then no one will ever believe it.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          March 14, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

          Are you suggesting that Danny is the moden day Cassandra?

          • David
            David
            March 14, 2014 at 5:06 am | #

            More like Laokoon and the charger cable.

      • I don't know what to put here.
        I don't know what to put here.
        March 14, 2014 at 5:18 am | #

        TIMES OF DAY CAN’T LISTEN TO HIM.

      • StClair
        StClair
        March 14, 2014 at 5:45 pm | #

        Danny have very sad life.
        Probably have very sad death.
        At least there is symmetry.

  14. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    March 14, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    The threat of exposure has been reduced from Amber Alert to Green Alert.

    • KingMabel
      KingMabel
      March 14, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      I’m like 99% sure that you are always on Green Alert.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        March 14, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

        I’m more of a Minty Meadow Alert.

    • newllend
      newllend
      March 14, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

      Is it ok to ask what inspired demon eyed Joyce?

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        March 14, 2014 at 12:41 am | #

        Joyce has so many reaction faces that I just chose to modify one of them.

        • Gamaran Sepudomyn
          Gamaran Sepudomyn
          March 14, 2014 at 12:10 pm | #

          Huh, to me it looks more like Joyce is suffering from lack of sleep. I recognize that look, having seen it on my own face quite often.

          • Hylleddin
            Hylleddin
            March 14, 2014 at 1:54 pm | #

            Yeah, that was my impression too.

  15. Jay Eff
    Jay Eff
    March 14, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    I recently watched Revolutionary Girl Utena, so I keep expecting Mandy and Grace to say “Do you know? Do you know?”

    • Fran
      Fran
      March 14, 2014 at 1:59 pm | #

      OMG, Thank you for this!!!!

    • StClair
      StClair
      March 14, 2014 at 5:46 pm | #

      Look up. You are not alone.

  16. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    March 14, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    Grace even SOUNDS like my real-life California friend in my head. It’s like Willis is spying on her or something.

  17. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    March 14, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    Mandy and Grace are reminding me of Meryl and Milly from Trigun.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      March 14, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

      Now they have those voices in my head and will forever. Years from now, when they make their next appearance, I’ll hear Meryl and Milly and wonder where the hell that came from.

  18. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    March 14, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    “AMBER? PRAY TELL WHAT BRINGS HER TO MIND.”

  19. MM
    MM
    March 14, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

    Well, at the moment, Billie and Ruth having a thing is about as likely as Dexter and Monkey Master being real, so Amber should be perfectly safe.

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      March 14, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

      So Amber’s identity is contingent on Billie and Ruth staying split up?

      • MM
        MM
        March 14, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

        At least until Mandy and Grace come up with another comparison. Hey, how about Roz’s sister and the gender studies professor?

        • momomelon
          momomelon
          March 14, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

          what? no, you’d have to be in an alternate dimension for something like THAT to happen.

      • John
        John
        March 14, 2014 at 12:40 am | #

        If that’s the case, I am totally okay with Amber’s identity being exposed.

        • moby
          moby
          March 14, 2014 at 3:05 am | #

          No…you wouldn’t!

  20. Kladeos
    Kladeos
    March 14, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

    This is strip is perfect.

    • -Sentinel-
      -Sentinel-
      March 14, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

      Your is grammar is not.

      • calibus
        calibus
        March 14, 2014 at 1:57 am | #

        Why is you is mad is for is nothing?

        • Jen Aside
          Jen Aside
          March 14, 2014 at 2:59 am | #

          That depends on what the definition of is is.

          • I don't know what to put here.
            I don't know what to put here.
            March 14, 2014 at 5:16 am | #

            What it is.

            • xKiv
              xKiv
              March 14, 2014 at 11:01 pm | #

              Computer, define is, Johnny Freakingouter.

  21. momomelon
    momomelon
    March 14, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

    amber being amazi girl??? that’s more unlikely then joyce and walky getting married.
    I’d sooner say amazi-girl is a CAR.

  22. DrBear
    DrBear
    March 14, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

    There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

  23. Zap Rowsdower
    Zap Rowsdower
    March 14, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

    If they’re the GREEK chorus, why aren’t they living in a sorority house?

    • RK
      RK
      March 14, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

      Be… cause Rush usually happens later in the year?

  24. AgentKeen
    AgentKeen
    March 14, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

    Aww, don’t be so mean. I mean, Amber’s always ni- Well, she um…

    She never causes any trouble because she’s a shut-in?

  25. newllend
    newllend
    March 14, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

    I dont know what’s funnier, the fact that Danny now knows how obvious this is or that two random ass side-characters a figuring all this shit out and more faster than he is.

    • Aakriti
      Aakriti
      March 14, 2014 at 12:53 am | #

      +100

  26. Kschenke
    Kschenke
    March 14, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

    AND THAT’S THE GOSPEL TRUTH!

  27. Orion Fury
    Orion Fury
    March 14, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

    Is it bad that I think Grace bears a familiarity to a character in another universe whose name starts with an ‘A’ and ends with an ‘ar’?

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      March 14, 2014 at 10:35 am | #

      She doesn’t *look* like a bald kid with an arrow on his head…

    • Kschenke
      Kschenke
      March 14, 2014 at 2:17 pm | #

      Admiral Ackbar?

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      March 17, 2014 at 3:14 pm | #

      Nah, she isn’t tall enough, or blue.

  28. arank11
    arank11
    March 14, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

    “It’s about as likely as Joe getting together with that supermarket checkout girl.”

    • tinfoil theory
      tinfoil theory
      March 14, 2014 at 4:45 am | #

      Or anyone that isn’t Roz DeSanto, and for her purposes it didn’t matter who it was. In this universe, Joe will never be his father.
      For every prediction regarding women Joe has made in this comic, Joe has been proven wrong by Danny, except the one about Dorothy, and about Joyce, where he proved himself wrong.

      Joe is about as much a womanizer in this world as Faz.

      • I don't know what to put here.
        I don't know what to put here.
        March 14, 2014 at 5:15 am | #

        Faz gets laid constantly?

  29. SilverArrowArtemis
    SilverArrowArtemis
    March 14, 2014 at 12:20 am | #

    Ugh, the Superman-itis strikes again.

  30. arjay2813
    arjay2813
    March 14, 2014 at 12:28 am | #

    read what mandy (i think) is saying and heard this part at about 1:30 on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMIDpJ8H7H0

  31. Jake
    Jake
    March 14, 2014 at 12:38 am | #

    Who do these mere /normal/ people think they are having this much knowledge about the storyline? Only the readers may know of such details!

  32. Rani
    Rani
    March 14, 2014 at 12:45 am | #

    Of course fuckin’ now everyone’s spidey senses are tingling

  33. Dean
    Dean
    March 14, 2014 at 1:08 am | #

    I smell a wacky misunderstanding!

  34. Morty
    Morty
    March 14, 2014 at 1:10 am | #

    I can’t help but think that these two are gonna Harvey and Bernstein this thing WIDE OPEN

  35. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    March 14, 2014 at 1:11 am | #

    Noone else has a rump as luscious and round as that Geek girl’s though! IT MUST BE HERS.

    • newllend
      newllend
      March 14, 2014 at 1:48 am | #

      What’s really funny though is that can actually be their main lead.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        March 14, 2014 at 2:08 am | #

        Amber regrets her perfectly toned roundish rump.

        • Jen Aside
          Jen Aside
          March 14, 2014 at 2:59 am | #

          Better hope they don’t start tailing her

  36. AdinaLaura
    AdinaLaura
    March 14, 2014 at 1:20 am | #

    Oh my god. That girl is totally Ultra Car!

    • AdinaLaura
      AdinaLaura
      March 14, 2014 at 1:22 am | #

      Why is that blanked out? Well, let’s just say she shares similar features to a character also featured in today’s Shortpacked comic

      • nothri
        nothri
        March 14, 2014 at 1:36 am | #

        I’m guessing you are talking about the Car that is Ultra? Willis got tired of people making the “Amazigirl is totally ” joke awhile back and censored it with some kind of coding wizardry that is beyond my ken (pretty much like ALL forms of programming voodoo).

        • Jen Aside
          Jen Aside
          March 14, 2014 at 2:58 am | #

          She actually looks more like if that character and Leslie reproduced…

        • Deathjavu
          Deathjavu
          March 14, 2014 at 4:08 am | #

          It’s not terribly complicated, it just checks for the phrase and replaces it… And it was because new readers were apparently put off by all the in-jokes and references to other universes.

          There’s even a thing about it on the FAQ.

  37. nothri
    nothri
    March 14, 2014 at 1:23 am | #

    Man, this could be bad if Danny ends up revealing Amazigirl’s secret identity. Thank god for that impenetrable poker face he’s got going there. No one will ever suspect a thing.

    • I don't know what to put here.
      I don't know what to put here.
      March 14, 2014 at 5:14 am | #

      THE PERFECT CRIME.

  38. Alex
    Alex
    March 14, 2014 at 1:32 am | #

    See, when I read this my first thought was, wait a sec, that Red-haired girl is Willis. I mean with a dye job on the hair.

    • Keroshino
      Keroshino
      March 14, 2014 at 2:02 pm | #

      Well, now I can’t unsee it!

    • Darth Cariss
      Darth Cariss
      March 14, 2014 at 2:41 pm | #

      You’re right. She’s not as pale, and the hair color is different of course, but otherwise she does look remarkably like Willis’s illustrated version of himself.

  39. Ancestral Hamster
    Ancestral Hamster
    March 14, 2014 at 2:38 am | #

    They can’t be a Greek chorus: they are not saying anything appropriately classical like “Woe, woe unto the House of Atreides” or “Call no man happy until he is dead.”

    • nekobawt
      nekobawt
      March 14, 2014 at 3:19 am | #

      so like “woe, woe unto the house of o’malley” or “call no man happy unless blaine is dead” then?

      • Ancestral Hamster
        Ancestral Hamster
        March 14, 2014 at 4:46 am | #

        That’s better, although I think the second quote runs, “Call no Amber happy until Blaine is dead.” (Based on Amber’s reaction at Blaine’s funeral in the SP! universe.)

        As for long-running family curses, Amber could become a child abuser just like her father. Unfortunately, the cycle of abuse tends to perpetuate in families from generation to generation.

  40. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    March 14, 2014 at 3:37 am | #

    You see, Danny? Other people can totally make that same mistake. You figured it out first. THAT MAKES YOU THE SMARTEST!

    … of course, in a place called the Dumbingverse, that might be a low bar.

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      March 14, 2014 at 9:16 am | #

      He didn’t figure anything out, her mask came off in front of him.

  41. acher4
    acher4
    March 14, 2014 at 3:48 am | #

    That’s a great strip for the usual Superman/Clark thing, and its nice to see those 2 girls having dialogue (and differences at the same time). Cool!

  42. ArkArks
    ArkArks
    March 14, 2014 at 5:49 am | #

    I have the feeling that Danny will soon start dannying … I mean do things that will cause a lot of trouble. For Amber of course.
    – ironic mode activated –
    He is clearly a master of keeping secrets. Or staying quiet. Or just doing not retarded things in general.

  43. Vree
    Vree
    March 14, 2014 at 6:22 am | #

    Now you only need to explain why the campus has such a high crime rate and how she learns about these in advance so that she can be there to prevent them, and this story will be perfectly realistic! (well, more or less)

    • Animal
      Animal
      March 14, 2014 at 8:46 am | #

      Because the God of their universe, David Willis, has decreed that it shall be so.

      And no, that isn’t the first time in the last fifteen years or so that the thought of David Willis as a deity has just scared the crap right outta me.

    • Bemmie
      Bemmie
      March 14, 2014 at 4:15 pm | #

      Where ever you get a large amount of people that are a fair cross section of society, and cram them together in small places, crime will happen for a number of reasons, people get stupid, people get desperate, or some people are just douches.

      I’m certain it has been established that Amber’s room has a great vantage point over campus, and I know it has definitely been mentioned that she likes to patrol.

      Personally I like the idea that whilst she does patrol, despite being a shut in, Amber wistfully gazes out over her campus wishing she was brave/strong enough to be a part of that world, inside feeling that only Amazi girl could ever be… Her recent crisis of identity bringing this issue to the fore and requiring resolution when the pacing is right…

      But that’s just me…

      -Bem

  44. Gargamel
    Gargamel
    March 14, 2014 at 8:39 am | #

    Danny is number 5! Yay!
    …I mean, Danny is self-aware! Yay!

  45. Valmore
    Valmore
    March 14, 2014 at 9:31 am | #

    Come on Danny, scream HER ASS ISN’T THAT WIDE right now and hope they don’t hear you. Then stick out your tongue and drool while moaning “Mmmmmmmmm, dat assssssss.” Do it for the kids!

  46. Shanunu
    Shanunu
    March 14, 2014 at 9:43 am | #

    Danny, way to keep up with the fashion of the day. Really, sometimes he is just so clueless.

  47. Kevin
    Kevin
    March 14, 2014 at 3:05 pm | #

    Wait a minute, my real-life roommate is a short, wide-butted (mmm), shut-in geek girl with short brown hair. SHE’S AMAZI-GIRL!

    • Bemmie
      Bemmie
      March 14, 2014 at 4:17 pm | #

      Now if you could only get her into the Amazi Girl outfit before she wakes up…

      …or is that a little too creepy, I always have a hard time telling?

      -Bem

      • Kryss LaBryn
        Kryss LaBryn
        March 15, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

        A long time ago, in a scifi novel (I think by Andre Norton, whom I adored), the derogatory term for aliens was, being based on the acronym from 50’s genre movies for Bug-Eyed Monsters, “bemmies”.

        So now I have to ask if your username is taken from that, and regardless of that, thank you for a moment of nostalgia for one of my favourite books which I had completely forgotten.

        Wonder if I can track it down again..?

  48. Triniking
    Triniking
    March 14, 2014 at 4:56 pm | #

    THEY KNOW?!?

    *panics*

  49. Kathleen
    Kathleen
    March 14, 2014 at 4:59 pm | #

    How many short girls with short hair and glasses are going to be in this comic, anyway? We have at least four by my count. Amber, Dorothy, Mandy, (or is it Grace), and the other Rachel character mentioned on Willis’ tumblr the other day.

  50. Minder
    Minder
    March 14, 2014 at 6:13 pm | #

    Yay, Mandy and Grace! 😀 There should always be more Mandy and Grace.

  51. Cody B
    Cody B
    March 14, 2014 at 10:07 pm | #

    That’s it. I’m having these girls select my stock portfolio.

  52. -JAD-
    -JAD-
    March 15, 2014 at 12:46 am | #

    Is Danny getting red when he hears about “Billie and Ruthless”?

  53. brumagem
    brumagem
    March 15, 2014 at 12:08 pm | #

    Why does hen-clucking make such good exposition?

  54. OmegaDez
    OmegaDez
    March 17, 2014 at 10:25 am | #

    This is officially my favorite DoA strip ever.

  55. Kryss LaBryn
    Kryss LaBryn
    February 1, 2015 at 1:01 pm | #

    Holy shit, just realized Mandy is Willis in a dress. With dyed hair.

    How did I not notice that before??

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Good news for the people still circulating this post: it is now a real t-shirt you can purchase and wear to let the world know you take responsibility for the actions of fictional characters:
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Normally I’d let this sort of thing just die out but an alarming amount of you have asked where you can buy this and my wife had to have an emergency surgery the day before I made this, so here is my chance to live the American Dream (selling print-on-demand shirts to pay down medical debt)
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tested ep1 of Micronauts, skipped to the credits so I could see every name of every crew member who put in so much work with the expectation that anybody would ever see the thing they did as part of their vocation in a creative field, working in service of what should be a reliable client & partner
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tested ep1 of Micronauts, skipped to the credits so I could see every name of every crew member who put in so much work with the expectation that anybody would ever see the thing they did as part of their vocation in a creative field, working in service of what should be a reliable client & partner
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admittedly, i might be arriving at a little annoyance on behalf of anyone responded to ever with "WELL it's not called SMARTING of age" because that's become a lot, i think the fork might be in that one, it's done
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today in #9chickweedlane i learned that "how to lie" is not, actually, achieved by cupping the balls, despite the evidence of the entirety of the first panel, but by some other giant pile of words i guess, tl;dr
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OK democrats shutting down congress by attaching Epstein amendments to everything is pretty funny
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Politico & Punchbowl report House Republican leadership is shutting down the Rules Committee - which is essential for moving party-line bills on the floor - for the week rather than vote on Democratic amendments on the Epstein files. Dems have effectively halted Republican legislation in the House:
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give hunter biden all the laptops and cocaine that he wants
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COMPLETE ALCHEMIST PRIME POWER (Okay there's a Prime Master downstairs inside the Throne of the Primes spinny wheel thing)
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
hunter biden for president?????
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Hunter Biden has a point. And a quite colorful one.
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