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To be fair to Dorothy, she’s just worried that if Walky manages to get his shirt all the way off right now, she’ll lose all self-control and everyone in that room will get to see her and Walky making a sex in about the next 5 minutes…!
about both Ethan and Danny–face blindness is a thing. >_>
I know more than one person who won’t recognize someone after (a non drastic) haircut and will have to re-memorize their face as though the person had had plastic surgery
I know what you mean. A friend of mine is 26, 6’3″, and around 165 pounds. Throughout this past year of college he’s been desperately trying to gain weight. He was drinking a smoothie thing that he’d make by throwing a bunch of high protein, high calorie stuff in a blender two-three times per day. He had added up the calories for it and it came out to over 1000 for each one, in addition to regular meals. He managed to gain about 10 pounds after several months, but had to stop drinking the smoothie because his gallbladder was inflamed or something from all the fats in it and immediately started losing that hard-earned weight rapidly. He’s not some super athlete burning tons of calories on exercise either–we both go to an art school and spend the vast majority of our time holed up in our rooms working on projects. His body just seems to burn way, way more calories than it probably should.
a friend of mine has something similar, only it turns out it is a thyroid thing called Grave’s disease, where her thyroid is hyper active.
It also causes other side effects, so maybe your friend should get his thyroid checked for hyper ness? (even if it isn’t graves, it could be useful to know)
But it’s not just that they’re in the same room. The two guys Amber cares most about are sitting right next to Sal. (because it wasn’t enough for Willis to put them in the same room, no, they had to all sit next to each other and get along and have fun together, because otherwise it wouldn’t be dramatic enough when Amber sees all this.)
Hmm, that came out wrong. I have no problem with stalking being depicted (accurately) in the comic. What I have a problem with is the idea that anybody should be a stalker.
I’ll take on the role of pedant, (because I like to), and point out that this storyline only goes until early July. Unless Walky continually decides to follow Billie around for more alcohol for the next few storylines, he’ll probably sober up by the next day. It will be interesting to see how he handles a hangover though.
Damn, how I would love a forward time machine. (For unrelated reasons though).
The Dumbing of Age tumblr/Willis tumblr sometimes have preview panels (Generally single panels without any text from a strip that Willis drew, meaning we won’t see the whole strip for a few months).
And generally looking at the buffer watch and comparing it to the current archive gives you an idea of how far ahead the buffer is from us.
Like as of this posting it’s on September 5th, and the archive currently has the name of Book 6 storylines on it. So there’s that.
Sal’s into tall dudes. Explains Jason well enough. Dude may be built like a pipe cleaner, but he’s got the verticality to bring about Sal’s horizontality.
Sal said something blatantly flirty and smiled at Ethan, Ethan didn’t smile and made some serious comment. Then Sal started looking at her cards. She knows how to read signals, she’s not interested.
Five years ago and the whole thing was over in minutes. Probably didn’t have to testify in court, so he’s hardly seen her, and they were both 13 at that point. People change a lot physically between 13 and 18.
Some do, some don’t. When I was thirty I once got recognised by someone who hadn’t seen me since I was three, sitting in a laundromat five hundred miles away from home. And no, I didn’t have my name written on my shirt.
Well, while he was being held, his back was likely toward her, so he may not have gotten as good of a look at her as Amber did. Plus, Ethan was focused on protecting Amber, so probably was looking at her the most, whereas Amber was completely focused on Sal, so Sal’s image was more thoroughly burned into her mind. Even after the police came and Sal was being arrested, Ethan’s main concern was Amber, so he probably wasn’t paying much attention to Sal.
Everything about the last two panels is hilarious. And Sal’s smile in panel one lights up my life.
Can’t wait for when Ethan inevitably remembers where he knows her from (I still think it’s gonna be as soon as Amber shows up), drama will surely ensue.
Sal managed to nullify Ethan’s slowly percolating memory of their previous encounter. Though she doesn’t seem to remember him either, so it’s not like she did this for sinister reasons.
The only time we’ve seen her without her gloves is when she was dressed up for her parents, and even then made it a point to hide her right hand behind her back.
There was one scene, when everyone was discussing what to do about THE EVENT that happened at the party, the morning after. Her hand wasn’t shown clearly then, but she was ungloved.
Oh no. Sal is here. Amber is going to be here soon. Sal held up the convenience store where Amber stabbed her. There’s no way that’s not going to end horribly.
Also, Sal is sitting between the two people Amber cares most about in the world. She walks in, sees the three, immediately imagines Sal pulling out knives and declaring “you can only save one…”
FWIW, given Joyce’s worshipful fixation on Sal, if she DID know Joyce had previously dated Ethan and asked permission to cut in, Joyce’s response would be: “Yes, please!”
I didn’t realize until this strip how much it influenced me as a teacher having a male/female twin pair in my class last year. Funny stories, more details, but I don’t want to post publicly.
Other thing: my almost-two-year-old son had his first toddler gymnastics class yesterday. At one point they got out balls, basket ball hoops, toy pop lawn mowers, and the pushy pop thing Amazigirl uses in Shortpacked. My son gets the pushy pop thing and tries to bash the other toddlers in the head with it. I stopped him, so he taught the other toddlers how to play bumper push toys.
This is two strips in a row where Dorothy ‘appears’ — and she even gets a line of dialogue in this one — but her face is conspicuously absent. What is Willis up to now?
Double-takes (pun intended) are fun. One of my teachers said “you’re a senior, it’s a small town, and you’ve been in my class for two years, how did I never notice there were two of you?” when my brother finally walked into the same room as me. Teach had just assumed that half the time I saw him in the halls I was feeling unfriendly.
Heh, reminds me of how a professor mentioned to another professor that there was somebody on the faculty who he thought they should get to know better. Silly professor didn’t notice they had the same last name, though – they were already married!
Ethan was focused on Amber in the store, she was already scared to death to be out in public.
Amber was busy being scared of everyone, but Ethan pointed Sal out to her just before Sal went ballistic. Amber had reason to remember her.
Sal was as petrified as they were. She was focused on what she was robbing, not who was there.
And pointing out her twin to Ethan, seems to have derailed Ethan’s memory for the time being.
Okay, Willis is definitely setting us up for Amber to storm in, have a panic attack and then lunge at Sal under the delusion that she’s ‘protecting’ Ethan and Danny from her. Naturally, after Amber screams something about ‘not letting you hurt Ethan again’, Ethan will recognise Sal. He strikes me as being chill enough that he’ll let what happened five years ago stay five years ago, but Amber’s melt down (which may trigger a parallel melt-down in Sal when she flashes back to the night she got That Scar) will mean that Joyce’s party will turn into a rather unhappy screaming, hysterical confrontation between two women whose ghost closets have finally burst open.
Basically, Sal and Amber will end up comparing the hells of their respective childhoods to see whose sucks the most. Initially, this will be an attempt of self-justification (“You don’t get to judge me! I was living in hell!”) However, it will end with Sal and Amber realising that, at that point in their lives, half a decade ago, they had a lot in common. This may include Sal needing a brotherly hug and Amber realising that Amazi-Girl is right – Danny-snuggles are great.
Ruth will be attracted by the noise but will never figure out what’s been going in. Billie will be no help – she won’t understand what’s happening either!
Ah man I hope this doesnt happen! The last thing anyone needs here is a big blow up. I’m hoping that Amber turns up, freaks out and leaves and then when Ethan later is like woah whats up, she can enlighten him on how Sal was the hold up girl etc etc. Then it keeps that separate from everyone else’s storylines, plus it means more time for fun Danny bi-awkwardness more time for everyone to just have their own things go on
Even if Sal does tell her why she robbed the store, I don’t know if Amber would be able to, or really should, forgive her so quickly. I understand that Sal was driven into committing the robbery because of her parent’s neglect, but Sal still did something completely, utterly awful to Amber and Ethan, and it’s not Amber’s responsibility to forgive.
Of course, Amber hurt her right back, and the whole reason the robbery became such a big deal to her is because of Blaine’s abuse, so it’s not like this is clearly “Sal is completely at fault” either.
Amber is under no obligation to forgive Sal. But if she can find it within herself to do so, that might do Amber a world of good. Her obsessive fixation on vengeance isn’t very healthy for her.
Equally possible that Amazi-Girl chooses to scout the party from outside before showing up as Amber. Sal, Ethan, and Danny are all sitting right by the window. Where it goes from there I can’t predict.
Wow we are leaving very few options to take without one of you here being correct about amber ‘s reaction and also we could have amber not show up finding someone to game with and losing track of time. My scenario is the least likely to happen though.
Considering his reaction I’d guess he is the kinda person who is willing to forgive. Might be awkward for both parties at first, but not more than that.
I can see him trying to separate them, and Amber socking him in the face. Realizing what she’s done, runs out of the room in tears. I can also see this happening with Danny rather than Ethan.
What I like, is that Danny’s life looks like a vaudeville, full of misunderstandings and wacky coincidences, with superheroes and abusive fathers and sudden discoveries, and it’s all justified.
Poor guy.
Think of them as visual representations of who Danny is attracted to. With almost everything else held constant appearance-wise, the main difference between the two is sex. So, if the question were “Which do you prefer, Danny?”, panel 3 would be the answer.
Okay, I understand Ethan and Sal not recognizing each other from an incident five years ago, but wasn’t Ethan waiting for Joyce outside of Sal’s room just a few weeks ago? Didn’t Sal walk past him without any pants on?
it doesn’t seem like Ethan saw Sal’s face. And even if he did, there’s an almost zero chance he would have made the connection because it was before Amber told him that Sal lives in their building. He probably would have dismissed it as a coincidence if he did. There’s a non zero chance he makes the connection now, but it’s not 100% chance however. Now if Amber were to come in and Ethan sees her reaction…
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to be fair, Danno, you didn’t recognize Amazi-girl’s evil twin did you
(so… Lima Syndrome, anyone?)
To be fair to Danno, Ethan didn’t recognize the girl who put a knife on his throat and changed his and Amber’s lives.
Danno can slide a bit.
To be fair to Ethan, Sal’s hair looked completely different then. And her facial expression was pretty much the opposite of what it is right now, haha.
To be fair to Danny boy, he is just growing a second head. I think he could be considered too busy to notice the twins thing, heheh.
To be fair to Walky… DAYUM!
To be fair to Dorothy, she’s just worried that if Walky manages to get his shirt all the way off right now, she’ll lose all self-control and everyone in that room will get to see her and Walky making a sex in about the next 5 minutes…!
Walky Performs a Sex at a Dorm Party and Dina Takes Copious Notes
Ladies and Germs, I believe we have the next Slipshine!
That, and her accent’s changed. Also helps explain why Danny didn’t pick up on them being twins.
about both Ethan and Danny–face blindness is a thing. >_>
I know more than one person who won’t recognize someone after (a non drastic) haircut and will have to re-memorize their face as though the person had had plastic surgery
He does have a suspicious lack of boobs.
Positively proud of not having boobs, really.
if he keeps up the junk food, he’ll have ’em eventually
Not if he has awesome metabolism.
That’s doesn’t last though. :C
I know it’s not supposed to, but I wonder with some of the people I know.
Walky is surprisingly toned for someone who we never see exercise and eats chicken nuggets and chips all day.
Being Walky is very calorie-intensive.
We see some exercise. Chasing Amazi-Girl. Carrying Mike’s books. Making, um, special performances with Dorothy.
also gotta remember that he paradoxically walks uphill to all his classes and the dorm.
I know what you mean. A friend of mine is 26, 6’3″, and around 165 pounds. Throughout this past year of college he’s been desperately trying to gain weight. He was drinking a smoothie thing that he’d make by throwing a bunch of high protein, high calorie stuff in a blender two-three times per day. He had added up the calories for it and it came out to over 1000 for each one, in addition to regular meals. He managed to gain about 10 pounds after several months, but had to stop drinking the smoothie because his gallbladder was inflamed or something from all the fats in it and immediately started losing that hard-earned weight rapidly. He’s not some super athlete burning tons of calories on exercise either–we both go to an art school and spend the vast majority of our time holed up in our rooms working on projects. His body just seems to burn way, way more calories than it probably should.
And he complains of this. Sigh. Some gifts are wasted -_-
a friend of mine has something similar, only it turns out it is a thyroid thing called Grave’s disease, where her thyroid is hyper active.
It also causes other side effects, so maybe your friend should get his thyroid checked for hyper ness? (even if it isn’t graves, it could be useful to know)
Your friend has a tapeworm
I would be more suspicious if he had boobs.
Believe me, guys having boobs is depressingly easy. I speak from personal experience… >_>
V_V
Why suspicious? It’s not unheard of for one twin to have all the boobs.
Now, if *Sal* suffered a lack of boobs, that I would find disturbing.
Well, you do have people with double mastectomies.
Sal the A Cup? Would make the bad-girl image harder to keep around…
*plays “We Don’t Have To Take Our Clothes Off” on the Muzak in the hall*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWZisnZ-RGE
This song. I miss the Eighties sometimes.
You just earned a fist bump.
*fist bump*
Nice.
You can leaaave your hat on.
50 Shades, get in line.
Oh…oh, my God I only just realized that they’re in the same room. And if Amber shows up…
Hijinks. Terrible, terrible hijinks could ensue.
Popcorn is needed.
For some reason i’m hearing the theme to Jaws reading this strip…or Friday the 13th
I hate popcorn. *opens a bag of Skittles*
I didn’t realize that I needed a bag of Skittles until I read this comment.
(P.S. If you’re a stealth marketer employed by Wrigley, I commend you, because apparently it’s working.)
The corn-popper is what is needed.
I understood that reference!
crap baskets, I thought you said corn-baller. Lemme put that away….
Indeed.
I believe in this case we can replace “hijinks” with “unfortunate incidents which will heretofore be unspoken.”
You know, I was just going to type that, popcorn won’t be enough, we are going to need wings and pizza too for this one.
Don’t forget the soft drinks.
Just so long as there is no Sierra Mist!
…
Too soon?
You say there will be hijinks but so far all I’ve seen AMBER do is run away.
Shit I just realized that Mike probably knows the horrible backstory….
How does Mike know the horrible backstory? Is mike just an expert on all things horrible?
He knew both Amber and Ethan in high school. How much he knows about the robbery or if he even knows Sal at all is unknown.
But it’s not just that they’re in the same room. The two guys Amber cares most about are sitting right next to Sal. (because it wasn’t enough for Willis to put them in the same room, no, they had to all sit next to each other and get along and have fun together, because otherwise it wouldn’t be dramatic enough when Amber sees all this.)
So far, this is a bullet dodged. Not sure it can be dodged for much longer … or can it?
That Evil Genius Willis will keep making near-misses to keep us on the edge of our seats!
More like we’re in Xeno’s Paradox and currently trying to outrun the bullet.
I just realized the same thing. It’s going to be really bad. :/
Sorry, that is a different webcomic.
So i guess it won’t be strip Apples To Apples after all.
Here comes Apples to Strap-ons!
Sal’s already half naked. She’d be at a disadvantage
Dina will definitely win.
Well, she IS wearing an extra jacket…
this can only complicate Danny’s feelings towards everyone sitting on this floor further
excellent
Now he just needs to start stalking joyce and the love-dandecahedron will be complete
No. Just, no.
Well, Joyce can’t start stalking him. That would give the people who read Roomies deja vu.
That, and you still have a scenario where a stalker is involved.
Hmm, that came out wrong. I have no problem with stalking being depicted (accurately) in the comic. What I have a problem with is the idea that anybody should be a stalker.
Have an internet, good sir!
Dan-decahedron?
My God, Danny can even Dan up geometry! It’s insidious!!
Naming this OT3 ship “double take”.
Fantasy sliiiiiiiiiiiiiipshiiiiiiiiiiiiiine
…WHO are you shipping?
My guess is the Walky/Danny/Sal OT3.
Does it count if they’re fraternal?
Shipping knows NO bounds… scary thought isn’t it?
You get used to it.
This is my punishment for mentioning Kiss X Sis yesterday, isn’t it?
Metamours are not, in fact, required to fuck.
That’s what I was afraid of.
You’re workin’ on ’em Walky. Just keep it up!
A few more fifty packs on McNuggets, and Sal has better watch out because there’s competition coming!
Won’t be nearly as perky, unfortunately.
And so begins Dorothys’ quest to keep Walky from removing his clothes. This will be her main occupation for the rest of the party.
*cue Yakkity Sax*
Least she doesn’t have to carry an unconscious Walky back to his room.
Give them time.
Eh, I’m sure Ethan would volunteer to bring him back. Danny wouldn’t but would have to anyway.
Which is ironic, cause after the party its pretty much the opposite.
Just give in to the inevitable, Dorothy.
A whole lot of comments yesterday revolved around “How t’e Hell A2A progresses to an lost virginity??”
Folks, I present to you: Panel #4.
We asked, Walky answered. Thanks, Walky.
We’re gonna have weeks of drunk Walky with the time scale, wont we. Maybe MONTHS!
This will be fun. We’ll be hella confused once he’s sobered up.
“Hey, Walky’s acting about 5% more mature. What gives?”
I’ll take on the role of pedant, (because I like to), and point out that this storyline only goes until early July. Unless Walky continually decides to follow Billie around for more alcohol for the next few storylines, he’ll probably sober up by the next day. It will be interesting to see how he handles a hangover though.
Probably by wearin’ pajamas, sleepin’ late and watchin’ cartoons. Pretty much the same as regular Walky.
How do you know how long this storyline will go? Are you from the future? Can you travel exactly one storyline ahead?
Damn, how I would love a forward time machine. (For unrelated reasons though).
The Dumbing of Age tumblr/Willis tumblr sometimes have preview panels (Generally single panels without any text from a strip that Willis drew, meaning we won’t see the whole strip for a few months).
Here’s a post from late March when the “Three’s a Crowd” storyline ended: http://dumbingofage.tumblr.com/post/114596415962/july-9-just-finished-up-the-next-storyline-the
And generally looking at the buffer watch and comparing it to the current archive gives you an idea of how far ahead the buffer is from us.
Like as of this posting it’s on September 5th, and the archive currently has the name of Book 6 storylines on it. So there’s that.
Sal’s into tall dudes. Explains Jason well enough. Dude may be built like a pipe cleaner, but he’s got the verticality to bring about Sal’s horizontality.
Also, there’s that, quote, “acutal lit’ral size” thing.
Yeah, but she didn’t know about that little detail until after she decided to bang him.
And now she, and everyone in that bar will know forever.
Also hung like a horse, apparently. Not that she knew that in advance.
Don’t forget Tony as well, in the other universe.
Brilliant alt text
Beat me to it!
Well, Danny, at least you can say that you’re smarter than your Walkyverse self was at your age.
Or rather, your age plus about three years.
Nah, that Walky was just as smart, if not smarter, the Walkyverse Walky acts immature to avoid responsibility.
Aw crap I read your post wrong. But yeah, that’s true.
No boobs? Just wait until you’re older, Walky.
Is sal flirting with Ethan?
She could totally make him bi.
Except she’s striking out, and she knows it. Nobody can make Ethan bi.
Flirting is an understatement. If this game ever gets started it’s going to get real dirty real fast.
Sal said something blatantly flirty and smiled at Ethan, Ethan didn’t smile and made some serious comment. Then Sal started looking at her cards. She knows how to read signals, she’s not interested.
Danny is being carmelized. A “schwing” may ensue.
Followed by “cream-filling”.
Dorothy’s holding back some snickers.
Nuts upon nuts.
Is that a version of Apples to Apples?
Caramel Apples to Caramel Apples. It’s the version of A2A where Walky gets nekkid.
Kinsey scale jokes never get old.
Nice and repressed, in the back of his mind…
Dorothy like “NO, OVERRULED”
“That’s my caramel!”
Ah, Danny and the Walkerton twins – that one never gets old.
Seems strange that Ethan doesn’t remember the girl who held a knife to his throat ( or something like that ). Good thing Amber does…..
Five years ago and the whole thing was over in minutes. Probably didn’t have to testify in court, so he’s hardly seen her, and they were both 13 at that point. People change a lot physically between 13 and 18.
“People change a lot physically between 13 and 18.”
Especially in Ethan’s case. wow.
Some do, some don’t. When I was thirty I once got recognised by someone who hadn’t seen me since I was three, sitting in a laundromat five hundred miles away from home. And no, I didn’t have my name written on my shirt.
Since they knew you when you were three, did they know a parent, and did you resemble the parent? That would help explain it.
Well, while he was being held, his back was likely toward her, so he may not have gotten as good of a look at her as Amber did. Plus, Ethan was focused on protecting Amber, so probably was looking at her the most, whereas Amber was completely focused on Sal, so Sal’s image was more thoroughly burned into her mind. Even after the police came and Sal was being arrested, Ethan’s main concern was Amber, so he probably wasn’t paying much attention to Sal.
No anger face, and different hair.
Good to see all those chicken nuggets haven’t affected Walky’s abs!
Wait, Ethan doesn’t know that the girl Amber told him about is Sal? OOOOOOOOH DIS GON BE GOOD
Everything about the last two panels is hilarious. And Sal’s smile in panel one lights up my life.
Can’t wait for when Ethan inevitably remembers where he knows her from (I still think it’s gonna be as soon as Amber shows up), drama will surely ensue.
Sal managed to nullify Ethan’s slowly percolating memory of their previous encounter. Though she doesn’t seem to remember him either, so it’s not like she did this for sinister reasons.
Sal seems to have trouble remembering Amber and Amber stabbed her in the hand, no wonder she doesn’t remember Ethan.
I don’t think Sal likes to remember that whole episode, period.
Can’t blame her. And she sure does keep that scar out of sight, out of mind.
Wow, until you said that i never connected the stabbing and the fact that she always wears gloves. Just blew my mind.
Neither did I! Wow.
Wow thirded.
co-co-co-combwow!
Does Sal rock the gloves on Slipshine?
Yes.
Point. Yet she has to put on those gloves and remove them sometime. I’d think that would remind her of the incident.
Still, it beats having to fend off the questions of the curious.
The only time we’ve seen her without her gloves is when she was dressed up for her parents, and even then made it a point to hide her right hand behind her back.
There was one scene, when everyone was discussing what to do about THE EVENT that happened at the party, the morning after. Her hand wasn’t shown clearly then, but she was ungloved.
Unless she’s mentally blocked it out (is that even a thing?).
Well out of the three of them, Ethan certainly seems to have changed the most physically.
I’d have said Sal, but Amber is certainly the closest to her 13-year old look.
I now present the commentary of a Joe hypothetically invited to this party.
“That’s what he says. But can we know for sure if only one of them has taken of their shirts?”
At that point, Sal loses her shit, with Walky currently too drunk to stop her.
And then, having lost it, Ethan suddenly remembers where he met her.
Third panel is even more funny because a favorite series of mine had a special term for bisexuals: Janus.
Like, like in 39 Clues?
Unfamiliar. The term came to me from The Labyrinthine Series.
Ok, the gateways part of that description combined with bisexuals makes me think weird things.
You’ve got a smiling Penny as a gravatar and are talking of weird things. How appropos.
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Oh, you will be the only other person I know to have read those books far enough to get it. ;[ Some characters are just too unbearable. ;]
I haven’t. I just understood the part about Danny being two-faced being a reference to the Roman God, Janus, who was commonly depicted with two-faces.
Oh no. Sal is here. Amber is going to be here soon. Sal held up the convenience store where Amber stabbed her. There’s no way that’s not going to end horribly.
Also, Sal is sitting between the two people Amber cares most about in the world. She walks in, sees the three, immediately imagines Sal pulling out knives and declaring “you can only save one…”
Walky flashes the abs, aaaaand Danny gets more fuel added to his fire. >:D
And Dorothy just lost 2 hours of productivity. I guess she’ll have to stop typing research papers on her phone at a party.
Oh…. oh I just remembered that little tid bit. I’m just gonna go hide… in the closet… in space.
Closets are a dangerous place to hide with Becky around. Like red flags for a bull.
I wonder if Sal will figure out Amber’s Amazi-Girl if she starts freaking out…
Didn’t figure it out with the last freakout, though.
That was before the fight with Amazi-Girl, wasn’t it?
@hover text
conFIRMED
Just all sorts of awesome happ’ning right here.
Ethan’s going to have his mind nuked like Becky’s closet.
jeez, when amber gets here all hell is going to break loose. with that + the sarah/radiah dust up, i think joyce will never hold a party again.
Sal and Walky are twins?! When did that happen???
That’s always been the case.
One sexy night a couple decades ago, I’d assume.
two weeks ago. They practiced fusing to take down frieza, but when they un-fused, they had mixed.
Second arc of It’s Walky?
Ah so he DOES recognize her! He just can’t place where. Amber will help him with that. xP
…So I guess her statement means that she doesn’t realize she’s hitting on Joyce’s ex, at her party, right in front of her?
FWIW, given Joyce’s worshipful fixation on Sal, if she DID know Joyce had previously dated Ethan and asked permission to cut in, Joyce’s response would be: “Yes, please!”
That’d be pretty contradictory with Joyce’s big awakening on the gay stuff.
Maybe but, to Joyce, nothing is too good for Sal!
No, but as someone else pointed out, it sure looks like she realizes she’s hitting on a gay man partway through today’s strip.
Danny’s Kinsey scale is about like mine.
Because I would a Walky.
In the lad’s own words, “C’mon, EVERYBODY’d hit that.”
Who can resist abs that are liked sculpted caramel?
Becky.
I have two funny stories to tell to Willis.
I didn’t realize until this strip how much it influenced me as a teacher having a male/female twin pair in my class last year. Funny stories, more details, but I don’t want to post publicly.
Other thing: my almost-two-year-old son had his first toddler gymnastics class yesterday. At one point they got out balls, basket ball hoops, toy pop lawn mowers, and the pushy pop thing Amazigirl uses in Shortpacked. My son gets the pushy pop thing and tries to bash the other toddlers in the head with it. I stopped him, so he taught the other toddlers how to play bumper push toys.
How the heck do I just email you .-.
Amber O’Malley is a bad influence, you know.
Amazi-Toddler is immune to criticism.
That is pretty much his world outlook.
“No no, let him keep his shirt off.
Hmmm, mmhmm, ok, now Sal, you take yours off.
Hmmm. Ok, back to Walky.
Hmmmmmmm. Ethan, take your shirt off for a second.
Yeah, ok, thanks guys.”
“Wait, Doro-”
“NO”
Joyce’s face will be stuck like yesterday’s strip forever.
I’m amazed I haven’t seen gravatars of it yet.
Coulda sworn I saw one earlier. Huh.
Diello was using it yesterday.
“I need to see! For research! Yes, I’m writing research papers. Sexy research papers.”
That’s a word I never thought I’d see being used to describe a research paper.
Oh crap, it’s only just now occuring to me the impending storm this might cause.
Man, Danny looks freaky with conjoined heads.
Danny: “OH NO, THEY’RE BOTH HOT!!!”
Damn right they are.
I can’t tell if Walky is still drunk or not.
Well he still has the little bubbles around his head.
But he has totally raised his shirt like this before. When was that and why did he . . . ?? Can’t remember the details.
To rub it in Dorothy’s face when they broke up.
I think Walky summarized exactly how Danny missed that.
Who is that spoil-sport in the bottom right of the last panel?
Dorothy.
Definitely Dorothy. It’s why she’s in the tags today.
“Walky, keep your shirt on!”
“NNNNO!”
“What’s under there is MINE! No sharing with others!!”
Danny, you’re danning again.
This is two strips in a row where Dorothy ‘appears’ — and she even gets a line of dialogue in this one — but her face is conspicuously absent. What is Willis up to now?
at this rate Danny is going to be attracted to everybody!!!
Well, he HAS been likened to an avatar for the fandom on occasion…
Double-takes (pun intended) are fun. One of my teachers said “you’re a senior, it’s a small town, and you’ve been in my class for two years, how did I never notice there were two of you?” when my brother finally walked into the same room as me. Teach had just assumed that half the time I saw him in the halls I was feeling unfriendly.
Heh, reminds me of how a professor mentioned to another professor that there was somebody on the faculty who he thought they should get to know better. Silly professor didn’t notice they had the same last name, though – they were already married!
Ah, Danny, are you finally accepting your true position as comic relief at long last? xD
Walky. Walky I love you, but we only have 14 hours to
save the earthwin stripples to nipples.I’m mildly annoyed that I’m only now just seen the train wreck that’s going to occur…
Really. How have you not read the comments since it became clear that Sal and Amber were both invited.
If it really occurs and our host isn’t just raising our expectations.
FUN FACT!
The events of this game match up eerily to the time Sal lost her virginity.
Except all the shirts came off.
Shirts, who needs ’em.
(People in non-temperate climates, that’s who.)
Alttext has made panel 3 one of my favourite in the entire comic.
Me, too!
This page reminded me to look at the slipshine picture on the page again…
Cannot unsee WalkyxMike
WalkyxMike or WalkyxJason? Just curious, not sure if you’ve swapped both characters or just mistyped one.
Ethan was focused on Amber in the store, she was already scared to death to be out in public.
Amber was busy being scared of everyone, but Ethan pointed Sal out to her just before Sal went ballistic. Amber had reason to remember her.
Sal was as petrified as they were. She was focused on what she was robbing, not who was there.
And pointing out her twin to Ethan, seems to have derailed Ethan’s memory for the time being.
Love Danny’s double-take, priceless hover text.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aqQHGEmhvE
This felt relevant.
ROFLMAO
Okay, Willis is definitely setting us up for Amber to storm in, have a panic attack and then lunge at Sal under the delusion that she’s ‘protecting’ Ethan and Danny from her. Naturally, after Amber screams something about ‘not letting you hurt Ethan again’, Ethan will recognise Sal. He strikes me as being chill enough that he’ll let what happened five years ago stay five years ago, but Amber’s melt down (which may trigger a parallel melt-down in Sal when she flashes back to the night she got That Scar) will mean that Joyce’s party will turn into a rather unhappy screaming, hysterical confrontation between two women whose ghost closets have finally burst open.
Basically, Sal and Amber will end up comparing the hells of their respective childhoods to see whose sucks the most. Initially, this will be an attempt of self-justification (“You don’t get to judge me! I was living in hell!”) However, it will end with Sal and Amber realising that, at that point in their lives, half a decade ago, they had a lot in common. This may include Sal needing a brotherly hug and Amber realising that Amazi-Girl is right – Danny-snuggles are great.
Ruth will be attracted by the noise but will never figure out what’s been going in. Billie will be no help – she won’t understand what’s happening either!
Ah man I hope this doesnt happen! The last thing anyone needs here is a big blow up. I’m hoping that Amber turns up, freaks out and leaves and then when Ethan later is like woah whats up, she can enlighten him on how Sal was the hold up girl etc etc. Then it keeps that separate from everyone else’s storylines, plus it means
more time for fun Danny bi-awkwardnessmore time for everyone to just have their own things go onI just want Sal to meet Amazi-Girl a while later, realise it’s Amber under that mask and say something like: “Shit… I did this to you, didn’t I?”
To which… Amber… whoever… replies: “No, you were just another victim.”
A lot of character growth is needed before Amber realizes that, let alone admit it.
Even if Sal does tell her why she robbed the store, I don’t know if Amber would be able to, or really should, forgive her so quickly. I understand that Sal was driven into committing the robbery because of her parent’s neglect, but Sal still did something completely, utterly awful to Amber and Ethan, and it’s not Amber’s responsibility to forgive.
Of course, Amber hurt her right back, and the whole reason the robbery became such a big deal to her is because of Blaine’s abuse, so it’s not like this is clearly “Sal is completely at fault” either.
Amber is under no obligation to forgive Sal. But if she can find it within herself to do so, that might do Amber a world of good. Her obsessive fixation on vengeance isn’t very healthy for her.
Agreed; we’re talking about weeks and possibly months down the line in-universe time.
Equally possible that Amazi-Girl chooses to scout the party from outside before showing up as Amber. Sal, Ethan, and Danny are all sitting right by the window. Where it goes from there I can’t predict.
Wow we are leaving very few options to take without one of you here being correct about amber ‘s reaction and also we could have amber not show up finding someone to game with and losing track of time. My scenario is the least likely to happen though.
Considering his reaction I’d guess he is the kinda person who is willing to forgive. Might be awkward for both parties at first, but not more than that.
Amber’s probably gonna explode though.
Ethan may step in an arbitrate this, though – he’s still got his head screwed on right.
I can see him trying to separate them, and Amber socking him in the face. Realizing what she’s done, runs out of the room in tears. I can also see this happening with Danny rather than Ethan.
Oh yeah, forgot that Danny is getting a bit better at standing up to others.
Either Danny can shake his head very fast or he’s able to turn into a Tasmanian at will.
Ooh. From a purely aesthetic standpoint, Sal and Ethan would be the prettiest couple ever.
I find your lack of Jacob… disturbing.
But the contrast of Sal and Ethan’s skin tones aids in the prettiness! I like me some contrast.
So either Sal and Ethan or Jacob and Ethan.
Uh oh.
A shepherd’s crook comes out for Walky …
Dorothy needs to get one, doesn’t she?
What I like, is that Danny’s life looks like a vaudeville, full of misunderstandings and wacky coincidences, with superheroes and abusive fathers and sudden discoveries, and it’s all justified.
Poor guy.
“panel three is kinda like danny’s kinsey scale visualised”-scroll over text
Caution: apples to apples may lead to fantasies about interracial incestuous devils-threesomes
Hrm… if panel 4 is Danny’s Kinsey scale visualized… he’s sitting between a 1 (Walky) and a zero (Sal). Eh… I’m not seeing it.
Think of them as visual representations of who Danny is attracted to. With almost everything else held constant appearance-wise, the main difference between the two is sex. So, if the question were “Which do you prefer, Danny?”, panel 3 would be the answer.
(oh, and it’s panel 3, not panel 4).
He leans towards Sal, but he’s certainly looking at Walky as well. I think that’s an interesting thing to note
And then…. Amber bursts in, sees Ethan, Sal, and Danny all sitting together… and then they all have an lustful Orgy!!!
Later, Amazi-Girl shows up and joins in.
Awh… don’t feel too bad Danny. I didn’t notice Walky not having boobs either.
There’s a good chance Amber will get busy fighting crime and not come to the party at all, tho.
Given that a later preview page shows Danny interacting with Amber in costume presumably after the party, you’re probably right.
It’s probably for the best. Nobody needs to get flung into a car again.
Like that’s going to happen. It’s Willis’ Law: The dramatic outcome is always inevitable.
Okay, I understand Ethan and Sal not recognizing each other from an incident five years ago, but wasn’t Ethan waiting for Joyce outside of Sal’s room just a few weeks ago? Didn’t Sal walk past him without any pants on?
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-4/01-the-only-dope-for-me-is-you/fudge/
This is Ethan we’re talking about. Would he necessarily consciously notice a smokin’ hot biker gal walking by without any pants?
Exactly. Replace Sal with Walky, and you have a different story.
Looking at the angles in that strip, I’m not sure he actually saw her face.
it was a pretty brief encounter to be fair, and the two didnt interact.
it doesn’t seem like Ethan saw Sal’s face. And even if he did, there’s an almost zero chance he would have made the connection because it was before Amber told him that Sal lives in their building. He probably would have dismissed it as a coincidence if he did. There’s a non zero chance he makes the connection now, but it’s not 100% chance however. Now if Amber were to come in and Ethan sees her reaction…
It’s a
calfDanny with two faces!So is this am good point to suggest them playing cards against st humanity. Its so good at exploring boundaries
All fairness to Danny, he got it a lot faster in this verse than he did in the previous one.
not the first time danny has proven he’s needed glasses
“Have we seen each other somewhere?”
“Oh, yeah, I held you hostage once back when I was still robbing convenience stores”