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by David M Willis on January 18, 2018 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - This Is the Way that We Love
└ Tags: danny, sal

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    January 18, 2018 at 12:01 am | #

    she’s playin’ ya laik a fiddle, Danno

    • Arawn
      Arawn
      January 18, 2018 at 12:13 am | #

      I’d actually be interested in her holding him up to her chin and playing him with a bow… but strumming or plucking would be fine.

  2. Sean Dillon
    Sean Dillon
    January 18, 2018 at 12:02 am | #

    Hell, try telling Steven Universe he doesn’t play a real instrument.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      January 18, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

      Steven can also play guitar, I think. I’m not positive about that, though.

      • Some1
        Some1
        January 18, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

        He plays guitar here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f8kHSyeM8_Q

        And piano here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uZQmOLxE7xQ

        And drums (and maybe bass) here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P-cx0qToGhU

      • Lapin
        Lapin
        January 18, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

        He indeed can also play guitar, bass, plus the piano and the drums. He’s something of a natural talent with music, in canon, which does make sense, since from what we see/know of Homeworld, it uses musical tones in a lot of their tech, and Greg is also a musician.

        • Commodore Counterintuitive
          Commodore Counterintuitive
          January 18, 2018 at 12:29 am | #

          Steven is a freaking beast when it comes to music, have you ever tried to play Peace and Love on the ukulele?

        • Geneseepaws
          Geneseepaws
          January 18, 2018 at 7:46 am | #

          Crystals can be tuned to certain frequencies. It’s pretty neat. Acutron watches used tuning forks for typing, but all the later battery powered watches use crystals.

          • Geneseepaws
            Geneseepaws
            January 18, 2018 at 7:48 am | #

            Err: timing. fingers are for typing, crystals are for timing”

      • Robbie
        Robbie
        January 18, 2018 at 12:11 am | #

        Unless I am wrong – and I am never [not usually] wrong, Steven Universe plays ukulele, guitar, bass, and drums – the three latter he plays in Steven and the Stevens, to name one. And he sings, obviously. He can’t help it if he makes a scene.

        • SeanC
          SeanC
          January 18, 2018 at 9:26 pm | #

          Stepping out of his hot pink limousine.

          • Human
            Human
            January 19, 2018 at 7:40 am | #

            He’s turning heads and he’s stopping traffic
            When he poses they scream and when he jokes they laugh

    • Human
      Human
      January 18, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

      Steven also plays the guitar, drums, and bass, though. He also turns things into instruments, like Peridot’s drill, so I don’t think he’d let Sal put him out. They could have stunning duets.

      • Some1
        Some1
        January 18, 2018 at 12:19 am | #

        I feel like it would just be Steven trying to get Sal to open up while singing about how she should talk to Amazi-Girl.

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          January 18, 2018 at 1:21 am | #

          “Also it can be totally cool to have a roommate //
          Even if you don’t get along //
          Maybe she tried to drown you and the entire planet //
          Or she’s just a jerk with a lizard, anyway, you can siiiiing a soooooooong…”

          • ValdVin
            ValdVin
            January 18, 2018 at 7:09 am | #

            My ear is not coming up with the tune you’re riffing.

            • Bagge
              Bagge
              January 18, 2018 at 7:45 am | #

              I made it up 🙂

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      January 18, 2018 at 7:08 am | #

      Rebecca Sugar self-described her ukulele playing as something like “unique” or “non-trained” or “non-textbook”. However, listen to her demos, or live, and so much of the underpinnings of the uke on the show is already there. She’s a bit modest in her self-assessment, methinks.

      • Historyman68
        Historyman68
        January 18, 2018 at 11:40 am | #

        The great thing about ukelele is that if you have any kind of music background, particularly guitar, you can figure pretty much all of it out. They sell whole books of chords, etc, but even more than guitar, anyone with a good ear can play anything they want on it if they put their mind to it.

        So I’m gonna say that Sugar wasn’t necessarily being modest- nowhere in your quote did she denigrate her own playing; all she said is that she never, like, took lessons in ukelele.

        Like many amazing musicians and songwriters, I’m pretty sure you could put her in front of any instrument she’s never seen before in her life and she could do something cool with it, even if someone who plays it professionally would be like “you’re not using the right fingering!”

        • Joy
          Joy
          January 18, 2018 at 2:32 pm | #

          mood!

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          January 18, 2018 at 2:38 pm | #

          Reminds me of Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull’s flautist, discovering after decades of celebrated flute-playing that he was doing it wrong. 🙂

          He was self-taught and he learned when his daughter took lessons that his fingering was all wrong. He relearned it because the “correct” way actually was easier to play, but it took a while to convince himself.

          • Ed Rhodes
            Ed Rhodes
            January 19, 2018 at 6:41 pm | #

            I’m also reminded of Adolph (Arthur) “Harpo” Marx who was self taught on the harp! After they’d become established stage stars, Harpo tried to hire someone to teach him to play “properly,” the guy pretty much said “Move the harp onto the other shoulder and don’t change a thing!”

        • Roborat
          Roborat
          January 18, 2018 at 4:21 pm | #

          There is no such thing as correct fingering, it is whatever works for you and the situation.

          • Ferret
            Ferret
            January 18, 2018 at 8:32 pm | #

            Phrasing, boom.

  3. Passchendaele
    Passchendaele
    January 18, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

    *instinctively plays Desperado*

    • Stephen Bierce
      Stephen Bierce
      January 18, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

      And with that, I’m taking the rest of the week off. *hands Pass the controls to the Muzak*

      • Passchendaele
        Passchendaele
        January 18, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

        *accepts the controls*

        *relishes in the power*

        • Doctor_Who
          Doctor_Who
          January 18, 2018 at 12:15 am | #

          I wonder what someone going mad with power while in control of the Muzak is like. Probably like that John Mulaney routine.

          • Roborat
            Roborat
            January 18, 2018 at 4:22 pm | #

            If it is anything like my daughter, we will only be hearing 45 seconds worth of any given song.

          • Passchendaele
            Passchendaele
            January 18, 2018 at 11:38 pm | #

            Six continuous hours of rickrolling. 😛

        • Reltzik
          Reltzik
          January 18, 2018 at 11:00 pm | #

          PLAY FREEBIRD!

  4. Meta
    Meta
    January 18, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    I like that portrayal of the sound of tuning

  5. Nicster216
    Nicster216
    January 18, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    Wait, did sal just use her breast to light that match? BADASS

    • MM
      MM
      January 18, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

      No, she just gripped it, concentrated, and it burst into flame.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        January 18, 2018 at 1:18 am | #

        That’s how hot she is

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      January 18, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

      Fire boobs would be so conflicting to me. My fear of fire meets my love of boobs.

      • Marsh Maryrose
        Marsh Maryrose
        January 18, 2018 at 12:32 am | #

        Come, fill that Cup, and in the Fire-Boob of Spring
        That Winter-garment of Repentance fling!

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      January 18, 2018 at 12:19 am | #

      You noticed that too, did you?

    • Swissaboo
      Swissaboo
      January 18, 2018 at 6:56 am | #

      strike. ANYWHERE.

      • Swissaboo
        Swissaboo
        January 18, 2018 at 6:57 am | #

        (nah but the best thing to do with strike anywhere matches is light them on your teeth.)

        • Mr. Bulbmin
          Mr. Bulbmin
          January 18, 2018 at 11:29 am | #

          I like using my forehead to strike matches, because people don’t remember that strike-anywhere matches exist and it’s hilarious to see people freak out that my head makes fire.

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      January 18, 2018 at 4:22 pm | #

      It is just a little cool tonight.

  6. Yumi
    Yumi
    January 18, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    I know a serious ukulele player who would probably be torn between fighting Sal over that comment and looking at Danny like, “Okay, he’s probably not the best rep for us.”

    • MM
      MM
      January 18, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

      But his jaunty cap!

    • TemperaryObsessor
      TemperaryObsessor
      January 18, 2018 at 8:16 am | #

      Ukulele is a real instrument, and if Danny works really hard at it he may someday be a real ukulele player.
      Or is it ukulele is a real instrument and most ukulele players aren’t XYZ (using it to substitute for personality?

  7. Lapin
    Lapin
    January 18, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    Try telling Hawai’i the ukulele isn’t a real instrument. (Because it is, and seriously, watch some videos of some of the serious practitioners)

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      January 18, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

      It can be played so beautifully/awesomely.

      Anyway, here’s “Wonderwall.”

  8. TrueVCU
    TrueVCU
    January 18, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    Fact: whenever Sal plays any instrument the noises spontaneously form Smoke on the Water

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      January 18, 2018 at 1:00 am | #

      Dave Barry wrote that if you throw an electric guitar down a cliff, the series of collisions will play “Smoke on the Water” naturally.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        January 18, 2018 at 1:55 am | #

        What if you burn it to the ground with a flare gun?

        • MM
          MM
          January 18, 2018 at 2:45 am | #

          Then it skips straight to “fire in the sky,” duh.

  9. D-Doc
    D-Doc
    January 18, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    Did…did she light a match off her shirt????

    • ZerglingOne
      ZerglingOne
      January 18, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

      Looked like off of her boob as well.

      I’m no boob expert, being a guy, but that seems like it would hurt.

      • Danni
        Danni
        January 18, 2018 at 12:15 am | #

        she could have a match book

        • Koms
          Koms
          January 18, 2018 at 12:18 am | #

          More like a match boob amirite?

      • Remmington Steele
        Remmington Steele
        January 18, 2018 at 3:14 am | #

        On a technical issue, she could be wearing a bra although from the drawing it would seem unlikely.

        • Joy
          Joy
          January 18, 2018 at 2:33 pm | #

          strapless?

  10. Danni
    Danni
    January 18, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    *strums careless whisper*

  11. Derek
    Derek
    January 18, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

    Did Sal learn how to play the guitar in the Catholic boarding school?
    or is this a crossover skill from the Roomies verse?

    • Dean
      Dean
      January 18, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

      No, she learned to play the pipe organ. That’s what Sal considers a ‘real instrument’.

      • Tacos
        Tacos
        January 18, 2018 at 12:15 am | #

        What about a didgeridoo or a theremin then?

      • Eldritch Gentleman
        Eldritch Gentleman
        January 18, 2018 at 4:28 am | #

        So basically if you don’t need heavy machines to move it, it’s not a real instrument?

        • 3-I
          3-I
          January 18, 2018 at 2:39 pm | #

          She snuck into the belltower late at night to play heavy metal on the carillon.

          If your instrument doesn’t need a building to be built AROUND it, it’s not a real instrument.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            January 18, 2018 at 2:44 pm | #

            Doesn’t the sneaking become pretty irrelevant as soon as you start to play?

            I guess if it’s a short song and you’ve got your escape route planned…

            • Roborat
              Roborat
              January 18, 2018 at 4:25 pm | #

              Yea, she never managed to get in more than the first four notes of Smoke on the Water before she had to run away.

  12. BBCC
    BBCC
    January 18, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

    I love this so much.

    – Personal info about Sal! *squee*

    – Sal ribbing Danny! Yay!

    – Sal’s face when she hears about his ‘tuning app’. Oh, Sal. Same.

    – “Played” an instrument. So she doesn’t now? Interesting.

    – She stops lighting her cigarette so she could tune the ukulele.

    – Ukulele jokes. XD

    I love this strip.

  13. Tacos
    Tacos
    January 18, 2018 at 12:12 am | #

    Well it’s nice to see that he seems to be serious about learning to play that ukulele. Even got a tuning app.

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      January 18, 2018 at 4:27 pm | #

      Don’t see what is wrong with a tuning app. I use one with my guitars. However, in my defense, I have a slight hearing impairment.

      • Old Fart
        Old Fart
        January 18, 2018 at 11:54 pm | #

        I always have to re-tune after using a tuner or tuning app for it to sound right. Decades ago, I got a Sal-like reaction from my cousin when he saw me using a tuning fork. “Why don’t you just tune by ear?”

  14. Keulen
    Keulen
    January 18, 2018 at 12:12 am | #

    I don’t remember seeing Sal play any instruments, in this comic or in the Walkyverse.

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      January 18, 2018 at 4:28 pm | #

      All bad ass girls can play guitar, usually bass.

      • Old Fart
        Old Fart
        January 18, 2018 at 11:58 pm | #

        Sweetwater is trying to sell me a bass guitar in the ads on this page. Unfortunately I seem to lack the badassery to learn. I’ll keep trying, though.

  15. Deathjavu
    Deathjavu
    January 18, 2018 at 12:13 am | #

    Man, despite Amber’s connection to both of them, and the kind-of-horrific nature of their relationship in another universe…Danny and Sal seem to have better conversations with each other than anyone else.

    • Joy
      Joy
      January 18, 2018 at 2:35 pm | #

      yeah it’s like? i hate walkyverse Danny n i don’t rlly like or relate with walkyverse Sal at all////the difference in writing quality makes for better/more interesting characterization too.

  16. Shiro
    Shiro
    January 18, 2018 at 12:14 am | #

    Ahhh. A refreshingly healthy interaction. That’s a relief.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      January 18, 2018 at 9:12 am | #

      It’s the Willis Way, to alternate between unhealthy (Walky/Amber) and healthy (Walky/Dorothy) interactions. Breathe in, breathe out. Wax on, wax off. Mike/Ethan, Sal/Danny.

  17. Fezzam
    Fezzam
    January 18, 2018 at 12:15 am | #

    Off topic but this is the first day I’ve had working subtext since the great lettuce escape. And now they all work. Anyone else have issues recently?

    • NickG
      NickG
      January 18, 2018 at 5:58 pm | #

      Yes, this is the first time since then it’s worked on my iphone.

  18. Some1
    Some1
    January 18, 2018 at 12:15 am | #

    Specifically the vuvuzela.

  19. Arawn
    Arawn
    January 18, 2018 at 12:21 am | #

    Meanwhile, Mike is playing Ethan like a flute…

    • Dean
      Dean
      January 18, 2018 at 12:24 am | #

      Ethan should be so lucky.

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      January 18, 2018 at 12:24 am | #

      You know, I’ve never played the (musical) flute, but it seems like it’d be a bit…different than it’s skin counterpart.

      • Some1
        Some1
        January 18, 2018 at 12:28 am | #

        Yeah a dick is more more similar to a recorder, the hole is at the front, everyone has to learn to use one growing up and yet most people are terrible with theirs.

        • Yumi
          Yumi
          January 18, 2018 at 12:30 am | #

          I mean

          not everyone has to learn to use one growing up

          • Some1
            Some1
            January 18, 2018 at 12:33 am | #

            look, I can’t believe your still stuck in the past, plenty of girls today play the recorder.

            (in all seriousness, yeah I know, but the joke wouldn’t work otherwise, this is why asshole jokes are more popular)

        • Historyman68
          Historyman68
          January 18, 2018 at 11:43 am | #

          Also, you don’t blow into a dick-hole.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            January 18, 2018 at 2:42 pm | #

            “Suck, dammit. Blow is just an expression.”

            • Roborat
              Roborat
              January 18, 2018 at 4:29 pm | #

              I knew someone would step up.

          • Yumi
            Yumi
            January 18, 2018 at 3:26 pm | #

            This was my main thought on the matter. Also, again, I don’t play the flute, but I don’t think you’re supposed to try to fit s much of it as you can in your mouth.

  20. TheGrammarLegionary
    TheGrammarLegionary
    January 18, 2018 at 12:22 am | #

    Okay, any strip involving music is immediately one of my favourites, and any strip where Sal opens up is immediately one of my favourites. THIS strip… this is what I needed after a 12-hour workday.

  21. Marsh Maryrose
    Marsh Maryrose
    January 18, 2018 at 12:27 am | #

    Joke set-up question: What do you call people who hang around with musicians?

    Up until tonight, the only three canonical answers I knew were:

    a) singers
    b) drummers
    c) violists

    Tonight I suppose I have to add

    d) ukuleleists

    and

    e) whoever programmed Danny’s tuning app. It takes true “genius” to screw that up.

    In my own experience, the only joke answer that applies in real life is a), and even then only for a very small set of them.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      January 18, 2018 at 11:58 am | #

      … wait, musicians let ukuleleists hang around them?

      f) The set crew. They hang decorations, hang lights, hang mics…

    • 3-I
      3-I
      January 18, 2018 at 2:40 pm | #

      g) The opening act.

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      January 18, 2018 at 4:33 pm | #

      h) groupies

  22. Rabid Rabbit
    Rabid Rabbit
    January 18, 2018 at 12:32 am | #

    Sal makes more and more sense with this. She can play an instrument, she either figure-skated or did ballet (I don’t remember if it was ever cleared up what let her show off her roller-skating abilities to Carla the way she did), she can do remarkable motorcycle stunts, etc., etc. — Clearly, she’s the talented Walkerton child. But when Linda had to choose only one of them to audition for an admittedly terrible TV show, she picked Walky. Hence Sal’s constant being the best at everything, and yet it never being good enough. The only surprise is that she turned out not to be very good at sticking up convenience stores.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      January 18, 2018 at 12:37 am | #

      She never said what made her good with skating. Honestly, my bet would just be pal-ing around with Marcie.

      And I think Sal was trying to get caught at the store.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      January 18, 2018 at 2:03 am | #

      Both Sal and Walky think that Linda was offended by the colour of Sal’s skin. If this horrible theory is correct, then Sal being more talented than Walky in the field of practical skills would, in her view actually be a negative.

      • Liliet
        Liliet
        January 18, 2018 at 4:13 am | #

        Less color and more general phenotype, like hair. Have you ever seen a parent inform their teenage child that their hair looks MUCH better murdered with chemicals and it’s a shame they’re wearing it the way it naturally is?…

        Yes, yes the Walkertons are fucking racist.

        • TemperaryObsessor
          TemperaryObsessor
          January 18, 2018 at 9:04 am | #

          Teenage no, everyday no, optional no.
          I have seen a parent inform there child child that they need to have hairspray and curls because of X event.
          Doesn’t mean that Sal’s mom was not racist but its an extreme of regular non racist behavior (which is the form racism usually takes now a days).

      • TemperaryObsessor
        TemperaryObsessor
        January 18, 2018 at 8:36 am | #

        Sal thinks that. I’m pretty sure Walky just thinks that now that he’s not outright dismissing the possibility there was real favoritism before it was justified and it could be racism.

  23. newllend(henryvolt)
    newllend(henryvolt)
    January 18, 2018 at 12:37 am | #

    Wow that’s Sal for yeah, once you thought you got her figured out she pulls a nother surprise on you. Then again I can see her knowing how to play a country guitar.

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      January 18, 2018 at 1:06 am | #

      Do you mean an acoustic guitar player country style, or a steel lap guitar?

      Not joking, just curious, cos I can sorta imagine Sal with a steel lap guitar.

      • newllend(henryvolt)
        newllend(henryvolt)
        January 18, 2018 at 1:16 am | #

        Can’t say 🤔

      • WubbGmbaa
        WubbGmbaa
        January 18, 2018 at 8:56 am | #

        I figured “country guitar” was a euphemism for “banjo”

        • Roborat
          Roborat
          January 18, 2018 at 4:35 pm | #

          Banjitar.

    • All-Purpose Guru
      All-Purpose Guru
      January 18, 2018 at 2:01 am | #

      Sal with a Dobro guitar.

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        January 18, 2018 at 2:26 am | #

        Now I want the next strip to be Sal doing a whizbang take of Django, on the uke.

    • Joy
      Joy
      January 18, 2018 at 2:38 pm | #

      i never assume i got Sal figured out ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  24. Cass
    Cass
    January 18, 2018 at 12:45 am | #

    Man, Sal looks lovely in that last panel.

    • jeffepp
      jeffepp
      January 18, 2018 at 9:31 am | #

      She’s smiling. She never smiles. But she’s smiling all the same.

      • David DeLaney
        David DeLaney
        January 18, 2018 at 9:54 am | #

        I was gonna comment on that too. It’s not even a sarcastic smile, a smirk, or an ugly grin. (Just got to the “Mike smiles, kisses Amber, and tells her he loves her” bit in SP! – now THERE’S an adorrifying smile.) Just a gentle smile for having gotten the punchline in.

        –Dave, and Danny needs the practice at being the straight man

        ps: ba dum TISSSH

  25. Pl0x
    Pl0x
    January 18, 2018 at 12:45 am | #

    Guys I talked about this comic in response to a question in class, and now my teacher has started reading it. (The class is about branding and marketing of creative content.)

    • Pl0x
      Pl0x
      January 18, 2018 at 12:51 am | #

      Also the first strip he saw was the one with Billie and Ruth full-on snogging

    • bleepbloop
      bleepbloop
      January 18, 2018 at 1:01 am | #

      DoA was in my Mass Comm 101 text book! Its the perfect teaching tool tbh

    • vlademir1
      vlademir1
      January 18, 2018 at 2:04 am | #

      To be fair Willis is among the best case studies of growing and maintaining a dedicated audience in webcomics from the era he started. Pete Abrams, Jorge Cham and the PA crew are the only ones I can think of who have done it about as well for as long.

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        January 18, 2018 at 4:53 pm | #

        You forgot Fred Gallagher, Brad Guigar, Dan Shive, Danielle Corsetto, Randy Mulholland, Jeph Jacques, Crave (Jackie Wohlenhaus), Kris Straub, Jennie Breeden, just off the top of my head.

  26. Mackabre
    Mackabre
    January 18, 2018 at 12:52 am | #

    I’m with Sal on this one. Not even Boss/Roland can make a good tuner app

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 18, 2018 at 2:06 am | #

      I’ve tried a couple different ones. They get close enough for learning on a $100 Squier, I guess.

    • Liquid Len
      Liquid Len
      January 18, 2018 at 8:12 am | #

      Perpetual frustration with the TU-3 pedal I use for my Telecaster. I’d much rather tune by ear. But it’s useful when tuning on stage while the bass player is making too much noise…

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        January 18, 2018 at 7:56 pm | #

        Just give the bass player some crayons. That should buy you a little peace and quiet for tuning, unless the drummer starts fighting with them over the free snacks.

        (I kid, I kid.)

    • Badtux
      Badtux
      January 18, 2018 at 11:59 am | #

      I’ve never had a tuner app that actually worked. They’ve all been inaccurate compared to a tuning fork reference and other electronic references. i have a cheap clip-on tuner (the Snark) that costs less than $15 (within the budget of even a cheap college student) and actually works. For tuning by ear, if one string is in tune it’s easy for me to tune to that reference without even fretting any strings, but I can’t tell whether I’m flat or sharp without a reference thus tend to detune to the next lowest note or pop a string trying to tune to the next highest note unless I tune at least one string with the Snark first, or have another properly tuned instrument around to use as a reference. Does make it fast to switch between drop-D and normal tuning on my guitar though, since I have the other strings as a reference.

      • Joy
        Joy
        January 18, 2018 at 2:39 pm | #

        I used to use as tuning app when i was thirteen but it started to annoy me into stopping as my ear got more trained

        • Liliet
          Liliet
          January 19, 2018 at 12:07 pm | #

          I really hope my ear will eventually get good enough to double check after the app, so far the best I can do is spot “very badly out of tune” when playing a chord. I can’t even fucking tell if a string is flat or sharp when doing relative pitch, just ‘close’/’far’.

          So compared to me trying to tune by ear, tuning app is still the lesser evil…

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        January 18, 2018 at 4:57 pm | #

        I have found a few that aren’t bad in a pinch. I tend to use a cheap clip on tuner. Seems to be pretty accurate. I can’t tune by ear, as I have a mild hearing impairment that affects most of the range guitars are tuned at, although I can usually tell when a note is off. My brother can tune by ear, I consider people who can tune by ear to be amazing wizards.

  27. Bagge
    Bagge
    January 18, 2018 at 1:14 am | #

    Heh, compare and contrast panel 1 and 5. New Danny may be many things, but “cool” is not one of them.

    “A good egg” is one of them. After a day with Malaya Sal BADLY needed to push someone around, and he allowed it without fuss. That happy smirk in the lsat panel is heartwarming.

  28. SailorCakes
    SailorCakes
    January 18, 2018 at 1:16 am | #

    I just realized…I have the same ukulele as Danny xD

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      January 18, 2018 at 1:36 am | #

      I don’t know you, but odds are you are a good egg

      • SailorCakes
        SailorCakes
        January 18, 2018 at 1:42 am | #

        Do you think it would okay if I posted a video of me playing?

        • pl0x
          pl0x
          January 18, 2018 at 1:59 am | #

          I think it would be cool!

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          January 18, 2018 at 7:44 am | #

          Please do!

          • SailorCakes
            SailorCakes
            January 18, 2018 at 2:44 pm | #

            Here you go! ^_^ Sorry it took a little while to get

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvK5faEh_s0&feature=youtu.be

            • Bagge
              Bagge
              February 16, 2018 at 5:42 pm | #

              Steven!!!!

              Nice 🙂

        • Roborat
          Roborat
          January 18, 2018 at 4:57 pm | #

          Only if you have the same hat.

          • SailorCakes
            SailorCakes
            January 18, 2018 at 7:16 pm | #

            If only……

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      January 18, 2018 at 2:29 am | #

      Is the tuning reversible on that size for us lefties? Or would the strings need to be removed and put back in like a guitar, top to bottom?

      • Liquid Len
        Liquid Len
        January 18, 2018 at 8:14 am | #

        Most lefties I know of swap the strings around. (I’m sure they make a lefty uke with the proper sized slits in the nut, though…)

        • Liquid Len
          Liquid Len
          January 18, 2018 at 8:14 am | #

          *slots*

          • David DeLaney
            David DeLaney
            January 18, 2018 at 9:55 am | #

            Freudian avatar slip, surely.

            –Dave, now wincing, having read it again

            • Liquid Len
              Liquid Len
              January 18, 2018 at 11:07 am | #

              Yes. Avatar slip. *ahem*
              🙂

        • ValdVin
          ValdVin
          January 18, 2018 at 1:01 pm | #

          Not fun news, but thanx.. Nothing like having a bit of musical talent and not be able to use a uke someone has brought to a party.

          (I’m not buying one unless I get a lot richer. My guitar would get jealous anyway.)

          • Roborat
            Roborat
            January 18, 2018 at 4:59 pm | #

            How expensive are the ukuleles you are looking at? Most are pretty cheap.

            • ValdVin
              ValdVin
              January 18, 2018 at 8:34 pm | #

              It’s sorta a money thing and an energy thing for me right now. Not looking, but just semi idly thinking, and several other burners are on a high simmer.

  29. Makkabee
    Makkabee
    January 18, 2018 at 1:39 am | #

    I’ve seen Roger Daltrey play the uke live. That legitimizes any instrument.

  30. Nobody
    Nobody
    January 18, 2018 at 1:40 am | #

    Danny, the ukelele’s very existence tees them up, the only thing you could do to stop it is burn the thing

    • All-Purpose Guru
      All-Purpose Guru
      January 18, 2018 at 2:03 am | #

      Maybe if it wasn’t painted… …blue?

      • Joe Covenant
        Joe Covenant
        January 18, 2018 at 5:01 am | #

        That’s the only thing that makes it half-way acceptable! 🙂

        • Roborat
          Roborat
          January 18, 2018 at 4:59 pm | #

          Hey, it could have been pink.

  31. kitty
    kitty
    January 18, 2018 at 1:49 am | #

    here is kitty’s finnish word of the day!

    kissa (kitty)

    on the computer I go by kitty because I like the appearance better, and kissa is too close to “kiss”.

    have a nice day!

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      January 18, 2018 at 6:00 am | #

      I know kissa!

      (thanks to reading Stand Still, Stay Silent)

  32. ScarvesandCelery
    ScarvesandCelery
    January 18, 2018 at 1:54 am | #

    re. alt text: I reckon Sal would beat The Rock in a fight, so she’s safe.

    • Charlie Owens
      Charlie Owens
      January 18, 2018 at 3:00 am | #

      BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAno.

  33. BenRG
    BenRG
    January 18, 2018 at 2:01 am | #

    Death metal on the ukulele. Because she’s Sal Walkerton.

  34. Stoodmuffin
    Stoodmuffin
    January 18, 2018 at 2:14 am | #

    This is as close as DOA has EVER had me to shipping these two.

    Holy shit. Willis. If you give me Queer Death Metal Danny I would have no idea how to take such a wondrous, nonsensical, joy in my heart.

    • MM
      MM
      January 18, 2018 at 2:48 am | #

      I can’t even picture Queer Death Metal Danny without it veering dangerously into emo territory.

      • Eldritch Gentleman
        Eldritch Gentleman
        January 18, 2018 at 4:22 am | #

        Mhm Danny in a KISS getup, shredding the ukulele while growling his songs with Ethan in loincloth clinging to his leg?

  35. Stoodmuffin
    Stoodmuffin
    January 18, 2018 at 2:14 am | #

    As the kids would say:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plngAPG0cNs

  36. Fire_daws
    Fire_daws
    January 18, 2018 at 2:18 am | #

    I ship ’em.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      January 18, 2018 at 2:58 am | #

      Personally, I’ve always seen Danny as ending up as Sal’s first friend outside of the group of ‘second-hand associates’ she gets from Marcie.

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      January 18, 2018 at 3:37 am | #

      Did you make Claire your custom avatar because you, also, do lots of shipping?

      Or is it just the puns?

      • fire_daws
        fire_daws
        January 18, 2018 at 1:15 pm | #

        Both 8) but I usually get to the pun party late 🙁

  37. vlademir1
    vlademir1
    January 18, 2018 at 2:40 am | #

    Tuning apps are great starter kit in theory, but in practice they have one really problematic issue I’m a wee surprised Danny isn’t aware of. Any tuning app is only going to be as good as the mic feeding data to it at best. No phone on the market, none which I’ve ever heard of at any rate, has a good enough built in mic to do the job nearly as well as a properly trained ear. Don’t rely on an app unless you have a quality mic to feed it, just learn to tune it by ear with known samples or splurge and buy a dedicated chromatic tuner and call it a day.

    • Liliet
      Liliet
      January 19, 2018 at 12:05 pm | #

      I rely on ear to tell when my guitar is out of tune, then use the app to tune it, then double-check with relative tuning while PRAYING the first string is ok

      …people haven’t tried to murder me so far?

  38. PB
    PB
    January 18, 2018 at 2:47 am | #

    Oh my god does she have perfect pitch I have perfect pitch and my tuning app always says I’m wrong am I vindicated please tell me I’m vindicated

    • ICSM
      ICSM
      January 18, 2018 at 5:50 am | #

      You don’t need perfect pitch to know that most tuning apps are crap. You just need to have had access to a tuning fork at some point in your life.

      • PB
        PB
        January 18, 2018 at 7:41 pm | #

        I’M SO RELIEVED I THOUGHT I’D LOST MY MIND.

  39. Guavajagular
    Guavajagular
    January 18, 2018 at 3:02 am | #

    To be fair, it’s only not a real instrument when a non-hawaiian person plays it

  40. Badtux
    Badtux
    January 18, 2018 at 3:57 am | #

    My guess is that she knows how to play the piano. Back in her obedient daughter days taking piano lessons would have been just the ordinary upper middle class rite of passage. And Sal being Sal, she would have been *good* at it, attempting to impress her parents.

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      January 18, 2018 at 5:02 pm | #

      Nah, she refused to learn to play anything except Smoke on the Water.

  41. Eldritch Gentleman
    Eldritch Gentleman
    January 18, 2018 at 4:15 am | #

    I have to say that the image of The Rock holding the tiny ukulele in his huge hands is pretty adorable.

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      January 18, 2018 at 5:03 pm | #

      You just think it is a ukulele because of his size, it is actually a concert acoustic guitar.

  42. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    January 18, 2018 at 4:18 am | #

    Alt-text: Yes, Dwayne Johnson plays a real instrument. He also plays ukulele.

  43. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    January 18, 2018 at 4:36 am | #

    BTW, has anyone heard from Cerb lately? Her last appearance here was over half a month ago.

    On the one hand, she was doing almost daily posting and described this as her therapy, and said she was having med issues last month linked to… depression? I think? So her absence is a bit worrisome.

    On the other hand, I think she’s got a grad student job so maybe she just has to work her butt off now that the term’s started again.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      January 18, 2018 at 5:15 am | #

      My mistake, it was a pretty bad stomach bug that put her into the hospital. Why’d I think she was having medication issues? Whatever, I’m still slightly worried.

      • JBento
        JBento
        January 18, 2018 at 7:21 am | #

        I asked last week – BBCC said she waw going to shoot Cerberus an email back then, dunno if she got around to it.

        I never know how much I should ask – I’m not particularly good with people in real life, let alone over this “enterwbz” thingie. 8/

        • Clif
          Clif
          January 18, 2018 at 8:13 am | #

          Send good thoughts her way regardless.

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          January 18, 2018 at 12:01 pm | #

          I messaged her on Saturday. No word from her yet, but it is a school week.

      • Inahc
        Inahc
        January 18, 2018 at 2:57 pm | #

        She was also going through unplanned antidepressant withdrawal (at the exact same time I was going through *planned* withdrawal, whee) and there was some concern she might be joining the chronic pain club. :/ So yeah, shit came in threes, I don’t remember which of them were resolved beyond her surviving the hospital trip.

        I’m in withdrawal again myself, … Oh, that reminds me, apparently the flu is nasty this year and flu shots aren’t doing much? Maybe she got hit with that *too* :/

        • Inahc
          Inahc
          January 18, 2018 at 3:03 pm | #

          And then there’s dissociation, which is keeping like 90% of my comments from escaping my head recently. Brains are weird. It’s hard to talk about not being able to talk.

          • JBento
            JBento
            January 18, 2018 at 8:22 pm | #

            8(

            *desired expression of support*

            • Inahc
              Inahc
              January 18, 2018 at 10:38 pm | #

              *jedi hugs* 🙂

              this seems to fit that mental state quite well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqJ7LtZgMAc (and it’s a good thing, because now I know how to approach fixing it!)

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          January 18, 2018 at 9:59 pm | #

          All my sympathy there. Withdrawal is the absolute pits.

          • Inahc
            Inahc
            January 18, 2018 at 10:40 pm | #

            it’s been kinda trippy today. but in a mostly-good way, surprisingly 🙂 I took advantage of the good parts of the rollercoaster to do some brain-debugging.

  44. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    January 18, 2018 at 5:11 am | #

    Sal got sass hahaha

  45. Lightpunster
    Lightpunster
    January 18, 2018 at 7:15 am | #

    They look cute together

  46. Crumplepunch
    Crumplepunch
    January 18, 2018 at 7:19 am | #

    Sal just lit that match on her abs.

  47. Jago
    Jago
    January 18, 2018 at 8:01 am | #

    What instrument, second fiddle to Malaya?

  48. Sterling
    Sterling
    January 18, 2018 at 8:05 am | #

    HOLY SHIT.

    I just said aloud to myself the words… “Man… I love Sal/Danny.”

    Then I remembered that that’s actually one of the most important and most toxic romances in Roomies! and It’s Walky!… but specifically NOT the one that became canon, since we already know that’s not happening.

    And they’re… cute as heck?

    Good job, Willis.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      January 18, 2018 at 11:54 am | #

      Maybe Willis will want to explore this VERSION of their relationship, now that DoA’s been going for… seven years???? Holy crap how did that happen!

      …. ahem. Regardless of the romance-ship, I friend-ship them.

  49. Deanatay
    Deanatay
    January 18, 2018 at 9:14 am | #

    *selects 3 Wood from bag*
    *places golf ball on Danny’s head*
    *winds up*
    FORE!

  50. hof1991
    hof1991
    January 18, 2018 at 9:20 am | #

    Wasn’t sure why Sal was so pissed off, but I checked the tags and she just came from an encounter with Malaya, so that make sense. Four panels of Danny and she’s at least amused if not happy.

    Again, Amber is on the roof, yelling at them to break it up. Just as she has been for every couple we’ve seen since that strip. Eventually, she will drop down and let us know just who she was yelling at. http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/jackass/

    • Jason
      Jason
      January 18, 2018 at 9:56 am | #

      I don’t think so? It looks and sounds much more like she’s reacting to a fight. I don’t think Amber would climb down from the roof just to stop Sal (who AG at least somewhat trusts, even if she still makes Amber anxious) from hanging out with Danny.

      • Eldritch Gentleman
        Eldritch Gentleman
        January 18, 2018 at 10:43 am | #

        Maybe Sal and Danny are disturbing the public peace by rocking on that ukulele and singing?

  51. Paul
    Paul
    January 18, 2018 at 9:49 am | #

    Look at almost anything by Jake Shimabakuro

    • Emperor Norton II
      Emperor Norton II
      January 18, 2018 at 8:46 pm | #

      Especially “Ehime Maru”. He makes such a complexity of sounds that shouldn’t be possible on a ukulele, and I am utterly convinced that he is in fact a wizard that makes those sounds happen by using magic.

  52. Rodimiss
    Rodimiss
    January 18, 2018 at 11:05 am | #

    I love these two and their interactions. Sal’s face in the last panel is good.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      January 18, 2018 at 11:51 am | #

      The one thing that obviously is a source of unequivocal happiness to Sal is music.

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        January 18, 2018 at 11:56 am | #

        Yup! Just look at the unequivocal happiness on Sal’s face in Panel 5 of this comic!

        • BenRG
          BenRG
          January 18, 2018 at 2:06 pm | #

          GOOD music.

  53. RaulTsi
    RaulTsi
    January 18, 2018 at 11:07 am | #

    I’m impressed. The chord charts are actually correct for that tuning.

  54. Historyman68
    Historyman68
    January 18, 2018 at 11:49 am | #

    Two more notes relating to this strip:
    1) It’s possible Sal has perfect pitch! That doesn’t have to be the case, she could just be using relative pitch, but there’s a few hints that could be the case.
    2) If you take out the space, that last panel says “NOAH plays a real instrument”, which I like because my name is Noah and I also play a real instrument!

    • Jason
      Jason
      January 18, 2018 at 3:19 pm | #

      Music dummy here- what are the hints?

  55. Remmington Steele
    Remmington Steele
    January 18, 2018 at 4:03 pm | #

    Get one with an inbuilt tuner.

  56. CJ
    CJ
    January 18, 2018 at 4:47 pm | #

    Sal looks happy in the last panel. Did we ever see that before?

  57. R.J.C.
    R.J.C.
    January 18, 2018 at 5:34 pm | #

    I’d ship Danny and Sal.

  58. Schol-R-LEA
    Schol-R-LEA
    January 18, 2018 at 10:04 pm | #

    Going from SEMME to uke’?

    • Beef
      Beef
      January 18, 2018 at 11:54 pm | #

      Oh my god

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      January 19, 2018 at 2:56 pm | #

      That was awful. I like you.

  59. Dr_D
    Dr_D
    January 18, 2018 at 11:54 pm | #

    love Sam’s smile in the last panel.

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Approximately 10 minutes later, Williams sent a text message to the Los Angeles Mayor and several high-ranking city officials in the Mayor’s office and falsely reported, “Bomb threat: I received phone call on my city cell at 10:48 am this morning. The male caller stated that ‘he was tired of the city support of Israel, and he has decided to place a bomb in City Hall. It might be in the rotunda.’ I immediately contacted the chief of staff of LAPD, they are going to send a number of officers over to do a search of the building and to determine if anyone else received a threat.” In fact, Williams had not received such a call.
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This is now available with zero markup (that means I don't make any money on your purchase) at the link below. teaberryblue.net/product/cal-...
A long sleeve white tee shirt that says
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I just think they’re neat! 🙂‍↕️
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Over on my patreon, I just posted a big batch of daily diary comics from my trip to Alaska for comics camp! Here's a freebie :) patreon.com/mgillman
A three panel black and white diary comic called
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He's definitely gonna fuck those wisterias.
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Reblogging because 30 seconds of clickity-clacking on a keyboard could save MILLIONS of lives. How could you not want to be a part of that?
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George Wendt murdered by nephew's incantation
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I experience comedy as it was intended: as a blurry screenshot of an original post then shared by a unrelated sketchy aggregrator account and finally posted as an image on cracked dot com
it's the post threaded below, if you click through the individual images have alts. it's better
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I'm so used to bar bathrooms with cutesy signs that I had to stop here and ask myself if I was a Mario or a Wario
a sign with an M on it that is definitely Mario adjacent
an upside down m, also known as a
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CALL YOUR SENATORS!!! If you don't know who to call or what to say, here's a handy website so you can be informed and it has a script for you. Just put in your location and it'll pull up the contact information for the senators who represent you 5calls.org/issue/medica...
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I need cis people to understand that if this bill passes, thousands of trans people will die. That's not hyperbole. That's not sensationalism. That's fact. You know the genocide of trans people in the United States you refuse to acknowledge? It's here.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 9h
kid asked what "sexy" means we said oh that's when somebody is looking or acting in a way that makes you want to be romantic with them, in a kissing way, not a friendly way kid: oh so like how turk and jd are like on scrubs
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TODAY is the BIRTHDAY of my brother from the red clay of oklahoma: @wigu.org !!!!!!!! LOVE THAT MAN@!!!!!
me and jeffrey!!!
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Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT. @distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting. Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
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A white first aid kit icon with a pastel pink cross, overlaid onto a pastel blue background. 

Distribute Aid Logo

Link to the fundraiser (available in the post text).
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I block all accounts on sight. Nothing personal, just don’t like accounts and the things they post.
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Pardon Our Interruption...eBay Home
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 15h
can feel this writer's delight in pretending the ninth season didn't exist
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🏳️‍⚧️ Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] @alexandraerin.com ⋅ 1d
Victor Frankenstein, inventor of making up a guy to get mad at
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 15h
APPS!!!!!
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Kel McDonald @kelmcdonald.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
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Sorcery 101 is 20! Here is Danny with a cake
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I am DONE making comics out of a CULTURE of FEAR. from NOW on I am ONLY making comics that are TRANSGRESSIVE and BRAVE where WALDO from WHERE’S WALDO is DIVORCED and BURNT OUT and WANTS TO DIE
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Gale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
choose your fighter
Simply drawn comic in black and white with blue-gray spot color.

Panel 1: A rabbit looks at a book. 
Rabbit: this comic is very popular, but i don't like it!

Panel 2: The rabbit flips through the book.
Rabbit: that's cool! i wonder what about it is resonating with people
SFX: flip

Panel 3: White text on black background spans the width of the page.
Caption: why don't i like it?
Caption: what would i do differently?
Caption: what can i learn from this?

Panel 4: Borderless panel. Sequential drawings of the rabbit reading the book.
Rabbit 1: flip
Rabbit 2: hm!
Rabbit 3: huh
Rabbit 4, looking up from the book: comics are neat!
Two panel comic drawn simply with black lines and blue-gray spot color.

Panel 1: Rabbit looks at a book.
Rabbit: this comic is very popular, but i don't like it!

Panel 2: The rabbit closes the book with a peaceful smile.
Rabbit: well, good for them!
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Olivia Stephens @oliveoilcorp.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
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Excerpt from a Comicsbeat article by E.B. Hutchins about Alex Graham's racist ass comic:  

Is there somewhere in this article where I could talk about the very real feeling of jealousy and how it can make even the nicest people into assholes? No, that’s not this article. It’s not this article because we’ve let appealing to white people’s comfort get in the way of progress to the point where our culture, democracy, and future is at stake. Appealing to white people’s comfort is how we got to where BIPOC and LGBT people are being erased from history all together because the dark history of this country makes white people uncomfortable.
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It's Bigger Than Alex Graham's Comic: An Instagram post has stirred up a hornet's next of controversy by suggesting that comics by marginalized groups are overrated
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Commentary: It’s Bigger Than Alex Graham’s Comic (With An Update)
An Instagram post by Alex Graham has stirred up a hornet's next of controversy
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
And only Luigi is being charged with murder
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UPDATE: UnitedHealth deliberately changed patients to "do not resuscitate' so that they would be left to die in any medical emergency as they considered especially critically ill patients to be 'a waste of money' regardless of patient's desire to live.
Free Luigi Mangione
Free Luigi Mangione
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
If you’re lost, in a nutshell, artist Alex Graham posted a whiny little comic about how comics she thinks are bad win acclaim because of the white guilt of comic readers bsky.app/profile/jesn...
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If you'd like context for what comics bluesky is talking about, it's this short comic by Alex Graham: www.instagram.com/p/DJ2v_leSN5...
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
www.ebay.com/itm/23611446... bid on my movie masterpiece megatron
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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Finally I created a perfect blend of Popeye and Donald Duck:
A blend of Popeye and Donald Duck with Popeye's face and skin colour and Donald Duck's body shape and clothing.  He looks great.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
"Calarts Style" is the "woke" of shitty cartoonists Doesn't really mean anything other than "I don't like it, but I'm going to pretend my objection is moral/cultural to make it feel important"
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatarDavid M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
i wake up everything's calarts style this rug is calarts style your face is calarts style the sky is calarts style the increasing crescendo of calarts style from beneath the floorboards, i can hear its symphony whispering to me its awful refrain: "get something real to hate"
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