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by David M Willis on February 28, 2018 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - Faz Is Great
└ Tags: dorothy, walky

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    February 28, 2018 at 12:01 am | #

    love in an elevator

    livin’ it up while we’re goin’… out?

    (or staying in, I guess)

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      February 28, 2018 at 12:02 am | #

      it’s a magical world

      as long as something under the bed isn’t drooling

      • Sambo
        Sambo
        February 28, 2018 at 12:14 am | #

        And you don’t get attacked by deranged mutant killer monster snow goons.
        I was wondering if the reference was intentional; happy to have confirmation

        • Ana Chronistic
          Ana Chronistic
          February 28, 2018 at 12:19 am | #

          Yukon ho!

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            February 28, 2018 at 2:03 am | #

            Academic progress goes ‘boink’.

            • Moose
              Moose
              February 28, 2018 at 3:43 am | #

              I was going to correct that to scientific progress, but considering the nature of DoA, that could work, too.

            • I Had A Name, Once
              I Had A Name, Once
              February 28, 2018 at 8:08 am | #

              THIS WAS THE PERFECT ONE

            • Deanatay
              Deanatay
              February 28, 2018 at 9:24 am | #

              That IS a pretty good description of what’s happening to Dorothy’s study focus.

            • Charlie Spencer
              Charlie Spencer
              February 28, 2018 at 9:47 am | #

              It’s a magical world, Walky ol buddy. Let’s go exploring!

              • PB
                PB
                February 28, 2018 at 11:17 pm | #

                Hang on, my childhood got in my eyes.

    • LeslieBean4Shizzle
      LeslieBean4Shizzle
      February 28, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

      Something something next Slipshine something.

      Sorry, too tired for coherent ludery.

      • David DeLaney
        David DeLaney
        March 1, 2018 at 6:54 pm | #

        … lubery, or lewdery?

        –Dave, por que no los dos, actualmente?

    • JA
      JA
      February 28, 2018 at 12:01 pm | #

      And this is why you don’t walk barefoot in a campus elevator.

      Or any elevator for that matter.

  2. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    February 28, 2018 at 12:01 am | #

    And then Faz falls from the ceiling.

    • Arawn
      Arawn
      February 28, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

      and then he disappears in a smoke of puff. I think Walky and Dorothy would be unFazed by it.

  3. AnvilPro
    AnvilPro
    February 28, 2018 at 12:01 am | #

    Suddenly Faz falls from the ceiling

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      February 28, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

      *Nelson laugh*

      • Emperor Norton II
        Emperor Norton II
        February 28, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

        Now now, be gracious in victory; and remember that thou too hast tasted the sting of defeat in the battle of making the witty joke first…

        …Who am I kidding, let’s all do the Nelson laugh!

        • Doctor_Who
          Doctor_Who
          February 28, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

          *Polite Nelson chuckle*

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          February 28, 2018 at 1:00 am | #

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdOPBP9vuZA
          Nelson laugh.

    • Some1
      Some1
      February 28, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

      Walky: Holy shit!

      Dorothy: Oh god, there’s blood everywhere! Walky call 911. That was like a 20 foot drop!

      Walky: How did he even get up there?

      • Some1
        Some1
        February 28, 2018 at 12:35 am | #

        only now realizing they’re in the elevator in that final panel…

  4. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    February 28, 2018 at 12:02 am | #

    That elevated quickly.

    • Pink Freud
      Pink Freud
      February 28, 2018 at 12:45 am | #

      Yeah but I think someone’s about to get a lift.

      • adjudicus
        adjudicus
        February 28, 2018 at 1:34 am | #

        They seem to like stairing into each other’s eyes

        • cbwroses
          cbwroses
          February 28, 2018 at 3:33 am | #

          Of course they do. It raises their spirits.

    • Remmington Steele
      Remmington Steele
      February 28, 2018 at 2:19 pm | #

      Nope, he’s going down.

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        February 28, 2018 at 3:22 pm | #

        If the Slipshine is any indicator, it will be Dorothy going down.

  5. syd
    syd
    February 28, 2018 at 12:02 am | #

    C&H reference secured.

    • Chris Phoenix
      Chris Phoenix
      February 28, 2018 at 9:36 am | #

      Sweet!

  6. Nicster216
    Nicster216
    February 28, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

    Elevator like “I got you bro”

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      February 28, 2018 at 9:26 am | #

      Wing-evator.

  7. Inara
    Inara
    February 28, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

    well, her to-do list *was* all things starting with an “F”…

    • Koms
      Koms
      February 28, 2018 at 12:22 am | #

      It had only Walky

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      February 28, 2018 at 12:35 am | #

      So, we’re talking about Walky’s grades, right?

  8. Passchendaele
    Passchendaele
    February 28, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    I wonder what the next person to use that elevator will see. 😛

    • N0083rp00F
      N0083rp00F
      February 28, 2018 at 12:51 pm | #

      Szechuan sauce
      ….. everywhere …!!!!!!!111!!!oneone!!!!11!!elevensies!!!

  9. Nicster216
    Nicster216
    February 28, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    Oh but poor Walky tho he be more than happy to be back in a relationship with Dorothy but doesn’t want her to do bad in class either

  10. Keulen
    Keulen
    February 28, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    Did you just reference Calvin and Hobbes? *checks alt text* Yes you did.

    • tbf
      tbf
      February 28, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

      <3

    • Dark
      Dark
      February 28, 2018 at 12:50 am | #

      Wait, which part?

      • Woof
        Woof
        February 28, 2018 at 1:32 am | #

        “My days are just packed.”

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          February 28, 2018 at 9:27 am | #

          And, of course, the alt-text.

  11. Yumi
    Yumi
    February 28, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    *me, chanting in a way that sounds distant but is still clearly heard within the elevator*: Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!…

    • adjudicus
      adjudicus
      February 28, 2018 at 1:35 am | #

      To the tune of the Pina Colada song

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        February 28, 2018 at 2:12 am | #

        It’s a song about cheating!

        • cbwroses
          cbwroses
          February 28, 2018 at 3:35 am | #

          Yeah, but isn’t it a song about cheating on each other with each other? Like they’re cheating on their resolve to be on break?

          • MoadDib
            MoadDib
            February 28, 2018 at 8:03 am | #

            No, it’s about a couple that is feeling unsatisfied in their current relationship and they both decide to use personal ads in the paper to cheat. They find someone that sounds perfect for them and arrange a time & place to meet up and run away, but in the end it turns out that the person that they found was actually each other.

            Depending on how you look at it, it can either be a terrible song about two people that both wanted to cheat and only blind luck ended up with it still being each other, or it can be a song about learning to be more open about your wants and desires because your partner might just end up being totally open to them allowing you both to have a more fulfilling relationship.

            Regardless of the moral though, the story itself is still pretty skeevy when you break it down.

            • cbwroses
              cbwroses
              March 1, 2018 at 9:36 am | #

              Like I said, it was about cheating on each other with each other. I didn’t say it was on purpose that the person they tried to cheat with was their significant other.
              Don’t be confused by the “cheating on their resolve” part. I was trying to relate the song to the comic with that, not saying that in itself was part of the song.

  12. @zombieundergrnd
    @zombieundergrnd
    February 28, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    Is this the part where the demonic entity kills them in the elevator?
    Or am I watching the wrong movie?

    • Dana
      Dana
      February 28, 2018 at 12:15 am | #

      Wrong movie? Probably not. Relevant movie? Same.

    • StClair
      StClair
      February 28, 2018 at 12:21 am | #

      if by “demonic entity” you mean “Faz”…

  13. Cholma
    Cholma
    February 28, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    Time for a caramel treat break!

    • cbwroses
      cbwroses
      February 28, 2018 at 3:36 am | #

      You mean a tootsie roll?

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        February 28, 2018 at 9:28 am | #

        Someone’s gonna get rolled.

  14. Precious Roy
    Precious Roy
    February 28, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    The Calvin & Hobbes feels :3

  15. Keulen
    Keulen
    February 28, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

    Even the elevator wants them to get back together.

  16. Vinny
    Vinny
    February 28, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

    Woman doth not live by pudding alone. Or pudding & a pickle.

    • cbwroses
      cbwroses
      February 28, 2018 at 3:40 am | #

      Huh. A pudding cup and a pickle…maybe I’m overthinking this, but was Joyce (or perhaps Willis) sending Dorothy subliminal messages?
      Once can argue that the pudding and the pickle are allegories for genitals. And Joyce even removed the seeds from the pickle and separated them in a Baggie, thus promoting safe sex.

  17. Marsh Maryrose
    Marsh Maryrose
    February 28, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

    Don’t stand
    Don’t stand so
    Don’t stand so close to me

    s/Don’t/Do/g

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      February 28, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

      A very creepy song

      • Marsh Maryrose
        Marsh Maryrose
        February 28, 2018 at 12:26 am | #

        Not as creepy as “I’ll Be Watching You,” but yes. Both definitely creepy.

        I never understood when it came out, and I still don’t understand now, how anyone could listen to “I’ll Be Watching You” without thinking, “Oh, this is a song from the POV of a really sick stalker.”

        • Yumi
          Yumi
          February 28, 2018 at 12:28 am | #

          It’s also so creepy.

          When I was younger, I genuinely thought the Police only did songs about illegal things. As some sort of irony or whatever.

          • Opus the Poet
            Opus the Poet
            February 28, 2018 at 1:05 am | #

            Yeah, Sting was a schoolteacher before becoming a rock god, and had to deal with Schoolgirl crushes and stalkers before finding a job with better workplace security.

        • Benjamin
          Benjamin
          February 28, 2018 at 2:23 am | #

          Sting actually meant it that way! As Wikipedia on the song says about him:

          Sting later said he was disconcerted by how many people think the song is more positive than it is. He insists it is about the obsession with a lost lover, and the jealousy and surveillance that follow. “One couple told me ‘Oh we love that song; it was the main song played at our wedding!’ I thought, ‘Well, good luck.'” When asked why he appears angry in the music video, Sting told BBC Radio 2, “I think the song is very, very sinister and ugly and people have actually misinterpreted it as being a gentle little love song, when it’s quite the opposite.”

          • cbwroses
            cbwroses
            February 28, 2018 at 3:43 am | #

            Dude should have chose a different melody then. Chip n Dale’s Rescue Rangers theme song has a more sinister melody.

            • Yumi
              Yumi
              February 28, 2018 at 10:45 am | #

              I think mixing those lyrics with the melody is kind of the point. It speaks to how we romanticize this kind of unhealthy obsession.

              • CJ
                CJ
                February 28, 2018 at 3:43 pm | #

                Several artist like to mismatch lyrics and song-energy:
                Susan Vega really likes to mix snappy, feel-goof melodies with creepy lyrics. Ever really listened to Luka? (Or the Queen and the soldier)?

                Or think abou Fee Fi Fo from the Cranberries.

                • Yumi
                  Yumi
                  February 28, 2018 at 4:18 pm | #

                  Well, Luka isn’t creepy, it’s sad an heartbreaking. And I love it because I’m addicted to emotional pain.

                • StClair
                  StClair
                  February 28, 2018 at 8:21 pm | #

                  Yeah, I was really into “Luka” for about a week before I actually listened to the lyrics, and creeped myself right out the door.

              • cbwroses
                cbwroses
                March 1, 2018 at 9:43 am | #

                That’s fine that mixing of the melody and the lyrics isn’t supposed synchronize exactly, but you can’t then complain that people didn’t catch the mismatch between the two components.
                “People think my stalker song is a love song because I wrote the melody like a love song. It’s weird they don’t get it.” It’s not weird. You wrote it like a love song. It would be more surprising if most people didn’t hear it as a love song.

          • badpoetry
            badpoetry
            February 28, 2018 at 9:54 am | #

            Michael Stipe of REM felt the same way about how people received the song “The One I Love”. He considered the line “A simple prop, to occupy my time” to be so mean-spirited he almost didn’t want to record it. After people started misinterpreting it as an actual love song, Stipe said “It’s probably better that they think it’s a love song at this point. That song just came up from somewhere and I recognized it as being really violent and awful. But it wasn’t directed at any one person. I would never write a song like that. Even if there was one person in the world thinking, This song is about me, I could never sing it or put it out… I didn’t want to record that, I thought it was too much. Too brutal. I think there’s enough of that ugliness around.”

        • Coma
          Coma
          February 28, 2018 at 4:31 am | #

          I focus mostly on the melody and I still like to listen to it. Maybe it’s also based on this innate feeling/idea that being wanted or watched like that is something you’d actually want and feel romantic about or sthg like that (you know, like it’s glorification in “Twilight”). Or. e.g. Ghost. I mean, it would be pretty effed up irl to be watched by a ghost. So, if it were to happen irl, most people would be of your opinion, I firmly believe.

          …Idk, there are a LOT of songs out there with questionable lyrics, and some of them are good or at least enjoyable.

          Random thought: Maybe someone needs to do a video parody of “Every Breath You Take” with a stalker video…

          • Yumi
            Yumi
            February 28, 2018 at 10:47 am | #

            As said above, the song is MEANT to be creepy. I think it’s a good song, just not romantic.

            Also, there’s not really the need for that kind of parody, as the actual music video has Sting intentionally giving off all kinds of creepy vibes.

            • CoMa
              CoMa
              February 28, 2018 at 2:10 pm | #

              Ah, okay, must’ve missed that.
              I don’t know, I always remember the video as being strange, possibly “artistic 80’s”-kinda thing, but not really creepy per se.

          • Inahc
            Inahc
            February 28, 2018 at 3:12 pm | #

            Well, if it’s the melody you like, there’s always “I’ll be missing you”. … I can’t remember any of the lyrics for that, actually.

            • Coma
              Coma
              March 1, 2018 at 4:20 am | #

              Do you possibly mean “Every Breath you Take”?

  18. StClair
    StClair
    February 28, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

    Passionate kiss that ends with Dorothy suddenly breaking away and backing against the far wall of the elevator.

    “You taste like McNuggets.”

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      February 28, 2018 at 12:40 am | #

      “Did you ever quit McDonald’s? Was it always a lie?”

    • cbwroses
      cbwroses
      February 28, 2018 at 3:44 am | #

      Let’s be real. When has Walky not tasted like McNuggets?

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        February 28, 2018 at 4:16 am | #

        I’m sure he sometimes tastes like Taco Bell instead.

        • Reltzik
          Reltzik
          February 28, 2018 at 4:16 am | #

          Especially with Nacho Fries.

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        February 28, 2018 at 6:17 am | #

        When he tasted like Nachitos.

    • N0083rp00F
      N0083rp00F
      February 28, 2018 at 12:55 pm | #

      Not so much the “Nuggets”tm but the forbidden Szechuan sauce.

  19. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    February 28, 2018 at 12:11 am | #

    *realizes that the panel I’ve been hacking wasn’t marked Muzak but instead says OTIS*

    OOPS.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      February 28, 2018 at 9:33 am | #

      If you mean these guys, then you’re hacking it right.

      Every good elevator has a Muzak system.

  20. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    February 28, 2018 at 12:15 am | #

    Looks like time stopped after all.

    The problem is I can already imagine that the next person to call the elevator will be either Mary or Carla.

    • Dana
      Dana
      February 28, 2018 at 12:18 am | #

      The only person I can think of that strikes me as worse than any other would be Joyce.

      • Tacos
        Tacos
        February 28, 2018 at 12:24 am | #

        Unless Faz has again somehow managed to escape from Amber.

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          February 28, 2018 at 1:06 am | #

          Faz’ body was never found…

        • BenRG
          BenRG
          February 28, 2018 at 2:01 am | #

          Actually I can see this happening and the experience being so traumatic to Faz that he comes to sit beside Amber quietly for the rest of the day, just continually saying: “Faz does not wish to discuss it.”

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        February 28, 2018 at 4:24 am | #

        …. I’m thinking Mike would be worse.

        • N0083rp00F
          N0083rp00F
          February 28, 2018 at 12:57 pm | #

          No …. Faz with Mike would be worse … there is a multiplier effect.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      February 28, 2018 at 2:14 am | #

      Not unless they hit the emergency stop button, Gibbs-style.

      • cbwroses
        cbwroses
        February 28, 2018 at 3:46 am | #

        On,y Gibbs does more head slapping than butt slapping

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        February 28, 2018 at 4:23 am | #

        That probably sets off some sort of alarm IRL. Or at least a million instant “hey the elevator’s not working” complaints at the front desk.

  21. Mollyscribbles
    Mollyscribbles
    February 28, 2018 at 12:18 am | #

    And then their hands slip apart due to the coating of mcnugget grease.

  22. Yumi
    Yumi
    February 28, 2018 at 12:19 am | #

    Does anyone else ship people in real life? One of my long time ships recently got engaged, and I’m pretty psyched about it.

    • Loki
      Loki
      February 28, 2018 at 1:00 am | #

      Yes, I am shipping people in my polycule.

      (My second-degree metamour and her not-girlfriend are the cutest.)

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        February 28, 2018 at 6:19 am | #

        Well, that’s two new words for me.

    • Emperor Norton II
      Emperor Norton II
      February 28, 2018 at 1:20 am | #

      If you had any idea of the people in this comment field that I’m shipping…

      • Some1
        Some1
        February 28, 2018 at 1:31 am | #

        Would it be in poor taste to ask who I’m being shipped with?

        • Emperor Norton II
          Emperor Norton II
          February 28, 2018 at 1:38 am | #

          King Daniel.

          • Some1
            Some1
            February 28, 2018 at 3:27 am | #

            Yeah, that kinda does make sense.

          • King Daniel
            King Daniel
            February 28, 2018 at 4:18 pm | #

            I always knew I’d eventually be shipped with someone…but I didn’t think it’d be Some1.

            • Emperor Norton II
              Emperor Norton II
              February 28, 2018 at 4:37 pm | #

              Would you rather share the shipping that Reltzik is getting?

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        February 28, 2018 at 4:22 am | #

        I’m being shipped with a dungeon cell, aren’t I?

        • Delicious Taffy
          Delicious Taffy
          February 28, 2018 at 6:21 am | #

          A perfect match if ever I saw one.

          • Reltzik
            Reltzik
            February 28, 2018 at 6:26 am | #

            Wouldn’t stop me from posting from my cell phone.

            Reception’s great down there. That dungeon has SO many bars.

            • Spaz
              Spaz
              February 28, 2018 at 11:07 am | #

              well obviously. you get a dungeon cell phone down there.

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          February 28, 2018 at 9:36 am | #

          We call you ‘Celltzik’.

    • adjudicus
      adjudicus
      February 28, 2018 at 1:38 am | #

      Sort of. I know that shipping may be harmful so I ship people but I keep it to myself

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        February 28, 2018 at 4:18 am | #

        The big safety measure in shipping people is to make sure the boxes you put them in have air holes.

    • Coma
      Coma
      February 28, 2018 at 4:36 am | #

      I don’t know enough people of different genders irl who are NOT together to be shipping anybody.
      Counts “being supported of her friend’s choices irl” as shipping in some way or another? (I’d never dream of talking down the bfs of my friends, unless they were to treat them in a pretty bad way. As long as my friends and family are happy, I am). But I do wonder if anyone ever shipped me with someone else.

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        February 28, 2018 at 10:51 am | #

        Why do they have to be different genders, though

        I count supporting canon RL ships (aka, people who are together) as shipping. I don’t necessarily consider all the relationships of my friends that I support to be ones I ship, though.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      February 28, 2018 at 5:04 am | #

      I think to call it ‘shipping’ is probably inaccurate (and slightly creepy, when you consider what shippers of fictional characters are like). It’s certainly okay to say that you think that two friends are good romantic matches but to become a fan of that pairing and get into arguments in which you deliver blow-by-blow analyses of their relationship? Not the sort of place anyone wants to go about RL friends.

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        February 28, 2018 at 10:49 am | #

        You seem to have a highly negative view of fandom shipping. Your interpretation of what shipping is may not be good for real life, but that version isn’t universal.

    • Spaz
      Spaz
      February 28, 2018 at 11:05 am | #

      uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh……

      It’s called friend fiction.

      butts. boy butts. Jimmy Pesto’s butt…

      uuuuuuuuuuuuuuhh…….

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_XaIuw6K6Q

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      February 28, 2018 at 11:06 am | #

      Context that no one asked for:
      In high school, a close friend of mine started to develop feelings for this guy–however, this ship is not about her. They started to get a bit closer to him, and then he confided in her that he was head over heels for a girl he had been friends with since middle school. “She’s my dream girl,” he said. And, you know, I supported my friend in her crush, but we were both like, “Damn, it is hard not to root for that.”

      Anyway, they ended up getting together (this was during senior year). They went to different colleges within the same state and kept up their relationship throughout. (For a while I thought they went to the same college because I was at the same school as the guy, and I would see both of them around, including in one of my lecture hall classes.)

      And now they’re engaged and it’s just super cute.

    • TemperaryObsessor
      TemperaryObsessor
      February 28, 2018 at 1:21 pm | #

      If you respect that its ultimately there choice and don’t go around sharing how you want to see real person A date real person B its fine.
      Also I think its a good idea that if your going to think about which real people you would like to see together to actually think about who they actually like and would be happy with.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        February 28, 2018 at 2:45 pm | #

        Yeah, real life crack ships should be avoided.

        • Yumi
          Yumi
          February 28, 2018 at 4:20 pm | #

          Crack ships are amazing. I’ll see two people walking down the street at vaguely the same speed and be like, “I ship it.”

  23. Kitschensyngk
    Kitschensyngk
    February 28, 2018 at 12:22 am | #

    Something’s about to go “boink”, and I don’t think it’s scientific progress.

  24. Tacos
    Tacos
    February 28, 2018 at 12:22 am | #

    Well that break is over I guess. How long were even on break?

    • dralou
      dralou
      February 28, 2018 at 12:54 am | #

      Three days tops, and it’s in couting really largely: the day she put their relationship on hold (which happened after lunch, and maybe another class ?), plus the (full) day where Walky spent quite some time eating and sharing mcnuggets, then today. And we’re at around lunch time.

      Then again, I’m absolutely not sure that the mcnuggets weren’t bought the same day as the beginning of their break.

    • cbwroses
      cbwroses
      February 28, 2018 at 3:47 am | #

      I don’t think it’s been 24 hours yet

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        February 28, 2018 at 5:55 am | #

        I think this is the next day. They went on pause in the last chapter.

        Mind you, I don’t think this is over yet, even if there’s a relapse now.

        • DinaWho
          DinaWho
          February 28, 2018 at 10:15 am | #

          Still could be less than 24 hours depending on the time of day (they went ‘on pause’ after yesterday’s afternoon class, and aside from Amber and Danny going to their CS class, we don’t have much reference for when in the day this strip is happening).

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            February 28, 2018 at 2:31 pm | #

            Yah. That was more agreement and against it being more than that.

            Probably should’ve replied to dralou instead 🙂

            • dralou
              dralou
              February 28, 2018 at 3:19 pm | #

              Yeah, it was really short. My main issue with less than 24h is that she was stinky enough for not only realize it by herself, but just couldn’t stand the smell. Since she didn’t exactly do sport or other physical activities, I’m not sure how, since her presumed last shower was the day of the break up, she could become THAT stinky while pretty much staying on a chair most of the time in something like 24h.

              • CJ
                CJ
                February 28, 2018 at 3:33 pm | #

                Stress sweat tends to stink abominably.

                • dralou
                  dralou
                  February 28, 2018 at 4:08 pm | #

                  Point.

  25. ninjazaku
    ninjazaku
    February 28, 2018 at 12:23 am | #

    Well thats one way to relieve stress

  26. Some1
    Some1
    February 28, 2018 at 12:25 am | #

    Dungeons and Dumbing Part 19

    Danny charged at the giant wolf. Holding his sword over his head. The wolf responded in kind and barreled at him.

    Right before they met, Danny ducked and rolled beneath the beasts belly. gutting it with his sword. Hot guts and blood spilled out, covering Danny.

    Finally the wolf fell over, wheezing in pain and perished.

    Danny: ewww.

    Skadi: Hmm, kinda thought you would have passed out from pain and blood loss by know.

    It was at this point Danny passed out from pain and blood loss

    Later…

    Danny awoke to find himself on a wooden surface. There were gaps every couple meters and a giant sewing needle lay next to him.

    Danny: Where am I?

    Skadi: Don’t move idiot, your pretty wounded.

    Danny: Where are we?

    Skadi: In my house.

    Danny: It’s really cold.

    Skadi: I like it that way. Oh, here’s your uke back.

    Danny: Thanks

    Skadi: So, you’ve passed my test. I guess I can take you to my mothers shrine now.

    Danny: Is something wrong?

    Skadi: no, no everything’s fine…

    Danny: …okay.

    Skadi: It’s just…I’ll take you if you want, but be careful. My mother can be finicky at times.

    Danny: I thought your mother was good, didn’t she fight to protect humans?

    Skadi: Things aren’t always that simple. Sure she fought for humanity but…

    Danny: but…?

    Skadi: BUT SHE ABANDONED ME OKAY! I thought the wolf would kill you or you’d give up and I wouldn’t have to see her again. She left me in the cold, and forced my father to care for me…he died.

    Danny: How did he die?

    Skadi: Old age, but that’s not the point.

    Danny: I…I’m sorry. Wait, why offer to help me at all?

    Skadi: It’s the curse of my birth, if someone wants to see my mother’s temple I have to take them…but I can force them to fulfill a request.

    Danny: So like a really specific Ella Enchanted.

    Skadi: Who the fuck is Ella Enchanted?

    • Some1
      Some1
      February 28, 2018 at 1:04 am | #

      I refuse to end the tradition of Danny and dealing with girls with terrible parental figures who can beat him up/murder him easily.

      • CJ
        CJ
        February 28, 2018 at 3:32 pm | #

        I can understand that.
        Remind me, what was Ella Enchanted’s counterbalance?

  27. Spaz
    Spaz
    February 28, 2018 at 12:27 am | #

    welp, that’s one way to sell more Slipshine subscriptions.

  28. Kamino Neko
    Kamino Neko
    February 28, 2018 at 12:31 am | #

    *hijacks the hacked Muzak to play Love in an Elevator*

    Also, did you just go 9 Chickweed Lane in that last panel?

  29. Furious_Tomato
    Furious_Tomato
    February 28, 2018 at 12:39 am | #

    Just a small town girl
    Livin’ in a lonely world
    She took the midnight train goin’ anywhere
    Just a city boy
    Born and raised in south Detroit
    He took the midnight train goin’ anywhere…

  30. tirachokko
    tirachokko
    February 28, 2018 at 12:53 am | #

    idk why but I feel like last panel could mean bad things ahhhh

    • cbwroses
      cbwroses
      February 28, 2018 at 3:49 am | #

      It’s that his fingers are curled with hers. It leaves the possibility that he won’t give in to this moment of weakness.

  31. Waffliesinyoface
    Waffliesinyoface
    February 28, 2018 at 1:01 am | #

    And then the elevator drops half a floor, the power cuts out, and they have to talk to one another

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      February 28, 2018 at 3:04 am | #

      Or… do other things. All whilst ‘bow-chicka-wow-wow’ music plays.

  32. Bagge
    Bagge
    February 28, 2018 at 1:02 am | #

    Someone is about to be d-i-i-i-i-s-t-r-a-c-ted

  33. Morrison
    Morrison
    February 28, 2018 at 1:13 am | #

    Yukon Ho!

  34. SpruceGoose
    SpruceGoose
    February 28, 2018 at 1:16 am | #

    They gonna frick

  35. Goki
    Goki
    February 28, 2018 at 1:31 am | #

    GOOD LORD, stop making things difficult and just kiss already!!!! (seriously I wish them well)

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      February 28, 2018 at 3:27 am | #

      NOW KIIIIISSSS!

  36. BenRG
    BenRG
    February 28, 2018 at 2:00 am | #

    Wait… They’re actually going to do it in the elevator like in so many cheap romance shows?

    Seriously, I know that those two were suffering from being apart but it really looks like they can’t function well apart! Thinking about it, I’ve got to say that my most significant response to this is: “Aw! ‘Tis sweet!”

    • Vukodlak
      Vukodlak
      February 28, 2018 at 4:55 pm | #

      I expected the thing to break down and they’d be stuck there for hours.

  37. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    February 28, 2018 at 2:28 am | #

    Sexual progress goes boink!

    I apologize for this one.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      February 28, 2018 at 4:18 am | #

      Not an age-appropriate reference for the source comic.

      • threePwny
        threePwny
        February 28, 2018 at 10:33 am | #

        Well, it sure as hell ain’t scientific progress

  38. All-Purpose Guru
    All-Purpose Guru
    February 28, 2018 at 2:51 am | #

    Dorothy, you have time for a quickie. Don’t deprive yourself, it’s not healthy.

  39. Jess
    Jess
    February 28, 2018 at 3:21 am | #

    aahhhh everyone is seeing that they’re gonna have a lift quickie but all I can see is Walky’s fingers not clutching Dorothy’s and am I overthinking?? We’ll have to see! D:

    • cbwroses
      cbwroses
      February 28, 2018 at 3:51 am | #

      It’s up in the air. The fingers could just be a delayed reaction. Or maybe not.

  40. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    February 28, 2018 at 3:25 am | #

    You can’t be on break from being on break! THAT’S JUST SILLY!

  41. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    February 28, 2018 at 3:29 am | #

    Also, calling it now. This is NOT going to be an elevator quickie. Dorothy’s wanted to do it on the rooftop since Panel 4 yesterday. It’s going to be a Garbage Roof quickie.

    …. aaand Amber’s going to find Walky roof-cheating on her.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      February 28, 2018 at 5:05 am | #

      In other words, Amber and/or Amazi-Girl are gonna get an eye-full.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      February 28, 2018 at 9:41 am | #

      It’s the nature of Garbage Roof to disappoint.

  42. Wraithy2773
    Wraithy2773
    February 28, 2018 at 3:41 am | #

    I really need to just bookmark this: https://imgur.com/gallery/9DtnJ

    • Emperor Norton II
      Emperor Norton II
      February 28, 2018 at 9:13 pm | #

      Works well in today’s QC strip as well.

  43. Zaxares
    Zaxares
    February 28, 2018 at 5:26 am | #

    Yep, called it! We’re gonna see some F-O-R-N-I-C-A-T-I-O-N! 😉

  44. Saucistophe
    Saucistophe
    February 28, 2018 at 5:34 am | #

    Aaaaaand Slipshine ensues.

  45. Just a Ian
    Just a Ian
    February 28, 2018 at 5:50 am | #

    i am hoping this heals dorothy’s potential mental implosion from overworking..

  46. Just a Ian
    Just a Ian
    February 28, 2018 at 5:51 am | #

    also could the following scene hark back to a earlier moment when amazi-girl yelled at a couple to knock it off? i kinda hope so

  47. Delicious Taffy
    Delicious Taffy
    February 28, 2018 at 6:24 am | #

    They’re gonna play a children’s card game, aren’t they

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      February 28, 2018 at 7:20 am | #

      >_> … <_< Yes. Yes, a "children's card game". Yes. That's is indeed what is going to happen. No need for you to consider this issue any further.

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        February 28, 2018 at 10:02 am | #

        Walky’s gonna use The Claw of Hermos with his Absolute Crusader, to summon Rocket Hermos Cannon. Then he’ll equip it to his Rocket Warrior, giving it an extra attack during his Battle Phase. Dorothy doesn’t stand a chance.

  48. Vulcanodon
    Vulcanodon
    February 28, 2018 at 7:49 am | #

    ‘Spose either of them has a prophylactic device handy? Dorothy’s normally pretty careful about that.

  49. Leadsynth
    Leadsynth
    February 28, 2018 at 8:16 am | #

    It’s okay, they’re only going to do things that start with F!

    • Spaz
      Spaz
      February 28, 2018 at 11:14 am | #

      They’re gonna go fenestrate? Fun times.

      • Spaz
        Spaz
        February 28, 2018 at 11:15 am | #

        to be clear, I meant this in the windows sense, not the medical one that popped up a little later.

        • FacelessDeviant
          FacelessDeviant
          February 28, 2018 at 1:19 pm | #

          Fenstrate. Is that when you throw someone IN through a window?

          • King Daniel
            King Daniel
            February 28, 2018 at 4:23 pm | #

            No, no, it’s when someone is pulled in through a window.

        • leadsynth
          leadsynth
          February 28, 2018 at 10:36 pm | #

          Yeah, so one definition says “having numerous openings.”

          Kinky sex in ALL the holes! Dang, that’s some Slipshine shit right there.

          • Spaz
            Spaz
            March 1, 2018 at 1:17 am | #

            I put up the medical disclaimer after discovering that fenestration is also a procedure where the something is done to the inner ear.

            to wit: a surgical operation in which a new opening is formed, especially in the bony labyrinth of the inner ear to treat certain types of deafness.

  50. Laladoria
    Laladoria
    February 28, 2018 at 8:25 am | #

    Has the “going down?” joke been made already?

    … They can’t go down? They’re already at the bottom?

    Well.
    >_>

    • No Name
      No Name
      February 28, 2018 at 12:51 pm | #

      Well, there is a basement (that’s where the gym is located), so they can, in fact, go down.

  51. Gojira
    Gojira
    February 28, 2018 at 10:18 am | #

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTXGL0xPyLA

  52. threePwny
    threePwny
    February 28, 2018 at 10:35 am | #

    Just for the C&H reference, this is now my favorite DoA evar! And nothing will ever change that

  53. Liliet
    Liliet
    February 28, 2018 at 12:23 pm | #

    gee Dorothy it’s almost like spending time with your cute boyfriend is an integral part of your self-care regimen and dumping him in favor of all-nighters was a terrible no good awful idea

    • No Name
      No Name
      February 28, 2018 at 12:50 pm | #

      Wrong kid. We’re talking about the blond with the tiger, not the redhead.

  54. Roborat
    Roborat
    February 28, 2018 at 3:24 pm | #

    Hmm, looks like another 10 minute break for Dorothy.

  55. tim gueguen
    tim gueguen
    February 28, 2018 at 4:42 pm | #

    “Hopefully they will not notice Faz, and hopefully much nakedness will occur!”

  56. Micki
    Micki
    February 28, 2018 at 4:48 pm | #

    Yessss Calvin & Hobbes references. <3 I love this page.

  57. Morrison
    Morrison
    February 28, 2018 at 7:05 pm | #

    All seriousness this strip made my heart pound and was beautiful especially the hover text at the end capitalizing on the earlier reference remembering what it was like to be that age the whole thing warmed my cynical heart.

  58. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    February 28, 2018 at 7:32 pm | #

    This study break was brought to Dorothy by the letter F, and words that begin with it.

  59. Anna
    Anna
    February 28, 2018 at 8:30 pm | #

    Walky isn’t holding her hand back, he has already resigned to letting her go. I don’t think this is going to end the way we all want it too.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      February 28, 2018 at 10:55 pm | #

      I think you’re right.
      This is another example of Dorothy setting boundaries, Walky accepting them and then her breaking them: “This is a short-term not serious relationship”-> “I love you”
      “Can we put this on pause” -> Whatever this is about to be.

      She’s a lot better at deciding what the boundaries should be than holding herself to them.

  60. Some Random Name
    Some Random Name
    February 28, 2018 at 8:51 pm | #

    I forget, was Danny mad at this relationship happening? Because I would be.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      February 28, 2018 at 10:52 pm | #

      He was irked, but got involved with Amazi-Girl and kinda stopped holding a grudge then.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      February 28, 2018 at 10:52 pm | #

      He was a little irritated when he found out. He’s over it.
      I mean, since then he’s dated a super-hero and has a serious crush on a really nice boy. Who his high school girlfriend’s dating isn’t his problem anymore. He’s got other troubles.

    • cbwroses
      cbwroses
      March 1, 2018 at 9:52 am | #

      No longer “mad”, but per his comments with Amber in an earlier strip and his comment when he found out Dorothy and Walky weren’t together anymore, he definitely thinks Walky isn’t as good as he is, or at least isn’t good enough for Dorothy (if you want to attribute less negative feelings to him).

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