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August 1, 2023

Rude

by David M Willis on May 13, 2018 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - Faz Is Great

└ Tags: amber, walky

Discussion (109) ¬

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    May 13, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    “dang, good thing you aren’t with THAT nightmare fuel anymore”

  2. shadowcell
    shadowcell
    May 13, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    this is, of course, yet another manifestation of the greatness of Faz

  3. Barduwulf
    Barduwulf
    May 13, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    Some people just can’t help being wonderful.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      May 13, 2018 at 12:14 am | #

      We’re sorry.

      • LookingIn
        LookingIn
        May 13, 2018 at 1:01 am | #

        It’s a curse we must live with

        • Yet_One_More_Idiot
          Yet_One_More_Idiot
          May 13, 2018 at 5:16 am | #

          We try not to (be wonderful), but, y’know…it’s just so HARD. xD

          • nothri
            nothri
            May 13, 2018 at 5:41 am | #

            I’ve found that spitting on anyone who tries to engage me in conversation is the best cure. A few weeks of that at most and your wonderful status will be reduced to neutral or worse.

          • Roborat
            Roborat
            May 14, 2018 at 3:52 pm | #

            Umm, that’s what she said?

            -runs away

  4. Passchendaele
    Passchendaele
    May 13, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    how dare she be a perfect cinnamon roll

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      May 13, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

      Alas, Walky toils in far too cold and dark a world for such cinnamoned purity as she

      • Passchendaele
        Passchendaele
        May 13, 2018 at 12:15 am | #

        her cinnamony glory is too perfect for his world

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          May 13, 2018 at 12:30 am | #

          Too good, too pure

          • Yet_One_More_Idiot
            Yet_One_More_Idiot
            May 13, 2018 at 5:21 am | #

            The only one pure enough to deserve Dorothy’s cinnamon purity, imho, would be…Joyce. 🙂

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        May 13, 2018 at 1:05 am | #

        No one is worthy of her cinnamony goodness! She must remain forever untouched and untouchable, forever alone in her perfectness!

        …..

        …. okay, cinnamon rolls are depressing me now.

        • Clif
          Clif
          May 13, 2018 at 1:33 am | #

          It’s okay, just wait for the sugar rush.

  5. Goki
    Goki
    May 13, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    Meh, wonderful is overrated Walky. XD

    • Purblebirb
      Purblebirb
      May 13, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

      Nah it’s a pretty good podcast

      • Zee
        Zee
        May 13, 2018 at 11:02 am | #

        Ah, a fellow man of culture I see

    • Sam
      Sam
      May 13, 2018 at 3:25 pm | #

      But is an overrated Walky wonderful?

  6. MatthewTheLucky
    MatthewTheLucky
    May 13, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

    I feel like this is leading in to some kind of weird flirting.

    • Beef
      Beef
      May 13, 2018 at 12:32 am | #

      Damn I don’t ship this at all

      • wwwhhattt
        wwwhhattt
        May 13, 2018 at 12:48 am | #

        Normally I wouldn’t, but I want to see Danny’s reaction.

        • No Name
          No Name
          May 13, 2018 at 1:05 am | #

          Man, Walky can’t get anyone unless they’re on the rebound from Danny, can he?

          • cbwroses
            cbwroses
            May 13, 2018 at 1:23 am | #

            Does it count as on the rebound when they both dumped him?
            Legitimately asking…

            • Clif
              Clif
              May 13, 2018 at 1:39 am | #

              On the rebound only requires that it’s over. Doesn’t matter who actually did the dumping. Thing is they aren’t really over, just until the next time Dorothy decides it’s on again.

              • Delicious Taffy
                Delicious Taffy
                May 13, 2018 at 3:51 am | #

                I kinda really don’t like that aspect of Dorothy.

                • thejeff
                  thejeff
                  May 13, 2018 at 9:16 am | #

                  It’s definitely a character flaw. One that’s been hinted at since the early days, when the whole relationship started.
                  I kind of like it – less interesting if she really was the perfect cinnamon roll.

          • FinalOwen
            FinalOwen
            May 13, 2018 at 3:16 pm | #

            The only way to break the pattern is to cut out the middlewoman and just have Walky date Danny.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      May 13, 2018 at 1:02 am | #

      I hearby name this ship the SS Garbage Skowl.

      Fueled, naturally, by garbage pie.

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        May 13, 2018 at 1:02 am | #

        *scowl

        One of these days I’ll learn to English. Honest.

        • cbwroses
          cbwroses
          May 13, 2018 at 1:09 am | #

          Did you mean “scow” or “scowl”? One being a boat and the other being an angry facial expression.
          Because if you meant “scowl”…well played.

          • Reltzik
            Reltzik
            May 13, 2018 at 1:11 am | #

            I meant a pun on the two, which I then misspelled.

            • King Daniel
              King Daniel
              May 13, 2018 at 1:17 am | #

              Obviously you spelled it that way to be kool.

      • Maggie
        Maggie
        May 13, 2018 at 11:17 pm | #

        As a fan of SS Garbage Skowl I insist the original spelling remain intact :p

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        May 14, 2018 at 3:55 pm | #

        I prefer the original version, it’s funnier.

  7. Chromacandi
    Chromacandi
    May 13, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

    NOW DISS

    • jeffepp
      jeffepp
      May 13, 2018 at 12:26 am | #

      Who diss?

      • MatthewTheLucky
        MatthewTheLucky
        May 13, 2018 at 1:31 am | #

        You diss!

        • Clif
          Clif
          May 13, 2018 at 1:43 am | #

          Tar diss. (Now kiss).

          • Coma
            Coma
            May 13, 2018 at 4:09 am | #

            Honestly, my brain couldn’t comprehend the second ‘s’ and simply read
            TARDIS

        • 3oranges
          3oranges
          May 13, 2018 at 1:53 am | #

          Diss what?

          • Ryek Hvek
            Ryek Hvek
            May 13, 2018 at 4:07 am | #

            Diss Stink

          • MatthewTheLucky
            MatthewTheLucky
            May 13, 2018 at 3:17 pm | #

            The power of voodiss!

    • nothri
      nothri
      May 13, 2018 at 5:44 am | #

      I believe a “diss” is defined a form of insult that “the kids” do to one another “these days”.

      • vlademir1
        vlademir1
        May 13, 2018 at 7:49 am | #

        Sorry that would be “dis”. “Diss” is a variant of the word that has managed to gain traction since the ’80s ended and has now become the standard spelling in most uses. Now I’m’a stop illin’ ’cause I gotta get to work. ;D

  8. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    May 13, 2018 at 12:13 am | #

    *The Eric Clapton cut playing on the hacked P.A. speaker gets to the electric guitar solo…*

    • jeffepp
      jeffepp
      May 13, 2018 at 12:31 am | #

      I’ll wait in this place where the sun never shines
      Wait in this place where the shadows run from themselves

  9. AutobotDen
    AutobotDen
    May 13, 2018 at 12:14 am | #

    Actually, the meat and carbs of the pizza are a better choice for an active lifestyle, Amber. the protein helps build muscle fibers and the carbs help with fueling cellular action.

    • Ob
      Ob
      May 13, 2018 at 2:22 am | #

      Yeah I was confused why she thought she’d need more veggies because of her “active lifestyle”. Well, I guess college students aren’t nutrition experts.

      • Coma
        Coma
        May 13, 2018 at 4:16 am | #

        Well, I’d say she said it probably because of how much fat a normal pizza contains and how a pizza with only meat and cheese doesn’t contain many vitamins…

        That is to say, pizza in itself isn’t bad, but you’d still need complementary nutrition in the form of greens. The tomato sauce doesn’t really count in that regard.

    • Khno
      Khno
      May 13, 2018 at 4:27 am | #

      Yeah, because vegetarians and vegans are known not to be active out of the net.

    • CJ
      CJ
      May 13, 2018 at 4:44 am | #

      A whole italian style deep-freeze pizza gets you around 800-1000 kcals with maybe 15 g of meat (if you don’t believe me, get of the meat parts and weight them) and if the stuff that looks like cheese contains any proteins depends on if it’s real cheese or not.
      A fresh-made pizza like from Galasso’s might have more protein because of real cheese and more meat, but still, compared to the total amount of kalories it’s not much.

    • Eric
      Eric
      May 13, 2018 at 9:48 am | #

      When i’m working full time, when school isn’t in session, a large portion of my daily caloric intake is from pizza. The take-and-bake across the street from my shop gives us 50% off, and even packing in lunch, I still need more calories in a 9-12 hour shift. These aren’t your normal ‘fast food’ pizzas, though, they’re hand made gourmet jobs you cook yourself. With the exception of “pepperoni trio”, they’re all quite healthy.

  10. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    May 13, 2018 at 12:16 am | #

    Walky, Amber, you both need to climb down off that garbage roof, go back to your rooms and start over. You are not doing yourselves any favors by being like this, you both have people that you find wonderful, that make you happy and you want to make happy. Standing up on the roof eating pizza isn’t fixing that, it’s just putting it off.

    Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to throw more stones inside my glass home, still waiting for the roof to collapse in on me.

    • @zombieundergrnd
      @zombieundergrnd
      May 13, 2018 at 1:01 am | #

      Eating pizza makes everything better.

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      May 13, 2018 at 8:45 am | #

      Oh my heck, thank you! Dorothy and Danny are absurdly good for Walky and Amber. I just wish they could all get their heads on straight. My poor dumb children.

  11. Cheesy1
    Cheesy1
    May 13, 2018 at 12:17 am | #

    The adventures of Amazi-Girl and her sidekick, Meh-Dude!

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      May 13, 2018 at 12:33 am | #

      Surely you mean Duke of Thingley? 😛

      • Marsh Maryrose
        Marsh Maryrose
        May 13, 2018 at 12:46 am | #

        Surely you mean Meh-Duke? 🙂

        • Marsh Maryrose
          Marsh Maryrose
          May 13, 2018 at 12:47 am | #

          Maybe “Duke Meh” works better.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            May 13, 2018 at 6:19 am | #

            “Those alien bastards just shot down my ride! Whatever.”

        • Fire_daws
          Fire_daws
          May 13, 2018 at 8:00 am | #

          Maw-meh-duke

      • MM
        MM
        May 13, 2018 at 2:47 am | #

        No, that’s his high society alter ego.

  12. Buli-Buli
    Buli-Buli
    May 13, 2018 at 12:18 am | #

    …goddam it Amber. Can you go a single scene without revealing how screwed up in the head you are?

    I’m not blaming Amber for her issues here, but this just strikes me as spreading her warped views to someone else.

    And I mean that. Wally didn’t bring up feelings of inadequacy that Amber is commicerating over, Amber is projecting her own feelings in a manner that places the blame on Dorothy’s feet.

    The lesson she’s imparting to Walky, by using the examples she does, is that his problems are a matter of nature (of the scorpion and the frog variety) and so Walky cannot improve himself, shouldn’t try, and shouldn’t seek a relationship with anyone “better” than him because of it.

    …As I said, Amber is projecting her own issues. …she is seeing a psychologist at this point right? Has that been mentioned since the stabbing?

    • Fart Captor
      Fart Captor
      May 13, 2018 at 1:12 am | #

      What they’re BOTH doing is sharing a common frustration they have. Neither of them actually BLAMES Dorothy (or Danny) for being so great. But when you’re fucked up and struggling, it’s hard being around someone who seems to have their shit completely together. Even if it’s only the shit you’re struggling with they have a handle on, and they’re still a mess otherwise.

      It can be very, very hard to avoid comparing yourself to them, and your failures to their successes. Having the other person on a pedestal doesn’t help, either.

      Amber isn’t projecting her issues onto Walky’s situation. They have the same issue here. They’re commiserating. That’s the whole point of garbage roof, and it’s basically how support groups work

      • Clif
        Clif
        May 13, 2018 at 1:46 am | #

        Wait. Did you just say Danny is great?

        • Rabid Rabbit
          Rabid Rabbit
          May 13, 2018 at 2:44 am | #

          Danny is… supportive. He’s not always very good at it, but when in possession of all the information, he does want to do the right thing.

          He’s terrible at it, but he does have sort of the instinct that would allow him to be great if he weren’t, you know, terrible.

          • Fart Captor
            Fart Captor
            May 13, 2018 at 12:32 pm | #

            He’s actually been VERY good at it with Amber. It often wasn’t enough, but he did great.

            Even if he weren’t though, it’s how Amber sees him. She feels like he’s mastered the shit she’s constantly fucking up. It doesn’t matter if that perception is accurate, she can’t shake it.

        • Danni
          Danni
          May 13, 2018 at 3:26 am | #

          danny does his best

  13. Regina Phalange
    Regina Phalange
    May 13, 2018 at 12:18 am | #

    ….did she just imply that her stomach size doesn’t correspond to her diet, immediately after saying she needs to eat more vegetables? Seems like there’s a chance it corresponds just fine.

    • Regina Phalange
      Regina Phalange
      May 13, 2018 at 12:26 am | #

      (Not trying to minimize Amber’s clear body issues or anything, but her presumably carb/protein diet paired with her exercise-heavy lifestyle will naturally correspond more to putting on muscle weight than taking off fat-weight)

  14. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    May 13, 2018 at 12:30 am | #

    *reads Amber describing Dorothy as not having a normal family*

    *reads Willis’s commentary over at IW! Reloaded*

    …..

    ….. so, someone explain to me what counts as “normal”, again?

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      May 13, 2018 at 12:36 am | #

      I think the “without” in Amber’s speech bubble is referring to “without a normal family / without a brain that works / without a stomach shape…” etc.

      So Amber would be referring to how Dorothy has a normal family here.

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        May 13, 2018 at 12:57 am | #

        …..

        One of these days I’ll learn to read. Honest.

    • jeffepp
      jeffepp
      May 13, 2018 at 12:37 am | #

      It doesn’t exist. It’s a myth Hollywood created to convince us that the 1950s weren’t a time of near totally breakdown.

    • Lingo
      Lingo
      May 13, 2018 at 12:38 am | #

      You misread. Amber is describing herself and Walky as not having normal families.

      • Rabid Rabbit
        Rabid Rabbit
        May 13, 2018 at 2:45 am | #

        In which she’s wrong, since by DoA standards, Dorothy’s wonderful family is not normal.

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          May 13, 2018 at 8:11 am | #

          *recites off a list* Dina’s, Sierra’s, Carla’s…

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            May 13, 2018 at 9:22 am | #

            Hell, compared to hers, Walky’s family is normal. Not great, but not deliberately abusive either. Charles and Linda suck, but they’re not Blaine.

            • BBCC
              BBCC
              May 13, 2018 at 12:47 pm | #

              Deliberately being the key word there…

              • thejeff
                thejeff
                May 13, 2018 at 2:48 pm | #

                Partly. They’re also just not on the same scale.

                • BBCC
                  BBCC
                  May 13, 2018 at 10:58 pm | #

                  I wouldn’t say the Walkertons are normal, but I will say that Blaine is worse.

  15. newllend(henryvolt)
    newllend(henryvolt)
    May 13, 2018 at 12:40 am | #

    Yeah for instance I usually would find someone like Dorothy to perfect for my taste and on certain levels I do, but thing is I haft to respect go getters so she atleast has that going for her.

    Also Love is hard work and if the person your with made you feel like it’s all worth it every moment your with them then that just says you had a good thing going with them.

  16. Keulen
    Keulen
    May 13, 2018 at 12:49 am | #

    Dorothy’s definitely not perfect, what with her trying to do too much at once and burning out.

  17. cbwroses
    cbwroses
    May 13, 2018 at 1:05 am | #

    Dang it! No indirect kiss…

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      May 13, 2018 at 3:16 pm | #

      You can’t actually get an indirect kiss off of pizza anyway, because where your lips end up where you bite isn’t where the last person’s lips ended up when they bit. (Assuming you sink your lips into the pizza when you bite it anyway, which would be weird.)

      The traditional carrier for an indirect kiss is a can or bottle, because on those the lips to touch the same parts from one person to the next.

      • cbwroses
        cbwroses
        May 14, 2018 at 12:44 am | #

        I honestly hadn’t given the specifics much thought.
        I just want them to make out and that seemed the closest we’re going to get right now.

  18. Pumpkin Pie
    Pumpkin Pie
    May 13, 2018 at 1:24 am | #

    Willis you are a master story teller, able to understand and convey thoughst and feelings better with you character than many of us are ate recognizing in ourselves.

    Just wanted to say that, you strips are often the best part of my day, the part where I feel the most human as well.

    • Andy Durette
      Andy Durette
      May 13, 2018 at 1:25 am | #

      Wrote on phone originally and missed errors.

      Willis you are a master story teller, able to understand and convey thoughts and feelings better with you characters than many of us are at recognizing in ourselves.

      Just wanted to say that, you strips are often the best part of my day, the part where I feel the most human as well.

  19. BenRG
    BenRG
    May 13, 2018 at 2:11 am | #

    I think that Amber’s experiences have left her more than a little resentful of those who aren’t a total mental and behavioural mess. I’m sure that the fact that Walky finds Dorothy perfect is a bit bizarre to her.

  20. Danni
    Danni
    May 13, 2018 at 3:30 am | #

    is that pizza cold?

    • jeffepp
      jeffepp
      May 13, 2018 at 12:26 pm | #

      Pizza is a dish…
      Best served cold.
      And, it’s very cold…
      On Garbage Roof.

  21. Nanchatte
    Nanchatte
    May 13, 2018 at 5:03 am | #

    I’m not the biggest fan of these Walky and Amber strips, but damn, sometimes even in interactions between character combinations I don’t much care for, certain panels sneak up on me and strike a chord, hard. The fourth panel was one such instance.

    I’ve struggled with thoughts almost identical to those and let them feed into a belief that I really don’t deserve to be in a loving relationship, or deserve love at all, even when IN a loving relationship presently. There are billions of people in the world, why would someone choose to be with me when there are surely people you could find far more easily with normal family situations, normal brains, and normal bodies? That’s the kind of question I end up asking myself on my worst days, and I’m so impressed with just how eerily close Amber’s line is to real things I’ve thought.

    Loving yourself is really hard, and I really appreciate Willis’ very real depiction of that challenge that some of us struggle so much with.

  22. Jago
    Jago
    May 13, 2018 at 6:46 am | #

    That doesn’t seem fair towards Dorothy.

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      May 13, 2018 at 8:47 am | #

      I think it’s less sincere on Walky’s part and he’s still thinking about how much he misses Dorothy.

  23. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    May 13, 2018 at 8:48 am | #

    Nothing says loving like mutual self-loathing.

    • Eldritch Gentleman
      Eldritch Gentleman
      May 13, 2018 at 8:56 am | #

      The math of love, two minuses make a plus…

  24. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    May 13, 2018 at 11:24 am | #

    Walky should realize that Dorothy isn’t perfect. Dorothy has a compulsion to get a overload of work, puts work over human relationships, and had big ambitions that are difficult to follow. A saner thing to do would be to talk with Dorothy about that instead of glorifying her and shit talk about her behind her back.

    • Eldritch Gentleman
      Eldritch Gentleman
      May 13, 2018 at 11:32 am | #

      Well for a lazy kid like Walky a woman who has lofty goals and works extra hard to achieve them seems like perfection.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        May 13, 2018 at 2:36 pm | #

        It’s not just “a lazy kid like Walky”. Dorothy’s a perfectionist (which is different than being perfect) and is seen that way by other people. She’s complained about people thinking she’s perfect before.

        • Eldritch Gentleman
          Eldritch Gentleman
          May 13, 2018 at 4:37 pm | #

          Pretty much, Walky compares her perfectionist attitude and hard work to his own lazy and laid back attitude and finds himself to be severely lacking.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      May 13, 2018 at 2:43 pm | #

      But he’s not really shit talking her, he’s saying how frigging wonderful she is.

      And I’d say Dorothy generally tries and fails to put work over human relationships. She thinks she should, because she wants to be so focused on her goals, but those emotions keep betraying her. We see this from the very start of her relationship with Walky and her various attempts to limit that relationship, that she kept sabotaging herself.

  25. InsertJoJosReference
    InsertJoJosReference
    May 13, 2018 at 11:43 am | #

    Oh Walky, when are you going to realize that Dorothy isn’t perfect at all. I mean, she sets arbitrary boundaries on relationships that she doesn’t adhere to at all. Her attempts to be the most mature person in the room lead her to make decisions for other people without taking their feelings into account because she thinks that’s what’s best for them as if she’s their mom instead of their friend or girlfriend. Dotty is great but she’s nowhere near perfect, dude.

    • abysswatcher1993
      abysswatcher1993
      May 13, 2018 at 5:33 pm | #

      Like thinking she knows what is best for Danny (which she was kind of right), or being angry at Walky for wearing pajama jeans.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        May 13, 2018 at 10:58 pm | #

        I mean after Danny implied she might give on her dreams, he was getting dumped anyways, but yes, Dorothy is not perfect.

  26. m-m
    m-m
    May 13, 2018 at 12:12 pm | #

    I really like the pizza transition between panels 1 and 2. It’s visually very clever!

  27. Rocketboy1313
    Rocketboy1313
    May 13, 2018 at 2:50 pm | #

    “You wanna make out?”
    “Kinda. Let me finish this slice first.”
    “Cool.”

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      May 13, 2018 at 9:33 pm | #

      I wonder if it’s really that easy…

      • cbwroses
        cbwroses
        May 14, 2018 at 12:46 am | #

        Fingers crossed

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