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by David M Willis on November 8, 2018 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - Flyin' to the Red
└ Tags: amber, walky

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    November 8, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    *Amber runs back to her room and destroys her hard drive before getting stabbed and reincarnated as a slime*

    *…*

    *wait no that would be weird*

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      November 8, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

      (I was gonna say Billie would be a funnier punchline but I bet he saw them both somewhere)

    • HeySo
      HeySo
      November 8, 2018 at 1:56 am | #

      The isekai reincarnation lottery is truly a gamble.
      ..of course, we all know that Walky’ll reincarnate into some sort of animate chicken nugget monster. ..or maybe a taco bell burrito, for that sweet sweet armor bonus?

      • Rowen Morland
        Rowen Morland
        November 8, 2018 at 11:19 am | #

        Willis style reincarnation just involves you reincarnating into yourself with more up to date problems.

    • Delavan
      Delavan
      November 8, 2018 at 10:34 am | #

      Oh gawd it’s already made the DoA comments… truly, Predator is a Bahroken ability.

      • vlademir1
        vlademir1
        November 8, 2018 at 2:44 pm | #

        Nah. Both Predator and Great Sage are pure min-max munchkin BS but not truly broken on their own… it’s the combination of the two especially in the body of a slime that is broken IMO.

        • Tacos
          Tacos
          November 8, 2018 at 5:09 pm | #

          They get more broken once they evolve.

  2. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    November 8, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    Okay, you can’t tell me that for one second when Walky said “y’know, your…superhero…thing” Amber wasn’t briefly worried that he somehow knew about the terabytes of SteveXTonyXBuckyXCaptainPlanet fic she has.

    • John
      John
      November 8, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

      I’m pretty sure that everyone knows about that, because she not only collects it, she writes it, and then makes her friends read it.

    • InsertJoJosReference
      InsertJoJosReference
      November 8, 2018 at 12:38 am | #

      Pfft terabytes. She used multiple cloud storage servers in conjunction with each other. She has PETABYTES

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        November 8, 2018 at 12:57 am | #

        Assuming two bytes per character (including punctuation and white space) and overestimating the size of formatting information in multiplying that by 4, a petabyte would mean she typed 10^47 characters of slashfic. Assuming she typed at a blazing fast 100 words per minute (with a 5-keystroke word), and that she never slowed to eat, sleep, plan out the story, do homework, go to class, go to the bathroom, or anything else, writing that much fic would have taken Amber a little over 380 nonillion years. (That’s 380 followed by 36 0s.)

        Obviously her petabytes of fanfic include lots of high-resolution fanart as well.

        • Reltzik
          Reltzik
          November 8, 2018 at 1:10 am | #

          ….. oh, wait. Oops. Peta- is 10^15, not 10^50.

          Fixing that gives us…. 3800 years. Still implausible.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            November 8, 2018 at 2:00 am | #

            Assuming she didn’t write a slashfic-writing neural network AI.

            • Reltzik
              Reltzik
              November 8, 2018 at 2:32 am | #

              …..

              I don’t know what’s more disturbing.

              The way I automatically imagine a narrative in which some proposed, fictional AI causes the downfall of civilization….

              … or the ways in which that PARTICULAR proposed AI would go about causing the downfall of civilization.

              • Paulinir
                Paulinir
                November 8, 2018 at 6:43 pm | #

                I for one welcome our new robot overlords.

      • Rowen Morland
        Rowen Morland
        November 8, 2018 at 11:20 am | #

        When they say the internet is 90% porn, it is because of Amber.

        (Actually that sounds like something you’d say a sick burn to someone you were slut shaming.)

    • HeySo
      HeySo
      November 8, 2018 at 1:58 am | #

      “the terabytes of SteveXTonyXBuckyXCaptainPlanet fic she has.”

      In my head-canon, that’s all true but the Bucky in question was Bucky O’ Hare.

    • Rectilinear Propagation
      Rectilinear Propagation
      November 9, 2018 at 6:14 am | #

      She knows Wally already knows about her fanfic because of that conversation they had on Twitter.

  3. butts
    butts
    November 8, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    they both, uhh, wear glasses I guess?

    theory: confirmed

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      November 8, 2018 at 12:11 am | #

      Man, imagine how impenetrable Superman’s secret identity would be if he wore glasses both as Superman AND Clark Kent.

      Anytime someone suggested they might be the same person, everyone would roll their eyes because they obviously just think that because both guys wear glasses.

      • Some1
        Some1
        November 8, 2018 at 12:17 am | #

        Honestly, nobody recognizing Superman makes way more sense when you consider that plenty of people look like other people and that Superman is a guy in his 30s with short black hair.

        Oh my God, Bruce Wayne is Superman.

        • Doctor_Who
          Doctor_Who
          November 8, 2018 at 12:23 am | #

          Ta-Dah! Sard borken.

          • Khyrin
            Khyrin
            November 8, 2018 at 9:32 am | #

            Damn you(WILLIS!) for beating me to the reference.

          • Ragnarok
            Ragnarok
            November 8, 2018 at 1:33 pm | #

            What is this a reference to? Is Superman drunk? Or is it a Bizarro clone?

        • StClair
          StClair
          November 8, 2018 at 2:36 am | #

          “Kal-El. This development was highly improbable.”

  4. Bagge
    Bagge
    November 8, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    *Danny pops up from behind a flowerpot* “AHA! I KNEW there was more than one!”

    http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/03-up-all-night-to-get-vengeance/evasive/

    • HeySo
      HeySo
      November 8, 2018 at 2:00 am | #

      Jacob pops out behind Danny. “Nooo, now you know my secret!”

      Dina pops out behind Jacob “Is this a thing we’re doing now? I am good at this, I think.”

      Faz pops out behind Dina “Yes, but Faz is Great.”

  5. drs
    drs
    November 8, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

    If there’s an uploaded buffer, how come comics don’t update at midnight? Is that part not automated? Is there deliberately delay to frustrate first-posters?

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      November 8, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

      The website updates automatically at 12:01am per the website’s server time.

      The thing is the website’s server time kind of decays, and it’s at like 12:06 or so at the moment.

      • Alanari
        Alanari
        November 8, 2018 at 12:56 am | #

        If you want to keep it in sync with real time, use an ntp server. You’ll need administrator access to the server to do that. There are several ntp servers in the net, choose one and teach your server to listen to him.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          November 8, 2018 at 7:14 am | #

          I’m pretty sure DoA is hosted and Willis wouldn’t have the admin access to set up ntp properly.
          That said, I’d be kind of concerned about the administration of any hosting service that couldn’t keep their time set up correctly. OTOH, they seem to do okay otherwise.

          • Alanari
            Alanari
            November 8, 2018 at 8:16 am | #

            Yeah, I’d also expect a hosting service to set up ntp, that’s why I suspected that it’s not done by a hosting service. But I’m not sure if I’m expecting too much here.

            • vlademir1
              vlademir1
              November 8, 2018 at 3:29 pm | #

              My own experience suggests that unless you’re using a VPS or a private server you’re not going to have access to NTP because like any process it eats some amount of system resources that can be used for things with more demand. Web hosting in particular isn’t usually concerned with 100% accurate time because it’s not commonly [i]that[/i] important in the process of storing and serving up requested pages even on forums (which display post times).

              • drs
                drs
                November 8, 2018 at 8:52 pm | #

                ntpd takes very little resources.

    • John
      John
      November 8, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

      The server clock drifts.

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      November 8, 2018 at 12:23 am | #

      Wibbly wobbly, timey wimey.

    • HeySo
      HeySo
      November 8, 2018 at 2:17 am | #

      Unless you’re using an atomic clock [interconnected networks of which are the basis for determining standardized time], there’s typically some degree of noticeable drift to any timepiece. For computers, which aren’t meant to function foremost as timekeeping devices, this can be rather noticeable [ie, more than just a few seconds off each year].

      Hence, when connecting to any site, you have to keep in mind both that the server may be off a bit and that your own local clock may be off a bit. Those two elements can lead to just enough of a disconnect that it upsets any plans you may have had (but in the end, we’re still talking about a few seconds to a handful of minutes at most, unless the drifts in question are unusually extreme and/or the computers in question are significantly [ie, years] behind in having their times manually updated or automatically synced).

      To sum up, the first thing you should always consider is confirming that your local time is set correctly and that automatic syncing is still enabled (the settings for which can be easily found through the Adjust Date/Time screen after right clicking on your computer clock). After that, it’s just a matter of determining what the server time is currently at, since any drift the server has won’t lead to a noticeable difference over a short period of time, meaning you can fairly naturally match up to adjusting for each second of change as it gets added on.

      • drs
        drs
        November 8, 2018 at 6:49 am | #

        Or you can just look at your cellphone, which is almost certainly being updated with networked time. And Willis already confirmed that his server is off by at least 5 minutes.

  6. Bagge
    Bagge
    November 8, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

    The real question is, did Walky ever try that whole power suit thing?

    http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/02-i-was-a-teenage-churchmouse/reporter/

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      November 8, 2018 at 8:58 am | #

      Nope, Dorothy wouldn’t let him shave his head.

      Amber? Amber might… but she probably wouldn’t let him be a super-villain…

  7. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    November 8, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

    *plays “Karma Chameleon” on the hacked Muzak*

  8. Pablo360
    Pablo360
    November 8, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

    Oh right, comments with multiple hyperlinks do weird things. The point is the answer to Walky’s question is, “only twice”.

  9. Defensor
    Defensor
    November 8, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

    Are we supposed to know what this deepest darkest secret is?

    • Catman
      Catman
      November 8, 2018 at 12:13 am | #

      I think it’s that she stabbed his sister

      • Kris
        Kris
        November 8, 2018 at 12:15 am | #

        Or perhaps even her rage issues and possible abusive tendencies she’s been actively suppressing. That pairs pretty well with the sister stabbing.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      November 8, 2018 at 12:14 am | #

      It might be of a “stabbed your sister” nature.

      Or possibly a “superhero thing is actually a case of multiple personalities, and they don’t agree super well”

      Who says Amber can’t have more than one?

      • Kris
        Kris
        November 8, 2018 at 12:19 am | #

        Actually I just realized it’s none of that but the literal terabyte of Captain America x Bucky slash fiction she’s wrote. Not all of it’s good.

        • Emily
          Emily
          November 8, 2018 at 5:25 am | #

          Do we have a basis to assume ANY of Amber’s fanfiction is good?

          • Bagge
            Bagge
            November 8, 2018 at 6:17 am | #

            Panel 4 says “Yes”

            http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/02-that-perfect-girl/au/

            • Khyrin
              Khyrin
              November 8, 2018 at 9:35 am | #

              Circumstantial. That just means her fanfic gets Danny and Ethan’s motor running, if you know what I mean. winky-face emoji.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        November 8, 2018 at 12:27 am | #

        Also that she bumped up his grades, which will get him expelled if they get busted.

        @ Kris – He knows about that. He’s seen her twitter. 😉 Now the guro fic on the other hand…

        • DailyBrad
          DailyBrad
          November 8, 2018 at 12:42 am | #

          He knows about the grade thing. Also, it could get him in big trouble, but I have my doubts he’d get expelled.

          A. It’d mean the school would have to acknowledge a major fuckup on their part that, unlike with something like plagiarism in school papers, isn’t likely to come back to bite them. It’d be a real bad look for the school.
          B. Linda’s connection to the Dean means strings would likely be pulled, getting Walky a slap on the wrist at best.

          It’s not likely to get discovered, anyway. Only person who gave a shit about Walky’s grades on faculty is slinging suds at Galasso’s now.

          • Jothki
            Jothki
            November 8, 2018 at 1:40 am | #

            If it is discovered, it does weaken any potential case that Jason might have that he didn’t show any favoritism to Sal.

          • Emily
            Emily
            November 8, 2018 at 5:26 am | #

            No he doesn’t, he changed his mind about it at the last minute and left but she ignored him and continued on in his absence.

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            November 8, 2018 at 8:58 am | #

            What fuckup is that? Amber’s the one who changed the grades by hacking the school system. That’s on Amber, not the school. And Jason wasn’t fired for Walky’s grades, it was for banging a student (something he actually did).

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              November 8, 2018 at 10:58 am | #

              Well, if they realize the grades were changed, but don’t know how, they might blame the one who was busted for sex with his sister.

              • BBCC
                BBCC
                November 8, 2018 at 1:54 pm | #

                If they’re able to find the grades were changed, it shouldn’t be too hard to find out when. That would date it after Jason got canned.

              • Alanari
                Alanari
                November 8, 2018 at 2:14 pm | #

                They never found out it was sal.

                • BBCC
                  BBCC
                  November 8, 2018 at 3:22 pm | #

                  That’s not quite clear. Jason was told if he wanted to dispute it, he’d have to talk to the tribunal with the affected student. Penny didn’t know they were really banging, but she may have given Sal’s name if she was the other TA that Jason asked to mark Sal’s stuff.

                  Personally, I don’t think they have a name, but regardless, the school’s unlikely to let Walky off the hook even in this scenario. That doesn’t sound like ‘The guy banging your sister changed your grade to throw us off’ it sounds like ‘your sister got her boyfriend to up your grade, you cheater.’

                • BBCC
                  BBCC
                  November 8, 2018 at 3:24 pm | #

                  Never mind, just double checked and Jason did say they don’t know it was Sal.

                • Catman
                  Catman
                  November 8, 2018 at 3:34 pm | #

                  If they notice the grade change they might think Jason was sleeping with Walky. He was tutoring him before he got outed as sleeping with a student

    • John
      John
      November 8, 2018 at 12:18 am | #

      Well, there was the time she beat her dad unconscious. And the time she stabbed her boyfriend’s sister. And the time she tried to provoke her boyfriend’s sister into fighting her for no good reason. And the time she dated Danny. And the time she was in a web porno. With Danny.

      • Keulen
        Keulen
        November 8, 2018 at 12:20 am | #

        Wait, when was Amber in a web porno? I thought that was Joe and Roz, with the camera attached to Danny’s sleeping foot.

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          November 8, 2018 at 12:27 am | #

          It’s a joke about the slipshines.

      • NickG
        NickG
        November 8, 2018 at 2:47 pm | #

        And the second time she was in a web porno. With Danny. And the time her AU self was in a web porno. With Mike.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      November 8, 2018 at 12:28 am | #

      Amber’s secretly an alien from Krypton sent to Earth as a baby when her planet was destroyed.

  10. Kris
    Kris
    November 8, 2018 at 12:11 am | #

    Remember kids! The key to any good relationship is the strong foundation of secrets they’re built upon!

  11. Derek
    Derek
    November 8, 2018 at 12:11 am | #

    Is Walky thinking of Billie?

    • cbwroses
      cbwroses
      November 8, 2018 at 12:21 am | #

      Maybe?
      She shares two criteria that Walky seems to like in women he’s found attractive: she wears glasses and Danny found her attractive.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      November 8, 2018 at 12:35 am | #

      My money is on the Sensitive Scanner.

      And if Dorothy ever finds out he will bury that shame even deeper than his past as a mouse boy.

      • Badgermole
        Badgermole
        November 8, 2018 at 1:34 am | #

        What’s the Sensitive Scanner?

        My first thought was it’s Dorothy.

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          November 8, 2018 at 2:30 am | #

          It’s a character in Dexter and Monkey Master.

          http://www.dumbingofage.com/tag/sensitive-scanner/

  12. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    November 8, 2018 at 12:13 am | #

    Only 3 come up.
    http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/ruthless/

    I think is the only one where he MIGHT have seen both of them at once.

    • Cheshrin
      Cheshrin
      November 8, 2018 at 1:12 am | #

      There’s also this one a couple pages ahead, where they’re standing next to each other.

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/backlog/

      But Walky was absolutely blitzed at the time, so there’s a solid chance he doesn’t remember that.

      • HeySo
        HeySo
        November 8, 2018 at 2:24 am | #

        “There’s also this one [..] where they’re standing next to each other. [..] But Walky was absolutely blitzed at the time”

        Clearly, he was seeing double. 😛

  13. Tacos
    Tacos
    November 8, 2018 at 12:14 am | #

    Alright you got her. She really is secretly Ruth.

  14. Darkoneko
    Darkoneko
    November 8, 2018 at 12:15 am | #

    Remove the glasses and voila ! it was Dotty all along

  15. TrueVCU
    TrueVCU
    November 8, 2018 at 12:24 am | #

    Walky confirmed red green colorblind

  16. BBCC
    BBCC
    November 8, 2018 at 12:28 am | #

    Oh, PLEASE tell him that secret, Amber. I want an excuse to make popcorn!

    Today sucked, but this strip makes me cackle.

  17. foducool
    foducool
    November 8, 2018 at 12:30 am | #

    hey, now that I think about it, we never saw her and fuckface in the same room

    • Wizard
      Wizard
      November 8, 2018 at 12:47 am | #

      And now I’m picturing various characters walking around with Amber sitting on their heads.

  18. kitty
    kitty
    November 8, 2018 at 12:41 am | #

    my first crush was mewtwo when i was 8

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      November 8, 2018 at 12:44 am | #

      Wednesday Addams for me. One of my friends had a big crush on Lucario when she was younger, so no judgments from me.

    • Jupiterror
      Jupiterror
      November 8, 2018 at 12:55 am | #

      this is my favorite answer by far

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        November 8, 2018 at 6:48 am | #

        Especially combined with that gravatar.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      November 8, 2018 at 3:09 am | #

      One of the white blood cells in a Belgian cartoon about the body. She piloted a spaceship and was pretty similar in style to Laureline in the Valérian.

      (and being reminded of that, incidentally, makes me look at my chosen career as a cell biologist in a new light).

      • dralou
        dralou
        November 8, 2018 at 4:47 am | #

        Psi is really nice, and competent, and pretty, and confident… what’s not to love ?

        Also, I have to point out that the cartoon is French, not Belgian. It would be a source of real pride for me if it was Belgian (it has been watched by pretty much every kid of the 90’s around here, everybody knows it), but it ain’t.

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          November 8, 2018 at 6:20 am | #

          PSI, that was her name! She piloted a B lymphocytes. I have to rewatch it.

          What? The one time I assume a french-speaking cartoon is NOT french i get it wrong? I thought I finally cracked the code.

          • dralou
            dralou
            November 8, 2018 at 7:42 am | #

            Honestly, there are very few Belgian(-made) cartoons. Tintin is a Belgian hero, but the cartoon was made by a French studio, same for Spirou or Lucky Luke (and its spinoffs). The Smurfs, in their time, were sold to Hanna-Barbera…

            Basically, if animation is well-liked (and alive) in Belgium, it’s mostly small-scale creations, of which most people (and even less non-Belgians) have never heard of.

            • Bagge
              Bagge
              November 8, 2018 at 7:48 am | #

              Aaaaaah! But Spirou and Gaston as COMICS are Belgian, right?

              • dralou
                dralou
                November 8, 2018 at 8:02 am | #

                Yup, they are. They’re also colleagues ^^

                • CJ
                  CJ
                  November 8, 2018 at 2:34 pm | #

                  Fantasio is Gaston’s coworker (to his never ending nerve shattering).

                • dralou
                  dralou
                  November 9, 2018 at 2:24 am | #

                  Totally right. I should have been clearer and say that Spirou works at the same place, even if he has (a lot) less panel time in Gaston than Fantasio.

  19. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    November 8, 2018 at 12:49 am | #

    Amber, I don’t think Walky would mind that you were in a hostage scenario and stabbed Sal’s hand because of your dad’s bullying. He would be angry if you like Ultra Car though.

  20. tirachokko
    tirachokko
    November 8, 2018 at 12:50 am | #

    oh walky

  21. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    November 8, 2018 at 12:53 am | #

    I feel like this moment is illustrating how little they know of each other outside of basic knowledge. Not saying this ship is destined to sink, I’m just saying I wouldn’t put any bets down on them either.

  22. stoodmuffin
    stoodmuffin
    November 8, 2018 at 1:18 am | #

    I love you, Walky.

    I was scared that these too would actually be super cute together.

    They are.

  23. JA
    JA
    November 8, 2018 at 1:19 am | #

    Amber is Ruthless…both have superstrength, both have never been seen together, and both wear glasses.

    Amber is Ruthless confirmed!

    • CJ
      CJ
      November 8, 2018 at 6:05 am | #

      Wasn’t there a moment when AG carries Billie off before she tried to fight Ruth?

      • Amazi-Stool
        Amazi-Stool
        November 8, 2018 at 3:48 pm | #

        Yes, but this was AG, not Amber!

        At least at that time Sal was under the Amazi-Girl mask.

        And now you know the reason why Billie thinks: Sal is Amazi-Girl.

    • Eldritch Gentleman
      Eldritch Gentleman
      November 8, 2018 at 6:31 am | #

      Don’t quote me on that but I think Ruth was around when Amber whooped her father in the dorms and then ran away.

      • Catman
        Catman
        November 8, 2018 at 7:27 am | #

        Also the party at Joyce’s

  24. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    November 8, 2018 at 1:23 am | #

    Go oooon…

  25. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    November 8, 2018 at 1:53 am | #

    Ruth and Amber are one person phasing back and forth so quickly that she creates the illusion that there’s two separate people, just like the Olsen twin.

  26. Bagge
    Bagge
    November 8, 2018 at 3:12 am | #

    Who was Amber’s first crush anyway? Spiderman?

    • CJ
      CJ
      November 8, 2018 at 10:30 am | #

      Ethan? Aka the only person who threaten her like a human being?

      • Council
        Council
        November 8, 2018 at 12:40 pm | #

        That’s just an Unfortunate typo.

        • MatthewTheLucky
          MatthewTheLucky
          November 8, 2018 at 12:55 pm | #

          Yeah, Sal was the only person who threaten her like a human being.

  27. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    November 8, 2018 at 7:02 am | #

    Ah right, that old shoe that’s about to fall off any day now.

    Also, clearly Amber’s third identity is Other Rachel.

  28. ShinyNeen
    ShinyNeen
    November 8, 2018 at 7:43 am | #

    Oh jeez, just look at all of Amber’s super stressed expressions yesterday and today. Hang in there, Amber!

  29. FacelessDeviant
    FacelessDeviant
    November 8, 2018 at 8:05 am | #

    She looks more like Rose though.
    Both Rose and Amber are color names as well.

    • Daibhid C
      Daibhid C
      November 8, 2018 at 12:59 pm | #

      There’s kind of a reason for that? Or maybe two? But they’re a whole universe away, and I’m cautious of importing either of them into this one.

  30. Jarawara
    Jarawara
    November 8, 2018 at 9:49 am | #

    Ohhhh…. I’m totally shipping Walky and Ruthless. Especially if Ruthless has no idea about it.

    Ruthless is heading down the hallway. Walky pokes his head out of a random doorway, but keeping himself mostly concealed.

    Walky: “I know who your secret identity is, and I think you’re hot!”

    Ruthless is startled, and just stares. Walky stares back. Ruth has no words… then thinks it’s best to not respond, and turns and slowly walks away. Walky continues to watch from behind his cover.

    Could be an ongoing storyline that never progresses any further than that! 🙂

    • ǝ snow ʍousɐ
      ǝ snow ʍousɐ
      November 8, 2018 at 2:04 pm | #

      I think Walky might be joking about Amber=Ruthless. …But with Walky, you never really know.

  31. ego
    ego
    November 8, 2018 at 10:48 am | #

    shoot, it’s entirely possible Amber doesn’t know Amber’s deepest, darkest secret.

  32. Tealjoy Grove
    Tealjoy Grove
    November 8, 2018 at 11:12 am | #

    The last fucking panel had me bust out laughing in my freaking office haha

  33. hof1991
    hof1991
    November 8, 2018 at 1:18 pm | #

    The progression on Amber’s face from happy, to a little concerned to puzzled concerned to Oh Shit to angry denial. Great work.

  34. Sporky
    Sporky
    November 8, 2018 at 1:33 pm | #

    Now I wanna know who his first crush was!! And I bet we won’t find out. Dangit!

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      November 8, 2018 at 1:55 pm | #

      Dorothy.

  35. supinestargazing
    supinestargazing
    November 8, 2018 at 5:04 pm | #

    walky’s expression in the last panel is adorable

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