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November 16, 2023

What

by David M Willis on June 25, 2019 at 12:01 am
  • 04 - Vote for Robin

└ Tags: amber, asher, walky

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    June 25, 2019 at 12:02 am | #

    “WHAT DID YOU SAY?”

    “I SAID ‘WHAT DID YOU SAY?'”

    “WHAT WAS THAT?”

    “WHAT?”

    “WHAT?”

    • JetstreamGW
      JetstreamGW
      June 25, 2019 at 12:03 am | #

      What you say!?

      You have no chance to survive make your time.

      • TachyonCode
        TachyonCode
        June 25, 2019 at 1:03 am | #

        Ha ha ha ha

        • Minim
          Minim
          June 25, 2019 at 5:03 am | #

          Captain!

          Take off every ‘ZIG’!

          • JasonAW3
            JasonAW3
            June 26, 2019 at 12:03 pm | #

            Someone set us up the bomb!!!

      • Dana
        Dana
        June 25, 2019 at 1:09 am | #

        I said “What what” in the butt.

      • someone
        someone
        June 25, 2019 at 5:45 am | #

        Mmm, “what”, you say?
        Mm, that you only meant well? Well, of course you did.
        Mmm, what you say?
        Mm, that it’s all for the best? Of course it is.
        Mmm, “what, you say?
        Mm, that it’s just what we need? And you decided this.
        What you say?
        Mmm, “what”, did She say?

        (They’re doing this for Walky’s dear sister after all.)

      • Arian
        Arian
        June 26, 2019 at 2:55 am | #

        Someone has set up us the bomb

    • McBogue
      McBogue
      June 25, 2019 at 12:08 am | #

      What’d I Say?

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      June 25, 2019 at 12:09 am | #

      What’s on second.

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        June 25, 2019 at 12:12 am | #

        Who?

        • Marsh Maryrose
          Marsh Maryrose
          June 25, 2019 at 12:16 am | #

          I Don’t Know.

          • Geneseepaws
            Geneseepaws
            June 25, 2019 at 2:09 am | #

            Third base!

            • JasonAW3
              JasonAW3
              June 26, 2019 at 12:02 pm | #

              What?

    • Tan
      Tan
      June 25, 2019 at 12:18 am | #

      Do they speak English in What?

      • Cholma
        Cholma
        June 25, 2019 at 12:24 am | #

        W-what?

        • Keulen
          Keulen
          June 25, 2019 at 1:52 am | #

          Say what again! I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker, say what one more goddamn time!

          • Roborat
            Roborat
            June 25, 2019 at 3:17 pm | #

            I knew this would be posted.

    • Clif
      Clif
      June 25, 2019 at 12:47 am | #

      Yes, I think that this could be one those Rocky Horror moments where the same sequence can be repeated 3 or 4 times.

      • Marsh Maryrose
        Marsh Maryrose
        June 25, 2019 at 1:29 am | #

        What…does the fox say?

        What…is dead may never die.

        What…becomes of the broken-hearted?

        What…is the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything?

        And I haven’t even scratched the surface. Maybe in seven and a half million years…

        • Charlie Spencer
          Charlie Spencer
          June 25, 2019 at 7:50 am | #

          What … they do? They smile in your face, all the time they wanna take your place.

        • Coru
          Coru
          June 25, 2019 at 8:58 am | #

          What…is your favorite color?

          • Liquid Len
            Liquid Len
            June 25, 2019 at 10:36 am | #

            What…is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?

            • Ana Chronistic
              Ana Chronistic
              June 25, 2019 at 10:53 am | #

              How do you mean, an African or a European swallow?

              • thejeff
                thejeff
                June 25, 2019 at 4:35 pm | #

                I don’t know that.

              • ktbear
                ktbear
                June 26, 2019 at 12:02 am | #

                What? Not the American swallow then?

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      June 25, 2019 at 2:16 am | #

      What, you say?!

      • Schol-R-LEA
        Schol-R-LEA
        June 25, 2019 at 10:16 am | #

        Mmmmn, that you only meant well?

  2. Kay
    Kay
    June 25, 2019 at 12:03 am | #

    What!?

    • Cholma
      Cholma
      June 25, 2019 at 12:03 am | #

      WHAT?!

      • Foxhack
        Foxhack
        June 25, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

        In the butt

        • LeslieBean4shizzle
          LeslieBean4shizzle
          June 25, 2019 at 1:02 am | #

          What what?

      • motorfirebox
        motorfirebox
        June 25, 2019 at 1:42 am | #

        What…?

        • anonamousethatscurriesinthedarkness
          anonamousethatscurriesinthedarkness
          June 26, 2019 at 4:03 pm | #

          Interstellar Homing Eight-ball of Doom DX

  3. Piotr W
    Piotr W
    June 25, 2019 at 12:03 am | #

    Heh. 🙂

  4. Schpoonman
    Schpoonman
    June 25, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

    Now that it’s happened I’m so okay with this happening like this.

  5. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    June 25, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

    COMPUTER: Correct letter is I. Applicant is not Knott-Watt but Nitt-Witt!

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      June 25, 2019 at 5:20 am | #

      Holy shit, Monkees reference. Did not see that coming.

    • 1958fury
      1958fury
      June 25, 2019 at 10:55 am | #

      Points for obscurity!

      • Stephen Bierce
        Stephen Bierce
        June 26, 2019 at 12:08 am | #

        Previous Occupation: Peat Digger.

  6. Piotr W
    Piotr W
    June 25, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

    BTW. Amber’s face on the second-to-last panel… 😀

    • Br44n5m
      Br44n5m
      June 25, 2019 at 2:44 am | #

      Seconded

    • Kyoulkoa
      Kyoulkoa
      June 25, 2019 at 4:34 am | #

      Faaaaace

  7. William Leonard Reese Jr.
    William Leonard Reese Jr.
    June 25, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

    Sal coming up from behind them all: What’re y’all whating about?

  8. John
    John
    June 25, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

    Internal monologue voice, Amber.

  9. brionl
    brionl
    June 25, 2019 at 12:09 am | #

    What?!

    https://youtu.be/YPkjz3mtBVw?t=4

    • brionl
      brionl
      June 25, 2019 at 12:10 am | #

      Darn no edits.
      Anyway, smoking is an automatic -5 points on the hotness scale.

      • Cholma
        Cholma
        June 25, 2019 at 12:19 am | #

        Only 5? You’re more generous than I am.

        • Zero
          Zero
          June 25, 2019 at 1:25 am | #

          The scale is binary.

          • motorfirebox
            motorfirebox
            June 25, 2019 at 1:43 am | #

            So someone who smokes isn’t on the scale at all?

            …Yeah, I see it.

  10. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    June 25, 2019 at 12:09 am | #

    Yes, this all going exactly as well as I expected it to. And I say again, what could possibly go wrong here?

  11. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    June 25, 2019 at 12:12 am | #

    Asher needs to go all in on the sideburns. Only then will Go Nagai give him his own robot.

    • StClair
      StClair
      June 25, 2019 at 12:21 am | #

      I love this comment.

      • Darkoneko
        Darkoneko
        June 25, 2019 at 10:01 am | #

        Oh yeaaah !

  12. GoblinScribe
    GoblinScribe
    June 25, 2019 at 12:15 am | #

    Wait, does Walky… get it? Is he the first character to really work out Amber/Amazi-Girl’s situation this quickly?

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      June 25, 2019 at 12:38 am | #

      That was the thing that leaped out at me. He is literally the first person to hear her say “I’m not Amazi-Girl, I’m Amber,” and understand that those are different personas.

      I wouldn’t assume that he understands the DID thing yet. But he at least understands that Amber compartmentalizes AG, something that Ethan and Danny still don’t get.

      As far as I’m concerned, one more piece of evidence that the Walky/Amber ship makes way more sense than their previous relationships.

      • BarerMender
        BarerMender
        June 25, 2019 at 2:10 am | #

        Not the first. Dina figured it out early.

  13. BBCC
    BBCC
    June 25, 2019 at 12:16 am | #

    Oops, awkward! Sorry, Amber.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      June 25, 2019 at 12:16 am | #

      I like how she goes to talk to him after Walky asks who hurt Sal. Nice touch.

  14. Delicious Taffy
    Delicious Taffy
    June 25, 2019 at 12:19 am | #

    He looks like a 35-year-old fast food manager who thinks smoking is a hobby.

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      June 25, 2019 at 4:08 am | #

      Yeah, that’s what I thought.

  15. mister gray
    mister gray
    June 25, 2019 at 12:22 am | #

    WHAT?!

  16. Cass
    Cass
    June 25, 2019 at 12:25 am | #

    No, What’s on second.

    • CianM1301
      CianM1301
      June 25, 2019 at 5:05 am | #

      I’m not askin’ you who’s on second!

  17. Rukdug
    Rukdug
    June 25, 2019 at 12:29 am | #

    Who’s on first?

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      June 25, 2019 at 1:44 am | #

      “When you pay the first baseman, who gets the money?”
      “Yes he does, every dollar of it. Sometimes his wife picks up the money.”
      “Whose wife?”
      “Yes.”

      • Ed Rhodes
        Ed Rhodes
        June 25, 2019 at 2:35 pm | #

        Look, all I’m trying to find out is what is the guys name on first base?

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          June 25, 2019 at 5:07 pm | #

          No, What’s on second.

  18. Dean
    Dean
    June 25, 2019 at 12:32 am | #

    Now shipping Ambsher.

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      June 25, 2019 at 12:45 am | #

      As Becky would say, Ambsher the Hamsher.

  19. Rabid Rabbit
    Rabid Rabbit
    June 25, 2019 at 12:43 am | #

    I first read that as “He, however, is not,” and the strip was therefore rather confusing.

    Also, “hot” vs. “cute.” Sorry, Walky, you may no longer be a virgin, but your manliness-cred is still lacking. (Yes, that’s gender-essentialist, etc. But so is Walky.)

    • ǝ snow ʍousɐ
      ǝ snow ʍousɐ
      June 25, 2019 at 1:07 am | #

      Hah, I read it that way too!

  20. Khantalas
    Khantalas
    June 25, 2019 at 12:52 am | #

    I have to read the character tags to figure out who is in each strip featuring the short brunette meatshell please send help.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      June 25, 2019 at 2:00 am | #

      Cheek blushes are the easiest visual tell. They’re there when Amber’s in charge, but absent for Amazi-Girl.

  21. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    June 25, 2019 at 12:52 am | #

    “Stealth” and “Casual, mildly-flirtatious banter” do not synergize well.

    • Kyrik Michalowski
      Kyrik Michalowski
      June 25, 2019 at 1:00 am | #

      How do those superheroes manage to do it?

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        June 25, 2019 at 1:51 am | #

        They all have “plot convenience” as an unnamed superpower.

  22. TrueVCU
    TrueVCU
    June 25, 2019 at 1:05 am | #

    Wat

    • Ed Rhodes
      Ed Rhodes
      June 25, 2019 at 2:36 pm | #

      Dookie, dookie doo! (That’s my wife’s morning alarm!)

  23. Bagge
    Bagge
    June 25, 2019 at 1:08 am | #

    For having crippling social anxiety, Amber pops out from bushes to give compliments like a pro.

    • ShinyNeen
      ShinyNeen
      June 25, 2019 at 1:00 pm | #

      The more scared you are to initiate conversation, the bigger an icebreaker you need!

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        June 25, 2019 at 1:31 pm | #

        Huh, that sounds like a pretty solid lifehack

  24. ǝ snow ʍousɐ
    ǝ snow ʍousɐ
    June 25, 2019 at 1:08 am | #

    @alt-text *appreciative golf claps*

  25. ǝ snow ʍousɐ
    ǝ snow ʍousɐ
    June 25, 2019 at 1:08 am | #

    @alt-text *appreciative golf claps*

    • ǝ snow ʍousɐ
      ǝ snow ʍousɐ
      June 25, 2019 at 1:09 am | #

      shit, double posted

  26. CMasta
    CMasta
    June 25, 2019 at 1:16 am | #

    I’ll do you one better: WHY is he hot?!

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      June 25, 2019 at 1:40 am | #

      Let’s see:

      Built for dexterity, not power? Check.

      Lean? Check.

      Large, intense eyes? Check?

      Kissable lips? Subjective, but plausible.

      All that’s missing are the rosy cheeks. And maybe in daylight those might be there, too.

      • Ron
        Ron
        June 25, 2019 at 12:33 pm | #

        He reminds me of the thing amber drew in shortpacked! To show what she would think is a sexual ideal.

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      June 25, 2019 at 1:48 am | #

      Because looking like a Tim Sutton body double is exactly Amber’s flavor.

      • Geneseepaws
        Geneseepaws
        June 25, 2019 at 2:18 am | #

        I like Tim Hortten’s better.

  27. Tom T.
    Tom T.
    June 25, 2019 at 1:23 am | #

    Are those Walky’s exclamation lines talking in panel 5?

  28. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    June 25, 2019 at 1:50 am | #

    Amber, you fucked up a good cover. However, she is right that Asher looks hotter than Walky. Asher looks like an action movie protagonist, and Walky looks like a comedic sidekick that has attention span problems.

  29. Nono
    Nono
    June 25, 2019 at 1:55 am | #

    Ah, when your inner monologue escapes.

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      June 25, 2019 at 2:01 am | #

      Actually, this is what happens when your inner monologue escapes.

  30. Keulen
    Keulen
    June 25, 2019 at 2:04 am | #

    DoA Book 9: What?

  31. Hrafn
    Hrafn
    June 25, 2019 at 2:37 am | #

    Asher is meant to be Asian? He looks more Italian to me. I must admit I often find it hard to discern the intended ethnicities in DoA.

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      June 25, 2019 at 12:02 pm | #

      Walky thinks of Asher as Asian. Walky is from Evansville, which is not a very diverse community. (For that matter, Indiana is not a very diverse state.)

      It wouldn’t surprise me if people from Walky’s neighborhood assume anyone who isn’t white, black, or latinx must be Asian.

      (It’s been pointed out that the Middle East is technically in Asia, to which I can only say, take it up with the U.S. Census Bureau. You could also take it up with the late Lou Harrison, who pointed out that Europe is technically just Northwest Asia.)

      • Marsh Maryrose
        Marsh Maryrose
        June 25, 2019 at 1:44 pm | #

        On the other hand, the countries of the Middle East were included in the “Asiatic barred zone” in the Immigration Act of 1917. So whether or not they are Asian depends on who is doing the classifying, and when. (Which, come to think of it, is true for pretty much all racial/ethnic classifying.)

      • Inahc
        Inahc
        June 25, 2019 at 3:47 pm | #

        Also, Russia is a big chunk of Asia, but does anyone call them Asians?

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          June 25, 2019 at 8:21 pm | #

          Depends on the part of Russia. Some yes, as its part of north Asia.

      • Hrafn
        Hrafn
        June 26, 2019 at 12:25 am | #

        I would suggest that there is an enormous difference between “technically in Asia” and ‘likely to be described as “Asian” in common parlance’, even by the most culturally-insulated American. Would Walky have made his decision based upon Asher’s detailed family history and an atlas, or superficial looks (the latter more likely to yield Italian ‘white’ or possibly ‘latino’ than stereotypic ‘Asian’)?

  32. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    June 25, 2019 at 2:55 am | #

    Wha-wha-what?!

  33. REAver
    REAver
    June 25, 2019 at 3:21 am | #

    Walky using Amber’s guilt like that is kinda gross

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      June 25, 2019 at 3:41 am | #

      Yup.

      • Reaver
        Reaver
        June 25, 2019 at 12:41 pm | #

        Like big YIKES energy there..

  34. SpaceshipPilot
    SpaceshipPilot
    June 25, 2019 at 3:56 am | #

    I know there’s nothing to support it (because Amber keeps her cheek-blush thingies), but I like to imagine AG briefly took control to say that.

  35. 0kami
    0kami
    June 25, 2019 at 4:23 am | #

    NANI?

  36. Darkoneko
    Darkoneko
    June 25, 2019 at 5:13 am | #

    Well, he is.

    • Darkoneko
      Darkoneko
      June 25, 2019 at 5:13 am | #

      Seriously, that’s oldschool giant-robot-riding hottie material right there.

      • dralou
        dralou
        June 25, 2019 at 5:39 am | #

        Too “2-days-beard” to be the main hero, though… At best, he’d be a begrudging second fiddle.

        • Roborat
          Roborat
          June 25, 2019 at 3:25 pm | #

          Hero? I thought he looked like a stereotypical villain.

      • Amazi-Stool
        Amazi-Stool
        June 25, 2019 at 3:21 pm | #

        “Get in the fucking robot, Ashi!”

  37. Meagan
    Meagan
    June 25, 2019 at 5:35 am | #

    I love the slow burn up to Amber and Walky being a thing again. Active flirting is happening.

  38. FacelessDeviant
    FacelessDeviant
    June 25, 2019 at 6:55 am | #

    Whatwhat what what?

    • FacelessDeviant
      FacelessDeviant
      June 25, 2019 at 6:56 am | #

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes

  39. Josh Spicer
    Josh Spicer
    June 25, 2019 at 8:08 am | #

    What? spoken confusingly.

    What? spoken innocently.

    What? spoken indignantly.

    What?! spoken like it’s a fact and Walky being indignant makes no sense.

    • Josh Spicer
      Josh Spicer
      June 25, 2019 at 8:10 am | #

      I miscalculated my What?s.

      Switch two and three around.

  40. Charlotte
    Charlotte
    June 25, 2019 at 8:53 am | #

    Maybe this has already been discussed in the last few days, but I don’t really get what Walky is trying to accomplish here at all. Won’t alerting Asher to Walky’s and Sal’s presence make trouble MORE likely, not less?
    I imagine that Sal would rather not have these ghosts from her past dug up at all.

    Anyway, I hope Asher has a similar amount of personal growth behind him as Sal has, but then there wouldn’t be drama, so I’m not too hopeful.

    • ShinyNeen
      ShinyNeen
      June 25, 2019 at 1:13 pm | #

      I think Walky was hoping to ‘scope out’ Asher without letting Asher find out Sal was on campus but, well, he probably didn’t plan this out very well >.>

      Asher could be an interesting parallel to where Sal’s at right now, especially considering that Sal just had a major moment of growth recently. That’d be neat!

    • Sam
      Sam
      June 25, 2019 at 7:59 pm | #

      Mostly he just wanted to scope things out, see if he might be a potential hassle to Sal later. He didn’t intend to alert him to his presence. That just happened because Walky did not come into this with a real plan.

  41. BenRG
    BenRG
    June 25, 2019 at 9:41 am | #

    PREDICTION: Asher tells Walky to ‘beat it’; Amazi-Girl objects and defends their boyfriend. Violently.

  42. Zee
    Zee
    June 25, 2019 at 10:24 am | #

    Okay so I’m not the only one who saw it, great

  43. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    June 25, 2019 at 12:07 pm | #

    Amber once mentioned “Have you seen Mike’s abs?!” to someone (Ethan?), showing an attraction to him which was at odds with his personality (because Mike).

    Has Amber yet to see Walky shirtless, with his sculpten caramel out there?

  44. BlackScarabZ
    BlackScarabZ
    June 25, 2019 at 12:24 pm | #

    Homer: [yawns] Well, time to go to work.
    Homer’s brain: Little do they know, I’m ducking out early to take the Duff Brewery tour.
    Homer: Roll in at nine, punch out at five, that’s the plan.
    Homer’s brain: Heh-heh-heh. They don’t suspect a thing. [camera pans down to Homer’s mouth, and back up] Well, off to the plant.
    Homer: Then to the Duff Brewery.
    Homer’s brain: Uh-oh. Did I say that or just think it?
    Homer: [panicky] I gotta think of a lie fast!
    Marge: Homer, are you going to the Duff Brewery?
    Homer: GAAAAAAGH! [runs off]

  45. ShinyNeen
    ShinyNeen
    June 25, 2019 at 12:50 pm | #

    Yeah, someone bursting out of the bushes to say something like that would wipe the smirk off my face, too.

    Welcome to the comic, Asher!

  46. MatthewTheLucky
    MatthewTheLucky
    June 25, 2019 at 2:34 pm | #

    Stealth 100

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      June 25, 2019 at 3:27 pm | #

      How is her pickpocket skill?

  47. StClair
    StClair
    June 25, 2019 at 9:32 pm | #

    What? Whaaaat? Stop POKING MEEEE!

  48. Meagan
    Meagan
    June 27, 2019 at 12:37 am | #

    When I first read this, I thought Amber said, “He, however, is NOT.” As in not cute. Which made a lot of sense to me, because Asher looks kinda scruffy, and the cigarette makes it not be in a good way. Cigarettes automatically make people less attractive to me and can give an overall unhealthy vibe. But apparently Amber thinks he is hot. Huh.

  49. Tacos
    Tacos
    July 3, 2019 at 6:54 pm | #

    What?

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