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by David M Willis on January 26, 2020 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - To Remind You of My Love
└ Tags: amber, sal, walky

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  1. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    January 26, 2020 at 12:01 am | #

    It also makes the same sound as a playground ball when struck.

    If things get kinky between Walky and Amber, anyone walking past the door will think a dodgeball game is going on.

    • Lokitsu
      Lokitsu
      January 26, 2020 at 12:11 am | #

      I doubt Amber will be dodging any balls.

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      January 26, 2020 at 12:43 am | #

      I know Amber and AG don’t share memories now, but I’m wondering if Amber knows about the grappling hook. If she does, Walky is in for an awesome surprise.

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        January 26, 2020 at 12:44 am | #

        The grappling hook was obtained before they stopped sharing memories, so she most likely does.

      • Arianod
        Arianod
        January 26, 2020 at 5:15 am | #

        Never mind memories, you’d think Amber’s body would be at least sore after that night…

  2. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    January 26, 2020 at 12:03 am | #

    Panel four: Amber, above all else, respects the scientific method and observation of evidence.

    • Clif
      Clif
      January 26, 2020 at 1:31 am | #

      But she should test her recollection. For Science.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        January 26, 2020 at 1:37 am | #

        But who will be the control group?

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        January 26, 2020 at 12:10 pm | #

        “For Science!” is a mating call to some couples, like Agatha and Gil.

  3. ian livs
    ian livs
    January 26, 2020 at 12:03 am | #

    ‘If you were looking out for me, you wouldn’t make me look at this.’

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      January 26, 2020 at 12:13 am | #

      “I gave you my blessing, bro! I’m trying really hard not to give a shit about your dating life! Please stop making me give a shit about your dating life!”

  4. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    January 26, 2020 at 12:03 am | #

    *plays the U2 version of “Maggie’s Farm/Cold Turkey” on the hacked Muzak*

  5. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    January 26, 2020 at 12:05 am | #

    Huh. I just noticed that Banner Image Walky is cheating on Amber.

    • Terry
      Terry
      January 26, 2020 at 12:32 am | #

      Ironically, in my banner image, Amber is cheating on Walky. With a fanfic of Batman and Superman.

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        January 26, 2020 at 4:00 am | #

        Fanfic does not count as cheating. Let’s not go wild with fantasy, here.

        • Azhrei Vep
          Azhrei Vep
          January 26, 2020 at 5:03 am | #

          In mine, Ruth and Billie are having a sad threesome with their buddy Jack.

          • Deanatay
            Deanatay
            January 26, 2020 at 10:43 am | #

            In mine, Becky and Dina are cheating on absolutely nobody.

      • MK
        MK
        January 26, 2020 at 9:17 am | #

        My banner image is a very lonely Blowjob Cat.

    • Zee
      Zee
      January 26, 2020 at 8:09 am | #

      Technically they’re not dating anymore so it doesn’t count

  6. shadowcell
    shadowcell
    January 26, 2020 at 12:06 am | #

    Dumbing of Age Book 10: My Butt is Round and Supple, Not Unlike a Playground Ball

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      January 26, 2020 at 12:15 am | #

      It’s a damn good option. Though I suspect ‘Up Here, We Can Be Garbage’ and its Walky-Amber cover were too recent for the same character combo to pop up again so soon. Maybe Dina’ll get a good line sometime soon?

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        January 26, 2020 at 2:24 am | #

        There was ”Renounce Magical Thinking and Embrace Empirical Evidence” from Dina just last chapter.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      January 26, 2020 at 2:14 am | #

      DoA Book 10: I’m Anxious ‘Cause I Can’t Stop Thinking About Your Hot Bod

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      January 26, 2020 at 10:46 am | #

      DoA Book 10: We’re Always Thinking Of You, Y’Know Like You’re Baseball Or Grandma Naked Or Whatever.

  7. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    January 26, 2020 at 12:09 am | #

    The first four panels are life.

  8. Leorale
    Leorale
    January 26, 2020 at 12:10 am | #

    Amber is 5’3″ in boots, why would she disparage Walky for being a height that’s reasonably easy to smooch?
    Short dudes 4ever.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      January 26, 2020 at 12:14 am | #

      She’s 5’3ish normally, I think it was 5’5 in boots.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        January 26, 2020 at 12:28 am | #

        In that case, Willis srsly needs to stop having his characters call her short. I just looked it up and the average for women in America is 5’4″. Jeez.

        • Angie
          Angie
          January 26, 2020 at 12:34 am | #

          as a woman who is the average hight at 5’4″, I get called short very often. most guys and about half the girls I know are taller than me so I seem short even though I’m average.

        • Zee
          Zee
          January 26, 2020 at 8:10 am | #

          5’3 is miniature
          – a 5’6 woman

        • MK
          MK
          January 26, 2020 at 9:21 am | #

          Average for the whole country isn’t the same as average for the younger generation. Doesn’t account for variations across ethnic backgrounds either.

          A 5’4” white girl at college in Indiana would definitely be “short” among her peer group.

          • ValdVin
            ValdVin
            January 26, 2020 at 12:14 pm | #

            I forsee that childhood poverty, and its attendant malnutrition (literally “bad nutrition”, not food scarcity) in the USA is going to lead to generations of shorter people. We should enjoy (among other things) fielding national teams which can compete successfully in volleyball and basketball while we can.

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      January 26, 2020 at 12:20 am | #

      Like, I’m 5’0″ and I once dated a fellow who was 6’3″. I didn’t hold it against him or anything, he can’t help it. It’s just, he was so tall that I couldn’t hold his hand without feeling like I should cross a street.

      • Agemegos
        Agemegos
        January 26, 2020 at 12:38 am | #

        My mother was 5’0″. She claimed to be 5’¼”, but she was 5’0″. My father was 6’7″.

        • Jo Giggles
          Jo Giggles
          January 26, 2020 at 2:11 am | #

          I’m 5’1.5″ and my tallest partner was 6’4″… that was already really difficult. I can’t imagine such a height difference. Heck!

          • miri
            miri
            January 26, 2020 at 4:41 am | #

            My mum is probably a smudge under 5′ now now but claims to be 5’½” still I think (possibly even 5’1″ which I don’t think she ever was.

            On a good day when my neck and back aren’t a mess, I’m 5’2″ but most of the time I’m more like 5’1″. My husband is 6’7″.

            Our two girls are tall, it’ll be interesting to see if No. 3 bucks the trend or not!

    • Thysbe
      Thysbe
      January 26, 2020 at 11:36 am | #

      Oh huh. I feel really dwarfed as a 4’7″ person. Call me short to save y’all some grief.

      • He Who Abides
        He Who Abides
        January 27, 2020 at 8:39 am | #

        My fiancee would love you. She’s 4’9″, and she wants to find someone who she doesn’t have to look up at.

  9. BBCC
    BBCC
    January 26, 2020 at 12:14 am | #

    Oh Sal, this is what you get for coming back to Indiana for school. 😛

  10. Tacos
    Tacos
    January 26, 2020 at 12:19 am | #

    Oh so I’m the same height as Walky. Neat.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      January 27, 2020 at 12:23 am | #

      Same, just stockier. Thankfully not to Ross extent.

  11. Newllend(henryvolt)
    Newllend(henryvolt)
    January 26, 2020 at 12:19 am | #

    You know what why not? This feels like a great time to get busy, not like there’s any other dire matters that need to be addressed….god I’m cracking up at this now.

  12. LeslieBean4shizzle
    LeslieBean4shizzle
    January 26, 2020 at 12:24 am | #

    Gar-Bage-Scow!
    Gar-Bage-Scow!
    Wooo!!
    **shakes pompoms**

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      January 26, 2020 at 12:47 am | #

      I’m pretty sure this ship has been named the SS Garbage Skowl. 😛

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      January 26, 2020 at 2:15 am | #

      Yeah, I’m definitely still shipping them.

  13. RacingTurtle
    RacingTurtle
    January 26, 2020 at 12:27 am | #

    Thinking about naked people you don’t want to be attracted to while aroused has always seemed a risky proposition to me.

    Like that Hark! A Vagrant strip about rivals. Fast track to accidentally ending up with an Iron Lady fetish, or worse

    • RacingTurtle
      RacingTurtle
      January 26, 2020 at 12:50 am | #

      I think there might also be an Oglaf on the subject, but I’m not sure

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        January 26, 2020 at 4:03 am | #

        You can usually count on there being an Oglaf.

        • Roborat
          Roborat
          January 27, 2020 at 3:17 pm | #

          And an XKCD.

  14. Suet
    Suet
    January 26, 2020 at 12:30 am | #

    *re–calibrates height chart* Dammit.

  15. Shane
    Shane
    January 26, 2020 at 1:00 am | #

    Amber is trying so hard to disprove his playground ball assessment and is forced to concede.

    In a few strips something is going to knock that feeling of what is missing loose. At least the longer the tension, the more satisfying the release (maybe.)

  16. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    January 26, 2020 at 1:41 am | #

    Nobody wants to think about Thatcher naked, Willis! Conservative women aren’t that attractive.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      January 26, 2020 at 2:17 am | #

      I only find conservative women attractive until they start talking and reveal themselves to be conservatives.

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        January 26, 2020 at 12:17 pm | #

        To steal a line from (I think) Florence King, “If only I could put a paper bag over their personality”.

    • Jay
      Jay
      January 26, 2020 at 2:41 am | #

      I thought you meant Thatcher from rainbow 6 and I was gonna be like DAM RIGHT I WANNA SEE THAT MAN NAKEY but then I realized you meant Margaret Thatcher and I got sad

      • DarkoNeko
        DarkoNeko
        January 26, 2020 at 12:40 pm | #

        /o\

  17. Clif
    Clif
    January 26, 2020 at 1:57 am | #

    You would think the Wall Street Journal would have a chart showing the shifting demand for Nickels.

    • OBBWG
      OBBWG
      January 26, 2020 at 7:32 am | #

      You mean like Mike Nickles? Oh, wait, he spelled his name Nichols.

      Is that the Mike everyone is asking about? He died in 2014 after a long and successful career.

  18. Keulen
    Keulen
    January 26, 2020 at 2:18 am | #

    Still no reveal of whether Mike’s alive or dead yet. I would Damn You Willis, but I’ve depleted my supply and haven’t gotten around to getting more yet.

    • LeslieBean4shizzle
      LeslieBean4shizzle
      January 26, 2020 at 1:32 pm | #

      At this point, I’m half expecting Mike to just show up for class or lunch or whatever entirely fine (or with a bandage or a cast on his arm or something) and no further explanation to take place for months.

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      January 26, 2020 at 5:49 pm | #

      Mike will no longer be a topic of conversation among the cast, and will never come up again in the comic, ditto Blaine and Toe-Dad.

      A few years from now as everyone is getting ready for Thanksgiving in-comic Mike shows up in a neck brace.

  19. Bagge
    Bagge
    January 26, 2020 at 2:51 am | #

    While Sal has complicated feelings to Walky, to amber, and to Walky and amber dating, I’m pretty dang sure she would prefere to not be involved in their sex life.

  20. Minder
    Minder
    January 26, 2020 at 3:17 am | #

    I had the weirdest fucking dream playing out the next good bit of this storyline except the dingy apartment complex from the night before got transformed in my subconscious to this beautiful fucking architectural monolith made of glass panes in the same shape.

    Also Amazi-girl flipping around and running up walls in real time? Looks amazing. I don’t care how asleep I was.

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      January 26, 2020 at 4:06 am | #

      Amazi-Girl has the power of Flowmotion, and that monolith was just Mike’s Station of Awakening.

  21. Björn
    Björn
    January 26, 2020 at 4:54 am | #

    No one thinks of Sal that way.

  22. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    January 26, 2020 at 5:24 am | #

    Sal being used as a boner killer seems odd to me.

    • Meagan
      Meagan
      January 26, 2020 at 6:13 am | #

      It literally only makes sense if you are her sibling or have trauma related to her. For anyone else, she’s a boner maker.

      • LeslieBean4shizzle
        LeslieBean4shizzle
        January 26, 2020 at 1:35 pm | #

        Or if you read It’s Walky.
        I am slowly warming to Dumbingverse Sal, but I still loathe her in the Walkyverse and find that version of her very much a boner killer.

  23. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    January 26, 2020 at 5:56 am | #

    I know Walky’s reading “Math” the critically acclaimed series of novels, but what is Sal reading?

    • Nono
      Nono
      January 26, 2020 at 6:53 am | #

      She also has a calculus midterm. Could just be an alternate textbook. Or notes?

  24. AbelUndercity
    AbelUndercity
    January 26, 2020 at 7:17 am | #

    Yeah, baby!

    Well, somebody had to.

    …

    OK, OK, nobody had to, but I did it anyway.

  25. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    January 26, 2020 at 7:19 am | #

    Sal as a study chaperon… This is just the best idea. Really perfect, I love it♡!

  26. Badgermole
    Badgermole
    January 26, 2020 at 8:55 am | #

    Obligatory “where is Mike you damn Willis” post

  27. Los
    Los
    January 26, 2020 at 9:46 am | #

    This whole Mike situation has turned into a game of minesweeper

  28. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    January 26, 2020 at 10:11 am | #

    I forget: is Sal not against these two together?

    Predicting the next new coupling – Joyce and Drew.

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      January 26, 2020 at 10:37 am | #

      She is not. Finding out that her brother’s new squeeze was the girl who put a knife through her hand led to an uncomfortable evening, but she has for the most part moved on.

      • JessWitt
        JessWitt
        January 26, 2020 at 12:45 pm | #

        Oh yes I remember that eventful evening.

        And yeah she did invite Amber to roller derby – can’t wait to see how that goes.

  29. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    January 26, 2020 at 12:33 pm | #

    Sal run to Jason panickedly “they… they wanted me to watch them do math, HELP”

  30. SDGlyph
    SDGlyph
    January 26, 2020 at 3:11 pm | #

    (random art comment)
    There’s something about panel 1 & 3 Amber that I can’t quite put my finger on – like the expression is one I haven’t seen before in this comic, on her or anyone else? Slight difference in art style? She looks maybe a little more ‘real’, less cartoony than usual?

    IDK, maybe my brain’s just being weird today.

    • Beachfox
      Beachfox
      January 26, 2020 at 3:18 pm | #

      Eyebrows are above her hair?

      • SDGlyph
        SDGlyph
        January 26, 2020 at 7:15 pm | #

        No, it’s her eyes. Which…. should have been obvious, if my brain was working properly.

  31. Beachfox
    Beachfox
    January 26, 2020 at 3:18 pm | #

    G’DAMMIT, Amazigirl! You start sharing your memories again right this instant, young lady!

    ((blue text)) I’m protecting her from things she doesn’t need to know. ((/blue text))

    No, no, we’re having none of that! Steven Universe did a whole episode on this and I know you’ve watched it!

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