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September 28, 2023

Replacement

by David M Willis on October 12, 2020 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - This Bright Millennium

└ Tags: amber, booster, joyce, walky

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    October 12, 2020 at 12:01 am | #

    ok, not so Slipshiningly then

    …

    Booster should still read her fanfic and likecommentandsubscribe

    look, BOOSTER is not at fault, please don’t take it out on them, even in a passive-aggressive snark like that

    although what are the odds Walky secretly was glad Joyce took over so she could do the heavy lifting but he could conveniently step in and say “SEE I SHOULDA DONE IT” if she missteps like that

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      October 12, 2020 at 12:09 am | #

      I really hope Walky didn’t think that cause that’s pretty awful.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        October 12, 2020 at 12:11 am | #

        There was a bonus strip of him and Carla that makes it clear he really wanted to do the introductions himself, so I don’t think he had any sinister intentions.

        • Ana Chronistic
          Ana Chronistic
          October 12, 2020 at 3:10 pm | #

          I had completely forgotten about that! And yet if Walky had REALLY been adamant about doing the introductions, he wouldn’t have let Joyce do it, saying HE was the host, not Joyce

          but eh, laziness takes over

          (I get the Rule of Drama, mostly musing out loud here in my posts)

          • Ana Chronistic
            Ana Chronistic
            October 12, 2020 at 3:16 pm | #

            I will excuse Walky if Joyce is stronger than both Walky and Booster (very likely)

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              October 12, 2020 at 9:03 pm | #

              No necessarily physically stronger, though that’s quite possible, but she can sweep them all along just by force of personality.

    • GreyICE
      GreyICE
      October 12, 2020 at 8:50 am | #

      I feel like you’re both giving Walky too little and too much credit. Too little because I don’t think he would want to potentially inflict emotional trauma on someone to get a one up on a woman he doesn’t like. And too much because… well, that kind of implies a level of empathy and understanding that says he could predict both Joyce’s introduction and Amber’s response ahead of times, and this is the guy who couldn’t understand why his girlfriend might not be into jean-pyjamas.

  2. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    October 12, 2020 at 12:03 am | #

    Don’t think of Booster as Mike’s replacement. Think of them as more of a sequel.

    Mike 2: Electric Boostaloo

    Mike 2: The Boostering

    Dorm Wars Episode V: The Boostpire Mikes Back

    Live Booster or Die Mi-sorry, Amber

    • Yet_One_More_Idiot
      Yet_One_More_Idiot
      October 12, 2020 at 1:57 am | #

      Amber: I’ll live…Mike didn’t.

      …too soon?

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        October 12, 2020 at 9:49 am | #

        You’d be surprised what you can live through.

        ^A knife that cuts both ways^

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          October 13, 2020 at 6:47 am | #

          A phone does it better.

  3. Wack'd
    Wack'd
    October 12, 2020 at 12:04 am | #

    Hey, Amber expressed this sentiment without throwing any shade at Booster’s name, face, or style!

    Recent events may have given me the impression this is a high bar.

    • Zor
      Zor
      October 12, 2020 at 12:22 am | #

      I mean, Joyce actually got it right this time. She’s learning quick

      • Wack'd
        Wack'd
        October 12, 2020 at 12:25 am | #

        I wasn’t necessarily referring to the characters.

    • asmodai
      asmodai
      October 12, 2020 at 3:33 am | #

      Well, I am under the impression that she barely looked at them (if at all), so it stands to reason she wouldn’t comment on their face or looks.

      As for the name, many people do introduce themselves with a nickname rather than a name when in an informal setting, which might be her assumption as well, even if Joyce’s interjection of “They/Them” has the potential to tip her in the right direction.

  4. Chris
    Chris
    October 12, 2020 at 12:05 am | #

    She’ll live. The way Mike didn’t.

    • Moriarty70
      Moriarty70
      October 12, 2020 at 12:59 am | #

      I feel better. My brain went “Mike didn’t” after reading her line. I think Mike would respect it.

    • Kella
      Kella
      October 12, 2020 at 1:19 am | #

      That’s how I heard it too and it punched me in the gut.

  5. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    October 12, 2020 at 12:07 am | #

    Yeah uh…Amber’s not doing to well and that was totally uncalled for.

  6. BBCC
    BBCC
    October 12, 2020 at 12:07 am | #

    AMBER NO we finally got the comment section off that ‘Booster’s replacing Mike’ train!

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      October 12, 2020 at 12:09 am | #

      Though I’m sure they’ll be thrilled she’s transparently miserable about it.

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      October 12, 2020 at 12:19 am | #

      All aboard!

      Toot! Tooot!

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        October 12, 2020 at 12:22 am | #

        NO. I am dismantling this railroad. 😛

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          October 12, 2020 at 12:43 am | #

          And don’t forget to melt down the engine and carriages for scrap, too

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            October 12, 2020 at 1:35 am | #

            Well, of course. I’m not an animal. 😛

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      October 12, 2020 at 1:06 am | #

      Oh, I get it. Ships are for ill-advised relationships, but trains are for pains and also when the comments section becomes a trainwreck.

    • clif
      clif
      October 12, 2020 at 1:32 am | #

      I view it as less of a Booster is replacing Mike train and more of a Booster is the second coming of Mike for reasons train.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        October 12, 2020 at 1:36 am | #

        I have less of a problem with those.

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          October 12, 2020 at 3:40 am | #

          I…think clif was implying that Booster actually is Mike.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            October 12, 2020 at 9:02 am | #

            Booster does kind of look like they could be Mike’s player 2 pallet swap, but with shorter hair.

            • BBCC
              BBCC
              October 12, 2020 at 2:11 pm | #

              They really really don’t imo. I don’t see any similarities. Mind you, I didn’t even see it with the silhouettes so.

              • Diane
                Diane
                October 12, 2020 at 4:28 pm | #

                That might be the difference then, not seeing the silhouette. I looked at the silhouettes, and Booster ended up filling, what was to me, the Mike shaped silhouette. And even before then, it was iffy, because the hair was too short. But the silhouette was around the right height and I though “oh, maybe he lost hair cause head trauma”. But really, they ain’t that similar at all.

                • MW
                  MW
                  October 12, 2020 at 4:57 pm | #

                  Well, aside from their uncanny knack for reading people. Booster does seem (at least thus far!) to be what would happen if you gave Mike’s strengths to someone with, ah, a bit more warmth, let’s say.

                • BBCC
                  BBCC
                  October 12, 2020 at 5:09 pm | #

                  I’m gonna be honest, I thought the most Mike shaped silhouette was Danny’s.

                • Needfuldoer
                  Needfuldoer
                  October 12, 2020 at 5:23 pm | #

                  Agreed. I thought Booster’s silhouette was going to be Mike but with his trademark gravity-defying hair chopped off. (It’s not unrealistic that the hospital would have buzzed him to treat his head wounds, and it wouldn’t grow back to the way it was in just three months.)

                  Aside from that, their heads are a similar shape (pointy chin, squared-off hair in the back) and they’re both very similar in build and height.

                  That reveal was a well played red herring.

                • BBCC
                  BBCC
                  October 12, 2020 at 6:23 pm | #

                  It wasn’t a red herring. Willis didn’t foresee anyone mistaking that silhouette for Mike. Much like me, he didn’t see it.

                • Needfuldoer
                  Needfuldoer
                  October 12, 2020 at 7:12 pm | #

                  I missed that. Did he say it over on Patreon?

                  That reveal was a well played unintentional red herring.

                • thejeff
                  thejeff
                  October 12, 2020 at 9:09 pm | #

                  I think it basically worked because we were looking through the silhouettes trying to match them up with characters.
                  Danny’s might look like Mike, but it’s also the only clearly Danny shaped one. There was no one else in the known cast that Booster’s silhouette could be.

                  And honestly, it still looks like Mike to me.

                • BBCC
                  BBCC
                  October 13, 2020 at 3:08 pm | #

                  I think it was in the comments not too long after Booster showed up or it might have been on twitter.

                  But yeah, it was a very handy little unintentional red herring.

    • Jay
      Jay
      October 12, 2020 at 11:52 am | #

      I won’t be off this train till mikes death is dealt with dammit!

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        October 12, 2020 at 2:12 pm | #

        We are taking apart the train, you need to leave. 😛

      • showler
        showler
        October 12, 2020 at 2:24 pm | #

        I’m still a bit unclear on how you think it will be “dealt with”. He could have died as long as two and a half months ago. It’s likely that the group period of mourning, the announcements to the students, the period where grief counselors are available from the Uni are all over and the only thing we’ll see is the continuing effects on the people who were actually close to him. And there are very few of them.

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          October 12, 2020 at 4:48 pm | #

          Well, that’s part of the problem. We the audience got blindsided by Mike’s death being casually dropped in panel 2 of a strip about Lucy awkwardly flirting with Walky.

          The cast has skipped over the part where they’re deep in grief but the Mike fans in the audience are playing some serious catch up.

          • showler
            showler
            October 12, 2020 at 6:37 pm | #

            Okay, but why do you expect things to happen in the comic that Willis seems to have intentionally skipped over? People talking about Ruth announcing his death at the meeting and such?

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            October 12, 2020 at 6:57 pm | #

            Also….most of the main cast weren’t close to Mike, at best. He was a dick to everyone all the time and most of them didn’t like him. I don’t doubt they’re sad he’s gone because nobody deserved that and he went out trying to save people, but most of them are probably through the worst of it, if not finished mourning.

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              October 12, 2020 at 9:10 pm | #

              The point being that though they’re through it, we’re not. Because it was offstage.

  7. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    October 12, 2020 at 12:13 am | #

    Yes, you will.

  8. Suet
    Suet
    October 12, 2020 at 12:13 am | #

    Well, who is gonna speedrun through the stages of grief now?

    DoA: Door peeking necessary

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      October 12, 2020 at 12:16 am | #

      Well, I’m definitely not going to go through the stages of grief.

      In fact, how dare you imply that I should! I have better things to do!

      Though tell you what, I’ll do the first two if you handle the rest.

      Wait, that was three! Sigh, guess I might as well finish, not like I’m good for much else.

      But you know what? This was cleansing. Thank you for suggesting it!

      • Michael Haneline
        Michael Haneline
        October 12, 2020 at 12:25 am | #

        upvoted comment

      • Savail
        Savail
        October 12, 2020 at 12:36 am | #

        Take all my internets.

        • clif
          clif
          October 12, 2020 at 1:34 am | #

          I reserve my Internets, but that was still impressive.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      October 12, 2020 at 4:53 am | #

      Well, it’s been months and she’s still on depression, so it’d be us and not Amber.

  9. Megan Rivera
    Megan Rivera
    October 12, 2020 at 12:13 am | #

    Oh no, Amber……:-(

  10. ADLegend21
    ADLegend21
    October 12, 2020 at 12:13 am | #

    Yikes.

  11. SuperFroakie82
    SuperFroakie82
    October 12, 2020 at 12:14 am | #

    🙁

    • SuperFroakie82
      SuperFroakie82
      October 12, 2020 at 12:16 am | #

      Dang auto emojis! If I type a colon and a left bracket that means I wanna type a colon and a left bracket!

      • Axel
        Axel
        October 12, 2020 at 12:26 am | #

        the worst are upside down smilies, typed specifically so it wouldn’t emoji

  12. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    October 12, 2020 at 12:14 am | #

    *plays Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” on the hacked Muzak*

    • Ray
      Ray
      October 12, 2020 at 12:20 am | #

      “Funeral for a Friend”?

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        October 12, 2020 at 3:53 am | #

        Love Lies Bleeding

        • Demoted Oblivious
          Demoted Oblivious
          October 12, 2020 at 10:02 am | #

          The wheels on the bus.

          • MW
            MW
            October 12, 2020 at 4:59 pm | #

            If we’re going the comical route, I feel like Mike might appreciate the irony of “Freefalling”.

            • MW
              MW
              October 12, 2020 at 5:01 pm | #

              Or “Free Fallin'” rather, my mistake.

  13. Tarpo
    Tarpo
    October 12, 2020 at 12:19 am | #

    Booster is the replacement for Mike who was the previous Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      October 12, 2020 at 12:22 am | #

      Tom Riddle really wanted to be Walky’s roommate, so when he didn’t get it he cursed the position.

    • clif
      clif
      October 12, 2020 at 1:36 am | #

      I prefer to think of it as Mike being the dark arts teacher.

  14. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    October 12, 2020 at 12:24 am | #

    JUST MAKE OUT

  15. TheKelliestKelly
    TheKelliestKelly
    October 12, 2020 at 12:28 am | #

    I just came out as nonbinary on my Facebook for National Coming Out Day – like, literally, two minutes ago. And like, bisexual too I guess but I don’t know how people wouldn’t have already known that part.

    I am pleased with myself but also anxious out of my fucking mind. I considered but then deleted a part saying, “Please do not be mean to me about this or weaponize my identity against me.”

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      October 12, 2020 at 12:32 am | #

      Hey! Congrats, and welcome to the club!

      I get the anxiety. Folks can be cruel. And I think you’re really brave for doing it anyway. You’re more than entitled to be pleased with yourself.

    • Wizard
      Wizard
      October 12, 2020 at 12:33 am | #

      For anybody who has to be told that, it probably wouldn’t help.

      • TheKelliestKelly
        TheKelliestKelly
        October 12, 2020 at 12:39 am | #

        Can you imagine if it did though? It’d be like that kids’ cartoon, Dora the Explorer.

        “Swiper, no swiping!”
        “Bigot, no bigotry!”

        • Rayndel
          Rayndel
          October 12, 2020 at 1:16 am | #

          “Bigot, no bigotry!” had me laughing a lot.

          I hope all goes well for you! And if it doesn’t throw the offenders out the window (the second story one will do fine) and replace them with some of the people from here.

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        October 12, 2020 at 4:55 am | #

        MAYBE there would be a few of the accidental meanies or not-exactly-but-sorta-well-intentioned meanies who it would encourage to second-guess what they’re writing?

        … nah, probably not.

    • MsM
      MsM
      October 12, 2020 at 12:36 am | #

      ‘Grats!

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      October 12, 2020 at 12:44 am | #

      Nonbinary and Bisexual fistbumps!

    • Amias
      Amias
      October 12, 2020 at 12:51 am | #

      Hey, congrats. I hope the responses you get are positive, and if there are negative ones, I wish you the strength and support to handle/ignore them.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      October 12, 2020 at 12:56 am | #

      Congratulations, and I hope you get treated with the respect you deserve.

    • Uly
      Uly
      October 12, 2020 at 1:03 am | #

      Congrats.

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      October 12, 2020 at 1:07 am | #

      Nice. Hope it goes well! 🙂

    • FaerwenOfValenwood
      FaerwenOfValenwood
      October 12, 2020 at 1:13 am | #

      Congrats!! For a hot minute this morning I wanted to come out as they/them non-binary but then got hit with Ye Olde Impostor Syndrome. Not to mention preemptive exhaustion at having to explain my existence. I guess she/whatever will have to do for now.

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      October 12, 2020 at 1:19 am | #

      Congratulations. *Evangelion clap*

    • Norah
      Norah
      October 12, 2020 at 1:32 am | #

      Congrats!

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      October 12, 2020 at 1:42 am | #

      Congrats on coming out! I hope all goes well.

    • Alex Boston
      Alex Boston
      October 12, 2020 at 3:03 am | #

      Congrats!

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      October 12, 2020 at 4:56 am | #

      Congratulations, and good luck!

    • Minim
      Minim
      October 12, 2020 at 5:26 am | #

      Congrats from a fellow non-binary folk! Hope everything goes swimmingly 🙂

    • Poskie
      Poskie
      October 12, 2020 at 8:25 am | #

      Welcome to the enby society! We have innate skill with plants, and when you get to level 15 we also develop the ability to convince the plants to do our bidding. Best of luck to you on your quest! 💛💜🖤🤍

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      October 12, 2020 at 8:55 am | #

      Congratulations!

    • Arian
      Arian
      October 12, 2020 at 9:51 am | #

      Congratulations! 🙂

    • Demoted Oblivious
      Demoted Oblivious
      October 12, 2020 at 10:05 am | #

      May you be recognized for your personhood and be loved just for being you. <3

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      October 12, 2020 at 7:15 pm | #

      *Evangelion voice* Congratulations!

  16. synnerman
    synnerman
    October 12, 2020 at 12:30 am | #

    Amber has tapped into my feelings… or most likely vice versa since these are written in advance.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      October 12, 2020 at 2:45 am | #

      Definitely how I’ve been feeling about Booster’s appearance so soon after Mike’s death was confirmed. Though I’m starting to warm up to Booster a little bit.

  17. Dr. T
    Dr. T
    October 12, 2020 at 12:30 am | #

    Did Walky basically pick both Joyce and Booster up and run away with them? He’s more impressive than he looks.

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      October 12, 2020 at 12:38 am | #

      Dina technically yanked Becky up the side of a wall. I think the rule is funny before logic.

    • Rabid Rabbit
      Rabid Rabbit
      October 12, 2020 at 1:38 am | #

      I think it more likely that Walky took Booster’s shoulders and Joyce (having realized it was time to get out of there) got them by the thighs. That would explain the height their feet are at.

      • Khyrin
        Khyrin
        October 12, 2020 at 7:52 am | #

        Evidence that even if they aren’t romantically entangled, they get each other.

    • Geneseepaws
      Geneseepaws
      October 12, 2020 at 2:36 am | #

      I b’lieve that Booster is the comic’s new Super, to replace Amazi, and Amber will be ok with this, because she is SO done with rescuing others. It’s time to get to work. (Ship-breaking and Salvage).
      So Booster jus t picked them up and They all just flew out of the room.

    • Rotunda
      Rotunda
      October 12, 2020 at 2:55 am | #

      The comic takes excursions into funny-physics the way it goes into action-physics as needed for entertainment.

    • Alex Boston
      Alex Boston
      October 12, 2020 at 3:03 am | #

      Maybe Walky has finally grown into those muscles that let his twin catch someone one-armed while driving a motorcycle.

  18. StClair
    StClair
    October 12, 2020 at 12:35 am | #

    and there’s Amber, with the lampshade.

  19. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    October 12, 2020 at 12:39 am | #

    Yeah, this situation is awful. I know Walky and Amber weren’t going to work out, but I didn’t knew how bad the break up would be… was there even a break up?

    Mike’s death will haunt these people for years, and that is like the biggest middle finger the audience will have to endure for the next decade.

    See you in 10 years! I have practice from Homestuck and Adventure Time.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      October 12, 2020 at 12:45 am | #

      It was more of a non-starter than a breakup, I guess. Walky couldn’t go on with it because of Sal at first, followed by being hung up on Dorothy too much to feel like he was giving it a fair shot.

    • Mariah Hardnett
      Mariah Hardnett
      October 12, 2020 at 12:47 am | #

      I dont think so amber made it clear it was just a friends with benefits thing and when Wally said he was in love with someone else so they should stop she didnt seem that upset about it. I think shes more upset about how chill everyone is acting about Mike’s death.

      • Jamie
        Jamie
        October 12, 2020 at 1:10 am | #

        I’m still not convinced he’s actually dead and not in a coma or otherwise no longer in school.

        • clif
          clif
          October 12, 2020 at 1:41 am | #

          It’s no coincidence that Booster looks exactly like Mike except with glasses.

          • Wack'd
            Wack'd
            October 12, 2020 at 1:57 am | #

            they’ve, uh

            also got a fair bit more melanin

            • SuperFroakie82
              SuperFroakie82
              October 12, 2020 at 3:36 am | #

              Shhhhh

              The crack theory can’t work if we apply actual logic and evidence!

              • Reltzik
                Reltzik
                October 12, 2020 at 5:04 am | #

                Are you kidding? Actual logic and evidence is how we round out the crack theory with absurd justifications.

                For example, OBVIOUSLY Booster took advantage of the medical facilities to engage in a bit of transitional surgery into their new identity, and obviously that involved some cosmetic surgery as well.

                There, you see, the theory becomes more robust the more we criticize it, and that means it’s solid, just like any good crack theory!

                • Reltzik
                  Reltzik
                  October 12, 2020 at 5:05 am | #

                  … erm, potential ignorant-cis faux pas… is it NEW identity when you transition, or is there a better way to say that?

                • TheKelliestKelly
                  TheKelliestKelly
                  October 12, 2020 at 10:07 am | #

                  Speaking as a nonbinary person: I don’t know. I asserted to my friend in college that I was “very cis” once and it felt true at the time. I don’t know if my identity shifted or if my understanding of gender and therefore if myself shifted. I also don’t know if it matters.

                  I appreciate your self reflection and caution though. (Those aren’t precisely the words I want but I suppose those are what I traded for even being awake right now my word, I should go to sleep)

                • TheKelliestKelly
                  TheKelliestKelly
                  October 12, 2020 at 10:10 am | #

                  Oh, actually, I think in general it’s not a new identity, no. The transition is more so a reference to loving more authentically as yourself and taking active measures to achieve gender euphoria and diminish gender dysphoria.

                  To my understanding. I can’t speak for other trans people especially not binary trans people.

              • Deanatay
                Deanatay
                October 12, 2020 at 9:57 am | #

                Sadly, logic can be used to prove false statements, if you start by assuming false premises.

            • King Daniel
              King Daniel
              October 12, 2020 at 3:38 am | #

              Yeah, this above all else is why I dearly hope Booster isn’t actually Mike.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            October 12, 2020 at 9:21 am | #

            I propose two theories:

            – Booster is Mike’s Player 2 pallet swap

            – Mike was Booster’s Wario

    • Varangian
      Varangian
      October 12, 2020 at 12:13 pm | #

      I’m not entirely sure there’s a breakup there, so much as she and Walky still haven’t gotten to act on their horny impulses beyond a couple makeouts? But the weight of grief might also have snuffed that flame now

      I suspect what’s tearing her up inside besides Mike’s death, which is like 80% of it, is Ethan blaming her for everything, like he said he would

  20. BlackScarabFilmZ
    BlackScarabFilmZ
    October 12, 2020 at 12:41 am | #

    At least give Booster a chance, Amber, I mean, it was sad when Colonel Potter replaced Henry Blake but it ended up being a good thing!

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      October 12, 2020 at 9:27 am | #

      Especially after Harry Morgan played that other crazy major general in another episode.

      To really bend your mind, go watch mediocre Disney movie The Cat From Outer Space. It stars both McLean Stevenson and Harry Morgan, and it was released in 1978 so MASH was still in production at the time. It’s almost as weird as learning the Stalag 17 set at Desilu was used to shoot a sexploitation grindhouse movie after Hogan’s Heroes wrapped up.

  21. Badgermole
    Badgermole
    October 12, 2020 at 12:42 am | #

    Haha yeah isn’t it interesting how Mike got fridged offscreen (around Halloween? or Thanksgiving? over winter break?) and the only serious acknowledgement of it is occasional jarring reminders of Amber’s trauma?

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      October 12, 2020 at 12:56 am | #

      I don’t really think Mike got fridged though. Maybe it’s just me but I tend to think “fridging” a character as more exploitive or manipulative. We didn’t actually see him die but I think he got his fair due. The time skip I think was in part not to spend potentially years of reading all the cast reacting to it because of how slow time passes. That would get tedious prettg quickly.

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        October 12, 2020 at 1:15 am | #

        Not to mention that realistically-speaking, the longer someone’s in a coma due to head trauma, the typically less likely it would be that they would ever wake up again. If you’re in a coma for more than a few days, you’re generally in a Very Bad Situation.

        (And that’s not even getting into possible additional damage done when Amber moved him, which she even acknowledged in-strip while stating that the need to get him away from the Dads was a bigger priority)

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          October 12, 2020 at 8:08 am | #

          Though before the time skip he’d been in a coma for around 2 days – the night before the kidnapping, with the day after being the last day before the skip.
          Even beyond the fact we’re dealing with narrative, not reality, we can’t even really argue “he’s been in a coma too long”.

          • King Daniel
            King Daniel
            October 12, 2020 at 3:32 pm | #

            Roughly three days, actually; Mike’s fall was shortly after midnight in To Remind You of My Love (end of chapter = 1 day), the kidnapping was in When It Crumbles (end of chapter = 2 days), and our last sighting of Mike in his hospital bed was in Is a Song Forever? the day after that (end of chapter = 3 days), which is already edging into “dangerously-long” territory – and the last time we saw Amber and Ethan speaking, Amber mentioned Mike’s last words and basically told Ethan to consider the possibility of Mike’s death.

      • Lingo
        Lingo
        October 12, 2020 at 1:43 am | #

        Hard agree.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        October 12, 2020 at 2:12 am | #

        And like, even if Ethan and Amber are still in the deepest, darkest, rawest part of grief, that’s still only two characters vs the whole cast.

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          October 12, 2020 at 7:40 am | #

          It’s kind of a bummer that Amber finally started making progress last chapter and then got blindsided by All New, All Different Trauma.

      • Jay
        Jay
        October 12, 2020 at 11:55 am | #

        Okay but then Booster IMMEDIATELY showed up and was like “hi I’m the new cast member in mikes spot”

        sooooo, fridged.

        • Sirksome
          Sirksome
          October 12, 2020 at 1:50 pm | #

          I think that’s a disservice to both Booster and Mike as characters. Booster acts nothing like Mike and besides an unintentionally slightly misleading silhouette Booster really has nothing in common with Mike and is shown to interact with the rest of the cast in a fundamentally different way. Universe logic wise Mike was always going to be replaced by the school. That’s not Booster’s fault.

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          October 12, 2020 at 2:14 pm | #

          That’s not even what fridged MEANS.

  22. Rainhat
    Rainhat
    October 12, 2020 at 12:51 am | #

    So, the main way Booster is Mike’s opposite is that Mike was an ass to everyone, and vice-versa with Booster?

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      October 12, 2020 at 2:52 am | #

      Booster is Anti-Mike? They give moms a nickel to not have sex with them?

    • MW
      MW
      October 12, 2020 at 5:17 pm | #

      I said something similar elsewhere, but I do think you could reasonably view Booster as a counterpart to Mike, albeit not his exact opposite. It’s more that they fill the same socially savvy, incisive role but with open compassion rather than Mike’s cold contempt.

      That being said, we’ve also seen them for all of fifteen minutes, so we’ll see where they go.

  23. Varangian
    Varangian
    October 12, 2020 at 1:02 am | #

    Aw jeez Amber 🙁

    I…aw JEEZ. JUST. AMBER 🙁

    she’s in the worst place, in an 82 Subaru Brat

    • Geneseepaws
      Geneseepaws
      October 12, 2020 at 2:39 am | #

      That’s … remarkably accurate.

    • Alex Boston
      Alex Boston
      October 12, 2020 at 3:01 am | #

      Subaru Brat? I don’t get the reference.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        October 12, 2020 at 3:59 am | #

        Subaru Brat was a micro pickup truck with no power and rear-facing seats in the bed. It was useful for groceries and drive-in movies, and not much else.

        • Varangian
          Varangian
          October 12, 2020 at 12:07 pm | #

          The main thrust of the reference was that in the comic Achewood, when someone goes to Hell, they’re given an ‘82 Subaru Brat.

          Then they drive around and are subjected to torment (mostly emotional torment.)

          Amber is there.

  24. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    October 12, 2020 at 1:07 am | #

    Somehow, I don’t see Booster as the doing your mum for a nickle type…

    • Berlioz
      Berlioz
      October 12, 2020 at 1:34 am | #

      Booster’s more of a quarter person themself.

      • Wack'd
        Wack'd
        October 12, 2020 at 1:38 am | #

        It was a nickel when the comic started but now with the timeskip inflation’s caught up

  25. Anywhere
    Anywhere
    October 12, 2020 at 1:07 am | #

    Major “YIKES” aside

    first panel – it’s cute that Joyce is five minutes into this new-for-her territory and has already become the friend who stands next to you and asserts your pronouns to everyone you meet like an audible pronoun pin [note: do not do this unless your friend has made it clear they want to assert their pronouns on every introduction the way Booster has]

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      October 12, 2020 at 2:22 am | #

      I’m not sure it’s just about Booster. I think that Joyce is also genuinely happy to see Amber and to see that she’s well enough to throw around cracks about her RL to online life balance.

  26. Bagge
    Bagge
    October 12, 2020 at 1:32 am | #

    Joyce is so proud in panel two it’s heartwarming.

  27. Lingo
    Lingo
    October 12, 2020 at 1:45 am | #

    What I’d really like to know is if Jacob needs a replacement roommate. 🙁

    • Valerie
      Valerie
      October 12, 2020 at 3:47 am | #

      I didn’t realize until your comment that we haven’t seen Ethan yet, and that there’s no silhouette for him.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      October 12, 2020 at 5:08 am | #

      Well Ethan did have a somewhat complete coming-out and start-sexually-exploring character arc. So, yeah, bye-bye!

      …. look, I don’t write the rules of narrative arcs!

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        October 12, 2020 at 7:23 am | #

        It’d be kinda nutty for his arc to end after he came out of the closet, fooled around a bit, and then a friend died so he disappeared forever.

        Ethan will stick around, just gotta give him time to show up.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          October 12, 2020 at 10:28 am | #

          Well, Jacob’s main role in the first season is pretty wrapped up too. Sarah used Joyce as a proxy to break him and Raidah up, and his last few scenes cut off any clear possibility of him pursuing a relationship with Joyce on his own any time soon. Outside of that, he had a bit part as Joe’s workout buddy.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            October 12, 2020 at 11:11 am | #

            I expect we’ll see more Jacob/Raidah stuff at some point. A bit too much of a set up for Raidah as a villain for it to be dropped completely. She wasn’t quite vowing vengeance on Joyce in her last appearance, but it wasn’t that far away.

            • Fire_Daws
              Fire_Daws
              October 12, 2020 at 3:51 pm | #

              Can’t see that happening, if she was going to become a villain it would have done so already regarding Sarah / Dana and that was resoved (sort of) earlier in the comic. Dana was much more important than Jacob to Raidah.

              • He Who Abides
                He Who Abides
                October 12, 2020 at 6:46 pm | #

                Plus, Mary still has her teeth, so our “Villainous Student” slot is still full.

          • Lingo
            Lingo
            October 13, 2020 at 1:27 am | #

            Frankly, Jacob always seemed like a tertiary character to me. He wasn’t even introduced until Ethan admitted to Joyce he was gay. Whereas Ethan has always seemed like a secondary/lower primary character, introduced at the same time as Amber and Mike at almost the very beginning. Ethan’s neuroses and issues with his homosexuality have been a clear, independent storyline of its own from the start, whereas Jacob has never had his own storyline. I wouldn’t be surprised to not see Jacob again until he becomes relevant to someone else’s storyline again, but I would be surprised to see Ethan relegated to such a “supporting character” status (let alone written out entirely).

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      October 12, 2020 at 7:59 am | #

      Oof yeah. If Ethan moved out of IU, Amber loses an in-person best friend to cope with the other best friend’s death.

  28. RacingTurtle
    RacingTurtle
    October 12, 2020 at 2:01 am | #

    Oh, Amber 🙁

  29. BenRG
    BenRG
    October 12, 2020 at 2:20 am | #

    I do think that it’s nice that Joyce and Walky are aware of Amber’s feelings but I’m not sure that they’re interpreting Amber’s reactions correctly. Panel 6 makes me wonder if she’s resenting people tip-toeing around her on the subject of Mike and not actually bothering to find out how she really feels.

    In any case, it’s a bit unfair to treat Booster like an embarrassing fact around her, especially as they likely know next to nothing about what happened and even less about Mike himself.

    • RedCat
      RedCat
      October 12, 2020 at 6:32 am | #

      If she doesn’t want people to tiptoe, she wouldn’t have mentioned Mike, though, right? They arguably wouldn’t have tiptoed before that, but her reaction is understandable given that this is a sensitive subject, and we don’t know if Amber is getting therapy… yet.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        October 12, 2020 at 9:42 am | #

        What if losing Mike is the thing she doesn’t want everyone tiptoeing around? In her kind they’re probably all walking on eggshells around her, so they don’t ‘set off her unbridled rage’. Maybe she thinks she can head off the Mike-related sympathy by being blunt about it.

        Plus she’s probably been hearing mixed sympathies for the last three months, and we all know how well she accepts pity. (Besides, the constant reminders are like picking at the wound.)

        • Anon A Mouse
          Anon A Mouse
          October 12, 2020 at 10:42 am | #

          Then she wouldn’t have referred to Booster as “Mike’s replacement”. I get Amber is in a rough place but that is rude AF especially to someone you just met and it shows that she is still sensitive to that subject.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            October 12, 2020 at 10:50 am | #

            Unless she thinks that’s what they’re tiptoeing around saying and just wants to get it out there.

            I don’t actually think that, but it’s at least plausible.

  30. Rycan
    Rycan
    October 12, 2020 at 2:23 am | #

    They are a very lightweight person.

    • Undrave
      Undrave
      October 12, 2020 at 3:22 am | #

      Very convinient to move Booster around your place! I feel like that would be a selling point on their infomercial :p

  31. Raibean
    Raibean
    October 12, 2020 at 2:59 am | #

    Is it official that Mike’s dead?

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      October 12, 2020 at 3:19 am | #

      It seems so, yes. I expect it to be formally confirmed at the floor meeting at which Ruth will likely announce when the college is holding a formal memorial service for him.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        October 12, 2020 at 2:18 pm | #

        I doubt it. I’m guessing he died during the time skip before winter break because part of the point of the time skip was to give characters time to mourn. Obviously Amber and probably Ethan are still there but it’s easier to take two characters versus the whole cast.

    • Valerie
      Valerie
      October 12, 2020 at 3:43 am | #

      Walky said his roommate died. Seems pretty official.

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        October 12, 2020 at 7:25 am | #

        Well, Walky’s the only person to actually say Mike is dead thus far.

        I don’t *entirely* buy it.

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          October 12, 2020 at 9:59 am | #

          It can be ‘official’ without being true. But I suspect Mike’s death is canon.

          • Twitcher
            Twitcher
            October 12, 2020 at 5:08 pm | #

            Mike– or a reasonable facsimile, will still be around, as Amb-Mike, at least until Amber works out some of her issues.

    • Jake'm
      Jake'm
      October 12, 2020 at 4:18 am | #

      Yup. If you can find your way to Mike on the cast page, it even says as much on his blurb.

    • Carla's #2 Fan
      Carla's #2 Fan
      October 12, 2020 at 5:45 am | #

      I’ve heard a theory about witness protection, but I really don’t see it happening with the corrupt police force, so sadly, I don’t think there will be dinner reset button pressed on Mike’s death.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      October 12, 2020 at 9:43 am | #

      Mike’s cast page character description says he is.

      I expect Brain!Mike will pop in occasionally, though.

      • Valerie
        Valerie
        October 12, 2020 at 9:08 pm | #

        I don’t see him on the cast page. Link?

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          October 12, 2020 at 9:15 pm | #

          I think he may have been removed. He used to be accessible from Joe’s page, but the next link from there isn’t to him anymore.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            October 12, 2020 at 10:49 pm | #

            It’s not linked to anymore, but (for now at least) it’s still up.

            https://www.dumbingofage.com/cast/attachment/2014castmike/

            Once the live version goes, it’s still in the Wayback Machine. (Thanks, Internet Archive! You’re the Internet’s Smithsonian / poster child for compulsive hoarding.)

            • AspieCrow
              AspieCrow
              October 13, 2020 at 12:13 am | #

              That’s a really short description though, so I dunno if I buy it.

              I’ll fully admit that it could very well be wishful thinking on my part, but everything about it seems very abrupt for it to be as simple as “he’s dead now”.

              • Needfuldoer
                Needfuldoer
                October 13, 2020 at 9:08 am | #

                It was even shorter back in 2015.

                http://web.archive.org/web/20150322103950/https://www.dumbingofage.com/cast/attachment/2014castmike/

                • AspieCrow
                  AspieCrow
                  October 14, 2020 at 12:19 am | #

                  Maybe so, but I dunno, there’s just something about the whole thing that doesn’t sit right with me for me to think it’s as simple as that right now.

                  I’ll accept it if and when we hear more about it (likely/hopefully when Ethan appears and/or is brought up), but right now, yeah, still firmly in the “I’m not so sure he’s actually dead” camp.

  32. Undrave
    Undrave
    October 12, 2020 at 3:22 am | #

    Well, you can say what you will about Booster, they seem to be very portable. I think that’s a plus, right? Very easy to move around :p

  33. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    October 12, 2020 at 3:48 am | #

    You know I have been around for A Very Long Time and I have never seen someone yanked by the arm hard enough to have their legs approaching horizontal from the combination of inertia and acceleration, and if they did it would probably result in a dislocated shoulder.

    Now I have seen a gag rigged where the stuntman’s legs went almost horizontal, but that was a frigging huge bungee cord and a quick release attached to a parachute harness under a costume, and the stuntman sprained his neck doing the stunt and had to be hospitalized overnight for “observation”.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      October 12, 2020 at 4:23 am | #

      Cartoon physics! You’ve got to love it!

      • Edwin I Callahan
        Edwin I Callahan
        October 12, 2020 at 7:51 am | #

        As Roger Rabbit explained, cartoon characters can do anything but only when it’s funny.

    • Rycan
      Rycan
      October 12, 2020 at 12:23 pm | #

      Come to think of it, Booster might just be as light as a small branch…

  34. Valerie
    Valerie
    October 12, 2020 at 3:51 am | #

    Willis, thanks for making a they/them person for the main cast. My brother has a friend that uses they/them pronouns and I’m always worried I’m gonna slip up around them. This gives me a way to practice thinking/talking about someone fictional, so if I screw up I don’t actually hurt the person. I appreciate the opportunity.

    • Bogeywoman
      Bogeywoman
      October 12, 2020 at 6:52 am | #

      I use they/them and still slip up pronouns sometimes. I actually practiced by using they/them for my pet rat (RIP Zin) which also gave my friends and family a chance to get used to it ^^

      • Valerie
        Valerie
        October 12, 2020 at 9:10 pm | #

        Aww, your rat was like you! (I mean, probably most animals are non-binary anyway, right? Since gender norms are more of a human thing? Anyway…)

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      October 12, 2020 at 8:35 pm | #

      An immediate apology when you slip up, and a continued genuine effort, is probably enough for most people. Perfection is hard.

      • Valerie
        Valerie
        October 12, 2020 at 9:01 pm | #

        I know, but I want to try my best to make people comfortable. Misgendering can cause serious harm for some people, so it’s good to have the practice.

  35. Wishwater
    Wishwater
    October 12, 2020 at 4:32 am | #

    Not super important but, Joyce’s facial expressions are very cute this strip.

  36. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    October 12, 2020 at 4:39 am | #

    And this is how Booster learned that Walky is a strenght based superhuman

    • Lone Duck
      Lone Duck
      October 12, 2020 at 4:43 am | #

      Walky gained superpowers after being exposed directly to Hymnal

      • Khyrin
        Khyrin
        October 12, 2020 at 7:57 am | #

        In that case, did Joyce’s latent teleportation ability get activated by proximity to Walky?

  37. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    October 12, 2020 at 5:13 am | #

    So this is why the SS Garbage Skowl sunk? Makes sense.

    … okay, I’m more on board with Lucy/Walky now. Or Lucy/Booster, depending on how their chemistry develops. Maybe something poly involving all three?

    • Demoted Oblivious
      Demoted Oblivious
      October 12, 2020 at 10:26 am | #

      Wait… wut?

      Garbage scow – a boat used to transport garbage.
      Scowl – facial expression not unlike a frown.

      Skowl – ? An unhappy edgy garbage boat? Used to ship Walky and Amber. Actually, yeah that fits. I’ll stop armchairing.

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        October 12, 2020 at 9:59 pm | #

        The k was a typo that a bunch of people insisted we keep, but otherwise, that’s precisely correct.

  38. David
    David
    October 12, 2020 at 7:22 am | #

    Is “I’ll live” Amber talking or Mike? Because good job.

  39. thumb
    thumb
    October 12, 2020 at 7:33 am | #

    Incidentally, love the layouts here

  40. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    October 12, 2020 at 7:56 am | #

    Wow, way to make the new person welcome, Amber.

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      October 12, 2020 at 9:57 am | #

      *feel welcomed

      I woke up early.

  41. Chrissy
    Chrissy
    October 12, 2020 at 8:45 am | #

    This is why my school would leave the spot empty (even if it was a single)

  42. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    October 12, 2020 at 9:03 am | #

    Walky looks really worried for Amber. Is still a open wound for both.

  43. JepMZ
    JepMZ
    October 12, 2020 at 9:03 am | #

    How tall is Mike compared to Walky again? Is it Proven that this isn’t Mike with make up on?

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      October 12, 2020 at 10:21 am | #

      Mike was about half a head taller than Walky.

      https://www.dumbingofage.com/2019/comic/book-10/01-birthday-pursuit/particular/

  44. Hof1991
    Hof1991
    October 12, 2020 at 9:49 am | #

    Poor Amber. Looks like Ethan didn’t want to return to the school (or at least the dorm) where his dead best friend used to live. But she gets to go back to the scene of so much trauma and is expected to be happy about it. Of those who will dearly miss Mike, only Amber is left.

    The hope that Mike is somehow coming back ignores that DYW has clearly turned a page. The hopeful kids of the first semester have changed, to the extent that some of gone and new ones are showing up. Looks like he has dropped Billie. There is a precedent for drugged up freshmen getting pulled from school, since it happened to Sarah’s roommate. Plus it happens so often in real life.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      October 12, 2020 at 10:23 am | #

      There’s still one more silhouette in the new banner, which may or may not be Billie. (Yes, the silhouette’s got a bob cut, but from a practical standpoint Billie’s gigantic ponytail must have created shot framing challenges. Besides, she had short hair in the old continuity.)

      • Demoted Oblivious
        Demoted Oblivious
        October 12, 2020 at 10:31 am | #

        And no-one has walked over to forest quad yet. If Willis wanted to avoid a cut-scene mid-introductions this would fit.

      • Rycan
        Rycan
        October 12, 2020 at 12:19 pm | #

        From some shots, Billie’s ponytail is partially hidden behind her head – just look at the panels here: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/blog/slipshine-spring-sale/

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          October 12, 2020 at 5:44 pm | #

          If she’s looking almost straight at the camera, yeah, but it tends to get in the way in side-on shots because it sticks out an extra head width.

          For example, Ruth is right up at the edge of the panel in this one, otherwise she’d be hidden:
          https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-10/02-to-remind-you-of-my-love/performative/

          There are plenty of times where Billie’s either behind other characters, or up against the edges of a panel so it’s not taking up panel space. It’s not as disruptive when it was somehow sitting in front of her shoulder for a few chapters, or when she just lets it down, but I wonder if Willis finally just got tired of workarounds and said “fuck it, I’m cropping it”. We’ll find out! She’ll be back eventually!

  45. Deanatay
    Deanatay
    October 12, 2020 at 10:00 am | #

    So, how soon will Mike appear as Amber’s hallucination/third personality again?

  46. Jenny Islander
    Jenny Islander
    October 12, 2020 at 11:36 am | #

    All of these very young adults are handling this badly.

    Amber: Yes, you’re hurting. No, smearing the hurt on other people is not a good coping mechanism. No, they’re not going to pretend Booster doesn’t exist.

    Joyce: You forgot, in the excitement of learning New Things Yay and meeting New People Yay, that asking Amber whether she was up to meeting the new duderino BEFORE bringing them by would have been a good idea.

    Walky: Just escalated the tension in the room by about 300%. Rehearse responses ahead of time if you’re the easily flustered type.

    The college: Provided no advice about how to handle any of this? Way to go, y’all.

    Booster: …no, Booster didn’t mess this up. Booster just got handed the Awkward Ball.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      October 12, 2020 at 2:07 pm | #

      Booster could have caught up on the first 10 years of the strip, but they signed their contract for this season anyway. They knew what they were getting themselves into.

    • showler
      showler
      October 12, 2020 at 2:37 pm | #

      Depending on how long ago Mike passed, the school might have made grief counselors available. Doesn’t mean they were particularly successful.

  47. Thomas
    Thomas
    October 12, 2020 at 1:49 pm | #

    Whelp, I’m glad we skipped a couple of months, because if Amber is not exactly a bundle of joy right now, imagine how bad it must have been immediately after Mike (& Blaine, I guess) died. Get your ass to the therapist, folks! It’s important.

  48. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    October 12, 2020 at 1:55 pm | #

    1st panel: Things are clearly NOT OKAY between Walky and Amber.

    … and given the last scene before the timeskip, I DON’T think it’s because of Mike. What did that do to the Garbage Roof crowd?

  49. Felian
    Felian
    October 12, 2020 at 4:03 pm | #

    Can someone explain to me why a lot of people say “they/them“ instead of just “they“? Isn’t that redundant?

    • Alex Boston
      Alex Boston
      October 12, 2020 at 5:21 pm | #

      Maybe some people like other combos, like she/them? Or is it in support of those who go for other pronouns like ze/zheir/zhem, for example, just as one giving out pronouns like he/his/him could be seen as supportive of nb folk giving out pronouns like they/them?

    • Snail
      Snail
      October 12, 2020 at 5:35 pm | #

      The format is also used to introduce neopronouns, which people are less familiar with (for instance, xe/xem, xe/hir, or ey/em). The subjective and objective forms are the ones people use the most often in casual conversation, so those are the ones you want to be sure people know. Some people also use more than one set of pronouns, which this format can indicate (for instance, she/him), though in my personal opinion it’s easier to parse if you use the same form when listing multiple pronoun sets (she/he).

      Also, speaking as a they/them nonbinary person, one time I explained they/them pronouns to a coworker who, I cannot stress this enough, taught grammar for a living, and she sincerely, inexplicably thought I meant to use they/them in place of ALL pronouns referring to me, including first and second person. She was giving me instructions for a particular student and kept saying “they” instead of “you”, and I was utterly baffled thinking she was talking about the student somehow until I asked for clarification (more than once, because she still used “they” in place of “you” while attempting to confirm that I was the one who needed to do things). It’s possible that at some point, some cis person heard “they” by itself and tried to use the subjective everywhere a pronoun went in a sentence.

      • Felian
        Felian
        October 19, 2020 at 1:14 pm | #

        That’s a very sweet way, at least she did try to not misgender you!

  50. AspieCrow
    AspieCrow
    October 12, 2020 at 4:14 pm | #

    So, Mike being brought up again made a thought occur to me:

    While I’m still not sold on Mike being dead (the casual way it was dropped felt a little too anticlimactic to me), it seems that he’s being treated as such. I wonder if (and hope, honestly) it’ll ever get brought up that this kind of makes what Danny said even worse, ’cause now he’s essentially gotten what he said he wanted.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      October 12, 2020 at 4:46 pm | #

      Yeah I’m thinking the same. Danny’s gonna need to do a lot of groveling to make up for that.

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        October 12, 2020 at 4:47 pm | #

        Bad idea. Grovelling just means more opportunities to put his foot in his mouth.

        • AspieCrow
          AspieCrow
          October 12, 2020 at 5:45 pm | #

          Let’s be honest, Danny will always find a way to put his foot in his mouth.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      October 12, 2020 at 4:47 pm | #

      I was just thinking something along the same lines. It might even explain why Ethan’s not on the cast ensemble graphic thingy. Dan danned things up with him so bad that it created a rift and drove him away from the group.

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        October 12, 2020 at 4:51 pm | #

        If Mike really is dead then Ethan is for sure not getting written out for any extended period of time.

  51. Hazel
    Hazel
    October 12, 2020 at 5:24 pm | #

    I’m still vaguely optimistic. Amber *might* be in therapy. I’m holding out hope that she’s getting help until we see for a fact that either 1) she’s not in therapy or 2) she’s in sucky therapy.

    • Dracke
      Dracke
      October 12, 2020 at 9:27 pm | #

      I really doubt it…

  52. Dracke
    Dracke
    October 12, 2020 at 9:26 pm | #

    i remember everyone what she can do with a knife…

  53. Mobcat
    Mobcat
    October 12, 2020 at 11:01 pm | #

    Wait a minute how do I have TWO usernames here?!?

    • Brighter Side
      Brighter Side
      October 13, 2020 at 4:54 pm | #

      Different computers or IP addresses. Don’t worry, you’re still you.

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