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September 20, 2023

Strip

by David M Willis on December 25, 2020 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - Look Straight Ahead

└ Tags: daisy, jennifer, walky

Discussion (158) ¬

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    December 25, 2020 at 12:05 am | #

    well, at least his math is getting better

    there’s an amount that I imagine his comic will look like this tho (but with more T. Rex)

    • Nono
      Nono
      December 25, 2020 at 12:10 am | #

      If Walky is anything like me, he’s fantastic at arithmetic (I can do big multiplications fairly easily), but trash at applied math like theorems.

      I think it’s because arithmetic is mostly figuring out shortcuts to make processes faster, while applied math is pretty contextual and a lot of the way it’s taught is pretty… dry.

      • Makkabee
        Makkabee
        December 25, 2020 at 3:12 am | #

        I think he’s fine with math you can glom onto in a quick flash of insight but gets in trouble when it gets abstract enough to require sustained effort.

        I breezed through algebra, geometry, and trig, but hit a wall with calculus, so I can relate.

        • Wizard
          Wizard
          December 25, 2020 at 5:07 pm | #

          Similar experience, although I think the way it was presented was a big problem, at least for me. I learned a lot more calculus in physics class than I did in calc class.

      • Daibhid C
        Daibhid C
        December 25, 2020 at 9:01 am | #

        I went through uni (well, I say “went through”; one year and then I crashed and burned) with undiagnosed dyscalculia. So I pretty much followed how applied maths worked in theory, and then fell apart when I had to plug in actual numbers and add them up. Fun times.

      • Tunasammich
        Tunasammich
        December 25, 2020 at 1:14 pm | #

        This is the opposite of me–got an A in calculus but if someone asks me what 2 x 9 is I’ll probably use my fingers to count

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        December 25, 2020 at 1:22 pm | #

        Problems like this are pretty easy to mental-math if you can buffer a few values and break them down:

        $11 x 6 = $66
        $66 = $60 + $6
        $60 x 5 = $300
        $6 x 5 = $30
        $300 + $30 = $330.

        • a/snow/mous/e
          a/snow/mous/e
          December 25, 2020 at 7:10 pm | #

          or $6*5=30, 11*30=330

    • Rose by Any Other Name
      Rose by Any Other Name
      December 25, 2020 at 12:15 am | #

      I mean, probably not. That was basic arithmetic. College math is stuff like derivations and discrete math.
      I fuckin’ hated discrete math.

    • Rex Vivat
      Rex Vivat
      December 25, 2020 at 12:37 am | #

      See, that last line made my mind immediately go to Dinosaur Comics. And to me Walky seems like the kinda guy who would absolutely do the whole repeating assets thing.

      • Clif
        Clif
        December 25, 2020 at 1:23 am | #

        I’m actually hoping that he dramatizes the adventurers of Night-Guy. Kind of like how Lamont Cranston did with his radio show.

        • Clif
          Clif
          December 25, 2020 at 8:22 am | #

          Did for the Shadow with his radio show.

    • bcb
      bcb
      December 25, 2020 at 1:07 am | #

      More T Rex? Does that mean Walky is secretly Ryan North?

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        January 6, 2021 at 4:01 pm | #

        Not nearly tall enough.

    • He Who Abides
      He Who Abides
      December 25, 2020 at 2:03 am | #

      I’m actually impressed that he got that math right.

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        December 25, 2020 at 8:05 am | #

        Same here.

        • ValdVin
          ValdVin
          December 25, 2020 at 11:04 pm | #

          …and per Willis’ twitter feed: Walky’s “poking at his phone specifically for this reason”, so I guess I missed that.

  2. BBCC
    BBCC
    December 25, 2020 at 12:05 am | #

    Walky would make an excellent cartoonist I think!

    And Merry Christmas to all those of y’all who are celebrating today.

    • Pablo360
      Pablo360
      December 25, 2020 at 12:08 am | #

      Walky’s comic would probably be an even more juvenile, much less literate Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (but with xkcd quantities of math jokes)

      • Jake'm
        Jake'm
        December 25, 2020 at 5:40 am | #

        That sounds like my kinda comic strip!

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      December 25, 2020 at 12:26 am | #

      Right. Grav roulette.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        December 25, 2020 at 12:27 am | #

        HA. Sweet.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      December 25, 2020 at 9:24 am | #

      Agreed! He already has the low salary expectations and the ability to live on ramen and hope down.

      • clif
        clif
        December 25, 2020 at 11:34 am | #

        Nachos and hope. But yeah.

  3. timemonkey
    timemonkey
    December 25, 2020 at 12:07 am | #

    Get help, Daisy.

    • Taigan
      Taigan
      December 25, 2020 at 12:10 am | #

      Get laid, Daisy.

      • JessWitt
        JessWitt
        December 25, 2020 at 12:11 am | #

        Get Tinder, Daisy.

        • He Who Abides
          He Who Abides
          December 25, 2020 at 2:02 am | #

          Get up on the washing machine, Daisy.

          • Sunny
            Sunny
            December 25, 2020 at 5:20 am | #

            That reminds me of that one picture of Sarah and Joyce doing laundry. Sarah’s sitting on one washing machine reading a book, Joyce is sitting on the one that’s running with a o.o expression.

            • ValdVin
              ValdVin
              December 25, 2020 at 8:11 am | #

              That’s a favorite of mine. From personal experience: Lower your voice if you’re gonna ask a librarian if they have 57 Varieties of Ketchup. It must be pretty racy.

              • clif
                clif
                December 25, 2020 at 11:38 am | #

                Oh. So you know about the sweet spot.

                • ValdVin
                  ValdVin
                  December 25, 2020 at 5:36 pm | #

                  Let’s just say I know how to find the little pickle ornament in the Christmas tree.

    • Blindness
      Blindness
      December 25, 2020 at 12:13 am | #

      …I reluctantly agree. It’s not even a healthy obsession, it’s hurting others.

      • Clif
        Clif
        December 25, 2020 at 8:30 am | #

        I lost track. Who was it damaging?

        • Jhon
          Jhon
          December 25, 2020 at 10:32 am | #

          Me. My sides are aching from laughter.

        • Nono
          Nono
          December 25, 2020 at 10:32 am | #

          She denied Jennifer work because she had no pictures of her latest conceptual crush.

          • Blindness
            Blindness
            December 25, 2020 at 4:59 pm | #

            Exactly. If she’s withholding jobs from her reporters because of her obsession with the local superheroes then she isn’t doing her jog and is harming the students who are paying to be there to learn how to be reporters…

  4. Schpoonman
    Schpoonman
    December 25, 2020 at 12:07 am | #

    He’s gonna go to Joyce and she’s gonna supply the art, isn’t she?

    • Nono
      Nono
      December 25, 2020 at 12:11 am | #

      Nah, it’ll be Mary.

      • Blindness
        Blindness
        December 25, 2020 at 12:14 am | #

        then everything will be the same anime guy…unfortunately

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        December 25, 2020 at 12:16 am | #

        He can do the art himself, like that time he doodled a T-Rex eating Jason (o no, my bowtie)

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          December 25, 2020 at 9:34 am | #

          In a few years, someone will find that crumpled-up piece of notepaper in a teacher’s file somewhere, realize, “Oh shnikeys, this is a David Walkerton original!” and sell it on eBay for $40. From there, it makes its way into the Billy Ireland Comics Museum in Ohio, and is appraised for thousands of dollars.

    • Blindness
      Blindness
      December 25, 2020 at 12:14 am | #

      Knowing Willis…yep. But I’d actually like Malaya to get the chance to do it, she’d actually do well in this IMHO

      • BarerMender
        BarerMender
        December 25, 2020 at 12:32 am | #

        Malaya could do the art, but I can’t see her cracking a joke.

        • Nono
          Nono
          December 25, 2020 at 12:37 am | #

          Or a smile.

          • Rainhat
            Rainhat
            December 25, 2020 at 1:59 am | #

            Seeing Walky writing and having Malaya deal with him would be fun though

            • Blindness
              Blindness
              December 25, 2020 at 5:01 pm | #

              I think she might surprise people, especially if she gets an outlet for the stupidity around her…you don’t have to actually like your collaborators, just reach a mutual understanding about the product

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      December 25, 2020 at 2:27 am | #

      Seems like Walky’s pretty good at drawing, if the random doodles he’s drawn in his math classes are any indication.

      • Keulen
        Keulen
        December 25, 2020 at 2:29 am | #

        Can’t forget when he drew Jason getting eaten by a T-rex as his notes, also in math class.

        • Azhrei Vep
          Azhrei Vep
          December 25, 2020 at 5:47 am | #

          I’d be worried he’s still too much like his Walkyverse self, inventing imaginary anatomy.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          December 25, 2020 at 1:16 pm | #

          Weren’t those Sal’s notes?

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      December 25, 2020 at 3:25 am | #

      Nah, Joyce will do the scripts.

      • Azhrei Vep
        Azhrei Vep
        December 25, 2020 at 5:48 am | #

        Incoming Roomies! By Joyce and Walky

  5. tbf
    tbf
    December 25, 2020 at 12:08 am | #

    When did IU start publishing a paper six days a week?

    • drs
      drs
      December 25, 2020 at 12:14 am | #

      Maybe it includes a week’s worth of comics?

    • Blindness
      Blindness
      December 25, 2020 at 12:15 am | #

      For the online editions?

    • Rose by Any Other Name
      Rose by Any Other Name
      December 25, 2020 at 12:18 am | #

      I thought that was the joke. That it doesn’t.

    • Dr. T
      Dr. T
      December 25, 2020 at 12:57 am | #

      I don’t know about the online versions, but they sure as hell don’t do the print versions that often. In fact, right now it is only once a week. I think it was was twice a week before the world was all covered in death.

  6. TrueVCU
    TrueVCU
    December 25, 2020 at 12:09 am | #

    Anyone else think it’s both fortunate and unfortunate Becky and Daisy did not meet before Dina locked that down?

    • Blindness
      Blindness
      December 25, 2020 at 12:16 am | #

      No, all fortunate. Dina deserved someone who is OK with her quirkiness and near obsession with paleontology, Daisy is simply too quirky and obsessed even for the fun loving Becky.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        December 25, 2020 at 12:19 am | #

        Also Daisy might have been a little quick for Becky. Becky should get to go at her own pace, and something tells me that Daisy’s pace is “let’s have all the sex immediately, only because we can’t go back in time and have already had sex months ago”

    • Lingo
      Lingo
      December 25, 2020 at 12:17 am | #

      Perhaps Leslie could introduce her to Mindy.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        December 25, 2020 at 1:14 pm | #

        Throw her at Grace, Mandy, and Sierra’s polycule and see what happens. Maybe there will be a violent reaction, or maybe she’ll stagger out 17 hours later with newfound clarity.

        (That’s how chemistry works, right?)

        • Jhon
          Jhon
          December 25, 2020 at 5:39 pm | #

          No, physics. You throw something at something else. The harder, the better.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            December 25, 2020 at 7:51 pm | #

            So you’re saying we need a lesbian particle accelerator. We need to get CERN in on this!

    • C.T Phipps
      C.T Phipps
      December 25, 2020 at 10:43 am | #

      Not really given Becky wants to save herself for her true love.

  7. Taigan
    Taigan
    December 25, 2020 at 12:09 am | #

    Willis is gonna be channeling this next story arc, I see.

    • Clif
      Clif
      December 25, 2020 at 1:16 am | #

      I put Walky on a faster track to becoming a pornlord though.

      • Clif
        Clif
        December 25, 2020 at 1:34 am | #

        I mean, it will be a faster step to the Internet and that’s halfway there.

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          December 25, 2020 at 9:37 am | #

          Nah, Joyce is the Pornlord (Phallady), Walky is the successful comic artist.

          • Jhon
            Jhon
            December 25, 2020 at 10:36 am | #

            They can collaborate.
            Julia Gray Rules the Skies!

            • clif
              clif
              December 25, 2020 at 11:40 am | #

              Want!

  8. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    December 25, 2020 at 12:10 am | #

    Daisy really needs some action. Or just more satisfying porn.

  9. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    December 25, 2020 at 12:14 am | #

    I’m betting that Walky’s comics are gonna look an awful lot like Willis’ early work.
    Any takers?

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      December 25, 2020 at 12:17 am | #

      Not touching that bet.

  10. March
    March
    December 25, 2020 at 12:14 am | #

    Damn, the first time I got published, I was paid in…academic kudos? I guess? I’d have appreciated $5. I mean, I probably would have spent it on cigarettes, but still.

  11. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    December 25, 2020 at 12:15 am | #

    That’s enough money to pay for a plate of nachos a day for 55 of those 66 days.

    • brionl
      brionl
      December 25, 2020 at 12:37 am | #

      I was just in Safeway today and bought a package of 4 pork buns for $5. Also a pudding cake ring for $5.
      So, Cake and Pork Buns!! Sounds like a Walky kind of diet.

  12. Raen
    Raen
    December 25, 2020 at 12:15 am | #

    So, “Krafty Knights”?

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      December 25, 2020 at 4:08 am | #

      Seriously, a story using loosely-redone versions of the Shovel Knight and Castle Crasher characters would be great.

  13. Some1
    Some1
    December 25, 2020 at 12:15 am | #

    So basically Daisy is assuming that this totally not male person is

    A. interested in girls.

    B. Someone she’d find attractive.

    C. Interested in her specifically.

    • crow
      crow
      December 25, 2020 at 12:49 am | #

      Nah, she just wants masturbation fodder, doesn’t matter if the girl is interested in her.

      (Does anyone else see Daisy as a sort of female neckbeard?)

      • Rainhat
        Rainhat
        December 25, 2020 at 2:00 am | #

        Yep.

      • FGarber
        FGarber
        December 25, 2020 at 3:43 am | #

        And why DOES J Jonah Jameson always wants pictures of Spider-Man?
        (No! He’s a menace to society! I don’t like him at all, baka!)

  14. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    December 25, 2020 at 12:17 am | #

    Walky is really underestimating the work involved here vs the pay offered.

    • Chris
      Chris
      December 25, 2020 at 12:22 am | #

      Probably overestimating his own motivation once the novelty wears off.

    • crow
      crow
      December 25, 2020 at 12:50 am | #

      Walky can just knock out a cool comic during math class. He regularly does so, he just hasn’t been paid for it yet.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      December 25, 2020 at 2:33 am | #

      Do college newspapers normally publish daily editions? Because if not it’s gonna take him a lot longer to get that much money than he seems to think it will.

  15. Some1
    Some1
    December 25, 2020 at 12:20 am | #

    Plot twist Walky later comes out as a trans girl, Daisy has a very specific form of psychic power.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      December 25, 2020 at 9:56 am | #

      No. Walky’s cis.

      Nightguy comes out as trans.

  16. Newllend(henryvolt)
    Newllend(henryvolt)
    December 25, 2020 at 12:21 am | #

    Hey look at this way Billie atleast your advice about networking paid off. His connection with you got him a job.

    • Newllend(henryvolt)
      Newllend(henryvolt)
      December 25, 2020 at 12:26 am | #

      I mean Jennifer, fuck I’m sorry I tried but once you get used to addressing character by a certain name it’s hard to just change the habit.

      It’s like how we’ve been calling Andriod 18 by her number for decades and then DB Super comes around and gives her the name lazuli but we’ve all already gun used to call her 18.

      • Clif
        Clif
        December 25, 2020 at 1:37 am | #

        I mean it was Baby Yoda all this time and now we’re supposed to call her Grogu.

        • Tan
          Tan
          December 25, 2020 at 1:57 am | #

          Him.

          • Sunny
            Sunny
            December 25, 2020 at 5:25 am | #

            Isn’t it a green plushie?

            • Clif
              Clif
              December 25, 2020 at 8:34 am | #

              And why the assumption of him?

              • MrSmith
                MrSmith
                December 25, 2020 at 3:46 pm | #

                Its not an assumption, he is male.

                When Jon Favreau calls Grogu him you can assume Grogu is male.

                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwwrezdcLiA&feature=emb_title

                https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Grogu

              • MrSmith
                MrSmith
                December 25, 2020 at 3:57 pm | #

                Also dialogue from the show itself:

                “We want you to stay. The community’s grateful. You can pack all this away in case there’s ever trouble. You and your boy can have a good life. He could be a child for a while.”

                “You woke it up! Do you have any idea how long it took me to get it to sleep?”
                “Give him to me.”
                “Not so fast! You can’t just leave a child all alone like that. You know, you have an awful lot to learn about raisin’ a young one.”

        • Azhrei Vep
          Azhrei Vep
          December 25, 2020 at 5:51 am | #

          Pfft, it was never Baby Yoda. It was The Child. And adjusting to Grogu hasn’t been very hard, honestly.

          • King Daniel
            King Daniel
            December 25, 2020 at 12:24 pm | #

            I’ve always been mildly annoyed with the “Baby Yoda” moniker myself, anyway (at least in part because certain family members kept getting confused by it and thinking that the Child was literally Yoda, but as a baby).

            • Needfuldoer
              Needfuldoer
              December 25, 2020 at 1:07 pm | #

              If dudes can be named Guy, then Yoda can be both his name and the name of his species.

      • Zee
        Zee
        December 25, 2020 at 9:32 am | #

        Its been lazuli for years now I think, it’s just being acknowledged now, which i wasn’t aware of

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        December 25, 2020 at 10:02 am | #

        18 is a better name, anyway.

  17. Slartibeast Button, BIA
    Slartibeast Button, BIA
    December 25, 2020 at 12:30 am | #

    What is that in McNuggets?

  18. Joe Moose
    Joe Moose
    December 25, 2020 at 12:36 am | #

    Have a cool Yule, denizens of this timeline!

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      December 25, 2020 at 9:42 am | #

      If you’re from a different timeline, and perhaps escaped the whole COVID-lockdown nightmare of 2020 in this one, then a Happy Yuletide to you as well, sir. Do you offer sightseeing trips to your reality?

      • Jhon
        Jhon
        December 25, 2020 at 10:24 am | #

        Did Hillary just win her second term?

        • clif
          clif
          December 25, 2020 at 11:25 am | #

          Yes, but only because of not wanting to switch leaders in the middle of the Second Korean War.

  19. CrazyJ
    CrazyJ
    December 25, 2020 at 12:37 am | #

    If Billie really wants that job she can invent a Nightgirl persona and take pictures of herself.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      December 25, 2020 at 4:09 am | #

      Hey, it worked for Peter Parker in most versions of the Spider-Man mythos!

    • Jhon
      Jhon
      December 25, 2020 at 10:28 am | #

      NightGirl!
      Stalks the night!
      Destroys evil dreams!

  20. crow
    crow
    December 25, 2020 at 12:48 am | #

    Yayyy, Walky found his calling.

  21. Newllend(henryvolt)
    Newllend(henryvolt)
    December 25, 2020 at 12:56 am | #

    This better mean that all that time he spent doodling and drawing fanart of Dexter monkey Masters in class had paid off.

  22. Delicious Taffy
    Delicious Taffy
    December 25, 2020 at 1:04 am | #

    Happy Chrispilum, folks. Don’t forget to remember to forget.

  23. LiterallyJustSomeGuy
    LiterallyJustSomeGuy
    December 25, 2020 at 1:28 am | #

    I have no idea what to expect from Wally drawing comics. I’m not used to him adding commitments and being motivated. I don’t trust it.

  24. Clif
    Clif
    December 25, 2020 at 1:31 am | #

    Hope everyone enjoys their coal from Santa as much as I will.

  25. Ob
    Ob
    December 25, 2020 at 1:42 am | #

    “What about me? Do you have something for me?”

    Billie, that’s not how it works. *You* are the reporter. *You* are supposed to find the newsworthy material.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      December 25, 2020 at 2:28 am | #

      She’s asking about beats. This paper hires people to do specific ones, like sports, politics, sex columns, etc.

      • Newllend(henryvolt)
        Newllend(henryvolt)
        December 25, 2020 at 3:59 am | #

        Like hell there’s a former member of Congress who’s taking up a job as a campus professor before even finishing up her last week of her term and a new masked Prowler on the run and the local paper can’t think of anything to write about? Finding a story shouldn’t be hard.

        • CJ
          CJ
          December 25, 2020 at 5:28 am | #

          The editor is onl interested in things that promote her hornies. All other beats are already covered by other people.

          • C.T Phipps
            C.T Phipps
            December 25, 2020 at 10:44 am | #

            Robin is female and possibly queer! Daisy and her would be fascinating. Especially as Robin will only date her to make Leslie jealous!

            • David M Willis
              David M Willis
              December 25, 2020 at 11:36 am | #

              why do people keep trying to pair up daisy with teachers, she is a student 😐

              • Newllend(henryvolt)
                Newllend(henryvolt)
                December 25, 2020 at 2:02 pm | #

                I made this mistake in the past when I wasn’t aware Daisy was a student.

              • MrSmith
                MrSmith
                December 25, 2020 at 3:50 pm | #

                She comes across or seems older than the usual cast. I’ve probably got it wrong but she appears to me to be in her mid 20s at least so maybe some arn’t thinking of her as a student (I’m not trying to pair her up with a teacher)

              • Seregiel
                Seregiel
                December 25, 2020 at 10:10 pm | #

                We’ve had TAs with subordinate students and Robin attempting to be with teacher. Daisy comes across as a graduate student rather than undergrad. Not much of a leap to predict that as a possible plot point or relationship even if its not great moral lesso .

          • Sirksome
            Sirksome
            December 25, 2020 at 1:51 pm | #

            Is anyone covering the beat on the troubling trend of men repeatedly harrassing women out alone at night on campus? Or why costumed vigilante students seem to be the only ones actively trying to stop it? If I were Jennifer that’s the angle I’d pitch. Maybe interview some of the girls. Hell she even knows a few that were targeted last semester! It happened just last night! It covers costumed vigilantes and might actually help the campus.

        • Blindness
          Blindness
          December 25, 2020 at 5:07 pm | #

          All US Representative terms end January 3rd…her term has already ended, it was a Willis error unless this very day in the strip is set on January 2nd

  26. Zombie
    Zombie
    December 25, 2020 at 2:13 am | #

    damb paying for comics for the newspaper? from a student publication?? mine doesn’t aaaaand maybe that’s why we have trouble holding on to artists

    • Clif
      Clif
      December 25, 2020 at 8:45 am | #

      You think? Get the student council to toss a couple of thousand more into the pot. Paying by the cartoon strip will work wonders. Require a couple of backup strips for when deadlines aren’t met.

      • DSL
        DSL
        December 25, 2020 at 6:37 pm | #

        If it’s like the real-world version, the paper is independent of the university and certainly doesn’t have to rely on “the student council” for funding, which is fortunate.
        The student government at my alma mater recently made a play to get prior review of articles in the campus paper (also independent, I’m happy to say), because the fratority folks were upset by a headline.

  27. BenRG
    BenRG
    December 25, 2020 at 3:22 am | #

    Jennifer is going through one of the hardest professional experiences possible: Meeting the boss when nothing that you say or offer is of any importance or interest to them.

    Meanwhile, Walky is Willis’s current self-insert confirmed!

  28. Dara
    Dara
    December 25, 2020 at 4:37 am | #

    so now jennifer has to be peter parker to walky’s nightgirl or j. joline jamison here won’t hire her at the newspaper? is that the plot?

    • Sunny
      Sunny
      December 25, 2020 at 5:28 am | #

      I do wonder… what are the odds of them pestering Sal into dressing up as Nightgirl so Billie can get Daisy those pictures.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        December 25, 2020 at 7:56 pm | #

        All they need is a wig and some poor lighting, they might get away with it for a while.

  29. Acher4
    Acher4
    December 25, 2020 at 5:21 am | #

    David Willis : An Origin Story
    😛

  30. Daggart
    Daggart
    December 25, 2020 at 7:43 am | #

    He’s gonna make a comic called Dormies and follow it up with a Dexter/Monkey Master fancomic called It’s Willis!

    • Clif
      Clif
      December 25, 2020 at 8:48 am | #

      And then he will hear from the lawyers.

      • Clif
        Clif
        December 25, 2020 at 8:53 am | #

        And that makes it sound like Willis’s lawyer’s. In the DOA universe Monkey Master was a successful animated series which probably means it was acquired at some point by Disney or some other front for the HA.

  31. Brasca1
    Brasca1
    December 25, 2020 at 9:16 am | #

    I find it hard to believe on a college campus as big as Indiana University there’s no else who wants to draw a comic strip.

    • C.T Phipps
      C.T Phipps
      December 25, 2020 at 10:45 am | #

      I believe Daisy is terrible at her job.

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      December 25, 2020 at 4:23 pm | #

      i mean you’d think but i’m pretty sure the only reason i got into the student paper was nobody else applied

      like, there was a big empty comic strip spot every day that said “HEY SOMEBODY DRAW SOMETHING HERE, FOR MONEY” and yet

      • Bicycle Bill
        Bicycle Bill
        December 25, 2020 at 7:39 pm | #

        So Willis, remembering that more than one famous cartoonist got their start drawing for a student newspaper or a company newsletter, figured “What the hell, why not?” …. and here we are now.

  32. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    December 25, 2020 at 9:34 am | #

    A comic strip made by Walkie… This sounds amazing! Finally that journal will have something good inside! Because a newspaper who have reporters like is probably very horrible.

  33. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    December 25, 2020 at 12:51 pm | #

    Merry holiday everyone!

    Also 5 bucks a strip? I don’t like Walky but dude is getting ripped off. It’s a lot of work to make professional and quality comics and he’s doing all the writing, editing, drawing, and lettering. That’s before inking and coloring if he chooses. I guess the real payment is having a credit on his resume for a paid gig and a reference. But dude is better off self publishing on anyone of a thousand sites to gauge interest and setting up a patreon.

    Five bucks would get you a quick sketch on a piece of notebook paper!

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      December 25, 2020 at 1:05 pm | #

      It’s a college newspaper strip, Daisy will be lucky if he erases the pencil after inking it with Sharpie. (Or gets something NOT drawn in Paint at 72 DPI with a mouse.)

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      December 25, 2020 at 4:23 pm | #

      i got paid $2 per strip for Roomies!

      • Jhon
        Jhon
        December 25, 2020 at 5:44 pm | #

        Back in the Dim Ages? But what are they paying now?

        • StClair
          StClair
          December 25, 2020 at 7:37 pm | #

          $2 in 1997 dollars is… $3.24 in 2020.
          Walky got a good deal.

          • Sirksome
            Sirksome
            December 25, 2020 at 8:08 pm | #

            Is it a good deal or is the society we live in really unfair and routinely undervalues not just artists but working class people in general?

            • StClair
              StClair
              December 25, 2020 at 9:30 pm | #

              Let me rephrase: he got a better deal than Willis did.

  34. Jane
    Jane
    December 25, 2020 at 1:29 pm | #

    To play the role of Sirksome for a minute…

    So Walky follows Jennifer around all day, forces himself into her meeting with her boss, brings up his own superhero persona so that Jennifer is forced to waste more time hunting superheroes instead of anything that might involve real journalist work, and then he gets a gig instead of her.

    I think this is around the point that I’d start shouting if I was in her position. Being annoying is one thing, but messing with someone’s work is crossing a line – regardless of whether this is more Daisy’s fault than Walky’s.

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      December 25, 2020 at 2:33 pm | #

      It’s a good thing Walky is universally loved or him being rewarded for acting extremely annoying and borderline disrespectful would be upsetting.

      All the very fine points you’ve made aside, dude’s getting paid in peanuts for this. Almost any amount of work he puts into this will be more than the gig is worth and he’ll basicallg be wasting his time. He couldn’t e ven buy lunch with this pay unless it’s off the dollar menu. He could barely afford a cup of coffee. Unless he gets insanely famous from this strip I think he actually lost here.

      • MrSmith
        MrSmith
        December 25, 2020 at 3:55 pm | #

        Naah Walkys always been annoying and his actions during the last kidnapping were…well we won’t go there

        Have to say though I’m enjoying how Jennifers going this arc, it’ll be interesting to see where it goes from here

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      December 25, 2020 at 8:22 pm | #

      The first thing we saw in this meeting was Daisy asking Billie for more pictures of Amazi-Girl. AG is gone. Last we heard, everything except those submitted campus interest stories was full. If there’s no new hero, the most likely answer isn’t ‘You can do this instead’ it’s ‘well, guess we don’t need Billie then’. Walky bringing up a new hero IS newsworthy and it’s something Billie can cover, as opposed to her begging for something else that may not even exist.

      As for him getting a job, I didn’t see Billie offering to draw a new strip.

  35. Astaphe
    Astaphe
    December 25, 2020 at 4:39 pm | #

    I refuse to believe that this isn’t exactly how Willis got his first cartoonist gig.

  36. Huehuetotl
    Huehuetotl
    December 25, 2020 at 8:51 pm | #

    Wince Walky isn’t in the same headspace as Willis was when he did Roomies, I’m hoping Walky’s strip is Roomies art with 9CL content.

  37. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    December 25, 2020 at 9:33 pm | #

    Does this mean Season 2 will have more Daisy appearances than Season 1? Her on-point normcore outfits and unquenchable thirst deserve more screen time!

  38. ziggy78eog
    ziggy78eog
    December 26, 2020 at 11:53 am | #

    I wonder if a lot of starting Cartoonists think like this.

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