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June 1, 2026

Boyfriend

by David M Willis on June 24, 2021 at 12:01 am
  • 05 – As Long As It's Free
└ Tags: lucy, sarah

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    June 24, 2021 at 12:05 am | #

    “WE GOT IT NOTARIZED”

    …

    “YOU CAN BUY THE NFT”

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      June 24, 2021 at 12:08 am | #

      NO SHUT UP.

      • Council
        Council
        June 24, 2021 at 4:40 am | #

        People on the internets go crazy for non-fungible thingies

    • Clif
      Clif
      June 24, 2021 at 2:32 am | #

      NFT = None Fungible Thingie?

      • Felix
        Felix
        June 25, 2021 at 9:38 am | #

        non-fungible tokens, but I have to admit, I prefer your version.

  2. butts
    butts
    June 24, 2021 at 12:05 am | #

    ok but does he know though

    • Demoted Oblivious
      Demoted Oblivious
      June 24, 2021 at 12:07 am | #

      Do you mean academically, or biblically?

      • butts
        butts
        June 24, 2021 at 12:09 am | #

        por que no los dos

      • Schpoonman
        Schpoonman
        June 24, 2021 at 12:09 am | #

        Yes to the former, Lucy is working on the latter.

        • Reltzik
          Reltzik
          June 24, 2021 at 1:03 am | #

          Given that she’s feeling Biblical in her Christianity, she seems hesitant to work on the latter.

          • Clif
            Clif
            June 24, 2021 at 2:39 am | #

            Memory suggests that as a Christian woman she feels compelled to follow the guidance of the Sermon on the Mount and wait till the third date.

            https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/04-hompk/chill/

            • Reltzik
              Reltzik
              June 24, 2021 at 3:56 am | #

              Yup, she’s hesitating by three dates. And she’s hesitating about hesitating only three dates.

  3. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    June 24, 2021 at 12:05 am | #

    Sarah’s next step is to go and ask Walky, but only after handing him a card that is printed with the definition of “boyfriend” in several languages, some handy illustrations, and instructions to blink three times if he needs her to call the cops.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      June 24, 2021 at 1:07 am | #

      Sarah wouldn’t call the cops. She’d call Amber/AG and Sal instead, and then fetch her bat.

      … er, wait, this is WALKY, not Joyce.

      She’d text Sal about her bro, then shrug her shoulders, decide she’d done enough, and go back to her dorm to look for pictures of John Boyega on the internet and bickering with Joyce about whether her not doing this in the library meant she secretly wanted to be pestered by Joyce, which she obviously didn’t, baka.

      • Eldritchy
        Eldritchy
        June 24, 2021 at 5:43 am | #

        I wonder if she bought an Other John…

  4. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    June 24, 2021 at 12:07 am | #

    I wanted to draw some Joyce/Joe stuff but I waited too long.
    BUT if anyone’s got a sexy prompt for that ship I may whip up a little something something.

    • Jonah Sanville
      Jonah Sanville
      June 24, 2021 at 12:10 am | #

      “every time you soothe my intellectual doubt due to propaganda being fed to me since birth, i take an item of clothing off”

    • Wagstaff
      Wagstaff
      June 24, 2021 at 12:12 am | #

      I dunno. How about you try for a less mainstream subgenre? Could get interesting…

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        June 24, 2021 at 12:19 am | #

        …can you elaborate?

        • Wagstaff
          Wagstaff
          June 24, 2021 at 12:27 am | #

          I was thinking along the lines of… oh, I don’t know. Tickling or something? If you need something relatively easy to draw, maybe vacuum suits?

          It’s just good to experiment, you know?

          • Paradoxius
            Paradoxius
            June 24, 2021 at 12:54 am | #

            I’m reminded of a flashback from the text adventure game Counterfeit Monkey (I highly recommend) in which the raised-by-fundementalists-but-not-fundementalist-anymore protagonist recalls a time she was tied to her boyfriend’s bed and had him paint various words for “promiscuous woman” on her.

            • Wagstaff
              Wagstaff
              June 24, 2021 at 1:05 am | #

              Oh, I know!

              How about the most diabical Hasbro game ever created?

              MOVE OVER OUIJA BOARD!

              Those with weak constitutions may want to grow a spine leave the auditorium!!!

              As for the rest of you, prepare for the magnificent, unspeakable evil that is…

              TWISTER!!!!

              • Clif
                Clif
                June 24, 2021 at 1:25 am | #

                Speaking of quantum entanglement, I reacted, maybe over-reacted, to your mention of Bells Theorem in yesterday’s comment section.

                • Wagstaff
                  Wagstaff
                  June 24, 2021 at 1:28 am | #

                  That’s alright. At least your understanding of it is better than that of Sandra and Woo.

                  Besides, constructive criticism, besides informing, is one of the most important duties of a scientist! Thank you!

                • Clif
                  Clif
                  June 24, 2021 at 1:31 am | #

                  https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/05-as-long-as-its-free/speciallymade/#comment-1553333

                  and about 15 comments down.

                • Wagstaff
                  Wagstaff
                  June 24, 2021 at 1:31 am | #

                  Oh and also, entanglement need not be quantum to be spooky or freaky. I also predict that many will be very reluctant to view this action at a distance!

                • Demoted Oblivious
                  Demoted Oblivious
                  June 24, 2021 at 11:22 pm | #

                  Of course. We want to view this action up close, in the splash zone.

            • Needfuldoer
              Needfuldoer
              June 24, 2021 at 2:39 am | #

              It takes an unexpectedly wholesome turn because Joe uses a bunch of synonyms for “meaningful” instead. Just to tie it in with yesterday’s strip.

              • SillyGoose
                SillyGoose
                June 24, 2021 at 5:52 am | #

                Alternatively, after some research Joyce stumbles upon the “mushroom-shape tip to extract rivals’ semen” example of evolution of men’s body and requests a demo. For science.

                • Wagstaff
                  Wagstaff
                  June 24, 2021 at 6:24 am | #

                  I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the species — never quite sane in the night.

                • Clif
                  Clif
                  June 24, 2021 at 1:50 pm | #

                  What is that a quite from?

                • Demoted Oblivious
                  Demoted Oblivious
                  June 24, 2021 at 11:25 pm | #

                  @Clif Night Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens
                  With variation presumably by Monsieur Wagstaff

    • Rose by Any Other Name
      Rose by Any Other Name
      June 24, 2021 at 12:27 am | #

      I mean… I’m sure we’ll be back to Joyce and Joe soon. You could just work on that some…

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      June 24, 2021 at 1:12 am | #

      “Joe, this is the fifth time you’ve tried to get away with not working on our bio homework together by being undressed when I come by, and you’re not getting away with it any more. I’m coming in and youooououoooorgleuh?”

    • Dave
      Dave
      June 24, 2021 at 8:54 am | #

      Joyce puts on monkey ears and tail, goes searching for Joe’s banana

      • jonathan young
        jonathan young
        June 24, 2021 at 9:13 am | #

        OOk? OOK OOK?!

  5. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    June 24, 2021 at 12:07 am | #

    We still can’t confirm he knows 100%. Maybe in a few years if it lasts that long we can be sure.

    • ThunderNight
      ThunderNight
      June 24, 2021 at 12:10 am | #

      we can check at the wedding

      • LordTorian
        LordTorian
        June 24, 2021 at 2:50 am | #

        APPROPRIATE GRAVATAR IS APPROPRIATE

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          June 24, 2021 at 11:38 am | #

          All three above me are

          • Demoted Oblivious
            Demoted Oblivious
            June 24, 2021 at 6:03 pm | #

            Last one is not. Nothing is above Carla!

  6. Octopus Ink
    Octopus Ink
    June 24, 2021 at 12:07 am | #

    Third Question; Does Walky KNOW?!!

    • NotThatDrew
      NotThatDrew
      June 24, 2021 at 12:08 am | #

      We know that he’s at least aware he got Taco Bell with a female. Beyond that, it’s hard to say

      • sultryglebe
        sultryglebe
        June 24, 2021 at 12:25 am | #

        They held hands and everything!

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      June 24, 2021 at 1:14 am | #

      Do any of us really know anything, or do we simply grasp at rough facsimiles of information without truly comprehending the underlying truth?

      • I am Nothing
        I am Nothing
        June 24, 2021 at 2:41 am | #

        Yes.

      • StClair
        StClair
        June 24, 2021 at 4:38 am | #

        Plato’s Man-Cave

        • milu
          milu
          June 24, 2021 at 4:57 am | #

          *coffee all over this comment box*

          • Wagstaff
            Wagstaff
            June 24, 2021 at 6:03 am | #

            Oooo! Was it French Roast? That’s my favorite!

            • milu
              milu
              June 24, 2021 at 6:28 am | #

              i had to look that up ^^ so… maybe? idk? lol. i’ll pay more attention next time i buy coffee and inform you.

              • Wagstaff
                Wagstaff
                June 24, 2021 at 6:34 am | #

                Now that I think about it, that is mind of a stereotype, isn’t it? My favorite kind is from a company called Peets, but for all I know French Roast is an American thing. Kind of like “French” Fries, right? Also like I even want to guess what you put on your burgers…

                Also, non-dairy creamer is pretty much the only thing I’ll have my coffee with, but what about you?

                • milu
                  milu
                  June 24, 2021 at 7:54 am | #

                  well, maybe calling french roast “French Roast” is an american thing, but regardless i’d never paid attention to how roasted exactly i like my coffee, though i suspect i prefer it a little greener and with a bit of a tang (french roast is about as roasted as it gets, apparently).

                  i drink my coffee one of 3 ways:
                  -french press (wink!), black
                  -italian coffemaker, black
                  -turkish, very sweet

                  i never add any cream or milk though, what i do add sometimes is a pinch of ground ginger, or a stick of cinnamon, or a few cardamom seeds (the last two only in turkish coffee).

                  while i don’t eat burgers very often (i practically never eat out, and homemade burgers is work) i normally use ketchup or barbecue sauce. not very exotic sorry =)

                • Clif
                  Clif
                  June 24, 2021 at 1:53 pm | #

                  If you use hickory flavored barbecue sauce, there is hope for you yet.

                • Wagstaff
                  Wagstaff
                  June 24, 2021 at 4:08 pm | #

                  @milu Hmmmm….. my brothers always drank deeply roasted, very strong coffee, so I guess it’s just the kind I grew up with. Also, I’d never heard of ginger in coffee; I normally only put that stuff in my Yakisoba (the real kind, 100% buckwheat), but I might actually try it in my apparently super strong coffee and see what happens.

                  Also, that burger sounds delicious! I actually wasn’t expecting something too exotic. I mean come on, would I really expect every French person to be a stereotypical French chef? I was just wondering because apparently France is known to put alot of mustard on their burgers (according to 39 Clues, too much mustard for most Americans), and I was just checking on that possible misconception as well.

                • Demoted Oblivious
                  Demoted Oblivious
                  June 24, 2021 at 4:22 pm | #

                  To contribute a little, last summer I started experimenting on the bbq and found that I really like to put mexican/taco seasoning on burgers. It also makes a pretty solid quick dip mixed with mayo for cut fresh veggies.

                • milu
                  milu
                  June 24, 2021 at 5:04 pm | #

                  @Clif @Demoted i have no idea what all your weird american condiments are ^^

                  @Wagstaff haha, no mustard. then again mustard is strongly associated with meat around here and i don’t eat meat, so.

                  i got into seasoning my coffee with cinammon and cardamom when living in Greece, and picked up the ginger thing from a Sudanese friend =)

                • khn0
                  khn0
                  June 26, 2021 at 3:14 am | #

                  vegetarian too and I use mustard + ketchup.
                  In fact you can have almost any sauce on a burger here, since burger is proposed in roundly 3/4 of restaurants, not including fast food joint I guess since they’re not here considered as restaurants (except McDonalds who paid a bunch to get called such – but you won’t find anyone here seriously calling it a restaurant)
                  For roast, most of the stuff you find in France is induistrial flash roast (880°C for 90 seconds). Tastes have changed in biggest cities, especially since we have Starbucks, but usually the flavor is oriented toward light french roast, darker in the south, lighter near germany (where some factories roast around 200°C). Anyway, whatever the quality of the roast, most bars ends up burning it while cooking, it’s the romantic french experience: wait half an hour the waiter to insult you, another one to get a burnt coffee then get insulted some more by the nearby customer who despise you for talking too loud.

                • milu
                  milu
                  June 27, 2021 at 6:14 am | #

                  ahaha très instructif merci j’ai bien fait de revenir checker^^

                  …what do you mean bars burn the coffee, they normally use expresso machines. are they using them wrong? i’ve never really thought about it, but the coffee does taste completely different (…much better) in italy.

                • khn0
                  khn0
                  July 1, 2021 at 3:23 am | #

                  Oh, I’m more a beer kind of guy nowadays, but form my discussions with bartenders that weren’t on beer, I got that on professional machines you can adjust the extraction temperature, depending on the roast, je darker the roast, desto lower the temperature should be.
                  Also other factors: shite water (Paris, I’m looking at you, but mainly: Suez I’m looking at you and you should run), has the machine been washed after a long time without being used, usw….

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      June 24, 2021 at 10:05 am | #

      ha ha ha it’s funny because Walky is clueless ha ha ha

  7. Jonah Sanville
    Jonah Sanville
    June 24, 2021 at 12:07 am | #

    surprised sarah didnt just say “eh” when lucy started speaking

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      June 24, 2021 at 1:14 am | #

      Nah, Lucy gave Sarah a chance for some trenchant observations and deflationary skepticism, and that usually gets Sarah out of her shell.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      June 24, 2021 at 2:54 am | #

      I think Lucy and Sarah get along. Like, yeah, she’s more bubbly than Sarah, but Lucy is an academic and Sarah respects that. Note she also tends to be a bit less prickly with Dorothy.

  8. Proto_Eevee
    Proto_Eevee
    June 24, 2021 at 12:08 am | #

    “It’s complicated”

  9. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    June 24, 2021 at 12:09 am | #

    But does Walky know that Lucy knows that he knows what he knows?

    • Jhon
      Jhon
      June 24, 2021 at 9:51 am | #

      There are some things that Walky doesn’t know that he knows, but few that he knows he doesn’t know.

  10. Alex Boston
    Alex Boston
    June 24, 2021 at 12:09 am | #

    To be fair sometimes it is hard to figure out when the line has been crossed from hanging out to dating.

    • Alex Boston
      Alex Boston
      June 24, 2021 at 12:10 am | #

      And the other line from casual dating to “going steady”, I suppose.

      • Clif
        Clif
        June 24, 2021 at 1:14 am | #

        I believe I was told in this very forum, not that long ago, that going steady was not a thing people did any more.

        • Schpoonman
          Schpoonman
          June 24, 2021 at 1:46 am | #

          I’m calling horsefeathers on that, if you’ve got got 2+ people with an exclusive partner that’s “going steady.”

          • Clif
            Clif
            June 24, 2021 at 2:16 am | #

            The question came up with regard to the morality of flirting with someone who was dating someone else. My position was that in the absence of going steady or a similar agreement, that it was perfectly okay on both sides. As I now remember it, it was intimated that people went steady back in the 30’s and that I was old.

            To be fair, I never went steady before I was engaged, which first happened in the 1970’s and reoccurred several times depending on how you count it. The first time, I was drafted and she was raped and other stuff happened. The second time, it didn’t survive the first major disagreement. The third time I actually wound up married, and the fourth time a miracle happened and I finally got it right.

            So for all I know, kids don’t go steady nowdays, but when I went to high school it was a thing.

            • eh, whatever
              eh, whatever
              June 24, 2021 at 3:55 am | #

              The term “going steady” isn’t used anymore. That’s all.

              • thejeff
                thejeff
                June 24, 2021 at 8:37 am | #

                Basically. It’s also not always a formal agreement, but an implicit expectation – which can lead to confusion, but rarely does, except when someone is being deliberately misleading.

                The rules are less formal and the customs less strict, but the feelings are still the same.

            • milu
              milu
              June 24, 2021 at 5:08 am | #

              oh hey, i’m enjoying the sprinkles of your life story =)

        • Demoted Oblivious
          Demoted Oblivious
          June 24, 2021 at 6:19 pm | #

          I can’t view source in this browser so no comment link. But yeah. Clif you said “…going steady…” and got two replies shooting down the term:

          —-
          October 5, 2019 at 2:14 pm
          Has “steady” made a comeback? I associate with 50’s slang, not modern

          October 5, 2019 at 2:48 pm
          Going steady isn’t really something I’ve heard
          —-

          You maybe older sir, but your memory is fine!

    • Jonah Sanville
      Jonah Sanville
      June 24, 2021 at 12:10 am | #

      and it’s not like walky is an expert with social nuance

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      June 24, 2021 at 12:17 am | #

      Yeah, or situations where it is stated to not be a relationship, but then you realize, “Ah, crap, feelings are thoroughly caught.”

    • Skater Girl
      Skater Girl
      June 24, 2021 at 12:53 am | #

      Personally, I don’t make a distinction. The categories are completely arbitrary.

  11. Kitschensyngk
    Kitschensyngk
    June 24, 2021 at 12:12 am | #

    I’ll wait for the press release.

  12. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    June 24, 2021 at 12:13 am | #

    To Know Know Kno~ow Him
    Is to love love lo~ove him…

  13. tbf
    tbf
    June 24, 2021 at 12:13 am | #

    I’m glad we got the time skip because I don’t think I could have taken 10 years of real time of Lucy fawning over Walky and not making a move.

    • Chris Phoenix
      Chris Phoenix
      June 24, 2021 at 1:05 am | #

      Willis will do a Halloween flashback, but it will be entirely about Lucy fawning over Walky and not making a move.

      Meanwhile, QC Steve will eat cereal for a month and not know why.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      June 24, 2021 at 4:44 am | #

      I’m still annoyed that we missed Halloween and other stuff, but that is one good thing about the time skip.

  14. Cattleprod
    Cattleprod
    June 24, 2021 at 12:17 am | #

    Okay, Walky knows you have a boyfriend, does he know that it’s him?

    • Demoted Oblivious
      Demoted Oblivious
      June 24, 2021 at 4:26 pm | #

      And does he know you are his girlfriend?

  15. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    June 24, 2021 at 12:21 am | #

    Aww, Lucy and Sarah are a fun dynamic I didn’t know I could use some of tonight.

    I know Walky was presumably joking, even if darkly, but he did bring up a good point on saying Linda’s going to be pissed he’s dating a black girl. I don’t know if it’s going to be quite like *that*, but, it’s going to be interesting watching Walky and Lucy navigate that minefield eventually. Linda Walkerton is a lot.

    • egg egg
      egg egg
      June 24, 2021 at 10:07 am | #

      At least it gave Lucy a fair warning of what she could expect if/when she met the parents. Like, “hey I’m cool with dating you but fair warning my mom is crazy.”

  16. Kravis
    Kravis
    June 24, 2021 at 12:31 am | #

    OK. Alright.
    Walky “knows”.
    But is he “in the know”?

  17. BBCC
    BBCC
    June 24, 2021 at 12:35 am | #

    Walky has been notified.

  18. Endplanets
    Endplanets
    June 24, 2021 at 12:40 am | #

    “Who is it?”
    “It’s Walky”
    MUGS AT CAMERA

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      June 24, 2021 at 2:34 am | #

      [Dorothy whips her door open and yells at her]

      “I SAID NO MUGGING FOR AN IMAGINARY AUDIENCE!”

  19. cbwroses
    cbwroses
    June 24, 2021 at 12:48 am | #

    Glad to see Lucy survived the homphking (sp).

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      June 24, 2021 at 1:16 am | #

      And also the homphqueen.

      • Clif
        Clif
        June 24, 2021 at 1:22 am | #

        Actually, we don’t know for sure that she survived the homphqueen. For all we know. the homphqueen may have left nothing but an empty Lucy simulacrum.

    • Demoted Oblivious
      Demoted Oblivious
      June 24, 2021 at 4:28 pm | #

      When did it get the extra ‘h’?

  20. K^2
    K^2
    June 24, 2021 at 12:51 am | #

    You know what? Been there. Being updated on the situation of being in a relationship. I am not a very observant person.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      June 24, 2021 at 4:47 am | #

      I’ve never had that happen to me before, usually I fail to catch on that a woman’s interested and it never even gets to a relationship. But I wouldn’t be surprised if I did end up in a relationship without realizing it in the future, because I am very oblivious about such things.

    • Jason
      Jason
      June 24, 2021 at 11:52 am | #

      Not quite a relationship at that point but I set up a date for a guy I was interested in- on Feb 14th, to try to send a strong message. Spent the entire day with him getting incredibly mixed messages, until finally I was like “I WANT TO KISS YOU IS THAT OKAY” because he was genuinely veering between making me think he was very into it and making me think he was very not.

      It turns out he had NO IDEA that me setting up a date, on Valentines Day, acting all date-like, flirting etc actually meant anything.

      Anyway we’ve been together for over ten years now, married for six of them, so it worked out!

    • Demoted Oblivious
      Demoted Oblivious
      June 24, 2021 at 4:33 pm | #

      Oh hey Brain. We had a question a couple days back. Were you intentionally _not_ taking over the world on purpose? Every day you were going to “try to take over the world” instead of actually just doing it. My guess was because you wanted to preserve the excitement of the attempt. Do you have an oppinion to share about it? Given your inevitable success, are you accepting citizenship applications ?

  21. Clif
    Clif
    June 24, 2021 at 1:16 am | #

    I love the way that Lucy doesn’t argue, she just rolls with it.

    • milu
      milu
      June 24, 2021 at 5:11 am | #

      she’s like, “i don’t like these questions, but also, fair”

  22. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    June 24, 2021 at 2:08 am | #

    First time I noticed that Lucy and Sarah have such a fun dynamic. Something like Big Sister/Little Sister. I like it! Sarah will ask Walky if he knows he has a girlfriend now.

    • Sunny
      Sunny
      June 24, 2021 at 6:33 am | #

      I think it’s that Sarah has an inherent “big-sisterness” to her, and Lucy has the same “little-sisterness”as Joyce does. Someone should inform Joyce that she now has two sisters.

      It would be rude to out Jocelyne before she’s ready so we can’t tell Joyce she has three sisters yet.

      • Eldritchy
        Eldritchy
        June 24, 2021 at 7:12 am | #

        Joyce and Lucy: Yay Double the Sister count!
        Sarah: Oh no, Double the Headache…

        • Rabisch
          Rabisch
          June 24, 2021 at 10:06 am | #

          Sarah will never admit it. But she’s really happy about this♡.

      • Demoted Oblivious
        Demoted Oblivious
        June 24, 2021 at 6:23 pm | #

        One Sister, ah ah ah!
        Two. Two Sisters, ah ah ah!
        Three. Joyce has three sisters, ah ah ah!
        …
        Oh, I mean two. Two sisters, ah ah ah. (side thumbs up and wink to Jocelyn.)

  23. BenRG
    BenRG
    June 24, 2021 at 2:10 am | #

    The one-sided relationship/date (aka, the animé stalker-crush). That staple of modern entertainment for younger people.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      June 24, 2021 at 9:39 am | #

      ok boomer

  24. Heather
    Heather
    June 24, 2021 at 2:15 am | #

    Lucy you have had one date, kind of early to call him a boyfriend honestly.

    • Clif
      Clif
      June 24, 2021 at 2:23 am | #

      He’s a boy. He’s a friend. His bod’s sculpted of caramel. Nuf said.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      June 24, 2021 at 2:57 am | #

      Honestly, I don’t think she’s being too hasty. Walky does seem to be a pretty monogamous dude, anyway, and he already has observed that they more or less were already spending a lot of time together even before it was dating proper.

      I think they are indeed official, especially since if you compare it to Walky and Amber’s fling, he never really went on a date with her properly, I think they mostly hung out on garbage roof.

      • Clif
        Clif
        June 24, 2021 at 1:59 pm | #

        Till Holloween.

  25. Keulen
    Keulen
    June 24, 2021 at 4:39 am | #

    DoA Book 11: Does Walky Know?

    • Sombrero
      Sombrero
      June 24, 2021 at 4:56 am | #

      DoA Book 11: It Is Walky!

      • milu
        milu
        June 24, 2021 at 5:13 am | #

        confusing XD

  26. Bagge
    Bagge
    June 24, 2021 at 5:03 am | #

    Valid question

  27. C.T. Phipps
    C.T. Phipps
    June 24, 2021 at 6:20 am | #

    Sad truth: This is one of the rare ocassions in all of web fiction where two black women are discussing something.

    • JepMZ
      JepMZ
      June 24, 2021 at 7:33 am | #

      Did they also pass the Bechtel test?

      • Demoted Oblivious
        Demoted Oblivious
        June 24, 2021 at 4:36 pm | #

        They’re talking about Lucy’s relationship with Walky, so no.

      • Demoted Oblivious
        Demoted Oblivious
        June 24, 2021 at 4:48 pm | #

        The rule[1]: At least (1) two women (2) who talk to each other (3) about something besides a man.

        [1] Bechdel-Wallace Test

    • RedCat
      RedCat
      June 24, 2021 at 8:31 am | #

      I can think of several other webcomics, to be honest, I thought webcomics are generally made by more marginalized people, so they get a lot of lgbtq+ and poc rep…

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      June 24, 2021 at 9:32 am | #

      If you think this is rare in webcomics, I think you need to expand your horizons beyond the ones written by us white folks.

      • C.T. Phipps
        C.T. Phipps
        June 24, 2021 at 2:18 pm | #

        Shhh, you’re spoiling my proclamation we need more representation!

        🙂

        But yes, you are correct, there are many awesome diverse comics that need more attention.

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      June 24, 2021 at 1:22 pm | #

      Dude.

      • C.T. Phipps
        C.T. Phipps
        June 24, 2021 at 2:46 pm | #

        Come on! Try my soapbox! You can see a foot further!

  28. thumb
    thumb
    June 24, 2021 at 6:45 am | #

    Those were valid questions

  29. Amos Batista
    Amos Batista
    June 24, 2021 at 9:38 am | #

    Why boys are so slow in dating matters?…

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      June 24, 2021 at 10:47 am | #

      Enforced social norms that stunt your ability to be emotional with the people around you are a helluva drug.

      • Eldritchy
        Eldritchy
        June 24, 2021 at 6:05 pm | #

        Also fear of rejection and embarrassing yourself.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      June 24, 2021 at 2:53 pm | #

      Stereotypes in popular fiction? Probably not really any more true of boys than of anyone else.

      Walky here is established as particularly obtuse in this matter. I don’t think any of the boys match the stereotype. Maybe Jacob not realizing what was going on with Joyce, but I think that had different roots.

  30. Deanatay
    Deanatay
    June 24, 2021 at 9:58 am | #

    “Dear Walky,

    This letter is to inform and remind you that, as of today, you now have a girlfriend. Who is me. Lucy. So, to be clear, if anyone asks you who the lovely young lady on your arm is, you tell them ‘this is my girlfriend, Lucy’, instead of ‘this is my friend, Lucy’. And if anyone asks you if you have a girlfriend, you say ‘yes, her name is Lucy’, instead of ‘no’. And if an amorous ex-girlfriend latches onto you at a party, you say, ‘sorry, I have a girlfriend’, instead of, ‘sweet, let’s make out!’.

    Just to clear up any confusion!

    Your girlfriend,
    Lucy”

    Walky (finished reading letter): Wow, thanks, Lucy! This is really helpful!

    Lucy: No problem!

    • Demoted Oblivious
      Demoted Oblivious
      June 24, 2021 at 4:39 pm | #

      Sure this is satirical, but frankly this level of communication (provided it isn’t intended to be hurtful/insulting) is actually a really good idea. We generally make too many assumptions of what we think the people around us think.

    • milu
      milu
      June 24, 2021 at 5:08 pm | #

      XD

  31. nothri
    nothri
    June 24, 2021 at 8:09 pm | #

    10 years from now Lucy will sit Walky down and explain the kids he’s been babysitting all this time are in fact his own children and that this is their wedding anniversary.

    • Demoted Oblivious
      Demoted Oblivious
      June 24, 2021 at 11:31 pm | #

      Lucy, you have some ‘splainin’ to do!

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