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uh, SHE isn’t the new favorite by proximity to white bread, Danny is. Refer back to the conversation about kid ranking she, walky, and jennifer had with lucy a couple days ago.
I won’t say this is ‘healthy’, but it’s understandable. Sal doesn’t want to write off her parents unless she’s completely sure she’s done everything in her power to try and mend those bridges.
Bringing home a boyfriend they would approve of is likely the last chance, though I wonder where she’ll go with the result. Come on, Sal, learn the right lesson.
Yeah, the relationship between her and her parents isn’t as terrible as some, and while she’s come to terms with her parents being racists without even really realizing it–like, *yes* it’s obvious to us and to most of the cast, but Linda and Charles justify it to themselves in other ways–birth family can be a hard bond to break. That last panel looks freaking desperate to have a degree of acceptance that she doesn’t know if she ever could have had.
It’s also good in that she knows Danny will speak up for her just out of innocence. He knows most or all of Sal’s past and accepts her. Hopefully, she’ll also realize his feelings are a validation, not a condemnation.
i mean, at least this isn’t too risque a comic to where sal would just have sex on a public table with danny in front of her parents to horrify them lol
She knows it’s bad going in so hopefully that can protect her relationship with Danny, but doing trying to get some love from her mom is just really really sad.
Sal was there when Walky got the text that it was canceled. She might be betting on them not having actually bothered to find a different place to eat, or she might have some other plan to arrange a meeting with them.
If they break up no matter what I’m pretending they get back together after college and some personal growth LET ME LIVE IN MY PROTECTED BAD GIRL BI DORK BOY DREAM.
Sal, just because what makes you happy happens to slightly overlap with what would make your parents happy doesn’t mean you deserve to be happy Amy less or that Danny somehow shouldn’t make you happy/is suddenly bad.
Not scolding, I just feel like she needs to hear this gently from someone at some point because I worry she’ll panic and dump Danny at the end of this storyline. It’s very hard to separate those things sometimes when your relationship with your parents is so bad.
Autocorrect changing “any” to “Amy” is hilarious. “You don’t deserve to be happy Amy less!” shouts Amy drunkenly at someone across the street who she thought was her ex-boyfriend.
well she already had her guard up around him pretty high before hand so hopefully they don’t break up just because of that/be nice if it’d last a bit longer even if it’s nothing too long term, tho i can’t think of anyone in the immediate cast that sal would be dating
I’m guessing after watching Danny go along and try his best with her crazy plan to please her parents, she’ll actually trust him more, even after the parent interaction inevitably implodes.
Basically I expect by the end of this Sal will see that much more clearly that her parents are awful, and Danny is a decent guy.
I’ve been figuring for the last several days that the next strip would be Sal grabbing Danny and dragging him to bed for frustration-sex. Keep being surprised, but it makes sense, yeah.
I hope so too! A lot of Sal’s recent character growth has come from her learning to let herself like what she likes, and not be too embarrassed about the things that make her happy, and more importantly, the people who make her happy. Her parents liking her boyfriend is a challenge to that character growth, and I really hope she and Danny make it through that challenge. I like them.
It’s all a matter of perspective. Look at it like this, Sals parents probably never thought she could get someone like Danny without being the type of person they were conditioning her to be.
But hey look she got him anyway and it was by being true to who she really is, and she can rub that right in her mom’s face.
That’s the spirit! If you have horrible parents who don’t believe in you, take your success and shove it in their face. Then walk out while putting on sunglasses, as an 80’s hit starts in the background.
Maybe Sal figured if her parents will never approve of anything she does, she might as well show them that she’s doing fine without their approval anyway, nice young man included.
“Fuck you and the ass you rode in on, toots,” is what I have to say to them. …Frickin’ cheats even had to fake their own set of background facts just to pretend they had legal standing to sue. Which they didn’t.
I was reading the CNN article on the decision, and a quote from the majority opinion stood out to me as especially maddening:
“Our decision today does not concern – much less endorse – anything like the ‘straight couples only’ notices the dissent conjures out of thin air.”
To be clear, a notice saying that a business will not serve same-sex couples is LITERALLY WHAT THIS CASE IS ABOUT. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU ON ABOUT, NEIL?
Okay, to inject a little bit of nuance, “no gays” is now legal for anyone selling “expressive” goods or services. What that means or encompasses is kinda up in the air, but you probably still can’t be denied service at, like, a grocery store. Probably.
Apparently it covers wedding cakes. Since that has to come up every couple goddamn years, some braindead fuckin bigot thinking “OH GOD THEY MIGHT WANT A CAKE WHICH IS ALL MY BUSINESS IS FOR! I DON’T WANT PAYING CUSTOMERS!” and then thirteen trillion equally braindead and useless lumps of skin have to pound their chests and hoot and howl like the obedient animals they are. Over a goddamn fucking cake that they’re not even going to eat. Because their stupid YA fiction book says some things that can be used to lather ’em up into a chimptastic shitting frenzy about other people who aren’t them marrying someone they’re not even interested in. Pathetic, worthless control freaks without an ounce of personality or justification for their existence.
Among other things, they decided two cases that weren’t real. The lady who claimed her first amendment rights were being infringed because of the public accommodations law in the CRA doesn’t actually make wedding websites and a gay couple didn’t actually try to hire her. She lied.
And in the student loan case, the Missouri state government shouldn’t have standing because the agency overseeing student debts is independent, and that agency didn’t want to bring the suit. Missouri has had a series of attorneys general who don’t really care about the rule of law though.
Okay not that I’m endorsing this in any way, political assassinations are bad and all that. I’m just saying that in a country where it’s so easy to get a gun, and a Supreme Court that is terrible, with the rule that they can only be changed if they willingly step down or kick the bucket. I’m just surprised there haven’t been more instances of people trying to force a change of supreme court justices. Not that anyone should. I’m just surprised it hasn’t happened in recent history yet. Feel like they’re kinda asking for it.
Entirely possible back when this comic first came out. The Catholic school girl uniform fetish has kinda died down by now. Japanese seifuku is a different question (and yes, still mad creepy.)
Hate that “school girl” still feels more like a porn tag than a benign description
The fetishization of girls in school (and other) uniforms, in my experience, seems to be most prevalent in situation where there are separate gendered standards. With situations like the Catholic School uniform and the English Public School uniform the trend the last couple decades away from forcing girls to wear skirts and thereby largely unifying the uniform across genders has helped with the reduction in fetishization.
The Japanese situation is a bit more of a problem as while they largely moved away from the old, heavily fetishized, sailor fuku toward a skirt and blazer style they kept the gendered distinction. In part that was due to the continuation of skirt requirements in women’s business dress codes at the time that change was started (the archetypal ‘Office Lady’ look). While those business dress codes have been changing since then and now allow women to wear pants as part of their suits, it’ll unfortunately probably be another generation or two before Japanese schools start to largely follow suit and gods only knows how long after that before it stops being seen as going against societal norms…
On one hand, this is likely true since, well, it doesn’t get a whole lot whiter than Danny.
On the other hand, even if he performs well academically, I could see them thinking that he is simply not ambitious enough, and be unenthusiastic about him due to that.
Maybe if Danny gets a tattoo that could counteract his perfectly milk toast whiteness enough to turn off the Walkertons. Maybe grow some facial hair, start wearing torn sleeve apparel. It could work.
The issue, I believe, is that she doesn’t know where they went to eat (hell, they didn’t even tell Walky, just said he wouldn’t like it, so that he wouldn’t feel obligated to bring Lucy).
I’m going to lay out my completely baseless prediction that Linda is going to say something that sets Danny off surprising everyone at the table (including Danny)
I want Danny to say “Wow, you really are as racist as Sal said you were.” Maybe a repeat performance of thinking of it, Linda wondering what’s on his mind, and he says it out loud.
Are Sal’s parents helping her pay for college or is she doing loans? Either way I hope they don’t interfere with her ability to continue to go to school, and see Danny.
One half of the parental interaction I’ve been looking forward.
I’ve wanted to see Danny react to the (not as subtle as they think) racism from Sal’s parents, and I’ve wanted Sal to react to Danny’s parents treating him as though the only value he ever had was from being in a relationship with Dorothy.
Amazing. I worried halfway through this one that sal was about to dump him…but wacky dating hijinks is a much better outcome!
Here’s hoping Danny somehow manages to Dan it up and botch the interaction so badly that it somehow shames/embarrasses Linda. It’s long odds but I’ll take it.
I hope that Sal is either planning to crash their lunch or thinking after that last time she saw them that Walky is going to lay things on the line and talk Lucy out of spending her dinner getting picked at by a bigot, because while I can understand Sal’s freaked out desire to see what parental approval feels like for once in her life it’s a much uglier look if she’s planning on getting it to Lucy’s detriment, to her face, when nobody will just straightforwardly tell her exactly what they’re like instead of talking around it, by making her parents look at her white boyfriend and Walky’s black girlfriend sitting at the same table and decide who they’re going to treat better.
Aww, Sal’s conflicting feelings about her parents are very realistic. Knowing she deserved better from their death by a thousand cuts relationship but also wanting them to be proud of her.
But is he subtle enough to flank them or draw them out of position, not just go straight up the middle with everything he’s got? Here the balance of power strongly favors the parents in the direct approach.
She needs to know, I get that. It’s much stronger when you’re offered something that you thought you wanted, and you find that you have the power to reject it.
lol thatd be something. at least she’s not cunning/manipulative to be like “yeah, i have the perf good guy boyfriend but i’m gonna corrupt him and send him down a spiral just to spite you” or so lol (tho i guess doing that to walky would probably be more effective to her mom)
I’m now kind of worried that Sal might end up dumping Dan purely because she worries it’s playing into what her asshole parents want instead of something she really wants, and then feeling bad about it. She’s been known to self-sabotage.
I mean there are a lot of white guys out there. No reason to block them all. Linda probably prefers guys without body odor too. This is like one of those “you know who also X”? (Though I guess Hitler preferring white people was one of his things so maybe a bad example…)
Anyhow, don’t be like Malaya! Like who you like not just because someone else says not to.
Elmo really screwed the pooch this time. I don’t see them not walking this back when engagement tanks and Twitter becomes a less useful far right propaganda machine social media platform.
“Yeah, there’s probably like, an alternate universe where the daughter Linda actually wanted marries Danny, and ah am jealous of her, and also ah have a nonsensical rivalry with Joyce.”
There’s an alternate DoA dimension where Charles is the overbearing one, Linda is passive, Walky is rebellious, and Sal is the carefree goofball favorite child.
Kinda want to see that… Does the Patreon bonus strip “named characters only” rule extend to alternate realities?
I enjoy Sal’s final expression, but then I always enjoy when the twins echo each other’s expressions and such. IIRC the last time we saw that particular expression, Walky was entranced by Dorothy.
okay okay -- spider-man reboot idea
the lizard is still dr connors, but he's dr PHIL connors, and he wakes up every day and it's groundhog day and he's a lizard
is this anything
a plague has hit our house
both children singing billie eilish's "what was i made for" but entirely in "meows"
we can't get them to stop
it's been weeks
please send help
The plantation burning reminds me of when the residential school burnt down in Shubenacadie.
I was very young. Not understanding why we were all there watching a scary looking building burning. Cars lined up all over both sides of the road. It seemed like the entire rez population (1)
Someone is citing the MA constitutional provision explicitly allowing the state to impede federal marshals enforcing the fugitive slave act, DAMN the average citizen is radicalized
you’re laughing. the largest antebellum plantation house burned down & there are brides who will not get to spiritually absorb the poisoned spectral energy of the land for their big day, & you’re laughing.
Me if I ever see Tony Hawk: Hey you’re Tony Hawk the famous skateboarder. That’s right I recognise you. Won’t be able to get any content out of this will you, you piece of shit
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new favourite child by proximity to whitebread = YIKES
Yikes, but I’m HERE for it.
I think new favorite kid might be a stretch, but they might treat her like a decent person this time around.
Yes, this will definitely end well.
uh, SHE isn’t the new favorite by proximity to white bread, Danny is. Refer back to the conversation about kid ranking she, walky, and jennifer had with lucy a couple days ago.
The point is that thanks to the difference in skin colour of their partners, Sal will raise above Walky among their actual children.
Who cares about skin color?
It’s kind of obvious that Sal is developing some rather deep feelings for Ethan, and unless I missed it, they haven’t gone beyond kissing yet.
Did you mean Danny, or were you making a joke?
The parents seem to care about skin color. (Also, what JRivest said)
Jennifer said it out loud and we hated her for it, but boy is it accurate.
I’m curious if Danny will end up pushing Jennifer out of the top spot and how that will go over with her if it does.
willing to wager Linda prefers boys
Oh no Sal 🥺
I won’t say this is ‘healthy’, but it’s understandable. Sal doesn’t want to write off her parents unless she’s completely sure she’s done everything in her power to try and mend those bridges.
Bringing home a boyfriend they would approve of is likely the last chance, though I wonder where she’ll go with the result. Come on, Sal, learn the right lesson.
Joe and Joyce are the only ones of the main cast I can really say are making “healthy” choices right now.
What about Dina and Becky?
Fair, although there are some things that Becky is still choosing to not address. (Then again, so am I. *shrug*)
Yeah, the relationship between her and her parents isn’t as terrible as some, and while she’s come to terms with her parents being racists without even really realizing it–like, *yes* it’s obvious to us and to most of the cast, but Linda and Charles justify it to themselves in other ways–birth family can be a hard bond to break. That last panel looks freaking desperate to have a degree of acceptance that she doesn’t know if she ever could have had.
It’s also good in that she knows Danny will speak up for her just out of innocence. He knows most or all of Sal’s past and accepts her. Hopefully, she’ll also realize his feelings are a validation, not a condemnation.
Ouch. Did not expect to have my inner dialogue these days laid out so immediately
Oh Sal… you know this isn’t going to end well, so why are you doing it?
Am I crazy and this will be a good thing, or is this as bad an idea as it sounds?
Oh hell no, Sal would HATE the daughter they wanted.
But well…..the part of her that wants her parents to love her dies hard. One last desperate shot for it can’t hurt, can it?
I know it was a rhetorical question, but it can and will hurt a lot, and I’m not looking forward to it.
i mean, at least this isn’t too risque a comic to where sal would just have sex on a public table with danny in front of her parents to horrify them lol
Slipshine…
She knows it’s bad going in so hopefully that can protect her relationship with Danny, but doing trying to get some love from her mom is just really really sad.
it’s ok Sal, your mom’s so racist the lunch was cancelled anyway
Is it a yo mama joke?
no but it should be
Yo momma so racist that her last Halloween costume was a hood?
TIL I suck at yo momma jokes
nah, the problem is “yo mama so racist” jokes end with something that’s actually plausible and therefore not actually a “joke” =/
Oh man, if they turn up to lunch because no one bothered to tell Sal it was cancelled…
If nobody else shows up, at least it’s still a lunch date for the two of them.
Sal was there when Walky got the text that it was canceled. She might be betting on them not having actually bothered to find a different place to eat, or she might have some other plan to arrange a meeting with them.
I’m confused
Guess who’s coming to dinner!
Hungry Larry?
Klingons?
Sal would make for a hot Klingon!
Big Torres energy from her.
Danny’s more of a Harry than a Tom, though.
Hi Confused, I’m Jason!
This is painfully cute. I love them together but I’m worried about their deeply ingrained insecurities. They both have been known to self-sabotage
If they break up no matter what I’m pretending they get back together after college and some personal growth LET ME LIVE IN MY PROTECTED BAD GIRL BI DORK BOY DREAM.
*Raises a glass* I’m here for that headcanon.
Hear hear!
Sal, just because what makes you happy happens to slightly overlap with what would make your parents happy doesn’t mean you deserve to be happy Amy less or that Danny somehow shouldn’t make you happy/is suddenly bad.
Not scolding, I just feel like she needs to hear this gently from someone at some point because I worry she’ll panic and dump Danny at the end of this storyline. It’s very hard to separate those things sometimes when your relationship with your parents is so bad.
Autocorrect changing “any” to “Amy” is hilarious. “You don’t deserve to be happy Amy less!” shouts Amy drunkenly at someone across the street who she thought was her ex-boyfriend.
Great… Now Ethan is going to have a herm with drunken Amy added in…
Adds ‘Amy Less’ to cast list.
thanks for pointing that out – I had trouble parsing that
well she already had her guard up around him pretty high before hand so hopefully they don’t break up just because of that/be nice if it’d last a bit longer even if it’s nothing too long term, tho i can’t think of anyone in the immediate cast that sal would be dating
I’m guessing after watching Danny go along and try his best with her crazy plan to please her parents, she’ll actually trust him more, even after the parent interaction inevitably implodes.
Basically I expect by the end of this Sal will see that much more clearly that her parents are awful, and Danny is a decent guy.
To paraphrase Paul Watzlawick:
“Maturing means doing the right thing despite it being approved by your parents.”
I’ve been figuring for the last several days that the next strip would be Sal grabbing Danny and dragging him to bed for frustration-sex. Keep being surprised, but it makes sense, yeah.
I hope this doesn’t result in Sal overthinking her relationship and dumping Danny to conform with her parent’s ideals less.
Fingers crossed. She’s happy with Danny and he’s good to her. Likely to continue to be good to her as long as she’s willing.
i’d think danny would hopefully be like “i like sal the way she is/know about her past and accept her” or so
Or…just talk about what he likes about her, and let them bring up Sal’s Past, like to him it’s a matter of historical interest only.
I hope so too! A lot of Sal’s recent character growth has come from her learning to let herself like what she likes, and not be too embarrassed about the things that make her happy, and more importantly, the people who make her happy. Her parents liking her boyfriend is a challenge to that character growth, and I really hope she and Danny make it through that challenge. I like them.
It’s all a matter of perspective. Look at it like this, Sals parents probably never thought she could get someone like Danny without being the type of person they were conditioning her to be.
But hey look she got him anyway and it was by being true to who she really is, and she can rub that right in her mom’s face.
That’s the spirit! If you have horrible parents who don’t believe in you, take your success and shove it in their face. Then walk out while putting on sunglasses, as an 80’s hit starts in the background.
What, of what, 80s hit could you have in mind? Let me think.
I’m sure I know which one you’re thinking of, but I want it to be Rock You Like A Hurricane.
It’s not 80s, but I love “You Don’t Own Me” for Sal. (And for me. Because it’s great.)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JDUjeR01wnU&feature=share7
Of course!
“Cool guys don’t look at explosions” by The Lonely Island.
YEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
…right?
Only Fight The Power qualifies as a 80’s hit, before the release of Fear of a Black Planet, but it’d still do it.
“Girls Just Want to Have Fun”?
Actually, Weird Al’s parody might be even better: “Girls Just Want to Have Lunch”.
You forgot the explosion. There has to be an explosion as you walk away.
Just remember that Cool Guys Don’t Look at Explosions ;D
Maybe Sal figured if her parents will never approve of anything she does, she might as well show them that she’s doing fine without their approval anyway, nice young man included.
This’ll be fine. Sure and it will. Surely.
RE: Supreme Court decision,
This is no longer Pride Month.
This is now Pride YEAR.
F-u-cque Uncle Thomas and the 2/3 of a Supreme Court he rode in on.
“Fuck you and the ass you rode in on, toots,” is what I have to say to them. …Frickin’ cheats even had to fake their own set of background facts just to pretend they had legal standing to sue. Which they didn’t.
Although, I dunno. I wouldn’t call him “uncle,” though. Connotations. And all.
I was reading the CNN article on the decision, and a quote from the majority opinion stood out to me as especially maddening:
“Our decision today does not concern – much less endorse – anything like the ‘straight couples only’ notices the dissent conjures out of thin air.”
To be clear, a notice saying that a business will not serve same-sex couples is LITERALLY WHAT THIS CASE IS ABOUT. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU ON ABOUT, NEIL?
I foresee a million tee shirts emblazoned “THIS CONSUMER DOES NOT PATRONIZE HATERS. Ask me who they are.”
The SC did something again? Great, what nightmare have we been inflicted with this time?
“No gays” is now totally legal.
Ah. Great. We needed more pointless torment. I’m so glad every day gets progressively worse and there’s no hope left in this worthless country.
Okay, to inject a little bit of nuance, “no gays” is now legal for anyone selling “expressive” goods or services. What that means or encompasses is kinda up in the air, but you probably still can’t be denied service at, like, a grocery store. Probably.
Apparently it covers wedding cakes. Since that has to come up every couple goddamn years, some braindead fuckin bigot thinking “OH GOD THEY MIGHT WANT A CAKE WHICH IS ALL MY BUSINESS IS FOR! I DON’T WANT PAYING CUSTOMERS!” and then thirteen trillion equally braindead and useless lumps of skin have to pound their chests and hoot and howl like the obedient animals they are. Over a goddamn fucking cake that they’re not even going to eat. Because their stupid YA fiction book says some things that can be used to lather ’em up into a chimptastic shitting frenzy about other people who aren’t them marrying someone they’re not even interested in. Pathetic, worthless control freaks without an ounce of personality or justification for their existence.
As the old saying goes:
“All work is sex work.”
All labor is emotional labor.
All goods and services are expressive goods and services.
Among other things, they decided two cases that weren’t real. The lady who claimed her first amendment rights were being infringed because of the public accommodations law in the CRA doesn’t actually make wedding websites and a gay couple didn’t actually try to hire her. She lied.
And in the student loan case, the Missouri state government shouldn’t have standing because the agency overseeing student debts is independent, and that agency didn’t want to bring the suit. Missouri has had a series of attorneys general who don’t really care about the rule of law though.
They also decided to ban affirmative action in college admissions (accept military academies) because it hurts the feelings of mediocre white people.
Nobody seems to mind folks of color signing up to go get shot at, though. Hence the military academies.
So I can make up a story and sue on someone’s behalf about it?
(No I can’t, because I don’t have enough money.)
Queer Pride is over. It’s time for Queer Wrath.
As the kids say.
Okay not that I’m endorsing this in any way, political assassinations are bad and all that. I’m just saying that in a country where it’s so easy to get a gun, and a Supreme Court that is terrible, with the rule that they can only be changed if they willingly step down or kick the bucket. I’m just surprised there haven’t been more instances of people trying to force a change of supreme court justices. Not that anyone should. I’m just surprised it hasn’t happened in recent history yet. Feel like they’re kinda asking for it.
I’m also not endorsing it.
Don’t do it Sal. You’ll only poison him in your own mind.
I hope this didn’t harm their relationship, and yet I feel like it is inevitable at this point.
Absolutely nothing can possibly go wrong with this plan, and I unreservedly endorse it.
Odds on the return of the catholic school uniform?
Catholic school uniform? Danny might find that hot. Especially if Sal is inside it.
Sal might find it hot if Danny was inside it, Amber definitely would.
Entirely possible back when this comic first came out. The Catholic school girl uniform fetish has kinda died down by now. Japanese seifuku is a different question (and yes, still mad creepy.)
Hate that “school girl” still feels more like a porn tag than a benign description
The fetishization of girls in school (and other) uniforms, in my experience, seems to be most prevalent in situation where there are separate gendered standards. With situations like the Catholic School uniform and the English Public School uniform the trend the last couple decades away from forcing girls to wear skirts and thereby largely unifying the uniform across genders has helped with the reduction in fetishization.
The Japanese situation is a bit more of a problem as while they largely moved away from the old, heavily fetishized, sailor fuku toward a skirt and blazer style they kept the gendered distinction. In part that was due to the continuation of skirt requirements in women’s business dress codes at the time that change was started (the archetypal ‘Office Lady’ look). While those business dress codes have been changing since then and now allow women to wear pants as part of their suits, it’ll unfortunately probably be another generation or two before Japanese schools start to largely follow suit and gods only knows how long after that before it stops being seen as going against societal norms…
On one hand, this is likely true since, well, it doesn’t get a whole lot whiter than Danny.
On the other hand, even if he performs well academically, I could see them thinking that he is simply not ambitious enough, and be unenthusiastic about him due to that.
Maybe if Danny gets a tattoo that could counteract his perfectly milk toast whiteness enough to turn off the Walkertons. Maybe grow some facial hair, start wearing torn sleeve apparel. It could work.
Bring his ukulele
That … might work.
Hm…the Power of Racism vs the Power of Ukulele. Which will win out?
Tough call…
Imo those fake tattoo sleeves he had at the beginning of the time skip were pretty fun…
He should get a massive black out on his neck or something
Is she gonna crash lunch with Walky? The lunch that Walky was disinvited from? OMG.
The issue, I believe, is that she doesn’t know where they went to eat (hell, they didn’t even tell Walky, just said he wouldn’t like it, so that he wouldn’t feel obligated to bring Lucy).
I’m going to lay out my completely baseless prediction that Linda is going to say something that sets Danny off surprising everyone at the table (including Danny)
That might be the best case scenario, as long as it involves taking Sal’s parents to task.
I love this premonition and endorse it wholeheartedly. Book ‘em, Dano.
He could Dan it up for justice!
I want Danny to say “Wow, you really are as racist as Sal said you were.” Maybe a repeat performance of thinking of it, Linda wondering what’s on his mind, and he says it out loud.
I am fully expecting Danny to Dan It Up with the parents for great justice, and it will be glorious.
Yup. Some part of Sal still wants her parents to love her so now’s her desperate last Hail Mary at getting them too.
Unfortunately, as the theme song of this whole comic says, “if that’s love, it comes at much too high a cost.”
Are Sal’s parents helping her pay for college or is she doing loans? Either way I hope they don’t interfere with her ability to continue to go to school, and see Danny.
I believe they pay for some of it, yes.
[i]…Cheese,[/i] this is going to be painful. But one way or another, we’re about to get a whopping heap of truth coming to light.
Aww hell, I brought a BBCode to an HTML fight again, didn’t I.
Also your gravatar changed suddenly.
And away from Sal. What’s up with that?
And thus, everything was OK
oh golly, sal
One half of the parental interaction I’ve been looking forward.
I’ve wanted to see Danny react to the (not as subtle as they think) racism from Sal’s parents, and I’ve wanted Sal to react to Danny’s parents treating him as though the only value he ever had was from being in a relationship with Dorothy.
Important work going down at the character twitters:
https://twitter.com/Joyce_Brown/status/1674781237981118470
Hehe, it’s always fun whenever the DOA twit accounts start posting again.
Great time for Twitter to start requiring logins to see anything like this is Pinterest now.
They do this to me every so often and it’s usually gone again in a couple weeks but holy fuck is it annoying.
Between this and the alt-right cancer there, Twitter really IS becoming Facebook 2.
Classic! On that note, wonder if Dina’s account will get activity as well?
Any chance someone will tell us non twitter type Pokemon what was posted?
Here,
here
and here
took some screenshots
XD Aww, the early stages of writing smut.
Bless you.
Mike has posted more recently than Dina. Mike living in a box in Walky’s closet confirmed.
I blocked twitter. I will up my patreon membership if Willis moves them to the fediverse.
Amazing. I worried halfway through this one that sal was about to dump him…but wacky dating hijinks is a much better outcome!
Here’s hoping Danny somehow manages to Dan it up and botch the interaction so badly that it somehow shames/embarrasses Linda. It’s long odds but I’ll take it.
I hope that Sal is either planning to crash their lunch or thinking after that last time she saw them that Walky is going to lay things on the line and talk Lucy out of spending her dinner getting picked at by a bigot, because while I can understand Sal’s freaked out desire to see what parental approval feels like for once in her life it’s a much uglier look if she’s planning on getting it to Lucy’s detriment, to her face, when nobody will just straightforwardly tell her exactly what they’re like instead of talking around it, by making her parents look at her white boyfriend and Walky’s black girlfriend sitting at the same table and decide who they’re going to treat better.
This is gonna be the arc of boyfriends chewing out parents, isn’t it?
Danny and Walky must put aside their differences to fight the true enemy Sal and Walkys parents
Fingers crossed…but Walky and Danny are not Joe.
Why is Danny wearing a fisherman’s vest?
Maybe he’s gonna go fishing with Sal’s dad?
That’s something earthlings do right?
That’s a fisherman’s hat?
When I hear “fisherman’s hat” I think of a bucket hat with a bunch of hooks and lures stuck in it, like Col. Blake wore on MASH.
Vest, not hat.
Coffee THEN comments, me! Coffee THEN comments!
Hard same bruh. ADHDemons need us some coffee to self medicate 🫘
I keep thinking “photographer’s vest” only it doesn’t have nearly enough pockets and they are too shallow.
It’s his ukulele pick vest. all the pockets are filled with ukulele picks. and spare strings.
Aww, Sal’s conflicting feelings about her parents are very realistic. Knowing she deserved better from their death by a thousand cuts relationship but also wanting them to be proud of her.
No, Sal, you bring Danny to show to your parents to give them hope, then crush that hope mercilessly.
New Dan isn’t going to be silent about their passive-aggressive sniping.
Yeah, he’s definitely gonna stand up for her.
But is he subtle enough to flank them or draw them out of position, not just go straight up the middle with everything he’s got? Here the balance of power strongly favors the parents in the direct approach.
New Dan has guts but subtlety not so much.
She needs to know, I get that. It’s much stronger when you’re offered something that you thought you wanted, and you find that you have the power to reject it.
lol thatd be something. at least she’s not cunning/manipulative to be like “yeah, i have the perf good guy boyfriend but i’m gonna corrupt him and send him down a spiral just to spite you” or so lol (tho i guess doing that to walky would probably be more effective to her mom)
oh no
Linda’s going to think Sal just recruited Danny at random to pose as her boyfriend for this visit, isn’t she…
Maybe she’ll try and get Sal and Walky to swap partners.
There’s just something about that Lucy. She’s causing Walky’s grades to slip and he’s not even pursuing medicine!
…
Yeah, that’s not funny. It’s something she’d probably say.
Oh no, I’m so sorry for what you’re going to go through, Sal
I’m now kind of worried that Sal might end up dumping Dan purely because she worries it’s playing into what her asshole parents want instead of something she really wants, and then feeling bad about it. She’s been known to self-sabotage.
I mean there are a lot of white guys out there. No reason to block them all. Linda probably prefers guys without body odor too. This is like one of those “you know who also X”? (Though I guess Hitler preferring white people was one of his things so maybe a bad example…)
Anyhow, don’t be like Malaya! Like who you like not just because someone else says not to.
It is strange to see Sal vulnerable. That she is willing to be so around Danny shows profound trust.
Hijinx incoming because lunch being canceled and parents splitting their twins up.
I’m a little confused as to how the fist panel here (and what follows from it) follows directly from the last panel of yesterday’s strip.
I think Sal, after her Coldplay crack, just went into staring up at him like she wanted to say something, so Danny asked ‘what?’
Or he didn’t get the reference.
Okay, that makes sense.
So, what is the best “damnyou willis twitter alternative” now that Elon doesn’t want my dirty eyes on his “freedom platform”?
tumblr to the best of my knowledge. dumbingofage and itswalky
I think he’s on Bluesky, too.
Elmo really screwed the pooch this time. I don’t see them not walking this back when engagement tanks and Twitter becomes a less useful
far right propaganda machinesocial media platform.Usenet.
No no no no wait
This might end with Danny telling them off.
We can only hope.
“Yeah, there’s probably like, an alternate universe where the daughter Linda actually wanted marries Danny, and ah am jealous of her, and also ah have a nonsensical rivalry with Joyce.”
There’s an alternate DoA dimension where Charles is the overbearing one, Linda is passive, Walky is rebellious, and Sal is the carefree goofball favorite child.
Kinda want to see that… Does the Patreon bonus strip “named characters only” rule extend to alternate realities?
It’s weird to remember that when all of this started out, Sal was the Walkerton twin prone to making really really bad decisions.
I enjoy Sal’s final expression, but then I always enjoy when the twins echo each other’s expressions and such. IIRC the last time we saw that particular expression, Walky was entranced by Dorothy.
… oh fuck I just realized that THIS is what’s going to be Walky and Lucy’s double date / third date
Classic!
Wait… I though the IHOP was their third date? Pika pika?
Maybe we’ll get to find out if it still counts as a hate fuck if the hatred is directed at a third party.
Sal is so lovable.