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by David M Willis on June 10, 2011 at 12:01 am
  • 05 - Media Rumble
└ Tags: dorothy, jennifer, walky

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    June 10, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

    Billie knows LOTS of words!

    =|

    • David Herbert
      David Herbert
      June 10, 2011 at 2:27 am | #

      Like… nerd and… nerdette!

  2. Seerow
    Seerow
    June 10, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    Poor Billie, just wants to be as cool as Jonah Jamison.

    • DeWeese07
      DeWeese07
      June 10, 2011 at 12:06 am | #

      Billie: “That Amazi-girl is a MENACE TO SOCIETY!”

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        June 10, 2011 at 12:22 am | #

        Billie:”I want pictures of Amazi-Girl”

        • XMD
          XMD
          June 10, 2011 at 1:25 am | #

          With a chest window. For a nickel.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            June 10, 2011 at 1:28 am | #

            And if she doesn’t have one, we will photoshop one on her.

        • Rikushadow5
          Rikushadow5
          June 10, 2011 at 2:24 am | #

          Billie: “Everytime somebody says her name I want a nickel”

          • Rowen Morland
            Rowen Morland
            June 10, 2011 at 9:33 am | #

            From their mother.

        • IamTheMasterPlan
          IamTheMasterPlan
          June 10, 2011 at 11:40 am | #

          Billie: “PARKER!!”

    • CommentSpawn
      CommentSpawn
      June 10, 2011 at 12:59 am | #

      “Amazi-girl: Threat or Menace?”

    • Undrave
      Undrave
      June 10, 2011 at 1:30 am | #

      Daisy is Jamison.

      “I want pictures of Amazi-Girl! Hot sweaty battle damage pictures!”

      • Daibhid C
        Daibhid C
        June 10, 2011 at 7:36 am | #

        Daisy wants to be Lois Lane.

        • calendarman27
          calendarman27
          June 10, 2011 at 9:16 am | #

          Does that make Dorothy Jimmy Olsen?

          • memjay
            memjay
            June 10, 2011 at 12:10 pm | #

            Surely Dorothy is Bizarro? Or Ben Reilly, I lost track of superhero analogies.

    • Chris
      Chris
      October 9, 2014 at 11:37 am | #

      DAMMIT I NEED PICTURES OF SPIDER CAR

      • Chris
        Chris
        October 9, 2014 at 11:38 am | #

        SPIDERCAR IS A MENACE

  3. addude
    addude
    June 10, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    You think as a Journalist Billie would notice Walky going all weird when Dorothy is around but no

    • dchorror
      dchorror
      June 10, 2011 at 12:28 am | #

      This Walky seems like the kind of guy who won’t generally stop with the smart ass-isms. Billie might thank Dorothy for getting him to be quiet for a few minutes.

    • taekwondogirl
      taekwondogirl
      June 10, 2011 at 12:37 am | #

      She noticed one time before…

    • Osaru Sensei
      Osaru Sensei
      June 10, 2011 at 4:59 am | #

      It took me 2 read-throughs to notice Walky.

      LOL.

      • taekwondogirl
        taekwondogirl
        June 11, 2011 at 6:40 pm | #

        This is awesome with the avatar in context.

        • Osaru Sensei
          Osaru Sensei
          June 13, 2011 at 6:16 am | #

          True dat.

          (I want my Dina back… :()

    • Shifty
      Shifty
      June 10, 2011 at 5:57 am | #

      You’re assuming she gives a damn about what he does when its not in direct relation to her.

  4. MM
    MM
    June 10, 2011 at 12:05 am | #

    Walky, c’mon. Pull it together already. Either your face is going to freeze like that or you’re going to leave permanent indentations in your lip. Maybe both.

    • MM
      MM
      June 10, 2011 at 12:05 am | #

      Sorry, “your FAAAAAACE.” My bad.

      • iSaidCandleja-
        iSaidCandleja-
        June 10, 2011 at 12:14 am | #

        How did he make it all the way to college without any of his peers noticing that FAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          June 10, 2011 at 1:09 am | #

          By threatening to break their FEMURS perhaps?

          • Jackson
            Jackson
            June 10, 2011 at 7:06 am | #

            These memes are so babies.

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              June 10, 2011 at 9:14 am | #

              Very shakeable babies.

              • Zanosuke_Kurosaki
                Zanosuke_Kurosaki
                June 10, 2011 at 11:46 am | #

                One too far. Just hit “dude, not funny” territory.

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  June 11, 2011 at 12:27 am | #

                  I guess you won’t be wanting to hear any dead baby jokes then.

              • iggy_rock
                iggy_rock
                June 10, 2011 at 2:56 pm | #

                The correct phrase is “Babies McIntyre” I believe 🙂

  5. NF
    NF
    June 10, 2011 at 12:05 am | #

    Walky in panel 2 slays me!

  6. Aizat
    Aizat
    June 10, 2011 at 12:06 am | #

    The look in Walky’s face in panel 2 is hilarious.

  7. Gnoka
    Gnoka
    June 10, 2011 at 12:07 am | #

    I’m guessing Walky will be asking Billie all about her nerdy reporter friend.

  8. Mr. Cat
    Mr. Cat
    June 10, 2011 at 12:07 am | #

    What if Billie named superheroes? Spider-Man=Bug-Nerd! Iron Man=Robot Nerd!

    • DeWeese07
      DeWeese07
      June 10, 2011 at 12:11 am | #

      batman = orphan nerd!

      • gangler
        gangler
        June 10, 2011 at 12:22 am | #

        Superman will be Reporter Nerd! Billie loves making the superheroes uncomfortable by giving them names that reference their secret identities.

        • dchorror
          dchorror
          June 10, 2011 at 12:35 am | #

          Water Geek!
          Busty Nerdette!
          Tentacle Nerd!
          Captain Nerdica!
          Magic Nerd!
          Gun Nerd!
          Shocking Nerd!
          Angry Nerd!
          Nerd Side!
          Blind Nerd!
          Metal Nerd!

          Bonus points if you can guess who all the above are.

          • Makkabee
            Makkabee
            June 10, 2011 at 12:54 am | #

            Hmm, “Busty Nerdette.” So that would be a super-heroine with a large chest. That narrows it down to… well, all of them.

            (I’m guessing you mean Wonder Woman, though with the recent discussion of chest windows there are some other possibilities — possiBILLIEties? — there as well.)

            • iSaidCandleja-
              iSaidCandleja-
              June 10, 2011 at 1:05 am | #

              Wonder Woman? No, there is one super hero known exclusively for her chest. Powergirl’s window is famous.

            • dchorror
              dchorror
              June 10, 2011 at 1:25 am | #

              Wonder Woman wasn’t included. Greek Nerd! sounded stupid.

              • dchorror
                dchorror
                June 10, 2011 at 1:30 am | #

                Was going to include a list of super heroines that aren’t busty, but then it occurred to me that all but two of them have a spider theme.

              • nothri
                nothri
                June 10, 2011 at 8:32 am | #

                “Wonder Woman wasn’t included. Greek Nerd! sounded stupid.”

                Bondage Nerd?

                • HiEv
                  HiEv
                  June 12, 2011 at 6:52 am | #

                  Amazon Nerd, of course.

                  Or “Lasso Nerd”, if you wanted something less positive-sounding than “Amazon”.

          • Matt
            Matt
            June 10, 2011 at 1:32 am | #

            I’ll take a shot…

            Water Geek! = Aquaman
            Busty Nerdette! = Power Girl
            Tentacle Nerd! = Doctor Octopus?
            Captain Nerdica! = Captain America
            Magic Nerd! = Doctor Strange
            Gun Nerd! = Deadpool? Or Punisher…
            Shocking Nerd! = Electro? Static? Thor?
            Angry Nerd! = Hulk
            Nerd Side! = Darkseid
            Blind Nerd! = Daredevil
            Metal Nerd! = Iron Man

            • dchorror
              dchorror
              June 10, 2011 at 1:38 am | #

              All but two.

              Shocking Nerd! = Black Lightning(Static’s close)
              Metal Nerd! = Cyborg
              And the Punisher for Gun Nerd

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 10, 2011 at 1:08 am | #

        Robin = The Geek Wonder

        • Daibhid C
          Daibhid C
          June 10, 2011 at 7:45 am | #

          The one superhero Billie doesn’t consider to be a nerd is Cheerleadra from El Goonish Shive.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            June 10, 2011 at 9:13 am | #

            But everyone else in that webcomic is a nerd or a furry.

            • MacGravicharzard
              MacGravicharzard
              June 10, 2011 at 11:07 am | #

              Dude, nice refrenz! Shade Tail would probably be Nerd of Furry!

          • MacGravatar
            MacGravatar
            June 10, 2011 at 11:10 am | #

            http://egscomics.com/?date=2011-04-27

            What would his name be? black cloaked nerd?

            • QueenThomas
              QueenThomas
              June 10, 2011 at 12:08 pm | #

              Noah would be One-Eyed Nerd. (o_W)

              • MacGravatar
                MacGravatar
                June 13, 2011 at 10:55 am | #

                … That is so right…

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              June 11, 2011 at 12:21 am | #

              The LARP Avenger?

              • Henry
                Henry
                June 11, 2011 at 10:18 am | #

                Wait! Wait! Can Billie be Cheerleadra?!

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  June 11, 2011 at 7:56 pm | #

                  Only if there is a EGS crossover planned.

          • MM
            MM
            June 10, 2011 at 12:16 pm | #

            *snerk*

            Booster Gold used to be a pro athlete, so maybe he’d get a pass, too. (Though the time traveling and the robot and the friendship with Blue Beetle probably cancel it out.)

            • Henry
              Henry
              June 11, 2011 at 11:48 am | #

              Leave Mister Dresden’s car out of this. 😛

  9. Wackd
    Wackd
    June 10, 2011 at 12:09 am | #

    Billie isn’t one-note, she’s two-note. She’s got a superiority complex and she’s alcoholic. Thus far, that seems to be all there is to her. Hopefully, with time, Billie will become an entire concert.

    Of course, Dorothy probably doesn’t know about the alcoholism yet, so her calling her “one-note” is justified.

    • dchorror
      dchorror
      June 10, 2011 at 12:36 am | #

      You forgot anger problems. That’s three notes.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 10, 2011 at 1:07 am | #

        No, Four Notes, she can spell words with her body.

    • Shifty
      Shifty
      June 10, 2011 at 6:01 am | #

      Yeah, but in terms of how she addresses everyone, she is distinctly one note.

  10. Ritser Brughel
    Ritser Brughel
    June 10, 2011 at 12:10 am | #

    Billie isn’t one note. She can call people nerds in 47 different languages.

    • Rikushadow5
      Rikushadow5
      June 10, 2011 at 2:26 am | #

      Psh. That’s nuthin’. I know this guy that can do it in over 3 million forms of communication.

      • das-g
        das-g
        June 10, 2011 at 6:37 am | #

        What a nerd!

    • Shifty
      Shifty
      June 10, 2011 at 6:02 am | #

      Technically that’s still all one note. After all, if you play a song in different languages, the musical notes and meaning behind them are still the same. 😛

  11. Teowulf
    Teowulf
    June 10, 2011 at 12:11 am | #

    Love Walky’s expression. He’s just begging for a cat fight.

    • taekwondogirl
      taekwondogirl
      June 10, 2011 at 12:38 am | #

      I think the idea of Billie in that context would not be appetizing to Walky. Dorothy with someone else though…

  12. Stephen
    Stephen
    June 10, 2011 at 12:12 am | #

    I am not one note, shut your FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!

  13. Aizat
    Aizat
    June 10, 2011 at 12:13 am | #

    Dorothy’s going to direct Billie to one of the people who saw Amazi-Girl? Why I got the feeling that the person in question would be Danny?

    • lord of dance
      lord of dance
      June 10, 2011 at 12:15 am | #

      uhh… cuz she said she would?

    • iSaidCandleja-
      iSaidCandleja-
      June 10, 2011 at 12:15 am | #

      Because that’s exactly what Dorothy said she would be doing when she spoke to Danny?

    • Wackd
      Wackd
      June 10, 2011 at 12:15 am | #

      Maybe because just two comics ago Dorothy mentioned that she was sending Danny “a big-breasted half-Asian girl to interview [him] about Amazi-Girl”?

      • Wackd
        Wackd
        June 10, 2011 at 12:16 am | #

        Wow. DOUBLE-ninja’d.

        • Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
          Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
          June 10, 2011 at 12:18 am | #

          Triple ninja’d! Where’s Ninja Rick when you need him?!?

          • Wackd
            Wackd
            June 10, 2011 at 1:41 am | #

            In a three-way duel with the Ninja-Style Dancer and Kung Tai Ted.

            • Bill M.
              Bill M.
              June 10, 2011 at 3:52 pm | #

              Last I saw Ninja-Style Dancer and Kung Tai Ted, they were headed off to do a dance-off. Does Ninja Rick dance?

            • Aizat
              Aizat
              June 10, 2011 at 7:30 pm | #

              Ninja Style Dancer was taken by The Entity.

  14. gangler
    gangler
    June 10, 2011 at 12:20 am | #

    I’d totally take it on myself to do that as a reporter regardless of the superheroe’s wishes. I’d also choose names that were only vaguely thematically appropriate and potentially ill fitting.

    Captain America and Bucky are now Guns and Ammo.
    Batman and Robin shall be referred to as Darky McBlackerson and the Crimson Fruitcake.
    Superman? Nay, I say we call him “Better-than-you Guy”

    Silver Surfer shall simply answer to AnthroSpaceCore.

    • dchorror
      dchorror
      June 10, 2011 at 12:40 am | #

      But Captain America is a title. He is an officer in the U.S. Army.

      And that Batman one might be seen as racist by some people. I’m sure I’ve heard the Robin one before though, same with Superman.

      • gangler
        gangler
        June 10, 2011 at 1:09 am | #

        Really? We’re expecting people to call racism for referring to a man’s wardrobe coloration and chosen theme as a creature of the night now? I don’t even know how to respond to that, but I’ll certainly apologize if I’ve offended anyone. Not looking to make an issue out of it. Meant it to be far more harmless and humorous than that.

        • dchorror
          dchorror
          June 10, 2011 at 1:32 am | #

          I didn’t say it was offensive, I was saying it could really be taken that way.

          Besides, it’s a mouthful.

          • gangler
            gangler
            June 10, 2011 at 2:46 am | #

            I’d certainly be worried about confusion if Bruce wasn’t white. Is that less well known than I’m giving it credit for?

            • dchorror
              dchorror
              June 10, 2011 at 4:26 am | #

              I’d hope it’s not well known in universe. I honestly don’t think it’d matter to the readers of the comic. Cause really, if you saw a news article talking about this new hero Darky McBlackerson, wouldn’t you think something was wrong there?

              • gangler
                gangler
                June 10, 2011 at 6:25 am | #

                Ah, I get it. You’re talking about readers of the imaginary newspaper in which this name would be used. Yeah, ok. That’s legit. I hadn’t actually thought it through to such an extent. There’s a reason none of these articles were published 😉

                For that matter, Batman doesn’t seem like the type with a sense of humor (well at least not in most recent renditions). I probably wouldn’t go out of my way to poke fun at him on principle. Captain America also kind of scares me XD.

                I totally thought we were talking about other commenters here.

    • Ridureyu
      Ridureyu
      June 10, 2011 at 12:58 am | #

      Wolverine is now Petunia.

      • dchorror
        dchorror
        June 10, 2011 at 1:42 am | #

        Why?

        Why not That Furry Guy?

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        June 10, 2011 at 2:17 am | #

        His name might be Petunia but HE STILL BADASS!

      • creativerealms
        creativerealms
        June 12, 2011 at 9:19 pm | #

        Claw nerd.

    • Rikushadow5
      Rikushadow5
      June 10, 2011 at 2:30 am | #

      SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE

      (Not to be confused with antro Face Core)

  15. Sonzilber
    Sonzilber
    June 10, 2011 at 12:39 am | #

    Walky’s face is is priceless

    • Henry
      Henry
      June 11, 2011 at 10:17 am | #

      His FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEEE?!

      • Sonzilber
        Sonzilber
        June 11, 2011 at 6:04 pm | #

        Yes his faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

  16. taekwondogirl
    taekwondogirl
    June 10, 2011 at 12:39 am | #

    Oh Walky, you’re adorable.

  17. Pat
    Pat
    June 10, 2011 at 12:48 am | #

    Billie, you should be more grateful to people who save you from supervillains. It’s just good manners.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 10, 2011 at 1:06 am | #

      “Grateful? Why would I be grateful, I could’ve taken on that Red Menace myself.”

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        June 10, 2011 at 1:34 am | #

        The Red Menace? Who, Ruth? She wants to take your FEMURS and use it as a back-scratcher.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          June 10, 2011 at 1:48 am | #

          “Of cause I could take her, she’s a NERRRRRD and I’m a cheerleader”

          • Aizat
            Aizat
            June 10, 2011 at 2:01 am | #

            Yes, a nerd that just thrown you on your first day and took your cheerleader outfit and removing one letter just to spite you.

            • Plagus
              Plagus
              June 10, 2011 at 2:51 am | #

              And then Billie realised that when everyone’s a Nerd… …No-one is.

              • Aizat
                Aizat
                June 10, 2011 at 3:09 am | #

                And then Billie is a NERD! Dundundun!

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  June 10, 2011 at 3:48 am | #

                  In the old days, just wearing glasses automatically made you a NERD!

                • Kernanator
                  Kernanator
                  June 10, 2011 at 11:17 am | #

                  “No Billie, you are the nerds.”

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              June 11, 2011 at 1:37 am | #

              “That ginger nerd just got lucky is all!”

  18. Ridureyu
    Ridureyu
    June 10, 2011 at 12:58 am | #

    NERRRRRRRDS!

    Man, Billie’s glad she’s so much better off than them.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 10, 2011 at 1:03 am | #

      Cos being popular and all, she has way more friends than all these geeks and nerds …err nevermind…

      • dchorror
        dchorror
        June 10, 2011 at 1:34 am | #

        I’ve never seen being popular correlate to having friends. It was more of a being noticed as opposed to being liked.

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          June 10, 2011 at 1:35 am | #

          I think Plasma Mongoose is being sarcastic.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            June 10, 2011 at 1:46 am | #

            Correct! I was speaking to some extent IC for Billie.

            • dchorror
              dchorror
              June 10, 2011 at 1:54 am | #

              I was well aware. Sometimes it’s more fun to ignore that instinct to respond with all the intellectual knowledge.

              • Plasma Mongoose
                Plasma Mongoose
                June 10, 2011 at 3:46 am | #

                AH!

              • CWR
                CWR
                June 11, 2011 at 4:05 am | #

                The intellectual knowledge – IN THE BAG! NOW!! ALL OF IT!!!

                • dchorror
                  dchorror
                  June 11, 2011 at 5:07 am | #

                  Dude, all of it? That bags just not big enough.

  19. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    June 10, 2011 at 1:01 am | #

    NERRRRRRRRRRRRD!

  20. Janette
    Janette
    June 10, 2011 at 1:24 am | #

    When it comes to her view of people different then her…yeah, one note work.

  21. Undrave
    Undrave
    June 10, 2011 at 1:29 am | #

    No your FAAAACE is one note!

    Nerd!

  22. Aizat
    Aizat
    June 10, 2011 at 1:37 am | #

    It could be me but Dorothy face in panel 3 looks cute.

  23. Locke
    Locke
    June 10, 2011 at 1:46 am | #

    Walky, no stare at the boobies. I know it can be difficult at times, man, but you just have to snap out of the trance, or lest you’ll turn to stone. Or something. Mostly you’ll just get mace sprayed in your face.

    Seriously, though, Walky’s unintentional placement of his “deer-in-headlights” gaze is HILARIOUS.

    • dchorror
      dchorror
      June 10, 2011 at 1:51 am | #

      How do we know it’s not intentional?

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      June 10, 2011 at 1:59 am | #

      Who said that Walky is staring at Dorothy’s boobs?

      • gangler
        gangler
        June 10, 2011 at 2:29 am | #

        Really looks more like he’s staring at Dorothy’s hair to me.

    • Blob Marley
      Blob Marley
      June 10, 2011 at 11:07 am | #

      Is a man not entitled to the goofy look on his FAAAAAAAACE?

      NO, says Billie! He’s a nerd!
      NO, says Dorothy! He’s weird!
      NO, says Mike! Your mom made that FAAACE on his penis for a nickel!

      I chose something different. Something impossible. I chose… Walky!

      • Bill M.
        Bill M.
        June 10, 2011 at 3:58 pm | #

        Oh great, I’m now picturing DoA characters as BioShock characters.

  24. dchorror
    dchorror
    June 10, 2011 at 1:50 am | #

    Walky’s so fun to make demots of.

    http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y195/Amielo/DOAwalky.jpg

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      June 10, 2011 at 2:12 am | #

      Do a Walky?

      I think he’d like Dorothy to do a Walky…

  25. Aizat
    Aizat
    June 10, 2011 at 2:04 am | #

    Wild Dorothy appeared! Walky froze up!

  26. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    June 10, 2011 at 2:50 am | #

    I think Billie is trying to hide something by making fun of nerds…
    She secretly has Nerd-Lust!

    • dchorror
      dchorror
      June 10, 2011 at 3:15 am | #

      Is it perverse?

      • G.S.Mercs
        G.S.Mercs
        June 10, 2011 at 3:40 am | #

        It’s ALWAYS perverse

        • Kernanator
          Kernanator
          June 11, 2011 at 6:00 pm | #

          Also, your Joe Gravatar makes your comment ridiculously appropriate.

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        June 10, 2011 at 11:19 am | #

        It means she lusts after nerds. She is so going to want a threesome with Danny and Amber when she meets them.

        NERDLUST!

    • Undrave
      Undrave
      June 10, 2011 at 3:36 am | #

      Billie is actually into Transformers! She’s the secret nerd this go around, not Joe!

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        June 11, 2011 at 5:45 pm | #

        That works, too.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 12, 2011 at 5:53 pm | #

        NAh I think that Sailor Moon would be more of her sort of Guilty Secret.

  27. Shifty
    Shifty
    June 10, 2011 at 5:56 am | #

    Glad Billie didn’t get Lois Lane’s job in the new DC Relaunch. “LOOK UP IN THE SKY! IT’S A BIRD! IT’S A PLANE! ITS THE FLYING NERD!” just would’t have the same ring to it…

    • das-g
      das-g
      June 10, 2011 at 6:48 am | #

      But ‘bird’ and ‘nerd’ rhyme! You can’t beat that.

      • Jackson
        Jackson
        June 10, 2011 at 12:24 pm | #

        IT’S A NERD! IT’S A PAIN! IT’S…AMAZI-DORK!

  28. Blob Marley
    Blob Marley
    June 10, 2011 at 11:01 am | #

    Walky/Amazi-Girl. Shipping it now. Three hundred episodes (and two and a half hours) later, when it happens, remember Blob Marley totally called it.

  29. luke
    luke
    June 10, 2011 at 11:07 am | #

    Didn’t even realise Walky was in the strip until I glanced at the tags >_<

    • Spiffster13
      Spiffster13
      June 10, 2011 at 1:16 pm | #

      His Dorothy Face made it worth looking at the Tags I bet.

  30. BriGuy
    BriGuy
    June 10, 2011 at 1:18 pm | #

    The nerdette is my penis.

  31. Glooble
    Glooble
    June 10, 2011 at 1:28 pm | #

    Did Dorothy just replace Billie in the header?

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 10, 2011 at 7:13 pm | #

      Actually it happened a couple of days ago.

  32. Strephon
    Strephon
    June 10, 2011 at 8:20 pm | #

    Personally, I like Billie’s expression (and posture) of visionary determination in the last panel.

  33. The Aussie Bloke
    The Aussie Bloke
    June 10, 2011 at 11:34 pm | #

    I think Billie missed out on a very important lesson in high school. That lesson being “Be nice to nerds. Chances are, you’ll end up working for one.”

  34. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    June 11, 2011 at 8:12 pm | #

    I think I will ship Billie and Ogre(Revenge of the Nerds) now.

    http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a304/Meglicious/ogre03.jpg

  35. Random Webcomics Junkie
    Random Webcomics Junkie
    June 11, 2011 at 9:26 pm | #

    So… will the banner be changing regularly to indicate which characters are currently in centre stage?

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 12, 2011 at 3:01 am | #

      It wouldn’t be too hard for him to do, the odds are that he already has the templates for various characters ready to use with the background for the banner, so if he decides to change it, it will only take a couple of minutes.

  36. CaptainPatch
    CaptainPatch
    June 12, 2011 at 9:37 am | #

    Dorothy in panel 3 is probably my favorite picture of her. Great work!

  37. Aisling
    Aisling
    May 23, 2015 at 5:04 pm | #

    I didnt know billie was asian til a page or two ago…

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