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by David M Willis on May 2, 2018 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - Faz Is Great
└ Tags: barb, jason, walky

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    May 2, 2018 at 12:01 am | #

    now, about that pesky “learning how to mix drinks” part

    • Madock345
      Madock345
      May 2, 2018 at 12:02 am | #

      What are you talking about, of course Jason can mix drinks, just look at that bowtie!

      • Shade
        Shade
        May 2, 2018 at 8:12 am | #

        “I thought I knew what was in my drink order, but this guy has a bowtie so he must be right.”

        • Yet_One_More_Idiot
          Yet_One_More_Idiot
          May 2, 2018 at 10:28 pm | #

          “I’m wearing a bowtie. Bowties are cool now, ergo I know what’s in your drink order.” 😀

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      May 2, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

      He’s British.

      …. I’m not saying that ALL Brits know how to mix drinks, but I suggest never underestimating an Englishman’s proficiency with alcohol.

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        May 2, 2018 at 12:20 am | #

        Yelp review: “That blond bartender only serves two drinks: tea, and tea-quila. ☆☆☆☆★”

        • MM
          MM
          May 2, 2018 at 1:00 am | #

          5 stars for the bowtie, though.

    • bodmans
      bodmans
      May 2, 2018 at 12:16 am | #

      “BOWTIE.”

      • wwwhhattt
        wwwhhattt
        May 2, 2018 at 12:41 am | #

        “Are you sure these are margaritas?”
        “I’m sure I’m wearing a bowtie.”
        “…alright then.”

    • nightshade
      nightshade
      May 2, 2018 at 1:54 pm | #

      actually most upper class bars have a set up to an online drinks database where all they have to do is type on ingredients or a name and you get an encyclopedic listing of the drink like variations regional names ect ….. costs about 400 a year

      • Joshua Kronengold
        Joshua Kronengold
        May 2, 2018 at 5:00 pm | #

        And for everybody else, there’s Webtender, Cocktaildb, cocktailbuilder.com, etc.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          May 2, 2018 at 5:37 pm | #

          I’ve been looking for awhile for something online that’ll let you put in ingredients and suggest random drinks you can make.
          Webtender did, but it was so full of weird random user entered things it wasn’t very useful.

  2. King Daniel
    King Daniel
    May 2, 2018 at 12:02 am | #

    Who’s that blond guy in the last panel?

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      May 2, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

      The bartender. See the bowtie?

    • Fridge_Logik
      Fridge_Logik
      May 2, 2018 at 1:53 pm | #

      Seriously looks like a different person when you can see white in his eyes.

  3. Inahc
    Inahc
    May 2, 2018 at 12:02 am | #

    🙂

  4. Bagge
    Bagge
    May 2, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

    “Boss, I wish you had told me before hiring that bowtie dweeb as bartender.”

    “GALASSO DOES NOT HAVE TO EXPLAIN HIMSELF TO ANYONE.”

    And thus Jason was hired.

    • Waffliesinyoface
      Waffliesinyoface
      May 2, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

      hey now, don’t spoil tomorrow’s strip

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        May 2, 2018 at 12:13 am | #

        Galasso? Predictable? Naaaaah

        • butts
          butts
          May 2, 2018 at 1:29 am | #

          GALASSO SHOULD NOT HAVE TO CHANGE HIS ACTIONS SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY ARE ‘PREDICTABLE.’

    • Cholma
      Cholma
      May 2, 2018 at 12:39 am | #

      I’m more surprised to learn that Galasso has an HR Dept!

      • Cholma
        Cholma
        May 2, 2018 at 12:48 am | #

        Oops. Bartender said “Payroll” not “HR”. I reed gud.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          May 2, 2018 at 1:55 am | #

          It’s probably Pamela doing all the paperwork to keep the business running, and Galasso just runs the restaurant.

    • CleverTrousers
      CleverTrousers
      May 2, 2018 at 3:35 am | #

      I literally think this is what’s going on.

    • Abel Undercity
      Abel Undercity
      May 2, 2018 at 5:37 am | #

      “YOU ABANDONED YOUR POST AND THE BOWTIED ONE SEIZED IT. GALASSO APPRECIATES HIS DARING AND TACTICAL PROWESS.”

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        May 2, 2018 at 8:32 am | #

        “ALSO, HE IS IMPRESSIVELY DRESSED. ESPECIALLY THAT INTRICATELY KNOTTED PIECE OF CLOTH AROUND HIS THROAT. IT MAKES HIM APPEAR DISTINGUISHED AND KNOWLEDGEABLE. CLEARLY, HE IS BETTER SUITED FOR THIS JOB THAN YOU.”

    • hof1991
      hof1991
      May 2, 2018 at 9:27 am | #

      Bartenders would rather be busy than split tips.

  5. Keulen
    Keulen
    May 2, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    Walky, you’re not nearly British enough to wear a bowtie well.

  6. Cattleprod
    Cattleprod
    May 2, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    I’m pretty sure Walky couldn’t put a bow tie on. No one tell him about clip-ons.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      May 2, 2018 at 12:11 am | #

      This is Walky.

      He’d go for a Velcro bow tie instead.

      • Annonymouse
        Annonymouse
        May 2, 2018 at 10:36 am | #

        Velcro [tm] aka Felcron – that is so last century – Rare Earth Magnets is where it’s at.

        • Reltzik
          Reltzik
          May 2, 2018 at 11:32 am | #

          True enough, but Walky likes what Walky likes.

  7. Sporky
    Sporky
    May 2, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    Walky’s definitely had a lot of practice with BSing.

    • Solenoid
      Solenoid
      May 2, 2018 at 12:19 am | #

      he could get a BS in BS

      • Wizard
        Wizard
        May 2, 2018 at 12:40 am | #

        If he’d just apply himself, I’m confident Walky could earn a PhD in BS.

        • SeanR
          SeanR
          May 2, 2018 at 10:37 am | #

          Piled Higher and Deeper? (Punchline for an old joke.)

  8. StClair
    StClair
    May 2, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    “FREE BEER TOMORROW”

    jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never ever jam today

    • Stephen Bierce
      Stephen Bierce
      May 2, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

      Jam On It! (Yeah yeah, we know, we know) HUH!?

    • Pablo360
      Pablo360
      May 2, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

      My health teacher in hs had the same sign but for candy. Most people only fell for it once. Most people.

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      May 2, 2018 at 12:33 am | #

      Usually when a sign like “Free Beer Tomorrow” is posted it’s because the person posting the sign has a sense of humor.   That is *not* something I would normally ascribe to Galasso.

      • Pablo360
        Pablo360
        May 2, 2018 at 5:42 pm | #

        We don’t know he put up that sign; it might have been the bartender’s idea (she needs a tag, especially if we’re going to get more of Becky working at Galasso’s in the future, which I really hope we are, and not just because that means more Sayid).

  9. Yumi
    Yumi
    May 2, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    See, lying is a good thing.

    • Annonymouse
      Annonymouse
      May 2, 2018 at 10:39 am | #

      He is not lying, its marketing, spin, fake news …… errr …. Stating alternate reality facts …… uhmmmm…… Future facts ….. yeah, that’s it…. Future facts.

  10. Passchendaele
    Passchendaele
    May 2, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    ooooh, red’s free beer tomorrow, my favorite

  11. Pablo360
    Pablo360
    May 2, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    Alert! This is not a drill! We have a confirmed eye-whitey-bit on Jason Chesterfield!

    …since we can see the whites of his eyes (or one of them at least), does that confirm that he’s fired?

  12. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    May 2, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    I get to rerun a filk I did back in the later “It’s Walky!” days…
    Don’t turn around–Oh no!
    Tie Kommissar’s in town–Oh NO!
    You’re in his eye, and you’ll know why
    You’ll work for him and have to wear a TIE…

  13. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    May 2, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

    If Walky had a bow tie, he’d refuse to wear it on the basis of firmly-held conviction.

    • newllend(henryvolt)
      newllend(henryvolt)
      May 2, 2018 at 12:17 am | #

      It’swalky version of walky was like that, we talking about that one ?

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      May 2, 2018 at 12:18 am | #

      Leave his neck alone, you Windsor Nazis!

      http://www.itswalky.com/comic/ties/

      • hof1991
        hof1991
        May 2, 2018 at 9:30 am | #

        On a related note, many in the House of Windsor were Nazis or near-Nazis.

        • No Name
          No Name
          May 2, 2018 at 12:21 pm | #

          Last I checked, Edward and Wallis were the only Nazis and Phillip was the only near-Nazi (emphasis on “near”). George, Elizabeth and especially Phillip all hated the Nazis, especially because Edward (and especially especially Wallis) didn’t. Also last I checked, three does not make many. Is there anyone I missed? I admit I’m not a historian.

        • Agemegos
          Agemegos
          May 2, 2018 at 7:22 pm | #

          No. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor were Nazi supporters and may even have expected to rule the UK as their own quasi-fascist kingdom-cum-dictatorship. But in a typically confusing piece of terminology the Duke of Windsor was not even the head of the House of Windsor. In fact, there was a House of Windsor for twenty years before there was a duke of Windsor, and there has continued to be a House of Windsor for forty years after there was no longer a duke of Windsor.

          It’s an easy mistake to make, because the terminology is not what you’d expect. The guy whom the tie-knot is named after was a fascist, and the only difference between him and a Nazi was that he thought he ought to be in charge, not Hitler. But George V (head of the House of Windsor until 1936) held Nazism in contempt, while George VI (head of the House of Windsor from late 1936 and through the War) despised and fear it so much that he took secret unconstitutional action to support Winston Churchill and to prevent Britain from negotiating a settlement in 1940. And then there were all the other male-line descendants of Queen Victoria — they were mostly tories I suppose, but those who were of military age fought dutifully for Britain in WWII.

          • Agemegos
            Agemegos
            May 2, 2018 at 8:33 pm | #

            Well, there was Charles Edward, some-time Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He was technically made a member of the House of Windsor when it was created in 1917, but he was a German general at the time, and was stripped of his British peerages and princely status in 1919. He was a member of the Nazi Party and I think wore his Nazi Party uniform to [his cousin] George V’s state funeral. And his sons fought in the Wermacht in WWII. But I have to raise a quibble about whether they were actually members of the House of Windsor. At the time when Edward VII changed his family’s name from “House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha” to “House of Windsor” Charles Edward was not his subject — he was a reigning duke of the German Empire and also a German general: fighting against Edward VII and not subject to his jurisdiction. Charles Edward and his descendants continued and continue to call themselves the House of Saxe-Coburg, not the House of Windsor.

  14. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    May 2, 2018 at 12:13 am | #

    Walky is more clever than he thinks he is.

  15. Rukdug
    Rukdug
    May 2, 2018 at 12:13 am | #

    So in the Willis Multiverse, I presume bowties are the ultimate super weapon.

    • StClair
      StClair
      May 2, 2018 at 12:23 am | #

      No, that’d be a tree branch.

      • HeySo
        HeySo
        May 2, 2018 at 6:14 am | #

        No, that’d be a Dina.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      May 2, 2018 at 2:02 am | #

      Nah, just a cast-iron proof of being a professional in whatever job you need to con your way into!

  16. newllend(henryvolt)
    newllend(henryvolt)
    May 2, 2018 at 12:14 am | #

    Wow walky is good at this con stuff.

  17. Some Random Name
    Some Random Name
    May 2, 2018 at 12:19 am | #

    BUT WHAT’S HER NAME, WILLIS?

    • MM
      MM
      May 2, 2018 at 12:59 am | #

      Other Bartender, duh.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      May 2, 2018 at 2:18 am | #

      Sandy Macdonald? Anabella Hendricks? Heather Mackinlay?

      I’m just throwing random brands of liquor together, here.
      ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • The Chosen One
      The Chosen One
      May 2, 2018 at 3:35 am | #

      WHAT’S YOUR NAME, BILLIS?

      • C.T Phipps
        C.T Phipps
        May 2, 2018 at 8:35 am | #

        Barbara Tender

  18. Ainara
    Ainara
    May 2, 2018 at 12:25 am | #

    Walky’s bowtie is kept in the same place his spare shoes are

    • Dean
      Dean
      May 2, 2018 at 12:29 am | #

      The hallway floor?

      • No Name
        No Name
        May 2, 2018 at 12:11 pm | #

        Danny’s room

  19. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    May 2, 2018 at 12:35 am | #

    Remember, Walky’s smart, he’s just lazy.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      May 2, 2018 at 2:20 am | #

      A smart, lazy person will find the most efficient solution to a problem.

      Of course, that means confronting the problem in the first place, and we all know how good he is at that!

      • Mr. Random
        Mr. Random
        May 2, 2018 at 8:37 pm | #

        As a serial avoider, most of the time, if you focus extra hard on easy problems, other people will deal with your stuff on their own.

  20. InsertJoJosReference
    InsertJoJosReference
    May 2, 2018 at 12:42 am | #

    And thus pretty much everyone important eventually ended up working at Galasso’s

    • newllend(henryvolt)
      newllend(henryvolt)
      May 2, 2018 at 3:03 am | #

      Just as Galasso himself planned it. All hail Galasso!

  21. C.
    C.
    May 2, 2018 at 12:47 am | #

    Everybody Comes To Galasso’s

  22. Nobody
    Nobody
    May 2, 2018 at 12:50 am | #

    Bowties, the all access backstage passes to every bar ever

  23. brasca1
    brasca1
    May 2, 2018 at 12:54 am | #

    I’m more intrigued by the bartender. Wonder if she’s the second child Galasso would’ve had if Pam hadn’t died.

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      May 2, 2018 at 1:06 am | #

      Pamela’s alive in the Dumbiverse.

      • Kamino Neko
        Kamino Neko
        May 2, 2018 at 9:50 am | #

        That’s how they can have a second child here.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      May 2, 2018 at 1:51 am | #

      I doubt it; she’s obviously a lot older than Connie.

  24. Delicious Taffy
    Delicious Taffy
    May 2, 2018 at 1:01 am | #

    Guys is it okay to eat non stereotypical white food or am I literally colonising China and forcing everyone to eat only cornbread if I want a egg roll

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      May 2, 2018 at 1:02 am | #

      Sorry Twitter is wild today

      • JessWitt
        JessWitt
        May 2, 2018 at 1:07 am | #

        Is this about the prom cheongsam?

        • Delicious Taffy
          Delicious Taffy
          May 2, 2018 at 1:19 am | #

          Nah, just saw a few dozen tweets accusing folks of getting up in arms over “ethnic” food, like anyone was telling them they couldn’t eat anything from outside their region. I guess it got to me a bit.

          • StClair
            StClair
            May 2, 2018 at 1:23 am | #

            As someone whose pre-American ancestry is almost as pure Anglo-Gaelic as Jason’s (with the skin color albedo to prove it), I suppose that means I’m not allowed to eat anything that isn’t boiled.

          • Derek
            Derek
            May 2, 2018 at 2:25 am | #

            white people can eat ethnic food no problem as long as they don’t start claiming they “discovered” it or appreciate it better than the people that made it. In short, as long as you don’t pretend you know more about egg rolls than a Chinese person there’s no issue

          • Abel Undercity
            Abel Undercity
            May 2, 2018 at 5:39 am | #

            They can have my chopsticks when they pry them from my cold, dead hands.

            • Inahc
              Inahc
              May 2, 2018 at 7:33 pm | #

              indeed. 🙂 heck, I was in china long enough I was actually clumsy with a fork when I first came back.

    • Ferdinand Rosenthal
      Ferdinand Rosenthal
      May 2, 2018 at 2:16 am | #

      Most ‘ethnic’ food is a prefix-American mash anyway. In The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, Lee reveals that the mainland basically has no idea what half of the food we put on Menu is, with a lot of it just being made here in the late 1800s/early 1900s.

      So it’s like…it’s not stereotypically white. But it’s not ethnic, it just has that veneer, you know? Not that anyone would really stop eating food just because it came from somewhere else? I would hate it if people were denied the beauty of Shepherds Pie, Schnitzel, Fish N Chips, or an English Roast….

    • Tarmaniel
      Tarmaniel
      May 2, 2018 at 4:18 am | #

      I find it pretty absurd that the Chinese dress is getting more press than the public school in Gilead, Alabama that paddled 18 girls for showing up to prom with a too low neckline or too high skirts, and literally told them, “This is for your own good. If any of the boys had seen you, you would be feeling a lot worse right now.”

      • StClair
        StClair
        May 2, 2018 at 1:46 pm | #

        town name is on the nose. :p

        • Delicious Taffy
          Delicious Taffy
          May 2, 2018 at 9:30 pm | #

          Reminds me of that crappy handmaid book I read, years back.

  25. BenRG
    BenRG
    May 2, 2018 at 1:50 am | #

    “So, how did you get your job?”

    “A drunken prank or con game, I’m not sure which. Anyway, it turns out that, after a while, people just accepted that I was there and no-one was inclined to challenge me anymore!”

    • Chronos
      Chronos
      May 2, 2018 at 2:05 am | #

      “Now if only they’d actually put my real name on my checks instead of just ‘Bowtie'”.

  26. Chronos
    Chronos
    May 2, 2018 at 2:11 am | #

    …come to think of it, has anyone not family gotten a job at Galasso’s the normal way?

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      May 2, 2018 at 8:38 am | #

      Are you saying that Pamela and Connie had to go though a rigorous interview process before being hired?

      • Chronos
        Chronos
        May 4, 2018 at 8:45 am | #

        Hardly, but it’s common enough to use family members in a family business that I classified that as “normal” as well.

  27. Danni
    Danni
    May 2, 2018 at 2:16 am | #

    she is very cute

    • newllend(henryvolt)
      newllend(henryvolt)
      May 2, 2018 at 3:09 am | #

      We have so many characters already, I think the only way not to reach over compacity is if we gave the new characters small subplots and then quickly have it resolved so we can move back to the main cast.

      • Chronos
        Chronos
        May 2, 2018 at 5:25 am | #

        Fear the soggies may rule?

        • Danni
          Danni
          May 3, 2018 at 1:44 am | #

          those bastards will NEVER RULE

  28. newllend(henryvolt)
    newllend(henryvolt)
    May 2, 2018 at 3:13 am | #

    Watch how Jason doesn’t say anything he just sits back and let’s walky do his magic and things keep running smoothly.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      May 2, 2018 at 6:01 am | #

      When you’re obviously in a drunken fever-dream, there’s nothing to do but sit back and enjoy it.

      Then comes the hangover… Oh boy, the hangover, which may or may not involve a criminal complaint from Galasso.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        May 2, 2018 at 7:53 am | #

        Galasso does not do “Criminal complaints”

        If the bowtied one ousts the freckled one and will serve Galasso well, then that is the way it is.

  29. James
    James
    May 2, 2018 at 3:25 am | #

    So there’s still only two people tagged in this comic. Does that mean that everyone else who appeared in today’s and yesterday’s comics are actually shared hallucinations of Jason and Walky?

    • Ainara
      Ainara
      May 2, 2018 at 5:58 am | #

      Plot twist: every character in DoA has been a shared hallucination of Jason and Walky.

      ESPECIALLY Sal

      • 3oranges
        3oranges
        May 2, 2018 at 2:55 pm | #

        J: “If you were a girl you’d be very pretty”
        W: “Uh…you must be thinking of a twin sister I definitely have”
        J: “Yeah, makes sense, an affair with someone like that would explain why I got fired despite being a great TA”

  30. CianM1301
    CianM1301
    May 2, 2018 at 4:38 am | #

    Rolling Nat 20 on Persuasion there, Walky!

  31. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    May 2, 2018 at 5:16 am | #

    Jason got eyes !

  32. C.T Phipps
    C.T Phipps
    May 2, 2018 at 8:34 am | #

    Is there a Payroll at Galasso’s?

    Or did she just mean Conquest?

    • (((Mkvenner)))
      (((Mkvenner)))
      May 2, 2018 at 8:44 pm | #

      I don’t know and that is terrifying me.

  33. C.T Phipps
    C.T Phipps
    May 2, 2018 at 8:36 am | #

    So, who here assumes her name is Barbara Tender?

  34. Deanatay
    Deanatay
    May 2, 2018 at 8:42 am | #

    Walky eats too many Chicken McNuggets one night, passes out.

    He wakes up six months later. He is wearing a bowtie, and apparently is married to Dorothy. And is President of the US. And has fixed the economy, balanced the budget, saved the environment, and achieved world peace.

    He remembers none of this.

    • Cmd1095
      Cmd1095
      May 2, 2018 at 9:57 am | #

      So… dumbiverse Robin is Walky now huh?

  35. Sibre
    Sibre
    May 2, 2018 at 9:23 am | #

    I want to see Walky trying to dress and act like Jason for a while. Doing it all wrong, of course, but giving it a good try.

  36. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    May 2, 2018 at 11:31 am | #

    Prediction: Whoever runs Payroll also wears a bow tie.

    • Woobie
      Woobie
      May 2, 2018 at 11:07 pm | #

      If they’re capable, sure.

  37. Schpoonman
    Schpoonman
    May 2, 2018 at 2:33 pm | #

    Is anyone else over this arc?

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      May 2, 2018 at 5:22 pm | #

      oh, me, definitely

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        May 2, 2018 at 5:35 pm | #

        Well yeah, but that’s because you’re months in the future.

        • Inahc
          Inahc
          May 2, 2018 at 7:41 pm | #

          thatsthejoke.jpg

    • Pablo360
      Pablo360
      May 2, 2018 at 5:40 pm | #

      It’s still on the short side as recent arcs go. Based on my calculations, there have been 2505 DOA strips, so if this storyline ended right now, it would be ~14½ strips longer than the average storyline, which would still make tied for the second-shortest storyline since Book 4 (Up All Night to Get Vengeance, which I’m pretty sure is the one where Amazi-Girl brawls with Sal & crew).

    • Inahc
      Inahc
      May 2, 2018 at 7:37 pm | #

      nope 🙂 I am quite enjoying this.

      (otoh, I am still a bit grumpy about the Ore filler episode. wtf.)

  38. Tasha
    Tasha
    May 2, 2018 at 8:52 pm | #

    Still no name tag for our bartender? Hmmm.. I’m going to call her… Callie

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      May 2, 2018 at 10:50 pm | #

      says Barb now

      I’d suggest Marguerite but that might be too on the nose

  39. Agemegos
    Agemegos
    May 2, 2018 at 9:54 pm | #

    I just remembered. Tips! Bartenders in America depend on tips, so Galasso appointing an auxiliary bartender would take income right out of Barbara’s budget.

  40. Amanda
    Amanda
    May 2, 2018 at 11:06 pm | #

    the international student advisor in me is having a heart attack because this is what gets you sent back to England, Jason

  41. Woobie
    Woobie
    May 2, 2018 at 11:06 pm | #

    Dangit, the Kickstarter dies while I was trying to “Continue” and pay 🙁
    Where will I send my money now?

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