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by David M Willis on August 29, 2011 at 12:01 am
  • 06 - Yesterday Was Thursday
└ Tags: congressional aide, dean mchenry, dorothy, joe, leslie, robin, roz

Discussion (159) ¬

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  1. A. Colunga
    A. Colunga
    August 29, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

    Crap that’s my ploy!

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      August 29, 2011 at 2:14 am | #

      You wear glasses just for show too?

      • David Herbert
        David Herbert
        August 29, 2011 at 2:26 am | #

        I used to. They actually looked really good on me.

        • Fauxlosopher
          Fauxlosopher
          August 29, 2011 at 9:40 pm | #

          Brainy specs!

    • shadowsneakz
      shadowsneakz
      September 29, 2015 at 1:33 pm | #

      I would wear glasses just for show, but can’t be bothered to find any that fit.

  2. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    August 29, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

    Typical politician.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      August 29, 2011 at 12:15 am | #

      I thought politicians are lying, conniving,opportunistic, sell out ass holes.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        August 29, 2011 at 12:21 am | #

        I believe Mkvenner was refering to the ifact that image is so important to her.

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          August 29, 2011 at 12:24 am | #

          Oh. Sorry about that.

        • Mkvenner
          Mkvenner
          August 29, 2011 at 12:24 am | #

          Nailed it.

          • Mkvenner
            Mkvenner
            August 29, 2011 at 12:25 am | #

            Except for Bernie Sanders and the late Jack Layton.

            • Chad Guy
              Chad Guy
              August 29, 2011 at 11:16 am | #

              God damn it. You had to remind me that we lost Jack, didn’t you… He was my guy! I’m gonna miss that mustache….

              • Mkvenner
                Mkvenner
                August 29, 2011 at 8:05 pm | #

                I couldn’t stop cry when I first hear. 🙁

                • Narf
                  Narf
                  January 3, 2014 at 12:14 pm | #

                  Aw man, I know it happened years ago but now I’m thinking about Jack too. Dammit. 🙁

          • Swissaboo
            Swissaboo
            August 29, 2011 at 12:35 am | #

            First impressions are useful as all hell. Wearing glasses for the purposes of first impressions is not “typical politician” it is “competent individual.”

            • Jimmy
              Jimmy
              August 29, 2011 at 4:56 am | #

              Typical politician in that it’s manipulative. The fact that you view casual manipulation as a sign of competence isn’t what I’d call the standard.

            • Daibhid C
              Daibhid C
              August 29, 2011 at 5:32 am | #

              Weaing glasses for the purposes of first impressions and then announcing it in front of the people you were supposed to be making an impression on, on the other hand, is “typical Robin”.

              I wish I could wear glasses for first impressions. Unfortunately, I’d have to take off the ones I wear for extreme short-sightedness.

              • Rowen Morland
                Rowen Morland
                August 29, 2011 at 7:33 am | #

                Robin Desanto: “Too honest to be a no good sell out liar”.

                Could work as a campaign slogan.

                • wandering meme
                  wandering meme
                  August 29, 2011 at 11:35 am | #

                  Dorothy seems sold on her already…well, until she takes off the glasses and starts acting like the REAL Robin.

        • Icalasari
          Icalasari
          August 29, 2011 at 2:00 am | #

          iFact – Facts from Apple

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            August 29, 2011 at 6:47 am | #

            heh! 😛

            • wandering meme
              wandering meme
              August 29, 2011 at 11:38 am | #

              makers of the iRan, the iRack, and…umm…

              ohh iDon’tknow…

              • Horerczy
                Horerczy
                August 29, 2011 at 12:23 pm | #

                The iRack is on fire!

                We need to escape where’s the exit?!

                There is no Exit Strategy! People! I want you to stop focusing on the iRack and focus on our latest product The iRan!

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  August 29, 2011 at 6:48 pm | #

                  Puns like these can make some people iRate. 😛

                • wnderjif
                  wnderjif
                  August 31, 2011 at 6:10 am | #

                  madtv died so young… *tear*

              • Sjosten
                Sjosten
                August 29, 2011 at 7:20 pm | #

                Must. Refrain. From bad joke. about iRack.

              • Mkvenner
                Mkvenner
                August 29, 2011 at 8:17 pm | #

                😀 🙂 😀 🙂 😀 🙂 😀

    • shadowsneakz
      shadowsneakz
      September 29, 2015 at 1:34 pm | #

      Trust me, i know.

  3. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    August 29, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

    I can sense the IQ points dropping.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      August 29, 2011 at 12:10 am | #

      A perfect Gravatar for a perfect comment.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        August 29, 2011 at 12:19 am | #

        I was certain that no matter how Robin acted in today’s comic, this avatar would be either fitting or ironic.

        • Tristan J
          Tristan J
          August 29, 2011 at 12:22 am | #

          I declare you the Master of Avatar.

          *bows before your skill*

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            August 29, 2011 at 12:30 am | #

            Thank You, Thank You! 😀

            And so far, you seem to be sole recipient of Willis’s newest Grav.

            • andrew
              andrew
              August 29, 2011 at 12:36 am | #

              there any reason you change so much?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2rjbVlUKkE

              • Plasma Mongoose
                Plasma Mongoose
                August 29, 2011 at 12:41 am | #

                I secretly wish I had shapeshifting powers since I was young and this is the nearest I can get to doing that, at least online.

                • andrew
                  andrew
                  August 29, 2011 at 12:53 am | #

                  ahh *nod* i can relate do you make them or just copy crop?

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  August 29, 2011 at 1:30 am | #

                  Both, while I do crop some of them, I also edit the face/hair/clothes to suit my porpose, not to mention adding the red background to all my gravs.

                • creatorx2
                  creatorx2
                  August 29, 2011 at 2:49 am | #

                  Suit your porpoise

                  …

                  The imagery of that is quite amusing.
                  Google image search commence.

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  August 29, 2011 at 6:49 am | #

                  You mean images like this perhaps?

                  http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2011/3/23/a239dbdb-fa8a-48e5-bcc2-601dd06a8f8d.jpg

                • Rowen Morland
                  Rowen Morland
                  August 29, 2011 at 7:35 am | #

                  Nice answer! But it implies that you have other pseudo-shapeshifting tactics for real life.

  4. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    August 29, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

    Deany! Well, that’s that.

    • Undrave
      Undrave
      August 29, 2011 at 1:13 am | #

      DEANY! Awesome nickname skill there Robin :p

      • Rayri
        Rayri
        August 29, 2011 at 8:27 am | #

        I thought his name was Deany until I read that comment.

        • Suilean Dubh
          Suilean Dubh
          August 29, 2011 at 11:37 am | #

          I read it as “Danny” the first go-round. Then my brain kicked in.

          • PetsinWinter
            PetsinWinter
            August 29, 2011 at 12:53 pm | #

            I hear ya, man

  5. LimeTH
    LimeTH
    August 29, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    And Robin is still nutty as she’s always been.

    Called it.

    • Deuecebag
      Deuecebag
      August 29, 2011 at 12:10 am | #

      I am happy as well!

    • General Tekno
      General Tekno
      August 29, 2011 at 12:10 am | #

      Yep, the moment we got that last panel, I got reassured it’s the same old Robin.

      • wandering meme
        wandering meme
        August 29, 2011 at 11:29 am | #

        Then what comes next may quite possibly be political suicide.

    • Mkvenner
      Mkvenner
      August 29, 2011 at 12:14 am | #

      She’s a politician what do you expect?

  6. iSaidCandleja-
    iSaidCandleja-
    August 29, 2011 at 12:05 am | #

    Leslie’s facial expression has changed. She finally gave in to the comforting power of DATASS.

    • A. Colunga
      A. Colunga
      August 29, 2011 at 12:32 am | #

      I’d vote for DATASS.

      • Rikushadow5
        Rikushadow5
        August 29, 2011 at 1:22 am | #

        And now the question as to how Robin got elected anywhere ever has been answered.

      • wandering meme
        wandering meme
        August 29, 2011 at 11:12 am | #

        for a nickel?

  7. Aizat
    Aizat
    August 29, 2011 at 12:09 am | #

    The more things change, the more they stay the same.

  8. Brendan
    Brendan
    August 29, 2011 at 12:10 am | #

    Well, that answers that question.

  9. Joe
    Joe
    August 29, 2011 at 12:10 am | #

    This gives me hope.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      August 29, 2011 at 12:15 am | #

      Like the way Obama kind of hope?

      • Jacob
        Jacob
        August 29, 2011 at 12:18 am | #

        Well, only if it also gives him change.

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          August 29, 2011 at 12:22 am | #

          CHANGE! YOU GOT CHANGE? C’MON, HELP A GUY OUT. CHANGE!

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            August 29, 2011 at 12:31 am | #

            I see what you did there.

          • George
            George
            August 29, 2011 at 3:16 am | #

            My favorite pro-obama bumper sticker of all time reads, “If you fear change, give me yours”.

  10. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    August 29, 2011 at 12:11 am | #

    There are now two ongoing webcomics in existence which feature Robin DeSanto. Life is good.

  11. Eposi
    Eposi
    August 29, 2011 at 12:12 am | #

    but it remains… did she and Leslie have a thing? If they didn’t why does Leslie look like a love struct puppie?

    • iSaidCandleja-
      iSaidCandleja-
      August 29, 2011 at 12:17 am | #

      Fun fact: they’ve never met before but Leslie did name her left hand “Robin” during the last campaign season.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      August 29, 2011 at 12:17 am | #

      Maybe, maybe not. We’ll just have to wait and see.

    • T Campbell
      T Campbell
      August 29, 2011 at 12:19 am | #

      @Eposi, Leslie has been able to maintain crushes for years without any kind of compensation. In fact, some of her biggest crushes are fictional characters.

      I’m reserving judgment. Robin’s wacky side is still here, but it takes more than that for this version to be the “same old Robin.”

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      August 29, 2011 at 12:44 am | #

      Leslie wants to ‘climb onto Robin’s platform’ if you catch my drift.

    • gangler
      gangler
      August 29, 2011 at 12:58 am | #

      I’m really not seeing it. She’s enjoying herself to be sure, but thus far we haven’t really seen Leslie not enjoy teaching. I don’t really see anything on that face beyond professional pride, a healthy respect for her elected representative, and an entirely proper appreciation for the magnitude of the opportunity presented to her and her class.

      Even supposing she were lovestricken as you say though, it wouldn’t mean anything. Lovestricken =/ couple. I don’t know about you, but not every one of my unshakeable crushes has resulted in me together with the object of my affections. Celebrity crushes have an even worse history for that. Until we see some kind of moment of subtext between them, a shared glance, a knowing smirk, or some other mutually created piece of something or other I think we’re jumping leaps and bounds to the notion that there is or ever was anything between these two.

      • agentksilver
        agentksilver
        August 29, 2011 at 2:36 am | #

        Echoing this. Particularly if Robin agrees with her politics. And seeing her in person? Starstruck, too.

      • CP
        CP
        August 29, 2011 at 12:19 pm | #

        At what point did shippers start needing evidence to ship? The only requisite for a ship is the lack of counterevidence.

        • G.S.Mercs
          G.S.Mercs
          August 29, 2011 at 1:36 pm | #

          You really think counter-evidence can stop shippers?

        • gangler
          gangler
          August 29, 2011 at 2:52 pm | #

          Not saying they need evidence to ship, but right now they’re citing evidence and I’m not seeing it.

          I know full well the ship is capable of sailing completely independently of indications towards canon truthfulness or even indications against it, which makes it even stranger to see a statement like this.

  12. Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
    Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
    August 29, 2011 at 12:14 am | #

    HAHA! Joe’s reaction!

    • wandering meme
      wandering meme
      August 29, 2011 at 11:19 am | #

      What? he should be happy to participate in their upcoming sisterly rivalry…

      …considering what he might get out of it.

      • SolegitRR
        SolegitRR
        August 29, 2011 at 3:20 pm | #

        Oh my god, that is the perfect avvi for that comment. Well done sir.

  13. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    August 29, 2011 at 12:17 am | #

    Dotty seems happy, Joe less so.

    • iSaidCandleja-
      iSaidCandleja-
      August 29, 2011 at 12:19 am | #

      Joe just needs a nice pair of shades. He’d appear much happier if he were wearing sunglasses.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      August 29, 2011 at 12:20 am | #

      Does that mean that Dotty is…….falling for Robin?

      • Mkvenner
        Mkvenner
        August 29, 2011 at 12:27 am | #

        That would be unethical… I think.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          August 29, 2011 at 12:45 am | #

          For Robin maybe, but for Dotty, less so.

          • Scoops!
            Scoops!
            August 29, 2011 at 9:39 am | #

            Since it immediately followed Roz and Joe looking worried, I thought she was hoping to see some kind of come-uppance.

            Or, maybe she hopes to write a “female congressperson visits campus” article and get on more high-minded subjects than, “scandal sex tape!”

            • LazarusLong
              LazarusLong
              August 29, 2011 at 6:31 pm | #

              Dorothy sees a chance to get Robins “No Comment” on her sister Roz’s sex tape. Also Leslie is smiling ’cause of DATASS!

  14. MM
    MM
    August 29, 2011 at 12:18 am | #

    Oh, thank God. I’m all for these characters having separate existences from their transdimensional counterparts, but I think super-serious!Robin would have broken my brain. And maybe my heart.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      August 29, 2011 at 12:27 am | #

      Could be worse, she could be bosom buddies with Sarah Palin.

      • Undrave
        Undrave
        August 29, 2011 at 1:08 pm | #

        Worse shipping pair ever.

        • Jason
          Jason
          August 29, 2011 at 1:30 pm | #

          worsT!

        • G.S.Mercs
          G.S.Mercs
          August 29, 2011 at 1:39 pm | #

          No, no, no. That is ahrdly the worst shipping pair ever. All you have to remember is that the Huts from Star-Wars are hermaphrodites, and no bad shipping can ever hurt you, because this already destroyed your mind.

          • MM
            MM
            August 29, 2011 at 3:31 pm | #

            …No, I think Sarah Palin’s still worse. But then again, I’m a Harry Potter fan. It takes a lot for something ship-related to disturb me.

      • Mkvenner
        Mkvenner
        August 29, 2011 at 8:20 pm | #

        Or worse with Bachman! *Insert Dramatic music*

  15. Tristan J
    Tristan J
    August 29, 2011 at 12:20 am | #

    I see what you did there, Willis.

  16. ilvos01
    ilvos01
    August 29, 2011 at 12:24 am | #

    Leslie’s smiling like an idiot. They’re married! Have to be.

    • MM
      MM
      August 29, 2011 at 12:30 am | #

      Not necessarily. But there’s definitely something going on there. She’s got the Walky shiny-eyes!

    • Mr. V
      Mr. V
      August 29, 2011 at 12:46 am | #

      You know with Iowa being one one of the few states that recognizes same-sex marriage, Robin and Leslie being married is surprisingly plausible. Then again why would Roz willingly sign up for class taught by her sister-in-law if her sister terrifies her?

      • David
        David M Willis
        August 29, 2011 at 12:52 am | #

        Dumbing of Age takes place in Indiana.

        • Mr. V
          Mr. V
          August 29, 2011 at 1:00 am | #

          Whoops, my mistake. I remembered it took place in a state beginning with “I” and I assumed Iowa because the possible lesbian relationship between Robin and Leslie would make sense in this context.

          • Rikushadow5
            Rikushadow5
            August 29, 2011 at 6:08 am | #

            Robin could’ve been productive (hold your laughter until the end of the comment, please) enough to get some decent Homosexual Equality up in this mother. Hell, Robin managed to ban cancer when she was productive in the other ‘verse.

  17. Ryune
    Ryune
    August 29, 2011 at 12:24 am | #

    Nothing like a sound application of Brainy Specs to make people think you’re smarter than you are. Well played, Robin.

    • Mkvenner
      Mkvenner
      August 29, 2011 at 12:31 am | #

      Until you open you mouth.

  18. dchorror
    dchorror
    August 29, 2011 at 12:26 am | #

    Makes you wonder about Roz’s vision.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      August 29, 2011 at 12:36 am | #

      Roz damaged her vision from masturbating too much in front of the webcam.

  19. NF
    NF
    August 29, 2011 at 12:27 am | #

    Why do I get the feeling that instead of interviewing people for her article, Dorothy would rather put them in steel cage matches with each other?

    • Swissaboo
      Swissaboo
      August 29, 2011 at 12:36 am | #

      Nonono. She wants someone ELSE to put them in steel cage matches.

      You see, that way she doesn’t need to do any work.

  20. andrew
    andrew
    August 29, 2011 at 12:31 am | #

    AWSOME HE GOT A LINE!

    XD

  21. andrew
    andrew
    August 29, 2011 at 12:32 am | #

    yes im much more excited about the dead guy then robin

    • Mkvenner
      Mkvenner
      August 29, 2011 at 12:35 am | #

      He’s Not dead Jim!

      • andrew
        andrew
        August 29, 2011 at 1:53 am | #

        nope the big boss lives again

  22. Shifty
    Shifty
    August 29, 2011 at 12:32 am | #

    Whew! Same old Robin!

  23. Zuche
    Zuche
    August 29, 2011 at 12:34 am | #

    Okay, so not Darth Vader. Roz still looks pretty uneasy, so I’m not sure she’s as easygoing as her alterpart either..

  24. Dahlia
    Dahlia
    August 29, 2011 at 12:45 am | #

    Hee hee, some things NEVER change~! ^^

  25. Zap
    Zap
    August 29, 2011 at 12:56 am | #

    Oh, okay, so Robin’s still a lulzwutohrightLOL character.

  26. myfiststhirstfornecks
    myfiststhirstfornecks
    August 29, 2011 at 1:03 am | #

    Is Leslie smiling in the back?

    • Horerczy
      Horerczy
      August 29, 2011 at 1:21 pm | #

      She’s memorizing a grading curve.

  27. Joebo
    Joebo
    August 29, 2011 at 1:18 am | #

    I so called the purpose of those glasses!

  28. Twinsnake
    Twinsnake
    August 29, 2011 at 2:04 am | #

    Okay, if they’re just for show, why do the lenses even have a graduation?

    • agentksilver
      agentksilver
      August 29, 2011 at 2:31 am | #

      If they do, that might explain why she takes them off. Why take off something for show if they don’t hurt?

      Also Willis likes girls in glasses

  29. Romanticide
    Romanticide
    August 29, 2011 at 2:10 am | #

    Ehehe same old Robin 😀

  30. SolegitRR
    SolegitRR
    August 29, 2011 at 2:15 am | #

    Sweet, Robin is still Robin. Congresswoman DeSanto all up in her business gear and with her hair up looks like a pile of hot sex, by the way. I almost like Robin better with her hair up than down.

    • Rikushadow5
      Rikushadow5
      August 29, 2011 at 6:09 am | #

      PSL gets another one.

      • Rikushadow5
        Rikushadow5
        August 29, 2011 at 6:13 am | #

        Also, ironic Avvi/Comment Sync.

        • SolegitRR
          SolegitRR
          August 29, 2011 at 3:15 pm | #

          I know. I really do need to at least update it to a less frustrated looking Robin… Possibly a DoA Robin instead of the tired old SP! model…

  31. agentksilver
    agentksilver
    August 29, 2011 at 2:29 am | #

    There ya go. That’s my Robin. Maybe she doesn’t run on skittles but she’s still silly.

  32. Wix
    Wix
    August 29, 2011 at 2:41 am | #

    Hm, Robin’s good ol Robin, but all the adults just lost a lil respect for her from that line.

  33. Faust
    Faust
    August 29, 2011 at 2:54 am | #

    B…big boss???

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      August 29, 2011 at 3:19 am | #

      Naked Snake? Where?

    • SolegitRR
      SolegitRR
      August 29, 2011 at 3:22 pm | #

      My mind just got blown. What is he doing here????

      • insomniac
        insomniac
        September 1, 2011 at 12:46 am | #

        Being Dean, it should seem.

  34. Noel Schornhorst
    Noel Schornhorst
    August 29, 2011 at 3:02 am | #

    I’m quite happy that Robin has at least a bit of her zaniness… but perhaps she’s genuinely a mix of stoic responsible adult and crazy Cadbury cereal-fueled hijinks.

    • buttsbutts mcgee
      buttsbutts mcgee
      August 29, 2011 at 9:16 pm | #

      So now she’s competent without the ultraviolence to sucrose deposits but rendered scarily moreso when she eats the cadburies?

  35. Noel Schornhorst
    Noel Schornhorst
    August 29, 2011 at 3:03 am | #

    I confess… part of my reason for posting was to see what my new gravatar would be…

    I’ve been JOE’D!

  36. lightsabermario
    lightsabermario
    August 29, 2011 at 3:39 am | #

    Somewhere, Danny just lost a boner and has no idea why.

    • Tristan J
      Tristan J
      August 29, 2011 at 10:04 am | #

      I’ll bet it’s behind the couch.

  37. Anime fan
    Anime fan
    August 29, 2011 at 5:33 am | #

    Ruh roh.

  38. Rikushadow5
    Rikushadow5
    August 29, 2011 at 6:12 am | #

    Is anyone else noticing the irony in Roz making a sex tape and Robin getting involved, or am I the only one drawing that parallel between this plotline and Shortpacked!’s?

    Also, “Shortpacked!” is a grammar nightmare in sentences.

  39. MrGBH
    MrGBH
    August 29, 2011 at 6:14 am | #

    Yep, Robin is a multiversal constant.
    And is it just me, or is Leslie checking out her arse in the last panel?

  40. Raymustang
    Raymustang
    August 29, 2011 at 7:27 am | #

    aaaaaand there’s our Robin.

  41. Spiffster13
    Spiffster13
    August 29, 2011 at 8:09 am | #

    Sorry for asking weird questions but here it is anyway

    I know that this takes place in Indiana, but does Robin represent an Indiana district or is she a rep from another state?

    • Floorman
      Floorman
      August 29, 2011 at 9:04 am | #

      She was introduced in Friday’s strip as “your congresswoman”. On the About page, it says DOA takes place at Indiana University. Assuming they’re at the Bloomington campus, that would make Robin the representative for Indiana’s 9th district. Assuming I have my facts straight and some clue as to what I’m talking about, anyway.

    • ryan
      ryan
      August 29, 2011 at 9:28 am | #

      in the previous strip, leslie introduces robin as their representative. so yeah, she’s an indiana rep.

      • begbert2
        begbert2
        August 29, 2011 at 10:55 am | #

        Or she was using the language a little loosely.

        • gangler
          gangler
          August 29, 2011 at 3:41 pm | #

          So in this instance “Your” would mean “Someone else’s”?

  42. OmegaDez
    OmegaDez
    August 29, 2011 at 10:09 am | #

    Noooooooo I wanted her to keep the glasses D:

    • Horerczy
      Horerczy
      August 29, 2011 at 12:31 pm | #

      You sound like Danny.

  43. begbert2
    begbert2
    August 29, 2011 at 10:51 am | #

    The stated premise of this comic is to take his existing, familiar, characters and put them in a new universe so that he could tell different stories with him. If you were expecting curve balls here, then you haven’t been paying much attention.

    Or to put another way: If Willis has wanted to create completely new characters, he would have made completely new characters, not taken existing characters’ faces and slapped them on unassociated personalites that would have seemed strange and out-of-characters to many of the fans and probably himself.

    Yeah, maybe someday he’ll make “Walkyverse: Shattered Glass”, but this isn’t it.

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      August 29, 2011 at 10:53 am | #

      The comment I was replying to vanished. Weird. I suppose the magic comment-vanishing fairies might as well make this one disappear too then.

    • turkishproverb
      turkishproverb
      August 29, 2011 at 12:46 pm | #

      In fairness, while Willis made what he was doing obvious artists re-using character designs for unrelated characters is nothing new. Heck, it was a staple of Osamu Tezuka’s work, and he (or one of his followers) even coined the “star system” name for it. One drawn “actor” playing many parts.

  44. XLR
    XLR
    August 29, 2011 at 11:19 am | #

    Leslie looks happy 🙂

  45. Ravux
    Ravux
    August 29, 2011 at 11:35 am | #

    And then serious business gets down.

  46. Horerczy
    Horerczy
    August 29, 2011 at 12:29 pm | #

    And then it turns out that Tobin is really super freaky levels of Right Wing.

  47. Caffienated
    Caffienated
    August 29, 2011 at 12:37 pm | #

    I’m wondering what the hell she’s gonna do. It’d be awesome if she has her sombrero.

  48. airfox
    airfox
    August 29, 2011 at 2:09 pm | #

    Loving all reactions in this; Joe’s, Roz’s, Dorothy’s and the comments. 🙂

    Great that DoA-Robin doesn’t appear to be much different than SP-Robin.

    -airfox

  49. Chupacabraconvoy
    Chupacabraconvoy
    August 29, 2011 at 5:49 pm | #

    I don’t know if anyone said it yet, but I think the ultimate test to determine how different Dumbverse Robins is different from Walkyverse! Robin is to:

    1: Smell her. If it is anything like Skittles, than we have a strong clue.

    2: Observe her conduct around a bag of Skittles.

    3: Give her a bowl full of Cadbury Eggs and milk and cereal, and Observe.

  50. Tetroga
    Tetroga
    August 29, 2011 at 6:07 pm | #

    Well at least she has a sense of humor, haha.

  51. TsunamiJane
    TsunamiJane
    August 29, 2011 at 6:20 pm | #

    Joe says “Uh oh” because he totally just got a boner.

  52. Kelsey
    Kelsey
    August 29, 2011 at 6:24 pm | #

    Robin knows her stuff.

    Also, I have a feeling Dorothy won’t maintain her “Sweet” opinion for long. Just a hunch.

  53. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    August 29, 2011 at 11:10 pm | #

    Well, that’s one assumption from Friday busted. Wonder how long it will take to bust the rest.

  54. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    August 29, 2011 at 11:55 pm | #

    I’d say leave it on. Robin looks professional with glasses

  55. SgtNumnum
    SgtNumnum
    November 7, 2013 at 4:45 pm | #

    How much longer until Robin does something ridiculous?I’m guessing five seconds.

  56. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    April 13, 2015 at 6:43 pm | #

    Stop grinning that much, Les.

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today in #9chickweedlane i learned we have to be shown children learning and relearning what sex is, for Reasons, even though they already clearly know and have prepared nuanced questions about it! also that Gran must hate, if she's still alive, how Old Juliette is the same but with gray hair
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hey, FANTASTIC FOUR got an Eisner nomination for best ongoing series!! I think this news is... really great! Fantastic even :0
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btw if you're one of those rando bluesky weirdos who doesn't know me but sees me in the wild being sarcastic and don't know i'm being sarcastic because you haven't taken like 30 seconds to, like, maybe look at my user profile or something, keep walking, you're not going to score internet points here
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