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Impulsive

by David M Willis on September 22, 2019 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - Birthday Pursuit
└ Tags: danny, mike, sal, walky

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  1. Foxhack
    Foxhack
    September 22, 2019 at 12:03 am | #

    Is he becoming aware of his Dannying things up?

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      September 22, 2019 at 12:03 am | #

      He’s been “aware” for a long time, no thanks to his parents.

    • Sazazezer
      Sazazezer
      September 22, 2019 at 6:14 am | #

      Hey, are you guys using ‘Danny’ as verb for when someone makes a small mistake?

      • Tisroero
        Tisroero
        September 22, 2019 at 6:27 am | #

        Yeah, the phrase is ‘Danning,’ as in to Dan something, as Joe coined.

      • AJ
        AJ
        September 22, 2019 at 11:25 am | #

        …Yes.

        (I get that reference, because I’m streets ahead).

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      September 22, 2019 at 9:06 am | #

      He is a Woke Danny.

  2. Kravis
    Kravis
    September 22, 2019 at 12:03 am | #

    You know what else is short, sexy mama?!

    My chances of beating Ana to the punch!

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      September 22, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

      Longer than you think.

    • Auron
      Auron
      September 22, 2019 at 12:08 am | #

      TFW you posted that on a page where Ana hasn’t even commented.

      • Kravis
        Kravis
        September 22, 2019 at 12:24 am | #

        Yeah, I REALLy didn’t count on THAT.

  3. sirconanad
    sirconanad
    September 22, 2019 at 12:03 am | #

    Truer words have never been spoken, Sal.

    Is that a fourth wall break? Broken? Burnt?

    • The Chosen One
      The Chosen One
      September 22, 2019 at 4:56 am | #

      I half expected her to look up from the last panel directly at the camera as I processed the line.

    • Sunny
      Sunny
      September 22, 2019 at 9:26 am | #

      I think the term is “leaning on the 4th wall”.

  4. fire_daws
    fire_daws
    September 22, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

    Damn it Danny, I’m fully invested in this ship and you’re sinking it >.<

    • He Who Abides
      He Who Abides
      September 22, 2019 at 12:15 am | #

      At least he’s realized that revenge-dating Sal isn’t what’s right. I think they’d make a great couple, but not if the original motivation is “haHAha, her brother won’t be able to date her if/when I screw this up!”. Gives me hope for the boy.

      Now, can we please stop using “Danny” as a synonym for “to screw things up”?

      • Kyrik Michalowski
        Kyrik Michalowski
        September 22, 2019 at 12:19 am | #

        I second this notion of stopping the use of Danny as a term for blowing it.

        • Leorale
          Leorale
          September 22, 2019 at 12:32 am | #

          I believe that went out of style super quickly when we saw that Danny’s parents did it to him.

          • Kyrik Michalowski
            Kyrik Michalowski
            September 22, 2019 at 12:44 am | #

            When did we see that? It’s been a while.

          • Hoboturtle
            Hoboturtle
            September 22, 2019 at 12:47 am | #

            Shit that why the Joyce x Jacob situation seems so familiar to me. It’s the exact same thing Amber did to Danny when his parents showed up, except at least in that case Amber WAS dating Danny even if he didn’t know it.

            • Diner Kinetic
              Diner Kinetic
              September 22, 2019 at 1:30 am | #

              And amber was looking for protection from her abusive father, as supposed to looking for some sweet Jacob booty

        • bhtooefr
          bhtooefr
          September 22, 2019 at 9:32 am | #

          “blowing it”

          What about if/when there’s a Slipshine of Danny and Ethan?

          • He Who Abides
            He Who Abides
            September 22, 2019 at 10:28 pm | #

            In that case, an exception will not only be granted, but mandatory.

      • Sporky
        Sporky
        September 22, 2019 at 12:23 am | #

        Are people still doing that? I thought we stopped 5 years ago.

        • He Who Abides
          He Who Abides
          September 22, 2019 at 10:29 pm | #

          Literally the first post on this page.

    • Kyoulkoa
      Kyoulkoa
      September 22, 2019 at 12:19 am | #

      Self sinking ship

      • Tacos
        Tacos
        September 22, 2019 at 12:26 am | #

        I’m pretty sure that’s called a submarine.

        • Marsh Maryrose
          Marsh Maryrose
          September 22, 2019 at 12:58 am | #

          Unless it is irreparably damaged, a submarine also be self-rising. This ain’t that.

          • Jamie
            Jamie
            September 22, 2019 at 1:16 am | #

            Yet.

        • Marsh Maryrose
          Marsh Maryrose
          September 22, 2019 at 2:31 am | #

          I can’t believe it took me this long to think, “No, that’s a hoagie.” I am getting old and my mind is growing feebler by the day.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            September 22, 2019 at 9:40 am | #

            The sandwich is a grinder (“grinda”).

    • jeffepp
      jeffepp
      September 22, 2019 at 2:47 am | #

      Well, he just realized Sal isn’t the Walkerton he wants to date right now.

    • Fuchs Sakemann
      Fuchs Sakemann
      September 22, 2019 at 11:18 am | #

      Okay, your picture is absolutely making me hear Claire saying that, because she would unquestionably be one to say that.

      • He Who Abides
        He Who Abides
        September 22, 2019 at 10:31 pm | #

        fire_daws has a Claire gravatar for any occasion. Can’t wait to see Stoned Claireface.

  5. shadowcell
    shadowcell
    September 22, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

    Dumbing of Age Book 10: Unlike This Semest–dammit

    • Clif
      Clif
      September 22, 2019 at 11:32 am | #

      Life is short and then Mike appears.

  6. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    September 22, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

    Oh please, It’s only been a decade.

  7. BBCC
    BBCC
    September 22, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

    I mean, tell her she’s wrong, Danny.

    And it depends entirely on when you choose to be impulsive Danny. For example – asking out someone cute? Good time. Whether or not to use protection? Bad time.

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      September 22, 2019 at 9:34 am | #

      Impulsively choosing to add extra layers of protection? Good time, unless those layers are gonna interact poorly.

  8. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    September 22, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

    *watches the fanwork pages light up with “Sal is Lazarus Long” theories*

    • Stephen Bierce
      Stephen Bierce
      September 22, 2019 at 12:08 am | #

      Time is walkin’
      Time is wastin’
      Time you ain’t no friend of mine

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      September 22, 2019 at 12:26 am | #

      By god, I think you are on to something there. Or rather, the as-yet hypothetical theorists are on to something there.

    • jeffepp
      jeffepp
      September 22, 2019 at 3:45 am | #

      Now you’re just encouraging the twincest shippers.

  9. Regalli
    Regalli
    September 22, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

    I see Mike in the corner. If this sets up Danny/Mike I will flip a truck into Ruth’s dorm room.

    • asingleplum
      asingleplum
      September 22, 2019 at 12:10 am | #

      I think that could be an interesting dynamic with them both having complicated feelings for Ethan.

    • Miri
      Miri
      September 22, 2019 at 12:16 am | #

      Danny/Mike as a one-off shag that sets off various explosive plot repercussions I could appreciate.

      Sal/Mike would anger me. Sal has her own confidence and intimacy issues but she’s working on them, and even though it seems to have worked out OK for Ethan, I don’t want her to get hurt and Mike can be cruel… She’s done absolutely nothing to deserve that.

      While Danny has thankfully realised just what an idiot he was being I think he’d be making that mistake with a better understanding of the risks going in.

    • Tacos
      Tacos
      September 22, 2019 at 12:28 am | #

      Walky is also there. Time to get super awkward.

    • Terry
      Terry
      September 22, 2019 at 12:41 am | #

      Nope, Mike made a promise that he would mess with Ethan and leave Danny alone. And for all his chaotic nature, he is honest. I trust Mike to keep his promise. What I would believe is that Mike ends up talking to Danny and in clamping down his default to mess with him ends up genuinely liking him and falling into affection in the same way that Danny connected with Sal. But Ethan thinks that Mike is getting closer in a convoluted plot and gets angry that Mike broke his promise. Leaving Mike angry and conflicted about not being believed because of the reputation that he so carefully constructed for himself. At which point, he opens up to Danny and shares things that he has avoided telling anyone before even the people he has always considered to be friends. This, of course serves as backstory exposition on Mike for us, the audience.

      • Clif
        Clif
        September 22, 2019 at 11:37 am | #

        Good luck with that.

      • zee
        zee
        September 22, 2019 at 12:16 pm | #

        ohhh man id love that

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      September 22, 2019 at 1:10 am | #

      Yeah not the type of impulsive I’d want Danny diving into.

      Date Evan instead, the next best thing after Ethan.

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      September 22, 2019 at 2:35 am | #

      “That’s Mike in the corner
      That’s Mike in the spot…light”

      (But it’s Joyce who’s losing her religion.)

  10. Bunk
    Bunk
    September 22, 2019 at 12:11 am | #

    Yes, Sal. It’s been a brisk 9 year long semester

    • AntJ
      AntJ
      September 22, 2019 at 12:24 am | #

      and we aren’t even to midterms yet

  11. newllend(henryvolt)
    newllend(henryvolt)
    September 22, 2019 at 12:11 am | #

    Huh well there you have it these two ain’t happening
    It’s all good their friendship is just as sweet.

    Anyway Danny really seemed to have to turned himself around, really earned that “good egg” title.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      September 22, 2019 at 12:15 am | #

      May also be implying the boat maybe leaving the dock on him and Ethan, given Ethan’s enjoying playing the field.

    • Cass
      Cass
      September 22, 2019 at 4:52 pm | #

      Not happening right now, but Danny’s on his third “one-person” in under two months, it doesn’t actually take his affections that long to shift if he gives up on Ethan.

  12. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    September 22, 2019 at 12:14 am | #

    Meta as fuck from Sal.

    • Council
      Council
      September 22, 2019 at 1:08 am | #

      Also, fuck meta from Sal.

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        September 22, 2019 at 2:40 am | #

        Also, Sal fucks Meta.

        (Meta has great arm tats.)

  13. Proto
    Proto
    September 22, 2019 at 12:15 am | #

    Oh no, subject “Sal” has become self-aware! Quick, deploy a wacky gag to distract her!

    • jeffepp
      jeffepp
      September 22, 2019 at 3:49 am | #

      She’s been self-aware most of the comic. She keeps looking at the camera. She sees us, seeing her, watching us, watching her.

  14. Woomy
    Woomy
    September 22, 2019 at 12:22 am | #

    Ain’t that the truth

  15. Raven Stromdans
    Raven Stromdans
    September 22, 2019 at 12:27 am | #

    I empathize with Danny so hard here. It’s hard for the average person to understand, but some people are just not built for being impulsive, because our impulses are almost always too ill-conceived to be safe to indulge.

    • Falcon
      Falcon
      September 22, 2019 at 12:32 am | #

      Exactly this. My heart provides the power, but a lifetime of experience has put my brain in the driver’s seat for anything important.

    • Svankensen
      Svankensen
      September 22, 2019 at 12:52 am | #

      Experience tempers and guides impulses too. I take Sal’s meaning here to be “Don’t overthink it”.

    • CJ
      CJ
      September 22, 2019 at 1:45 am | #

      The problem with never being impulsive is that the one time an impulse slips through, it’s bound to be one that messes things up due to lack of practice.
      The less you trust your impulses (at least as a source of information on what you like/dislike in life) the more the logical part of your brain tries to keep you at peace with stuff you shouldn’t really be at peace with.

      • Falcon
        Falcon
        September 22, 2019 at 3:48 am | #

        If you shouldn’t be at peace with something yet your brain says to just lie down and accept it, then perhaps the logic you’re relying upon is flawed to begin with.

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      September 22, 2019 at 2:47 am | #

      I’ve learned over the years that when it comes to social behavior, my instincts are very, very bad. (“Bad” in the sense of making other people feel awkward, or worse.)

      Being more impulsive might work for Danny…or not, depending on the metric being applied.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      September 22, 2019 at 3:04 am | #

      I think I’m far too socially awkward to be impulsive.

  16. Tacos
    Tacos
    September 22, 2019 at 12:30 am | #

    Oh good. Danny’s good egg-ness has reasserted itself and he realized how fucked up what he was trying to do was before it went too far.

    • abysswatcher1993
      abysswatcher1993
      September 22, 2019 at 1:01 am | #

      Epiphanies don’t stick around too much in this universe. Soon he and Joe will play video games for a whole night again.

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        September 22, 2019 at 9:29 am | #

        Watch out for those two wild rebels.

      • JBento
        JBento
        September 22, 2019 at 1:13 pm | #

        How… innocuous? I’m not really sure where you wanted to go with this.

  17. Falcon
    Falcon
    September 22, 2019 at 12:35 am | #

    The strip in which Danny sinks his own ship is the one which finally gets me to board the ship. Sal and newly matured Danny might actually work by balancing each other out.

    • Fuchs Sakemann
      Fuchs Sakemann
      September 22, 2019 at 11:16 am | #

      I mean, it’d likely get him to stop playing uke (I actually like the hat personally, so…).

      • sirconanad
        sirconanad
        September 22, 2019 at 4:17 pm | #

        maybe he’ll pick up a real instrument instead, like a majestic trombone

        https://youtu.be/wPpB7y18ps8

      • Zatar
        Zatar
        September 22, 2019 at 10:16 pm | #

        Depends on what you mean by Uke really.

  18. Inahc
    Inahc
    September 22, 2019 at 12:48 am | #

    Rot13 of the day: Rivy qnqf vapbzvat

  19. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    September 22, 2019 at 1:00 am | #

    That can be technically true if Willis takes the equivalent of a standard human life to finish this story. He would become a cyborg that survives through martian technology and narrative powers like in the works of Paul Shapera.

    • Bathymetheus
      Bathymetheus
      September 22, 2019 at 8:02 pm | #

      Yes, but when he’s no longer human, what would be his interest in continuing to tell a story about humans?

  20. Juanoku
    Juanoku
    September 22, 2019 at 1:05 am | #

    When Ana didn’t comment on a strip…
    WAIT W H A T

  21. Samantha Johnson
    Samantha Johnson
    September 22, 2019 at 1:13 am | #

    Awww this is so sweet Danny is awlward and a doof but deep down he really is caring and doesn’t intend to hurt people and I really do like his and Sals relationship. I could ship it but not right now they have a lot tov work through before that

  22. Zellgato
    Zellgato
    September 22, 2019 at 1:21 am | #

    Eh i ship em

  23. Bagge
    Bagge
    September 22, 2019 at 1:37 am | #

    Did… did Sal just flirt with Danny?

    • abysswatcher1993
      abysswatcher1993
      September 22, 2019 at 1:45 am | #

      Or just suggested that he should be more adventurous.. yeah, she flirted with him.

    • fire_daws
      fire_daws
      September 22, 2019 at 4:56 am | #

      Yes, but Danny’s not flirting back! I can only keep this shipping face on for so long until the comic shifts back to the inevitable, disastrous cheating relationship that is Joyce and Jacob.

  24. Dracke
    Dracke
    September 22, 2019 at 1:47 am | #

    Man, be a bit more slutty, you are in college, and you are single, date around until you get together with someone special, waiting around for people is a waste of time

  25. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    September 22, 2019 at 1:54 am | #

    Sal knows the truth! The semester will never end. They will never age or graduate. IU is just a shared purgatory where they live in the suffering of eternal college drama!

  26. Keulen
    Keulen
    September 22, 2019 at 2:57 am | #

    This universe’s versions of Sal and Danny might actually make a pretty good couple now that I think about it. Damn it now I’m shipping more conflicting ships.

  27. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    September 22, 2019 at 4:02 am | #

    “Unlike this semester, life is short.”

    THAT is going to be the title of the entire Dumbing of Age book collection once the 45-volume set has been completed.

    • sirconanad
      sirconanad
      September 22, 2019 at 4:42 pm | #

      Just 45 volumes? You’re being optimistic here.

  28. Chronos
    Chronos
    September 22, 2019 at 4:05 am | #

    Whew, Danny. You really had me worried there for a second.

  29. Nenja
    Nenja
    September 22, 2019 at 5:00 am | #

    Danny looks very cute in the first panel.

  30. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    September 22, 2019 at 5:26 am | #

    That’s one of the best catch line I ever heard

  31. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    September 22, 2019 at 6:51 am | #

    Danny is really a good guy and Sal like that. Now I wonder if he will help Walky with mat like he did with Sal. I like the idea, but I fear too that some trouble between them will begin.

  32. Zaxares
    Zaxares
    September 22, 2019 at 7:46 am | #

    Date date date date date date! 😀 C’mon, Danny, take the hint already!

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      September 22, 2019 at 8:03 am | #

      He literally just said he’s not actually into her.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        September 22, 2019 at 9:14 am | #

        As the audience we don’t have to believe what characters say, even when it’s polite to do with real people.

      • CarcinoGeneticist
        CarcinoGeneticist
        September 22, 2019 at 12:07 pm | #

        I didn’t interpret that as “not being into her,” but rather “I’m not currently dating you therefore speaking to you like that was an inappropriate impulse and I’m sorry.”

      • BenRG
        BenRG
        September 22, 2019 at 12:43 pm | #

        No, he just said that he doesn’t think it’s a good idea. That’s a slightly different thing but I get what he’s saying. He’s two-for-two crashing-and-burning a romantic attachment so far this semester (I mean… just three months?) and I can see why he thinks that, no matter who he feels and what are Sal’s feelings in return, it is a bad idea.

        • Bysmerian
          Bysmerian
          September 22, 2019 at 1:59 pm | #

          I’m not sure I agree with that. Like JBento says below, he’s romantically interested in Ethan at the moment, and he really wants the emotional connection as much as anything; a fling, even if wholly consensual and without consequence, just isn’t him.

          • Zaxares
            Zaxares
            September 23, 2019 at 6:52 am | #

            I think it could be interpreted both ways, yeah. Judging from Danny’s past behaviour and his current body language, I interpreted it as “… I COULD see the two of us together, should we choose to explore it, but I’m currently into somebody else and I’m DEFINITELY not the kind of guy who dates/pursues a lot of people at once, so I’m not comfortable with pursuing you while I have a current attraction going on.”

  33. David Doty
    David Doty
    September 22, 2019 at 8:49 am | #

    Mike, remember your promise to not to your Mike things to Danny.

    • Bysmerian
      Bysmerian
      September 22, 2019 at 2:01 pm | #

      Whether deliberately or not, Mike is already doing Mike things to Danny. If he expected a no-strings-attached banging to free Ethan to go out and have fun with other guys, then he’s put him in a dating space that is entirely outside of what Danny wants and needs right now.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        September 22, 2019 at 7:21 pm | #

        His stated intention was to do his Mike things to Ethan in order to mess with Danny.
        Kind of hard to argue that it’s not working.

        • Zatar
          Zatar
          September 22, 2019 at 10:08 pm | #

          It is working but not necessarily how Mike would like it to.

  34. SpaceshipPilot
    SpaceshipPilot
    September 22, 2019 at 9:17 am | #

    I’ve forgotten, where did the nickname “wonderbread” actually come from?

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      September 22, 2019 at 9:27 am | #

      Like the brand of bread, Danny is extremely white.

      • Kaz
        Kaz
        September 22, 2019 at 10:00 am | #

        I’m pretty sure it’s because he’s just plain, there’s no “flavor” to him, just like normal wonderbread.

    • zee
      zee
      September 22, 2019 at 12:20 pm | #

      the funny thing is thats the nickname i gave to an irl friend of mine who looks kinda like danny (totally unintentional)

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      September 22, 2019 at 6:38 pm | #

      I actually had to google to find out if Wonder Bread is still being produced.

  35. kilgaen
    kilgaen
    September 22, 2019 at 10:31 am | #

    Meta

  36. nooB
    nooB
    September 22, 2019 at 11:46 am | #

    Oh hey, there’s Mike. How about you impulsively hit it up with Mike?

  37. zee
    zee
    September 22, 2019 at 12:22 pm | #

    Man im…really glad these two didn’t start dating. A good, close friendship between two members of the opposite sex, who do feel attraction to the opposite sex but just not each other is kinda rare in media sometimes. Seeing as how thats most of my friendships, I’m really happy when i see it written

    • Charlotte
      Charlotte
      September 22, 2019 at 1:08 pm | #

      I agree, and I hope they just stay good friends.
      (I also really like Joyce and Jacob as friends, but with recent developments, I don’t see that lasting…)

  38. BenRG
    BenRG
    September 22, 2019 at 12:41 pm | #

    This is me, but I think that Sal is telling Danny that she wouldn’t automatically say no to a romantic approach from him but Danny’s been burned too often in too short a time and he’s just going to let it drop for now.

    • JBento
      JBento
      September 22, 2019 at 1:10 pm | #

      That’s not why Danny’s dropping it. Danny’s dropping it because he’s not currently interested in dating, he’s currently interested in DATING ETHAN, which is a different thing.

      • a snow mouse
        a snow mouse
        September 22, 2019 at 6:43 pm | #

        Yep! Here’s hoping he acts on it now that he’s realized it’s what he wants, and Sal has recommended to be impulsive…

  39. JBento
    JBento
    September 22, 2019 at 1:12 pm | #

    The Danny Train has now reversed course and is no longer going to wreck. Wrecklessness attained due to a lack of recklessness.

  40. ReFlex76
    ReFlex76
    September 22, 2019 at 4:33 pm | #

    Panel 4: “Meh, his lil’ white dick couldn’t be worse than Jason’s weird European dick.”

  41. a snow mouse
    a snow mouse
    September 22, 2019 at 6:42 pm | #

    Wow, Danny didn’t Joyce it up! I’m impressed.

  42. a snow mouse
    a snow mouse
    September 22, 2019 at 6:44 pm | #

    Funny how life is short, but longer than a semester, which is long.

    Although if it takes a hundred years to get through this semester, then we’ll talk…

  43. TrueVCU
    TrueVCU
    September 22, 2019 at 9:42 pm | #

    Doom incoming, panel 4

  44. Roborat
    Roborat
    September 23, 2019 at 3:29 pm | #

    I love the fourth wall poking Sal is doing here.

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