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by David M Willis on April 4, 2012 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - The First Step Towards Recovery
└ Tags: amber, danny, sarah

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  1. Sensedog
    Sensedog
    April 4, 2012 at 12:01 am | #

    Happiness is not for everyone, apparently.

    • ViralBiae
      ViralBiae
      April 4, 2012 at 7:57 pm | #

      Not for the genre savvy, anyway.

  2. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    April 4, 2012 at 12:01 am | #

    TRANSPARENT AS GLASS

  3. OhHayMike
    OhHayMike
    April 4, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    Well. There’s that.

  4. Aizat
    Aizat
    April 4, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    Is that burger white?

    • Bekah
      Bekah
      April 4, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

      I bet it’s supposed to be an english muffin.

    • meanderling
      meanderling
      April 4, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

      college food.

      • Herbert
        Herbert
        April 4, 2012 at 12:27 am | #

        University food on the other hand, rocks.

        • Twentydragon
          Twentydragon
          April 4, 2012 at 1:13 am | #

          Ehhh, not really. The only place to get remotely decent food at my university is the pub downstairs, and a microwaved floppy-burger and fries costs $7, with no drink. There is a decent burger, though, but it costs $6.50 by itself.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            April 4, 2012 at 6:05 pm | #

            I been to Flinders University (visitor, not student) and the central part is like a mall of sorts with things like ATMs that dispense $10 notes (normally ATMs have only $20 & $50 notes), Hair Salon, Pharmacy, supermarket, Post Office, food court, coffee shop and tavern (legal drinking age is 18 in Australia).

            • dusk
              dusk
              June 24, 2012 at 4:21 am | #

              At my school, I have to make my own food. Curse you culinary degree!

          • Led
            Led
            July 30, 2012 at 6:24 pm | #

            Hm at my university (living in Sweden) a lunch costs like 10USD or so and is of quite high quality… unlike their amazingly stale (deadly stale) 5USD sandwiches.

            Good thing I usually have very few hours scheduled and mainly get to work and study at home hah

        • Ian
          Ian
          April 4, 2012 at 1:58 am | #

          It’s a wonder then that the students manage to make it through with most of their teeth.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      April 4, 2012 at 2:28 am | #

      That is the whitest burgerbun I have ever seen.

      • Zoey
        Zoey
        April 4, 2012 at 5:18 am | #

        its from that nw place up the street ya know…..albino burgers….

      • Tualha
        Tualha
        April 4, 2012 at 6:36 am | #

        Hmm, that avatar looks like the young Alucard.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          April 4, 2012 at 8:10 am | #

          Correct, its Aldcard in the young female form he took up during the 2nd World War.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            April 4, 2012 at 8:11 am | #

            I meant Alucard.

    • Jenny Creed
      Jenny Creed
      June 4, 2013 at 5:59 am | #

      I’m thinking it’s a light side of the force-burger from that Star Wars campaign.

      (The dark side burgers looked horrible.)

  5. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    April 4, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    Butt taco up high!

  6. Gundi
    Gundi
    April 4, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    I DON’T WANT HIJINXS, DAMN IT!

    • NCP19
      NCP19
      April 4, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

      But ’round these parts Hijinks Ensue…eh? Ehhhhhhhh?

      • Xartarin
        Xartarin
        April 4, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

        That was so bad I spat out my Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.

        • Blob Marley
          Blob Marley
          April 4, 2012 at 12:11 am | #

          Well, do you have dogs? At least they could get Something Positive out of your upchuck.

          • fellixe
            fellixe
            April 4, 2012 at 12:15 am | #

            I don’t have a barf bag. You’ll have to use Mary Elizabeth’s Sock.

          • fhqwhgads
            fhqwhgads
            April 4, 2012 at 12:15 am | #

            as long as they can avoid being hit by Girls With Slingshots.

            • Bekah
              Bekah
              April 4, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

              This thread contains some Questionable Content.

              • Herbert
                Herbert
                April 4, 2012 at 12:21 am | #

                At least there are no Complex Actions

                • Cholma
                  Cholma
                  April 4, 2012 at 1:00 am | #

                  Sarah probably thinks these people are all College Roomies From Hell!!!

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  April 4, 2012 at 2:31 am | #

                  it’s a veritable Sinfest of puns here.

                • Jackson
                  Jackson
                  April 4, 2012 at 7:00 am | #

                  Well, that’s the difference between webcomics and Real Life.

                • twobeef
                  twobeef
                  April 4, 2012 at 9:15 am | #

                  What, does real life not always devolve into errant stories like this?

                • chumpersonable
                  chumpersonable
                  April 4, 2012 at 9:18 am | #

                  To revive this line of discussion would be like raising the dead solely through the power of a social faux pas.

                  …an Awkward Zombie, if you will.

                • Izzy
                  Izzy
                  April 4, 2012 at 10:13 am | #

                  I feel like I’m sitting between failures right now.

          • Jacob
            Jacob
            April 4, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

            Your post may have some Questionable Content to it…

            • Bekah
              Bekah
              April 4, 2012 at 12:17 am | #

              Jinx

              • Gordon
                Gordon
                April 4, 2012 at 12:25 am | #

                Now you guys have to play Rock, Paper, Cynic to see who gets to keep the joke.

                • fellixe
                  fellixe
                  April 4, 2012 at 12:30 am | #

                  Or we could leave it up to the Fans!

                • Bekah
                  Bekah
                  April 4, 2012 at 12:43 am | #

                  The loser may need to call a Dr McNinja to deal with the injuries.

                • fellixe
                  fellixe
                  April 4, 2012 at 1:06 am | #

                  Yes, he can watch while the heart monitor goes Blip!

              • Khrene Cleaver
                Khrene Cleaver
                April 4, 2012 at 5:50 am | #

                McNinja? He’s good! I went to him I had my last Head Trip!

          • Aizat
            Aizat
            April 4, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

            No, I got VGCats.*hides from the possible firestorm*

            • fellixe
              fellixe
              April 4, 2012 at 12:19 am | #

              Questionable Content to VGCats? That was a Supernormal Step.

              • Plasma Mongoose
                Plasma Mongoose
                April 4, 2012 at 2:35 am | #

                Will I invoke Godwin’s Law if I bring up Hipster Hitler?

          • Leorale
            Leorale
            April 4, 2012 at 12:43 am | #

            unless the dogs have Gastrophobia

            • Leorale
              Leorale
              April 4, 2012 at 12:52 am | #

              oops. I meant this to be a reply to the dog-related comment above! I wish this board was more User Friendly, and I hope you’ll accept my Whispered Apologies.

          • lightsabermario
            lightsabermario
            April 4, 2012 at 1:28 am | #

            Ack. This joke is causing my computer to Zap! out and crash. I may have to hit Ctrl+Alt+Del.

            • lightsabermario
              lightsabermario
              April 4, 2012 at 1:31 am | #

              Hmm, it seems I have Misfiled my comment in the wrong place. Looks like this comment system Does Not Play Well With Others.

              • Plasma Mongoose
                Plasma Mongoose
                April 4, 2012 at 2:34 am | #

                We need to take this thread to the Atomic Laundromat.

            • Mo
              Mo
              April 5, 2012 at 7:54 am | #

              Or you could call the Bad Boys of Computer Science.

      • Historyman68
        Historyman68
        April 4, 2012 at 1:38 am | #

        Catch it at you local Multiplex!

        • fellixe
          fellixe
          April 4, 2012 at 1:42 am | #

          Is that near the Penny Arcade?

          • antiwesley
            antiwesley
            April 4, 2012 at 1:57 am | #

            That is, of course, right across the street from Dork Tower.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            April 4, 2012 at 2:32 am | #

            Does sprouting out all of these webcomic puns make us Sexy Losers?

            • mrelegos
              mrelegos
              April 4, 2012 at 3:44 am | #

              I’m pretty sure This Is Normal, Plasma.

              • fellixe
                fellixe
                April 4, 2012 at 4:32 am | #

                Didn’t think about it to deeply, just kind of did it for No Reason.

                • Historyman68
                  Historyman68
                  April 4, 2012 at 5:02 am | #

                  This thread’s giving me the Sordid City Blues.

                • narmenduke
                  narmenduke
                  April 4, 2012 at 6:51 am | #

                  Fellixe, that was my thought process when I stepped on that Bug

                • lightsabermario
                  lightsabermario
                  April 4, 2012 at 9:36 am | #

                  Ow, this thread’s making my Head Trip. I may have to take a Power Nap.

                • Roborat
                  Roborat
                  April 4, 2012 at 2:58 pm | #

                  So sad, all the clever puns posted on an obscure web forum, so much Wasted Talent. Sorry, that was The Least I Could Do, don’t judge me too harshly, I am Fragile. I will just sit in the corner and eat my Octopus Pie, and await the verdict of the Fanboys at Gunnerkrigg Court. If you don’t like it, you can Bite Me. Oh no, too many puns in one post, I have triggered a Cascade Failure.

                • David
                  David M Willis
                  April 7, 2012 at 2:09 pm | #

                  Pupkin.

    • artemi
      artemi
      April 4, 2012 at 5:23 pm | #

      But… but hijinks are such a key part of Sequential Art!

      • Ray Barrington
        Ray Barrington
        April 7, 2012 at 2:28 pm | #

        I’m enjoying reading this while drinking coffee with Two Lumps of sugar.

    • TEi
      TEi
      April 7, 2012 at 4:21 pm | #

      Seeing all these replies just makes me want to say Balls 2 That.

  7. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    April 4, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    Drama! Get your drama, right here! Drama for sale!

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      April 4, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

      Salt! Get your tasty salt! Go ahead and put it on stuff! Salt!

  8. RaijinK
    RaijinK
    April 4, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

    Sarah’s entire role in the comic is that she doesn’t want anything to do with the comic. Why isn’t she more popular again?

    • Blob Marley
      Blob Marley
      April 4, 2012 at 12:09 am | #

      Too meta for us.

    • Valdrax
      Valdrax
      April 4, 2012 at 12:55 am | #

      Not meta enough. We need to go deeper.

      • Frost
        Frost
        April 4, 2012 at 1:03 am | #

        We can use inception on her?

        • The E-man
          The E-man
          April 4, 2012 at 5:07 am | #

          I support Sarah-ception

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      April 4, 2012 at 5:03 am | #

      More like, why is she so much more popular than Malaya?

      • The E-man
        The E-man
        April 4, 2012 at 5:11 am | #

        Because Malaya is a character.

        • The E-man
          The E-man
          April 4, 2012 at 5:12 am | #

          I mean Because Malaya is a DieForOurShip character.

        • begbert2
          begbert2
          April 4, 2012 at 10:38 am | #

          I like the idea that merely being a character is enough to ensure superior popularity. (Sarah: “What am I, chopped liver? Eeh, who cares.”)

          • aydr
            aydr
            April 4, 2012 at 8:42 pm | #

            Actually, the implication here is that being a character is enough to ensure that we hate her…

      • Valdrax
        Valdrax
        April 4, 2012 at 8:19 am | #

        Who? You must mean some other character from some other comic who may or may not eat up a disproportionate amount of the comment space there with her hypothetical jerkish ways.

        Thanks goodness no such person exists here in the DoAverse!

  9. Azumango
    Azumango
    April 4, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

    Deign… Can you use it in a sentence?

    • Blob Marley
      Blob Marley
      April 4, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

      I would not deign to do such a plebian thing on these incredibly classy comment boards.

    • Valdrax
      Valdrax
      April 4, 2012 at 12:56 am | #

      Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damnèd Deign,
      Drink off this potion. Is thy union here?
      Follow my mother.

      • Blob Marley
        Blob Marley
        April 4, 2012 at 3:25 pm | #

        I had to do a double take.

        Then I saw what you did there and laughed.

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      April 4, 2012 at 5:03 am | #

      “Deign is a word in this sentence.”

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      April 4, 2012 at 5:04 am | #

      Marmaduke is a great deign.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        April 4, 2012 at 8:15 am | #

        deign/dān/
        Verb: Do something that one considers to be beneath one’s dignity.

        • begbert2
          begbert2
          April 4, 2012 at 10:40 am | #

          I wouldn’t have…stooped to actually defining it for him, myself.

          • Azumango
            Azumango
            April 4, 2012 at 3:17 pm | #

            This thread was hilarious and informative!

  10. Blob Marley
    Blob Marley
    April 4, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

    Oh, Sarah. You shoulda dun shoulda known better.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      April 4, 2012 at 12:22 am | #

      She shoulda dun shoulda known better. This comic has so much drama she shoulda just shoulda assumed that they were gonna to gunna have more drama they need resolved.

  11. Tristan J
    Tristan J
    April 4, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

    I had this exact problem in high school.

    GOD DAMMIT IS IT POSSIBLE TO FIND SOMEWHERE WHERE WE CAN TALK ABOUT POKEMON OR SOME SHIT AND NOT WHO’S BANGING/PISSED OFF AT/IGNORING WHO

    answer: Yes, at college, amusingly.

    • Blob Marley
      Blob Marley
      April 4, 2012 at 12:09 am | #

      Answer: Go talk to Dina. There are some dinosaur-shaped pokemans.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      April 4, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

      Lucky you! I can’t find anyone I can talk to about anime or some shit.

      • Bekah
        Bekah
        April 4, 2012 at 12:23 am | #

        My college used to host Anime Expo back in the day… they stopped doing that. Boooooo

      • Tristan J
        Tristan J
        April 4, 2012 at 12:23 am | #

        I was lucky in that not only were there multiple clubs I could go to (like Club Anime, Club D&D, and Club Baby Seals) but also most people in my ordinary classes were bigger nerds than me.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          April 4, 2012 at 6:14 pm | #

          They had an actual Club Baby Seals?

          • Tristan J
            Tristan J
            April 4, 2012 at 8:14 pm | #

            Yep.

            They talked about how cute baby seals were and looked at photos of them.

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              April 4, 2012 at 10:38 pm | #

              I guessed wrong then, I was thinking that Baby Seal was the name of a nightclub.

    • Valdrax
      Valdrax
      April 4, 2012 at 12:57 am | #

      Well, there’s always the internet. That way you can talk about who’s banging Pokemon.

      • Gordon
        Gordon
        April 4, 2012 at 1:08 am | #

        You, androgynous internet commenter, win one Internet.

  12. Brasca1
    Brasca1
    April 4, 2012 at 12:12 am | #

    Now Sarah if you’re going to discriminate on the basis of awkward sitcom situations you’re going to be quite lonely.

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      April 4, 2012 at 10:41 am | #

      Sarah was probably a lot happy with her universe before the comic started being about it.

  13. carl320
    carl320
    April 4, 2012 at 12:19 am | #

    Dammit Danny! I don’t want your drama! 😛

  14. Originalslugboy
    Originalslugboy
    April 4, 2012 at 12:19 am | #

    Hee. Sarah’s so I adorable I want to give her a hug, but I don’t want her to punch me. What to do?

  15. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    April 4, 2012 at 12:23 am | #

    One day she’ll look back on this and be happy she decided to stay out of it.

    • iSaidCandleja-
      iSaidCandleja-
      April 4, 2012 at 12:49 am | #

      Or one day, 100 strips from now, she will realize she’s been drawn into it anyway.

      • Historyman68
        Historyman68
        April 4, 2012 at 1:44 am | #

        That one day will probably be tomorrow.

        • MeHael
          MeHael
          April 4, 2012 at 2:09 am | #

          And it will probably be 100 strips from now.

        • Historyman68
          Historyman68
          April 4, 2012 at 5:06 am | #

          And it will probably be tomorrow.

  16. fellixe
    fellixe
    April 4, 2012 at 12:27 am | #

    Unless someone ends up in a Menáge A 3.

    • fellixe
      fellixe
      April 4, 2012 at 12:28 am | #

      Oops! That one got Misfiled.

      • DoomDarts
        DoomDarts
        April 4, 2012 at 2:44 am | #

        Your posts are So Far Apart from the thread above, but Just a Bit Off from each other. Good thing you’re not undead, or you’d feel like a real Awkward Zombie right about now.

        …God damnit, that sucked.

        • fellixe
          fellixe
          April 4, 2012 at 4:34 am | #

          Sure did! Where’s the Emergency Exit?

        • Historyman68
          Historyman68
          April 4, 2012 at 5:10 am | #

          I think you’re Overcompensating.

        • chumpersonable
          chumpersonable
          April 4, 2012 at 9:23 am | #

          Dang, didn’t notice this AZ pun before I made mine.

          WELP

  17. Kaylee
    Kaylee
    April 4, 2012 at 12:30 am | #

    Willis! You said you never drew mouths on the sides of your characters faces! How dare you lie to me!?

    Ahem, I mean, I’m not complaining. Actually, this is the cutest that Danny’s looked. And it gives him an awkward smiling with one side of your mouth look.

    • David
      David M Willis
      April 4, 2012 at 12:32 am | #

      I said I no longer draw mouths on the sides of my characters’ faces when in profile.

      Example, second panel: http://itswalky.com/d/19970909.html

      • Kaylee
        Kaylee
        April 4, 2012 at 12:41 am | #

        But Danny’s face in the first panel is in profile, yes? With both sides of his mouth visible?

        • David
          David M Willis
          April 4, 2012 at 1:03 am | #

          He’s talking out the side of his mouth. 🙂

          • fellixe
            fellixe
            April 4, 2012 at 1:09 am | #

            Because he’s too honest to talk out of both sides.

        • Blob Marley
          Blob Marley
          April 4, 2012 at 3:27 pm | #

          Danny actually suffers from a terrible physical deformity. His mouth is larger on the left side of his face. you can see it in panel 4 as well. You insensitive jerk!

      • davidbreslin101
        davidbreslin101
        April 4, 2012 at 9:26 am | #

        … a style which the face-recognition parts of the human brain have no problem with until you actually point it out!

        • begbert2
          begbert2
          April 4, 2012 at 10:44 am | #

          And after which, you can never watch anime again.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            April 4, 2012 at 6:28 pm | #

            Tropes such as Cheeky Mouth, Faceless Masses, Only Six Faces and even No Feet are tricks that many artists use cos they are either short on time or lack the skill to do it properly.

  18. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    April 4, 2012 at 12:34 am | #

    Well, I can’t promise I’ll spend a say with you
    I can’t promise that I’ll find a way with you
    I can’t promise no I can’t promise that I’ll love you!
    –“Like To Get To Know You”, Spanky & Our Gang

    • Stephen Bierce
      Stephen Bierce
      April 4, 2012 at 12:35 am | #

      And…I typo. *cough*

  19. MR C
    MR C
    April 4, 2012 at 12:36 am | #

    sarah should know better by now

  20. Janette
    Janette
    April 4, 2012 at 1:01 am | #

    I know that feel Sarah, and then I realized the drama was worth it so I didn’t spend every night home alone.

  21. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    April 4, 2012 at 2:27 am | #

    Poor Grumble-Bum, teenage drama shows up EVERYWHERE.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      April 4, 2012 at 2:32 am | #

      Fun Fact: When two teenagers come into contact with one another an A.D. (Absolute Drama) Field is created.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        April 4, 2012 at 2:42 am | #

        The presence of VD is know to increase the effects of the AD field.

        • fellixe
          fellixe
          April 4, 2012 at 4:36 am | #

          And VD-enhanced AD is impressive in 3D.

          • begbert2
            begbert2
            April 4, 2012 at 10:47 am | #

            You can get a 3D MD to look into
            you AD-enhancing VD if you just stop
            sitting around in your BVDs listening to CDs.

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              April 4, 2012 at 6:29 pm | #

              I think I need a PhD to understand what you just said. 😛

  22. Spammy McSpamster
    Spammy McSpamster
    April 4, 2012 at 2:48 am | #

    Someone learned a new word today, huh

  23. Ryorin
    Ryorin
    April 4, 2012 at 3:16 am | #

    Silly, Sarah. Don’t you realize you’re in a Willis comic?

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      April 4, 2012 at 10:48 am | #

      Hey, sometimes there’s zany comedy. Sarah loves that *so* much better.

  24. LiC
    LiC
    April 4, 2012 at 3:54 am | #

    I know she wants to avoid drama and stuff, but at the same time, she’s gotta be feeling kinda bored a lot of the time.

  25. Maycroft
    Maycroft
    April 4, 2012 at 6:06 am | #

    She’s gonna be sitting alone for a loooooong time.

  26. TJ Baltimore
    TJ Baltimore
    April 4, 2012 at 8:58 am | #

    Sarah and Dorothy should be best friends . . . until Walky ruins it.

  27. Mr. Morningstar
    Mr. Morningstar
    April 4, 2012 at 9:09 am | #

    At least they were honest.

  28. NF
    NF
    April 4, 2012 at 10:23 am | #

    Sarah has a hard life.

  29. Joebo
    Joebo
    April 4, 2012 at 11:30 am | #

    Me thinks she doth protest too much.

  30. aaron_bourque
    aaron_bourque
    April 4, 2012 at 11:49 am | #

    You live in the wrong universe, Sarah.

    • Blob Marley
      Blob Marley
      April 4, 2012 at 3:28 pm | #

      The drama tag came pre-pulled in this one.

  31. Charles RB
    Charles RB
    April 4, 2012 at 11:53 am | #

    Sarah is the smartest DoA character ever. (Sorry, Dean).

  32. ziggy78eog
    ziggy78eog
    April 4, 2012 at 12:02 pm | #

    Hate to be the bearer of bad news, Sarah, but you can never escape “dumb teenage drama” while on a college campus.

  33. Oberon
    Oberon
    April 4, 2012 at 5:50 pm | #

    Sarah: Knows her Tropes.

  34. Brady Kj
    Brady Kj
    April 4, 2012 at 6:13 pm | #

    I’ve rarely seen any dumb teenage drama in college or high school, though I’ve heard rumors of it on occasion.

  35. luke
    luke
    April 4, 2012 at 9:33 pm | #

    love it

    poor bag of shit

  36. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    April 13, 2015 at 9:06 pm | #

    You really walked into that one, eh ?
    They were about to change the subject too

  37. acoraz
    acoraz
    May 6, 2015 at 4:02 pm | #

    When did Sarah and Danny meet, again?

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