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by David M Willis on October 19, 2010 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - Move-In Day
└ Tags: beef, danny, paul

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  1. demoncat?
    demoncat?
    October 19, 2010 at 12:01 am | #

    danny is a homosexual and will die alone and buttloved.

    • beeftony
      beeftony
      October 19, 2010 at 12:13 am | #

      No, Demoncat, that’s you.

      • Joebo
        Joebo
        October 19, 2010 at 8:13 am | #

        <> Don’t Feed The Trolls

        • beeftony
          beeftony
          October 19, 2010 at 9:11 pm | #

          But they’re so hungry, mommy!

          • Mkvenner
            Mkvenner
            July 8, 2011 at 2:20 am | #

            let them starve.

    • Angeldog
      Angeldog
      October 19, 2010 at 12:25 am | #

      Demoncat wrongly assumes that the guy who we’ve seen with a girlfriend is homosexual, rather than the overcompensating football players talking about gays.

      • Munkiman
        Munkiman
        October 19, 2010 at 3:41 pm | #

        It’s a joke on the “Billie is an alcoholic and will die alone and unloved” thing from an earlier strip, calm down.

      • Virnin
        Virnin
        October 20, 2010 at 11:20 pm | #

        That’s how I remember every one I’ve ever met from IU.

    • XLR
      XLR
      July 29, 2011 at 6:37 am | #

      If he’s buttloved how is that alone?

    • anonymous
      anonymous
      October 14, 2014 at 4:03 pm | #

      Half right!

      • nothri
        nothri
        November 6, 2014 at 6:47 pm | #

        ::slow claps::

    • Cale Baird
      Cale Baird
      April 21, 2015 at 5:04 pm | #

      So far, you’re half a third correct.

    • Mally
      Mally
      July 21, 2015 at 1:53 pm | #

      You know, if he’s buttloved, he’s not exactly alone.

  2. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    October 19, 2010 at 12:02 am | #

    BEEF

    • SteveCharb
      SteveCharb
      October 21, 2010 at 3:45 pm | #

      BEEEEEEEEEF!!!

      • ilvos
        ilvos
        March 2, 2011 at 9:57 pm | #

        BEEEEEEEEEEFF!!!

        • Chrisby
          Chrisby
          May 21, 2011 at 11:39 pm | #

          STEEEEEEEVEN!

          • SpiffytheCreative
            SpiffytheCreative
            June 16, 2011 at 10:49 pm | #

            FAAAAAAAACE!!!!!!!!

            • Mkvenner
              Mkvenner
              July 8, 2011 at 2:22 am | #

              Bovinae!! 🙂

              • anonymous
                anonymous
                October 14, 2014 at 4:02 pm | #

                Moo?

    • nothri
      nothri
      November 6, 2014 at 6:45 pm | #

      Its….what’s….for….dinner….?

  3. Ella
    Ella
    October 19, 2010 at 12:04 am | #

    How gay.

  4. TheStranger
    TheStranger
    October 19, 2010 at 12:04 am | #

    Now why did I know Beef was gonna be on the football team?

    • Akilika
      Akilika
      October 19, 2010 at 12:12 am | #

      Well, where else was he going to be?

      • TexasNinjaBuzzard
        TexasNinjaBuzzard
        October 19, 2010 at 3:12 am | #

        …In a freezer? That’s where I’d leave him.

        Just sayin’.

        • Joebo
          Joebo
          October 19, 2010 at 8:11 am | #

          No no, he’s “fresh, never frozen Beef.”

          • Sher
            Sher
            October 19, 2010 at 4:06 pm | #

            Really? You went there? (:

    • Joe
      Joe
      October 19, 2010 at 2:04 pm | #

      He might be a soccer player… I play with a guy who played at a rival school in college, and those dudes fit the description of IU soccer players. But whatever, noone but the football team gives a shit about the football team.

    • Matt
      Matt
      October 19, 2010 at 7:05 pm | #

      Because he already was! Beef caught the footballs!

      http://www.itswalky.com/d/19991226.html

  5. Sinan
    Sinan
    October 19, 2010 at 12:05 am | #

    BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEF!!!!!

    • Joebo
      Joebo
      October 19, 2010 at 8:10 am | #

      Didn’t realize it was beef until I read the tag. I’m not used to him looking like a real person.

      • creativerealms
        creativerealms
        October 19, 2010 at 8:53 am | #

        Oh the was a dead give away to me.

        • creativerealms
          creativerealms
          October 19, 2010 at 8:55 am | #

          Er the “Grunt” in my last post was lost damn.

          “Oh the Grunt was a dead give away to me”

          Thats what I said.

          • Joebo
            Joebo
            October 19, 2010 at 7:28 pm | #

            did you put it inside<>? If so, don’t in the future, coding for this thread appears to do that

      • Mkvenner
        Mkvenner
        July 29, 2011 at 5:46 pm | #

        I didn’t realize it was him until July 29, 2011. 😐

  6. David Herbert
    David Herbert
    October 19, 2010 at 12:05 am | #

    Beef!

  7. Trae Dorn
    Trae Dorn
    October 19, 2010 at 12:06 am | #

    Wait… I think you’ve confused college with high school. In college, the football players are too busy getting drunk to pick on someone like Danny. 😛

    • AaronS
      AaronS
      October 19, 2010 at 1:09 am | #

      As a current college student, I totally and completely agree with this statement. Football players rarely pick on anyone at my school. Booze usually fills up their time pretty nicely (at least, stereotypically speaking).

      I do love that they’re wearing sunglasses at night.

    • Malph
      Malph
      October 19, 2010 at 2:06 am | #

      Maybe they’re on their way to get drunk and hadn’t reached their daily quota for saying the word gay.

  8. Pariah Jones
    Pariah Jones
    October 19, 2010 at 12:08 am | #

    I want something very horrible to happen to those guys (except Beef).

  9. Doominbottle
    Doominbottle
    October 19, 2010 at 12:09 am | #

    Beef is back suckas! Let the pummeling begin. My wondering is this though, since this doesn’t involve aliens….beef isn’t Walky’s bro anymore…. how will this effect Beef and even more…. Sal?

  10. Dr. Worm
    Dr. Worm
    October 19, 2010 at 12:10 am | #

    Oh my god, where’s Ruth when you need her to destroy people?

  11. FortMax
    FortMax
    October 19, 2010 at 12:13 am | #

    dood

    • Joebo
      Joebo
      October 19, 2010 at 7:25 pm | #

      Dood?

      • FortMax
        FortMax
        October 19, 2010 at 9:33 pm | #

        *Throws a Prinny*

  12. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    October 19, 2010 at 12:13 am | #

    Hey, it’s Beef!

    Poor Danny, getting made fun of by jocks. 🙁

  13. Brendan
    Brendan
    October 19, 2010 at 12:14 am | #

    Now where is that parody someone (I think Greg Dean) drew of Funky Cancercancer?

    And do I even want to know who the one who isn’t DYW or Beef is?

    • Brendan
      Brendan
      October 19, 2010 at 12:15 am | #

      Should note, before someone responds, that I don’t mean the Shortpacked parody of Funky Winkerbean, but the parody of that strip poking fun at the level of homosexuality in Shortpacked.

      Also, not totally buying David Willis as a jock.

      • No0ne
        No0ne
        October 19, 2010 at 12:48 am | #

        I’m pretty sure that the strip you refer to is a gest strip by Willis for Real Life Comics which poked fun at himself.

        Not 100% sure though because its been a while since I read it.

        • No0ne
          No0ne
          October 19, 2010 at 12:50 am | #

          I also am unable to type apparently…

        • David
          David M Willis
          October 19, 2010 at 1:01 am | #

          http://reallifecomics.com/archive/090723.html <---gaayy

          • No0ne
            No0ne
            October 19, 2010 at 1:46 am | #

            AH HA I KNEW IT!

            • ProjectXa3
              ProjectXa3
              October 12, 2014 at 5:08 am | #

              It 404’d on me, anybody got a backup?

    • david matthew
      david matthew
      October 19, 2010 at 12:16 am | #

      Pretty sure our fearless leader here wrote Funky Cancercancer.

      • TexasNinjaBuzzard
        TexasNinjaBuzzard
        October 19, 2010 at 3:20 am | #

        Has Tom Batiuk ben added to the federal list of Known Carcinogens yet? I’m pretty sure he’s already illegal in California.

  14. Dashiell Menard
    Dashiell Menard
    October 19, 2010 at 12:14 am | #

    I have to say, I don’t like new danny. All the other characters are basically the same, but he’s just.. such a little bongo.

    • Wackd
      Wackd
      October 19, 2010 at 12:21 am | #

      Meh, it’s arguable. I can’t say I’m too pleased with the change either, but he’s got a lot of room to grow from here. Besides, he was pretty attached to Sal, we just didn’t see that side of him as often because she was so far away.

      And Joyce is waaaaaaaaaay more well-adjusted now, so Danny’s not the only one who’s changed.

      • Deviltrig
        Deviltrig
        October 19, 2010 at 8:48 am | #

        well, we’re not entirely sure how well adjusted Joyce is yet. we have yet to see when she gets into a relationship. oh, the drama to ensue!

    • beeftony
      beeftony
      October 19, 2010 at 1:00 am | #

      Danny was always like this, he just didn’t get the chance to show it because Sal wasn’t around for him to obsess over and Joyce’s clinginess vastly overshadowed his own. Plus, he had to grow up pretty damn quick after Ruth’s sacrifice. The only difference I see is the circumstances.

    • ashleyw
      ashleyw
      October 19, 2010 at 10:09 am | #

      He reminds me of what freshmen can be like when they first start college. Kind of unrealistic. I think he’ll probably learn from this and become easier to like.

  15. BetaMagnus
    BetaMagnus
    October 19, 2010 at 12:14 am | #

    Huh. When I was in college I never saw jocks beating anyone up, at least not randomly. There was a whole lot of folk calling other folk “gay” though.

    • Alice Macher
      Alice Macher
      October 19, 2010 at 12:55 am | #

      Yeah, this does seem rather… high-school-ish.

      • AaronS
        AaronS
        October 19, 2010 at 1:12 am | #

        High school was the time that most jocks beat up babies.

        The name calling with “gay” seems pretty on target, though.

        • AaronS
          AaronS
          October 19, 2010 at 1:13 am | #

          Now I seem like an ass. I meant to type “freshpeople”. Sorry about that, was talking while I typed. That was not meant as a joke.

      • hobotron
        hobotron
        October 19, 2010 at 5:02 am | #

        Yeah, I’m glad I’m not the only one that thought that. But I dunno; maybe we’re in for some kind of Revenge of the Nerds-type reference or something.

        REVENGE OF THE GAYWADS

        IN THEATERS THIS OCTOBER

    • Everyl
      Everyl
      October 19, 2010 at 2:45 am | #

      They might not really be planning to beat him up. Danny is still a new freshman; he could just be assuming incorrectly that college is more like high school than it really is.

  16. Wackd
    Wackd
    October 19, 2010 at 12:19 am | #

    My guess is Sal comes out of the bushes and pummels the hell out of these guys. And that’s how she and Danny meet.

    This is just sad, really. You can that he had the breakup coming to him and Joe had the right to be a douchebag about it after their conversation that morning, but this is just kicking him when he’s down.

    • Joebo
      Joebo
      October 19, 2010 at 12:24 am | #

      Not out of the bushes, through a window. Don’t care if there are no windows anywhere near by.

      • Wackd
        Wackd
        October 19, 2010 at 4:02 pm | #

        There’s windows in the background of panels three and four….

        Huh. It could work, if this was the Walkyverse, but here it’d be a bit of a stretch.

        It would be nice to keep up the gag, though.

      • DCHorror
        DCHorror
        October 19, 2010 at 11:27 pm | #

        She’s pushing around a wall on wheels just so she can bust through it in these types of situations.

  17. Zach Adams
    Zach Adams
    October 19, 2010 at 12:19 am | #

    …gaywad? Wow. I haven’t heard that in probably twenty years.

    • David
      David M Willis
      October 19, 2010 at 12:20 am | #

      I’m bringing it back.

      • Joebo
        Joebo
        October 19, 2010 at 12:25 am | #

        Like… that one boy band guy… brought Sexyback? Please God no!

        • drivethruwhale
          drivethruwhale
          October 19, 2010 at 1:05 am | #

          “I’m bringing gaywad back. You other homo’s don’t know how to act” Yeah, that could be a song.

          • Shift
            Shift
            October 20, 2010 at 4:05 am | #

            Probably already is by the rules of the internet. If not: QUICK COPYRIGHT IT!

      • David
        David M Willis
        October 22, 2010 at 6:24 pm | #

        It’s already working. “Gaywad” was used in Thursday’s Community. Booyah! I’m streets ahead!

  18. Cassidy
    Cassidy
    October 19, 2010 at 12:22 am | #

    Maybe Danny is gay and it will be Danny and Ethan together!

    One can dream

    • Wackd
      Wackd
      October 19, 2010 at 12:23 am | #

      Consider Shortpacked for a moment.

      Now try to convince yourself this isn’t foreshadowing.

    • Schornforce
      Schornforce
      October 19, 2010 at 7:06 am | #

      The only thing that would make me happier is if Danny were paired with me! 😛

      Danny and Ethan do seem to be a pretty good fit!

    • Shift
      Shift
      October 20, 2010 at 4:06 am | #

      Welcome to the world of Willis: Where EVERYONE will be gay if he has any say in it.

      …I wish I lived in that world…

    • PsychokineticEX
      PsychokineticEX
      August 21, 2014 at 12:45 am | #

      *4 years later* http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/04-the-whiteboard-dong-bandit/thoughts/#comment-252513

      YOU ARE A FUCKING PROPHET

      • anonymous
        anonymous
        October 14, 2014 at 4:05 pm | #

        PROFIT from your psychic abilities!

        • anonymous
          anonymous
          October 14, 2014 at 4:06 pm | #

          Except that Danny isn’t gay, and he’s not with Ethan. But you were right about him not being straight!

  19. No0ne
    No0ne
    October 19, 2010 at 12:50 am | #

    I wear my sunglasses at night!

    No, I really do, I’m blind in one eye and bright light makes it 100 times worse… But apparently those football players do too.

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      October 19, 2010 at 1:14 am | #

      Dammit, this strip already got that damn song stuck in my head…why did you have to cement it?

      • No0ne
        No0ne
        October 19, 2010 at 1:44 am | #

        Because I’m evil, can’t you tell from my avatar?

        • Kamino Neko
          Kamino Neko
          October 19, 2010 at 1:48 am | #

          Nah…that just telegraphs the crazy…

          Now, Dorothy…that would indicate evil. >_>

          • LiamKav
            LiamKav
            October 19, 2010 at 5:07 am | #

            Hang on, how can you be 100 times more blind? Does bright light make you deaf as well?

            (genuinly confused)

          • No0ne
            No0ne
            October 19, 2010 at 2:00 pm | #

            It is a cataract, so in dim to normal light conditions I’m only blind in the left side of my left eye. However, in bright light conditions (I.E. inside a class room or a sunny day) the light bounces around inside my eye because the cataract is reflective as well as semi transparent making it so I get an intense pain as well as being completely blind in the eye. Not fun…

            And my insurance refuses to pay to have it removed because its 1 milimeter to small. As my eye doc put it, its just to small to remove but big enough to blind you.

            I’m just lucky I managed to fake my way through the eye exame to get my drivers lisence. No, not really I’m not THAT blind XD.

            (Talking way more then I need to)

  20. beeftony
    beeftony
    October 19, 2010 at 1:02 am | #

    Anyone else think the background in the first panel is folding up Inception-style? Actually, perspective seems to be a consistent problem with you when you try and draw detailed backgrounds, Willis.

  21. Cope
    Cope
    October 19, 2010 at 1:41 am | #

    Hi there Beef and two other guys I don’t know!

  22. Viktoria
    Viktoria
    October 19, 2010 at 1:44 am | #

    See this? This is why so many gay teens are killing themselves. Here’s hoping Sal turns the entire football team into ground beef.

    • No0ne
      No0ne
      October 19, 2010 at 1:45 am | #

      Punny :/

    • Trenton
      Trenton
      October 19, 2010 at 10:56 pm | #

      I saw the strip and knew, knew, knew somebody was going to say something like this. Sigh.

      Danny is not actually gay it is not the same oh my godd

      • No0ne
        No0ne
        October 20, 2010 at 10:19 pm | #

        So… this is why many streight teens are killing themselves? :O

  23. Karen R
    Karen R
    October 19, 2010 at 2:28 am | #

    “She GAY-broke up with your GAY-FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!”

    Fixed that for ya. 🙂

  24. Darth Cariss
    Darth Cariss
    October 19, 2010 at 3:19 am | #

    Yay, typical gay-hating jock(s) who bully people, but will likely end up in a situation that makes their sexuality look questionable as some form of poetic justice. It’s like I’m reading Dominic Deegan.

    Anyway, only the one that looks like Duke Nukem should be allowed to wear Sunglasses at night.

  25. MacBetty
    MacBetty
    October 19, 2010 at 3:23 am | #

    Gay-FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!

  26. Undrave
    Undrave
    October 19, 2010 at 3:41 am | #

    Maybe the next strip is Danny drunk with his new jock buddies or something. This isn’t high school after all.

    “You’re better without her buddy! Here have a keg!”

    But the more likely scenario is Sal showing up.

  27. LiamKav
    LiamKav
    October 19, 2010 at 5:09 am | #

    I really don’t think these guys are “gay-hating”. They’re using it as an insult, sure, but mainly because it’s an easy and current label to leap on. It’s more that they are unimaginative with their choice of insults.

  28. Leeatard
    Leeatard
    October 19, 2010 at 6:44 am | #

    Look at those smiles! They seem so friendly! I bet they just wanna know if those sweet shades make them look gay.

  29. KS Claw
    KS Claw
    October 19, 2010 at 8:40 am | #

    And when you guys are done, you can go back through your closets and back to Narnia *rolls over and goes back to sleep*

  30. ziggy78eog
    ziggy78eog
    October 19, 2010 at 9:18 am | #

    Danny, this is not High School anymore, they are mot going to beat you up. What they are going to do is get you drunk until you pass out, draw penises all over your face, and post the pictures all over the campus web page.

    • DCHorror
      DCHorror
      October 19, 2010 at 11:31 pm | #

      You just never know. They might beat him up for suggesting that they might beat him up.

  31. Zudarkness
    Zudarkness
    October 19, 2010 at 11:12 am | #

    Welcome to Collage life. Time to get your chin up and have a stiff lip and be a man

  32. Zap
    Zap
    October 19, 2010 at 11:50 am | #

    omg gay.

  33. Feenyks
    Feenyks
    October 19, 2010 at 12:56 pm | #

    I had just been asking myself, “Where’s the Beef?”

  34. Sauron Bane
    Sauron Bane
    October 19, 2010 at 1:13 pm | #

    Aww… I actually feel a little bad for Danny now… Poor guy doesn’t know how to take a shot at his sexuality.

  35. agentksilver
    agentksilver
    October 19, 2010 at 1:30 pm | #

    I actually just noticed that Beef is rather handsome in his Varsity coat. He never struck me as such from IW, but now…damn.

  36. TPTBeyond
    TPTBeyond
    October 19, 2010 at 2:02 pm | #

    But their faces look so pleasant! If I weren’t reading the text, I’d think they were being nice guys.
    “Hey pal, have a beer.”

  37. Roborat
    Roborat
    October 19, 2010 at 3:08 pm | #

    So, are they going to punch him in the faaaaaaace?

    Sorry, I just wanted to play too. Anyway, good to see Beef making an appearance, but why does he look like Duke?

    So who’s next? I am guessing Sal, saving Danny’s ass.

  38. Cha
    Cha
    October 19, 2010 at 3:18 pm | #

    Beef has a rather funny faaaaaaaaaaace.
    >> Uh, anyhow, yay Beef! I’m also hoping this somehow causes Sal to show up.

  39. MrGBH
    MrGBH
    October 19, 2010 at 3:24 pm | #

    Is that Alan? There’s Beef, some odd incarnation of Willis and a random dude. But just like Rachel, his face rings a bell.

  40. PetsinWinter
    PetsinWinter
    October 19, 2010 at 3:36 pm | #

    Yay Beef!

  41. Chaun
    Chaun
    October 19, 2010 at 3:46 pm | #

    Wait, does this make Beef not a freshman? Shouldn’t he still be at least relatively the same age as Walky?

    • David
      David M Willis
      October 19, 2010 at 4:58 pm | #

      The relative ages of characters in the previous continuity don’t matter in Dumbing of Age. After all, we’ve been hanging out with a Billie and Danny who are the same age for about 25 strips now, when they were a year apart in Roomies!.

    • Rali
      Rali
      October 19, 2010 at 5:00 pm | #

      Oh, but it’s an alternate universe! 😀

      That’s… pretty much all I can come up with. :B

      • mpark6288
        mpark6288
        October 20, 2010 at 11:02 am | #

        “Whatever our lives might have been if the time continuum was disrupted – our destinies have changed.”
        Spock (before being beaten by Lizard).

  42. zinc55
    zinc55
    October 19, 2010 at 5:21 pm | #

    n00b here: Who the f**k is Beef?

    • Blah
      Blah
      October 19, 2010 at 5:25 pm | #

      Walky’s brother.

    • David
      David M Willis
      October 19, 2010 at 5:45 pm | #

      Less confusing answer:

      In my previous comics that used these characters, Beef was Walky’s adopted brother. But that relationship doesn’t exist in this continuity, so what’s actually important is that Beef is a huge muscled jock who speaks only in grunts.

      • No0ne
        No0ne
        October 20, 2010 at 4:12 pm | #

        Is Beef part Wookiee?

        • Joebo
          Joebo
          October 30, 2010 at 1:31 am | #

          yes

        • Mkvenner
          Mkvenner
          July 29, 2011 at 5:49 pm | #

          It is quite possible.

      • Magnus369
        Magnus369
        September 28, 2011 at 1:36 am | #

        I thought beef was his horridly traumatized swapped baby brother from another mother. Or arnie clone. yeah, screw that. he was an arnie clone from the future sent to the past to completely screw any chance of that making any sense what so ever.

  43. Kiwii
    Kiwii
    October 19, 2010 at 9:09 pm | #

    I’m gonna have to agree with Everyl and others. the jocks are probably just being dicks, but they likely have better things to do than beat up freshmen. Danny just assumes he’s going to be attacked.

    American universities are strange though. As far as I’m aware even verbal harrasment doesn’t really happen at the universities here. Elsewhere in the city sure, junior highschools definately, but the college students and jocks here are pretty nice people. But what do I know? I’m Canadian. Its october and I haven’t even gotten drunk yet this term.

    • Kiwii
      Kiwii
      October 19, 2010 at 9:12 pm | #

      by which I mean, I feel as though the drinking culture of the universities here is far less emphasized than what my understanding of the drinking culture of the american schools is.

      Canadians in general drink quite a bit I think.

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        October 20, 2010 at 3:19 pm | #

        Don’t forget the drinking age in the U.S. is 21, in most of Canada, it is 18 or 19, so most university age kids can drink legally in Canada. You know, the forbidden fruit thing.

  44. GoldStarz
    GoldStarz
    October 19, 2010 at 9:42 pm | #

    Even in this universe he a jerk.

    You might even say he’s more jerky than Beef. *get tomato’d*

  45. night walker
    night walker
    October 19, 2010 at 10:15 pm | #

    omg its beef still waiting to see Sal!!!!!!!!!!

  46. Wannabe Hero
    Wannabe Hero
    October 20, 2010 at 12:08 am | #

    Hehe… ‘She GAY-broke up with your GAY-face’

    Fun stuff. Keep on rocking the goods!

  47. Shift
    Shift
    October 20, 2010 at 4:07 am | #

    I really hope a gay character kicks their asses. Just because the irony would be delicious.

    • Matt
      Matt
      October 20, 2010 at 9:39 pm | #

      Yeah, gay-kicks their asses.

  48. thatgirlwiththeglasses
    thatgirlwiththeglasses
    December 22, 2010 at 5:09 pm | #

    BEEF!

  49. Chrysophase2003
    Chrysophase2003
    February 11, 2011 at 6:47 pm | #

    Is jocks getting homophobic and beating up on people a common occurence in most colleges? It’s been a few years since I left UCF, but as I recall the one time a student transfered in from South Carolina on football scholarship and tried to mess with a freshman, he ended up taking a knife between the ribs. It’s too dangerous out there for that schoolyard bully crap nowadays.

  50. Al the Mighty
    Al the Mighty
    February 23, 2011 at 7:36 pm | #

    Nice to see human-sized beef…

  51. Kelsey
    Kelsey
    March 22, 2011 at 12:18 pm | #

    Hey! Looit that! It’s the resident Jack ass squad!

  52. nothri
    nothri
    May 6, 2011 at 3:39 pm | #

    Yeah, I don’t recall ever being hassled by anyone in College. In fact, at least for me, college was the age when I began to realize that being attacked by people meant I could…you know…call the police and press assault charges and stuff.

  53. Boilerboy
    Boilerboy
    July 20, 2011 at 10:04 am | #

    purdue: much better, cuz the coolest kid on campus still probably is an engineer.

  54. SonicBlueRanger
    SonicBlueRanger
    August 29, 2011 at 3:53 pm | #

    Aha ha oh those Jock’s are so cleaver.

  55. Yuki
    Yuki
    January 4, 2012 at 12:07 pm | #

    Okay, can I say how much I hate it when people use “gay” like it’s an insult?

    I don’t have anything against this comic using it, because it’s highlighting just how lame-ass those football jocks are, calling someone gay and bullying him. I mean, I don’t have a problem with this comic at all, so don’t jump on me for that. But seriously, it’s just… when you grow up with people who say that kind of stuff, it does hurt, doesn’t it? And I just seriously hate jerks like that. .___.

  56. Maycroft
    Maycroft
    February 4, 2012 at 8:06 pm | #

    It took me most of “it’s walky” to notice that’s beef.

  57. phroggonalog
    phroggonalog
    March 30, 2012 at 2:32 am | #

    does this actually happen at colleges these days?

  58. FakeAccount3000
    FakeAccount3000
    August 22, 2012 at 5:25 pm | #

    I don’t have any personal experience; I found people were surprisingly pleasant or indifferent in college. Even more so than in the adult world; but it’s undeniable there are jerks everywhere so it’s not outside the realm of possibility.

  59. Jenny Creed
    Jenny Creed
    June 3, 2013 at 4:53 am | #

    Getting beaten up by those three guys actually sounds a lot better than having to listen to them talking. I approve of Danny’s line there.

  60. newllend
    newllend
    August 13, 2013 at 2:29 am | #

    Take this a a lesson kids, If your going to be an ass, don’t be a stupid ass like jock#1 here

  61. RandomPerson12
    RandomPerson12
    October 15, 2014 at 9:01 pm | #

    I see Beef, and I don’t recognize the other two.

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