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by David M Willis on October 26, 2012 at 12:01 am
  • 06 - Strange Beerfellows
└ Tags: amber, danny

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  1. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    October 26, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    Danny makes all the adults in The Fairly Odd Parents seem alert and observant.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      October 26, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

      Adults seems alert and observant? DINKLEBURG!

      • ThatRobedGuy
        ThatRobedGuy
        October 26, 2012 at 6:43 am | #

        God, I wish I could Like this reply! Excellent.

        • Bugberry
          Bugberry
          October 26, 2012 at 9:12 am | #

          you’d use the like button, IF YOU HAD ONE!

    • Davidus Rex
      Davidus Rex
      October 26, 2012 at 12:49 am | #

      Butch Hartman seems to think all adults are almost fatally dense.

      • Volkai
        Volkai
        October 26, 2012 at 2:49 pm | #

        See also: Butch Harman seems to have paid any attention to politics in the past decade.

        • Kernanator
          Kernanator
          October 27, 2012 at 12:34 am | #

          Isn’t it funny how leaving out one word can change the entire meaning of a sentence.

    • Jetstream
      Jetstream
      October 26, 2012 at 8:37 am | #

      Crocker would be all over this mystery!

  2. Joe H
    Joe H
    October 26, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    Oh Dan, Dan, Danny Boy.

    • David Herbert
      David Herbert
      October 26, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

      The pipes, the pipes are calling.

      • Geegles
        Geegles
        October 26, 2012 at 2:26 am | #

        From glen to glen, and down the mountainside…

        • Raoullefere
          Raoullefere
          October 26, 2012 at 3:11 pm | #

          The summer’s GOOOONNNNEEEE, and all the flowers dy-ah-ying

          • Whittier
            Whittier
            October 27, 2012 at 1:17 pm | #

            ‘Tis you, ’tis you, must go and I must bide.

    • Amaziboy
      Amaziboy
      October 26, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

      Oh Danny boy, the pipes are calling.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      October 26, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

      You’re not going to sing now. are you?

      • NCP19
        NCP19
        October 26, 2012 at 12:13 am | #

        Too late

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          October 26, 2012 at 12:27 am | #

          You can blame my lagging ISP for that.

    • rachel
      rachel
      July 10, 2013 at 1:49 am | #

      Oh bleeegh, your comment hilariously makes me think of The Room.

  3. Kafloobop
    Kafloobop
    October 26, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    HMMMM REALLY DANNY? YA DON’T SAY?

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      October 26, 2012 at 12:11 am | #

      *Insert Nicholas Cage face here*

      • marr
        marr
        October 26, 2012 at 2:22 am | #

        *Insert Alanis Morrisette singing Ironic behind them*

        • Originalslugboy
          Originalslugboy
          October 26, 2012 at 2:52 am | #

          *insert entire internets bemoaning Alanis Morrisette’s lack of unserstanding the word “ironic” behind that*

          • ArkhamTexan
            ArkhamTexan
            October 26, 2012 at 11:09 am | #

            This image is getting crowded.

          • xKiv
            xKiv
            October 26, 2012 at 12:33 pm | #

            Insert a nerd commenting that it’s ironic when a song named Ironic does not have anything ironic in it.

            • Rex Hondo
              Rex Hondo
              October 27, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

              Insert the android Norman breaking down via logic bomb.

            • Andiemus
              Andiemus
              October 27, 2012 at 12:51 am | #

              Insert an English major pointing out that there are many types of irony.

  4. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    October 26, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    Oh Danny. You’re luck you’re cute.

    • Archtus
      Archtus
      October 26, 2012 at 3:01 am | #

      Oh Yotomoe. You’re luck you’re funny.

      Or we’d be pointing out the obvious spelling error.

      • AckAckAck
        AckAckAck
        October 26, 2012 at 6:40 am | #

        Oh Archtus, you’re lucky your avatar is cute.

        Or we’d be pointing out the grammar nazi-ness of your comment.

        • begbert2
          begbert2
          October 26, 2012 at 10:46 am | #

          Oh, AckAckAck, you’re lucky you have a Dorothy gravatar.

          I mean, it’s really a nice gravatar. Look at it there.

          • GrrArg42
            GrrArg42
            October 28, 2012 at 5:12 am | #

            Oh begbert2 you’re lucky you used to date Joe.

            Or he would have a pool going for when you and AckAckAck make out. I mean how weird would that be?

  5. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    October 26, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    Great observation Danny. 😀

  6. GenericScreenName101
    GenericScreenName101
    October 26, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    The amazing answer Amber will probably receive is along the lines “with great power comes little sleep and a lack of awareness of college social norms”

  7. Aizat
    Aizat
    October 26, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

    Namely you, Danny.

  8. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    October 26, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

    In all fairness to Danny, it’s not like anyone else has figured it out. Billie think’s it’s Sal, and she got a better look at both of them than he did.

    • Squidiggles
      Squidiggles
      October 26, 2012 at 10:47 am | #

      Okay, so assuming that Danny does not get outright told who Amazi-Girl is, who would have figured it out first, him or Billy?

      • Raoullefere
        Raoullefere
        October 26, 2012 at 3:18 pm | #

        Remember that Dotty’s in this “Who’s Amazi-Girl” thing, too. All three are pretty clueless, each in his or her own way, but I’m going to go with Billie, provided she gets drunk enough. I think she gains special powers then.

        The other question is this: how will Joe react when his secret is uncovered?

        • thomas0comer
          thomas0comer
          October 26, 2012 at 3:48 pm | #

          When did Joe find out about Dana’s alter-ego?

  9. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    October 26, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

    THIS IS DELICIOUS IRONY, YOU MUST EAT IT.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      October 26, 2012 at 12:17 am | #

      WITH A SPOOOOOOOOOON!

      • Tucker
        Tucker
        October 26, 2012 at 12:30 am | #

        AND CUT IT WITH A KNIFE!

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          October 26, 2012 at 12:34 am | #

          And Burn it with Fire!

          • Aizat
            Aizat
            October 26, 2012 at 12:37 am | #

            AND THEN PUT THE ASHES IN A CAN!

            • Wonder Wig
              Wonder Wig
              October 26, 2012 at 12:41 am | #

              AND THEN SNORT THE ASHES!

              • Khrene
                Khrene
                October 26, 2012 at 2:42 am | #

                No no you roll the ahes in a blunt ans smoke them. *Sigh* Some people.

                • Originalslugboy
                  Originalslugboy
                  October 26, 2012 at 2:56 am | #

                  AND THEN SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR FAAAAAAAAAAAACE!

                • AckAckAck
                  AckAckAck
                  October 26, 2012 at 6:43 am | #

                  A chain this long and no “Your mom for a nickel” joke?

                  Walkynauts, I’m disappoint.

                • Jetstream
                  Jetstream
                  October 26, 2012 at 8:39 am | #

                  I’ll be disappointed in your mom… for a nickel!

                • begbert2
                  begbert2
                  October 26, 2012 at 10:48 am | #

                  To be fair, for that price you can’t exactly expect the premium service.

                • Joey
                  Joey
                  October 26, 2012 at 12:18 pm | #

                  Premium service is a quarter.

                • Wixvhen
                  Wixvhen
                  October 26, 2012 at 1:59 pm | #

                  Or at least home made cookies.

                • Mike
                  Mike
                  October 26, 2012 at 4:17 pm | #

                  I’m disappointed in your mom as much as when getting an oatmeal-raisin cookie, yet expecting chocolate chip.

                • Rex Hondo
                  Rex Hondo
                  October 27, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

                  AND MY AXE!

                  Crap. Am I too late for the all-caps portion of the festivities?

  10. NCP19
    NCP19
    October 26, 2012 at 12:14 am | #

    It’s his amazing attention to detail the probably led to his place on the third annual favorite poll.

  11. Aizat
    Aizat
    October 26, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

    You know what’s funny? I’m half expecting some villain appearing out of no where.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      October 26, 2012 at 12:46 am | #

      Nyohoho. I am PROFESSOR EXTREMO!

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        October 26, 2012 at 12:52 am | #

        Buzz off, Extremo. This is the domain of Shadow Man.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          October 26, 2012 at 12:55 am | #

          You’ll be singing a different tune once the Killer Clarinet is through with you!

          • Aizat
            Aizat
            October 26, 2012 at 12:56 am | #

            Killer Clarinet? I shoved him down an elevator shaft 2 days ago.

            • AckAckAck
              AckAckAck
              October 26, 2012 at 9:52 am | #

              Master Grand Tuba?

              • Wixvhen
                Wixvhen
                October 26, 2012 at 2:04 pm | #

                Axe Shredder?

                • Raoullefere
                  Raoullefere
                  October 26, 2012 at 3:20 pm | #

                  Buzz Cut, the Close-shorn Capering Criminal?

                • thomas0comer
                  thomas0comer
                  October 26, 2012 at 3:45 pm | #

                  Burnt Toast, the ruler of ruined food?

                • Random Guy
                  Random Guy
                  October 26, 2012 at 4:20 pm | #

                  The Oatmeal-Raisin Cookie That Looks Like Chocolate-Chip.

  12. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    October 26, 2012 at 12:18 am | #

    I wonder how long he will set there waiting for Amazi Girl to show up.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      October 26, 2012 at 12:21 am | #

      My guess? FOREVER!

    • Ragnal
      Ragnal
      October 26, 2012 at 12:41 am | #

      It’s gonna be like Sally waiting for the Great Pumpkin with Linus.

      …please tell me that didn’t go over everyone’s heads.

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        October 26, 2012 at 12:45 am | #

        I get it!

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        October 26, 2012 at 12:49 am | #

        I get it and I never saw that special.

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        October 26, 2012 at 12:55 am | #

        I got the reference and I’m pretty sure I’m not around when the special aired.

      • Wack'd
        Wack'd
        October 26, 2012 at 2:08 am | #

        I got the reference because I read the damn comics!

        I am a better fan than all of you! I hereby revoke your Peanuts-merchandise owning privileges! You guys only owned that stuff to get attention from Peanuts fans anyway.

      • tahrey
        tahrey
        October 26, 2012 at 4:16 am | #

        Of course it didn’t. Peanuts is eternal.

        Though it was usually Charlie Brown and Lucy who got dragged out to the pumpkin patch wasn’t it?

        /30 years old
        /british
        /still gets it
        /probably because
        /parents had a few old paperback collections
        /good times

        • taekwondogirl
          taekwondogirl
          October 28, 2012 at 1:22 am | #

          I don’t recall Lucy ever remotely putting up with that noise.

      • Spazman
        Spazman
        October 26, 2012 at 6:22 am | #

        I read “Sal waiting for the Great Pumpkin with Linus.”

        Willis, can we have this for Halloween? Pretty Please?

        • Zaphod Beeblebrox
          Zaphod Beeblebrox
          October 26, 2012 at 7:24 am | #

          Actually, I can see Joyce as a more likely candidate for pumpkin watching… and dragging Mike, Ethan, and Sierra along with her.

          • Raoullefere
            Raoullefere
            October 26, 2012 at 3:25 pm | #

            Joyce is not going to be spending Harvest Festival seeking out misleading superstitions. The Devil uses Treats to Trick! (Saw that on a mobile billboard in front of a church yesterday)

            • Andiemus
              Andiemus
              October 27, 2012 at 12:48 am | #

              That is great!

        • AckAckAck
          AckAckAck
          October 26, 2012 at 9:53 am | #

          Sounds like a Beatles song title….

      • Kelly
        Kelly
        October 26, 2012 at 6:21 pm | #

        I can’t stand Peanuts!

        • Jeff K!
          Jeff K!
          October 26, 2012 at 9:10 pm | #

          Stop those rhymes now, I mean it!

  13. WhiteEyedCat
    WhiteEyedCat
    October 26, 2012 at 12:24 am | #

    Oooh, Amber overtook Joyce on the poll, YAY AMBER!

  14. Joseph Harner
    Joseph Harner
    October 26, 2012 at 12:29 am | #

    But that was like…. YEARS AGO! How did you remember this, Danny? Does Willis-time not effect you? I want this super-power.

  15. Jason
    Jason
    October 26, 2012 at 12:52 am | #

    I’m calling it now. Amazi-Girl is Becky.

    • AckAckAck
      AckAckAck
      October 26, 2012 at 9:53 am | #

      Amazi-Girl is Joe.

      • Wixvhen
        Wixvhen
        October 26, 2012 at 2:06 pm | #

        Amazi-Girl is Dina… And on a related subject, Amber is Dino-Girl.

  16. Undrave
    Undrave
    October 26, 2012 at 12:53 am | #

    Most people are unobservant? UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE YEAR DANNY! People are FRACKIN’ BLIND!

    *Dude walks into convinience store, look at chocolate display at counter*”You don’t have any gum?”

    Yes, we’re a convinience TOTALLY ignoring the BIGGEST GROWTH MARKET in convinience store this side of jerky OFF COURSE WE GOT GUM! JUST LOOK AROUND YOU MORON IT’S NOT THAT HARD!

    “Where [inster title] magazine?”
    It’s right there! It’s the one where the vapid star on the front hides the FIRST LETTERS of the magazine’s name, you know the one with the same damn font for the last ten years or so!

    GAH! I could tel you guys stories! Lots of them!

    • Batman1016
      Batman1016
      October 26, 2012 at 1:16 am | #

      I worked at Walmart back when COD:MW3 came out. We had three displays full of the game out on the floor. Big, four-sided, full size sales displays, one for each system. Didn’t matter. Got asked 36 times, “Hey, you got the new Modern Warfare?” THIRTY-SIX. One guy, as I was putting new copies on the mod, walked up to me from the other side, and asked me, OVER THE TOP OF THE DISPLAY CASE, if we had any. I looked at him as if he’d grown another head and literally just said, “Ok, dude?”

      To his credit, he immediately looked down, then jumped backwards and shouted, “Oh, CHRIST, I’m a @#$%ing MORON!!”

      • Wack'd
        Wack'd
        October 26, 2012 at 2:10 am | #

        Thirty-six? Thirty-six guys asked you if you had the new Modern Warfare? What, does that include me?

        • AckAckAck
          AckAckAck
          October 26, 2012 at 9:57 am | #

          At least we know what kind of players Modern Warfare games had.

          • Wixvhen
            Wixvhen
            October 26, 2012 at 2:09 pm | #

            And yet the moment you join them online they call you the moron for not seeing the guy in camo in the shadows that’s not on the radar who fires only one shot from a suppressed rifle to kill you.

            • Raoullefere
              Raoullefere
              October 26, 2012 at 3:36 pm | #

              Which shows the real issue: people have priorities. My guess is we all have only so much attention to spread around (some less than others), and so we don’t ‘waste’ that attention on things we don’t need to. So these customers are budgeting their attention, reasoning that finding the gum or the game is what the people who work in the store are for. Actually, since frog’s brains have been shown to work that way, I guess there’s no reason for people’s not to, also, It’s just we can be selective about assigning out priorities.

              That’s Danny’s problem, too, by the way: his priority seems to be to have a relationship. not to pay attention to the girl he’s in the relationship with. There’s no other way to explain his dating Dotty for longer than a few months, if you want to be uncharitable (I do), or at the least realizing at some point before he chose this school that Dotty was going to ditch him.

              • Random Guy
                Random Guy
                October 26, 2012 at 4:26 pm | #

                Let’s face it, no one really wants to be omniscient, because people are gross.

                • Wixvhen
                  Wixvhen
                  October 28, 2012 at 12:47 pm | #

                  So very very true…

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      October 26, 2012 at 1:22 am | #

      Much anger I sense in you.

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      October 26, 2012 at 2:09 am | #

      Sorry, man, but I think Kevin Smith beat you to it.

      “How much is this thing, anyway?”

      • Undrave
        Undrave
        October 26, 2012 at 3:41 pm | #

        God I love that bit. Story of my life.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        October 27, 2012 at 5:22 pm | #

        Woops, I was thinking of the wrong Kevin Smith, the one who played Ares on Xena.

    • tahrey
      tahrey
      October 26, 2012 at 4:13 am | #

      I can put warning signs over mission-critical power switches that say “DO NOT TURN THIS SWITCH OFF EXCEPT IN CASE OF FIRE OR OTHER SITE EMERGENCY” and people will still lift it up, breaking the tape holding it down, in order to flip the switch off instead of going through the slightly more complicated shutdown procedure (i’m talking in terms of a need to push two, sometimes even three buttons) on the adjoining console. Obviously just seeing something that looks like a glowing power switch (maybe I need to put some paint or duct tape over the indicator neon?) and ripping away anything that gets in their path in order to flick it off.

      Rinse, repeat for a hundred other power switches and amplifiers around the place, along with a multitude of random devices that can be easily misused or tampered with by ignorant fingers around the place, that get the same treatment despite similar signs/warnings/stickers/obstructions…

      Then they wonder why stuff is broken the next time they come to use it.

      • Cybersnark
        Cybersnark
        October 26, 2012 at 6:12 am | #

        You need to train them. Just set up a bunch of traps connected to fake power switches and let Darwinism take its course.

      • davidbreslin101
        davidbreslin101
        October 26, 2012 at 7:16 am | #

        From similar experiences, I’ve concluded that people fail to hear or read the word “NOT” about three times out of four.
        “I can do Wednesday but not Thursday.” “OK, what time on Thursday?”
        “But I’m NOT Amazi-Girl!” “Aha! I KNEW it!”
        (How many “not”s are there in this comment?)

        • Regalli
          Regalli
          October 26, 2012 at 11:07 am | #

          Four, including the “How many are there in this comment” one.

        • begbert2
          begbert2
          October 26, 2012 at 3:26 pm | #

          There weren’t any until you asked about them, of course.

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      October 26, 2012 at 9:15 am | #

      Is gum a growth industry? I thought that bubble would have popped by now.

      • Notebooked
        Notebooked
        October 26, 2012 at 11:37 am | #

        [piano sting]

  17. Azukar
    Azukar
    October 26, 2012 at 1:37 am | #

    “Pop a squat”?! Sounds kind of like a cutesy, childish way to say you sharted. “Did you hear me pop a squat just now? …yeah I need to go change”.

    • tahrey
      tahrey
      October 26, 2012 at 4:06 am | #

      Only if you’ve never heard anyone use it as a way of saying “take a seat” before. I’m familiar enough with it.

      • CWR
        CWR
        October 26, 2012 at 4:21 am | #

        I’ve only heard ‘cop a squat’ – thought this was a typo. Like ‘cop an attitude’ or ‘cop a feel’…I hear ‘pop a squat’ and all I think of is ‘pop a wheelie’ or ‘pop a boner’.

        Not really synonyms to my tin ear.

    • Ryorin
      Ryorin
      October 26, 2012 at 2:12 pm | #

      I feel your confusion. I had never heard it before beginning college in the Mid-West. It’s a really bizarre turn of phrase to many and completely natural to others, leading to me staring blankly at others who stared blankly back. Five years later, I understand it but could never use it myself.

      I still have nightmares about its TRUE, dark meaning…

      • Andiemus
        Andiemus
        October 27, 2012 at 12:46 am | #

        You hear it from working-class folks in California too.

        • Kernanator
          Kernanator
          October 27, 2012 at 11:10 am | #

          Yeah, I think I’ve heard it once or twice.

  18. TheEqualizer
    TheEqualizer
    October 26, 2012 at 1:37 am | #

    Wild Mass Guess: Danny figures out Amber and Amazi-Girl are one and the same when he notices they have the same DS.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      October 26, 2012 at 2:16 am | #

      WMG: Danny already knows who Amazi-Girl is and just playing dumb.

      • hmrc4evr
        hmrc4evr
        October 26, 2012 at 12:25 pm | #

        I suggested that last strip and the idea really didnt fly.

        • thomas0comer
          thomas0comer
          October 26, 2012 at 3:37 pm | #

          :Fhkdslkfl;adj RUINED FOREVAR fd;slkfjasdlkfj;

          Am I close?

    • tahrey
      tahrey
      October 26, 2012 at 4:05 am | #

      WMG: In the highly unlikely event of Amber actually being Amazi-Girl, she will just quickly change the name of her Mii again, like we saw happen before.

      Amazi-Girl’s DS was pretty unremarkable, its only distinguishing marks being a particular case colour. Of which Nintendo have made millions in each shade.

  19. Gregory
    Gregory
    October 26, 2012 at 1:37 am | #

    Love the irony in this strip.

  20. Uncle Rylon
    Uncle Rylon
    October 26, 2012 at 2:19 am | #

    It’s nice to see the silver age superman stories being updated for the modern world. Lois & Clark was a nice stab at it, but it really went down hill after the first season.

  21. Rex Hondo
    Rex Hondo
    October 26, 2012 at 2:55 am | #

    My theory is that the portion of Danny’s brain that would be used to notice things has one of the seals that keeps DAB out of their reality locked away inside it. If he ever actually notices that Amber and Amazi-Girl are one and the same, their world will start to deteriorate into madness and horror.

    • tahrey
      tahrey
      October 26, 2012 at 4:03 am | #

      OK, I know digital radio is pretty terrible at the best of times, but an eldritch abomination it is not. And as it exists in this world, does that mean we’re doomed? You’re going to have to explain this one to us.

      • Null Set
        Null Set
        October 26, 2012 at 4:44 am | #

        http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/comic/book-13/05-the-death-of-snkrs/dab/

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      October 26, 2012 at 11:04 am | #

      Quick! HIDE THE UROSITE! YOU HAVE SUMMONED DAB ONTO OUR PLANE OF REALITY! WE’RE ALL DOOMED, YOU- PRAISE BE TO DAB.

  22. tahrey
    tahrey
    October 26, 2012 at 4:01 am | #

    I’m getting such a massive sense of deja vu off this strip – has this exchange happened somewhere else as well?! Including follow on comments?

    Also, “POP a squat”? I always thought it was “COP”… :-/

  23. tahrey
    tahrey
    October 26, 2012 at 4:59 am | #

    Do have to wonder, though – what’s with the Theta logo on his hoodie? It’s presumably not a fraternity thing, and it arguably predates the rise of USB… so, why?

    • Jackson
      Jackson
      October 26, 2012 at 7:02 am | #

      That’s just the IU logo. It kinda looks like a theta sometimes when obscured by a word bubble or wrinkles, but panel 1 offers a decent view of it. And you can see from the upper half of it in this strip that it’s not a theta. Hope that helps!

      • Random832
        Random832
        October 26, 2012 at 8:46 am | #

        I don’t see how anyone could think it looks like a theta. It looks like a psi.

  24. Jackson
    Jackson
    October 26, 2012 at 7:14 am | #

    Geez Louise, Amber, just tell the guy. Put the info to his head and put him out of his obliviousness.

    • AckAckAck
      AckAckAck
      October 26, 2012 at 7:29 pm | #

      Then lose the magic? I prefer the secrecy. Like Lois and Supes, that guy and Wonder Woman.

      Okay I don’t really like that guy and Wonder Woman pairing. They are stupid. Good thing DC got rid of that guy I don’t even remember his name.

  25. 13thprotector
    13thprotector
    October 26, 2012 at 8:47 am | #

    Unobservant? Then he must blinder than a bat if he hasn’t caught it yet!

    • thomas0comer
      thomas0comer
      October 26, 2012 at 10:24 pm | #

      Isn’t it funny how leaving out one word can entirely change the of a sentence?

  26. G.G.
    G.G.
    October 26, 2012 at 9:14 am | #

    I would have called this one unobservant. things will get interesting

  27. Roborat
    Roborat
    October 26, 2012 at 3:42 pm | #

    Holy irony Batman!

  28. Ray
    Ray
    October 26, 2012 at 4:35 pm | #

    To be fair, it’s pretty well established by brain scientists that “observant” is a relative term. There’s too much sensory input for the brain to track everything so it makes a lot of shortcuts and assumptions based on context, priority, and expectations.

    Clark Kent most likely really could get away with using only glasses for a disguise, that is except for his Daily Planet co-workers, since they frequently encounter both Clark and Superman.

    • Rex Hondo
      Rex Hondo
      October 27, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

      It’s that attention to detail by its entire staff that makes the Daily Planet the most trusted and respected news organization on the east coast. 😛

      • Uncle Rylon
        Uncle Rylon
        October 27, 2012 at 2:34 am | #

        East coast? It’s the Daily Planet. It’s the most trusted and respected news organization on the planet.

        • David
          David M Willis
          October 27, 2012 at 5:20 pm | #

          The way things are going, it’ll be the ONLY news organization on the planet.

          • Aydr
            Aydr
            October 28, 2012 at 10:32 pm | #

            I like how they pretended Clark quit so that he could voice the truth rather than he was fired.

    • Rex Hondo
      Rex Hondo
      October 27, 2012 at 7:04 am | #

      Or maybe the writers and artists just don’t show how he amnesia-kisses everybody who figures it out. Clark giving a lot of inappropriate kisses around the office is probably why he was “given the option to resign.”

  29. rachel
    rachel
    September 16, 2013 at 7:47 pm | #

    GAH this is just the cutest comic, I bet it DOES help, Danny!!

    • DarkoNeko
      DarkoNeko
      April 14, 2015 at 9:52 am | #

      Yes. Yes it does.

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