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Seems a little obvious. Or maybe I’m reading it wrong.
And so today we see Joyce dismissing Walky as a possible husband while Dorothy captures his eye. Over at Questionable Content, Dora and Marten may be breaking up. What will tomorrow bring, I wonder?
I have to say, since people have been talking of Dorothy as “the blonde Amber” – I got a little feeling of horror on the last two panels as my mind automatically paired Walky and Amber. SO WRONG.
Consider this- the head alien visits many universes, including one where
Walky never joins SEMME, and marries Dorothy Keener. The wiki calls this
universe the no-walkyverse. I think this is that universe.
So why’re Roz’s eyes closed? Or Joyce’s for that matter? Is it a thing girls do when they’re mad at someone? Then who pissed Roz off if that’s the case? Why am I asking so many questions? WHY?!
Look closely at panel 3.
A) Joyce has a slight “blush” on her cheeks that was not in Panel 1.
B) Mouth slightly turned down.
C) Right border, 20% up from bottom edge –tan / brown shape is hair. Obviously hair. If you stopped 100 people on the street, 99 would tell you it is hair, (the other would ask if you would like a stress test.)
But…
It is hair drawn to create subliminal associations with the human hand
( it even has fingers!) suggesting she has just wiped away a tear.
Well done!
Oh, silly Walky, this is why we don’t tempt fate. Before I’d assumed that Joyce and Walky would end up together like immediately, but now when I think about it… D:
I guess in a way it makes sense. I’ve been told around these parts before that Willis doesn’t want to do the same story arc over with the characters, so he’s either A) going to make Walky and Dorothy the couple she wished they were in the Walkyverse, or B) tease us before making J&W a last minute hookup.
Or, yanno, third option, a bunch of swerves ala Joyce/Walky/Dina/Joe/Mike.
I assumed this was the Walkverse where he and Dorothy ended up together. But according to that one, they went to high school together too, right? But there is still room for development. “He was happy, he was a doctor.”
I maybe wrong but the Dorothy from Joyce and Walky met walky in high school and head alien showed her a parallel in which they ended up together and walky became a doctor head alien never went into any of the details of they’re relationship in that parallel other than dorothy would end up with walky
That wouldn’t work, anyway, because this Walky is majoring in telecommunications. A medical occupation requires a degree in that field, as well as several years of medical school.
Wait, are we damning him for making us speculate on fictional characters, or are we damning him for managing to have us come back here every single day to speculate further?
I’d really like to see Joe use a line on Dorothy. Given that she just broke up with Joe’s best friend and she is focused on getting into Yale, I’m imagining his attempt pissing her off so much she threatens to gut him like a fish.
I don’t know, Dorothy is pretty on top of things. She’s probably up to date on his RSS Feed and looks so happy in this strip because she’s anticipating the inevitable Joeing.
i’m liking all the reactions. if obi-wan were to read this he’d probably mention something about the millions of shippers all screaming at once and then being silenced..yes my first thoughts of reading a daily life webcomic is to see parallels with it and star wars.
While I ship Walky and Joyce, I totally expected this the moment I saw Dorothy was in this comic. …I’m not sure why no one else did.
Besides, the romance is pretty worthless if it’s not built up. Really, there’d be just as many people complaining if Walky and Joyce got thrown together right away! Savor the drama and build up, people. Instant gratification isn’t nearly so gratifying, it just makes you feel empty that much quicker!
Dammit Willis, it doesn’t work this way in real life! I’ve used Walky’s little soliloquy in panel four… and fate did not hand me a nice young woman to prompt me to break up with singlehood.
Walky, apparently, has the mind of a male entering middle school, rather than one entering collage… No, wait… I knew more about women then him in middle school… Someone needs to give that boy “The Talk”… Something tells me he must have missed it.
It’s kind of nice to know that even without the insane childhood drama, Walky would still never mature. Ever. If anything, being abducted by aliens caused him to grow up on a subconscious level even before his SEMME recruitment.
Moreover, because he has no explicit reason to be kid-like in this universe, it means that he actually is this immature, which says all sorts of wonderful things about his upbringing and mental capacity. One wonders how he made it to college to begin with.
Walky may be acting childish because he, y’know, wants to be. I personally think that being a serious adult would be boring, so I’ve decided to be whimsical all of my days.
Walky was shown in IW to be quite intelligent – and not just through the Head Alien’s genetic manipulation, either. Walky probably did well in high school, then went to college because his parents wanted him to.
True, but if he was just acting immature for the sake of it than I doubt he would’ve made the remark in panel two. I hope he would be intelligent enough to realize that’s not the sort of thing you say to girls once you hit, I dunno, twelve, even if you’re not interested in dating.
So, he’s either really immature, or pretending to be immature but also kind of a douche.
Intelligence and maturity are not correlated. In fact, they’re often negatively correlated, if only because the truly smart people know that growing up sucks.
Ooh, this could prove interesting. I’d love to see how Danny reacts to this when he finds out. I’m looking forward to seeing this. Also, YAY ROZ! That means that there may be Robin in the future.
Given that we’re coming off a conversation about Walky’s reaction to Joyce’s college/life goal, and Dorothy’s Yale goal has been her defining character trait, his reaction to hearing about it is likely to be a key moment. (I doubt he’ll have the same reaction he did to Joyce, but he might ask a useful question such as “What do you want to do after Yale?”.)
A sudden realization just hit me assuming roz is more or less the same as she was in shortpacked (which would kinda be odd if she wasn’t cause she really never had any interaction with aliens, seme, ect to require changes unless changes with robin somehow made affected roz) then shes totally gonna end up with joe
I’m kind of hoping this universe has a lot of different romantic pairings, like characters from Shortpacked being with Walkyverse people, even if the pairing is weird like Ethan/Joe.
But that means that head alien is really in this universe and Walkys gonna become a doctor and marry Dorothy thus dooming countless other parallel worlds. Not only would that suck but i would hate willis cause it would mean that he’s given us a cheat sheet for the end results of half the relationships Walky ending with Dorothy, Sal with Dan, and potentially more for the people that actually paid to see the entirety of the whole Machete Arc
Wait, how does thinking Joyce’s reason for going to college is dumb make Walky a woman-hating philistine? He seems more neutral on the subject of females than anything else. You know, he’s all “Meh. I have nothing against them, I’ve just never met one I really liked.”
As far as I can tell, it makes him “a woman-hating philistine” because he questioned her motives. And anyone who doesn’t like typical girly things is “a romance-hating jerk person” because Joyce fits the bill of girls he doesn’t like.
I have to disagree with Rachel that he’s in a “girls are icky” stage as well. Nowhere has it been suggested he thinks like that.
And on another note, it amazes me that no matter the universe, Joyce annoys the hellout of me.
My second thought was: No, Walky! You like Billie! BILLIE.
My final thoughts are this: predictions.
Walky will start pursuing Dorothy, in an awkward childish way that will annoy Dorothy. This will lead Billie to get jealous and realize her feelings for Walky. Walky will be thus conflicted, drama will ensue.
Danny, still heart-broken over Dorothy, will try to investigate who Amazi-Girl is. This should lead him into Amber’s arms, but won’t, because Amber is still shy and tries to hide from the world. Billie, heart-broken over Walky for some reason, will come across Danny in a similar state. Angry making out will ensue.
Dina and Dorothy, meanwhile, will be trying to pursue educations but will also be looking for Joe to Joe them. Joe will ignore Dina, consider Dorothy, realize it’s too weird, and then go Joe Roz and Robin and Amber and Mary and Rachel and Ruth and all the rest. Somehow Joyce also decides that Joe is the man for her and will pursue him as well. Hilarity will ensue.
In the end, Dorothy transfers to Yale, Billie and Danny are hooked up full-time-like, Joyce and Walky find each other, each having grown into the right amount of maturity, and Joe will go off and Joe some chicks at MIT before hooking up with Dorothy for good, because hey, he somehow ended up at Ivy League, right?
Amber and Mike then enter the most epic of hatefucks. The end.
Normally I would agree with you, but remember Willis has stated that DoA characters will NEVER age. In other words, the characters are stuck in a time loop in first year forever.
This has 2 general possibilities on how DoA works out
1. Character relationships change and mutate at the beginning, but eventually stabilize, such as the configuration that you suggested, newspaper comic with little to no continuity follows. least possibility knowing Willis
2. Character relationships change and mutate all the time, and continue to do so for the entire series, which, theoretically means if this strip goes on for long enough, we might end up seeing every possible combination of characters doing it. – medium possibility knowing Willis
3. Hybrid of the 2 above possibilities, ie some characters develop into stable or quasi stable (on and off dating) relationships and other characters act as wanderers changing their relationship status every few years or so (NB: Joe will be a pseudo stable in that he will never be in a relationship for more than 5 strips, tops) . best possibility knowing Willis.
When I read ‘every possible combination’ I then thought of Sal/Walky because my mind jumped to the least likely combination possible. As much fun Willis has had screwing with peoples minds in the case of Faz and Amber, I’d doubt he’d go for that one.
On the other hand… I (almost) wouldn’t put it past him..
Don’t be so certain about Joe never being in a stable relationship. I mean, if even Mike could find a steady girlfriend (two if his drunken relationship with Dina counts), then surely Joe might find stable love. Perhaps not long-term, but it could happen.
Just a thought, but Dorothy’s smile doesn’t hit her face until after Walky stops talking. Could this mean that she heard his proclamation and is glad that this random guy in her class isn’t going to be chasing after her like Danny?
Could these be the false hopes engendered by an across the room conversation?
It’s interesting I’m reading this right at the point in my reading It’s Walky where Walky and Joyce aren’t getting along. And if that happens more than once I mean the one where Joyce murders Nega-Joyce.
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they managed to get the arms and thighs to be different grays, which I wasn't sure they'd be able to do, the way the mold's set up
though maybe they're just producing a lot of extra thighs and/or arms in the wrong colors and throwing those away, i dunno
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ROZ OH NOES
Change the Wi-Fi password XD
, what, no speculation walky will date dorothy ?
Seems a little obvious. Or maybe I’m reading it wrong.
And so today we see Joyce dismissing Walky as a possible husband while Dorothy captures his eye. Over at Questionable Content, Dora and Marten may be breaking up. What will tomorrow bring, I wonder?
I have to say, since people have been talking of Dorothy as “the blonde Amber” – I got a little feeling of horror on the last two panels as my mind automatically paired Walky and Amber. SO WRONG.
Consider this- the head alien visits many universes, including one where
Walky never joins SEMME, and marries Dorothy Keener. The wiki calls this
universe the no-walkyverse. I think this is that universe.
it is not
DOA is alien free, superpower free
just a bunch of idiot kids going through college.
ROZ!!!! NOOOOOOOO!
I think I may be one of the only people who liked Roz… her character even if not “character” if you catch my meaning.
EDIT: I think I may be one of the only people who liked Roz… her character even if not her “character” if you catch my meaning.
Obviously he’s going to end up with Roz. I see the foreshadowing here.
Yes, there’s a reason he sat right behind her. Also, he’s trying not to be too obvious, and he’s covering his tracks by looking at Dorothy.
He has no pupils, how can you tell who he’s looking at?
Nope. No arrows.
His elbow might count.
Le gasp! Foreshadowing.
And so the greatest romance begins-
Sorry I was watching Darkwing Duck. What going on here?
DARKWING DUCK? WHERE?! I WANTS I WANTS!
I bought the Dvds when I found out they were making a comic book of it
Waitwaitwaitwaitwaitwait… Darkwing Duck got a DVD release? WHY HAS NO ONE TOLD ME THIS?!
and an ongoing comic book series
Nooooooooo!!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
; ;
The dual Danny avatars make these two comments pretty funny, especially since I don’t think those were the avatars at the time the comments were made.
Ho ho, I should’ve seen this coming!
Why would you do that.
Wow, this just gets better and better!
Oh dear.
So why’re Roz’s eyes closed? Or Joyce’s for that matter? Is it a thing girls do when they’re mad at someone? Then who pissed Roz off if that’s the case? Why am I asking so many questions? WHY?!
Joyce is angry. Roz looks… asleep. She doesn’t have as much energy as her sister.
Look closely at panel 3.
A) Joyce has a slight “blush” on her cheeks that was not in Panel 1.
B) Mouth slightly turned down.
C) Right border, 20% up from bottom edge –tan / brown shape is hair. Obviously hair. If you stopped 100 people on the street, 99 would tell you it is hair, (the other would ask if you would like a stress test.)
But…
It is hair drawn to create subliminal associations with the human hand
( it even has fingers!) suggesting she has just wiped away a tear.
Well done!
Thanks for pointing out that I forgot to color in Joyce’s cheeks in panel one. I’ll have to go fix that.
Jacob, he wouldn’t go for a quickie before class.
It appears that they’ve been… Fazified.
They lack the smile!
Also, I wonder if Faz is Amber’s half-brother in DoA as well.
Given that Amber’s dad’s promiscuity was not in any way related to aliens, I’d say yes.
Are we sure that Amber’s dad’s promiscuity wasn’t related to aliens?
Looks to me like she’s looking down at something in her lap OR ON HER DESK ON HER DESK.
I think Roz may just be looking down at stuff on her desk. Or asleep. Joyce I think is closing her eyes so she doesn’t have to look at him.
Oh, silly Walky, this is why we don’t tempt fate. Before I’d assumed that Joyce and Walky would end up together like immediately, but now when I think about it… D:
I guess in a way it makes sense. I’ve been told around these parts before that Willis doesn’t want to do the same story arc over with the characters, so he’s either A) going to make Walky and Dorothy the couple she wished they were in the Walkyverse, or B) tease us before making J&W a last minute hookup.
Or, yanno, third option, a bunch of swerves ala Joyce/Walky/Dina/Joe/Mike.
I assumed this was the Walkverse where he and Dorothy ended up together. But according to that one, they went to high school together too, right? But there is still room for development. “He was happy, he was a doctor.”
I maybe wrong but the Dorothy from Joyce and Walky met walky in high school and head alien showed her a parallel in which they ended up together and walky became a doctor head alien never went into any of the details of they’re relationship in that parallel other than dorothy would end up with walky
That wouldn’t work, anyway, because this Walky is majoring in telecommunications. A medical occupation requires a degree in that field, as well as several years of medical school.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I changed majors in college.
I kid, I kid… but I really did.
I don’t think this version of Walky has the patience for medical school, in any case.
Wow. I’m going to have to use the word Philistine more often then.
Make up and ponies and vampires? Sigh… how old are the girls you’re lookin’ at, Walky?
Walky likes em’ young.
Real young.
Cause that’s exclusive to any age.
Walky likes them middle aged.
Lies, Walky likes ’em over 89!
*must. . . resist . . . “over 8-9000” joke . . .*
So the real reason he’s all tan is that he’s related to Jacob Black?
“Philistine” is another name for “Palestinian”. JOYCE HATES MUSLIMS!
That’s how it originated, yes, but the word now colloquially means basically “asshole.”
Or uncultured/barbarian
Hee-hee.
Actualy, the ancient Philistines and the modern-day Palestinians are very different peoples.
WHAT
Also: yay, Roz!
I think that’s the first time anyones ever said “yay roz”.
What, really? but.. but.. Roz is awesome (in a, y’know, totally-a-bongo-sometimes way)
Well this is a chance to make her well not completly unlikable. Being a different universe and all.
This raises a question, though: where’s Robin herself?
Wherever Leslie and/or Ethan are.
Roz is taking gender studies. I am partly happy that I was right about it, and partly freaked out that I was right about it.
Actually, mostly freaked out.
You know, it’d seem that Roz would find the challenge more interesting than Dorothy. Drama tag pre-pulled indeed.
DAMN YOU WILLIS
Seconded!
Thirded.
Wait, are we damning him for making us speculate on fictional characters, or are we damning him for managing to have us come back here every single day to speculate further?
Can’t it be all five?
Sure, why not?
QUICK WALKY KNOCK ON WOOD! And not Joe’s wood… ewwww…
It might be my lack of sleep talking, but that is inordianately funny to me right now.
It’s probably my pain medication, but I agree with you. It’s funny.
Oh snap!
Sorry Walky, but Joe already has dibs to Joe Dorothy. Don’t you follow his “Do List” RSS feed?
I’d really like to see Joe use a line on Dorothy. Given that she just broke up with Joe’s best friend and she is focused on getting into Yale, I’m imagining his attempt pissing her off so much she threatens to gut him like a fish.
I don’t know, Dorothy is pretty on top of things. She’s probably up to date on his RSS Feed and looks so happy in this strip because she’s anticipating the inevitable Joeing.
(at above) Agreed.
Yanno, that might be the first smile I’ve seen Dorothy actually HAVE so far. With good reason, but still.
So are you some sort of FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
Pairings I’m going to be watching for: Joe/Roz, Walky/Dorothy, and Joyce stalking Danny.
Those are some good pairings, though my favourite is still Ultra-Car/Becky.
Wow. That totally doesn’t seem so far-fetched now.
Reading the first panel I’m thinking, “Dude, it’s gonna turn out that DOA Walky is gay.”
And then I was wrong.
You don’t know that. Maybe he is gay and she has a “kick me” sign on her back.
Maybe he needs glasses, and thought she was a dude?
Maybe she’s actually Faz in drag?
I knew it!
Yes
yesssssssssssssssssssssssss
MEGATRON!!!!!!!
i’m liking all the reactions. if obi-wan were to read this he’d probably mention something about the millions of shippers all screaming at once and then being silenced..yes my first thoughts of reading a daily life webcomic is to see parallels with it and star wars.
Damnit, I caught myself looking for a facebook style “Like” button for this comment…
Well, you can do Facebook stuff *with* it if you click the envelope icon under the strip, though that’s not quite the same thing.
(Man, that icon needs to not look like a mail icon.)
While I ship Walky and Joyce, I totally expected this the moment I saw Dorothy was in this comic. …I’m not sure why no one else did.
Besides, the romance is pretty worthless if it’s not built up. Really, there’d be just as many people complaining if Walky and Joyce got thrown together right away! Savor the drama and build up, people. Instant gratification isn’t nearly so gratifying, it just makes you feel empty that much quicker!
No distractions, Dorothy!
Dammit Willis, it doesn’t work this way in real life! I’ve used Walky’s little soliloquy in panel four… and fate did not hand me a nice young woman to prompt me to break up with singlehood.
Seconded
Walky, apparently, has the mind of a male entering middle school, rather than one entering collage… No, wait… I knew more about women then him in middle school… Someone needs to give that boy “The Talk”… Something tells me he must have missed it.
It’s kind of nice to know that even without the insane childhood drama, Walky would still never mature. Ever. If anything, being abducted by aliens caused him to grow up on a subconscious level even before his SEMME recruitment.
Moreover, because he has no explicit reason to be kid-like in this universe, it means that he actually is this immature, which says all sorts of wonderful things about his upbringing and mental capacity. One wonders how he made it to college to begin with.
Walky may be acting childish because he, y’know, wants to be. I personally think that being a serious adult would be boring, so I’ve decided to be whimsical all of my days.
Walky was shown in IW to be quite intelligent – and not just through the Head Alien’s genetic manipulation, either. Walky probably did well in high school, then went to college because his parents wanted him to.
True, but if he was just acting immature for the sake of it than I doubt he would’ve made the remark in panel two. I hope he would be intelligent enough to realize that’s not the sort of thing you say to girls once you hit, I dunno, twelve, even if you’re not interested in dating.
So, he’s either really immature, or pretending to be immature but also kind of a douche.
Intelligence and maturity are not correlated. In fact, they’re often negatively correlated, if only because the truly smart people know that growing up sucks.
He was on the Honor Roll, if I remember Joyce’s outting of him actually being extremely smart to the entire Squad.
I foresee an awkward double date between Dorothy and Walky, with Joyce and Danny.
I dunno, I’m sort of hoping for/seeing a Danny and Sal thing happening that actually works out.
I can’t see Joyce/Danny, TBH. Danny’s way too obsessed with Dorothy for that to happen.
I’m betting right now that Joe sleeps with everyone.
EVERY CHARACTER IN THE COMIC.
FAZ??
Especially Faz.
The question is, will he get to Mike before Mike gets to his mom?
… Or at the same time.
(Mwahaha.)
Okay, we have an official Roz tag, so why hasn’t he gone back and tagged the other half appearances of Roz?
Ooh, this could prove interesting. I’d love to see how Danny reacts to this when he finds out. I’m looking forward to seeing this. Also, YAY ROZ! That means that there may be Robin in the future.
Does Walky remind anyone else of Captain Mal?
Thank you ever so much. Now he’s always going to have Nathan Fillion’s voice when I read this strip.
Bad enough that’s always how I read Sal’s voice, but Walky too?
I always read Sal like Rogue.
Since Dorothy is leaving for the Ivy League soon (or she hopes to, at least), I sense some heartbreak for Walky in the near future.
Given that we’re coming off a conversation about Walky’s reaction to Joyce’s college/life goal, and Dorothy’s Yale goal has been her defining character trait, his reaction to hearing about it is likely to be a key moment. (I doubt he’ll have the same reaction he did to Joyce, but he might ask a useful question such as “What do you want to do after Yale?”.)
A sudden realization just hit me assuming roz is more or less the same as she was in shortpacked (which would kinda be odd if she wasn’t cause she really never had any interaction with aliens, seme, ect to require changes unless changes with robin somehow made affected roz) then shes totally gonna end up with joe
I’m kind of hoping this universe has a lot of different romantic pairings, like characters from Shortpacked being with Walkyverse people, even if the pairing is weird like Ethan/Joe.
THAT IS MY NEW FAVOURITE PAIRING
Anyone else think that Dorothy is smiling because she knows Walky’s looking at her?
No, it’s because she’s not pretty-faced and hates ponies, and believes in SCIENCE.
And likes the not sissy kind of Vampire.
All in all, sounds like my kinda gal.
I loved Joyce and Walky together so much!! It’s going to be really hard watching him with someone else! =(
Joyce X Dorothy
That just broke my brain… And I’m happy about it…. Dammit Willis…
Try re-reading the comic and imagine Amber instead of Dorothy walking in.
So is this entire series designed to torture Maggie, or..?
On a different note i really hope that if dorothy does start dating that dan doesn’t start becoming a stalker or something equally as bad
This confused me until I remembered the unfinished “Joyce and Walky!” storyline. I can’t wait to see the two universes collide somehow. ^_^
But that means that head alien is really in this universe and Walkys gonna become a doctor and marry Dorothy thus dooming countless other parallel worlds. Not only would that suck but i would hate willis cause it would mean that he’s given us a cheat sheet for the end results of half the relationships Walky ending with Dorothy, Sal with Dan, and potentially more for the people that actually paid to see the entirety of the whole Machete Arc
No. In that universe and the real Walkyverse, Dorothy and Walky knew each other before college-age.
This I did not expect!
I LOVE IT
Wait, how does thinking Joyce’s reason for going to college is dumb make Walky a woman-hating philistine? He seems more neutral on the subject of females than anything else. You know, he’s all “Meh. I have nothing against them, I’ve just never met one I really liked.”
He seems to be stuck in the “girls are icky” phase that six-year-old boys go through.
Also, there’s the pretty blatant stereotyping he’s up to in this strip.
As far as I can tell, it makes him “a woman-hating philistine” because he questioned her motives. And anyone who doesn’t like typical girly things is “a romance-hating jerk person” because Joyce fits the bill of girls he doesn’t like.
I have to disagree with Rachel that he’s in a “girls are icky” stage as well. Nowhere has it been suggested he thinks like that.
And on another note, it amazes me that no matter the universe, Joyce annoys the hellout of me.
Yeah, that’s what I said before I met my girlfriend
My first thought was whaaaaaaaaaaa.
My second thought was: No, Walky! You like Billie! BILLIE.
My final thoughts are this: predictions.
Walky will start pursuing Dorothy, in an awkward childish way that will annoy Dorothy. This will lead Billie to get jealous and realize her feelings for Walky. Walky will be thus conflicted, drama will ensue.
Danny, still heart-broken over Dorothy, will try to investigate who Amazi-Girl is. This should lead him into Amber’s arms, but won’t, because Amber is still shy and tries to hide from the world. Billie, heart-broken over Walky for some reason, will come across Danny in a similar state. Angry making out will ensue.
Dina and Dorothy, meanwhile, will be trying to pursue educations but will also be looking for Joe to Joe them. Joe will ignore Dina, consider Dorothy, realize it’s too weird, and then go Joe Roz and Robin and Amber and Mary and Rachel and Ruth and all the rest. Somehow Joyce also decides that Joe is the man for her and will pursue him as well. Hilarity will ensue.
In the end, Dorothy transfers to Yale, Billie and Danny are hooked up full-time-like, Joyce and Walky find each other, each having grown into the right amount of maturity, and Joe will go off and Joe some chicks at MIT before hooking up with Dorothy for good, because hey, he somehow ended up at Ivy League, right?
Amber and Mike then enter the most epic of hatefucks. The end.
Yes.
Normally I would agree with you, but remember Willis has stated that DoA characters will NEVER age. In other words, the characters are stuck in a time loop in first year forever.
This has 2 general possibilities on how DoA works out
1. Character relationships change and mutate at the beginning, but eventually stabilize, such as the configuration that you suggested, newspaper comic with little to no continuity follows. least possibility knowing Willis
2. Character relationships change and mutate all the time, and continue to do so for the entire series, which, theoretically means if this strip goes on for long enough, we might end up seeing every possible combination of characters doing it. – medium possibility knowing Willis
3. Hybrid of the 2 above possibilities, ie some characters develop into stable or quasi stable (on and off dating) relationships and other characters act as wanderers changing their relationship status every few years or so (NB: Joe will be a pseudo stable in that he will never be in a relationship for more than 5 strips, tops) . best possibility knowing Willis.
When I read ‘every possible combination’ I then thought of Sal/Walky because my mind jumped to the least likely combination possible. As much fun Willis has had screwing with peoples minds in the case of Faz and Amber, I’d doubt he’d go for that one.
On the other hand… I (almost) wouldn’t put it past him..
-uncaps bottle of brain bleach-
Don’t be so certain about Joe never being in a stable relationship. I mean, if even Mike could find a steady girlfriend (two if his drunken relationship with Dina counts), then surely Joe might find stable love. Perhaps not long-term, but it could happen.
Told you, it’s NOT a hunt. I’m perfectly happy being single.
An’ no pretty-FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
Just a thought, but Dorothy’s smile doesn’t hit her face until after Walky stops talking. Could this mean that she heard his proclamation and is glad that this random guy in her class isn’t going to be chasing after her like Danny?
Could these be the false hopes engendered by an across the room conversation?
No! Nooooooo! Wrong direction, Walky! To the left! To the LEFT!
Wha if…Dorothy IS Amazi-Girl?
I like your thinking. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was actually the case.
Doubtful. Being a vigilante would get in the way of going to her Ivy League school.
l:3 oh, yes u did
Foreshadowing!
How the hell did I miss the foreshadowing in this strip nineteen months ago???
Twenty-two months ago, even.
Nt ntNo walky no your my faverit so far don’t do it
It’s interesting I’m reading this right at the point in my reading It’s Walky where Walky and Joyce aren’t getting along. And if that happens more than once I mean the one where Joyce murders Nega-Joyce.