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by David M Willis on October 23, 2014 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - When Somebody Loved Me
└ Tags: amber, danny, joe

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    October 23, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    Maybe Amber could start dating her OWN superhero! Like Danny the Animal! DANIMAL

    no wait

    • Tunaro
      Tunaro
      October 23, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      No! We are not turning Danny into a vigilante! Dina next, then Sal, then maybe Sarah. Not Danny!

    • Flimsyfishy
      Flimsyfishy
      October 23, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

      Also apologies if the coding messes up.

      • Flimsyfishy
        Flimsyfishy
        October 23, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

        well, coding worked, just not how it was supposed to.

        Original line was “Did I hear something about Danimals?”

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          October 23, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

          It kinda worked, the “Did I hear something about Danimals?” is there as hovertext.

      • Rowen Morland
        Rowen Morland
        October 23, 2014 at 2:58 am | #

        That’s the kind of superhero identity that could lure Walky away from Dorothy.

  2. liahansen
    liahansen
    October 23, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    To which Joe replies “Oh, well, ok then”.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      October 23, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

      I’d probably pick up on it if I cared about your Social life even a little bit.

      • Dean
        Dean
        October 23, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

        In panel 4, Joe is actually wondering where he left his keys.

        • tinfoil theory
          tinfoil theory
          October 23, 2014 at 4:17 am | #

          Or why Amber isn’t on his “do” list.

          • Dean
            Dean
            October 23, 2014 at 7:20 pm | #

            They have made it clear that Amber and Danny are not dating, after all…

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      October 23, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

      More likely he’s thinking ‘is Danny setting up a threesome?’

      • saltchocolate
        saltchocolate
        October 23, 2014 at 12:21 am | #

        And should I want to get involved?

        • Asten
          Asten
          October 23, 2014 at 6:23 am | #

          That’s Joe for you.

  3. Tunaro
    Tunaro
    October 23, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Is he buying it? Is he buying it? I think he’s buying it! He’s not buying it, is he… Cheese it!

    • Kirt
      Kirt
      October 23, 2014 at 10:33 am | #

      Really, if Joe thought Danny was banging two women at the same time, he’d be proud of him.

      • drs
        drs
        October 23, 2014 at 2:17 pm | #

        Joe seems to be an ethical slut. He’d be proud of Danny having two casual FWBs, but I think he’d frown on Danny cheating on a girlfriend.

  4. Khaner
    Khaner
    October 23, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Joe looks like Shortpacked! Joe.
    I think it’s the shave
    it looks good on him

    • MrSirk
      MrSirk
      October 23, 2014 at 12:29 am | #

      You can just tell he’s the kind of guy that needs to shave once every 48 hours. Give him a week and he’ll be at full mountain man beard levels.

      • madock345
        madock345
        October 23, 2014 at 6:23 pm | #

        48 hours? Try 24.

  5. sps48
    sps48
    October 23, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Still?!!!

  6. Emperor Kiva
    Emperor Kiva
    October 23, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Way to fuck the moment up, Joe. Asshole

  7. RandomGuy
    RandomGuy
    October 23, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    There is profit to be made in selling Amber’s t-shirt…

    • poofdepoof
      poofdepoof
      October 23, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

      Agreed.

      • Potatamoto
        Potatamoto
        October 23, 2014 at 6:51 am | #

        I have money that cannot currently buy that shirt, and it is sad. Please rectify.

        • ahecht
          ahecht
          October 23, 2014 at 9:49 am | #

          This is fairly close: http://www.bumblemumble.com/product/hugs-bison-shirt

    • Starling000
      Starling000
      October 23, 2014 at 3:37 am | #

      I want it on MY hugs bosom. 😀

    • Jaxx Sentinel
      Jaxx Sentinel
      October 23, 2014 at 10:04 am | #

      your avatar just drove that point home lol

  8. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    October 23, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Is the HUGS BOSON by any chance a new line of merch you’re pushing Willis?

    • -Sentinel-
      -Sentinel-
      October 23, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      I think it’s HUGS BOSOM. Would make sense for a girl’s shirt.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        October 23, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

        But HUGS BOSON is funnier, surely…

        • tinfoil theory
          tinfoil theory
          October 23, 2014 at 4:19 am | #

          I concur.

          • Deanatay
            Deanatay
            October 23, 2014 at 8:47 am | #

            The elusive final particle predicted by our Standard Snuggling Model.

            • Deanatay
              Deanatay
              October 23, 2014 at 8:50 am | #

              Danny has confirmed it’s existence. Using high-velocity impacts at high temperature and pressure.

        • Tenn
          Tenn
          October 23, 2014 at 9:42 am | #

          No. “Hugs Bosom” written over the bosom is an actual pun; it clearly describes one thing (a bosom for hugging) while sounding like something else (a fundamental particle predicted by Peter Higgs and others). “Hugs Boson”, with no additional context, doesn’t describe anything in particular. Is it a particle that gives hugs? A particle that causes people to hug each other? An excitation of the Hugs Field, caused by hugs? Is Amber a fundamental particle? It could be worked into a pun, but simply written on a t-shirt like that, it doesn’t really mean anything.

        • Kennerly
          Kennerly
          October 23, 2014 at 9:55 am | #

          I conquer.

          • Opus the Poet
            Opus the Poet
            October 23, 2014 at 1:13 pm | #

            Is that a correctly-spelled word used incorrectly, or a massive pun?

      • Maveric1984
        Maveric1984
        October 23, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

        especially a rather busty girl like Amber.

      • David
        David
        October 23, 2014 at 6:30 pm | #

        I think this needs a subtitle:

        Hugs Bosom

        The Goddess Particulars

    • David
      David
      October 23, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

      Hard to tell from the drawing, but I think the positioning makes quite clear that the lettering has to be “HUGS BOSOM”.

    • Flight03
      Flight03
      October 23, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

      I believe it’s actually Hugs Bosom. Which is even better.

    • Catullus
      Catullus
      October 23, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

      Blanket response to multiple people: Yes, it is Hugs Bosom.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        October 23, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

        At least I’m able to use my legal blindness as an excuse for assuming it’s HUGS BOSON.

      • nkh
        nkh
        October 23, 2014 at 1:45 am | #

        Aw, I liked “hugs Boson” more.

      • Werner Heisenberg
        Werner Heisenberg
        October 23, 2014 at 2:15 am | #

        Even I am certain I would prefer it to be the Hugs Boson. No, the Huggs Boson. Two g’s is clearly essential.

        If Willis won’t make this t-shirt a thing, I will. From beyond the grave if need be.

        • tinfoil theory
          tinfoil theory
          October 23, 2014 at 4:23 am | #

          The direction is set, then. We know where we are on this. Huggs Boson it shall be.

          Alas, that means how long it will take has to remain an uncertainty.

          • Werner Heisenberg
            Werner Heisenberg
            October 24, 2014 at 1:49 am | #

            Yeah… Sorry about that.

      • Lorcan Nagle
        Lorcan Nagle
        October 23, 2014 at 3:31 am | #

        All that means is I’ll be getting a HUGS BOSON T-Shirt custom printed.

      • Bill
        Bill
        October 23, 2014 at 4:26 pm | #

        It would have been better this way …..
        http://minimumble.thebookofbiff.com/comics/2012-03-07-0058.png

    • Subtle Anagram
      Subtle Anagram
      October 23, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

      It’s great as “HUGS BOSON.” “HUGS BOSOM” is phonically weirder as a pun.

      • Subtle Anagram
        Subtle Anagram
        October 23, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

        Every time! I can’t get a read on you, Willis.

      • Kelly
        Kelly
        October 23, 2014 at 12:20 am | #

        I agree. Hugs Boson is more clear as a pun

        • Subtle Anagram
          Subtle Anagram
          October 23, 2014 at 12:34 am | #

          It’s possible that this was already taken into account, and that’s why the shirt is being revealed the way it is. Or it’s a coincidence, utterly failing to demonstrate the light touch of a master who anticipated and solved the problem of his pun’s phonetic awkwardness by introducing it in a way that plays to its typographical strength.

          • auo> mous
            auo> mous
            October 23, 2014 at 8:27 am | #

            I like your name, Bustle… Or is it Bluest?

            • Subtle Anagram
              Subtle Anagram
              October 23, 2014 at 9:49 pm | #

              So, the actual story is that I was a couple of years too late to get all the “Clever Anagram” accounts I wanted, but clever enough to think of an alternative. I

            • Subtle Anagram
              Subtle Anagram
              October 23, 2014 at 9:51 pm | #

              …wasn’t clever enough to avoid hitting Tab+Space Bar just then, though.

  9. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    October 23, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Danny…Cheating on your girlfriend? UP TOP.

  10. Nym
    Nym
    October 23, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    There is always the “open relationship” excuse?

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      October 23, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      “I told my friend I’m in an open relationship and he was like
      ‘Dude! That means you can have sex with whoever you want!’.
      ‘I couldn’t do that when I was SINGLE!'”

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      October 23, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

      Like Joe would believe that Danny is enough of a hit with the ladies to pull something like that off.

  11. Wack'd
    Wack'd
    October 23, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    I feel like Danny could probably tell Joe he was trying out polyamory and Joe would…well, probably be disbelieving, given this is Danny we’re talking about, but also impressed if he could get past that.

    • Jonathan Woodward
      Jonathan Woodward
      October 23, 2014 at 10:32 pm | #

      Polyamory is the solution for SO MANY THINGS.

  12. newllend
    newllend
    October 23, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Joe is just thinking , ” I since dirty talk but I don’t know why.”

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      October 23, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      I also Sense it.

      • Lawzlo
        Lawzlo
        October 23, 2014 at 3:03 am | #

        “My Joe Sense is tingling!”

    • Tunaro
      Tunaro
      October 23, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

      Preeetty sure Joe only knows enough geeky computer talk to turn “formatting your hard drive” inta an innuendo.

      • newllend
        newllend
        October 23, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

        He would need someone like howerd to translate everything else they just said.

      • timemonkey
        timemonkey
        October 23, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

        He can hear the tone, flirting is all in the tone.

      • Derek
        Derek
        October 23, 2014 at 5:30 am | #

        I mean he is basically the equivalent of a comic book super scientist in the Walkyverse, so it’s not unreasonable that he would understand what they are talking about.

  13. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    October 23, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    You are SO GOOD at this secret identity stuff, guys.

    • newllend
      newllend
      October 23, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

      Even though you’ve been found out by like 4 other people I still say you have this secret identity stuff perfectly masterd.

      • Ryan
        Ryan
        October 23, 2014 at 1:59 am | #

        (N+1)th time’s the charm.

        • Lume
          Lume
          October 23, 2014 at 9:29 pm | #

          X-th time’s the charm.

          3x-50=41

  14. AtomsOrSystems
    AtomsOrSystems
    October 23, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    Not to be that guy, but I guess it’s better to have a typo pointed out and fixed.

    Panel 2: “Besides, what could I have possibly have missed…”

    • Kimbo G Pataki
      Kimbo G Pataki
      October 23, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

      Maybe Amber just likes to throw in extra words.

      • WeezerLuvr3030
        WeezerLuvr3030
        October 23, 2014 at 12:42 am | #

        The hugs boson is causing a causing a temporal paradox.

        • tinfoil theory
          tinfoil theory
          October 23, 2014 at 4:31 am | #

          I read that that wrong the first time.

          It’s spilling in the the comments!

    • saltchocolate
      saltchocolate
      October 23, 2014 at 12:23 am | #

      Does Willis not appreciate that kind of thing? If not, I’m that guy, too, over in yesterday’s “It’s Walky” . . . Oops. No offense meant, Willis!

    • TSB
      TSB
      October 23, 2014 at 8:54 am | #

      I don’t think that’s a typo. Think of it like this sentence: “I had had a cold that day so I didn’t go to class.” It’s the kind of awkward construction you would probably edit out of an email or essay or narration, but that would come up in spoken language, and so is far game for dialogue.

      • TSB
        TSB
        October 23, 2014 at 8:55 am | #

        fair* game, haha, the irony

      • xKiv
        xKiv
        October 23, 2014 at 9:43 pm | #

        Perfectly normal past perfect tense?

      • AtomsOrSystems
        AtomsOrSystems
        October 24, 2014 at 12:48 am | #

        I don’t think so, although I’m not infallible. Usually, it would be either “I have possibly” or “I possibly have,” not both. I was thinking that this was just a case of a last-second change combined with a line break.

        But maybe I’m wrong. *shrug* Not a huge deal, either way.

  15. John
    John
    October 23, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    Go with, “So, Amber, you still down for that threesome with Amazi-Girl later?” Danny. Joe will be too busy high-fiving you to remember that there’s no joeing way that you’d ever do something like that.

  16. popefucker 9000
    popefucker 9000
    October 23, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    Nice to see Amber in a happy mood for once.
    Time for another character(s) to get shat on.

  17. GoogerGeiger
    GoogerGeiger
    October 23, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

    as if Joe really cares.

  18. Josh
    Josh
    October 23, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

    I would, in fact, pay money for a Hugs Boson shirt. Not enough money to build an LHC-class accelerator… but some money.

  19. Malchus
    Malchus
    October 23, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

    Look at their faces on panel 3.

    Now I want them both to turn to villainy.

    • saltchocolate
      saltchocolate
      October 23, 2014 at 12:20 am | #

      Aren’t they the best!?

      • Malchus
        Malchus
        October 23, 2014 at 12:40 am | #

        Just look at those delightful little mugs.

        It should be on a shirt.

  20. Flimsyfishy
    Flimsyfishy
    October 23, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

    Also, great touch on the hugs bosom or hugs boson shirt.

  21. -Sentinel-
    -Sentinel-
    October 23, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

    I’m really liking witty, confident Amber.

  22. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    October 23, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

    That’s why!
    They all just leave their doors unlocked.

  23. Poo
    Poo
    October 23, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

    Love is an open…

    • HeySo
      HeySo
      October 23, 2014 at 12:21 am | #

      (y)

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      October 23, 2014 at 4:57 am | #

      Sandwich!

      • Lume
        Lume
        October 23, 2014 at 7:06 am | #

        That’s what I was going to say!

    • Starling000
      Starling000
      October 23, 2014 at 8:21 am | #

      DOOOOOOOOOOOOR~!

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      October 23, 2014 at 8:39 am | #

      Butt!

    • Animal
      Animal
      October 23, 2014 at 8:48 am | #

      Love is a battlefield.

      • Cybersnark
        Cybersnark
        October 23, 2014 at 9:24 am | #

        Love is a cannibal.

        • Animal
          Animal
          October 23, 2014 at 10:27 am | #

          Love stinks.

          Yeah, yeah.

          Love stinks.

          • Deanatay
            Deanatay
            October 23, 2014 at 12:06 pm | #

            Yep. 😉 <3

          • Roborat
            Roborat
            October 23, 2014 at 3:22 pm | #

            Particularly if she is a bowling ball.

  24. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    October 23, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

    UBB codes were cutting edge when I was 40, and still had kids in HS. Intro to Computers should at least be confined to technology that was current in this century if not this decade… Excuse me while I comb out my neck beard and compile a fresh Linux kernal.

    • Kelly
      Kelly
      October 23, 2014 at 12:23 am | #

      Yeah now everyone has rich JS editors and/or support a few html tags. Or Markdown

      • Lume
        Lume
        October 23, 2014 at 7:07 am | #

        Some day I’ll understand this.

  25. MrSirk
    MrSirk
    October 23, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

    Cmon Joe use your critical thinking skills. This one isn’t hard to puzzle out.

  26. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    October 23, 2014 at 12:27 am | #

    *plays “I’m Not The Same Girl” on the Muzak*

    • Stephen Bierce
      Stephen Bierce
      October 23, 2014 at 12:29 am | #

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1XLETvMMg0

  27. Shay Guy
    Shay Guy
    October 23, 2014 at 12:31 am | #

    “Well, you’re why.”

    …Huh?

    • Scoops
      Scoops
      October 23, 2014 at 12:56 am | #

      You’re why the door was open …

  28. Rosicrucian
    Rosicrucian
    October 23, 2014 at 1:00 am | #

    This is some champion Danning.

  29. nothri
    nothri
    October 23, 2014 at 1:15 am | #

    Wait, is Danny claiming that Amber is not his girlfriend or assuring Joe that HE is not his girlfriend?

    • Nightsbridge
      Nightsbridge
      October 23, 2014 at 1:15 am | #

      Danny’s girlfriend is ‘Amazigirl.’

  30. Barf Ninjason
    Barf Ninjason
    October 23, 2014 at 1:39 am | #

    Methinks that Joe is perplexed not at Danny’s awkward covering, but at the idea that having a different lady-friend should preclude him from humping Amber.

  31. Sir Mockingbird XI
    Sir Mockingbird XI
    October 23, 2014 at 1:42 am | #

    Danny you can just tell Joe you’re dating Amber he never believed you were dating a superhero anyway, and he’d probably be proud of you for actually getting some anyway

    • tinfoil theory
      tinfoil theory
      October 23, 2014 at 6:28 am | #

      He didn’t believe he had a chance with “the one girl in CS” either, and here they are.
      Joe probably still believes that the superhero girlfriend Danny todl him about is imaginary.

      • Slinx
        Slinx
        October 23, 2014 at 5:42 pm | #

        There was a conversation about a newspaper article, so Joe knows the superhero is not imaginary, but still probably not convinced that she is dating Danny.

  32. jams
    jams
    October 23, 2014 at 1:49 am | #

    Yes! Happy characters! Who are smiling and joking around! Insta-better mood.

    • itachi_0501
      itachi_0501
      October 23, 2014 at 7:44 am | #

      If you find that you are in need of insta-better mooding, just…y’know. BABY PENGUINS! 😀

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        October 23, 2014 at 1:29 pm | #

        Ask and ye shall receive : http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_asoBLjh5Bk0/TKnvlcesCZI/AAAAAAAAAuY/lxePxItuz9g/s400/1267625626_cute-baby-penguins-2.jpg

  33. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    October 23, 2014 at 1:58 am | #

    This is so weird on so many levels, but okay as nobody is screaming.

  34. Rani
    Rani
    October 23, 2014 at 2:16 am | #

    Ugh this is so adorable!

  35. C211
    C211
    October 23, 2014 at 2:20 am | #

    What a lie, obviously they were (learning how (to) (type (like this)))

    • xKiv
      xKiv
      October 23, 2014 at 10:06 pm | #

      (not (enough ()))

  36. TheZachariah
    TheZachariah
    October 23, 2014 at 2:59 am | #

    “……….Threesome??”

  37. Kamino Neko
    Kamino Neko
    October 23, 2014 at 3:16 am | #

    … Is…is learning UBB code in CompSci classes really a thing, these days?

  38. neeks
    neeks
    October 23, 2014 at 3:46 am | #

    And Joe’s like “you know, I wasn’t suspicious about anything until that last thing you said.”

  39. takashid
    takashid
    October 23, 2014 at 4:03 am | #

    I’ve been waiting to get back to this side of the plot yay!

  40. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    October 23, 2014 at 4:34 am | #

    Hey Joe, welcome back to the funny papers (of the Net). Experimenting with stubble, is he?

  41. SycrosD4
    SycrosD4
    October 23, 2014 at 6:34 am | #

    If they were being anymore suggestive, their eyebrows would form a union and go on strike.

  42. Chronos
    Chronos
    October 23, 2014 at 7:41 am | #

    Nice save, you two.

  43. wwlaos
    wwlaos
    October 23, 2014 at 9:53 am | #

    Blu-ray? Is that some kind of fancy new modem?

  44. Kennerly
    Kennerly
    October 23, 2014 at 9:54 am | #

    Does Amber’s shirt say “Hugs Bosom”?

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      October 23, 2014 at 1:30 pm | #

      Up thread ^

  45. PoweredBySucrose
    PoweredBySucrose
    October 23, 2014 at 10:22 am | #

    BBCodes are easy.
    HTML code is also easy.
    Not using one on a site that only accepts the other, [i]that’s[/i] that’s hard.

  46. OmegaDez
    OmegaDez
    October 23, 2014 at 10:36 am | #

    20 years of computer science, and I don’t even know what UBB codes are. D:

    • JWLM
      JWLM
      October 23, 2014 at 10:52 am | #

      http://www.freebok.net/help/ubbcode.html

      • OmegaDez
        OmegaDez
        October 23, 2014 at 11:03 am | #

        I did google it, don’t worry.
        Didn’t know they taught those in school.^^

  47. zebrathinker
    zebrathinker
    October 23, 2014 at 11:05 am | #

    if this comic was animated i imagine they would be waggling their eyebrows at each other the whole time

  48. Trantilar
    Trantilar
    October 23, 2014 at 12:55 pm | #

    I’ve noticed Dumbing of Age doesn’t seem to be syncing with Comic Chameleon these last couple of days, does anyone know why?

  49. Mickeymau5
    Mickeymau5
    October 23, 2014 at 1:10 pm | #

    Oh my god, nerd dirty talk. Forget Joyce, forget Walky, forget Billie and Ruth, THIS is the most adorable thing ever.

    • Raptorman
      Raptorman
      October 23, 2014 at 4:26 pm | #

      I am in total agreement.

      • takashid
        takashid
        October 23, 2014 at 11:59 pm | #

        thirded

  50. Roborat
    Roborat
    October 23, 2014 at 3:24 pm | #

    I think they just broke Joe.

    And I love that t-shirt.

  51. Bill
    Bill
    October 23, 2014 at 4:30 pm | #

    I know you drew this at least four months ago and it’s been in the buffer since then, but how weird is it that Randal Munroe ran this cartoon on xkcd.com yesterday?

  52. zathael
    zathael
    October 23, 2014 at 5:00 pm | #

    Only Dan could Dan his way into cheating on his girlfriend with his girlfriend’s alter-ego. Way to go Dan.

  53. Slinx
    Slinx
    October 23, 2014 at 5:46 pm | #

    I like the new Slipshine banner. Somehow showing more skin manages to make it more SFW.

  54. Slinx
    Slinx
    October 23, 2014 at 5:49 pm | #

    I love when they talk about their intro class, particularly now that they can flat-out flirt about it. I need more nerdy flirting in my comics.

  55. Sam
    Sam
    October 23, 2014 at 6:07 pm | #

    Ohh…looks like Danny is fine. I was thinking he might be weirded out given his “Ethan” thing. Good for both him and for Amber, too. That girl needs something nice in her life.

  56. Darth Cariss
    Darth Cariss
    October 23, 2014 at 6:43 pm | #

    Oh hey, the Slipshine ad changed to a less explicit one. Is that because of that one dude that complained?

    • Maveric1984
      Maveric1984
      October 23, 2014 at 8:25 pm | #

      Less explicit? Danny is naked in the pic!

  57. Tomas
    Tomas
    October 24, 2014 at 12:43 am | #

    Laugh it up, Danny is still smarter than most of the cast of Smallville.

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