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The least realistic thing about DoA is that everyone seems to have their “look” figured out, and actually makes an effort to conform to it.
Still, school only started a few weeks ago. Couple more years of this strip and we’ll start seeing people wearing pajamas to class and the same shirt three days in a row, because it was either use their pocket change for ramen or the laundromat. Just like a REAL college.
That’s why you wear hoodies. It’s socially acceptable to wear a jacket or sweater or hoodie for days on end, and it hides the fact that you’re wearing that Animal House ‘COLLEGE’ t-shirt for the 3rd time this week.
Not hard to see where she gets it…the world does have a tendency to turn its back on anyone who’s different (especially trans people), so a lot of us end up with a “f*ck the world” attitude.
This strip is the first one I’ve ever seen in which I saw Carla as at all likable. I found the whole super-intellectual bit of patter in panel 3, followed by the honest and kinda rueful comment in panel 4, charming and believable.
My problem with Carla is that I didn’t think she was characterized as wanting to be hated; in fact, the character is portrayed as wanting Sal to like her to the point that Carla hangs out with Sal’s friends. This strip humanizes her enough that I can see that coming through for real, and it makes her kind of vulnerable in a way we’ve never seen before.
Of course, #damnyouwillis probably doesn’t intend that, but I’m sure I’ll find that out soon enough.
It’s a shame this comic has a floating timeline. If it were set during the like six month period where those sneakers with built in wheels were cool, they’d suit Carla perfectly.
Stop using the stoppers then. Also, try two sets of two at first, to reduce how much balancing you do. That should severely reduce your chance of falling.
Without wheels, Carla is reduced to ‘mingling with the common folk’.
Last time we saw Carla, she’d almost collided with a reckless Danny. Perhaps such a close near-interaction with Danny caused a malfunction in her skates.
This is true. I have verified it with the Scientific Method. The sounds associated with a statistically significant number of middle fingers are either/both imperceptible to human ears or/and not generated via conventional oration.
I have seen awesome music being made with Tesla Coils, Too many to link, but if you search things like Cymatics, Tesla coil music, etc, there’s some pretty cool stuff…
Mind you, if you start putting things like Hello Kitty stickers or other stuff like that, or worse, shaping the top like that stuff, then I’d imagine a few people would be put off…
I’d love to see Malaya and Marcie bond over roller derby. That’ would reduce Malay’s role as the tagalong unpopular kid and do interesting things with the Sal-Marcie dynamic.
If you’re going to use the cow noise, you have to make it more like the desperate “no” of finding out something a truly horrifying secret. MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
That was Despair-sensei from Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, he has a very negative outlook on life and finds any excuse to hang himself, the only thing weirder than him are his students.
Now that ShortPacked! is over, where am I going to get Malaya if not here?
(Also, why are we supposed to hate Malaya in DoA anyway? It’s been a few months since I discovered and archive-binged my way into this comic and I’m not sure right now what’s evil about her in this continuity.)
I just hope she’s still a Teen Titans fan. And maybe a My Little Pony fan. Seriously, without Shortpacked, where else am I going to get my fandom updates?
Oh, Screwball, you are missing out. Teen Titans go is nothing like the original series, and then there are the comics from before that… Oh, if I only had a comic book shop nearby… I would have no money then. :/
She’s a bit obnoxious, but I start to feel that the other characters treat her with way more disdain than her behavior makes her deserve. It start to look less than the coping mechanism with a jerk with saw over in Shortpacked, and more of a mild case of bullying.
Seriously, has she had any appearance at all without anyone (mostly the ringleader of the gang, Sal) pointing out that she’s not welcome?
I have a feeling ww will end up seeing carla alot more in the future and maybe she won’t turn out to be so bongoy;)
Also, serious people, not even 3-4 min after the strip is up the comments counts goes past double digits? Do you practically sit and keep refreshing the site or something like that? XD
Well, it posts at exactly 12:00am ET. I tend to be using my computer, and sometime shortly after midnight will just hit my “Comics” bookmark folder to open all the comics for my nightly read.
In terms of having something to say so quickly, roughly 1000 people now are on Willis’s patreon and thus have access to tomorrow’s comic today. Thus they have up to 24 hours to think of the snark they’ll post at 12:01.
OK that explains those lost posts on my blog that just kinda disappeared from the records like they never existed in spite of taking hours to collect all the links.
Yeah but she had that conversation with Sal about how she’s “pretty dang tall” like a night or two earlier so I thought that coulda triggered it ya know
Possible, but for Carla, I really doubt it. She doesn’t seem the self-conscious type. I mean, hell, she’s a young transwoman who feels quite comfortable baring her legs and shoulders and giving a middle finger to anyone around to see it.
Good point. I suppose that shoulda occurred to me since I literally just saw a picture with her dressed as such.
Unless that’s all in an effort to distract people from her height! (Incoherently mumbles conspiracy theories to herself)
You know, this brings up a point. For some reason, everyone in Willis’s comics look really short to me for some reason. I don’t know if it’s the stylization or the environment or the fact that this was the first one I discovered, college kids just look short to me even if they’re taller (because they look young, and I’m not past the young=short part of my perceptive development), and so I extrapolated that to other comics, but Carla being relatively tall makes her look, to me, for some reason, comfortably average.
It has to do with head diameter. Willis’ art style uses above average head sizes which means that proportionally the only people who look normal are the tallest people in his comic. The generally rule for realistic art is 7 1/2 heads = average height. However almost all comics and cartoons throw this rule out the window because bigger heads are easier to animate and show emotion with.
Just eyeballing the first panel of this strip it I’d say that Marcie is 5 heads tall, Malaya 5 1/2, Carla is 6, Sal is 6, and Walkyis 6 1/4. That puts everyone in this scene below average proportionally.
I want to say that this is not criticism. I find emotional connection to be a key appeal of DoA and I would sacrifice neither that nor production speed in order to get a little more “realism.”
Gotta say I really like Malaya’s “look” in this strip. She’s healthy, she’s curvy, and she’s between the letters “a” and “c”. That’s a very natural look.
Right up above you. References UltraCar’s third middle finger in Shortpacked, but could also be constructed as a reference to Carla being a transwoman. I’m on the fence if this is problematic or funny.
To anyone not looking for insult, that interpretation is entirely nonsensical, just from a logical application sense. Which is likely why Willis didn’t even consider it.
Given that it’s an intuitive interpretation to anyone who is previously familiar with Carla, and that Willis’s tastelessness has thus far been limited to butt jokes, I think we can safely say the chances of that being a valid interpretation are about nil.
There is a way to have a third middle finger. An old childish trick, but a slightly impressive one nonetheless if done suddenly before people realize what they’re seeing.
Hold your hands up, palms facing you. Keeping them parallel, overlap your right hand in front of your left, with your right pinky between your left middle and ring finger. Curl down your fingers, interlocking the overlapping right and left fingers, leave only the following fingers up: Right Middle, Left Middle, and Left Ring.
Ta Da. The Triple Bird. Or somewhat ironic Triple Deuce. Try it on your friends when two middle fingers isn’t enough to tell them how much you want to throw a brick at their face!
Lol this reminds me and one of my best friends in HighSchool had this running thing where she stick up her middle finger i stick up two and she says she stick’s up 2 middle fingers and something else between her legs and id say id stick’s up 2 middle fingers and something else between my legs and this happened several times a week
In my head; Sal, Marcie, Carla, and Malaya all fall far the same dark skinned painter, which leads to a series of event that constantly point him on a crossroads of choosing between them from time to time. Yet he always is tryingnto treat all four equally every chance he gets.
Marcie is canonically bi, Carla is asexual-homoromantic-trangender, Malaya “wants to f*** whatever that is” (from the other universe, but still) and Sal is most likely straight, maybe bi, I dunno.
Has Malaya sexuality even been revealed in the dumbiverse, I don’t remember reading anything on it not any of them other then Sal. If not then all everyone is really doing is just making assumptions based on the walkyverse, which DOA isn’t connected too; some things changed, some things remained the same. This is why I started off with, “in my head.”
Ahhhhhhhh everytime Carla’s up I swoon. Whether its her refreshingly abrasive personality, her kickass outfit(please tell me I can get that exact sweater) or just as kickass representation: a trans girl that gives negative fucks.
Just. So much love but I doubt she’ll be an inside cover doodle…
Carla has always been my favorite, ever since the personality started firmly developing in Shortpacked [which, basically, was around the time Malaya started poking at Ultra Car, and UC started reconsidering their view on humans].
Unfortunately, exceptionally low screen time in DoA has kept me from voting for her in the polls- which may just be my misinterpretation of what the polls are supposed to accomplish, but she hasn’t had enough visibility to really make as much of a ‘favorite’ impact as others :X
Of course, if given the option, Riley’d definitely be my favorite DoA character- an adorable-but-not-annoying character to contrast all the snarky ones?
It’s great
Mr Willis, I’ve had a random thought. Any possibility of a convention plot line? Not asking if there definitely will or won’t be, but it’s a thought…
Been to 1 or 2, enjoyed them myself, & got to thinking while reading this who on here would go to one. Amber, Danny, Ethan & maybe Walky would definitely be the type to go, while I’m sure Joyce would be tempted if Monkey Master & Head Alien was mentioned. If Joyce goes, I can see Becky going too, plus a few others may be dragged along by others.
As an added bonus, maybe even have them meet the creator of Monkey Master & Head Alien, a man by the name of David Willis…
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one of my favorite things is when a commenter explodes WHEN DO THESE CHARACTERS GET THERAPY but directed towards a character who canonically has a regular therapist
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no YOU shut up Marcie
wait a
So is Carla studying robotics so she can build EXTRA middle fingers like “The Human Middle Finger” or
Yes. For her chest.
Edit: Yes. For her chest flap.
Doctor Who! Jen Aside stole your TARDIS KEY!
Yes, but not until tomorrow, so I have plenty of time.
How did you know it was tomorrow? Did she just return it? Yiesh, time is wierd.
dude his a time lord time is like a rug or somin to him lol
Why would anyone want a wibbily wobbly spherical rug?
That rug really tied the room together.
It really does.
O.O Now I want to see that room.
I thought it was like a rubber sheet.
Malaya, I can see you staring.
Anyone else zoom in on the first panel to check if she and Carla were holding hands? … Just me?
Well I have now…
same.. after reading that haha
Shush! They’re in public!
Shortpacked! feels…
damn, everybody’s dressed fuckin’ stylin’ today
The least realistic thing about DoA is that everyone seems to have their “look” figured out, and actually makes an effort to conform to it.
Still, school only started a few weeks ago. Couple more years of this strip and we’ll start seeing people wearing pajamas to class and the same shirt three days in a row, because it was either use their pocket change for ramen or the laundromat. Just like a REAL college.
tbh I like it this way
That’s why you wear hoodies. It’s socially acceptable to wear a jacket or sweater or hoodie for days on end, and it hides the fact that you’re wearing that Animal House ‘COLLEGE’ t-shirt for the 3rd time this week.
The use of a Walky Gravatar for this comment makes me happy.
Seconded.
Thirded!
I dunno, I think Malaya may be in her pajamas already.
The least realistic thing about DoA is that there’s only one person on campus named “Jennifer”.
Are (competent) caped vigilantes more common on college campuses that I realized?
Nah. They only make up 30% of the college vigilante population.
They’re more common than campuses with only one Jennifer!
As a Jennifer I can confirm this. -___-
Oh, there are more Jennifers on campus, but they all have nicknames that sound like real names.
Like “Billie”?
I think you’re forgetting about Walky.
Not sure I’d consider wearing shorts so torn up that the pockets are sticking out at the bottom “stylin”.
Clearly you haven’t been around teenage girls.
That WOULD come from a Joe avatar..
I really need some skates now
How does one travel on a skate anyhow?
Haven’t you played Super Mario Galaxy?
Not very far if you hunt crocodiles.
I’m sorry. Too soon?
Too soon for what? I’m missing something.
nothri was referring to Steve Urwin who discovered the hard way that a stingray’s stinger can be quite lethal.
*Steve Irwin
Now I’m sad.
How did you misspell his name? Aren’t you an Aussie?
Yes but I just went by how it was pronounced rather than check to see if I spelt it right.
It turns out that stingrays don’t like foreplay.
Balance. Lots of balance.
Carla’s outfit is pretty damn cute.
Pity her personality isn’t.
At least she does have a good sense of humour…
whatreyou talkin about flipped-over birds are the cutest
Not hard to see where she gets it…the world does have a tendency to turn its back on anyone who’s different (especially trans people), so a lot of us end up with a “f*ck the world” attitude.
If the majority of humanity is going to treat you like a freak or a joke, it has a tendency to put a bit of a chip on the shoulder, fo sho.
And that’s why Carla is my life role model. <3_<3
This strip is the first one I’ve ever seen in which I saw Carla as at all likable. I found the whole super-intellectual bit of patter in panel 3, followed by the honest and kinda rueful comment in panel 4, charming and believable.
My problem with Carla is that I didn’t think she was characterized as wanting to be hated; in fact, the character is portrayed as wanting Sal to like her to the point that Carla hangs out with Sal’s friends. This strip humanizes her enough that I can see that coming through for real, and it makes her kind of vulnerable in a way we’ve never seen before.
Of course, #damnyouwillis probably doesn’t intend that, but I’m sure I’ll find that out soon enough.
It’s a shame this comic has a floating timeline. If it were set during the like six month period where those sneakers with built in wheels were cool, they’d suit Carla perfectly.
They come in and out of fashion every so often.
At least I see commercials for them every like two years or so.
I wanted some of those so badly. And I don’t know why, because I can’t rollerskate to save my life.
Me too, because I want to be able to skate, but I will fall down. But the great thing about these things is that you can put your feet down.
Now, if only they have them in women’s size 9… :/
You know what would be nice? Remote-controlled wheel brakes.
Stop using the stoppers then. Also, try two sets of two at first, to reduce how much balancing you do. That should severely reduce your chance of falling.
Well, they were walking over grass, which those wheeled shoes don’t like, so she could be wearing a pair…
…And are you the same Doctor Who they sing about in this clip?
I love Carla more with every strip.
Or in this case with every stripe! ^_^
Without wheels, Carla is reduced to ‘mingling with the common folk’.
Last time we saw Carla, she’d almost collided with a reckless Danny. Perhaps such a close near-interaction with Danny caused a malfunction in her skates.
Caught flat-footed like the rest of the hoi polloi, huh?
Carla and Malaya? Now that I’ve read shortpacked…
When’s Carla going to get pies?
Anyway – are we going to learn how Marcie lost her voice soon?
Sal tore out her vocal cords.
But she needed those to live.
So what is she now, undead? Cool.
She traded her voice to a wizard in return for robot eyes.
Sweet deal ^^
Malaya’s face
Oh my god
A middle finger is also an unspoken middle finger.
This is true. I have verified it with the Scientific Method. The sounds associated with a statistically significant number of middle fingers are either/both imperceptible to human ears or/and not generated via conventional oration.
Also, your Tesla coil is beautiful.
I concur with your findings and thus consider your proposition valid.
I also agree that is an awesome Tesla coil
Is there such a thing as a non-awesome Tesla coil? Could it theoretically exist?
Yes, but only when the market is saturated with them. Then they’re just so many spark generators.
You mean… if there were… “too many” Tesla coils?
Could such a thing theoretically exist?
Hrm… Now that I think of it, that does sound impossible. If only because we would run out of materials long before such a point is reached.
That’s what I thought too ^^
Slap some non-awesome theme on it, like Hello Kitty, Barney, or modern pop music. One of those would detract enough from the awe inspired by the coil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EQ2bJ9xO3A
…I’m afraid that your argument is invalid O_O
(Note: that’s *literally* the first result that came up)
I have seen awesome music being made with Tesla Coils, Too many to link, but if you search things like Cymatics, Tesla coil music, etc, there’s some pretty cool stuff…
Mind you, if you start putting things like Hello Kitty stickers or other stuff like that, or worse, shaping the top like that stuff, then I’d imagine a few people would be put off…
“Your Tesla coil is beautiful” is best pickup line.
Oh yeah, Walky and Marcie were childhood friends! Or at least childhood friendly acquaintances? I already wanna see more of their dynamic.
I sorta imagine Marcie might have joined them to play from time to time. Hope so, anyhow.
That’s exactly what birds gifted with flight say before they poop on your car.
Or your Ultra Car, be that the case.
Malaya and Carla, oh yeah. Gonna keep Sal’s life interesting.
She might be cool, but she has horrible taste in friends.
Sal hasn’t exactly scored high in making life choices department.
Sal has said that Malaya isn’t her friend, and as for Carla, she is awesome.
Indeed. Also, Sal did school her in the “you can’t skate!” thing, so Carla probably has mad respect for her.
If you think Carla has respect for anyone, you’re probably wrong.
I’d love to see Malaya and Marcie bond over roller derby. That’ would reduce Malay’s role as the tagalong unpopular kid and do interesting things with the Sal-Marcie dynamic.
All in favour of replace every utterance of Malaya’s name with that tiny font, say “aye.”
Also, all in favour of removing Malaya from DoA, SP, and our collective thoughts, eradicating the very idea of her out of space and time, say aye.
Ney.
Moo!
If you’re going to use the cow noise, you have to make it more like the desperate “no” of finding out something a truly horrifying secret. MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
You mean like this?
No, it needs a touch more dispair.
Like this much in despair then?
In moo form, yes.
Also, WHAT ON EARTH WAS THAT!?!?! I’m Loq over here!
That was Despair-sensei from Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, he has a very negative outlook on life and finds any excuse to hang himself, the only thing weirder than him are his students.
+1 for Nanami the cow.
SKU doesn’t get much love anymore despite being one of the best shoujo animes of the 90s.
Of EVER, you mean.
…There may be more people looking into it now that Lesbian Bear Storm is on the air.
Now that ShortPacked! is over, where am I going to get Malaya if not here?
(Also, why are we supposed to hate Malaya in DoA anyway? It’s been a few months since I discovered and archive-binged my way into this comic and I’m not sure right now what’s evil about her in this continuity.)
There’s no clear reason to hate her in this reality so far…
Maybe being hit by Amazi Girl damaged her brain so she’s nice?
I don’t think so somehow…
She seems to be as obnoxious a self-centered jerk as ever. Even her “friends” don’t like her.
I don’t hate her. I find her entertaining. But I sure wouldn’t want to hang out with her without this fourth wall between us.
I just hope she’s still a Teen Titans fan. And maybe a My Little Pony fan. Seriously, without Shortpacked, where else am I going to get my fandom updates?
Ah…are you confusing Malaya with Lucy?
Quite possible. I WANT MY TITANS!!!!! (And it’s not like it’s that unlikely that it was her, they lived in the SAME HOME!)
I love Teen Titans, am rewatching now!
Only seen Teen Titans Go, bit weird, Like Cyborg tho :P. Still not as good as a Cybertronian Pretender… *straightens non-existant tie…*
Oh, Screwball, you are missing out. Teen Titans go is nothing like the original series, and then there are the comics from before that… Oh, if I only had a comic book shop nearby… I would have no money then. :/
She’s a bit obnoxious, but I start to feel that the other characters treat her with way more disdain than her behavior makes her deserve. It start to look less than the coping mechanism with a jerk with saw over in Shortpacked, and more of a mild case of bullying.
Seriously, has she had any appearance at all without anyone (mostly the ringleader of the gang, Sal) pointing out that she’s not welcome?
I demand more Malaya.
I’m honestly shocked people like Malaya.
I have a feeling ww will end up seeing carla alot more in the future and maybe she won’t turn out to be so bongoy;)
Also, serious people, not even 3-4 min after the strip is up the comments counts goes past double digits? Do you practically sit and keep refreshing the site or something like that? XD
Well, it posts at exactly 12:00am ET. I tend to be using my computer, and sometime shortly after midnight will just hit my “Comics” bookmark folder to open all the comics for my nightly read.
In terms of having something to say so quickly, roughly 1000 people now are on Willis’s patreon and thus have access to tomorrow’s comic today. Thus they have up to 24 hours to think of the snark they’ll post at 12:01.
Actually, it posts exactly at 12:01am EST! If it posts at 00:00, WordPress has a stroke.
Can’t quite figure out the date at that time?
It’s written in PHP, so it isn’t really surprising
Ischemic or hemorrhagic?
I’d say ischemic because it’s really a contained, internal kinda not working, rather than leaking itself.
… I’m starting to believe you are actually the best comic writer in existance. O.O
Starting to believe? By that you mean “always knew” right?
No. I’ve read Teen Titans comics, and others before finding out about about Willis’ works.
And trust me, surpassing Teen Titans is no simple task.
Well. Technical, since am from skadinavia all strips usually end up being posted 0601 instead of 2401 so i many times wake up to new strips instead:-P
OK that explains those lost posts on my blog that just kinda disappeared from the records like they never existed in spite of taking hours to collect all the links.
12:01 by which time zone? I’m guessing an American one, So that would be around the 12 hour difference mark for Down Under…
….I said EST. Like, immediately right after am. You should wait to ask me questions until after you finish reading sentences!
Sorry, used to Aussie EST, which has multiple zones, daylight saving, gets confusing for an Aussie West Coast dweller…
Ah, found it, 13 hours behind West Aus, so that means 1:01 pm here. Thankyou
Everyone wants to be the first to post but Jen almost always wins.
Best girl gang ever? Yeah, best girl gang EVER.
Nah, Dina isn’t a member.
But Dina isn’t a member of any other gang, so she is not taken into account.
Dina is her own gang.
blink and she’s there
I’m blinking, but it’s not working! I feel cheated.
Have you checked behind the door?
But… but we mustn’t blink. Not ever.
Hmm. So you can get Dina, but to do so you have to accept to be killed by a ludicrous version of the statue of Liberty. It’s a tough one.
Dina is SCP-173?
isn’t 173 the giant reptillian creature that devoured entire staffs during even minor containment protocol breaches?
Dina is her own pack. Of Velociraptors. WITH FEATHERS.
When you’re on skates, it’s also a lot easier to get clotheslined.
Grass is also a problematic surface to negotiate on skates.
I think you underestimate Carla’s ability.
Am I? This isn’t the first time we’ve seen Carla on grass without her skates.
I think that was because of the stairs
I was just wondering how she feels about buildings filled with carpeting.
Does anyone else suspect Carla’s lack of skates has to do with being self conscious about her height?
It didn’t seem to bother her before…
Yeah but she had that conversation with Sal about how she’s “pretty dang tall” like a night or two earlier so I thought that coulda triggered it ya know
Possible, but for Carla, I really doubt it. She doesn’t seem the self-conscious type. I mean, hell, she’s a young transwoman who feels quite comfortable baring her legs and shoulders and giving a middle finger to anyone around to see it.
Good point. I suppose that shoulda occurred to me since I literally just saw a picture with her dressed as such.
Unless that’s all in an effort to distract people from her height! (Incoherently mumbles conspiracy theories to herself)
Meghan, that last one wasn’t your theory. I whispered it into your ear while you slept.
<creepy_smile<
Impossible! I never sleep for I have severe insomnia! (I actually do…)
… Maybe I should slow down with that hypnosis… Nah. You want to be a monkey or an elephant tonight?
Darn it! I meant >!!!!!
If I must be an animal why not a human? Or can I be a robot like Carla wants to be?
Marcie’s a mutant like Cyclops hence the need to always wear those ruby glasses.
You know, this brings up a point. For some reason, everyone in Willis’s comics look really short to me for some reason. I don’t know if it’s the stylization or the environment or the fact that this was the first one I discovered, college kids just look short to me even if they’re taller (because they look young, and I’m not past the young=short part of my perceptive development), and so I extrapolated that to other comics, but Carla being relatively tall makes her look, to me, for some reason, comfortably average.
Maybe Willis just draws everything else really tall because of his perspective. He apparently is a short guy, and short guys see objects as taller.
It has to do with head diameter. Willis’ art style uses above average head sizes which means that proportionally the only people who look normal are the tallest people in his comic. The generally rule for realistic art is 7 1/2 heads = average height. However almost all comics and cartoons throw this rule out the window because bigger heads are easier to animate and show emotion with.
Just eyeballing the first panel of this strip it I’d say that Marcie is 5 heads tall, Malaya 5 1/2, Carla is 6, Sal is 6, and Walkyis 6 1/4. That puts everyone in this scene below average proportionally.
I want to say that this is not criticism. I find emotional connection to be a key appeal of DoA and I would sacrifice neither that nor production speed in order to get a little more “realism.”
I could see her wearing skates because she’s self-conscious about her height.
“Dang, that girl is tall. Oh, she’s on skates, that explains it.”
Never thinks about it further.
Carla without skates?! Say it isn’t so! Quick, what’s the weather in Hell?
Rainy, with a chance of Hail. Temperatures have been dropping for the last half hour. They’ll approach freezing by 1am Eastern Standard Time.
One Internet for you.
Carla’s logics makes as much since as much as “The high ground” rule works for combat
The Highground:http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2YSozbfIQbY
…why the hell didn’t I vote for Carla?
Gotta say I really like Malaya’s “look” in this strip. She’s healthy, she’s curvy, and she’s between the letters “a” and “c”. That’s a very natural look.
Walky knows Marcie too. File that away for later…
They grew up together, as we learnt in this flashback:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/secretagent/
…?.. Makes sense that Walky met Marcie, as Sal met her on the playground.
But, that is Jennifer (Billie) in that comic. They *were* childhood buddies.
Girl needs some Heelies
And isn’t Carla still taller than everyone else ? She in since is still towering over the others.
Has no-one else noticed the very subtle fact that in the last panel, Carla is, in fact, the middle finger? Look at the heights of the four characters.
That would probably work better if everyone else was leaning over to pick something up.
It’s like the Da Vinci code! The Da. Willis code! Don’t bother following the clues though, they probably just lead to some kinda transformers nonsense
Do clues about transformers transform into clues about other things?
That’d still be better than the end of the Da Vinci Code.
The DA** *** WILLIS! code.
Only if you’re using your left hand.
CAAARRLLLAAAA!!!!!!! *all the squees!*
If this isn’t a joke about her downstairs I will be very disappointed indeed.
…
Have you read Shortpacked? If not, don’t. You might be disappointed. Indeed.
Maybe not, if he’ll accept the second floor, if you know what I mean.
Okay, I’m really pushing one of the rules here. Too much pushing focusing on Shortpacked’s Ultra Car.
Oops! I wasn’t clear about what I had been referring to! *smacks head* I meant the hovertext. But I dunno, maybe that’s what you meant to!
It looks like nobody’s brought up that alt text…third middle finger huh? Clever.
Right up above you. References UltraCar’s third middle finger in Shortpacked, but could also be constructed as a reference to Carla being a transwoman. I’m on the fence if this is problematic or funny.
It’s definitely a reference to Ultra Car’s mechanical hand. Willis doesn’t strike me as the kind of person who would make a tasteless joke like that.
To anyone not looking for insult, that interpretation is entirely nonsensical, just from a logical application sense. Which is likely why Willis didn’t even consider it.
Given that it’s an intuitive interpretation to anyone who is previously familiar with Carla, and that Willis’s tastelessness has thus far been limited to butt jokes, I think we can safely say the chances of that being a valid interpretation are about nil.
How is it any more tasteless than a lot of the jokes he’s told? I remember a comic about mike talking to Ethan about raping him, for instance.
I admit it. I appreciate Marcie’s shirt.
And that’s why Carla’s awesome! Just like Marcie’s shirt
From this post on, if you want to know who my gravatar is, you can find out by clicking on my user-name.
…a bra with a spring-loaded middle finger that pops out. I’ll make millions.
…I want one.
I read that as a bra that pops open when you use the middle finger.
Still could make a good few bucks, just gotta know your target market…
Marcie’s shirt could be considered rude, but at least she’s no hypocrite.
There is a way to have a third middle finger. An old childish trick, but a slightly impressive one nonetheless if done suddenly before people realize what they’re seeing.
Hold your hands up, palms facing you. Keeping them parallel, overlap your right hand in front of your left, with your right pinky between your left middle and ring finger. Curl down your fingers, interlocking the overlapping right and left fingers, leave only the following fingers up: Right Middle, Left Middle, and Left Ring.
Ta Da. The Triple Bird. Or somewhat ironic Triple Deuce. Try it on your friends when two middle fingers isn’t enough to tell them how much you want to throw a brick at their face!
huh. haven’t heard of that in a while.
Who says the comment section isn’t educational?
Thanks for that. Interesting…
…Until Daniel the Human threw a magnet in my palms & locked my fingers in place. He can be sneaky for a human…
Lol this reminds me and one of my best friends in HighSchool had this running thing where she stick up her middle finger i stick up two and she says she stick’s up 2 middle fingers and something else between her legs and id say id stick’s up 2 middle fingers and something else between my legs and this happened several times a week
Sounds like a beautiful friendship.
Having not read any other comic, I think Malaya is pretty great.
Carla and Malaya is going to happen eventually, just give it a while
The last time we saw Carla This happened.
I have a pretty good idea how she busted a wheel.
In my head; Sal, Marcie, Carla, and Malaya all fall far the same dark skinned painter, which leads to a series of event that constantly point him on a crossroads of choosing between them from time to time. Yet he always is tryingnto treat all four equally every chance he gets.
Mr. Willis, make it happen!
There’s some problems with that seeing as they’re not all into the same gender.
Malaya-Sexual, Malaya-Sexual, and I’m not sure about the first two- bi and lesbian, respectively?
So basically, it might work if the painter is Malaya.
And Sal and Marcie swallow all self-pride and get totally wasted.
Marcie is canonically bi, Carla is asexual-homoromantic-trangender, Malaya “wants to f*** whatever that is” (from the other universe, but still) and Sal is most likely straight, maybe bi, I dunno.
Has Malaya sexuality even been revealed in the dumbiverse, I don’t remember reading anything on it not any of them other then Sal. If not then all everyone is really doing is just making assumptions based on the walkyverse, which DOA isn’t connected too; some things changed, some things remained the same. This is why I started off with, “in my head.”
Carla is so adorable.
I love how Carla spent that whole panel being melodramatic just to set someone up for the punchline. I really like that sort of banter.
Everytime I see Ultra Car not as a car, it sorta freaks me out on the inside.
And the outside.
I am really not good with change…
turnandfacethestrange
Ch-ch-Changes
Don’t want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-Changes
Just gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me
But I can’t trace time
Ahhhhhhhh everytime Carla’s up I swoon. Whether its her refreshingly abrasive personality, her kickass outfit(please tell me I can get that exact sweater) or just as kickass representation: a trans girl that gives negative fucks.
Just. So much love but I doubt she’ll be an inside cover doodle…
“Hey! HEY! Quit drawing me, asshole!”
Malayas eyes in the last panel…
so don’t remember Marcie in the other walkyverse if she existed. probably part of that team Joe ended up on.
Malaya might be checking caryla out…
Carla has always been my favorite, ever since the personality started firmly developing in Shortpacked [which, basically, was around the time Malaya started poking at Ultra Car, and UC started reconsidering their view on humans].
Unfortunately, exceptionally low screen time in DoA has kept me from voting for her in the polls- which may just be my misinterpretation of what the polls are supposed to accomplish, but she hasn’t had enough visibility to really make as much of a ‘favorite’ impact as others :X
Of course, if given the option, Riley’d definitely be my favorite DoA character- an adorable-but-not-annoying character to contrast all the snarky ones?
It’s great
In any case, more Carla, yay!
Maybe she *has* a third middle finger. Between her legs.
Or does she?
Carla and Mike, sitting in a tree, DE-STROY-ING SO-CI-E-TY
All the other characters have been taking turns to be annoying the past week, why not Carla too?
This has got to be the grumpiest, unhappiest, no fun university on the planet.
Why is everyone so pissy all the time it seems?
Abusive, neglectful parents, mostly.
That, and their creator. Something about their creator.
Mr Willis, I’ve had a random thought. Any possibility of a convention plot line? Not asking if there definitely will or won’t be, but it’s a thought…
Been to 1 or 2, enjoyed them myself, & got to thinking while reading this who on here would go to one. Amber, Danny, Ethan & maybe Walky would definitely be the type to go, while I’m sure Joyce would be tempted if Monkey Master & Head Alien was mentioned. If Joyce goes, I can see Becky going too, plus a few others may be dragged along by others.
As an added bonus, maybe even have them meet the creator of Monkey Master & Head Alien, a man by the name of David Willis…
It only just occured to me on rereading to wonder what Marcie thinks of Carla referring to her as one of Sal’s “dumb” friends.