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February 27, 2026

Justice

by David M Willis on May 17, 2011 at 12:01 am
  • 05 - Media Rumble
└ Tags: danny, sarah

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    May 17, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

    QUICK WITH THE HOT HOT LOVIN’

    ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

    • Paranoia
      Paranoia
      May 17, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

      I just cannot imagine them together.
      Joe/Danny, that’s a different story.

      • Bekah
        Bekah
        May 17, 2011 at 12:20 am | #

        Even though they’re fictional characters in a webcomic, I imagine Joe and Danny together whenever I have a date with BOB…

        I am a disgusting, disgusting girl.

        • Cranberrier
          Cranberrier
          May 18, 2011 at 9:57 pm | #

          That’s really not fair to Bob, you need to share your fantasies with him.

      • Madock345
        Madock345
        May 17, 2011 at 1:12 am | #

        THANKYOU
        we need more people in on this slash

        • Ridureyu
          Ridureyu
          May 17, 2011 at 1:23 am | #

          We need more people?

          Yes. It should be Joe/Danny/Walky/Mike.

          • lord of dance
            lord of dance
            May 17, 2011 at 1:39 am | #

            geez no love for ethan in the all male gang bang? at least he already knows hes gay… i think… damn! is ethan gay in this universe?

            • XMD
              XMD
              May 17, 2011 at 2:00 am | #

              No, he’s spider-car. Can’t you read?

              • lord of dance
                lord of dance
                May 17, 2011 at 9:34 am | #

                wait. i thought that amber was spider-car.

                on the subject of another car that has absolutely nothing to do with spider-car, if danny gets joed in the back seat of ultra-car does that count as a threesome?

                • Bekah
                  Bekah
                  May 17, 2011 at 1:52 pm | #

                  What if Mike joes Danny in the backseat of Ultra-Car? Does that count as a foursome?

  2. Gnoka
    Gnoka
    May 17, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

    Well, Sarah seems to like him. At least, not hate him.

    • David Herbert
      David Herbert
      May 17, 2011 at 2:29 am | #

      (Crack pairing mode) THIS OBVIOUSLY MEANS THEY WILL MAKE BABIES!

      With his penis. In her FAAACE!

      • |Agent
        |Agent
        May 17, 2011 at 2:35 am | #

        He’ll have trouble if he tries to make babies in her FAAAACE — even a nickel won’t help.

        • CWR
          CWR
          May 17, 2011 at 4:58 am | #

          We should all have such “trouble”.

        • Jackson
          Jackson
          May 17, 2011 at 8:06 pm | #

          That is so not babies.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        May 17, 2011 at 6:05 am | #

        CRACK BABIES????

      • madd
        madd
        May 17, 2011 at 6:03 pm | #

        Ummm … that’s not how exactly how you make babies …

        is it?

    • Zem
      Zem
      May 17, 2011 at 2:38 pm | #

      Oh god, college mom Sarah. Why is it that I could see that storyline kinda working.

      Rather, the college mum thing would be a good excuse to bring back Mary. Though he’s one of the characters we really do not want to see at this point, probably. DoA has been comfortably more drama free than Roomies!

  3. Janette
    Janette
    May 17, 2011 at 12:10 am | #

    Sarah=me

    Way more then it should.

    DAMMIT WILLIS. I don’t need to be reminded of myself in a comic.

    • Zem
      Zem
      May 17, 2011 at 2:39 pm | #

      But then you’re getting free avatars. That’s kind of cool.

  4. kagato23
    kagato23
    May 17, 2011 at 12:10 am | #

    Yep. Sarah/Danny X OTP confirmed for personal fanon.

    And canon. WHY CAN’T ALL OF YOU SEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

    • MM
      MM
      May 17, 2011 at 12:12 am | #

      Because he’s talking about how he believes in justice?

      …Aaaand I’m not going to take that observation any further. Not as long as I still have this avatar, anyway.

    • Lady Ray
      Lady Ray
      May 17, 2011 at 2:04 pm | #

      NO SARAH BELONGS WITH BILLIE.

      They hate each other because it’s actually LOVEE!

  5. Tristan J
    Tristan J
    May 17, 2011 at 12:15 am | #

    In before long-winded posts explaining to fictional character how she’s wrong about everything.

    • Bekah
      Bekah
      May 17, 2011 at 12:21 am | #

      They’ve been getting longer and longer haven’t they?

    • NF
      NF
      May 17, 2011 at 12:36 am | #

      At least I still believe in justice!

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        May 17, 2011 at 12:48 am | #

        Rge only character I know who can go on about JUSTICE without feeling silly afterwards is Princess Amelia from Slayers.

        • Bekah
          Bekah
          May 17, 2011 at 1:53 pm | #

          What about Ninja Rick and his burning justice?

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            May 17, 2011 at 6:32 pm | #

            You mean like how he never resheaths his ‘sword’ until it has tasted blood?

            • Bekah
              Bekah
              May 17, 2011 at 10:48 pm | #

              After it tasted Faz’s ‘blood’, no wonder his justice burns.

              *shudders*

              • Random Webcomics Junkie
                Random Webcomics Junkie
                May 18, 2011 at 12:28 pm | #

                Thanks for sharing that delightful thought with the rest of us.

                *brainbleach*

              • Henry
                Henry
                September 20, 2011 at 1:17 pm | #

                Faz is a xenomorph? That explains a lot, actually…

  6. gangler
    gangler
    May 17, 2011 at 12:40 am | #

    Lol. God I love Sarah.

  7. Dahlia
    Dahlia
    May 17, 2011 at 12:42 am | #

    Sarahs got a point, Danno.

    • Jackson
      Jackson
      May 17, 2011 at 6:58 am | #

      I like it when we, the audience, call him Danno and address him directly. I’m not sure why.

      • Dahlia
        Dahlia
        May 17, 2011 at 8:19 pm | #

        It amuses me! 😀

  8. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    May 17, 2011 at 12:44 am | #

    I think that in her own way, she is trying to convince him to stay as distant from this issue as much as possible, otherwise he could end up as bitter as she was about her former room-mate.

  9. Undrave
    Undrave
    May 17, 2011 at 12:44 am | #

    Doesn’t she want to be a lawyer? Is she going to be one of those crooked lawyer who will do everything to win?

    Oh my god… Danny is Phoenix Wright and Sarah will be his Edgeworth! LE GASP!

    Someone whip up a fanart of Danny going “OBJECTION!!”, quick!

    Nice friendship they’re developping there.

    • taekwondogirl
      taekwondogirl
      May 17, 2011 at 2:41 am | #

      I don’t see how she’s “doing everything to win” so much as distancing herself from problems which she considers the right thing to do. There’s a difference.

      • Undrave
        Undrave
        May 17, 2011 at 3:19 am | #

        She mocks him for believing in Justice.

        • taekwondogirl
          taekwondogirl
          May 19, 2011 at 5:59 pm | #

          Cynacism is not the same as moral corruption.

  10. gangler
    gangler
    May 17, 2011 at 12:48 am | #

    “At least I still believe in Justice!”

    I’m not even entirely sure I believed in Justice as a child lol. Why the still? It kind of implies that belief in justice is the natural state and one must fall from it in order to not believe. Is that the assumption?

    I mean, I can recall a time when I believed that fairies hid in airborne dust particles, gnomes lived in trees, and monsters would materialize from the walls if I opened my eyes after dark. I can’t quite recall a time when I believed in Justice though…

    It’s funny because Dan has an overly pleasant worldview that gets harshly damaged by the slightest wrongs lol 😀

    • coobee
      coobee
      May 17, 2011 at 8:05 am | #

      You never believed that your mother/father/whoever didn’t care about ‘who started it’? Or said that a sibling/classmate being given something you weren’t was ‘unfair’? Or hit someone back if they didn’t claim ‘no backsies’?

      Can’t say I had any understanding of justice in her more abstract forms, but those were causes I could believe in as a child.

      • coobee
        coobee
        May 17, 2011 at 8:06 am | #

        … and my avatar makes me look so cross. Sorry!

      • gangler
        gangler
        May 17, 2011 at 8:37 am | #

        Certainly not in the sense you’re saying. I mean, I acknowledge that there was a concept of justice. Not like I would ever claim the idea didn’t exist.

        Did I think that it was concept upon which the world ran? Well no. My parents might not have cared who started it, but that doesn’t mean they’re always gonna punish appropriately or according to this whole Justice thing. Maybe an attempt would be made, but if someone’s “gonna tell on you” and they’re lying through their teeth, I wasn’t gonna just sit their with an absolute faith that my mom would utilize her mystical lasso of truth to get the full story. Often she’d leave it at home. She didn’t always have the thing on her person for every petty squabble.

        Did I believe that my father would always use his always see when I was in trouble or was being treated unjustly? Well no. Sometimes there’s lead in the walls and then he can’t see anything. I just plain didn’t have this weird faith in the overall goodness of the universe or unquestioning belief in my parents that your talking about. We live in a flawed universe. My parents are only human. They can’t hear me from saturn when I’m exploring lead sewerpipes.

        • Heather
          Heather
          May 18, 2011 at 2:13 pm | #

          Death: Humans need fantasy to *be* human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

          Susan: With tooth fairies? Hogfathers?

          Death: Yes. As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies.

          Susan: So we can believe the big ones?

          Death: Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.

          Susan: They’re not the same at all.

          Death: You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder, and sieve it through the finest sieve, and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet, you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world. As if there is some, some rightness in the universe, by which it may be judged.

          Susan: But people have got to believe that, or what’s the point?

          Death: You need to believe in things that aren’t true. How else can they become?

          -Hogfather, Terry Pratchett

    • Zem
      Zem
      May 17, 2011 at 9:46 am | #

      You should always be vary around people who TRULY believe in justice. This usually leads to self-righteousness. I’ve known a few girls like that.

      • taekwondogirl
        taekwondogirl
        May 19, 2011 at 6:00 pm | #

        If they *truly* believe in it then they understand it’s not their place to mete it.

  11. Madock345
    Madock345
    May 17, 2011 at 1:07 am | #

    Everything awsome from literature sounds stupid when you say it out loud, thats why they have to change most of the lines when they make movies.

  12. Ridureyu
    Ridureyu
    May 17, 2011 at 1:08 am | #

    Danny is channeling Amelia from Slayers.

    • lord of dance
      lord of dance
      May 17, 2011 at 1:40 am | #

      hes not standing on a high enough platform

      • Silver C.
        Silver C.
        May 17, 2011 at 5:57 am | #

        And it’s not Amelia if he doesn’t jump and land on his face after doing the justice speech.

        Unless he’s channeling Prince Philonel.

        • Silver C.
          Silver C.
          May 17, 2011 at 5:57 am | #

          On an added note: I love my icon here *squeezes Mike pic*

    • ryan
      ryan
      May 17, 2011 at 8:13 am | #

      note to self: next time i see willis at a con, request a sketch of danny dressed as amelia.

  13. Robert
    Robert
    May 17, 2011 at 1:51 am | #

    Damn right it sounds stupid when someone says it out loud. just watch brave and the bold.

  14. goatman95111
    goatman95111
    May 17, 2011 at 2:23 am | #

    But doesn’t Sarah remember? It’s not justice, not vengeance…It’s PUNISHMENT!

    • Random Webcomics Junkie
      Random Webcomics Junkie
      May 18, 2011 at 12:30 pm | #

      It’s true, many people who can’t get behind the idea of justice are very willing to provide punishment. Because punishment can be fun.

  15. Tumbleweed
    Tumbleweed
    May 17, 2011 at 3:22 am | #

    y’know, Danny might be a square, but he is totally still one of my favorites, just because.

    • agentksilver
      agentksilver
      May 17, 2011 at 1:03 pm | #

      Joyce’s pose with that comment makes it extra adorable.

  16. Daelin
    Daelin
    May 17, 2011 at 4:40 am | #

    I think I’d really enjoy more Danny and Sarah strips.

  17. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    May 17, 2011 at 6:16 am | #

    JUUUUUUUUSTICCCCCCCCE!

  18. Bunk
    Bunk
    May 17, 2011 at 6:57 am | #

    Justice… in the FAAAAAAAAACE.

  19. Kelsey
    Kelsey
    May 17, 2011 at 7:42 am | #

    Surprisingly good advice….And then she comes back to reality.

  20. Ristar
    Ristar
    May 17, 2011 at 8:43 am | #

    Sarah: No danny don’t do it for justice. Do it *Rips off shirt* FOR PATRIOTISM

    • Ristar
      Ristar
      May 17, 2011 at 8:43 am | #

      Wait…sarah is Regan in disguise right?

      • NerdAtComputer
        NerdAtComputer
        May 17, 2011 at 9:17 am | #

        That would explain why I feel so attracted to her.
        She is Regan in disguise… and everyone is gay for Regan.
        (except Ethan, I’m pretty sure he is straight here)

      • zuche
        zuche
        May 17, 2011 at 2:45 pm | #

        I’m surprised anyone remembers Nova Scotia’s premier from the late 1970s.

  21. NerdAtComputer
    NerdAtComputer
    May 17, 2011 at 9:14 am | #

    Don’t worry Danny, I also believe in Spider-Car, ally of justice anywhere!
    (who also happens to be Dan’s love interest, Amber…. maybe Willies is tries to indicate that Danny also has a crush on her secret identity, Spider-Car?)

  22. Luke
    Luke
    May 17, 2011 at 9:21 am | #

    God, Sarah just does NOT want me to like her.

    • agentksilver
      agentksilver
      May 17, 2011 at 1:02 pm | #

      Sarah just wants me to like her even more!

      • gangler
        gangler
        May 17, 2011 at 1:39 pm | #

        I’m hogging all the Sarah liking to myself 😛

  23. kater
    kater
    May 17, 2011 at 10:01 am | #

    Sarah, there is nothing stupid about Justice!

    Justice is Awesome.

    I want to start a bowling team called the Justice League. Yes we would wear costumes.

    • gangler
      gangler
      May 17, 2011 at 10:59 am | #

      But the Justice league doesn’t really believe in Justice either. If they did they wouldn’t have to dedicate their lives to enforcing it. Their very presence is evidence that Justice was not being done in the DC universe, and in fact almost all of their origin stories center around a grave injustice they experienced.

      Sure, superman may live his life in pursuit of Justice, but even he’s not gonna pretend that the death of his planet was in any way fair, or that it will all be equaled out. That brainiac will get what he deserves or any such nonsense. He pursues Justice because he doesn’t have it.

      Even the greatest paragons of Justice are not so naive as to actually believe in it. It’s an ideal that one may seek, not a force that one can believe in. Similar to charity. To live charitably is noble. To believe in charity, well that’s just foolish and naive. There’s a huge distinction between the two.

      • Chester Sellars
        Chester Sellars
        May 17, 2011 at 11:55 am | #

        The problem is they do believe in it– stupidly. It’s what causes the tension between Batman and Superman. Batman knows there is no justice but what he enforces. Superman believes justice exists naturally, and he is a manifestation of that justice.

        • gangler
          gangler
          May 17, 2011 at 1:36 pm | #

          Is that a fact? I’ll admit I’m not as familiar with Superman as I could be. I mostly just pick up an issue once in a while when I see something’s going on with Luthor.

          I didn’t really think he was prone to expect it from others though. So like, if Superman was powerless due to Red sun radiation he genuinely believes that the people of earth would rise to protect him in his time of need? Because that’s actually interesting. Kind of sheds a different light on his character.

      • taekwondogirl
        taekwondogirl
        May 19, 2011 at 6:17 pm | #

        Believing in justice is different from believing that it exists. The persuit of justice is to bring it where there is none and it usually results from having experienced injustices ones’ self.

  24. Seraph
    Seraph
    May 17, 2011 at 11:09 am | #

    I reiterate my desire from yesterday that something – wonderful, horrible, I don’t care – happen to Sarah to shake her conviction that she knows everything at age 20. Granted, she seems to be in a permanent defensive posture against that sort of thing, but that’s all the more reason she needs it.

    • gangler
      gangler
      May 17, 2011 at 11:29 am | #

      I don’t think we’ve seen anything to indicate that she thinks she knows everything. She certainly seems opinionated, and has perhaps a bleaker worldview than you feel is proper, but where are we seeing knowitallism?

      • Seraph
        Seraph
        May 17, 2011 at 11:41 am | #

        In her confidence that everyone will share her bleak worldview when they wise up.

        • gangler
          gangler
          May 17, 2011 at 1:31 pm | #

          The same confidence shared by everyone with a positive worldview?

          Everyone naturally assumes their worldview is correct. That’s in its’ very nature. If I believe the world is a bleak place, then it only follows that anyone else with the eyes to see would also gaze upon a bleak world.

          • Seraph
            Seraph
            May 17, 2011 at 2:08 pm | #

            And college is where you go to encounter new worldviews and have that confidence challenged. Joyce and Danny are on one end of the spectrum, both needing some realism injected into their romanticism. Sarah is on the other end, needing something to pierce her battle-armored cynicism.

            She never grew or changed that much in the prime reality, probably because the wackier characters were more interesting. This is another chance for her, and I’d like to see what happens if her character actually gets some development.

            • gangler
              gangler
              May 17, 2011 at 2:23 pm | #

              Interesting concept. So basically it’s not that you want her proven wrong or taken off her high horse so much as you would like to see her undergo some character development in college. You feel that she could benefit from much of what college has to offer in experiences beyond simple education, and think that she’s robbing herself of this by alienating her peers and being as reclusive as she is if I’m getting this right. If not I apologize for putting words in your mouth.

              Fair enough. I can get behind that. As much as I’m generally opposed to the notion that everyone needs to be a social butterfly and become part of the awesome friends circle, I do feel that one should never shut oneself out to new information. Sarah really is doing that to herself a little, and in doing so she does deny herself the opportunity to expand her worldview.

              The idea is really not to “Change” or shatter ones worldview, but just to improve it. Upgrade it that it might function and serve one even better in the future. Fair enough. I agree, and once again apologize if I’m misreading your post.

              • Seraph
                Seraph
                May 17, 2011 at 2:43 pm | #

                Now you’ve got it. I’d be just as happy to see her end up Daisy’s girlfriend as to see her brought down a peg, perhaps moreso.

                (Daisy seems a better match than the rest of the characters, who are mostly a bunch of clueless, drama-ridden frosh. Have we met any male characters of equivalent maturity yet?)

                • gangler
                  gangler
                  May 17, 2011 at 3:12 pm | #

                  Let’s see. Ethan, Danny, Joe, Mike, and Walky seems to be the male cast. No, I’m not really seeing any of that work.

                  I mean, she and Danny seem like they’d get along well, and have that basic chemistry, but I’m pretty sure Dan’s own issues would doom any relationship he entered. Maturity wise none of them are really there yet either.

                  Assuming sexuality is being factored in, the only other female I can even think of who’s on that level would be Leslie, which probably won’t happen for obvious reasons.

                  Aside from that? I guess Dorothy has her act together pretty nicely. She seems emotionally healthy and has a pretty clear picture of what it is she’s doing in life. Oddly enough I keep waiting for her to somehow get sucked into someone else’s dramacube accidentally.

                  Yeah, Daisy could work just fine. Would be fun to see. Funny how it is when you actually try and tally how many characters here are properly functional. Pretty sure there’s just the three outside of Sarah. Plus we haven’t seen more than a couple conversations with Daisy and we’ve only seen Leslie on the job, so there might not even be that. At the very least, Daisy seems like the only real candidate right now.

                • Seraph
                  Seraph
                  May 17, 2011 at 4:07 pm | #

                  Dorothy worries me, too, actually. She seems to take that acceptance from Yale pretty much for granted, and she doesn’t seem to have a Plan B. She better hope her Plan A works out better than Dorothy Prime’s.

                • gangler
                  gangler
                  May 18, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

                  It never even occurred to me how odd it was that she takes it for granted that way. I mean, I plan on going to a particular university, but it’s only not a source of worry because I’m quite faithful that given enough time I can get into a university and that’s all that’s really important. If there’s one thing I have as a youth, it’s time. Also I have three plans for if that doesn’t work out.

                  If she has a backup plan she certainly hasn’t mentioned it, though backup plans aren’t generally relevant conversationally until you get there. She certainly seems dead set on this particular university, which from what I understand is actually pretty high end. Not everyone can pull off yale.

                  Do we know if her plan requires Yale in particular? Would a lesser degree not cut it? If all she’s gonna have to do is swallow her pride and give up some bragging rights I’m not to worried, but otherwise this does have potential for disaster. Especially since from a narrative angle she’s probably not leaving this college ever.

              • Bekah
                Bekah
                May 17, 2011 at 10:47 pm | #

                Gangler and Seraph/
                sittin’ in a tree/
                F
                U
                C
                K
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                N
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                That’s right.

                I ship you two.

                • Random Webcomics Junkie
                  Random Webcomics Junkie
                  May 18, 2011 at 12:35 pm | #

                  Perfect av for that comment. I applaud you, Bekah, and ship you in.

  25. MacaroniPterodactyl
    MacaroniPterodactyl
    May 17, 2011 at 12:01 pm | #

    Hey Danny, is it BURNING justice?

    (cuz they have a cream for that now)

  26. Master Long
    Master Long
    May 17, 2011 at 12:14 pm | #

    My cat has no sense of justice.

  27. agentksilver
    agentksilver
    May 17, 2011 at 12:38 pm | #

    You know what…I ship Danny/Joyce now.

  28. agentksilver
    agentksilver
    May 17, 2011 at 1:01 pm | #

    Also yay character development for one of my two favorite characters.

  29. Swissaboo
    Swissaboo
    May 17, 2011 at 1:25 pm | #

    Misanthropy is nothing to be proud of sarah.

    • Seraph
      Seraph
      May 17, 2011 at 2:12 pm | #

      Seconded.

    • gangler
      gangler
      May 17, 2011 at 2:29 pm | #

      Sure it is. Beats the alternative lol. Generalized trust? Expecting basic decency from your fellow man? Yeah, that totally sounds like it would lead to good things.

      While I’m at it, might as well extend that trust to some rabid wolverines. They really just wanna help XD

      • Seraph
        Seraph
        May 17, 2011 at 2:36 pm | #

        …you know there are other options, right?

        • gangler
          gangler
          May 17, 2011 at 2:55 pm | #

          I kid I kid. As much as Misanthropy is the better of two extremes, as with many things it’s probably best to hang out somewhere in the middle and maintain a flexibility for change depending on the situation. Don’t have to trust every bloke you come across, but you don’t have to go shutting any doors either.

        • zuche
          zuche
          May 17, 2011 at 3:06 pm | #

          You know misanthropy comes in an assortment of styles, some of them fairly benign, yes? Sarah cares about people as individuals despite reservations about leaving herself open to the stupid things they do. The only time she’s been indicated to take an active hand in preventing other people’s stupidity is when it’s been to her detriment, as with the former roommate.

          It takes her awhile to trust, with good reason. It doesn’t take much for her to care. What remains to be seen is what it takes to get her involved, which may surprise her more than it will the readers.

  30. Shift
    Shift
    May 17, 2011 at 3:08 pm | #

    I can sorta understand where Sarah is coming form. After all, who WANTS to deal with stupid people and their shit all the time? But at the same time, ignoring a problem isn’t going to make it go away. There are times where you need to confront the jerks and stand up for yourself.

    Of course, I’m not sure this is one of those times. The video doesn’t exactly affect Danny. He’s not on the video (as far as I know), and if it becomes a hassle rooming with Joe because of the video, he can ask for a room change. Joe should be the one pissed off and doing something about this, but if he’s okay with it, then Danny doesn’t have much reason to get involved.

    • Eri
      Eri
      May 17, 2011 at 7:27 pm | #

      Well, yeah, but Joe is his friend! Danny wouldn’t ask to change rooms and even when your friends tell you they don’t care, you still get upset if something bad happens to them.

      • Shift
        Shift
        May 17, 2011 at 9:42 pm | #

        Very true, but at the moment, Joe doesn’t seem to think this is bad. In fact, he seems a bit pleased by it. Danny isn’t so much concerned about how this is going to affect his friend, but how its going to affect both his friend and himself. And if Danny finds himself being directly targeted by the fallout of the video, he’s got every right to take some kind of action. But right now this is technically between Roz and Joe and it might help the situation if Danny doesn’t stir up more drama.

  31. SolegitRR
    SolegitRR
    May 17, 2011 at 3:19 pm | #

    I’m sensing some serious bro-love on Danny’s part. I mean that’s kind of a deep bond…but how deep?

    • gangler
      gangler
      May 17, 2011 at 3:52 pm | #

      About eight inches deep if you catch my drift 😉

  32. Anime fan
    Anime fan
    May 17, 2011 at 4:40 pm | #

    Yes, yes it does.

  33. Reiku189
    Reiku189
    May 28, 2011 at 12:44 am | #

    Ya know….Sarah has Cree’s (numbah 5’s sister) voice when I think about it.

  34. Osa
    Osa
    December 21, 2012 at 6:39 am | #

    Thats it. Sara is my favorite character. Too much of what she says and does hits home far too often.

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