…why did I have a feeling this was gonna happen XD
everybody bust out their bingo cards, buckets of popcorn and/or blast shields and brace yourselves for another Very Normal comments section!
Mm. Not sure I like Danny being upset that his lifelong best friend was cheated on by his ex being just kind of played off as a joke, but maybe he’s storming off to yell at Dorothy. This was one of the big reactions I was looking forward to and I feel let down. I feel like Danny should be more concerned with how his friend was hurt than how it looks for bisexual people.
This has been a recurring problem with this storyline for me as well. It feels like Willis really wants every/every other strip to end with a “gag”, but it doesn’t really fit the seemingly serious tone of what’s going on.
Or perhaps it is more that *we* view it, that is to say, the whole situation, as something to be taken seriously, whereas the narrative doesn’t beyond the reactions of certain specific characters (Joe, Becky, Dina). I’m not sure.
If you subscribe to the DoA patreon, you can view some of the early drafts of strips with commentary, even without going into a paid tier – I recall for the scene where Joyce and Dorothy finally kiss, Willis had a moment of being swept up by the momentum of what the characters would do (rather than the plans he had for the scene) and realized that rather than them kissing and going “hm! well! that’s not great” and going back to their boyfriends and forgetting about it… oops this is kinda symbolically a marriage proposal.
So I think this storyline of Joyce and Dorothy actually getting together being somewhat pushed forward by spur-of-the-moment momentum kinda explains some of the pacing issues, maybe?
Dot
Yes, that’s old news, but I’m more concerned with characterization than pacing here.
mads_in_zero
I think it makes sense, Danny’s in his newly-out, “making atrocious bi puns” era of being bi, so that this is where his mind immediately jumps to is in-character, I feel.
But this is what the comic IS: somewhere between a story and a gag at the end of the strip. The very frequency tells you that. And no, some joke are not going to land well with some people sometimes.
I thought “Great Bores of Today” was hilarious until I found the one that was essentially me. It’s funny to me now to tell that story, tho! But the series was making fun of people, so what can one expect?
So.
If gag strips are distressing, why not go for comics that don’t do it? I’m here for the art and the laughs and now and then the lump in the throat.
Needfuldoer
When there’s a throwaway gag at the end of a serious strip just because it’s the last panel and we need to hit quota, it feels out of place. It’s like having Klinger pop in while Hawkeye’s crying about the chicken/baby.
thejeff
This isn’t just “a throwaway gag at the end of serious strip” though. Danny’s whole reaction is about the biphobia. Panel 3 he’s talking about the harmful stereotype.
Queer identity is kind of a big thing, I guess, especially among people who are only just discovering it. It’s not the best ever look for Danny but I’m willing to give him a pass especially since he’s been a good egg for a while.
And it’s not like Danny hasn’t made it about him in horribly inappropriate moments in the past. It’s what tanked his budding relationship with Ethan, after all.
Throwatron
Yeah, this is a blind spot that Danny has shown before, and he was definitely the cast member most “due” to do something ridiculously stupid and impulsive.
Joe has made a lot of Danny’s vulnerable moments about him, or otherwise refused to be supportive, so I kind of see it as payback. Maybe it’s also just their dynamic.
If I were to give the benefit of the doubt here I’d say this is obviously a joke beat and that there’s plenty of potential and narrative room for Danny to return and be more supportive later. This will not be their last interaction and sometimes comedy can reframe the situation as not being as bad if jokes are being made.
Dot:
Yeah, lets go be angry at Dorothy. She just wanted, and only even acknowledged that because Joe spelled it out. Joyce made the opening bid, joyce made the running, Joyce married Dorothy when Dorothy was trying to have a heroic moment. Dorothy said repeatedly that they had to tell their boyfriends.
Dorothy’s also the only one really feeling any guilt about any of it, while Joyce was actively throwing Joe under the bus and rewriting her history with Dorothy as the greatest and most heroic love story ever told.
Dorothy is also the one who Danny knows in this situation, and he just had a conversation with her where he told her that it wasn’t ok to cheat just because she’s bi. Why is it unreasonable for Danny to snap at her in these circumstances? Danny is not omniscient! Danny doesn’t read the strip!
Thing 2
Let’s = Let us, the readers. Or even you specifically. Not Danny.
I read it as Danny being legit upset for Joe. But when Joe’s like ”Nah, I told her to”, Danny doesn’t know what to do with those feelings and redirects them into the second part of his reaction (which is frustration/dissapointment with Dorothy for her going against what he told her when they spoke about it).
Hm. Additionally, maybe it’s just me, but; I feel having like reacting to having one’s upset feelings be shown to be based on a misunderstanding of a situation by doubling down on a joke, is a normal/common/natural reaction, isn’t it? D:
But he’s already talking about it being a harmful stereotype before Joe says that.
Geno
He’s still upset for his friend. It’s two things. Genuinely don’t understand how you people function. You are just as controlling as fundies. Everyone must always be perfect in every situation even though they are all dumb teens
i agree with kim here, panel 2 danny doesnt know what to say, or what o be more upset about, and the way he stumbles over his words, are leadign me to feel that way. aloso it feels like he can tell joe isnt super upset and so isnt sure about how upset on his friends behalf so he hedges by pivoting/offering an off ramp with the harmful stereotype, and upon joe confirming that he pushed dorothy into joyces bed, danny goes for performative outrage about the part of this he genuinely has the right to be upset about (his friend upon discovering her latent sexual attraction to someone of the same sex, is advised that being bi is not a free pass to cheat,then goes and cheats) and aggrandises for the amusement of his friend.
i worry that for some of those who were really eager for there to be more outrage, unfortunately set themselves up for guarenteed disapointment due to the serialized nature and comedic focus of the comic. as if this was even a single fullbook page style comic (marvel/dc style) where we’d get 3+times the story at a time, or a weekly where we got 7 strips at a time, we would be ingesting the story in larger clumps that may have helped with controlling their expectations regarding how and when and intensity of in world reactions to events. even if we were saying this strip was going for a more dunesbury style the nature of the daily strip drip story telling is going to cause us to over emphasize individual events.
I mean joe is on screen right now visably not upset, why would danny be upset on his behalf when joe is telling him it’s not a big deal. There is an argument that danny getting angry on his behalf when he can’t would be an interesting place to take it, but the last strip already established that joe’s old friends are still pretty bad at handling a version of him that is emotionally open.
I don’t read it as a joke, because Danny seems genuinely upset (sparkle eyes) and Sal looks worried staring after him.
Yeah, he’s having a strong reaction, but I don’t think it’s merely clownish, I think it’s showing how strong Danny feels about it (and we know that Dorothy came to Danny for advice and he said cheating is unacceptable then, too).
It’s a matter of personal interpretation really whether you find the fact that Dorothy’s ex Danny (who told Dorothy not to cheat) is more upset than Joe (who encouraged Dorothy to go after his girlfriend), but as some also point out it can be very seriously questioned too as ‘Joe, are you being TOO much of an optimist and self-saboteur here – is Danny right?’
We don’t really know at this point but I read this, at least potentially, as Danny choosing to make a joke out of it to mask how he is really feeling. Danny really tries to be a kind person and can be a bit conflict avoidant at times. He just found out that his ex cheated on her boyfriend with his best friends girlfriend. I wouldn’t be surprised if what is going through his head in panel 2 are a bunch of significantly angrier thoughts before settling on one that, while genuine is a bit more comedic and further removed from the actual problem here. He now gets to storm off in a huff without actually being mean.
Yes, this is not the cathartic moment that many in this comment section is waiting for, but it makes sense.
Okay, pack it in everyone. Willis says we can’t criticize their favorite ship anymore. If you have any gripes about how Jorothy came to be you’re basically no different then Danny the Strawman over here.
Obviously Mx. Willis has their thumb on the scale in favor of DoJo as a ship – which is their prerogative – but I think this is an uncharitable read of this strip.
I find it less funny when it is accompanied by Joe essentially taking responsibility for Dorothy’s decision to cheat.
Like sure, Willis can write whatever story they want. But I think it is a bad move to have Joe be totally accepting of being cheated on, and to even think it was his fault.
If Willis wanted to do an arc where Joe was totally accepting it would have been soooo easy to do that just by having Joyce talk to him first. Incredibly easy.
So far it seems like the fact that Joyce cheated on Joe is entirely irrelevant to the plot. It effects basically nothing. And that feels fake. It feels like someone wanted to write in “cheating” for the drama but then didn’t want to actually deal with the fact that it would make the protagonists kind of shitty people… so they walked back any and all realistic consequences so the only people remotely upset are tertiary to the violation of trust.
StClair
Yeah. Waiting to see where this goes next, but… yeah. :(
NGPZ
… Joyce and Dorothy themselves said they realized they lost basically all their friends when they talked to Asma???
for reals tho they had better been SERIOUS about bowling night! D:<
Thag Simmons
I broadly am not enjoying the Doyce pairing or this story arc, and I don’t expect that to change.
But Joe’s behaviour is obviously, clearly, delusional cope because the alternative is heartbreak. I have no idea how Willis is going to resolve that, but they are clearly doing something with it.
Armadillo
I get where you’re coming from, though I will say that the recent interaction between Joe and Dina gave me the feeling that this is going to lead to more character development for Joe. This is basically a new flaw that he has picked up as a result of all the work he’s done to sort himself out emotionally; he’s overcorrected in his attempts to grow. He’s gone from being careless about his actions to focusing so much on holding himself accountable that he’s blaming himself even when he’s been wronged. Which has led to him enabling some shitty behavior. I’m remaining hopeful that this will be treated as yet another flaw that he needs to overcome on his path to maturity.
… Though I think Willis has waited too damn long to show any sign of accountability for Joyce, so hope is dwindling fast on that front.
Thing 2
Not being snotty here, but it has ‘effected’ (made happen) quite a lot of things, whereas I think you are more likely to mean ‘affected’ (caused change to). But please correct me if you did mean effected and you thing nothing has happened.
clif
Odo, I think you have a fundamental misconception. For Joe to think it was his fault he would have to believe that someone did something wrong.
Yotomoe
Joyce stole a balloon on Free Balloon day.
Antsan
I wish people would just accept that Joe is doing fine here. Of course what he has to go through hurts, but I admire what he’s trying to do and how he’s dealing with the situation. He isn’t bending over backwards, he has been preparing for this since before Dorothy herself was even willing to accept that she has feelings for Joyce.
embe13
well said antsan! joe is good he is earning ang growingm and while he hurts, this isnt some greater sign of some crippling (in the future) self-esteem issue. joe is allowed to want what he wants, especially when he has thought through the consequences in the way he seems to me to have done. i get from the outside how to some it would see joe is making a rash decisions based on immiture feelings, but to me the entire time joe has come off to me as having thought this thrugh pretty damn well, and with understandings that what he is aiming for is a long shot, and nt something others me think highly of and decided HE still wants it, and that is important, it doesnt matter what any of us think of who he want to have in his life, just that he wants it has reflected o the consequnces and possibilities and decided that he still wants to persue it.
pretty sure danny is doing this as a defense mechanism because he, as a character in the story, has emotional stakes in the current situation and is (poorly) attempting to make it seem bad in a way that isn’t revealing of his longstanding emotional baggage
Yeah, I just figured it was a call-back to the very last thing him and Dorothy talked about and he was slightly offended at her assuming he would engage in cheating behaviour because he was bi. Then what does Dorothy do shortly after talking to him and discovering she was bi…?
Armadillo
Glad you mentioned that because I completely forgot that conversation. Dorothy really did just completely ignore what Danny told her. Which I suppose was obvious from how that conversation ended.
Thing 2
Oh well done. You folks who have an actual infactual intact memory!
nadamás
Thing 2 Willis made it a rule to not insult or be passive aggressive to other commenters just so you know
242 thoughts on “Threeway”
NGPZ
…why did I have a feeling this was gonna happen XD
everybody bust out their bingo cards, buckets of popcorn and/or blast shields and brace yourselves for another Very Normal comments section!
Pocky
Joe really set himself up this whole arc lol
GreyICE
Next up, Joe has a boating expedition on the Nile, which he angrily insists is only a river in Egypt.
Geno
Joe is pretty okay with the whole situation, and Joyce doesn’t want to break up with him. If anyone is in denial it’s Dorothy.
anon
it’s nice danny is more upset on joe’s behalf tho i can imagine it’s more beef with dorothy and danny being confrontational
AshleyMagica
I chuckled. That is all.
poofdepoof
Same
Thing 2
Bwahahahaha, indeed. Comic is way behind the comments with this joke!
shadowcell
alternately, Dumbing of Age Book 16: Making the Rest of Us Look Bad
Jo_cubstar
Damn, beat me to that exact comment lol
clif
Dumbing of Age Book 16: Yeah, Dorothy
Dot
Mm. Not sure I like Danny being upset that his lifelong best friend was cheated on by his ex being just kind of played off as a joke, but maybe he’s storming off to yell at Dorothy. This was one of the big reactions I was looking forward to and I feel let down. I feel like Danny should be more concerned with how his friend was hurt than how it looks for bisexual people.
Prince Mech
This has been a recurring problem with this storyline for me as well. It feels like Willis really wants every/every other strip to end with a “gag”, but it doesn’t really fit the seemingly serious tone of what’s going on.
Or perhaps it is more that *we* view it, that is to say, the whole situation, as something to be taken seriously, whereas the narrative doesn’t beyond the reactions of certain specific characters (Joe, Becky, Dina). I’m not sure.
mads_in_zero
If you subscribe to the DoA patreon, you can view some of the early drafts of strips with commentary, even without going into a paid tier – I recall for the scene where Joyce and Dorothy finally kiss, Willis had a moment of being swept up by the momentum of what the characters would do (rather than the plans he had for the scene) and realized that rather than them kissing and going “hm! well! that’s not great” and going back to their boyfriends and forgetting about it… oops this is kinda symbolically a marriage proposal.
So I think this storyline of Joyce and Dorothy actually getting together being somewhat pushed forward by spur-of-the-moment momentum kinda explains some of the pacing issues, maybe?
Dot
Yes, that’s old news, but I’m more concerned with characterization than pacing here.
mads_in_zero
I think it makes sense, Danny’s in his newly-out, “making atrocious bi puns” era of being bi, so that this is where his mind immediately jumps to is in-character, I feel.
Thing 2
But this is what the comic IS: somewhere between a story and a gag at the end of the strip. The very frequency tells you that. And no, some joke are not going to land well with some people sometimes.
I thought “Great Bores of Today” was hilarious until I found the one that was essentially me. It’s funny to me now to tell that story, tho! But the series was making fun of people, so what can one expect?
So.
If gag strips are distressing, why not go for comics that don’t do it? I’m here for the art and the laughs and now and then the lump in the throat.
Needfuldoer
When there’s a throwaway gag at the end of a serious strip just because it’s the last panel and we need to hit quota, it feels out of place. It’s like having Klinger pop in while Hawkeye’s crying about the chicken/baby.
thejeff
This isn’t just “a throwaway gag at the end of serious strip” though. Danny’s whole reaction is about the biphobia. Panel 3 he’s talking about the harmful stereotype.
Nono
Queer identity is kind of a big thing, I guess, especially among people who are only just discovering it. It’s not the best ever look for Danny but I’m willing to give him a pass especially since he’s been a good egg for a while.
Manticore
And it’s not like Danny hasn’t made it about him in horribly inappropriate moments in the past. It’s what tanked his budding relationship with Ethan, after all.
Throwatron
Yeah, this is a blind spot that Danny has shown before, and he was definitely the cast member most “due” to do something ridiculously stupid and impulsive.
Doctor_Who
A good egg, but slightly cracked.
Andrusi
If this gag is really all we’re doing with him here, you could say it was over easy
NGPZ
to make an omelet, ya gotta bust a couple of dos huevos, ammi right? XD
Bash
Joe has made a lot of Danny’s vulnerable moments about him, or otherwise refused to be supportive, so I kind of see it as payback. Maybe it’s also just their dynamic.
apocryphascribe
Well damn, my “Walky and Joe don’t actually have any real friends looking out for them” opinion keeps getting more proof by the day. A shame, really.
Dot
It’s times like these one begins missing Mike
flake
man, if mike came back, that would make everything worth it ngl
Yotomoe
I want him to just walk back on screen with no explanation.
eh, whatever
I want him to just walk back on screen with no explanation.
“Your mom, for a nickel. Next question?”
anon
i don’t think walkys rly that bothered by it tho i wonder if booster would rly judge dorothy for it
Sirksome
If I were to give the benefit of the doubt here I’d say this is obviously a joke beat and that there’s plenty of potential and narrative room for Danny to return and be more supportive later. This will not be their last interaction and sometimes comedy can reframe the situation as not being as bad if jokes are being made.
Thing 2
Dot:
Yeah, lets go be angry at Dorothy. She just wanted, and only even acknowledged that because Joe spelled it out. Joyce made the opening bid, joyce made the running, Joyce married Dorothy when Dorothy was trying to have a heroic moment. Dorothy said repeatedly that they had to tell their boyfriends.
Sirksome
Dorothy’s also the only one really feeling any guilt about any of it, while Joyce was actively throwing Joe under the bus and rewriting her history with Dorothy as the greatest and most heroic love story ever told.
Dot
Dorothy is also the one who Danny knows in this situation, and he just had a conversation with her where he told her that it wasn’t ok to cheat just because she’s bi. Why is it unreasonable for Danny to snap at her in these circumstances? Danny is not omniscient! Danny doesn’t read the strip!
Thing 2
Let’s = Let us, the readers. Or even you specifically. Not Danny.
Kim
I read it as Danny being legit upset for Joe. But when Joe’s like ”Nah, I told her to”, Danny doesn’t know what to do with those feelings and redirects them into the second part of his reaction (which is frustration/dissapointment with Dorothy for her going against what he told her when they spoke about it).
Hm. Additionally, maybe it’s just me, but; I feel having like reacting to having one’s upset feelings be shown to be based on a misunderstanding of a situation by doubling down on a joke, is a normal/common/natural reaction, isn’t it? D:
thejeff
But he’s already talking about it being a harmful stereotype before Joe says that.
Geno
He’s still upset for his friend. It’s two things. Genuinely don’t understand how you people function. You are just as controlling as fundies. Everyone must always be perfect in every situation even though they are all dumb teens
embe13
i agree with kim here, panel 2 danny doesnt know what to say, or what o be more upset about, and the way he stumbles over his words, are leadign me to feel that way. aloso it feels like he can tell joe isnt super upset and so isnt sure about how upset on his friends behalf so he hedges by pivoting/offering an off ramp with the harmful stereotype, and upon joe confirming that he pushed dorothy into joyces bed, danny goes for performative outrage about the part of this he genuinely has the right to be upset about (his friend upon discovering her latent sexual attraction to someone of the same sex, is advised that being bi is not a free pass to cheat,then goes and cheats) and aggrandises for the amusement of his friend.
i worry that for some of those who were really eager for there to be more outrage, unfortunately set themselves up for guarenteed disapointment due to the serialized nature and comedic focus of the comic. as if this was even a single fullbook page style comic (marvel/dc style) where we’d get 3+times the story at a time, or a weekly where we got 7 strips at a time, we would be ingesting the story in larger clumps that may have helped with controlling their expectations regarding how and when and intensity of in world reactions to events. even if we were saying this strip was going for a more dunesbury style the nature of the daily strip drip story telling is going to cause us to over emphasize individual events.
Seralyna
I mean joe is on screen right now visably not upset, why would danny be upset on his behalf when joe is telling him it’s not a big deal. There is an argument that danny getting angry on his behalf when he can’t would be an interesting place to take it, but the last strip already established that joe’s old friends are still pretty bad at handling a version of him that is emotionally open.
Adept
Trying to shoe-horn a gag at every strip really undercuts… well, everything.
This comic revolves around relationships and feelings, so why does everything have to be a bit?
Holly
I don’t read it as a joke, because Danny seems genuinely upset (sparkle eyes) and Sal looks worried staring after him.
Yeah, he’s having a strong reaction, but I don’t think it’s merely clownish, I think it’s showing how strong Danny feels about it (and we know that Dorothy came to Danny for advice and he said cheating is unacceptable then, too).
It’s a matter of personal interpretation really whether you find the fact that Dorothy’s ex Danny (who told Dorothy not to cheat) is more upset than Joe (who encouraged Dorothy to go after his girlfriend), but as some also point out it can be very seriously questioned too as ‘Joe, are you being TOO much of an optimist and self-saboteur here – is Danny right?’
PigmyWurm
We don’t really know at this point but I read this, at least potentially, as Danny choosing to make a joke out of it to mask how he is really feeling. Danny really tries to be a kind person and can be a bit conflict avoidant at times. He just found out that his ex cheated on her boyfriend with his best friends girlfriend. I wouldn’t be surprised if what is going through his head in panel 2 are a bunch of significantly angrier thoughts before settling on one that, while genuine is a bit more comedic and further removed from the actual problem here. He now gets to storm off in a huff without actually being mean.
Yes, this is not the cathartic moment that many in this comment section is waiting for, but it makes sense.
Astariel
Well, I’m relieved that the preview panel of Danny storming out the room didn’t turn out to be him being mad at Sal about something.
jeffepp
He’s going to find Ethan, right now, for reasons.
Cameron Stone
Okay, pack it in everyone. Willis says we can’t criticize their favorite ship anymore. If you have any gripes about how Jorothy came to be you’re basically no different then Danny the Strawman over here.
Dot
Obviously Mx. Willis has their thumb on the scale in favor of DoJo as a ship – which is their prerogative – but I think this is an uncharitable read of this strip.
Cameron Stone
Who said it was a charity? I run a for-profit comment section thank you very much!
Taffy
I will never pay you even one (1) penny (cent) for this. You are a swindler and a fraud.
clif
Your first comment makes me think you have no sense of humor, and your second comment makes me think you do.
NGPZ
R.I.P. good faith, we dont even know where Danny is going rn
Thag Simmons
I think it’s mostly just a funny self-deprecating joke.
Odo
I find it less funny when it is accompanied by Joe essentially taking responsibility for Dorothy’s decision to cheat.
Like sure, Willis can write whatever story they want. But I think it is a bad move to have Joe be totally accepting of being cheated on, and to even think it was his fault.
If Willis wanted to do an arc where Joe was totally accepting it would have been soooo easy to do that just by having Joyce talk to him first. Incredibly easy.
So far it seems like the fact that Joyce cheated on Joe is entirely irrelevant to the plot. It effects basically nothing. And that feels fake. It feels like someone wanted to write in “cheating” for the drama but then didn’t want to actually deal with the fact that it would make the protagonists kind of shitty people… so they walked back any and all realistic consequences so the only people remotely upset are tertiary to the violation of trust.
StClair
Yeah. Waiting to see where this goes next, but… yeah. :(
NGPZ
… Joyce and Dorothy themselves said they realized they lost basically all their friends when they talked to Asma???
for reals tho they had better been SERIOUS about bowling night! D:<
Thag Simmons
I broadly am not enjoying the Doyce pairing or this story arc, and I don’t expect that to change.
But Joe’s behaviour is obviously, clearly, delusional cope because the alternative is heartbreak. I have no idea how Willis is going to resolve that, but they are clearly doing something with it.
Armadillo
I get where you’re coming from, though I will say that the recent interaction between Joe and Dina gave me the feeling that this is going to lead to more character development for Joe. This is basically a new flaw that he has picked up as a result of all the work he’s done to sort himself out emotionally; he’s overcorrected in his attempts to grow. He’s gone from being careless about his actions to focusing so much on holding himself accountable that he’s blaming himself even when he’s been wronged. Which has led to him enabling some shitty behavior. I’m remaining hopeful that this will be treated as yet another flaw that he needs to overcome on his path to maturity.
… Though I think Willis has waited too damn long to show any sign of accountability for Joyce, so hope is dwindling fast on that front.
Thing 2
Not being snotty here, but it has ‘effected’ (made happen) quite a lot of things, whereas I think you are more likely to mean ‘affected’ (caused change to). But please correct me if you did mean effected and you thing nothing has happened.
clif
Odo, I think you have a fundamental misconception. For Joe to think it was his fault he would have to believe that someone did something wrong.
Yotomoe
Joyce stole a balloon on Free Balloon day.
Antsan
I wish people would just accept that Joe is doing fine here. Of course what he has to go through hurts, but I admire what he’s trying to do and how he’s dealing with the situation. He isn’t bending over backwards, he has been preparing for this since before Dorothy herself was even willing to accept that she has feelings for Joyce.
embe13
well said antsan! joe is good he is earning ang growingm and while he hurts, this isnt some greater sign of some crippling (in the future) self-esteem issue. joe is allowed to want what he wants, especially when he has thought through the consequences in the way he seems to me to have done. i get from the outside how to some it would see joe is making a rash decisions based on immiture feelings, but to me the entire time joe has come off to me as having thought this thrugh pretty damn well, and with understandings that what he is aiming for is a long shot, and nt something others me think highly of and decided HE still wants it, and that is important, it doesnt matter what any of us think of who he want to have in his life, just that he wants it has reflected o the consequnces and possibilities and decided that he still wants to persue it.
lilith
pretty sure danny is doing this as a defense mechanism because he, as a character in the story, has emotional stakes in the current situation and is (poorly) attempting to make it seem bad in a way that isn’t revealing of his longstanding emotional baggage
rich
chances are this strip was written months before Willis ever even saw any of the criticism
Thing 2
Making this all the funnier, if so?
RassilonTDavros
Uhhhh I’m not sure if Danny is actually intended to be particularly in the wrong here?
RexLatro
Yeah, I just figured it was a call-back to the very last thing him and Dorothy talked about and he was slightly offended at her assuming he would engage in cheating behaviour because he was bi. Then what does Dorothy do shortly after talking to him and discovering she was bi…?
Armadillo
Glad you mentioned that because I completely forgot that conversation. Dorothy really did just completely ignore what Danny told her. Which I suppose was obvious from how that conversation ended.
Thing 2
Oh well done. You folks who have an actual infactual intact memory!
nadamás
Thing 2 Willis made it a rule to not insult or be passive aggressive to other commenters just so you know