Mmm, “what”, you say?
Mm, that you only meant well? Well, of course you did.
Mmm, what you say?
Mm, that it’s all for the best? Of course it is.
Mmm, “what, you say?
Mm, that it’s just what we need? And you decided this.
What you say?
Mmm, “what”, did She say?
(They’re doing this for Walky’s dear sister after all.)
That was the thing that leaped out at me. He is literally the first person to hear her say “I’m not Amazi-Girl, I’m Amber,” and understand that those are different personas.
I wouldn’t assume that he understands the DID thing yet. But he at least understands that Amber compartmentalizes AG, something that Ethan and Danny still don’t get.
As far as I’m concerned, one more piece of evidence that the Walky/Amber ship makes way more sense than their previous relationships.
I first read that as “He, however, is not,” and the strip was therefore rather confusing.
Also, “hot” vs. “cute.” Sorry, Walky, you may no longer be a virgin, but your manliness-cred is still lacking. (Yes, that’s gender-essentialist, etc. But so is Walky.)
Amber, you fucked up a good cover. However, she is right that Asher looks hotter than Walky. Asher looks like an action movie protagonist, and Walky looks like a comedic sidekick that has attention span problems.
Walky thinks of Asher as Asian. Walky is from Evansville, which is not a very diverse community. (For that matter, Indiana is not a very diverse state.)
It wouldn’t surprise me if people from Walky’s neighborhood assume anyone who isn’t white, black, or latinx must be Asian.
(It’s been pointed out that the Middle East is technically in Asia, to which I can only say, take it up with the U.S. Census Bureau. You could also take it up with the late Lou Harrison, who pointed out that Europe is technically just Northwest Asia.)
On the other hand, the countries of the Middle East were included in the “Asiatic barred zone” in the Immigration Act of 1917. So whether or not they are Asian depends on who is doing the classifying, and when. (Which, come to think of it, is true for pretty much all racial/ethnic classifying.)
I would suggest that there is an enormous difference between “technically in Asia” and ‘likely to be described as “Asian” in common parlance’, even by the most culturally-insulated American. Would Walky have made his decision based upon Asher’s detailed family history and an atlas, or superficial looks (the latter more likely to yield Italian ‘white’ or possibly ‘latino’ than stereotypic ‘Asian’)?
Maybe this has already been discussed in the last few days, but I don’t really get what Walky is trying to accomplish here at all. Won’t alerting Asher to Walky’s and Sal’s presence make trouble MORE likely, not less?
I imagine that Sal would rather not have these ghosts from her past dug up at all.
Anyway, I hope Asher has a similar amount of personal growth behind him as Sal has, but then there wouldn’t be drama, so I’m not too hopeful.
I think Walky was hoping to ‘scope out’ Asher without letting Asher find out Sal was on campus but, well, he probably didn’t plan this out very well >.>
Asher could be an interesting parallel to where Sal’s at right now, especially considering that Sal just had a major moment of growth recently. That’d be neat!
Mostly he just wanted to scope things out, see if he might be a potential hassle to Sal later. He didn’t intend to alert him to his presence. That just happened because Walky did not come into this with a real plan.
Amber once mentioned “Have you seen Mike’s abs?!” to someone (Ethan?), showing an attraction to him which was at odds with his personality (because Mike).
Has Amber yet to see Walky shirtless, with his sculpten caramel out there?
Homer: [yawns] Well, time to go to work.
Homer’s brain: Little do they know, I’m ducking out early to take the Duff Brewery tour.
Homer: Roll in at nine, punch out at five, that’s the plan.
Homer’s brain: Heh-heh-heh. They don’t suspect a thing. [camera pans down to Homer’s mouth, and back up] Well, off to the plant.
Homer: Then to the Duff Brewery.
Homer’s brain: Uh-oh. Did I say that or just think it?
Homer: [panicky] I gotta think of a lie fast!
Marge: Homer, are you going to the Duff Brewery?
Homer: GAAAAAAGH! [runs off]
When I first read this, I thought Amber said, “He, however, is NOT.” As in not cute. Which made a lot of sense to me, because Asher looks kinda scruffy, and the cigarette makes it not be in a good way. Cigarettes automatically make people less attractive to me and can give an overall unhealthy vibe. But apparently Amber thinks he is hot. Huh.
“WHAT DID YOU SAY?”
“I SAID ‘WHAT DID YOU SAY?'”
“WHAT WAS THAT?”
“WHAT?”
“WHAT?”
What you say!?
You have no chance to survive make your time.
Ha ha ha ha
Captain!
Take off every ‘ZIG’!
Someone set us up the bomb!!!
I said “What what” in the butt.
Mmm, “what”, you say?
Mm, that you only meant well? Well, of course you did.
Mmm, what you say?
Mm, that it’s all for the best? Of course it is.
Mmm, “what, you say?
Mm, that it’s just what we need? And you decided this.
What you say?
Mmm, “what”, did She say?
(They’re doing this for Walky’s dear sister after all.)
Someone has set up us the bomb
What’d I Say?
What’s on second.
Who?
I Don’t Know.
Third base!
What?
Do they speak English in What?
W-what?
Say what again! I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker, say what one more goddamn time!
I knew this would be posted.
Yes, I think that this could be one those Rocky Horror moments where the same sequence can be repeated 3 or 4 times.
What…does the fox say?
What…is dead may never die.
What…becomes of the broken-hearted?
What…is the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything?
And I haven’t even scratched the surface. Maybe in seven and a half million years…
What … they do? They smile in your face, all the time they wanna take your place.
What…is your favorite color?
What…is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?
How do you mean, an African or a European swallow?
I don’t know that.
What? Not the American swallow then?
What, you say?!
Mmmmn, that you only meant well?
What!?
WHAT?!
In the butt
What what?
What…?
Interstellar Homing Eight-ball of Doom DX
Heh. 🙂
Now that it’s happened I’m so okay with this happening like this.
COMPUTER: Correct letter is I. Applicant is not Knott-Watt but Nitt-Witt!
Holy shit, Monkees reference. Did not see that coming.
Points for obscurity!
Previous Occupation: Peat Digger.
BTW. Amber’s face on the second-to-last panel… 😀
Seconded
Faaaaace
Sal coming up from behind them all: What’re y’all whating about?
Internal monologue voice, Amber.
What?!
https://youtu.be/YPkjz3mtBVw?t=4
Darn no edits.
Anyway, smoking is an automatic -5 points on the hotness scale.
Only 5? You’re more generous than I am.
The scale is binary.
So someone who smokes isn’t on the scale at all?
…Yeah, I see it.
Yes, this all going exactly as well as I expected it to. And I say again, what could possibly go wrong here?
Asher needs to go all in on the sideburns. Only then will Go Nagai give him his own robot.
I love this comment.
Oh yeaaah !
Wait, does Walky… get it? Is he the first character to really work out Amber/Amazi-Girl’s situation this quickly?
That was the thing that leaped out at me. He is literally the first person to hear her say “I’m not Amazi-Girl, I’m Amber,” and understand that those are different personas.
I wouldn’t assume that he understands the DID thing yet. But he at least understands that Amber compartmentalizes AG, something that Ethan and Danny still don’t get.
As far as I’m concerned, one more piece of evidence that the Walky/Amber ship makes way more sense than their previous relationships.
Not the first. Dina figured it out early.
Oops, awkward! Sorry, Amber.
I like how she goes to talk to him after Walky asks who hurt Sal. Nice touch.
He looks like a 35-year-old fast food manager who thinks smoking is a hobby.
Yeah, that’s what I thought.
WHAT?!
No, What’s on second.
I’m not askin’ you who’s on second!
Who’s on first?
“When you pay the first baseman, who gets the money?”
“Yes he does, every dollar of it. Sometimes his wife picks up the money.”
“Whose wife?”
“Yes.”
Look, all I’m trying to find out is what is the guys name on first base?
No, What’s on second.
Now shipping Ambsher.
As Becky would say, Ambsher the Hamsher.
I first read that as “He, however, is not,” and the strip was therefore rather confusing.
Also, “hot” vs. “cute.” Sorry, Walky, you may no longer be a virgin, but your manliness-cred is still lacking. (Yes, that’s gender-essentialist, etc. But so is Walky.)
Hah, I read it that way too!
I have to read the character tags to figure out who is in each strip featuring the short brunette meatshell please send help.
Cheek blushes are the easiest visual tell. They’re there when Amber’s in charge, but absent for Amazi-Girl.
“Stealth” and “Casual, mildly-flirtatious banter” do not synergize well.
How do those superheroes manage to do it?
They all have “plot convenience” as an unnamed superpower.
Wat
Dookie, dookie doo! (That’s my wife’s morning alarm!)
For having crippling social anxiety, Amber pops out from bushes to give compliments like a pro.
The more scared you are to initiate conversation, the bigger an icebreaker you need!
Huh, that sounds like a pretty solid lifehack
@alt-text *appreciative golf claps*
@alt-text *appreciative golf claps*
shit, double posted
I’ll do you one better: WHY is he hot?!
Let’s see:
Built for dexterity, not power? Check.
Lean? Check.
Large, intense eyes? Check?
Kissable lips? Subjective, but plausible.
All that’s missing are the rosy cheeks. And maybe in daylight those might be there, too.
He reminds me of the thing amber drew in shortpacked! To show what she would think is a sexual ideal.
Because looking like a Tim Sutton body double is exactly Amber’s flavor.
I like Tim Hortten’s better.
Are those Walky’s exclamation lines talking in panel 5?
Amber, you fucked up a good cover. However, she is right that Asher looks hotter than Walky. Asher looks like an action movie protagonist, and Walky looks like a comedic sidekick that has attention span problems.
Ah, when your inner monologue escapes.
Actually, this is what happens when your inner monologue escapes.
DoA Book 9: What?
Asher is meant to be Asian? He looks more Italian to me. I must admit I often find it hard to discern the intended ethnicities in DoA.
Walky thinks of Asher as Asian. Walky is from Evansville, which is not a very diverse community. (For that matter, Indiana is not a very diverse state.)
It wouldn’t surprise me if people from Walky’s neighborhood assume anyone who isn’t white, black, or latinx must be Asian.
(It’s been pointed out that the Middle East is technically in Asia, to which I can only say, take it up with the U.S. Census Bureau. You could also take it up with the late Lou Harrison, who pointed out that Europe is technically just Northwest Asia.)
On the other hand, the countries of the Middle East were included in the “Asiatic barred zone” in the Immigration Act of 1917. So whether or not they are Asian depends on who is doing the classifying, and when. (Which, come to think of it, is true for pretty much all racial/ethnic classifying.)
Also, Russia is a big chunk of Asia, but does anyone call them Asians?
Depends on the part of Russia. Some yes, as its part of north Asia.
I would suggest that there is an enormous difference between “technically in Asia” and ‘likely to be described as “Asian” in common parlance’, even by the most culturally-insulated American. Would Walky have made his decision based upon Asher’s detailed family history and an atlas, or superficial looks (the latter more likely to yield Italian ‘white’ or possibly ‘latino’ than stereotypic ‘Asian’)?
Wha-wha-what?!
Walky using Amber’s guilt like that is kinda gross
Yup.
Like big YIKES energy there..
I know there’s nothing to support it (because Amber keeps her cheek-blush thingies), but I like to imagine AG briefly took control to say that.
NANI?
Well, he is.
Seriously, that’s oldschool giant-robot-riding hottie material right there.
Too “2-days-beard” to be the main hero, though… At best, he’d be a begrudging second fiddle.
Hero? I thought he looked like a stereotypical villain.
“Get in the fucking robot, Ashi!”
I love the slow burn up to Amber and Walky being a thing again. Active flirting is happening.
Whatwhat what what?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes
What? spoken confusingly.
What? spoken innocently.
What? spoken indignantly.
What?! spoken like it’s a fact and Walky being indignant makes no sense.
I miscalculated my What?s.
Switch two and three around.
Maybe this has already been discussed in the last few days, but I don’t really get what Walky is trying to accomplish here at all. Won’t alerting Asher to Walky’s and Sal’s presence make trouble MORE likely, not less?
I imagine that Sal would rather not have these ghosts from her past dug up at all.
Anyway, I hope Asher has a similar amount of personal growth behind him as Sal has, but then there wouldn’t be drama, so I’m not too hopeful.
I think Walky was hoping to ‘scope out’ Asher without letting Asher find out Sal was on campus but, well, he probably didn’t plan this out very well >.>
Asher could be an interesting parallel to where Sal’s at right now, especially considering that Sal just had a major moment of growth recently. That’d be neat!
Mostly he just wanted to scope things out, see if he might be a potential hassle to Sal later. He didn’t intend to alert him to his presence. That just happened because Walky did not come into this with a real plan.
PREDICTION: Asher tells Walky to ‘beat it’; Amazi-Girl objects and defends their boyfriend. Violently.
Okay so I’m not the only one who saw it, great
Amber once mentioned “Have you seen Mike’s abs?!” to someone (Ethan?), showing an attraction to him which was at odds with his personality (because Mike).
Has Amber yet to see Walky shirtless, with his sculpten caramel out there?
Homer: [yawns] Well, time to go to work.
Homer’s brain: Little do they know, I’m ducking out early to take the Duff Brewery tour.
Homer: Roll in at nine, punch out at five, that’s the plan.
Homer’s brain: Heh-heh-heh. They don’t suspect a thing. [camera pans down to Homer’s mouth, and back up] Well, off to the plant.
Homer: Then to the Duff Brewery.
Homer’s brain: Uh-oh. Did I say that or just think it?
Homer: [panicky] I gotta think of a lie fast!
Marge: Homer, are you going to the Duff Brewery?
Homer: GAAAAAAGH! [runs off]
Yeah, someone bursting out of the bushes to say something like that would wipe the smirk off my face, too.
Welcome to the comic, Asher!
Stealth 100
How is her pickpocket skill?
What? Whaaaat? Stop POKING MEEEE!
When I first read this, I thought Amber said, “He, however, is NOT.” As in not cute. Which made a lot of sense to me, because Asher looks kinda scruffy, and the cigarette makes it not be in a good way. Cigarettes automatically make people less attractive to me and can give an overall unhealthy vibe. But apparently Amber thinks he is hot. Huh.
What?