What Hartz loses in quality, it makes up in quantity.
How can you say they don’t have a chicken sandwich? There’s plenty of chicken and biscuits, and if you need garnishments, there’s your choice of coleslaw or green beans, or a mixture. If your sandwich is too dry, you can add gravy to taste. And of course, its all you can eat.
Now that I think on it, there’s a Hartz almost within walking distance, and yet I haven’t eaten in a Hartz in over 20 years. By coincidence, this is about the same amount of time my wife and I have been married.
Is it their fault if you aren’t getting enough fiber? You could go with their Cantina Power Bowl, which I hear good things about and will try out once I stop protesting them dropping their taco salad mumbly years ago.
And that’s assuming Sal’s right and they only last two weeks. Maybe (hopefully) they’ll last longer than that, and we’ll get a few more years of Lucy/Walky.
I mean Sal is right there, Becks. Surely you’re capable of referencing her hotness level and using that to a reasonable expectation for Walky’s hotness. Just do the science!
There was this, but I think that was mostly a measure of Sal’s Coolness and Becky nuking the closet from orbit and wanting to make out with a girl who wouldn’t get her in trouble. But still, she was definitely and clearly willing to make out with Sal.
I mean, they are fraternal twins, too, and therefore no more related than any pair of siblings who weren’t born at the same time. Not all siblings translate 1:1 in the resemblance (and thus attractiveness) department.
That’s true, but they do look like gender swapped versions of each other which is a fact they both acknowledge and was even commented on at the very party you referenced.
Hotness is subjective though and Beckys preferences I guess are so far from heterosexual attraction it doen’t register when it’s a guy regardless of appearance.
Oh, true. I think Sal might be taller, but they definitely do resemble each other a good bit and there’s no indication that, say, Becky is faceblind (even when pointed out, I don’t see shared features on my own family members, much less other people.) But I can also see there being a couple minor differences in-universe that the artstyle doesn’t reflect (eyebrows, for instance) and Walky’s line being exaggerated for a joke. Not much, but exaggerated still.
More likely, if Becky is into Sal but can’t extrapolate that to Walky, it’s probably because Sal’s Cool Biker Aesthetic and demeanor is so different from Walky’s, and the coolness is definitely an element in Sal’s attractiveness. (Again speaking as someone faceblind, it would trip me up in recognizing they were related.)
are we sure we want to take Becky at her word that she can’t even tell whether Walky is hot or not? i’m not saying her being a Kinsey 24-25 is an act, but she sure is performing the hell out of it ^^
Some of it is probably performative. I do think Becky does act purposefully obnoxious about being gay. (Recently I think of the time Joe just said hello to her and friends and the first thing she said to him is please remember how I’m not attracted to you) But this is a side of her that’s been surpresses essentially her entire life so it makes sense she takes every opportunity to reinforce it.
Yeah, just ask Howard Dean if screaming Yeah! to a crowd of supporters somehow disqualifies you from being president. To this day, the whole thing makes no sense to me.
I mean, Republicans are weird, but honestly the Democratic party is weirder.
When their relationship started is up to interpretation. The toy-throwing was on August 30th, during the second chapter of Book 1, but that’s just his expression of infatuation that she doesn’t reciprocate right away. I think things started down their eventual path when they bonded over their mutual nostalgia for D&MM a couple chapters later, on September 2nd.
Nonetheless, it didn’t end because Walky didn’t like her because she wouldn’t make armpit farts or she didn’t like him because he wanted her to. It ended because of Dorothy’s time commitments, not because of anything about Walky’s immaturity.
Maybe that was just surface level issues that acted as a smokescreen for the true underlying problem. Dorothy’s inabilty to perform a proper armpit fart. Trying to supress Walky’s appreciation for the artform. It was never vocalized sure but after several re-readings you become more aware of the subtext.
To be honest, and why wouldn’t we be, I think we are slightly misinterpreting Sal. I don’t think that the issue in her mind is that Lucy won’t measure up to Walky’s standards because she want do armpit farts. I think that rather the issue is that Sal believes that unless Lucy is already a type person who values armpit farts enough that she has acquired the skill, that there is no way in hell she will be willing to put up with Walky for more than a couple of weeks.
Where Sal makes her mistake is not allowing a multiplier for for other factors, in Dorothy’s case a body sculpted out of caramel, and in Lucy’s case that Walky is a boy.
Yes, but Dorothy’s time commitments left her without time to make armpit farts, obviously. ;p
That’s it. That’s the secret of Halloween. Just offscreen all along, there was a Couples’ Armpit Fart contest that Walky DESPERATELY wanted to compete in. But Amber, unfortunately, spent all her physical prowess points on superhero skills, leaving her tragically unable to help. Meanwhile, Jennifer and Ruth decided to participate on a whim, but lost to Becky and Dina, and the resulting sting of failure drove them apart. IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!
(I’m joking of course, but ‘Dorothy’s time commitments meant she tried to overcompensate leaving no social time or rest, including time to goof off with Walky’ WAS a definite factor in their breakup. The armpit farts are a symbol!… Except not really.)
That’s an interesting supposition, but it seems suspect. Is there any documented instance of Joyce disapproving of Becky’s friends (and not sorting her own emotions when Becky came out, but actually disapproving). As well, has Becky disapproved of any of Joyce’s friends other than Dorothy?
I think Rassilon is saying that Becky and Walky are friends Joyce disapproves. Are Becky and Walky friends? Joyce definitely disapproves though (link courtesy of Bagge)
Well argued and researched. I tip my hat. I remain unconvinced however, that this is Joyce disapproving of friendship, rather than of just a minor particular behaviour. It seems that Lucy and Joyce in fact share even more in common if they both object to bodily noises.
Walky and Becky get along when they do interact, it just isn’t super often, so I don’t know if they’d consider each other friends or not. I figure they’re friends, though, along with other Garbage Roof buds.
So, does Sal know Walky too well or has she forgotten that she’s spent years apart from him in that boarding school and maybe doesn’t know him well enough any more?
I mean, they’ve gone a long way to patching things up last semester and spend more time together now, plus she spent winter break with him and 13 years worth of knowing him isn’t totally irrelevant.
He’s also an outwardly immature teenage guy, so he wasn’t all that different when their paths crossed again than he was the last time they saw each other regularly. She was surprised when he started maturing and standing up to Linda back in the kidnapping fallout chapter.
Most likely in-universe; breaking the fourth wall just isn’t Willis’ style, at least not on matters like this.
On a side note, it still doesn’t count as breaking the fourth wall if the prediction of two weeks in real time is incidentally confirmed by the relationship lasting even SHORTER than that (specifically, the brief amount of time needed to fill 14 strips).
I think Lucy has to take Becky’s offer. Not just to stay with Walky, but for the sake of learning new skills. Also, I’m happy Sal is giving her advices♡.
Why did the first quote to jump at my eyes have to be, “a furry hadrosaur”? Sure it was written in 1988, and Dixon’s ability to foresee the impact of the internet is astounding, but that is just not a particular subculture venn-diagram that I was prepared to contemplate on a monday afternoon.
But, having reflected upon it, I think it’s good for Becky to know she has friends.
(science)(dinosaur costume)(sex play)
“that’s like saying you could get tired of TACO BELL in two weeks!”
“…”
Depends. Do I get to eat something OTHER than Taco Bell during those two weeks?
Sure,but why would you want to?
That is an excellent question
Because they don’t serve chicken nuggets.
A fair point.
Hey, at least they’re not copying the crowd; all the other restaurants are serving what’s basically the same freaking chicken sandwich.
Well, Chick-Fil-A puts pickles on their version, which is just really really weird. In my opinion anyway.
Popeyes also puts pickles on their Sandwich. It’s good for balancing out the spicy sauce.
Personally, in the Chicken Sandwich War I nominate Wendy’s for their spicy chicken asiago club.
What Hartz loses in quality, it makes up in quantity.
How can you say they don’t have a chicken sandwich? There’s plenty of chicken and biscuits, and if you need garnishments, there’s your choice of coleslaw or green beans, or a mixture. If your sandwich is too dry, you can add gravy to taste. And of course, its all you can eat.
Now that I think on it, there’s a Hartz almost within walking distance, and yet I haven’t eaten in a Hartz in over 20 years. By coincidence, this is about the same amount of time my wife and I have been married.
Oh come on. KFC does that too!
At least Taco Bell is actually innovative with their Naked Chicken Chalupa!
Also, stop associating them with bowel movements unless you want not so good attention from somebody who reads these.
Ironically, I was just eating my spicy chicken asiago club as I read your comment.
How can you compete with a naked chicken chalupa?
https://www.tacobell.com/food/specialties/naked-chicken-chalupa
Because, at some point, I’d like to experience a SOLID bowel movement?
Is it their fault if you aren’t getting enough fiber? You could go with their Cantina Power Bowl, which I hear good things about and will try out once I stop protesting them dropping their taco salad mumbly years ago.
That’s a good half-decade of comics, so it’s not too bad.
Damn You Willis* is already planning the Valentine strip for 2026 featuring these two.
*Pretty sure he has legally changed his name to that now.
It’s his Twitter address.
…. wait, is there a difference between a person’s Twitter address and their legal name?
Temporarily.
“Foolish mortals! Your years are my minutes!”
– Oryx the Mad God
Aiat.
And that’s assuming Sal’s right and they only last two weeks. Maybe (hopefully) they’ll last longer than that, and we’ll get a few more years of Lucy/Walky.
Two weeks in comic time correlates approximately to anything between one day and several years in real time.
By 2026 the commenters will be sick of them anyway, and have at least three other ships planned for them.
she said prove her worth to you, not to Walky
Well considering Sal went straight for what Walky would like suggests that the best way to do that is by being a good partner for her brother.
Yeah, Sal really hit things on the head there.
I mean Sal is right there, Becks. Surely you’re capable of referencing her hotness level and using that to a reasonable expectation for Walky’s hotness. Just do the science!
y’know, has Becky ever said that she finds Sal hot? Maybe she just doesn’t think the Walkertons are hot.
That would be interesting actually but I think realistically she just fell hard for Dina to the point no one else really matters.
There was this, but I think that was mostly a measure of Sal’s Coolness and Becky nuking the closet from orbit and wanting to make out with a girl who wouldn’t get her in trouble. But still, she was definitely and clearly willing to make out with Sal.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/painful-2/
I mean, they are fraternal twins, too, and therefore no more related than any pair of siblings who weren’t born at the same time. Not all siblings translate 1:1 in the resemblance (and thus attractiveness) department.
That’s true, but they do look like gender swapped versions of each other which is a fact they both acknowledge and was even commented on at the very party you referenced.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/tall/
Hotness is subjective though and Beckys preferences I guess are so far from heterosexual attraction it doen’t register when it’s a guy regardless of appearance.
Oh, true. I think Sal might be taller, but they definitely do resemble each other a good bit and there’s no indication that, say, Becky is faceblind (even when pointed out, I don’t see shared features on my own family members, much less other people.) But I can also see there being a couple minor differences in-universe that the artstyle doesn’t reflect (eyebrows, for instance) and Walky’s line being exaggerated for a joke. Not much, but exaggerated still.
More likely, if Becky is into Sal but can’t extrapolate that to Walky, it’s probably because Sal’s Cool Biker Aesthetic and demeanor is so different from Walky’s, and the coolness is definitely an element in Sal’s attractiveness. (Again speaking as someone faceblind, it would trip me up in recognizing they were related.)
are we sure we want to take Becky at her word that she can’t even tell whether Walky is hot or not? i’m not saying her being a Kinsey 24-25 is an act, but she sure is performing the hell out of it ^^
Some of it is probably performative. I do think Becky does act purposefully obnoxious about being gay. (Recently I think of the time Joe just said hello to her and friends and the first thing she said to him is please remember how I’m not attracted to you) But this is a side of her that’s been surpresses essentially her entire life so it makes sense she takes every opportunity to reinforce it.
oh absolutely. i wouldn’t call her performative gayness obnoxious, though i feel like she’d be happy to own that ^^
Looks like Danny scored the coveted Walkerton Sandwich and didn’t even notice.
Great Danning there, Dan.
Okay wait, so how good is Dorothy at armpit farts?
She can’t tell us. How would she get elected president if people found out she made armpit farts?
Only if she ran Republican. Because when someone like Trump or (W) Bush does that, they’re approachable, but when a Democrat does something like that…
Yeah, just ask Howard Dean if screaming Yeah! to a crowd of supporters somehow disqualifies you from being president. To this day, the whole thing makes no sense to me.
I mean, Republicans are weird, but honestly the Democratic party is weirder.
Think of how the media covers the various events.
There relationship only lasted a few months maybe. I think that says it all.
Like six weeks, really. The timeskip was at midterms.
When their relationship started is up to interpretation. The toy-throwing was on August 30th, during the second chapter of Book 1, but that’s just his expression of infatuation that she doesn’t reciprocate right away. I think things started down their eventual path when they bonded over their mutual nostalgia for D&MM a couple chapters later, on September 2nd.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/02-uphill-from-here/throw/
Dorothy broke it off during ‘This is the Way that We Love’, which was October 11.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/02-this-is-the-way-that-we-love/pause/
The ball was definitely rolling the first week of September, so their relationship lasted a little over a month.
Dorothy considers it about six weeks, according to her chat with Ruth.
Makes sense. That’s roughly from initial meet-cute* (8/30) to “pause” (10/11).
* Does the toy throwing make it a yeet-cute?
Yes, yes it does.
YES. Yes it does!
Nonetheless, it didn’t end because Walky didn’t like her because she wouldn’t make armpit farts or she didn’t like him because he wanted her to. It ended because of Dorothy’s time commitments, not because of anything about Walky’s immaturity.
Maybe that was just surface level issues that acted as a smokescreen for the true underlying problem. Dorothy’s inabilty to perform a proper armpit fart. Trying to supress Walky’s appreciation for the artform. It was never vocalized sure but after several re-readings you become more aware of the subtext.
To be honest, and why wouldn’t we be, I think we are slightly misinterpreting Sal. I don’t think that the issue in her mind is that Lucy won’t measure up to Walky’s standards because she want do armpit farts. I think that rather the issue is that Sal believes that unless Lucy is already a type person who values armpit farts enough that she has acquired the skill, that there is no way in hell she will be willing to put up with Walky for more than a couple of weeks.
Where Sal makes her mistake is not allowing a multiplier for for other factors, in Dorothy’s case a body sculpted out of caramel, and in Lucy’s case that Walky is a boy.
Yes, but Dorothy’s time commitments left her without time to make armpit farts, obviously. ;p
That’s it. That’s the secret of Halloween. Just offscreen all along, there was a Couples’ Armpit Fart contest that Walky DESPERATELY wanted to compete in. But Amber, unfortunately, spent all her physical prowess points on superhero skills, leaving her tragically unable to help. Meanwhile, Jennifer and Ruth decided to participate on a whim, but lost to Becky and Dina, and the resulting sting of failure drove them apart. IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!
(I’m joking of course, but ‘Dorothy’s time commitments meant she tried to overcompensate leaving no social time or rest, including time to goof off with Walky’ WAS a definite factor in their breakup. The armpit farts are a symbol!… Except not really.)
I think Sal is forgetting how easily it is to overlook flaws during the first month of a relationship.
That being said, I give it 3 weeks.
This was an episode of Barney Miller back in the day.
*plays a remix of the theme song on the hacked Muzak*
This comic certainly needs more Abe Vigoda in it!
I’ll settle for Ken and Malaya’s friend Arnold.
Lucy knows how to make it up elsewhere, ifyouknowwhatImean.
Which is to say, cartoon lore.
Becky has a girlfriend?
I haven’t heard. She didn’t say.
Wait, does that mean she’s a lesbian? (Or bi or pan?) I hadn’t heard. She didn’t say.
She’s said it a few times, but it was fairly easy to miss.
After all, she said it in orbit.
Dangit, low-key stealth representation isn’t going to cut it. Make it a big obvious book title or something.
(Or, you know, maybe just a low-key conversation from a low-key character in a low-key scene on a train, but that’s a different franchise.)
I wonder if we’ll get to meet her.
If she won’t provide harmony to his armpit symphony, what’s even the point of the relationship?
Maybe she’ll provide the syncopated rhythm.
She likes cartoons, so even without the armpit farts they’ve still got that.
So maybe Lucy’s no good at armpit farts, but do hand farts count?
Yes, but only to two.
Becky and Walky have rather similar personalities when you get down to it. There’s a similar love of toilet humor in each of them.
Between that and Joyce’s friendship with Dorothy, Joyce and Becky never seem to approve of each other’s choice in friends, do they?
That’s an interesting supposition, but it seems suspect. Is there any documented instance of Joyce disapproving of Becky’s friends (and not sorting her own emotions when Becky came out, but actually disapproving). As well, has Becky disapproved of any of Joyce’s friends other than Dorothy?
I think Rassilon is saying that Becky and Walky are friends Joyce disapproves. Are Becky and Walky friends? Joyce definitely disapproves though (link courtesy of Bagge)
Well argued and researched. I tip my hat. I remain unconvinced however, that this is Joyce disapproving of friendship, rather than of just a minor particular behaviour. It seems that Lucy and Joyce in fact share even more in common if they both object to bodily noises.
well, she does try not to judge.
Walky and Becky get along when they do interact, it just isn’t super often, so I don’t know if they’d consider each other friends or not. I figure they’re friends, though, along with other Garbage Roof buds.
What is the deal with that thing on Sal’s head? Seriously, it looks like a down comforter over her regular hair.
Also Walky doesn’t like competition for making armpit farts. Or as St. Carlin put it “thah ahtifishul faht undah thah ahm!”
It’s just a bandana tied around her hair?
Honestly, that confused me at first. Like, my first thought was “did Sal dye part of her hair?”.
Actual farts are a decent substitute.
Not if you intend to make music with them!
Being able to fart on key is a rare skill, and I understand the tryouts are a real gas.
That joke stinks.
All the Taco Bell they’re eating can help with that!
Sorry, Becky. That trained has sailed.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/belchin/
That SHIP has sailed. Or that train has…trained or whatever trains do. I don’t know. Sort out your own metaphores.
Trains leave stations which is also a saying itself.
Apropos of nothing, but which Doctor screwed up metaphors again?
Apropos of He who Abides…
Seventh, but only early on, before he became the dark, manipulative grandmaster of chess on a million boards, or whatever.
You would think that trains would entrain each other, but apparently not.
Sal looks so good in red. She is rocking that bandana.
And Becky and Lucy are rocking the relationships. We love that for all three of them.
Becky must be a Talking Heads fan, cause she agrees that Girlfriend is Better.
Hello new hair.
Oh it’s a bandana.
Yes Becky, we know you have a girlfriend. It’s literally half of your entire character at this point.
Not only a girlfriend but a better one at that
So, does Sal know Walky too well or has she forgotten that she’s spent years apart from him in that boarding school and maybe doesn’t know him well enough any more?
I mean, they’ve gone a long way to patching things up last semester and spend more time together now, plus she spent winter break with him and 13 years worth of knowing him isn’t totally irrelevant.
He’s also an outwardly immature teenage guy, so he wasn’t all that different when their paths crossed again than he was the last time they saw each other regularly. She was surprised when he started maturing and standing up to Linda back in the kidnapping fallout chapter.
Real or in-universe?
Most likely in-universe; breaking the fourth wall just isn’t Willis’ style, at least not on matters like this.
On a side note, it still doesn’t count as breaking the fourth wall if the prediction of two weeks in real time is incidentally confirmed by the relationship lasting even SHORTER than that (specifically, the brief amount of time needed to fill 14 strips).
I think Lucy has to take Becky’s offer. Not just to stay with Walky, but for the sake of learning new skills. Also, I’m happy Sal is giving her advices♡.
I doubt Dorothy or Amber did that, either
Armpit farts! All the fun, half the smell!
In panel 3 Becky looks like a saber-toothed tiger. Dina would be pleased.
lol! i can sort of see it if i squint really hard. does Dina have any interest in cenozoic creatures though?
Only as they relate to alternative cenozoic dinosaurs.
https://speculativeevolution.fandom.com/wiki/The_New_Dinosaurs:_An_Alternative_Evolution#Dinosaurs
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Why did the first quote to jump at my eyes have to be, “a furry hadrosaur”? Sure it was written in 1988, and Dixon’s ability to foresee the impact of the internet is astounding, but that is just not a particular subculture venn-diagram that I was prepared to contemplate on a monday afternoon.
But, having reflected upon it, I think it’s good for Becky to know she has friends.
(science)(dinosaur costume)(sex play)
Yeah, if she’s not into doing or even learning armpit farts, she’s not the girl for me.
Now if she knows and does kneepit farts, hot damn time to go ring shopping.