Alligator
Posted on February 12, 2019 by David M Willis

209 thoughts on “Alligator”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    “hahahahaha no I wouldn’t HARVEST them”

    …

    “wait uh I mean”

    1. C.T Phipps

      I like that Walky’s reaction to her sweetness is to be creeped out rather than charmed.

      🙂

      “You remind me of Joyce and she’s a serial killer in the making.”

      1. Arawn

        Harvesting his organ… on the black market…
        Slipshine theme?

        1. abysswatcher1993

          Or Repo! the Genetic Opera homage.

        2. Needfuldoer

          “You Stole My Heart (and more)”, a Valentine’s Day Dumbing of Age pornographique by David “dude seriously do you need a hug or something” Willis

      2. Sunny

        He doesn’t look creeped out. I think he’s just joking.

    2. Deanatay

      Afer-last panel Lucy: Uh… yeah….

      *hurriedly pushes surgical tray with chloroform and surgery knives under the couch*

  2. DarkoNeko

    So they ended up being just two

    1. ValdVin

      Ergo Walky had to split up his McNuggets very little. And Lucy got him all to herself.

      A win-win.

      1. Tacos

        But Walky didn’t want to share his McNuggets though.

        1. Clif

          He enjoyed sharing them with Dorothy and he would have enjoyed sharing them with thic Dorothy Amber,

        2. ǝ snow ʍousɐ

          Excuse me, there are TWO c’s in THICC tyvm

        3. Roborat

          You tell them Amber.

  3. shadowcell

    Dumbing of Age Book 9: yeah just the last panel

    1. Clif

      DOA 9: Just the third panel.

      1. Keulen

        DoA Book 9: Was This, Um, Fun?

    2. Ob

      Book 9: … Yeah.

  4. AntJ

    Awww, this is so sweet.

    Who’s ready for emotional whiplash?

    1. Kyrik Michalowski

      I’m definitely not, which means it must be just around the corner.

      1. Doctor_Who

        Sometimes I really dread checking my inbox at midnight. It’s like “Haha, that was funny, ooh, tomorrow’s strip yay patreon drama noooo.”

    2. Diner Kinetic

      Let’s be real sunset in this comic basically just means we’re about to see the world implode; between Amber and Sal’s last two evenings I was visibly alarmed to see it was now dark out because that means the _monsters_ are coming.

      By which I mean maybe Billie?

      1. AntJ

        “Hey Lucy, you said you were trying to get Billie to come, and maybe Ruth too. Where are they?”
        *Billie walks in hungover*
        “Hey Billie, where’s your girlfriend?”
        *silent panel*
        *cut to shot of Ruth somewhere else, possibly drinking alcohol*

        1. mrnoidea

          Fuck, I can see that happening.

        2. Norah

          Oh shit, I hope not.

        3. Sunny

          She wouldn’t be hung over yet, hangovers are an activity for the day after.

      2. Chaucer59

        In this strip, if you say “monster,” I think, “Amber’s POS Dad.”

    3. Woomy

      I’m expecting it like two comics from now

    4. Keulen

      This is definitely sweet, so I’m betting the next couple strips will be something sad involving Billie and Ruth’s fight.

  5. Piotr W

    “Damn! How did you guess?!?”

    *the sound of Lucy pulling out scalpels*

    1. Yumi

      Have you seen the way Walky takes care of himself? I’m sure there are better quality organs around somewhere. Not Billie’s.

      1. Dean

        Billie called dibs on the liver.

        1. Deanatay

          “So… there’s a DEMAND for them…!”

      2. Needfuldoer

        That just means Walky’s organs have been tested under load, so you know they’re good. They’re not “used”, they’re “certified pre-owned”!

  6. Icalasari

    Oh she certainly wants to ‘harvest’ ONE organ in particular…

    1. Catman

      Yikes

      1. C.T Phipps

        Yep. The heart!

        🙂

        1. Catman

          He needs that to live!

    2. Dana

      Glad I scanned the comments before saying something along those lines myself.

      1. ǝ snow ʍousɐ

        Same!

  7. Zolota

    That sixth panel genuinely hurts, and it’s hard to pin down the exact reason at first viewing.

    1. AntJ

      Lucy isn’t used to being solitary.

      But a genuine connection with one person (especially someone like Walky who is really good with emotions) is far better than many superficial connections with the rest of the people on her floor.

      1. BigDogLittleCat

        Walky? “really good with emotions”? Which Walky is this?

        1. BBCC

          Yeah, Walky’s historical response to difficult emotions has been to tune them out, by his own admission: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/03-answers-in-hennessy/to-navigate/

        2. AntJ

          He can’t manage his OWN but he has serious skill at being the supportive boyfriend. He de-stressed Dorothy and defused Amber, now he’s being there for Lucy when the world is deserting her.

        3. BBCC

          Walky’s been a pretty great boyfriend thus far, yeah (though, tbf, nobody knows the extent of Amber’s problems). He does have a problem with trouble, but it’s also true that sometimes supporting family and supporting dates are very different matters. (Especially when the problem is you are finally, finally noticing your parents are bigoted, abusive tools).

      2. Emperor Norton II

        OK, while “good with emotions” may not be exactly the phrase you’re looking for, I will say that Walky does care a lot for his girlfriends; whenever he just gets past his own toxic upbringing.

        “I just want you to be able to everythin’ you wanna do.” is how it finally ended with Dorothy. And that is probably my favourite Walky moment ever, in all its sadness.

        The phrase goes “If you love someone, set them free.” How many stories do we ever see where that actually happens, as opposed to “if you love someone, pursue them forever and ever”. Not very often.

        And this one went one step further, because the saying (and thus the stories) often continues with how they will/should then come back on their own accord. This time, that is not likely to happen. Walky certainly doesn’t expect it to happen. And he said it anyway. He truly and fully meant those words.

        Walky has a lot of growth to do in many areas… But strip away his eternal “I’ll laugh this off” attitude, and you’ll find that he does care about other people. Very deeply.

        1. thejeff

          One of the things I really love about this comic is that so many characters are mostly defined by their surface defense mechanisms, but you get just enough glimpses past that to what’s really underneath. If you’re paying attention, that is.
          If you’re not it’s easy to just write them off based on the surface.

        2. Emperor Norton II

          Cerberus taught me to look for what’s underneath.

      3. Zee

        My guess is that Lucy is used to being solitary. Like, too used to it. I’m guessing she was lonely in highschool and that’s why she’s no pushy to make friends now

        1. Emily

          Yeah, that’s definitely my read on her too. Her wariness about Billie’s cheerleader status gives me the impression she had a pretty not great time at high school and “cool” kids had a hand in it.

  8. Mr D

    OH NO MY ORGANS

    1. Deanatay

      *awakens in bathtub full of ice*

    2. Roborat

      Oh no, my cabbages!

  9. AnvilPro

    I want Amber x Walky, but these two seem really good for each other too!

    1. AntJ

      Honestly Walky seems cute with nearly everybody. He’s just naturally good at being a supportive boyfriend, and soooo many characters need a person like that in their life

      1. Rex Vivat

        …maybe not with Sal, tho.

        1. AntJ

          TWINCEST

        2. Catman

          FOLGERS COFFEE INTENSIFIES

      2. torrent29

        Walky x Mary?

        1. adjudicus

          *inhuman screeching noises*

  10. Dr T

    She might be interested in at least one organ.

    1. Sunny

      The liver?

      1. Roborat

        Hammond.

  11. Stephen Bierce

    I guess after FOTN they saw Back to the Future (1) and Robocop (1)?
    *plays Huey Lewis & The News’ “Back In Time” on the hacked Muzak*

  12. Screwball

    So with no Billie, no one else showed up? If she wasn’t interested in him, she would have declared the night a disaster…

    Lucky bugger…

    1. Rex Vivat

      There’s still time for her to declare it a disaster. Wally thinks she seems nice, but I don’t think he’s attracted to her.

    2. Marsh Maryrose

      The big question is: where is Billie? And if they aren’t with Billie, where are her 3 Fangirls?

  13. Yumi

    Aw, they took my freakin’ kidney!

    1. mrnoidea

      Candy Mountain, Charlie!

      1. StClair

        blllllp!

    2. Wizard

      No big, you still have the other one, don’t you?

      1. Yumi

        As much as this was just a reference to a video I loved in middle school, fun fact about me: I might only have one kidney! I’m not sure! And, like, how many people who have yet to have kidney problems are truly aware of how many kidneys they have?

        1. Yumi

          In my case, I had a congenital cyst that generally develops around the same time as the kidneys and may result in only one kidney happening, but not necessarily. So like. Who knows.

        2. Emperor Norton II

          Hardly a week goes by when I don’t learn something about the human body that makes me think that life truly runs along on a catastrophe curve.

        3. Marsh Maryrose

          This caused me to ponder. I’ve always assumed I have two kidneys, but it’s not like I ever made a point of verifying that. As you say, who knows?

        4. Catman

          I have one kidney and one portal to the deepest pits of hell.

          You might be wondering how I found out about this biological abnormality.

          Tennis.

        5. Khno

          but, but, but… don’t you get like physicians systematically checking for that in utero, at birth, three times as a baby, twice as a toddler, and then like every three years during school?
          Am I really in a communist country because not only healthcare is almost free but also mandatory until adulthood?

        6. BBCC

          I dunno about kidneys, but my parents were told I had a heart condition not long after I was born because of things like check ups.

        7. Yumi

          In utero I could see it coming up, but maybe it just didn’t, or it was hard to tell? But after that, definitely not to mine or my parents’ recollection. If I have one kidney, it’s doing the job well enough not to cause me any issues, so there hasn’t been a ton of reason to check post-birth. I also didn’t find out this was a thing until I was 22 and had the (by that time very large) cyst removed, and a doctor was like, “By the way, sometimes when this happens, you only have one kidney. Crazy, right?”

        8. Roborat

          Seems to me that would have been a good time for them to check and verify the situation, don’t you think?

        9. Yumi

          If you mean during the surgery, they didn’t have to cut me open for it, and the ultrasounds and stuff leading up to it were focused lower than where the kidneys would be. I did want to be like, “Well…can we check on that?” But I already had the various bills from the surgery and wasn’t really feeling like any more appointments.

        10. Roborat

          Ah, that makes more sense. I thought it was a surgery, so they would have been in there anyway, so looking to verify a kidney was actually present would have been trivial.

        11. Marsh Maryrose

          I was born long before ultrasound was even available for fetal monitoring. As far as I can tell, ultrasound wasn’t routine before the 80s.

          After birth, if a baby appears to be healthy, and there’s no reason to put them through some kind of screening (x-ray, CAT scan, ultrasound, MRI), they could have one kidney and never know it, and be happy and healthy. (One kidney is all you need, assuming it’s functioning properly.)

        12. Miri

          My sister was born in ’92. Mum had scans with her because she was an ‘older mother’ at 34. She didn’t get them with my brother (’82) or me (’84).

          Blood flow to kidneys was one of the things they checked in utero with my two bubs (’14) and (’17) as part of the routine scans.

        13. woobie

          No. Kidneys and cysts look alike, and soft tissue is not easy to differentiate generally, and the best way involves maybe 14 grays of exposure. If you show no symptoms, nobody will look.
          t. has 1<x<2 kidneys now.

        14. chalcara

          I have two and a half! One of my kidneys split during fetal development and isn‘t quite working right. Never wouldn‘t known if it hadn‘t been prone to infections.

  14. DailyBrad

    Interesting. I highly look forward to what happens next. I’m having trouble reading Lucy’s feelings in panel 6. Is she feeling bittersweet about it being just them? Is it her reflecting on this not being the only time she’s been stuck watching movies alone?

    1. Yumi

      I could see it being like, she’s reflecting on how she’s so used to being alone (if she was, pre-college) that even the group activity she had planned was a “solitary activity” and she hadn’t even realized it.

      Or, like, a million other things. She’s looking down at the tools she’s gonna use to cut Walky open. I don’t know.

    2. Oz

      I assume it has something to do with her massive insecurity towards people liking her (compounded by every interaction she had with Malaya and Billie) and Walky’s answer being less “being here with you was nice” and more “watching movies alone is nice”

  15. Deadjolras

    You’ve finally done it, comments section: you pointed out how slow time passes in the strip so many times that now Willis has skipped almost an entire day! Are you happy? Is this what you wanted?

    (The above paragraph was made entirely in jest.)

    1. Yumi

      At currently 69 (nice) strips, this is a shorter day than average, though there is some variance. My point being, we could be close to the end of the day, but there’s still time for shit to go down.

      1. AntJ

        Willis stated that this storyline runs through March 3.

        1. Yumi

          Get out of here with your facts.

          (No, but really, good to know.)

    2. DailyBrad

      Forest Wing is in a different timezone (citation needed)

    3. Emily

      Yes.

  16. BBCC

    Well, not for the black market anyway. 😉

  17. Reltzik

    Walky, she’s not after your vital organs. She’s trying to sap your precious bodily fluids. (Well, some of them at least.)

    1. Geneseepaws

      Skeksies not hurt Gelflings, Skeksies LOVE Gelflings. We just want your vital essence!

      1. Roborat

        Well, that was a reference I was not expecting.

  18. Yumi

    Good news for Lucy: This is the 69th strip of this chapter.

    1. BBCC

      If I know anything about Willis based off his comic, it is 100% intentional.

      1. ǝ snow ʍousɐ

        Lucy and Walky perform a–no, actually, they don’t, that would be absolutely bonkers

  19. MatthewTheLucky

    Not his organs! He needs those to live!

    1. Cholma

      But his femurs are already spoken for! (Ruth called “dibs” on the entire building)

  20. lilyliv --> ian livs

    Idk, you wouldn’t have mentioned it if it hadn’t at least crossed your mind, Walky.

  21. stoodmuffin

    Omg, if this nerd ass get’s laid AGAIN, like. YOU NEED TO SORT OUT YOUR DRAMA BEFORE YOU MOVE ON TO THE NEXT BOO, WALKY

    1. drs

      The crisis when Joe discovers Walky is getting laid more than he is.

      1. Sunny

        So far we have 2 confirmed sexual partners for Walky and 2 confirmed for Joe. The question becomes what we’re going to do about potential-but-not-confirmed sexual partners, of which Joe has at least one, and about sexual partners who didn’t show up in the story because it all took place off-panel.

        So, in short, I don’t think Walky’s getting laid more than Joe.

        1. thejeff

          Three confirmed for Joe (Roz, Penny & Malaya). I suspect there weren’t any others and it was all just bluster, but it’s possible.

          Depending on what counts, only one for Walky. He made out with Amber, but there’s no indication it went farther than that.

          Of course, if you go from “number of sexual partners” to “number of times having sex”, Walky almost certainly wins. Sex seemed to be a pretty regular thing with Walky and Dorothy.
          Which matches my college experience: The boring people who paired off into couples had a lot more sex than the supposed studs who were trying to score with different girls every party.

        2. Sunny

          Oh yeah, I forgot Penny.

          Also, wasn’t there some whisper of Willis that Joe and Roz had sex multiple times? Not saying you’re wrong (you’re probably right), but just saying.

        3. thejeff

          A couple of times at least. The sex tape and the slipshine. Implied others. When Roz couldn’t find someone she liked better. Heavily implied to have ended sometime before the list came out as Roz got tired of his shit.

        4. drs

          “So, in short, I don’t think Walky’s getting laid more than Joe.”

          Over the course of their lives, or even college careers (all two months), no. *Right now*, maybe.

      2. Roborat

        I am more interested in Billie’s reaction when she walks in on them.

    2. Chris Phoenix

      I have trouble thinking of Walky as having drama. I mean, sure he accidentally started dating the person who stabbed his twin, but that kind of wasn’t his fault? And he seems to be handling it in a pretty low-drama way, all things considered. (I haven’t forgotten his lurking outside Sal’s door, but that seems more like semi-deliberate slapstick than real drama.)

      Drama around him doesn’t seem to change who he is or how he behaves. He’s got a lot of integrity that way. “You need to sort out your drama” reads to me like “You need to stop reacting in a bad and unusual way to this thing that’s thrown you off-center.” But Walky isn’t off-center.

      So, aside from making a simple decision about Amber (and hopefully communicating it to her) I don’t really see that Walky needs to do any changing before getting together with Lucy … if that’s going to happen, which somehow I feel like it won’t.

      1. Norah

        He’s not handling his problems with his math class very well. But I don’t think I’d call that drama, exactly.

      2. Emily

        I think of it more “you need to get a handle on all of the shit going on in your life and that requires your full attention right now.” Walky has drama heading his way he’s not even aware of (Amber changing his grades). Dude’s got a lot going on and he needs to buckle down and deal with it instead of finding distractions.

    3. Khno

      well you need to sort your drama before having a relationship, if you can, but I don’t see why it would stop you from getting laid…

  22. JA

    During butchering, you want to keep the animal calm (distraction by feeding for example) because adrenaline from fear while dying will mean tough meat. Walky will be…most tender.

    1. Chris Phoenix

      Um – I hope you keep the animal calm during slaughter (and before), not during butchering. During butchering it should be dead.

      …At least, if you’re human, the food should be dead. Most predators don’t seem to care much about including prey in their circle of sympathy.

      1. Khno

        You should see the 60’s documentary “The Pig” of Jean Eustache. It’s a 50 minute flick about old school peasants butchering a pig and making food out of it. At the start the pig is still alive.

    2. Mister Sparkle

      > you want to keep the animal calm (distraction by feeding for example)

      But that would mean Costco is… Oh. Oh my god.

  23. William Leonard Reese Jr.

    *tilts head* . . . I can’t tell if Walky is being purposely dense or if he really is just that naturally dense. Also I think I only half support this ship. I want Lucy to be happy mind. . . but then again it is WALKY we are talking about and his emotional depth. . .is not the most evolved.

    Hell I think that Joe before his relapse might have actually had more emotional maturity if not mental and sexual.

    1. Emperor Norton II

      I saw the following tweet not long ago (but did not make it):

      Me: I am so dense when it comes to girls being interested in me, they can smack me on the back of my head to show they like me, and I won’t have a clue.

      Lady friend: *smacks me on the back of my head*

      Me: Hey, what the hell did you do that for?!?!

      1. Clif

        Yeah, I don’t so much see this as Walky being dense so much as Walky making an inane comment to break the conversational ice.

    2. Keulen

      Some guys really are so dense that they’ll miss even the most blatant hints that a girl likes them.

  24. C.T Phipps

    I hate this ship on every conceivable level. It’s like Littlefinger and Sansa to me.

    1. BBCC

      As someone who also hates Littlefinger/Sansa on every conceivable level, I gotta say – goddamn, I underestimated your hate for this ship. That’s some intense ship hate. 😛

      1. King Daniel

        Been a little while since I read the books (and I dropped the show after, like, Season 3), but if your hate for that ship matches mine for Tauradonna…

    2. DailyBrad

      So, like, Lucy thought Walky’s dad was super hot or something?

      1. Zatar

        “Nerd stuff isn’t a pit. Nerd stuff is a ladder.”

    3. Emily

      I mean I hate it a whole lot but not the same amount as I hate a grown man preying on a traumatized child.

    4. Tan

      Sounds like how I felt about Walky and Amber from start to (hopefully*) finish

      (*: I dread we have not actually seen the last of it)

      As for this one, I’m not enthused, but it does not have me screaming internally and/or externally.

    5. Eyebrow

      What, Lucy and Walky? I think it’s kinda detached. Walky, at least, is not the slightest bit interested, and he’s too preoccupied with his other lady troubles to even get his mack on.

      I have this vision of the two of them going to bed together and then wondering what they’re doing there, and if it’s nice.

    6. Roborat

      I initially read this as Littlefoot, and I was very, very confused.

  25. Bobcat

    I mean, Walky’s not wrong, Blancmange music videos were indeed kind of creepy.

  26. C.T Phipps

    Walky: I’m glad after two breakups that I can just sit back and enjoy a movie with someone I’m not attracted to.

    1. DailyBrad

      He hasn’t really given any indication one way or another he’s thought of her in that way, but we also don’t know that he never will. He’d met Amber before they got to smooching, and he didn’t immediately go ga-ga for her like he did Dorothy.

  27. Opus the Poet

    I don’t think she wanted all his organs, and only to borrow the one she wanted.

    1. Opus the Poet

      And Iclasari ninja’d me.

  28. sunflowerofice

    Hmmmm you would only find a cluster of chicken nuggets no actual organs.

  29. foducool

    nah dude, your organs are safe, SHE WANTS YOU WHOLE!

  30. Tacos

    No you don’t want his organs. Have you seen his diet? His organs probably aren’t good quality.

  31. JessWitt

    Oh the conclusions Walky’s mind formulates for possible ulterior motives.

  32. Bon

    These two really don’t seem to have much chemistry to me. I can’t really find myself rooting for her and him to get together.

    1. BenRG

      Lucy is sweet in many ways. I hope the fact that Walky isn’t interested in her doesn’t break her heart too badly!

    2. Geneseepaws

      I take Lucy and Walkie to be the start of something real, possibly lasting. Start slowly make a bonfire. Cup of gasoline on a pile of sticks –and once the gas is gone, it goes out.

  33. Bagge

    Oh no! What if Lucy is on the run from the cops and travels town to town to murder way macho dudes and stealing their shirts for her trophy wall?

    http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/02-guess-whos-coming-to-galassos/freshstart/

    1. BBCC

      You can’t prove anything! 😛

      What’re you anyways, a cop? 😛

      1. Clif

        Also, experts (Dorothy/Danny) have determined that if she is murdering macho dudes, Walky is safe.

        1. Emperor Norton II

          What if Walky is Lucy’s idea of a macho dude?

        2. Delicious Taffy

          What if Walky is Lucy’s idea?

        3. Emperor Norton II

          What if Walky is?

        4. Amazi-Stool

          Perfect gravatar for this comment!

        5. Bagge

          I’m not sure either of those two are what I’d like to call experts on the subject.

  34. Someguywithakatana

    It’s be real nice if walkthrough were just like “hey I’ve had two breakups in the span of a week and I’m really not emotionally in a spot to entertain the thought of a new relationship, because I think I’m one bad relationship away from mental implosion” and then Lucy was like “Oh hey that is understandable. As much as I think you are fuckable, because I am a good person, let me back off but also be friendly and supportive and just help you through this difficult time, out of genuinely selfless motivations, because I just like you as a person.

    I don’t think that’s what’s gonna happen, because they are stupid college kids. But, you know, it’d be nice.

    1. Someguywithakatana

      My phone turned walky into walkthrough

      1. C.

        Walkthrough is a good nickname.

    2. Catman

      As a stupid college kid, I feel confident in saying that that response is more common than you would think, but less common than you’d hope

    3. Tan

      That conversation exactly will happen.

      And then they’ll fuck.

    4. Farmer_10

      Well, the title of the comic isn’t “Smart and Emotionally healthy decisions of Age”.

  35. abysswatcher1993

    Walky would be surprised when Lucy turns out to be a Repoman working for Roti Largo and his murderous children.

    Also, it’s sad that Lucy was left alone by her supposed friends. I hate the term sheeple for it’s right wing implications, but her friends seem like sheep. Again, that term is offensive to both people and sheep.

    1. PB

      “It’s a thankless job, but somebody’s got to do it!”

      … shit you’re right, Lucy COULD be a Repoman.

      1. abysswatcher1993

        The Anti Lucy would have a good evil singing voice.

  36. PB

    Poor Lucy. I can’t believe everyone ditched her like that. But this is still really cute.

    1. DailyBrad

      None of her “friends” seemed terribly reliable, to be honest. You know your wing’s probably not great when you try to reach out to friggin MALAYA and BILLIE to talk to.

    2. chalcara

      Hobestly, I don‘t think what Lucy thinks of her friends EVER were her friends.

      From what I‘ve seen the relationship basically consisted out of lucy mistaking their superfluous politeness for friendship. And Lucy ran after them and the more clingy she got, the less they wanted to do with her.

      But since polite people don‘t yell at their roommates and Lucy’s a bit desperate, she missed all the „nope, I‘m just cordial, don‘t WANT a friendship“ signals from the others.

      1. C.T Phipps

        Honestly, it may also simply be Lucy is showing a movie no one wants to see.

        1. Emily

          It was already established that the deciding factor for those weirdo sheeple was whether or not Billie was going to be there.

        2. C.T Phipps

          Billie is a lot of fun! Mature and CHEERLEADERY.

          🙂

        3. Roger

          What comic have you been reading dude

  37. BenRG

    Things are always either the best-case or worst-case scenario with you, aren’t they Walky?

  38. ZerglingOne

    Oh Walky. There’s definitely one “organ” she wants to harvest.

    1. Agemegos

      Sustainably!

      1. Zaxares

        And repeatably!

  39. Clif

    Dang. I was hoping Walky would have gotten a text.

  40. Mr. Random

    I hear that is a common concern with 20 year old college students in Indiana.

  41. BenRG

    Here’s a question: Is it a date if only one of the participants thinks of it as a date? 😉

    1. Delicious Taffy

      No, it’s an afternoon with Slender Man.

    2. Charlotte

      No, it’s not.

    3. BBCC

      I suppose it’d depend which one you asked. 😉

      Seriously though, no.

      1. thejeff

        I’ve had a couple dates that were only so in retrospect. 🙂

    4. DailyBrad

      I don’t think Lucy thinks it’s a date. She is crushing on him, but I think even she would know better than to think something is happening yet.

  42. CoreBrute

    As someone whose been on one of those, the answer is no. No it is not. *cry*

  43. BenRG

    It also occurs to me that Billie isn’t around. I do hope that she hasn’t reacted to the incident with Ruth by doing something foolish.

    1. Eldritch Gentleman

      Honestly doing something foolish (usually involving alcohol) seems like Billie’s standard course of action.

  44. FacelessDeviant

    Uh oh Walky. Its thinking like that that could end up costing you a kidney.

  45. torrent29

    Its sweet, but it also seems kind of sad. Lucy seems to be a very nice character, which is kind of unlike any one else so far.

    1. Charlotte

      Yeah, it is really sad. Lucy needs to find some normal people to be friends with, quickly. (No, not Walky.)

    2. Makkabee

      There are a lot of nice characters. Dina’s a sweety, Dorothy is always trying to make the world a better place, Jacob’s consistently kind and thoughtful, etc.

    3. Geneseepaws

      Yeah, Lucy is the anti-Joyce. Shy, and sort of respectful, sort of, and sweet.

  46. Josh Spicer

    Well, I mean…you’re not WRONG…

  47. Angelicfiend

    darn it Willis! Stop making me ship everyone with Walky!!!

    1. Roborat

      I said this a while ago, this is going to turn into a harem manga.

  48. Roger

    This is just kinda sad tbh

    1. Emily

      Most of the strips with Lucy are kinda sad.

  49. Makkabee

    Poor naive Walky. I’ll miss him. Except for the spleen.

  50. C.T Phipps

    So, Lucy just casually moves in on Walky after his breakup. Not cool. Not cool at all.

    1. Emily

      So did Amber, and Walky did the same with Dorothy after her breakup with Danny. Also, I’m not much for the idea of relationships requiring a mourning period especially not the like 2 day one Walky had with Amber (assuming that one is even over).

      1. C.T Phipps

        Yes and they got all manner of crap for it.

        1. Emily

          And it was kind of silly then too.

    2. thejeff

      It’s so casual that Walky hasn’t even noticed.

      I mean, I guess she’s putting herself out there, but she’s hardly doing anything about it.

    3. Deadjolras

      Can you believe she said “yeah” three times and she actually went as far as asking if he had fun watching a movie? The nerve, I tell you!

  51. Ziggy

    Well, there is a particular part of you that she is interested in “harvesting”. Well, more like “milking”. But you have been with Dorothy enough times to know this

  52. nlips

    Walky gonna get laaaaid.

    3 women in one week though. There’s gonna be drama.

  53. Amazi-Stool

    Girls saying “Yeah”. It’s a trope now!

  54. Luna

    I’m extremely neutral about these two as a ship, but if she and Walky could just be fun nerd friends, I think that’d be really great. Lucy’s obviously pretty starved for reliable friendships, and I think she’d ultimately enjoy it more than getting mired in Walky’s romance problems.

    1. Axel

      I’m fairly neutral about it as a friendship to but yeah, it would be better for both of them and also I don’t want it to be a relationship just because they’re attracted to each other’s gender and happened to meet while single.

  55. Su Xing

    I think it could be fun to see Lucy mired in Walky’s romance problems as long as she’s not one of them. They could both use a kind friend with whom they don’t already have complicated ties and maybe they could end up supporting each other’s growth in a good way. I think they could learn from each other in other ways, too, like Walky gets a good look at what it looks like to put real effort into making friends instead of just waiting for them basically to fall in your lap and Lucy could see what it’s like to have a bit more…chill, I guess?

  56. Ragingagnostic

    THAT was a concern for him?

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