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Darker
Posted on May 9, 2012 by David M Willis

99 thoughts on “Darker”

  1. Jen Aside

    Just talk to Mike, Danno!

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      But can Amazi-Girl defeat Mike?

      1. lord of dance

        she might not have to, i don’t think i’ve ever seen them both in the same strip

        1. ryan

          they did a marvel team-up in shortpacked! to fight the giant honey bun, but that of course is in an alternate reality where mike thinks amazi-girl is amber.

          http://www.shortpacked.com/2009/comic/book-10/01-this-man-this-manhattan/amazigirl/

        2. Grarl

          Mike is Amazi-Girl! Or maybe he and Sal trade off.

      2. Maxion

        Amazi-girl is immune to criticism. Mike’s main weapon.

  2. Aizat

    Jump of a building, Danny. That’s how Lois Lane does it.

    1. Leorale

      and in that Shortpacked comic with young TV Clark Kent who never gets superpowers…

      1. Cronomatt

        Oh that Clark Kent has superpowers…he just barely ever uses them.

        Cause, y’know, who wants to see Clark Kent actually using his super powers as a superhero?

  3. Tricia

    Where’s Mike when you need him?

  4. Wonder Wig

    Is Danny so in love that… he’s seeing the world through rose-colored glasses?

    1. SlenderTroll

      I think it’s supposed to be… sunset? So there’s pinkish light?

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      If this was a sci-fi series, the world would have a greener tint.

  5. Leorale

    Can we just get the ‘faaaace’ out of our systems real quick?

    1. SlenderTroll

      FAAAAAAAAAACE.

      There, that did it.

    2. Jetstream

      faaaace with a penis for a nickel inside your mom with blah blah I can’t remember the rest of them…

      1. Usayasha

        Femurs, kneecaps, need to live, and… darnit, you’re right, we’re still missing a few.

        1. Blob Marley

          Perverse.
          Sexual.
          Lust.

        2. Blob Marley

          Wait… perverse journalistic lust? :3

        3. I.care.0

          For Science?

        4. MrSmiley

          for Journalistic Science!!

        5. Kryss LaBryn

          DAMN YOU WILLIS and your Journalistic Science!

          –I think that’s the lot now…

        6. Izzy

          Don’t worry, guys. I’m here…butts

        7. Slagathor

          Butts disease

        8. Slagathor

          Butts disease

  6. ArkhamTexan

    I want to punch him in the face, but then Amazi-Girl would show up and punch me in the face…

    1. Blob Marley

      Kinkyyyyyy… I like it!

    2. wererat

      where’s mike when you need him?

      1. Jacob

        Being where you’d rather he wasn’t.

  7. iSaidCandleja-

    Don’t you need a giant search light with the letter “A” on it?

    1. Kryss LaBryn

      Giant search light with a Fisher-Price corn popper on it, I think.

  8. Paki

    Danny, I’m about to punch you in the face.

  9. Yotomoe

    Danny’s chances would increase if he became some manner of news executive.

  10. NCP19

    Help help! I’m being repressed!

    1. TacosForever

      Bloody peasant!!

      1. Roborat

        Oh, what a giveaway! Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That’s what I’m on about! Did you see him repressing me? You saw him, Didn’t you?

  11. T Campbell

    MAN! This ALMOST made me stop wanting to punch Danny in the face!

    I can’t in good conscience wish harm on Danny. He’s me at fifteen. But still, the face. It’s like a punch magnet.

    1. Yotomoe

      So Danny wanting to be punched in the face is counter productive?

      1. Rognik

        You very rarely get what you want in drama. The one time you want to get hit, you never can. As soon as you give up, you’re surrounded by thugs.

    2. Random832

      He’s you at fifteen? I don’t think he’s fifteen.

      1. Blob Marley

        I don’t think he’s really matured as far as he should have, so it seems even to me.

    3. Heavensrun

      As has been pointed out, if he’s you at fifteen, it’s worth mentioning he has to be almost twenty.

      1. Leorale

        He’s a really, really young nineteen.

  12. Yotomoe

    Someone needs to save Danny from all those misguided hopes crashing all around him.

  13. mechaqua

    Subtlety is overrated.

  14. Uniqueantique

    Danny couldn’t attract Amazi-Girl if Godzilla was standing on him. Not after he told her alter ego he was not interested in her, he was going to be hanging around with Amazi-girl from now on. Oh wait, Amazi-girl is the alter ego…anyway…as said, try calling up Godzilla and see what happens Danny boy.

    1. Zap Rowsdower

      Amber being Amazi-Girl? Now you’re just being silly.

      1. Rognik

        Who said anything about Amber being Amazi-Girl? Besides, it’s clearly Joe’s alter-ego.

        1. Zap Rowsdower

          Well, Amber IS the only one he’s told on-panel so far, IIRC.

        2. Sodomuffin

          Huh? I thought Sal’s motorcylce was Amazi-girl.

        3. Lieutenant Dan

          Sal’s motorcycle is clearly Spider-Car.

        4. TacosForever

          And SAL is Amazi-Girl. They’re a team. Duh.

    2. Blob Marley

      Has Danny even talked to Sal?

    3. GenericScreenName101

      Weird? I didn’t see Dina at lunch but that doesn’t mean that see wasn’t there I guess.

      1. Rognik

        Dina is the invisible girl. She’s been in nearly every strip so far, but she’s spent most of her time behind a door or a reasonable facsimile.

  15. moonracer

    Is that Faz’s Hispanic half brother?

    1. Wack'd

      Nope. It’s Bryan and Jim, from Squad 135!

      …You remember them, right?

      …Jim with the Tasmanian Devil routine? “I hope this is one of those ceiling fan things and not one of those airplane propeller things?”

      And Bryan? Who…um….huh. Did he do anything memorable? No? Then why did I recognize him on sight? He was always hanging around Daisy. That was it. He was her #2 or whatever.

      How does it feel, Willis, to have a fan as obsessed with your work as you are about other peoples?

      (Honestly I had to look up Bryan.)

  16. John Madden

    Doing it wrong, he is.

  17. Gordon

    The backgrounds look GREAT here. And I’m not just saying that because I took your photo reference. 🙂

  18. Locke

    So THAT’s why Louis Lane always got into really stupid and dangerous situations. She wasn’t dumb, she was just cravin’ some Superlovin’.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Louis Lane? 😛

      1. Bekah

        Lois Lane’s cousin from Gotham. Also had a thing for Superman. Went by Louis until the operation, then switched to Louise.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          DC sure does some strange storylines.

        2. Hiredg00n

          and here I thought Louis Lane was from Earth 63, where all the genders of the characters are reversed (not a real alternate Earth in DC, but it’d be funny if they went there)

  19. Aizat

    WHY WOULD I PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE, STRANGER?

  20. Krashthemystro

    If I was Amazi-Girl I’d let his ass get punched.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Ass-punching is a whole different kink.

  21. eber

    I think in the first panel, “I’d” should be “I’ve.” “I’d” sounds weird.

    1. David

      “I don’t think I had appreciated how hard…” is better English, I feel.

      1. Bekah

        The “had” isn’t necessary, but at least it has tense agreement.

        1. Blob Marley

          You’re right. That agreement needs a massage.

        2. LeaLeonis

          Funny, I mostly stumbled over the term “appreciated”. In this context I would have expected it to be “anticipated”, “apprehended” or something. “Appreciated” isn’t wrong, grammatically, it just sounds weird because it’s rarely used the way it’s used here… I think.

        3. Blob Marley

          It’s definitely not as common as “anticipated,” you’re right.

      2. Heavensrun

        Besides, proper english is not necessary in dialogue unless the person speaking is someone who would be meticulous about how they put sentences together.

  22. KresyAntics

    desperation is not attractive, it is replusive…Danny school is where you are supposed to grow, not shrink into manhood.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      You only way I know of where you can shrink into manhood is a cold swimming pool.

      1. Bekah

        #ThingsILearnedFromSeinfeld

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Seinfeld did it before the Simpsons?

          Holy Crap!

        2. Tucker

          Soup Nazi’s too!

        3. KresyAntics

          Bags full of ice can cause the same effect. Just ask all of the vicitims of Yuki…. TENTACLES!!!

          http://www.menagea3.net/cast.html

    2. Tenn

      Well, it’s called Dumbing of Age, so I guess Danny is doing it right. 🙂

  23. Blob Marley

    Oh, Danny boy, the punch the punch is caaalliiiiiing!

    1. L

      From fist to fist and down the blackened eye!

  24. Rachel

    And suddenly Mike, with his desire to always punch people in the face, arrives to punch Danny…

    1. Maycroft

      Perfect symbiosis.

  25. Historyman68

    I won’t lie, my first reaction was “Troy and Abed in the comic!”

    1. Wack'd

      Jim and Bryan didn’t really have any personality that I could recall. All the background SEMME folks were kinda generically snarky and pissy. I wouldn’t mind them becoming this comic’s Troy and Abed.

  26. Crumplepunch

    What a coincidence, Danny.

    I was thinking the exact opposite.

  27. Aizat

    Well Danny, you can go one of two ways. One, act like Lois Lane or two, be the villain.

  28. Narcotic

    Danny will because a super-villan, the Dan-man, just to attract amaizi-girl attentions. Fuck yeah. :3

    1. begbert2

      It wouldn’t be the first time somebody got into supervilliany that way – see My Super Ex-Girlfriend.

  29. madd

    Is it wrong to wish that somebody would? Just askin’ … you know … for a friend!

  30. iggy_rock

    So which one is Bryan and which one is Jim!? I find myself oddly curious. Why couldn’t you be more stereotypical and named them B. Dawg and Jose?

    1. David

      Well frankly, Jim isn’t Jose because he’s part Native American, not Hispanic.

      1. Heavensrun

        It amuses me greatly that you’ve considered this.

      2. Rognik

        At least it does identify who is which.

    2. Jason

      I’m just excited to see new, presumably recurring characters.

  31. Kryss LaBryn

    Wow. That’s some really nice layouts there with the panels. Good work.

    Uh, I mean, Mike will punch him in the FAAAACE for a nickel. With his penis. Or something.

  32. DragoonChris

    Maybe he should ask Lois Lane to have the abiltiy of “always having trouble follows you”

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