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Fallback
Posted on May 16, 2012 by David M Willis

115 thoughts on “Fallback”

  1. izzy

    …wow

  2. Yotomoe

    Wow…Danny is reaaaally good at talking girls out of being into him…

    1. G.G.

      idk if you know this. but that is not a skill.

      that is the harsh reality of some men on this planet.
      Not every man know what to say when and even the best slips up and falls on his face. Women, y u so complicated!

      1. David Burnward

        women aren’t complicated at all, follow these simple steps:
        1: Be honest (about how you feel)
        2: lie your ass off (about what you want)
        3: Treat them like a goddess (but don’t spoil them)
        4: ask them out
        in that order

        1. Echidnae

          Did…did you just suggest long-term friendzoning as a viable strategy to get women? Like seriously?

          The way I see it, “lying your ass off about what you want” = presenting yourself as a platonic friend when you have sexual designs = acting like, because you helped her move or whatever, she now owes you sex/a date. And it annoys every woman I know.

          Unless you are not suggesting friendzoning! Then I’m just confused.

        2. Raen

          That doesn’t seem compatible with “be honest about how you feel,” though – I figured it was more what you want out of life. Although really I took the list as a joke “be honest, lie your ass off, treat her like a goddess but don’t spoil her, and by the way, actually ask her out”; the first two parentheticals just reflect under what circumstances the contradictory bits of advice are typically given.

        3. David

          You are a frightening person.

        4. TheBenenator

          And THIS, laddies and jellyspoons, is why the divorce rate is sky-high.

        5. Narf

          Holy shit, man.

  3. NCP19

    She probably also has some pretty cool electronics and a sweet rack. Not…not that I would know…I’M NOT ANYONE YOU KNOW PERSONALLY.

    1. Yotomoe

      All I’m saying is whoever it is is probably really good in the sack and totally open to a heterosexual carnal relationship.

      1. Yusaku777

        Your right. Ultra Car is totally into car-nal relationships.

        1. Usayasha

          Sal, on the other hand, prefers motorcycles.

        2. GenericScreenName101

          And Dina has a thing for dinosaurs(maybe) and doors

        3. Khrene Cleaver

          I like how dinosaurs are the maybe in this statement.

        4. Regalli

          Well, how are we supposed to find out? They’re all extinct.

        5. Roborat

          Really? Eaten any chicken lately?

        6. Aydr

          ^That’s why they’re extinct.

        7. David Burnward

          I would date dina in a heartbeat, girls got it goin ooon

        8. Cody B

          Someone likes the submissive types.

          …or your just REALLY into dinosaurs.

  4. Plasma Mongoose

    I wonder if Amber’s going to have a very horse voice tomorrow.

    1. Leorale

      neeigh!

      1. Yotomoe

        why the long face amber?

      2. Aizat

        Looks like we have a neigh-sayer in the comments today.

        1. Yotomoe

          I’m gonna Requestrian we put these to a stop before the puns get too lame.

        2. Rocket Lobster

          Are you saying that we cantor that we shouldn’t?

        3. Plasma Mongoose

          Why is everyone trotting out the horse puns?

        4. Yotomoe

          Because they put a little hitch in my giddyup.

        5. Plasma Mongoose

          You shouldn’t look a gift-pun in its mouth.

        6. Sensedog

          Because it behooves them to do so, of course.

        7. SplashBoogie

          These comments are a night-mare

        8. Yotomoe

          I think they’re mane-ly just for fun.

        9. Plasma Mongoose

          The mane thing we need to do is stop before it gallops out of control.

        10. mechaqua

          Your right we need to keep a tight rein on these puns.

        11. Aizat

          Aw, and we’re having such a mare-ry time.

        12. Yotomoe

          I think we’ve just about ridden this as far as it will go. :et’s saddle down now.

        13. SplashBoogie

          Next person to make a horse pun is getting popped with a Colt .45

        14. Aizat

          Hey, you just made a horse pun. Granted it’s also the name of the gun but still…

        15. Plasma Mongoose

          No need for violence, we’re just fillying around.

        16. Ian

          I doubt you could throw the can far enough to reach me.

        17. Khrene Cleaver

          No, a .45 not a 40 oz! Now git! Cause Ah wouldn’t be caught dead stallion fer yah when he comes back wit that pistol!

        18. AngryBamboo

          You people are just beating a dead horse

        19. AngryBamboo

          You people are just beating a dead horse

        20. Math-yew

          Hay you guys, I think that we should rein it in. this constant jockeying for the worst pun has me equis-tioning whether we’re just stall-ing to avoid the tail end of this trail of thought. Its becoming a night-mare, and while I’m not one to nose in on anyone’s horsing around, but it’s time to be a stable influence and put this one out to pasture. You guys may cry with long faces “Neigh! We won’t let it die!” but at this point, it’s just getting my gallop.

        21. Plasma Mongoose

          @Math-yew: +5 for ya! 😀

        22. Yotomoe

          Math-yew wins forever. He’s Captain M: The Pun-Master

        23. Tualha

          Or at least severely pommeled.

        24. Sodomuffin

          I’m assuming you aren’t serious, but for the people who don’t get it, hoarse≠horse. And if you were serious, well, now you have a new word.

        25. SplashBoogie

          Not sure if serious or just foaling around…

        26. Plasma Mongoose

          I couldn’t remember how to spell hoarse, so I just saddled for the word horse instead.

        27. Black Bumblebee

          At least you ponied up, and told the truth.

        28. Kryss LaBryn

          And didn’t get her nickers in a twist abou tit.

  5. Leorale

    Hey, Danny shows a social awareness greater than that of a box of staples! Good Job Danny, it is growth!

  6. Sensedog

    …Really Danny? Really?

    1. Aizat

      WHAT?

  7. Wonder Wig

    Glad Danny didn’t take being rejected to badly.

  8. Aizat

    So, Amber is Danny’s second choice? That reminds me of Deadshot having to kill Batman and then Bruce Wayne.

  9. Wack'd

    OH MY GOD DANNY YOU ARE BLIND. THAT IS THE ONLY EXPLANATION.

    1. Jetstream

      No, no, he could just be an idiot.

      1. Thor

        What do you mean “could be”?

    2. begbert2

      Well to be fair it is sort of dark. And more importantly she mussed up her hair – how could anybody recognize that?

      …Naah. The *actual* explanation is that when he looks at Amber, all he sees are those sexy sexy glasses. Beyond that there’s a sort of vaguely Dorothy-like silhouette, but really, all he’s seeing are those hawt sexy glasses. (It’s sort of a ‘my tits are down here’ thing.)

  10. Doctor_Who

    Wow. Danny is actually worse with girls than I was at that age. It takes some doing, I can tell you.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      When you were his age, you looked like an old man.

      1. Doctor_Who

        Think that might have been a factor?

        1. Aizat

          Well, some women prefer older men.

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          Mostly elderly women.

        3. iSaidCandleja-

          Nah, it’s my observation that the older he gets the younger his companions tend to be.

  11. Math-yew

    Welp, this ship looks like its goin down. Someone get the lifeboats!

    1. Aizat

      Oh, don’t be so negative. But just in case, ready the lifeboats.

  12. SplashBoogie

    Danny…just…Jesus Christ…

    1. Aizat

      Danny’s just Jesus?

      1. Yotomoe

        That would explain how willing Danny was to take a beating without putting up a fight.

      2. mechaqua

        No Danny is not Jesus. Everyone knows Jesus works in a Toy Store in San Francisco area! 🙂

        1. Aizat

          Different timeline, remember?

        2. mechaqua

          So does Jesus/Jeshua works in a department store in Milwaukee?

  13. mechaqua

    Amazi-Girl is lucky that Danny is about as dense as a neutron star, because her attempt to hide her secret identity is about as transparent as Ed Wood’s attempt to hide the fact that Bela Lugosi was dead prior to shooting Plan 9 From Outer Space.

    1. Yotomoe

      We made that joke yesterday…and I just imagined your comment as a Family guy style cutaway gag.

      1. mechaqua

        the Neutron Star or Plan Nine From Outer Space?

        1. Yotomoe

          the latter.

        2. mechaqua

          Well I was not online yesterday so how was I suppose to know that a Plan 9 joke was made.

          There should be disclaimers about these types of things.

  14. The Sound Defense

    How long did Dorothy put up with this, I wonder?

    1. Yotomoe

      I like to imagine when Danny got to much for her She put on a fake moustache and he’d spend the next few hours wondering what happened to Dorothy

      1. Kernanator

        You win.

        1. Aegon01

          Seconded. Only I imagine a Beagle Puss.

    2. Brasca1

      Well at least he’s being honest. A trait that most caped crusaders find endearing.

  15. John Madden

    And now he realizes the hole he’s dug.

  16. Henry

    This can only end in hilarity.

    1. typo

      and disaster.

      1. Aizat

        Disasrity? Hisaster? Hilaster?

        1. Yotomoe

          and just like that Yoto realized that Hitler is a foreshortened anagram of a combination of hilarity and disaster….apropriate.

  17. Thor

    You know, I don’t think either of them thought their cunning plans all the way through here.

    1. Yotomoe

      It’s been a learning experience for all of us.

  18. Romanticide

    Danny seems to have a talent to cockblock himself…

    1. Khrene Cleaver

      Its a gift really

  19. KresyAntics

    Pirate Love Ship: Fire the cannons on the Danny/Amazi-Girl ship

  20. Blob Marley

    Second fiddle to a superhero? There are worse things.

    1. Aizat

      Yeah, you could be related to a creepy dude who have the hots on you.

  21. Kernanator

    At least he admits his stupidity. That puts him above a good half the planet.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      All we need now is Billie to walk in on them and try an unmask ‘Sal’.

      1. Kernanator

        That would certainly put everything Danny’s said and done into perspective.

  22. Amazidude

    Todays shortpacked = my prediction for what’s gonna happen at the end of this

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      17 hours of non-stop sex? That’s kinda optimistic ain’t it?

      1. Yotomoe

        I mean…that’s what every guy hopes a first date’s gonna be but…come on…

  23. MR C

    uh oh, he’s about to figure it out and feel even dumber

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Or not figure it out at all and be dumber still.

  24. Christopher S

    She should tell him to buy herself flowers and chocolate and maybe Diablo 3.

  25. Zababcd

    The emphasis on the word ‘SILLY’ is not entirely justified. I choose to interpret this as foreshadowing of a Sal/Billie relationship.

    On a more relevant note, it appears that Amazi-Girl will just have to date Danny, causing him great confusion, since she just rejected him a moment ago. He will dismiss this confusing circumstance, just as he dismisses certain similarities between Amazi-Girl and Amber.

    Alternatively, Danny will burst out laughing and say “I’m joking! I knew that you and Amber were the same person all along!” At this point he will be punched in the face by Amazi-Girl (regardless of whether she is or is not Amber), in an ironic twist after his earlier conversation with Tony.

    1. ryan

      now i want a spin-off comic titled “amazi-girl’s boyfriend danny wilcox”.

  26. RickZarber

    Look at panel one and ignore the dialogue. It’s beautiful.

    1. M M

      As a Mad-style fold-in?

  27. Timinane

    Amazigirl knows she should beat him up for trying to con an innocent frat boy so that Amber can nurse him back to health…. What? Don’t look at me like that if my Heroes blurred the lines of morality any further I’d be writing a bible or something similiar.

  28. tahrey

    what are those things sticking out of her belt?

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Amazi-rangs?

      1. Yotomoe

        I would love for those to be amazi-rangs.

  29. Melvin Schlock

    Nice cape work in panel 1, Mr Willis.

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