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Familiar
Posted on March 14, 2014 by David M Willis

180 thoughts on “Familiar”

  1. Mr. Random

    OH THE UNLIKENIESS OF IT ALL!

    1. Aeyt

      DUDE! TOTALLY! hilarious complete

  2. Regalli

    AH HA! WE HAVE FOUND A LADY NOT WEARING A HOODIE DRESS!

    1. Yotomoe

      Just a Hoodie. She’s halfway there.

      1. Leorale

        –LIVIN’ ON A PRAYER!!
        (You’re dumped.)

        1. nothri

          (Screw you, that song is awesome!)

          Take my hand…

        2. IncadescentFlame

          And we’ll make it I swear.

        3. Astrum

          You give lo-ove… a bad name!

        4. NaughtbutaHoax

          COOL DRINKA WATER SHE’S A SWEET SURPRISE

        5. Parnifia the Bastard

          WHOOO-OH!

        6. Sambo

          LIIIVIN’ ON A PRA-YER!

        7. N0083rP00F

          Bwooda Bwooda Bwooda

          {yeah – my onomatopoeia is not the best }

        8. Arkantos

          Tommy used to work on the docks…

        9. Kinoko

          Union’s been on strike. He’s done on his luck. It’s toooouugh…

        10. Leorale

          http://joyceandwalky.com/d/20060114.html

  3. Caffienated

    Burn the newspapers Danny.

    1. KingMabel

      Turn them into mulch. Better for the environment.

      1. Yotomoe

        Turn them into paper airplanes. Better for the entertainment.

        1. Cephalo the Pod

          Turn them into fake documents. Better for the embezzlement.

        2. thecanvashat

          Turn them into skin better for insides yes.

        3. arank11

          The escalation of this conversation happened frighteningly quickly

        4. Jen Aside

          Turn them into ladders for better escalation

        5. JA

          Turn them into paper-mache, for the art students.

        6. I don't know what to put here.

          Turn them into admission forms, for better administration.
          Turn them into condoms, for better ejaculation.
          Turn them into high school grades, for required participation.
          Turn them into plane tickets, so I can take a vacation.
          I LIKE RHYMING.
          DON’T JUDGE ME.

        7. StClair

          Pesticides for fumigation, high-performance lubrication
          Metal roofing, water proofing, multi-purpose insulation

        8. Khantalas

          You know how much I hate that song for being nearly impossible to sing? Very very much.

        9. Hoboturtle

          Someone write this down and turn this into a song in a disney movie.

          Or a rock song, either way.

        10. rytsuryn

          what about paper-mache for the art appreciation

        11. Jen Aside

          Let it go, let it go!
          Can’t hold it back any more.
          Let it go, let it go!
          Turn away and slam the door.
          I don’t care what they’re going to say.
          Let the news rage on.
          The press never bothered me anyway.

        12. Makkabee

          Careful — if you sing that song enough, DoA cast members will start turning into lesbians.

    2. Keroshino

      And then Danny became the Pyro!

      1. Whatev

        Do you believe in magic?

        1. N0083rP00F

          In a young girls heart

    3. Jaxx Sentinel

      Turn them into paper mache’ , make a giant amazi=girl statue

      1. Jaxx Sentinel

        for my entertainment ^

  4. Kevin

    This is the first time someone has a good shot of her in the daytime, right?

    1. Kaiden

      Indeed. Amazi-Girl might need a better disguise, methinks.

  5. Idon'tcarenomore

    Ah yeah. Right

  6. Doctor_Who

    “Have you ever noticed you never see Superman and Clark Kent in the same room?”

    “DUH! Why would Superman hang out with a loser like Clark Kent?”

    1. MM

      I dunno, Bruce Wayne seems to think he’s all right.

      1. Chest Manly

        That brain dead billionaire playboy? Who cares what he thinks! He’s just an flighty idiot with no real judge of character.

        1. AgentKeen

          Well dang… took too long.

        2. MM

          I’m sure Wally West couldn’t possibly help you with that problem.

        3. mumbly_joe

          I have no idea who that is

      2. AgentKeen

        Bruce Wayne’s just a playboy. He’s a terrible judge of character and probably just an idiot.

    2. Yotomoe

      That’d be like Billionaire Bruce Wayne hanging out with that Philistine, Batman.

      1. momomelon

        whoah. that’s TOO crazy, and we’d all know about it.
        every one knows bruce wayne can’t keep a secret!

  7. licoricepencil

    I like them. I want more of them.

    1. licoricepencil

      Also it’s my birthday yaaaayyyyyyyyyy

      1. Jay Eff

        Happy Birthday!

      2. -Sentinel-

        Happy birthday!

      3. Doctor_Who

        Happy birthday!

      4. I don't know what to put here.

        FUCK YOU.

        Also, happy birthday.

      5. licoricepencil

        You guys are the bestest. Even you I don’t know what to put here.

    2. -Sentinel-

      Which is which, again? Been a few years since my last Old Walkyverse binge.

      1. Bill

        Grace is the redhead with the hoodie and the glasses; Mandy is the blonde.

        1. Bill

          Oops!  Got that backwards.
          Mandy is the redhead (or is that auburn?); Grace is the blonde.

        2. Cephalo the Pod

          No, it’s the other way around.

        3. dropded

          Correct, if you totally reverse it.

        4. Bill

          Proof that Mandy is the redhead.

        5. LQ

          Proof that Grace is the blonde. Also, the only strip where Grace appears without Mandy. (This being the only strip where Mandy appears without Grace.)

  8. Yotomoe

    Yes. If either of those two things were really happening, we’d have to be in a fictional world writen by a transformers geek or somethin’!

    1. newllend

      And it would be getting closer to spring break and The new Smash Bros would STILL NOT BE OUT!

      1. nekobawt

        just like ethan! *rimshot*

        1. StClair

          nice. *claps*

  9. Thanks, I'll Have Another!

    Statler and Waldorf for the Millennial Generation.

    1. IncadescentFlame

      I vote Lesothosaurus for the Millenial Generation. He’s sure to do a better job of reforming healthcare.

      1. Gamaran Sepudomyn

        Best avatar for this comment.

  10. Opus the Poet

    I like that line:”…as likely as Billie and Ruthless having a thing.”

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      We know that ship has sunk, you would need a shipload of pingpong balls to raise that one up again.

      1. Rutee

        Pft, they’ve come back from far worse than that. All we know is they’re having a tiff, atm.

      2. nothri

        Plasma Mongoose, if you have any love for your femurs you’ll bite your tongue and never speak this damn dirty lie ever again!!!

        (By which I mean to say that I respectfully disagree with your analysis)

    2. tinfoil theory

      And by “thing”, they mean lesbian babies.

      1. I don't know what to put here.

        And by lesbian babies, they mean my penis.

    3. BlackIo

      In all fairness, somebody has to have picked up on all the time Billie is suddenly spending in Ruth’s room.

  11. Jack Finch

    Twoferone speculatin’
    Damnable fine work Mr Willis.

    1. I don't know what to put here.

      JACK SAID A SWEAR!

      1. Jack Finch

        Don’t tell my sister.

  12. Tunaro

    I thought Greek choruses were s’posed to sing and talk in rhyme.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      So Grace and Mandy are meant to be like A-ko and B-ko the shadow girls from Utena?

      1. Jen Aside

        as long as they aren’t Tate Otoko and Yoko Otoko

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Not familiar with those two characters.

        2. Jen Aside

          the last one in the article: http://flyingfullforceblog.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/the-bishoujo-confusion/

        3. Opus the Poet

          All I could find was a cast list for an anime called “Comic Party” with the character descriptions of “slim guy” and “fat guy” respectively.

      2. nothri

        DO YOU KNOW DO YOU KNOW HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEWS?

      3. Romanticide

        Wonder I wonder, do you know what I wonder?

      4. bibulb

        I was gonna go with Crystal, Chiffon, and Ronette, but the Shadow Girls work just as well.

        (OMG, swap those out! Little Shop of Horrors becomes creepier, and Utena becomes Brill-Building-licious!)

  13. John

    Just be glad Mandy and Grace weren’t listening to you naming Amber out loud just a second ago, Danny!

    1. Yotomoe

      NOONE LISTENS TO DANNY.

      1. Jen Aside

        Danny’s a great confidante, because even when he spills the beans, no one listens.

      2. Doctor_Who

        He should go around loudly announcing that Amaz-Girl is Amber. Then no one will ever believe it.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Are you suggesting that Danny is the moden day Cassandra?

        2. David

          More like Laokoon and the charger cable.

      3. I don't know what to put here.

        TIMES OF DAY CAN’T LISTEN TO HIM.

      4. StClair

        Danny have very sad life.
        Probably have very sad death.
        At least there is symmetry.

  14. Plasma Mongoose

    The threat of exposure has been reduced from Amber Alert to Green Alert.

    1. KingMabel

      I’m like 99% sure that you are always on Green Alert.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        I’m more of a Minty Meadow Alert.

    2. newllend

      Is it ok to ask what inspired demon eyed Joyce?

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Joyce has so many reaction faces that I just chose to modify one of them.

        1. Gamaran Sepudomyn

          Huh, to me it looks more like Joyce is suffering from lack of sleep. I recognize that look, having seen it on my own face quite often.

        2. Hylleddin

          Yeah, that was my impression too.

  15. Jay Eff

    I recently watched Revolutionary Girl Utena, so I keep expecting Mandy and Grace to say “Do you know? Do you know?”

    1. Fran

      OMG, Thank you for this!!!!

    2. StClair

      Look up. You are not alone.

  16. Stephen Bierce

    Grace even SOUNDS like my real-life California friend in my head. It’s like Willis is spying on her or something.

  17. Wonder Wig

    Mandy and Grace are reminding me of Meryl and Milly from Trigun.

    1. Doctor_Who

      Now they have those voices in my head and will forever. Years from now, when they make their next appearance, I’ll hear Meryl and Milly and wonder where the hell that came from.

  18. Kernanator

    “AMBER? PRAY TELL WHAT BRINGS HER TO MIND.”

  19. MM

    Well, at the moment, Billie and Ruth having a thing is about as likely as Dexter and Monkey Master being real, so Amber should be perfectly safe.

    1. Jen Aside

      So Amber’s identity is contingent on Billie and Ruth staying split up?

      1. MM

        At least until Mandy and Grace come up with another comparison. Hey, how about Roz’s sister and the gender studies professor?

        1. momomelon

          what? no, you’d have to be in an alternate dimension for something like THAT to happen.

      2. John

        If that’s the case, I am totally okay with Amber’s identity being exposed.

        1. moby

          No…you wouldn’t!

  20. Kladeos

    This is strip is perfect.

    1. -Sentinel-

      Your is grammar is not.

      1. calibus

        Why is you is mad is for is nothing?

        1. Jen Aside

          That depends on what the definition of is is.

        2. I don't know what to put here.

          What it is.

        3. xKiv

          Computer, define is, Johnny Freakingouter.

  21. momomelon

    amber being amazi girl??? that’s more unlikely then joyce and walky getting married.
    I’d sooner say amazi-girl is a CAR.

  22. DrBear

    There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

  23. Zap Rowsdower

    If they’re the GREEK chorus, why aren’t they living in a sorority house?

    1. RK

      Be… cause Rush usually happens later in the year?

  24. AgentKeen

    Aww, don’t be so mean. I mean, Amber’s always ni- Well, she um…

    She never causes any trouble because she’s a shut-in?

  25. newllend

    I dont know what’s funnier, the fact that Danny now knows how obvious this is or that two random ass side-characters a figuring all this shit out and more faster than he is.

    1. Aakriti

      +100

  26. Kschenke

    AND THAT’S THE GOSPEL TRUTH!

  27. Orion Fury

    Is it bad that I think Grace bears a familiarity to a character in another universe whose name starts with an ‘A’ and ends with an ‘ar’?

    1. begbert2

      She doesn’t *look* like a bald kid with an arrow on his head…

    2. Kschenke

      Admiral Ackbar?

    3. Roborat

      Nah, she isn’t tall enough, or blue.

  28. arank11

    “It’s about as likely as Joe getting together with that supermarket checkout girl.”

    1. tinfoil theory

      Or anyone that isn’t Roz DeSanto, and for her purposes it didn’t matter who it was. In this universe, Joe will never be his father.
      For every prediction regarding women Joe has made in this comic, Joe has been proven wrong by Danny, except the one about Dorothy, and about Joyce, where he proved himself wrong.

      Joe is about as much a womanizer in this world as Faz.

      1. I don't know what to put here.

        Faz gets laid constantly?

  29. SilverArrowArtemis

    Ugh, the Superman-itis strikes again.

  30. arjay2813

    read what mandy (i think) is saying and heard this part at about 1:30 on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMIDpJ8H7H0

  31. Jake

    Who do these mere /normal/ people think they are having this much knowledge about the storyline? Only the readers may know of such details!

  32. Rani

    Of course fuckin’ now everyone’s spidey senses are tingling

  33. Dean

    I smell a wacky misunderstanding!

  34. Morty

    I can’t help but think that these two are gonna Harvey and Bernstein this thing WIDE OPEN

  35. Yotomoe

    Noone else has a rump as luscious and round as that Geek girl’s though! IT MUST BE HERS.

    1. newllend

      What’s really funny though is that can actually be their main lead.

      1. Yotomoe

        Amber regrets her perfectly toned roundish rump.

        1. Jen Aside

          Better hope they don’t start tailing her

  36. AdinaLaura

    Oh my god. That girl is totally Ultra Car!

    1. AdinaLaura

      Why is that blanked out? Well, let’s just say she shares similar features to a character also featured in today’s Shortpacked comic

      1. nothri

        I’m guessing you are talking about the Car that is Ultra? Willis got tired of people making the “Amazigirl is totally ” joke awhile back and censored it with some kind of coding wizardry that is beyond my ken (pretty much like ALL forms of programming voodoo).

        1. Jen Aside

          She actually looks more like if that character and Leslie reproduced…

        2. Deathjavu

          It’s not terribly complicated, it just checks for the phrase and replaces it… And it was because new readers were apparently put off by all the in-jokes and references to other universes.

          There’s even a thing about it on the FAQ.

  37. nothri

    Man, this could be bad if Danny ends up revealing Amazigirl’s secret identity. Thank god for that impenetrable poker face he’s got going there. No one will ever suspect a thing.

    1. I don't know what to put here.

      THE PERFECT CRIME.

  38. Alex

    See, when I read this my first thought was, wait a sec, that Red-haired girl is Willis. I mean with a dye job on the hair.

    1. Keroshino

      Well, now I can’t unsee it!

    2. Darth Cariss

      You’re right. She’s not as pale, and the hair color is different of course, but otherwise she does look remarkably like Willis’s illustrated version of himself.

  39. Ancestral Hamster

    They can’t be a Greek chorus: they are not saying anything appropriately classical like “Woe, woe unto the House of Atreides” or “Call no man happy until he is dead.”

    1. nekobawt

      so like “woe, woe unto the house of o’malley” or “call no man happy unless blaine is dead” then?

      1. Ancestral Hamster

        That’s better, although I think the second quote runs, “Call no Amber happy until Blaine is dead.” (Based on Amber’s reaction at Blaine’s funeral in the SP! universe.)

        As for long-running family curses, Amber could become a child abuser just like her father. Unfortunately, the cycle of abuse tends to perpetuate in families from generation to generation.

  40. Reltzik

    You see, Danny? Other people can totally make that same mistake. You figured it out first. THAT MAKES YOU THE SMARTEST!

    … of course, in a place called the Dumbingverse, that might be a low bar.

    1. timemonkey

      He didn’t figure anything out, her mask came off in front of him.

  41. acher4

    That’s a great strip for the usual Superman/Clark thing, and its nice to see those 2 girls having dialogue (and differences at the same time). Cool!

  42. ArkArks

    I have the feeling that Danny will soon start dannying … I mean do things that will cause a lot of trouble. For Amber of course.
    – ironic mode activated –
    He is clearly a master of keeping secrets. Or staying quiet. Or just doing not retarded things in general.

  43. Vree

    Now you only need to explain why the campus has such a high crime rate and how she learns about these in advance so that she can be there to prevent them, and this story will be perfectly realistic! (well, more or less)

    1. Animal

      Because the God of their universe, David Willis, has decreed that it shall be so.

      And no, that isn’t the first time in the last fifteen years or so that the thought of David Willis as a deity has just scared the crap right outta me.

    2. Bemmie

      Where ever you get a large amount of people that are a fair cross section of society, and cram them together in small places, crime will happen for a number of reasons, people get stupid, people get desperate, or some people are just douches.

      I’m certain it has been established that Amber’s room has a great vantage point over campus, and I know it has definitely been mentioned that she likes to patrol.

      Personally I like the idea that whilst she does patrol, despite being a shut in, Amber wistfully gazes out over her campus wishing she was brave/strong enough to be a part of that world, inside feeling that only Amazi girl could ever be… Her recent crisis of identity bringing this issue to the fore and requiring resolution when the pacing is right…

      But that’s just me…

      -Bem

  44. Gargamel

    Danny is number 5! Yay!
    …I mean, Danny is self-aware! Yay!

  45. Valmore

    Come on Danny, scream HER ASS ISN’T THAT WIDE right now and hope they don’t hear you. Then stick out your tongue and drool while moaning “Mmmmmmmmm, dat assssssss.” Do it for the kids!

  46. Shanunu

    Danny, way to keep up with the fashion of the day. Really, sometimes he is just so clueless.

  47. Kevin

    Wait a minute, my real-life roommate is a short, wide-butted (mmm), shut-in geek girl with short brown hair. SHE’S AMAZI-GIRL!

    1. Bemmie

      Now if you could only get her into the Amazi Girl outfit before she wakes up…

      …or is that a little too creepy, I always have a hard time telling?

      -Bem

      1. Kryss LaBryn

        A long time ago, in a scifi novel (I think by Andre Norton, whom I adored), the derogatory term for aliens was, being based on the acronym from 50’s genre movies for Bug-Eyed Monsters, “bemmies”.

        So now I have to ask if your username is taken from that, and regardless of that, thank you for a moment of nostalgia for one of my favourite books which I had completely forgotten.

        Wonder if I can track it down again..?

  48. Triniking

    THEY KNOW?!?

    *panics*

  49. Kathleen

    How many short girls with short hair and glasses are going to be in this comic, anyway? We have at least four by my count. Amber, Dorothy, Mandy, (or is it Grace), and the other Rachel character mentioned on Willis’ tumblr the other day.

  50. Minder

    Yay, Mandy and Grace! 😀 There should always be more Mandy and Grace.

  51. Cody B

    That’s it. I’m having these girls select my stock portfolio.

  52. -JAD-

    Is Danny getting red when he hears about “Billie and Ruthless”?

  53. brumagem

    Why does hen-clucking make such good exposition?

  54. OmegaDez

    This is officially my favorite DoA strip ever.

  55. Kryss LaBryn

    Holy shit, just realized Mandy is Willis in a dress. With dyed hair.

    How did I not notice that before??

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