Icarus
Posted on April 9, 2013 by David M Willis

208 thoughts on “Icarus”

  1. Jen Aside

    OH BURN

    1. Skull025

      Apply cooled smooch to burned area. Apologize beforehand to receive emergency smooch.

      1. Neospector

        Does that count as angry hanky-panky or makeup hanky-panky?

        1. Skull025

          We only accept the greatest of hatefucks here at Fanservice Inc.

        2. Josh

          I believe the term is ‘most epic of hatefucks’. Please get the terminology right, we’re very strict on it here at Grammatically Correct Fanservice Inc.

        3. Van Jealous

          Hey! You just unintentionally coined a sniglet: “Hangry Pangry”. Nice one!

        4. Blob Marley

          Also “Hankup pankup”?

      2. timemonkey

        I misread that as cooled cooch *facepalm*

        1. CiaranLovejoy

          WOO! Hexadecimal!

        2. timemonkey

          Queen of Chaos! Whoo!

    2. David Herbert

      He got too drunk on power. And smooches.

      1. Cooledd

        Well…Hes walky I think he hasnt seen girls this naked since…HAS WALK EVER SEEN GIRLS NAKED?

        1. xKiv

          The beach?

    3. justcallmeSoul

      haha, get it? burn? icharus?
      you shall be PUNished.

      1. JustcallmeSoul

        hmm… thats not my gravitar…

  2. Skull025

    Nothing is cooler than “Wedding Smashers” Walky. NOTHING.

    1. Tbf

      I don’t believe you’ve seen that episode.

      1. Yotomoe

        Yeah. Cuz if he did he’d admit that it pales in comparison to “Time’s Short”

        1. Skull025

          At least Wedding Smashers had a bride thrown into her own wedding cake! When she got up and clobbered that dude with the ice-sculpture, my heart overflowed with happy-tears!
          IT’S A COMMON CONDITION!

        2. George

          Yeah, but “Time’s Short” had the bit where Dexter had to pretend to be an alarm clock. THAT BIT WAS GENIUS! GENIUS, I SAY!

        3. Joe

          Given the choice between Dexter pretending to be an alarm clock and Dexter pretending to be a wedding cake topper, I’ll gladly take the alien in the wedding dress.

        4. Regalli

          But Wedding Smashers had the whole subplot of the wedding buffet being the only source of shrimp in the state! That buffet montage was GOLDEN.

        5. George

          I will concede that the buffet montage was among the greatest scenes ever, but the Princess Bride references fell a little flat during the fake ceremony, which I didn’t even think was possible. “Time’s Short”, on the other hand, did the best interpretation of the cheese shop sketch I’ve ever seen (besides the original of course). How can you claim an episode is the greatest ever when it’s so clearly outmatched in terms of the series’ traditional pop-culture gags?

        6. Regalli

          Because while, okay, that fake priest’s voice WAS on the wooden side, I felt it fit his character better, since he was clearly not supposed to be into it. Besides, I felt that the ending of “Time’s Short” was a bit unbelievable. I mean, it was inspired, I’ll give you that, but do you REALLY think Monkey Master could get a regiment of French soldiers to perform a full Busby Berkeley chorus number while Dexter and Napoleon were fighting?

        7. Jon P

          I love this fandom.

        8. Ziaheart

          Thank you, Regalli. For a while there, I thought you were discussing episodes from an actual series… like Transformers or something. And then I thought it was Dexter’s Laboratory. And then Monkey Master came and it was like, oh.

        9. Wack'd

          I think that, while “Time’s Short” is a better character piece, “Wedding Smashers” is far funnier. (I think the bit where Monkey Master’s monkey cannon goes of during the rice throwing is one of the best gags the show’s ever done, though, so I may be a bit biased.)

          It’s all about what you think is more important to the show. I’ve always favored “The Tim Horton Machine” myself, personally.

        10. Josh

          You’re all reading way too far into this… any episode that shows an alien in a wedding dress almost marrying a giant monkey is priceless

        11. Wack'd

          I made a Dexter & Monkey Master page on TVTropes. Go nuts.

        12. Notebooked

          I prefer “Wedding Smashers” mostly for the scene where Dexter proposes (no pun intended) that they infiltrate a wedding, Monkey Master tells him that there are lots of other sources of shrimp from around the country (the buffet scene proved him wrong, but he didn’t know that at the time) and outlines a plan for breaking into a shrimp farm, with the camera zooming in on his intense, concentrated face…and then zooms right out again to show Dexter in the wig and wedding dress.
          “You, uh…you’ve already got your sights set on this. …Oy.” The facepalm completes it. (No, hang on, Dexter doing the little spin completes it.)

  3. Eszee

    Pictured here: the kicking point to at least 50 fanfictions.

    1. Skull025

      Your guess is not within reason.

      1. Eszee

        Too few?

        1. Skull025

          Too few. You’re forgetting all the fics that watch them grow old together or stumble on an ancient artifact that grants them mystical macaroni powers.

        2. Eszee

          I would hella read a fanfic where they get macaroni powers.
          Featuring Walky as Macaroni Man and Doroty as Lady Queso!

        3. Skull025

          They fight supervillains such as “Pea-man” and “Broccoli-Ninja.” Their allies, “Protein-Bros” and “Cheesy McSleazy” aid them in protecting the deliciousness of macaroni everywhere!

        4. Eszee

          Cheesy McSleazy sounds like the PERFECT antihero.

        5. Blob Marley

          Dude, you can totally put broccoli into mac and cheese. That’s how you make vegetables *respectable.*

        6. Valdrax

          Or the ones in which one travels back in time to put right what was wrong and save Walky’s shoes from Ruth, and it CHANGES EVERYTHING.

        7. Skull025

          They find a portal in the SUPPLY CLOSET.

        8. George

          Fortunately, they are able to retrieve their pants before it closes behind them. Sadly (or also fortunately depending on your point of view), Dorothy’s shirt is lost outside of time itself when they just barely fail to get it through.

        9. Skull025

          She can’t put on any of the shirts from the past. Doing so would directly violate the space-time continuum. Or, that’s Walky’s reasoning at least.

    2. Volkai

      And a dozen… other… fanfictions. Probably.

    3. Darkflame

      This could help:
      http://fanficmaker.com/beta/Fanficmaker.html
      If theres demand/suggestions, I could put in a preset.

      1. Maycroft

        Ok, how manny comments do you need?

        1. Darkflame

          lol. Yes Good reviewz please else no more fics!

  4. Axel

    Man, you always make me lonely.

    Also, Dorothy is a pretty great girlfriend.

    1. Yotomoe

      As long as you wear nice pants and don’t foolishly believe that “Time’s Short is better than “Wedding Smashers”

      1. Resne

        YOU ASK TOO MUCH YOTOMOE

    2. Kintrex

      As long as you don’t want to stay with her past college.

      1. Blob Marley

        Perfect gravatar is perfect.

      2. timemonkey

        Not necessarily, as long as you’re not a clingy wuss with no personal ambitions she may be open to a long distance relationship.

  5. Plasma Mongoose

    YAY Fanservice!

    1. Skull025

      Forget the freckled ass, look at those SHOULDERS.

  6. Juliecat

    I’m afraid this could be the end of the relationship 🙁

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Old TV shows are serious business after all… 😛

      1. Juliecat

        No lie, I’ve seen more than one relationship fail over one party’s like/dislike of a movie.

        Granted the movie in each case was Spice World…

        1. Wack'd

          You expect me to believe at least two people liked Spice World?

        2. Bri

          Spice world was a great movie. Granted I was a 7 year old when I last saw it, but it still seems like something pretty enjoyable.

        3. patrick

          Then do yourself a favor and never watch it again. I have had more then a few movies ruined from going down that route.

        4. timemonkey

          I LOVE Spice World, that movie was hillarious. My sisters and I used to have the entire movie memorised.

        5. Sir Robin

          For me, it was when she wanted to watch Twilight and I foolishly watched it with her

  7. Robbie C

    My heart’s racing. Looks like Walky’s plucked up some courage since last time. (That was just an invitation for puns).

    This is so unfair of me, I know, but I can’t help but feel a little resentful of Dorothy. I know she’s only human and she doesn’t have any obligations, but still. Poor Danny.

    1. Yotomoe

      A feather thread, eh. What Quill we think of next?

      1. Stara

        I’m down with this, their relationship is plume awesome.

        1. Stara

          Although there is a tendency among readers to pinion negative feelings on Dorothy– but as she says, it’s “within reason!”

        2. Stara

          And we get better fluff from them than Joyce/Ethan or Joe/campus!

        3. Anon

          Dayyymmnn Stara just blew that shit outta the water with a 3-combo of punstruction.

        4. Andiemus

          Pssht. Kid’s still a featherweight.

        5. Stara

          That’s the lowest bird pun I’ve feather seen!

          😀

        6. Stara

          Bird that said, I could probably think of some that would be more ruff in execution.

        7. Notebooked

          They’re just parroting bad points. Keep on winging it — this is just a lark, after all! What quail you think of next?

    2. Soozi

      To be fair, Danny is off with AmaziGirl and making friends with Amber – I think Dorothy, while was harsh, if completely off the hook and owes Danny nothing.

      1. Wack'd

        Amazi-Girl I can understand but I fail to see how Danny making friends with other women changes anything.

  8. Regalli

    Have we heard a summary of Time’s Short before now?

    1. Regalli

      I definitely need sleep.

      1. Andiemus

        But Lyndis, I need you to talk to Florina.

    2. Mogotoo

      It was explained alongside Wedding Smashers on October 1, 2012.

      From season 3, “The Head Alien goes back in time to fight Napoleon to prove himself to be history’s greatest tiny dictator”.

      1. Wack'd

        Man, you’re lucky I was asleep.

  9. Derek

    Do not ever question a fangirl’s opinion on her fandom, YOU WILL REGRET IT

  10. Kernanator

    His spine has evolved from styrofoam to plastic!

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Walky evolved into Walker.

      1. Wack'd

        So is the final stage Walkest?

        1. Volkai

          Walky > Walker > Walkerton

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          I was thinking more of the lines of Walky > Walker > Walker, Texas Ranger.

        3. Notebooked

          Nah, the evolution goes Walky > Walker > Walkertron.

          (http://transfanon.wikia.com/wiki/Walkertron)

        4. xKiv

          The obvious post-final stage is Walkyverse.

  11. Sensedog

    This comic has me admitting that I like freckles.

    1. Yotomoe

      Secretly everyone does.

      1. Kernanator

        Man, I hope so. I have a tone of them just all over.

        1. Yotomoe

          Sepia tone?

        2. Kernanator

          Ton, I meant ton.

          Why did I put an e at the end of it? Am I secretly British? That’s what British people do, right?

        3. eerilychildish

          No, they’d spell it toun. The British love adding U’s after O’s where they don’t belong.

        4. John

          Bonus points for Jason grav.

        5. Wizard

          But then you’d need another n.

        6. Blob Marley

          I believe the British English spelling would be “Toeunne”

        7. xKiv

          This couuld entertain us four houurs.

  12. addude

    Wait, so who officially is the first couple in this comic to have hanky panky?

    1. General Tekno

      Well, Joe/Roz were probably the first to do the deed. Though they weren’t really a “couple” per say.

      1. Doctor_Who

        Then perhaps Sal/Jason, unless that was a one time thing.

      2. Yotomoe

        A couple of hanky-pankiers!

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      PREMARITAL Hanky Panky at that, if you ignore what happened with Roz and Joe anyway.

    3. Mogotoo

      If you count past couples, Dorothy and Danny had sex back in high school.

  13. ReFlex76

    *looks up*

    Yeah, still no idea what they’re talking about.

    1. Ragnal

      My guess is the Monkey Master and HA show, but…I’m not sure…Google isn’t really helpful in my case, and it’s a TV Tropes page that pops up first.

    2. Mogotoo

      It’s definitely the Head Alien show.

    3. Dragdamar

      The reference in the last panel is to Icarus, who flew on wings made of feathers and wax. He flew to close to the sun and the wax melted, releasing the feathers and he fell to his death. The original crash and burn.

  14. Count Dracula

    She’s got shoulder freckles. That is rad.

    Say it with me fellas. Shoulder. Freckles.

    1. Doom Shepherd

      Shoulder freckles. NOM NOM NOM.

      1. Yotomoe

        Froulder Sheckles. No…I have failed.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          But is she freckled in OTHER PLACES?

        2. Count Dracula

          Does it matter? Shoulders should be enough for anybody. Or are you a heretic? Choose your words wisely.

        3. Plasma Mongoose

          I’m greedy that way, my first 3D crush had higher contrast freckles all over her body.

        4. Blob Marley

          Commis-SAH Holt.

          Choose your next words with exceptional care.

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOi3CzZjV0M

    2. Michael Michael Motorcycle

      Anal. Gaping.

      Shit, I think my translator’s busted…..

    3. Sensedog

      I like shoulder freckles, and I cannot lie…

      1. Skull025

        Just call em “Shreks” bro.

        1. Yotomoe

          Dorothies are like onions. They have layers.

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          Also there are tears when if you tried to peel her.

        3. Zababcd

          Shreks and Dorothy, off on another whirlwind adventure!

  15. David Burnward

    Giggity

  16. Neversleptincollege

    Wait, is Dorothy a bit of a sub?

    1. Rosicrucian

      You’re reading way too much into this.

      1. Yotomoe

        Yeah. Get the cliff’s notes, like me.

      2. Neversleptincollege

        I dunno bro, she looks awfully excited while saying “as you command”. Also why she dumped danny, he’s a sub if there ever was one! Lol hell a little bit ago Billie was being shoved up against a wall. This comic is brimming with BDSM subliminal messages!

        1. Neversleptincollege

          Or BDSMSM’s

        2. Yotomoe

          And then yoto hoped he was reading a very persistant joke and not an actually thought process.

        3. Rosicrucian

          Some people see what they want.

        4. Plasma Mongoose

          I rather have BDM&Ms myself. 😀

        5. Blob Marley

          > BDSM&Ms

          The candy shell cracks in the iron maiden, not in your hand!

        6. John

          Gotta do something with the subtext, since the homosexual agenda is the actual text.

        7. Raiser

          Can’t spell “subtext” without “buttsex”!

          No, seriously, you can’t.

    2. Pinja

      Sub is too much of a commitment, like saying someone who took a module on political thinkers is now a philosopher. It’s just something that spices things up a bit.

      More importantly, she’s showing Walky that he can ask things of her rather than it just her always asking him things. It may not be submission as much as it nice to know people want you.

    3. xKiv

      I think she was just granting him her own wish.

  17. MTBDude

    Careful, Icarus…

  18. Michael Michael Motorcycle

    Flew too close to the Sun and now he’s being flung into the Blue Ball Cloud.

  19. alicemacher

    So okay, I’ve tried a general Google search; I’ve tried an IMdB “TV Episode” search; I’ve tried Wikipedia; I’ve tried TV Tropes. I still have no idea what show is being referred to. Could someone please elucidate?

    1. TheStranger

      Dexter & the Monkey Master would be my guess.

      1. alicemacher

        Ah, an in-universe show. Makes sense. I mean, the punchline works on its own, but I’d thought there was maybe some sort of fandom in-joke for a real show that would give it an added dimension. Don’t overthink, Alice.

    2. John Harmon

      Probably the Monkey Master and Head Alien cartoon they initially bonded over.

    3. David

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/06-strange-beerfellows/mattered/

      1. alicemacher

        Aha! Thank you.

        Now I wonder how many other episodes of that show you have floating in your mind.

      2. George

        Dang it, I forgot Time’s Short already had a plotline. Now my contributions to the fake fandom debate are going to look silly .

        Well, whatever. The time travel involved a clock shop. There, problem solved.

  20. Wonder Wig

    Basically, basically, basically… basically… I first quickly glanced the images of the panel and at the last one thought that Dorothy just went downtown on Walky, and then I actually read the speech bubbles.

    1. Robbie C

      This is hilarious. Judging by Walky’s face in the last panel, looks like she’s doing it right.

    2. Spiny Creature

      If THAT’S where she went, the left-hand speech bubble is definitely not her voice. Now I’m picturing some spectator/commentator/Voice of God viewing from above and keeping Walky in line 😀

      1. Andiemus

        Dina.

  21. AndaisQ

    Where did Walky even read classical mythology?

    1. Rosicrucian

      He’s not as dumb as he looks!

    2. Wack'd

      You’ll notice he doesn’t explicitly mention Icarus. “Flew too close to the sun” is a pretty common turn of phrase.

    3. Blob Marley

      Dude, classical mythology is awesome! Dudes fightin’ monsters and killin’ each other and never havin’ to put on stupid pants or eat stupid salads…

      1. Andiemus

        Killin lions with wrestling moves…

        1. Notebooked

          Doin’ hot babes disguised as swans…(pause)…okay, maybe that bit I can skip over.

        2. Andiemus

          Making women fall in love with you by being nice to other women…

  22. Somebody

    Am I the only one that thinks Dorothy just got sexier?

    1. John

      I find that frequently happens when women take their shirts off.

  23. ridtom

    “Wedding Smashers” is a classic and you will not tarnish it’s name!

    1. Viredae

      Seriously? You’re gonna go with that? Give it up man, “Time’s Short” was the better episode, no two ways about it.

      1. Ty Ty

        Can’t they both be good?

        1. Leonou

          They can and they are.
          No one i’s arguing about one of them being bad … we’re fighting to the death to determine which one is slightly better than the other !

  24. Nena

    Haha! Walky is a goofball.

  25. Ivan

    That kid needs 100mg of testosterone acetate every 48 hours until he fsckin’ grows UP.

    1. Pinkie

      I agree. My message to my friend after seeing this strip: “Dorothy is now the hottest character in the DoA universe.”

      1. Pinkie

        Meant to be in reply to Sporky but I misclicked.

      2. timemonkey

        No wonder Joyce is so jelous. XD

  26. Sporky

    Yknow, you had waited to post the “hottest lady” poll until after this strip, I probably would’ve ended up picking Dorothy as one of the three options. Alas!

  27. John

    Yeah, come on, Walky. You wait to ask questions like that until she’ll say, “Oh, God, yes!” no matter what you say to her.

    1. Kernanator

      Seriously, that’s, like, Relationships 1000.

      1. Wack'd

        What’re the other 999?

        1. Kernanator

          It’s the basic class level at my university. Not sure about others though.

  28. Viredae

    Walky’s priorities are certainly ordered well.

  29. Kyrros

    Anyone else think of that scene in Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark) where he leads Marion on a kissing trail up his own body?

    1. Jimmy

      “Well Goddamnit Indy, Where doesn’t it hurt?”

  30. oddjobpr

    Every time I hear the name Icarus I think of this song:
    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7g4L47kEcS0
    Yes I was a teenager in the 90s, why do you ask

  31. KaelemGaen

    Woo finally caught up… I should have started reading this Earlier.

  32. Zababcd

    Poor Dina of my previous comment’s diagram.

    Or… hooray for her? In what way does Dina relate to human sexuality?

    1. turkishproverb

      She’s Dinosexual.

      1. Ivan

        Dinosexual – it’s right here (among other places!)

        http://pbfcomics.com/257/

    2. John

      I’m imagining her dispassionately narrating events from behind the door.

      1. Notebooked

        “The young Dorothy displays her udder in a display for the Walky. The Walky, interested, accepts mating initiation — but a mistake in the carefully coordinated mating dance causes the Dorothy to lose interest in him. He must wait for another day.”

        (In a David-Attenborough-as-a-teenage-girl voice.)

    3. mrelegos

      Wait, why would Dina be in her room? Dina is Amber’s roommate.

      Poor Sierra, more like.

      1. timemonkey

        Dina is everywhere, in every shadow, behind every door, in every group of her peers. There is no escape from the Dina.

      2. Zababcd

        My logic was that the places where Dina does not belong are the ones where she is most likely to turn up.

  33. JustSoul

    I… I’m caught up?
    I started reading DoA at 9 A.M this morning, took a 8 hour break for work, and… and I’m caught up… NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
    this means i have to wait to find out what happens like everyone else!

    1. ASmellyOgre

      Ha, ha! Sucker. Now you’re no better than the rest of us. Although, if you want more binge material, I can think of a few things.

  34. Wack'd

    I love how neither of them appear to have noticed the door is still open.

  35. DesiDesiDesi

    Does Walky not have eyebrows or are they so far above his head in absolute surprise they’re off panel? I like to think it’s the latter myself!

    1. Yotomoe

      They’re just the same color as his hair.

    2. ASmellyOgre

      Walky only has eyebrows when it’s needed for an expression. Sometimes he even only has one eyebrow.

  36. ArkhamTexan

    Ahhhhh, “As you command” is definitely my favorite thing to hear in my relationships.

    1. bunivasal

      Anybody else read “As you command” in an Elvish Ranger voice? And then just start rotating through character voices from Warcraft 2?

      1. Blob Marley

        Join the army they said.
        See the world they said!
        I’d rather be sailing. :-[

  37. J42

    Dear David Willis,

    Please make a spin-off webcomic called “Dotty and Walky”

    Sincerely, All your readers

    1. Leonou

      And if you have trouble coming up with enough storylines for both Doa and “Dotty & Walky”, you can just give us cheap filler material with “Dexter and Monkey Master” show’s extrcats.
      We won’t mind ^_^

  38. G.G.

    the door was still cracked

  39. Pinja

    Those aren’t freckles, it’s eczema!

    1. Blob Marley

      Meh. I’d still nibble on dem shoulders.

  40. Roborat

    And then they discover her roomate was in the room all along.

    1. Shariku Onikage

      Ooooohhhh yeahhhh. BAM CHICKA BOW WOW!

      (i apologise to everyone in the universe. I don’t know what compelled me to do that. I think – and this may sound a little crazy – i think it may have possibly, just possibly, and i realise i’m stretching things here, it may have been something to do with the notions of a threesome)

  41. someguywithakatana

    I really need to stop reading this strip. It reminds me too much of something that happened between me and my recently ex-girlfriend…

    1. Uncle Rylon

      Don’t worry, soon I’m sure that soon we’ll have Mike tormenting Walky.

      1. Uncle Rylon

        Gah! Darn extraneous “soon”.

    2. Will

      Same here, though my ex is not so recent.

  42. Zoey

    David Willis marry me…..

  43. Maycroft

    Out of the sun and downright into de ocean

  44. null

    Wait, he forgot to tag Dorothy’s breasts: Wiggles and Mrs. Hutchinson

  45. lightsabermario

    I can make this comic ten times better:
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v625/lightsabermario/2013-04-09-icarus.png

  46. Narf

    Dorothy’s freckled shoulders are completely adorable, and I don’t give a FUCK who thinks I’m strange for that. 😀

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