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Late night
Posted on October 8, 2016 by David M Willis

261 thoughts on “Late night”

  1. AnvilPro

    Walky wants to crimefight with Amber too

    1. inqntrol

      First he has to exercise his superhero walk.

      1. L33tmaster

        nah its a good hell be awkward man his awkward walk attack will be the thing of legends

  2. inqntrol

    I don’t think he actually needs to go to the potty.

    1. Doctor_Who

      I dunno, it sort of looks like a “6 hours after a meal of Taco Bell and the toilet is three hundred yards away” run to me.

      1. rectilinearpropagation

        But he’s running *away* from the building, which is where the closest bathrooms would be.

        1. Charlie Spencer

          Thank you!

      2. Emperor Norton II

        You think Walky went to Taco Bell at around 03:00?

        1. Orion Fury

          So, fourth meal?

        2. SgtWadeyWilson

          Man, that is rarely worth it… but if those Crunchberries things ever come back, I’ll probably fall victim to fourth meal again.

  3. miados

    poor walky afraid of the dreaded math that used to be an easy victory that he evolved into runny

    1. Badgermole

      Took me a moment, but now I want to give you all the internets.

    2. BigLemon

      “Runny” is not a name I want associated with anyone going to the bathroom, even ficticiously.

  4. Plasma Mongoose

    YOU WILL PILOT IT WALKY!

    1. LeslieBean4Shizzle

      Ach! Dummkopf!

      1. LeslieBean4Shizzle

        That was literally the only Asuka – to Shinji quote I could think of that was A) relevant and B) not completely depressing.

        1. DarkoNeko

          Great, now I have that mental image of Jason doing the Gendou pose. This is both hilarious and pretty ridiculous XD

        2. LeslieBean4Shizzle

          … I’ll be in my bunk.

  5. Wheelpath

    No, stop, Walky you got this. Don’t runny

    1. Reltzik

      Or if you are runny, get to the bathroom!

      …. wait, we just hit recursion.

      1. Orion Fury

        NOT RECURSIVE ENOUGH!

        1. SgtWadeyWilson

          Ehh… I didn’t really do cursive the first time, not really interested in doing it again.

          Wait, that’s not what you meant…

      2. HMRC4EVR

        It’s fixable. All yu need is the 5th Doctor to show up.

  6. AutobotDen

    Poor Walky. Done in by his own hubris.

    1. Orion Fury

      Quick, hoist the petard!

      1. Griiins

        YES, SIR! *Hoists Picard up a flag pole* just like you said sir, I hoisted a Picard!

        1. SgtWadeyWilson

          No, no, he said host! Quick, somebody get some tea! Earl grey! HOT!

          And will you please get that man down off the pole!?

        2. Phyrexian_Rogue

          Coincidentally, those we’re Robert Scotts exact words upon hearing Amundsen had reached it first.

        3. Slartibeast Button, BIA

          Great Scott!

        4. DSL

          FIRE AT WILL!

      2. jeffepp

        In Shakespearean England, the petard hoists you.

      3. Delicious Taffy

        One does not hoist a petard. A petard is an old type of bomb. The hoisting part is you being launched into the air from standing too close to it. It’s a fancy way of saying you blew yourself up.

        1. Marisa Mockery

          Huh. I always thought it was someone being haisted by their pants but in Olde English speech. The more you know….

        2. Kugai

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petard

        3. Orion Fury

          Which is what is happening to Walky…

      4. Deanatay

        Actually, it’s ‘hoist _by_ the petard’, which literally means to set off an explosive under something. Or someone, as the historical context would indicate.

        It COULD also mean farting forcefully enough to lift one off of one’s feet. ‘Petard’ is derived from the French word for ‘to fart’.

  7. Nono

    DARNIT WALKY TIE YOUR SHOES

    1. miados

      i would say he should buy a pair that you slip on or has velcro but you know how he feels about guys that have more than one pair of shoes.

      1. BBCC

        Funny, he actually did want velcro as his first choice, but then he was too embarrassed to admit he was serious when Dorothy laughed.

        1. miados

          yeah he could get it now though but you know how he is about guys with multiple shoes. i have a velcro shoes that i use for lawn work etc.

        2. Bluewind

          I know! Being afraid to admit things to himself and others has gotten him into a lot of trouble over his first few weeks of college.

        3. miados

          maybe he needs to go back to being a church mouse?

        4. Bluewind

          That never happened! Nobody seen the contents of that video!

        5. miados

          i’ve seen it at least in part so i guess i’m nobody which is great because everyone says nobody is perfect.

        6. Slartibeast Button, BIA

          June 14th, 1987!

        7. HMRC4EVR

          My knee jerk reaction was ‘Walky was in Capitol Critters as a church mouse?’ but then I remembered 1) that show Walky was in and 2) no one remembers Capitol Critters but me.

        8. Ed Rhodes

          I do! I do! But then, I remember Fish Police and Wait Til Your Father Gets Home!

      2. dg

        I pretty much just treat any old shoes as slip-ons, but they do make nice slip-ons and he could get one of those.

  8. Mr. Mendo

    Oh Walky, you need a *motorcycle* to outrun your problems!

    1. Reltzik

      ….. I’m torn between saying that Walky on a motorcycle would cause more problems, and just saying that Walky on a motorcycle would be hilarious.

      … wait, I just imagined him trying to do uber-serious-cool on a motorcycle. Hilarious wins.

      1. SgtWadeyWilson

        “Walky on a motorcycle would cause more hilarious problems!”

        -some alternate universe’s Reltzik

        1. HMRC4EVR

          In the DoA Walky becomes the Ghost Rider.

  9. MatthewTheLucky

    Bad Walky! No!

  10. Runing_From_Math

    RUN FROM THE MATH WALKY RUN SAVE YOURSELF!!!

    1. Deanatay

      Wait Walky stop math is your friend no too late there he goes

  11. Mr. Random

    Because missing math class will definitely help here.

    1. miados

      flight or fight. in academia he hasn’t really had a challenge so he has never had to learn how to fight for his grades and it seems his is more of a flight risk than a combatant.

      1. SgtWadeyWilson

        Joyce also wants to fly, and Danny was… airborne… recently. Even Dorothy’s fictional relationship partners take to the skies.

  12. Tacos

    Get in the robot, Shinj- er… Walky.

  13. Shiro

    All of the maths. Every single one of the maths.

    Also, Walky using potty as a verb has suddenly and vividly brought me back to my high school experience, which was the last time I heard it. A certain type of boy (which Walky would fit in pretty well with) said it.

  14. Leorale

    Oh, Walky.
    Also, here’s another person that Sal calls “kid” despite being the same age, age Joyce almost never runs around in jammies.

    1. Idontcarenomore

      She doesn’t? With her teddy bears? 🙂

    2. BBCC

      At least with Joyce we can be 99% sure it’s affectionate (and in her defence, Joyce is both a month younger and acts very very childlike – which isn’t a bad thing, it just definitely makes her seem younger).

    3. Orion Fury

      Also stems from perspective. Sal having experienced, at least from her view, so much more than most, if not all, of the cast, would then tend to think of them still beings kids.

      1. Mav

        Yeah. It’s like when you have horrible experiences as a child, and you grow up and meet people who didn’t so their problems can seem really simplistic to you.

        1. Cerberus

          Yup, it forces an earlier maturity as a survival mechanism which can also lead to coping strategies for surviving abuse becoming things that get associated with survival in general in a world after one’s escaped.

    4. Fart Captor

      Both of the people she’s called ”kid” seem to be people she likes, but is not terribly close to.

      She definitely means it affectionately, and for Sal that’s no small thing. I could easily imagine her using ”pal” instead, but I don’t think she’s comfortable being so overtly friendly

      1. BBCC

        I wouldn’t say she likes AG. Definitely building grudging respect, but I wouldn’t say she likes her yet (…..yet.)

        1. Fart Captor

          For some reason I was thinking the other person was Danny, actually.

          I think it still fits if she’s using it to sound friendly, while maintaining some level of cool detachment.

        2. BBCC

          Ahhhh, okay! Yes, she definitely likes Danny (speaking of – what’re the odds of them making up soonish? Please?)

        3. Spencer

          I don’t think there’s something to really make up. Danny kind of snapped at her after she was adjacent to dismantling his relationship.

          He might be a little annoyed that the person who insisted that he was enabling Amazi-Girl and needed to stop her for her own sake is now getting into rad superhero team-ups, though.

        4. BBCC

          Make up/start talking again, potato, potahto.

          Probably less annoyed when he finds out a rapist was about to knock her lights out, but yes, any more conversation on AG is interesting. I’d like to know how perspectives are shifting (if at all).

        5. Spencer

          I mean, it’s not like they were friends. Danny tutored her once and then she made him realize Amber was going to die.

          And, like, the motivating incident for Sal telling Danny he’s enabling Amber’s destructive actions was saving Becky’s life. I’m not sure the events really matter when discussing why Amber, absolutely, totally, undeniably needs to stop being Amazi-Girl, or why he wouldn’t be angry finding out that she’s now encouraging Amber to do the thing she was previously adamant that she needed to stop.

        6. BBCC

          No, but they were friendly enough, and I’d like to see that keep going. Sal needs friends, Danny needs non-Joe friends, and they have a pretty descent dynamic.

          Sal didn’t encourage her – she told her not to go half cocked without a plan, and stopped AG from getting in ANOTHER car chase that couldn’t possibly end well. Sal stepped in when AG was about to get her teeth knocked in by a rapist who had three people holding her down, and then they went to get her phone. The issue she expressed ‘Stop going off without any kind of plan into bad situations and making them worse via escalating because you have something to prove before you, and a bunch of other people, are going to get hurt/killed.’ Not that she rescued Becky (she was grateful, respectful, and by her own admission, a little impressed by that) but how she did it (which involved getting Toedad to fire off into the air, throwing those little tire busting things freely into the streets, jumping on top of the car, and sending it into a massive spin). In both situations, had Sal not been there, the situation would have gone far worse (Toedad would have ended with Amber as a smear on the ground and this one would have ended with Ryan knocking her lights out, escaping with her phone, getting to his friend, and having full reign to look through it and find her and her friends, and Joyce). In both situation, without AG, the situation probably would not have been worse (Toedad would get his brain blown out by the police instead of arrested, Ryan…….would have kept going about his night, none the wiser, which isn’t GOOD but still far less dangerous to Joyce and the others than an angry and informed Ryan). The issue is not primarily that Amazi-Girl is doing this, it’s the WAY she does that is dangerous and going to end up getting her killed and thus necessitates stopping her. Sal emphatically is not cool with that way of doing things, and she did talk her out of her more reckless ideas.

          That’s the way I’ve been seeing it anyways – Sal’s not entirely against the idea of vigilantism, but more that she’s not okay with the way AG does it and thinks that that is what’s going to get her killed. Mind, that doesn’t make getting involved a good decision (this is almost certainly going to bite her in the ass) but I don’t think Sal would object quite so arduously if AG weren’t a) A creepy racism-echoing stalker and b) Recklessly acting with a death wish.

          You’re free to disagree and I can respect your way of seeing things, I just have to say the way I’ve seen it.

          Whiiiich is probably entirely pointless because Danny will almost certainly (understandably) see things differently, and that’s okay, I guess I just need to ramble. I’m probably making zero sense and please feel free to ignore me if I am, I am both new at this and my head is kinda all over the place wrt this and a couple other things I’m doing. My apologies if I am not making sense!

        7. Clif

          That’s okay. There’s many other people that don’t make sense on the subject either.

  15. Stephen R. Bierce

    *plays “Big Bad John” on the hacked Muzak*

    1. Orion Fury

      Perhaps something with a touch of iron?

  16. Schpoonman

    Haaa, Eva references.

  17. Kernanator

    Go to math class, or the kitten gets it.

  18. Sariedron

    *reads alt-text*
    Willis, you wouldn’t happen to be a weeaboo, would you? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

  19. Mandy

    Walky, don’t run with your shoelaces untied! That is a faceplant waiting to happen.

    1. inqntrol

      Don’t worry, he probably has done this before.

      1. SgtWadeyWilson

        Dude, even with tied shoes, faceplants happen.

        http://xkcd.com/1710/

  20. Doctor Fluffy

    GET IN THE DAMN ROBOT WALKY

  21. Bluewind

    I want to hug him even more than I did yesterday. He’s running away from class… or perhaps towards something else? Anybody else think he might have dropped his Cal class for a math he could handle and is running to it now as to not be late for class, but is so ashamed that he’s hiding it from everyone?

    1. Emperor Norton II

      He may be running off to re-register his schedule because Sarah got through to him. But I agree he’s running off to something else now. And that he’s too ashamed to admit it.

      1. trlkly

        It’s over a month in, though. If it’s like my college, you can’t really do that. You can drop the class, but you can’t get into another class. There is at least one class I would have done that with if I could have–the teacher was just hard to understand.

        1. Bluewind

          It really depends on the class and the circumstance. I’ve known students who were able to do it past drop date as long as they agreed to pay for both classes, the new class was an easier difficulty, and the professor signed off on it. I think (if I remember right), the one that did that in a math class had to retake all missed tests and quizzes on retake day and had a month worth of homework she had to finish within an agreed upon timeframe. I’m sure not all colleges do it, but the fact it can happen at all meant it could happen here. Plus, the Dean iis his mother’s ex husband and they are still friends which could help his case.

        2. Mav

          We couldn’t drop if it was a semester in, but what people would do was take an overload so they had at least the bare minimum credits. For example, you had 4 classes plus a 0.5 credit gym class. Drop one full class, but you still had the bare minimum so you wouldn’t have to worry about having enough or having to change your financial aid status.

        3. Mav

          *more than two weeks in, I meant*

        4. miados

          ah so no more than a fortnight.

        5. Cerberus

          Yeah, if he drops it he’ll probably get a Withdraw mark on a class, but that might be good for him nonetheless. I know I ended up having to accept a Withdraw mark on some classes and that was a good thing for me overall (mid-semester emotional breakdowns and suicide attempts are a hell of a trip). And I was still able to get to grad school with those on my record.

  22. KarkatTheDalek

    “I mustn’t run away, I mustn’t run away – I get that. Now, if I were to run away, let’s analyze that – where the hell would I go!?”

    1. miz

      Aw hell- does the bus run through here???

  23. Emperor Norton II

    Cute moment: Sal looking after Joyce. In the most Sal-like manner, sure, but she’s still looking after Joyce. She will look after Joyce until Joyce no longer needs looking after, and maybe then some.

    Hopeful moment: Walky is in fact going off to re-register into basic math and take those classes instead. What Sarah said actually seems to have registered with him.

    Stupid moment: Walky will not be honest and tell everyone that he’s going off to re-register into basic math. He may admit to himself that he can do without advanced math, but he’s still waaaay too tied up to being “the wiz kid” to admit that to anyone else.

    1. miados

      i kinda picture sal seeing joyce like a kitten who is scared to leave its mom, but will take two steps before running back because it wants to be both safe and on its own but safe is the bigger concern right now.

    2. Bluewind

      Your theory makes good sense Emperor! I hadn’t thought of that angle. Bravo. I can’t wait to see which of us had the correct assumption ^_^

      1. Emperor Norton II

        One of us will be made an ass out of, I guess. 😉

        (Everybody got that one, right?)

        1. Bluewind

          Or Willis could have fooled us both and Walky just had bad tacos which gave him the “runs” meaning we really will have assumed our way to ass-hood. 😛

        2. Emperor Norton II

          I’ll gladly be an ass if it’s together with you, Bluewind.

        3. miados

          i ship it.

        4. Orion Fury

          I don’t think I’d read it.

        5. Emperor Norton II

          That sounds like a challenge for me to write it.

        6. Orion Fury

          Of course, sir, anything you’d write I’d read.

        7. Emperor Norton II

          Man, that sounded so sincere, I’d almost believe you didn’t say it in fear of being thrown into my mime pits dungeons which may or may not have some particularly scary things in them that I will not confirm.

        8. BBCC

          Oh god, Emperor, you made me laugh so hard that should be illegal.

        9. miados

          i must have a lack of understanding as it just left me confused.

        10. Bluewind

          Then yall should know what I look like! ^_^
          http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ptLmUPhHVHs/UV4JvtnEK1I/AAAAAAAABU4/xhKB-N8FrTM/s1600/6f0bfaeda9bff855009fd2f8c7768303.jpg

        11. Emperor Norton II

          The ship has now been written. I started a new comment further down, since it turned quite long.

        12. Emperor Norton II

          Or, in other words:

          Challenge accepted!

  24. Chengrel

    Oh, poor Walky. I’ve been there before.

  25. newllend(henryvolt)

    Oh so now he’s running away from class? When I skipped a day of class it was because I was lazy not because I was scared of a equation, coward.

    1. Fart Captor

      Have you ever had to fight an equation? They can really math you up

      1. Mav

        Freshman calc kicked me right in the GPA

  26. Idontcarenomore

    So Sal spoke to Joyce and blew her mind.
    And Walky is running full tilt…to where?

    1. Leorale

      Running is not a to question, it’s a from question.

      1. Bluewind

        Unless it really is a “to” question as in to register for a basic math class/drop Cal or to basic math class he is now registered in instead of Cal (and hiding his perceived failure from his friends).

        1. Emperor Norton II

          But that will probably only lead to further problems which will then also have to be run from, as according to The Great Wizzard.

        2. Mav

          Him dropping it would also be good. You can take math at any point before graduation, as long as it’s not required of your major.

  27. Just Me

    He can’t run away from Math forever. S=k log(W)

    1. Leorale

      Aah! A math! :: runs away forever ::

    2. Bluewind

      √(-1) ♡ Math

      If you can read that? *hugs*
      If you can’t read that? *hugs*
      If you wanna insult that? Go eat a butt taco! 😛

      1. Orion Fury

        I mean, really? That’s just unreal.

        1. SgtWadeyWilson

          But, if I remember correctly, it is rational.

        2. Deanatay

          It’s complicated. Complex, actually, but complicated, too.

      2. CJ

        there’s a great t-shirt about it: http://2f38d3dbe93a124c485b-2069a4ab5401560c8376a0a7ce74af0b.r19.cf3.rackcdn.com/ND-009_2.jpg

      3. Deanatay

        It’s all in your imagination…

      4. Bluewind

        So many awesome replies! And I think that shirt is going on my Christmas list ^_^

  28. Ryek Hvek

    If Walky proceeds in a southeast direction at a speed of 12 miles per hour, and collides head-on with his karma, which was traveling north-by-northwest at 67 furlongs per fortnight, will anyone hear him fall?

    1. Orion Fury

      The tree at the end of the sidewalk?

      1. SgtWadeyWilson

        The tree has ears? What an a-maize-ing hybrid!

        Does it also stalk?

        1. Orion Fury

          No, but it gives…

        2. Slartibeast Button, BIA

          Enough with the corny jokes, people….

        3. Orion Fury

          Never!

  29. Reltzik

    Linda Walkerton watches on with a stern, neutral, possibly disapproving expression from the observation window. She lifts her head slightly. The glare catches her glasses, making her eyes impossible to see.

  30. Tenchan

    Goddamnit Walky…
    When are you going to learn how to tie your shoe laces?!

    1. SgtWadeyWilson

      2015, when they tie themse… Son of a… *Walks away.*

  31. BBCC

    Oh, Walky, you delightful mess, this is not going to help. Seek a tutor. Heck, if you won’t ask the TA (I can’t blame you, he’s a terrible teacher), check online. Check tutoring offers. Heck, try asking Sal. She’s doing better. Or at least might point you to a helpful tutor.

    1. Reltzik

      Better yet, ask Joyce. She knows your deep dark secret already, she’s doing fine in math, she’s on a make-everything-better trip, and it will make the J+W shipdom happier than they’ve been since Walkyverse.

      1. BBCC

        Good point! As I recall, Joyce mentioned math was her favourite subject, and she seems to have a similar knack for it that her Walkyverse counterpart did (and without even alien tampering, Walkyverse!Joyce you cheater!)

    2. Marie

      I was going to say ‘hey, he might just be a bad teacher for Sal’ but it doesn’t matter because if he couldn’t explain it to Sal (and could only word it one way) I doubt he’d be able to get Walky, who thinks he should understand it anyway, very far.

      1. BBCC

        We have yet to see Jason teach anyone else, so he might do better with someone who understands his explanations, but tbh he’s a terrible teacher in so many other ways. Possibly more effective at explaining to Walky, but he’s a reeeeaaaaalllllly lousy teacher overall, especially in other aspects.

        1. Cerberus

          Jason is an awful teacher and a worse TA. His method of teaching is to regurgitate the exact method that the teacher is using regardless of whether it works and berate the student looking for help for being too stupid to get that one method of learning things (and if they are a girl, hit on them and ask for sex while demeaning their character and blaming them for trying to ruin him if they accept).

          And yeah, that’s not gonna work for anyone who would need to seek out a TA, because if they need to seek out a TA for help, clearly the professor’s explanations aren’t making sense and they need a different approach and not to be berated, insulted, or sexually harassed over it.*

          *Words cannot describe how much Jason infuriates me as someone whose day job is teacher. Like, he is literally everything that is the worst about bad teachers, including sexually harassing and trying to sleep with students, which is so so many levels of no.

        2. ischemgeek

          Jason is the epitome of why being good at something doesn’t mean you’re good at teaching it.

          A good teacher is one who tries to explain a thing in a way the student understands. A bad teacher is who explains the thing only in the way they understand.

          Walky still has the potential to turn this class around (unlike some of the students who hired me as a tutor – those who’d failed everything all semester and then expected two hours with a tutor to be able to make them ace their final… after my first semester tutoring, I refused them as clients because they’d blame me for them failing the class and not the fact that they needed to have gotten help back in October, not the week before the final), so I hope he does get himself some extra help.

          What Walky doesn’t get (and what a lot of students struggle with at uni) is that university expects a much more self-directed style of learning from a student. Most uni students are in physical class about half as much as they were in high school – that extra time on task has to be made up somewhere, and where it’s made up is through student-directed homework and studying. Kids like Walky (and first-year me, to be fair) who’ve never had to study don’t have the skill of studying developed, and they tend to flounder until they get the study skills developed unless the subject matter is interesting enough that they study on their own out of interest.

          For my first two years of uni, you could tell how interested I was in a class by my grade – interesting classes got As, uninteresting got Cs. Unfortunately for Walky – I don’t think he’s really interested in any of the subject material.

        3. Dragon_Nataku

          Ugh, this totally. So we have a chem exam on Monday. Our lecture is MWF but because a hurricane was headed this way our uni decided to close for Thurs and Fri, which meant we missed Friday’s lecture. Some girl a few rows behind me was absolutely outraged, being like “BUT WHAT ABOUT FRIDAY’S LECTURE?!” and it took everything I had not to turn around and ask her in my most contempt-riddled voice “… have you never heard of the concept of self-study?”

        4. Reltzik

          Unfortunately, Penny had it right.

          No one sodding cares.

          (At least, not anyone with decision-making authority.)

          The math department doesn’t care. They don’t want TAs who are great at teaching. That’s a secondary or tertiary concern behind being sure the grad students will graduate from the program (and thus not hurt their stats) and contribute to the all-important task of acquiring and meeting research grants.

          Hell, there’s a certain cynicism that says that repeat business means more revenue for the university. And at lower levels like that (any class number that starts with a digit less than 3), it’s obviously the fault of the novice students who just don’t GET the finer qualities of math, who proudly hate it and rebel against it, or just don’t apply themselves. How are we supposed to stop that? It’s not like we can save them from themselves, is it?

          Never mind that practically no one in a research university is hired for teaching ability.

          ….

          Yeah, okay, I’m a bit sarcastically cynical about this, but I was a math grad student and TA myself. Out of a cadre of about 20, I was the ONLY ONE who took coursework in teaching and education on the side. I wowed the professors I was assigned to by putting ANY EFFORT AT ALL beyond grading papers and running the lab into my TAing, and I heard those same sentiments of… well it’s not EXACTLY victim-blaming, but it’s akin to it… in several conversations with other grad students and more than one staff meeting.

        5. ischemgeek

          Part of the problem genuinely is kids who are not taught how to study effectively in school running into the wall of You Must Study This Much To Pass This Class (speaking as someone who ran headfirst into that wall myself). However, the complete lack of concern for teaching skills in university hiring decisions is definitely part of the problem as well.

        6. Reltzik

          Yeah, the lack of studying skills is part of the problem. But FIXING the problem starts with sympathizing with them and putting some effort into teaching them how to study (no matter when or by whom they should have been taught originally), rather than just blaming them for it, washing your hands of it, and walking away while they crash and burn.

        7. Dragon_Nataku

          To be fair, having sex with him was Sal’s idea and he was kinda O_o at first about it. However, he definitely shouldn’t’ve gone with it, but I wouldn’t call that him sexually harassing her.

        8. thejeff

          He did start it though. When she first approached him about office hours he ogled her and talked about changing office hours to right the fuck now.
          She called him on it and he backed down, but he did start with it.

          Now, she did initiate the actual sex and without that I doubt he would have done much more than look and comment. Too much of a stick up his butt to try anything worse.
          Still creepy though.

        9. Dragon_Nataku

          Oh yeah, I forgot about that part. My bad. He’s a sleazeball either way.

        10. BBCC

          Also – condescending, smug, doesn’t acknowledge his shortcomings, only has one explanation (and apparently not a very good one if people don’t already speak math), was willing to dismiss a student as hopeless after – at most – two tutoring sessions (I don’t care how bad the grade is, you’re a TERRIBLE teacher if you give up after only two attempts AT MOST) and most likely only one considering she only mentioned Tuesday, refuses to adapt, belittling, gets super pissy when people point out he doesn’t even fucking try to understand his student’s issues, and, this might be my favourite part, refuses to do his job (IU TA’s are supposed to be available for meeting outside office hours, which he emphatically refused to do – even if he couldn’t have done so that day, he could have offered to meet a different time/day, or in a different location if the problem is sharing the office. Nor did he offer to have her email him her questions if he really could not meet. He did none of these things).

        11. Derek

          wait what? “hit on them and ask for sex”??? did we read the same comic?
          the sex was entirely Sal’s idea, Jason was completely surprised by the turn of events (not that it prevented him from joining in, which he shouldn’t have) and later he was again surprised to learn that Sal had intended it as an exchange for good grades

          Jesu, you’re honestly painting Jason as completely sleazy and manipulative, which he’s not. Having sex with a student IS wrong but that was lack of self restraint on his part more than anything, she literally took off her shirt and sat on his lap unpromtpted

        12. BBCC

          He also hit on her the first time he met her, which is what she’s referring to.

        13. Fart Captor

          That “right the hell now” comment Jason made was completely inappropriate. It’s also what led Sal to think she’d have to sleep with him to improve her grades. Jason’s inability to actually teach no doubt contributed, but that’s hardly a point in his favor.

          In my opinion, even if Sal would have initiated it anyway, the possibility of a student getting that impression makes that comment unethical at best, and it makes his acceptance of Sal’s advances absolutely reprehensible. I don’t care how hot or topless she was.

          Especially since I would imagine that minority and otherwise disadvantaged students would be disproportionately more affected by this. The more you’re used to the system not treating your talents and hard work as equal to that of your more privileged peers, the more likely you’d be to conclude “oh great, sounds like the only way I’ll get a better grade is if I sleep with this stuffy asshole”.

          You know, exactly like what Sal assumed

        14. Cerberus

          What BBCC and Fart Captor said.

          Also, small note, but even if Jason hadn’t flirted first like a disgusting creeper, I’d still be writing that rant about him, largely because you don’t ever sleep with a student.

          Ever.

          I don’t care if the student is “hot”. I don’t care if the student makes the moves on you. I don’t care if the student strips naked and begs you to fuck them.

          You don’t ever sleep with students.

          Like, everything else he’s done fills me with an incandescent rage for all it befouls the very profession of professional educator.

          But that piece of it is a line a million miles beyond all that into the lands of just turning into Madeline Khan doing the “flames on the side of my face” rant from Clue.

          And any man who will cling to creepy little excuses like “you seduced me” or “if I don’t give you a good grade, it doesn’t count” like Jason did is full of so many red flags he can be legally classified as a bullfighting ring.

          Jason is the type of teacher that teachers don’t just hate, but actively loathe, because they befoul the whole profession.

        15. Derek

          I’d never suggest that having sex with a student is in any way excusable, but I object to you painting Jason as sleazy initiator. He didn’t start tutoring Sal because he’d hoped she would try to have sex with him in exchange for sex. He tried to genuinely help her (and failed completely).
          He’s not a predator because he didn’t single out Sal specifically to try to cajole or pressure her into sex.
          really, I can’t wrap my head around “if you’re a girl he’ll hit on you and ask for sex” he literally never ASKED for sex! he was offered sex and he said yes, which he shouldn’t have

          I think you’re painting Jason as someone who would genuinely pressure a student into giving sexual favours for his own gratification, which isn’t true. He honestly feels terrible that he wasn’t able to teach Sal anything or even keep a relationship with her; his self pity may be unwarranted from our point of view but it’s not an act on his part

        16. Fart Captor

          The fact that he wouldn’t intentionally pressure a student into sex doesn’t earn him any points in my book.

          The fact that one can do so unintentionally is why he was sleazy from the moment he made that comment. He doesn’t solicit sexual favors, he just makes inappropriate sexual comments that could lead an already-vulnerable student to think they’re necessary to get ahead.

          And then poof! “I’m not sleazy at all! She came on to me, and my boner dictates my actions! Whoops”

        17. Fart Captor

          * correction. It doesn’t earn him many points. Although “doesn’t cost him as many” might be more accurate.

    3. Koms

      Let Danny tutor Walky. That will be a laugh riot.

      1. Reltzik

        Better yet, let Dorothy guilt-trip Danny into it while Danny’s still moping over breakup #2. That will be a hoot.

    4. Willoughby Chase

      Jason offered to tutor him. As someone else in the strip pointed out, that’s a rare occurrence. Walky emphatically rejected Jason’s offer.

      It may be that Jason’s style is right for Walky … we may never know.

  32. MarMar

    When is Walky’s Redemption Arc (TM)?

    1. Orion Fury

      I’m hoping the Walky Redemption Arc™ is far off, because I don’t seem him in that great a need of one. Mike, on the other hand…

      1. Some1

        I feel like Mike’s evil is too comedic for him to really have a redemption arc. Walky isn’t actually a bad person, so it would really just be character development.

        1. Orion Fury

          For some it’s comedic, others, eh, more traumatizing.

  33. I Eat Cheese

    walky the absolute madman

  34. crow

    dammit sal

  35. Tomas

    Damn it, Willis, now you’ve got me looking for NGE parallels in both Dumbing of Age and It’s Walky.

    1. Orion Fury

      That seems dangerous.

  36. Mav

    Oh no, I really hope he’s not skipping class.

    Please get a tutor, Walky!

    And if you have a reasonable professor, if you:
    1) go to class and LISTEN
    2) can do the homework/side work well

    you’ll be fine on the exams = passing grade.

    1. BBCC

      He isn’t doing his homework well though, if at all, and he’s failed his last three quizzes.

    2. Willoughby Chase

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/01-to-those-whod-ground-me/admirably/

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/01-to-those-whod-ground-me/quizzes/

  37. Orion Fury

    Man, that third panel Walky…

    1. JessWitt

      Yeah, so lonesome, so foreboding of his math panic.

      1. SgtWadeyWilson

        Math panic! Rain of factors! Swarm of logarithms! All the sines of the Arithmepocalypse!

  38. Shadow-DJ

    He’s gonna trip on the laces…he’s gonna trip on the laces…he’s gonna trip on the laces…

  39. yo.

    Face your fucking problems, Walky

  40. JessWitt

    I guess Sarah’s not going after Billie just yet.

  41. Jason

    References flying right over my head, over my head, over my head, aw hell with it.

  42. Vonniesaur

    Wally just drop the class it’s been like two weeks

    1. BBCC

      Closer to a month. He probably ain’t getting out of this class now. Not without an academic penalty anyways.

      1. Marie

        My school gave that long but you couldn’t get your money back. Something like the second week after start, all fees were do and you couldn’t register or get refunds anymore, on the third or fourth you couldn’t drop without getting a grade (unless you had a legitimate reason and appealed it or whatever)

        1. BBCC

          It might be possible, but I find it unlikely, as most schools seem to put their date in September. It’s approx. Oct 4th today, in universe, so he probably doesn’t have great odds. Indiana U’s website seems like it ends at the end of September. He might have a chance, though.

  43. Thomas

    ‘s funny that Walky hides his emotional constipation behind the excuse “I hafta go potty.” Just drop your load, kid! I bet he’s afraid Dorothy & his parents will make a big stink about it.

    1. Thomas

      Not just joking about it. These two things are interrelated. It’s terrifying.

    2. Emperor Norton II

      The big irony as far as Dorothy is concerned is that she’d actually respect him more for admitting it.

  44. JepMZ

    Yeah…. This is how I failed multi variable calculus and that one class that teaches you exactly how hyper sensitive chemical detecting equipments work including a super confuctor T_T

  45. Romanticide

    Walky get in the fucking robo… math class….

    1. SgtWadeyWilson

      Robo-math class sounds badass!

  46. Foxhack

    WALKY, GET IN THE F*CKING CLASSROOM

    1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

      Prep Ruth for the class. She’s not dead yet.

      1. Jhon

        NOT DEAD ENOUGH

        …what??

  47. Lipke the Articulate

    Took me waaaay too many people making the Runny pun for me to get it, I feel ashamed of myself.

  48. BenRG

    Wow! This is maybe ten times worse than I thought!

  49. Emperor Norton II

    OK, so since the comment tree where this little thing started is too damn nested by now, I’ll write this little story as a new comment instead. Enjoy. Or not.

    THE SHIP BETWEEN EMPEROR NORTON II AND BLUEWIND:

    One day, Emperor Norton II found himself transformed into a hovering butt.

    “That’s strange,” the emperor said (through the magical powers of narrative imperative demanding that he could speak). “I really was expecting to wake up as an emperor, not an ass. I wonder if I’ve been assuming too much lately.”

    The emperor first wondered if he should hide from the public, since said public could not in good confidence support an ass as emperor. But then he realised that this was a perfect disguise, and he could hover around without people knowing it was in fact their emperor among them.

    So out he hovered, enjoying his anonymity. Sure, people pointed and laughed, but they did not know whom they were pointing and laughing at. And he smiled (how a floating ass smiles is a question best left unanswered) to them all, secretly making a point of remembering all their faces (how a floating ass can see is… You know the drill by now) and later, once he had regained his imperial shape, he vowed to have them thrown into his dungeons.

    But then, as he hovered around a corner, he butted into another floating ass. Thankfully, both asses were pretty soft, so no harm done.

    “Oh, We are terribly sorry,” the emperor said.

    “No, it was my fault,” the other ass replied bitterly (butterly?). “I’ve just been rather depressed of having been turned into an ass this morning. I never should have made those comments on that stupid webcomic.”

    “Hahaha, indeed you should not”, the emperor said, hoping that butts could not blush with embarrassment. Quickly trying to change the subject, he asked for his subjects name.

    “I’m Bluewind, but everybody calls me Godzilla, because of how I look” said the other butt.

    “Pleased to meet you, Bluewind. We are… I mean, I am… Norton Johansen.” The Emperor was very pleased with how he had cleverly disguised his name. “So anyway, you seem a bit upset. What is the worst part of being a butt, you would say?”

    The other ass looked ashamedly at the Emperor, but eventually said “I miss my friend Bob. He was always there for me, but now I can’t get hold of him anymore.”

    “I am terribly sorry to hear that. But you know what? I’m sure two butts think better than one. How about we go to my place and figure out how we can solve this problem.”

    “Really?” Bluewind asked. “THat’s awfully nice of you, but-”

    “Ah-ah-ah, no buts!” said the emperor, feeling very pleased with himself for timing that reply just right. “You will be my guest and together we will think of something. United we think, divided we have a brain fart!”

    Bluewind reluctantly accepted the offer, and off they went to one of Emperor Norton’s secret hiding houses.

    TO BE CONTINUED?

    1. Lipke the Articulate

      Man, this ship was pretty shitty
      I mean really nobody assked you to write it
      I mean, I guess Orion technically did, butt that’s not the point
      Although I suppose I did crack up a bit
      I’ll stop now before I make an ass of myself

    2. Bluewind

      Can’t talk.. laughing… too hard… to breathe XD

      1. Emperor Norton II

        Mission ass-complished.

    3. Spencer

      lewd

      1. Emperor Norton II

        You should’ve read the part I deleted.

    4. Orion Fury

      I look forward to the continuation of your story sir, it is most enjoyable.

  50. maarvarq

    It goes to show how carefully I look at the strip that I thought at first that those things in the second panel were porta-potties rather than the elaborate gateposts that they obviously are, and was wondering why Walky was running away from them if he needed to go.

  51. Bagge

    “When you gotta go to potty you gotta go right away…”

  52. Bagge

    Awwwww, Walky checking in with Sal, Sal checking in with Joyce, Joyce checking in with Walky….

    For all their clusterfudge of problems, they do have a good support network. If only any of them would admit they NEED the support of their friends…

  53. Keulan

    I’m kind of surprised Walky hasn’t tripped on his own untied shoelaces even once so far.

  54. Amake

    Damnit Walky, a fixed mindset is not attractive. You’ve got to learn to take being challenged as an opportunity to learn instead of a risk to fail if you’re going to save Japan grow as a person.

    But really, Walky’s problem is so common among children who are ever considered just a little bit more gifted than their peers it’s embarrassing.

  55. nobodybasically

    Anyone else incapable of reading the phrase “I gotta potty” without hearing it in Wakko’s voice from Animaniacs?

    1. SgtWadeyWilson

      Now I am.

  56. Cerberus

    Comic Reactions:

    Panel 1: Interesting… are those bags under her eyes. I’m wondering if Sal has been doing a thing I did in college and is staying up all night, doing her morning class at the end of it and then crashing afterwards.

    And yeah, it would definitely be described as a weird night given that she was stalked, abused with a bunch of racism from an angry conservative mob, semi-befriended her stalker, and helped punch and track down Joyce’s rapist.

    And I’m definitely worried about the fallout as Sal doesn’t really have anyone to talk to about the wealth of feelings an evening like that is bound to bring up, not to mention the fact that her actions that night definitely did not sit well with Marcie and Sal knows that because she looked back to see Marcie’s furious face.

    Panel 2: I love Sal so much for this moment. It’s the human touch that matters most and shows that she gets shit like sexual assault a lot better than most of the cast minus maybe Billie.

    Like, yeah, check the fuck in with Joyce, especially since Ryan’s photo is out there and Ryan went out looking for revenge. And especially since Dorothy or AG might have checked in with her last night about what to do next and thus let her know about them finding her rapist (we know they didn’t, but Sal doesn’t know that).

    And the phrasing. “You hangin’ in there?” That is so key. That is what you ask someone who’s potentially going through hell and flashbacks. Because flashbacks are not fun, having to figure out what to do about an abuser isn’t fun, figuring out how to recover isn’t fun. But it matters that you’re holding in there and it matters that you know folks have got your back and are willing to catch you if you slip and fall a little.

    It’s a little moment that makes me believe Sal would actually be a fantastic social worker. Because she’s got the exact right attitude to check in on emotional health and genuinely be there for folks.

    Panel 3: Walky alone in the quad with all his demons. 2016 David Willis.

    1. BBCC

      We’ve seen Sal stay up super super late before, so I’m thinking her sleep schedule is more ‘a couple hours per day and then binge sleep when I can’ than any actual pattern.

      ….Yeah, I can see that being weird.

      Yeeeeaaaahhhhh, let’s hope Marcie isn’t too angry that they can’t make up, this is gonna need discussion.

      I do like your mention of Sal’s skill with stuff like this. She’s got pretty good crisis skills most of the time – I don’t know about social workers (her stint as a juvenile delinquent may have soured her on them as it did on therapists) but i can see her as a decent crisis management worker once the crisis has already happened and people need help.

    2. Fart Captor

      All of this. I already love it whenever Sal drops her cool detachment to show concern or affection or just otherwise have a slightly more real moment with someone, but there’s something touching about how she drops her own guard for what should seem like a relatively small gesture

    3. Regalli

      Agreed. “Are you all right?” tends to be a crappy question in these situations because really, there’s the “all right” you feel when you’re actually okay and then there’s the “all right” of “Well by typical healthy standards this is terrible, but in the context of this I’m doing great” and trying to explain that to someone who’s not literally inside your mental state with you is difficult at best and draining. But “Hanging in there?” You can feel like absolute CRAP, honestly you probably do, but hey if you’re holding together we’ll count that as a win. (Which, probably not dissimilar to how Sal’s feeling right now. WEIRD night indeed.)

      Walky needs all the hugs.

      1. Cerberus

        All of this.

        And yes, Walky needs emergency hugs, stat.

        1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

          Now I am picturing spandexed HugPerson swooping in out of the trees …

          (Except that there isn’t really any way to make the idea noncreepy.)

        2. Jhon

          NOT HUGS ENOUGH

        3. Orion Fury

          Thank you.

  57. Cerberus

    Panels 4-6: Ok, first of all, the line “have fun with every single one of the maths” is just liquid gold. I’m gonna have to start using that when I assign homework.

    Second of all, I really like Emperor’s suggestion that he’s gonna drop the class and I think it’s right in the long-term though I’m not sure he’s fully there in realizing that he’s gonna have to drop the class as he’s still got a lot of his sense of self wrapped up in his ability to handle any difficult subject easily.

    Cause, yeah, that conversation with Sarah really hammers home that point that not only is Walky suffering in Calculus, but he’s doing so unnecessarily. Calculus is not required for his major and the only reason he is taking it is to support this mythology he’s built up surrounding the idea that his worth is tied to him being smart and that he proves this by tackling any difficult subject without any effort.

    Dropping Calculus will be part of his healing, just as much learning to actually study is. And it’s another lesson that a lot of college students slam into. Cause, not every class works out. Life throws a mental health curveball or a major just doesn’t hold the interest that one thought it would or a course is a nightmare and not worth pursuing.

    Learning to bail earlier and with less stress is a skill all of them will need, but Walky will especially need because of how much he’s built into this mythology that he proves his super smart know-it-all ways by taking super hard subjects (but only the super hard subjects relating to math, which oh man, there’s so much gendered stuff to unpack there especially since we know from Leslie’s introduction that he’s only in Gender Studies because he presumed it would be an easy A in the humanities).

    Like, he also needs to learn how to study and push through things. That’s a skill he’s gonna need in life and he’s gonna have to learn it sometime. But I’m not convinced that him learning it with Calculus will do as much good to break down that central mythology.

    And it’s worth noting that removing that central mythology will also make him a better human being. Part of his confrontational method of interacting with people and picking intellectual fights with folks is rooted in this idea that he’s super smart and thus his biases and preconceptions must be rooted in fact and correct and thus someone else’s perspective on the matter or values system must be in error or stupid. It was a key part of his fight with Carla and definitely his interactions with Joyce about her faith.

    It will also help his relationship. Like, Dorothy had to couch to an insane degree her disagreement with Walky on the Ultra Car cartoon and he still took it super super personally and that’s tied to the idea that if he’s super smart and right all the time, then people he’s close to disagreeing with him are actually attacking a fundamental core of him.

    And well… no, that’s not how it works and he needs to shed that before either Dorothy realizes that putting up with that shit is not a virtue or he ends up in a relationship with someone who won’t give him the softly softly treatment about his tendency to mansplain things.

    Overall though, I’m really excited that this moment might be kicking off a moment of genuine growth for him.

    1. Reltzik

      Yeah, all that, except it doesn’t apply here. Walky is not rationally breaking down his built-up mythos around math regarding smart-students and dumb-students. Walky isn’t in Sarah’s mindset of “why take hard math if it doesn’t help my major”. He’s in Billie’s mindset of “stick it out even if it gets tough”, except Walky doesn’t do tough.

      Look at that face. That’s lizard-brain aversion and phobia. He’s not looking at his situation in a clear-eyed manner and realizing it makes tactical sense to drop calculus. He’s just gtfoing asap. He’s not even dropping Calculus. This isn’t a moment that will help him in his relationship with Dorothy… it’s one more thing he’ll have to hide from her, and thus get defensive about, and thus get aggressive about.

      The lesson he takes away from dropping/withdrawing/failing Calculus won’t be “you can be smart and still be bad at math”. The lesson he’s going to take away is “I’m dumb and worthless and must avoid everything that challenges me ever”.

      The most concerning part is that he’s isolating himself from his friends and support group and lying to them… and doing it in such a way that he can repeat it at will over the rest of the term. They’ll figure it out eventually… after he uses the same trick to miss three weeks, the midterm, and the withdraw date.

      1. Reltzik

        Also, the only ones who would care enough to do something are Dorothy, Joyce, Mike, and Jason. Sal keeps a bit of distance from bro and definitely doesn’t do hand-holding. Billie has other concerns and hates Walky’s guts anyway. Dorothy… might do something, but probably won’t/can’t, since the relationship has boundaries and she knows she’s already pushing them. Joyce WOULD want to help, but she’s so trusting and naive that Walky can actually fool her with the “go potty” story for a while and she won’t notice in time. Jason, for all his faults, has noticed and genuinely wants to help, but isn’t good at it and Walky’s rejected his help in an omg-authority-figure-knows-my-secret panic.

        That leaves Mike. Mike will notice, and do something about it. This… isn’t a good thing.

        1. thejeff

          Sal might push him, if she realizes. No hand-holding, but a good shove in the right direction.

        2. Derek

          I don’t think Billie hates Walky, she cares about him im her own messed up way

        3. Reltzik

          True, but functionally it works out to the same thing.

      2. Willoughby Chase

        If his major is electronics (communications?) then Calc is integral to his degree … if he fails on this course he may well have to flunk the degree, or “sent down” as they say in Cambridge.

        Transferring to Med – as his parents want – then the study ethic hits hard as well.

        My betting is on Mike to provide the push – he’s done it once already with Walky’s relationship with Dorothy:

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/03-the-first-step-towards-recovery/trespasser/

    2. thejeff

      Maybe in the long run he should drop Calc, but I really doubt that’s what he’s doing now. He’s panicking and running away. And hiding it.

      More, dropping it doesn’t work narratively. He’s still going to have to do the “learn to study” thing at some point, but there’s nothing set up to build back to that if he drops Calculus. It just dangles until next semester at best – which is decades away.

      I agree the mythology has to be broken, but “Give up if you can’t do it effortlessly” isn’t the way to do that. That just pushing him into the I’m a dumb failure fallback, as Reltzik says. “I can do this, if I work at it” is just as much a disruption of his golden man-child thing and leaves him in a much better place.

      It could have been set up to handle both – If there was another course he was also established as struggling with, for example. Then it could be more of a pick your battles kind of lesson.

      1. Cerberus

        True, though I think Walky and Joe might be struggling more in Gender Studies than they think they are.

    3. Regalli

      Agreed in the longterm, yeah. In the short term? This is the “if I ignore it long enough it’ll stop being a problem, right? Right?” reaction, maybe mixed with a panic attack, so I’m guessing what it’s going to end up with for this particular class is probably “slow motion trainwreck that hopefully someone notices before things get unsalvageable and wreck him in other classes, but let’s not bet on that one.” If we ever get to spring semester*, that’s where I see him (with help from everyone who saw this collapse and is now Aware There Is A Problem) starting to learn the study skills versus some classes Just Aren’t Worth It distinction, but this one’s probably going to be getting worse well before it gets better.

      * In 2037 or so, probably.

  58. HMRC4EVR

    It’s a Potty Emergency! Walky and Wakko have a Death Battle over the only available Port-a-Potty.

    1. Lipke the Articulate

      Walky wins, mainly because Death Battle’s research team forgets to differentiate between Walkyverse Walky and Dumbiverse Walky, and give him his abductee powers.

      1. Orion Fury

        But what about the Gag Bag? Also, While they’re both cartoons (from our perspective) Walaky can still die, Wacko can’t (so long as people acknowledge his existence).

  59. Spencer

    This reminds me that I felt too depressed to go to my math class on Tuesday.

    It felt like I couldn’t move. Is that normal?

    1. Reltzik

      It’s normal in the sense that many people have that happen.

      It’s not normal in the sense that you shouldn’t take it as a potentially serious warning sign.

      It might not be depression in a clinical sense. It might just be mental fatigue or wanna-do-anything-else.

      But if it recurs persistently, I (who know next to nothing about mental health issues, be warned) suggest you take it to CAPS or whatever your school calls it. As prep for this, introspect a lot about what it feels like in that moment and what thoughts or expectations are associated with it. Put that into words so you can describe it better and make better use of your limited time with your counselor.

      1. Spencer

        I’ve been in a depressive state for the last few days so IDK. Lotta shutdown time going on which hasn’t happened for years.

        Fortunately I am seeing a school counselor soon.

        1. Regalli

          As someone who had the “too depressed to go to class” and the “too anxious to go to class” version in this strip (though I didn’t have enough friends or motivation to fake it as far as Walky did here), yeah that’s about how it felt like for me too. Seconding Reltzik’s “it’s normal in the sense that it’s a common depression symptom, it’s not normal in the sense that once you get to that point you’re probably in the Bad Zone if you didn’t know that already, so plan accordingly.” Appropriate gestures of internet support here, hope the counselor’s good.

        2. Cerberus

          *hugs* Take care of your mental health.

        3. BBCC

          Hey, I know I don’t really know you, but I’m sorry to hear you aren’t feeling well. I hope your guidance counselling session goes well, you feel better soon, and that you take care of yourself.

        4. Spencer

          Thank you for the kind words, everyone.

          I’m, well, I’m not doing all that good right now, but I’m going to try and make my way through.

        5. Orion Fury

          Sympathy via light touching.

  60. Betty Anne

    Yeah, ’cause skipping class is totally going to improve your grade, Walky. 😐

  61. nlips

    Poor Walky. He can’t run forever. His grade in that class IS happening, and eventually people will find out.

    I hope this ends up being at least a little bit of a growing up moment for him.

    The thing is… he lacks perspective. It’s just one class. In 10 years it’ll just be a story, nobody will really care. But right now… it’s consuming him. He’s afraid.

  62. Alex

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-eUFMGBtCc

    1. Alex

      also, I’m sad that it’s an incomplete version 😛

  63. Portland

    My undergrad college didn’t show us our grades unless we specifically requested it. I didn’t find out until I requested transcripts for grad school that I had a C+ in psychology. If I’d known I was doing that poorly, I wouldn’t have picked it as my major.I knew I didn’t do great on the final and a few assignments, but I had it in my head that I was great at psych.

    (I also thought I was terrible at math, but I got an A in stats, so go figure. Now half my job is data analysis and shit.)

    1. Jhon

      You ARE great at math — Now make them show it.

    2. Orion Fury

      What? The hell is that kind of school?

  64. Ashley

    “Potty”? Seriously? Are you 5 years old, Walky?

    1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

      Joyce’s purity is subtly influencing him.

      1. Bluewind

        Nope. It’s something he has been doing since before Joyce.
        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/02-guess-whos-coming-to-galassos/potty/

    2. Lipke the Articulate

      You’re asking Walky that question?

    3. DarkoNeko

      Yes.

  65. Bluewind

    Off topic, but does anybody know how Patreon works? I’ve never done it before, but I’m thinking of starting after Christmas. Also, does the lowest tier cover past bonus comics or just future ones? I’ll still want to do it if it’s for future ones only (this strip means a lot to me and spending $1 a month to support it won’t break my budget), but since I can’t find an answer on his About/FAQ, I thought I would ask. 🙂

    1. Bluewind

      Also, is the $35 PDF I found online the only way to get to read all of Joyce & Walky or is there another way to purchase it?

      1. Spencer

        The $1 tier allows you access to all of Joyce & Walky! and all previous and future bonus strips.

        1. Bluewind

          Holy crap! I had no clue it was that awesome! ^_^

      2. BBCC

        First tier also covers past strips, yes. And his store has the Joyce and Walky strips in it as well.

      3. Slartibeast Button, BIA

        Is that still in effect? I’ve never figured out where to go on patreon to find it.

        1. Jhon

          NOT FOUND ENOUGH

  66. Jhon

    And in other news — in panel 4 we have Sal as only Sal can be…

    1. Emperor Norton II

      Having the longest hair of all the cast?

  67. Clif

    Yeah, if this was Walky suffering a full blown panic attack it was certainly sudden-onset as he seemed okay right up to when he said hi to Sal. I’m almost willing to go with the theory that his mind just caught up with his conversation with Sarah and he realized that he *could* take basic math instead. But then, how to explain the alt text.

    1. BBCC

      Eh, he seemed nervous talking math and grades on the way too, imo.

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