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Platonic
Posted on October 24, 2014 by David M Willis

142 thoughts on “Platonic”

  1. An Average Loser

    Better Than Phones. . .

    1. TachyonCode

      And for the second time on a comic Willis has posted today, I must say: Seconded.

    2. Shadow12000

      Still shouldn’t be doing it while you drive. Anyone disagreeing please raise your hand so we may cut it off and forcefully prevent you from doing so, idiot.

  2. AHR

    I’ve definitely done what Amber does before. Sometimes the written word is just easier to deal with.

    1. -Sentinel-

      I totally agree.

      1. thebombzen

        Sometimes the best thing to describe what I think of something is a good old πŸ˜› or -_-. But I can’t do either of those IRL and I get frustrated.

        1. LiamKav

          I’m pretty sure you can smile in real life.

          Unless you’re joking. I can’t tell without an emoticon.

        2. HentMas

          -Sometimes the best thing to describe what I think of something is a good old πŸ˜› or -_-. But I can’t do either of those IRL and I get frustrated. “XD”-

          -FTFH

    2. Tunaro

      It does give you more time to snark, yes.

    3. Doctor_Who

      Me flirting in text: “Your eyes sparkle like emeralds catching the first rays of dawn from the bottom of a crystal clear pool. Should I drown in them, my only regret would be that now heaven will hold no surprises.”

      Me flirting in person: “Hurr hurr, Yer purdy.”

      1. Opus the Poet

        Golly you’re cute <- in person

        My goodness, have the heavens lost a twinkling star? Your eyes are so bright… <- typical me in text/e-mail.

      2. Aargvark

        Now why do I have such a hard time tapping that eloquence without writing smut?

      3. Tenn

        And now I imagine that as dialogue spoken by Harvey Korman and Slim Pickens.

  3. Emperor Kiva

    Now this will end badly

  4. Kodra

    Amber’s adorable identity crisis, on display in panel 3

    1. Dorje Sylas

      Wa-oh, time to start looking at integrating those personalities before the things take a Fight Club turn.

      1. MrSirk

        That would actually be kind of awesome. Amber versus imaginary Brad Pitt in a parking garage. Oh you meant Amazi-Girl!…..still awesome.

        1. John

          Amazi-Girl vs. imaginary Brad Pitt would be even awesomer.

        2. JustCheetoDust

          But Danny telling her that he “hasn’t been fucked like that since grade school” would just be weird.

        3. John

          Dorothy and Danny’s relationship got more sedate after a few years.

        4. Dorje Sylas

          Either or. Danny dressed as Amazi-Girl fighting an imaginary Ethan (dressed as Brad Pitt) could also be a result.

  5. Yotomoe

    I think amber’s hair in panels 1 and 2 is a bit…unfilled (around the outlines). Sometimes I don’t say anything but this time it’s so glaring I can’t help but point it out.

    1. Khrene

      I think the lowlight of her hair happens to match the door behind her.

      1. Yotomoe

        No. It’s not. And sorry. I mean Panels 2 and 3

  6. Mr. Random

    …send all.

  7. MrSirk

    Let’s just communicate through text all the time.

    1. Camachri

      Word.

      1. cesium133

        Perhaps we could communicate through Powerpoint.

        1. gwalla

          Morse code using the PowerPoint “screeching tires” noise.

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      Text is best!

      1. JustCheetoDust

        With a keyboard, yeah. On a phone I’m too paranoid to just post without going over any auto correct fuck ups.

        1. Kelly

          My phone has a real keyboard, and always will! Soft keyboards are the devil!

        2. Dean

          Those phone keyboards are sooo tiny.

        3. Kelly

          Hush Dean, you don’t even know what MySpace is! Everyone knows Sam is the computer guy.

          …Er, sorry, I have been watching too much Supernatural lately.

          But yeah, my KB is about 3 3/4 inches (~9.5 cm) across, three rows, plenty big enough for me. Wouldn’t want to see my dad try to use it though.

        4. Disloyal Subject

          It gets to be second nature after a while. I’ve recorrected Greg Knight’s back to Grey Knights at least three times today. It’s gotten to the point that a genuine keyboard is actually disorienting, because everything stays how I type it the first time, so when I go back to look for errors and can’t find any, I freeze up for a few seconds while I triple-check.

  8. Yotomoe

    Danny just wants to hug that bosom.

    1. newllend

      Who doesn’t ?

      1. Yotomoe

        I do. Billie’s still top of that list, though.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          But Joyce has already called dibs on those pair.

        2. Yotomoe

          Joyce’s ass has called dibs on my foot!

    2. Bobbin

      Uh, I read that as “Higgs bosom”.

  9. Emoroffle

    Now type “kiss”.

    1. saltchocolate

      This.

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      Why type when you can ASCII:

      (っ’Π·’)っ

      1. saltchocolate

        So cute, Plas!

      2. Kelly

        That is so not remotely ascii. it is unicode.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Details schmetails!

        2. tinfoil theory

          Unicode:

          😗 😘 😙 😚

      3. Opus the Poet

        So what character did you use for the hands? My ASCII chart didn’t have it.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          っ is a Japanese character.

        2. Oldfart

          tsu? It’s hiragana, right? I studied it in the ’80’s..

        3. Kelly

          awesome πŸ™‚

          what confuses me is why/how the 3 is smaller and in a different font. It even looks the same in the source view, and there are no style tags on it…

        4. Kelly

          Nevermind, it is “cyrillic small letter ze”

      4. Dirk Strider's Splinter Hopeself

        That would just be ASC-Ing for it.
        Eyy?
        Anybody?

  10. CommunistCanada

    Honestly? They can’t just Whisper to eachother? Is there even anyone in the Hallway?

    And Just a Guess, Somebody is going to borrow Dan’s Phone later and see this Conversation.

    1. Camachri

      Whispering looks suspicious. DS Texting just looks like a pair of nerds being, well, nerds.

    2. advancecasette

      no offense to danny but who the heck would wanna borrow his phone

      1. Yotomoe

        Offense to Danny, NOBODY.

        1. Dean

          Danny will lend his DS to Billie again. Billie and Amber will begin a torrid online affair, neither knowing who the other is.

        2. RAZ

          That will be billie’s roomate. Sal.

  11. JA

    I prefer to talk thru 3DS

  12. newllend

    Which looking back on it, probably not the best idea to broadcast the secret that your in a relationship with a super hero

  13. Malchus

    Text is too unsecure.

    Communicate via eye blinking in Attic Greek using Cyrillic Morse Code.

  14. takashid

    “So you and Amber have to be careful”

    She’s referring to herself in the third person? Is she in Amazi girl persona mindset right now?

    1. Viktoria

      You’re right, that is third-person. Meaning, yeah, probably she is Amazi-Girl right now. I’m guessing she’s AG because AG is the one dating Danny, not Amber. Which means panel 3 is her being jealous of herself.
      …
      Amber has ISSUES.

      1. Yotomoe

        You silly people. Amazi-girl never BLUSHES. Duh.

        1. Kryss LaBryn

          But… she’s not blushing now, either.

        2. Yotomoe

          Except she is.

    2. OrtyBortorty

      Maybe Amber is Amazi-girl whenever she’s online?

    3. hof1991

      Amber (Bruce Wayne) is the mask.

    4. 3oranges

      In that sentence she refers to both Amber and Amazi-girl in third person. So either this is another persona – maybe UC or Bruce Wayne – or she just refers to herself tht way sometimes.

      Like Yotomoe says, Amazi-girl doesn’t have rosy cheeks. The ability to shift blood away from her face is her superpower.

      1. gwalla

        Matches O’Malone

    5. Jams

      Since both Amber and AG are the same person, there’s the potential for confusion. Referring to both in third person removes any ambiguity, so I suspect that’s why Amber is doing it that way, not because she has an additional personality.

    6. Dirk Strider's Splinter Hopeself

      Maybe it’s just her referring to her personas so that danny doesn’t get confused. By referring to them in the third person, he knows what she’s talking about without any awkward confusion.

  15. Rosicrucian

    Amber has a long way to go before she likes Amber.

    1. Yotomoe

      At least Amber is good at vidya games, Acrobatics, and is easy on the eyes. If she can manage to like DANNY then it shouldn’t be too hard to see your own virtues.

  16. saltchocolate

    You know, the way the page loaded, the strip’s title appeared a few seconds before the strip itself, and for a moment, I was worried that it was going to be Dottie and Walky who popped up!

  17. Kernanator

    Typing on the 3DS is still too loud. Communicate telepathically.

    1. Kernanator

      Oh wait, those are cell phones, whoops.

  18. TheLurkerAbove

    Amber still has one of those slider phones? Thought they’re passe by now.

    1. TheLurkerAbove

      Though thinking about it, she’s probably awesome enough to upgrade the damn thing.

    2. kelticat

      Given her comic book collection, her Amazi-gadgets, her costume, and her college fees, she probably can’t afford to buy a new phone everytime one comes out. I seem to recall that her laptop is also not new.

  19. a4lbi

    *is also on Team Text-Don’t-Talk*

    1. saltchocolate

      Gravatar love!!! Is this a character from another strip or something?

      1. gwalla

        I think it’s from one of those online avatar-maker apps.

      2. a4lbi

        I wish I got notis for comments via Gravatar.

        I used FaceQ: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.miantan.myoface&hl=en

  20. Khaner

    Dear Lord, what fossil is Amber using?

  21. rachel

    foolish complicated humans

  22. Rachel Roth

    Is that a… sarcasm tag?

    1. Deanatay

      It’s a sarcasm _end_ tag. He’s saying ‘Ok, Let’s stop being sarcastic now.’

      1. gwalla

        He’s asking whether she’s being sarcastic about “being able to talk with him”, since the whole point of this conversation is that they can’t.

  23. Idon'tcarenomore

    I have a slider and will keep it. I also have a fully operational flip phone for shades of Star Trek πŸ™‚
    The soft kybds along with autocorrect are too big a pita to mess with.

    I have an Ereader, laptop, gaming PC, mp3, and tablet to do all the tech/game/music/gaming stuff I need to do.

    My cell is reliable for texting, phone, alarm clock, calendar, memo, and maps (its not a smart phone but it pulls up places) when I want to go online with it. It never drops calls, and it always has full bars. If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it. πŸ˜‰

    I had a smart phone for work. I had one just to have one. Not worth it. Just another $500 gotta have it for no reason except to have it item.

  24. Thomas

    WOW, young people who use capitals and punctuation marks in texting!

    1. David M Willis

      When I text I have to actually try extra hard to NOT use capital letters. It defaults to them at the beginning of all sentences and autocorrects for proper nouns.

      1. Thomas

        Software programmers are silently plotting to educate us.

        1. Beckett

          More like plotting to end the need for education.

        2. JustCheetoDust

          So this is how I’m reminded of Roy singing “Another Brick in the Wall” in an episode of The IT Crowd.

      2. Bill

        I always text in capitals and with correct punctuation (and I also review my post before I hit “submit” to correct grammar and spelling).Β Β After almost 50 years of training in how to write it’s a hard habit to break.

    2. Thomas

      Except in the 4th panel, which is probably an approximation for Willis’ use of smaller font.

      (Damn, Amber is cute.)

    3. Killjoy

      I’m fairly fastidious about using actual English text in my texts, but then, I’m hardly what most would consider “the young” at this point.

      1. Disloyal Subject

        Some of us youngsters do it too. Mostly the bookworms.

        1. Slinx

          Pretty much everyone I know uses full words, capitals, and punctuation when texting full sentences. This also includes twitter posts. The only people who don’t are politicians.

    4. Jerden

      I USE CAPITALS!!! AND PUCTUATION!!! HOW DARE YOU CRITISISE THE TEXTING OF THE YOUTH!!!

      1. Disloyal Subject

        Obligatory pointing out too much of a good thing.

  25. RJ

    Noooo paper trail PAPER TRAIL GUYS

    I mean, text trail, but still – Peter Parker should probably not send MJ texts about Spiderman.

  26. Bill

    Danny, just tell her that you know (or at least strongly suspect) that she is Amazi-Girl and that you like her in either incarnation.

    1. John

      Um. He knows. She knows he knows. He knows she knows he knows. That’s what this whole conversation is about. Did you forget the part where Amazi-Girl’s mask fell off right in front of Danny and he was all “OMG AMBER?” and, uh, all of their interactions since?

      1. xKiv

        Also, her text in today’s last panel.

  27. Jinxed44

    Yah know…
    At first I kinda wanted to see the porn.
    Now I really don’t.
    It’d be like watching relatives bone.

    Also, Amber now looks totally different from Dorothy.
    It might just be that I see em more, but I think the art might have evolved in a great way. Maybe.

  28. maxlines

    At least they’re not typing “How R U”? and such.

  29. biasedeyes

    Danny is a UBB expert by now.

  30. Adork

    Is she still talking/texting in third person?

    1. Deanatay

      Amber’s repression issues are starting to turn into full-on personality disassociation. Now she’s even relegating her feelings for Danny to Amazi-Girl? She may feel AG needs Danny more than she does. Or perhaps she’s concerned AG may be jealous?

      1. Kirt

        Obviously, Danny just needs to suggest a threesome to sort this all out.

        (I haven’t read the porn, so for all I know that’s part of it, but…)

        1. gwalla

          It…kinda is, metaphorically.

  31. Dani Kelley

    …maybe I’m totally missing something, but Danny’s suggestion doesn’t seem like a bad one.

    1. timemonkey

      It’s a good suggestion. Amber’s just still crazy and compartmentalising her personality.

  32. DiDi

    Oh, you couldn’t have a better set up for drama than this. It’s just falling into laps everywhere.

  33. OmegaDez

    I used to have a phone with a keyboard like Amber…
    When I changed phones, I asked for another like that, but they were like “lol, we don’t carry those anymore, they’s so unfashionable.”

    Ok… I miss my keyboard. πŸ™

    1. Disloyal Subject

      I feel your pain. This miserable shitbrick of a touchscreen sabotages me at every turn.

  34. Stifyn Baker

    There is no way this can’t end badly.

  35. Aint seen nothin yet

    thank you for changing the slipshine ad image. before it looked like danny was somehow playing amazing-girl’s butt like a trumpet, through her pants. still kinda confused on that

    1. gwalla

      Makin’ fart noises by blowing up against her buttcheek.

      1. Disloyal Subject

        Truly there is no classier form of foreplay.

  36. Bagge

    Joe is looking and thinking “Is that their idea of sex?”

  37. Charles Phipps

    Poor Danny, Amazi-Girl is going to kill him when she finds out he’s sleeping with Amber.

  38. Jams

    So Amber would prefer her relationship with Danny to be, nominally, via Amazi-Girl. I’m guessing she…sees AG as less vulnerable, and/or she’s reluctant to commit fully to the relationship, or trust Danny fully. This feels safer for now.

    1. Jams

      And, like, with Danny ripe for a sexual identity crisis, let’s hope this works.

      1. Charles Phipps

        Well, Amazi-Girl is the actual Amber. Nominal Amber is the creation of Blaine, a weak and scared girl who isn’t who Actual Amber wants to be. Actual Amber is Amazi-Girl because she’s strong, independent, and free. So, really, Nominal Amber is someone Amber loathes and considers the mask.

  39. Jams

    Interesting take, but I don’t really see it. In some way Amber admires herself as Amazi-Girl, but in some way I feel she detests that aspect of herself. Amber uses Amazi-Girl to channel all of the rage and violent outbursts she does not want in her primary personality – which is Amber. I don’t think she really sees Amazi-Girl as a full person.

    1. Jams

      This reply was for Charles Phipps.

  40. Dirk Strider's Splinter Hopeself

    I’m so indecisive about whether this or EthDan is my DoA OTP

    1. John

      Go with the Amber/Amazi-Girl/Danny/Ethan OT4.

      1. Disloyal Subject

        What about Mike?

      2. Dirk Strider's Splinter Hopeself

        Good point. But what do we call it, then? Ambmazannythan?

  41. Kutharos

    This reminds of a webcomic called Kevin and Kell. It’s an old webcomic that has been going on since 1995. I’m not joking on the year, it’s a long comic.

    Ayway there was a teen couple that actually could not talk normally for a year or two. They could only talk with their back to each other and IMing each other.

    1. Jen Aside

      That is actually most of the K&K couples =I

  42. artemi

    I don’t understand neither of them has proposed the obvious solution; Danny should just date BOTH Amber and Amazi-girl! That would fix things, would be a double stab to his ‘looser’ status, AND even be Joe approved!

    1. Dirk Strider's Splinter Hopeself

      You’re assuming Joe-approved is a good thing.

      1. Lume

        (It’s really not)

        1. Slinx

          There is already one person (one of the Rachels?) who suspects Amber and Amazigirl are the same person. I think the story of Danny dating both might be a threat to the secret identity. Maybe it could be the story they tell Joe, though, and say he is embarrassed about it and doesn’t want word getting around? Would Joe keep that secret?

  43. Em

    Ooo this is a shitty situation. And a big, huge Red Flag for Danny.

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