I assumed, but I still figure I’m missing something.
P.S. Hi, I met you at ECCC and I tipped you like five bucks (which confused you) for drawing Danny in my book (which confused you more.)
RevenantBacon
well yeah. Who would want a drawing of Danny? It might Dan up your notebook! Plus, you could get a drawing of Walky instead, and that’s like, a bajillion times better.
Leorale
Or a drawing of your TA being eaten by a t-rex.
BarGamer
Or a drawing of your TA being eaten OUT by a T-Rex.
-Sentinel-
Your TA being, of course, Dina.
Rowanmikaio
Danny being eaten by a T-Rex is probably an acceptable Danny.
Felix
Nah, he’s gonna Danny it up buy givin’ the T-Rex indigestion.
Jen Aside
Haha, just remembered that we say “pulling a Dan” because my BIL has this game strategy of putting all his snipers in the front [whaaaaaaat]. I wonder if Danning things up is universal among Daniels.
nekobawt
well yeah, most people tip him to NOT draw danny in their books.
I was waiting for a Dina strip to ask this, but I guess I shouldn’t wait indefinitely; my birthday is next month and I need to have a list of things that people close to me can get me. Can you please put some Dina merchandise (preferably shirts, Dina’s hat, or mugs, but especially shirts) on your website so that I can direct them to it?
David M Willis
It depends on when the Hiveworks store goes live! There’ll be at least one thing there when it does.
A Hiveworks store with potentially one thing? But it will be a Dina thing?
Works for me.
Rachel Roth
What’s the current estimate? Also, will it be okay to wear to school? (no beer or any other questionable content. . .) Or will it hold hot cocoa? Great, now I want hot cocoa which I can’t have cause I’m out!
I have NO idea how “read the story as I deliver it to you, at the same speed as everyone else” is unfair to anybody. What the hell?
Rachel Roth
THIS IS NOT A PUN STRIP. PLEASE POST YOUR PUN ELSEWHERE.
[Actually don’t. I just wanted someone to see the pun.]
Vree
You only have yourself to blame, Willis.
When new people start seeing nonexistent references to an earlier work it’s not their own fault.
Lord Geovanni
I just dont like being out of the loop. I like Knowledge. Knowledge is power.
John
The Dumbiverse isn’t in continuity with the Walkyverse, so you don’t need to have read the Walkyverse to know everything you need to know (though DoA does, admittedly, sometimes have bonus funny for Walkyverse readers).
(Seriously, tiny, tiny amount. I’ve read Roomies! through probably at least a dozen times, and I’d forgotten that Alice even existed until Willis pointed her out in the Roomies! reruns a few months ago.)
This is exciting. Could be an absolutely new character with no meta-baggage from the previous universe. I’ll bet Willis is both excited at that prospect and annoyed at all the folks who are asking this exact question.
Not because those folks are annoying, necessarily, more because the comments section is so full or stuff outside this universe that it makes new readers intimidated, which is the exact opposite of the purpose of this current webcomic.
Not to presume to know Willis’s motivations or feelings, of course.
When this happpens to me I generally google that character’s name and “Walkyverse” and eventually it leads me to the walky wiki and a description of that character in other continuities, which of course never helps because everything in DoA is basically separate and different so screw it just keep on truckin.
DoA isn’t in the Walkyverse so it can’t be an introduction to it.
DoA is basically Willis starting over from scratch with no continuity baggage or sci-fi elements (or old attitudes & beliefs he no longer holds), so it’s self-contained. Any additional enjoyment old Walkyverse fans get is strictly trainspotting (“Oh hey, it’s so-and-so!”).
Of course he could really blow peoples minds with occasional strip links and references to bits of an alternate continuity, the Chuck verse, in which the very same characters existed with a completely different history and have some sock puppets to make bogus comments about what the characters did there. Did you know that Alice and Joe were a thing in the Chuckverse after he dumped Billie?
I think someone yesterday thought that Chick-Fil-A was making Billie rounder.
Charlie Spencer
That can’t be true. Yesterday was Sunday; Chick-Fil-A was closed.
Mangulwort
That was me. There is nothing wrong with that, but I just cant help but notice. She is probably eating away her depression instead of drinking.
hurocrat
More likely it’s both. Lots of fast food (CFA is fairly healthy as fast food places go, but it ain’t exactly a salad bar) combined with a liking for beer – which is a lot of calories in a form that doesn’t encourage you to go out and burn them.
Actually, I thought of this…. “All the young girls love Alice. Tender young Alice, they say. Come over and tease me, come over and please me. Alice, it’s my turn today.”
198 thoughts on “Scowl”
Jen Aside
whoops?
An Average Loser
Oh, Hi Alice.
L33tmaster
oh snap here it comes
Krell
YOU ARE TEARING ME APART, ALICE
A
WHY ALICE WHY
Azrael
Yeah, I love when the happy, upbeat, and optimistic stuff that comes out of Joyce’s mouth is actually the Toll of Doom. 😆
Shadic
DoA being my introduction to Walkyverse, I am confused.
David M Willis
There is nothing yet you need to know. It will all be made known.
Shadic
I assumed, but I still figure I’m missing something.
P.S. Hi, I met you at ECCC and I tipped you like five bucks (which confused you) for drawing Danny in my book (which confused you more.)
RevenantBacon
well yeah. Who would want a drawing of Danny? It might Dan up your notebook! Plus, you could get a drawing of Walky instead, and that’s like, a bajillion times better.
Leorale
Or a drawing of your TA being eaten by a t-rex.
BarGamer
Or a drawing of your TA being eaten OUT by a T-Rex.
-Sentinel-
Your TA being, of course, Dina.
Rowanmikaio
Danny being eaten by a T-Rex is probably an acceptable Danny.
Felix
Nah, he’s gonna Danny it up buy givin’ the T-Rex indigestion.
Jen Aside
Haha, just remembered that we say “pulling a Dan” because my BIL has this game strategy of putting all his snipers in the front [whaaaaaaat]. I wonder if Danning things up is universal among Daniels.
nekobawt
well yeah, most people tip him to NOT draw danny in their books.
Rachel Roth
I was waiting for a Dina strip to ask this, but I guess I shouldn’t wait indefinitely; my birthday is next month and I need to have a list of things that people close to me can get me. Can you please put some Dina merchandise (preferably shirts, Dina’s hat, or mugs, but especially shirts) on your website so that I can direct them to it?
David M Willis
It depends on when the Hiveworks store goes live! There’ll be at least one thing there when it does.
Clif
A Hiveworks store with potentially one thing? But it will be a Dina thing?
Works for me.
Rachel Roth
What’s the current estimate? Also, will it be okay to wear to school? (no beer or any other questionable content. . .) Or will it hold hot cocoa? Great, now I want hot cocoa which I can’t have cause I’m out!
Ivan
LIES! If Willis knows it, it must be important to the story!
(he didn’t think anyone would figure that out!)
Lord Geovanni
Willis that’s not fair to us new people
David M Willis
I have NO idea how “read the story as I deliver it to you, at the same speed as everyone else” is unfair to anybody. What the hell?
Rachel Roth
THIS IS NOT A PUN STRIP. PLEASE POST YOUR PUN ELSEWHERE.
[Actually don’t. I just wanted someone to see the pun.]
Vree
You only have yourself to blame, Willis.
When new people start seeing nonexistent references to an earlier work it’s not their own fault.
Lord Geovanni
I just dont like being out of the loop. I like Knowledge. Knowledge is power.
John
The Dumbiverse isn’t in continuity with the Walkyverse, so you don’t need to have read the Walkyverse to know everything you need to know (though DoA does, admittedly, sometimes have bonus funny for Walkyverse readers).
And if you really want to know the tiny, tiny amount about another Alice in another universe that Walkyverse readers know, the Walkyverse is still there, get to readin’.
(Seriously, tiny, tiny amount. I’ve read Roomies! through probably at least a dozen times, and I’d forgotten that Alice even existed until Willis pointed her out in the Roomies! reruns a few months ago.)
Historyman68
This is exciting. Could be an absolutely new character with no meta-baggage from the previous universe. I’ll bet Willis is both excited at that prospect and annoyed at all the folks who are asking this exact question.
Not because those folks are annoying, necessarily, more because the comments section is so full or stuff outside this universe that it makes new readers intimidated, which is the exact opposite of the purpose of this current webcomic.
Not to presume to know Willis’s motivations or feelings, of course.
Camachri
Alice showed up at least once in Roomies!, so no absolutely new charactering this time.
Pink Freud
When this happpens to me I generally google that character’s name and “Walkyverse” and eventually it leads me to the walky wiki and a description of that character in other continuities, which of course never helps because everything in DoA is basically separate and different so screw it just keep on truckin.
David M Willis
EXACTLY.
NEVER BOTHER.
gwalla
DoA isn’t in the Walkyverse so it can’t be an introduction to it.
DoA is basically Willis starting over from scratch with no continuity baggage or sci-fi elements (or old attitudes & beliefs he no longer holds), so it’s self-contained. Any additional enjoyment old Walkyverse fans get is strictly trainspotting (“Oh hey, it’s so-and-so!”).
John
Plus the occasional, “Ha ha would you believe those two are married with kids in the other universe?”
(Case in point, panel one.)
Clif
Of course he could really blow peoples minds with occasional strip links and references to bits of an alternate continuity, the Chuck verse, in which the very same characters existed with a completely different history and have some sock puppets to make bogus comments about what the characters did there. Did you know that Alice and Joe were a thing in the Chuckverse after he dumped Billie?
Clif
Willis, the fact that you don’t is completely unfair to us crazy people!
SUGauthor
Plot twst!
Nono
Can’t remember who she is.
My guess in this universe, ex-cheerleader friend.
Maveric1984
She’s the one who invited Billy to the party just before the end of Roomies! and tried to convince Billie to drink. She had the novelty beer glass.
Lord Geovanni
So indirectly responsible for billies get together and break up with Ruth and and some other stuff
John
No, because those happened in different universes.
Maveric1984
She was, however, Billie’s maid of honor in Walkyverse.
Doctor_Who
Bad timing, Billie. You only go ask “Alice?” when she’s ten feet tall.
Leorale
Some make you rounder, some will make you tall, but those in the cafeteria don’t do anything at all
Stephen Bierce
Feed Your HEAD!
AgentKeen
I think someone yesterday thought that Chick-Fil-A was making Billie rounder.
Charlie Spencer
That can’t be true. Yesterday was Sunday; Chick-Fil-A was closed.
Mangulwort
That was me. There is nothing wrong with that, but I just cant help but notice. She is probably eating away her depression instead of drinking.
hurocrat
More likely it’s both. Lots of fast food (CFA is fairly healthy as fast food places go, but it ain’t exactly a salad bar) combined with a liking for beer – which is a lot of calories in a form that doesn’t encourage you to go out and burn them.
Jen Aside
this is just asking for “EAT ME” art
Doctor_Who
I think with Billie, “Drink me” is more appropriate.
John
She tastes like booze!
Yotomoe
Alice….What HAVE you done?…
KingoHrts
Actually, I thought of this…. “All the young girls love Alice. Tender young Alice, they say. Come over and tease me, come over and please me. Alice, it’s my turn today.”
Emperor Kiva
Joyce’s right you know.
Doctor_Who
Happens about twice a day.
fogel
I have a watch that needs a new battery that’s like that.
Kernanator
Goddammit, Joyce, don’t you know better than to say things like that yet?
Yotomoe
Joyce. Knowing better.
oxymoron.
Nono
It’s funny how Joyce says ”it’s just a cafeteria”’when she was at the Table Flip Galä just a week ago.
ninja_jesus
Table Flip held a Gala? 😀
Khaner
She no longer looks like a genderswapped Faz.
I am disapointed.
newllend
You want something like that, get amber to squint and grin in a creepy manner that will do just fine.
Liahansen
Anyone else sad Willis doesn’t seem to have decided to run with that “disturbing resemblance to Faz” thing?
Yotomoe
I love Faz and all Faz-like people and am, too, dissapointed.
Catullus
This graph demonstrates that over 98% of people love Faz-like people in all forms! :â–·
Clif
You’re holding it upside down.
Gadgeteer Smashwidget
Lies! The Great Faz has charts to prove you wrong!
nekobawt
in panel 3 joyce might as well be asking “what’s the worst that could happen?”
Gangler
She looks cool!
newllend