Steak
Posted on July 16, 2018 by David M Willis

208 thoughts on “Steak”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    I am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me?

    1. Jimi

      Ah, a person of taste I see

  2. BBCC

    I love these two so much.

    And oh, Billie. Honey.

    1. butts

      Billie. Sweetie.

      Stop.

      Just stop. Please.

      1. Reltzik

        Billie, just rank this with your victories along with hooking Walky and Dorothy up in the first place.

    2. Deanatay

      Billie’s first five words: What she’s really going for, here.

      The rest: Trying to justify the first five words.

  3. ShinyNeen

    Don’t give up, Billie! If you keep trying, maybe you can take Walky’s mind off of Amber taking his mind off of you taking his mind off his gigantic, soul-destroying breakup!

  4. kay

    And she’s doing so WELL.

  5. Cheesy1

    “Speaking of A1 sauce, would you like to read my newest fanfic?”

  6. Nono

    So how’s Billie going to take the news that she’s not even good at helping her dorky loser childhood friend?

    1. King Daniel

      Spoiler Alert: that already happened when she thought for a long time that she was responsible for getting Dorothy and Walky together in the first place, before being rid of that notion

    2. DailyBrad

      Billie’s a bit oblivious. Her loser childhood friend is probably less of a loser than she is these days.

      1. cbwroses

        Well, up until she suddenly got a fan club in her new dorm.

        1. Doctor_Who

          I’m still trying to figure out if those people are nuts, or if they are just so used to Malaya that Billie seems like Mr. Rogers in comparison.

        2. cbwroses

          I’m hoping they’re faking it just to be nice and she’ll eventually overhear it, probably after she says something mean and stupid to Ruth.

        3. @zombieundergrnd

          I think one day Billy will wake up in the dorm in a bathtub full of ice and one of her kidneys will be missing. And all her dorm mates will have disappeared.

        4. Doctor_Who

          That would cover, like, one semester for one of them, tops.

          Livers are worth more, but I imagine Billie’s isn’t exactly pristine.

        5. Needfuldoer

          It’s one of the few organs that can regenerate, they just need a good part.

          Where does the bathtub come from, though? Maybe it just inexplicably shows up when it’s needed, and the first thing Billie questions after coming to is its presence.

        6. Tawdry Quirks

          The latter is the more rational explanation, but this being the *Dumb*iverse and all, it probably is more reasonable to assume they’re all crazy, rather than merely being thankful Billie isn’t Malaya.

  7. shadowcell

    only now does Willis realize that he could’ve just drawn four or five variations on “character typing on phone” and that would’ve been his whole comic for the next thirty years

    1. Doctor_Who

      All webcomic artists are jealous of Ryan North for this exact reason.

      1. abysswatcher1993

        Is he still making dinosaur comics?

        1. Doctor_Who

          Yes, but if he stopped it would be honestly kinda hard to tell.

  8. Stephen Bierce

    Last night I grilled a steak for my Dad and myself and I found a leftover pack of Arby’s Horsie Sauce for Dad to use on his meat. Just a datum.

    1. King Daniel

      There will always be leftover Arby’s. But nobody lives long enough to eat it all.

      Eat Arby’s.

      1. Stephen Bierce

        Every move you make
        Every vow you break
        Every smile you fake
        Every well-done steak
        I’ll be watching you        …

        1. Lokitsu

          I’m not sure whether your greatest crime is rehashing overused Police lyrics or implying that its okay to serve a steak well-done. Either way, you’re dead to me now.

        2. King Daniel

          If enjoying well-done steak is wrong, I don’t want to be right.

        3. Khyrin

          in my defense, if a steak isn’t done well enough, it gives me the hiccups.

        4. Keulen

          I prefer my steak well-done, because I like my food actually fully cooked.

        5. tim gueguen

          Yeah, I want to be sure it actually is dead before I eat it.

        6. Jon Rich

          Fun fact: Trump insists on his steaks being very well done, as in, it rocks on the plate when it is served. He also douses it in ketchup for some reason. I don’t care what your politics are, that’s a travesty in and of itself.

          https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.eater.com/platform/amp/2017/2/28/14753248/trump-steak-well-done-ketchup-personality

        7. Needfuldoer

          I like mine done medium-well, seasoned before grilling, and with a little Sweet Baby Ray’s hickory brown sugar sauce. Steak sauce is too sharp and overpowering, like drinking worcestershire sauce straight from the bottle.

          If that’s wrong, then I don’t want to be right.

      2. NerdHerder

        Arby’s will always be here for you.

        That’s a lie. No one will be here for you. We all approach the void, and God is just a story we tell ourselves to keep warm at night.

        Arby’s: try our pecan chicken salad sandwich for a limited time only.

  9. TemporalShrew

    Look, Billie, can you go, like, work on *you* for a while, instead?

    1. Nono

      She won’t even admit she needs to stop drinking. So, she probably won’t.

      1. Unusually Angry Hippie

        I don’t think she needs to STOP drinking so much as she needs to balance her life in terms of not treating drinking as an activity in and of itself. Going to class buzzed might be better than just not going, period. There’s a certain breed of person that simply doesn’t take to total sobriety, possibly for genetic reasons, and she may be one of them.

        Sorry for the non-sequeteur, but I get really antsy when people suggest quitting outright as a solution to all substance-related issues. Known a few addicts that either killed themselves after trying and failing to quit for the upteenth time or are over-medicated shells of their former selves because they turned to the prescription solution as to not let down everyone wanting them to get ‘clean'(which MAY be the way Ruth is going, time will tell).

        1. Nono

          Maybe not stopping cold turkey necessarily, but the alcoholism in Billie’s situation is a representation of a bigger problem. She refuses to believe that her addiction is a problem, even despite wrecking a car and driving away Alice. Even after seeing what it’s done to Ruth.

          Recovery is always a case-by-case basis, but Billie doesn’t even want to admit that she has a case in the first place.

        2. thejeff

          I’m all for balance and have no problem with casual drinking, but like Nono says, Billie has a serious problem she’s made no attempt to address. Maybe she can cut back drastically without stopping cold turkey, but she’s got to actually do that.
          I suspect it’s that she’s still basically functional that lets her and others ignore her problem. Going to class buzzed might be better than not going (though remember she tried to blow off class this morning to drink, so that’s not quite the situation). And in the long run, going to work drunk will get you fired, unless you’re really successful at pretending otherwise.

        3. Unusually Angry Hippie

          All those things you say are true, but remember that Billies 1. Rich, and 2. Going into Journalism. The odds of her getting a job that gives a shit if she’s an alcoholic or not are pretty damn low.

        4. Marsh Maryrose

          Ana Marie Cox: “Before I got sober, I often joked that I became a journalist because it’s one of the few professions where drinking on the job isn’t just allowed, but practically required. Now I’m pretty sure that wasn’t a joke.”

        5. Alanari

          There’s no prescribed alternative to alcohol, that’s only for a handful drugs where being clean is not an option. Substitution of alcohol for addicts is not a thing.
          Addicts get depressed. That’s normal. The mind gets an overdose of certain hormones on regular basis and classifies the normal, comparably low level as “too low”. And a depression is born. It’s just a matter of time. If this depression has reached suicidal level, you basically have only one option to survive. Quit. Your depression won’t go away unless you quit.
          Alcoholism is deadly. It’s not a question of whether it will kill you. The question is whether something else might kill you faster. And alcoholics can’t cut down. Controlled drinking doesn’t work long-term. They have to quit or they’ll continue their downward spiral. Alcohol Addiction is a pretty brutal thing that doesn’t leave many options.

    2. Bagge

      Trying to solve other peoples bullshit rather than her own bullshit IS her way of working on herself.

      It’s not super effective.

  10. MatthewTheLucky

    Okay, but really, he should be paying attention to Billie and not rebounding with the crazy vigilante who he bonded with over crushing self-esteem issues.

    1. Schpoonman

      I really don’t think he should.

    2. Yumi

      He should have gotten the tacos.

      1. Dg

        go to Chicago and eat tacos is popping into my head.

    3. Tacos

      Nah.

    4. Deathjavu

      Yeah he should be paying attention to the person that’s taking his mind off of the breakup…by mentioning it when he’s smiling and clearly not thinking about it. Because she’s too self-centered to pay attention to the person she’s supposedly here to help.

      Billie likes the idea of helping much much more than actually being helpful.

      1. MatthewTheLucky

        Billie’s destructive helpfulness lasts a day. Amber’s could last months.

        1. Clif

          But would be much more entertaining.

        2. Deathjavu

          Amber’s “destructive helpfulness” is keeping Walky in school, so yeah, it will last more than a month, but its actually helpful.

    5. svata

      But why?

    6. Sam

      Nah. Listening to someone self-centeredly talk all about themselves and how their life is great isn’t very interesting tbh.

    7. Emily

      Okay both of those are bad plans lets be real.

  11. Sporky

    80% of the strip being internet chat? What is this, Homestuck?

    1. Delicious Taffy

      Homestuck wasn’t as gay.

      1. Classic Appa

        Clearly you didn’t get to the good stuff.

      2. Zee

        What are these lies?

  12. DeepThought42

    These are funny but I am still waiting for the comic were Dorothy goes She Hulk on Radiah and by that I mean outlawyers Radiah cause She Hulk is a great lawyer I think truth be told it’s been years since I have read She Hulk. Some of you read that and thought violent outburst.

    1. cbwroses

      I thought it was Jennifer who did the lawyering and She Hulk who did the smashing.
      But it’s been awhile, so I may be misremembering and She Hulk did both the lawyering and the smashing.

      1. NerdHerder

        She-Hulk can smash both tanks and depositions.

        1. DeepThought42

          This sentence is friggin awesome!

      2. thejeff

        It’s been both off and on. For a long time she stayed green full time and did lawyering that way. Lately she’s apparently had Hulk style anger issues as She-Hulk so she’s been trying to stay Jennifer.
        Which I don’t like as much. I liked the 8′ tall green lawyer. 🙂

        1. Eldritch Gentleman

          Was there ever a She-Hulk, Daredevil team up? Smashing bad guys with law in court and smashing bad guys with fists out of court.

        2. HMH

          They weren’t actually cited on the case due to the deal they had with the prosecution, but they both actually did a LOT of legwork on the Kingpin case. Figuratively and literally. They turned over 16 briefcases of evidence to the state police, and also broke eight dudes’ legs.

        3. Eldritch Gentleman

          Sweet, Super Lawyers doing the good work for the world!

  13. Schpoonman

    What’s the money on Walky and Amber establishing a friendship like Sal and Danny have? Just good wholesomeness that every party involved desperately needs?

    I mean, I think it’s that or Dorothy sees Amber and Walky holding hands or smooching and then our precious cinnamon roll falls apart and I don’t wanna see that.

    1. Kathleen

      I didn’t think Amber is ready for anything like that for a long time.

      1. Schpoonman

        Perfect.

        1. cbwroses

          Technically, it was Amazi-girl (sp?) who dated Danny.
          Since Amber is increasingly seeing her as a separate entity (and the break up with Danny has had longer to settle) she may actually be ready for some Walky lovin’.

        2. J

          Honestly, I approve of the goodship Wamber. May it successfully sail the high seas, whatever relationship it ends up being.

        3. thejeff

          Given that Amber and Amazi-Girl are feuding and no longer share memories, I can imagine Amber and Walky getting together and then Amazi-Girl wakes up to take over in the middle of the night to find this boy she barely knows in bed with her.
          Hijinks ensue.

          As I said yesterday, I don’t really like the idea – certainly not unless Amber lets Walky know what’s really going on with her. And not until Walky’s somewhat more over Dorothy.

  14. DailyBrad

    Steak sauce is gross, but then again, if a steak’s already a rubbery mess, go to town, I guess.

    I don’t really know what I want Walky and Amber to be. A couple, a couple of friends, surprise me.

    1. HMH

      No, see, you understand. Steak sauce is not meant to season steak, it’s meant to fix ruined steak. Like you’re not gonna just not eat the steak when you’re a guest, because it’s a steak, but if any part of it is just shit you hammer out the steak sauce and it’s all socially acceptable that way.

  15. Kathleen

    Hey, DoA readers: how many of you read fanfic and what do you read?

    I used to only read Harry Potter fic until the new Star Wars came onto the scene.

    1. Axel

      A couple different anime I’m nostalgic for (eg FMA), and Harry Potter, less because I’m a superfan, more because it is more than plentiful so I can always eventually find something worth reading or in the very specific search constraints I want.

    2. Dana

      I don’t read fanfic aside from a few The Good Place fics I read a while ago because I was jonesing for the second half of season two to start.

    3. Sol Karas

      I basically only read smutty fanfics (usually for videogames I play).
      Which is funny because I have at the moment only one actual smut fic of my own. I specialise in “soul crushing angst” or “disgustingly cute and fluffy sap”

    4. cbwroses

      For a few months, I only ever read Tenchi Muyo erotica. Then I found the website Literotica. Then I grew out of it.

      Years later, I found hentai manga (sorry but it’s mostly shipping and sex that had me reading fan fiction).

      I did read some Higurashi/Umineko/When They Cry fanfic a couple months ago. It was pretty decent.

    5. abysswatcher1993

      I enjoyed reading the New Planet New Life series from 2014 to 2016, and Loophole made me really sad. JohnVris fics where my personal alcohol when I was sad.

    6. Inahc

      HPMOR introduced me to MLP fanfic (and later mlp itself) via mlp:loops and friendship is optimal. somehow I wandered into pokemon fanfic from there. I’ve also read a lot of naruto stuff. there are just so many ways to break that universe with naruto’s OP powers 🙂

      one of my favourites, though, barely counts as fanfic; it’s set in the harry potter universe, but in america… iiirc it’s the Alexandra Quick series. (I don’t know if it’ll ever be finished, but there are, like, 4-6 books written. iirc the author posts it an entire book at a time.)

      oh, and I read some steven universe fanfic this year, but most of it was on archiveofourown and you can’t get update notifications unless you have an account and I’ve been on their “waitlist” for months 😛

      1. Jon Rich

        I love HPMOR so, so much. Especially the first few chapters, where the Wizarding World so very clearly isn’t ready for Harry and McGonagall is the only one who figures it out.

      2. thejeff

        HPMOR annoyed me enough I never got very far in it.

        I did like Alexandra Quick series though. I should check in on that again. I don’t think there were that many books when I last looked.

    7. Mollyscribbles

      Got dragged into the Check Please fandom recently so there’s a lot of backlog. Now THIS is a productive fandom.

    8. adjudicus

      Really not that often. I’ve read a few game of thrones ones, a few pacific rim ones, and a transformer one (Eugenesis), I tend to like ones that focus a lot on the characters and their interactions

    9. Mr D

      I really like Mass Effect crossover fics. MY personal favorite is Mass Effect Human Revolution. let me find a summary….

      The gap between present day and the Mass Effect times has been filled by the Deus Ex games’ events… and anti-augmentation fanatics have won. David Sarif, predicting a new dark age, has had his stock of knowledge cached away and key Sarif Industries personnel, including himself and Adam Jensen, turned into Human Popsicles in the hope of seeing a less bigoted future.

      It’s the 2170s when the Sarif Cache is found, and unfortunately for Sarif, anti-aug feelings are still running high. Adam is the only one who is revivable, and after some initial difficulty he takes his leave from Earth in search of a friendlier place to lay down roots. After an attempt to settle in Elysium didn’t go so well, he has become a proud and decorated Detective Sergeant in C-SEC and works with Garrus Vakarian.

      However, things are about to go wrong spectacularly. When one who should have gone on to become a hero of legend is found murdered, Adam must once again take up the twin mantles of detective and warrior to discover the truth and save the galaxy from enemies both shadowy and overt, ancient and current, mysteriously alien and disturbingly familiar.

    10. Keulen

      I haven’t read much fanfic in a while, but I used to read a lot of Harry Potter fics years ago, and more recently I’ve read a lot of MLP fics. I even wrote an MLP fic once. But I rarely read fanfics these days. Just too busy with work and other stuff to read any now.

      1. Mr D

        I download them to my phone and read them when I got a free minute. In the bathroom, walking places, in the bus, while using the static bike in the gym…

    11. TheHorseCouncil

      I alternate a lot between harry potter, the hobbit, and any animated thing i might be into that allows me to ship two guys at the time. Now that banana fish has an anime maybe i can finally get the fix it fic I’ve been craving.

    12. Tan

      I am probably behind on Dungeon Keeper Ami again

    13. Well_Played

      I used to read tenchi muyo! fanfics back in the late 90s early 2000’s on tmffa.

    14. Delicious Taffy

      I used to read Final Fantasy VIII and Kingdom Hearts fics, then I checked out a few MLP and Harry Potter ones. It’s been a while, but the last few I read were a FNAF/Aqua Teen Hunger Force crossover, some erotic Spider-Man stuff, and the classic known as 30 Hs.

    15. CJ

      Not really into fanfic, but if someone could point me at some good Ran/Sera action (from Case closed) I’d appreciate a link.
      Whenever I google for Ran the stuff I find with “erotic” content is the thourogly unerotic rape stuff. Some guys really must have a large problem with strong girls ?
      (even Gosho seems to be afraid of the strong women he creates, but he doesn’t take it out on them that way)

    16. Eldritch Gentleman

      I’ve got two that I enjoyed immensely. Hill of the Swords and XSGCOM

      First one is a crossover between Zero no Tsukaima and Fate/Stay Night where the one who gets summoned by Louise is an older, more cynnical Shirou Emiya. Instead of stupid tsundere romance we get a genuinely sweet brother/sister relationship between them. There are harem antics involved though, it IS Shirou after all.

      XSGCOM is a cross between Stargate and XCOM (the first game, not the remake) and it gives us a more pro-active (meaning brutal and aggressive) humanity which scares the absolute crap out of Jaffa. They were getting their asses kicked by SG-1 with MP5, XCOM moving in with Laser rifles was Much Much worse. Lots of fun interactions and they actually put the various tech they gathered to good use. The author’s plan was to make humanity strong enough to fight Ori without any of the Ancient Ass-pulls involved

    17. Koms

      I once read a Harry Potter book 7 erotic fanfic by mistake while trying to find the original online. I was traumatized for many days.

    18. J

      I read fanfic of anything I like, to be honest. Lately it’s been wrestling, mostly because wrestling plots in some actual wrestling shows have been so thin on personality and character arcs (depending on the company, anyway). I’m also a fanfic writer (wrestling, Marvel, DBZ, Sailor Moon). What-if scenarios are fun to examine.

    19. Emily

      If it’s a piece of media I’ve consumed that people write femslash for then I probably read it. Right now I’m working my way through roughly a billion Ghostbusters fics because I finally got around to watching it.

    20. Zee

      I’m not really all that interested in fanfic, though I do love A Breach of Trust, the au fanfic for Mob Psycho 100. The author gets a lot of hate for “torture porn”? Which is ridiculous because she uses the same strain of violence that the manga did, she just explores the emotional effect more. I’d recommend it to anyone who’s read the manga, or if you’ve even just watched the anime

    21. BBCC

      If I’ve consumed the media (or, sometimes, heard enough about it) I’ve probably read fanfic at some point.

    22. MightyPinto

      Strictly Captain N: The Game Master fanfic from the early 2000s.

    23. Nep

      Yes and whoo boy too many to list. (Critical Role, Adventure Zone, Harry Potter, MCU, Phoenix Wright, I read through the Yuletide entries every year, and that’s just off the top of my head)

    24. Ainara

      I used to read toooons of Homestuck fic when I was a teen but nowadays I don’t really read fic anymore. Not because I’m against it or hate it now, I just don’t go out of my way to? I guess it doesn’t interest me as much.

    25. hallucigenia

      There are some really stellar Sherlock Holmes fanfics out there. Like, serious literary quality. That fandom’s been going for like a century though, so I suppose that isn’t such a surprise.

  16. butts

    So I guess they’re just continuing this conversation on Twitter for the whole world, huh

    1. DailyBrad

      I assumed this was DMs.

  17. Tacos

    Billie should realize, Walky is a teenager with a smartphone. He was never going to be paying attention to her in the first place even if he wasn’t texting Amber.

    1. Ivy

      Haha, kids these days amiright?

      1. Needfuldoer

        Are Millennials killing conversation with their mobile telephones? Details and pearl clutching at 11.

        1. Agemegos

          The younger generation have been killing conversation since the invention of books.

          We should never have taught them to read.

    2. Eldritch Gentleman

      Why waste time talking to an egocentric all-is-about-me loser if you can talk to someone actually interesting.

  18. Dana

    I just realized a worst case scenario. Walky dates Amber and Danny and Amazigirl get back together. Danny doesn’t know the extent of Amber and Amazigirl’s lack of common knowlege.

    1. cbwroses

      Ooh. That has possibilities. Danny and Walky fight. Sal jumping in the middle. Amber’s two personalities realizing there isn’t room for the both of them and one suppressing the other and/or they merge into a third personality ala Susannah Dean from the Dark Tower series.

      Or none of that. There are plenty of ways that situation could develop.

      1. MatthewTheLucky

        Third Amber then stabs Danny and Walky to avoid stabbing Sal.

      2. Emily

        If Amber “gets better” without any actual treatment my eyes might actually roll right out of my skull.

  19. Ivy

    Why aren’t they chatting in the DMs like people actually do?

    1. Delicious Taffy

      Walky didn’t slide in, obviously.

  20. abysswatcher1993

    Walky is more entertained talking about pop culture with a fujoshi than listening to Billie’s crappy self centered advice.

    1. cbwroses

      And people claim Walky can’t get his priorities straight.

  21. Passchendaele

    how long before Billie barges into that conversation and says “NERDS” 😛

  22. Goki

    I am nervous that Walky is going to be the guy all the girls go after they break up with Danny….

    1. NubeTrasnochada

      Or Amber the girl all the guys go after they break up with Dorothy.

  23. mrnoidea

    I’m pretty sure Willis is trying to take our minds off of the mutually-assured destruction of Joyce and Raidah. Which may already be happening off-screen.

    Just sayin’.

    On another note, it’s good to see Walky feeling better.

    1. mrnoidea

      Actually, now that I think about it, it’s probably Dorothy v. Raidah.

      1. cbwroses

        I don’t think Dorothy would go there, at least not while Joyce is holding her own.
        Especially since she doesn’t seem to support Joyce trying to poach Jacob and/or doesn’t want to cause a scene.

      2. King Daniel

        …why would it be Dorothy v. Raidah?

        1. mrnoidea

          Just figured that Dorothy would be more offended at this point. I’m not much of an analyst, though.

      3. BenRG

        I’m thinking Dorothy vs. Joyce vs. Raidah, with each conflict occurring sequentially.

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      And by destruction, you mean clothing damage right?

    3. MatthewTheLucky

      M.A.D. means Sarah wins, which means Joyce still half-wins.

      1. King Daniel

        If it’s MAD, then Joyce doesn’t “win”, only Sarah.

        1. Deanatay

          It’s more like MARD (Mutually Assured Romantic Destruction).

    4. Emily

      That was way more interesting than this though.

  24. Plasma Mongoose

    I think of fanfiction as more of a gravy-sauce myself or in some cases, crack-cocaine.

    1. mrnoidea

      I remember seeing your avatar character somewhere before! I just can’t put my finger on it.

      1. Reltzik

        Chizuru, I think.

        (And by “think”, I mean I checked Plasma Mongoose’s Deviant Art page, because I know fuck-all about anime.)

      2. Eldritch Gentleman

        Chizuru from Bleach

  25. @zombieundergrnd

    No Walky! You’re flying to close to the sun.

    1. King Daniel

      Does that make him Walkicarus?

      1. Delicious Taffy

        This joke gets the slaughter.

    2. @zombieundergrnd

      Too close to the sun, dammit

    3. Plasma Mongoose

      Melted caramel.

  26. Dg

    tbh this could be a age/time thing as when the strip was written/started, was “constant twitter DMing” a thing?

    1. King Daniel

      If you mean today’s strip, then it was only written a couple of months ago.

      If you’re referring to the entire comic, then remember that Dumbing of Age is on a sliding timescale – it’s always set in the real-world “present time”. The characters are currently interacting with each other in the year 2018.

      1. UniqueSnowflake2

        Well, probably October 2017.

        1. Agemegos

          Soon to have been October 2018 all along.

          I’m looking forward to November in 2020.

        2. Norah

          So am I. And probably a lot of others.

        3. thejeff

          It’s kind of interesting when you think about Robin’s political career. She is I believe a first term Representative. When she first appeared in 2011, she was elected in the Tea Party Wave in 2010.
          During her big storyline with Leslie in 2016, she’d been elected in the 2014 mid terms and was coming up on reelection in a Presidential year that looked pretty good for an incumbent Republican. Currently, she was elected in 2016 and is looking at reelection facing a potential Blue Wave.
          Of course, by the time her election actually comes around, she will have been elected as a Republican in what we hope will be that big Wave. 🙂

        4. Dg

          we’ll hand wave as “incumbency and some well timed flip-flops”

    2. Clif

      I choose to believe that people constantly play D&D on Twitter.

  27. Lingo

    I like to see Billie interacting with other people besides Ruth (I mean, in addition to Ruth), but Walky really brings out the worst in her.

    1. Clif

      Takes two to interact.

    2. Eldritch Gentleman

      I think it’s less Walky and more her new dorm. She was being fed a steady diet of humility so far, until she moved there and became the local goddess. Now all her bad old habits are coming out.

  28. vlademir1

    I’m unsure what one it is, but some ad on this page keeps freezing/crashing Chrome for me this week.

    1. Needfuldoer

      There’s one redirect ad that pops up bogus, un-closeable “Congratulation iPhone user! You’re the winner, click OK to redeem your prize!” boxes that keeps sneaking through. I have to force close the browser, go into airplane mode, then close the pop-up and comic tabs to kill the thang ding. er, dang thing. I wish I could be more specific than that, but I have no idea which one it is.

      Setting the browser to request the desktop site (changing the useragent string to claim it’s a desktop) is a viable workaround.

      1. CJ

        If you are using Safari, installing Firefox Clear and activating its content blocker for Safari should get them.

  29. JessWitt

    Amber and Walky are cute together but I hope they don’t hook up. It would spoil the friendship.

    1. Mr D

      I’ve expressed a similar sentiment about Steve and Bucky.

      It got me calleda a homophobe 🙁

      That’ll teach me to try to engage tumblr.

      1. mrnoidea

        One does not simply engage tumblr unscathed. Or do I’ve heard. Never used tumblr, actually.

        1. Eldritch Gentleman

          You are better off not using it all. The amount of hypocrisy and human shittines there seriously eroded my empathy.

    2. StClair

      In my experience, most fan(dom)s value sexual and/or romantic relationships over friendships, and expect the latter to become the former. Almost always.

      1. JessWitt

        True that. But I can still hope Walky and Amber defy becoming Wambky.

      2. Mr D

        Ultimately, I am a bit bitter against western civilization for having killed the concept of Non-Romantic, Non-Familiar Love out of a misplaced fear of “Teh Gais” (Yes I know, I’m mocking the cording to what I’ve read, Love among friends was considered the most important kind of love up until about the 19th century, and a sudden case of paranoia in the western world against Homosexuality killed that dead. Even now this can be seen, declaring that you love someone is a rare thing, reserved for only the closest to your heart or your family. If you tell a friend you love them? Prepare to be stigmatized and mocked. To be called a deviant (unless you were drunk when you did it).

        1. Mr D

          (…)*I’m mocking the morons). Accordign to(…)

          *Erratum

        2. JessWitt

          Fraternal love, right? But good points all around for indicating how popular this was for a time. And now it amounts to “No homo” jokes. It’s unfortunate.

        3. StClair

          Eh. I figure it’s about 50 that, 50 “fans are horny monkeys like the rest of us and want to read/write/imagine pr0n”. That goes double when pretty actors are involved.

    3. BenRG

      I’m predicting something ultimately platonic between Walky and Amber.

      1. JessWitt

        Yep, I’m hoping for that too.

      2. JBento

        Like The Republic?

  30. bai jie mu

    Get over crush by getting new crush.

    Yep, Walky is having a delayed high school experience here.

  31. Josh Spicer

    Hey.

    You know what?

    This is cool.

  32. Space Penis

    So Walky and Amber are definitely gonna bang, right?

    1. stoodmuffin

      Yes

      1. Clif

        No, but we can hope.

  33. stoodmuffin

    I SMELL THE STENCH OF CLASS A-1 TROUBLE.

    I get this is cute, but this strip is not: “people making smart decisions that work out for them all the time?”

    I mean, I’m sure I can think of another reason… but at least with Dorothy, isn’t that TWO guys who have rebounded(ish) on her “clone?”

  34. Kyle

    IS AMBER JUST EVERYONES DOROTHY REBOUND

    1. Bagge

      …yes, now when you mention it, she kinda is.

    2. stoodmuffin

      THAT’S WHAT I’M SAYING

    3. Reltzik

      You mean Walky is everyone’s Danny rebound.

      I DON’T SAY IT MAKES SENSE I JUST SAY IT’S TRUE!

      1. Clif

        They can both be true.

      2. Bagge

        …yes, now when you mention it, he kinda is.

  35. Darkoneko

    Oh, Jennifer.

  36. Bagge

    Ah, seems like Billie found herself another project

    1. ShinyNeen

      And strangely enough, it’s a project she’s worked on before…

  37. BenRG

    Shove off, Billie. Walky’s busy talking to his friend and doesn’t want to listen to you talking about your favourite subject: Yourself.

    So, Amber/Walky definitely looks like it’s going to be a thing on one level or another! They share a similar mindset and hobbies, after all! If Walky is Willis, is Amber a version of Maggie? Does she have a super-suit in her closet? 😉

  38. newllend(henryvolt)

    When it fits it clicks.

  39. Nobody

    Yes bringing it up again is clearly the best way to do that

    1. BenRG

      It probably somewhat impacts Billie’s self-image that Walky was able to distract himself without her help.

  40. Farmer_10

    Well that’s hardly a fair comparison. It’s a different medium, so allowances have to be made. And the writing is still on the same level. The punchline with the golf ball in issue 15 almost made me pee a little.

    1. Clif

      What?

    2. thejeff

      That’s what they always say when they screw something wonderful up adapting it to a different media. “Oh, we had to make those changes. They just wouldn’t have worked in this format.” Bah. They just butchered it because they didn’t understand it.

      1. adjudicus

        And thus Dexter and Monkey Master was Ruined FOREVER! *sarcasm*

        Though to be fair you can’t just adapt something directly to a different medium and expect it to stay good(I mean, just look at the American Gods comic adaption! Overly cluttered with tons of word bubbles with text lifted verbatim from the book.)

  41. dethtolldotmid

    How’s the saying go the last time Amber was someone’s Dorothy rebound? “Dude! Creepy!”

    1. Clif

      As was pointed out above, that was the time when Walky was someone’s Danny rebound. Though it won’t really get creepy until Amber borrows Danny’s shoes after she throws Walky’s down the hall.

  42. David Doty

    Please tell me this entire storyline is product placement for “Dexter and Monkey Master Perform a Sex” on Slipshine.

    1. Inahc

      Sensitive Scanner would be heartbroken. 😉

  43. Vulcanodon

    The A-1 steak sauce metaphor is apt. I’m sure I love MLP more for the music community around it than for the show itself.

  44. Deanatay

    Walky: Fanfic, huh? So is there Dexter & Monkey Master fanfic?

    Amber: @_@

    *spams Walky’s phone with links*

  45. JMP

    Am I the only one who though of A1 Pictures when Amber mentioned “drowning it in A1 sauce”..?

  46. bunivasal

    Dan Shive had a great aesthetic for dealing with characters electronically communicating back in…

    in…

    Jesus, they were on AIM, weren’t they. Because it was 2006. Holy crumbs.

    1. Khyrin

      It could have been Live (Now Skype)
      For those who don’t read EGS, the convention is the characters are talking ‘face to face’ dressed as their avatars, with appropriate backgrounds.

      1. CJ

        Etwas moderner sah’s dann so aus.

        1. CJ

          Sorry, didn’t notice I switches languages. The link leads to an EGS online conversation from 2013.

        2. MatthewTheLucky

          2008.

        3. CJ

          That was Kyhyrin’s, mine was from 2013.

  47. Zech Judy

    Is there any way to get ahold of a Mod? My comments are permanently awaiting moderation. I’d like to find out if I’m on a ban list? And why?

    1. Zech Judy

      Oh, that one worked. I used a different email. So I must be under a ban on the other.

      Anyway: I get that Amber’s dad is forced to pay for her schooling. But I was under the impression her family was otherwise not well off, especially as they fought legal action for her justified disemboweling.

      How the heck is she paying for her pull list of comics?

  48. Inahc

    Whee, I got a new phone! It can actually handle this website, it seems. 🙂 Everything I’m typing shows up immediately.

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