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Superer awesomer
Posted on December 1, 2013 by David M Willis

178 thoughts on “Superer awesomer”

  1. Herohatch

    I’m under the assumption that Billie is going to try researching Sal, through Walky.

    1. Doctor_Who

      “Put on this wig and Catholic schoolgirl uniform, I wanna get drunk and try something. Don’t forget the drawl.”

      1. Yotomoe

        “If you could come in through that window, that’d be awesome.”

        1. Mr. Bulbmin

          That is another reason I believe that the comments section is just as a certain philosopher posited about the world in general: “half idiocy, a quarter sexuality, fifteen percent greed, eight percent justified rage, one and a half percent tolerable things, and half a percent of pure genius.”

        2. BlueRam

          50% pleasure, 5% pain, 100% reason to remember the name.

        3. Mr. Bulbmin

          You think yourself funny?
          *chink*
          You are not.

        4. Davany

          Why all the hostility, man?

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      They be both caramel on the outside, but their creamy centers are vastly different. 😀

      1. Herohatch

        Truer words never spoken.

      2. Yotomoe

        Sal is Milk Chocolate on the inside, according to her.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          I likes me some milk chocolate. 😀

        2. NightmareWarden

          Whereas Walky has delicious nuts!
          …
          Yep.

        3. Lokitsu

          You had to go there, didn’t you?

        4. Plasma Mongoose

          When it comes to making puns, the answer is YES, they had to go there.

        5. rachel

          dude, your gravatar today is AMAZING.

        6. James

          THat’s a lot NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

        7. Robin

          I must apologize for Danny, he is an idiot. We have purposely trained him wrong, as a joke.

        8. Spliced

          Thank you squirrel friend. Your tiny body cushioned the blow. Now here’s my part of the bargain

        9. Keroshino

          You’re gonna love my nuts!

        10. Angus McCarthy

          Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t.

    3. Lizzy

      I agree. Normally, you’d think she’d just ask Sal herself since they’re roomies but Sal isn’t exactly easy to talk to. Going through Walky is probably the easiest way to do it.

    4. DudeMyDadOwnsADealership

      Or she’s just lonely and feeling like dog dump, y’know, ’cause her whole ‘hide behind the pretty-popular-and rich alpha bongo cheerleader persona and the social status (and keggers) it brought to avoid coping with feelings’ plan isn’t working this time….

      That too.

  2. Mkvenner

    Excellent timing.

  3. Deathjavu

    Why Walky. Why.

    1. Harry

      Why not?

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      Why not! >:)

      1. Resne

        Wynaut!

        1. Shadow12000

          Wobbuffet!

        2. asmcint

          Gardevoir! Oh wait, wrong evolutionary line… Oh who am I kidding? I just wanted to mention my favorite pokemon.

        3. Dibullba

          I heard you like mudkips >.>

  4. Geminia999

    So, take out the words from the last panel and I think you get a different meaning.

  5. Ourorboros

    Well the Walkterton twins do look alike.
    If you’re potentially bisexual and hot for one. . .

    1. March

      Their personalities are pretty different though. Billie might just like people who dominate her, and Walky…is not that.

      1. Yotomoe

        Also his boobs aren’t nearly as nice!

        1. AgentKeen

          Dorothy apparently disagrees.

      2. Ourorboros

        Lust isn’t about personality and
        and I’m burning beneath your gaze.

        1. Ourorboros

          That post was in reply to March’s Mary gravatar.

        2. Ghola

          Sssssuuuuuuuureee it was…
          The Sume/Uke nature of the joe/danny gravatars has nothing to do with it at allll…

        3. March

          Mary is not quite ready for her college sexual awakening, Joe. Give her until the second semester of her freshman year, when the finals are looming.

        4. Ourorboros

          So my grandchildren can hope to see the day?

        5. taekwondogirl

          Lust is about being attracted to someone though, and being bisexual doesn’t automatically make you attracted to a gender-bending version of someone else you’re attracted to.

        6. Ghola

          Yeah, but then Billie’s still not 100% into her bi-ness. She could go along the “Well, it would be LIKE banging Sal.. Only with Walky I would still be straight!” *Rocks back and forth, gibbering to herself*
          Kinda like the whole Ethan being hot for joyce-with-a-johnson, before the revelation. Though he handles it relatively well.

        7. John

          We haven’t really seen any indication that Billie’s not totally comfortable with being into girls.

          She casually recommends trips to Lesbian Bone City as a solution to interpersonal problems, her protests about Walky offering to hook her up with Sal (which was Billie’s suggestion!) had to do only with the rooming arrangements, the only regret she’s expressed about her drunken pass at Sal is that Sal is too hot to make out with her, she’s reassured Joyce that everyone is totally bicurious and only seems annoyed by Joyce freaking out about the idea…

          Even her objections to Ruth kissing her had to do with the way Ruth had been treating her, not with the fact that Ruth has an innie, not an outie. And she’s been spending a lot of time hanging around Ruth in deep scoop-necked tops since they made up…

          Ruth has confessed to being surprised and confused by the discovery that she’s into Billie. Billie, on the other hand… well, I don’t know if she currently self-identifies as bi, but I’d be kind of surprised if it turned out that Ruth was the first girl she’d kissed.

    2. Mr K

      Billie should pull a Shou Tucker and create a chimera using both Sal and Walky. That way she doesn’t have to decide which Walkerton to screw.

  6. The Candyman

    First he noticed Dorothy/Joyce, now this. When did Walky get so observant?

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      He always is, it’s just he prefers to Obfuscate Stupidity.

      1. Yotomoe

        It’s all a front. He’s actually a spy and is getting info on college students for an overcover mission.

        1. TaintedSpud

          Bull. Next you’ll be telling us aliens are real and Walky is part of aj organization to fight them. That’s just preposterous.

        2. timemonkey

          He’s part of an organisation that says it’s fighting aliens but is really serving their cause! And their enemies’ cause! And everyone else’s because that’s what happens when you put Walky and his family in charge of things.

    2. Kintrex

      I think Walky’s learning a lot from gender studies.

  7. Lizzy

    Wordsmithin’ is the most valuable life skill.

    1. Opus the Poet

      Yes, yes it is…[/Phineas and Ferb]

  8. Claire

    Who are her awesomer friends? Ruth and Sal?

    1. Doctor_Who

      Does it get any awesomer than that?

      1. Aizat

        I could think of a couple of awesomer friends…just not from the DOA-verse.

      2. John

        Leslie is the awesomest.

        1. Keroshino

          The Truth!!!

    2. Ourorboros

      Billie tries to have high social status and climb socially. Her goal since high school, she became a head cheerleader. Which is why thy stopped hanging around.
      She’s been unable to parlay that into status in college, hence the dig (look at his expression in panel 1)

  9. Doctor_Who

    Panels 4 and 5 have some of the best expressions ever.

    1. I don't know what to put here.

      Oh, yeah.
      Happy 50th birthday, Doctor.

      1. Keroshino

        Here’s to 50 more!

        Gotta get that 100th anniversary. 😀

  10. Wonder Wig

    The tsun- to me -dere.

    1. Mr. Bulbmin

      Just be glad there isn’t a yan- waiting for you, ne?

  11. Plasma Mongoose

    With all those fancy $5 words, Walky could have bought himself 200 McNuggets, which is like 4 packs of 50 nuggets.

    1. Batman1016

      And that’s terrible.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Terribly fattening. 😀

      2. Kinoko

        That’s as many as twenty tens!

  12. LockeZ

    Well, he’s got HER feelings worked out, at least. Only the flimsiest of social barriers are holding her lust at bay, and it won’t last long at this rate!

  13. The Candyman

    Wait, what exactly does Walky wish? Does he like Billie?

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      I think he’s suggesting that only the fact that she sees him as a brother-like figure prevents her from jumping his bones.

    2. Ourorboros

      Well the “sibling rivalry act” is just an act. That she uses that and the pretense of feeling socially better to keep from jumping his bones.

      Not addressing the fact that she may want to be the meat in a sexy Walkerton sandwich. Those are other barriers.

    3. JeffEpp

      Billie has a history of following Walky around, and telling him not to follow her around, and that she isn’t his girlfriend. She has pushed through the cafeteria to do so, especially when Walky was clearly in conversation with other females. She just “happens” to need to use the same elevator that Walky is using. When they were at the lake, he made reference to the fact that she had the hots for him, and that his sister was a female version of himself. (And, every one has pegged Billie as into girls, except for Billie, of course.)

    4. Jenny Creed

      As Dr C Lauper noted in her seminal thesis “Adolescent female self-affirmation and group validation”, Walky just wanna have fun.

  14. Kladeos

    I thought Billie was like your sister, you perv!

    1. ironbillie

      Well, Incest is the Best as they say.

      1. Arkantos

        Where, Missouri?

        1. Mr. Bulbmin

          No, that would be Arkansas.

        2. Opus the Poet

          And Oklahoma.

        3. Mr. Bulbmin

          And, now that I have research under my belt, Utah and Louisiana, apparently.

        4. saltchocolate

          South Carolina’s state motto: “3 million people — 3 hundred last names.”

  15. Rob S

    Well, I guess that opens it right back up for him to walk over to where Sal and Danny are and ask them what’s up…

  16. Pyr05

    Oh Billie. Your face. Priceless.

    1. rachel

      it has to be said and I am SORRY I am just sorry, but here we are .

      your FAAAAAAACE!!

  17. March

    No, Walky. Just no.

    Sometimes a pipe is just a pipe, and sometimes a girl really is just tolerating you.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Nah, I suspect that Walky is just yanking Billie’s chain is all.

      1. John

        Billie has the best chain to yank.

        I didn’t mean that to be an innuendo, but it probably works that way, too!

      2. Jack Finch

        Yep. Yep. Yep.

    2. Ourorboros

      Knocked her off of her high horse, right? Billie was set up from the start to be fun that way.

  18. Cholma

    Don’t run away, Billie! You know he’s right. EVERYONE lusts after you.

    1. Aizat

      Yes…-tries to imitate Gary Oldman from The Professional- EVERYONE!

      1. Mr. Bulbmin

        *holds back the lustful masses*
        Run, Billie! Before they all try to sex you up at once!

      2. Jenny Creed

        *tries to sneak post in before Aizat* “What do you mean, ‘everyone’?”

        There, that should work better.

    2. Ourorboros

      He said SHE lusts after him.
      He has been friendly from the beginning of DoA. She has snubbed him and explained her helpful actions in self serving terms – “shallowly buried affection”.
      Such as pushing Walky to Dorothy and vice-versa. How did Billie know Walky had a body that would get Dorothy hot and bothered? Because that’s why she had Dorothy help bury Walky at the beach – to look at his body.

  19. Aizat

    Wow, it’s like looking into a mirror.

  20. ninja_jesus

    Anyone who can make things weird via long, complex sentences is alright with me.

  21. newllend

    Well that’s there friendship in a nutshell, and thinking about it Wally is the only one without any turmoils… That won’t last

    1. Ourorboros

      He didn’t like leaving his comfort zone until Mike made him see holding on to childish things rather than a girlfriend wasn’t something he wanted, deep down.
      He was conflicted then.

      Of the primary cast, Mike, Joe, and Roz might be the least conflicted internally.
      Mike didn’t like Ethan calling him out as being a difficult ass to be around.
      Joe is quite happy being Joe. At least until somebody points out he’s quite like his father. He didn’t like his dad hitting on everything in a bra and how he cheated on Joe’s mom.
      Roz’s conflict, unless we find out she’s only lashing out at her sister, is really just with her sister. We haven’t seen anything where her acts are all about internal conflicts.

    2. Ourorboros

      Oops, unresolved favorites issue with sister whom he has tried to reconnect with.
      Her issue, but may make him rethink his family relationships. Really the whole sister/mom/him relationship. Dad did notice Sal for a moment.

  22. Regalli

    Nice job, Walky. Couldn’t have made it more awkward myself.

    1. Ourorboros

      Following it up with a Chippendale’s-esque dance to “It’s Raining Men” would have made it at least 10x more awkward.
      It makes everything more awkward.

      1. Rutee

        Not Chippendale’s.

        1. Keroshino

          Anything but that!

  23. nothri

    Is it just me, or did Walky basically describe Billie’s relationship with Ruth to the last detail?

    1. ThunderBeard

      Pretty much. Apart from the sibling-like rivalry part…

      1. John

        Even that’s accurate, apart from the “sibling-like”. Billie and Ruth’s rivalry is over which of them gets to be the alpha bongo.

        1. Rutee

          I think you mean “who gets to top”.

        2. ThunderBeard

          ^That.

        3. StClair

          Seconded.

          (with a side of – Billie: I want to top! Ruth, deadpan: That’s so cute.)

    2. Yotomoe

      And Sal.

    3. Ourorboros

      She doesn’t really lust after Ruth. It’s Ruth who is Billie in Walky’s wordsmithing.
      So correct, but she’s Walky. Take out the pseudo-incest, more directly stated interest, and that Ruth is not really hiding her interest from herself but rather a mixed up person with mixed up emotions whereas Billie is denying it all to herself and it’s a fit.

  24. Bill

    Keep talkin’, Walky, you’ll be a virgin for life.

    1. Ourorboros

      Dorothy’s hot for him and checked out his package. She greatly approved. She also discussed lust issues with Joyce.
      It’s gonna happen.

      1. John

        Assuming she can tear herself away from her studying for long enough.

        1. Ourorboros

          She has multiple times before. It’s how they got together, really.

          On a side note, how bright is she if she needs to study incessantly?
          Not to say that studying isn’t needed, but at some point you just have a 4.0 and just can’t do any better in your classes. You know your stuff or you’re hopeless.
          At least put the energy into something else, like volunteering. They do have offices on campuses now to help you find one that fits. It even fits her ambitions – looks good trying to get into Yale and running for office.

        2. Mr. Bulbmin

          That’s just the thing- she has a skill out of intelligence.

          Talent is born into you.
          Skill is learned over time and must be upkept with practice.
          Luck happens in a moment.

          Her grades are hard-earned, rather than simply flouted through (like more than one person I know).

        3. Ourorboros

          She’d be only taking 200 level classes as an incoming freshman, tops.
          It doesn’t take 24/7 repetition and dedication to learn and master that, if she really was an honors student.
          Again, I’m not knocking studying or saying it wouldn’t be needed, but she’d have to be taking 24 credits to be doing nothing else.
          Or that she really is average and needs every last minute to force stuff in.
          Add to the fact that there’s only been three weeks of classes. How will she handle the midterms? There hasn’t been much at this point. Even reading ahead, she’d be halfway done with her classes by now.

        4. Mr. Bulbmin

          Ah, yes, but then you add in a little something called “achiever’s syndrome”, in which someone has a burning need to be excellent, no matter how much it takes them over their heads. She may very well burn out long before midterms- that wasn’t the point I had been trying to make. In any case, she has displayed tendencies of achiever’s syndrome, but not to a point where her social life hits absolute zero.

        5. Kelly

          I don’t really think this is Dorothy’s case, but she *could* have memory issues.

          I know someone who is very smart, and very capable, but they have to study basically all the time (including all night due to insomnia) in order to memorize everything (due to ADHD + head injury (wear your helmet!)). Granted they are also in 300/400 level classes.

        6. Dragon_Nataku

          also, being smart doesn’t mean you’re awesome at everything. I have a 140 IQ and I still use a calculator for addition/subtration, and I am really hating calc I right now (and I have to take calc II and III, hurray!). Sometimes people are only smart in some areas and really suck at others.

        7. John

          She seems busier now than she was earlier in the comic. Joyce is unhappy because she never sees Dorothy anymore, and Dorothy’s not spending that time with Walky, either, like she was earlier. Just studying.

          I don’t think Dorothy’s study-time issue is that she isn’t smart; I think it’s that she’s overly perfectionist. Like Achilles chasing the tortoise, you can never reach “totally done studying”, especially in soft subjects where there isn’t an objectively correct answer that you can point at and say, “I got this shit.” But the gains from continued studying get smaller and smaller, and there’s a point where they get so small that it’s just not worth it anymore. If an hour means the difference between 90% and 99%, it’s probably worth it. When it’s the difference between 99% and 99.9%, it probably isn’t. When you’re looking at the difference between 99.9% and 99.99%, you should’ve quit a while ago. But Dorothy’s not content no matter how many 9s she gets; she wants that unreachable 100%. So she’ll keep studying and studying until Joyce and Walky team up to drag her out and make her relax.

          (Of course, I say this, but I study like Walky. I don’t even know what the hell Dorothy is spending all that time doing.)

        8. Ourorboros

          I can buy this. She’s almost obsessive-compulsive (almost, I realize the real thing has a host of related issues and is far worse). She’s gone past the point of diminishing returns, but can’t tear herself away.
          Still, volunteerism. Good for admissions to Yale and for elections.

        9. Jack Finch

          I think her priority is proving to herself that she hasn’t lost sight of her goals, but you’re right. She might not be super-smart. Just plain-smart with excessive ambition.

        10. OldFart

          Abelist bullshit. A person can have above average intelligence and still struggle in school, and in life, all one’s life. I am one of those people. You are insulting and dismissing millions of people, many of whom may be smarter than you, by some measurs at least. Check your neurotypical assumptions next time before you post something so callous.

        11. Kelly

          Indeed

        12. OldFart

          OldFart’s post was in reply to Ourorborous. The software does not nest replies very well. Sorry it it was a little harsh. Obviously hit a nerve with the school-is-so-easy-only-stupid-people-study thing. My experience with school, from first grade through college, was never-ending frustration. YMMV.

        13. Ourorboros

          Of course life and majority of viewpoints are norm-central. Just like those with disabilities see life from their end. Same problem of perspective on both ends.
          However, I don’t think I said Dorothy was stupid. I asked how smart she is if she needs to study non-stop. Remember that she was an honors student, so she made it work. Three weeks of classes, with studying from the beginning, isn’t even enough time to forget.
          I did emphasize more than once that study is necessary in any case – the rest was entirely stuff you read into what I read.
          I brought it up because characters, with a few exceptions, are written true to life. So this was either a rare mistake, a quirk written in service to the story [character exit stage left], or foreshadowing.

          Given that I have tutored and people have paid me good money to do so, I’d say I have a fair idea about learning rates and distribution of abilities.

          The biggest mistake I have seen is when people say they can’t do something. It’s self fulfilling. Others find a way.

      2. Bill

        But if you check the strips, once something came to a head, Walky chose not to press the issue.

        1. saltchocolate

          That was some nice wordsmithin’ right there, Bill!

  25. Anonymous

    Is there anyway we can get a walky/billie/jacob/dorothy ship going?

    Also, what would it be called? Willacorthy? Bicorothky? Dalkillob?
    Hell, maybe we can shove sal, joyce, ethan, and sarah in there too.

    1. Arkantos

      I think that’s just called a desire for a cast orgy.

      1. Paul

        Yes. This. This, all the time, forever.

        1. Arkantos

          I don’t know about them having the stamina to keep it up forever.

        2. Mr. Bulbmin

          Give ’em a Thanksgiving feast and a booster shot of my metabolism. They’ll be running for weeks.
          Of course, now the issue is relationship dynamics.

      2. Wensleydale

        So, would that be a corgy?

        1. Blue Dragon

          …or perhaps “One True Orgy”.

    2. Lauren

      The cast orgy request even fits with the Roz gravatar.

      1. Jack Finch

        I’m imagining a sexual RPG with Roz as the Dungeon Master.

    3. Rutee

      You can ship whatever you want, as long as you’re cool with folks sometimes disagreeing with you!

      Also, that’d be a really huge boat. An Adler von Lubeck of shipping, as it were.

    4. Hoboturtle

      What… What did you give birth to?

      1. Arkantos

        Something beautiful and terrible.

  26. Mattyos

    to this day when I see walky say anything remotely intelligent I just can’t help but laugh because it’s not that it’s weird…it’s that he’s so fucking smart underneath that guise of being a completely air headed free-spirit and it works. cause he just goes with the flow and does whatever he thinks works. In this case for example, showing billie that even in her most comfortable of situations where she has some control over things (in this case talking and dealing with walky) she can be taken out of her zone of comfort and control to the point of where it’s aggrivating for her.

  27. Gottawonder

    Sometimes the real Walky slips out.
    And not just when he accidently leaves his fly open on Parents Weekend.

  28. All Else Fails

    Oh, no. No, Billie. Simple-acting, yes, but Walky’s far from being “simple”.

    1. Kladeos

      I think she meant their relationship was simple.

  29. AI

    damn son, call the burn ward

  30. Wensleydale

    It may have always been a little weird, but it was always a lot enjoyable. Well, for us. It may have just been weird for Billie.

  31. Bilfred

    Billie’s expression in panel 4.
    Ooh hoo hoo.

    1. Wensleydale

      You can literally hear the glass break. Wonderful sound, really.

      1. Ourorboros

        It is a wonderfully musical sound
        that is unappreciated in the restaurant industry.

        1. Bilfred

          Heathens.

  32. Glynvel

    Not sure if anyone has posted this yet but I just found this at random. Seems to add substance to Walkys hypothesis.

    1. Snoot

      Thank you Joe Random

    2. JeffEpp

      Billie has been subtle in showing her true feelings for Walky. As subtle as a rusty garbage truck without a muffler driving through midtown traffic during rush hour, the wrong way on a one way street.

    3. Jack Finch

      Well done detective!
      Also, the thing I like most about Billie is that she really cares. She hates it, she tries to act like she doesn’t, but in the end, whether it’s Ruth, Walky, or Amber when Blaine was running amok, she likes being helpful. She may be a socially competitive status obsessed climber, but she’s a good person.

      1. Kladeos

        This. Her “alpha bongo” speech, and her whole rescuing Ruth even though she didn’t like her, was why she shot into my top 3. Billie is pretty obviously flawed, and it’s too bad that someone people don’t look past that, but her shallow exterior is hiding someone who genuinely cares about people.

        Maybe when Quinn Morgendorffer grows up she’ll be like Billie.

  33. Tenn

    Oh, Walky, you are way too smart for your own stupidity.

    1. Jack Finch

      THIS! (times a million)

  34. Zaxares

    That’s my boy, Walky.

  35. Chengrel

    Oh crap, I just realized I relate more to Walky than any other character in this comic.

    1. Astor

      I’m glad it isn’t just me!

    2. Tahkuya

      that’s not bad you could have crapped out and relate the most to Danny

      1. Lamachine

        I guess it’s worst if you relate to Mary.

    3. nick

      I mean as long as you don’t become a Taco Bell addict Walky is probably one of the most mentally stable characters

      1. Kladeos

        Ehh. Walky is trying to dodge responsibility by avoiding growing up. He takes pride in being immature. I don’t think I’d call that mentally healthy.

        Like Ourorboros said above somewhere, Roz and Joe are among the most stable. I think Dorothy is too, workaholic or not.

  36. bibulb

    Billie’s eyes in panel 4. DAMN.

    1. Shariku Onikage

      Billie-broken face.

  37. Keroshino

    DAMMIT WALKY!!!

  38. zaratustra

    Don’t flatter yourself, Walky. Billie has jumped Danny, it’s obviously not a big deal for her.

  39. Jack Finch

    After the way she’s spoken to him, You Go David Walkerton.

  40. Scolopendra

    My gravatar is now eerily appropriate and that makes me sad.

  41. Robert

    If Walky is a wordsmith, then so is every single 6 year old child who managed to enter the first grade by the skin of their teeth.

  42. Mr K

    I ship Dina/Walky. They both seem to have childish interests and have trouble with people, but they know more than they let on.

    1. Kladeos

      Ew.

      Dina’s interest isn’t childish, unless you’re calling paleontologists childlish. She also has a very impressive knowledge of it – probably upper-year undergraduate level of knowledge.

      1. Mr K

        She’s still more obsessed with Dinos than a normal 18 year old is

  43. Mike

    If you’ve got a sweet tooth, i have a Truthertz Doughnut…..

  44. man in black

    Great page

  45. Red Robot

    Interesting. When Billie ran away from Ruth’s room, I assumed that it was because she was feeling guilty about drinking. Now that I read the second panel I suspect that she may have been genuinely weirded out by the mixed signals and the whole “breaking into the room and stealing that uniform again” thing. I thought that the uniform thing was almost cute, just the Ruth we know and love expressing affection in her own misguided way…But if I was in Billie’s shoes I would certainly find it more than a bit creepy.

    1. Kladeos

      I’m hoping that Billie realizes she might be returning Ruth’s feelings…

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