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Normally
Posted on February 7, 2013 by David M Willis

122 thoughts on “Normally”

  1. Skull025

    Ladies and gents don’t like MY alternative way of seducing them. Apparently 50 buffalo skins really freak out the vegetarians.
    That shit is warm, BE GRATEFUL.

    1. Saru

      mmmmmm, yess…

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      Potato skins are where it is at.

      1. Saru

        oohhhhh, quit tempting me you guys…

      2. Skull025

        I protest! Back in my day to woo a lady/gent all you needed was your bear hands and amazing fetch quest skills! Potato skins! PAH! I laugh at your petty bounty!
        What we need is three hundred platters of stolen hashbrowns from shady restaurants. Some of them still need the dusting of coke on the top. NOW THAT IS A GIFT FOR SEDUCTION!

        1. AckAckAck

          The problem the law limit our ability to have bear arms. It limit our options greatly.

  2. Sir Robin

    I think this is the best pairing in this comic

    1. Digidestined of Trust (Tim)

      I will be with Joyce here soon….I’m drawing that meeting as we speak actually. As the Chick-Fil-A guy I get to be the revealer of some things

      1. Digidestined of Trust (Tim)

        That is assuming Willis allows this to happen, lol

    2. Darth Cariss

      It’s my second favorite. I hope it works out for them.

    3. GrrArg42

      Agreement! : )

      But Soft, what light from yonder window breaks?
      It is the east, and Danny is the sun.
      Arise, Danny boy, and kill the flowers dying,
      Who are already tense with love and calling
      Out for she, a maid, more amazing than the rest.

      : P Crappy crossover is crappy.

    4. Groove

      I think it’s fun but that it’s a terrible actual match. Danny is fairly emotionally stunted, and I doubt that a relationship based on secrets and hero worship will help with that.

      1. Pinja

        He doesn’t seem stunted to me, rather he’s too emotional and romantic.

        If anything Amber is the stunted one.

    5. Volkai

      Hahaha YES.

      This is great. It will get better when true identities are revealed. Probably. Depending on how that happens.

      But I think this ship is going places. Places where it can dock. And not sink.

  3. Pinja

    Nice to see Amazi-Girl is only using her powers for good

    1. NCP19

      Can’t tell if sarcasm, but gravitar tells me, yes, yes you are being sarcastic.

      1. Pinja

        I’m really not

    2. Volkai

      Why use powers only for good when they can be used both for good and for awesome?

  4. Wonder Wig

    My fake Nintendo girl had a threesome with my Canadian girlfriend.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Didya trade Pokemons?

      1. Skull025

        We mean STD’s when we say pokemon, yes? Cause I think pikachu as an STD would be painful. Or Onyx.
        Onyx uses self-destruct.
        You die.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          I was thinking more on the line of “jiggypuffs”. 😀

        2. Skull025

          Ouch, those’ll sting. But it’s the Magikarps you don’t want swimming around in your bloodstream. Those things will flop around tackling your cellular structure until it’s dead or bored.

        3. Wonder Wig

          And yet no one has mentioned Krabbies. Was it too obvious!? Are you not itchy!

        4. Skull025

          You can boil the fuckers out, they’re not serious. And then you can have delicious vagina-crab dinner afterwards. It’s like herpes; it’s the “cool” STD.

        5. Somebody

          So…they forgot to use protection?

        6. tjbarbacovi

          According to my RA Yes!

    2. Blob Marley

      Maybe next time she’ll invite you!

      Sorry, that was mean.

  5. Doctor_Who

    Does Amazi-Girl have an actual grappling hook? If so she’s better equipped than I imagined.

    Though it would be funny if she went all the way up to the roof and tied a rope just so she could do this.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Which begs the question, does Sal also use a rope to climb through windows or does she have leet climbing skills.

      1. Yotomoe

        She just walks up the walls vertically.

        1. StClair

          and every week, a wacky guest star opens the window, leans out, and engages her in quips.

        2. Roborat

          Yay, someone else who watched original Batman. The question is, did you watch it when it was new (Like me, good crap I am old) or in sindication later?

      2. CanvasWolfDoll

        well, since has the grappling hook, already, she might as well use it with both window entering identities.

      3. Heatth

        I believe she mentioned she uses a tree. There is one shot of their room from outside and you can clearly see a tree just by the window.

      4. AsimovSideburns

        There’s a store at my local mall that sells grappling hooks. And costumes. And custom weapons.

        Wait. I LIVE NEXT TO A HEROMART.

        1. GrrArg42

          This can be you. Live the dream!

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBzqOa9y02I

          You do have an inn nearby as well, yeah?

      5. Josh

        Erm… Sal is Amazi-girl, this question seems redundant.

  6. Blob Marley

    Yeah, Dina looks smashing in that spandex.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Yeah I totally dig it. 😀

    2. Aizat

      Dina in spandex? Where?

      1. Leonou

        Right Under her Amazi-Girl disguise.

        1. Nerdman

          Dina stole Ultra-Car’s costume?

        2. leonou

          Nope, she borrowed it from Joe.

          She did it to masquarade as Amazi-Girl instead of him. Danny was becoming suspicious and would have uncovered Joe’s alternate super-hero identity.
          When Joe shouted “College”, it was the signal for Dina to start acting.

  7. Leonou

    Danny just got a surprise visit from his sweetheart, in two different universes at the “same” time ?

    Here’s one lucky fellow.

  8. Kernanator

    Danny has a thing for girls that come in through the window.

    1. Yotomoe

      That sounds kinky.

    2. Josh

      The chest window?

      1. Blob Marley

        Perfect gravatar is perfect.

    3. Pinja

      Let the Danny/Sal shipping commence

      1. Yotomoe

        it did! 15 years ago! and apparently even a little bit before then!

  9. Aizat

    Normally? You’re the one to talk, Joe.

  10. LS

    What is it with Danny and Window Women?

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Window Women are less likely to become Door Mats.

      1. AckAckAck

        But I start questioning their drapes though.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Just as long as they match the carpets, it’s ok by me.

        2. Josh

          A good wine rack is a plus though.

  11. Digidestined of Trust (Tim)

    Amber could use some lessons from Sal, but otherwise capital job on window jumping!

  12. Yotomoe

    This is like…the opposite of the first Roomies! strip.

  13. J42

    Unrelated, but in the poll, is option #2 wrong because of abuse, or is David asking us if we think lesbianity is wrong?
    Also, Lesbianity is a word, right?

    1. Yotomoe

      OH THE LESBIANITY.

    2. PBManning

      I thought that Option #2 was more about their clashing personalities.

    3. Thor

      I think in this case, “wrong” simply means “not right”.

    4. David

      It is about abuse.

      1. PBManning

        Okay, that makes sense.

      2. begbert2

        There is no option for thinking lesbianity is wrong because we try to pretend opinions like that have died out by now.

  14. John

    Nice reversal of the first Roomies! strip.

    1. David

      Y’know, I didn’t even think about that. Heh.

      1. Nerdman

        David Willis. The only man who can unintentionally create a Continuity Nod. Or a Mythology Gag, I forget which.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          A Continuity Nod is an intra-continuity reference to a person or work while a Mythology Gag is more of a meta-continuity nod.

        2. Wack'd

          Mythology gag it is, then.

        3. Roborat

          Yup, he is indeed a god of webcomic artistry.

    2. Sporky

      Does that make “Why can’t you do things normally?” the new “Don’t you ever think about consequences?”

  15. Somebody

    I guess we’re never going to see what happens in the study room.

  16. ASmellyOgre

    The next strip, of course, is Amber falling to her death, followed by years of therapy for Danny.

    1. sidhe3141

      Amber can’t fall to her death with Ruth there to save her.

    2. Josh

      Why would Amber fall? Sal could fall but Amber is nowhere near I assume?

    3. Pinja

      Years of real time or years of DoA time?

      1. ASmellyOgre

        David Willis said he only wants to do freshman year IIRC, so I suppose only real time.

  17. Uniqueantique

    Sal is fast enought to go up a vertical wall sans ropes. Amber…er Amazi-girl needs a bit of help. And indeed, nice coincidence of the the two strips: Danny gets a visit from two girl friends in unconventional ways.

    1. Pinja

      Well Amber is carrying a little more weight…

      …

      From all her crime fighting gadgets ¬___¬

  18. Uniqueantique

    That poll has some seriously warped stats: especially since David has stated the obvious: that it is about abuse.

    1. begbert2

      Some of us enjoy the drama and warped but realistic emotion – I actually enjoy Billie smacking her down and Ruth curling up in response. (Full disclosure: I didn’t notice/respond to the poll until ‘Wait’, and I chose the ‘shut up’ option.)

  19. Nerdman

    Thursday is a surprisingly heartwarming day. With Shortpacked! And this… I’d say Willis was losing his evil touch, but Shortpacked! was heartwarming and evil. He’s getting stronger.

  20. Audiophillie

    Nooooooooooo my ship, my ship is being non-canonized…

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Where can we find a pope on such short notice?

    2. Pinja

      What ship ?___?

      1. thomas0comer

        Audio owns a galleon, but the new maritime laws prevent them from carrying heavy cannon armaments.

  21. Nono

    Joe wanted Danny to join him on that threesome, yeah.

    Joe/Danny, go!

    1. Bill Murphy

      Looks like Joe might be discovering something about himself during college…

    2. Pat

      It wouldn’t be a threesome anymore, then.

      But I noticed that. Interesting.

  22. name

    Didn’t Amazi-Girl use to fight crime? All she seems to do now is play DS and flirt middle school style. Wouldn’t a real hero be, I dunno, working on finding that rapist she allowed to get away?

    1. George

      Her reach is limited, and she’s been known to keep playing DS while stopping crime (although apparently she gets worse at Mario Kart while doing so).

    2. Greenygal

      Clearly we are setting up for a searing storyline about the conflict of Amazi-Girl’s romantic life with her duties as a superhero, leading her to question her true priorities and whether she will ever really be able to have a normal life.

      (That aside, has Amazi-Girl ever shown any particular detective skills? I don’t think she’s really into tracking people down, as opposed to stopping crimes in progress.)

    3. Pinja

      You hardly ever see her, how do you know she’s not? She spent the entire night looking for Ryan after he got away and only came back to her room in the morning when Dina was only just getting up. Plus exactly what leads does she have to go on? If Ryan’s not a total fool he’d stay out of town until the cut is healed.

      Last time we saw her she was playing DS while also beating up a mugger on the Campus.

      Plus Dorothy has made her uncomfortable about her secret ID so she may be keeping a low profile.

    4. Roborat

      Could be worse, she could be flirting Oppa Gangnam Style.

  23. GenericScreenName101

    Doesn’t Dina know that hanging outside of windows like that is dangerous and everyone can see her in her power suit

  24. ADHadh

    I need a DS then.

  25. E.C.

    Advantage: Dan. ^^

  26. Axel Bordelon

    Totally called this a few comics back. Now just a climax to this plot point, i.e. kiss, and then valentines comic involving all three couples.

    1. John

      Still need Ethan/some dude. Mike’s already got your mom covered.

      Valentine’s Day isn’t ’til like 2035 anyway.

      1. Pinja

        Ethan/Joe!

        1. Pat

          Joe DID just express only mild confusion over realizing he is unaware of the genders of the persons he slept with last night. And then said Danny should have been there.

      2. Roborat

        Holy crap, how skinny is your mom?

  27. Alain

    This is a great stand-alone strip. You don’t need to know anything about the previous strips or the characters to be able to enjoy it.

    1. m__

      Well, to really enjoy it you need to know that Amazi-Girl is Mike.

  28. ArkhamTexan

    Ugggggh, and we’re back to me wanting to pound Danny’s face in. ::headdesk:: That’s it. I’m on the Danny/Soda bottle shipping bandwagon.

    1. Pinja

      Whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhy? What has Danny done to upset you guy this time?

    2. Ian

      Things Danny did this strip:
      1. Say he’s not into parties/threesomes;
      2. Have a superhero vigilante girlfriend.

      I’m not sure which of these deserves a headdesk-inspired face-pounding, and I’d appreciate it if you could clear it up for me.

      1. madd

        Personally, I’m annoyed by the fact that he’s dismissed her out of costume. Implies he only likes Amazigirl for the mystery and excitement.

        1. ArkhamTexan

          Love your gravatar for this response, Pinja. 😀

          It’s just a general thing. When Danny’s near a girl, he gets this… stupidity thing in him. I mean, the first time we saw him was his obsessiveness over Dorothy. Then his obliviousness over Amber/Amazi-girl. I’m with madd on his/her opinion on the “dismissing Amber” thing and it was amazingly frustrating to see Amber have to pull teeth to get Danny to hang out with her rather than stay for Amazi-girl. I do say that I rather liked his handling of Dorothy and Walky during the shoe thing, though. I liked seeing that bit of him.

          It’s just that when he’s near a girl, I don’t like him. When he’s not, like last strip when he’s just chilling and having a soda, that feels more natural. Otherwise, a large part of his character seems to be defined by his interactions with women.

          To me, he’s like Cyclops. When I was first introduced to him, he was with Jean. And he was a bland, dull, punk. I never thought I’d like him. Later, I go back and read the Claremont stuff when Jean’s dead and he’s hittin’ it up with other women. Still not my taste. Then I read the stuff where he isn’t with ANYONE and, to my surprise, I turn out liking him an awful lot! I’m like, “Dude, THIS guy I can get behind!” I think Cyclops (and Danny) are just more interesting on their own.

          I’m not saying that I agree with Joe Quesada and his stupid, idiotic editorial edicts that the all female love interests need to be fridged to make the males “more interesting.” Just… I like the dude when he’s single.

        2. Pinja

          He hasn’t dismissed her, he’s merely more amazed and intrigued by Amazi-Girl, nothing wrong with that.

          If anything it’d better he’s not two timing them but was straight and upfront with Amber.

  29. PBManning

    100 comments? Wow.

    1. AckAckAck

      Why so surprised? it can go for several hundreds when the comic has controversial issues.

      1. thomas0comer

        You two are now, in my mind, both facets of Dorothy’s personality talking to one another.

        1. tahrey

          Let’s make it up to at least 110.

          “Is that a Fox-Squirrel or an Evee?”

  30. Jason

    Something tells me Joe would recognize Amazi-Girl instantly if he ever saw her.

  31. Maycroft

    Nothing melts the heart of a man like a girl sliding down to the balcony.

    1. tahrey

      Damn straight.

  32. Vree

    Hey Willis I had the greatest idea.

    When he realizes that she’s into slash and games, he dumps her.

    That’s what would happen in any TV show, right?

    Ha ha. Nerds are stupid.

    1. Vree

      and unlikable

      (So are fat people, btw. You should make a strip when someone dumps a fat person because they DESERVE it.)

      1. Narf

        I get it! That was hilarious!

        Wait, no it wasn’t, you’re a tool.

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