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Passive-aggressive
Posted on November 28, 2014 by David M Willis

148 thoughts on “Passive-aggressive”

  1. Atomix26

    yay! awkward walky having the emotional age of a middle schooler.

    1. StClair

      that’s always/every Walky.

      1. Deanatay

        gah help i do not understand relationships

        1. Arkadi

          Neither does Walky. You are not alone.

    2. Ahighfunctioningsociopath

      I think you meant to say emotional range of a teaspoon.

  2. Jen Aside

    smooth move, Ex-Lax

  3. Hoboturtle

    Nailed it!

    1. desolation0

      Question now is whether he’ll ever be allowed to again.

  4. cesium133

    If she’s asking for permission to sit with him, that seems like it might be a bad sign…

    1. JeremiahTheBulldog

      I know. She’s actually probably going to apologize for freaking him out with love.

      1. Yotomoe

        “She blinded me with Romance!”

        1. A Scientist

          That is not what the 80s told me she blinded people with.

        2. Yotomoe

          If you don’t be quite I’ll blind you with Violence.

        3. Yotomoe

          Quiet*

        4. jeffepp

          What a riot.

        5. MIB4u

          That doesn’t help my webcomic diet.

        6. roguebfl

          Zoot Suit Riot?

        7. Deanatay

          Grapefruit diet!

        8. Jen

          I dunno. I don’t think I buy it.

          But maybe I should try it.

          I’ll go check with my friend Wyatt.

        9. A Scientist

          All of you, if you have a kite, you should go fly it.

    2. Marie

      I don’t think so. She probably doesn’t know how upset he is either, and doesn’t want to just force herself on him, in public, not even in a sexy way.

      1. Leorale

        Yeah, she’s all kinds of mature and considerate. Hopefully she’s had a little bit to reflect that their changing feelings demand that they redefine their relationship together. Only, using smaller, less relationshippy words for emotionally-stupid Walky.

        1. Rutee

          Why is the comments section only as mature as Walky on the matter? You can love someone and still consider the relationship temporary. Dorothy already proved she’s capable of that with Danny.

        2. Dragon_Nataku

          What I want to know is why you think it’s somehow more mature to be incapable of being in a long-term, committed relationship ^O__o^;;

        3. jpic89

          That’s reading a lot into their comment. I’m pretty sure they are implying it is more mature to be able to accept that not every relationship has to be long-term, regardless of feelings.

        4. Rutee

          It is a long term, committed relationship. 4 years is a long time to most people. It just isn’t permanent.

          But to answer the question asked, I actually don’t. What’s immature is not understanding the possibility that a relationship can be temporary by design, and still involve two loving parties. This is a possibility that is generally ignored.

        5. Leorale

          Not saying you can’t! Relationships can be completely important and meaningful and special and loving, even if they’re going to end before one of you dies of old age (or gets hit by a truck). I hope that they can redefine it as a loving and temporary relationship, and figure out whether they each want to continue it, knowing full well that it’s going to hurt to eventually break up.

        6. Twilightomens

          Hey, nobody’s getting hit by a truck here!

  5. Raine

    One step away from classic Walky doofy eyes…

    Cmooooooon…

  6. Kernanator

    You’re doing the rambling thing, Walky.

    1. newllend

      Ya that tends to be a recurring thing I thought you got over that.

  7. Leorale

    I like when boys are charmingly incapable of concealing the truth.

    1. Yotomoe

      That’s why I train myself to believe my own lies! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

      1. Lanval

        I go with having such an intricate system of folding and diverging webs of lies so that I forget the underlying truth I was concealing in the first place and tend to just go for whatever sounds plausible and situationally polite/proper.

        1. The Weird One

          I can’t remember the last time I was honest with myself. It’s actually become a bit worrying. This morning I woke up and realized I was not, in fact, the leader of a criminal empire centered mostly around potatoes and demon worship.

          It was disappointing, to say the least.

        2. Disloyal Subject

          That’s easily remedied. Potatoes grow fast.

        3. Phlebas

          Yeah, you’re totally not. Keep telling yourself that.

        4. Vincent

          … But now what am I going to do with all these potatoes?

        5. Oberon

          … And what am I going to do with all these demons?

        6. Opus the Poet

          Put them to work writing sub-routines in Linux.

        7. Oberon

          That would require an additional ‘a’.

  8. newllend

    Happy Thanksgiving assholes

    1. JeremiahTheBulldog

      It’s Black Friday, genius. Read the scroll text.

      1. newllend

        Its 9pm where I’m at man.

        1. Jen Aside

          You’re both wrong. It’s been Christmas since Hallowe’en.

        2. cesium133

          Why? Because OCT 31 = DEC 25.

          I’ll show myself out now…

        3. John

          I celebrate HEX 19.

        4. Bill

          Just as a matter of curiosity — if HEX (as in HEXidecimal) is the prefix used to indicate base 16, then what is the prefix used if one was using base 6?

        5. gwalla

          Probably SEN for “senary”.

        6. JWLM

          Seriously? “SEX”

          You can now all smirk like 12 year olds.

        7. Oberon

          For all the radixes (radii?) without formal names, it’s just ‘radix 6’ or ‘base 6’. Radix 6 is also heximal, however. And as mentioned senary is also correct.

        8. begbert2

          Oh…my god. That actually works.

          Now I’m wondering what other easter eggs are hidden in the programming of reality.

        9. Amazi-Stool

          The smiley on Mars shown in the Watchmen comic and movie actually exists!

        10. auo> 3^J35 +-j05

          November comes from the word for 9. So Nov~Nonary system.
          25 base 10=27 base 9=November 27.
          So this year Christmas isn’t just Halloween–it’s also Thanksgiving.

        11. auo> 3^J35 +-j05

          That’s actually the nonary system so it should be NON 27 but who cares?
          Oh wait! Apparently it can be called the novemal system, so it does work! Thanks, Wikipedia!

        12. MrSirk

          October to January should be one big holiday super month! Happy HallowChristGiving! Everything you buy is half off until you spend to much and inevitably return it next year!

        13. auo> 3^J35 +-j05

          That’s not far off from the current system. Of course, we’d need a holiday on Sept 34 as well… Although that might prove difficult. I guess you could say that it’s Guy Fawkes’ Eve.

        14. Opus the Poet

          Happy HallowThanksMas to you too.

        15. Bill

          Here ya go — Happy Everything!

      2. cesium133

        11:15 PM Thursday night is still Thanksgiving. Dang Eastern Time Zone people…

        1. Disloyal Subject

          Thanksgiving ain’t over until the food’s gone. There shall be no leftovers.

  9. Yotomoe

    DOROTHY, YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN. JEEZ!

    1. newllend

      Calm down? This is a new concept to DoA

  10. BobaFett2

    Time to throw something at Dorothy.

    1. newllend

      Throw the Pepsi at her !

    2. Lanval

      That’s what got him into this mess in the first place.

    3. Vangeln

      Throw a fart at her!

    4. StClair

      “Do you like… bread? I’ve got French loaf!”

  11. Idon'tcarenomore

    Haha even.
    Love the hovertext. Nice going Willis…sop.

  12. Cattleprod

    Since she’s off panel at the start of the strip, I choose to believe Dorothy is already staring directly at Walky when he’s desperately hoping she doesn’t see him.

  13. Boomwolf

    smooth as ever Walky, you sly devil you.

  14. Dean

    Quick, Walky, put on a fake accent and pretend to be El Walkyo, Mexican exchange student.

    1. The_Bionic_Doctor

      YES

    2. Bill

      Pretending to be a foreign student.  Wouldn’t be the first time — especially at Indiana University.

  15. Sensedog

    If it continues, good for them.

    If it ends, it was good while it lasted.

  16. chris73

    This probably the best thing Walky could have said in this situation

    1. Disloyal Subject

      Amusingly, yes. Dorkiness can defuse tension at times… Though he doesn’t seem to have been thinking ahead that far.

    2. begbert2

      I don’t know about that; she looks unimpressed.

  17. newllend

    This is me avioding confrontation with people I don’t want to talk to.

  18. Sylvester Crow

    Im sad to say that that was me in highschool…and i wasn’t even dating her!

    1. lordhaw

      Oh I have always suffered with a severe case of foot in mouth disease too. It’s better than it used to be but it flares up now and again

      1. Leorale

        That’s the problem with thinking with your mouth. You well learn the taste of your foot.
        (and by “you” I mean “I”.)

  19. Yotomoe

    “You’d better appreciate me. I can get a new girlfriend like THAT who’s farts smell WAY worse than yours!”

    1. John

      :And SHE has some kind of weird one-sided lesbian thing going with Joyce TOO!”

      1. Yotomoe

        Which is what I like in a girlfriend. Freckles and wanting to bang Joyce.

        1. Bill

          Wouldn’t you rather have a girlfriend who had freckles and was wanting to bang *YOU*?

        2. Gigafreak

          Why do these have to be mutually exclusive

  20. lordhaw

    Walky really doesn’t handle this stuff very well at all does he?!

  21. David Alexander McDonald

    BSOW – Blue Screen Of Walky.

  22. newllend

    Dorothy this fight isn’t over ! Unless you say so…no good there are something I want to talk about, well not really I was hoping you would give me more time to come up with a plan to approach you. (please leave)

    1. Lanval

      That is a good point to throw down a smoke bomb, or shout “Smokebomb” while making some handgesture, before fleeing into the night.

      1. Kryss LaBryn

        “Lightningbolt!”

        1. ShaggyDonahugh

          “Magic Missile!”

        2. Gamaran Sepudomyn

          Amnesia peppers!

      2. Rusty Shackleford

        Pocket sand!

        1. timemonkey

          That sounds familiar.

      3. Chubsius

        Walky La Smoking Bomber!

  23. Kugai

    Well, that’s just about all the bases covered there Walky.

  24. pyrophobia

    DAMN YOU WILLIS
    BLACK FRIDAY IS NEVER HAPPY

    1. Disloyal Subject

      Sure it is. You just have to barricade yourself in with a gaming console and/or stack of books, avoiding human contact. Weapons and pets optional.

      1. bleeters

        That is literally how I spend every single day.

  25. Ikaru

    Good save Walky…

    1. JWLM

      In his case, I think it’s ‘Equivocation save Walky’.

  26. beege

    Translated from Walkyspeak to english this roughly means: “I’m really sorry for hurting you, I still care about you and I want to work this out’ which is really the best response he could have given.

    1. Disloyal Subject

      I suppose we’ll see with tomorrow’s strip whether Dotty’s so adept at translating it.

      1. Doctor_Who

        She responds by wearing ladles on her ears and singing the national anthem while standing in a bucket of frogs, so I think it’s safe to say there were some communication problems.

  27. MrSirk

    “You look pretty, unless your mad then your suffocating me you cow!. Unless your not mad then I’m sorry…Tell me what I should be!”

  28. JessWitt

    That’s some strategic word vomit right there, Walky.

  29. Twilightomens

    Ah Dorothy, he called you pretty now you can stop being mad at him! Yay!

  30. auo> 3^J35 +-j05

    You, Dot, are a very pretty girl today.
    (Left-handed toons reference)

    1. Opus the Poet

      Thank you Yakko and Wakko.

  31. Kaunisenkeli

    Walky, covering all your bases is a good idea in a lot of situations.
    …
    …
    …
    This isn’t one of them. Just say yes, and talk things out like an adult.

    1. notlegato

      well he DID end by being super honest…

    2. pyrophobia

      Walky? Mature adult?
      BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

      1. Gamaran Sepudomyn

        Kaunisenkeli never said that he had to act like a mature adult.

    3. sanddorn

      Is this about the whole getting to xth base thing? Sounds interesting for sure.

  32. Orangey

    Smooth Walky smooth.

    1. Deanatay

      Walky doesn’t do smooth. He is Rocky Road.

  33. Duke

    God-damn… i just realised i am walky incarnate; I literately do this every time I screw up -.- Dammit Willis.

  34. Vree

    I don’t really get it why they are all supposed to be avoiding each other like plague now but whatever, maybe I’m just slow
    I mean it’s not like I ddn’t have my share of awkward situations but weren’t they all buddy buddy like just a few strips ago

  35. Inlaa

    Maybe I’m just twisted or something, but sometimes when I hear the words ‘Black Friday’ I instead hear the song ‘Friday’ by Rebecca Black play. Then I turn off the lights and cry myself to sleep.

  36. Adam Black

    Deer-in-the-headlights Walky

    Dorothy knows how to work with this

  37. Kilborn

    I always hate when I read an entire web comic in a day and then i have to wait for more of this wonderful amazingness

    1. Leorale

      Welcome to the wait of feels.

  38. Just Here

    One of the most idiotic things about western society is that men are raised to think that these two things are the hardest to say: Admitting you really love someone, and that you were an idiot to your beloved. American men are raised to be emotional cripples, and that’s sad.

    That and American football top the list for me.

    1. Thomas64

      I agree that teaching people to be dishonest about their feelings is idiotic, but I think you’re wrong to single out American or even Western culture. I seems to me that in Western countries there is at least a sense that enforced gender stereotyping has many unhealthy effects, and we’re making progress toward fixing it, however slowly… While in non-western cultures, sexism is far more extreme, and far more brutally enforced.
      Painting these issues with a broad brush isn’t helpful.

    2. Leorale

      I sometimes think that women aren’t allowed to be angry, and men aren’t allowed to be hurt/sad, and both of these rules are ridiculous and harmful.

      1. Thomas64

        Amen.

    3. Freezer

      Agreed about the first.

      On the second: I will fight you with knives. NFL licensed knives.

  39. monica

    So… walky is actively attempting to be passive aggressive. No wonder he’s imploding.

    1. John

      No, I think he was hoping out loud that Dorothy would choose to be passive aggressive by not sitting with him, and thus he would avoid a conversation about feels that he is woefully unprepared to deal with.

  40. maxlines

    Don’t get how she would actually want to be with him at this point.

    1. Clif

      Because?

    2. C.

      That caramel bod?

  41. Thomas64

    Calling it now: “My Level Of Standoffishness Is Fluctuating” is totally the title for the next DoA book.

    1. Wolfe

      If it isn’t, it should be!

    2. Mitsukara

      Aww, but couldn’t it also be “Burgers Put Me In Existential Ennui”?

  42. Arkadi

    Walky is just so freakin’ adorable.

  43. Vangeln

    Happy black out!

  44. PSadlon

    I think Walky is and has been being Walky. He does love her but don’t want to be defined by that or anything else but his choices on what to be defined as. If he does that he loses his self identity in his opinion.

  45. Freezer

    The Man Child Dam broke and a flood of ifuckedup swamped the plains of Walkerton.

  46. Mitsukara

    That’s actually pretty good communication on Walky’s part, sort of! He could’ve done much worse. He could’ve thrown his utensils at her head and run out of the room with a creepy look on his face.

  47. Ashley

    Gotta give it to Walky, at least he’s honest.

  48. Nena

    I wouldn’t mind having an 18 year old’s body, but I sure as hell don’t want the 18 year old brain!

  49. Clif

    30% probability her next question is “why would I be angry with you?”. From her point of view she brought it up before he was ready.

  50. Chiatroll

    That is a salad and I’m glad someone at the table finally brought some food.

  51. Lord Geovanni

    Dorothy looks very intimidating in panel 4 with those long legs and subsequently pants while it looks like walky left most of his pants at home in every other panel (pay no attention to the small triangles in panel 1)

  52. Onion

    He’s quite good at having no idea how to be angry on purpose

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