All this time and effort trying to find out who Pepe Silvia is- and even, if he exists at all- and you come in, like some kind of Carol in HR, claiming you know who he is? But without any details? Oh, I know a snake-oil salesman when I see one!
Smash cut to a month later, and Joyce won the contest. Her comic is going strong, and it’s popular around the college. It’s a slice-of-life comic about a couple of freshman college roommates at a big state university. She’s been having trouble making up large numbers of unique characters, so she bases them on her classmates instead — “write what you know” and all. She calls it: Roomies!
cue Inception theme
Nerdyjuan
then 10ish years later she reboots the series and she writes about her characters Runner and Jayce making comics *cues Inception theme*
Yet_One_More_Idiot
About 10 years later, she gets to the point in the comic where her characters, Runner and Jayce, start writing a comic strip for the college paper. *Cue inception theme playing within the Inception theme*
Jenn
Oh my fucking God y’all I was right. (See next comic.)
Not counting parents, I think almost everyone in their work is, to some extent, a representation of some part of Willis.
milu
I mean, isn’t any character in some sense reflective of some part of their author?
Demoted Oblivious
Except Rassilon went universal with their theory, thus implying I am a figment and a fractured element of Willis’ psyche, as are we all. This neither astounds or offends, as it will have as much impact on my existence (if even real) as the publishers clearinghouse sweepstakes has. (cue flashing banner: You may already be a winner)
milu
oooh i failed to grasp the radicality of Rassilon’s theory how very Danny of me
I’m still rooting for a team-up.
(Or I guess Sydney Yus could do it, but then how can Willis make jokes about the comic writing process, that just won’t do.)
Jamie
By having Yus POV. Like… that’s a pretty simple solution if you want both Yus writing the comics and jokes about the process. …if.
RacingTurtle
Now I want Sydney to do it. Either that, or show up just a moment too late to have their comic considered and therefore swear melodramatic vengeance upon the paper
Clif
Joyce and Walky’s strengths complement on this though. They obviously need to work together.
If only there were a sensible third person to suggest it.
milu
I mean, competition seems to be bringing out the very best in them at this point?
On the buffer point – it kinda depends on how long Willis intends to draw this out. Considering that a day in comic can last for months, there is every possibility that Willis has not yet drawn the conclusion to this contest.
There’s a poll?! I wanna vote but there’s no write in option so I can vote for them “Screw this underpaid scam work.” and then both go into business for themselves.
Why? I feel like Joyce would do a much better job.
I genuinely don’t understand how Walky is beating Joyce in the poll. She’s far more passionate, interested, and (admittedly based on only small amounts of evidence) talented than he is. Walky would hardly put any effort in at all, and the only reason he’s putting any in now is because Joyce might get the position instead.
(I’ll admit that I may be a bit biased, though, because I already don’t really like Dumbiverse Walky. He’s obnoxious, seemingly incapable of being mature, and actively refuses to grow up or better himself.)
Biased Walky fan about to comment, so take this with a grain of salt:
While I do agree that Walky is not mature, it is clear that he is attempting to better himself.
The obvious example is his relationship with Sal, not only in trying to connect with her, but also in standing up for her (punching Asher, breaking up with Amber, and speaking up to their parents).
He’s also handling Booster’s pronouns (identity?) better than Billie assumed he would and probably better than some of us would as well. And he apologized relatively quickly and easily to Booster when he was acting stupid about the game console.
Even in this strip, he doesn’t seem to have an issue with Dorothy anymore, which he did for a little while (though I think that was mostly due to getting involved with Amber pre time skip).
Walky is growing, is trying to be a better person, and while it does seem slow, don’t forget that while it’s years for us who have been here for awhile (and days/months for binge readers), it’s only been three months for him.
That he, and the rest of these 18-20+ year olds, are even trying to better themselves so quickly is impressive to me (I say like they’re real people). Some people (including myself) take years before we even recognize our faults, let alone try to change them.
Jenn
I appreciate the reality check here. It’s easy to see/read what I want to see/read.
The president of the USAA head of state getting people secretely bumped off is actually a more realistic depiction of the job than Dorothy probably realizes…
I don’t know HOW a president would secrete bumps off of people, and every time I ask that question the brainstorming part of my brain requires brainbleach.
milu
i believe the highly classified process known as presidential hanky-panky may occasionally secrete a bump. its protocol is shrouded in mystery, however. tantalizingly sexy mystery.
Demoted Oblivious
Most people don’t find the general conceptnor results of generalized secretions sexy. While there are some implicitly sexy secretions, even only one of them is typically portrayed both as sexy and as a secretion, as the other is typically buffered and then delivered en-masse in a short series of progressively smaller amounts until the buffer is again empty. And most people don’t want to face that.
Other secretions are very much not sexy except to a few folks, fetishes are funny like that. For examples of some types of generally non-sexy secretions just google the keyword for youtube vid’s, or search for Dr. Sandra Lee.
251 thoughts on “Prep”
Ana Chronistic
https://imgur.com/gallery/0ZnWnAS
Pylgrim
I’m positive every single person here knew what that link was without clicking on it.
ktbear
Im not even sure what that link was AFTER clicking on it!
Thag Simmons
Charlie stumbled onto a major company conspiracy
Keulen
Yeah, that’s what I assumed that link was gonna be.
Demoted Oblivious
TIL who Pepe Silvia is.
HeySo
All this time and effort trying to find out who Pepe Silvia is- and even, if he exists at all- and you come in, like some kind of Carol in HR, claiming you know who he is? But without any details? Oh, I know a snake-oil salesman when I see one!
..wait, unless YOU’RE Pepe Silvia..
Charles Spencer
Not only did I NOT know what it was before I clicked it, I’m not sure what it after having done so.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
You are not alone – I still have absolutely no idea what the heck I just watched there. xD
Needfuldoer
I think that’s what most of us commenters look like reading between the lines and piecing DoA’s lore together.
Delicious Taffy
Joyce is Mike in disguise.
Clif
Shhh!
Roborat
TBH, I thought that was too obvious, and was expecting a rick roll.
Sirksome
Both of them have already worked way too hard on this!
Diner Kinetic
I’m kind of rooting for walky, purely because joyce could make a joke about how this proves she was right that there isn’t a god
King Daniel
I mean, this is pretty much how the Walkyverse (and thus, eventually, DoA itself) got its start
Sirksome
It’s even sadder actually because apparently Willis was only paid 2 bucks a strip instead of 5.
Rex Vivat
Oh, wait for Daisy to decide to have both but at half-pay.
kgy121
Both at two dollars a piece, and pocket the last dollar.
chris2315
You gotta account for inflation, though.
Needfuldoer
Apparently $2 in 1997 had the same buying power as $3.26 does today. They’re going above and beyond, that’s a whole $1.74 extra!
Needfuldoer
Apparently $2 in 1997 had the same buying power as $3.26 does today. They’re going above and beyond, that’s a whole $1.74 extra!
/s
Jenn
Smash cut to a month later, and Joyce won the contest. Her comic is going strong, and it’s popular around the college. It’s a slice-of-life comic about a couple of freshman college roommates at a big state university. She’s been having trouble making up large numbers of unique characters, so she bases them on her classmates instead — “write what you know” and all. She calls it: Roomies!
cue Inception theme
Nerdyjuan
then 10ish years later she reboots the series and she writes about her characters Runner and Jayce making comics *cues Inception theme*
Yet_One_More_Idiot
About 10 years later, she gets to the point in the comic where her characters, Runner and Jayce, start writing a comic strip for the college paper. *Cue inception theme playing within the Inception theme*
Jenn
Oh my fucking God y’all I was right. (See next comic.)
Doctor_Who
I feel like panels 2 and 4 both represent Willis, and he oscillates between them.
Cimorene
Fractured psyche of the author.
RassilonTDavros
Not counting parents, I think almost everyone in their work is, to some extent, a representation of some part of Willis.
milu
I mean, isn’t any character in some sense reflective of some part of their author?
Demoted Oblivious
Except Rassilon went universal with their theory, thus implying I am a figment and a fractured element of Willis’ psyche, as are we all. This neither astounds or offends, as it will have as much impact on my existence (if even real) as the publishers clearinghouse sweepstakes has. (cue flashing banner: You may already be a winner)
milu
oooh i failed to grasp the radicality of Rassilon’s theory how very Danny of me
Kyrik Michalowski
I want Walky to end up being the one who draws the comkc, but at the same time I wonder if he’ll have the drive to keep doing it.
I’d say the poll shows who is going to win but then I remember the buffer.
RassilonTDavros
My gut feeling is that since Joyce is the more explicitly autobiographical of the two, it’s probably going to be her.
Leorale
I’m still rooting for a team-up.
(Or I guess Sydney Yus could do it, but then how can Willis make jokes about the comic writing process, that just won’t do.)
Jamie
By having Yus POV. Like… that’s a pretty simple solution if you want both Yus writing the comics and jokes about the process. …if.
RacingTurtle
Now I want Sydney to do it. Either that, or show up just a moment too late to have their comic considered and therefore swear melodramatic vengeance upon the paper
Clif
Joyce and Walky’s strengths complement on this though. They obviously need to work together.
If only there were a sensible third person to suggest it.
milu
I mean, competition seems to be bringing out the very best in them at this point?
RassilonTDavros
Plot twist: Becky wins by
doing absolutely nothingdrawing Amazi-Girl femslash.Jhon
stick figure with chest window
Rose by Any Other Name
On the buffer point – it kinda depends on how long Willis intends to draw this out. Considering that a day in comic can last for months, there is every possibility that Willis has not yet drawn the conclusion to this contest.
Sirksome
There’s a poll?! I wanna vote but there’s no write in option so I can vote for them “Screw this underpaid scam work.” and then both go into business for themselves.
milu
hm yes, the previous poll (“Robin DeSanto: ☐ Great teacher? / ☐ Greatest teacher?”) definitely didn’t run into this issue of lacking a third option.
King Daniel
I refused to vote in that poll, as I actually think Robin’s a pretty awful teacher. 😛
King Daniel
egads no
Jenn
Why? I feel like Joyce would do a much better job.
I genuinely don’t understand how Walky is beating Joyce in the poll. She’s far more passionate, interested, and (admittedly based on only small amounts of evidence) talented than he is. Walky would hardly put any effort in at all, and the only reason he’s putting any in now is because Joyce might get the position instead.
(I’ll admit that I may be a bit biased, though, because I already don’t really like Dumbiverse Walky. He’s obnoxious, seemingly incapable of being mature, and actively refuses to grow up or better himself.)
cbwroses
Biased Walky fan about to comment, so take this with a grain of salt:
While I do agree that Walky is not mature, it is clear that he is attempting to better himself.
The obvious example is his relationship with Sal, not only in trying to connect with her, but also in standing up for her (punching Asher, breaking up with Amber, and speaking up to their parents).
He’s also handling Booster’s pronouns (identity?) better than Billie assumed he would and probably better than some of us would as well. And he apologized relatively quickly and easily to Booster when he was acting stupid about the game console.
Even in this strip, he doesn’t seem to have an issue with Dorothy anymore, which he did for a little while (though I think that was mostly due to getting involved with Amber pre time skip).
Walky is growing, is trying to be a better person, and while it does seem slow, don’t forget that while it’s years for us who have been here for awhile (and days/months for binge readers), it’s only been three months for him.
That he, and the rest of these 18-20+ year olds, are even trying to better themselves so quickly is impressive to me (I say like they’re real people). Some people (including myself) take years before we even recognize our faults, let alone try to change them.
Jenn
I appreciate the reality check here. It’s easy to see/read what I want to see/read.
AdamJ
I think a big part of it is also that people like rooting for the underdog.
OBBWG
Monkey…on T-rex…farting… What could be better???
Jhon
Two monkeys!
Eldritchy
And a pack of Secret Service Raptors.
RassilonTDavros
I’m curious how Dorothy is going to react to a fictionalized version of herself who advocates extrajudicial killing…
King Daniel
…I think you got the wrong link there?
RassilonTDavros
Crap. Here’s the correct one. I hope.
Eldritchy
With Becky as her PR manager and Joyce as her secret enforcer, Dotty will be the most powerful US President in history
SolomonK
Her name is Dorothy, irrespective of what Rebecca calls her.
Needfuldoer
Becky for Press Secretary.
Thag Simmons
Dorothy Keener and Doris Kenner have nothing in common, what are you talking about
milu
The president of the USAA head of state getting people secretely bumped off is actually a more realistic depiction of the job than Dorothy probably realizes…Reltzik
I don’t know HOW a president would secrete bumps off of people, and every time I ask that question the brainstorming part of my brain requires brainbleach.
milu
i believe the highly classified process known as presidential hanky-panky may occasionally secrete a bump. its protocol is shrouded in mystery, however. tantalizingly sexy mystery.
Demoted Oblivious
Most people don’t find the general conceptnor results of generalized secretions sexy. While there are some implicitly sexy secretions, even only one of them is typically portrayed both as sexy and as a secretion, as the other is typically buffered and then delivered en-masse in a short series of progressively smaller amounts until the buffer is again empty. And most people don’t want to face that.
Other secretions are very much not sexy except to a few folks, fetishes are funny like that. For examples of some types of generally non-sexy secretions just google the keyword for youtube vid’s, or search for Dr. Sandra Lee.
Vangeln
Just steal his idea, Joyce
Demoted Oblivious
She hasn’t stopped having morals.
crow
Honestly, it’s anyone’s game at this point.
Newllend(henryvolt)
I think I might have made up my mind on that recent poll.
Clif
The poll is deeply flawed. No option for team ups or third parties.
milu
Shun the nonbeliever SHUNNNN-ah