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Stare
Posted on March 8, 2014 by David M Willis

206 thoughts on “Stare”

  1. Quatoria

    oh my gosh that’s maybe the most adorable thing i’ve ever seen.

    1. Jen Aside

      “WHY DON’T YOU ***COME*** UP HERE”
      “…I already did”

      [well, Joyce wasn’t lying, Jacob noticed]

      1. Yet-One-More-Idiot

        She practices her inconspicuous staring at home, on her Staremaster. 🙂

        1. Riku

          I looked for a like button and then an upvote button

          Here have this instead
          http://i.imgur.com/iUbVmSj.jpg

      2. Matt

        And now we will never hear the end of it

    2. T Campbell

      Who would have thought that Sarah would have this much in common with Walky?

      1. Tandel

        Holy crap, I hadn’t thought of it that way but it’s totally true!

  2. Idon'tcarenomore

    oh Joyce are you in trouble.

  3. Mr. Random

    I think it’s best we don’t hear the creepy thoughts in the beginning of each relationship.

    1. Yotomoe

      “I wonder what they look like without pants.”

      1. SilverArrowArtemis

        “I wonder what he/she would look like in my pants.”

        1. BlueRam

          “I wonder what I look like in those pants.”

        2. Yotomoe

          “I wonder what those pants look like without anyone in them”

        3. Usayasha

          “I wonder what my pants look like in those pants.”

        4. EvilPenguin

          “What are pants?”

        5. -Sentinel-

          “Honey, where are my pants?”

        6. RevenantBacon

          THE PANTS ARE A LIE!!!

        7. Kernanator

          “I could use pants.”

        8. GrrArg42

          A Lego movie reference has gone spoken and unanswered. I am shocked. Shocked I say.

          Also: “I wonder what their pants look like when used as impromptu rope…”

        9. saltchocolate

          Honey, I shrunk the pants.

        10. symbiote01

          *pant pant*

        11. 3oranges

          Found your pants, series is over.

        12. nothri

          “I wonder if I’m wearing pants.”

        13. Ancestral Hamster

          “Luke, I am your pants.”

        14. Opus the Poet

          Ancestral Hamster, you win.

        15. TJ Baltimore

          “Why are we both still wearing pants?”

        16. das-g

          Ancestral, wasn’t it rather “Luke, I am [pfff-pshhhh] your pa[pfff-pshhhh]nts.” ?

        17. Ancestral Hamster

          @Opus the Poet: Why, thank you!

        18. Cragalanch

          “Why are the wearing my pants?”

        19. TBeckett

          “Pants?”

        20. Cragalanch

          *they
          Cragalanch needs to proofread more

        21. cesium133

          “Pants? Where we’re going, we don’t need pants.”

        22. ArkArks

          “Time is an illusion, and so are pants.”

        23. Drunken Nordmann

          “There are no pants”

        24. Jen Aside

          “For you, the day pants graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.

        25. Geo

          You can have my sword,
          and my bow,
          AND MY PANTS!

        26. cmd1095

          I am done with all of you…

        27. Amazi-Stool

          All your pants are belong to us!

        28. Roborat

          Bring us up the pants.

        29. CanvasWolfDoll

          *cue art of jacob and sarah wearing the opposite’s pants, and standing about awkwardly* welp, this has been an interesting experiment!

        30. John

          Jacob stuffed into those shorts Sarah’s got painted on would be less “awkward” and more “painful”, I think.

        31. David

          That’s a slippery slope. At first she finds Jacob in her pants, then her panties, then her pantings and finally her pans. But let’s not think about breakfast already.

        32. xKiv

          And then he pants .. and then she pants … and that’s a pair of pants!

      2. JustCheetoDust

        “I wonder what they cook like…without pants.”

      3. etybolik

        “Pants are an illusion.”

      4. Amazi-Stool

        Pants?
        THIS! IS! BARENESS!

    2. Doctor_Who

      “I have written my first name with your last name so many times I’m on my second notebook.”

      “I have specifically sought out pornography with actors who resemble you.”

      “You wore that outfit 2 years and seven days ago. What? No, I wasn’t stalking you back then, I just have memorized every photo you are tagged in on facebook.”

      1. Mr K

        You sound like Faz.

        1. Doctor_Who

          I’m pretty sure if we could hear Faz’s thoughts, we’d all open our skulls and pour bleach on our brains.

        2. Kiapdx

          No, Faz’s comments would all be about himself.

          “I’ve found you a list of pornography with people who look like me in them that you should watch because once you go Faz you never go back.”

          “The Faz wore this outfit on a date and almost got lucky so I haven’t washed it. Now we will get double lucky, yes?”

    3. rytsuryn

      “These are not my pants. Whose pants are these anyway”

      1. Hellhound

        “THESE PANTS COST OVER NINE THOUSSAAAAAAAAAAAAND”

  4. Nym

    Ahahahaha, Sarah. Man, and suddenly I ship these two on account of more than just wanting Sarah to be happy.

  5. Doctor_Who

    I’m getting Walky Deja Vu. Please tell me she does The Face at some point. And chucks something at Jacob’s head.

    1. Jay Eff

      Just as long as it’s not a baseball bat..

    2. Mr K

      She’ll throw one of her “toys”.

    3. Yotomoe

      She will throw herself at him.

    4. Zekiah2

      Walky threw a toy but what will Sarah throw?

      1. RobHagen

        Something that requires 4 AA batteries?

        1. Andiemus

          Why would she be carrying a TV remote?

        2. Opus the Poet

          Why would she be carrying other battery-operated “toys”? Because she didn’t want anyone else to have it.

      2. Kas

        Two words: “novelty toy”.

        1. blackaeon

          Why would anybody buy a novelty toy TV remote?

  6. Wonder Wig

    Lady boner at critical mass.

    1. nothri

      Is…is that good or bad? If one’s lady boner “explodes” wouldn’t that mean in this context that…you know…

      1. JustCheetoDust

        Sploosh.

        1. Cragalanch

          No, spooge. Get it right

        2. JustCheetoDust

          Thanks, it’s not often I get to use this GIF.

        3. Julez

          Holy crap this made my morning.

  7. Super Duper

    Sarah doesn’t want any of that teenage drama.
    SUUURRRREEEEE.

    1. Nym

      She doesn’t want it. But it caught sight of her in that adorable outfit, and now it wants her.

    2. Yotomoe

      She doesn’t want any teenage drama like I don’t want to waste my day farting around on the internet. It’s a complete and utter waste of my time but…well….here I am!

      1. Doctor_Who

        It’s only 12:07. You’ve still got 23 hours and 53 minutes of farting around ahead of you.

        1. Ancestral Hamster

          Am I glad smells can’t be transmitted over the ‘net!

          YET.

        2. JustCheetoDust

          Like there isn’t already a secret “ARPANET for digital scents” being abused by government employees who want to indulge in pornography using an extra sense.

  8. David Herbert

    “Oh god, I might actually get laid!”

  9. Idon'tcarenomore

    On the other hand, yeah, it’s cute as Hell.

  10. Yotomoe

    Jacob confirmed for Really cool dude.

    1. The Candyman

      Good Guy Jacob.

      1. saltchocolate

        Loving Jacob! Thanks, Willis! (I speak for myself and my gravatar.)

  11. Cragalanch

    Cragalanch approves

  12. Calibus

    Sarah now understands how guys are with awkward boners

    1. Mr K

      Now I’m imagining her with a boner. Not sure if want.

      1. Yotomoe

        …Mr K…Don’t make me have to draw this. I will not be merciful.

        1. timemonkey

          Would it be like Pinoccio’s nose? the more she tried to lie about it the bigger it’d get?

        2. ninja_jesus

          Please please please please please please

          Oh no, ANYTHING but that! D:

          >_>

        3. The Candyman

          Search your feelings, Yotomoe, you know it must be drawn.

        4. Yotomoe

          NSFW
          http://i.imgur.com/dtaqSGR.png
          “Thanks a lot, guys”

        5. KingMabel

          “is scolling up”

          Hey what’s this link?

          “clicks link”

          Hey its a sketch of Sa………………………………………………………………………..
          …..I’ll be in the basement.

        6. Opus the Poet

          That’s not a boner, that’s a strap-on. You are sentenced to 3 weeks of futa porn 18 hours a day or until you can graw a proper lady with a boner. 😛

        7. Yotomoe

          It’s just ripping trough her panties! Cut me some slack! I’m animatin’!

        8. Drunken Nordmann

          I don’t think I’ll click on that, Yotomoe. There are things I have seen and things I don’t have to see.

        9. Yotomoe

          I will only think better of you for it.

        10. saltchocolate

          Tee hee… 😀

      2. Plasma Mongoose

        He will you know, girl boners are his speciality. =3

      3. John

        If Joyce is a size 6, what size does Sarah wear?

        1. blackaeon

          Size bigger than me, apparently.

  13. Sambo

    Am I crazy or did Joyce’s plan actually work??

    1. Doctor_Who

      Oh sure, only let us pick one.

      1. Opus the Poet

        OK I LOL’ed at that one. And now the cat is giving me a dirty look for waking him from hour 27 of his nap… I have a very lazy cat, hasn’t caught a mouse in 4 years… Not that I have seen any evidence of a mouse since then, but still there are all those mice outside he could catch. And why am I hearing Andy Rooney talking?

  14. Plasma Mongoose

    I can already see this working out for a while then drama happens resulting in an emotional train wreck.

    1. Mr K

      Like every relationship in this comic?

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Pretty much.

        1. Spaz

          Ten years from now, everyone will be happily married, and will die horribly in a train wreck (So Willis can work on his Shortpacked sequel about Joyce/Walky’s kids that are in school that is inexplicably more popular than DoA at that point).

          Just so he can say that everyone’s relationships ended in a massive train wreck.

        2. Yotomoe

          Ten years from now they’ll have gotten past the first quarter.

        3. KingMabel

          +7

    2. nothri

      Whaaaaat? No. No. Willis would never do that to us. He is our friend, and we can trust him. He would never hurt or betray us nor crush our hopes and dreams in any way. Jeez. Where’s this cynicism even coming from?

  15. BlackIo

    This seems adorable. I have to assume that means the countdown timer on the drama bomb has already started ticking.

  16. newllend

    “Sarah” master of seduction.

  17. arank11

    Question: If Billie turns women gay, can Jacob turn them straight?

    1. arank11

      BTW, I am not suggesting that Sarah is a lesbian. I’m just saying that if a random girl were to run into Billie and fall under the same spell as Ruth and (partially) Joyce fell under, then run into Jacob, would she become straight again, or remain a lesbian?

      1. Heavensrun

        You are walking into a minefield, sir.

    2. Yotomoe

      And in turn, turn men gay?

      1. arank11

        Possibly

      2. Alex Stritar

        Then Billie turns them straight?

        1. John

          When their powers combine, they just turn everyone bi.

        2. Jen Aside

          Will no one think of the hermaphrodites?!?!

        3. John

          They can turn the hermaphrodites bi, too!

        4. Amazi-Stool

          Mr K already did in this thread above.
          And Yotomoe claims he was “forced to draw it”!

        5. Yotomoe

          That wasn’t a hermaphrodite! She only had one part and it was the dude parts!

        6. Opus the Poet

          And boobs, don’t forget the boobs. Why doesn’t anyone think of the poor neglected boobs?!?

        7. Yotomoe

          Boys can have boobs! Sometimes they even lactate!

      3. TJ Baltimore

        I am hoping with all of my heart that this is the subject of the next Slipshine porn!

  18. Blackbird

    I see how you are, Willis. You tore our hearts out with Amber and with Billie/Ruth and now you have to set up another thing we want so bad only to regret it when we get it. I see now why so many damn you.

    1. saltchocolate

      The DoA fandom is complex for a reason! That reason is Willis!

  19. Kiapdx

    Jacob really wants a friend in class.
    Sarah really wants Jacob in her.

    Somehow I think they’ll make this work.

    1. Yotomoe

      “You’ve got a friend in me” has never seemed so dirty!
      “

      1. Opus the Poet

        “Say hello to my little friend,” has never sounded so… interesting.

      2. Amazi-Stool

        It’s what Sarah will say to Joyce when she asks how the new dress worked!

    2. Andiemus

      Every man wants a friend in the classroom and a Jacob in the bedroom.

      No, wait…

      1. Pat

        No, that sound correct.

  20. Notebooked

    It’s gonna be interesting to see how this goes. Sarah seems like the sort of person who’d take a lot of distance and wouldn’t even approach Jacob because everything can fail horrifically and sitting back and safely idealizing them is safe. (it is super cute how encouraging Jacob is for her to spend some time with him as a friend though)

    1. Ancestral Hamster

      While I don’t see the cuteness, it seems reasonable that Jacob would ask her to join him up front. Perfectly natural reaction on his part. It is a little odd after one has been introduced to just ignore each other in a public place when no offense or insult has been given.

      1. Kiapdx

        And Jacob seems like a friendly guy overall. I mean, he didn’t make toooo many weird faces at Joyce when they met, so that has to say something about how friendly he is.

        But yeah Sarah seems the type to look but not touch. But, I mean, Jacob’s pretty touchable.

      2. AndromedaRage

        Well, people I’ve become aquainted with through my friends tend to stick to their already formed cliques, at least as far as I’ve seen. Unless my friends are there, I wouldn’t even get so much as a hello. People like Jacob would definitely be out of the norm for me. Then again two of those groups were full of shitty people afterall and the other aquaintances I’ve met look down on me for being a geek. Still, even online I tend to avoid speaking up because I feel like I’m making an ass of myself.
        I hope Sarah doesn’t avoid Jacob if she thinks she did something stupid like I did with my crush =_=

    2. sarahlost36

      oh come now everyone, we all know where its going… straight to that slipshine site where Jacob and Sarah do a dance… hmmm or is it they do a cuteness white out? or …. i dunno… but that’s where its headed!

  21. GoogerGeiger

    I’m shipping these two harder than I ever thought I would.

    1. Jack Finch

      So am I
      I mean misanthropes need love too, right?

  22. SilverArrowArtemis

    Sarah: “You are my jewel. I can’t lose my jewel because it thinks I’m weird!”

    Jacob: “I still can’t hear you.”

  23. Mattyos

    This is immediately what I thought of when I read Sarah’s last line…it’s the same concept but with gender reversal!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFkzRNyygfk

  24. 5ony

    Don’t frick this up Sarah.

    But do frick him, Sarah.

    1. KingMabel

      Frick him til he can’t frick anymore.

      Then exchange numbers so you can frick again.

      1. Andiemus

        Let there be fricktion! Oh wait. Nevermind.

  25. Thanks, I'll Have Another!

    PLEASE BASED WILLIS LET THIS HAPPEN

  26. TBeckett

    Is it bad to want another multiracial couple in DoA just for the sake of being progressive? Because knowing that it might get looked down on in my hometown just makes me want to see it all the more in this comic.

    1. Opus the Poet

      How are Sarah and Jacob in any way multi-racial? I mean other than being multi-racial themselves?

      1. Heavensrun

        That’s his point. They’re not.

    2. Drunken Nordmann

      Why does your name make me think of matyrdom?

    3. saltchocolate

      Yes.

    4. Sam

      Kind of. On one hand, it is good to want everyone to be free to have relationships regardless of appearance but on the other, it is unfair to expect people to only want people that aren’t the same as themselves in appearance.

    5. David Willis

      Makin’ bigots angry is, uh, one kind of being progressive, I guess. But having a black person/black person relationship is actually way more damn rare than a mixed one, because there’s usually Just One Black Person in an ensemble cast and Additional Black People are not sought out. For many folks, a mixed race relationship is more comfortable versus having no white people. Because white people.

      1. Heavensrun

        On the other hand, It’s not unheard of in some stories to pair characters off just because they share race. (Black Panther and Storm comes to mind.) My experience is that mixed-race relationships in popular fiction are often specifically motivated by a political motivation, albeit one I agree with, less than a desire to have at least one white person in the mix. The author is trying to say, by putting the relationship in there and not making a big thing of it, that mixed race relationships are okay.

        (But in real life, you -are- more likely to run across a same-race couple than a mixed one, and you’ve definitely gone out of your way to address race and racism in an evenhanded and intelligent way, so I’m not suggesting that you’re doing either of those things, and yeah, I don’t see the point of making every relationship mixed race just to piss off a bunch of people that don’t even read the comic angry.)

        1. Heavensrun

          (that don’t even read the comic-period-. -_- I need to stop hitting send without proofreading)

        2. David Willis

          If ALL your non-white folks end up in mixed race relationships, that’s kinda just as conspicuous, is what I’m saying.

        3. Heavensrun

          Absolutely.

        4. Yotomoe

          To your point as a kid, all I feel I saw of black relationships were the two black people automatically got together. Or they are just forever alone. It’s been engraved in my psyche so much that I was happy that my first girlfriend was black because I felt like my mom would be disappointed in me if I was dating anything else.

        5. Rutee

          I am kinda dreading bringing home my white wife, and that is one of many reasons. I mean, I’m brown, not black, but still.

  27. Karfsma778

    Hope Willis doesn’t make this go horribly wr- wait, what am I saying? Of course he will, just so he can replinish his supply of our tears.

    1. Tahkuya

      things that start good end bad and this is a good start so there’s going to be a drama bomb at one point or another

    2. maxyai

      He needs our tears so he can stay young.

      1. maxyai

        I guess that makes him a vampire. A sadness vampire. He feeds on our sadness.

  28. KingMabel

    Ok, I’ll say it:

    Sarah’s 3 faces look like she’s trying to hold in a fart but it ends up coming out anyway, and now she hopes no one can smell it.

    1. Cragalanch

      Cannot unsee!

    2. Tahkuya

      as a ass blaster master i can confirm what you are saying is hilariously true

  29. Darwin

    Get up there, girl! He recognizes the hotness that is you!

  30. Kiapdx

    Dear Willis,

    Please make her face in the last frame an icon.

  31. Bilfred

    Sarah’s dreams are coming true

  32. Thejesterking

    Quick, throw a Monkey Master action figure at his head! Works every time.

    1. Glacirus

      No, no, it has to be a shared interest. The law textbook will work better and its already in her hand.

      1. Drunken Nordmann

        “Throw the book at him.”

        1. Jack Finch

          Jacob, the court sentences you to one hundred hours of servicing…uh…I mean service…community SERVICE.

  33. CarlaGriffin

    I feel your pain Sarah, the cute guy in my class sits behind me which makes it so hard to stare at him. I have to turn and pretend to be looking at the person who is talking in the class discussion just to catch a glimpse!

  34. Jeanne628

    Is it weird that I’m out on a Friday night and drunk-checking DOA because I love this comic so much

    1. MrMyerst

      Hungover on a mates sofa- first thing checking on phone.
      I guess you win though 😉

  35. Raibean

    Sarahhhhh why ar eyou me

  36. Z

    He works fast. It took me and the wife about half a semester to move slowly from siting on opposite sides of the room to sitting next to each other. Apparently the rest of the class was tracking our movements as we talks until class began and then seperated to marginally closer desks each time until we were at the center of the room together and dating. Gah, in retrospect we were embarrassingly cute. ;p

  37. Sam

    Aww. Jacob is awesome.

  38. Pat Myers

    But that desk is too small I guess I could sit in your laaa….. *faint*

  39. Heather Meadows

    I’ve scanned the comments, but I didn’t see whether anyone had asked this yet (sorry if I missed it):

    Why does SHE have to move?

    She was there first. If Jacob wants to sit near her, he should get back up, walk back there, and say, “Mind if I sit here?” From the previous strips it looks like there is an empty seat right next to her.

    Sheesh.

    1. DSL

      Sarah has to move because the Rule of Funny dictates that she stand up, walk toward the front of the class displaying THAT outfit, further mortifying her and entertaining us, the reader.
      If this were real life, I’d see your point.

      1. Heather Meadows

        Yeah, Rule of Funny is pretty much the only reason I can think of too. Since this comic does deal with real life issues, though, I hope this whole “I demand you conform to my world” thing is addressed in some way at some point.

    2. Heavensrun

      Students that sit at the front of the class tend to perform better anyway.

      1. Amazi-Stool

        Exactly. Front row is where you sit if you want to learn and car for your grades.

        Last row not so much; you can barely even hear the lecturer from this distance (see comic).

        Last row is when you want to take a nap; chat and woo a new partner or play Mario Kart on Danny’s 3DS (Hey Sal!).

        Jacob simply assumes that Sarah is in here for learning and getting good grades.

        1. Heather Meadows

          She chose to sit in the back, so are you saying Jacob is assuming not only that she wants to do well, but that she has never heard that people who sit up front do better in class? Combine that with his forcing her to be sociable, and he comes off pretty condescending to me.

          “I know what’s best for you, person I met one time! Do as I say. Isn’t that better?”

        2. David Willis

          Jacob is near-sided and doesn’t have his glasses.

        3. Heather Meadows

          Thank you! That makes so much more sense than him deciding Sarah should sit up front for her own good.

          He’s still asking another person to make allowances for him rather than him making allowances for that person, but a lot of people do that unconsciously, and I’m sure he’s no exception. That unconscious impulse to have other people adapt to you rather than the opposite is actually what I was trying to get at.

  40. Dude

    Wow, Jacob’s just a really nice, cool dude. Let’s see how long it takes Willis to screw that up.

  41. Bunk

    Wait a second. Does this make Sarah officially worse at boys than JOYCE?

  42. TrueVCU

    Sarah’s expression in Panel 1: FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP

    1. Opus the Poet

      When girls do it it goes “squish, squish, squish, squish, squish”…

      1. John

        The onomatopoeia I’ve heard is “shlick”.

  43. Jen

    Squeeeeee!!!!!! Overloaded by cuteness! 😀

  44. Bill

    Sarah is a second-year student, right?  Does this mean Jacob is also a sophomore?

  45. Animal

    Look at her expression.

    Wet as October.

  46. Opus the Poet

    So apparently the core of the comic comments section is either insomniacs or live outside the US Eastern Time zone. Look at all those early AM time stamps.

    1. Riku

      Midnight hardly qualifies as insomniac I think

    2. Bill

      US Central Time where I’m at, so the comic updates at 11 PM local time.  That’s not late at all.

    3. John

      I live in EST, but I tend to be nocturnal when left to my own devices.

  47. RaijinK

    “We can barely even hear each other! I mean, I could still hear what you just said about staring at me like a creepy person, but only barely!”

  48. Matt

    So what’s the odds on him being gay and shipping with Ethan.

    1. Rutee

      Pretty low, he was straight in SP. I mean, enjoy, but you asked for odds, not my blessing to ship as you will~

      1. TJ Baltimore

        He was also a sex addict. I’m not familiar with sex addiction, but maybe that increases the chances of him messing around with a dude even if he is not gay?

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          While he was a sex addict in SP!, it doesn’t mean that he will automatically be one in DoA.

        2. TJ Baltimore

          No, I suppose not. I was just going by Willis’ assertion that everyone is the same sexual orientation. I know that sexual addiction isn’t an orientation, but I suspected that might carry over as well . . .

    2. 3oranges

      Perfect for each other
      I don’t know if “what’s she like?” proves anything, but to me it suggests he would be interested in women in DoA too.

  49. red

    nah, irl guys b all pussies like you talk to me first!

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