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Open door
Posted on October 23, 2014 by David M Willis

153 thoughts on “Open door”

  1. Jen Aside

    Maybe Amber could start dating her OWN superhero! Like Danny the Animal! DANIMAL

    no wait

    1. Tunaro

      No! We are not turning Danny into a vigilante! Dina next, then Sal, then maybe Sarah. Not Danny!

    2. Flimsyfishy

      Also apologies if the coding messes up.

      1. Flimsyfishy

        well, coding worked, just not how it was supposed to.

        Original line was “Did I hear something about Danimals?”

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          It kinda worked, the “Did I hear something about Danimals?” is there as hovertext.

      2. Rowen Morland

        That’s the kind of superhero identity that could lure Walky away from Dorothy.

  2. liahansen

    To which Joe replies “Oh, well, ok then”.

    1. Yotomoe

      I’d probably pick up on it if I cared about your Social life even a little bit.

      1. Dean

        In panel 4, Joe is actually wondering where he left his keys.

        1. tinfoil theory

          Or why Amber isn’t on his “do” list.

        2. Dean

          They have made it clear that Amber and Danny are not dating, after all…

    2. timemonkey

      More likely he’s thinking ‘is Danny setting up a threesome?’

      1. saltchocolate

        And should I want to get involved?

        1. Asten

          That’s Joe for you.

  3. Tunaro

    Is he buying it? Is he buying it? I think he’s buying it! He’s not buying it, is he… Cheese it!

    1. Kirt

      Really, if Joe thought Danny was banging two women at the same time, he’d be proud of him.

      1. drs

        Joe seems to be an ethical slut. He’d be proud of Danny having two casual FWBs, but I think he’d frown on Danny cheating on a girlfriend.

  4. Khaner

    Joe looks like Shortpacked! Joe.
    I think it’s the shave
    it looks good on him

    1. MrSirk

      You can just tell he’s the kind of guy that needs to shave once every 48 hours. Give him a week and he’ll be at full mountain man beard levels.

      1. madock345

        48 hours? Try 24.

  5. sps48

    Still?!!!

  6. Emperor Kiva

    Way to fuck the moment up, Joe. Asshole

  7. RandomGuy

    There is profit to be made in selling Amber’s t-shirt…

    1. poofdepoof

      Agreed.

      1. Potatamoto

        I have money that cannot currently buy that shirt, and it is sad. Please rectify.

        1. ahecht

          This is fairly close: http://www.bumblemumble.com/product/hugs-bison-shirt

    2. Starling000

      I want it on MY hugs bosom. 😀

    3. Jaxx Sentinel

      your avatar just drove that point home lol

  8. Plasma Mongoose

    Is the HUGS BOSON by any chance a new line of merch you’re pushing Willis?

    1. -Sentinel-

      I think it’s HUGS BOSOM. Would make sense for a girl’s shirt.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        But HUGS BOSON is funnier, surely…

        1. tinfoil theory

          I concur.

        2. Deanatay

          The elusive final particle predicted by our Standard Snuggling Model.

        3. Deanatay

          Danny has confirmed it’s existence. Using high-velocity impacts at high temperature and pressure.

        4. Tenn

          No. “Hugs Bosom” written over the bosom is an actual pun; it clearly describes one thing (a bosom for hugging) while sounding like something else (a fundamental particle predicted by Peter Higgs and others). “Hugs Boson”, with no additional context, doesn’t describe anything in particular. Is it a particle that gives hugs? A particle that causes people to hug each other? An excitation of the Hugs Field, caused by hugs? Is Amber a fundamental particle? It could be worked into a pun, but simply written on a t-shirt like that, it doesn’t really mean anything.

        5. Kennerly

          I conquer.

        6. Opus the Poet

          Is that a correctly-spelled word used incorrectly, or a massive pun?

      2. Maveric1984

        especially a rather busty girl like Amber.

      3. David

        I think this needs a subtitle:

        Hugs Bosom

        The Goddess Particulars

    2. David

      Hard to tell from the drawing, but I think the positioning makes quite clear that the lettering has to be “HUGS BOSOM”.

    3. Flight03

      I believe it’s actually Hugs Bosom. Which is even better.

    4. Catullus

      Blanket response to multiple people: Yes, it is Hugs Bosom.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        At least I’m able to use my legal blindness as an excuse for assuming it’s HUGS BOSON.

      2. nkh

        Aw, I liked “hugs Boson” more.

      3. Werner Heisenberg

        Even I am certain I would prefer it to be the Hugs Boson. No, the Huggs Boson. Two g’s is clearly essential.

        If Willis won’t make this t-shirt a thing, I will. From beyond the grave if need be.

        1. tinfoil theory

          The direction is set, then. We know where we are on this. Huggs Boson it shall be.

          Alas, that means how long it will take has to remain an uncertainty.

        2. Werner Heisenberg

          Yeah… Sorry about that.

      4. Lorcan Nagle

        All that means is I’ll be getting a HUGS BOSON T-Shirt custom printed.

      5. Bill

        It would have been better this way …..
        http://minimumble.thebookofbiff.com/comics/2012-03-07-0058.png

    5. Subtle Anagram

      It’s great as “HUGS BOSON.” “HUGS BOSOM” is phonically weirder as a pun.

      1. Subtle Anagram

        Every time! I can’t get a read on you, Willis.

      2. Kelly

        I agree. Hugs Boson is more clear as a pun

        1. Subtle Anagram

          It’s possible that this was already taken into account, and that’s why the shirt is being revealed the way it is. Or it’s a coincidence, utterly failing to demonstrate the light touch of a master who anticipated and solved the problem of his pun’s phonetic awkwardness by introducing it in a way that plays to its typographical strength.

        2. auo> mous

          I like your name, Bustle… Or is it Bluest?

        3. Subtle Anagram

          So, the actual story is that I was a couple of years too late to get all the “Clever Anagram” accounts I wanted, but clever enough to think of an alternative. I

        4. Subtle Anagram

          …wasn’t clever enough to avoid hitting Tab+Space Bar just then, though.

  9. Yotomoe

    Danny…Cheating on your girlfriend? UP TOP.

  10. Nym

    There is always the “open relationship” excuse?

    1. Yotomoe

      “I told my friend I’m in an open relationship and he was like
      ‘Dude! That means you can have sex with whoever you want!’.
      ‘I couldn’t do that when I was SINGLE!'”

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      Like Joe would believe that Danny is enough of a hit with the ladies to pull something like that off.

  11. Wack'd

    I feel like Danny could probably tell Joe he was trying out polyamory and Joe would…well, probably be disbelieving, given this is Danny we’re talking about, but also impressed if he could get past that.

    1. Jonathan Woodward

      Polyamory is the solution for SO MANY THINGS.

  12. newllend

    Joe is just thinking , ” I since dirty talk but I don’t know why.”

    1. Yotomoe

      I also Sense it.

      1. Lawzlo

        “My Joe Sense is tingling!”

    2. Tunaro

      Preeetty sure Joe only knows enough geeky computer talk to turn “formatting your hard drive” inta an innuendo.

      1. newllend

        He would need someone like howerd to translate everything else they just said.

      2. timemonkey

        He can hear the tone, flirting is all in the tone.

      3. Derek

        I mean he is basically the equivalent of a comic book super scientist in the Walkyverse, so it’s not unreasonable that he would understand what they are talking about.

  13. Kernanator

    You are SO GOOD at this secret identity stuff, guys.

    1. newllend

      Even though you’ve been found out by like 4 other people I still say you have this secret identity stuff perfectly masterd.

      1. Ryan

        (N+1)th time’s the charm.

        1. Lume

          X-th time’s the charm.

          3x-50=41

  14. AtomsOrSystems

    Not to be that guy, but I guess it’s better to have a typo pointed out and fixed.

    Panel 2: “Besides, what could I have possibly have missed…”

    1. Kimbo G Pataki

      Maybe Amber just likes to throw in extra words.

      1. WeezerLuvr3030

        The hugs boson is causing a causing a temporal paradox.

        1. tinfoil theory

          I read that that wrong the first time.

          It’s spilling in the the comments!

    2. saltchocolate

      Does Willis not appreciate that kind of thing? If not, I’m that guy, too, over in yesterday’s “It’s Walky” . . . Oops. No offense meant, Willis!

    3. TSB

      I don’t think that’s a typo. Think of it like this sentence: “I had had a cold that day so I didn’t go to class.” It’s the kind of awkward construction you would probably edit out of an email or essay or narration, but that would come up in spoken language, and so is far game for dialogue.

      1. TSB

        fair* game, haha, the irony

      2. xKiv

        Perfectly normal past perfect tense?

      3. AtomsOrSystems

        I don’t think so, although I’m not infallible. Usually, it would be either “I have possibly” or “I possibly have,” not both. I was thinking that this was just a case of a last-second change combined with a line break.

        But maybe I’m wrong. *shrug* Not a huge deal, either way.

  15. John

    Go with, “So, Amber, you still down for that threesome with Amazi-Girl later?” Danny. Joe will be too busy high-fiving you to remember that there’s no joeing way that you’d ever do something like that.

  16. popefucker 9000

    Nice to see Amber in a happy mood for once.
    Time for another character(s) to get shat on.

  17. GoogerGeiger

    as if Joe really cares.

  18. Josh

    I would, in fact, pay money for a Hugs Boson shirt. Not enough money to build an LHC-class accelerator… but some money.

  19. Malchus

    Look at their faces on panel 3.

    Now I want them both to turn to villainy.

    1. saltchocolate

      Aren’t they the best!?

      1. Malchus

        Just look at those delightful little mugs.

        It should be on a shirt.

  20. Flimsyfishy

    Also, great touch on the hugs bosom or hugs boson shirt.

  21. -Sentinel-

    I’m really liking witty, confident Amber.

  22. Mr. Random

    That’s why!
    They all just leave their doors unlocked.

  23. Poo

    Love is an open…

    1. HeySo

      (y)

    2. JessWitt

      Sandwich!

      1. Lume

        That’s what I was going to say!

    3. Starling000

      DOOOOOOOOOOOOR~!

    4. timemonkey

      Butt!

    5. Animal

      Love is a battlefield.

      1. Cybersnark

        Love is a cannibal.

        1. Animal

          Love stinks.

          Yeah, yeah.

          Love stinks.

        2. Deanatay

          Yep. 😉 <3

        3. Roborat

          Particularly if she is a bowling ball.

  24. Opus the Poet

    UBB codes were cutting edge when I was 40, and still had kids in HS. Intro to Computers should at least be confined to technology that was current in this century if not this decade… Excuse me while I comb out my neck beard and compile a fresh Linux kernal.

    1. Kelly

      Yeah now everyone has rich JS editors and/or support a few html tags. Or Markdown

      1. Lume

        Some day I’ll understand this.

  25. MrSirk

    Cmon Joe use your critical thinking skills. This one isn’t hard to puzzle out.

  26. Stephen Bierce

    *plays “I’m Not The Same Girl” on the Muzak*

    1. Stephen Bierce

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1XLETvMMg0

  27. Shay Guy

    “Well, you’re why.”

    …Huh?

    1. Scoops

      You’re why the door was open …

  28. Rosicrucian

    This is some champion Danning.

  29. nothri

    Wait, is Danny claiming that Amber is not his girlfriend or assuring Joe that HE is not his girlfriend?

    1. Nightsbridge

      Danny’s girlfriend is ‘Amazigirl.’

  30. Barf Ninjason

    Methinks that Joe is perplexed not at Danny’s awkward covering, but at the idea that having a different lady-friend should preclude him from humping Amber.

  31. Sir Mockingbird XI

    Danny you can just tell Joe you’re dating Amber he never believed you were dating a superhero anyway, and he’d probably be proud of you for actually getting some anyway

    1. tinfoil theory

      He didn’t believe he had a chance with “the one girl in CS” either, and here they are.
      Joe probably still believes that the superhero girlfriend Danny todl him about is imaginary.

      1. Slinx

        There was a conversation about a newspaper article, so Joe knows the superhero is not imaginary, but still probably not convinced that she is dating Danny.

  32. jams

    Yes! Happy characters! Who are smiling and joking around! Insta-better mood.

    1. itachi_0501

      If you find that you are in need of insta-better mooding, just…y’know. BABY PENGUINS! 😀

      1. Opus the Poet

        Ask and ye shall receive : http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_asoBLjh5Bk0/TKnvlcesCZI/AAAAAAAAAuY/lxePxItuz9g/s400/1267625626_cute-baby-penguins-2.jpg

  33. Idon'tcarenomore

    This is so weird on so many levels, but okay as nobody is screaming.

  34. Rani

    Ugh this is so adorable!

  35. C211

    What a lie, obviously they were (learning how (to) (type (like this)))

    1. xKiv

      (not (enough ()))

  36. TheZachariah

    “……….Threesome??”

  37. Kamino Neko

    … Is…is learning UBB code in CompSci classes really a thing, these days?

  38. neeks

    And Joe’s like “you know, I wasn’t suspicious about anything until that last thing you said.”

  39. takashid

    I’ve been waiting to get back to this side of the plot yay!

  40. JessWitt

    Hey Joe, welcome back to the funny papers (of the Net). Experimenting with stubble, is he?

  41. SycrosD4

    If they were being anymore suggestive, their eyebrows would form a union and go on strike.

  42. Chronos

    Nice save, you two.

  43. wwlaos

    Blu-ray? Is that some kind of fancy new modem?

  44. Kennerly

    Does Amber’s shirt say “Hugs Bosom”?

    1. Opus the Poet

      Up thread ^

  45. PoweredBySucrose

    BBCodes are easy.
    HTML code is also easy.
    Not using one on a site that only accepts the other, [i]that’s[/i] that’s hard.

  46. OmegaDez

    20 years of computer science, and I don’t even know what UBB codes are. D:

    1. JWLM

      http://www.freebok.net/help/ubbcode.html

      1. OmegaDez

        I did google it, don’t worry.
        Didn’t know they taught those in school.^^

  47. zebrathinker

    if this comic was animated i imagine they would be waggling their eyebrows at each other the whole time

  48. Trantilar

    I’ve noticed Dumbing of Age doesn’t seem to be syncing with Comic Chameleon these last couple of days, does anyone know why?

  49. Mickeymau5

    Oh my god, nerd dirty talk. Forget Joyce, forget Walky, forget Billie and Ruth, THIS is the most adorable thing ever.

    1. Raptorman

      I am in total agreement.

      1. takashid

        thirded

  50. Roborat

    I think they just broke Joe.

    And I love that t-shirt.

  51. Bill

    I know you drew this at least four months ago and it’s been in the buffer since then, but how weird is it that Randal Munroe ran this cartoon on xkcd.com yesterday?

  52. zathael

    Only Dan could Dan his way into cheating on his girlfriend with his girlfriend’s alter-ego. Way to go Dan.

  53. Slinx

    I like the new Slipshine banner. Somehow showing more skin manages to make it more SFW.

  54. Slinx

    I love when they talk about their intro class, particularly now that they can flat-out flirt about it. I need more nerdy flirting in my comics.

  55. Sam

    Ohh…looks like Danny is fine. I was thinking he might be weirded out given his “Ethan” thing. Good for both him and for Amber, too. That girl needs something nice in her life.

  56. Darth Cariss

    Oh hey, the Slipshine ad changed to a less explicit one. Is that because of that one dude that complained?

    1. Maveric1984

      Less explicit? Danny is naked in the pic!

  57. Tomas

    Laugh it up, Danny is still smarter than most of the cast of Smallville.

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