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Not Denny’s
Posted on May 14, 2023 by David M Willis

225 thoughts on “Not Denny’s”

  1. DarkoNeko

    Good point

    1. DarkoNeko

      Also : WRYYYYYYYYYYyyyyyyyyyy

      1. Clif

        Go Team!

      2. sonofevil

        muda muda muda muda muda

        1. Lysbeth

          toki wo tomare !!!!

  2. Ana Chronistic

    or, BOOM, you’re at a thing with Walky, it’s ALREADY a date

    never understood the doubles thing anyway

    unless it’s board game night, that’s a fantastic double date

    1. Ana Chronistic

      the REAL fun starts when your kidneys go =p

    2. Paradoxius

      I believe it was specifically that they went there with Sal, and so it couldn’t be a date *unless* Sal was there because it was a double date. It’s just loopholes within loopholes.

    3. insomniac

      If you’re at a thing with just your partner can be a date, if you’re at a thing with your partner and another couple can be a double date.

      If you’re at a thing with your partner and one or more single friends, though, your single friends aren’t on a date, and it can’t at once be a date and not a date. That doesn’t even make sense.

      1. Ana Chronistic

        didn’t see where they went there *with Sal* so if it’s “happen to see Sal there bc they knew she would be”, don’t see how that couldn’t be a date

        also how is it a date if half the couple is not actually with the other half

    4. Just_IDD

      Or bowling, but arange it so you are bowing against your date so you have opposite balls together.

    5. Kazuma Taichi

      I’ve always figured double dates are for those who have the 4 involved parties as friends together in the first place, so it’s a nice excuse to all hang out and still be hella flirty

      alternatively it’s also great for swingers I’d imagine

      1. Kazuma Taichi

        oh dang, I’m not booster anymore

  3. NGPZ

    Re: Alt-Text Damn nice save 😮

    1. Rognik

      The only downside of having a big buffer in a recession.

      1. Clif

        I wonder if it’s too late to patent the six-month delayed floating timeline. It’s always six months ago.

    2. Stephen Bierce

      Alas, poor Corlick Sisters! Where be your gibes now?

  4. Thag Simmons

    I feel the pain.

  5. Doctor_Who

    Gonna pretend that the “Woo!” and “Get Em!” are people cheering on Walky and Lucy’s impending coitus.

    1. Doctor_Who

      “Cut ‘Em Off!” not so much, there’s few good things that could mean in a sexual context.

      1. Clif

        There’s someone with a Bobbet fetish in every crowd.

      2. Kitsuner

        Maybe cutting Walky off from eating too many chocolate chip pancakes

        1. Mark

          +1

    2. DailyBrad

      I mean, it very well might be, Lucy wasn’t exactly quiet here.

    3. Plaaaa

      Go Team! Score!

  6. Slartibeast Button, BIA

    In before the bickering starts about which restaurants are horrible and/or which restaurants have the worst customers.

    1. Yumi

      IHOP over Denny’s for me. Used to say that you don’t go to Denny’s, you end up at Denny’s. Which was true enough for me.

      1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

        While there are Waffle House and Huddle House locations in Indiana, none are near them, it looks like.

        1. woobie

          Waffle House is great (pecan waffles).
          Huddle House was so bad I never returned (same as Little Caesar’s).

        2. Just_IDD

          Little seizures

      2. Laura

        Man, Denny’s is amazing. A/C!

        1. dinajoyce

          I love Denny’s. It was my friend group’s go-to weekend hang out space in late high school when we could drive and come home late. And in college, it was the only restaurant most of us could afford, so it was where we went for anybody’s birthday. Lots of good memories at Denny’s.

      3. Chrisashtear

        I liie dennys- when i was in college for gamedev it was a good place to hangout and talk about design stuff for a while

      4. Clif

        Denny’s has a wider food selection than IHOP. Waffle Houses are getting hard to find.

        1. Opus the Poet

          I just checked Google Maps and there are 6 within 8 miles of my house just outside of Dallas.13 within 10 miles. 2 almost within walking distance in opposite directions.

      5. Freezer

        The Pandemic killed my local late night haunt of choice, CK’s Coffee Shop. Killed most of the late stuff that wasn’t near Beale St or a truck stop, really.

      6. Mark

        Disagree. I don’t want to eat a wedding cake with a couple of pancakes hidden somewhere underneath.

        1. Laura

          OMG that sounds AWESOME !

        2. NGPZ

          Oh how splendid! You got Fuckface as your avatar! =D

        3. Yumi

          There’s always the option of not ordering that, then.

        4. Opus the Poet

          Actually that sounds like something the locals here would love, a miniature wedding cake made from pancakes. And I have lived here long enough to be considered a local, moved to this side of town in 10/1994.

    2. DarkoNeko

      It’s not like I’d know what random food chain names are in some country half the world away from me.

      1. HueSatLight

        That’s ironic, because IHOP is the International House of Pancakes.

        1. Thag Simmons

          I think we have them in Canada? That’s basically international, we’re nominally independent at least.

        2. HueSatLight

          They’re in 4 of the world’s 10 most populous nations, US, Mexico, India, Pakistan. Plus less popular populous nations like Canada. 😉

        3. HueSatLight

          A more useful answer, they are diners you go to when you are drunk or studying late or dancing, etc, and want some cheap food and don’t want to wake roommates/parents/neighbors by cooking.

        4. Slartibeast Button, BIA

          I think that is supposed to mean that they have pancakes from many different world cuisines.

        5. John Campbell

          That’d be “House of International Pancakes”.

      2. someone

        The first time I heard of IHOP was when some Internet Funny Guy (I forgot who, exactly) was doing a House of Leaves/House of Pancakes mashup.

        1. Owlmirror

          https://xkcd.com/472/

          (I suppose someone else could have done such a mashup before that one, but this is the one I remember)

    3. Thag Simmons

      I always feel left out of these arguments because I have just enough exposure to be aware of all these restaurant chains, but not had any in close enough proximity to be worth eating at outside, and all the local chains were pretty bad.

    4. Justnobodyfqwl

      No no, we have to moralize their dinner orders first and passive aggressively chide them about it before we can divert our attention to raging at each other

      1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

        If we have a scene there, can we have the same waitress as in, umm, what was that restaurant Joyce, Becky, Jocelyne, and John went to?

        [Edit: Round-The-Clock. I realized looking up John’s tag would show it.]

    5. Needfuldoer

      Waffle House is the best breakfast battle arena.

    6. mrnoidea

      Inserting Black Bear Diner for the hell of it.

    7. Chronos

      I had food poisoning at Denny’s. Twice. I’ve never had food poisoning anywhere else. I’m not going back.

  7. Van Jelaous

    https://www.idsnews.com/article/2023/01/bloomington-dennys-closed-permanently-restaurant-diner

    1. Jamie

      I don’t know how I feel about Willis’ attention to detail but I respect it.

      1. David M Willis

        someone told me on the patreon yesterday

        1. David M Willis

          so technically it’s somebody else’s attention to detail

        2. Slartibeast Button, BIA

          We do this to Jeph too. Nit-picked him about health-insurance policies in his canon.

        3. Thag Simmons

          Hey, you went in and edited it. That’s at least partial credit.

    2. Angel

      it’s ok, doa is a slightly diff alternate universe 5 degrees to the right to where stuff like this isn’t an issue 8D;

  8. Yotomoe

    I got Wilcox in my corner when I’m choosing teams for Limbo contests.

    1. Axel

      Yoto, I had a dream and I feel like you’re the correct person to tell- I dreamed that today/tomorrow’s strip was Joyce talking to Jennifer. In the first panels she was talking around the question, then the final panel was a double wide panel of her grabbing Jennifer by the shirt (the way one might drag someone over a table by their lapels) and yelling “HOW DO I GET A BOY TO LET ME LICK HIS BUTT”

      1. Yotomoe

        Haha! That’s fun. 😛 Granted I dunno if Jennifer’s ever licked anyone’s butt before so she might not be a great help.

        1. Axel

          I’m not sure either, but I do feel like she’s still who Joyce would ask

  9. Slartibeast Button, BIA

    So, a banana for dessert then, Lucy?

    1. Schpoonman

      Banana split.

      1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

        Ouch, no!

    2. Angel

      or, walky getting sick/food poisoning, and lucy nursing him the rest of the night XD

      1. Needfuldoer

        Phrasing.

  10. Slartibeast Button, BIA

    Panel 2 Moment of Clairity

  11. shadowcell

    Lucy Makes a Love in a Decidedly Christ-Approved Way: A Dumbing of Age Pornographique

    1. Opus the Poet

      Dunno about the title, but this is definitely the next Willis Slipshine story.

  12. cbwroses

    IHOP is 24/7 guys.
    You can support Sal’s (and Amber’s and Carla’s and Marcie’s and I guess Malaya’) event and THEN get chocolate pancakes, hopefully not with Danny and Sal since y’all don’t want to be around each other.

    1. DailyBrad

      Honestly, literally any of them I could see saying this is probably the smarter move if they’re that eager. (Well, maybe not Carla.)

    2. Yumi

      Man, I miss IHOP being 24/7. Could definitely be back to that in college towns, but around here that stopped at the pandemic. I sometimes I just want to go out and cry over an omelet at 3am, but there’s nowhere around here to do that now.

      1. Dara

        In Seattle it was basically IHOP or 13 Coins and the problem with going to 13 Coins in your cups and full of tears at 3:45 in the morning was that it – somehow – managed to feel respectable 24 hours a day. Even in the University District. Even at 3:45am.

        1. anonymsly

          I always do Denny’s for my Lynnwood-awake-at-2am outing requirements.

        2. Dara

          That was out of my range. If someone had a car, though, it was Beth’s.

      2. Opus the Poet

        We still have 24/7 Waffle Houses almost within walking distance.

    3. a/snow/mous/e

      Well, I think “supporting Sal” was more of a thinly veiled pretense so Lucy can say she didn’t put out till the third date and thus has her Christian decency intact. They don’t actually want to be here…

      1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

        And the credit for a good deed (support Sal) helps take the curse off screwing her brother out of wedlock.

    4. HueSatLight

      It’s after midnight, so 24/7 would generally be the only places open. I expect he picked IHOP to get them out of his hair immediately.

      1. KM

        Wait what ridiculous hours are roller derby games running at?

        1. HueSatLight

          Midnight.
          Also, when chapters change and people are still awake, it’s probably because of midnight.

  13. DailyBrad

    Pancakes would be tastier post-sex, but I also get that’d be failing to satisfy the date conditions.

  14. BBCC

    See, commentariot of almost 15 years ago holy shit it cannot be that old, Danny IS useful!

    And I’m with Walky, chocolate chip pancakes taste like love.

    1. BBCC

      Okay, gravitar roulette, what do we got today?

      1. BBCC

        Ah. I see. Well played.

    2. Thag Simmons

      Danny spent a decade getting dunked on he’s allowed to be kind of cool for a bit.

  15. Karla Jean

    It’s been a while since I’ve read my bible, but where does it say you can fuck on the third date? Is that some of Paul’s bullshit?

    1. Jamie

      Hahaha. I like this notion that the Bible knows what “dating” is.

    2. Slartibeast Button, BIA

      Paul’s Letter to the Peverts.

      1. woobie

        Preverts.

        1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

          Purity Of Essence

        2. JBento

          Purity of essence is why the Zerg were made, man, don’t go down that route.

        3. Mark

          A _Dr. Strangelove_ reference? Interesting.

        4. mrnoidea

          Biggest thing I remember from that movie was how obsessed that brigadier general was about flouride in municipal water. Helps me sort out conspiracy theorists from genuine health experts.

        5. Slartibeast Button, BIA

          Since this DoA, we should note the General Ripper had sex problems, which is what clued him in the commie threat to our precious bodily fluids,

    3. Rognik

      I don’t think it’s biblical, but it’s certainly one of those rules I remember as far back as Friends. Take from that what you will.

    4. Thag Simmons

      A lot of Christians practice what I like to call “Lassez-faire Christianity” where they largely ignore the actual writings and just go based on what sounds right to them.

      I think this would be considered a little heretical, but I’m not about to judge

    5. Proxiehunter

      No, I think it was Ringo.

      1. Needfuldoer

        No, this is Patrick!

    6. RassilonTDavros

      It’s in the Gospel of ‘Murica.

    7. Bo

      And God said unto thee: “Thou can fornicate on the third date, but *ONLY* if you get a specialty meal from IHOP’s burgeoning menu of amazing selections [Sponsored by IHOP]!”

      1. vulcanodon

        I wonder if there the ratio of menu prices to pancake quality is a factor in the number of dates? Is it serious if you went to Waffle House? Or if you had sticker shock at Denny’s? Is IHOP the sweet spot?

    8. Derek

      It doesn’t; it’s a made up rule from decades ago when people wanted to have sex but didn’t think it was proper to do right away; thus an arbitrary “third date is long enough to know someone is serious about this dating thing and has their sights set on proper marriage” rule was invented.

      1. Zero

        I dunno, that’s still pretty “right away.”

    9. Angel

      Feels like a thing that somewhat-‘modern’ society adopted, and so ingrained into dating culture(?) that they either have to put up with it if they’re not upfront with ‘waiting til marriage’ or willing to make an exception/being ‘ok’ with it as long as it meant that it’d be a big step in a committed relationship compared to something casual, so some religious leaning women might not deny sex as an option so ppl wouldn’t commonly think “Well, she’s a christian and i’m not so there’s no point in even giving this a chance” but i’d imagine with ‘natural’ chemistry meeting in high school/college they wouldn’t esp think about their religion unless they were obviously christian with wearing a cross and actively trying to preach/convert someone

      1. Derek

        Depends what you mean by “modern”. Dating culture did not exist before the 20th century. Before that, if you were a young person looking to marry, you could only choose from a pool of suitors that were approved by your family. Social rules about this were looser for lower class people (because there was no property or money to inherit), but it was still unthinkable for proper Christian girls to openly spend time unchaperoned with men, let alone spend time romantically or even have sex.

        People still did, of course, but it was never openly and this could not be talked about. “Dates” did not officially exist because young people were not allowed to spending time alone together.

        I don’t think it was a single event that shifted society (especially Western Christian society) to view dates -young people seeing each other romantically with the possibility of sex and the possibility of marriage- as socially acceptable.
        At some point from the 1910’s to the 1920’s things went from “a young lady is allowed to go to dance hall if she’s chaperoned the whole evening” to “scandalous young people are going dancing together without the knowledge or approval of their parents” to “young people go out dancing to meet other people and potentially hook up”

        1. Rabid Rabbit

          And that’s why the bicycle was a grave threat to morality. People always think the panic was just about women wearing (gasp!) trousers, but it was also that young people could get away from chaperones and meet unaccompanied.

        2. NickG

          And have a better chance of getting to fuck someone they weren’t related to. Or maybe that’s just Cambridgeshire.

        3. thejeff

          And yet somehow, despite all those rules and restrictions, young people still fucked before marriage.

        4. Taffy

          As the old saying goes, if all you bar all but one window in town, the last window is where the fuck happens.

        5. brionl

          You’d think that. Until you hear about “Bundling Boards”.

          https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/weird-decor-what-is-a-bundling-board-214210

  16. Jamie

    I like that the ambient cheering noises also work for Lucy. Mostly.

  17. Icalasari

    Danny: “New Fear Unlocked: Horny Christian Girls”

  18. Cattleprod

    At least Danny’s ready to dodge Agents in the Matrix.

    1. GUIGUI

      I was going to say. He sure managed to dodge a bullet already.

  19. Nono

    Some people have washboard abs, Danny is just a washboard.

  20. Delmore Slim

    Afganastan is the graveyard of Empires

    Ihop is the graveyard of relationships

  21. Amós Batista

    My knees snapped out only reading this strip. Danny’s position may hurt a lot

    1. Masumi

      Yea I don’t think my shoulders even move that way

  22. Derek

    It hasn’t escaped my notice that Walky isn’t excited at all to have sex, in fact he doesn’t mention it once.

    1. TerribleTransit

      He’s also not overtly pushing back against it either, which I might have expected given his previously expressed reluctance. He has given himself an established out, though, which I won’t be at all surprised if he uses rather than discuss his feelings.

      1. StClair

        IMO he’s trying to avoid/postpone the issue for as long as he possibly can.

        1. DailyBrad

          I don’t necessarily think that’s true. He’s nervous, and the use of the L word has thrown him a little bit due to him unintentionally starting it, but it’s been demonstrated on several occasions that he’s definitely into the idea of getting physical with her, including what even started the whole “third date” stipulation.

          https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/04-hompk/chill/

          https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-12/01-sister-christian/solution/

        2. Aslan

          I’m not sure I got “he wants to bang” out of these comics. The first one especially reads more as “Walky is dogging on Christians for the arbitrary nonsense they drum up again (possibly expecting Lucy to freak out like Joyce used to)” and the second one reads “walky is flustered because this girl has no concept of personal space” as much as it reads “walky thinks this is arousing”

        3. Schpoonman

          The blush on Walky’s face alongside “It’s a good thing I asked you out” together are pretty clear indications Walky is into Lucy.

        4. Mark

          To me that first scene seems about the most flirty I’ve ever seen Walky.

        5. thejeff

          He thinks it’s somewhat under false pretenses since she thinks he said he’s in love with her and that’s not what he meant.

        6. HueSatLight

          Both of those read to me like Walky is responding to everything* with jokes. Like Walky literally ran away and figuratively grieving being in that relationship when she suggested they fool around. Have we even seen him kiss her? Them kissing seems like something that would be shown.

          As much as the 3-date rule is a silly thing Lucy has made up for herself, I think it’s also a silly thing she’s under the impression Walky expects. He makes a joke, instead of just saying what he’s thinking, and that’s all she has to go on when he turns down her sexual advances.

          He could have said, at any time sex has come up, that his past relationships got physical too quickly and he’d like to take it slow. That might be a difficult conversation, but just jokes and let her believe the wrong thing and hope the situation resolves is making things worse.

    2. DailyBrad

      He’s acting more excited about the food, but no, last strip, he was also advocating for this to be a date.

  23. Angel

    lol i imagine he’s temp distracted by the pancakes but you would’ve think he’d be a bit hesitant or like “Well, i’m fine not rushing into things” lol (unless he plans to stuff himself to where he’d be too nauseous/sick to get out of sex)

  24. HueSatLight

    I guess getting them to leave vs ruining their night (and his own) is the perfect amount of petty. Danny’s a good egg, better than they deserve.

    Also, nice bookends for Walky’s day. Cheeseburger for breakfast at upscale restaurant, pancakes for a late dinner at IHOP. Plus already thinking about how to avoid sex without talking about the real reason.

  25. Masumi

    So what are the odds of Walky stuffing himself just to get out of this?

  26. Raen

    …what denomination fucks if and only if you’ve had three dates?

    1. TerribleTransit

      The Church of Saint Too Horny to Care, plus a number of other smaller splinter churches. And that’s to say nothing of the groups that specify two or four dates as the appropriate number for a relationship to be close enough to marriage that God won’t be too mad.

    2. woobie

      No denomination.
      It is someone’s idea of only sluts do it on the first date so how long is long enough?

      1. brionl

        I don’t think it’s completely an “only sluts” thing. A lot of legitimate relationship experts think that jumping into intimacy too soon can lead to issues later. Like getting involved with somebody who looks hot, until to find out later that they’re a low level mob flunky. You know, things like that.

        1. Zero

          Third date is still pretty soon.

    3. Taffy

      The same one as last time.

      1. Raen

        Yep. As somebody once told me, in a certain superhero film, I ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed.

        1. Taffy

          That song only appears in superhero films, it’s been said.

        2. Raen

          …I mean, no, it also appears in a certain slightly rude children’s fantasy film. In fact, those who are a bit younger than me probably know it from there.

  27. Dday

    IHOP pancakes are kinda sucky though. Like, for a place that literally put pancakes in the name they ought to be better

    1. Taffy

      Burger King did the same thing, with their completely inedible display sandwiches. Somehow, when a place gets famous for making the food it’s named after, it’s arbitrarily allowed to fucking suck and not go out of fucking business. The only reason chain restaurants are allowed to taste worse than vomit is that broke people don’t have the energy/time to cook and people with money don’t have taste buds anyway.

      1. NGPZ

        Burger King burgers are okay.

        Best quality has to be Wendy’s, or McDonalds if you do the thing I do where you put their McNuggets in the burger. Best quality / price ratio for sure is Jack in the Box.

        1. Taffy

          I absolutely loathe McDonald’s food. It used to be cheap enough to at least say “Hey, it was only a buck or two for the sandwich” and now that same sandwich is like $10 because I asked for bacon, but the bacon is the length and width of my thumb and about as thick as tissue paper but still costs more to add than it does at Sonic, where there are two entire slices of bacon that actually possess reasonable dimensions. $5 for a half a tongue depressor’s worth of “bacon”, Ronald can go McFuck himself.

        2. Needfuldoer

          I don’t know how McDonalds makes all their food smell the same, but I don’t think I want to find out either. The most edible thing on their menu is their fries. They also renovated all their restaurants into big gray and woodgrain boxes. They look like diabetes prisons.

          Burger King used to be good, but they’ve cut a ton of corners and they don’t have those nice, gritty shakes anymore. Plus the ones near me spent a bunch of effort replacing all the real 1980s decor with faux 1980s decor. If I want that “flame broiled” taste, I’ll just fire up the Weber.

          If I had to pick from the big three burger chains, I’d go to Wendy’s. Their stuff at least mostly resembles real food.

        3. Taffy

          I do occasionally enjoy Wendy’s, despite the patties being somehow bland and cold even when I just watched the fuckers season and cook them not moments ago, the drinks being both too watered down and too syrupy, and the buns being essentially a bread-scented bubble for all the mass they have. Other than that it’s good enough for the price (kinda) on rare occasions. At the very least, I feel like it’s always been consistently passable, whereas the other two were probably pretty good once, before corporations started to unanimously decide it was somehow cheaper to spend millions to, as you said, turn the stores into grey boxes.

          That’s a lot of run-on, but the general gist hopefully comes through.

        4. GLaDOS

          A perfect time to play Mitch Benn’s “Ronald, Your Food Sucks” on the hacked Muzak.

        5. Mark

          Steak’n’Shake, even after the new owner turned the menu into a three-ring circus.

      2. Dday

        Its not even like IHOP is particularly cheap, you can usually get less pricey and better pancakes at a regular diner.

  28. Throwatron

    danny’s power of reason is simply too powerful

    1. NGPZ

      If Danny’s Power of Reason is too powerful, than Dina’s Power of Reason is like frickin Conqueror’s Haki.

  29. Bittersweet

    Ngl, this whole interaction is starting to push Lucy from the “boring but harmless” category into the “draining to see on panel” category for me. It’s not often that a perfectly non antagonistic character earns my ire, but I really don’t want her to get what she wants at this point in time.

    Like, this relationship isn’t exactly a train wreck, but it is just… so very bland. There is so little chemistry here that I barely want them to continue as friends when it inevitably falls apart. The few cute moments they have are so few and far apart and for some reason never actually involve each other directly. I want literally anybody else for them at this point.

    Idk. I want to click with Lucy as a character. It’s just really hard and I’m not sure why. I have no issues finding things to sympathize about with Walky (kid coasted through HS and burnt out, poorly emotionally equipped in general, etc.) but I just don’t get where Lucy’s coming from on anything ever.

    1. Bryy

      I feel like Lucy’s religious views are about to fucking come out of the dark.

    2. not someone else

      Lucy is in that unfortunate place where she’s actually not got very big or interesting problems, isn’t the same kind of relateable to the comments section as the kind of mid queer characters, and whose relationships to the rest of the cast aren’t really well-established yet (and the ones that kinda are are not really tension-regaining).

      So she’s cute but she’s not… like, someone we care about yet. I think that’ll change soon.

      1. HueSatLight

        I feel bad for her because her faults remind me of my faults when I was that age. But also she’s irritating to me for exactly the same reason.

        1. Big Z

          See, she reminds me of me at that age, which is why I’m rooting for her to get laid and figure out some religion/popularity stuff as a result in a way that’s less fraught than what I went through.

      2. Aslan

        Her problems have also been presented as incredibly shallow, imo. Like, she’s singularly focused on this Disney Channel idea of popularity, her whole arc with Walky has been driven by arbitrary rules she invented for herself, and any moments of earnestness dissolve into mainstream pop culture references. I hope she gets some development because I do think she could be an interesting character once the veneer of false sunniness gets knocked away (and I think it’s gonna happen soon)

      3. Mark

        Please continue to catalog the reasons why I like Lucy.

        I’d enjoy seeing one slow-burn relationship here. There’s plenty of storytelling material in having Lucy continue thirsty and unslaked for a long time while they slowly align. It would be interesting to see if she has that much patience / personal interest in Walky.

        1. Pergola

          ‘thirsty and unslaked’ Um, Daisy? The lame limping gag?

  30. NGPZ

    Chocolate chip pancakes from iHop? Not enough protein, far too filling.

    Frankly I prefer Jack in the Box’s breakfast sandwiches and hash browns. XD

  31. HueSatLight

    I can’t wait until she stops talking about “have to wait for 3 dates” in part because it’s a silly way to reconcile dogma, feminist values, and customs that don’t even apply to her relationship, and in part because each time she says it, there’s like half a dozen comments asking where in Christianity that rule comes from.

    And I don’t think it’s a rule she even cares about, if push came to shove. She thinks Walky cares about it. She’s already said she’s ready to fool around, and he ran away. They would already be fucking if he wanted, or she’d stop making everybody else’s problem if he would talk to her about it.

    anyways, TLDR: stop asking where in Christianity the rule is from, that’s the joke.

  32. Jess

    the last panel is the hardest I’ve laughed in a while. Danny must be a champ at limbo! (or maybe not? if so, only under some duress.)

    1. NGPZ

      Yeah the pose he’s in reminds me so much of shonen manga for some reason. XD

  33. Hazel

    Girl, you *need* to stop reading women’s magazines.

  34. Axel

    I feel like 18ish is a normal time to start getting back pains

    1. Axel

      though Lucy’s hurrying it along

  35. Suet

    With how Walky operates, he’ll never be too full on Lucy chocolate chip pancakes.

    Also, it’s been a while before someone’s religious values bubbled up, and since it can’t be Joyce’s anymore…

  36. DailyBrad

    Since it keeps getting asked what the deal is with the third date stipulation:

    https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/04-hompk/chill/

    I think people are taking Lucy very literally about this, when no, it’s a rationalization because Walky and her want to bang but both had cold feet about doing that right away, albeit maybe for different reasons.

    1. ValdVin

      Oh, jeez! Great callback. As someone raised Catholic i can remember The Sermon on the Mount being a big part of (what passed for) sex ed.

    2. Zero

      And since then, Lucy has publicly screamed at bystanders about how having sex on the third date (not before, but also no later) is standard practice for “Christian women.”

  37. Raen

    What is Lucy, anyway? I’m pretty sure she’s Protestant (certainly I don’t think any Catholic would consider fucking on the third date “Christ-approved”), but I wonder what denom?

    1. Taffy

      Lucy’s pronouns are she/her.

      1. Raen

        …that’s not what I was asking and you know it.

        1. Taffy

          I was high when I posted that, so I guess the entire buildup and delivery are missing, leaving that nonsensical punchline. It was supposed to be a play on the frequent comments about Booster’s pronouns (mixed with a second thing I forgot the specifics of but it’s vaguely flavored like another common topic), all aimed at Lucy, and it just really doesn’t work without those missing elements.

        2. Raen

          Well, I can’t be too judgmental; I’m not high, but I’m pissed.

        3. Raen

          (And also I’ve been either banned or one-and-done’d at just about every joint on the Cape.)

        4. Raen

          …and also I was banned from here for about a year and a half.

        5. Mark

          Well, I laughed!

        6. ValdVin

          Yeah, me too.

      2. KM

        Was the parent comment edited? I struggle to comprehend how this reply is relevant

        1. Raen

          No, I’m pretty sure they were deliberately misinterpreting my “what.”

        2. Raen

          Wait, you didn’t mean my comment, did you? I was asking about Lucy’s denomination, not her pronouns.

        3. KM

          Yes I meant I couldn’t understand why pronouns entered three picture at all when you didn’t misuse them at all

    2. rjmmbc

      Maybe Lutheran? The Lutherans I know (in-laws and several close friends lol) are much more relaxed about sex before marriage.

      1. Mark

        That would be nice.

        Well, now, there’s different kinds of Lutherans, but those I grew up with would probably say “don’t do that, but we won’t shun you if you do.”

        1. rjmmbc

          Yeah, that’s kinda the vibe I get too. Like… ideally don’t, but if you do, meh. There’s worse things.

    3. Needfuldoer

      She’s After-The-Third-Date-ist.

      1. ValdVin

        Don’t you mean “Third Date Adventist”?

    4. HueSatLight

      Catholics fuck whenever they personally feel like it. I don’t know where people get in their head that every Christian follows the tenets of their denomination to the t.

      She’s going to a United Methodist church currently.

      1. Raen

        Well, yes, but we know to tell the priest after.

  38. JBento

    So, Danny is here to cheer Sal, and he just solved a problem…

    Daniel Wilcox, problem-solving cheerleader!

    1. Aslan

      Danny for new Alpha Bongo confirmed

    2. Amelie Wikström

      We could make a joke about Danning up his own vendetta with Walky, but really Danny’s just nice. Head cheerleader, problem solver, good egg.

  39. PhyrexianRogue

    Danny should just see it as training for Matrix bullet dodging.

  40. Yeet

    walky are you going to confront how you might not be that into this before you sleep with her
    or are you just currently too distracted by pancakes to consider this
    …man, I want pancakes now

  41. AlaninDC

    They closed the Dennys here where I live too, in Virginia. It reopened as a Cannabist.

    I don’t use cannabis items but boy, do I miss Dennys.

    1. Needfuldoer

      I misread that as “a Cannibalist”.

    2. Spacey

      Man I love Dennys. It was a fave hangout for College students.

    3. NGPZ

      Haha, actually a welcome change!!!

      It’s just like that South Park episode but with Denny’s instead of KFC LOL XD

    4. Blue

      The proximity of Cannabis and Denny’s reminds me of a time that my friends and I got very high and decided to go to Denny’s, only for me to remember beyond the point of no return that my high school crush worked there

  42. J.Gawain

    I have never related to Danny more than in the last panel. Back pain sucks.

  43. WizardPantaloon

    Walky, please stuff yourself with pancakes so Lucy can never touch you ever.

    1. Adept

      Why exactly?

      1. WizardPantaloon

        She’s pushy and comes off as way too insincere for my liking.

        1. Adept

          These people are something like 18 years old, and Lucy is the very opposite of pushy. She goes out of her way to be nice to everybody, to a tragic degree.

        2. WizardPantaloon

          Ok but her relationship with Walky is what I find insincere.

  44. vulcanodon

    Danny’s ‘get off my back’ solution feels like it was lifted from the comment section.

    On a related theme, poor Lucy has a long road ahead of her.

  45. goggleman64

    ✨ Danny Hatman is a magic man ✨

  46. BOOSTER SHOT

    You’ve found it, internet traveller! This! This is the strip where someone yells “CUT ‘EM OFF!” at Danny’s junk

  47. Adept

    Walky doesn’t seem that into it. Then again, he seems happy enough to go along. That’s ok.

    1. Angel

      well he did get dorothy’s advice to basically not retract his i love you statement, but hopefully he’d communicate if not blurt out some form of ‘i’m not ready’ if not just being too nervous to perform, or sometimes ppl just act in the heat of the moment without thinking (though audience wise i’d think ppl would prefer a sal/danny slipshine first)

  48. brionl

    I talked to my cousin with the roller derby daughter. She’s finished college and is actually in her first year of law school. And is still doing the derby. Managed to break her arm recently which is complicating finals and stuff.

    “Hire the Derby Girls Law Firm! We’ll hip-check those insurance companies into the boards.”

    Although from what I know of her, she’ll probably want to be an environmental justice lawyer or the like.

  49. Imogen

    I will say, while I don’t know how enthusiastic Walky actually is about this, a lot of people are reading a lot into *specifically* him not bringing up how excited he is. He’s acting about as enthusiastic as Danny did a few comics ago. Honestly, I think Willis is probably a little reluctant to write a guy getting *too* excited because a) that’s what we expect, b) it might just feel pestier coming from a dude. Genderflip Lucy’s behavior here and it gets different energies, you know?

    1. The Jighole Man

      i get the feeling that people WANT Walky to be a jerk.
      would it have really been better if Walky shouted out something like “im getting some bread and fishes tonight!”, or some other christian sex pun?

    2. Zero

      Lucy’s behavior is pretty bad as it is.

    3. Angel

      hopefully walky would speak up but there’s ways to be intimate/just doing ‘2nd and 3rd base’ as opposed to full on sex and hopefully lucy would be emotionally satisfied

  50. Joy

    Obligatory “that could count as assault and battery??”

  51. MicaXIII

    Clearly what you wanna do is buy alot of chocolate chip pancakes, eat only a bit of them then take the rest home to fill up on after the sex.

    Post-Nut Pancake 😀

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