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Borrow
Posted on June 16, 2011 by David M Willis

128 thoughts on “Borrow”

  1. Plasma Mongoose

    I was almost right when I said that his brain was melting! ^_^

    1. David Herbert

      Well it is hot. Like Dorothy.

    2. Hinoron

      No yelling my words from two feet away, no throwing things at her head…

      Man, courtship is complicated…

  2. arjay2813

    i’m not surprised it is boiling, but someday it will be hers…when they get together

  3. Jen Aside

    You’re cute when you’re boiling…

  4. Seerow

    Wow he formed a semi-coherent sentence. It’s slow progress, but progress!

    1. Aizat

      Well, one victory at a time.

    2. addude

      Yeah I know! I didn’t expect progress. Way to go Walky!

    3. Beefcube

      Incredible progress! Unfortunately, panel 4 is looking dangerously close to a relapse.

    4. Undrave

      PROGRESS!!

      1. Aizat

        Is that going to be a meme?

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          OF COURSE!

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8u7px_GzWQ


          Sorry about all this, I am still figuring out HTML for comments

        2. Tomb

          Anything can happem if you believe in it!

          So why don’t we PROGRESS!!!

        3. zuche

          Where? Into your FAAACE or your mom? Should we travel by nickel or were you looking to get there by other means?

        4. Seerow

          So what we’ve determined here is that Walky is making PROGRESS with his penis towards her FAAAAAAACE?

        5. zuche

          …I fear so.

  5. Aizat

    Awwwww……that’s sweet. Walky learned to share his stuff with the girl he likes.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Walky will be able to pass himself as a (fairly) normal human being if this keeps up.

      1. dchorror

        Depends on how you define normal.

        1. Aizat

          He’s seems normal to me.

        2. dchorror

          So that’s how you define normal? Personally, I don’t believe anyone but Joe, Mike, and Creepy Guy have been acting remotely normal.

          That’s probably weird to say.

        3. Aizat

          Acting goofy in front of a girl that you like is perfectly normal. To me not normal is having any super powers, talks to himself and answering back to himself, soaking him or herself in butter and proclaiming “I’m a hamster” while running around in his or her underwear, having extra limbs like a third arm or having the ability to spit acid from you’re mouth(unless you’re a certain type of animal or alien) etc.

        4. das-g

          aliens are normal now?

        5. Kelly

          Given the probabilities of life in the universe, yes. Also normal is inherently relative.

        6. Plasma Mongoose

          YOu got me there, what is classed as normal anymore in this era of hipsters, emos, goths, punks, reefer heads, preppies, furries, LARPers and geeks?

        7. zuche

          Beatniks and squares.

        8. Plasma Mongoose

          Squares I can understand, but Beatniks?

          Since when are they normal?

  6. Plasma Mongoose

    What wine does one serve with boiled brains, red or white?

    1. dchorror

      Wine? Wine! That there be a sissy drink. Besides, everyone knows you drink whiskey or vodka with boiled brains.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        As a tee-totaler, I would most likely end up having a Moutain Dew, but if I was a drinker I would have a Fake Orgasm.

        1. dchorror

          Doesn’t sound appealing, from the ingredients. Besides, I don’t know how chocolate and brains would really appeal to me.

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          Fake Orgasm: Vodka, Kahlua, Amaretto without cream.

        3. dchorror

          Recipe I found called for cocoa, and despite what my comment above might imply, I don’t particularly care for vodka.

        4. MacaroniPterodactyl

          Ask Dr. Hannibal Lecter. He would know.

    2. George

      I’ve always favored white, but I think either goes. Boiled brains are a very versatile dish.

    3. Aizat

      I don’t drink wine.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        IIRC, you mentioned that you were a practicing Muslim, that means you would be a tee-totaler by default, am I correct?

        1. Aizat

          Yes, that and I was quoting Dracula.

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          The only Dracula quote I know is: Blah blah blah, I vant ta sucka vour Blood!

        3. Jackson

          “What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets! But enough talk…have at you!”

        4. Aizat

          “Playtime’s over. GRANT ME POWER!”

      2. Lesharo

        It’s “I never drink…wine.”

        1. Aizat

          Really? For years I thought it was “I don’t drink….wine”. Thanks for correcting me, Lesharo.

    4. Xelgaex

      I’m going to say white and probably something with a bit higher acidity to it because of the high fat content of brains. Maybe a sparkling wine.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Does this mean that when you call someone a fathead, you are really saying that they got a lot of brains?

  7. Merco

    Why’s Walky’s brain boiling? Is Dorothy that hot? I mean, Joe only rated her a 7, right?

    1. Mnk

      He did change it to an 8…

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        When did Joe JOE Dotty?

        1. Aizat

          IIRC, never.

    2. dchorror

      Scale’s run different for different people. One person’s 7 can be another person’s 9.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Filming it can turn a 7 into an 8.

        1. Roborat

          Then it ends up on the news at 10.

        2. das-g

          And when it becomes a meme, it’s up to eleven.

        3. Plasma Mongoose

          Where it ends up been repeated over 9,000 times.

      2. Loki

        Exactly. For example, if you have a thing for girls in glasses, that will likely upgrade Dotty for you.

    3. Cholma

      Different people have different ideas of beauty.
      I find lots of women merely attractive while others are drooling over some “hotness” that I’m not seeing.

      1. Grikmeer

        Britney Spears was a prime example of that. When everyone was going gaga about her I was decidedly baffled. Then again, I was into Garbage. Shirley Manson makes most people look unattractive 😛

        1. badmartialarts

          “Shirley Manson makes most people look unattractive”

          For example, Shirley Manson. ZING!

  8. Cholma

    Good effort, Walky! Keep it up, you can do this.

    (David: Dialog in panel 2 is very awkward. You might want to fix that.)

    1. Historyman68

      Wow, way to be an asshole!

      🙂

    2. Blightning

      How is the dialogue in panel 2 awkward? It sounds like something a real person would say to me.

      1. David

        There was an extra “it.” I fixed it.

        1. Cholma

          Ah, yeah, that works. I couldn’t tell if you had too many words or were missing a word or punctuation. I thought she might have been saying two sentences. It’s much cleaner this way. You fixed it… LIKE A BOSS. 😀

  9. Mkvenner

    Is it just me or did Walky’s eyes get bigger in the last panel?

    1. Yhelta

      Nope. They are the same size. His mouth, however, is taking up a great deal more face real estate and thus making his eyes seem bigger.

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      Must be the heat from his boiling brain making his eyeballs expand.

  10. Doctor_Who

    Quick, Walky, remove your brain and lob it at her head!

    1. milk experiment

      I GIVE IT TO YOU (splat)

      1. CWR

        Sounds like a snippet from a porn soundtrack…

        1. Beefcube

          PLEASE ACCEPT THIS
          MUCH OBLIGED THANK YOU

        2. CWR

          Is that Canadian porn?

  11. NF

    I want to see it when Mike ties up Walky later because he wouldn’t stop jumping around the room and yelling that Dorothy likes him.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Nah, Mike would just punch him in the face.

      1. Undrave

        You mean in the FAAAAAAAACE!

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          I knew it! when I posted face, sooner or later, someone will come along and reply with FAAAAAACE. ^_^

        2. Undrave

          For a nickel!

        3. Jackson

          Ha! Facebaiting.

        4. Undrave

          That happens a lot around here. You just can’t ignore great openings like that right?

        5. Rikushadow5

          But of course!!

        6. Plasma Mongoose

          Of Course!

  12. Joe

    Progress!
    I can almost hear the “boink”.

    1. TsunamiJane

      *applause*

      1. Wackd

        Relationship progress goes “boink”?

        1. zuche

          Sometimes, usually round about level five.

  13. Ridureyu

    And then Walky throws his bed at her.

    It breaks three of her bones, campus security is called, and the whole thing ends up a horrible fiasco.

    1. CWR

      – as opposed to how not-a-fiasco that it started out as…

  14. Beachfox

    *melts* That is the sweetest thing I’ve ever…

  15. iSaidCandleja-

    If Walky stops shaking before she leaves it’s because he now needs to change his underwear.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Just as long as he doesn’t change in front of her.

      1. MeHael

        Everything I poo….I poo it for you.

  16. Cindermane

    That almost made me tear up. He was willing to give up something special for a crush 🙂

  17. Tristan J

    She’s dealt with love-shy geeks before, I see.

  18. alicemacher

    Yay Walky for talking normally, and yay Doreen for being kind! This strip is happy-making. <3 <3

    1. Kamino Neko

      Pst. Dorothy. <_<

      But, yeah, nice to see them interacting on an almost normal level.

      1. alicemacher

        Gah. Dorothy. Of course. >.<

        Which I could say it was the first time I'd done that.

        1. alicemacher

          *Wish

          …Screw it, it’s too late at night…

        2. zuche

          It’s okay, Alex, we all get names confused on occasion.

  19. Kaj

    Willis, great job on Dorothy’s expression in panel 4. I normally have a blind spot for that sort of thing, but her expression fit so well it stood out to me 🙂

    1. Energetic Jen

      I love her face (faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!) in panel four!!

  20. Kernanator

    No, Dorothy, don’t encourage him. If you feed him, the mother will reject him and you will have to take care of him forever.

  21. Neradoc

    Oh my, how many times in my life have I been in Walky’s shoes here, the girls they are so frightening !

  22. knowwonattawl

    I LEND IT TO YOU!!

    1. Kernanator

      BONK!

  23. Zem

    Alien-headed head alien lover.

  24. nothri

    Progress!

  25. Digidestined of Trust (Tim)

    Braaaaiiiiinnnssssss

  26. DaniellePhantom

    this is starting to get really adorable instead of creepy

    1. zuche

      Well, he’s no Edward, at least.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        As in Scissorhands?

        1. zuche

          Well, no, but that is a much better comparison.

  27. Hello, Mr. Anderson

    Adapt or die, Walky! You’re almost there!

  28. Blob Marley

    Am I the only person who feels like Dotty kind of insulted Walky a little bit in panel 2 without realizing it? “Hey, you’re really into this stuff. How does it feel to be a toddler?” It may have been designed for kids, but there are loads of things designed for kids that are, nevertheless, perfectly valid entertainment for adults.

    1. Seraph

      You have a point, but I’d lean heavily on the “without realizing it”. I think she’s talking to herself here, trying to remind/convince herself that the “kid stuff” she misses so much were childish things that she was right to put aside.

    2. Zem

      That’s completely true, but I guess you learn to let things like that go. I mean, she clearly does like it.

      Now that you mention it, that may become one of Dot’s defining traits. She is the girl who wants to grow up and focus on the future. Walky is like an oasis of being able to indulge in her childlish hobbies without having to feel that she should judge herself over them, probably because he is so non-threatening. I wonder when it will take a turn though and have her overcome with a sense of responsibility and try to push Walky to act the way she does.

      1. MacaroniPterodactyl

        That’ll happen right before Willis creates another spin off webcomic and abandons this one to work on his new project with promises that it won’t end in a text story where everyone becomes a lesbian.

        1. das-g

          SP!-Ethan is lesbian now?

          Damn you, Willis!

    3. gangler

      It’s only really insulting if you have some odd hatred of your childhood and the memories and joys associated with it. Age thirteen, sure “Kid Stuff” is a hell of an insult. By College I think most of us have come to terms with the fact that we still enjoy the pokemon games, the digimon cartoons, Sonic Comics, and the works of Lauren Faust.

      Unless you’re expected to get defensive about it, calling such things “Kid Stuff” isn’t insulting at all. It’s just accurate. Especially in a conversation between fans it can be assumed we’re all cool with it.

      At the very least I don’t expect Walky of all people to get up in arms over this. Not only was no insult meant, no insult was given or perceived. I’m pretty sure Dot Matrix is in the clear here.

    4. Elle

      I’m going to have to say no, I did not find it insulting. Why? Look at her expression. She’s not condescending or mean, she’s sad that her kid stuff is gone. Most likely, seeing Walky’s stuff made her regret giving it up, or at least not saving her favourites.

  29. Seraph

    Oh. Oh, wow. We’re starting to get an idea of just how much Dorothy gave up to follow her dream. This:

    1) Makes my heart break for her pre-emptively, given that she’s almost certainly not going to Yale, and;

    2) Makes me wonder just how willfully blind Danny was to even think that Dorothy might change her mind and go along with his plans instead.

    1. gangler

      They say that love is blind. I say maybe we should work on that. Seems to cause lot of trouble. They accuse me of being unromantic.

  30. Tobias

    I’m hoping that Danny’s newly-developed spine last week because it realized Walky was going to be needing one, and is just now arriving on the scene.

    Go for it, Walks- I’m rooting for ya.

    1. Tobias

      *spine disappeared last week. Type fail.

  31. AddleBoy

    If love were an RPG…

    Walky gained 100 EXP!

    Walky has reached Lvl 2!

    Speech +2

    Intelligence +1

    1. Valkeer1

      Walky can now cast “Occasional Complete Sentence”!

  32. Engelfire

    He’s going to BSOD any second at this rate.

  33. Shifty

    Aww… poor Dorothy. Sucks that she had to sacrifice her childhood for school. I know that pain.

  34. Lucca

    Omigawd Nachitos.

  35. Eve

    omfg I want a Walky.

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