The first rule about Fight-Dads, is you don’t carry yer membership card everywhere with you. The second rule is you don’t talk about Fight-Dads. When they’re in the ring, then you can talk about them.
If reading about mpreg fanfiction has taught me anything, Walky is probably pregnant.
Deanatay
Which means, of course, that it hasn’t.
Rowen Morland
By Draco Malfoy.
Ancestral Hamster
It can turn out to be the slowest one on campus. That happened to me. It was so slow I thought that it had broken down and I was trapped.
Also, they may get a phone call on the elevator’s phone. That happened in my freshman year, long before cell phones. Somehow someone managed to dial a wrong number and got the emergency phone in a university building.
Gvickers
I am finding it incredible that this happened to you, too. My call was in the 1980.
Ancestral Hamster
How funny. Mine was in 1984. Perhaps this happened more often back then due to land lines?
I got stuck in an elevator once. Ironically, I was stuck in the elevator with a guy who’s job it was to test the emergency phones in the elevators.
Ana Chronistic
did they work or
segnosaur
Yes, the phone did work. (In fact, he had just tested it a minute before the elevator got stuck.) Unfortunately, because of his job, he knew the guy on th opposite end of the phone, so the 2 of them started talking, and I was left listening to one half of a conversation.
de Combys
That’s kinda rude of him
Time Sage
My grandparents got stuck between floors once while visting my great aunt in the hospital.
HeySo
I once god stuck in a shaky elevator during a thunderstorm for like 20 minutes, all while having a phobia of tight spaces.
By the time that door opened, even still stuck half-way between floors, I shot out so fast, it took those around me a moment to realize what had happened. :X
The other person in the elevator just calmly waited for them to finish realigning the elevator to the floor :’P
HeySo
*got :X
No Name
No, no, “shot out” works just fine; It’s a perfectly reasonable English idiom meaning “got out fast”, and actually works better in this situation.
Gamaran Sepudomyn
I think that was a correction of “god” in the first sentence.
Seibertronian
I think they were replacing “god” with “got”, but interesting grammar session nontheless
No Name
Shoot. Pay more attention next time, No Name.
But glad I could help regardless.
I was at a show for the improv group at my college, and the entire group was like 15-20 minutes late. When they finally arrived, they explained that they’d all gotten stuck in an elevator together.
Not dramatic enough. Next comic is the cyborg fusion of Blaine and Toedad tearing across the campus in a red car headed straight at a drunk Ruth while Billie cries and Ryan taps his fingers evily in the background. And Leslie’s office explodes.
That’s terrifying, as Moriarty typically acted through pawns and was publicly a well respected professor of mathematics. If Mary starts getting a well respected reputation and gathering accomplices… I shudder to think.
Commodore Jeep-Eep
I’ve had her pegged as the enemy within for some time now. She’s major trouble, I wager.
Roborat
Well, better hope she never gets promoted then, because L. Colonel Trouble just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
I think that we’ve got a few more strips before Ruth gets involved. My guess is that ‘get involved’ will be the Dean confronting Ruth and demanding to know how the hell all this drama managed to develop in the hall under her watch without not getting a single hint from her that it was happening. A runaway being sheltered by students? An abusive… no two abusive parents? Two abusive parents who have both been hospitalised by a costumed hero?. A costumed hero who appears to be resident at the hall?!?
I suspect that one of the reason why DMW’s preview/spoiler posts for the next chapter have featured Ruth in such poor humour and taking it out on poor Billie is because the Dean will put her into the Last Chance Saloon.
“… without not getting a single hint from her that it was happening.”
The Blaine incident was dealt correctly — Ruth contacted the dorm authorities — and the beat-up happened off-campus by an anonymous figure whom the police haven’t identified, never mind an R.A.
The McToe incident hasn’t even gone past the 24 hour mark, and let’s face it, if anyone has any sense at all, they’ll bring up the fact that Becky has to move out of the dorm sooner rather than later. Again, Ruth not in trouble for this so far, and might never be.
But Ruth has her own issues, and an antagonist in Mary, so she’s definitely due for some troubles of her own.
DarkVeghetta
“if anyone has any sense at all, they’ll bring up the fact that Becky has to move out of the dorm sooner rather than later” – I disagree. In such a situation I’d expect leniency on account of Becky literally having no where else to go, not to mention it would look good for the school’s PR to shelter her until she can find proper accommodations, or even until she can afford to pay for her first semester. Call it a ‘student loan’.
That begs the question, is she any more damaged or is she genuinely happy. Yes, she wants a family, but she doesn’t show any indication of being all that emotionally attached to her father, his own fault naturally. So the break might have been easier than one would normally expect. She was already planning on escaping after she got in the car with him and stayed calm and rational throughout.
I think she’s probably doing better than she otherwise might be, to have the threat of her dad coming to get her already come and gone, and getting to tell him off. closure can be nice.
I think a little bit, but I think the joy and exhilaration are mostly real. She got mega closure with her dad, told him off for the last time, is probably getting Dina snuggles tonight, and has just lost her major source of fear and anxiety. Her life’s on an upswing, at least for tonight. The weight of it will leave its scars, but this moment is probably genuine in the joy even if she’s actively playing up her “wacky” persona to the hilt.
Agree. Considering what she has recently lived thru, she has every reason to be happy.
It’ll leave scars, but Becky is not Joyce.
Carms
Mentioning Joyce, she’s probably feeling the damage more right now. She’s made a major break with her roots over the past few days. She really probably isn’t ok.
I think she lost a little bit of her faith tonight. Especially the idea that the people who raised her to know right from wrong have not seemed very right of late. I don’t know if she even knows how to begin processing that beyond just the trauma of having another major traumatic event so close to recovering from a PTSD flashback.
It’s a bit of both I think. Being fun and loud and goofy IS her way of taking control of the situation, not to mention that it was her triumph over mr “you destroyed our faaaamily not me and my gun” up in the hospital bed.
I mean, in the end this was a battle over Becky’s right to be herself, and darn it to gosh, SHE WON, and THIS is the self she want to be.
I’m afraid that if this were real life, Becky would be in for a major crash in the not-too-distant future. Eventually it’s all going to come cascading down onto her that even though she is currently surrounded by friends and supporters, she is still alone and on her own. Once this happens, it is entirely possible that she may find herself curled up in the fetal position in a dark closet, scared shitless, and plaintively calling for her mommy.
Actually, my favourite pairing for that event would be with Sarah, for some reason.
Deanatay
Deep down under the misanthrope, Sarah still has the whole ‘Big Sister’ vibe going strong. Not just you.
Willoughby Chase
Or maybe not.
People – in real life – react to different situations in different ways. I think she’s confronted her daemons in ways that are entirely healthy for her future.
I think she’ll always be over-confident, brash and obnoxious, and probably sans mental breakdown.
Possibly. I mean, she’s probably going to have sad deep-in-a-hole moments in the future. But it may not be this moment or even occur this evening. And honestly, she may not even show much for awhile. Going numb is often a really great way to keep your life moving when everything is terrible and you’re trying to put off your own PTSD.
Well for the first time in a long while, she has direction in her life that is completely her choice. She has always been doing what others told her to do and finally, she gets to choose and she has. She wants to be a scientist and kiss Dina.
I know DoA days traditionally end with the characters in bed, but that last panel is seriously crying out for a laugh track, a freeze frame, and then credits rolling.
Or maybe just Becky bursting through the Looney Tunes logo to say “That’s all, folks!”
Bottomless fine, but I don’t think Walky wants to lose his genitals. Especially now that he’s found something better to do with his “peener” than just pee with it.
258 thoughts on “You guys”
AnvilPro
Ethan’s majoring in secret keeping.
Ana Chronistic
more like
[come on, post it SHEESH]
GoldStarz
Would this be Fight Dads 2? We’ve already had a dad fight in this comic before.
Ana Chronistic
First rule of Fight Dads
they beat you, you beat them
no wait
Clif
Is that how it works? I wondered.
JustCheetoDust
Fight Dads: you are the car you drive, you’re the contents of your wallet, you are your fucking khakis
Ana Chronistic
how did the first draft of that turn out, I wonder (it never looks like what I “type” out)
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Bagge
Do you have to fight your own dad, or has Joyce been given an honorary membership?
Either way, Amber is president for life
Clif
Dorothy will be so disappointed.
JustCheetoDust
Maybe Ross was a proxy?
No Name
Joyce did verbally fight with her dad; that’s got to count for something.
Commodore Jeep-Eep
And there’s still that oncoming return home for potential crazy.
Genesee
The first rule about Fight-Dads, is you don’t carry yer membership card everywhere with you. The second rule is you don’t talk about Fight-Dads. When they’re in the ring, then you can talk about them.
Cerberus
So… next comic is them all exiting out of the elevator to see Dean McHenry standing there with a pissed off Ruth?
inqntrol
I hope not.
Cody
That would be amusingly horrifying.
Julie
The next storyline is all of them stuck in the elevator and Walky really needs to pee.
Doctor_Who
They can’t get stuck in an elevator. No one is nine months pregnant and about to deliver.
tim gueguen
If reading about mpreg fanfiction has taught me anything, Walky is probably pregnant.
Deanatay
Which means, of course, that it hasn’t.
Rowen Morland
By Draco Malfoy.
Ancestral Hamster
It can turn out to be the slowest one on campus. That happened to me. It was so slow I thought that it had broken down and I was trapped.
Also, they may get a phone call on the elevator’s phone. That happened in my freshman year, long before cell phones. Somehow someone managed to dial a wrong number and got the emergency phone in a university building.
Gvickers
I am finding it incredible that this happened to you, too. My call was in the 1980.
Ancestral Hamster
How funny. Mine was in 1984. Perhaps this happened more often back then due to land lines?
Kamino Neko
One of them, though, may be the devil.
My money’s on Joyce. >_>
DarkoNeko
Thanksfully, we have an old testament God in there too. Maybe two now.
DarkoNeko
Oh, wait, Joyce can’t be both Satan and an old testament God. Unless fallen archanges count as both.
altalemur
i’d make a strong case that Joyce is Ba’al, who is an old testament god, but who is also misnamed Beelzebub. so there you go, a god and a devil.
segnosaur
I got stuck in an elevator once. Ironically, I was stuck in the elevator with a guy who’s job it was to test the emergency phones in the elevators.
Ana Chronistic
did they work or
segnosaur
Yes, the phone did work. (In fact, he had just tested it a minute before the elevator got stuck.) Unfortunately, because of his job, he knew the guy on th opposite end of the phone, so the 2 of them started talking, and I was left listening to one half of a conversation.
de Combys
That’s kinda rude of him
Time Sage
My grandparents got stuck between floors once while visting my great aunt in the hospital.
HeySo
I once god stuck in a shaky elevator during a thunderstorm for like 20 minutes, all while having a phobia of tight spaces.
By the time that door opened, even still stuck half-way between floors, I shot out so fast, it took those around me a moment to realize what had happened. :X
The other person in the elevator just calmly waited for them to finish realigning the elevator to the floor :’P
HeySo
*got :X
No Name
No, no, “shot out” works just fine; It’s a perfectly reasonable English idiom meaning “got out fast”, and actually works better in this situation.
Gamaran Sepudomyn
I think that was a correction of “god” in the first sentence.
Seibertronian
I think they were replacing “god” with “got”, but interesting grammar session nontheless
No Name
Shoot. Pay more attention next time, No Name.
But glad I could help regardless.
Noclevername
So you and God were stuck in an elevator…
cesium133
“When an elevator asks you if you are a god, you say YES!”
Historyman68
I was at a show for the improv group at my college, and the entire group was like 15-20 minutes late. When they finally arrived, they explained that they’d all gotten stuck in an elevator together.
Kirby
Not dramatic enough. Next comic is the cyborg fusion of Blaine and Toedad tearing across the campus in a red car headed straight at a drunk Ruth while Billie cries and Ryan taps his fingers evily in the background. And Leslie’s office explodes.
Mada
I like to think that by the time Ruth finds out about Becky, someone else will have found out about Ruth and Billie.
“You keep my secret, I keep your’s.”
No Name
Mary already has, she’s a regular Sherlock. No wait, Sherlock was the good guy. She’s a regular Moriarty. There we go.
Dorje Sylas
That’s terrifying, as Moriarty typically acted through pawns and was publicly a well respected professor of mathematics. If Mary starts getting a well respected reputation and gathering accomplices… I shudder to think.
Commodore Jeep-Eep
I’ve had her pegged as the enemy within for some time now. She’s major trouble, I wager.
Roborat
Well, better hope she never gets promoted then, because L. Colonel Trouble just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
BenRG
I think that we’ve got a few more strips before Ruth gets involved. My guess is that ‘get involved’ will be the Dean confronting Ruth and demanding to know how the hell all this drama managed to develop in the hall under her watch without not getting a single hint from her that it was happening. A runaway being sheltered by students? An abusive… no two abusive parents? Two abusive parents who have both been hospitalised by a costumed hero?. A costumed hero who appears to be resident at the hall?!?
I suspect that one of the reason why DMW’s preview/spoiler posts for the next chapter have featured Ruth in such poor humour and taking it out on poor Billie is because the Dean will put her into the Last Chance Saloon.
DarkoNeko
I recall Ruth had a session with Amber, back when Blaine came. And that she was the one that told him to get out.
Inspector Hound
“… without not getting a single hint from her that it was happening.”
The Blaine incident was dealt correctly — Ruth contacted the dorm authorities — and the beat-up happened off-campus by an anonymous figure whom the police haven’t identified, never mind an R.A.
The McToe incident hasn’t even gone past the 24 hour mark, and let’s face it, if anyone has any sense at all, they’ll bring up the fact that Becky has to move out of the dorm sooner rather than later. Again, Ruth not in trouble for this so far, and might never be.
But Ruth has her own issues, and an antagonist in Mary, so she’s definitely due for some troubles of her own.
DarkVeghetta
“if anyone has any sense at all, they’ll bring up the fact that Becky has to move out of the dorm sooner rather than later” – I disagree. In such a situation I’d expect leniency on account of Becky literally having no where else to go, not to mention it would look good for the school’s PR to shelter her until she can find proper accommodations, or even until she can afford to pay for her first semester. Call it a ‘student loan’.
Speedball
Becky really rolls with the punches, doesn’t she? How much of this is her covering her damage?
timemonkey
That begs the question, is she any more damaged or is she genuinely happy. Yes, she wants a family, but she doesn’t show any indication of being all that emotionally attached to her father, his own fault naturally. So the break might have been easier than one would normally expect. She was already planning on escaping after she got in the car with him and stayed calm and rational throughout.
dailybrad
I think she’s probably doing better than she otherwise might be, to have the threat of her dad coming to get her already come and gone, and getting to tell him off. closure can be nice.
Cerberus
I think a little bit, but I think the joy and exhilaration are mostly real. She got mega closure with her dad, told him off for the last time, is probably getting Dina snuggles tonight, and has just lost her major source of fear and anxiety. Her life’s on an upswing, at least for tonight. The weight of it will leave its scars, but this moment is probably genuine in the joy even if she’s actively playing up her “wacky” persona to the hilt.
Idon'tcarenomore
Agree. Considering what she has recently lived thru, she has every reason to be happy.
It’ll leave scars, but Becky is not Joyce.
Carms
Mentioning Joyce, she’s probably feeling the damage more right now. She’s made a major break with her roots over the past few days. She really probably isn’t ok.
Cerberus
I think she lost a little bit of her faith tonight. Especially the idea that the people who raised her to know right from wrong have not seemed very right of late. I don’t know if she even knows how to begin processing that beyond just the trauma of having another major traumatic event so close to recovering from a PTSD flashback.
Bagge
And of course, for Joyce the day is not over like it is for Becky.
It is time for Joyce to call her parents.
Bagge
It’s a bit of both I think. Being fun and loud and goofy IS her way of taking control of the situation, not to mention that it was her triumph over mr “you destroyed our faaaamily not me and my gun” up in the hospital bed.
I mean, in the end this was a battle over Becky’s right to be herself, and darn it to gosh, SHE WON, and THIS is the self she want to be.
Bicycle Bill
I’m afraid that if this were real life, Becky would be in for a major crash in the not-too-distant future. Eventually it’s all going to come cascading down onto her that even though she is currently surrounded by friends and supporters, she is still alone and on her own. Once this happens, it is entirely possible that she may find herself curled up in the fetal position in a dark closet, scared shitless, and plaintively calling for her mommy.
DarkoNeko
Hopefully either Joyce of Dina will be there.
DarkoNeko
Actually, my favourite pairing for that event would be with Sarah, for some reason.
Deanatay
Deep down under the misanthrope, Sarah still has the whole ‘Big Sister’ vibe going strong. Not just you.
Willoughby Chase
Or maybe not.
People – in real life – react to different situations in different ways. I think she’s confronted her daemons in ways that are entirely healthy for her future.
I think she’ll always be over-confident, brash and obnoxious, and probably sans mental breakdown.
Cerberus
Possibly. I mean, she’s probably going to have sad deep-in-a-hole moments in the future. But it may not be this moment or even occur this evening. And honestly, she may not even show much for awhile. Going numb is often a really great way to keep your life moving when everything is terrible and you’re trying to put off your own PTSD.
HampsterPig
Well for the first time in a long while, she has direction in her life that is completely her choice. She has always been doing what others told her to do and finally, she gets to choose and she has. She wants to be a scientist and kiss Dina.
SLICEY
Becky and walky just stole my thoughts from my brain.
Doctor_Who
I know DoA days traditionally end with the characters in bed, but that last panel is seriously crying out for a laugh track, a freeze frame, and then credits rolling.
Or maybe just Becky bursting through the Looney Tunes logo to say “That’s all, folks!”
inqntrol
Nah, Walky fits better as Porky.
JustCheetoDust
Bottomless and sans genitals?
Ancestral Hamster
Bottomless fine, but I don’t think Walky wants to lose his genitals. Especially now that he’s found something better to do with his “peener” than just pee with it.