Okay we can rationalize this. Faz gave his sperm to a sperm bank and Dorothy used it later. There a way for Dorothy to have Faz’s kid that doesn’t give the mental image of Faz having sex with Dorothy.
Hahaha. A good SO can help you become a better person, even if they have to drag you sometimes. Those two balance each other well. Walky helps her to unwind, while she helps him become a bit more aware/caring. I don’t see it like him becoming a project.
Sorry Walky, that’s how it works. Nookie is for grownups. Sometimes grownups have to do uncomfortable things. Sure, you can keep acting like a kid, if you don’t mind eventually blowing the best thing that ever happened to you.
Briny
So you’re saying he’ll do it all for the nookie. (C’mon, “the nookie”?)
trlkly
What? No. A relationship that uses sex as a bargaining chip is horribly wrong. This is the type of stuff I was talking about that starting to bother me. Not the comic, but the comments.
It’s still a sexist trope. And while I can accept it as a flaw in Dorothy, it bothers me to see it promoted as a good thing.
I’m actually starting to wonder if there are any healthy relationships in this comic.
And I know no one but maybe a very dedicate binger will see this, but still.
I think it really depends how Walky feels about it. Some people I know enjoy being pushed to improve, some people detest it, most are somewhere in between.
I agree that the note sending maybe part of a project, but she seems genuinely concerned abt his “never minds” and knows he’s hiding something, just not quite what he’s hiding.
The thing about Walky, though, is that she’s taking the wrong path by trying to confront him directly. She should come at him from the side, like a tiger. 🙂
Eh, icicles have the major advantage of being less traceable. Though they aren’t nearly as good at penetrating bone or any clothing tougher than fabric.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Make sure the icicle is made out of saline solution, not fresh or sea water. makes things harder for the coroner.
Your trapped in freezing cold water, with spikes lining the walls ceiling and floor, some big some small. You can’t see anything. there is a tiny opening somewhere, just big enough for a man to fit through. No matter where you move you risk being stabbed, but if you stay you’ll drown.
Did you use to play lots of NES games back in the day? Because this describes at least four or five of them, that I can think of at the top of my head.
Why does everyone always credit Akbar with the line, when Leia shouted EXACTLY the same thing two years earlier in Cloud City? Doesn’t it matter that she got there first? Or does being a woman while Akbar is (at least as far as we can tell by voice timber) male invalidate her rights?
… when warning other people not to address these questions, please bear in mind that shouting “It’s a trap!” will cause recursion and exponential growth of said trap.
Reltzik
*correction: 3 years earlier
Leorale
I always assumed it was because he has a funny fish-head when he says it.
Baronbrian
This, exactly. He’s so goofy looking when he says it that it just burns into your head
Carrie Fisher’s delivery of the line was significantly less ridiculous.
Durandal_1707
Also, Carrie Fisher had lots of lines throughout all three films, as opposed to having just that one.
Disloyal Subject
It’s all in the delivery.
Reltzik
Huh. Those are two significantly better explanations than mine, which boiled down to “Leia was a far more significant character with far more lines than Akbar, who only has two scenes to be remembered for. A main protagonist’s throwaway line is the bit part’s signature line because the bit part has so much less.”
Durandal_1707
Beat me to it by four minutes.
Random832
If that was your explanation why’d you open with “Or does being a woman … invalidate her rights?”
Reltzik
Because I was engaged in trolling that was supposed to be so obvious as to be humorous?
No Name
Reltzik, this is the internet. Trolling is never so obvious it’s humorous. So ridiculous it’s humorous maybe, but never so obvious.
Drowning is much scarier, and can possibly take much longer. After nearly drowning myself, I’d also say it’s more painful, what with the pressure on and within the lungs and the body’s attempted cough/choke response.
And she will be very eager to get to the bottom of it so she can have her own slob of a son back rather than the well mannered replicant… she will get around to check it out any day now…
Discussion (262) - “Sincerity”
Bagge
Close but no cigar, Dotty. The Walky is not talking.
0kami
He may walk the Walk, but he won’t talk “The Talk”.
Bagge
Clever! Dotty, meanwhile, may dot the “I”s but she won’t cross the “T”
Stacie
Wouldn’t that be Dolly?
a snow ʍousɐ
Like Dolly Parlon!
DarkoNeko
Nothing like a talky Walky
Tan
She looks so hopeful in panels 4 & 5
Thorbjorn
The walky will do no talky today 🙂
AnvilPro
Walky, as usual, speaking the truth
Mr. Mendo
Dorothy’s trying to make Walky a project, again… :/
Bagge
She has a spreadsheet that documents his progress.
Doctor_Who
“Note that the arrow is pointing down”.
Mr. Mendo
Is she Dorothy or Faz? 😉
Doctor_Who
The hair is kinda similar, come to think of it.
Actually, I imagine Wen is what would happen if Dorothy and Faz had a kid and ohmygodtheimageisinmymindgetoutgetoutGETOUT.
Mr. Mendo
Good! Embrace the darkness! 😉
Disloyal Subject
No, attack the darkness!
Some1
Okay we can rationalize this. Faz gave his sperm to a sperm bank and Dorothy used it later. There a way for Dorothy to have Faz’s kid that doesn’t give the mental image of Faz having sex with Dorothy.
Mr. Mendo
Though, if Wen is Dorothy’s kid, Faz is banging his own daughter…
Deanatay
I cast Magic Missile! I cast Magic Missile AT THE DARKNESS!!
Chris
That, without a doubt, is the best “I cast Magic Missle at the darkness” reference I have ever seen.
Rowen Morland
You are eaten by a grue.
Mr. Mendo
An encephalogram might be better…
Walky_Talky
She would have made a pie chart, but he’d think it was actually made of pie and try to eat it.
Leorale
He does have a history of eating papers he doesn’t like.
inqntrol
She’ll have to “evaluate” him first.
HonorHunter
Hahaha. A good SO can help you become a better person, even if they have to drag you sometimes. Those two balance each other well. Walky helps her to unwind, while she helps him become a bit more aware/caring. I don’t see it like him becoming a project.
Tualha
Sorry Walky, that’s how it works. Nookie is for grownups. Sometimes grownups have to do uncomfortable things. Sure, you can keep acting like a kid, if you don’t mind eventually blowing the best thing that ever happened to you.
Briny
So you’re saying he’ll do it all for the nookie. (C’mon, “the nookie”?)
trlkly
What? No. A relationship that uses sex as a bargaining chip is horribly wrong. This is the type of stuff I was talking about that starting to bother me. Not the comic, but the comments.
It’s still a sexist trope. And while I can accept it as a flaw in Dorothy, it bothers me to see it promoted as a good thing.
I’m actually starting to wonder if there are any healthy relationships in this comic.
And I know no one but maybe a very dedicate binger will see this, but still.
Leorale
I think it really depends how Walky feels about it. Some people I know enjoy being pushed to improve, some people detest it, most are somewhere in between.
Needfuldoer
She has a Gantt chart full of milestones to reach. Can’t let the timeline slip!
Tomas
Gantt charts are cool, so much better than daily planners for managing deadlines.
Willoughby Chase
I agree that the note sending maybe part of a project, but she seems genuinely concerned abt his “never minds” and knows he’s hiding something, just not quite what he’s hiding.
Mr. Mendo
The thing about Walky, though, is that she’s taking the wrong path by trying to confront him directly. She should come at him from the side, like a tiger. 🙂
Willoughby Chase
That’s a sort of project, right?
Ellegos
Or a velociraptor.
Snugglebutts
Clever girl
gkheyf
i vote water-knife!
Doctor_Who
Icicle to the lungs? If you don’t bleed to death, your body heat will melt it, filling your lungs with water, and you’ll drown.
…The fuck? That’s the single darkest thing I’ve ever typed. I may need to get to bed.
Rukduk
You’re not the only one, I somehow read icicle as “ice-pick”. Which is also pretty dark.
DarkoNeko
so, like Basic Instinct.
Disloyal Subject
Eh, icicles have the major advantage of being less traceable. Though they aren’t nearly as good at penetrating bone or any clothing tougher than fabric.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Make sure the icicle is made out of saline solution, not fresh or sea water. makes things harder for the coroner.
Some1
Your trapped in freezing cold water, with spikes lining the walls ceiling and floor, some big some small. You can’t see anything. there is a tiny opening somewhere, just big enough for a man to fit through. No matter where you move you risk being stabbed, but if you stay you’ll drown.
GET ON MY LEVEL!
Rukduk
Well howdy Jigsaw.
Emperor Norton II
Did you use to play lots of NES games back in the day? Because this describes at least four or five of them, that I can think of at the top of my head.
TheStranger
In the end, it will be a tragic stabdrown
Vagabond J
That ends in the loser being drowned?
chris73
Its a trap!
Dana
Thank you, Admiral Akbar.
Reltzik
Why does everyone always credit Akbar with the line, when Leia shouted EXACTLY the same thing two years earlier in Cloud City? Doesn’t it matter that she got there first? Or does being a woman while Akbar is (at least as far as we can tell by voice timber) male invalidate her rights?
… when warning other people not to address these questions, please bear in mind that shouting “It’s a trap!” will cause recursion and exponential growth of said trap.
Reltzik
*correction: 3 years earlier
Leorale
I always assumed it was because he has a funny fish-head when he says it.
Baronbrian
This, exactly. He’s so goofy looking when he says it that it just burns into your head
John
Carrie Fisher’s delivery of the line was significantly less ridiculous.
Durandal_1707
Also, Carrie Fisher had lots of lines throughout all three films, as opposed to having just that one.
Disloyal Subject
It’s all in the delivery.
Reltzik
Huh. Those are two significantly better explanations than mine, which boiled down to “Leia was a far more significant character with far more lines than Akbar, who only has two scenes to be remembered for. A main protagonist’s throwaway line is the bit part’s signature line because the bit part has so much less.”
Durandal_1707
Beat me to it by four minutes.
Random832
If that was your explanation why’d you open with “Or does being a woman … invalidate her rights?”
Reltzik
Because I was engaged in trolling that was supposed to be so obvious as to be humorous?
No Name
Reltzik, this is the internet. Trolling is never so obvious it’s humorous. So ridiculous it’s humorous maybe, but never so obvious.
Wheelpath
Drowned, that’s already almost happened to me once, much less painful.
SmilingNid
But if you trying not to die being stabbed is’t that bad, better than almost drowning at least.
Skizz
Stabbed, I have had to deal with both as life threatening events. Stabbing is easier to deal with.
a snow ʍousɐ
Doesn’t it depend on where you’re stabbed?
Rukduk
Drowning is much scarier, and can possibly take much longer. After nearly drowning myself, I’d also say it’s more painful, what with the pressure on and within the lungs and the body’s attempted cough/choke response.
SmilingNid
Never mind being drowned is harder to fight off, can’t drown the ocean back unless you are BP.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
So mom becomes convinced Walky has been kidnapped and replaced with a replicant…
Bagge
And she will be very eager to get to the bottom of it so she can have her own slob of a son back rather than the well mannered replicant… she will get around to check it out any day now…
Wizard
Nah, she’ll just ask if they’re available in female.