I’m pretty sure Penny did it in the last strip or two. In the first strip of this scene, I think we can see enough of his back to be sure the sign wasn’t there already. And in the last strip we see Penny’s hand on his back.
I, too, am sure that she did it in the last strip.
Personally, I think she’s a great example of the sort of ‘teacher’ who should get tossed out on her rear end. The job of a teacher is to educate, and she’s a miserable failure at that. She views teaching as a job where the objective is to do as little as possible. It doesn’t matter to her whether her students actually learn anything or not. All she cares about is getting paid and having sex with her students.
Of course, I work at an academic institution (not as a teacher, but I know most of the faculty and staff very well due to being part of the IT staff), so I might just have a slightly different viewpoint than the average reader of this comic.
Birke
I very much agree with you.
John
Thing is, she’s not a teacher. She’s a grad student who has to T.A. despite having no interest in it.
nothri
Which does suck for her, I will admit. I don’t see it as an excuse for her attitude, though. I empathize will people who have crappy jobs. I don’t empathize with people who have crappy job and take it out on the customers.
nothri
Empathize >with<. Sigh.
Doctroid
I’m with you on this. She’s cute, but she’s an asshole.
segnosaur
Technically we don’t even know if she is a “bad teacher”. True, she may have a bad attitude, and she did point out that professors just “regurgitate lesson plans”. But that might not necessarily apply to her.
She may actually be a good TA (able to handle students with all sorts of problems, grades tests well, etc.), but just realizes that she’s working in a system that doesn’t reward teaching abilities.
Yet Another Laura H.
And the thing is, she still might be an excellent teacher.
Look, Jason in his current form is not a good teacher, without dealing at all with his a banging student. We see that because he is not—- currently— mentally flexible enough to frame things in a way that his (rather bright) student Sal could begin to get a handle on them, while an untrained kid like Danny was able to give her the tools. (Although to be fair, I don’t get a vibe the entire T.A. manual in this school is brown-edged Post-It with “Good Luck!” and a smily face in distinctive handwriting that belongs to no-one in recent memory.)
Actually, I take back the aside that excludes sex with students. I suspect that if he weren’t so stiff-necked and concerned with the rules, rather than the maxim from which they proceed, he’d be able to figure out a way to reach out to those whose thought process differs from his— WITHOUT ripping their clothes off. I hope the connection with Sal makes him see these people as, y’know, people, instead of “lazy others.”
I think you just explained the irony in the strip.
DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
Mike is another likely candidate. Thing of it is, she has a point about Jason being full of it regardless. This seems to be about Jason, like Danny and Shortpacked’s Ethan, having delusions of character by putting up a sanctimonious persona, that they themselves are buying far more than anyone around them, resulting in them not having any real moral high ground to speak of over all the other jerks in their lives, and failing to meet their level of self-awareness to boot.
Yet Another Laura H.
Ooh.
Andropov4
A lot of people don’t realize that, in college, they aren’t teachers. Your professors and the institutions they work for are generally much more concerned with whether or not they’re churning out quality research than if they’re good at imparting information to their students.
That’s actually kind of upsetting, because it shows she had every intention of doing that before the conversation went bad. It’s funny buuut just a little mean spirited.
Not sure exactly but the spade has a long history as both an entrenching tool and a weapon, so there is that, Chiri likes the spade because SZS loves giving characters meaningful names and the name Chiri has a number of possible meanings, one of which is “to bury” and a spade is handy for that task.
Vincent
Of course, she seems to go for the burial bit if someone steps out of line and isn’t proper.
Not so much a thing in the first season, though. Might be a flanderization thing, much like how the other characters got weirder with new seasons.
I was impressed with the final twist at the end of the manga where it turns out that Furura Kafuka has been dead all along and that all the girls in the class has received donor organs from her which causes them be possessed by her spirit from time to time.
Not true. There’s an episode of 30 Rock where a threesome involving Liz Lemon, James Franco, and a Japanese body pillow named Kamiko-Tan solved the problem of Liz’s cousin crashing on her couch.
“Just because you’re attracted to someone doesn’t mean you MUST sleep with him or her. You’ll survive. It’s also easier to exist in a way that you prefer if you aren’t lying to yourself.”
Trouble is, it’s hard to get this on a gut level without a tonne of relationship XP under your belt, or with the surging hormones of your late teens/ early twenties roaring in your brain’s ears.
She appears to be a rather nasty cynic who thinks she can get away with questionable behavior so long as she’s superficially charming. She’s also got a horrible attitude for someone who’s supposed to be an educator.
In summation: I kinda want to push her out a window.
No Name
And that’s why we want to see more of her. So we can learn her habits and weaknesses.
DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
Heh, don’t tell Jason. I think he’s been too busy trying to match the depiction Family Guy has for British people to have taken the time to even notice that she’s been trying to ‘pull’ him, as they used to say in Britain, much less what kind of person she really is.
Wouldn’t be surprised if all he picked up on from this spat is the part that had to do with how people in their department don’t like him that much, or so Penny the Jilted claims.
258 thoughts on “Dangerous”
Jen Aside
the layouts have been such that really anyone could have put the sign there, too
Captain Napalm
I got here at 12:00 and hit the home button until the comic loaded and you were still already here. ._.
Riku
Willis doesn’t make the comic visible until Jen Aside comments
Captain Napalm
where is the lie
Saintslayer
Wait:
Jen Aside ==> Genocide
I’ve been reading DoA for more than a year now and I just got that .-.
Deanatay
Wow.
Deanatay
You get laughed at in chat rooms
I feel bad for you, son
I got 99 problems
But an inability to interpret casual puns ain’t one
(Sry, had to get it out of me before it festered)
Gareth
You’re number pun
Jen Aside
Don’t worry about it, I had a close friend who didn’t get it until talking about me one day =p
Mel
I thought it was your real name *shamed*
Jason
I’m pretty sure Penny did it in the last strip or two. In the first strip of this scene, I think we can see enough of his back to be sure the sign wasn’t there already. And in the last strip we see Penny’s hand on his back.
I like Penny.
jaimehlers
I, too, am sure that she did it in the last strip.
Personally, I think she’s a great example of the sort of ‘teacher’ who should get tossed out on her rear end. The job of a teacher is to educate, and she’s a miserable failure at that. She views teaching as a job where the objective is to do as little as possible. It doesn’t matter to her whether her students actually learn anything or not. All she cares about is getting paid and having sex with her students.
Of course, I work at an academic institution (not as a teacher, but I know most of the faculty and staff very well due to being part of the IT staff), so I might just have a slightly different viewpoint than the average reader of this comic.
Birke
I very much agree with you.
John
Thing is, she’s not a teacher. She’s a grad student who has to T.A. despite having no interest in it.
nothri
Which does suck for her, I will admit. I don’t see it as an excuse for her attitude, though. I empathize will people who have crappy jobs. I don’t empathize with people who have crappy job and take it out on the customers.
nothri
Empathize >with<. Sigh.
Doctroid
I’m with you on this. She’s cute, but she’s an asshole.
segnosaur
Technically we don’t even know if she is a “bad teacher”. True, she may have a bad attitude, and she did point out that professors just “regurgitate lesson plans”. But that might not necessarily apply to her.
She may actually be a good TA (able to handle students with all sorts of problems, grades tests well, etc.), but just realizes that she’s working in a system that doesn’t reward teaching abilities.
Yet Another Laura H.
And the thing is, she still might be an excellent teacher.
Look, Jason in his current form is not a good teacher, without dealing at all with his a banging student. We see that because he is not—- currently— mentally flexible enough to frame things in a way that his (rather bright) student Sal could begin to get a handle on them, while an untrained kid like Danny was able to give her the tools. (Although to be fair, I don’t get a vibe the entire T.A. manual in this school is brown-edged Post-It with “Good Luck!” and a smily face in distinctive handwriting that belongs to no-one in recent memory.)
Actually, I take back the aside that excludes sex with students. I suspect that if he weren’t so stiff-necked and concerned with the rules, rather than the maxim from which they proceed, he’d be able to figure out a way to reach out to those whose thought process differs from his— WITHOUT ripping their clothes off. I hope the connection with Sal makes him see these people as, y’know, people, instead of “lazy others.”
Chris
I think you just explained the irony in the strip.
DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
Mike is another likely candidate. Thing of it is, she has a point about Jason being full of it regardless. This seems to be about Jason, like Danny and Shortpacked’s Ethan, having delusions of character by putting up a sanctimonious persona, that they themselves are buying far more than anyone around them, resulting in them not having any real moral high ground to speak of over all the other jerks in their lives, and failing to meet their level of self-awareness to boot.
Yet Another Laura H.
Ooh.
Andropov4
A lot of people don’t realize that, in college, they aren’t teachers. Your professors and the institutions they work for are generally much more concerned with whether or not they’re churning out quality research than if they’re good at imparting information to their students.
DarkoNeko
omg she totally did.
Derek
She puts her hand on his back in the last strip, so I’d assume that’s when she did it.
Kris
That’s actually kind of upsetting, because it shows she had every intention of doing that before the conversation went bad. It’s funny buuut just a little mean spirited.
Jen Aside
Jason’s back is totally off-panel in this entire comic except the last one tho
[[off-screen Mike]]
Nathan Samson
I want to know the story behind how This man gets to be the first to comment always.
Jen Aside
“This man” doesn’t, I do haha
[unless I’m busy or can’t think of anything]
AnvilPro
Remember everyone, “Threesomes never solve anything”
Jupiterror
except in universes parallel to the walkyverse
oh wait
No Name
No, that was a foursome.
Plasma Mongoose
But they are fun to watch. 😀
NotFred
Unrelated but I’m really enjoying the encyclopedia of characters your tumblr is rapidly becoming 🙂
I didn’t know Chiri but I immediately remembered Nicole of Quantum Vibe: It’s not aikido (a little gory)
What is it with girls and shovels?
Plasma Mongoose
Not sure exactly but the spade has a long history as both an entrenching tool and a weapon, so there is that, Chiri likes the spade because SZS loves giving characters meaningful names and the name Chiri has a number of possible meanings, one of which is “to bury” and a spade is handy for that task.
Vincent
Of course, she seems to go for the burial bit if someone steps out of line and isn’t proper.
Not so much a thing in the first season, though. Might be a flanderization thing, much like how the other characters got weirder with new seasons.
Plasma Mongoose
I was impressed with the final twist at the end of the manga where it turns out that Furura Kafuka has been dead all along and that all the girls in the class has received donor organs from her which causes them be possessed by her spirit from time to time.
Doctor_Who
Not true. There’s an episode of 30 Rock where a threesome involving Liz Lemon, James Franco, and a Japanese body pillow named Kamiko-Tan solved the problem of Liz’s cousin crashing on her couch.
…That may have been kind of a weird show.
Kk
Well, that settles it. I’m binge-watching 30 Rock.
stevecharb
That may have been the one 30 Rock episode I’d like to have remained forgotten. Thanks, that really sours my mind grapes.
gordon blvd
I most CERTAINLY disagree with that thesis, my friend 😉
David Alexander McDonald
I don’t know, threesomes generally solve the problem of what to do with that extra couple of hours that we had no idea how to use before.
MM
If you’ve got a better solution to the Amber/Danny/Ethan problem, I’d like to hear it.
John
Foursome? Counting both of the people in Amber’s head.
And threesomes totally solve the problem of not having enough threesomes.
Yet Another Laura H.
“Just because you’re attracted to someone doesn’t mean you MUST sleep with him or her. You’ll survive. It’s also easier to exist in a way that you prefer if you aren’t lying to yourself.”
Trouble is, it’s hard to get this on a gut level without a tonne of relationship XP under your belt, or with the surging hormones of your late teens/ early twenties roaring in your brain’s ears.
DarkoNeko
Well, that’s like saying “alcohol doesn’ solve any problem”. Since, well, neither does milk ^^
lekoppa
Calcium deficiency.
Yet Another Laura H.
Hungry infant mammal.
Tenn
Alcohol solves lots of other things, though.
Yet Another Laura H.
It’s an excellent disinfectant and quite good as a cleaning solvent, for one thing.
SUGauthor
Nice job Mike.
cesium133
Never let Mike pat you on the back.
timemonkey
You assume it’s Mike. But when has Mike ever used signs pinned to someone’s back?
Scoops
Fourth panel here:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/twelvethirty/
Though I wish it was written in red, because of the strip before that.
Kris
Nice catch! Oh Penny that is just petty. Petty Penny.
Lord Geovanni
Pretty Penny
Kris
Did Joe put that sign there?!
Deanatay
YES
Probably not, but YES
Tayo
the thirst for more penny is HIGH
sethutkc
yessssssss
Plasma Mongoose
You can ask Willis but I bet it would cost you a pretty penny. 😀
winter
Agreed, I would read a whole ‘nother comic about Penny and Jason TA shenanigans.
Carriethedragon
Am I the only one that loathes her?
SUGauthor
Nope, I do too.
Liz
Also not a fan.
Gamaran Sepudomyn
I think she’s like a less severe version of Mike: a real jerk, but funny because of that.
beege
She appears to be a rather nasty cynic who thinks she can get away with questionable behavior so long as she’s superficially charming. She’s also got a horrible attitude for someone who’s supposed to be an educator.
In summation: I kinda want to push her out a window.
No Name
And that’s why we want to see more of her. So we can learn her habits and weaknesses.
DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
Heh, don’t tell Jason. I think he’s been too busy trying to match the depiction Family Guy has for British people to have taken the time to even notice that she’s been trying to ‘pull’ him, as they used to say in Britain, much less what kind of person she really is.
Wouldn’t be surprised if all he picked up on from this spat is the part that had to do with how people in their department don’t like him that much, or so Penny the Jilted claims.
Tenn
She’s absolutely despicable. I love her.
Marc in MN
I was actually just going to comment on how I don’t really like her much either. 😉
Jupiterror
[insert coin joke here]
Opus the Poet