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Press
Posted on March 14, 2012 by David M Willis

183 thoughts on “Press”

  1. addude

    Smooth, Walky.

    1. OhHayMike

      I thought so. I mean, the threat of litigation has always worked for me, anyway.

      1. Rognik

        And she seems to be pre-law, so she knows all about the legal ramifications. Or at the very least what a sexual offense charge would mean.

        1. Historyman68

          Is there anyone who doesn’t know what a sexual offense charge means?

        2. Steven

          Considering you can get one for even glancing the wrong way at certain people, I’d say no. No one really seems to understand how the work.

        3. LiamKav

          “Considering you can get one for even glancing the wrong way at certain people, I’d say no.”

          Can you? Can you really?

        4. AJBulldis

          You’re being assaulted at this very moment.

        5. octobar

          By an invisible ninja.

        6. shoeboxjeddy

          Suddenly, sexual assault charges, Thousands of them.

        7. lightsabermario

          Billions and billions of sexual assault charges.

        8. nothri

          “Considering you can get one for even glancing the wrong way at certain people, I’d say no.”

          Can you? Can you really?”

          At the very least, you can be sued. Whether or not you can be charged or convicted likely depends on the relative intelligence or lack thereof of your state’s legal system. Assuming you are from America, of course.

        9. Aidenn

          Harassment, not assault.

        10. Hayo

          I almost was by a principle

        11. moonracer

          There are a few counties in Georgia where you can be arrested for statutory rape if youre sitting in a car with someone and youre not wearing socks and shoes.

        12. BriGuy

          Uh…

          That’s all I have to say.

        13. Valdrax

          Oh? Which ones?

          (I’ll just be sitting here with a chunk of rock salt, while I await your reply.)

        14. cheeseparty

          I’m pretty sure that’s an urban legend. Similarly, at my high school and a couple of camps I attended, there was a rumor that if you sat in the bed with your shoes off and your feet off the floor, it was considered “having sex.” We would have “orgies” that consisted of lots of people sitting together with their feet off the floor.

        15. Blue

          Did you go to CTY, by any chance? That’s where I heard the “orgy” rumor.

          Of course, we liked calling everything “orgies” there. 😛

        16. jsepeta

          wow, for not wearing socks and shoes? my family’s in trouble if I take them to the beach.

      2. SuziRoo

        Hey one blackmail-based relationship already worked, who’s to say it won’t again?

    2. Aeron

      Just the way she like him.

    3. Zoey

      That was so smooth im going to have to press charges for being a criminal……a smooth criminal….

      1. Chronos

        Mumma-say, mumma-sah, de mah-koo-sah…

  2. horerczy

    Dorothy don’t lie you don’t have a God.

    1. begbert2

      Sure she does – she doesn’t have worship or respect or have faith in any god, but she does have one. In her basement, back at home. In a little cage. She likes to poke it with sticks. Ones that are on fire.

      On a similar note, as an atheist myself I’m rather conflicted; I once declared that a styrofoam cup that was sitting on my desk at the time was a god. Does that make me not an atheist anymore? I certainly believe in the cup’s existence, and nobody has yet made any convincing argument that it’s *not* a god…I’m so confused.

      1. Shippy McShipper

        Remember, the burden of evidence would lie with you, not with the others.

        Also, I’m pretty sure that would make you a priest(ess?), so that’s still a kind of atheist. Don’t worry.

      2. das-g

        Obviously, you’re a Discordian. You just didn’t know yet. Other Discordians, on the other hand, didn’t know yet about your styrofoam cup cabal. Until now.

        FNORD?

  3. Mkvenner

    ………………….

  4. Jen Aside

    MY PENIS: I GIVE IT TO YOU

    1. SlenderTroll

      For a nickel.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        *then Mike shows up and sues for copyright*

        1. Tan

          Trademark, I would think.

      2. Khantalas

        In your FAAAAAAAACE?

        ((I did this wrong, didn’t I?))

        1. fellixe

          That’s complicated, see, because when done right it is still always wrong.

        2. Drunken Nordmann

          “So wrong, yet so right”?

        3. Blob Marley

          If my penis in your face for a nickel is wrong, I don’t wanna be right?

        4. Khantalas

          Well, now I have to press sexual assault charges.

  5. Spiffster13

    Nice recovery walky! You are getting stronger!

  6. mechaqua

    Blackmail the essence of all great romances!

    Also
    d’awwwwwwwwwwww

    1. Kernanator

      Hey, it worked for Amber and Mike in Shortpacked.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        It’s kinda hard to tell if he is being sarcastic or not.

        1. Aydr

          Why would it be? it DID work… In fact, some form of manipulation seems to be the only way for a girl to get any attention from Mike.

    2. Wonder Wig

      That is the most threatmantic thing I’ve ever read!

      1. Shippy McShipper

        So he should be fine, as long as he doesn’t compare her to his mom?

        1. jsepeta

          “my mom uses more tongue.”

  7. freefall

    Dorothy blushing = cutest thing evar.

    1. NCP19

      I would’ve said Walky, but now we’ve covered all the bases for this comic!

  8. Khantalas

    I just can’t wait to see how Danny and Billie will react to this development.

    1. Wack'd

      Billie won’t care (except maybe she’ll be even more depressed since she’s supposed to be hot stuff and Walky’s got someone first.)

      Danny will spend a couple of weeks halfheartedly convincing himself he’s moved on before hanging himself.

      1. Khantalas

        Billie might say she doesn’t care, but we all know she is secretly in love with the Walkerton siblings, so losing half of her soulmates will probably ruin her FOREVER.

        ((‘kay, that is a bit more dramatic than what will probably happen.))

        1. Wack'd

          I had Danny hang himself. It’s going to take more than that to beat me for dramaticness.

        2. Khantalas

          Yeah, but that is just par for the course for Danny.

        3. Shippy McShipper

          I can beat that.

          By let’s say friday, after they are done watching the shows and/or making out, she’ll notice that she got a message from Danny. A video, assuming they both have good enough phones.
          He’s hanging himself this very moment, and daring her to come save him and/or take her back.

        4. Shippy McShipper

          Er, take him back. Götterdämmerung!

        5. Kerian

          I now ship Walky/Billie/Sal. I:

    2. jaredstar1

      Depending on how much he has recovered from the break up (last week) and how far if any place this relationship might go it might crush him (for a time anyways)

      1. xainoforgv

        i think a much bigger factor would be if he’s made up with amber and how he’s doing on that front

  9. sockv

    Death by cuteness: the entire strip!

  10. Henry

    Too much “d’awwww!” to handle.

  11. RJ

    Walky: surprisingly smooth

  12. Wonder Wig

    Dorothy’s smile in the last panel. (ಠ益ಠ)

    1. SlenderTroll

      Why does her lip look like a creepy pedo mustache?
      Most terrifying DoA panel ever.

      1. Thor

        It’s always been like that. Dorothy’s lip shading has always looked like a chocolate milk mustache.

        And everyone’s noses are a diagonal line over a squished dot.

        Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

        1. TsunamiJane

          CURSE YOU THORRR!!!!

        2. davidbreslin101

          With careful training, you could probably fix it so you can’t see faces in comics anymore, just wierd squiggles and dots.

      2. Historyman68

        She’s channeling John Waters.

  13. Kernanator

    Kinda cute.

  14. Joe

    This is adorable.
    Which means something bad is about to happen.
    Right?

    1. Rognik

      Perhaps, but not necessarily to them.

  15. turkishproverb

    That was a…happened.

  16. Logan_Jennings

    D’aww…

  17. LiC

    Aww… that’s cute… Although this budding adorableness may put a dampener in Dorothy’s plans for going to Harvard…

    1. mechaqua

      Well she’ll just have to settle on Yale! 🙂

      1. LiC

        >GASP!< Not Yale! :O

        1. Blob Marley

          Lisa’s going to Stanford!

  18. The Blot

    So cute! The last two days have been an unexpected, yet adorable turn for these two characters. I thought it might happen one day, but not any time soon.

    1. Historyman68

      It’s always nice when something happens unexpectedly quickly- that way we get to get to the ramifications, rather than being stuck in will-they-or-won’t-they forever.

      1. Jimmy

        At the rate this comic is going we are VERY fortunate for something to happen quickly.

  19. The Sound Defense

    Walky is smoother than I give him credit for, considering how he was reacting a few days ago.

  20. Ryan

    Yes, end on the joke Walky. Perfect strategy, no sarcasm.

  21. John

    So cute. They make me want to choke them both.

    1. John

      Oh, man, I’d completely forgotten I had the Mike gravatar.

      1. Kernanator

        It does give the comment a certain gravitas.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          What’s mexican food got to do with anything? 😛

        2. fellixe

          Oh, Mexican FOOD! I was worried Kern was talking about gravy margaritas.

        3. mechaqua

          Gravy margaritas for those who want to have psoriasis of the liver, and a heart attack!

        4. fellixe

          Especially if you include the biscuit chasers.

        5. Batman1016

          I can’t think of a stranger affliction in the entire universe than “psoriasis of the liver.” Does your liver get all scaly and flaky, and itch a lot? Can one apply topical cream to a liver? I’m confused.

          Unless you meant “cirrhosis,” in which case YOU’RE confused.

        6. AJBulldis

          An itchy liver would be terrible.

        7. Kelly

          Captain, we are being hailed by the GSV “Just Enough Gravitas For A DoA Comment”.

  22. Sporkaganza

    I hate that I find these two so cute together because I know this relationship is probably going to go down in flames.

    1. mechaqua

      No I disagree this relationship will soar, like the Hindenburg!

      1. Kernanator

        This will go over like a lead balloon!

        1. C.

          Or a balloon filled with Flotium.

        2. N0083rP00F

          @Kernanator – you may not know or remember but Myth-busters proved without a shadow of a doubt that a lead balloon does go over well, it just happens to be rather delicate.
          Hmm, now that I think of it, this relationship is at the lead balloon stage

  23. Kamino Neko

    Should I be worried that this would be a perfect strategy to use with me?

    1. Kernanator

      Obviously you should marry a lawyer.

      1. Batman1016

        Just don’t ever try to DIVORCE a lawyer . . . .

  24. LimeTH

    Well, he handled that better than I thought he would.

  25. Bekah

    Smooth Walky. No girl can resist moves like that.

    1. Kernanator

      His litigation brings all the girls to the yard.

      1. mechaqua

        And they’re lawyers are like
        I am better than yours,
        Damn right i am better than yours,
        I can retain you,
        But I have to charge

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          You beat me too it.

        2. NF

          This thread. Just, this thread…

      2. Plasma Mongoose

        And there like,
        His lawyers are better than yours,
        Damn right they’re better than yours,

        1. Drunken Nordmann

          Who’s your current gravatar, PM? She looks familiar.

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          Today’s grav is Saya from the love/horror novel, Saya no Uta(The Song of Saya).

          It is a story about a guy who develops “meat-vision” after an operation which results in him seeing the world like it is covered in meat, bones and organs and people now look like freakish monsters.

          After a few weeks, he meets Saya who ‘looks’ like a beautiful young girl to him.

          To someone with normal vision, she is a slimy tentacle monster.

          If you want check it out, here is part 1 of 38 video chapters of Saya no Uta below.

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDHJ05TbDxU

        3. Plasma Mongoose

          Today’s grav is Saya from the love/horror novel, Saya no Uta(The Song of Saya).

          It is a story about a guy who develops “meat-vision” after an operation which results in him seeing the world like it is covered in meat, blood and organs and people now look like freakish monsters.

          After a few weeks, he meets Saya, who ‘looks’ like a beautiful young girl, but to someone with normal vision, she is in fact, a slimy tentacle monster.

        4. AJBulldis

          He must have been really glad to…

          *shades*

          Meat her.

        5. Tenn

          YEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!

          (Well, it’s required, and I wasn’t going to stand idly by.)

        6. Tenn

          That was intended as a reply to AJBulldis. I clicked on Reply, didn’t I? Durr.

        7. Tenn

          OK, I def clicked Reply this time, and it still ends up at the bottom. This makes me so mad I’m going to change my randomly assigned avatar!

          (In other words, not mad at all.)

        8. Drunken Nordmann

          I knew it. I loved this game. The story was in a disturbing way romantic if that makes any sense.
          My favourite ending was the True Ending – it seems more like a Good Ending than the original Good Ending.

        9. Plasma Mongoose

          The weirdwat thing is that despite knowing at Saya’s a foul-smelling tentacle slime monster from another dimension whose goal it is to wipe out humanity and turn the earth into a festering meat mass, you still kinda want to have ‘meat-vision’ and hug her.

          Human empathy is sure scary sometimes.

        10. N0083rP00F

          *head desk* – and you actually used the correct word once as well.
          There – a location in space or time
          Their – ownership of or belonging to
          They’re – contraction of They Are

  26. Dahlia

    *dies of cuteness*

    1. Heavensrun

      NOOO!

      Dammit, Willis, you see what you’ve done? People are DYING down here, and it’s all your fault!

      1. Dahlia

        It was so sweet I got DIABEETUS.

        1. Blob Marley

          Did you grow a moustache?

        2. Dahlia

          …It’s a SLIGHT possibility.

  27. Rayrayrave

    cutest response ever!

  28. Scoot

    Male tsundere, THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT!!

    1. Aizat

      And not like a damn bastard. Or that creepy master slave thing that some people like. I really need to stay of the Internet.

    2. Scoot

      wat

      1. Aizat

        You really don’t want to know.

      2. Blob Marley

        [Here you go](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundere)

        1. Blob Marley

          Aaaaaaand I’m not on Reddit any more, Toto.

  29. Aizat

    Can’t tell if Dorothy’s dreading it or loving it in the last panel.

    1. Tandel

      I would venture a guess with loving it. It’s just too silly. That and I think it reinforces the idea that Walky won’t be taking things too seriously too fast aka NOT Danny.

      1. johannhowitzer

        I agree completely. He’s being over-the-top and in exactly the way she likes. I think her “OH MY GOD” is more “THIS GUY IS TOO CUTE.”

    2. Khantalas

      She is deploying the McDonald’s motto.

    3. Khantalas

      She is deploying the McDonald’s motto.

      1. John

        “Billions and billions served”?

        1. Batman1016

          Being that your grav is Mike, I just automatically inserted “moms” before “served,” and then tacked “For a nickle each” at the end.

        2. vlademir1

          You’re missing an “of” in there I think.

        3. lightsabermario

          I thought that was Carl Sagan’s catchphrase.
          Has McDonald’s taken over Carl Sagan? NOOOOO!

  30. Tristan J

    *squee all over the fricken’ carpet*

    I’m going to be one of those crazy people who thinks that these two will get into a relationship, find a few compatibility issues, and then get through them and come out of it a stronger couple than before.

    A total impossibility, I know, but I’m a dreamer.

    1. Khantalas

      Nothing can survive the touch of Willis. Mark my words, this relationship is doomed for failure.

      1. johannhowitzer

        See, but people keep saying that about Amber and Mike, and look how far they’ve come. Also…

        *** SPOILER ALERT FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN’T READ IT’S WALKY ***

        yklaW dna ecyoJ

        1. Heavensrun

          I fail to see where Yklaw’s DNA comes into it, Ecyoj’d or not. Also, your puncutation and capitalization is atrocious.

        2. Khantalas

          Give it time. The touch of the Willis destroys all it… touches.

        3. Wack'd

          Last we saw them they were on the alter, so…

        4. Khantalas

          And divorces never happen in fiction?

    2. lightsabermario

      @ Tristan J
      Dammit we just cleaned that carpet!

  31. Charles RB

    Dawwww!

  32. Atcote

    This reminds me of my first kiss at university. In my tiny dark little dorm room, watching a movie (Moulin Rouge!, for the record), and some awkward hugging. Five years later, still at it.
    This leads me to a single conclusion:
    There is no more intimate environment than a student’s room with something geeky playing.

  33. b

    I JUST LOVE HER FACE IN THE LAST PANEL

    1. Jim

      She sure dun does have a purty mouth!

    2. Technyx

      ME TOO

  34. Venn

    I, for one, find this adorable.

  35. sreiches

    I seriously want to bottle up the way the first and last panels feel, and then dole that feeling out to myself day by day.

    1. Herohatch

      My thoughts exactly.

  36. Roddy

    Hey, just came across this link. I feel the need to pass it along as the DoA comic is being affected. Some jerk has put DoA on an app. probably wihtout permisson

    http://chrishanel.tumblr.com/post/19196576643/spread-the-word-theft-is-theft

    Please pass it along.

    1. Haruko Hoshiko

      ok, good someone got to this already. glad I searched before posting a redundant comment.

      1. vlademir1

        This was mentioned on Darth’s and Droids too…. Maybe it’s time to get everyone’s legal teams together and press a class action case before this ends up being the eBaum’s world fight mark II.

  37. CWR

    Isn’t Walky pulling a Joyce face in panel 4? He’s totally making a Joyce face in the last panel.

  38. TraceyD

    This makes me so happy I could die…but that would be bad since I should be working on an essay for my Shakespeare class and I’m just going through all the comics I follow in an attempt to put off writing it.

    But still, this brings me great joy and squee!

    1. Blob Marley

      Ooh, what kind of essay? What are you studying? And most importantly, what light through yonder poseur breaks?

  39. Björn

    He speaks her language. She is so turned on by this!

  40. ADHadh

    Favourite strip so far and one of the previous ones had Sal undressing.

  41. Azukar

    See? See? What did I tell you – Walky is just a long-form master of the Game 😛

    1. The Aussie Bloke

      Damn you, I just lost the Game!

      1. vlademir1

        As did we all 🙁

  42. Ado

    Wow, the adorability of this strip has blown a fist sized hole in my skull. I really hope they can make it work, or atleast end on comfortable terms ’cause this is just so damn sweet its setting off my diabetes. By far my new fav strip in the comic.

    1. Jackson

      The fact that Dorothy is hedging her bets makes me wary, but I’ve gotta admit the strip is cute.

  43. Carlos Futino

    Willis, sorry for the Off-Topic post, but are you aware of the Android App that’s been publishing webcomics without the creators consent? It seems to feature Dumbing of Age (I’m trusting on other people’s info, as I won’t download the App myself).
    Here’s a link to some info: http://chrishanel.tumblr.com/post/19196576643/spread-the-word-theft-is-theft

  44. Megamaniaco

    I feel all mushy inside. Damn you, damn you both!

  45. necrophyte

    THE WARMTH AND FUZZINESS

    IT BURNS

  46. Simeon

    I saw this in the comments of another webcomic I read and thought You might like to see this since you comic is also listed.
    http://chrishanel.tumblr.com/post/19196576643/spread-the-word-theft-is-theft
    Anyway, hope it helps.

  47. David Grubb

    That face in the last panel…
    that face!

  48. nothri

    Ha! Walky used “Mock Litigation”. Its super-effective.

  49. Blob Marley

    New most adorable Walky face.

  50. TheNameless

    I am DEFINITELY going to be trying this!

  51. Rachel

    Cutest faces ever in panel three!! 😀

  52. Maycroft

    AWWWW!

  53. Aegon01

    Walky’s line in panel 4 was BRILLIANT.

    1. johannhowitzer

      Yeah, I can’t come up with anything better to say there, and he said it in the heat of the moment. Dorothy is 20% closer to deciding…

  54. Melizza

    I imploded of cuteness

  55. Keulan

    D’AWWWW!

  56. Volkai

    This makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.

    What’s the opposite of a “Damn You Willis”?

  57. Roborat

    Wow, the adorkable just ramped up by several orders of magnitude. I am not sure the internet can handle this level of cute.

  58. RandomNameGen

    All good comics about sexual harassment usually do end with a girl happily yelling “Oh My God!”.. or wait. No it’s the other way around, they don’t usually end like that.

  59. Rory

    Awwwwww!!!

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