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Best friend
Posted on June 8, 2013 by David M Willis

131 thoughts on “Best friend”

  1. AHR

    I enjoy how Jacob is taking this rather blankly XD

    1. Khrene Cleaver

      Its cause hes trying to keep his cool while considering what Joe means by “eating paste.”

  2. piemanpie24

    Danny! How dare you keep us from the lesbians. Shame on you!

    1. Yotomoe

      Danny Wilcox Ruins everything.

      1. Chris

        God, fuck you Danny!

    2. TheBenenator

      Damn you, Wilcox!

  3. xain

    that explains soo much about both of them

    1. GrrArg42

      What?! Is there something wrong with paste? I love paste!

      1. Sammy

        Appropriate Gravatar for this statement

  4. ASmellyOgre

    How much you wanna bet the paste Danny ate wasn’t nontoxic?

  5. John

    Wondering how Joe knows Jacob…

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Maybe they just met just now perhaps?

      1. John

        Maybe. I’ve still got my money on “the other party in that threesome Joe couldn’t quite remember”, though.

    2. timemonkey

      He met him after the threesome with Ethan and Joyce. They didn’t realise Jacob was in the room until they were done.

    3. Yotomoe

      They met at the “Tall, Dark, and Handsome Meetup group”, DUH!

      1. Jen Aside

        More like Sex Addicts Anonymous?

        [the one where they all exchange fistbumps, I guess]

  6. Plasma Mongoose

    Man paste? 😛

    1. timemonkey

      Dirty. I like it.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        I think in double entendres.

        1. timemonkey

          Gave me some fun mental images.

        2. TPman

          That must make a lot of things hard. Math would be easy though.

        3. Tenn

          Hard: Giggity. Math: Huh?

    2. Z3tto

      Hopefully not in kindergarden though… even for Willis, that would be a dark turn.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        I have to agree with you there, that might be just a tad too dark… and ickky.

        1. timemonkey

          And yet there will be porn made of it, thus is the way of the internet.

        2. Tenn

          Dumbing of Age Babies: The Adult Version. O_O

    3. Khrene Cleaver

      DAMMIT PLASMA! I come here to arouse some laughter and see you’ve already sucked up all the attention! I’ve made such a boner!

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        You snooze, you lose! 😀

        1. Khrene Cleaver

          Yeah, thats what I get for coming so late and being so flacid and not ballsy enough… At least its not as sticky mess of a situation Billie is in, or Jacob wants to be…. Penis joke…

  7. Aras Pabedinskas

    Do you just want the audience to hate Danny then, Willis? Is that your plan? Was Danny supposed to be the one that died in that car crash and Ruth was supposed to marry Billie? Have I figured it out, Willis?

    1. timemonkey

      Perhaps it’s a challenge? Is anyone strong enough to like Danny?

      1. Aras Pabedinskas

        I actually like Danny. It’s everybody else that paints him as a moron. Well he is dense, but likable characters have been dense. Really, it’s Willis ultimately controlling Danny’s image so if he really hated how Danny was originally portrayed in Roomies and has decided as payback to deal it on him with Dumbing of Age, what can I do about it. I’ll just have to try to like him with what I am given.

        1. timemonkey

          Danny’s actually much more likable in DoA than in Roomies. Which doesn’t make him likable but is a massive step up.

          Granted, as far as I’ve read nobody is really likable in Roomies yet. The stories are somewhat interesting but it’s like it’s afraid of it’s own potential.

        2. Yotomoe

          I like Joe…almost moreso.

        3. Logician

          I like Joyce, in spite of disagreeing with her on everything she thinks and does. I like Sarah: I think she’s recovering from being hurt, and I sympathise. I quite like Dorothy and Walky. Joe I feel I don’t know all that well yet, but he seems

          I don’t like either Danny or Ethan at all.

        4. timemonkey

          I like lots of people in DoA, it’s in Roomies where they aren’t really likable to me.

  8. Totz the Plaid

    I know that you generally draw yourself with much darker hair, but is that a Willis-cameo in the green hoodie in the background of panel 2?

    1. John

      Kind of looks like this guy. Whoever that is.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        The first thought I had was Rule 63 Joyce.

        1. Yotomoe

          I thought that was one of Joyce’s MANY brothers.

        2. Layman

          It’s Shaggy from Scooby Doo. I’m guessing he’s visiting Velma rather than attending college as a student.

        3. fudo81

          IIRC, we’ve been said that Joyce has just two brothers in this universe…

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      Truly Willis is the Hitchcock of Webcomics.

    3. David

      I wish my jaw was that square.

      1. Aras Pabedinskas

        What are talking about, Hitchcock’s chin was as round as the moon!

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          I believe Willis was refering to the 2nd panel background guy wearing dark green.

        2. Aras Pabedinskas

          I know, but still, it’s easy to pick on dead people, no guilt. Unless they died a horribly tragic death, which the joke relates to.

        3. TPman

          And as we all know, Hitchcock died when he stubbed his chin on the moon. Way to go Aras, real sensitive.

  9. CanvasWolfDoll

    you know what? no. i will not stand for this.

    i hereby declare danny my favorite character. he’s a neat guy. doesn’t cause trouble, is a little dim, but is well meaning and honestly tries his best. danny is my new favorite character!

    … after dina…

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Willis: “Just As Planned!”

  10. timemonkey

    What does Danny think Amazi-Girl would even do in a dorm fire aside from get arrested for getting in the way and endangering lives?

    1. Kernanator

      You assume Danny is even thinking.

      How cute.

      1. timemonkey

        Well, he had to be doing something on the way over, he ran quite far.

        1. Tenn

          Doesn’t running count as “something”?

      2. Plasma Mongoose

        He was thinking of the Amazi-Rack.

        1. Yotomoe

          He, like many of us, has been sucked into its gravitational pull.

    2. Undrave

      The daring fire rescue is a pretty standard superhero scenario.

    3. Logician

      This just strengthens my feeling that Danny doesn’t think of Amazi-Girl as a real girl in a costume, he thinks of her as a character in a story. In a story, someone would be in trouble, and she would heroically rescue them. Otherwise, what’s the point?

  11. timemonkey

    Danny, Joe is moving on to better friends, I’m sorry you had to learn of it this way but at least you’ve got Amber until she raises her standards, right?

  12. Tbf

    Okay, seriously, why are Joe and Danny friends? Is it just inertia or what?

    1. timemonkey

      Because they were friends in Roomies? Granted, they had nothing in common and haven’t seemed to get along even then either. So I got nothing.

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      They both liked eating glue-paste, isn’t that enough of a bond?

      1. Aras Pabedinskas

        I had a friend in elementary school that I honestly thought was a dick, which I really didn’t like. However he was the only person at that school I could really call a friend I had at school so I hung out with him, and I still generally liked the guy. I assume it’s the same with Joe and Danny. They’re friends, but it doesn’t mean they have to like everything about them.

        1. Norah

          That would fit Danny, but I still don’t understand Joe. Seems like he’s the type that’d have a lot of friends. Unless he was totally different growing up.

    3. Yotomoe

      Joe keeps Danny around so he can talk shit about him with cooler friends.

  13. Kernanator

    Jacob, please stop staring into my soul, you’re making me blush.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Is this the beginnings of the USS Kerncob?

      1. Kernanator

        Man, you just reminded me of all the times I was called “Korn, Popkorn, Korn on the Kob, etc., by the neighborhood kids.

        Which was pretty much all the times.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          BEHOLD, KERN! 😀

        2. Aras Pabedinskas

          I feel your pain so much. Ya, my name here, that’s my actual first name. It’s Lithuanian and it has a weird pronounciation ( Like the “r us” in ToysRus” You have to roll the “r” for it to sound right). No one that is not Lithuanian can pronounce it well, so I got kids calling me Arr-ass, emphasis on ass, in elementary school. That was not fun.

        3. Totz the Plaid

          (Totz is a German name, pronounced like ‘totez’.)

          Tater Tot, Tater Totz, Zachary Toast, Toad, etc… That’s what kids made out of my name…

    2. Wack'd

      Is your inner goddess blushing too?

      1. Kernanator

        My who-what-now? What are you talking about?

        …But, probably yes.

      2. TacosForever

        …Oh my!

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WahBH9sANg

      3. TacosForever

        Also, “my inner goddess” (and Charles Dance):

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3POYx6IeeI

        You’re welcome.

  14. Z3tto

    I really hope Joe and Jacob get more focus soon.

    1. Undrave

      HIDE YOUR WOMEN! Double Js on the prowl!

  15. Ellie

    I’m currently torn between “I wish Jacob could get to be part of the storyline” and “I hope Jacob just keeps appearing in the background of comics being amazing hot for no reason”.

    1. Wack'd

      Honestly, I just don’t want him to get involved because SP!Jacob has a whole lot of shit going on that needs resolving and I don’t want it to happen too swiftly so he can be written out.

      Same reason I’m fine with the sidelining of DOA!Roz, even though I like her more than her Walkyverse counterpart.

      1. Yotomoe

        But when are we gonna get our Sierra chapter!? She’s clearly the best character!

  16. Aeristowler

    Is Joe’s shirt (“eyes up here ^”) supposed to be a note to self?

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      At least he wasn’t wearing a shirt like this:

      /\
      THE MAN

      THE LEGEND
      \/

      1. Aras Pabedinskas

        Or that shirt with the married couple that says game over.

      2. ArkhamTexan

        I’m actually wearing those boxers right now. It was an anniversary gift.

  17. ninja_jesus

    You tease! More Ruth and Billie! D:

    On the plus side, though; for an entire year, you are not allowed to create suspense via weekend breaks because, as per the agreement with Kickstarter, YOU GET NO WEEKEND BREAKS MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! >:D

    1. David

      All my weekends now feature Danny.

      1. timemonkey

        Just Danny or Danny interacting with other characters?

        1. Aeristowler

          Just Danny. Staring blankly. Into your soul. Like Jacob.

        2. timemonkey

          But Jacob is clearly looking sideways.

        3. Kernanator

          When Jacob stares into people’s souls, they get all hot and bothered.

          When Danny stares into people’s souls, they just get bothered.

        4. Yotomoe

          Danny staring into your soul is only better than faz staring into your soul. And Faz staring into your soul is worse than hell.

        5. TPman

          When I stare at people they just get hot.
          Laser vision’s not all it’s cracked up to be.

        6. Kernanator

          Oh Cyclops, you and your problems.

        7. Totz the Plaid

          Actually, Cyclops fires force beams, they don’t actually give off heat.

      2. Jackson

        Every weekend features two strips with Danny, running around the periphery of the plot, looking for Amazi-Girl.

        1. Yotomoe

          You’ll see Sal and Jason about to get hot and heavy and Danny will just show up “HAVE YOU GUYS SEEN AMAZI-GIRL!?”

        2. Tenn

          HELLO, I AM MISTER AMAZI-GIRL AND I AM LOOKING FOR THE AMAZI-GIRL HAS ANYONE SEEN THE AMAZI-GIRL WHERE IS AMAZI-GIRL?

      3. John

        Are you trying to make people regret giving you that Kickstarter money?

      4. Emoroffle

        Damn you Willis! Truly you are the most wicked of men.

        1. Beige

          It’s not his fault. he needs our rage for sustenance 😉

          on that note…

          DAMN YOU WILLIS!

  18. Lurlock

    Wait – isn’t Joe like, a good deal older than Jacob? How are they both in college at the same time? Or maybe that’s just in Shortpacked?

    1. TPman

      Yeah, the ages got changed around a bit for DOA.

      1. TPman

        Alternatively Jacob is a prodigy who skipped most of high school and also happens to be the world’s buffest fifteen year old.

    2. Tenn

      …Are you noticing this now? It’s been kind of the whole premise of DoA since day one.

      1. Lurlock

        Well Jacob has barely appeared in DoA. (Only 1 other strip assuming the tags are all correct.) I don’t think any of the other characters are as different in age as these two were in SP. SP-Joe is like 30- or even 40- something, whereas SP-Jacob is like 17 or so? Can’t think of anyone else whose age change that dramatically between strips. Maybe Leslie? Though I had some pretty young professors in school. I guess Robin might be a bit older than her SP-counterpart. But mostly they all seem to be with a few years of each other in both cases.

  19. Uniqueantique

    There is not public transportation, like buses in that college town?

    1. John

      He’d probably still be waiting at the bus stop. With Aslan.

    2. David

      Danny is in a major hurry, and the bus is neither expedient nor direct. And it’s not that far a run from downtown.

  20. dropded

    Go home, Danny, and take Amazi-Girl with you (but leave Amber, SHE’s cool.)

  21. Cope

    I thought it was mostly Willis who hated Danny.

    1. Aras Pabedinskas

      Oh, it is. Everybody else here just joins in the hate, though.

      1. John

        I’m fairly sure I’ve hated Danny longer than Willis has.

        DoA Danny isn’t as hateable as Walkyverse Danny, though.

        But I still hates him, my precious. Stupid fat Wilcoxes.

  22. TPman

    Stop interrupting our Billie/Ruth story you dumbass!

  23. Maycroft

    I thought smelling glue was what you’re supposed to do in highshcool. I’ve beel living fooled my entire life.

    1. Lurlock

      Sniffing glue =/= eating paste. Paste is non-toxic (which is why they let elementary students use it). Sniffing glue can be harmful or even fatal depending on type and dosage. Drugs’r’bad, m’kay?

  24. Totz the Plaid

    I don’t hate Danny, but I don’t like him either. He’s kind of a tool. Not as bad as Walkyverse!Danny, but still.

    1. vlademir1

      I’d argue the converse. Walkyverse Danny got some fairly crap characterization leaving him bland next to Ruth, Joyce, Joe and even Howard. DoA Danny is slowly becoming Roomies era Walkyverse Joyce, who I’ve personally always detested (she grew on me later, after joining SEMME)

      1. Regalli

        Yeah, Walkyverse Danny was pretty much the Generic Guy, who also had a tendency to be a major tool. DoA Danny is now shedding his Generic Guy status… leaving him a major tool.

        1. Brando

          You guys keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.

  25. GynvaelRhena

    … who were interrupting our Sal/Jason story anyway, hnnnng.

    Wow, I just noticed the smiley at the bottom of the page.

  26. Notebooked

    Looks like Jacob’s about to get a speakin’ part!
    That’s another fairly interesting thing about DoA — getting to see how characters who weren’t in Roomies or It’s Walky and who haven’t gotten flashbacks in Shortpacked were in their youth.

  27. Darnel

    LOL
    It always strikes me extremely strange how someone can put on a costume,.. be around people who know them and not be recognized by body language scent or speech,… it why I still laugh at an investigative reporter like lois lane,.,..

    Outside of that:
    this is getting good. How are they NOT going to be found by Firemen?

    1. Lurlock

      They probably don’t check every room. Though they could probably figure out which alarm was pulled easily enough, and from there it’s just a matter of noticing that one of the doors has been kicked in… Yeah, they should hide in another room if they’re smart.

  28. Aeyt

    Is paste still made from horses?

  29. brumagem

    IT’S GLUE NOT PASTE JOE GET IT RIIIIIIIIIIIGHT

  30. Brando

    Danny is not a tool…he’s just…really oblivious.

  31. Luzahn

    Aw damn, the comments section’s hatred of Danny is starting to bleed over. I need to fight that.

    Really, I can’t dislike Danny. He’s pretty low on my rankings, but that’s not because of any negative traits. Most others are just great.

  32. Neospector

    I never ate paste.
    Come to think of it, no one I know has ever actually eaten paste. Mostly because quite a few of us could read, and on the glue bottle it read “DO NOT EAT, YOU WILL DIE. THANK YOU AND BUY ANOTHER ONE OF OUR PRODUCTS!”

    1. Lurlock

      Most paste is non-toxic, especially the kind they let kids use in elementary school. (Maybe not high school…) You could down an entire bottle of Elmer’s without too much ill effect. Epoxy on the other hand…

  33. Bill M.

    Why do Jacob’s lips look like hamburger buns? Damn it, now I’m hungry!

  34. Aras

    Good comic

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