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Hologram
Posted on June 30, 2018 by David M Willis

115 thoughts on “Hologram”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    how will Ethan resist the temptation to wait until he’s dying alone tho

    1. Ana Chronistic

      OH DANG HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA YOU GET PR0NZ

      1. Cholma

        That was just posted 4 days ago, and yet it has 2 MILLION VIEWS ALREADY?! WTF.

        1. mrnoidea

          And it deserves every single one!

        2. HMH

          I just love that Finn Wolfhard is actually a perfect mini-Danny. How is that even possible?

    2. Godfather

      I am in LOVE with every single aspect of that video. I screamed and scared my cat when I saw it pop up on my feed a couple days ago. NSP AND Finn Wolfhard? Yes pls

      1. Jon Rich

        What is everyone even talking about here?

        1. Ana Chronistic

          A convergence of Internet famous people and TV famous people in the video link above

  2. TrueVCU

    Panels 3 and 4 are bisexuality in a nutshell

    1. BBCC

      Is it bad that my first reaction was ‘Awwww, Danny’s happy to see Sal, maybe we can get more cute friendship scenes later’?

      I think I proved Ethan’s point.

      1. ScarvesandCelery

        Honestly, that’s what I assumed too, and I’m kind of baffled that the seeming comment section consensus is “Danny’s definitely romantically interested in Sal”. Like, he could be, but there’s nothing to suggest that’s definitely the case

        1. TrueVCU

          I’m not saying Danny is romantically into Sal, but it certainly LOOKS that way to both Ethan and Amber/AmaziGirl

    2. ShinyNeen

      If Danny keeps providing such examples, he can become some sort of beginner’s illustrated guide to bisexuality!

    3. Jed!

      Granted, it’s also possible that he’s putting the pieces in his mind together about being held hostage by Sal.

      1. MatthewTheLucky

        oh shit

  3. Yumi

    *makes note to self to look into Slipshine membership*

  4. Raen

    Danning it up on both teams.

  5. Stephen Bierce

    Every time I see your face
    It reminds me of the places we used to go
    But all I got is a Hologram
    And I realize you’re not coming back anymore…    –apologies to Ringo Starr

    1. Needfuldoer

      Hey, it fits! Holo-Ringo will probably play it in his 20×6 Centenarian Boomer Life Support Facility tour.

    2. Deanatay

      *Plays Weird Al’s “You Don’t Love Me Anymore” on the hacked Muzak*

  6. Cattleprod

    It’s probably best not to call me even if you aren’t dying.

    And today’s It’s Walky repost is called Phonin’ Ahead, synergy.

  7. Sunny D

    I am simultaneously both Dina and Danny

  8. BBCC

    Sure, Dina. Now imagine you got that call from Becky.

    Thought so.

    1. Yumi

      “If you ever find yourself dying alone, do not contact me. I am not very invested in our relationship.”

      1. Reltzik

        “If you ever find yourself dying alone, do not contact me. Instead, contact an ambulance.”

        1. HMH

          Blessed comment.

        2. Chris Phoenix

          If you ever find yourself dying along, hang up and call 911.

  9. DovahQueen

    Dina’s honesty is my favorite thing today.

  10. Yumi

    In unrelated news that might interest some people here: I impulse bought a set of rainbow dice, and I checked out a book on DnD from the library. I’m going to attempt to learn how to play.

    1. cbwroses

      Congratulations! I just started playing recently again after two sessions ten years ago, and I am having a blast!
      It’s the highlight of my week currently.
      Tonight, my halfling fighter kicked off the shoulder of our drunk monk and shoulder bashed a metal golem into a pool of lava with a natural 20.
      It was great.

      1. Anonymsly

        Last session my party’s human swashbuckler rogue rode our shapechanged elf druid into battle, flipped off his back over the enemy to get flanking, and then stabbed. Not a critical hit but so cinematic!

        My Thursday group makes DMing a treat.

        1. cbwroses

          Nice!

    2. ShinyNeen

      Hey, nice!
      I don’t have meaningful experience with DnD specifically, but if you’re at all in it for the roleplaying/narrative aspect of it, I can say this:
      Try to design a character you’ll enjoy playing long-term. Mechanically and personality-wise. Fatigue can set in unexpectedly. And watch out for sadistic DMs!

    3. Kim

      Oh, howvWonderful! 🙂
      The current edition is great! (And especially easy to get in to!)

      1. Kim

        I also recommend Matthew Mercer’s DM tips in youtube!

    4. Anonymsly

      Wonderful, have fun!! When you go to look for a group, I highly recommend checking your local game store, a lot of them end up with scheduled games and/or a bulletin board of groups looking for players. Games in game stores mean not having to go to a stranger’s house.

      Alternatively if you want to play online, I play on Roll20.net and love it there. I’ve also heard good things about Fantasy Grounds.

      1. cbwroses

        We use Roll20. None of us are in the same place, so we talk on discord, use dnd beyond for character sheets and to share books, and use roll 20 for rudimentary maps and dice rolling (our DM doesn’t really have the time to make detailed maps right now).

  11. ShinyNeen

    Ahh, to be young and completely convinced that hovercars are guaranteed in your lifetime.

    1. Agemegos

      I remember when we were going to have flying cars by 2001.

    2. Cattleprod

      And it wont ever be invalidated by the sliding timescale.

    3. King Daniel

      I mean, flying cars are (or should I say, “were”) a thing that was actually in development.

      Just, it turns out that flying vehicles would be under air-traffic laws instead of ground-traffic laws (big surprise there), and also the flying “cars” were super-unwieldy and fuel-hungry, so only a few were ever built and the ones left are collector’s items.

    4. Marsh Maryrose

      I’ve always wondered why flying cars have been seen as a good thing. Dealing with cars in two dimensions is hazardous enough, but at least you’re mostly safe if you’re not on a roadway.

      Let’s put two-ton vehicles in the sky right above us, piloted by people who find Radio Flyer wagons navigationally challenging. What could go wrong?

      1. Miri

        I thought the plan now was for us to get. self-driving flying cars that automatically call to log and get approval for their routes with air traffic control?

        1. thejeff

          That’s pretty much been the plan since 50s science fiction.

    5. OBBWG

      We already have them.

    6. Zee

      According to my friend in Dutchland, that’s a thing they’re working on over there

  12. DailyBrad

    Danny’s a good egg. Certainly a good-er egg than walkyverse one was sometimes.

    1. newllend(henryvolt)

      The Walkyverse Danny was a “Leave It to Beaver” type try hard of a good egg, I got nothing against that version of Danny I’m just calling it like I see it. But this version of Danny has a bit of naivety to him and a general since good. This is undoubtedly the better version of Danny.

  13. Reltzik

    Alt text: How can Danny get over it without hovercars? GETTING OVER THINGS IS WHAT HOVERCARS ARE FOR!

    1. Clif

      I approve of this remark.

  14. Bagge

    If you eve feel the need for a sweet dinosaur fact, however, feel perfectly free to contact Dina

  15. Bathymetheus

    Damn you Willis! Stop stomping on my dreams! I want a flying car! I DEMAND a flying car! Not necessarily a hovercar, though it should have vertical take off and landing capability.

    And actually, such things are coming irl, surprisingly soon, I think. Though I won’t be able to afford one [sigh].

    1. Inahc

      I think the biggest problem with flying cars is the drivers. 😛

      …so, once driverless cars are common, maybe some of them will eventually be flying ones! 🙂

      (although there’s still that little issue of crashes being far more destructive…)

      1. Bathymetheus

        It has always been the case that the least reliable part of a vehicle is the nut that holds the wheel.

        We are on the way to replacing those with AI, if developers (*cough*Uber*cough*) can cut out the criminally negligent design decisions which lead to pedestrian death.

      2. Bathymetheus

        To expand, yes, flying cars will mostly be automated. Few people will bother to get a pilot license – just as fewer people today are bothering to get a driving license. Fatal crashes, now so common, will become rare.

    2. Keulen

      I refuse to give up on the dream of hovercars. It will happen someday and I intend to live long enough to see it.

  16. Screwball

    Happy Birthday Daniel the Human, here’s a toy Cybertronian you also have in your collection in a webcomic. Someone out there will buy it for $5, so can you get rid of it all now? It kinda creeps me out, being Cybertronian and all…

  17. Lilyliv

    Dina is relatable once again and I love her beyond words.

  18. Wazat

    I’m like Dina. I can’t even be trusted with a plant.

    1. Yumi

      Plants hate me. I love them so, but they hate me.

    2. Keulen

      I’ve tried raising small plants. Every single one of them died.

      1. dralou

        Try to get an aloe vera. My companion is a plant killer too, but its aloe vera not only didn’t die, it even separated itself in two to form a second living plant. Knowing that the guy forgot to give it water for three months at one time, I’d say that this plant is the perfect one for those with black thumbs.

        1. Needfuldoer

          Spider plants are pretty hardy tutorial level house plants, too. Just water once a week and make sure it doesn’t get root-bound from being left in a pot it’s outgrown for too long.

    3. Zee

      I tried raising succulents once. There are only two left alive…

  19. Passchendaele

    Panel 5: it me.png

  20. Griffin Raynor

    Danny either kiss the boy or stop making me want you to kiss him so much.

    1. JessWitt

      ^this^

  21. JessWitt

    Aw and just when Ethan thought he had a chance, Danny gives the impression of going for Sal.

    Ethan still doesn’t know she held him at knifepoint as a teen, does he?

    1. Marsh Maryrose

      Ethan knows.

      1. cbwroses

        He was warned that the girl who attacked him was on Amber’s floor. He was never told her name nor was she pointed out to him.
        Given that he doesn’t hang around Sal, he hasn’t had the opportunity to come to the realization that Walky’s sister (as that would probably be his closest frame of reference) is the same girl from that night.

    2. cbwroses

      No, he doesn’t. He knows she looks familiar, but she just pointed out that he’d probably seen Walky before and that’s why he thought that was the case.
      She also doesn’t remember him, probably because she had other things on her mind that night, and possibly because he hadn’t fully developed then.

      1. BBCC

        Not to mention Sal looks a little different facially and her hair’s pretty different. You’d be surprised how much a change in hairstyle can affect recognizability, especially if you haven’t seen them in a long time or regularly.

  22. Wright

    Dina’s the sort of person you hang out with when the Soggies are about to kill us all.

  23. John

    DINA: “If you ever find yourself dying alone, I would take it as a personal favor if you were to attempt to fall in a place suitable for your remains to become fossilized and be discovered by distant future paleontologists.”

    1. Bathymetheus

      Tricky. A good place would be in shallow water with a high sedimentation rate, such as just beyond the drop-off of a river delta. These are not so common as to be within easy staggering distance.

    2. Needfuldoer

      Bonus points if it’s under improbable yet cartoonishly hilarious circumstances.

  24. Bagge

    The last panel sort of reminds me of this moment between Dina and Becky

    http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/04-walking-with-dina/goodwill/

    Only, much less poignant

  25. brionl

    As long as the hovercar is named “Rosebud”.

    1. Bathymetheus

      But if you die alone, no-one will hear you whisper its name.

  26. @zombieundergrnd

    It is funny that Danny thinks he has some chance with Sal.
    Dude wears a beret and carries around a ukulele. He is lucky he hasn’t been de-pantsed by every single person at that school on a daily basis for being a loser at life,

    1. mrnoidea

      Loser at life? Not necessarily. Dork? Hell yes.

      1. mrnoidea

        DISCLAIMER: Dorks are often very awesome. In no way was the usage above meant as a derogatory term.

    2. Inahc

      Wtf?

    3. Yumi

      The world you live in seems sad. Granted, the world I live in is also sad, but not in a “college kids constantly de-pants people based on an arbitrary judgment that is somehow universal” kind of way.

    4. BenRG

      I don’t know. A genuinely nice guy (for all he is a dork) might be just the sort of person Sal needs to reassure herself that she can have a lasting relationship based on friendship.

    5. Griffin Raynor

      I mean, I’m not claiming to be as cool as Sal, but I’d probably give an IRL Dan at least a shot at a date. There’s a big difference between being a dorky mess (which like, everyone in college already is to some extent) and being an actual loser.

    6. Blackbird

      That’s not a beret, it’s a flat cap. Still maybe not the greatest fashion choice, but it’s somewhat less hopeless than a beret.

    7. BBCC

      Sal’s said she doesn’t generally go for adorable (and she considers Danny adorable) but that was also before they became friends so now that they are, who knows?

    8. Wizard

      That’s a flat cap, not a beret. I wore one at one point back in the day. An ex of mine manages to combine one with a Bruce Willis ‘do and make it look good.

      Pulling off a beret requires either massive pretension or total bad-assitude.

      1. Roborat

        Or joining a military organization that wears berets.

    9. ScarvesandCelery

      But Danny hasn’t expressed any romantic interest in Sal (Amazigirl confusion notwithstanding), and isn’t doing so here? He’s friends with her, and might just want to say “hi”. I’m not saying he’s definitely not romantically interested in her, but there’s also no reason to assume his actions here are definitely romantically motivated

    10. Jago

      He isn’t interested in her in a romantic way, and Sal already told him that he’s “adorable” but aborable won’t get him “into [her] knickers”. Which kind of offended him, because that was not what he was going at, he just wanted to be helpful.

    11. Eldritch Gentleman

      I thought this was a high school thing, not college thing.

    12. Zatar

      He…….doesn’t think he has a chance with Sal. He has in fact never expressed romantic interest in her? Sometimes men and Women are just friends. The fact you need this explained is…….worrying.

    13. Knayt

      What sort of college even has de-pantsing as a thing? Internal interactions among fraternity members, maybe, but the general college community? I’ve never heard of one where that’s an accepted part of the culture and not a deeply aberrant behavior likely to get taken at least somewhat seriously.

  27. BenRG

    Yep! Danny’s interested in Sal alright! Meanwhile, poor Ethan is wondering why he is the guy everyone is nice to before they go off to meet their true soul-mate! :-p

  28. Ainara

    Hmm. I wonder if Ethan’ll remember who Sal is some day

  29. Nud

    He acts like those two things have not been invented yet.

  30. NaYa

    Has… Ethan ever actually interacted with Sal before? Does he know who she is?

    1. BBCC

      Yes, they’ve interacted, no he doesn’t recognize her.

      1. ValdVin

        Does she remember him?

        She doesn’t seem to in the strip Ana posted below.

        1. BBCC

          She does not.

    2. Ana Chronistic

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/tall/

      1. Needfuldoer

        Also http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/01-the-only-dope-for-me-is-you/hostage/

  31. APersonAmI

    We already have hovercars, alt-text, the are called helicopters, get over it.

    1. Schpoonman

      That’s bullshit and you know it. When helicopters become a common man’s regular vehicle we’ll have your “hovercard”.

  32. FacelessDeviant

    Oh alt-text, dont be like that now :C

  33. Daibhid C

    If you ever find yourself dying alone, contact Dina and ask her “So pterosaurs are the dinosaurs that evolved into birds, because they could fly already, right?” and it’ll turn out she’s already there.

  34. abysswatcher1993

    Dina, you will be probably connected to a medical table along with Becky in a similar way to Bicentennial Man, and with a Blue velociraptor being your nurse.

  35. ProjectXa3

    Only vaguely related to the comic, but I wanted to get this somewhere Willis would see it on the off chance he somehow hasn’t seen this yet: https://youtu.be/9tnZWTuLQ38

  36. PB

    Alt-text: YOU TAKE THAT BACK IT’S A FILTHY LIE

  37. David Doty

    I’m a little vague on the Sal-Ethan status. I don’t think Amber ever specifically told Ethan about Sal. Has he recognized her on his own? I’ve been left with the impression that he still doesn’t know who she is.

    1. thejeff

      Amber (or rather Amazi-girl, IIRC) told Ethan that the girl from the robbery was in their dorm, but didn’t actually tell him her name or point her out to him.
      I don’t believe he knows it’s Sal.

  38. steelbright

    Ethan and Danny are gonna be that thing that you have to wait years and years for it to happen, aren’t they. (But when it does happen this fandom is gonna go SUPERNOVA)

    1. David Doty

      The bad thing about a strip intended to run indefinitely is that the endgame couples are indefinitely far away.

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