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Announcement
Posted on April 24, 2012 by David M Willis

181 thoughts on “Announcement”

  1. Blob Marley

    D’aww, she’s still being nice and kind of into him. Woot.

  2. Jen Aside

    “I AM RUNNING FOR VICE PRESIDENT”

    1. Scoops!

      I am Amazi-Girl!

      1. Yotomoe

        I’m Batman

        1. Doctor_Who

          I KNOW!

        2. PrincessCarlos

          It’s bigger on the inside!

        3. SlenderTroll

          I’m a man dressed like a bat.

        4. Blob Marley

          If I am a man then I’m a bat of a man.

        5. Plasma Mongoose

          So you are a man who likes to bat off? 😀

        6. Kernanator

          And it’s going, going, gone! That pun is out of here!

        7. Plasma Mongoose

          It had to go somewhere. 😀

        8. Kernanator

          It went into your mom. For a nickel.

        9. Plasma Mongoose

          Bruce Wayne did it for a nickel? But he is a multi-billionare.

        10. GenericScreenName101

          *sigh* … Its a home pun…

        11. fellixe

          Now I imagine Bruce leaving somebody’s Mom the giant penny.

        12. AckAckAck

          I read it “Now I imagine Bruce leaving somebody’s mom the giant penis”

          Brain, please don’t go to the gutter mmmkay.

        13. Hiredg00n

          yes please AckAckAck, get your mind out of the gutter….

          you’re blocking my light ^_^

        14. waldosan

          your mind did a different person’s mom; IN THE GUTTER!

        15. madd

          If Bruce Wayne does it for a nickle … and he’s a multi-billionare … dang … that’s a whole lot of moms.

        16. Maycroft

          “Joe is the winner of the pool”

        17. Izzy

          I am the man for whom the bell tolls

        18. Scoops!

          I’m Spartacus!

        19. Kryss LaBryn

          No, I’M Spartacus!

        20. Wack'd

          I’m Spartacus and so’s my wife!

        21. Shippy McShipper

          I am more spartacuser than thou!

        22. Nerdman

          “And I’m the Flying Grayson!”

          Ah…… Starkid reference…

        23. Pickle

          I’m Batwayne

        24. TacosForever

          I mean Bruceman!

  3. David Herbert

    “I’m going to chop Joe’s dick off.”

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      OH NOES, NOT HIS LITTLE JOE!! :p

      1. Izzy

        His little joe is his coffee mug. You’re think of his big joe

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          You’re getting little Joe and cup of Joe mixed up here.

        2. Izzy

          Why woUld you put a mug in a cup? That makes no sense

        3. Shadlyn Wolfe

          This exchange wins all the prizes.

        4. BugBerry

          where is Bazooka Joe in all this?

        5. madd

          I’m still waiting for Hoss …

  4. OhHayMike

    Well, I gotta say, that’d probably not do any favors for Walky’s already damaged ego.

    1. Blob Marley

      But I’m pretty sure she’s about to do him a huge favor.

      (Sexually.)

      1. Yotomoe

        Mike did your mom a huge favor for a nickel

        1. madd

          If he got paid, then it wasn’t a favor.

        2. moonracer

          The favor was that he only charged her a nickle.

      2. fellixe

        Maybe she’ll sweep him under her rug?

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          with his ‘telescopic brush’.

        2. Izzy

          Swallow his mcnuggets?

        3. AckAckAck

          Mcnuggets Milkshake?

        4. waldosan

          give him a blow job (c-c-c-c-c-combo breaker)

        5. Izzy

          WhAt?! No, I was thinking more like he hand feeds her mcnuggets. Circling them around her mouth first.

        6. Blob Marley

          They lovingly mold the chicken ooze into McNuggets together as Unchained Melody plays in the background.

  5. Yotomoe

    Joe has a pool full of lesbians. Just like he always dreamed.

    1. Blob Marley

      Is it next door to the lego penthouse? Because that would be the sweetest neighborhood ever.

      1. Yotomoe

        Only if it’s adjacent from McAwesome’s

        1. Doctor_Who

          Do you think in this universe there is a much better pizza place across the street from Galasso’s?

        2. BugBerry

          probably Awesomehut or Awesomo’s

        3. Blob Marley

          Or McLovin’s?

        4. Slagathor

          Italian McDonalds

  6. Uniqueantique

    And let’s see if she can embarrass him any more.

    1. TacosForever

      I know, right? No matter what she’s going to say, I feel like it would be less embarrassing for everyone involved to wait until after class. Also, poor Leslie. She’s just trying to teach her gender studies class.

      1. AckAckAck

        Leslie: Dammit, nothing done in my class, screw it, I will give all of them As. They already earn the drama tag long ago.

        1. Yotomoe

          Eventually she’ll realize when they all start to glaze over and just start talking about sci-fi

        2. Aria

          Approximate number of women with names in the original Star Wars: 2. Approximate number of males: 500. I’m sure she could get a whole day of lecture out of it.

        3. Blob Marley

          Hard to tell with some of those aliens. Also, pretty much everybody who shows up on screen has a name. They just don’t mention most of them. Also, for better or for worse (depending on who you ask) the combat forces in Star Wars are largely gender-segregated, so in a movie about war it’s not all that surprising that the male characters get lead roles and the women don’t.

        4. Fignewton of my Imagination

          Did Mon Mothma ever talk to Leia? I don’t think so, also Luke might as well be a woman.

  7. Wonder Wig

    *Dorothy grabs Walky* This is MINE. This is where my children come from.

    1. Yotomoe

      They’re going to be the laziest kids in the whitehouse!

      1. Wack'd

        Well at least they won’t be the laziest man on Mars.

    2. Blob Marley

      lol, bonus points for reference

    3. Jimmy

      To make it perfect she’d have to grab Walky’s crotch.

      1. KresyAntics

        If only she could find his penis for a nickel at this given moment.

  8. Vivvav

    I’m just waiting for the look on Billie’s face.

    1. Bekah

      Billie’s not in that class, is she? Pretty sure she’s not.

      1. Sporkaganza

        Hence the waiting, I would presume.

        1. Sensedog

          Joyce is in the class, and the look on her face would be priceless to say the least.

          …Of course, that is assuming Dorothy will announce what many would like her to announce. I’m not going to assume that she will, however. The announcement could really be anything.

        2. Bekah

          What does Joyce have to do with the look on Billie’s face?

        3. Thomas

          Didn’t you guys have a meme going about Billie’s face?

        4. carl320

          You mean Biliie’s FAAAAAAACE?

        5. Rycr

          And to think, we almost didn’t have our daily dose of FAAAAAAACE.

  9. Jimmy

    “CANNONBALL!”

  10. Sensedog

    …I’m not going to get my hopes up again until we actually find out what exactly Dorothy will announce.

    1. AckAckAck

      “I love TACO! I love it so much!”

      And then they have sex, the end.

      1. TacosForever

        By “they” do you mean Dorothy and the butt taco? Because that would be interesting.

        1. Shippy McShipper

          Obviously Ack means everybody in the class.
          Except presumably Joyce; her soul would spontaneously combust her body and ascend, then reincarnate as the newly incoming child of one of them.

  11. Mkvenner

    Of course he does.

    1. George

      I wonder what odds I’d get on Joyce?

      1. Blob Marley

        I’d put even money on Joyce being motosexual. I saw the googly eyes she was making at Sal’s bike.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Joyce wants to motorboat Sal’s motorbike.

        2. Blob Marley

          Vroom vroom, baby.

      2. Doctor_Who

        Joyce has had two disastrous romantic entanglements with guys in the past week, and is working on a third with Ethan as we speak.

        At this rate Joyce’ll give up on men by the end of her first semester. The Sal will let her brush her hair, and her fate will be sealed.

        1. Yotomoe

          It’s official…Joyce has had more romantic entanglements throughout the first week of College than I have had through all of college.

        2. Pat

          Me too. But my single one was *much* more successful.
          Or at least it lasted a little longer.

        3. Izzy

          Through all of college? I got yOu beat. She’s had more than I’ve had my whole life

        4. Yotomoe

          >,> dangit…I meantz high school…I haven’t been to college for long enough for that to be wierd yet.

  12. cb5

    DON’T DO IT DOROTHY NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

    1. Bekah

      I have to wonder what you think she’s about to say.

      1. cb5

        She is gonna tell the class that she and Walky were chillin’ together the night before even though it isn’t any of their business because he feels upset that no one knows about the connection they had.

        1. Bekah

          Yeah. Me too.

          Why is this a bad thing? It’s a effort to show that she isn’t embarrassed of him. Kind of nice, considering how dickish she came off yesterday, I think it’s the least she could do.

        2. AckAckAck

          So? that’s how to encounter Mike’s attacks. And I think she’s going to do it right.

  13. Ridureyu

    Walky is really good at passive-aggressive guilt-tripping.

    1. Sensedog

      I think that with Walky, it was unintended. Considering the trolling that Mike just pulled-off, the passive-aggressive guilt tripping would be a drop in the bucket by comparison.

      1. Yotomoe

        I’m sorry I’m so bad at life.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Was that a demonstration of passive-aggressive guilt you did just then? 😛

  14. MR C

    Joe, master of subtlety

    1. Bekah

      Sometimes, master debater.

      1. Yotomoe

        And sometimes a Mass Debater. He can handle the crowds that Joe.

        1. fellixe

          Because he’s a cunning linguist.

        2. Blob Marley

          His diction is really impressive.

        3. Yotomoe

          It’s a huge asset to his personality

        4. AngryBamboo

          He’s also a master baiter, he can bait anybody into losing their cool and getting aroused…i mean excited…i mean…screw it.

        5. Kryss LaBryn

          He’ll go to great lengths to pull it off.

        6. Plasma Mongoose

          His ability to stand erect on a moments notice makes him hard to beat.

        7. Izzy

          Dude. Cunnin’ Lynguists are one of my favorite hip-hop groups. Smart hip-hop. If you like the style of music but don’t like the current popular stars lyrical content, check em out.
          Sorry for advertising other forms of enjoyment and entertainment other than your comics, Willis
          XP

        8. AckAckAck

          I bet he’s a good pianist.

        9. MR C

          all the girls love it when he uses his pianist…….skills

        10. Sodomuffin

          They do have stunning English.

  15. SkepticJ

    This by far the most exciting Gender Studies class.

    1. Doctor_Who

      Yeah, if this was what I missed by being an engineering student, I’m kinda jealous.

      Heck, I only ever had one lesbian teacher, and she wasn’t anywhere near as cool as Leslie.

      1. Yotomoe

        Few people are as cool as Leslie. I just want to give her a high five.

      2. poofdepoof

        I’m an engineering student taking Gender Studies, so it is possible.

  16. Jar

    Goddamn it Dorothy why are you talking over Leslie’s word balloon SOME OF US ARE HERE TO STUDY THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF MASCULINITIES AND FEMININITIES.
    Just kidding, I’m here for the easy English credit.

    1. Historyman68

      As Willis said on his twitter soon after posting, Joe’s comment is a good illustration of the exact assumptions about women that Leslie’s talking about.

      1. Jar

        I’m aware. I read that on his tumblr. I was just making a reference to an earlier strip 😛

  17. Jehosaphat

    “Darth Vader is Luke’s father, there I said it.”

    1. Yotomoe

      spoiler alert man!
      Now I can’t even watch the movies.

    2. Historyman68

      Dorothy’s got a bit of the ol’ Mark Hammil hairdo herself.

  18. Plasma Mongoose

    Joe has a pool on Dotty being a lezzo huh, I wonder who else in this pool and what are the odds.

    1. Yotomoe

      I think Joe’s pool is like…all girls that aren’t presently doing Joe. And even they are still in his pool.

      1. iSaidCandleja-

        Nah, Joe obviously only started the pool in a misguided attempt to make Danny feel better.

        1. Kernanator

          That… actually sounds like something Joe would do. It combines sweet with stupid.

        2. Historyman68

          That does sound like something Joe would do, but he seems like enough of a meathead to me that he’d consider your ex-girlfriend be(com)ing a lesbian to be a bad thing. Some guys act like you were such a bad boyfriend you “turned” your girlfriend gay, but I think it’s a lot more realistic to consider that her being a lesbian was probably why the relationship didn’t work in the first place.

  19. AliaPie

    …You would, Joe. You would.

  20. Daeva

    “-ahrm-…

    …I am Iron Man.”

  21. Erienne

    You people are all missing the big picture.

    The announcement is so obviously that she’s pregnant.

    …And Joyce is the father.

    1. Blob Marley

      Holy shit, Dotty is an Asari? It all makes sense!

      1. L

        Embrace eternity Blob!

      2. L

        Also, does that mean we’re gonna see Dotty get it on with some Hanar in a future game?

        1. Blob Marley

          Dotty/Blasto is now an official ship.

  22. TemplarKnight

    Leslie, can you repeat that, I couldn’t hear you over these 2 talking about sweeping each other’s rugs.

    1. AckAckAck

      I think they need high powered vacuum cleaner :p

  23. John Madden

    I forsee a slap in Joe’s immediate future.

  24. Aegon01

    Has Leslie even HAD a class that wasn’t interrupted by somebody’s personal business?

    1. Dice

      Well, this time it’s relevant, right? Dorothy’s presumably about to announce that she’s avoiding presidential-career college work to watch Dexter: Monkey Master with a boy in a taco shirt. Leslie can use this as an example in her lecture.

  25. Ter

    Stay classy, Joe.

  26. LiC

    I never thought that Walky would have such low opinion of himself like he does in this strip. Yeah, he’s a dork (which is why I love him), but he always seemed completely okay with that fact. I never really got the impression that he thought himself below other people.

    1. Kernanator

      Maybe it isn’t so much about him as it is about him believing that he’s lowering Dorothy’s standing.

      1. Blob Marley

        This. Walky’s just feeling down because he’s concerned that he’ll basically just be really bad for Dotty and bring her down – a feeling with which I can totally empathize.

        1. LiC

          But that’s kinda my point. He feels he’ll bring down Dorothy and that he’d be bad for her, simply because of who he is. He feels like he’s beneath what she deserves and even admits that if their roles were reversed, he’d not want to acknowledge someone like him either. 🙁

        2. Sharogen

          You just proved your earlier point. People who think like that might have a tough exterior, but once that cracks everything crumbles. We are normally pretty good at keeping up a strong front until we are alone, but in a situation like this it’s just too much. Dorothy was already hurting Walky, but she couldn’t see it. Mike forced her to see just what she was doing to him.

        3. madd

          I don’t think he’s ever cared about what anyone else thought before. Now he cares what Dorothy thinks and it’s just kind of hit him, because of Mike’s assessment and Dorothy’s embarrassment, that maybe he’s not exactly what she’s consider good boyfriend material.

    2. AckAckAck

      He’s still a decent guy. I bet he already realize that he embarrase Dorothy, but Doroty want to make amend by saying something…..

  27. begbert2

    “Walky and I are going to have sex. Right now. So I’m going to need you guys to help us push some desks together…”

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Leslie: “But practical isn’t until next class, today it is strictly theory.”,/i>

      1. Kernanator

        Theory can be nice too, sometimes. Just be careful not to go overboard, or you won’t have anything left for the practical exam. 😉

  28. Kernanator

    “I love Wa-Wa-Walkmen!”

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      That is sooo 80s!

      1. Kernanator

        Yeah. We’re going back. Back to the 80’s.

        Remember the “I love you- ukeleles!” joke from early in Order of the Stick? I was trying to go for something similar, but I couldn’t think of something that began with “Wa”.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          It has been so long since I read OotS from the beginning, I no longer recall that part.

        2. Kernanator

          It was back when Haley and Elan still had Unresolved Sexual Tension.

        3. Heavensrun

          Water guns. Wampas. Walks in the park. War reenactments. Wall paintings. Wal Mart. Whoppers. (spellings different, but phonetically it starts similarly. Hell, that one might actually work towards improving Walky’s mood, too.

    2. Historyman68

      I do love the Walkmen. Great early-2000s post-punk, with a great sound. I just barely missed a chance to see them, and I’m still bummed.

  29. The E-man

    I’m sorry if this is dumb, but what did she do to make him feel crappy? What I’ve read was her saying that women care about her jobs more than relationships sometimes. It wasn’t aimed at him. Then she got embarrassed because Mike started discussing her personal life in the middle of class. I guess that has to do with him….but I still don’t understand…

    1. Aydr

      Look back over the last couple comics again and really think about how he might feel.

    2. TheCerpent

      Even though most people don’t seem to notice it, Walky is actually incredibly smart. He even admitted it, earlier, when Dotty came over and was watching cartoons with him. And based on the last couple weeks of comics, he’s also able to pick up on subtext. Dorothy has shown several times now that she’s embarrassed to be associated with him, and is picking apart his appearance. Then Mike aims several missiles, apparently at Dorothy. However, if you pay attention, the most insulting remarks aren’t for her, but rather the “hypothetical” focus of her attentions.

      1. Historyman68

        Don’t forget Billie also criticized Walky’s appearance. Despite his sunny disposition, a lot of that can add up sometimes. Like Billie was pushed and pushed until she finally decided to journalism a complete stranger, Walky’s been criticized past his normal happy-go-lucky attitude.

    3. begbert2

      I’m gonna disagree with all the previous posters. Walky didn’t start looking down when Mike started bashing his appearance; he started looking down three comics ago when Dorothy argued that now, jobs are more important than settling down. To which Walky mournfully responded that he was okay with not settling down, he’d just like not to be thrown under a bus, please, thanks.

      At which point Mike helpfully stepped in and helped Dorothy demonstrate that she was horribly embarrassed by the fact she had made out with Walky in the first place, painting it as being entirely due to Walky’s personal failings, thus finishing Walky off. But though Mike guided the finishing blow, Dorothy started it, and it was always about what Dorothy thought of him, not about Walky’s appearance alone.

      1. Aegon01

        Yeah, and Mike doesn’t give a shit if Walky puts his PJ’s back on when he gets to his dorm room, but he knows Dorothy does.

  30. AckAckAck

    Alright Dorothy, this the time for you to make your stand. You want to be a leader in the future you should know damn well you have to shed your indecisive nature of your high school ideal.

  31. The Aussie Bloke

    This can only end in stupid.

  32. Thomas

    Miss Bean, do I have your permission to correct you on a point of grammar? “Media” is plural. Hence, “the media portray” instead of “portrays”. Thank you for your attention.

    1. Bekah

      When it’s referring to more than one medium (eg: canvas and clay), you’re correct. When it’s referring to the collective entity (ie: print, television, internet news services) it’s a collective noun, and therefore is singular, and therefore, “portrays” is correct.

      1. Thomas

        Thank you for your reaction. I stand corrected. I have some trouble seeing the media as a collective entity with a singular conservative view on women, though. Leslie’s own focus on mass culture is apparent here, I think.

  33. Luke

    So… what’s Leslie saying in the second panel? And why is nobody else wondering this yet?

    1. begbert2

      “Some believe that perceived differences between the genders are merely a social construct not based on biology, but on learned behaviors from our parents and peers.”

      I think.

  34. Danielle

    WOOT

  35. Thomas

    O, and the last panel kind of reads from what Leslie says in the previous panel! Like, totally! How come nobody’s yet noticed this?

    There you are, Willis! Happy to oblige. 🙂

  36. Mal

    “I just saved a ton of money by switching to Geico.”

    1. TacosForever

      This wins.

  37. Wack'd

    I know, I know, we’re not supposed to bring up the old world, so if you’re not familiar with Willis’s past work just skip this.

    If Dorothy doesn’t want Joe thinking she’s a lesbian she should probably have Walky get a haircut.

  38. Valdrax

    Anybody else think that this was Mike’s intention all along?
    To force her to either accept Walky or to break it off with him?

    (Going with the theory that DoA Mike is “nice without being nice.”)

    1. Sensedog

      Since he never changes his default facial expression, it is hard to guess Mike’s exact motives aside from being an asshole for the sake of being an asshole.

      Anything is possible, I suppose. Just because someone is an asshole doesn’t mean that they are evil.

      1. Valdrax

        Yeah. The thing that gets me about this incident is that (other than his Twitter shenanigans), this is the first time we’ve seen DoA Mike be a pure asshole without any mitigating motive.

        Which I why I think there has to be one.

  39. Zart

    So I guess no one noticed or bothered to point out that it “media” is plural? At least it is in my “mother”language. Very un-academic of that teacher, and unfitting to her character to make such a mistake, even orally.

  40. Zart

    * -it

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