I only just now noticed that the guy in the back is tagged Norville, and apparently he’s appeared in a few previous strips. How did I not notice that before?
Gigafreak
According to Willis’ twitter feed on the right, he wasn’t tagged until just a few minutes ago.
I was about to ask how someone who’d only appeared in one single strip out of more than 2 000 could possibly be the star…
…But then I checked and found out that this is his second appearance in DoA. Therefore you are right, Kris, BoBG is indeed the star.
Kris
You should have called me out on spelling “church” with an “i” like a fool…missed opportunity.
Dana
FOOLS!
Emperor Norton II
This is English. Spelling is optional. Especially in this case, because “chirch” feels like it’ll be pronounced the same as “church”, AKA rhyming with “birch”.
As I say them, they’re very close, but the vowel in “church” is a little longer and lower than the vowel in “birch”. If I pay attention I can tell that the tip of my tongue moves up and back for “birch”, relative to where it is for “church”.
(I tried to figure out the linguistic terms for it, but none of the examples on Wikipedia sound like anything that ever comes out of my mouth ever.)
My accent is, admittedly, a bit weird. It’s a mashup of Vermont Yankee, General American, stuff I picked up from going to school in a part of North Carolina that is itself a mashup of imported accents, and some quirks of my own from learning vocabulary more from reading than from other people or television, plus a problem with ‘ar’ that’s probably physiological.
3oranges
I assumed “chirch” was your interpretation of how an overly sunny girl would say it – like “chawrch” for Goofy, “chorch” for Coach Z, and “temple of dismembered prostitutes” for Buckets of Blood Guy.
das-g
Don’t you mean Frank Miller, rather than Buckets of Blood Guy?
3oranges
I guess I had mixed them together! Honestly, I’m not disappointed I can’t make up what BoB guy should say.
oh yes please let him be premed, and make his way through law school, and then like thirty years later:
“–and the cancer will eat your brain and make your organs explode and your skeleton will melt and…”
shadowcell
yeah, sure, let him go through law school, and become a doctor, that’s how it works, yes
shadowcell
WHY BE JUST A LAWYER OR A DOCTOR WHEN YOU CAN BE BOTH
or you can disappoint your parents and be only one
magicallady
or end up disappointing your parents even worse by becoming neither
shadowcell
maybe that’s why he’s Buckets of Blood Guy, the stress of never getting to be a kid because he was too busy preparing to double-major has given him an insane fixation on making children’s cartoons excessively gory and grim
Dumbing of Age: Buckets of Blood Guy Begins
magicallady
directed by frank snyder, written by james goyer
Geneseepaws
Or maybe by the Coen Brothers, aka the Fargo Chipper Boys.
Sunny
I keep wondering about that. Were they first the Coen Brothers, and then the Coen Siblings, and then the Coen Sisters? Should we retroactively refer to them as the Coen Sisters? Or should we just stick to Coen Siblings now because it’s nice and inclusive and works for all periods?
Or just “The Coens”?
Actually, he’s dual-majoring in Comp Sci (or EE or whatever they call it at IU) and law. He wants to be that guy who enforces video game regulations for Germany and other places that have censorship laws requiring all the blood to be green or something like that. That way, he gets to play ALL the bloody video games, and no one else gets to see them in their true, bloody form. All that blood is his, his, ONLY HIS!
Yeah, my headcanon, since he started showing up in DoA, has been that his real name is Bob Guy. I find this particularly amusing because I know a Robert Guy, though he goes by “Robb”, after the one in ASoIaF.
I don’t have much to say – my heart breaks for Danny. I hope he and Amber get a chance to chat. Also – echoing Cerb’s point later down. This is MUCH healthier than he was after breaking up with Dorothy. He’s doing his best not to pine and to get away from situations where pining is easier. And yeah, Amber notices him now.
From my knowledge, projectors tend to be on the ceiling near the front where students can’t easily access them without carrying a ladder in. And sometimes there are plug sockets up really high on the wall at the front too for no discernable reason.
Spack
If the room is old enough, there might be a projection room behind it to accommodate a film projector. It may or may not be used for that anymore, and the hole may or may not be shuttered, but that square for the projector hole could easily still be there.
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MM
Shaggy?
Tacos
Is that Shaggy in the back?
John
Apparently it’s Norville.
Keulan
I only just now noticed that the guy in the back is tagged Norville, and apparently he’s appeared in a few previous strips. How did I not notice that before?
Gigafreak
According to Willis’ twitter feed on the right, he wasn’t tagged until just a few minutes ago.
placeusernamehere
Shaggy’s actual name in the SD series is Norville, so it still could be Shaggy.
a snow ʍousɐ
In fact, it’s much more likely now
Max
Norville “Shaggy” Rogers
Screwball
Yep, looks like it. Least that’s what that Wikipedia thing says…
Ana Chronistic
you could also consult the Scooby Doo Project
Pan
B.o.B guy is a programmer?
Doctor_Who
Hey, someone has to make sure the blood spatters in video games are accurate to real life.
Bagge
Game design honestly feels like a good career choice for him.
inqntrol
I’m sure the producers of MK would hire him. After all, it’s one of the bloodiest game series.
Jason
Also the boob physics.
Shiro
Augh nooooo I had comfortably forgotten buckets of blood guy
why
Kris
How could you forget? He’s the star of the comic! Some people think it’s the overly sunny chirch girl but no, it’s him.
Emperor Norton II
I was about to ask how someone who’d only appeared in one single strip out of more than 2 000 could possibly be the star…
…But then I checked and found out that this is his second appearance in DoA. Therefore you are right, Kris, BoBG is indeed the star.
Kris
You should have called me out on spelling “church” with an “i” like a fool…missed opportunity.
Dana
FOOLS!
Emperor Norton II
This is English. Spelling is optional. Especially in this case, because “chirch” feels like it’ll be pronounced the same as “church”, AKA rhyming with “birch”.
Bagge
And if church and birch rhymes you open for some really good hymns.
John
The OE spelling was actually cirice.
“Church” and “birch” (OE beorc) don’t quite rhyme in my accent.
Sunny
I’m sure Björk could tell us more about that.
Arian
I don’t think I know of any accent where ‘church’ and ‘birch’ don’t rhyme. Unless they don’t in Scottish or something?
John
As I say them, they’re very close, but the vowel in “church” is a little longer and lower than the vowel in “birch”. If I pay attention I can tell that the tip of my tongue moves up and back for “birch”, relative to where it is for “church”.
(I tried to figure out the linguistic terms for it, but none of the examples on Wikipedia sound like anything that ever comes out of my mouth ever.)
My accent is, admittedly, a bit weird. It’s a mashup of Vermont Yankee, General American, stuff I picked up from going to school in a part of North Carolina that is itself a mashup of imported accents, and some quirks of my own from learning vocabulary more from reading than from other people or television, plus a problem with ‘ar’ that’s probably physiological.
3oranges
I assumed “chirch” was your interpretation of how an overly sunny girl would say it – like “chawrch” for Goofy, “chorch” for Coach Z, and “temple of dismembered prostitutes” for Buckets of Blood Guy.
das-g
Don’t you mean Frank Miller, rather than Buckets of Blood Guy?
3oranges
I guess I had mixed them together! Honestly, I’m not disappointed I can’t make up what BoB guy should say.
Foxhack
SECOND?!
Emperor Norton II
Because Willis hates you personally and wishes for you to suffer, that’s why.
Ntrovert
He hates ALL of us personally and wishes for us to suffer. Like C3PO said, it is our lot in life.
Clif
Man is born to read Willis comics and suffer as the sparks fly upward. Part of that quote usually gets left out.
shadowcell
BUCKETS OF BLOOD GUY
what’s his major? i hope it’s biology or something, so he can one day possibly work with actual buckets of blood
magicallady
maybe a med student?
shadowcell
oh yes please let him be premed, and make his way through law school, and then like thirty years later:
“–and the cancer will eat your brain and make your organs explode and your skeleton will melt and…”
shadowcell
yeah, sure, let him go through law school, and become a doctor, that’s how it works, yes
shadowcell
WHY BE JUST A LAWYER OR A DOCTOR WHEN YOU CAN BE BOTH
or you can disappoint your parents and be only one
magicallady
or end up disappointing your parents even worse by becoming neither
shadowcell
maybe that’s why he’s Buckets of Blood Guy, the stress of never getting to be a kid because he was too busy preparing to double-major has given him an insane fixation on making children’s cartoons excessively gory and grim
Dumbing of Age: Buckets of Blood Guy Begins
magicallady
directed by frank snyder, written by james goyer
Geneseepaws
Or maybe by the Coen Brothers, aka the Fargo Chipper Boys.
Sunny
I keep wondering about that. Were they first the Coen Brothers, and then the Coen Siblings, and then the Coen Sisters? Should we retroactively refer to them as the Coen Sisters? Or should we just stick to Coen Siblings now because it’s nice and inclusive and works for all periods?
Or just “The Coens”?
David M Willis
i think you mean the wachowskis
Dean
Since it’s a freshman course, wouldn’t it be pre-med? I’m not sure how American college courses work.
AnvilPro
He’s not in college, he just walks throughout the multiverse and happened to land in this one
Clif
Someone has to do the Cheese’s job in his absence.
tim gueguen
Criminal justice.
Reltzik
Actually, he’s dual-majoring in Comp Sci (or EE or whatever they call it at IU) and law. He wants to be that guy who enforces video game regulations for Germany and other places that have censorship laws requiring all the blood to be green or something like that. That way, he gets to play ALL the bloody video games, and no one else gets to see them in their true, bloody form. All that blood is his, his, ONLY HIS!
das-g
I find green or violet or blueish blood much gorier than red blood.
tim gueguen
Poor Danny.
Clif
Actually, this is Danny making a good tactical choice. Possibly not intentionally.
Dana
I kind of love that buckets of blood guy’s tag name isn’t explained in the Dumbingverse.
John
If anyone was wondering…
0kami-kun
To me, Buckets of Blood guy will be…
Bob.
It makes sense in some strange, other-worldly way.
yomi
Perfectly reasonable nickname for him.
Deanatay
Robert Griffin. But everyone calls him BoBG.
John
Yeah, my headcanon, since he started showing up in DoA, has been that his real name is Bob Guy. I find this particularly amusing because I know a Robert Guy, though he goes by “Robb”, after the one in ASoIaF.
CleverTrousers
Buckets of Blood Guy don’t got no arms.
lia47
he’s naruto running
SUGauthor
Damn it, he’s gonna see some buckets of blood one way or another!
Tacos
How else is he gonna get buckets of blood?
Slartibeast Button, BIA
I sing of arms and the man,
Arian
ROFL
Fart Captor
Sads 🙁
Emperor Norton II
…
…How am I supposed to make a long-ass rambling thing based on a single sentence if there aren’t even any words in the comic?
BBCC, this one is all yours!
BBCC
Not very long ass, but I did my best. XD
I don’t have much to say – my heart breaks for Danny. I hope he and Amber get a chance to chat. Also – echoing Cerb’s point later down. This is MUCH healthier than he was after breaking up with Dorothy. He’s doing his best not to pine and to get away from situations where pining is easier. And yeah, Amber notices him now.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Is the square on the back wall for a projector, or some new college thing from after my time?
Sam
From my knowledge, projectors tend to be on the ceiling near the front where students can’t easily access them without carrying a ladder in. And sometimes there are plug sockets up really high on the wall at the front too for no discernable reason.
Spack
If the room is old enough, there might be a projection room behind it to accommodate a film projector. It may or may not be used for that anymore, and the hole may or may not be shuttered, but that square for the projector hole could easily still be there.
newllend(henryvolt)
Aww, now the question here is who is the REAL coward?
Fart Captor