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Mistook
Posted on April 9, 2014 by David M Willis
It's that time of year again -- the Dumbing of Age Book 3 Kickstarter is live!  Not only does this give us the third book, but it will also renew the Saturday and Sunday updates last year's Kickstarter unlocked.  Otherwise Saturday/Sunday strips end in May.  So let's keep 7-day-a-week updates going for another year!  Also there's three different prints available if you want special extra stuff, and another stretch goal is funding the production of Shortpacked! Book 5. Thanks for your consideration!

197 thoughts on “Mistook”

  1. Yotomoe

    Maybe it’s cuz you’re a badass who’s good at everything Sal?
    And Also cuz Danny fails at everything!

    1. KingMabel

      Danny once failed an open-book exam by bringing the wrong book.

      1. GoldStarz

        Written in a language he didn’t know!

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          To be fair, English is a hard language to truly master.

      2. Gadgeteer Smashwidget

        I’ve done that before… as well as not bringing a book at all.

        1. vlademir1

          Way back when I was in school I’d do better if I didn’t bother with the book during the rare open book tests. With the book I’d just fall into rechecking everything I knew to be certain I was right and running out of time, despite pulling As on most tests the rest of the time.

      3. Cybersnark

        He also failed a take-home exam by forgetting where he lived.

        1. Andrusi

          He failed a medical exam by dying. He’s been a zombie all along.

        2. Gigafreak

          They caught him cheating on his urine test. He kept peeking at the guy next to him.

      4. Baf

        One time he failed a pop quiz by pushing.

        1. John

          Given that he’s a CS student, this is entirely plausible.

      5. Seerow

        I did that once. To be fair, the professor had the wrong book written on the Syllabus. Somewhere around 200 students just wasted $150.00 on that.

  2. RandomRedMage

    Sal, she needs her fix 😀

    1. Tunaro

      That’s how it always starts isn’t it? One day you pick up a DS for one or two races. Soon you spend all your cash on a brand new gaming rig. Ain’t long ‘fore ya find yerself doing whatever it takes to keep your rank up on whatever new MMO you’re hooked on to keep the high going.

      1. Sageress

        Mario Kart is a slippery slope that leads to Forza, it’s a well known fact.

      2. Doctor_Who

        And this is how Sal became Amber…and thus Amazi-Girl 2.0 was born.

        Danny was right all along, he just glimpsed the future.

        1. Weyland

          Wait, since when is Danny allowed to be right about stuff?

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          If a broken hand clock can be right twice a day, so can Danny.

        3. Andrusi

          He’s always been allowed to be right about stuff. He just isn’t very good at it.

    2. Aeron

      You couldn’t have a better avatar.

      Speaking of hanky-panky, she needs multiple fixes right now. And it just so happens with Dannyboy she can easily kill two birds with one stone.

    3. Aeyt

      she’s learned of the addiction of video games.

  3. LiaHansen

    Are those times accurate? Rainbow road always felt like it took hours when I played it.

    1. Yotomoe

      Wait…there’s an end to Rainbow Road?
      *still playing it on N64 and hasn’t made it to the finish line*

      1. KingMabel

        Don’t worry, many karts enter Rainbow Road.

        Many never come out, their only escape being the power button.

      2. Jonadab

        Rainbow Road sort of has an end. After about the eighteenth time you fall off the road into space, the last of the computer-controlled players finishes and the game mercifully stops you with the sad music and tells you you got 12th place.

    2. Barf Ninjason

      It’d wicked hella depend on the version of Mario Kart. I personally have to mentally adjust whenever someone is NOT talking about the original (and BEST) Mario Kart on the SNES, where Rainbow Road is the freaking last level and takes… I don’t know how long, actually, cuz it’s been awhile, but I think under 2 minutes is inconceivable. As to the versions that you whippersnapping heathens play on the special occasions you can manage to put down your crack pipes and your beer bongs for two seconds, well, elephino.

  4. Hoboturtle

    I think Sal just aroused Danny in a completely different way then he would’ve expected.

    1. Yotomoe

      Sal arouses a lot of people. Those walkertons are sexy beasts, son.

      1. newllend

        She’s more appealing in more ways than one I guess

  5. Salmo

    OH NO, I THINK I’M SHIPPING IT. OH DEAR GOD, NO.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      We need to ship it as far away as possible!

      1. Tunaro

        How about space? What would it take to blast it out the stratosphere?!

        1. MM

          I believe Abu Dhabi is the standard protocol.

        2. Jay Eff

          I hear UPS will do it for about $10,000.00.

        3. That Damn Rat

          See the positive, a mutual love of video games might be a bridge of understanding that that could bring Amber and Sal together.

        4. Tunaro

          …As an epic crime fighting vigilante duo?

        5. Vibbles

          …Does supporting two characters forming a crime-fighting-vigilante-partnership count as shipping? Because if so, I ship that hard.

          Crime-fighting team Amber/Sal/Dina might be my OT3.

        6. John

          My only problem with this ship is I’m not sure what Sal’s superhero name would be. I mean, we’ve got Amazi-Girl, Clever Girl (because her teammates couldn’t manage “Saurornithoides mongoliensis Lass” in the heat of battle), and… ?

        7. Leonou

          Motorcycle Lady ?
          Window Breaker ?
          PSL girl ?
          Batman ?

        8. Andrusi

          Astoundi-Lass.

        9. Mrimm

          I feel like Sal is one of those types who wouldn’t use a secret identity. She’d just go by “Sal”

        10. Silvester crow

          Sal would be batman. Think about it. She’s good at everything, and she’s twice as manly as any of the male character….no all of them combined are still sniviling babies compared to her, plus if she’s batman, Amazi-girl and clever girl are her new official sidekicks!

        11. John

          I’ve been saying ever since Danny left the DS with Sal that I want to see her and Amber form a Mario-Kart friendship over multiplayer without either of them realizing who the other actually is. Then maybe they’ll forget all that who took whose friend hostage/who stabbed whose hand nonsense in favor of serious concerns.

        12. John

          (By “serious concerns”, I mean “who gets to play Wiggler”.)

        13. nothri

          Amber already knows who the other girl is, though. I don’t see that ever becoming a thing unless alien mindwipers become canon in this universe.

        14. John

          I’m not sure that she caught that Danny didn’t get his DS back from Sal, though. Danny mentioned it, but she was… a little distracted at the time. So I could see them playing with Amber assuming that it’s Danny on the other end, and Sal not knowing or caring who this Amazi-Girl person who’s giving her a run for her money is.

        15. indignostudios

          Quick! Call Elon Musk!

    2. Yotomoe

      It’s the ship that sunk in 1997. IT’S A GHOST SHIP.

      1. vlademir1

        Yeah… but is it a ghost pirate ship? From the perspective of many here, it may well be hijacking a ship that seems a solid one in Danny/Amber.

    3. Joe

      What, you mean Sal x Danny’s DS?
      I think that’s a ship we can all support.

  6. Mr. Random

    Sal, master of all things.
    “…She’s basically Batman.”
    ALL THINGS!

  7. Doctor_Who

    Why do I get the feeling that if you put Sal at the controls of an F-15, she’d have the fucker doing barrel rolls and ailerons before a normal person could figure out the tape deck?

    1. Darkproject8

      HOLY SHIT THOSE THINGS HAVE TAPE DECKS!?

      1. Doctor_Who

        Clearly you don’t follow Transformers mythology. Starscream and Soundwave got married in 1993. Their kid is an F-15 with a tape deck.

    2. Yotomoe

      She beat all levels of star fox 64 in one night including the secret ones. On her first try.

  8. EvergreenFir

    EVERY interaction? Even the intimate ones?

    1. Dr. Zeus

      Especially the intimate ones.

    2. timemonkey

      He probably talks during sex.

      1. Dr. Zeus

        Maybe, but there are easy fixes for that.

        1. timemonkey

          Hold a pillow over his face until he stops struggling?

        2. Dr. Zeus

          Hey let’s be fair here, I don’t think Dan would struggle.

      2. Doctor_Who

        Applogizes.

    3. Yotomoe

      Well let’s be honest. Those probably last 48 seconds before it’s over anyway.

      1. JustCheetoDust

        And that’s with the talking mentioned above, so even the conversation (or would it be a monologue?) can end prematurely.

  9. Wonder Wig

    You can almost hear the sproing.

    1. MM

      The one in his pants or the gears in his head busting?

      1. Ben

        Why not both?

    2. Kiggy

      I thought the sound was more of a “Schwing”…

  10. Michael

    Looks like Amber has got competition. And this one goes 1:38 to Danny’s 2

  11. David Herbert

    So she’s not returning it, she just wants him to charge it so she can steal it back.

    And here I thought she was being nice.

    1. begbert2

      She’s got an unfinished game, dude. In times of emergency like this social niceties are known to fall by the wayside.

  12. newllend

    O_O, I think I’m in love

    1. -Sentinel-

      I’ve been lusting over Sal for many years now, since the time of the old Walkyverse.

    2. Niblik

      Fell in love with Sal a looooong time ago. 🙂 I think its the bad ass attitude + glorious long black hair.

  13. JessWitt

    The awkwardest of love triangles hath begun – between superhero and archnemesis.

    1. Tunaro

      Shit it’s like Spiderman 3 all over again. Hope Amber doesn’t go dark and psycho and start wearing all black-actually I kinda want that to happen, can that be a thing? Please?

      1. Doctor_Who

        If Amber does a version of the dancing scene then all other forms of culture have been made obsolete by DoA.

      2. Yotomoe

        http://yotwomoe.tumblr.com/image/82170187536

        TWO FOR ONE NIGHT.

        1. begbert2

          Sweet.

      3. vlademir1

        I’d support this if she’s to be dressing like in the old “Corset” limited print…

  14. burntnorris

    Over a minute? Please.

  15. Count Dracula

    I hate Danny because he consistently reacts the way I would to situations.

    1. newllend

      Thats not good

      1. KingMabel

        It’s never good when a fictional character teaches you about your own flaws.

        Mine are Joyce and Dina.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Mine are Osaka and Abiru.

        2. Dr. Zeus

          I’m inclined to say Martin and Marigold from QC.

        3. vlademir1

          Is that Kobushi Abiru from Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei you mean?

        4. Plasma Mongoose

          Yes indeed, when I was much younger, I regularly got injured enough to need bandages and I had a fasination with playing with cats and dogs tails.

        5. begbert2

          Mine are Megatron and Cobra Commander.

          I’m… not so good at dealing with people.

        6. Plasma Mongoose

          So you kept on being friends with someone who stabs you in your back more often then you had hot dinners?

  16. Kernanator

    Goddammit, I am shipping now.

    Overseas.

  17. KingMabel

    Hey Sal be nice…

    Danny worked hard for that 2 minutes… those turns are a bongo

  18. Carlos

    And so begins the series of misconceptions and misunderstandings that will somehow inevitably end with at least one person being scarred emotionally and two people (whose ability to kick ass are equal) will end up fighting. God… when did I become so cynical? DON’T DAN THINGS UP DANNY! (that’s better)

  19. timemonkey

    Excellent approach, Sal. Cut him off mid-ramble, state clearly your intentions, avoid eye-contact.

    1. Yotomoe

      Do not engage with the Danny. Do not argue with the Danny. Let your intentions be known and be on your way.

  20. Dr. Zeus

    Sal’s so badass she literally talks over Danny’s pointless rambling.

  21. sps48

    Another Kickstarter, Willis? Don’t you have a pile of money already like all other webcomicartists?

    1. Romanticide

      He needs another pile of money to pay for the move of the pile he already has 😛

    2. Bill

      Less than 12 hours since it got started and he’s already at 82% funding.
      I wonder what the record is for the shortest length of time it took for a Kickstarter project to achieve its goal.  This one has definitely gotta be right up there.

      1. David M Willis

        Spike’s Smut Peddler 2 Kickstarter for $20K funded in about six hours a few days ago. I’m way behind.

        1. Bill

          OK then; let’s see if we can’t make this project the one that exceeds its initial goal by the highest percentage!!!

        2. Seerow

          That’s an even tougher goal to beat. The Order of the Stick kickstarter succeeded by like 2200%. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out there’s something with a higher percent than that.

        3. xKiv

          OotS appears to be the most overkicked comic.
          The most overkicked thing ever seems to be, at over ten thousaaaand(!) percent, some digital watch called pebble?

        4. Seerow

          If I remember right, the pebble wasn’t even a digital watch. It was a watch mount for people to place their micro sized ipods into. I have no idea why that took off the way it did, especially since despite the apparent popularity I’ve literally never seen anybody wear one.

      2. Jen Aside

        TECHNICALLY that was Penny Arcade and their $10 goal =/

        Though Aaron Diaz’s The Tomorrow Girl, $30k in ONE HOUR, was damn impressive.

  22. Just Karen

    Why must good Kickstarters only come along when I am broke?

  23. Ben

    Danny has the most confused boner ever.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      It doesn’t know where to point. :3

      1. JustCheetoDust

        Inwards, to spare everyone else the indignity of witnessing it in action.

        Sort of like an inverted nipple, but more horrifying.

      2. John

        At Sierra! BAM!

  24. Karfsma778

    But which Rainbow Road? The one new to 7 at the end of the Special Cup, or the SNES one at the end of the Lightning Cup?

  25. licoricepencil

    This strip has a surprisingly adorable interaction. So adorable, in fact, that money for the physical books pledge has managed to jump out of my pocket and pledge itself to the Kickstarter.
    Ah well, I’m just a college student. I’m sure that money couldn’t have been spent on anything better.

    1. begbert2

      The nice thing about not having food or gas money is it’s like an automatic diet and exercise regimen!

      1. sps48

        Top Ramen = diet food!

  26. Yotomoe

    http://yotwomoe.tumblr.com/image/82157485092

    finished!
    BLAZOW!

    1. KingMabel

      Can I give you all the yes for this?

      1. newllend

        To bad gravatar doesn’t have a like button.

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      Favoured for Marcie fanservice. 😀

    3. Ocbrad1

      Commence golf clap

    4. Tenn

      It is a thing of beauty.

  27. Yotomoe

    Sal’s mouth is trying to escape in panel 3.

  28. newllend

    Sal: “Danny, your a freaking noob.”

    Damn son!

  29. C.W. Roden

    Danny, you just created a gamer…er, a monster.

    1. Yotomoe

      They’re synonomous!

  30. Jen Aside

    I CONFESS THE FIRST THING I SAW WAS THE KICKSTARTER SO NOW I WILL BACK FOR MOAR MAKEOUT PICS

    1. Yotomoe

      That you will never share with the public!
      *cry cry*

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Willis has to pay for those Transformer collectables somehow.

        1. begbert2

          How you SEEN the price of transformers collectibles nowadays? Oh. My. God.

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          But is it more expensive than smoking? My sister and brother-in-law spend about $150 a week on a carton of ciggys.

      2. Jen Aside

        YOU SOUND LIKE YOU’RE ASKING FOR ME TO REQUEST JASONxSIERRA

  31. Vanessa Pinter

    Woo! I’ve got myself some physical books – with doodles and everything! My first webcomic books. I suspect it’s like a dam breaking and my house will be overflowing soon. Come on you all, it’s been an hour almost and the Kickstarter hasn’t reached its goal yet. If you donate five bucks it goes towards weekend updates!

  32. Izumi Ryu

    Wow… Danny even Dans up video games and gets called out on it.

  33. SilverArrowArtemis

    What makes you so sure Danny will give it back to you?

    He’ll give it back. He is Danny, after all.

  34. Plasma Mongoose

    Sal would be a lot more appealing to me if she didn’t smoke and learnt how to put her clothes on properly.

    1. Kladeos

      Hey, at least she’s wearing clothes! And as long as she doesn’t smoke near me it’s cool, I guess.

    2. newllend

      She doesn’t smoke remember? She just like hang around random ass places and make it look like she smoking, what do you think she does with her free time ride her bike up and down places? Naaa.

      1. newllend

        Don’t read a book and type at the same time kids.

    3. Ancestral Hamster

      Sal would be more appealing if she stopped wearing clothes and only wore a thin sheen of sweat or coconut oil!

    4. David

      It’s not her clothes she’s wearing here but Joyce’s.

    5. maxyai

      There’s an appealing fellow. They’re a-pealing him off the sidewalk now.

    6. Yotomoe

      That would make Sal LESS appealing!

  35. arank11

    Sal is now my favorite character. If you can finish Rainbow Road in less time than it takes to make microwave popcorn, you deserve to be worshipped

  36. Kladeos

    Good job Sal.

  37. Kelly

    Wow, 30% on kickstarter already!

  38. Vile Gamer

    Let’s hope these two never become an item. I know in the Walkyverse they were at one point, but this is 2014 now. Things change.

    1. WaveRocker

      I support this

    2. Tenn

      Unless it’s as a threesome with Jason. Because that would be the hilariousliest awkwardest thing ever… est.

  39. Dorsilus

    Just when I thought Sal couldn’t get any hotter.

    1. Tahkuya

      she is about to go super nova

  40. WaveRocker

    Rainbow Road is one hard-ass challenge I can be perfectly fine wit sucking at. Some of us just fall off cosmic roads easier than others

    1. Tahkuya

      I agree, im not of that affiliation but it is still true

  41. Khaner

    If meeting with Danny is unsatisfactory (And it always its,) the Danny, Average College Student comes equipped with BIG JIM SLADE

  42. newllend

    By the way, something I didn’t call out yesterday, “wonderbread” I don’t get it is that an ensolt, or a reference, or what?

    1. Kladeos

      Pretty sure it just refers to his whiteness and his plainness.

      1. Kevin

        Thus making it an insult.

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      If Danny is whitebread, what does that make Jason? A bit of crumpet? 😀

      1. newllend

        Now you see that just makes it confusing wonderbread and whitebread, those are two different things and still don’t get it since it can mean a hundred different things 🙁

        1. newllend

          And if so its to Mutch of a elaborate, but yet kind of a stupid insult.

    3. No Name

      Wonderbread is notorious for being very plain and ordinary (despite its name). It is a type of white bread, but “wonerbread” refers to the type of person while “white bread” refers to the race.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        That bit of info helps a lot. ^_^

  43. Shadow12000

    I see where this is going, and I’m getting weird flashbacks to the early days of Roomies.

  44. RaijinK

    It’s like that 3DS is popping out at me!

  45. Bilfred

    hue hue hue.

  46. GhostWriterL

    Figured this would happen… now I’m figuring they’re going to go back to his room to get said cord and she’s going to have another “You’ll do” moment.

  47. David

    Sal knows how to sweettalk any guy into dropping his principles and only think of things banging into one another.

  48. Keroshino

    Called it! Mario Kart is a hell of a drug!

  49. Idon'tcarenomore

    So, I realize Danny has been rather occupied lately, but…he never missed his DS?
    Pretty obvious Sal would get hooked on the games. Surprised she hasn’t bought one of her own.

    1. Kyrros

      Bought…?

      You serious…?

      LOL

    2. begbert2

      Why would she buy something she’s already got?

  50. Rutee

    Sal, I love you just a little more.

  51. Raoullefere

    And so it begins. The Dumbiverse has seen the Walkyverse and ordered full reverse thrust.

    1. Resulli

      At least this time the Head Alien can’t fuck things up.

  52. Resulli

    Once again I sense continuity shenanigans. At the rate things are going with Amber I think Danny might turn to the next, conveniently into the game he lent her, choice.

    ohgodthegrammarithurts.

  53. John

    I really like the super-foreground speech bubble effect in (over?) panel four.

  54. Sir Robin

    Awesome news, I had to withdrawal my pledge from Book 2, but I’ll be glad to take part in this one

  55. nothri

    Yes, yes, yes, mistaken identities, tragic past, mysterious vigilante beating her father half to death- CAN WE PLEASE GET TO THE IMPORTANT BUSINESS OF VIDEO GAMES NOW?

    1. Nothri

      And suddenly I’m hoping amber engaged in a bitter rivalry with sal over who can get down rainbow road faster

  56. Gadgeteer Smashwidget

    jeebus, already 72% funded.

    Willis, you have too many loyal fans.

  57. Aizat

    Pfft..Rainbow Road? Please, I cleared the Kessel Run in less time than that.

    1. arank11

      I managed to do it in less than 12 parsecs. How’d you do?

      1. Roborat

        Parsec is a measure of distance, not time.

        -runs away

        1. I'm Anonymous

          You’re still parsecs away from facing Brock!

        2. I also teach math for a living.

          Parsec is a very reasonable measure of time. In most situations where you don’t need to pick units that make sense at the human scale, you should pick units where c = 1. Parsecs as a unit of time is acceptable in astrophysics.

        3. 3oranges

          So 12 parsecs would be, what, 39 years? Yeah, I guess it’s plausible someone beat rainbow road in that time.

        4. xKiv

          So Aizat clearing the Kessel run in less than 1 Rainbow Road is nothing special?

  58. potatoaddict

    Lies, lies everywhere!

  59. Roborat

    Ref the alt text:

    also avoid interactions with Danny’s briefs.

  60. Raine

    55 to get the doodle and physical book(canada shipping)? ;-; I’ve supported the other two but its getting harder and harder. I’ll prolly still support the book but ;-;

  61. CianM1301

    I have a feeling we may see a new side to Sal…

  62. Maveric1984

    Fully funded in under 24 hours. At this rate we’re gonnakeep getting the weekend updates no problem.

  63. ZoopSoup

    Hurray for Magnolia! Monster Pulse is probably tied for my favorite webcomic with this one.

  64. Someguy

    Seeing Danny and Sal seems takes me back to reading Roomies after it had a crossover with Sluggy Freelance, using a keenspot drop down, and repeating wiigii in an irc channel of the same name that pertained to a lot of world’s worst transformers fan fiction (Which were all awesome).

    The point of this rambling is I’ve been a long time fan to a point your comic has given me nostalgia to your comic. Thank you, Mr. Willis.

  65. Alan Lafond

    That’s twice now in as many weeks I can’t read the comic. I was unable to read the March 30th strip, and now same thing with this one. Same thing that happened last time.

    Weird thing is, when I go back in the archives to the 03/30/2014 strip, I can view it now. Whatever the problem is with the strip, it fixed itself after a few days.

    Never had this problem reading DoA before, until that one, and now this one. If I view the image directly, I just get a blank screen with nothing but the URL of the image as a placeholder where the image should be displayed.

    1. xKiv

      The symptom looks like what happens to me when I load a very large page with hundreds of images and the browser just doesn’t finish loading all of them, possibly because of some timeouts and parallel connections limits, I guess.

  66. Claire

    Yay I finally get to back a DOA kickstarter project! Just started reading in 2013, got to be the best webcomic online right now. (And I ordered book 1!)

  67. dropded

    Hooray! Danny is much more interesting when interacting with Sal (or Sarah) than when he is interacting with Dorothy or Amber. And this adds the interesting ‘oh my recent crush stabbed you in the hand when you were 13’ angle to the whole business. Hooray!

  68. Tyler

    I only realized this now, but I looked it up. 1:38 is about two seconds slower than the world record for that track.

    I think at the time of posting, it was THE world record.

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