It should be acknowledged that, regardless whether Sal got what she wanted and regardless whether Sal wanted what she got, Danny did good at his assigned task and at general supportiveness
Walky always wins just through sheer obliviousness and blind optimism. He seems happy for some reason, but he made a big fool of himself (and a bigger one of Lucy) and now his mom will be laser-focused on his grades.
Making Walky unhappy is difficult. His resting emotional state is a chill contentment with everything. I almost envy him that. You can give his emotions a kick, but they always seem to settle down into being pleased.
Needfuldoer
Is he actually happy, or is he burying unpleasant thoughts under a mountain of Dexter and Monkey Master DVDs?
Sirksome
DVDs? Lol. He definitely streams it. Probably owns the show digitally on Amazon Prime or maybe he just uses his parents Max password although they’ll be taking the show off in a month. Possibly pirates it off one of those anime sites with the watermarks. Maybe some chad posted the entire series to YouTube mirrored and it hasn’t been copyright struck yet. DVDs. At this point old cartoon DVDs are so obscure that unless he got his parents to buy them for him like ten years ago his only option is to buy a box set off eBay for like 500 bucks.
Needfuldoer
Hey now, I accumulate box sets instead of streaming. (And if I do want to stream them, there are ways that don’t involve sailing the high seas.) Paramount may have killed Prodigy can’t take DS9 off my bookshelf!
Besides, Dexter and Monkey Master hit mainstream commercial success in the Dumbiverse. It must have seen boxed releases, and I think we saw Walky and Dorothy with copies.
It’s not like Ultra Car, which is probably buried deep in the library of some obscure no-name streaming platform or print-to-order DVD service.
I hope not. I mean Sal can make her own choices, but at least let Danny mess it up first. Torching something nice she enjoys just cause her mom would approve is real fucked and would likely hurt her in the long run. Let it be because Danny says Marcy would be better off dead or because he doesn’t believe she’s a good singer, or because her arch enemy suggested she shouldn’t moonlight as a vigilante. Y’know, justifiable reasons.
Unless Danny puts his foot down his throat in the next five minutes he’s probably fine for now. This might mark the end of the honeymoon period though.
Well, she’s questioning her reasons for being in the relationship, which is fair. Maybe she can’t really know if she wants to be with Danny in order to please her parents or not, but she “can” know if she dumps him in order to spite them. It’s not exactly Sal’s style to make bad decisions just to feel a sense of control, but I wouldn’t rule it out. (Watching a stream of someone playing the game Control while writing this post may have influenced it.)
She can know that though. She’s known Danny for months before they even started dating. They had a pretty solid friendship before anything romantic blossomed and even if they weren’t dating she still enjoys his company. I can understand her questioning how her mother’s approval feels after years of being the problem child, but that doesn’t invalidate all the real emotions she’s had an overcome. Like just getting to the point of dating Danny was a struggle because her trust issues from her mom made her feel like his genuine feelings and kind gestures to her were conditional.
Sal’s revenge could be to get everything her parents wanted for her in spite of them, not because of them. Do it her way, and give them none of the credit. I’m still holding out hope. And I feel like Danny could supportively throw down with the parents if Sal gave him the go ahead.
Yes, it turns out I can type the name of the iguana, as long as it’s specifically as the name of the iguana. I’m as surprised as anyone. I still don’t think I’d be able to say it though.
thejeff
I didn’t think fuck was replaced here? Had I forgotten that one?
Daibhid C
No, I didn’t mean in a censorship way, I mean in an “I am basically Joyce in several respects” way.
I think Sal has a taste of imposter syndrome, and this is just for her parents’ love. Then again, Walky was trying to sabotage his own relationship with his parents, so there’s that as well.
I mean, neither of her parents bothered contacting her about their visit and they seemed perfectly happy to not spend any real time with her before meeting Danny, so it’s hard to believe Linda would have taken Sal’s advice if they never met him.
Look, we know fuck-all about dinosaur behaviour, since it doesn’t fossilize. Anything we have is conjecture: nesting, migration, hunting, attack & defense strategies. If we have anything on that, it’s due to imagination & comparison with living animals. With a bit of “We found these fossilized skeletons in a group, which suggests…” thrown in for good measure.
It’s surprising how far we got on imagination, really. And there’s the odd fact that some bits that we didn’t think would fossilize, did so anyway. We have dinosaur feathers in amber & thus an idea of their colours. We have impressions of dinosaur skin, which includes a good impression of a dinosaur cloaca. We even have a rare few mummified specimens.
Yumi
Interesting! I love learning bits about dinosaur coloration, probably because as a kid in a middle school science class, the teacher was saying what color dinosaurs “had to be,” and iwas like, “Well, do we know? Isn’t it possible that the colors on dinosaurs were fuckin’ sick*?”
Anyway, it’s cool to know what we do know, and also know that my teacher’s perspective was more based on “time to be boring about dinosaurs of all things” than what evidence might actually say.
*the phrasing my middle school self used was slightly different
130 thoughts on “Wanted”
Ana Chronistic
ah, the classic “Be careful what you drag your maybe-boyfriend into, you just might get it”
Tan
It should be acknowledged that, regardless whether Sal got what she wanted and regardless whether Sal wanted what she got, Danny did good at his assigned task and at general supportiveness
Jamie
This is true. This was not a winnable situation and he did his utter best with it, IMO.
Angel
at least danny cares more about the real sal than the “ideal” her parents want to be like
DarkoNeko
Oh no
Jenniffniff
Oh yes
JA
Oh Yeah! [/KoolAidMan]
Decidedly Orthogonal
Oh Henry
Librain
Oh Myyyyyy!
MiaFillene
Oh-klahoma where the wind comes rushing down the plains…
Proxiehunter
Oh Yeah![/MachoManRandySavage]
Jess
Perhaps today I am first?
Jess
Some other time perhaps!
Sirksome
Rookie mistake. Always go with the real comment and be pleasantly surprised if you got top billing.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
That what I did: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/02-that-perfect-girl/trickledown/
ktbear
And DID you get a trophy for it?
clif
It’s not too late if you want to start a collection for Slartibeast’s trophy.
Mr D
Nobody can defeat Ana’s perfectly programmed comment-bot
Jess
genuinely could not think of anything worth saying (the price of staying up late to catch the update in real time) but you are absolutely right
Jo_cubstar
No one will ever beat Ana.
Ryan
It is true that Ana is unbeatable, but she’s not always first to post.
Jamie
I appreciate how much of a scandal it is when she doesn’t get first post. And how worried we sometimes get when the minutes wear on.
Needfuldoer
Post, post, post
As fast as you dare
But you’ll always find Ana
Is already there.
Burma-Shave
clif
I still miss those signs.
Jess
just imagine seeing this on an actual roadside somewhere. the mental image is hilarious imo
Sirksome
Lol. Somehow Walky still wins the forced sibling off. Like Sal technically has higher stock but Walky def has the emotional W.
Vanessa
Walky always wins just through sheer obliviousness and blind optimism. He seems happy for some reason, but he made a big fool of himself (and a bigger one of Lucy) and now his mom will be laser-focused on his grades.
Jamie
Making Walky unhappy is difficult. His resting emotional state is a chill contentment with everything. I almost envy him that. You can give his emotions a kick, but they always seem to settle down into being pleased.
Needfuldoer
Is he actually happy, or is he burying unpleasant thoughts under a mountain of Dexter and Monkey Master DVDs?
Sirksome
DVDs? Lol. He definitely streams it. Probably owns the show digitally on Amazon Prime or maybe he just uses his parents Max password although they’ll be taking the show off in a month. Possibly pirates it off one of those anime sites with the watermarks. Maybe some chad posted the entire series to YouTube mirrored and it hasn’t been copyright struck yet. DVDs. At this point old cartoon DVDs are so obscure that unless he got his parents to buy them for him like ten years ago his only option is to buy a box set off eBay for like 500 bucks.
Needfuldoer
Hey now, I accumulate box sets instead of streaming. (And if I do want to stream them, there are ways that don’t involve sailing the high seas.) Paramount may have killed Prodigy can’t take DS9 off my bookshelf!
Besides, Dexter and Monkey Master hit mainstream commercial success in the Dumbiverse. It must have seen boxed releases, and I think we saw Walky and Dorothy with copies.
It’s not like Ultra Car, which is probably buried deep in the library of some obscure no-name streaming platform or print-to-order DVD service.
Maveric1984
She’s gonna dump him over this, isn’t she?
At least Walky isn’t gonna kiss her next…
Doctor_Who
I doubt it. Danny’s been nothing but supportive and kind, and Sal isn’t that stupid.
Sirksome
I hope not. I mean Sal can make her own choices, but at least let Danny mess it up first. Torching something nice she enjoys just cause her mom would approve is real fucked and would likely hurt her in the long run. Let it be because Danny says Marcy would be better off dead or because he doesn’t believe she’s a good singer, or because her arch enemy suggested she shouldn’t moonlight as a vigilante. Y’know, justifiable reasons.
BBCC
If Danny said Marcie was better off dead, I think HE would be dead in short order. XD
Sarah Lea
I’m just happy I got all of these references:
1. Ethan and Danny re: Mike
2. Dorothy and Danny re: President
3. Amber/Amazi-girl and Danny re: Sal
…poor Danny.
Thag Simmons
Unless Danny puts his foot down his throat in the next five minutes he’s probably fine for now. This might mark the end of the honeymoon period though.
Lanie
I mean, in my opinion, Danny is the current title holder of the Insert Foot in Mouth world championship, which is worrisome here.
Thag Simmons
Danny’s been doing pretty well for himself since the timeskip, but if ever there was a dramatically appropriate moment to relapse, it’d be now.
Maggie
I’m getting the same vibe from this. It’s something i’ve worried about before.
Amelie Wikström
Well, she’s questioning her reasons for being in the relationship, which is fair. Maybe she can’t really know if she wants to be with Danny in order to please her parents or not, but she “can” know if she dumps him in order to spite them. It’s not exactly Sal’s style to make bad decisions just to feel a sense of control, but I wouldn’t rule it out. (Watching a stream of someone playing the game Control while writing this post may have influenced it.)
Sirksome
She can know that though. She’s known Danny for months before they even started dating. They had a pretty solid friendship before anything romantic blossomed and even if they weren’t dating she still enjoys his company. I can understand her questioning how her mother’s approval feels after years of being the problem child, but that doesn’t invalidate all the real emotions she’s had an overcome. Like just getting to the point of dating Danny was a struggle because her trust issues from her mom made her feel like his genuine feelings and kind gestures to her were conditional.
Chubsius
Sal’s revenge could be to get everything her parents wanted for her in spite of them, not because of them. Do it her way, and give them none of the credit. I’m still holding out hope. And I feel like Danny could supportively throw down with the parents if Sal gave him the go ahead.
Steve C
I’m feeling sorry for both of them.
quark
OOF i always love a good “i got what i always wanted and it turns out it sucks” arc
clif
The fact that it was perfectly predictable doesn’t make it hurt less.
Jenniffniff
Noooo Sal you can love Danny even if your parents approve of him!
Jo_cubstar
Oh this is heartbreaking. Poor Sal.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
So Danny needs to take lessons in being disreputable from … who?
Agemegos
Are we looking at Saldanasher as the one true three? That’d put the cat among the pigeons!
Jamie
Not Ethan/Dan/Asher? Amber’s head might actually vaporize.
not someone else
But EthanAsherSal is the ElliotParkerHardison of DoA.
Dan can be that poor woman who they had to get to replace Sophie when her actress was pregnant, and Timothy Hutton can be Blaine.
Cattleprod
Would it be better if the esteem wasn’t even for Danny but for the hat?
Daibhid C
Is Danny’s hat the real DoA counterpart of Shortpacked! Fuckface?
Daibhid C
Yes, it turns out I can type the name of the iguana, as long as it’s specifically as the name of the iguana. I’m as surprised as anyone. I still don’t think I’d be able to say it though.
thejeff
I didn’t think fuck was replaced here? Had I forgotten that one?
Daibhid C
No, I didn’t mean in a censorship way, I mean in an “I am basically Joyce in several respects” way.
Samniel
Sal gets it… but at what cost…?
Rognik
I think Sal has a taste of imposter syndrome, and this is just for her parents’ love. Then again, Walky was trying to sabotage his own relationship with his parents, so there’s that as well.
Rectilinear Propagation
I mean, neither of her parents bothered contacting her about their visit and they seemed perfectly happy to not spend any real time with her before meeting Danny, so it’s hard to believe Linda would have taken Sal’s advice if they never met him.
Thag Simmons
Alright Danny, first serious boyfriend test inbound.
audkitten
Poor Sal. She’s got stress bags under her eyes 🙁
Vanessa
Such a sad girl in panel one, I hope she lets Danny cheer her up.
NGPZ
Yeah Sal, it was just him.
You know your mother’s love is conditional, and any hope you have that it is not, is but a product of magical thinking.
Heed the advice of the Dino Empress, Sal. Renounce magical thinking and embrace empirical evidence.
Icalasari
I figured Dina’s advice would be to mimic the behaviour of a specific species of dinosaur
Yumi
You want love? Well, the tyrannosaurus rex receives an amount of love disproportionate to how cool it actually was, so maybe do what they did.
Jamie
Look cool and imposing while tearing off the heads of others who annoy you or appear to be prey? Y’know, Sal was doing good at that for a while.
Thomas
Tearing of the heads of prey is not fair to Sal. She’s not a bully.
Thomas
Look, we know fuck-all about dinosaur behaviour, since it doesn’t fossilize. Anything we have is conjecture: nesting, migration, hunting, attack & defense strategies. If we have anything on that, it’s due to imagination & comparison with living animals. With a bit of “We found these fossilized skeletons in a group, which suggests…” thrown in for good measure.
It’s surprising how far we got on imagination, really. And there’s the odd fact that some bits that we didn’t think would fossilize, did so anyway. We have dinosaur feathers in amber & thus an idea of their colours. We have impressions of dinosaur skin, which includes a good impression of a dinosaur cloaca. We even have a rare few mummified specimens.
Yumi
Interesting! I love learning bits about dinosaur coloration, probably because as a kid in a middle school science class, the teacher was saying what color dinosaurs “had to be,” and iwas like, “Well, do we know? Isn’t it possible that the colors on dinosaurs were fuckin’ sick*?”
Anyway, it’s cool to know what we do know, and also know that my teacher’s perspective was more based on “time to be boring about dinosaurs of all things” than what evidence might actually say.
*the phrasing my middle school self used was slightly different