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straight to the point, I guess
The only way Ethan is straight
Dude makes a pretty good straight man.
^ good one!
he’s learning how not to beat around the bush
[around the cock is a bit harder]
So he’s not hiding the ball(s) anymore?
Technically that’s still near a bush.
Manscaping?
NOW KISS
Oh boy. Drama tag.
This is not a frikkin’ drama tag.
Danny is running a drama gauntlet.
I thought it was a drama ring =P.
Riding the Drama Lama
Izzat something like the Dalai Lama?
Begin the Danning It Up Feedback Loop!!!
Ethan will also Ethan it up. Which he is also doing with Joyce.
I thought you were using Ethan as an innuendo for a second there and was really confused.
But yes. These two should definitely team up and have the most completely, spinelessly passive intervention in the history of interventions.
“Amber, we’re really worried about you.”
“I’m fine.”
“….”
“…..”
“….If you’re sure, okay. We’ll leave you alone.”
“but we’re only going to ask 5 more times! once a month, because we don’t want to be a bother.”
feedback loop initiated.
Technically Ethan is the one Danning it up at the present.
What but the comments have small talk are we zombies?
Depends on how much time you spend online.
MY TALK IS HUGE, WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
This much drama in SEPTEMBER!?
They aint getting through this semester alive.
They ain’t makin’ it a Quarter.
Comic folk are made of more sturdier stuff than you and I.
I doubt they’re gonna make it to Halloween
They’ll make it, it will just end up with everyone either in a giant prgy, or in their room waiting for the end of days
Imagine how Joyce is going to handle Halloween at college.
“Look, just keep her away from knives, convenience stores, and Batman comics for a while, okay? And maybe give her some spiders to kill, that always takes the edge off.”
” And Sal, definitely keep her away from Sal. It would eb bad.”
Danny should try to make Sal and Amber fight each other. With his record, they’ll become lovers.
And either event would be very entertaining to watch.
Nah, failing on purpose never works out the way you intend.
They’d probably gang up and beat the crap out of him.
Waiting for a downside.
“No awesome catfight between a biker chick and a superheroine” isn’t enough of a downside?
Balanced out by Dan in the ICU.
Ah yes, Indiana College University.
Or hatesex
That might not work out exactly the way you’d think.
I’m a little fuzzy on the whole “good/bad” thing. Why don’t you spell it out for me.
Takes the edge off the knives??
The chitinous carapace of arachnids can dull a knife pretty good. They have DR/Bludgeoning, though, so a rolled up newspaper can do the trick.
I recommend +2 or higher.
How much does a polar bear weigh?
Enough to talk about Amber’s psychotic break.
Ethan: so how’s Amber?
Danny: I think she’s doing fine
Ethan: I’m surprised they didn’t haul her ass out to the crazy house
Danny:…excuse me!?
Ethan: Oh I’m sorry I meant but house…you ok you look upset?
So when was the last time Ethan saw her? When she freaked out on him at breakfast?
no she talked with him about Sal being on campus to give him the heads up, then left through the window after being all cryptic and stuff.
And speaking in her Amazi-girl persona, as if Amber was a different person. Yeah, I wonder why Ethan would be concerned?
Jerden does that all the time, I don’t worry about him. Are you saying he’s crazy?
Relax, Danny, he already knows.
Hell, the dead squirrel on the other side of campus knows she’s Amazi-Girl.
That’s because Amber needs to time her Amazi-jumps better.
Or play fewer video games. She expected coins to pop out.
Was the squirrel’s name Small Talk?
But still what’s he going to do next go down stairs and call Dorothy fat in front of walky.
He sorta knows some stuff. Is he aware she beat her deadbeat father to a pulp? I can’t remember.
Squirrel is dead?!?
I imagine that in panel 2 Danny is whistling the tune of “Timber” by Pitbull and Ke$ha.
dangit, I was hoping he was whistling at Ethan’s package
He is, he just thought it might be a Ke$ha fan.
Are you implying Ke$ha’s fans are just a bunch of dicks?
Not the female ones…
He could still go down on that timber if you catch my meaning.
Cannot unhear.
“So, tapped that ass yet? I tried once, but I was gay so it just flopped everywhere.”
“My roommate Joe knows where to score some viagra if that becomes a recurring thing.”
And then they became best buddies.
“If we combine we may either become the most or least date-able person in the world!!!
“Or the Ambiguously Gay Duo!”
“What’s everybody looking at?”
“Nothing!”
Nah, you’ll just get a guy who loves Transformers but keeps accidentally buying Go-Bots instead.
Haha, wow… my mother bought the whole Go-Bots Command Center and somehow it got left in the basement untouched until we were out of high school. I guess she’s a Danny in her own way.
[then my ex got ahold of it, and who knows what happened to it now]
[[and who cares]]
I’m just liking this “I tried once, but I was gay” line. Works in so many contexts. I might have to start using it.
Eh, small talk’s great and all, but when you’re on a quest you’re better off with drinking games, top ten lists, and other ways to shoot the breeze. Including shooting breezes; there was this sentient species of nitrogen we encountered a while back. Whirl loved shooting them.
Small talk’s not the only thing goin’ down in this conversation!
Danny should get his eye checked. He may have astigmatism.
He’s suffering from Chronic White Eyes. If you know anyone with CWE do not hesitate to bring them to a hospital. But first laugh at their silly looking face.
Supposedly laughter’s the best medicine, so that last part’s really all you need.
Also Ethan come on, show some initiative and check on Amber!
Ethan: can’t, to busy dealing with my own problems being secretly gay and pretending to love my girlfriend when I really don’t, I have no Idea why shit like that happens to me though.
Sadly, Ethan has a Dex penalty, so his initiative isn’t that good.
When you think about it, there is no such thing as a completely sain person in the world, we all have a large amount of madness withen the deepest parts of our mind, there are only some people more sain than others.
You see there’s too kinds of lunatics. There’s the liars, they conceal their insanity, to spare the world and themselves from its consequences.
We call them “sane” (spelt like that, please remember that).
Then there’s those who chose to be honest, and realise and reveal the true depths of their madness.
We call them “insane”.
It’s a great system for the liars!
Now, my question is this: which type is the one who uses “too” instead of “two” and “there’s” instead of “there’re” (creating a singular/plural disagreement – “there is liars” vs. “there are liars” and “there is those” vs. “there are those”)?
Who’s going down on who?
I was half-hoping no-one else would have commented on that, but then I’d be disappointed in humanity.
The sun, on me.
It burns.
I don’t know how well you know Amber, but mysterious disappearances are kind of her thing. Er, not that she’s trying to be Batman or anything, that would just be crazy! Hahaha ha ha…
Cue sudden Danny sclera.
This is great. I really like Ethan’s pose in panel 2, very expressive. I’ve looked exactly like that many times.
Are Danny and Ethan friends? I think I can count the number of interactions they’ve had together on one hand.
Perhaps you’ve answered your own question!
As freshman year of college is practically senior year in HS with new people, I think that they are “frenemys”.
To people who did go straight to real college, is this comic strip a true representation of your experience? If it helps, I find that the show “Community” is 104% accurate.
Hence the awkward silence in panel 2. They are aware of each other, and their mutual connection to Amber.
Danny’s face in the last panel just might be the best face ever.
Ethan better not try to get Amber to stop being Amazi-Girl. I’d never forgive him for trying to destroy the True Amber!
He should get Amazi-Girl to stop being Amber.
Please tell me you’re kidding.
What other advice would you expect from Darth Vader?
GIVE INTO THE DARK SIDE.
Yeah Ethan, you wish Danny were goin’ down.
He does sort of look as though he’s trying to work up to asking for that in the second panel.
And Danny looks like he’s got some DSLs going on there.
This was how I ended up married.
When a gay guy asked you if you were going down?
Will this end in a Danning?
Will Ethan realize he started the conversation with innuendo?
Will small talk ever make an appearance in DOA?
Find out next time!
Same dumb time.
Same dumb channel!
I think a Danning would be the BEST thing to happen for Dan at this point.
Huh…this is the first time I think we’ve seen Danny with an expression where Willis colored the white of his eye.
Not quite…
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/04-the-bechdel-test/cam/
<— Will now have a Bruce Springsteen earworm for the rest of the day.
So, I just spent the better part of two weeks reading 4 years worth of DoA, and only this morning discovered hover text. Damn it.
So if they’re going down, why is Ethan pressing the Up Elevator Button?
because Ethan’s jealous Danny’s going down
dangit that was supposed to be a reply to LiamAldam
I swear I’m awakearghlbargle
Not gonna lie, I LOVE Danny’s expression in the last panel! It’s both hilarious and appropriate!
I like to imagine Ethan has a boner in Panel 2, and Danny is actually looking at that and not his phone.
Maybe Amber will be missing from class, sleeping in.
Aside from the plot itself, which is so deliciously full of curveball interactions there’s not much to say-
Danny’s facial expression in the last panel is a pretty brilliant representation of the disconcerted & shocked face. Or as we say on the internet, o_0
All these comments and not a single “well that escalated quickly”
I am disappoint
But…that’s an elevator…
I am realizing that all of the storylines I cared about have (seemingly) wrapped up and I don’t get excited about reading DoA anymore.
I know I’m late to the game her, but that is the greatest Danny face ever.