Nah, the only reason to get your man card revoked is if you let others decide for you regarding what is or isn’t manly. I’m going to have my quiche now, and I don’t shive a git who thinks it isn’t manly.
The advantage of pissing off a sibling is that they will never outright kill you. However, since Walky is lacking a beating from those comments, I suspect Sal’s vengeance to be extremely passive-aggressive as well as long and drawn out.
Or maybe he has no plans to wear them, but genuinely wants to share the joy he’s discovered?
Because, you know, if it was any of these other ideas you guys have mentioned, he wouldn’t actually have to get Billie involved. He could just, you know, lie about having the girlfriend and stuff.
Good luck with that. *I* don’t understand them and I’m a chick. Stupid women’s sizes. What the heck are they even measuring? At least mens’ pants measures inches around the waist. What could a size 2 or 0 possibly be measuring ^=__=^;;
It’s about as uncool as a bike can get without being a scooter 😀
A does not necessarily imply B in this case. Sal’s bike makes her seem cool because it is a cool bike 🙂
Mine just makes a noise and propels its rider around the planet at what would technically be considered highway speeds.
no no no, cool is a state of mind. the quintessential calmness, clarity and objectivity granted to those rare but gifted individuals able to perceive the ebb and flow of the cosmic tide that governs our universe…
…dig?
(So basically jazz musicians, pot smokers, and people who don’t have a lot of sodium in their diet.)
These days, there’s a new definition of cool that’s synonymous with laid-back. I’m that most of the time…. just give me headphones (or earbuds) and some good music, and you won’t see me talking much for a goooooood while.
And after he steps out from in front of the slammed door, and the feelings of defeat and rejection that go along with that, I’m sure he’ll immediately start feeling like a winner.
of course, he still won’t have any pants though…and he lives with mike…and his sister will still be a tool…
Why would he feel defeat and rejection from Sal slamming the door on him? She’s his sister – not only is this probably the ten-thousanth time, which would take the edge off, but they’re too young for him to really care about her opinion anyway.
You have the avatar for it already, good sir; consider yourself scarred for life! In all srs biz, they both have the natural country drawl (spelling?). I bring it out from time to time…
Hmm… I’m seeing one person who’s deliberately made herself into what society wants her not to be, and another person who’s decided to be who he wants to be regardless of social norms.
Arguing over tiny differences while blind to their overwhelming similarities. That’s how you know this is a real nasty conflict. This shit ain’t gonna get resolved over scones. There will be blood.
Misreading things again. Thought Walky was saying “PIZZA jeans” in the 2nd panel. At first it seems like a great idea, but hot cheese near one’s privates …
Alright, how about THIS: Jeans with pockets specially designed for holding pizza! Traingular pockets with a nylon lining to keep your pizza or pizza-related foodstuffs nice and toasty!
With this comic, I’ve caught up from the start. I just wanted to let you guys know that, even though I graduated college long before many of these characters would have been born, it really doesn’t seem to have changed a lot since I was there.
Womens pants are available in sizes with inseams smaller than what’s available in mens sizes. But they are also vanity sized. I’d really expect Walky to order online whatever size he is in “teen” clothing and then wonder why they sent him Santa pants.
It’s stopped me plenty of times. I need room for the junk in my trunks. Girl pants are simply not roomy enough, and I don’t wanna spend half my day “readjusting.”
Uh…aren’t sweatpants sweatpants? Just buy and wear the damn things, Walky. Hold up a pair of men’s sweatpants next to a pair of women’s sweatpants of equal size, and unless the women’s sweatpants have that silly writing on them they’ll look EXACTLY THE SAME. Same material, same design, same everything. Pants designed to hang loosely and grip by an elastic waistband don’t exactly have to be custom cut to suit a male or female frame…
Yeah, Walky sure is in the wrong, what with how he didn’t even come to talk to Sal, and then she insulted him, told him to go fuck himself, and then told him he was a child. Man, that Walky sure is a jerk for forcing Sal to do all those things by wanting to talk to Billie!
Sal’s got a hungover roommate in the room, a Walky in one of his mania phases on the doorstep (and she knows what his mania phases are like, she sort of grew up with him), some “family issues” related to being the designated black sheep/probable scapegoat of the family….
First, I wouldn’t let Walky in to talk with Billie either, if only because his personal style of persuasive rhetoric would drive anyone to look for a large blunt object to make it stop.
Second, there’s an interesting family dynamic Willis is setting up there.
She opened it because somebody knocked on it. She didn’t pass through it. So it doesn’t count – her record is still intact (if we, uh, ignore all the other times she’s gone through doors, like getting in and out of the classroom).
She was about to leave via window, but someone knocked, so she decided to try out the new modern marvel called a “door”. She was really annoyed because it took her a while to figure out what the use of a door was.
It’s pretty neat that he holds so little ill will in him. Just about everything is water off the camel’s back. I suspect it’s exceedingly hard to cross him unintentionally.
It’s also quite sad that in such a person an accusation of inferiority is what hits too close to home.
Walky just needs to say when he’s buying them he is buying for his
A) Girlfriend who is the same size as him
B)Sister who is the same size as him
or
C) Mom who is the same size as him.
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JUST BUY EET
PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANTS
walky gets a man card revoked if he wears pajama jeans (not buying them if its for a lady)
How would you know he’s not just wearing jeans?
Nah, the only reason to get your man card revoked is if you let others decide for you regarding what is or isn’t manly. I’m going to have my quiche now, and I don’t shive a git who thinks it isn’t manly.
You should never shiv a git – no matter how annoying they are, knifing them is wrong.
But it’s just so *tempting*.
No no no – SHIVE a git. He’s going to turn some dude into a girl. Or a furry.
Or both since it’s Shive. >XD
Walky, bang on the door and demand the comfort!!!
I wonder if Dave would ever let Shive do a guest comic…..God knows how that would turn out…
Either Awesome, Horrible, or Horribly Awesome.
‘Kay, that was fun.
Is it bad that I read that as “bang the door”
He is still breathing?
Why wouldn’t he be?
He seems to have brought up a very touchy subject.
The advantage of pissing off a sibling is that they will never outright kill you. However, since Walky is lacking a beating from those comments, I suspect Sal’s vengeance to be extremely passive-aggressive as well as long and drawn out.
Or she just doesn’t care enough.
NOT EVERYONE IS MIKE
Your avi fits your statement perfectly my dear.
Also, hi Bekah I’m Becca 😀
Be an adult, buy your own damn pants.
But they’re girly pants!
Buy it but say that you’re buying it for your girlfriend. Works 55% of the time.
No … they always know … they simply pretend to believe you and then snicker with their co-workers once you leave the store.
It’s true :/
buy ’em online.
Would YOU trust Walky with a credit card? FIFTY MCNUGGETS
That’s cause only people who are buying for themselves and feel ashamed ever say it’s for someone else.
Why would you need to say anything? Is it really that important to prove some arbitrary standard of masculinity to strangers?
The illogic of insecurity baffles me sometimes…
I concur.
he hasn’t thought of that yet. give it time.
Don’t just buy it… buy it with a scowl and a hunched back to make it very convincing.
The funny part is that he has no problem with wearing women’s only pants in full view of anyone and everyone — just buying them.
Or maybe he has no plans to wear them, but genuinely wants to share the joy he’s discovered?
Because, you know, if it was any of these other ideas you guys have mentioned, he wouldn’t actually have to get Billie involved. He could just, you know, lie about having the girlfriend and stuff.
Oh… he DEFINITELY has plans to wear them. He will wear the jeans outta those pajamas…
The people he’d wear them in front of have no idea they’re only made for girls. The people he’d buy them from presumably would.
It’s a man thing.
the problem is, he doesn’t understand women’s sizes. he needs one of the girls to explain the size conversion to him.
Good luck with that. *I* don’t understand them and I’m a chick. Stupid women’s sizes. What the heck are they even measuring? At least mens’ pants measures inches around the waist. What could a size 2 or 0 possibly be measuring ^=__=^;;
No, that’s called “being cool”.
The motorcycle is what makes you cool.
But not if you play card games on it.
That only works if you’re in space!
Well that’s just silly.
*hides Magic The Gathering cards*
*ahem*
I have a motorbike.
Me too….
It’s about as uncool as a bike can get without being a scooter 😀
A does not necessarily imply B in this case. Sal’s bike makes her seem cool because it is a cool bike 🙂
Mine just makes a noise and propels its rider around the planet at what would technically be considered highway speeds.
no no no, cool is a state of mind. the quintessential calmness, clarity and objectivity granted to those rare but gifted individuals able to perceive the ebb and flow of the cosmic tide that governs our universe…
…dig?
(So basically jazz musicians, pot smokers, and people who don’t have a lot of sodium in their diet.)
“Dude… what if you were a pancake… but there were no syrup? Would you eat yourself?”
Epitome of cool.
A designation that mostly only teenager care about. College kids do, too, to a point, but not nearly as much.
You’re never too old to worry about being cool.
You are when it stops being practical for your age and starts being sad and pathetic.
I’m pretty sure most people never lose that desire to be cool. It’s just that your definition of what’s cool is always evolving and changing.
These days, there’s a new definition of cool that’s synonymous with laid-back. I’m that most of the time…. just give me headphones (or earbuds) and some good music, and you won’t see me talking much for a goooooood while.
So who burned who worse?
Think point goes to Walky on that one.
Yes I concur.
And after he steps out from in front of the slammed door, and the feelings of defeat and rejection that go along with that, I’m sure he’ll immediately start feeling like a winner.
of course, he still won’t have any pants though…and he lives with mike…and his sister will still be a tool…
…Man. I don’t see a lot of “win” here…
Why would he feel defeat and rejection from Sal slamming the door on him? She’s his sister – not only is this probably the ten-thousanth time, which would take the edge off, but they’re too young for him to really care about her opinion anyway.
By far, by faaaar.
I mean, don’t forget the “buy some pants” of yesterday.
He has to have someone else buy his pants from a WEBSITE? Come on Walky, this is not your first day on the Internet.
I was thinking he meant since he couldn’t wear them (due to not being a girl) he could at least spread the good word to his female friends.
Which apparently excludes his sister even though she obviously needs pants.
I think it was more, I can’t have them, but I’ll make sure someone does.
Maybe he needed Billie to help him figure out what size he would need in girl pants.
That information, also, is almost certainly available on the intarwebz
“Hey, Walky, let’s use your computer for this project.” Google. “What…”
[size am I in girl jeans?]
“Uhh, Walky…”
no, walky, she clearly meant that real adults dont use doors. especially not when theres a perfectly good window to climb through
Sibling animosity!
Is it a result of sibling rivalry or just the natural urge to annihilate your genetic equal?
spend enough time with somebody, you’ll want to kill them. now try spending your first 18 years with someone.
… and you’ll run out of ideas to hide their body and just try to get along >;)
I have a sister, 2 years younger than I, whom I shared a bed with until I was 18, believe me, I know all about it.
as a twin, I must say naturally we stop short of annihilation, if only because of our narcissistic tendency to like things that look like us.
Yes, but when she got the tattoo she pushed herself across the line of “looks too different from me”, and now she must die.
She wasn’t sent off to Catholic school because she was bad. She was sent away for her own protection.
A Catholic school makes the situation (any situation for that matter) much worse.
There’s a distinct difference between being a grown-up and being an adult. They’re both grown-ups. I don’t think Walky will ever be an adult, though.
honestly, i could make the same argument for sal.
She robbed a store?
But it’s Sal doing it, so that makes the act extra-cool instead of bad.
I’m guessing that she crashed through the store’s window?
What I want to know is was she wearing pants at the time?
Judging by what we saw, she doesn’t seem to have scars on her legs so I’m guessing she wore them at the time.
She held up two convenience stores.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/02-uphill-from-here/news/
Even if she was wearing pink bunny slippers and crying in a corner Sal would still be cool.
Just say that your buying for your girlfriend. It’s not like the employees there know you or something.
Something tells me that Walky isn’t the best liar.
Or the sharpest tool in the shed.
Walky will never be an adult. Being an adult would clash with his sweet LEGO penthouse.
If having a sweet Lego penthouse disqualifies you from adulthood, send me to Neverland.
Somehow, I think the Joe avatar is entirely appropriate for that statement…
and so is your avatar for that statement.
I really want to know why he thought Billie was the right person to turn to on this.
As Billie said: “Walky, I am not your friend. We do not know each other here. Go away.”
i like to believe that was self assurance/denial on billie’s part.
Because who else is he gonna ask, Dorothy? bongo wants to wreck his sweet LEGO pad!
Anyone else notice Walky starting to develop Sal’s accent there? Just me?
Or should i say, me. hehehe
I meant me developing the accent, what with the gravatar.
Screw it, i’m not commenting on shit after thirty six hours awake again.
thats probably a good plan
now if only i’d decided that before making myself look like an idiot….
You have the avatar for it already, good sir; consider yourself scarred for life! In all srs biz, they both have the natural country drawl (spelling?). I bring it out from time to time…
Dropping ‘g’ from ‘ing’ words isn’t an accent. How do I know this? Because people from Indiana do it, and people from Indiana don’t have accents.
Hmm… I’m seeing one person who’s deliberately made herself into what society wants her not to be, and another person who’s decided to be who he wants to be regardless of social norms.
Arguing over tiny differences while blind to their overwhelming similarities. That’s how you know this is a real nasty conflict. This shit ain’t gonna get resolved over scones. There will be blood.
And we will enjoy every second of it… after having a nice dinner in Hell at about 8:30.
Misreading things again. Thought Walky was saying “PIZZA jeans” in the 2nd panel. At first it seems like a great idea, but hot cheese near one’s privates …
Alright, how about THIS: Jeans with pockets specially designed for holding pizza! Traingular pockets with a nylon lining to keep your pizza or pizza-related foodstuffs nice and toasty!
Ah, that’s better. My original idea involved the jeans being completely made of pizza, and that was an invitation for disaster!
“but it’s college and I’m a freshman! I’m not required to be an adult yet.”
With this comic, I’ve caught up from the start. I just wanted to let you guys know that, even though I graduated college long before many of these characters would have been born, it really doesn’t seem to have changed a lot since I was there.
Nice work. I’m enjoying it.
The only real change is that halloween costumes show more boob.
Uh, no, not really possible given the Halloween costumes I saw twenty-two years ago . . .
Also, there are more (or less… location location location) drinks, arrests, dropouts, and loan slaves.
I wonder if leaving through windows is genetic.
“ALSO MAKIN’ FACES AT ME THROUGH THE DOOR!”
“P.S.: thats goin’ in the next report to mom! In your PERMANENT RECORD!”
When has the fact that a style of jeans is only made for women EVER stopped men?
Seriously, jeans may be the one article of clothing for which that runs more than the other way around…
I just wear pants, I don’t pay attention to the style. Pants are something to keep my legs warm and my ass out of jail.
Womens pants are available in sizes with inseams smaller than what’s available in mens sizes. But they are also vanity sized. I’d really expect Walky to order online whatever size he is in “teen” clothing and then wonder why they sent him Santa pants.
It’s stopped me plenty of times. I need room for the junk in my trunks. Girl pants are simply not roomy enough, and I don’t wanna spend half my day “readjusting.”
What?! Guy’s jeans are worse for that! I’ve never found a pair of guy’s pants that would contain the junk in my trunk.
XD
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Baggy Jeans. As long as you got a good belt, you *should* be straight.
That’s the ticket. Baggy jeans. I’ll go up 2 waist sizes and wear unnecessary belts just so I can have extra crotch room.
Point Walky.
Ah, sibling interaction. You’d think Willis had one or something.
Quoniam cum probatus fuerit, accipiet DOOR TO THE FACE.
Uh…aren’t sweatpants sweatpants? Just buy and wear the damn things, Walky. Hold up a pair of men’s sweatpants next to a pair of women’s sweatpants of equal size, and unless the women’s sweatpants have that silly writing on them they’ll look EXACTLY THE SAME. Same material, same design, same everything. Pants designed to hang loosely and grip by an elastic waistband don’t exactly have to be custom cut to suit a male or female frame…
pajama jeans are not sweat pants.
He don’t want no sweat pants making him look like a slob!!
Classy
“I totally didn’t come here to judge you though! Honest!”
Well, he didn’t. He came here to ask Billie about Pajama Jeans, wasn’t even expecting to run into Sal.
Yeah, Walky sure is in the wrong, what with how he didn’t even come to talk to Sal, and then she insulted him, told him to go fuck himself, and then told him he was a child. Man, that Walky sure is a jerk for forcing Sal to do all those things by wanting to talk to Billie!
It was a joke. Did not mean the sentiment behind it. Sorry for being misleading.
My sincerity mode tag disappeared. Is that an actual markup and no one told me?
Qua’s sarcasm made me do a double-take for a second, too. Sarcasm + internet – italics = “You really meant that???”
Sal’s got a hungover roommate in the room, a Walky in one of his mania phases on the doorstep (and she knows what his mania phases are like, she sort of grew up with him), some “family issues” related to being the designated black sheep/probable scapegoat of the family….
First, I wouldn’t let Walky in to talk with Billie either, if only because his personal style of persuasive rhetoric would drive anyone to look for a large blunt object to make it stop.
Second, there’s an interesting family dynamic Willis is setting up there.
Sal= black sheep
Walky=Scapegoat… very gullible scapegoat
Im still surprised she used the door…
She opened it because somebody knocked on it. She didn’t pass through it. So it doesn’t count – her record is still intact (if we, uh, ignore all the other times she’s gone through doors, like getting in and out of the classroom).
She came in through the air ducts.
She was about to leave via window, but someone knocked, so she decided to try out the new modern marvel called a “door”. She was really annoyed because it took her a while to figure out what the use of a door was.
They do have pajama jeans for men, behold the awesomeness of abc distributing: http://tinyurl.com/6qv334n
Slob Jeans by Walky.
So let’s see if I understand this: Walky wants Sal to help him get into Billie’s pants?
Aww poor Walky next time try and actually sell the product not just bring up past history.
Remember:
Big Smile
Body Language
and
Bright Clothes.:)
And loud voice and terrible breath and coffee binge.
Actually has anybody thought he may have actually just bought the pants and actually just realised they’re for girls?
I’m starting to wonder if perhaps Walky is actually the MOST mature person in this comic, relationship issues aside.
more nature than Kaorin, thats for sure lol
Er, not sure that’s relevant, but good on you for recognizing my avatar, I guess?
There are multiple others… like Dina, probably (thought about considering her while I typed this)
I like how he didn’t get sarcastic with her until she actually pushed one of his buttons.
It’s pretty neat that he holds so little ill will in him. Just about everything is water off the camel’s back. I suspect it’s exceedingly hard to cross him unintentionally.
It’s also quite sad that in such a person an accusation of inferiority is what hits too close to home.
Walky just needs to say when he’s buying them he is buying for his
A) Girlfriend who is the same size as him
B)Sister who is the same size as him
or
C) Mom who is the same size as him.
Problem solved.