There’s a special Halloween page of Welcome To The Fuck Zone (NSFW!) up today over at Slipshine! Any Slipshine subscriber can go check that out, any of the 32 previous WTTFZ pages, or any of the, what, ten full-length Pornographique stories? Sure. Ten. I’ll say ten.
Anyway, there’s costumes!
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“yo Marcie, I picked up a loaf of bread”
also “yo, can you go back really fast so I can spin the Blowjob Cat Pokéstop”
Humor her Danny it just doesn’t feel the same for her if you don’t pretend to be mute like another companion of hers.
ooooooooh I so didn’t get what was going on.
Oh wait shit you’re right, holy poops
Not a hundred percent sure that’s what it is, but it kind of fits.
If that’s the case, she should have picked the other one.
At least she wants to echo the feeling of zooming on her bike with Marcie. They’ve been apart for a while.
Oh, damn, I did not get that at all. In fact, I figured that yesterday, she was talking to Amber, not Danny, and she was going to, you know, try to come to an understanding, the way she did with Ethan.
Yeah, what you said, …me too. I was So sure it was Amber, and I’m so wrong.
Well she does struggle with math at times so putting two and two together may be a bit of a challenge – then again does she even know that they know each other?
Willis, please, my birthday’s not until April and my neighbours can only tolerate so much squeeing at midnight.
You just need to ask permission.
On that note – driving really really fast with another person while the other persons doesn’t talk.
Y’mean like what you and Marcie seem to have been doing the day after your parents came to town, Sal?
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-4/01-the-only-dope-for-me-is-you/invest/
Well, we’ve seen that even earlier!
Yep! Though I don’t recall off hand if anything particularly upsetting was going on, so I kept it to the more direct call back.
Buy a new pillow specifically for containing noises, that’s what I do. It works for screaming just as well as it does these moments of glee. Though I live in the middle of nowhere so my heighbors arw too far away to care about either one.
I had one, but my cat sat on it and let out all the noises at once, so it sounded like I was hosting a roman orgy.
Plus side, my cat now avoids that pillow.
I have a slightly crowded neighbourhood with neighbours who are nice, but many work early in the morning, get home late at night or have small children.
I’m a nerd, not a total dickhead.
Shoot, forgot the 😛 emoji. Whoops.
Danny is a “Hep Cat”. A “Cool Daddio”. In other words, you better heckin’ believe that he isn’t even slightly cool.
(And that’s okay, being cool is overrated!)
I mean, look how it’s working out for Sal. She’s got Danny on her bike.
Danny on the other hand gets to be on Sal’s bike.
One of them is clearly getting the better deal here.
I dunno. She wanted him on her bike. How does that factor into the equation?
Past tense.
Danny, ironically, is at his best when he’s being honestly self-deprecating (not to be confused with his wangst moments). “Nope, not cool at all, and I’m fine with that,” is actually… well, kinda cool.
Yes, it’s just a startling amount of self-awareness from him.
-That- is pretty cool of him, yeah. It’s just that he’s still working his way out of his whole no-self-worth thing from earlier in the comic so it’s still kind of worrying behavior.
That or I’m just too used to worrying about characters in this comic at this point. *shrug*
Huh, I thought that she was talking to Amber yesterday. But I’m glad to be wrong, I really like this new relationship between Sal and Danny. I think it is good for both of them, at least I hope it is. They could both use some good company in their lives, and they can bond over shitty parents.
Dammit no I got it wrong it was Danny! So angry with myself right now LMAO
Sal, whatever gave you the impression that he would be cool? I love him but come on. 🙂
Pretty sure you will get a kick out of this!
Didn’t know two of my favorite comic artists read Willis
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php#.W9kqfdVKjIU
oh my god
I was going to mention this if no one else had.
I’m mentioning it anyway.
ahahaha
Came here to make sure this was seen. Amazing. Totally unexpected.
I think I mailed them their Book 7 last week.
Oh my gosh! That’s awesome!
Feathers -and- Wednesdays. Yep, accurate.
Didn’t an advertisement for Shortpacked! appear on one of the Mechanicsburg billboards when Agatha first arrived there, too?
Yep. http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070321
That page and the one before it namedrops a lot of webcomics: Girls With Slingshots, Wapsi Square, Gunnerkrigg Court, Something*Positive, Dominic Deegan, Home On The Strange, Devil’s Panties, Order Of The Stick, Namir Deiter, Digger, Freefall, Questionable Content, Lackadaisy, and Bob The Angry Flower.
As well as a shout-out to Foglio himself with Buck Godot, and GG’s colorist, Cheyenne Wright, with Arcane Times.
And the sharks out of Guilded Age.
I loved What’s New with Phil and Dixie.
That is utterly amazing!! I’m so glad no spoilers, although I am wishing for spoiler tags…
Note: frame five of the previous page has the eponymous Yellow Submarine.
I’m pretty sure every character from every webcomic exists somewhere in the Girl Genius universe, just as a mad scientist of some description. The Foglios namedrop and reference other webcomics at the drop of a glorious Wulfenbach hat, and it’s wonderful.
Dina being a Spark explains SO MUCH.
*tips hat
“M’lady”
Girl Genius crossover pegs Willis’s comic karmometer! http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20181031
I mean, it’s cooler than calling it whatever its proper name is supposed to be. I’m sure I’ve seen the real name mentioned but I’m not gonna waste brain space remembering that when Blowjob Cat is such a better descriptor.
Hahahahah I love him when he’s being self-aware like this; like when you get past how much of a wet fish he is in a lot of stories he’s honestly one of the more like-able people in the comic, like the kind of person you want as a friend, but maybe not to hang out with all the time
Like, Walkyverse Danny was often a dickweed about things, and early DoA Danny was sometimes not very likable, but honestly, he’s mostly been a mensch for a while here.
The hat must be magical since it’s not flying off his head right now.
clearly they’re wearing magic invisible helmets. that somehow don’t crush hats.
…also body armor, and proper boots, and gloves.
The magic was in his hat all along
Oh, Sal. I get irritable when I’m lonely too.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN LONELY, SHE’S NOT LONELY, YOU’RE LONELY, SHE DIDN’T WANT TO HANG OUT WITH MARCIE TODAY ANYWAY ALSO SHUT UP.
Stupid Marcie.
I’m a touch surprised Sal’s not wearing her helmet, but I guess that it’s not really as funny if she is.
I think this may be the first time that anyone has ever thought Danny was cool.
i thought danny was cool
sal thinks highly of danny i guess?
How is his hat staying on?
peanut butter
I am concern that Sal is not wearing her helmet
Or her jacket. Or any protective gear. Same goes for Danny.
Not cool. Especially not if you intend to drive fast.
Jacket came with the bike so it might serve as another suitable motorcycle jacket, and I’m fairly sure her gloves are all motorcycle gloves.
As for everything else? Yeah, I’m concerned.
You don’t wear protective gear if you don’t intend to drive. A good motorcycle jacket is stiff and warm. Like, really stiff and really warm. It’s no fun to wear them. That’s why I’m assuming the rutten jacket is less protective gear and more merchandise.
Sal’s worn her motorcycle gear when walking around and even wore it to the lake.
Besides, with what I assume Rutten stuff costs, providing a jacket is the least they can do. 😛
I thought she was on her motorcycle shortly before that.. I’m not sure though.
I’ve always wondered how a teenager afforded a brand new bike 😁
No, she was sleeping before going into Joyce’s room and learning about the party with Ryan.
We’ve not learned what exactly her job was, all we know is apparently she didn’t have help from her parents. Which, fair enough, since that went SO well last time she saved for something big.
Yeah, and it’s way too skinny to be hiding armor on the inside. And iirc her usual gloves don’t have fingers? Motorcycle gloves are like snowboarding gloves, big and bulky.
No, most of her gloves do have fingers. I can only think of one set of fingerless gloves she’s worn off the top of my head, and she wasn’t driving then (and she changed her gloves when she was going out driving).
As for the jacket – I dunno. It doesn’t seem any skinnier than her normal gear. It actually looks a bit thicker to me, but that might be the art shifting over time.
The part of me who rides a motorcycle wants to know why. It’s sorta of habitual behavior for me and many others, to do it or not.
The Doyleist answer is Willis wants us to be able to see her facial expressions.
The Watsonian answer is that Sal likely felt she urgently needed to have someone around because she’s upset and Marcie’s not hanging out with her. We’ve never seen her ride her motorcycle without a helmet right now so I read that as Sal took off not long after Marcie left (because Sal always makes great decisions when she’s upset).
*Never seen her ride her motorcycle without her helmet UNTIL right now.
I think she’s not wearing her helmet so we can see her facial expressions (very important for this strip).
Word of Willis from Patreon is that you’re absolutely right.
At high speeds it can sometimes be more dangerous to wear a helmet because you risk internal decapitation. I don’t do motorcycles, because I am afraid of so many things, buuut I grew up fairly close to Daytona and the mindset seems to be if you’re on anything other than a highway, you wear a helmet, but if you’re on the interstate you don’t.
Really? I live near a highway and I see bikers wearing their helmets all the time.
Aren’t you Canadian? In civilised countries like Canada, wearing a helmet isn’t optional but required by law.
True enough, and relatively close to biker country (about an hour or two away) so I see lots of bikers around.
[citation needed]
See also: being thrown from an accident is safer than wearing seat belts, and other old wives’ tales.
If it’s not true then I have at least contributed a common myth to the discussion! -thumbs up-
But yeah I genuinely don’t know, that’s just what the Daytona people say.
Any accident violent to decapitate a helmet wearer is violent enough to shred the entire head of a non-helmet wearer.
Apologies for the graphic description, but really, these sorts of safety myths are stupid and dangerous, and should be terminated with extreme prejudice.
[sigh] violent ENOUGH to decapitate . . .
That’s probably because of Dale Earnhardt’s fatal accident. (He always wore open face helmets, and NASCAR didn’t mandate head restraints at the time, so when his car hit the wall head-on his neck snapped and his face hit the steering wheel. Now HANS devices, those foam neck supports that limit head and helmet movement to prevent that from happening, are mandatory.)
Ahoy! Lawks! Dina as a Spark, complete with dinosaur, over on Girl Genius! Happy Halloween!
B’Gok!
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php#.W9k3hJNKiUk
I was just about to post about his.
I’m glad that others saw this too!
When did Dina take a break to visit Girl Genius?
I note that Danny seems to have handed his ukulele off to Amber.
by the way this article is not related to this strip in particular, but it is related to the strip in general, especially when it comes to Joyce and sexual shaming
http://noshamemovement.com/post/179552104770/purity-culture-and-performative-morality
For what it’s worth, I grew up in the evangelical world very much during the “Purity Culture” craze, and this is not what I experienced at all. Even her definition, “The purity ethic is about defining a person and their worth as pure or impure based on other people’s assessments of their sexual lives, which is inherently shaming,” is not something I was ever taught. In fact, I was always taught that the only person whose opinion of me mattered was Jesus, and that the whole point of the cross and resurrection thing was that Jesus declared believers “pure” of all sins (sexual or otherwise). The goal of a Christian is to live in accordance with that “pure” declaration and to strive to be more pure in all ways. There was an emphasis on sexual purity was, at least ostensibly, only because sexual sins can be particularly tempting. Still, I was never taught that sexual desires were wrong, rather that they were so good that they should be reserved for the most pure/ideal form of sexual expression, sex within marriage. How I was taught, there was a lot of emphasis on the concept that no one had the right to force me into sexual situations I wasn’t comfortable with. Even modest dressing was framed as a way of denying any creepers the ability to see or lust over parts of my body I didn’t give them permission to, a clear form of communicating to others that I didn’t want that kind of attention from them. My brother was similarly taught to respect his own body and the bodies of women as sacred. Honestly, purity culture gave the clearest teaching to kids about their right to defend their own bodies and the importance of consent I’ve ever seen.
I realize other people have had very different experiences, and Joyce’s experience is probably more like Klein’s. It still astonishes me how badly their teachers have managed to distort a message that was very empowering to me.
Thanks for sharing your experience DJ (is that an acceptable nickname?); it was interesting to hear about.
I think if you believe all evangelical Christian organizations share ANYTHING in common among all branches then you do not understand them at all–and I include that Jesus is the savior. Each is in individualized and this is not a description remotely applying to large segments of this.
I think it definitely applies to Joyce’s sect, hence why it’s relevant
And yet there are broad patterns. At least in American evangelical churches and especially if you factor out the black evangelical churches, which have developed very differently over centuries, during slavery and segregation.
White evangelicals overwhelming support Trump, oppose abortion (and to a somewhat lesser degree, birth control and sex education), oppose LGBTQ rights. None of this is 100%, but that doesn’t mean you can’t talk about these movements in broad terms.
There are always exceptions.
On an unrelated note, Dina without social anxiety turned full on mad scientist over on Girl Genius.
What makes you think that version lacks social anxiety? The totally accurate dinosauria seems a lot of effort to put into for merely having a conversation starter, to the point of overcompensation.
Why isn’t the Blowjob Cat tag on this comic?!?!
It is now.
I really hope Sal is planning her revenge on Amber and needs Dan’s help.
That would be awesome.
So is that beret velcroed to Danny’s hair? I refuse that it’d stay on while driving fast on a motorcycle.
90% sure that’s a flatcap, not a beret, and pull it down enough and it can be on pretty damn tight.
same gravatar
I am liking Danny here.
Me too
C’mon Sal. If you see Blowjob Cat then you gotta talk about Blowjob Cat. Thems the rules.
Sal must not have noticed Blowjob Cat or else she would’ve mentioned it like everyone else does.
I could have sworn it’s made more than 2 appearances in this comic … though maybe that’s just because Willis talks about it on his Tumblr and Twitter so much.
She really does have a soft spot for dweebs
That’s what I said! Hehe.
It’s everyone’s mistake.
Danny’s reaction to that landmark is natural. It’s like seeing the Angelo Rock in Morioh.
Alt-text: And seeing as they’re going very fast and not wearing helmets, we may soon get to find out whether good eggs make the best omelets!
Now I wish very dearly that Joselyne and Danny will interact, so I will have a reason to include him in the next installment of Jocelyne Noir.
The goon leered and picked up the Ukulele player with a pizza plate sized fist, as easily as if he had been a particularly hipsteresque rag doll.
“It’s like my mama always told me,” he rumbled. “If you’re going to make an omelett you have to break some good eggs.” He leaned in closer. “I LIKE breaking eggs.”
“Yeah? I said. Your mama never told you about not putting all your eggs in the same basket?”
It was not the wittiest comeback, but I had preciously few options, and none of them good, so I stalled for time in the hope that the goon would not realize what the high pitched whine of a motor cycle getting closer meant for the immediate future of his dental fixtures.”
There are other installments??
Just the one, but you believe me, the moment Jocelyne returns I will parade her in a fedora and give her snarky noir monologs.
https://baggebythesea.tumblr.com/post/145493643141/jocelyne-noir-authors-note-a-noir-parody-dumbing
*mumble* yay fanfiction *mumble* even if it’s stuff I already read *mumble* it’s still great tho
nice Dina cameo in girlgenius today ^^
WHAT? BUT I’M LIKE A YEAR BEHIND? I CAN’T READ TODAY’S STRIP WITHOUT CATCHING UP, BUT I CAN’T SEE THE DINA CAMEO WITHOUT READING TODAY’S STRIP???
Only one thing to do.
TO THE ARCHIVE-BINGE-MOBILE. BAGGE AWAAAAAAAAAAY!
I know the feeling, only caught up on Girl Genius myself a couple of months ago.
Except in my case, I was nearly three years behind. 😛
So that was, what? Three hours in universe?
(Yeah, I’m still worn out after the Mechanicsburg arc)
lol, you’re only one story arc late ^^
*Buries head in hands*
I love that comic, but GOD it is not well paced for web publishing.
You could get the books. They’re gorgeous.
I do, and the pacing is much better when you read the comic book by book…
…but then something like this happens and I suddenly decide I want to read EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW
Wow, that was quite some archive binge. But totally worth it for Sparky Dina!
It could have been such a magical moment…
Then Dannie opened his mouth.
#BusinessAsUsual
For the rest of the comic, Willis will find increasingly absurd ways to shoehorn in Blowjob Cat, won’t he?
Neither of them are wearing helmets, but I firmly believe Danny’s hat will protect him
Sorry Sal, no lid, no love
Annnnnnnnd I forgot that Wes did my avatar without a helmet. Oops.
You will acknowledge Blowjob Cat, young lady.
“I just want to drive really really fast on this main road, you to be quiet and passively accepting about the matter and, oh yeah, for neither of us to be wearing helmets as we’re going really really fast.”
And here I thought the plan was for Sal to improve her negative tendencies, rather than to up herself from robbery to murder-suicide. :/
I guess Sal exhausted her energy for Not being a human disaster for the week… or a month.
Pfft Sal doesn’t have to bother with all that, Danny should just feel grateful that Sals acknowledging his existence
How about that. You got a cameo in the most recent Girl Genius.
It has taken me a while to work out what’s going on here. I mean I get that Sal wants to burn off some steam (and has chosen a fairly dangerous way to do it) but why drag poor Danny along? If he gets hurt, it’ll be her fault (probably a lot more directly than whatever happened to Marcie). I just wonder why she so desperately needs Danny on her pillion!
She’s feeling lonely, and with Marcie refusing to hang out with her she has preciously few alternatives. Carla? Joyce? Malaya? Like it or not, Danny is one of the closest friends she has.
He’s nice, and utterly non-threatening, and he emits body heat. She needs an ersatz Marcie and thought he’d do in a pinch.
Heh, Sal offered Ethan a motor cycle ride, so when he refused she had to find herself another dork to take along. Makes perfect sense.
Today’s Girl Genius strip has a Dina reference in it. Just thought you ought to know
As someone who does not ride a motorcycle and has never seen the appeal in one, can someone explain to me why Sal needs Danny along for this? I can sorta see why driving alone might be a good way to lose oneself in the activity and just have some time alone with your thoughts, but why bring someone else along if you’re not going to talk and you don’t want them to talk to you?
Well, the consensus seems to be that Sal needs someone to be with her to convince her that she isn’t alone and intrinsically unwanted.
Because she usually rides with Marcie.
I mean, Sal has hung out with Danny before. AND he can’t play the ukulele while riding a motorcycle. So yeah Sal, you should’ve known better.
If it’s cool she’s after, making sure he can’t play that thing seems like a step in the right direction.
have you checked out today’s Girl Genius?
What did Dan do with his ukelele? Did he give it to Amber? Did Sal refuse to have something that uncool on her “chopper”? Or has he concealed it somewhere so they can go and have a jam???
The new Danny can summon his trusty ukulele when there is need with only the power of his mind.
it’s his superpower
Oh shoot, so Danny stole Joyce’s hammerspace powers from IW!? Rude!
Nah, he’s just borrowing them from Billie (where she keeps her booze).
It’s not a chopper, it’s a crotch rocket.
Dina has a cameo in Phil and Kaja Foglio’s “Girl Genius” webcomic today!
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20181031#.W9mNl9VKiM8
“and on your left, Blowjob Cat” — tour guide
A certain Dinosaur-loving character has appeared in the latest page of Girl Genius. I did a double take then came right here to mention it.
Link
It honestly is, Sal.
I see Dina has made an appearance in Girl Genius.
I actually thought she was referring to Amber. I’m not up to date on who knows Amazi-Girls identity.
Is that (an alternate universe) Dina in the green coat? http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20181031
Seriously Sal you call him Wonderbread, you know what you were getting into.
Dina cameo:
http://girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php#.W9mueNVKgz0
was just coming here to comment about that actually
Ha. As others have noted, Dina shows up in Girl Genius. My favorite character here in another favorite strip over there.
Well lots of people are saying it already but screw it I came here with a purpose damn it
DINA CAMEO
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20181031#.W9m7s_ZN5PY
Oh, Sal
Hey all! Thought you ought to know! Dina’s in another comic!!!
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php#.W9m9-GgzbD4
Good news, bad news
Good news – Sal and Danny aren’t gonna die or (probably) get seriously hurt/disabled (or, in Sal’s case, more disabled than her hand already is). The adjustment and grief over it would take FOREVER in this comics pace. Also, apparently Indiana only requires those under the age of 18 to wear a helmet so she’s probably not getting fined over that.
Bad news – Speeding tickets and all sorts of other things are on the table. As the old adage says, ‘you’d be surprised what you can live through’.
Hey, did you see Dina in today’s Girl Genius comic? http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php#.W9oHR1VKiUk
She seemed a bit out of character- not reticent at all- until I realized that whe probably *would* be this excited to have recreated a dinosaur…
Ah, yes…. I really ought to read others’ posts before I post my own.
Anyone know why all the characters are different after each of our links’ .php#…?
Oidhche mhath, anns an Samhainn, sibh…
(‘Happy Halloween, y’all’…)
And of 64 original comments (i.e. not replies to others), 18 are pointing out Girl Genius. Impressive.
If you don’t read Girl Genius, there’s something wrong with you…
I… haven’t read it in a while…
I never got into it. I tried once, but it filled me with “Meh.” Dunno why.
I’m FAR more excited to see the new Leslie slipshine!
Tried a couple of times. Didn’t work for me. No idea why. If it’s a sign of something being wrong with me, I hate to tell you, but it’s very, very far down on the list of things wrong with me.
(My Ruth avatar seems exceedingly appropriate for some reason.)
No way that hat would stay on.
weird place to mention this but sometimes danny is so cute it makes me cry. like when you look at a puppy falling asleep
AAAAAH Dina invaded another comic
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20181031
This is the greatest cross-over ever.
19 of 68.
Hey Listen! Did you see the Dina cameo in Girl Genius???
There, this joke has been officially beaten to death.