Haven’t we been told Robin’s a Republican? It certainly wouldn’t be the real Hilary and Barack, then, then add to that that Walky wouldn’t call Hilary a “girl,” and Barack hasn’t called himself “Barry” in several decades. No, it’s either a funny coincidence, or as Walky said, a bit.
Robin presented Becky live on tv as her new campaign manager, word would easily get around that Robin hired some homeless queer youth for “diversity”, and from there to thinking of Becky and fact checking isn’t a long jump
Robin’s light-speed metabolism essentially ran on sugar in the Walkyverse, with the occasional laundry detergent chaser. IIRC she always had fruit-flavored candy on her breath, or that’s what the cartoon dust clouds she left behind smelled like.
Here she’s just on a collision course with type 2 diabetes before 40. At least she’s not eating detergent pods (unless she starts chasing stale memes for “youth outreach”).
I love that Leslie still cares about Becky and is concerned enough about her to want to know if she is alright. Makes me wish Becky would stop long enough to come see Leslie and let her know.
In exchange for serving as here Social Media Advisor. Actually convincing people to vote for her was technically never part of the arrangement (a loophole which Becky cheerfully exploits at every opportunity).
She already had room and board from Leslie and again, Robin is an untrustworthy flake. I understand why Becky’s taking it, but making a deal with Robin is tripping all my ‘deal with the devil bad idea’ moments.
Thing is, what we’ve seen Becky doing shouldn’t work. Neither her changing Robin’s positions by Tweet or whatever minor outreach Becky’s doing on campus. The first should lose her more votes than it gains and the second just can’t scale.
If Robin wins it’s through shenanigans and authorial fiat, not because of Becky’s deal with the devil.
@BBCC – I can certainly see her getting social media likes for them and that could seem popular, but it’s harder for me to believe they’ll translate into votes.
And suddenly I have the total crack idea that this ends up intersecting with the League Of Evil Dads plot when Toedad comes after Becky again and Leslie goes Mama Bear on him and Becky suddenly realizes that no, this wasn’t nearly as conditional a situation as Becky had thought.
And then everyone beats the shit out of the dads and gets ice cream, Linda and Carol reveal that they’ve run off into the sunset to be horrible together forever, Sir gets hit by a truck, Ryan went to jail once he left the hospital, Leland got kicked out of Yale for doing drugs or something and nothing bad happened to anyone again ever! Totally what happens.
*pours milk into blender*
*adds bag of Skittles (the whole bag, unopened)*
*adds a bananna (unpeeled)*
*purees for two minutes*
*pours into large glass*
Becky: Here ya go, Senator!
Robin: Mmmm, breakfast!
Smelling like skittles is not a good sign. Robin may be physically harmless, but Becky living with her is a REALLY bad idea. I doubt Robin can keep a hamster alive! Becky could suffer from malnutrition and and diabetes because of those candy eggs.
I looked it up. Yeah, sweet, fruity smelling breath – like, say, a bag of skittles – is a sign of ketoacidosis, apparently, which can be a preliminary sign of, “Turn your diet around RIGHT now else you gonna be diabetic”
That’s not a preliminary sign. That’s a ‘you’re already diabetic’ sign and also a sign that you’re going to die if you don’t get to a hospital – ketoacidosis can kill you. You can still get diabetes even if you have a perfectly healthy lifestyle, a good diet and exercise plenty because it’s not directly caused by diet or sugar intake.
You could have the worst and most sugar-filled diet in the world and not get diabetes because it is not a 1 to 1 link. And like, someone as young as Becky probably has a good enough pancreas to handle her diet regardless.
Nothing except that she’s been living on her own for less than a month, mostly mooching off of other people (understandably) up until very recently, and she is a Brand New Baby Adult (TM).
Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if the idea hasn’t even occurred to her. She may not realize she can.
Personally, as someone who did not move out for college (I commuted), and therefore still lived with ADULTIER adults once I technically became one… Let’s just say it took me awhile to realize I could just go to the store and buy ingredients and cook my own food whenever I wanted. Like, I totally contributed by cooking several meals a week for the family. But just going, hey, I think I’m going to make spaghetti this week, and then going to the store, buying ingredients, and then coming home and making it? …Yeah, that took awhile.
Like, I never did my own individual grocery shopping. Mostly, I bought the food once it arrived in the house, or I came with and helped, or once in awhile I did it myself but I was shopping for the household, like “What’s on the list that we all need?” I didn’t just choose food items and go get them, besides take out.
I mean, look. Leslie is a trained academic and educator. If her professional opinion is that Walky’s performance is best enhanced by teaching him to game the system, who are we to argue?
…if she’s clearly abusing the extra credit system for personal gains without any stated learning goals, submitted gradable material or even a remote connection to the course I kinda think we are to argue.
All extra credit systems are pretty awful, tbh. It’s a bad grading mechanism 99% of the time.
But nah, she’s clearly doing this to ensure the safety of Becky. It’s not meaningfully corruption because it’s not for personal profit.
…hm? Oh! Oh, right. Uhm lemme just brush these Timbits crumbs off my shirt, first.
Yeah, that Leslie, she sure is a crooked crook of a teacher. One time, I caught her sniffing a slice of melon before she ate it. Trust issues and a severe lack of impulsiveness, much? Probably covering up for her own guilty conscience. Gosh, what an absolute felon of a person.
It’s the best I could come up with on short notice, work with me.
My English professor at community college offered us extra credit if we attended a public reading from a book of poetry he wrote, and further extra credit if we bought the book. The class did not involve poetry in any form.
Raidah just sends Joyce a zoomed-in, grainy photo of someone who kinda looks like Joyce, eating in the cafeteria. The accompanying text says “I see you’re enjoying those tacos. Better eat up, punk”. Joyce is only confused by this, shrugs, and goes back to learning.
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“also she’s only been sending me Blowjob Cat PoGo gifts as of late”
*plays “All Right Now” on the hacked Muzak*
Aye, Blame The Scots!
It’s the Skittles Breakfast Smoothies DeSanto insists on. Fruit is healthy!
One bag skittles for vitamins, one tub cool whip for calcium, and some Swedish fish because seafood is high in protein.
And make sure it’s the little Swedish fish. The big ones, like all long-lived seafood, accrue mercury.
Skittles counts towards your 5 fruit a day as -2.
Only -2, eh? They’ve gotten healthier, then.
Great! 5-2=3, so only 3 more servings needed!
Mmm, more Skittles will help!
Wrong maths 5-(-2)=7
Walky is the first person on campus I’d pick if I wanted to be in the dark about it being the real Hillary and Barack.
What odds are there on him knowing who they’re supposed to be?
Haven’t we been told Robin’s a Republican? It certainly wouldn’t be the real Hilary and Barack, then, then add to that that Walky wouldn’t call Hilary a “girl,” and Barack hasn’t called himself “Barry” in several decades. No, it’s either a funny coincidence, or as Walky said, a bit.
They’re old Shortpacked characters.
I kinda figured they didn’t want to give their real names just in case this campaign goes south
. . .t-. . . taste the rainbow?
Glad someone made this one so I didn’t have to XD
Hillary Barry is a famous news anchor in New Zealand, so it took me a few moments to realize what Walky was talking about.
Obviously, he was talking about the famous news anchor from New Zealand.
It’s the first thing I thought of.
Wait. Did Becky seriously never say a word to Leslie? What the hell, Becky?
Well clearly Leslie must have already known Becky was working for Robin, or she wouldn’t have asked if she was at Robin’s booth.
Robin presented Becky live on tv as her new campaign manager, word would easily get around that Robin hired some homeless queer youth for “diversity”, and from there to thinking of Becky and fact checking isn’t a long jump
She’s got a bad role model.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2019/comic/book-9-comic/04-vote-for-robin/benefactor/
@Jamie Last time on Dragonball Z: http://www.dumbingofage.com/comics/2019-05-16-benefactor.png
By which I mean, last time we heard of Becky putting Leslie to thought.
Sorry, didn’t mean to be redundant. It’s a blargh morning. 😛
Oh no. Becky is at the “smelling-like-Skittles-stage”.
Skittles were what Walky!verse Robin binged on before becoming a representative, right?
I think it was cadbury cream eggs or something.
Cadbury cream egg as a breakfast cereal.
Okay. What did the Skittles make her do, then? I seem to recall the Walky!pedia mentioning something Skittles-related, but I forget what.
Robin wanted to own all the Skittles. She never did anything notable because of them though.
Robin’s light-speed metabolism essentially ran on sugar in the Walkyverse, with the occasional laundry detergent chaser. IIRC she always had fruit-flavored candy on her breath, or that’s what the cartoon dust clouds she left behind smelled like.
Here she’s just on a collision course with type 2 diabetes before 40. At least she’s not eating detergent pods (unless she starts chasing stale memes for “youth outreach”).
I love that Leslie still cares about Becky and is concerned enough about her to want to know if she is alright. Makes me wish Becky would stop long enough to come see Leslie and let her know.
Leslie is good people.
Wonder who is calling Joyce.
If they’re *calling* then it’s a telemarketer; none of her friends would be so cruel. It’s most likely that’s actually a text notification anyway.
I mean, she’s making a fucking awful decision, but she’s not dead in a ditch or anything.
Getting tuition and a home doesn’t seem like the worst decision
She’s getting them from an untrustworthy flake in exchange for getting her elected, despite her being a terrible human being. I’m dubious.
In exchange for serving as here Social Media Advisor. Actually convincing people to vote for her was technically never part of the arrangement (a loophole which Becky cheerfully exploits at every opportunity).
1) No, she’s the campaign manager.
2) Robin explicitly makes getting her elected part of the deal here:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2019/comic/book-9-comic/03-sometimes-the-sky-was-so-far-away/stunt/
Even if Robin isn’t elected, so what? Becky still gets at least a semester of tuition and room and board. That’s more than she had before
She already had room and board from Leslie and again, Robin is an untrustworthy flake. I understand why Becky’s taking it, but making a deal with Robin is tripping all my ‘deal with the devil bad idea’ moments.
Well, it’s about getting her reelected, but success is not required. Campaign managers still get paid if their candidates lose.
I’m more worried about if she succeeds.
Becky’s putting in just enough effort to look like she’s doing the job, and counting on Robin’s polling deficit to hold.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2019/comic/book-9-comic/03-sometimes-the-sky-was-so-far-away/pinata/
That first part is fine, but it’s the second I’m concerned about.
What could possibly go wrong?
Thing is, what we’ve seen Becky doing shouldn’t work. Neither her changing Robin’s positions by Tweet or whatever minor outreach Becky’s doing on campus. The first should lose her more votes than it gains and the second just can’t scale.
If Robin wins it’s through shenanigans and authorial fiat, not because of Becky’s deal with the devil.
@ Bagge – You know better than to use that phrase in a Willis comic. I’m taking away one of your good noodle stars. 😛
@ thejeff – Well, sure, if you’re being all Doyleist about it. Watsonian wise, it’ll probably be about Becky.
The shenanigans may revolve around her, but I’ll have a lot of trouble believing it’s her masterful campaigning that wins it for Robin.
If it was, for example, a massive sympathy vote in the wake of a public Blaine/Ross attack, I can’t really blame Becky for not foreseeing that.
BBCC: That’s fair 🙂
@ Thejeff – I have a hard time believing it too, but we’re supposed to believe these are the only things popular about Robin right now.
@BBCC – I can certainly see her getting social media likes for them and that could seem popular, but it’s harder for me to believe they’ll translate into votes.
..At least she’s not jumping on top of cars…?
Huh.
Leslie’s developing mom-priorities.
…..
… Absolutely nothing could possibly go wrong with this, and I unreservedly endorse it.
But is she all right?
Leslie’s third panel face kills me.
And suddenly I have the total crack idea that this ends up intersecting with the League Of Evil Dads plot when Toedad comes after Becky again and Leslie goes Mama Bear on him and Becky suddenly realizes that no, this wasn’t nearly as conditional a situation as Becky had thought.
And then everyone beats the shit out of the dads and gets ice cream, Linda and Carol reveal that they’ve run off into the sunset to be horrible together forever, Sir gets hit by a truck, Ryan went to jail once he left the hospital, Leland got kicked out of Yale for doing drugs or something and nothing bad happened to anyone again ever! Totally what happens.
Suddenly a wild Joyce appears out of nowhere to make a social situaion less awkward.
I’m a surprised as anyone.
But now we’ll never know if Walky would have run out of pizza eventually.
Leslie… I know this is stressful for you, but please, TRY to put some distance between your role as a teacher and the rest of your life.
“…smelling like Skittles.”
Is that supposed to be a reference to “tasting the rainbow”?
When it comes to Robin, it’s close enough.
Dina: “I tasted the rainbow, and she hasn’tr showered in days!”
*Golf clap*.
I knew there was a great joke in there but couldn’t come up with the right glancing, sharp words.
*pours milk into blender*
*adds bag of Skittles (the whole bag, unopened)*
*adds a bananna (unpeeled)*
*purees for two minutes*
*pours into large glass*
Becky: Here ya go, Senator!
Robin: Mmmm, breakfast!
Well, so long as it’s not zombie Skittles.
Smelling like skittles is not a good sign. Robin may be physically harmless, but Becky living with her is a REALLY bad idea. I doubt Robin can keep a hamster alive! Becky could suffer from malnutrition and and diabetes because of those candy eggs.
I looked it up. Yeah, sweet, fruity smelling breath – like, say, a bag of skittles – is a sign of ketoacidosis, apparently, which can be a preliminary sign of, “Turn your diet around RIGHT now else you gonna be diabetic”
That’s not a preliminary sign. That’s a ‘you’re already diabetic’ sign and also a sign that you’re going to die if you don’t get to a hospital – ketoacidosis can kill you. You can still get diabetes even if you have a perfectly healthy lifestyle, a good diet and exercise plenty because it’s not directly caused by diet or sugar intake.
You could have the worst and most sugar-filled diet in the world and not get diabetes because it is not a 1 to 1 link. And like, someone as young as Becky probably has a good enough pancreas to handle her diet regardless.
I mean, nothing’s stopping her from buying her own groceries. It’s a paid gig, after all.
Nothing except that she’s been living on her own for less than a month, mostly mooching off of other people (understandably) up until very recently, and she is a Brand New Baby Adult (TM).
Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if the idea hasn’t even occurred to her. She may not realize she can.
Personally, as someone who did not move out for college (I commuted), and therefore still lived with ADULTIER adults once I technically became one… Let’s just say it took me awhile to realize I could just go to the store and buy ingredients and cook my own food whenever I wanted. Like, I totally contributed by cooking several meals a week for the family. But just going, hey, I think I’m going to make spaghetti this week, and then going to the store, buying ingredients, and then coming home and making it? …Yeah, that took awhile.
Like, I never did my own individual grocery shopping. Mostly, I bought the food once it arrived in the house, or I came with and helped, or once in awhile I did it myself but I was shopping for the household, like “What’s on the list that we all need?” I didn’t just choose food items and go get them, besides take out.
*cooked the food once it arrived
Where is the flame war about Leslie’s academic corruption?
I know, right?
I wrote an angry post about it and all, and no one bit my head off. What kind of internet are we really having?
I can’t dispute your point if I don’t understand it.
I mean, look. Leslie is a trained academic and educator. If her professional opinion is that Walky’s performance is best enhanced by teaching him to game the system, who are we to argue?
…if she’s clearly abusing the extra credit system for personal gains without any stated learning goals, submitted gradable material or even a remote connection to the course I kinda think we are to argue.
All extra credit systems are pretty awful, tbh. It’s a bad grading mechanism 99% of the time.
But nah, she’s clearly doing this to ensure the safety of Becky. It’s not meaningfully corruption because it’s not for personal profit.
Now that it’s known one is wanted, one will not be provided. Such is the commentariat.
The commentariat is Mike?
Half of the Internet is Mike.
…hm? Oh! Oh, right. Uhm lemme just brush these Timbits crumbs off my shirt, first.
Yeah, that Leslie, she sure is a crooked crook of a teacher. One time, I caught her sniffing a slice of melon before she ate it. Trust issues and a severe lack of impulsiveness, much? Probably covering up for her own guilty conscience. Gosh, what an absolute felon of a person.
It’s the best I could come up with on short notice, work with me.
My English professor at community college offered us extra credit if we attended a public reading from a book of poetry he wrote, and further extra credit if we bought the book. The class did not involve poetry in any form.
Leslie has the biggest heart and I adore her for that.
Leslie correctly pointing out the difference between ‘well’ and ‘all right’.
Actually she is pointing out the difference between “all right” and “all right“.
Leslie is really a good person. I hope Becky finds the courage to go and see her, explain the situation to her, thank her for everything, etc.
Honestly surprised that Walky knows the names Hillary and Barry might be a reference to something.
he probably watches Saturday Night Live
It sounds kind of like he doesn’t, he’s just wondering based on how they were acting.
So, who is Joyce texting there? It’s unlikely to be Joe. Possibly Jocelyn?
Post Jacob, why is Joe unlikely? I would place the odds at Dorothy, Becky, Joe, and harassment from Radah in that order.
Raidah just sends Joyce a zoomed-in, grainy photo of someone who kinda looks like Joyce, eating in the cafeteria. The accompanying text says “I see you’re enjoying those tacos. Better eat up, punk”. Joyce is only confused by this, shrugs, and goes back to learning.
Joe is in the classroom, he entered ahead of Walky. Jocelyn, Becky, Ethan?