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well then.
I only speak English.
+1
Tudo bem, ninguém é perfeito.
lol
c’est OK, personne n’est parfait.
forgot from being too eager to not actually go to class, probs
…couldn’t be that he wanted SARAH’S company…?
I sincerely doubt Walky wants to walk with Sarah. I don’t recall how Sarah feels about Walky, or if they have even had a conversation, but I feel like if they were going to be friendly, that ship has sailed.
They consider themselves to be in the same friend group.
Walky described her as the mean friend that acts as the temporary parent when there are no parents.
Sarah claimed that Lucy is outside the group, only there by benefit of Walky, thus implying that Walky is within the group.
Walky did more or less defend Sarah to Raidah, appreciating that she’s the type of person who would be upfront about finding him annoying rather than not liking him behind his back.
Sarah doesn’t exactly like Walky, but she does apparently feel enough of a connection to him to be bothered that he agreed to breakfast with Raidah in front of her (before acknowledging that it was ok since it inflicted him on Raidah).
So they’re not frenemies like Walky and Joyce are, and they’re definitely not siblings like Walky and Sal, Walky and Jennifer, or Sarah and Joyce, but they do consider themselves more than acquaintances if only due to their close proximity to Joyce and the group’s trauma bond.
And yet Sarah is walking to class with Lucy, not Walky.
Does Sarah know there’re (presumably) broken up. I’m pretty sure Joyce doesn’t know.
No. She’s walking with Joyce.
You can even say she’s walking with the group, of which both Walky and Lucy are a part of as I doubt any of them have noticed Walky hasn’t kept up, yet.
But you can’t claim she’s CHOOSING to walk with Lucy INSTEAD of walking with Walky, yet, since we haven’t seen any acknowledgment of a choice having been made or could be made.
Yeah, but nobody claimed that. Sarah is walking to class, and Lucy is there while Walky isn’t. The reason he’s not there doesn’t change the raw, base reality of who’s present or not.
The choice is implied by ABunchOTrees word choice in response to my comment Taffy.
My comment was about how Sarah and Walky consider themselves to be in the same friend group.
Saying that Sarah is walking with Lucy and not Walky in response to that changes the context of the statement from being simply one of fact to being one counter to mine, especially since no one had mentioned Lucy at all prior to that.
“I don’t recall how Sarah feels about Walky”
Sarah at least felt negatively enough toward Walky to give Lucy that unsolicited “you can do better” admonition.
That was more a “there are plenty of boys who DON’T have racist parents. That’s kinda going to be the sort of a problem in a relationship that shouldn’t be on you to fix, is largely going to be beyond your fixing, and will hurt you time and again until it kills the relationship. Save yourself some time. He’s not a bad guy, but he’s not so amazing you won’t move on and meet somebody who you can be happier with.” message than a “Walky’s a lazy slob. You seem to largely have it together. Why are you wasting your time with the loser?” one.
The first one acknowledges that the main problem isn’t Walky himself, but also you shouldn’t do what my sister did when she was I think 16 and her boyfriend was a bit controlling/manipulative and she’d basically stopped making plans with her friends because she didn’t want to break them when he
offered her some crumbs of affectionsaid that he could see her [specific, short-notice time slot], otherwise they wouldn’t see each other for at least a week… She recognised that this was a bit rubbish but when I was telling her to dump him and enjoy her life, she’d wail at me that she was worried that then she’d be alone forever.She was 16. Lucy’s maybe 19? Plenty of time!! Also, WAY better to be alone than with the wrong person.
I don’t know what’s going on here but Walky should not feel like he can’t walk with his friends. Also he might need some guy friends.
Didnt realize that he really doesn’t have guy friend until now.
Mike is dead. Loves making fun if Danny too much. Joe seems to think he’s immature. Seems to not know the rest or the male cast outside of maybe Ethan.
The only guy friend he really has is Asher and that feels like it a matchstick away from combustion due a combination of Raidah’s manipulation, Sal’s past with the guy, Asher’s part in Mike’s death, and that Jennifer is really in denial about wanting to smooch Walky.
Walky could definitely use some more guy friends.
I doubt he’d give a crap about Danny if dude didn’t openly hate him for insane reasons.
He and Joe actually get along with each other despite their different forms of toxic masculinity, but they don’t seek each other out.
I don’t think he knows how to talk to Ethan, even before Mike’s death.
He’s aware of Jacob, but I don’t think they’ve ever interacted solo.
He’s actually been shown to know most of the guys in his wing, even to the point of knowing their game consoles, but all that has been off panel.
Asher would be the best and worst choice for a close guy friend for reasons you’ve already mentioned.
How about Jason?
Jason is great providing they’re both drunk.
Walky has plenty of guy friends that he knows well enough to grunt at in the hallway.
I think he prefers being kind of an asshole to them instead. https://www.dumbingofage.com/yawnchasm/ https://www.dumbingofage.com/plebs/
He could hang out with Jason more, they deserve each other. Off panel though pls.
Jason freaking out at Walky appearing after he was fired for sleeping with Sal was one of the funniest strips in the whole comic, though.
Well, there is Booster and … Arnold+Ken? Maybe Walky can team up with his other universe brother Beef.
Booster is not a guy friend.
Booster is nonbinary.
That doesn’t matter to bigots.
Why would Walky need guy friends? What’s the thinking here?
I don’t know, but it’s a recurring theme.
It’s good to have a wide friendship group, get different points of view, that kind of thing
Sometimes it’s easier for people to share things with others who have had the same experiences as you
Shocking I know
??? I’m not attacking that viewpoint, i’m literally just asking.
That’s the same thing, to some people. If you don’t have a problem with something, you usually won’t question it, so to some people (silly people), asking a question means you have a problem and are complaining about or even attacking the something. To the incurious, curiosity is a sin.
I should clarify that I’m not calling hedge incurious, I’m only sharing an observation. Maybe it’s not strictly relevant.
He has a view of masculinity that’s bad for him, and not great for people around him. He thinks he’s not supposed to have guy friends.
I guess the idea is that since he’s a guy, there are things only guys could 100% relate to and talk to him about? I’m gonna tread very lightly here, but I’m wondering if trans people are included in that, or if folks are solely meaning him talking to other cismen. It’s a little strange, but I think I can kinda see where folks are coming from, and like the color adjustment said, his relationship with his masculinity is a little fuckin’ strange. Come to think of it, he’s been called on that at least once, regarding his “one pair of shoes” nonsense. Idk, it might be good for him to talk to masculine dudes who don’t have such a weird relationship with that part of themselves. I don’t fully see it, but maybe.
I know Malaya’s nb/fluid/whatever, but they’d be a pretty good guy friend for Walky. Some non-serious bickering with each other, calling out each other’s shit. They’d both take the edge off of each other, for other people around them.
I can see them wrastling in the grassy area next to a sidewalk.
M: tie your shoes or get fuckin velcro, dude
W: I was going to get velcro, but Dorothy …
M: [mockingly] meep meep meep meep, Dorothy said meep meep meep
W: [glare]
M: grow up and buy yourself some children’s shoes or I’ll kick your ass
W: oh you think you could? let’s go right now
Walky obviously loses a shoe in the scuffle
Honestly from my experience, guy friends are overrated, and I am a cishet (if gray ace counts as het) white male.
Agreed
It also seems a bit dubious that Lucy has come over to wait outside his dorm doors when she knows he’ll be needing to come out and get to class, and that that is contributing to him being late-to/missing class.
Awww man, Willis canceled his thing. I would never be able to go anyway, but he must really feel under the weather. I hope he feels better soon.
Per his post on Twitter, it’s his wife that’s sick (with COVID, it ain’t over, wear your mask kids) but he’s staying home both to prevent spread and for childcare reasons.
A good call on Willis’s part. Hope everyone recovers smoothly.
Ooof. Getting ignored like that does not feel good
Sarah and Joyce just tolerate it, but I think that if suddenly Walky is no longer taken into account by that pair even if there is no friendship as such, it would be something sad to see, but it seems that Walky is also slowing down for another reason. .
It amazes me that all the times Walky has been running, he has never tripped because his shoes were loose.
It would be good physical comedy.
I want Walky to see someone else trip over their own shoelaces and comment on how they shouldn’t run with their shoelaces untied, and then for them to get all indignant about how he does it all the time, I feel like there’s some good comedic potential there somewhere.
It’s one of his latent superpowers.
I’ve said it before, Walky desperately needs different friends.
Granted, nobody in this group is really his friend anyways, but dude needs more than just his sister. Go find Asher, Walky, he’s probably still in your dorm because of Ethan lol (I have no earthly clue the layout of the dorms here or who sleeps where)
Maybe he’s the option she needs and the first friend she really needs, of course, Jennifer will be complaining about that, as always.
*He needs
Every person he’s really hit it off with since he got to college is now his ex, which can be kind of awkward. But it seems like he and Amber still have good vibes. He should just hang out with her, Becky and Dina tbh. At least he gets along with all of them.
The only thing that intrigues me is if I can really see Dorothy’s face, I mean, in Karaoke she clearly sang what she felt, but what else had happened the night before?
Sometimes a Karaoke is just a Karaoke.
He doesn’t need different friends. His friends just aren’t here. People that have a genuine friendly dynamic with him are Becky, Amber, and Dorothy. (Asher potentially too.) He’s always been more of a tolerated presence to Joyce and Sarah.
I was just commenting to Sakamism that if he really is at peace with Dorothy, she sang but they didn’t show what else happened that night.
He seems to be more at peace with their relationship than she is.
That happens all the time when you convince yourself that the other person deserves better than you.
Joyce actually described Walky as family when she first found out Becky ran away from home, so I think their relationship is closer to frenemies than to simply say she tolerates him.
I believe they would miss messing with each other.
Family and friends are two different things. I don’t consider Sal or Jennifer his friends either. Family is a connection you have maybe even a loving one but you don’t have to like your family. Friends are people you actually enjoy being with and they enjoy being with you and you elect to spend time with them just for fun. You can love your friends like family but family don’t have to be your friends and that is the difference to me. Walky doesn’t have a that with Sarah or Joyce despite them being friends on paper. I don’t see either of them electing to spend free time with Walky like Becky or Amber might. We’re even seeing that now.
The problem with that is, unlike Sal and Walky, Joyce and Walky is CHOSEN family.
Joyce has chosen to view Walky like that, which is why I say it’s more than her tolerating him (I never said she likes him).
I said I believe they would miss messing with each other.
Why didn’t I say the same about Sarah?
Because I do believe that Sarah tolerates him.
If Walky disappeared for a few days, Joyce would eventually wonder what happened to him.
Sarah wouldn’t, at least not until others did, and maybe not even then.
Maybe he can quit school and go get a job in Garfield. They’re understaffed — I don’t think Lyman is ever coming back.
Is IU one of those places that has double doors but only ever unlocks one side? This is the second time people have complained about blockages rather than, you, going around.
I get the feeling that Walky is going to go back to his room, and skip class today. I can’t really blame him, but I do wonder what he is thinking.
What do y’all think?
I think he intends to go to class right now, but once he’s back in his room, he’ll decide it’s too uncomfortable. Maybe ‘decide’ is too strong a word.
I think he genuinely forgot his bag. #justadhdthings
Maybe he’ll run into Asher in the hallway.
Walky goes in. Reginald Thingley comes out.
Oh thank goodness, I’m not the only one who thought this.
Same. The urgency wouldn’t be there if he weren’t actually trying to attend class.
Don’t feel too bad Walky.
Einstein once forgot his own address, true story!
I had no idea I had so much in common with Einstein.
Though I had lived here less than a week, so maybe it doesn’t count. I still have to pull out my drivers license tho because I can never remember if the German name on the street contains a eu or a ue and I always get it wrong.
Oh wow, I don’t remember Einstein’s address either!
No Joe? Figures.
Wonder what frightens me more, the updated banner or the new poll?
WALKY NO! You can’t forget that now that you’ve pulled yourself out of the grade pit!
Hopefully he’ll start walking to class on his own, or make things with Lucy less awkward. I don’t want to see him skip class, but I get the feeling he will.
Why does he have to make things less awkward? She’s going out of her way to make sure they are awkward. This feels like the initial stages of a plan to push him out of his circle so she can take his place.
The cashier at Costco gave you slightly incorrect change as part of a plan to gradually bleed you of money and force you to take a second job to cover the difference, while she subtly encourages you to apply at the same store, because she knows she’ll be the one training you and she might get the chance to hang out with you after work, gain access to your friend group, and then poison them against you.
I hate when that happens.
Because if the other party is not going to do a thing, you have to do it. Maybe it’s not fair, but you don’t have a lot of other options.
The thing could also not get done. That’s an option people seem allergic to admitting exists.
Good excuse to skip class for the day.
Can’t help but wonder if Walky tripping over his untied shoes just always happens off screen.
The thought made me smile.
Malaya is the realest mfer on that poll
Alas, that wasn’t the question
Though Mike was proof that mfer and hot could be synonymous.
Just ask your mom.
We need another poll.
At time of writing, Joe has 69 votes.
Nice.
Well that didn’t last for long. There is a joke somewhere in all of this, but I have to be awake in 6 hours. Too tired, someone smarter can create a joke.
… is this like the time Walky left his pants behind when he got raptured?
walky WOULD stop in the doorway. he is truly ultimate evil. has even carla stooped so low?
A perfect opportunity to place herself firmly in the center of everyone’s attention? I’m gonna say probably, even if we haven’t seen it ourselves.
Stoop so low?
He’s in the doorway at the TOP of the stairs. The stoop would be below that.
I remembered that in the past, Walky always joked about Joyce’s faith, what now?
?
I remember Joyce dont like Walky because he alwas jab her about her religion, now when Joyce change her view I Wonder if they will find common ground
Probably joke about militant atheism or something?
At least he has a legit reason for lagging behind.
You also forgot to tie your shoes.
Nah, he left like that on purpose.
“It’s a choice.”
“Nah, they came that way.”
You know…. when I put on my shoes that require tying laces, and leave them untied, they fall off every time I take a step.
Walky, you are extremely amazing.
It’s a talent that took years of practice.
Your shoes are simply too large.
So basically nobody likes him anymore, except his sister and his roundest ex. His roommate is a borderline sex offender and keeps doing gross weird shit that only Carla seems to do anything about. Not even his parents want him anymore. Welp, guess the two people who might care if he lives or dies will have to be enough.
???????
Yeah, it’s not the best sentence structure. Basically, Walky is down to Sal and Amber for people who actually seem to like him, his roommate is a nasty creep, and his mom nearly glared a hole in the back of his head so I don’t think she’s super jazzed about him anymore. If you’ve got another character who’d probably be legitimately upset if Walky disappeared, you’re free to name them, but I can’t think of any. It’s a very small support structure for a struggling teenager, that’s all. Don’t know why people are acting like that’s such a strange thing to say.
This bit you’re doing where you’re pretending that people’s shock and confusion is at the gist of your message would be funny if it weren’t so transparent or about as grotesque an accusation as calling Booster a “borderline” sex offender.
Pro-tip: Charging into someone’s room and declaring that you’re going to teach them to masturbate is way worse than anything Booster has said or done “on-screen”. You have no idea what “sex offender” means.
You’re misreading the comments. It’s fine, we all do it. Just accept that you’re wrong and move on, instead of this whataboutism with Dorothy.
Booster a borderline sex offender… WHAT???
It’s a vibe I get. You’re not legally required to agree, but you don’t have to pretend it’s so outlandish.
them digga is high as hell XD
That fanfic you wrote there might need some work.
Fanfic is when people disagree with me.
This is not inaccurate. I get that Booster maybe doesn’t get social norms but they’ve been going out of their way to be super creepy. If the dorm had a real RA who gave a damn – they would have needed to have a talk with them some time ago.
I only speak English.
So speaks the Kissinger apologist.
About what? That time they were flirting with Amber? I think they took a picture of her without her consent, which is not great but pretty normal comic behavior. Did anything else happen?
That flirtation was dripping with creep juice, though. Amber really didn’t seem into it, which I’m told makes it wrong and creepy.
Okay, you see it too. It’s never too early to rein in creepy behavior, and while “borderline” is maybe a little heavy to put on them (not that they have feelings to hurt, being fictional), that kind of behavior can easily spiral when nobody’s willing to object. Booster has the potential to become the next “missing stair” (look it up) of their hallway, and that doesn’t seem so beyond the pale to suggest.
…Holy hell, this is a disproportionate reaction. Like, on SO many different levels, actually. I’m really not sure where to begin with this.
…And you know what, maybe I shouldn’t. You’re clearly just living in an entirely different world than I am, so maybe I shouldn’t bother trying to judge you, and instead just give you a thumbs up as you continue on down this bizarre path of interpretation I could never understand. Go right ahead, buddy. Go right ahead.
Yeah, it’s really disproportionate to say he’s pretty alone right now.
Christ, you people are dramatic.
Huh. I thought I was the biggest Booster-anti-booster on the board. Nice to have someone to point to and say, “At least I’m not that guy”. Booster is creepy and does have lots of boundary issues. But no, Booster isn’t a ‘sex offender’, borderline or otherwise.
Not yet, but I don’t think it’s as big of a reach as you people seem to. All it takes is one person to take it more seriously than Amber and Walky do, and Booster’s gonna be introducing theirself to the neighbors any time they move, for quite some time.
I wonder if Sarah actually thinks Sal wanted to be alone or is she just avoiding telling them that Sal didn’t want to be with her because she insulted her relationship with Danny. Maybe she feels a sense of guilt?
She very specifically walked away hand in hand with her boyfriend so the “she wanted to be alone” was just a flat out lie.
Sal wants to be alone with Danny, so not exactly alone. Her insults to Sal and Danny weren’t that sharp, but they were a signal that she wanted to be alone.
Sarah wants to be alone, but also she doesn’t want to be alone.
I think she worded it the way she did is because it’s on her mind. I think she also regrets being such a big grouch to Sal and Danny.
Just doing a last minute reread. Sarah doesn’t even say, “She wanted to be alone.” Could be “they”. Could be “I”. The “she” is inferred.
Re the hover— I assume he does, he just often doesn’t remember in time.
Though the guy from college he reminds me of always chanted wallet watch glasses keys before leaving any building.
I have ADHD and I had a leaving home chant like this.
We should let people be distracted on doorways
Forgetful? Walky’s bookbag still has three of Mike’s textbooks in it!
walky seems to be dealing with this worse than lucy despite less emotional involvement
The felling of “I screw up TWO relationships with nice and smart girls that are way too good for me” will do that to you. (This isn’t necessarily true, at least not entirely, but it’s how Walky fells)
*I could correct and say 3 relationship but I don’t know if amber qualifies as “nice” or “too good for Walky”. She is pretty smart though, at least with computers.
Basically everyone agrees that she is absolutely not too good for walky
Maybe. Lucy also came prepared for this. She knew she was walking into a situation where Walky was going to be. Walky probably wasn’t expecting to see her until class and then likely to not have to really deal with her.
If Lucy’s doing this intentionally, it’s an aggressive move and kind of a nasty one – at least without talking expectations out with Walky first.
And Walky’s non-confrontational, so he’ll let her get away with it, at least for a bit.
Wait, so is it your contention that since Lucy didn’t change her plans – she’s been walking to class with this group since before she and Walky got together, IIRC – it can ONLY because she’s being aggressive and nasty?
“If Lucy’s doing this intentionally”.
She could just be naive enough not to have considered that maybe going to hang out with your ex and a group that was more his friends than yours the day after you broke up with him, without even talking to him about it first, is going to be more than a little awkward.
For some odd reason I sang that first panel in the style of Petula Clark’s “Don’t Sleep In The Subway”. (I was a Monty Python fan as a kid.)
Looks like Lucy is literally moving on without Walky. If he wants a relationship with her he’ll have to earn it. Good for her.
Joyce seems in a good mood. Must have finally finished her shower.
So who have we set Walky up to meet? Dorothy to talk about regrets? Asher to talk about moving on from relationships? Joe to talk about how difficult things are? My money is on Asher. But that might not be dumbing enough.
I imagine willis realized after doing the last strip that he’d forgotten to draw the backpack and went to fix it but before he put pen to screen he went “Wait. I can use this.”
ssshhhhhhh
I wish your wife a speedy recovery! Get well soon & rest well, Mrs Willis!
anyone notice that Sarah told Joyce and Lucy that Sal wanted to be “alone”? Instead of saying she irritated Sal enough that Sal didn’t want to walk with Sarah. I think Sarah doesn’t even realize half of what she says that ticks people off.
She very much realizes, as she does it for that purpose. Because becoming emotionally vulnerable with more people isn’t really one her favorite things if you haven’t noticed.
I’m not sure if Sarah knows why Sal left.
Does Sarah think what she was saying is normal, everyday small talk so no reason for Sal to leave or does she think Sal should just accept what Sarah was saying because of being in a “friend” group?
She fully understands, she just doesn’t want to say “Sal’s not walking with us because of my inability to interact normally with other people”
Sarah knows she’s grouchy. But I don’t think Sal left only because of Sarah. Walky and/or Lucy would be joining them, and they are also obnoxious to her and Danny. And Joyce could be 50/50 for boundaries.
Were his shoelaces always untied?
Apparently they were… Heh.
Always.
In the sense that he never ties them.
He shops in the same shoe store where Pig-Pen’s parents do.
Ooh, new poll!
…Any way I can have Joe, Asher, AND Jacob?
What you do in the privacy of your own fanfiction is your business.
We demand multi-choice polls!
im caught between joyce and sal in the poll
please tell me im not the only one
The struggle is so real…
Walky needs to grow an actual full-time backbone and not just renting temporary ones.
Give him time, he just worked out the implant his mother put in him that prevents him from growing one.