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I don’t see it
Actually, I do. I sort of noticed it yesterday, but assumed he’d always looked like that. But no, he’s definitely hotter than two comics ago.
Not really? His outfit’s better I guess but he looks more or less the same.
I was saying his hair made him suddenly hot “yesterday” – that is, yesterday in comic. The new do works for him.
I don’t know how, but this is Booster’s doing, isn’t it.
Possibly Walky used Boosters shampoo from the shared bathroom.
“I said he was …THOT”
“wait, then what’s H”
“…himbo”
Pfft, Walky’s not a himbo, he’s just a bimbo. A bimboy, if you absolutely must.
Walky doesn’t have enough mass to be a proper himbo. We’re talking about Kronk levels of beef here, but that dude is the hold standard. Also while Walky is immature I don’t know if he’s quite dumb enough either. True himbo status actually requires a lot of key elements Walky falls short in.
He’s also too much of an asshole, honestly.
Agreed; per a now deactivated tumblr user:
a himbo must, MUST, be Kind, Beefy, and Stupid.
only Kind and Beefy? thats just a hunk.
only Beefy and Stupid? thats just a jock.
only Kind and Stupid? thats just a decent man!
He’s definitely not Beefy. I think he’s just lean (somehow).
I don’t know if I would consider him kind, necessarily? Neutral/Chaotic personality-wise, at best.
He’s not Stupid either. Used to being Smart without any effort, lazily coasting until he met a hill that he actually has to start pushing on the pedals for (he’s on a bike in this metaphor, work with me). But not Stupid.
I give it 5 years, 7 tops, before his teenage metabolism throws in the towel and his bad dietary habits start catching up with him.
IDK, I’m sort of a walky (hopefully I’ve learned not to be such an egoist). My metabolism has done nothing but improve. I do have constant stomach problems tho, so maybe it’s that more than anything? Lost weight without effort and turned suddenly hot in my late 20s. The secret is… luck?
Yeah, I’ve seen people telling a friend all through his 20’s and 30’s that “it was gonna catch up with him.” But between casual exercise and an ok attitude ‘it’ never did. However, his life went for a shit at 38 (very nasty divorce/custody losses) and now he health is failing. Near as I can tell it is due more to the trauma from that plus four more years of hair pulling b/s from his ex. His will to exercise at all, eat right, or even have fun has evaporated. Now ‘it’ has caught up, but it was never what was meant by those making the claim. Or at least I didn’t think so. Then again, maybe all those who were saying it were more like his ex than we thought.
Some of us just adapt when that hits. I used to inhale a large pizza at dinnertime and go looking for more, but now I can split a medium with my kid and call it a night.
Or maybe Beef levels of beef? Sorry, I had to.
I find very odd how being a “himbo” is a positive thing.
It was always mildy positive (note that the terminology has generally been applied in a different context than ‘bimbo’). The ‘standard’ examples are generally characters like Kronk and Gumshoe, that are mostly regarded as kind and pure, with the side benefit of being masculine in shape and the dim-wittedness adding to the ‘aw shucks’ nature than anything.
In a time when aggressive masculine gung-ho behaviour is seeming more of a turn-off, gentle and kind men are seen as good, whereas with women the trend is favouring more towards those that can take charge and handle themselves (Wonder Woman, etc.).
I see it as strong big (not always muscular, just typical ‘manly’ people) usually men that are also kinda silly and maybe not the brightest bulb but they’re endearing and try their best. And it’s sweet. So I see it as a positive. I know it’s cause people don’t associate bimbo as a positive term, and people think it’s just the male version of that, but I think bimbo can also just be a sweet feminine person so idk language evolves.
I’ve seen people suggest ‘herbo’ as the new female himbo. Which is just very funny to me, like the original term has too many negative connotations.
That just makes me think of plants. Herb-o.
I’ve heard “shimbo” myself as in the she-himbo. Which I think works.
The quintessential himbo for me is Chris Hemsworth’s character in the 2016 Ghostbusters. So ripped. So sweet. So dumb.
He lacks the respect women juice for bimboy
idk what else starts with H
I guess hair?
Maybe it’s more of a regional thing (Hail from the British Isles!), but I’ve never really heard the term “himbo” until now, so it’s kinda strange t’see an entire discussion on it.
Yeah, it’s an outgrowth of American “valley-girl”-esque speech/language evolution. Plus a dash of retort to patriarchal derogatory female terms.
*seems to be
The bird-headed Egyptian god of knowledge? I’d rather see Dina in that role (birds are dinosaurs after all).
As a member of the Council of Himbo the three most important ingredients are being dumb, hot and polite.
Walky is dumb but not in an endearing way, he’s hot on accident, and he’s never been polite in his life.
The Council of Himbo denies the motion.
Hair is subjective, I guess.
Wait, are we doing Joyce x Walky now? Is… is Throwback Monday a thing?
Vigilantism gives you better hair. Also I’m with Sal. Walky doesn’t deserve whatever this is.
IMAGINE our surprise. It’s gotten to the point where literally my first thought when characters started complimenting Walky was “Oh, Sirksome’s gonna have something to say about this for sure.”
I have to say that I thought his response was very measured.
Yeah I thought I did okay. Even I don’t like being a jerk to Walky for no reason…..well I DO like that, but it gets boring. To elaborate though I don’t think Walky deserves this reaction not in that he doesn’t deserve good things but in that he hasn’t actually changed in appearance, which I thought was the joke of this development.
I think everyones reaction here is a classic example of change blindness mixed with delayed reaction. See Wally’s been hot since they came back from break but since all the girls who know him pretty much see him as an annoying little brother it likely took them a good 2 or 3 days to notice it. I think it’s deeper than just his hair tho. Remember guys walky is a mixed child so his chances of being hot was always higher than average but what if he started taking care of his personal hygiene. He now has 2 ex girlfriends and a positive relationship with his sister. Out of these 3 ladies SOMEBODY has to have taught about the importance of coco butter and deodorant. My money’s on sal since he came back hot after spending time with her over break. Plus she’s a black woman so her knowledge of moisturizer is likely thru the roof. Even if all walky did was steal a tub of coco butter from his sister over break that alone might be enough to make his skin glow giving him this whole lady-killer vibe. Granted Walky probably doesn’t care that coco butter is good for his skin he probably only uses it because it makes him smell like chocolate.
Plus Willis now draws Walky’s lips so it has to beore than just his hair that’s changed, a little hygiene goes a long way.
And as minimal as it would be, Walky would have to do /some/ hygiene to differentiate himself from -Night-Guy-.
To be fair Sirksome is quite accurate especially in regards to Walky
To be fair, Devin is quite accurate especially in regards to Sirksome. It’s just old and tired at this point. The fact that he was measured or accurate this time doesn’t change the fact that it’s just automatic at this point that Sirksome will always find something to dislike about Walky and will feel the need to tell everyone about it.
What is the comment section for if not to tell everyone about it? Admittedly, every single character seems to have a dedicated group that hates them rather than enjoys them for what they are and that can feel over-negative after awhile. But reading the comments is always a free choice.
Since our dialogues here are chiefly productive and largely avoid flame war degeneracy, and ALSO seem to avoid personal commentary about other commenters, maybe there’s a correlation? Perhaps it’s best to avoid personal attacks (no matter how tangential). What benefit, not how many posts but actual productive dialogue, has occurred around commenting on the likelihood that someone would be commenting because Walky is “hot now”.
Props to Sal for not cutting him down though, and instead of just opting for sibling blindness.
Hes been hot since the time skip I’m just glad it’s finally being acknowledged
Yeah, but she DEFINITELY wasn’t saying he isn’t hot.
DEFINITELY NOT. NO ONE IS SAYING THAT.
I have to agree with Sal here.
So you see Walky as a brother? Sal kind of has a biological imperative to not be able to perceive Walky’s attractiveness. On the plus side, she’s not cutting him down during his moment.
do you have to have an excuse to not be attracted to somebody now
Not at all. Especially since attraction is a positive phenomenon (I guess the opposite is repulsiveness). I was just curious if there was a reason Chris chose specifically to side with Sal vice just not find Walks attractive.
Sal is every sibling ever.
Sal is also all the readers.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/5528b270a8c40c41c07152e40865a7ac/tumblr_inline_mwmxvc2l1q1qz5q5l.gif
(In case the gif doesn’t show up for some reason: My arm isn’t long enough for the jerkoff motion that is in my soul)
Narrator voice: “Sirksome did not speak for all of the readers.”
Uh…did I do something wrong? I’m not trying to speak for all readers. I just thought it was funny that Sal is immune to Walky’s new charm and probably sees him more like we the readers do, fairly unchanged. I tried to type a comment that reflected that but I don’t think I communicated it well. My apologies to you and any other readers that feel insulted by my assumption.
Sirksome – “I’m not trying to speak for all Readers.”
Scroll up a few on the chain …
Sirksome – “Sal is also all the readers.”
You sure?
I’m pretty sure. I don’t know how to elaborate on my comment better than I did above. I thought it was fairly innocent all things said, but I clearly made a mistake I apologized for. I’m not trying to take agency from other readers and commenters. I’m a little surprised I got called out on this but I think I’m just going to stop commenting for today. I clearly fucked up somehow and will use this experience to make better comments in the future.
I think, Sirksome, is that at least a few of the commenters are tired of you ragging on walky every single time he appears. Because it gets old.
I’d also suggest that a few of the commenters are not tired of the ragging. After Walkys behaviour during the end of the last storyline I’d be quite happy never seeing his character again (not going to happen I know)
Mr D is correct. And yet despite that I also find it easy to ignore and gloss over, rather than engage in what appears to be an action of near personal attacks against you as some other commenter seems to be starting.
But yeah also, a sure fire way of getting sunk in any discussion is claiming to represent an entire group of people. *Someone* will always not agree. Subsequently claiming that you didn’t, or didn’t mean to, especially in a written medium, is folly. But worry not, this is the internet and you are pseudo-nonymous.
??? I don’t think anyone’s made a personal attack on me yet I try to give most comments the benefit of the doubt and hope to receive the same, but it seems I’ve made a mistake in my earlier comment. Probably misunderstanding the joke of this strip. Sincere thank you for the valuable insight. Even if I’m “pseudo-anonymous” I don’t want to use that as an excuse to be a jerk.
fwiw i didn’t find your comment offensive or presumptuous, Sal said “he’s the same as yesterday” and it’s clear that a majority of us are not suddenly finding him hot (that includes those who thought he was already hot), and that’s how i read your comment.
but in the context of your frequently expressed annoyance with Walky that was misconstrued as you saying he was unattractive. i don’t really care either way, but that’s what i’m reading here =)
Offers ‘high fives’ and/or ‘polite nods’ of mutual respect.
At the same time, noting that you didn’t speak for all readers as your “Sal is all the readers” comment implies isn’t an attack on you or your comment, just an amusing way of noting that at least one reader didn’t agree.
Speaking with my inherent Cheese-given authority to represent and speak for the entire population of Earth, we hereby pardon and forgive any and all heinous offences which Sirksome may or may not have committed, save that he is required to read all Willis webcomics featuring Walky for as long as they are published.
So say we all!
hear hear!
BBCC was commenting on Sal being flabbergasted that people think her brother is hot, while you read their comment as being about unable to see the difference in appearance (which is indeed the punchline of today’s strip). So people thought you were saying that the readers think Walky is unattractive (subjective), when you just meant the readers think Walky looks the same (mostly objective).
oops, i didn’t realize this was still the same thread, sorry for the unnecessary clarification that you’d already made ^^
my brother was a janitor at my high school for a brief period and yes, i was in sal’s place and it was WEIRD
Yup. My brother was in 8th grade (I’m just a couple years older) when suddenly all my slightly younger friends no longer found him annoying, wanted to spend time with him rather than with me (or used me as an excuse to spend time with him) and it very very slowly dawned on me (probably about the time he was asked to jump out of a cake for the birthday party of a friend who I learned had a crush on him) that my friends thought my brother was hot. I gradually came to accept this, but it was always a little weird.
Yeah, it definitely weirded me out in high school when some of my friends said that they thought my two-years-older-than-me sister was hot.
It took some time but he figured out how to make the new dew work. So by Sheer luck Walky once again wings his way to succeeding.
PRINCESS DAISY: NINTENDO!
It’s a cereal! Wow!
Is… is that a song, on the Hacked Muzac? Or /wheeze/worry/, what? I don’t know what to do here. Do I pour milk on it?
Meh, Walky will never be hot. No matter how good his hair looks. He looks too much like a child.
Acts like one too.
I guess y’all forgot or choose to the ignore Dorothy’s assertion that he looks sculpted from caramel.
Of course that was before the freshman 15. Who knows now?
On that occasion, Joyce agreed enough to blush.
Didn’t forget about that. Some of us have seen Walky’s dick on slipshine and still don’t find him attractive.
What about Sal, his twin sister?
Honestly I think Walky’s childlike appearance is more due to the way he carries himself more than anything. He’s messy, dirty, doesn’t shower as much as he should, and it’s not that uncommon to see him slouch or have bad posture. If he actively cleaned himself up (and he’s taken Dorothy out on a romantic date), I imagine he’d do okay for himself.
Well that and the fact that he’s short.
Nah, being short is fine.
Right? I ain’t attracted to Babyface manbaby
I dunno, I can see him possessing a bit of a Boyish Charm. Though maybe I’m just saying that cuz I’m the kinda guy who gets confused for being a teenager well into my 20s and I’d like to think I could still be hot, y’know?
As long as the age confusion isn’t due to man-childish behaviour but rather due to still being able to have fun, *hold onto that*. It is great to be able to be fun and playful and just have joie de vie. Best parents out there seem to mix responsibility with fun, and frankly it’s easier to learn responsibility than hold onto that fun aspect of yourself.
You know what? I totally get it.
Also, Sarah being the one to say it was a fun subversion. I guess she’s not exactly shy, but still.
I am surprisingly on-board for if this leads to a Sarah&Walky one-night stand.
Sarah: Go shower and come back and we’re gonna fuck.
Booster: …So do I need to clear out?
Sarah: No photos or recording, no staring, no comments.
Booster: Can’t do it. Be back in an hour.
Of course he’s hot. His room has a Nintendo
Oof I got that
I have to say, the reveal being that people were looking at him because of his hair is overwhelmingly anti-climactic. On the other hand it isn’t the worst explanation ever.
Also Lucy will hardly be able to contain herself at this rate.
Lucy, she’s thirsty and Walky is a tall glass of water.
If she gets a bit direct, Walky might even notice that she’s interested in him. Maybe.
Are the opening pages of a new chapter supposed to be climactic?
Walky’s hair being why everyone stares is the new, “Mr. Scratchy is Mephisto.”
can confirm, i grew out my hair during quarantine and it does go from “kinda longish” to “damn” pretty much overnight
I had been growing my hair before the quarantine and it went from “I have to comb it a bit more often” to “I need a ponytail” in like a week.
See with that gravatar, now I’m thinking of Joe with a ponytail and it’s… not terrible??
See, Joe with a ponytail just immediately turns into Gaston in my head, and frankly, if Gaston were a more benevolent shade of “full of myself”, you gotta admit, he’d be a Joe.
My hair goes from “shapeless mop” to “wild mane” in about a week. And then after another week women ignore me like before. But for that week…
I just keep mine buzzed. Because of how thick it is, I just end up looking more and more like a poofy doofus the longer it gets. It also gets difficult to keep clean, and nearly unmanageable unless I get it soaking wet. (And then it’s difficult to dry, like trying to dry a kitchen sponge with a towel.)
Over the c-year, my hair has gone from “long” to “would reach my waist if the ends didn’t break and fall off”.
Go take a cold shower Lucy.
No. We want a Slipshine of this one. I’ll bet with all those hormones building up, she’s a sexy hybrid of shy first Timer and total “my hips are moving on their own” sex panther.
Oof, plasticwrap, you have some skill with words.
finally also admitting to myself that walky is hot
This feels like the setup to a light novel… You know, one of the ones where the main character finds out they’ve been subconsciously brainwashing everyone around them, and feel horrible about it. Or that the system’s been doing it for them, because they’ve been flagged as the main character. You know, that kind of thing.
“Character feels horrible about the brainwashing they were subjected to and inflicted upon others for a while” is kind of the overarching theme of Joyce’s story…
No telling if she has such a condemning attitude toward her religious upbringing. I mean they taught her enough to survive at college, so…
Compare the present Joyce to the way she was for the first couple years of DoA. She’s come to reject a lot of the “vAlUeS” she was raised to wholeheartedly believe as unquestionable fact, when confronted with empirical evidence that they were just empty, hateful bullshit.
I wouldn’t say her religious upbringing taught her to survive at college at all. Everything she’s learned has been through friends and her experiences.
She misses the way “home” used to feel, but given the opportunity, she wouldn’t press a magic reset button and return to that time, place, and mindset either.
I mean, not really. Remember the Ryan incident. If your kid is so sheltered that they don’t know it’s dangerous to accept a drink from a stranger at a party, or one that they didn’t watch get poured, then I’d consider that a big fat failure.
(Hope this doesn’t come off as victim blaming, obv ryan is the only one at fault here. But Joyce wasn’t even given the tools to recognize a potentially dangerous situation is what I’m saying. And if your kid reaches semi independent adulthood and is too innocent to even do that, you fucked up.)
The tool she was given was “Don’t go to that kind of party”. Which isn’t a great tool, but just close enough that she could have been blamed for whatever happened.
She was also given a nasty rage and a mean punch. 🙂
As well as the charm to attract protectors.
you don’t need charm to attract predators :/ they act like that’s why if you have it though.
The charm attracts protectors – like bat wielding Sarah.
She was also Ethan’s beard for a few days. At least she figured out how terrible that ‘plan’ was on her own and pretty quickly.
As much as I’m dreading this potentially being a storyline where good things happen to Walky for no reason I would actually find it pretty funny if Willis took the time to draw his hair a millimeter longer for this.
I just checked and his hair does look a bit different from his last appearance
What does a single pixel scale to in these frames? Definitely bigger than a millimeter, but it looks less than an inch. I’d ballpark it to around a quarter-inch or so. (7mm)
I’m thinking a certain roommate has been a welcome improvement ~<3
Oh that could be, maybe Booster convinced him to brush his hair somehow
Or just brushed his hair for him, Walky doesn’t put effort in to things. ~<3
Oohh new catagory, “Slipshine Sensuality”.
Walky borrows Booster’s Nintendo and sits down in front of the tv. Chatting casually while Walky completes world 1-1, Booster picks up a brush and stands behind Walky. While answering Walky’s question about the origin of their Nintendo, Booster lifts some of Walky’s hair and starts stroking the brush through it. An extended dialogue ensues about class, the merits of each original Mario world, and ‘secret’ identities, with Booster drawing their fingers and the brush through Walky’s glossy dark chocolate locks. After many minutes Walky slays world 8’s Bowser. Walky’s hair flows through Booster’s fingers and glistens in the gentle moonlight of the dorm window. Booster lowers the brush and with their other hand on Walky’s shoulder, gently kisses the crown of Walky’s head.
hahaha well done, that was hot. until the kiss on the head? for some reason that seemed to squick me a bit =P
Hahaha 🙂 fair enough. For me it’s just affectionate, but if it’s something either of your parents did, then I can totally get the sudden turn. But then maybe it was meant to stay away from more obviously sexual intimacy. Or maybe squicking people out was my intent. 😀
Alternative edit: “Booster’s other hand on Walky’s shoulder, they gently kiss the the tip of Walky’s exposed ear, their exhaled breath lightly blowing across his skin.”
hah yeah, i like that one better =) i honestly have no idea why i find a kiss on the crown of the head such a turnoff, was it a thing my parents did??? maybe?? i don’t remember. but squick is in the eye of the beholder, so.
I love that this exists. ~<3
There’s no way anyone can see a millimeter of hair growth at that distance. I think it’s more likely there was a gas leak in the dorm.
I think it’s humor on the author’s part: Walky’s hair didn’t change, but the socially-constructed notion of hotness changed overnight.
The American Academy of Dermatology says that hair grows about 1/2 inch per month on average. –Google
So that implies a rate of ~.5 mm/day. So yeah no, you’re right. BUT as someone else noted, we have change blindness, so the hair would get invisibly closer to ‘hot’-length until one day (or night) it would appear ‘suddenly’ there.
*feeling dumb* what’s gas got to do with it…??
Look, Sal, I know it’s a horrific thought, but Walky’s already managed to bang Dorothy, move on to Amber (and you caught him doing it, so you know it’s true), and… well, I don’t know if he’s noticed, but I’m getting a few… signs from Lucy.
Just saying, sorry, but you may not be the only hot Walkerton twin any more. I understand if this makes you want to become a nun to escape from the fact.
Just think, if they combined their powers they could rule this school.
I mean I don’t think this is completely unprecedented, and it’s not like Walky is even close to overtaking Sal
Sal “Reigning DOA Hottest Character Poll Champion” Walkerton
I thought Dina won that Poll?
Regardless of the facts of your assertion, I want to back Mordecai’s stance on this. And I _am_ ashamed to admit that I didn’t look it up because I don’t want you to be right.
Sal won the last “hottest lady” poll, but that was back in 2016. She was also voted badassest and would-win-in-a-fight-est. Dina was voted favourite DoA character on the last couple annual polls (though there hasn’t been one in 2020)
Wack’d did a best character tournament bracket poll last summer. It came down to Dina vs Sal, and Dina won.
https://twitter.com/Wackd/status/1269117382120873986
Sal still beat everyone else who appears in today’s strip, anyway.
Rest easy. Sal always wins that one. XD
HOLY SHIT I WAS RIGHT WHEN I SAID EVERYONE REALIZED HOW SEXY WALKY IS.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/04-hompk/starin/#comment-1536294
Congratulations. You called it like a boss.
The Adventures of Yotomoe, the Unlikely Prophet.
And now I want to read the web comic. In the complete absence of any relivent information, I assume that the Yotomoe character is Cosby’s Fat Albert, but better looking and with a beard.
Oh hey, you did! Its funny how most people were reaching for a rational explanation and you were like, my dudes, have you forgotten what being 18 was like?! When in doubt always assume horniness is the explanation
you get a muffin
Can we crowdfund a muffin for Yotomoe? Yotomoe, can you access a Tim Horton’s, or better, a local mom’n’pop bakery/cafe?
So basically: “Huh, his hair’s a little longer . . . I WANT HIS COCK INSIDE ME!!!”
Get out of my head. I mean-
Make up your mind, you want it in or out?
Vulgaris, my inside voice says: “I think it’s both, repeatedly.”
First one and then the other. In rapid succession.
I do like a good floofy hair… I was thinking it looked ESPECIALLY floofy but…. Well then.
They all know Lucy is horny for Walky. Well, Walky probably doesn’t (and Joyce might not either), but it has to be obvious to everyone else.
Yeah, Lucy isn’t exactly subtle.
After school special time: “The hotness was inside you the whole time!”
“And hotness is half the battle!”
Lucy’s eyes got even wider after that first line.
Umm.
Was that a doubtful Umm? Or a slight inhale -pause- and then soft exhale, “uhmmMMm.” Just curious as we now seem to be shipping various commenters with Walky.
Well, that was more “hurr durr Lucy wants Walky’s hotness inside yaknowwhatimsayin”.
A Takei-esque “Ooohh mmyyYYyyy” is also acceptable.
It was more of a “Wait. What? Oh. Ermm.” Umm.
I don’t see it, I’m with Sal on this
The progression of Lucy’s expression over the three panels is subtle.
Her mittened hands slowly rise to cover her mouth.
She wants to hide her mouth when she lies. Okay, technically it’s the truth, but it’s still a lie.
Sal, he’s your pesky brother. You’re going to be hard pressed to be aware if he’s looking good even if you ere trying, what with familiarity breeding contempt and all.
Lucy? Breathe, girl. It won’t do you any good to faint in front of your crush like you were still a 14-year-old!
So, did Booster do Walky’s hair or something?
The last person to do Walky’s hair was Linda.
My slash-fic above proposes an -alternative- hypothesis.
Do girls really faint at their crushes? Is that like literally possible, to be so overcome by arousal that your circulation gets interrupted and you faint?
Eh, if one can faint with stress I’d wager that other emotions and excitements in extremis can do the same
Classically this was implied as induced due to the shortness of breath caused by being in a corset. With most people free of those, I find it unlikely, but nothing is impossible.
And I’m bombing academically today and can’t be fussed to do a google search for data on this.
Ooh, maybe Booster sprayed Walky with a cologne because he stink? And this makes him attractive in a way? Cause yeah, don’t see the hair change or anything. Maybe it’s Walky being naturally smiling instead of shoving down how he feels crappy about his mixed feelings about his dead ex-roomie.
Will there be a poll for whether or not Walky’s hair is different from yesterday, in-universe?
And my vote is yes btw.
No man can grow the same hair twice.
To be flitfully pedantic, if one takes ‘growing a hair’ to be from the outer surface of the skin, then the hair could grow out to some length and get shorn or shaved, then the same hair could continue growing out to make the same hair.
On the other hand, if one plucks the hair out at the root, it would totes be a completely new hair.
Also, if you take ‘same hair’ to be consisting of a hair composed of the same molecules, then we’re back to the same point that you can’t (likely) grow the same hair, much like you can’t stand in the same river twice.
Have you contemplated on the Ship of Theseus?
i think Clif was paraphrasing the “river” quote (Heraclites, i think?)
as i understand it, it’s not so much about any specific definition of a hair (or a river) as it is about reality being fundamentally about constant flux and change.
The deeper irony of the phrase is that if you can never step into the same river twice, then the word “river” (or “hair”) doesn’t refer to the same thing twice, either. I actually really love that worldview. There’s something humble about it.
The deeper irony is that you can’t step into the same river once.
whoah man that’s deep man
The twist no one saw coming.
Possibly: tragic backstory+newfound purpose/goal=a modicum of self esteem that looks humble if you squint
Alternatively: booster sprinkled some enby queer magic over walky in the guise of trading Nintendo time for hairstyling
“I want it!”
“I need it!”
“I really like his mane!”
Lucy is all three CMCs at once right now.
Closet Cosplay Amazigirl – I am so happy.
Willis is the best and I take back all of the “Damn You”s.
Well, not all of them. Mike’s still dead.
Willis gets the DAMN YOUs precisely *because* he’s the best.
Technically, I think there’s a continuity error since Becky nuked the closet from orbit, but I’m not going to complain.
Ah, the answer is obvious! He was in the room next door to Dorothy and repicked up her smell. Once again, he is attractive due to being in proximity to Dorothy.
This is completely false.That actually makes more sense than his hair being microscopically different.
Walky’s hair was bitten by a radioactive horny toad while he slept, and now he’s inspiring boners all over the damn place
He is: The Hornbringer
ooh, maybe he has radioactive lice??
And birds. By strange coincidence, I’m told they have been known radiate together. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0141
wha— you— that was a misleading descrip— and it’s radiation as in— UGH
*dropping the sitcom-y act* …interesting article =)
speaking of lice and science, have you ever heard of the Swadesh list? It’s a list compiled by a comparative linguist of words that are supposed to be the most stable in every language, so the least likely to have been borrowed at some point in the past, and the point of it is to do, well, “phylogenetic analysis” of languages and language families without getting sidetracked by vocabulary which might turn out to have been borrowed.
Swadesh’s wager was that some words are basic and universal enough that no language can arise and evolve without a lexical item to refer to them, words like “I”, “sun”, “nose” and “sleep”. Sounds fair, right?
And while Swadesh’s original effort has been criticized and updated several times over using better methodology than his (he used the methodology known as: guessing), one word that he got right, and which has consistently been included among the couple dozen most-likely ancestral words is “lice”.
I think that says a lot about how successful a species the human louse is =)
Huff huff goes the hormone train! All aboard! (OK maybe just the one)
Of course you didn’t, Lucy.
Lucy: Arousal Ninja
would also make a pretty good magnet.
I know what is different about his hair. Parts of it were drawn with bigger waves as lines before and now they are more subdued to borderline smooth curves so basically yes, it looks more intentional and cared for than before very mildly.
I look very similar to walky, but with curly hair. Did that mac
Mean I’ll suddenly very popular if I straighten my hair?
Try it. For Science.
This is crazy! Can’t wait to see Dorothy’s reaction. Because it will be interesting.
She knew Yale had a price.
Is it me or does Lucy look like she’s ready to orgasm just by looking at him?
Lucy.
Girl.
Maybe you should.
To his face.
Honestly, I’m just glad that A. Walky isn’t having a panic attack, where he thinks everyone is judging him, and B. that Walky isn’t sporting his signature funk.
I know the Switch is made by Nintendo, but it still kinda bugs me that Walky just calls it a “Nintendo”. To me, a “Nintendo” is an NES or SNES, not newer consoles made by them. Also, I feel like an old person yelling at those damn kids to get off my lawn now.
I agree. Walky is wrong and should be ashamed of himself. Also, no need to feel like an old person yelling at kids…at least not alone anyway.
In the same vein I’m getting the irresistible urge to call you both (and most of the comments tbh) boomers
to a GenX like me, there is no greater insult.
I think it’s an attempt to future-proof against the sliding timescale.
Yeah, but Walky won’t keep it when he realizes it makes him look more like Asher.
If Walky ever struggled and put the slightest bit of effort into improving any part of his life the entire universe might actually collapse in on itself.
His new hot haircut was an accident, therefore we have been spared on a technicality.
I really enjoy all the talking between Sal, Joyce, and Sarah, amidst the silent progression of Lucy’s reaction.
In the immortal words of Phoebe Waller-Bridge (goddess):
“Hair. Is. Everything. We wish it wasn’t, so we could actually think about something else occasionally, but it is.”
….I’m with Sal on this one. I don’t see any difference from his last appearance.
He’s smiling, so he looks prettier. Do you not understand how that works?
It’s just that you normally don’t *say* that to guys, especially because some of them just look more dangerous. That’s generally because some guys are more dangerous that way… unfortunately, those sets merely intersect, rather than match exactly.
Did anyone predict this yesterday? Even ironically?
Yotomoe. Im pretty sure not ironically
Why am I not at all surprised.
He started to actually care about the comic, and consequently, the rest of himself, so like actually took care of his hair a bit this morning. Not enough for he himself to remember that he did, but enough for
hornypeople to notice. I’m callin’ it as the difference.Looks okay, could use a beard though. Or just a scruff.
Joe: You’re prettier when you smile.
Walky: Thanks!
*they make out*
*Lucy wakes up from her daydream*
Lucy: What? Huh?
I don’t see it
I think that’s the point. It’s also why Sal is having such a difficult time following this conversation.
“I am in no way saying that, in like a different universe where we fought zombies or aliens or alien zombies together or something, I would totally have premarital hanky-panky with him and marry him and have his babies. Definitely not. At all.”
premarital hanky-panky is joycespeak. Lucy is not that stuckup =)
or ok beckyspeak same difference don’t at me
Joyce and Walky were married in another Willis comic.
hnnnn ok yeah that didn’t make much sense. sorry for ruining your probably very good joke John (haven’t read the other continuities)
Yeah, I probably should have attributed the dialogue. I figured that the fact that PMHP is a Joyceism would be sufficient to tip people off that it was meant to be Joyce.
And, yeah, it’s a very literal description of what happened in that other universe where Joyce and Walky fought aliens together.
oh it totally should’ve tipped me off. i am very scatterbrained today, sorry about that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I know I only started Willis’ comics with Shortpacked! but the idea that Walky’s story has been over for so long he’s been completely supplanted by his DoA counterpart instantly ages my bones to dust and scatters it to the winds.
Walky has always been hot, TBH.
I’ve grown my hair out as a pandemic project (and ok, it was also to have enough hair to do a crazy post-apocalyptic hairstyle if the world ended), and the consistent word from everyone is that I should keep it or at least keep most of it. Before I kept it no longer than two inches and it’s now approaching 10 inches.
Let’s all play with Walky’s hair!