What the hell is bubble tea?
*googles*
Tea, mixed with fruit smoothie, mixed with slushie, with balls of tapioca in the bottom?!
…not…sure…if…want… o_O
Bubble Tea is awesome!! The tapioca “bubbles”
are so good, btw. The ones I get at the local
Bubble Tea place taste kinda like honey and add a
nice bit of chewy fun to the drink. It’s kinda like
how some people chew the ice in their fountain
drink.
Ah yes, and the inevitable ‘Haha you said you don’t like you’re/your conflation, therefore I’m going to respond by conflating you’re and your to push your buttons’.
Yes, clearly someone has lead mechaqua astray on the subject of grammar. He needs to pour over the grammar textbooks. Speaking of common errors that bug me.
Forgive me as I have sinned against the grammar goddesses. For that I beg for forgiveness. I have befouled PedanticJerkass’s ears with the sound of nails on a chalkboard. I am truly a monster, nay an archfiend. I have become an unwilling servant to Beelzebub and his campaign to destroy the structure of English language. Curses to me and my offspring for my sins are to great count! I have besmirched this comment section with my foul grammatical errors. I shall atone for my sins by mortifying my skin.
When two parts of a ship have names with similar elements you are obligated to recognize this and elevate it to the level of insufferably cute. So Joe/Joyce becomes JoJo. Or Billie/Beef would be BB.
The worst part is, he was totally playing “weak and effeminate.” It shouldn’t have worked. But poor Billie has been taking hits to her ego for a whole week, and she’s willing to throw herself at, apparently, any desperate nerd who says nice words at her faaaaaaaaaaaaaaace.
I don’t think that’s quite it. Look at Billie’s face, this is actually another hit to her ego that’s making her re-evaluate her position and her reaction to others. She feels guilty about her initial reaction to the poor guy, especially with what she has been learning this past week. When Danny apologises, it makes her realise that he’s really a pretty decent guy, and that it isn’t him who should be apologising for what was actually a clever and witty light firt. Of course she’s still socially awkward when dealing with people of Danny’s ‘level’, so apologises in the only way she can think of.
Eh, I really think it’s mainly that he’s the only guy who’s recognized anything at all of her previous high school identity. She’s also learned a bit of empathy, and she realizes he seems like a nice guy, but I think it’s mainly the cheerleader thing.
Well, Billie is at an all time low as far as self-esteem is concerned. Of course she is going to be moved when someone actually compliments her for once. Still, that was probably not the best idea. I think *someone* is going to be hurt.
Unless his plan is to allow just enough people realize it to make them seem crazy for suggesting it. What better way to hide the truth than making it seem too utterly ridiculous to be true?
In particular, he was the first person she has met at college that thought her being a cheerleader was impressive and important, so much that it would put her out of his league.
This will either last two days until they both realize how toxic this relationship would be, or it will last at least two decades, but after the first seven months it will permanently turn abusive in some way, probably with codependency thrown in for extra fun.
I was not silenced. I am still crying out. Waking my girlfriend up, and all my neighbourhood as well. They are all crying out too, now. We can’t seem to stop.
Agreed. We already saw BilliexDanny as an endgame once, and Willis said he intends to follow different stories here. I expect we’ll see a quick fling with these two (which will last literally years of real life time regardless), before a messy breakup and some other alt pairings.
Oh. Sorry, in the last edition I saw, it turned out that Tarkin first brought everyone on Alderaan aboard the Death Star, sitting in cell blocks 5-1999. He even arranged for them to be relocated to Dantooine after they eliminated the rebel base, so it all turned out well in the end.
amber. she wants to socialize with people not ethan or mike, remember?
knocks at his door to see if he wants to hang out or something, finds the door slightly ajar and opening upon the force of her knock. and there she finds either the afternoon delight (for any given value of delight), or whatever counts as afterglow in the context of these two.
or perhaps danny answers the door without his shirt on and she notices miss billie all a’rumpled. orrrr the knock comes mid-makeout, billie comes to her senses and runs off for some reason, saying something about the amazi-girl interview coming later (if you know what i mean)(yeah i don’t either), and amber misinterprets billie as having been talking to her, and awkward stilted conversation ensues.
but i’m betting it’s amber, in the dorm hall, with the coitus interruptus.
Business is business unless it is business or business and business is not quite business but really is business or is it business that is business which is business
I think that it may have contributed but I think Billie being tormented by Ruth for over two weeks ; realizing that her social standing means nothing; that she is perusing she didn’t want; paid 40 bucks for tape recorder; Joyce waking her in a well lets say unorthodox (Joyce to innocent to be creepy) manner in the morning; oh added on she seems to have missed several classes due to lack of sleep perusing Sal with little avail only to realize the problem could have been solved easily. i think the stress may have had a little motivated her to seek some sort of release and Danny recognizing her as a cheerleader may have brought her back to a happier time.
and line 6: (Joyce is to innocent to be creepy)
line 10-11: I think the stress may have had a little part in motivating to he seek some sort of release.
She does look like she’s about to cry. I guess the more he talks the harder it is for her to hold back the tears. It totally makes sense she’d try changing gears just to stop from weeping right then.
Keep in mind that a few days have passed in continuity since the beginning, and this comic has no expiration date.
Even if Willis does intend the various ‘ships to turn out like those in the main Walkyverse, there is no deadline. I’m sure we can expect plenty of different pairings from before, and there’s no guarantee that any that get launched will remain that way.
Damn it! Just when I was thinking the Amber-Danny ship was safe Billie torpedoes it with a pair of very fine torpedoes. This is shaping up to be a universe where everyone who was meant to be together in the last one end up with the same people.
Plus Danny’s not over his ex yet — that doesn’t bode well for anything that might start between him and Billie. Maybe that makes the Amber-Danny ship even safer, since Billie could be the one he rebounds with.
But really, I’m just happy to finally see some kissing! Yaay!
Those are some good points. And this could just be a one time thing brought on by desperation, but I like the premise of what things might’ve been like if various Willis characters were brought together who previously weren’t.
“Tell me I’m pretty.”
“Billie, I think you’re taking things a little too far…”
*SMACK*
“TELL ME I’M PRETTY! TELL ME I’M PRETTY, DAMMIT!”
“Y-Yes Mistress.”
I practically “squee’d” at the last panel. You aren’t going to kill every couple you made in the Roomies Universe! (at least not yet)
You made my day… tomorrow apparently (I’m still in thursday)
Obviously this is going to twist into a bizarre love triangle where Amber <3 Danny, Danny <3 Billie & Amber, and Amber <3 Amazi-girl, and by extension Sal, who is so obviously Amazigirl it's unbelievable nobody else sees it.
See, now you make me want to see Billie sharing her Amazigirl=Sal theory with Amber, who decides to run with it and become a rabid fan of that theory and help her investigate, in order to keep Billie off track and/or ruin her periodistic reputation, all the while being paranoically cautious that it may all be a trick to get her to slip her secret.
So in the run of the (fake) investigations, the two of them get to grow close. Billie, having a supporter for her ridiculous theory, becomes more and more obsessed with Amazigirl, and by extension Sal, and Amber starts suspecting that there’s something else in there. And before long she realizes that she herself has spent an ungodly amount of time thinking about her co-conspirator/mark, and starts growing jealous.
And then she realizes that she’s basically jealous of herself, and start considering if she should just tell her, EVERYTHING, but she realizes that it is far too late and now she’s stuck, forever watching her chase an imposible dream, and forever making it be impossible.
Or, she could fake Amazigirl’s death and then try to seduce her. Maybe adopt a second hero identity and tell Billie that she was inspired to that by their research. But that’d be cheating.
ALSO, I had to fire up notepad to type this, because the layout hides part of the text. What’s up with that?
Wow, everyone else is interpreting this way differently than I did. I thought the line that got Billie was Danny’s (obviously) self-pitying “You’re clearly out of my league.” I thought Billie was just trying to rehabilitate Danny’s low self esteem… she’s a nice girl lol.
Hi, welcome to Dumbing of Age. You’re clearly new here.
I don’t particularly dislike Billie, she’s had some fun moments, and some sympathetic moments, but nice? -Billie-? Even when she’s being -kind- she’s bongoy about it.
I hope he handles this better than I did when faced with a vaguely similar situation, and actually rolls with it… rather than being so shocked at hot-ish, seemingly friend- (or in this case, stranger-)zoned, and completely sober girl suddenly sucking face in his room that he pushes her off going… er, thanks, but what’s the deal here?
Joe is a Barney level wing man, so he’s long gone. Dorothy is at church, so she won’t be walking in. So that leaves…. Amber is in middle of a raid, isn’t she? Well, shit. There isn’t anyone to walk in on them.
But they’re “safely out of her juresdiction” (I prolly spelled that wrong), seeing how they’re in Danny’s dorm room. Of course, it could swing in a simlar direction, and we get to find out who Danny’s R.A. is.
Were you that used to ‘college’ and that unmindful of ‘high school’ when you were only a week into college? Maybe you were – I don’t know, just asking.
People seem to consider Danny as hopelessly hung up on high school, but it really has just been a few days, and the time he was hung up on it was maybe the first day or two – you know, when you’re weighing four years of experience against two days, which are you still going to be more used to?
This isn’t exactly the same, but consider that Bart Simpson has been ten years old for 20 years, and he’s had 20 years of experiences. I know that time doesn’t move the same in DoA, but while they’ve only aged a week, they’ve kind of had a year of experiences, too.
I love how he says “You’re a cheerleader or something, aren’t you?” Like, if you are nerdy-creepy to one of them, the cheerleaders will send a ninja squad into your room at night and wreak unspeakable vengeance on you.
Billie needs to look into the BDSM community. Guaranteed she can find someone to say things like this to her on a regular basis. Cheerleader/nerd has to be SOMEONE else’s dynamic, right?
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Atta girl Bille. That’s what you’re in college for.
I thought it was beer?
Playing to her views of herself also help.
Hopefully Joe will take a hint and leave so Danny can get his game on.
if Joe is ANY sorta wingman whatsoever, he’s already disappeared in a magical puff of smoke lol
Joe is such a good wingman he already knew not to be there. He vanished in a puff of smoke several hours ago. Danny was like WTF?
Beer leads to angst. Angst leads to hatesex. Hatesex leads to awesome fanservice.
Your drinking the wrong beer
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
Benjamin Franklin
I don’t drink beer to be happy. I have coffee.
Then what do you drink when your sad?
CAKE!
Can you drink cake? If yes then how is this done? Because sounds delicious.
Ah yes, it WILL blend.
Chiri shows you how
Watch after 1:20 to see how to drink cake.
Barley bubble tea tastes like drinking cake.
yes, yes you can drink cake, and it comes in vodka form…
http://www.uvvodka.com/page/show/333797-uv-cake
What the hell is bubble tea?
*googles*
Tea, mixed with fruit smoothie, mixed with slushie, with balls of tapioca in the bottom?!
…not…sure…if…want… o_O
Taiwanese cuisine would never steer you wrong, Tahrey. 😉
I prefer mine without the tapioca balls, but they’re okay.
Bubble Tea is awesome!! The tapioca “bubbles”
are so good, btw. The ones I get at the local
Bubble Tea place taste kinda like honey and add a
nice bit of chewy fun to the drink. It’s kinda like
how some people chew the ice in their fountain
drink.
You can even drink Marshmellows
Drano
Bleach “its mostly water and were mostly water therefore we are bleach”
Tastes just like chickens, if chickens was a candys
Oh, iced tea, coffee, iced teh tarik and plain water.
That’s twice now you’ve used “your” instead of “you’re.” I’m sorry, but it’s like fingernails on chalkboard to me.
What’s you’re problem?
I think it is you who is putting you”re fingernails on preverbial chalk-board.
GWS flashback.
Ah yes, and the inevitable ‘Haha you said you don’t like you’re/your conflation, therefore I’m going to respond by conflating you’re and your to push your buttons’.
Such wit.
You missed the part where I used a ” instead of a ‘, misspelled proverbial, and put a hyphen in the word chalkboard.
Yes, clearly someone has lead mechaqua astray on the subject of grammar. He needs to pour over the grammar textbooks. Speaking of common errors that bug me.
Forgive me as I have sinned against the grammar goddesses. For that I beg for forgiveness. I have befouled PedanticJerkass’s ears with the sound of nails on a chalkboard. I am truly a monster, nay an archfiend. I have become an unwilling servant to Beelzebub and his campaign to destroy the structure of English language. Curses to me and my offspring for my sins are to great count! I have besmirched this comment section with my foul grammatical errors. I shall atone for my sins by mortifying my skin.
Eww, I wouldn’t. I hear mortifying is bad for you.
I no, write?
Q.E.D.
Alternate version: Beer leads to angst. Angst leads to hatesex. Hatesex leads to beer.
The Force is strong in you, as always.
me too. That’s why I’m in college.
Yes. College is where you do all the crazy shit you can before they start putting your name in the newspaper
I don’t know if I’ve ever seen the headline “Cheerleader Kisses Nerd” before.
Yeah, that worked.
But – but – but we’ve already seen Danny and Billie together before!
I’ll accept this only because it allows for the possibility of Joe x Joyce.
(“Joece”?) (“Joy”?) (“JoJo”?) (Are shipping portmanteaux out of fashion now?)
When two parts of a ship have names with similar elements you are obligated to recognize this and elevate it to the level of insufferably cute. So Joe/Joyce becomes JoJo. Or Billie/Beef would be BB.
*Siiiiiiigggh* Here comes DJ….
“Good Ol’ Deej”…..
His Dad will delude himself in believing neighbors will think him a “Good Egg.”
*Siiiiiigggghh*
And even though we’ve seen it before, it’s still unexpected! At least to me, I did not see it coming one bit.
The worst part is, he was totally playing “weak and effeminate.” It shouldn’t have worked. But poor Billie has been taking hits to her ego for a whole week, and she’s willing to throw herself at, apparently, any desperate nerd who says nice words at her faaaaaaaaaaaaaaace.
^This.
Billie’s gonna have a fit when she discovers she had intimate carnal relations with a NEERRRRD.
Or she’s going to discover, to her delight, that nerds are generous and attentive lovers.
Some nerds.
Granted, but I’d wager she’d be better off with Danny than with the types of guys she usually attracts.
That’s because all jocks think about is sports and all nerds think about is sex. It is known.
I don’t think that’s quite it. Look at Billie’s face, this is actually another hit to her ego that’s making her re-evaluate her position and her reaction to others. She feels guilty about her initial reaction to the poor guy, especially with what she has been learning this past week. When Danny apologises, it makes her realise that he’s really a pretty decent guy, and that it isn’t him who should be apologising for what was actually a clever and witty light firt. Of course she’s still socially awkward when dealing with people of Danny’s ‘level’, so apologises in the only way she can think of.
Billie learned things this week?
Y’know, other than that Sal is Amazigirl/Batman
Eh, I really think it’s mainly that he’s the only guy who’s recognized anything at all of her previous high school identity. She’s also learned a bit of empathy, and she realizes he seems like a nice guy, but I think it’s mainly the cheerleader thing.
or, indeed, to her femurs. (Where did this minimeme come from, anyway?)
Search for Ruth’s first few appearances in the comic.
Welp.
Wow. That’s my dull surprise word. I’m surprised it’s not used more often, actually.
In regards to the comic:
Welp.
Welp.
You insolent Whelps!
Krushim was feared into da whelps…
Yuuup!
Talk about mixing business with pleasure.
Joe’s business IS your pleasure.
That said I think this is to forward for this to end well. Not saying I hope it doesn’t, just saying I think this won’t end well.
But hey, both of them are desperate.
Hmm flattery does get you everywhere.
Well, Billie is at an all time low as far as self-esteem is concerned. Of course she is going to be moved when someone actually compliments her for once. Still, that was probably not the best idea. I think *someone* is going to be hurt.
And if that last line didn’t put a filthy joke in your head, you might need to hang around Joe more.
I heard it hurts the first time. It’s only natural.
This is, of course, exactly the outcome he predicted.
Just as planned?
OH MY!
DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUN!
Danny Wilcox, Master Manipulator.
I can dig it.
By the will of his cox.
Wait, plural? He has more than one? Truley frightening imagery
But if he was really a master of manipulation, you wouldn’t know he was being manipulative, now would you?
Unless his plan is to allow just enough people realize it to make them seem crazy for suggesting it. What better way to hide the truth than making it seem too utterly ridiculous to be true?
Ah, the Purloined Letter tactic.
I love it when a plan come together…
Somewhere, Joe is giving a thumbs up and high-fiving random people, and has NO IDEA WHY.
It’s his instinctive abilities as a wingman.
Wingstinct, if you will.
Wingsensitivity.
I AM SUCH AN AWESOME WINGMAN THAT IF THERE WERE TWO OF ME AND YOU PUT ME ON EACH ARM YOU WOULD FLY
He could be my wingman anytime.
No, Aizat, you can be HIS.
…
…
…no homo, right?
*shot for the joke*
No homo.
ALL THE HOMO
…orz
You just made my night.
This! *tiny little squees*
It was him recognizing that she used to be a cheerleader that did it.
In particular, he was the first person she has met at college that thought her being a cheerleader was impressive and important, so much that it would put her out of his league.
Ding! We have a winnah! 😀
Better still, he put it in the present tense. He’s the only person so far that acknowledges her has having the identity she thinks she does.
For right now Danny wins.
This will either last two days until they both realize how toxic this relationship would be, or it will last at least two decades, but after the first seven months it will permanently turn abusive in some way, probably with codependency thrown in for extra fun.
Yeah, but for us that means they’ll keep it hot and heavy until summer at least. Welp!
The second one isn’t likely to happen. Willis has done that already!
DO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO
Even though this will not be a “flawless victory,” I hope Danny gets to “Finish her!”
Willis, you’re one heck of a ship-tease!
Ship tease? Ship tease is when you flirt with a person. This is a maiden voyage.
So we wait for the iceburg to show up then, no worries.
Iceberg in the form of Joe or in the form of Dorothy?
I’m hoping for a red-hot iceburg by the name of Ruth.
Yeah that seems plausible i wonder if the Jaws music will play in the background as she approaches to cock-block Billie
Though cock-block isn’t the proper term. what is it called when a women prevents another women from obtaining the sex?
Pussyblock?
Boxblock.
“twat swatting”
poon tanked?
Vagitated?
Sweet revenge.
This entire commentchain is full of win.
*Cue Celine Dion singing “My Heart will Go On”*
Wait…is this the first kiss of the Dumbiverse?
Yes??
I mean YES!!!
No! The correct expression is, “ORDER UP!!!”
RE: The Galasso Gravatars sequence:
“Welcome to Galasso Brothers Pizza. You WILL order the Galasso Supre Supreme Pizza!”
“Itsa me, Galasso!”
And all the BilliexWalky and DannyxAmber shippers scream in dismay.
Its like millions of shippers suddenly cried out, and were silenced.
And spiral into a drunken stupor.
“Wu…We ‘ere thizz cloze to geddin’ a reze… a rezzlotion. Then tha’ hussy hadda c’m an ruin’ everthhin’.”
I was not silenced. I am still crying out. Waking my girlfriend up, and all my neighbourhood as well. They are all crying out too, now. We can’t seem to stop.
So it’s a shouting match you want, eh?
AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This was the entire reason you got that gravatar, wasn’t it? The off chance this would happen.
You’d think so, but it’s actually just a wonderful bit of serendipity.
You’re mad as hell and you’re not going to take it any more?
We will not go quietly into the night. We will not vanish without a fight!
We’re not gonna take it! NO! We ain’t gonna take it! We’re not going to take it anymore!
Haha, we have time yet 😉
What? Are you kidding? Do you really think this seals them as endgame? If nothing else BilliexDanny shippers should be even MORE worried!
Agreed. We already saw BilliexDanny as an endgame once, and Willis said he intends to follow different stories here. I expect we’ll see a quick fling with these two (which will last literally years of real life time regardless), before a messy breakup and some other alt pairings.
*facepalm* oh Alderaan Lest we all forget…
…Forget what?
The millions that died on Alderaan.
NEVAH FORGET.
*sob* I miss that planet so much…
What kind of planet doesn’t have a laser defense system? Alderaan was asking for it.
Too soon, dude. Too soon. :\
Oh. Sorry, in the last edition I saw, it turned out that Tarkin first brought everyone on Alderaan aboard the Death Star, sitting in cell blocks 5-1999. He even arranged for them to be relocated to Dantooine after they eliminated the rebel base, so it all turned out well in the end.
… Oh.
Let me guess. The version of Star Wars approved by the Texas board of education?
Did Alderaan really have any identity of its own, besides to be fridged for angst?
… I’ve been reading too many comics blogs, haven’t I?
The one thing an Imperial hit on the first try.
Ba dum, tssh!
Meh. Alderaan shot first, you know.
But Tarkin had the money shot – you can see his posture stiffen just slightly as the planet explodes.
I called it! Now begins the torrent love affair. And yes I meant to say Torrent joke on the computer pun.
Again, you just make downloading sexy.
How many bits are involved here? 8?
c=8, actually.
Or worse, 8======D
No, bad Willis no.
He’s beat joe in the number of girls he’s been with.
He’s a chick magnet and he didn’t know it.
why ELLS would joe hang out with him?
(other than his feet being handy hanging places for webcams)
Is that why the webcam was stuck to his earlier?
Awwwww! Too Cute!
Your avatar says otherwise
Beneath that avatar lies more than an expression. Beneath that avatar lies a person, Roninwolf, and people can express more views.
OMG! DX Sal does look jealous when you think of it that way o:
Interesting. I was wondering if maybe part of Billie’s motivation was that now she’ll have a boyfriend… and Sal will not.
Don’t encourge them.
Talk about your mixed signals…
Head for second! Head for sec–stay on first!
Its probably alcohol related.
So, who’s gonna walk in on them?
Joe or Dorothy. Place your bets, folks.
I bet on Ruth myself, just because I’m evil.
And then Ruth punches out Billie, takes her place?
Catfight and then threesome? Oh my!
I will go to my room now…
Somehow Joe will have to fit into all of this.
YES, cos Joe’s penis can fit into anything. 😀
Even the back of a Volkswagen?
@Zuche: Dare I say YES?
It is less unpleasant and wince-making than the first suggestion that came to mind.
I’ll be in my bunk.
Then Ruth joins in.
Joyce will have come back for something and gets mysteriously disoriented so she’s on the wrong floor and room.
PRE-MARITAL HANKY-PANKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Amber would be the most potentially awkward at this point, so that’s where I’m leaning.
amber. she wants to socialize with people not ethan or mike, remember?
knocks at his door to see if he wants to hang out or something, finds the door slightly ajar and opening upon the force of her knock. and there she finds either the afternoon delight (for any given value of delight), or whatever counts as afterglow in the context of these two.
or perhaps danny answers the door without his shirt on and she notices miss billie all a’rumpled. orrrr the knock comes mid-makeout, billie comes to her senses and runs off for some reason, saying something about the amazi-girl interview coming later (if you know what i mean)(yeah i don’t either), and amber misinterprets billie as having been talking to her, and awkward stilted conversation ensues.
but i’m betting it’s amber, in the dorm hall, with the coitus interruptus.
Remember how torn up Joe was at being called a bad wingman?
He’s probably trying to fix things, so he just went and pulled Amber out of her room in order to hook her up with Danny.
In a few moments, Joe is going to open the door to show Amber. . . this.
(Thus further torpedoing Danny/Amber and proving that he is indeed the Worst Wingman Ever.)
Torpedo, hell. Imagine the carnage when two ships collide!
I am fully in favor of an ongoing subplot of Joe discovering he is horrible at everything he thinks he’s good at.
Until he discovers cheerleading.
Well, not necessarily everything. There is video evidence of how good he is at Joeing.
C-3PO. He’s isolated the reverse power flux coupling.
As Bobby Heenan once said “Yes, yes, yes! He did it!”. Though I am a bit envious of him.
Well… that’s one way to do a probing interview I guess. 😀
Are we sure Billie was never abducted by aliens? Because it looks like this time, she’s gonna get…
Probed.
YEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!
Well, something is going to get probed, anyway.
Wow. I’m totally getting a Tandy 1000, and telling every woman I meet that I have it.
The outcome clearly has a delayed reaction, but I can’t argue with results like these.
Just make sure she has a drinking problem, low self-esteem and don’t forget to say that she is way out of your league.
Now where the hell am I supposed to find a girl like that?
Oh right, I live in California! 😀
See, there’s hope for you yet.
Plasma, why do you manage to make everything hysterical?
Because he’s Plasma Mongoose. Who the hell do you think he is?!
Cos I am a connoisseur of the old school style of humour.
Tell a girl in California that you have a Tandy 1000, and she will probably think you are talking about a vibrator.
Yeah, but that probably applies everywhere else too.
If the goal is to turn her on, that might do the trick.
It’s business it’s business tIme. I know what you’re trying to say. You’re trying to say its time for business, it’s business time
Yo dawg, I heard you like business, so I put in the business in the business so you can do business while you business,
Business is business unless it is business or business and business is not quite business but really is business or is it business that is business which is business
Because I have my business socks on.
Business
Busy ness
Getting busy
Getting down to business
So “business” is the new “Marklar?”
I deny your marklar in the name of Smurf
I wonder how Harpo Marx would respond to that?
Nonverbally.
Err…yes, “business”.
Yes you could say that they’re gonna get down to “business”…Ah ha ha…Dammit, that hurt to say.
Either college has broken Billie or Danny awkwardness is just that damn attractive.
His awkwardness has already won her over completely once before, so who knows.
I think that it may have contributed but I think Billie being tormented by Ruth for over two weeks ; realizing that her social standing means nothing; that she is perusing she didn’t want; paid 40 bucks for tape recorder; Joyce waking her in a well lets say unorthodox (Joyce to innocent to be creepy) manner in the morning; oh added on she seems to have missed several classes due to lack of sleep perusing Sal with little avail only to realize the problem could have been solved easily. i think the stress may have had a little motivated her to seek some sort of release and Danny recognizing her as a cheerleader may have brought her back to a happier time.
I was referring to Roomies/It’s Walky.
Have not read them yet, but its on my list.
A very astute observation, and probably close to home.
slight edit lines 3-4: that she is perusing a story she did not want.
and line 6: (Joyce is to innocent to be creepy)
line 10-11: I think the stress may have had a little part in motivating to he seek some sort of release.
as much as I love DannyxBillie, I can’t help just thinking this is sad. Like its just shows how lonely she’s been
She does look like she’s about to cry. I guess the more he talks the harder it is for her to hold back the tears. It totally makes sense she’d try changing gears just to stop from weeping right then.
I clearly need to make more girls cry!
it could work!
Getting demoted from Cheerleader to So-and-So can be rough on some people.
WOOOO GO DANNY. Sure I’d rather see Bille/Sal but still. Wooooo.
Hey, I’d rather see Billie/Walky but after this, I’m down with this.
Hey, College is a very experimental period. We could have many combinations, some of them all at once. That’s valid.
And only one of them would be illegal in most states.
It’s only illegal if someone tells the cops.
according to Lawrence v. Texas most of if not all those laws don’t apply anymore unless your talking about animals that is still illegal.
Actually I was talking about Incest, which is still illegal.
Yes that is illegal and ewww
I’m actually quite tempted to make a Mulan joke right now.
What, Billie is making a man out of Danny?
Let’s get down to business to find Amazi-Girl.
Spider-Man 2 taught me that the only valid way to eliminate possible secret identities is to kiss them.
so i guess this rules out danny.
OR DOES IT.
I still think it’s Ethan.
YES.
That is all.
The question now is: Will Willis relaunch this ship again or is he just trolling the readers.
I hope he’s trolling. Billie’s gonna end up with Joe or something.
Or will it be like the Star Trek reboot – same ship but the crew isn’t quite who you were expecting them to be.
Just as long as Willis avoids using those annoying lens flares.
Or blow up Vulcan. I’d really hate it if Willis blew up Vulcan.
…’CAAAAAAAN!!!!
I want Billie to hook up with Sal… just once
Keep in mind that a few days have passed in continuity since the beginning, and this comic has no expiration date.
Even if Willis does intend the various ‘ships to turn out like those in the main Walkyverse, there is no deadline. I’m sure we can expect plenty of different pairings from before, and there’s no guarantee that any that get launched will remain that way.
Jennifer Billingsworth, you stop being so predictably manipulable THIS INSTANT or so help me, I will start to actually like you.
I liked her already.
That grav of yours makes it look like Robin can give one heck of a tounging.
Now now, don’t give Danny that much credit. There’s no way he did that on purpose 😉
So, Danny knows that Dorothy sent her, and as soon as he wants to get down to “business”, she starts smooching him.
You just know a part of Danny thinks that Dorothy sent him an “I’m sorry” hooker.
Oh man, I’m loving this idea already.
*Applauds Doctor_Who’s brilliant idea.*
Excellent *insert air guitar*
No points for guessing which part, I assume.
Well, it’s certainly going to be awkward when Dorothy’s actual “I’m sorry” hooker walks in on them.
Nah, Conquest will gladly engage in a threesome.
Roz might stumble by and agree to join in as well, so long as she can film it.
And that’s how Danny became the luckiest sonuvabongo in the world. 🙂
Danny becoming Galasso’s adopted heir…
Yeah, THAT would a new direction for everybody, especially if he manages to gather a full harem in the space of a single morning.
Sounds like the makings of a sitcom.
“A guy, three girls, and a pizza parlor”.
Pitch it to the networks now. You’ll make millions.
Gettin it in!
That’s how you end a week. Well played, Willis, well played.
day bow bow chickachick owww
Hope Danny’s Tandy is booted up.
Or he will be beaten with another bone, if you know what I mean.
I mean his femur(s).
PFFTAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I don’t know why that’s hilarious but it cracks me right the fuck up 😀
GOD DAMMIT WILLIS. GOD DAMMIT. They’ve got enough in the Walkyverse! Give us some alternative loving!!!
…Wait.
Damn it! Just when I was thinking the Amber-Danny ship was safe Billie torpedoes it with a pair of very fine torpedoes. This is shaping up to be a universe where everyone who was meant to be together in the last one end up with the same people.
Why do you say they’re “gonna be together”? This is college. It could very well be a one time thing, if it even goes anywhere at all after this page.
Plus Danny’s not over his ex yet — that doesn’t bode well for anything that might start between him and Billie. Maybe that makes the Amber-Danny ship even safer, since Billie could be the one he rebounds with.
But really, I’m just happy to finally see some kissing! Yaay!
Those are some good points. And this could just be a one time thing brought on by desperation, but I like the premise of what things might’ve been like if various Willis characters were brought together who previously weren’t.
YEP. IT’S GONNA BE THE BUSINESS FROM HERE ON OUT, ISN’T IT, DANNY-BOY.
Err..yes, “business” from here on out.
From here on in-and-out?
That actually worked? It never works for me.
DoA: Everybody has sexual tension with everybody else.
Otherwise known as college. Well played, Willis.
Are you saying we should expect the shipping lanes to be crowded, leading to inevitable ship collisions?
It’s good work if you can get it.
A one time thing? Please, placating girlish insecurities for sexual favours has fueled many a marriage.
NOOOO DAMN YOU WILLIS
YESSSS! THANK YOU, WILLIS!
“Tell me I’m pretty.”
“Billie, I think you’re taking things a little too far…”
*SMACK*
“TELL ME I’M PRETTY! TELL ME I’M PRETTY, DAMMIT!”
“Y-Yes Mistress.”
Damn you, Kernanator.
Oh? *innocent look* Why, whatever are you talking about? What are you saying “Damn you” for?
The imagery you have given. It never leaves my head, just like the image of that zombie girl from my nightmares.
Mission accomplished!
*HIGH FIVES*
Ah, comics. Where nice things can actually happen.
And where the worst case scenario can also happen.
And when they are one in the same, we call it comedy.
This is so babies.
Is it just regular babies, or is it babies McIntyre?
Would you like that Original Recipe or Extra Crispy?
What about Hot & Spicy.
Sour cream & onion
cool ranch.
Orange and mongoose.
…What?
I am a floavour now? OOOOOOO!
I think licking you to find out would be overly familiar on my part, so let us settle for this platonic shaking of the hands.
I’m reminded of playing children’s card games…
Babies McIntyre, totally.
I need his game
I, for one, thought the Tandy pick up line was excellent, I would have gone for it
I practically “squee’d” at the last panel. You aren’t going to kill every couple you made in the Roomies Universe! (at least not yet)
You made my day… tomorrow apparently (I’m still in thursday)
And suddenly sexy/awkward times are a go.
Willis you fiend!!! To leave us with this cliffhanger, how could you?
Whatever cologne he’s wearing, I’ll pay double for it.
I’ll have what he’s having.
I’ll pay triple for what those two gentlemen having.
But that would make it a threesome!
This is a much better way to spend a Sunday.
Go Billie!
Danny: goddamn you, and you better hope this doesn’t lead anywhere.
It’ll probably lead about a foot and a half to his right or so, judging from the layout of that room.
NOOOO! My DannyxAmber ship…. T.T
Don’t worry, the ship will stay afloat. That’s what ship mods are for.
Obviously this is going to twist into a bizarre love triangle where Amber <3 Danny, Danny <3 Billie & Amber, and Amber <3 Amazi-girl, and by extension Sal, who is so obviously Amazigirl it's unbelievable nobody else sees it.
(facepalm) Sorry, that should’ve been “Billie <3 Amazigirl, and by extension etc etc." I need to sleep more.
See, now you make me want to see Billie sharing her Amazigirl=Sal theory with Amber, who decides to run with it and become a rabid fan of that theory and help her investigate, in order to keep Billie off track and/or ruin her periodistic reputation, all the while being paranoically cautious that it may all be a trick to get her to slip her secret.
So in the run of the (fake) investigations, the two of them get to grow close. Billie, having a supporter for her ridiculous theory, becomes more and more obsessed with Amazigirl, and by extension Sal, and Amber starts suspecting that there’s something else in there. And before long she realizes that she herself has spent an ungodly amount of time thinking about her co-conspirator/mark, and starts growing jealous.
And then she realizes that she’s basically jealous of herself, and start considering if she should just tell her, EVERYTHING, but she realizes that it is far too late and now she’s stuck, forever watching her chase an imposible dream, and forever making it be impossible.
Or, she could fake Amazigirl’s death and then try to seduce her. Maybe adopt a second hero identity and tell Billie that she was inspired to that by their research. But that’d be cheating.
ALSO, I had to fire up notepad to type this, because the layout hides part of the text. What’s up with that?
I knew that would be a tvtropes link without even clicking it.
There’s still a possibility that the Billie/Danny ship will run aground or hit an iceberg before it gets very far, leaving Amber/Danny free to sail.
If only I knew more girls who reacted that way to my apologetic stammering….
Doesn’t take much, does it? For either of them. 😛
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
Wait until she finds out that he is her long, lost brother. 😀
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
I keep clicking, but nothing happens! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
Then the broken, non-clicky link just saved you hours, or even days, of your life!
And with that, this becomes the most doomed relationship of them all.
Wow, I just saw an ad over on QC with today’s final panel in it. You move fast, good sir.
Well at lease they didn’t wait all summer to reveal their perverse sexual lust for each other.
for some reason BOOM SHAKALAK was my reaction to the last panel. O_o
Just as long as it isn’t OOGACHAKA!
I have a terrible feeling that this is just a dream/day dream of somebody at church right now
Who Billie should be kissing…
Can’t decide whether I should approve or disapprove.
Stand down, I got this.
-beat-
I fully approve this motion. Please, continue.
Willis must have been laughing his ass off at all the people railing on Danny’s approach in yesterday’s comments.
Wow, everyone else is interpreting this way differently than I did. I thought the line that got Billie was Danny’s (obviously) self-pitying “You’re clearly out of my league.” I thought Billie was just trying to rehabilitate Danny’s low self esteem… she’s a nice girl lol.
“she’s a nice girl”
Hi, welcome to Dumbing of Age. You’re clearly new here.
I don’t particularly dislike Billie, she’s had some fun moments, and some sympathetic moments, but nice? -Billie-? Even when she’s being -kind- she’s bongoy about it.
Ah but she’s a softy underneath that crusty, bongoy exoskeleton. That’s why her RA has such an easy time bullying her.
Business time… Flight of the Conchords style. Oh yeah.
Only if he has his business time socks on.
I hope he handles this better than I did when faced with a vaguely similar situation, and actually rolls with it… rather than being so shocked at hot-ish, seemingly friend- (or in this case, stranger-)zoned, and completely sober girl suddenly sucking face in his room that he pushes her off going… er, thanks, but what’s the deal here?
Like, biggest mistake evar :p
Stranger Zone is by definition not Friend Zone.
What.
What just happened.
Danny had transcended the need for any one ship. Billie is but the first, for he has fallen to the Joe Side.
The circle is now complete. When I left I was but a learner, now I am the master.
Only a master of evil.
Or a master bater.
No no, he was one of those before.
Joe is a Barney level wing man, so he’s long gone. Dorothy is at church, so she won’t be walking in. So that leaves…. Amber is in middle of a raid, isn’t she? Well, shit. There isn’t anyone to walk in on them.
RUTH.
But they’re “safely out of her juresdiction” (I prolly spelled that wrong), seeing how they’re in Danny’s dorm room. Of course, it could swing in a simlar direction, and we get to find out who Danny’s R.A. is.
PLEASE let it be Ninja Rick!!!
Oh dear god. This is going to turn into another “Danny’s a clingy, naive little bongo” storyline, isn’t it?
When all you have is a hammer…
…it’s really convenient, since Billie really likes getting hammered.
Zing!
It’s kind of sad how much Billie wants validation. I feel bad for her. Kinda feel bad for Danny too.
And you’re totally shapely and not getting fat! And you’re not a drunk either!
Give the way this arc has been going, it can only end with the founding of the Divine Church of PresBillieterianism.
Billy, you must Joe her with your penis in her FAAAACE for a Nickel..
Danny*
Or, at least, I certainly HOPE you meant Danny.. It’d be weird if Billy joed herself with her own penis in her face for a nickel she’d pay herself..
Doesn’t mean I wouldn’t watch though
Oh, Lord. The two people who just can’t let high school go. They’re perfectly suited and catastrophically bad for each other at the same time.
Were you that used to ‘college’ and that unmindful of ‘high school’ when you were only a week into college? Maybe you were – I don’t know, just asking.
People seem to consider Danny as hopelessly hung up on high school, but it really has just been a few days, and the time he was hung up on it was maybe the first day or two – you know, when you’re weighing four years of experience against two days, which are you still going to be more used to?
This isn’t exactly the same, but consider that Bart Simpson has been ten years old for 20 years, and he’s had 20 years of experiences. I know that time doesn’t move the same in DoA, but while they’ve only aged a week, they’ve kind of had a year of experiences, too.
WELP
Fifteen seconds of UST has just payed off.
words cannot describe how perfectly that gravatar matches your statement
It helps that most of my statements alternate between grumpy and cryptic.
Gryptic? Crumpy?
Yep.
That’s how easy it is to get women. Tell them they are pretty and then say you aren’t worthy of them.
At least that is what TV taught me.
Well, Danny, you promised. It’s business now. You better have a nickel ready.
It’s business. It’s business time!
My two least favorite characters together! Yay! Cue awkward in 3…2…1….
Awkwaaaaaaard!
be crazy yo.
Yay, some of my favorite characters together! Hot Damn! GET YOU SOME!
Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd there it is. The secret to getting into Billie’s pants.
This is not the only way into her pants. This is only slightly less more difficult than the main way. The main way, of course, being alcohol.
more*
Whoops, he said the magic word.
It’s cute that she thought the last strip was her mistake of the day.
Danny uses Flirt, it has no effect.
Billie uses Rage, it is effective
Danny uses Honesty, it is super effective.
Billie uses Kiss, Danny has fainted.
Billie uses TONGUE.
Danny is paralised!
All business, all the time. Yeah!
I love how he says “You’re a cheerleader or something, aren’t you?” Like, if you are nerdy-creepy to one of them, the cheerleaders will send a ninja squad into your room at night and wreak unspeakable vengeance on you.
Awwwwwww
It kinda looks like Billie is in pain in the last panel. Like this is her last resort.
Le gasp! This wasn’t on the “what couple do you ship” poll D:
…and the purpose of said poll is revealed. Clever girl… or rather Willis, but… eh Ima go with “girl.”
The poll just included people at the beach. There was no ulterior motive.
A likely story. -_-
One is painfully shy and desperately wants a girl, the other needs someone to tell her she’s pretty.
Together, they’re the Co-dependent Duo!
Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da BILLNY!
Dally?
WAHOOOOOOOOO~!
YES!
YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YEEEEEEEEES!!!!!!
So glad Billie and Danny have a shot. :3 :3 :3 :3 :3
One could say that Billie –
*glasses*
– really means business.
YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
goddammit
Heeeeeh perfect avatar
indeed
A cheerleader will never leave Danny to go to Yale.
Although, given her penchant for partying, she might leave him to go to Ball State.
>>Rim shot<<
It kinda bugs me that there’s not outline distinguishing their mouths from each others.
I told you all, Lovecraftian horror! She’s not kissing him. She’s absorbing him!
I guess Willis really couldn’t think of shipping Billie with anyone but Danny. I would’ve wanted to see how Danny x Sal would’ve worked out, but w/e
are they having universe breaking babies yet?
Well, she was pre–
oops, wrong universe.
Sexytime. Danny’s definitely gonna give her the business… The Joe end of the business.
And this is serious business, I take it?
for us fans? yes!
YES! Willis, if they don’t get together or break up, I will destroy something dear to you!
And if they *do* get together or don’t break up, I will attempt the same.
So, really, you can’t win with shippers.
I believe the proper term for people who are on board ships is seamen.
So you’re a danboy?
I will say this, judging by the look in her eyes, pity sex is still sex, and I don’t think Danny’s in a position to turn her down.
Sex is like pizza. Some times are better than others, but it’s all pretty damn good.
He had her at “you’re probably a cheerleader”.
He’s probably the only person on campus who finally recognized.
Billie needs to look into the BDSM community. Guaranteed she can find someone to say things like this to her on a regular basis. Cheerleader/nerd has to be SOMEONE else’s dynamic, right?
wow,that was unexpected
O.O