On a side note, I saw that “Brony Scalping” was coined as stealing the fedoras off of bronies and nailing them to the wall as trophies if they don’t try to get them back.
That list infuriates me. For many reasons, such as the complete tonal inconsistency. Some lines are sarcastic, some are not, and there’s no rhyme or reason to it.
It’s they own fault, they have no business wearing a fedora without a three-piece suit to match.
And most of them are wearing trillbies anyway. They lose nothing of value.
He COULD get out of it by claiming it’s short for ‘Malcolm’, but someone mentioned Firefly once and he had to stop or else someone might associate him with nerds.
And according to the first baby name website I pulled up, it apparently is unisex.
It works for me, and this browser doesn’t even have javascript (I was surprised; so many “social” sites today simply don’t show any content if they can’t load it dynamically).
If she’s trying to be more normal does that mean she’ll go around kissing random people now? Will Amber’s first unwanted kiss with a girl be with Dina in this universe?
Specifically, Dina was standing behind the door when Amber and Ethan discussed the drama of Ethan’s coming out. I’m not sure if she was paying attention, or for that matter if she knows what “coming out” means, but potentially she knows.
I’m not entirely sure that I get the pun chain theme. However, because I’m not posting in the pun chain, I kneed to at least make an attempt to join in.
To be entirely fair to Joyce, she is pretty, and stacked, and they obviously know each other, and Amber was pissed to see Ethan kissing another woman. The evidence could easily lead to the opposite conclusion: that Ethan’s a womanizer.
I love that Danny is just standing there. He hasn’t said anything, and nobody is even acknowledging that he’s there.
Crud, he’s sort of the male Dina, isn’t he. I’d ship it. Their dates will consist entirely of awkward silences, while louder characters do funny things in the foreground.
Which begs the question, is Danny being witty here? I didn’t think he had it in him. Plus, he agrees completely with Dorothy. Perhaps there is something to the two of them…
Danny? Putting together clues to reach an obvious conclusion? Boy hasn’t even figured out that the two women that he’s seeing are really Sal and Spider-Car.
I wonder if Dorothy gets what’s going on. There was that time Amber and Ethan were talking, and afterwards Amber was saying how nice a guy he was, and Dorothy was like, “…he’s gay, isn’t he?”
Dina’s doing what Dina does best in this type of situation: she can’t help anyone, so she will just watch.
If more people followed her example there would be a lot less drama in the world.
Joyce has done well. Now to see if Ethan can redeem himself.
I’m just starting to read this, and I’ve got a question: are the pairings going to work out the same way they did in Shortpacked? Or is this going to go with the whole alt-universe conceit and be all new pairings? I’m so used to Joyce and Walky being a couple that it might break my heart if they were, you know, not a couple.
Also, something tells me this question is irrelevant and none of the readers are equipped to answer it.
We’re, in fact, all equipt to answer it. No. These will not be the same as the Walkyverse. This is a different universe. Different relationships will be formed by people who hadn’t even met initially. Anything goes.
Ah, Joyce. Stupid, insecure, suspicious Joyce. Even if Ethan was totally not hot for men and their penises and stuff, this attitude would damn their relationship.
I sat down and read these all in one night. I had no prior knowledge of these characters but I started reading roomies and shortpacked. Where can I read its walky and joyce and walky? I am in love with these characters!
But things got rolling with the aliens before that, Roomies pretty much blends into It’s Walky. And of course things are a disorganized over there, the design is terrible, etc, which is why Willis has started http://bringbackroomies.com If you can stand to wait and not archive binge, I would just read that.
Lookit Danny’s disdainful face as he delivers that vaudeville gag. He does not approve.
Joyce is sort of interesting here, especially given the context. Earlier, she was very insecure about her desires, and now she’s clinging to the image of Ethan as her boyfriend like a rabid wolverine. (Which is basically the same thing as a regular wolverine, except it froths when it says ‘bub’.) Indicating more that she wants a relationship because she’s supposed to, not because she actually wants one. Dotty and Walky want what they’re in, and that’s why they seem perfect to her, but she can’t really force those desires or force that feeling of rightness. Hopefully she’ll realize that before getting into a sham marriage.
Joyce is insecure about her sexual desires, but rock-solid secure in her desire to have a steady loving fundamentalist christian husband for whom to be barefoot and pregnant, especially the latter due to lots of pastor-authorized post-marital hanky-panky.
That’s true — and I hadn’t really considered her view on post-marital hanky-panky. Mentally she accepts that, but if she hasn’t had any physical experience before, it’ll probably be more or less awkward for all parties.
..how is it Dina totally shoved the evolution argument right back into Joyce’s throat, yet she has absolutely no good info to divulge at the one moment she should?
A: BECAUSE SHES SMART XD
Dinosaurs are simple. Homo-sapiens are a chaotic mess that somehow resemble mammals
Hard to tell; practically all the characters are drawn in a way that’s ambiguously “cute”. But Amber does dress for comfort more than looks, and Joyce has just seen her in an unflattering angry-faced moment, so Joyce’s sizing Amber up as “pretty” is interesting, and probably says more about Joyce than it does about Amber.
Just going on record to say that I feel like part of Joyce is right now enthusiastically roleplaying as every jilted woman she’s ever seen in media, and I think it’s pretty darned cute.
What she has absorbed from media is, of course, depressing — like it would be if a robot announced: “Now replicating pattern D56-ALPHA of FEMALE BEHAVIOR: assume other women are all after my man and proceed to hate them irrationally. JUDGING THEM BASED ON THEIR ATTRACTIVENESS RELATIVE TO MY OWN and DEVELOPING LOW SELF-ESTEEM modules installing…”
It’s a big box of really unfortunate and really prevelant cliches that the naive human emulator bot has decided are just The Way Women Work (TM), and who can blame it, with all the information it’s absorbed through study of our culture?
Who wouldn’t want to be Walky?
Not only is he smart enough to breeze through his courses (apparently. High school slackers dont get into secondary education)
He’s smart enough not to let the overload to get to him
Unlike Dotty xD
(Amber’s problems stem from way too much time spent in front of her computer)
Based on my own experience as a literal genius who slacked through high school and got into college on the strength of what I could do when I wasn’t even trying and an amazing SAT score… Walky’s going to have some problems if and when he hits subject matter that actually challenges him (and, however smart he may be, a major university can do that), and doesn’t have the skills or habits to actually study.
With luck, his relationship with Dorothy will help him develop those skills and habits before he gets there. And help her loosen up a little, which she also needs or she’ll burn out.
There’s the Joyce that old fans know and love and some of us have only just recently read about.
Considering how sheltered and naive she is generally, the jealous rages and psychotic stalking (both here and in the old Roomies) seems a little odd, but I suppose those two personality quirks aren’t really mutually exclusive. Keeps things exciting, anyway.
Meanwhile Walky keeps things stupid, but lots of people other than myself love that kind of humor, so I shouldn’t criticize. Much.
Makin’ yer way through four years of college
Takes everything ya got
Takin’ a break from all your studies sure would help a lot
Wouldn’t ya like to an easy grade?
Sometimes you wanna go
Where it’s okay if you’re gay
And there’s pizza during the day
You wanna be where you can see
the drama come out and play
You wanna be where it’s okay if you’re gay
You wanna go where people know
People are all the same
You wanna go where it’s okay if you’re gay
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“That’s our, Walky!”
That’s also a fiiiiiiine trophy.
Dat caramel.
That’s a “That FIEND” face in panel 1!
On a side note, I saw that “Brony Scalping” was coined as stealing the fedoras off of bronies and nailing them to the wall as trophies if they don’t try to get them back.
I don’t have a fedora…
Neither do I, I’m not sure how well this scalping trend will go.
I don’t know, but I’m leaving mine at home from now on.
I only take fashion advice from one pony, and she says fedoras are not fabulous
Well we all should at least be aware that there is a one fedora per group of friends rule. Nobody wants to look extra foolish.
That sounds like Pick-up artist scalping to me.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/20-reasons-you-shouldnt-date-men-who-wear-fedoras
That list infuriates me. For many reasons, such as the complete tonal inconsistency. Some lines are sarcastic, some are not, and there’s no rhyme or reason to it.
Looks like OKCupid user scalping to me.
It’s they own fault, they have no business wearing a fedora without a three-piece suit to match.
And most of them are wearing trillbies anyway. They lose nothing of value.
This. Exactly this.
I vote Ethan become a shirt thief on the run from the law in the next crisis! Who’s with me?!
And starts dating Malaya.
Who is now a dude.
Malaya is apparently a unisex name…
“I’m Mal. Short for ‘Malaya.’ My stupid mom wanted a girl.”
He COULD get out of it by claiming it’s short for ‘Malcolm’, but someone mentioned Firefly once and he had to stop or else someone might associate him with nerds.
And according to the first baby name website I pulled up, it apparently is unisex.
I… I just… I’m not…
That or she’s a lady-boy. 😀
Malaya is more man than Ethan can handle.
Please don’t.
Plasma, I would say you probably shouldn’t be using that word as it can be offensive to transgendered people.
Nah, she’s still a chick. Takes Ethan out on a nice romantic date, and they kiss… and that’s when he realizes he’s not into girls.
Macho, macho man,
Walky thinks,
He’s a macho man.
Next thing you know, he will accuse him of staying at the YMCA and being in the Navy.
I don’t know what you’re talking about. You can tell by the way he walks that he’s a woman’s man, no time to talk.
I’ve been kicked around since I was born.
Now, that joke’s alright…it’s ok. I guess I’ll look the other way.
You can best believe that, he’s a macho man~
And you he’s down with, anyone who can~
Don’t you mean “Nacho man”?
I want to be a – *homph homph* – nacho man!!
Amber is many things, but a hussy she is not.
I love how Joyce looks like she’s considering the possibility of Walky’s theory being true in the last panel.
You can almost hear her gears grinding as she thinks “Holy pifflesticks, Walky just might be onto something…”
I’ve been underestimating him all this time.
Dina looks like she’s completely on board with it.
“What does that hussy think she’s going”?
She’s going your mom for a nickel.
Oh Walky, you rascal.
And the one Dina is going to say Ethan’s gay and hiding it and they won’t believe her.
Nah, Dina’s too busy trying out her new Twitter account.
(The everybody link, incidentally, isn’t working.)
It works for me, and this browser doesn’t even have javascript (I was surprised; so many “social” sites today simply don’t show any content if they can’t load it dynamically).
Yeah, it’s working again now. Dunno if Willis fixed something or if Twitter just unfucked itself.
The name changed, it did not have hyphens in it before.
She IS Amber’s roommate, and they’ve been hanging out, Amber may have mentioned it.
She’s known the whole time but she didn’t think it was worth mentioning.
Maybe she knows he’s “gay” but doesn’t actually know what that means, so she doesn’t see any reason it complicates her and Joyce’s relationship.
*”HIS and Joyce’s”
Well .. it certainly doesn’t complicate Dina’s and Joyce’s relationship, or does it?
She doesn’t even know how normal relationships work. She just assumed people kiss each other casually.
If she’s trying to be more normal does that mean she’ll go around kissing random people now? Will Amber’s first unwanted kiss with a girl be with Dina in this universe?
Specifically, Dina was standing behind the door when Amber and Ethan discussed the drama of Ethan’s coming out. I’m not sure if she was paying attention, or for that matter if she knows what “coming out” means, but potentially she knows.
Walky, your logic is impeccable… 😛
try as I might, I cannot pec his logic.
Its ABSolutely perfect.
It sounded kind of ASSinine to me
I’m personally going to stay thighlent on the issue.
I’m not entirely sure that I get the pun chain theme. However, because I’m not posting in the pun chain, I kneed to at least make an attempt to join in.
*now
It took me a second. I didn’t see your pun before(arm).
It’s like it’s sculpted out of chocolate. Chocolate logic.
Close! It’s Caramel logic.
Chocolate logic is more Sarah’s specialty.
And the pecs aren’t bad either.
I’m sorry, I couldn’t think of a pun.
Well, folks were right about the idea that Ethan being gay wouldn’t even register as a possibility for Joyce.
To be entirely fair to Joyce, she is pretty, and stacked, and they obviously know each other, and Amber was pissed to see Ethan kissing another woman. The evidence could easily lead to the opposite conclusion: that Ethan’s a womanizer.
Which, of course, would be Amber’s fault.
I love that Danny is just standing there. He hasn’t said anything, and nobody is even acknowledging that he’s there.
Crud, he’s sort of the male Dina, isn’t he. I’d ship it. Their dates will consist entirely of awkward silences, while louder characters do funny things in the foreground.
He said, “I’m sure you’re safe.” in the last panel. That’s a shared speech bubble and he also looks pretty pissed off.
Oops, didn’t realize it was a two person bubble.
Which begs the question, is Danny being witty here? I didn’t think he had it in him. Plus, he agrees completely with Dorothy. Perhaps there is something to the two of them…
Danny has a very low opinion of Walky. The notion of him being ‘manly’ just begs for correction. Even by his girlfriend!
Is it awkward if Dina has no problem being silent and largely ignored?
No. That’s how you avoid being eaten, after all.
Also, don’t forget that you can discuss this comic in GLORIOUS REALTIME on super-modern IRC at Nightstar.net, channel name #dumbingofage !
Subtle.
…oh wait Amber mentioned that she used to date a gay guy to Danny, so he in fact totally knows what’s going on.
Danny? Putting together clues to reach an obvious conclusion? Boy hasn’t even figured out that the two women that he’s seeing are really Sal and Spider-Car.
I’d laugh if Danny figures it out, somebody in this group needs some common sense.
As I just mentioned, Danny probably already has! At last if he’s been paying attention to Amber at all.
I think he’s too busy glaring at Walky to have put it together yet. he may not have been paying attention to anything else.
I wonder if Dorothy gets what’s going on. There was that time Amber and Ethan were talking, and afterwards Amber was saying how nice a guy he was, and Dorothy was like, “…he’s gay, isn’t he?”
That was Joyce, not Amber.
Thank you, this is what I get for not proofing.
The second Danny mentions Amber dated a gay guy, they’re all gonna realize it at once.
So what’s a “talk dark stranger”?
Wow it looks like Danny’s still pissed at Walky, he didn’t even crack a smile!
Walky is *presumably* banging his ex.
Dina’s doing what Dina does best in this type of situation: she can’t help anyone, so she will just watch.
If more people followed her example there would be a lot less drama in the world.
Joyce has done well. Now to see if Ethan can redeem himself.
It’s not quite Amber about to rain down the wrath of God, but I’m still enjoying Joyce’s diabolical supervillain pose in panel 1
First panel: I hate when girls do that!
I just don’t like people assuming others are hussies. Stop it. All the real hussies aren’t getting the credit they deserve when you do that.
I hear you man. If only girls wouldn’t go around frowning and clenching their fists like that.
Typical Walky, and I see Danny still likely hates his guts.
Dina: Or he’s gay. I mean, I’m not the only one who got a gay vibe from him, right?
I really wanna see this happen. even though everyone would probably just stare at her
They make gay vibes? That sounds hot.
It’s a little-known fact that many dinosaur species possessed excellent gaydar.
…Can someone please shut Joyce up alread–oh. …thank you Walky.
He’s just so convenient.
Alt text has a typo. You put Talk dark instead of Tall dark
Uh-oh is Joyce gonna have to choke a hussy?
Is Joyce Brown gonna have to Choke a B-word?
Oooookay. I can see where this is going. In the end, Joyce and Walky can be delusional together.
By the way, I talk dark stranger too 😀 Anyone else does?
I’m just starting to read this, and I’ve got a question: are the pairings going to work out the same way they did in Shortpacked? Or is this going to go with the whole alt-universe conceit and be all new pairings? I’m so used to Joyce and Walky being a couple that it might break my heart if they were, you know, not a couple.
Also, something tells me this question is irrelevant and none of the readers are equipped to answer it.
We’re, in fact, all equipt to answer it. No. These will not be the same as the Walkyverse. This is a different universe. Different relationships will be formed by people who hadn’t even met initially. Anything goes.
I really can’t imagine Joyce and Walky ever getting together in this universe.
I can, but they both need to grow first. Granted, I’m not shipping them but I could see it happening.
…. Somehow Walky even has me convinced that’s way more likely XD
Except wouldn’t he steal Transformers and G.I. Joe collections??
Panel 1: She will rue the day she messed with Joyce Brown!
I pity the hussy who husses with Joyce brown.
—-^
They always seem friendly and peace loving but Joyce looks like she’d go holy crusade at any moment now XD
Ah, Joyce. Stupid, insecure, suspicious Joyce. Even if Ethan was totally not hot for men and their penises and stuff, this attitude would damn their relationship.
I sat down and read these all in one night. I had no prior knowledge of these characters but I started reading roomies and shortpacked. Where can I read its walky and joyce and walky? I am in love with these characters!
It’s Walky is the same site as Roomies (ItsWalky.com), it starts here: http://www.itswalky.com/d/19991225.html
But things got rolling with the aliens before that, Roomies pretty much blends into It’s Walky. And of course things are a disorganized over there, the design is terrible, etc, which is why Willis has started http://bringbackroomies.com If you can stand to wait and not archive binge, I would just read that.
As for Joce and Walky, that is here: http://shortpacked.bigcartel.com/product/joyce-and-walky-complete Well worth the money!
*Joyce
Thank you so much!
Also, the avatar they picked for me is perfect <3
Lookit Danny’s disdainful face as he delivers that vaudeville gag. He does not approve.
Joyce is sort of interesting here, especially given the context. Earlier, she was very insecure about her desires, and now she’s clinging to the image of Ethan as her boyfriend like a rabid wolverine. (Which is basically the same thing as a regular wolverine, except it froths when it says ‘bub’.) Indicating more that she wants a relationship because she’s supposed to, not because she actually wants one. Dotty and Walky want what they’re in, and that’s why they seem perfect to her, but she can’t really force those desires or force that feeling of rightness. Hopefully she’ll realize that before getting into a sham marriage.
Also, does Joyce seriously think secret girlfriends are A Thing?
Joyce is insecure about her sexual desires, but rock-solid secure in her desire to have a steady loving fundamentalist christian husband for whom to be barefoot and pregnant, especially the latter due to lots of pastor-authorized post-marital hanky-panky.
That’s true — and I hadn’t really considered her view on post-marital hanky-panky. Mentally she accepts that, but if she hasn’t had any physical experience before, it’ll probably be more or less awkward for all parties.
..how is it Dina totally shoved the evolution argument right back into Joyce’s throat, yet she has absolutely no good info to divulge at the one moment she should?
A: BECAUSE SHES SMART XD
Dinosaurs are simple. Homo-sapiens are a chaotic mess that somehow resemble mammals
http://www.facebook.com/JHorner27123
Do with it what you will Mr. Walky 😉
Gonna make us wait for the Amber talk eh Willis?
Replace “cops” with closet, and “murderin'” with ogling and Walky isn’t too far off.
…walky was so close, and then he just… well, he’s walky after all
This weekend Cliffhanger isn’t sexy at all. Willis you oathbreaking rapscallion!
Maybe Willis has a shirt thief fetish.
Where’s the laugh track???
From the way they’re drawn I’m guessing that a population survey would rank Joyce as prettier than Amber…
Hard to tell; practically all the characters are drawn in a way that’s ambiguously “cute”. But Amber does dress for comfort more than looks, and Joyce has just seen her in an unflattering angry-faced moment, so Joyce’s sizing Amber up as “pretty” is interesting, and probably says more about Joyce than it does about Amber.
*eyes the population survey on the right*
Doesn’t look that way! Actually, she’s apparently the least attractive lady in the room.
which population? this one?
But…What if Walky is Right?
Man, more drama and stuff! Dumbing of Age delivers the best birthday presents EVER!
BEST. ALT TEXT. EVAR.
Well maybe not evar. Xkcd had some better ones.
But still pretty funny.
:3
–^
It still wont let me have a different picture. fair ‘nough
Just going on record to say that I feel like part of Joyce is right now enthusiastically roleplaying as every jilted woman she’s ever seen in media, and I think it’s pretty darned cute.
What she has absorbed from media is, of course, depressing — like it would be if a robot announced: “Now replicating pattern D56-ALPHA of FEMALE BEHAVIOR: assume other women are all after my man and proceed to hate them irrationally. JUDGING THEM BASED ON THEIR ATTRACTIVENESS RELATIVE TO MY OWN and DEVELOPING LOW SELF-ESTEEM modules installing…”
It’s a big box of really unfortunate and really prevelant cliches that the naive human emulator bot has decided are just The Way Women Work (TM), and who can blame it, with all the information it’s absorbed through study of our culture?
Even though he keeps on being ragged on, I’d love to be Walky any time of the day!
Who wouldn’t want to be Walky?
Not only is he smart enough to breeze through his courses (apparently. High school slackers dont get into secondary education)
He’s smart enough not to let the overload to get to him
Unlike Dotty xD
(Amber’s problems stem from way too much time spent in front of her computer)
Based on my own experience as a literal genius who slacked through high school and got into college on the strength of what I could do when I wasn’t even trying and an amazing SAT score… Walky’s going to have some problems if and when he hits subject matter that actually challenges him (and, however smart he may be, a major university can do that), and doesn’t have the skills or habits to actually study.
With luck, his relationship with Dorothy will help him develop those skills and habits before he gets there. And help her loosen up a little, which she also needs or she’ll burn out.
Yeah, I know what that’s like, too. Soon after I got to college, I was going around asking my classmates, “How do you study?”
Story of my college life.
The Hovertext says Talk Dark Stranger? Shouldn’t it be tall?
There’s the Joyce that old fans know and love and some of us have only just recently read about.
Considering how sheltered and naive she is generally, the jealous rages and psychotic stalking (both here and in the old Roomies) seems a little odd, but I suppose those two personality quirks aren’t really mutually exclusive. Keeps things exciting, anyway.
Meanwhile Walky keeps things stupid, but lots of people other than myself love that kind of humor, so I shouldn’t criticize. Much.
I wanna spoof the Cheers song for Galasso’s now.
Makin’ yer way through four years of college
Takes everything ya got
Takin’ a break from all your studies sure would help a lot
Wouldn’t ya like to an easy grade?
Sometimes you wanna go
Where it’s okay if you’re gay
And there’s pizza during the day
You wanna be where you can see
the drama come out and play
You wanna be where it’s okay if you’re gay
You wanna go where people know
People are all the same
You wanna go where it’s okay if you’re gay
Danny-me, Y U NO proofread?
I ask Richard Garfield me the same thing all the time.
if we’re semi us does that mean our high fives hit like a mack truck?
I wish she had blurted out GAY! it would have been spectacularly hilarious.
While I may have technically specified Canadians in the challenge, does anyone have any designs they’d like to submit anyways?
http://goo.gl/5oVok
BURN!
Oh God, I think Roomies Joyce is starting to take over.