What a relief!
on October 8, 2012 at 12:01 amChapter: Psy-cute-ic
Location: Danny and Joe's dorm room
Fifteen years later, reading some eighteen-year-old waxing poetic about how dark and complicated his life has become is pretty fucking hilarious.
Also, sure, Danny, whip that platitude out of nowhere just so we can set up a punchline. Natural flow of thought? What is this.
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Quick Danny, you need to reaffirm your machismo. Eat a steak in front of her.
Joyce counters by slowly eating a banana. It’s super effective!
I think you’re too hard on PastWillis, CurrentWillis.
Thank you for sending my mind strange and disturbing places.
Though I suppose with the talk of Walkyverse-on-Dumbiverse sex on Willis’s Tumblr it’s only appropriate.
I guess you could call it…
The climax.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!
*sunglasses*
That phrasing just reminds me of that comic I’m not supposed to tell people about anymore… specifically of Karkat.
That’s what I was explicitly referencing, but… now I can totally see how it might be some kind of filthy insinuation, as poor CW pines black for a clueless PW, who keeps muddling on making Roomies is blessed ignorance of his future self’s erotic hatelove for him.
And I am totally okay with that.
An 18 year old erroneously thinking he’s deep is the most realistic thing IN Roomies! as far as I can tell. 😛
The hilarious thing is that the whole “Man, I’m so much more mature now than I used to be” attitude is basically a constant for Danny through the entire run, yet it’s not until after It’s Walky! that he actually really matures much.
Same could be said for Willis, actually.
The comic as a whole and the second panel of this strip in particular becomes much more hilarious if you pretend it’s a collaboration between DOA!Danny and DOA!Joyce.
Is this the first Batman reference in a Willis comic?
That would be the second panel of the first strip.
IIRC this the first “verbal” one though.
Balloons! Streamers!
Okay, so, a lot of eighteen year olds think like this (I should know; I’m eighteen), and really it does seem like a lot from that viewpoint I guess????
And then some of pretty much act the same we did when we were twelve.
But is pretty hilarious considering that Danny thinks college makes him all mature when you’ve got guys like Walky doing… (wait, is there a spoiler policry?) Eh, I’ll just say- Guys like Walky doing what Walky does and not giving a shit about growing up.
Sacrificing natural flow of thought for a punchline is pretty standard in three and four-panel gag comics, really. You have to play to the format, after all.
Originally posted:
September 30, 1997