Where you headed
on February 4, 2014 at 12:01 amChapter: Girls at the Door
Characters: Danny Wilcox, Jennifer Billingsworth
Location: Danny's parents' house
Malaya would fight Billie to the death for the honor of being able to “use” that car. Well, she might if she weren’t like 8 years old or something right now. And even so, Ultra Car would tell her to go fuck off.
Sorry, I know I’m stuck on the Ultra Car thing, but these two are starting to annoy me. Their clumsy tsundere routine was a very important sexual outlet at the time, but damn if I’m not rolling my eyes super hard now. Jesus Christ, twenty-year-old me, jerk off or something.
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no, no, the demons will get you, twenty-year-old david! STAY STRONG
You’ll be happy later when you get a cute wife who likes most of the things you like. In the meantime you can drive your future self batty.
Huh, to me this is the most likable anyone in the comic who wasn’t hit by a truck has been.
Same. Right now, I’m actually enjoying their back and forth. Though that revelation does explain a lot about what happens down the road (no pun intended but works way too well).
I liked it too, but I found most of its charm was that Danny seemed to actually be getting better. Growing up a little.
Yeah. I mean, there’s a shift in perspective that comes when we wrote dialogue in our college years, when we were just DISCOVERING things like reverse psychology and tsundere, and are now looking back on it with considerably more writing experience. The embarrassment comes not so much from the work itself, but from remembering that you used to think the work was the height of subtlety. I’ve certainly been through that.
Danny and Billie hit some very obvious beats here. Once you get the basic rhythm of their relationship, there’s nothing that subtle about it.
But there’s something to be said for a nice, simple, easy-to-understand comedy routine. It certainly seemed to serve the Warner Brothers cartoons well enough. Or if you want a more direct comparison, Rumiko Takahashi.
Oh, i knew about it. It was NOT subtle at all. But really, like you said. That doesn’t mean it can’t be enjoyable.
Fifth’d. Danny’s actually gotten progressively more… reasonable, since what happened, and Billie is alright too.
Although I do have to say it’s hard to top Joe’s awesome hovering machine!
Honestly, I find you’re a little hard on your past self and your characters. Of course you could just be kidding, but that’s the problem with text.
Well, you know what they say. You are your own worst critic.
Kind of curious Willis, your church/family seemed to have really strict ideas on premarital hanky-panky, how did they feel about masturbation?
My guess would be that they were hardcore anti-jacking it… man from 8 minutes into the future…
And apparently I’m an hour in the future… it occurs to me now that this clock is probably not calibrated to my own time zone, and that I look like a jackass
Anti-jacking it campaigns sounds like a thing that some political parties would do.
Five’ll get you ten they called it “Onanism.”
Which is always funny, because if you read that entire Bible story for comprehension, then “Onanism” should really mean “being screwed out of your inheritance by your father, who liked your other brothers way better than you and was kinda a huge jerk”
And with the cultural context, it’d be closer to “oathbreaking” or “violation of contract.”
or in a much more literal sense, “onanism” should really refer to the pull-out method rather than masturbation.
I’m sure Ultra-Car is cool with Danny and Billie at the moment. Danny feeds it and doesn’t let it die. That’s how I show MY love.
It was a sexual outlet? I just assumed you’d discovered anime and had absorbed far too many of its bad tropes.
Like watching anime isn’t already a lot of people’s sexual outlets.
-Goes back to watching anime- >.>
Considering what was readily available in the US when this was written I’d be surprised if it was used as a sexual outlet by near as much of the anime fandom here as it seems to be now. This comic, IIRC, came out before CN had started airing the Funimation DBZ dub and that was a major catalyst for the explosion of anime and manga content becoming available in the US.
Ah, and here I though Joyce was Willis’ younger self, in attitude and mind set at any rate.
I dunno, I kinda like it.
I like the Billie/Danny relationship myself. I mean Danny actually showed initiative in this strip, while sober! Plus it gives me a reason to make tsundere jokes.
I’m with Willis — the whole dragged-out Danny/Billie “romance” is my least favorite part of Roomies. Of course, I read Roomies *after* It’s Walky, so I’m reading this thinking, “Can we get back to the deadly sci-fi drama please??”
Ah.
Well, I remember reading a comment saying that they did it in Mt Rushmore.
So that’s a thing.
Originally posted:
July 14, 1999