Joe, normally murder is wrong. Except in the case of Dannycide. That gets you the undying love of everyone on that campus. Except maybe Ruth, but who cares about her anyway?
Somehow it looks like Joe implies that’s the same hoodie Danny’s always worn, but it turns black when gothdom is imminent, like one of those radiation warning stickers.
I dunno, I thought he was pretty generic back then and I still think he’s pretty generic now. He gets made fun of now that the author has shown us how easy it is, but it’s really just Young Willis’s naivete we’re making fun of, for which Danny himself is just a rather uninteresting outlet.
Yeah I read through Roomies and IW when I was about 17 and remember actually being a little miffed when Walky became the focus character since I liked Danny. I honestly don’t know what I was thinking at the time.
Course Danny isn’t a bad character, though I attribute a lot of that to the development he gets throughout IW moreso then anything he does in Roomies.
Yeah, I’m in the camp that doesn’t find Danny so bad. He’s not the greatest person, but the level of vitriol that’s leveled at him seems out of proportion to his actual level of annoyingness.
I do not think the problem is the character so much as the framing. He is a regular-ass, flawed person, and very believable for his age, I think. But the early stuff frames him like he is the smart one we should agree with as he judges everyone else for their behavior and never recognizes his own. He was very self-inserty, I guess. When I first started thumbing through these older ones I was old enough to pick up on that and I stopped reading because it was driving my nuts, but when I was a teen I probably would have been fine with it, tbh.
IDK, I do not feel vitro at Danny per se, but re-framing him as the flawed person that he is really improves the comic.
He’s a Ted Mosby-style Nice Guy (except Ted is worse because he’s in his friggin 30s and should have grown out of that shit).
Also, I’m guessing some people hate him partially because they see their younger selves in him (myself included).
Joe, just shove a sock in his mouth. And then duct tape it closed. And then tape his fingers together so he can’t remove the tape over his mouth. He’ll go on living so the universe doesn’t end in four years, and we don’t have to listen to him angsting endlessly.
Oh dangit Danny. I liked you. Chill the hell out, good stuff happens too. Just learn to not expect it so that when it shows up its like getting cake! And then if its cake, its like DOUBLE CAKE!
It’s good to know that out of all the borderline goth-ish things Danny’s been up to as of late, the one Joe picks up on is a black hoodie. By that standard, I must be at least three or four times as goth as Danny is!
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BEFORE HE BREEDS LITTLE GOTHLINGS
I don’t think you have to worry bout him breeding.
Oh wait, he eventually does, FUC-
Joe, just stick something in his mouth, it’ll stop the flow of unending stupid.
Again–kill him now and the universe ends in four years.
So…
It just might be worth it.
Not if we also kill Sal. All she does is get other people killed.
Killing her seems a lot harder than killing Danny.
It is very hard to kill Batman. This is why it’s very hard to kill Sal.
To be fait, she aided Jason in their undercover investigation on the Britjas in 2003.
I don’t know what happens in four years, but it sounds worth it anyway.
That sound you are hearing is Vogons screaming in pain.
Harsh. But deserved.
so does that mean Danny will get thrown out of an airlock any moment now?
Stop filling me with false hope.
Joe, normally murder is wrong. Except in the case of Dannycide. That gets you the undying love of everyone on that campus. Except maybe Ruth, but who cares about her anyway?
She’ll get over it, what with all the not being dead she’ll get.
Somehow it looks like Joe implies that’s the same hoodie Danny’s always worn, but it turns black when gothdom is imminent, like one of those radiation warning stickers.
I want a hoodie like that.
Danny, here is a Protip: Cut along the lines not across the tracks. 😀
Down the block, not across the street.
Back when I first read through Roomies!, when I was 15 or 16, I honestly didn’t see anything wrong with Danny through the entire run.
Have I mentioned I was an idiot when I was a teenager?
Doesn’t that strike you as just the slightest bit redundant?
I dunno, I thought he was pretty generic back then and I still think he’s pretty generic now. He gets made fun of now that the author has shown us how easy it is, but it’s really just Young Willis’s naivete we’re making fun of, for which Danny himself is just a rather uninteresting outlet.
Yeah I read through Roomies and IW when I was about 17 and remember actually being a little miffed when Walky became the focus character since I liked Danny. I honestly don’t know what I was thinking at the time.
Course Danny isn’t a bad character, though I attribute a lot of that to the development he gets throughout IW moreso then anything he does in Roomies.
Well, I still don’t see anything “wrong” with him.
He is just a mildly annoying teenager that think that he knows right from wrong and how things works. Everyone is like that at some point.
Yeah, I’m in the camp that doesn’t find Danny so bad. He’s not the greatest person, but the level of vitriol that’s leveled at him seems out of proportion to his actual level of annoyingness.
I do not think the problem is the character so much as the framing. He is a regular-ass, flawed person, and very believable for his age, I think. But the early stuff frames him like he is the smart one we should agree with as he judges everyone else for their behavior and never recognizes his own. He was very self-inserty, I guess. When I first started thumbing through these older ones I was old enough to pick up on that and I stopped reading because it was driving my nuts, but when I was a teen I probably would have been fine with it, tbh.
IDK, I do not feel vitro at Danny per se, but re-framing him as the flawed person that he is really improves the comic.
“it was driving my nuts”
Don’t ever let anyone drive your nuts, Reepicheep-chan. Be the driver of your own destiny.
He’s a Ted Mosby-style Nice Guy (except Ted is worse because he’s in his friggin 30s and should have grown out of that shit).
Also, I’m guessing some people hate him partially because they see their younger selves in him (myself included).
If it was any one else I’d assume Danny started reciting poetry to goof on Joe. It being Danny, it’s just another reason why Danny is the worst.
Or at least give him a better shirt and some makeup tips.
Yep, “afire with life,” that’s definitely a phrase I would use to describe normal Danny.
Joe, just shove a sock in his mouth. And then duct tape it closed. And then tape his fingers together so he can’t remove the tape over his mouth. He’ll go on living so the universe doesn’t end in four years, and we don’t have to listen to him angsting endlessly.
So did this inspire Angsty Robin later on. Danny does currently seem to be suffering a Turducken of dispair.
I’m not sure there’s another kind of Turducken.
“yeah, I remember the days when all you had to do was wear a lot of black to be a goth.”
You know, Joe, normally I don’t agree with you bur please, put Danny out of his misery now. He’s going goth, and not in a good way.
No, you fool! Don’t kill him! That will only make his gothiality stronger!
Oh dangit Danny. I liked you. Chill the hell out, good stuff happens too. Just learn to not expect it so that when it shows up its like getting cake! And then if its cake, its like DOUBLE CAKE!
It’s good to know that out of all the borderline goth-ish things Danny’s been up to as of late, the one Joe picks up on is a black hoodie. By that standard, I must be at least three or four times as goth as Danny is!
Originally posted:
January 13, 1999