C’mon, Danny, let Ruth drink. Â She was at Comiconference this morning. Â Anybody would need a breather after one of those.
Ron and Carly get last names now, as of this update. Â They never had last names before. Â I know of another Carly, one who went without a (maiden) last name for decades before getting one. Â In fact, she got two! Â And so I borrowed them. Â It seemed appropriate in a dumb geek sort of way.
Are you honestly surprised?
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Surprised at what? That your minor characters never had last names?
…Maybe.
No, that he took the last names from a Transformers character.
Oh. In that case I am super-unsurprised.
Yes Ruth, he did just say they were yours.
I enjoy how the only “Jerk” think they’ve done is drink beer. They OFFERED you a beer, Danny! Is that something jerks would do?
Seriously. It’s so weird. When I read this story the first time a while back, I wasn’t aware that Willis was raised fundy. I was so confused about what Danny was on about.
I always assumed that they were jerks off-panel.
As did I. Then again, I also read this the first time without knowing about Past!Willis.
What’s the person cheering at?
The football game? The Best Beer Ever? The complex reactions that create life?
WHO KNOWS.
Assuming that’s Billie, and given what we’ve seen about her party tactics in that other universe, I’m guessing that she’s cheering because her shirt is removable.
And I would be willing to bet she isn’t the only one.
Clearly she got the shirt off without removing the kegs from her head. While doing a cheer to remind people she’s a cheerleader. She’s a very talanted boozaholic.
If that’s the case, Ron is super uninterested in what’s going on.
It’s entirely possible that Ron’s g–
Oh, right. 1998!Willis. Neeeeeeeever mind.
Drunk people need a reason to cheer?
My drunken thoughts exactly.
Danny flees at laughter: the first sign of mirth
I hear that if he ever laughs, the world will end.
I hear that if he ever smiles, the universe will warp to resemble The Powerpuff Girls.
I hear that if he ever cracks a non-sarcastic, genuinely amused joke, he breaks out into hives.
The sharp twinkle given off by white teeth in a wide grin can pierce his eyes.
That would be bad why? PPG was awesome.
It isn’t. It’s just based off of a joke from The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.
Hey, they’re not jerks! Drunken, sure, but c’mon. We need accuracy here.
The first time I read this strip I agreed with danny. But I think now I’ve become more accustomed to srink with my buddies every once in a while.
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Mike doesn’t drink with his buddies! If he did, they’d know his terrible secret.
Danny (and Willis) was totally me. Like, what is wrong with you horrible lawbreakers? Don’t you know drinking is illegal at our age?
But I did buy a bottle of wine for a 21-year-old friend when I was 20, as he’d left his ID at home and the cashier decided I looked old enough. OF COURSE I DIDN’T DRINK ANY THAT’S ILLEGAL
I’m going to chime in here. I don’t drink, and I never have. I just don’t see the point of it. I can make a complete idiot of myself without having help, thanks.
BUT – I also don’t harp on people for getting a little buzzed off of alcohol around me. That’s their prerogative, and sometimes it makes things more amusing.
That being said, I had almost this exact experience once. A friend had a friend that invited him to a drinking party. My friend invited me and another friend to go, and we were curious enough to go check it out. None of us enjoyed the party. Y’see, no one else seemed to share any of our interests, and from my perspective, it seemed that the only thing any of them wanted to talk about was – you guessed it – how cool it was that they were drinking beer. (Or whatever else they were doing – at that time I wouldn’t have recognized anything else.)
We left the party about an hour in, having effectively met no one. It was a very bleh experience.
I completely know where Danny’s coming from here. It’s not that “beer is evil!” so much as “people who focus on getting drunk as a goal tend to be boring.”
Welcome to “Tell, Don’t Show” Rather than demonstrate how these people are jerks, we’ll just have them drink beer and a main character claiming they’re jerks with no evidence.
Writing is easy!
Originally posted:
October 20, 1998