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shifting their chat window colors further away from each other because they've both been similar shades of blue and that wasn't helpful

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Andrea Andrew

Aww, Walky (Finn) went to his endgame girl, Huntress Wizard, I mean, Amber.

Lazuli

if i had a nickle for every time i dropped my phone on my face i could order a pizza

LupinThe8th

That's when I know to actually turn off the light and go to sleep, the phone slips and hits my face.

Dan Rabin

David WIllis: Thanks for the insight into the colors of the text boxes. The medication-befubbles look a bit different from standard-issue boozles, too.

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@Andrea Andrew At least she didn't have to get torn apart and thrown through a portal, here[1] [1] - so, new Fiona and Cake is very odd, ATM...

Smoochie

I hate to say that this is probably for the better, but it’s probably for the better. Nowhere to go, no one to lean on, and nothing for Walky to do but either internalize it or work through it.

Logibear

Phew, thought we were going to get a cursed Slipshine there for a second.

David M Willis

I have been on oxycontin post-surgery, so this was a "okay how weird did i feel in those moments" sort of boozles.

Logibear

(Happy for these two. Just not when one has a compromised abdomen and the other is Amber)

GundamBradley

I used to really feel nothing for this ship, but I'm warming to it again. Amber and Walky have their own issues, but these two could likely use one another's company right now. Man, Walky sure likes smart girls in glasses, huh.

HenryVolt

I'm surprised anyone here still dares to claim there are any "endgame" ships in this anymore. Last year people would have thought Joyce x Joe was going to be end game yet here we are, more than a decade ago people would have thought Amber x Danny would have been endgame, hell I thought Becky x Dina were going to last long enough to see the wedding day...but now they're on the rocks so who knows.

Harold

What are the odds that in the next strip Walky has the presence of mind to ask, "Wait, medication for *what*?" (And a quick reminder that, as far as we know, Joyce is still unaware of what happened to her.)

Dan Rabin

Visual details: Amber puts on her astigmatism-correcting glasses to read the screen; the camera tightens in on her face as she lifts the phone over her face (setting up the punch); Walky is seen from further out to show the phone at his waist, but not so far out that we can't see the surprise register in his eyes in the last panel. As self-appointed forefinger-caller-outer, I note that Amber texts with her forefinger rather than her thumbs in panel 4. Joyce forefingered in yesterday's strip.

Railway Series Book Club

oh god now i gotta update my chart of all the character color co-ordinated texting ui colors, i cant believe walky's started turning purple before seeing dina text anyone

Harold

Somehow...

Railway Series Book Club

also sad that amber's changed too bc the old hex code was #bae9ff and i'd assumed that was an intentional bit

Harold

@Dan Rabin: And in the Slipshine

Dan Rabin

And now we see once again the author's wisdom in resetting his cast to college. IIRC he has stated publicly that he wanted to mix up the relationships.

HenryVolt

I wonder If it's a good look to ask your ex to cheer you up while she's reeling in pain and his highly medicated...granted no one told him or most of their group that their friend was bedridden.

Dan Rabin

I think I sampled some pixel colors from DoA once, but I never in my darkest nerd-fever thought to make a *database* of what I found :-).

Dan Rabin

Harold: unknown to me, because #!@&*#% billing service doesn't like my credit card.

Derek Benson

The result of Amber's Bene Gessrit generations-long plan wants to play Nintendo

Uniquitous

Come on ill-advised hook-up

Dan Rabin

Might be useful to get together a list of characters who *do* know. My tag-search shows Sal, Asher, Dina, Becky, Dorothy, Kitchen Doctor; I suppose Amazi-Girl also knows, even though she has not been tagged since the shared body got injured.

Dan Rabin

Behind every comic full of smart girls in glasses there is an author who...

Maude Reads Things

Yeaaaahhhhh Day 1 (technically Day 0) post-op, she probably feels like SHIT. Rainchecks are good.

Dan Rabin

From a tag search: Sal, Asher, Dina, Becky, and Dorothy know. I wouldn't expect any of these characters to gossip about it, except that Asher might tell Ethan because he might know that Amber is an important friend.

Grace Serenity

I don't even have to be under the influence to drop my phone on my face!

Edwin I Callahan

So when is Sal going to check on Amber? I would think she would be more concerned than anyone, particularly since she knows exactly now bad Amber was injured. Also, I think Law Enforcement would be profoundly freaked out that a honest-to-God superhero (more or less) beat up a bunch of officers. The University and the national media would be, uh, interested as well… But everyone seems to be focused on Joyce/Dorothy. But they haven’t been approached by a single podcast, much less MSNBC, CBS, CNN, FOX, etc.

Harold

@GundamBradley: Well, I can think of *one* smart girl in glasses towards whom Walky may not feel too kindly at the moment.

HenryVolt

Yeah I'd probably go no contact as well.

Dan Rabin

Give it time. The issue of real consequences to Amazi-Girl's actions has been raised several times, and she had gone on hiatus between rescuing Joyce and Faz from Blaine and responding to the Incelerator.

Lazuli

same

KittyKai

Poor Walky... He should play a single player while Amber watches. And then CUDDLE-

Maybeeus

Admittedly, a major part of why i never felt SUPER bad about Walky's position in all of this was because he always had Amber around as a rebound. I don't think Dorothy would be terribly upset by this turn of events either considering the two seemed to be en-route to getting back together before she swiped him again. I promised a bit of a Walky post didn't i? I've said in the past that on some level i still ship Joyce and Walky which is probably a shocking thing to say and will warrant several followup questions, but there have always been a lot of caveats to that. I think both of them do have feelings for each other but they're personalities actively repulse each other. Back in the It's Walky! days Walky was a pretty different character, it wasn't until parts of late IW! And Joyce and Walky that he really became the character he is. He was mostly just immature and a bit of a bonehead sometimes but he wasn't a smartass. Joyce was also, a pretty different character in IW! Due to being mindwiped she had no real memories of her christian upbringing except the deep internalized (and thus worst) stuff. By the time their personalities got to develop into closer to what they are now, they inevitably began to fight. Joyce's christian beliefs clashed with Walky a few times and during one really nasty incident caused them to nearly breakup and Walky's growing smartass tendencies only really seemed to piss Joyce off. That's the form of the relationship that got kicked off in DOA. I think ultimately what put the final nail in the coffin for the relationship was ultimately the fact that there's just not really any reason to have the two of them together. Sure they're into each other, sure they'll deny it but there are also way better relationships to explore like Walky and Amber and the current headlining couple with Joyce and Dorothy. I wouldn't bet on them getting together unless we were somehow REALLY at the endgame of DOA. I've called it an endgame ship before in the sense that it's a ship that can only really come to pass if literally every other ship in the comic has run it's course and met its grizzly end... Or the fuckpile comes to fruition. I feel a LITTLE BIT ashamed that i promised a Walky post and ended up making a Joyce and Walky post instead but there isn't as much for me to say about where Walky currently is other than i have good faith in his continued growth and believe that current things despite being pretty tough are ultimately for the best. Even as someone who will defend a lot of what Dorothy's done recently what she did to him was pretty shitty and he's been the most directly fucked over so far. Joe still has a chance at a polycule but also played a part in all of this and Becky imploding in on herself is more like a natural disaster that was set off chain reaction style by Joyce and Dorothy getting together in a fashion that can also only be described as a natural disaster. This post has gone on too long!!! My mind has wandered, this is as far as i go! One thing does need to be corrected though. I do not ship Joyce and Walky. I ship Joyce and Walkie.

Buck Caldwell

I don't think Becky & Dina are done yet. I think a lot of people are interpreting Dina's comments at the end of that scene through, shall I say, neurotypical eyes.

Astariel

Remember Sal was up most of the night getting Amazi-Girl medical attention and they only got back to the dorm around dawn. I wouldn't be surprised if Sal is still crashed out. Even if she's not, she may not feel the need to check on Amber yet.

Tessea

I've done that _without_ meds. It's less fun than it sounds. Nice optimistic shirt design for Amber. She is invincible! She'll be back on her feet any moment! No wound requiring a mob doctor will stop her!

Sajuuk-Khar

@HenryVolt: I mean sure, but Andrea here is one of the OG oracles like Harold, she believed in Joyce/Dorothy since WAY back, so her prophecy has weight

Sajuuk-Khar

I want them to cuddle but not right now due to worries about that abdominal wound

Sajuuk-Khar

Amber: Walky look I *do* want you to mess up my guts but if you come over now it will not be the fun, sexy way I intend

Logibear

Feels like a perspective shift is likely after this. I hope its Dina going to see Joe.

Shane Wegner

I’m vaguely disappointed he can’t trick her into getting some Mario Kart W’s off of her in her weakened state.

Shane Wegner

“Ah helped ‘er, but I’m not ‘er mom. She’s a big girl, she can handle it. Also ah still got homework t’ finish.”

MrShoggoth

This is a sad strip in context, but then it reminded me of the number of times my partner has texted me that she just dropped her phone on her face.

Smoochie

I think what has come to bother me a lot is more that a lot of takes just kinda write him off as Walky will be okay, or that he will have Amber. Even the whole revolving suspicion -focus that the ultimate answer/journey is a Joyce-Dorothy-Joe polycule (and I’m not saying I’m against it) feels like “Not Walky though, he can go be with Amber or something 💅🏻” kind of irks me but I’m not going to reopen feelings I’ve had after seeing folks react to Asma or Sara. I’m sure things will work out for the best for him and that he will grow. I’d even believe that he and Joyce might have some end game ship by senior year where they’ve both grown and realize, “hey this is nice, being around you”. I dunno. I hate the idea of just pairing Amber and Walky and calling it a day not because they don’t work but—they both very obviously need growth and I don’t think either of them will find it in each other. Booster has said they’re the correct amount of trash/worth together…And that’s, not great? Edit: ALSO fuck it we ball, I’m calling it now…! … ***Booster & Amber will end up together sooner or later—either confirming Walky’s fears that people fuck their feelings through him or just end up with their better matches after they’re done with him.***

KittyKai

Oh heck I hadn't considered that- IN THAT CASE I WANT THEM TO CUDDLE EVENTUALLY

Empress of Robots

I think this is A-G’s revenge on Amber. Amber let A-G deal with her hangover; A-G leaves Amber to deal with her police brutality wounds. That seems fair.

Smoochie

Red herring! Red herring!

Albi

Okay, my attention span is back.

Railway Series Book Club

unfortunately this just like, baseline nerd stuff for me. i’ve also got a spreadsheet for all the pantone colors that’re used on every thomas train… (which is frustratingly incomplete bc theres a lot of assets without publicly available style guide pages)

Railway Series Book Club

the benefit of keeping tabs on things like this is that i can just easily search up a character’s exact image color if i ever want to say, make art of the characters in a limited color format. as i have done in the past as a variant for certain pieces of Joyrothy art.

tifani

I wonder if in addition to her being a little loopy from the pills Amber might be denying herself access to Walky out of guilt?

tifani

But Walky is absolutely texting the ex for a post break up booty call.

Harold

More like SINtendo, amirite

Smoochie

Looks like the intrusive thoughts will not be denied this time Walkerton.

tifani

Were it not for the recovering gut wound I think there’s a very strong chance Amber would have let him come over (and cum on her ✋🏼). So the track record of these characters mourning a relationship for all of two seconds before getting into the next one would have stayed strong.

tifani

Let’s be fair she barely did anything. She put a single domino in place and then Joe just shoved that shit.

tifani

Still she did place that first domino.

tifani

If Joe appears and any other character besides Joyce, Dorothy or Sarah (in the presence of Joyce and Dorothy) talks to him next I will burn this comments section to the fucking ground.