Dumbing of Age

There are wool leggings?

Yep.

And Daisy STILL needs to be in horny maximum security.

Walky, this is a lost cause

Can we get this woman a Hitachi magic wand, please?

Guess it'll be a Christmas strip

Hey hey, Walky can do basic math!

I'm..not actually being as sarcastic here as I sound; wasn't math one of his major issues?

This is the first time a strip with Walky has ended with me not wanting to just punch him in the face in...since the timeskip I think, to give you can idea of how well I deal with "Constantly low-level annoying", as someone earlier in the thread put it.

Walky is a actually pretty good at basic math, and generally intelligent. It's how he coasted through high school, and has so much trouble actually making an effort.

Let's see how well he can do comics. He doodles plenty.

Edited by Kayeka on Dec 25th 2020 at 6:01:52 PM

Feeling really bad for Jen, though. Walky wanders in and he's the new cartoonist, she gets jack shit cause the editor needs to be thrown into horny Leavenworth.

Think of it as a valuable life lesson.

Yeah his main problem with math was being "I never studied before so why should I start now" and used to being able to coast, so he should be really good at like this sort of basic arithmetic.

In your eyes didn't you already get him laid once?

Edited by rmctagg09 on Dec 26th 2020 at 3:28:51 PM

She figured out later that she didn't.

Honestly, Jennifer seems to be making the right call by avoiding Walky.

He's not just being obnoxious, his behaviour here is outright detrimental to her.

Eh. That meeting was pre-ruined. Jennifer was never going to get anything out of Daisy like that.

Except we don't actually know that - because Walky decided to inject himself into and take over a conversation he had no business being in.

He was the one bringing up that new vigilante (real subtle btw).

Jennifer might not have gotten work out of that meeting, but she never really got the chance to try because Walky had to make it about himself.

So his "we're family" really comes off as entitled as a result and just reaffirms that she should really keep away from him until he learns the definition of the word "boundaries".

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Dec 26th 2020 at 7:49:40 PM

A. The closest thing Jennifer ever got to a positive interaction with Daisy was when Daisy almost accidentally kissed her. Aside from that, all Daisy knows about Jennifer is that she's a spoiled brat who sucks at the job she's angling for. She was never getting anything.

B. This whole "get away from me, nerd" has been how Jennifer interacts with Walky for years. Considering that she crawled into his bed for safety and comfort only a few months ago, it's hard to take seriously.

Edited by Kayeka on Dec 26th 2020 at 8:00:21 PM

How does that justify Walky's behaviour again?

I'm saying it doesn't need much justifying. He didn't ruin the meeting, and Jennifer doesn't want to be rid of him.

And hey, he got got a job, and gave Jennifer a way to get back into Daisy's good graces. Positives around.

Except Daisy only cares about female vigilantes she can thirst over because apparently she doesn't know the internet exists.

So considering Walky (and his alter ego) is a dude, that does nothing for her.

And again, he injected himself into somebody else's meeting - this meeting wasn't about him or for him, it was Jennifer trying to get more work. Which she didn't get the chance to because Walky had to be an ass. Again.

It literally doesn't matter if the meeting would have been unproductive for Jennifer otherwise because right now it ended in failure for her because of Walky. You know, the guy she was avoiding and told to leave her alone.

Which she's reaffirming in the last page.

This isn't whacky or charming - it's the same inconsiderate bullshit Walky always pulls and clearly some people aren't having it anymore.

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Dec 26th 2020 at 8:19:30 PM

There's always double majoring

I'm glad Becky is taking this so seriously.

I mean, she is, it is just she doesn't care for these particular classes she ended up with. Part of navigating college is figuring out which classes you will give your all and learn and which you will try to coast so it doesn't disturb too much you preferred classes.

Joyce, stop it.

I mean, if you're having trouble seeing a goddamn FOUNTAIN......

As someone who has worn glasses over 75% of his life and has a family with somewhat of a history of major eye & vision problems, I feel confident in making the following statement.

A college age student like Joyce going from being visually functional one semester to being this visually impaired the next (within a span of six months) is not realistically a "needs glasses" scenario, but instead a "needs corrective surgery now or else is very likely to be legally blind in a few years" scenario. Visual acuity just does not normally degrade that quickly at that young an age without there being a major underlying issue.

Of course, the question is if Willis is aware of this (which seems unlikely to me).