# Willy and Dolly 101, strip 3 of 4: "Two Ways to Help"

**Panel 1.** Willy and Dolly face the reader.
- Dolly: "Willy jumps right in."
- John types: "tidy up the photos"

**Panel 2.** Willy stands beside one very tall, very neat, slightly wobbly stack made of every photo.
- Willy: "Tidy!"

**Panel 3.** Dolly asks before doing anything.
- Dolly: "Which ones did you mean?"
- John types: "just the blurry ones"

**Panel 4.** Willy nudges the blurry photos off the stack into a bin, and the rest of the tall stack slides over and fans out across the floor.
- Willy: "Tidy... ish!"
- Dolly, to the reader: "Asking first means less picking up."

**The idea:** one helper starts at once, the other asks what you meant first. Only the blurry photos end up in the bin; the rest just need picking up.

**Who's who.** Willy is a red teardrop who jumps right in; when he finishes a job, a tally mark appears beside him. Dolly is a mustard-yellow ring who asks first; a trail of dots follows her, longer when she's unsure and gone when she's certain. They're bots: helpers that live inside the computer. John, the human, is never drawn. His typed messages slide in from the edge of the panel, with a little cursor at the end.

The strip as an image: https://willyanddolly.com/strips/wd028.png
All four strips and the short: https://willyanddolly.com/