Sal was the third character I redesigned for Dumbing of Age. Joyce and Sarah were pretty easy. They were both college students 13 years ago, so reworking them was just a menial wardrobe update. But Sal, in her other life, was a alien-fighting superhero. Dumbing of Age was a fresh start that had no aliens, which presented a conundrum for Sal. What is Sal like in a world where she doesn’t have the tragic focal point that made her who she is, while still keeping her quintessentially Sal?
In Roomies! and It’s Walky!, Sal probably had the biggest variety of “outfits.” She went through a lot of visual evolutions. So I pulled from some of them, grabbing her jacket and her midriff shirt and her gloves, and, trying to create a “motorcycle girl” motif, I drew a homeless man.
My wife, Maggie, was all, “Dude, what the fuck. That’s awful.” This went on for some time. And she was right, of course. She helped me as we looked through Google Images of actual motorcycle-riding outfits. She told me what had to be done. And I did it. Sal is Maggie’s creation. She’s our little baby that we made together, and just like real babies, the wife did all of the actual work.
I knew there was some reason I married her!
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Yay for Maggie!
Huzzah for Sal! (now Animal won’t have to kill you)
I dunno, Willis’ life is still on the line. We haven’t heard her talk.
She better have gone to a Catholic school in Alabama, just sayin’.
She doesn’t have to go that far. Within 50 miles of the Ohio river, you get Kentucky accents on the north side too.
And here I was hoping that Sal would be perpetually stuck in limbo, with only the occasional hint or mention to determine what she was up to. But then again, I’m the sort of sadist who would live to screw with the readers who wanted her to show up in the first half-dozen strips…
I was kinda hoping for something like that too, honestly. Or just, like, a ridiculously long time before the reveal.
Team-up of Willis, Bryke, and Tite Kubo. Great Troll-Creator Group, or GREATEST Troll-Creator Group?
Me too. It could have been the greatest practical joke of all time.
I’m going to say it, you can hate me for it but, I’m going ot say it any way…
Sal’s outfit looks like something from Power Rangers…
Teh one she appears in inside the strip, not the homeless Sal…
The* CURSE YOU LACK OF EDIT BUTTON!!!!
Actually, I think that’s her military uniform. Her other vehicle’s an (insert name of oversized Anime-Mecha-chasis here).
an awesome costume don’t get me wrong. but unless she’s on the bike 24/7 those really aren’t very comfortable
I don’t see why she wouldn’t be on the bike 24/7.
Worked for Fonzie.
Just me, or does the way she’s stood , combined with the long hair remind anyone of silver from pokemon?
and yes, Joyce does seem like a pervect poke-fan, this post was in character
I can’t be the only one who autocorrected that to “pervert”, which is kind of funny and rather apropo given the subject. (The links are perfectly safe, except that one’s to TV Tropes)
It really says something when I already knew what “given the subject” linked to before it even hovered over it. It’s already too late for that place to mess me up.
In IW! her room had a Pikachu plushie and a poster with Pikachu on it, so it’s possible she was in the other timeline (and probably in this one too).
A little bit.
MINE DAMMIT MINE MINE MINE
Am I the only one who thinks looks like Cobra Commander without the helmet?
My first thought was, in fact, that she was a member of Cobra.
This Sal makes me think a lot of Madoka Ayukawa from Kimagure Orange Road.
…now that you mention it, if she fought with guitar picks it’d be pretty awesome.