It seems like you were in a much better mood when you started this comic.
Which makes me suppose the sheer lack of critical thinking of a few years of commenting is to blame.
🙁
He DID say earlier that he isn’t always tagging the very first appearances of characters, to give people time to guess who they are first.
In other news: I AM kind of surprised, even after the earlier violence from Ruth, that Sal’s being physically introduced (assuming we don’t count the mysterious motorcyclist earlier as her) via vigilante justice in the Dumbiverse. It seems a bit contrary to the whole “Let’s do this again, but with ordinary college hijinks” ethos, given the general lack of vigilantes on college campuses.
Not that I’m complaining, mind. I don’t place that high a value on normalcy.
Vigilante?? Sal is no vigilante. Sal is a Hero. Sal is BATMAN.(uh.. batgirl….batwoman…whichever SHE won’t beat me up for. she still scares me a little.)
Hopefully it’s just so Sal will be a big reveal to people who aren’t reading the comments or haven’t read It’s Walky!. Because that is totally a Sal entrance.
Also, I really hope we get an epic Sal vs. Ruth battle at some point in the strip, because that would just be awesome.
During my time at IU, I think members of the football team were implicated in one random beating. There was also this one weirdo who would run by and punch people in the gut at night in the woods between Franklin Hall and the the Chemistry building, but I don’t think he was a jock.
Okay, so I’m not the only one who found the “upperclassmen beating on froshes” kind of weird, then. I remember freshmen getting hazed if they went frat, of course, and I recall some freshmen jocks failing to realize that they weren’t still in high school (and thus went around picking on the freshmen nerds for a few weeks until it became clear that that shit didn’t fly any more). But this… doesn’t really ring any bells for me.
Yeah and the way they dress seems like more of high school stereotype than college.But I guess it’s a dramatic way to introduce a character. (Assuming that’s what happening here. It could be someone who’s already been introduced.)
It appears to be the back of the helmet and boot of the person riding the motorcycle back in “Sister”. Unless Sal has had a haircut in this universe, it’d be quite difficult to hide hip length hair under a helmet that small. The person on the motorcycle appeared to have just been arriving at the dorms when a later strip showed that Sal had already come and gone. Not to mention that Walky and Billie were talking about how they didn’t know where Sal was as the motorcycle drove by.
I want to go out on a limb and say it’s Mandy. She’s only been in one strip and she was important enough to get a tag. And to also follow along the motorcyclist conspiracy, the helmet almost looks semi transparent and light from glasses reflecting underneath (or that’s just general reflections). Either way, I believe this to be the same motorcyclist from “Sister” and that it is someone we’ve already seen somewhere else in the comic. Whether or not the person is male or female still is unclear.
The motorcyclist had boobs. Unless you’re suggesting a crossdresser, the motorcyclist is definitely female. And hair length is not a good indicator for whether or not the motorcyclist is Sal. When you have long hair and wear a helmet, you twist it up on top and back of your head to put the helmet on. When twisted, your hair takes up a lot less space. You can put a motorcycle helmet on over butt length hair.
I didn’t realize those were supposed to be breasts, I thought it was just the jacket hanging forward due to the rider leaning. I was basing the hair under the helmet from female friends of mine who have said that when their hair gets to a certain length, they don’t like tying it up under the helmet and just let it flow out under it.
Funny: I went to a major university for my undergraduate degree and I never noticed roving bands of jocks hanging out around the dorms preying on Freshmen. Mostly I think they were drunk or with skanks. Both the Freshmen and the jocks, that is. I don’t notice this at my current institution, either. OTOH, I’m a grad student, so I don’t notice much of anything outside my building. Weep.
You know what, the roundness of the head makes me think of Head alien, and the boots also resemble those of the Head alien. Granted, the leg is somewhat long and the helmet isn’t purple enough. Still…
Oh god, please no. It took us three decades just to get that stuff sorted out, when the Scarlet-Spider-Car was turned into scrap heap by their foe, the Green Go-Go Gadgetmobile.
In all that mess, I still don’t know what happened to the Blue Spidercar. You know, the one from the alternate Earth? He just seemed to disappear one day, with no-one saying anything.
Didn’t that get retconed out along during the “One More Tune-up” storyline along Satan removing his marriage with Spider-Car’s wife. You know, that red convertible?
Or was did it happen around the time he revealed his dual life as a toy store worker during the Civil War between Shortpacked and Joyce and Walky and David Willis?
Wow, how cliche of a bully can you get? Calling him gay and then proceeding to beat him up for no real reason? It’s like Danny’s despair caused a time warp him in a film from the 1980’s. Next thing you know there’s gonna be a training montage to some weird techno-music. 🙂
And my money is on Sal. That or Joyce is more kick-ass than any of us could have ever thought, resulting in an odd turn around of their original dynamic.
No, it’s clearly Sal, since that’s who everyone thinks it is.
It’s always who people think it is.
Boot makes me think Amazi-girl, though.
Except that it’s always what everyone else says. So, even if he was thinking Amazi-Girl, it’s gonna be Sal now, because Willis gives in to pressure. Every time.
It Ethan! In this universe his mother never bought him Transformers, she bought him Batman. And now his obsessive compulsive behavior had driven him to become “Bat-Ethan!”
That brings up an interesting thought for if/when Ethan is finally introduced. The cast members are now all children of the 90’s for the most part–will they still be as obsessed with 80’s series?
Yeah, you don’t really have roving bands of jocks attacking lone nerds in college. By that age, people learn about “Assault by Mob,” “Police Report,” and “Jail.” =P
I’ve attended about 4 colleges, and I’m with the “people usually don’t get beat up anymore” camp, though there does seem to be an exception for actual openly gay men in some parts of the country, or if you’d include “date rape” as a subcategory of “beat up.” But as someone pointed out yesterday, the frosh athletes often take a week or two before they get called juvenile enough times and/or get enough taps on the back of the head (both by the older athletes), but given that Beef SHOULD share Walky’s birthday without baby-switching in this continuity, most likely these athletes are first day frosh too.
Well, No one beats no one in my college. Must be because due to the focus of that specific college, everybody is in some degree a nerd. I am the big and tall kind of nerd, so if I am not bullying someone in my college, no one is, I suppose…
Coming in entirely blind – apart from a couple of facts about characters, though I don’t know which facts are about which characters – I’m not quite convinced that’s not Ruth to the rescue. Though I admit the hair looks different, and it doesn’t quite feel like her correct motivation.
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As much as I’m expecting Sal, that strange reddish tint to the hair makes me think it’s Faz.
maybe its his dad
I want this.
What reddish tint to what hair?
…I don’t think that’s a human head you’re looking at there.
(And Faz doesn’t have a red tint to his hair)
Yes he does.
http://www.shortpacked.com/2010/comic/book-12/01-dominus-jacobus/gears/
Aw crap now I have to redraw a bunch of strips!
It seems like you were in a much better mood when you started this comic.
Which makes me suppose the sheer lack of critical thinking of a few years of commenting is to blame.
🙁
Hey, hey, it’s Sal!
Yay Sal!
…CEILIDH =D
“See-lid”? ;D
* ducks and runs away
The lack of a tag makes me suspect this isn’t actually Sal… could be wrong though.
He DID say earlier that he isn’t always tagging the very first appearances of characters, to give people time to guess who they are first.
In other news: I AM kind of surprised, even after the earlier violence from Ruth, that Sal’s being physically introduced (assuming we don’t count the mysterious motorcyclist earlier as her) via vigilante justice in the Dumbiverse. It seems a bit contrary to the whole “Let’s do this again, but with ordinary college hijinks” ethos, given the general lack of vigilantes on college campuses.
Not that I’m complaining, mind. I don’t place that high a value on normalcy.
Yeah, I’m still going with the Motorcycle chick as Sal. I could be wrong, but I really hope not.
Pft whatever. Thats totally normal, who doesn’t enter a fight with a drop kick to someone’s face?
Vigilante?? Sal is no vigilante. Sal is a Hero. Sal is BATMAN.(uh.. batgirl….batwoman…whichever SHE won’t beat me up for. she still scares me a little.)
Hopefully it’s just so Sal will be a big reveal to people who aren’t reading the comments or haven’t read It’s Walky!. Because that is totally a Sal entrance.
Also, I really hope we get an epic Sal vs. Ruth battle at some point in the strip, because that would just be awesome.
Well, even without Aliens Sal wants to be Batman.
who wouldn’t want to be batman?
Tim Drake?
Tim Drake is shown as being batman in the future is some storyline…I don’t remember exactly when, but it happened
SAL! Even though we can only see a foot, I can tell it’s Sal. Yay Sal.
It’s amazing how recognizable even her foot is.
My pant suddenly got tight… and I know exactly why.
(Knowing that my avatar will be Dina makes it even funnier to write that.)
The Dina avatar makes me confused, in a bad way (it’s nothing personal).
Is it just me or does they guy puching Danny look kind of like Trey from Community?
Troy, and Willis has said he’s a Community fan (or at least a fan of the soundtrack) so it’s entirely possible.
That’s totally Ninja Rick… with a full head of hair.
Afro Ninja Rick?
Yes.
shit, …that is plausible. And it would be something that Willis would do to us.
Dammit! You beat me to it!
SAAAAAAAAL
Must be Sal. MUST BE SAL.
Yeah, I bet one’ll do, too…
…TO YOUR FAAAAAAAAACE!
(not letting that one die)
See, I was planning on doing some sort of “Well, that’s a foot, what about her FAAAACE?!” comment, but you beat me to that particular meme
Then, out of nowhere, the jock gets BAMMED! in the FAAAAAAACE!, Holy irony Batman. I am hoping this is Sal, although Ninja Rick would be awesome too.
So apparently DoA Sal (or Ninja Rick) studies Tae Kwon Leap.
Just show me all those nifty moves so I can start trashing bozos!
That jock should feel lucky. Few outsiders get to experience so much of Tae Kwon Leap so soon.
The only use of Tae-Kwon-Leep is self defense. Do you know who said that? Ki-lo-knee, the great teacher.
Yeah, well the best defense is a good offense. You know who said that? Mel, the cook from “Alice”
*boot to the head*
Maybe it’s been a while since I was in college, but I don’t really remember the jocks randomly beating up nerds they find walking around on campus.
Or maybe it’s because I didn’t go to a big sports school.
I’m pretty sure Danny is the extent of people the Indiana football team can beat up.
I don’t remember anyone beating up anyone else in college, ever. Not in an “LOL we’re teh top of teh heap!” way, anyway.
Also, my gravatar disturbs deeply.
During my time at IU, I think members of the football team were implicated in one random beating. There was also this one weirdo who would run by and punch people in the gut at night in the woods between Franklin Hall and the the Chemistry building, but I don’t think he was a jock.
Okay, so I’m not the only one who found the “upperclassmen beating on froshes” kind of weird, then. I remember freshmen getting hazed if they went frat, of course, and I recall some freshmen jocks failing to realize that they weren’t still in high school (and thus went around picking on the freshmen nerds for a few weeks until it became clear that that shit didn’t fly any more). But this… doesn’t really ring any bells for me.
Still, it’s Sal. Sal makes everything better.
Yeah and the way they dress seems like more of high school stereotype than college.But I guess it’s a dramatic way to introduce a character. (Assuming that’s what happening here. It could be someone who’s already been introduced.)
Hope it’s not Sal, just to mess with people.
My bet…Joyce. >_>
no, just… no
I place a random bet on Amazi-Girl.
I’ll take that bet!
Seconded. If only to mix things up a little, and because it’d totally be AWESOME.
Called it yesterday. Doesn’t make it any less awesome, though.
It appears to be the back of the helmet and boot of the person riding the motorcycle back in “Sister”. Unless Sal has had a haircut in this universe, it’d be quite difficult to hide hip length hair under a helmet that small. The person on the motorcycle appeared to have just been arriving at the dorms when a later strip showed that Sal had already come and gone. Not to mention that Walky and Billie were talking about how they didn’t know where Sal was as the motorcycle drove by.
It’s actually Lith.
I want to go out on a limb and say it’s Mandy. She’s only been in one strip and she was important enough to get a tag. And to also follow along the motorcyclist conspiracy, the helmet almost looks semi transparent and light from glasses reflecting underneath (or that’s just general reflections). Either way, I believe this to be the same motorcyclist from “Sister” and that it is someone we’ve already seen somewhere else in the comic. Whether or not the person is male or female still is unclear.
The motorcyclist had boobs. Unless you’re suggesting a crossdresser, the motorcyclist is definitely female. And hair length is not a good indicator for whether or not the motorcyclist is Sal. When you have long hair and wear a helmet, you twist it up on top and back of your head to put the helmet on. When twisted, your hair takes up a lot less space. You can put a motorcycle helmet on over butt length hair.
I didn’t realize those were supposed to be breasts, I thought it was just the jacket hanging forward due to the rider leaning. I was basing the hair under the helmet from female friends of mine who have said that when their hair gets to a certain length, they don’t like tying it up under the helmet and just let it flow out under it.
I bet she had to jumpr through a window to do that.
I bet she did!
I’m hoping it’s Sal. Ninja kick!
Funny: I went to a major university for my undergraduate degree and I never noticed roving bands of jocks hanging out around the dorms preying on Freshmen. Mostly I think they were drunk or with skanks. Both the Freshmen and the jocks, that is. I don’t notice this at my current institution, either. OTOH, I’m a grad student, so I don’t notice much of anything outside my building. Weep.
If its Sal Willis has to come back and change that sound effect for ‘SAL’D!’ instead of ‘BAM!’
Sal Willis? You mean Walters right?
You mean Sal Walkerton!
I think there’s just a missing comma in there:
If its Sal, Willis has to come back and change that sound effect for ‘SAL’D!’ instead of ‘BAM!’
Yup, that’s just a silly typo. If it’s Sal, Willis had to come and change the sound effect for ‘SAL’D!’
My money is on Robo-Vac
Wait, no.. crap.
Robo-vac does not have feet.
Maybe he will in this universe
Regardless of who it is, I now have the Blanks’ cover of the Underdog theme stuck in my head. Which is awesome, so this comic gets my approval.
Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHyVN14v7FM
Damn it! Now it’s in my head, and I didn’t even click the link!
This use of flying sidekicks proves more than ever that Lawsome must return, David Willis.
That’s not a side kick.
It’s Sal from above.
I’m just going to go out on a limb and say it’s NOT Sal, but Willis wants us to think it is so the reveal will blow our minds.
Now I will guess either Ninja Rick or Amber.
Or he wants us to speculate that it isn’t so when it turns out to actually be Sal it’ll be a DOUBLE TWIST.
Have I blown your mind yet?
Cant do that, I dont have one…
Can I really be the first one to say it?
Boot to the Head!
You know what, the roundness of the head makes me think of Head alien, and the boots also resemble those of the Head alien. Granted, the leg is somewhat long and the helmet isn’t purple enough. Still…
It’s Spidercar!
Could be a Spidercar clone from the Spidercar clone saga!
Oh god, please no. It took us three decades just to get that stuff sorted out, when the Scarlet-Spider-Car was turned into scrap heap by their foe, the Green Go-Go Gadgetmobile.
In all that mess, I still don’t know what happened to the Blue Spidercar. You know, the one from the alternate Earth? He just seemed to disappear one day, with no-one saying anything.
Didn’t that get retconed out along during the “One More Tune-up” storyline along Satan removing his marriage with Spider-Car’s wife. You know, that red convertible?
Or was did it happen around the time he revealed his dual life as a toy store worker during the Civil War between Shortpacked and Joyce and Walky and David Willis?
I dislike you people so much right now….and still am having a hard time not laughing
Sal 😀
Wow, how cliche of a bully can you get? Calling him gay and then proceeding to beat him up for no real reason? It’s like Danny’s despair caused a time warp him in a film from the 1980’s. Next thing you know there’s gonna be a training montage to some weird techno-music. 🙂
And my money is on Sal. That or Joyce is more kick-ass than any of us could have ever thought, resulting in an odd turn around of their original dynamic.
Starts with an “A”.
Sal,Sal,Sal, c’mon Sal.
(I want it to be Sal) 😉
I don’t care who it is. I just want their first words to be ‘I’m Batman.’
Seconded!
Heck yes.
So, does that foot belong to Sal, or Ruth?
Maybe it’s amanzing girl
No, it’s clearly Sal, since that’s who everyone thinks it is.
It’s always who people think it is.
Boot makes me think Amazi-girl, though.
Except that it’s always what everyone else says. So, even if he was thinking Amazi-Girl, it’s gonna be Sal now, because Willis gives in to pressure. Every time.
True enough. I can still hope for someone else though.
It’s indeed Sal, he’s just in her nun head wear, which is why it’s so smooth and single entity looking. Also, the different color tint.
he?
If I know David Willis, this mysterious person will be nothing and no one anyone expected.
Speculation is futile.
C’mon, it’s clearly Amazigirl
Salvador!
Sal? Right? Is it Sal? =D?
This… is probably Sal.
(Though who knows? We’d better be ready to type ‘Damn you Willis’ otherwise.)
Already have it on my clipboard.
I’d say, in a surprising turn of events, that it will be Ruth.
It Ethan! In this universe his mother never bought him Transformers, she bought him Batman. And now his obsessive compulsive behavior had driven him to become “Bat-Ethan!”
…Well it could happen… maybe… 😛
That brings up an interesting thought for if/when Ethan is finally introduced. The cast members are now all children of the 90’s for the most part–will they still be as obsessed with 80’s series?
Or will it be something like http://www.shortpacked.com/2007/comic/book-5/06-flashbacked/thefirstmovie/ ?
Hehe… He’s going to be a hardcore Power Rangers fan, isn’t he?
For the love of God and all that is holy PLEASE LET THIS BE SAL.
I’m going to say it’s Leslie.
Because no one else guessed it. 😀
If it is not Sal I will be SOMEWHAT DISAPPOINTED.
Is that a bruise on his cheek or did the football player smear his make-up?
Yeah, you don’t really have roving bands of jocks attacking lone nerds in college. By that age, people learn about “Assault by Mob,” “Police Report,” and “Jail.” =P
Gotta be Amber, right?
C’mon, its totally Amazi-Girl!
I’ve attended about 4 colleges, and I’m with the “people usually don’t get beat up anymore” camp, though there does seem to be an exception for actual openly gay men in some parts of the country, or if you’d include “date rape” as a subcategory of “beat up.” But as someone pointed out yesterday, the frosh athletes often take a week or two before they get called juvenile enough times and/or get enough taps on the back of the head (both by the older athletes), but given that Beef SHOULD share Walky’s birthday without baby-switching in this continuity, most likely these athletes are first day frosh too.
Have to point out almost none of the characters seem to share birthdays with the original counter parts.
Exceptions are there of course
Well, No one beats no one in my college. Must be because due to the focus of that specific college, everybody is in some degree a nerd. I am the big and tall kind of nerd, so if I am not bullying someone in my college, no one is, I suppose…
BOOT TO THE HEAD!!
Coming in entirely blind – apart from a couple of facts about characters, though I don’t know which facts are about which characters – I’m not quite convinced that’s not Ruth to the rescue. Though I admit the hair looks different, and it doesn’t quite feel like her correct motivation.
Sal, I presume. Punching her way through life as always.