no, she spoke, but it was only about 4 words in a row. at most.
i think one of the lines was “her father slept around”, refering to Robin back in It’s Walky!
Well… as real as Billie can hope to muster at this point, she really needs to build up some serious badass levels to truely earn those SHIT JUST GOT REAL in caps.
When’s the last time somebody had to roll Initiative to do Diplomacy? Only time I can think of was some witty repartee with my rogue and some Cliched Evil Chancellor.
In a last ditch effort to salvage diplomatic proceedings, Billie invokes the ultimate resolution in her formal attache of plenipotentiary clauses, motioning for bilateral demilitarization and cessation of hostilities for the mutual advancement and prolonged commitment to the furtherance of harmonious relations among sovereign parties.
For everyone’s Reference: http://www.signingsavvy.net/sign/bongo
The sign for bongo, and he got the sign for crazy. Thanks for having ASL in this comic, you are amazing.
If it is, we can be wrong together. Though I suspect it’ll resolve with Sal being all, “Well, if you’d just told me” and signing the thing in five seconds. Billie might still be in a punchy mood if that happens, though.
I think even Bruce Lee would perish when faced with a massive, irate russian man with an automatic weapon. Especially this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwu3ivAJ68U&feature=related (that’s a .50 cal heavy machinegun he’s holding)
Now we have to start writing Marcie fanfiction even before we have any idea how Mr. Willis is going to handle her character development! It’s the obsessed fangeek way!
Speech is vocal only, but a language is any means of communication. And if you really want to know more, I’m sure I can find a way to bore you about the psychology of deafness and language and all that.
She’s defiantly mute or choosing to be silent, unless she’s perfect at reading lips (which is not possible) since Sal is talking to her, she must be able to hear.
if so, she is my new favorite character…. here’s hoping willis wont give her lots of cool stuff to do only to turn her into a drugged villainess and then forget about her completely…
… I’m a bitter Cassandra Cain fan, if you couldn’t tell.
~LAAAAAW, LAW LAW LAW LAW LAAW LAAW LAW LAW LAW LAW LAAW LAAW LAW LAW LAW LAW LAW~
*cough* Pardon the failed Big Lipped Alligator Moment there. (Failed, of course, because that would assume nobody talked about it… which… isn’t likely.)
why thank you, glad you liked it. I’ve been waiting a while for someone to comment on it. Glad it was you. (For future me, and anyone else who’s interested, this is in reference to the honey-bun gravatar.)
Sal has said Tennessee was “lahk prison”, and she did go to Catholic school as part of a deal to not go to juvie for robbing the two convenience stores. Just saying, maybe she might have just as well gone to prison from Billie’s perspective.
I went with Sal winning because we’ve been set up to feel that way. But I think it would be fascinating / surprising if Sal went down with a single sucker punch (Ruth style I guess) and then asked what the eff Billie’s problem was. She’s got that late night job every night and didn’t even know about the dang form!
So who was Marcie? I don’t remember her from the other comics, so I’m assuming she’s from a point in the Walky series I haven’t reached yet. Can someone give me some back story about her?
And all I can say is: It’s about time. Hopefully we can get some answers now.
Other than continuing along in Jason’s hunt squad, Marcie is really only notable as a member of Squad 48 and looking exceptionally like Marcie from Peanuts.
So I guess this is how Billie gets her journalistic exclusive: Amazi-Girl will swoop in and save her from another rumble. Though it might be more hilarious to see Amazi-Girl swoop Sal away instead.
On a side note, I think Joyce and Walky in that last panel make a well-matched (and overwhelmed) beatdown posse with Billie. We’ve all seen Joyce’s violent side in her date with Joe, but we’ve seen how Sal’s motorcycle easily distracts her.
The only reason this is gonna be even remotely okay is that Sal can probably tell when someone’s all fluff, and will respond in kind. I really wish Billie would learn that not everyone views being attacked as a game of sportsmanship and machismo. One of these days she’s gonna assault the wrong stranger and die because of that small error in communication.
Or Willis is going to make Sal what she would be without the super-powers she had in Walky!verse – just a bunch of neuroses that only looks “awesome”, but is really unable to take on much of anything.
Okay, I just gotta say this. Here’s what Billie knows about Sal. Criminal past (robbed a gas station). Probably doesn’t sleep because of some weird opposition she has to this room. Is so freaked out by the notion of even being seen in what’s supposed to be her abode that she makes a regular habit out of entering and exiting through a fifth story window. Has a motorcycle which her parents wouldn’t have paid for (where did that money come from?).
So I think from Billie’s perspective there’s a strong case that she’s exactly what you paint her as. A whole bunch of unawesome neuroses. Plus probably strung out as all hell from whatever substance is removing her need to sleep. Strung out or not though, fearful as all fuck.
Now where I disagree here is that this would mean that Billie wins. You ever seen a walking ball of unawesome neuroses? I’ll paint how that scenario goes just in case. Billie walks in and does her beat-up routine. Sal completely wigs out and knife’s Billie in the gut. Sal panics seeing Billie bleeding out before her, borrows some gas money from her friends and starts speeding off to the next town over before the cops get on this instead of calling an ambulance for Billie. By the time help arrives it’s too late and Billie dies because she didn’t know when to leave someone well enough the fuck alone.
Because of how she seems to compose herself during the Joyce encounters I’m pretty sure she’s not actually such a ball of neuroses, but rather just a girl with a lot of issues to work out, not unlike the rest of the cast. Still, I cannot possibly emphasize enough how suicidal Billie’s behavior is for the very reason you list.
Aaaaand I just realized that I hear Sal’s dialogue in Apple Jack’s voice.
Can we bring back the “Give ItsWalky DoA a cartoon” petition? I’m sure after all the pimping Willis has given Hasbro over the years, they could throw him a bone. And they do have their own TV network to fill up. . .
Given that it seems unlikely that Sal knows actual sign language, I’m wondering how Marcie actually managed to communicate the phrase “crazy bongo” to her at all. ‘Crazy’ has a universally understood hand sign (which she’s shown making), but ‘bongo’, not so much.
Given that Sal has a working relationship with someone who can’t speak, it seems safe to assume that Sal can understand said person’s method of communication. Seems to be what that would mean anyway.
I have to ask: Where does Marcie get off calling Billie a “Crazy bongo”. Sal after all is the one who refuses to let her roommate see her, and who climbs in and out of their room through a fourth story window. Billie a the most is just a angry drunk bongo, but I don’t think she quite fits under “crazy”.
Being angry and drunk isn’t crazy. Its irresponsible and stupid, but you can at least explain it. She’s angry because she’s naturally a bongo, and she drinks because she likes it.
Scaling four story buildings to avoid interacting with a roommate who only wants to get their paper work sorted out is crazy cause we have no idea WHY she’s doing it.
So, Billie already got her stuff back AND got blackmail pics to keep Ruth at bay once Ruth finds out Billie got it back and she STILL takes it out on Sal (I’d avoid Billie like a cold sore on a lip if I was Sal too) even though she was just being herself? Wow.
I really hope you’re right, I just got a vibe that she was taking what happened to her, bad as it was, as Sals fault when its not. You wouldn’t blame Walky for being zany, or Joe for being a leech, its who they are…so Sal shouldn’t be treated any different.
Billie went through all this because Sal is exactly what Marcie is “signing” there: a crazy bongo who can’t take a minute to introduce herself to her roommate. So yes, it is Sal’s fault. All this happened to Billie because Sal was going to stupid lengths to avoid being in that room, and Ruth, being the jerk she is, was holding Billie responsible for getting Sal to sign some slip of paper. It very much *is* Sal’s fault.
I agree its pretty RUDE of Sal to not introduce herself, but, we don’t know Sals story: maybe she knew Billie before she was sent away (or maybe even Billie was part of the reason) and is avoiding her for good reason (I mean, its not like being alone was anything new to her). I totally hear you, BUT, its not like Sal KNEW Billie needed to speak to her and get her signature on that form, I’m sure if she had she would have stopped being a lone wolf for a second and helped Billie out D:
That does bring up a good point. If Billie and Walky were friends as far back as they were in It’s Walky, Sal and Billie actually knew each other before she left for quite a while. She might only remember Billie as the Popular Girl who used to hang out with my brother.
I still want Sal to come out the worse for this. Not because she was malicious. She wasn’t. She’s just sort of a neutral character as far as the cast goes. Someone who lacks screen time through their own actions. Billie just keeps grabbing woobie points, even if they are of the jerkass variety. As a character, I care more about her in this continuity.
Billie and Sal didn’t know each other before Sal was sent away, i’m 98% sure, near the beginning there were Billie/Walky conversations about Billie meeting his sister and such that implied they weren’t previously acquainted.
To be clearer, Girls with Slingshots is the comic who’s crossover with Something Positive birthed a litter that then crossed over into two other comics. (Shortpacked and All New Issues). You made it sound like GWS didn’t exist outside the crossover.
You should go look up some Deaf porn. It’s awesome.
and yes, that was completely serious. My ASL prof (a Deaf lady as well) actually recomended titles to my class durring SocioLing of the Deaf Community
I personally think Billie should be the one to get her ass beat. She is acting like a crazy bongo. For all the things people condemn in Ruth, Billie has them just as much. She’s violent, rude, and condescending, making nasty comments about everyone she meets – whether they warrant them or not. She’s on this pedestal of superiority and she’s begging to get knocked off of it.
Especially if she’s walking up to people and making threatening gestures at them, like she’s doing today.
While Sal would probably win in a fight; I do wish Billie could just get the damn papers signed and be done with it. That way Sal could go on with her life and Billie could go on with her own and they never have to deal with each other again aside from fighting over someone using too much toilet paper.
My sign language instructor told me months ago that that’s not the sign for crazy. Crazy is a C by the eye. But then again, I’ve also learned that there’s so much variation in ASL that I really have to learn new signs for half the things I know every time I meet a deaf person, so it wouldn’t surprise me that some people sign crazy that way.
The crazy that is a C by the eye is technicaly signed English. I linked a website up towards the top that is a very good dictionary that my Interpreting prof gave us.
What!? Sometimes when my instructor shows us a sign, she’ll show us the SEE version as well, but in this case she specifically said that the signal we know is a gesture and not a sign. Unless I’m getting it confused with one of the other things that she said that about.
By the way, Willis, is there a disability-related explanation for her glasses as well?
it could be an accent thing, I’m speaking as someone that learned to sign in the Pacific Northwest, ASL is like any other language and any other culture in that it has accents of all shapes and sizes. Your teacher may be teaching a regional accent, or mine may have way back when I learned the sign. I’ve seen signers still use the offensive version of signs like Germany, Spain and Japan even though those haven’t been used in years so, anythings possible and when in doubt I leave you with a quote from my Deaf ASL 1 instructor. “Deaf people are weird and we will do random ass shit just to confuse the hearing people.”
and I would add a little scolding about the “disability-related” comment but your avitars Mike right now and I have a feeling that no matter how you respond something about my mom will be what I read first. 😀
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MARCI WOO
I can’t remember, was she mute in It’s Walky!?
I’m pretty sure she never spoke, at least.
no, she spoke, but it was only about 4 words in a row. at most.
i think one of the lines was “her father slept around”, refering to Robin back in It’s Walky!
I think that was Agatha.
Was this meant to be her?
http://www.itswalky.com/d/20040116.html
Yup- that’s her and I think that’s the only time she spoke.
She’s speaking legit ASL now though. I’m reading a definite “yes” sign in that first panel. Every one knows the sign for “crazy” in the third panel.
ah. i guess so. i knew she spoke at least once. couldnt remember exactly where though
I’m not the only one who is turned on a little at Marci’s appearance right? Gotta love the thong showing.
You are not the only one.
Joe Quesada, you have found your target market for MJ-doing-the-laundry statues.
Oh shiiiiiiiii
SHIT JUST GOT REAL!
Sal is in the danger zone now.
How does Sal get insurance on her motorcycle. Don’t they know that she lives in the…danger zone!
Don’t make me quote Macho Man Randy Savage. I’m trying to hold back here.
I’ve been to the danger zone, East of the Pacific, West of London, England, South of Mars and North of Hell.
Texas?
Yup, it’s Texas.
Texas is north of Hell? I did not know that.
North Texas is.
The only Danger Zone I know of was a video game arcade.
Here something that could shed some light about the Danger Zone:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q6hRZ1f9PY
I was way off mark, I was thinking of the Top Gun Danger Zone.
Right into the danger zone!
♪♫ DANGER ZONE! ♫♪
Kenny Loggins FTW!
DANGER ZONE!
Pose as a team!
cause shit just got real?
Well… as real as Billie can hope to muster at this point, she really needs to build up some serious badass levels to truely earn those SHIT JUST GOT REAL in caps.
Looks like Billie is going to employ some sleuth diplomacy.
When’s the last time somebody had to roll Initiative to do Diplomacy? Only time I can think of was some witty repartee with my rogue and some Cliched Evil Chancellor.
Diplomacy’s for sissies. Billie’s about to make an intimidate check. Heads will roll.
Diplomacy as in talking with her fists?
In a last ditch effort to salvage diplomatic proceedings, Billie invokes the ultimate resolution in her formal attache of plenipotentiary clauses, motioning for bilateral demilitarization and cessation of hostilities for the mutual advancement and prolonged commitment to the furtherance of harmonious relations among sovereign parties.
PEACE BE WITH YOU.
Is it bad that I want to see Sal come out the worse for this?
No… I think we’re all pretty much rooting for that at this point. At least I am as well.
No it isn’t bad, it is obvious now that Sal has deliberately been avoiding Billie all this time.
It is?
Sure looks like it to me.
It’s not obvious to me.
When Marcie signs “crazy bongo” does Sal even look like she knows which crazy bongo? And “rush outta my room” doesn’t say why she was in a rush.
Unless Joyce or Walky has somehow earnt higher ‘crazy bongo’ stats than Billie, I somehow doubt Maarcie was refering to either of them.
And the ‘rush out of the room’, clearly it wasn’t because she was in a hurry to get to work or class, so Billie is the only reason left we know of.
That’s why it is obvious to me.
(Doesn’t mean I couldn’t end up been wrong thou…)
You say “clearly” but same as “obvious” before, I don’t see where you’re coming from.
And if she’s been avoiding anyone, I bet it’s Walky.
For everyone’s Reference:
http://www.signingsavvy.net/sign/bongo
The sign for bongo, and he got the sign for crazy. Thanks for having ASL in this comic, you are amazing.
As an interpreter, I highy agree!
If it is, we can be wrong together. Though I suspect it’ll resolve with Sal being all, “Well, if you’d just told me” and signing the thing in five seconds. Billie might still be in a punchy mood if that happens, though.
I would be. How could I, you friggin ninja!
Granted, I’m normally the ninja, so that’d frustrate me even more.
it is kinda hard for Billie to tell Sal anything as she hasn’t had 5 seconds with her as of yet.
“Why didn’t you just leave a note on mah bed?”
Rule Of Drama, that’s why.
Followed by one-panel BSoD, then immediately with a deadpan snark phrase from Sal while Billie screams in agitation.
No, I want billie to WIN for a change.
she won’t. It’s Sal. Seriously. She cant beat Sal. :I
Can she PLEASE beat Sal? Just this once? *puppy dog eyes*
i have 47 cents to contribute to the “please let billie beat sal” fund.
We all know that the only person who can beat Sal is this guy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdQArmIvVgo&feature=related
What about Bruce Lee >_> (if he was alive)
I think even Bruce Lee would perish when faced with a massive, irate russian man with an automatic weapon. Especially this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwu3ivAJ68U&feature=related (that’s a .50 cal heavy machinegun he’s holding)
That would probably be so unexpected at this point that it’d still be funnier than a Billie loses in an over the top way.
Wait… Who’s Marcie, and why doesn’t she speak?
A new character appears!
She is either very quiet or trying to be subtle with the hint.
I think she’s deaf guys, she’s signing.
Do you know something about Marcie that I don’t?
Marcie’s not deaf. She can’t speak, though, hence the sign language.
So she’s one of those quiet ones that we need to watch out for eh? Cool!
If Sal’s cool with her, then OF COURSE she’s one to watch out for XD
Can’t or won’t?
If she’s hanging with Sal’s crowd it’s entirely possible that she’s just doing it for coolness points.
hilarious that you introduce her so soon after making that new comment rule and now everyone’s asking questions about her
Now we have to start writing Marcie fanfiction even before we have any idea how Mr. Willis is going to handle her character development! It’s the obsessed fangeek way!
Does sign language count as speach?
Speech is vocal only, but a language is any means of communication. And if you really want to know more, I’m sure I can find a way to bore you about the psychology of deafness and language and all that.
Funny thing is I do not find that boring. 🙂
That’s DJ P0n-3. She’s mute in fanon, and has awesome goggles like those.
You craa-aazy craa-aafty fanboy, Willis. Did you get one of the posters?
That’s DJ P0n-3. She’s mute in fanon, and has awesome goggles like those.
You craa-aazy craa-aafty fanboy, Willis. Did you get one of the posters?
She’s defiantly mute or choosing to be silent, unless she’s perfect at reading lips (which is not possible) since Sal is talking to her, she must be able to hear.
… How would she be deaf? Sal is speaking to her. And not facing her in panel 2, so she couldn’t be reading her lips.
Or she might be like Cassandra Cain.
if so, she is my new favorite character…. here’s hoping willis wont give her lots of cool stuff to do only to turn her into a drugged villainess and then forget about her completely…
… I’m a bitter Cassandra Cain fan, if you couldn’t tell.
Okay who should Walky root for?
Sal, because I if he doesn’t live in perpetual fear of Sal, he should.
The presence of a smiling Joyce avatar for that post brings me to hear those words in a spunky falsetto in my head.
Still better than the onset of Freemanic Paracusia I had the other day.
Because Morgan Freeman’s voice is the only thing you should hear.
Actually, I’m pulling for Sal here. She hasn’t done anything wrong.
Oh, Billie. Even having established that Joyce is your best college friend, you could’ve assembled a better posse than that.
Don’t think Mike would have gone along with it. Who else is there really?
Well, Ruth seems pretty tough. And crazy.
But would she back Billie up?
Besides, even IF Ruth decided to back up Billie (AF IF!), Ruth would not be in the best frame of mind to be able to fight at the moment.
Best she could do on short notice.
Is it just me, or is Walky making a DATASS face? And if so, is it because he is looking at Billie or his sister?
What about Marcie? She looks like she got it going on front and back. WOOOO!
WOOOO, indeed.
I made a DATASS face when I read the comic. Why should Walky be any more dignified? I bet Marcie would be totally down with a lego pad.
I bet Marcie would DIG fifty mcnuggets!
damn straight. chicks love chicks.
Does that include Jack Chicks?
And here I thought that chicks dig giant robots.
Why was Marcie not an option?
It’s just you. There’d be less frowny if he liked what he saw.
I’m impelled to agree on this one. That’s more of a “oh, shit, I smell trouble, quick, where’s the nearest window” expression.
“Dat ass” is a look of longing, not a precursor to a dead sprint for the nearest exit or hiding place.
Hiding place is in the same category as “getting a room” with that person, lol
And here we go. The match some of you might be waiting for.
Everyone just needs to stand back, watch and pray for some clothing damage.
I know I am.
*munches from a jumbo sized popcorn*
Ooo, popcorn. And everyone knows that when women fight in comics, clothing damage is pretty much inevitable.
Not just inevitable, IT’S THE LAW!
I AM……THE LAW!
The lawn?
THE LAW!
~LAAAAAW, LAW LAW LAW LAW LAAW LAAW LAW LAW LAW LAW LAAW LAAW LAW LAW LAW LAW LAW~
*cough* Pardon the failed Big Lipped Alligator Moment there. (Failed, of course, because that would assume nobody talked about it… which… isn’t likely.)
oh mr.iamthelaw. (said in the most rob schnidery voice possible)
You’re the evil Popcorn Guy?
I prefer Chaotic Neutral rather than Evil.
Not Morally Ambiguous?
Naaah, Chaotic Neutral sounds better.
Being Chaotic Neutral means never having to say “Sorry”.
As one of my players learned last night, just because you don’t believe in the law doesn’t mean the law doesn’t believe in you.
It’s good to see that Marcie is maintaining her vow of silence.
That’s an awesome avatar, btw.
why thank you, glad you liked it. I’ve been waiting a while for someone to comment on it. Glad it was you. (For future me, and anyone else who’s interested, this is in reference to the honey-bun gravatar.)
The new poll is missing the obvious answer: “The DoA Readers.”
I thought about it, but would rather a more accurate answer between the two, ‘cuz I’m curious.
There is so much awesome in this strip:
-The return of Marcie. I only just realized that I missed her. Also she looks awesome. And she has a mouth in the Dumbiverse, but doesn’t talk? Bonus!
-Sal in her motorcycle clothes!
-Lines by Sal again! And she drawls!
-Billie ready to kick ass while Joyce and Walky look on in horror!
-We find out who wins a fight between a normal-power Sal and Billie!
This Sal was in prison, right? So I’m guessing that Sal probably has a bit more experience in fighting than Billie does.
This Sal has never been in prison.
Prison, Catholic school… is there really that much difference?
In prison, the bad habits there are not nuns.
Well in Catholic school you don’t run the risk of getting stabed.
I’m pretty sure Mike stabbed a nun once. With his penis.
In her FAAAAAACE
for a nickel.
Actually it’s 40 pieces of silver. 😛
Sal has said Tennessee was “lahk prison”, and she did go to Catholic school as part of a deal to not go to juvie for robbing the two convenience stores. Just saying, maybe she might have just as well gone to prison from Billie’s perspective.
Wow, I’m loving the layout & art on this one.
The fourth panel in particular is very nice.
Walky rockin the SEMME styles.
Glad to see someone comment on that 😀
But does SEMME even exist in DoA or is it just a continuity nod?
SEMME does not exist in this continuity. That we know of.
But then it could be a secret government organization that is just actually good at keeping it’s cover.
I went with Sal winning because we’ve been set up to feel that way. But I think it would be fascinating / surprising if Sal went down with a single sucker punch (Ruth style I guess) and then asked what the eff Billie’s problem was. She’s got that late night job every night and didn’t even know about the dang form!
I think I hear an Ennio Morricone theme starting up… maybe the theme for the “man with the harmonica” in “Once Upon a Time in the West.”
…Looks like you brought one too many motorcylces, Sal.
marcie is now in her first DoA strip and jumped to my 4th favorite character (at the moment i’m loving Mike, Amber, Dina, then her)
gotta wait till monday for the conclusion -___-
“This campus ain’t big enough fer the both of us.”
Sal: “In that case, lyou need to lose a few dozen pounds TUBBY!
“…I was only gonna say we ought to annex the county, but it’s on now, bongo!”
Themsd fighting words.
Need I remind you two dueling is illegal.
Since when is a children’s card game illegal? 😛
Not that kind of dueling and you know it.
Luckily they don’t have any swords or pistols on hand.
No deathmatch? Oh man.
sal has a motorcycle… rofl.
LET’S GET READY TO RUMBLEEEEEE!!!!
I beg to differ.
I differ to beg.
Touche.
Sal: “Do I know you? You look familiar.”
I kinda think Sal has to win just because nothing ever goes right for Billie. Beating Sal would only cause something truly awful to happen.
Billie’s dice love their Nat1s.
Oh it’s on now. 🙂
I’m looking at this fairly objectively. xD
Sal is likely better at fighting… but maybe not. And she could always just go ahead and run her over.
So who was Marcie? I don’t remember her from the other comics, so I’m assuming she’s from a point in the Walky series I haven’t reached yet. Can someone give me some back story about her?
And all I can say is: It’s about time. Hopefully we can get some answers now.
She was part of Squadron 48 from It’s Walky, but it’s too soon to say if she will be anything like she was or not.
You mean other than mute?
Other than continuing along in Jason’s hunt squad, Marcie is really only notable as a member of Squad 48 and looking exceptionally like Marcie from Peanuts.
“Looks like” right. <_<
Maybe this time, she will get more screen time and maybe character development.
Oh God I hope so. 🙂
That would be pretty awesome.
So I guess this is how Billie gets her journalistic exclusive: Amazi-Girl will swoop in and save her from another rumble. Though it might be more hilarious to see Amazi-Girl swoop Sal away instead.
On a side note, I think Joyce and Walky in that last panel make a well-matched (and overwhelmed) beatdown posse with Billie. We’ve all seen Joyce’s violent side in her date with Joe, but we’ve seen how Sal’s motorcycle easily distracts her.
I don’t think much of Billie’s chances in this fight. So far, she’s been all talk and not much fighting prowess.
The only reason this is gonna be even remotely okay is that Sal can probably tell when someone’s all fluff, and will respond in kind. I really wish Billie would learn that not everyone views being attacked as a game of sportsmanship and machismo. One of these days she’s gonna assault the wrong stranger and die because of that small error in communication.
Is Marcie her real name or a nickname?
Who would say otherwise?
All I can see is Billie approaching Sal, ranting with every step, and finally, as she gets close enough, rears back to punch her.
Sal, completely unperturbed, then spits her cigarette into Billie’s face, hitting her directly in the forehead.
Billie, momentarily shocked, loses her balance and then falls flat on her tuchus.
hah tuchus. Thats sounds like something a stereotypical jewish rabbi would say.
Or a resident of Bloom County.
Oh man, I laughed way too hard at that.
Billie’s looking real pretty in this shot and clothes. Though for someone so curvy, I think her neck looks too thin.
Remember that the black outline you can’t see is included in her neck thickness.
Oh for goodness sake Billie. You are going to die.
You have seen the awesomeness that is Sal, she will destroy you.
Just a warning.
Don’t do it.
You’ll die.
Horribly.
You’ll most likely lose your FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!
Or Willis is going to make Sal what she would be without the super-powers she had in Walky!verse – just a bunch of neuroses that only looks “awesome”, but is really unable to take on much of anything.
Okay, I just gotta say this. Here’s what Billie knows about Sal. Criminal past (robbed a gas station). Probably doesn’t sleep because of some weird opposition she has to this room. Is so freaked out by the notion of even being seen in what’s supposed to be her abode that she makes a regular habit out of entering and exiting through a fifth story window. Has a motorcycle which her parents wouldn’t have paid for (where did that money come from?).
So I think from Billie’s perspective there’s a strong case that she’s exactly what you paint her as. A whole bunch of unawesome neuroses. Plus probably strung out as all hell from whatever substance is removing her need to sleep. Strung out or not though, fearful as all fuck.
Now where I disagree here is that this would mean that Billie wins. You ever seen a walking ball of unawesome neuroses? I’ll paint how that scenario goes just in case. Billie walks in and does her beat-up routine. Sal completely wigs out and knife’s Billie in the gut. Sal panics seeing Billie bleeding out before her, borrows some gas money from her friends and starts speeding off to the next town over before the cops get on this instead of calling an ambulance for Billie. By the time help arrives it’s too late and Billie dies because she didn’t know when to leave someone well enough the fuck alone.
Because of how she seems to compose herself during the Joyce encounters I’m pretty sure she’s not actually such a ball of neuroses, but rather just a girl with a lot of issues to work out, not unlike the rest of the cast. Still, I cannot possibly emphasize enough how suicidal Billie’s behavior is for the very reason you list.
Is Marcie wearing a…thong th-thong thong thong?
Yep 🙂 😀 🙂 😀 🙂 😀 🙂 😀
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and wait…is that cigarette being thrown to her? and she’s catching it like that?! that’s awesome
Marcie walked close to her sometime between panels 1 and 3. Very likely prior to panel 2.
That last panel came really good.
Aaaaand I just realized that I hear Sal’s dialogue in Apple Jack’s voice.
Can we bring back the “Give
ItsWalkyDoA a cartoon” petition? I’m sure after all the pimping Willis has given Hasbro over the years, they could throw him a bone. And they do have their own TV network to fill up. . .I’d sign
Is a sin to think Marcie is hot? if it is I’m going to hell…
To be quite honest Mars, you and me both. I think she looks absolutely amazing in a skater punk style 😛
Agree++…
I’m also imagining her as a superheroine called “Silent Skater”. Am I going to Hell for that as well?
It certainly doesn’t hurt that she’s our first thong sighting so far, I believe.
it’s the cargo pants + thong.
;D
All she needs now is a chest window. 😀
Second.
No. 😉
Don’t see how thinking a mute girl is hot would be any more of a sin than thinking anyone else is hot.
Unless your reason for believing her to be hot is because she can’t speak, which in itself veers more toward ‘morally questionable’ than ‘sin’.
I don’t think it’s because she’s mute, it’s because we’ve just seen her as a character.
… for some reason I want to see Marcie actually sign “crazy bongo” entirely. “Crazy” was there but no ‘tapping the chin with a b’ for bongo.
It’s a very useful handsign. REAL useful while in traffic.
Given that it seems unlikely that Sal knows actual sign language, I’m wondering how Marcie actually managed to communicate the phrase “crazy bongo” to her at all. ‘Crazy’ has a universally understood hand sign (which she’s shown making), but ‘bongo’, not so much.
Given that Sal has a working relationship with someone who can’t speak, it seems safe to assume that Sal can understand said person’s method of communication. Seems to be what that would mean anyway.
Sal = Tom Hanks
Marcie = Wilson
Makes perfect sense. They should go on a double date sometime.
I just learnwd something new.
That last panel made Machine Gun pop in my head… And I’m okay with this
This ain’t gonna end well…
Now I just want to see biker Patty.
Sal is Leaving Marcie hangin’… she aint gunna leave that bro fist up all day.
She isn’t expressing a desire to fist bump, she’s using American Sign Language.
Maybe its sign language for ”Give me a fist bump”.
I wonder if Amazigirl will save Billie again 😀
I have to ask: Where does Marcie get off calling Billie a “Crazy bongo”. Sal after all is the one who refuses to let her roommate see her, and who climbs in and out of their room through a fourth story window. Billie a the most is just a angry drunk bongo, but I don’t think she quite fits under “crazy”.
Angry + Drunk = Crazy
Sounds like fair good social maths to me.
Angry + Drunk = Crazy
Unexplained avoidance + utilizing windows for entrance and exit = Crazy
Crazy + Crazy = Funtimes.
Sexy funtimes?
Only if they can find a way to work in the motorcycle.
Being angry and drunk isn’t crazy. Its irresponsible and stupid, but you can at least explain it. She’s angry because she’s naturally a bongo, and she drinks because she likes it.
Scaling four story buildings to avoid interacting with a roommate who only wants to get their paper work sorted out is crazy cause we have no idea WHY she’s doing it.
For all we know, Marcie is referring to Sal with that statement. And she’d be completely accurate.
Marcie skated her way directly out of an X-Men: Evolution episode
Yessssss. Nice to see Billie more in her element.
I read that backwards, and it sounded like Beast Wars Megatron.
So, Billie already got her stuff back AND got blackmail pics to keep Ruth at bay once Ruth finds out Billie got it back and she STILL takes it out on Sal (I’d avoid Billie like a cold sore on a lip if I was Sal too) even though she was just being herself? Wow.
To be fair, Billie probably wants to take care of this so that Ruth doesn’t pull that shit again.
I really hope you’re right, I just got a vibe that she was taking what happened to her, bad as it was, as Sals fault when its not. You wouldn’t blame Walky for being zany, or Joe for being a leech, its who they are…so Sal shouldn’t be treated any different.
Also, Hee hee, I like your avvi. ^^
Billie went through all this because Sal is exactly what Marcie is “signing” there: a crazy bongo who can’t take a minute to introduce herself to her roommate. So yes, it is Sal’s fault. All this happened to Billie because Sal was going to stupid lengths to avoid being in that room, and Ruth, being the jerk she is, was holding Billie responsible for getting Sal to sign some slip of paper. It very much *is* Sal’s fault.
I agree its pretty RUDE of Sal to not introduce herself, but, we don’t know Sals story: maybe she knew Billie before she was sent away (or maybe even Billie was part of the reason) and is avoiding her for good reason (I mean, its not like being alone was anything new to her). I totally hear you, BUT, its not like Sal KNEW Billie needed to speak to her and get her signature on that form, I’m sure if she had she would have stopped being a lone wolf for a second and helped Billie out D:
That does bring up a good point. If Billie and Walky were friends as far back as they were in It’s Walky, Sal and Billie actually knew each other before she left for quite a while. She might only remember Billie as the Popular Girl who used to hang out with my brother.
I still want Sal to come out the worse for this. Not because she was malicious. She wasn’t. She’s just sort of a neutral character as far as the cast goes. Someone who lacks screen time through their own actions. Billie just keeps grabbing woobie points, even if they are of the jerkass variety. As a character, I care more about her in this continuity.
^^ Yeah, Billies been seen more so we know more about her…which makes me sad, but Sals just the type to be hidden in the shadows…
Billie and Sal didn’t know each other before Sal was sent away, i’m 98% sure, near the beginning there were Billie/Walky conversations about Billie meeting his sister and such that implied they weren’t previously acquainted.
Maybe I’m craaaazyyy. Maybe you’re craaaazyyy. Maybe we’re craaaaaazyyyyy. Probably~.
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faaaaaaace…
[Ducks and runs]
Thanks for Incorporating ASL, I’ve been taking it for years and this is the first time I’ve seen it in any kind of comic. I love it so much.
If you like ASL in webcomics, try out Girls with Slingshots!
That’s the crossover with Something Positive that gave birth to Singularikitty.
On that note will Choochoo Bear’s horriffic offspring be making an appearance in DoA?
To be clearer, Girls with Slingshots is the comic who’s crossover with Something Positive birthed a litter that then crossed over into two other comics. (Shortpacked and All New Issues). You made it sound like GWS didn’t exist outside the crossover.
sorry my bad.
I lied I forgot it was in GWS
Thanks to you, I have been on a GWS archive binge all day.
WOOOOT ASL!!!!!!!!
What is this ASL everyone seems to be talking about, the only ASL I was aware of was Age/Sex/Location.
American Sign Language, Mongoose.
Danke!
I was getting confused with all these ASL comments and being unable to figure them out. 🙂
ASL: not to be confused with PSL.
I was actually had it confused with A/S/L for a while.
You should go look up some Deaf porn. It’s awesome.
and yes, that was completely serious. My ASL prof (a Deaf lady as well) actually recomended titles to my class durring SocioLing of the Deaf Community
That would certainly be an interesting take on this comic.
I personally think Billie should be the one to get her ass beat. She is acting like a crazy bongo. For all the things people condemn in Ruth, Billie has them just as much. She’s violent, rude, and condescending, making nasty comments about everyone she meets – whether they warrant them or not. She’s on this pedestal of superiority and she’s begging to get knocked off of it.
Especially if she’s walking up to people and making threatening gestures at them, like she’s doing today.
While Sal would probably win in a fight; I do wish Billie could just get the damn papers signed and be done with it. That way Sal could go on with her life and Billie could go on with her own and they never have to deal with each other again aside from fighting over someone using too much toilet paper.
My sign language instructor told me months ago that that’s not the sign for crazy. Crazy is a C by the eye. But then again, I’ve also learned that there’s so much variation in ASL that I really have to learn new signs for half the things I know every time I meet a deaf person, so it wouldn’t surprise me that some people sign crazy that way.
The crazy that is a C by the eye is technicaly signed English. I linked a website up towards the top that is a very good dictionary that my Interpreting prof gave us.
What!? Sometimes when my instructor shows us a sign, she’ll show us the SEE version as well, but in this case she specifically said that the signal we know is a gesture and not a sign. Unless I’m getting it confused with one of the other things that she said that about.
By the way, Willis, is there a disability-related explanation for her glasses as well?
She wears goggles because they look cool.
So do bowties.
And so do Tardis
it could be an accent thing, I’m speaking as someone that learned to sign in the Pacific Northwest, ASL is like any other language and any other culture in that it has accents of all shapes and sizes. Your teacher may be teaching a regional accent, or mine may have way back when I learned the sign. I’ve seen signers still use the offensive version of signs like Germany, Spain and Japan even though those haven’t been used in years so, anythings possible and when in doubt I leave you with a quote from my Deaf ASL 1 instructor. “Deaf people are weird and we will do random ass shit just to confuse the hearing people.”
I’ll remember that quote. They are weird, possibly even worse than Norwegians.
and I would add a little scolding about the “disability-related” comment but your avitars Mike right now and I have a feeling that no matter how you respond something about my mom will be what I read first. 😀
If eneyone on this comic is the crazy bongo its………no,no she’s is the crazy bongo
This is gonna get bloody