It works. It’s like she’s saying, “Hey. Look. Hot bod. Your opinion’s OVERRULED.” She don’t need to do nothing, just let him notice her and make the tatto and the top work their magic.
And it kinda makes it seem like she’s at least a little bit interested in him too and waiting for how he’ll react. She certainly didn’t care that much about what anyone else thought or did in the strip before.
So yeah, the pose + the blank face, definitely works.
Oh no! The Elmer Fudd Syndrome spreads like a virus. My friend warned me about this and I don’t believe him. Just joking, guys. Anyways, is this going to be the true pairing or is Mike has anything to say about this?
Hmm, I’m guessing cold indifference to other’s attraction to them. Or just to other’s in general. I don’t think this is gonna get much follow up, just a mythology gag, I reckon.
Only because he is wearing the Ethics Bow Tie, which overrides – with his knowledge – the otherwise strong hormonal flirting “why come into the office” urges he may be feeling right now.
What do you mean? “Sal” was first introduced to Jason right here, in this strip. I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt, as I’m sure a gentleman of your caliber would NEVER consider a thoughtcrime, Mr. Mkvenner.
Those boobs are awfully perky for going braless. Those things don’t hold themselves up, you know. That shirt may be a tank top but it’s not an unsubstantial top either.
Personal experience, both myself and two sisters. One sister was already touching the floor by 18, due to insisting on not wearing a bra. My twin is a little bit better, but she had trouble for a while with fitting bras under tanks, but appears to be fine now. Mine are still perky and I wear a bra every damn day (my family tends to have large, heavy breasts)
I would have thought this guy would be classy enough to leave such talk for outside of the classroom. Shame, I was hoping he wouldn’t be just another degenerate in a college setting.
… Ethics be damned, that’s one of those situations where the teacher would not only pay attention, but he (or in some cases she) would look like he was paying attention.
It’s funny how in another universe they have an on again off again relationship, yet here they’re prohibited from it (teacher/student rules :3)
He’s not the final doctor… they’re going to find some way of working around it, and it is sure to be incredible timey-wimey. My bet is something to do with the flesh.
Joe, don’t forget, they showed him dieing 😛 Time might not be SET IN STONE, but they are the most likely conclusion of the events that will transpire if left unchanged, and nobody has done anything to change them thus far 😛 Even if he finds out how/when he’s going to die, it’s still doesn’t change the fact that that was the most likely event.
And Grrt, you’re forgetting that a time lord can die if they’re killed before they can regenerate, which he was.
I thought Psychosis is the voice that says “I want that candy, slay the demon defending the horde of sugar, then ride on to the cas- AAAAH! RUN! Fire-breathing platypus!”
YAY!!! Now Sal has to decide between Jason, with his obvious interest in her, or Joyce for tutoring pretending to care. I know which one I’d want to see her pretend to care with.
I’m trying to imagine if it will still work when Sal’s like, 35. I kinda imagine Sal as someone who has a life period where she tries to create a normal life some time when she’s 30-40 and then rebound and become a smoker and dress as a rebel again.
For my own peace of mind….Jason as a teacher’s assistant isn’t actually much older than Sal, right? This doesn’t fall under one of those creepy “Don’t stand so close to me” situations, right?
So, from this point on, Jason will spend the next 3 – 4 years trying not to get into Sal’s pants while secretly lusting after her? Way to go, mate! You better stick with that set of ethics forever…. NOT.
…seriously, just jump her bones already. You know everyone’s into the guy with the charming accent (also bow-tie).
But, fine, you shouldn’t abuse your position of authority doing it, I’m sure that would be somewhat immoral. I don’t see why it should be wrong as a TA to have an affair with a student they’re into, as long as they’re of legal age… but I think even that may be a gray area. If he was a teacher, things would be different.
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STILL GOT IT
Woo Jason!
She actually looks surprisingly un-Sal in the 5th panel, all doe-eyed and everything. Kind of cute.
I think it’s just the lack of scowl. It tends to change people.
Shh the reality is that we’re seeing Sal through Jason’s eyes!
I love Sal’s expression in the fouth panel. 😀
I love Jason’s change of expression
Sal’s so attractive she can make men’s eyebrows disappear (or rise so high they blend in with the hairline).
Yay! More avatar fun time!
So then, am I different?
nope
I can’t tell if that’s anger on her FAAAAACE.
I think it’s a mix of anger and a few other emotions. And hormones.
And many endorphins.
Wait, are you talking about the last panel?
I’m confused over the glee over Sal’s expression. I purposefully drew it pretty blank!
Maybe they like it because of how blank she was to him the first time round.
That and for some odd reason I find funny.
It looks like puppy dog eyes to me.
It’s the eyes Willis. The eyes.
You blew it. The eyes, the rest of the face, the pose, even the tanktop and tattoo, she’s quite innocently seductive in that frame.
Sal is also known as “Tit’s Walky”
I’m here all week.
..I wish I could strangle you for that horrible joke >:I
Cafeful – I might be into it.
Cafeful? Full of coffee?
Oh, THAT I was going for. It was the suggestions of anger in her expression that confused me.
i think they meant in the fifth panel, not the fourth
No we meant the second to last one.
It works. It’s like she’s saying, “Hey. Look. Hot bod. Your opinion’s OVERRULED.” She don’t need to do nothing, just let him notice her and make the tatto and the top work their magic.
And it kinda makes it seem like she’s at least a little bit interested in him too and waiting for how he’ll react. She certainly didn’t care that much about what anyone else thought or did in the strip before.
So yeah, the pose + the blank face, definitely works.
I’m not seeing anything seductive or sexual in what Sal’s doing. And I’m the sort who thinks everything anyone does is coming on to me.
Well, we can cross staggeringly attractive off the bingo card too, I’m guessing.
I thought they cancelling the rest of the game after the 2 old guys and one old lady died of heart attacks.
I like your avatar.
*jaw drops*
Uh.. uh… thankyou?
Gotta be the tat.
I dunno. I haven’t seen anyone else react to her like that. It may be that she just happens to be exactly his type.
It must be loooooove agaaaaaaain.
What was your first clue. 😐
Twue wuv.
And don’t forget Mawwidge.
Mawwidge is what bwings us twogether twoday.
Oh no! The Elmer Fudd Syndrome spreads like a virus. My friend warned me about this and I don’t believe him. Just joking, guys. Anyways, is this going to be the true pairing or is Mike has anything to say about this?
It’s worse than that, Aizat.
It’s Movie Reference Disease.
(Yes, this is coming from the guy for whom everything is not merely babies, but so babies that it’s Babies McIntyre. I know.)
*head explodes due to sheer amount of references*
I have no idea what you saying.
Go watch The Princess Bride if you don’t understand.
If you don’t understand: GASP, you haven’t seen the Princess Bride?
Oh André the Giant.
Not quite, The character being referenced is the Impressive Clergyman who is performing the wedding of Buttercup and Humperdinck.
The Impressive Clergyman,/a> in action.
Inconceivable!
Do you haave de wing?
…this may be a tad out of left field, but would I be wrong in thinking you’ve seen Kimagure Orange Road, to use that specific emphasis and wording?
Nope. I was a little weird when I wrote that. :/
Dang. And here I was hoping it was another fan (for some reason, KOR fans seem to be rare on the web these days). :'(
We can mark “badass tattoo” off the card as well 🙂
What’s next on the list? Piercings on anything other than ears?
Hmm, I’m guessing cold indifference to other’s attraction to them. Or just to other’s in general. I don’t think this is gonna get much follow up, just a mythology gag, I reckon.
A crayfish is a bad-ass tattoo?
Crayfish? I thought it was a Termite.
A termite? I thougt it was a leaf cutter ant.
Leaf cutter ant? I thought it was an ant lion.
Stay off the sand!
It’s a Tarantugan Martian Sentry from It’s Walky.
I thought it was a black widow.
It is certainly an arachnid of some sort, 8 legs and all.
Looks like a scorpion spider to me. AKA the camel spider.
That is a scorpion not a spider.
Nope, it’s a tarantula.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/04-the-bechdel-test/puton/
Replied in the wrong spot. Sry.
Have you ever seen a tarantula?
At least he still believes in ethics!
I wonder if he balieves in Blue Eyes White Devil.
Ok, I’m lost. What’s “Blue Eyes White Devil”?
Blue Eyes White Devil = Joyce, she is like the combination of a Monster and Tract err I meant Trap Card.
I thought it was the fusion of Blue Eyes White Dragon and the RX-78-2 Gundam which was given the nickname “The White Devil”.
No it’s Joyce.
Oh, really? I thought it was the rob-magic dragon-gun-devil-machine. My mistake 😉
Oh, sorry. “Blue Eyes White Devil” is Joyce.
Only because he is wearing the Ethics Bow Tie, which overrides – with his knowledge – the otherwise strong hormonal flirting “why come into the office” urges he may be feeling right now.
Respect the Bow Tie.
I have to say it, because I haven’t seen it posted as of yet…bow ties are cool.
Damn ethics to hell! Do not turn away a hottie with an accent!
And I have to wonder if Joyce has been waving the entire time or just when Sal looks at her.
Given that it’s Joyce, I wouldn’t be surprised if she had been waving the whole time.
Also, as a TA, turning away the hottie is often the wise decision, at least initially.
Yes… Initially… *evil grin*
Just how long is initially anyhow?
2 seconds minimum, 15 minutes maximum.
That long huh? I see…
According to Avenue Q, TA’s are fair game.
Standard “playing hard to get” tactics, part 1.
I think the school’s ethics guidelines advise against saying that sort of thing out loud, too.
Funny I tkought they would encourage it?
Letting on that you find the students attractive? I doubt it.
Oh sorry, I was think of something else.
It’s almost like Sal has never seen a British person before.
Maybe it’s the bow tie that’s throwing her.
Hey, bowties are cool, you know.
As a fezzes.
And Stetsons.
Damnit, of course I would see this seconds after making the reference. Damnable internet rules…
Hey, we don’t know if he’s British in this continuity. These are all new character’s, remember? 😉
HE’S BRITISH.
Can’t you tell from his accent?
Yes, listen to the comic vewwy cwoswy.
Put your ear right up against the screen.
And Push really hard.
and inject some magic mushrooms.
That is optional.
“Did you just see a blond guy with a pretentious accent?”
“Can’t see an accent.”
I was wondering when this would happen.
Guess what he’s thinking with! 😀
The part of his brain that doesn’t want to get fired or sued for sexual harrassment?
The little head.
I have to believe he would be conducting himself entirely differently if that were the case.
Lil Jason?
With his penis, of course!
The nickel has yet to involve itself.
“Okay, it’s ’cause you’re short and attractive”
And not wearing a bra.
If that were true I think “ethics” would be halfway down a 3-floor plummet by now, If I know Jason 😉
This was established when Sal first introduced.
What do you mean? “Sal” was first introduced to Jason right here, in this strip. I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt, as I’m sure a gentleman of your caliber would NEVER consider a thoughtcrime, Mr. Mkvenner.
I mean the comic overall.
I mean in the comic overall
Ok, I’m confused. What are we talking about? “The comic overall”?
The first few strips in which she first appears. Sorry for the confusion.
Where does this “no bra” thing come from? She can wear a bra with that outfit. It’d just have to be low-cut.
Those boobs are awfully perky for going braless. Those things don’t hold themselves up, you know. That shirt may be a tank top but it’s not an unsubstantial top either.
Eighteen-year-olds tend to be perky
Mm… Are you talking from experience or from porn? Sal is athletic and doesnt have a extremly huge rack, so that could explain the perkyness
Personal experience, both myself and two sisters. One sister was already touching the floor by 18, due to insisting on not wearing a bra. My twin is a little bit better, but she had trouble for a while with fitting bras under tanks, but appears to be fine now. Mine are still perky and I wear a bra every damn day (my family tends to have large, heavy breasts)
I cannot help but read this in Gallasso’s voice.
I now have mental scarring because of this.
I would have thought this guy would be classy enough to leave such talk for outside of the classroom. Shame, I was hoping he wouldn’t be just another degenerate in a college setting.
… Ethics be damned, that’s one of those situations where the teacher would not only pay attention, but he (or in some cases she) would look like he was paying attention.
It’s funny how in another universe they have an on again off again relationship, yet here they’re prohibited from it (teacher/student rules :3)
And so it begins.
Eeee! 😀
(I didn’t actually think Alan would show up in this strip. So glad to be wrong! :D)
OH! And on a sidenote, in honor of his introduction into this comic as well, I shall quote The Final Doctor in saying the following:
“Bow ties are cool.”
And yes, I could also see him wearing a fez.
Dammit, you beat me to it!
He’s not the final doctor… they’re going to find some way of working around it, and it is sure to be incredible timey-wimey. My bet is something to do with the flesh.
especially since Gallifreyans have 13 regenerations, this doctor is only the 11th…
How ever there is no Gallifrey anymore.
I’ve been working under the assumption that after his people died he got all the regenerations to himself.
Joe, don’t forget, they showed him dieing 😛 Time might not be SET IN STONE, but they are the most likely conclusion of the events that will transpire if left unchanged, and nobody has done anything to change them thus far 😛 Even if he finds out how/when he’s going to die, it’s still doesn’t change the fact that that was the most likely event.
And Grrt, you’re forgetting that a time lord can die if they’re killed before they can regenerate, which he was.
Awwww… just remember, Jason, bow ties are cool.
Nice.
This is a perfect opportunity for Sal to shoot it.
And so are Fezs.
And Captain Jack Harckness.
And Stetsons.
And to paraphrase Sluggy Freelance, “Stay good, Jason, stay good!”
😀
*Ferret shock*
*Offers Mkvenner Pixy Stix*
*Double Ferret Shock*
This strip is stupid and pointless!
Everyone knows Sike is the One True Pairing anyway..;)
Sike?
Sal x Mike. It’s been the OTP for ages, jeez 😉
Ethics?
You know, the little voice in your head that says “That candy isn’t yours…”. It’s bloody annoying 🙂
You might be thinking of psychosis.
Ethics has that little voice in your head say something like “That candy is not yours, it belongs to that kid, do not take it.”
Psychosis on the otherhand, has a little voice in your head say something like “I want that candy, punch that kid in the face and take it.”
I thought Psychosis is the voice that says “I want that candy, slay the demon defending the horde of sugar, then ride on to the cas- AAAAH! RUN! Fire-breathing platypus!”
Um, guys – that’s a lot of voices.
I have a little voice that comes from my iPod.
It sings to me, and me alone. Oh, and it tells me who to kill – isn’t that adorable?
I hear voices in my head. They counsel me, they understand, they talk to me.
THEY TALK TO MEEEE!
*guitar solo*
If you can’t change office hours to right the hell now can you change right the hell now to 2:30?
No. He may wear a bow tie, but he doesn’t have the TARDIS. 😉
Yet.
Or Captain Jack’s wrist thing.
Yet.
Aryan and a Nubian sittin’ in-a tree RBELING (against proper spelling for the sake of music)
YES.
Spider-Sal, Spider-Sal, does whatever… er, doeth Sal.
I half-expected his bowtie to start spinning.
Ethics VS Boobies: The Eternal Saga Continues.
I thought The Eternal Saga was Star Trek vs Star Wars or Street Fighter vs King of Fighters or Goku vs Superman or Super Robots vs Real Robots.
Jeez, it’s obviously Pirates Vs. Ninjas, what’s wrong with you? 🙂
That is NOT an eternal saga as they are pretty much the SAME DAMN THING.
The Pirates and Ninjas or the stuff that I mentioned?
Pirates and Ninjas.
How are Pirates and Ninjas the same?
YAY!!! Now Sal has to decide between Jason, with his obvious interest in her, or Joyce for
tutoringpretending to care. I know which one I’d want to see her pretend to care with.Joyce, right? Cause yeah, I had that dream the other night too. It was hot, man. Reeeeaaaaaaaal hot.
Nice.Not everyone could pull of that tattoo.
I’m trying to imagine if it will still work when Sal’s like, 35. I kinda imagine Sal as someone who has a life period where she tries to create a normal life some time when she’s 30-40 and then rebound and become a smoker and dress as a rebel again.
Hot chick, check
Leather pants, check
Tight tank top with no bra, check
Hang on, boys, I’m bringing this sucker in for a landing!
Those boobs are awfully perky for going braless. Those things exist for a reason you know.
😀 🙂 😀 🙂 😀 🙂 😀 🙂 😀
Frakk ethics, office hours are right now!
For my own peace of mind….Jason as a teacher’s assistant isn’t actually much older than Sal, right? This doesn’t fall under one of those creepy “Don’t stand so close to me” situations, right?
TAs are generally grad students, meaning he’s probably at least 22.
“I am your college professor and I just openly flirted with you. Yaaay Ethics!!!!”
He’s not a professor, he’s a TA. Only a couple of years older than her.
I can see your boner there, Jason. Seriously, get a notebook over that thing.
Sal has a tattoo. I am not surprised.
You copy pasted that panel, didn’t you? I can’t believe I didn’t notice that. Naughty naughty 😉
Does Professor Rees have a beard?
OK, that’s it. From now on, I’m just reading the comic and avoiding the comments section altogether.
You guys just confuse the crap out of me.
🙁
I TOLD YOU GUYS BUT YOU DIDN’T LISTEN.
Is the comment section confusing in this continuity? Has it just not realized it yet?
Seriously though, He’ll be back. They always come back.
You can never leave The Village.
Yeah, Hinamizawa’s a bongo that way. They should really put up some warning signs or something.
Well, actually you can leave but first you have to get past……..THE GRASS!
Ok, ignore previous statement and run, run as if your life depends on it ( it desn’t).
If I might use an overused meme for a moment…
“RUINED FOREVER!!1!”
We need a lever for that, you know, just in case.
I think the tattoo is supposed to be a martian
A picture of a Martian, or an actual 2 dimensional being who comes from Mars?
Martian ship now that I look closer at it. From It’s Walky.
A Tarantugan to be exact.
Sal has Tarantuguns. OH YEAH I WENT THERE.
lol
ZING!
So, from this point on, Jason will spend the next 3 – 4 years trying not to get into Sal’s pants while secretly lusting after her? Way to go, mate! You better stick with that set of ethics forever…. NOT.
…seriously, just jump her bones already. You know everyone’s into the guy with the charming accent (also bow-tie).
But, fine, you shouldn’t abuse your position of authority doing it, I’m sure that would be somewhat immoral. I don’t see why it should be wrong as a TA to have an affair with a student they’re into, as long as they’re of legal age… but I think even that may be a gray area. If he was a teacher, things would be different.
YAY for the disappearing eyebrow trick! 😀 Now to make em reappear, but with more feelings of tenderness <3
I’ve come back five times to squeal over Jason.
… I believe I may have missed him more than I previously calculated. *sigh* And I thought I was staving it off by re-reading ‘It’s Walky’ every month.
“One lemonade for the kid.”
That quote was from Roomies right?
Yes, yes it is. The first thing Jason says to Sal when he meets her, right before R! turns into Sci-fi.
I thought as much.
It had been several months since I did the Roomies/It’s Walky/Shortpacked archive binge.
Took several weeks it did.
… I would laugh if the commentary today inspired some sort of Doctor Who references later on.
I would get giddy if it happened 😀
Just realized: “forward all your comments”
Is he a fucking e-mail?
Man, Jason must be really turned on, because he seems to have misplaced his eyebrows.
Smooooth, Jason.
Jason. Still classy, I see.
My name’s Rees too, and I plan to major in math(sorta)! Woo!
Alan!