I concur, predominantly. Can look cool in exceptional circumstances too fiddly to post, but even then, I get a crawling ‘He/she’s going to cough up a chunk of lungflesh one day’ sensation in the back of my mind.
question. If Sal wasn’t technically southern at all because she and Walky weren’t separated at birth, then why does she still have the accent… not complaining, just curious.
I interpreted that as “So, uh, how was,” Catholic school? she just showed up on a motercycle and she’s smoking that’s obviously a stupid question what can I say that won’t make her knock me over and sit on me, “uh, Tennessee?”
That may be crediting Walky with more rational thought than he’s actually capable of, though.
This will probably lead her to talk to Mike and start the BilliexMike relationship. He’ll tear her down so that she tries to drink herself to death. And that’ll be the major drama bomb this time.
re:smoking.
People who smoke generally understand the risks, the smell, and the fact that plenty of people don’t think its cool. …And unless they’re actually trying to quit, they don’t care. I have a feeling Sal isn’t too concerned. That’s why she’s a badass.
My roommate smokes and she knows the risks and hazards of smoking full well and she really doesn’t care (though she says shes trying to tone it down).
Smoking bad in my book, but the fact of the matter is that smokers just don’t give a rats a**, and its that level of non-nonchalant attitude towards what society views you as (without being/ smelling/ sounding like a smelly turd pile) hat makes them all the more appealing.
Of course smokers don’t care– they’re junkies. Junkies don’t give a damn for anyone or anything else in the world aside from getting their next fix.
Sal and Mike should make out now so Mike can turn and spit his chaw out when they’re done, just to maintain his Ayatollah of Assahola status in the face of this new challenger.
I… think you’re overstating just a bit here. I’ve never seen a smoker selling his-or-herself on the street for just one puff, for example. I’m pretty sure all of the smokers I’ve met actually have people and things that matter more to them than their cigarettes.
The only reason that people don’t need to sell themselves for smokes is that they’re the only legal drug apart from alcohol that’s easily available in every town in the country (both yours and mine) for an affordable price. If cigarettes were as rare and pricey as heroin, you’d probably have that situation sooner or later.
@TexasNinjaBuzzard – Get a grip, dude. Did someone ritually burn you with cigarettes or something? Most smokers enjoy smoking, so they do. Anyone who is incapable of quitting is simply weak-willed.
And everyone has THE INALIENABLE RIGHT to fsck with other people’s lungs in public just ‘cuz they’re too lazy to manage a spit cup to get their nicotine.
Also global warming is a myth on account of all thermometers made in the last four hundred years have a well-known liberal bias.
As a smoker I can promise you I’m not a junkie or an asshole. I make my choices and I do my part to be considerate of the environment and the people around me. Are there people who are assholes? Yes, but there are pleenty of non-smokers who are total dicks too. And, as someone who has experienced several forms of withdrawl first hand I can assure you that nicotine is NOTHING like the kinds of drugs that change a person from a human being into an addiction.
Also maybe I just haven’t seen the comments, but why are people so up in arms about Sal smoking but not about Billie being an alcoholic? Alcoholism is just as if not more dangerous than smoking and has a far more disruptive effect on the lives of the sick and their families.
Everyone makes choices, in anycase. And I still feel that a bad ass chick smoking in a cartoon for adults is just fine.
But one of the things i’ve always loved about Sal was her panchant for making really bad choices! I mean, it usually worked out in the end, for the most part, but she has never ever been perfect. Though I guess awesome and perfect aren’t exactly the same thing. I guess it depends on one’s definition of awesome…
I think that people are up in arms about Sal being a smoker because that’s a trait she never showed before in the previous comic. Billie was an alcoholic in previous continuity, so that’s why people don’t really care about that as much.
@TexasNinjaBuzzard
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You know what? Go frag yourself. “Don’t care about people?” Excuse me. I just don’t care about dicks like you. HOW DARE YOU RUIN MY SALVADOR FOR ME!!!
I don’t actually care about Sal hittin’ the stinkweed, I just hate smokers in general because there are only about a dozen of them in the world (like a couple of people who make a webcomic about cats) who assign more value to Common Damn Courtesy than they do to feeding their addiction. Potheads smoke too, but they almost always take special care to keep every bit of that puff in their own lungs.
Sal being an asshole or not doesn’t bother me, because she wrings hilarious responses out of everyone around her; Mike is some kind of multiversal singularity of assholery, and he’s one of my favorite characters here or in SP!.
Aw, man. I was really hoping she wouldn’t keep the “Git OWT-A mah HAY-ID!” action. She is now and henceforth voiced for me by whoever VA’ed Rogue in the ’90s X-Men cartoon.
And Willis is Indianohio, not… Anywhere South Of Indianohio. Probably some mole men from West Virginny escaped their corporate overseers and crawled out of the perditious undercoaltowns to wander by the bottom end of IAOH at some point to provide examples, but Northern People write fuggin’ hilarious “southern” accents, is what i’m sayin’.
…Oh, who the hell am I kidding, I’m a Texan— everything northeast of Arkansas pretty much rates as “Yankee” in my book. It snows up there, for cryin’ out loud!
Also, someone tell me I’m not the only one thinking that when Ruth and Sal meet, that if Ruth has a fight with Sal like she did with Billie, that Sal’s going to kick Ruth’s ass?
What I want to know is, why did Mr. and Mrs. Walkerton send Sal to Catholic school anyway? Obviously it was to straighten her out (a plan that appears to have failed), but what was it that made them decide to take such an action? I’m so excited to find out.
So, I know Joyce is looking at the motorcycle in that last panel, but it kinda looks like she’s reading her questions off a prepared list or something.
Over-compensating for Catholic school clearly. She’s going in a completely opposite direction to assert to rebellious individuality. It’s uh… Well, it’s Sal.
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Sal is bad ass. The smoking proves it.
Also, I want to see Joyce touching her bike and making it go vroom (God I’m immature)
Correction: The complete disinterest in everything going on AND the smoking prove her badasssery.
I wanna see Joyce touching SAL and making her go vroom. >_>
Haha, I’ll be honest, the first time I read this I thought Joyce said “I like your bike / Can I touch your hair”. If only…
Damnit, I was going to say something like this and you beat me to it.
Well, you have the same random avatar… so you can pretend you said it first? 😛
Until the random avatars change again.
I’ve never found smoking to be badass or attractive. It just makes me want to vomit.
I concur, predominantly. Can look cool in exceptional circumstances too fiddly to post, but even then, I get a crawling ‘He/she’s going to cough up a chunk of lungflesh one day’ sensation in the back of my mind.
I saw “lungfish” instead of “lungflesh”. That was an interesting mental image…
It’s almost a relief that Sal isn’t the catholic girl she coulda been. Yaaaay Sal. I also wish to touch the bike. Can I? CAN I?!
NO, NO BIKE TOUCHING FOR YOU!
Is this coming out kind of pixelated for anyone else?
Also–YAY! Southern accent!
That’s because he uploaded a 1750.89 KB 3600×1200 image, and the site’s scaling it to 980×327.
“Lahk prison.” It’s now my favorite thing to say.
… *touch*
You got the touch…
You got the power!
No. Just no.
Southern accent…love it, I want it (even though I’m Canadian eh).
Of course you do. Everyone does. We’re awesome. Do you notice how even a non-native southerner was able to make Joyce go gay within seconds?
Everyone knows that there is only one accent greater than a Texan accent.
An English one.
Any type of British accent automatically makes someone ten time more attractive that they would normally be.
This knowledge makes me extremely happy to be British.
As a Torontonian who moved to Texas a few years back, I can tell you that the two accents kinda cancel each other out.
question. If Sal wasn’t technically southern at all because she and Walky weren’t separated at birth, then why does she still have the accent… not complaining, just curious.
Third panel, dude! Third panel!
believe me, you pick it up fast.
1. “Yes.”
2. “Thanks.”
3. “…No.”
Panel 1. Limited print.
please
Seconded!
Walky is scared of Sal.
Reeeeally gotta wonder how their upbringing went, right?
I imagine she sat on him a lot.
Not in any sort of gross sexual way you pervs.
^Please tell me this is a random Gravatar.
Nope, made it myself.
Though I don’t think he’s afraid of her in the 3rd panel. I think he’s laughing at her accent.
But look at his face in panel 3 and the way he says that first line. He looks intimidated, if you ask me.
So very awesome. (Anime-style Heart eyes go here)
I thought Denmark was prison?
What place ISN’T like prison anymore? It’s all rules and no fun. D’:
Thats why I live on the Moon!
I wonder where in TN Sal was, considering Walky’s hesitation before saying the name of the state. And his laughter after “Lahk prison.”
I interpreted that as “So, uh, how was,” Catholic school? she just showed up on a motercycle and she’s smoking that’s obviously a stupid question what can I say that won’t make her knock me over and sit on me, “uh, Tennessee?”
That may be crediting Walky with more rational thought than he’s actually capable of, though.
Dear Bramblepatch:
Nice thought, but I was thinking “How [I can’t blow her past and say PRISON]was, uh, Tennessee?” was the Walky thought process.
What are my odds on Jason being a Literature graduate student?
Math prof
How much hate is in Billie’s eyes now that she’s no longer center of attention?
This will probably lead her to talk to Mike and start the BilliexMike relationship. He’ll tear her down so that she tries to drink herself to death. And that’ll be the major drama bomb this time.
And now I dislike Sal…
Why? (Honest question, as nothing she does today seems objectionable)
For the smoking?
Hey, I dunno, I definitely still like Sal. Bad Catholic schoolgirl? Rawr!
No, for wasting a perfect match. She could have used that to light that cigarette, then light some one on fire…
If your going to use matches to light cigarettes then the least you could do is light some one fire with it after…
Otherwise buy a lighter!
Yeah! I honestly thought Sal would be more of the zippo type…
Don’t be stupid…
…
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Sal has lighter just for THAT, duh.
Anyone else getting flashbacks to Kimagure Orange Road?
This totally made me think of Ayukawa Madoka and now I cannot help but imagine Kyosuke being replaced by Joyce and laughing until I fall down.
OMG me too! Except I imagine Joyce as Hikaru, ignoring the fact that they knew each other since childhood. ^_^
So I guess you could say she’s…smoking hot?
*ducks*
D’OH HO! : D
I want to make out with today’s comic.
And my avatar is Joyce. This is awesome.
Tennessee is totally like prison.
With tobacco as far as the eye can see.
NICE!
Joyce should have also asked a 4th question. “Will Mike ever talk?”
Because Sal is the Oracle?
I concur
Sal does lose some cool points for the smoking, IMO. No offense. >_>
All these questions answered and more! On the next, Days of our Dumb-age.
Oh yea, accent’s still there! <3 Sal. 😀
BAD JOYCE! NO SAL FOR YOU!
Go stay with Billie.
Also, SAALLLLLLLLLL!!!!!
And I’m still that random background chick, what ever her name is.
Mary. In another life, she was Sal’s best friend in high school.
… Which makes it awesome
… the coincidence, that is.
Ruth FTW.
YEAH! Now when do we get to see the Giant Mutant Frosted Honey Bun?
I think it would be funny if there was a pastry shop with the GMFHB as their mascot.
Yeah, Sal loses points for the smoking. I just *can’t* handle smoke smells (my parents kinda vaccinated me against it)
…but otherwise, Damn, she’s Hot.
re:smoking.
People who smoke generally understand the risks, the smell, and the fact that plenty of people don’t think its cool. …And unless they’re actually trying to quit, they don’t care. I have a feeling Sal isn’t too concerned. That’s why she’s a badass.
Go Sal!
Agreed.
My roommate smokes and she knows the risks and hazards of smoking full well and she really doesn’t care (though she says shes trying to tone it down).
Smoking bad in my book, but the fact of the matter is that smokers just don’t give a rats a**, and its that level of non-nonchalant attitude towards what society views you as (without being/ smelling/ sounding like a smelly turd pile) hat makes them all the more appealing.
…If by “badass” you mean “asshole”.
Of course smokers don’t care– they’re junkies. Junkies don’t give a damn for anyone or anything else in the world aside from getting their next fix.
Sal and Mike should make out now so Mike can turn and spit his chaw out when they’re done, just to maintain his Ayatollah of Assahola status in the face of this new challenger.
I… think you’re overstating just a bit here. I’ve never seen a smoker selling his-or-herself on the street for just one puff, for example. I’m pretty sure all of the smokers I’ve met actually have people and things that matter more to them than their cigarettes.
The only reason that people don’t need to sell themselves for smokes is that they’re the only legal drug apart from alcohol that’s easily available in every town in the country (both yours and mine) for an affordable price. If cigarettes were as rare and pricey as heroin, you’d probably have that situation sooner or later.
“On the street, for one puff”, no.
“In a dorm, for a pack”… um… well…
@TexasNinjaBuzzard – Get a grip, dude. Did someone ritually burn you with cigarettes or something? Most smokers enjoy smoking, so they do. Anyone who is incapable of quitting is simply weak-willed.
Because, as we all know, there is no such thing as chemical addiction.
Also, poor people are all just lazy.
And everyone has THE INALIENABLE RIGHT to fsck with other people’s lungs in public just ‘cuz they’re too lazy to manage a spit cup to get their nicotine.
Also global warming is a myth on account of all thermometers made in the last four hundred years have a well-known liberal bias.
As a smoker I can promise you I’m not a junkie or an asshole. I make my choices and I do my part to be considerate of the environment and the people around me. Are there people who are assholes? Yes, but there are pleenty of non-smokers who are total dicks too. And, as someone who has experienced several forms of withdrawl first hand I can assure you that nicotine is NOTHING like the kinds of drugs that change a person from a human being into an addiction.
Also maybe I just haven’t seen the comments, but why are people so up in arms about Sal smoking but not about Billie being an alcoholic? Alcoholism is just as if not more dangerous than smoking and has a far more disruptive effect on the lives of the sick and their families.
Everyone makes choices, in anycase. And I still feel that a bad ass chick smoking in a cartoon for adults is just fine.
Sal is supposed to be awesome in every way, and for some people that includes “doesn’t smell like an ashtray”.
Billie, on the other hand, is held to no high standard.
But one of the things i’ve always loved about Sal was her panchant for making really bad choices! I mean, it usually worked out in the end, for the most part, but she has never ever been perfect. Though I guess awesome and perfect aren’t exactly the same thing. I guess it depends on one’s definition of awesome…
I think that people are up in arms about Sal being a smoker because that’s a trait she never showed before in the previous comic. Billie was an alcoholic in previous continuity, so that’s why people don’t really care about that as much.
@TexasNinjaBuzzard
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You know what? Go frag yourself. “Don’t care about people?” Excuse me. I just don’t care about dicks like you. HOW DARE YOU RUIN MY SALVADOR FOR ME!!!
I don’t actually care about Sal hittin’ the stinkweed, I just hate smokers in general because there are only about a dozen of them in the world (like a couple of people who make a webcomic about cats) who assign more value to Common Damn Courtesy than they do to feeding their addiction. Potheads smoke too, but they almost always take special care to keep every bit of that puff in their own lungs.
Sal being an asshole or not doesn’t bother me, because she wrings hilarious responses out of everyone around her; Mike is some kind of multiversal singularity of assholery, and he’s one of my favorite characters here or in SP!.
So it’s settled then, the problem is not smokers, the problem is that you are a hateful person. Check.
…… Yes…….
At least you aren’t ragging at us about our choices.
Aw, man. I was really hoping she wouldn’t keep the “Git OWT-A mah HAY-ID!” action. She is now and henceforth voiced for me by whoever VA’ed Rogue in the ’90s X-Men cartoon.
Evolution? Meghan Black.
And it doesn’t work. Rogue’s Mississippi, not Tennessee.
And Willis is Indianohio, not… Anywhere South Of Indianohio. Probably some mole men from West Virginny escaped their corporate overseers and crawled out of the perditious undercoaltowns to wander by the bottom end of IAOH at some point to provide examples, but Northern People write fuggin’ hilarious “southern” accents, is what i’m sayin’.
…Oh, who the hell am I kidding, I’m a Texan— everything northeast of Arkansas pretty much rates as “Yankee” in my book. It snows up there, for cryin’ out loud!
I nominate Sal for DoA President. Why? Badassery.
And the response to those “three things” are as follows.
1. Yep
2. Thanks, ah guess.
3. No.
I already said as much earlier, but thanks for trying.
If she really didn’t care, wouldn’t it be:
1)Meh
2)Meh
3)Touch my bike and lose your hand (after all, she was in… catholic school?)
Sal, it’s so very good to see your faaaaaaaaaaaaaaace.
-coughs- I missed my chance on the last strip. >>
Also, someone tell me I’m not the only one thinking that when Ruth and Sal meet, that if Ruth has a fight with Sal like she did with Billie, that Sal’s going to kick Ruth’s ass?
yor gravatar is oosaka isint it? that face she makes, makes me read what you say with her voice.
Yup. ;D Osaka is my anime/manga mind-twin. xD I even have the dub accent.
And having you get it in her voice is part of the fun. 8D
Sal will try to have a fling with Joyce just because, calling it right now.
Premarital hanky-panky!
I’m so happy you kept both Sal’s accent and her anime-long hair, it just wouldn’t be Sal without them!
Also, Sal? Badass.
Oh Sal, Tennessee is like a prison, I know. I know.
What I want to know is, why did Mr. and Mrs. Walkerton send Sal to Catholic school anyway? Obviously it was to straighten her out (a plan that appears to have failed), but what was it that made them decide to take such an action? I’m so excited to find out.
She killed the third triplet.
The contrast of Sal and Joyce in the last panel is kind of awesome.
So, I know Joyce is looking at the motorcycle in that last panel, but it kinda looks like she’s reading her questions off a prepared list or something.
I thought so too!
Going for every bad-girl cliche in the book, aren’t we Sal?
So Walky’s nervous laughter at the end… is he kinda freaked out by his sister or something?
How the hell does she keep all that hair inside her helmet? Wouldn’t it get in her faaaaaaace?
maybe she WASNT sent to catholic school.. maybe it was… PRISON :O
DUN DUN DUUUUUN
‘homeless man’ gravatar nao plx.
walky looks nervous in panel two and it seems he just gets more nervous being around sal.
Wait a sec, is she lighting her smoke with a match? Who does that??
People who enjoy setting things on fire after they light their cigarette!
You’re one of those peoeple, aren’t you?
Now, now. As long as nobody gets hurt, pyromania is just good clean fun!
I don’t smoke, but I do use matches to light people on fire if thats what your asking…
It’s part of the whole badass routine; the boot strike looks cooler.
Also, they don’t sell lighters in prison stores.
I had an English teacher who was known for responding to Joyce’s first question with “no I hadn’t heard”
I agree with the title….also what’s with this Dorothy gravatar?
Over-compensating for Catholic school clearly. She’s going in a completely opposite direction to assert to rebellious individuality. It’s uh… Well, it’s Sal.