Now I need to see fan art of Sal in a Sharpie mustache and strap-on saying “Call me Salvador, lover of all things awesome and awesome lover of all things.”
someone took a screwdriver to it, stole it, and threw it in a nearby creek. like seriously if it can be wedged off somebody’s gonna take it and cause property damage with it. college, man.
I would not be surprised if the fourth chair is missing intentionally to give wheelchair access. I saw tables like that when I was in college, and that was like 10 years ago.
Good thought … new tables are designed with the missing chair (and without the hazard of the upright tube); this might have just had the chair removed in order to retro-fit it on the cheap.
Someone insisted on leaning it back, and it snapped off. It’s in the welding department waiting for the students and/or instructors to stop welding dicks onto metal plating long enough to fix it; should be repaired inside of two months.
(Does IU have a welding dept.?)
I either missed or don’t remember that Electric Company sketch. But in reading up on it on Wikipedia just now, I noticed that the Naomi being referenced is apparently Jake Gyllenhaal’s mom. Ethan’s mom is also Naomi. Danny has likened Ethan to Jake Gyllenhaal. Coincidence or conspiracy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrZnnvEyTUs <- I think this was the very first song of his I heard. That I knew was his, and him singing it, anyway. I was born after his glory days.
Back in February, I pulled an all-nighter to prepare for a presentation the next day. Not the first time I’ve ever done such a thing, I knew what it was like.
So by the way, my mom said she wanted to talk to me that evening (after school). She was picking me up the next day to bring me home for Reading Week.
So I get home that evening, exhausted but accomplished. And I decide, I’m just gonna lie on my bed right now. You know what? I think I’ll get under the covers. Maybe I’ll nap for an hour or two. I do just that. This is, like, 6:30pm.
I wake up. It feels like I’ve slept. The room is darker. I look at my clock. Does…does it say 7:30? Wait, hold on…
It was 1:30am.
I slept for eight hours.
My mom thought I was fucking dead (the weather had recently gotten snowy the past few days). Thankfully she knew a neighbour of mine who was able to check up on me (without waking me up, even).
I fell asleep in the sun with my arms behind my head wearing a crop top. Not only did I savagely burn my armpits, I sported a cummerbund-esque tan for months after.
lol I’ve had this song stuck in my head for no reason today. Maybe I am ever so slightly psychic, but only about comments on webcomics. It’s a nice talent 😉
I am curious as well. If Walky and Billie get cookies, store brought cookies and Dorothy gets a gift card that will probably be spent on Walky. What is Sal getting?
A box containing all of their mother’s hope and dreams for Sal? Though I am holding out that it won’t be something jackassery. Probably misplaced hope, like I had with Jonathan, but still.
I think it’s the thing where she strangles anybody who wakes her up or gets anywhere near her when she’s sleeping. You know, that defense mechanism she picked up at Catholic school.
There are so many great storylines running and I can’t decide which one I want to continue the most.
It was an easier time when I had just found this comic and could just read on for hours.
I’m pretty invested in all of the ongoing storylines right now, the Danny/Amber one just a bit moreso because they’re my favourite characters and it’s been building up for a long time now.
I would seriously like to examine just how much Walky is aware of their parents’ favoritism towards him. Esp combined with his budding fall from academic grace, there’s a train wreck waiting to happen and I want a fucking front row seat.
I’m pretty sure the care packages hammered home the last of it that he might’ve been struggling with, but I don’t think he knows how to say it to Dotty, or if he should.
I’m also not sure he’s willing to admit the reason could possibly be what Sal said. So “I ‘unno” may be the best Walky-speak answer. There’s some problem, but he’s not sure exactly what the problem is.
Marcie is perfect wingwoman to Sal. I think we’ll be seeing her sometime soon, or else she’ll disappear for an in-comic month and then show up to talk about a date that happened a while ago.
In other words, let’s wait until Joyce saves the day back at home.
It’s interesting how the series has gone on for over five and a half years now and we can still get surprise new and compelling character interactions, like Walky/Amber and Sarah/Dina.
Are we ever gonna find out what Sal got in her box? I hope Walky is as full of burning curiosity as the rest of us*, so that he’ll ask her about it when/if they go out for dinner.
(*Or maybe just me, ha)
I actually think Sal is pretty super-crazy-cool for being able to sleep in public and not care what anyone might think.
I thought deflection, like the beat panel was him deciding not to say “because of racist favoritism, from which I unwittingly benefited all our lives, and now I feel bad about that.”
I’m utterly convinced he spend panel 2 listing all the times his mother overlooked Sal to benefit himself, start with the Hymmel audition and working himself upwards.
We’ve seen already that he is more aware about it since he panicked and got mad about the box thing to begin with, but we’ve also seen he gets awkward and deflects on things he doesn’t want to talk about.
Neither, I think. I think he doesn’t want to admit what the actual problem is. I think he still doesn’t want to accept that it really could be racism.
I mean, I guess you could call it deflecting because he didn’t say “Sal thinks it’s racism, but I’m not sure what it is.” But I’m not expecting miracles here. Dude’s not going to be that forthcoming for a while.
There is also the fact that she is his mother. It is difficult to admit your parents might actually be flawed, especially something as awful as racism.
I’m starting to think we’ll never know the contents of the box. For years, every now and then, there’ll be a passing allusion to it in the comic, and the comment section will just be swarmed with theories on it. Then there’ll be Easter Eggs popping up all over about it, all across the web, for even more years. Just tiny nods to it, seeming not actually referencing our wishes, but just maybe doing so. It’ll be a noodle incident for us.
He is just deflecting as usual about the thing he doesn’t want to talk about. We’ve seen that he is aware about it from how he got mad about the box thing. Sharing the race thing would mean having to actually share his feelings on it though, which this deflection of topic to being about Sal was supposed to avoid.
Did a girl in a dinosaur hat switch you onto another bus while you were sleeping? I heard dinosaur-hatted college students love tricking people onto the wrong buses.
I’m slightly more concerned that we haven’t seen Dorothy studying since… I dunno, Freshmen Family Weekend? Walky (and Joyce) might be a greater distraction than she had anticipated.
I can’t imagine she’d actually be doing worse on her studies (we’d have seen a meltdown by now if that were the case), at least not yet.
i remember that i didnt really like how dorothy was like “whyd i get a small box when you got a big one” when she just got it cause like cmon its obvious. im not sure how i feel about dorothy honestly
Dorothy comes from a very different sort of house. My impression is she wouldn’t understand the concept of using gifts to show favoritism. You’d get everyone the same present.
I think it’s sad. Sal acts Super-cool but I bet she’s just Super Lonely.
Falling asleep like that. I mean, if you are really cool you fall asleep on the grass under a tree. You don’t fall asleep on an metal outdoor table. That’s just dorky and depressing.
I feel like Sal’s Cool Badass Rebel image is somewhat of a deliberate construction.
Not entirely, Sal is aloof, she’s ready to throw down and she doesn’t take shit from anyone, but I do feel a lot of that is built from her isolation and need to be self sufficient.
I’m liking how Walkys desire to avoid complications in his own life will probably lead him to greater understanding of his sisters plight and will end up with him helping her and vice versa
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maybe you could take her to a bed and breakfast
But where’s the fun in random strangers drawing on her face?
Know how Sal borrowed clothes from Joyce that one time and somehow wore them and looked awesome?
Don’t ask me how, but she could totally pull off a sharpied on mustache and penis.
Her badassness allows her to rip ink off things. WOAH
Now I need to see fan art of Sal in a Sharpie mustache and strap-on saying “Call me Salvador, lover of all things awesome and awesome lover of all things.”
That sounds dangerously close to challenging Rule 34. To my understanding, that’s a bad idea.
It is. So who’s going to do it.
I think “strange markings” may have meant an imprint of the expanded steel mesh table top, not prankster(s) marking on her face while she slept.
On the other hand, why limit yourself to one meaning?
Do you want 34, or just the sharpie stuff on a normal pic?
Pourque pas tous les deux?
Heck I’ll do it
Sharpie: http://i.imgur.com/T4dmIdA.png
No Sharpie: http://i.imgur.com/Qd38CBS.png
strap-on version is a wip.
sooooo cooooool
Those tables are filthy.
You see? Sal doesn’t play it safe. She’s a rebel!
Cool people get infections from strange tables!
Only if they do it right.
It is very clean, the rain washes them regularly.
The birds and college students befoul them even more regularly.
That never stops us from napping on them.
We?
Sorry, I mean: Us?
So you admit it?
Kickstarter to get DS and Felix a room.
Not even, like, ‘get a room’ like in making out. Just a better place for them to sleep.
Although, if you WANTED to make out… (make sure it has cameras.)
Dorothy will rue the day she interrupted Sal’s nap-time! RUE, I say!
RUE!
Ruta Graveolens
What happened to the fourth chair?
Willis didn’t want to draw it because it would block the view of Sal.
But then the drawing would no longer be accurate, so he had to go to the real campus in Indiana and steal it.
Amazigirl beat him up for doing it, but that’s the sacrifice you make for art.
It exploded from near proximity to Sal’s super coolness.
The fourth wall took it. It needed something to sit on.
Chairs rate about a quarter to half a bicycle on the annoying to draw scale.
someone took a screwdriver to it, stole it, and threw it in a nearby creek. like seriously if it can be wedged off somebody’s gonna take it and cause property damage with it. college, man.
I would not be surprised if the fourth chair is missing intentionally to give wheelchair access. I saw tables like that when I was in college, and that was like 10 years ago.
Good thought … new tables are designed with the missing chair (and without the hazard of the upright tube); this might have just had the chair removed in order to retro-fit it on the cheap.
The actual table in real life has a chair missing. I changed which one it was, though, to give an unobstructed view of Sal.
http://dumbingofage.tumblr.com/post/142932535322/moves-location-of-missing-chair-so-that-the-view
Ah, but the real one has six posts, with five chairs. So you have to go there and steal those, too.
Artistic Licence?
Bad idea, I’ve heard stories about a vigilante beating up vandals around there.
Licensing artists is also a bad idea. The take enough license with their art already.
Dibs on the cigarette butts
Aww, the table doesn’t have a waffle lattice, like I was expecting! I had hoped she would awaken with the mark of the waffle on her face.
You can still get a waffle using a tennis racket, some sandpaper, syrup, whipped cream and a vaccuum.
Someone insisted on leaning it back, and it snapped off. It’s in the welding department waiting for the students and/or instructors to stop welding dicks onto metal plating long enough to fix it; should be repaired inside of two months.
(Does IU have a welding dept.?)
There’s a Bloomington Tech high school a few blocks west of the IU campus, at least according to Google Maps.
Clearly the solution is to put each chair on a spring, like those bouncy horses they have in playgrounds.
why are there only 3 chairs
Someone stole the other one, probably. Or it was broken and hasn’t been replaced.
One broke off, the other two were banished to the dimension of Too Much of a Pain in the Ass to Draw.
http://dumbingofage.tumblr.com/post/142932535322/moves-location-of-missing-chair-so-that-the-view
And … What about Naomi?
She heard rumors of a vigilante beating up vandals so she moved to Gothem.
And I thought I was the only one who still used that phrase. Electric Company alumnus?
Of course.
(This comment brought to you by the power of Silent E.)
I either missed or don’t remember that Electric Company sketch. But in reading up on it on Wikipedia just now, I noticed that the Naomi being referenced is apparently Jake Gyllenhaal’s mom. Ethan’s mom is also Naomi. Danny has likened Ethan to Jake Gyllenhaal. Coincidence or conspiracy?
SUPER COOL! (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
Sleeping is so cool. Like, you can do whatever you want!
Nah, it’s only cool when Sal does it.
She’s not sleeping. Just aggressively staring elsewhere from the world.
*plays Bob Dylan’s “Lay Lady Lay” on a boombox on the other side of the park*
May I request some Red Vox?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF8Ors0xfNM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrZnnvEyTUs <- I think this was the very first song of his I heard. That I knew was his, and him singing it, anyway. I was born after his glory days.
That’s probably still cooler than anything Walky’s ever done.
Walky once chased a college vigilante.
Sal chased a college vigilante, on a motorcycle.
And helped save said vigilante also.
Its as if the Walkertwins are cool or something!
Yeah. Like Superheroes.
like alien abductees.
Not that they’re competing, or anything…
Walky once ate an ENTIRE PIZZA in one gulp
Probably only took Sal half a gulp, and with the other half ate 50 McNuggets.
Walky threw a toy and snagged a girlfriend.
That actually is pretty impressive
What we call a boy-toy.
I know that feeling, Sal
Also a sharpie moustache.
She has her boots on, which makes her fair game, plus a wicked reflex to strangle people who mess with her sleep.
“Do not disturb, if you value your throats.”
First I lost my femurs and then I lost my throats. No one told me college would be this dangerous.
Wait until you get your student loan bills, you’ll lose an arm and a leg too! :V
Not to mention a kidney and some of your liver.
Oh, Sal. Been there, done that.
This is cute. I’m glad we’ve moved on from dog imagery lol.
Who hasn’t fallen asleep at inopportune times and inappropriate places in college?
If you haven’t, you ain’t college right, yo.
Back in February, I pulled an all-nighter to prepare for a presentation the next day. Not the first time I’ve ever done such a thing, I knew what it was like.
So by the way, my mom said she wanted to talk to me that evening (after school). She was picking me up the next day to bring me home for Reading Week.
So I get home that evening, exhausted but accomplished. And I decide, I’m just gonna lie on my bed right now. You know what? I think I’ll get under the covers. Maybe I’ll nap for an hour or two. I do just that. This is, like, 6:30pm.
I wake up. It feels like I’ve slept. The room is darker. I look at my clock. Does…does it say 7:30? Wait, hold on…
It was 1:30am.
I slept for eight hours.
My mom thought I was fucking dead (the weather had recently gotten snowy the past few days). Thankfully she knew a neighbour of mine who was able to check up on me (without waking me up, even).
Any proper college student at junior level or above has perfected the art of “napping while in class if necessary”.
Yeah, it’s around that point that we develop the ability to keep taking notes while unconscious.
If you get really good at it, you can take notes while dead.
I really hope I have better things to do when I’m dead besides take notes. That kind of afterlife is going to be a tough sell for any belief system.
I had a prof whose lectures made more sense while I was napping.
I fell asleep in the sun with my arms behind my head wearing a crop top. Not only did I savagely burn my armpits, I sported a cummerbund-esque tan for months after.
Sleep is awesome. Can’t argue with that.
I won’t, but you could argue it’s just a cheap replacement for caffeine.
Okay, I just did, but I don’t support that argument.
It can be awesome AND a cheap replacement for caffeine.
Enough caffeine can replace sleep. But it takes a lot of coffee. http://youtu.be/f40YKFuIeYA
I tried so hard to ignore that fact for the first two years of college. Fuckin’ Adderall.
It don’t matter if I get a little tired
I’ll sleep when I’m dead
And take notes.
(Wake me up)
WAKE ME UP OUTSIDE
(I can’t wale up)
WAKE ME UP OUTSIDE
(BRIIING MEE)
Bring me to the fun thing that you’ll do
lol I’ve had this song stuck in my head for no reason today. Maybe I am ever so slightly psychic, but only about comments on webcomics. It’s a nice talent 😉
*niche talent. Man, I ruined my own joke with a typo lol.
That’s okay, I didn’t understand the joke anyway.
I was going to say, “That’s okay, it wasn’t a very good joke anyway, ” but for all I know it could be a great joke.
I love you all…well except for you, yeah you the person reading this…you suck.
https://media.giphy.com/media/NTY1kHmcLsCsg/giphy-facebook_s.jpg
But, but, I made you cookies!
…oh well. More for me!
I’ll take Some1’s cookies if they don’t want them.
*Steals all of the cookies*
Somebody stop me!
No! Embrace the darkness, be one with it! Muhahahahaha!
Don’t do it. It’s a trap. While you’re embracing the darkness, they’ll steal all the cookies back.
No, you suck!
But…
http://gifrific.com/pikachu-crying/
I am curious as well. If Walky and Billie get cookies, store brought cookies and Dorothy gets a gift card that will probably be spent on Walky. What is Sal getting?
A box containing all of their mother’s hope and dreams for Sal? Though I am holding out that it won’t be something jackassery. Probably misplaced hope, like I had with Jonathan, but still.
A bill.
Sleeping pills.
The markings aren’t because of the table but because Walky found her and drew on her face
Is her twin immune to the Somnary Defense Protocols?
I do not get the reference, and Google is of no help. I’m all out of ideas.
Insomniary. IDP we call it in the biz.
I think it’s the thing where she strangles anybody who wakes her up or gets anywhere near her when she’s sleeping. You know, that defense mechanism she picked up at Catholic school.
This will probably lead to the return of Marcie, and some indication of how her “date” with Malaya ended.
The preview panels show her at least talking to Malaya.
Nothing cooler than sleeping in public, man. Show you don’t give a f’.
Sal is the coolest sleeper
There are so many great storylines running and I can’t decide which one I want to continue the most.
It was an easier time when I had just found this comic and could just read on for hours.
Breaking and entering = best current storyline!!
(But it’s also the one that needs regular breathing time from dealing with John and Carol.)
I’m pretty invested in all of the ongoing storylines right now, the Danny/Amber one just a bit moreso because they’re my favourite characters and it’s been building up for a long time now.
Metal Gear Joyce is a close second, though.
I would seriously like to examine just how much Walky is aware of their parents’ favoritism towards him. Esp combined with his budding fall from academic grace, there’s a train wreck waiting to happen and I want a fucking front row seat.
I’m pretty sure the care packages hammered home the last of it that he might’ve been struggling with, but I don’t think he knows how to say it to Dotty, or if he should.
I’m also not sure he’s willing to admit the reason could possibly be what Sal said. So “I ‘unno” may be the best Walky-speak answer. There’s some problem, but he’s not sure exactly what the problem is.
I REALLY look forward to Sal/Dorothy interaction. I think it would b much less awkward than could perhaps be expected.
There has been an alarming lack of Marcie in the Sal strips lately.
Marcie is perfect wingwoman to Sal. I think we’ll be seeing her sometime soon, or else she’ll disappear for an in-comic month and then show up to talk about a date that happened a while ago.
In other words, let’s wait until Joyce saves the day back at home.
It’s interesting how the series has gone on for over five and a half years now and we can still get surprise new and compelling character interactions, like Walky/Amber and Sarah/Dina.
Are we ever gonna find out what Sal got in her box? I hope Walky is as full of burning curiosity as the rest of us*, so that he’ll ask her about it when/if they go out for dinner.
(*Or maybe just me, ha)
I actually think Sal is pretty super-crazy-cool for being able to sleep in public and not care what anyone might think.
It’s an essential college skill, but it’s not always picked up so easily in Freshman year. Indeed she is powerful, as the Emperor has foreseen.
We musta had advanced courses or something cuz we learned that skill as freshman in high school.
I’m like 90% sure it’s going to be some kind of hair care product.
And now we know the real reason she wears that motorcycle helmet so often: to hide the imprint of whatever she was just sleeping on.
Now I’m wondering if his lack of awareness in panels 2 and 3 is genuine or another deflection.
I thought deflection, like the beat panel was him deciding not to say “because of racist favoritism, from which I unwittingly benefited all our lives, and now I feel bad about that.”
Well, he can’t tell Dorothy too much or she’ll come to expect it.
I’m utterly convinced he spend panel 2 listing all the times his mother overlooked Sal to benefit himself, start with the Hymmel audition and working himself upwards.
Another deflection, in other words.
Deflection.
We’ve seen already that he is more aware about it since he panicked and got mad about the box thing to begin with, but we’ve also seen he gets awkward and deflects on things he doesn’t want to talk about.
Neither, I think. I think he doesn’t want to admit what the actual problem is. I think he still doesn’t want to accept that it really could be racism.
I mean, I guess you could call it deflecting because he didn’t say “Sal thinks it’s racism, but I’m not sure what it is.” But I’m not expecting miracles here. Dude’s not going to be that forthcoming for a while.
There is also the fact that she is his mother. It is difficult to admit your parents might actually be flawed, especially something as awful as racism.
To be fair, sleeping a public place is pretty cool. I do it all the time, and I’m pretty and sometimes cool.
But do people mark up your face?
I’m black, so they need the REAL good stuff to make much of an impression.
Or Wite-Out, available everywhere Sharpies are sold.
If they’re really mean, glitter works on everyone.
Been up all night
to get lucky. We’re up all night to get lucky. We’re up all night to get lucky.
Grab a coffee, it’ll help you a lot.
To get LOKI.
I’m starting to think we’ll never know the contents of the box. For years, every now and then, there’ll be a passing allusion to it in the comic, and the comment section will just be swarmed with theories on it. Then there’ll be Easter Eggs popping up all over about it, all across the web, for even more years. Just tiny nods to it, seeming not actually referencing our wishes, but just maybe doing so. It’ll be a noodle incident for us.
But for Sal? It’ll just be another day.
Being super crazy cool or whatever can be exhausting.
Indeed, it requires lots of energy, in special when you are just leaning on a wall looking cool.
Yep! That’s our Sal! Always off in exotic places, doing mysterious, bad-ass bad-girl things! Wait, what…?
Meanwhile, Walky continues to simultaneously impress and terrify with his lack of awareness of what happens to anyone who isn’t him.
No, he knows. He just literally chooses not to talk about the race thing because it makes him uncomfortable. Like a hero
He is just deflecting as usual about the thing he doesn’t want to talk about. We’ve seen that he is aware about it from how he got mad about the box thing. Sharing the race thing would mean having to actually share his feelings on it though, which this deflection of topic to being about Sal was supposed to avoid.
Here to put on record my enduring love for Dorothy, she lives up to it every time.
Seconded
Thirded! A class act, that one.
That last panel reminds me of the last time I fell asleep in public. It was awful. I was on a bus and ended up in San Fancisco.
Happened to me too, only that I fell asleep in the subway train and woke up right at the last station.
Did a girl in a dinosaur hat switch you onto another bus while you were sleeping? I heard dinosaur-hatted college students love tricking people onto the wrong buses.
Could be worse.
You could have ended close to the river Amazon.
(The traditonal stop in the other continuity).
Walkyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
I’m slightly more concerned that we haven’t seen Dorothy studying since… I dunno, Freshmen Family Weekend? Walky (and Joyce) might be a greater distraction than she had anticipated.
I can’t imagine she’d actually be doing worse on her studies (we’d have seen a meltdown by now if that were the case), at least not yet.
And because of our psychic author, I now predict she will be shown studying at least somewhat in the next comic, or at least another one this week.
I dont know.. those look likes pretty heavy pants.
Those weird wire chairs probably wont be able to get tru to leave marks on her cheeks
also aliens leave marks between the cheeks.. (you know.. in case cameos)
Sal will awaken with MY MARK emblazoned across her face!!!
(The mark of the waffle. Because, that’s my mark. MY. MARK.)
i remember that i didnt really like how dorothy was like “whyd i get a small box when you got a big one” when she just got it cause like cmon its obvious. im not sure how i feel about dorothy honestly
Dorothy comes from a very different sort of house. My impression is she wouldn’t understand the concept of using gifts to show favoritism. You’d get everyone the same present.
no, you dont get your sons girlfriend that you dont know a big gift
i mean you can but mostly since she doesnt know her yet she’ll get her a small gift or none at all
That’s one way of doing it but we do it differently in our house. If sending a group of gifts, you all get the same gift regardless of relationship.
Do you all get the same gift regardless of whether you like that thing or not?
Pretty much. Comes from being a big family.
Bein’ Super zcrazy Cool must be exhasting work. I wouldn’t know.
Comes with spending most nights with Malaya & co
Don’t take her to dinner. Take her to one of those escape rooms. She’d ROCK at those.
“still bein’ super crazy cool even when she sleeps”
Am I alone in thinking retconning Dorothy into being Puppy Dorothy in all scenes would be better?
Cutest Sal pose 2K16
I think it’s sad. Sal acts Super-cool but I bet she’s just Super Lonely.
Falling asleep like that. I mean, if you are really cool you fall asleep on the grass under a tree. You don’t fall asleep on an metal outdoor table. That’s just dorky and depressing.
I feel like Sal’s Cool Badass Rebel image is somewhat of a deliberate construction.
Not entirely, Sal is aloof, she’s ready to throw down and she doesn’t take shit from anyone, but I do feel a lot of that is built from her isolation and need to be self sufficient.
Having said that, it is definitely canon that Sal is a huge turbo nerd because that girl has a Tarantugun tattoo.
I’m liking how Walkys desire to avoid complications in his own life will probably lead him to greater understanding of his sisters plight and will end up with him helping her and vice versa
Maybe…
I have slept like that way more than my neck and back would prefer…