Yeah, does anyone remember her kicking the box down the hall? That’s animal abuse. She took 10 giant steps down in my regard as a character and she wasn’t up the first flight yet.
She was pushing the box down the hall with her foot. That’s at least a little less violent than a kick. (Back in Shortpacked, Fuckface the iguana was one of the few things Malaya actually cared about.)
I dislike Malaya as much as you do, but I agree with the folks pointing out that she was doing foot-scooches, not actual kicks. It’s lazy, but not harmful or any more stressful to the animal than being moved in the box in general.
They dont get along because Malaya is constantly insulting her to her face. Sal is pretty chill. It’s Malaya who is starting unnecessary shit. I don’t understand her. If this were real life I would question whether Malaya is autistic or has some other condition that affects her social skills.
Sal makes it abundantly clear how much disdain she holds for Malaya and insults her whenever she gets a chance, even lying to her about what Marcie signed before Malaya took the chance to learn ASL. And when Sal reached out to her to be “friends”, she started off by calling her a cumstain (though not to her face), being rude and condescending to her throughout the entire exchange, and then threatening her when Malaya doesn’t magically want to be friends?? That’s, like, the complete opposite of chill.
I’m not denying that Malaya is abrasive and hard to handle, but it’s hardly as if Sal is kind and friendly towards her to be repeatedly rejected.
Dinosaurs aren’t genera (“genera” is the plural of genus – in the scientific name of Tyrannosaurus rex for example, “Tyrannosaurus” is the genus-name and “rex” is the species name). The Dinosauria clade is part of the Archosaurs, which were considered a reptilian clade last I checked (the crocodiles are also archosaurs).
(On the other hand, I am familiar enough with Opus the Poet to assume he’ll actually accept the correction, unlike the guy who ate all my spoons the other day.)
I accept my mistakes with aplomb. It helps prove I’m still human after getting killed. Still waiting for the orders to join Wills’ army of unkillable badasses.
If you’re talking cladistics, amniotes (first fully terrestrial animals) split into synapsids, including mammals, and sauropsids, including dinosaurs (and birds), lizards, crocs, turtles, and everything else we’d call a modern reptile.
I suspect a layman would look at an earlier amniote and call it a reptile, but Reptilia starts later in the evotree.
Theropods, yes, but not reptillian theropods. Dinosaurs are considered their own clade now. Somewhat warm-blooded, and with significant design differences in their skeletons.
However, you COULD get away with calling them lizards, as ‘saur’ means ‘lizard’. Just not… ‘reptillian’ lizards.
That is literally, 100%, completely the opposite of how it works.
They are not lizards. Lizards are squamates.
They are, however, reptiles. Because they are descended from the common ancestor of all reptiles, which makes them reptiles. If you want to remove dinosaurs from reptilia (syn: sauropsida), you also have to remove crocodiles and turtles, which are more closely related to dinosaurs than they are to lizards, snakes, and tuatara.
Here’s how the clades nest – birds are dinosaurs, which are archosaurs, which are reptiles. You cannot evolve out of a clade – you can, though, evolve into a new clade, which is contained within the old clade – as they are defined by common descent.
Basically, think of clades as those Russian nesting dolls, only if some of the dolls in turn contained several smaller dolls instead of just a single doll.
The “Bird” doll is nested in the “Dinosaur” doll, the “Dinosaur” and “Pterosaur” dolls are nested within the “Ornithodiran” doll, the “Ornithodiran” and “Crocodile” dolls are nested in the “Archosaur” doll, and so on. If you nest within a doll, you can be considered part of that group.
I would be equally happy with a Joyce, Dina, or Ruth gravatar, as they’re the three characters in the comic with whom I identify most on a personal level (after the latest great gravatar switch-up, my previous grav was replaced by Mary, and I hastily engaged in grav-roulette hoping for one of the three; Ruth was the first to appear).
My brain somehow free-associated Patreon to Slipshine and that’s really all there is to say on the matter (especially taking into consideration my contribution to a certain comment chain on yesterday’s strip regarding Carla’s shirt and the title text)
I mean, if she’s just sliding the box along BY kicking it, he probably wouldn’t care all that much. As long as it’s not rolling around he’ll be fine. I’d worry more about Peter thinking he’s DVDs.
Granted, it’s not nice to kick around any animal, but seriously I’d be surprised if an iguana minded being slid around in its terrarium. As long as she isn’t kicking hard – which, given he probably has breakable glass and/or dentable mesh walls, she isn’t likely to do – he’s just experiencing what people do in a stop-and-go traffic jam with an impatient driver.
Peter, on the other hand, might upend his terrarium without thinking about it because DVDs don’t need to be kept upright, but living things generally do.
There would have to be a significant difference in weight between a big box of DVDs and the same big box containing an iguana — even an iguana in a terrarium — and Peter should have easily been able to pick up on it.
And why is everyone so sure the iguana’s name is going to be “Fuckface”?
In the Walkyverse, that was the name Malaya gave her iguana. And a couple of strips ago, when Billie asked if they would miss Malaya, Nash responded, “Eh, I guess we’ll miss ol’ Fuckface.”
If there really is a suitably-sized glass terrarium in there, only comic physics explains Peter’s ability to pick up the box without either losing his back, or maybe the terrarium smashing through the cardboard. But it could be that Malaya’s iguana is free-roaming — not generally recommended, but certainly a possibility. (But you’re right either way — a terrarium would be way heavier than DVDs, a free-roaming iguana way lighter.)
As to the name — why would Willis bother changing the name for this universe? It’s not like DoA Malaya wouldn’t give an iguana this name. Also, there’s the strip where Billie asks, “You guys will miss Malaya, right?” and Nash rolls her eyes and says, I guess we’ll miss ol’ Fuckface (all comic caps so we don’t know if “fuckface” is capitalized, but c’mon).
For Willis to name this particular iguana anything else would require some compelling reason and some explanation. And unless the intervening years have changed his attitude toward that name, I can’t imagine what that reason would be.
Yeah, I’ve owned iguanas and they are not actually heavy at all so unless she has like his entire terrarium shoved into that box I’m not sure what’s going on there. Really Malaya doesn’t really seem like a terrarium kind of lizard owner plus that would be super hard to hide in a no pets dorm.
I was thinking that a ox that a ox that measures — from the look of it, aout three feet square — and full of DVDs would e so heav it would almost e a two-person carr
Here’s what I *meant* to say — I was thinking that a box that measures — from the look of it, between two and three feet square — and full of DVDs would be so heavy it would almost be a two-person carry.
Damned computer!
I’m surprised by her running around in shorts and a crop…sweater? I’d freeze in those, unless it had like over 28 degree celsius out there (which would be about 82° Fahrenheit, as some random internet calculator says)
The cliche of one sounding smart only when in a group of not-smart folks can be transferred here.
Malaya is likable when next to Mary. Malaya may be likable when with her ‘ kind of maybe’ friend Carla.
Next to anyone else, she’s like a rotary sander with a vinegar chaser. I’m curious about the circumstances around her becoming this way, but we don’t know if we’re getting a backstory.
Maybe Sal just projects apathy and disdain because her emotionally abusive upbringing has made her afraid to reach out to others, have you considered that, Malaya?
Oh dear, Sal. Yes, she is an annoying brat, but you’ll make nothing better by playing her game. She is MUCH better at getting under your skin than your at at getting under hers.
I don’t think decorating your dorm closet is enough of an accepted norm for Malaya to be judging Sal…bare walls, sure. Even a bare room door! But the closet?
Not to say its okay to judge anyone based on their lack of decorations regardless. For the most part they’re just there to cover up the fact that freshmen dorm rooms look like prison cells.
Between the kick-scootching and just being a general asshole, Malaya is now my fifth-least-favorite character, after the Big Three (Ross/Ryan/Blaine) and Mary. Peter is probably just as—or almost—as insufferable as his girlfriend, but we haven’t seen much of him yet, so Malaya beats him for the number 5 spot.
As a person, that is. As a character to actually see, Mary is actually one of my favorites, because it’s endlessly amusing watching her suffer due to her raging fundamentalism and generable asshattery.
I dunno about Peter. He might not have done much, but he kicks Mary from being “absolutely horrible” to “vomit-inducing”. Mary post-Peter is far more disgusting than Mary pre-Peter.
Or maybe I just don’t want to see Mary happy, ever. That’s always possible.
It’s always interesting whenever the villains are around. Imagine what kind of a comic this would be if everyone got along and there was no problems of any kind!
Anyone think that Malaya’s constant poking at Sal’s alleged coolness is actually for very similar reasons – i.e., because Marcie keeps “talking” about Sal and how cool she is and stuff they’ve done together? That they’re both massively insecure and/or resentful of how much space the other occupies in Marcie’s life?
I don’t remember if I ever said it before, but I’ve gotten this idea since Malaya first appeared in Book 8 that the whole narratve dynamic between Sal and Malaya is that they both hugely misunderstand one another.
More specifically, their views of one another resemble what a reader might think of these characters if they only saw a handful of pages from each one’s first appearance.
Malaya sees Sal as a stoic bore who hates engaging with the larger social group (read: doesn’t have much of a character and doesn’t really add much to the story). Sal sees Malaya as this constantly hostile nuisance with no redeeming qualities. Both views are rather exaggerated, we know there’s plenty more to Sal than Malaya suggests. And I’m sure Book 8 will explore Malaya’s character much like how Book 6 explored Carla’s.
fun fact: I was once at the Field Museum, in a Darwin exhibit that included an iguana on a perch in a glass case. I was in that room about ten minutes and I still thought it was a stuffed specimen until it shifted position slightly.
In the Walkyerse, Sal was always too mission-focussed to have a single outstanding leisure interest. She did things that most people did to relax but she didn’t have a particular hobby. I suspect that this version of Sal is somewhat similar – Personal emotional survival has always been a trial enough for her that she’s never really developed enough of an interest in any one thing for it to define her living space.
With Marcie no longer speaking to her I wonder if it’s wrong to say that the two closest people to Sal right now are Wonderbread and Laundry Girl, because at least she can play Mario Kart with them.
Prediction: This lizard is going to become like Amber’s hamster in Shortpacked! and become the dorm mascot. The lecturers are going to have to get used to one of the girls coming to the lesson decorated with a head iguana.
I also think that Sal and Malaya are going to bond over the one thing about which they can agree: Mr Iggy is cute.
Finally, Malaya is having a broken clock moment here: Sal isn’t the sort of personality to decorate a living space. I don’t think it’s laziness though. I think that it’s a complete fear of setting down roots for fear it will all be snatched away from her.
It just hit me that the reason Sal and Malaya are so annoyed by each other is because they are very similar. They are “cool” in the stand-offish, not caring at all kind of way. But with Malaya it feels like she is trying too hard. It all just feels kinda… fake? She just wants SO MUCH to be this uncaring badass who picks a fight with the whole world.
Sal doesn’t have any cool when being around Malaya. She ignites at any poke, doesn’t seem able to float above it at all. This is strange considering how cool she reacted to bullying Ruth. It got worse when Marcie befriended Malaya but from the beginning Malaya managed to get under Sal’s defences. I wonder why.
It might just have been a very subtle thing in the beginning (I believe everyone has once experienced in their life that one person they might not even know that well, but whose comments they somehow always hit the negative spot), but probably she’s now reacting to her in such an explosive manner because Marcie’s not replied to her messages (at least I imagine that to be still the case). So she didn’t like Malaya in the beginning and now that’s still on her plate. Difficult to try to get along with someone you actually don’t like and who feels like having stolen your best friend (even though inside she very well knows she effed up, but having to deal with Malaya is still an unwanted situation).
In this particular case… I suspect the thing is that Sal actually really doesn’t have any interests, or friends other than Marcie, and is feeling pretty crappy about that. She got into Mario Cart on confused suggestion from Danny, just because it was SOMETHING to do with her time. She really doesn’t have anything going on, and it’s pissing her off that Malaya is poking her in the spot where it hurts AND tying it to the one one thing she actually does sort of have to feel good about – her aloof image – in a negative way. Malaya is tearing down her everything in a largely hypocritical way, and Sal has a limited amount of cool after all.
German Wikipedia says depending on subspecies the adults can be between 14 cm and 2 m long. A wise person would choose one of the smaller species as a pet…
Oh my God! Ha! Me too, now. I don’t know why, but that would be great! “You don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone.” I’m a pretty passive and easygoing guy, but I wouldn’t accept losing AC after having it for a few weeks.
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Iguanas move, though! They go into your big sister’s room and eat all her best accessories, don’t they?
/learned everything about iguanas from Foxtrot
Man, I miss daily Foxtrot comics
By all known laws of aviation, the iguana should not be able to fly.
Until you superglue fins to its sides and stuff a solid rocket engine up its kiester and ignite it. Or so I’ve heard.
Until they barf them all back up on her bed, yeah.
Yeah, does anyone remember her kicking the box down the hall? That’s animal abuse. She took 10 giant steps down in my regard as a character and she wasn’t up the first flight yet.
Those were ‘foot schooches’ not kicks. It’s quite different.
Iggy was more at risk when the box was being carried.
She was pushing the box down the hall with her foot. That’s at least a little less violent than a kick. (Back in Shortpacked, Fuckface the iguana was one of the few things Malaya actually cared about.)
Given that that didn’t happen, I think that’s just you.
Oh, THAT’S why it has holes.
Of course, across the way they don’t allow pets, so Malaya has a pet.
…Malaya and Sal are more similar than either of them would like to admit, which is precisely why they don’t get along.
Now pretend I’m the first to come to this realization and shower me with praise, Internet!
*leaves a bag of animal crackers*
If you insist.
https://grocermart.com/image/cache/data/Praise/IMG_3946-1800×1800.jpg
That would be a very strange shower.
I first read “shower with me please”… what an odd wish
Sal wouldn’t kick the box with her pet in it down the hallway. She’s a GD @#$@ing human being and not a demented … ugh.
I dislike Malaya as much as you do, but I agree with the folks pointing out that she was doing foot-scooches, not actual kicks. It’s lazy, but not harmful or any more stressful to the animal than being moved in the box in general.
I guana say that’s a good one …
They dont get along because Malaya is constantly insulting her to her face. Sal is pretty chill. It’s Malaya who is starting unnecessary shit. I don’t understand her. If this were real life I would question whether Malaya is autistic or has some other condition that affects her social skills.
Sal’s.. not innocent??
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/03-up-all-night-to-get-vengeance/beer-weiser/
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/03-up-all-night-to-get-vengeance/my-share/
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/stain-2/
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/bimbo/
Sal makes it abundantly clear how much disdain she holds for Malaya and insults her whenever she gets a chance, even lying to her about what Marcie signed before Malaya took the chance to learn ASL. And when Sal reached out to her to be “friends”, she started off by calling her a cumstain (though not to her face), being rude and condescending to her throughout the entire exchange, and then threatening her when Malaya doesn’t magically want to be friends?? That’s, like, the complete opposite of chill.
I’m not denying that Malaya is abrasive and hard to handle, but it’s hardly as if Sal is kind and friendly towards her to be repeatedly rejected.
I’m a little tired to grab links so I’m just going to vaguely question your presumption that Sal has been chill wrt Malaya.
Fuck!
…faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace
The better half Malaya is in that box.
*Of Malaya.
Darn You, keyboard.
Caaaaalled it.
So now both Sal and Amber will have reptiles for roommates. Maybe they’ll bond over it and get along better.
Huh, you’d already called it? That explains why I got a busy signal.
Dinosaurs are (were) not reptiles but another genera entirely.
I think the singular form you’re looking for is “genus”, using “genera” in a singular context just makes my brain autocorrect it to “genre”
*twitch*
Dinosaurs aren’t genera (“genera” is the plural of genus – in the scientific name of Tyrannosaurus rex for example, “Tyrannosaurus” is the genus-name and “rex” is the species name). The Dinosauria clade is part of the Archosaurs, which were considered a reptilian clade last I checked (the crocodiles are also archosaurs).
You successfully closed all of your html tags. You are the new god of the comment section, at least until we hold our next election.
Oh, thank you, Daniel, for getting here before I did. I already filled my quota of correcting that one for the year, the other day. >_>
(On the other hand, I am familiar enough with Opus the Poet to assume he’ll actually accept the correction, unlike the guy who ate all my spoons the other day.)
I accept my mistakes with aplomb. It helps prove I’m still human after getting killed. Still waiting for the orders to join Wills’ army of unkillable badasses.
Perhaps you were thinking of the fact that dinosaurs aren’t lizards.
Of course, if you’re talking cladistics, not only are dinosaurs reptiles, but so are mammals.
We’re also all fish. 🙂
If you’re talking cladistics, amniotes (first fully terrestrial animals) split into synapsids, including mammals, and sauropsids, including dinosaurs (and birds), lizards, crocs, turtles, and everything else we’d call a modern reptile.
I suspect a layman would look at an earlier amniote and call it a reptile, but Reptilia starts later in the evotree.
Hmm, could be wrong. I thought synapsids were a branch off of reptiles. Looks like I was fooled by the old “mammal-like reptiles” description.
We’re still fish though.
Can I just say that I’m taking a zoology class right now and this comment thread is life?
No, mammals are not reptiles. Reptiles are creatures more related to lizards and crocodiles than humans.
Also dinosaurs are reptiles. They’re still around – birds are maniraptoran theropods.
Theropods, yes, but not reptillian theropods. Dinosaurs are considered their own clade now. Somewhat warm-blooded, and with significant design differences in their skeletons.
However, you COULD get away with calling them lizards, as ‘saur’ means ‘lizard’. Just not… ‘reptillian’ lizards.
…
That is literally, 100%, completely the opposite of how it works.
They are not lizards. Lizards are squamates.
They are, however, reptiles. Because they are descended from the common ancestor of all reptiles, which makes them reptiles. If you want to remove dinosaurs from reptilia (syn: sauropsida), you also have to remove crocodiles and turtles, which are more closely related to dinosaurs than they are to lizards, snakes, and tuatara.
Here’s how the clades nest – birds are dinosaurs, which are archosaurs, which are reptiles. You cannot evolve out of a clade – you can, though, evolve into a new clade, which is contained within the old clade – as they are defined by common descent.
Basically, think of clades as those Russian nesting dolls, only if some of the dolls in turn contained several smaller dolls instead of just a single doll.
The “Bird” doll is nested in the “Dinosaur” doll, the “Dinosaur” and “Pterosaur” dolls are nested within the “Ornithodiran” doll, the “Ornithodiran” and “Crocodile” dolls are nested in the “Archosaur” doll, and so on. If you nest within a doll, you can be considered part of that group.
Yeah, I like the matryoshka analogy.
Something is wrong here.
Why isn’t Dina explaining this?
I would be equally happy with a Joyce, Dina, or Ruth gravatar, as they’re the three characters in the comic with whom I identify most on a personal level (after the latest great gravatar switch-up, my previous grav was replaced by Mary, and I hastily engaged in grav-roulette hoping for one of the three; Ruth was the first to appear).
Fuckface for next Patreon strip. I have spoken.
My brain somehow free-associated Patreon to Slipshine and that’s really all there is to say on the matter (especially taking into consideration my contribution to a certain comment chain on yesterday’s strip regarding Carla’s shirt and the title text)
Your soul is saturated with sin.
Yes.
I misread your yes as replying to Delicious Taffy. Slightly disappointed. (Totally joking if that wasn’t clear.)
If it’s not called “Night of the Iguana” I will be disappointed.
(Sorry; theatre major lol)
Shouldn’t Fuckface have a character tag?
But then you’d have to tag every strip with the box and spoil the surprise.
I mean, he’s not visible here. Probably when he’s shown.
Technically he hasn’t been shown yet…
Oops now I’m excited to meet the iguana
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
An iguana. That’s what makes her interesting.
But does it beat a motorcycle?
No, but an iguana on a motorcycle…
I’m imaging the motorcycle careening wildly before going off a cliff ala Toonces the Driving Cat.
Iguanas+motorcicles= Jurassic World
Is this a rhetorical question because the answer is obviously yes. Lizards are way cooler than motorcycles.
FUCKFACE! <33333
Now I’m imagining a very strained who’s on first routine built around ‘moving box’/’box used for moving’.
“What’s in the box?”
“No, What’s on second.”
Pretty sure Carla already did that.
Not.. really?
Oh so it was Fuckface in there. Not cool that Malaya was kicking him around while in a box though.
Fuckface don’t give a face.
Malaya’s not cool. She’s an ass.
Yeah I’m irritated that she kicked him. 🙁
I mean, if she’s just sliding the box along BY kicking it, he probably wouldn’t care all that much. As long as it’s not rolling around he’ll be fine. I’d worry more about Peter thinking he’s DVDs.
Granted, it’s not nice to kick around any animal, but seriously I’d be surprised if an iguana minded being slid around in its terrarium. As long as she isn’t kicking hard – which, given he probably has breakable glass and/or dentable mesh walls, she isn’t likely to do – he’s just experiencing what people do in a stop-and-go traffic jam with an impatient driver.
Peter, on the other hand, might upend his terrarium without thinking about it because DVDs don’t need to be kept upright, but living things generally do.
Being in a stop-and-go traffic jam with an impatient driver makes me want to murder everyone.
There would have to be a significant difference in weight between a big box of DVDs and the same big box containing an iguana — even an iguana in a terrarium — and Peter should have easily been able to pick up on it.
And why is everyone so sure the iguana’s name is going to be “Fuckface”?
In the Walkyverse, that was the name Malaya gave her iguana. And a couple of strips ago, when Billie asked if they would miss Malaya, Nash responded, “Eh, I guess we’ll miss ol’ Fuckface.”
Thus.
Also, even knowing only what DoA has shown of Malaya, what else would she name a pet?
Because Malaya had a pet iguana called Fuckface in Shortpacked!
If there really is a suitably-sized glass terrarium in there, only comic physics explains Peter’s ability to pick up the box without either losing his back, or maybe the terrarium smashing through the cardboard. But it could be that Malaya’s iguana is free-roaming — not generally recommended, but certainly a possibility. (But you’re right either way — a terrarium would be way heavier than DVDs, a free-roaming iguana way lighter.)
As to the name — why would Willis bother changing the name for this universe? It’s not like DoA Malaya wouldn’t give an iguana this name. Also, there’s the strip where Billie asks, “You guys will miss Malaya, right?” and Nash rolls her eyes and says, I guess we’ll miss ol’ Fuckface (all comic caps so we don’t know if “fuckface” is capitalized, but c’mon).
For Willis to name this particular iguana anything else would require some compelling reason and some explanation. And unless the intervening years have changed his attitude toward that name, I can’t imagine what that reason would be.
Yeah, I’ve owned iguanas and they are not actually heavy at all so unless she has like his entire terrarium shoved into that box I’m not sure what’s going on there. Really Malaya doesn’t really seem like a terrarium kind of lizard owner plus that would be super hard to hide in a no pets dorm.
Harder than a free roaming iguana?
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Here’s what I *meant* to say —
I was thinking that a box that measures — from the look of it, between two and three feet square — and full of DVDs would be so heavy it would almost be a two-person carry.
Damned computer!
Indeed not. Unless of course he’s deceased and has been stuffed.
In which case it’d be REALLY surprising if the box moved.
It’s Malaya’s Slinky collection making the box move.
She was “kick-scootching”. That could just mean scootching with her foot.
Why Why does Malaya get so many butt shots!
Because she has a lot of butts.
It’s butts disease
She may be a raging b-word but she is hot.
NO! BAD DICK! STOP WRITING THE COMMENTS FOR ME!
You have someone named Richard writing comments for you?
Don’t be mean to Richard.
Yea, not a good idea, he will fwoosh you.
Because Willis has Butts Disease and Malaya has a nice ass.
Sal DID ask what makes her interesting…
(actually, one of the most interesting aspects with her so far is Sal’s reaction to her)
Malaya’s best trait is that she annoys the crap out of Sal.
The same reason Tarantino films have so many foot shots.
I’m surprised by her running around in shorts and a crop…sweater? I’d freeze in those, unless it had like over 28 degree celsius out there (which would be about 82° Fahrenheit, as some random internet calculator says)
We’ve secretly replaced David Willis with Yotomoe. Let’s see if anyone notices.
Now THAT was funny.
Yay! Fuck face DOES have Fuckface in this universe!
*cues up some Stooges…*
I still absolutely love that Malaya isn’t buying Sal’s image for a second.
Yaaaaas Malaya slaaaaay her draaaaaag her
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I understood that reference! Best show.
I agree!
Yes, iguanas can disguise themselves as boxes, clearly. :p
(ffffft I don’t know what my comment means either, I’m so sleepy.)
I thought just snakes did that.
Sorry, Malaya, but you’re gonna need something to convince us your attitude has any substance backing it.
Malaya’s attitude is such that she doesn’t care what you think about her attitude. So Malaya wins again.
Why isn’t Fuckface tagged?
Because he isn’t being shown per se.
Sometimes, I want to like Malaya, but being such a douchebag like this makes it really difficult.
By insulting Sal for being “too cool for school”, she herself is giving off that exact same atmosphere.
She likes to tear down, rather than build up. She may call it “honesty” or “calling people on their BS”, but it’s just douchebaggery.
like honestly where’s the self-awareness
Sometimes, I want to like Malaya
Well, that’s your problem right there…
The cliche of one sounding smart only when in a group of not-smart folks can be transferred here.
Malaya is likable when next to Mary. Malaya may be likable when with her ‘ kind of maybe’ friend Carla.
Next to anyone else, she’s like a rotary sander with a vinegar chaser. I’m curious about the circumstances around her becoming this way, but we don’t know if we’re getting a backstory.
“What the hell you got, 1968, that makes you so god-damned superior?” […]
“Well, if you really wanna know, 1948: ♫ I got life, brother… ♫”
(insert Metal Gear joke)
Maybe Sal just doesn’t feel like advertising her interests, have you considered that, Malaya?
Maybe Sal just projects apathy and disdain because her emotionally abusive upbringing has made her afraid to reach out to others, have you considered that, Malaya?
…uh, no probably not.
So Malaya actually did bring Fuckface with her. For a while there I thought she might actually have a lot of DVDs or something.
(Who uses DVDs in this day and age? And has that many?)
Movie nerds who are really into special features. And Malaya’s disgust with anything perceived as nerdy makes her being that highly unlikely.
I was wondering about the DVDs myself.
Fuckface saves the day! Thunderdome sequence averted.
This encounter is almost as harsh as the car crash I witnessed a few nights ago.
Damn
Oh dear, Sal. Yes, she is an annoying brat, but you’ll make nothing better by playing her game. She is MUCH better at getting under your skin than your at at getting under hers.
Also – FUCKFACE!!!!
She actually looks discomfited in panel 4, which is kind of impressive. Then again, maybe she’s just bracing herself for a punch.
That happens now and again. I’m pretty sure Malaya is MUCH less indifferent of Sal’s opinion of her than she pretends.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/03-when-god-closes-the-door/proxy/
I.forgot that exchange! And we don’t know yet if Malaya is good at figuring things out.
I think she just doesn’t like being manhandled.
I don’t think decorating your dorm closet is enough of an accepted norm for Malaya to be judging Sal…bare walls, sure. Even a bare room door! But the closet?
Not to say its okay to judge anyone based on their lack of decorations regardless. For the most part they’re just there to cover up the fact that freshmen dorm rooms look like prison cells.
Between the kick-scootching and just being a general asshole, Malaya is now my fifth-least-favorite character, after the Big Three (Ross/Ryan/Blaine) and Mary. Peter is probably just as—or almost—as insufferable as his girlfriend, but we haven’t seen much of him yet, so Malaya beats him for the number 5 spot.
As a person, that is. As a character to actually see, Mary is actually one of my favorites, because it’s endlessly amusing watching her suffer due to her raging fundamentalism and generable asshattery.
Damn it, I got the worst avatar for that….or the best, maybe. Does she secretly hate herself as much as she hates other people?
*Blackmail is covered under “general asshattery.”
Also, I meant “general,” in that last line.
I dunno about Peter. He might not have done much, but he kicks Mary from being “absolutely horrible” to “vomit-inducing”. Mary post-Peter is far more disgusting than Mary pre-Peter.
Or maybe I just don’t want to see Mary happy, ever. That’s always possible.
It’s always interesting whenever the villains are around. Imagine what kind of a comic this would be if everyone got along and there was no problems of any kind!
Peter is more a Mary-enhancer. He just accentuates Mary’s terribleness. An accessory, if you will.
He’s MSG on Mary’s shit sandwich.
Like the One Ring.
He is an awfulness catalyst.
I don’t know who’s side I’m on here….I yeah that’s right I’m on fuck faces side, Hell yeah fuck face.
Anyone think that Malaya’s constant poking at Sal’s alleged coolness is actually for very similar reasons – i.e., because Marcie keeps “talking” about Sal and how cool she is and stuff they’ve done together? That they’re both massively insecure and/or resentful of how much space the other occupies in Marcie’s life?
Huh that is actually a good point. I hadn’t thought of that. Hope for Marcie not being mad at Sal forever?
Intereating notion.
I don’t remember if I ever said it before, but I’ve gotten this idea since Malaya first appeared in Book 8 that the whole narratve dynamic between Sal and Malaya is that they both hugely misunderstand one another.
More specifically, their views of one another resemble what a reader might think of these characters if they only saw a handful of pages from each one’s first appearance.
Malaya sees Sal as a stoic bore who hates engaging with the larger social group (read: doesn’t have much of a character and doesn’t really add much to the story). Sal sees Malaya as this constantly hostile nuisance with no redeeming qualities. Both views are rather exaggerated, we know there’s plenty more to Sal than Malaya suggests. And I’m sure Book 8 will explore Malaya’s character much like how Book 6 explored Carla’s.
I’m sure of it.
Also, despite what Malaya thinks, being “cool” is not THAT important to Sal. “Independent” is much more on the ball.
But I think MALAYA cares about being cool
+1 insightful to both StClair and Bagge
Add +1.
That poor lizard. Malaya’s such an aggravating individual.
UGH YES.
I get the feeling I’m going to be yelling at Malaya a lot for bad animal husbandry, first offense is kicking the box
Even if I hadn’t disliked her before I definitely would now just for that. Be nice to your pets!
Sorry Malaya, but having an exotic animal doesn’t make you cool unless you take proper care of it
Do you give him some daily sunlight?
I kinda wish that she had a snake though, Mary’s reaction after finding out would be priceless
Don’t worry too much. I’ve got a feeling that caring for that lizard will become Joyce and Sal’s self-chosen responsibility.
Bad move
Shite, I wanted to reply Derek
She was kicking that box, fuck her.
HOORAY FUCKFACE I MISSED YOU 😀
fun fact: I was once at the Field Museum, in a Darwin exhibit that included an iguana on a perch in a glass case. I was in that room about ten minutes and I still thought it was a stuffed specimen until it shifted position slightly.
I never stopped to think about it before but what are Sal’s interests? Even Walky has Monkey-Master.
In the Walkyerse, Sal was always too mission-focussed to have a single outstanding leisure interest. She did things that most people did to relax but she didn’t have a particular hobby. I suspect that this version of Sal is somewhat similar – Personal emotional survival has always been a trial enough for her that she’s never really developed enough of an interest in any one thing for it to define her living space.
Motorcycle
Sign language
Best friend
Mario Kart.
With Marcie no longer speaking to her I wonder if it’s wrong to say that the two closest people to Sal right now are Wonderbread and Laundry Girl, because at least she can play Mario Kart with them.
“speaking to her”
Ignore me, I forgot that Sal “speaking to her” does not have to involve Marcie responding with actually speech.
Plus in addition to Mario Kart our resident Good Egg has musical selections to accompany Sal’s every mood, by which I mean all two and a half of them.
Prediction: This lizard is going to become like Amber’s hamster in Shortpacked! and become the dorm mascot. The lecturers are going to have to get used to one of the girls coming to the lesson decorated with a head iguana.
I also think that Sal and Malaya are going to bond over the one thing about which they can agree: Mr Iggy is cute.
Finally, Malaya is having a broken clock moment here: Sal isn’t the sort of personality to decorate a living space. I don’t think it’s laziness though. I think that it’s a complete fear of setting down roots for fear it will all be snatched away from her.
Plus why would anyone bother decorating a space that they spend as little time as humanly possible in?
It just hit me that the reason Sal and Malaya are so annoyed by each other is because they are very similar. They are “cool” in the stand-offish, not caring at all kind of way. But with Malaya it feels like she is trying too hard. It all just feels kinda… fake? She just wants SO MUCH to be this uncaring badass who picks a fight with the whole world.
oh my god
it’s like when Boom-Boom and Jubilee finally met in the X-Men comics.
“this team only has room for one smartass disaffected teen mallrat with minor explosion powers, damn it!”
Going to Mutant Court with Judge Magneto presiding. The case? Mutation Copyright Infringement XD
I am so concerned for him. I see enough shitty husbandry irl.
Sal doesn’t have any cool when being around Malaya. She ignites at any poke, doesn’t seem able to float above it at all. This is strange considering how cool she reacted to bullying Ruth. It got worse when Marcie befriended Malaya but from the beginning Malaya managed to get under Sal’s defences. I wonder why.
It might just have been a very subtle thing in the beginning (I believe everyone has once experienced in their life that one person they might not even know that well, but whose comments they somehow always hit the negative spot), but probably she’s now reacting to her in such an explosive manner because Marcie’s not replied to her messages (at least I imagine that to be still the case). So she didn’t like Malaya in the beginning and now that’s still on her plate. Difficult to try to get along with someone you actually don’t like and who feels like having stolen your best friend (even though inside she very well knows she effed up, but having to deal with Malaya is still an unwanted situation).
In this particular case… I suspect the thing is that Sal actually really doesn’t have any interests, or friends other than Marcie, and is feeling pretty crappy about that. She got into Mario Cart on confused suggestion from Danny, just because it was SOMETHING to do with her time. She really doesn’t have anything going on, and it’s pissing her off that Malaya is poking her in the spot where it hurts AND tying it to the one one thing she actually does sort of have to feel good about – her aloof image – in a negative way. Malaya is tearing down her everything in a largely hypocritical way, and Sal has a limited amount of cool after all.
Everybody walk the dinosaur … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYKupOsaJmk
Also, you go to uni to get a personality.
Song for fuckface, living in a box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svVaEWQaoSo
Alright enough angry posturing, just fuck and get it over with you two.
I don’t think that would make Marcie LESS angry with Sal…
So…. Threesome, then?
Not all tension has sexual attraction beneath. Sometimes you just hate someone for being an utter bongo.
thats true, but considering which comic this is, im not ruling anything out.
if Sal starts squeeling because of the Iguana I’m not sure what I’m gonna do
The box opens to reveal…
…
…
Iguana+Dina
I sincerely hope Sal doesn’t forgive Malaya for being a douche JUST because she has an iguana named Fuckface
Wait…. WAS SHE KICKING A BOX WITH A SMALL ANIMAL INSIDE OF IT THE WHOLE TIME? :O
That’s Malaya for you. Nothing is safe from her assholnes.
There’s a difference between kicking something and sliding it forward with your foot as you’re walking. I think she’s doing the latter?
So, yeah, it was Fuckface in that box.
Guess she was careful with it, but seriously, asking strangers to carry it? Like, what, no.
Also, geez, Sal, it sure is easy for Malaya to press your buttons, huh?
I guess Sal IS insecure about having nothing going on )=
I am now excited to see what happens when Dina and Fuckface meet.
Would Dina react to meeting a Chicken like she would to meeting a tiny dinosaur?
I LOVE Sal’s face in panel 3.
By the end of their story arc, they’ll be BFFs!
…Yeah, I’m not holding my breath.
About Iguanas: http://www.greenigsociety.org/habitatbasics.htm
So… where does she have the 6 foot tall (minimum) enclosure they need?
By the look of it, her’s is still young and she has a year or so to decide?
German Wikipedia says depending on subspecies the adults can be between 14 cm and 2 m long. A wise person would choose one of the smaller species as a pet…
So Malaya’s got the 2 meter long iguana, then.
I believe you are looking at it. Sal will not be happy.
Some iguanas are smaller than those and if it’s still a juvenile, even a green wouldn’t need that much space.
Yet.
She’s standing in it
You guys, malaya is bad but she was SCOOTching the box, not kicking it
So is Fuckface’s last name DVD’s then…? ;D
I’m waiting for Malaya to discover that Read Hall doesn’t have AC.
Oh my God! Ha! Me too, now. I don’t know why, but that would be great! “You don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone.” I’m a pretty passive and easygoing guy, but I wouldn’t accept losing AC after having it for a few weeks.
I think that’s why she likes it… so the Iguana will be more comfortable without the AC.
Star Trek Discovery’s third episode features Michael cosplaying as Sarah in a roommate capacity.