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️𝓝𝓪𝓷𝓲 
Saaaaaaaallll!!!!
Holy Crap.. I was first.. I got a first. This is the first time that’s happened.
You’re now part of a very select group. Congrats.
I was so close too…
“Saaaaaaaallll!!!!” – Seriously, I actually shouted the same thing. I laughed after seeing someone else did too
Now you must double first on both DoA and SP! in one night.
Only then will you get to wear the purple velvet hat of a double firster.
am i the only one who read that as double fist?
Yes
Maybeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee….
…… No…
*hangs head* No.
The purple velvet hat is worth the challenge. They’re so comfy.
SAL! But where is your window?
Just wait. It’ll get there eventually. After all, the class room should have at least one.
And now I’m Ruth. lol
as you might be able to tell, Sals new thing is now MOTERCYCLES.
…inb4 motercycle through a window. (you know its gunna happen)
Give her some credit, she broke the second panel. That’s gotta be worth something.
Sal’s trying too hard.
Sal ain’t trying hard enough in my opinion! THE WINDOWS ARE OVER THERE SAL.
And yet, it works perfectly for her.
UH OH
So she’s finally here. And poor Billie, getting rejected like that.
Holy crap its SAL. On a Motorcycle! Cool.
Sals on Motorcycles?
SAL! Thank God, I thought people might be right that Willis was going to make her that character everyone talked about but never showed up herself. … Wait, is this Sal an extrovert that WANTS attention? :O
Someone, Sal always wanted attention. In It’s Walky!, there were a bunch of flashback strips about Sal in high school. She was definitely extroverted! Granted, it was all an act to make friends, but she’ll probably do it again here.
joyce thinks sal is cool because she observes proper motorcycle safety rules.
lol
Oh, and I’m Dina now! Yay!
I have no words. Except I wouldn’t mind seeing a Sal/Joyce/Billie threesome now.
Second!
There was a time when you would’ve minded?
Honestly, before now, the thought never crossed my path.
… I’m ashamed to admit I’ve already had that dream.
You know how this comments seems now with your Joyce Avatar? It´s almost divine.
Waitaminute, she WAS the motorcycle girl from like page 4. The one people kept saying “I bet that’s Sal!”. How did you guess that?! There was no connection! Or did Willis just use their suggestion?
Maybe becasue motorcycles are the only vehicle that could fit through a window with her?
Because Sal’s prepared for everything, and motorcycles are the only way to go.
See, in the future, kids will play card games…ON MOTORCYCLES!!!!
Card games on the motorbikes.
Cyrus Fail.
Were the main Walkyverse set a few years later, I could see some of the aliens hatching a plan involving cardgames on motorcycles.
….and god help me, I’m imagining a crossover fanfic involving Ultra-Car turbo-dueling. Clearly seppuku is the only avenue remaining to cleanse my dorkishness.
Well, if you think about it a normal perso can’t really go through a normal window. So she uses the motorcycle to go in front of her body so she doesn’t get glass cut death.
I was that one person… and I was Right!
Salvador!
SAL! 8D
Crashing through windows needs to commence in 3….2….1….
xD
Dude. She’s Priss. On Arcee. Priss on Arcee.
You are my hero, sir. (Also: hi Eric!)
Called this one!
Woh… Billie got SAL’D!
And now I’m Joe. Hmm…
Hmmmm……
I’m sure glad I’m no longer Joe.
Yeay Sal!
First I was Joyce, then Walky, then Amazi-girl and now I’m Joe. I wonder what will I be next time Willis updates the gravatar… this is more fun than picking one.
Which turned your sound effect into a euphamism quite handily.
In the FAAAAACE!
And you know what.. no one has noticed Mike standing there yet.
I wonder why no one has acknowledged his lurkiness yet.
How can you resist that charismatic face, though.
Part of me hopes that Mike never speaks in this universe.
He’s just there, in the background, haunting your dreams.
Yeah, but if never does anything but stand in the background, after a while, he won’t be that haunting anymore. You know, like looking at Joan Rivers. Sure, it’s unsettling at first, but after a while you get used to it. I don’t want to become desensitized to Mike.
Since Sal ended up being the person who was on the motorcycle on page 5, does that mean that all that time we’ve been wondering where she was, she was just riding in circles around campus??
She was scoping out all the best entry points. Always have a plan.
Indeed! Poor BilliexJoyce ship, you were so… nonsensical while you lasted.
I will still support it to my dying days!
Here’s the fanfic I said I was working on yesterday I apologize, it is very crappy.
STAMP #APPROVED#
Wait, you actually started a fanfic? I thought that was a joke! That is already awesome IMO.
You sir are awesome. Have you got room on your shelf for this thing you just won? I think it’s called the internet.
Nifty! I’ll tell the missus to clear some space. I’m a ma’am not a sir though.
Oh, and Willis just tweeted your fanfic. So ya know, cool.
This fanfic has my approval.
BilliexJoyce FOREVAH.
Totally Awsome! one of the best fan-fics I’ve read, very beliveable reactions from the characters, hot plot, and sarcastic sara make ultra good.
I’m mike now so i guess i was doing your mom when i was reading it.
That was pretty good!
There should be a place on ff.net for this, I’ve seen other webcomics with ff.net pages…
Yay! Now I’ma amazi girl.
I want Sarah> Leslie> Dina and now Amazi girl. Mmm, wonder who I’ll get next (if anyone).
that was AWESOME!
“Cheerleaders only kiss each other when there are guys around!”
+1 Internets for you!
HUZZAH! Sal has arrived, a beit a tad anticlimactically.
Why is Mike so quiet?! Is he plotting something?
And now I’m…Mary? Aw. Oh, well. Being a guy was fun while it lasted.
Only Sal could skid to a stop on a motorcycle, take off her helmet with a dramatic hair-toss, and have it be anticlimactic.
And on Monday it’s revealed that it’s not Sal, but Faz lol
Nah, there’s a Sal avatar now. Its her. That would be great though…
Sal avatar? Where?
You can find it if you look back a day or two.
The only Sal avatar I could find was a custom made one. Does this mean all avatars, no matter what, will appear in the comic? I sure hope so, Osaka and Joyce would be a winning combo!
This should be a link to someone who had it…http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/02-uphill-from-here/fight/#comment-2759
Obviously, that is the Faz avatar
Not at all the entrance I expected. I excepted fireworks and glass everywhere. Damn you Willis!
AND I’M BILLIE THE ANGRY YAAAAYYYY
You’d need to pull the drama tag before stuff like that happens.
I’M TONY?!! NOOOOOOO!
(Although it is the best likeness to my actual appearance so far.)
Just watch somebody is going to pull a drama tag later in thsi comic…
Or better yet, they are ALMOST gonna pull it out then Robin from Shortpacked! Somehow shows up and stops them. I know, She will run so fast she ends up running through the walls of space/time for some reason. :O
SALVADOR!!!!!!!!!!!!1
It would be better if she had a tiny little waxed moustachio.
Wow, Joyce dropped Billie pretty quick. It’s almost like Mike was pulling the strings on that one.
Mike now speaks through others. They will do his bidding. And the world shall tremble…
This strip is full of win!
Woot. Sal makes her appearance. My collection of favorite characters is almost complete. Now I just need Robin and Danny to complete the set.
WAIT. Danny’s already in it! Holy crap, the set is almost complete.
Well, he still hasn’t confirmed that we’ve definitely seen Howard if that’s any help.
Come to that we haven’t seen the guys’ R.A. or Alex either, though it might be unlikely for us ever to see Alex.
And there’s no guarantee the RA is the same guy, sadly.
I thought it would be funny if Alex got roomed with someone outgoing and social. Although I do also like that in Roomies! his roomie was Willis.
I just realized that if Sal and Mike had hooked up in Its Walky, they would have had the most terrifying children on the planet. I mean seriously, can you imagine Sal and Mike procreating with each other?
Now I am terrified that Willis is preparing a Sal-Mike relationship, which will just terrify half of the other characters in this strip.
That thought is going to haunt my dreams for days…
I now have a OTP.
I don’t want to see that pairing, but I do want to see their children. The world would quake.
This comment will probably get lost on the sea of Sal love, but I’ll say it anyway.
Bart O’Ryan must be a teacher.
Seconded!
Professor of Lawesome!
Dean.
Uhm, beg pardon, but who is Bart O’Ryan? ^//^; *probably gonna seem ignorant asking this*
he appears at the end of itsw! Hes a total douche
He was hired by Jason’s dad and/or Penny to distract Walky and Joyce while they invaded SEMME.
Also, I want to see Penny in DoA now…
Here this might help
http://www.walkypedia.com/index.php/Bart_O%27_Ryan
@ Chris A. and No0ne: OH THAT GUY.
Lul, he’d be a pretty strict teacher D:
Thanks so much for answering my question! : D
Sal hath arrived…. and Mike has yet to say a thing!
SAL! Yes, finally!
Now Billie really needs a motorcycle.
Yay, Sal’s here.
I am disappoint. She broke no windows.
I’m still holding out for Jason.
The rumor is that he’s a teacher.
Math teacher and considering where they are all headed I would bet some time next week. Although with the speed at which this comic is going right now I’d be more likely to be right if I bet some time before December… 2011…
Now now, we must remain positive. He gave us Sal without too much strife. He won’t let us down.
Additionally: I’ve just remembered the romance between Sal and Jason. This could be interesting.
He should be a teaching assistant / grad student.
ohoho, YES.
yesssss
Hope so! I quite liked Jason .
SALLLLL!
That must’ve been one heck of a catholic school.
HEE HEE HEE HEE HEE HEE HEE. This strip made my freakin’ YEAR.
I KNEW that Motorcyclist was important!
See guys, Willis isn’t THAT mean…Sal spent her life in a catholic school and she STILL kicks serious butt and takes names! Though I probably shoulda figured Willis would put Sal right under our noses.
Also I just wanna say: EAT IT, BILLIE! BWAHAHAHAHA!
Guys, catholic schools, especially the ones that you might get sent to as a female version of a military academy, actually encourage rebellion, not the other way around. Uniforms mean their clothes are that much more outre on the weekends, and they devote extreme amounts of time to making the uniforms look sexy. Heavy punishment for cussing means they swear like sailors, way worse than the public school kids.
Just to point out that repression intensifies rebellion. All-girls catholic school returned a couple pairs of boxers to the all-boys catholic school by announcing for the entire hotel to hear that the guys should come to the podium and pick them up.
Aaaaahh, ok, so her going INCREASED her odds of being equally as bad-ass in THIS universe as she was in the main Walky-verse…
*nods head* I see, thanks for enlightening me! ^ ^
btw, who ELSE is working on an Amazi-girl cosplay? Please tell me I’m not the only one… D:
Awww yea. I am liking this.
So Sal finally shows her FAAAAAACE.
Yes, it’s Sal! That made my day…
And awww, it’s Friday! Man, gotta wait till Monday.
Woots, I’m Sal!
I’m jealous!
I never read Roomies! or IW! or J&W! and I think this is a great strip just because it’s great. Doesn’t need history, just great on its own.
Nice height chart in panel two.
Thats awesome, and exactly what Willis wanted.
He wanted this to be a fresh start: not seen as a remix of Roomies (I noticed someone gave him crap a few strips back in the comments).
I began reading Roomies!, Its Walky! Shortpacked, and Joyce and Walky! after I began reading Dumbing of age because I was curious to see his other works : )
Same. I got linked to DoA a few days ago, caught up and then proceeded to read all of the archives for everything else he’s done.
So, Billie, what do ya think of your roommate now?
Ahem, CALLED IT! And was the first to do so!
Aditionally, someone now owes me $10.
I think it should be Willis.
Also, SAAAAALLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!
And Sal is in the house… or street…
And Mike continues his record of not saying anything or destroying anyone…
I like the silent Mike, he’s more terrifying this way.
It’s no window, but I’m ok with this entrance.
Man, this entrance is awesome, but I can’t help thinking of a shampoo commercial when I read this strip.
D: Is it bad that I thought the exact same thing?
Sal uses Suave! …or Tres Semme…or Garnier Fructis…
I just like to think she uses suave on her long hair because I use Suave on my long hair D:
Sorry Billie, you have just been out awesomed by Sal, which as it should be. Seriously, when I looked at the panel where Sal takes the helmut off, “Bad to the Bone” was playing in my head.
Billie will always be second best whenever Sal’s in the picture
remember the time they fought over Danny? That was just epic. They were both #1 that day ;p
Yeah, that was a pretty epic battle, if Billie hadn’ta been Dan’s significant other Sal wouldn’t have held back and she woulda WON, not a draw D:
Aw man, I knew I should have bet on “Sal’s First Appearance” happening before “Mike’s First Words.”
What else is going to happen first before Mike hurls his first insult in DoA?
There’s going to be a marriage and graduation ceremony.
At the same time?
Together, they will graduate… to Love.
The entire cast is going to join a cult and have a mass wedding.
Mark my words.
The cult will be started by…
…
…
…
MIKE
And it will be called “I Hate Your Face and I F***** Your Momma!”
or IHYFIFYM! for “short”
Man that moment was done perfectly. Poor Billie.
Its not jumping through a window, but its still a hell of a Salvador entrance.
Well played, Willis.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
THAT WAS AWESOME!!!!
Definitely agree with the others: If she couldn’t come in a window, this was the perfect entrance for Sal to show her FAAAAACE.
Woot, I’m Sal.
Until he reveals another character and adds their Gravatar to the mix. Then you’ll be Joyce or Ruth.
Well, clearly the answer is there can be no more characters, ever.
Except Jason, Robin, Ethan, Faz, Galasso, Ronald Regan (I’m kinda hoping for this one), Ninja Rick, Sydney Yus, there are more.
Ninja Rick should be a Janitor and/or groundskeeper
Reagan is dead…
Miek is paiently waiting to say something you jsut know it.
I completely missed the last panel the first time reading through the comic because of how epic that entrance was… SAAAAAAAAAL!!!!
Right, did I miss anything? oh I see…
Damn it! Now I have to wait till Monday…
DYW! The motorcycle girl first showed up in the strip entitled Sister. And it WAS. This is like the time you HER> ‘d us, isnt it
I can really see Sal riding that bike to a Catholic school, wearing the obligatory uniform under the leathers… …um… …I’ll be right back.
Hey, Willis, one problem.
As a biker myself, I can tell you– there is NO way Sal’s fabulous hair would fit under a helmet. Not if the helmet fits properly.
Other than that, me likes. Even the bike model, and the fact that her leathers match the paintjob.
Once, when traveling to Yellowstone, I encountered a pair of white bikers. That’s not to say they were Caucasian they were wearing matching white leathers. It was kinda scary.
Maybe not all of her fabulous hair…but if you look, it definitely seems like she has less fabulous hair than the other universes.
Or, now looking at her outfits on the main page, not. Ok, the helmet is magic.
And so begins the jealous vendetta…
FAZZZZZZZZ! No… wait… I think I did it wrong…
I was reading through It’s Walky! while at work because I’m bored and I ran across this, and it made me laugh after reading todays comic.
http://www.itswalky.com/d/20010117.html
Was confused at the apparent niceness of Mike in those panels.
Then I realized he was drunk.
No0ne: thats great- i just read through roomies/itsw! too… I need to get the backlog of J&W stuff though.
I read though all of in order before I read Shortpacked! up until I caught up which was shortly before DoA started.
That was pretty mean of Joyce, dropping Billie like that. If you get rejected by someone you called a dweeb, what does that make you?
A cheerleader.
If you’re Billie…too cool for them.
In your own mind, anyway.
I think Joyce meant that Billie isn’t the coolest girl she know, but I’m sure Joyce will still want to be friend. Its Joyce!
Sal, with the absence of Alliens, Has joined Shocker and become a Remodeled human. Thats where the bike comes from. Masked Rider Sal
WAHAHAHAHAAA!!! (shoots Billie)
Who gets to be Hito De Hitora?
Sal wins an award for awesome. Now if I’m Walky I give everyone here free money. If anyone else? A free hug.
im wondering if the head alein is univers hoping to kill all the joyce and walkys then does that meen he will come to this one too?
I feel bad for Billie… she looks really nice when smiling.
I am now shipping Sal/Joyce 100% OTP FOREVER.
I’m sort of glad that it turned out to be Amazi-Girl earlier because this is a WAY cooler entrance for Sal.
0_0
Two days later? And you call yourself a Sal fan!
I only just now regained my power of coherent thought.
I love Sal, but this SO reminds me of Christina Yang’s first appearance on Grey’s Anatomy.
Yay! I got Dina! (My first gf’s name was Deena. Are they pronounced the same?)
They are.
I too yelled “Saaalll!” when I saw her. Poor billie, first she takes a beating, then she doesn’t even get a proper cult following for it.
IT’S SAL!
About TIME she showed up!
Poor Billie…but Sal’s my hero now too
Am I the only one to recognize that motorcycle outfit and bike from one of the first updates of DoA…?
To be specific, September 14, 2010.
Jeez Joyce, way to ditch the cranky girl…
I see Catholic school didn’t take.