Okay so now that the shock’s died down, speculation time. Walky and Billie are in the same bed for one of three reasons:
1. Walky, in a bout of Dorothy-less confusion, stumbled into Billie’s room by accident. If Billie wasn’t in a rightfully awful mood, this could be written off as an amusing misunderstanding.
2. Walky spent the night in his own room. Billie, looking for her one remaining source of comfort, visited Walky in the middle of the night. Walky was asleep and completely unhelpful.
3. This actually is Dorothy’s room, and Mike’s being deliberately misleading. Billie found out about Dorothy’s exclusive rights to Amazi-girl, and in sensible Billie fashion, decided to resolve her conflict with Dorothy by sleeping in her bed.
3b. Billie knew Walky would be in Dorothy’s bed, and in a sex-deprived haze was planning to proposition the two of them for a steamy threesome. Without Dorothy around, she lost the nerve and decided waiting for her was a better idea.
Born in Houston, grew up near DC, just got back from Auburn, AL, where I’m in school, which starts ridiculously early. I’ll trade summers with you -worst case scenario, it’ll be as bad as I’m used to.
You win with the “born in Houston.” I’m in Richmond now which has plenty of 100+ humid weather, but the three summer months I spent in Houston were like their own special version of hell.
I remember walking outside and feeling like the air is literally pressing you down onto the pavement. It’s unreal.
To me, Dubai still wins the prize. I spent 3 years in southern Afghanistan, and at one point it hit 128 in the shade, but it was only 5% humidity. I went thru Dubai on one of my vacations from A’stan, and it was 120…with a humidity of 90%!! It was like being in a hot tub while walking around on the street!
The problem is that places like Atlanta, the Mojave, Phoenix, etc., people have AC. Seattle is running low 90’s, and no one has air conditioning because “it doesn’t get that hot in Seattle”.
So instead, you have people stuck to their furniture or wilting like plants that haven’t been watered, because you go to bed and it’s still like 86 degrees in the bedroom even after the sun’s been down for hours.
I fled to Victoria, BC for the weekend, because it’s marginally cooler her.
What are you talking about? It’s amazing here in Seattle! Then again, I grew up in the Mojave Desert where we’d be lucky to have only 100 degree weather at this time of year… 😉
10 Internet dollars that this is the post Willis says is “surprisingly perceptive.”
Amazigirl is going to barge in and accuse Mike wildly. And then he’s gonna make her feel bad about it in Mike fashion. and Billie is gonna feel the extra double guilt, bc she is the bandit, as icing to go ontop of her already huge guilt cake.
It is mangas for me. Have not checked what Adult Swim shows here in the States. Adult Swim has shown anime in the past so it is possible a show like SZS might be on.
On a lighter anime note, I did get to see a few episodes of “Polar Bear Cafe”. Yep, Panda is an authentically depicted panda. It’s all about the food and naps! 😀
I am more interested in why Walky thinks he’s in Dorothy’s room instead of his own, like, how out of it must he have been the the night before that he doesn’t remember which bed he went to sleep in?
I find it’s pretty easy to forget where you are right as you’re waking up, and the feeling of someone next to him could pretty easily have made Walky assume he was with Dorothy.
I don’t know what’s worse — waking up in bed with a girl and not remembering what happened, or waking up in bed with a girl and realizing what could have happened.
There’s NO WAY Danny and Sal are in bed together, but the only reason I can imagine Billie not sleeping in her own bed is if Sal’s in there with someone. Jason?? Either that or she’s just drunk again.
It’s a tight fit, but it can be done, even if both of them are a bit overweight. /voice of experience
Now finding SHEETS that fit the fuckers, without being too big or too small…don’t even get me started on the few pieces of bed clothes labeled “college twin.” DX
I’ve done extensive testing, you can fit four people on a UW Madison dorm bed (which is Twin XL) without piling on top of each other. Which goes into my ultimate plan to fit 216 people in a dorm room. It’s mathematically possible.
216 people sleeping in the room, but only 72 at one time. It would have to be done in rolling 8 hour shifts (One bed leaves every 27 minutes). It would require triple bunking and six sets of these triple bunks, but it is mathematically feasible.
To me they are the most hopeful couple in the entire comic. Both broken, both in need of redemption, and both desperate to make a connection with humanity in spite of professing to hate humanity…
There is no possible way you can update it fast enough that I don’t go insane from waiting. I’m caught in an endless cycle of Damning Thee and Praising Thee
All that does is time-shift the waiting, not prevent it. Just stop reading the web comic and wait for the dead-tree format if you can’y stand waiting between updates. Just give The Willis like $5K and say “Just send me the books because I can’t stand waiting for the updates on the web site, and a note when I need to send more money.”
You will be successfully at “DAMN YOU WILLIS” by the end of in comic day. It will be implied to be for both love and hate at the same time. It comes with a complimentary bag of peanuts.
The depth of their sibling relationship really comes to light here. Billie’s probably spent more than a few nights at Walky’s house when life was rough and her own home offered no support. She came over, by the sounds of it didn’t even say what was wrong, and Walky was just “Yeah you can share my bed. You don’t have to spend the night alone.”
Walky whose so socially dense he has trouble keeping track of who’s in earshot has that sort of wordless understanding with Billie.
Putting my money on this for Willis’s super-insightful-comment award. Gangler seems to be the only person to remember that Walky and Billie have known each other for a loooong time, and Billie’s running out of outlets for communication.
Yeah, I also think this is the completely correct and insightful one.
The other alternative is Taigan’s (Billie is the Dingdong Bandit). It makes perfect sense, and Joyce being the Bandit is so obvious it might as well be a red herring, but the thing is, if Joyce isn’t the Bandit, then her overacting and general behavior makes no sense at all.
It makes sense to me. The dingdong banditry upsets her a LOT more than it upsets anyone else, plus she’s already given to over-the-top reactions to almost everything. (remember when she gasped so hard she gave herself hiccups?)
The most telling for me is that she didn’t immediately jump to the conclusion that this was Mike’s doing. It would be the obvious assumption after his dingdongery yesterday; she doesn’t know that this doesn’t really fit Mike’s M.O.
Even after Dina brought up Mike, Joyce seemed reluctant even to describe him as a jerk. It’s all as if she didn’t want him to take the blame for something she knew he didn’t do, jerk or not.
Dunno if they ever shared a bed before, but it’s definitely not the first time Billie has come to Walky for comfort. I imagine she’s been doing it all their lives. Probably with the same “It’s not like I like you or anything, just hold me while I weep” attitude, and Walky with his “okay, sure” attitude. It’s so tsundere (hope I’m not misusing that) it’s funny, and there’s not even any romantic feeling in it. Just two besties who will never admit their true feelings (friendship) to each other.
I don’t think her face is angry- it’s embarrassment of having been caught in this vulnerable position.
I’m imagining Billie knocking on the door late at night and Mike getting super pissy and going to yell until he looks at Billie. Then he opens the door wider and gestures towards Walky who is still half sleeping.
In the words of the immortal JonTron (Because he has already began the process of becoming a hilarious cyborg) “Nope nope nope nope nope! So much nope!”
Dorothy stayed up late interviewing Amazi-girl and writing up the article for the campus paper. She told Walky not to wait up for her. Walky goes to bed in his own room. Billie, somehow, ends up in Walky’s room and crawls into bed with him. Waly dreams that it is Dorothy next to him. Mike does nothing.
If Walky and Billie weren’t didn’t already know each other, this could get very awkward.
It’s indicative of how bad things are, and there’s no way either of them are going to be able to handle an honest conversation about it, but I’m glad she has Walky. She may not like him all that much, but she has said he’s like family to her; I’m glad that’s there for her.
I think you’re missing the implication that something sexual happened, considering she looks furious/is blushing and Walky thought he was with DOROTHY.
Hopefully, even Willis isn’t so evil though
as horrifying and unlikely as walky/billie sex would be, i think billie’s mortified/self-loathsome at having sunk so low emotionally that she went to WALKY, of all people, for support, considering how much effort she put into displaying contempt for him (whether or not that’s what she felt about him, i mean; she might as well have worn a shirt with his face on it and the words “i’m not with this loser dork”). well, before she attempted to help walky see where sal was coming from, anyway…
but having emotional needs and admitting to it is super hard, especially coupled with the realization that you have next to no one to help you with them, because you’ve been pushing them away one way or another.
I can viscerally hear Walky’s voice rising in both pitch and volume right in the open O of “Nooooope.” It’s like a cavern yawning to swallow all hope and peace. It is the nope of destruction, the nope of utter ruin and despair.
I reckon they didn’t actually do anything and Billie was just looking for some comfort. She probably /tried/ to make herself feel better by attempting to sleep with Walky, even though I’m sure she would know what a stupid idea it is, but she’s been feeling so crap about herself she needs SOMETHING to make her feel better. Walky was most likely Walky and was half-asleep so nothing would’ve happened, (hopefullyyyyy)
oh dang no, wait, totally forgot she thought sal and danny were hooking up. she’s probably just gone to Walky’s to crash as she has no where else to go. Hmmmmm
Yeah, they didn’t do anything. Billie looks way too pissed off. My guess is she was moping after a night of drinking, and sought the comfort of one of the only “friends” she knew she had.
There’s this interpretation, too. Walky is checking for his pants under the covers….and what he doesn’t see causes the “Noooooooope” reaction. Thus more problems.
At least Billie is on top of the covers, but this would be a great time for Dorothy to walk in … and I am sure Mike has found a way to arrange that by now
Last time we saw Billie she and Joyce were leaving Billie’s room after Danny showed up; Joyce was going to class w/Ethan and Billie, who was already down in the dumps, claimed she was going to class also (COAS 122 — Fuck Everything And The Horse It Came In On).
I’d love to see/know what happened that caused Billie to end up in Walky’s bed … and still madder than a wet hen, from the looks of it.
I think Sal likes the novelty being friends with someone who doesn’t want to get in her pants. I can’t imagine that they’d sleep together now, especially since Dan said no thanks.
Okay.
I fully understand the human contact thing,.. and Billie KNOWS she safe with Walkie.
I’m just surprise4d Mike doesn’t know she’s there and I really hope Billie talks to Walkie and Walkie actually gives her an ear to spew into.
Yeah, I don’t get this. She’s obviously over the covers, they’ve been friends a long time, they haven’t shown any attraction to one another… Come on people!
Anyone else thinking that second to last panel Billie is wordlessly saying to Walky “Do you REALLY want to know the answer to this?” And thus Walkys last panel reaction.
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wow that was a hell of a night
“She was with you until 3:06, and then she was with me…”
Okay so now that the shock’s died down, speculation time. Walky and Billie are in the same bed for one of three reasons:
1. Walky, in a bout of Dorothy-less confusion, stumbled into Billie’s room by accident. If Billie wasn’t in a rightfully awful mood, this could be written off as an amusing misunderstanding.
2. Walky spent the night in his own room. Billie, looking for her one remaining source of comfort, visited Walky in the middle of the night. Walky was asleep and completely unhelpful.
3. This actually is Dorothy’s room, and Mike’s being deliberately misleading. Billie found out about Dorothy’s exclusive rights to Amazi-girl, and in sensible Billie fashion, decided to resolve her conflict with Dorothy by sleeping in her bed.
3b. Billie knew Walky would be in Dorothy’s bed, and in a sex-deprived haze was planning to proposition the two of them for a steamy threesome. Without Dorothy around, she lost the nerve and decided waiting for her was a better idea.
Or Billie was drunk and couldn’t remember which twin was her room mate.
Man, aiming for Sal and waking up with Walky has to be the worst feeling ever.
Poster on the wall over the bed. If its not Dorothy’s room, its has to be Joyce or Walky’s
I’m guessing Walky’s since Mike, his roommate, is there.
I agree with this guy, it is definitely Walky’s room.
Yes, but this is Mike we are talking about, the guy who puts the ass ass into asshole
In fact he’s such an asshole he does it twice!
I vote option 2.
Unless Mike is just there for exposition, I’m pretty sure this is Walky and Mike’s room. The Dexter and Monkey Master stuff may also be a giveaway.
Isn’t that Sal’s bed?
Pretty sure that’s Mike and Walky’s room.
Pretty sure Sal doesn’t have Dexter and Monkey Master sheets.
or sheets.
Sal has to have sheets. Danny didn’t know right away that Sal sleeps “Garden of Eden style”.
Huh, that’s strange, I don’t hear any waves…
Y’know, cus of the shipping.
No ships here… also, by the look on Billie’s face I guess she’s the cocksmith.
Not sure if I should ship this…
Not this universe it just doesn’t feel right.
That’s the vibe I’m getting.
If it helps at all, I used to ship it.
You were not alone in this.
… If Dorothy and Walky weren’t so cute together, I would probably still ship Wallie ? Bilky ?
Caramel Beer. When name fusions are dumb, make up a nickname.
Thank you for sharing your wisdom (and great ship-naming ideas.)
Thi is a thing Due South Caramel Cream Ale and I hope that link works. Otherwise here’s the URL: http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/due-south-caramel-cream-ale/152009/
Your name fusion options are Balky and Willie.
How about Billingswalk?
Man, the things you do when you’re asleep…
It seems like some shit’s gonna hit the fan.
NO BILLIE! YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT!
… I THINK.
Better than caramel? I seriously doubt it.
Have you seen Jacob?
I have to admit that I do like my chocolate better.
Why not have both? 😀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqc7CEE0ekE
You got chocolate in my caramel! You got caramel in my chocolate!
Hey this is delicious!
And an entirely new ship was born. Walcob? Jacly? Next Slipshine release? Could be…
Or Jal, since Sal is also caramel.
Chocolate, Caramel, Vanilla. Why don’t you just get a Snicker’s Ice cream bar.
Twix icecream is far superior.
Snickers has ice cream bars now?! The caloric content must be ridiculously high.
it’s 500 Calories of ridiculous amounts of delicious.
How are those by the way?
Good enough I had to stop at one, before I ended up weighing 8,512,643,790 pounds. 😐
Because there’s already too many nuts around here.
It is way too hot here in Seattle right now, so that sounds especially good.
Heh, try Atlanta. Mid to upper 90’s every day, with 85%+ humidity. It’s like hell, but warmer.
Born in Houston, grew up near DC, just got back from Auburn, AL, where I’m in school, which starts ridiculously early. I’ll trade summers with you -worst case scenario, it’ll be as bad as I’m used to.
You win with the “born in Houston.” I’m in Richmond now which has plenty of 100+ humid weather, but the three summer months I spent in Houston were like their own special version of hell.
I remember walking outside and feeling like the air is literally pressing you down onto the pavement. It’s unreal.
To me, Dubai still wins the prize. I spent 3 years in southern Afghanistan, and at one point it hit 128 in the shade, but it was only 5% humidity. I went thru Dubai on one of my vacations from A’stan, and it was 120…with a humidity of 90%!! It was like being in a hot tub while walking around on the street!
The problem is that places like Atlanta, the Mojave, Phoenix, etc., people have AC. Seattle is running low 90’s, and no one has air conditioning because “it doesn’t get that hot in Seattle”.
So instead, you have people stuck to their furniture or wilting like plants that haven’t been watered, because you go to bed and it’s still like 86 degrees in the bedroom even after the sun’s been down for hours.
I fled to Victoria, BC for the weekend, because it’s marginally cooler her.
What are you talking about? It’s amazing here in Seattle! Then again, I grew up in the Mojave Desert where we’d be lucky to have only 100 degree weather at this time of year… 😉
Ruth -> Walky
It does seem like sort of a step down the ladder.
But you gotta admit; Walky’s pretty cute.
Mike was surprisingly helpful.
For a classic running joke yes.
Even if it never goes up on Slipshine, the details of the last night will definately be “Not Safe For Walky”
This joke is underrated
That is way to much shit to deal with for reality.
Wow, dreams do come true. . .
Aha! Billie is the Dingdong bandit! She was trying to make Ruth notice her again!
THAT…actually makes since when you think about it.
I think Ruth’s made it fairly clear to Billie that she doesn’t care about dicks.
No, but she cares about keeping peace on her floor. Billie might be out to disrupt that.
10 Internet dollars that this is the post Willis says is “surprisingly perceptive.”
Amazigirl is going to barge in and accuse Mike wildly. And then he’s gonna make her feel bad about it in Mike fashion. and Billie is gonna feel the extra double guilt, bc she is the bandit, as icing to go ontop of her already huge guilt cake.
Bonus points if AmaziGirl says something along the lines of “I’m getting things done” or “I’m just trying to solve a problem” within Billie’s earshot.
Amazi-Amber knows Mike, she wouldn’t accuse him without four contingency plans. She knows him better than that.
Maybe Billie and Walky got drunk and drew dicks together. Dicks are a lot more fun to draw with a friend.
If there’s more than one bandit, that would explain the multiple dong-drawing styles.
Billie does not look happy at all.
Nothing has change since we last saw her.
OH DEAR OH DEAR OH DEAR OH DEAR OH FUCKING DEAR
Billy’s angry face makes this way funnier than it would be otherwise.
“Fuck dude. I’m right fucking here. I’m gonna knee this dude in the groin”
Funny, or INCREDIBLY DISTURBING? That looks like someone who has snapped.
idk it looks to me like theres a tear in the corner of her eye to me
Dorothy’s up in the banner, looking down and wondering why Walky’s in bed with another girl.
That makes this strip so much better than it already is.
GLORIOUS!
…You have my attention.
But did they have your erection? 😀
…Maybe.
“I’m flattered Walky, but we both know that your girlfriend is not as pretty as me.”-Mike
I ship it and I don’t even know why.
Mike is whatever you don’t want him to be, baby.
This can only end in pain.
How drunk must I haft to be so I can wake up to her in the morning, I haft to find out no matter how much I get alcohol poisoning.
I think Negative drunk. Look at Walky. That dude’s probable never touched the stuff.
Than I must have one beer than be had, which is just 1…wow what did he do last night.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
20 internet dollars says they did nothing
all clothes are still on, so seems like a good bet
All clothes are still on from the waist up, but we don’t know about down below.
Am I the only one weirded out that Walky wears a shirt almost exactly the same color as his skin? It’s not quite the same, but it’s close.
10k nuyen says they did everything including Mike.
You’re on, Chummer.
Wiz.
I’ll take that bet, null persp.
You have no idea how happy this subthread makes me.
What ‘ave we ‘ere? Tis a good ol’ fashioned nightmare.
Nothing happened, clothes are on.
Well, they don’t seem to be naked, so that should ease his mind a bit.
Hey PM, are your last two gravatars Zetsubou girls? The current one looks like Chiri.
Yes they were and I have used a few different SZS girls as my grav over the past few years.
Thanks. However, until this past week I would not have recognized them as such.
I first watched SZS back when it was showing on in Crunchyroll back in 07 or 08.
It is mangas for me. Have not checked what Adult Swim shows here in the States. Adult Swim has shown anime in the past so it is possible a show like SZS might be on.
On a lighter anime note, I did get to see a few episodes of “Polar Bear Cafe”. Yep, Panda is an authentically depicted panda. It’s all about the food and naps! 😀
SPIN THE FUCKING TOP AND GET YOUR PISTOL READY.
And did you ever feel you surely missed something important?
I am more interested in why Walky thinks he’s in Dorothy’s room instead of his own, like, how out of it must he have been the the night before that he doesn’t remember which bed he went to sleep in?
I find it’s pretty easy to forget where you are right as you’re waking up, and the feeling of someone next to him could pretty easily have made Walky assume he was with Dorothy.
I guess. I’ve been single for too long, I’ve forgotten how that feels probably lol. /sad trombone
He doesn’t think he’s in Dorothy’s room.
He just hasn’t read today’s newspaper yet.
I just realized they’re in Walky’s room, not Billie’s. The scenario got a lot less surreal in theprocess
Right. But this is a lesson in locking your dorm room door.
I don’t know what’s worse — waking up in bed with a girl and not remembering what happened, or waking up in bed with a girl and realizing what could have happened.
In this case, it’s the second one. I promise.
Well, I dunno about whiteboards, but it looks like Billie is the Dingdong Bandit.
This is going to involve Danny and Sal.
There’s NO WAY Danny and Sal are in bed together, but the only reason I can imagine Billie not sleeping in her own bed is if Sal’s in there with someone. Jason?? Either that or she’s just drunk again.
Maybe she found Sal in there with Jason, but assumed it was Danny, and “wacky” hijinks ensue?
Didn’t she leave that room specifically to give some privacy to Sal+Danny?
How do two people fit on a college bed without being on top of each other?
It’s a tight fit, but it can be done, even if both of them are a bit overweight. /voice of experience
Now finding SHEETS that fit the fuckers, without being too big or too small…don’t even get me started on the few pieces of bed clothes labeled “college twin.” DX
I’ve done extensive testing, you can fit four people on a UW Madison dorm bed (which is Twin XL) without piling on top of each other. Which goes into my ultimate plan to fit 216 people in a dorm room. It’s mathematically possible.
That is kind of impressive. I always thought 2 was the limit on a dorm bed, plus one pet or small child.
“I’ve done extensive testing, you can fit four people on a UW Madison dorm bed (which is Twin XL) without piling on top of each other.”
Then one of two things occurs — [A] nothing or [B] the bed collapses.
For the ultimate goal of fitting as many people in the room as possible, wouldn’t it be more effective to put the bed up on its side?
216 people sleeping in the room, but only 72 at one time. It would have to be done in rolling 8 hour shifts (One bed leaves every 27 minutes). It would require triple bunking and six sets of these triple bunks, but it is mathematically feasible.
Billie, godsdammit. 😐
Please don’t make them do this Willis. Dorothy NEEDS Walky. Billie NEEDS to accept delayed gratification with Ruth.
indefinitely delayed
The hope exists that the two will eventually reconcile and reunite, but… doesn’t it feel like that for a whole lot of relationships that never do?
It’s like you’re forming a fucking cult.
Sithrak! The god that hates you! Let him into your heart. Blame him for everything!
+1 internet get! Oglaf references FTW!
To me they are the most hopeful couple in the entire comic. Both broken, both in need of redemption, and both desperate to make a connection with humanity in spite of professing to hate humanity…
We can but hope.
Direct pleas for mercy to Willis are a waste of internet. He *will* destroy your hope.
What the…. why the Golgafrincham is Billie in Walky’s bed?
This whole arc, man. I love this whole arc.
oh it’s a doozy
There is no possible way you can update it fast enough that I don’t go insane from waiting. I’m caught in an endless cycle of Damning Thee and Praising Thee
If you donate to the patreon, you get to see tomorrow’s comic today at noon 😉
All that does is time-shift the waiting, not prevent it. Just stop reading the web comic and wait for the dead-tree format if you can’y stand waiting between updates. Just give The Willis like $5K and say “Just send me the books because I can’t stand waiting for the updates on the web site, and a note when I need to send more money.”
On a scale of one to “DAMN YOU WILLIS.” how much more hate (love) am I going to have to bear for you by the time the in comic day is over?
how much more? always slightly more than you can handle, upping the stakes each time. 🙂
IMO, so far this is more of a “What the Hell, Willis?” than a “DAMN YOU WILLIS!”
You will be successfully at “DAMN YOU WILLIS” by the end of in comic day. It will be implied to be for both love and hate at the same time. It comes with a complimentary bag of peanuts.
Peanuts do reduce the sting. Good thing I’m not allergic.
The depth of their sibling relationship really comes to light here. Billie’s probably spent more than a few nights at Walky’s house when life was rough and her own home offered no support. She came over, by the sounds of it didn’t even say what was wrong, and Walky was just “Yeah you can share my bed. You don’t have to spend the night alone.”
Walky whose so socially dense he has trouble keeping track of who’s in earshot has that sort of wordless understanding with Billie.
This is the best possible interpretation of events, and I choose to believe it.
I love this.
Putting my money on this for Willis’s super-insightful-comment award. Gangler seems to be the only person to remember that Walky and Billie have known each other for a loooong time, and Billie’s running out of outlets for communication.
Honestly, while I didn’t think about the background, I totally had the same thought of “he’s taking care of his friend”.
Yeah, I also think this is the completely correct and insightful one.
The other alternative is Taigan’s (Billie is the Dingdong Bandit). It makes perfect sense, and Joyce being the Bandit is so obvious it might as well be a red herring, but the thing is, if Joyce isn’t the Bandit, then her overacting and general behavior makes no sense at all.
It makes sense to me. The dingdong banditry upsets her a LOT more than it upsets anyone else, plus she’s already given to over-the-top reactions to almost everything. (remember when she gasped so hard she gave herself hiccups?)
(it = Joyce’s overacting and reactions)
The most telling for me is that she didn’t immediately jump to the conclusion that this was Mike’s doing. It would be the obvious assumption after his dingdongery yesterday; she doesn’t know that this doesn’t really fit Mike’s M.O.
Even after Dina brought up Mike, Joyce seemed reluctant even to describe him as a jerk. It’s all as if she didn’t want him to take the blame for something she knew he didn’t do, jerk or not.
Dunno if they ever shared a bed before, but it’s definitely not the first time Billie has come to Walky for comfort. I imagine she’s been doing it all their lives. Probably with the same “It’s not like I like you or anything, just hold me while I weep” attitude, and Walky with his “okay, sure” attitude. It’s so tsundere (hope I’m not misusing that) it’s funny, and there’s not even any romantic feeling in it. Just two besties who will never admit their true feelings (friendship) to each other.
I’m having a hard time telling if Billie’s eyes are open or closed.
They’re very wide open in both panels that show her face. Sclera and pupils are visible.
I don’t think her face is angry- it’s embarrassment of having been caught in this vulnerable position.
I’m imagining Billie knocking on the door late at night and Mike getting super pissy and going to yell until he looks at Billie. Then he opens the door wider and gestures towards Walky who is still half sleeping.
D’awwwww
Think she’s just flushed and bloodshot from spending the night awake and crying.
In the words of the immortal JonTron (Because he has already began the process of becoming a hilarious cyborg) “Nope nope nope nope nope! So much nope!”
datasayingohshit.mp3
How in the world do two people fit on one of those tiny beds?
College students, they get cozy. I’ve seen it.
You’d be surprised what fits in those beds. It’s actually pretty easy to fit two people with a little bit of room left over.
That is without doubt the scariest Billy face.
Billie not billy, 1:49 … am tired :S
Dorothy stayed up late interviewing Amazi-girl and writing up the article for the campus paper. She told Walky not to wait up for her. Walky goes to bed in his own room. Billie, somehow, ends up in Walky’s room and crawls into bed with him. Waly dreams that it is Dorothy next to him. Mike does nothing.
If Walky and Billie weren’t didn’t already know each other, this could get very awkward.
Billie continues to wake up in places that aren’t her own bed
Aww, I actually think this is really sweet.
It’s indicative of how bad things are, and there’s no way either of them are going to be able to handle an honest conversation about it, but I’m glad she has Walky. She may not like him all that much, but she has said he’s like family to her; I’m glad that’s there for her.
…Smarmy Jason face SO does not go with tone of above post.
I think you’re missing the implication that something sexual happened, considering she looks furious/is blushing and Walky thought he was with DOROTHY.
Hopefully, even Willis isn’t so evil though
as horrifying and unlikely as walky/billie sex would be, i think billie’s mortified/self-loathsome at having sunk so low emotionally that she went to WALKY, of all people, for support, considering how much effort she put into displaying contempt for him (whether or not that’s what she felt about him, i mean; she might as well have worn a shirt with his face on it and the words “i’m not with this loser dork”). well, before she attempted to help walky see where sal was coming from, anyway…
but having emotional needs and admitting to it is super hard, especially coupled with the realization that you have next to no one to help you with them, because you’ve been pushing them away one way or another.
Both of them find the idea of even dating each other repulsive, let alone sex, and they’re both still fully dressed.
I can viscerally hear Walky’s voice rising in both pitch and volume right in the open O of “Nooooope.” It’s like a cavern yawning to swallow all hope and peace. It is the nope of destruction, the nope of utter ruin and despair.
Oh, Bother!
Walky, we know you didn’t do anything! Dorothy will understand and believe you! (I think . . . . Wait—who am I kidding? This is college.)
More importantly, this is a webcomic by David Willis.
…THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS.
Well… damn you, Willis…
I reckon they didn’t actually do anything and Billie was just looking for some comfort. She probably /tried/ to make herself feel better by attempting to sleep with Walky, even though I’m sure she would know what a stupid idea it is, but she’s been feeling so crap about herself she needs SOMETHING to make her feel better. Walky was most likely Walky and was half-asleep so nothing would’ve happened, (hopefullyyyyy)
oh dang no, wait, totally forgot she thought sal and danny were hooking up. she’s probably just gone to Walky’s to crash as she has no where else to go. Hmmmmm
Yeah, they didn’t do anything. Billie looks way too pissed off. My guess is she was moping after a night of drinking, and sought the comfort of one of the only “friends” she knew she had.
The comic is named “dream” so maybe Walky will wake up in a few panels next to…dunno,…… Sal maybe?
and then from THAT dream he’ll wake up next to a turnip.
It’s a turnip surprise.
So close Walky. So close.
There’s this interpretation, too. Walky is checking for his pants under the covers….and what he doesn’t see causes the “Noooooooope” reaction. Thus more problems.
She’s just mad because Mike and Walky’s mom were making a lot of noise during the night.
Walky, when you chain your ‘nope’s together like that, the word ‘open’ keeps popping out at me. Dunno what that says about me.
Be nice to Billie, she really had a rough night. Doesn’t look like she slept. And all for an imagined hook-up that almost certainly didn’t happen.
Billie is definitely Willis’ punching bag, in this strip. I gather it’s usually Walky.
My bad, Walky doesn’t chain his ‘nope’s, just the commenters.
Aha! Just realized the caption does it! It was YOU, Willis! IT WAS YOUUUU!!
This seems like an odd comic to publish on a day when the fans will have physical access to you.
If someone kidnaps Willis, DoA fans would have until November 20th to rescue him
I imagine that in those four months he would tangibly weaponize the concept of feels and slay his captor with a feels-powered sodomic deathray
A butt beam of bawling
The cartoonist has been captured by angry fans. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the cartoonist?
Oh, man! Oh, man! Someone will get angry so much.
wat?
FFS Willis. You’re an evil bastard.
*sighs* So when is the new NSFW Billie and Walky comic coming to slipshine?
At least Billie is on top of the covers, but this would be a great time for Dorothy to walk in … and I am sure Mike has found a way to arrange that by now
Last time we saw Billie she and Joyce were leaving Billie’s room after Danny showed up; Joyce was going to class w/Ethan and Billie, who was already down in the dumps, claimed she was going to class also (COAS 122 — Fuck Everything And The Horse It Came In On).
I’d love to see/know what happened that caused Billie to end up in Walky’s bed … and still madder than a wet hen, from the looks of it.
What is Danny good at? Dan’ing *everything* up.
I believe he has single handedly Dan’d Walky/Dorothy, Billie’s self esteem, Sal/Jason, himself/Amazigirl, and Amber’s self-worth in one fell swoop.
All by sleeping with Sal. This is an amazing feat of Dan’ing it up, to the most amazing degree.
Wait, he slept with Sal? I must have missed a comic…
he most definitely has not, no
missed one comic of them sleeping together and 3 weeks’ worth him freaking out about it, you mean
if it had actually happened, i mean
I think Sal likes the novelty being friends with someone who doesn’t want to get in her pants. I can’t imagine that they’d sleep together now, especially since Dan said no thanks.
*patreon funding intensifies*
Okay.
I fully understand the human contact thing,.. and Billie KNOWS she safe with Walkie.
I’m just surprise4d Mike doesn’t know she’s there and I really hope Billie talks to Walkie and Walkie actually gives her an ear to spew into.
…Are there people who actually assumed this was supposed to be sexual?
Yeah, I don’t get this. She’s obviously over the covers, they’ve been friends a long time, they haven’t shown any attraction to one another… Come on people!
yessssss
wait I made a typo in my email
Trying to find comfort from Walky is going to bite in Billy’s ass.
Can not wait till tomorrow.
And will David Willis ever going to visit (west) Europe??
Anyone else thinking that second to last panel Billie is wordlessly saying to Walky “Do you REALLY want to know the answer to this?” And thus Walkys last panel reaction.
The last panel seems to me to be more like Walky yelling at his penis to behave because he’s in bed with Billie.
Well, if Mike is there… looks like Walky’s Room… so Billie came running in all mopey, etc. Guess we’ll find out soon.
Must have been her COAS 122 homework.
The heck? Did I miss a strip?
AND THERE HE IS, JOHNNY BRAVO HIMSELF. HE’S THE CULPRIT FOR SURE TAKE HIM AWAY OFFICER– er, vigilante..