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by David M Willis on September 27, 2014 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - When Somebody Loved Me
└ Tags: carla, sal

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    September 27, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    skaters gonna skate

    • Tunaro
      Tunaro
      September 27, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      God help me for this, but I can’t resist:
      Skate, skate, skate.

      • Do Over
        Do Over
        September 27, 2014 at 4:30 pm | #

        Skate your BOooOOTEH!

      • artemi
        artemi
        September 28, 2014 at 3:34 pm | #

        Mischief Makers?

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      September 27, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

      Here’s hoping for some epic skatesex. 😛

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        September 27, 2014 at 12:20 am | #

        WHERE’S THE SKATESHINE

        oh man, if skatesex hasn’t been done, wow Smut Peddler 2016 ideas!

        • Matt
          Matt
          September 27, 2014 at 7:20 am | #

          Boogie Nights.

      • Tunaro
        Tunaro
        September 27, 2014 at 12:21 am | #

        How… would that work, exactly?

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          September 27, 2014 at 12:25 am | #

          Not sure exactly but a great deal of flexibility and timing will be involved that I am sure. 😀

          • Nothri
            Nothri
            September 27, 2014 at 1:14 am | #

            Birds mate while in flight. Just saying…

            • Kryss LaBryn
              Kryss LaBryn
              September 27, 2014 at 2:23 am | #

              SOME birds. Allegedly.
              —Which birds, again?

              • maxyai
                maxyai
                September 27, 2014 at 7:07 am | #

                The hornybill

              • Gadgeteer Smashwidget
                Gadgeteer Smashwidget
                September 27, 2014 at 8:58 pm | #

                Some hawks, seagulls, probably hummingbirds…

            • JasonAW3
              JasonAW3
              September 27, 2014 at 11:24 am | #

              Well that’s kinda, sorta how it works, but you gotta rent the skating rink for the night, convince your significant other that skating with little to no clothes on can be fun. And for Chess sake, make sure all the doors, (except freebies) are LOCKED!

              I could go into details, but to put it simply, the right music mix disk, the right lighting sequence, an attractive woman in a wrap around undress, and a guy in a kilt, can have a lot of fun on rollerblades, if you both know a bit about figureskating as well. Just be careful about those high speed opposing passes going around the rink.

              Bare flesh let’s a LOT of traction on the polished wood old style skating rinks, and it HURTS!

            • Some guy
              Some guy
              September 27, 2014 at 2:49 pm | #

              #notallbirds

        • David Herbert
          David Herbert
          September 27, 2014 at 12:26 am | #

          Do it standing up but while skating.

          • Gadgeteer Smashwidget
            Gadgeteer Smashwidget
            September 27, 2014 at 1:10 am | #

            that sounds… hurty.

            • slicey
              slicey
              September 27, 2014 at 1:55 am | #

              For once I feel like the not a perv for not going so graphic mentally and just thinking they wouldn’t bother taking off the skates as they got busy on the skate hall floor

              • Gadgeteer Smashwidget
                Gadgeteer Smashwidget
                September 27, 2014 at 8:41 pm | #

                I was just thinking that it would be very very easy to fall over and hurt yourself.

        • JCfromNC
          JCfromNC
          September 27, 2014 at 4:34 am | #

          I was thinking the appearance of the women in this would be a good start , but then I watched it and realized they weren’t on skates. I guess my memory was fooled because they look sort of like they’re wearing roller derby gear. So I guess just imagine them on skates and go from there?
          (NSFW, it’s the nude death chase scene from “Meaning of Life”)

        • begbert2
          begbert2
          September 27, 2014 at 8:08 pm | #

          It’s easy: get naked except for skates at opposite ends of a space, and then race towards each other at top speed. All there is to it.

          There’s a reason they call it banging.

      • mr. purple
        mr. purple
        September 27, 2014 at 2:01 am | #

        I can’t even skate but i want to try this

      • Kamino Neko
        Kamino Neko
        September 27, 2014 at 3:39 pm | #

        Skaters gonna mate?

  2. Camachri
    Camachri
    September 27, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    Give it time, Carla. Give it time.

  3. Maxy
    Maxy
    September 27, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    She replaces murderous rampages with an occasional pie to the face of someone she dislikes.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      September 27, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      Sending people to the Amazon is, however, sadly beyond her capabilities. So instead she sends them unwanted things from Amazon.com

      • Kelly
        Kelly
        December 14, 2014 at 8:09 pm | #

        Who ships a bobcat?

  4. Dude
    Dude
    September 27, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    What’s with the balloon’s tail in the first panel? It confuses me.

    • Catullus
      Catullus
      September 27, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      Seconding this; I think the “Oh, really?” may have been meant to point to Sal.

      • Dude
        Dude
        September 27, 2014 at 1:51 pm | #

        It looks fixed now, so I guess we’re good.

  5. Foxhack
    Foxhack
    September 27, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Carla is an otherkin?

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      September 27, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      Is wanting to be an android even covered in the otherkin spectrum??

      • Catullus
        Catullus
        September 27, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

        If specific fictional characters are in the otherkin spectrum, I think androids are fair game.

        • vlademir1
          vlademir1
          September 27, 2014 at 2:00 am | #

          Thing is though, otherkin are typified by believing they are, if only in part, already something other than human if only in a metaphysical or metaphorical sense. The alt for this comic states she wishes she were a robot, that is a significant distinction.

          • Shadow12000
            Shadow12000
            September 27, 2014 at 2:04 am | #

            That plus the way she’s talking makes it obvious she just thinks people are stupid in general. And considering what the norm is, she’s not really wrong.

            • Opus the Poet
              Opus the Poet
              September 27, 2014 at 2:39 am | #

              “Individual persons can be smart, but people are stupid” Men in Black

              • Dorje Sylas
                Dorje Sylas
                September 27, 2014 at 3:42 am | #

                No, an individual person can be fairly stupid. Two people can be really stupid. A group of people can be deadly stupid.

                Conversly a person can be fairly smart. Two people can be genius. A group of people still tends to be rather stupid. 😛

                • Deanatay
                  Deanatay
                  September 27, 2014 at 8:24 am | #

                  Asimov’s psychohistory stated that people behaved somewhat like atoms do – individual behavior is almost impossible to predict, while the behavior of large groups follows simple rules that can be predicted fairly accurately. Since predictable behavior can be taken advantage of, it’s stupid to be predictable. Therefore, while individuals alone may behave intelligently, in a group, they can be quite stupid.

                • DSL
                  DSL
                  September 27, 2014 at 8:47 am | #

                  You started off attempting to contradict Opus, then ended up essentially restating what Opus said. How does that work?

                • Dorje Sylas
                  Dorje Sylas
                  September 27, 2014 at 12:29 pm | #

                  For a start Opus misquoted. The MIB movie is: “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.”

                  For a second pay attetion to the middle parts of each statement. This is based on research about how people behave in groups, or more notably pairs, on projects. A pair of people tend to perform better than either solo or in larger groups. See Powers Of Two by Joshua Wolf Shenk.

                  Two people (plural) can be far smarter than one alone. Although “smart” and “good ideas” are very subjective. The things two people can mutually decide is a “good idea” can lead to Darwin awards.

              • Rutee
                Rutee
                September 27, 2014 at 2:54 pm | #

                Yeah, what K said is kinda bullshit, actually. Like, there’s a reason the best lifeline in Millionaire was, by a wide margin, ‘Ask the audience’. People aren’t as stupid as nerds tend to give them credit for; they just don’t necessarily have all the facts, because learning everything is hard.

                • chisci
                  chisci
                  September 27, 2014 at 3:37 pm | #

                  Yeah, remembering some high school factoid isn’t really what makes you smart. Referring to people as a group negatively is fairly accurate, considering politics in general and the roots of social prejudice in particular (e.g. so you’re bullying that young black man because TV told you he is or would grow up to be a maladjusted delinquent? Gee, wonder how that’s gonna work out.) Which is something someone like Carla (probably a transgender gynophile, if her thing with Malaya in Shortpacked! carries over) would have A LOT of experience with.

                  Plus, back to the strip, she isn’t even talking about stupidity, just lying. From what we’ve seen so far she’s rather honest and open, which takes a lot of bravery from her part (remember, trans), so she’s totes in a place to critic that.

                • Rutee
                  Rutee
                  September 27, 2014 at 4:12 pm | #

                  No matter how smart you are, if you are taught a crapload of garbage, you will still mostly know garbage. I didn’t say people weren’t jerks, and I didn’t say they grew up in an ideal, or even great, environment. I didn’t say they weren’t ignorant. I said they weren’t stupid, no matter how much we tell themselves they are stupid.

                  And no, Carla isn’t talking about stupidity. I was talking about K’s little bit from Men in Black, which is what I was like, Replying to. It’s the sort of thing nerds tell each other to feel better about themselves.

                • Rutee
                  Rutee
                  September 27, 2014 at 4:19 pm | #

                  And since you want to make this about oppression, two things. First, the idea that the masses are stupid, but of course, you are seperate from that and speshul, should obviously strike you as a wedge that interferes with opposing hegemons. Second, a lot of is born from, you know, classism; the (poor) masses and their inferior tastes and lack of knowledge is totes because they’re dumb, amirite? Just because I’m not using all that language at a given time doesn’t make it less true.

                • Lanval
                  Lanval
                  September 27, 2014 at 8:54 pm | #

                  I think the idea with K’s quote here is more that people, as a group, will tend to follow each other and do some really stupid things that they wouldn’t have done if they were talked to as individuals. This includes people who are otherwise very smart but get caught up in the hype or zietgeist and don’t think on it.

                  It’s not a comment on intelligence (I am smart and they are dumb) but peer pressure and culture (I will do stupid things if I am with friends that none of us would do individually).

                • Rutee
                  Rutee
                  September 28, 2014 at 2:28 am | #

                  I see what you’re trying to say here…. but no. The lines he uses to support it are based off of people’s incomplete knowledge (And gets it flatly wrong in the process, because of course he does). Even without that though? At that point you’re getting to “well people primarily do dumb things because other people influence them”. Brava for the deduction! It’s also the reason people do things like work together to build a society. It’s not like the smart things you do are something that you drew from a platonic cave while the dumb shit comes from other people (If that were the intent, you would get back to ‘you are better than all those other people’).

          • Lawzlo
            Lawzlo
            September 27, 2014 at 2:47 am | #

            Maybe she’s a transhumanist, just waitin’ for the singularity.

            • Jen Aside
              Jen Aside
              September 27, 2014 at 4:46 am | #

              She and Kimiko Ross need to talk

              • Arkadi
                Arkadi
                September 27, 2014 at 6:35 am | #

                That would probably end with Carla being placed inside a disintegration chamber by a pissed-off Kimiko. By which I mean that yeas, they need to 😀

    • chisci
      chisci
      September 27, 2014 at 3:38 pm | #

      nah, she’s saying “from MY species”. She’s just a misanthropist who doesn’t know otherkinship is a thing.

  6. MrSirk
    MrSirk
    September 27, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    You mean Sal’s not automatically good at everything? Damn I lost my pool.

    • newllend
      newllend
      September 27, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

      You already lost it, last time I checked she suck at math…and sex apparently.

      • MrSirk
        MrSirk
        September 27, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

        Math doesn’t count. Only nerds are good at math, and I thought everyone agreed the sex thing was the product of a broken educational system you can’t count that either..maybe.

        • Drakey
          Drakey
          September 27, 2014 at 12:28 am | #

          You got that backwards. The math thing was the product of a broken educational system, and only nerds are good at sex.

          I’m a nerd, I would know.

          • Gadgeteer Smashwidget
            Gadgeteer Smashwidget
            September 27, 2014 at 1:09 am | #

            I can vouch for this, we nerds are amazing at sex.

            I bake that sex so well, you don’t even know.

          • Shadow12000
            Shadow12000
            September 27, 2014 at 2:05 am | #

            Years of studying it online helps.

            • Opus the Poet
              Opus the Poet
              September 27, 2014 at 2:41 am | #

              Finding and reading ladyporn helps a lot more than you would think. Also ladyporn is hotter than the visual stuff they make for us guys.

              • Gadgeteer Smashwidget
                Gadgeteer Smashwidget
                September 27, 2014 at 2:45 am | #

                seconded

                • Kate
                  Kate
                  September 27, 2014 at 4:13 am | #

                  Thirded. Fanfic helped my sex life way more than anything else in my life. (the GOOD stuff, that is, not the mediocre or “i don’t think that’s physically POSSIBLE” stuff)

                • Karfsma778
                  Karfsma778
                  September 27, 2014 at 8:06 pm | #

                  Damn right.

              • Thomas64
                Thomas64
                September 27, 2014 at 11:44 pm | #

                Fourthed. For me, Curvy was the first time I saw a portrayal of sex that made sense. I’m looking forward to checking out the DoA slipshines, too.

      • JWLM
        JWLM
        September 27, 2014 at 11:53 am | #

        Actually, it looks like she sucked at math only because she thought she ought to suck at math. Once she thought she had an ‘in,’ so it wouldn’t matter, suddenly she didn’t suck any more.

        Walky’s not the only one who thinks Walky is the only smart one, you know…

  7. Hannah
    Hannah
    September 27, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Skatefailing liar is definitely going to be used conversationally today

    • Jon P
      Jon P
      September 27, 2014 at 1:13 am | #

      Concur. Now I just need to engineer a conversation with someone who is either skatefailing or a liar.

      • motorfirebox
        motorfirebox
        September 27, 2014 at 1:19 am | #

        Just ask if they’re a skatefailer. When they say no…

  8. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    September 27, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Is there a term for someone who wishes that they weren’t born as inferior carbon units?

    • AgentKeen
      AgentKeen
      September 27, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

      Silicon-based lifeforms get all the cool powers.

      • Shadow12000
        Shadow12000
        September 27, 2014 at 2:08 am | #

        Such as firmness, but then they just look fake.

        • DSL
          DSL
          September 27, 2014 at 8:50 am | #

          Now I wish there had been a Star Trek episode dealing with silicone (as opposed to silicon, like Horta) life forms. Captain Kirk would have to be involved, of course.

      • Lawzlo
        Lawzlo
        September 27, 2014 at 2:39 am | #

        Like acid blood and that little mouth inside your main mouth? The ability to facehug John Hurt?

    • SgtWadeyWilson
      SgtWadeyWilson
      September 27, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

      I believe that’s called: human.

    • Lokitsu
      Lokitsu
      September 27, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

      Dalek.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        September 27, 2014 at 12:28 am | #

        Daleks already believe themselves to be superior to all so not the word I was looking for.

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          September 27, 2014 at 8:27 am | #

          Pre-post-humanist?

  9. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    September 27, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    I now want terribly for Carla to meet Dina. They can bond over rejecting their unwanted human heritage to be machine and dinosaur respectively.

    Or just find common ground over how cool Beast Wars is, since that has characters who are both dinosaurs and robots. And Ethan would want to get in on the action as well!

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      September 27, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      So what you’re trying to say is, more characters should be into Beast Wars.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        September 27, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

        Everyone should be into Beast Wars. Beast Wars was awesome.

        • Tunaro
          Tunaro
          September 27, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

          Beast Wars friggin’ ruled, but I’ve always been sorta bummed how underrated Beast Machines was.

          • Dorje Sylas
            Dorje Sylas
            September 27, 2014 at 3:50 am | #

            I blame the cliffhangery plot arcs, with frequent reruns, and actually rather slow ramp-up compared to where Beast Wars left off. All combined absolutely killed the pacing. Watched shotgun-style its more tolerable.

        • Kate
          Kate
          September 27, 2014 at 4:15 am | #

          Man, every time I read the comments and Transformers comes up, I find myself kinda wanting to watch it…

          • begbert2
            begbert2
            September 27, 2014 at 8:02 pm | #

            Succumb. You will not regret it, particularly if you become a hardcore fan. It takes no time or money whatsoever.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      September 27, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

      Now I want Carla to meet Joyce’s sibling while they both deal with Ethan’s closet issues.

      • buckybone
        buckybone
        September 27, 2014 at 12:22 am | #

        I wouldn’t be half surprised if that happened at some point…of course, it’ll be around 2016 by the time this comic gets to Homecoming.

      • Drakey
        Drakey
        September 27, 2014 at 12:31 am | #

        Mike needs to be in there somewhere. In other news, I now ship Mike/Carla. It might not make sense, but it would be amazing.

        • NoHeart
          NoHeart
          September 27, 2014 at 2:39 am | #

          That pairing was the first thing that popped into my head after reading this.
          Also, the idea of Mike having a relationship with anybody hardly makes sense until Willis makes it happen.

          • dskillz
            dskillz
            September 27, 2014 at 11:39 am | #

            Mike/Amber forever in every universe!

        • Vangeln
          Vangeln
          September 27, 2014 at 3:46 pm | #

          I’m totally with you, Mike and Carla ship.

    • Mojo Jojo
      Mojo Jojo
      September 27, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

      An Ethan, Carla, Dina 3 way? I wouldn’t mind watching it.

    • AgentKeen
      AgentKeen
      September 27, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

      First my mind went to the wost adorable dino Kaiju vs. Mecha fight ever. Then I was reminded of the dinosaur outfit Vanessa like to wear in Something*Positive.

  10. creatorx2
    creatorx2
    September 27, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    Second balloon, first panel. Wrong person. Should point off-screen.

    • Bill
      Bill
      September 27, 2014 at 12:30 am | #

      But it is.  Sal is standing to Carla’s left, as shown in the final panel of today’s strip, and the tail of the text balloon is pointing to the left edge of the panel, indicating the voice is coming from off-screen.

      See also panel four, which is now focused on Sal who angrily retorts that “Ah can fuckin’ skate”.  The lower speech balloon, which contains Carla’s reply, points off-screen to the viewer’s left/Sal’s right.

      • David M Willis
        David M Willis
        September 27, 2014 at 2:34 am | #

        there was a mistake, i fixed it

      • captainswift
        captainswift
        September 27, 2014 at 10:59 am | #

        Yeah, when it first went up, Carla was saying both things in the first panel.

        • juan
          juan
          September 27, 2014 at 11:53 pm | #

          its her cigarette i tell ya

  11. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    September 27, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    “Bite my sadly organic ass”

    • newllend
      newllend
      September 27, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

      +1

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      September 27, 2014 at 12:30 am | #

      *throws another +1 in your direction*

    • Gadgeteer Smashwidget
      Gadgeteer Smashwidget
      September 27, 2014 at 1:08 am | #

      *snatches all the +1’s and presents them all to Doctor_Who*

    • Arkadi
      Arkadi
      September 27, 2014 at 6:36 am | #

      +10.

  12. Emperor Kiva
    Emperor Kiva
    September 27, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

    Carla, are you high?
    Carla: No………Why do you ask?

    • MrSirk
      MrSirk
      September 27, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

      I’m sure it’s medicinal.

      • Tunaro
        Tunaro
        September 27, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

        Yes, it’s her cure for the unfortunate human condition.

        • Gadgeteer Smashwidget
          Gadgeteer Smashwidget
          September 27, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

          Isn’t that the stereotypical response of people who take hallucinatory drugs?

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            September 27, 2014 at 12:34 am | #

            I thought that the stereotypical response to “Are you taking hallucinatory drugs?” is “I don’t need to justify myself to you Mr Plaid Ten-headed Chicken-snake.”

            • Gadgeteer Smashwidget
              Gadgeteer Smashwidget
              September 27, 2014 at 12:55 am | #

              I think the stereotypical response when told that is, “Ma’am, how much PCP have you taken in the past hour?”

              • Jen Aside
                Jen Aside
                September 27, 2014 at 4:48 am | #

                Friend of ours was struggling to keep a straight face (and nearly failed) when a customer came in and talked about how much she loved her kids… and PCP.

                • Gadgeteer Smashwidget
                  Gadgeteer Smashwidget
                  September 27, 2014 at 9:21 pm | #

                  Tell me more of this story, I need the deets

                  I want to LAUGH

  13. meghantheworldeater
    meghantheworldeater
    September 27, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

    This isn’t really relevant but I just noticed.
    Their ears…everyone’s ear has the number 5 on it!
    My whole world has been flip turned upside down!

    • LiamAldam
      LiamAldam
      September 27, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

      I always thought 6 was an ear number.

      • meghantheworldeater
        meghantheworldeater
        September 27, 2014 at 12:32 am | #

        Yeah I’ve seen a lot of cartoons where people have 6 for ears as well.

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      September 27, 2014 at 12:27 am | #

      My my, how ear-ie.

      • meghantheworldeater
        meghantheworldeater
        September 27, 2014 at 12:31 am | #

        But wait there’s more! I just noticed another thing. The ear’s used to be F’s!
        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/01-move-in-day/loft/

        • MrSirk
          MrSirk
          September 27, 2014 at 12:38 am | #

          Her dad’s ear was a backwards five as well. Now I can’t not notice it.

    • Bill
      Bill
      September 27, 2014 at 1:10 am | #

      The late Stan Lynde, creator of the Western-themed newspaper cartoon “Rick O’Shay” back in the 1960s and 1970s, drew his characters without any indication of earlobes at all.  In one interview he said that he couldn’t begin to estimate the amount of time (and ink!) that this saved him over the run of the comic.

  14. Khaner
    Khaner
    September 27, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

    “I just don’t like organized sports.”
    I know where you can go, Sal.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOGXeGMH6_U

    • newllend
      newllend
      September 27, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

      So ya old days

      • Khaner
        Khaner
        September 27, 2014 at 12:30 am | #

        I actually prefer to get older, though…
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHqlpZ6dBD8

  15. Lou
    Lou
    September 27, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

    You know, if I hadn’t read up on Shortpacked!, about here is where I might make the connection to Ultra Car…

  16. newllend
    newllend
    September 27, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

    Does she need to know how to skate? She can get into motorcross any time she wanted to.

    • newllend
      newllend
      September 27, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

      Aah the old days.

      • newllend
        newllend
        September 27, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

        Wrong comment

  17. Regalli
    Regalli
    September 27, 2014 at 12:27 am | #

    I like Carla’s face in the last panel.

    I also empathize with her words in the last panel. I don’t necessarily like that I have to do that pretty often, but I do. (Though in my case it’s less “murderous” and more “crushing, all-consuming despair”. … It’s probably time for me to go to sleep.)

    Also, “skatefailing liar” is my favorite insult this week.

    • Glacirus
      Glacirus
      September 27, 2014 at 12:30 am | #

      100% in agreement with these statements.

    • Esc
      Esc
      September 27, 2014 at 7:43 am | #

      Same here. It really helps me not get so frustrated with people if I just think of them like any other animal. “It’s okay, they don’t know any better.” It’s such a relief, and keeps out disappointment and anger when they do stupid things so frequently. I just look at it the way I do for a wild squirrel that runs into the road. Didn’t understand, didn’t know, couldn’t know.

  18. Vex Godglove
    Vex Godglove
    September 27, 2014 at 12:36 am | #

    No sport is more disorganized than Calvinball.

    • Gigafreak
      Gigafreak
      September 27, 2014 at 12:40 am | #

      Sal-vinball!

      • Gadgeteer Smashwidget
        Gadgeteer Smashwidget
        September 27, 2014 at 12:57 am | #

        Dinaball! It’s like Calvinball, but involves large therapuods eating herbivorous dinosaurs!

        • Gadgeteer Smashwidget
          Gadgeteer Smashwidget
          September 27, 2014 at 12:58 am | #

          Therapods*
          dammit, and I had this whole dinosaur encyclopedia thingy from my childhood memorized too.

        • Itama
          Itama
          September 27, 2014 at 1:31 am | #

          i’m pretty sure calvenball already had that. ,’:/

          • Gadgeteer Smashwidget
            Gadgeteer Smashwidget
            September 27, 2014 at 1:56 am | #

            No, those were Calvin’s dream sequences.

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      September 27, 2014 at 4:50 am | #

      How about House Rules Parcheesi?

      • Kai
        Kai
        September 27, 2014 at 11:08 am | #

        Um…
        http://www.bugmartini.com/comic/thats-what-friends-are-for/

        • Jen Aside
          Jen Aside
          September 27, 2014 at 3:59 pm | #

          hence the safety gear

  19. caesaria82
    caesaria82
    September 27, 2014 at 12:59 am | #

    Carla is so cute. I’m in love.

  20. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    September 27, 2014 at 1:11 am | #

    You’re in love with a pothead that wants to be an android?

    • Vex Godglove
      Vex Godglove
      September 27, 2014 at 1:57 am | #

      Yes.

    • MissQuinn
      MissQuinn
      September 27, 2014 at 3:15 am | #

      You’re NOT?

    • caesaria82
      caesaria82
      September 27, 2014 at 3:49 am | #

      Well. Yes.

    • Gamaran Sepudomyn
      Gamaran Sepudomyn
      September 27, 2014 at 4:57 pm | #

      Yes.

  21. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    September 27, 2014 at 1:12 am | #

    Sal will now learn to skate if it kills her …. because Carla called her out.
    or Sal will be her typical cool self and not give a shit one way or another, and go on riding her definitely cooler byke.

    I called it. 🙂

  22. Agera
    Agera
    September 27, 2014 at 1:14 am | #

    i think i just fell in love with carla

  23. HorchataShake
    HorchataShake
    September 27, 2014 at 1:18 am | #

    OH NO CARLA IS REALLY CUTE IN PANEL 2

    • Gamaran Sepudomyn
      Gamaran Sepudomyn
      September 27, 2014 at 4:58 pm | #

      Agreed. That sass.

  24. Malchus
    Malchus
    September 27, 2014 at 2:06 am | #

    *looks at alt text*

    I wish I were a brain in a jar attached to a cyborg pterosaur. With lasers.

    And wifi.

    • tinfoil theory
      tinfoil theory
      September 27, 2014 at 4:04 am | #

      Would you settle for being a helicopter?

      • Malchus
        Malchus
        September 27, 2014 at 11:02 am | #

        A Dongcopter?

        Sure.

  25. NF
    NF
    September 27, 2014 at 2:10 am | #

    Carla is rapidly becoming my favorite Dumbing of Age character.

  26. TemplarKnight
    TemplarKnight
    September 27, 2014 at 2:58 am | #

    Actually, emotionally distancing yourself from other humans, and actually seeing them as a different species would INCREASE the likelihood of going on a murderous rampage. It’s called dehumanization. Most of the atrocities that have been committed in history have been due to lack of empathy to others and seeing them as a different class of species than oneself.

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      September 27, 2014 at 4:55 am | #

      I dunno. I don’t give a shit about insects, but as long as they aren’t in my house, I’m not gonna go on a murderous rampage taking them out.

      [partly due to an incident w/ a bad shortcut and yellow jackets, which is a cautionary tale about people as well]

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      September 27, 2014 at 5:36 am | #

      That may explain some “ethnic cleansings” in history. And now I’m thinking Carla’s just kiddin’ around with the whole separate species spiel.

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        September 27, 2014 at 8:36 am | #

        Carla: srs feels or jus prankin ya?

  27. Aubrey
    Aubrey
    September 27, 2014 at 3:07 am | #

    Can’t tell if joint or badly drawn cigarette.

    • Gadgeteer Smashwidget
      Gadgeteer Smashwidget
      September 27, 2014 at 3:43 am | #

      I’m pretty sure it’s a joint. You can see the spiral lines from the paper being rolled up.

      • pyrophobia
        pyrophobia
        September 27, 2014 at 7:50 pm | #

        We have also seen Sal smoke cigs before, Willis draws ’em different. It’s a joint.

        • begbert2
          begbert2
          September 27, 2014 at 8:15 pm | #

          In public even!

  28. tinfoil theory
    tinfoil theory
    September 27, 2014 at 4:05 am | #

    She can fuckin’ skate!
    She just didn’t say how well.

  29. Rhy
    Rhy
    September 27, 2014 at 4:55 am | #

    So do Carla and Malaya bang in this universe too?

  30. Darwin
    Darwin
    September 27, 2014 at 5:36 am | #

    Oh Carla, how I wish you could just dump people you don’t like in the Amazon.

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      September 27, 2014 at 8:18 pm | #

      She could, until the cops seized her trebuchet.

  31. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    September 27, 2014 at 5:38 am | #

    I’m interested in knowing some of Carla’s backstory. All things in good time I s’pose.

  32. Arkadi
    Arkadi
    September 27, 2014 at 6:38 am | #

    Oh. Yesterday’s update had made it look for a moment as if Carla wasn’t as huge a jerk as her Shortpacked! incarnation. But I see it’s business as usual ^^

  33. Arkzus
    Arkzus
    September 27, 2014 at 8:06 am | #

    Quoting my exact state of mind when it comes to people, Carla, I want you in every strip.

    • Inarx
      Inarx
      September 27, 2014 at 8:28 am | #

      Coincidentally, I just want her to strip.
      …
      pleasedon’tkillme

  34. Azmi
    Azmi
    September 27, 2014 at 10:14 am | #

    Carla is like me in that sense

  35. pyrophobia
    pyrophobia
    September 27, 2014 at 10:27 am | #

    Panel 3

    Sal’s *eye twitch*

    It’s… Beautiful

  36. sandbridgekid
    sandbridgekid
    September 27, 2014 at 10:30 am | #

    Wolowitz—“I smell Robot”.

  37. A5PECT
    A5PECT
    September 27, 2014 at 11:16 am | #

    Sal, your Walky is showing.

    • pyrophobia
      pyrophobia
      September 27, 2014 at 7:54 pm | #

      Guess there are some things deep down that having a badass bike Catholic school can’t change.

  38. Cynthia
    Cynthia
    September 27, 2014 at 12:43 pm | #

    I really like Carla’s expression on the second panel, smug and cute. Perfectly Carla.

  39. Stevecharb
    Stevecharb
    September 27, 2014 at 1:49 pm | #

    There’s a joke in here somewhere about Carla, smoking, and exhaust pipes.

  40. Vangeln
    Vangeln
    September 27, 2014 at 3:52 pm | #

    But it doesn’t prevent drawing dicks on doors, does it?

  41. Tenn
    Tenn
    September 27, 2014 at 5:20 pm | #

    Carla’s face in the second panel beats any face Ultra Car has ever done.

  42. Slinx
    Slinx
    September 27, 2014 at 7:14 pm | #

    Carla’s building back her jerk reputation, I see.

  43. Tybert
    Tybert
    September 27, 2014 at 10:55 pm | #

    Didn’t notice that was a joint on the mobile app. Had to see it on my monitor to notice.

  44. Onion
    Onion
    May 10, 2016 at 7:34 pm | #

    I’ve always wanted to be a dog. Or a constellation.
    *gasps* OR MAYBE BOTH

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