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Sarah REEKS of Joyce’s Eau d’Esperation
(super cute tho)
More like creepy.
Not mutually exclusive.
I can already feel it ending well!
Only because I’m remembering that Raidah told Jacob that Sarah assaulted her. That’ll be interesting if Jacob brings it up.
Pretty sure this will be interesting regardless.
Plot Twist: It’s actually a huge success.
But is the cake a lie?
Definitely both, and Jacob is as freaked out as the rest of us.
All I could think of is that scene in one of the Addams Family movies where Wednesday actually smiles and it almost breaks reality (or at least most everyone is horrified)
Maybe her bandanna was squeezing her brain, and making her cranky.
The bandanna (or is it a headscarf?) alsorbs Sarah’s excess happiness, much as the cadmium rods in a nuclear reactor absorb neutrons.
That may be theoretically appealing, but I like the Doctor’s theory.
I like Dean’s ‘control rod’ theory better.
“Control rod”. That’s a euphemism for “electronic nose picker”, I’m guessing?
In what universe does Sarah have “excess” happiness?
I read that as “Cranium rods” in the nuclear reactor. xD My bad
(Re: Cadmium) And for all the same reasons! This can’t end in anything but a disaster.
Jesus Christ how horrifying.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
-Live from inside Sarah’s head
She scared his eyebrows clean off of his face!
That isn’t even her FINAL FORM!!!!
Wait, you’re saying maybe her shoes can come off too?
Aw, I wanted to make that joke. Good show.
Will her hair go super saiyan?
A blonde Sarah?
I wish she would be able to open up and be friendly some times, but I understand why she can’t all the same. Gah.
I have always wanted to see her smile, but rn I was like “who’s that new character in panel 5? …oh.”
I can’t tell if Sarah is pretending to smile or if that is simply the effect of at length visualization of the destruction of her enemies.
No teeth showing; could be either one.
When you can see the teeth, it’s already too late to run.
RUN, RUN WHILE YOU CAN
YOU CAN’T CATCH ME, I’M THE GINGERBREAD MAN wait no that’s not right
BEWARE, I LIVE!
RUN, COWARD!
I HUNGER
Sinistar, is that you?
Moe Powers ACTIVATE!
actually my favorite sarah strip
I feel ya Jacob, Sarah’s smile frightens me too.
Rule of life: Smile more. It brings joy to your friends, fear to your enemies, and confusion to everybody else. 😛
Why is her mouth curving upward like that? What is that?? 😉
Never before seen on her face, it is a mystery.
Is that her biting face? Is it feeding time? I DON’T UNDERSTAND???
Maybe its like chimps, and she’s smiling because she senses weakness?
Jacob in last panel: Uhh.. maybe I’ll move over a seat – damn, last row. Maybe, out the window? Fourth floor? Um…
*looks over at Sarah again*
I’M OK WITH BROKEN BONES
*crash*
*Builds an extension onto the side of the fourth floor room just so he can scooch one row over further away from her*
Oh no, Sarah used makeup contaminated by the Joker!
Be afraid, very afraid…
Sarah has become Wednesday from Addams Family Values. She’s scaring me!
I gotta give Christina Ricci credit, that is one disturbing smile.
My cousin smiles like that naturally.
I can do that kind of smile in the mirror, and it even scares ME.
Apparently my silly cross-eyed grin scares children. I saw a photo of me doing it once, I realise now why it scares them; I don’t do that anymore. (Scaring the children I work with is not that clever of a move)
And Wednesday from Addams Family Value has become her mother.
Careful Sarah, if the wind changes your face will stay that way!
Sort of like Willem Dafoe in The Smile Man?
Sarah, honey, nooooo. You need to do some face stretches before you exercise muscles you never use. The last thing you want is a smile cramp.
Sarah smiled… and Jacob shuddered.
The world just shuddered. MIKE just shuddered.
The windows just shuttered!
I’m not sure how to frame this nicely, but your puns … they pane me …
it’s okay to rebuke them, they were just glass-king for it.
You guys crack me up.
So i better glue you up:-P
I find this whole conversation transparent.
I see right through all your flimsy attempts at humour. Sill, it’s not like I can do any better…
Frau Blucher!
Nay.
*Whinny*
https://youtu.be/zdIID_TGwhM?t=6
Well, the universe hasn’t imploded yet, so we can assume Sarah isn’t meant to be permanently scowling like Mandy.
me too, jacob……
UNNATURAL BUT PRETTY
Pretty unnatural.
preternaturally
SARAH HAS SMILED!
THE END IS NIGH!!!
RUN WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!
And now everyone is a power puff girl……
Jacob: ‘The writer said there would be no science fiction elements in this comic, and now there’s pod people? So much for artistic integrity.’
I for one fully support this new narrative direction.
…and our new Pod Person Overlords.
Sarah must be very upset i never seen her make that face. It is actually kinda scary.
Nobody move… It’s perception is based on movement…
*twitch*
Its. The normal rules for possessive contractions don’t apply in this case.
Yes, English is an abomination.
Where’s the “Who is DoA’s hottest lady?” poll when you need it? Yowzuh!
Sarah uses Perky!
It’s super effective!
Jacob flinched!
The cadet Sarah cast a sexy look. Jacob froze.
(Anyone who can get that reference deserves this cookie)
Oh My Gosh! I just started playing Terranigma (again) last week!
Long live the SNES!
Here, have half a cookie then! 😀
Terranigma?
Well done, you get the other half of the cookie! 😀
More like, super scary.
Uh??? OH! I get it Sarah has been replaced by a body snatcher! Halloween’s come early everyone!
Curses! The costume is not yet ready!
Jacob, looking back: “And that was when I knew I was utterly screwed.”
And so was she.
Dear Jacob,
This looks like trouble. We’re out of here.
Bona salut,
– your eyebrows
You fools! you messed with the natural order!
Nice Billy & Mandy reference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjJUUS41h24
I was trying to remember the exact quote.
Definitely referenced this above. I had forgotten about the bird, though. Kudos to you.
I considered posting the same. Glad I don’t have to.
On almost anyone else, that level of smiling would be adorable.
On Sarah, it makes me want to check my food for poison.
She’s gotta get all zen for this shit…
Just say good morning Sarah. Like, the smile is gorgeous, but it’s freaking everyone out.
And here is it guys, the scariest moment in the webcomic ever… run for your lives.
~ Miss Clinton has got it going on. ~
I’m guessing you already figured out that that fits the cadence of Stacy’s Mom perfectly? Well, you can also replace “Stacy” with “Raidah”. What kind of monster has been unleashed?
Raidah and Stacy have different numbers of syllables.
Then I’ve been pronouncing her name wrong, treating the two vowels of “Rai” as a diathong. Does her name rhyme with Aida?
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/05-saturdays-all-right-for-slighting/freshmen/
The strip where she meets Joyce explains how it’s pronounced.
Sarah it’s not working your new method is scaring him !
Reminds me of the time Hannelore tried this tactic in QC…
Who thought it was a good idea for her to work at Doom, again? O_O
Her therapist.
I thought Marten suggested it and her therapist laughed and she did it to prove her therapist wrong…
Sarah~
Wont you smile a while for me-
You know what, I
I gotta go
do…
a thing.
Outside.
…
This won’t end well.
OMG, Sarah is smiling
…truly it is a sign of the apocalypse!
OH MY GOD ITS BOOBS
Okay, Sarah, you have overpowered him with your having boobs.
He can be your boyfriend now.
It’s kind of impressive. 50 comments and yours is the first to mention her boobs. In fact, I didn’t actually notice her boobs until I got all the way down here.
I’m not gonna lie, I thought Jacob was looking at her boobs (nice shirt with the semi-exposed cleavage) instead of the bandana.
The boobs were the first thing I noticed because I always do that that with my arms and my chest when I like a guy.
I noticed it as well (“Jesus, Sarah is buxom O_o”) and thought the same. Probably working what she’s got to make her chest appear even bigger.
So she has to take off the bandanna to appear happy?
The bandana is metaphorical for her disinterest in others. As you know black hair is very unruley so being uninterested in making friends she just weighs it down with the bandana. But this time she’s controlled it with a hairband using it make her hair controlled if natural. Between her jacket ,bandana, and scowl she’s removed 3 pieces of social armor
Agree with your reasoning.
Does this mean Sal flattens her interest in most parts of anything out of her hair?
It’s obvious, the bandanna is cursed.
We must….dispose of it.
*thunderclap*
Okay, Jacob’s expression here made me laugh.
Yes.
zomg she took off the bandana and doing something weird with her face. Stahp stahp stahp stahp D:D:D:D:D:
man, if Sarah ever straightened her hair, it would be as long (maybe longer!) as Sal’s. I kinda just wanna see it in a giant ‘fro though `
So, who thought Sarah had a giant bald spot under her bandana?
She’s been in comics without her bandana. Usually when she’s talking to Joyce right before bedtime.
You’ve been reading Girls with Slingshots!
An excellent choice in reading material.
Nah, never even seen a panel, AFAIK.
That… is terrifying.
Run, Jacob, run!
(Normally, I support Sarah, but this behavior is too freaky!)
WOW THAT’S UNSETTLING!
We all think this is some spite-fuled scheme to snatch Jacob away from Raidah.
In reality she just lost a bet with Joyce.
So it’s a spite fueled scheme to prove Joyce wrong then?
Nah, the clothes are because the bet, the spite is just her natural state.
Oh, Sarah. Never change yourself completely for a boy, it’s not worth it. That said, I am totally here for your self-empowerment and go-and-get-your-man attitude.
.. as you can tell I have conflicting emotions about Sarah today lol.
It’s less of go-and-get-your-man, and more of go-and-fuck-over-your-enemy.
True. But I am here for that, too.
Go-and-fuck-over-your-enemy-(and-fuck-her-man).
P.s David. Sarah looks great but if u imagine the graphic of her tied up hair she still looks great with short hair. If you are considering her getting a plot driven haircut I hope you do this one.
That reminds me: Who else here loved Sal’s hair with curls?
Me! I personally would love to see Sal with Marley twists, but I’d settle for any natural hair. (Marley twists would be fucking hard to draw tho so that probably won’t happen)
So…what happens when Jacob doesn’t like Sarah as any more than a friend?
I think at this point she’d settle for just simply pissing Raidah off. And being just friends with him would do that.
It will get uglier still. Sarah is on a slippery slope into Fatal Attraction territory, IMO.
Then she uses her friendship to influence his opinion of Raidah, which is the whole point.
The smile on the face of the tiger.
The lady or the tiger? BOTH!
DARIA REFERENCE
Stockton reference, but I’m not surprised I’m not first in the world with that twist.
I should watch Daria at some point.
It’d be an appropriate thing. Sarah already had many elements to her that remind me of Daria, then here now she’s channeling Daria from the end of Quinn the Brain…
Jacob’s face is perfect.
I was too busy looking at Sarah’s face to realize Jacob had one.
Kill them with kindness was never my strong suit.
Kill them with a fusion cannon was always my motto.
You’ll get farther with a kind word and a fusion cannon than with just a kind word.
What about two fusion cannons?
Too much is never enough.
Hot Rodder’s maxim: “If some is good, more is better and Too Much is Just Right.” Hot Rod Magazine ca 1957
Reminds me of the time I used Hot Rod as a shield so I could kill Prime.
Ah, good times.
Have you filled your meatbag quota for today?
If not, I’m afraid I’ll have to remove you from the Society of Murderbots… With a railgun or five.
You made so many kids cry, it was hilarious.
O HORROR OF HORRORS THAT HAST PIERCED THE VEIL OF MADNESS
Sarah may be going after Jacob to screw over Raidah, but in all fairness she really does like him: she just doesn’t know how to get over the mess she made of trying to flirt with him before.
Yeah Sarah is scary but she’s also hot. Go get him Sarah. While he’s dazed and trying to get his eyebrows back.
Knowing Jacob (or at least his pattern’s) self control and will-power, she would have had him had she just kept removing clothing. But given the Ur-Jacob’s judgement, he’s going to eventually fall for Sarah (along with Raidah) anyway.
YAS KWEEN
its worse than i thought
….Is…..Is…Sarah smiling? I can’t…..comprehend.
i dont know if shes put zero thought into this or if the lack of general social interaction has just left her with no idea how these things work cause this is not working
reminds me of how i acted this time i tried to get a guy i had a poor relationship with to like me to get back at a friend who was going out with him. in middle school.
Did it end well?
well it didnt blow up in my face, and everyone forgot pretty quickly.
it definitely didnt work though.
*glare-y mcGlare face*
Uh hi there
*weird and horrible rictus*
Yeah I’d be freaked out too.
Also, why did she take her head scarf off? Have we seen her without her bandanna before?
When Sarah said she was over Jacob and didn’t want to lure him back? She was lying; possibly to herself too!
In flashbacks to her Freshman year with Dana, she didn’t wear the scarf. Also, apparently a few times when she was getting ready for bed, but I remember the flashbacks.
that face i can’t
Well that’s terrifying and wonderful.
I’m with Jacob on this one.
Sarah is now sexier this way. Maybe she’ll end up doing it more often….or maybe not.
Jacob be like “Holy mother of god what did I do what did I do aaaaaa”
“Oh God, what’s happening? Am I dying? Is she dying? ogodogodogod”
Meanwhile the rest of the class are huddling at the back of the room, afraid to make a sound.
Sounds about right XD
Oh she’s doing that thing with her arms to make her boobs look bigger like what I do.
I’m a guy. Would it work for me?
Yes.
I’m glad someone else apart from me noticed this.
She got them anime-eyes goin on. “Notice me Senpai, notice me!”
*demonic voice* “THEN SHOVE YOUR *censored censored censored censored*”
127 comments and only one mention of Mike? I’m shocked. Of course, I don’t think we’ve seen Mike smile in THIS universe yet.
I’m just gonna leave this here: http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=917
Or this one: http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1734
or this one.
Speaking of, Jacob is good for this sort of reaction, in both universes
http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1168
Yup. It was so much easier to search the “drunk mike” archives though. I was too lazy to search the sober Mike tags for that one.
You jinxed it.
I love how one half the comments are ‘wow who’s this pretty lady’ and the other half are just ‘AHH MAKE IT STOP’
Who ever said they were mutually exclusive sentiments?
I’m feeling both of those very strongly at the moment.
Respectfully, I would point out that I’m both. I’m wondering if today’s Law class will end with Sarah and Raidah getting suspended after having a knock-down, hair-pulling fight in the middle of the classroom!
Meanwhile, I’m counting down for Jacob to break and run screaming for the hills.
Um… I don’t think that I’ve ever seen Sarah without her bandanna and smiling. Wow! She’s actually pretty when she smiles. Such a pity, as Jacob noticed, that the whole air of the scene has such an undercurrent of ‘crazy’!
Oh my god, she’s gone Disney Princess!
THAT movie I would watch.
“Somedaayyyy my prince will coooome and he will be miiiiine so I can drink my enemy’s teeeeeaaaaars!”
Joyce would play the bumbling sidekick.
Dina would be the wisecracking velociraptor.
Becky would be the lesbian.
No, Becky would be the rescuing prince. Possibly riding the velociraptor.
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I wonder if it’s the first time we sees Sarah without that thing on her head.
No, we see her without it all the time.
We’ve seen her without a scowl?
With Sarah, I gather, “Good morning?” legitimately is a question and not a presumption or offer.
Jacob already knows. Good for Jacob.
Jacob’s internal monologue: “Sarah is cra-zy!“
SARAH!!!!!!
300 animé-ted watts of lovesexy!
Oh won’t you smile awhile with me, Sarah…
(Okay, somebody needs to link up a YouTube of the Hall & Oates song, stat!)
Jacob’s eyebrows are doing the dance of uncertainty or is it fear?
Dance, eyebrows, dance!
I’m almost sure he’s either uncertain of whether he should be afraid, or afraid of how uncertain he is.
I believe this is what is referred to as “stripping down for action”.
His face in the last panel… I just love it! xD
Sarah no
stahp
I fear that it is too late to do that.
Let the shenanigans begin! Tho I am kinda torn about her reasons for doing it. Let’s hope actual affection wins out over need to ruin another person.
Poor Sarah. She must feel like a vampire, intentionally holding her face up to the sun.
“HNG! The… PAIN… but… must endure! For… the TEARS! I… WILL… SEE… HER… WEEP!”
Anyone else remember the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy? There was an episode where Mandy smiles and the world implodes because of it. I feel that should happen here.
My immediate thought when I saw this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buZZyUBwymA
THIS WAS NOT A PLEASANT SIGHT TO WAKE UP AND SEE!
Still think Joyce and Jacob end up together. Sarah’s intentions all suck
…I…That…
I like that ship idea. I like it a lot.
It sounds like a really cute ship! It’s chances are low though, in view of Joyce’s habit of being … overly conscious of race.
Eh, I don’t think that’d really be an issue. She’s really just sheltered and paranoid about being inadvertently offensive. The more comfortable she gets with somebody, the less it would be an issue. She has no problems with Walky, Sal, or Sarah over that.
I’d be interested to see how her parents would react.
I mean, Joyce has shown to be pretty racist at times. Early on she even described Sarah being her roommate as a novelty.
It’s absolutely born from her sheltered upbringing, with even her mom being thrilled at her daughter having a black friend to prove how not racist she was to the rest of her neighbourhood, but I think she has the drive to grow out of it.
Just about a week ago, I had a dream about Sarah removing her scarf & how it held some special significance for her. Apparently I was not far off the mark. (Although I guess in my dream I confused her with Shelley from Wapsi Square, who grew her hair long after her mom’s death.)
Jacob is clearly thinking: “Sarah is happy. THIS BODES ILL.”
Suddenly I understand why people didn’t like me being nice. So creepy.
Same here.
Flash forward to the end of this scenario: the truth comes out, Raidah is dumped by Jacob. Later, Sarah brings him back to her room for some pre-marital hanky panky. Imagine the look on Joyce’s face:
Happiness for her friend,
Horror knowing what’s about to happen,
Guilt because she helped it happen (a little anyway), and
Jealousy because it’s what she secretly wants too!
It’s time for Sarah Slipshine moment, right?
Sarah is smiling…
ABORD MISSION, I REPEAT, ABORD MISSION!
In English it is spelled “abort”.
Maybe he wants us all to get aboard?
Sarah is always super cute, but has an air of being unapproachable (because she’s pretty much unapproachable). I’m really curious to see how Jacob and Sarah interact, given that Jacob basically cut her off as a friend in their last class meeting. It seems pretty clear that Sarah’s strategy is working.
Today’s comment thread reminds me I live in the unfortunate universe where Sarah placed 11th on the hottest poll (which split the difference between physical attractiveness and popularity/likeability).
Jacob cut her off because she decided that he didn’t really want to be friends, and even then defended her when Raidah was talking about how she was a toxic individual.
If Sarah could just explain herself he’d probably listen, but she’s been so burned by past experiences that other than Joyce and maybe even then, she can’t consider anybody liking her.
Seemed as if he just wasn’t going to force a friendship, not willing to spend time chiseling away at such obviously well-maintained walls.
I voted for her. I love this version of Sarah.
So.
I am preparing popcorn.
Lotsa popcorn.
She’s so eerie looking, Jacob’s eyebrows are escaping!
Looks like the same reaction that Wednesday got when she attempted to smile in Addams Family Values.
Man I feel old now with that dated reference.
RED ALERT SHE IS SMILING ABORT ABORT
Sarah has attained Nirvana. The universe will resume normal operation shortly.
He’s so damn confused.
sarah looks happy. the fans being afraid is a natural response
Aww I never seen Sarah look so cute before! ^.^
“Good morning? ….wait, I mean DAMN GURL, WHASSUP??”
I just noticed the only time we saw her really smiling was with Jacob back then … before Raidah. You know.