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September 20, 2023

Rulin’ out

by David M Willis on October 4, 2015 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - To Those Who'd Ground Me

└ Tags: joyce, sal

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    October 4, 2015 at 12:01 am | #

    “WORST WOMBMATE EVAR”

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      October 4, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

      “WOMB TO RENT”

      • inqntrol
        inqntrol
        October 4, 2015 at 12:12 am | #

        ,,ENOUGH SPACE FOR 4 PERSONS,EVEN 5″

      • David Herbert
        David Herbert
        October 4, 2015 at 12:12 am | #

        NO WOMB AT THE INN

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          October 4, 2015 at 12:22 am | #

          How do do they keep themselves clean every month? WITH A WOMBBA!

          • inqntrol
            inqntrol
            October 4, 2015 at 12:28 am | #

            I read the last word as ,,WOMBAT” and went through my mind:,,A marsupial in the womb as a housekeeper.”After all,the womb is like an inside pouch,but getting out isn’t very easy.

            • Ana Chronistic
              Ana Chronistic
              October 4, 2015 at 1:25 am | #

              WOMB RAIDER

              wait eew

              • Deanatay
                Deanatay
                October 4, 2015 at 8:33 am | #

                …Sounds like porn to me.

                • DerDoc
                  DerDoc
                  October 4, 2015 at 10:01 pm | #

                  It is, They were peeing on each other for nine months before they got outta the woubb. KINKY!!

              • NotPiffany
                NotPiffany
                October 4, 2015 at 10:16 am | #

                That’s got to be the weirdest documentary of a C-section ever. 😉

            • Someone
              Someone
              October 4, 2015 at 1:28 am | #

              Thank God we don’t function like that

              Well got to go the grocery store, time to shove my baby back in.

              • Yet_One_More_Idiot
                Yet_One_More_Idiot
                October 4, 2015 at 5:23 am | #

                Yes hello, I’d like to find a womb to went….perhaps a womb with a view?

                • Strangeshapes
                  Strangeshapes
                  October 4, 2015 at 11:19 pm | #

                  Oh my god, is that really an Uncle Bonsai reference?!? You rock!

      • Resident SnipeFish
        Resident SnipeFish
        October 4, 2015 at 12:06 pm | #

        That sounds suspiciously like your mother.

      • Ryek Hvek
        Ryek Hvek
        October 4, 2015 at 12:51 pm | #

        ♫ “fifteen cents”♫

    • Gigafreak
      Gigafreak
      October 4, 2015 at 8:06 am | #

      College Wombies From Hell!!!!

      • Volkai
        Volkai
        October 4, 2015 at 9:52 am | #

        The ultimate webcomic prequel.

        • Roborat
          Roborat
          October 5, 2015 at 2:36 pm | #

          An existing webcomic might have objections to that name.

    • Paradoxius
      Paradoxius
      October 4, 2015 at 1:44 pm | #

      WOMBIES!

  2. inqntrol
    inqntrol
    October 4, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    How to be cool:Hate people.

    • Someone
      Someone
      October 4, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

      I can do that you ass

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      October 4, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

      Sith are all about the hate and those guys are pretty cool.

      • Lokitsu
        Lokitsu
        October 4, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

        Yeah, but have you noticed the skin problems they have? I don’t think proactive is strong enough to handle Sith-face.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          October 4, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

          Skincare is not a high priority amongst the Sith.

          • Cholma
            Cholma
            October 4, 2015 at 12:34 am | #

            All you have to do is UNcheck the box marked “show Dark Side corruption” on the character sheet, guys!

            • Foxhack
              Foxhack
              October 4, 2015 at 12:35 am | #

              Or you could just wear a fashionable mask.

      • RavenEmperor
        RavenEmperor
        October 4, 2015 at 9:33 am | #

        Actually, hatred is a tool the Sith use to get stronger, but the Sith Code never even mentions hatred.

        • NotPiffany
          NotPiffany
          October 4, 2015 at 10:20 am | #

          True. The line is “Peace is a lie; there is only passion.” Sure, you can hate someone with a passion, but there are other options. Somewhere there are Sith who funnel their passion into epic love (or possibly just epic orgies); they are the most emotionally healthy force sensitives in the Star Wars universe.

          • J.Crowe
            J.Crowe
            October 4, 2015 at 6:56 pm | #

            Nope. The Sith forbid love just as much as the Jedi do. Sith claim love makes you weak and whatnot.

            The Sith code is like communism: On paper it sounds amazing, in practice it gets hijacked by fascists who want more power.

            • Steampunkette
              Steampunkette
              October 4, 2015 at 8:15 pm | #

              I always felt the best Jedi or Sith would be one who walks the middle road. Who feels emotions, then moves past them rather than getting mired. BE Happy. BE Sad. BE Angry. And then move on to the next emotion and deal with the fallout of your increased immediate power based on the emotions you just channeled.

              • Justin
                Justin
                October 4, 2015 at 11:59 pm | #

                There’s an alternate version of the Jedi code that replaces the “There is no X, there is Y” with “X, yet Y”. For example, “There is no emotion, there is peace” becomes “Emotion, yet peace”. I think it’s a much healthier philosophy.

        • MichaelHaneline
          MichaelHaneline
          October 4, 2015 at 11:50 am | #

          But Yoda told me Hate leads to Suffering.

          • chiscii
            chiscii
            October 4, 2015 at 12:20 pm | #

            heh, “power/strength leads to suffering” sounds like a more intense version of the old “money can’t buy happiness” adage

          • Screwball
            Screwball
            October 4, 2015 at 2:05 pm | #

            Well if you meatbags get too dehydrated, it can cause suffering, right? And if you don’t keep your fluids up during an “epic orgy”, it ain’t gonna be too epic…

    • Pink Freud
      Pink Freud
      October 4, 2015 at 1:04 am | #

      No no no, you have to hate the RIGHT people.

      • Pat
        Pat
        October 4, 2015 at 2:21 am | #

        I believe the expectation is that you hate the wrong people.

        • podian
          podian
          October 4, 2015 at 3:24 am | #

          Why not both?

          • Screwball
            Screwball
            October 4, 2015 at 2:06 pm | #

            Just hate everyone equally…

            • Strangeshapes
              Strangeshapes
              October 4, 2015 at 11:20 pm | #

              The Tao of Mike…

  3. Mada
    Mada
    October 4, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    I just love that they’re talking with each other somewhat normally now 🙂

    • MM
      MM
      October 4, 2015 at 12:30 am | #

      I also love that it’s basically the same strategy Sarah used to try and bond with Jacob.

  4. John
    John
    October 4, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    I’m envisioning Sal punching Walky in the womb.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      October 4, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

      Still less painful than punching him in the sack.

      • liahansen
        liahansen
        October 4, 2015 at 12:22 am | #

        I dont think they even had hands when they were still in the sack together

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          October 4, 2015 at 12:26 am | #

          According to science, once the cells have divided enough, the very first thing they make is an asshole and they build the rest of the human from there.

          • Ana Chronistic
            Ana Chronistic
            October 4, 2015 at 1:27 am | #

            The way I read that makes it sound like, “With Mike, they stopped at the asshole.”

          • Someone
            Someone
            October 4, 2015 at 1:30 am | #

            Wait how can you start with the asshole?

            Logically that’s just empty space (a hole) you could howver start with the sphincter

        • Arian
          Arian
          October 4, 2015 at 1:27 am | #

          Er? If you mean the womb, of course they did. They were there together till right before they were born, after all.

          If you mean the amniotic sac, they never were in the same one.

          • JaneDoe
            JaneDoe
            October 4, 2015 at 4:00 am | #

            Pretty sure they mean an entirely different kind of sack. As in, not fertilized eggs yet. Just a gleam in their daddy’s eye, if you will.

            • Arian
              Arian
              October 5, 2015 at 1:33 am | #

              Ah. Thank you. 🙂

    • Someone
      Someone
      October 4, 2015 at 12:15 am | #

      Slowely Sal waited to develop working arms

      • Damned Scholar
        Damned Scholar
        October 5, 2015 at 2:27 am | #

        The first thing she did was light a cigarette.

    • inqntrol
      inqntrol
      October 4, 2015 at 12:18 am | #

      It’s survival of the fittest.

  5. Someone
    Someone
    October 4, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    Well he didn’t absorb you so thats gotta count for something

    • inqntrol
      inqntrol
      October 4, 2015 at 12:21 am | #

      Or devour her,just like baby sharks do.

    • Arian
      Arian
      October 4, 2015 at 1:24 am | #

      He couldn’t; they’re fraternal.

      • Arian
        Arian
        October 4, 2015 at 1:25 am | #

        oops, those brackets don’t work here. I said, “/pedantry”

      • RAZ
        RAZ
        October 4, 2015 at 2:45 am | #

        I read somewhere about ‘chimera’, a person born with 2 sets of dna. The possible cause is fraternal twins merging.

        • Agemegos
          Agemegos
          October 4, 2015 at 7:11 am | #

          Yeah, there was a woman in the UK whose children’s DNA test showed that they were her husband’s children but her nephews. Turned out that she was a chimera whose ovaries formed from a different conceptus than her blood-forming tissues (the DNA test was based on a blood sample.

          I knew a girl when i was growing up with conspicuous mosaicism, but that’s different.

  6. Kocel
    Kocel
    October 4, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    It’s too bad they’re not on good terms, because Walky could really use someone like Sal to verbally smack some sense into him before he lets his grades go too far down the toilet.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      October 4, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

      Everyone could use some motivational speak from Sal. She could be a life coach.

    • -Sentinel-
      -Sentinel-
      October 4, 2015 at 12:28 am | #

      I don’t think Sal cares about Walky’s grades and future. I would count on Dorothy.

      • No Name
        No Name
        October 4, 2015 at 11:25 am | #

        Actually, she does. She cares if he fails so she can rub his and their mother’s faces in it.

    • begbert
      begbert
      October 4, 2015 at 3:22 pm | #

      There’s actually a conservation of mathergy between the Walkerton twins. If Walky’s grades rise Sal’s will drop again.

  7. Kraken
    Kraken
    October 4, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    So it turns out it’s a mix of both issues!

  8. LBD "Nytetrayn"
    LBD "Nytetrayn"
    October 4, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

    That smile from Sal at the end sells this.

  9. Edupoet81
    Edupoet81
    October 4, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

    Sal didn’t really comment on Joyce’s confession about being the Whiteboard Dingdong Bandit.

    It is cool to see them bonding, in any case. Could Joyce get her wish, and actually become friends with Sal?

    • Someone
      Someone
      October 4, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

      The day The White Board Ding Dong bandit drew a ding dong on your white board was the most important day of you life. But for me it was tuesday

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        October 4, 2015 at 12:12 am | #

        But for Joyce it was just another Friday.

        • Someone
          Someone
          October 4, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

          shit part of the comment got deleted

          But for me it was friday

          • timemonkey
            timemonkey
            October 4, 2015 at 6:38 am | #

            The actual Tuesday quote has been blocked because commenters were spamming it after the robbery flashback.

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      October 4, 2015 at 1:28 am | #

      Does Sal even go in the halls to have noticed the ding-dong bandit was a thing?

      • inqntrol
        inqntrol
        October 4, 2015 at 1:47 am | #

        She is to cool to notice mere stuff like that. That’ why she sticks with other cool people….and Malaya.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        October 4, 2015 at 2:15 am | #

        No whiteboards outside the windows

  10. newllend(henryvolt)
    newllend(henryvolt)
    October 4, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

    Thing is she found out about everything after you broke it off and she still hung around, you can’t still be in the same circle of friends and avoid her at the same time.

  11. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    October 4, 2015 at 12:10 am | #

    Is there a superhero (or villain) named Power Trip?

    • Someone
      Someone
      October 4, 2015 at 12:12 am | #

      Closest I can find is Power Girl

      • Time Sage
        Time Sage
        October 4, 2015 at 12:25 am | #

        And she’s just Super Girl from Earth 2 under a diffrent name because the main universe already has a Super Girl (Don’t read too much into this.. her history is.. a mess)

      • DSL
        DSL
        October 4, 2015 at 9:27 am | #

        Daisy from the school paper wants to talk to you NOW.

    • Marvelman
      Marvelman
      October 4, 2015 at 2:36 pm | #

      Or Power Pack.

  12. m2iCodeJockey
    m2iCodeJockey
    October 4, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

    I’m not sure but, I think they’re called ‘squeans.’
    /sarcasm…

  13. caesaria82
    caesaria82
    October 4, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

    Nothing bonds two people quicker than mutual hatred of a third person 😀

  14. Dr.Zeus
    Dr.Zeus
    October 4, 2015 at 12:15 am | #

    Okay my mind is messed. I didn’t immediately think of them sharing their mother’s uterus but rather, I dunno, them sharing one like a book passed between the two.

    • deCombys
      deCombys
      October 4, 2015 at 12:22 am | #

      Yeah, don’t worry, I thought first about some siamese kind of stuff.

    • Just Me
      Just Me
      October 4, 2015 at 12:24 am | #

      I think you’d have to be the same gender to be co-joined twins. And why the Walky hate? Is this cosmic retribution for him being the Lead in the previous series?

      • deCombys
        deCombys
        October 4, 2015 at 12:27 am | #

        Are we 100% sure he’s cis? If not, there’s a possibility they might’ve been joined by the uterus.

        • No Name
          No Name
          October 4, 2015 at 12:39 am | #

          We are. Of both of them. Orientations, of gender, sex and sexuality, are constant across Willis-verses.

          • Mindlink
            Mindlink
            October 4, 2015 at 4:16 pm | #

            The intersting thing is that, if it hadn’t been for the fact that we have access to the “God” of this universe to tell us these things, we would never know, since I don’t think we’ve seen the actual birth.
            Sometimes doctors would change the sex of a baby immediately after birth, without even telling the parents, if there was a birth defect that affected the genitalia severely enough, or if the child was born with both.
            This practice has long since been discontinued, but it took place long enough that the Walkertons could’ve been affected.

      • Norah
        Norah
        October 4, 2015 at 1:13 am | #

        I think it’s just because their parents preferred him.

    • fishamaphone
      fishamaphone
      October 4, 2015 at 3:57 am | #

      Ditto. “Y’wouldn’t believe it, but ah once got th’ uterus back from ‘im with an oil stain. He didn’t explain’r anything, ‘n ah spent three hours washin’ it out.”

  15. Thor
    Thor
    October 4, 2015 at 12:15 am | #

    I read Sal saying she shared a uterus with Walky, and I was all “Whaaaaaat! WTF are you going with this, Willis?” then I realized she meant their mom’s uterus, and everything was better again.

    • Dean
      Dean
      October 4, 2015 at 12:19 am | #

      Sal and Walky shared a uterus because it was too big for either of them to eat on their own.

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        October 4, 2015 at 1:32 am | #

        “I LOVE UTERUS BUT I COULD NEVER EAT A WHOLE ONE”

        is that how it goes

        • Dean
          Dean
          October 4, 2015 at 2:10 am | #

          The trick is to avoid filling up with bread before the uterus arrives.

        • timemonkey
          timemonkey
          October 4, 2015 at 6:40 am | #

          “I simply adore children”

    • Gangler
      Gangler
      October 4, 2015 at 12:36 am | #

      Took a second to click for me too. I was thinking conjoined twins born with only one uterus between the two of them, but then I got it.

      • Kryss LaBryn
        Kryss LaBryn
        October 4, 2015 at 9:14 am | #

        Even regular identical twins that weren’t conjoined share a uterus. 🙂

        • Kryss LaBryn
          Kryss LaBryn
          October 4, 2015 at 9:17 am | #

          Aaand I just realized I’m confusing ‘uterus’ and ‘placental sack’. Okay, everyone, unless their mum was one of those few women born with two uteruses (uterii?), yep, they shared a uterus. All multiple pregnancies would, saving the same exception.

          • random832
            random832
            October 4, 2015 at 11:21 pm | #

            Isn’t it unsafe for women with that condition to have pregnancies in both at the same time?

            • No Name
              No Name
              October 5, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

              Probably, but it can still happen.

  16. Stephen R. Bierce
    Stephen R. Bierce
    October 4, 2015 at 12:16 am | #

    *plays “Tiny Bubbles” on the Muzak*

  17. dailybrad
    dailybrad
    October 4, 2015 at 12:21 am | #

    Admiration is the furthest thing from understanding, Joyce. If you stop putting Dorothy on a pedestal, your friendship can really begin to take off.

    • Pantheon the Mantheon
      Pantheon the Mantheon
      October 4, 2015 at 12:30 am | #

      I think this goes deeper than just expecting more from Dorothy. She expected Dorothy to be there for her. The party was supposed to be a safe and innocuous get together for Joyce and Dorothy got drunk, not only bringing to mind bad memories but also putting everyone at risk after their RA suddenly arrived without warning. In my opinion, getting drunk for that was really a bad move on Dorothy’s part and I feel she might need to apologize for it.

      • Idon'tcarenomore
        Idon'tcarenomore
        October 4, 2015 at 1:32 am | #

        I agree. It was pretty thoughtless of Dorothy to chose that particular time to get drunk. She badly disappointed Joyce. And she may have caused serious problem when Ruthless showed up later.

      • Nono
        Nono
        October 4, 2015 at 9:27 am | #

        She hasn’t put that kind of pressure on Ethan though. Either she doesn’t hold him to that same standard, or she didn’t notice.

        • QF
          QF
          October 5, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

          Ethan wasn’t as noticeably drunk, though. Perks of being so big I guess.

  18. NotaGravatar
    NotaGravatar
    October 4, 2015 at 12:41 am | #

    For Dorothy it was just another party.

    For Joyce it was another attempt to overcome what happened to her at the last party.

    Based on decision making and awareness alone… Dorothy better develop a rock-solid platform or there is NO way I am voting for her.

    Really wish Joyce would confront Dorothy, and she might, but at the moment Dorothy is putting way less effort into the friendship than Joyce has. Joyce stood up to her parents FOR Dorothy, and in turn the valedictorian can’t put two and two together about why drinking at Joyce’s party would be uncomfortable. Irrationally angry about the situation and at Dorothy specifically.

    • chris73
      chris73
      October 4, 2015 at 6:52 pm | #

      Once again characters are getting blamed for not being able to read minds, ususally its Danny but now its Dorothys turn

      • NotaGravatar
        NotaGravatar
        October 5, 2015 at 3:17 pm | #

        Stated “irrationally angry,” didn’t I?

        Once again let’s gloss over stuff like that to make an enlightened point.

  19. Sailorcakes
    Sailorcakes
    October 4, 2015 at 12:53 am | #

    And a new friendship starts to bloom <3 ^_^

  20. Pinja
    Pinja
    October 4, 2015 at 1:22 am | #

    Gosh I’m liking Sal less and less every time I see her.

    • Arian
      Arian
      October 4, 2015 at 1:38 am | #

      Now? When she’s being friendlier to another person than she’s been in the entire comic up till now? Weird. Did you want her to stay mean?

      • timemonkey
        timemonkey
        October 4, 2015 at 6:43 am | #

        Some people are determined to hate a character no matter what they do.

        • Pinja
          Pinja
          October 4, 2015 at 6:59 am | #

          Indeed. I’m not one of those people but factually speaking you’re not wrong.

          • timemonkey
            timemonkey
            October 4, 2015 at 4:54 pm | #

            It would help your image if you explained why you dislike the character more and more instead of just stating the dislike.

            • Pinja
              Pinja
              October 4, 2015 at 5:11 pm | #

              I’m not in the market for a PR guy, but thanks.

  21. Twilightomens
    Twilightomens
    October 4, 2015 at 1:41 am | #

    That last line had me so confused like
    They have the same uterus?

    • Pinja
      Pinja
      October 4, 2015 at 1:53 am | #

      The amount of people confused by that line is pretty amazing.

      They’re twins so they shared their mother’s uterus.

      • skdk
        skdk
        October 4, 2015 at 8:51 am | #

        theyre not identical twins unless one of them is transgender

        • DarkoNeko
          DarkoNeko
          October 4, 2015 at 8:58 am | #

          Still in the same uterus as fetuses.

        • Pinja
          Pinja
          October 4, 2015 at 9:02 am | #

          … Yes?

          Are dizygotic/fraternal twins a state secret wherever you’re from?

        • Lord Stoneheart
          Lord Stoneheart
          October 4, 2015 at 9:52 am | #

          Unless their mom has two wombs, they shared the space with each other. There’s not a difference between identical and non identical twins in that regard.

  22. Lan Mikoto
    Lan Mikoto
    October 4, 2015 at 1:41 am | #

    Ah Joyce this is why you’ll be in my top three. You’re just a total goober. She’s like a six year old that just found out about Saturday morning cartoons when it comes to Sal and I like that. “Oh it’s time for Sal!” Little goober.

  23. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    October 4, 2015 at 1:47 am | #

    Gosh, I’m like Sal more and more every time I see her.

    Making cracks about her brother is her prerogative, most all brothers and sisters do it, to an extent.

    But, Sal and Walky are not on good grounds right now; the parents show really loaded favorism for Walky, partly based on their mixed race. Walky is a lot lighter skinned than Sal, and dosn’t have super curly hair.
    Sal works at straightening hers.

    At the family college weekend: Sal, dressed in her old private school dress-to please her parents, and attempted to talk to her parents at the college dorm. Her mother couldn’t even see her-literally, she only had eyes for Walky. Her father told her he ‘preferred her hair to be different that she was wearing it at the time’.
    She left and they didn’t even notice. Later, Walky and Sal came face to face over it. Walky ended up telling her that maybe if she hadn’t robbed a store at 13 they’d treat her diff. She said he knew that wasn’t so, they’d always treated him diff. because he was whiter. He wasn’t bothered, he didn’t try to comfort her. He just was enjoying what he considered his right, to all the attention. Later, he thought about it and felt some remorse but didn’t really act on it.

    So yeah, Sal has issues with him.
    It’s been mentioned Joyce and Sal seem to be bonding over this mutual dislike or lack of counting on: and this is like when Sarah did that with Jacob.

    This may be different. I think Sal and Joyce will move on as they learn to know each other, if they do. Sarah and Jacob seemed to not do that. Sarah isn’t much of a social conversationalist.

    Sal is a loner, but not a mean or cruel person. She came back for Joyce when she realized Joyce was in trouble. And she’s walking her to meet friends. It didn’t take her long to figure out what it was, and to make Joyce promise to talk to someone about it.

    What’s not to like?

    • Graham
      Graham
      October 4, 2015 at 2:00 am | #

      I dislike how she often views the world as black and white. All therapists are bad, cops are all pigs and the fact she almost stabbed a boy at 13.

      • NotPiffany
        NotPiffany
        October 4, 2015 at 10:39 am | #

        Eh, looking at the world as black and white is pretty normal for a teenager.

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          October 4, 2015 at 11:23 am | #

          Pretty much. We’re not supposed to see Sal as objectively right about her viewpoints when it comes to police and therapy(excluding those about her parents, of course), and we’re free to consider Sal’s judgements however we see fit.

      • Rutee
        Rutee
        October 5, 2015 at 11:48 am | #

        Viewing all cops as pigs is far healthier and safer for people at risk of having cops unfairly target them (like brown or black people). The ‘good’ ones almost all enable the bad ones to start with, and even if they didn’t, bad cops have far too much power to screw you, personally, to worry about the feelings of ‘good’ cops who might feel hurt. They should fucking end the corruption in their house if they want our trust.

    • TheGrammarLegionary
      TheGrammarLegionary
      October 4, 2015 at 2:09 am | #

      Give Sarah and Jacob time… mostly Sarah… okay, ALL Sarah… and I think we’ll see her grow in terms of openness. Sarah’s last appearance indicated to me that she desperately wants that, but doesn’t know how anymore. I don’t think we’re done with that storyline yet, not by a long shot.

      But yeah, Sal’s awesome. No question about it. I definitely prefer her to Walky, although that may just be because I see a lot of my worse qualities in him…

    • hof1991
      hof1991
      October 4, 2015 at 9:13 am | #

      This. But I believe the Word of God is that Walky and Sal are drawn with the same skin tone.

      • John
        John
        October 4, 2015 at 3:04 pm | #

        It’s not merely Word of God; it is objective fact. Both twins’ base skin tone is #cea87e. There’s a lot more to the complex of issues that make up the concept of “race” than merely skin tone.

      • xKiv
        xKiv
        October 4, 2015 at 5:15 pm | #

        Which can be verified in any strip where they are together. Most recently panel 3 of 4 days ago.
        It’s just that the exact same skin tone that’s called “black” on Sal is “generically beige” on Walky. According to Walky.

        • Nicknack Paddywhack
          Nicknack Paddywhack
          October 5, 2015 at 8:58 am | #

          It reminds me of a certain dress, except that black became gold instead of “generically beige”. But that’s close enough.

    • Lordess of Madness
      Lordess of Madness
      October 5, 2015 at 12:17 am | #

      Walky’s problem with the parents issue is that he’s a bit too immature and Naive to see that it actually is a real problem between him and Sal, and is also too immature (and lazy) to either know what to do about it, actually be bothered to do something, or comfort Sal.

  24. Nick Piers
    Nick Piers
    October 4, 2015 at 2:06 am | #

    “So, wait, what you’re saying is in order to be cool, I need to share a uterus with someone…”

    • Screwball
      Screwball
      October 4, 2015 at 3:10 pm | #

      Are you trying to bring a new Slipshine into existence?

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      October 4, 2015 at 6:25 pm | #

      Womb-mates.

  25. Bagge
    Bagge
    October 4, 2015 at 2:11 am | #

    Joooooooyce, talk to Dorothy. You are breaking my heart again.

    It SHOULD bother you that she was drunk at your party. You SHOULD worry about what she thinks about your relationship with Ethan. But good friends are allowed mistakes and to not be perfect. Talk to her.

  26. BenRG
    BenRG
    October 4, 2015 at 2:29 am | #

    One day, Sal is going to find out just how badly wrong her impression of Amazi-Girl is and I’m really interested to find out how she’ll react to that!

    That aside, if Sal achieves anything in this mini-arc, it will be this: She’ll convince Joyce to go beyond her indecision/fear loop about talking to others. All personal interactions carry with them a certain level of risk and the risk of rejection is one of them. It’s just something that Joyce is going to have to learn to live with, just like the rest of us.

    • lime sheep
      lime sheep
      October 4, 2015 at 8:42 pm | #

      is her impression actually wrong at all though

      • Rutee
        Rutee
        October 4, 2015 at 9:19 pm | #

        Almost definitely, to a degree and in the big picture. But as far as what Amazi-girl’s done to Sal…, no she’s basically entirely spot on.

  27. shadowsneakz
    shadowsneakz
    October 4, 2015 at 2:35 am | #

    This is almost totally irrelevant to this entire strip, but I think there should be another ship that we should have going on.

    I vote Sarah/Raidah

  28. CisoSecond
    CisoSecond
    October 4, 2015 at 3:02 am | #

    The mention of uterus randomly makes me wonder what Joyce’s opinion on abortion is.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      October 4, 2015 at 3:07 am | #

      If she isn’t reflexively pro-life I’d be stunned into immobile silence.

      • Kamino Neko
        Kamino Neko
        October 4, 2015 at 7:09 pm | #

        Ditto.

    • Pinja
      Pinja
      October 4, 2015 at 4:10 am | #

      Almost violently against it I imagine. Like if Dotty had one Joyce would be Radiah to her Dorothy’s Sarah.

      • Pinja
        Pinja
        October 4, 2015 at 4:13 am | #

        Although that said I have seen such a huge amount of anecdotal evidence that pro-lifers have abortions when it is them or their family maybe Joyce could make the leap for a friend.

        It’s always different when it’s us afterall : /

        • DarkoNeko
          DarkoNeko
          October 4, 2015 at 9:03 am | #

          about that…

          • Pinja
            Pinja
            October 4, 2015 at 9:38 am | #

            How ironic people called “Pro-Life” make me so violently angry : /

            • Damned Scholar
              Damned Scholar
              October 5, 2015 at 2:51 am | #

              These people also tend to be against healthcare and food for poor people, and against any and all gun regulations. So it’s really just “pro-birthing”.

  29. Nono
    Nono
    October 4, 2015 at 5:23 am | #

    Considering Sal left the party pretty early, Walky must have been drunk-goofing off really quickly after that one drink.

    • CaptainBatson
      CaptainBatson
      October 4, 2015 at 6:32 am | #

      Oh, he WAS.

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      October 4, 2015 at 6:47 am | #

      The Walktertons have hideously low alcohol tolerance. He was probably drunk just touching it.

  30. saki
    saki
    October 4, 2015 at 7:10 am | #

    Sal and Joyce bonding. Thank you Willis! Been wanting for this to happen forever! 😀

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      October 4, 2015 at 6:24 pm | #

      But is it convenient bonding or ironic bonding?

  31. Deanatay
    Deanatay
    October 4, 2015 at 8:31 am | #

    “Yeah, I’ve hated Walky MUCH longer than you have.

    He was always kickin’ me in there…”

  32. perlhaqr
    perlhaqr
    October 4, 2015 at 9:55 am | #

    Man. That seems like a somewhat excessively harsh dismissal of Amber.

    And sorry, Joyce. Step one of being a cool motorcycle chick is not *wanting* to be a cool motorcycle chick, but rather just *being* a cool motorcycle chick. Or another way: Less talking, more lifting.

    • NotPiffany
      NotPiffany
      October 4, 2015 at 10:52 am | #

      Given Sal’s interaction with Amazi-Girl in the past, it’s not surprising.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      October 4, 2015 at 11:33 am | #

      Amber attacked her in a parking lot with only the flimsiest piece of justification. “Caped White Girl Power Trip” is all Amazi-Girl is to Sal right now.

      • Sir Robin
        Sir Robin
        October 4, 2015 at 2:59 pm | #

        Yeah, it makes sense based on their interactions

  33. Kraken
    Kraken
    October 4, 2015 at 10:22 am | #

    Remember to pick up your issue of Caped White Girl Power Trip on new comic book day!

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      October 4, 2015 at 11:45 am | #

      “Caped White Power Trip” sounds like the last 70 years of Marvel and DC.

  34. Guest
    Guest
    October 4, 2015 at 12:09 pm | #

    Due to the old walkyverse, Joyce saying she can hate Walky just comes out so weird to me.

    • Sir Robin
      Sir Robin
      October 4, 2015 at 2:59 pm | #

      She used to have a crush on Danny, which is even weirder

      • Seerow
        Seerow
        October 4, 2015 at 3:04 pm | #

        “Crush” is a pretty mild way to put it.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          October 4, 2015 at 6:21 pm | #

          Suffocate seems more apt.

  35. Cizak
    Cizak
    October 4, 2015 at 3:17 pm | #

    Sal being nice to Joyce makes me feel fuzzy.

  36. sps48
    sps48
    October 4, 2015 at 3:21 pm | #

    Sal’s gotta stop smoking before I ever think she is cool.

  37. Element Zero
    Element Zero
    October 4, 2015 at 3:29 pm | #

    Joyce hating Walky runs counter to my expectations and it hurts, but I still love it all the same…

  38. Tenn
    Tenn
    October 4, 2015 at 5:40 pm | #

    I’m actually a bit surprised there’s no fanart of Sal and Walky in the womb yet.

  39. lime sheep
    lime sheep
    October 4, 2015 at 5:55 pm | #

    i forgot that the bubbles were there for drunk people and thought the alt text was somehow about what it was like being in the womb with him and i was really confused

    • Tenn
      Tenn
      October 5, 2015 at 4:58 pm | #

      I had the same thought process and concluded that prenatal Walky must have been surrounded by shoujo bubbles.

  40. Zapmolcuno
    Zapmolcuno
    October 4, 2015 at 9:34 pm | #

    dumbing of age aka “everyone bonds over mutual dislike of someone else”

    • Beckett
      Beckett
      October 4, 2015 at 9:46 pm | #

      “Then, they all have sex.”

  41. LiveWire
    LiveWire
    October 5, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

    Berkeley Breathed termed “those little bubbles” “Boozles.”

  42. charlierw1
    charlierw1
    October 5, 2015 at 8:28 am | #

    ohmygod the poll though

  43. Journeyman
    Journeyman
    October 5, 2015 at 10:46 pm | #

    Wombies!

    • Aaron Bourque
      Aaron Bourque
      October 6, 2015 at 10:56 am | #

      … I wonder how close we got to that being the concept of the reboot of Roomies!?

      • MrZombieScordo
        MrZombieScordo
        October 27, 2015 at 12:59 am | #

        If Willis has twins, It’s Pregnancy could be renamed Wombies.

        • David M Willis
          David M Willis
          October 27, 2015 at 1:01 am | #

          if?

          i’d BETTER be having twins!

          • DSL
            DSL
            November 11, 2015 at 11:30 am | #

            Whaddaya mean YOU’d better?

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