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I’unno

by David M Willis on April 17, 2016 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - When God Closes The Door
└ Tags: dorothy, sal, walky

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    April 17, 2016 at 12:01 am | #

    maybe you could take her to a bed and breakfast

    • Vagabond J
      Vagabond J
      April 17, 2016 at 12:05 am | #

      But where’s the fun in random strangers drawing on her face?

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        April 17, 2016 at 12:09 am | #

        Know how Sal borrowed clothes from Joyce that one time and somehow wore them and looked awesome?

        Don’t ask me how, but she could totally pull off a sharpied on mustache and penis.

        • Wheelpath
          Wheelpath
          April 17, 2016 at 12:11 am | #

          Her badassness allows her to rip ink off things. WOAH

        • Walky_Talky
          Walky_Talky
          April 17, 2016 at 1:22 am | #

          Now I need to see fan art of Sal in a Sharpie mustache and strap-on saying “Call me Salvador, lover of all things awesome and awesome lover of all things.”

          • Orion Fury
            Orion Fury
            April 17, 2016 at 1:52 am | #

            That sounds dangerously close to challenging Rule 34. To my understanding, that’s a bad idea.

            • Clif
              Clif
              April 17, 2016 at 1:58 am | #

              It is. So who’s going to do it.

              • Willie
                Willie
                April 17, 2016 at 9:38 am | #

                I think “strange markings” may have meant an imprint of the expanded steel mesh table top, not prankster(s) marking on her face while she slept.

                • NotPiffany
                  NotPiffany
                  April 17, 2016 at 8:42 pm | #

                  On the other hand, why limit yourself to one meaning?

              • notquitestup1d
                notquitestup1d
                April 17, 2016 at 8:21 pm | #

                Do you want 34, or just the sharpie stuff on a normal pic?

                • jhon
                  jhon
                  April 18, 2016 at 12:27 pm | #

                  Pourque pas tous les deux?

              • Ribbon
                Ribbon
                April 18, 2016 at 10:15 am | #

                Heck I’ll do it

          • notquitestup1d
            notquitestup1d
            April 19, 2016 at 2:24 am | #

            Sharpie: http://i.imgur.com/T4dmIdA.png
            No Sharpie: http://i.imgur.com/Qd38CBS.png

            strap-on version is a wip.

  2. butts
    butts
    April 17, 2016 at 12:01 am | #

    sooooo cooooool

  3. kkiten
    kkiten
    April 17, 2016 at 12:02 am | #

    Those tables are filthy.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      April 17, 2016 at 12:03 am | #

      You see? Sal doesn’t play it safe. She’s a rebel!

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        April 17, 2016 at 12:05 am | #

        Cool people get infections from strange tables!

        • Clif
          Clif
          April 17, 2016 at 2:00 am | #

          Only if they do it right.

    • SmilingNid
      SmilingNid
      April 17, 2016 at 12:15 am | #

      It is very clean, the rain washes them regularly.

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        April 17, 2016 at 12:40 am | #

        The birds and college students befoul them even more regularly.
        That never stops us from napping on them.

        • Felix
          Felix
          April 17, 2016 at 1:04 am | #

          We?

          • Felix
            Felix
            April 17, 2016 at 1:05 am | #

            Sorry, I mean: Us?

            • Clif
              Clif
              April 17, 2016 at 2:23 am | #

              So you admit it?

              • Charlie Spencer
                Charlie Spencer
                April 17, 2016 at 6:23 am | #

                Kickstarter to get DS and Felix a room.

                • Deanatay
                  Deanatay
                  April 17, 2016 at 6:57 am | #

                  Not even, like, ‘get a room’ like in making out. Just a better place for them to sleep.

                  Although, if you WANTED to make out… (make sure it has cameras.)

  4. Mr. Mendo
    Mr. Mendo
    April 17, 2016 at 12:02 am | #

    Dorothy will rue the day she interrupted Sal’s nap-time! RUE, I say!

    • Orion Fury
      Orion Fury
      April 17, 2016 at 1:30 am | #

      RUE!

      • Clif
        Clif
        April 17, 2016 at 2:25 am | #

        Ruta Graveolens

  5. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    April 17, 2016 at 12:02 am | #

    What happened to the fourth chair?

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      April 17, 2016 at 12:06 am | #

      Willis didn’t want to draw it because it would block the view of Sal.

      But then the drawing would no longer be accurate, so he had to go to the real campus in Indiana and steal it.

      • Clif
        Clif
        April 17, 2016 at 2:27 am | #

        Amazigirl beat him up for doing it, but that’s the sacrifice you make for art.

    • Tacos
      Tacos
      April 17, 2016 at 12:07 am | #

      It exploded from near proximity to Sal’s super coolness.

    • tim gueguen
      tim gueguen
      April 17, 2016 at 12:08 am | #

      The fourth wall took it. It needed something to sit on.

    • John
      John
      April 17, 2016 at 12:12 am | #

      Chairs rate about a quarter to half a bicycle on the annoying to draw scale.

    • Rose
      Rose
      April 17, 2016 at 12:13 am | #

      someone took a screwdriver to it, stole it, and threw it in a nearby creek. like seriously if it can be wedged off somebody’s gonna take it and cause property damage with it. college, man.

    • trlkly
      trlkly
      April 17, 2016 at 12:13 am | #

      I would not be surprised if the fourth chair is missing intentionally to give wheelchair access. I saw tables like that when I was in college, and that was like 10 years ago.

      • Bicycle Bill
        Bicycle Bill
        April 17, 2016 at 9:08 pm | #

        Good thought … new tables are designed with the missing chair (and without the hazard of the upright tube); this might have just had the chair removed in order to retro-fit it on the cheap.

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      April 17, 2016 at 12:18 am | #

      The actual table in real life has a chair missing. I changed which one it was, though, to give an unobstructed view of Sal.

      • David M Willis
        David M Willis
        April 17, 2016 at 12:30 am | #

        http://dumbingofage.tumblr.com/post/142932535322/moves-location-of-missing-chair-so-that-the-view

        • Random832
          Random832
          April 17, 2016 at 12:32 am | #

          Ah, but the real one has six posts, with five chairs. So you have to go there and steal those, too.

          • Orion Fury
            Orion Fury
            April 17, 2016 at 1:32 am | #

            Artistic Licence?

          • Slartibeast Button, BIA
            Slartibeast Button, BIA
            April 17, 2016 at 1:33 am | #

            Bad idea, I’ve heard stories about a vigilante beating up vandals around there.

            • Clif
              Clif
              April 17, 2016 at 2:30 am | #

              Licensing artists is also a bad idea. The take enough license with their art already.

        • ChrisHerself
          ChrisHerself
          April 17, 2016 at 4:20 am | #

          Dibs on the cigarette butts

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          April 17, 2016 at 7:23 am | #

          Aww, the table doesn’t have a waffle lattice, like I was expecting! I had hoped she would awaken with the mark of the waffle on her face.

          • JustCheetoDust
            JustCheetoDust
            April 17, 2016 at 2:08 pm | #

            You can still get a waffle using a tennis racket, some sandpaper, syrup, whipped cream and a vaccuum.

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      April 17, 2016 at 12:44 am | #

      Someone insisted on leaning it back, and it snapped off. It’s in the welding department waiting for the students and/or instructors to stop welding dicks onto metal plating long enough to fix it; should be repaired inside of two months.
      (Does IU have a welding dept.?)

      • Charlie Spencer
        Charlie Spencer
        April 17, 2016 at 6:28 am | #

        There’s a Bloomington Tech high school a few blocks west of the IU campus, at least according to Google Maps.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        April 17, 2016 at 8:55 am | #

        Clearly the solution is to put each chair on a spring, like those bouncy horses they have in playgrounds.

  6. SpoopyFox
    SpoopyFox
    April 17, 2016 at 12:02 am | #

    why are there only 3 chairs

    • AgentKeen
      AgentKeen
      April 17, 2016 at 12:12 am | #

      Someone stole the other one, probably. Or it was broken and hasn’t been replaced.

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      April 17, 2016 at 12:47 am | #

      One broke off, the other two were banished to the dimension of Too Much of a Pain in the Ass to Draw.

    • kkiten
      kkiten
      April 17, 2016 at 12:50 am | #

      http://dumbingofage.tumblr.com/post/142932535322/moves-location-of-missing-chair-so-that-the-view

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      April 17, 2016 at 1:34 am | #

      And … What about Naomi?

      • Clif
        Clif
        April 17, 2016 at 2:07 am | #

        She heard rumors of a vigilante beating up vandals so she moved to Gothem.

      • Charlie Spencer
        Charlie Spencer
        April 17, 2016 at 6:30 am | #

        And I thought I was the only one who still used that phrase. Electric Company alumnus?

        • Slartibeast Button, BIA
          Slartibeast Button, BIA
          April 17, 2016 at 3:36 pm | #

          Of course.

          (This comment brought to you by the power of Silent E.)

        • John
          John
          April 17, 2016 at 9:51 pm | #

          I either missed or don’t remember that Electric Company sketch. But in reading up on it on Wikipedia just now, I noticed that the Naomi being referenced is apparently Jake Gyllenhaal’s mom. Ethan’s mom is also Naomi. Danny has likened Ethan to Jake Gyllenhaal. Coincidence or conspiracy?

  7. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    April 17, 2016 at 12:02 am | #

    SUPER COOL! (☞゚ヮ゚)☞

  8. Vagabond J
    Vagabond J
    April 17, 2016 at 12:02 am | #

    Sleeping is so cool. Like, you can do whatever you want!

    • Clif
      Clif
      April 17, 2016 at 2:08 am | #

      Nah, it’s only cool when Sal does it.

  9. MatthewTheLucky
    MatthewTheLucky
    April 17, 2016 at 12:02 am | #

    She’s not sleeping. Just aggressively staring elsewhere from the world.

  10. Stephen R. Bierce
    Stephen R. Bierce
    April 17, 2016 at 12:02 am | #

    *plays Bob Dylan’s “Lay Lady Lay” on a boombox on the other side of the park*

    • Sokol
      Sokol
      April 17, 2016 at 12:19 am | #

      May I request some Red Vox?

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF8Ors0xfNM

    • Stephen R. Bierce
      Stephen R. Bierce
      April 17, 2016 at 12:19 am | #

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrZnnvEyTUs <- I think this was the very first song of his I heard. That I knew was his, and him singing it, anyway. I was born after his glory days.

  11. Cattleprod
    Cattleprod
    April 17, 2016 at 12:03 am | #

    That’s probably still cooler than anything Walky’s ever done.

    • Cephalo the Pod
      Cephalo the Pod
      April 17, 2016 at 12:06 am | #

      Walky once chased a college vigilante.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        April 17, 2016 at 12:08 am | #

        Sal chased a college vigilante, on a motorcycle.

        • Tacos
          Tacos
          April 17, 2016 at 12:10 am | #

          And helped save said vigilante also.

          • Vagabond J
            Vagabond J
            April 17, 2016 at 12:13 am | #

            Its as if the Walkertwins are cool or something!

            • Dallas
              Dallas
              April 17, 2016 at 12:18 am | #

              Yeah. Like Superheroes.

              • kkiten
                kkiten
                April 17, 2016 at 10:14 pm | #

                like alien abductees.

          • Deanatay
            Deanatay
            April 17, 2016 at 7:29 am | #

            Not that they’re competing, or anything…

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        April 17, 2016 at 1:16 am | #

        Walky once ate an ENTIRE PIZZA in one gulp

        • Orion Fury
          Orion Fury
          April 17, 2016 at 1:33 am | #

          Probably only took Sal half a gulp, and with the other half ate 50 McNuggets.

          • Clif
            Clif
            April 17, 2016 at 2:10 am | #

            Walky threw a toy and snagged a girlfriend.

            • Bagge
              Bagge
              April 17, 2016 at 1:16 pm | #

              That actually is pretty impressive

              • falling Star
                falling Star
                April 17, 2016 at 3:31 pm | #

                What we call a boy-toy.

  12. Icalasari
    Icalasari
    April 17, 2016 at 12:03 am | #

    I know that feeling, Sal

  13. brionl
    brionl
    April 17, 2016 at 12:04 am | #

    Also a sharpie moustache.

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      April 17, 2016 at 12:06 am | #

      She has her boots on, which makes her fair game, plus a wicked reflex to strangle people who mess with her sleep.

      • inqntrol
        inqntrol
        April 17, 2016 at 2:15 am | #

        “Do not disturb, if you value your throats.”

        • Clif
          Clif
          April 17, 2016 at 2:55 am | #

          First I lost my femurs and then I lost my throats. No one told me college would be this dangerous.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            April 17, 2016 at 8:58 am | #

            Wait until you get your student loan bills, you’ll lose an arm and a leg too! :V

            • Gordon
              Gordon
              April 17, 2016 at 8:24 pm | #

              Not to mention a kidney and some of your liver.

  14. caesaria82
    caesaria82
    April 17, 2016 at 12:04 am | #

    Oh, Sal. Been there, done that.

    This is cute. I’m glad we’ve moved on from dog imagery lol.

  15. Tacos
    Tacos
    April 17, 2016 at 12:05 am | #

    Who hasn’t fallen asleep at inopportune times and inappropriate places in college?

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      April 17, 2016 at 12:07 am | #

      If you haven’t, you ain’t college right, yo.

    • Cephalo the Pod
      Cephalo the Pod
      April 17, 2016 at 12:14 am | #

      Back in February, I pulled an all-nighter to prepare for a presentation the next day. Not the first time I’ve ever done such a thing, I knew what it was like.

      So by the way, my mom said she wanted to talk to me that evening (after school). She was picking me up the next day to bring me home for Reading Week.

      So I get home that evening, exhausted but accomplished. And I decide, I’m just gonna lie on my bed right now. You know what? I think I’ll get under the covers. Maybe I’ll nap for an hour or two. I do just that. This is, like, 6:30pm.

      I wake up. It feels like I’ve slept. The room is darker. I look at my clock. Does…does it say 7:30? Wait, hold on…

      It was 1:30am.

      I slept for eight hours.

      My mom thought I was fucking dead (the weather had recently gotten snowy the past few days). Thankfully she knew a neighbour of mine who was able to check up on me (without waking me up, even).

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      April 17, 2016 at 12:45 am | #

      Any proper college student at junior level or above has perfected the art of “napping while in class if necessary”.

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        April 17, 2016 at 12:56 am | #

        Yeah, it’s around that point that we develop the ability to keep taking notes while unconscious.

        • Clif
          Clif
          April 17, 2016 at 2:36 am | #

          If you get really good at it, you can take notes while dead.

          • Charlie Spencer
            Charlie Spencer
            April 17, 2016 at 6:33 am | #

            I really hope I have better things to do when I’m dead besides take notes. That kind of afterlife is going to be a tough sell for any belief system.

        • DSL
          DSL
          April 17, 2016 at 1:29 pm | #

          I had a prof whose lectures made more sense while I was napping.

    • ChrisHerself
      ChrisHerself
      April 17, 2016 at 4:22 am | #

      I fell asleep in the sun with my arms behind my head wearing a crop top. Not only did I savagely burn my armpits, I sported a cummerbund-esque tan for months after.

  16. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    April 17, 2016 at 12:05 am | #

    Sleep is awesome. Can’t argue with that.

    • Noiob
      Noiob
      April 17, 2016 at 12:13 am | #

      I won’t, but you could argue it’s just a cheap replacement for caffeine.

      Okay, I just did, but I don’t support that argument.

      • Clif
        Clif
        April 17, 2016 at 2:37 am | #

        It can be awesome AND a cheap replacement for caffeine.

      • hof1991
        hof1991
        April 17, 2016 at 9:10 am | #

        Enough caffeine can replace sleep. But it takes a lot of coffee. http://youtu.be/f40YKFuIeYA

    • JustCheetoDust
      JustCheetoDust
      April 17, 2016 at 12:28 am | #

      I tried so hard to ignore that fact for the first two years of college. Fuckin’ Adderall.

    • John
      John
      April 17, 2016 at 1:05 am | #

      It don’t matter if I get a little tired
      I’ll sleep when I’m dead

      • Clif
        Clif
        April 17, 2016 at 2:39 am | #

        And take notes.

  17. Cephalo the Pod
    Cephalo the Pod
    April 17, 2016 at 12:05 am | #

    (Wake me up)
    WAKE ME UP OUTSIDE
    (I can’t wale up)
    WAKE ME UP OUTSIDE
    (BRIIING MEE)
    Bring me to the fun thing that you’ll do

    • caesaria82
      caesaria82
      April 17, 2016 at 12:12 am | #

      lol I’ve had this song stuck in my head for no reason today. Maybe I am ever so slightly psychic, but only about comments on webcomics. It’s a nice talent 😉

      • caesaria82
        caesaria82
        April 17, 2016 at 12:12 am | #

        *niche talent. Man, I ruined my own joke with a typo lol.

        • Clif
          Clif
          April 17, 2016 at 2:44 am | #

          That’s okay, I didn’t understand the joke anyway.

          I was going to say, “That’s okay, it wasn’t a very good joke anyway, ” but for all I know it could be a great joke.

  18. Some1
    Some1
    April 17, 2016 at 12:06 am | #

    I love you all…well except for you, yeah you the person reading this…you suck.

    • AgentKeen
      AgentKeen
      April 17, 2016 at 12:11 am | #

      https://media.giphy.com/media/NTY1kHmcLsCsg/giphy-facebook_s.jpg

    • trlkly
      trlkly
      April 17, 2016 at 12:15 am | #

      But, but, I made you cookies!

      …oh well. More for me!

      • Emperor Norton II
        Emperor Norton II
        April 17, 2016 at 12:31 am | #

        I’ll take Some1’s cookies if they don’t want them.

        • Some1
          Some1
          April 17, 2016 at 1:14 am | #

          *Steals all of the cookies*

          Somebody stop me!

          • inqntrol
            inqntrol
            April 17, 2016 at 2:32 am | #

            No! Embrace the darkness, be one with it! Muhahahahaha!

            • Clif
              Clif
              April 17, 2016 at 2:48 am | #

              Don’t do it. It’s a trap. While you’re embracing the darkness, they’ll steal all the cookies back.

    • Orion Fury
      Orion Fury
      April 17, 2016 at 1:34 am | #

      No, you suck!

    • falling Star
      falling Star
      April 17, 2016 at 3:35 pm | #

      But…
      http://gifrific.com/pikachu-crying/

  19. Skizz
    Skizz
    April 17, 2016 at 12:07 am | #

    I am curious as well. If Walky and Billie get cookies, store brought cookies and Dorothy gets a gift card that will probably be spent on Walky. What is Sal getting?

    • Orion Fury
      Orion Fury
      April 17, 2016 at 1:38 am | #

      A box containing all of their mother’s hope and dreams for Sal? Though I am holding out that it won’t be something jackassery. Probably misplaced hope, like I had with Jonathan, but still.

    • Clif
      Clif
      April 17, 2016 at 2:14 am | #

      A bill.

    • DonDueed
      DonDueed
      April 17, 2016 at 9:30 am | #

      Sleeping pills.

  20. Prinnyramza
    Prinnyramza
    April 17, 2016 at 12:09 am | #

    The markings aren’t because of the table but because Walky found her and drew on her face

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      April 17, 2016 at 12:49 am | #

      Is her twin immune to the Somnary Defense Protocols?

      • Orion Fury
        Orion Fury
        April 17, 2016 at 1:50 am | #

        I do not get the reference, and Google is of no help. I’m all out of ideas.

        • Clif
          Clif
          April 17, 2016 at 2:16 am | #

          Insomniary. IDP we call it in the biz.

        • WubLub
          WubLub
          April 17, 2016 at 11:24 am | #

          I think it’s the thing where she strangles anybody who wakes her up or gets anywhere near her when she’s sleeping. You know, that defense mechanism she picked up at Catholic school.

  21. tim gueguen
    tim gueguen
    April 17, 2016 at 12:09 am | #

    This will probably lead to the return of Marcie, and some indication of how her “date” with Malaya ended.

    • Cephalo the Pod
      Cephalo the Pod
      April 17, 2016 at 12:18 am | #

      The preview panels show her at least talking to Malaya.

  22. AgentKeen
    AgentKeen
    April 17, 2016 at 12:10 am | #

    Nothing cooler than sleeping in public, man. Show you don’t give a f’.

  23. Sailorcakes
    Sailorcakes
    April 17, 2016 at 12:13 am | #

    Sal is the coolest sleeper

  24. Noiob
    Noiob
    April 17, 2016 at 12:16 am | #

    There are so many great storylines running and I can’t decide which one I want to continue the most.
    It was an easier time when I had just found this comic and could just read on for hours.

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      April 17, 2016 at 12:51 am | #

      Breaking and entering = best current storyline!!
      (But it’s also the one that needs regular breathing time from dealing with John and Carol.)

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      April 17, 2016 at 12:35 pm | #

      I’m pretty invested in all of the ongoing storylines right now, the Danny/Amber one just a bit moreso because they’re my favourite characters and it’s been building up for a long time now.

      Metal Gear Joyce is a close second, though.

  25. TrueVCU
    TrueVCU
    April 17, 2016 at 12:17 am | #

    I would seriously like to examine just how much Walky is aware of their parents’ favoritism towards him. Esp combined with his budding fall from academic grace, there’s a train wreck waiting to happen and I want a fucking front row seat.

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      April 17, 2016 at 12:53 am | #

      I’m pretty sure the care packages hammered home the last of it that he might’ve been struggling with, but I don’t think he knows how to say it to Dotty, or if he should.

      • trlkly
        trlkly
        April 17, 2016 at 6:25 am | #

        I’m also not sure he’s willing to admit the reason could possibly be what Sal said. So “I ‘unno” may be the best Walky-speak answer. There’s some problem, but he’s not sure exactly what the problem is.

  26. Bagge
    Bagge
    April 17, 2016 at 12:17 am | #

    I REALLY look forward to Sal/Dorothy interaction. I think it would b much less awkward than could perhaps be expected.

    There has been an alarming lack of Marcie in the Sal strips lately.

    • Sokol
      Sokol
      April 17, 2016 at 12:23 am | #

      Marcie is perfect wingwoman to Sal. I think we’ll be seeing her sometime soon, or else she’ll disappear for an in-comic month and then show up to talk about a date that happened a while ago.

      In other words, let’s wait until Joyce saves the day back at home.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      April 17, 2016 at 12:38 pm | #

      It’s interesting how the series has gone on for over five and a half years now and we can still get surprise new and compelling character interactions, like Walky/Amber and Sarah/Dina.

  27. Catapostrophe
    Catapostrophe
    April 17, 2016 at 12:30 am | #

    Are we ever gonna find out what Sal got in her box? I hope Walky is as full of burning curiosity as the rest of us*, so that he’ll ask her about it when/if they go out for dinner.
    (*Or maybe just me, ha)

    I actually think Sal is pretty super-crazy-cool for being able to sleep in public and not care what anyone might think.

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      April 17, 2016 at 12:51 am | #

      It’s an essential college skill, but it’s not always picked up so easily in Freshman year. Indeed she is powerful, as the Emperor has foreseen.

      • Tacos
        Tacos
        April 17, 2016 at 1:08 am | #

        We musta had advanced courses or something cuz we learned that skill as freshman in high school.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      April 17, 2016 at 6:53 pm | #

      I’m like 90% sure it’s going to be some kind of hair care product.

  28. Ryan
    Ryan
    April 17, 2016 at 12:35 am | #

    And now we know the real reason she wears that motorcycle helmet so often: to hide the imprint of whatever she was just sleeping on.

  29. StClair
    StClair
    April 17, 2016 at 12:35 am | #

    Now I’m wondering if his lack of awareness in panels 2 and 3 is genuine or another deflection.

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      April 17, 2016 at 12:54 am | #

      I thought deflection, like the beat panel was him deciding not to say “because of racist favoritism, from which I unwittingly benefited all our lives, and now I feel bad about that.”

      • Clif
        Clif
        April 17, 2016 at 2:19 am | #

        Well, he can’t tell Dorothy too much or she’ll come to expect it.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      April 17, 2016 at 12:58 am | #

      I’m utterly convinced he spend panel 2 listing all the times his mother overlooked Sal to benefit himself, start with the Hymmel audition and working himself upwards.

      Another deflection, in other words.

    • Sam
      Sam
      April 17, 2016 at 5:18 am | #

      Deflection.

      We’ve seen already that he is more aware about it since he panicked and got mad about the box thing to begin with, but we’ve also seen he gets awkward and deflects on things he doesn’t want to talk about.

    • trlkly
      trlkly
      April 17, 2016 at 6:17 am | #

      Neither, I think. I think he doesn’t want to admit what the actual problem is. I think he still doesn’t want to accept that it really could be racism.

      I mean, I guess you could call it deflecting because he didn’t say “Sal thinks it’s racism, but I’m not sure what it is.” But I’m not expecting miracles here. Dude’s not going to be that forthcoming for a while.

    • Anonononon
      Anonononon
      April 17, 2016 at 7:47 pm | #

      There is also the fact that she is his mother. It is difficult to admit your parents might actually be flawed, especially something as awful as racism.

  30. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    April 17, 2016 at 12:49 am | #

    To be fair, sleeping a public place is pretty cool. I do it all the time, and I’m pretty and sometimes cool.

    • Clif
      Clif
      April 17, 2016 at 2:21 am | #

      But do people mark up your face?

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        April 17, 2016 at 5:27 am | #

        I’m black, so they need the REAL good stuff to make much of an impression.

        • Charlie Spencer
          Charlie Spencer
          April 17, 2016 at 6:38 am | #

          Or Wite-Out, available everywhere Sharpies are sold.

          • Leorale
            Leorale
            April 17, 2016 at 7:42 pm | #

            If they’re really mean, glitter works on everyone.

  31. Lordess of madness
    Lordess of madness
    April 17, 2016 at 1:24 am | #

    Been up all night

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      April 17, 2016 at 1:31 am | #

      to get lucky. We’re up all night to get lucky. We’re up all night to get lucky.

      • inqntrol
        inqntrol
        April 17, 2016 at 2:26 am | #

        Grab a coffee, it’ll help you a lot.

      • Lordess of madness
        Lordess of madness
        April 18, 2016 at 2:20 am | #

        To get LOKI.

  32. Orion Fury
    Orion Fury
    April 17, 2016 at 1:46 am | #

    I’m starting to think we’ll never know the contents of the box. For years, every now and then, there’ll be a passing allusion to it in the comic, and the comment section will just be swarmed with theories on it. Then there’ll be Easter Eggs popping up all over about it, all across the web, for even more years. Just tiny nods to it, seeming not actually referencing our wishes, but just maybe doing so. It’ll be a noodle incident for us.

    But for Sal? It’ll just be another day.

  33. Dana
    Dana
    April 17, 2016 at 2:11 am | #

    Being super crazy cool or whatever can be exhausting.

    • inqntrol
      inqntrol
      April 17, 2016 at 2:20 am | #

      Indeed, it requires lots of energy, in special when you are just leaning on a wall looking cool.

  34. BenRG
    BenRG
    April 17, 2016 at 2:40 am | #

    Yep! That’s our Sal! Always off in exotic places, doing mysterious, bad-ass bad-girl things! Wait, what…?

    Meanwhile, Walky continues to simultaneously impress and terrify with his lack of awareness of what happens to anyone who isn’t him.

    • Russ
      Russ
      April 17, 2016 at 3:59 am | #

      No, he knows. He just literally chooses not to talk about the race thing because it makes him uncomfortable. Like a hero

    • Sam
      Sam
      April 17, 2016 at 5:24 am | #

      He is just deflecting as usual about the thing he doesn’t want to talk about. We’ve seen that he is aware about it from how he got mad about the box thing. Sharing the race thing would mean having to actually share his feelings on it though, which this deflection of topic to being about Sal was supposed to avoid.

  35. Badgermole
    Badgermole
    April 17, 2016 at 2:55 am | #

    Here to put on record my enduring love for Dorothy, she lives up to it every time.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      April 17, 2016 at 4:09 am | #

      Seconded

      • ChrisHerself
        ChrisHerself
        April 17, 2016 at 4:27 am | #

        Thirded! A class act, that one.

  36. Rukduk
    Rukduk
    April 17, 2016 at 3:05 am | #

    That last panel reminds me of the last time I fell asleep in public. It was awful. I was on a bus and ended up in San Fancisco.

    • inqntrol
      inqntrol
      April 17, 2016 at 3:39 am | #

      Happened to me too, only that I fell asleep in the subway train and woke up right at the last station.

    • WubLub
      WubLub
      April 17, 2016 at 11:29 am | #

      Did a girl in a dinosaur hat switch you onto another bus while you were sleeping? I heard dinosaur-hatted college students love tricking people onto the wrong buses.

    • Amazi-Stool
      Amazi-Stool
      April 17, 2016 at 12:07 pm | #

      Could be worse.

      You could have ended close to the river Amazon.
      (The traditonal stop in the other continuity).

  37. Russ
    Russ
    April 17, 2016 at 3:58 am | #

    Walkyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

  38. Nono
    Nono
    April 17, 2016 at 5:47 am | #

    I’m slightly more concerned that we haven’t seen Dorothy studying since… I dunno, Freshmen Family Weekend? Walky (and Joyce) might be a greater distraction than she had anticipated.

    I can’t imagine she’d actually be doing worse on her studies (we’d have seen a meltdown by now if that were the case), at least not yet.

    • trlkly
      trlkly
      April 17, 2016 at 6:19 am | #

      And because of our psychic author, I now predict she will be shown studying at least somewhat in the next comic, or at least another one this week.

  39. Ncocha
    Ncocha
    April 17, 2016 at 6:29 am | #

    I dont know.. those look likes pretty heavy pants.
    Those weird wire chairs probably wont be able to get tru to leave marks on her cheeks

    • Ncocha
      Ncocha
      April 17, 2016 at 6:31 am | #

      also aliens leave marks between the cheeks.. (you know.. in case cameos)

  40. Deanatay
    Deanatay
    April 17, 2016 at 6:54 am | #

    Sal will awaken with MY MARK emblazoned across her face!!!

    (The mark of the waffle. Because, that’s my mark. MY. MARK.)

  41. skdk
    skdk
    April 17, 2016 at 8:04 am | #

    i remember that i didnt really like how dorothy was like “whyd i get a small box when you got a big one” when she just got it cause like cmon its obvious. im not sure how i feel about dorothy honestly

    • Charles Phipps
      Charles Phipps
      April 17, 2016 at 10:26 am | #

      Dorothy comes from a very different sort of house. My impression is she wouldn’t understand the concept of using gifts to show favoritism. You’d get everyone the same present.

      • skdk
        skdk
        April 17, 2016 at 2:09 pm | #

        no, you dont get your sons girlfriend that you dont know a big gift

        • skdk
          skdk
          April 17, 2016 at 2:10 pm | #

          i mean you can but mostly since she doesnt know her yet she’ll get her a small gift or none at all

          • Charles Phipps
            Charles Phipps
            April 17, 2016 at 3:07 pm | #

            That’s one way of doing it but we do it differently in our house. If sending a group of gifts, you all get the same gift regardless of relationship.

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              April 17, 2016 at 5:18 pm | #

              Do you all get the same gift regardless of whether you like that thing or not?

              • Charles Phipps
                Charles Phipps
                April 17, 2016 at 6:55 pm | #

                Pretty much. Comes from being a big family.

  42. Guairdean
    Guairdean
    April 17, 2016 at 10:37 am | #

    Bein’ Super zcrazy Cool must be exhasting work. I wouldn’t know.

    • darkoneko
      darkoneko
      April 17, 2016 at 11:08 am | #

      Comes with spending most nights with Malaya & co

  43. halcyon1234
    halcyon1234
    April 17, 2016 at 1:48 pm | #

    Don’t take her to dinner. Take her to one of those escape rooms. She’d ROCK at those.

  44. Teddae
    Teddae
    April 17, 2016 at 2:11 pm | #

    “still bein’ super crazy cool even when she sleeps”

  45. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    April 17, 2016 at 3:07 pm | #

    Am I alone in thinking retconning Dorothy into being Puppy Dorothy in all scenes would be better?

  46. falling Star
    falling Star
    April 17, 2016 at 3:29 pm | #

    Cutest Sal pose 2K16

  47. Just Me
    Just Me
    April 17, 2016 at 5:21 pm | #

    I think it’s sad. Sal acts Super-cool but I bet she’s just Super Lonely.

    Falling asleep like that. I mean, if you are really cool you fall asleep on the grass under a tree. You don’t fall asleep on an metal outdoor table. That’s just dorky and depressing.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      April 17, 2016 at 6:18 pm | #

      I feel like Sal’s Cool Badass Rebel image is somewhat of a deliberate construction.

      Not entirely, Sal is aloof, she’s ready to throw down and she doesn’t take shit from anyone, but I do feel a lot of that is built from her isolation and need to be self sufficient.

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        April 17, 2016 at 6:43 pm | #

        Having said that, it is definitely canon that Sal is a huge turbo nerd because that girl has a Tarantugun tattoo.

  48. chris73
    chris73
    April 17, 2016 at 7:04 pm | #

    I’m liking how Walkys desire to avoid complications in his own life will probably lead him to greater understanding of his sisters plight and will end up with him helping her and vice versa

    Maybe…

  49. A Scientist
    A Scientist
    April 18, 2016 at 1:24 am | #

    I have slept like that way more than my neck and back would prefer…

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