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by David M Willis on April 15, 2019 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - Sometimes the Sky Was So Far Away
└ Tags: joyce, sal, walky

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    April 15, 2019 at 12:02 am | #

    *TWIST* Professor Rees is punking them by erasing their names and switching them

    *DOUBLE SHYAMALAN* the new TA did the same, so the correct names are back

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      April 15, 2019 at 12:03 am | #

      “We’re confusing the polarity!”

      • Bicycle Bill
        Bicycle Bill
        April 15, 2019 at 12:10 am | #

        Is that like crossing the streams?

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      April 15, 2019 at 3:08 am | #

      Somehow Walky’s scientifically-inaccurate dinosaur doodles were also transferred over.

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        April 15, 2019 at 3:14 am | #

        ….. aaaaand that’s why I should read the alt-text first.

      • AustSakuraKyzor
        AustSakuraKyzor
        April 15, 2019 at 11:11 am | #

        Plot twist! Walky’s work is returned to Dina. Is Dina even in this class? Doesn’t matter, she gets them.

        • NickG
          NickG
          April 15, 2019 at 1:01 pm | #

          Dina did get Walky’s notes at least once, the T rex made her very happy.

    • Clif
      Clif
      April 15, 2019 at 12:42 pm | #

      You’re mind must be an interesting place to live. Is there room for one more?

  2. Slartibeast Button, BIA
    Slartibeast Button, BIA
    April 15, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

    We should give them numbers and take away their names.

    • jeffepp
      jeffepp
      April 15, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

      “I am NOT a number!”

      • Slartibeast Button, BIA
        Slartibeast Button, BIA
        April 15, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

        Why did you resign?

        • Clif
          Clif
          April 15, 2019 at 1:45 am | #

          Who is Number One? You are, Number Six.

          • Slartibeast Button, BIA
            Slartibeast Button, BIA
            April 15, 2019 at 2:00 am | #

            One is the loneliest number that you ever do.

            • Needfuldoer
              Needfuldoer
              April 15, 2019 at 2:07 am | #

              Make it so, Number One!

            • NickG
              NickG
              April 15, 2019 at 1:02 pm | #

              Aimee Mann ref?

              • Slartibeast Button, BIA
                Slartibeast Button, BIA
                April 15, 2019 at 1:08 pm | #

                Sorry, never heard her version. Off to youtube now.

          • Delicious Taffy
            Delicious Taffy
            April 15, 2019 at 2:35 am | #

            We are Number One?

            • Kendyll
              Kendyll
              April 15, 2019 at 9:26 am | #

              …HEY.

              • Clif
                Clif
                April 15, 2019 at 9:53 am | #

                Memory wipes to test security are a thing. Rewatch the series with this in mind.

                • Clif
                  Clif
                  April 15, 2019 at 12:39 pm | #

                  Though on a rewatch I’m always struck by how quaint the futuristic technology seems.

  3. jeffepp
    jeffepp
    April 15, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

    So, does Sal have gloves just for eating?

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      April 15, 2019 at 12:09 am | #

      For multiple types of food, actually. Regular leather is fine for a sandwich like that, but the grease from pizza would ruin them, so for that she uses cheap polyester.

      Now of course, with messy foods it’s important to color coordinate as well.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      April 15, 2019 at 4:07 am | #

      I’m assuming Sal has many pairs of gloves for all occasions.

    • DaveM
      DaveM
      April 15, 2019 at 8:51 am | #

      The interaction between undamaged skin, scar tissue, and anything else except clothing you’re used to wearing can be most annoying. It also limits the inevitable “OMG is that a scar? Tell me in embarrassing detail how you got it!” response from others.

  4. Derek
    Derek
    April 15, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

    Random thought: is Joyce’s toe still broken? Did she get over it? has the swelling gone down enough for her to wear regular shoes?

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      April 15, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

      Yeah, that was a while ago.

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        April 15, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

        but has the toenail fallen off

        or did joyce staple it to her toe

        • ShinyNeen
          ShinyNeen
          April 15, 2019 at 12:11 am | #

          And is she using it as a guitar pick!?

          • Piotr W
            Piotr W
            April 15, 2019 at 12:13 am | #

            … these are two mental images I didn’t need.

            • King Daniel
              King Daniel
              April 15, 2019 at 12:20 am | #

              Both were potential “solutions” brought up previously (by Joyce and Walky, respectively).

          • Victor
            Victor
            April 15, 2019 at 1:47 am | #

            Nah. She gave it to Danny to use as a ukulele pick.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      April 15, 2019 at 12:49 am | #

      It’s possible she didn’t outright break it. I fell off a porch and landed basically toe-first onto concrete. Whole toe turned purple, but it was just heavy bruising, and I somehow didn’t break it. It’s possible she lucked out, too.

      This being DoA, though, I am expected us to forget and like a year from now, her toenail falls off to cap off a dramatic moment or as an epic brick joke.

  5. Pablo360
    Pablo360
    April 15, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

    I don’t know why, but I get this weird feeling that Willis was feeling salty about something

    • jeffepp
      jeffepp
      April 15, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

      As opposed to when?

    • Lingo
      Lingo
      April 15, 2019 at 1:31 am | #

      Perhaps salty about the fact that some commenters actually suggested this (Sal and Walky getting each other’s homework and not realizing it) might happen, if I remember right.

      • Bruceski
        Bruceski
        April 15, 2019 at 3:37 pm | #

        I am a twin, people have said far stranger things apparently sincerely. “Do you ever get mixed up who’s who? No, not in photos, like you look at him and think he’s you.”

        …the answer is no.

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      April 15, 2019 at 9:39 pm | #

      When did “salty” come to mean whatever it does now, and what does it mean?

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        April 15, 2019 at 11:19 pm | #

        It’s like the opposite of sweet – think like cranky, pissy, etc.

  6. AntJ
    AntJ
    April 15, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

    So is Joyce implying that Walky should be doing better in math than Sal?

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      April 15, 2019 at 12:12 am | #

      Maybe she just wants a shenanigan to occur. It seems wasteful to have twins without shenanigans.

      She was disappointed to learn their parents were still together, she had a whole “Parent Trap with Crossdressing” thing planned out.

      • John
        John
        April 15, 2019 at 12:15 am | #

        However, since it ended with Walky dropping dead people on the Dean, it’s probably just as well that it didn’t happen.

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          April 15, 2019 at 12:21 am | #

          Hey, we don’t know that Beef’s parents are dead in this ‘verse.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        April 15, 2019 at 2:01 am | #

        Hopefully Walky will clue her in on that whole ‘Telapathy’-thing

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      April 15, 2019 at 2:14 am | #

      She’s trying to make Walky feel better without thinking enough steps ahead in the process. As Sal says, she’s a Pollyanna but that doesn’t require that she attach too much logic to her attempts to make everyone smile!

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      April 15, 2019 at 9:40 pm | #

      Yes. The sexist attitudes of her upbringing are habits that she will take time to identify and revise.

  7. Piotr W
    Piotr W
    April 15, 2019 at 12:08 am | #

    Noooooo, go back to the Becky / Robin plotline! I want more Robin :\

    • Dana
      Dana
      April 15, 2019 at 1:40 am | #

      I kind of feel guilty that Robin is one of my favorite characters.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        April 15, 2019 at 2:15 am | #

        Robin was more fun in Shortpacked, when her antics didn’t have such wide-reaching consequences. She was still a selfish jerk, mind you.

      • Keulen
        Keulen
        April 15, 2019 at 4:09 am | #

        Robin is one of my favorite characters in Shortpacked. I really don’t like the DoA version of her so far.

  8. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    April 15, 2019 at 12:08 am | #

    I Am, I Said…

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      April 15, 2019 at 12:18 am | #

      Bloomington’s fine, but it ain’t home
      La Porte’s home, but it ain’t mine no more

  9. butts
    butts
    April 15, 2019 at 12:09 am | #

    also that’s basically saying “hey Sal maybe you’re actually just dumb”

    • Poofdepoof
      Poofdepoof
      April 15, 2019 at 12:15 am | #

      Joyce has been doing better wrt Sal but guess it takes time

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      April 15, 2019 at 12:27 am | #

      Nah, Becky’s the one who was hoping Sal was dumb so there’d be something wrong with her. 😉

      I guess Becky will have to keep looking. I mean, there’s a few things, but she’s not really privy to them.

  10. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    April 15, 2019 at 12:18 am | #

    Sal may be a rebel, but she knows when to work hard, even if working hard can also involve illegal stuff. Walky’s passiveness on the other hand doomed him.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      April 15, 2019 at 2:18 am | #

      Walky fell into the same trap that’s caught so many other bright kids: he never learned how to study. School work came easy to him so he didn’t put in a lot of effort. Now he’s coasted straight into a brick wall and is too proud to accept help.

      • begbert2
        begbert2
        April 15, 2019 at 3:21 am | #

        I was one of those who never learned to study. Oddly it didn’t impact me as much as you might think – in most classes I was still able to blast through, destroying curves left and right, just on what I picked up in classes and from doing homework. The related lack-of-skill of not being able to memorize did come back to bite me in the butt hardcore, though, when I ended up in a calculus class that was being taught as a no-math-at-all-just-memorization-and-pattern-matching class. (I was told later that the teacher was widely considered incompetent.) I went from straight A’s in math to -and I’m not exaggerating here- straight 0%s (except for the one chapter that was taught with actual math, in which I got straight 100%s) – the experience was downright traumatizing, let me tell you.

      • Knayt
        Knayt
        April 15, 2019 at 7:06 am | #

        It looks a bit worse than that. It’s not just that he doesn’t know how to study – it’s that he considers himself smart, that intelligence is a core part of his self image, and if he has to study then that means he isn’t smart after all. It’s an easy trap to fall into given the right messaging, and kids read as bright can easily get the messaging involved.

        I’ve been there. It’s not fun.

  11. Woomy
    Woomy
    April 15, 2019 at 12:19 am | #

    A+ in English, Walky

  12. Marsh Maryrose
    Marsh Maryrose
    April 15, 2019 at 12:22 am | #

    To live outside the law, you must be honest.

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      April 15, 2019 at 12:26 am | #

      Supposed to be a reply to abysswatcher1993. Some funky things with this comment system but compared to the Patreon comment system, I can’t complain.

      • Geneseepaws
        Geneseepaws
        April 15, 2019 at 8:16 am | #

        Funk, aside, I like this commenting system MUCH better than Discus, (which I despise with a hot hatred of one thousand suns).

  13. BBCC
    BBCC
    April 15, 2019 at 12:23 am | #

    Alt text: Well, Willis, you did establish Sal’s into at least the stuff she learned at the natural history museum and she’s either interested in or remembered enough to keep up in conversation with Dina about it. I still wanna see them ranking her dinosaurs sometime. 😉

    Seriously though, I thought if this silly theory was ever actually brought up in comic, it would be one of the Walkerton parents suggesting it because they don’t want to deal with the fact Walky’s actually struggling and is an anxious mess because of it. Or that Sal’s not the problem child who solely exists to make life hard for them. I mean, if either of those things were(n’t) true, that would mean the Walkertons are terrible, terrible parents and people and that CAN’T be right. Nah, Sal must just be a failure. Should probably call the Dean and have him fix it – and see what can be done about getting the TA who switched their grades kicked out of school too.

    Now, onto the fun stuff – how the Walkerton twins learn!

    …I’m supposed to be studying right now for an exam tomorrow afternoon, so here, have a copy-pasted comment of mine from patreon!

    “Personally, Sal strikes me as someone who likes to figure out how things work and learn on her own and she has a hard time trusting authority figures already (thanks, in part, to teachers and school administrators who looked the other way when that infected pustule of a child, Leland, nearly killed Marcie the first time), plus it’s hard to be interested in things you don’t care about, plus educational racism on top of that – yeah, I can see Sal’s issues with the traditional educational system.

    Meanwhile, Walky is really good at assimilating into predominant (white) American culture and is pretty good at absorbing information via listening and (hopefully) just doing his homework. And then he got cocky and started to coast on it so now he’s hit a wall, possibly partially because his parents are no longer there to breathe down his neck and make SURE he gets good grades.”

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      April 15, 2019 at 8:07 am | #

      It’s really hard to learn to study and put in that work when you don’t need to. It’s not so much “got cocky and coasted” as “this has always worked”. Why do all the make work notes and outlining and whatever when it doesn’t help because you just pick it up in class and with graded homework?

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        April 15, 2019 at 5:15 pm | #

        Poor wording choice – “believed this would always work and so never put work into it’ is more accurate – though, yeah, he was pretty cocky when he talked about not needing to study, which in a world by Willis is just begging to hit a wall. 😛

  14. Darkoneko
    Darkoneko
    April 15, 2019 at 12:24 am | #

    Your papers got hard to identify since you started eating them

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      April 15, 2019 at 12:52 am | #

      That’s a fair point.

    • newllend(henryvolt)
      newllend(henryvolt)
      April 15, 2019 at 11:46 am | #

      Lol

  15. Bagge
    Bagge
    April 15, 2019 at 12:28 am | #

    I can still see LINDA AND CHARLES getting into their heads that it would be “impossible” for Sal to get so good grades, and “impossible” for David to get so bad grades.

    And won’t THAT be fun when they call the dean to put pressure on the math teachers to “fix” that little problem.

    • Owlmirror
      Owlmirror
      April 15, 2019 at 12:47 am | #

      I think it would be mostly Linda.

      I wonder if she might try to “sell” there having been a switch that wasn’t brought to the teacher’s attention as her darling child David trying to help out his sister, even at his own expense.

      Charles might roll his eyes at that.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        April 15, 2019 at 12:51 am | #

        Nah. Charles has never even remotely hinted he thinks Linda’s unfair. On the contrary, he seems to agree with her, generally. Looking sad one time when Sal was crying is not the same as disagreeing with Linda.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          April 15, 2019 at 2:22 am | #

          At most I’d expect a half-hearted “hey, good job” out of him before he rejoins Linda’s fretting over Walky’s situation.

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            April 15, 2019 at 2:24 am | #

            Yeah, I’m expected a quick, half hearted, ‘Oh good for you’ or ‘That’s nice, dear’ at best and a ‘Sally, stop bragging and help your brother’ at worst from the Walkerton parents.

            • Needfuldoer
              Needfuldoer
              April 15, 2019 at 6:54 am | #

              Well, that last one’s almost a given from Linda…

              • BBCC
                BBCC
                April 15, 2019 at 5:20 pm | #

                Depending on her mood, she may not say anything – she didn’t last time she saw Sal.

                In addition to all the other things to hate about that meeting, apparently the most painless Sal expects from her parents is her mom not speaking to her or acknowledging her presence at all and her dad insulting her. And she had to give herself a pep talk to go talk to them at all.

                I fucking loathe the Walkertons. 🙂

  16. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    April 15, 2019 at 12:51 am | #

    I’m laughing really hard at this one. Like, I just love that Walky is just baffled at Joyce’s logic here.

  17. Bagge
    Bagge
    April 15, 2019 at 1:20 am | #

    A wild Joyce appears… who seem to have been without human contact for more than 10 seconds and thus need to graft herself on a gathering of two or more people. Extroverts gotta extrovert

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      April 15, 2019 at 2:15 am | #

      So she has a loneliness bar that she has to keep from filling up?

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        April 15, 2019 at 4:34 am | #

        Yup.

        And Sarah pretty much have the opposite kind of bar.

        Fun times

  18. Bagge
    Bagge
    April 15, 2019 at 2:03 am | #

    I LOVE how good communication Walky and Sal have about that whole sore issue of math score and to be or not to be a good student. They have come far.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      April 15, 2019 at 8:12 am | #

      Though I don’t think Walky has admitted to her how bad he’s doing.
      That he even brought up math here is interesting.

  19. BenRG
    BenRG
    April 15, 2019 at 2:11 am | #

    So, Joyce admits that, in some ways, she has difficulty telling Sal and Walky apart sometimes for some reason! XD Seriously, though, Walky and Sal are about to learn that there is something else that they have in common: A cute-but-strange girl who won’t leave them alone and, for some reason, they don’t want to leave them alone!

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      April 15, 2019 at 2:25 am | #

      Joyce has that effect. She grows on people.

      She’s like a fungus! 😀

      • ShinyNeen
        ShinyNeen
        April 15, 2019 at 1:07 pm | #

        … Yeah, a fungus with an adorable smile would be pretty darn dangerous!

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          April 15, 2019 at 5:18 pm | #

          It doesn’t have to be a DANGEROUS fungus. 😛

          • ShinyNeen
            ShinyNeen
            April 15, 2019 at 6:20 pm | #

            I’m just sayin’, if a big colorful mushroom flashed a pearly white triangle smile at me and asked me for my wallet in an adorable voice, there’s a nonzero chance I’d be down a wallet.

            • BBCC
              BBCC
              April 15, 2019 at 11:18 pm | #

              I’d wonder if I’d suddenly slipped into Alice in Wonderland.

  20. MatsuoTanuki
    MatsuoTanuki
    April 15, 2019 at 2:49 am | #

    I know that they are two very different pairs of attractive mocha-skinned brother-sister characters, but I’m glad Sal and Walky are getting along enough to remind me of Katara and Sokka.

    • Khyrin
      Khyrin
      April 15, 2019 at 4:32 am | #

      I’m still holding out hope for some sort of Awakening and Abductee powers coming into play e.g. DoA!Joyce can ‘teleport’. Joyce appeared BEHIND a box as it was set down when Malaya was moving in. Sarah pointed it out during the Fudgeface adventures.

      Buuut that would be a bit wacky for DoA…. but it might also be on-brand since DoA is a re-imagining of “Roomies!”?

  21. Koms
    Koms
    April 15, 2019 at 2:55 am | #

    What’s under Walky’s elbow though?

    • Will D
      Will D
      April 15, 2019 at 6:00 am | #

      That burrito’s wrapper paper?

      • BenRG
        BenRG
        April 15, 2019 at 8:57 am | #

        No, the burrito is still in its wrapper. I think that it what he got his side order wrapped in – Potato wedges maybe?

  22. BenRG
    BenRG
    April 15, 2019 at 5:00 am | #

    Possible outcome to this mini-arc:
    Walky asks Sal to tutor him. Horror of horror, it actually works. The Walkerton parents’ heads explode when they hear of this.

    • ShinyNeen
      ShinyNeen
      April 15, 2019 at 1:02 pm | #

      Ooh, that’d be really cool! It would cement how Sal is doing better academically, would help Walky in a way that hopefully would let him feel better about the whole situation and move on, and it would just be a really nice bonding element between them. I like that idea a lot!

  23. SlothfulCobra
    SlothfulCobra
    April 15, 2019 at 9:44 am | #

    I guess boinking the TA actually did help her learn.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      April 15, 2019 at 10:39 am | #

      Yeah, it helped her learn that Jason is useless as a teacher. Danny on the other hand…?

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        April 15, 2019 at 5:17 pm | #

        This. Jason was utterly worthless as an educator.

        • Agemegos
          Agemegos
          April 15, 2019 at 9:37 pm | #

          And the actual professor whose job is to teach the course doesn’t even try.

          Ability at and qualifications in teaching weren’t even considered when he was appointed to his job.

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            April 15, 2019 at 11:17 pm | #

            In Rees’ defence, only two of his students have expressed a struggle that we know of, but yeah, he’s not helpful – he just directs them to aforementioned worthless educator.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      April 15, 2019 at 1:11 pm | #

      Pissed her off enough she learned just to spite him?

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