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by David M Willis on November 5, 2018 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - Flyin' to the Red
└ Tags: danny, sal

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    November 5, 2018 at 12:01 am | #

    “it’s laik, why do ah gotta CHANGE to change, that’s stupid”

    • pablo360
      pablo360
      November 5, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

      It’s like Einstein said; the definition of genius is ding the same thing over and over again and expecting the same results.

      • pablo360
        pablo360
        November 5, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

        Ding. Ding is clearly what I meant to say. I obviously proofread that before I posted it.

        • Knuf Wons
          Knuf Wons
          November 7, 2018 at 6:20 pm | #

          I mean that’s basically just a Skinner box.

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      November 5, 2018 at 12:18 am | #

      Cue The Doubleclicks:

      “I’d rather just leave
      Than grow, change, or learn”

      • Ed Rhodes
        Ed Rhodes
        November 5, 2018 at 11:05 am | #

        S: They tell me science has brought so many things, but I’d rather be happy than right.

        A: And are you?

        S: No. That’s where it all falls down, you see?

  2. Durandal_1707
    Durandal_1707
    November 5, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

    If I were these two, I’d just be glad that they and the motorcycle are apparently all still in one piece despite hitting the ground at a 45° angle yesterday.

    • Kris
      Kris
      November 5, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

      They’ll be fine. I’m pretty sure AG got hit by a car once and walked away.

      • FLUFFYWOLF
        FLUFFYWOLF
        November 5, 2018 at 12:51 am | #

        I’ve survived worse and come out with the ability to use everything below the neck. Yes, everything.

        They’re probably fine.

        • Bathymetheus
          Bathymetheus
          November 5, 2018 at 10:11 pm | #

          You imply you still have no use for the stuff above the neck.

          (jk)

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      November 5, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

      They aren’t. I recognize that lake from The Good Place.

      • Kris
        Kris
        November 5, 2018 at 12:13 am | #

        The idea that most of the characters are psychologically torturing each other for all eternity in an artificial hell kind of checks out considering they’ll never graduate.

        • Doctor_Who
          Doctor_Who
          November 5, 2018 at 12:18 am | #

          I mean, that basically described my college experience.

          Except for the never graduating. It only felt like never.

          • Clif
            Clif
            November 5, 2018 at 11:36 am | #

            But this is just an overly complex dream and you’ll wake up tomorrow back in class.

          • ego
            ego
            November 5, 2018 at 10:54 pm | #

            i am 48 damn years old. when i have a nightmare, it is always me at 20ish, walking through campus looking for the right building to find the right room to talk to the right person about what i actually need to do in order to graduate. and i cant remember the name of the person *or* the building, and i’m infinitely too embarrassed to ask anyone i know for advice.

            and, you know, that exact thing happened, more than once, so i get to think of it sometimes when i’m awake.

      • JasonAW3
        JasonAW3
        November 5, 2018 at 10:01 pm | #

        Oh, that’s not good…

  3. Kris
    Kris
    November 5, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    If you start feeding a wild Danny encouragement he’ll never leave!

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      November 5, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

      There should be a new “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” book called “If You Give a Danny Some Encouragement”

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      November 5, 2018 at 12:39 am | #

      I suppose that’s why almost no one else in the comic ever tries it.

  4. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    November 5, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    “I want everything to be fixed, I just have no idea how to fix it.” Ah Sal, you read my mind. If only wanting to fix things was enough to actually fix them.

  5. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    November 5, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    I told you not to wander around in the dark
    I told you about the swans that they live in the park…

    • Geneseepaws
      Geneseepaws
      November 5, 2018 at 7:46 am | #

      Then i told you ’bout a kid, now he’s married to Mable.

      • Stephen Bierce
        Stephen Bierce
        November 5, 2018 at 2:41 pm | #

        *George Harrison/Eric Clapton unison riffing*

        • Geneseepaws
          Geneseepaws
          November 5, 2018 at 3:40 pm | #

          Thx f’r the link! I find lit’riture moving, poetry consuming, great graphic art to be bling!. They all grab me by the soul. Fine.
          But music, ahhh,… That grabs my spine, and rattles existence in my brain, like a demon playing craps, and never crapping out. King Crimson, Eric C., Los Orishas, Burt Jansch, A’Segovia, Some-Bach, some of the stuff from the Andes, contra-punctual drumming, Maddie Pryor, BTO, BOC, Stevie-Ray, …
          Its like submitting to mind control, and I’m just their puppet. Its scary on bad days, … “Oh, and by the way, which one’s pink?” “Sid, Sid was.”

  6. BBCC
    BBCC
    November 5, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    Ahhh, back to the lake!

    ..Well, shit, Sal’s super relatable. And I’m happy to know I’ve been thinking in terms of stuff she wants accurately! I’ve had long conversations written out in my head like this (albeit with Sal and Marcie, not Sal and Danny).

    And Danny, you deserve all the encouragement in the world, you absolute fucking button.

    • Lux
      Lux
      November 5, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

      Agreed on both counts. I think this is now one of my top 5 pages of this comic.

  7. JetstreamGW
    JetstreamGW
    November 5, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    … “I want you talking to me despite me telling you to shut up to not have helped a little tiny bit.”

    Okay, I’ve read that sentence about a thousand times and maybe I’m a dumbass but I have no idea what Sal’s trying to express.

    • Viktoria
      Viktoria
      November 5, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

      I told you to shut up. You’re talking to me anyway. That helped. The fact that you ignoring my order was a good thing annoys me.

    • APersonAmI
      APersonAmI
      November 5, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

      Sal told Danny to shut up. Danny kept talking. It actually helped her that Danny kept talking, it made her feel better in some way.

      The final panel is her saying she would like it not to have helped her, perhaps because it annoys her that he made a correct decision when she told him not to do so.

    • Larkle
      Larkle
      November 5, 2018 at 12:13 am | #

      Try breaking it up like this: I want you [talking to me despite me telling you to shut up] to not have helped a little tiny bit.

      -> I want the thing not to have helped a little bit. Thing being you talking despite me telling you to shut up.

      It took me a second read through to get it.

    • Fred Garber
      Fred Garber
      November 5, 2018 at 12:18 am | #

      She wishes (facetiously) that Danny would have taken her advice, and shut up. It was bad advice, because he helped by not being Marcie. She wishes she gave good advice and his silence would have made things better. Instead, Danny ignored her advice, and made things better by talking.

      She is trying to be witty. YMMV

      • Jon Rich
        Jon Rich
        November 5, 2018 at 3:26 am | #

        Oh, man, thank all of you for explaining, that was driving me nuts.

        • JetstreamGW
          JetstreamGW
          November 6, 2018 at 12:14 am | #

          Right!?

  8. John
    John
    November 5, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    Sal’s penultimate speech bubble is basically my life these days.

  9. Claire
    Claire
    November 5, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    Is that snow in the background or just really white sand? Do we finally see the sign of the slow, unbeatable passage of time. The Dumbiverse’s eventual progression to winter??

    • Some1
      Some1
      November 5, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

      I don’t think we’ve even hit Halloween yet, and we certainly haven’t hit Thanksgiving. It’s still pretty early for there to be snow.

      • Catullus
        Catullus
        November 5, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

        Based on the timeline on Walkypedia, it’s currently October 14.

        • Marsh Maryrose
          Marsh Maryrose
          November 5, 2018 at 12:28 am | #

          One of the two years I lived in St. Paul, MN, the first snow was on Columbus Day (October 8 or 9). But as I recall, it was an unusually cold winter, and anyway St. Paul’s latitude is well north of Bloomington’s.

          (And no, I don’t call it Columbus Day anymore.)

      • foamy
        foamy
        November 5, 2018 at 12:13 am | #

        Halloween happens *after* Thanksgiving in all *righteous* nations.

        • drs
          drs
          November 5, 2018 at 12:21 am | #

          No, just the nations whose summers are too short.

        • Some1
          Some1
          November 5, 2018 at 12:30 am | #

          America: After

          Canada: Before

          Australia: After

          Liberia: After

          Netherlands: After

          Saint Lucia: Before

          Philippines: After, then before, now not really celebrated at all.

          Germany: Before (also not technically Thanksgiving but close enough)

          • DaveM
            DaveM
            November 5, 2018 at 12:45 am | #

            (Raises hand politely.)
            TL:DR – While you’re technically correct for australia, not really.

            We don’t really have “thanksgiving” in Australia. You could substitute Australia Day, but the date of that is subject to some dispute (to put it mildly). We also don’t really celebrate Halloween, despite recent marketing attempts and American cultural osmosis (probably because for us Spring is becoming summer and we’ve got enough scary things lurking around without having to invoke the supernatural).
            I’d put us in the “not applicable” category for now. Check back in a decade.

          • CJ
            CJ
            November 5, 2018 at 1:07 am | #

            Erntedankfest and Thanksgiving are two quite different beasts, the former may have a fixed Sunday in the church year but not much feast around it nowadays and the latter creeped in in the last 15-20 years and was no thing at all in Germany before.

            • CJ
              CJ
              November 5, 2018 at 1:08 am | #

              The latter above means Halloween please ignore the grammar.

              • Khno
                Khno
                November 5, 2018 at 3:51 am | #

                There were carved radish, though. An Samain. So basically, Halloween.

                • CJ
                  CJ
                  November 5, 2018 at 4:02 am | #

                  Where?

                • Kamino Neko
                  Kamino Neko
                  November 5, 2018 at 4:49 am | #

                  It was turnips, not radishes. And Samhain was a Gaelic festival, not a Germanic one.

                • CJ
                  CJ
                  November 5, 2018 at 10:21 am | #

                  Just like Valentine’s Day is now marketed worldwide, Halloween is, too. It crept in with Woolworths marketing customs for Halloween and took Trick or Treat is something kids learned from US movies.
                  It has become a cultural reality in Germany by know. On the day the Lutheran dominated states of Germany have a holiday for remembering Luther putting up his thesis against the corruption of the Catholic Church.
                  The Catholic dominated states have a holiday, All Hallows’, the day after, but as far as I know even there, the hubbub about Halloween is a recent developement.

        • Claire
          Claire
          November 5, 2018 at 11:58 pm | #

          Yes, the natural progression of holidays.
          Thanksgiving, Halloween then a nice break with no big holidays to eat turkey in one month before Christmas(too much turkey in 2 months!) THEN christmas

    • dethtolldotmid
      dethtolldotmid
      November 5, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

      Could always be gravel or something.

    • mschmidt62
      mschmidt62
      November 5, 2018 at 12:15 am | #

      I’m glad I wasn’t the only one confused and wondering.

      • mschmidt62
        mschmidt62
        November 5, 2018 at 12:19 am | #

        Aha! It’s whitish rocks. A little bigger than gravel:

        http://lakeconnected.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Lake-Monroe-Rotate.jpg

        • DaveM
          DaveM
          November 5, 2018 at 12:31 am | #

          Lake Monroe? They’ve crossed over into the XKCD verse?
          Oh my, this will end with a massive battle between Mike & Black Hat Guy resulting in the destruction of both realities, I can feel it. 🙂

          • Zach
            Zach
            November 5, 2018 at 12:50 am | #

            Black Hat Guy knows why he is the way he is and fully accepts it, Mike has no amo there. He could effectively be a bit of a bummer whenever BHG basks in ego?

            Black Hat Guy, I think, would win. But these are reasoning monsters with no standing quarrel… It will be up to Berret Guy to save us/confound us into suicide. Also, he wins because he’s the only one with his subduction license.

            • DaveM
              DaveM
              November 5, 2018 at 4:41 am | #

              You’re probably right, though I think that claiming that BHG has “no standing quarrel” with anyone/thing is a tenuous statement at best. 🙂
              Beret Guy’s easy enough to deal with most times. A bag of scones (or pastries) will suffice, at least as a distraction. Though you are correct that the subduction licence would be a formidable challenge (mainly because it might destroy the bakery before the scones are done). 🙂

        • mrnoidea
          mrnoidea
          November 5, 2018 at 1:09 am | #

          Wow, the background of the comic illustration looks a lot bigger than the real-life equivalent. Maybe it’s a matter of perspective.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          November 5, 2018 at 1:54 am | #

          So they’re somewhere near the Fairfax Beach pin on Google Maps?

          • Sammy
            Sammy
            November 26, 2018 at 9:20 pm | #

            That is Fairfax beach actually

        • Claire
          Claire
          November 6, 2018 at 12:00 am | #

          Thanks!

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      November 5, 2018 at 1:11 am | #

      I thought it was snow at first as well.

  10. timemonkey
    timemonkey
    November 5, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    You’ve still got Danny, Sal. We’ve all still got Danny.

  11. Jamie
    Jamie
    November 5, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

    What’s the ship name for Sal and Danny? Surely there is one.

    • TheKelliestKelly
      TheKelliestKelly
      November 5, 2018 at 12:12 am | #

      I vote either for wonder cycle or motor bread

      • mrnoidea
        mrnoidea
        November 5, 2018 at 1:15 am | #

        I second “motor bread”!

        • McBogue
          McBogue
          November 5, 2018 at 1:57 am | #

          Thirded, but only if you write it as Motörbread.

          • ValdVin
            ValdVin
            November 5, 2018 at 3:05 am | #

            Motorbrot?

            (My kbd doesn’t umlaut.)

          • Kamino Neko
            Kamino Neko
            November 5, 2018 at 5:04 am | #

            Beat me to it.

          • CJ
            CJ
            November 5, 2018 at 10:24 am | #

            Like this? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7-sbiGlzw

    • Nono
      Nono
      November 5, 2018 at 12:14 am | #

      DS (Danny-Sal).

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      November 5, 2018 at 12:34 am | #

      Mario Kart

    • ZerglingOne
      ZerglingOne
      November 5, 2018 at 2:48 am | #

      S.S. Danally

      Danny and Sally. Bonus it sounds like a mountain in Alaska.

    • Khno
      Khno
      November 5, 2018 at 3:53 am | #

      Friend. Friendship.

      • LeslieBean4Shizzle
        LeslieBean4Shizzle
        November 5, 2018 at 9:08 am | #

        The S.S. Getalong.

  12. ShinyNeen
    ShinyNeen
    November 5, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

    Sorry, Danny, but insisting that you shouldn’t be encouraged is, like, super likely to backfire and get you encouraged instead. You might just end up having to accept positive reinforcement or something!

    • Pablo360
      Pablo360
      November 5, 2018 at 12:14 am | #

      Positive reinforcement? Directed at my Danny? It’s more likely than you think.

      (Is this meme dead yet? I know too much information theory to understand Internet memes.)

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        November 5, 2018 at 1:56 am | #

        I think any meme over 3 days old is dead these days.

        “X? In my Y?” is old enough to have its own YTMNDs, so it must be long since dead and buried…

        • 3oranges
          3oranges
          November 5, 2018 at 3:15 pm | #

          What you say!!

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            November 5, 2018 at 4:02 pm | #

            [GIF of Conan clapping while popcorn pops out of his hands]

    • ShinyNeen
      ShinyNeen
      November 5, 2018 at 12:15 am | #

      Also, I’m not entirely sure how to word this, but I feel like Sal has, in the face of everyone else’s judgements, had to spend far more time trying to figure out ‘who she is’ than most people should have to. I like her answers, though. Wanting things to be better is important!

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      November 5, 2018 at 12:29 am | #

      Pffft, like either of these two are gonna do anything but skate over, ignore, deflect, or joke about positive reinforcement (at the very least, I don’t recall either accepting one off the bat). I mean, it’s better than rejecting it the way Amber does, but like…yes, more of that for Danny please.

      • ShinyNeen
        ShinyNeen
        November 5, 2018 at 1:19 am | #

        Oh, shoot, yeah, I meant to respond to you on Patreon and totally forgot, sorry!

        And, I dunno, I feel like the difference with Amber’s self-hatred is mostly a matter of scale? Or maybe it just all comes out the same way? They can’t give themselves the goodness they want, and they all need any external support to be overwhelming before they’ll allow any change in their self-images. In that regard, Danny’s definitely made the most progress thus far by deciding not to worry as much about dating for a while.

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          November 5, 2018 at 9:21 am | #

          No worries! It happens!

          That’s a fair point. I think Amber’s is more obvious because she’s more vocal or obvious about being ‘teflon to praise’ as Becky put it.

  13. Regalli
    Regalli
    November 5, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

    Seriously can we give Sal a hug?

    Can we give everyone hugs?

    Actually can DOA just end with a massive hug pile in which everyone makes a massive blanket nest and cuddles and then Mary runs away from the happiness as it burns her?

    • ShinyNeen
      ShinyNeen
      November 5, 2018 at 12:20 am | #

      I’m certainly on board, but I think we’d need to start a petition to get that to happen. Or some kind of fan spinoff. *Shrug*

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      November 5, 2018 at 12:35 am | #

      Sarah has objections.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        November 5, 2018 at 12:39 am | #

        I have an alternative she might like –

        Noise cancelling headphones and study guides.

        • Kyrik Michalowski
          Kyrik Michalowski
          November 5, 2018 at 12:40 am | #

          Ah, peace and quiet? Sounds amazing to me, wish I owned a pair of noise cancelling headphones.

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            November 5, 2018 at 12:46 am | #

            I figured Sarah might like it too.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            November 5, 2018 at 1:58 am | #

            Gotta love comment-Gravatar synergy.

        • Roborat
          Roborat
          November 5, 2018 at 3:42 pm | #

          Or she could go study in a bakery with Claire.

      • ShinyNeen
        ShinyNeen
        November 5, 2018 at 12:42 am | #

        Aw, Sarah’s warming up to hugs! Well, she had at least one heartfelt hug that didn’t kill her. Close enough right?

    • Kyrik Michalowski
      Kyrik Michalowski
      November 5, 2018 at 12:40 am | #

      I have issues with this idea, but the sentiment is nice.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        November 5, 2018 at 5:28 pm | #

        If hugs are unwanted, they can be swapped for another appropriate gesture of support of choice.

  14. Defensor
    Defensor
    November 5, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

    Don’t most universities offer counseling services?

    • Nono
      Nono
      November 5, 2018 at 12:13 am | #

      Dorothy goes to one, but she’s probably the only one to seek one out unsolicited. There’s a lot of stigma and baggage over going to therapy, despite it being a healthy thing to do for yourself.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      November 5, 2018 at 12:30 am | #

      Danny should definitely make use of them.

      Sal would probably benefit but unless the person suggesting it is Marcie, they’re gonna lose some teeth.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        November 5, 2018 at 12:38 am | #

        Sal might still feel that she has talked to a sufficient number of therapists in her life.

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/01-to-those-whod-ground-me/agoraphobia/

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          November 5, 2018 at 12:38 am | #

          Yeaaaahhh, and from everything she’s said about them they were, ah, unhelpful to be polite about it.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            November 5, 2018 at 2:03 am | #

            Judging by the circumstances, it’s a safe bet they were approaching it from the “fixing her” angle. That was never going to work; Sal needs support and encouragement to sort her problems out on her own terms, but she also needs to open up to someone to get that. The closest we’ve seen her get is with Marcie, and now Danny.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            November 5, 2018 at 7:17 am | #

            Likely tied to the basic problems of forcing anyone into therapy – even for good therapists, it’s really hard when the person wants nothing to do with it.

            She may well have had lousy ones or ones who came at it wrong, but even for the best, it’s an uphill battle if you don’t want to be there at all.

            • CJ
              CJ
              November 5, 2018 at 10:27 am | #

              I think in her case, it may be the result of them expecting her to lie and her expecting them to not believe her. It’s really hard for someone in a position of authority (as you are when therapie has been mandated) to get someone with that number of bad experiences with authority to trust you.
              And I’m not sure how many would really care to try.

              • BBCC
                BBCC
                November 5, 2018 at 10:38 am | #

                Plus, if it was court mandated (or parent mandated), the therapists might be more concerned with what got her referred to them rather than whatever may have helped for Sal to talk about (especially if the parents picked the therapist – they seem like the type to talk to a therapist before they officially make an appointment for Sal and ending up giving the therapist an idea what the parents want them to talk about).

  15. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    November 5, 2018 at 12:16 am | #

    I identify with this comic strip on so many levels, and I am sure many people do to. We want happy lives, but we don’t want to get rid of the pain that motivated us to reach our goals. We want to be free, but we don’t want to be alone.

  16. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    November 5, 2018 at 12:25 am | #

    Sal’s a lady of contradictions, so of course contradicting her was a prescient move on Danny’s part.

  17. Bagge
    Bagge
    November 5, 2018 at 12:26 am | #

    “I want… I want a sweet hat and a ukulele!”
    “New Danny is SO there for you”

  18. Irredentist
    Irredentist
    November 5, 2018 at 12:30 am | #

    Is this that same lake? lol

  19. inlovewithwords
    inlovewithwords
    November 5, 2018 at 12:31 am | #

    I feel like Sal, bottom of panel 4, speaks for us all.

    Just… mood.

    (hashtag 2018)

  20. BigDogLittleCat
    BigDogLittleCat
    November 5, 2018 at 12:39 am | #

    Danny might be a total doofus, but he doesn’t pretend to be otherwise, which is important to Sal. And more importantly, he is kind and caring.

  21. IUstudent
    IUstudent
    November 5, 2018 at 12:47 am | #

    Where are they supposed to be? This doesnt look like lake griffy or lake monroe.

    • CJ
      CJ
      November 5, 2018 at 1:02 am | #

      It’s the same place they all went to the beach to.

    • Wendylynn
      Wendylynn
      November 5, 2018 at 7:14 am | #

      It’s Paynetown beach at Lake Monroe.

      • Sammy
        Sammy
        November 26, 2018 at 9:21 pm | #

        Pretty sure it’s Fairfax beach

  22. Keulen
    Keulen
    November 5, 2018 at 1:10 am | #

    I forgot, when was the last time we saw this lake?

    • Kyrik Michalowski
      Kyrik Michalowski
      November 5, 2018 at 1:15 am | #

      Approximately 7 years ago in real time, http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-2/01-pajama-jeans/rollcall/

      As for how long it has been in the comic? No idea.

      • Marsh Maryrose
        Marsh Maryrose
        November 5, 2018 at 1:43 am | #

        I miss Jen Aside. What ever happened to her? 😉

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          November 5, 2018 at 2:44 am | #

          Tapir accident. Very heroic.

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          November 5, 2018 at 9:20 am | #

          She became a character in the comic itself.

          (check the tags)

      • CJ
        CJ
        November 5, 2018 at 3:59 am | #

        Wow, the contrast in graphic style!

  23. Walky_Talky
    Walky_Talky
    November 5, 2018 at 1:35 am | #

    AG gets Garbage Roof and the sidekick gets Garbage Lake.

  24. Ainara
    Ainara
    November 5, 2018 at 2:15 am | #

    Giving Danny a compliment is like feeding a stray dog

  25. Danielle
    Danielle
    November 5, 2018 at 2:20 am | #

    confessional lake

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      November 5, 2018 at 2:53 am | #

      Instead of Hail Marys, you throw bread crumbs to ducks.

      Sal might prefer donuts or wheelies.

  26. Remmington Steele
    Remmington Steele
    November 5, 2018 at 2:35 am | #

    When I was being counseled, I was asked: “What are 10 things you like about yourself?”

    Don’t think I ever completed the list.

    • Nobody
      Nobody
      November 5, 2018 at 3:18 am | #

      I know I didn’t

  27. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    November 5, 2018 at 2:51 am | #

    Good relationships all around: Sal and Danny, Walky and Amber, Joyce and Fuckface.

  28. JoeCovenant
    JoeCovenant
    November 5, 2018 at 3:11 am | #

    “Kiss her, you Blockhead!”

    • Bathymetheus
      Bathymetheus
      November 5, 2018 at 10:29 pm | #

      I’m pretty sure she’s not looking for physical intimacy. At least, not yet. Any such move on his part would totally destroy the budding relationship – if that is what is happening.

      • JoeCovenant
        JoeCovenant
        November 6, 2018 at 3:27 am | #

        (Which is exactly what Charlie Brown would think….)

  29. Nobody
    Nobody
    November 5, 2018 at 3:18 am | #

    I think Danny is good for Sal, not sure in what context though

    • autogatos
      autogatos
      November 5, 2018 at 4:20 pm | #

      I assume some people are shipping them but I’m still kind of shipping Danny and Ethan and I think Danny and Sal work really well as very good trusting platonic friends.

  30. Tricia
    Tricia
    November 5, 2018 at 3:22 am | #

    That is far too clean to be Lake Monroe.

  31. BenRG
    BenRG
    November 5, 2018 at 3:45 am | #

    Yeah, this is more or less what I posted yesterday: Sal’s big problem is that she’s been so busy trying to not be certain things, she’s failing really to be anything. This has had the side-effect of making all those things that she doesn’t want to be seem to be her genuine nature.

  32. Lamppost
    Lamppost
    November 5, 2018 at 4:53 am | #

    What is this, why am I actually finding myself liking Danny?

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      November 5, 2018 at 5:00 am | #

      It’s the hat. Very dapper.

      • Ainara
        Ainara
        November 5, 2018 at 5:54 am | #

        The hat is only so powerful because of his almost-mullet, though

  33. Darkoneko
    Darkoneko
    November 5, 2018 at 6:49 am | #

    This is adorable

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      November 5, 2018 at 8:18 am | #

      Yeah, Sal’s little smile in the last panel says volumes.

  34. Wendylynn
    Wendylynn
    November 5, 2018 at 7:13 am | #

    Of all the free beaches and Sal chose to pay $7 to get into Paynetown. haha

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      November 5, 2018 at 7:21 am | #

      Pay? What do you think that death defying jump off the road was about?

      • BenRG
        BenRG
        November 5, 2018 at 8:19 am | #

        No matter how much she denies it, Sal will always be the ‘cool and edgy anti-hero’ type. It’s become so much of a reflex for her that I doubt she’ll ever be able to quit!

  35. HeySo
    HeySo
    November 5, 2018 at 9:55 am | #

    What’s with that grammar disaster in the last panel? o.O
    Anyone wanna break down what Sal is trying to communicate, for me? 😛

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      November 5, 2018 at 10:22 am | #

      She told Danny not to talk, but he did anyway and it helped. She’s annoyed that her suggestion seems to have been wrong.

      • Rowen Morland
        Rowen Morland
        November 5, 2018 at 11:26 am | #

        It reads a little oddly because the other panels make you think it will be, “and I want you to talk to me even if I tell you to be quiet”, rather than, “and I hate to admit it but you talking to me has helped.”, with some colloquialisms thrown in.

  36. tirachokko
    tirachokko
    November 5, 2018 at 12:03 pm | #

    Oh Sal

  37. Bagge
    Bagge
    November 5, 2018 at 12:44 pm | #

    “Wanted — My best friend, but not changing so much so quickly.” http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/discreet/

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      November 5, 2018 at 5:29 pm | #

      You stop that right now I don’t need to cry.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        November 5, 2018 at 10:58 pm | #

        Beloved protagonists saying heartbreaking things with small voice in the last panel – the comic.

  38. Billy Baggins
    Billy Baggins
    November 5, 2018 at 3:44 pm | #

    Agreed. He Dannys things up less when he’s not confident.

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