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Guitar

by David M Willis on October 18, 2020 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - This Bright Millennium
└ Tags: sal

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    October 18, 2020 at 12:05 am | #

    wish I could do that

    …

    ex’s “friend” ran off with my guitar )=|

    • a/snow/mous/e
      a/snow/mous/e
      October 18, 2020 at 12:08 am | #

      Oof.

    • pdp15
      pdp15
      October 18, 2020 at 12:15 am | #

      You only had one guitar? That’s your first problem…

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        October 18, 2020 at 12:38 am | #

        But one guitar can just blow you away; you see stars in your eyes, and the very next day…

        • Olav
          Olav
          October 18, 2020 at 11:38 am | #

          You buy a beat up six string in a second hand store; don’t know how to play it, but you know for sure…

          • UncolaMan
            UncolaMan
            October 18, 2020 at 4:05 pm | #

            That one guitar feels good in your hands;
            doesn’t take long to understand…

            • GeekRyuu
              GeekRyuu
              October 18, 2020 at 9:38 pm | #

              Just one guitar slung way down low?

              • He Who Abides
                He Who Abides
                October 18, 2020 at 10:24 pm | #

                It’s a one-way ticket, only one way to go.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      October 18, 2020 at 2:23 am | #

      I had a guitar once when I was a kid, but I never bothered to learn how to play it and we sold it or something.

    • RacingTurtle
      RacingTurtle
      October 18, 2020 at 2:26 am | #

      Who fucking does that? What an inconsiderate pustule

    • Geneseepaws
      Geneseepaws
      October 18, 2020 at 2:31 am | #

      THAT! Is a capital offense. As in Capital. I say off with it’s head! Pustule is a little weak, I think. How about scrofulous pustule?

  2. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    October 18, 2020 at 12:06 am | #

    “Anyway, here’s Wonderbread.”

    (Danny appears)

    • Pablo360
      Pablo360
      October 18, 2020 at 1:05 am | #

      danny never answers his texts so that’s the only reliable way to get in contact with him

    • Lingo
      Lingo
      October 18, 2020 at 2:17 am | #

      Danny: “Wow, I’ve never seen a ukelele that big!”

    • AndieStardust
      AndieStardust
      October 18, 2020 at 2:48 am | #

      I love this comment so much

    • Jezzeh!
      Jezzeh!
      October 18, 2020 at 12:22 pm | #

      This comment is wholly underrated. <3

  3. Doc Harleen
    Doc Harleen
    October 18, 2020 at 12:07 am | #

    It’s nice seeing Sal smile.

    • Inkyzuzi
      Inkyzuzi
      October 18, 2020 at 12:10 am | #

      Yeah, I hope she’s been keeping up with Marcie and that maybe she’s been opening up to more people (in a healthy way)

      • Undrave
        Undrave
        October 18, 2020 at 1:33 am | #

        I wonder if Marcie made progress with Malaya?

    • Beepo
      Beepo
      October 18, 2020 at 12:35 am | #

      Yeah, I want to print & frame this one

  4. Lenora
    Lenora
    October 18, 2020 at 12:07 am | #

    Did Sal quit smoking?

    • Mobcat
      Mobcat
      October 18, 2020 at 8:23 am | #

      I hope

  5. BBCC
    BBCC
    October 18, 2020 at 12:08 am | #

    A) Too happy, iz ded.

    B) Her hand has to hurt like hell in the winter. Oof.

    • KaitouKidisBae
      KaitouKidisBae
      October 18, 2020 at 1:23 am | #

      Pain in winter as a result of injuries is a funny thing in my experience. Granted, I’ve dislocated both knees but haven’t had anything scarring.

      Anyway, for me, the worst pain in winter is from sudden temperature changes, mostly when it drops 15-20 degrees overnight. Then, my knees ache something fierce. But when I was in a place with more typical, gradual change in temp with consistently cold days (as opposed to the hyperactive rabbit on drugs that is California weather), my knees were kinda sore sometimes, but not anything really too bad.

      but as I said, scarred injuries might be very different from damaged ligaments.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        October 18, 2020 at 1:39 am | #

        I have a little one on my hand and it always tingle-stings in winter.

        • Lenora
          Lenora
          October 18, 2020 at 7:01 am | #

          I have a few scars on my torso (one from heart surgery one from being stabbed), and the one scar from surgery never hurts really but my rips get hella sore because they developed pretty wonky (my rips are like a D shape if that makes sense) and my organs that got injured from being stabbed hurt a ton when I get sick but aren’t affected much by cold.

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            October 18, 2020 at 2:10 pm | #

            Yeah, from what I know, it’s more likely to hurt A) If the scar is wonky (mine’s really bumpy) or B) With bone damage (which, since the knife went THROUGH her hand, there almost certainly was).

    • Pimellon
      Pimellon
      October 18, 2020 at 5:31 am | #

      I have a scar on my hand from a saw… it hurt in the winter for about two years (even in Texas baby-winter), then it stopped. Hasn’t returned even after moving to a place with slightly colder winters.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        October 18, 2020 at 2:10 pm | #

        Yay! It’s the pits.

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      October 18, 2020 at 12:29 pm | #

      Given we’re all like, 80% sure it was tendon and bone damage? Yeah, gotta be unpleasant. Oof.

      But still. She’s happy! She’s playing music again! She’s presumably training herself to do so while accounting for that injury! I am also dead from cute.

  6. TheKelliestKelly
    TheKelliestKelly
    October 18, 2020 at 12:10 am | #

    This makes me really happy

  7. Kravis
    Kravis
    October 18, 2020 at 12:11 am | #

    SOOOOOOO… MEBODY ONCE TOLD ME

    • Stephen Bierce
      Stephen Bierce
      October 18, 2020 at 12:23 am | #

      I got my first real six string
      Bought at the Five & Dime…

      • Demoted Oblivious
        Demoted Oblivious
        October 18, 2020 at 12:46 am | #

        Played till my fingers bled, was the summer of ’69

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          October 18, 2020 at 4:23 am | #

          That song’s a staple of the “local band plays music at the town bandstand during the summer” setlist and I don’t know why.

          • Demoted Oblivious
            Demoted Oblivious
            October 18, 2020 at 8:01 am | #

            Well Adam’s rendition is pretty awesome. And for me it also has notes of hometown boy done good. That said, to answer your question hypothetically:
            – Your local band likes it.
            – They’re good at playing it.
            – It’s about summer
            – It’s popular with the townsfolk
            – Gigamesh and Yogsothoth like to make flesh puppets dance their souls away in the dying of the light when the moist air is heavy enough to carry the smell across the shadows boundary.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      October 18, 2020 at 2:16 am | #

      the world is gonna roll me, I ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed

  8. Cholma
    Cholma
    October 18, 2020 at 12:12 am | #

    Last panel made me think of Peanuts gang catching snowflakes on their tongues.

    • mm-s
      mm-s
      October 18, 2020 at 12:13 am | #

      I heard the music behind that scene!

      • Brooks Flugaur-Leavitt
        Brooks Flugaur-Leavitt
        October 18, 2020 at 12:19 pm | #

        Now I do too!

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      October 18, 2020 at 4:23 am | #

      It’s January, so they should be ripe.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      October 18, 2020 at 10:58 am | #

      Plays “Linus and Lucy” by Vince Guaraldi

      • Lieutenant Dan
        Lieutenant Dan
        October 18, 2020 at 5:37 pm | #

        I’m hearing the instrumental version of “Christmas Time is Here”.

  9. saltchocolate
    saltchocolate
    October 18, 2020 at 12:12 am | #

    LET IT

  10. leaf
    leaf
    October 18, 2020 at 12:12 am | #

    Go inside, you’re gonna ruin your guitar

  11. Jay M Ferguson
    Jay M Ferguson
    October 18, 2020 at 12:14 am | #

    Every once in a while, you come across a strip that’s just perfect. Nothing could possibly be added to make it better.

    Danke.

  12. Whirlwitch
    Whirlwitch
    October 18, 2020 at 12:18 am | #

    Does she play left-handed because of the hand injury?

    • Dr. T
      Dr. T
      October 18, 2020 at 12:29 am | #

      I would be surprised. She seems to have little trouble with actual hand dexterity with that hand despite the wound. She was, after all, able to trade training in Mario Kart for Algebra lessons. Besides, learning to play left handed is a bongo. Many left handed guitarist simply choose to learn to play right handed as it is simpler to learn it that way.

    • Dr. T
      Dr. T
      October 18, 2020 at 12:39 am | #

      Actually, which hand was stabbed? If it is the right hand, I think trying to play left handed would be far more problematic. Working the fret board requires a lot of dexterity and flexibility. One has a large number of options for strumming a guitar if nerve damage makes holding a pick an issue.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        October 18, 2020 at 1:00 am | #

        Right hand, but she was left handed before the stabbing too (she held the knife in her left hand).

      • Bicycle Bill
        Bicycle Bill
        October 18, 2020 at 2:12 am | #

        People who are right-handed (like myself) generally play the guitar with the neck and fretboard in their left hand; they train their left hand to do their will.  And as you noted, many left-handers play the guitar that same way since if it ‘easier’ to learn if you are doing things like everybody else instead of mirror-imaging it, which would also include re-stringing the guitar ‘backwards’. But not everybody followed conventional wisdom. There are some who did it ‘backwards’; Paul McCartney of the Beatles is one of the best examples.

        So it just comes down not so much to manual dexterity as it does to what you get used to.

        • Geneseepaws
          Geneseepaws
          October 18, 2020 at 2:37 am | #

          Paul was one of the best, yes. But I believe Jimmy Hendrix,… Is the Record Holder for excellence with the guitar, just no words to.

          • Dean
            Dean
            October 18, 2020 at 5:20 am | #

            Jimi Hendrix strung his right-handed guitar upside down and played it left-handed.

            • ValdVin
              ValdVin
              October 18, 2020 at 9:58 am | #

              Yep. He trusted the mass-producedness of the RH guitars.

              It did make it harder for him to get the last few frets on the high strings (asymmetrical shape around the fretboard) but he had huge hands and lots of talent, and it didn’t hold him back (to put it mildly).

        • David Adler
          David Adler
          October 18, 2020 at 2:49 am | #

          The weird thing about McCartney is that, although he plays guitar/bass left-handed, he’s actually right-handed when it come to other things.

          In other news, Hendrix apparently played right-handed guitars flipped, rather than purpose-made left-handed ones, which some have credited with producing his particular tone.

          • Dr. T
            Dr. T
            October 18, 2020 at 6:52 pm | #

            Playing a restrung, flipped RH guitar makes bending notes easier on some guitar designs like the Fenders that Jimi liked to play.

          • Ed Rhodes
            Ed Rhodes
            October 19, 2020 at 7:08 am | #

            I do that! (Although, when I failed at learning guitar, I held it right handed) I eat and write lefty, everything else is done with my right hand.

  13. Lewi
    Lewi
    October 18, 2020 at 12:19 am | #

    It’s nice to see Sal smile again, but I’m slightly worried; her hand’s definitely gonna be sore due to the weather. Hell, my elbow turns sore whenever it even rains.

  14. Vince
    Vince
    October 18, 2020 at 12:23 am | #

    Going off of the hover text:
    Informer…..

    • MegaBee
      MegaBee
      October 18, 2020 at 4:52 am | #

      Licky boom boom down

  15. vlademir1
    vlademir1
    October 18, 2020 at 12:25 am | #

    Sal/Yuki OTP confirmed.
    ;D

    • abysswatcher1993
      abysswatcher1993
      October 18, 2020 at 12:27 am | #

      The snow lady?

  16. Axel
    Axel
    October 18, 2020 at 12:25 am | #

    Aw, I wonder when she last saw snow.

    • Axel
      Axel
      October 18, 2020 at 12:27 am | #

      okay I forgot the time skip and that it has probably snowed other days

      • Rectilinear Propagation
        Rectilinear Propagation
        October 18, 2020 at 7:11 pm | #

        Still, she spent so much time in the South that maybe the novelty hasn’t worn off.

  17. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    October 18, 2020 at 12:26 am | #

    Cue to the Life is Strange soundtrack.

  18. Johan
    Johan
    October 18, 2020 at 12:28 am | #

    Doesn’t snow much in the south huh?

    • Dr. T
      Dr. T
      October 18, 2020 at 12:32 am | #

      Not much, and when it does it wrecks EVERYTHING. My brother-in-law moved to Alabama and said that whenever they get 1/4″ of snow the sheer volume of automobile accidents that occur because no one has a clue how to handle it is staggering.

      • Keulen
        Keulen
        October 18, 2020 at 2:31 am | #

        I’ve lived my entire life so far in a part of the Midwest where we get a decent amount of snow every winter, and there are still people here who don’t seem to know how to drive when it snows.

        • MaximumZero
          MaximumZero
          October 18, 2020 at 10:50 pm | #

          Same here, in Michigan. One day on my commute to work (about 35 miles) I saw 13 wrecks. 12 on the way home. It’s ridiculous.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        October 18, 2020 at 4:35 am | #

        I can only assume people in the south drive around on bald summer tires year round.

        Up here, so many people buy into the myth that all-wheel-drive or four-wheel-drive makes their SUV indestructible in the winter. It doesn’t. I’ve only ever owned FWD sedans, and I’ve only gotten stuck once. (Driving home in a blizzard, I got run off a ramp into the un-plowed breakdown lane, ran out of momentum, and got beached in the snow.)

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          October 18, 2020 at 7:23 am | #

          Yup, nothing like the big 4WD SUVs blowing by you on the highway in a blizzard. 4WD doesn’t help you stop. Or turn.

          • Demoted Oblivious
            Demoted Oblivious
            October 18, 2020 at 8:12 am | #

            Exactly. But, a high center of gravity does help you roll. So maybe it’s like a natural selection / rapture thing. Choose me now Jesus!

            My favourite was always grabbing a chair in the coffeeshop at the bottom of the hill in town. Grab a hot-chocolate and sit and watch all the 4WD’s. See them just put it in 4 and floor the gas, trying to go back up the hill. Wheels flying and the trucks/suv’s are sliding back and forth all over, drivers white-knuckling the wheel, fresh latte’s and mocha’s spilling. They had to be putting a mile on their odometer just to go a yard back up that hill.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        October 18, 2020 at 7:20 am | #

        Not just no clue, though that’s not really surprising due to no practice, but also no snow infrastructure – no plows, no salting the roads, etc.

      • davidbreslin101
        davidbreslin101
        October 18, 2020 at 9:57 am | #

        England- it’s /supposed/ to snow in the winter here, but the past 30 years it’s got much rarer. So now, every time it snows more than an inch, the whole damn country falls apart like a wet paper bag.

      • All-Purpose Guru
        All-Purpose Guru
        October 21, 2020 at 12:12 am | #

        When it snows in places that don’t normally HAVE snow they don’t have the equipment to clear it properly and they end up having to pay other cities for the use of their crews and trucks.

        Certain counties in California discovered the hard way to get the crews too, they borrowed a bunch of vehicles and manned them with their own inexperienced people, who summarily ripped several hundred miles of Botts’ Dots off the interstate highways.

        (I’m from the part of California that doesn’t bother with such things.)

    • Otl1973
      Otl1973
      October 18, 2020 at 1:07 pm | #

      If you live in Miami or Ft Lauderdale, it’s never. (Well, there was a brief dusting on January 19, 1977 – yes, people remember the date. It didn’t stick, but it was the first time many people down here had ever seen snow. It hasn’t happened since – in fact, perhaps due to warming, we almost never get down into the 40s anymore, and it used to do that or lower for a couple of day or 2 cold snaps every “winter”. It was good – it killed off the mosquitoes, and helped keep the python sand iguanas in check.)

      • tyersome
        tyersome
        October 18, 2020 at 4:04 pm | #

        Python sand iguanas are the worst — those are the ones that drop out of the trees in the cold and strangle you while simultaneously causing crotch chafing, right? 😁

  19. Chris
    Chris
    October 18, 2020 at 12:29 am | #

    Is this the first time we’ve seen Sal with a fingerless glove? (Actually, I’m sure it’s the first time we’ve seen her with one; the question is whether we’ve seen her with two.)

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      October 18, 2020 at 12:59 am | #

      No, she’s got a couple different pairs of ’em iirc.

  20. Jess
    Jess
    October 18, 2020 at 12:32 am | #

    Snow!!! I moved to southern Arizona from Ohio a few years ago and I miss snow a lot more than I thought I would. I’m glad Sal gets some quiet time with it, at least. What a beautiful and peaceful strip.

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      October 18, 2020 at 2:15 am | #

      Wait until the middle of February, when it’s about a foot-and-a-half deep and all the dirt and particulate matter from car exhausts have turned it into a dirty dish-water gray color. And then you realize that you’ve still got March to get through before it starts to go away.

    • Ed Rhodes
      Ed Rhodes
      October 19, 2020 at 7:12 am | #

      I like snow. From my window, with a cup of chai tea. Otherwise, no.

  21. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    October 18, 2020 at 12:36 am | #

    I took a picture of the last time I saw snow, and I can’t remember when that was it was so long ago. If the gap between the records from the old phone and the pictures in the new phone means anything it was in 2018 or late 2017.

  22. AbacusWizard
    AbacusWizard
    October 18, 2020 at 12:46 am | #

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    October 18, 2020 at 12:52 am | #

    I know this has nothing to do with todays strip, but let me just say this, if Billie and Ruth have broken up and Billie’s left the comic JUST as they were starting to become a healthy relationship that will be one Damn You Willis I will never be able to forgive.

  24. Devin
    Devin
    October 18, 2020 at 12:57 am | #

    Ah, the good ol’ six-string orchestra…

  25. butts
    butts
    October 18, 2020 at 1:00 am | #

    🙂

  26. Schpoonman
    Schpoonman
    October 18, 2020 at 1:25 am | #

    YES.

  27. Undrave
    Undrave
    October 18, 2020 at 1:35 am | #

    Sal spent a lot of time in Tennessee, probably not a lot of snow down there right? She probably missed snow… I’m really looking forward to snow myself.

    • woobie
      woobie
      October 18, 2020 at 2:49 am | #

      Tennessee gets snow.
      Especially in the mountains.

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      October 18, 2020 at 10:05 am | #

      She grew up in Evansville (right across the river from KY) and it’s never been established where in TN she was for five years.

  28. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    October 18, 2020 at 1:55 am | #

    So, what happened to her hand being to messed-up to play?

    • RacingTurtle
      RacingTurtle
      October 18, 2020 at 2:19 am | #

      She hadn’t sung much in recent years. Maybe she also hadn’t tested how much dexterity she’d regained in quite some time?

      If her friendship with Danny has partially helped get her to this moment, I will be forced to love him forever.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      October 18, 2020 at 2:51 am | #

      She’s reversed the guitar, using her left hand to work the fret board instead of the right.

      • BenRG
        BenRG
        October 18, 2020 at 2:52 am | #

        No, wait, that’s wrong. Blame the mirror effect!

    • davidbreslin101
      davidbreslin101
      October 18, 2020 at 10:04 am | #

      She’s learning from the Django Reinhardt Songbook? (He had two permenantly damaged fingers.)

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      October 18, 2020 at 12:54 pm | #

      Specific training for specific tasks can help, as well. I’ve got chronically poor fine motor control including motor dysgraphia, but I managed to do half-decently drawing when I actively practiced it. The stamina in my arms has never been great, but that’s more manageable with a drawing where you can stop and plan the next thing instead of writing an essay for an exam (both time crunch and the way thoughts flow mean stopping is less doable there, so I’d try and compensate by compressing what I was trying to say as much as possible and write less.) There’s still hard limits – despite my best efforts, some video games are still too precise for me to ever beat (and by this I mean ‘I have spent literal months straight throwing myself at some levels of Super Mario Sunshine without success,’ not like Dark Souls or something,) but as a hobbyist I could probably draw well enough if I started putting time in again. My handwriting still looks like an eight-year-old’s, but it’s mostly legible now in a way it wasn’t when I was actually eight, at least for short uses.

      I suspect Sal’s still going to hit those walls where she wasn’t before, and she may not manage to play as long (almost certainly not as fast,) but being able to do so at all can be a psychological boost in itself.

  29. showler
    showler
    October 18, 2020 at 2:05 am | #

    Marcie incoming?

  30. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    October 18, 2020 at 2:11 am | #

    This is beautiful.

  31. RacingTurtle
    RacingTurtle
    October 18, 2020 at 2:19 am | #

    <3

  32. Lanie
    Lanie
    October 18, 2020 at 2:34 am | #

    She’s letting her hair keep some curl! And that smile! This is such a sweet strip today. I really hope it’s a sign that Sal is just going to feel so much more supported for being herself.

    • woobie
      woobie
      October 18, 2020 at 2:57 am | #

      Her hair looks less like Batman’s cape today.

    • All-Purpose Guru
      All-Purpose Guru
      October 21, 2020 at 12:14 am | #

      I was gonna comment on Sal letting some of the floof in her hair remain. It looks really good on her.

  33. clif
    clif
    October 18, 2020 at 2:37 am | #

    And if you listen really closely, in the background you can hear Mike singing Desperado.

    • Geneseepaws
      Geneseepaws
      October 18, 2020 at 2:44 am | #

      He really only mended one fence, Amber.

      But gosh! Sal’s smile makes muh heart sing!
      If Danny lit the fire — I’ll forgive the little uke.

      • Geneseepaws
        Geneseepaws
        October 18, 2020 at 2:48 am | #

        A guitar has a bigger sound, fuller sound. A Uke is For fun, a guitar is amazing. Sometimes friends give each other big gifts. Someone likes me enough to give me a guitar. And it’s touched my heart. But I don’t play outdoors under Fifty degrees Fahrenheit. Fingers get too stiff.

  34. BenRG
    BenRG
    October 18, 2020 at 2:50 am | #

    I’m glad that Sal is trying to get back her music. She needs things in her life to bring her joy!

  35. K. Ivan Ruppert
    K. Ivan Ruppert
    October 18, 2020 at 3:17 am | #

    She forgot the hat.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      October 18, 2020 at 3:30 am | #

      The hat is flying wild and free now. Maybe Sal can give it a new home.

  36. Bagge
    Bagge
    October 18, 2020 at 3:27 am | #

    For all this talk of what a dork Danny is, surprisingly many characters look to Danny or inspiration.

  37. Pebble
    Pebble
    October 18, 2020 at 3:28 am | #

    That’s a left-handed guitar, with the pick guard on that side, not a right-handed guitar restrung. That means it’s not borrowed; Sal picked it out herself, for herself, with her own money. Left-handed guitars are harder to find, especially if you’re trying to get one second-hand, and usually cost more. Maybe she traded in the motorbike for it?

  38. TlalocW
    TlalocW
    October 18, 2020 at 4:04 am | #

    *Ahem* And a one and a two and…

    Muskrat Suzie, Muskrat Sam
    Do the jitterbug out in Muskrat Land
    And they shimmy… Sam is so skinny

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      October 18, 2020 at 6:50 am | #

      Great, now Sal has Toni Tennille’s singing voice in my mind. Thanks.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        October 18, 2020 at 6:50 am | #

        Dangit!

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2BuP-NcJ5Q

        • TlalocW
          TlalocW
          October 19, 2020 at 12:41 am | #

          MUSHAHAHAHA!

  39. Jake'm
    Jake'm
    October 18, 2020 at 4:39 am | #

    It’s calm – how nice 🙂

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      October 18, 2020 at 11:02 am | #

      It won’t last.

      • Jake'm
        Jake'm
        October 18, 2020 at 12:04 pm | #

        I’m takin’ what I can get whilst I still can, dangit!

  40. Kim
    Kim
    October 18, 2020 at 5:07 am | #

    I love this strip 🙂

  41. PiotrW
    PiotrW
    October 18, 2020 at 6:36 am | #

    But… I wanted to know who lives in the singles rooms!!!

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      October 18, 2020 at 6:53 am | #

      ‘Lives’ may be an overstatement.

  42. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    October 18, 2020 at 6:45 am | #

    Soon Marcie shows up with a Strat, battery powered practice amp, and a talkbox. For the rest of the chapter she talks but sounds like Peter Frampton.

  43. Eric
    Eric
    October 18, 2020 at 8:39 am | #

    You can’t play guitar in gloves.

    • Hampsterpig
      Hampsterpig
      October 18, 2020 at 9:22 am | #

      What about with a pick? Seems like she has one by her hand shape in the last panel?

      • Ryek Hvek
        Ryek Hvek
        October 18, 2020 at 9:36 am | #

        They were doing it half a century ago.

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      October 18, 2020 at 9:54 am | #

      Her fret hand might not be wearing a glove. (The lighting is hard to determine.)

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        October 18, 2020 at 10:34 am | #

        She’s wearing a regular glove on her left hand, and a fingerless glove on the right. You can kind of see it around the neck a little bit. (That’s also her scar hand, she probably still covers it up most of the time.)

        • Eric
          Eric
          October 19, 2020 at 10:24 am | #

          Yes, I saw that. You can’t play guitar with gloves on.

  44. RowenMorland
    RowenMorland
    October 18, 2020 at 9:46 am | #

    Time for the last silhouette to decloak in the background, wicked-sinister like.

  45. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    October 18, 2020 at 10:01 am | #

    Okay, the first thing I saw is that Sal has an actual left-handed guitar. All mine have been right-handed and turned around. Southpaws notice stuff like that right away.

  46. Los
    Los
    October 18, 2020 at 10:52 am | #

    Smiling and letting her hair get back to natural. She’s in her zone:-)

  47. Hazel
    Hazel
    October 18, 2020 at 11:06 am | #

    This is nice

  48. LazyReader
    LazyReader
    October 18, 2020 at 12:00 pm | #

    Hmm, *twang* LA LA”
    “YOU SUCK”
    “Aww”

    • MaximumZero
      MaximumZero
      October 18, 2020 at 10:48 pm | #

      Oh, hey, you’ve heard me play…

  49. Rocketboy1313
    Rocketboy1313
    October 18, 2020 at 12:16 pm | #

    Hey oh
    Listen what I say oh,
    Come back and hey oh
    Look here what I say oh
    The more I see, the less I know
    The more I like to let it go
    Hey oh, whoa, whoa, whoa

  50. Raptorofwar
    Raptorofwar
    October 18, 2020 at 12:29 pm | #

    She baby.

  51. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    October 18, 2020 at 2:20 pm | #

    man, in that weather i would have SEVERAL LAYERS OF SCARVES around my neck

  52. Kazuma Taichi
    Kazuma Taichi
    October 18, 2020 at 5:05 pm | #

    As a Canadian, the sudden onset of snow is never a moment of excitement for me. It portents the deep cold that is to follow. Maybe not on the first snowfall, maybe not even for a month, but the moment the first snow appears, we all know that winter is coming, and we must deal with february again soon enough

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      October 18, 2020 at 5:23 pm | #

      Cold, gloom, and shoveling.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      October 18, 2020 at 6:13 pm | #

      As a Canadian, I love it. I always get excited for snow. I get why some people don’t though – some people don’t like shovelling snow, staying inside to get warm, or making adjustments for driving or the cold.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        October 18, 2020 at 10:21 pm | #

        I like it too, in the abstract. When you’ve got no choice but to get up hours early to dig out to risk your like on the roads with all the idiots who can’t drive in the snow to make it to work on time, the pleasure fades.

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        October 20, 2020 at 3:24 pm | #

        I have found that the older I get, the more I dislike winter. I am starting to understand snowbirds.

  53. Reaver
    Reaver
    October 18, 2020 at 9:40 pm | #

    Annnd then a hat flies down and plops on her head, and thus the curse has been transfered.

  54. Alan in DC
    Alan in DC
    October 18, 2020 at 10:24 pm | #

    First time since before boarding school she’s seen snow?

  55. Brighter Side
    Brighter Side
    October 19, 2020 at 2:39 pm | #

    Pretty impressive to play guitar with a glove on. Sal’s very talented.

  56. Roborat
    Roborat
    October 20, 2020 at 3:26 pm | #

    I find it interesting that there is snow accumulating on the grass, but not on the masonry or steps.

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      October 20, 2020 at 3:26 pm | #

      Also, that would be very hard on an acoustic guitar.

  57. Sai Somsphet
    Sai Somsphet
    October 22, 2020 at 4:07 pm | #

    Snow. Its snowed last night. 🙂 my 5 year old got to go outside and play in the snow for a bit. Snow. 🙂

  58. Amelie Wikström
    Amelie Wikström
    October 24, 2020 at 8:26 pm | #

    I’m so happy for Sal she’s letting her hair curl.

    And that’s the sum of my wisdom from spending how long ago this strip was until the time of this comment rereading the comic.

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