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November 23, 2023

Looped

by David M Willis on July 14, 2021 at 12:01 am
  • 05 – As Long As It's Free

└ Tags: sal, walky

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    July 14, 2021 at 12:05 am | #

    Sal is in fact just practicing her bird calls

    *Gob’s “chicken” dance* “Fuck OFF! Fuck OFF! Fuck OFF!”

    • Clif
      Clif
      July 14, 2021 at 4:06 am | #

      Technically it could be a bird call.

      Technically a tomato is a marsupial. Which sounds like something that milu would say.

      You know, speaking of milu, it’s been over a week since we heard from them here. I hope they’re okay.

      • Wagstaff
        Wagstaff
        July 14, 2021 at 4:59 am | #

        Me too. I wonder what they’re doing right now….

        • milu
          milu
          July 14, 2021 at 2:38 pm | #

          awww you cuties are thinking about me? ^,_^

          yeah i didn’t mean to be away for so long, i had a minor freakout that other time and felt silly and confused about it, whatever i’m over it, and i also got distracted because i had some intense procrastinating to do before i leave to work at a festival in italy the day after tomorrow, i have loads of shit to get done before leaving and i have done basically nothing (which is my customary MO). i was extremely creative as a result haha. nothing like procrastination to get in that flow zone. and the reason that has anything to do with anything is because i refuse to acknowledge that playing music might count as wasting time. it’s axiomatic. but hanging here does (and i do spend A LOT of time here some days)

          ..anyway, Clif that sounded like something i would say because it’s something Joshua Barkman would say and they are my role model and secret crush and their comic is the best thing since sliced bread so i quote them all the time ^^

          • milu
            milu
            July 14, 2021 at 2:59 pm | #

            (oh yeah so, i will also most likely not be seen here a whole lot while i’m gone because for about 10 days i’ll be in a tiny village on a mountain and overworked, sleep-deprived and (probably, most days) hungover. also there’s no network up there and the only place with wifi is a 30′ walk lol)

            • Yumi
              Yumi
              July 14, 2021 at 5:07 pm | #

              I was really over here reading that as “a thirty foot walk” and thinking, “That’s really close?”

              Anyway, I get it now.

              • Demoted Oblivious
                Demoted Oblivious
                July 14, 2021 at 5:25 pm | #

                To any still missing it (I stared at this too long too). 30′ =30 minutes
                (like degrees,minutes,seconds °,’,”)

                • milu
                  milu
                  July 14, 2021 at 5:33 pm | #

                  ….y’all don’t use ‘ and ” for minutes & seconds in like texts and such? i wonder where i picked that up. it’s not really a french thing either i don’t think. thanks for translating Demo

                • Demoted Oblivious
                  Demoted Oblivious
                  July 17, 2021 at 3:26 pm | #

                  ‘ and ” are used for feet and inches respectively in north america (mainly USA, with residual hold-over in Canada due to cross border trade in construction materials)

                  You will find ‘(minutes) and “(seconds) used here, but it’s less common to the general public and is more commonly associated with polar coordinates, (ergo my inclusion of degrees ° above) either in nautical/aeronautical navigation, or astronomy. But it’s is definitely not as familiar to the general public (speaking anecdotally)

              • Yumi
                Yumi
                July 14, 2021 at 6:34 pm | #

                I mean, I understood it (after a minute), so there is familiarity with it. I’d think it less popular in the US where we use feet and inches and use ‘ and ” for feet and inches.

                • Wagstaff
                  Wagstaff
                  July 14, 2021 at 6:59 pm | #

                  Yeah, using those symbols for minutes and seconds is something done most often internationally, especially in the European Union.

                  Hopefully when the time comes to use it, we won’t misidentify light-years as a measurement of time.

  2. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    July 14, 2021 at 12:06 am | #

    Sal….so cool…..and yet so fakey.

  3. Yumi
    Yumi
    July 14, 2021 at 12:06 am | #

    Oh god…middle school flashbacks…

  4. carms
    carms
    July 14, 2021 at 12:07 am | #

    is Walky developing a Sal-therner accent?

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      July 14, 2021 at 12:12 am | #

      Nah. Walky’s always talked like that. I don’t know what kind of accent it is but it ‘s more like slang and abbreviated words than what Sal’s more prounounced southern accent is. He also doesn’t say “dang” nearly as much.

      • DailyBrad
        DailyBrad
        July 14, 2021 at 12:18 am | #

        Yeah, there are some differences. Walky probably speaks more like Becky than he does Sal.

        • He Who Abides
          He Who Abides
          July 14, 2021 at 1:41 am | #

          Just not nearly as loud.

      • Marsh Maryrose
        Marsh Maryrose
        July 14, 2021 at 12:24 pm | #

        Walky and Sal are from Evansville, literally just across the river from Kentucky. So not southern but maybe southern-influenced

  5. Wagstaff
    Wagstaff
    July 14, 2021 at 12:07 am | #

    *plays “My White Bicycle” by Tomorrow on Voxola PR-76*

  6. Josh Spicer
    Josh Spicer
    July 14, 2021 at 12:07 am | #

    “Driver’s License” only with a bike and Sal is surprisingly Olivia.

  7. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    July 14, 2021 at 12:07 am | #

    Ahh… the best and worst part of having siblings.

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      July 14, 2021 at 12:19 am | #

      Indeed. It is both wholesome and terrible. Good job, Walky.

  8. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    July 14, 2021 at 12:08 am | #

    Ah yes, such productive dialogue between siblings.

    Not that I can say much considering my own sibling issues.

    • Emperor Norton II
      Emperor Norton II
      July 14, 2021 at 1:34 am | #

      I mean, yes and no.

      Yes in that Walky clearly reckognised a certain type of behaviour in his sister that is not healthy.

      I mean, either she is basically being a bit stalker-ish against a prospective friend/romantic/sexual interest…

      …or this person already belongs in one of these categories, and Sal wants to see them, bur without appearing that she wants to see them, because aloof coolness must be maintained at all times.

      Neither option is that good, and it’s probably a good idea to have her confronted with what she is doing…

      But that brings us to the “and no” part.

      Because it’s Walky doing the confrontation here, and having a sibling confronting you with your behaviour is often… less than ideal. Especially when, despite one’s best efforts, one cannot help but get some sibling ribbing in. Double especially when said sibling just ribbed one first, just minutes ago. Better persons than Walky have tried and failed that.

      • Wereg
        Wereg
        July 14, 2021 at 9:50 pm | #

        Also having this done in a semi-public area.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      July 14, 2021 at 1:55 am | #

      From the sound of it, your sibling issues would allow you to say a great deal.

  9. River
    River
    July 14, 2021 at 12:13 am | #

    What happened to he motorcycle? I missed something…

    • River
      River
      July 14, 2021 at 12:13 am | #

      * her

      • Wagstaff
        Wagstaff
        July 14, 2021 at 12:14 am | #

        I don’t think anyone is really clear on that yet, so you didn’t miss anything.

        • Dara
          Dara
          July 14, 2021 at 12:16 am | #

          I miss the motorcycle.

        • River
          River
          July 14, 2021 at 12:16 am | #

          Thank you.

        • Sirksome
          Sirksome
          July 14, 2021 at 12:22 am | #

          There are a few theories though. From the possibility she’s just choosing not to ride in snow (which I doubt since she misses it so much) to the far more likely theory she either sold it or got in legal trouble for violating traffic laws in multiple high speed chases.

          • Wagstaff
            Wagstaff
            July 14, 2021 at 12:43 am | #

            Who knows? We might just get our answers to our Halloween questions AND the mystery of the missing motorcycle all at the same time!

            • Yumi
              Yumi
              July 14, 2021 at 12:49 am | #

              It was a Ghost Rider situation.

            • Clif
              Clif
              July 14, 2021 at 12:57 am | #

              What lead to the Halloween break-ups between Ruth and Billie/Jennifer, between Walky and Amber, and who or what is in the forbidden rooms at the end of the hall?

              https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-11/01-this-bright-millennium/forbidden/

              • Thag Simmons
                Thag Simmons
                July 14, 2021 at 5:05 am | #

                I fear the mysteries of the Forbidden Zone will remain unsolved

                • Wagstaff
                  Wagstaff
                  July 14, 2021 at 5:57 am | #

                  Honestly I’m more curious about Hunter x Hunter’s Dark Continent myself.

                • Regalli
                  Regalli
                  July 14, 2021 at 7:49 am | #

                  Honestly as someone who lived in a single at the end of the hall my last semester, it’s pretty straightforward to me. It is REALLY EASY to isolate yourself in the dorms when you’ve got a single that’s out of the way like that. You might see people in the halls or the bathroom, but you don’t have a roommate to share the space with who might, therefore, want that space to themselves (under circumstances that are hopefully equitably negotiated.) That means you’ve really got no reason to hang out in the common areas. Add exaggeration for joke, and voila, you have Joyce and Walky reacting to the end of the hall like it’s incredibly haunted, because they never really encounter these people.

                • Ana Chronistic
                  Ana Chronistic
                  July 14, 2021 at 10:48 am | #

                  I had a single in the middle of the hall, but before that, I shared with someone on the end unit. It sucked bc we were DIRECTLY above a loose pipe that intermittently banged VERY LOUDLY against the wall until I discovered this and filled in the gaps with insulating foam

                  Why me? …bc heck if I could bring myself to talk to anyone 🤷🏻‍♀️

                • Jhon
                  Jhon
                  July 14, 2021 at 1:46 pm | #

                  Pipe, not neighbors? (Just keeping it clear.)

          • Chris (the other one)
            Chris (the other one)
            July 14, 2021 at 6:20 am | #

            I prefer to simply believe that Sal’s smart enough not to ride her (extremely fast) motorcycle when the weather is below freezing. It’s all fun and games until you find the puddle that froze and have to replace your pants due to street burn, or worse. I have and ride a small Harley to commute to/from work, and those are the rules I live by.

            Living in Northern Virginia, I get more ride time than further North and West, but still, temps hovering about 32 degrees F and I drive. Even going slow, having the bike slide out from under you is not fun, and picking it back up solo in the slippery is worse.

            Although, this is Fuck You Willis and all of that ^ is real life and not very popcorn-ish enough….

            • Needfuldoer
              Needfuldoer
              July 14, 2021 at 7:48 am | #

              Get a Kawasaki KLR650 with studded winter tires, laugh in Mother Nature’s stupid face.

            • Regalli
              Regalli
              July 14, 2021 at 7:51 am | #

              It’s the part where Sal doesn’t want to talk about it and is noticeably sad about it that makes a lot of us think it isn’t the practical, non-permanent reason. That implies a lot more drama than even ‘I learned the hard way you don’t do this in the winter.’

    • Adam Black
      Adam Black
      July 14, 2021 at 12:54 am | #

      Dannys Hat stole it.

  10. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    July 14, 2021 at 12:14 am | #

    Knows each other the way only siblings can.

  11. Kitschensyngk
    Kitschensyngk
    July 14, 2021 at 12:16 am | #

    The more you say “F off” the more suspicious you look.

    • Wagstaff
      Wagstaff
      July 14, 2021 at 12:20 am | #

      Why, I could say the same about you just for such a bold claim…..

    • Demoted Oblivious
      Demoted Oblivious
      July 14, 2021 at 8:30 am | #

      Foff , Foff, foff, FOFF.

  12. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    July 14, 2021 at 12:19 am | #

    It makes me laugh when Walky reads her like a book.

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      July 14, 2021 at 12:27 am | #

      Twin powers will do that.

      • He Who Abides
        He Who Abides
        July 14, 2021 at 1:43 am | #

        Am a triplet, can confirm.

        • Demoted Oblivious
          Demoted Oblivious
          July 14, 2021 at 5:42 pm | #

          Which one are you? And identical or fraternal?

          • He Who Abides
            He Who Abides
            July 14, 2021 at 11:52 pm | #

            I’m “the baby” (who, by now, can LARP as an anorexic ogre if he wants, which I find hilarious for some reason), and we’re fraternal (two girls, one boy).

            • Demoted Oblivious
              Demoted Oblivious
              July 17, 2021 at 3:21 pm | #

              That is awesome! Thank you for sharing.

    • Clif
      Clif
      July 14, 2021 at 12:30 am | #

      Really? Whose attention at McNutt is she trying to get? Not Asher’s, so who?

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        July 14, 2021 at 12:33 am | #

        Why not Asher’s?

        • Clif
          Clif
          July 14, 2021 at 3:53 am | #

          As if she would even notice Asher.

          https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/05-as-long-as-its-free/laps/

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        July 14, 2021 at 1:56 am | #

        Billie’s?

        • Nono
          Nono
          July 14, 2021 at 2:11 am | #

          Billie stays at Forest Quad.

          • Reltzik
            Reltzik
            July 14, 2021 at 7:56 pm | #

            When she isn’t staying with Asher, that is.

  13. BBCC
    BBCC
    July 14, 2021 at 12:30 am | #

    Look, Walky, either get her to spill about the motorcycle or stop teasing me by bringing it up.

  14. Nayann Martinelli
    Nayann Martinelli
    July 14, 2021 at 12:31 am | #

    Poor Sal, she will never escape the gaze of the Mount Mcnutt king. He can see as far as the blowjob Cat.

    • Clif
      Clif
      July 14, 2021 at 4:51 am | #

      He could see further, but his attention stops there.

      • Clif
        Clif
        July 14, 2021 at 5:08 am | #

        On account of it makes him think of pizza.

        https://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/04-walking-with-dina/jim/

        • Nayann Martinelli
          Nayann Martinelli
          July 14, 2021 at 4:26 pm | #

          In Walky’s defense, I find that pizza easily derails my attention, too.

  15. Spencer
    Spencer
    July 14, 2021 at 12:38 am | #

    A Patreon strip revealed that Sal rejects indie comics for the MCU.

    Which is to say that she is and always has been a Giant Fucking Poser.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      July 14, 2021 at 5:11 am | #

      Alternatively she just doesn’t have anything stronger than a casual interest in comics or movies.

  16. Barf Ninjason
    Barf Ninjason
    July 14, 2021 at 12:39 am | #

    “You’ve Always Been Way Too Cool Fer That, What With Bein’ a Dispassionate Motorcycle Outlaw or Whatever” seems like a good choice for one of those sentence-length book titles; bonus points for being less precious than some of them

    • Clif
      Clif
      July 14, 2021 at 4:16 am | #

      It might have been the winner if “My Code Also Demands I Adhere Strictly To Renamings, Even When Corporate Acquisition-Based” didn’t already have it locked up.

      https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/05-as-long-as-its-free/sip/

  17. Calibus
    Calibus
    July 14, 2021 at 12:41 am | #

    She just wants to talk with her goof brother that has somehow got hot.

  18. Kravis
    Kravis
    July 14, 2021 at 12:43 am | #

    It’s a time-honoured trope that in every great SAGA there’s a history in which a one or more characters get stuck in a time loop.

    Since “we don’t do that here” (Ei, T’Challa!) (“that” meaning sci-fi hijinks), that is as close as we’ll get to having a “time loop adventure”!

  19. brionl
    brionl
    July 14, 2021 at 12:44 am | #

    I may or may not have done that on my motorcycle in High School.
    On my stylin’ Honda CL 180.
    (like this, but a 2-cylinder)
    https://www.smartcycleguide.com/L50055154

    • Wagstaff
      Wagstaff
      July 14, 2021 at 12:47 am | #

      Woah!!!

      The design on that kind of looks like a bicycle on the tires and their supports. Why does it somehow remind me of a Vespa?

      • Clif
        Clif
        July 14, 2021 at 3:43 am | #

        That’s not what a Vespa looks like. https://www.eveonlineships.com/eve-ship-database.php?es=Vespa+I&ids=15508

        • Wagstaff
          Wagstaff
          July 14, 2021 at 4:18 am | #

          I really like that space ship design too (I might just borrow from its form), but I was originally referring to the motorbike, like the kind Haruko had in FLCL.

          • Clif
            Clif
            July 14, 2021 at 4:26 am | #

            But your link clearly says its got “a “P!” sticker on the front wing” but the drawing clearly has no wings. Why would they name a moterbike after a sentry drone anyway?

        • Clif
          Clif
          July 14, 2021 at 4:20 am | #

          He says as he does AFK mining protected only by 5 Vespa II drones somewhere in Minmatar Republic space.

          • Wagstaff
            Wagstaff
            July 14, 2021 at 4:25 am | #

            Wait a minute…. why do you have two avatars on the same page? Or is that a different Clif?

            • Clif
              Clif
              July 14, 2021 at 4:27 am | #

              I don’t know what your talking about. I’ve always had this avatar.

              • Wagstaff
                Wagstaff
                July 14, 2021 at 4:28 am | #

                A third one? Or am I just loopy from lack of sleep?

              • Clif
                Clif
                July 14, 2021 at 4:35 am | #

                It might also normally depend on if I’m typing on my tablet, my laptop, or my desktop.

                After the last avatar roulette change I went through and located every character with changes in the case of my email and made a list. The idea was that for each separate comment I would use an appropriate avatar just for that comment. It took awhile to compile. Then I promptly lost the list.

                • Clif
                  Clif
                  July 14, 2021 at 4:39 am | #

                  He’s just joking with you. There’s really seven of us.

                • Wagstaff
                  Wagstaff
                  July 14, 2021 at 4:53 am | #

                  At least I’m not going cliff jumping with you; that would just be too many Clifs!

  20. PB
    PB
    July 14, 2021 at 1:56 am | #

    Panel 3: Oh NOW I see the attractive Walky hair.

  21. StClair
    StClair
    July 14, 2021 at 2:11 am | #

    Sal-dere.

    • He Who Abides
      He Who Abides
      July 14, 2021 at 9:16 am | #

      B-baka.

  22. Ray Radlein
    Ray Radlein
    July 14, 2021 at 2:18 am | #

    How’s she gonna get a Peter Gabriel-playing boombox on that bike anyway

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      July 14, 2021 at 7:51 am | #

      The 21st century equivalent is one of those waterproof Bluetooth speakers that straps to the handlebars.

  23. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    July 14, 2021 at 3:27 am | #

    I love the Walkerton twins♡. Walky is finally showing his telepathic power to Sal and she’s afraid of the truth. On the other hand, Sal might really just want to ride the bike around the campus and Walky might be REALLY annoying with his suspicions.

  24. BenRG
    BenRG
    July 14, 2021 at 5:00 am | #

    Walky is actually half-right. I don’t think that Sal is still crushing on Asher. Instead, she’s hoping to ‘accidentally’ run into him so she can have an argument with his without looking as if she’s crushing him and this is just an excuse.

    The fact is that Sal doesn’t trust Asher, thinks that he’ll hurt Jennifer and is calmly ignoring her surrogate sister’s agency because she’s the sort of personality who thinks she has to protect everyone else from this big bad world of ours. Whether or not they want or need her protection.

    • Daibhid C
      Daibhid C
      July 14, 2021 at 7:49 am | #

      Yeah, this is why my own usual strategy is to watch the people I care about make horrible decisions because it’s not my place to interfere, and then feel guilty about it basically forever.

    • Demoted Oblivious
      Demoted Oblivious
      July 14, 2021 at 8:52 am | #

      A friend was getting in with the wrong people so I put it like this, “your health and well-being are more important to me than our friendship, which is why I must say…” then after saying my bit as concisely as possible, “regardless of what you chose to do, know that I love you, you are worthy of love and deserve to feel loved. If things go wrong, I’ll be there and you will never hear me say I told you so.”

      While the convention is to not interfere in peoples relationships, I went through some wrecks and had enough self doubt that I was looking to those around me to say something reassuring but everyone was so hung up on not saying something that I stayed for /way/ too long. While I never blamed my friends and family for not speaking up, I promised myself that I wouldn’t make the same choice.

  25. Carla's #2 Fan
    Carla's #2 Fan
    July 14, 2021 at 6:45 am | #

    Sounds like she needs new business cards now, then! “Very impassioned biker”?

  26. Daibhid C
    Daibhid C
    July 14, 2021 at 7:48 am | #

    Walky, maybe Sal wants to ride a bicycle. And, what’s more, wants to ride it where she likes?

  27. Keulen
    Keulen
    July 14, 2021 at 8:47 am | #

    I wonder how big the entire campus is and how long it took Sal to bike around it.

    • hof1991
      hof1991
      July 14, 2021 at 8:58 am | #

      Big Ten campus? It would be huge. Riding around the snow pile? Not too bad. A loop next to the snow pile that goes past a dorm? More likely.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        July 14, 2021 at 9:21 am | #

        According to Google Maps, there are a couple big empty fields across the street from McNutt. Sal’s loop is probably only a couple miles around the block.

  28. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    July 14, 2021 at 11:30 am | #

    …Walky… even if you think she’s doing that to bump into Ashley… some things are better kept in your heart lolz

    • Alex
      Alex
      July 14, 2021 at 3:15 pm | #

      Now I’m imagining a gender-swapper version of Asher and it’s quite appealing.

      • Demoted Oblivious
        Demoted Oblivious
        July 14, 2021 at 5:47 pm | #

        You’re not wrong, which is why my cradar is straight up screaming at a gender-swapped Asher… so yeah, wrap it in plastic or get it laminated or something.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        July 14, 2021 at 6:50 pm | #

        I’m guessing she’d look a lot like Alice.

      • darkoneko
        darkoneko
        July 14, 2021 at 8:11 pm | #

        oh dang. I blame autocorrect. My brain’s autocorrect

  29. Alifer
    Alifer
    July 14, 2021 at 2:34 pm | #

    He is stuck up there that is why he was in the same spot even after she went all the way around campus

  30. JustinUther
    JustinUther
    July 14, 2021 at 6:07 pm | #

    Oh man, I’ve caught up again. :\

  31. Pylgrim
    Pylgrim
    July 14, 2021 at 9:22 pm | #

    You know, it’s not very often, but sometimes I wonder if DoA!Walky is as secretly smart as IW!Walky is.

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