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September 18, 2023

Absurdly

by David M Willis on September 5, 2021 at 12:01 am
  • 01 – Sister, Christian

└ Tags: joe, sal

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    September 5, 2021 at 12:03 am | #

    MARTIN’S POTATO BREAD, MOFO

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      September 5, 2021 at 12:07 am | #

      King’s Hawaiian which I didn’t even know they made sliced until I saw that Guy Fieri commercial.

      • He Who Abides
        He Who Abides
        September 5, 2021 at 12:11 am | #

        Their rolls are pretty good, but I swear by my grocery store’s bakery rye bread, especially when making grilled cheese.

      • Schpoonman
        Schpoonman
        September 5, 2021 at 12:35 am | #

        I discovered that a few years ago and wow it makes for good sandwiches.

        • Wagstaff
          Wagstaff
          September 5, 2021 at 12:54 am | #

          Does a hot dog count as a sandwich?

          • Tawnee
            Tawnee
            September 5, 2021 at 12:57 am | #

            I invite you to investigate The Cube Rule, and see what it does to your own opinions.

            • Clif
              Clif
              September 5, 2021 at 3:56 pm | #

              It makes my opinions three times as strong.

              Or something like that.

            • Decidedly Orthogonal
              Decidedly Orthogonal
              September 5, 2021 at 7:42 pm | #

              At first I thought it may exponentially complicate things, and while I don’t immediately subscribe to the chosen labels (sushi in particular seems inside-out if one considers sashimi or seaweed rolls, otoh, I suppose sashimi toast makes sense, but I don’t see the solution to seaweed rolls, since some of the ‘filling’ is outside the burito). But, I like where they’re going and can see good things coming from The Cube Rule.

              To answer Wagstaff’s query, according to the cube rule, a hotdog is a Taco.

              • Clif
                Clif
                September 5, 2021 at 11:40 pm | #

                A hotdog on a bun is a taco. A hotdog by itself is a salad.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            September 5, 2021 at 10:57 am | #

            Hot dogs may belong to the sandwich family, but since the halves of the bun are still connected they’re in the same genus as tacos and pita pockets rather than burgers and clubs.

            • Alaric
              Alaric
              September 5, 2021 at 11:34 am | #

              I always find it weird when people refer to the who think as a hot dog. To me, the hot dog is the sausage-y thing that’s ON the bun. A hot dog on a bun is a hot dog on a bun.

              • thejeff
                thejeff
                September 5, 2021 at 4:56 pm | #

                It’s both, like many things.
                If you buy a package of hot dogs, you’ll just get the sausagey things. If you order a hot dog at a place that serves food, you’ll get it with bun.

                Burgers are the same way. If you ordered a burger, you wouldn’t expect just a meat pattie on your plate.

            • zoomer296
              zoomer296
              September 5, 2021 at 2:52 pm | #

              If hoagies are sandwiches, then a hot dog can also be classified as a sandwich.

              • Clif
                Clif
                September 5, 2021 at 3:27 pm | #

                A hoagie is just another word used in place of the correct ‘submarine sandwich’ which is a sandwich.

                A hotdog without a bun is still a hot dog. A hoagie without a bun is just a mess.

                • Needfuldoer
                  Needfuldoer
                  September 5, 2021 at 7:54 pm | #

                  They’re also grinders.

                • thejeff
                  thejeff
                  September 5, 2021 at 10:08 pm | #

                  You mean a hero?

          • Geneseepaws
            Geneseepaws
            September 5, 2021 at 9:32 pm | #

            The world has been debating this meme for years. It’s meat between two pieces of bread, so; yes.

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        September 5, 2021 at 10:29 pm | #

        I forgot about King’s but I also can’t eat carbs anymore ☹️

    • Mano308gts
      Mano308gts
      September 5, 2021 at 12:36 am | #

      Honestly, I’ve heard mixed things about the company itself, but Dave’s Killer Bread really is good. It also seems like it should be fairly nutrient dense, with a lot of whole grains, and no highly processed flour.

      • Dara
        Dara
        September 5, 2021 at 1:16 am | #

        The 22-grain (or whatever the number is) makes great stuffing base. And it’s good on meat sandwiches. But it’s a bit heavy for cheese sandwiches, PB&J, things like that.

        Orowheat whole-wheat is what actually lives in my house most of the year.

        • Yumi
          Yumi
          September 5, 2021 at 1:59 am | #

          I’m partial to Oroweat’s oatnut bread.

      • eh, whatever
        eh, whatever
        September 5, 2021 at 5:51 am | #

        People still believe in that stuff? Whole grains contain lectins that prevent you from taking up the vitamins & minerals & whatnot.

        Grass seeds aren’t apples. They haven’t evolved to be eaten. Quite the opposite in fact.

        If you have enough of wheat flour, try rye flour.

        • zoomer296
          zoomer296
          September 5, 2021 at 2:54 pm | #

          Dave’s Killer Bread is an apt name, considering how fuckin’ dry it is.

        • Clif
          Clif
          September 5, 2021 at 4:51 pm | #

          Not that whole lectin myth again. The only lectin that’s been shown to be at all harmful is phytohemagglutinin, which normally only causes temporary gastronomic distress, and that’s when it hasn’t been cooked properly first. On the contrary, lectins have been shown to provide some protection against cancer. Not to mention that many of the foods with high lectin content provide healthy fiber, phytochemicals, minerals and generally have been found to correlate with a lower risk of heart attack and stroke and a lowered risk of premature death in general.

          If your worried about rheumatoid arthritis specifically or have a food allergy, maybe minimize the wheat. But generally, the lectins are bad for you myth is just quackery.

          • deliverything
            deliverything
            September 6, 2021 at 8:37 am | #

            I’m a little late and no expert on this stuff, but just wanted to point out: at no point in that post did eh, whatever say lectins are harmful, but merely that they inhibit the absorption of nutrients.
            https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/anti-nutrients/lectins/ seems to support BOTH your posts, actually: that lectins have health benefits but make the nutrients less accessible.

    • june gloom
      june gloom
      September 5, 2021 at 3:03 am | #

      I miss Klosterman’s tbh.

    • Tan
      Tan
      September 5, 2021 at 3:40 am | #

      Wait, hold up, they make, like, regular loaves of bread of that stuff, not just rolls????????????????????

      • Delavan
        Delavan
        September 5, 2021 at 12:02 pm | #

        Yep! It’s the perfect PBJ bread 🙂

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      September 5, 2021 at 5:07 pm | #

      My local grocery has a store-brand whole wheat that I would buy pretty much regardless of the price, but it’s way cheaper than the name brands. Like $1.20 a loaf compared to $3.49 for the name brand.

  2. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    September 5, 2021 at 12:04 am | #

    “Danny, get over here! No, stand over HERE! I’m facing the other way now, the shirt won’t work!”

  3. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    September 5, 2021 at 12:06 am | #

    Joe’s an optimist. Also I guess Jacob is around. Maybe we’ll see him at some point.

  4. jeffepp
    jeffepp
    September 5, 2021 at 12:07 am | #

    Joe is confused. Danny? But, Sal is hot! Danny?

  5. TheKelliestKelly
    TheKelliestKelly
    September 5, 2021 at 12:08 am | #

    Sal proving that she knows at least one person’s name other than her brother’s.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      September 5, 2021 at 12:09 am | #

      Joe either doesn’t know Sal’s, or just considers the description more appropriate.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      September 5, 2021 at 8:01 am | #

      I get the feeling she knows more names than she lets on, but she just prefers her nicknames for everyone.

  6. TemporalShrew
    TemporalShrew
    September 5, 2021 at 12:08 am | #

    “Danny? Danny who? Is there a *cool* Danny around here somewhere I don’t know about?”

  7. Thag Simmons
    Thag Simmons
    September 5, 2021 at 12:09 am | #

    Joe has been handed a golden opportunity to fuck this up.

    Also, yay Jacob still exists.

    • He Who Abides
      He Who Abides
      September 5, 2021 at 12:14 am | #

      Pretty sure that Joe is psychologically incapable of cock-blocking friends.

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        September 5, 2021 at 12:18 am | #

        Deliberately, sure, but I think it’s been established that Joe is a garbage wingman.

      • Wagstaff
        Wagstaff
        September 5, 2021 at 2:09 am | #

        What about that one time during science class?

      • Keulen
        Keulen
        September 5, 2021 at 8:02 am | #

        He seems to be pretty good at accidentally cock-blocking though.

  8. Spencer
    Spencer
    September 5, 2021 at 12:11 am | #

    What if when Danny and Sal break up on the Got Dumped Stairs Danny starts dating Walky.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      September 5, 2021 at 12:16 am | #

      No, the rule is that whoever DUMPS Danny has to date Walky next.

      …. this might cause some problems.

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        September 5, 2021 at 12:24 am | #

        That’s why Danny is taking initiative.

        Now he gets to date Walky, otherwise if Sal breaks up with him she’ll have to do it.

        • JBento
          JBento
          September 5, 2021 at 5:40 am | #

          “Danny taking initiative” HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

          • Geneseepaws
            Geneseepaws
            September 5, 2021 at 9:36 pm | #

            Have your upvote

  9. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    September 5, 2021 at 12:12 am | #

    Also I don’t quite understand Joe’s sort of contradictory thoughts here. On one hand immediately acknowledging that Sal is “absurdly hot” but also stating that her resemblance to Walky is something he can “get past” as if it’s a problem? Like I’m almost getting some slightly bi repression here. Sal is hot and she looks like Walky. Deal with it Joe!

    • Imogen
      Imogen
      September 5, 2021 at 12:16 am | #

      I think it’s more that he thinks Walky is a weird little toxically-masculine manchild who dated his stepsister?

      • Regalli
        Regalli
        September 5, 2021 at 12:21 am | #

        ‘Unfortunately, your brother’s personality is so obnoxious it rubs off on you by proxy, since I know him way better.’

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      September 5, 2021 at 12:26 am | #

      He says she’s “absurdly hot” in private but when talking to her throws the “Walky with boobs” line.

      He’s probably negging, or maybe this is the best flirting he can muster since Joyce pointed out that shot he took at Ruth was barely an effort.

      • Sirksome
        Sirksome
        September 5, 2021 at 12:35 am | #

        I understand his motivation, my thing is Sal and Walky look alike so logically isn’t the same features equally appealing on both of them. Joe says “Walky with boobs” like it’s an issue, but to me that’s the deal you sign when you’re attracted to a Walkerton sibling. Danny gets it.

        • Clif
          Clif
          September 5, 2021 at 3:35 pm | #

          See, now to me, Joe is basically saying Walky with boobs being hot is what is absurd but yet true.

          It’s like how evolution and the accidental creation of life by the time-traveling Cheese dropping a candy wrapper with bacteria can both be true.

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        September 5, 2021 at 2:16 am | #

        I think Joe has figured that he has zero chance with Sal

        • june gloom
          june gloom
          September 5, 2021 at 3:02 am | #

          Yeah, this. All he’s got is to mess with her a little, and he’s gonna take what he can get.

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          September 5, 2021 at 8:50 am | #

          He wasn’t really trying to flirt with Ruth either, or at least that was the impression Joyce inferred to the audience. He just says “ur hot lmao” because that’s his Fun No Feelings Sex Bro persona.

    • eh, whatever
      eh, whatever
      September 5, 2021 at 5:55 am | #

      Since when is hotness a property of the face?

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        September 5, 2021 at 10:17 am | #

        Since always?

        I mean, it’s not the only thing, but it’s definitely a big factor in physical appearance.

      • David T. Shaw
        David T. Shaw
        September 5, 2021 at 1:41 pm | #

        Look at any beauty product ad and it is obvious that ‘hotness’ can reside in the face.
        I’ve read that a symmetrical face indicates a lack of serious diseases in childhood which signals ‘fitness’ in the evolutionary psychology sense.

        HOWEVER…
        When someone looks at you in a certain way, with a smile or even a smirk that screams ‘I am thinking dirty thoughts – about YOU!” then the face is attractive – no matter what convention aesthetics might say.

      • StClair
        StClair
        September 5, 2021 at 7:59 pm | #

        the faaaaaaaaace?

    • Pylgrim
      Pylgrim
      September 5, 2021 at 7:12 am | #

      Joe is over-joeing in a desperate attempt to put out of his mind the recent revelation that he has romantic feelings for Joyce.

      • drs
        drs
        September 5, 2021 at 3:00 pm | #

        Also he’s snarking at someone throwing rocks at his window.

    • Brumagem
      Brumagem
      September 5, 2021 at 2:14 pm | #

      All of the above comments, plus maybe a subconscious admission that Walky is hot too.

  10. Joe M.
    Joe M.
    September 5, 2021 at 12:12 am | #

    Holy shit, she called him Danny.

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      September 5, 2021 at 12:20 am | #

      That’s how you KNOW she’s serious!

    • Rabid Rabbit
      Rabid Rabbit
      September 5, 2021 at 12:27 am | #

      Technically, she referred to him as Danny. Until she does it to his name, she can still keep her cred.

      • dinajoyce
        dinajoyce
        September 5, 2021 at 12:35 am | #

        She already did though https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/05-as-long-as-its-free/figured/ and it was very sweet

        • Rabid Rabbit
          Rabid Rabbit
          September 5, 2021 at 7:28 am | #

          OK, so long as she doesn’t do it to his face in front of others.

          And yes, I know how filthy that sounds. Perverts.

          • Clif
            Clif
            September 5, 2021 at 4:21 pm | #

            You’re the one who made the comment. You’re the one who knows how filthy it sounds. We’re the perverts.

            It’s a fair cop.

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      September 5, 2021 at 8:13 pm | #

      The indignity of having to actually use his name! How low she’s been brought!

  11. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    September 5, 2021 at 12:12 am | #

    Sunday Morning used to be rerun time for Saturday Morning

  12. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    September 5, 2021 at 12:14 am | #

    Worst. Wingman. Ever.

  13. Imogen
    Imogen
    September 5, 2021 at 12:15 am | #

    Honestly, I basically love what the comic has done with Joe and (to a lesser extent) Danny. They’re extremely funny now.

  14. Teddae
    Teddae
    September 5, 2021 at 12:15 am | #

    how timely. I got to this strip while rereading this comic and it gels nicely with this page.

    • StClair
      StClair
      September 5, 2021 at 12:19 am | #

      And here I thought you were gonna reach all the way back to some Roomies strip.

  15. BBCC
    BBCC
    September 5, 2021 at 12:16 am | #

    YES GO GET DANNY.

    TBH though, this is a lot better than I thought the first time we see Joe hitting on her would go.

    • CJ
      CJ
      September 5, 2021 at 4:25 am | #

      I’m sure Joe must’ve hit on her in one of their first three encounters. He’s Joe.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        September 5, 2021 at 1:46 pm | #

        No, the first time we see them interact on screen is just after the list, so he’s in apologizing mode there.

  16. Kitschensyngk
    Kitschensyngk
    September 5, 2021 at 12:21 am | #

    Oh, DANNY. His name was DANNY. Thank you, that’s been driving me nuts for months.

  17. cbwroses
    cbwroses
    September 5, 2021 at 12:26 am | #

    The alt text killed me more than usual this time.

    • Clif
      Clif
      September 5, 2021 at 3:41 pm | #

      Condolences on your untimely demise.

      I’m sure we are all glad you got better. Personally, I didn’t get it and assumed I was missing a cultural referent.

  18. Black
    Black
    September 5, 2021 at 12:27 am | #

    I’m genuinely curious what happened to Sal to make her so afraid of romance.

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      September 5, 2021 at 12:33 am | #

      It’s not romance, it’s emotional vulnerability. Also, her mother.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      September 5, 2021 at 12:34 am | #

      Lifetime of people approaching with seemingly good intent only to turn on her when she’s not receptive to the point of leading her to believe that people are only nice to her in order to gain leverage, with a possible side order of people who wanted to be kind but then gave up or got angry when Sal walled herself up.

    • Sam
      Sam
      September 5, 2021 at 2:28 pm | #

      Emotional vulnerability is the issue. And therefore her mother, who does things out of ‘kindness’ just to then use them as ammo against her in arguments at later times makes her cautious.

    • Clif
      Clif
      September 5, 2021 at 3:48 pm | #

      She was sent away to Catholic boarding school where she snuck out of the windows at night and went to bars where she used her underaged attractiveness to get men to buy her alcohol. She is an easy drunk with low inhibitions and Jason was clearly not her first.

      So in a word, earned cynicism. Two Words. Well earned cynicism.

      Three words.

  19. RacingTurtle
    RacingTurtle
    September 5, 2021 at 12:32 am | #

    “Oh, sweet, you want this? No, of course, you want the hotter dude down the hall. No? You want…bread?

    …are you a pigeon because I’m pretty sure you have to tell me if you’re a pigeon.”

  20. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    September 5, 2021 at 12:32 am | #

    That moment when you realize “oh, right, ah’m the only person who actually knows who my nicknames belong to.”

    Next time I do a full re-read I’m going to try to document every single nickname Sal ever gives everyone.

  21. brionl
    brionl
    September 5, 2021 at 12:43 am | #

    Remember a year ago when we had those bread shortages? Around here in the Bay Area, every brand of bread was sold out. Except for the super “health food” low carb, free range, organic, cage free 12 kinds of birdseed bread brand. They were still fully stocked up. I had to laugh.

    • brionl
      brionl
      September 5, 2021 at 12:44 am | #

      I just switched to tortillas and made sandwich wraps, quesadillas and burritos.

    • CJ
      CJ
      September 5, 2021 at 4:22 am | #

      You actually had bread shortages?

      (wouldn’t notice, rarely eat bread.)

      That low-carb stuff is usually about 5 times more expensive than regular bread.

      • voidsiren
        voidsiren
        September 5, 2021 at 10:50 pm | #

        In the midwest, there were shortages of anything people could buy at Walmart or HyVee for a couple weeks. You’d go into the store and shelves would be emptier than when the employees were moving products to a new section.

        Then Walmart had the nerve to turn around and say they deserved a government handout because they lost money during the pandemic. Uh, no.

    • Raen
      Raen
      September 5, 2021 at 5:28 am | #

      Bread shortages? What I remember running out were pasta, rice, beans, and in a bit of a downstream effect, dried cumin, but not perishables.

    • Wagstaff
      Wagstaff
      September 5, 2021 at 6:47 am | #

      We had bread shortages?

      Well, I guess I wouldn’t know, because I don’t eat bread.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      September 5, 2021 at 8:08 am | #

      I don’t remember having bread shortages in my area last year. I definitely remember having people panic-buying toilet paper last year though.

      • Clif
        Clif
        September 5, 2021 at 3:16 pm | #

        It was a bit of a downstream effect on account of the poor people without access to toilet paper having to use something.

        • He Who Abides
          He Who Abides
          September 5, 2021 at 7:33 pm | #

          That’s what the newspaper is for. Especially the op/ed section.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        September 5, 2021 at 11:58 pm | #

        We had shortages of TP, bread, pasta, and all the comfort carbs.

  22. Beau Kirin Maysey
    Beau Kirin Maysey
    September 5, 2021 at 12:57 am | #

    zero for two, Joe

  23. temperaryobsessor
    temperaryobsessor
    September 5, 2021 at 1:11 am | #

    Now she’s yelling at someone she barely knows that she wants to see Danny. I get the feeling that her plan backfired.

    • Rotunda
      Rotunda
      September 5, 2021 at 2:28 am | #

      She would have had to make the same request if she had knocked on the door and Joe answered it.

      • Fist_of_Life
        Fist_of_Life
        September 5, 2021 at 9:18 am | #

        True, but at a much lower volume. So less people overall would here her.

  24. Derek
    Derek
    September 5, 2021 at 1:59 am | #

    I had forgotten that Sal once said Danny is adorable but she won’t have sex with him, I wonder if she’s changed her mind?
    https://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/03-up-all-night-to-get-vengeance/shirk/

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      September 5, 2021 at 2:13 am | #

      That was a while ago, and since then they’ve become pretty good friends

      Also she kissed him

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        September 5, 2021 at 8:47 am | #

        Yeah like, that was a day after they first met.

        Not to mention that it was probably another indicator to what Sal talked about last chapter: she thinks Danny’s tutoring her to get into her pants.

  25. Meagan
    Meagan
    September 5, 2021 at 2:09 am | #

    I continue to be relieved that the whole Sal going after Asher thing resolved itself pretty quickly and now she’s actually pursuing a potentially wholesome relationship.

  26. ADLegend21
    ADLegend21
    September 5, 2021 at 2:34 am | #

    God this was hilarious. I didn’t know I needed Joe and Sal talking.

  27. Bagge
    Bagge
    September 5, 2021 at 3:31 am | #

    I love how Sal doesn’t care enough about Joe to be offended by him.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      September 5, 2021 at 7:10 am | #

      I suspect that she feels, as I do, that Joe is playing ‘in character’ because it is easier and it helps him avoid thinking about other things (*coughJoycecough*).

  28. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    September 5, 2021 at 4:02 am | #

    so she KNOWS his name

  29. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    September 5, 2021 at 4:13 am | #

    I feel like this is the beginning of something serious. Sal is calling Danny by name and Joe now knows about their really strong/sweet and probably more than just friendship situation. Also, nice reflection of Joe on the window pane on panel 2.

  30. JediMB
    JediMB
    September 5, 2021 at 4:45 am | #

    This is adorable.

  31. foducool
    foducool
    September 5, 2021 at 5:11 am | #

    *gasp* she remembers his name

  32. BenRG
    BenRG
    September 5, 2021 at 7:09 am | #

    It says a lot about Joe that he assumed that Sal was looking for a hookup. I guess that we really do all interpret other people’s actions through our own perspectives and habits!

    • C.T. Phipps
      C.T. Phipps
      September 5, 2021 at 12:51 pm | #

      I mean Joe knows no one seeks him for his personality.

  33. Queezle
    Queezle
    September 5, 2021 at 7:25 am | #

    Is Joe trying to get punched? Because that is how you get punched.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      September 5, 2021 at 8:14 am | #

      Fortunately, it’s hard to get punched by someone who’s currently yelling to you from outside the window. Now if Sal goes inside, Joe might be in danger of getting punched.

      • Sam
        Sam
        September 5, 2021 at 2:20 pm | #

        Sal can climb in windows. He should fear her climbing up and punching him.

  34. CrazyJ
    CrazyJ
    September 5, 2021 at 9:49 am | #

    Having not heard Schwebel’s bread I look it up figuring it was an Indiana thing. But nope, as far as I can tell it’s an Ohio bread company that doesn’t appear to be available in many places out-of-state, not even in Bloomington, Indiana (at least according to the company website). So either Joe is referencing something he can only buy where he grew up which would have to be close to the Ohio border or this a flub and Joe probably wouldn’t know about Schwebel’s.

    • Rose by Any Other Name
      Rose by Any Other Name
      September 5, 2021 at 10:59 am | #

      Schwebel’s is from Youngstown, near(ish) Akron, in the north East, far from Indiana. I’d never heard of it until I moved to the Cleveland area.

      Nickles Backery, of Fort Wayne, seems the more likely bread option.

      • Rose by Any Other Name
        Rose by Any Other Name
        September 5, 2021 at 11:03 am | #

        Also, I spent an absurdly long time looking for someone posting about Joe’s choice in bread so that I could point out that he should be eating Nickles. So thank you, CrazyJ, for being the only person talking about Schwebel’s specifically.

      • David M Willis
        David M Willis
        September 5, 2021 at 11:54 am | #

        it’s because i like saying the word schwebels and hate saying the word nickel

        • Sirksome
          Sirksome
          September 5, 2021 at 12:04 pm | #

          Is it canon now that Joe is some sort of bread snob that imports his bread from out of state? Cause if it’s not I think it should be!

          • Clif
            Clif
            September 5, 2021 at 3:13 pm | #

            Mike telling someone he fucked their mom for a schwebels just wouldn’t have had the same impact.

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          September 5, 2021 at 4:43 pm | #

          Now we know why Mike died, DamnYouWillis doesn’t like the word nickel, and Mike is constantly doing Moms for nickels.

          • Clif
            Clif
            September 5, 2021 at 4:57 pm | #

            Mike died for your bread.

          • annarchy
            annarchy
            September 5, 2021 at 5:41 pm | #

            Should at least charge a dime.

    • Doom Shepherd
      Doom Shepherd
      September 5, 2021 at 1:54 pm | #

      Schwebel’s is all over West PA. Unfortunately, my preferred bread, Stroemann’s, which was made in PA, disappeared some time during the pandemic and has not returned.

  35. Jammy
    Jammy
    September 5, 2021 at 10:22 am | #

    Oh Joe. I know we grow, but know we grow so slow…so slow.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      September 5, 2021 at 10:54 am | #

      Gotta maintain appearances in public.

  36. Yakumo
    Yakumo
    September 5, 2021 at 2:53 pm | #

    It is amusing that Joe is the one that froces Sal to use a nmae and how he does so.

  37. Geneseepaws
    Geneseepaws
    September 5, 2021 at 9:47 pm | #

    Anybody feel that Sal, in panels 4 and 6, looks very very vulnerable and unusually open? It hit me like a punch. … How different she looks.

    • Rotunda
      Rotunda
      September 5, 2021 at 11:15 pm | #

      We’re looking down at her from Joe’s perspective—it’s an unusual point of view.

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