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by David M Willis on October 18, 2021 at 12:01 am
  • 01 – Sister, Christian
└ Tags: danny, joe, sal

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    October 18, 2021 at 12:05 am | #

    Defying Gravity still applicable

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      October 18, 2021 at 12:12 am | #

      She’s flyin’ high~

  2. John Smith
    John Smith
    October 18, 2021 at 12:05 am | #

    That’s fair.

    • Clif
      Clif
      October 18, 2021 at 1:20 am | #

      And accurate.

    • Decidedly Orthogonal
      Decidedly Orthogonal
      October 18, 2021 at 9:06 am | #

      To be fair Joe set that one up for Sal to let him walk into it. He’s really off his game ain’t he?

      • Clif
        Clif
        October 18, 2021 at 10:40 am | #

        He’s had a very confusing day, first with Dan and then with Joyce.

        • Zee
          Zee
          October 18, 2021 at 1:18 pm | #

          I hope we get a comic at the end of this day where Joe just lays down in bed like “Nah, today didn’t happen.”

      • MacareuxMoine
        MacareuxMoine
        October 19, 2021 at 4:20 am | #

        Yeah, I don’t think it’s normal for him to consider himself to be addressed as ‘it’.

  3. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    October 18, 2021 at 12:06 am | #

    https://imgur.com/a/3AHMug5
    I promised I would if you were good and you were good.

    • A Red Balloon
      A Red Balloon
      October 18, 2021 at 12:08 am | #

      This looks delicious!

      Thank you!

      • Clif
        Clif
        October 18, 2021 at 10:40 am | #

        You are a public servant.

    • Josh Spicer
      Josh Spicer
      October 18, 2021 at 12:09 am | #

      https://i.imgur.com/pQP5dCG.jpg

      • Schpoonman
        Schpoonman
        October 18, 2021 at 4:06 am | #

        Bingo.

    • newlland(Henryvolt)
      newlland(Henryvolt)
      October 18, 2021 at 12:12 am | #

      👍

    • Rose by Any Other Name
      Rose by Any Other Name
      October 18, 2021 at 12:16 am | #

      Licky style indeed.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      October 18, 2021 at 12:17 am | #

      Confidentially part of me wanted to go even further,mostly cuz I’ve got a bit of an oral fixation 😛

      • Rose by Any Other Name
        Rose by Any Other Name
        October 18, 2021 at 12:24 am | #

        I mean, I’m not gonna complain.
        Is anyone else here gonna complain if Yotomoe goes further?

        • A Red Balloon
          A Red Balloon
          October 18, 2021 at 12:27 am | #

          I won’t complain!

          Art’s like a gas man — like a helium balloon free and released to go all kinds of places!

          • Yotomoe
            Yotomoe
            October 18, 2021 at 12:51 am | #

            Oh yeah it was mostly laziness, plus I have that animation thing to work on. Also I’m bad at posing people for the sexy stuff 😛

            • Rose by Any Other Name
              Rose by Any Other Name
              October 18, 2021 at 12:54 am | #

              Fair.
              Just sayin… if you ever did… I don’t think anyone would mind.

            • The Wellerman
              The Wellerman
              October 18, 2021 at 1:05 am | #

              Looking at your art, you don’t seem too bad at posing!

              Also, and I speak from experience, there’s nothing wrong with using references when you need to!

              Hirohiko Araki sure as hell uses them!

            • Decidedly Orthogonal
              Decidedly Orthogonal
              October 18, 2021 at 12:52 pm | #

              Dude what? First off, I doubt that’s true, but will allow a “practice makes perfect.” But even then, I’ve gotta correct you, even though you’re the expert:

              I’m bad at posing people for the [sexier] stuff

              Your work is already damn sexy, so must only be refering to stuff that is more so.

      • carcinoGeneticist
        carcinoGeneticist
        October 18, 2021 at 1:04 am | #

        Love your pics, Yoto. Do you have an archive somewhere that I could follow, rather than hoping I notice you post something on whatever days I happen to thoroughly read comments?

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          October 18, 2021 at 1:57 am | #

          Literally click on my name 😀

          • carcinoGeneticist
            carcinoGeneticist
            October 18, 2021 at 8:40 am | #

            Oh sweet thanks. Didn’t realize that was even a thing you could do.

            • Yotomoe
              Yotomoe
              October 18, 2021 at 7:30 pm | #

              Happy to help!

    • Wizard
      Wizard
      October 18, 2021 at 12:25 am | #

      Always good to be thorough.

    • acher4
      acher4
      October 18, 2021 at 2:59 am | #

      wow, that’s…

      that’s amazing!
      Thanks 🙂

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      October 18, 2021 at 4:05 am | #

      Sweet merciful Neptune.

      • Decidedly Orthogonal
        Decidedly Orthogonal
        October 18, 2021 at 3:57 pm | #

        Neptune? God of the seas was, I thought, hardly percieved as merciful. At best mercenary, and at worst pure malevolence.

        • Schpoonman
          Schpoonman
          October 18, 2021 at 5:31 pm | #

          Good thing it’s a Spongebob reference, then.

          • Spencer
            Spencer
            October 18, 2021 at 5:55 pm | #

            Did they ever square why there were two of them?

            • Yotomoe
              Yotomoe
              October 18, 2021 at 7:31 pm | #

              I think there’s 3 of them.

            • Decidedly Orthogonal
              Decidedly Orthogonal
              October 18, 2021 at 9:28 pm | #

              Spongebob? That’s likely having to be a cuboid or at least a rectanglar situation. He’s not really square himself, nor are his pants, despite the name.

              Yoto’s point of there being 3 of them supports this being a cubical scenario.

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      October 18, 2021 at 4:11 am | #

      yes

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      October 18, 2021 at 7:03 am | #

      Glorious.

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      October 18, 2021 at 4:39 pm | #

      As always, excellent work.

  4. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    October 18, 2021 at 12:07 am | #

    D’awww

    • Clif
      Clif
      October 18, 2021 at 1:25 am | #

      Yeah. Here we were all set to see Daisy’s reaction to Walky’s comic. How could Willis do this to us?

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        October 18, 2021 at 4:48 am | #

        Walky and Lucy were in a taco bell, having lunch before the meeting with Daisy. With this cutaway they will presumably make their way to the meeting, and we’ll cut back to them when they arrive

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          October 18, 2021 at 7:39 am | #

          Meeting Joyce there of course.

          • a/snow/mous/e
            a/snow/mous/e
            October 18, 2021 at 12:22 pm | #

            and then Daisy will be like “I was just gonna take the first submission but if you’re here at the same time I guess we’ll run TWO comics”

  5. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    October 18, 2021 at 12:07 am | #

    Joes may appear more impressive then they really are.

  6. newlland(Henryvolt)
    newlland(Henryvolt)
    October 18, 2021 at 12:07 am | #

    A+ banter I mean that genuinely this is some good stuff.

  7. Jon
    Jon
    October 18, 2021 at 12:08 am | #

    Well heck, there goes my “Joe & Joyce talk it out” theory

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      October 18, 2021 at 12:26 am | #

      Pff why would Joe ever talk it out with Joyce?

      He’s Shallow Friend! Oh sure he can step up to the plate if no one’s available like he did that one time totally begrudgingly and really accidentally when you think about it, but Dorothy is right there, so she’ll take care of it since she’s the Better, perhaps Best Friend and thus clearly able to give way better and more helpful advice to Joyce than Joe ever could.

      It’s a good thing Dorothy was one of the first to learn Joyce is an atheist, the violent trauma response that motivated her becoming one, her visible confusion on what it means to be an atheist when a lack of faith doesn’t suddenly automatically fill all the space left by the religious indoctrination with the 100% accurate true facts that Joyce is capable of parsing through using terms she can easily grasp, and how that lack of belief has crawled so deeply into Joyce that she’s begun to question what point there is in acting as the person she actually is when that person was raised by religious fundamentalists and Joyce perceives herself as just something else they made her believe existed.

      Simple, right?

    • Segnosaur
      Segnosaur
      October 18, 2021 at 12:26 am | #

      Last time we saw joyce she was leaving the room and nobody was following her. She and joe may talk about recent events but it won’t be for a while.

    • Scoops!
      Scoops!
      October 18, 2021 at 12:37 am | #

      Maybe now Joe will put a sock on the doorknob and hang out in the hallway.

    • alongcameaspider
      alongcameaspider
      October 18, 2021 at 12:52 am | #

      I wonder if Joe is gonna tell Danny and Sal about his day and Sal will be the one to talk to Joyce about it

      Thinking about it she’s probably a decent choice, she can sympathize with rebelling against one’s upbringing but is still willing to call out shitty attitudes that Joyce is starting to show.

      Plus Joyce idolized her so if someone can get through to her right now she can

      • Agemegos
        Agemegos
        October 18, 2021 at 1:56 am | #

        I don’t think Sal came back with Danny to his room in order to talk to Joe.

        • JBento
          JBento
          October 18, 2021 at 5:47 am | #

          I don’t think anybody ever comes to their room to TALK to JOE.

          • Agemegos
            Agemegos
            October 18, 2021 at 6:11 am | #

            And Joe likes it that way!

          • Reltzik
            Reltzik
            October 18, 2021 at 4:57 pm | #

            Well, Joyce might. Or Danny. But no, not a common occurrence.

    • justin8448
      justin8448
      October 18, 2021 at 1:00 am | #

      I still think Joe will play some role it talking Joyce down from her new perch. It’s gonna be a while though.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        October 18, 2021 at 10:11 pm | #

        Yup. The plot brought the conflict to him for a reason!

  8. JepMZ
    JepMZ
    October 18, 2021 at 12:08 am | #

    Oh man, I completely forgot she only uses windows. I wonder if her power cancels out in proximity with Dina’s door teleportation powers

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      October 18, 2021 at 3:12 am | #

      Sal uses doors, and will do so for at least as long as the half-bath is lacking a window.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      October 18, 2021 at 4:53 am | #

      It’s less a power and more of a skill

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      October 18, 2021 at 8:25 am | #

      I don’t really recall her using windows much since the early days of the strip. It was focused on in early conflict with Jennifer and she’d at least somewhat stopped doing it. She’s probably reverting due to stress over this new relationship thing.

      And for the Sly Sirs soft reboot of course.

  9. Spencer
    Spencer
    October 18, 2021 at 12:08 am | #

    I kindaaaaa feel I’m looking for the most positive interpretation of this strip instead of it definitely being there, but I like the idea that Sal not being willing to just go through his door to see him yet and so she much more sensibly climbs the window is something Danny’s fine with letting her work through on her own, and then Sal just did something weird in front of someone else and she doesn’t care enough to get defensive, she’s just laughing it off (though I imagine it helps when that someone is Joe).

    • Viktoria
      Viktoria
      October 18, 2021 at 12:25 am | #

      Danny has an established history of being willing to go along with what his GF wants, in both good and bad ways. Since this is harmless and fun, it’s definitely good that he’s going along with it.
      Sal, meanwhile, actively works at ignoring what people think. Again, can be either good or bad, but if going through windows is easier for her, then doing it and ignoring anyone who shames her is a positive IMO.

      • Miri
        Miri
        October 18, 2021 at 1:18 am | #

        I saw it as a sweet “yeah, she finds some stuff difficult but she’s working on it and I both accept her as she is and support her efforts in becoming a happier, more confident person, and feel honoured she’s comfortable being herself around me” too <3 Also, it's Listbro. Sal doesn't care about Listbro's opinion of her! I can see her outright questioning why they're friends…

        • Miri
          Miri
          October 18, 2021 at 1:21 am | #

          (“they” being Joe and Danny, not Joe and Sal. I think she may consider Joe “grudgingly acquantied via proximity and connections to Danny” rather than friendship (and Joe, “would like to connect, hur hur, errr – no – wait – BAD BRAIN”)

      • Keulen
        Keulen
        October 18, 2021 at 7:08 am | #

        It’s harmless and fun as long as Sal doesn’t fall and hurt herself while trying to climb through a window. But I’m assuming Sal has a lot of experience climbing windows by now.

      • HeatherJean
        HeatherJean
        October 18, 2021 at 5:57 pm | #

        “Sal, meanwhile, actively works at ignoring what people think.”

        Despite climbing up a building to avoid being seen going into notorious Joe’s notorious room.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          October 18, 2021 at 8:32 pm | #

          I don’t think she’s even hinted that’s her motivation.

          More that she’s struggling with doing something normal like dating Danny and is overcompensating by reverting to her old window climbing ways.

  10. Tan
    Tan
    October 18, 2021 at 12:08 am | #

    Solid burn

  11. Thag Simmons
    Thag Simmons
    October 18, 2021 at 12:08 am | #

    Red Jacket Sal is one fancy hat away from a decent Carmen Sandiego cosplay.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      October 18, 2021 at 12:13 am | #

      I’m much more into Green Jacket Sal since Sal III: Castle of Cagliostro is my favourite.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      October 18, 2021 at 7:09 am | #

      If she ever does an actual Carmen Sandiego cosplay, Danny should cosplay as Waldo.

  12. Axel
    Axel
    October 18, 2021 at 12:10 am | #

    so first he gets a crush on a dorothy lookalike, then he gets a crush on someone who enters through windows like amazigirl

    • Axel
      Axel
      October 18, 2021 at 12:10 am | #

      /dates

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      October 18, 2021 at 12:13 am | #

      Wait, Sal isn’t Amazi-Girl?

      • RassilonTDavros
        RassilonTDavros
        October 18, 2021 at 12:16 am | #

        Of course not, Amazi-Girl is Spider-Caaaaaaaagh

        (the commenter was found dead shortly after writing this. the cause was believed to be strangulation)

        • Jamie
          Jamie
          October 18, 2021 at 2:31 am | #

          Is that not how you pronounce “Car”?

          • King Daniel
            King Daniel
            October 18, 2021 at 3:02 am | #

            No, you pronounce it “Koughre”.

            • Axel
              Axel
              October 18, 2021 at 5:58 am | #

              Kyogre?

          • Delicious Taffy
            Delicious Taffy
            October 18, 2021 at 5:40 am | #

            It is if you’re a bird in a huff.

          • Roborat
            Roborat
            October 18, 2021 at 4:43 pm | #

            In Boston, yes.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      October 18, 2021 at 12:19 am | #

      Man, you’ve kinda made me realize that Danny’s actually had a lot of love interests. Like sure he hasn’t actually been banging all that much but he’s had more “dates” in a semester than I’ve had in my whole life. Joe should be proud.

      • Rose by Any Other Name
        Rose by Any Other Name
        October 18, 2021 at 12:30 am | #

        You know… I didn’t go on many dates either.
        I had a tendency to move quickly past the “date” part of dating to the “in a relationship” phase which had lots of spending time together but not a lot of actual ‘dates’.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          October 18, 2021 at 12:41 am | #

          I’ve only had one Girlfriend and that was in high school over 10 years ago. I’m just bad at putting myself out there. Also I’m kind of a weirdo so I need to find other weirdos.

          • newlland(Henryvolt)
            newlland(Henryvolt)
            October 18, 2021 at 6:24 am | #

            Fellow member of the lonely hearts club.

          • Deanatay
            Deanatay
            October 18, 2021 at 8:41 am | #

            Your Own Personal Weirdo is out there, Yoto. Don’t give up hope!

            • marcus erronius
              marcus erronius
              October 18, 2021 at 10:28 am | #

              🎵 Your own personal weirdo 🎵
              🎵 Someone to love your quirks, forget all the jerks 🎵
              REACH OUT AND BE STRANGE

              • Steamweed
                Steamweed
                October 18, 2021 at 7:13 pm | #

                What mode did I hear this in?

                Depeche Mode.

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        October 18, 2021 at 12:31 am | #

        No Need For Danny

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        October 18, 2021 at 1:08 am | #

        Dorothy, Billie trying to bed him, Amazi-girl, Ethan, Sal…

        • Yotomoe
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          October 18, 2021 at 1:25 am | #

          Here I am making the WALKY harem when really Danny is the true Harem protagonist.

          • Schpoonman
            Schpoonman
            October 18, 2021 at 4:10 am | #

            Oh, god, he even started out DoA as a borderline featureless protagonist-type, too.

          • Thag Simmons
            Thag Simmons
            October 18, 2021 at 5:07 am | #

            Danny had five love interests over half of a year, two of which barely count.

            Walky had like half the campus thirsting over him for a day.

            • Yotomoe
              Yotomoe
              October 18, 2021 at 10:34 am | #

              I guess it depends on what kinda harem anime you’re watching cuz a lot of them do have the MC slowly amass more and more love interests as the series goes on.

      • Sombrero
        Sombrero
        October 18, 2021 at 5:21 am | #

        Dan has the most varied (on-screen) love life of all the cast. You can add Ethan to the crush list, and remember he almost banged Billie without the need of dating first and without even having a crush on her.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          October 18, 2021 at 8:29 am | #

          Thinking about it, it’s kind of weird in retrospect that there was literally no fallout from that Danny/Billie incident. I don’t think it’s even been alluded to past the immediate aftermath with Joe and Amber. They’ve rarely interacted, but there’s also been no indication either of them is awkward around the other or even remembers it.

          • Spencer
            Spencer
            October 18, 2021 at 8:42 am | #

            Well yeah because they’ve spoken exactly once since.

            He hit on her like a dweeb and then when Danny apologized he rambled that he was in a weird place after Dorothy and that Billie was obviously way out of his league because she had to be a cheerleader or something, and for fairly obvious reasons that provoked a reaction in her but it was still just “almost had sex with this guy and then did not actually have sex.”

            Then like two years later he saw her again and she told him he wasn’t getting another shot, and that’s when Danny rambled about being Amazi-Girl’s boyfriend and how worried he was not being in contact with her (apropos of nothing to Billie, of course) so she pointed him in the direction of Amazi-Girl’s secret identity: Sal.

            It’d be weird if she remembered him at all after that, though it might end up kinda funny when she finds out Sal has hooked up with that one dork who turned her down and then came crawling back for the goods, and obviously Sal is only dating him because she’s jealous of her being with Asher.

            And then Danny just goes “oh was that you? I’m sorry, I totally forgot about you” but without a single hint of malice and then every blood cell on Jennifer’s face explodes at once killing her instantly.

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              October 18, 2021 at 10:47 am | #

              Oh, I didn’t remember that scene with him looking for AG. I withdraw the complaint. That’s exactly the kind of thing I was thinking of.

      • Heatth
        Heatth
        October 18, 2021 at 9:16 am | #

        Danny seems the kind of person who doesn’t know how to not be dating someone at any given time.

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          October 18, 2021 at 9:28 am | #

          He’d been single for five years before this chapter.

          It was a whole thing where he found value in himself through his dapper hat and ukulele that culminated in him standing up for himself and speaking his mind in front of Ethan at the hospital, which isn’t as, like, clear-cut heroic as I may be making it sound like, more so that it was the moment Danny was in front of someone he had the hots for and the script is supposed to be that Danny slavishly submits himself and keeps his mouth shut of any potential problem hoping it’ll all work out, and instead he stood by the fact that Mike being in a coma sucks and it sucked that he made a crack about it, but it’s not something he wouldn’t have felt had Mike not been a horrible bastard person all the time and to Ethan and Amber in particular, and once Ethan outright said (almost certainly irrationally in anger, to be fair, and all of this has been made worse because Mike’s dead and that fight they had is never gonna get better) that he’d let Mike laugh at Danny for being in a coma because Mike just matters more, that was it, Danny got it that he didn’t need to put up with shit like that from anyone ever again.

          • Jamie
            Jamie
            October 18, 2021 at 2:27 pm | #

            Five years out-of-universe. In-universe, it’s been about two months: basically the whole timeskip plus the bit you mentioned.

            • Spencer
              Spencer
              October 18, 2021 at 2:56 pm | #

              I’m saying Danny got dumped, spent time on himself he never has, and when it came time for him to fall into his pattern he valued himself enough for him and Ethan to mutually tell the other to take a hike.

              I’m saying Danny is now a person who know not to date someone at any given time/

          • Alex
            Alex
            October 18, 2021 at 2:57 pm | #

            People love to refer to that incident as Danning things up, but I thought it was a positive development for him. He could have just gone along with the tide of refusing to speak ill of the dead but instead he spoke up about the kind of person Mike was.

            • Spencer
              Spencer
              October 18, 2021 at 2:59 pm | #

              It is the single most pivotal moment in Danny’s character development, yeah.

              It’s nice to go the distance for someone you care about, but you gotta learn how to do it for your own sake too.

  13. Andy
    Andy
    October 18, 2021 at 12:14 am | #

    And once again, Sal enters Danny’s room for the first time via window. Now the circle is complete.

  14. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    October 18, 2021 at 12:17 am | #

    Plays “Defying Gravity” (from Wicked) on the hacked Muzak.

  15. Cattleprod
    Cattleprod
    October 18, 2021 at 12:21 am | #

    Searching sal+joe gets… 8 results? And their first interaction was in March 2018, 7.5 years into the strip? Mind blown.

    • A Red Balloon
      A Red Balloon
      October 18, 2021 at 12:34 am | #

      I didn’t know you could search more than one at a time!

      Well, live and learn, I guess.

      • Cattleprod
        Cattleprod
        October 18, 2021 at 11:55 pm | #

        Vitally important when I’m trying to remember what sort of relationship two characters have.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      October 18, 2021 at 4:51 am | #

      They interacted all of one time prior to this chapter

  16. Regalli
    Regalli
    October 18, 2021 at 12:28 am | #

    Doors are for people who CAN’T climb in through the windows.

    Those people aren’t nearly as fun as Sal.

  17. ADLegend21
    ADLegend21
    October 18, 2021 at 12:32 am | #

    [TFS Vegeta voice] OH MY GOD SHE’S SO GOD DAMN COOL!

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      October 18, 2021 at 4:11 am | #

      This is not a intersection of references I was expecting but I am here for it.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      October 18, 2021 at 9:36 am | #

      I have found the perfect metaphor.

      Roomies Danny is 1992 Broly.

      DoA!Danny is In-Canon Super Broly

      • RassilonTDavros
        RassilonTDavros
        October 18, 2021 at 11:53 am | #

        …Oh my Super Kami Dende, you’re absolutely right.

        Geez, I can still remember what a shock it was to find myself actually caring about Broly as a character.

  18. BBCC
    BBCC
    October 18, 2021 at 12:43 am | #

    Sal defies all, gravity included.

  19. brionl
    brionl
    October 18, 2021 at 1:03 am | #

    At least she didn’t come in through the bathroom window.

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      October 18, 2021 at 4:02 am | #

      She wasn’t protected by a silver spoon.

      • OBBWG
        OBBWG
        October 18, 2021 at 11:30 am | #

        She doesn’t suck her thumb.

  20. drs
    drs
    October 18, 2021 at 1:09 am | #

    She looks so happy responding to Joe’s straight line.

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      October 18, 2021 at 2:33 am | #

      Joe already got his Good Quip in. It’s Sal’s turn, and she did okay.

  21. CJ
    CJ
    October 18, 2021 at 2:37 am | #

    Chiming in just to mention that the poll question is the wrong question. It’s not about who is right in the Joyce/Becky. If they can’t get past that question, they won‘t find a solution.

    • Sombrero
      Sombrero
      October 18, 2021 at 5:23 am | #

      So your answer is “neither of them”, not even the poll.

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      October 18, 2021 at 2:30 pm | #

      But it’s better for engagement if there’s a Team Joyce and Team Becky, because rabid fandoms are engaged fandoms.

      Ignoring Twilight, see the marketing for Captain America: Civil War.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      October 18, 2021 at 2:58 pm | #

      That’s why half the options are rejecting that one of them is innately right in how they acted and the other fell short.

  22. acher4
    acher4
    October 18, 2021 at 2:39 am | #

    It feels really nostalgic seeing those three in this room.

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      October 18, 2021 at 3:03 am | #

      This is actually the first time Dumbing of Age has had all three in the same room!

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        October 18, 2021 at 5:47 am | #

        *checks Joe+Sal tags* Huh. Whaddya know? Apparently Sal and Joe hadn’t even appeared in the same strip until Faz’s infiltration. Unless the combined tag search is faulty?

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          October 18, 2021 at 12:16 pm | #

          The hover text for the first Joe+Sal+Faz strip mentions how it’s DoA’s first time having Joe and Sal together, so I would assume it’s correct.

  23. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    October 18, 2021 at 3:10 am | #

    Nice to see how Danny and Sal are totally fine having different way to enter in his room♡. Joe, on the other hand, seems to have doubts and be weirded out by Sal. That’s a new thing! Joe may ends up admiring and respect Sal very much and be really happy for Danny! Or just being a spectator of another weird situation he see around him.

  24. Mr.Morningstar
    Mr.Morningstar
    October 18, 2021 at 3:52 am | #

    Sal and Gravity have an understanding

    It doesnt mess with her, and she mostly plays by its rules.

    Mostly

    • MacareuxMoine
      MacareuxMoine
      October 18, 2021 at 10:55 am | #

      I went through all the comic to find a proof that Sal is affected by Gravity, and the only thing I could find was this childhood memory where it stopped her from climbing higher up on Casa de Marcie.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        October 18, 2021 at 2:51 pm | #

        She learned to ignore Gravity from Marcie.

  25. Keulen
    Keulen
    October 18, 2021 at 7:12 am | #

    Now I’m imagining Sal gets up to Danny’s window like this.

  26. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    October 18, 2021 at 7:49 am | #

    Is that the biggest smile we’ve ever seen out of Sal?

  27. Deanatay
    Deanatay
    October 18, 2021 at 8:46 am | #

    Joe’s Nice Guy t-shirt is STILL inaccurate.

    Sal’s skeptical look in panel 4 is her thinking, “Wrong.”

  28. Alex
    Alex
    October 18, 2021 at 8:47 am | #

    She’s so cute in that last panel. I love seeing her happy.

  29. Icalasari
    Icalasari
    October 18, 2021 at 11:04 am | #

    God I hope this is one relationship that stays stable and healthy (not drama free, few relationships are entirely drama free, but stable and healthy) as a balance to every other relationship in this comic

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      October 18, 2021 at 11:08 am | #

      *nervous sweating*

    • Segnosaur
      Segnosaur
      October 18, 2021 at 11:51 am | #

      Hopefully if there is Drama, its drama that brings them closer together.

      (Maybe Danny’s family is upset he’s dating a “criminal” while Sal’s family is happy he’s dating a nice white boy, as opposed to whom Walky is dating.)

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      October 18, 2021 at 5:45 pm | #

      Not likely

  30. zee
    zee
    October 18, 2021 at 11:14 am | #

    That’s the fun thing about black girls, we don’t have to care out gravity. Our hair naturally defies it :3

  31. Bagge
    Bagge
    October 18, 2021 at 12:39 pm | #

    Sal’s smug smile is the best

  32. Disastroid
    Disastroid
    October 18, 2021 at 12:50 pm | #

    Sal’s heart hasn’t known gravity for the last couple of days

  33. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    October 18, 2021 at 4:31 pm | #

    …I love Today’s Sal

  34. Slartibeast Button, BIA
    Slartibeast Button, BIA
    October 18, 2021 at 6:33 pm | #

    Slartibeast puts “Gravity Storm” on hacked Muzack.

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