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July 11, 2026

Knocks

by David M Willis on September 3, 2021 at 12:01 am
  • 01 – Sister, Christian
└ Tags: sal

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    September 3, 2021 at 12:03 am | #

    and to think he’s on the fifth floor, too!

    (j/k idk but that’s still some precision aiming)

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      September 3, 2021 at 12:04 am | #

      a gentleman knocks before entering, Alt-Text

      …idk about Sal, tho

      • Clif
        Clif
        September 3, 2021 at 1:50 am | #

        She’s knocking on the window before entering. She’s just using (hopefully small) rocks to do it.

      • Librain
        Librain
        September 7, 2021 at 4:20 am | #

        Although depending on what one is… *ahem* entering, one might prefer to “ring the doorbell” instead.

  2. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    September 3, 2021 at 12:04 am | #

    She’s doing it wrong, she’s not holding a Boom Box.

    …Maybe she could find one in an antique store, shut up.

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      September 3, 2021 at 12:08 am | #

      Doesn’t work in a dorm, not at this time of morning. The rest of the wing would be furious.

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        September 3, 2021 at 12:21 am | #

        Yeah, harder to aim the boombox at a specific target.

        . . .

        Maybe you could throw the boombox.

        • Jeremy Betts
          Jeremy Betts
          September 3, 2021 at 12:50 am | #

          But you could use an audio spotlight, like the ones by holosonics :p not quite the same though…

          • Clif
            Clif
            September 3, 2021 at 1:52 am | #

            An audio spotlight is even harder to throw and hit a specific target.

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        September 3, 2021 at 7:50 am | #

        I won’t say how long ago, but two idiots, each armed with a bullhorn, decided to get into some screaming match from bedroom windows on opposite sides of our quad (with four-story dorm buildings on all sides). At three in the morning, on a weekday.

        The good old days!

        • ValdVin
          ValdVin
          September 3, 2021 at 7:54 am | #

          Oh, and let’s not forget:

          Boys will be boys!
          They’re just letting off some steam!
          And (today, decades later) campus PC is out of control!

        • Regalli
          Regalli
          September 3, 2021 at 10:00 am | #

          That is grounds for murder.

          • He Who Abides
            He Who Abides
            September 3, 2021 at 10:05 pm | #

            Murder? What murder? These two loudmouths clearly each stabbed themselves in the back, no other possible solution.

            • Librain
              Librain
              September 7, 2021 at 4:18 am | #

              Probably threw themselves out the window afterwards, too.

      • Ragingagnostic
        Ragingagnostic
        September 3, 2021 at 10:53 am | #

        Why would she care? She’s about to commit vandelism by throwing rocks!

        • Clif
          Clif
          September 3, 2021 at 4:13 pm | #

          I choose to believe that you are replying to Regalli’s comment.

    • GeekRyuu
      GeekRyuu
      September 3, 2021 at 7:17 pm | #

      But what would she play? The kids aren’t really into Peter Gabriel anymore.

  3. Wagstaff
    Wagstaff
    September 3, 2021 at 12:04 am | #

    Woah! Just where did she get that alluring jacket?!?!

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      September 3, 2021 at 12:08 am | #

      Shops at the same motorcycle store as Rosa Diaz?

      Hey, she may have given up the bike, but that doesn’t mean she has to give up the sweet style.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      September 3, 2021 at 12:23 am | #

      a store, probably

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      September 3, 2021 at 12:31 am | #

      She looks so GOOD in red. I love that she’s wearing it more.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      September 3, 2021 at 1:17 am | #

      It’s Sal. She either paid for it herself or she “stole” it.

    • Clif
      Clif
      September 3, 2021 at 2:02 am | #

      It’s a jacket. What makes it alluring? Other than the fact Sal is wearing it I mean.

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        September 3, 2021 at 5:51 am | #

        It’s a nice red jacket.

        Those are cool

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      September 3, 2021 at 2:34 am | #

      Isn’t that the red leather jacket she’s always had? The one Becky borrowed that one time ca. Joyce’s dorm party?

      https://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/painful-2/

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        September 3, 2021 at 12:27 pm | #

        No, this one is darker, with a smaller collar and a seam going up the side of the sleeves.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          September 3, 2021 at 3:04 pm | #

          I don’t know, those changes could be chalked up to art style evolution too.

          • Clif
            Clif
            September 3, 2021 at 4:20 pm | #

            Art style evolution is not a thing. Comic artists just kill old characters off and sneak new replacement characters in and hope no-one notices.

            • David M Willis
              David M Willis
              September 3, 2021 at 5:05 pm | #

              Sal actually has six nigh-identical red jackets. When we see the final red jacket, the strip will end.

            • Needfuldoer
              Needfuldoer
              September 3, 2021 at 6:08 pm | #

              Okay I don’t care if you’re joking or not, as far as I’m concerned that’s canon.

              @Clif: But this isn’t a strip about a quiet mill town where the population is 50% sapient AIs and 50% quirky townies (there’s some overlap)…

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            September 21, 2021 at 1:21 pm | #

            I guess but when other outfits show up in the new art style, they still look the same shades-and-seams wise.

  4. Rectilinear Propagation
    Rectilinear Propagation
    September 3, 2021 at 12:05 am | #

    Why is throwing rocks less nerve wracking than knocking on the door? Easier to pretend you’re just trying to annoy someone?

    • Sam
      Sam
      September 3, 2021 at 12:17 am | #

      Well, then you know their opening sentence will be ‘why did you break my window!?’ and as soon as you know that, the flow of conversation will come naturally. But knocking on a DOOR? They could say ANYTHING. They could say a nonsense word like ‘kashmirga’ and you can’t be having that kind of unlimited choice in your life that you can’t be prepared for. Take control of your life and smash people’s windows instead. Never be unprepared for the conversation that follows again.

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        September 3, 2021 at 1:16 am | #

        But what if you break their window, and they say “kashmirga” as their opening sentence anyway?

        • Clif
          Clif
          September 3, 2021 at 10:43 am | #

          Kashmirga isn’t a nonsense word. A Kashmirga is a goat. It is the Nepali name for the mainland serow, Capricornis sumatraensis, also known as a Thar.

          Don’t you people know how to abuse the Internet?

          • Sam
            Sam
            September 3, 2021 at 4:36 pm | #

            Is it actually called that? I have looked up the mainland serow but I can’t find it being referenced as that. I just took the word from a Caleb City video where it is part of the nonsense being said when the guy’s not got his glasses on.

            • King Daniel
              King Daniel
              September 3, 2021 at 9:20 pm | #

              “On the Internet, 110% of what you read is completely and factually correct.” –P. T. Barnum

              • Sam
                Sam
                September 3, 2021 at 11:04 pm | #

                So what you are saying is. That Clif IS the mainland serow and has been all along.

        • Sam
          Sam
          September 3, 2021 at 4:31 pm | #

          You knock them unconscious immediately with your next rock and make their next sentence ‘Where am I? What happened? Why did you hit me with a rock?’ If they say ‘kashmirga’ again however, you have to start over with a new friend.

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        September 7, 2021 at 3:00 pm | #

        Just panic and say: “Burma”.

    • TheLurkerAbove
      TheLurkerAbove
      September 3, 2021 at 12:50 am | #

      This is Sal, she doesn’t like conformity.

      Also a bit of a running gag from the Walkyverse; see alt-text.

      • Dr. T
        Dr. T
        September 3, 2021 at 1:16 am | #

        I mean, it’s a gag from Roomies! but Sal routinely climbed in her own window until Billie forbade it in their roommate agreement. I guess she kept honoring the clause when Becky moved in. Of course, Malaya also wouldn’t tolerate that kind of thing either.

      • Matthew E Davis
        Matthew E Davis
        September 4, 2021 at 6:30 am | #

        This is why the red jacket is giving me Semme vibes.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      September 3, 2021 at 1:19 am | #

      It makes more sense when…

      A) You’re trying to get to someone who lives in a multi-room domicile whose…
      B) Housemates you don’t want to attract, or disturb, or know that you’re there at all, and….
      C) Cell phones don’t exist.

      Sal’s just a traditionalist at heart.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      September 3, 2021 at 7:32 am | #

      It’s less nerve wracking for the same reason Sal kept biking around McNutt trying to run into Asher and why she stole a flower from the bouquet Danny was giving to her.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      September 3, 2021 at 10:04 am | #

      Because normal people HATE windows.

  5. Citizen Octopus
    Citizen Octopus
    September 3, 2021 at 12:05 am | #

    Remember kids, “normality” is subjective!

    • Clif
      Clif
      September 3, 2021 at 10:09 am | #

      Remember kids, “normality” is boring!

      Fixed that for you.

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      September 3, 2021 at 6:16 pm | #

      Normal is at right angles to the current reality, it’s an engineering term.

  6. Vukodlak
    Vukodlak
    September 3, 2021 at 12:06 am | #

    What you actually want to throw is stale bread rolls. Their hard enough to make an impact and get his attention but soft enough not to damage the class.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      September 3, 2021 at 12:18 am | #

      Or maybe a snowball? There’s a lot to go around.

      • He Who Abides
        He Who Abides
        September 3, 2021 at 12:48 am | #

        Scoop up a rock or some ice by mistake, and you’ll most likely break the window.

        Disclaimer: I am from the South and have no actual proof of whether or not an icy snowball will break a window. I also hope to never be in a climate where I could figure it out, since it means that I will be spending an inordinate amount of time trying to stop the women in my life from licking anything metal because they want to know what it’s like to get stuck like that.

        • Delicious Taffy
          Delicious Taffy
          September 3, 2021 at 12:57 am | #

          I’ve got a couple of questions about the women in your life.

          • Thag Simmons
            Thag Simmons
            September 3, 2021 at 2:53 am | #

            Are they going to try it more than once?

          • He Who Abides
            He Who Abides
            September 3, 2021 at 3:00 pm | #

            @Delicious Taffy – feel free to ask, I’ll let you know if I can’t answer anything.

            • Delicious Taffy
              Delicious Taffy
              September 3, 2021 at 4:45 pm | #

              Crap, you followed up. Uh, questions, questions. Uhhhhh.

              Why they lickin’ cold metal so much? Are they, y’know…[homunculus-making gestures]?

              • He Who Abides
                He Who Abides
                September 3, 2021 at 10:09 pm | #

                Nah. Ms. Abides just wants to see if it actually works (Reltzik provided a way to do that below, thanks), and Mrs. Abides . . . well, her reason is actually kinda sad, and I’m not really comfortable talking about it right now.

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          September 3, 2021 at 1:21 am | #

          Eh, just have warm water ready to go just in case.

        • Reltzik
          Reltzik
          September 3, 2021 at 1:35 am | #

          Just persuade them to put a spoon in a freezer for a day and then lick that. Same effect, but far easier to thaw than some unsanitary lamppost.

          • Clif
            Clif
            September 3, 2021 at 1:55 am | #

            You never know where the spoon has been before it was put in the freezer.

            • Reltzik
              Reltzik
              September 3, 2021 at 1:57 am | #

              But you can know if it’s been washed.

              • Clif
                Clif
                September 3, 2021 at 2:04 am | #

                You can know the lamppost has been washed if you plan ahead.

                • Reltzik
                  Reltzik
                  September 3, 2021 at 7:05 pm | #

                  Not reliably so, unless you want to camp out next to the lamppost non-stop between washing and freeze and somehow account for exhaust deposits from nearby cars.

        • Thag Simmons
          Thag Simmons
          September 3, 2021 at 2:52 am | #

          Most of the time it’s fine if you’re mindful to not do that.

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      September 7, 2021 at 3:04 pm | #

      Wouldn’t the teacher get mad if you are throwing stuff in class?

  7. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    September 3, 2021 at 12:08 am | #

    Stay cool Sal.

    • Clif
      Clif
      September 3, 2021 at 2:05 am | #

      When has she not?

  8. Disastroid
    Disastroid
    September 3, 2021 at 12:09 am | #

    Sal, you hopeless romantic. Next thing you know she’ll be out there blasting Peter Gabriel from a boom box.

    • newlland(Henryvolt)
      newlland(Henryvolt)
      September 3, 2021 at 12:28 am | #

      Personally if a girl did that for me I’d be won over. Back I’m the day it’s usually a romantic gesture that came from a guy but I don’t know if it would fly as not being a creeper. But really I’d love for someone to do this for me.

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        September 3, 2021 at 7:35 am | #

        It’s less that it was a romantic gesture that time has changed and more like, you’re making this big, sweeping, dramatic gesture in front of someone’s house, presumably in their neighbourhood, is this actually something they’d appreciate?

        ‘Cause you totally can, and they totally can, but what about all those times someone did it at the wrong time to the wrong person?

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          September 3, 2021 at 10:41 am | #

          “You shouldn’t come around here singing up at people like that
          Anyway, what you gonna do about it?”

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      September 3, 2021 at 1:58 am | #

      This sounds more like a Danny move than a Sal one.

  9. Kravis
    Kravis
    September 3, 2021 at 12:10 am | #

    That’s one needlessly complex booty call.

    • Bryy
      Bryy
      September 3, 2021 at 12:21 am | #

      Yeah, so THIS is the arc where everyone gets laid.

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        September 3, 2021 at 1:17 am | #

        Everyone?

        Faz will be pleased.

        • Reltzik
          Reltzik
          September 3, 2021 at 2:11 am | #

          Carla won’t be.

        • Clif
          Clif
          September 3, 2021 at 2:17 am | #

          Mike will be pleasantly surprised.

          Your Mom will just be surprised.

  10. tim gueguen
    tim gueguen
    September 3, 2021 at 12:10 am | #

    Do it this way, Sal.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVv7IzEVf3M

  11. Yumi
    Yumi
    September 3, 2021 at 12:10 am | #

    Careful, Sal, or he might start to get the impression that you like him.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      September 3, 2021 at 12:14 am | #

      The trick to avoiding that is that when he opens the window, you just keep throwing rocks.

      • Chris Phoenix
        Chris Phoenix
        September 3, 2021 at 1:30 am | #

        Throwing things at people’s heads worked for Walky

        • Chris Phoenix
          Chris Phoenix
          September 3, 2021 at 1:31 am | #

          Argh, new laptop, let’s see if I can remember how I capitalized it to get Becky

          • Clif
            Clif
            September 3, 2021 at 1:58 am | #

            Throwing a new laptop would probably break the window.

            Also not good for the laptop.

      • Tawnee
        Tawnee
        September 3, 2021 at 1:30 am | #

        Make rock throwing the entire basis for the relationship, ultimately ending in throwing rocks at the bridesmaids at the wedding, to decide who gets to throw rocks next.

        • Clif
          Clif
          September 3, 2021 at 2:10 am | #

          In some parts of the country, getting stoned at weddings is a tradition.

          • SillyGoose
            SillyGoose
            September 3, 2021 at 4:45 am | #

            AND a rock is a perfectly good mating gift. If you’re a penguin.

            • Fist_of_Life
              Fist_of_Life
              September 3, 2021 at 7:32 am | #

              And if you’re human, assuming you get the right kind of rock.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      September 3, 2021 at 6:28 am | #

      She could just tell him she’s not throwing rocks at his window because she likes him or anything. Baka.

  12. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    September 3, 2021 at 12:15 am | #

    Didn’t Anybody Tell Her? Didn’t Anybody See?

  13. TemporalShrew
    TemporalShrew
    September 3, 2021 at 12:15 am | #

    Wherefore art thou, Danny-o?

    • TemporalShrew
      TemporalShrew
      September 3, 2021 at 12:19 am | #

      (though I guess it would actually be the other way around in this case).

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      September 3, 2021 at 12:59 am | #

      Nice superfluous comma, nerd!

      Nah, but it’s still valid when applied to Danny. Why is he, indeed

  14. newlland(Henryvolt)
    newlland(Henryvolt)
    September 3, 2021 at 12:21 am | #

    She put on her best jacket just to see him, also oddly red really works for her.

  15. BBCC
    BBCC
    September 3, 2021 at 12:30 am | #

    Sounds like a romcom. He’ll love it.

    • Clif
      Clif
      September 3, 2021 at 1:59 am | #

      Joe opens the window and gets a face of rocks.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      September 3, 2021 at 7:37 am | #

      Turns out the romantic fantasies Danny was trying to enact should have been 80s romantic comedies instead of superhero alter-ego drama this whole time.

      • Clif
        Clif
        September 3, 2021 at 4:04 pm | #

        He failed abject at the superhero romantic interest role. Let’s hope he does better with the romcom genre and makes better use of the second chance.

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          September 3, 2021 at 4:17 pm | #

          Danny latched onto Dorothy because his Shoujo manga would never lie to him that dating a girl in high school means you’re together forever.

          He just switches genres every time he gets dumped.

  16. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    September 3, 2021 at 1:02 am | #

    As long as you don’t throw a brick at it.

  17. TheFlamingonator
    TheFlamingonator
    September 3, 2021 at 1:17 am | #

    @ alt text: I would assums the windows are very well shut as it is winter and there is snow outside (although I don’t remember if it has been established that Sal has lock-picking skills?)

    • Fist_of_Life
      Fist_of_Life
      September 3, 2021 at 7:36 am | #

      In my experience, lock picks aren’t much use for unlocking windows from the outside. They aren’t much use for unlocking them from the inside either, but if you are inside you probably wouldn’t need them to unlock the windows anyway.

    • John
      John
      September 3, 2021 at 11:07 am | #

      I’unno, one of the dorms I was in we kept our window open all winter because the dorm heat was… overzealous.

      We also kept ice cream on the windowsill, because my minifridge froze it so hard you couldn’t get a spoon into it.

      Somewhere in between, we had a comfortable climate.

  18. Ralph Oscar
    Ralph Oscar
    September 3, 2021 at 1:24 am | #

    She came in through the bathroom window…

  19. Ray
    Ray
    September 3, 2021 at 1:59 am | #

    The Beatles planned this decades ago….

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVv7IzEVf3M

  20. BenRG
    BenRG
    September 3, 2021 at 2:02 am | #

    Sometimes, Sal’s emotional vulnerability is something that you only get through interpreting carefully what you see in the strip. Other times, it so fantastically obvious that you’d need to be a fool to miss it.

    So, Danny or Asher’s room? I’m betting on the former.

    • Prince Mech
      Prince Mech
      September 3, 2021 at 2:13 am | #

      I’m hoping Danny, I need to know what happened after she smooched him.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      September 3, 2021 at 6:29 am | #

      I’m assuming Danny’s room until proven otherwise.

    • Alex
      Alex
      September 3, 2021 at 10:09 am | #

      Danny. She mentioned hanging around on the steps to bump into him because she was unwilling to go to his room and admit that she wanted his company.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        September 3, 2021 at 10:40 am | #

        Though she was also earlier circling Asher’s dorm on her bike hoping to run into him.

        But in this case, definitely Danny. She also asked about him at the cake event for Becky’s mom. Not actually asking about him of course, just if Joe and his roommate might show up.

  21. Barf Ninjason
    Barf Ninjason
    September 3, 2021 at 2:10 am | #

    I know I’m going to Dehrading-the-Narrative hell, and maybe I’m just still too influenced by the time that Jeph Jacques guy fixed Joyce’s emotional-moment-on-the-toilet panels by having her fart extensively in every one, but I pictured Sal silently but ferociously letting one rip in each panel here. Seems the right mix of intimacy and determination and things-she’d-rather-have-kept-inside.

  22. Vukodlak
    Vukodlak
    September 3, 2021 at 2:14 am | #

    Congratulations Sal you are doing something Walky would do.

    • Clif
      Clif
      September 3, 2021 at 2:20 am | #

      Except that her aim is probably better.

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        September 3, 2021 at 5:53 am | #

        Get it? It’s because marriage is terrible.

        …

        Wait

        • Wagstaff
          Wagstaff
          September 3, 2021 at 3:00 pm | #

          I like your thinking!

          And that Gravity Falls reference!

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      September 3, 2021 at 7:38 am | #

      She hasn’t beaned him on the head with anything yet. Once she does, it’s all over.

      • Clif
        Clif
        September 3, 2021 at 10:23 am | #

        Doesn’t that depend on how hard she beans him?

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          September 3, 2021 at 10:38 am | #

          Lightly tossing the object at the target’s head is how they convey interest.

          Chucking it full force is how they propose marriage.

          It is the ancient Walkerton mating ritual.

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            September 3, 2021 at 12:33 pm | #

            Look, the Walkerton family crest is a knight refusing to discuss their feelings. This and the mating ritual may be linked.

          • He Who Abides
            He Who Abides
            September 3, 2021 at 3:03 pm | #

            A full force head-bean will also cause Walky to assume the role of a reincarnated Shaka Zulu, and only getting conked on the coconut by Batman will fix him then.

            • He Who Abides
              He Who Abides
              September 3, 2021 at 3:05 pm | #

              Shit, you were talking about Danny.

              Actually, since King Tut (the Bat-villain) was Caucasian, it still works.

  23. Bagge
    Bagge
    September 3, 2021 at 2:20 am | #

    This counts as normal for Danny

  24. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    September 3, 2021 at 3:13 am | #

    I’m impressed with how shy Sal actually is. But it’s nice to see her decide to take action and want to go out with Danny ♡. I wonder how Danny will take it. Or how Joe will react.

  25. Eldritchy
    Eldritchy
    September 3, 2021 at 4:42 am | #

    Oh no, The Frowny Face Disease is spreading!

  26. Daibhid C
    Daibhid C
    September 3, 2021 at 5:27 am | #

    This is how my sister’s friends communicated with her when we were teens. They weren’t great at remembering which window was hers, though.

    • Eldritchy
      Eldritchy
      September 3, 2021 at 6:16 am | #

      Did you ever go to your sister’s room going “Hey, there is a rock for you.”?

  27. Juanoku
    Juanoku
    September 3, 2021 at 6:14 am | #

    I’m pretty sure she’s allergic to doing things normally

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      September 3, 2021 at 6:31 am | #

      What, you mean throwing rocks at someone’s window isn’t normal? I’m shocked.

  28. Keulen
    Keulen
    September 3, 2021 at 6:36 am | #

    Kinda hoping she doesn’t break a window doing this.

  29. Buli-buli
    Buli-buli
    September 3, 2021 at 7:34 am | #

    Is she sure, she has the right window though?

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      September 3, 2021 at 8:18 am | #

      Surely the comedic point is to hit the wrong window so she’s got a large audience to her shouted dialogue with Danny?

  30. hof1991
    hof1991
    September 3, 2021 at 9:00 am | #

    Possibly the all girls Catholic school with uniforms did not prepare Sal very well for life at a Big Ten university? Speaking from a related though time distanced experience, I think this is an under appreciated factor.

    • Alex
      Alex
      September 3, 2021 at 9:52 am | #

      She seems well adjusted so I often forget this aspect of her backstory.

      I do think shyness is a factor though.

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        September 3, 2021 at 10:11 am | #

        I dunno if she’s “shy” so much as she can’t be emotionally open to people.

        Knocking on Danny’s door to say hi is an explicit admission she wants to see him, and Sal has a big problem with laying her cards on the table.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          September 3, 2021 at 6:11 pm | #

          That’s also wat Roomies!Sal would do, and this isn’t Roomies!Sal.

          Does Danny know she was sent to a Catholic reform school? Will his brain pop a fuse if he ever sees her wearing her old uniform?

          • Spencer
            Spencer
            September 3, 2021 at 6:24 pm | #

            Nah, Roomies Sal also went through the window.

  31. Joya
    Joya
    September 3, 2021 at 9:34 am | #

    Sal, no

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      September 3, 2021 at 10:08 am | #

      Eh, it’s fine.

      Even if she hits him in the head with a rock it’s not like she’ll damage anything important.

      • Clif
        Clif
        September 3, 2021 at 10:22 am | #

        Even if she hits his roommate in the head with a rock it’s even less likely she will damage anything important.

        Plot twist. Joyce is introducing Joe to her friend and Liz opens the window to find out what’s going on. It’s a rocky start to a beautiful friendship.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        September 3, 2021 at 6:12 pm | #

        That’s why she gave him a new hat. Padding.

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          September 3, 2021 at 6:25 pm | #

          She naturally throws harder than Walky so she gave him the hat to adjust the intent of the Walkterton Mating Ritual to better convey her interest.

          She’ll throw something real heavy if she ever wants to get serious.

          • David M Willis
            David M Willis
            September 3, 2021 at 7:49 pm | #

            note: she did shove the hat into his chest, technically an impact

            • Spencer
              Spencer
              September 3, 2021 at 8:18 pm | #

              Is it truly a Walkerton moment if she didn’t throw it at his head, though?

              • Needfuldoer
                Needfuldoer
                September 3, 2021 at 9:37 pm | #

                Is that why Amber and Walky didn’t work out, because they didn’t start with a yeet-cute?

                • Spencer
                  Spencer
                  September 3, 2021 at 9:48 pm | #

                  Yeah same with Dorothy.

                  Walky stopped throwing things at her.

              • David M Willis
                David M Willis
                September 3, 2021 at 9:46 pm | #

                everyone knows danny’s head is in his heart

                • Spencer
                  Spencer
                  September 3, 2021 at 9:47 pm | #

                  That was the most romantic description of ol’ Wonderbread I’ve ever seen.

  32. pararell spade
    pararell spade
    September 3, 2021 at 10:51 am | #

    That moment when one realises that we are close to september 10

    • Clif
      Clif
      September 3, 2021 at 5:34 pm | #

      I didn’t think that the big Italian Earthquake was scheduled till sometime in November.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      September 3, 2021 at 6:12 pm | #

      I can’t believe it’s already been 20 years.

  33. Katbear
    Katbear
    September 3, 2021 at 11:18 am | #

    I scrolled through all the comments to see if anyone made a Check Yes Juliet joke, and all I have learned is that I live in a very different part of the internet xD

  34. Sombrero
    Sombrero
    September 3, 2021 at 11:30 am | #

    Combined with that moment when one realises that the buffer is close to September 10, 2022.

    • Sombrero
      Sombrero
      September 3, 2021 at 11:30 am | #

      That was intended as a reply to pararell spade, dammit!

      • Clif
        Clif
        September 3, 2021 at 5:45 pm | #

        My Internet shows the buffer good till January 11, 2022. This is obviously the result of some sort of time travel wizardry.

  35. Christina
    Christina
    September 3, 2021 at 2:42 pm | #

    I like that somehow Sal has more toxic masculinity than most of the dudes in this comic!

    Don’t get me wrong, though. Still one of my favorites.

    • Christina
      Christina
      September 3, 2021 at 2:42 pm | #

      How did Gravatar know to choose the main male character with more toxic masculinity than Sal…

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        September 3, 2021 at 4:47 pm | #

        It’s magi, I tells ya.

  36. Joe M.
    Joe M.
    September 3, 2021 at 5:56 pm | #

    Jesus, she’s got it bad for Wonderbread… I love how dorky and sweet it is! Around the time we start really enjoying the relationship is about the time Sal decides he’s cramping her style and it’s over…

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