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July 11, 2026

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by David M Willis on July 12, 2022 at 12:01 am
  • 05 – This Was Halloween
└ Tags: joyce, sal

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    July 12, 2022 at 12:05 am | #

    “ah ain’t gonna stealies yer Original tha Character Copyrite YOUUUUU”

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      July 12, 2022 at 12:13 am | #

      Oh noes. Sonic fans….

      • Harmony
        Harmony
        July 12, 2022 at 12:37 pm | #

        Is that… is that a Joyce sonic?

  2. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    July 12, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

    Did Joyce just make leather jackets uncool? We;;, they had a good run.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      July 12, 2022 at 12:09 am | #

      Leather Jackets are one of those things that has contextual coolness. If you’re cool, the jacket’s cool. If you ain’t cool, then the jacket ain’t either.

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        July 12, 2022 at 12:10 am | #

        Sometimes jackets are magical, is the thing.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        July 12, 2022 at 12:12 am | #

        I like Sir Terry Pratchett’s take on this.

        An acolyte of the Monks of Cool is taken by a senior monk for his final test. He is brought to a cave containing every conceivable item of apparel, and asked “Which outfit is the coolest”.

        The correct answer: “Whichever one I put on.”

        • cbwroses
          cbwroses
          July 12, 2022 at 1:02 am | #

          Which just proves I’m less cool than that monk, as I was considering outfits.

      • Laura
        Laura
        July 12, 2022 at 3:01 am | #

        I once went on a multi-year quest to find an affordable (read: dirt cheap, like a couple bucks) secondhand black leather trench coat (like Scully wears on the X-files!). Had to be secondhand, so I wouldn’t feel bad about wearing the leather, as I was vegan at the time.
        After about six years of searching to no avail, across two continents (I wasn’t traveling just to look for the jacket — just looking AS I was traveling), I finally gave up. The moment I gave up and resigned myself to never getting my secondhand black leather trench coats, a friend pulled up with a pickup truck full of black leather jackets. She said, “I just found all these leather jackets in the trash out behind the thrift shop. Anyone want one?”
        For the rest of that year, I wore two black leather trench coats at the same time, everywhere I went.

        …Not saying any of this made any particular sense! Just that sometimes you have to give up attachment to “coolness” for the “coolness” to find you by itself.

        Just as Sal is doing, shedding the mystique of her “cool kid costume”.

        …I wonder whether her taking the gloves off and answering the ensuing questions has anything to do with the events that broke Amber and Walky up.

      • Hof1991
        Hof1991
        July 12, 2022 at 10:50 am | #

        Black leather jackets are the uniform of men over 55. That’s how we recognize each other.

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      July 12, 2022 at 12:14 am | #

      Making a leather jacket requires murdering and flaying another living creature. In that sense, leather jackets were always simultaneously and paradoxically both uncool and extremely badass.

      • John Campbell
        John Campbell
        July 12, 2022 at 1:15 am | #

        I only make my leather gear out of cows that were assholes.

        (Not cow assholes; those get made into hot dogs.)

        • milu
          milu
          July 12, 2022 at 5:15 am | #

          trivia!
          in french, “cow hide” (peau de vache) is an insult for a vicious, spiteful person who abuses their authority and gets off on being a heartless bully.
          typically used to complain about one’s boss.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        July 12, 2022 at 4:45 am | #

        [Nathan Explosion] Brutal.

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      July 12, 2022 at 9:42 am | #

      A cool leather jacket isn’t doing its job, jackets keep you warm!

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        July 12, 2022 at 8:34 pm | #

        Good ones also keep asphalt from abrading your epidermis in a motorcycle accident. All the gear, every ride! Nobody wants to be a meat crayon!

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          July 12, 2022 at 9:12 pm | #

          “Meat crayon” is maybe the most vivid and scary description for getting motorbiked to hell and back.

          • Nova
            Nova
            July 12, 2022 at 10:24 pm | #

            I heard “road lipstick” and it was just as nightmarish, also convinced me to avoid convertibles.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            July 12, 2022 at 10:30 pm | #

            Motorbiking to Hell and back sounds badass.

            Just remember ATGATT.

            • The Wellerman
              The Wellerman
              July 12, 2022 at 10:52 pm | #

              Is that a DNA sequence? 🔬 🧬 😃

              • Needfuldoer
                Needfuldoer
                July 13, 2022 at 2:03 am | #

                All
                The
                Gear,
                All
                The
                Time

                • Leadsynth
                  Leadsynth
                  July 13, 2022 at 12:54 pm | #

                  It bugs me so much when I see people on motorcycles without helmets, or in flip-flops or something. Just no!

  3. Caro
    Caro
    July 12, 2022 at 12:07 am | #

    even the gloves. sal character development summarized in three panels

    • ThunderNight
      ThunderNight
      July 12, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

      especially the gloves

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      July 12, 2022 at 12:15 am | #

      Good catch. You have a sharp eye.

    • powerpowerpow
      powerpowerpow
      July 12, 2022 at 5:00 am | #

      Sal’s character arc speedrun any%

  4. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    July 12, 2022 at 12:07 am | #

    She’s dressed as the girl with the spider tattoo. That’s Sal’s OC for the girl with dragon tattoo movie.

  5. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    July 12, 2022 at 12:07 am | #

    Man, I’m so used to the post-timeskip designs that between Sal’s hair and Joyce’s lack of glasses it almost feels like we’re back in the Walkyverse.

  6. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    July 12, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

    Well Long Tall Sally
    She’s built for speed, she got
    Everything that Uncle John need, oh baby
    Yeah baby, woo baby
    Havin’ me some fun tonight, yeah

    • Nova
      Nova
      July 12, 2022 at 2:10 am | #

      I literally just had a Predator marathon this weekend and that song has been stuck firmly in my head.

  7. Mr D
    Mr D
    July 12, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

    Joyce-
    Why are you shoeless?

    • RassilonTDavros
      RassilonTDavros
      July 12, 2022 at 12:09 am | #

      …because Rapunzel was shoeless in Tangled?

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      July 12, 2022 at 12:09 am | #

      I don’t know. Why are you looking at her feet? 😐

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      July 12, 2022 at 12:20 am | #

      Actually between Carla’s roller skating and not knowing what’s on the floor of a highly trafficked common area it takes a bit of guts to commit to bare feet. I’d at least be wearing socks at all times if I didn’t have shoes. Who knows what the f you’re stepping in.

      • Nono
        Nono
        July 12, 2022 at 12:48 am | #

        Sierra is the bravest soul.

        • The Wellerman
          The Wellerman
          July 12, 2022 at 12:52 am | #

          She is the Chosen One

        • cbwroses
          cbwroses
          July 12, 2022 at 1:00 am | #

          Sierra also has the bravest soles.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        July 12, 2022 at 4:48 am | #

        I bet the ground isn’t as disgusting as common touch surfaces like doorknobs and shopping cart handles.

        BrOkEn GlAsS and dOg PoOp aren’t the ever-present hazards everyone seems to think they are. Just… pay attention and walk around?

        • Sirksome
          Sirksome
          July 12, 2022 at 9:24 am | #

          We’ve seen Walky walking through the floors munching chips. If stray food and crumbs is the least you have to worry about, you would still risk stepping in something sticky. Speaking of sticky, Mary once sprayed glue on the floor. Also girls walk right from the dorms to the showers and vice-versa so damp floors are also highly likely. Now is when I note we’ve never seen a janitor on this floor ever nor mention of any regular cleaning service.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            July 12, 2022 at 10:45 am | #

            That’s still more “ick factor” than actually dangerous.

          • Taellosse
            Taellosse
            July 16, 2022 at 12:02 pm | #

            Yeah, but that’s a bit like claiming that toilets don’t exist in Star Trek – just because something quintessentially mundane and uninteresting is never depicted in a given fiction doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist or never happens.

            Unless the school is horrifically underfunded, it is likely someone vacuums the common areas weekly. The way in which Sierra displays true courage with her bare feet is she is willing to enter the dorm rooms of her neighbors. Most of them are freshmen, and it is common (though not universal) for college kids in their first year to respond to the sudden lack of parental supervision by becoming utter slobs. I knew people in college who literally did not vacuum their dorm room floor a single time all year.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          July 12, 2022 at 9:10 pm | #

          YEAH idk, maybe watch where the heck you’re walking if you don’t want random glass to jab your foot? Like, pay the barest amount of attention while traveling? So that maybe you don’t wind up getting literally injured?

    • anon
      anon
      July 12, 2022 at 12:46 am | #

      other than being in the showers, i don’t think there was an issue about the rooms/hallways for her to not put on shoes or sal’s room was close enough to walk to without needing to put on shoes/socks

      • Alex
        Alex
        July 12, 2022 at 12:38 pm | #

        I seem to recall they’re next door to each other?

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          July 12, 2022 at 7:46 pm | #

          Sal and Joyce share a half-bath. She’s coming in the hall door though, so probably still coming back from Dorothy’s – which I believe is canonically 30 steps away.

          It’s a dorm hallway, every thing is close. Except for the mysterious rooms at the far end of the hall, which take advantage of forced perception tricks to be farther away.

  8. shrub
    shrub
    July 12, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

    I’m really enjoying these strip with Joyce being happy, its nice and long may it continue

  9. Yumi
    Yumi
    July 12, 2022 at 12:14 am | #

    I used to be a lot more into dressing up than I am now, but I’m still in the “gotta do something for Halloween” camp.

    My mom…has some stories about her own Halloween dressing up experiences, from which she has only sort of learned.

    • shrub
      shrub
      July 12, 2022 at 12:16 am | #

      Well you can’t end the story like that

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        July 12, 2022 at 12:25 am | #

        Okay. So, my mom is a lawyer. She’s a pretty fun person, though, not all serious like some lawyer stereotypes. And she loves Halloween.

        One year, she got invited to some lawyer networking party, and it was on October 30th. The invitation described it as Halloween-themed and said something like “Costumes welcome/encouraged/whatever.” My mom had decided on her costume for that year and already had everything for it, so she got ready in it that day and went to meet up with her boss at the networking party.

        No one else was in costume. And my mom…was dressed as Gene Simmons. From Kiss. Full face makeup, a wig, an inflatable guitar. The place they were at had a bunch of Halloween decorations up, but no costumes. Except for my mom, Gene Simmons.

        • The Wellerman
          The Wellerman
          July 12, 2022 at 12:28 am | #

          Wow. Just. Wow. She must have felt really hung out to dry there, huh? 😕

        • Geneseepaws
          Geneseepaws
          July 12, 2022 at 12:36 am | #

          Ok, Serzly, yur Mom is rocking it. Long may she reign.

        • shrub
          shrub
          July 12, 2022 at 12:46 am | #

          Your mom sounds cool, hope it didn’t affect her career

          • Yumi
            Yumi
            July 12, 2022 at 12:50 am | #

            Naw, her career was fine. She just didn’t network much at that one event because when they offered her a name tag, she said something like, “You think I want people to know who I am?”

            She was pretty embarrassed initially, but she was laughing about it by the time she got home.

            • shrub
              shrub
              July 12, 2022 at 1:12 am | #

              Best way to handle it

        • milu
          milu
          July 12, 2022 at 4:23 am | #

          so… most lawyers are in fact all boring and serious like the lawyer stereotype?

          • Yumi
            Yumi
            July 12, 2022 at 1:34 pm | #

            According to my mom, yes.

            • The Wellerman
              The Wellerman
              July 12, 2022 at 6:43 pm | #

              I’m curious, how much you take her word for it?

              About the stereotype, I mean?

            • milu
              milu
              July 12, 2022 at 7:56 pm | #


              According to Rachel Bloom, too

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      July 12, 2022 at 12:16 am | #

      tell us a story!

    • RassilonTDavros
      RassilonTDavros
      July 12, 2022 at 12:17 am | #

      I mostly just wear my not-very-accurate replica Tom Baker scarf and call it a day.

      • Bicyle Bill
        Bicyle Bill
        July 12, 2022 at 3:32 am | #

        Wednesday Addams had the best take on a costume. Just wear your regular clothes.
        Then, if anyone asks, just tell them “I’m a homicidal maniac. We look just like everyone else.”

  10. Hat
    Hat
    July 12, 2022 at 12:16 am | #

    I know it’s a Thing, but I’m suddenly really hating how blue everything is. And it’s gonna be like this the whole storyline!

    • Shadowsnail
      Shadowsnail
      July 12, 2022 at 2:53 pm | #

      Da ba dee da ba di

  11. ADLegend21
    ADLegend21
    July 12, 2022 at 12:16 am | #

    Julia is Sal confirmed. Joyce had no choice but to stan.

    • Lanie
      Lanie
      July 12, 2022 at 11:09 am | #

      Or is it that Julia is Joyce as Sal because she stanned so hard?

  12. not someone else
    not someone else
    July 12, 2022 at 12:19 am | #

    I’ve decided this means Joyce subconsciously ships Sal/Dorothy.

    • PirateTawnee
      PirateTawnee
      July 12, 2022 at 1:50 am | #

      She’s subconsciously envious of the already existing triad and this her first tentative step to creating one of her own.

  13. McMuffin
    McMuffin
    July 12, 2022 at 12:19 am | #

    I hate when people act too cool to dress up in a costume

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      July 12, 2022 at 12:22 am | #

      Same, but I also recognize that some people just aren’t into it and it doesn’t have anything to do with looking down on people for dressing up.

    • anon
      anon
      July 12, 2022 at 12:40 am | #

      after a few years (not that i really go to ‘parties’) i just got lazy. i wouldn’t be against it but i wouldn’t spend too much money on something i’d only wear once a year, maybe a nice wig or so but other than that i’d rather just chill with friends. some ppl just don’t care but it makes sense for some ppl around their age range to still be super into dressing up or being ‘meh’ about halloween

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        July 12, 2022 at 2:54 pm | #

        As I got older, the less effort went into costumes. The last one I dressed up for, I wore a simple cardboard sign on my chest, labelled: ” I love ceilings” in black marker.

        That is correct, I went as a ceiling fan.

        • epitome of incomprehensibility
          epitome of incomprehensibility
          July 14, 2022 at 11:37 am | #

          But the pun made me grin! Reminds me of my last “Halloween party” – a pub social with the linguistics department (for context). I dressed in black and made a necklace with a black-and-white recycling sign and the words *angry sleeping* above it…

          …to be “colorless green ideas sleep furiously” (something Noam Chomsky wrote to make the point that grammaticality and logic can be separate).

          Oddly, it wasn’t the nerdiest costume there! Another person went as a phonology joke that I didn’t understand. It involved some sort of table chart.

      • Keulen
        Keulen
        July 12, 2022 at 3:10 pm | #

        I’m finding that as I get older, I’ve gotten very lazy about dressing up for Halloween. If I can come up with something quickly and cheaply I might dress up, otherwise it’s too much hassle and I won’t bother.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      July 12, 2022 at 4:50 am | #

      What about acting too cool as a cover for being too self-conscious, does that count?

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        July 12, 2022 at 7:30 am | #

        How about too self-conscious to even fake being cool about it?

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          July 12, 2022 at 7:41 am | #

          That’s getting dangerously close to “not going to the party at all” territory.

          [I’m in this photo and I don’t like it dot png]

  14. BBCC
    BBCC
    July 12, 2022 at 12:21 am | #

    Why am I not surprised that Joyce’s OC dresses like the coolest girl she knows? XD I love her and Sal’s friendship.

    • powerpowerpow
      powerpowerpow
      July 12, 2022 at 5:04 am | #

      There’s layers to this too, though. Not only does Julia Gray dress like Sal, but she also dresses like Joyce, sans vest. Julia Gray is literally Joyce dressed up to look more like Sal, but deep down, if you strip away the shades, the jacket, and the gloves, she does dress pretty much exactly like Joyce.

    • Cerusee
      Cerusee
      July 12, 2022 at 7:22 am | #

      I hadn’t made the connection, but it seems….pretty obvious when pointed out! It’s adorable.

  15. Diana Nock
    Diana Nock
    July 12, 2022 at 12:25 am | #

    Sal’s not your blorbo, Joyce.

    • StClair
      StClair
      July 12, 2022 at 12:38 am | #

      I had to look that up. 🙁

      I’ve never been “with it”, but I still manage to be less and less so as I get older.

      • anon
        anon
        July 12, 2022 at 12:45 am | #

        i feel like maybe other than some tweets, it’s mostly something on tumblr so it wouldn’t be too common unless you were using tumblr as your main ‘social media’

      • Taellosse
        Taellosse
        July 16, 2022 at 12:13 pm | #

        So did I, and while I eventually got the gist, Know Your Meme‘s initial definition of “used similarly to terms such as Glup Shitto and Scrimblo Bimblo” was…less than informative. [smiling sweatdrop emoji]

  16. John
    John
    July 12, 2022 at 12:29 am | #

    is this a setup for a payoff down the line? because this gets no response out of me, which is really really rare for one of these strips. no emotions evoked, it just feels tacked on. If it doesn’t pay off down the line, I’m going to be surprised at the writing actually disappointing me in this comic for once.

    I mean, disappointing me in a “this is not the standard I am accustomed to” way, not in the “my favorite character of three different comics has died and this universe lacks means to resurrect him” way.

    • StClair
      StClair
      July 12, 2022 at 12:41 am | #

      Sal is saying, “I refuse to be the thing you want me to be, the image you project on me, the person I am not.”

    • anon
      anon
      July 12, 2022 at 12:43 am | #

      seems joyce is just making the rounds for everyone that she’s invited/sarah allows to be at any of their parties, i don’t remember if sal mentioned in particular about if she had a good or bad halloween but i assume we’ll see another strip with her next or changing to another pair or joyce talking to someone else

    • Geneseepaws
      Geneseepaws
      July 12, 2022 at 12:46 am | #

      This got me in a different way, I’m left wondering why Sal, who is coolness embodied, cannot allow herself to be anything to anybody, must divest herself of anything and everything that people might even think of her? Even people who, in the scheme of things, matter so little. That’s a valid fight, but one that seems so big, too big. It could deplete one’s energy, to what end?

    • Dragonfire
      Dragonfire
      July 12, 2022 at 1:37 am | #

      Sal taking off both of her gloves gets nothing out of you??

      • Bicyle Bill
        Bicyle Bill
        July 12, 2022 at 3:41 am | #

        Now that Sal’s has removed her right glove, note how Willis includes the scar on the back of her hand.

    • zee
      zee
      July 12, 2022 at 1:45 pm | #

      I mean, it’s just a punchline strip. Jokes don’t always land for everyone, no need to make a big deal out of it

      • Taellosse
        Taellosse
        July 16, 2022 at 12:18 pm | #

        *is reading a week at a time, so looks ahead to the next strip* Oh no – the real payoff for this strip is tomorrow!

  17. Bryy
    Bryy
    July 12, 2022 at 12:30 am | #

    Only 50 more days of Halloween. Oh noes.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      July 12, 2022 at 4:53 am | #

      Then it’s only about 61 days until it’s actually Halloween.

  18. anon
    anon
    July 12, 2022 at 12:42 am | #

    “like me” other than them owning the same pair of shoes, it just looks like sal’s wearing a shirt and pants/jeans/the pretty ‘standard’/basic default outfit one would draw on a chara

    • Some1
      Some1
      July 12, 2022 at 1:03 am | #

      Doesn’t Chara wear a green and yellow sweater?

      • James
        James
        July 12, 2022 at 1:14 am | #

        They usually have a locket and knife, too, if you really want to sell it.

    • Laura
      Laura
      July 12, 2022 at 2:52 am | #

      Who’s Chara?

      • Mycelium
        Mycelium
        July 12, 2022 at 5:22 am | #

        The main character of Undertale.

      • Clif
        Clif
        July 12, 2022 at 10:12 am | #

        Until proven otherwise, I’m assuming that Chara is Mike’s dead girlfriend that he’s using to mess with Charon.

        • Clif
          Clif
          July 12, 2022 at 10:13 am | #

          The smart money is on Chara secretly being Charon’s mom.

          • Laura
            Laura
            July 12, 2022 at 2:00 pm | #

            True that! This is my new headcannon.

      • anon
        anon
        July 12, 2022 at 6:44 pm | #

        they were making an undertale joke, i was saying chara as short for character lol

        • Laura
          Laura
          July 12, 2022 at 10:32 pm | #

          Ah. Thanks for explaining!

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      July 12, 2022 at 4:55 am | #

      Most people wear a shirt and pants.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        July 12, 2022 at 9:43 pm | #

        “Who else but Shirtpants?”

  19. Geneseepaws
    Geneseepaws
    July 12, 2022 at 12:51 am | #

    O-oh C
    can you b
    Captain Julia for me?
    If you can, and you do,
    I can be your friend, too.

    ©️ Francis Scott Key

  20. Bagge
    Bagge
    July 12, 2022 at 2:04 am | #

    Sal can’t win

  21. Suet
    Suet
    July 12, 2022 at 2:07 am | #

    Careful there, your subconscious might be showing?

    The day I saw Sal’s leather jacket being donned by her is the day I saw her downfall in coolness.

  22. Amelie Wikström
    Amelie Wikström
    July 12, 2022 at 4:47 am | #

    Of course Joyce isn’t consciously aware that she’s entirely writing an idealized wish fulfillment self insert, so why would she be aware she’s basing her character’s look entirely on her cool friend. It’ll be so awkward when she consumes her like, third piece of writing ever and figures out what she’s doing.

  23. Darkoneko
    Darkoneko
    July 12, 2022 at 5:31 am | #

    Sal “…why do you have an ‘oh see’ that is me ?”

  24. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    July 12, 2022 at 7:42 am | #

    Totally agree Llysfaen Sal.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      July 12, 2022 at 5:09 pm | #

      Sal is Welsh?

      • milu
        milu
        July 12, 2022 at 7:52 pm | #

        That doesn’t make sense, Irvine Welsh published Trainspotting in the 90’s

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          July 12, 2022 at 9:08 pm | #

          I don’t know what that is.

          • milu
            milu
            July 13, 2022 at 3:35 am | #

            That’s a pun

  25. Wizard
    Wizard
    July 12, 2022 at 1:06 pm | #

    Sorry, Sal. You can’t actually look not sexy.

  26. bcb
    bcb
    July 12, 2022 at 1:47 pm | #

    If Jennifer were eavesdropping on this conversation, she might say “Oh, you deny wanting to borrow a sweatervest, in the same way you deny being Amazi-girl!”

  27. Taffy
    Taffy
    July 12, 2022 at 4:54 pm | #

    These two should make out. They’re both single at this point and there’s gonna be a party. Nobody would blink, it’s just something that happens at parties.

    • milu
      milu
      July 12, 2022 at 7:53 pm | #

      More people in general should make out, tbh.

  28. Johan
    Johan
    July 12, 2022 at 5:03 pm | #

    Joyce should play mass effect

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      July 12, 2022 at 5:08 pm | #

      More people in general should play Mass Effect, tbh.

  29. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    July 12, 2022 at 6:29 pm | #

    Ah ain’t really a dressin’up kinda gal
    Yeah, of course you’re not.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      July 12, 2022 at 7:41 pm | #

      She never would, but damn it would be awesome if she showed up to the party like that. Just mess with everyone’s minds.

      It’s either that or go as Amazi-Girl and completely break Jennifer.

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September 13/14, 2025 - Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland

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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 6h
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Luke! @koltreg.bsky.social ⋅ 7h
A great episode that also just had to be like "Okay, for this one specific criminal, Metropolis has the death penalty so he can't reveal Superman's secret identity."
nemalki.bsky.social's user avatarJeff Harris @nemalki.bsky.social ⋅ 9h
"The Late Mr. Kent" is damn good television. Probably one of the best-written episodes of television written in the 1990s. Not just animation. Television period.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 8h
hey youtube, i'm not sure the short circuit 2 score by charles fox belongs in this "Music of Asia" algorithm
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social ⋅ 13h
looking at the 30+ democracies that have successfully prosecuted heads of state for violating their constitutions over the past 15 years
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Brazilian president to the American people, "If Trump was Brazilian and did what he did at the Capitol, he'd be on trial in Brazil"
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 12h
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Raidah approaches the Read Hall center desk while Asma sits there at a laptop.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 13h
some adult in pokemon: it's weird, nobody's ever seen a pokemon egg before! for thousands of years, no pokemon eggs have ever been discovered by humans! ash: well let's go find one! *fifteen minutes later* ash: oh hey
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 15h
Always up for a bonus taking-a-shit face
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 19h
Raidah!
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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Still researching old sleaze paperbacks and legitimately wondering if the book designer asked the author or editor what should be the tagline at the top and they mumbled out the above tagline and the book designer just...wrote it down.
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Cochu @cochu.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
Amen break whenever Mario vibrates extremely rapidly while emitting a barrage of "ha", "hoo", and "hmm" soundbites
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In Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, crouch-walking against a switch will make Mario vibrate extremely rapidly while emitting a barrage of "ha", "hoo", and "hmm" soundbites.
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Alex says
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UNIT DLX @unitdlx.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Terrible news! The back of box render for the Classified Series Legacy Firefighter seems to imply Shipwreck's house caught on fire.
The back of box render for the GI Joe Classified Series Legacy Collection Firefighter. A firefighter in the foreground poses dramatically with the jaws of life. Another firefighter in the background sprays a wrecked car with foam. A third firefighter even further back escorts a man away from a burning house.
A firefighter escorting a man wrapped in a fire blanket away from a burning house. The man bears a strong resemblance to the GI Joe Classified Shipwreck figyre.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 21h
"explore the unknown"? mary, it's new york city, this is at least your third time here, and the last time you were here you got mad at your taxi driver for using a gps
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 21h
one of the kids yelled at the other to "drink my BUTT" and i've just picked up a new invective
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
D8
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com ⋅ 1d
Dem Party: We are spending $20M to figure out how to talk to male voters. Mamdani: Save your money. I have +45 favorability with male voters & +73 with men under 45. Endorse me. Dem Party: No way dude. Now—why is our favorability is -54? Let's spend $20M on wealthy consultants to figure it out!
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Chris @ary.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
old man yaoi
Lumiere and Cogsworth from Beauty and the Beast
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Dumbing of Age: "Supplier" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomics #webcomic
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
toxic yuri
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Asma!
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
not sure that beats "for sale: baby shoes, never worn"
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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
If JD Vance were a true Catholic instead of defending Trump he would simply assign him to be President of another country
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Kory Bing🔜SDCC 1229 @korybing.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Every webcomic has two stories: the story the artist is telling and the meta story of watching an artist make creative choices over the course of many, many years. You get to watch art evolve and change in real time.
kyssimmee.com's user avatar🐊 @kyssimmee.com ⋅ 3d
not to wax poetic about webcomics but I think one of the best things about webcomics is that reading them forces you to confront the fact that artists evolve and change over time, and that "style" is a necessarily evolving thing
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
what time is it? it's time for hasbro fan expo to reveal their "buy $$$$$ of stuff and get one of 200 handpainted-by-acrylics optimus primes" thingers, while every dipshit on the internet gets mad that their copy of optimus prime isn't also handpainted with acrylics, for free
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
love this sketchy penciled alice
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The Onion @theonion.com ⋅ 2d
Jim Davis Reveals He Studied Musculature Of Medical Cadavers To Properly Draw Jon theonion.com/jim-dav...
Jim Davis Reveals He Studied Musculature Of Medical Cadavers To Properly Draw Jon
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
me at the coldplay show
A screenshot from the US version of the TV show The Office. Michael Scott is being gently held from behind by a Holly Flax.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Dumbing of Age: "Implausible" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomics #webcomic
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Walmart.com was careful to cancel everyone's Sideways preorders today to remind us there's no point in preordering this one either
preternia.com's user avatarpreternia @preternia.com ⋅ 3d
Transformers G1 Inspired Retro Card Seaspray official product photography . Will be available as part of Walmart Collector Con starting July 24th, tracking all SDCC and Collector Con items here - bit.ly/3Sx9inR
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