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July 8, 2026

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by David M Willis on June 14, 2024 at 12:01 am
  • 04 – For Me It Was Tuesday
└ Tags: jacob, sarah

Discussion (88) ¬

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  1. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    June 14, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    You sure ’bout that ?

  2. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    June 14, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    awe she all flustered XD

  3. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    June 14, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    Gotta follow the carefully rehearsed script.

  4. StClair
    StClair
    June 14, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    Jacob continues to be Very Patient.

  5. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    June 14, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    Sue me, when Jacob and Sarah have a moment, it’s so goddamn fun.

  6. brumagem
    brumagem
    June 14, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    She’s wearing THAT outfit again

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      June 14, 2024 at 5:51 am | #

      She knows what she wants

      • Just_IDD
        Just_IDD
        June 14, 2024 at 8:17 am | #

        Well she would get more of it without the longsleved shirt.

        • Ana Chronistic
          Ana Chronistic
          June 14, 2024 at 11:23 pm | #

          or more of her would get out of it without the longsleeved shirt

  7. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    June 14, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    Sarah can be cute she wants to.

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      June 14, 2024 at 12:19 am | #

      And even more when she doesn’t want to!

  8. Kyrros
    Kyrros
    June 14, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    Good on him for acknowledging her need to be ‘seen’, without actually making her feel like she’s actually being ‘seen’. XD

  9. Handley Ramirez
    Handley Ramirez
    June 14, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

    Jacob’s too good for…college?

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      June 14, 2024 at 5:44 am | #

      Impossible. Everyone in college is mean.

      • lyzyrdwyzyrd
        lyzyrdwyzyrd
        June 14, 2024 at 6:21 am | #

        Not true. I was above average.

  10. jeffepp
    jeffepp
    June 14, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

    “Let me introduce myself. I am Nervous Sarah, Super-Horny. And you are my natural prey. Now, now, there’s no point in putting up resistance. You’re fate is inevitable.”

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      June 14, 2024 at 7:25 am | #

      “Maybe put up a little resistance. So I can keep to the script.”

  11. Dean
    Dean
    June 14, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

    “Yes, and then don’t be there so I can chicken out and not feel guilty.”

  12. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    June 14, 2024 at 12:20 am | #

    You can do it Sarah, we all believe in you.

    Alright, I’m taking bets on how she screws this up. All betters please place your bets before noon.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      June 14, 2024 at 12:40 am | #

      … so you believing in her means you’re so confident in her that you’ll wager on her against all the doubters?

      • Kyrik Michalowski
        Kyrik Michalowski
        June 14, 2024 at 12:54 am | #

        I believe in her ability to knock on the door and talk to Jacob.

        However I do not believe in her ability to get through the entire conversation without fucking up somehow.

      • a/snow/mous/e
        a/snow/mous/e
        June 14, 2024 at 1:29 am | #

        I think Kyrik is offering to be the bookie for these bets, not take the opposite side 😛

        • Kyrik Michalowski
          Kyrik Michalowski
          June 14, 2024 at 3:52 am | #

          Precisely.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      June 14, 2024 at 3:08 am | #

      I bet the closer she gets to the subject (that she wants to be with Jacob), the more she stumbles as all the stupid just falls out of her mouth uncontrollably.

      It really sucks when that happens. :\

      • Kyrik Michalowski
        Kyrik Michalowski
        June 14, 2024 at 3:54 am | #

        That’s a good guess as to the immediate future of this situation.

        I stumble over my words all the time, doubly so in my attempts to find a partner, so I’m not unsympathetic to that.

        • Michael Steamweed
          Michael Steamweed
          June 14, 2024 at 7:26 am | #

          “Stumbling of Age” has been a theme of mine on occasion for some time now.

      • Mark
        Mark
        June 14, 2024 at 6:55 am | #

        It does!

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      June 14, 2024 at 8:37 am | #

      My bet is she accidentally sets him up with Lucy while trying to ask him out.

      • keithcurtis
        keithcurtis
        June 14, 2024 at 9:53 am | #

        Bwahahahaa!

    • CianM1301
      CianM1301
      June 14, 2024 at 3:01 pm | #

      Put me down for 5 on “immediately chokes her well-rehearsed script and bails.”

  13. BBCC
    BBCC
    June 14, 2024 at 12:21 am | #

    She needs to psych herself up!

  14. Coatl
    Coatl
    June 14, 2024 at 12:23 am | #

    Okay Sarah, Jacob is giving you the time to give a good presentation.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      June 14, 2024 at 1:35 pm | #

      Or sneak away with only minimal embarrassment! Yeah, that one!

      • Da Boy
        Da Boy
        June 14, 2024 at 6:15 pm | #

        If Sal get in through a window, he can get out through one too

  15. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    June 14, 2024 at 12:27 am | #

    I hope this ship actually moves forward. Sarah deserves to get a slipshine. Sal and Walky are the only ones holding it down for the black folk right now. Sarah’s past due to represent. Jacob too actually.

    • Marisa Mockery
      Marisa Mockery
      June 14, 2024 at 12:32 am | #

      Considering everyone considers him the sexiest man in the cast in universe it is past time for us to see him nude lol

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      June 14, 2024 at 12:43 am | #

      “Hey, Sarah, you deserve to be in pornographic material, showing your actual sexual activity, which gets put onto the internet without your consent or knowledge for all the world to see.”

      …

      I mean, I know what you mean, and I don’t necessarily disagree with you, but I think she would.

      • Bruno
        Bruno
        June 14, 2024 at 1:09 am | #

        She isn’t real!

        • Mark
          Mark
          June 14, 2024 at 6:57 am | #

          Inside the story she is real and we are a fantasy.

          • Big Z
            Big Z
            June 14, 2024 at 8:07 am | #

            This comment has achieved peak strange in the context of this conversation thread.

            • Reltzik
              Reltzik
              June 14, 2024 at 9:43 am | #

              …. did you know what you were doing when you threw down that gauntlet?

      • Decidedly Orthogonal
        Decidedly Orthogonal
        June 14, 2024 at 1:25 am | #

        We haven’t covered her kinks. Maybe all her privacy/repression leaks out on only fans. We don’t know.

        • Tan
          Tan
          June 14, 2024 at 4:29 am | #

          We know she wasn’t bluffing: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/04-the-whiteboard-dong-bandit/bluffing/

          • Michael Steamweed
            Michael Steamweed
            June 14, 2024 at 7:28 am | #

            Dark Pit of Nothing
            Dark Pit of Despair
            Dark Pit of Otherness
            Dark Pit of You Can Do This

      • DailyBrad
        DailyBrad
        June 14, 2024 at 2:02 am | #

        I mean, it ain’t in her universe, it’s not like Roz/Joe.

        Plus, in this scenario, Sarah’s getting railed by Jacob, so she might still be on board, regardless.

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        June 14, 2024 at 8:39 am | #

        “without your consent or knowledge” yikes

        I think you might be stepping into parasocial there, characters aren’t real and it’s not creepy to view them doing things which are generally private. The creator consents to showing/writing/drawing that stuff, and that’s the part that matters.

      • zee
        zee
        June 14, 2024 at 11:53 am | #

        Oh god is the “fictional characters can’t consent therefore all smut is SA” conversation happening again???

        • pope suburban
          pope suburban
          June 14, 2024 at 12:50 pm | #

          …again?

          Oh dear god dear lord. That is just too terminally online for me.

      • PedanticJerkass
        PedanticJerkass
        June 14, 2024 at 6:11 pm | #

        If she doesn’t like it, she can let us know in the comments.

    • Nono
      Nono
      June 14, 2024 at 12:44 am | #

      At least minorities as a whole have gotten pretty good representation in Slipshine. Besides Sal and Walky, we’ve also had Malaya, Dina, Jennifer and Roz.

      I think the only full on white action that I can remember is Danny/Amber (and maybe Ethan/Mike).

      • Clif
        Clif
        June 14, 2024 at 12:50 am | #

        I don’t dispute that Mike was white, but are we completely certain he was 100% human?

        • Slartibeast Button, BIA
          Slartibeast Button, BIA
          June 14, 2024 at 12:53 am | #

          Possibly not. After all, how many of those mothers got knocked up again?

          • Michael Steamweed
            Michael Steamweed
            June 14, 2024 at 7:30 am | #

            Hey, now. He may have done your Mom often, but Mike was always responsible. He knew better than to end up making more people.

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            June 14, 2024 at 8:05 am | #

            Not all of them were mothers when he banged them. That part happened later, and we’ll leave it to the imagination whether the two events are directly related.

      • Sirksome
        Sirksome
        June 14, 2024 at 6:29 am | #

        This makes me curious as to which character has featured the most in slipshines. Sal maybe, or Danny? I think they both have two. Any character been the star of more than two? Amber or Jennifer possibly? Mike maybe? Has he only been in one despite all the mom fucking he claimed to be responsible for?

        • Nedlum
          Nedlum
          June 14, 2024 at 9:10 am | #

          In three:
          Amber (w Mike (SP) and w Danny twice)
          Danny (w Amber (twice) and w Sal)

          In two:
          Mike (with Amber (SP) and w Ethan)
          Sal (w Jason and w Danny)
          Jennifer and Ruth

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            June 14, 2024 at 2:38 pm | #

            For the tie-breaker, did either Amber or Danny appear in the one panel Slipshines?

            Alternately, pretty sure one of those Ambers was actually Amazi-Girl (and the other was split), so that leaves Danny as the winner with three and Amber and AG with two apiece.

    • Rabid Rabbit
      Rabid Rabbit
      June 14, 2024 at 2:48 am | #

      Technically Sarah has had a Slipshine. It’s just that it was one panel, and only involved Other Jacob.

      • Tan
        Tan
        June 14, 2024 at 12:46 pm | #

        A quick search of Willis’s NSFW Patreon ( https://www.patreon.com/user?u=91104685 ) suggests that there are some Sarah posts there as well.

  16. JA
    JA
    June 14, 2024 at 12:47 am | #

    “Dammit, now I have to spend another 117 minutes psyching myself up.”

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      June 14, 2024 at 12:54 am | #

      sarah.exe has crash. Please wait while her system rebooties.

  17. Hazel
    Hazel
    June 14, 2024 at 1:00 am | #

    You can do this!

  18. Angel
    Angel
    June 14, 2024 at 1:01 am | #

    God I love Jacob so much

  19. DashWallkick
    DashWallkick
    June 14, 2024 at 1:25 am | #

    Jacob is too good for Sarah, and I mean that as a compliment. He’s aware she’s super into him, aware she has a difficult past, even dated her sworn enemy without knowing it, and he’s just patiently waiting for her to get over her fear of vulnerability to accept her.

    • Bash
      Bash
      June 14, 2024 at 1:40 am | #

      I think he’s lonely.

      • DashWallkick
        DashWallkick
        June 14, 2024 at 11:42 am | #

        It’s possible, but he’s put a lot of effort into Sarah for seemingly no reason. He sees something in her.

    • Foolissa
      Foolissa
      June 14, 2024 at 12:05 pm | #

      I mean, he also sees that he’s in a position of power and is playing with her a lil bit. Not sure he comes off as *totally* generous here.

  20. Freezer
    Freezer
    June 14, 2024 at 2:53 am | #

    Adult emotions are hard!

  21. Queezle
    Queezle
    June 14, 2024 at 3:14 am | #

    Jacob just being a good guy.

  22. IntangibleMatter
    IntangibleMatter
    June 14, 2024 at 3:16 am | #

    Sarah proceeded to stand out there until the next day, continually hyping herself up

  23. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    June 14, 2024 at 4:56 am | #

    Sarah in panel four is a hoot.

  24. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    June 14, 2024 at 6:00 am | #

    I didn’t authorized Willis to put me in this stripe ( I’m Sarah 😔)

  25. Da Boy
    Da Boy
    June 14, 2024 at 6:11 am | #

    Jacob is so sweet XD

  26. Nick Piers
    Nick Piers
    June 14, 2024 at 6:41 am | #

    “I’m here to knock on your door and knock boots with you. But it must be exactly in that order.”

  27. Taffy
    Taffy
    June 14, 2024 at 8:24 am | #

    Sarah should murder Jacob for this. He’s deliberately setting her up to be endearingly awkward, and it’s endangering her 8th Amendment rights.

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      June 14, 2024 at 8:41 am | #

      Agreed, motion passes, death penalty unlocked.

    • Da Boy
      Da Boy
      June 14, 2024 at 9:54 am | #

      Now now let’s not be harsh here. ONE MILLION YEARS DUNGEON!

  28. Yeet
    Yeet
    June 14, 2024 at 10:18 am | #

    it do be like that when your script gets cut off

  29. Colin McKenzie
    Colin McKenzie
    June 14, 2024 at 10:31 am | #

    Jacob must be feeling so so smug right now.

  30. Hilzabub
    Hilzabub
    June 14, 2024 at 10:59 am | #

    Ok, he really is the perfect man.

  31. Ray
    Ray
    June 14, 2024 at 12:22 pm | #

    As they say on Archer, SPLOOSH!

  32. keet
    keet
    June 14, 2024 at 12:31 pm | #

    panel five jacob omg 😳

  33. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    June 14, 2024 at 2:19 pm | #

    I may be wrong. But looks like there’s a possibility that Jacob is kinda interested in Sarah.

    • Rotunda
      Rotunda
      June 14, 2024 at 4:12 pm | #

      Some people, some of the time, find difficult or puzzling people intriguing. If there’s a good core once you’re past the puzzle, you can win big, with your own patience and understanding on display the whole time. If.

      We know that Jacob was impressed with Joyce’s fierce defense of her friend; Sarah’s baseball bat might also impress him.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      June 14, 2024 at 5:57 pm | #

      I think he’s *been* interested, but he just isn’t going to deal with some of her shittier behaviors in the past. He knows she likes him, he’s intrigued enough by her, but she has to meet him halfway or he’s willing to shut things down, as we’ve seen.

  34. PedanticJerkass
    PedanticJerkass
    June 14, 2024 at 6:06 pm | #

    I don’t care for the the idea of Sarah+Jacob to begin with, not even a little bit, and so I hope this entire thing all burns down around Sarah.

    But ignoring that… if Jacob is actually into Sarah at all, he needs to just go ahead and let her know. Or, more importantly and possibly more relevantly, if he’s not into Sarah at all, he needs to definitely let her know, and the sooner the better, rather than just stringing her along for his own amusement (or whatever the case may be). Because, really, if he’s not into her, then this here is rather dubious behavior on his part (especially with that seemingly mocking expression in the penultimate panel).

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      June 14, 2024 at 10:35 pm | #

      That’s why I do think he’s into her. He wouldn’t deliberately string her along.

  35. Dday
    Dday
    June 15, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    Y’know, Sarah’s pretty cute when she’s attempting to imitate a warm-blooded hu-mon.

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