Jumping in front is not the only way to stop a car. A spike belt works remarkably well. There are also run-away lanes, safety barricades, and shrubberies. (There’s cops too, but well… the point is to keep Sarah alive)
Yeah, Sarah is not going to be able to keep this going for much longer. We’re probably overdue for a Raidah encounter, which would send Sarah back into sneer mode.
Sarah is talking so weird; who the heck says “I, for one, [person’s name]”?
Saying “I for one” is starting a statement about yourself or your opinion, why would you call attention to a specific person in the middle of that sentence?
It doesn’t flow naturally.
It would be better to say “Well Carla, I, for one” or “I, for one, would be grateful to be included in your capers, Carla.”
In this case, “for one” is a descriptive phrase describing “I”, and it is not necessary for the the sentence, so it is offset by commas. “Carla” in this case, is a vocative expression, clarifying that she is addressing Carla.
With the correct intonation and circumstance, this would be a clear and reasonable declaration to make.
I, for one, Derek, think that it is something that I myself would say.
That’s pretty much it. Sarah is talking weird because she doesn’t really know how to not be sarcastic, so she seems to be aiming for something between Joyce and a public service anouncement.
Yeah, but the “for one” isn’t really the problem. In fact, it illustrates why Sarah’s version is weird. That meme reads fine if you remove the “for one”, though it’s less funny: “I welcome our new invading overlords”.
Sarah’s doesn’t: “I, Carla, am grateful to be included in your capers”.
It took me way to long to realize what you were talking about. I would counter that their relationship is purely queerplatonic. (Although I know both that you are joking and that I want Dorothy to happen to be a little bi so that we can have a Dorothy/Amazi + Amber/Walky + Dorothy/Walky thing go on.)
In universe, I think I’d have done my best not to comment on Sarah’s presented changes this day, but with her response here, I’d have a hard time not turning to her and going, “What the shit?”
A reminder that Carla’s parents will still be among the first up against the wall when the revolution comes, but they’ll at least get a blindfold since they are genuinely good parents. 😀
Read up on the Aral sea and get back to me. Sorry but I’m just kind of annoyed that for American kids there seem to be only two options, Evil Capitalism vs One of the most murderous ideologies on the planet. I don’t know, look up European governments maybe? They seem to be working quite well without murdering millions of people.
It’s probably fine to take the biggest hoards and give them to the people they’re taken from, every so often. Like, fuck the Soviets and all that, they really screwed things up for everyone. I just don’t think it’s a guarantee that we’ll have Secret Police the instant Jeff Bezos doesn’t have more money and assets than some countries.
western europe was built off of colonialism and still largely relies on institutionalized and enforced worldwide neocolonialism. it is also disproportionately contributing to global warming.
just because our governments aren’t currently murdering their own populations in droves does not make them exemplary by any stretch.
People think that ‘authoritarianism through paranoia and/or legitimate self-defence is synonymous’ with ‘socialism’, because they refuse to read a book
No, it was done by both sides, they both used cattle wagons and concentration camps too… the painter probably got the idea from the Soviets… they were buddies before operation Barbarossa.
-concentration camps were a colonial invention, the germans had already done a genocide in Namibia, the nazis took inspiration from the US for their racial policies as well as the genocide of the indigenous peoples
– the nazis were absolutely anticommunist and racist towards the slavic peoples; the german-soviet pact was only ever meant to buy them some time while they conquered europe.
Look up Sybirak. My people were being exiled to Siberia before US was even born. Russians have far more experience with it.
That part was partially a joke. Soviets were still as bad as Nazis.
After discovering optimism can be just as off-putting and disconcerting as pessimism,, if not more, Sarah is able to commit to the bit for the rest of her life.
“I can make people uncomfortable with socially-approved and even desired methods? Oh Yeah!”
They told Sarah she would be prettier if she smiled more… so she did and it haunted them for the rest of their lives.
When the real Sarah breaks through this Pollyanna façade, the shards of flying shrapnel will likely take out anyone within a quarter-mile. That distance estimate doubles for every day she remains locked within this cheery, Sarah-shaped container. On the bright side, this incident will finally provide a logical excuse to use Herb Morrison’s famous Hindenburg exclamation.
You know what? Good for Sarah. I don’t think she needs to be quite this extra about it but she COULD stand to be somewhat more pleasant of a person. And forcing herself to behave this way can be the start of the process of really becoming nicer. Fake it ’til you make it, girl!
Oh Dorothy, maybe you can claim this is the first time on the “one” side of things, but it is not the first time you you have been both jaded and sarcastic. And I’m pretty sure not the first time when you were the only one at the moment, but I’m not spending the time to check.
Anyone checked the Book of Revelation lately? No mention of “The bongo shall become sweet and pleasant, and enjoy spending time with friends”? No? You sure? Cuz this seems like apocalypse shit to me…
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sarah: i have loved Mankind
dotty: you fucked up my perfectly good identity is what you did. look at me. i’ve got anxiety
anxiety is right
im almost expectin Sarah to pull a “knock knock” soon XD
How has no-one realized that Sarah has totally snapped?
I’m pretty sure they have and just have no idea what to say or do.
Jacob at least confronted her about it, but it clearly didn’t have an effect.
Just because you know someone’s going to crash their car doesn’t mean you should jump in front of it.
Jumping in front is not the only way to stop a car. A spike belt works remarkably well. There are also run-away lanes, safety barricades, and shrubberies. (There’s cops too, but well… the point is to keep Sarah alive)
All of those take considerably more time to set up.
I suggest jumping onto it from the car behind and throwing caltrops under the tires while using your grappling hook to cling to the roof.
You kinda need to both have those on hand (or on nearby roadside) and know how to safely and effectively use them.
🫣
This post is perfect… so perfect.
I don’t know Dotty, Sarah’s reply sounded waaaaaaaay sarcastic to me. ^^
I thought that this was legitamite, because she’s a smile vampire and everyone’s being angsty.
Over/under on the time before Sarah’s face cracks?
I’ll give it a week.
Their time or ours?
“Your face is badly sprained.”
You can probably wait Sarah out, I’d be shocked if she can maintain this for more than 48 hours.
Yeah, Sarah is not going to be able to keep this going for much longer. We’re probably overdue for a Raidah encounter, which would send Sarah back into sneer mode.
With the height advantage, a good punch might bury Raidah to the waist.
To the knees if the ground is frozen.
fortunately for us that’s probably another six weeks
Is she……rollerskating down those steps? Now THAT’S superiority.
Yeah I wanna see her try to skate in the snow xD
She can also ice skate uphill.
Both ways.
In the dark.
Four Yorkshiremen:
https://youtu.be/sGTDhaV0bcw
(On the hacked Department-store TV, watched through a pane of store glass window, as we shivered in the street…)
Nobody tell Blade!
Some motherfucker always tryin’ that.
It’s the balance of the universe, Dorothy. 😛
But really, you’re not.
Carla is polycaperic confirmed.
Sarah is gonna have an all time crash out before the end of the year (real life time)
Pissyball is probably only a little bit worse than pickleball.
Almost the same, but less sanitary.
Theory: after 15 years Willis is just bored and wants to break the remaining characters personalities beyond recognition.
killing Dina is probably the fastest way to break Becky.
I really don’t think the stakes here are death.
Yeah and if breaking Becky gonna happen, it’d probably be via an involuntary break-up.
I don’t know. They are in a locked bank vault. Starving to death would probably be a straightforward development.
Do you know how long it takes for a human body to starve?
It would be YEARS IRL considering how slow this comic goes XF
dehydration would occur much quicker.
Since once can eat the other you could last a while for food
Dina disappers is an involuntary breakup.
They werent… UNTIL they were.
the stakes werent about superpowers for 10 years;
until they were.
Now its about Author interest.
For once I don’t what Adam was meant to be taken seriously. It looks absurd enough to be a weird joke.
No main characters die. Dina is mainer than Mike.
Sarah is talking so weird; who the heck says “I, for one, [person’s name]”?
Saying “I for one” is starting a statement about yourself or your opinion, why would you call attention to a specific person in the middle of that sentence?
It doesn’t flow naturally.
It would be better to say “Well Carla, I, for one” or “I, for one, would be grateful to be included in your capers, Carla.”
In this case, “for one” is a descriptive phrase describing “I”, and it is not necessary for the the sentence, so it is offset by commas. “Carla” in this case, is a vocative expression, clarifying that she is addressing Carla.
With the correct intonation and circumstance, this would be a clear and reasonable declaration to make.
I, for one, Derek, think that it is something that I myself would say.
My husband def speaks that way too
Sometimes people talk like lunatics.
Though, in fairness, many of those people are lunatics.
I for one, Taffy, welcome our comma wielding overlords.
Hyphen-wielding, too.
I welcome our lunatic overlords
Take, Clif, my imaginary upvote!
“Some people talk, like lunatics.”
[raises his hand]
It does seem a little weird to me, but I could hear someone speaking that way. Mostly, I’m distracted by the weirdness of Sarah’s whole thing today.
I think that might be part of the point. This IS incredibly forced for Sarah LOL
That’s pretty much it. Sarah is talking weird because she doesn’t really know how to not be sarcastic, so she seems to be aiming for something between Joyce and a public service anouncement.
Some years ago, the “I, for one, welcome our new invading overlords” meme went around some circles on the internet. With many variations.
Yeah, but the “for one” isn’t really the problem. In fact, it illustrates why Sarah’s version is weird. That meme reads fine if you remove the “for one”, though it’s less funny: “I welcome our new invading overlords”.
Sarah’s doesn’t: “I, Carla, am grateful to be included in your capers”.
I thought it just helped to clarify whom Sarah was addressing.
Actually it’s weirder if everyone speaks PERFECT grammar at all times; who talks that way in normal conversation 100% of the time without fail??
Yeah, Carla, Joyce is right here, conspicuously not lost.
It took me way to long to realize what you were talking about. I would counter that their relationship is purely queerplatonic. (Although I know both that you are joking and that I want Dorothy to happen to be a little bi so that we can have a Dorothy/Amazi + Amber/Walky + Dorothy/Walky thing go on.)
The balance must be maintained, if Sarah’s not going to be the grumpy sarcastic one someone has to be Dorothy
Someone has to be Dorothy in any case.
It might as well be Dorothy.
Just as well — I am much too busy to be Dorothy just now.
Sounds like you’re already halfway there!
For some reason Sarah is reminding me of the Joker’s conversion to the side of good in the Harley Quinn animated series…
aw, poor beckster lolol
You’re becoming a politician at last, Dorothy!
You’ll get to committing war crimes!
Dread it, run from it, destiny still arrives.
The Appointment in Samarra
Becky: I AM BEING VERY CALM AND NORMAL RIGHT NOW
I’m liking the energy trade these ladies have. Seems very productive. Great girlfriending all around!
In universe, I think I’d have done my best not to comment on Sarah’s presented changes this day, but with her response here, I’d have a hard time not turning to her and going, “What the shit?”
A reminder that Carla’s parents will still be among the first up against the wall when the revolution comes, but they’ll at least get a blindfold since they are genuinely good parents. 😀
As apparently the only non-transphobic billionaires, can we give them a pass on the execution and just like… throw them in prison or something?
How about we confiscate and redistribute all their wealth, but in a friendly way?
Oh please do! I’ll have fun watching as you denounce each other and report to the secret police for having a pair of shoes more than others.
What does that have to do with anything?
It’s how it will go, sincerely, a guy from a country that broke free of communism.
So much better to have five people richer than God, everyone else starving or dying of exposure, and the planet on fire
Read up on the Aral sea and get back to me. Sorry but I’m just kind of annoyed that for American kids there seem to be only two options, Evil Capitalism vs One of the most murderous ideologies on the planet. I don’t know, look up European governments maybe? They seem to be working quite well without murdering millions of people.
It’s probably fine to take the biggest hoards and give them to the people they’re taken from, every so often. Like, fuck the Soviets and all that, they really screwed things up for everyone. I just don’t think it’s a guarantee that we’ll have Secret Police the instant Jeff Bezos doesn’t have more money and assets than some countries.
western europe was built off of colonialism and still largely relies on institutionalized and enforced worldwide neocolonialism. it is also disproportionately contributing to global warming.
just because our governments aren’t currently murdering their own populations in droves does not make them exemplary by any stretch.
People think that ‘authoritarianism through paranoia and/or legitimate self-defence is synonymous’ with ‘socialism’, because they refuse to read a book
It’s so strange when this comment section veers towards unrelated political arguments out of nowhere.
No.
Indeed, we must cleanse society of the parasites!
Oh wait, no, that’s someone else’s schtick.
No, it was done by both sides, they both used cattle wagons and concentration camps too… the painter probably got the idea from the Soviets… they were buddies before operation Barbarossa.
-concentration camps were a colonial invention, the germans had already done a genocide in Namibia, the nazis took inspiration from the US for their racial policies as well as the genocide of the indigenous peoples
– the nazis were absolutely anticommunist and racist towards the slavic peoples; the german-soviet pact was only ever meant to buy them some time while they conquered europe.
Look up Sybirak. My people were being exiled to Siberia before US was even born. Russians have far more experience with it.
That part was partially a joke. Soviets were still as bad as Nazis.
ok
Is “the painter” a new code? This is the second time I’ve seen someone who is Totally Not a Nazi refer to adolf hitler as such.
After discovering optimism can be just as off-putting and disconcerting as pessimism,, if not more, Sarah is able to commit to the bit for the rest of her life.
“I can make people uncomfortable with socially-approved and even desired methods? Oh Yeah!”
They told Sarah she would be prettier if she smiled more… so she did and it haunted them for the rest of their lives.
lolz sarah i continue to get ya
When the real Sarah breaks through this Pollyanna façade, the shards of flying shrapnel will likely take out anyone within a quarter-mile. That distance estimate doubles for every day she remains locked within this cheery, Sarah-shaped container. On the bright side, this incident will finally provide a logical excuse to use Herb Morrison’s famous Hindenburg exclamation.
So, Sarah smiles are a weapon of mass destruction that should be placed under close supervision by an international agency?
* checks to see if “Pissy Ball” has a trope page *
Best I can do is Jerkass Ball.
it’s your turn 🙂
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Carla in the first panel has summed up why I struggled to make friends in high school
You kept trying to hack in to global monitoring systems owned by your parents?
No, that’s why I struggled to make friends in university. High school was about doing stuff “in the fun way that proves my superiority”
But it’s better than being self-destructive…
Maybe it’s like a curse. However, would Dorothy’s girlfriend be immune to having it?
Sarah, jesus, don’t strain yourself
Oh! Oh! It’s Opposite Day!
Wash your hands after holding the Pissy Ball.
soon : RIP Sarah, killed by an insane amount of stomach ulcers
(the coroner said it was a medical curiosity)
Carla continues to give me Vegeta vibes, especially during the Cell saga.
Dorothy: Do you live in your own little world?
Carla: Yes but, unfortunately, I have to share it with all of you.
Dotty,
Are you SURE you didnt lose your girlfriend ? Are you sure
Becky: EVERYTHING IS FINE NOTHING IS THE MATTER
I’m not sure but I think this might actually be Dup-o-Matic Sarah pretending to be “turned over a new leaf” original Sarah
DOA book 15: Every moment with my fellow friends is a gift!
Artwork: a big argument involving the entire main cast.
The desaturated background art is a huge argument between as many characters as can fit on the page.
Sarah’s the featured character, rendered in full color. One eye’s visibly twitching and her smile’s beginning to crack.
Becky didn’t lose her girlfriend either, one bad dinosaur fact from Joyce and she’ll be right there.
So Dorothy is saying she’s open to having a girlfriend she could not lose?
She has one, she’s *right there*.
Dorothy, no one HAS to call Danny
This is fine.
Hot take, Dorothy was always jaded and sarcastic, but when standing next to Sarah, she appeared to be more renewed and sincere.
You know what? Good for Sarah. I don’t think she needs to be quite this extra about it but she COULD stand to be somewhat more pleasant of a person. And forcing herself to behave this way can be the start of the process of really becoming nicer. Fake it ’til you make it, girl!
At the very least, taking it a little far can help her find a happier medium.
Dorothy: holds the Pissy Ball
Ominous voice: A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON
Passing the jaded, sarcastic torch.
The pissy ball is like that bug that but Vicky in Fairly Odd Parents
“Why do I have to be the portrait to Sarah’s Dorian Gray?”
Oh Dorothy, maybe you can claim this is the first time on the “one” side of things, but it is not the first time you you have been both jaded and sarcastic. And I’m pretty sure not the first time when you were the only one at the moment, but I’m not spending the time to check.
I don’t think you ever name the books from the alt text but “Everyone gets a chance to hold the Pissy Ball” is a great title. 😉
Anyone checked the Book of Revelation lately? No mention of “The bongo shall become sweet and pleasant, and enjoy spending time with friends”? No? You sure? Cuz this seems like apocalypse shit to me…