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by David M Willis on October 5, 2018 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - Flyin' to the Red
└ Tags: ethan, sal

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    October 5, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    “Hello. My name is Ethan Siegal. You threatened me with a knife. Prepare to have a rather awkward conversation.”

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      October 5, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

      “STOP SAYING THAT!”

      • cbwroses
        cbwroses
        October 5, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

        “You’ve done nothing but study transformers for 20 years?”

        • Dean
          Dean
          October 5, 2018 at 12:31 am | #

          He has a very specific set of Overkills.

      • Ghostforge
        Ghostforge
        October 5, 2018 at 1:10 am | #

        for some reason my brain immediately autocorrected your comment to “Stop smiling like that!” which in context brings the awkward situation to “troublingly kinked”

        • Koms
          Koms
          October 5, 2018 at 1:30 am | #

          Probably because of Becky’s smile.

    • tyersome
      tyersome
      October 5, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

      Well I it’s a good thing he’s going to take a stab at clearing the air right away, after all we wouldn’t want to let this wound fester for years …

      • Marsh Maryrose
        Marsh Maryrose
        October 5, 2018 at 12:30 am | #

        Ethan is definitely a cut above the rest.

        • Wizard
          Wizard
          October 5, 2018 at 12:44 am | #

          But clearly a little on edge.

          • tyersome
            tyersome
            October 5, 2018 at 12:48 am | #

            That’s ok, Ethan can handle it.

            • LookingIn
              LookingIn
              October 5, 2018 at 2:31 am | #

              don’t knock it just yet, he might parry it into a fun new friendship

              • adjudicus
                adjudicus
                October 5, 2018 at 4:55 am | #

                It’d be knife if they became friends, wouldn’t it? Though it might give Amber some ideas for her slashfic…

                • tyersome
                  tyersome
                  October 5, 2018 at 2:12 pm | #

                  I’m sure your comment will whet some peoples appetites …

        • tyersome
          tyersome
          October 5, 2018 at 12:46 am | #

          I agree, he’s reached the point where he’s got a real edge and everyone else is gonna haft to hone their skills or end up on their butts.

          • LookingIn
            LookingIn
            October 5, 2018 at 2:32 am | #

            he’s en-guard for anything, he will thrust himself into a solid conversation with her

            • tyersome
              tyersome
              October 5, 2018 at 2:15 pm | #

              Perhaps we should hilt this before we tip over into nonsense?

              • Ana Chronistic
                Ana Chronistic
                October 5, 2018 at 11:04 pm | #

                I feel a shiv-er coming on

                • tyersome
                  tyersome
                  October 6, 2018 at 12:35 am | #

                  Oh nice!

                  That really bolstered this thread 🙂

  2. butts
    butts
    October 5, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    butten

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      October 5, 2018 at 1:49 am | #

      Is that the division of Ruttech that manufactures things like ejector seats?

      • LookingIn
        LookingIn
        October 5, 2018 at 2:32 am | #

        either that or toilet seats…

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          October 5, 2018 at 5:28 am | #

          Seats of all types!

          • Ryek Hvek
            Ryek Hvek
            October 5, 2018 at 11:16 am | #

            there is a Preston Sturges movie, Hail the Conquering Hero, where the perpetually campaigning Mayor Everett Noble never misses an opportunity to slip in a plug for the family business – “the Noble Chair Company – seats of all description”

        • Rex Vivat
          Rex Vivat
          October 5, 2018 at 11:24 pm | #

          ejector toilet seats?

  3. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    October 5, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    He just wants to ask if he can join her Carla fanclub, since they apparently get such nice jackets.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      October 5, 2018 at 12:13 am | #

      Fuck yeah, sign me up.

  4. Bagge
    Bagge
    October 5, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    “…wanna play apples to apples?”

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      October 5, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

      “Yeah, but only if you tell me what the deal is with you and Joyce because I have wondered ever since she told me you broke up.”

      • Darkoneko
        Darkoneko
        October 5, 2018 at 12:23 am | #

        oh, right, THAT was a thing

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          October 5, 2018 at 3:43 am | #

          Sal feeling like she missed a lot of plot is one of my favorite strips of her interaction with Joyce

          http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/01-to-those-whod-ground-me/damngirl/

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        October 5, 2018 at 12:38 am | #

        “I was gay and we handled it poorly.”

        “*Sigh* Of course you did.”

  5. Cheesy1
    Cheesy1
    October 5, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    “. . . but you held me at knife point.
    Remember me, maybe?”

    • Unusually Angry Hippie
      Unusually Angry Hippie
      October 5, 2018 at 2:36 am | #

      I hold a lotta people at knife point, your gonna have to be more specific.

      • Lieutenant Dan
        Lieutenant Dan
        October 5, 2018 at 6:16 am | #

        The day I held you at knifepoint was the most important day of your life, but for me it was Tuesday.

        • jy3
          jy3
          October 5, 2018 at 1:26 pm | #

          Wasn’t that phrase censored here a while ago?

          • Amazi-Stool
            Amazi-Stool
            October 5, 2018 at 4:34 pm | #

            I guess the ban was lifted when Faz used a very similar phrase in comic.

            If I remember correctly it was during the comics when Faz claimed that he had invented a crypto-currency.

            • Amazi-Stool
              Amazi-Stool
              October 5, 2018 at 4:51 pm | #

              Here we go – not clear from the comments if the censor was inactivated that day or some commentors found clever ways to bypass it.

              • King Daniel
                King Daniel
                October 5, 2018 at 10:51 pm | #

                As someone who remembers commenting on that day, the ban was indeed lifted then – my own “test” of that phrase didn’t show up in my comment initially, but later that day (and persisting now, as you can see), the censoring of that phrase no longer existed.

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        October 5, 2018 at 11:58 am | #

        ”Gah! It was five years ago!”
        “More specific.”
        “In the spring?”
        “More specific.”
        “On a Wednesday?”
        “Oh! Right! Now I remember. Because it was Laundry Night, and I had trouble getting the blood out of my clothes.”
        “Oh, that is IT
        !”

    • seeprybyrun
      seeprybyrun
      October 5, 2018 at 10:31 am | #

      Recall me maybe

  6. BBCC
    BBCC
    October 5, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    *screaming intensifies*

    • Claire
      Claire
      October 5, 2018 at 12:11 am | #

      Literally what I was thinking. My only coherent thought is “AHHHHHH”

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      October 5, 2018 at 12:14 am | #

      Nah, this’ll be healthy. Awkward, but healthy. Just so long as no one miscommunicates anything, and what are the odds of that?

      • Tacos
        Tacos
        October 5, 2018 at 12:15 am | #

        All of the odds.

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      October 5, 2018 at 12:15 am | #

      *Prepares the blanket piles and comforting warm beverages*

      *Especially if we get a scene change next*

    • Tan
      Tan
      October 5, 2018 at 12:19 am | #

      Opposite for me. This soothes me.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      October 5, 2018 at 12:20 am | #

      I have seen some confusion. This is ‘excited’ screaming, not ‘scared where this is going’ screaming.

      • ShinyNeen
        ShinyNeen
        October 5, 2018 at 12:29 am | #

        There’s plenty of both kinds of screaming going on, I’m sure.

        • Regalli
          Regalli
          October 5, 2018 at 8:38 am | #

          Oh yeah. Even if good things come out of this, it’s gonna hurt on the way.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      October 5, 2018 at 2:17 am | #

      *Screams externally*

  7. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    October 5, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    Hello, It’s Me
    I thought about this for a long long time…
    (an anthem from the Malaise Era)

    • Clif
      Clif
      October 5, 2018 at 6:12 pm | #

      I would op for that nice Presley boy’s, “There’s a whole lot of screaming going on. “

  8. QueerCat
    QueerCat
    October 5, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

    Ethan is a braver soul than me

    • Daisy
      Daisy
      October 5, 2018 at 10:11 am | #

      He IS being brave. Really out of everyone, and I love everyone, I’m always proudest of Ethan.
      (Okay, Leslie in SP!, but Ethan here.)

  9. Delicious Taffy
    Delicious Taffy
    October 5, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

    Big ol’ 25 here, ready for the emotions.

  10. JohnnyO
    JohnnyO
    October 5, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

    But you took me hostage. Don’t stab me maybe.

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      October 5, 2018 at 1:13 am | #

      My song references are getting as old as they are obscure. I was going with

      Hold-up girl, please look at me
      Hold-up girl, what do you see?

      • Marsh Maryrose
        Marsh Maryrose
        October 5, 2018 at 1:48 am | #

        Even older, if not as obscure:

        Hey there, hold-up girl,
        Strolling down the hall, so fancy free
        Nobody you meet could ever see
        The anger and rage inside you

      • davidbreslin101
        davidbreslin101
        October 5, 2018 at 3:38 pm | #

        …dammit, I’m going to be thinking of these all night now.

        I wanna be Hold-up Girl, wanna be Hold-up Girl
        That’s the most important thing to me

        Hold-up Girl
        She’s been living in her hold-up world….

    • Rycan
      Rycan
      October 5, 2018 at 12:41 pm | #

      It’s hard to be alright
      ’round your crazy,
      But you took me hostage
      Don’t stab me maybe

  11. Barduwulf
    Barduwulf
    October 5, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

    But here’s this dagger, so stab me maybe….

  12. ShinyNeen
    ShinyNeen
    October 5, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

    Literally zero chance of this not being awkward, so might as well jump right into it!

    … Oh geez he’s jumping right into it.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      October 5, 2018 at 12:15 am | #

      It’s Ethan. I think he may very well be the most awkward member of the cast, even moreso than Danny, Amber, or Joyce. (Joyce probably reaches higher level of awkward, but in spikes, versus Ethan’s baseline being smooth as a gravel milkshake.)

      • Alanari
        Alanari
        October 5, 2018 at 1:04 am | #

        Still, he just got thrown into a really complicated and dramatic situation and he takes the first opportunity to try to defuse it, instead of letting it built up into a whole mountain that overshadows everything. I’m impressed. That’s really brave what he’s doing there, facing a past trauma can be a really scary thing.

        • DailyBrad
          DailyBrad
          October 5, 2018 at 1:18 am | #

          Oh, I am not going to take that away from him. This is unusual for him, given how he has avoided conflict to his detriment a lot, like cowing to his mom.

          I do wonder if, well, hooking up with Mike has been good for his confidence, or if he otherwise would take this step.

        • StClair
          StClair
          October 5, 2018 at 1:41 am | #

          Agreed.

  13. Dana
    Dana
    October 5, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

    I feel like I should have known and could never have known that it would be Ethan who would break the ice on this.

    Assuming that’s what’s about to happen.

    • Alanari
      Alanari
      October 5, 2018 at 1:06 am | #

      Judging by his facial expression, it’s what he wants to do. We’ll see if he manages to pull through or backs off last minute.

  14. All-Purpose Guru
    All-Purpose Guru
    October 5, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

    **Louder Internal Screaming

  15. motorfirebox
    motorfirebox
    October 5, 2018 at 12:11 am | #

    Here’s my number, don’t stab me baby

    • newllend(henryvolt)
      newllend(henryvolt)
      October 5, 2018 at 12:26 am | #

      I don’t know maybe he would welcome a certain type of stabbing if she had the right type of “knife.”

      (It’s me uncensored yet again)

      • JoeCovenant
        JoeCovenant
        October 5, 2018 at 3:25 am | #

        If she had the right type of ‘knife’, she COULD call him! 😉

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          October 5, 2018 at 2:22 pm | #

          Even if the phone isn’t cutting-edge?

      • Geneseepaws
        Geneseepaws
        October 5, 2018 at 7:09 am | #

        Knife? You call that a knife? ‘Ere, THIS is a knife! *(Holds up the one that twists and vibrates)*

        • CJ
          CJ
          October 5, 2018 at 12:49 pm | #

          He wouldn’t have known about vibrating knifes, considering that he was much to sheltered to recognize transvestites (80ties blockbuster films knew squat about queerness).

  16. Regalli
    Regalli
    October 5, 2018 at 12:12 am | #

    Ethan, if you are doing what I think you’re about to do… this could be really good, and I could be really proud of you, it’s definitely tough and scary.

    (Please don’t out Amber with it. She needs to be the one to have that conversation and initiate it herself.)

    • ShinyNeen
      ShinyNeen
      October 5, 2018 at 12:32 am | #

      She should, but I worry that if Amber’s left to initiate that on her own it could be a very long time yet before it happens.

      • Regalli
        Regalli
        October 5, 2018 at 8:37 am | #

        As do I, but I can only see it getting a thousand times worse if Ethan talks about her prematurely. (For a start, her last lines to him were ‘let me like this guy without making it a thing!’ even though she knows full well it IS a thing, and he had kind of overstepped his bounds implying her liking Walky was just a way to work through trauma – even if her subconscious was a factor there, it’s obviously reductive.) The last thing Amber needs is a fight with Ethan, and the last thing the Amber/Walky relationship needs is Sal telling Walky and it not even being Amber who initiated the talk. Amber will not come off well there.

        I think maybe ‘I don’t think she’s ready to talk about it, but the girl who stabbed you is a friend of mine and she is on campus’ would be okay, or just referring to a friend who was there as well and told him, but mentioning Amber by name and her trauma – potentially including AG in here – would probably mean a confrontation that would go disastrously for Amber because she’s blindsided.

        • Alanari
          Alanari
          October 5, 2018 at 12:34 pm | #

          I think walky knowing what happened is really important for their relationship. This is one of the secrets in their relationship that really need to be told.
          It should be amber who tells this though. And I’m not sure she could handle it. Especially not if she doesn’t see it coming.

          • Regalli
            Regalli
            October 5, 2018 at 11:18 pm | #

            Yeah, I want it to be Amber’s choice, and I want it to be soon so that there’s any chance the relationship doesn’t completely implode when all the secrets are revealed. I’m not particularly hopeful she will, but I still can want.

    • toxicPsychotic
      toxicPsychotic
      October 5, 2018 at 4:57 am | #

      What i’m wondering is, once Sal realizes who Ethan is, will she be able to connect the dots on her own and figure out who Amber is?

  17. Tacos
    Tacos
    October 5, 2018 at 12:14 am | #

    Yeah this is gonna be incredibly awkward. I don’t even know how you would start this conversation.

    • Rabid Rabbit
      Rabid Rabbit
      October 5, 2018 at 12:25 am | #

      Well, if he wants to make sure it’s awkward, he could always lead with “I know why you wear gloves.”

      • ditrysia
        ditrysia
        October 5, 2018 at 9:16 am | #

        I can’t believe I’m so dense I had never made that connection.

  18. Foxhack
    Foxhack
    October 5, 2018 at 12:15 am | #

    Odds of him bringing up Danny as a conversation starter?

    • newllend(henryvolt)
      newllend(henryvolt)
      October 5, 2018 at 12:22 am | #

      Oh right Danny… hmm🤔

  19. Darkoneko
    Darkoneko
    October 5, 2018 at 12:22 am | #

    Yesss Ethan, you go, you !

  20. Geneseepaws
    Geneseepaws
    October 5, 2018 at 12:22 am | #

    Was this a dagger that you held before me,
    the blade towards my throat? Come, let me ask you..
    Is it nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous memory,
    Or by opposing it, deny it?

    There’s no such thing.
    My mind has made a fool of all the other events,
    or else is worth all the rest.

    • Wizard
      Wizard
      October 5, 2018 at 12:51 am | #

      Please consider yourself upvoted.

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      October 5, 2018 at 1:01 am | #

      Meanwhile, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are wondering why a certain forest is on the move.

      (No doubt they are also pondering one of the greatest questions of all time: “Who would fardels bear?”)

    • adjudicus
      adjudicus
      October 5, 2018 at 4:57 am | #

      +1 for that absolutely unexpected but amazing reference

    • BigDogLittleCat
      BigDogLittleCat
      October 5, 2018 at 11:31 am | #

      Sal: [exuent, pursued by a bear]

      • tyersome
        tyersome
        October 5, 2018 at 12:28 pm | #

        I’m no expert, but I think we otter be able to come up with a better descriptor for Ethan — he doesn’t strike me as a bear at all …

  21. Rabid Rabbit
    Rabid Rabbit
    October 5, 2018 at 12:24 am | #

    Still trying to work out why she closed her eyes at the end of last strip, and still has them closed in the first panel here. Is this her way of not looking at the tall guy she knows she can’t go for (though maybe not the reason she can’t)? Or is it “I can’t be bothered to get pissed off right now, so I’m just going to close my eyes and if he checks me out, I won’t know” (I don’t think she knows he’s gay.) Or something else?

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      October 5, 2018 at 12:25 am | #

      Not sure. Maybe she’s thinking about something? Maybe she’s still kind of annoyed at Joyce and Carla? Maybe she saw him freeze and stare and, not knowing why, getting annoyed because she’s not really doing anything bad or scary?

      • Rabid Rabbit
        Rabid Rabbit
        October 5, 2018 at 12:27 am | #

        Hmm. That last one seems more likely to be true — it’s a weird sort of “I am superior to you mortals and clearly not paying any attention to you at all” look, so possibly this is her going to her Zen place (i.e. thinking of Marcie telling her off) and not snapping at him and therefore possibly starting something.

    • Lingo
      Lingo
      October 5, 2018 at 12:43 am | #

      I think that’s just how he draws people minding their own business. I don’t think she even noticed him. He could have drawn her with her eyes straight ahead, but that might have looked too ambiguous?

    • Rycan
      Rycan
      October 5, 2018 at 12:43 pm | #

      I don’t think she wants to think about the fact that people can see her wearing a jacket with “RUTTEN” written on the sleeves; she’s been unusually self-conscious about that.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        October 5, 2018 at 2:52 pm | #

        She may care less now that Carla’s seen it. Cat’s out of the bag.

  22. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    October 5, 2018 at 12:27 am | #

    …dude has some brass.

  23. jeffepp
    jeffepp
    October 5, 2018 at 12:34 am | #

    “Can I talk to you about our savior, Amazi-Girl?”

  24. Lingo
    Lingo
    October 5, 2018 at 12:35 am | #

    Hmmm, if they actually have an honest talk about the incident, I wonder if we’ll learn Sal’s actual feelings about “that girl who stabbed me”?

    • Alanari
      Alanari
      October 5, 2018 at 1:13 am | #

      I expect to learn more about the reason why she did this.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        October 5, 2018 at 1:56 am | #

        This, this, this! Until yesterday’s blue panel we’ve only seen it from Amber’s perspective, where Sal is the one-dimensional villain.

        • Segnosaur
          Segnosaur
          October 5, 2018 at 8:33 am | #

          Actually we have seen a lot from Sal’s perspective. Her guilt over Marcie’s injury (along with a desire to pay for her medical bills), certain “injustices” that have occurred.(wealthy kid avoiding punishment)

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            October 5, 2018 at 10:30 am | #

            We haven’t seen either of the actual robberies though.

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              October 5, 2018 at 11:44 am | #

              Right. We don’t know how it all ties together.
              We don’t know anything about the other robbery at all.

              • BBCC
                BBCC
                October 5, 2018 at 1:10 pm | #

                I would pay so much money to see the robbery from Sal’s PoV, but because I’m a student, I am happy to pay $5 to see tomorrow’s earlier and am hoping we’ll see more in strip. I trust Willis.

                I also trust it will be very upsetting but I mean..it was hardly a fun day so.

  25. Sporky
    Sporky
    October 5, 2018 at 12:40 am | #

    Curse you, serial release format!!

  26. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    October 5, 2018 at 12:55 am | #

    Ethan took the initiative!

    Now to foolishly hope this all ends well.

  27. MatsuoTanuki
    MatsuoTanuki
    October 5, 2018 at 1:00 am | #

    Yes please. Talk about it, scream about it, cry about it, I don’t care what happens from this point on as long it finally gets out in open and they can put the entire ugly conflict behind them.

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      October 5, 2018 at 1:24 am | #

      Why do you want Willis’ children to starve?

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      October 5, 2018 at 9:35 am | #

      “Shout, shout, let it all out.”

      (Come on, I’m talking to you.)

  28. BenRG
    BenRG
    October 5, 2018 at 2:01 am | #

    I think that, at some point soon, we’re going to read Sal saying: “Ah think y’r pretty nervous ’bout somethin’!”

  29. foducool
    foducool
    October 5, 2018 at 2:06 am | #

    “maybe you don’t remember me? I’m the kid you held hostage with a knife a few years ago”

    • MatthewTheLucky
      MatthewTheLucky
      October 5, 2018 at 11:15 am | #

      Good times, good times.

  30. Keulen
    Keulen
    October 5, 2018 at 2:19 am | #

    This is gonna be super awkward and yet I’m kinda glad Ethan’s actually gonna talk to Sal.

  31. adjudicus
    adjudicus
    October 5, 2018 at 4:59 am | #

    AAGGHH. But seriously, Ethan, kudos for facing this head on.

  32. Mr D
    Mr D
    October 5, 2018 at 10:20 am | #

    And here Ethan reallizes “hey she looks enough like Walky I can do like Amber and imagine she is his brother and make mama proud”

    (Yes this is supposed to be a shitty take, don’t @me)

  33. torrent29
    torrent29
    October 5, 2018 at 11:54 am | #

    I bet she blows him off, thinking he’s hitting on her.

    I hope not though because he will realize that Sal is not that same girl who threatened him.

    • Darkoneko
      Darkoneko
      October 5, 2018 at 1:23 pm | #

      agreed for the first part, but he already know that, they met before

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      October 5, 2018 at 2:51 pm | #

      I think she knows he’s gay. But if she thinks he’s hitting on her, she might not blow him off. She goes for tall.

  34. Antonio Tyler
    Antonio Tyler
    October 5, 2018 at 12:16 pm | #

    I feel like Ethan is going to Danny this up.

  35. Victor Riley
    Victor Riley
    October 5, 2018 at 2:41 pm | #

    I hope this ends with him finding a bit of peace… even if she doesn’t apologize, I hope he sees the regret in her, and it helps him to deal and move on.

  36. Robert
    Robert
    October 5, 2018 at 10:30 pm | #

    “Can I interest you in a gratuitous grudge match?”

  37. stoodmuffin
    stoodmuffin
    October 7, 2018 at 3:09 am | #

    ETHAN. GROWTH.

    Wait if you talk about Amber’s stuff without her there I might be worried

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