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I hope Billie ends up getting REALLY fat over the course of 100-150 comics. Just a little fatter week after until she is REALLY HUGE! Then I hope she ends up with walky.
Why not? You’d be surprised at the changes people go through in college. When I started over a year ago, I never expected my facial hair would end up making me look like Wolverine.
This is true. I started college right about the time people started using paper. It was amazing the change in everybody over the next year – we had all been all buffed up from chiseling our notes into stone tablets, then all of a sudden BOOM we had less Popeye-like arms.
Hardest part was finding enough feathers to cut off for writing and berries to squeeze for ink, but that worked out eventually.
Not quite as old as Animal; by the time I was in high school we had advanced past abacuses to slide rules. For computers, we had teletype terminals that connected to a big mainframe at the college. Commands were entered using BASIC, although there was a way of entering long programs at the terminal using punched-out paper tape. And you had to be in an advanced-level or honors-level math class to be allowed to access it.
I also remember how everybody considered it a major step forward when the early Trash-80s, Timex/Sinclairs, and the TI-99s came out with the programs on magnetic tape cassettes.
So far as I can tell, if you follow the timeline in the archive, it definitely seems it all happened in one week. I mean, how many comics did it take for the party story-line? That was just a few hours.
Yeah, if you pop through the archive, each storyline is bookended morning and night. That makes:
Sunday: Move-in Day
Monday: Uphill from here
Tuesday: Men are from Beck, Women are from Clark
Wednesday: The Bechdel Test
Thursday: Media Rumble
Friday: Yesterday was Thursday
Saturday: Pajama Jeans.
It’s pretty impressive when you consider Joe Joed himself onto the news in under a week of being at college.
I believe there has been a little more time gone by than just one week. Parents’ Weekend is not usually the first weekend of the semester. In addition, the cast had time to take a trip out to the lake — probably on a weekend — and Joyce’s attempted roofie/rape occurred at a party that more than likely took place on another weekend.
If I recall correctly, I think even Willis has said that roughly a month (four weeks or so) have elapsed.
I suppose your right… I just don’t want to wait 1000 – 2000 comics to see BBW Billie. Plus, I thought the pace of “days” would pick up eventually. I couldn’t imagine their second semester starting in 2020.
YES. And it feels AMAZING. Especially when she’s on top and you’re basically smothered under a gigantic breast. BBW make the best pillows too. Most are even warm in winter and cool in summer – so you don’t even need a fan if you have your BBW girlfriend handy.
Scientific proof that BBW girlfriends are awesome.
I was bored on the last Billie & Sal comic, and made a commented history of Billie/Sal. By the time I was finished a new strip was out, and so I put it off until someone would read it. Maybe now, since you’ve kindly pointed out the newest addition. Now let’s see how a series of 6 hyperlinks goes without the ability to edit posts…
By the way… Sal could be waving to Billie or Walky or both in that last panel, but her face is turned more towards Billie. And her expression is disappointed that Billie is ignoring her. Conclusion: she was trying to impress Billie. And Billie is upset that Sal chose to go water-skiing instead of ‘hanging out’ with her – which seems a stretch until you remember that Billie and Sal were with each other a moment ago, so Billie may have been looking forward to spending time with Sal. This also relates to Billie’s earlier issues with Sal never being around.
People should overanalyze more often. It makes things more interesting.
About that poll… I did some maths. I do that a lot. And almost every method I come up with gives Billie/Joyce as the most likely pairing. And the only one that doesn’t (actually it gives them as the least-likely pairing) is the analysis of frequency that the two characters are both tagged in updates after the first point at which both characters had been introduced. This was only 18.75% of updates for Billie/Joyce, and 25.71% of updates for the winner via this method, Dorothy/Joyce.
However… if you change it to ‘the frequency that the two characters are both tagged without other characters in updates after the first point at which both characters had been introduced, then, finally, it’s Billie/Sal leading by about 0.67% over the runner-up. Or leading by over 9% if you normalise the results. See, I can overanalyse with maths as well.
And that was done without image editing software – I used the built-in Visual Basic for Applications in Microsoft Excel. Which is cool enough to warrant bragging, so I’m not going to apologise for mentioning it.
Yes, but if you picked up on the altered quote, and you think about it, I’m not really trying to say that cutting and pasting doesn’t count as editing. Just that’s it’s such a minor part of as to be considered insignificant. I’m pretty sure I learned to cut and paste in MS Paint before I learned to draw in MS Paint.
I’ve tried reading that post from the perspective of someone who has no idea what quote I’m on about, and it’s really annoying. So the quote’s “That’s not a knife.This is a knife.” from Crocodile Dundee, the movie.
Heehee~ Oh my god, that’s glorious. She does seem pretty obsessed with getting Sal’s attention, doesn’t she? IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW. It’s like, The Da Vinci Code of covert lesbianism!
Honestly… it probably helps that Billie just isn’t so intense, even when she’s having her “I don’t wanna hang out with anyone!” moment. Billie is either SCREAMING ANGRY about non-cool people, or SCREAMING HAPPY DRUNK at a party and creeping people out. Try less hard, be happy.
Sal isn’t anti-social, she’s already made friends who she can water ski with. She also was willing to come to the beach, and even inserted herself into the discussion in Joyce’s room that got everyone to the beach. She made friends with Billie as soon as they spoke in person.
I think Sal just has her own social circle that she hangs with. Amber also brought her own circle to college, but unlike Sal we’ve actually seen her hang out with them.
Ridureyu is correct about Sal… accidentally. Sal is indeed antisocial (destructive toward established society), but she is not UNSOCIABLE, which is what most people actually mean when they say “antisocial.”
Given what we’ve seen of Dina, she could be a raging hetero, but if Billie grabbed her, dragged her away, and said, “You’re my girlfriend now,” Dina would probably mumble “Okay” and go along with it.
Okay, full disclosure, I haven’t liked that much of Dumbing of Age until now. I think it lacks a little of the charm of the old comics, even if the old ones had worse art in comparison.
But that last panel had me in stitches. Bravo, Mr. Willis. Bravo.
On the new poll: the available options seem almost arbitrary, but then a complete list of possibilities would be near infinite. On the off chance the poll results influence a future storyline, I gotta vote for the pairing that would be the most amusing from our current perspective, i.e. Bille/Walky. You know you all want to see it happen.
I was wondering the same thing. If not that then maybe it’s just boring to have people vote for the assumed default relationship? And if they are supposed to end up together, would it even count as shipping?
Ah, the home page. I go directly to the most recent comic, check for new comments that I want to reply to or replies to my comments, and check if there’s a new comic yet. I haven’t been to the home page in… about 30 seconds, since I checked it just now to see if that’s where the elusive poll was.
David tweeted this: “My wife is jumping up and down in front of me, begging for Billie and Sal to make out.” So I did this: (NSFW) http://tailsteak.com/billiexsal1.png
if billie was so popular in high school, where are all her old friends?
this could be asked about most of the characters, but i ask about billie since she seems to be the only one clinging to high school life. i get the impression that she wasn’t as popular as she claims. that she may have been a cheerleader, but it didn’t affect her social status. maybe it even prevented her from making any real friends, as she desperately tried to get in with the cool crowd while shunning anyone that would have accepted her as she was. it’s possible that billie was the most unpopular person at school.
damn you, willis, for setting up this thought provoking cliffhanger which will undoubtedly be resolved next monday.
Nobody I knew before college went to the same college as me, if they went to one at all. I’m pretty sure it’s common to not have your high-school buddies with you in college.
Barefoot skiing takes some serious skill (or so I’m told; I’ve waterskiied exactly once in my entire life, and that was back in the Neolithic.) But the best part of chicks waterskiing is the tendency to lose tops when they hit the water hard.
Barefoot isn’t *that* hard, according to a couple friends I know. However, you don’t do it feet-together, it doesn’t work. Sal must have a slalom ski under her if her feet are that close together.
Presumably if she has friends with a boat they would also have a ski to use.
Ooh, like how Fabio’s hair can ripple without any wind? I am impressed.
Sad for Billie though. Social climbers rarely turn out very happy… I mean, she’s pretty miserable now and she doesn’t have to be. Maybe her character arc will involve her learning this lesson from Walky? Maybe she will join him on the Nachito-spider-sofa?
Also no possibility of her sinking when the boat stops moving. (Actually she’s just going to take it off while skiing and throw it in the boat before it stops. While moving.)
Word of God:
“The poll choices are based mostly on ‘who are there’ and ‘who aren’t related.’ Also, ‘who aren’t Joyce and Walky,’ because you know why.”
I’m not sure which of them I think is more off here. On the one hand, Billie is just being mean-spirited and elitist, not realizing that cliques really don’t form like that at a school the size of IU (in my time in the dorms there, pretty much everyone just hung out with the people on their floor, or the people on their SO’s floor).
On the other hand, Walky seems determined to be friends with someone who has only ever shown hostility to him, which is just kinda futile.
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Hard work like… hard liquor?
Those Freshmen Fifties aint gonna put themselves on you know.
I hope Billie ends up getting REALLY fat over the course of 100-150 comics. Just a little fatter week after until she is REALLY HUGE! Then I hope she ends up with walky.
You’re hoping Billie will end up as a BBW?
Why not? You’d be surprised at the changes people go through in college. When I started over a year ago, I never expected my facial hair would end up making me look like Wolverine.
Need I keep dropping in to remind you that we started college last Monday?
Last Monday.
I’ll make an image macro to drop on people.
I did it anyway…
It’s only Saturday?
Wait a second… If it’s Saturday then why did Amazi-girl need to be woken up for class? Being a super hero must really be taking a toll.
Amber doesn’t know what day it is due to her excessive gaming perhaps?
Amber need to be woken up FOR her excessive gaming. She didn’t say anything about a class, she needs to be up by 2 to check in with her guild.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-2/01-pajama-jeans/digit/
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-2/01-pajama-jeans/nap/ even.
This is true. I started college right about the time people started using paper. It was amazing the change in everybody over the next year – we had all been all buffed up from chiseling our notes into stone tablets, then all of a sudden BOOM we had less Popeye-like arms.
Hardest part was finding enough feathers to cut off for writing and berries to squeeze for ink, but that worked out eventually.
*clap* *clap* *clap* *clap* *clap* *clap* *clap* So….beautiful *wipes tear form eye*
I feel way younger now that I read that, I only remember as far back to when computers used punch-cards to program with.
I actually caught myself telling one of my kids the other day, “back when I was your age, our GPS systems were on paper, and we called them maps.”
Shit, now I feel really young.
I remember when we got a 80286 and the computer booted off one 5 1/4 and ran programs off the other 5 1/4…
Not quite as old as Animal; by the time I was in high school we had advanced past abacuses to slide rules. For computers, we had teletype terminals that connected to a big mainframe at the college. Commands were entered using BASIC, although there was a way of entering long programs at the terminal using punched-out paper tape. And you had to be in an advanced-level or honors-level math class to be allowed to access it.
I also remember how everybody considered it a major step forward when the early Trash-80s, Timex/Sinclairs, and the TI-99s came out with the programs on magnetic tape cassettes.
ahahahahahahaha
do you realize that 100-150 comics is roughly three days?
So far as I can tell, if you follow the timeline in the archive, it definitely seems it all happened in one week. I mean, how many comics did it take for the party story-line? That was just a few hours.
Yeah, if you pop through the archive, each storyline is bookended morning and night. That makes:
Sunday: Move-in Day
Monday: Uphill from here
Tuesday: Men are from Beck, Women are from Clark
Wednesday: The Bechdel Test
Thursday: Media Rumble
Friday: Yesterday was Thursday
Saturday: Pajama Jeans.
It’s pretty impressive when you consider Joe Joed himself onto the news in under a week of being at college.
Or did I miss something? God?
I believe there has been a little more time gone by than just one week. Parents’ Weekend is not usually the first weekend of the semester. In addition, the cast had time to take a trip out to the lake — probably on a weekend — and Joyce’s attempted roofie/rape occurred at a party that more than likely took place on another weekend.
If I recall correctly, I think even Willis has said that roughly a month (four weeks or so) have elapsed.
I suppose your right… I just don’t want to wait 1000 – 2000 comics to see BBW Billie. Plus, I thought the pace of “days” would pick up eventually. I couldn’t imagine their second semester starting in 2020.
if it’s anything like anime, the pace will only get slower.
I’ve heard of this fetish.
A surprising high number of guys seem to like their women big.
A common reason seems to be for tactile reasons; they like the feel of bouncy flesh.
So, basically they want a whole woman that feels like boobs?
That is a profound statement and quite a theory in and of itself.
I’ll let someone else do the research. I’m not really an only-red-Skittles type. I’ll take the variety pack
YES. And it feels AMAZING. Especially when she’s on top and you’re basically smothered under a gigantic breast. BBW make the best pillows too. Most are even warm in winter and cool in summer – so you don’t even need a fan if you have your BBW girlfriend handy.
Scientific proof that BBW girlfriends are awesome.
Does Sal have Billie’s reflective shades? o.o When did that happen?
Accidently putting on each others clothes after making out is a common enough occurence I believe.
I was bored on the last Billie & Sal comic, and made a commented history of Billie/Sal. By the time I was finished a new strip was out, and so I put it off until someone would read it. Maybe now, since you’ve kindly pointed out the newest addition. Now let’s see how a series of 6 hyperlinks goes without the ability to edit posts…
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This is amazing.
Wait. My wife says this needs caps.
THIS IS AMAZING.
If he wasn’t gonna do it before he might now
It’s possible you’re overanalyzing.
I’m almost certain that I’m overanalyzing.
By the way… Sal could be waving to Billie or Walky or both in that last panel, but her face is turned more towards Billie. And her expression is disappointed that Billie is ignoring her. Conclusion: she was trying to impress Billie. And Billie is upset that Sal chose to go water-skiing instead of ‘hanging out’ with her – which seems a stretch until you remember that Billie and Sal were with each other a moment ago, so Billie may have been looking forward to spending time with Sal. This also relates to Billie’s earlier issues with Sal never being around.
People should overanalyze more often. It makes things more interesting.
I like your overanalysis and I’m not even shipping Sillie (Sal+Billie fits so well…)
Overanalysis or not, +1,000 internetz to you for making me laugh maniacally at 3 AM
You got the attention of the artist, that’s for sure.
About that poll… I did some maths. I do that a lot. And almost every method I come up with gives Billie/Joyce as the most likely pairing. And the only one that doesn’t (actually it gives them as the least-likely pairing) is the analysis of frequency that the two characters are both tagged in updates after the first point at which both characters had been introduced. This was only 18.75% of updates for Billie/Joyce, and 25.71% of updates for the winner via this method, Dorothy/Joyce.
However… if you change it to ‘the frequency that the two characters are both tagged without other characters in updates after the first point at which both characters had been introduced, then, finally, it’s Billie/Sal leading by about 0.67% over the runner-up. Or leading by over 9% if you normalise the results. See, I can overanalyse with maths as well.
Very clever thesis you created there.
Yeah, it’s about time somebody besides you got in on the pic editing around here, eh?
I guess that makes me the grav editing hipster then.
Collections of old comics arranged on a paint document with text added?
That’s not a pic edit. THIS is a pic edit… oh, my Australian is showing.
Picture: Crazy Sal
And that was done without image editing software – I used the built-in Visual Basic for Applications in Microsoft Excel. Which is cool enough to warrant bragging, so I’m not going to apologise for mentioning it.
I liked the little swoopy lines you added to one of the pages to take up more visual room. Nice touch.
Cut and paste is still part of editing. Or at least that’s what they’re teaching in the schools nowadays.
Although, I probably shouldn’t hold much stock in the words of the teacher I had to teach 3dsMax to in a SciViz Class.
Yes, but if you picked up on the altered quote, and you think about it, I’m not really trying to say that cutting and pasting doesn’t count as editing. Just that’s it’s such a minor part of as to be considered insignificant. I’m pretty sure I learned to cut and paste in MS Paint before I learned to draw in MS Paint.
I’ve tried reading that post from the perspective of someone who has no idea what quote I’m on about, and it’s really annoying. So the quote’s “That’s not a knife.This is a knife.” from Crocodile Dundee, the movie.
Heehee~ Oh my god, that’s glorious. She does seem pretty obsessed with getting Sal’s attention, doesn’t she? IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW. It’s like, The Da Vinci Code of covert lesbianism!
Okay, you’ve converted me. Team Sallie for life.
Salvador?
Love it!
SHHHH!!!! Don’t tell Joyce!!!
Nice work, and you have waaaaaaaaay to much free time on your hands.
ALL THE AWARDS.
Here, here, you left out the forlorn (is that a real word?) look on the poster!
http://shortpacked.bigcartel.com/product/dumbing-of-age-monroe-lake-poster
Ooh, good point! Sal’s casting a forlorn sidelong glance at Billie, who’s grinning sheepishly. Nice catch.
I wonder what walky ever did to her to make her feel like this towards him?
Maybe he stole the last McNugget from her when they were kids.
Daggone it! Now you have me wanting McNuggets at 12:44 PM and I don’t even like MCD’s much anymore
Something tells me Billie has no problem putting her hands on McNuggets.
“Adventure Time” reference?
…man, not sure how I feel about being able to do this connection.
Feel proud.
“Dude… don’t eat those.”
The question is: Was Walky a buff baby that could dance like a man?
He remained uncool while she was starting down the road to cool.
It’s a wall some guys hit due to the inability to grow boobs.
Damn, Sal.
Where’d she get the waterskis?
Furthermore, where did she get the boat?
Would Batman need a boat to water-ski?
I’m Batman. And I can water-ski. In space.
Better question: Who’s pulling her?!
No-one. She and the boat are being blown along by a really strong wind. Please ignore physics, which would contradict this explanation.
Ultra-Boat?
There is no boat. Her awesomeness is pulling itself.
i was thinking sal should have an epic troll face
Sal can’t hear you over her awesomeness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ciiMHDChYA
I’m sorry, what’s that?
No boat. It’s the pick-up truck, and a reeaaaallllly long rope.
The real question here is, why is she wearing a jacket?
She quickly and easily made some cool friends (who have a boat and jetskis), thus disproving Billie’s claim and providing the punchline.
She probably did it just to prove Billie wrong.
what water skis? I see no damn water skis!
It’s not easy to ski barefoot.
She’s going barefoot. Like a boss.
When you’re that cool, you don’t need waterskis to waterski.
Or a boat.
Sal and Billie are both antisocial.
Sal sinks while Billie rides free over the waves.
Honestly… it probably helps that Billie just isn’t so intense, even when she’s having her “I don’t wanna hang out with anyone!” moment. Billie is either SCREAMING ANGRY about non-cool people, or SCREAMING HAPPY DRUNK at a party and creeping people out. Try less hard, be happy.
You have Sal and Billie mixed up. Sal’s Walky’s twin sister. Billie’s the drunk ex-cheerleader.
Yes, I did write their names wrong. But I was THINKING them right!
it’s the fault of my fingers. My evil, evil fingers!
Sal isn’t anti-social, she’s already made friends who she can water ski with. She also was willing to come to the beach, and even inserted herself into the discussion in Joyce’s room that got everyone to the beach. She made friends with Billie as soon as they spoke in person.
I think Sal just has her own social circle that she hangs with. Amber also brought her own circle to college, but unlike Sal we’ve actually seen her hang out with them.
Ridureyu is correct about Sal… accidentally. Sal is indeed antisocial (destructive toward established society), but she is not UNSOCIABLE, which is what most people actually mean when they say “antisocial.”
Whoo! My vote for Billie/Walky makes up 75% of all votes cast. Now let’s check back in in 24 hours…
Aww I hope I’m not REALLY the only one that ships Dorothy/Joyce.
You are not! I am -totally- shipping Dorothy/Joyce.
Apparently so does Willis. Look more closely at the poster art. ^_~
P.S.: I am totally shipping Billie/Dina now. ^_^
I just always wait for Word of God XD
Bad habit of mine.
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g194/WitchyWebcomics/Dillie.jpg
But I did vote Willis/Watson. Go for it, buddy!
But Dina prefers boners.
As opposed to dinosaur bones? I apologize for the horrible joke.
Given what we’ve seen of Dina, she could be a raging hetero, but if Billie grabbed her, dragged her away, and said, “You’re my girlfriend now,” Dina would probably mumble “Okay” and go along with it.
Bonus points if she does this in response to Walky’s repeated attempts to get her together with Sal.
Not that I don’t ship Billie/Sal.
Also glad to see I’m not the only person thinking both Billie/Dina and Dorothy/Joyce as a result of that pic.!
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g194/WitchyWebcomics/Doyce.jpg
They call her “Girl with the Triangle Grin.”
And now you know why she has that big grin. ^_~
Because of hand-on-boob action.
I have a feeling that David either exudes PSL to a point he doesn’t realize he does this; or significantly more likely, he’s a masterful troll.
Actually, take a closer look at the original poster:
http://shortpacked.bigcartel.com/product/touchdown-poster
OMG! I just realized that Joyce is “Shattered Glass” Ravage! O_O
Oh dear…
I just want Dorothy/Joyce to happen because it’d be weird.
She really is tsundere. And Walky is awesome for still being willing to hang out with her even as she tries to alienate absolutely everyone.
Be Walky, I imagine.
Okay, full disclosure, I haven’t liked that much of Dumbing of Age until now. I think it lacks a little of the charm of the old comics, even if the old ones had worse art in comparison.
But that last panel had me in stitches. Bravo, Mr. Willis. Bravo.
I predict that Billie is going to have a very hard fall during her college years.
Will that fall will come when a police officer ask her to walk in a straight line?
No, it will come right before. With the officer struggling not to laugh.
And then she will move her legs back and forth as she lies there, never realising that she isn’t moving anywhere.
Like a turtle. A really drunk turtle.
let’s just hope sal lets billie sleep on the side next to the wall in the future.
I see what you did there…
Willis, has anyone ever told you that you really know how to illustrate water very well?
On the new poll: the available options seem almost arbitrary, but then a complete list of possibilities would be near infinite. On the off chance the poll results influence a future storyline, I gotta vote for the pairing that would be the most amusing from our current perspective, i.e. Bille/Walky. You know you all want to see it happen.
The poll choices are based mostly on “who are there” and “who aren’t related.” Also, “who aren’t Joyce and Walky,” because you know why.
That ship sailed for the purposes of this continuity?
I was wondering the same thing. If not that then maybe it’s just boring to have people vote for the assumed default relationship? And if they are supposed to end up together, would it even count as shipping?
I could have used a Joyce/Sal option, but lacking that chose the next closest option… David Willis/Joel Watson.
There’s a poll? Where? Am I expressing foolishness by not being aware of this poll? I like polls. I want to vote in it.
Front page, right-hand-column.
What does, “Who do you ship?” mean?
Who would you want romantically involved with each other?
Or, alternately, who you package up and deliver. Whichever you think most closely fits the answers in the poll question.
“Ship,” in this sense, is short for “relationship.”
David. Your poll has no “I harbor Perverse Sexual Lust” option. What the hell kind of poll is this?
He already named the trope. His work here is done.
Ah, the home page. I go directly to the most recent comic, check for new comments that I want to reply to or replies to my comments, and check if there’s a new comic yet. I haven’t been to the home page in… about 30 seconds, since I checked it just now to see if that’s where the elusive poll was.
There was no option for Billie waffling between Walky and Sal, so I chose Billie/Sal.
Ah, Sal. Queen of Cool. I less-than-three her so much.
(now she just needs to stop smoking)
How did Sal get Billie’s glasses like that? That was some smooth accidental one-upsmanship right there.
Probably stole them from Billie’s clothes. I mean, she had to leave them somewhere, right?
They were grabbed during off-panel sex.
I wonder who the cameraqman was this time?
SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL
And her femurs.
They don’t show you this, but she’s actually being towed by her own motorcycle. She’s just.
that.
cool.
She’s BatSal.That’s all you need to know.
She can breathe in space?
Oh yeah.
When you’re that cool, you don’t need to breathe.
She doesn’t even need to breathe to smoke.
But can she smoke in space?
Sal just pass on by without a care in the world.
Man, Billie can’t even see the _trees_ for the trees.
David tweeted this: “My wife is jumping up and down in front of me, begging for Billie and Sal to make out.” So I did this: (NSFW) http://tailsteak.com/billiexsal1.png
I’ll be in my bunk
If it wasn’t for the sideboob, Sal would make a good long-haired bishie.
Will there be any sharks for Sal to jump?
Only if she has both hands free.
Sal don’t jump sharks, she jumps Walkies.
Twincest is wincest?
I’m concerned that it’s Walkies plural…
There are other worlds than these.
Sal makes friends by simply breathing.
Well, considering what she’s breathing with…
It certainly worked on Billie.
Billie, finding awesome friends is easy. I should know.
if billie was so popular in high school, where are all her old friends?
this could be asked about most of the characters, but i ask about billie since she seems to be the only one clinging to high school life. i get the impression that she wasn’t as popular as she claims. that she may have been a cheerleader, but it didn’t affect her social status. maybe it even prevented her from making any real friends, as she desperately tried to get in with the cool crowd while shunning anyone that would have accepted her as she was. it’s possible that billie was the most unpopular person at school.
damn you, willis, for setting up this thought provoking cliffhanger which will undoubtedly be resolved next monday.
Easy: They went to other colleges.
They’re the ones driving the speedboat. In a shocking twist, and all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdhhQhqi_AE
Nobody I knew before college went to the same college as me, if they went to one at all. I’m pretty sure it’s common to not have your high-school buddies with you in college.
Lake Monroe? Water needs to be brown.
Barefoot skiing takes some serious skill (or so I’m told; I’ve waterskiied exactly once in my entire life, and that was back in the Neolithic.) But the best part of chicks waterskiing is the tendency to lose tops when they hit the water hard.
David, it would be worth cash to me to see this.
Barefoot isn’t *that* hard, according to a couple friends I know. However, you don’t do it feet-together, it doesn’t work. Sal must have a slalom ski under her if her feet are that close together.
Presumably if she has friends with a boat they would also have a ski to use.
Y’know, Animal, all it took to bring both of us out of Lurker-mode was Sal in a bikini.
I like how you think, my friend.
GMTA.
Grated Minds Taste Alike?
Giant Marsupials Trade Alibis?
Give Money To Animal? No.
Of course not. He’d just eat it.
Proof?
Floyd: Animal, show ’em what you do.
Animal: EAT DRUMS! EAT DRUMS!!! [proceeds to eat drums]
C-C-C-C-Combo Breaker!
Gave Me Toe AIDS.
Goofy murdered the Antichrist?
Antichrist, falling off a cliff: YAAAAAAAAAA HOOO HOOO HOOooeyyy
Shame on you for not linking to that sound…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92LoQ51X8qY&
Did another Billie and Sal picture. There may be something wrong with me.
http://tailsteak.com/billiexsal2.png
If there’s something wrong with you, then there’s something wrong with just about everybody here. Nice drawing.
I’m concerned that Billie just dropped everything. And that Sal is smiling.
Sal doesn’t smile.
Also, there’s something wrong with you XD
And just about everybody here.
Unless, of course, you have a smokin’ hot bod, like Sal; then making new friends is totally easy.
Billie has one of those too. She’s just filled out a bit more. Marilyn Monroe style.
I really like the water in this strip. The ripples are amazing.
what we don’t see is that sal in fact isn’t attached to a boat thats why its so awesome.
Ooh, like how Fabio’s hair can ripple without any wind? I am impressed.
Sad for Billie though. Social climbers rarely turn out very happy… I mean, she’s pretty miserable now and she doesn’t have to be. Maybe her character arc will involve her learning this lesson from Walky? Maybe she will join him on the Nachito-spider-sofa?
Damn, I *seriously* harbor PSL for Sal now.
You realize she’s going to ruin that leather jacket right?
Or is she just so good that there’s no real possibility of her falling?
Also no possibility of her sinking when the boat stops moving. (Actually she’s just going to take it off while skiing and throw it in the boat before it stops. While moving.)
I’m still waiting for DoA Hooper. Where is he?
Bonus points if it’s zombie-Hooper. ^_^
Waiting to catch Amber’s eye across the room.
Maybe he’s in her guild?
Intended as a reply to Sgt_Sarge. I’m really bad at that when it’s the newest comment.
Last panel: “And I’m painfully intimidated by, yet irresistibly drawn to, your sister’s oh-so-casual hotness.”
This poll… where’s my MikexEthan?
Mike’s not at the beach.
Word of God:
“The poll choices are based mostly on ‘who are there’ and ‘who aren’t related.’ Also, ‘who aren’t Joyce and Walky,’ because you know why.”
BTW: Look more closely at the poster — Mike is totally mad that Ethan’s not paying any attention to him. Hmmm…
Screw that, no Mike/Ethan.
WALKY/Ethan.
Mike/Walky. Hey, they are roomies…
OOo… Is this going to be the David-verse where Walky/Billie hookup?
Cause Panel 1 &2 are attemptive reconciliation, Panel 3 is rejection, and panel 3 is just Sal.
I’m not sure which of them I think is more off here. On the one hand, Billie is just being mean-spirited and elitist, not realizing that cliques really don’t form like that at a school the size of IU (in my time in the dorms there, pretty much everyone just hung out with the people on their floor, or the people on their SO’s floor).
On the other hand, Walky seems determined to be friends with someone who has only ever shown hostility to him, which is just kinda futile.
Nono, they were buds before high-school; childhood friends. He held onto that, and she is trying to reject it.
Oh look, the local badass is waterskiing while wearing a trademark cool jacket.
How has nobody made the Fonz reference so far? Eyyyyyyyy
HOOOOOOOOOOOLD UP. Three things, why does Dina have tubes? Where did they get a ball? And what it Sal being towed by?!
Barefoot skiing…impressive.
I have to say it’s a wonder it didn’t end up being scrunchy time for Sal right after this strip
No,it really doesn’t…then again,My only friends are my brother,my steryotypical nerdy perverted friend,and my classmate
Man, Walky, why do you even want to hang out with her? She has absolutely zero concept of personal loyalty.
Heh, can’t unsee the wide grin on Billie’s face in the last panel. Maybe she’s a freshwater shark.