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May 12, 2026

Long time

by David M Willis on April 7, 2024 at 12:01 am
  • 03 – Trystin' in the Wind
└ Tags: ethan, sarah

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    April 7, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    “I’m paying him back… it’s a 100 Grand“

    • Dday
      Dday
      April 7, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

      “Let him know he can come find me if he wants these Mounds.”

    • Decidedly Orthogonal
      Decidedly Orthogonal
      April 7, 2024 at 1:10 am | #

      Oh I read it as a Crunch bar, because she want’s to scrunch him. But also fuck Nestlé.

      • Dara
        Dara
        April 7, 2024 at 2:07 am | #

        Yeah, she’s probably given up on getting his Mr. Big.

        • Dday
          Dday
          April 7, 2024 at 10:56 pm | #

          Hey, sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t.

    • Weatherheight
      Weatherheight
      April 7, 2024 at 2:44 am | #

      Come on – no Mr. Goodbar reference?
      Apparently we’re all too far away from Junior high/middle school…

      • Mark
        Mark
        April 7, 2024 at 8:17 am | #

        There is no such distance as “too far from Jr. High.”

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        April 7, 2024 at 8:50 pm | #

        Well AFAICR the book came out late-60s and the movie came out in 1977 the year after I graduated HS, and that was the kind of book you would never see in a school library when it came out. And still wouldn’t in TX or FL because sex.

        Also is that Pedro from Boy’s Life magazine? I haven’t seen that magazine since the mid-1970s but that looks like their burro mascot.

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      April 7, 2024 at 4:55 am | #

      Tell him I’m ready for that Marathon.

    • Disastroid
      Disastroid
      April 7, 2024 at 7:51 am | #

      Hoping cupid shoots an Aero into his heart.

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        April 7, 2024 at 11:50 am | #

        ^This is a great start. But now, as an American, it’s only keened my appetite for more British candy puns.

        • Just_IDD
          Just_IDD
          April 7, 2024 at 6:41 pm | #

          She’s trying to show him she’s not a Zero (yes that’s a candybar. Think snickers but instead almond and white fudge.)

          • Ana Chronistic
            Ana Chronistic
            April 7, 2024 at 11:49 pm | #

            but inside he’s a Lion

            • ValdVin
              ValdVin
              April 8, 2024 at 6:35 am | #

              Heehee. Now I realize you can start inventing Brit candy bar names and would totally fool me.

  2. IntangibleMatter
    IntangibleMatter
    April 7, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    Sarah, we’re all proud of you. We all know how big of a step this is.

    We just all expected it to be a bit bigger, and a full size candy bar.

    • anon
      anon
      April 7, 2024 at 12:27 am | #

      lol a bouquet and a heartfelt card might be a bit too strong/much for sarah rn

      tho wonder if asher’s in ethan’s bed still b/c awkward if so

      • Masumi
        Masumi
        April 7, 2024 at 2:30 am | #

        “Just me” sounds like that’s exactly where Asher is.

    • Mturtle7
      Mturtle7
      April 7, 2024 at 8:20 pm | #

      Just wait until we find out it’s actually leftover candy bar from Halloween…

  3. Thag Simmons
    Thag Simmons
    April 7, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    Hey, a step forward is a step forward no matter how small.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      April 7, 2024 at 6:18 am | #

      Not so small, that’s a full-size Almond Joy bar!

  4. Jo_cubstar
    Jo_cubstar
    April 7, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    She’s trying

  5. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    April 7, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    Hey! You’re not you when you’re hungry! Sarah’s just saying she wants to know the real, not hungry, Jacob.

  6. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    April 7, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    His expression in the second to last panel is killing me even more than the candy bar. Even Ethan is kind of astonished at her social ineptitude.

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      April 7, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

      And Ethan knows Amber! And himself!

  7. Jahu
    Jahu
    April 7, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    “Long time no basement” HELLO?

    • Laura
      Laura
      April 7, 2024 at 12:43 am | #

      Yeah, I’m not sure what that reference was, there.

      • Dante
        Dante
        April 7, 2024 at 12:48 am | #

        The last time they talked to each other was probably when they were kidnapped together :’DD

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        April 7, 2024 at 12:48 am | #

        Blaine’s basement.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          April 7, 2024 at 6:19 am | #

          Blainesment.

      • Weatherheight
        Weatherheight
        April 7, 2024 at 2:48 am | #

        When I was in college, all the washers and dryers for clothes were in the basement of the dorm, which is where my mind went.

        But the kidnapping thing also wrks…

      • Laura
        Laura
        April 7, 2024 at 4:51 pm | #

        Got it. Thanks for all the replies!

        I was thinking maybe Ethan was referring to the workout room in the basement.

    • KM
      KM
      April 7, 2024 at 12:45 am | #

      I’m not sure, is he answering Sarah’s question on where Jacob is or what..

  8. AbacusWizard
    AbacusWizard
    April 7, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    It’s something!

    • Coatl
      Coatl
      April 7, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

      Exactly, who would deny a candy bar?

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        April 7, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

        Someone with chocolate allergies?

        • Coatl
          Coatl
          April 7, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

          and certain ingredients…..oops

          • ValdVin
            ValdVin
            April 7, 2024 at 4:39 am | #

            The wrapper suggests Almond Joy to me.

            Have we ever seen Jacob eat, or avoid, almonds?

            • Needfuldoer
              Needfuldoer
              April 7, 2024 at 6:21 am | #

              He hasn’t shown an allergy to joy, so that part should be fine.

              • Reltzik
                Reltzik
                April 7, 2024 at 10:01 pm | #

                Sarah, on the other hand, has. So yeah, she should probably be giving this candy bar to Jacob.

            • Taffy
              Taffy
              April 7, 2024 at 7:35 am | #

              We haven’t seen Jacob eat anything at all. Him and food haven’t even been in the same strip before.

              • Needfuldoer
                Needfuldoer
                April 7, 2024 at 8:15 am | #

                He fantasized about pizza that one time.

              • Tan
                Tan
                April 7, 2024 at 12:21 pm | #

                Jacob has eaten at least an apple.

                https://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-4/01-the-only-dope-for-me-is-you/brb/

              • HueSatLight
                HueSatLight
                April 7, 2024 at 3:01 pm | #

                On account of the vampirism.

      • anon
        anon
        April 7, 2024 at 12:23 am | #

        i mean, as long as it’s not some specific open secret kinda message that’s unintentional like how flowers have all kinds of meaning (tho it would be hilariously petty to send someone a bouquet with a meaning of “you suck” XD)

        (that said i wouldn’t be surrpised if sarah’s semi-stalked jacob to the point of her knowing what he likes or at least seen him eating the same thing at least one time)

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          April 7, 2024 at 12:41 am | #

          Are there bouquets that mean “you suck”? I want one 🙁

          • HueSatLight
            HueSatLight
            April 7, 2024 at 1:29 am | #

            Table 2 https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-the-rhs/pdfs/publications/lindley-library-occasional-papers/volume-ten.pdf

            check out Carnation, Yellow.

            • milu
              milu
              April 7, 2024 at 7:39 am | #

              I clicked an hour ago and am just now reemerging, this is fascinating.

              I think the main takeaway from this article is that the “language of flowers” is a Romantic/Victorian construct relying largely on Orientalist fantasies. Also, and that’s probably the point of the table, that there is no consistent key, with many flowers being assigned wildly different meanings.

              It is true that “Carnation, yellow” seems to be unanimously read to mean “You Suck”, but that’s probably because the trendsetter, Charlotte de la Tour, made that decision, and later writers were happy to copy-paste

              • Mark
                Mark
                April 7, 2024 at 8:26 am | #

                Well, that is how standards are created: someone decides “it’s this not that.” If accepted by others, then everybody is on the same page and thus communication is possible.

                I do wish the Language of Flowers was better-standardized. There are times when I would like to really “say it with flowers”(tm) but it’s too easy to be catastrophically misunderstood.

                • milu
                  milu
                  April 7, 2024 at 8:51 am | #

                  Yeah, the author found no evidence of this so-called “language of flowers” being used as anything but a “parlour game” in Europe and the US. Teasingly, he only reports of the supposed turkish tradition through dubious orientalist sources that suggests not only flowers but a range of objects may have been used among literate harem women as mnemonics for conveying verses– not based on any allegorical meaning of the flowers and objects themselves but by associating verses rhyming with the object’s name in Turkish– to conduct covert lesbian affairs among themselves. Is this just more orientalist distortion? Quite possibly.

                  But it’s interesting that the more mainstream European interpretation was prompt to straightwash this report into imagining the women using flowers to convey messages to servant boys or serenading suitors they were trying to seduce.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            April 7, 2024 at 9:31 am | #

            “Say it with flowers. Send a cactus.”

          • zee
            zee
            April 7, 2024 at 12:23 pm | #

            I’m pretty sure if you give someone a bouquet of spider lilies that’s a death threat or something like it. At the very least saying you never wanna see them again

  9. Jeremiah
    Jeremiah
    April 7, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

    The fact that is actually true is kind of sad.

  10. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    April 7, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

    …Huh, I guess the kidnapping arc was pretty much the only major interaction between these two before now, wasn’t it? Hadn’t really thought about it before.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      April 7, 2024 at 6:30 am | #

      Even in the old continuity! Sarah was an early Roomies! character, Ethan debuted in Shortpacked! years after she last appeared. She briefly appeared in one panel in a series of vignettes during the Shortpacked! finale, but Ethan was in a different one so they wouldn’t have interacted.

      https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/fault-2

    • Tan
      Tan
      April 7, 2024 at 12:24 pm | #

      Not the only, but the most recent. They had a number of interactions back when Joyce was dating Ethan.

  11. Coatl
    Coatl
    April 7, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

    Well, that candy bar is of great value to Sarah, so, fine.

    • Pergola
      Pergola
      April 7, 2024 at 11:21 am | #

      She wanted to throw it at his head.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        April 7, 2024 at 1:59 pm | #

        So she’s serious about him then?

  12. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    April 7, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

    …. Candy.

    Translation: “Can I has D?”

    • anon
      anon
      April 7, 2024 at 12:25 am | #

      I can imagine it being a cute secret coded message between friends/couples tho it would be awkward if it had a reverse effect like after a breakup everytime you see someone have like a snickers to be turned on XD

  13. Marvelman
    Marvelman
    April 7, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

    After how mean Sarah was to Lucy, it will be satisfying to see her eating humble pie.

  14. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    April 7, 2024 at 12:20 am | #

    Well, big for YOU.

    But not everyone is trying to cut down on sugar intake Sarah. :p

    • anon
      anon
      April 7, 2024 at 12:26 am | #

      lol at least one candy bar would be fine. I can imagine some ppl being indecisive and buying one of those multipacks with diff small containers but in college i prolly wouldn’t have the impulse control to not eat all of it in one sitting unless ishared half with a roommate/friends

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      April 7, 2024 at 6:33 am | #

      Almond Joy is about 75% coconut and 10% almond, anyway. (The balance is evenly split between “joy”, and whatever concoction passes for chocolate in mass-market candy these days.)

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        April 7, 2024 at 1:38 pm | #

        passes for chocolate?

        I mean, not everyone has access to whatever you count as real chocolate. Almond joys pretty damn good, but I more a Cadbury Cream Egg girl myself. :9

        I also do like me some dark chocolate occasionally, I hear it’s supposed to be good for the brain, essential while coding all night.

        • David DeLaney
          David DeLaney
          April 10, 2024 at 8:51 am | #

          the subtext here almoat certainly being “Hershey’s chocolate is weak and in-feri-or” to things like Swiss chocolate (the nation is known for it continent-wide), actual dark chocolate, etc.

  15. Pocky
    Pocky
    April 7, 2024 at 12:27 am | #

    An attempt has been made

    hopefully its not got anything in it he’s allergic to

  16. Vanessa
    Vanessa
    April 7, 2024 at 12:27 am | #

    Haha I wonder what her plan was for conversation with Jacob, I doubt it has anything to do with that candy bar. Nice to see her trying to reach out, taking a risk.

  17. PedanticJerkass
    PedanticJerkass
    April 7, 2024 at 12:28 am | #

    Cue Jacob showing up arm-in-arm with Lucy in 5… 4… 3…

    • M!a
      M!a
      April 7, 2024 at 2:13 am | #

      And laughing! About something that Sarah wouldn’t know or care anything about.

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      April 7, 2024 at 12:47 pm | #

      Please, stop giving ideas to Devil.

      • Amós Batista
        Amós Batista
        April 7, 2024 at 12:47 pm | #

        *Willis.

  18. Taffy
    Taffy
    April 7, 2024 at 12:28 am | #

    Sarah, nobody gives a shit about your dumbass emotional constipation. I wanna see Jugs and Not-Jugs buy beer and rum illegally.

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      April 7, 2024 at 12:47 am | #

      Ansinthe bar. Get some green fairy for Dorothy’s green eyed monster.

  19. Dante
    Dante
    April 7, 2024 at 12:51 am | #

    It kills me that for a moment Ethan looks kind of concerned— And then he realizes what Sarah’s version of opening up entails, and he’s like “wow, you’re a disaster 😐 😐 :|”

    Maybe they could bond about having trouble being Real People now though.

    • David DeLaney
      David DeLaney
      April 10, 2024 at 8:53 am | #

      “We’re sorry, the Blue Fairy is currently putting makeup onto Dorothy, your estimated hold time is: TWENTY minutes”

  20. Hazel
    Hazel
    April 7, 2024 at 1:11 am | #

    Sarah is experiencing delayed middle school. I can sorta sympathize. I was probably at least that socially inept at 20.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      April 7, 2024 at 6:35 am | #

      Same.

      Introversion and being rejected by your peers at a young age are a dangerous combo.

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      April 7, 2024 at 9:35 am | #

      I think it’s been on repeat since she was actually in middle school.

  21. JepMZ
    JepMZ
    April 7, 2024 at 1:17 am | #

    That’s really nice of him to do so actually. Nailing his trauma seems to be working

  22. BBCC
    BBCC
    April 7, 2024 at 1:25 am | #

    Hey, starting off with saying hi and offering chocolate is a pretty good start on opening up for Sarah.

  23. DashWallkick
    DashWallkick
    April 7, 2024 at 1:29 am | #

    I know Ethan still has horrific existential depression but c’mon even he knows Sarah speaking in full sentences with a greeting and a gift is a huge step up for her.

    • Bash
      Bash
      April 7, 2024 at 2:08 am | #

      Ethan speaking in full sentences instead of shutting the door is pretty good for him, too.

  24. DorJoJo
    DorJoJo
    April 7, 2024 at 1:39 am | #

    Cue Sarah being horrified as Joyce comes down the hall all sexy-ified.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      April 7, 2024 at 6:39 am | #

      First, she and Ethan need a little heart-to-heart about coping with their shared traumatic experience. Then cue Joyce and Dorothy at the ideal moment after the conversation drifts to self-sabotage.

  25. John Campbell
    John Campbell
    April 7, 2024 at 1:53 am | #

    For some reason, my brain keeps insisting that Ethan has grown a scraggly goatee, despite my eyes repeatedly informing it that he hasn’t.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      April 7, 2024 at 2:15 am | #

      I feel like he would if he could.

      • Daniel M Ball
        Daniel M Ball
        April 7, 2024 at 4:04 am | #

        I almost said something disgustingly off-color about a man’s man with facial hair, and the…ahm…sensations that he might be seeking to impart on his fellow man with such an affectation.

  26. Daniel M Ball
    Daniel M Ball
    April 7, 2024 at 4:03 am | #

    Remember, Ethan, people grow at different rates.

  27. Derek
    Derek
    April 7, 2024 at 4:30 am | #

    so did Ethan and Asher fuck?

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      April 7, 2024 at 7:33 am | #

      Yes.

  28. Cephalo the Pod
    Cephalo the Pod
    April 7, 2024 at 4:32 am | #

    Huh, based on the colours, my guess is that’s a Nestle Crunch bar.

    • morleuca
      morleuca
      April 7, 2024 at 8:21 am | #

      Could be a baby ruth

    • staszu13
      staszu13
      April 7, 2024 at 10:34 am | #

      Definitely Crunch

    • UrsulaDavina
      UrsulaDavina
      April 7, 2024 at 11:37 am | #

      Either way c teir candy bar, honestly Hershey Bar, I’d say snickers or peanut mms or Hershey white Choclate, but Jacob could be allergic to peanuts.

  29. Icalasari
    Icalasari
    April 7, 2024 at 4:51 am | #

    Man, Ethan’s sass

  30. Woop de doop
    Woop de doop
    April 7, 2024 at 6:23 am | #

    Idk about you guys but I would gladly accept the candy bar.

  31. Woop de doop
    Woop de doop
    April 7, 2024 at 6:29 am | #

    The candy bar is an offer of friendship. I would be happy with it!

  32. milu
    milu
    April 7, 2024 at 8:56 am | #

    Well the way to the heart, famously, is through the stomach.

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      April 7, 2024 at 9:37 am | #

      Really? I thought for sure it was between the third and fourth left ribs. No wonder I did so poorly in anatomy class.

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      April 7, 2024 at 9:54 am | #

      Dina, holding a raptor claw.

  33. True Survivor
    True Survivor
    April 7, 2024 at 9:32 am | #

    Yes, totally just Ethan and definitely not also Jennifer’s boyfriend.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      April 7, 2024 at 12:19 pm | #

      She doesn’t have a boyfriend.

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      April 7, 2024 at 9:42 pm | #

      Jennifer’s ex.

  34. Slartibeast Button, BIA
    Slartibeast Button, BIA
    April 7, 2024 at 9:51 am | #

    “The fleshmaker” amirite?

  35. UrsulaDavina
    UrsulaDavina
    April 7, 2024 at 11:35 am | #

    Judging by the design it’s either a Crunch Bar or a 3 musketeers either way c teir and b teir candy bars Sarah?, I mean I don’t know if Jacob is allergic to peanuts if so she should have givdn Hershey bar or Skittles or Hershey white chocolate!

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      April 7, 2024 at 1:34 pm | #

      Crunch bar top tier, but it’s shaped wrong. Could be a payday, bottom tier unless it’s chocolatey payday, but the wrapper’s different.

      Probably a fictional candy bar made by Nachito-Bray’s.

      • UrsulaDavina
        UrsulaDavina
        April 8, 2024 at 9:03 am | #

        Crunch is made by Nestle which should actually put it at f teir really

  36. Ray
    Ray
    April 7, 2024 at 1:24 pm | #

    Mentos (well, Foo-tos, actually) only applies if Dave Grohl is at the door

    • M!a
      M!a
      April 8, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

      …the FRESHfightahhh!

  37. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    April 7, 2024 at 4:52 pm | #

    Can’t wait for the day Sarah see Jacob and Lucy hanging out together. Her reaction could be very interesting.

    • Mturtle7
      Mturtle7
      April 7, 2024 at 10:05 pm | #

      “I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT!! IT’S ALL A CONSPIRACY!!! YOU’RE ALL COLLUDING, CONSPIRING, TOGETHER TO TRICK ME INTO BECOMING A BETTER PERSON!! WELL IT WON’T WORK, DO YOU HEAR ME?! NEVERRRRRRRRRRRR”*runs off into the distance*
      Jacob: “…”
      Lucy: “…”
      Jacob(whispering): “…How the hell did she KNOW?!”
      Lucy: “We’ll have to break out the big guns. Prepare the memory-wiping device.”

  38. CianM1301
    CianM1301
    April 7, 2024 at 5:06 pm | #

    The important thing is she’s trying.

  39. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    April 7, 2024 at 9:16 pm | #

    It has been far too long since we have seen Riley in a comic here, 2016 to be precise and 2013 the time before. We need another Dina/Riley comic with Becky thrown in for good measure since she and Dina are a thing now. Everybody eating cereal because cereal is the perfect food.

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