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October 2, 2026

Sign of

by David M Willis on May 29, 2025 at 12:01 am
  • 04 – The Only Exception
└ Tags: sarah

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  1. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    May 29, 2025 at 12:02 am | #

    see, Sarah GETS IT ^-^

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      May 29, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

      *plays “Relaxing on the Beach” from Sailor Moon CD on hacked muzak*

    • Shawn Levasseur
      Shawn Levasseur
      May 29, 2025 at 11:21 am | #

      It helps that Sara has recently “gotten it”, if you know what I mean.

  2. Nono
    Nono
    May 29, 2025 at 12:02 am | #

    I’ve never been so envious of a fictional character.

    • Banana Slamma
      Banana Slamma
      May 29, 2025 at 4:30 pm | #

      The pillows? The presumably good sex? Or is it that hard to take a morning off for yourself?

  3. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    May 29, 2025 at 12:02 am | #

    Its only depression if you sleep in everyday. All day. And do nothing else.

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      May 29, 2025 at 12:06 am | #

      Can confirm it’s true.

    • Runnick
      Runnick
      May 29, 2025 at 5:48 am | #

      It’s only depression if it comes from the Depression region, otherwise it’s just sparkly malaise.

      • Decidedly Orthogonal
        Decidedly Orthogonal
        May 29, 2025 at 9:32 am | #

        Mine’s gone flat.

        • Felian
          Felian
          May 29, 2025 at 2:31 pm | #

          same. post excertional malaise is NOT sparkly at all unfortunately.

  4. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    May 29, 2025 at 12:02 am | #

    I aspire to this level of cozy.

  5. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    May 29, 2025 at 12:03 am | #

    I maintain that there is no better feeling in the world than waking up thinking you have work or school, then realizing it’s a weekend/holiday and you can just roll over and go back to sleep.

    Pure bliss.

    • TheFlamingonator
      TheFlamingonator
      May 29, 2025 at 3:48 am | #

      Especially when you’ve had the “Late for school/work nightmare” before waking up

      • Wizard
        Wizard
        May 29, 2025 at 7:54 am | #

        Nothing more relaxing than waking up to remember that you actually quit that job twenty years ago.

      • better time
        better time
        May 29, 2025 at 9:47 am | #

        nope. noooooope. everytime when i have those, my heart rate skyrocks when i wake up, and when i realize i dont have to go ,i am way to shaken to get to sleep again. do not like that at all.

    • Daibhid C
      Daibhid C
      May 29, 2025 at 1:04 pm | #

      …except on those occasions when half an hour later you suddenly think “Nope, right the first time!”

      (Just me? Okay, then.)

    • Robin Sizemore
      Robin Sizemore
      May 30, 2025 at 9:21 am | #

      When we were young, my sister used to specifically request that she be woken up “on time” if there was a school delay or closure. She wanted to be able to think, “Ah, yes, I get to go back to sleep” and curl back under the blankets.

  6. Ray Radlein
    Ray Radlein
    May 29, 2025 at 12:03 am | #

    I SEE NO LIE HERE

    • StClair
      StClair
      May 29, 2025 at 12:38 am | #

      a lie-in, perhaps, but that’s different.

  7. Tim C
    Tim C
    May 29, 2025 at 12:05 am | #

    She’s not sleeping in really. She’s just finally… FINALLY! getting to relax and feel good and loved.

  8. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    May 29, 2025 at 12:06 am | #

    She speaks the truth!

  9. VolticEXE
    VolticEXE
    May 29, 2025 at 12:06 am | #

    Maybe its when you get older it feels bad, my weekend off work just ended & I spent one of the days doing nothing but SLEEP & I just felt horrible afterwards.

    • Clif
      Clif
      May 29, 2025 at 2:03 am | #

      The trick is to sleep until you wake up naturally and well rested.

  10. Taffy
    Taffy
    May 29, 2025 at 12:06 am | #

    I appreciate this nice, slow start to everyone’s day. No drama, no waking up and immediately worrying about some new nonsense, just characters waking up and getting ready for their day.

  11. BBCC
    BBCC
    May 29, 2025 at 12:08 am | #

    It’s all in the why’s, Sarah, all in the why’s.

    • ZombieKyrik
      ZombieKyrik
      May 29, 2025 at 4:06 am | #

      All in the wise? I didn’t realize you thought so highly of Sarah.

  12. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    May 29, 2025 at 12:09 am | #

    I can confirm that if you’re sleep deprived, sleeping in feels like heaven.

  13. IntangibleMatter
    IntangibleMatter
    May 29, 2025 at 12:13 am | #

    It feels fucking fantastic, which is why sometimes when I’m depressed I sleep in all day because then I don’t have to deal with the world or even get out of bed

    • 3oranges
      3oranges
      May 29, 2025 at 1:00 am | #

      Yeah, depressed people do it because it’s fantastic, at least for a couple days. Starts to feel awful after too many though.

    • Yeet
      Yeet
      May 29, 2025 at 8:19 am | #

      this is the thing with a lot of “depressed person things” and people mistake going easy on yourself for a bit for a particular symptom
      it’s not like taking a day off work means you have the flu but you’re probably gonna do that if you have the flu

  14. Vukodlak
    Vukodlak
    May 29, 2025 at 12:15 am | #

    Agreed

  15. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    May 29, 2025 at 12:15 am | #

    I don’t know why, when adult, I used to sleep with some pillows, specially between legs.

    • Queen Anthai
      Queen Anthai
      May 29, 2025 at 1:33 am | #

      Helps support your spine.

      • morleuca
        morleuca
        May 29, 2025 at 7:09 am | #

        Helps support your spine even better if there’s an anime hottie printed on the pillow.

    • Masumi
      Masumi
      May 29, 2025 at 3:11 am | #

      I like how this formulation seems to imply that you’re now no longer an adult.

      Teach me your secrets!

  16. Slartibeast Button, BIA
    Slartibeast Button, BIA
    May 29, 2025 at 12:16 am | #

    “My mind spun for a second before it drifted, and in that second I knew that of all pleasures—a drink of cold water when you are thirsty, liquor when you are not, sex, a cigarette after many days without one—there is none of them can compare with sleep. Sleep is best. . . .”

    ― Roger Zelazny, This Immortal

  17. jeffepp
    jeffepp
    May 29, 2025 at 12:17 am | #

    Maybe I should get a few more body pillows. Cheaper than another mattress topper, with more “texture”.

  18. EtchJetty
    EtchJetty
    May 29, 2025 at 12:20 am | #

    happy sarah comix. we see the smile 😀

  19. Quinn
    Quinn
    May 29, 2025 at 12:26 am | #

    If you have the privilege of sleeping in it’s truly a blessing. I love seeing Sarah genuinely happy.

  20. Ray
    Ray
    May 29, 2025 at 12:44 am | #

    She’s recharging from late night sexytimes…

  21. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    May 29, 2025 at 12:45 am | #

    but it’s barely the morning, still

  22. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    May 29, 2025 at 12:48 am | #

    It kinda looks like Tony’s room is the exact opposite in energy of Ruth’s room. Like the inverse of her room. The other side of the coin. I hope people get what I’m talking about. Try to find a strip in Ruth’s room. You’ll see.

  23. Aura
    Aura
    May 29, 2025 at 12:53 am | #

    This closely resembles my recent covid experience. I was sleeping in all day because I was too fatigued from being sick to do much else but it was ducking dantastic

  24. Kyulen
    Kyulen
    May 29, 2025 at 1:43 am | #

    I wouldn’t mind sleeping all day if I didn’t have anything else to do that day. But most days I have stuff to do.

  25. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    May 29, 2025 at 3:02 am | #

    She’s right, you know.

  26. Morhek
    Morhek
    May 29, 2025 at 3:06 am | #

    “Body…allergic…to…happiness…shutting down…”

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      May 29, 2025 at 6:03 am | #

      I used to feel like that before they gave me the right meds…

  27. foducool
    foducool
    May 29, 2025 at 3:30 am | #

    well lack of motivation to do anything is one of the symptoms of depression
    but you could also be a procrastinator lol

  28. Arianod
    Arianod
    May 29, 2025 at 3:34 am | #

    Hmm, yes, very wise.

  29. chuckroast
    chuckroast
    May 29, 2025 at 4:29 am | #

    Sarah is finally truly at peace. You love to see it.

  30. GUIGUI
    GUIGUI
    May 29, 2025 at 4:34 am | #

    It’s not a sign of depression, it’s a sign that YOU ARE GETTING OLD!

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      May 29, 2025 at 5:28 am | #

      She’s 20, I know people try to convince women that they’re “old” incredibly early, but surely that insanity hasn’t extended to 20yo’s, right?

      • FalPal
        FalPal
        May 29, 2025 at 8:09 am | #

        I think it’s more when you’re a kid you can pull an all nighter and be just fine the next day. That goes away so so fast 😭

        • Nymph
          Nymph
          May 29, 2025 at 12:49 pm | #

          Again, not by 20 surely? I have lifelong devastating insomnia, so I’ll admit I don’t know for sure what average people’s sleep is like in their 20s, but I feel like that kind of struggle happens a long while after 20.

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            May 29, 2025 at 12:53 pm | #

            Sarah’s a spry and spregged young woman of but twenty summers. She can sleep a couple of extra hours without crumbling to dust from age.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          May 29, 2025 at 12:52 pm | #

          I’m 32 and it hasn’t happened yet. Some people are weak and will not survive the winter.

  31. Florence
    Florence
    May 29, 2025 at 4:43 am | #

    Alright gang, this is a tough one but I know we can discourse this to at least 200 comments, I’ll start

    Sleeping face down? What weird behaviour! #cancelSarahforsleepingfacedown

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      May 29, 2025 at 5:18 am | #

      Even facetiously, I can’t muster up the slightest complaint about this strip. It’s just nice.

      • Florence
        Florence
        May 29, 2025 at 7:59 am | #

        *wearing a coaches outfit, throwing my hat on the ground in frustration*

        (It is nice)

    • ZombieKyrik
      ZombieKyrik
      May 29, 2025 at 5:24 am | #

      I sleep on my side, but if I’m halfway awake, and I can’t get back to sleep then I’ll rest on my front while I finish waking up.

      • morleuca
        morleuca
        May 29, 2025 at 7:12 am | #

        I have to keep moving all night or my body starts yelling at me and I get really warm and then everything aches all tbe next day

        • Florence
          Florence
          May 29, 2025 at 8:01 am | #

          This is me, I have to keep switching until I enter a sleepier mode

    • Aura
      Aura
      May 29, 2025 at 6:09 am | #

      I’d literally just opened this page and thought you know, it’s kind of nice seeing such a low comment count on this strip…

      • Florence
        Florence
        May 29, 2025 at 8:00 am | #

        I believe this comment section has the power to charge a rocket ship with the right discourse

    • Proto
      Proto
      May 29, 2025 at 9:39 am | #

      If that’s wrong, then baby I don’t wanna be right.

      • Florence
        Florence
        May 29, 2025 at 10:23 am | #

        What? How could you! #cancelProtoforalsosleepingfacedown

    • BorkBorkBork
      BorkBorkBork
      May 29, 2025 at 12:04 pm | #

      Horribly offended here that Sarah gets to sleep in. I didn’t get to sleep in, neither should she. Plus, DoA’s timescale means that she’ll be sleeping in for at least the first week or two of May, which is totally unfair.

      • Amelie Wikström
        Amelie Wikström
        May 29, 2025 at 12:37 pm | #

        Sarah’s new theme song: Wake Me Up When September Ends

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        May 29, 2025 at 12:48 pm | #

        But May is almost over already.

        • BorkBorkBork
          BorkBorkBork
          May 29, 2025 at 1:19 pm | #

          Dammit! Calendars, my old arch-nemesis!

          … June? Do we think she’ll be out of bed by mid-June?

          • ZombieKyrik
            ZombieKyrik
            May 29, 2025 at 1:29 pm | #

            Knowing this comic? Her getting out of bed might take until October.

    • Embe13
      Embe13
      May 29, 2025 at 2:39 pm | #

      slept on my stomach primarily till regularily sharing a bed with my wife. shifted to side sleeping on my left to take less space up (the wife barrel rolls in her sleep tking up less space meant less likely to be woken up by being rolled onto lol) a discovery of a 27degree curve to the left in my spine at 40 has meant learning to sleep on my right side or face the possibility of pain that requires iv morphine to handle (the paramedic shot me up with 2 doses of fentanyl and it did NOTHING) has been fun

  32. Yak
    Yak
    May 29, 2025 at 5:28 am | #

    Personally I get sick of it at about 10 AM no matter how little sleep I got the night before.

  33. Amelie Wikström
    Amelie Wikström
    May 29, 2025 at 6:05 am | #

    I believe people who aren’t depressed tend to get enough sleep on a regular basis, which makes them unable to sleep more even if they have an opportunity to do so.

    • Miri
      Miri
      May 29, 2025 at 8:03 am | #

      I have 3 kids… I don’t know how long it will take to catch up on my sleep deficits but given I still average fewer than 6 hours’ sleep a night it isn’t happening yet…

    • Proto
      Proto
      May 29, 2025 at 9:37 am | #

      Amateurs. The pro move is to simply go back to bed after you wake up the first time.

  34. Mel
    Mel
    May 29, 2025 at 8:43 am | #

    Sarah is discovering advanced perfect sleep (excess pillows, covers that smell like a person you find attractive, lack of need to go anywhere or do anything)

  35. Drainiest Drain
    Drainiest Drain
    May 29, 2025 at 8:55 am | #

    Common Sarah W

  36. Proto
    Proto
    May 29, 2025 at 9:35 am | #

    Hey, why not both? I’ve slept in too long and gotten depressed about it… then immediately pulled a full 180 and gone “but it did feel great though”

  37. Dana W
    Dana W
    May 29, 2025 at 9:40 am | #

    I have the kind of depression where you almost never sleep more than a few hours at a time. I’d kill for eight hours of uninterrupted sleep that didn’t involve major pharmaceuticals.

  38. Weepwop
    Weepwop
    May 29, 2025 at 9:56 am | #

    Joyce do you notice how Sarah isn’t claiming sex with a straight man was in any way queer

    • BorkBorkBork
      BorkBorkBork
      May 29, 2025 at 10:37 am | #

      Yeah, but probably because she and Tony had straight sex, not lesbian sex.

      • Weepwop
        Weepwop
        May 29, 2025 at 5:29 pm | #

        thats true one of them was a man

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      May 29, 2025 at 12:46 pm | #

      What a wild thing to have beef with.

      • Weepwop
        Weepwop
        May 30, 2025 at 9:07 am | #

        sorry straight people co opting queer language and labels to pretend their boring relationship is queer always gets my goat

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      May 29, 2025 at 12:56 pm | #

      Sarah’s not fully Up™ yet and Joyce is in another castle. Let’s not draw any unhinged or dangerous conclusions that will erode the foundations of society just yet.

    • Daibhid C
      Daibhid C
      May 29, 2025 at 1:01 pm | #

      You know who else didsn’t claimed that? The weatherman this morning. Of course, he also didn’t claim that lying in bed all day wasn’t a sign of depression. I mean, if we’re just randomly pointing out when people don’t say things other people said.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        May 29, 2025 at 1:24 pm | #

        Orson Bean has not once, in the course of this comic, claimed sex with a straight man was in any way clear. He didn’t say that.

        • Nymph
          Nymph
          May 29, 2025 at 1:45 pm | #

          He did, I saw it, you’ll never convince me otherwise.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      May 29, 2025 at 10:15 pm | #

      you understand the concept of a joke, yes?

      • Weepwop
        Weepwop
        May 30, 2025 at 9:03 am | #

        oh straight people were co opting queer language and identity as a joke, its fine then

  39. Andy
    Andy
    May 29, 2025 at 10:16 am | #

    Location, location, location. She may never leave Tony’s bed.

  40. tbf
    tbf
    May 29, 2025 at 12:23 pm | #

    Off topic, but with “TACO” trending in the news, it’s a good day to wear my butt taco shirt.

    • Embe13
      Embe13
      May 29, 2025 at 2:31 pm | #

      +1

  41. Some Guy
    Some Guy
    May 29, 2025 at 1:36 pm | #

    RIGHT???

  42. Felian
    Felian
    May 29, 2025 at 2:32 pm | #

    Sleeping in *for the joy of sleeping in* is healthy.

    Sleeping in *because nothing is worth being awake for anyways and life sucks* is depression.

    Been there. Am not there anymore. <3

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      May 29, 2025 at 4:01 pm | #

      Yay!

  43. Yeet
    Yeet
    May 29, 2025 at 5:03 pm | #

    why is nobody mad is this even the dumbing of age comments section
    I’ll do it myself man I’m getting the shakes
    “you’re all harmfully stereotyping depression and also infantalising other rachel” – Ess Trawman
    for real though, cute comic glad sarah is happy

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      May 29, 2025 at 7:45 pm | #

      If you want someone to get mad, just tell them you haven’t watched the same movies as them.

  44. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    May 29, 2025 at 5:31 pm | #

    Taking a rest, like a goddess deserves.

  45. Nymph
    Nymph
    May 29, 2025 at 10:58 pm | #

    If we hurry, we can push the comments over the 100 threshold.

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      May 29, 2025 at 11:32 pm | #

      Aaaaaah! Uh… what if Tony comes back and Sarah’s still in bed and he feels she’s lazy? Let’s speculate on that!

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      May 29, 2025 at 11:55 pm | #

      aaaaand this makes comment 100! ^-^

  46. Suet
    Suet
    May 30, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

    Bruno Mars called

    or was it Jason Mraz

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