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Unimpressed

by David M Willis on May 11, 2012 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - The First Step Towards Recovery
└ Tags: jennifer, sal

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  1. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    May 11, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    Hero worship ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, huh Sal?

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      May 11, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

      The only hero worth ‘worshipping’ has an assortment of tasty meats with a spict sauce in it.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      May 11, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

      To quote Patrick Star, “Hero worship is unhealthy. Come along Jeffrey.”

      • antiwesley
        antiwesley
        May 11, 2012 at 12:31 am | #

        “People who worship heroes must be prepared for disillusionment.” – Richard Conway, “Lost Horzion” (1973)

  2. Rognik
    Rognik
    May 11, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    Ooh, so close to that kiss!

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      May 11, 2012 at 12:12 am | #

      Yet so far.

  3. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    May 11, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    And stupid.

  4. SUTBEric
    SUTBEric
    May 11, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    [Freddie Mercury] So close…

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      May 11, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

      …I’m embarrassed to say this as a Queen fan, but what does this have to do with Freddie Mercury?

      • George
        George
        May 11, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

        It’s a meme.

        • Kernanator
          Kernanator
          May 11, 2012 at 12:09 am | #

          …You lost me.

          • luke
            luke
            May 11, 2012 at 12:31 am | #

            google so close meme, it uses an image of freddie

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        May 11, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

        Billie is a big-bottomed girl…

        • Kernanator
          Kernanator
          May 11, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

          I’m pretty sure that Billie is the only one that thinks she makes the world go round.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            May 11, 2012 at 12:09 am | #

            *strokes my chinny chin chin* True that…

      • abjuron
        abjuron
        May 11, 2012 at 12:09 am | #

        Don’t feel bad. I also love Queen, but had to turn to Google to crack this joke nut.

        It’s apparently a meme in the same ‘tracing’ graphic style as Barak Obama’s “Not Bad” and Yao Ming’s laugh face. I’d seen the image before, but never actually realized it was Freddy.

        • Kernanator
          Kernanator
          May 11, 2012 at 12:11 am | #

          Thank you for solving this mystery for me.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            May 11, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

            Google is your friend, a friend who knows more about you than even you do. BWAHAHAHAHA!

            • TheBenenator
              TheBenenator
              May 11, 2012 at 12:26 am | #

              This isn’t even a joke.

              • Yotomoe
                Yotomoe
                May 11, 2012 at 12:29 am | #

                spoken like a mike.

              • Plasma Mongoose
                Plasma Mongoose
                May 11, 2012 at 12:30 am | #

                I don’t know, I’m sure Google is laughing. 😀

  5. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    May 11, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    Sober up, get some mouthwash and maybe Sal will kiss ya, ya fool!

    • KresyAntics
      KresyAntics
      May 11, 2012 at 2:39 am | #

      I doubt it… That was a pretty effective crash-n-burn.

  6. Platypus
    Platypus
    May 11, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    Ladies and Gentlemen, launch the ships.

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      May 11, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

      Oh, they’ve been launched.

      • Ancestral Hamster
        Ancestral Hamster
        May 11, 2012 at 2:55 am | #

        And torpedos were launched right up the ships’ wakes. *BOOM*

    • Arkadi
      Arkadi
      May 12, 2012 at 10:09 am | #

      Loooong ago.

  7. Gundi
    Gundi
    May 11, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    And Willis just poured gasoline on the shipping fires…

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      May 11, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

      …and put the ships in danger.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      May 11, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

      Just poured gasoline? More like poured the gasoline, add the sawdust and handing the shippers a lit match.

      • SUTBEric
        SUTBEric
        May 11, 2012 at 12:25 am | #

        Willis erected a small volcano of shipping fire.

        • Raiser
          Raiser
          May 11, 2012 at 4:58 pm | #

          Not the only thing getting erected around ‘ere.

  8. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    May 11, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    Annnnnnd the ship hit an iceberg. X\

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      May 11, 2012 at 12:09 am | #

      For you maybe. For others, it’s just more fuel to the fire.

  9. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    May 11, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    It’s as if the cry of 1000 shippers suddenly flared up and was suddenly silenced.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      May 11, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

      I feel something. A feeling I have not felt since Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

      • Thor
        Thor
        May 11, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

        SNAPE KISSED DUMBLEDORE!

        • Kernanator
          Kernanator
          May 11, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

          Well played.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          May 11, 2012 at 12:19 am | #

          That pretty much confirms the Dumbledore is gay rumour.

          • TacosForever
            TacosForever
            May 11, 2012 at 1:23 am | #

            Rumor? JK Rowling confirmed it.

            • Aizat
              Aizat
              May 11, 2012 at 3:26 am | #

              Well, it started as a rumor.

            • Bluemario
              Bluemario
              May 11, 2012 at 2:37 pm | #

              Actually, it was “confirmed” by her after the excitement of the last movie, (the last object in the series), so it was quite obviously alot of pess-talk BS to pull more attention, getting her (JKR) more money for longer

              • David
                David M Willis
                May 11, 2012 at 2:54 pm | #

                Because characters are only gay for illegitimate reasons.

                • ASP3CT
                  ASP3CT
                  May 11, 2012 at 5:26 pm | #

                  Then you’re one hell of a bastard, Willis.

  10. Rayrayrave
    Rayrayrave
    May 11, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    So so close!

    • Darth
      Darth
      May 11, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

      And yet so far away.

  11. Leorale
    Leorale
    May 11, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    Panel 2 Billie is Pacman

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      May 11, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

      Instead of Pac-Man Pellets she Drinks Budweiser to power up!

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        May 11, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

        And when she drinks the big ones (Kegs),… she throws up.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          May 11, 2012 at 12:11 am | #

          I feel like it could be some sort of metaphor that drinking beer would assist your ability to swallow balls but I’m not quite clever enough to find asuiting way to phrase it.

          • Kernanator
            Kernanator
            May 11, 2012 at 12:12 am | #

            Instead of ghosts, they’re fratboys??

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              May 11, 2012 at 12:21 am | #

              Unlike in highschool, the fratboys tend to run away from her nowadays.

            • John42
              John42
              May 11, 2012 at 4:01 am | #

              Both of them wear white sheets

              • Khrene Cleaver
                Khrene Cleaver
                May 11, 2012 at 4:38 am | #

                The first thing that came to mind were the KKK, and not the frat group “Kappa Kappa Kappa”…

                • Historyman68
                  Historyman68
                  May 11, 2012 at 5:08 am | #

                  If it were Mario, it’d be Koopa Koopa Koopa?

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          May 11, 2012 at 12:12 am | #

          Thus driving away the ghosts of her high-school past.

          • Kernanator
            Kernanator
            May 11, 2012 at 12:17 am | #

            Oooh, that’s even better!

    • Jimbo
      Jimbo
      May 11, 2012 at 3:54 am | #

      that second panel…..

      I’m glad I’m not the only one who saw that!

    • ryan
      ryan
      May 11, 2012 at 8:33 am | #

      i was thinking domo

  12. Leorale
    Leorale
    May 11, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

    Hey, wait, Sal almost *liked* somebody?

    Well Sarah is never impressed with anyone, so maybe Sal will like her.

  13. Aizat
    Aizat
    May 11, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

    So close, yet so far.

  14. Nexev
    Nexev
    May 11, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

    I feel bad for Billie now.

  15. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    May 11, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

    I get it. Billie’s plan is to be so pathetic that she appeals to Sal’s nature as a superhero (I know she’s not Amazi-Girl. She’s still a superhero.), and her desire to care for and nurture others. Then: pity sex.

    It worked on Huntress once, really.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      May 11, 2012 at 12:11 am | #

      Pity sex? Isn’t that the goal of every so-called ‘nice-guy’?

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        May 11, 2012 at 12:13 am | #

        Hey, us nice-guys aren’t all perverted sex fiends, you know.

        • Kernanator
          Kernanator
          May 11, 2012 at 12:19 am | #

          Yeah, some of us are practically asexual!

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            May 11, 2012 at 12:26 am | #

            I think it would be better if all the decent guys abandon the term ‘nice-guy’ to describe themselves, it conjures up the image of a wishy-washy guy who hopes that by being the perfect male-girlfriend that she will reward him with her body one day.

            • Yotomoe
              Yotomoe
              May 11, 2012 at 12:28 am | #

              I’m an exemplary guy.

              • Plasma Mongoose
                Plasma Mongoose
                May 11, 2012 at 12:32 am | #

                See, isn’t that a lot better?

              • Groove
                Groove
                May 11, 2012 at 4:11 am | #

                I am a captain of manhood.

                • Yotomoe
                  Yotomoe
                  May 11, 2012 at 6:58 am | #

                  I’m the overlord of manliness.

                • Groove
                  Groove
                  May 11, 2012 at 10:18 am | #

                  A penile paragon.

                • Yotomoe
                  Yotomoe
                  May 11, 2012 at 8:57 pm | #

                  A paragon of the male pursuasion

                • Groove
                  Groove
                  May 12, 2012 at 5:38 am | #

                  I just realised that these are becoming increasingly great gay-porn-names.

                  I was going to be the cream of the cock…

            • Khrene Cleaver
              Khrene Cleaver
              May 11, 2012 at 5:06 am | #

              The terrible thing is that that image can be true(replace her body with whatever the nice guy is looking for.)

              The apparent wishy washy-ness came in (at least with me) in the form of not knowing when to advance, and trying to not push a girls boundaries, as intimate interactions are enjoyable and desirable, but you know the guy could not want to offend or feel like he’s pressuring her into something she’s not ready for.

              In short wishy washy comes from a guy trying to finding the fine line between being the macho man and doing as some gals want them to and assert themselves, but be respectful and courteous of her feelings.

              Now imagine going through that with someone who is as confused as like Billie about what they want… *Sigh*

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        May 11, 2012 at 12:13 am | #

        I think we nice guys would just like consensual hand holding. c:

      • Aegon01
        Aegon01
        May 11, 2012 at 12:25 am | #

        No, it’s just the only realistic one.

  16. Scoops!
    Scoops!
    May 11, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

    mmmwa

  17. Cholma
    Cholma
    May 11, 2012 at 12:11 am | #

    Come on, Sal! Billie’s just trying to “experiment in college”! Don’t let her down!

  18. Eri
    Eri
    May 11, 2012 at 12:15 am | #

    I thought Billie’s hair had become very long all of a sudden. Very confusing

  19. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    May 11, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

    We know what you must do Billie. Let your hair down, fake a southern accent, get a tan, a leather jacket, and a bike, and try to become Sal.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      May 11, 2012 at 12:20 am | #

      Ooooooh, nice. Psychological breakdown at its finest!

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        May 11, 2012 at 12:22 am | #

        Oh great, it’s Lesson Zero all over again.

        • Kernanator
          Kernanator
          May 11, 2012 at 12:38 am | #

          Oh come on, you know it would be hilarious. In a creepy sort of way.

          • Aizat
            Aizat
            May 11, 2012 at 1:01 am | #

            I’d pay to see Billie saying “Hi girls” in the most creepy fashion.

            • Gargamel
              Gargamel
              May 12, 2012 at 6:01 pm | #

              She can’t do it without a proper sal-skin-suit though.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      May 11, 2012 at 12:20 am | #

      Dude, that’s creepy.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        May 11, 2012 at 12:27 am | #

        So’s drunkedly tryin’ to make out with your bunkmate…who’s the twin sister of your childhood friend you’re trying to outgrow.

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          May 11, 2012 at 12:29 am | #

          Well, as they always say, if you don’t get the childhood friend, get his or her sister.

        • NCP19
          NCP19
          May 11, 2012 at 12:31 am | #

          I feel like you’re making some kind of psychological point but I’m just not seeing it…XD

    • GenericScreenName101
      GenericScreenName101
      May 11, 2012 at 2:52 am | #

      *pushes up thick rimmed nerd glasses* you forgot that she needs to also get a tatoo. *walks away to grab personalized TI-88 and awaits a ride from mother who is now either one nickle richer/poorer but sexually satisfied*

  20. SkepticJ
    SkepticJ
    May 11, 2012 at 12:31 am | #

    I love that Billie has a picture of herself in her cheerleading uniform on the wall.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      May 11, 2012 at 12:33 am | #

      it’s in yesterday’s comic too. I’m surprised how few people noticed.

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        May 11, 2012 at 12:40 am | #

        To be fair, it’s a bit more prominent in this one.

      • SkepticJ
        SkepticJ
        May 11, 2012 at 1:47 am | #

        I didn’t even notice it from yesterday. Now that I go back and look, I love it even more. I thought that the photo might have included the other cheerleaders on her squad, but it is so much funnier as a solo pic.

  21. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    May 11, 2012 at 12:51 am | #

    Love the last panel, ‘Fwump’. Wonder if Billie will wake up on the floor. Not to suprizing she has a picture of self in cheer leading costume on the wall-she’s frozen in high school mode. I really hope she moves on. There is hope, other characters have grown, why not her.

    • Sensedog
      Sensedog
      May 11, 2012 at 1:08 am | #

      Alcoholism, arrogance, and a desperate desire to be popular. That would be why. I hope that she can have an epiphany about her problems, but in her case she might do more damage to herself before that ever happens.

      • TacosForever
        TacosForever
        May 11, 2012 at 1:29 am | #

        To be fair, she’s only been in college for like…a week? One could argue that the other characters have grown very fast. Mm, comic time.

        • Sensedog
          Sensedog
          May 11, 2012 at 11:24 pm | #

          I cannot disagree. However, Billie in particular has been hammered, what, three or four times within the span of that first week? I would worry about what the first month or two could do to her if she doesn’t come to her senses.

          I actually enjoy the flow of time in this comic, since it makes it easier to track the overall passage of time in relation to the lives of the characters.

  22. david
    david
    May 11, 2012 at 1:00 am | #

    A thought – that face looks incredibly weird in panel 2, and now I can’t unsee it.

    • Jackson
      Jackson
      May 11, 2012 at 6:36 am | #

      haunted by Billie’s noseless visage for months

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      May 11, 2012 at 10:38 am | #

      Yeah, not the most flattering angle, is it? I’m not sure Willis has figured out how the rear three-quarters view works in his art style.

  23. Robert
    Robert
    May 11, 2012 at 1:17 am | #

    Okay now Faceplant! And……scene…

  24. TacosForever
    TacosForever
    May 11, 2012 at 1:27 am | #

    This reminds me way too much of the first time I got drunk. Except I didn’t attempt any random makeouts.

    This makes me wonder–how is Billie not better at holding her liquor at this point? Since I assume she was drinking all through high school.

    • Scoops!
      Scoops!
      May 11, 2012 at 1:30 am | #

      You didn’t try random makeouts? Then what’s the point?

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        May 11, 2012 at 7:01 am | #

        It’s like getting high and not eating all the cheezits.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      May 11, 2012 at 1:39 am | #

      Hey, we don’t know exactly how much Billie drank. All we know is that she was holding a bottle of something.

      • Sensedog
        Sensedog
        May 11, 2012 at 11:35 pm | #

        I would imagine that it is some form of hard liquor; I saw only the one bottle this time around, and it would take more than one beer to get Billie drunk at this point.

        …I shudder to think what something like Everclear would do to her, since she still doesn’t seem to know her own limits.

    • GenericScreenName101
      GenericScreenName101
      May 11, 2012 at 2:55 am | #

      So you dressed up in your hs cheerleader uniform when you got drunk for the 1st time eh. (Glad I aint the only one)

  25. Dahlia
    Dahlia
    May 11, 2012 at 1:54 am | #

    Sal is just too awesome to not love!

  26. Krashthemystro
    Krashthemystro
    May 11, 2012 at 2:19 am | #

    Fwump is my new favorite non-word.

  27. BigMadDraco
    BigMadDraco
    May 11, 2012 at 2:48 am | #

    Ah, so DoA Billy is bi as well.

  28. John42
    John42
    May 11, 2012 at 4:03 am | #

    So what do we call this ship exactly? Sallie or Bal?

    • Blue
      Blue
      May 11, 2012 at 4:17 am | #

      Why not Sillie?

      • Historyman68
        Historyman68
        May 11, 2012 at 5:26 am | #

        Ding ding we have a winner

  29. Osaru Sensei
    Osaru Sensei
    May 11, 2012 at 4:09 am | #

    Panel 2: ‘OH GOD HER NOSE WHAT HAPPENED TO HER NOSE’ was my reaction, pretty much

    • Jason
      Jason
      May 11, 2012 at 12:52 pm | #

      It’s like she suddenly became a “Starslip Crisis” character!

  30. TemplarKnight
    TemplarKnight
    May 11, 2012 at 5:02 am | #

    So close. . .

  31. Historyman68
    Historyman68
    May 11, 2012 at 5:27 am | #

    Sal continues to be my favorite person in the comic.

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      May 11, 2012 at 5:28 am | #

      Dammit, did I say Sal? I meant Billie. Really. Rillie.

      • Maycroft
        Maycroft
        May 11, 2012 at 6:06 am | #

        yeah Riiight

        • Historyman68
          Historyman68
          May 12, 2012 at 5:24 am | #

          No, I mean it! Billie is such a fuckup, she’s totally compelling

  32. Cadlington
    Cadlington
    May 11, 2012 at 7:45 am | #

    “And to top all that cool shit off, you don’t lose your nose in the second panel!”

  33. Keroshino
    Keroshino
    May 11, 2012 at 8:12 am | #

    panel 2. Billie looks like a muppet lol

    • Arkadi
      Arkadi
      May 12, 2012 at 10:06 am | #

      Scary.

  34. Gargamel
    Gargamel
    May 11, 2012 at 8:26 am | #

    I don’t actually think Billie actions were motivated by any attraction, she has serious issues if it only takes a disinhibitor to make her go from what sounds to me more like:
    “Why are you so cool?”
    to
    “I’ll give you anything to find out how you are so cool… ANYTHING!” *attempts kiss*

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      May 12, 2012 at 6:29 am | #

      That is how Madonna sucked out Britney and Christina Aguilera’s cool.

  35. ziggy78eog
    ziggy78eog
    May 11, 2012 at 9:34 am | #

    For shame, Sal, you do not let you room mate drop like that. You have to catch them.

    • Animal
      Animal
      May 11, 2012 at 10:55 am | #

      And kiss them.

      • Zap Rowsdower
        Zap Rowsdower
        May 11, 2012 at 2:56 pm | #

        Or draw silly things on their faces in permanent marker, depending.

        • Gargamel
          Gargamel
          May 12, 2012 at 5:38 pm | #

          That may still happen.

  36. Elricaltovilla
    Elricaltovilla
    May 11, 2012 at 3:50 pm | #

    Well this just adds more support to my personal ship of Everyone X Everyone and their mom (for a nickel)

    Thanks Willis!

  37. Zababcd
    Zababcd
    May 11, 2012 at 10:06 pm | #

    I knew it had to be there somewhere.

    • Zababcd
      Zababcd
      May 11, 2012 at 10:09 pm | #

      By which I mean that I rummaged through TVTropes for hours before finding the article I was looking for, but found it eventually.

  38. Mp
    Mp
    May 12, 2012 at 12:38 am | #

    haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate billie.

  39. L
    L
    May 12, 2012 at 5:36 pm | #

    SO I herd u like Sal…

    • Animal
      Animal
      May 12, 2012 at 9:54 pm | #

      Wait, what? There is a large grouping of some sort of ungulates, presumably attending some institute of higher education that is named for their aggregation – and Sal is somehow involved with this?

      So does this school – “Herd U,” you called it, presumably for “Herd University,” likes Sal? Well, who wouldn’t – but do they all like her? Students and faculty alike? I couldn’t blame them, but depending on the size of the university and the species of ungulates attending, it’s hard to credit such a universal level of approval.

  40. Zem
    Zem
    May 15, 2012 at 3:23 pm | #

    This is the magical parallel universe where Billie becomes a lesbian! WIIGII!

  41. DragoonChris
    DragoonChris
    May 21, 2012 at 12:18 pm | #

    Aww, so close.

    So what does Sal do late at night if she isn’t Amazi-Girl?

    • John
      John
      October 22, 2013 at 7:58 pm | #

      Marcie.

  42. Taigan
    Taigan
    June 29, 2013 at 9:44 pm | #

    O_o I don’t think I saw this strip the first time around.

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