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But appropriately enough I just realised that the final half-panel should itself be horizontally reversed, otherwise Billie’s doing a double take at something that actually isn’t Sal.
People can look surprisingly far over their shoulders with just a small turn of their heads, which I explained in a similar DOA occurrence. And she’s turned about 90 degrees, so that’s plenty.
From English: the plot is always weirder on the other side of the fence
To Arabic: الأرض دائماً أغرب على الجانب الآخر من السياج
Back to English: The Earth is always a stranger on the other side of the fence
To Bulgarian: Земята винаги е непознат от другата страна на оградата
Back to English: The Earth is always a stranger on the other side of the fence
To Chinese Simplified: 地球始终是一个陌生人在栅栏的另一边
Back to English: Is always a stranger in the Earth on the other side of the fence
To Czech: Vždy je cizinec v zemi na druhé straně plotu
Back to English: It is always a stranger in the land on the other side of the fence
To Chinese Traditional: 它始終是一個陌生人在柵欄的另一邊的土地
Back to English: It is always a stranger in the land on the other side of the fence
To French: C’est toujours un étranger dans la terre de l’autre côté de la clôture
Back to English: It is always a stranger in the Earth on the other side of the fence
To Estonian: Alati on võõras maa teisel pool tara
Back to English: It is always a stranger in the land on the other side of the fence
To German: Es ist immer ein Fremder im Land auf der anderen Seite des Zauns
Back to English: It is always a stranger in the land on the other side of the fence
the problem with the translation is that it’s translating plot as in a piece of land and not as the driving force of a story. To get the correct translation you’ll have to substitute plot simply for story, and then the translation will come out better. This is the main problem when you try to translate English into other languages. we have too many meanings for one word.
Incidentally, I believe the original english IS about a plot of land. I think it is supposed to be a physical metaphor about how the land appears differently from the other side of a fence, as opposed to standing in your plot and looking to the other side. It just seems like it should be a story plot because we’re reading a comic, so it doesn’t feel as relevant the other way, but it actually makes just as much sense. It’s about not being able to see in the other person’s shoes (from their POV) thus causing a distortion in perception.
Only if this is real life and not a work of visual fiction, in which stage-left and stage-right will suffice in situations in which a camera angle flip would cause confusion or a head turn would obscure an important facial expression.
Good point, except you already broke convention by reversing the angle of view! Last time we saw Blaine he was running stage right, and now he’s running stage left!!
Altough right now that means the villain (Blaine) is on stage left so I’ll let this reversal stand.
The 180 degree rule only applies within a scene (and in some cases only within a shot-to-shot transition). By going back to the inside of the room for the Walkerton family bit, Willis reset his angle.
But even so, the time we see Blaine immediately prior to this is in one of those “buffer” angles mentioned in the wiki article. So there’s both a scene in the middle and a helper transition. You know, doubling up just to be safe.
When I do a WTH take, I don’t continue to stare at the target,
I kinda look away (politely) to not alert the target that I’m gawking
at them. I can do an eye-roll discreetly. That’s what I figured she did.
Other possible answers:
– There is a mirror on the opposite wall
– Billie didn’t realize she was looking the wrong way until an unseen next panel
– Billie is actually staring a startling event in the dorm across from Sal’s
– Billie can turn her head in a full circle, like the owl do
I suppose Willis could have drawn that panel from Sal’s side of the hall, but then everybody would be wondering why Billie changed directions. It’s kind of a no-win.
I didn’t like that, because I wanted to keep consistent the energy and momentum of the action lines. It would cloud what is otherwise a very simple idea. One girl sees another, they have mirrored reactions. Orchestrating the strip like a stage play was way more preferable than a technically-accurate quagmire.
did you also intentianally have them run in the counter-progress direction?
(to the left = against the progression of the panels = not advancing the story, according to what I learned from David Morgan-Mar’s interpretation of Herge)
I read it as Billie looking vaguely backwards in thoughtful reflection of what she’d just glimpsed, as opposed to looking left or right in particular. Plus at the speed they’re currently going, Sal wouldn’t be so much to the left or right as simply ‘behind’ by the time we got to panel 5, and if Sal took as much as a single step out unto the hall to watch them go, then looking backwards over either shoulder would be equally effective.
Can I just point out how idiotic “rate of speed” is?
Rate is best defined as the change of a value over time. Speed is how fast something is going, or, if you wish to get technical, the rate of distance over time. If you have a rate of speed it means your speed is altering, so you are accelerating faster or slower.
I almost invariably hear this phrase used to refer to a static value of velocity. In your comment in particular, you detail a rate of a rate of a rate. /pedantism
But assuming the Rate is Zero it doesn’t change. Rate of speed is technically correct so long as we assume the rate is zero. Of course there’s no proof Billie is not accelerating and descelerating around corners or some shiz.
The real challenge is that you always start at the cover page. Then you have to hit the comment link, read the comic, and type something out. I missed top comment a couple times because of difficulties hitting the comment link.
I’ve managed a couple times, but I seem to recall it taking at least a couple nights before I was fast enough to get them in. And getting both it and Shortpacked’s firsts is almost impossible.
No you are doing it all wrong. You need to go INTO the doors of various rooms then come out of the doors of other rooms then go back into another room then come out with Blaine chasing Billie, then go into a new one, then come out with Blaine and Billie running from Mike etc.
And then one time you come out with Blaine chasing Billie before you realize they messed up and Billie turns around and starts chasing him again. Finally they will all continue to run through doors long after Blaine is gone.
Mike will appear around a corner and trip Blaine, which will cause Billie to crash into him and Sal to crash into Billie. And then maybe a few more, because hey, how often do you get to be in a person pile up?
Man I’m tired, had to read the first panel a few times to realize it said “painless” not “pantless” Then again, since Sal WASN’T wearing pants for that scene…
Later: while on her way to her hair appointment, Sal “accidentally” rams her motorcycle into Blaine. Bilie and Ruth jump on and the three ride off into the sunset.
Well, he is probably not bad looking and eager to please, so it’s no surprise that he _gets_ girlfriends. The surprise would be if he was able to keep the relationship going!
I so want to see Sal take off behind Billie, ripping off her Catholic school uniform in motion, revealing her tank top and rolled up motorcycle pants on underneath. Ready for action!
“I so want to see Sal take off behind Billie, ripping off her Catholic school uniform in motion, revealing her I AM BOSS singlet and Applejack undies.”
“I so want to see Sal take off behind Billie, ripping off her Catholic school uniform in motion, revealing her “One Direction” singlet and Applejack undies.”
DOUBLE FIXED.
“I so want to see Sal take off behind Billie, ripping off her Catholic school uniform in motion, revealing her birthday Hello kitty sports bra and applejack undies, as she forgot that she did not dress and layers.”
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Does anyone else think that Blaine looks kind of like one of those newfangled fast zombies in panel two? Meanwhile, in panel three, we have action-hero!Billie.
Back in MY day, zombies were slow, but didn’t actually say anything, instead they just moaned incoherently and ate any flesh or organs they could, not just brains.
I count George A. Romero’s stuff as “my day” despite not being born yet when his first couple Dead films came out.
Well in MY day zombies were people that had heavily drugged by Voodoun witch-doctors, buried alive, and dug up to become slaves of the aforementioned witch-doctors.
Huh, it occurs to be that Mike actually know what Blaine is like, what with him going to high school with Amber in this universe, so him joining the chase might actually make more sense than him doing so just to be an ass.
Panel 1: Sal giving chase.
Panel 2: A nameless foot sticking out the door, catching Blaine; far side of the panel are the stairs.
Panel 3: Everyone falling past Amber, who repeats the “What the hell?”
Panel 4: Mike placing a hand on Amber’s shoulder, saying “No nickel this time. He had this coming.”
Day after tomorrow:
Panel 1: Blaine, Billie, and Sal landing in a heap at the foot of the stairs, birdies circling their heads.
Panel 2: Amber’s mom and Joe’s dad show up.
Panel 3: ???
Panel 4: PROFIT!
Eh, I don’t know. My instinct is that Richard can take him in a fight, especially if he’s injured/disoriented, but I don’t think it would be good for Stacy to interact with Blaine.
Don’t think that time with parents was painless as possible for Sal, though she may want to believe that. Looks like she has some hurt she would like to share with Blaine or any random stranger.
Cops are overgrown children cosplaying War, with all the rest of us forced into their stupid, childish game without our consent, consuming vast funds from the public treasury and ruining lives by the hundreds of thousands.
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Jonathan Joss being shot outside his home while protecting his husband after being sent a threatening and distressing package is WHY we need Pride
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This is why we march and why we fight
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the targets that have been on the same side as white liberals from the jump.
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…what the hell?
…what the hell?
…what the hell?
http://5sgif.me/18Swvn2
וואָס די גענעם?
Hmm, seems it’s not that easy to provoke right-to-left input mode any more.
But appropriately enough I just realised that the final half-panel should itself be horizontally reversed, otherwise Billie’s doing a double take at something that actually isn’t Sal.
She’s looking out at the reader. It’s called “breaking the fourth wall”.
No, she’s not.
No, that would make her be suddenly running the opposite direction.
People can look surprisingly far over their shoulders with just a small turn of their heads, which I explained in a similar DOA occurrence. And she’s turned about 90 degrees, so that’s plenty.
Da heck?
?lleh eht tahw…
What the hell…?
WHAT…
THE…
HELL!!!
What the bongo…?!
怎么FUCKING了？！
Is that a proposition?
Nah, it’s basically “WTF” except done part in English part in Chinese.
*waves wands* Tahw Eht Lleh!
Hell the what!
The What Hell!?
No, no, this is the Who Hell. You need to go downstairs.
What about the I Don’t Know Hell?
Nanda korya…?
*Kernator gets hit with green slime*
twat the fuck?
The hell you say?
The hell what?
“WTH?”
“What the hell does WTH stand for?!”
“What the hell.”
“Oh, right.”
THERE’S ONLY ONE JENNIFER BILLINGSWORTH!
One Billie to rule them all!
ʍɥɐʇ ʇɥǝ ɥǝןן¿
You win!
SIERRA AVATAR FLOOD!
Oh wait, that didn’t post where I expected it to. Disregard.
Yr hyn y mae’r uffern?
What in the heck?
Heck in the what?
what what?
In the butt
Avatar win!
Heck in the hell
Hell’s bells quell gel!
…hell the what?
¿Qué C_r_j_s?
¿Qué demonios?
Que porra é essa?
From English: the plot is always weirder on the other side of the fence
To Arabic: الأرض دائماً أغرب على الجانب الآخر من السياج
Back to English: The Earth is always a stranger on the other side of the fence
To Bulgarian: Земята винаги е непознат от другата страна на оградата
Back to English: The Earth is always a stranger on the other side of the fence
To Chinese Simplified: 地球始终是一个陌生人在栅栏的另一边
Back to English: Is always a stranger in the Earth on the other side of the fence
To Czech: Vždy je cizinec v zemi na druhé straně plotu
Back to English: It is always a stranger in the land on the other side of the fence
To Chinese Traditional: 它始終是一個陌生人在柵欄的另一邊的土地
Back to English: It is always a stranger in the land on the other side of the fence
To French: C’est toujours un étranger dans la terre de l’autre côté de la clôture
Back to English: It is always a stranger in the Earth on the other side of the fence
To Estonian: Alati on võõras maa teisel pool tara
Back to English: It is always a stranger in the land on the other side of the fence
To German: Es ist immer ein Fremder im Land auf der anderen Seite des Zauns
Back to English: It is always a stranger in the land on the other side of the fence
(via Bad Translator)
^How to have fun with Babelfish.
Close, but I actually used this: http://ackuna.com/badtranslator
Actual simplified Chinese:
情节在篱笆的另一边就更奇怪。
Or pretty close to that, anyways. “Plot at the fence’s other side is even stranger.”
the problem with the translation is that it’s translating plot as in a piece of land and not as the driving force of a story. To get the correct translation you’ll have to substitute plot simply for story, and then the translation will come out better. This is the main problem when you try to translate English into other languages. we have too many meanings for one word.
Incidentally, I believe the original english IS about a plot of land. I think it is supposed to be a physical metaphor about how the land appears differently from the other side of a fence, as opposed to standing in your plot and looking to the other side. It just seems like it should be a story plot because we’re reading a comic, so it doesn’t feel as relevant the other way, but it actually makes just as much sense. It’s about not being able to see in the other person’s shoes (from their POV) thus causing a distortion in perception.
Heal the vat?
Wet the hall.
Ew.
Clean that up
or I’ll tell Ruth!
Value added tax doesn’t heal, sorry.
…what the dilliyo?
Looks like they’re both surprised by those speed lines!
What what the the hell hell?
Aeeh hhl lttW
Whiskey
Tango
Hotel?
The Hell! What?
Ne oluyor?
This has to be the most eventful visiting day in the school’s history.
Nah, they’re all like this. Its rather tame this time around.
Ruth did warn them…
Yeah, last time the school was attacked by British ninjas!
Not to mention the time they were attacked by those turnip monsters.
Damn turnips… I’ll never forgive them.
…at least they were tastier than the artichoke/prune hybrid monster.
…and then there was the year with the fresh-water sharknado.
Funny, I thought Jason was older then a Sophomore.
A visiting day without at least three deaths is considered a dull affair.
Mine had 12
GET ‘IM, BILLIE!
GO GET HIM SAL!!!!!
That’s what I was thinking. He needs a Sal beat down.
What the hell?
Isn’t Billie’s head turning the wrong way for looking back at Sal?
Yes but would you really want to see only the back of her head?
Only if this is real life and not a work of visual fiction, in which stage-left and stage-right will suffice in situations in which a camera angle flip would cause confusion or a head turn would obscure an important facial expression.
Willis-Sensei hath spoken!
That’s kami Willis for you, punk.
Super Kami Willis
I AM AN ADULT!!!!
-Super Kami Willis
I kneel corrected.
Now off to stand under a frigid waterfall to wash away my transgression -_-
Does that make us ALL Nale?
well Willis keeps on hurting us but we still stay with him so yeah
*Nail.
…and only the ones that aren’t “Little Green” instead.
If I’m Nale, who is planning on ripping my arm off…repeatedly…while making horrible puns.
We can’t be Nale.
Willis hasn’t taught us in the old ways.
How old are the old ways? Roomies! is old. Truly we ARE all Nail/Nale/Nayul/Naiel.
NAAAAIIIIIIILLLL! I see a bird. It is pretty. … … … kick it’s ass.
Kami-nii-san!
He’s the god of conquest?!?! I have even more respect now!
Super Kami Willis, to be exact. Lord Super Kami Willis.
Willis has the glasses but until he gets himself a beret, he hasn’t truly earnt the suffix of -sensei. *nods sagely*
What would he be if he got a top hat?
Abraham Lincoln??
Nah. Stovepipe hats and top hats aren’t the same thing.
An honorable gentleman, of course.
Lord master of the Universe?
Good point, except you already broke convention by reversing the angle of view! Last time we saw Blaine he was running stage right, and now he’s running stage left!!
Altough right now that means the villain (Blaine) is on stage left so I’ll let this reversal stand.
Maybe he turned a corner?
Well, they are in the men’s wing now so that extremely likely.
that’s, not that
The 180 degree rule only applies within a scene (and in some cases only within a shot-to-shot transition). By going back to the inside of the room for the Walkerton family bit, Willis reset his angle.
Yeah, suddenly everyone thinks they know what the 180 rule is.
More accurately, everyone has access to Wikipedia and can get a general sense of the “rule” in 30 seconds.
Perhaps they should be better at diagnosing it, then!
How about we understand that it would not be as interesting if we only saw the back of her face.
Oh! I am sorry! I thought you were saying that in response to Kurai’s claim that you don’t need to keep the same angle across scene changes.
I didn’t follow the chain of comments well enough and got all jumpy to be smug.
Oh, no, Kurai is very correct.
But even so, the time we see Blaine immediately prior to this is in one of those “buffer” angles mentioned in the wiki article. So there’s both a scene in the middle and a helper transition. You know, doubling up just to be safe.
I dunno. Something almost 6 times Rule 34 has to be pretty freaky.
That’s not how it works. Instead, it’s Rule 34 factorial, divided by 2066629593277228985933330267504640000000.
So would this be a reverse cut or not? And are reverse cuts considered to be jumping the line?
(I was only introduced to the concept of the 180 degree rule recently thanks to Multiplex. So apologies for my cluelessness. ×-×)
Wouldn’t really confused me if you flipped that panel to make it clear Billie’s looking right. That said, I’m sure it would confuse someone.
And having said that. I didn’t even notice amisss with the final panel anything until it was pointed out.
that should be -anything amiss-
Crap, my typing is terrible today
When I do a WTH take, I don’t continue to stare at the target,
I kinda look away (politely) to not alert the target that I’m gawking
at them. I can do an eye-roll discreetly. That’s what I figured she did.
If you flip the panel, it looks like she’s running the opposite direction suddenly. That’s a huge-ass no-no.
You’re thinking three dimensionally. Don’t forget that Billi and Sal exsist in a two dimensional plane.
Except for Billie’s boobs. I don’t even think three dimensions can contain them!
Oh god, she’s breached the Fourth Wall Universe Containment System!
SHE KNOWS WE’RE HERE!
Time for SPC Foundation to step in?
SCP
S
C
P!!!!!
D’oh!
http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/10-30-a-m
Nah. The SPC would do just fine if you claimed that Blaine wasn’t human.
Where I am SPC is a popular brand of baked beans….
Other possible answers:
– There is a mirror on the opposite wall
– Billie didn’t realize she was looking the wrong way until an unseen next panel
– Billie is actually staring a startling event in the dorm across from Sal’s
– Billie can turn her head in a full circle, like the owl do
She’s not looking at Sal, but at us.
I suppose Willis could have drawn that panel from Sal’s side of the hall, but then everybody would be wondering why Billie changed directions. It’s kind of a no-win.
I think I probably would have gone with a “camera” down the hall ahead of the running folks some.
I didn’t like that, because I wanted to keep consistent the energy and momentum of the action lines. It would cloud what is otherwise a very simple idea. One girl sees another, they have mirrored reactions. Orchestrating the strip like a stage play was way more preferable than a technically-accurate quagmire.
did you also intentianally have them run in the counter-progress direction?
(to the left = against the progression of the panels = not advancing the story, according to what I learned from David Morgan-Mar’s interpretation of Herge)
I read it as Billie looking vaguely backwards in thoughtful reflection of what she’d just glimpsed, as opposed to looking left or right in particular. Plus at the speed they’re currently going, Sal wouldn’t be so much to the left or right as simply ‘behind’ by the time we got to panel 5, and if Sal took as much as a single step out unto the hall to watch them go, then looking backwards over either shoulder would be equally effective.
Pretty sure Billie has eyes on the back of her head.
PUT THOSE THIGHS TO WORK, BILLIE!
Who’s clapping?
These thighs were meant for chokin’ and that’s just what they’ll do. One of these days these thighs will have a choke hold on you.
And I will welcome that day….
Quickly Billie! Go for his neck! With your thighs!
Launch yourself horizontally at a faster rate of speed than you’re running!
Can I just point out how idiotic “rate of speed” is?
Rate is best defined as the change of a value over time. Speed is how fast something is going, or, if you wish to get technical, the rate of distance over time. If you have a rate of speed it means your speed is altering, so you are accelerating faster or slower.
I almost invariably hear this phrase used to refer to a static value of velocity. In your comment in particular, you detail a rate of a rate of a rate. /pedantism
But assuming the Rate is Zero it doesn’t change. Rate of speed is technically correct so long as we assume the rate is zero. Of course there’s no proof Billie is not accelerating and descelerating around corners or some shiz.
Billie why are you looking away from Sal
You are not versed in the art of turnways sprite flipping
4 comments already? Wow you guys are mental!
10 by the time I posted that.
It’s futile to keep up.
*self-disintegrates*
It’s past fifty already.
That’s why I just wait until morning. It’s easier that way.
I am dyslexic of borg. Fusistance is retile. Your ass will be laminated!
If DoA didn’t have at least a dozen comments within two minutes of the latest comic appearing, chances are there was some kind of ISP issue.
DoA comments are like a clock. You can tell time by them.
Not really. Some days the comments are WAAAAAAAAAY more flooded by the 30 minute mark.
True. But then, sometimes clocks do run fast . . . : )
Sometimes the comments just stop for several minutes.
makes you wonder about the kind of people who are able to get first comment
I’ve gotten it probably 5 times.
I think I got three in a row once.
I have had being the first commenter on DoA a number of times over the years and when it happens, I am always surprised.
Jen Aside gets like 30%.
Clearly, Jen Aside chose Lightning Reflexes at some point.
I will get 1st comment some day. O yes!
You need to be able to post as soon as it becomes 00:01 NY time but whatever you do, don’t post “FIRST” or Willis will erase that shite.
I live in GA so it goes up right at midnight (give or take a minute)
The real challenge is that you always start at the cover page. Then you have to hit the comment link, read the comic, and type something out. I missed top comment a couple times because of difficulties hitting the comment link.
I’ve managed a couple times, but I seem to recall it taking at least a couple nights before I was fast enough to get them in. And getting both it and Shortpacked’s firsts is almost impossible.
Getting first on Shortpacked is worthless in the new comment system.
That is at least one major plus.
Removing that one guy who always tries to show up and yell nothing but FIRST! is something I can live with not doing ever.
Billie taking time out to notice Sal’s odd attire. Love it, even if looking wrong way
Ruth: “Note to self; get myself a Catholic schoolgirl uniform”.
Catholic School Girls Rule
I noticed that she was using a door :O
No you are doing it all wrong. You need to go INTO the doors of various rooms then come out of the doors of other rooms then go back into another room then come out with Blaine chasing Billie, then go into a new one, then come out with Blaine and Billie running from Mike etc.
COTD^^^^
(for now anyway…)
And then one time you come out with Blaine chasing Billie before you realize they messed up and Billie turns around and starts chasing him again. Finally they will all continue to run through doors long after Blaine is gone.
Scoobydoobidoo!!!!
All the while the Benny Hill music is played in the background.
That’s Boots Randolph’ “Yakety Sax”, Benny Hill just borrowed it.
OH MY GOD! ITS GOING IN THE ORDER!
First Ruth, then Billie, now Sal….
IS MIKE GONNA JOIN THIS CHASE?
In all seriousness that outfit would look a lot better in every other color but that green.
Mike will appear around a corner and trip Blaine, which will cause Billie to crash into him and Sal to crash into Billie. And then maybe a few more, because hey, how often do you get to be in a person pile up?
And then he’ll reveal he greased the floors leading up to the stairs and they all slide down.
I’m missing something… What order?
Final Destination.
Mike will appear with a boom box and follow them around playing Yackety Sax.
OkamiKing: here is some different colours for Sal’s uniform.
Sorry about the low rez of it.
Billie didn’t realize that Billie was Amazi-Girl all along.
…How did Billie hide it from Billie? They always hang out!
I don’t know why, but when I read your comments, I imagined that one of Billie’s breasts was Amazi-Girl, and was hiding it from the other breast.
…My mind is a very weird place.
Gives a whole new meaning to “calm your tits”.
Yeah, and besides, Billie has to live with herself. I imagine that’d make keeping the secret difficult.
Billie must have one hell of a bra to be running that fast with boobs that big and a shirt that low cut and NOT be highly uncomfortable.
She was a cheerleader! She’s equipped for it.
Sports bras are known to be very good at keeping chest-puppies to behave themselves after all.
Sports bras are not that low cut.
She orders them custom-made.
Her shirt is actually made of reinforced polymourized steel.
I thought it was a gold-titanium alloy?
Unstable Molecules™
Man I’m tired, had to read the first panel a few times to realize it said “painless” not “pantless” Then again, since Sal WASN’T wearing pants for that scene…
Billie’s Freshman Fifteen is lookin’ more like twenty or thirty.
Blaine better watch out. Her center of gravity’s getting lower with every passing second.
Damn inflation. In my day it was only the Freshman Ten.
That 3rd panel shows Bilie’s curves realy well. :9
Her legs are bigger than Blaine’s O_O
Yup
Well, she had instructions to crush him between her monster thighs, and it would appear that she is in the process of conjuring them up.
“I picked a bad time to stop drinking.”
“…and even a worse time to give up glue-sniffing”.
But it’s an especially bad time to quit drinking bleach.
Its all about dry erase markers. Who needs brain cells?
Don’t forget about the amphetamines!
Later: while on her way to her hair appointment, Sal “accidentally” rams her motorcycle into Blaine. Bilie and Ruth jump on and the three ride off into the sunset.
Man, now I want to see a picture of the three of them on her bike, riding into the sunset.
The sunset is upset at being left out and also hops on.
Yotomoe? You’re being paged …
I would also be confused by such events had they been out context…Though I still lact some context for Sal’s.
Cue Billie crashing hard into the wall at the end of the hallway because she’s not paying attention.
Or falling over Mike’s leg.
Mike is actually nowhere near there. His leg just appears where people are not paying attention.
Mike’s “leg” appeared inside your mom for a nickel
Mike sets various traps throughout the halls just in case someone runs through them.
Needs moar Yakety Sax!
New COTD^^^^
YOU COTD WHORE!
I THOUGHT WE HAD SOMETHING SPECIAL!
Oh noes. Mike’s gonna kick my ass.
*runs i the opposite direction*
While you are running you should play yakety sax in the background
Does COTD = Catch Of The Day??
*stops running*
Comment of the Day
*resumes running*
3 out of 4 ain’t bad!
Yakety Sax improves everything
Even funerals!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS7XZv_VOP8 Indeed it does.
Lots of plot events probably look or sound weird out of context.
Like Walky having a girlfriend. Even his mom can’t believe it!
Walky with a girlfriend is weird even in context
Dina avatar!
Truly the best avatar.
RR, did you create/modified that Dina grav yourself?
nope, Willis just posted it on his tumbler and I couldn’t resist Dina in a feathered dino costume
I dig it.
Are you saying that you like the avatar, or are you just really into boners?
Not as weird as Danny with a girlfriend.
Nah, he gets girlfriends with some regularity. It’s him not being a whiny douche that’s weird.
Well, he is probably not bad looking and eager to please, so it’s no surprise that he _gets_ girlfriends. The surprise would be if he was able to keep the relationship going!
He threw a toy at her head. Of COURSE they ended up being together! How could they not?
I so want to see Sal take off behind Billie, ripping off her Catholic school uniform in motion, revealing her tank top and rolled up motorcycle pants on underneath. Ready for action!
“I so want to see Sal take off behind Billie, ripping off her Catholic school uniform in motion, revealing her I AM BOSS singlet and Applejack undies.”
FIXED!
“I so want to see Sal take off behind Billie, ripping off her Catholic school uniform in motion, revealing her “One Direction” singlet and Applejack undies.”
DOUBLE FIXED.
“I so want to see Sal take off behind Billie, ripping off her Catholic school uniform in motion, revealing her birthday Hello kitty sports bra and applejack undies, as she forgot that she did not dress and layers.”
Had to look up applejack undies. Pro: my comment was definitely FIXED! Con: can’t unsee the pony porn…
I want to see Yotomoe draw that!
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tank top and rolled up motorcycle pants on underneathAmazigirl costume. Ready for action!”>Fixed that for you!
Urgh, it is apparently too late at night for me to do html tags.
I want to see Sal wander off to boink Jason and only find out about Blaine later.
Does anyone else think that Blaine looks kind of like one of those newfangled fast zombies in panel two? Meanwhile, in panel three, we have action-hero!Billie.
Back in MY day Zombies were slow and said “Braaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnns”. Damn kids with their running Zombies and flyin’ machines.
Back in MY day, zombies were slow, but didn’t actually say anything, instead they just moaned incoherently and ate any flesh or organs they could, not just brains.
I count George A. Romero’s stuff as “my day” despite not being born yet when his first couple Dead films came out.
In my days zombies were black smurfs who went ‘GNAP!’
Well in MY day zombies were people that had heavily drugged by Voodoun witch-doctors, buried alive, and dug up to become slaves of the aforementioned witch-doctors.
Ditto in my day.
In my day, zombies didn’t exist! Back in my day, we had dinosaurs, and we LIKED ’em!
Also, there were no humans.
Who in the what now?
Blaine ( Biggest Dickius)
Billie ( Bata bongous Maximums)
*Blaine stops and hands out a business card* Blaine O’Malley, SOOOOPER asshole.
Pfffff Bigus Dickus~!
He has a wife, you know.
Her name is Incontinentia. Incontinentia Buttocks!
But wouldn’t that make the Billie the Coyote. I dont’ want to see her get flung into a wall.
Blaine (Bigot Dickiosaur)
SAL, QUICKLY
PURSUE THE SHITSTAINE
BE THE HERO
Be a hero, Sal! Make your parents see what a great person you’ve become
“SAL! Leave that poor man alone! Now we’ll see you later, we’re going to meet your brother’s girlfriend!”
Sal! Thank goodness, now she can “go get” Amazigirl, who will solve all this nonsense.
Huh, it occurs to be that Mike actually know what Blaine is like, what with him going to high school with Amber in this universe, so him joining the chase might actually make more sense than him doing so just to be an ass.
Oh don’t worry, it will always be because of both of those things.
Also, I paid him a nickel to join in earlier.
And here’s where the story lines start to intertwine!
Next strip:
Panel 1: Sal giving chase.
Panel 2: A nameless foot sticking out the door, catching Blaine; far side of the panel are the stairs.
Panel 3: Everyone falling past Amber, who repeats the “What the hell?”
Panel 4: Mike placing a hand on Amber’s shoulder, saying “No nickel this time. He had this coming.”
Day after tomorrow:
Panel 1: Blaine, Billie, and Sal landing in a heap at the foot of the stairs, birdies circling their heads.
Panel 2: Amber’s mom and Joe’s dad show up.
Panel 3: ???
Panel 4: PROFIT!
Eh, I don’t know. My instinct is that Richard can take him in a fight, especially if he’s injured/disoriented, but I don’t think it would be good for Stacy to interact with Blaine.
Which is exactly why Stacy and Blaine will interact.
Don’t think that time with parents was painless as possible for Sal, though she may want to believe that. Looks like she has some hurt she would like to share with Blaine or any random stranger.
Plot twist: Amazi-girl was Billie ALL ALONG, in a Fight Club-esque reveal.
Everyone keep referencing that movie. I guess I should watch it sometime.
If you’ve seen the references, you know everything you really need to know about it.
Maybe Billie is just looking off to one side to say check that no one is going to cross her path when she realizesthat was Sal.
At any rate when I saw this strip the 6 million $ man `running effect’ popped right into my head.
¿ןןǝɥ ןɐnʇɔɐ ǝɥʇ ʇɐɥʍ
This is LAPD, where in pro suit of the perk ,there is absolutely Noway he can get away now and wait…what in the blue hell was that
Kill HIM!!!