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Worryin’

by David M Willis on September 29, 2014 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - When Somebody Loved Me
└ Tags: sal

Discussion (128) ¬

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  1. Camachri
    Camachri
    September 29, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    It’s okay Sal, Billie’s in good hands.

    • Emperor Kiva
      Emperor Kiva
      September 29, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

      And bed

      • David Herbert
        David Herbert
        September 29, 2014 at 3:14 am | #

        And bottle.

        Wait, maybe not that one.

    • Mr. Random
      Mr. Random
      September 29, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

      She’s in Ruthless hands.

      • MrSirk
        MrSirk
        September 29, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

        That actually wouldn’t sound very comforting if we didn’t have context.

        • Gadgeteer Smashwidget
          Gadgeteer Smashwidget
          September 29, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

          Honestly, it still isn’t very comforting.

        • Barrage7667
          Barrage7667
          September 29, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

          Given what people know about Ruth and Billie (for the most part) I honestly dont think that context would make them feel comforted either. Most public scenes involving ruth and billie were less than pleasant.

    • LeslieBean4Shizzle
      LeslieBean4Shizzle
      September 29, 2014 at 12:46 am | #

      Your hovertext is wonderful…

      • ed rhodes
        ed rhodes
        September 29, 2014 at 6:08 am | #

        I always forget about the hovertext until someone mentions it in the comments, thanks!

  2. otusasio451
    otusasio451
    September 29, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    As time passes, I find myself liking Sal more and more.

    • newllend
      newllend
      September 29, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      Eh she’s cool.

      • Rachel Roth
        Rachel Roth
        September 29, 2014 at 12:30 am | #

        DARN IT! WE NEED A LIKE BUTTON!

  3. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    September 29, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    Yeh, brain, don’ wanna lis’en.

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      September 29, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

      Sal’s clearly in a crazy dream–she went through a DOOR

      • sps48
        sps48
        September 29, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

        Obviously she’s in Girard’s fortress.

        • Catullus
          Catullus
          September 29, 2014 at 12:22 am | #

          Hell of a place to build a dorm.

      • J42
        J42
        September 29, 2014 at 1:41 am | #

        Glad I’m not the only one who noticed this

      • John
        John
        September 29, 2014 at 11:24 am | #

        She promised Billie!

  4. AHR
    AHR
    September 29, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    I relate with Sal’s brain.

  5. Cephalo the Pod
    Cephalo the Pod
    September 29, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Sal book?

  6. MrSirk
    MrSirk
    September 29, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Brains never do what you want them to.

  7. Wakeford
    Wakeford
    September 29, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    oh sal, you do care

  8. Jackson
    Jackson
    September 29, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Aw, she really does care.

  9. gaston
    gaston
    September 29, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    so does sal ship billie and walkie?

    maybe joyce is a lot more like sal than they both realize

    • newllend
      newllend
      September 29, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

      No, no they’re complete opposites like night and day.

      • scordo
        scordo
        September 29, 2014 at 12:43 am | #

        two sides of a coin. life and death. one cannot exist without the other. They are duality. They are… JOYCE AND SAL…. most awkward slipshine

        • Lume
          Lume
          September 29, 2014 at 6:26 am | #

          XD THEY MUST BOTH BE IN COSTUME THE DING DONG BANDIT AND WHOEVER THE HELL SAL WOULD BE

          • begbert2
            begbert2
            September 29, 2014 at 10:44 am | #

            The Convenience Store Stabbee.

            • Lume
              Lume
              September 29, 2014 at 5:42 pm | #

              LESBIAN PSUEDO VILLAIN SLIPSHINE

              …wait, but gay people are NORMAL. …Joyce isn’t normal…

  10. Khaner
    Khaner
    September 29, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Okay, I NEED to know how she does her hair. That thing is more luscious than Roman Reigns’s.

    • newllend
      newllend
      September 29, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

      Hm not the only luscious thing about her.

    • dailybrad
      dailybrad
      September 29, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

      Khaner, kudos for recognizing Roman’s mane as luscious.

      • Khaner
        Khaner
        September 29, 2014 at 12:25 am | #

        Apparently, all he uses is coconut oil.
        It must be magical or some shit.

        • Cynthia
          Cynthia
          September 29, 2014 at 11:00 pm | #

          Coconut oil is a gift from gods, good for sexiness and sexy times.

  11. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    September 29, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    I have arguments with my brain all the time, or rather, different parts of my brain have arguments with with each other.

    …It’s a wonder we’ve lasted this long as a species. “Hey. Hey, other half of my brain. Stop playing that song, I hate it. Hey. We just ate dinner, we do not require waffles. How is it you can remember the plot of cartoons you last saw 20 years ago, but not whether or not you already showered today? You suck.”

    • Tunaro
      Tunaro
      September 29, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      Cartoons are eternally awesome, bathing is but occasionally optional.

    • The_Master
      The_Master
      September 29, 2014 at 9:35 am | #

      Do you hear that? … The sound of drums

      • Soylent Daveage
        Soylent Daveage
        October 4, 2014 at 11:48 pm | #

        Can I get a “Vote Saxon”?

  12. Tunaro
    Tunaro
    September 29, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Don’t listen to yer brain, it gets real echoey.

  13. newllend
    newllend
    September 29, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    wait, is her brain growing a conseince?

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      September 29, 2014 at 12:28 am | #

      Conscience, and maybe, yes.

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        September 29, 2014 at 8:59 am | #

        Think morality => ‘against science’ => ‘con’-‘science’.

        • begbert2
          begbert2
          September 29, 2014 at 10:45 am | #

          That’s horrible, and it’s even more horrible that it works.

          • Thomas64
            Thomas64
            September 29, 2014 at 3:17 pm | #

            It doesn’t, though. “Con-” means “with”. “Against” would be “contra-“.

  14. TSB
    TSB
    September 29, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    This story of estranged childhood friends and siblings coming together and worrying about each other is hitting some really personal feelings for me at this time of year. I’ve been really touched by DoA before but I think this is the first time I’ve literally cried. I really want Sal and Walky and Billy to like each other again.

    • dailybrad
      dailybrad
      September 29, 2014 at 12:32 am | #

      If it helps, Walky is definitely making some big strides with the two of them.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      September 29, 2014 at 9:06 am | #

      I don’t think they’ve ever stopped caring about each other – they just argue a lot, and forget to express their feelings. That happens. A lot.

      • TSB
        TSB
        September 29, 2014 at 11:06 am | #

        Caring about someone is not the same as liking someone. You can care about someone and not be able to be in the same room as them, or understand them, or make them feel better.

  15. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    September 29, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    I’m sorry but I spent an hour watching a guy ride a bicycle in a circle earlier this month to set a record for most distance in an hour riding a bicycle, the twitter feed on the attempt had the hashtag #shutuplegs which was this guy’s catch phrase for when he was racing up mountains. So my mind went immediately to #shutupbrain.

    • Chris Kern
      Chris Kern
      September 29, 2014 at 7:46 am | #

      Jens Voigt!

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        September 29, 2014 at 11:12 am | #

        Aye-uh.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        September 29, 2014 at 11:31 am | #

        But I (mistakenly) thought that Jens was a little to esoteric for this crowd, so I left off his name.

        • Kryss LaBryn
          Kryss LaBryn
          September 29, 2014 at 12:26 pm | #

          Nothing is too esoteric for us. Someone will recognize it, whatever it is.

  16. GoogerGeiger
    GoogerGeiger
    September 29, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    Sal’s come a long way from robbing convenience stores.

    • Raptorman
      Raptorman
      September 29, 2014 at 1:37 am | #

      Good thing too, she sucked at it.
      And its good to see her worrying over her friend, and I hope her spider sense isn’t tingling over some real concern at present.

  17. MM
    MM
    September 29, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    If Sal actually gets that to work, I want to know her secret.

    • newllend
      newllend
      September 29, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

      Secret to what ?

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        September 29, 2014 at 12:29 am | #

        Making her brain shut up, she could be the greatest meditation teacher of all time.

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          September 29, 2014 at 9:03 am | #

          There are always drugs.

          • Opus the Poet
            Opus the Poet
            September 29, 2014 at 11:13 am | #

            Unconscious is not the same as meditating.

  18. Xailenrath
    Xailenrath
    September 29, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

    Brains are notoriously hard of hearing in times of worry.

    • Marianne
      Marianne
      September 29, 2014 at 5:01 am | #

      I heard you can get rid of worry/anxiety by drawing over the top of it with dry erase marker and then erasing them both.

      • Clif
        Clif
        September 29, 2014 at 10:26 am | #

        I don’t think the dry kind of erase marker would work. For the case of serious worry/anxiety, to be truly effective, dangerously high levels of alcahol must be involved.

        • Kryss LaBryn
          Kryss LaBryn
          September 29, 2014 at 12:35 pm | #

          Interesting factoid: our brains can only track about seven different topics at once. So what you do is just start thinking of other different things (you only need to touch on each one) and by the time you get to eight or nine, you don’t remember what the first one was.

          It helps if you think about <abbr title="Like, 'I could call the cops, I guess, and file a missing persons report; except she hasn't really been missing for 24 hours yet… Or I could go wake up Walky and see what he knows, except it's like 4 AM and it will probably wait a few hours; she's probably not passed out and hypothermic in a ditch somewhere…’ –This isn’t really helping though, is it?”>what you actually could do right at that moment, though, to actually be able to say “No, there actually isn’t anything I could do right now,” and then form a follow-up plan, like “But as soon as it hits 7 AM I am going to go knock on Ruthless’s door and have her track Billie down.” That way your brain stops trying to get you to remember about what it is that you want to (temporarily) forget about.

          • Kryss LaBryn
            Kryss LaBryn
            September 29, 2014 at 12:36 pm | #

            Darn it, missed a closing tag somewhere. Could have sworn I put it in…

            It helps if you think about what you actually could do right at that moment, though, to actually be able to say “No, there actually isn’t anything I could do right now,” and then form a follow-up plan, like “But as soon as it hits 7 AM I am going to go knock on Ruthless’s door and have her track Billie down.” That way your brain stops trying to get you to remember about what it is that you want to (temporarily) forget about.

            • Kryss LaBryn
              Kryss LaBryn
              September 29, 2014 at 12:39 pm | #

              Oh give me a break! ><

              Third attempt:

              It helps if you think about what you actually could do right at that moment, though, to actually be able to say “No, there actually isn’t anything I could do right now,” and then form a follow-up plan, like “But as soon as it hits 7 AM I am going to go knock on Ruthless’s door and have her track Billie down.” That way your brain stops trying to get you to remember about what it is that you want to (temporarily) forget about.

              • Kryss LaBryn
                Kryss LaBryn
                September 29, 2014 at 12:39 pm | #

                I give up.

          • xKiv
            xKiv
            September 29, 2014 at 8:36 pm | #

            The best way to forget something is to want to remember it, but going to check out just one more article/joke/post on the internet …
            … half hour later, you remember you wanted to remember something, but not what.

  19. Marvelman
    Marvelman
    September 29, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

    I didn’t realize until now that Sal worried about people.

    • newllend
      newllend
      September 29, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

      The feels she’s been bottling up is starting to overflow.

  20. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    September 29, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

    *plays Dan Fogelberg’s “Heart Hotels” on the Muzak*

  21. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    September 29, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

    Too late, you worried for a split-second. Now that worry will never go away. Ever.

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      September 29, 2014 at 10:47 am | #

      Hard alcohol is always an option.

      And hey, look, she’s standing in Billie’s room. There’s bound to be some around here somewhere.

  22. dailybrad
    dailybrad
    September 29, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

    I guess Sal considers Billie a bit like a sister, too. Which I imagine contributes to how icky it was when Billie tried to drunkenly mack on her.

    • TheZachariah
      TheZachariah
      September 29, 2014 at 12:25 am | #

      I dunno. I’ve never seen Sal consider Billie “a bit like a sister” before. Which makes this side of Sal kind of interesting to see right now…

      • Rabid Rabbit
        Rabid Rabbit
        September 29, 2014 at 1:58 am | #

        Hmm. I’m trying to remember, how often, if ever, have we seen Sal on her own before, and therefore able to vaguely soliloquise and suggest that she has an inner nature?

        • clodia
          clodia
          September 29, 2014 at 7:48 am | #

          I have no strips to back it up, but I feel like: not often. There was the pep talk to herself before she went to see her parents. There was her looking in the mirror after she got her hair done and telling herself that she looked right.

          Beyond that, we usually see her interacting with others or through other people’s eyes. If she’s by herself, it is so others can comment on her. Obviously, she has an inner nature and insecurities, but she’s been as slow to open up to the audience as she has herself and others.

          • WeezerLuvr3030
            WeezerLuvr3030
            September 29, 2014 at 11:56 pm | #

            Since she has two eyes made out of coal, I assumed she was a snowman. Er, Snowoman. Snowperson.

  23. Malchus
    Malchus
    September 29, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

    BRAIN: I don’t listen to you; you listen to me!

  24. -Sentinel-
    -Sentinel-
    September 29, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

    Only now do I notice the exclamation mark on Sal’s spider tattoo.

    • sps48
      sps48
      September 29, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

      I thought it was a lobster tattoo.

      • Cholma
        Cholma
        September 29, 2014 at 12:30 am | #

        It’s a Tarantugun (it’s from It’s Walky!) You can see the full design here. David posted it on Tumblr a few days ago.

        • The_Master
          The_Master
          September 29, 2014 at 9:38 am | #

          She looks exactly like that anime character.

          • Clif
            Clif
            September 29, 2014 at 10:45 am | #

            Captain Harlock?

        • begbert2
          begbert2
          September 29, 2014 at 10:52 am | #

          Huh. I guess Walky wasn’t the only Walkerton to watch Dexter and Monkey Master.

          • Deanatay
            Deanatay
            September 29, 2014 at 1:35 pm | #

            In the DOA-verse, D&MM seems to be one of the ‘bedrock’ cartoons of this generation, like The Smurfs (for my generation) or Dexter’s Laboratory (for the one after) or MLP:FIM (for the most recent).

  25. Stephanie
    Stephanie
    September 29, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

    awwwwwwwwwwww

  26. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    September 29, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

    Sal ‘hasn’t come a long way from robbing…” imo. She didn’t do that as a power trip or a gang initiation (that we know of anyway): she did it out of desperation.

    She wants to be noticed, cared about and loved by her parents who can’t see her past her brother, Walky. Not his fault, but it he did play it.

    Yeah, she cares. She just doesn’t go around advertising it. She’s cool.
    My take anyway.

    • clodia
      clodia
      September 29, 2014 at 8:03 am | #

      I agree with you 100%.

  27. timemonkey
    timemonkey
    September 29, 2014 at 12:28 am | #

    Aw, look at Sal, all concerned and showing cracks in her cool indifferent exterior. So adorable.

  28. TheZachariah
    TheZachariah
    September 29, 2014 at 12:30 am | #

    …But that tattoo? Is there always an exclamation mark involved with that…thing? I’m trying to figure out if I’m looking at a lobster.

    • C2
      C2
      September 29, 2014 at 1:02 am | #

      That’s a .

      • C2
        C2
        September 29, 2014 at 1:03 am | #

        Tarantugun.

        • Clif
          Clif
          September 29, 2014 at 10:30 am | #

          Why are people acting like this is the first time we’ve seen it? For example http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/03-up-all-night-to-get-vengeance/procedural/ .

    • airyu
      airyu
      September 29, 2014 at 1:06 am | #

      Here is the full tat
      http://itswalky.tumblr.com/post/98293895862/i-want-to-ask-something-cool-but-cant-think-of

  29. AgentKeen
    AgentKeen
    September 29, 2014 at 12:30 am | #

    …Wow, I only just noticed, different jacket than normal.

  30. Lanval
    Lanval
    September 29, 2014 at 12:43 am | #

    Huh, that is how I end most of my internal monologues as well.

  31. Blob Marley
    Blob Marley
    September 29, 2014 at 1:24 am | #

    If only that worked…

  32. K. Ivan Ruppert
    K. Ivan Ruppert
    September 29, 2014 at 1:29 am | #

    That last panel is my everyday.

  33. Paradox
    Paradox
    September 29, 2014 at 1:45 am | #

    Brain: “Ah don’t care what you said. Ah say we worry.”
    Sal: “Why brain?”
    Brain: “Because ah don’t always do what you want me to do.”

  34. Cooper
    Cooper
    September 29, 2014 at 2:03 am | #

    Hey Sal, you should probably go knock on Ruth’s door and tell her that your roommate is missing. She is your floor RA after all. Make sure to take a good long look around her room too while you’re at it.

  35. zmm
    zmm
    September 29, 2014 at 2:19 am | #

    Haha. I love her caring moments.

  36. Koms
    Koms
    September 29, 2014 at 2:42 am | #

    They say twins have a kind of mental connection. So they are both maturing simultaneously. And wow, Sal’s waist.. Ah could kill for that.

    • John
      John
      September 29, 2014 at 11:29 am | #

      Myth busted!

      • Kryss LaBryn
        Kryss LaBryn
        September 29, 2014 at 12:46 pm | #

        From the twins I’ve known, it only happens with identical twins–sometimes (knew two guys who did that as their primary form of communication). Fraternal twins, on the other hand, are just regular siblings who were born at the same time and therefore no closer genetically than regular siblings and hence unlikely to be telepathic or unusually sensitive with each other.

        As per, yes, Sal and Walky.

        • Sam
          Sam
          September 29, 2014 at 2:32 pm | #

          Actually, fraternal twins are likely to be closer to each other genetically than just normal siblings – not ‘shares 99% of the same DNA’ close – but still a bit closer than normal siblings. Tis just because they gestate at the same time though, causing some more commonalities to arise than would normally – if they were born at completely separate times instead they would be just like average siblings.

      • Koms
        Koms
        September 30, 2014 at 12:42 am | #

        Wow! Awesome!!

  37. lightsabermario
    lightsabermario
    September 29, 2014 at 3:48 am | #

    If she’s just thinking to herself, those should be thought bubbles. If she’s actually talking aloud, then she’s doing more talking while alone then she ever does voluntarily with other people, which seems a little out of character. Also, it means she’s mastered the art of talking without moving her lips.

    • Rabid Rabbit
      Rabid Rabbit
      September 29, 2014 at 4:56 am | #

      How is that out of character? It seems eminently likely to me.

    • Sam
      Sam
      September 29, 2014 at 2:45 pm | #

      A closed mouth can be used instead because what we are seeing is happening right before she speaks and it would be a waste of comic strip to draw people opening and closing their mouths all the time. Plus, the facial expression is easier to make clear with a closed mouth.

      And this is not at all out of character – we have seen her talking to herself multiple times while Billie went on rants and she talked to herself after she got her hair done and before seeing her parents. It is basic human nature to talk things over with yourself, regardless of whether it is in your head or out loud.

    • WeezerLuvr3030
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      September 30, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

      lightsabermario, webcomics are the latest evolution of cartoons, comic strips, and comic books. In those media, faces are not drawn for anatomical accuracy but rather to be expressive. They are not so much faces as the signifiers of faces. the presence, or shape, of a mouth is one of the ways to differentiate characters’ overall personalities.

  38. StClair
    StClair
    September 29, 2014 at 4:24 am | #

    Yeah, you just keep tryin’ to tell it that.

  39. Dorje Sylas
    Dorje Sylas
    September 29, 2014 at 5:17 am | #

    There is a laboratory over at Big Mountain that can help you with those pesky brain problems… and other squishy origins. Side effects include wanted Malaya attention.

    • Dorje Sylas
      Dorje Sylas
      September 29, 2014 at 5:19 am | #

      *unwanted Malaya attention.

      Cursed brain, stop building Ships of idle whimsy.

  40. Boomwolf
    Boomwolf
    September 29, 2014 at 6:59 am | #

    I have actually had full blown conversations with my brain. Mostly me telling it to shut up whenever it’s reminding me about stuff I really wish I could forget…

  41. Slinx
    Slinx
    September 29, 2014 at 8:01 am | #

    Wow, big reveal! I can’t believe it. This is cause for concern. Sal used the door! … Oh, right, and Billy still hasn’t returned to the room. *shrug*

    • Clif
      Clif
      September 29, 2014 at 11:03 am | #

      Didn’t Billie put using the door in the room-mate agreement?

  42. Dani Kelley
    Dani Kelley
    September 29, 2014 at 8:28 am | #

    I am so here for more Sal character development!

  43. hof1991
    hof1991
    September 29, 2014 at 8:31 am | #

    As long as her brain doesn’t get multiple thought balloons to reply with. That’s Dead pool tterritory.

    She should check with her bro and they could bond over worrying together.

    • Clif
      Clif
      September 29, 2014 at 11:41 am | #

      Ceribus did it better.

  44. thatindianguy
    thatindianguy
    September 29, 2014 at 9:05 am | #

    Don’t bother Sal it won’t listen.

  45. pyrophobia
    pyrophobia
    September 29, 2014 at 9:08 am | #

    Sal your Walky’s showing again.

    (Well done Willis, haven’t seen sibling representation this good since Sokka/Katara. (And no I haven’t seen Korra yet guys))

  46. Clif
    Clif
    September 29, 2014 at 11:14 am | #

    Sal, you need to give your brain something else to focus on. Something like Mario Cart. Go knock on Danny’s door and make him play the game with you till you get tired. When you do, Danny’s bed is right there handy to sleep in. Joe won’t mind. He’ll just figure that you’re Amazi-girl.

  47. Vangeln
    Vangeln
    September 29, 2014 at 2:17 pm | #

    Stupid Carla.

  48. B
    B
    September 29, 2014 at 6:39 pm | #

    Sal is so worried, she used the door instead of the window.

  49. ajm5007
    ajm5007
    September 29, 2014 at 9:53 pm | #

    D’awww . . . is Billie gonna find out people actually care about her?

  50. Marc in MN
    Marc in MN
    September 29, 2014 at 11:27 pm | #

    Hey Brain, what are we going to do tonight??

    • pyrophobia
      pyrophobia
      September 30, 2014 at 12:51 am | #

      The same thing we do every night Pinky

      WORRY

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