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Myself, as well. If you think about it, it’s the perfect camouflage – anyone seen wearing one would automatically be tagged as ‘not a college student’. Heck, she could even say she’s visiting from Sal’s old school…
The new poster Dave has posted has Becky in a white shirt and what looks like a red leather jacket. I’d say that looks exactly like what she’s got her hands on in the last panel here…
Hungover people are the best people to ask for these sorts of favours. They will literally do anything to make you go away and bring back the quiet and the darkness. (Also, Sal probably wouldn’t care even if she wasn’t and Billie probably wouldn’t mind doing a good turn either)
Nah, I linked the “motorcycles are for people who can say ‘fuck'” strip, trusting that people would remember that Becky proved at dinner last night that she can say “fuck”, ’cause that was a lot more recent. I would’ve linked them both, but then my post would’ve needed approval.
Thing is, Becky is doing exactly what Sal adviced Joyce to do – be cool by owning your own individual quirks. Becky is doing exactly that, and that’s why she is rad
We don’t know for a fact that she only had one beer period or only one beer at the bar where she ran into Jason. Her meeting with Jason may have been just the final stop on what had been a full night.
I’m assuming only one beer because she was almost completely sober (and drawn that way) before Jason came over, and as soon as that one beer was done she was both drawn and acting super drunk. Unless drunkness hits Sal like the world’s most random freight train (totally sober beers 1-8, suddenly falling-down drunk after 9) I can be pretty sure that one beer did the trick for Sal.
It does happen that way, though, especially if someone is pouring them in quickly (“gimme three, I’m late so I gotta get caught up”). And sometimes people can hold themselves in control until they reach a tipping point at which time the ‘give-a-damn’ is finally busted and Slushy McLush takes over.
I have a friend who has alcohol tolerance like that, actually. He’s basically sober until suddenly he’s completely hammered, no middle ground. We refer to it as his Zener breakdown tolerance. (Yeah, we’re EE nerds, wanna make something of it?)
But that’s not the case here. Sal really did get falling-down drunk off one beer. The Walkertons are lightweights legendary across universes.
I’m sad because we’re never going to get to Joyce’s 21st birthday. I want to see her drink both of the twins under the table again.
She says “hangover”, but what she really means is “I have a headache because I hit my head on the floor after getting falling-down drunk off one beer”. “Hangover” just sounds cooler.
There are certain things humans do without any sort of mental connection at all. Most people. for example, when entering their home or apartment will reach out — in the dark, mind you! — to the light switch, turn it on, and then immediately turn around and close and lock the door. No thought; no hesitation; call it routine or habit.
Now, speaking from bitter experience, even drunk the human body retains a surprising amount of ability and agility, to the point where you can still (after a fashion) unlock and lock doors, drive vehicles, climb stairs, and so on. Once Sal returned to vertical, she probably let herself into the room (although she apparently neglected to lock the door) and after a brief sit-down on a chair got up and got herself into bed — although it may have taken more than one try to finally accomplish it.
My friend refers to it as “the lizard brain”. Basically muscle memory. Plus arguably after a small nap in front of her door, Sal could hypothetically have sobered up enough to haul herself to the top bunk for a proper rest.
That, and Sal’s routine for a while (still doing it when sober?) has been to climb a tree to get into her room. Getting into her bed isn’t the hardest part of her evening, I bet.
Wonder how long it takes her to cycle out a can’t-stand-straight bender…
It doesn’t look like she’s going for leather there though. She definitely has something white in her hand. And I only ever recall seeing Sal wear one thing that was white….
No, that would actually be a terrible thing for Becky to do. Stealing Sal’ s motorcycle and likely wrecking it and possibly herself is not a good thing.
Statistically it’s not a bad assumption, especially when we know that Billie has been at least one boy. At the very least that fact makes the assumption less stinging as bisexual people tend to be less hung up on identities (in my experience).
Considering Billie hasn’t hesitated being quite vocal about guys and is heavily implied to have gotten action in that area and Sal actually knows her from before school it’s not really heteronormative to expect a continuation of the same behaviour. Sal doesn’t know Billie is bi, at most she knows she’s overly affectionate when drunk.
And that’s why I shouldn’t comment so soon after the comic comes out. I get four other people saying the exact same thing as me by the time I hit the post button.
I’m not even sure she knows that Billie’s bi. She would’ve been in Tennessee when Billie was dating Alice, and I think she completely missed the kiss attempt.
Alternately, she has an inkling about Billie and [SIGNIFICANT OTHER], but is either hung over or slept badly and it’s affecting her speech/thinking. “Boyfriend” here is a stand-in for “whoever she’s seeing right now”.
Wait, how can you be sure rebelling against her fundi upbringing isn’t also a kink? I mean, she has perfectly legitimate reasons (lesbian and all), but you can still be right for all the wrong reasons.
Now all I wanna know is who the two guys on Sal/Billie’s dorm door is…..
Also is Sal just assuming Billie has a boyfriend because she hasn’t been sleeping in the dorm or is there other “evidence” of a “boyfriend” that I’m forgetting about?
The assumption that Billie has a boyfriend originates with this strip, I believe. I don’t know who, if anyone, at the time would know that Billie is bi, so they just defaulted to the idea that there was a boyfriend.
One of the guys on the door is Andrew Garfield. Not sure about the other.
Joyce knew. I’m pretty sure she put it together at the Alice encounter, if not during their earlier discussion about bicuriosity. But Joyce is Joyce; even if she knows that Billie’s down with girl-on-girl hanky-panky, that’s not going to be her first assumption.
And I think Walky’s known since high school. He certainly didn’t seem surprised by the Alice drama.
Oh this is going to end so badly it will be totally funny.
If it’s white like it looks to be, it has got to be the Catholic school girl outfit…but why? If she thinks the sweater vests are beyond wearing, how can she consider wearing that?
I’m guessing that even Becky is too smart to take Sal’s leather jacket, but then again…..this is Becky.
It might be that Becky is moving the white tank-top aside and is checking out the reddish thing hanging behind it. We’re seeing the back of it; Becky is looking at whatever is on the front.
Soooo, given Sal’s antiauthoritarianism. And the free room. Do you think Sal and Becky will end up ‘rooming’ together? It’d help them pass inspections too, since it’d be a little weird if the monitors went in to see a completely empty room.
Nah, Sal’s a little taller than Joyce, Joyce is a little curvier, and I think Becky’s somewhere in between. But it’s not like Dina wearing Amazi-Girl’s clothes or anything.
Becky seems to be unintentionally stumbling across all kinds of evidence of Billie’s relationship with Ruth. I think I’ve been won over to the group of people thinking that Becky and Ruth will come to an ‘understanding’ over their respective secrets. Becky doesn’t talk about Billie and Ruth’s alcoholic deathspiral, and Ruth looks the other way regarding Becky’s couchsurfing. Likely begrudgingly from both sides.
Maybe i’m a romantic, but i’m holding out for Becky getting a job at ghe local pizza place, then finding her own apartment nearby so she can pop in, unanounced for akward moments.
Realistically speaking, getting an apartment usually means saving up the first and last month’s worth of rent plus a security deposit. A job at Galasso’s isn’t going to be an immediate ticket into a place of her own.
Though somebody in the cast already has an off-campus apartment: Marcie. Maybe they’ll meet at some point, maybe not.
Unrealistically speaking, as of the end of the last storyline, I think Becky realized that living with Joyce is not a permanent solution or even a very good one long-term, if only because she’ll never be able to get enough distance to get over Joyce and move on when they’re living together.
I think we’re going to see Becky taking steps of one kind or another sooner rather than later, myself.
It looks like Constantine, who is the main character from the Hellblazer comic book. They made a movie (bad one) and a TV show (quite good) from it, it looks like the poster use the TV representation of the character. He’s a blondish stubbly magnificient bastard brit.
I have no reason to believe otherwise, but I’m surprised Sal is that okay with someone borrowing her clothes. And by “borrowing” I mean “rifling through her closet”. (Which is pretty much the only option Becky has here, so not in a “begrudging her” way.)
Still not sure what to make of her. I think she’s the only character whose past hasn’t been corroborated by anyone else. Or am I wrong?
??? I think Sal has the most heavily corroborated past of anyone in the strip. She grew up with Walky, Billie, and Marcie, encountered Amber and Ethan (and kinda Blaine) prior to college, and we’ve actually seen flashbacks involving her from Amber, Walky, and one that I think was Sal herself.
You want [citation needed] characters, try Dina. We know basically nothing about her history, and there’s no one except her parents who could back up any of the very little she’s told us, and they’re not talking. For all we know she could be an alternate-universe alien abductee who was drafted to fight the aliens and ended up being blasted out of existence in a touching self-sacrifice and presumed dead for a decade before re-emerging on IU campus through a rip in dimensions caused by too much diversity, thus explaining the cereal obsession.
Not Sal, Becky. Sal’s past is well-documented but sealed, I’m guessing. The problem with flashbacks in this comic is that they’re subjective, even being narrated by the character having it. Mike has been given an objective flashback; taking this as a sign that Willis knows the difference, I’m now suspicious anytime anyone has one that can’t easily be checked up on by other characters. (I’m hoping that I’m overthinking it, as it means I’m unable to read Becky’s character arc without questioning it.)
Dina’s past is like the fossil record – enough evidence to base a theory on (NOT a hypothesis, but an honest-to-God theory in the scientific sense), but nothing so concrete as to be proof. I suspect that this is deliberate.
Bear in mind that Sal is desperately trying to sleep off a bender. Whatever reasons she has for keeping her closet secret (like, oh, a certain Catholic school uniform) don’t apply.
Why would you take off or cover up the Carman shirt? No, serious. Carman’s music is kick ass no matter what you believe. Have you seen the Great God music video? It’s like a lost episode of Highlander!
She’s already been wearing it for a day, hasn’t she? Most people do like to change clothes. Becky’s problem (one of them) is that she currently has an extremely limited wardrobe.
I find it adorable that after pestering Billie for two days Becky still find the need to introduce herself as “Joyce friend”.
Billie should be happy – this sort of socially inept tagalong kid that she is too cool for is exactly what she wanted to assert her position as alpha bongo.
We clearly need an infograph with how different clothes look on different characters.
Joyce sweater on Sal, Becky and Joyce (wearing it Joyce style and wearing it Sal-style)
Sal’s schoolgirl outfit on Sal and (soon) Becky
Ruth’s Leafs jersey on Ruth and Billie
I’m sure there’s more. Have Walky and Dorothy done any of that cutsie “wearing each other’s clothes” yet?
Based on your first link, it looks like there’s more than one of those Catholic school outfits hanging there. I can see what looks like at least two more.
Alright I know I’m kinda late with asking and it’s relevant to the previous strip but anyway, I’m curious. What act causes thumping noises during a female-on-female hankypanky?
You ever notice that when you look back through Willis’ two Tumblr accounts to try and find a sneak preview of something like the outfit that Becky has found that he is always too smart to have posted a preview of those comics?
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they managed to get the arms and thighs to be different grays, which I wasn't sure they'd be able to do, the way the mold's set up
though maybe they're just producing a lot of extra thighs and/or arms in the wrong colors and throwing those away, i dunno
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⚧️Coming Out
Hailey Piper 
This will not end well
But the middle stretch will be awesome!
I see what you did there.
This is going to end awesome! Joyce is going to get jealous, though.
Jealous? Or suddenly reconsidering her position on a relationship with Becky?
What have you done with Jen Aside.
User18 has kidnapped Jen! Call the police! Form search parties! THIS WILL NOT STAND!
*Cho runs around in a panic
Did Jen go on holiday or something?
Jeez, you guys, I’m sure Jen has, like, a life, or, something. She can’t be the first to post EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Can she?
Yes. It was her second genie wish.
What were…what were the others?
I’m loving the icons for this entire thread of comments.
Her first wish was for her third wish to become false. Her third wish was for her first wish to come true.
Augh! Kidnapper where’s jen aside you arse? Give me the goods!
O.O
…the ultra-skanky outfit Sal met Danny in.
That’s all that’s in my brain right now.
We’ll see if I’m right next update! ^_^
She also has a bunch of Catholic schoolgirl outfits.
Fair enough Becky. That might get Joyce to at least pet your hair.
Considering that Joyce has had a few “bi for Sal” moments… um, yeah, not entirely outside the realm of possibilities.
A few “bi for sal” moments? Joyce was completely bi for sale the moment she saw that motorcycle.
“Bi for sale”? Even if Joyce somehow decides she’s okay with premarital hanky panky, I doubt prostitution is in the cards.
It’s like “gay for pay”, but less rhymey.
Yes, but “bi bye” uncomfortably evokes the old saw of, “You’re not paying them for sex, you’re paying them to go away afterward.”
Billie just skipped right to the paying Becky to go away.
Let’s be honest. Who isn’t at least a little Salsexual?
Walky.
That’s just what he WANTS everyone to think… >_>
=^_^=
NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONO
YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYEYSYEYSYSYS
Wincest
Twincest is wincest. ;D
wait a minute, is she taking the catholic schoolgirl outfit
Oh I do hope so. That would be hilarious.
Agreed – especially everyone else’s reactions.
To be honest, I don’t really care what Becky’s up to – get back to Billie and Ruthie, dammit Willis!
That he interesting but then again, WHYY WOULD SHE!?
To get Joyce to make The Face.
She is taking whatever will cause the most doom.
I think she’s still in Billie’s closet right now.
no, she was in Billie’s closet first (yellow hangers) then moved over to Sal’s (black hangers). Billie’s closet was empty.
But that red hoodie looks like Billie’s.
No it’s one of Sal’s leaher jackets, you can see a pocket on the side of the arm.
I though she was already out of the closet?
There are many closets.
In the last panel she’s in the one marked Sal, it isn’t empty.
Although she isn’t looking into the closet. I think Sal has just turned.
Over.
Her eyes move between the last two panels. She is indeed looking into the closet while saying “Score.”
That was exactly what I was thinking and I hope you are right!
Myself, as well. If you think about it, it’s the perfect camouflage – anyone seen wearing one would automatically be tagged as ‘not a college student’. Heck, she could even say she’s visiting from Sal’s old school…
The new poster Dave has posted has Becky in a white shirt and what looks like a red leather jacket. I’d say that looks exactly like what she’s got her hands on in the last panel here…
Joyce is gonna be jealous that Becky gets Sal’s stuff.
Joyce is going to be JEALOUS.
Sal’s clothes are too cool for Becky!
Watch it look better on her.
True story: I had a customer come in today named “Dottie Freckleton.” Ear-length blond hair, glasses. It was eerie.
That… sounds… amazing.
But, did she have freckles?
Where’s JenAside? Oh my god I just got that name.
Oh my god me too.
whoa wtf
No shame in it, took me a while as well.
Sweet mercy, they aren’t there… EVERYBODY PANIC!!!
[running around, screaming as things catch on fire]
stand back I HAVE A HOSE!
When in panic or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
Sal’s endearing. Kind of like a rabid bear. With a hangover. And teeth.
Hungover people are the best people to ask for these sorts of favours. They will literally do anything to make you go away and bring back the quiet and the darkness. (Also, Sal probably wouldn’t care even if she wasn’t and Billie probably wouldn’t mind doing a good turn either)
…More importantly, she seems to have gotten up into bed okay. That answers that question!
OH MY GOD
Joyce is going to freak.
She might be ok with Becky being gay, but this is too far!
As long as Becky doesn’t get to touch the motorcycle everything will be fine. Otherwise there will be blood.
“Hey, ginger girl that borrowed mah clothes. Come brush mah hair to make up fer that.”
squeee
make it happen ! Make it happeeeeen
Then they drive past joyce on the motorcycle as she brushes Sal’s river of chocolate.
As of last night at the sushi place, Becky is totally allowed on the motorcycle.
I think might be the link you were looking for.
Nah, I linked the “motorcycles are for people who can say ‘fuck'” strip, trusting that people would remember that Becky proved at dinner last night that she can say “fuck”, ’cause that was a lot more recent. I would’ve linked them both, but then my post would’ve needed approval.
Thing is, Becky is doing exactly what Sal adviced Joyce to do – be cool by owning your own individual quirks. Becky is doing exactly that, and that’s why she is rad
Sal! After you fell over, did you somehow get yourself into bed? Well done if so! (Also, that bad a hangover after one beer? Ouch.)
Some of us have ridiculously low alcohol tolerance. It is both a blessing and a curse.
Saves money, I’ll say that much for it.
One glass of water per glass of alcohol = you get way less wrecked and spare yourself the hangover.
We don’t know for a fact that she only had one beer period or only one beer at the bar where she ran into Jason. Her meeting with Jason may have been just the final stop on what had been a full night.
I’m assuming only one beer because she was almost completely sober (and drawn that way) before Jason came over, and as soon as that one beer was done she was both drawn and acting super drunk. Unless drunkness hits Sal like the world’s most random freight train (totally sober beers 1-8, suddenly falling-down drunk after 9) I can be pretty sure that one beer did the trick for Sal.
It does happen that way, though, especially if someone is pouring them in quickly (“gimme three, I’m late so I gotta get caught up”). And sometimes people can hold themselves in control until they reach a tipping point at which time the ‘give-a-damn’ is finally busted and Slushy McLush takes over.
I have a friend who has alcohol tolerance like that, actually. He’s basically sober until suddenly he’s completely hammered, no middle ground. We refer to it as his Zener breakdown tolerance. (Yeah, we’re EE nerds, wanna make something of it?)
But that’s not the case here. Sal really did get falling-down drunk off one beer. The Walkertons are lightweights legendary across universes.
I’m sad because we’re never going to get to Joyce’s 21st birthday. I want to see her drink both of the twins under the table again.
She says “hangover”, but what she really means is “I have a headache because I hit my head on the floor after getting falling-down drunk off one beer”. “Hangover” just sounds cooler.
I’m amazed she didn’t default to the low side bunk
these are not bunk beds, they are lofts, there are no low beds
http://itswalky.tumblr.com/post/114372914712/heres-another-bit-of-busywork-i-should-have-done
Woops.
ok ^^; sorry
Bet she found the most kickas let her jacket, all she needs now is some sun glasses and she could actually make the new look work.
*leather
No, let her is right, as in a “let her do what she wants” jacket.
Nope. It’s the Catholic schoolgirl outfits. Best way to pick up girls.
Catholic schoolgirl outfit with the leather jacket over it. Why not dream big?
Leather jacket + sunglasses, period? Yeah, she could probably make that work…
C’mon, leather jacket and that haircut? She’ll be dripping in Femmes.
This is the best thing that could have possibly happened
I am making this face right now:
How did Sal get back in her bed?
There are certain things humans do without any sort of mental connection at all. Most people. for example, when entering their home or apartment will reach out — in the dark, mind you! — to the light switch, turn it on, and then immediately turn around and close and lock the door. No thought; no hesitation; call it routine or habit.
Now, speaking from bitter experience, even drunk the human body retains a surprising amount of ability and agility, to the point where you can still (after a fashion) unlock and lock doors, drive vehicles, climb stairs, and so on. Once Sal returned to vertical, she probably let herself into the room (although she apparently neglected to lock the door) and after a brief sit-down on a chair got up and got herself into bed — although it may have taken more than one try to finally accomplish it.
My friend refers to it as “the lizard brain”. Basically muscle memory. Plus arguably after a small nap in front of her door, Sal could hypothetically have sobered up enough to haul herself to the top bunk for a proper rest.
That, and Sal’s routine for a while (still doing it when sober?) has been to climb a tree to get into her room. Getting into her bed isn’t the hardest part of her evening, I bet.
Wonder how long it takes her to cycle out a can’t-stand-straight bender…
Very carefully.
You know what would be awesome? Becky takes her leather jacket and finds the keys to Sal’s Motorcycle and just takes it for a joy ride.
It doesn’t look like she’s going for leather there though. She definitely has something white in her hand. And I only ever recall seeing Sal wear one thing that was white….
First post failed, second try:
Only one thing?
There were two!
(It seems it’s blocking me when i post as “Amazi-Stool”, but accepts “Amazistool”. Strange!)
Oh gods, the comments section would be hideous.
So, like a normal Becky strip?
I refuse to believe in a world were Becky gets to ride Sal’s bike before Joyce!
I’m sure Becky wants to take Sal for a joy-ride.
No, that would actually be a terrible thing for Becky to do. Stealing Sal’ s motorcycle and likely wrecking it and possibly herself is not a good thing.
NICE.
Sal said “boyfriend”. Is she talking about Jason, or is she intentionally lying about what she undoubtedly knows about Billie and Ruth?
I think she honestly doesn’t know about Billie and Ruth; she thinks Billie has a boy somewhere.
I don’t think she knows. She’s just assuming Billy’s romantic partner is male because that’s normal.
So she’s being heteronormative then.
Statistically it’s not a bad assumption, especially when we know that Billie has been at least one boy. At the very least that fact makes the assumption less stinging as bisexual people tend to be less hung up on identities (in my experience).
Considering Billie hasn’t hesitated being quite vocal about guys and is heavily implied to have gotten action in that area and Sal actually knows her from before school it’s not really heteronormative to expect a continuation of the same behaviour. Sal doesn’t know Billie is bi, at most she knows she’s overly affectionate when drunk.
Sal’s being uninormative.
Does she know about Billie and Ruth? I think she’s just assuming Billie has a boyfriend because why else would she be out?
I don’t think Sal knows about Billie and Ruth, I think she just believe Billie has a boyfriend.
Maybe she doesn’t know and just assumes it’s a boyfriend.
And that’s why I shouldn’t comment so soon after the comic comes out. I get four other people saying the exact same thing as me by the time I hit the post button.
Ahh! Redundant comments. It’s happened to all of us and will continue to happen for as long as comments exist! 0_0
But if you comment SOONER, then they’re the redundant ones.
But that makes you the impulsive lurker. It’s a lose-lose situation.
She was there (though off-panel) for the “Billie’s in loooo-oooove” thing, but I don’t think she has any idea that Billie’s “boyfriend” is actually a girlfriend, much less Ruth. When Billie’s talked about it, it was non-specific and ambiguous idiom, or Sal was probably not discussing the same topic Billie was.
I’m not even sure she knows that Billie’s bi. She would’ve been in Tennessee when Billie was dating Alice, and I think she completely missed the kiss attempt.
Alternately, she has an inkling about Billie and [SIGNIFICANT OTHER], but is either hung over or slept badly and it’s affecting her speech/thinking. “Boyfriend” here is a stand-in for “whoever she’s seeing right now”.
Becky in a biker outfit.
she’s almost definitely taking that catholic schoolgirl outfit.
As rebellion against her fundi upbringing or as a kink?
KINK
A Protestant voluntarily dressing as a Catholic? Run for your lives!
Your comment paired with your avatar SO makes it seem that Ruth is into The Catholic Schoolgirl kink…
Wait, how can you be sure rebelling against her fundi upbringing isn’t also a kink? I mean, she has perfectly legitimate reasons (lesbian and all), but you can still be right for all the wrong reasons.
Or wrong for all the right reasons?
Now all I wanna know is who the two guys on Sal/Billie’s dorm door is…..
Also is Sal just assuming Billie has a boyfriend because she hasn’t been sleeping in the dorm or is there other “evidence” of a “boyfriend” that I’m forgetting about?
The assumption that Billie has a boyfriend originates with this strip, I believe. I don’t know who, if anyone, at the time would know that Billie is bi, so they just defaulted to the idea that there was a boyfriend.
One of the guys on the door is Andrew Garfield. Not sure about the other.
Ah. Lol forgot about that. Thanks
Joyce knew. I’m pretty sure she put it together at the Alice encounter, if not during their earlier discussion about bicuriosity. But Joyce is Joyce; even if she knows that Billie’s down with girl-on-girl hanky-panky, that’s not going to be her first assumption.
And I think Walky’s known since high school. He certainly didn’t seem surprised by the Alice drama.
Score indeed.
Oh this is going to end so badly it will be totally funny.
If it’s white like it looks to be, it has got to be the Catholic school girl outfit…but why? If she thinks the sweater vests are beyond wearing, how can she consider wearing that?
I’m guessing that even Becky is too smart to take Sal’s leather jacket, but then again…..this is Becky.
I dunno. In panel 6 it looks like a tank top she’s grabbing, while Sal’s boarding school blouse has sleeves.
And a collar. Whatever Becky’s grabbing doesn’t look like it has a collar.
It might be that Becky is moving the white tank-top aside and is checking out the reddish thing hanging behind it. We’re seeing the back of it; Becky is looking at whatever is on the front.
This will either end as something super awesome or super apocalypse. I don’t see much room for anything in between.
There might be nothing in between because it’s the same thing.
Soooo, given Sal’s antiauthoritarianism. And the free room. Do you think Sal and Becky will end up ‘rooming’ together? It’d help them pass inspections too, since it’d be a little weird if the monitors went in to see a completely empty room.
So Sal, Joyce and Becky are identical sizes? What are the chances of that.
I wouldn’t necessarily say “identical.” It’s not like any of them are wearing professionally fitted clothes. This is all store bought stuff.
Nah, Sal’s a little taller than Joyce, Joyce is a little curvier, and I think Becky’s somewhere in between. But it’s not like Dina wearing Amazi-Girl’s clothes or anything.
…she took the schoolgirl outfit, didn’t she?
CHICK. MAGNET.
I dunno, I never got an action wearing a Catholic school girl outfit…
Why would you want to attract Jack Chick?
Magnets also repel, which I’m sure anything Catholic would do to Jack Chick
Becky seems to be unintentionally stumbling across all kinds of evidence of Billie’s relationship with Ruth. I think I’ve been won over to the group of people thinking that Becky and Ruth will come to an ‘understanding’ over their respective secrets. Becky doesn’t talk about Billie and Ruth’s alcoholic deathspiral, and Ruth looks the other way regarding Becky’s couchsurfing. Likely begrudgingly from both sides.
Maybe i’m a romantic, but i’m holding out for Becky getting a job at ghe local pizza place, then finding her own apartment nearby so she can pop in, unanounced for akward moments.
Realistically speaking, getting an apartment usually means saving up the first and last month’s worth of rent plus a security deposit. A job at Galasso’s isn’t going to be an immediate ticket into a place of her own.
Though somebody in the cast already has an off-campus apartment: Marcie. Maybe they’ll meet at some point, maybe not.
Unrealistically speaking, as of the end of the last storyline, I think Becky realized that living with Joyce is not a permanent solution or even a very good one long-term, if only because she’ll never be able to get enough distance to get over Joyce and move on when they’re living together.
I think we’re going to see Becky taking steps of one kind or another sooner rather than later, myself.
Random question: is that James Dean, or John Constantine on the door?
It’s that brown-haired stubbly tough guy from that TV show, right? Or that movie? Or all of them?
It looks like Constantine, who is the main character from the Hellblazer comic book. They made a movie (bad one) and a TV show (quite good) from it, it looks like the poster use the TV representation of the character. He’s a blondish stubbly magnificient bastard brit.
I didn’t know I wanted Becky rocking a Sal outfit until now
and guys come on shes not gonna wear the catholic get up, who would wear that *willingly?*
It’d be awesome, though! Redheaded lesbian in that uniform, it’d be almost like having Avalon back! If only Becky were Canadian…
Clearly we need to get Ruth into Sal’s uniform.
I don’t think there are enough wild dogs on campus to eat all the people Ruth would have to kill if that ever became reality.
I have no reason to believe otherwise, but I’m surprised Sal is that okay with someone borrowing her clothes. And by “borrowing” I mean “rifling through her closet”. (Which is pretty much the only option Becky has here, so not in a “begrudging her” way.)
Still not sure what to make of her. I think she’s the only character whose past hasn’t been corroborated by anyone else. Or am I wrong?
??? I think Sal has the most heavily corroborated past of anyone in the strip. She grew up with Walky, Billie, and Marcie, encountered Amber and Ethan (and kinda Blaine) prior to college, and we’ve actually seen flashbacks involving her from Amber, Walky, and one that I think was Sal herself.
You want [citation needed] characters, try Dina. We know basically nothing about her history, and there’s no one except her parents who could back up any of the very little she’s told us, and they’re not talking. For all we know she could be an alternate-universe alien abductee who was drafted to fight the aliens and ended up being blasted out of existence in a touching self-sacrifice and presumed dead for a decade before re-emerging on IU campus through a rip in dimensions caused by too much diversity, thus explaining the cereal obsession.
Soggies may rule.
Not Sal, Becky. Sal’s past is well-documented but sealed, I’m guessing. The problem with flashbacks in this comic is that they’re subjective, even being narrated by the character having it. Mike has been given an objective flashback; taking this as a sign that Willis knows the difference, I’m now suspicious anytime anyone has one that can’t easily be checked up on by other characters. (I’m hoping that I’m overthinking it, as it means I’m unable to read Becky’s character arc without questioning it.)
Dina’s past is like the fossil record – enough evidence to base a theory on (NOT a hypothesis, but an honest-to-God theory in the scientific sense), but nothing so concrete as to be proof. I suspect that this is deliberate.
Bear in mind that Sal is desperately trying to sleep off a bender. Whatever reasons she has for keeping her closet secret (like, oh, a certain Catholic school uniform) don’t apply.
perhaps I’ve been watching too much xfiles but that guy on the poster looks like Mulder to me
She found the lingerie didn’t she?
Catholic school girl outfit – coming up!
Becky was already rad. Now she will be cool
For some reason THIS is the comic in which I start to ship Becky and Joyce.
Weird. I wonder if there’s something wrong with me?
I figure she’s just seen Sal half-covered.
Why would you take off or cover up the Carman shirt? No, serious. Carman’s music is kick ass no matter what you believe. Have you seen the Great God music video? It’s like a lost episode of Highlander!
She’s already been wearing it for a day, hasn’t she? Most people do like to change clothes. Becky’s problem (one of them) is that she currently has an extremely limited wardrobe.
I find it adorable that after pestering Billie for two days Becky still find the need to introduce herself as “Joyce friend”.
Billie should be happy – this sort of socially inept tagalong kid that she is too cool for is exactly what she wanted to assert her position as alpha bongo.
If Becky ended up wearing Sal’s clothes one day and Joyce’s the next and going back and forth people will end up thinking she has a split personality.
I think she just find a power up.
What Becky’s probably found:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/01-move-in-day/schoolgirl/
How it looked on Sal:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/04-just-hangin-out-with-my-family/littlebit/
We clearly need an infograph with how different clothes look on different characters.
Joyce sweater on Sal, Becky and Joyce (wearing it Joyce style and wearing it Sal-style)
Sal’s schoolgirl outfit on Sal and (soon) Becky
Ruth’s Leafs jersey on Ruth and Billie
I’m sure there’s more. Have Walky and Dorothy done any of that cutsie “wearing each other’s clothes” yet?
I think Dorothy wore Walky’s “Mac and Cheese” shirt once.
Dorothy bought another “Mac and Cheese” shirt to wear for him. Independently of Walky wearing his.
I don’t think Walky has a Mac & Cheese shirt.
Well clearly you’re wrong.
Mac & C.H.E.E.S.E, starring Joey Tribbiani.
Right you are, Willis, my bad. Walky picked it out for her.
Based on your first link, it looks like there’s more than one of those Catholic school outfits hanging there. I can see what looks like at least two more.
I really wonder why everyone is assuming the school-girl uniform.
That shirt clearly had a collar, the shirt we see today has not.
So the more probable outfit is this one.
Either way Becky will look awesome (as well as Rad) in next strip, so I can’t see a downside.
Becky, no! If you wear that, Joyce will think you’re really hot!
No, Becky! Think of the consequences! D:
Here’s hoping Sal has something to wear when she recover.
*recovers.
She can always borrow something from Joyce – show Becky how you wear the FUDGE out of that sweater.
Alright I know I’m kinda late with asking and it’s relevant to the previous strip but anyway, I’m curious. What act causes thumping noises during a female-on-female hankypanky?
remember how Billie said she was gonna buy Ruth a dildo?
but even dry humping can cause thumping noises.
…Where are all of Billie’s clothes?
In Ruth’s room. She was shown moving them in some time ago.
You ever notice that when you look back through Willis’ two Tumblr accounts to try and find a sneak preview of something like the outfit that Becky has found that he is always too smart to have posted a preview of those comics?