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Damn, girl

by David M Willis on October 3, 2015 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - To Those Who'd Ground Me
└ Tags: joyce, sal

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    October 3, 2015 at 12:01 am | #

    “S-senpai noticed me trolling…”

    • otusasio451
      otusasio451
      October 3, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

      Your avatar works SO WELL with that comment. Also, I’m now picturing Joyce in that Yandere Simulator game.

      • Airyu
        Airyu
        October 3, 2015 at 12:14 am | #

        omg I’d love a sweater vest outfit for yandere-chan

        • DarkoNeko
          DarkoNeko
          October 3, 2015 at 6:23 am | #

          Orange, with blood stains on it.

          • Deanatay
            Deanatay
            October 3, 2015 at 9:25 am | #

            That was a sweater, not a sweater vest.

        • Itama
          Itama
          October 3, 2015 at 10:39 am | #

          your wish has already been granted 😛

      • inqntrol
        inqntrol
        October 3, 2015 at 12:34 am | #

        Looking for a relationship in a morbid way.

      • No Name
        No Name
        October 3, 2015 at 2:58 am | #

        Considering where Joyce 1.0 went, it’s not that much of a stretch.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      October 3, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

      Keep those doggies rolling…

      • inqntrol
        inqntrol
        October 3, 2015 at 12:23 am | #

        And the up the hatin’.

        • inqntrol
          inqntrol
          October 3, 2015 at 12:26 am | #

          *keep

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        October 3, 2015 at 9:26 am | #

        Man, my ass is swollen, RAW-HIIIIIIDE!

    • gkheyf
      gkheyf
      October 3, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

      Their interactions are showing a lot of new faces today!

    • Tenn
      Tenn
      October 3, 2015 at 5:03 pm | #

      She see her trollin’
      She ratin’

      “gr8 b8, ah r8 8/8”

  2. otusasio451
    otusasio451
    October 3, 2015 at 12:01 am | #

    Sal’s learning so many things today.

  3. Stephen R. Bierce
    Stephen R. Bierce
    October 3, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    *plays Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ “Refugee” on the hacked Muzak*

  4. Foxhack
    Foxhack
    October 3, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    “He was my boyfriend, but not really. We didn’t even get off the bench.” Cause you know, first base.

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      October 3, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

      His thing came nowhere near my tummy.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      October 3, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

      For Joyce, sitting together on a bench IS first base. Holding hands is second. Holding hands without a chaperon present is third. Marrying the dude and bearing at least a half dozen of his children is home plate.

      Hers was a weird upbringing.

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        October 3, 2015 at 12:10 am | #

        So a Grand Slam is the next half-dozen?

        • Doctor_Who
          Doctor_Who
          October 3, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

          Having so many you get a reality series out of it is a grand slam.

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          October 3, 2015 at 12:36 am | #

          No, it’s breakfast at Denny’s.

          • Ana Chronistic
            Ana Chronistic
            October 3, 2015 at 3:54 am | #

            Denny’s “breakfast” is debateable

            • Abel Undercity
              Abel Undercity
              October 3, 2015 at 5:26 am | #

              You mean debateably AWESOME!

              Wait, that didn’t come out right, somehow…

        • DarkoNeko
          DarkoNeko
          October 3, 2015 at 6:24 am | #

          Welcome to the space jam.

          • inqntrol
            inqntrol
            October 3, 2015 at 7:13 am | #

            That’s what astronauts put on their toast…but also this.

            • Screwball
              Screwball
              October 3, 2015 at 12:06 pm | #

              Here’s your chance, do your dance, at the Space Jam, alright?

      • Dean
        Dean
        October 3, 2015 at 12:14 am | #

        Little League games were particularly trying.

  5. timemonkey
    timemonkey
    October 3, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

    Because while you were leaning against walls pretending not to care Joyce went out and did a lot of shit.

    • newllend(henryvolt)
      newllend(henryvolt)
      October 3, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

      What is she the flash?

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      October 3, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

      Appearing to be cool doesn’t leave you much time for other activities.

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        October 3, 2015 at 8:16 am | #

        She had to practice leaning against walls and disinterestedly look away from people a whole lot.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      October 3, 2015 at 2:35 am | #

      Exactly! There’s a lot of stuff happening out there and Joyce seems to have been at the center of most of it!

      • Screwball
        Screwball
        October 3, 2015 at 12:12 pm | #

        It’s almost as if she’s, like, I don’t know, a character or maybe even the MAIN Character of something like a TV show or webcommic…

        I’m not going crazy, I’m telling you man, All these things happening in such a short time, it’s like it’s all just for someone’s entertainment or something…

  6. newllend(henryvolt)
    newllend(henryvolt)
    October 3, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

    Na Sal that’some just the DoA Universes sense of humor.

  7. caesaria82
    caesaria82
    October 3, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

    This strip makes me very happy 🙂

    • caesaria82
      caesaria82
      October 3, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

      I mean, because they’re talking and becoming friends. Not because trauma makes me happy or anything^^

      • Pantheon the Mantheon
        Pantheon the Mantheon
        October 3, 2015 at 1:08 am | #

        So you say….

    • -Sentinel-
      -Sentinel-
      October 3, 2015 at 12:40 am | #

      same

  8. dailybrad
    dailybrad
    October 3, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

    I’m guessing Sal hasn’t been around Ethan long enough to notice certain things, but I think they did run into each other a few times. I remember Ethan having deja vu but Amber realized why he knew her. I don’t think he did.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      October 3, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

      Ethan felt that he had met her somewhere, but didn’t quite make the connection. He knows that the girl who took him hostage is at the school, but not that it’s Sal.

      • Kryss LaBryn
        Kryss LaBryn
        October 3, 2015 at 11:56 am | #

        Sal pointed out to him that he did know her twin, Walky; they both figured that was why she looked familiar somehow (it was at Joyce’s party but I can’t be arsed to look it up right now).

  9. inqntrol
    inqntrol
    October 3, 2015 at 12:08 am | #

    ,, I am trolled,you are trolled,everyone is being trolled!”

    • Koms
      Koms
      October 3, 2015 at 12:50 am | #

      Even your name is a troll. Trolololo

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      October 3, 2015 at 12:56 am | #

      Well, the song’s stuck in my head now.
      At least it’s a good song.

    • evilmidnightlurker
      evilmidnightlurker
      October 3, 2015 at 2:39 am | #

      I am troll as you are troll and they are troll and we are all trollgether!

      I am the troll man, they are the trollmen, I am the trollrus!

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        October 3, 2015 at 3:55 am | #

        ♫Trolling in the morning
        Trolling in the evening
        Trolling at suppertime
        When trolling’s trolling trolling
        You can be trolling anytime♪

        • inqntrol
          inqntrol
          October 3, 2015 at 4:05 am | #

          Trolling even when you are cooking

  10. poppaboo2electricboogaloo
    poppaboo2electricboogaloo
    October 3, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

    Oh yeah, I forgot Joyce was the Ding Dong Ditcher.

    • Screwball
      Screwball
      October 3, 2015 at 12:16 pm | #

      You mean the “Whiteboard Dingdong Bandit”? Isn’t a Ding Dong Ditcher some human who rings someone’s doorbell, then runs off before getting caught?

      Actually, that kinda sounds like fun…

      • electromagneticDestroyosaur
        electromagneticDestroyosaur
        October 3, 2015 at 12:56 pm | #

        Now we must approach people’s doors, leave phallic drawings on them, and leave before being noticed.

  11. newllend(henryvolt)
    newllend(henryvolt)
    October 3, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

    Guess Sal really likes her guys nerdy and bigger than her….I wonder who fits that bill.

    • Airyu
      Airyu
      October 3, 2015 at 12:16 am | #

      I don’t think she paid enough attention to Ethan to realize he’s nerdy.

    • Airyu
      Airyu
      October 3, 2015 at 12:18 am | #

      Alternate comment: “…butcha yank dem pants an’…”

  12. David Herbert
    David Herbert
    October 3, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

    Okay, Sal, I know you mean well, but it’s not great to be snarky when the homeschool girl is having a panic attack while she opens up to you.

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      October 3, 2015 at 12:57 am | #

      I don’t think she knows how to not snark anymore.

  13. Alan Lafond
    Alan Lafond
    October 3, 2015 at 12:12 am | #

    Sal’s line in the last panel has just been added to my top 5 favourite lines in this comic! 🙂

    Not the top spot, though. That one is still held by Mike, when he answered Joyce’s phone.

    • sjmcc13
      sjmcc13
      October 3, 2015 at 12:30 am | #

      As it should…

    • Screwball
      Screwball
      October 3, 2015 at 12:34 pm | #

      “How come everything you say makes me feel like ah’m being trolled?”

      Would make an interesting book title…

  14. Rectus Flabdominus
    Rectus Flabdominus
    October 3, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

    Sal’s eyebrow in panel 3 lolololol

  15. Edupoet81
    Edupoet81
    October 3, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

    Sal sure is finding out a lot of things about Joyce.

  16. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    October 3, 2015 at 12:14 am | #

    Trolling of Age.

    • DarkoNeko
      DarkoNeko
      October 3, 2015 at 6:35 am | #

      You mean, that’s not the actual title ?

      • electromagneticDestroyosaur
        electromagneticDestroyosaur
        October 3, 2015 at 1:01 pm | #

        Do you feel a growing sense of dread?

        • DarkoNeko
          DarkoNeko
          October 3, 2015 at 4:21 pm | #

          It always was here.

  17. Spencer
    Spencer
    October 3, 2015 at 12:33 am | #

    So Sal is not only acquainted with Amber’s boyfriend, but now she’s making eyes at her other close friend.

    I predict only good things.

    • inqntrol
      inqntrol
      October 3, 2015 at 12:39 am | #

      Yeah,what bad things could happen?

  18. TheGrammarLegionary
    TheGrammarLegionary
    October 3, 2015 at 1:07 am | #

    Entirely tangential to this comic (actually, kinda perpendicular to it), but am I the only one who thinks of Walky as Sal’s LITTLE brother?

    • No Name
      No Name
      October 3, 2015 at 2:56 am | #

      It’s not impossible. Even twins have to be born sequentially.

    • Casimir
      Casimir
      October 3, 2015 at 4:34 am | #

      She mentioned he was her little brother in http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/01-if-the-shoes-split/avail/

    • DarkoNeko
      DarkoNeko
      October 3, 2015 at 6:36 am | #

      Sure, for both size and mentality, but betcha that in a sick sense of irony, David is probably the older Walkerton of the 2.

      • DarkoNeko
        DarkoNeko
        October 3, 2015 at 6:36 am | #

        (yeah, it’d be kinda weird to call him Walky there, they are BOTH walkies ^^;)

        • Kamino Neko
          Kamino Neko
          October 3, 2015 at 7:52 pm | #

          Sal’d probably punch you for calling her Walky.

  19. vlademir1
    vlademir1
    October 3, 2015 at 1:20 am | #

    Damn Willis, that alt text….
    Is Sal supposed to be the audience stand in here?

  20. Badgermole
    Badgermole
    October 3, 2015 at 1:29 am | #

    I have a feeling Joyce is going to open up to Sal about everything, or a lot of things. The cigarette-in-mouth non-commitance makes her an excellent listener.

  21. Dab
    Dab
    October 3, 2015 at 1:43 am | #

    Sal pretends that she doesn’t remembers a person’s name. Thus by law of sarcasm she should hook up with Joe.

  22. Bagge
    Bagge
    October 3, 2015 at 2:31 am | #

    Don’t worry, Sal, it’s a common reaction. Just read the FAQ before you start calling Joyce a Strawman

  23. CJ
    CJ
    October 3, 2015 at 2:38 am | #

    Amazi-Girl will have a meltdown when she finds out her Nemesis is actually a good person.
    Could anyone explain the undertones of being trolled? It seems to mean something like being baited but is it positive, negative a sign of manipulation or what?
    I only know trolling as in ‘dont’t feed the troll’ and this doesn’t apply here.
    Please instruct this clueless German.

    • Chrissy
      Chrissy
      October 3, 2015 at 2:52 am | #

      Trolling is, at its most basic level, playing tricks on people on the Internet, trying to get a reaction from people. It’s always at least slightly negative. Most frequently trolls just try to make people angry because it entertains them to provoke a reaction. I believe that Sal is referring to that aspect: she’s suggesting that Joyce is saying those things to play a joke or to provoke some reaction.

      • Chrissy
        Chrissy
        October 3, 2015 at 2:53 am | #

        Trolls = people who engage in trolling

        • inqntrol
          inqntrol
          October 3, 2015 at 3:16 am | #

          The internet is like a zoo.The only problem is that it doesn’t have ,,no feeding” signs.

          • DarkoNeko
            DarkoNeko
            October 3, 2015 at 6:38 am | #

            Actually, we have a full category of them

            • inqntrol
              inqntrol
              October 3, 2015 at 6:52 am | #

              I really had no idea of the existence of those signs,thanks.

      • Rowen Morland
        Rowen Morland
        October 3, 2015 at 5:04 am | #

        “Trolling is, at its most basic level, playing tricks on people on the Internet, trying to get a reaction from people. It’s always at least slightly negative. ”

        This is pretty fair for your average internet interaction. But if you troll people that you know it doesn’t have to be negative, because the value of the relationship and understanding you share can swing the interplay between the two of you into the positive as friendly banter. Perhaps the next revolution in internet socialisation will be bringing us all close enough through shared empathy that this won’t just be true among friends.

        (Jks, humans will totes be skeletons on fire from nuclear war/climate change/rapture before that happens. lololololololol)

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      October 3, 2015 at 2:57 am | #

      Chrissy gave a pretty good summary. It’s derived from a fishing term, and generally refers to baiting people to get a reaction out of them.
      People being people, and the internet being the internet, the desired reaction is often rage or a misguided attempt to educate someone.

      • Kryss LaBryn
        Kryss LaBryn
        October 3, 2015 at 12:10 pm | #

        CJ, it’s sort of like a (usually more extreme or slightly malicious) version of “pulling one’s leg,” if you’re familiar with that term.

        “baiting people to get a reaction out of them.” –Years before the term “trolling” came about, but I totally did it with one guy I was hanging around with at the time. He was one of these people who is always right about everything, even if he’s never experienced something before and you have literally decades of experience with it. Used to drive me absolutely crazy arguing about stuff he didn’t have a clue about, as if he held all the knowledge and *I*, who had vastly more experience in it than he, didn’t know squat.

        So I got back at him by arguing things that were blatantly wrong just to annoy him (which it did, in a most satisfactory manner, lol). Like, for example, once I argued that submarines blew their ballast to sink, rather than to rise; another time I argued that despite us both knowing perfectly well that in the Middle Ages, armour was actually blackened to prevent it from rusting, that actually even the stuff they wore in battle was kept shiny so they could use the reflective surface to flash sunlight into their opponent’s eyes and blind them–that one made him literally hopping mad, it was hilarious.

        Childish, I know, but hey, college; plus he was really annoying when he did it, and when he did, he wasn’t trolling.

        • Bicycle Bill
          Bicycle Bill
          October 3, 2015 at 12:36 pm | #

          We used to call it “jerking someone’s chain”.

  24. BenRG
    BenRG
    October 3, 2015 at 2:40 am | #

    In this strip, Sal is learning that she actually doesn’t know anywhere nearly as much as she thought she did about Joyce and what’s going on about campus. I honestly think that her head will end up spinning if Joyce gives her a full update!

    I don’t think that she is going to be happy about learning she ‘s been that out of touch!

    • ailorn
      ailorn
      October 3, 2015 at 4:01 am | #

      Sal doesn’t strike me as someone who needs to know everything going on around campus. She seems reluctant to interact with people in general. People just keep pulling her into their stuff.

  25. Heavensrun
    Heavensrun
    October 3, 2015 at 3:31 am | #

    Three people, alt text. Three people.

    • fogel
      fogel
      October 3, 2015 at 3:43 am | #

      !! Dang. Heavensrun’s comment wasn’t posted yet (on my screen), until I posted. I’d say H was trolling (a post to draw a reaction?), but I spose that you can’t troll backwards in time. So, first in with a reference to the altext: well done!

  26. fogel
    fogel
    October 3, 2015 at 3:36 am | #

    So now 3 random people with no connection to each other know that Joyce can’t walk alone.

    • electromagneticDestroyosaur
      electromagneticDestroyosaur
      October 3, 2015 at 1:04 pm | #

      I can’t tell whether you are being sarcastic.

  27. Arianod
    Arianod
    October 3, 2015 at 3:37 am | #

    Can you feel the bonding tonight ^^

    • fogel
      fogel
      October 3, 2015 at 3:44 am | #

      James Bonding.

  28. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    October 3, 2015 at 4:01 am | #

    I genuinely believe Sal doesn’t know Walky’s girlfriend’s name is Dorothy. I think she’s got her head so far up her motorcycle tail pipe she’s completely missed her brother is in a serious relationship (for probably the first time).

    Of course, I also genuinely believe Joe has so much sex and goes on so many dates both bad and otherwise he doesn’t know Joyce’s name either–punching aside.

    • drs
      drs
      October 3, 2015 at 9:07 am | #

      Joe and Joyce are both in the gender studies class.

    • Sunny
      Sunny
      October 3, 2015 at 3:57 pm | #

      Actually, Sal knows her brother has a girlfriend and said she was nice, clever, and respectable. The kind you go for when you’re 30. Not the kind of girl Sal would roll her eyes at.

      That was during tutoring with the bowtie TA whose name eludes me atm.

  29. DJTsurugi
    DJTsurugi
    October 3, 2015 at 4:36 am | #

    Joyce is just that special kind of crazy. ~<3

  30. Sammael
    Sammael
    October 3, 2015 at 6:17 am | #

    Joyce, the infamous Ding Dong Doodler!
    Imagine her in a Riddle costume. But with Ding Dongs on it.
    What? Amazi-Girl needs her own Rogues Gallery.

  31. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    October 3, 2015 at 6:19 am | #

    Amazi-girl won’t be walking you through campus, I’m afraid.

  32. Mada
    Mada
    October 3, 2015 at 8:16 am | #

    Oh my god…I just read the alt-text.

    The only three people who know about Joyce’s mental state right now…

    …are the three major players in the convenience store holdup.

    DAMN YOU, WILLIS.

    • No Name
      No Name
      October 3, 2015 at 11:45 am | #

      Actually, Amazi-Girl wasn’t born yet. She was conceived then, but she wasn’t a person yet.

      Wait… Amazi-Girl has two mommies?

      • DarkoNeko
        DarkoNeko
        October 3, 2015 at 4:30 pm | #

        And a gay daddy, apparently. So, 3 parents ?

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      October 3, 2015 at 9:07 pm | #

      The convenience store clerk knows?!?!?!

  33. brumagem
    brumagem
    October 3, 2015 at 8:29 am | #

    Even everyone in-comic agrees Ethan needs a Slipshine.

    • zach
      zach
      October 3, 2015 at 9:29 pm | #

      Especially Joyce.

  34. a snow ʍousɐ
    a snow ʍousɐ
    October 3, 2015 at 9:43 am | #

    Alt text hinting Amazi-Girl is Ethan

    • electromagneticDestroyosaur
      electromagneticDestroyosaur
      October 3, 2015 at 1:07 pm | #

      Or Sal (my pet theory). That scene where Amazi-girl beats her up is metaphorical.

      • Marie
        Marie
        October 3, 2015 at 9:27 pm | #

        Nah Sal can’t be Ethan, they spoke together at Joyce’s dorm party.

  35. Spencer
    Spencer
    October 3, 2015 at 1:12 pm | #

    Come to think of it, Sal (and Carla for that matter) are surprisingly nonplussed about Amazi-Girl despite her trying to assault at the parking lot.

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      October 3, 2015 at 8:15 pm | #

      nonplussed

      *insert Inigo Montoya quote here*

      • Kamino Neko
        Kamino Neko
        October 3, 2015 at 8:18 pm | #

        … Bugger, how did I screw that up? The definition of nonplussed, since I can’t botch a link.

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          October 3, 2015 at 8:19 pm | #

          dangit dude your making me seem unsmartly on the internet

          • Kamino Neko
            Kamino Neko
            October 3, 2015 at 8:23 pm | #

            Considering I botched my attempt to correct you wittily, you’ve got good company there. >_>

            • Spencer
              Spencer
              October 3, 2015 at 8:25 pm | #

              I can never get those either, and I’m a computer science student.

  36. Caffieanted
    Caffieanted
    October 3, 2015 at 1:50 pm | #

    I thought of Hostess Ding Dongs when she said that.

  37. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    October 3, 2015 at 8:19 pm | #

    Will Joyce have her Start of Darkness soon and become the Hostess Ding Dong Bandit?

  38. Lordess of Madness
    Lordess of Madness
    October 3, 2015 at 8:43 pm | #

    Could it be… Sal is Joyce’s therapist-substitute friend…?

  39. Marie
    Marie
    October 3, 2015 at 9:14 pm | #

    I think this is a good thing, because if this situation comes up again Sal can probably bully Walky or someone (or ask regularly Marcie) into walking Joyce back. Also because Joyce seems to be leaning toward seeing a therapist and either way has been encouraged to get help.

  40. Hinoron
    Hinoron
    October 8, 2015 at 9:56 am | #

    I feel like it took me WAAAY too long to notice Joyce was actually afraid to walk outside alone. Mostly because she never did it.

    Not until she tried to split with Ethan and stepped outside to hallucinate a Ryan (that was the douche’s name, right) in every person walking by, was it spelled out clearly enough for me to see.

    • Hinoron
      Hinoron
      October 8, 2015 at 9:59 am | #

      While I’m pondering things… is this count of comments strictly linear, or does it follow some other system?

      If the former, there are now 850,085 comments for this webcomic. We will probably hit a million in a year. O.O

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