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Dr. Frizzle
Sitting in an old Monte Carlo? ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
anyway, Walky can’t help gloating that his package is so big
…and also the box he got =3
Shit I snorted
Lol, better song than me, I defaulted to “wild wild west”
I got “pistollero” in mind instead for some reason.
My thoughts went to the Eagles song
All I could here was the “Hell Frozen Over” version.
Love that album. Had it on cassette tape, listnened to it for hours on ened during a road trip. The version of Hotel California is fantastic.
And also the delivery he received from his mother.
I think the packages contained new eyes for everyone. The greatest gift of all.
I think Willis is kind of easing the twins into having sclera.
…what
The reflection of light in their eyes
Come to think of it, I don’t Walky’s eyes have ever shown sclera in them before up until now. It’s like watching an episode from the first season of Adventure Time after being accustomed for many years to Finn’s dots-for-eyes.
Actually, Walky’s eyes have shown sclera two times in recent strips:
<a href="http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/03-when-god-closes-the-door/personal-2/"Here and here!
That first link went wrong:
Here it is again!
don’t forget
One sclera, many sclerae (pronounced scler-eh, unless you were born in ancient Rome, in which case you’d pronounce it scler-ayy).
At first I thought that said Monte Christo.
Sal will betray Walky to the French Authorities
or a ham-and-cheese French Toast sandwich?
If you’re going to betray someone for a sandwich, may as well make it a delicious one.
Which is why I recommend trying to hold out for a Reuben- or failing that, working down to a Muffuletta.
Mmmmm.
Oh good, I’m not the only one.
I guess Sals like The Dude. She hates The Fucking Eagles!
I can’t imagine her liking CCR, though.
I wonder if Sal isn’t a Motorhead fan.
I can. But not if anyone’s watching.
EVERYONE likes CCR.
It’s a law.
If it was a law, wouldn’t it be more Rock ‘n’ Roll not to listen to CCR?
Or tapedecks :/
Nor does she share the Dude’s fondness for weed. She also probably would’ve dodged that cop’s coffee mug.
RIGHTLY.
SO.
Sibling love at its finest.
Yup. I’m actually glad when they find the way back to their old sibling dynamics.
…I like his song choice.
Have brothers, can confirm. Sibling interaction 100% legit.
yup!
The last panel is how me and my sister used to “play” while we were home.
Totes. My brother and I were super punch-y as kids lmao. We actually got along really well (still do), but there was always SO much, like, light-hearted violence xD
Yep. Although myself and my brothers always somehow ended up trying to bury each other alive with stuffed animals in the end when we started “playing”. In hindsight, we were weird kids.
my siblings and i had a game called “pancake” that involved all the stuffed animals being pushed, all at once, off the top bunk bed onto whoever was lying on the floor below. we, too, were weird kids.
Were they dinosaur stuffed animals? 0:)
Gonna admit that actually sounds pretty awesome.
I challenge you to find a single pair of siblings of similar age that never play-fought. My bother and I did it all the time when we were younger. He always seemed to be the more aggressive between us, but because I was the slightly older one, I could take pretty much everything he could dish out.
It did annoy him when he was actually mad at me though, considering that I could never stop laughing whenever he tried to hit me. (It wasn’t intentional, I was just ticklish.)
We had a game called Crush Me, the object of the game is exactly what it sounds like. It worked because the bigger sibling, who was getting crushed/wrestled, was responsible for the safety of the littler one(s) who were crushing him.
In college I encountered my first Only Child. When I playfully kicked him off a bed, we were both shocked and confused; he was like, “why did you kick me?” and I was all “why’d a kick make you fall?”
My sister and I, a year and a half apart, never fought. In fact none of my four siblings and I ever so much as wrestled. It just wasn’t done at our house.
She and I would play elaborate games together with our toys, though. We got along fine, and punching wasn’t part of it.
My siblings and I did both. Sometimes we played really long games where my dolls were going on adventures to island jungles or causing mayhem at school….
And other times we would just all get into a room and have an every-person-for-themself wrestling match until our mom started yelling at us.
My siblings and I make up for you. We had a war of escalation. We were always super-punchy, largely due to a pretty rough time when we were packed 12 people to a double-wide. My little brother became a Gold Gloves boxer, my sister a powerlifter, and I’m now a veteran martial artist. We no longer hit each other, like Mutually Assured Destruction.
I mean, that, and we’re all adults in our 30s now. That helps.
My tomboy sis was almost 3 years younger and our fighting was mostly verbal. At times it included pushing and shoving and even hitting each other with pillows, but not so much on the punching because you don’t hit a girl and I guess she followed my lead. There was quite a bit of it because when I was bored I would entertain myself by annoying my sister. Well I guess she punched occasionally in our late teens but never so hard I couldn’t ignore it. Once we were no longer living in the same house we got along famously and she turned out to be a pretty cool person.
Heh. walky hurting always funny
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Yes. Yes it is.
why did it take s long for someone to do that? and who’da thought that it wouldn’t be mike?
To punch Walky?
Actually, I think Sal’s strangling Walky.
You don’t go “oof” when you’re getting strangled!
Must test this emperically. For Science.
Oh, Sal! Come here. Um, on second thought, where’s Walky?
He’s too busy living the drama-free dream.
Way to go and ruin it for him now we are going to see him having some major drama in his life just to compensate for your idle comment
And for once I don’t need the Muzak!
Here’s the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDNtqy0zjJA
“I hate the eagles”
-the Dude
I’m pretty sure its how the package is handled that counts.
Said Ripley to the android Bishop.
Why don’t you come to your senses~
These things that are pleasing you have hurt you somehow
Well, these things are certainly hurting me.
“Jaaaaaaammmmmeeeesssss Deeeeeeeeaaaaannnnn”…..nope, doesn’t work as well.
One of my favorite characters AND my favorite Eagles song? Everything’s coming up mangrove
if i had my way that would have much less e’s https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xh0rpmr8os
Now play that one at 2X speed
dang, that’s like twice as listenable as the original =o
Now try listening at 4X.
Awwww, they really do love each other. ^_^
Only a FOOL turns down a free meal.
A free meal is like a wizard. It’s never late or early. It appears exactly when it means to.
A free meal with family is never free.
A meal that costs my dignity is still free. – Garland, 8bit.
…is that a Galasso commercial?
Ah man, now the want to see real Galasso ads.
So say we all.
Flipping back and forth between this and IW!, “witty” is definitely the superior setting for a Walky.
I wonder if Dumbing Walky will ever get the same level of really fucking pissed off that IW Walky sometimes got.
That Walky and this one are pretty fundamentally different characters, so I’m not certain what kind of situation could prompt it. This one is just kind of a goofy, spoiled kid, while Walkyverse!Walky used that goofiness to bury a frightening amount of rage, and things broke when he let it out.
Well, they are and they aren’t. If this Walky was faced with circumstances which led to a frightening amount of rage, he would totally stick it behind a wall of goofiness. Same person, kind of, at different ages and molded by different circumstances. But there is an inner core of Walkyness.
Good to know someone’s still doing ‘Phrasing!’
People from three months ago are still doing ‘Phrasing!’
Question: was “phrasing” specific to Archer? Cause that was the only thing I know it from.
I’m pretty sure “phrasing” was always a thing but Archer definitely elevated it to meme status. It’s the first thing that pops up when you google it.
It’ll never go away…
Waiting for.someone to protest “phrase-policing.”
Waiting for Mike to invent “rephrasing.”
Would have said waiting for Yoomoe to illustrate Sal’s small package, but I haven’t checked recently.
Oh, Walky. When will you come to your senses?
“What’s the definition of a vagina? That’s the box the penis comes in! Ow!”
– Andrew Dice Clay
And the penis is the memory stick.
Casts losing your memory in a whole new light.
lmao I love that song.
Okay, that was awesome. Not even a Walky fan, but he nailed a direct hit before Sal did.
And then Sal did.
Wait. Does this make Walky Archer? I’m now picturing him with an archer voice. And it works waaayyy to well for me.
I don’t get it
I don’t either…
There’s three of us now.
Make that four. He looks cute with eyes though.
Desperado is a song about some guy that needs to let somebody love him… “before it’s too late”. So Walky’s semi-jokingly telling his sister she needs to open up and let people get to know her or she’s going to be a lonely person.
Unless you’re talking about the “PHRASING” thing. That’s because Sal’s “small package” comment could be construed as saying she has a tiny dick.
“Desperado, oh, you ain’t gettin’ no younger
Your pain and your hunger, they’re drivin’ you home
And freedom, oh freedom well, that’s just some people talkin’
Your prison is walking through this world all alone”
This one?
Yeah, that one.
deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
100% justified!
Sal, you’re getting a free dinner with otherwise decent people.
This is very rare in college.
Give your wallet a break and take this opportunity.
Are we not doing phrasing anymore?
The only thing I knew “phrasing” from was Archer, and even they weren’t sure if they were still doing it.
1. Phrasing.
2. Archer brought it back in the second episode, and Lana said it last week, so it’s back for now.
LANAAAAAAAAAA!
i badly want the next strip to be sal just whaling the crap out of walky ugh
I really like how much these two like each other. Joyce and Jocelyne is more like my relationship with my siblings, “go away stop doing that”, instead of “heyyyy…. are you okay. I know you aren’t okay, I want to help but not be too emotional.”
Nice choice of song there, Walky.
“I am doing just fine”. Or the most common lie ever.
Closely followed by “very few people are eaten by badgers”
No, it’s “Just the tip”
which brings us back to early Archer!
She was going to punch him sooner or later.
It’s her brother asking. This does put a different slant on it.
Siblings do this sort of thing, most I know anyway. My brother and I were close right up through adult hood. Doesn’t mean we didn’t trade off a punch now and then as kids, along with trips, rug burns, and stupid practical jokes.
I hope Sal goes, at least for the free meal, and it can’t hurt to see what exactly Dorothy has to say.
Based on what Walky told Dorothy, my money is that the meeting leads to a huge misunderstanding between Sal and Dorothy. But I’m hoping otherwise.
Missing 7th panel: Sal breaks the 4th wall and punches the title text.
And also punches the alt text.
Then what would the alt text be? The 5th wall @_@
It is below the comic so it’s not a wall, it is the floor.
Should we be worried for Ana’s safety?
Probably. There’s no way that’s missing her. She’s always there RIGHT when the punchline hits.
The plus side to lying to Dorothy is, now Walky can tell Sal he didn’t tell Dorothy about her “problems” without lying.
It’s not the plus side, it’s kinda what he should have done, since, as we can tell, Sal would not have wanted him to tell.
And I still say he didn’t lie. He just didn’t give out any extra information. He said “I ‘unno,” but left out “but Sal thinks it’s racism, and I’m startin’ to wonder if she’s right.”
‘I ‘unno’ is an untruthful statement though, because Walky does know why Sal thinks she is ‘underappreciated’ as he put it and he has seen evidence that points to her being right. It is fundamentally a lie he is telling to avoid talking about the parts about the situation he finds too uncomfortable.
But what she thinks is not necessarily what he thinks. Yes, we know that Sal is probably right, but he doesn’t know what to think. And he wasn’t asked what Sal thinks.
I don’t know what signs you are talking about. The only reason I know it’s racism is because Sal brought it up, and I don’t think Willis would put it in there just to disprove it. I’m just taking her word on faith.
Walky just started noticing now. So he has the same information we have, minus knowing there’s an author, but plus every reason to doubt that his parents would actually be racist.
Everything in the comic points to me that Walky is not ready to accept that his parents are racist. And, as long as that is the case, saying he doesn’t know isn’t a lie. It’s at most being judicious with the truth and not answering questions he wasn’t asked.
Can’t wait for Monday.
Why, what happens Monday? Is the comic on hiatus this weekend?
Ignore that, just realized you were talking about the notice.
Trying to figure out who stars Monday. Am I missing a comic, or is this a mystery to everyone else?
*Spoiler alert*
Judging from Willis’s previews, it’s Amazi-Girl and Danny.
Goddamnit that’s a case of cokes Willis. 12 cokes this month. Stop making me laugh to the point I waste a can of coke.
Damn, that’s a lot of Coke.
If keeps happening, Walky will have whites of the eyes on a permanent basis.
“To the end of the line” Kinda wanna guess the relevance of that to figure out what characters will be in it but it’s just vague enough that I can’t even fathom. Who do we know that is related to lines in some way. Is it a quote? Joe? Is Joe in line for the sex? I have no idea.
Do you really wanna know? Because there’s, like, preview panels on tumblr, so we know who’s in it. Just making sure you wanna know because spoilers
Poop I saw it on the scroll down. I was gonna have so much fun guessing the context!
Well there’s… lines involved^^ I can’t afford slipshine, but I am sort of curious as to the mechanics of how that all works out. Maybe I can get someone to give me a retelling afterwards lol.
It’s a pun on the use of the grappling hook, and I’m also guessing it’s a reference to that line from Winter Soldier, the one that FLAGRANTLY PLAGIARIZED from Pokemon the First Movie.
I give them both points for trying. Having actual emotional conversations with your siblings is hard. At least in my experience. Bad jokes and punching are about how it goes.
Yeah, my brother and I can usually only have honest emotional conversations after one or both of us has been drinking.
It’s kind of in the same vein for me and my brother, except instead of drink it’s late at night when we’re too tired to worry about inhibitions or dignity or whatever it is.
Sure, he’s got a black eye… but I think it’s worth it.
….why don’t you come to your senses… you been out riding fences for so long now…
Dammit Dumbiverse Walky, think before you speak! YOUR PREDECESSOR WAS MY DAMN TEENHOOD HERO FOR CHRIST’S SAKE!
Shit, I should probably choose a Teenhood hero before I stop being a teen.
Eh, Inigo Montoya
Wisely chosen. I had… umm… Deadpool towards the end there… before that… Rincewind, or possibly Zaphod…
*Coughs awkwardly.* So, yeah, wise choice.
Back when I was 12 and in my “I’m smarter than everybody ’cause I like reading books” phase, it was Artemis Fowl. I thought he was cool and super dreamy.
Once I got a little older I got tired of his smugness and started liking Fred and George Weasley and Charlotte Meilswetski better.
Mine was Aragorn. Tied with Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Yep. Damn but I just realized how nerdy I am.
Mine is Haruhi Suzumiya.
Because why not.
Your gravatar just blushed again.
Yeah but your teen-hood hero didn’t really think before he spoke either.
She’s gonna make Walky come to his senses.
Sorry, Sal. Walky wins this one.
Another Pornographique? Already? Shoot. I needs to get me one of them Pornographs so I can play it. Wally World, here I come!
It’s a pornography store! I was buying pornography!
also I had actually been wondering how long it’d been since the last one–I let my subscription lapse b/c it’s slightly cheaper to just binge at every other Willis update =p
“…Better let somebody love you
before it’s too laaaaaaaate.”
Like the Dude, Sal doesn’t dig the Eagles.
I used to own that album on cassette tape. I gave it away when I realized I don’t own a tape player anymore and probably never will again.
Blah blah Danger Zone blah.
(I’m so sleepy.)
Like all siblings everywhere, Walky and Sal know nearly instinctively how to get underneath each other’s skin. Of course, if he can taunt Sal into breaking her self-imposed isolation, a few bruises would be worth it!
I looooved that song when I was about 13 and had no real frame of reference for anything it’s about.
Dammit… My dad loved that song… Now I gotta go open a bottle of Tito’s and put it on repeat…
Walky… WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR EYES?
What a desperadoof.
Damn, that song makes me all kinds of nostalgic. My mom used to sing that song to me in my childhood as a lullaby. Along with House of the Rising Sun, Landslide by Fleetwood Mac, among others.
1st concert I ever went to back in 1977. Still have the ticket stub, paid $7.50 to see them (which was like 5-6 hours of paycheck back then).
Literally the best Johnny Cash cover. Walky’s parents weren’t all bad if they let him hear this number.
They probably just listen to the Eagles’ version.
The Langley Schools Music Project version’s pretty amazing, as well.
Thinking that the Walkertons, missing the point entirely, would have played it for the kids to put “Child Performer!” into their heads.
I prefer Linda Ronstadt’s version.
I want her small package.
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Oh God, I thought the Sal and Walky tags applied to the Slipshine comic for a moment. That would be… awkward, to say the least.
“OOF!” — Walk
Why don’t you come to your senses
You’ve been out riding fences
For so long
I…I don’t get it.
For reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDNtqy0zjJA
I’ve heard of the song. What I don’t understand for sure is why he was singing it. My best guess is that he thinks she’s being stubborn and pushing everyone away from her.
Though, in the song, that aspect seems to be more about romantic love, which gives me pause. Is there maybe some fictional work where this song features that he may be referencing?
Or is that last paragraph just thinking about it too much?
C’man, Sal, exaggerating the comparative size of one’s package is the GUY’s job.
Oh Walky. Start with a backflip comment and mocking her about being cool (you’re not cool, just successful and loved). Move to Dorothy (not you) wanting her to come to dinner. Then add a joke about her “package”. Yep, Sal is now fully primed to explode. The Desperado part was the least offensive thing you said, but it was the last straw and you knew it.
I’m just trying to figure out what couple is even still together on campus for there to be a slip shine for…
Danny and Amazigirl as long as Sal’s advice doesn’t take them to the end of the line.
Why don’t you come to your senses?
Been out ridin’ fences for too long now.
You’re a hard one, and I know that you got your reasons,
but these things that are pleasin’ you
Hurt you somehow.
Don’t you draw the queen of diamonds, boy
She’ll beat you if she’s able
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet
[…]
You better let somebody love you before it’s too late
Is he shipping his sister and his girlfriend?
I can tell the Queen of Diamonds by the way she shines
Come to Daddy on an inside straight
I got no chance of losing this time
wait, he’s saying “desperado”? could anyone explain the meaning of this to me? Sorry if anyone already did for someone else, I couldn’t find it. And forgive my poor english :I
He is starting to sing the song Desperado by the Eagles. Listen to the song and you’ll understand the reference, and then you can understand how the reference is being used here.
The word itself is from Spanish.