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Trap

by David M Willis on April 25, 2011 at 12:01 am
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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    April 25, 2011 at 12:01 am | #

    As long as they’re by the window.

    Or, hell, find her bike and put the traps on THAT.

  2. Rognik
    Rognik
    April 25, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

    Still won’t work. Unless you trap the windows.

    No one ever checks the windows. Or looks up, for that matter.

    • Bekah
      Bekah
      April 25, 2011 at 12:40 am | #

      Leslie does…

      Oh wait… wrong comic.

      • Rikushadow5
        Rikushadow5
        April 25, 2011 at 3:15 pm | #

        Leslie probably still looks up, unless the SciFi channel (No, I will NOT spell it correctly) doesn’t exist in this universe.

        • voodoo_curse
          voodoo_curse
          April 26, 2011 at 10:13 am | #

          You did spell it correctly. They’re the ones that spell it wrong.

  3. Gnoka
    Gnoka
    April 25, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

    Board up the windows, Billie.

    • Henry
      Henry
      April 25, 2011 at 12:07 am | #

      Sal will invent other windows to come through.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        April 25, 2011 at 12:20 am | #

        What floor are they on? I imagine her and her bike could arrange a window anywhere up to third.

      • Cranberrier
        Cranberrier
        April 25, 2011 at 1:40 am | #

        Since when does Sal use openings of any kind? She’d just go through the wall.

        • dchorror
          dchorror
          April 25, 2011 at 8:52 am | #

          She doesn’t have super strength here, so she may have to resort to openings that already exist.

        • Rognik
          Rognik
          April 25, 2011 at 2:48 pm | #

          Roomies-generation Sal stuck to windows. It’s only later that she just made her own entrances.

      • Zem
        Zem
        April 25, 2011 at 10:41 am | #

        Sal is basically like Santa, she can fit her body through any hole that it can fit her head through.

        Or was that Spider-Man.

    • David Herbert
      David Herbert
      April 25, 2011 at 12:22 am | #

      Well, to be fair to Billie, I don’t think she knows Sal uses the windows.

  4. Paranoia
    Paranoia
    April 25, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

    Oh Sal, you so cray-cray.

  5. David Herbert
    David Herbert
    April 25, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    Why doesn’t she just leave Sal a note saying “We need to talk or I’m torching all your stuff. With my penis.”

    • knowwonattawl
      knowwonattawl
      April 25, 2011 at 12:05 am | #

      I think that should be revised to “We need to talk faaaaaaace to faaaaaaace or I’m torching all your stuff. With my penis. For a nickel.”

      • Tristan J
        Tristan J
        April 25, 2011 at 12:08 am | #

        I can’t figure out how to work Joeing into that, or rather I choose not to.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          April 25, 2011 at 5:36 am | #

          Joeing her stuff would undoubtly result in ickky stains, so it is for the best that you don’t go there.

          • Loki
            Loki
            April 25, 2011 at 10:01 am | #

            That’s why you have to burn it afterward!

          • Cranberrier
            Cranberrier
            April 25, 2011 at 10:40 am | #

            Your gravatar made this comment infinitely better.

      • lord of dance
        lord of dance
        April 25, 2011 at 12:17 am | #

        more so than the fire, i’m scared to think of billie doing ‘anything’ with her penis. but at least its reasonably priced

        • Tristan J
          Tristan J
          April 25, 2011 at 1:08 am | #

          Unlike your mother.

      • Commander Clash
        Commander Clash
        April 25, 2011 at 8:47 am | #

        Using ones penis is unsanity. You just leave them a note saying, “Something in your room has been in your toliet. Good luck finding out what.” I know any college dorm person could go relatively insane trying to figure out just WHAT you put in their toliet.

        • Rognik
          Rognik
          April 25, 2011 at 2:51 pm | #

          Especially if nothing got dumped in the toilet at all! Paranoia abounds!

          • Commander Clash
            Commander Clash
            April 26, 2011 at 8:54 pm | #

            Nah, when my friend did this to his former roommate the thing he had put in the toliet…toliet brush.

  6. Tristan J
    Tristan J
    April 25, 2011 at 12:05 am | #

    IT’S A TRAP

    Oh God I’m so sorry.

    • addude
      addude
      April 25, 2011 at 12:08 am | #

      Don’t be, Don’t be

      • calendarman27
        calendarman27
        April 25, 2011 at 12:22 am | #

        this comment thread can’t handle memes of that magnitude!!

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          April 25, 2011 at 3:18 am | #

          Oh but of cause it can.

        • MeHael
          MeHael
          April 25, 2011 at 3:23 am | #

          Sal will have that bike down; we’ve got to give her more time!

  7. Matt of Steel
    Matt of Steel
    April 25, 2011 at 12:05 am | #

    Wacky idea… leave the stupid thing on her bed for her to sign.

    You’ve got to grow a brain Billie … even if it hurts your faaaaace.

    • lord of dance
      lord of dance
      April 25, 2011 at 12:10 am | #

      nerds have brains. she’s a cheerleader

      • calendarman27
        calendarman27
        April 25, 2011 at 12:13 am | #

        where once there was a brain, now there is only booze

    • Henry
      Henry
      April 25, 2011 at 10:55 am | #

      In all fairness, Sal might decide not to sign it just because she didn’t want to.

  8. Shift
    Shift
    April 25, 2011 at 12:29 am | #

    I really can’t wait to find out why is Sal going to such lengths to avoid being seen by her roommate.

    • bramblepatch
      bramblepatch
      April 25, 2011 at 3:48 am | #

      I hadn’t thought of that. They would have known each other as kids, right? I mean, if Billie and Walky are still childhood friends, and Walky and Sal weren’t separated at birth…

      Crazy theory that probably has no merit whatsoever: Billie had something to do with the convenience store incident, but Sal ended up taking all the blame.

  9. fezzam
    fezzam
    April 25, 2011 at 12:29 am | #

    http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/04-the-bechdel-test/z/ why not confront her in class.. they are all in the same one…

    • Joebo
      Joebo
      April 25, 2011 at 1:46 am | #

      First day, didn’t realize that it would be such work to track her down. Second day (third, I know) she missed the class entirely.

    • Loki
      Loki
      April 25, 2011 at 10:04 am | #

      Does she even know what Sal looks like?

      • bramblepatch
        bramblepatch
        April 25, 2011 at 12:40 pm | #

        Yeah. Besides, she went to elementary school with the Walkertons. Even if she hasn’t seen a lot of Sal lately, “like Walky but a chick” would be a pretty good guess.

  10. Ridureyu
    Ridureyu
    April 25, 2011 at 12:32 am | #

    Replace 8:00 with 7:15 and give the main character a penis, and that just about describes every morning for me in college!

    I loved that one time I was up until 5:00 three nights in a row fixing footnotes (senior thesis), and at the end of the week, I just hallucinated my way through the day.

  11. Parismio
    Parismio
    April 25, 2011 at 12:40 am | #

    Damn what does Sal do at night?

    • iSaidCandleja-
      iSaidCandleja-
      April 25, 2011 at 12:48 am | #

      Your mom. For a nickel.

      • Parismio
        Parismio
        April 25, 2011 at 2:18 am | #

        why does your gravatar makes it sound like its a good thing?

    • wnderjif
      wnderjif
      April 25, 2011 at 12:51 am | #

      she moonlights as stooley the amazing stool.

  12. Prior Semblance
    Prior Semblance
    April 25, 2011 at 1:25 am | #

    Just sleep in her bed, thats sure to get her attention =p

    • Malph
      Malph
      April 25, 2011 at 2:42 am | #

      She already got an ass beating once this week. She doesn’t need another one (which may or may not be worse than anything Ruth can do to her).

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      April 25, 2011 at 2:46 pm | #

      Then Sal just takes Billie’s bed. Wouldn’t work until both beds were occupied by warm bodies.

      • Rikushadow5
        Rikushadow5
        April 25, 2011 at 3:19 pm | #

        And thus Joe becomes a solution.

  13. Joebo
    Joebo
    April 25, 2011 at 9:19 am | #

    So is Ethan gay in this universe?

    • Chrisby
      Chrisby
      April 25, 2011 at 8:22 pm | #

      Well he said he’s gay, so….

      …he may just be in denial about his heterosexuality.

  14. Loki
    Loki
    April 25, 2011 at 10:02 am | #

    I she’d be able to catch Sal if Ethan was gay in this universe. I wonder if he’s gay?

  15. Jason
    Jason
    April 25, 2011 at 11:45 am | #

    I didn’t recognize Billie without her glasses at first. For an instant I thought it was a fatter Robin waking up from a Cadbury Creme Egg bender (just after Easter, you know).

    Also, is the first frame implying that they live on the top floor? If so, I’m very impressed by Sal’s wall-climbing abilities.

    • Robin
      Robin
      April 25, 2011 at 1:52 pm | #

      Which would be awesome, Robin wakes up from a Cadbury Cream Egg bender in an alternate dimension

      • Rikushadow5
        Rikushadow5
        April 25, 2011 at 3:22 pm | #

        That happens in every dimension. Even this one. Robin just wakes up from the Insulin Shock in SP! instead of dying from her pancreas going “NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU~GASP. X_X”

  16. Chrisby
    Chrisby
    April 25, 2011 at 7:54 pm | #

    Well let’s think here….Sal’s basically Batman…. so what’s Batman weak against?

    Probably not bear traps.

    • FazIsAwesome
      FazIsAwesome
      April 25, 2011 at 9:49 pm | #

      So Sal can breathe in space?…Not suprised.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      April 25, 2011 at 10:48 pm | #

      Sal is Batman? Wouldn’t that mean that Ethan could become straight for her?

      • CWR
        CWR
        April 27, 2011 at 3:34 am | #

        No – he’d just be gay for her. *rimshot*

        Batman’s weak against threats to Robin…nah, too easy.

  17. MacaroniPterodactyl
    MacaroniPterodactyl
    April 25, 2011 at 8:11 pm | #

    And then we learn that everything that’s occured up to this point is just Billy’s drunken dream.

  18. Hannover Fist
    Hannover Fist
    April 25, 2011 at 8:19 pm | #

    Instead of bear traps, she should get herself one of the motion tracker from Aliens.
    Billie: I’ve got something! thirty meters…twenty-five…
    Sarah: She got past the barricades?
    Billie: Twelve meters…six…two…
    Sarah: That inside the room!
    Billie: It’s readin’ right man!
    Walky: She must have found anothe way in, something we missed…

  19. jdb1984
    jdb1984
    April 26, 2011 at 11:06 pm | #

    I have a feeling Sal doesn’t even use her dorm room

  20. Kelsey
    Kelsey
    July 8, 2011 at 11:08 am | #

    I just want to know where she’d acquire said bear traps.

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