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by David M Willis on April 8, 2017 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - The Thing I Was Before

└ Tags: amber, sal

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  1. AnvilPro
    AnvilPro
    April 8, 2017 at 12:05 am | #

    Sal doesn’t even want a privacy chair, she’s just looking to start trouble

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      April 8, 2017 at 2:18 am | #

      Heh, I actually believe that.

      “Oooops, Marcie, looks like I got in trouble again. To bad MY BEST FRIEND was not around to keep me in check, Marcie. Maybe I’ll go and start some more trouble now, Marcie.”

      • Pablo360
        Pablo360
        April 8, 2017 at 3:33 pm | #

        Sal: “I’m a real troublemaker, Marcie.”

        Marcie:

        Sal: “It’s not like I like your or anything, b-baka!”

    • Ophidiophile
      Ophidiophile
      April 8, 2017 at 4:36 am | #

      Yeah, it does seem out of character. Sal doesn’t use those chairs; she just leans against walls and glares at anyone who comes close.

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        April 8, 2017 at 5:12 am | #

        She does tend to stick up for folks, though. Maybe there are nameless extras slouching uncomfortably offpanel, wistfully gazing at the Cube of Isolation.

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          April 8, 2017 at 11:03 am | #

          I can easily see her just being like “No, ah don’t want one myself, but seriously? Dick move.”

          • gkheyf
            gkheyf
            April 8, 2017 at 11:56 pm | #

            she has slowly started to get involved in other people’s business. but i would’ve thought that her general schooly mccool approach would be to not start none until she finds herself in the middle of it. on the other hand, this should play out interestingly ^_^

            • BBCC
              BBCC
              April 9, 2017 at 12:39 am | #

              That’s usually her MO until people are being immature or being a dick – doing something she sees as both ensures she’ll at least walk up and say ‘hey, you, knock it off’.

  2. BBCC
    BBCC
    April 8, 2017 at 12:05 am | #

    Sal is so done with dorm shenanigans and I love it.

    Go figure, after 5 years at a rambunctious boarding school.

    • Pablo360
      Pablo360
      April 8, 2017 at 12:13 am | #

      If Sal were a character in Homestuck, she would murder Homestuck, because she has no patience for shenanigans.

      Wait, is Sal just a less-supercillious Rose Lalonde? Who is the Kanaya Mayram in this analogy?

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        April 8, 2017 at 12:20 am | #

        ….Yes.

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        April 8, 2017 at 12:28 am | #

        Marcie is Kanaya, but neither of them know it yet.

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          April 8, 2017 at 12:37 am | #

          …..So she and Sal are gonna get married?

          I am okay with this.

          • Liliet
            Liliet
            April 9, 2017 at 2:01 pm | #

            Jewish married
            I am fully onboard with this turn of events

      • Krys Brynhildr
        Krys Brynhildr
        April 8, 2017 at 1:49 am | #

        She’s a lot less interested in actually playing armchair psychoanalyst as well. Apparently she’s more into fighting social injustices….like hoarding all the chairs. ;p

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      April 8, 2017 at 10:22 am | #

      Soooo… Sal for RA, then?

      Heheh… rambunctious hooligans, practicing tomfoolery and shennanigans… I love the odd words English has adopted to describe rebellion.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        April 8, 2017 at 11:06 am | #

        She probably wouldn’t be the WORST RA if the job was forced on her, but she most likely wouldn’t take it voluntarily (plus the offer would REEK of ‘give the ‘bad’ kid responsibility to make them behave better’).

        And yeah, English has some fun words for rebellion.

        • Krys Brynhildr
          Krys Brynhildr
          April 8, 2017 at 4:59 pm | #

          That first part is basically how Carla for RA would go as well, since they’re both kind of “try to look like they don’t care, but actually can’t ignore problems around them”. Well, I mean, Sal tends to go more for physical solutions, while Carla does engineering and sweet pranks, but still.

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            April 8, 2017 at 7:08 pm | #

            Yeah, pretty much, though Sal tends to skip the ‘pretend not to care’ part when it’s a serious problem, and Carla seems like she’d be more inclined to help out with little things like roommates playing music too loud (whereas I think Sal would say they should be able to handle it themselves and not waste her time)

    • Ari
      Ari
      April 8, 2017 at 9:44 pm | #

      I attend a so-called “rambunctious boarding school”. Can confirm, it lowers one’s tolerance for bullshit quite substantially.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        April 8, 2017 at 10:56 pm | #

        Yeah, after 5 years there, I imagine she’s just about done by the time college rolled around.

  3. Tan
    Tan
    April 8, 2017 at 12:06 am | #

    Yup, sure is checking-on-ships day.

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      April 8, 2017 at 12:30 am | #

      Next up, Mary and being dressed at a reasonable time. Their relationship is…rocky, at the moment.

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        April 8, 2017 at 12:47 am | #

        Unless I’m mistaken and thinking of someone else, because I can’t seem to find the relevant strips.

        • Passchendaele
          Passchendaele
          April 8, 2017 at 12:55 am | #

          I can’t link to the strips, but you’re definitely right, as I distinctly remember that (and my memory is usually reliable). I’d call their relationship a bit…bare.

          (teehee)

        • John
          John
          April 8, 2017 at 2:27 am | #

          Ask and you will receive.

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        April 8, 2017 at 10:25 am | #

        Really? I don’t ship those two. That’s an unhealthy relationship, right there.

  4. Mr. Mendo
    Mr. Mendo
    April 8, 2017 at 12:06 am | #

    String? I am confused…

    • Meta
      Meta
      April 8, 2017 at 12:07 am | #

      Probably a portable antenna? Like the ones on some miniature radios.

    • Passchendaele
      Passchendaele
      April 8, 2017 at 12:12 am | #

      I legit thought that cord was some kind of string that you could pull to signal your presence and speak with/join Amber/whoever else is inside, until I read Meta’s comment and looked at the last panel again. XD

    • Remmington Steele
      Remmington Steele
      April 8, 2017 at 5:08 am | #

      Wifi aerial perhaps?

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        April 8, 2017 at 6:52 am | #

        You need them when your school awards Faraday Furnishings the contract for their latest remodel.

  5. Yakumo
    Yakumo
    April 8, 2017 at 12:06 am | #

    Wrong focus. Nodoby gets in to see the Amber comes only after nobody f*&$s with Ambers signal.

  6. timemonkey
    timemonkey
    April 8, 2017 at 12:07 am | #

    People who get in to see the Amber are often left disappointed and confused.

  7. Passchendaele
    Passchendaele
    April 8, 2017 at 12:08 am | #

    “uh…uh…NO SE HABLA INGLES”

    *closes cube*

    “…why’m I not even surprised anymore?”

    • Passchendaele
      Passchendaele
      April 8, 2017 at 12:16 am | #

      and oh god sal and amber at the same place and time. this is the last way I expected them to meet. either she retreats, Ethan jumps in, she switches to AG, or everything goes to hell. and now I’m worried about that last one.

      • Micro-Girl
        Micro-Girl
        April 8, 2017 at 1:03 am | #

        They did meet in the hall when Amber was going to wash her clothes.

      • Dragon_Nataku
        Dragon_Nataku
        April 8, 2017 at 9:25 am | #

        … wait, so AG and Sal are totally cool with eachother now, but Sal still makes Amber BSOD?

        *throws hands up into the air, wanders off*

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          April 8, 2017 at 10:01 am | #

          Amber still has PTSD relating to Sal (she defined it as “very anxiety inducing but can be near her and relatively civil when she’s Amazi-Girl. because Amazi-Girl is perfect and invincible and willing to concede she acted poorly (as long as she can blame Amber for all the wrongdoing like the stalking and the yelling at Danny)

          Personally I believe Amazi-Girl is how she wants to act towards Sal. She wants to atone and try to do right by her.

      • Marsh Maryrose
        Marsh Maryrose
        April 8, 2017 at 4:58 pm | #

        In the next strip, I’m expecting to see the “door” slam down in panel 1. When it re-opens, Amazi-Girl will be in control.

  8. AutobotDen
    AutobotDen
    April 8, 2017 at 12:08 am | #

    say it with me: DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUN!!!!

  9. Kris
    Kris
    April 8, 2017 at 12:08 am | #

    The privacy cube’s one weakness!

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      April 8, 2017 at 2:25 am | #

      Amber only planed for meek and introvert people, and failed to anticipate for the contingency of someone actually interacting with her.

  10. Nono
    Nono
    April 8, 2017 at 12:08 am | #

    ARRRR MATEY, YOU BE TAKING MY BOOTLEG ROUTER!

    • Abel Undercity
      Abel Undercity
      April 8, 2017 at 7:23 am | #

      And they called her Pirate Amber, Terror of the Student Commons…

  11. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    April 8, 2017 at 12:09 am | #

    All we hear is…Radio Gaga…

  12. Fart Captor
    Fart Captor
    April 8, 2017 at 12:11 am | #

    I wanted to know how this was going to go down but now I’m having second thoughts

  13. Shiro
    Shiro
    April 8, 2017 at 12:11 am | #

    Welp! Amber, meet Sal. Sal, Amber.

    Now, if anyone’s gonna put two and two together, I’d buy Sal for that person.

    • Kris
      Kris
      April 8, 2017 at 12:13 am | #

      Not likely. They’ve done this dance at least once already.

    • Fart Captor
      Fart Captor
      April 8, 2017 at 12:20 am | #

      My money’s on Ethan. Or possibly an accidental team effort

  14. Schpoonman
    Schpoonman
    April 8, 2017 at 12:11 am | #

    Amber tried to go full Gurren Lagann.

    Little did she know is that Sal would look SO BOMB with Kamina’s glasses and is in fact the true inheritor of Simon’s legacy.

    • Pie
      Pie
      April 8, 2017 at 1:28 am | #

      Don’t believe in yourself, Amber! Believe in the Sal that believes in you!!

    • Krys Brynhildr
      Krys Brynhildr
      April 8, 2017 at 1:29 am | #

      See, except to actually be the true inheritor of the legacy, she’d have to wear Simon’s Starshade for a while and then wear something even more cheesishly awesome.

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        April 8, 2017 at 5:20 am | #

        “We evolve beyond the person we were a minute before! Little by little, we advance a bit further with each turn. That’s how a drill works!!”
        ALWAYS ESCALATE doesn’t seem like a great philosophy for Sal, but it’s hard to argue with HOT BLOOD.

        • Krys Brynhildr
          Krys Brynhildr
          April 8, 2017 at 5:06 pm | #

          Unless you’re a COOL RIVAL…and then its super hard not to argue with HOT BLOOD. Honestly though, the COOL RIVAL character in that show was also pretty hotblooded, so really you have to go for KILL LA KILL to get that dichotomy going on.

          And those outfits might be too racy for anything but a Slipshine costume party comic.

    • Tacos
      Tacos
      April 8, 2017 at 1:39 am | #

      Her’s is the drill that will pierce the chair fort.

    • foamy
      foamy
      April 8, 2017 at 3:46 pm | #

      This is just begging for Sal to reply with “I’m Batman.” :v

  15. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    April 8, 2017 at 12:12 am | #

    The shields have been breached! Reality is flooding in!

  16. Griffin
    Griffin
    April 8, 2017 at 12:13 am | #

    Who do you think you are
    Running round yanking cords

  17. Keulan
    Keulan
    April 8, 2017 at 12:13 am | #

    Sal, if you wanted a chair cube fort you should’ve thought of it first.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      April 8, 2017 at 12:23 am | #

      She seems more irked a fort exists period, not that it’s not her’s.

      She is going to take back this conquered territory and redistributing it to the masses! ….In the name of evil, of course.

      • Savail
        Savail
        April 8, 2017 at 12:29 am | #

        I see what you did there…and I approve.

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          April 8, 2017 at 12:30 am | #

          Eyyyyyy~

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          April 8, 2017 at 2:25 am | #

          So do I

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            April 8, 2017 at 2:56 am | #

            I repeat: Eyyyyyyy~

  18. Leorale
    Leorale
    April 8, 2017 at 12:13 am | #

    Remind me, is Ethan still in there, too?

    • Tacos
      Tacos
      April 8, 2017 at 12:15 am | #

      I think so. I also think Dina was with them too last we saw.

      • Fart Captor
        Fart Captor
        April 8, 2017 at 12:18 am | #

        Nah, we saw her climb back out before Amber put the top chairs on

      • inqntrol
        inqntrol
        April 8, 2017 at 12:22 am | #

        Yeah she came to ask Amber if Becky can move in their room and then left.

        • Leorale
          Leorale
          April 8, 2017 at 12:54 am | #

          Sweet; thanks y’all.

  19. Tacos
    Tacos
    April 8, 2017 at 12:14 am | #

    So I guess they really did make a chair fort of solitude.

    • inqntrol
      inqntrol
      April 8, 2017 at 12:24 am | #

      Which it’s only weakness is the lack of internet apparently.

      • Tacos
        Tacos
        April 8, 2017 at 1:11 am | #

        Too bad she’s no Bruce Wayne. He’d have built a chair fort with wifi.

  20. motorfirebox
    motorfirebox
    April 8, 2017 at 12:15 am | #

    GOIN’ ROUND TAKING MY BARS, COLLECTING TO THE WEB IS HARD, WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARRRRRRE

    • motorfirebox
      motorfirebox
      April 8, 2017 at 12:15 am | #

      mother fricker that’s supposed to say “connecting”

  21. TheKelliestKelly
    TheKelliestKelly
    April 8, 2017 at 12:17 am | #

    I’m reminded of the flashback when Sal was a little girl and she was not having Marcy hogging the play tower. Privacy chairs, slides, parental attention – you name it, Sal wants you to share it

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      April 8, 2017 at 2:26 am | #

      Sharing is caring

      Except for your sweet hog, of course

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        April 8, 2017 at 10:34 am | #

        … Which she lets Marcie ride on? So, still sharing.

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          April 8, 2017 at 11:11 am | #

          She’s let Billie and Joyce ride on it when they had somewhere to go and it didn’t make sense for Sal to go alone or it was an emergency. She also (I think) let Malaya ride on it when AG hurt her. Marcie’s been the only one who got to ride for fun (though she’s since offered to let Joyce ride so they could go to a diner she found).

  22. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    April 8, 2017 at 12:27 am | #

    “…let me in ?”

  23. valis_kr3
    valis_kr3
    April 8, 2017 at 12:29 am | #

    The password is swordfish.

    • Tacos
      Tacos
      April 8, 2017 at 1:10 am | #

      Nah the password is “password”.

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        April 8, 2017 at 1:13 am | #

        Pff. Amateur. Try “password1234”, it’s so much more secure.

        • John
          John
          April 8, 2017 at 2:29 am | #

          That’s the kind of password an idiot would have on his luggage.

          • Arianod
            Arianod
            April 8, 2017 at 3:44 am | #

            Thanks for the Mel Brooks ref! X3

          • Dragon_Nataku
            Dragon_Nataku
            April 8, 2017 at 9:28 am | #

            That’s the kind of stupid thing my parents have as their alarm code on their house. gg, parents

        • Falling Star
          Falling Star
          April 8, 2017 at 11:52 pm | #

          “I LIKE TO DANCE WITH DUCKS AT DAWN”

      • showler
        showler
        April 8, 2017 at 7:38 pm | #

        It’s “Drowssap” backwards. That’s my mother’s maiden name.

        For security.

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      April 8, 2017 at 3:34 am | #

      “Now I’ll give you one more guess…”

  24. Cerberus
    Cerberus
    April 8, 2017 at 12:45 am | #

    Oh hai sudden episode of intense PTSD, I didn’t see you there. Yes please, come in, make yourself comfortable, stay as long as you’d like.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      April 8, 2017 at 1:08 am | #

      Oh, pffft, as if that pesky bongo cares about permission to stay, the inconsiderate butthole.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        April 8, 2017 at 1:28 am | #

        Feelings don’t knock.
        I think they’re more like HAI HERE I AM, WHAT YOU GONN’ DO ABOUT IT while they wreck shit up.

  25. Delicious Taffy
    Delicious Taffy
    April 8, 2017 at 1:00 am | #

    Completely unrelated to the strip, but while searching through some character tags to find a specific Mary strip, I happened upon Kaitlin, and in the comments for her first appearance, someone mentioned Becky probably being anti-gay. I just thought this was amusingly ironic, considering what we know now, and especially considering the context of the only other two strips to contain Kaitlin.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      April 8, 2017 at 2:37 am | #

      That was part of what made the introduction of Becky so brilliant in my mind. The way it was built up, Joyce was having a massive crises of confidence. Befriending Dorothy, dating Ethan, going to parties… was she really a good christian any more?

      When Becky showed up from the blue some of us speculated that she would serve as an anchor to Joyce’s old life. That she was there to test Joyce’s faith (“is this all worth it, Joyce? Wouldn’t you be happier if you came with me to Anderson’s?”)

      As the mystery built up, with Sarah being suspicious and Becky increasingly non-committal, we started to worry that perhaps she was sent by Joyce’s parents or siblings. And then Becky kissed Joyce and all our speculations came crashing down.

      And why I think it was brilliant is because Becky really DID test Joyce’s faith and DID make her decide on where she really stood.

      Or as the comic put it:
      Joyce: “God, send me an Angel or something.”
      Becky: “Is that still really what you believe? That what I did was a mistake?”
      Joyce: “No. How could I? Becky, You’re my best friend. Pit you against anything else in my life, you will win every time.”

  26. Rukduk
    Rukduk
    April 8, 2017 at 1:14 am | #

    Well, shit.

  27. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    April 8, 2017 at 2:03 am | #

    These two gotta stop meeting like this. And by this, I mean awkwardly.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      April 8, 2017 at 10:38 am | #

      Welp, Sal’s made up with Amazi-Girl. Now for the hard part – making up with Amber…

      • JessWitt
        JessWitt
        April 8, 2017 at 5:29 pm | #

        *nods in agreement* Mm-hm.

  28. RaijinK
    RaijinK
    April 8, 2017 at 2:12 am | #

    That’s no sound effect in panel 5. Ever since Tennessee, Sal just yells “yank!” at people that annoy her.

    • Brute
      Brute
      April 8, 2017 at 2:41 am | #

      😁😁😁

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      April 8, 2017 at 3:47 am | #

      I guess she really did pick up a lot of Southern mannerisms.

    • Vulcanodon
      Vulcanodon
      April 8, 2017 at 9:03 am | #

      Lived in East Tennessee for seven years. They are still not over the Civil War. Apparently forgetting that East Tennessee sided with the North. (Or at least, didn’t like the Confederacy)

      • Krys Brynhildr
        Krys Brynhildr
        April 8, 2017 at 5:10 pm | #

        I’m pretty sure one of the only wars people are actually over that America has been in was the Revolutionary one, and that might just be because England has mostly given up on Imperial Rule by now.

        • Rukduk
          Rukduk
          April 9, 2017 at 12:23 am | #

          I think both Mexico and the US might be over the Mexican-American War. Maybe. I do know that both the US and Spain are over the Spanish-American War. The US kinda likes to forget we pretty much lost the war of 1812, mainly by forgetting it existed, but the Canadians remember it with pride.

  29. Bagge
    Bagge
    April 8, 2017 at 2:15 am | #

    Sal is more brave than me.

    I mean, there were at least 80% risk of someone having sex in there.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      April 8, 2017 at 3:47 am | #

      ……..

      …. define “risk”.

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        April 8, 2017 at 5:42 am | #

        Well, it would be rude to interrupt.

        • Krys Brynhildr
          Krys Brynhildr
          April 8, 2017 at 5:26 pm | #

          I’m not sure the original estimate accounts for the possibility of someone watching porn in their either for that matter.

          • Commodore Jeep-Eep
            Commodore Jeep-Eep
            April 8, 2017 at 6:52 pm | #

            That ups the risk factor considerably.

            Too great a chance for horrifying fetish porn or something.

    • StClair
      StClair
      April 8, 2017 at 5:45 am | #

      Sal gives no fucks about interrupting same.

    • JBento
      JBento
      April 8, 2017 at 10:53 am | #

      Hey, Bagge, I hope at least no-one you know was affected by Stockholm attack. *sympathy*

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        April 8, 2017 at 11:49 am | #

        Thanks for asking. Me and my loved ones are safe and sound, and I’m actually pretty proud of how my country reacted to the crisis.

        I was in Boston during the marathon bombing, and one of the memories that stuck was how Dunking Donuts made sure to supply the police with free donuts during the manhunt.

        In this current crises, day-care centers reached out and made sure to let parents know they would be staffed until everyone was home. Stores and residents of Stockholm let people stay over the evening or night. People took care of each other.

        Like someone commented – if the goal of the act of terror was to divide Swedes, it flopped spectacularly.

        • Krys Brynhildr
          Krys Brynhildr
          April 8, 2017 at 5:24 pm | #

          I don’t really know you, since I’m still pretty new to the comments section here, but I’m glad that you and yours are okay.

          Really, the one plus side of all the stuff that keeps going down recently, if there is one, is the times where people end up dropping all their usual hangups and come together as a group. I sort of feel like thats something we often forget as “civilized people”.

          I mean, I’m technically a “citizen of the United States of America” and there’s a lot of really shitty stuff that the powers that currently are in power are trying to push through, but even with how awful and inexcusable that stuff is that doesn’t mean that the people in the country can’t try and make up some of the difference in order to make sure we get as many of the people who are getting marginalized or threatened by the policies as we can through these bad times.

          Even if its really hard to know what to do at times or how best to support people when you’re barely able to work on getting to a point where you can support yourself.

          • Bagge
            Bagge
            April 9, 2017 at 1:33 am | #

            Thank you

  30. BenRG
    BenRG
    April 8, 2017 at 2:23 am | #

    Well, this promises to be an interesting conversation (even if it will likely be a somewhat one-sided one).

  31. acher4
    acher4
    April 8, 2017 at 2:30 am | #

    She sure pulled another drama tag, didn’t she? 😛

  32. Arianod
    Arianod
    April 8, 2017 at 3:43 am | #

    Arrrr, Matey!

  33. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    April 8, 2017 at 3:48 am | #

    And moments like this, for anyone here who still doubts, is why content warnings exist.

    • JBento
      JBento
      April 8, 2017 at 10:51 am | #

      In this case, of course, what was needed wasn’t so much a content warning as a warning of the content (of the chair fort).

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      April 8, 2017 at 1:58 pm | #

      Warning: Outside world may contain triggers.

      • StClair
        StClair
        April 8, 2017 at 9:52 pm | #

        I once idly contemplated warning labels “for the easily sad” – that is, for myself and others who are emotionally sensitive/fragile, suffer from depression, etc etc – before I realized that you’d have to basically cover the world with them.

  34. Danni
    Danni
    April 8, 2017 at 4:32 am | #

    i feel like i missed a lot

  35. Tualha
    Tualha
    April 8, 2017 at 4:45 am | #

    What happen?

    Somebody set up us the chairfort.

    What!

    All your chair are belong to us.

    We take signal!

    It’s you!!

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      April 8, 2017 at 10:35 am | #

      Emperor Norton II, I call your Majesty’s attention to the fact that Tualha deserves at least +1 Internet.

      • Arian
        Arian
        April 8, 2017 at 9:33 pm | #

        Seconded 😀

    • Falling Star
      Falling Star
      April 8, 2017 at 11:54 pm | #

      SHUT UP AND TAKE MY INTERNETS

  36. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    April 8, 2017 at 5:48 am | #

    “Hey!  My signal!”
    —————
    Signal to/for what?  I’ve never seen a plug-in external antenna for a cellphone or tablet.

    • C.
      C.
      April 8, 2017 at 6:16 am | #

      http://www.alternativewireless.com/verizon-6620l-antenna-kit.html?gclid=CjwKEAjwlKLHBRDztKr6wMnRthMSJAALcT-s4RD9K1OBhiHy4bD4g5Nw-tL34OwhpgB5jBTf8R_ZKBoCMVjw_wcB\

      Within seconds of a Google search.

  37. Falling Star
    Falling Star
    April 8, 2017 at 6:55 am | #

    I wish I could get Wi-Fi that easily.

  38. Kater
    Kater
    April 8, 2017 at 9:13 am | #

    That is a neat word bubble drip on the final panel there

  39. JBento
    JBento
    April 8, 2017 at 1:46 pm | #

    Huh, didn’t know it was “PTSD like a pirate” day…

  40. sundriedrainbow
    sundriedrainbow
    April 8, 2017 at 3:18 pm | #

    I don’t need no goddamn help from some bleeding-heart…wait, wrong musical.

  41. DT
    DT
    April 8, 2017 at 3:34 pm | #

    The physics of opening the cube… nnffffft…

  42. trlkly
    trlkly
    April 8, 2017 at 7:00 pm | #

    I just hope this isn’t like the previous times this has happened. It’s always just been extremely uncomfortable, and I think we all by this point get what happens to Amber when she’s around Sal.

    I want this to further the story, and I want it not to be completely uncomfortable. At the very least, keep a joke panel in there. (And, no, Amber having a panic attack isn’t a joke.)

  43. Gesc
    Gesc
    April 9, 2017 at 12:16 am | #

    My money is on Amber ditching.

    She’s ditching so hard.

  44. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    April 9, 2017 at 3:49 am | #

    I missed a day due to picking up a friend, and disappointed no one posted “The signals are very strong tonight.”

  45. Orion Fury
    Orion Fury
    April 9, 2017 at 11:36 pm | #

    Shake, Move, Groove, etc.

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