You know, the Marcie bit of your comment – that is exactly what I’m expecting to happen. Marcie followed her and sees her fighting with her “new friends”.
I happened to be listening to In The Woods Somewhere by Hozier while reading this and it shouldn’t fit but somehow it does, especially considering the previous comic.
That would be lucky, at this point. They’re going down stairs. Plot armor forbids that one of them actually breaks their neck, but it’s a terribly relevant risk.
Regalli
And Sal’s hitting the metal railing while getting kicked on the other side. That’s how you crack a rib.
Which is, again, too significant an injury for Willis to pull, but seriously they’re wakking up tomorrow and taking a LOT of Aleve.
Chris Phoenix
There’s some superhero physics in this comic. But remember that Joyce (probably) broke a toe. And people can walk around with broken ribs. So I wouldn’t be surprised if Sal got a broken bone out of this.
Regalli
Yeah, but Sal’s one of the main characters for when Willis needs to get a good action sequence in, and while you can walk on a broken rib a big blowout fight like this is definitely not feasible for weeks. (Which in our time would be years.) Might be interesting to forcibly remove Sal from the superheroics for years on end, but I don’t think he wants to close the door on her in action sequences like that.
caramellos
Bold assumption! Joyce sprained her wrist and walked around in a cast for ages, and frequently stares at the scar on her palm. Willis has been building up to this confrontation for most of the comic, I’m honestly 50/50 on one of them getting seriously injured or worse. Remember Amber went psycho on Ryan, suggesting if she feels justified she’ll Go There. Frankly though I’m a bit disappointed it’s come to this, Amber seemed like she was mainly upset with herself about the gas station these days, and sal never seemed to bear any resentment to the girl who freaked out and stabbed her in the hand when she was holding up a convenience store and holding her friend hostage. At least it’s been made clear they’re both fixating on other issues and using each other as punching bags, effectively, it just seems kinda meh honestly. From a comic that so often tries to show its morality clearly, letting this traumatic event for both parties lead to a fistfight feels… kinda childish and just milking the scene to get some cool action/ drama going.
BBCC
Joyce’s wrist was sprained for about a week and a half. That’s not super long. Anything longer than a couple weeks, I’d count out.
Okay, okay, so! Sal’s getting kicked down the stairs. Ethan might have bailed, or at the very least isn’t stopping them. And it looks like people inside the building might be watching. This is, uh, going well?
Oh, the sky’s gone full Red Panel now? Welp. This is terrible!
She got stabbed through the hand after she was already in police custody. (According to book pdfs, ALL THE WAY THROUGH.) It doesn’t work well anymore. She can’t play the bass, which she liked to do before. It almost certainly required surgery and physical therapy. It left a really nasty scar in a very noticeable place, and it apparently hasn’t healed to be less noticeable in five years.
If the knife went all the way through, make that two scars – there’d in all likelihood be a “matching” one on the other side, across her palm.
Regalli
Right, yeah, I was thinking of it as a single injury with a double-sided scar but yeah. The gloves 24/7 are literally the only way Sal can avoid it being constantly noticed and reacted to – and I can’t imagine she wants to tell that story nearly as often as she’d get asked about it.
Also, and this is the part that makes me flinch – the scar is drawn like a diagonal slash. That implies that the tip/blade didn’t just punch between the bones; it would have had to break several or even most of them.
StClair
(if you look at the anatomy of the hand, there’s a “natural” way for a knife to stab through, which IMO would result in a more or less “vertical” scar along the median. A wound that’s not aligned in that way suggests the stab had enough force behind it to basically shatter the hand, or there was a lot of twisting and damage to soft tissue after the initial blow, even if the actual through-and-through was relatively clean.)
BBCC
It’s a big ass knife. Definitely would’ve been capable of breaking the tiny bones in the hand.
JBento
Hand bones are terribly fragile, as far as bones go. I feel many people have been deluded into thinking otherwise by depictions of crucified Jesus with nails through the hands, instead of through the wrists or the forearm.
And while Sal was recovering from that traumatic injury, she had either already been sent away or was at home with a mother who thought she deserved it.
As awful as the stabbing itself was, the part that makes me feel most for Sal is imagining how alone she was as she went through physical therapy and came to terms with the fact that her hand would never fully recover.
Regalli
I really, really hope we don’t flashback to that because it’ll just hurt so damn much.
Sal has a scar on her hand, which she on some level still probably considers to be a result of her own actions, but her family could afford the health care for her to regain at least some function despite the injury.
Marcie had an injury, which Sal definitely considers the result of her actions, but Marcie didn’t have access to the privileges that Sal did, and basically everybody who could have done anything was powerless to intervene as Marcie almost died and permanently lost her voice.
Not only can Sal easily feel responsible for both outcomes, but she doesn’t even end up suffering half as badly as her friend, who was wholly innocent. In her head, it’s all her fault and it’s brutally unfair.
Clif
And more importantly, the friend she has now lost due to her interactions with Amber/Amazigirl.
251 thoughts on “Daydreamin’”
Ana Chronistic
they’re just, uh, BREAKdancing, yeah!
…
Marcie: *signs* this is the exact opposite of the proof I asked for, ya know
King Daniel
breakBONES dancing
(I hope not)
Kris
Only close friends try to beat the tar out of each other!
Reltzik
Sal’s a smoker. She probably has a lot of tar in her to get beaten out.
LeslieBean4Shizzle
You know, the Marcie bit of your comment – that is exactly what I’m expecting to happen. Marcie followed her and sees her fighting with her “new friends”.
Doctor_Who
It is good and proper to listen to this while reading this strip.
goggleman64
I didn’t expect you to be right, what with the fight being tragic, but the song really is *that good*
Keulen
I was hoping it would be that song.
Lingo
I know what he’s actually saying, but to me it sounds like “Test: You’re white.”
Zach
And that’s not better how? It’s pretty on the nose, but race wars would be much more intertwining if they were settled that way.
Chaucer59
I prefer this for intense close-quarters combat.
JetstreamGW
I see NiN and rebut with the Offspring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VALgi8lwZHQ
Rowen Morland
Good call.
everlastingwonder
I happened to be listening to In The Woods Somewhere by Hozier while reading this and it shouldn’t fit but somehow it does, especially considering the previous comic.
Darkoneko
Remove. Your. Glasses.
Yumi
But then everyone will know she’s Superman!
McBogue
Put. On. The. Glasses.
AnvilPro
Oh damn. This fight is already way more dynamic than I was expecting, cool that they’re already using the environment
MatthewTheLucky
Cool and BAD.
Seriously, this is gonna put someone in a cast.
Jamie
That would be lucky, at this point. They’re going down stairs. Plot armor forbids that one of them actually breaks their neck, but it’s a terribly relevant risk.
Regalli
And Sal’s hitting the metal railing while getting kicked on the other side. That’s how you crack a rib.
Which is, again, too significant an injury for Willis to pull, but seriously they’re wakking up tomorrow and taking a LOT of Aleve.
Chris Phoenix
There’s some superhero physics in this comic. But remember that Joyce (probably) broke a toe. And people can walk around with broken ribs. So I wouldn’t be surprised if Sal got a broken bone out of this.
Regalli
Yeah, but Sal’s one of the main characters for when Willis needs to get a good action sequence in, and while you can walk on a broken rib a big blowout fight like this is definitely not feasible for weeks. (Which in our time would be years.) Might be interesting to forcibly remove Sal from the superheroics for years on end, but I don’t think he wants to close the door on her in action sequences like that.
caramellos
Bold assumption! Joyce sprained her wrist and walked around in a cast for ages, and frequently stares at the scar on her palm. Willis has been building up to this confrontation for most of the comic, I’m honestly 50/50 on one of them getting seriously injured or worse. Remember Amber went psycho on Ryan, suggesting if she feels justified she’ll Go There. Frankly though I’m a bit disappointed it’s come to this, Amber seemed like she was mainly upset with herself about the gas station these days, and sal never seemed to bear any resentment to the girl who freaked out and stabbed her in the hand when she was holding up a convenience store and holding her friend hostage. At least it’s been made clear they’re both fixating on other issues and using each other as punching bags, effectively, it just seems kinda meh honestly. From a comic that so often tries to show its morality clearly, letting this traumatic event for both parties lead to a fistfight feels… kinda childish and just milking the scene to get some cool action/ drama going.
BBCC
Joyce’s wrist was sprained for about a week and a half. That’s not super long. Anything longer than a couple weeks, I’d count out.
Reltzik
New character! Yeeeeeeeees!
….. oh, wait, plaster cast. NM.
Passchendaele
The fight I didn’t know I didn’t want
nooooooooooooooo
Bicycle Bill
But it’s the fight we deserved … or something like that.
ShinyNeen
Maybe ‘the fight we wish we didn’t deserve’?
Wait, then what did we do to deserve this!?
Yumi
I don’t know, man; I, personally, have done a lot of things.
Dana
We’re the kind of people who enjoy watching the kind of things Willis does to his characters.
Reltzik
The great unsung achievement of The Dark Knight is that we finally stopped getting parodies of Phantom Menace’s Fear-Anger-Hatred-Suffering sequence.
…..
…. SHUT UP IT’S MY DREAM WORLD AND I’LL LIVE IN IT IF I WANT TO!
Deanatay
The one thing we all have in common here?
We all read Willis’ comics. Therefore, we clearly deserve the worst.
Catman
NooOOoooooOOooo
Questionor
🙁
Kris
Teah and they’re actually fighting now…….SPLASHBACK!!
Kyrik Michalowski
Remember when Sal was learning to de-escalate? I have this foreboding feeling this won’t end well, can’t imagine why.
Reltzik
Her ass is being kicked down the stairs. That counts as de-escalation.
adjudicus
Ok now that is a step too far
Delicious Taffy
She couldn’t decide between fight and flight.
Reltzik
It’s going to be a rough landing.
King Daniel
It’s not nice to stair at people.
David M Willis
go home
DSL
Willis is here. Tread lightly if you don’t want him railing at you.
Pablo360
Willis has officially warned you about the stairs.
Knayt
It only counts as de-escalation if you define it in a moving reference frame where the frame is also moving down the stairs.
HMRC4EVR
X
De-asscalation?
Badgermole
I don’t think I can bear 5 strips of 3-4 action panels each. Ethan, do something.
Kris
Honestly if I were Ethan I’d be hitting up Thad to see if I can get some action because this is so not worth his time anymore.
Kamino Neko
Ladies, that’s not how you krump. (… In fact, it is literally the opposite of krumping.)
BarerMender
Sal, you can’t talk and fight at the same time. Talking takes up way more brain bandwidth than you realize.
Proxiehunter
But it’s a free action.
BarerMender
Two overarching rules of fighting: don’t talk, and keep your head up.
Lenks
She was so focused on RP that she forgot to take her bonus action to dodge.
Reltzik
…. wait, Sal’s using her brain for something here?
Deanatay
You’re all missing the point.
Amber caught Sal MONOLOGUING.
It’s proof she’s the villain in this scene.
ShinyNeen
Okay, okay, so! Sal’s getting kicked down the stairs. Ethan might have bailed, or at the very least isn’t stopping them. And it looks like people inside the building might be watching. This is, uh, going well?
Oh, the sky’s gone full Red Panel now? Welp. This is terrible!
Daibhid C
It’s a red skies crossover! Expect the Original Walkyverse characters to wander through on their way to a different story any minute!
Yumi
Sal, don’t start to monologue your chickens before they hatch.
They can’t hear you.
pjeseb
I… underestimated how much anger Sal was carrying from the whole “getting stabbed in the hand” incident.
Regalli
She got stabbed through the hand after she was already in police custody. (According to book pdfs, ALL THE WAY THROUGH.) It doesn’t work well anymore. She can’t play the bass, which she liked to do before. It almost certainly required surgery and physical therapy. It left a really nasty scar in a very noticeable place, and it apparently hasn’t healed to be less noticeable in five years.
Anger at that is pretty natural.
King Daniel
If the knife went all the way through, make that two scars – there’d in all likelihood be a “matching” one on the other side, across her palm.
Regalli
Right, yeah, I was thinking of it as a single injury with a double-sided scar but yeah. The gloves 24/7 are literally the only way Sal can avoid it being constantly noticed and reacted to – and I can’t imagine she wants to tell that story nearly as often as she’d get asked about it.
StClair
Also, and this is the part that makes me flinch – the scar is drawn like a diagonal slash. That implies that the tip/blade didn’t just punch between the bones; it would have had to break several or even most of them.
StClair
(if you look at the anatomy of the hand, there’s a “natural” way for a knife to stab through, which IMO would result in a more or less “vertical” scar along the median. A wound that’s not aligned in that way suggests the stab had enough force behind it to basically shatter the hand, or there was a lot of twisting and damage to soft tissue after the initial blow, even if the actual through-and-through was relatively clean.)
BBCC
It’s a big ass knife. Definitely would’ve been capable of breaking the tiny bones in the hand.
JBento
Hand bones are terribly fragile, as far as bones go. I feel many people have been deluded into thinking otherwise by depictions of crucified Jesus with nails through the hands, instead of through the wrists or the forearm.
Kittie
And while Sal was recovering from that traumatic injury, she had either already been sent away or was at home with a mother who thought she deserved it.
As awful as the stabbing itself was, the part that makes me feel most for Sal is imagining how alone she was as she went through physical therapy and came to terms with the fact that her hand would never fully recover.
Regalli
I really, really hope we don’t flashback to that because it’ll just hurt so damn much.
HMH
Also, consider the psychological toll:
Sal has a scar on her hand, which she on some level still probably considers to be a result of her own actions, but her family could afford the health care for her to regain at least some function despite the injury.
Marcie had an injury, which Sal definitely considers the result of her actions, but Marcie didn’t have access to the privileges that Sal did, and basically everybody who could have done anything was powerless to intervene as Marcie almost died and permanently lost her voice.
Not only can Sal easily feel responsible for both outcomes, but she doesn’t even end up suffering half as badly as her friend, who was wholly innocent. In her head, it’s all her fault and it’s brutally unfair.
Clif
And more importantly, the friend she has now lost due to her interactions with Amber/Amazigirl.
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