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Rulin’ out
Posted on October 4, 2015 by David M Willis

181 thoughts on “Rulin’ out”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    “WORST WOMBMATE EVAR”

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      “WOMB TO RENT”

      1. inqntrol

        ,,ENOUGH SPACE FOR 4 PERSONS,EVEN 5″

      2. David Herbert

        NO WOMB AT THE INN

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          How do do they keep themselves clean every month? WITH A WOMBBA!

        2. inqntrol

          I read the last word as ,,WOMBAT” and went through my mind:,,A marsupial in the womb as a housekeeper.”After all,the womb is like an inside pouch,but getting out isn’t very easy.

        3. Ana Chronistic

          WOMB RAIDER

          wait eew

        4. Deanatay

          …Sounds like porn to me.

        5. DerDoc

          It is, They were peeing on each other for nine months before they got outta the woubb. KINKY!!

        6. NotPiffany

          That’s got to be the weirdest documentary of a C-section ever. 😉

        7. Someone

          Thank God we don’t function like that

          Well got to go the grocery store, time to shove my baby back in.

        8. Yet_One_More_Idiot

          Yes hello, I’d like to find a womb to went….perhaps a womb with a view?

        9. Strangeshapes

          Oh my god, is that really an Uncle Bonsai reference?!? You rock!

      3. Resident SnipeFish

        That sounds suspiciously like your mother.

      4. Ryek Hvek

        ♫ “fifteen cents”♫

    2. Gigafreak

      College Wombies From Hell!!!!

      1. Volkai

        The ultimate webcomic prequel.

        1. Roborat

          An existing webcomic might have objections to that name.

    3. Paradoxius

      WOMBIES!

  2. inqntrol

    How to be cool:Hate people.

    1. Someone

      I can do that you ass

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      Sith are all about the hate and those guys are pretty cool.

      1. Lokitsu

        Yeah, but have you noticed the skin problems they have? I don’t think proactive is strong enough to handle Sith-face.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Skincare is not a high priority amongst the Sith.

        2. Cholma

          All you have to do is UNcheck the box marked “show Dark Side corruption” on the character sheet, guys!

        3. Foxhack

          Or you could just wear a fashionable mask.

      2. RavenEmperor

        Actually, hatred is a tool the Sith use to get stronger, but the Sith Code never even mentions hatred.

        1. NotPiffany

          True. The line is “Peace is a lie; there is only passion.” Sure, you can hate someone with a passion, but there are other options. Somewhere there are Sith who funnel their passion into epic love (or possibly just epic orgies); they are the most emotionally healthy force sensitives in the Star Wars universe.

        2. J.Crowe

          Nope. The Sith forbid love just as much as the Jedi do. Sith claim love makes you weak and whatnot.

          The Sith code is like communism: On paper it sounds amazing, in practice it gets hijacked by fascists who want more power.

        3. Steampunkette

          I always felt the best Jedi or Sith would be one who walks the middle road. Who feels emotions, then moves past them rather than getting mired. BE Happy. BE Sad. BE Angry. And then move on to the next emotion and deal with the fallout of your increased immediate power based on the emotions you just channeled.

        4. Justin

          There’s an alternate version of the Jedi code that replaces the “There is no X, there is Y” with “X, yet Y”. For example, “There is no emotion, there is peace” becomes “Emotion, yet peace”. I think it’s a much healthier philosophy.

        5. MichaelHaneline

          But Yoda told me Hate leads to Suffering.

        6. chiscii

          heh, “power/strength leads to suffering” sounds like a more intense version of the old “money can’t buy happiness” adage

        7. Screwball

          Well if you meatbags get too dehydrated, it can cause suffering, right? And if you don’t keep your fluids up during an “epic orgy”, it ain’t gonna be too epic…

    3. Pink Freud

      No no no, you have to hate the RIGHT people.

      1. Pat

        I believe the expectation is that you hate the wrong people.

        1. podian

          Why not both?

        2. Screwball

          Just hate everyone equally…

        3. Strangeshapes

          The Tao of Mike…

  3. Mada

    I just love that they’re talking with each other somewhat normally now 🙂

    1. MM

      I also love that it’s basically the same strategy Sarah used to try and bond with Jacob.

  4. John

    I’m envisioning Sal punching Walky in the womb.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Still less painful than punching him in the sack.

      1. liahansen

        I dont think they even had hands when they were still in the sack together

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          According to science, once the cells have divided enough, the very first thing they make is an asshole and they build the rest of the human from there.

        2. Ana Chronistic

          The way I read that makes it sound like, “With Mike, they stopped at the asshole.”

        3. Someone

          Wait how can you start with the asshole?

          Logically that’s just empty space (a hole) you could howver start with the sphincter

        4. Arian

          Er? If you mean the womb, of course they did. They were there together till right before they were born, after all.

          If you mean the amniotic sac, they never were in the same one.

        5. JaneDoe

          Pretty sure they mean an entirely different kind of sack. As in, not fertilized eggs yet. Just a gleam in their daddy’s eye, if you will.

        6. Arian

          Ah. Thank you. 🙂

    2. Someone

      Slowely Sal waited to develop working arms

      1. Damned Scholar

        The first thing she did was light a cigarette.

    3. inqntrol

      It’s survival of the fittest.

  5. Someone

    Well he didn’t absorb you so thats gotta count for something

    1. inqntrol

      Or devour her,just like baby sharks do.

    2. Arian

      He couldn’t; they’re fraternal.

      1. Arian

        oops, those brackets don’t work here. I said, “/pedantry”

      2. RAZ

        I read somewhere about ‘chimera’, a person born with 2 sets of dna. The possible cause is fraternal twins merging.

        1. Agemegos

          Yeah, there was a woman in the UK whose children’s DNA test showed that they were her husband’s children but her nephews. Turned out that she was a chimera whose ovaries formed from a different conceptus than her blood-forming tissues (the DNA test was based on a blood sample.

          I knew a girl when i was growing up with conspicuous mosaicism, but that’s different.

  6. Kocel

    It’s too bad they’re not on good terms, because Walky could really use someone like Sal to verbally smack some sense into him before he lets his grades go too far down the toilet.

    1. Doctor_Who

      Everyone could use some motivational speak from Sal. She could be a life coach.

    2. -Sentinel-

      I don’t think Sal cares about Walky’s grades and future. I would count on Dorothy.

      1. No Name

        Actually, she does. She cares if he fails so she can rub his and their mother’s faces in it.

    3. begbert

      There’s actually a conservation of mathergy between the Walkerton twins. If Walky’s grades rise Sal’s will drop again.

  7. Kraken

    So it turns out it’s a mix of both issues!

  8. LBD "Nytetrayn"

    That smile from Sal at the end sells this.

  9. Edupoet81

    Sal didn’t really comment on Joyce’s confession about being the Whiteboard Dingdong Bandit.

    It is cool to see them bonding, in any case. Could Joyce get her wish, and actually become friends with Sal?

    1. Someone

      The day The White Board Ding Dong bandit drew a ding dong on your white board was the most important day of you life. But for me it was tuesday

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        But for Joyce it was just another Friday.

        1. Someone

          shit part of the comment got deleted

          But for me it was friday

        2. timemonkey

          The actual Tuesday quote has been blocked because commenters were spamming it after the robbery flashback.

    2. Ana Chronistic

      Does Sal even go in the halls to have noticed the ding-dong bandit was a thing?

      1. inqntrol

        She is to cool to notice mere stuff like that. That’ why she sticks with other cool people….and Malaya.

      2. Bagge

        No whiteboards outside the windows

  10. newllend(henryvolt)

    Thing is she found out about everything after you broke it off and she still hung around, you can’t still be in the same circle of friends and avoid her at the same time.

  11. JessWitt

    Is there a superhero (or villain) named Power Trip?

    1. Someone

      Closest I can find is Power Girl

      1. Time Sage

        And she’s just Super Girl from Earth 2 under a diffrent name because the main universe already has a Super Girl (Don’t read too much into this.. her history is.. a mess)

      2. DSL

        Daisy from the school paper wants to talk to you NOW.

    2. Marvelman

      Or Power Pack.

  12. m2iCodeJockey

    I’m not sure but, I think they’re called ‘squeans.’
    /sarcasm…

  13. caesaria82

    Nothing bonds two people quicker than mutual hatred of a third person 😀

  14. Dr.Zeus

    Okay my mind is messed. I didn’t immediately think of them sharing their mother’s uterus but rather, I dunno, them sharing one like a book passed between the two.

    1. deCombys

      Yeah, don’t worry, I thought first about some siamese kind of stuff.

    2. Just Me

      I think you’d have to be the same gender to be co-joined twins. And why the Walky hate? Is this cosmic retribution for him being the Lead in the previous series?

      1. deCombys

        Are we 100% sure he’s cis? If not, there’s a possibility they might’ve been joined by the uterus.

        1. No Name

          We are. Of both of them. Orientations, of gender, sex and sexuality, are constant across Willis-verses.

        2. Mindlink

          The intersting thing is that, if it hadn’t been for the fact that we have access to the “God” of this universe to tell us these things, we would never know, since I don’t think we’ve seen the actual birth.
          Sometimes doctors would change the sex of a baby immediately after birth, without even telling the parents, if there was a birth defect that affected the genitalia severely enough, or if the child was born with both.
          This practice has long since been discontinued, but it took place long enough that the Walkertons could’ve been affected.

      2. Norah

        I think it’s just because their parents preferred him.

    3. fishamaphone

      Ditto. “Y’wouldn’t believe it, but ah once got th’ uterus back from ‘im with an oil stain. He didn’t explain’r anything, ‘n ah spent three hours washin’ it out.”

  15. Thor

    I read Sal saying she shared a uterus with Walky, and I was all “Whaaaaaat! WTF are you going with this, Willis?” then I realized she meant their mom’s uterus, and everything was better again.

    1. Dean

      Sal and Walky shared a uterus because it was too big for either of them to eat on their own.

      1. Ana Chronistic

        “I LOVE UTERUS BUT I COULD NEVER EAT A WHOLE ONE”

        is that how it goes

        1. Dean

          The trick is to avoid filling up with bread before the uterus arrives.

        2. timemonkey

          “I simply adore children”

    2. Gangler

      Took a second to click for me too. I was thinking conjoined twins born with only one uterus between the two of them, but then I got it.

      1. Kryss LaBryn

        Even regular identical twins that weren’t conjoined share a uterus. 🙂

        1. Kryss LaBryn

          Aaand I just realized I’m confusing ‘uterus’ and ‘placental sack’. Okay, everyone, unless their mum was one of those few women born with two uteruses (uterii?), yep, they shared a uterus. All multiple pregnancies would, saving the same exception.

        2. random832

          Isn’t it unsafe for women with that condition to have pregnancies in both at the same time?

        3. No Name

          Probably, but it can still happen.

  16. Stephen R. Bierce

    *plays “Tiny Bubbles” on the Muzak*

  17. dailybrad

    Admiration is the furthest thing from understanding, Joyce. If you stop putting Dorothy on a pedestal, your friendship can really begin to take off.

    1. Pantheon the Mantheon

      I think this goes deeper than just expecting more from Dorothy. She expected Dorothy to be there for her. The party was supposed to be a safe and innocuous get together for Joyce and Dorothy got drunk, not only bringing to mind bad memories but also putting everyone at risk after their RA suddenly arrived without warning. In my opinion, getting drunk for that was really a bad move on Dorothy’s part and I feel she might need to apologize for it.

      1. Idon'tcarenomore

        I agree. It was pretty thoughtless of Dorothy to chose that particular time to get drunk. She badly disappointed Joyce. And she may have caused serious problem when Ruthless showed up later.

      2. Nono

        She hasn’t put that kind of pressure on Ethan though. Either she doesn’t hold him to that same standard, or she didn’t notice.

        1. QF

          Ethan wasn’t as noticeably drunk, though. Perks of being so big I guess.

  18. NotaGravatar

    For Dorothy it was just another party.

    For Joyce it was another attempt to overcome what happened to her at the last party.

    Based on decision making and awareness alone… Dorothy better develop a rock-solid platform or there is NO way I am voting for her.

    Really wish Joyce would confront Dorothy, and she might, but at the moment Dorothy is putting way less effort into the friendship than Joyce has. Joyce stood up to her parents FOR Dorothy, and in turn the valedictorian can’t put two and two together about why drinking at Joyce’s party would be uncomfortable. Irrationally angry about the situation and at Dorothy specifically.

    1. chris73

      Once again characters are getting blamed for not being able to read minds, ususally its Danny but now its Dorothys turn

      1. NotaGravatar

        Stated “irrationally angry,” didn’t I?

        Once again let’s gloss over stuff like that to make an enlightened point.

  19. Sailorcakes

    And a new friendship starts to bloom <3 ^_^

  20. Pinja

    Gosh I’m liking Sal less and less every time I see her.

    1. Arian

      Now? When she’s being friendlier to another person than she’s been in the entire comic up till now? Weird. Did you want her to stay mean?

      1. timemonkey

        Some people are determined to hate a character no matter what they do.

        1. Pinja

          Indeed. I’m not one of those people but factually speaking you’re not wrong.

        2. timemonkey

          It would help your image if you explained why you dislike the character more and more instead of just stating the dislike.

        3. Pinja

          I’m not in the market for a PR guy, but thanks.

  21. Twilightomens

    That last line had me so confused like
    They have the same uterus?

    1. Pinja

      The amount of people confused by that line is pretty amazing.

      They’re twins so they shared their mother’s uterus.

      1. skdk

        theyre not identical twins unless one of them is transgender

        1. DarkoNeko

          Still in the same uterus as fetuses.

        2. Pinja

          … Yes?

          Are dizygotic/fraternal twins a state secret wherever you’re from?

        3. Lord Stoneheart

          Unless their mom has two wombs, they shared the space with each other. There’s not a difference between identical and non identical twins in that regard.

  22. Lan Mikoto

    Ah Joyce this is why you’ll be in my top three. You’re just a total goober. She’s like a six year old that just found out about Saturday morning cartoons when it comes to Sal and I like that. “Oh it’s time for Sal!” Little goober.

  23. Idon'tcarenomore

    Gosh, I’m like Sal more and more every time I see her.

    Making cracks about her brother is her prerogative, most all brothers and sisters do it, to an extent.

    But, Sal and Walky are not on good grounds right now; the parents show really loaded favorism for Walky, partly based on their mixed race. Walky is a lot lighter skinned than Sal, and dosn’t have super curly hair.
    Sal works at straightening hers.

    At the family college weekend: Sal, dressed in her old private school dress-to please her parents, and attempted to talk to her parents at the college dorm. Her mother couldn’t even see her-literally, she only had eyes for Walky. Her father told her he ‘preferred her hair to be different that she was wearing it at the time’.
    She left and they didn’t even notice. Later, Walky and Sal came face to face over it. Walky ended up telling her that maybe if she hadn’t robbed a store at 13 they’d treat her diff. She said he knew that wasn’t so, they’d always treated him diff. because he was whiter. He wasn’t bothered, he didn’t try to comfort her. He just was enjoying what he considered his right, to all the attention. Later, he thought about it and felt some remorse but didn’t really act on it.

    So yeah, Sal has issues with him.
    It’s been mentioned Joyce and Sal seem to be bonding over this mutual dislike or lack of counting on: and this is like when Sarah did that with Jacob.

    This may be different. I think Sal and Joyce will move on as they learn to know each other, if they do. Sarah and Jacob seemed to not do that. Sarah isn’t much of a social conversationalist.

    Sal is a loner, but not a mean or cruel person. She came back for Joyce when she realized Joyce was in trouble. And she’s walking her to meet friends. It didn’t take her long to figure out what it was, and to make Joyce promise to talk to someone about it.

    What’s not to like?

    1. Graham

      I dislike how she often views the world as black and white. All therapists are bad, cops are all pigs and the fact she almost stabbed a boy at 13.

      1. NotPiffany

        Eh, looking at the world as black and white is pretty normal for a teenager.

        1. Spencer

          Pretty much. We’re not supposed to see Sal as objectively right about her viewpoints when it comes to police and therapy(excluding those about her parents, of course), and we’re free to consider Sal’s judgements however we see fit.

      2. Rutee

        Viewing all cops as pigs is far healthier and safer for people at risk of having cops unfairly target them (like brown or black people). The ‘good’ ones almost all enable the bad ones to start with, and even if they didn’t, bad cops have far too much power to screw you, personally, to worry about the feelings of ‘good’ cops who might feel hurt. They should fucking end the corruption in their house if they want our trust.

    2. TheGrammarLegionary

      Give Sarah and Jacob time… mostly Sarah… okay, ALL Sarah… and I think we’ll see her grow in terms of openness. Sarah’s last appearance indicated to me that she desperately wants that, but doesn’t know how anymore. I don’t think we’re done with that storyline yet, not by a long shot.

      But yeah, Sal’s awesome. No question about it. I definitely prefer her to Walky, although that may just be because I see a lot of my worse qualities in him…

    3. hof1991

      This. But I believe the Word of God is that Walky and Sal are drawn with the same skin tone.

      1. John

        It’s not merely Word of God; it is objective fact. Both twins’ base skin tone is #cea87e. There’s a lot more to the complex of issues that make up the concept of “race” than merely skin tone.

      2. xKiv

        Which can be verified in any strip where they are together. Most recently panel 3 of 4 days ago.
        It’s just that the exact same skin tone that’s called “black” on Sal is “generically beige” on Walky. According to Walky.

        1. Nicknack Paddywhack

          It reminds me of a certain dress, except that black became gold instead of “generically beige”. But that’s close enough.

    4. Lordess of Madness

      Walky’s problem with the parents issue is that he’s a bit too immature and Naive to see that it actually is a real problem between him and Sal, and is also too immature (and lazy) to either know what to do about it, actually be bothered to do something, or comfort Sal.

  24. Nick Piers

    “So, wait, what you’re saying is in order to be cool, I need to share a uterus with someone…”

    1. Screwball

      Are you trying to bring a new Slipshine into existence?

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      Womb-mates.

  25. Bagge

    Joooooooyce, talk to Dorothy. You are breaking my heart again.

    It SHOULD bother you that she was drunk at your party. You SHOULD worry about what she thinks about your relationship with Ethan. But good friends are allowed mistakes and to not be perfect. Talk to her.

  26. BenRG

    One day, Sal is going to find out just how badly wrong her impression of Amazi-Girl is and I’m really interested to find out how she’ll react to that!

    That aside, if Sal achieves anything in this mini-arc, it will be this: She’ll convince Joyce to go beyond her indecision/fear loop about talking to others. All personal interactions carry with them a certain level of risk and the risk of rejection is one of them. It’s just something that Joyce is going to have to learn to live with, just like the rest of us.

    1. lime sheep

      is her impression actually wrong at all though

      1. Rutee

        Almost definitely, to a degree and in the big picture. But as far as what Amazi-girl’s done to Sal…, no she’s basically entirely spot on.

  27. shadowsneakz

    This is almost totally irrelevant to this entire strip, but I think there should be another ship that we should have going on.

    I vote Sarah/Raidah

  28. CisoSecond

    The mention of uterus randomly makes me wonder what Joyce’s opinion on abortion is.

    1. BenRG

      If she isn’t reflexively pro-life I’d be stunned into immobile silence.

      1. Kamino Neko

        Ditto.

    2. Pinja

      Almost violently against it I imagine. Like if Dotty had one Joyce would be Radiah to her Dorothy’s Sarah.

      1. Pinja

        Although that said I have seen such a huge amount of anecdotal evidence that pro-lifers have abortions when it is them or their family maybe Joyce could make the leap for a friend.

        It’s always different when it’s us afterall : /

        1. DarkoNeko

          about that…

        2. Pinja

          How ironic people called “Pro-Life” make me so violently angry : /

        3. Damned Scholar

          These people also tend to be against healthcare and food for poor people, and against any and all gun regulations. So it’s really just “pro-birthing”.

  29. Nono

    Considering Sal left the party pretty early, Walky must have been drunk-goofing off really quickly after that one drink.

    1. CaptainBatson

      Oh, he WAS.

    2. timemonkey

      The Walktertons have hideously low alcohol tolerance. He was probably drunk just touching it.

  30. saki

    Sal and Joyce bonding. Thank you Willis! Been wanting for this to happen forever! 😀

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      But is it convenient bonding or ironic bonding?

  31. Deanatay

    “Yeah, I’ve hated Walky MUCH longer than you have.

    He was always kickin’ me in there…”

  32. perlhaqr

    Man. That seems like a somewhat excessively harsh dismissal of Amber.

    And sorry, Joyce. Step one of being a cool motorcycle chick is not *wanting* to be a cool motorcycle chick, but rather just *being* a cool motorcycle chick. Or another way: Less talking, more lifting.

    1. NotPiffany

      Given Sal’s interaction with Amazi-Girl in the past, it’s not surprising.

    2. Spencer

      Amber attacked her in a parking lot with only the flimsiest piece of justification. “Caped White Girl Power Trip” is all Amazi-Girl is to Sal right now.

      1. Sir Robin

        Yeah, it makes sense based on their interactions

  33. Kraken

    Remember to pick up your issue of Caped White Girl Power Trip on new comic book day!

    1. Spencer

      “Caped White Power Trip” sounds like the last 70 years of Marvel and DC.

  34. Guest

    Due to the old walkyverse, Joyce saying she can hate Walky just comes out so weird to me.

    1. Sir Robin

      She used to have a crush on Danny, which is even weirder

      1. Seerow

        “Crush” is a pretty mild way to put it.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Suffocate seems more apt.

  35. Cizak

    Sal being nice to Joyce makes me feel fuzzy.

  36. sps48

    Sal’s gotta stop smoking before I ever think she is cool.

  37. Element Zero

    Joyce hating Walky runs counter to my expectations and it hurts, but I still love it all the same…

  38. Tenn

    I’m actually a bit surprised there’s no fanart of Sal and Walky in the womb yet.

  39. lime sheep

    i forgot that the bubbles were there for drunk people and thought the alt text was somehow about what it was like being in the womb with him and i was really confused

    1. Tenn

      I had the same thought process and concluded that prenatal Walky must have been surrounded by shoujo bubbles.

  40. Zapmolcuno

    dumbing of age aka “everyone bonds over mutual dislike of someone else”

    1. Beckett

      “Then, they all have sex.”

  41. LiveWire

    Berkeley Breathed termed “those little bubbles” “Boozles.”

  42. charlierw1

    ohmygod the poll though

  43. Journeyman

    Wombies!

    1. Aaron Bourque

      … I wonder how close we got to that being the concept of the reboot of Roomies!?

      1. MrZombieScordo

        If Willis has twins, It’s Pregnancy could be renamed Wombies.

        1. David M Willis

          if?

          i’d BETTER be having twins!

        2. DSL

          Whaddaya mean YOU’d better?

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