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Talk
Posted on March 9, 2014 by David M Willis

113 thoughts on “Talk”

  1. JAD

    “Don’t got much to say. Nothing’s pissing me off”

    Yes, that’s Sarah.

    1. David Herbert

      Someone should turn around and say “You mean don’t HAVE much to say.” Then she could get pissed at Grammar Nazis.

      1. MichaelHaneline

        Also, it should be “Nothing is” not “nothing’s”. You don’t get to just combine any word you want with “is”, silly girl!

        1. Jason

          Uh, yeah you can.

        2. David Willis

          what

        3. Hotsauce

          Pretty sure you don’t understand how contractions work.

        4. TPman

          Whazzat?

    2. JA

      Dammit Sarah.

    3. teddydragon

      Y0U DUN G00F’D, SARAH.

    4. Parnifia the Bastard

      That’s me, except it’s never a problem because something is always pissing me off.

  2. Rani

    Aaaaaaaaaaaand this is gonna be a long arc. Not to worry, I’ve packed feels.

    1. Deathjavu

      I left all mine…somewhere.

      I’ll get back to you if I ever find them again.

      1. saltchocolate

        You all *bring* feels? This strip sprays them at you from every panel. And by “this strip” I don’t mean tonight, I mean DoA…

        1. Deathjavu

          It’s more like it triggers them, and what you’re bringing is receptiveness.

          Oh, hey, I found my feels. Turns out they were under life’s shoe.

      2. Aeron

        Theater attendants will be distributing feels during the course of the show. And by delivering I mean a trap door will open on the ceiling and drown everyone.

    2. cybik

      Yeah, I think the feels you packed are not going to last. Should I bring more?

  3. Opus the Poet

    Words change things, and the fantasy that might be is better than destroying everything…

    1. Aizat

      Hence why some people prefer the fantasy than the reality. They just don’t want that dream to end.

    2. Ivan

      WORDS do not change things.

      •LASERS• change things! Especially one’s naughty parts!!

      1. Astrum

        Well that sounds… Horrifying…

        1. Drunken Nordmann

          Depends on the laser and the one who handles it.

      2. Heavensrun

        ಠ□ಠ

  4. RandomRedMage

    d’awwwww

  5. Plasma Mongoose

    Not exactly the most positive person around, that Sarah.

    1. Yotomoe

      She’s positively bitter.

  6. GoogerGeiger

    Don’t dan this up now, Sarah!

  7. Yotomoe

    We could compare lipstick. Personally I buy grape, but I like the tangerine thing you’ve got going on!

    1. Aizat

      Wait…you use lipstick?

      1. Yotomoe

        No. I forgot to put quotes.

      2. Plasma Mongoose

        He’s in touch with his feminine side, touching it with special battery powered toys.

        1. Yotomoe

          My feminine side is mad at my masculine side for not having a fine lady to cuddle with. My masculine side is resigned to lady failure.

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      Looks more like peach to me.

    3. CarlaGriffin

      Come on guys, it’s clearly Golden Sunrise, god!

      1. SplashBoogie

        Actually it’s Coral Blue Number…

  8. Pyr05

    Intimidated Sarah is intimidated.

  9. Doctor_Who

    Sarah + Mike: best or worst ship ever?

    1. Totz the Plaid

      Yes.

    2. Yotomoe

      I believe it could stay afloat but it probably wouldn’t sail too far.

      1. Badeyes

        It would float until she broke Mike down, his tears would fill the ship and sinking would ensue.

    3. arank11

      I feel like it would be like the Amber/Mike relationship from Shortpacked, but in reverse (Mike blackmailing Sarah with something)

    4. The Candyman

      I dunno. Sarah is grouchy, but she’s never been actively malicious. She doesn’t have that evil drive to make someone else miserable. Ruth on the other hand..

      1. Rutee

        …is into girls.

        1. 4th Dimension

          According to her in this continuity she was kind of surprised by that development, so boys probably are still not out of the question.

        2. John

          Not exclusively.

          But that’s kind of an informed trait; Billie’s the only person in either universe that she’s definitely demonstrated that she’s into.

        3. Fen_Star

          IIRC she was really into a truck in the walkyverse.

        4. John

          Other way around.

    5. Drunken Nordmann

      It would sink like it’s a viking funeral: burning and full of treasures.

      1. nkh

        I will trust your opinion on viking funeral analogies because you are a drunken Nordmann.

  10. saltchocolate

    This last year’s trauma coming back to haunt her! Dammit!

  11. Bill

    That’s the way, Sarah.  A closed mouth gathers no foot.

    1. MrPotamus

      I wish more people subscribed to this notion.

      1. Glacirus

        Seconded.

    2. jy2

      At first I read that as “gathers no food”.

      1. John

        Also true!

  12. Kernanator

    They do? Okay, the sky is green!

    *looks out window*

    Dammit.

    1. Aizat

      Let me try. I am currently dreaming and it’s still 2007.

  13. arank11

    I can see the future and it is filled with feels

    1. Roborat

      I saw my hovercraft, it was full of eels.

  14. Robert

    Could she be eye humping him any harder in that last panel? Her eyes even look wet… Make whatever joke/pun from that you like.

    1. KingMabel

      Her eyes ain’t the only thing wet…

    2. Yotomoe

      She’d better wear eye protection. don’t wanna get ‘im pregnant.

      1. timemonkey

        Or catch an steye

        1. timemonkey

          S.T.Eye

        2. Drunken Nordmann

          That could happen. They discussed that in “Elders react”

  15. CarlaGriffin

    “Don’t got much to say. Them cattle comin’ along nice. Looks like rain.” Sarah is reminding me of a cowboy.

    1. Yotomoe

      I am more into the idea of Sarah as a cowboy than as a dickgirl.

      1. nkh

        Combine for best results!

        Cow-dick girl… Cow dickgirl… Dick cowgirl… Dick-cow girl.

        1. MichaelHaneline

          Is a cow-dick girl a lady with the job of herding cow penises?

    2. Cybersnark

      She’s kinda reminding me of Zoe.

      She’s terse.

      1. TsunamiJane

        “Terse? I can do terse. Once in flight school, I was laconic!”

    3. John

      It occurs to me that Halloween costume time should be coming up in a few weeks.

      By which I mean three to five years, of course.

      I wonder if Joyce is allowed to celebrate Halloween.

      1. Bill

        Probably.  But no monsters, vampires, or slutty meter maid costumes for Joyce; no doubt she had to dress as an OT Biblical character like Ruth, Sara (the wife of Abraham), or Esther.

        1. Drunken Nordmann

          I’d like to see Billie’s look when Joyce’s dressed as Ruth.

        2. John

          I don’t think Joyce could rock the overall-shorts look the way Ruth does.

          On the other hand, if Ruth borrowed Joyce’s orange sweater and added a little brown tint to her hair, she’d be a perfect Velma. I don’t think Billie could pull off Hot Dog Water, though.

        3. Bill

          Well played, Nordmann.

        4. John

          Well, I know a lot of Chick-tract-toting evangelicals of Joyce’s family’s stripe are big on the whole “Halloween == devil worship” thing. (Of course, Just about everything is devil worship if Jack Chick can be believed.)

          She celebrated it in It’s Walky, but only after the mindwipe, I think, and her parents seem harder-core in this universe.

          Anyway, for Joyce’s costume I’m thinking Sarah’s vision of Joyce à la Billie. Just to break the brains of everyone else in the dorm.

  16. Wonder Wig

    Those words are called adjectives.

  17. Cthulhu's Intern

    Willis, if the next strip is nothing but an awkward silence…

    1. Aizat

      Nah, the next strip might be a cut away to someone else.

  18. nothri

    Yeeeah. Might want to take the angst down a notch there, Sarah.

  19. Aizat

    You know…for some reason, I can’t shake the feeling that this Jacob is somehow related to ME2’s Jacob.

    1. nothri

      Willis! Cosplay! Make it happen, and I will throw money at you!

    2. Andiemus

      Is Sarah going to disappear for a while and then Jacob ends up married to someone we’ve never heard of?

      1. timemonkey

        Oh, they weren’t married, he just knocked her up.

  20. lilycat51

    the last panel. I can relate.

  21. Alex Stritar

    Sarah, when did you start being so vulnerable and puppy-eyed? Is this what living with Joyce does to you?

    1. Bill

      You would be surprised what meeting the “right” person will do to someone.
      I certainly was.

  22. Kiggy

    Don’t sarah this up, Sarah.

    1. Opus the Poet

      No it’s “Don’t Amber this up, Sarah.”

  23. Ratso

    “Awwwww” for Sarah’s feels.
    “WHu-HUH” for her admitting out loud that she ‘likes’ things.

  24. GaoShiki

    Quit being creepy and vague, Sarah. You don’t even know Jacob that well, there’s no friggin relationship to change!

    1. TEMPO

      Thank you for putting it into words. I was wondering why this felt so off. I can buy Sarah being bashful in new clothes and cautious about talking to a hot guy, but his “Words Change Things” stuff is so weird.

  25. maxyai

    Joyce can work miracles with outfits. Personality, on the other hand…

    1. Ikaru

      I dunno, I think she is doing pretty okay. And Jacob seems willing to help. Sorta awkwardly cute.

  26. Darwin

    Those eyes…

  27. Giant Speck

    Noooooooo! I don’t want to experience Sarah feels again!

  28. Idon'tcarenomore

    Sarah, you are about as accomplished at social interaction as I was, not that I’ve improved all that much, but at least a little better than this scene. I have “feels” or is that, am experiencing ‘feels’ for your predicament.

    Shut up and ask him about his day. Works every time.

    1. Cybersnark

      I just love the thought of Dina giving Sarah relationship advice.

      1. Tenn

        Well, if Joyce can dress her…

  29. JessWitt

    I’m saving that line in the second to the last panel to end future conversations with chatty idiots.

  30. JoeMerl

    Watch out Sarah, Dina’s starting to think you’re socially awkward. 😉

  31. David

    I have the suspicion that we skipped the panels in the continuity where Joyce tells Jacob “My roommate digs you. You can recognize her because I dressed her up in shorts. Talk her up and don’t blow it or I’ll” I am not sure what threat Joyce added to it but he’s obviously thinking very hard about it right now.

  32. Tufto

    Swing and a miss :p.

    1. Gordon Blvd

      puh-lenty of innings to go……………………

  33. SilverArrowArtemis

    This isn’t even my final feel.

  34. OldFart

    I regret being absent from the Internet yesterday, so that I could not drop a reference into that “pants” thread.
    “I wonder if you’re the best in everybody’s pants?”
    Do I fetch retroactive nerd cred, or is JoCo not cool here?

  35. Arkadi

    Sarah isn’t very good at this.

    1. Bilfred

      No, but it appears that Jacob is perfectly willing to walk her through it.

  36. Scolopendra

    Huh, not a lot of conversation today. I guess everyone could use a break from the commenting frenzy.

    1. Jack Finch

      We talk plenty, but nothing’s pissing us off.

  37. Mystrana

    Jacob is being sweet and I understand how scared Sarah is. She thinks it’s safer for her to put up walls and only share her anger because how can you get hurt if you don’t put yourself out there? obviously I really want things to work out for her but I’m scared too, because on occasion this webcomic is all about the sad. ;p

  38. Darnel

    ouch.

  39. Porkachu

    Come on Sarah! He digs you!

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