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Wally
Posted on August 13, 2014 by David M Willis

203 thoughts on “Wally”

  1. An Average Loser

    Yeah, BEST Friends

    1. An Average Loser

      Mmm, Hallucinogenic Chicken Nuggets. . .

      1. RevenantBacon

        Sounds like something you’d find at McRonald’s. Or a meth lab.

        1. Viidahr

          or at los pollos hermanos.

        2. Robbzilla

          I’m guessing that was a Chick Fil A reference

        3. sylvester crow

          I think that that was a reference to the anime “The Devil is a Part Timer” as the main character is a demon that got stuck in our world and got a job at a fast food joint called McRonalds.

        4. Doctor Mobius

          No, it’s a Chick-Fil-A reference. They’re owned by a fairly religious family, and some of their political donations have been in the news. They also make it a point to be closed on Sunday, which I suppose is nice if you work there.

          I also love how Walky has an entire stack of them. They deep fry their chicken in peanut oil, and it’s friggin addictive.

        5. gwalla

          What does “something you’d find at McRonald’s. Or a meth lab.” have to do with religion?

  2. Mr. Random

    Billie, are you…
    Growing?

    1. Yotomoe

      Hopefully not! She’s already pretty large!

      1. Jen Aside

        That’s a strange comment coming from you… =2

        1. Yotomoe

          I’m all about Big Billies. But I don’t want the gal to have to buy new clothes.

        2. newllend

          So much Billie to love though.

        3. brionl

          Oh it’s grand to have a girl who’s so fat that
          You don’t know where you’re at
          You have to take a piece of chalk in your hand
          And hug a bit and make a mark to see where you began

        4. Jen Aside

          Why? She’s loaded, she can handle it.

          Also, she really just needs a few mumus that resemble cheerleader uniforms, anyway =p

    2. Gigafreak

      I think it’s more that she’s clinging to Walky a bit like a security blanket, leaning on him like an emotional crutch. She needs his support right now and she knows it, so she’d rather he didn’t leave just yet.

      She IS growing, in that she’s come to regard Walky as someone worth giving a damn about, and even someone who can be depended on– that your real friends are more important than a nebulous concept of popularity. But I think her current decision for inclusiveness is fueled more by growing pains (“I don’t want to be alone”) than the growth itself.

    3. Weedleplop

      We’re watching Billie’s ‘best’ friend from high school ditch the poor girl in slow motion, one agonizing panel at a time. Just how much more ‘growth’ can she take?

      1. ninja_jesus

        All of it. Growths need to sprout all over her body before she can truly change… into an ent.

    4. Lord Geovanni

      once she grows where it counts

  3. Jen Aside

    I’ve found that using peanut oil instead makes a tastier version

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      A tastier version of Jesus? CRIKEY!

      1. Willoughby Chase

        LSD Jesus.

      2. gwalla

        Cheesus: the snack that dies…for you!

    2. Swerve

      Yeah, but isn’t there a growing cohort of humans allergic to peanuts? You’re better off using LSD.

      1. Jen Aside

        Dying is like hallucinating! Look at all these near-death testimonies!

        1. CiaranLovejoy

          Pretty Much, the brain panics and spams electricity everywhere, your mind tries to compensate by giving you a view of what you expect to happen, that’s why Christians always see like, jesus and bright lights and heaven and shit, and why muslims see allah and why atheists tend not to have such visions.

        2. Narf

          It’s actually a large burst of dopamine that causes the hallucinations, and rather than seeing what you expect to happen, there appear (from scattered testimonials at least) to be common themes that run through the hallucinations people experience. My bet would be most of the meaning present in them is “read” into them after the fact.

    3. Jay Eff

      NOTHING IS TASTIER THAN HALLUCINOGENS.

      1. Jen Aside

        I don’t want to eat NOTHING, that’s boring!

    4. Doom Shepherd

      “Good lord! According to the spectrolyzer, Spragel’s secret ingredient was… water! Ordinary water! … Yes, ordinary water, laced with nothing more than a few spoonfuls of LSD.”

  4. Ridureyu

    So she’s not as popular as she thought?

    SOMEHOW DANNY DID THIS.

    1. Doctor_Who

      Getting turned down for sex by Danny must leave some sort of mark on your aura that others can sense. It’s -10 popularity points.

      1. Pantheon the Mantheon

        Your charisma will drain until it -1 per day untill it hits 0, at which point you become astrocized and attacked on sight

        1. Narf

          But something without a charisma score is an object! So you’re saying eventually you just morph into like an armchair or something?

          That would be pretty cool, if horrifying to experience. 😛

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      So does that make Danny the anti-Fuckface then?

      http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=2117&comments=yes#disqus_thread

  5. Opus the Poet

    “Wally”? Not Wall-E?

    1. JessWitt

      Wall E Weasel?

  6. Airyu

    BEST friend?? Oh no… This will extra not end well.

    1. Yotomoe

      Yeah, that’s a pretty awkward thing to call someone you’ve had NO contact with since high school.

      1. Carriethedragon

        Not only that, she kept it secret from Billie that they were going to the same college. I mean, that has GOT to take effort. College is pretty much all anyone talks about during senior year and the following summer–I should know, I’m living it.

        1. ninja_jesus

          She might have been suspended from school, or wasn’t in the same class as Alice during that time.

        2. Carriethedragon

          I suppose. Just seems kinda strange, is all.

        3. fabforest

          I think the DUI happened after the end of the school year

        4. airyu

          I think the DUI had to be during the school year, since Billie wouldn’t have been able to get kicked off the cheer squad after the school year ended

        5. fabforest

          I’m not sure if she got kick out of the Dragons Cheer squad or of a place on the IU cheersquad

        6. Eukie

          She got kicked out of the IU cheersquad. The IU cheersquad is the Crimson Squad, and when Billie tells Ruth about her DUI, she says something to the effect of “After [my DUI] the Crimson Squad was like “Thanks but no thanks,” wholesome image and all that.”

        7. Ken

          There are still phones. And those social network things the whippersnappers keep talking about.

        8. airyu

          Plus like Facebook and Twitter and whatnot.

      2. Kryss LaBryn

        About, oh, ten years ago (which was more than fifteen years after I graduated, and almost as many since I moved far, far out of town), I was visiting my folks when someone called, asking for me. They were shocked (and I think slightly hurt) when I didn’t recognize their voice. Turns out it was this girl I had been good friends with in Grade 8, that I hadn’t talked to since, wanting to invite me to come to her wedding. As I recall, she may have been wanting me to be one of her Maids of Honour or something.

        I chatted politely for a bit, said I’d moved something on the order of 1,200 km away, and let her know there was no way I’d be able to make it back for that, sorry, but congratulations, good chatting with [you], and hung up, slightly bemused that she’d called me at all (must have heard I was back in town; it was a very small place) and slightly sad that “one of her closest friends” was someone she hadn’t talked to in what, more than twenty years? Who she hadn’t even talked to for the next four years after that one summer, when we were still in the same school. No particular falling out, we just grew apart over the summer, as happens sometimes.

        So, man, I so feel for poor Alice here. “What’s that? I’m your best friend? What, still? Uh, sure, okay… I’m gonna go stand over here now, bye…”

        1. tinfoil theory

          Poor Alice recognized Billie instantly. And she wants her and Wally to leave the table where she just finished her meal.

        2. Jon P

          Also, there is someone else across the table from Alice, and the two of them were probably having a perfectly wonderful conversation before Billie barged in.

        3. begbert2

          “Oh, and seriously, there was this one girl back in high school who was sooo clingy, it was creepy. Especially when she was drunk, and she was drunk a lot. And she was only getting worse – both with the clinging, and the drinking. Seriously, she got trashed and wrecked her car a little after graduation. I’m so glad I got out of that town. …Hm, my soda’s empty. Let me grab a refill and I’ll be right – Billie!”

        4. Narf

          That’s sort of how I read Alice’s reactions here too, heh. Billie is not going to be happy with the way this pans out, methinks.

        5. zaratustra

          Friendship has no expiration date!

          God, now I sound like a Facebook post.

        6. Cyberdance

          It has. Friendship expires if it isn’t cared for.

        7. Jen Aside

          There’s a difference between having an expiration date and expiring. Friendship just isn’t labelled =p

        8. Gadgeteer Smashwidget

          Friendship is Magic!

        9. airyu

          Yikes! But at the same type, Alice and Billie were best friends ad of only a few months ago. I think fall break hasn’t even happened yet.

  7. Yotomoe

    Their Salvation leads to my Salivation.

    1. Kai

      *Haha* When I first read the alt-text I somehow read “They’re baked with saliva” – and I thought: “Dear Mr. Willis, what are you up to here?” 😀

  8. NerdHerder

    IT’S WALLY!

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Where’s Wally? 😛

      1. Stephen Bierce

        At Wally World, of course!

        1. Stephen Bierce

          Or maybe “Wally’s World”!
          http://www.nbcnews.com/id/9456395/
          NASCAR! Excellent! Wally’s World!

    2. Hoboturtle

      I believe its Walkerton.

    3. airyu

      Joyce and Wally

  9. Plasma Mongoose

    I thought Jesus only came in wafer form…

    1. Yotomoe

      I recall that he can also be wine as well.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        That’s just his blood.

      2. AgentKeen

        The real reason Billie believes in God.

        1. airyu

          Chick-fil-a?

      3. Jen Aside

        “I said drink this wine, it is my blood.”
        “You said WHAT??”
        “I… said drink this wine, it is my blood?”
        “That’s vampirism! You got vampirism on day one of my new religion!”
        “Oh… sorry.”

        1. Dean

          Jesus rose from the dead, so it was already pretty vampirey. Start worrying when He wants the blood back….

        2. Kryss LaBryn

          “Drink from me, and live forever…” Didn’t they use that on the Interview With a Vampire poster? Might have been the poster for the Image comic adaptation back when, now that I think about it…

          Nope, I was right; it’s the tagline from the movie:

          http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID21828/images/Interview_with_the_Vampire.JPG

          So, yeah, extremely vampirey…

        3. MindLink

          Didn’t Lestat actually end up drinking the literal blood of Jesus in one of the latter books ? Can’t remember if it was actual time-travel or some sort of weird vision…

  10. Doctor_Who

    Billie may have been head cheerleader, but she’s clearly not head hint taker.

    Also, is whoever Alice is sitting with ever going to pipe up, or do they just sit there silently and stare?

    …It’s Dina in a blonde wig, isn’t it?

    1. ninja_jesus

      Yeah, it’s clearly obvious that she’s trying to shoo her off. Maybe after she got kicked from the team, the cheer squad went to shit. Either that, or they think she’s the same ol’ drunken, arrogant Billie and they kinda don’t wanna associate themselves with her.

      I foresee heartbreak in the next few strips.

      1. hurocrat

        The cheer squad didn’t exist after Billie’s DUI – that was after graduation. I gather she’d been accepted to the college squad, and that got revoked. Either that or she thought she was going to get in and just…didn’t.

        1. hurocrat

          Correction – the Dragons squad existed, Billie just wouldn’t have been a part of it even without the DUI.

  11. sps48

    New girl is being wilfully obtuse, if not offensive.

    1. chris73

      I’d go with being an arrogant bongo (pet peeve is people who, on being told someones name, still gets it wrong)

      1. OldFart

        I do that all the time. My memory is like a sieve. I will look at my watch for the time, then forget what time it was 2 seconds later and have to look again. I forget the names of people I’ve known for years, people who are important to me, who I consider friends. Judging people as “arrogant” when they forget names is like judging gay people because you don’t approve of their “lifestyle choice”.

        1. ninja_jesus

          But the thing is that Alice was corrected by Joyce merely seconds before getting it wrong again. And judging by how Billie used to be, if Alice was her best friend, then I’m pretty sure it was done in a haughty/mean-spirited way. Like, “you’re not important/popular enough for me to remember the name of”. She’s just deceptively nicer about it.

        2. Opus the Poet

          Yeah, some of us it takes 4 or 5 tries to get a name right, just ask my wife Bob…

        3. Björn

          Also, odd choice of words. “It was INTERESTING seeing you again”, not “It was NICE seeing you again”. Take the hint, Billie.

        4. Killjoy

          Perhaps Alice’s brain is preoccupied with the extreme discomfort of the situation.

        5. airyu

          Idk… I read this as Alice purposely getting Walky’s name wrong… I don’t think she’s just forgetful

        6. begbert2

          I think she just wasn’t paying attention because her mind is fully occupied with get me the hell out of here!

    2. The Gorram Batguy

      My reading of this, maybe, is Alice is so shocked at Billie’s sudden, unwanted appearance that all of her mental energies are focused on trying to politely but quickly get rid of her, and she honestly has no brain power left over for processing new people’s names.
      “Divert all power to shields.”

  12. Wonder Wig

    Walky did manage to impress Dorothy’s parents, but how will he fair with Alice?

    1. Yotomoe

      I’m pretty sure they’ve all failed already.

      1. TheoC

        Judging from Walky’s reaction, he’s 2 seconds away from “yeah, I’m going over there”, giving Alice (who has already finished her lunch) the opportunity to scram with a ” don’t want to keep you from your friends” (or “new friends” if she’s as bongoy as people claim) causing Billie to resume her slide towards the pit and maybe even blame Walky for it…

        1. Disloyal Subject

          Oh my, the bongo filter even applied retroactively?

  13. Vex Godglove

    Alice seems like a lovely person. I foresee only positive things coming from this conversation.

    1. newllend

      …you got to be more clear on your sarcasm when typing out what your saying I almost thought you serous.

      1. ninja_jesus

        I picked up on the sarcasm immediately. O_o

      2. -Sentinel-

        IMO, being deadpan is an important part of sarcasm. If you’re being too obvious (like, say, by using a [/sarcasm] tag or a smiley), it’s tantamount to ending a joke with: “Get it?”

        1. Clif

          Ha! Good one. Of course I get it.

        2. Mc

          How could anyone just let this perfectly good ‘that’s what she said’ go to waste?

      3. Drunken Nordmann

        The only way Vex could have conveyed the sarcasm even more clearly would have been a “SARCASM!” neon sign the size of Jupiter.

        1. Historyman68

          How do you toggle Jupiter size in HTML?

        2. Opus the Poet

          >marvin< Brain the size of a planet >/marvin<

          That way.

  14. Kernanator

    I do like how Billie is trying to include Walky and Joyce, instead of pushing them away, saying, “I found my REAL friend, get lost losers.”

    1. fabforest

      that still pretty weird for Billy

    2. Doctor_Who

      She wants to give off popularity vibes. I mean, Alice brought a friend. Billie has two, so she wins.

      At least I think Alice brought a friend. He/she hasn’t done anything yet, and may be a dummy Alice takes everywhere so she can use the carpool lane.

      1. JessWitt

        Maybe it’s a Justin Case dummy, for women who want to feel secure when driving at night (it was a real thing).

    3. Historyman68

      Baby steps, Billie.

  15. newllend

    Ah, I guess we judged Billie a little to soon yesterday when we thought we was going to go back to the old way she was.

  16. Vincent Storm

    It’s a trap!

  17. Wack'd

    Second panel Joyce dropping the wrong title.

    1. Catullus

      Well, it wouldn’t exactly be polite to call him “Dumbing of Age”…

      1. Jen Aside

        or Shortpacked!?

    2. John

      “It’s Walky! Joyce and Walky! Billie and I are Roomies!”

      1. Gigafreak

        “…with Sal and Sarah respectively, not with each other.”

        1. John

          Joyce does kind of treat the whole suite like it were her room. None of this going three weeks without knowing who lives on the other side of the bathroom for her!

          Besides, it would be a very different comic if Joyce and Billie were Suiteies!

          Well, slightly different, anyway.

        2. gwalla

          Diesel suities?

  18. ninja_jesus

    Maybe her old friends can see how much she’s reformed now and forgive her for being a drunken menace!

    1. newllend

      REFORMED !?

      1. ninja_jesus

        Yeah; she acknowledges people who she used to avoid association with as friends, are nicer to them than before, and (hopefully) she’s cutting down on all the drinking. I didn’t say she’s completely reformed (she’s wearing her high school colors in a display of wanting to relive the old days when she was more popular), and she’s trying to get into contact with former squadmates who obviously don’t want her around, but still; baby steps!

        1. hurocrat

          Unfortunately, many of her old friends are pretty much the way she used to be. That’s why they were friends, after all. What we see as “reformed”might well come across to them as debasing herself.

  19. chris73

    and after wanting to smack Joyce upside her head the last couple of episodes she redeems herself in panel two

    1. Yotomoe

      No offence, but she literally just introduced herself and Walky. Nothing particurally difficult or anything.

      1. chris73

        She just had a fight with Walky over religious differences and the possibility of being a lesbian and yet when introduced to someone new helps Walky out by saying his real name when she could have just as easily said nothing

        1. Yotomoe

          It’s not like Walky wouldn’t have corrected her. It feels more like she’s organically using this as a segue so that she can introduce herself. And even if she did just wanna introduce Walky, I won’t say this redeems her.

    2. Historyman68

      I’d say it’s more an example or Joyce being her usually perky self. She loves making new friends!

      1. Swerve

        That raises an interesting point. Joyce is an extrovert who loves making new friends (something I definitely relate to; I’m one of the Lost Light’s biggest extroverts). However, Joyce’s parents acted as gatekeepers for whom she was allowed to be friends with until now. Joyce wants to be friends with everyone, while still expecting everyone to conform to her parents’ rigid standards. She basically has no way to read people, whether someone with hostile intent like Ryan, or a “mean girl” like Alice.

        Walky no doubt has bad memories of Alice as a “Queen Bee”, and is expecting nothing good to come of this. Too bad Billie is caught between her old life and new one, dragging Walky and Joyce along for the ride.

        1. Yotomoe

          I don’t think we really have any evidence that Alice is a “mean girl” or a “queen bee”.

        2. Eukie

          Wally does seem to have an adverse reaction to seeing Alice (which could be for any number of reasons, admittedly), and the only other characterization we’ve been given of Billie’s cheerleading friends is from Walky, who described them as “that posse of cheerleaders who used to stuff me into lockers” or something to that effect.

        3. begbert2

          Personally I think there’s something refreshingly liberated about cheerleaders stuffing people into lockers themselves rather than waiting for some male jock to do it for them.

        4. Swerve

          When a group of cheerleaders join together as one, there is nothing that can stop them from stuffing a scrawny high school student into his locker!

  20. AgentKeen

    So does Walky not like Alice because she’s actually maybe not so nice, or just because Billie ‘upgraded’ from Walky to Alice and he associates her with not being friends anymore?

    1. sps48

      Alice isn’t nice, or lost a friend to DUI and knows about Billie, or both.

    2. chris73

      She got corrected about Walkys name and still got it wrong so she ignored Joyce and disrespected Walky so I’m guessing shes an arrogant bongo

      1. Jen Aside

        That’s funny coming from a Billie grav

  21. Emperor Kiva

    Wait why does my drugs look like…….Oh Shit!

    1. ninja_jesus

      They got the orders wrong! :O

    2. gwalla

      EAT MOR PSILOCYBIN

  22. OldFart

    Billie is like a drowning person, grabbing on to anyone she can in a desperate struggle to keep her head above water. Or else she’s just really happy and outgoing all the sudden. Probably the former.

  23. lurker

    I believe this comment gives us the false confidence that Billie has finally reached that moment of development that we all crave. However, it looks like that this will quickly blow up in her face, and Billie will just as quickly regress.

  24. Idon'tcarenomore

    Ah Billie. You were kicked off cheer squad for drunken driving, you haven’t seen Alice since HS, you didn’t even know she was attending the same college, and she is doing everything- but be outright rude- trying to make you see how uncomfortable she is around you.

    The only good thing here, is that you aren’t kicking Joyce and Walky to the curb. A very good thing, as you are going to need them.

    The ‘other’ girl at table?
    Well, it is Alice’s friend, and Alice knows Billie. So it is up to Alice to introduce her to Billie and she pretty obviously doesn’t want to do that. The ‘other’ girl has probably picked up on that, and is keeping her mouth shut, because what else can she do?

  25. Archivist

    It’s Walky! Joyce and Walky! (God I’m so sorry and predictable.)

    1. newllend

      Glad to know I’m not the only guy who caught that.

  26. DT

    Wow, I did not see that coming.

  27. Cas

    *My* high school? Yeah, I don’t think Billie is really on her best friends list anymore or else she probably would have included her by saying *our* high school.

  28. Shanunu

    Three strikes, I’m guessing Alice is making herself scarce soon.

  29. MrSirk

    I’m sensing some highschoolesque drama approaching.

    1. ninja_jesus

      Good thing Sarah isn’t around.

      Oh shit, what if she were? Would she intervene or would she sit back and enjoy? Especially if Joyce were there.

      1. fabforest

        She would judge Alice as a bad infuence and warn Joyce

  30. Nono

    Walky/Alice. Let’s make it a thing.

    1. ninja_jesus

      Walice/Alicky seconded.

      1. Nono

        A licky licky.

  31. Time Sage

    ….Why would lesbian willingly go to Chick-fil-a when deppresed. If someone tried to drag me there when I was deppresed, I’d probably clock em.

    1. Salmo

      1 – Billie is not, as far as we know, a lesbian.

      2 – The Chick-fil-a boycott was successful. They don’t support those groups any more.

      1. Kryss LaBryn

        1 – She’s at least bi-curious.

        2 – Really? Yay! 😀

    2. Sam

      Billy is more likely to be bisexual than a lesbian – she was willing to have sex with Danny for a compliment, and her current love interest is Ruth. So she swings both ways from our knowledge.

      And Chick-fil-a doesn’t support those groups anymore.

      1. Darth

        Billy has been confirmed as being bisexual by Willis himself, if I’m not mistaken.

        1. Swerve

          One of Willis’ pet peeves is when commenters mistakenly identify Billie as a lesbian. She is bisexual, willing to throw herself at Danny or Ruth as the circumstances may arise.

        2. Eukie

          Don’t you know? People’s sexuality are defined by their current sex life, which is why all single people are asexual. 😛

        3. Time Sage

          To be fair, I haven’t read the entire archives so I didn’t know.

        4. Kelly

          Yes. And I doubt Billie is even aware of Chick-fil-a’s anti-gay stance. It doesn’t seem like the kind of news she would pay attention to.

        5. Narf

          What tipped you off, the big picture Willis posted of her for Bisexual Awareness Day, or the fact that she’s into both dudes and ladies? 😛

  32. Historyman68

    Has Willis previously posted panel 1 on tumblr? Looks familiar. Unless it’s just a character layout/arrangement he uses regularly.

    1. wynne

      It does feature Joyce boiled down to her essence.

  33. wynne

    Oh honey. A best friend tells you where they’re going to school.

  34. Bibulb

    Huh. Well, Billie seems to be moving SIDEWAYS (emotionally speaking), rather than my assessment of backsliding yesterday.

    So… good on her?

  35. Betty Anne

    Okay, guys and gals, help a bro/sis out? I’m still a little Dina-esque (despite many years of trying to learn better) about understanding social interactions, and I want to make sure I’m reading the situation right here.

    Alice doesn’t want Billie around, but she never brought herself to break off the relationship before college officially…she just went to the same college as Billie and kind of hoped they’d never bump into each other, but alas. She also deliberately forgets Walky’s name, because the two of them didn’t get along in high school. (Walky says, “Oh. It’s Alice.” with an expression that says she’s one of the last people he wanted to see.) Alice is trying to get rid of the lot of them by the end of the strip, but only Walky is picking up on the hints, and it might just be his own dislike of Alice at work.

    Billie isn’t getting the hint, but maybe deliberately? She kind of looks afraid or something in all the panels, even though she’s saying words like Alice is a great friend and she wants Alice to meet Walky and Joyce. Maybe she’s inviting Walky and Joyce to Alice’s table as some kind of emotional support in case Alice gets more forceful with trying to make her leave? I’ve always taken, “Well, it was nice seeing you, but…” as a hint that I need to make myself scarce ASAP, so I’m having a hard time sorting this one out.

    Walky still seems confused about Billie’s behavior in the last panel. It’s like he’s still getting the sense that something’s very wrong with Billie, but he just doesn’t have the experience to sort it out, so he’s throwing out cracks about the chicken with the hopes someone will speak up with what’s wrong? Unless he honestly thinks there ARE hallucinogens in the breading…I’ve eaten caf food at college that made me wonder sometimes. .__.;

    1. Orangey

      I think you’ve got it all down, but with Walky in the last panel I think that’s just Walky being Walky. He doesn’t seem to particularly like Alice so instead of looking politely interested like Joyce, he’s more distracted by his chicken hahaa.

    2. Sam

      Alice & Billie: The last page it seemed rather awkward for Alice to meet Billie again, but she honestly doesn’t say a word to Billie in this page – I’m thinking because it’s more like ‘I can at least tolerate her for a while, I might not run into her again after this so it won’t matter’.

      I’m not sure where you are getting that Billie looks scared though, she doesn’t look scared to me.

      Alice, Walky & Joyce: Walky seems to dislike Alice for some reason but it appears she barely remembers him – likely why she remembers him as ‘Wally’. However though she seems willing to tolerate Billie for a while, she outright ignores what Joyce says to her on purpose so that she can dismiss the two by saying ‘it was interesting seeing you again Wally but there aren’t enough chairs for you two as well’ – so she doesn’t have to meet or socialise with them.

      Walky in the last panel: Walky is confused because instead of dismissing Walky and Joyce and telling them to go away as she normally would when she has someone better to hang out with, Billie is telling them to bring over another table and chairs to hang out with them. He is making a sarcastic comment – he knows they don’t actually contain hallucinogens, but it indicates that he is finding Billie’s current behaviour baffling to the point that it seems like something he would only normally hallucinate.

      1. hurocrat

        I don’t think he’s wondering about himself hallucinating Billie’s behaviour. He’s implying that Billie’s the one hallucinating if she thinks Alice is happy to see her.

        Or it could be both.

        1. airyu

          Oh, I thought Walky was shocked Billie wanted him to sit with her and Alice, since right before he thought he had to make himself scarce while Alice and Billie are together.

        2. hurocrat

          That could be, too. This is Walky, after all.

  36. Sam

    Billie telling Walky and Joyce to pull up a table TO sit with her instead of ignoring them as worthless when there is someone better?

    …Have I been eating hallucinogens that make webcomics appear to have characters say insane things that are the exact opposite of their normal behaviour?

    1. Orangey

      I know right! Show’s that Billie has grown as a character, so I’m reeeally hoping she makes the right decision over the next few pages, depending on how Alice behaves. Agh I’m too emotionally invested in these fictional characters oh my goodness

  37. Orangey

    I think Walky says it all here with the “OH. It’s Alice.” right at the beginning, and then telling Joyce they should go sit somewhere else. Alice reeeeallly isn’t looking like a great person.

    Also Billie you’re not her best friend c’mon, don’t make this even more awkward arhgh.

    1. Drunken Nordmann

      Wll, if my assessment of the social hierarchy over there is correct, there isn’t much congruence between cheerleaders and people like Walky.

  38. Björn

    *Snicker* the phrase “It’s Walky” was used.

  39. Clif

    Or maybe Billie dislikes the fact that Alice and the group effectively dumped her and is intentionally inflicting Joyce and Walky on her to get revenge. After all her better mood came from watching Joyce and Walky committing mayhem on each other.

    1. airyu

      I wish, but this is Billie, not Sarah…

  40. jbear

    salvation? or salIvation? hahahaha!!!!

    i’ve never eaten at chick fil a

    1. jbear

      god dammit that just looks like a doulble L instead of an l then an i

  41. Kitkewl

    It’s Walky. I see what you did there, Willis.

  42. lordhaw

    I don’t really get the Chick-Fil-A stuff…but I’m Canadian so I only know about what I’ve heard on the news regarding their anti-gay stances.

    1. airyu

      They used to give money to anti-lgbt groups, but so many purple boycotted them that they stopped giving money to those groups

      1. Swerve

        They’re also known for a line bovine superhero comics encouraging kids to “Eat Mor Chikin”. Linkara had a field day with them:
        http://atopthefourthwall.com/speed-steer-5/

      2. Jen Aside

        until they didn’t actually stop giving anti-gay money

  43. Volkai

    I’m not sure what’s going on here, but I suspect it’s going to be cringe-inducing.

  44. HentMas

    I dreamt about this commic

    I was in college and your characters where my friends

    then I spent one half of my dream with my “friends” (Walky, Joe, Mike) convincing me that I had to stop being a nice guy and be kind of a jerk to attract the ladies

    then the other half I was actively trying to get girls by being a jerk until Dorothy needed help she passed out or something or another, I took her to her room, then she explained I was wrong to be acting like a jerk and just had to be my self, she hugged me… I left feeling much better about my self

    I am 28 years old, married with 3 kids… why am I dreaming of college again??

    1. Rachel Roth

      Best years of your life?

      1. Just A. Thinker

        Not that again. I look forward to colleague, but I sure hope that it won’t be the best years of my life. You have your life ahead! Why would time spent in school be best, and not time spent changing the world with what you’ve learned in school?

        1. gwalla

          Autocorrect strikes again?

        2. Jen Aside

          Maybe the same way spending money is fun until you get the credit card bill?

          [to quote a friend, “I have credit card! I’m rich for a month!”]

        3. Rachel Roth

          Because college you have a favorable imbalance of opportunities and responsibility.

  45. Synnerman

    Billie is a Fallen Woman (In the DUI, no longer a cheer leader, can’t handle her fun sense.) I think Alice is protecting her popular, responsible, girl cred… politely… for the moment.

  46. Nylus

    To steal from Cinemasins, “It’s Walky” and roll credits… oh wait.

  47. WikiDreamer

    Oh no. I’ve seen this before.

  48. Tenn

    Joyce: “Actually, Jesus is mildly hallucinogenic.”

  49. Spamman

    Could also be going the other way though. Maybe Billie is including Joyce and Walky because she’s had the epiphany that they are better friends than Alice ever was and we are going to get backstory about the DUI or other things where Alice was an awful person and Billie is going to start going in the right direction now. (Yes, I’m being idiotically optimistic)

    1. Jen Aside

      uhh, you know who writes this comic, don’t you

      😉

  50. Clarifer-Jones

    Joyce’s face in that last panel looks remarkably Faz-ish….

    1. Clif

      Faz has never looked that adorable.

  51. Regalli

    Let’s see… *Pats down the chair she’s sitting in* *Puts extra padding at the back* *Gets popcorn* *Buckles seatbelt* Yep, I’m as braced as possible for this incoming complete and utter trainwreck.

  52. m

    It’s Walky!
    Nice to see how Joyce has warmed up to Walky. Seems like only yesterday she was saying she thought he was Native American because of his nickname. I thought from his pigment he looked like an India-Indian myself.

  53. EclipseMouse

    Did no one else notice the Secret Reference to Willis’ Previous Comic in this? It’s Subtle, But that’s Willis for you…

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