195

I’unno
Posted on April 17, 2016 by David M Willis

195 thoughts on “I’unno”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    maybe you could take her to a bed and breakfast

    1. Vagabond J

      But where’s the fun in random strangers drawing on her face?

      1. Doctor_Who

        Know how Sal borrowed clothes from Joyce that one time and somehow wore them and looked awesome?

        Don’t ask me how, but she could totally pull off a sharpied on mustache and penis.

        1. Wheelpath

          Her badassness allows her to rip ink off things. WOAH

        2. Walky_Talky

          Now I need to see fan art of Sal in a Sharpie mustache and strap-on saying “Call me Salvador, lover of all things awesome and awesome lover of all things.”

        3. Orion Fury

          That sounds dangerously close to challenging Rule 34. To my understanding, that’s a bad idea.

        4. Clif

          It is. So who’s going to do it.

        5. Willie

          I think “strange markings” may have meant an imprint of the expanded steel mesh table top, not prankster(s) marking on her face while she slept.

        6. NotPiffany

          On the other hand, why limit yourself to one meaning?

        7. notquitestup1d

          Do you want 34, or just the sharpie stuff on a normal pic?

        8. jhon

          Pourque pas tous les deux?

        9. Ribbon

          Heck I’ll do it

        10. notquitestup1d

          Sharpie: http://i.imgur.com/T4dmIdA.png
          No Sharpie: http://i.imgur.com/Qd38CBS.png

          strap-on version is a wip.

  2. butts

    sooooo cooooool

  3. kkiten

    Those tables are filthy.

    1. Doctor_Who

      You see? Sal doesn’t play it safe. She’s a rebel!

      1. Kernanator

        Cool people get infections from strange tables!

        1. Clif

          Only if they do it right.

    2. SmilingNid

      It is very clean, the rain washes them regularly.

      1. Disloyal Subject

        The birds and college students befoul them even more regularly.
        That never stops us from napping on them.

        1. Felix

          We?

        2. Felix

          Sorry, I mean: Us?

        3. Clif

          So you admit it?

        4. Charlie Spencer

          Kickstarter to get DS and Felix a room.

        5. Deanatay

          Not even, like, ‘get a room’ like in making out. Just a better place for them to sleep.

          Although, if you WANTED to make out… (make sure it has cameras.)

  4. Mr. Mendo

    Dorothy will rue the day she interrupted Sal’s nap-time! RUE, I say!

    1. Orion Fury

      RUE!

      1. Clif

        Ruta Graveolens

  5. Bicycle Bill

    What happened to the fourth chair?

    1. Doctor_Who

      Willis didn’t want to draw it because it would block the view of Sal.

      But then the drawing would no longer be accurate, so he had to go to the real campus in Indiana and steal it.

      1. Clif

        Amazigirl beat him up for doing it, but that’s the sacrifice you make for art.

    2. Tacos

      It exploded from near proximity to Sal’s super coolness.

    3. tim gueguen

      The fourth wall took it. It needed something to sit on.

    4. John

      Chairs rate about a quarter to half a bicycle on the annoying to draw scale.

    5. Rose

      someone took a screwdriver to it, stole it, and threw it in a nearby creek. like seriously if it can be wedged off somebody’s gonna take it and cause property damage with it. college, man.

    6. trlkly

      I would not be surprised if the fourth chair is missing intentionally to give wheelchair access. I saw tables like that when I was in college, and that was like 10 years ago.

      1. Bicycle Bill

        Good thought … new tables are designed with the missing chair (and without the hazard of the upright tube); this might have just had the chair removed in order to retro-fit it on the cheap.

    7. David M Willis

      The actual table in real life has a chair missing. I changed which one it was, though, to give an unobstructed view of Sal.

      1. David M Willis

        http://dumbingofage.tumblr.com/post/142932535322/moves-location-of-missing-chair-so-that-the-view

        1. Random832

          Ah, but the real one has six posts, with five chairs. So you have to go there and steal those, too.

        2. Orion Fury

          Artistic Licence?

        3. Slartibeast Button, BIA

          Bad idea, I’ve heard stories about a vigilante beating up vandals around there.

        4. Clif

          Licensing artists is also a bad idea. The take enough license with their art already.

        5. ChrisHerself

          Dibs on the cigarette butts

        6. Deanatay

          Aww, the table doesn’t have a waffle lattice, like I was expecting! I had hoped she would awaken with the mark of the waffle on her face.

        7. JustCheetoDust

          You can still get a waffle using a tennis racket, some sandpaper, syrup, whipped cream and a vaccuum.

    8. Disloyal Subject

      Someone insisted on leaning it back, and it snapped off. It’s in the welding department waiting for the students and/or instructors to stop welding dicks onto metal plating long enough to fix it; should be repaired inside of two months.
      (Does IU have a welding dept.?)

      1. Charlie Spencer

        There’s a Bloomington Tech high school a few blocks west of the IU campus, at least according to Google Maps.

      2. Needfuldoer

        Clearly the solution is to put each chair on a spring, like those bouncy horses they have in playgrounds.

  6. SpoopyFox

    why are there only 3 chairs

    1. AgentKeen

      Someone stole the other one, probably. Or it was broken and hasn’t been replaced.

    2. Kamino Neko

      One broke off, the other two were banished to the dimension of Too Much of a Pain in the Ass to Draw.

    3. kkiten

      http://dumbingofage.tumblr.com/post/142932535322/moves-location-of-missing-chair-so-that-the-view

    4. Slartibeast Button, BIA

      And … What about Naomi?

      1. Clif

        She heard rumors of a vigilante beating up vandals so she moved to Gothem.

      2. Charlie Spencer

        And I thought I was the only one who still used that phrase. Electric Company alumnus?

        1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

          Of course.

          (This comment brought to you by the power of Silent E.)

        2. John

          I either missed or don’t remember that Electric Company sketch. But in reading up on it on Wikipedia just now, I noticed that the Naomi being referenced is apparently Jake Gyllenhaal’s mom. Ethan’s mom is also Naomi. Danny has likened Ethan to Jake Gyllenhaal. Coincidence or conspiracy?

  7. Mr. Random

    SUPER COOL! (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞

  8. Vagabond J

    Sleeping is so cool. Like, you can do whatever you want!

    1. Clif

      Nah, it’s only cool when Sal does it.

  9. MatthewTheLucky

    She’s not sleeping. Just aggressively staring elsewhere from the world.

  10. Stephen R. Bierce

    *plays Bob Dylan’s “Lay Lady Lay” on a boombox on the other side of the park*

    1. Sokol

      May I request some Red Vox?

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF8Ors0xfNM

    2. Stephen R. Bierce

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrZnnvEyTUs <- I think this was the very first song of his I heard. That I knew was his, and him singing it, anyway. I was born after his glory days.

  11. Cattleprod

    That’s probably still cooler than anything Walky’s ever done.

    1. Cephalo the Pod

      Walky once chased a college vigilante.

      1. Leorale

        Sal chased a college vigilante, on a motorcycle.

        1. Tacos

          And helped save said vigilante also.

        2. Vagabond J

          Its as if the Walkertwins are cool or something!

        3. Dallas

          Yeah. Like Superheroes.

        4. kkiten

          like alien abductees.

        5. Deanatay

          Not that they’re competing, or anything…

      2. Bagge

        Walky once ate an ENTIRE PIZZA in one gulp

        1. Orion Fury

          Probably only took Sal half a gulp, and with the other half ate 50 McNuggets.

        2. Clif

          Walky threw a toy and snagged a girlfriend.

        3. Bagge

          That actually is pretty impressive

        4. falling Star

          What we call a boy-toy.

  12. Icalasari

    I know that feeling, Sal

  13. brionl

    Also a sharpie moustache.

    1. Leorale

      She has her boots on, which makes her fair game, plus a wicked reflex to strangle people who mess with her sleep.

      1. inqntrol

        “Do not disturb, if you value your throats.”

        1. Clif

          First I lost my femurs and then I lost my throats. No one told me college would be this dangerous.

        2. Needfuldoer

          Wait until you get your student loan bills, you’ll lose an arm and a leg too! :V

        3. Gordon

          Not to mention a kidney and some of your liver.

  14. caesaria82

    Oh, Sal. Been there, done that.

    This is cute. I’m glad we’ve moved on from dog imagery lol.

  15. Tacos

    Who hasn’t fallen asleep at inopportune times and inappropriate places in college?

    1. JessWitt

      If you haven’t, you ain’t college right, yo.

    2. Cephalo the Pod

      Back in February, I pulled an all-nighter to prepare for a presentation the next day. Not the first time I’ve ever done such a thing, I knew what it was like.

      So by the way, my mom said she wanted to talk to me that evening (after school). She was picking me up the next day to bring me home for Reading Week.

      So I get home that evening, exhausted but accomplished. And I decide, I’m just gonna lie on my bed right now. You know what? I think I’ll get under the covers. Maybe I’ll nap for an hour or two. I do just that. This is, like, 6:30pm.

      I wake up. It feels like I’ve slept. The room is darker. I look at my clock. Does…does it say 7:30? Wait, hold on…

      It was 1:30am.

      I slept for eight hours.

      My mom thought I was fucking dead (the weather had recently gotten snowy the past few days). Thankfully she knew a neighbour of mine who was able to check up on me (without waking me up, even).

    3. Kernanator

      Any proper college student at junior level or above has perfected the art of “napping while in class if necessary”.

      1. Disloyal Subject

        Yeah, it’s around that point that we develop the ability to keep taking notes while unconscious.

        1. Clif

          If you get really good at it, you can take notes while dead.

        2. Charlie Spencer

          I really hope I have better things to do when I’m dead besides take notes. That kind of afterlife is going to be a tough sell for any belief system.

        3. DSL

          I had a prof whose lectures made more sense while I was napping.

    4. ChrisHerself

      I fell asleep in the sun with my arms behind my head wearing a crop top. Not only did I savagely burn my armpits, I sported a cummerbund-esque tan for months after.

  16. JessWitt

    Sleep is awesome. Can’t argue with that.

    1. Noiob

      I won’t, but you could argue it’s just a cheap replacement for caffeine.

      Okay, I just did, but I don’t support that argument.

      1. Clif

        It can be awesome AND a cheap replacement for caffeine.

      2. hof1991

        Enough caffeine can replace sleep. But it takes a lot of coffee. http://youtu.be/f40YKFuIeYA

    2. JustCheetoDust

      I tried so hard to ignore that fact for the first two years of college. Fuckin’ Adderall.

    3. John

      It don’t matter if I get a little tired
      I’ll sleep when I’m dead

      1. Clif

        And take notes.

  17. Cephalo the Pod

    (Wake me up)
    WAKE ME UP OUTSIDE
    (I can’t wale up)
    WAKE ME UP OUTSIDE
    (BRIIING MEE)
    Bring me to the fun thing that you’ll do

    1. caesaria82

      lol I’ve had this song stuck in my head for no reason today. Maybe I am ever so slightly psychic, but only about comments on webcomics. It’s a nice talent 😉

      1. caesaria82

        *niche talent. Man, I ruined my own joke with a typo lol.

        1. Clif

          That’s okay, I didn’t understand the joke anyway.

          I was going to say, “That’s okay, it wasn’t a very good joke anyway, ” but for all I know it could be a great joke.

  18. Some1

    I love you all…well except for you, yeah you the person reading this…you suck.

    1. AgentKeen

      https://media.giphy.com/media/NTY1kHmcLsCsg/giphy-facebook_s.jpg

    2. trlkly

      But, but, I made you cookies!

      …oh well. More for me!

      1. Emperor Norton II

        I’ll take Some1’s cookies if they don’t want them.

        1. Some1

          *Steals all of the cookies*

          Somebody stop me!

        2. inqntrol

          No! Embrace the darkness, be one with it! Muhahahahaha!

        3. Clif

          Don’t do it. It’s a trap. While you’re embracing the darkness, they’ll steal all the cookies back.

    3. Orion Fury

      No, you suck!

    4. falling Star

      But…
      http://gifrific.com/pikachu-crying/

  19. Skizz

    I am curious as well. If Walky and Billie get cookies, store brought cookies and Dorothy gets a gift card that will probably be spent on Walky. What is Sal getting?

    1. Orion Fury

      A box containing all of their mother’s hope and dreams for Sal? Though I am holding out that it won’t be something jackassery. Probably misplaced hope, like I had with Jonathan, but still.

    2. Clif

      A bill.

    3. DonDueed

      Sleeping pills.

  20. Prinnyramza

    The markings aren’t because of the table but because Walky found her and drew on her face

    1. Disloyal Subject

      Is her twin immune to the Somnary Defense Protocols?

      1. Orion Fury

        I do not get the reference, and Google is of no help. I’m all out of ideas.

        1. Clif

          Insomniary. IDP we call it in the biz.

        2. WubLub

          I think it’s the thing where she strangles anybody who wakes her up or gets anywhere near her when she’s sleeping. You know, that defense mechanism she picked up at Catholic school.

  21. tim gueguen

    This will probably lead to the return of Marcie, and some indication of how her “date” with Malaya ended.

    1. Cephalo the Pod

      The preview panels show her at least talking to Malaya.

  22. AgentKeen

    Nothing cooler than sleeping in public, man. Show you don’t give a f’.

  23. Sailorcakes

    Sal is the coolest sleeper

  24. Noiob

    There are so many great storylines running and I can’t decide which one I want to continue the most.
    It was an easier time when I had just found this comic and could just read on for hours.

    1. Leorale

      Breaking and entering = best current storyline!!
      (But it’s also the one that needs regular breathing time from dealing with John and Carol.)

    2. Spencer

      I’m pretty invested in all of the ongoing storylines right now, the Danny/Amber one just a bit moreso because they’re my favourite characters and it’s been building up for a long time now.

      Metal Gear Joyce is a close second, though.

  25. TrueVCU

    I would seriously like to examine just how much Walky is aware of their parents’ favoritism towards him. Esp combined with his budding fall from academic grace, there’s a train wreck waiting to happen and I want a fucking front row seat.

    1. Disloyal Subject

      I’m pretty sure the care packages hammered home the last of it that he might’ve been struggling with, but I don’t think he knows how to say it to Dotty, or if he should.

      1. trlkly

        I’m also not sure he’s willing to admit the reason could possibly be what Sal said. So “I ‘unno” may be the best Walky-speak answer. There’s some problem, but he’s not sure exactly what the problem is.

  26. Bagge

    I REALLY look forward to Sal/Dorothy interaction. I think it would b much less awkward than could perhaps be expected.

    There has been an alarming lack of Marcie in the Sal strips lately.

    1. Sokol

      Marcie is perfect wingwoman to Sal. I think we’ll be seeing her sometime soon, or else she’ll disappear for an in-comic month and then show up to talk about a date that happened a while ago.

      In other words, let’s wait until Joyce saves the day back at home.

    2. Spencer

      It’s interesting how the series has gone on for over five and a half years now and we can still get surprise new and compelling character interactions, like Walky/Amber and Sarah/Dina.

  27. Catapostrophe

    Are we ever gonna find out what Sal got in her box? I hope Walky is as full of burning curiosity as the rest of us*, so that he’ll ask her about it when/if they go out for dinner.
    (*Or maybe just me, ha)

    I actually think Sal is pretty super-crazy-cool for being able to sleep in public and not care what anyone might think.

    1. Disloyal Subject

      It’s an essential college skill, but it’s not always picked up so easily in Freshman year. Indeed she is powerful, as the Emperor has foreseen.

      1. Tacos

        We musta had advanced courses or something cuz we learned that skill as freshman in high school.

    2. Spencer

      I’m like 90% sure it’s going to be some kind of hair care product.

  28. Ryan

    And now we know the real reason she wears that motorcycle helmet so often: to hide the imprint of whatever she was just sleeping on.

  29. StClair

    Now I’m wondering if his lack of awareness in panels 2 and 3 is genuine or another deflection.

    1. Leorale

      I thought deflection, like the beat panel was him deciding not to say “because of racist favoritism, from which I unwittingly benefited all our lives, and now I feel bad about that.”

      1. Clif

        Well, he can’t tell Dorothy too much or she’ll come to expect it.

    2. Bagge

      I’m utterly convinced he spend panel 2 listing all the times his mother overlooked Sal to benefit himself, start with the Hymmel audition and working himself upwards.

      Another deflection, in other words.

    3. Sam

      Deflection.

      We’ve seen already that he is more aware about it since he panicked and got mad about the box thing to begin with, but we’ve also seen he gets awkward and deflects on things he doesn’t want to talk about.

    4. trlkly

      Neither, I think. I think he doesn’t want to admit what the actual problem is. I think he still doesn’t want to accept that it really could be racism.

      I mean, I guess you could call it deflecting because he didn’t say “Sal thinks it’s racism, but I’m not sure what it is.” But I’m not expecting miracles here. Dude’s not going to be that forthcoming for a while.

    5. Anonononon

      There is also the fact that she is his mother. It is difficult to admit your parents might actually be flawed, especially something as awful as racism.

  30. Yotomoe

    To be fair, sleeping a public place is pretty cool. I do it all the time, and I’m pretty and sometimes cool.

    1. Clif

      But do people mark up your face?

      1. Yotomoe

        I’m black, so they need the REAL good stuff to make much of an impression.

        1. Charlie Spencer

          Or Wite-Out, available everywhere Sharpies are sold.

        2. Leorale

          If they’re really mean, glitter works on everyone.

  31. Lordess of madness

    Been up all night

    1. Yotomoe

      to get lucky. We’re up all night to get lucky. We’re up all night to get lucky.

      1. inqntrol

        Grab a coffee, it’ll help you a lot.

      2. Lordess of madness

        To get LOKI.

  32. Orion Fury

    I’m starting to think we’ll never know the contents of the box. For years, every now and then, there’ll be a passing allusion to it in the comic, and the comment section will just be swarmed with theories on it. Then there’ll be Easter Eggs popping up all over about it, all across the web, for even more years. Just tiny nods to it, seeming not actually referencing our wishes, but just maybe doing so. It’ll be a noodle incident for us.

    But for Sal? It’ll just be another day.

  33. Dana

    Being super crazy cool or whatever can be exhausting.

    1. inqntrol

      Indeed, it requires lots of energy, in special when you are just leaning on a wall looking cool.

  34. BenRG

    Yep! That’s our Sal! Always off in exotic places, doing mysterious, bad-ass bad-girl things! Wait, what…?

    Meanwhile, Walky continues to simultaneously impress and terrify with his lack of awareness of what happens to anyone who isn’t him.

    1. Russ

      No, he knows. He just literally chooses not to talk about the race thing because it makes him uncomfortable. Like a hero

    2. Sam

      He is just deflecting as usual about the thing he doesn’t want to talk about. We’ve seen that he is aware about it from how he got mad about the box thing. Sharing the race thing would mean having to actually share his feelings on it though, which this deflection of topic to being about Sal was supposed to avoid.

  35. Badgermole

    Here to put on record my enduring love for Dorothy, she lives up to it every time.

    1. Bagge

      Seconded

      1. ChrisHerself

        Thirded! A class act, that one.

  36. Rukduk

    That last panel reminds me of the last time I fell asleep in public. It was awful. I was on a bus and ended up in San Fancisco.

    1. inqntrol

      Happened to me too, only that I fell asleep in the subway train and woke up right at the last station.

    2. WubLub

      Did a girl in a dinosaur hat switch you onto another bus while you were sleeping? I heard dinosaur-hatted college students love tricking people onto the wrong buses.

    3. Amazi-Stool

      Could be worse.

      You could have ended close to the river Amazon.
      (The traditonal stop in the other continuity).

  37. Russ

    Walkyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

  38. Nono

    I’m slightly more concerned that we haven’t seen Dorothy studying since… I dunno, Freshmen Family Weekend? Walky (and Joyce) might be a greater distraction than she had anticipated.

    I can’t imagine she’d actually be doing worse on her studies (we’d have seen a meltdown by now if that were the case), at least not yet.

    1. trlkly

      And because of our psychic author, I now predict she will be shown studying at least somewhat in the next comic, or at least another one this week.

  39. Ncocha

    I dont know.. those look likes pretty heavy pants.
    Those weird wire chairs probably wont be able to get tru to leave marks on her cheeks

    1. Ncocha

      also aliens leave marks between the cheeks.. (you know.. in case cameos)

  40. Deanatay

    Sal will awaken with MY MARK emblazoned across her face!!!

    (The mark of the waffle. Because, that’s my mark. MY. MARK.)

  41. skdk

    i remember that i didnt really like how dorothy was like “whyd i get a small box when you got a big one” when she just got it cause like cmon its obvious. im not sure how i feel about dorothy honestly

    1. Charles Phipps

      Dorothy comes from a very different sort of house. My impression is she wouldn’t understand the concept of using gifts to show favoritism. You’d get everyone the same present.

      1. skdk

        no, you dont get your sons girlfriend that you dont know a big gift

        1. skdk

          i mean you can but mostly since she doesnt know her yet she’ll get her a small gift or none at all

        2. Charles Phipps

          That’s one way of doing it but we do it differently in our house. If sending a group of gifts, you all get the same gift regardless of relationship.

        3. thejeff

          Do you all get the same gift regardless of whether you like that thing or not?

        4. Charles Phipps

          Pretty much. Comes from being a big family.

  42. Guairdean

    Bein’ Super zcrazy Cool must be exhasting work. I wouldn’t know.

    1. darkoneko

      Comes with spending most nights with Malaya & co

  43. halcyon1234

    Don’t take her to dinner. Take her to one of those escape rooms. She’d ROCK at those.

  44. Teddae

    “still bein’ super crazy cool even when she sleeps”

  45. Charles Phipps

    Am I alone in thinking retconning Dorothy into being Puppy Dorothy in all scenes would be better?

  46. falling Star

    Cutest Sal pose 2K16

  47. Just Me

    I think it’s sad. Sal acts Super-cool but I bet she’s just Super Lonely.

    Falling asleep like that. I mean, if you are really cool you fall asleep on the grass under a tree. You don’t fall asleep on an metal outdoor table. That’s just dorky and depressing.

    1. Spencer

      I feel like Sal’s Cool Badass Rebel image is somewhat of a deliberate construction.

      Not entirely, Sal is aloof, she’s ready to throw down and she doesn’t take shit from anyone, but I do feel a lot of that is built from her isolation and need to be self sufficient.

      1. Spencer

        Having said that, it is definitely canon that Sal is a huge turbo nerd because that girl has a Tarantugun tattoo.

  48. chris73

    I’m liking how Walkys desire to avoid complications in his own life will probably lead him to greater understanding of his sisters plight and will end up with him helping her and vice versa

    Maybe…

  49. A Scientist

    I have slept like that way more than my neck and back would prefer…

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