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Damn, girl
Posted on October 3, 2015 by David M Willis

122 thoughts on “Damn, girl”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    “S-senpai noticed me trolling…”

    1. otusasio451

      Your avatar works SO WELL with that comment. Also, I’m now picturing Joyce in that Yandere Simulator game.

      1. Airyu

        omg I’d love a sweater vest outfit for yandere-chan

        1. DarkoNeko

          Orange, with blood stains on it.

        2. Deanatay

          That was a sweater, not a sweater vest.

        3. Itama

          your wish has already been granted 😛

      2. inqntrol

        Looking for a relationship in a morbid way.

      3. No Name

        Considering where Joyce 1.0 went, it’s not that much of a stretch.

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      Keep those doggies rolling…

      1. inqntrol

        And the up the hatin’.

        1. inqntrol

          *keep

      2. Deanatay

        Man, my ass is swollen, RAW-HIIIIIIDE!

    3. gkheyf

      Their interactions are showing a lot of new faces today!

    4. Tenn

      She see her trollin’
      She ratin’

      “gr8 b8, ah r8 8/8”

  2. otusasio451

    Sal’s learning so many things today.

  3. Stephen R. Bierce

    *plays Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ “Refugee” on the hacked Muzak*

  4. Foxhack

    “He was my boyfriend, but not really. We didn’t even get off the bench.” Cause you know, first base.

    1. timemonkey

      His thing came nowhere near my tummy.

    2. Doctor_Who

      For Joyce, sitting together on a bench IS first base. Holding hands is second. Holding hands without a chaperon present is third. Marrying the dude and bearing at least a half dozen of his children is home plate.

      Hers was a weird upbringing.

      1. Ana Chronistic

        So a Grand Slam is the next half-dozen?

        1. Doctor_Who

          Having so many you get a reality series out of it is a grand slam.

        2. Opus the Poet

          No, it’s breakfast at Denny’s.

        3. Ana Chronistic

          Denny’s “breakfast” is debateable

        4. Abel Undercity

          You mean debateably AWESOME!

          Wait, that didn’t come out right, somehow…

        5. DarkoNeko

          Welcome to the space jam.

        6. inqntrol

          That’s what astronauts put on their toast…but also this.

        7. Screwball

          Here’s your chance, do your dance, at the Space Jam, alright?

      2. Dean

        Little League games were particularly trying.

  5. timemonkey

    Because while you were leaning against walls pretending not to care Joyce went out and did a lot of shit.

    1. newllend(henryvolt)

      What is she the flash?

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      Appearing to be cool doesn’t leave you much time for other activities.

      1. Spencer

        She had to practice leaning against walls and disinterestedly look away from people a whole lot.

    3. BenRG

      Exactly! There’s a lot of stuff happening out there and Joyce seems to have been at the center of most of it!

      1. Screwball

        It’s almost as if she’s, like, I don’t know, a character or maybe even the MAIN Character of something like a TV show or webcommic…

        I’m not going crazy, I’m telling you man, All these things happening in such a short time, it’s like it’s all just for someone’s entertainment or something…

  6. newllend(henryvolt)

    Na Sal that’some just the DoA Universes sense of humor.

  7. caesaria82

    This strip makes me very happy 🙂

    1. caesaria82

      I mean, because they’re talking and becoming friends. Not because trauma makes me happy or anything^^

      1. Pantheon the Mantheon

        So you say….

    2. -Sentinel-

      same

  8. dailybrad

    I’m guessing Sal hasn’t been around Ethan long enough to notice certain things, but I think they did run into each other a few times. I remember Ethan having deja vu but Amber realized why he knew her. I don’t think he did.

    1. Spencer

      Ethan felt that he had met her somewhere, but didn’t quite make the connection. He knows that the girl who took him hostage is at the school, but not that it’s Sal.

      1. Kryss LaBryn

        Sal pointed out to him that he did know her twin, Walky; they both figured that was why she looked familiar somehow (it was at Joyce’s party but I can’t be arsed to look it up right now).

  9. inqntrol

    ,, I am trolled,you are trolled,everyone is being trolled!”

    1. Koms

      Even your name is a troll. Trolololo

    2. Disloyal Subject

      Well, the song’s stuck in my head now.
      At least it’s a good song.

    3. evilmidnightlurker

      I am troll as you are troll and they are troll and we are all trollgether!

      I am the troll man, they are the trollmen, I am the trollrus!

      1. Ana Chronistic

        ♫Trolling in the morning
        Trolling in the evening
        Trolling at suppertime
        When trolling’s trolling trolling
        You can be trolling anytime♪

        1. inqntrol

          Trolling even when you are cooking

  10. poppaboo2electricboogaloo

    Oh yeah, I forgot Joyce was the Ding Dong Ditcher.

    1. Screwball

      You mean the “Whiteboard Dingdong Bandit”? Isn’t a Ding Dong Ditcher some human who rings someone’s doorbell, then runs off before getting caught?

      Actually, that kinda sounds like fun…

      1. electromagneticDestroyosaur

        Now we must approach people’s doors, leave phallic drawings on them, and leave before being noticed.

  11. newllend(henryvolt)

    Guess Sal really likes her guys nerdy and bigger than her….I wonder who fits that bill.

    1. Airyu

      I don’t think she paid enough attention to Ethan to realize he’s nerdy.

    2. Airyu

      Alternate comment: “…butcha yank dem pants an’…”

  12. David Herbert

    Okay, Sal, I know you mean well, but it’s not great to be snarky when the homeschool girl is having a panic attack while she opens up to you.

    1. Disloyal Subject

      I don’t think she knows how to not snark anymore.

  13. Alan Lafond

    Sal’s line in the last panel has just been added to my top 5 favourite lines in this comic! 🙂

    Not the top spot, though. That one is still held by Mike, when he answered Joyce’s phone.

    1. sjmcc13

      As it should…

    2. Screwball

      “How come everything you say makes me feel like ah’m being trolled?”

      Would make an interesting book title…

  14. Rectus Flabdominus

    Sal’s eyebrow in panel 3 lolololol

  15. Edupoet81

    Sal sure is finding out a lot of things about Joyce.

  16. JessWitt

    Trolling of Age.

    1. DarkoNeko

      You mean, that’s not the actual title ?

      1. electromagneticDestroyosaur

        Do you feel a growing sense of dread?

        1. DarkoNeko

          It always was here.

  17. Spencer

    So Sal is not only acquainted with Amber’s boyfriend, but now she’s making eyes at her other close friend.

    I predict only good things.

    1. inqntrol

      Yeah,what bad things could happen?

  18. TheGrammarLegionary

    Entirely tangential to this comic (actually, kinda perpendicular to it), but am I the only one who thinks of Walky as Sal’s LITTLE brother?

    1. No Name

      It’s not impossible. Even twins have to be born sequentially.

    2. Casimir

      She mentioned he was her little brother in http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/01-if-the-shoes-split/avail/

    3. DarkoNeko

      Sure, for both size and mentality, but betcha that in a sick sense of irony, David is probably the older Walkerton of the 2.

      1. DarkoNeko

        (yeah, it’d be kinda weird to call him Walky there, they are BOTH walkies ^^;)

        1. Kamino Neko

          Sal’d probably punch you for calling her Walky.

  19. vlademir1

    Damn Willis, that alt text….
    Is Sal supposed to be the audience stand in here?

  20. Badgermole

    I have a feeling Joyce is going to open up to Sal about everything, or a lot of things. The cigarette-in-mouth non-commitance makes her an excellent listener.

  21. Dab

    Sal pretends that she doesn’t remembers a person’s name. Thus by law of sarcasm she should hook up with Joe.

  22. Bagge

    Don’t worry, Sal, it’s a common reaction. Just read the FAQ before you start calling Joyce a Strawman

  23. CJ

    Amazi-Girl will have a meltdown when she finds out her Nemesis is actually a good person.
    Could anyone explain the undertones of being trolled? It seems to mean something like being baited but is it positive, negative a sign of manipulation or what?
    I only know trolling as in ‘dont’t feed the troll’ and this doesn’t apply here.
    Please instruct this clueless German.

    1. Chrissy

      Trolling is, at its most basic level, playing tricks on people on the Internet, trying to get a reaction from people. It’s always at least slightly negative. Most frequently trolls just try to make people angry because it entertains them to provoke a reaction. I believe that Sal is referring to that aspect: she’s suggesting that Joyce is saying those things to play a joke or to provoke some reaction.

      1. Chrissy

        Trolls = people who engage in trolling

        1. inqntrol

          The internet is like a zoo.The only problem is that it doesn’t have ,,no feeding” signs.

        2. DarkoNeko

          Actually, we have a full category of them

        3. inqntrol

          I really had no idea of the existence of those signs,thanks.

      2. Rowen Morland

        “Trolling is, at its most basic level, playing tricks on people on the Internet, trying to get a reaction from people. It’s always at least slightly negative. ”

        This is pretty fair for your average internet interaction. But if you troll people that you know it doesn’t have to be negative, because the value of the relationship and understanding you share can swing the interplay between the two of you into the positive as friendly banter. Perhaps the next revolution in internet socialisation will be bringing us all close enough through shared empathy that this won’t just be true among friends.

        (Jks, humans will totes be skeletons on fire from nuclear war/climate change/rapture before that happens. lololololololol)

    2. Disloyal Subject

      Chrissy gave a pretty good summary. It’s derived from a fishing term, and generally refers to baiting people to get a reaction out of them.
      People being people, and the internet being the internet, the desired reaction is often rage or a misguided attempt to educate someone.

      1. Kryss LaBryn

        CJ, it’s sort of like a (usually more extreme or slightly malicious) version of “pulling one’s leg,” if you’re familiar with that term.

        “baiting people to get a reaction out of them.” –Years before the term “trolling” came about, but I totally did it with one guy I was hanging around with at the time. He was one of these people who is always right about everything, even if he’s never experienced something before and you have literally decades of experience with it. Used to drive me absolutely crazy arguing about stuff he didn’t have a clue about, as if he held all the knowledge and *I*, who had vastly more experience in it than he, didn’t know squat.

        So I got back at him by arguing things that were blatantly wrong just to annoy him (which it did, in a most satisfactory manner, lol). Like, for example, once I argued that submarines blew their ballast to sink, rather than to rise; another time I argued that despite us both knowing perfectly well that in the Middle Ages, armour was actually blackened to prevent it from rusting, that actually even the stuff they wore in battle was kept shiny so they could use the reflective surface to flash sunlight into their opponent’s eyes and blind them–that one made him literally hopping mad, it was hilarious.

        Childish, I know, but hey, college; plus he was really annoying when he did it, and when he did, he wasn’t trolling.

        1. Bicycle Bill

          We used to call it “jerking someone’s chain”.

  24. BenRG

    In this strip, Sal is learning that she actually doesn’t know anywhere nearly as much as she thought she did about Joyce and what’s going on about campus. I honestly think that her head will end up spinning if Joyce gives her a full update!

    I don’t think that she is going to be happy about learning she ‘s been that out of touch!

    1. ailorn

      Sal doesn’t strike me as someone who needs to know everything going on around campus. She seems reluctant to interact with people in general. People just keep pulling her into their stuff.

  25. Heavensrun

    Three people, alt text. Three people.

    1. fogel

      !! Dang. Heavensrun’s comment wasn’t posted yet (on my screen), until I posted. I’d say H was trolling (a post to draw a reaction?), but I spose that you can’t troll backwards in time. So, first in with a reference to the altext: well done!

  26. fogel

    So now 3 random people with no connection to each other know that Joyce can’t walk alone.

    1. electromagneticDestroyosaur

      I can’t tell whether you are being sarcastic.

  27. Arianod

    Can you feel the bonding tonight ^^

    1. fogel

      James Bonding.

  28. Charles Phipps

    I genuinely believe Sal doesn’t know Walky’s girlfriend’s name is Dorothy. I think she’s got her head so far up her motorcycle tail pipe she’s completely missed her brother is in a serious relationship (for probably the first time).

    Of course, I also genuinely believe Joe has so much sex and goes on so many dates both bad and otherwise he doesn’t know Joyce’s name either–punching aside.

    1. drs

      Joe and Joyce are both in the gender studies class.

    2. Sunny

      Actually, Sal knows her brother has a girlfriend and said she was nice, clever, and respectable. The kind you go for when you’re 30. Not the kind of girl Sal would roll her eyes at.

      That was during tutoring with the bowtie TA whose name eludes me atm.

  29. DJTsurugi

    Joyce is just that special kind of crazy. ~<3

  30. Sammael

    Joyce, the infamous Ding Dong Doodler!
    Imagine her in a Riddle costume. But with Ding Dongs on it.
    What? Amazi-Girl needs her own Rogues Gallery.

  31. DarkoNeko

    Amazi-girl won’t be walking you through campus, I’m afraid.

  32. Mada

    Oh my god…I just read the alt-text.

    The only three people who know about Joyce’s mental state right now…

    …are the three major players in the convenience store holdup.

    DAMN YOU, WILLIS.

    1. No Name

      Actually, Amazi-Girl wasn’t born yet. She was conceived then, but she wasn’t a person yet.

      Wait… Amazi-Girl has two mommies?

      1. DarkoNeko

        And a gay daddy, apparently. So, 3 parents ?

    2. Ana Chronistic

      The convenience store clerk knows?!?!?!

  33. brumagem

    Even everyone in-comic agrees Ethan needs a Slipshine.

    1. zach

      Especially Joyce.

  34. a snow ʍousɐ

    Alt text hinting Amazi-Girl is Ethan

    1. electromagneticDestroyosaur

      Or Sal (my pet theory). That scene where Amazi-girl beats her up is metaphorical.

      1. Marie

        Nah Sal can’t be Ethan, they spoke together at Joyce’s dorm party.

  35. Spencer

    Come to think of it, Sal (and Carla for that matter) are surprisingly nonplussed about Amazi-Girl despite her trying to assault at the parking lot.

    1. Kamino Neko

      nonplussed

      *insert Inigo Montoya quote here*

      1. Kamino Neko

        … Bugger, how did I screw that up? The definition of nonplussed, since I can’t botch a link.

        1. Spencer

          dangit dude your making me seem unsmartly on the internet

        2. Kamino Neko

          Considering I botched my attempt to correct you wittily, you’ve got good company there. >_>

        3. Spencer

          I can never get those either, and I’m a computer science student.

  36. Caffieanted

    I thought of Hostess Ding Dongs when she said that.

  37. Charles Phipps

    Will Joyce have her Start of Darkness soon and become the Hostess Ding Dong Bandit?

  38. Lordess of Madness

    Could it be… Sal is Joyce’s therapist-substitute friend…?

  39. Marie

    I think this is a good thing, because if this situation comes up again Sal can probably bully Walky or someone (or ask regularly Marcie) into walking Joyce back. Also because Joyce seems to be leaning toward seeing a therapist and either way has been encouraged to get help.

  40. Hinoron

    I feel like it took me WAAAY too long to notice Joyce was actually afraid to walk outside alone. Mostly because she never did it.

    Not until she tried to split with Ethan and stepped outside to hallucinate a Ryan (that was the douche’s name, right) in every person walking by, was it spelled out clearly enough for me to see.

    1. Hinoron

      While I’m pondering things… is this count of comments strictly linear, or does it follow some other system?

      If the former, there are now 850,085 comments for this webcomic. We will probably hit a million in a year. O.O

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