Of course she’s the star. That’s why Willis couldn’t risk her being kidnapped and potentially injured in an massively overly developed side plot that distracted from the main thrust of the development of her next epic shenanigan.
Nah let’s be honest, if Carla was in Home Alone or something similar, it would quickly turn into a horror movie like Saw where she was Jigsaw. Nobody’d die, they’d just wish they could by the end of it, because of all her expertly machined hijinks and rube goldberg machines to deliver the sickest of burns.
No, Carla *is* in a wacky hijinks story, we’re just not important enough to bear witness to it so instead we get the usual Willis-penned drama and character torture.
Don’t forget Professor Doc, David Willis, Maggie and Ronnie.
Needfuldoer
I like to think Professor Doc has been teaching at IU since the 80s. He bears a resemblance to Christopher Lloyd, so students started calling him “Professor Doc” after BTTF came out. Now it’s been so long that everyone just calls him that, even the other faculty, and few know what his name actually is. He’s tenured, so he doesn’t care.
Khyrin
this is a slight exageration: The Bursar knows his real name to sign the paychecks. The rest of his department and the Dean, on the other hand, were hired AFTER 1999 Bizzare Summer incident, meaning they never saw the original nameplate on his office door, or his original email address.
(Let’s see if anyone gets the reference.)
SuperFroakie82
I dunno, I kinda doubt anyone was going around blowing people up with his pink ghost cat so he could steal their hands.
I gotta imagine Ethan will show up in the not too distant future, by this point. That’ll be interesting with Danny already up there.
SuperFroakie82
I hope Danny will talk through things with Amber or someone else first to prepare him to try to diffuse the situation a bit. It would be a good opportunity for him to tell Amber he’s bi too, as long as we’re wrapping up plot threads.
She may have invited everyone who knows she’s Amazi-Girl now (I think Carla probably knows now but I’m not sure; maybe Malaya too).
Interestingly, that now includes everyone I would call the “main cast” except Joe. (I don’t consider anyone past Mike on the cast page part of the “main” cast.)
One flash of light, but no smoking pistol
I’ve never done good things
I’ve never done bad things
I never did anything out of the blue, whoa whoa
Want an axe to break the ice
Wanna come down right now–David Bowie, “Ashes to Ashes”
While I take your point, presumably some amount of the roof is taken up with the top of the staircase, and I think it’s actually slightly smaller than half the roof as the door is set into a wall, rather than a little hut.
Meanwhile, at street level: John Bender puts on Claire Standish’s pearl earring, and strides away, thrusting one fist into the air, as Simple Minds’ “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” swells in the background.
Carla: “Have I mentioned I’m a jerk today?”
Becky: “What a coincidense, I’m a lesbian.”
Walky: “and I’m a harmless, silly goofball.”
Sarah: “and I’m really grumpy. Grrr.”
Joe: “I’m very horny and shallow. No reason to look any deaper.”
Dina: “I really like dinosaurs.”
Becky: “and that’s wonderful, baby, but this is the session for people who use a specific personal trait to deflect introspection, feels and deeper emotional scrutiny. Go stand over with Dorothy, Joyce and Danny for people who are comfortable talking about their emotions.”
131 thoughts on “Repressed”
Ana Chronistic
somehow I feel this is accurate
C.T Phipps
Carla is going to have a horrifying realization she wasn’t an important enough character to be kidnapped.
“NO, ITS IMPOSSIBLE! I’M NOT A SUPPORTING CHARACTER! I’M THE STAR!”
Captain Oblivious
Of course she’s the star. That’s why Willis couldn’t risk her being kidnapped and potentially injured in an massively overly developed side plot that distracted from the main thrust of the development of her next epic shenanigan.
Deanatay
Carla, as we always knew, is perfect in every way.
BBCC
We know this and we love you, Carla.
C.T Phipps
I wonder if Carla realizes she’s not in a wacky hijinks story but a deeply depressing slice of life.
Doctor_Who
Carla brings her own hijinks.
Had she been involved in the kidnapping plot it would have turned into some sort of Home Alone / Three Ninjas plot.
Ren
Nah let’s be honest, if Carla was in Home Alone or something similar, it would quickly turn into a horror movie like Saw where she was Jigsaw. Nobody’d die, they’d just wish they could by the end of it, because of all her expertly machined hijinks and rube goldberg machines to deliver the sickest of burns.
Lumino
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WrongGenreSavvy
Inscrutablejane
Thank you for the 47 tabs that weren’t open when I first read this comment
TachyonCode
And this is why I’ll always be a trope, and never a troper.
There’s a trope for being a commenter in the comments section on a webcomic, right?
Tebryn Daltar
I feel like she has her own spin-off comic somehow.
Opus the Poet
Willis just might be doing that, for funsies.
Mravac Kid
No, Carla *is* in a wacky hijinks story, we’re just not important enough to bear witness to it so instead we get the usual Willis-penned drama and character torture.
Octopus Ink
Jeez, Carla- Don’t be so hard on yourself!
Kyrik Michalowski
Awww, it’s so nice to see Billie and Ruth flirting in their own special way.
Also, Carla has no business being on Garbage Roof, she’s not even close to garbage.
Subjektivity
Thats not true. Billie is standing right next to her.
Geneseepaws
Wow….just wow. Je apppplaude!
Chronos
Just how many people did Amber invite onto garbage roof? They practically now have a roof party up there.
Doctor_Who
Showing up next: Bloodrose, Guns, Ninja Rick…
Nah, I’m pretty sure Willis would end the comic before he’d do that.
Lars
Don’t forget Professor Doc, David Willis, Maggie and Ronnie.
Needfuldoer
I like to think Professor Doc has been teaching at IU since the 80s. He bears a resemblance to Christopher Lloyd, so students started calling him “Professor Doc” after BTTF came out. Now it’s been so long that everyone just calls him that, even the other faculty, and few know what his name actually is. He’s tenured, so he doesn’t care.
Khyrin
this is a slight exageration: The Bursar knows his real name to sign the paychecks. The rest of his department and the Dean, on the other hand, were hired AFTER 1999 Bizzare Summer incident, meaning they never saw the original nameplate on his office door, or his original email address.
(Let’s see if anyone gets the reference.)
SuperFroakie82
I dunno, I kinda doubt anyone was going around blowing people up with his pink ghost cat so he could steal their hands.
LauraS
Ook.
Keulen
Pretty soon the entire main cast will be on Garbage Roof. Mike will wake up from his coma just to show up there.
StClair
Dumbing of Garb-Age.
Pablo360
Garbing of Age
Bicycle Bill
Garbaging of Dumb
darkgloomie
Dumping of Garbage
Chronos
I gotta imagine Ethan will show up in the not too distant future, by this point. That’ll be interesting with Danny already up there.
SuperFroakie82
I hope Danny will talk through things with Amber or someone else first to prepare him to try to diffuse the situation a bit. It would be a good opportunity for him to tell Amber he’s bi too, as long as we’re wrapping up plot threads.
Lingo
She may have invited everyone who knows she’s Amazi-Girl now (I think Carla probably knows now but I’m not sure; maybe Malaya too).
Interestingly, that now includes everyone I would call the “main cast” except Joe. (I don’t consider anyone past Mike on the cast page part of the “main” cast.)
JessWitt
Ain’t no party like a garbage roof party. ‘Cause a garbage roof party is cathartic as hell.
butts
“or i will fuck you on top of this roof, i swear to god”
bryy
…… yes.
Newllend(henryvolt)
Another night and another possibility of someone getting fucked on top of garbage roof.
Sirksome
They’ve both ruined the spirit of garbage roof in different ways. Which I’m okay with because garbage roof by definition is trash!
Johan
Joe gonna pop up and they’re gonna all make out.
Nono
I’m just counting down the days til Walky goes ‘I was garbage here before it was cool’.
Dara
I love you Carla.
Stephen Bierce
One flash of light, but no smoking pistol
I’ve never done good things
I’ve never done bad things
I never did anything out of the blue, whoa whoa
Want an axe to break the ice
Wanna come down right now–David Bowie, “Ashes to Ashes”
Geneseepaws
Good! Choice!
hof1991
I remember once in august 1983
I was wrong, and I could be wrong again – Paul Simon.
Though 1983 is much further back than it used to be.
DailyBrad
Carla’s a gem. Right on.
Sambo
I’m hoping that we’re about to get a group shot
clif
Shoot them all and let Willis sort them out.
Or something like that.
Suitora
I have a bad feeling about this because she outed Ruth and Billie’s lesbian suicide pact and they still might be pissed about that.
clif
Because having your lives saved calls for revenge.
He Who Abides
Billie has said that, while she doesn’t like Carla, she can tolerate her.
pjeseb
Comments Section: How many cast members are you going to squeeze onto this roof?
Willis: Yes.
Keulen
Hopefully none of the terrible parents somehow find their way up there.
Bagge
“Me, Linda, is perfect in every way except that my daughter is some sort of hoodlum.”
SuperZero
Squeeze? You know that the roof is as big as an entire floor, right?
Geneseepaws
Minus the elevator shack, minus the air handling units, and places where the piping runs.
Khyrin
While I take your point, presumably some amount of the roof is taken up with the top of the staircase, and I think it’s actually slightly smaller than half the roof as the door is set into a wall, rather than a little hut.
Tirachokko
man, i want to have carla’s confidence
Kyrik Michalowski
I think
everyonesome people need confidence like Carla.Kyrik Michalowski
I fucked up, don’t know how I did that.
Pablo360
probably typoed the closing tag
clif
But that’s okay. It’s garbage roof.
drs
From a different comic: https://www.egscomics.com/comic/party-136
abysswatcher1993
Carla did nothing wrong.
Robbie
I wish I had Carla’s energy.
Cholma
Meanwhile, at street level: John Bender puts on Claire Standish’s pearl earring, and strides away, thrusting one fist into the air, as Simple Minds’ “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” swells in the background.
StClair
Perfection.
Bagge
Carla: “Have I mentioned I’m a jerk today?”
Becky: “What a coincidense, I’m a lesbian.”
Walky: “and I’m a harmless, silly goofball.”
Sarah: “and I’m really grumpy. Grrr.”
Joe: “I’m very horny and shallow. No reason to look any deaper.”
Dina: “I really like dinosaurs.”
Becky: “and that’s wonderful, baby, but this is the session for people who use a specific personal trait to deflect introspection, feels and deeper emotional scrutiny. Go stand over with Dorothy, Joyce and Danny for people who are comfortable talking about their emotions.”
StClair
So… Billie and Ruth were next to Joyce, then Billie said something that turned Ruth on, and then Carla was next to Joyce instead…
Did Billie and Ruth just leave to make out?
Kyrik Michalowski
We can only hope so.
clif
That said, time passes between panels.
Nymphie