Nah, I popped over to Shortpacked to make sure I had her name right.
Don’t think it’s Sydney; the skintone seems slightly darker. Also, she was smiling.
The Noodles and Co. place is located on Kirkwood Avenue. Galasso’s (Mama Bear’s) is about a mile away on East 3rd Street, across from the IU Music Center. Don’t worry, they’ll be getting there shortly. (and by shortly I mean probably sometime around Christmas, real-world time)
After all, all marriages end in divorce or death. ALL OF THEM.
Wizard
Not true! Some are annulled. Although an annulment basically declares that you were never really married, so maybe that doesn’t count…
Ambitious
I’ve always thought of annulment as a religiously acceptable* way of saying “divorce”.
* for those religious, such as catholicism, which frown on divorce and have annulments
Rebachu
There are legal annulments, too. Like if one or both of you was drunk or underaged when the marriage license was signed, the legal contract which established the marriage is invalid.
Rutee
Well, it is/was when rich or powerful people did it, most of the time. But it actually does have a meaning aside from that. It’s saying the original marriage was invalid for reasons that would NORMALLY prevent a marriage, but the priest wasn’t aware of them at that time. For instance, if you’re already married, then go through a ceremony with someone else, and your new spouse finds out, the new spouse can easily get an annulment – you can’t have two marriages (by church rules), after all. But your old spouse has no cause for an annulment, because it *isn’t* divorce – your marriage was still perfectly valid when it was signed.
Powerful people could manufacture evidence for this, but it wasn’t just automatically the case that they called a divorce something different. It does actually represent a completely different concept (Even if hegemons could USE IT for the same thing).
AgentKeen
Of course, this gets extra messed up when it happens with couples with kids, because then the church also wants both parties to agree that the kids are bastards for it to count as a ‘real’ annulment. Which is super nice to hear from someone you’ve already divorced.
‘Hey, I want to get remarried so… our kids didn’t count, kay?’
No Name
And THAT is why King Henry VIII created the Anglican church. You see, Catherine had had a string of miscarriages and stillbirths, and produced only one child, Mary. Henry, the God fearing Catholic he was, decided maybe he should have picked someone else to be his wife. But dear Catherine didn’t want her little Mary to be declared illegitimate, so Henry created divorce (at least in Christian England, I’m sure the concept was around before) just to get around that. Of course his second attempt (Anne Boleyn) wasn’t too successful either (producing only Elizabeth and, again, a string of miscarriages), so he got rid of her the traditional way. By beheading.
Asyou should know Doctor, that was a Cyberman ship not an Asteroid. You know the one that carried your companion Adric to his fiery death?
Doctor_Who
Ah, yes, I’m a little fuzzy on that whole incident. Probably because the celebration afterward lasted a fortnight, and involved hitting every pub in a 300 light year radius.
That Damn Rat
Good to see you were as happy as everyone else to be rid of Adric.
Blue
As an Adric fan who will be cosplaying him this weekend, both +1 and -infinity to that comment.
Waiting for them to figure out that it doesn’t have to end, because if Walky gets motivated and applies himself, his chances of getting in to Yale probably aren’t any worse than Dorothy’s.
I think Dorothy would actually spontaneously combust if Walky buckled down so he could go to Yale with her, and then he got in and she didn’t, though.
nightsbridge
Uh….
Remember Danny? Remember what about that Sarah was not cool with?
Spencer
(I’m guessing you meant Dorothy when you said Sarah)
Although I don’t think Walky would follow Dorothy to Yale since he seems pretty devoted to the path of least resistance, and the whole basis of their relationship is “this is temporary and for fun”, if he actually did go to Yale it’d be under different circumstances than what Danny tried to do, since Walky could actually apply under his own merits, while Danny was going to drop out of school just to stay near Dorothy.
If Walky was going just to stay near Dorothy, I imagine she wouldn’t be okay with it.
I really hope Becky gets more stable before her ability to just rock out despite what comes her way peters out in the face of… All the stuff coming her way. Her dialogue in panel five is funny and heartbreaking all at the same time.
Yeah, it’s really familiar. It’s that, well, I need a job in the next… yeeeeeah, well, keep plugging away and don’t think about what your situation is if you don’t get one. La de l- aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!
Hard to do that with no previous employment, no contact number (though I guess she could give Joyce or Dina’s number), and no address she can admit to.
Deanatay
Also, no college degree, and no HS degree, either (thx, homeschooling).
Rutee
Uh, she has a high school education. It’s worth nearly nothing, but it *IS* there. She has a G.E.D. Anderson is (presumably) accreditted, and Joyce has the same homeschooling and went to a state college.
Like, there’s a lot wrong with homeschooling, especially of the sort these gals went through, but they DO get the piece of paper that says they got through school, it’s just awarded in a different way.
Lord Stoneheart
And ummmm, what’s on these resumes exactly? (Also to the OP, it seems like she was trying for stuff on the Internet yesterday. At least I inferred that from what she said to Dina)
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Becky McIntyre, Homeless Lesbian
(No phone)
(No address)
(No verifiable education history)
(No work history)
(No references)
HIRE ME TO HELP KEEP ME AWAY FROM TOEDAD
(The End)
Bagge
References: This cute chick who has lot’s of A+ but won’t shut up about dinosaurs.
Bagge
Galasso: DAUGHTER – I HAVE FOUND A WAY TO OPEN NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE DINOSAUR WARLORDS. SIRE ME A HEIR WITH THIS YOUNG MAN.
Connie: Oooooh.
Bagge
SHE EVEN COMES WITH HER OWN ARCHENEMY. THAT IS EFFICIENT.
163 thoughts on “Jobs”
Ana Chronistic
I hear Galasso is always looking for new minions
(alternately, Sarah’s looking for a therapist (or should be))
inqntrol
Working for Galasso is quite the experience.
Plasma Mongoose
Those floor sharks have to be fed somehow.
Disloyal Subject
Funny. Just found those, and the accompanying jokes about a lake in Indiana, while browsing the Lucy tag after yesterday’s last panel.
TJ Pittsburgh
Wait, was Lucy in the tags yesterday?
WAIT. Was that SYDNEY YUS in the BACKGROUND yesterday?!
Wait, it might just be the unnamed drunk girl from the party .
Dang . . . there are a lot of characters . . .
Disloyal Subject
Nah, I popped over to Shortpacked to make sure I had her name right.
Don’t think it’s Sydney; the skintone seems slightly darker. Also, she was smiling.
Willoughby Chase
Indeed.
I have worked my way through the Compete Willis and I am now entirely familiar with his comedic oeuvre.
Clif
But have you digested it and really thought about it? Has it changed the way you look at trucks and rain and cheese?
Willoughby Chase
A-hem
I’m Batman.
Doctor_Who
That’s what I’m hoping happens, because this comic needs more Galasso. All comics need more Galasso.
Smiling Cat
Not just comics, but the world. The world is in desperate need for more Galasso.
Seriously, Galasso 2016,
Silvester Crow
Dun dun da da dun doot di doot di do do~
“My vice-president shal be determined by the first man to claim my daughter Conquest.”
nightsbridge
…she’s sixteen
Smiling Cat
That’s legal in Indiana.
Creepy, but legal.
John Merklinghaus
Yeah, but you couldn’t do a Slipshine that included her.
John
Not in this universe, anyway. Walkyverse Conquest is totally Slipshine-eligible.
Captain Batson
Particularly if the accurately reflect local demographics.
Someone
I feel like if anyone gives Sarah therapy they should have some sort of a degree.
Dean
Or protective clothing, at the very least.
Airyu
A big chunk of the cast could use a therapist honestly.
Palamdrone
Danger! Just saying therapist could be a trigger for Joyce.
John
I’ll take “Ryan” for one hundred, Alex.
butts
aww yiss, missed these guys
Mada
GAH, all of the colors in this strip are so bright and vibrant!
I love it 🙂
Also still rooting for Becky working at Galasso’s Pizza (and subs)
Disloyal Subject
The noodle place’s sign is a little eye-watering, huh?
Bicycle Bill
The Noodles and Co. place is located on Kirkwood Avenue. Galasso’s (Mama Bear’s) is about a mile away on East 3rd Street, across from the IU Music Center. Don’t worry, they’ll be getting there shortly.
(and by shortly I mean probably sometime around Christmas, real-world time)
Arkantos
I like that Willis deigned to make a couple that DOESN’T seem have the potential to end tragically.
Captain Batson
Every couple ever has the potential to end tragically.
No Name
After all, all marriages end in divorce or death. ALL OF THEM.
Wizard
Not true! Some are annulled. Although an annulment basically declares that you were never really married, so maybe that doesn’t count…
Ambitious
I’ve always thought of annulment as a religiously acceptable* way of saying “divorce”.
* for those religious, such as catholicism, which frown on divorce and have annulments
Rebachu
There are legal annulments, too. Like if one or both of you was drunk or underaged when the marriage license was signed, the legal contract which established the marriage is invalid.
Rutee
Well, it is/was when rich or powerful people did it, most of the time. But it actually does have a meaning aside from that. It’s saying the original marriage was invalid for reasons that would NORMALLY prevent a marriage, but the priest wasn’t aware of them at that time. For instance, if you’re already married, then go through a ceremony with someone else, and your new spouse finds out, the new spouse can easily get an annulment – you can’t have two marriages (by church rules), after all. But your old spouse has no cause for an annulment, because it *isn’t* divorce – your marriage was still perfectly valid when it was signed.
Powerful people could manufacture evidence for this, but it wasn’t just automatically the case that they called a divorce something different. It does actually represent a completely different concept (Even if hegemons could USE IT for the same thing).
AgentKeen
Of course, this gets extra messed up when it happens with couples with kids, because then the church also wants both parties to agree that the kids are bastards for it to count as a ‘real’ annulment. Which is super nice to hear from someone you’ve already divorced.
‘Hey, I want to get remarried so… our kids didn’t count, kay?’
No Name
And THAT is why King Henry VIII created the Anglican church. You see, Catherine had had a string of miscarriages and stillbirths, and produced only one child, Mary. Henry, the God fearing Catholic he was, decided maybe he should have picked someone else to be his wife. But dear Catherine didn’t want her little Mary to be declared illegitimate, so Henry created divorce (at least in Christian England, I’m sure the concept was around before) just to get around that. Of course his second attempt (Anne Boleyn) wasn’t too successful either (producing only Elizabeth and, again, a string of miscarriages), so he got rid of her the traditional way. By beheading.
Robbzilla
#legalretconning
Doctor_Who
Not unless that asteroid strike from 65 million years ago happens again.
Plasma Mongoose
The very SAME asteroid??
Doctor_Who
(Sees Dina) “Fuck, I missed one.”
Disloyal Subject
I am picturing a malevolent asteroid with googly eyes stapled on.
Gamaran Sepudomyn
Unless Dexter and MM is based on a real story, that would be rather unlikely.
Bagge
That asteroid is a prick.
That Damn Rat
Asyou should know Doctor, that was a Cyberman ship not an Asteroid. You know the one that carried your companion Adric to his fiery death?
Doctor_Who
Ah, yes, I’m a little fuzzy on that whole incident. Probably because the celebration afterward lasted a fortnight, and involved hitting every pub in a 300 light year radius.
That Damn Rat
Good to see you were as happy as everyone else to be rid of Adric.
Blue
As an Adric fan who will be cosplaying him this weekend, both +1 and -infinity to that comment.
Riku
I’d say this absolutely has potential to end in tragedy 🙁
Spencer
Walky and Dorothy aren’t really tragic. They know they’re going to end someday, so they’re making the most of their time together.
It’s remarkably healthy and loving from both of them.
John
Waiting for them to figure out that it doesn’t have to end, because if Walky gets motivated and applies himself, his chances of getting in to Yale probably aren’t any worse than Dorothy’s.
I think Dorothy would actually spontaneously combust if Walky buckled down so he could go to Yale with her, and then he got in and she didn’t, though.
nightsbridge
Uh….
Remember Danny? Remember what about that Sarah was not cool with?
Spencer
(I’m guessing you meant Dorothy when you said Sarah)
Although I don’t think Walky would follow Dorothy to Yale since he seems pretty devoted to the path of least resistance, and the whole basis of their relationship is “this is temporary and for fun”, if he actually did go to Yale it’d be under different circumstances than what Danny tried to do, since Walky could actually apply under his own merits, while Danny was going to drop out of school just to stay near Dorothy.
If Walky was going just to stay near Dorothy, I imagine she wouldn’t be okay with it.
John
There’s a subtle but important difference between “following Dorothy when she goes to Yale”, and “going to Yale with Dorothy”.
Schpoonman
I really hope Becky gets more stable before her ability to just rock out despite what comes her way peters out in the face of… All the stuff coming her way. Her dialogue in panel five is funny and heartbreaking all at the same time.
Cerberus
Yeah, it’s really familiar. It’s that, well, I need a job in the next… yeeeeeah, well, keep plugging away and don’t think about what your situation is if you don’t get one. La de l- aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!
Jorn
Hey, I just realized Dina’s wearing a Dinosaur Comics shirt!
Doctor_Who
Not at all. Dina is just a mech being piloted by T-Rex of Dinosaur Comics, and the windshield is on her torso.
amoebananu
Or else she has taken captive a T-Rex in her tummy prison!
Thomas Wrobel
Yeah I spotted that!
That writer does Marvels Squirrel Girl comic now, which is fantastic.
Skizz
Positions Vacant. Newspaper. Online. Why is her first step cold canvasing?
JessWitt
Gotta get away from ToeDad. Also cabin fever, leave the college bubble.
Dean
She could at least print up some resumes.
Doctor_Who
Hard to do that with no previous employment, no contact number (though I guess she could give Joyce or Dina’s number), and no address she can admit to.
Deanatay
Also, no college degree, and no HS degree, either (thx, homeschooling).
Rutee
Uh, she has a high school education. It’s worth nearly nothing, but it *IS* there. She has a G.E.D. Anderson is (presumably) accreditted, and Joyce has the same homeschooling and went to a state college.
Like, there’s a lot wrong with homeschooling, especially of the sort these gals went through, but they DO get the piece of paper that says they got through school, it’s just awarded in a different way.
Lord Stoneheart
And ummmm, what’s on these resumes exactly? (Also to the OP, it seems like she was trying for stuff on the Internet yesterday. At least I inferred that from what she said to Dina)
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Becky McIntyre, Homeless Lesbian
(No phone)
(No address)
(No verifiable education history)
(No work history)
(No references)
HIRE ME TO HELP KEEP ME AWAY FROM TOEDAD
(The End)
Bagge
References: This cute chick who has lot’s of A+ but won’t shut up about dinosaurs.
Bagge
Galasso: DAUGHTER – I HAVE FOUND A WAY TO OPEN NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE DINOSAUR WARLORDS. SIRE ME A HEIR WITH THIS YOUNG MAN.
Connie: Oooooh.
Bagge
SHE EVEN COMES WITH HER OWN ARCHENEMY. THAT IS EFFICIENT.
Spencer
I never knew how much I wanted this.
tim gueguen
Probably because Becky has no experience in job hunting.
Cerberus
Her first access to the internet was yesterday: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/04-walking-with-dina/unfettered/