Huh. In this universe wouldn’t a Tarantugun only be seen in a cartoon like Dexter and Monkey-Master? Sal doesn’t seem like the type to get a tattoo based off a cartoon.
Haha! Sal has no idea what’s going on. She’s just as much confused as Joyce is confused trying to say what she means. Joyce is just forgetting she should be herself.
I don’t know about the rest of you all, but hearing someone say “I wanna be just like you” seems kinda unsettling in that “Single-White Female” slasher film sort of way.
That does actually come off a bit creepy… Though I doubt Joyce would go “Talented Mr. Ripley” or “Roommates” on Sal. Besides, Sal could take her if she did.
Sooooo, not like her at all then.
Oh, Joyce, this is one of the times when I find your naïvity adorable. Better than before when I wanted to slap her silly.
Those things are just things Sal does … not the stuff she’s made of. It is perfectly normal for Joyce to want to empower herself and to have confidence. You can be cool without the cliche “rebel with a cause” candy shell.
Just take all those same things and put it on someone else and you could have a villian, or a jerk in a bar, or worse still … a hippie.
Why do I get a sudden sense of foreboding if she has her first taste of alcohol?
While the bible apparently isn’t down on tattoos, the bible doesn’t approve of a lot of things and not every christian even tries follow them to the letter anyway (granted it’s impossible anyway). And I do hear of bikers for jesus- (don’t they have tattoos?)
Maybe Joyce will try to get Sal to join that gang much to Sals annoyance.
Discussion (67) - “Put-on”
Mkvenner
there are no cameras joyce is just stalky.
David Herbert
And unsure.
Madock345
…with her penis
PedanticJerkass
*facepalm*
ilvos01
It’s Joyce and Stalky!
MarkusN
What’d you call Willis’ sketchpad, then?
Cranberrier
“Whatchu drawin ’bout, Willis?”
Jen Aside
I wanna be different, just like everyone else!
And like you, but not.
alicemacher
“You are all individuals!”
“Yes- we- are- all- individuals.”
“You are all different!”
“Yes- we- are- all- different.”
(“I’m not.” –“Shh.”)
NF
I forget what that was from.
David Herbert
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
The guy actually improvised that and got elevated to speaking actor for it.
Kamino Neko
Seriously? I didn’t know that. It’s my favourite line in the whole movie.
James
You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake
zuche
Not once I’ve got this flamethrower working, anyway.
You
You’re the same decaying organic matter as everyone else.
Jenny Creed
You know Tyler says those things to people he’s brainwashing into obedient robots, right?
Rognik
I want to be cool like you, except without taking on anything that makes you cool. Yeah, that’ll work
Coppermouth
I spy with my little eye a Tarantugun(?) tattoo.
Cholma
Beat me to it! (good eyes you got there)
Jason
Huh. In this universe wouldn’t a Tarantugun only be seen in a cartoon like Dexter and Monkey-Master? Sal doesn’t seem like the type to get a tattoo based off a cartoon.
David
See, those are Sal’s tarantula “guns.”
Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
Haha! Sal has no idea what’s going on. She’s just as much confused as Joyce is confused trying to say what she means. Joyce is just forgetting she should be herself.
Wackd
I don’t think I’ve read or heard the phrase “is this a put-on” since I last read my Bloom County collections. I wasn’t aware people still used it.
Also, I love Sal’s face in that last panel for some reason.
JessyB
I think it’s because it’s kind of Walky-like. Maybe? Just a thought =)
Cholma
Perhaps Sal is a fan of the Who’s “Eminence Front”. 🙂
JediAutobot
If you take away all of that stuff, you’re already there Joyce.
Dean
Well, almost. She could get a Vespa, though.
Madock345
and get an accent, I don’t know about the hair, would joyce look good with waist length hair? It must be a pain in the group showers.
aqua
its great for protecting your modesty
MeFailWords
I love cool smooth Sal!
MeFailWords
and a matching appropriate joyce icon… now my comment seems silly.
Madock345
it diddn’t take an Icon.
MeFailWords
Touche
Guitar Dude From SD
Does she still speak with a southern accent?
Shift
I don’t know about the rest of you all, but hearing someone say “I wanna be just like you” seems kinda unsettling in that “Single-White Female” slasher film sort of way.
Ancestral Hamster
It’s also a song from Disney’s Jungle Book!
And Sal is looking mighty good here. It’s PSL time!
(Okay, this is a David Willis webcomic. There has to be PSL involved somehow.)
goatman95111
That does actually come off a bit creepy… Though I doubt Joyce would go “Talented Mr. Ripley” or “Roommates” on Sal. Besides, Sal could take her if she did.
Dierna
Joyce suddenly reminds me of King Louie from The Jungle Book.
*sings* Oh, oobee doo
I wanna be like you
I wanna walk like you
Talk like you, too
You’ll see it’s true
An ape like me
Can learn to be humen too
Malph
Oh, oobee doo
I wanna be like you
Except without the tattoo
the rebelling
and the smoking too.
But, other than that
I wanna be like you
Osaru Sensei
ROFLMAO.
love Sal in the final panel.
TexasNinjaBuzzard
Is… is that a crawfish tattoo? Is this like a bumper-sticker-of-a-hotdog, bumper-sticker-of-a-taco kind of thing?
Shivore
It’s a Tarantugun tattoo I think. Ref: http://www.joyceandwalky.com/d/20010812.html
MuleyBob
It looks kinda like a Stich tattoo to me…
DaniellePhantom
i don’t know why, but everytime i look at the cigarette i forget it’s a cigarette and i’m always wondering,”why does sal have a lollipop?”
zuche
Heh. It’s probably for the same reason Kojak had lollipops, then.
Ozzmandius
Sooooo, not like her at all then.
Oh, Joyce, this is one of the times when I find your naïvity adorable. Better than before when I wanted to slap her silly.
sainki
The urge to slap is still in full swing.
creativerealms
“I want to be just like you minus everything that makes you you.”
Gordon
Is that too much to ask?
Loki
Guys, you’re forgetting one thing she didn’t mention that she COULD imitate.
The outfit. I want you to imagine Joyce in that outfit, not smiling, without the cigarette.
Same hair, though.
Robert in San Diego
That would be interesting. She’d have to work into it by wearing a sweater vest without a blouse first….
begbert2
“Okaaay, wayll then, here’s step one: staht barin’ your midriff.”
“…what?”
Matt of Steel
Those things are just things Sal does … not the stuff she’s made of. It is perfectly normal for Joyce to want to empower herself and to have confidence. You can be cool without the cliche “rebel with a cause” candy shell.
Just take all those same things and put it on someone else and you could have a villian, or a jerk in a bar, or worse still … a hippie.
Matt of Steel
“without a cause” — derp.
Bill M.
That’s not a tattoo, that’s what remains after Sal glared at a spider that dared crawl on her arm.
Bill M.
I forgot to mention this happened when she was 5, thus why it seems so large now.
DaniellePhantom
would that make sal the female chuck norris?
zuche
Chuck Norris wishes he was Sal.
DaniellePhantom
is it weird that these are all the same amber gravatar?
zuche
Trapped in Amber?
DrDVD
I sense a party with spiked punch that joyce is clueless about.
Animal
Joyce, step 1: Immediately stop wearing a bra.
Ever.
Heather
“Probably the tattoos” Joyce? Just ‘probably’?
Why do I get a sudden sense of foreboding if she has her first taste of alcohol?
While the bible apparently isn’t down on tattoos, the bible doesn’t approve of a lot of things and not every christian even tries follow them to the letter anyway (granted it’s impossible anyway). And I do hear of bikers for jesus- (don’t they have tattoos?)
Maybe Joyce will try to get Sal to join that gang much to Sals annoyance.
Heather
“down with”
Heather
-Rereads- And simply ‘maybe’ on the smoking too?
RandmPerson12
She’s a fictional character, does that count?
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