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Judgin’
Posted on October 19, 2013 by David M Willis

184 thoughts on “Judgin’”

  1. Mr. Random

    That’s our Billie!

  2. Bilfred

    Huzzah!

  3. GrrArg42

    Dat scowl!

    1. Pyr05

      Your face = win for your comment.

      1. NeverAgain

        Your FFFAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCEEEE

  4. Skull025

    GLARE.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      *Puts on sunglasses* GLARE AVERTED!

      1. Tunaro

        ( •_•)>⌐■-■
        Looks like someone made
        (⌐■_■)
        A glaring mistake.

        1. Lokitsu

          YEEEAAAAHHHH!!!!!

      2. Pyr05

        Plasma Mongoose is unaffected!

  5. Jen Aside

    “Hey, your brother brought it up, not me.”

  6. Aizat

    You know, Walky has a point. What’s with the school girl outfit? Besides the mythology gag, of course.

    1. Yotomoe

      So that her parents think that she’s a good little girl.

    2. Bill

      I had put it down to being a suck-up move for the parents.

    3. Wack'd

      Mythology Gag? I don’t recall her wearing anything resembling that in the Walkyverse…

      Did you mean Continuity Nod?

      1. John

        Sal didn’t, but Walkie did.

        And it’s an Avalon uniform. I don’t even know what you call it when you’re referencing an earlier reference to someone else’s strip entirely.

        1. Wack'd

          Oh, right, that.

          Yeah. Um…I think it’s just a normal Shout Out in both cases, really.

  7. Bill

    Are those multi-headed lamps the de rigeur student housing accessory these days, like lava lights and chianti-bottle hookahs were in mine?

    1. Shaggy-Donahugh

      Actually they’re not allowed on most of the college campus’s I’ve been to (Then again, it’s Michigan, nothing is allowed.)

      1. Pyr05

        Just like a functioning major manufacturing city is not allowed. -rimshot-

      2. Random832

        What possible reason could there be for banning them? Especially since if you fill it with CFL bulbs it almost certainly uses less power than two 100W incandescent bulbs, and if you use LED bulbs it’d be less than one.

        1. ajm5007

          Fire hazard is the usual claim. Something about wattage and all that.

        2. taekwondogirl

          I had one and a bulb did burn through the plastic… I think the problem is they’re supposed to use much lower wattage bulbs, but the people who use them are dumb college kids.

        3. Random832

          So they were banned before the CFL era and no-one bothered to revise the rules?

    2. John

      For a second my brain interpreted it as a hat or hair thing that Billie was wearing.

      1. Casey

        That would be a very interesting choice. Very daring with that shirt.

    3. Birke

      They were when I lived in dorms six years ago. 🙂

    4. Twirls

      Target, baby!

    5. Sic 'em Bears

      Yes, they’re everywhere!

  8. Bizze

    Love Billie’s expression in panel 4

  9. Pyr05

    Schoolgirl outfit = fantasy city. I personally wonder what would have happened if Jason saw her in that. I think he would have nearly arrived in his pants.

    1. Yotomoe

      He arrived quite promptly.

      1. Aizat

        He arrived…to this city.

        1. Shaggy-Donahugh

          He built this city.

        2. Aizat

          He built this city on “rock and roll”.

        3. Shaggy-Donahugh

          That’s what the kids are calling it nowadays?

        4. Mr. Random

          I feel like that’s a good description of what Jacob would do.

        5. Bizze

          ‘Rock and Roll’ was a euphemism before it was a music genre, just like jazz.

          WE’VE COME FULL CIRCLE.

        6. John

          I built this city on three rock and two grain.

        7. TheMagicShortbus

          But did you build a wall for two brick?

        8. John

          Nah, I just used an Engineer.

        9. AgentKeen

          He built this city… for a nickel.

        10. Casey

          Your mom helped

        11. tyren22

          To give you a message.

        12. Aizat

          Card games on motorcycles.

        13. Tenn

          “Let’s get out of here, the obscure references are making me dizzy.”

        14. k

          But he also had an orgasm!

  10. EvergreenFir

    Guess you could call her “curious”…

    1. Yotomoe

      and her name is Billie.
      So let’s shorten it to Bi-Curious.

      1. Aizat

        Billie is Bi-everything. Curious is one of them.

        1. FinalOwen

          It wouldn’t be entirely inaccurate to call her bi-furious, either.

  11. neon5162

    wooooo im not on the bottom of the comments today

  12. Plasma Mongoose

    The only good school uniform is Japanese schoolgirl uniform.

    1. Totz the Plaid

      Are you disparaging Catholic school girl outfits?

      1. Tunaro

        Why choose? You can have both at the same time.

        1. Neospector

          You fools, they all mean nothing without glasses.

    2. Yotomoe

      No. The only good school uniform is no uniform. ANARCHY! RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE! FIGHT THE POWER! DOWN WITH THE PATRIARCHY! DOWN WITH CONFORMITY!

      1. Aizat

        YEAH, LET’S GO TO SCHOOL WITH NOTHING AT ALL!

        1. Van Dyne

          YOU FOOL! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

        2. Van Dyne

          THE ONES WHO NEED GLASSES TO SEE!

        3. Mr. Random

          They are…

        4. Aizat

          CLOTHES ARE FOR CONFORMISTS! ARE YOU A CONFORMIST?

        5. Mr. Random

          ONLY TRUE ANARCHISTS TYPE IN ALL CAPS!

        6. Aizat

          WELL, THAT AND BRIAN BLESSED.

        7. Mr. Random

          True, true…

        8. That Damn Rat

          Brian Blessed doesn’t type in all caps, but everything he writes ends up in All Caps anyway. It’s one of life’s mysteries.

        9. Pyr05

          I am not Brian blessed. I am, however, brain blessed.

        10. Animal

          Ah. Brian Blessed.

          Love the guy. He’s the British me.

        11. Casey

          One man’s nightmare is another man’s act of defiance.

        12. Shaggy-Donahugh

          One man’s act of defiance is another man’s nightmare.

        13. Mr. Random

          And one man’s nightmare is another man’s fetish.

        14. Shaggy-Donahugh

          So would that make one man’s fetish another man’s act of defiance?

        15. Aizat

          Well, others think that some act of sticking it to the man is kinky.

        16. Aizat

          And one man’s fetish is another man’s reason to get some brain bleach.

        17. colm

          Huzzah for nightmare fueled fetishes!

        18. VizardJeffhog

          STUPID SEXY AIZAT

      2. Varangian

        WE DON’T NEED NO EDUCATION

    3. Bill

      There are uniforms, and then there are uniforms.  At my high school young men wore trousers (not denim) and a collared, tucked in shirt (tie optional); young ladies wore a pleated or A-line navy skirt or shift with a white blouse.  And yes, it was a Catholic HS, so length was no more than 2 inches above the knee.

  13. John

    Her bicuriosity.

  14. Aizat

    Panel 3: Billie imagining Sal in a school girl outfit.

    1. Hoboturtle

      Panel 4, also she doesn’t have to imagine, she saw it, in all it’s…. “glory?”

      1. Yotomoe

        But she didn’t see Sal IN IT.

        1. Beachfox

          Yes she did!
          http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/04-just-hangin-out-with-my-family/whatthe/

        2. The Candyman

          I wouldn’t be surprised if Billie thought that was a hallucination.

    2. Aizat

      Panel 4, I meant panel 4….I don’t know what came over me but somehow my brain is not functioning properly.

      1. -_-

        You should see a doctor…perhaps

  15. Shaggy-Donahugh

    Why does it feel like Walky is hitting on his sister?

    1. Yotomoe

      Twincest.

      1. Shaggy-Donahugh

        A caramel cookie with a soft vanilla center…..
        *drool*

        1. Leonou

          Well Billie’s half asian, so it would be more like a lemon&vanilla center ….
          gosh, I’m hungry.

        2. Norj

          Hungry for Billie.

        3. Yotomoe

          Aren’t we all?

    2. Hoboturtle

      That would be weird. Walky’s parents would freak if he started hitting on Billie.

    3. Leah Rockshard

      Because he’s laughing at her for something he finds weird, stupid-looking, and out-of-character, but many people creepily find sexy – for dressing like a schoolchild.

      He’s not hitting on her. You aren’t taking into account that for some people childhood uniforms =/= sexy.

  16. Keroshino

    Curiouser…and Curiouser!

  17. -_-

    Sal has heat vision.

    1. Aizat

      To melt Billie’s clothes off?

      1. Shaggy-Donahugh

        To make smores of course.

  18. MarcinMN

    If we want to question Sal’s fashion choices, maybe we should ask her why she almost always wears those gloves.

    1. MarcinMN

      Oh no! I have a Danny avatar now! That means that my post will be met with blind hatred no matter what it says!!!!! 😉

      1. Mr. Random

        I have a sudden urge to smack you… Huh. I guess you’re right.
        And that just makes me angrier…

    2. -_-

      So she won’t leave finger prints duh.

  19. HMRC4EVR

    Come to think of it, Sal could pull off a decent Sailor Jupiter with a little bit of tweaking.

    1. Kiggy

      Sailor Pluto, more likelu

    2. Pyr05

      I’m thankful you didn’t say “with a little twerking”

      1. Mr K

        That’s what I read too. Eww.

  20. Yotomoe

    Billie may need photos. For reasons.

    1. Aizat

      For “educational” reasons.

      1. MR K

        She needs to “study” those photos privately

  21. Leonou

    Uh …. okay, I tried but still can’t understand what Billie’s sentence means. Could someone explain it to me, please ? Especially the “propriety” part.

    Also. Billie’s and Sal’s are making such cute faces ! I love their faces ! Faceeeeees !

    1. Aizat

      It’s not fair pitting my sense of being appropriate or fitting against my curiosity.

    2. Bill

      “Propriety”, in this instance, means she realizes that there are some things that one just does not press.  

    3. John

      She realizes that it’s a bad idea to push Sal on this matter. But she really wants the mental image of Sal in schoolgirl uniform for her spank bank.

      1. Shaggy-Donahugh

        Spank Bank=term of the day.

        1. Aizat

          Spank Bank? I called “the Vault of Delights”

        2. Shaggy-Donahugh

          Damn, that’s a good one too. But the one that rhymes is a nice touch.

        3. Drakey

          Welp, time to go rename my porn folder.

      2. Leonou

        Ooooooh, okay. Thanks everyone

        1. John

          (Note, I was mostly joking about the spank bank thing. I really think the “curiosity” part is mostly Billie just wanting to know why the hell her bad-ass leather-wearing cigarette-smoking motorcycle-riding roommate was suddenly cosplaying Ceilidh MacFarlane.)

          (And I think by tomorrow she’s regretting ever having wanted to know.)

  22. Robert

    This coming from the chick wearing the “Dragons” T-shirt? Pfft…

    1. Casey

      Perfect grav is perfect

    2. John

      Yeah, “Dragons”, looks like something a nerd would wear.

      1. -_-

        ……………………
        ………………
        ………………
        ………NERD

    3. cliff

      You are all aware that dragons is her high school team? And that’s what this shirt originates from, it’s not just Billie bring nerdy 😛

      1. John

        I’m pretty sure her high school team was the Drago. That’s what it says on her cheerleader uniform, at any rate.

        Anyway, wearing your high school team paraphernalia in college? NERRRRRRRD.

        1. John

          Seriously, though, I want to see Ruth steal Billie’s uniform again, and give it back to her with the missing letters ineptly stitched back on. I would die of the cute.

    4. Bill

      That’s right.  The same word was across Billie’s cheerleader outfit — the one Ruth vandalized.

      Incidentally, there are only three high schools in Indiana that use “Dragons” as their team mascot — Argos, New Palestine, and Sellersburg (Silver Creek HS) — and of these three only the Sellersburg colors (orange/blue) match Billie’s uniform.

      1. Robert

        Hence the “pfft….” I found it ironic that Billie would be curious about Sal’s school uniform, but she still has high school pride herself, wears her old team t-shirts and she’s been obsessed with her tenure as a cheerleader since day one.

        1. Bill

          Because, quite frankly, in high school if you’re one of the jocks or one of the popular girls (and face it, cheerleaders are automatically given a pass into the ‘popular’ group) you are the big fish in the small pond, and she’s trying to hang onto that feeling of being the “Alpha bongo”.  But it ain’t gonna last; once you get into college that all changes, and the first couple of months of the fall semester at *ANY* college find the campus strewn with the shattered egos of those who found out just where they stand on the pecking order.  Billie ego trip hasn’t crashed and burned quiet yet, but it’s losing power on all engines.

  23. Mr. Random

    You know you’re in trouble when you can see the whites of Sal’s eyes.

    1. Casey

      Because that is when she turns into Storm, right?

      1. Aizat

        Oh goody, I hope Sal become the classically trained Storm.

        1. Shaggy-Donahugh

          What about 80’s mohawk storm?

        2. Aizat

          Unless 80’s Storm is as hammy as the Classically Trained Storm, sure.

  24. Casey

    My stupid phone made me misread that as “property” so I just assumed that Billie figured if she asked then Sal would break some of her stuff… Propriety makes much more sense.

    1. Vim-Hogar

      That’s exactly what I did, except without the phone excuse. I hope I’m not going dyslexic.

  25. -_-

    A tree who could do math would be nice now them wouldn’t it?

    1. Aizat

      Suddenly, a tree?

    2. -_-

      Wow i fucked that message up.

      1. Shaggy-Donahugh

        I wanted to respond, but my mind wasn’t rooted in anything funny.

      2. -_-

        Tree-sum

        1. Shaggy-Donahugh

          Billie or Walky would have to leaf to avoid twincest.

        2. -_-

          Why billie?

        3. Shaggy-Donahugh

          Doh, not Billie.
          Sal.
          Because Sal is not Billie. Nor is Billie Sal. Sal would have to leave, not Billie. But in all truthfulness Walky would have to leave because Billie wants to see the schoolgirl outfit.

        4. YesBut

          Will this end result of this scenario be Mike standing about in a sailor outfit, glare-daring anyone to comment, while plotting a massive firey demise?

        5. Axel bander

          Yes

  26. Bill

    The one thing I’ve noticed is that, even in the close-ups, none of the girls have pierced ears.  Sal, for instance, strikes me as someone who would have multiple piercings, and not just the ears.

    1. Kladeos

      I can picture her with multiple ear piercings. And maybe a belly button piercing.

    2. John

      Willis has a thing about jewelry.

      1. Vim-Hogar

        Is it that he doesn’t like to draw it? Or is he like my aunt who had a phobia of buttons?

        1. Shade

          Place yourself in his position. In a comic with as detailed art as this already has, would you want to make the work even harder for yourself? In most cases, anything other than large and noticeable jewelry is likely more effort than the payoff is worth.

        2. Pyr05

          http://www.questionablecontent.net

        3. John

          Phobia bad enough that he has issues even with drawing it, apparently. He went into it on Tumblr a while back. And I’m guessing he’d probably rather we shut up about it.

  27. Kladeos

    I wonder if she remembers the outfit from when she saw it in Sal’s closet?

    1. Greenygal

      She saw it rather more recently than that. Though I suppose she didn’t really have time to get a good look.

      1. Kladeos

        Oh right. That was a good strip.

  28. wynne

    Thank god Walky’s a decent brother. Sal needs affection from someone in her family.

  29. Emoroffle

    Billie’s boobs. Dragons yes, but made of marshmallow.

  30. Raibean

    Is it me or does Billie look different in this strip

    1. owltawny

      She looks different because her hair is down.

  31. Tahkuya

    WE HAVE A NEW MATCH IN THE THUNDER DOME!

    1. Aizat

      Come on Tahkuya, can’t we get beyond Thunderdome? OK guys, what’s the score?

  32. Vash

    Ok so I really like the style of Billie’s eyes in this one. Anybody else?

    1. Aizat

      Eye do too.

      1. nick

        Aye matey

  33. Just for kix

    Did Billie just tell us the names of her boobs? The left is propriety and the right is curiousity?

    1. Robin

      Is it because she killed a cat with her right boob?

      1. Kernanator

        …I can picture this far too easily.

        I have problems.

  34. fishamaphone

    I just want to put this out there: I really like Panel 2. I think it’s the most we’ve seen of Sal with her defenses down, just being a real person. And that expression. Who else but her brother could do that?

  35. Jack Finch

    Gosh Sal. You wear those gloves so much your hands must smell like feet.

    1. Leah Rockshard

      In the alternate universe, if I recall, her hygeine was only slightly better than Walky’s. I remember her telling Joyce that the orange toothpaste they’d just gotten was weird, but at least she couldn’t tell when her gums bled anymore.

      1. Jack Finch

        Right, right. I remember that.

  36. hof1991

    Walky is aweful busy shipping his sister, first with his girlfriend, then with his suster’s roommate. And leave the schoolgirl outfit alone when in company or Sal will destroy you. Does he have no Darwinian instincts?

    1. karloaf

      No, that’s what makes him one of the many natural wonders of the world.

    2. John

      Walky shipped Sal/Dotty? I think I missed that. I thought it was just Joyce/Dotty (or Joyce/Dotty/Walky) he was pushing. He’s definitely been shipping Sal/Billie, but, to be fair, I’m pretty sure Billie is shipping Sal/Billie, too, despite her pro forma protest at the beach.

  37. saltchocolate

    My curiosity is also running high, Billie. What makes Sal tick? What she’s saying to Walky about her hair seems to conflict in some ways with what she said to herself at the salon. (And then there’s the gloves, as people have mentioned . . . )

    1. begbert2

      She’s apparently aware of the many massive and enough said social issues, but despite all that maybe she likes having hair that doesn’t POOF.

  38. nothri

    So thinking about girls in school uniforms makes Billie curious? I hope Ruth is taking notes here.

    1. nothri

      And dammit, I miss my old avatar. Lewdly grinning Joe just works better for this kind of commentary.

      1. Princesscarlos

        Nah, that one works pretty good

  39. Chris Borgars-Smith

    Fronted, not truncated.

  40. ajm5007

    We black folks, most especially black women, have a long history of hair “issues,” and it can be a sensitive and complicated topic. Nice to see DoA giving it a nod.

  41. Derek

    Panel 4: we can see the distinct body types of Sal and Billie. It’s the mark of a seasoned artist that not all the bodies look like clones. I hope to get to this level someday.

  42. Leah Rockshard

    I gotta say, it did not even OCCUR to me that people would find it sexy to see badass, hard-as-nails Sal out of her awesome motorcycle clothing and dressed like a little girl on her way to school.

    I fail at Internetting. No, wait, I fail at human nature.

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