It’s too late.
Sarah’s already a carrier.
Soon her flesh shall blossom into sword-steel; her organs, interlink with untold resilience. Her smile shall shine forth as a beacon of the futility of resistance.
Why would she? Not only does she never get called out on not respecting boundaries, if the commentariat is any indication there’s no lack of people telling her that she SHOULD disrespect them.
Sarah opens her eyes, frowns, closes her eyes. A brilliant blue-white light flashes from the vicinity of Sarah’s bed, momentarily blinding Joyce, Billy, and anyone who happened to be in the corridor behind them. Joyce’s blindness fades and she sees Sarah sleeping soundly, a faint smile tugging up the corners of her mouth. Between Joyce and Sarah’s bed, on the floor, Joyce spies the charred one-eyed remnant of Dina’s hat, three bright vermillion strands of hair, two small piles of teeth, and a handful of freckles.
Seriously, Sarah’s only chance of getting through the day without Joyce-inflicted trauma would have been to sneak up in the middle of the night and hide in the basement for the rest of the day.
I was worried there for a moment but hex color sampling from cheek:
Billie from February f9eecd
Billie today f9eecd
She should still go to the doctor though.
82 thoughts on “Anticipate”
Ana Chronistic
Sarah IMMEDIATELY melts from saccharine-induced diabeetus
Ana Chronistic
TriceraTOP
MaddMaxx
But really, who wouldn’t
Plasma Mongoose
She also faced Joyce’s triangular smile.
Daibhid C
I read the first three words and mentally ended the sentence “…them both with heat vision she spontaneously developed out of sheer irritation”.
Either works.
ValdVin
Someone besides Joyce with the huge wakeup grins? Wow, that is a b’day surprise!
Keulen
Dina has been shown practicing Joyce’s triangle smile before.
Ferret
Thank you, I had repressed that from my memory but now i get to experience the nightmares again.
He Who Abides
At least she’s gotten better at it by now.
Pocky
Thunder stolen
Jamie
“You’d think a cleric of Thor wouldn’t steal his buddy’s thunder like that.”
SUGauthor
“I understood that reference”
– Captain America, ironically also a friend of Thor.
JessWitt
By the thunder lizard and her girlfriend!
Doctor_Who
Thor was well compensated for his thunder, though.
Nono
THE USURPER
Heavensrun
S
Yumi
The triceratop lives forever in the Dina magnet on my car.
Kyrik Michalowski
Oh snap, people be stepping in on Joyce’s territory, and by people I mean Becky and Dina. Still who else was going to do it if not them or Joyce?
Opus the Poet
I managed to get an updated comic before there was like a thousand comments, so does Sarah go full ninja assassin or just strangle Becky and Dina?
Needfuldoer
That’s Sal’s M.O.
abysswatcher1993
That day Ruth buried 4 corpses and Mike engraved in their graves “Here lies an idiot”.
abysswatcher1993
To clarify, the probability of Sarah killing Ruth is pretty low.
Stephen Bierce
—smiles await you when you rise…
Marsh Maryrose
Absolutely perfect. Much better than my own inadequate first thought:
All alone with me and we’re waiting for the sunlight
Marsh Maryrose
I literally did not know about this song until a couple of minutes ago:
Because I think it’s worth my while / to share a room with your smile
Charlie Spencer
It’s a lyric? I thought it was a fortune from a cookie. I was all ready to slap ‘… in bed’ onto it.
Sporky
I do not envy Dina or Becky right now.
Or Sarah for that matter.
… Or Joyce either.
He Who Abides
Or Billie.
JessWitt
Nothing like waking your birthday buddy with an up-close wide-eyed grin.
Also, yay for the tricera-hoodie! Of course Dina would wear that on her special day.
William Leonard Reese Jr.
THE TRIANGLE SMILE! IT IS SPREADING! Run Sarah Run!
Khyrin
It’s too late.
Sarah’s already a carrier.
Soon her flesh shall blossom into sword-steel; her organs, interlink with untold resilience. Her smile shall shine forth as a beacon of the futility of resistance.
StClair
“Wake up,
TennoSarah.”Kat
“The
SystemSchool needs you.”Glad i wasn’t the only one that immediately thought of this.
Plasma Mongoose
A carrier? Are you saying that Joyce’s triangular smile is similar to the Joker disease?
JepMZ
Lol! An Ana chronistic reference
Romanticide
And now we need a corney Joyce saying hey! for memes 😀
BBCC
*hissing noise*
JOYCE. Goddammit, I thought you finally learned that shit wasn’t okay? Bah.
Bagge
But didn’t you see? She has three panels of justifications for it. Three panels!
BBCC
Nope, must fill a whole storyline with ’em, sorry, I don’t make the rules. 😛
JBento
Why would she? Not only does she never get called out on not respecting boundaries, if the commentariat is any indication there’s no lack of people telling her that she SHOULD disrespect them.
BBCC
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2019/comic/book-9-comic/03-sometimes-the-sky-was-so-far-away/company-2/
THIS STRIP GAVE ME HOPE.
JBento
It just built you up (built you up) buttercup, baby
Just to let you down (let you down) and mess you around.
BBCC
So rude.
a snow mouse
Good song.
Mr. Random
I always forget that Joyce’s mouth is just an empty of white until she goes to wake someone up again.
Kravis
Joyce looks like Leslie.
NinjaNick
Ah, the cuteness!
Marsh Maryrose
The tricerahoodie is eternal. It will live on long after all of us are dust. Or until the DoA cast graduate, whichever comes first.
Juanoku
Probably the first one
Tacos
TOP TEN ANIME BETRAYALS
Joyce was so looking forward to being the one to wake up Sarah on her birthday with a big smile.
Shane Wegner
TOO SLOW JOYCE YOU LOSETHIS ROUND
Chaucer59
Sarah opens her eyes, frowns, closes her eyes. A brilliant blue-white light flashes from the vicinity of Sarah’s bed, momentarily blinding Joyce, Billy, and anyone who happened to be in the corridor behind them. Joyce’s blindness fades and she sees Sarah sleeping soundly, a faint smile tugging up the corners of her mouth. Between Joyce and Sarah’s bed, on the floor, Joyce spies the charred one-eyed remnant of Dina’s hat, three bright vermillion strands of hair, two small piles of teeth, and a handful of freckles.
Bagge
Oh no! Upstaged!
fire_daws
With that smile Becks could upstage anyone.
BenRG
SARAH: “Oh my god! She’s spreading!”
Keulen
They’re lucky Sarah doesn’t try to strangle anyone who wakes her up that way.
foducool
that day, Sarah scream could be heard all the way from the dormitories to blowjob cat
Bagge
The only one missing is Lucy
Chronos
I wasn’t ready to see a double homicide today…
Bagge
Heh, I totally called Dina and Becky teaming up to smile-wake someone, but I totally blew the target.
I thought they would wake up Sal and ask her about Pachycephalosaurus
Bagge
Seriously, Sarah’s only chance of getting through the day without Joyce-inflicted trauma would have been to sneak up in the middle of the night and hide in the basement for the rest of the day.
TheWanderingMist
Ahaha, funny.
Joyce would still find her there.
Khyrin
Even odds Joyce would at least be deterred by the Stair-Stepper Trauma.
Shane Wegner
Side note- Billie is turning an increasingly clammy color of Liver-Failure Jaundice Yellow.
Norah
Her shirt may make her coloring look worse. But she really needs to get medical help with this.
Vulcanodon
I was worried there for a moment but hex color sampling from cheek:
Billie from February f9eecd
Billie today f9eecd
She should still go to the doctor though.
Caffienated
I never knew how much I wanted Joyce’s face in the last panel. That is amazing.
Zaxares
Me too. That is just perfection. XD
Vulcanodon
“Oh yeah, I forgot to mention you might want to be out of range of the strangling hands…”
JBento
That’s Sal, not Sarah.
thejeff