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Characteristic
Posted on March 15, 2013 by David M Willis

134 thoughts on “Characteristic”

  1. SUGauthor

    I want to see how Ruth’s doing.

    1. Skull025

      Probably bawling great big canadian tears of misery, the only kind we see when the curling team loses or someone forgets to say “please” and “thank you.”

      1. SUGauthor

        I don’t think Ruth has said “thank you” once in her entire life.

        1. MrSmiley

          no she most definately said it when she was born.
          she may have been sarcastic though.

        2. Skull025

          Galasso would know.

        3. Josh

          Of course, I mean he is Amazi-Girl after all.

        4. SUGauthor

          I always assumed her first words were “Bloody femurs”

        5. JA

          She says it, just not to Billie

      2. Rognik

        At once I feel the urge to defend Ruth and my national pride, but at the same time, I can appreciate the spirit of this comment and can take it for what it is.

        Besides, you only cry those kinds of tears for your hockey team losing in the Stanley Cup against your bitter rival. Curling is more of a hick-Canada sport.

        1. Gordon

          Canadian Nascar?

          Wait, sorry… Nascar isn’t a sport.

        2. N0083rP00F

          It’s not a hick sport. It is played in each and every small town in Canada. Mind you I don’t think I have seen much if any curling rinks in any of the big cities ……. >_< …… Okay, It's a hick sport but don't ever say that to a Scotsman.

        3. EHeroRedEyes

          canada is awesome. Just saying.

      3. Roborat

        Curling fans don’t cry, they just drink more beer. Hockey fans cry, then drink more beer. The rest of the country just drinks more beer, without so much crying. And yes, I am Canadian.

        1. slicedtoad

          Then you have the Quebecois. They drink at least as much beer as everyone else, plus a ton of wine, Porto and .
          Caribou is disgusting but their excellent selection of wines and beers (unibrew ftw) makes up for it.

        2. slicedtoad

          stupid hyperlinks. I’m a CS student, you’d think I could figure out simple html tags…
          oh I see, you have to close the ‘a’ tag.

      4. Neospector

        What do Canadian tears look like, exactly? Are they nicer when they hit the ground than American tears?

        1. slicedtoad

          they shatter when they hit the ground.

        2. Skull025

          Canadian tears apologize the whole way down a hockey fan’s face, right before they burst into flames and steal your soul.

  2. Wonder Wig

    It’s just that you’re not British enough for her, Billie.

    1. Skull025

      I don’t know, she seems pretty pissed. *Badum Tss*

    2. Yotomoe

      Invest in a Bow-tie, Billie.

      1. Josh

        And a tweed jacket!

        1. Gaiash

          And maybe a fez.

        2. EHeroRedEyes

          always wear a fez. fezzes are cool

        3. Davriel

          Yet clearly inferior to fazzes

        4. JBO

          Why not a stetson?

  3. Tagg

    Billie, I think you need to put the bottle down.

    1. Yotomoe

      It’s clearly empty. Grab a fresh one out of the cooler.

      1. JebJeb

        Or more than one. The liver is your worst enemy, so you must punish it.

        1. Cooledd

          To be honest all I want them is to now kiss

        2. HK-A6A7

          The worst part?
          Once you defeat him, people will force you to have another one.

          It’s a never ending fight.

  4. Jen Aside

    “Are y’all hittin’ on me?”

    1. Wonder Wig

      I’m seeing Yotomoe, but I have a little Jen aside.

      1. Yotomoe

        Well That’s fine! I’ll just find someone Bekah than you.

  5. Sensedog

    No, no surprises here.

    1. Scout

      Now… Kiss!

  6. Doctor_Who

    Maybe you can get some sugar from Marcie, Billie. I seem to recall she was bi in that other universe. Or at least not opposed to orgies featuring only one guy.

    1. Yotomoe

      Marcie’s just sitting there like ” I hope she thinks I’m cool enough to make out with her”

      1. Count Dracula

        Wait…so Daisy isn’t cool or hot in Billie’s book? dIsAgReEmEnT bOx!

        Seriously, she’s tall, blond, athletic, professional, and into chest windows. But no, since she doesn’t ride a motorcycle, she is lame apparently.

        1. Count Dracula

          That wasn’t meant to be a reply here, I meant to make it its own thing. This topic is about Marcie, who is cool enough, because motorcycle. Infinite apologies.

  7. Yotomoe

    Maybe Sal just isn’t into Asian chicks, Billie. Change one of those two things.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      I seriously doubt Willis will give Billie another race-lift.

      1. begbert2

        That leaves only one course of action, then.

  8. John

    Quit breaking the fourth wall, Sal.

    1. Resne

      She’s not breaking it, she’s climbing through the window.

      1. Rognik

        Although if she could break through the wall, she totally would.

        1. Resne

          OH YEAH!

    2. David

      …whaaaaaaa

      1. John

        All talking about Billie’s “definin’ characteristic” like she’s a character in a webcomic or something…

        1. Rognik

          What utter poppycock! Next thing you know, you’ll be trying to claim that Amber and Amazi-Girl are actually the same character! Utter nonsense…

        2. Josh

          Isn’t Galasso Amazi-Girl though?

        3. HLY

          not really breaking the fourth wall, I’ve made comments like that and I don’t think I’m in a web comic…

          though if I am it’s 99% filler and I demand a rewrite!

    3. Raoullefere

      Sal’s ain’t breakin’ no wall. She’s talkin’ to the only person in the room worth having that particular conversation with right now: herself.

    4. Jackson

      Maybe leanin’ on it.

  9. Bekah

    TIL, hotness automatically makes one a non-loser, and losers are automatically ugly. Thanks Billie!

    1. Rognik

      TIL? Seriously, I feel like I missed a meeting or some slang, like when I first learned that PSL was perverse-sexual-lust.

      1. TheBenenator

        TIL that the shortened form of “Today I Learned” hasn’t filtered from Imgur to *all* of the Internet yet.

      2. TsunamiJane

        If I recall correctly (I mean, IIRC)….PSL started on this here webcomic. Or possibly its predecessor.

        1. George

          It started in It’s Walky!.

  10. Yotomoe

    What’s Billie gotta do to get a caramel sculpture of her very own?

    1. Kernanator

      I recommend getting some pointers from the Art department.

      1. Spazman

        the metal rod things or the people in……

        you know what, they both work.

    2. Roborat

      She had her chance, but she wasn’t interested in Walky.

  11. Kernanator

    Being kissed by girls drives Billie to drink.

    1. Yotomoe

      Billie being drunk drives her to kiss girls.

      1. John

        It’s the circle of life!

      2. Kernanator

        It’s a vicious cycle that can only end with her liver committing suicide.

      3. Roborat

        Just as long as being kissed by girls doesn’t cause Billie to drive drunk.

        1. Kernanator

          Because then Ruth will have to save her.

    2. Rognik

      You know, as bongoy as Billie is being right now, and turning to alcohol is never the answer, this one time? I kinda feel sorry for her. She deserved some sort of divine retribution, but maybe not like this. Not like this.

    3. Chug

      I’d be drinking at this point, too, and I don’t drink!

  12. ridtom

    Billie, drinking won’t solve your problems- at least not that weak of brand.

  13. Yotomoe

    I like to imagine before Sal walked in she said ” Yo, Marcie. You gotta check out this obsessive drunken roommate of mine, always going on about conspiracies about Amazi-girl and kissing.”

    1. Rognik

      “Honestly, I think she’s a closet lesbian or something. Oh, and get this: she actually thinks she’s a CHEERLEADER.”

    2. Spazman

      is Billie actually drinking not because of Ruth, but because she wanted her first girl-on-girl kiss to be with Amazi-girl?

  14. MHBCrow

    That third girl, her name escapes me, but she reminds me of Marcie from the Peanuts for some reason…

    1. Rognik

      You mean the one in glasses? Yeah, her name’s Marcie. You can see it listed in the tags next to Billie and Sal. I don’t know if the two are related or not, but it’s a neat coincidence.

      1. begbert2

        Schultz ripped off Willis.

      2. John

        IW!-Marcie looked more like Peanuts-Marcie than DoA-Marcie does.

        I gotta say, I really like her new design. She’s got a realistic body type that you don’t see much in comics.

  15. That One Weirdo

    Oh, Billie. Beggars can’t be choosers. …Wait a sec…
    OBJECTION!
    Billie has just claimed that only losers try to make out with her! But the evidence only shows Ruth’s attempt! Now, why would Billie say the plural form of loser, if there was only one? Your Honor, I think the defendant is lying to us!

    1. Pat

      Daisy?

    2. Rognik

      OBJECTION!
      It really doesn’t matter whether it was one loser or two losers, she’s clearly the killer. And you have ugly, porcupine hair, Mister Phoenix Wright!

      1. Andrusi

        Order! Order!

        Mr. Wright, Mr. Edgeworth, I just have one question… What are these “web comics” you two are discussing? Some form of stand-up routine about spiders?

      2. mrelegos

        NOT SO FAST!

        [Holds up picture of Steel Samurai]

  16. showler

    Well, maybe Marcie will explain what is going on to Sal.

    1. Rognik

      I don’t think anyone can figure out Billie. I’m watching this whole train wreck, and barely understand what’s going on in her attic.

  17. Raen

    So wait, Sal trying not to make out with Billie ain’t ever happening?

    …are the Twitters canon? Because this seems to be a sort-of secret, and yet I can’t see anyone reading “RA down my throat” and the subsequent posts and not at least wondering if she meant what she did.

  18. Plasma Mongoose

    Silly Billie, why would Sal want some lush like you when she has the lushious and much less noisy Marcie on hand? 😀

    1. Totz the Plaid

      Marcie’s only on hand now, soon she’ll be on faaaaaaaace!

      1. Josh

        With her penis.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Are you suggesting that Sal is Walky’s transexual twin brother?

          Now where have I seen that plot before…*looks at Josh’s grav*

        2. Mr. Kitty

          :Stab:

          Bad mongoose.

        3. Yotomoe

          YOU FOOL!!! The Plasma Mongoose is the rarest most endangered species of Mongoose!!!

        4. Anickel4u

          Somebody ask The Yelling Bird to deal with this mongoose…

          So Walky now gets a cibernetic hand?…

        5. Plasma Mongoose

          Better for him to pick up those fresh from the frier McNuggets with.

        6. Volkai

          No, Sal is Rule 63’d Walky from an alternate universe.

          In Canada.

  19. Notebooked

    Billie definitely isn’t feeling well enough to deal with these problems on her own. Let’s hope her roommate can help–…oh.

  20. turbanous

    Come on Billie live for the makeouts!!

  21. Josh

    Now Kiss!

  22. ADHadh

    I clicked the link and Joyce was there smiling at me :3
    I’m kind of wondering if Billie will go any lower anytime soon.

    1. begbert2

      AAAH! Those eyes, my soul is drowning in them! Help!

      …Though how she ended up with a less triangular grin than Walky, I don’t know.

  23. xain

    in a alternate reality where sal didn’t just boink jason, sal also makes-out with at billie as well At which point Billie decides that if even sal can’t resist her then she should just roll with it and get herself a harem.

  24. Dr.Z

    Is that a tattoo of an ant on Sal’s arm?

    1. Spazman

      no, I don’t think so.

      Because they killed Paco.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHqiTjK7hOk

  25. HLY

    yeah, I reallyfeel sorry for billie right now 🙁

  26. SeanNOLA

    Ctrl+F “pants”….nothing
    Ctrl+F “underwear”….nothing

    How am I the first person to point out that Billie isn’t wearing any pants in the second frame?

    C’MON, BILLIE! GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER!

    1. begbert2

      I was distracted by the fact that Sal seems to have been drawn with short-shorts and colored with her riding pants.

      1. David

        Her riding pants are two shades of blue, not gray and red.

    2. Roborat

      I just assumed they were really short shorts.

  27. bunivasal

    Alcohol is not Billie’s defining characteristic! She’s also got promiscuity and social condescension.

    This line–that only losers (like the lesbian editor of the school paper) try to kiss her–is a good reminder that Billie still has the mentality of a YA clique series.

  28. Roborat

    Okay, I have to ask, why is Sal wearing shorts over her riding leathers? Wouldn’t that be just a bit uncomfortable?

    1. David

      The simple answer is those aren’t riding leathers.

      1. ArkhamTexan

        Are those Jason’s longjohns then? Rather than Sal wearing his shirt post-sex she opted for his pants?

        1. David

          They’re just leggings.

        2. Roborat

          Okay, thanks for clearing that up. Those looked like motorcycle leathers to me, right down to a pattern I have seen used in real life. I have not seen that many leggings with stripes like that.

  29. Thomas

    I availed myself of a Cute Angry Billie avatar, because I couldn’t resist.

    1. Thomas

      Changed to Walky, because Billie seems to generate anger.

  30. maycroft

    I think Billie’s driving a little bit off the road.

    1. Kernanator

      Because she’s driving drunk.

  31. JA

    Dunno if anyone else has noticed, but Billie isn’t wearing pants.

    1. Kernanator

      Who has time for pants when there’s booze to be had?

  32. Uniqueantique

    Ruth is in the trash chute. If not, where the heck is she?
    Billie needs someone to convince her to seek help, she is in trouble.
    Sal is her usual enigmatic self, is she referring to herself as a ‘weirdo creeper”?
    Marcie doesn’t comment because she is deaf & dumb isn’t she?

    1. David

      Marcie is mute but not deaf. This is made apparent by the way Sal talks to her in English and Marcie understands and responds.

      I would be careful using the term “dumb” to refer to folks who can’t speak. It’s often considered offensive when used in this specific way, even though it was the original definition.

      1. Aydr

        Yeah, calling someone dumb is technically accurate but really not the best way to sensitively describe someone… Not the worst thing in the world but there’s better choices of words.

  33. Anickel4u

    http://www.nad.org/issues/american-sign-language/community-and-culture-faq

    Apparently Deaf mute or mute..its also offensive….

    Special , challenged, unique.. handicapped…are offensive too..
    I personally find this troublesome, the safe course is just quote this article:

    “What’s in a name? Plenty! Words and labels can have a profound effect on people. Show your respect for people by refusing to use outdated or offensive terms. When in doubt, ask the individual how they identify themselves.”

    So willis… How would Marcy identify herself?

    1. Tenn

      I think the article is saying that calling a deaf person “deaf-mute” is offensive because they aren’t actually mute. Marcie, OTOH, is mute.

  34. Rik

    Two days of awesome reading and I’m at the latest one 🙁

  35. Blue

    Those leggings… I know I’ve seen them before!
    http://www.comicbookreligion.com/img/a/c/Ace_Dorothy_McShane_2.jpg

    Just more proof that Sal is really awesome.

  36. Uniqueantique

    No offense meant. I was using the term in the original usage. Deaf & dumb was referenced to physical, not mental conditions. There is nothing ‘dumb’ about Marcie. I grew up in a world where that term was not meant offensively. The difference being if you called someone a ‘dummy’.
    As far as all the PC corrections going on in this world, it is really getting old. And sometimes hard to fathom.
    The ‘n’ word (how’s that for grown up talk kiddies) the ‘n’ word is supposedly very offensive.As was the ‘f’ word. Yet today, the ‘n’ word is all over rap music, and the ‘f’ word decorates our illustrious writers’ Walkyworld comic today, used in ref. to Zebra Pudding.
    While Fuck may be a noun, pronoun ect. and in common useage, it still makes me wince in mixed company. Yet I can bet my a** I will get no apologies for my tender sensibilities for its use. 🙂

    1. Anickel4u

      No offense taken (by me) . I was just folllowing the reel of the conversation.
      I did my social service for a fundation with challenged childs.
      And really the “words” weight. Making the people know about the issue its enough.

    2. David

      I… I’m not sure how you can not understand why it’s okay for some people to use the “n-word” but not others, and how it’s different from the “f-word.” Different words carry different kinds of baggage. It’s not that hard to fathom. In fact, I venture to suggest that it’s based entirely on a pretty simple dynamic!

  37. Uniqueantique

    Based on black leaders who have said that use of the N word by rappers, or any blacks in public, is demeaning and counter to the image that blacks should be projecting to the world, I …I’m not sure how you can not understand how it is not okay for anyone to use the ‘N’ word.
    And yes you are right it is different from the saying Fuck. One is racist, and one is just vulgar.

  38. Jay

    Can’t a person just get drunk after getting screwed with in the head ?
    There are far worse reasons.. one was just celebrated actually! xD

  39. Koms

    Sal looks so nice in red. Willis is an excellent artist and Sal is my favorite character. She’s a caramel goddess. <3

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