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Link
Posted on June 9, 2011 by David M Willis

139 thoughts on “Link”

  1. Jen Aside

    What, you didn’t know about Wonder Twin Powers?

    ACTIVATE

    1. dchorror

      Form of Unrelenting Smartass.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Sal takes the form of Smoking Badass

      2. Aizat

        Shape of Deadpan Snarker.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Billie responds with an Icy Stare.

        2. Rognik

          It doesn’t affect the wild Walky!

        3. dchorror

          Are we mixing fandoms now?

        4. Plasma Mongoose

          Quite Possibly.

        5. QueenThomas

          Commenters used Crazy Crossover.

          It’s somewhat effective.

        6. nothri

          Well, going in further in the straight fandom would require a demonstration of knowledge about the wonder twins that no one here is ever going to want to admit.

        7. WertTheLord

          Such as pointing out that Zan transforms only into forms of water and Jayna only into animals? Or something more along the lines of them liking the flavor of compact discs?(disks?)

        8. Plasma Mongoose

          Commenters with secret geek hobbies? Surely you jest!

        9. something

          By your twin powers combined, I am…!

        10. Kernanator

          CAPTAIN NERDETTE!

        11. Amazo

          …IMPLICITLY INCESTUOUS!

    2. Rognik

      Don’t you need to be in direct contact to use those?

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        They had to touch at least fingers IIRC.

        1. Aizat

          Really? I thought twin telepathy work if one of them is in danger.

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          If you were talking about twins knowing when the other is in danger then yes but I thought we were talking about the Wonder Twins’ shape-changing powers, those require touching.

        3. dchorror

          Depends on which incarnation. There have been some writings of them where there was just a proximity problem.

  2. Gnoka

    Well, she likes Walky enough to know where his room is.

    1. knowwonattawl

      And he looked pretty happy to see her at his door.

      1. David Herbert

        All he needs is to get her some booze and the shippers shall squee.

      2. Kep

        I think Walky’s automatically happy to see people at his door. He looks like the kind of guy that craves company.

        1. Loki

          If he wasn’t looking directly into her FAAAAAACE I’d think that he was happy to see her for a different reason.

    2. Chrisby

      “Walky, don’t talk to me, I don’t know you here. By the way, which room are you living in?”

      1. Loki

        Even in the Stone Ages when I went to college, there was a student directory that told you where people lived. It was on paper. I imagine that now you’d be able to look it up through an on-campus online system.

        1. Chrisby

          True. And when I went to college the RAs would made nametag things and put them on the dorm doors at the start of the year, so yeah. It’s pretty easy to figure out who’s where.

  3. ProtonCon

    Walky. You rock.

  4. Wackd

    I don’t know what’s funnier, the deadpan look on Walky’s face as he said that or the fact that Billie appeared to actually believe him…

    1. John

      That’s not so much “deadpan” as it is his default expression.

  5. knowwonattawl

    The panel where they are just staring at each other is actually kind of adorable.

    1. Roborat

      You mean the one where they are FAAACE to FAAACE? Yea, I thought it was cute also. I get the distinct impression that she actually believed him?

  6. Aizat

    Walky, a deadpan snarker? Never thought I see the day.

    1. Zem

      He always had in in him.

  7. Mr. Cat

    I don’t know who she’s madder at. Walky for saying it, or herself for buying it for even a second.

  8. Tristan J

    Billie is being surprisingly polite.

    1. dchorror

      Well, he does seem to be one of her only friends at the moment. No good burning your only bridge.

      1. Tristan J

        I know, it’s just evidence up until now suggested that Billie was a moron who couldn’t be civil if her life depended on it. She must really be on the edge.

        1. dchorror

          She started being a little more civil when she was trying to get on the paper. Not exactly tactful, but she was more civil than she had been previously. Though I do agree that she’s on edge.

        2. nothri

          i think being harrassed by a psychotic RA will do that to most people.

      2. Steven

        Joyce seems to be okay with Billie!

        1. Tristan J

          That’s because Joyce wants to have sex with Billie.

          According to that fanfic I read.

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          If a fanfic said it, it MUST be true. 😛

        3. Tristan J

          Your Billie avatar could not possibly be more appropriate right now.

        4. Plasma Mongoose

          Danke! ^_^

          Some comments do seem better/funnier/more disturbing depending the Grav after all.

    2. Roborat

      Must be one of those rare times that she is actually sober.

  9. Aizat

    Hey Billie. Ever thought of using a window as bait?

    1. dchorror

      Why would it occur to her?

      1. Aizat

        You’d never know.

        1. dchorror

          Just seems a roundabout way to set a trap. Wouldn’t tickets to an auto/bike convention seem more suitable?

        2. Aizat

          Put the ticket next to a window? Now that’s a good idea.

        3. Pat

          Come to think of it, why doesn’t Billie just leave the form out with a note asking Sal to sign it, in a place she’d obviously find it?

        4. Aizat

          Well IIRC, Sal seems to be attracted to windows. And by attracted, I mean crashing into them.

        5. knowwonattawl

          What I think dchorror was trying to explain is that Billie has no reason to know about Sal’s affinity for windows. In this universe she hasn’t seen or heard of Sal crashing in through windows yet.

        6. Aizat

          Good point.

  10. Jason

    Oh Billie, I thought you said this was gonna be a Ruth-free, Sal-free day! What happened?

    1. dchorror

      She realized she didn’t want to lose another letter.

      1. Tristan J

        I will not abide another letter, Mr Lebowski.

      2. ryan

        i dunno. “drago” sounds like a way cooler team name than “dragons”

        1. dchorror

          Might very well become ragon, though.

        2. Kernanator

          Hey, “ragon” could work as a legitimate warning.

    2. dchorror

      And I just realized why she’s hunting down Sal. She’s been assigned to find a campus vigilante. What better candidate than someone she can’t get a hold of?

  11. dchorror

    Couldn’t resist.

    1. dchorror

      http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y195/Amielo/Daww.jpg

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Neither could I.

        http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2011/6/8/d849a856-f0df-431d-92cd-ecdb9908d6aa.jpg

        1. dchorror

          Apparently, your image has disappeared. Which is sad, I’ll not know what it is.

        2. Aizat

          It’s Billie as Amazi-Girl. WITH BOOB WINDOW.

        3. Plasma Mongoose

          Not sure why you couldn’t see it, it appears to be working just fine.

        4. dchorror

          I keep getting “Image removed due to content.”

        5. lord of dance

          i like how the cleavage makes the open part of the A. well played

        6. Plasma Mongoose

          Danke ^_^

      2. agentksilver

        Awww!

  12. Wackd

    Wow. I just noticed the banner change. It’s bad enough that you swapped-out the black chick, but now the half-Asian is gone too?

    RAAAAAAAAAACIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIST!

    ps. I’m just kidding.

    1. David

      We’re all blonde chicks up in here!

      1. dchorror

        Except Joe. At best, I think he can only be one of those.

        1. Tristan J

          Why can’t he be blonde? 😛

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          Replace Joe with Mike and we can have an Aryan theme going on. :}

    2. knowwonattawl

      You just know that the Jewish guy will be the next to go.

      1. nothri

        But sadly it ends up being Joe and not Ethan, thus missing the chance for a racism combo breaker by oppressing the Jews and the Gays at the same time.

        1. Balance

          Oh the irony of what you just said considering today’s strip in the shortpacked universe. http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/comic/book-13/02-the-new-girl/glitch/#comment

  13. arjay2813

    that was awesome! i knew i’d like this walky more than the original

  14. Steven

    I like Billie a lot better now that I know she’s half-asian.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      So you didn’t like her when you thought she was all white?

      1. dchorror

        Quite frankly, I always thought she was asian. It’s just the facial structure. I would have been quicker to say her dad had been adopted.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          You thought Asian, I thought Alcoholic Jaundice.

          I cant win them all.

        2. Khrene Cleaver

          I kinda see it now, especially in panel 5. Before I could never tell she was Asian behind all the rage and lust for alcohol.

      2. Steven

        Not as much.

  15. Brendan

    Hmm. Building rapports with Ruth, Sal, Danny… now Walky. It’s almost like she’s our Sal.

  16. Plasma Mongoose

    And to think that all Ruth had to do to get Sal’s attention was to hold Sal’s bike for ramsom instead of Billie’s cheerleader costume.

    1. Zanosuke_Kurosaki

      Now if only Ruth would start thinking of that instead of using her “job” as an excuse to bully… XD

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Where is the fun in that?

        1. nothri

          This scenario sounds like a fantastic way for Ruth to get shivved.

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          Depends on if Willis plans on killing Ruth off again or not.

  17. John Biles

    Credit where credit is due; two points to Walky.

  18. Kernanator

    Billie is having a lot of conflicting emotions, isn’t she?

  19. sammy

    it makes me laugh that he actually tries for a second. or seems to try anyway.

  20. shoeboxjeddy

    When Walky of all people is defeating you in a battle of wits, you’re clearly having an off day.

    1. Aizat

      Remember that this is not the Cloud Cuckoo Lander Walky that we know.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Looks like he is dispensing with that ditzy persona much earlier than in IW!

        1. knowwonattawl

          No need for the pretense around Billie. In IW she knew he wasn’t as dumb as he pretended to be because he hadn’t hidden his intelligence when he was younger. I imagine it’s the same this time around.

      2. Zem

        Walky was always somewhat witt and a snarker but he didn’t use to care if he was expressing it in ways that only he would understand. Other people didn’t get his jokes because he communicated them in fart language.

  21. Dahlia

    Walky: HEY BILLIE. THERES THIS NEW INVENTION. YOU MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE HEARD OF IT. ITS CALLED A “CELLPHONE”. WHY DON’T I GIVE YOU HER NUMBER AND YOU CAN CALL HER YOURSELF?

    *roflroflrofl* I probably totally translated it wrong, but it was lols nonetheless.

    1. dchorror

      Billie: Because they would make sense, duh? I’m a cheerleader, the world revolves around me.

      1. Dahlia

        XD sounds like its something she’d say!

    2. David

      Walky doesn’t have Sal’s number. They haven’t talked in years.

      1. Dahlia

        OH! FFFFF– Ok DX. I assumed they exchanged info during class or something s:

    3. Aizat

      That’s a good one but Sal might not have a cellphone in keeping with her being elusive and all.

      1. Jackson

        Sal is completely off the grid.

      2. Dahlia

        D//x;; Yeah, I know I probably shouldn’ta jumped the gun…I just thought its was, like, the 21st century! I mean, who DOESN’T have some form of emergency contact? >: Then again, this IS Sal…

        1. Aizat

          Well, life in prison can change someone. Sal may need some time alone. Or she could be in some underground bike racing circuit. It is Sal we’re talking about because to me she’s unpredictable. The only thing I can predict is her entrance and we haven’t seen that for weeks.

        2. Dahlia

          Thats true…D:

          I wonder if shes mad at Walky for not talking to her while in catholic school…D:

  22. NF

    I want to see if Walky can annoy Billie enough to provoke her to punch him…in the FAAACE!!!

    1. Tristan J

      Man, we got 55 comments before a FAAACE comment. 55 wonderful comments.

      1. dchorror

        A nickel just isn’t enough these days.

        1. Aizat

          Back in the day, a nickel can buy you 5 pounds of candy. Nowadays, people just throw away nickels in a fountain.

        2. spaceinvader42

          Or buy your mom with them.

        3. Plasma Mongoose

          I heard that they plan on discontinuing the 5c coin in Australia soon as they have been pretty much worthless for a number of years now.

          We already got rid of the 1c & 2c coins back in the 90s, so it’s not unexpected.

  23. Gentooman

    It’s 2011. Why doesn’t he have, say, I don’t know… an emergency contact?

    1. gangler

      Dude, I room with my brother and I don’t know how to find him. He disappears and returns at seemingly arbitrary hours. I frequently don’t see him for weeks at a time, though there is often evidence that he came and went while I was sleeping. He’s a moody silent fellow so I’ve never managed to get his cell number out of him. When someone asks me how he’s doing I say “I don’t know.” I’m pretty sure the last time we spoke to eachother with words was around a month ago when I asked if he wanted the last of the leftovers before I took them. He grunted something I took to be a no.

      There really isn’t a magic familial bond that let’s you know this stuff about your relatives when they’re not telling you. If Sal hasn’t felt like sharing her info with Walky then he’s got nothing.

  24. Lulu

    That’s what he thinks.
    (Personally, as a twin myself, I find it works every time) =P

    1. Aizat

      So, twin telepathy exists?

      1. gangler

        Oddly enough only with fraternal twins.

        1. Lulu

          How else do you expect us to keep in contact? hehe =P

  25. gangler

    I think sassy Walky is the best Walky.

  26. PlatyPius

    Hey! It’s Walky!

  27. Stephanie

    Aw so Escape to Witch Mountain was a lie? Childhood ruined…

  28. agentksilver

    People actually think twins have this! IT DRIVES ME CRAZY! No I cannot locate my twin sister at a given moment’s notice, she lives in a frickin different city!

    1. Loki

      Yeah, not only is he having a laugh at Sal, but he didn’t make the link up, even if it’s untrue in either case. 🙂

    2. Despite Rage

      If she lives in a different city, and the city is sufficiently removed from you, I’m pretty sure you could point straight towards her most of the time. You know where she is, therefore you have twin telepathy. PROVEN WITH SCIENCE!

      Two of my brothers are twins. During high school they could randomly spout out that their twin was in trouble and they would be right about 75% of the time. Not proof of twin telepathy, just proof that they were both in trouble about 75% of the time…

      1. agentksilver

        It would be weird if only one of your brothers was a twin.

  29. JesseJanitect

    Walky’s telepathetic, definition one.

  30. Kelsey

    Oh, come on. You’re just not trying hard enough!

  31. Shifty

    That was pretty witty and snarky there Walky. Color me impressed. 🙂

  32. Rachel

    Sometimes I really, really love Walky. 🙂

    1. Head Alien

      Hahaha considering your gravitar I bet Walky would be excited by your comment.

      1. Rachel

        Considering *your* gravatar I’m thinking I should be wary of your comment.

  33. Jenny Creed

    Panel 5: Billie believes in the impossible, just for a moment.

  34. Jason Chadwick

    Walky is my favourite character.

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