(Sideways as in the other sideways as in disappears out from under you and ends up in a bank drive-through up against a wall somehow, engine still running and you’re just on the ground going “wtf just happen”)
In fairness many homages to the Akira bike slide show the maneuver in a way that would end in a fall. Often by forgetting to have the character use a leg as a kick stand.
But this is a bit more egregious if we’re to assume they’re in motion.
This could work if that frame is drawn just after the bike actually came to a stop, rather than still in motion, and it had barely enough momentum to tip over, with Asher getting ready to prop the bike with his foot.
No body no crime. Especially when Walky is the only person who has vocalized Mike being dead, I can easily see him claiming that while Mike remains in a coma somewhere.
In addition to the above links, Willis changed Mike’s character entry in the cast pages to say that he’s dead now, and Mike is mentioned as dead in the current site poll.
clif
Would Willis be going to so much trouble to convince us if it wasn’t a trick?
Reltzik
Yes.
But he would also go to so much trouble to convince us if it WAS a trick.
Ok, when you go back to the gallery following the link, Mike‘s not in the gallery.
Like a ghost…
thejeff
There’s an entire “2014” cast accessible through following the character links from there. From the main cast page though, only the 2020 cast pages are available.
But it’s the word! It’s got groove, it’s got feeling!
(I hate everything about Grease except that catchy-as-all-hell title song from the movie. Damn you, Frankie Valli! The rest of the film is just trite, stereotypical Boomer/Greatest generation 50s high school vapidness, it didn’t need a catchy disco theme song!)
Yeah, the teenaged alcoholic who almost killed herself and her best friend and then got into a depressed drinking fueled suicide pact with her new girlfriend making bad decisions is real shocking.
Well, Sal was friends with Asher growing up and Billie is from the same town. She theoretically could’ve known him, and reconnected once she realized he was hot now or something.
brumagem
I was salty about how nonsense her with Asher is, but that actually makes a lot of sense. She’s not stupid, just self-destructive!
RESPONDIENDO MÁS TARDE QUE LA CRESTA pero que belleza más grande es ver este Chilenismo apropiadamente utilizado en una situación que, a todas luces, VALE CORNETA CHÚPALA BILLIE QUE WEÁ???
My money’s on “actually found someone so totally cool (by her, and I cannot stress this enough, very questionable standards of what’s cool), and she backslid so hard from her character development the calendar (…and Ruth) felt it.”
I really hope I’m wrong. I was rooting for her, damn it!
…or, um, you know, just a really bad breakup, maybe? Yeah. That’s it.
Does she? We haven’t seen her walk yet. You can technically sit on a bike with a shattered femur. Not comfortably, but I think Billie would take it for the appearance.
Reltzik
A leg with a shattered femur is still a leg with a femur. If the bones had been removed entirely, her legs would NOT look like that.
MW
Thanks, now I have the mental image of Billie’s legs flopping freely in the wind, sounding like a trading card against bike spokes.
I don’t think so. Other than perhaps a few superficial characteristics (both smokers, both ride motorcycles), they seem to have significant personality differences. Asher called the cops on Sal (when she was first arrested) as kind of a lark, and caved into pressure to help Blaine. I think Sal has far too much integrity/loyalty to do that sort of thing.
This’d be the Sal that tried to bribe her way to better grades with sex?
CJ
That’s not being mean to other people, that’s just trying to play the system.
Still, not her best choice.
Victor
That’s not really fair. Sal wanted to get off. Her choice of human dildo just happened to be her TA. The words “you’ll do” were used.
And Jason handed off her grading to another TA anyway. Back when I was a TA (not at Indiana, different schools handle such things differently), that would have been completely appropriate procedure if I’d hooked up with one of my students – as in, that was the handbook’s official documented way of dealing with it.
Discussion (390) - “The coolest”
Ana Chronistic
WHAT A TWEEST
…not really idk, it’s a surprise, but it’s also David “Killed Mike in a Casual Remark and Totally Skipped Hallowe’en” Willis
also, everyone loves that Akira bike slide huh
Dara
it’s pretty fun tbh
at least until you hit that invisible-even-after-i-hit-it slick spot and your bike just goes sideways. still don’t know what happened there.
Dara
(Sideways as in the other sideways as in disappears out from under you and ends up in a bank drive-through up against a wall somehow, engine still running and you’re just on the ground going “wtf just happen”)
Miles
Definitely don’t wd40 your tires to make them shine.
Librain
Well no, pig fat gives a much better gloss.
Chris
They’re tilted the wrong way for the bike slide. As drawn, there’s no way that maneuver doesn’t end in a fall.
fridge_logic
In fairness many homages to the Akira bike slide show the maneuver in a way that would end in a fall. Often by forgetting to have the character use a leg as a kick stand.
But this is a bit more egregious if we’re to assume they’re in motion.
K^2
This could work if that frame is drawn just after the bike actually came to a stop, rather than still in motion, and it had barely enough momentum to tip over, with Asher getting ready to prop the bike with his foot.
Roborat
Yay, you win the no-prize.
Alan in DC
Cartoon Physics.
It’s part of the curriculum there.
mecklejay
I don’t think it’s a slide in the first place. I think the screech is just from harsh braking.
redfuzzy
I totally missed where it was confirmed Mike was dead. Which strip was that?
Marsh Maryrose
“my dead roommate” is I think the first confirmation
Chris
Two days before that.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-11/01-this-bright-millennium/invited-2/
AntJ
“my roommate died” came two strips earlier https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-11/01-this-bright-millennium/invited-2/
Seerow
No body no crime. Especially when Walky is the only person who has vocalized Mike being dead, I can easily see him claiming that while Mike remains in a coma somewhere.
clif
Walky lied about it so he could get an A in math.
King Daniel
In addition to the above links, Willis changed Mike’s character entry in the cast pages to say that he’s dead now, and Mike is mentioned as dead in the current site poll.
clif
Would Willis be going to so much trouble to convince us if it wasn’t a trick?
Reltzik
Yes.
But he would also go to so much trouble to convince us if it WAS a trick.
Amara Rezby
Where is the mike character entry? I don’t see it in the cast pages.
King Daniel
Here you go: https://www.dumbingofage.com/cast/attachment/2014castmike/
CJ
Ok, when you go back to the gallery following the link, Mike‘s not in the gallery.
Like a ghost…
thejeff
There’s an entire “2014” cast accessible through following the character links from there. From the main cast page though, only the 2020 cast pages are available.
Ana Chronistic
funny that the poll was completely lopsided toward Skipped Halloween but then evened out now it’s almost perfectly even between all three options
Nono
Billie rides again!
clif
And she looks so dreamy. To think we were worried for nothing.
Whatever she’s on must be good stuff.
BenRG
My worry is that it isn’t anything prescription. Rather, it’s ‘recreational substances’ provided by Asher’s grandfather’s ‘business partners’.
Deanatay
Or just booze.
clif
Now, now. I’m sure it’s just the effects of Asher being a masterful lover.
Or maybe it’s just the motorcycle.
Doctor_Who
Seems Billie is the first person in 40 years to watch Grease and actually mistake it for cool and aspirational.
No wonder Sal ditched the bike. As soon as this happened, motorcycles instantly became uncool. She rides a Vespa now.
SeanR
Does this make Billie a gangster’s moll?
jeffepp
Yes. Yes it does.
Varangian
I think she might qualify as a moll AND a budding femme fatale
BenRG
She wants to be because she thinks it makes her cool and socially powerful. She’s in for a sharp learning curve.
Ray
Sal switched to the Vespa because she started watching FLCL…
Doctor_Who
FLCL is the opposite of Grease because it will never NOT be cool.
abysswatcher1993
FLCL teaches that manic pixie dream girls can be assholes. Same for Ramona in Scott Pilgrim until she gives Scott a chance. Scott is an asshole too.
C.F.B.
Who isn’t an asshole in Scott Pilgrim?
shork
Knives and Young Neil
Doctor_Who
Knives “physically assault someone for “stealing” your boyfriend” Chau and Young “casually homophobic” Neil?
Ana Chronistic
Gideon
The cat
Who isn’t in the movie
RowenMorland
Lisa Miller wasn’t so bad.
Bicycle Bill
She switched to the Vespa because she watched “American Graffiti”.
Cholma
The guitar riff from the Pillows’ “Ride on Shooting Star” immediately played in my head when I read this!
Needfuldoer
But it’s the word! It’s got groove, it’s got feeling!
(I hate everything about Grease except that catchy-as-all-hell title song from the movie. Damn you, Frankie Valli! The rest of the film is just trite, stereotypical Boomer/Greatest generation 50s high school vapidness, it didn’t need a catchy disco theme song!)
Lars
Sal switched to grapple hook and sipline. It’s easier to get from window to window with that.
butts
are you fucking shitting me billie what the hell
BarerMender
Seriously. What’s wrong with you, Billie?
Dara
The one worse choice that doesn’t involve incest.
RUTH CONGRATULATIONS YOU DODGED A BULLET
timemonkey
Yeah, the teenaged alcoholic who almost killed herself and her best friend and then got into a depressed drinking fueled suicide pact with her new girlfriend making bad decisions is real shocking.
Mariah Hardnett
Yeah I mean once ruth got mentally healthy it was only a matter of time until she lost interest in her
Bryy
Holy fuckin’ SHIT, this is such a random pairing.
Fay
Well, Sal was friends with Asher growing up and Billie is from the same town. She theoretically could’ve known him, and reconnected once she realized he was hot now or something.
brumagem
I was salty about how nonsense her with Asher is, but that actually makes a lot of sense. She’s not stupid, just self-destructive!
abysswatcher1993
ESTOY TAN ENOJADO QUE ESTOY HABLANDO EN MI LENGUAJE PARA NO SER CENSURADO POR WILLIS! QUE PERRA!!!!
FaerwenOfValenwood
BOA IDEIA, CARALHO
TÔ MORRENDO AQUI!!
Sombrero
QUE BEN, ATOPAR ESTE RECUNCHO ONDE BERRAR A GUSTO!!! O TELLADO DO LIXO!!!
FacelessDeviant
RUIDOS FUERTES!
Svankensen
Te fuiste a la chucha Billie.
Lynx
RESPONDIENDO MÁS TARDE QUE LA CRESTA pero que belleza más grande es ver este Chilenismo apropiadamente utilizado en una situación que, a todas luces, VALE CORNETA CHÚPALA BILLIE QUE WEÁ???
*Ahem.* Thank you :’3
not not albi
My money’s on “actually found someone so totally cool (by her, and I cannot stress this enough, very questionable standards of what’s cool), and she backslid so hard from her character development the calendar (…and Ruth) felt it.”
I really hope I’m wrong. I was rooting for her, damn it!
…or, um, you know, just a really bad breakup, maybe? Yeah. That’s it.
Reltzik
Not a bad breakup. Billie still has her femurs.
K^2
Does she? We haven’t seen her walk yet. You can technically sit on a bike with a shattered femur. Not comfortably, but I think Billie would take it for the appearance.
Reltzik
A leg with a shattered femur is still a leg with a femur. If the bones had been removed entirely, her legs would NOT look like that.
MW
Thanks, now I have the mental image of Billie’s legs flopping freely in the wind, sounding like a trading card against bike spokes.
I hate it.
Sirksome
Is Asher just a boy version of Sal? Not to be confused with Walky who is Sal’s character model gender bent.
segnosaur
I don’t think so. Other than perhaps a few superficial characteristics (both smokers, both ride motorcycles), they seem to have significant personality differences. Asher called the cops on Sal (when she was first arrested) as kind of a lark, and caved into pressure to help Blaine. I think Sal has far too much integrity/loyalty to do that sort of thing.
foamy
This’d be the Sal that tried to bribe her way to better grades with sex?
CJ
That’s not being mean to other people, that’s just trying to play the system.
Still, not her best choice.
Victor
That’s not really fair. Sal wanted to get off. Her choice of human dildo just happened to be her TA. The words “you’ll do” were used.
And Jason handed off her grading to another TA anyway. Back when I was a TA (not at Indiana, different schools handle such things differently), that would have been completely appropriate procedure if I’d hooked up with one of my students – as in, that was the handbook’s official documented way of dealing with it.