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Worryin’
Posted on September 29, 2014 by David M Willis

128 thoughts on “Worryin’”

  1. Camachri

    It’s okay Sal, Billie’s in good hands.

    1. Emperor Kiva

      And bed

      1. David Herbert

        And bottle.

        Wait, maybe not that one.

    2. Mr. Random

      She’s in Ruthless hands.

      1. MrSirk

        That actually wouldn’t sound very comforting if we didn’t have context.

        1. Gadgeteer Smashwidget

          Honestly, it still isn’t very comforting.

        2. Barrage7667

          Given what people know about Ruth and Billie (for the most part) I honestly dont think that context would make them feel comforted either. Most public scenes involving ruth and billie were less than pleasant.

    3. LeslieBean4Shizzle

      Your hovertext is wonderful…

      1. ed rhodes

        I always forget about the hovertext until someone mentions it in the comments, thanks!

  2. otusasio451

    As time passes, I find myself liking Sal more and more.

    1. newllend

      Eh she’s cool.

      1. Rachel Roth

        DARN IT! WE NEED A LIKE BUTTON!

  3. Mr. Random

    Yeh, brain, don’ wanna lis’en.

    1. Jen Aside

      Sal’s clearly in a crazy dream–she went through a DOOR

      1. sps48

        Obviously she’s in Girard’s fortress.

        1. Catullus

          Hell of a place to build a dorm.

      2. J42

        Glad I’m not the only one who noticed this

      3. John

        She promised Billie!

  4. AHR

    I relate with Sal’s brain.

  5. Cephalo the Pod

    Sal book?

  6. MrSirk

    Brains never do what you want them to.

  7. Wakeford

    oh sal, you do care

  8. Jackson

    Aw, she really does care.

  9. gaston

    so does sal ship billie and walkie?

    maybe joyce is a lot more like sal than they both realize

    1. newllend

      No, no they’re complete opposites like night and day.

      1. scordo

        two sides of a coin. life and death. one cannot exist without the other. They are duality. They are… JOYCE AND SAL…. most awkward slipshine

        1. Lume

          XD THEY MUST BOTH BE IN COSTUME THE DING DONG BANDIT AND WHOEVER THE HELL SAL WOULD BE

        2. begbert2

          The Convenience Store Stabbee.

        3. Lume

          LESBIAN PSUEDO VILLAIN SLIPSHINE

          …wait, but gay people are NORMAL. …Joyce isn’t normal…

  10. Khaner

    Okay, I NEED to know how she does her hair. That thing is more luscious than Roman Reigns’s.

    1. newllend

      Hm not the only luscious thing about her.

    2. dailybrad

      Khaner, kudos for recognizing Roman’s mane as luscious.

      1. Khaner

        Apparently, all he uses is coconut oil.
        It must be magical or some shit.

        1. Cynthia

          Coconut oil is a gift from gods, good for sexiness and sexy times.

  11. Doctor_Who

    I have arguments with my brain all the time, or rather, different parts of my brain have arguments with with each other.

    …It’s a wonder we’ve lasted this long as a species. “Hey. Hey, other half of my brain. Stop playing that song, I hate it. Hey. We just ate dinner, we do not require waffles. How is it you can remember the plot of cartoons you last saw 20 years ago, but not whether or not you already showered today? You suck.”

    1. Tunaro

      Cartoons are eternally awesome, bathing is but occasionally optional.

    2. The_Master

      Do you hear that? … The sound of drums

      1. Soylent Daveage

        Can I get a “Vote Saxon”?

  12. Tunaro

    Don’t listen to yer brain, it gets real echoey.

  13. newllend

    wait, is her brain growing a conseince?

    1. Opus the Poet

      Conscience, and maybe, yes.

      1. Deanatay

        Think morality => ‘against science’ => ‘con’-‘science’.

        1. begbert2

          That’s horrible, and it’s even more horrible that it works.

        2. Thomas64

          It doesn’t, though. “Con-” means “with”. “Against” would be “contra-“.

  14. TSB

    This story of estranged childhood friends and siblings coming together and worrying about each other is hitting some really personal feelings for me at this time of year. I’ve been really touched by DoA before but I think this is the first time I’ve literally cried. I really want Sal and Walky and Billy to like each other again.

    1. dailybrad

      If it helps, Walky is definitely making some big strides with the two of them.

    2. Deanatay

      I don’t think they’ve ever stopped caring about each other – they just argue a lot, and forget to express their feelings. That happens. A lot.

      1. TSB

        Caring about someone is not the same as liking someone. You can care about someone and not be able to be in the same room as them, or understand them, or make them feel better.

  15. Opus the Poet

    I’m sorry but I spent an hour watching a guy ride a bicycle in a circle earlier this month to set a record for most distance in an hour riding a bicycle, the twitter feed on the attempt had the hashtag #shutuplegs which was this guy’s catch phrase for when he was racing up mountains. So my mind went immediately to #shutupbrain.

    1. Chris Kern

      Jens Voigt!

      1. Opus the Poet

        Aye-uh.

      2. Opus the Poet

        But I (mistakenly) thought that Jens was a little to esoteric for this crowd, so I left off his name.

        1. Kryss LaBryn

          Nothing is too esoteric for us. Someone will recognize it, whatever it is.

  16. GoogerGeiger

    Sal’s come a long way from robbing convenience stores.

    1. Raptorman

      Good thing too, she sucked at it.
      And its good to see her worrying over her friend, and I hope her spider sense isn’t tingling over some real concern at present.

  17. MM

    If Sal actually gets that to work, I want to know her secret.

    1. newllend

      Secret to what ?

      1. Opus the Poet

        Making her brain shut up, she could be the greatest meditation teacher of all time.

        1. Deanatay

          There are always drugs.

        2. Opus the Poet

          Unconscious is not the same as meditating.

  18. Xailenrath

    Brains are notoriously hard of hearing in times of worry.

    1. Marianne

      I heard you can get rid of worry/anxiety by drawing over the top of it with dry erase marker and then erasing them both.

      1. Clif

        I don’t think the dry kind of erase marker would work. For the case of serious worry/anxiety, to be truly effective, dangerously high levels of alcahol must be involved.

        1. Kryss LaBryn

          Interesting factoid: our brains can only track about seven different topics at once. So what you do is just start thinking of other different things (you only need to touch on each one) and by the time you get to eight or nine, you don’t remember what the first one was.

          It helps if you think about <abbr title="Like, 'I could call the cops, I guess, and file a missing persons report; except she hasn't really been missing for 24 hours yet… Or I could go wake up Walky and see what he knows, except it's like 4 AM and it will probably wait a few hours; she's probably not passed out and hypothermic in a ditch somewhere…’ –This isn’t really helping though, is it?”>what you actually could do right at that moment, though, to actually be able to say “No, there actually isn’t anything I could do right now,” and then form a follow-up plan, like “But as soon as it hits 7 AM I am going to go knock on Ruthless’s door and have her track Billie down.” That way your brain stops trying to get you to remember about what it is that you want to (temporarily) forget about.

        2. Kryss LaBryn

          Darn it, missed a closing tag somewhere. Could have sworn I put it in…

          It helps if you think about what you actually could do right at that moment, though, to actually be able to say “No, there actually isn’t anything I could do right now,” and then form a follow-up plan, like “But as soon as it hits 7 AM I am going to go knock on Ruthless’s door and have her track Billie down.” That way your brain stops trying to get you to remember about what it is that you want to (temporarily) forget about.

        3. Kryss LaBryn

          Oh give me a break! ><

          Third attempt:

          It helps if you think about what you actually could do right at that moment, though, to actually be able to say “No, there actually isn’t anything I could do right now,” and then form a follow-up plan, like “But as soon as it hits 7 AM I am going to go knock on Ruthless’s door and have her track Billie down.” That way your brain stops trying to get you to remember about what it is that you want to (temporarily) forget about.

        4. Kryss LaBryn

          I give up.

        5. xKiv

          The best way to forget something is to want to remember it, but going to check out just one more article/joke/post on the internet …
          … half hour later, you remember you wanted to remember something, but not what.

  19. Marvelman

    I didn’t realize until now that Sal worried about people.

    1. newllend

      The feels she’s been bottling up is starting to overflow.

  20. Stephen Bierce

    *plays Dan Fogelberg’s “Heart Hotels” on the Muzak*

  21. Kernanator

    Too late, you worried for a split-second. Now that worry will never go away. Ever.

    1. begbert2

      Hard alcohol is always an option.

      And hey, look, she’s standing in Billie’s room. There’s bound to be some around here somewhere.

  22. dailybrad

    I guess Sal considers Billie a bit like a sister, too. Which I imagine contributes to how icky it was when Billie tried to drunkenly mack on her.

    1. TheZachariah

      I dunno. I’ve never seen Sal consider Billie “a bit like a sister” before. Which makes this side of Sal kind of interesting to see right now…

      1. Rabid Rabbit

        Hmm. I’m trying to remember, how often, if ever, have we seen Sal on her own before, and therefore able to vaguely soliloquise and suggest that she has an inner nature?

        1. clodia

          I have no strips to back it up, but I feel like: not often. There was the pep talk to herself before she went to see her parents. There was her looking in the mirror after she got her hair done and telling herself that she looked right.

          Beyond that, we usually see her interacting with others or through other people’s eyes. If she’s by herself, it is so others can comment on her. Obviously, she has an inner nature and insecurities, but she’s been as slow to open up to the audience as she has herself and others.

        2. WeezerLuvr3030

          Since she has two eyes made out of coal, I assumed she was a snowman. Er, Snowoman. Snowperson.

  23. Malchus

    BRAIN: I don’t listen to you; you listen to me!

  24. -Sentinel-

    Only now do I notice the exclamation mark on Sal’s spider tattoo.

    1. sps48

      I thought it was a lobster tattoo.

      1. Cholma

        It’s a Tarantugun (it’s from It’s Walky!) You can see the full design here. David posted it on Tumblr a few days ago.

        1. The_Master

          She looks exactly like that anime character.

        2. Clif

          Captain Harlock?

        3. begbert2

          Huh. I guess Walky wasn’t the only Walkerton to watch Dexter and Monkey Master.

        4. Deanatay

          In the DOA-verse, D&MM seems to be one of the ‘bedrock’ cartoons of this generation, like The Smurfs (for my generation) or Dexter’s Laboratory (for the one after) or MLP:FIM (for the most recent).

  25. Stephanie

    awwwwwwwwwwww

  26. Idon'tcarenomore

    Sal ‘hasn’t come a long way from robbing…” imo. She didn’t do that as a power trip or a gang initiation (that we know of anyway): she did it out of desperation.

    She wants to be noticed, cared about and loved by her parents who can’t see her past her brother, Walky. Not his fault, but it he did play it.

    Yeah, she cares. She just doesn’t go around advertising it. She’s cool.
    My take anyway.

    1. clodia

      I agree with you 100%.

  27. timemonkey

    Aw, look at Sal, all concerned and showing cracks in her cool indifferent exterior. So adorable.

  28. TheZachariah

    …But that tattoo? Is there always an exclamation mark involved with that…thing? I’m trying to figure out if I’m looking at a lobster.

    1. C2

      That’s a .

      1. C2

        Tarantugun.

        1. Clif

          Why are people acting like this is the first time we’ve seen it? For example http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/03-up-all-night-to-get-vengeance/procedural/ .

    2. airyu

      Here is the full tat
      http://itswalky.tumblr.com/post/98293895862/i-want-to-ask-something-cool-but-cant-think-of

  29. AgentKeen

    …Wow, I only just noticed, different jacket than normal.

  30. Lanval

    Huh, that is how I end most of my internal monologues as well.

  31. Blob Marley

    If only that worked…

  32. K. Ivan Ruppert

    That last panel is my everyday.

  33. Paradox

    Brain: “Ah don’t care what you said. Ah say we worry.”
    Sal: “Why brain?”
    Brain: “Because ah don’t always do what you want me to do.”

  34. Cooper

    Hey Sal, you should probably go knock on Ruth’s door and tell her that your roommate is missing. She is your floor RA after all. Make sure to take a good long look around her room too while you’re at it.

  35. zmm

    Haha. I love her caring moments.

  36. Koms

    They say twins have a kind of mental connection. So they are both maturing simultaneously. And wow, Sal’s waist.. Ah could kill for that.

    1. John

      Myth busted!

      1. Kryss LaBryn

        From the twins I’ve known, it only happens with identical twins–sometimes (knew two guys who did that as their primary form of communication). Fraternal twins, on the other hand, are just regular siblings who were born at the same time and therefore no closer genetically than regular siblings and hence unlikely to be telepathic or unusually sensitive with each other.

        As per, yes, Sal and Walky.

        1. Sam

          Actually, fraternal twins are likely to be closer to each other genetically than just normal siblings – not ‘shares 99% of the same DNA’ close – but still a bit closer than normal siblings. Tis just because they gestate at the same time though, causing some more commonalities to arise than would normally – if they were born at completely separate times instead they would be just like average siblings.

      2. Koms

        Wow! Awesome!!

  37. lightsabermario

    If she’s just thinking to herself, those should be thought bubbles. If she’s actually talking aloud, then she’s doing more talking while alone then she ever does voluntarily with other people, which seems a little out of character. Also, it means she’s mastered the art of talking without moving her lips.

    1. Rabid Rabbit

      How is that out of character? It seems eminently likely to me.

    2. Sam

      A closed mouth can be used instead because what we are seeing is happening right before she speaks and it would be a waste of comic strip to draw people opening and closing their mouths all the time. Plus, the facial expression is easier to make clear with a closed mouth.

      And this is not at all out of character – we have seen her talking to herself multiple times while Billie went on rants and she talked to herself after she got her hair done and before seeing her parents. It is basic human nature to talk things over with yourself, regardless of whether it is in your head or out loud.

    3. WeezerLuvr3030

      lightsabermario, webcomics are the latest evolution of cartoons, comic strips, and comic books. In those media, faces are not drawn for anatomical accuracy but rather to be expressive. They are not so much faces as the signifiers of faces. the presence, or shape, of a mouth is one of the ways to differentiate characters’ overall personalities.

  38. StClair

    Yeah, you just keep tryin’ to tell it that.

  39. Dorje Sylas

    There is a laboratory over at Big Mountain that can help you with those pesky brain problems… and other squishy origins. Side effects include wanted Malaya attention.

    1. Dorje Sylas

      *unwanted Malaya attention.

      Cursed brain, stop building Ships of idle whimsy.

  40. Boomwolf

    I have actually had full blown conversations with my brain. Mostly me telling it to shut up whenever it’s reminding me about stuff I really wish I could forget…

  41. Slinx

    Wow, big reveal! I can’t believe it. This is cause for concern. Sal used the door! … Oh, right, and Billy still hasn’t returned to the room. *shrug*

    1. Clif

      Didn’t Billie put using the door in the room-mate agreement?

  42. Dani Kelley

    I am so here for more Sal character development!

  43. hof1991

    As long as her brain doesn’t get multiple thought balloons to reply with. That’s Dead pool tterritory.

    She should check with her bro and they could bond over worrying together.

    1. Clif

      Ceribus did it better.

  44. thatindianguy

    Don’t bother Sal it won’t listen.

  45. pyrophobia

    Sal your Walky’s showing again.

    (Well done Willis, haven’t seen sibling representation this good since Sokka/Katara. (And no I haven’t seen Korra yet guys))

  46. Clif

    Sal, you need to give your brain something else to focus on. Something like Mario Cart. Go knock on Danny’s door and make him play the game with you till you get tired. When you do, Danny’s bed is right there handy to sleep in. Joe won’t mind. He’ll just figure that you’re Amazi-girl.

  47. Vangeln

    Stupid Carla.

  48. B

    Sal is so worried, she used the door instead of the window.

  49. ajm5007

    D’awww . . . is Billie gonna find out people actually care about her?

  50. Marc in MN

    Hey Brain, what are we going to do tonight??

    1. pyrophobia

      The same thing we do every night Pinky

      WORRY

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