Well, Sarah’s her roommate. If Mary’s sick with something contagious, it could spread to Sarah herself. It could be rooted in self-interest rather than actual empathy (for a person who provokes very little of it).
She was knocked to the floor with a single punch, then threw up. Head trauma followed by vomit generally = concussion. That’s something you should worry about.
However, as for why they’re worried about _MARY_… well, I have no idea!
I had kinda forgotten about the punch (though she didn’t get knocked to the floor, she knelt down when she felt nauseous; could probably still suggest concussion though?)
I’m still not sure it would warrant ‘she needs a doctor right now, at night.’
A considerable number of Walkyverse characters drive oversized vehicles like trucks or jeeps…
Is Indiana hilly enough that most people would need a 4-wheel-drive vehicle to get around? I can believe Colorado might be, considering the mountains, at least…
Suddenly I can think of several normal-sized civilian cars… none of which appear more than, like twice. And more than half of them are outright destroyed… often at the hands of the oversized vehicles!
Ruth’s car: Totalled due to Danny being an idiot
Ron’s car: Totalled by a truck in the process of saving Danny from himself
Billie’s car: never seen again
Mary’s car: never seen again
Ethan’s car: Melted with acetone by Ultra Car
Compared to the oversized cars…
Danny’s jeep: outlives the Head Alien twice and becomes Ultra Car’s first body
Walky’s truck: outlives the Head Alien THREE times, survives Martian invasion
Ultra Car’s second body: still in service, even without Ultra Car’s mind inside
So I guess only Transformers get to be normal-sized cars that appear more than once in a Willis comic and then live to tell the tale. (And not for lack of trying. They do kind of try to kill each other regularly.)
Someday David Willis will draw a subcompact car not being destroyed three times in a row and we will all be very proud of him.
Ultra Car’s second body is so not an oversized car. It’s a little two-door hybrid hatchback.
And Walky’s Dodge Ram 50 pickup truck is not in any way large. It is tiny. I drove that exact vehicle for years, and even calling it a pickup truck is generous.
Can’t get hard numbers on Ultra Car without a real-world make and model, but the Dodge Ram 50 is absolutely categorized as oversized– at least for New York City parking lots (my frame of reference, since I work in Manhattan). A quick Google tells me that the Ram 50 is 184.6 inches long, and anything over 181 is oversized, such as most SUVs. It may be smaller than most trucks, but it’s still oversized, and therefore subject to higher parking fees here. Though perhaps that’s worth it for a machine that still runs fine after multiple near-apocalypses.
Everybody in US believes they need an SUV/Jeep/4 wheel drive to get from the house to the grocery store 3 blocks away. States have nothing to do with it.
Mary likely has a concussion from the punch to the face resulting in floor punching her in the back of the head.
Go get ’em Danny. U manning up, for awhile anyway.
Mary Logic: I must keep secret the fact that I know how babby is formed. Therefore, I must loan my car to a group of drunken college students with a history of indirect vehicular manslaughter so that they can drive me to confront my nemesis, who’s having a violent psychotic breakdown.
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New chase.
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But why is Sarah worried, that’s the real mystery.
Next on Slipshine: Roomies!SarahxMary.
Not sure if want.
Only if Willis goes through the trouble to actually draw it in Roomies! style.
It would be rated G because no one could tell what was happening.
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So we can make cracks about “Roomies!-style” pr0n being anything graphically incomprehensible?
Don’t you remember the twinkie incident?
Well, Sarah’s her roommate. If Mary’s sick with something contagious, it could spread to Sarah herself. It could be rooted in self-interest rather than actual empathy (for a person who provokes very little of it).
Is pregnancy contagious?
Only indirectly.
Oh noes, Mary threw up! That could be… well, pretty much anything, like even just an upset stomach. Why are we super worried about Mary again?
She was knocked to the floor with a single punch, then threw up. Head trauma followed by vomit generally = concussion. That’s something you should worry about.
However, as for why they’re worried about _MARY_… well, I have no idea!
If she dies from the head trauma, Billie’s crime escalates from assault and battery to murder?
Well, manslaughter, but still pretty severe.
I had kinda forgotten about the punch (though she didn’t get knocked to the floor, she knelt down when she felt nauseous; could probably still suggest concussion though?)
I’m still not sure it would warrant ‘she needs a doctor right now, at night.’
A single punch/blow to the head has killed people.
A considerable number of Walkyverse characters drive oversized vehicles like trucks or jeeps…
Is Indiana hilly enough that most people would need a 4-wheel-drive vehicle to get around? I can believe Colorado might be, considering the mountains, at least…
Southern part is.
I think that’s just a normal sedan.
Suddenly I can think of several normal-sized civilian cars… none of which appear more than, like twice. And more than half of them are outright destroyed… often at the hands of the oversized vehicles!
Ruth’s car: Totalled due to Danny being an idiot
Ron’s car: Totalled by a truck in the process of saving Danny from himself
Billie’s car: never seen again
Mary’s car: never seen again
Ethan’s car: Melted with acetone by Ultra Car
Compared to the oversized cars…
Danny’s jeep: outlives the Head Alien twice and becomes Ultra Car’s first body
Walky’s truck: outlives the Head Alien THREE times, survives Martian invasion
Ultra Car’s second body: still in service, even without Ultra Car’s mind inside
So I guess only Transformers get to be normal-sized cars that appear more than once in a Willis comic and then live to tell the tale. (And not for lack of trying. They do kind of try to kill each other regularly.)
Someday David Willis will draw a subcompact car not being destroyed three times in a row and we will all be very proud of him.
Ultra Car’s second body is so not an oversized car. It’s a little two-door hybrid hatchback.
And Walky’s Dodge Ram 50 pickup truck is not in any way large. It is tiny. I drove that exact vehicle for years, and even calling it a pickup truck is generous.
Can’t get hard numbers on Ultra Car without a real-world make and model, but the Dodge Ram 50 is absolutely categorized as oversized– at least for New York City parking lots (my frame of reference, since I work in Manhattan). A quick Google tells me that the Ram 50 is 184.6 inches long, and anything over 181 is oversized, such as most SUVs. It may be smaller than most trucks, but it’s still oversized, and therefore subject to higher parking fees here. Though perhaps that’s worth it for a machine that still runs fine after multiple near-apocalypses.
Everybody in US believes they need an SUV/Jeep/4 wheel drive to get from the house to the grocery store 3 blocks away. States have nothing to do with it.
Mary likely has a concussion from the punch to the face resulting in floor punching her in the back of the head.
Go get ’em Danny. U manning up, for awhile anyway.
You heard her, Mary doesn’t want a doctor. Get her a coat hanger & she’ll be fine. Danny, the car is yours.
Unless Mary thinks abortion clinics are operated by not-a-doctors. Then she’ll need the car after all.
She needs a friend like Davan from Something Positive to send her that coat hanger…
Mary Logic: I must keep secret the fact that I know how babby is formed. Therefore, I must loan my car to a group of drunken college students with a history of indirect vehicular manslaughter so that they can drive me to confront my nemesis, who’s having a violent psychotic breakdown.
I can only conclude that she’s suicidal.
No doctor? What, she’s a Christian Scientist now too?
Originally posted:
December 9, 1999