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Stragglers

by David M Willis on September 28, 2010 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - Move-In Day
└ Tags: agatha, amber, dorothy, jennifer, joyce, mary, rachel, roz, ruth, sarah

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  1. Ragnal
    Ragnal
    September 27, 2010 at 11:10 pm | #

    Wow, Robin’s sister? Can’t say I saw that one coming. o.o

    • Trae Dorn
      Trae Dorn
      September 27, 2010 at 11:57 pm | #

      Holy crap! I almost didn’t notice Roz in there.

      • Malph
        Malph
        September 28, 2010 at 3:36 am | #

        What? Roz is… HOLY CRAP!!!

        • wmpnash
          wmpnash
          September 28, 2010 at 8:25 am | #

          Roz? Where? HOLY CRAP!!!!

          • Joebo
            Joebo
            September 28, 2010 at 1:24 pm | #

            See, and I was about to be all, holy crap its Roz. You beat me to it you bastard!

            • Leah Rockshard
              Leah Rockshard
              October 18, 2013 at 11:01 pm | #

              SANCTIFIED DUNG!

          • fizzywafflezsuperstore
            fizzywafflezsuperstore
            October 12, 2015 at 7:56 pm | #

            Boba fett?
            Where?

  2. Cassidy
    Cassidy
    September 27, 2010 at 11:16 pm | #

    Make sure theres pudding.

  3. Cholma
    Cholma
    September 27, 2010 at 11:16 pm | #

    Ah, Mary! I somehow knew you’d be here.
    Is that . . . Grace behind Billie’s left shoulder?! Yay!

    • Aesir
      Aesir
      September 28, 2010 at 3:13 am | #

      I think that’s Agatha, Robin’s old squad leader

      • ilvos01
        ilvos01
        April 9, 2011 at 3:30 pm | #

        I think that’s Rachel

  4. David Herbert
    David Herbert
    September 27, 2010 at 11:18 pm | #

    A cat fight so soon. Willis, you sure know how to please an audience.

    • Chad from Canada
      Chad from Canada
      September 28, 2010 at 2:37 am | #

      This is not a cat fight. This is like a Sabertooth tiger vs a mutated mountain lion… Blood will be shed… To the victor goes the carcass and the honor…

      • JK9000
        JK9000
        September 28, 2010 at 5:54 am | #

        Those are… those are both still cats.

        • Taellosse
          Taellosse
          September 29, 2010 at 7:00 pm | #

          Perhaps a better way to put it would be “this is no mere cat fight…”

  5. Nikki
    Nikki
    September 27, 2010 at 11:23 pm | #

    ahhh billie and ruth going to be at it the whole time in this one too? 🙁 I didn’t like where it lead last time.

    • beeftony
      beeftony
      September 28, 2010 at 12:33 am | #

      It led to them having sex.

      • maggiemarmalade
        September 28, 2010 at 1:24 am | #

        So, speaking of which, what if your fandom has gay overtly-text? Does it still count?

        • beeftony
          beeftony
          September 28, 2010 at 3:35 am | #

          Yes.

  6. loneislander
    loneislander
    September 27, 2010 at 11:25 pm | #

    Oh man, shit is about to go down!

  7. cappadocius
    cappadocius
    September 27, 2010 at 11:26 pm | #

    Oh MAN. Ruth and Billie are so totally gonna be scissoring before the end of the semester.

    • Pinja
      Pinja
      February 3, 2013 at 1:19 pm | #

      Retrospective:

      FUCKING CALLED IT!

  8. Dedlok
    Dedlok
    September 27, 2010 at 11:32 pm | #

    Hmmm… Possible Roz Joe Action later? Signs point to maybe. 😀

  9. addude
    addude
    September 27, 2010 at 11:41 pm | #

    Oh Ruth I love! II love you? I Love you!

  10. Trae Dorn
    Trae Dorn
    September 27, 2010 at 11:57 pm | #

    Billie is apparently a base. Interesting.

    It explains a lot.

  11. Pivitor
    Pivitor
    September 28, 2010 at 12:06 am | #

    Darnit, I was hoping to be the first to spot Roz.

    Is that Amber behind Sarah?

    • Wackd
      Wackd
      September 28, 2010 at 12:09 am | #

      She’s holding a laptop. So I’d say yes.

      • Malph
        Malph
        September 28, 2010 at 3:46 am | #

        What with all the cameos of out buddies from the other world, I’m going to make a crazy prediction and say someone from SP! is going to actually play a role eventually (probably not going to happen, but if it does, I CALLED IT!).

  12. agentksilver
    agentksilver
    September 28, 2010 at 12:09 am | #

    The two of them fighting would be so awesome, and I’m a straight girl who hates fighting.

  13. Wackd
    Wackd
    September 28, 2010 at 12:12 am | #

    Incidentally, Billie is a SEMME agent now? I mean, three people is a lot to lift on your own.

    • agentksilver
      agentksilver
      September 28, 2010 at 12:14 am | #

      Not if you’re a cheerleader! Cheerleaders are naturally blessed with superhuman powers. FACT.

    • maggiemarmalade
      September 28, 2010 at 1:25 am | #

      Thar ain’t now SEMME in them thar hills!

    • MrGBH
      MrGBH
      September 28, 2010 at 8:24 am | #

      I’m sure she means she can lift three cheerleaders above her head, so that’s roughly equivalent to one regular person.

  14. Ash
    Ash
    September 28, 2010 at 12:12 am | #

    Billie’s an intense bongo. She needs her ass handed to her.

    Make it happen, Willis!

  15. ColdFury
    ColdFury
    September 28, 2010 at 12:12 am | #

    I believe that’s Rachel, Joe’s cybernetic partner in crime, behind Joyce, isn’t it?

  16. Ascension
    Ascension
    September 28, 2010 at 12:13 am | #

    You shall all fight for Mike’s amusement. Come to think of it, everything happens for Mike’s amusement. And apparently this avatar drives me to speak in the third person. About Mike fucking your mom.

  17. agentksilver
    agentksilver
    September 28, 2010 at 12:14 am | #

    Oh wait, who’s the gal in the red shirt?

    • Pivitor
      Pivitor
      September 28, 2010 at 12:20 am | #

      That’s Mary. Back in Roomies!, she was a holier-than-thou childhood friend of Danny’s who ended up pregnent (also making her a hypocrite)

      • Wackd
        Wackd
        September 28, 2010 at 4:47 pm | #

        Holy crap, that is Mary!

        I think I was detracted by the downright hilarious look on Sarah’s face in the first panel. -‘__’-

      • agentksilver
        agentksilver
        September 28, 2010 at 7:51 pm | #

        Ohhhh. I don’t remember her getting pregnant though. Where was that?

  18. Mute
    Mute
    September 28, 2010 at 12:15 am | #

    Ruth terrifies me in all the right ways.

    • maggiemarmalade
      September 28, 2010 at 1:26 am | #

      I love that you have a Billie avatar.

  19. Animal
    Animal
    September 28, 2010 at 12:25 am | #

    David, I will be very disappointed if no torn clothing ensues from this.

    • No0ne
      No0ne
      September 28, 2010 at 2:40 am | #

      I will be disapponted if it DOES! Hows that for unpleaseable fan base 😛 I kid, as long as its funny I care not.

  20. Akilika
    Akilika
    September 28, 2010 at 12:31 am | #

    Hmm–I’m also wondering if the blonde in the brown shirt is Agatha . . .

    • JayStrang
      JayStrang
      September 28, 2010 at 12:41 am | #

      I am also fairly certain that is Agatha.

  21. coren
    coren
    September 28, 2010 at 12:42 am | #

    Given that this is a ‘verse drawing from all sorts of elements of the walkyverse, I’m betting all guesses are right (or if not, that these are all known characters)

  22. Bwernard
    Bwernard
    September 28, 2010 at 12:51 am | #

    Ugh, I cant shake off the hope that at any moment we will have a “Sal enters through the window” moment…
    So unlikely on non-martianverse.

    • No0ne
      No0ne
      September 28, 2010 at 2:42 am | #

      I have that feeling as well, or at least she tries to sneak in through the window and fails at it. Or shes still super ninja and whiel Ruth and Billie are fighting she come in and wonders why they’re fighting.

  23. Brady Kj
    Brady Kj
    September 28, 2010 at 12:53 am | #

    What? You mean that’s not Leslie in the brown shirt? Now I’m disappointed.

  24. RaijinK
    RaijinK
    September 28, 2010 at 1:14 am | #

    Almost didn’t see Amber appropriately hiding in the background though. Plus at least one other person behind Mary. Agatha, Rachel, and ROZ of all people kinda steal the show for background cameos.

    If Roz is a freshman (at least) in this world, how old does that make Robin? Is she graduated already? It would be weird if Robin were in this at all and had seniority over everyone else in the cast.

  25. Bo Lindbergh
    Bo Lindbergh
    September 28, 2010 at 1:18 am | #

    Oooh, she’s a cheerleader!

  26. Mirenheart
    Mirenheart
    September 28, 2010 at 2:24 am | #

    Just gotta say I SEE ROZ! and Amber!

  27. Brady Kj
    Brady Kj
    September 28, 2010 at 2:44 am | #

    So, no Leslie?

  28. No0ne
    No0ne
    September 28, 2010 at 2:44 am | #

    I’m waiting to see what happens when Ruth finds Joe in one of the rooms on her floor “caught with his pants down” so to speak…

  29. Aesir
    Aesir
    September 28, 2010 at 3:12 am | #

    Agatha and Roz 😀

  30. Heather
    Heather
    September 28, 2010 at 3:14 am | #

    …Roz?!

    (Also, hoping this leads to the showing of Sal this week).

  31. beeftony
    beeftony
    September 28, 2010 at 3:43 am | #

    Is it just me, or is Mary dressing a little more slutty than she did in the Walkyverse? It would be a normal wardrobe for any other character, but for a Puritan like her it’s freakin’ lingerie. Not to mention the old Mary would have shown up an hour early to the meeting just to suck up to authority. So something tells me this is a different version than the one we’re used to seeing.

    Hopefully this one won’t be such a bongo.

    • Wackd
      Wackd
      September 28, 2010 at 4:54 pm | #

      The stomach showing is probably just the result of her shirt being pulled up high. The T-shirt could be explained as it still being the first week of September…a little warm for the attire we’re used to seeing her in.

      As for the showing up late thing, she could’ve just forgot the time. As someone else mentioned, Mary was a massive hypocrite. I can see her giving others shit about showing up late/not showing up at all, but (from my perspective at least) her being late/absent isn’t something she’d consider a big deal.

      Of course, this isn’t Walkyverse!Mary, this is Dumbiverse!Mary, so it probably doesn’t matter.

  32. BlackoutCreature
    BlackoutCreature
    September 28, 2010 at 4:32 am | #

    I think we have our first OTP of the series.

    • beeftony
      beeftony
      September 28, 2010 at 4:06 pm | #

      They got together for a night of passion in the last one, so why not?

  33. McMoose
    McMoose
    September 28, 2010 at 5:57 am | #

    This is gonna be sweet!

  34. MrGBH
    MrGBH
    September 28, 2010 at 8:23 am | #

    I’m certain I’ve seen the woman directly behind Joyce somewhere before, but it escapes me.

    And I get no brownie points for spotting Roz, Agatha and Amber in the background.

    Also, Willis, I’ve noticed a flaw in your random avatar generator. The Walky one is hard to distinguish at-a-glance from your own.

    Finally, Ruth wasn’t kidding when she said mandatory was she?

    • maggiemarmalade
      September 28, 2010 at 9:06 am | #

      Really? I keep mistaking Billie’s avatar for his …

      • Trae Dorn
        Trae Dorn
        September 28, 2010 at 11:41 am | #

        Yeah — the Billie one gets me because of the glasses.

    • Chase
      Chase
      November 21, 2010 at 1:10 pm | #

      The one directly behind Joyce is Rachel.

  35. creativerealms
    creativerealms
    September 28, 2010 at 8:36 am | #

    Man I love this version of Ruth. Willis better keep her alive, he better.

  36. MarkLar
    MarkLar
    September 28, 2010 at 10:25 am | #

    I don’t get it. My floor’s Don is so nice. What would compel someone to be such an utter bongo?

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      September 28, 2010 at 10:54 am | #

      You’re assuming she wasn’t this way *before* becoming an RA.

  37. JesseJanitect
    JesseJanitect
    September 28, 2010 at 6:55 pm | #

    I have no idea why, but suddenly I want someone, preferably Mary, to be Straight Edge.

  38. Rali
    Rali
    September 28, 2010 at 10:27 pm | #

    Now what I want to know is who’s hiding behind Mary’s head in that second panel, next to Roz.

  39. Blah
    Blah
    September 28, 2010 at 10:45 pm | #

    Girl behind Joyce looked like Rachel (aka Joe’s internet girlfriend; that checkout girl who helped build Ultra Car) but after going back and looking at her in the Walkyverse! I feel I am wrong unless he’s made some changes to her character.

  40. Azreal
    Azreal
    December 14, 2010 at 7:07 pm | #

    She missed one.

  41. Kelsey
    Kelsey
    March 22, 2011 at 12:15 pm | #

    Oh yeah, Billie. Cheerleaders garner SO much respect from people.

  42. Hinoron
    Hinoron
    December 10, 2012 at 8:40 pm | #

    FLEE IN TERROR OF THE PHENOMENAL COSMIC CHEERLEADER POWERS!!
    She’s got pop-poms and she ain’t afraid to use them!
    ^_^

  43. Red Robot
    Red Robot
    June 12, 2013 at 1:51 pm | #

    In retrospective, it is easy to imagine Ruth seeing that D.U.I. on the file and having all the anger rush back to her like a punch to the gut…and then Billie had to go on and say “I could destroy you”! You certainly could, Billie, just not in the way you think! Now I can understand that manic grin in Ruth’s face so much better. The whole thing must have been rather therapeutic for her. I’ll bet she had not felt this alive in ages :/

  44. Peter Sadlon
    Peter Sadlon
    June 29, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    Any R.A. pulling that manhandling crap with me would been up on battery charges.

  45. Mally
    Mally
    July 21, 2015 at 1:25 pm | #

    I, for one, approve of Mary as a red shirt.

  46. kkiten
    kkiten
    May 2, 2016 at 5:06 pm | #

    Later there would be a Slipshine based on those last two lines.

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