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Face time

by David M Willis on January 2, 2012 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - Pajama Jeans
└ Tags: jennifer, ruth, sal, walky

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  1. Chrisby
    Chrisby
    January 2, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    FAAAACE Time.

    • Wonder Wig
      Wonder Wig
      January 2, 2012 at 12:21 am | #

      Billie can read his FAAAACE.

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        January 2, 2012 at 2:01 am | #

        He wants a piece of that freckled AAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSS.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          January 2, 2012 at 2:11 am | #

          But I thought Dotty had freckled shoulders not a freckled ass.

          • Blob Marley
            Blob Marley
            January 2, 2012 at 2:12 am | #

            Oh, but now it’s canon.

          • Leorale
            Leorale
            January 2, 2012 at 2:12 am | #

            they aren’t mutually exclusive

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              January 2, 2012 at 2:16 am | #

              Good point! 😀

              • Tucker
                Tucker
                January 2, 2012 at 4:08 am | #

                ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS FAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE

                • Animal
                  Animal
                  January 2, 2012 at 4:05 pm | #

                  Two things between which it is 1) important to know the difference, and 2) sadly few people do.

                • Zababcd
                  Zababcd
                  January 2, 2012 at 4:15 pm | #

                  “I intended to slap her in the face” won’t get you out of a sexual harassment claim.

    • Zaratustra
      Zaratustra
      January 2, 2012 at 8:18 am | #

      hey. hey lady. hey. hey. hi. hi. hey. hey. i know. i know.

      face

      • Kaj
        Kaj
        January 2, 2012 at 4:19 pm | #

        Clap. Clap. Clap.

  2. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    January 2, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    A new ship appears!

    • Joraiem
      Joraiem
      January 2, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

      oh please god no

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        January 2, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

        Oh please YES.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        January 2, 2012 at 12:25 am | #

        Too late, that ship has been launched, bwahahaha!

        • dchorror
          dchorror
          January 2, 2012 at 12:27 am | #

          Maybe prematurely. We don’t know if she’ll steal his femurs.

          • Tristan J
            Tristan J
            January 2, 2012 at 12:28 am | #

            If your ship is launching prematurely, you may want to speak to a doctor.

            oh god i’m sorry i’m so so sorry

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              January 2, 2012 at 12:32 am | #

              Don’t be, comments like that help make the comment sections of DoA fun. 😀

              • Tucker
                Tucker
                January 2, 2012 at 4:01 am | #

                …what can brown do for you?

          • Kamino Neko
            Kamino Neko
            January 2, 2012 at 1:05 am | #

            You’re saying Ruth might not want Walky’s bone?

            • Wizard
              Wizard
              January 2, 2012 at 1:17 am | #

              She doesn’t dig it.

              • Kamino Neko
                Kamino Neko
                January 2, 2012 at 1:25 am | #

                Ah, so you’re saying Billie should try to set him up with Dina!

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              January 2, 2012 at 2:21 am | #

              The only bones Ruth wants is femurs.

              • Khrene Cleaver
                Khrene Cleaver
                January 2, 2012 at 4:29 pm | #

                With her penis

        • DagonXIII
          DagonXIII
          January 2, 2012 at 9:42 am | #

          Ruth, the face that launched a thousand ships.

          • Michelle J Caboose
            Michelle J Caboose
            January 2, 2012 at 9:51 am | #

            No; the FAAAAAACE that launched, etc.

          • Darksen
            Darksen
            January 2, 2012 at 10:24 am | #

            Hmm, maybe to get far away from her.

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        January 2, 2012 at 1:20 am | #

        “Oh no”
        “Oh yeah!”

    • Viktoria
      Viktoria
      January 2, 2012 at 12:13 am | #

      I have no objection to Walky/Billy, Walky/Sal, or even Walky/Mike. Walky/Ruth is creepy as hell, though.

      • fellixe
        fellixe
        January 2, 2012 at 12:22 am | #

        B5! E10! J3! Must! Sink! Ship!

        • Bickendan
          Bickendan
          January 2, 2012 at 12:42 am | #

          The DD ship already sunk.

          Danny wasn’t happy.

        • Tucker
          Tucker
          January 2, 2012 at 5:54 pm | #

          5 = S?

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        January 2, 2012 at 12:33 am | #

        I wonder how Ruth would respond to a Monkey Master to the FAAAAAACE!?

        • dchorror
          dchorror
          January 2, 2012 at 12:36 am | #

          WITH FURY!

        • Kernanator
          Kernanator
          January 2, 2012 at 1:21 am | #

          By ripping out his femurs. Then beating him to death with them.

      • Gundi
        Gundi
        January 2, 2012 at 2:08 am | #

        So you have no problem with incest?

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          January 2, 2012 at 2:14 am | #

          If I know American stereotypes from watching TV and movies, certain southern states are all about the incest.

          • dchorror
            dchorror
            January 2, 2012 at 2:45 am | #

            In all actuality, it’s more commonly the north than the south. We’s got an image to leave behind, so indulging in it wouldn’t help.

            • Kernanator
              Kernanator
              January 2, 2012 at 3:07 am | #

              Really, it’s more of an Appalachian Mountains thing.

              • Plasma Mongoose
                Plasma Mongoose
                January 2, 2012 at 3:58 am | #

                Oh I see… I think…

                • Hannover Fist
                  Hannover Fist
                  January 2, 2012 at 4:26 pm | #

                  .I don’t mean to call Kernanator a liar, but I’ve traveled through the south a couple of times and that particular stereotype has some truth to it. In the interest of fairness the northern half of my state (live free or die bongoes) has its fair share of non-forking family trees.

                • dchorror
                  dchorror
                  January 2, 2012 at 6:37 pm | #

                  Every stereotype has some truth to it. The claim wasn’t that it doesn’t happen, but that the area that it is attributed to is unfairly represented.

      • thomas0comer
        thomas0comer
        January 2, 2012 at 10:04 am | #

        The only thing I have an objection to is Mike/Ruth. Not sure why, they just don’t seem to fit together.

        • Khrene Cleaver
          Khrene Cleaver
          January 2, 2012 at 4:32 pm | #

          No they fit together TOO WELL.

          And On another note, can I get a cooler avatar? Sorry Danny boy your just kinda lame…

          • das-g
            das-g
            January 2, 2012 at 5:38 pm | #

            Easy. If you want another random avatar, use a different email address. If you want to upload your own avatar image, register your email address at gravatar.com (click the link next to the NAME field when posting a comment).

  3. David Herbert
    David Herbert
    January 2, 2012 at 12:02 am | #

    Her ass has freckles? How would you know this Billie?

    • Joraiem
      Joraiem
      January 2, 2012 at 12:13 am | #

      Man, Billie knows about EVERYONE’S asses. Obviously, her favorite is Sal’s ass, but she is an ass connoisseur. She sees all butts, knows all butts, and feels all butts.

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        January 2, 2012 at 12:21 am | #

        So, Billie’s an ass woman?

        • iSaidCandleja-
          iSaidCandleja-
          January 2, 2012 at 12:25 am | #

          She may just have butts disease.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            January 2, 2012 at 12:51 am | #

            Pray it doesn’t lead to Sphincter Clench.

            • fellixe
              fellixe
              January 2, 2012 at 12:57 am | #

              That’d be a real jam to get into.

              • Tucker
                Tucker
                January 2, 2012 at 5:57 pm | #

                It can really constipate stop movement.

      • Blob Marley
        Blob Marley
        January 2, 2012 at 2:14 am | #

        connoASSeur?

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          January 2, 2012 at 2:14 am | #

          +1

          • Zababcd
            Zababcd
            January 2, 2012 at 5:37 am | #

            I can’t tell if that’s an indication of approval or a weird emoticon indicating disapproval of Blob Marley’s comment. Normally I would just assume approval, but it was a really terrible joke.

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              January 2, 2012 at 3:26 pm | #

              +1 = plus one, if I disapproved I would have either *groan*, FACEPALM or even X{

              • Tucker
                Tucker
                January 2, 2012 at 5:58 pm | #

                Plasma likes bad jokes, keep up Zab.

                Also: Caboose -1. Best t-shirt ever.

                • Blob Marley
                  Blob Marley
                  January 3, 2012 at 2:48 am | #

                  I have that shirt. It’s amazing.

        • Khrene Cleaver
          Khrene Cleaver
          January 2, 2012 at 4:33 pm | #

          +2

    • dchorror
      dchorror
      January 2, 2012 at 12:21 am | #

      They were just at the beach.

  4. iSaidCandleja-
    iSaidCandleja-
    January 2, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    Wrong freckled ass…

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      January 2, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

      But it just might mellow her out. She could use it.

      • dchorror
        dchorror
        January 2, 2012 at 12:21 am | #

        But from Walky?

        • ryan
          ryan
          January 3, 2012 at 11:15 am | #

          i bet ruth secretly wants to live in a lego house too.

      • iSaidCandleja-
        iSaidCandleja-
        January 2, 2012 at 12:23 am | #

        If you want to see her mellow out you’ll have to wait until she gets hold of Walky’s femurs.

  5. Izzy
    Izzy
    January 2, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

    What about the freckled tatas

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      January 2, 2012 at 12:35 am | #

      Oooooh fetish fuel…

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        January 2, 2012 at 2:00 am | #

        Woo-yeah!

    • Jetstream
      Jetstream
      January 2, 2012 at 1:24 am | #

      What about Terry Farrell?

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        January 2, 2012 at 2:02 am | #

        As in Jadzia Dax, yeah her freckles were pretty awesome.

        • Rowen Morland
          Rowen Morland
          January 2, 2012 at 11:32 am | #

          And they went all the way down.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            January 2, 2012 at 3:24 pm | #

            via the ‘hills and valleys’. 😀

  6. Enderkap
    Enderkap
    January 2, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

    BUM BUM BUMMMMMMMMM! DRAMATIC REVERBBBBBBBB!

  7. Drunken Nordmann
    Drunken Nordmann
    January 2, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

    There are so many ships right now… wouldn’t it be easier to put all of them on one Titanic-sized ship? It would certainly be more efficient.

    • Ryan
      Ryan
      January 2, 2012 at 12:18 am | #

      Are you suggesting orgy?

      • dchorror
        dchorror
        January 2, 2012 at 12:20 am | #

        I don’t know, Titanic kinda suggests mass sinking.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          January 2, 2012 at 12:36 am | #

          and Willis will be the iceburg in this case.

          • Rowen Morland
            Rowen Morland
            January 2, 2012 at 11:41 am | #

            I’d like to see a Willis fa(aaaa)ce iceberg malevolently cruising towards an ocean liner filled with his worried looking characters who are paired up in weird and unlikely ways.

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        January 2, 2012 at 1:18 am | #

        It’s always an orgy on the S.S. Willis.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          January 2, 2012 at 2:06 am | #

          The S.S Willis: A veritable supercarrier of PSL.

          • Kernanator
            Kernanator
            January 2, 2012 at 2:31 am | #

            Do I need my vaccinations? Or is it too late for me?

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              January 2, 2012 at 4:01 am | #

              YOU’RE DOOMED I TELL YOU, DOOMED!!!

              • Aizat
                Aizat
                January 2, 2012 at 5:26 am | #

                SPIDERS!

            • Tucker
              Tucker
              January 2, 2012 at 4:02 am | #

              Pfft, he’s only inviting Watson anyway.

              • Kernanator
                Kernanator
                January 2, 2012 at 3:53 pm | #

                …I don’t get it.

                • Tucker
                  Tucker
                  January 2, 2012 at 5:06 pm | #

                  Joel and David are going to be travelling on a ship together.

                • Kernanator
                  Kernanator
                  January 2, 2012 at 10:02 pm | #

                  Ooooooh.

  8. Aizat
    Aizat
    January 2, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

    Freckles doesn’t seemed to happy that Billie wants a piece of her ass.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      January 2, 2012 at 2:15 am | #

      That’s cos she knows that she cheated on her with Sal. 😛

  9. mnk
    mnk
    January 2, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

    “I’m going to help you.”
    “What? Why?”
    “First, because it will benefit me. Second, because it will benefit ME.”

    • lawzlo
      lawzlo
      January 2, 2012 at 12:19 am | #

      That’s what we call a win-win situation.

    • dchorror
      dchorror
      January 2, 2012 at 12:19 am | #

      “Third, cause I know you really want to. But mostly, it’s going to benefit me.”

    • thomas0comer
      thomas0comer
      January 2, 2012 at 10:40 am | #

      But let’s not forget how it’ll benefit ME!

  10. Aizat
    Aizat
    January 2, 2012 at 12:18 am | #

    Face time? Don’t you mean FAAAACCCEEE time?

  11. dchorror
    dchorror
    January 2, 2012 at 12:19 am | #

    It’s not saying both?

  12. fellixe
    fellixe
    January 2, 2012 at 12:20 am | #

    Well played freckles, sir.

  13. alex
    alex
    January 2, 2012 at 12:26 am | #

    wait… wasn’t there some thing in the previous universe about a time traveling head-alien trying to hook those two up?

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      January 2, 2012 at 12:36 am | #

      And it just so happens that both Walky and Dorothy are fans of Dexter, a cartoon based on Head Alien.

  14. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    January 2, 2012 at 12:30 am | #

    What the 4th Panel should have looked like.

    • dchorror
      dchorror
      January 2, 2012 at 12:32 am | #

      Walky actually looks more uncomfortable in your version.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        January 2, 2012 at 12:37 am | #

        Can you really blame him?

        • Kernanator
          Kernanator
          January 2, 2012 at 1:32 am | #

          I would be pretty disturbed if one of my female friends just started talking about someone else’s ass. Bonus points if it was my own. “How do you know what my ass looks like?”

          • GarretSylvar
            GarretSylvar
            January 2, 2012 at 1:39 am | #

            “Remember that one time, at band camp…” And ya. We don’t need to look into that any deeper.

            • Kernanator
              Kernanator
              January 2, 2012 at 1:57 am | #

              Oh right, band camp. Everyone sees your ass when you change into the uniform.

              • Plasma Mongoose
                Plasma Mongoose
                January 2, 2012 at 2:08 am | #

                These band camps sound… intriguing.

                • Kernanator
                  Kernanator
                  January 2, 2012 at 2:37 am | #

                  It’s more of a marching band thing in general; you often strip down to your underwear in order to put on your uniform, because wearing than that tends to be noticeable during band competitions, where judges are looking at you very closely. And because time is usually of the essence, we tend to do it in front of each other. Because of that, my high school marching band’s battle cry was “Let’s get naked, people!”

            • Blob Marley
              Blob Marley
              January 2, 2012 at 2:16 am | #

              We need to go deeper into that ass.

              All the Inception jokes I could think of were REALLY dirty.

              • dchorror
                dchorror
                January 2, 2012 at 2:46 am | #

                The one you just said was really dirty.

                • Khrene Cleaver
                  Khrene Cleaver
                  January 2, 2012 at 4:39 pm | #

                  It was really dirty, but nor REALLY dirty.

    • Zababcd
      Zababcd
      January 2, 2012 at 4:12 pm | #

      The turtleneck sweater goes from being just a part of the oncoming nightmare to an indicator of shyness.

      Wikipedia says we call anything with that neckline a skivvy in Australia, and we call sweaters jumpers. I call sweaters jumpers, and shirts with that neckline skivvies, but the combination I call turtleneck sweaters – but with so little confidence that I look up two Wikipedia articles just to post a comment online.

  15. Janette
    Janette
    January 2, 2012 at 12:40 am | #

    And Walky got laid.

  16. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    January 2, 2012 at 1:20 am | #

    I’m not sure would actually be more painful for Walky: BilliexWalky or WalkyxRuth. Depending on the answer, I may have to jump from ship to ship.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      January 2, 2012 at 2:10 am | #

      The safest ship for him to stay on is Walky/McNuggets.

      • Blob Marley
        Blob Marley
        January 2, 2012 at 2:16 am | #

        All aboard! Toot toot!

        • Drunken Nordmann
          Drunken Nordmann
          January 2, 2012 at 7:35 pm | #

          Sounds more like a train than a ship…
          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgbfxibKCtE&feature=related

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        January 2, 2012 at 2:38 am | #

        In that case, I’ll stay far away from that.

    • dchorror
      dchorror
      January 2, 2012 at 2:47 am | #

      Depends of if it turns into an OT3 or not.

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        January 2, 2012 at 3:20 am | #

        Truly, Walky is beset from all sides.

      • Hannover Fist
        Hannover Fist
        January 2, 2012 at 4:34 pm | #

        Great, now I have the image of Walky eating McNuggets off of Dorothy’s ass stuck in my head.

        • Khrene Cleaver
          Khrene Cleaver
          January 2, 2012 at 4:41 pm | #

          Great now I feel impelled to the draw that…

        • dchorror
          dchorror
          January 2, 2012 at 6:39 pm | #

          …Why?

          • Kernanator
            Kernanator
            January 2, 2012 at 10:07 pm | #

            Because Hannover is a sick puppy.

            • Hannover Fist
              Hannover Fist
              January 3, 2012 at 6:52 am | #

              Yes, yes I am.

  17. jjareds
    jjareds
    January 2, 2012 at 1:43 am | #

    Freckles=hot; given; Nerdy=hot;given
    Prove: Dorothy=hot^2

    Dorothy=FrecklesxNerdy / That there picture shoes it

    FrecklesxNerdy= hot^2 / “F*** you teacher it’s math” theory

    Dorothy=hot^2 / Velma’s law

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      January 2, 2012 at 3:20 pm | #

      I’m disappointed that you forgot to add glasses into the equation.

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        January 2, 2012 at 3:24 pm | #

        Glasses appeeeeeal.

  18. Blob Marley
    Blob Marley
    January 2, 2012 at 2:14 am | #

    I’m now imagining Dotty as the super-hot drummer from the Scott Pilgrim movie.

    • das-g
      das-g
      January 2, 2012 at 6:14 pm | #

      Which one? Kim? Or maybe Trasha or Lynette? (I guess Kim’s the only one with freckles.)

      • Blob Marley
        Blob Marley
        January 3, 2012 at 2:51 am | #

        Trasha looks like she’s 12, and neither of those two gets more than 10 seconds of sceentime. And Kim was the hot one.

  19. Kelvin
    Kelvin
    January 2, 2012 at 2:39 am | #

    SHE RETUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURNS!!!!!!!!! >:O

  20. Zababcd
    Zababcd
    January 2, 2012 at 7:08 am | #

    I didn’t comment at all on the last comic, so this time, you get to see how Sal wanted this to go. Not that she would ever really look at Dorothy like that anyway.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      January 2, 2012 at 3:18 pm | #

      Who was the person talking in the first frame?

      • Zababcd
        Zababcd
        January 2, 2012 at 3:45 pm | #

        Still Billie, but she was speaking over a memory scene. I did wonder if that wasn’t clear.

        • Zababcd
          Zababcd
          January 2, 2012 at 3:56 pm | #

          If I read more comics, I would have remembered that I could do it like this.

  21. JBO
    JBO
    January 2, 2012 at 8:04 am | #

    Excuse me but HOW does Walk not getting super powers cause him not being babysitted (babysat?) by Ruth when he was a kid?

    • Zababcd
      Zababcd
      January 2, 2012 at 8:33 am | #

      It doesn’t… the two non-events don’t have a causative relationship.

      I think your complaint is probably based on a misunderstanding of the premise of this particular comic. Dumbing of Age is in a separate universe, with no connection whatsoever to any other David Willis comic except for characters with identical or similar names and appearances, and a few in-jokes. Maybe some other connections, but it’s definitely set in an independent universe, not a ‘what-if’ universe or anywhere in the original storyline.

      • David
        David M Willis
        January 2, 2012 at 10:41 am | #

        Another possible answer: “The same thing that makes him the same age as Joyce, makes Joyce from a different town in Indiana, gives Ruth and Dina different last names, causes Mike to not be from New York, Amber and Ethan to not be from California, and makes Robin and Leslie five-eight years older than everybody.”

        But, yeah, this is not a What-If universe. This is not a possible fork in any other known timeline.

        • Animal
          Animal
          January 2, 2012 at 4:08 pm | #

          As long as Sal continues to be a HOPA.

          And she will. She will.

          (I know where you live.)

          • Animal
            Animal
            January 2, 2012 at 4:08 pm | #

            HPOA, dammit, not HOPA.

            • Tucker
              Tucker
              January 2, 2012 at 5:08 pm | #

              Holy, Omnipotent Piece of Ass – HOPA

              • Zababcd
                Zababcd
                January 2, 2012 at 5:58 pm | #

                Having-Order-Permuted Anagram

  22. MarcinMN
    MarcinMN
    January 2, 2012 at 10:00 am | #

    Here’s the one problem with the slow progression of time in this comic. I honestly have no recollection of where the Ruth/Billie conflict left off last time, so I don’t know what to expect here.

    Hmm…maybe it’s a good thing. More suspense! =P

    • David
      David M Willis
      January 2, 2012 at 10:37 am | #

      Click “Ruth” in the tags below the strip, and you’ll be shown her next most recent appearances.

      • begbert2
        begbert2
        January 2, 2012 at 10:43 am | #

        Blast, I was ninja’d! Damn you Willis, for cheating and sneaking ahead by not writing a frigging essay.

      • Khrene Cleaver
        Khrene Cleaver
        January 2, 2012 at 4:57 pm | #

        Yah know looking back at these old stips, I was thinking that the should just bone and get it over with.

        And Then I realized that I’m combining free love solving problems and pairing up odd couples kinda makes me sound like some sort of Shipper Hippie.

        A “Shippie” is what I presume it would be called. Don’t get it confused with a “Shipster”

        • dchorror
          dchorror
          January 2, 2012 at 6:40 pm | #

          Does a Shipster put together couples that nobody’s ever heard of?

          • David
            David M Willis
            January 2, 2012 at 8:22 pm | #

            booooooooooooo

            • Kernanator
              Kernanator
              January 2, 2012 at 10:06 pm | #

              Hey now, that pun was legitimately funny.

            • dchorror
              dchorror
              January 3, 2012 at 12:34 am | #

              I’d feel bad if I had been trying to tell a joke.

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      January 2, 2012 at 10:41 am | #

      This is what tags are for. Though that statement is a little facetious since that only really works if one or more of the characters has disappeared completely since the forgotten event in question. Which, in this case, happens to be true for Ruth.

      Last time on Ruthing of Age, Billie ‘beat’ Ruth via the expedient of super-cool Sal blowing her off completely, with Billie riding on her coattails. Billie took that opportunity to duck back for a parting shot, just to make sure that the next time Ruth saw her, Ruth would come prepared to make Billie die repeatedly. That ‘next time’ is, of course, right now.

      However, unless she wandered off somewhere since the first panel, Sal is still there, so Ruth may find herself out-cooled again. Only time will tell.

  23. ADHadh
    ADHadh
    January 2, 2012 at 10:11 am | #

    That’s a different piece of freckled ass.

    • Animal
      Animal
      January 2, 2012 at 10:42 pm | #

      Didn’t Billie get her some different freckled ass once, in another completely unrelated reality which I will not specify?

  24. begbert2
    begbert2
    January 2, 2012 at 10:45 am | #

    I like how Sal’s expression is roughly “this idea I’m hearing is a level of stupid that cannot end well.”

  25. Henry
    Henry
    January 2, 2012 at 11:32 am | #

    Sal = Pokerface.

    • Michelle J Caboose
      Michelle J Caboose
      January 2, 2012 at 12:16 pm | #

      So, Sal wants to hold ’em like they do in Texas?

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        January 2, 2012 at 2:05 pm | #

        …That sounds incredibly dirty when you say it like that.

        • Tucker
          Tucker
          January 2, 2012 at 2:27 pm | #

          It is dirty.

  26. Moonshine McGee
    Moonshine McGee
    January 2, 2012 at 12:19 pm | #

    Billie’s mellowing out, in her own weird misguided way.

  27. Charles RB
    Charles RB
    January 2, 2012 at 2:10 pm | #

    ATTACK WARNING RED!

  28. Zoey
    Zoey
    January 2, 2012 at 6:16 pm | #

    I would love a piece of that freaked ass.

  29. Nexev
    Nexev
    January 2, 2012 at 6:21 pm | #

    Can’t his face say BOTH?

  30. Khrene Cleaver
    Khrene Cleaver
    January 2, 2012 at 6:21 pm | #

    Billie’s Rape Face

    By the gods, why did I make this travesty, none the less realese it on the world?

    • Zoey
      Zoey
      January 3, 2012 at 12:19 am | #

      ROFL

  31. Maycroft
    Maycroft
    January 25, 2012 at 11:50 pm | #

    Wrong freckled ass!

  32. Miles
    Miles
    December 6, 2014 at 11:40 am | #

    I was just rereading some of the older comics, and Given the present comic this is the greatest strip of Forshadowing ever

    • Mada
      Mada
      September 9, 2015 at 10:14 pm | #

      *slips on the shiny floor*

      I know what you mean.

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