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Coward

by David M Willis on June 7, 2012 at 12:01 am
  • 04 - Time Keeps on Slippin'

└ Tags: jennifer, ruth

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  1. Kurai Seraphim
    Kurai Seraphim
    June 7, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    She’s going to pull a dagger out from within her mind and stab Ruth with it like some strange combination of Utena and FLCL.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 7, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

      man…that’s the coolest sounding thing ever…

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 7, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

      That makes Sal the Rose Bride then.

      • Regalli
        Regalli
        June 7, 2012 at 12:50 am | #

        Oooh, Black/White 2 Protagonist girl! I love the giant hair buns.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          June 7, 2012 at 1:14 am | #

          Nice to know someone knows who she was for a change. 🙂

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      June 7, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

      I could totally see Billie riding a Vespa with a guitar on her back while awesome music plays in the background..

      No…no wait, that’s Sal.

      • Vabolo
        Vabolo
        June 7, 2012 at 12:20 am | #

        Ride on shooting star~

      • Andiemus
        Andiemus
        June 7, 2012 at 9:18 am | #

        Sal’s too cool for a vespa. She rides a big girl bike.

    • Gundi
      Gundi
      June 7, 2012 at 12:41 am | #

      Wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait. That would make Walky Akio. I’m not seeing it.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 7, 2012 at 1:16 am | #

        Habitwise, Walky is closer to being like Chuchu than anyone else, unless you want to visualise Dios wearing PJ jeans.

        • Sparks
          Sparks
          June 7, 2012 at 12:55 pm | #

          Thank you, I think my brain just melted.

    • LeslieBean4Shizzle
      LeslieBean4Shizzle
      April 21, 2014 at 3:24 pm | #

      From two years in the future, I comment to say:
      BEST COMMENT EVER.

      Also, now I want to see some sort of Dumbverse/Utena crossover.

  2. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    June 7, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    I think Ruth is concerned about Billie’s mental state.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 7, 2012 at 12:09 am | #

      She’s concerned that Billie hasn’t totally lost it yet and plans on rectifying that oversight.

      • Mkvenner
        Mkvenner
        June 7, 2012 at 12:19 am | #

        That too.

    • Gargamel
      Gargamel
      June 10, 2012 at 4:22 pm | #

      Ruth probably has heard about the whole cheerleader thing and wondering how it might look on her if Billie went over the edge.
      She’s right to wonder, in my opinion, Billie is turning into the Dumbing of Age equivalent of Jonathan Crane, the Scarecrow.

      The Cheerleader.

  3. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    June 7, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    …Honestly…I’m kinda with Ruth on that logic…

    • Nexev
      Nexev
      June 7, 2012 at 12:23 am | #

      Except ruth cant exactly complain since she also drinks and seems to break the rules a lot.

      It’s not just the pot calling the kettle black here, the pot has written up a new draft of Jim Crow laws for the sack of Fuck that Kettle.

      What a douche.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        June 7, 2012 at 12:29 am | #

        she’s still in charge. If someone may be up to no good it is your job to check up on it regardless of personal moral standing.

        • Wack'd
          Wack'd
          June 7, 2012 at 1:04 am | #

          Yes, but Ruth is not above the law simply because she enforces it. This isn’t ye olde England.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            June 7, 2012 at 1:17 am | #

            I am having trouble seeing Amazi-Girl as Robin Hood.

            • Rognik
              Rognik
              June 7, 2012 at 3:27 am | #

              That’s because Amazi-Girl is Robin DeSanto. Politician by day, vigilante by night. It’s a very busy work schedule.

              • begbert2
                begbert2
                June 7, 2012 at 10:37 am | #

                That explains that “being Batman is totally legal” bill she keeps trying to push through.

                She sells it to her base by telling them that Batman uses guns so it’s totally a gun rights thing.

        • Kryss LaBryn
          Kryss LaBryn
          June 7, 2012 at 11:29 pm | #

          Yeah, but on the other hand there’s Reasonable Suspicion. The cops aren’t allowed to pull you over and search your vehicle because you’re suspiciously not breaking any traffic laws…

  4. Sensedog
    Sensedog
    June 7, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

    I’m not exactly sure how Billie could justify calling Walky a “coward” when, again, he owes her nothing under the circumstances. Not to mention it makes Billie look like a hypocrite.

    I have to agree with Ruth; he did make the right decision.

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      June 7, 2012 at 12:47 am | #

      Yeah. Walky’s the coward, but who’s taking the dudivator specifically to avoid Ruth? At least he waited until Ruth actually showed up to turn tail.

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      June 7, 2012 at 3:28 am | #

      I just want to know how he got out of Billie’s vice-like grip. Or at least being pinned between Ruth and Billie.

      • ryan
        ryan
        June 7, 2012 at 8:57 am | #

        he got out of billie’s grip by finding her booze stash.

    • artemi71
      artemi71
      June 7, 2012 at 1:41 pm | #

      Coward? Why would Walky want to even help Billie right now? All she’s been doing for the last few strips is rag on him. If he wants her help with standing up to people who are hating on her, she needs to quit doing the same.

      God, Billie is starting to get on my nerves.

      That said, I <3 Ruth. Put her in her place, Ruth!*cheers*

  5. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    June 7, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

    B – “Your overconfidence is your weakness.”
    R – “Your faith in your friend is yours.”
    B- “No way, Walky will have my back. Right Walky? Walky? Come back here, Walky, you coward!”

    • Sensedog
      Sensedog
      June 7, 2012 at 12:09 am | #

      You rock.

  6. Ragnal
    Ragnal
    June 7, 2012 at 12:08 am | #

    Geez, Ruth, not like she’s started making trouble in your neighborhood.

    Honestly. Ya get in one little fight, the RA gets scared, and says “You’re gonna miss some letters till the agreements here.”

    I tried. All that matters.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 7, 2012 at 12:11 am | #

      Well Billie and her got in one little fight and she got scared.

    • DiDi
      DiDi
      June 7, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

      LOVE. So much of it. From me. To you. Ragnal. <3

  7. Rideps1
    Rideps1
    June 7, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

    KNIFE EYE ATTACK!

    • Heimdallw32
      Heimdallw32
      June 7, 2012 at 1:23 am | #

      For those who don’t get the reference, here: http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/10p40/

      Enjoy.

    • Khrene Cleaver
      Khrene Cleaver
      June 7, 2012 at 1:23 am | #

      Billie needs to either become a ninja or grow out her Sache before being about to pull that off.

      Sal, as we know, is a ninja, and Amazi-Girl lacks hair on here face, but she has a fat handlebar growing on her heart.

  8. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    June 7, 2012 at 12:11 am | #

    Silly Billie, can you honestly expect Walky to face Ruth without changing into a pair of PJ Jeans?

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 7, 2012 at 12:12 am | #

      he gotta be stylin’

      • Joe H
        Joe H
        June 7, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

        He gotta be comfy.

        • Nexev
          Nexev
          June 7, 2012 at 12:24 am | #

          I mean he is facing Ruth.

          If he is going to soil his pants they might as well be the comfortable ones.

          • Yotomoe
            Yotomoe
            June 7, 2012 at 12:30 am | #

            and absorbant.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            June 7, 2012 at 12:30 am | #

            Maybe he needs to needs a pair of nappy-daks.

            • Hannover Fist
              Hannover Fist
              June 7, 2012 at 7:36 am | #

              I know I’m going to regret asking this, but what are nappy-daks?

              • Plasma Mongoose
                Plasma Mongoose
                June 7, 2012 at 6:07 pm | #

                A cross between nappies(diapers) and underdaks(underpants).

              • Plasma Mongoose
                Plasma Mongoose
                June 7, 2012 at 6:09 pm | #

                Basically adult diapers that LOOK like underpants.

  9. TacosForever
    TacosForever
    June 7, 2012 at 12:31 am | #

    I feel like Ruth really needs to see a therapist.

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      June 7, 2012 at 12:45 am | #

      Therapy is for losers.

      …

      I made myself cry.

  10. Wack'd
    Wack'd
    June 7, 2012 at 12:51 am | #

    To be fair, Ruth is RIGHT. Billie drinks regularly, unless we missed her completely cleaning up her act in the last four days. And Ruth would know Billie drinks because, c’mon, why else would she take the bottles from her room? And it’s on that file the mail lady had, which Ruth’s probably seen, so she knows to look out for it.

    That doesn’t make Ruth’s METHODS right, and it certainly doesn’t give her the right to keep making Billie’s life a living hell seeing as she doesn’t have hard evidence and there’s no roommate dispute involved. (RAs, if I have this right, are in charge of conflict resolution, nothing else.) But Billie is secretly up to no good. This much is true.

    • Khrene Cleaver
      Khrene Cleaver
      June 7, 2012 at 1:39 am | #

      What no good is she up?

      Has Ruth seen her drink/drunk? No.

      We know she drinks, but so what? Has it cause any problems at all none the less ones within the dorm? No.

      Imagine if a cop pulled you over and did this too you, and someone said “Well you did speed a few days days ago.”

      • Khrene Cleaver
        Khrene Cleaver
        June 7, 2012 at 1:43 am | #

        Actually. I forgot about Billies blackmail material on Ruth. Still though, I don;t think Ruth would know she seemed pretty messed up.

        • Wack'd
          Wack'd
          June 7, 2012 at 9:22 am | #

          Ruth explicitly knows, she mentioned to Billie she knows stuff is missing from her dorm.

          And I explicitly said Billie’s drinking wasn’t a good excuse for Ruth to make her life a living hell, I only said that Ruth is right about Billie being up to no good.

  11. John Madden
    John Madden
    June 7, 2012 at 12:53 am | #

    That is some convoluted logic, Ruth.

  12. Undrave
    Undrave
    June 7, 2012 at 1:00 am | #

    Billie… I think the lady requires your butt.

  13. Wack'd
    Wack'd
    June 7, 2012 at 1:01 am | #

    Also, Billie has blackmail material. Of course Ruth is looking to confront Billie, Ruth wants to make a deal.

  14. k8
    k8
    June 7, 2012 at 1:06 am | #

    Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

  15. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    June 7, 2012 at 1:13 am | #

    Ruth is a nut job, all she needs is jackboots. Billie is a nut job, but she dosn’t deserve Ruth. Walkys smart enough to know when to make himself scarce. He’s a smart coward.

    • Khrene Cleaver
      Khrene Cleaver
      June 7, 2012 at 1:41 am | #

      He knows when to run and live to fight another day.

      • begbert2
        begbert2
        June 7, 2012 at 10:42 am | #

        Or to run another day. You know, depending.

  16. Confus
    Confus
    June 7, 2012 at 1:23 am | #

    I love (LOVE) Dumbing of Age, but as an RA, I’m kind of confused…are people’s experiences with RAs really that bad? I mean damn, Ruth takes “RA terror” to a whole new limit. I’m not offended, I just hope she doesn’t turn people off of RA-ing!

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      June 7, 2012 at 1:28 am | #

      My RA is actually a really nice lady. A bit too…Bonding Exercise oriented for my tastes, but hey, at least she’s not stealing my shit.

    • Scot
      Scot
      June 7, 2012 at 1:47 am | #

      I’m pretty sure that the character of Ruth isn’t supposed to be representative of RA’s in general, it’s just that Ruth is a control freak. I’m pretty sure she doesn’t confront other characters as she does with Billie (unless they skip out on a meeting, she’ll find them and drag them to it) but that’s more because of the personal disliking towards her and I don’t think Ruth has ever even gotten to confront Billie about the last couple of times she approached her. Either she’s confronting her about that, or she’s just trying to kick her ass. Now that I think about it, she might not even be RA anymore…

      • Historyman68
        Historyman68
        June 7, 2012 at 2:52 am | #

        Exactly- she symbolizes abused authority, like Chang on Community.

    • LiC
      LiC
      June 7, 2012 at 5:15 am | #

      Most people should know RA’s can vary. You’ve got, the good, bad, and crazy, and so on. Mine for example were good folk, but kinda negligent. We’d see them around, but they rarely did much as RA’s except check us in on the first day, check out out on the last, and occasionally offer suggestions on how to get around the area.

  17. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    June 7, 2012 at 1:30 am | #

    Honestly, watching Billie and Ruth fight is like watching two movie villains fight. Neither one is morally superior to other, but it is still awesome no matter who ends up on top.

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      June 7, 2012 at 1:31 am | #

      Eh, I’d call it Grey v Black, not Black v Black, morality wise. Billie’s kind of a bongo but that kind of pales in comparison to being thieving and violently confrontational.

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        June 7, 2012 at 1:58 am | #

        Good point.

      • Zanosuke_Kurosaki
        Zanosuke_Kurosaki
        June 7, 2012 at 4:12 pm | #

        Thieving and *destructive*, to boot. I doubt Billie would steal and then maliciously and systematically damage something from someone else, just because she had “picked a target.” (I’m not going to utterly slam Ruth or anything, but it really does feel like she’s doing what she can to get rid of Billie, even though Ruth is the one who threw the gauntlet down first and started this.)

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      June 7, 2012 at 3:34 am | #

      Well, I just get the impression that Billie is the bottom of this relationship…

      Oh, like you weren’t thinking it yourself!

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        June 7, 2012 at 4:31 am | #

        …Are you a psychic?

  18. WhiteEyedCat
    WhiteEyedCat
    June 7, 2012 at 3:48 am | #

    Aww, I just finished going through the archive, now I have to wait for more comics!

  19. Andiemus
    Andiemus
    June 7, 2012 at 4:14 am | #

    …….. I’d ship it.

    • Raen
      Raen
      June 7, 2012 at 5:29 am | #

      This seems like one of those ships that just wouldn’t work for some reason.

      • Andiemus
        Andiemus
        June 7, 2012 at 5:57 am | #

        Imagine the destructo nookie though!

      • Mehzzle.
        Mehzzle.
        June 7, 2012 at 7:39 am | #

        Sinking ships sell movies though. Heard of Titanic?

        • begbert2
          begbert2
          June 7, 2012 at 10:45 am | #

          Ugh, don’t remind me. The ship that sold (and sank) that movie wasn’t the one with the smokestacks, though.

    • madd
      madd
      June 7, 2012 at 11:56 am | #

      I’d ship it … to Antarctica.

  20. Raen
    Raen
    June 7, 2012 at 5:32 am | #

    Ugh. I hate that “you’re doing everything right, so something must be wrong” attitude.

  21. AJBulldis
    AJBulldis
    June 7, 2012 at 5:47 am | #

    Interesting: Ruth comes off more as a suspicious authority figure and less of a complete psycho despot on this page.

    • Zanosuke_Kurosaki
      Zanosuke_Kurosaki
      June 7, 2012 at 4:07 pm | #

      You sure? She strikes me as taking aim at her favorite target again (and again, proving herself unworthy of her position, as those in authority should not have most hated or most loved, as either leads to abuse of power, which we’ve seen a lot of from this psycho already.)

      • J-Dawg
        J-Dawg
        June 7, 2012 at 10:45 pm | #

        I’m not so sure. Look at her expression here. She doesn’t even seem that hostile. Billie’s reaction to her presence could account for all of what we have seen from here so far in this scene. I wouldn’t even say she took aim at her favorite target… her favorite target strolled in front of her and reminded her that she IS a target. We’ll see what comes next, though.

  22. Maycroft
    Maycroft
    June 7, 2012 at 6:34 am | #

    it’s supper effective.

  23. Jackson
    Jackson
    June 7, 2012 at 6:53 am | #

    “I am stabbing you with my mind” is kind of a nerd line, Billie.

    • Hannover Fist
      Hannover Fist
      June 7, 2012 at 1:27 pm | #

      I agree. She should have said “Billie daughter of Dolf will cut off your womanhood and feed it to the goats!”

      • Kryss LaBryn
        Kryss LaBryn
        June 7, 2012 at 11:42 pm | #

        More “cut out“. And eww.

  24. Mr. Morningstar
    Mr. Morningstar
    June 7, 2012 at 8:13 am | #

    Still hate Ruth with a burning passion >:T

    • Andiemus
      Andiemus
      June 7, 2012 at 9:17 am | #

      You and me both. Bleeding psycho…

  25. Lone Wolf
    Lone Wolf
    June 7, 2012 at 11:43 am | #

    Welcome to what we call a “no-win situation” Billie.

    If you step out of line even once, Ruth makes your life hell.

    If you keep your nose clean, Ruth assumes you’re just doing it to avoid drawing attention to yourself and makes your life hell anyway.

    • Zanosuke_Kurosaki
      Zanosuke_Kurosaki
      June 7, 2012 at 4:05 pm | #

      This is also what we call “someone who should never have been made R.A.”.

  26. KingStarscream
    KingStarscream
    June 7, 2012 at 12:17 pm | #

    …I think I’m honestly starting to hate Ruth. She is like the worst character ever, aside from maybe Super Robo-Hitler. (Godwin’s, btw.) I really hope there’s some sort of in-story explanation for WHY she’s such a massive tool.

  27. Kitschensyngk
    Kitschensyngk
    June 7, 2012 at 12:28 pm | #

    Just because you’re up to no good doesn’t mean you’re not THINKING about being up to no good.

    • Kitschensyngk
      Kitschensyngk
      June 7, 2012 at 1:34 pm | #

      NOT up to no good, I mean.

      • ADHadh
        ADHadh
        June 7, 2012 at 2:12 pm | #

        And that’s no good!

        • Andiemus
          Andiemus
          June 7, 2012 at 6:45 pm | #

          Thanks sonic!

  28. Some guy
    Some guy
    June 7, 2012 at 12:35 pm | #

    “Beck elevator”?

    • Herohatch
      Herohatch
      June 7, 2012 at 2:23 pm | #

      An elevator to Beck, the male wing of the dorm. Clark is the female wing.

      • Shade
        Shade
        June 7, 2012 at 11:00 pm | #

        Huh… funny how Clark is a male name and Beck could be either.

  29. OmegaDez
    OmegaDez
    June 7, 2012 at 1:40 pm | #

    Do we even know why Ruth was crying alone in her room last time we saw her when Billie was hiding in her closet?

    • Joebo
      Joebo
      June 7, 2012 at 11:17 pm | #

      Because she knew that Billie was hiding in the closet and wished she would come out and make sweet sweet love to her?

  30. HMRC4EVR
    HMRC4EVR
    June 7, 2012 at 2:26 pm | #

    Okay….is it just me or does anyone else see this?

    A kooky group of characters going to school together, related by tangents both broad and sublime, suddenly called on to defend the world from the Forces of Darkness?

    We’re one Rita Repulsa “After 10,000 years I’m free! It’s time to destroy the Earth!” away from having 5 of the crew from DoA becoming the next set of Rangers.

    Or Digi-destinged.

    • Izzy
      Izzy
      June 7, 2012 at 2:36 pm | #

      Please, David. Please make the DoA cast Digi-destined

    • Shade
      Shade
      June 7, 2012 at 11:08 pm | #

      Courage – Sal
      Friendship – Joe
      Knowledge – Dorothy
      Reliability – Ethan
      Sincerity – Mike (He’s BRUTALLY honest!)
      Love – Danny
      Hope – Walkie
      Faith – Joyce

      There we go. Seems legit. The others can be in season two.

      • hmrc4evr
        hmrc4evr
        June 8, 2012 at 12:32 am | #

        02 doesn’t exist.

        It’s like Highlander 2, Beast Machines and Brave Command Dagwon’s OVA sequel—if any of those actually existed.

  31. Pat
    Pat
    June 7, 2012 at 4:17 pm | #

    …Which makes her distinctly different from you, being *openly* up to no good.

  32. MLBlue
    MLBlue
    June 7, 2012 at 9:44 pm | #

    Agh, when are those two just gonna admit they love each other already?!

  33. Kryss LaBryn
    Kryss LaBryn
    June 7, 2012 at 11:48 pm | #

    Ugh. Suddenly, Ruth actually really reminds me of this one supervisor we had. He got a real bug up his ass when the new owners took over (his own job was suddenly on the line if he didn’t ride us hard) and when one of the other workers told him that he was being a complete dick and that everyone pretty much hated him now, he replied, “Good. That means I’m doing my job right.”

    No, Tom. No, it doesn’t. It just means you’re being a dick. You listening, Ruth?

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