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Pie

by David M Willis on January 30, 2013 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - If the Shoe Splits
└ Tags: agatha, jennifer, mary, ruth

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    January 30, 2013 at 12:02 am | #

    SHUT YOUR PIEHOLE RUTH, OF COURSE THEY WERE

    • AckAckAck
      AckAckAck
      January 30, 2013 at 3:24 am | #

      Piehole…. giggity!

    • Blob Marley
      Blob Marley
      January 30, 2013 at 11:37 am | #

      In the words of the immortal Pam (from Archer)

      “Maybe you can shut your dick-holster.”

  2. Mike
    Mike
    January 30, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

    Hah. I like Ruth’s style.

    • Ivan
      Ivan
      January 30, 2013 at 8:44 pm | #

      I think her mood suddenly changed due to an anal prolapse. **It could happen!** There’s even some pretty sicko sites about it. (Not that I would EVER been seen looking at one of them!!)

  3. NCP19
    NCP19
    January 30, 2013 at 12:04 am | #

    Ah, so she CAN be nice, as long as your name isn’t Jennifer Billingsworth.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      January 30, 2013 at 12:05 am | #

      She’s nicer to girls with smaller chests.

      • joshlamont
        joshlamont
        January 30, 2013 at 12:08 am | #

        That’s… that’s *true*…

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          January 30, 2013 at 12:17 am | #

          Both me and my grav(Chizuru) notice these sorts of things.

          • AckAckAck
            AckAckAck
            January 30, 2013 at 3:28 am | #

            I notice ass…. and I just realize the Willis is more of a breast man than an ass man…..

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              January 30, 2013 at 3:47 am | #

              Willis only notices butts due to catching Jeph’s Butt Disease.

              • AsimovSideburns
                AsimovSideburns
                January 30, 2013 at 5:06 am | #

                But… I thought Jeph caught the Butts Disease from Willis? So confused.

                BUTTS DISEASE MUST BE A GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY.

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  January 30, 2013 at 5:30 am | #

                  Government? naaaah, more like the work of a rogue mad scientist.

                • Stevie Windup
                  Stevie Windup
                  January 30, 2013 at 11:24 am | #

                  They caught it from each other.

                • lightsabermario
                  lightsabermario
                  January 30, 2013 at 5:24 pm | #

                  Scandalous!

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        January 30, 2013 at 12:10 am | #

        So, chest envy?

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          January 30, 2013 at 12:12 am | #

          No. She just realizes that the small chests will soon overcome and wants to get on their good side.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            January 30, 2013 at 12:19 am | #

            Ruth has learnt that small chests are a rarity, a status symbol if you will.

            • Yotomoe
              Yotomoe
              January 30, 2013 at 12:26 am | #

              As well as far better suited for combat.

              • Aizat
                Aizat
                January 30, 2013 at 12:38 am | #

                But big ones are good for interrogation and other uses.

      • acoraz
        acoraz
        May 7, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

        I mean, she was nice to Joyce, who isn’t exactly unendowed.

    • agentksilver
      agentksilver
      January 30, 2013 at 8:26 am | #

      She’s mocking Agatha for being tall, Mary for smelling, and Billie for her usual reasons…

  4. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    January 30, 2013 at 12:04 am | #

    No, Billie is crying cos no one will eat hers.

    • NCP19
      NCP19
      January 30, 2013 at 12:04 am | #

      Delicious, delicious pie.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        January 30, 2013 at 12:07 am | #

        You can almost smell that creamy tuna already. 😀

        • ASmellyOgre
          ASmellyOgre
          January 30, 2013 at 1:22 am | #

          You know, I never thought to make pie with seafood before. Though were I to make a seafood pie, I think I’m more feeling a shellfish/sweet corn combo than something savory like that tuna pie.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            January 30, 2013 at 1:47 am | #

            If you can make fish cakes out of tuna and potato, then it’s not too hard to imagine fish pies.

          • Jererry
            Jererry
            January 30, 2013 at 4:59 pm | #

            How about some Paella? It sounds like pie and is full of fishy things.

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        January 30, 2013 at 12:07 am | #

        Mmmmmm…..pie.

      • Herohatch
        Herohatch
        January 30, 2013 at 12:10 am | #

        Billie needs a pie-eating contest.

        • AckAckAck
          AckAckAck
          January 30, 2013 at 3:29 am | #

          Regional or national?

      • ArkhamTexan
        ArkhamTexan
        January 30, 2013 at 8:46 am | #

        No one’s offering strudel in exchange for her pie… Sad times.

        ……..

        ::leans back with a mic:: IF YA SMELLLLLLLLLLL….!

    • Ragnal
      Ragnal
      January 30, 2013 at 12:32 am | #

      You people and your perverse sexual lust over Billie.

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        January 30, 2013 at 12:37 am | #

        Well, she is kinda like the Ms. Fanservice of this webcomic.

        • Count Dracula
          Count Dracula
          January 30, 2013 at 12:43 am | #

          I’ll believe that when I see some Tasteful Sideboob from her. Until then, Sal holds the position relatively uncontested.

          • pan_dim_onium
            pan_dim_onium
            January 30, 2013 at 3:35 am | #

            Idk. We have seen Walkie’s penis.

            • Sailor_Arashi
              Sailor_Arashi
              January 30, 2013 at 4:01 am | #

              Walky is Mr. Fanservice, not Ms. Fanservice.

            • Josh
              Josh
              January 30, 2013 at 5:09 am | #

              Wait… what?

              • Drunken Nordmann
                Drunken Nordmann
                January 30, 2013 at 6:23 am | #

                In It’s Walky, if I remember correctly.

                • lightsabermario
                  lightsabermario
                  January 30, 2013 at 5:27 pm | #

                  Brings a whole new meaning to “It’s Walky!”

        • newllend
          newllend
          September 8, 2013 at 3:10 am | #

          No that would be sales when you think k about it

  5. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    January 30, 2013 at 12:05 am | #

    They weren’t out of pie …. it just hit her in the eye ….. that’s amore.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      January 30, 2013 at 12:08 am | #

      Is it Coconut Cream Pie?

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        January 30, 2013 at 12:15 am | #

        Banana Cucumber perhaps?

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          January 30, 2013 at 12:19 am | #

          Cucumber pie? Is that even exist?

          • Josh
            Josh
            January 30, 2013 at 5:10 am | #

            http://bit.ly/VUXp7X

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              January 30, 2013 at 5:38 am | #

              Now that’s what I call convenient. 😀

  6. Robbie C
    Robbie C
    January 30, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

    OMFG, I thought the BilliexRuth pairing was just a joke…

    I think there might actually be something here.

    • Robbie C
      Robbie C
      January 30, 2013 at 12:07 am | #

      Or this is perfectly platonic and I’m just a jerk.

    • Undrave
      Undrave
      January 30, 2013 at 1:55 am | #

      Ruth is TOTALLY hot for Billie.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        January 30, 2013 at 5:38 am | #

        Replace hot for tsundere.

        • Zababcd
          Zababcd
          January 30, 2013 at 5:47 am | #

          Not sure if you mean ‘replace the word hot with the word tsundere’ or ‘replace the phrase ‘hot for Billie’ with the phrase ‘hot for tsundere’. Either one works fairly well.

          • Zababcd
            Zababcd
            January 30, 2013 at 5:48 am | #

            Except that I’m missing a closing ‘.

          • lightsabermario
            lightsabermario
            January 30, 2013 at 5:30 pm | #

            Ruth is TOTALLY tsundere for tsundere.

  7. Sir Robin
    Sir Robin
    January 30, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

    Now make out

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      January 30, 2013 at 12:26 am | #

      Not now. Not while someone is watching.

  8. bunivasal
    bunivasal
    January 30, 2013 at 12:09 am | #

    Next, pull her hair and run away.

  9. Davriel
    Davriel
    January 30, 2013 at 12:10 am | #

    I like Ruth better in panel 3. Feels more…natural.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      January 30, 2013 at 12:20 am | #

      Does that also apply to your Sal grav?

      • Davriel
        Davriel
        January 30, 2013 at 4:25 pm | #

        Especially so!

  10. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    January 30, 2013 at 12:10 am | #

    Stop acting like that’s not a legitimate reason to cry, Ruth.

  11. emeraldbeacon
    emeraldbeacon
    January 30, 2013 at 12:12 am | #

    Nah, Ruth is still being a b****. You see, we can establish where the entrance/exit is, from where Billie is coming from (since we know she was just talking to Joe outside). The first person she talks to she suggests an umbrella to… but they’re just coming in. Why suggest it, if it weren’t either sarcasm or teasing? The second girl was heading out, making Ruth’s suggestion the entirely unsubtle commentary, “you really need to take a shower, hippie”.

    Also, Billie x Ruth OTP 4eva

    • David
      David M Willis
      January 30, 2013 at 12:19 am | #

      Calling Mary a hippie is perhaps her worst nightmare.

    • Dr. Bolty
      Dr. Bolty
      January 30, 2013 at 12:47 am | #

      Hmn. My own dorm at IU had stairs to entrances/exits on both sides in addition to the elevator, and at any rate the entrance would be relative to their dorm’s position in the hall.

  12. Aizat
    Aizat
    January 30, 2013 at 12:13 am | #

    Yeah, about that umbrella thing. It could be just me but whenever I bring an umbrella, even though it was cloudy, it never rains.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      January 30, 2013 at 12:21 am | #

      Yeah, but better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

      • HEYOUGUYZ!
        HEYOUGUYZ!
        January 30, 2013 at 12:57 am | #

        situations /objects in/for which the above platitude does or does not apply, GO:

        1) shark cage

        2) shark repellent

        3) shark attractant?

        • Dice
          Dice
          January 30, 2013 at 4:04 am | #

          4) a pissed-off shark

          • AsimovSideburns
            AsimovSideburns
            January 30, 2013 at 5:08 am | #

            5) Herpes.

            • Josh
              Josh
              January 30, 2013 at 5:12 am | #

              6) Gary Oak

              • Zababcd
                Zababcd
                January 30, 2013 at 5:51 am | #

                7) Unicorn blood

    • AckAckAck
      AckAckAck
      January 30, 2013 at 3:32 am | #

      There’s always a mini umbrella in my bag everytime I go out. So I can’t prove this theory is true or not.

      • Tom T.
        Tom T.
        January 30, 2013 at 9:42 am | #

        I thought you were just glad to see me!

    • agentksilver
      agentksilver
      January 30, 2013 at 8:28 am | #

      I interpreted it as an extremely subtle “how’s the weather up there?”

  13. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    January 30, 2013 at 12:16 am | #

    This actually kinda makes me think of them as friends. I mean, I’m usually unfailingly polite to people I know casually or not at all. With my friends I’m not afraid to get their attention by saying “Hey, jackass!”

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      January 30, 2013 at 12:23 am | #

      Wassup, Dick-butt.

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        January 30, 2013 at 12:37 am | #

        Hey, Piss-brain.

        • ASmellyOgre
          ASmellyOgre
          January 30, 2013 at 1:16 am | #

          Good evening, penis-wrinkle!

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            January 30, 2013 at 1:49 am | #

            Good night, scrotum-breath. 😛

            • Aizat
              Aizat
              January 30, 2013 at 2:44 am | #

              Goodbye, shit-for-brains.

              • AckAckAck
                AckAckAck
                January 30, 2013 at 3:33 am | #

                See ya, skidmarks!

                • Aizat
                  Aizat
                  January 30, 2013 at 3:39 am | #

                  Adios, ass-breath.

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  January 30, 2013 at 3:45 am | #

                  Arrivederci you walking VD factory. 😛

                • Aizat
                  Aizat
                  January 30, 2013 at 4:43 am | #

                  Sayonara, you hairless son of a goat.

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  January 30, 2013 at 5:42 am | #

                  Do svidaniya, you festering cum-bucket. 😛

                • Aizat
                  Aizat
                  January 30, 2013 at 8:41 am | #

                  Au revoir, you dried up piece of turd.

                • Snograt
                  Snograt
                  January 30, 2013 at 9:38 am | #

                  Later, masturbator.

                • Stevie Windup
                  Stevie Windup
                  January 30, 2013 at 11:30 am | #

                  Smell ya later, turdburglar!

                • Andiemus
                  Andiemus
                  January 30, 2013 at 1:06 pm | #

                  See you soon, asshat.

                • Aizat
                  Aizat
                  January 30, 2013 at 8:55 pm | #

                  Top of the morning, you regurgitated waste of space.

                • Tylertlat
                  Tylertlat
                  January 30, 2013 at 11:11 pm | #

                  We will meet again, friend whom I appreciate the least.

  14. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    January 30, 2013 at 12:19 am | #

    Such favoritism from Ruth towards Billie.

  15. Count Dracula
    Count Dracula
    January 30, 2013 at 12:20 am | #

    What is Ruth even doing out there? Just standing in the middle of the hall giving advice to random passers-by? Because…that actually sounds like it could be fun.

  16. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    January 30, 2013 at 12:24 am | #

    I rather think Emerald is right, Ruth is still being Ruth. Incoming needs an umbrella? Outgoing needs a shower?
    A bit confusing though re. Billie. Last encounter, she first tripped Billie onto her head, then held the elevator and physically removed people to make room for Billie.
    This encounter she snarks her when Billie is obviously not needing that. So what the heck is she doing?

    • agentksilver
      agentksilver
      January 30, 2013 at 8:29 am | #

      Asking her what’s wrong while covering up her kindness with insults?

  17. AY
    AY
    January 30, 2013 at 12:25 am | #

    ruth is like a little kid with a crush, being nasty like that… i haven’t shipped anything this hard in years

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      January 30, 2013 at 1:51 am | #

      So Ruth has been ‘dipping Billie’s pigtails in the inkwells’ huh?

  18. LiC
    LiC
    January 30, 2013 at 12:31 am | #

    Billie: “Yes… Yes, they were.”

    Cut to Ruth’s lower lip quivering and the pair of them throw theirs arms around each other as they both sob uncontrollably.

    • George
      George
      January 30, 2013 at 1:17 am | #

      Best. Twist. Ever.

      • Stevie Windup
        Stevie Windup
        January 30, 2013 at 11:31 am | #

        If only. If only.

  19. vlademir1
    vlademir1
    January 30, 2013 at 1:15 am | #

    Damn is Ruth really flying the tsundere flag here…

  20. Reb
    Reb
    January 30, 2013 at 1:37 am | #

    Yeah, I still see this as Ruth being a bully. Sure, there’s more to her character, but plenty of people are nice to most people and just completely terrible to their designated victim.

    To the people saying that this is her trying to be friends, I get what you’re saying, I think. My friends and I are dicks to each other almost all the time. We bond that way. But if someone I hadn’t known for more than a week (I think?) saw me crying and greeted me like that, that would not be considered friendly banter. At all. Just plain old mean spirited attacking someone who has been shit on already because you want to hurt them.

    …That said, I’m still shipping it.

    • TPman
      TPman
      January 30, 2013 at 1:48 am | #

      I kind of get the impression that Ruth just sucks at this whole friendship thing. (Obligatory pony joke]

    • AckAckAck
      AckAckAck
      January 30, 2013 at 3:42 am | #

      Agreed. Tbh some stuff about “acting all tsundere” are not the right things to do in real life.

      I know this is a fiction, but I think Willis want to approach the story more on the realistic side than the fantastic side this time.

      • Andiemus
        Andiemus
        January 30, 2013 at 1:05 pm | #

        I’m waiting to let her get more limelight than she’s gotten before calling t unrealistic. Some nasty tsunderes in media have been written to have VERY good justification for their nastiness (see: Evangelion) and I’d wait to let Ruth’s backstory come front and center.

  21. james
    james
    January 30, 2013 at 1:48 am | #

    Angery sex in 5…..4….3…………..

  22. name
    name
    January 30, 2013 at 2:23 am | #

    She isn’t being nice at all you guys, she is still a jerk. Telling somone who is going inside and who will likely stay there all night to take an umbrella is a jerk move, because this is college and she might not have anything to do. Telling someone who is about to go out and cares about hygiene that the showers are now clean is also a dick move, with the goal of making them worry about smelling like butt. She is just being mean in smart, subtle ways. Not everyone is gonna get hurt if some jerk is obviously just trying to make you mad. Making you dickishness seem like advice can do more then calling someone an ugly hippy.

    • AckAckAck
      AckAckAck
      January 30, 2013 at 3:42 am | #

      Yep, agreed.

    • Johnny
      Johnny
      January 30, 2013 at 6:24 am | #

      I disagree based solely on her facial expressions.

  23. Link
    Link
    January 30, 2013 at 2:32 am | #

    Damn right they were out of pie. They said you ate it all, Ruth.

  24. Pinja
    Pinja
    January 30, 2013 at 3:07 am | #

    I wonder if Willis put up the poll because everyone in it will be having sex simultaneously?

    …

    Except for Mike/My mum obviously

    Anyway, yes, I ship it, though I hope Billie really isn’t crying 🙁

    • John
      John
      January 30, 2013 at 4:27 am | #

      Why’s that obvious? Does your mom not have a nickel?

      • AsimovSideburns
        AsimovSideburns
        January 30, 2013 at 5:11 am | #

        No, it’s Mike who has the nickel. Which he gives to your mom. And then she has sex with him.

        • John
          John
          January 30, 2013 at 9:20 pm | #

          You sure? I’d assumed that it was the moms that had to pay Mike for the privilege, and I haven’t seen anything that definitely contradicts that assumption.

    • agentksilver
      agentksilver
      January 30, 2013 at 8:31 am | #

      You ship Mike/your mom?

      • Pinja
        Pinja
        January 30, 2013 at 9:36 am | #

        I ship Mike/Cancer, which is ironic because he is the cancer of DoA

      • Valdrax
        Valdrax
        January 30, 2013 at 9:39 am | #

        That’s what I thought too.

  25. Ryorin
    Ryorin
    January 30, 2013 at 3:25 am | #

    Tsun, tsun, tsundere, gently down the stream~

  26. E.C.
    E.C.
    January 30, 2013 at 4:06 am | #

    There are many different kinds of friendship, and there are many different needs…

  27. Dina
    Dina
    January 30, 2013 at 5:21 am | #

    https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/75027_538890479465301_923432758_n.jpg

    • Jason
      Jason
      February 19, 2013 at 1:01 am | #

      That is WAY awesome.

  28. Jimmy
    Jimmy
    January 30, 2013 at 6:36 am | #

    Is this what they call “tough love”?

  29. Pinja
    Pinja
    January 30, 2013 at 9:39 am | #

    I “ship” Billie and Ruth as many other people do and it’s being at least foreshadowed as something that could happen.

    But… why? Ruth has been horribly mean to Billie who really doesn’t deserve how she’s been treated. Even when she seemingly does something nice like when she came over with beers it was more about her needing company than wanting to do something nice.

    I seems a little perverse I see mutual antagonism and abuse and think “OMG, WUV!”

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      January 30, 2013 at 4:53 pm | #

      It’s because calm, resolved love is either boring or can’t be shown on daytime TV. So we’re left with nothing to grow up on but couples that can’t quite get along, and thus still get to have snappy, lively, non-snuggle-wuggle-lumpkin dialogue with each other. Until suddenly Foe-Yay is suddenly plausible and Ben and Gwen’s preteen sniping is incestual childhood lust. (Whoops.)

      Daytime television is ruining our ability to have relationships. Or at least that’s my preferred excuse.

      • mrelegos
        mrelegos
        January 30, 2013 at 6:27 pm | #

        I never understood Ben/Gwen shipping. Leaving aside the fact that they’re cousins, they’re 10 years old. Of course they’re gonna bicker and argue. Take any two kids that age and stick em in a confined space over a summer, they’re gonna bicker and argue.

        • begbert2
          begbert2
          January 30, 2013 at 8:31 pm | #

          The ‘let’s practice dancing’ scene probably didn’t help.

  30. Furie
    Furie
    January 30, 2013 at 12:35 pm | #

    Is Billie crying over Joe or Walky?

  31. TinyDoctorTim
    TinyDoctorTim
    January 30, 2013 at 2:24 pm | #

    I think I liked Ruth better when she was dead.

  32. Raibean
    Raibean
    January 30, 2013 at 2:56 pm | #

    Definitely gonna bang

    • lightsabermario
      lightsabermario
      January 30, 2013 at 5:37 pm | #

      perfect avatar

  33. Roborat
    Roborat
    January 30, 2013 at 3:15 pm | #

    Oh come on Ruth, do you hate Billy that much? You have clever insults for everybody else, but can’t be bothered for her? At least make the attempt.

  34. penguintruth
    penguintruth
    January 30, 2013 at 5:46 pm | #

    There’s plenty of pie to go around.

  35. MarkReed
    MarkReed
    January 30, 2013 at 6:08 pm | #

    You know, comparing the body styles of the different characters in this scene, Billie really doesn’t look that thin. I’m not calling her fat, because she’s not. But for someone who was so vain about her appearance at the beginning of the timeline, and who was a cheerleader in her last school…

    I really didn’t notice until I realized that all three ‘other’ girls in today’s strip are thinner than Billie.

  36. Krimson
    Krimson
    January 30, 2013 at 7:42 pm | #

    Ruth never shows her dere side to Billie. Only the tsun side.

  37. nothri
    nothri
    January 30, 2013 at 11:44 pm | #

    Oh for the love of….Ruth, either leave Billie alone or just admit she’s your kismesis and get it on.

  38. PainfulBbuggery
    PainfulBbuggery
    January 31, 2013 at 2:38 am | #

    Hallway makeouts!? Dis gonna be good!

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