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Orbiting

by David M Willis on June 14, 2014 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - Up All Night to Get Vengeance
└ Tags: agatha, jennifer, ruth, ultra car, walky

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  1. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    June 14, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    Billie. Learning? Yep. Broken.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 14, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

      Nothing that some duct-tape cant fix, right? 😛

      • Allcool-dontcare
        Allcool-dontcare
        June 14, 2014 at 1:47 am | #

        Amazi-duct-tape stickier and more durable than ordinary duct-tape.(only carried by an amazigirl near you)

      • Bill
        Bill
        June 14, 2014 at 3:53 am | #

        Duct tape is the Force.  It has a light side and a dark side, and it binds the universe together.

        • Jerden
          Jerden
          June 14, 2014 at 1:18 pm | #

          Nobody has ever truly understood it, or fathomed it’s true potential, but everyone agrees that it pretty much does everything.

      • norj
        norj
        June 14, 2014 at 4:38 am | #

        I agree Bille should duck tape Ruth to her bed

        • Oberon
          Oberon
          June 15, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

          And then, you know….have fun with that situation.

          But the glue, ugh. And handcuffs can hurt and leave bruises. Best to rely on neckties for such play.

      • Charlie Spencer
        Charlie Spencer
        June 14, 2014 at 6:10 am | #

        Silence is golden. Duct tape is silver.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        June 14, 2014 at 1:52 pm | #

        To quote the sig line from someone over on the Wapsi Square forum, “Not even duct tape can fix stupid. It can muffle the noise, however.”

        • Bill
          Bill
          June 14, 2014 at 10:48 pm | #

          I like that, and will likely use it at the earliest opportunity.

  2. ankhtahr
    ankhtahr
    June 14, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Noooo. Not such an evil look! You’ve got to get together again!

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 14, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      In the series finale!

      • ankhtahr
        ankhtahr
        June 14, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

        that might as well be decades away…

        I want to have some time seeing them happy together!

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          June 14, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

          I actually hate when my ideal couple only gets together in the finale. There’s so much Macking they coulda been doing. (I’m looking at you Fish Hooks (which is a bad show for a lot of OTHER reasons))

          • Rutee
            Rutee
            June 14, 2014 at 12:38 am | #

            Seriously. There’s only so much time you can plausibly drag on a romance. Unless it’s like, 13 episodes, don’t throw the payoff in at the end =.=;

            • E.R.
              E.R.
              June 14, 2014 at 1:08 am | #

              You clearly have not read Girlfriends or Sasemeki Koto

          • Jen Aside
            Jen Aside
            June 14, 2014 at 11:42 am | #

            The trope is that romance is only interesting when it starts and when it ends, that no one is interested in the satisfied happy lovey-dovey parts.

            …

            *nudges a few copies of Peach Girl*

            • Snoot
              Snoot
              June 14, 2014 at 8:54 pm | #

              Looking back, Pushing Daisies did a really good job at dismantling that trope

            • StClair
              StClair
              June 14, 2014 at 10:54 pm | #

              Joss Whedon seems to believe that. One of the reasons I no longer call myself a fan.

        • shietka
          shietka
          June 14, 2014 at 12:20 am | #

          Imagine Ruth and Billie, you do.

          • shietka
            shietka
            June 14, 2014 at 12:21 am | #

            Ruth and Billie, and Billie and Ruth

      • Deathstalker
        Deathstalker
        June 14, 2014 at 2:25 am | #

        We’re trucking on to the finale.

    • Chris
      Chris
      June 14, 2014 at 6:34 am | #

      Billie just spent all night drunken-caterwauling at Ruth’s door. Ruth has plenty reason to be annoyed.

      • Oberon
        Oberon
        June 15, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

        I’d suggest that Ruth leave Billie a passive aggressive note, but Ruth doesn’t seem to have much passive in her aggressive.

  3. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    June 14, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Ultra Car may as well fall on Billie right now =p be easier than getting that foot out of her mouth…

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 14, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      Also they both enjoy boozing, so there is that.

  4. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    June 14, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Billie’s off warranty.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 14, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

      I hate it when my Billie breaks down. Now where am I gonna get someone to drink all my beer and be Both chubby and asian!

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 14, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

        Best Buys?

      • JustCheetoDust
        JustCheetoDust
        June 14, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

        Now where am I gonna get someone to drink all my beer and be Both chubby and asian!

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4azt9ZRfq0

      • nothri
        nothri
        June 14, 2014 at 1:21 am | #

        Well, I’m pretty chubby, and I’ll be happy to drink all your beer and speak in an incredibly offensive Chinatown accent. Will that work?

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          June 14, 2014 at 1:54 am | #

          Naw, you gotta be the real deal.

  5. Tacdud2
    Tacdud2
    June 14, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Spontaneous decorations are the best.

  6. Viktoria
    Viktoria
    June 14, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Do I spy an Aya sticker in the first panel? Carla has good taste(except in girlfriends).

  7. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    June 14, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Only her Heart.

    • newllend
      newllend
      June 14, 2014 at 12:30 am | #

      Good news we finally got the warranty on those

  8. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    June 14, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Ruth, I’m not an expert on conflict management, but that sounds like spectacularly bad advice.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 14, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      I dunno, it could work.
      “I guess you don’t care about the other people in the house and how they might be affected, so I’ve licked all the cream out of your oreos. enjoy”

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 14, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

        Maybe if Billie licked the cream from Ruth’s oreo, she might forgive her.

        • JustCheetoDust
          JustCheetoDust
          June 14, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

          If “oreo” is an apt euphemism in terms of texture, she might want to see a dermatologist gynecologist.

        • Kelly
          Kelly
          June 14, 2014 at 4:15 am | #

          Susan dual wielding hammers? Nice avatar, that.

    • Arkadi
      Arkadi
      June 14, 2014 at 3:51 am | #

      Don’t explain the joke, will you?

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        June 14, 2014 at 11:44 am | #

        ur doin it rong

        http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Dontexplainthejoke

        • Kaoy
          Kaoy
          June 14, 2014 at 3:58 pm | #

          (1 hour and 45 minutes later)

          Damn it, Jen! I was gonna do things today…

  9. Sam
    Sam
    June 14, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    Yes Walky, she is broken.

    • JustCheetoDust
      JustCheetoDust
      June 14, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

      And out of warranty.

      • Sam
        Sam
        June 14, 2014 at 9:11 am | #

        Damn, how much does a new one cost?

        • nothri
          nothri
          June 14, 2014 at 3:39 pm | #

          Most of her pride and all of her booze, I suspect.

          • Sam
            Sam
            June 14, 2014 at 7:36 pm | #

            That’s a heavy price. I might just have to buy a different model completely. Maybe another Dorothy.

  10. Nick Piers
    Nick Piers
    June 14, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    Next time on Door Decorations Attack!

  11. Khaner
    Khaner
    June 14, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    Ruth not dead. I can breath a sigh of relief.

    • BlackIo
      BlackIo
      June 14, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

      We already saw her throwing Joyce’s gloves out of a window earlier today.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        June 14, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

        She coulda been assasinated between then and now.

        • David M Willis
          David M Willis
          June 14, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

          Schrödinger’s Ruth.

          • anonymous
            anonymous
            June 14, 2014 at 12:58 am | #

            Thank goodness HeisenWillis collapsed the wavefunction.

            • Deathstalker
              Deathstalker
              June 14, 2014 at 2:26 am | #

              … But what about next strip?

              • Eukie
                Eukie
                June 14, 2014 at 6:04 am | #

                Once you go Hume, we cannot assume from induction that you’ll continue being Hume.

                • anonymous
                  anonymous
                  June 14, 2014 at 10:35 am | #

                  Once you go Hume, you never go boom?

              • Heavensrun
                Heavensrun
                June 14, 2014 at 2:09 pm | #

                Next strip? Hell, we don’t see Ruth in the last panel SHE COULD ALREADY BE DEAD!

                • anonymous
                  anonymous
                  June 14, 2014 at 3:46 pm | #

                  MAYBE THE RUTH IN THE COMIC IS A GHOST

  12. CapedLuigisYoshi
    CapedLuigisYoshi
    June 14, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    I am liking that Ultra Car design. I know it’s not that much different from the pre-gynoid design, but I dunno, the colors give it something different, maybe?

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      June 14, 2014 at 11:44 am | #

      UC has a bit of Rodimus Prime look going on

  13. NF
    NF
    June 14, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    I want to learn from Ruth’s school of conflict resolution.

  14. aipom45
    aipom45
    June 14, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

    She is also smiling to try to regain companionship something that Billie would never do.

  15. Nick J.
    Nick J.
    June 14, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

    I like the design of this Ultra Car, it has kind of a Rodimus Prime feel to it 🙂

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      June 14, 2014 at 11:45 am | #

      oh hey I can read like four comments down before I reply to someone =|

  16. MrSirk
    MrSirk
    June 14, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

    This one is a downer 🙁

  17. Bats
    Bats
    June 14, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

    Is that Carla’s room?! She doesn’t have a roommate, it would make sense for the single-occupant rooms to be near each other.

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      June 14, 2014 at 11:46 am | #

      In my experience, it didn’t matter. Singles were just regular rooms that people paid 1.5x to 3x[!!!] to have by themselves, depending on the dorm.

  18. Pyr05
    Pyr05
    June 14, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

    The Billy says ‘listen to what I have to say!’ The Joyce says ‘Have I told you guys how great GOD is?’ The Dina says ‘RAAWWR! I’m a T-Rex!’

    • JustCheetoDust
      JustCheetoDust
      June 14, 2014 at 12:21 am | #

      I think I could throw a lot of money at a DoA-themed See ‘N Say.

    • 3oranges
      3oranges
      June 14, 2014 at 1:50 am | #

      But there’s one phrase that no one knows: what does Wilcox say?

      • Catullus
        Catullus
        June 14, 2014 at 11:10 am | #

        Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding?

        • Jen Aside
          Jen Aside
          June 14, 2014 at 11:47 am | #

          “whiiiiiiine, whiiiiiiine”

      • Pyr05
        Pyr05
        June 15, 2014 at 12:30 am | #

        The answer is elementary. “Jeph Jaques is a ~warble warble~”

  19. John
    John
    June 14, 2014 at 12:26 am | #

    I love Ruth. And her advice is way better than any my RAs ever provided!

    (One of my RAs once wrote himself up for underage drinking, so this is not exactly a high bar to clear.)

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      June 14, 2014 at 1:39 pm | #

      This is the second or third time I’ve seen you tell this story, and it’s still as baffling to me as it was the first time. I guess he was extremely Lawful?

      • John
        John
        June 15, 2014 at 7:19 pm | #

        Nah, he was just extremely drunk. Many things seem like a good idea when you’re extremely drunk.

  20. Horrible Person
    Horrible Person
    June 14, 2014 at 12:29 am | #

    I feel like she set herself up for her own punchlin there.

  21. Dierna
    Dierna
    June 14, 2014 at 12:31 am | #

    Oh hey there Ultracar! Fancy seeing both your forms in this universe!…

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      June 14, 2014 at 11:48 am | #

      Technically we did in the other one–the chassis was back to being a regular car by that point.

  22. nothri
    nothri
    June 14, 2014 at 12:32 am | #

    Why yes Walky. Broken is a very good way to describe it.

    • nothri
      nothri
      June 14, 2014 at 12:36 am | #

      Amazingly, the time may have come to GET advice from Mr. Walkterton rather than distribute it.

      • JustCheetoDust
        JustCheetoDust
        June 14, 2014 at 12:46 am | #

        Time for Billie to re-visit some advice he dispensed a while back (panel 4).

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        June 14, 2014 at 11:50 am | #

        Step 1: Have an awesome girlfriend who likes everything you do, including that you threw a 6″ toy at her head

    • Rutee
      Rutee
      June 14, 2014 at 12:37 am | #

      Yeah. Poor thin; it’s delicious to watch and picture the get-back-together, but damn, it’s a rough road.

      • nothri
        nothri
        June 14, 2014 at 12:44 am | #

        Then again, its not like either of em have a clear idea what the hell they’re doing right now…

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/02-i-was-a-teenage-churchmouse/invisible/

  23. newllend
    newllend
    June 14, 2014 at 12:33 am | #

    Billie:~ heeey hon-

    Ruth: No! *slams door*

    Billie: *cries silently*

  24. AgentKeen
    AgentKeen
    June 14, 2014 at 12:35 am | #

    Wait, Walky isn’t being completely oblivious? Is he broken, too?

    • nothri
      nothri
      June 14, 2014 at 12:39 am | #

      Nah, man. Walky’s been leveling up. Spent some experience on ranks in Empathy and Socializing, and bought off a major flaw or two in the process.

    • Gigafreak
      Gigafreak
      June 14, 2014 at 1:33 am | #

      I… Don’t remember any instance of Walky being oblivious in this universe. Romantically inept as hell at first, yes, but he’s not feigning stupidity to the point of actually believing in it like he was in the other universe. He’s demonstrated a decent amount of perception and intelligence a few times by now!

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      June 14, 2014 at 4:13 am | #

      That’s about the best friendly consern : smartassary ratio one can hope for from Walky

    • Sam
      Sam
      June 14, 2014 at 9:09 am | #

      He may have failed to see he was favoured since childhood, and that he was going to hurt Joyce’s feelings since she was still near him, but he has leveled up since that time. He grew without breaking.

  25. caesaria82
    caesaria82
    June 14, 2014 at 12:37 am | #

    The answer to that question, Walky, is yes.

    Also, it looks like Ultra Car is saying that in the speech bubble in the first panel lol.

  26. Wack'd
    Wack'd
    June 14, 2014 at 1:09 am | #

    GEE I WONDER WHICH DOOR IS CARLA’S

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      June 14, 2014 at 1:48 am | #

      It’s the one Ruth’s in, clearly 😉 [she’s doing room checks]

  27. John
    John
    June 14, 2014 at 2:01 am | #

    Huh, Billie meant that orbiting thing literally, didn’t she.

    That’s kind of a nerdy thing to say, Billiingsworth. Are you sure you’re actually cool?

    • anonymous
      anonymous
      June 14, 2014 at 10:37 am | #

      POLL: Is Billie cool?
      I cast my vote for HELL YES

      • Sam
        Sam
        June 14, 2014 at 7:51 pm | #

        I cast my vote for NOT ANYMORE at this point in time.

  28. Megatron
    Megatron
    June 14, 2014 at 2:49 am | #

    That Ultracar kinda reminds me of what Rodamus Prime transforms into. Gotta hand it to that kid, he transformed into the love child of a Hot Rod and a Winnebago. That’s like the definition of existential crisis.

    Of all the Primes, there was a time when I hated him the least. Mostly because he helped me kill his predecessor. Then he threw my successor (sort of) through Unicron’s leg. So now he’s back on my “get a taste of my fusion cannon” list.

  29. MightionNY
    MightionNY
    June 14, 2014 at 3:55 am | #

    So… DoA Ultra Car is a Rodimus Prime redeco. Full disclosure; reissue Rodimus Prime is on the shelf behind me.

  30. Kelly
    Kelly
    June 14, 2014 at 4:10 am | #

    🙁 Poor Billy. You brought this on yourself though…

  31. Dave
    Dave
    June 14, 2014 at 4:46 am | #

    Walky goes “Dude”, Agatha goes “Gripe”, Ruth goes “Glare”

    But what does the Billie say?

    “FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FUH-FUH-FAIL! FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FUH-FUH-FAIL!”

    • nekobawt
      nekobawt
      June 14, 2014 at 5:40 am | #

      idk, billie strikes me more as a “glug”-sayer at this point in her life.

  32. CarlaGriffin
    CarlaGriffin
    June 14, 2014 at 5:50 am | #

    It was decorate your door day, we just didn’t notice because none of the characters thought it was important enough to mention…

  33. LuckyStar7
    LuckyStar7
    June 14, 2014 at 7:15 am | #

    Well, THIS doesn’t bring back any memories. >cough<

  34. JO512
    JO512
    June 14, 2014 at 9:49 am | #

    We’re not allowed to decorate doors at my school. Something about fire hazards banning all that is good and fun in the world

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      June 14, 2014 at 11:38 am | #

      Oh, like the doors themselves are completely fireproof? What the hell |=(

  35. saltchocolate
    saltchocolate
    June 14, 2014 at 11:01 am | #

    I do wonder sometimes what it says about the rest of the sophomores at “IU” that Ruth (of the femur-breaking, passive-agressiveness school of order) was some administrator’s idea of the best person to serve as RA . . . 😀

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      June 14, 2014 at 11:39 am | #

      You know when a co-worker is an asshole but never in front of the boss and always gets work done [even if by stealing credit for someone else’s]? It’s like that.

    • Bill
      Bill
      June 14, 2014 at 6:36 pm | #

      Sometimes administrators have to work with what they have been given.
      In other words, no one else wanted the job.

  36. Dleclerc
    Dleclerc
    June 14, 2014 at 11:33 am | #

    Decided to go back, and look at all the doors from the moment Danny left his room to meet with sal to now. I didn’t see one clear shot of a door without decorations. Well played… well played.

    • Bill
      Bill
      June 14, 2014 at 6:41 pm | #

      I would like to see a compilation of all the doors and their decorations — if for no other reason than to see who is rooming with whom.

  37. Tingley
    Tingley
    June 14, 2014 at 12:37 pm | #

    I just like we Dorothy wear a sweater dress- then everyone is. Dorothy decorates her door- then everyone does! Dorothy unknowingly controls the campus.

    That might also be an analogue to Willis’s real life.

  38. Jonathan Woodward
    Jonathan Woodward
    June 14, 2014 at 4:03 pm | #

    Wait… [does some math] Who’s Agatha’s roommate, and how does she get away with never coming to hall meetings?

    Amber/Dina share a half-bath with Dorothy/Sierra
    Sal/Billie share a half-bath with Joyce/Sarah
    The other known roommates are Roz/Mary, Mandy/Grace, and Rachel One-Line/Other Rachel (who also doesn’t come to hall meetings).

    (We know Agatha lives to the left of Ruth, so the room with Ultra-Car on the door isn’t hers.)

  39. Beachfox
    Beachfox
    June 14, 2014 at 4:36 pm | #

    Actually really glad to see Ruth alive and conscious. Was really worried Am(azingirl)ber’s brush-off on checking in on her the night before would come back to bite everyone in the ass.

  40. LuckyStar7
    LuckyStar7
    June 14, 2014 at 6:14 pm | #

    Willis…
    If you have Ruth die again..
    EmotiVampire will eat you.
    (°[“]°)

  41. anonymous
    anonymous
    June 14, 2014 at 6:31 pm | #

    You know, the name ‘Ruth’, according to a handful of sources I’ve found, means commiseration, remorse, compassion for the misery of another. Which kind of makes the name Ruth-less a sort of dramatic irony because she totally embodies her name.

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      June 14, 2014 at 6:48 pm | #

      Yeah, that’s, um, exactly what the word “ruthless” means.

  42. Kugai
    Kugai
    June 14, 2014 at 7:26 pm | #

    Seriously, those two are going to have to talk to each other at some stage. This is just ridiculous.

  43. ProjectXa3
    ProjectXa3
    June 14, 2014 at 10:03 pm | #

    Is that… Ultra-Rodimus Prime?

  44. Lord Geovanni
    Lord Geovanni
    June 16, 2014 at 2:32 am | #

    I want refund on my bilie

  45. tahrey
    tahrey
    July 28, 2014 at 12:33 pm | #

    Ah, I remember the spontaneous sprouting of personalised decorations well from my own uni time.

    No-one knows whether or not it’s allowed, or even taboo, but all it takes is one unfettered extrovert to kick it all off, and suddenly everyone’s inkjet printers are in overdrive, their websearches full of licensed images of questionable legality, and their shopping baskets full of art & craft supplies during their next trip to the supermarket.

    Good times, good times…

    The whiteboards are a new one on me, though. That would have been a cool idea. I don’t think the mini ones existed back then.

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