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by David M Willis on August 27, 2014 at 12:01 am
  • 04 - The Whiteboard Dingdong Bandit
└ Tags: jennifer, ruth

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  1. An Average Loser
    An Average Loser
    August 27, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    Tension.

    • Hannah
      Hannah
      August 27, 2014 at 3:17 am | #

      Makes the heart grow fonder.

      • Kahhhhhhhle
        Kahhhhhhhle
        August 28, 2014 at 8:39 am | #

        I thought that was absinthe. Or was it absence? I always mix those two up.

    • Cheryl
      Cheryl
      August 27, 2014 at 5:01 am | #

      That gurl is poooossiiioooon POSION dodododododo

      • gordon blvd
        gordon blvd
        August 27, 2014 at 5:34 am | #

        ……….NEVER trust a big butt and a smile…………

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        August 27, 2014 at 7:59 am | #

        Miss her, kiss her, love her (wrong move, yer dead)

      • Rachel Roth
        Rachel Roth
        August 27, 2014 at 6:21 pm | #

        Okay. . . but why would that matter? No one eats dodo!

    • LittleMountain
      LittleMountain
      August 27, 2014 at 11:10 am | #

      At the risk of repeating my comment from the Danny/Ethan strip a few days ago:
      JUST MAKE OUT ALREADY

  2. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    August 27, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    “LET’S BE POISON TOGETHER AND POISON THE WORLD”

    • An Average Loser
      An Average Loser
      August 27, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      If you can’t be the antidote, become the poison. Otherwise you’re just lukewarm water helpful to none.

      • talantus
        talantus
        August 27, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

        funnily enough,one way to counteract poison is by use of another poison.

        • BarGamer
          BarGamer
          August 27, 2014 at 12:52 am | #

          Chinese superstition, and will probably end up getting you killed, cuz, you know, you have two different poisons in you.

          • JWLM
            JWLM
            August 27, 2014 at 1:09 am | #

            Not quite true. For instance, one of the two antidotes to methanol is ethanol. Lots of ethanol. Violently ill, sick-making ethanol. (Yes, ethanol is a poison. We’re just able to break it down to less poisonous things. Mostly. It just takes a while.)

            It’s a nasty treatment, but it’s better than going blind and then dying.

            • K^2
              K^2
              August 27, 2014 at 1:46 am | #

              Ethanol is a somewhat questionable treatment for methanol poisoning. At least, in self-administered kind of way. The same mechanism, however, can also be used to prevent death from ethylene glycol (antifreeze) poisoning in a more reliable way. Ethylene glycol is converted to glycolic acid using the same enzyme that breaks down ethanol. Glycolic acid is then converted to oxalic acid, which precipitates in kidneys and causes them to fail. That’s what usually kills you. If you keep your liver busy with ethanol, it reduces rate of oxalic acid production, and most of antifreeze leaves your body via urine.

              The process is similar for mehtanol. One of the reasons it’s poisonous is due to being converted to formic acid by the liver, again, using the same enzyme. Consuming lots of ethanol will help with that. However, both ethanol and methanol are CNS depressants. So taking too much ethanol together with ethanol will simply kill you due to alcohol poisoning, making it very iffy for self-medication. Then again, if your options are drinking loads of vodka or doing nothing, in both of these cases, you might as well take a chance with vodka.

              • JWLM
                JWLM
                August 27, 2014 at 2:26 am | #

                Yes, and there’s a better treatment, formipazole, which blocks the transformation into formaldehyde or formic acid. It’s got it’s own problems (it make ethanol a much more powerful intoxicant while mostly eliminating the hangover,) but it’s a better treatment if you can get it.

                However, if you can’t, a bottle of vodka is as good a place to start as any.

                • tinfoil theory
                  tinfoil theory
                  August 27, 2014 at 7:06 am | #

                  There is a cure for hangovers?

                  And it makes ethanol more potent?

                • Clif
                  Clif
                  August 27, 2014 at 11:18 pm | #

                  So naturally there is a drink which incorporates it?

                • tinfoil theory
                  tinfoil theory
                  August 28, 2014 at 1:52 am | #

                  I think you meant fomepizole.

            • ninja_jesus
              ninja_jesus
              August 27, 2014 at 1:46 am | #

              Also, better to get your pet piss drunk than for their insides to liquefy.

          • Ray Radlein
            Ray Radlein
            August 27, 2014 at 1:12 am | #

            There are actually some poisons for which the treatment — or at least a treatment — is another poison. For instance, Strychnine poisoning [i]can[/i] be treated with Curare.

            I [b]think[/b] I remember hearing of some toxin whose immediate treatment was arsenic, on the principle that the arsenic would interfere with the action of the primary toxin, and could then itself be chelated out later.

          • That Damn Rat
            That Damn Rat
            August 27, 2014 at 3:48 am | #

            Want an actual example of poison fighting poison? Take atropine, a derivative of Deadly nightshade can be used to counter the effects of organo-phosphate poisons, such Sarin nerve gas.

            • Jen Aside
              Jen Aside
              August 27, 2014 at 3:56 am | #

              just shove a bezoar down his throat

          • talantus
            talantus
            August 27, 2014 at 7:49 am | #

            i can’t deny that. i only remember hearing it years ago…
            but i do remember a documentary about a man who injected himself a little snake venom everyday and thus created a resistance to it. that could work too.

            • MerleBlue
              MerleBlue
              August 27, 2014 at 10:37 am | #

              That’s known as “Mithritadism”, after Mithradites VI, who followed the practice (and, after being captured by his enemies, tried to poison himself and failed. Whoops.)

              It works for certain types of poison, but not all; there are some poisonous substances that accumulate in the tissues with increasingly bad effects, so trying that strategy will only make it worse.

        • Time Sage
          Time Sage
          August 27, 2014 at 1:00 am | #

          Actually many anti-venoms are refined from posions.

          • Kelly
            Kelly
            August 27, 2014 at 1:25 am | #

            That is not remotely the same thing. Cause it has been refined so it isn’t a poison anymore…

            • Rodrigo
              Rodrigo
              August 27, 2014 at 10:50 pm | #

              The difference between a poison and a medicine is the dose!

          • Gadgeteer Smashwidget
            Gadgeteer Smashwidget
            August 27, 2014 at 8:15 am | #

            In fact, nearly *all* anti-venom is derived from the poisons they cure. Snake and spider venom, for example.

        • BH
          BH
          August 27, 2014 at 1:12 am | #

          When author Jack London killed himself, he took two different poisons, thinking that the two of them combined would kill him quickly and painlessly. Instead, they counteracted each other, and he lingered in agony for several days before he finally died painfully.

          • Ashirogi
            Ashirogi
            August 27, 2014 at 7:00 am | #

            Later biographers have contested that. The World of Jack London website discusses the issue.

            Now back to your regularly scheduled dongs.

      • Saru
        Saru
        August 27, 2014 at 12:51 am | #

        I happen to really like water, thank you very much. Give your water to me, if you don’t want it.

        • The Gorram Batguy
          The Gorram Batguy
          August 27, 2014 at 6:13 pm | #

          As your comment has been distanced, by many lines of other comments, from the comment to which it was a response, I read it as if it was without context.
          As such, my brain applied context, and I read it in the Dune sense of taking “somebody’s water”. That made it much more interesting.
          As you were.

      • Just for kix
        Just for kix
        August 27, 2014 at 4:40 am | #

        Whoa, a Hanamonogatari viewer has been spotted or are you a LN reader? 🙂

        • Saru
          Saru
          August 27, 2014 at 1:21 pm | #

          elaborate.

          • Just for kix
            Just for kix
            August 27, 2014 at 10:46 pm | #

            I was replying to the “Average Loser”, his quote “If you can’t be the antidote, become the poison. Otherwise you’re just lukewarm water helpful to none.” is a quote from an anime series called Hanamonogatari (which is an adaptation of a light novel (LN) of the same name).

      • Vree
        Vree
        August 27, 2014 at 11:18 pm | #

        I scrolled down just to see retorts to that line, I was not disappointed

    • Pink Freud
      Pink Freud
      August 27, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

      Damn you, you beat me to the punch and with almost exatly the same words! Well played.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 27, 2014 at 12:24 am | #

      Billy and Ruth Become Harley and Ivy.

      • MissQuinn
        MissQuinn
        August 27, 2014 at 12:33 am | #

        If somebody does not draw this I can personally promise an internet revolt!

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          August 27, 2014 at 12:48 am | #

          I could always draw it…
          for a fee.

          • K^2
            K^2
            August 27, 2014 at 1:49 am | #

            You take PayPal?

            • Yotomoe
              Yotomoe
              August 27, 2014 at 1:00 pm | #

              I does. I does.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        August 27, 2014 at 12:36 am | #

        So who is the Joker then?

        • Jake
          Jake
          August 27, 2014 at 12:42 am | #

          Howard.

        • Beachfox
          Beachfox
          August 27, 2014 at 12:43 am | #

          Sal is The Joker. Dorothy is Lana Lang, and we all know who Amazigirl is.

          • DEADGAYROBOTS
            DEADGAYROBOTS
            August 27, 2014 at 12:56 am | #

            Yeah. Carla

          • Clif
            Clif
            August 27, 2014 at 11:23 pm | #

            Sal’s secret identity?

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          August 27, 2014 at 1:50 am | #

          Danny, who else?

          • Cybersnark
            Cybersnark
            August 27, 2014 at 10:20 am | #

            Yeah, actually. Billie threw herself at Danny, but he wasn’t interested.

            That’s the Harley/Joker relationship in a nutshell.

            • DanMan9820
              DanMan9820
              August 27, 2014 at 2:54 pm | #

              That’s not quite true. Danny was interested, he just didn’t want to bang her at the risk of losing any chance with Amber.

              And I personally think it was one of Willis’s Walkyverse ship teases, like the Joyce/Walky one and the Mike/Amber one.

  3. LiaHansen
    LiaHansen
    August 27, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    ooooohhhhh, THEY’RE the slipshine.

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      August 27, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      EVERYONE will be the Slipshine.

      All in good time.

    • LeslieBean4Shizzle
      LeslieBean4Shizzle
      August 27, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

      Possible. Oh, I hope so. I really want this to go well for them.
      Not because porn. Because I really, really like this ship.
      … not that porn hurts or anything.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        August 27, 2014 at 12:25 am | #

        No, Lia. The slipshine was inside of you all along.

        • Mrak
          Mrak
          August 27, 2014 at 9:02 am | #

          Or maybe the shipsline?

        • Doom Shepherd
          Doom Shepherd
          August 27, 2014 at 11:46 am | #

          AND THEN JOHN WAS A SLIPSHINE.

  4. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    August 27, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    I just want to slam the skulls of these two idiots together and scream at them.

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      August 27, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

      But then how will they bang if you bang their heads in??

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        August 27, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

        Messily.

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          August 27, 2014 at 1:38 am | #

          Uncoordinatedly, I think.

      • That Damn Rat
        That Damn Rat
        August 27, 2014 at 4:38 am | #

        Maybe we could try banging their pelvises’ together instead?

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 27, 2014 at 12:25 am | #

      That sounds like something an insane person would do!

  5. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    August 27, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    So alcohol is like games on Steam to Ruth. She’ll compulsively buy them, but never get around to actually using them.

    …That being the case, I may need to look into some sort of Steamaholics Anonymous.

    • An Average Loser
      An Average Loser
      August 27, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

      C-Can you give the hotline number please? It’s getting to the point that I can’t pay rent. . .

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        August 27, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

        Lemme check, lessee, rent…landlords…apartments…Ooh! There’s a game where you are the devil and run an apartment building for various monsters! And it’s only $3.99!

        • Gigafreak
          Gigafreak
          August 27, 2014 at 9:20 am | #

          I thought that game was WiiWare rather than Steam.

      • timemonkey
        timemonkey
        August 27, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

        Just pretend rent is a new game that comes out each month.

        • masterofbones
          masterofbones
          August 27, 2014 at 1:45 am | #

          I’m not paying $500 on a game.

          • Deanatay
            Deanatay
            August 27, 2014 at 8:08 am | #

            ONLY one game?? On STEAM??? Bwhahahahahahhaaaa!

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      August 27, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

      One of my favourite games on Steam is trying to get more games without actually giving Steam any more money.

      Almost lost that game, but somehow my friends/family keep getting me more… [also, Steam summer sale voting]

      • David Alexander McDonald
        David Alexander McDonald
        August 27, 2014 at 2:16 am | #

        I have a sneaking suspicion that HumbleBundle is like crack for some ppeople. THERE IS SHOVELWARE. I MUST HAVE IT.

    • Israfel
      Israfel
      August 27, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

      I blame the sales. I always get games for someday when they are on sale.

      • Salmo
        Salmo
        August 27, 2014 at 12:57 am | #

        That is me and Comixology exactly.

      • Gadgeteer Smashwidget
        Gadgeteer Smashwidget
        August 27, 2014 at 10:19 am | #

        I bought the Witcher Enhanced Edition for $2.50 on sale once. I’ve never been able to run it, but it’s there.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 27, 2014 at 12:28 am | #

      I think you should actually be taken to a grammar school. As catchy as it sounds, I don’t believe you are referring to people addicted to Steamahol.

      • Jerden
        Jerden
        August 27, 2014 at 7:01 am | #

        I believe you should remember that “aholic” is the colloquial suffix used indicate an addiction to a noun. Because it’s considerably more amusing than saying “addict”. So shut it, you Grammaholic!
        Anyway, Steamahol is brilliant. (Vaporise alcohol, then inhale the fumes? Is that a thing?)

    • David Alexander McDonald
      David Alexander McDonald
      August 27, 2014 at 2:19 am | #

      I have that issue with books and music, but it’s mainly down to time…with a backlog in the tens of thousands, there’ll never be a point where I catch up.

      And yet I haunt the library and borrow even more….

  6. TheAfroman
    TheAfroman
    August 27, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    The hatef@$king shall commence!!!

    • LiaHansen
      LiaHansen
      August 27, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

      hate fasking?

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        August 27, 2014 at 12:29 am | #

        The Hate FatDollarking. I guess they’re going to meet up with Donald Trump!

        • AgentKeen
          AgentKeen
          August 27, 2014 at 12:37 am | #

          I thought it sounded like a new Burger King sandwich.

        • JWLM
          JWLM
          August 27, 2014 at 12:38 am | #

          I think that Willis, Internet Pornlord, would be greatly interested in Hate FucDollarKing, now that you mention it.

          • Deanatay
            Deanatay
            August 27, 2014 at 8:16 am | #

            Actually, think about this:

            FatDollarKing => Fat, Rich, Powerful => The Kingpin => Wilson Fisk =>Wil(son) (F)is(k) => WILLIS!

            • RAZ
              RAZ
              August 27, 2014 at 10:41 pm | #

              Batman deduction at its best.

  7. Kerry
    Kerry
    August 27, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    yeah, toxic just started playing in my head

    • Kerry
      Kerry
      August 27, 2014 at 3:30 am | #

      in other news, I really ship this
      I know it’s horrible in so many ways, but… ; – ;

      • Arkadi
        Arkadi
        August 27, 2014 at 7:59 pm | #

        It’s called a guilty pleasure, and life would be so much duller without them ^^

  8. Awnman
    Awnman
    August 27, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    And thats why your great for each other. Now kiss, damn you.

    • tinfoil theory
      tinfoil theory
      August 27, 2014 at 7:04 am | #

      Why does Ruth think she’s poison?
      Billie has been told as much.
      And Ruth has done nothing wrong.
      (If you don’t count the violence and the breaking and entering and the theft and the vandalism and the sexual harassment.)

      • Gigafreak
        Gigafreak
        August 27, 2014 at 9:25 am | #

        If she’s anything like her Walkyverse incarnation, she was probably still a really unpleasant person even before her parents died. There might be something in her backstory that made her realize she’s toxic.

  9. Rachel Roth
    Rachel Roth
    August 27, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Just remember, NA and CL may both be deadly, but NACL is delicious.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      August 27, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      And too much causes hypertension.

      • tinfoil theory
        tinfoil theory
        August 27, 2014 at 6:47 am | #

        I am fairly certain that is a myth.

      • Rachel Roth
        Rachel Roth
        August 27, 2014 at 6:26 pm | #

        But that can be more easily treated.

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      August 27, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

      The North American Cultural Laboratory?

      • Samuel G.
        Samuel G.
        August 27, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

        Table Salt. (NaCL is the chemical formula)

      • Rachel Roth
        Rachel Roth
        August 27, 2014 at 6:37 pm | #

        Maybe I should have written it Na and Cl…

    • LeslieBean4Shizzle
      LeslieBean4Shizzle
      August 27, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

      What an apt metaphor.
      Billie is obviously CL. And I can totally see Ruth at Sodium. Everything makes her explode. ^^

      • JWLM
        JWLM
        August 27, 2014 at 12:27 am | #

        It makes sense: Ruth is clearly always giving things away — particularly kicks and punches — and Billie is frequently getting those same things.

        But doesn’t the make Ruth Na and Billie Cl?

        • Kelly
          Kelly
          August 27, 2014 at 1:28 am | #

          well played

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      August 27, 2014 at 12:23 am | #

      Protip: Table Salt is NaCl(Sodium Chlorine) not NACL(Nitrogen ? Carbon Lithium)

      • 4th Dimension
        4th Dimension
        August 27, 2014 at 2:47 am | #

        Nitpick. Lithium is Li

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          August 27, 2014 at 7:41 am | #

          Doh!

      • Rachel Roth
        Rachel Roth
        August 27, 2014 at 6:28 pm | #

        Yeah yeah. Had I been actually writing it like NaCl I would have lower-cased, but everyone knew what I was saying.

  10. Blackbird
    Blackbird
    August 27, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    I’ve always identified with DoA Ruth, upto and including my attraction to fucked-in-the-head chubby girls, so I’m assuming Ruth has to be as turned on as I am right now.

    • LeslieBean4Shizzle
      LeslieBean4Shizzle
      August 27, 2014 at 12:33 am | #

      Weirdly, I’ve always identified with DoA Billie, including my attraction to orphaned red-heads with green eyes.

      • Jicklet
        Jicklet
        August 27, 2014 at 12:37 am | #

        now kiss?

  11. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    August 27, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    You’re poison runnin through my veins
    You’re poison, I don’t wanna break these chains.

    • cesium133
      cesium133
      August 27, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

      I was going to quote this song, but I was too slow because I had to find it on my hard drive first. 🙂

    • -JAD-
      -JAD-
      August 27, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

      I was going to go with either “I wanna kiss you but your lips are venomous poison” or my favorite “I wanna hurt you just to hear you screaming my name”, that kinda sounds Ruth-Less.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        August 27, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

        I was going to let any repliers post the next lines of the lyrics.

    • Israfel
      Israfel
      August 27, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

      You… you consistently amaze me. Its like we have lived the same life…. or you are my friend Christina. But that seems very unlikely.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        August 27, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

        I can tell you that my name isn’t Christina but I do live in Australia if that helps.

        • Disloyal Subject
          Disloyal Subject
          August 27, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

          It took until now for the idea of an Australia populated by literal plasma mongooses to occur to me. And it is glorious.

          • Sock
            Sock
            August 27, 2014 at 12:39 am | #

            Oh, my…this changes everything!

          • Kelly
            Kelly
            August 27, 2014 at 1:30 am | #

            Much better than liquid mongooses!

            • Opus the Poet
              Opus the Poet
              August 27, 2014 at 1:44 am | #

              Those are messy and tend to leave drowned snakes laying about instead of eating them like a proper dry mongoose (plasma is dry, too).

              • Plasma Mongoose
                Plasma Mongoose
                August 27, 2014 at 7:42 am | #

                More than dry, totally hot and ionised. ^_^

          • That Damn Rat
            That Damn Rat
            August 27, 2014 at 4:43 am | #

            Sadly there is a dearth of actual Plasma Mongooses (or any variant of the mongoose really) here. Though a lot of Australia is kind of flammable so it might be for the best as I can only assume a Plasma Mongoos would be inclined to set things on fire.

            • Jerden
              Jerden
              August 27, 2014 at 7:03 am | #

              I want one as a pet! I can be trusted!

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              August 27, 2014 at 7:45 am | #

              When it comes to starting fires in Australia, nothing beats gum trees, they depend on fires to breed.

    • Flimsyfishy
      Flimsyfishy
      August 27, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

      I wanna love you, but I better not touch
      I wanna hold you, but my senses tell me to stop

    • cesium133
      cesium133
      August 27, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

      Apparently my new roommates are discussing why the guy they haven’t heard a peep from in two weeks is suddenly blasting Alice Cooper after 11 pm. I guess I should turn it down.

    • LeslieBean4Shizzle
      LeslieBean4Shizzle
      August 27, 2014 at 12:24 am | #

      Konya wa “Hurricane”
      Anata ni “Hurricane”
      Tsutaetai no “Loving You…

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        August 27, 2014 at 11:49 am | #

        And this makes two web comics that I have seen those lyrics posted either in the actual comic or in the comments section. Have you ever seen the band live on stage?

        • LeslieBean4Shizzle
          LeslieBean4Shizzle
          August 28, 2014 at 12:51 am | #

          Live? I wish. No, just the anime, music video, and album/soundtrack.

  12. MrSirk
    MrSirk
    August 27, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    The only dope for you is me!

  13. Emperor Kiva
    Emperor Kiva
    August 27, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    This may end well but there’s the chance it could all go to Hell

  14. TrueVCU
    TrueVCU
    August 27, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    Can’t tell if jacket grab

    or boob grab

    • LiaHansen
      LiaHansen
      August 27, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

      jeez she’s really gettin in there. Billie and Ruth do foreplay hardcore.

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      August 27, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

      Can’t it be both?

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 27, 2014 at 12:30 am | #

      If it’s a boob grab then I feel bad for Ruth.

    • John
      John
      August 27, 2014 at 9:52 am | #

      I’m thinking jacket grab. Because she’s learned that’s how to get Ruth to kiss her.

  15. Kodra
    Kodra
    August 27, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    They really are playing depression musical chairs.

  16. bunivasal
    bunivasal
    August 27, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    I keep hoping that if you slam two drama hurricanes together like naked GI Joes they cancel each other out and turn into a nice comfortable low-pressure front.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 27, 2014 at 12:31 am | #

      They form a MegaHurricane. It’s a hurricane that is spinning other hurricanes around.

      • nothri
        nothri
        August 27, 2014 at 12:46 am | #

        Are you suggesting that one will spin the other right round, baby, right round, like a record baby, baby right round?

      • bunivasal
        bunivasal
        August 27, 2014 at 6:07 pm | #

        I think they call that a Hurricanado.

  17. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    August 27, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    Billie and Ruth will combine and create a Drama Super Hurricane.

  18. thinkingofthechildren
    thinkingofthechildren
    August 27, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    ….Damnit…I’m pledging. Damn you Willis.

  19. Khaner
    Khaner
    August 27, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    I wish that I could turn back time
    cos now the guilt is all mine
    can’t live without
    the trust from those you love
    I know we can’t forget the past
    you can’t forget love & pride
    because of that, it’s killing me inside

    • RAZ
      RAZ
      August 27, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

      this song is a bit suicidal while remaining relevant to the subject. A little bit too close for comfort to me. (hopefully, no trucks)

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      August 27, 2014 at 12:23 am | #

      Sooo… Next strip they hug until they turn into orange juice?

  20. GDwarf
    GDwarf
    August 27, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    “I’m toxic! If I don’t leave I’ll kill you! You must let me stay!”

    Not exactly the best pitch ever. 😛

  21. Rani
    Rani
    August 27, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    This is the point where “Best Actress” Academy Awards screener starts.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 27, 2014 at 12:32 am | #

      “For her amazing acting role as “Ruth’s alcohol bottle #7, Jenna Reshawd wins the Academy Award!!!”

      • Gigafreak
        Gigafreak
        August 27, 2014 at 9:28 am | #

        Truly she is a legend among bottle fairies.

  22. EEWWW
    EEWWW
    August 27, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    Cause every rose has it’s thorns… 😛 *lighter in air* Hey, I miss the 90’s, what can I say.

    • gwalla
      gwalla
      August 27, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

      Like a kiss from a rose on the grey?

      • neeks
        neeks
        August 27, 2014 at 1:08 am | #

        It’s “on the grave”

        • Jen Aside
          Jen Aside
          August 27, 2014 at 3:55 am | #

          You would think, but I’ve ben Well, Actually’ed on that before!

          • Jen Aside
            Jen Aside
            August 27, 2014 at 3:55 am | #

            been, even!

            • neeks
              neeks
              August 27, 2014 at 5:23 am | #

              Huh. I always figured it was a reference to leaving flowers on graves, but Google backs up “on the gray”.

              That song makes way less sense now.

              • Slinx
                Slinx
                August 27, 2014 at 8:48 am | #

                And it didn’t make much sense to begin with

              • Bibulb
                Bibulb
                August 27, 2014 at 10:40 am | #

                For what it’s worth, HE’S taken kind of a Reader Response angle on his lyrics – if you hear something else, then he feels that those are the lyrics FOR YOU.

                I blame the late ’80s/early ’90s.

    • Kelly
      Kelly
      August 27, 2014 at 1:31 am | #

      kill me now

      • Gigafreak
        Gigafreak
        August 27, 2014 at 9:29 am | #

        Violence or poison?

        JUST KIDDING, WE HAVE BOTH

  23. Corsair114
    Corsair114
    August 27, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

    The National Weather Service has issued a severe storm warning for the Funny Parts of the Internet following the merging of drama-hurricanes Billie and Ruth into Super Typhoon Brüth….

  24. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    August 27, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

    Them feels are reals. Just look into Billie’s eyes, Ruth!

  25. Eva
    Eva
    August 27, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

    Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!

  26. Eva
    Eva
    August 27, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

    Oh, it is so much better as a boob grab.

  27. Jesse
    Jesse
    August 27, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

    HERE I AM
    I’M A DRAMA HURRICANE

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      August 27, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

      +1 =D

    • Tacdud2
      Tacdud2
      August 27, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

      You know i was going to edit some more of the lyrics to match but they seem to fit pretty okay as they are.

    • Evil Midnight Lurker
      Evil Midnight Lurker
      August 27, 2014 at 12:34 am | #

      TONIGHT A HURRICANE
      DRAMA HURRICANE
      SPENDIN’ THIS LONELY NIGHT ARGUING

  28. Nono
    Nono
    August 27, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

    Learning about poisons is the first step in developing antidotes.

  29. AgentKeen
    AgentKeen
    August 27, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

    …Can two hurricanes hit each other? Like, is it meteorologically possible? What would happen?

    • Nena
      Nena
      August 27, 2014 at 12:20 am | #

      Superstorm Sandy?

      • JWLM
        JWLM
        August 27, 2014 at 12:34 am | #

        No, Sandy was a subtropical storm formed when a minor tropical vortex was captured by a temperate cold front.

        In principle, yes, two tropical vortices can merge. That’s not what usually happens: usually, the stronger of the two sucks up the water and the heat that the other one needs, leading the weaker to dissipate. Of course, that doesn’t seem too dissimilar to what we’re seeing here.

        • Slinx
          Slinx
          August 27, 2014 at 8:51 am | #

          So one of them would become a more intense drama hurricane and the other one will die? That sounds scarily like what happened to Billy and Ruth. I don’t know how I feel about this metaphor anymore.

          • AgentKeen
            AgentKeen
            August 27, 2014 at 5:54 pm | #

            See, I thought they’d just suck up the heat faster, causing both storms to dissipate, or at least calm down. And that’d be good! They’d calm each other down, no longer 2 drama hurricanes, able to interact with other people without busting up their windows.

            …I think that got away from me at the end there.

  30. Dr. Zeus
    Dr. Zeus
    August 27, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

    … Well I feel stupid. I guess I’m too used to the branded LCBO bags in Ontario. I didn’t read the comments last comic and honestly though she had a sub in her hand.

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      August 27, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

      She can quit those grinders ANY TIME SHE WANTS

    • Lanval
      Lanval
      August 27, 2014 at 9:20 pm | #

      Haha! I’m glad some one else thought it was wierd due to their specific upbringing. Think Ruth might also be Nostalgic for them?

  31. GoogerGeiger
    GoogerGeiger
    August 27, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

    http://i.imgur.com/P4ZFckf.png

  32. gwalla
    gwalla
    August 27, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

    “Yeah, I don’t care.”

    ♪ Caaan you feel…the looove tonight… ♫

    • Slinx
      Slinx
      August 27, 2014 at 8:53 am | #

      K-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-kiss the girl

  33. zumH
    zumH
    August 27, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

    She has a chance to fix what she broke: Seems like a win to me. + Danny’s line “I’ve spent the last few days feeling useless, and so I’d really be grateful for a chance to solve a problem for somebody”

    • Eukie
      Eukie
      August 27, 2014 at 1:00 pm | #

      She could always try to help Ruth, but that’s what got her into the current situation in the first place. What I think Billie really needs to do is say that she’s sorry about hurting Ruth. Just stopping Ruth from the physical act of drinking won’t solve anything if Billie keeps hurting her so she’ll want to drink to escape the pain.

      But if Billie’s willing to admit failure and that she’s been bad to Ruth, that hopefully means they’ll reconcile soon. I hope.

      • xKiv
        xKiv
        August 27, 2014 at 3:18 pm | #

        What I want to hear (read) Billie say is “(and) I don’t want to cause you that much pain again either”, or something to that effect. And mean it.

  34. timemonkey
    timemonkey
    August 27, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

    Girls, neither of you is Poison. Poison has pink hair and is in a gang.

    • blackhat64
      blackhat64
      August 27, 2014 at 12:43 am | #

      and is transgender

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        August 27, 2014 at 2:23 am | #

        And manages a huge German wrestler.

        • gwalla
          gwalla
          August 27, 2014 at 5:42 pm | #

          I thought Hugo Andore was supposed to be Italian.

  35. J-Debs
    J-Debs
    August 27, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

    That’s right Billie! Grab her tits! Grab them hard! Now kiss!

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 27, 2014 at 12:22 am | #

      That sounds painful.

      • begbert2
        begbert2
        August 27, 2014 at 3:54 pm | #

        The way she’s digging her fingers in there? That sounds horrible.

        • J-Debs
          J-Debs
          August 27, 2014 at 11:18 pm | #

          Some people are into it.

    • nothri
      nothri
      August 27, 2014 at 12:36 am | #

      ….her lips or her boobs?

      I have a feeling the answer to this question is “YES!”

  36. nothri
    nothri
    August 27, 2014 at 12:21 am | #

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4coXVx8noBA

    😀

  37. Betty Anne
    Betty Anne
    August 27, 2014 at 12:26 am | #

    It was nice knowing you guys. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v373/cliodhnaglen/GoDownWithShip_zps6d1a95a0.gif

    • Salmo
      Salmo
      August 27, 2014 at 12:31 am | #

      And I won’t put my hands up and surrender
      There will be no white flag above my door
      I’m involved with the love lives of comic strip characters and always will be

  38. Evil Midnight Lurker
    Evil Midnight Lurker
    August 27, 2014 at 12:32 am | #

    It’s the dose that makes the poison, as Paracelsus said.

    (And as a reply to a comment from two days ago, yes I am the E.M.L. from S.M.E.)

    • Gigafreak
      Gigafreak
      August 27, 2014 at 9:34 am | #

      Even in pharmaceutical classes today, they say that the only difference between a medicine and a poison is the dosage.

      So that means Ruth and Billie need small doses of each other.

      …Neither of them is the kind of person who OFFERS small doses of themselves. Loud and proud, they both are.

  39. Reynard-Miri
    Reynard-Miri
    August 27, 2014 at 12:36 am | #

    That girl is poisooooooooooon.

    • Antonio
      Antonio
      August 27, 2014 at 2:32 am | #

      http://youtu.be/81NpdkTcMAE

      • Reynard-Miri
        Reynard-Miri
        August 27, 2014 at 9:22 am | #

        Please allow me to show you a trick. I’ve found it fairly useful for this kind of thing.

        http://youtu.be/81NpdkTcMAE?t=35s

  40. Jenna
    Jenna
    August 27, 2014 at 12:40 am | #

    Just screw already!

  41. jayllenrup
    jayllenrup
    August 27, 2014 at 12:47 am | #

    OTP: Poisonous Drama Hurricane.

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      August 27, 2014 at 1:28 pm | #

      And here is another example of why this comments section needs a “like” or upvote system. Because adding to the comment count just to say “you are right” is just so wrong.

  42. Koms
    Koms
    August 27, 2014 at 12:53 am | #

    This is the Billie Walky likes..not the depressed one.Go Billie!! (shakes pom poms)

  43. MrSirk
    MrSirk
    August 27, 2014 at 12:59 am | #

    So what happens to the whole trying to be a better person thing?

  44. Kladeos
    Kladeos
    August 27, 2014 at 1:02 am | #

    I love these girls too much.

  45. Raptorman
    Raptorman
    August 27, 2014 at 1:36 am | #

    In this case two doses of poison may equal a cure.

  46. ninja_jesus
    ninja_jesus
    August 27, 2014 at 1:44 am | #

    WHY CAN’T I QUIT YOU?!

  47. Chengrel
    Chengrel
    August 27, 2014 at 2:04 am | #

    KISS HER YOU FOOL!

  48. Aizat
    Aizat
    August 27, 2014 at 2:16 am | #

    Well, if Ruth’s poison then I’m nuclear.

  49. David Alexander McDonald
    David Alexander McDonald
    August 27, 2014 at 2:20 am | #

    Billienado vs. Sharkruthtopus!

  50. davesignal
    davesignal
    August 27, 2014 at 2:26 am | #

    Little do we know that bag actually has a giant sharpie in it, for drawing whiteboard ding-dongs.

    It’s all coming together.

  51. Ashley
    Ashley
    August 27, 2014 at 2:31 am | #

    It’s too early for me to be this sad. 🙁

  52. acher4
    acher4
    August 27, 2014 at 2:33 am | #

    Sooooo….
    as we have 2 poisons, does negative+negative equals a positive in this scenario? Or you just die quickly from overdose?

    • Heavensrun
      Heavensrun
      August 27, 2014 at 1:49 pm | #

      Poison’s in the dose, not the substance!

  53. Volkai
    Volkai
    August 27, 2014 at 2:33 am | #

    Are the drama hurricanes about to turn into a drama sharknado?

  54. Malchus
    Malchus
    August 27, 2014 at 2:35 am | #

    So if this was happening in Southeast Asia, would they be drama typhoons?

  55. Lorcan nagle
    Lorcan nagle
    August 27, 2014 at 3:18 am | #

    So who’s the perfectly rhythmical remedy?

  56. Kevin
    Kevin
    August 27, 2014 at 3:33 am | #

    The antidote for poison is derived from the same poison. A match made in heaven!

    • Arkadi
      Arkadi
      August 27, 2014 at 8:07 pm | #

      And by “Heaven”, of course, you mean “Hell” ;3

  57. Joh
    Joh
    August 27, 2014 at 3:50 am | #

    Now, kiss

  58. Tualha
    Tualha
    August 27, 2014 at 3:57 am | #

    Am I the only one who thought of “Welcome to the NHK”? Two screwed-up people saving each other?

    • RandomRedMage
      RandomRedMage
      August 27, 2014 at 8:17 am | #

      Actually, yes, yes you might be… but now that you mention it the theme is kinda there. And now I want to go read that manga again.

    • Lanval
      Lanval
      August 27, 2014 at 9:17 pm | #

      I don’t think either of them are /quite/ that fucked up.

  59. Shadow12000
    Shadow12000
    August 27, 2014 at 4:37 am | #

    But if you’re both Poison then who will be Hugo?

  60. Lurve
    Lurve
    August 27, 2014 at 4:47 am | #

    Two wrongs can’t make a right.

  61. showler
    showler
    August 27, 2014 at 8:18 am | #

    I wonder if anyone has learned to check Ruth’s garbage nightly? Money-saver.

  62. Slinx
    Slinx
    August 27, 2014 at 8:59 am | #

    Things are getting too real

  63. Davethedavedave
    Davethedavedave
    August 27, 2014 at 9:57 am | #

    I wonder if Billie’s going to get a drawing of a wiener transferred onto her.

  64. itachi_0802
    itachi_0802
    August 27, 2014 at 10:30 am | #

    Lemme add to the clinking on the wine glasses: “Kiss her! KISS HER!!!”

  65. Pjotroos
    Pjotroos
    August 27, 2014 at 10:37 am | #

    Super happy to see that story progress. It’s got to be my favourite by far, the hole those two dug themselves into is easiest for me to relate.

  66. Dani Kelley
    Dani Kelley
    August 27, 2014 at 10:37 am | #

    Glad that it wasn’t Billie bringing alcohol to Ruth. Can we just make them kiss and go to counseling together or something? BE WELL SO YOU CAN BE HAPPY TOGETHER.

    • Heavensrun
      Heavensrun
      August 27, 2014 at 1:48 pm | #

      This person has not yet figured out how this comic works.

      • begbert2
        begbert2
        August 27, 2014 at 3:59 pm | #

        When Willis gets tired of all this he’ll post a single-panel comic that just says “And they all got counseling and lived happily ever after. The end.”

  67. The Lurker
    The Lurker
    August 27, 2014 at 11:29 am | #

    Could it be that I’m the only reader hearing background “Talk Dirty to Me” by, well, you know….

  68. OmegaDez
    OmegaDez
    August 27, 2014 at 12:28 pm | #

    What’s with the paperbag with stapled-on paper-thing?
    I gather she’s concealing some bottle of what I assume is beer in it?

    • butt-lord
      butt-lord
      August 27, 2014 at 12:57 pm | #

      Knowing Ruth I’d guess that it’s something stronger than a single beer

    • JWLM
      JWLM
      August 27, 2014 at 1:02 pm | #

      Most liquor stores in the US sell their product in a paper bag with the top stapled on to allow patrons to carry the booze without triggering laws that prevent the public consumption of booze. Ruth’s been to the liquor store and bought something (illegally, I think — I believe she’s twenty.)

      • OmegaDez
        OmegaDez
        August 27, 2014 at 1:51 pm | #

        Aha. Yeah the stapled bag looked kinda specific, that’s what I was curious about.

        They don’t even have bags in liquor stores here. (some envi
        ronmental-friendly measure, but I know all they want is to sell you their overpriced reusable bags) You either need to bring your own resuable bag, or carry it in your hands
        and risk having some policemen bother you if they see it.

  69. Eisog
    Eisog
    August 27, 2014 at 12:52 pm | #

    Now kiss. NOW KISS DAMMIT!

    • Heavensrun
      Heavensrun
      August 27, 2014 at 1:46 pm | #

      I will be pretty surprised if that’s not where this is going.

      • OmegaDez
        OmegaDez
        August 27, 2014 at 1:52 pm | #

        Dude don’t jinx it.
        That’s the kind of thing you say that makes a writer go all “oh well, I’ll change my story since it’s so predictable” if he or she reads it.

        • timemonkey
          timemonkey
          August 27, 2014 at 3:06 pm | #

          Three month long buffer, remember.

          Though I would love for them to not kiss.

        • AgentKeen
          AgentKeen
          August 27, 2014 at 3:09 pm | #

          Welp, now they won’t kiss on December 21st.

  70. butt-lord
    butt-lord
    August 27, 2014 at 12:59 pm | #

    Man, early college years are hard business 🙁

  71. Clayton
    Clayton
    August 27, 2014 at 1:05 pm | #

    She’s poison….poison running through your veins…

  72. Roborat
    Roborat
    August 27, 2014 at 2:58 pm | #

    So, some of the commenters were correct, that is booze. So she buys the bottle then throws it away? That is one expensive hobby.

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      August 27, 2014 at 2:59 pm | #

      Additional comment, last panel. Doesn’t it hurt getting your boob pulled like that?

      • timemonkey
        timemonkey
        August 27, 2014 at 3:05 pm | #

        Because she totally is yanking on her boob and not just grabbing the shirt.

        • begbert2
          begbert2
          August 27, 2014 at 4:01 pm | #

          No kidding – if somebody dug their fingers that deeply into an actual boob I’d expect to see spurting blood.

      • JWLM
        JWLM
        August 27, 2014 at 7:38 pm | #

        Ask yourself this: would it hurt having someone grab your nipple and pull like that? I think that really should answer your question for you…

  73. LWS
    LWS
    August 27, 2014 at 7:05 pm | #

    Dear Kettle:

    You’re black…

    Love, Pot

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      August 27, 2014 at 11:26 pm | #

      Dear Sal:

      You’re black.

      Love, Walky

  74. Kugai
    Kugai
    August 27, 2014 at 7:58 pm | #

    This will either them fighting or fucking

    One hopes it winds up the latter.

  75. Arkadi
    Arkadi
    August 27, 2014 at 8:11 pm | #

    🙁 It’s sad to see them suffering so much when the solution is so simple: you can’t drink alcohol and have sex at the same time. All the time they could spend in bed banging is time they wouldn’t spend drinking!

  76. Lord Geovanni
    Lord Geovanni
    August 27, 2014 at 10:18 pm | #

    when poisoned conteract with another poision it may save you

  77. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    August 27, 2014 at 10:51 pm | #

    Apparently Billie does not have her fingers digging into any thing other than fabric, or else Ruth would not look nearly as calm..she just looks sorta non-plused.

    RL these would be a terrible match.
    Here, they need each other. Go for it. Apologise for lying to Ruth. Forgive her Ruth.
    Try again. Join AA. You can do it together.

  78. Sam
    Sam
    August 27, 2014 at 11:10 pm | #

    So, what DID Ruth mean by that?

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