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September 28, 2023

Boyfriend

by David M Willis on December 27, 2010 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - Men are from Beck, Women are from Clark

└ Tags: jennifer, ruth

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  1. Coppermouth
    Coppermouth
    December 27, 2010 at 12:03 am | #

    Me thinks doth lady protest too much…

    • addude
      addude
      December 27, 2010 at 12:12 am | #

      me thinks the same idea forsooth

      • Dedlok
        Dedlok
        December 27, 2010 at 12:23 am | #

        I doth as welleth.

        I’m telling yea. Tsundere Billie is well on the way.

        • Joebo
          Joebo
          December 27, 2010 at 1:27 am | #

          yea verily

          • Pagannerd
            Pagannerd
            December 30, 2010 at 7:24 am | #

            God Damnit Thor, you speak real English!

    • agentksilver
      agentksilver
      December 27, 2010 at 1:17 am | #

      She’s prepared these arguments too. Just keep telling yourself that Billie.

    • Ancestral Hamster
      Ancestral Hamster
      December 27, 2010 at 1:39 am | #

      Billie’s heart: “Help, help, I’m being repressed!” 😀

      • Joebo
        Joebo
        December 27, 2010 at 11:25 am | #

        Mmmm, Shakespeare and Monty Python? Could this get any better?

        • Pagannerd
          Pagannerd
          December 30, 2010 at 7:25 am | #

          There could be go-go boys.

  2. Ragnal
    Ragnal
    December 27, 2010 at 12:04 am | #

    It’s weird, seeing Ruth without suspenders.

    • JackNapier
      JackNapier
      December 27, 2010 at 12:20 am | #

      Or being moody, for that matter.

      • Trae Dorn
        Trae Dorn
        December 27, 2010 at 8:46 am | #

        DoA Ruth is ten kinds of angstless awesome.

  3. David Herbert
    David Herbert
    December 27, 2010 at 12:04 am | #

    I think she hit a nerve.

  4. cappadocius
    cappadocius
    December 27, 2010 at 12:09 am | #

    I also hate Billie and her problems.

    • David Herbert
      David Herbert
      December 27, 2010 at 12:29 am | #

      She’s beating Sal in the poll to the right.

      Not my fault though, I voted for Dina.

    • Randonimity
      Randonimity
      December 28, 2010 at 4:37 am | #

      Seconding the hate for Billie. I liked her in Walkyverse but in DoA? I just want to hit her :/

  5. Bwernard
    Bwernard
    December 27, 2010 at 12:10 am | #

    hee hee, Billie’s pose on the last pannel is so reminiscent of Gallasso’s foiled pose! Someone should hand her something to crush.

    • Cha
      Cha
      December 27, 2010 at 1:46 am | #

      Mike should be in the girl’s hall right now. I’m sure he could find her a razor blade or something.

  6. Dierna
    Dierna
    December 27, 2010 at 12:14 am | #

    Well now… SOMEBODY’s certainly in a certain egyptian river….

  7. Nichan
    Nichan
    December 27, 2010 at 12:17 am | #

    She hates you and your FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!

  8. JackNapier
    JackNapier
    December 27, 2010 at 12:21 am | #

    Ruth cares not for your insipid problems, Billie. Haven’t you been reading the script?

  9. Someone
    Someone
    December 27, 2010 at 12:27 am | #

    You know, for someone trying really hard to be a totally new person in college, she sure doesn’t know how to repress the old at all.

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      December 27, 2010 at 6:40 am | #

      Wait – Billie is ‘trying really hard to be a totally new person’? Aside from trying to deny she knows Walky, she seems to be doing precisely the opposite – trying to continue her popularity and success from HS into college. (Without realizing she needs to put the work in again, because she’s been reduced to ‘fresh meat’ status again.)

      And even the Walky thing seems to be an amplification of their High School relationship, rather than a reversal.

  10. Dahlia
    Dahlia
    December 27, 2010 at 12:31 am | #

    Billie.

    Ruth is YANKING YOUR CHAIN.

    Shut the f*ck up and move on with the conversation, Jesus -.-;;

    When the RA has something to talk to you about its usually SERIOUS, so if you’d get your head from out your butt maybe she can tell you WHY shes “bothering” you and get this over with…Ruths not exactly smelling baskets of Roses talking to YOU either. :/

    • Tristan J
      Tristan J
      December 27, 2010 at 3:48 pm | #

      You know she can’t hear you, right? 😛

      • Socks
        Socks
        December 27, 2010 at 5:32 pm | #

        but it’s so much fun talking to the characters XD

        especially since you can bongo at them all you want & they never get to say anything back 😀

      • Dahlia
        Dahlia
        December 27, 2010 at 11:25 pm | #

        Haha, I know, I know, I just sometimes get carried away ^^;;

  11. JK9000
    JK9000
    December 27, 2010 at 12:34 am | #

    Oh, cool, I thought DoA would be going on hiatus alongside SP! This has significantly brightened by day, and I’m only 32 minutes into it.

  12. Clementine
    Clementine
    December 27, 2010 at 12:46 am | #

    I need to use that phrase more when speaking with people with issues.

  13. TinyDoctorTim
    TinyDoctorTim
    December 27, 2010 at 1:06 am | #

    Okay, this is disturbing. Billie & Danny hated each other in a previous incarnation, and look where they ended up.

    • Bickendan
      Bickendan
      December 27, 2010 at 1:17 am | #

      Noticed that too, eh?

      • Decimatrix
        Decimatrix
        December 27, 2010 at 1:23 am | #

        I third this remark 😀

    • Brendan
      Brendan
      December 27, 2010 at 1:53 am | #

      Billie and Walky? Brr… kind of pseudo-incestuous.

      • JackNapier
        JackNapier
        December 27, 2010 at 10:18 am | #

        Except…it’s not.

      • Zem
        Zem
        December 28, 2010 at 7:32 pm | #

        Billie and Ruth, then.

    • Pinja
      Pinja
      February 2, 2013 at 3:34 pm | #

      Ooooh, looking at this comment in hindsight…

  14. Chris
    Chris
    December 27, 2010 at 1:42 am | #

    Why so much Billie hate? I personally love Billie and her high strung freak outs. I’d never be able to tolerate them in real life, but luckily there’s this monitor-thing between me and her so I can laugh at a distance. Shes just one of those that are fun to watch fail.

    • Dahlia
      Dahlia
      December 27, 2010 at 1:47 am | #

      Eeeh, for me, personally, shes like the annoying character that single-handedly manages to ruin a good movie (like the kids in Jurassic Park)…I’ll be sitting there lolsing at the characters and loving the story and then suddenly BILLIE appears and I can’t stand to read one word of the strip knowing if shes in it its going to be something stupidly selfish, hoping nothing too important about the plot was missed.

      I can’t speak for why others dislike her, though D:

      • zuche
        zuche
        December 27, 2010 at 9:12 am | #

        I’m admit that this strip leaves me wondering Does she display this kind of energy in bed?

        Well, someone’s got to wreck that piece of furniture sooner or later, super-powers or no.

        • Dahlia
          Dahlia
          December 27, 2010 at 11:26 pm | #

          bwahaha, XD I just hope whoever she ends up with makes her more tolerable! o:

          • Gianni
            Gianni
            December 28, 2010 at 11:50 am | #

            Mike

    • Tristan J
      Tristan J
      December 27, 2010 at 3:54 pm | #

      I’m a Billie fan for the same reasons. Although I’d love to know Billie in real life – poking at someone’s insecurities, risking life and limb in the process, is always fun.

      • Tristan J
        Tristan J
        December 27, 2010 at 3:59 pm | #

        Addendum: I didn’t like Ruth before, but on the discovery that she puts her job before her own distaste for someone, I really like her now. Which probably says a lot about me.

        • Dahlia
          Dahlia
          December 27, 2010 at 11:36 pm | #

          Haha, see I’m surrounded (and tortured) in real life by Billie-types (in my apartment, at school…) so I’m actually kinda sick of this type of character (especially in a story I really like with nifty artwork I respect and a style I love)… and while I SHOULD find her failures hilarious I actually groan and hope to God shes not in the next panel.

          Oh I ADORE Ruth, yeah, she was moody, but all she ever did was try to help Danny and get help from him and I was so happy that she ended showing some of that mentorish role in THIS universe when she was talking to Dorothy.

          • Tristan J
            Tristan J
            December 28, 2010 at 12:13 am | #

            Hah, I sympathise. I used to love Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonists until a good deal of high school put me off that.

            On Ruth, I reckon part of the appeal of DOA-Ruth comes from the fact that she’s the anti-Billie. She’s just as smug as Billie, but she actually has the ability (physically and intellectually) to pull off the shit she claims she can do. And unlike Billie, she doesn’t appear to let petty crap affect her – she’s going about her job with only a few snarky remarks.

            For Billie fans, this means that her insecurities (i.e. her main appeal) are brought to the surface really quickly and obviously. For Billie haters, not only do they see her get shut down, but they have someone closer to their preferred character archetype (i.e. someone entirely unlike goddamn Billie) to enjoy. When you think about it, that’s pretty brilliant of Walky, from a writing standpoint.

            I’m, um, rambling now 🙂

          • Dahlia
            Dahlia
            December 28, 2010 at 1:04 am | #

            I dealt with bongoes like this all my life: Elementary school and Middle-school, especially after I got honors and won spelling bees, High school was also filled with these bongoes who hit on a guy I used to like (anti-climatically he choose a Billie-esque character, too) and, of course, I’m stuck with this type in college, as well (my ex-roommates that I had to transfer to get away from…) so thats why I get pissy when I have to see her, lol, I wanna get away fro that character, haha.

            Hah, believe it or not, Ruth disliking Billie in DoA is a bonus, not the reason I lie her. I always admired how Ruth struggled to help Danny , despite all her problems, and even sacrificed herself for him…that…I’ll always give Ruth respect for that, no matter which universe.

            Lol, its ok, I ramble on, too! D:

  15. Cha
    Cha
    December 27, 2010 at 1:51 am | #

    Oh, Billie. It’d freak her out more if you looked serious adn said “He is my one true love 8D”

  16. Cupid
    Cupid
    December 27, 2010 at 6:28 am | #

    Sounds like love to me.

  17. Merrick
    Merrick
    December 27, 2010 at 7:25 am | #

    I wish these two would just get up and leave.
    Argh.

  18. Tomb
    Tomb
    December 27, 2010 at 9:06 am | #

    Alriiight~ Ruth is back in action!

  19. Emily
    Emily
    December 27, 2010 at 9:20 am | #

    Final panel Ruth might be my favorite thing today.

  20. Ozzmandius
    Ozzmandius
    December 27, 2010 at 10:28 am | #

    When in doubt, deny deny deny.

  21. ArchSchnitz
    ArchSchnitz
    December 27, 2010 at 10:32 am | #

    So, since everything is changed and despite the fact that in this universe Mike could set things straight with Dina, karma-wise, (I have decided that karma applies across timelines.) I think Willis should put Ruth and Mike together. I want this only for my own gratification, as they could make everyone else cry.

    • MrGBH
      MrGBH
      December 27, 2010 at 1:19 pm | #

      Karma cannot work across universes. That would mean that another me could be out there doing bad stuff and I could get all the bad karma. And while I do nothing but good things, the bad me gets nothing but good stuff. It would make the very concept of karma pointless.

      • MJ
        MJ
        December 27, 2010 at 1:30 pm | #

        It’d make the concept of karma more interesting!

      • dchorror
        dchorror
        December 27, 2010 at 2:35 pm | #

        That seems a good explanation for these:

        http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KarmaHoudini
        http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitle315nmtwnjpe4

      • ArchSchnitz
        ArchSchnitz
        December 28, 2010 at 7:23 pm | #

        Karma has to work across universes. There has to be an alternate me out there doing good deeds. That’s the only explanation for why I don’t spontaneously turn into a cockroach as karmic backlash for the terrible things I do and say.

    • Doodlebug
      Doodlebug
      December 27, 2010 at 1:41 pm | #

      what about ruth-walky? that could be creepy.

  22. arjay2813
    arjay2813
    December 27, 2010 at 11:01 am | #

    epic look on her face. i would love to see ruth and mike get together. so much win would be unleashed…

    first time i read it, i thought she said “i hate you and your face”

    • Joebo
      Joebo
      December 27, 2010 at 11:21 am | #

      FAAAAAAACE!

  23. skippy
    skippy
    December 27, 2010 at 11:59 am | #

    How about Billie and Ruth? This is Willis, you know.

    • beeftony
      beeftony
      December 27, 2010 at 2:10 pm | #

      That already happened in the original Walkyverse. We just never got to see it.

  24. Alexx
    Alexx
    December 27, 2010 at 12:29 pm | #

    I missed ya, Ruth.

  25. MrGBH
    MrGBH
    December 27, 2010 at 1:17 pm | #

    Hmmmmm. Two characters openly hating everything about each other? This means they must get together!

  26. Qaxis
    Qaxis
    December 27, 2010 at 1:40 pm | #

    Someone’s got a crush.

  27. dchorror
    dchorror
    December 27, 2010 at 2:38 pm | #

    Must finish BilliexWalky piece before week is up.

  28. MeHael
    MeHael
    December 27, 2010 at 3:15 pm | #

    Trying to figure out the words that are covered up by Ruth’s word bubble: “Gonna s______ his scrawny ______ neck!”

    • Tristan J
      Tristan J
      December 27, 2010 at 3:57 pm | #

      I assume ‘strangle’ and ‘antidisestablishmentarianism’.

      The second word is squished in a bit.

    • dchorror
      dchorror
      December 28, 2010 at 12:30 am | #

      Strangle and an f-bomb, probably.

  29. Shift
    Shift
    December 27, 2010 at 3:20 pm | #

    I second Ruth’s feelings in the last panel.

  30. thatgirlwiththeglasses
    thatgirlwiththeglasses
    December 27, 2010 at 5:28 pm | #

    Yes! DoA is not on hiatus!
    Oh, Billie, your words are only proving that love that you wish to deny…

  31. Socks
    Socks
    December 27, 2010 at 5:29 pm | #

    i really like this ruth XD

  32. Fargon
    Fargon
    December 27, 2010 at 11:22 pm | #

    Personally, I want to see Joyce and Walky. But a lot has got to happen before they could get together.

  33. Rognik
    Rognik
    December 28, 2010 at 1:01 am | #

    Eh, Billie could do worse than Walky.

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      December 28, 2010 at 1:34 pm | #

      But he couldn’t do worse than her.

  34. Just for kix
    Just for kix
    December 28, 2010 at 2:45 am | #

    If every subsequent characters in the poll hooked up (as I see it right now), the story looks perfect 😛

    MikexDina, WalkyxJoyce, RuthxAmber, BilliexSal (woot!), JoexSarah, EthanxDorothy and Danny is masterbating alone. Perfect, just Perfect!

    • Dahlia
      Dahlia
      December 28, 2010 at 2:58 am | #

      Your comment, good sir, has made my day XD

      I LOL’D so hard.

    • 0ushiza
      0ushiza
      December 28, 2010 at 8:43 am | #

      But Ethan is probably gay. Though he probably stll doesn’t know it

      • Kamino Neko
        Kamino Neko
        December 28, 2010 at 1:33 pm | #

        Word of God is that Ethan’s long since worked out his issues of sexuality and is out of the closet already.

    • MrGBH
      MrGBH
      December 28, 2010 at 2:37 pm | #

      It’s currently JoexEthan and SarahxDorothy.

      • Socks
        Socks
        December 28, 2010 at 8:02 pm | #

        & danny’s still by himself XD

    • dchorror
      dchorror
      December 28, 2010 at 8:35 pm | #

      For some reason, RuthxAmber scares me.

  35. Twib
    Twib
    December 28, 2010 at 9:24 am | #

    Something about that RA annoys..

  36. Dr. Worm
    Dr. Worm
    December 28, 2010 at 9:36 pm | #

    All right, when everybody was saying “Billie’s so Tsundere for Walky!” I didn’t believe ’em, but holy crap.

  37. Alechsa
    Alechsa
    December 28, 2010 at 9:49 pm | #

    ….Someone throw Billie at Joe and get them both the laying they so desperately need, please?

    Also: Ruth’s face in final panel for the win. <3

  38. Sporkaganza
    Sporkaganza
    December 30, 2010 at 12:03 am | #

    …I just realized that Billie is pretty much Asuka from Evangelion.

    …Weird.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      February 26, 2011 at 1:15 am | #

      Does that make Walky Shinji then?

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        June 22, 2011 at 12:59 am | #

        Yes. Manga version, that is. But who is Rei? Joyce? Sal? (Because they’re siblings.

  39. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    February 26, 2011 at 1:14 am | #

    Ruth > Billie

  40. DeWeese07
    DeWeese07
    March 10, 2011 at 10:43 am | #

    Mike – penis = Ruth?

  41. Aryn
    Aryn
    September 11, 2011 at 8:56 pm | #

    hey, this is entirely not related, but i tried to go to shortpacked and got a popup ad thing trying to sell me an ipad 2. when i tried to navigate away there was a second pop up trying to stop me. i force closed it but I thought you should be aware that you might have been hacked. since I can’t get to shortpacked directly, I thought I’d come here.

    also, huge fan and keep it up, on both strips. 😉

  42. newllend
    newllend
    August 13, 2013 at 3:43 am | #

    Throw her ass into a nother chair, that will shut her up

  43. Gigafreak
    Gigafreak
    July 21, 2014 at 12:22 am | #

    Joyce is the closest thing Billie has to a friend.
    Walky is the closest thing Billie has to family.
    Ruth is the closest thing Billie has to a lover.

    Dysfunction! When the only thing all your screwed-up relationships have in common is YOU!

  44. Alex
    Alex
    July 21, 2014 at 12:45 am | #

    Damn you Willis, I no longer have a head!

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