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Revenge

by David M Willis on April 4, 2011 at 12:01 am
  • 04 - The Bechdel Test

└ Tags: daisy, jennifer

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    April 4, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

    Revenge Fic can be a column!

    • Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
      Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
      April 4, 2011 at 12:10 pm | #

      Hmm, revenge fanfic, revenge fanfic….. WILLIS! You’ve given me a great idea! This will be in the Dumbing of Age: Digital and Dino-Thunder Power Rangers crossover.

  2. Dedlok
    Dedlok
    April 4, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    Yeah, like there isn’t Revenge Fan Fic in the newspapers already. They just call them Political Columns.

    • Seerow
      Seerow
      April 4, 2011 at 12:04 am | #

      And they make for such good reading!

    • XLR
      XLR
      April 4, 2011 at 2:49 am | #

      Zing!

  3. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    April 4, 2011 at 12:04 am | #

    She needs to:
    A) Shave her head
    B) Start wearing glasses with different color lenses
    C) Get the Dragons logo tattooed on her forehead. THEN she can write columns that take down tyrannical dictators.

    • Croaxleigh
      Croaxleigh
      April 4, 2011 at 12:41 am | #

      But only if she gets the gun.

      • Amazo
        Amazo
        April 5, 2011 at 4:34 am | #

        TWO guns.

    • They Call Me Sook
      They Call Me Sook
      April 4, 2011 at 12:46 am | #

      Transmetropolitan reference? You’re cool.

      • turkishproverb
        turkishproverb
        April 4, 2011 at 1:48 am | #

        Na, he’s just well read.

        Now fez’s? Fez’s are cool. So are stetsons.

        • Lesharo
          Lesharo
          April 4, 2011 at 2:29 pm | #

          What, are you from another planet or something?

          • Anon
            Anon
            April 4, 2011 at 9:26 pm | #

            Why yes they are, actually.
            It’s called Gallifrey ^^

            But the stetson will never be as cool as the fez.

        • Rognik
          Rognik
          April 4, 2011 at 11:54 pm | #

          You forgot bow-ties. I wear a bow tie now. Bow ties are cool.

    • Jenny Creed
      Jenny Creed
      July 20, 2013 at 11:45 am | #

      She can start by writing a column about Ruth that’s just the word “Fuck” repeated eight thousand times. It’s traditional!

  4. Vivvav
    Vivvav
    April 4, 2011 at 12:06 am | #

    I like it when things go wrong for Billie, because she’s a bongo.

    • dchorror
      dchorror
      April 4, 2011 at 12:34 am | #

      I like it when things go right for Billie, cause she’s a fun bongo.

      • Tristan J
        Tristan J
        April 4, 2011 at 2:11 am | #

        I like it when things go left for Billie.

        • Mirenheart
          Mirenheart
          April 4, 2011 at 2:32 am | #

          I like Billie.

          • benenator
            benenator
            April 4, 2011 at 6:26 am | #

            Even though she yelled in your FAAAAACE?

            • dchorror
              dchorror
              April 4, 2011 at 10:11 am | #

              That’s a really good reason to like her.

              • James Rye
                James Rye
                April 4, 2011 at 1:00 pm | #

                Cause she´s a Tsundere and yelling FAAAAACE is her form of telling others that she likes them?

                • Lokitsu
                  Lokitsu
                  April 4, 2011 at 7:18 pm | #

                  And because she doesn’t own a Monkey Master to throw.

        • Jabberwocky
          Jabberwocky
          April 4, 2011 at 3:38 pm | #

          I like it when things go diagonally for Billie.

      • Janette
        Janette
        April 4, 2011 at 5:15 pm | #

        I like when things go in any direction involving gay sex with Billie.

        Just cause it hasn’t happened yet doesn’t mean I can’t dream.

    • Daibhid C
      Daibhid C
      April 4, 2011 at 11:19 am | #

      But by the same token, things ought to go wrong for Ruth, as well…

  5. R
    R
    April 4, 2011 at 12:07 am | #

    I think I like this ‘verse’s Daisy more than IW!’s.

    • zuche
      zuche
      April 4, 2011 at 12:03 pm | #

      There does seem to be more depth to her characterization this time around.

  6. tdm88
    tdm88
    April 4, 2011 at 12:18 am | #

    I like Daisy, I like her a lot.

  7. Ridureyu
    Ridureyu
    April 4, 2011 at 12:19 am | #

    And so, Billie demonstrates selective hearing. “You can____revenge____Indiana!”

    And so, she takes a fedora and a whip and… I dunno, I’ve got nuthin.’

  8. Darth Cariss
    Darth Cariss
    April 4, 2011 at 12:26 am | #

    Tumblr!? I don’t even know ‘er!

  9. DrDVD
    DrDVD
    April 4, 2011 at 12:30 am | #

    ….. I sense a deep throat parody coming up in the future….

  10. Rognik
    Rognik
    April 4, 2011 at 12:31 am | #

    They do say truth is stranger than fiction.

  11. dchorror
    dchorror
    April 4, 2011 at 12:32 am | #

    It’s not just about telling the truth, it’s telling it in a manner that is unbiased and believable.

    Awesome look from Daisy, it’s a look I use far more often than I’d like.

  12. Ragnal
    Ragnal
    April 4, 2011 at 12:34 am | #

    …I still don’t get Tumblr.

    • Trae Dorn
      Trae Dorn
      April 4, 2011 at 1:14 am | #

      It’s hipster livejournal

      • Tristan J
        Tristan J
        April 4, 2011 at 2:13 am | #

        And here I thought Livejournal was hipster Livejournal.

        • dchorror
          dchorror
          April 4, 2011 at 10:12 am | #

          Guess that means Tumbler is even more so.

        • Chris Blanchard
          Chris Blanchard
          April 4, 2011 at 2:43 pm | #

          It was, until it became too mainstream.

          • Animaniac
            Animaniac
            April 6, 2011 at 11:06 pm | #

            Do I want to know what the tagline under a ‘hope’ style poster of Ron Jeremy says?

            Yes.

    • Jabberwocky
      Jabberwocky
      April 4, 2011 at 3:40 pm | #

      Clearly not, since I use it, and I’m as un-hipster as you can get.

      • taekwondogirl
        taekwondogirl
        April 4, 2011 at 5:01 pm | #

        Being a hipster by being un-hipster? HIPSTER.

        • Jabberwocky
          Jabberwocky
          April 4, 2011 at 8:57 pm | #

          I think you just broke my brain right there.

  13. Tana
    Tana
    April 4, 2011 at 12:48 am | #

    I find it funny that Billie is learning the HARD way that college is completely different from high school. She still doesn’t seem to get that there are no ‘social groups’ so much anymore. I also enjoy that with high school people who ask me questions about college. First thing I tell them is to leave EVERYTHING they learned in high school behind. In college, they aren’t there to watch you make an ass out of yourself, there is no more ‘popularity contest’. I feel so self-gratified when I see their reactions to that.

    • dchorror
      dchorror
      April 4, 2011 at 12:55 am | #

      There are social groups. There are always social groups. People just try to say they’re not as important.

    • Jetstream
      Jetstream
      April 4, 2011 at 1:07 am | #

      So… you LIE to your students?

      Cause that’s pretty much the opposite of what college actually is.

      In reality, the social groups are simply bigger, more ritualized, and totally disregard whatever you were before.

      And you’re at the bottom again.

      • Skye
        Skye
        April 4, 2011 at 2:10 am | #

        To be fair, I think it depends on what you’re talking. During my college years, I was in various computer related programs (Computer science, then got mentally beaten and came back to just do computer programming, then interactive multimedia) and up until the third one, I got the same experience. There was no social structure, there was no top or bottom. Everyone was friends. It wasn’t until the third program, a postgrade program where I had to deal with a lot of artist-type douchebags, that I saw that change. However, even then it was only one or two people who were like that.

        It can also depend on where you live. I’ve had friends from the US tell me what their college or university experience was like, and it in NO WAY matched mine or the one my older sisters had. A difference between US and Canadian colleges/universities? Maybe. or it could again be the program thing and my sisters and I just happened to be in programs that didn’t have these social structures stand as a part of it.

  14. Brandon
    Brandon
    April 4, 2011 at 12:53 am | #

    OFF TO THE INTERNET!

    • dchorror
      dchorror
      April 4, 2011 at 12:57 am | #

      Credibility is harder to gain there.

      • zuche
        zuche
        April 4, 2011 at 12:05 pm | #

        Why should I believe that?

  15. Dylan
    Dylan
    April 4, 2011 at 1:00 am | #

    I hate how Super Car isn’t on the poll…

    • bramblepatch
      bramblepatch
      April 4, 2011 at 1:12 am | #

      Who is this Super Car you speak of?

      Anyway, Ultra Car’s existence in the Walkiverse kind of directly hinges on Joe being an abductee, remember? So unless we get a different explanation of super-human engineering prowess, probably no Ultra Car in the Dumbiverse.

      • Dylan
        Dylan
        April 4, 2011 at 9:11 am | #

        Ultra Car, yes sorry. Brain fart.

        I know there’s pretty much no chance of Ultra Car making an actual appearance as anything other than a joke (Maybe there’s a TV parody of Knight Rider?), but I’d love to see that, regardless.

  16. Cratacon
    Cratacon
    April 4, 2011 at 1:00 am | #

    Maybe it’s just me, but watching Billie get kicked in the face while she’s down, again and again and again, stopped being funny when Questionable Content was doing it to Marten, and that was before DoA even began.

    • Piccolo
      Piccolo
      April 4, 2011 at 2:05 am | #

      I really don’t think the Billie-kicking is about making it funny at this point (I could be wrong). I think it’s about introducing her character to a situation she doesn’t really know how to handle and to see how she uses the opportunity to grow.

      • Skye
        Skye
        April 4, 2011 at 2:11 am | #

        Piccolo nailed it rather well. Billie’s dilemma isn’t suppose to be funny. It’s suppose to be a tool of character growth for her.

      • Penthesilea
        Penthesilea
        April 4, 2011 at 2:27 am | #

        I get the exact same impression, Piccolo.

        • Cratacon
          Cratacon
          April 4, 2011 at 1:29 pm | #

          How many times does Billie need to be kicked before we can get to that character development? Once? Twice? Ten more times? I want an estimate, because to me, it’s already been more than enough for whatever character growth Willis is building towards. Ten more harassment’s from Ruth won’t exactly add anything the first four already haven’t, but I’m willing to bet we haven’t seen the end of it yet.

          • Piccolo
            Piccolo
            April 4, 2011 at 4:58 pm | #

            Changing everything a person believes about themselves, their environment, and the other people inhabiting that environment with them takes time. In comic time, it’s been what, a week? Two? Billie will start to change, we just can’t expect it to be as quickly as if every real day was a comic day.

            • Cratacon
              Cratacon
              April 4, 2011 at 5:38 pm | #

              It’s their third day. In that time, Billie has been harassed by Ruth on three separate occasions and physically hurt on two of them. I realize it often takes more than three days for someone to change, but with the pace this comic is going, I’m just afraid we’ll be stuck on kick-Billie mode for the next few years until comic time reaches the point where her shift can be realistic.

          • taekwondogirl
            taekwondogirl
            April 4, 2011 at 5:03 pm | #

            You’re right. Repeated kicking from the same person doesn’t accomplish anything other than forming a vendetta. However, when she’s getting the same sort of treatment from multiple people, it’s much harder for her to ignore. Remember, this is a comic so it’s hard to really get a sense of how often it is since it’s not showing all her other interactions when the spotlight isn’t on her.

  17. wynne
    wynne
    April 4, 2011 at 1:22 am | #

    Billie in the third panel needs to go on some Che Geuvara-esque shirt.

    • goatman95111
      goatman95111
      April 4, 2011 at 2:22 am | #

      I concur. However, I’d respect Billie more than Che any day of the week. The guy was a nutcase.

  18. brasca1
    brasca1
    April 4, 2011 at 1:32 am | #

    If Daisy is going to nix an expose on Ruth then I’m not too sure she’ll have any more luck with a story on student vigilante Amazi-Girl.

  19. Liberal31337
    Liberal31337
    April 4, 2011 at 1:47 am | #

    That sure was a pretentious statement for someone in a dying media platform.

    • fit-to-freak
      fit-to-freak
      April 4, 2011 at 2:17 am | #

      I like you.

    • dchorror
      dchorror
      April 4, 2011 at 10:16 am | #

      Now more than ever, the newspapers have to keep their integrity.

    • Jason
      Jason
      April 4, 2011 at 11:25 am | #

      Hey, they could have an online version!

    • Vinners
      Vinners
      April 4, 2011 at 3:31 pm | #

      College newspapers actually do pretty well- I worked on TNH at UNH and people always took a copy to read during breaks or meals. For bigger newspapers I think we’re just disillusioned with how biased they are, and turn to online sources where we can get multiple perspectives. at least in college newspapers (or at least the one I worked on) they try to keep the slant to a minimum.

      or as much as anyone can, and still be interesting.

  20. Inara
    Inara
    April 4, 2011 at 2:22 am | #

    I like that she seemed to have to think about it for a moment – perhaps she’s already acquainted with Ruth?

  21. Robert in San Diego
    Robert in San Diego
    April 4, 2011 at 2:24 am | #

    I wonder how often Agatha’s had to say something like that.

  22. Robert in San Diego
    Robert in San Diego
    April 4, 2011 at 2:28 am | #

    “Daisy”

    I meant Daisy, not Agatha. OOPS.

  23. Gabe
    Gabe
    April 4, 2011 at 3:19 am | #

    Oh god. I just read all of Joyce and Walky. It is blowing my mind how you are using the exact same characters in such a different setting!!! Depressed and noble Ruth is a evil dictator R.A.? Super-powered Walky and Sal are just regular people?! Joyce is annoyingly innocent again!?! GAAAAAAA-

    • Gabe
      Gabe
      April 4, 2011 at 3:20 am | #

      Mike has weathered the transition to a new comic fairly well, however. I was surprised that his angry and aggressive behavior was never explained in Joyce and Walky….

      • DrDVD
        DrDVD
        April 4, 2011 at 5:59 am | #

        Ya, are we ever going to learn something about mike’s back story….. especially in the shortpacked/walky+ universe?

        • MeHael
          MeHael
          April 4, 2011 at 9:01 am | #

          He visits his parents with Amber in Shortpacked. You can get some backstory there. Though it might have been covered in It’s Walky!. Someone more familiar with the webcomic probably knows when it was first brought up.

          • Gabe
            Gabe
            April 4, 2011 at 10:43 am | #

            I wonder how MANY of the walky characters will b recycled? I wonder if we will see Monkey Master as a kindly old professor…
            The Cheese would make a good dean of students, I think.

            • Jason
              Jason
              April 4, 2011 at 11:24 am | #

              Monkey Master already appears as a cartoon character (and toy). If Cheese every appeared, it would be the same. No sci-fi stuff in this universe.

  24. Burnout
    Burnout
    April 4, 2011 at 3:19 am | #

    That makes two of us

  25. Zem
    Zem
    April 4, 2011 at 9:02 am | #

    (Joe glasses) Yep, they’a gonna bang any minute now.

  26. Thelo
    Thelo
    April 4, 2011 at 11:36 am | #

    College newspapers sure are more choosy in this universe than in mine.

  27. Keith
    Keith
    April 4, 2011 at 11:50 am | #

    Y’know, considering how blatantly antagonistic Ruth has acted towards pretty much everyone so far, I can’t imagine this would be a difficult thing to prove. Just stalk her with a camera for an hour or two and you’re bound to see her kicking someone over and stealing their lunch money or something.

    And just a thought; for someone who shares the banner with Joyce and Billie, Sarah sure hasn’t made much of an impact at all, has she?

  28. James Rye
    James Rye
    April 4, 2011 at 12:59 pm | #

    If newspapers, especially College newspapers, would put in a fanfiction part into their paper, they might get more readers/attention cause of that = sells more = MORE CASH.
    At least given the HUGE amount of fanfics at fanfiction.net and other wbsites. There are tons of them and i remember a page of Sore thumbs in which the future son of Fairbanks told his father that in the future fanfics will be the main entertainment of everyone.
    Might as well use it right now in this universe to be the first to swim in money. I´m sure there are alot of people who would like to read some revenge fic as long as Ruth is in it. 😛

    • Thelo
      Thelo
      April 4, 2011 at 2:59 pm | #

      College newspapers don’t really make money or “sell more”, they’re basically volunteer things.

      I actually did write some monthly fiction for my college newspaper, it was surprisingly popular. I think the main issue is that college newspaper editors aren’t necessarily that good in writing fiction, so they just don’t think of it.

    • taekwondogirl
      taekwondogirl
      April 4, 2011 at 5:06 pm | #

      So why exactly would people pay to read fan fiction when they can get it online? I have to say, I don’t want to pay to read *fan* fiction but I’d be willing to pay for original fiction.

    • JustAGuy
      JustAGuy
      April 4, 2011 at 8:35 pm | #

      There’s also a minor problem that fan fiction is technically ILLEGAL. Now, trying to close down fan fiction websites is like trying to bail out the ocean with a spoon. And the copy right holders don’t care (much), since nobody is making money off it.
      Closing down a college newspaper, or getting them to cough over money (effectively closing them down, since college newspapers are broke) – it takes a letter, maybe a phone call, maybe even can be done by email.

  29. Matt of Steel
    Matt of Steel
    April 4, 2011 at 1:49 pm | #

    I just realized that if this was an independent romantic comedy, Billie and Ruth would be bumping girlie parts by the end of the second act.

    Because as we all know, when your first impression of someone is to hate them it means you are secretly meant for each other.

  30. Jabberwocky
    Jabberwocky
    April 4, 2011 at 3:42 pm | #

    Psh, everyone knows revenge fics go on LiveJournal.

  31. david with a small d
    david with a small d
    April 4, 2011 at 5:16 pm | #

    I’m feeling Billie’s getting a bit too much of the poo end of the stick right now 🙁 Hope there’s no bell tower at this college…

  32. Shenanigans
    Shenanigans
    April 4, 2011 at 6:23 pm | #

    Okay, I just need to acknowledge the epic Doctor Who reference that turkishproverb made… Fez’s ARE cool!
    Also, do Ruth’s boobs say dragons?

  33. nsoran
    nsoran
    April 4, 2011 at 11:41 pm | #

    Is there a layer oops in the fourth panel or is her face supposed to have a pinkish halo?

    (Love the comic, by the way!)

  34. CookieGirl
    CookieGirl
    April 11, 2011 at 7:50 pm | #

    my face slowly went like this-.- o.o 0.0 O o O i fresak out s now

  35. devinmilesdrake
    devinmilesdrake
    October 23, 2011 at 8:47 pm | #

    what college are they attending?

  36. ServantofCygnus
    ServantofCygnus
    September 24, 2013 at 6:31 pm | #

    You little shit, as a tumblr i take offense to that.

  37. ubun7u43v3r
    ubun7u43v3r
    January 24, 2014 at 12:49 pm | #

    *eagerly awaits the strip where Billie realizes she’s NOT the shit*

  38. DarkVeghetta
    DarkVeghetta
    June 19, 2015 at 9:05 pm | #

    She considered it.

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