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by David M Willis on July 27, 2011 at 12:01 am
  • 06 - Yesterday Was Thursday
└ Tags: jennifer, joyce, mike, sal, walky

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    July 27, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

    That’s what high school does to you.

    • David Herbert
      David Herbert
      July 27, 2011 at 2:19 am | #

      That and teaches you pointless information.

      • Jamal K.
        Jamal K.
        July 28, 2011 at 9:49 am | #

        Lke how to cope with developin insanity? I’m takin an advanced course in it and tried applyin it…

        Let’s just say this straightjacket can’t get any tighter >_>

  2. addude
    addude
    July 27, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    I know crazy, it runs in my family, Billie is going crazy

    • Pat
      Pat
      July 27, 2011 at 1:05 pm | #

      So that’s her plan. If Billie is obviously crazy, nobody will believe her when she reports it.

  3. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    July 27, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    What no Marcies?

  4. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    July 27, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    Billie: A picture of mental health.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      July 27, 2011 at 12:04 am | #

      A not so pretty picture but a picture nonetheless.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        July 27, 2011 at 12:08 am | #

        Looks like we will have to wait until least Friday for Mike to put his nickel in.

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          July 27, 2011 at 12:17 am | #

          Well, Mike is there, we just have to wait and see.

        • Lis
          Lis
          July 28, 2011 at 12:46 am | #

          he’s too busy giving all his nickles to their moms

          • turkishproverb
            turkishproverb
            July 28, 2011 at 4:17 am | #

            I’m not sure who is getting the nickel in that arrangement, though

  5. alicemacher
    alicemacher
    July 27, 2011 at 12:04 am | #

    Billie
    Billie
    Billie

    CHILL.

  6. Aizat
    Aizat
    July 27, 2011 at 12:07 am | #

    Great, first she’s broken and now she’s corrupted.

    • Rowen Morland
      Rowen Morland
      July 27, 2011 at 2:19 am | #

      Sal, Ruth or Billie? Or I guess all maybe all of them?

  7. MM
    MM
    July 27, 2011 at 12:07 am | #

    Quick, someone run back to Billie’s room and see if there’s still any beer left.

  8. Joe
    Joe
    July 27, 2011 at 12:07 am | #

    Billie, you’re not helping yourself here.

    • Berenzen
      Berenzen
      July 27, 2011 at 12:13 am | #

      Sure she is, but only at digging her hole deepet.

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        July 27, 2011 at 2:43 am | #

        Deepet? Is that a new word?

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          July 27, 2011 at 8:43 am | #

          I think it was meant to be deeper.

          • eagalian
            eagalian
            July 29, 2011 at 12:13 am | #

            i dont think that series of avatars could be any more perfect for their respective comments XD

  9. arjay2813
    arjay2813
    July 27, 2011 at 12:07 am | #

    billie really needs to see a counselor. wonder if that will be reagan

    • Lis
      Lis
      July 28, 2011 at 12:47 am | #

      no just an RR look-alike

  10. Josh Spicer
    Josh Spicer
    July 27, 2011 at 12:13 am | #

    Okay, originally she was wrongly accused of being insane.

    NOW there’s liable reason to call her insane.

    • gangler
      gangler
      July 27, 2011 at 1:34 am | #

      “You called me a monster, and that’s what I became!”

      • Sophia
        Sophia
        July 27, 2011 at 12:53 pm | #

        Lolz Billie is Frankenstein?

      • Shifty
        Shifty
        July 27, 2011 at 3:54 pm | #

        Her expression in the last panel seems to support your quote. She looks a bit scary there.

  11. Beehive Radio
    Beehive Radio
    July 27, 2011 at 12:15 am | #

    I learned long ago never to try and sway folks to your side when feuding with a close fri– er, enemy. R.A.??
    Well, anyway, YOU usually come off looking like the antagonist. (or, in this case, a “Batshit Insane Wack-Bag”.
    Best to play it cool and let them be their own undoing.
    … Poor Billie

  12. Aizat
    Aizat
    July 27, 2011 at 12:21 am | #

    Billie’s smile is starting to creep me out.

  13. meanderling
    meanderling
    July 27, 2011 at 12:23 am | #

    Billie’s got a cruuuuush…

    Hey, that was canon Walkyverse, wasn’t it?

  14. Rex Hondo
    Rex Hondo
    July 27, 2011 at 12:25 am | #

    Methinks Billie is going through the DT’s something fierce.

  15. Thor
    Thor
    July 27, 2011 at 12:30 am | #

    HAPPY 100TH APPEARANCE, JOYCE!

    Revel in the fact that you are no longer the craziest person in the strip.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      July 27, 2011 at 2:42 am | #

      I think her craziness got transferred to Billie.

      • QueenThomas
        QueenThomas
        July 27, 2011 at 9:45 am | #

        Well, they are best friends.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          July 27, 2011 at 8:19 pm | #

          And BBFs share everything, including insanity.

          • NF
            NF
            July 28, 2011 at 1:24 am | #

            That comment made me imagine Billie and Joyce running through the campus at night, with Billie beating random people while Joyce yells “repent!”

          • Kernanator
            Kernanator
            July 28, 2011 at 1:19 pm | #

            Not to mention lesbian sex. But everyone knew that already.

  16. NCP19
    NCP19
    July 27, 2011 at 12:32 am | #

    Billie’s final face is golden. Also, I love Sal’s ventriloquism in the same panel given her mouth is closed around her cigarette, heh.

  17. Ridureyu
    Ridureyu
    July 27, 2011 at 12:35 am | #

    And now Sal refuses to sign the RA agreement, just because Billie is acting so crazy.

    Silly Billie!

    • gangler
      gangler
      July 27, 2011 at 3:37 pm | #

      “Hey Ruth! I hear you’re the RA. Listen, I think my roommate might be like way dangerously insane. I can’t even enter my own room because she just scares the hell out of me. Could you help me out here? She’s physically aggressive and always drunk and twitchy and obsessive and delusional. She takes pictures of people while they’re sleeping. She has pictures of you. Last night she stormed into our room at 3am and chased me out while shouting up a storm. The entire floor heard her! I can’t even sleep because of her!”

      Ruth raises an eyebrow. “Um yeah sure. Let’s make her someone else’s problem. I think that’s within my abilities considering the severity of the complaints.”

  18. Alechsa
    Alechsa
    July 27, 2011 at 12:36 am | #

    Mike… actually looks… WORRIED in the background…

    …Or disappointed that he has to stay back and miss the fun.

    • 1Samildanach
      1Samildanach
      July 27, 2011 at 12:49 am | #

      He’s concerned someone might die. Mums get all upset when their kids die, and he prefers to simply pay his nickel and get down to business.

      • Random832
        Random832
        July 27, 2011 at 1:07 am | #

        Wait, wait, wait….

        I thought the moms were paying the nickel to Mike…?

        • Kirby
          Kirby
          July 27, 2011 at 1:40 am | #

          That would imply that Mike was the prostitute, not your mom.

    • Sophia
      Sophia
      July 27, 2011 at 1:04 am | #

      He does love the moms. But he’s probably just worried there’s gonna be a fight where he DOESN’T get to punch anyone.

      • Pat
        Pat
        July 27, 2011 at 1:14 pm | #

        What’s stopping him from punching someone?

    • Shifty
      Shifty
      July 27, 2011 at 3:53 pm | #

      I don’t think he’s worried so much as contemplative. How can he make this situation worse… hmmmm?

    • MM
      MM
      July 27, 2011 at 5:44 pm | #

      In light of Walky’s comment, I vote for the second. Why on earth would you want to hang back from a good blood-spattering?

      • TheBenenator
        TheBenenator
        July 28, 2011 at 4:57 pm | #

        HIV. Hepatitis. Et cetra.

        • 1Samildanach
          1Samildanach
          July 29, 2011 at 2:23 am | #

          Given that he’s slept with your mum, I don’t think those are a concern for him any more.

          😛

  19. Qaxis
    Qaxis
    July 27, 2011 at 12:38 am | #

    Billie’s lack of sleep seems to be hurting her argument. Or maybe this is just how she argues. That’d be worse.

  20. DiDi
    DiDi
    July 27, 2011 at 12:38 am | #

    Oh… I laughed so bloody hard at this one. So bloody hard.

    • das-g
      das-g
      July 27, 2011 at 8:24 am | #

      If you laugh so hard that it becomes bloody, you might want to see a doctor.

  21. Madock345
    Madock345
    July 27, 2011 at 12:54 am | #

    I wish we had a full picture of billies faaace in the final panel so I could use it as a avatar.

  22. dchorror
    dchorror
    July 27, 2011 at 12:58 am | #

    Sadly, this isn’t even a record for Break the Cutie.

  23. Eposi
    Eposi
    July 27, 2011 at 1:02 am | #

    picture of Ruth sleeping… who is being stalked again?

    • MeHael
      MeHael
      July 27, 2011 at 2:26 am | #

      *manical voice* WHO’S STALKING NOW!

      • lawzlo
        lawzlo
        July 27, 2011 at 2:44 am | #

        It’s Stalky!

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          July 27, 2011 at 6:30 am | #

          What’s next? Joyce and Stalky?

          • QueenThomas
            QueenThomas
            July 27, 2011 at 9:46 am | #

            We’re no longer in the DoA-verse. We’re in the Stalkyverse.

          • 1Samildanach
            1Samildanach
            July 29, 2011 at 2:26 am | #

            Nah, it’d be Ruth and Stalky.

  24. Aizat
    Aizat
    July 27, 2011 at 1:23 am | #

    Billie is slowly walking into the insanity pool.

    • John
      John
      July 27, 2011 at 1:32 am | #

      There’s “walking”, and there’s “taking a running leap and yelling, ‘CANNONBALL!'”

      This is the latter.

  25. Cholisose
    Cholisose
    July 27, 2011 at 1:35 am | #

    Blood, hm? Well as they say in Sea World, front row seats are in the SPLASH ZONE.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      July 28, 2011 at 12:38 am | #

      Don’t you mean the DANGER ZONE?

  26. Kirby
    Kirby
    July 27, 2011 at 1:36 am | #

    I think I like this Sal. XD She’s very collected… and I also don’t see her staying in the room for very long from now on….

  27. Shifty
    Shifty
    July 27, 2011 at 1:47 am | #

    It continues to amuse me that Sal seems incapable of acknowledging her own crazy-ass behavior (again, she finds climbing the wall of a four story building easier than simply opening the door to her dorm and stepping over the sleeping body on the floor.)

    And yet… Billie is starting to loose her own remaining sanity points towards the end here.

    • Zanosuke_Kurosaki
      Zanosuke_Kurosaki
      July 27, 2011 at 2:49 am | #

      As Gangler has hypothesized, and I’m starting to agree, Sal uses Squirrel-Logic. By the views of Squirrel-Logic, one ignores one’s own contributions to things, as one is barely aware one exists, as one is constantly on the lookout for external threats. Sal is certainly doing this very thing…

  28. NF
    NF
    July 27, 2011 at 1:53 am | #

    Sal, just back away slowly. The cornered Billie is capable of great violence when threatened

    Also, Mike just showed up. All we need now is Joe, Danny, and Roz, then we could have one hell of a crazy-party.

    • Shifty
      Shifty
      July 27, 2011 at 3:51 pm | #

      Just give her a half-full bottle of Jack Daniels and everything will be okay.

  29. Tenn
    Tenn
    July 27, 2011 at 3:21 am | #

    Did Bille bring a shovel, or did someone hand it to her? 😛

    • Tenn
      Tenn
      July 27, 2011 at 3:22 am | #

      Bille = Billie.

  30. Confuzor
    Confuzor
    July 27, 2011 at 3:25 am | #

    Where’s Amazi-girl when we need her!?

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      July 27, 2011 at 6:28 am | #

      She’s off fighting the invisible hangman.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        July 27, 2011 at 8:47 am | #

        So is Sal a superhero or villain?

        • Mkvenner
          Mkvenner
          July 27, 2011 at 10:24 am | #

          It is to early to tell.

        • DeWeese07
          DeWeese07
          July 27, 2011 at 10:49 am | #

          Sal = Spider-Car

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      July 27, 2011 at 3:21 pm | #

      She’s right here – Sal *is* Amazi-girl. Have you ever seen them both around at the same time? No. And she’s out at all hours, often inexplicably absent; entering and exiting through upper-story windows; has a better vehicle than anybody else around? Obvious superhero traits. And the capper? Amazi-girl doesn’t wear glasses. Sal doesn’t wear glasses. Q.E.D.

      • Zanosuke_Kurosaki
        Zanosuke_Kurosaki
        July 27, 2011 at 7:49 pm | #

        You’re all wrong. Sal is a squirrel!

        • begbert2
          begbert2
          July 27, 2011 at 9:17 pm | #

          Sal’s Squirrel-girl? So she’s unbeatable then!

        • Roborat
          Roborat
          July 28, 2011 at 3:20 pm | #

          Yea, she does bear some resemblance to Grace, doesn’t she?

          • gangler
            gangler
            July 28, 2011 at 5:49 pm | #

            And the plot thickens.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            July 28, 2011 at 6:00 pm | #

            Wouldn’t a EGS crossover make DoA a tad less realistic?

            • gangler
              gangler
              July 28, 2011 at 9:14 pm | #

              Less realistic than that camera-phone in Billie’s hand?

    • MM
      MM
      July 27, 2011 at 5:45 pm | #

      Maybe Marcie’s her sidekick and has gone off to fetch her?

  31. Anime fan
    Anime fan
    July 27, 2011 at 11:26 am | #

    I agree with Sal on this one.

  32. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    July 27, 2011 at 8:16 pm | #

    Billie, Billie, Billie. That is not the way to convince people that someone else is crazy. It is, however, a great way to convince people that you need professional help.

    • NF
      NF
      July 28, 2011 at 1:19 am | #

      Yes, a professional goon!

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      July 28, 2011 at 1:34 am | #

      Yeah, a professional wrestler or hitman. Whichever comes first.

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        July 28, 2011 at 12:17 pm | #

        PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPLEX!

  33. Zem
    Zem
    July 27, 2011 at 10:05 pm | #

    Man, I wish people saw ME in their nightmares. 🙁

    Must be nice to have that kind of strong impression on people.

  34. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    July 27, 2011 at 11:18 pm | #

    This might actually be a good thing Billie’s going through.

  35. Osaru Sensei
    Osaru Sensei
    July 28, 2011 at 4:00 am | #

    Yeah, Billie’s falling off the slippery slope.

    ‘It finally happened Bart Billie! You’ve gone crazy!’

    • Osaru Sensei
      Osaru Sensei
      July 28, 2011 at 4:02 am | #

      … dammit, I forgot the strike tags.

  36. Fluttershy and Rarity are my OTP
    Fluttershy and Rarity are my OTP
    July 28, 2011 at 5:18 am | #

    Oh shit son, Billie gone cray-cray.

  37. Jack Faire
    Jack Faire
    July 28, 2011 at 8:45 am | #

    That’s why I always trust the crazy person. Everyone else thinks Billie is being insane but really it’s not the kind of thing that even crazy people make up it just sounds crazy. I give people like this benefit of the doubt cuz they are usually right.

    • Andy
      Andy
      July 28, 2011 at 9:35 am | #

      Even the ones who start talking about the monkeys and the host sauce and the tickling oh god the tickling why does it tickle so much no god no leave me alone

      …sorry, no idea what just came over me.

      • dchorror
        dchorror
        July 29, 2011 at 10:23 am | #

        There’s something there. It means run.

  38. Maycroft
    Maycroft
    January 20, 2012 at 4:04 pm | #

    You’re not helping your case Billie

  39. SgtNumnum
    SgtNumnum
    November 7, 2013 at 4:14 pm | #

    Her insanity level is OVER 9000!!!

  40. Moe
    Moe
    May 30, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    She’s smoking the cig the wrong way.

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