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by David M Willis on July 31, 2012 at 12:01 am
  • 05 - Saturday's All Right for Slighting
└ Tags: jennifer, joyce

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  1. David Herbert
    David Herbert
    July 31, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    What’s she going to buy for Dorothy then?

    • cdotsq
      cdotsq
      July 31, 2012 at 12:39 am | #

      pajama jeans SO SHE MAY FINALLY UNDERSTAND

      • Nym
        Nym
        July 31, 2012 at 1:05 pm | #

        This would be the best plot twist.

        • Random Guy
          Random Guy
          July 31, 2012 at 3:18 pm | #

          YES.

      • Scout
        Scout
        August 6, 2012 at 10:13 am | #

        Should always have these

  2. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    July 31, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    Look at her eye. I think she’s losing it.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 31, 2012 at 12:06 am | #

      Maybe Joyce just stinks and Billie is too nice to say anything.

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        July 31, 2012 at 12:14 am | #

        So long as Billie doesn’t randomly gift Joyce with deodorant.

        (Yes, this has actually happened to me.)

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          July 31, 2012 at 12:15 am | #

          I recently had my boss tell me that ALL the staff was complaining about me…and made me take a shower immediately…embarassin’!

          • Kernanator
            Kernanator
            July 31, 2012 at 12:29 am | #

            Man, I’m in college, I’m too busy to worry about how I smell!

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              July 31, 2012 at 9:25 pm | #

              I bet your classmates love you… 😛

          • Rognik
            Rognik
            July 31, 2012 at 12:42 am | #

            Did they strip you down and throw you in the shower right there and then? I think that’s how some pornos start…

            • moonracer191
              moonracer191
              July 31, 2012 at 12:54 am | #

              Thats how my porno would start. Only instead of water they would shower in bavarian cream.

              • Historyman68
                Historyman68
                July 31, 2012 at 2:25 am | #

                That sounds delicious.

                • Jetstream
                  Jetstream
                  July 31, 2012 at 8:42 am | #

                  Right up until it gets in your eyes, and then the screaming starts.

                • CWR
                  CWR
                  August 1, 2012 at 7:46 am | #

                  Yes. Dairy products and human dander go together like Sprite and bananas…

          • Mankindthefoley
            Mankindthefoley
            July 31, 2012 at 6:55 am | #

            lucky you aren’t in the old navy. they would have turned the fire hose on you when you were in your rack asleep.

            • LaurelRaven
              LaurelRaven
              July 31, 2012 at 1:04 pm | #

              Wow, I never knew how intense some clothing stores could be!

          • Oberon
            Oberon
            August 1, 2012 at 12:38 am | #

            Ha! At a very old job, we had a cot for people who put in a long day and didn’t have time to go home. There was one guy who would stay at work for 3-4 days in a row… Before one all-hands meeting, I discreetly told him that his BO was very strong. He left immediately to go home for a shower, and missed the all-hands. Not so good for him, but excellent for the rest of us cramped into the largest conference room which still lacked capacity.

    • Shade
      Shade
      July 31, 2012 at 12:12 am | #

      Nah she’s just lost in her fantasy.

      • Jackson
        Jackson
        July 31, 2012 at 6:57 am | #

        Billie lives in a magical fantasy world where people are Andrew Garfield and two hunky friends and they say things like that.

    • Bekah
      Bekah
      July 31, 2012 at 12:19 am | #

      Assuming, of course, that she ever had it.

    • Krashthemystro
      Krashthemystro
      July 31, 2012 at 12:21 am | #

      It’s just a twitch, but perfectly normal under the circumstances.

    • Aisling
      Aisling
      May 30, 2015 at 8:44 pm | #

      Her expression reminded me of invader zim, lol.

  3. Regalli
    Regalli
    July 31, 2012 at 12:03 am | #

    Is that how you draw glasses from the side? It looked weird on Amber yesterday, but I guess it could be the frame…

    • Khrene Cleaver
      Khrene Cleaver
      July 31, 2012 at 4:42 am | #

      Naw, David just erased part of the glasses frames so we can properly see Billies eye, as pupil direction, pupil size, and pupil highlight size all tell us about the character’s emotions.

      • begbert2
        begbert2
        July 31, 2012 at 10:36 am | #

        Given on the angle like that her glasses would have to be bent around her face like swim goggles to look like that, even without the erased part. (In actuality they’d be much closer to a straight line hovering in front of her eye.) This is apparently just Willis’s way of implying glasses at the moment.

        • Scoops!
          Scoops!
          July 31, 2012 at 1:23 pm | #

          I was reading it as heavily convex lenses, like those things weigh a pound and she has very poor eyesight.

        • Khrene Cleaver
          Khrene Cleaver
          July 31, 2012 at 5:00 pm | #

          I always found that weird looking, cause glasses have a bit curve to them and even if a straight line is a bit closer than this, exaggerating details rather than taking them is always weird looking to me and it gives less info to reader/veiwer or whatever you call someone looking at some kinda drawing.

  4. Raen
    Raen
    July 31, 2012 at 12:04 am | #

    Andrew Garfield?

    Billie’s fantasies are not what I’d have guessed…

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      July 31, 2012 at 12:43 am | #

      Who is Andrew Garfield? I feel the reference is lost on me.

      • NCP19
        NCP19
        July 31, 2012 at 1:00 am | #

        The new Spider-Man (and the guy who got cheated out of money in The Social Network)

        • Trae Dorn
          Trae Dorn
          July 31, 2012 at 1:19 am | #

          DON’T FORGET THAT TWO PARTER OF DOCTOR WHO HE DID! Man his accent was terrible in that…

          • Weebles
            Weebles
            July 31, 2012 at 7:06 pm | #

            If it was a british accent… isn’t Andrew Garfield actually british? Wouldn’t that be his normal voice?

            • Echidnae
              Echidnae
              August 1, 2012 at 10:43 am | #

              According to the Tardis Wiki, it was Tennessean. I can see that ending badly.

        • Ziaheart
          Ziaheart
          July 31, 2012 at 1:33 am | #

          Oh, he IS adorable in that baby-faced way.

    • |Agent
      |Agent
      July 31, 2012 at 1:47 am | #

      She harbors P.S.L.

      • lordphulish
        lordphulish
        July 31, 2012 at 9:32 am | #

        He’s too pretty to be Spiderman. Nobody who looks like that kid would have been picked on in high school and have a hard time getting ladyfriends.

  5. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    July 31, 2012 at 12:05 am | #

    And thus Billie has revealed her true intention.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      July 31, 2012 at 12:21 am | #

      Yes, doing a hunk and get to watch some guy on guy action at the same time.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        July 31, 2012 at 1:33 am | #

        That.. that doesn’t sound so bad.

        • Khrene Cleaver
          Khrene Cleaver
          July 31, 2012 at 4:45 am | #

          Especially considering shes the catcher, which means that very little pressure would fall on her to please any of the other members involved.

      • artemi71
        artemi71
        July 31, 2012 at 8:11 am | #

        *Doing a hunk and watching some guy on guy on Joyce action.

        • PrincessCarlos
          PrincessCarlos
          July 31, 2012 at 4:34 pm | #

          You look disappointed with that statement, care to share?

          • artemi71
            artemi71
            August 1, 2012 at 10:27 am | #

            It’s the Grav. Donna does not approve of a lot of things I’m for. *laugh*

  6. emeraldbeacon
    emeraldbeacon
    July 31, 2012 at 12:07 am | #

    Kinda surprised that Joyce didn’t flinch at the mention of “bisexual”.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 31, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

      Maybe she thought Billie said that they are “Bicycles” and now she thinks they’re really crappy Transformers.

    • Raen
      Raen
      July 31, 2012 at 12:15 am | #

      Naïve as Joyce is, she probably thought Billie was serious about wanting to have sex with Sal.

      (…whether she was is immaterial.)

    • Barf Ninjason
      Barf Ninjason
      July 31, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

      Seeing as how that’s the very last thing said in the last panel, it could very well be that the in the next one Joyce will go all, “Ewww grody, church church church. “

      • Krashthemystro
        Krashthemystro
        July 31, 2012 at 12:21 am | #

        I hope not, besides most churches are okay with the LGBT crew. Atleast where I live.

        • Raen
          Raen
          July 31, 2012 at 12:26 am | #

          Pretty clearly not Joyce’s – pretty much as a rule, any church whose members find deep time and evolution “controversial” is not fond of gays.

        • HeatPhoenix
          HeatPhoenix
          July 31, 2012 at 6:35 am | #

          That’s some odd church you got there, I’m not a Christian (anymore) or opposed to whatever people want to stick their hooha in and whatnot, but the bible kind of explicitly condemns homosexuality (Abomination and such), so I’d think Christians would want to avoid abominations in their church. Or maybe that was just my church, well, not that they’d go so far as to KICK people out. But they definitely not just let it go, you know.

          Heck, over here they get fussy when people live together without getting married.

          • artemi71
            artemi71
            July 31, 2012 at 8:10 am | #

            Take it from the outside world, Heat, but I’m afraid to say that you went to a pretty odd church, then. There are plenty that refuse to allow discrimination define them.

            • Cody B
              Cody B
              July 31, 2012 at 8:26 am | #

              I’ve been to about four churches over the course of my life. All of them pretty much fell in line with what Heat described. Including, I was surprised to find out, the Christian youth group I joined which I later discovered was led by an ex-drug dealer. Go figure.

            • begbert2
              begbert2
              July 31, 2012 at 10:40 am | #

              I dunno about Heat, but I live in the US. Artemi71’s church would be the odd one out here, as best I can tell, in most regions in the area.

              • artemi71
                artemi71
                August 1, 2012 at 10:25 am | #

                Well… I AM an Episcopalian. I guess I hadn’t considered that we would be ahead of the times on this one. Homosexual priests are not that uncommon (my local parish has one) and just a month ago at the natinal convention we ruled for developing same-sex union blessings. So… yeah. Maybe I AM the odd one.

          • Andrusi
            Andrusi
            July 31, 2012 at 9:12 am | #

            Churches come in a variety of flavors. Some are like the one you know. Some aren’t.

            • HeatPhoenix
              HeatPhoenix
              July 31, 2012 at 11:39 am | #

              The King James translation of the bible used by most christian comes in only one flavor though. The one that condemns homosexuality.

              God is an angry little man.

              • Raen
                Raen
                July 31, 2012 at 12:38 pm | #

                That’s not a translation issue; all versions of the Bible condemn homosexuality.

                • David
                  David M Willis
                  July 31, 2012 at 12:55 pm | #

                  Well, some claim that Paul, properly translated, is only against pedastry not homosexuality, and his are the only prescriptions against homosexuality that would count, as the Old Testament doesn’t count as Christian Law except for when it does.

                • Roborat
                  Roborat
                  July 31, 2012 at 2:56 pm | #

                  Actually, do a little historical research, and you will find that they don’t.

                • Raen
                  Raen
                  July 31, 2012 at 4:55 pm | #

                  Almost always from a Christian, “do historical research” = “read apologetic spin without cross-referencing.”

                • Raen
                  Raen
                  July 31, 2012 at 5:28 pm | #

                  Oh, and the reason the Old Testament prohibitions do apply is Acts 15, where Paul cautions against “porneia,” usually “sexual immorality” or “fornication,” which in the language of the time would be understood to refer to the prohibitions laid down in Leviticus 18, including – yep. Granted, the connection’s not totally clear (especially in those translations that take the word in the then-obsolete sense of “whoredom” or the NAB’s euphemistic “unlawful marriage”), but the initial prohibition in Leviticus, at least, is alaways there, plus the lengthier bit in Romans 1 is harder to spin than the word “arsenokoites” that pops up in 1 Corinthians 6:9 and 1 Timothy 1:10.

                  Keep in mind that Jesus did say nothing about homosexuality – while living in a society where gay men could be stoned after one warning, and lesbians flogged.

                • Jath
                  Jath
                  July 31, 2012 at 8:35 pm | #

                  I feel it translates most correctly to sodomite, because that’s what New Revised Standard Version says and NRSV is 100 times better than NIV, which is stupid and dumb.

                  /is never argumentative

                  A lot of people argue the word “castrated” is referring to homosexuality in Jesus’s discussion about how some people are born castrated, but that passage makes little sense no matter how you chose to translate or argue about it. That’s for the translating guys to do. :3

                • Roborat
                  Roborat
                  August 1, 2012 at 2:39 pm | #

                  Nope, pretty much an atheist, just like doing historical research on religion, it helps me drive the fundies crazy when I can call them on their bullshit.

              • Andrusi
                Andrusi
                August 1, 2012 at 9:15 am | #

                Christians come in both “thinks the Bible is the infallible word of God” and “thinks the Bible is the very fallible word of some guys who had lunch with God a few times” flavors.

          • Nym
            Nym
            July 31, 2012 at 1:00 pm | #

            Considering my (very much Christian) faith has gay bishops and the number of LGBT-friendly churches out there, I’d think quite a few Christians would disagree with you on that “avoid abominations in their church” blanket statement. That said, I’m v. curious to see Joyce’s response, because the home-schooled Christians from a small denomination I met while in college (in Indiana, but not IU) were all over the spectrum when it came to meeting or even discussing us queer kids.

      • Historyman68
        Historyman68
        July 31, 2012 at 2:27 am | #

        I really just hope Joyce literally says “ew, grody, church church church.”

        • Cody B
          Cody B
          July 31, 2012 at 8:27 am | #

          Seconded.

        • Raen
          Raen
          July 31, 2012 at 5:29 pm | #

          Grody?

          • madd
            madd
            July 31, 2012 at 8:33 pm | #

            To the max!

    • thomas0comer
      thomas0comer
      July 31, 2012 at 12:18 am | #

      She flinches in between this strip and the next one.

      • Khrene Cleaver
        Khrene Cleaver
        July 31, 2012 at 4:48 am | #

        Billie used Sexual Fantasies!

        Joyce Fliched!

        Billie is left in a daze after using Sexual Fantasies!

        Joyce used Outrage!

        What will writer Willis do?

        • TheLastOutlaw
          TheLastOutlaw
          July 31, 2012 at 6:41 am | #

          Joyce uses “PRE MARITAL HANKY PANKY!!!”

          It is ineffective.

        • TheLastOutlaw
          TheLastOutlaw
          July 31, 2012 at 6:41 am | #

          Joyce uses “PRE MARITAL HANKY PANKY!!!” outrage.

          It is ineffective.

    • Conuzor
      Conuzor
      July 31, 2012 at 1:58 am | #

      Hey! Joyce has been to the internet, ok!?
      She knows how it is!!!

  7. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    July 31, 2012 at 12:09 am | #

    It’s sort of like upgrading your party members and giving them some good gear and potions so that together you can defeat the harder bosses.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 31, 2012 at 12:11 am | #

      I have a feeling Billie would punch you in the face for comparing what she’s doing to something that nerdy.

    • justafriend
      justafriend
      July 31, 2012 at 12:12 am | #

      and the bosses are bisexual

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        July 31, 2012 at 12:14 am | #

        and all your potions are really just booze

        • Kernanator
          Kernanator
          July 31, 2012 at 12:28 am | #

          I think booze works like health potions in certain games.

          • thomas0comer
            thomas0comer
            July 31, 2012 at 12:32 am | #

            In Bastion, alcohol grants passive bonuses and can be ‘equipped’ at distilleries. If only it worked that way in real life.

          • Yotomoe
            Yotomoe
            July 31, 2012 at 12:32 am | #

            I’ve never played a game where you barf on your buds car or send embarassing texts to your ex

            • Kernanator
              Kernanator
              July 31, 2012 at 12:37 am | #

              That sounds like it could be an interesting game.

              • Khrene Cleaver
                Khrene Cleaver
                July 31, 2012 at 4:50 am | #

                I think that what the Heavy Rain sequel should involve…

            • Wonder Wig
              Wonder Wig
              July 31, 2012 at 1:06 am | #

              UUGG last Saturday X[

          • Jon
            Jon
            July 31, 2012 at 1:28 am | #

            Beer me, then take me and the Sheriff to the General Store.

            • Kernanator
              Kernanator
              July 31, 2012 at 3:30 am | #

              Fuck yeah!

          • lordphulish
            lordphulish
            July 31, 2012 at 9:35 am | #

            Try kingdomofloathing.com , where drinking gives more turns, and the currency is meat!

  8. LimeTH
    LimeTH
    July 31, 2012 at 12:11 am | #

    Welp, she’s gone crazy.

    • Raoullefere
      Raoullefere
      July 31, 2012 at 2:57 am | #

      Since the reality Billy operates in (high school) is quite insane, that’s not a surprise that she, too, seems insane.

      Not that college is sane by any measure, but it’s a different kind of crazy.

  9. Aizat
    Aizat
    July 31, 2012 at 12:15 am | #

    Darn it, Nillie. Sweater vests are cool.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 31, 2012 at 12:16 am | #

      Nillie sucks.

      • Krashthemystro
        Krashthemystro
        July 31, 2012 at 12:23 am | #

        Nillie sucks butt tacos.

    • Karen
      Karen
      July 31, 2012 at 1:23 pm | #

      Thank you! Finally, someone who sees the light.

      • Echidnae
        Echidnae
        August 1, 2012 at 10:45 am | #

        Is…is your gravatar wearing a sweater vest?

  10. T Campbell
    T Campbell
    July 31, 2012 at 12:24 am | #

    A fascinating window into Billie’s world.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      July 31, 2012 at 12:38 am | #

      And the window has barf all over it.

      • Rognik
        Rognik
        July 31, 2012 at 12:46 am | #

        Really? I thought it was just rose-tinted.

        • Kernanator
          Kernanator
          July 31, 2012 at 12:47 am | #

          Her barf is very weird.

          • Trae Dorn
            Trae Dorn
            July 31, 2012 at 1:20 am | #

            She should see a doctor…

        • Roborat
          Roborat
          July 31, 2012 at 2:58 pm | #

          That is only because of what she was drinking at the time.

      • brasca1
        brasca1
        July 31, 2012 at 1:50 am | #

        How so? Billie has shown a remarkable ability to hold her liquor.

        • Khrene Cleaver
          Khrene Cleaver
          July 31, 2012 at 4:51 am | #

          Yes but she has the strangest inability to not hold down figs…

  11. cowtown
    cowtown
    July 31, 2012 at 1:13 am | #

    For a little bit I confused Andrew Garfield with James Garfield.

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      July 31, 2012 at 2:29 am | #

      For a second I confused Andrew Garfield for Garfield.

      • Rex Hondo
        Rex Hondo
        July 31, 2012 at 3:59 am | #

        Now I’m picturing her Garfield fantasy minus Garfield.

        • Andrusi
          Andrusi
          July 31, 2012 at 9:14 am | #

          So, they just run into two random bisexual dudes?

          • Raen
            Raen
            July 31, 2012 at 12:39 pm | #

            I can’t imagine she’d complain.

            • Raen
              Raen
              July 31, 2012 at 12:40 pm | #

              Unless she ran into, say, Judas Lamo and Crazy Cabbie. Then she might complain.

  12. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    July 31, 2012 at 1:41 am | #

    Billy needs an operation to remove the words ‘cheer leader” from her memory. Any yeah if her barf is rose colored she surely needs to see a doctor.

    • TheLastOutlaw
      TheLastOutlaw
      July 31, 2012 at 6:45 am | #

      Without “cheer leader” she would cease to exist. She’s allowed it to completely define who she is.

  13. Raoullefere
    Raoullefere
    July 31, 2012 at 2:51 am | #

    Is there an inverse relationship between the rise of a girl’s jeans and her popularity?

    *Ponders*

    Man, can’t believe I even asked that. Anyway, so far Sara’s been spot on. Wonder where Billie plans to stop for the suds?

  14. Dr.Z
    Dr.Z
    July 31, 2012 at 4:08 am | #

    And we get a random look into Billie’s pervert mind.

    And it is hilarious.

  15. Khrene Cleaver
    Khrene Cleaver
    July 31, 2012 at 4:55 am | #

    I’m not sure if anyone has commented on this but that manikin has an eerie resemblance to that British TA who has a thing for Sal…

    But then again…

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      July 31, 2012 at 10:44 am | #

      Actually I find that Willis has a fairly impressive amount of facial variation amongst his characters, especially accounting for the simple art style.

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      August 4, 2012 at 5:19 pm | #

      I’ve noticed that too

  16. Gregory
    Gregory
    July 31, 2012 at 4:04 pm | #

    Hooray for disturbingly specific hypothetical scenarios involving bisexuals!

  17. Arturo
    Arturo
    July 31, 2012 at 4:27 pm | #

    In fairness, I hear Andrew Garfield stares at a lot of people. He’s a starer.

  18. Noel Schornhorst
    Noel Schornhorst
    July 31, 2012 at 5:13 pm | #

    I too would like to meet a bi (or gay) Andrew Garfield and his two hunky pals…

  19. Gargamel
    Gargamel
    July 31, 2012 at 5:29 pm | #

    For a second I thought Billie was a furry.

    Then I actually looked up Andrew Garfield, and was disappointed.

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      August 4, 2012 at 5:20 pm | #

      Well, he is cosplaying as a spider.

  20. RandomPerson12
    RandomPerson12
    October 24, 2014 at 3:07 pm | #

    Billie’s fantasies involve Spider-Man? Well, this explains her being a “nerd magnet”, as she put it.

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