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September 28, 2023

Sober

by David M Willis on July 20, 2013 at 12:01 am
  • 04 - Just Hangin' Out With My Family

└ Tags: jennifer, ruth

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  1. AHR
    AHR
    July 20, 2013 at 12:01 am | #

    I think this is how they flirt.

    • Jake
      Jake
      July 20, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

      Isn’t this how everyone flirts?

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        July 20, 2013 at 12:05 am | #

        Tsunderes in love…

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          July 20, 2013 at 12:27 am | #

          That’s just great and by great I mean, better bring a knife because the tension is going to be so thick.

          • GoogerGeiger
            GoogerGeiger
            July 20, 2013 at 1:13 am | #

            Okay, you bring the knife, I’ll make sure Ruth or Billie don’t try to murder each other with the knife.

            • Chronos
              Chronos
              July 20, 2013 at 11:42 am | #

              I dunno, Ruth seems more like a bludgeoning type of murderer to me…

              • Aeron
                Aeron
                July 20, 2013 at 11:55 am | #

                Even though it was Billie who kicked and kicked and kicked until the door died?

          • 6Qubed
            6Qubed
            July 20, 2013 at 5:01 am | #

            Is “tension” what we’re calling Billie’s butt now? Also what’s the knife for.

          • Joe
            Joe
            July 20, 2013 at 8:41 am | #

            A knife for the tension. Right.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          July 20, 2013 at 12:32 am | #

          sounds like a cool anime.

          • Aizat
            Aizat
            July 20, 2013 at 12:35 am | #

            Not for me.

        • arjay2813
          arjay2813
          July 20, 2013 at 12:54 am | #

          very tsun-tsun but only barely dere love

          • Yotomoe
            Yotomoe
            July 20, 2013 at 1:02 am | #

            Same tsun time. Same Dere channel.

            • das-g
              das-g
              July 20, 2013 at 8:04 am | #

              Mondere to Tsunday.

              • Fred
                Fred
                July 20, 2013 at 11:29 am | #

                Tsuntimes I Deream

                • Kernanator
                  Kernanator
                  July 20, 2013 at 6:13 pm | #

                  I love you guys.

        • Tom Speelman
          Tom Speelman
          July 20, 2013 at 2:33 am | #

          Tsunderes in love…blue skies above…

        • Kernanator
          Kernanator
          July 20, 2013 at 3:06 am | #

          I think you just described my greatest dream.

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        July 20, 2013 at 12:31 am | #

        I would’ve buttered her up and move in for the kill.

      • Lord Geovanni
        Lord Geovanni
        April 1, 2014 at 7:31 am | #

        If it is I screwed myself out of several potential relationships. More if I count girls I wouldn’t take anyway

    • EvergreenFir
      EvergreenFir
      July 20, 2013 at 12:29 am | #

      Reminds me of Beatrice and Benedict

      • nothri
        nothri
        July 20, 2013 at 1:08 am | #

        Umineko?

      • Packy
        Packy
        July 20, 2013 at 2:02 am | #

        Yes, it reminds me of them, too. But then, does that make Walky & Dorothy Claudio and Hero?

        • saltchocolate
          saltchocolate
          July 20, 2013 at 7:45 am | #

          Yep!

          • inkwell
            inkwell
            July 20, 2013 at 11:27 am | #

            So Dogberry would be…

            • Bon
              Bon
              July 23, 2013 at 7:26 am | #

              Head Alien?

    • saltchocolate
      saltchocolate
      July 20, 2013 at 5:04 pm | #

      I love them together like this!

    • Aisling
      Aisling
      June 8, 2015 at 3:10 pm | #

      This is what happenes when a tsundere and a yandere flirt. xD

      Also Billie looks pretty great in that top.

  2. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    July 20, 2013 at 12:02 am | #

    But Billie is the keymaster and you’re the gatekeeper.

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      July 20, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

      There is no Ruth. There is only Zuul.

      • nothri
        nothri
        July 20, 2013 at 1:09 am | #

        This sounds like a much more traumatic detox than Ruth was letting on…

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      July 20, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

      Billie has a ‘key’? *eyebrows waggles*

      • nothri
        nothri
        July 20, 2013 at 1:17 am | #

        And ruth wants Billie to give it to her.

        • JBO
          JBO
          July 20, 2013 at 2:52 am | #

          Perfect Gravatar

          • AgentKeen
            AgentKeen
            July 20, 2013 at 11:20 am | #

            I don’t know, Joe strikes me as the type of guy that’d be creeped out by a girl with a key.

            • AndaisQ
              AndaisQ
              July 20, 2013 at 10:07 pm | #

              I see him being more like Mistertique from Oglaf – puzzled at first, but more than willing to entertain the possibility.

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      July 20, 2013 at 12:27 am | #

      And now we picture Sigourney Weaver as Ruth.

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        July 20, 2013 at 12:29 am | #

        Ruth as Ripley? Yes, please.

        • timemonkey
          timemonkey
          July 20, 2013 at 12:40 am | #

          Then we send her to fight off the Aliens.

          • Wizard
            Wizard
            July 21, 2013 at 2:48 am | #

            Those poor, poor Alien bastards.

  3. Gram91
    Gram91
    July 20, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

    Three days sober and no one’s dead?

    • Psycho
      Psycho
      July 20, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

      As far as we know….

    • Super Duper
      Super Duper
      July 20, 2013 at 12:21 am | #

      Nope. Yesterday, the entire college was murdered. But that was just Ruth being Ruth, nothing to do with the booze

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        July 20, 2013 at 12:24 am | #

        But there’s no sign of blood anywhere.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          July 20, 2013 at 12:33 am | #

          Ruth was actually blonde. It just soaks into her hair regularly.

          • Aizat
            Aizat
            July 20, 2013 at 12:36 am | #

            So, she’s the Bloody Queen?

            • Arkadi
              Arkadi
              July 20, 2013 at 8:06 am | #

              She certainly rules.

  4. Najar
    Najar
    July 20, 2013 at 12:05 am | #

    Your drawing style’s changed recently, Willis. I just can’t pinpoint the exact strip at which it happened…

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      July 20, 2013 at 12:08 am | #

      Art evolution is a slow process.

      • Jackson
        Jackson
        July 20, 2013 at 12:24 am | #

        I read the entire archive of Questionable Content and could not identify a single art change between one strip and the next.

        • Not Walky
          Not Walky
          July 20, 2013 at 1:24 am | #

          Sometimes, it is VERY slow.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          July 20, 2013 at 3:04 am | #

          It’s easier to see the art-evolution if you click on every 100 pages of QC.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            July 20, 2013 at 6:14 am | #

            …click on every 100th page of the QC archive.

            FIXED

        • TurtlyLooker
          TurtlyLooker
          July 20, 2013 at 6:14 am | #

          The only noticeable one happens super early, and, otherwise, it’s a really fluid change.

          • xKiv
            xKiv
            July 20, 2013 at 9:20 pm | #

            I don’t know, I think I noticed about a dozen particular QC strips where my brain was like “suddenly looks a bit different” …

        • iggy_rock
          iggy_rock
          July 22, 2013 at 10:55 am | #

          I did the same a couple of months ago. Then I go look at the
          first strip and then the latest and scratch my head. It’s like
          driving to work in the morning. I know I left home and now I’m
          at the office but I’m not really sure how I got here. 🙂

    • Giant Speck
      Giant Speck
      July 20, 2013 at 6:15 pm | #

      I like how far the styles of Dumbing of Age and Shortpacked! have diverged, too.

  5. Ragnal
    Ragnal
    July 20, 2013 at 12:12 am | #

    How weird this comic is when it’s put next to today’s Roomies! update…

  6. Thor
    Thor
    July 20, 2013 at 12:13 am | #

    I guess this answers the question of for whom she was framing the cleavage.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 20, 2013 at 12:34 am | #

      As if there was any doubt.

    • Arkadi
      Arkadi
      July 20, 2013 at 8:07 am | #

      As if.

  7. Rhy
    Rhy
    July 20, 2013 at 12:17 am | #

    I swear Billie’s boobs are getting bigger.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      July 20, 2013 at 12:20 am | #

      All that booze she drank has to go somewhere.

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        July 20, 2013 at 12:24 am | #

        I thought booze goes to your bladder.

        • Zuzi
          Zuzi
          July 20, 2013 at 12:26 am | #

          Fat distributes itself a little differently for women, more specifically the hips and breasts

    • Rex Hondo
      Rex Hondo
      July 20, 2013 at 12:24 am | #

      Three days without alcohol, a diuretic, means she’s retaining more fluid than usual.

      Boob science!

    • EvergreenFir
      EvergreenFir
      July 20, 2013 at 12:29 am | #

      Danny got her pregnent

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        July 20, 2013 at 12:30 am | #

        How? By just looking at her?

        • EvergreenFir
          EvergreenFir
          July 20, 2013 at 12:39 am | #

          DS sexy time with Amazigirl
          HHHNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGG into sock
          Repeat 1000 times
          Wash load of socks
          Washer covered in semen
          Whole dorm gets pregnant.

          • Aizat
            Aizat
            July 20, 2013 at 12:50 am | #

            That’s sounds like a bad comic book plot.

          • nothri
            nothri
            July 20, 2013 at 1:20 am | #

            I think the only way this is possible is if Danny was secretly the spawn of Yog Sothoth. Which WOULD explain why his parents are such dicks to him.

            • Aizat
              Aizat
              July 20, 2013 at 1:29 am | #

              Wait, if Danny is the spawn of Yog Sothoth, shouldn’t everybody go crazy right about now?

              • Rex Hondo
                Rex Hondo
                July 20, 2013 at 2:14 am | #

                Are you implying that everybody is this comic isn’t crazy?

                • Aizat
                  Aizat
                  July 20, 2013 at 2:48 am | #

                  Yes.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        July 20, 2013 at 12:34 am | #

        Danny can’t do anything, let alone impregnate a woman.

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          July 20, 2013 at 12:35 am | #

          Wow, you just made Danny worse than me.

          • Yotomoe
            Yotomoe
            July 20, 2013 at 12:48 am | #

            I didn’t make Danny worse than you. I’m sure Willis did.

            • AJBulldis
              AJBulldis
              July 20, 2013 at 3:20 am | #

              We all do our part.

  8. piemanpie24
    piemanpie24
    July 20, 2013 at 12:22 am | #

    I really like Billie in panel one. She just looks so bright and cheery, something we haven’t really seen in a long time with her.

    • Justnobody
      Justnobody
      July 20, 2013 at 1:37 am | #

      agreed. Happy Billie is best Billie.

  9. Zuzi
    Zuzi
    July 20, 2013 at 12:24 am | #

    Billie’s cleavage window bothers me…
    As a large-breasted woman myself, that’s not how lowneck shirts look on us.
    (Specifically panels 3 and 5)

    Also:
    Nooooo! You can’t take away Billie’s copy of your room key!
    You two are my favorite slightly dysfunctional couple!

    • John
      John
      July 20, 2013 at 8:06 pm | #

      “Slightly”??

  10. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    July 20, 2013 at 12:28 am | #

    So, situation normal, then?

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      July 20, 2013 at 12:30 am | #

      As normal as Waspinator getting slagged every episode.

      • ninja_jesus
        ninja_jesus
        July 20, 2013 at 7:24 am | #

        As long as he doesn’t turn into Doctor Bees, everything should be fine.

  11. Wack'd
    Wack'd
    July 20, 2013 at 12:31 am | #

    I feel like Ruth is going to end up addicted to whatever those little white pills are.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      July 20, 2013 at 12:35 am | #

      She becomes addicted to Tic-Tacs.

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        July 20, 2013 at 12:36 am | #

        Or worse, placebo.

    • tyren22
      tyren22
      July 20, 2013 at 5:09 am | #

      Every year aspirin addiction claims thousands of lives.

  12. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    July 20, 2013 at 12:37 am | #

    I read this comic and then read the chapter title “Hanging with my family” and nearly died from adorableness imagining that Billie considers Ruth her family.

  13. Kiggy
    Kiggy
    July 20, 2013 at 12:39 am | #

    Mmm-m Billie’s got such a nice curvy figure :9

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      July 20, 2013 at 12:48 am | #

      She always have that nice curvy figure.

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        July 20, 2013 at 1:45 am | #

        And we are all happy for it.

  14. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    July 20, 2013 at 12:52 am | #

    So Billie gets happier and Ruth keeps her edge. Okay deal so far.
    What’s the pills? Vitamins I hope.

    • Rex Hondo
      Rex Hondo
      July 20, 2013 at 2:18 am | #

      Probably just Acetaminophen or Ibuprofen. It’s not a green prescription bottle, so it’s almost definitely OTC.

      • Rex Hondo
        Rex Hondo
        July 20, 2013 at 2:22 am | #

        And by green, of course I mean orange.

        • tyren22
          tyren22
          July 20, 2013 at 5:09 am | #

          I’ve seen both.

    • tyren22
      tyren22
      July 20, 2013 at 5:13 am | #

      I feel like there’s no way to point this out without sounding sarcastic…

      She’s popping them in her mouth in the same panel where she talks about having detox headaches.

  15. Emoroffle
    Emoroffle
    July 20, 2013 at 12:59 am | #

    I wonder if Ruth is enjoying Billie’s shirt as much as I am.

  16. costa
    costa
    July 20, 2013 at 1:06 am | #

    Probably. While I couldn’t tell you the exact concoction, They do use large doses of certain vitamins in detox centers.
    On a side note, she’s lucky she hadn’t been drinking long enough to get DT’s.

  17. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    July 20, 2013 at 1:07 am | #

    The hotlink hover over the comic is not working for me now. Humm. Getting weirdness the last couple days on my pc. Some things work and some don’t and I’m blaming it on the full moon or something.

    • Karen
      Karen
      July 20, 2013 at 1:21 am | #

      But it isn’t a full moon yet!

      I would know, I’ve been watching, waiting…

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        July 20, 2013 at 1:30 am | #

        You’re werewolf?

        • andiemus
          andiemus
          July 20, 2013 at 2:33 am | #

          A werebrit, judging by the grav.

        • Kernanator
          Kernanator
          July 20, 2013 at 2:45 am | #

          *point* There wolf *point again* there Billie.

      • CrazyPete
        CrazyPete
        July 20, 2013 at 2:02 pm | #

        I knew i wasn’t alone

  18. Crumplepunch
    Crumplepunch
    July 20, 2013 at 7:34 am | #

    After studying panel 5 closely, I have come to the conclusion that Ruth is secretly a shark.

    • Crumplepunch
      Crumplepunch
      July 20, 2013 at 7:34 am | #

      Freshwater sharks can swim up the Ohio river into Indiana.

      • Boom
        Boom
        July 20, 2013 at 7:40 am | #

        Then what will it mean when Billie jumps her!?

        • timemonkey
          timemonkey
          July 20, 2013 at 9:13 am | #

          Billie will have jumped the shark.

          • zomgvampires
            zomgvampires
            July 20, 2013 at 3:42 pm | #

            ba dum tish.

  19. Boom
    Boom
    July 20, 2013 at 7:39 am | #

    It’s your body telling you not to be such a dipshit.

  20. Todd
    Todd
    July 20, 2013 at 11:16 am | #

    Hi, Willis. Glad to see the characters quitting. I’m sure someone has told you about these before, but just in case I’m wrong, here are a couple great reference articles on quitting drinking that could help give an accurate portrayal of what these two are going to go through.

    http://www.cracked.com/article_18824_5-things-nobody-tells-you-about-quitting-drinking.html
    http://www.cracked.com/blog/7-things-you-dont-realize-about-addiction-until-you-quit/

    • The Candyman
      The Candyman
      July 20, 2013 at 5:41 pm | #

      He’s already written all of this storyline and probably the next one too, now Willis is just uploading the ones he finished several months ago.

      It’s nice to see a fellow Cracked reader, but even if your ideas sound like good ones to him, you can’t expect them to implemented until the far future.

    • khambatta
      khambatta
      July 20, 2013 at 10:28 pm | #

      So many true things. Thanks for the link.

  21. Bunivasal
    Bunivasal
    July 20, 2013 at 3:02 pm | #

    Hailing from a state that’s drunker than whole countries, it’s hard for me to buy that these girls are quitting. It strikes me as a degree of self recognition that’s beyond the average college freshman, especially one as allegedly jaded as Billie. She’s been caring for drunks through high school right? So someone bottoming out like Ruth did wouldn’t rattle her enough to stop her own party train. I could see Ruth offering to slow down. Or denying that there’s a problem at all. But to quit drinking entirely, even with the evidence we’ve seen? Maybe that’s the difference between going to School in Indiana rather than Wisconsin.

  22. Neospector
    Neospector
    July 20, 2013 at 8:26 pm | #

    I never got the logic behind “Hey, let’s go kill our livers by drinking something that makes us depressed, angry, throw up, and then repeat the same symptoms six hours later but with a migraine”. I just didn’t.

    • The Candyman
      The Candyman
      July 20, 2013 at 8:41 pm | #

      Not everyone goes through that when getting drunk. Alcohol is used as a means of escape much of the time.

      Of course, different people handle it in different ways.

      • Neospector
        Neospector
        July 20, 2013 at 11:17 pm | #

        But why not weed or something, and I’m not trying to sound like a stoner.
        I don’t advocate or necessarily disapprove of using either, but come on, Logic…

        • bunivasal
          bunivasal
          July 21, 2013 at 12:50 am | #

          I hate marijuana. For one, I’m asthmatic, so inhaling smoke is uncomfortable. There’s no euphoria when I smoke, just laziness. Where alcohol shuts down the part of my brain that shouts discouragement, weed kills the power and leaves me perplexed.

          Your “logic” cartoon is bullshit propaganda.

          • Neospector
            Neospector
            July 21, 2013 at 11:14 pm | #

            You ever see a German with a hangover? I have. It’s not a nice thing. How about you stick to your happy drink, I’ll prefer (if I ever try it) my happy smoke, and we both agree never to shove flaming nicotine death sticks in our mouths?

            • Neospector
              Neospector
              July 21, 2013 at 11:17 pm | #

              *Ah, note, my dad’s family is German. I’m allowed to say that.

    • bunivasal
      bunivasal
      July 21, 2013 at 12:41 am | #

      The symptoms you’re describing are by no means the only ones alcohol has, nor are they present 100% of the time. For example, alcohol has never made me “depressed or angry”. No, for a socially awkward person who struggles in social situations, loosening my inhibitions allows me to hold conversations I’m too nervous to have sober. Sober me at a party is hiding from a crowd on a balcony or in a bathroom. Drunk me is having a conversation with a pretty girl.

      Having fun on alcohol is like having fun on any drug: be responsible, know your limits, and know what you have to do to combat the side effects. Don’t want to throw up? Stop drinking when you stop feeling like drinking. Don’t want a hangover? Glass of water to wash down your last drink, then another one before you go to sleep.

  23. Kennerly
    Kennerly
    July 20, 2013 at 9:51 pm | #

    How long do you need to be an alcoholic to still feel hung over 3 days later?

  24. LiveWire
    LiveWire
    January 23, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

    “Like depression, with all the fun taken out…”

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