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do you know how problematic it is trying to stifle a laugh in the Holocaust Museum because the video says Jen Aside was responsible for the deaths of millions
Ye gods, thinking about it, who gets the DNA recoding for superspeed to accelerate the pregnancy there? Roz’s gene’s are closer to Robin’s, but Becky – can you imagine a more hyperactive Becky? The mind boggles. Impulse would tell her to tone it down a notch.
Hm, didn’t they announce that the first canon gay character in Star Wars was a lesbian that worked for the Imperials in some capacity? Though I may be remembering it wrong.
And “canon” is a bit of a stretch, since she is a EU character and a fairly minor one, or so I am informed. Starwars EU has always been extremely lukewarm about canon things; Han Solo would have had to have been on a half a dozen planets at once if everything was solid.
Well, that depends on what you want to do with your lesbians.
If you need your lesbians to be regular and easier to use mathematically, then metric is the way to go.
If you want your lesbians to be ostentatious and provide an aristocratic air to the room, then you need to go with Imperial.
It doesn’t, really. The Imperial system of units was adopted in the UK after American independence, and was never used in the USA. America uses the US Customary system of units, which is basically a simplified version of what the UK used before it changed to Imperial in 1820-something.
In the Imperial system, a gallon of water weighs ten pounds, not eight-and-a-bit.
Canada gallons are on the imperial system so they are 4 Canadian quarts or 5 US quarts. Frankly, I think it’s so the Canadians can get more mileage out of their pints.
Hey, Jimmy Carter tried to get us to go metric way back when. I was all for it, but I was also in elementary school at the time so my opinion wasn’t exactly a concern to politicians.
No baby was ever in evidence, so my personal headcanon is that she didn’t puke because she had morning sickness; she puked because Billie punched her in the frickin’ head and she got a concussion, and the Roomies! characters are idiots.
I think that got Jossed later, but I’m sticking with it.
Billie clocking Mary. Mary then falls to her knees, pukes a little bit, and everyone starts calling it morning sickness, because everyone in Roomies is just a little bit retarded.
Actually, in the walkypedia page on her (http://walkypedia.wikia.com/wiki/Mary_Bradford) it states she got pregnant at a party, but got an abortion. She did get married and pregnant though later.
She was presumed pregnant at the end of Roomies!, because she puked after Billie punched her in the head. She did not have a baby after that. I don’t remember whether it was ever actually confirmed in-strip that she actually was pregnant then, or if it could have just been the Roomies! characters making stupid assumptions, and the old IW! archives are too much of a mess for me to feel like trawling through to figure it out.
It happened in Is a Song Forever?, which last I checked was up on the Shortpacked! site but I can’t find it anymore. It was basically a miniseries that showed the Roomes! cast graduating.
And besides, even if they were being illogical, Mary didn’t do anything to dissuade then of the idea and acted as if she was, in fact, pregnant. I assume Danny just made a vindictive shot in the dark, and it managed to hit home.
I wasn’t exempting Mary from the set of idiot Roomies! characters making stupid assumptions. I mean, as far as we know, she had no more evidence that she was pregnant than Danny did. It’s not like we saw her pee on a stick or anything.
I just really hate the “she’s a dirty sinner who must be punished with an unwanted pregnancy” vibe about the whole thing.
One is a sexually liberated liberal, the other is a (probably) sexually repressed conservative Christian. When you put them together in one room in college, both get highly opinionated! Ladies and gentlemen, “Two Unnecessarily Judgmental Girls” starring Roz (applause to her smiling face) and Mary (Absolute silence and one guy in the back yells “boo, you suck” to her evil smirk)
There was also the bit where Mary was sitting in the hall in a frump because Roz had her monstrous little sister in their room. Which is an obvious indication that Mary is pure evil, because how could anyone hate Riley? She just wants cereal!
I don’t know when it was first shown, but when Riley visited it was definitely shown. Mary refused to stay in the room because of how monstrous Riley is. With her cereal eating, and Animal Crossing playing. That’s probably steps on some pathway to Satanism.
I’d say Roz is the poster child for bad liberals. I think she still identifies as Catholic to some degree (which just makes her relationship with Mary that much worse), but I don’t know for sure.
What makes you so sure?
I don’t think Roz being religious was shown in the comic.
On the other hand she depreciates Joyce’s beliefs as superstitious, fear-mongering garbage.
She deprecated the “lust is sinful” aspect of her beliefs, not the “invisible sky wizard” aspect. Further, just because you don’t flaunt your religion doesn’t mean you don’t have one. The only way to be sure someone is atheist is if they say they are, and Roz hasn’t.
Well, Mary has shown herself to be antisemitic and homophobic, the latter to the extent that she is passive-aggressively trying to destroy Billie’s friendship with Joyce and Ruth’s career.
I can’t easily link to strips on my phone, but in the Choosing my Religion chapter, Mary talks about how she agrees with the sermon about how the Jews missed clues about Jesus as the messiah in their own scripture. Dorothy points out how condescending it is.
As for general Mary hate, some of it’s probably leaked over from the other universe. But even in the Dumbiverse she’s been judgemental and antagonistic to pretty much everyone. And hasn’t shown any positive traits really.
No reason it can’t be both. It assumes that if the Jews really knew how to interpret their scripture, they would be Christians. Its basically saying Jews are only Jews because they are clueless. That’s pretty anti-Semitic.
Well okay, I’ll concede she’s not about to join up with a Neo-Nazi group. But my point is that is that it’s not a stretch to call her an anti-Semite considering what she said. It might not be a deep seated hatred, but there’s certainly a disdain for them, even if it’s only “They aren’t part of the same group I am, which is the best because I’m the best.”
Hm, I think it’s more about the classical “MY local church is right, all the others are wrong” trip. The smaller the community, the hardcorest they’re about about it ?
But that’s a real stretch, isn’t it? All that Mary said in the strip that “HereYouGo” linked was “I wanted to have a serious discussion on today’s service”. She actually said “I thought it was a pretty good service” in the strip immediately before that, but she never specifically talks about that sermon.
It was Sierra who admits to like that sermon, so your logic should make Sierra the antisemite, not Mary!
Hah, I forgot it was Sierra who specifically brings up that part of the sermon. Though Mary does defend the sermon when Dorothy brings up her problem with it. (This leads to the “What kind of Christian are you?” “Non?” part.
She’s yet to haven shown redeeming features or even a background that lets us empathize with why she’s a villain. I think she’s supposed to be the counterpoint to Joyce on the opposite side of the love/self-righteousness spectrum of extreme religiousness, but she’s a side character so she hasn’t got the development Joyce has.
It is nice to see “there are multiple ways to be christian”; many stories don’t have enough characters do to this well for any group. On the same leaf, its nice that Roz and Dorothy provide “there are multiple ways to be liberal”.
The HMAS Just Becroz. takes a fatal torpedo to the stern. And yet, we can still see some crew & passengers trying to keep her running, Hoping it’ll pull through…
Could happen, she might make a cameo appearance before heading into town if the timing works out. Joyce’s party starts at 9PM, that’s early-ish for Saturday night.
I think the idea is that either the olive branch of this invitation will chill Roz out, or else she just won’t come, so it’s… not exactly win/win, but at least win/not-be-any-worse-off.
While Roz did take things way to far, there was at least a kernel of truth to what she was saying… Joyce may not have been out there protesting against the gays with the Westboro Baptist crowd, but she did say she “hates homosexuality”. Its that type of attitude that allows anti-gay discrimination to continue.
In this strip, Roz is going on about how Joyce must be joking or trying to trick her, when actually her presence on the list is a sincere indication of trust and goodwill. She’s making a fool of herself. And recall that Roz got kicked out of class for that outburst, by Leslie, who is always portrayed in the highest esteem.
Willis is clearly portraying Roz as arrogant and needing to learn to be more thoughtful and empathetic. As someone who really likes Roz, is impressed with her activism (for a college freshman), and feels very sympathetic towards her for being angry towards Joyce, I think it’s good characterization and a necessary step for her that will help her be a better person.
I love this. Immediately after Becky says that Joyce trusts Roz, Roz proves herself trustworthy in a small way, by denying to Mary that there is a party. She’s picked up on the fact that the party is invite only and Joyce is trying to be careful. And, she protects her. Roz isn’t *nice* but in this comic she is doing the right thing for the sake of someone she really doesn’t even like.
after figuring out that something bad probably happened to Joyce at the Ryan party, Roz gave her the number to a support group. despite her outbursts due to their conflicting world views, Roz has shown kindness to Joyce in the past and I think Joyce appreciates that and views her as a trustworthy person because of it.
Roz’s assault was spiteful and hurtful and put bongoing out a fundie over actually helping her to a greater understanding. Doesn’t mean that it couldn’t have a positive effect or show Joyce to a potential ally that could help her and Becks.
Is that how it works? I missed the part about jinxes being a leading cause of pregnancy when I got The Talk, and I had no idea they made you responsible for child support.
None of the other Christian characters really act the same hateful way as Mary does. Joyce and Becky’s beliefs can hurt others but they aren’t hateful like Mary.
Oh right. Forgot about parents. The wonderful, wonderful parents. I was more thinking of Sierra and Agatha. And I’m pretty sure Billie and Danny also identify as Christian.
It’s also been retroactively applied to older comics, which is awesome. I just clicked one of the above links to comics with Mary in them and “bongo” is absolutely everywhere.
Silly Willis, the note isn’t legible to the readers. Plenty of room for Becky haters to claim she’s just making stuff up. That could be a grocery list for all they know.
Lot’s of people gave Roz a chance. She was actually pretty well liked for several years until recently. That’s likely why they got so mad, they actually liked Roz so her words and actions angered them even more.
Ah Mary. So good to see your pleasant visage again… nope couldn’t type that out without getting sick to my stomach. And Roz, c’mon, give Joyce a chance. Dame is trying at least.
Roz also offered Joyce access to a support group in the wake of her assault–and, lest we forget, the point of the party is so that Joyce can socialize in an environment where she feels safe. She may think Roz is a jerk, but she knows her heart is in the right place, and ultimately that’s what matters.
We don’t know if Sal is invited yet/ but we can probably assume, because Joyce thinks that Sal is the coolest. She probably also wants to invite Sal’s motorbike as well.
Actually I don’t think Roz knows the details. The first time she referred to the party she mistakenly complained about someone “making a scene”, but it didn’t sound like she knew the nature of the problem. And later, when she was talking to joyce about it, she said (to paraphrase) “If something bad happened here’s someone to talk to”.
Of course, it doesn’t mean she didn’t find out more about it later.
Joyce is attracted to Joe, in a physical sense if in no other way.
She is not attracted to Roz.
I think I would feel less safe around the girl who demonised me and condescended to me, but since Joyce was cripplingly afraid of her own sexuality even before she was unfortunate enough to be sexually assaulted, I get where she’s coming from. It has less to do with who Joe and Roz are and more to do with who Joyce is.
She trusts the self-righteous loudmouth who nonetheless helped draw the roadmap of her own moral awakening over the asswipe whose last act in Joyce’s presence is to lament that the gender studies class was talking about real problems LGBT people have rather than his pornographic lezzy fantasies. Hardly a priority problem.
I’m amazed by how many people never overdid anything in their college years. At least, I assume they didn’t, because otherwise I’d be forced to assume that some of this Roz-hate may be slightly hypocritical.
Me, I’m looking forward to seeing her learn better.
I want to give every character at least a chance(sounds like a fruitless effort I know) but there are some things some of them do that just pisses me off.
You ever see one of those optical illusion things and count how many people claim that it didn’t fool them? Everyone’s superhuman in every way when they think nobody can prove otherwise.
I love how the synchronised no there, genuinely made me laugh. Plus nice one Joyce for being forgiving enough to invite Roz to the party despite their differences. If it was me, she definiately wouldn’t have been invited
Poor Mary. All we ever learn about her is that she’s a selfish elitist snob in any universe, and her “punishment” in the original is that ever-distasteful evangelical canard of unwed pregnancy. Everyone else gets to learn and grow and change, but Mary just stays evil no matter what happens to her.
I don’t like it. I don’t believe anybody can be that far gone. Something’s got to give.
I think some people might, sadly, be that far gone, but I don’t think Mary is yet. And in Willis’ own words, “whoops now mary’s important”. I think we’ll be seeing more of her, and from some different perspectives too. I’m not the only one either. There have been some… interesting… theories regarding the wristbands she always wears, theories I find quite persuasive, given what we know about Mary. I don’t think I’ve ever seen somebody spit out so much venom without swallowing even more of it.
That was the way he meant it, yes. But I will be disappointed if Mary doesn’t become important in other ways to.
She may never be a likeable character, but I hope we at least get some deconstruction of the fact that, as much as she is angry at everyone else for failing to live up to her standards, she’s got to to be just as angry at herself for failing to live up to them.
Not exactly.
You are recasting Roomies Mary by how she turned out, not how she was originally intended.
I think I read somewhere that she started out as Willis perfect Christian woman, Pretty, nice, moral, upright ( uptight ) etc. Then near the end he realized she represented more what he hated, and then he revealed her to be spiteful, lying , manipulative and two-faced.
So her character arc was one of negative growth.
This Mary starts off with all her negative traits and viciousness up-front and center, and is practically a 2-dimensional caricature of the original. I am hoping DOA Mary has enough growth, just to be a better villain.
Nevertheless character growth and human personal growth is not the same thing. She grow as a character without “salvation” . Human Growth is something that you get because you somehow deserve it. Not every Willis character grows. “Faz” doesnt. Neither does Ambers Dad,Beckys Dad, Head Alien, … actually lots of characters.
The other Mary was more calculating, and had a better developed personality as a cover. This one is too impulsive to keep up a mask for long.
I’m not as well-up on the Walkyverse as the Dumbiverse – was there any indication that Mary mellowed toward the end, recognising that she’d made her own mistakes? Did she take the I-guess-we’re-all-human-after-all route or the double-down-in-spite-and-self-loathing route, I mean. Or just stay as a byword for purity-culture hypocrisy and fundie intolerance?
Just how the hell big is Joyce’s room? Even if they used Billie and Sal’s room (with the half bath being the most awkward hallway ever), it still seems like they over invited for this thing.
If you can’t fit a dozen people in a dorm room with loft beds, you’re not trying very hard. So far they’re at what, ten, and at least two of them probably won’t show.
That’s at least 12 people, possibly 13. My guess is that Sierra might be invited by virtue of being Dorothy’s roomie, but she’s generally a non-entity in the comic anyway.
Assuming Billie and Sal get their invites and actually show up, that’s about a comfortably full room. Sierra’s probably out, if she was getting an invite Becky would have asked Dorothy to relay it the same way she did with Walky. If some of the dodgy ones (Mike, Roz, whatever other surprises pop up) show up they might be legitimately crowded, but this is a dorm party. People will wander in and out as the crowd hits critical mass, and couples (which the list is light on) will drift off for some privacy as the night goes on.
Remember, Sierra has an on-going relationship with Joyce independent of Dorothy… they go to the same church. So it would make sense she would be invited.
It will undoubtedly spill into the shared bathroom, possibly into the connecting room (occupied by, if memory serves me, Billie and Sal; and it wouldn’t surprise me that they are both on the invite list as well), and out into the hallway. Ruth will of course be attracted to the commotion but become distracted by Billie. No problem.
Interesting contrast to Joe, Joyce must know Joe wouldn’t ruin or crash a party if uninvited but might try to show up if he just heard fun stuff going on, while Mary would actively ruin or narc out any party so she has to be kept in the dark.
Is there like an up-to-date ‘rooming chart’ that tells who is roommates with whom and which pairs of roommates share connecting baths? We know Joyce and Sarah share the bath with Billie and Sal, and Dorothy and Sierra share the bath with Dina and Amber, but how about some of the others, like Walky and Danny and Ethan and Jacob.
Something like this would, by the way, be an interesting and usefull addition to the Walkypedia.
We know roommates are Joyce+Sarah, Billie+Sal, Amber+Dina, Sierra+Dorothy, Rachel+Other Rachel, Mary+Roz. (Actually the only one on the girls side who I don’t think we know the roommate of is Agatha). On the guys side there’s Mike+Walky, Joe+Danny, Ethan+Jacob (Possibly Ken+Arnold?). As far as half baths Joyce+Sarah and Billie+Sal are connected, and Amber+Dina and Dorothy+Sierra are connected. As RA Ruth has a single, and Carla has the other single. For the guys side the RA is probably the same guy as the nameless trekkie RA from the Walkyverse, though we only know that through an offhand remark from Ethan. I think that covers all the characters we know. (Oh and Marcie lives somewhere off campus)
Cut-and-paste the above link — then, after ‘BossMonster/’ add the word ‘spider-car’ so that it reads ‘spider-car-is-not-an-answer’.
And if this doesn’t work, then I give up.
I could be wrong, (I came late to the webcomic and had to archive binge to catach up, so I skipped the comments on a lot of strips) but I believe it’s because some time ago people sort of went hogwild claiming that everyone and everything was the aforementioned’s super-hero’s secret identity in every strip, and Willis got fed up with it, so now there’s no, er, arachnomobile for anyone.
After all the jacks are in their boxes,
and the clowns have all gone to bed,
you can hear happiness staggering on down the street,
footprints dress in red.
And the wind whispers Mary.
A broom is drearily sweeping
up the broken pieces of yesterday’s life.
Somewhere a Queen is weeping,
somewhere a King has no wife.
And the wind it cries Mary.
The traffic lights they turn blue tomorrow
And shine their emptiness down on my bed,
The tiny island sags downstream
‘Cos the life that they lived is dead.
And the wind screams Mary.
Will the wind ever remember
The names it has blown in the past,
And with this crutch, its old age and its wisdom
It whispers, “No, this will be the last.”
I dunno… Somehow I expected more from the commentator field when Roz and Becky finally met, given how much FORUM RAGE both of them have manged to inspire on their own. It seems like we have all mellowed down a bit the last month.
No no, she wouldn’t smash it. If she did that she couldn’t keep chastising Sarah about it, or using it herself when Sarah wasn’t around. (Mary is a hypocrite.)
Am I the only one thinking ‘Excellent, Mary assumed Becky is enrolled even though she has never seen her before this past weekend. We are in the clear.’
Becky, just keep going to classes with Joyce and pretend like you’re studying sometimes. You’ll be fiiiiiiine.
My friend’s roommate did that in college… except she pretended for everybody. Even my roommates! They didn’t realize she wasn’t actually a student until she stopped paying rent and they tried to get a stop put on her grades until she contributed… and there were no grades to stop.
Curse your alt text Willis! It beat me and everyone to the punch. A sick reversal of sentence structure to what Mike was doing to Joe’s face. (punching him to a beat. I am oh so very witty. *eyeroll*)
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This whole situation gets continuously more awkward. At least there’s no actual laugh track in this one…
Are you allowed to post first?
Glitch in the matrix
Actually we encourage it. We aren’t fans of so much mass Jen Aside around here, yet it keeps happening.
Speak for yourself.
Appropriate avatar is appropriate.
look, someone else can figure out the timing sometimes, it’s statistically probable
and what “mass” Jen Aside, I post like twice a day on average
It’s a pun base don Jen Aside sounding like genocide.
do you know how problematic it is trying to stifle a laugh in the Holocaust Museum because the video says Jen Aside was responsible for the deaths of millions
That’s okay, you have your own City Zone that wasn’t actually in Sonic 2 ’cause they cancelled it during production.
because Sonic Team can’t finish a game
haha oh Mary you sad sack of irony, you’d just end up with a room full of lesbabies instead
Nah. Just litters of cats.
Same thing
Calicos!
Lesbian cats?
No loves pussy like a lesbian cat.
Naa, litters of cats aren’t lesbabies, they’re furbabies…
Yeah, I actually can see Mary turning into a crazy cat lady…
Immaculate birth, then? You’d think that’d be the kind of thing Mary would be supportive of.
Immaculate conception? Mary? I don’t think she’s THAT conceited.
Meh, just need a Shortpacked crossover and a technology loan and they’re good to go.
Ye gods, thinking about it, who gets the DNA recoding for superspeed to accelerate the pregnancy there? Roz’s gene’s are closer to Robin’s, but Becky – can you imagine a more hyperactive Becky? The mind boggles. Impulse would tell her to tone it down a notch.
They come in threes, too.
Hah, threes.
I haven’t been in a room full of lesbians since… hm. How many lesbians do you need to be considered full?
One. As long as it’s a small room, or a large lesbian.
Then I haven’t been in a room full of lesbian since… five minutes ago.
Metric or imperial lesbians?
Imperial Lesbians? Somehow that seems like a whacked out 70s, sci-fi porn plot.
TAKE MY MONEY
Hm, didn’t they announce that the first canon gay character in Star Wars was a lesbian that worked for the Imperials in some capacity? Though I may be remembering it wrong.
I googled it and from what I found it was less “announce” and more “speaking about a character who happens to be homosexual”.
And “canon” is a bit of a stretch, since she is a EU character and a fairly minor one, or so I am informed. Starwars EU has always been extremely lukewarm about canon things; Han Solo would have had to have been on a half a dozen planets at once if everything was solid.
Well, that depends on what you want to do with your lesbians.
If you need your lesbians to be regular and easier to use mathematically, then metric is the way to go.
If you want your lesbians to be ostentatious and provide an aristocratic air to the room, then you need to go with Imperial.
I always found hilarous that “the country of Freedom” uses *imperial* units.
It doesn’t, really. The Imperial system of units was adopted in the UK after American independence, and was never used in the USA. America uses the US Customary system of units, which is basically a simplified version of what the UK used before it changed to Imperial in 1820-something.
In the Imperial system, a gallon of water weighs ten pounds, not eight-and-a-bit.
Seriously? That’s fascinating. I need to go read up on the US Customary system of units.
(I’m am actually serious here. This is not sarcasm)
I have heard that Canadian gallons have five quarts for some reason.
Canada gallons are on the imperial system so they are 4 Canadian quarts or 5 US quarts. Frankly, I think it’s so the Canadians can get more mileage out of their pints.
My poor european heaaad x_x
@Clif
Well, leave it to Encyclopedia Brown to over-simplify things to get a conviction, as usual.
Hey, Jimmy Carter tried to get us to go metric way back when. I was all for it, but I was also in elementary school at the time so my opinion wasn’t exactly a concern to politicians.
Where are all those spherical lesbians of uniform density?
Wait…
Wasn’t Mary the one that got pregnant in Roomies? Irony.
Someone doesn’t read the alt-text ^_^
You’re right!
Alas, my memory makes an arse of me yet again!
No baby was ever in evidence, so my personal headcanon is that she didn’t puke because she had morning sickness; she puked because Billie punched her in the frickin’ head and she got a concussion, and the Roomies! characters are idiots.
I think that got Jossed later, but I’m sticking with it.
In need of a linky…
I’m assuming you mean for Billie punching Mary in the head, because everyone wants to see that.
It’s a different Mary in a different universe, but close enough.
I haven’t used HTML in a long time, so I’m not even gonna try.
http://www.itswalky.com/chapter/coming-up/
That’s the start of the chapter.
http://www.itswalky.com/comic/heres-your-textbook/
That’s the start of the shitstorm that leads to…
http://www.itswalky.com/comic/ive-overcome-my-problems/
Billie clocking Mary. Mary then falls to her knees, pukes a little bit, and everyone starts calling it morning sickness, because everyone in Roomies is just a little bit retarded.
Actually, in the walkypedia page on her (http://walkypedia.wikia.com/wiki/Mary_Bradford) it states she got pregnant at a party, but got an abortion. She did get married and pregnant though later.
She was presumed pregnant at the end of Roomies!, because she puked after Billie punched her in the head. She did not have a baby after that. I don’t remember whether it was ever actually confirmed in-strip that she actually was pregnant then, or if it could have just been the Roomies! characters making stupid assumptions, and the old IW! archives are too much of a mess for me to feel like trawling through to figure it out.
I thought it was stated in a later It’s Walky! strip that she got an abortion, but I can’t find the strip.
It happened in Is a Song Forever?, which last I checked was up on the Shortpacked! site but I can’t find it anymore. It was basically a miniseries that showed the Roomes! cast graduating.
It’s in the second Roomies book
I’m pretty certain David has confirmed multiple times that she puked because she was pregnant
Willis’s commentary on a recent It’s Walky! strip that she was preggo.
And besides, even if they were being illogical, Mary didn’t do anything to dissuade then of the idea and acted as if she was, in fact, pregnant. I assume Danny just made a vindictive shot in the dark, and it managed to hit home.
I wasn’t exempting Mary from the set of idiot Roomies! characters making stupid assumptions. I mean, as far as we know, she had no more evidence that she was pregnant than Danny did. It’s not like we saw her pee on a stick or anything.
I just really hate the “she’s a dirty sinner who must be punished with an unwanted pregnancy” vibe about the whole thing.
I don’t understand why Mary doesn’t have more friends. She’s so pleasant!
Mary Mary, she’s quite contrary…
Mary, Mary, such a jerk.
How does her garden grow?
(Hydroponics lab in a specially selected house, complete with foil covering over the windows…?)
A little ray of sunshine…in that it hurts to look at, burns your skin, and prolonged exposure can give you cancer.
She’s a devout christian! She already has the 3 best friends she’ll ever need!
She’s not a devout christian, she’s a devout jerk.
she’s like the oldest young person, even older than Sarah!
now get off her lawn
Hey it’s Mary!….she’s important…..maybe….not really…….no one likes her.
If it’s been previously shown that Roz and Mary are roomies, I missed it. Once I stopped laughing, my only thought was “Poor Roz!”
It’s the perfect sitcom setup.
One is a sexually liberated liberal, the other is a (probably) sexually repressed conservative Christian. When you put them together in one room in college, both get highly opinionated! Ladies and gentlemen, “Two Unnecessarily Judgmental Girls” starring Roz (applause to her smiling face) and Mary (Absolute silence and one guy in the back yells “boo, you suck” to her evil smirk)
my reaction was “Wait, they’re roommates?! how did I miss this?!”
I recall Mary complaining about some of the stuff Rox put in her roommate agreement.
yea I found this http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-4/01-the-only-dope-for-me-is-you/monsters/
i somehow read the link to that as “the only dope for me is you monsters”
It’s been pointed out at least twice before (1, the Joe bangs Roz storyline, and 2, the Family Weekend when Riley visited).
There have been a few prior mentions (for instance, this strip and the one that follows it.)
We’ve known for a while.
There was also the bit where Mary was sitting in the hall in a frump because Roz had her monstrous little sister in their room. Which is an obvious indication that Mary is pure evil, because how could anyone hate Riley? She just wants cereal!
I don’t know when it was first shown, but when Riley visited it was definitely shown. Mary refused to stay in the room because of how monstrous Riley is. With her cereal eating, and Animal Crossing playing. That’s probably steps on some pathway to Satanism.
It’s a perfect pair though, when you think about it. The poster-child for bad Christians rooming with the poster-child for bad atheists.
Roz is an atheist?
Nnnno, Roz is not the poster child for bad atheists. She’s considerably less terrible than r/atheism, or Dawkins.
She has never once worn a fedora.
I’d say Roz is the poster child for bad liberals. I think she still identifies as Catholic to some degree (which just makes her relationship with Mary that much worse), but I don’t know for sure.
Roz is not an atheist.
What makes you so sure?
I don’t think Roz being religious was shown in the comic.
On the other hand she depreciates Joyce’s beliefs as superstitious, fear-mongering garbage.
She deprecated the “lust is sinful” aspect of her beliefs, not the “invisible sky wizard” aspect. Further, just because you don’t flaunt your religion doesn’t mean you don’t have one. The only way to be sure someone is atheist is if they say they are, and Roz hasn’t.
Fair enough, but I’ve never met someone who ripped into someone of faith the way she did Joyce for any aspect of the church that wasn’t an atheist.
I don’t understand why Mary gets constantly shit on (both in this universe and the Walkyverse). I get that she sucks, but it seems a little extreme.
Well, Mary has shown herself to be antisemitic and homophobic, the latter to the extent that she is passive-aggressively trying to destroy Billie’s friendship with Joyce and Ruth’s career.
She’s antisemetic? Refresh my memory, somebody with some choice strips.
I can’t easily link to strips on my phone, but in the Choosing my Religion chapter, Mary talks about how she agrees with the sermon about how the Jews missed clues about Jesus as the messiah in their own scripture. Dorothy points out how condescending it is.
As for general Mary hate, some of it’s probably leaked over from the other universe. But even in the Dumbiverse she’s been judgemental and antagonistic to pretty much everyone. And hasn’t shown any positive traits really.
Yeesh, douche chills.
The relevant conversation is around hereabouts:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/02-choosing-my-religion/feet/
That’s not so much antisemitic talk as much as general arrogant douchebaggery.
No reason it can’t be both. It assumes that if the Jews really knew how to interpret their scripture, they would be Christians. Its basically saying Jews are only Jews because they are clueless. That’s pretty anti-Semitic.
My point was that she’s not so much specifically antisemitic as much as generally rude, arrogant and a bongo.
Well okay, I’ll concede she’s not about to join up with a Neo-Nazi group. But my point is that is that it’s not a stretch to call her an anti-Semite considering what she said. It might not be a deep seated hatred, but there’s certainly a disdain for them, even if it’s only “They aren’t part of the same group I am, which is the best because I’m the best.”
Hm, I think it’s more about the classical “MY local church is right, all the others are wrong” trip. The smaller the community, the hardcorest they’re about about it ?
But that’s a real stretch, isn’t it? All that Mary said in the strip that “HereYouGo” linked was “I wanted to have a serious discussion on today’s service”. She actually said “I thought it was a pretty good service” in the strip immediately before that, but she never specifically talks about that sermon.
It was Sierra who admits to like that sermon, so your logic should make Sierra the antisemite, not Mary!
Just to avoid possible confusion: I am replying to Lord Stoneheart.
Hah, I forgot it was Sierra who specifically brings up that part of the sermon. Though Mary does defend the sermon when Dorothy brings up her problem with it. (This leads to the “What kind of Christian are you?” “Non?” part.
She’s yet to haven shown redeeming features or even a background that lets us empathize with why she’s a villain. I think she’s supposed to be the counterpoint to Joyce on the opposite side of the love/self-righteousness spectrum of extreme religiousness, but she’s a side character so she hasn’t got the development Joyce has.
It is nice to see “there are multiple ways to be christian”; many stories don’t have enough characters do to this well for any group. On the same leaf, its nice that Roz and Dorothy provide “there are multiple ways to be liberal”.
It’s because she’s a bongo.
She’s trying to break up my gravatar. Therefore, she needs to be launched into the sun.
Because the author uses her tht way ™
Mary may not be exactly my favourite character but I can get behind that plot idea.
…keep talking I’m curious.
If it results in Roz having Becky’s gayby, I’m all for Mary’s idea.
Aaaaand new ship, let’s see how far this one goes.
Mary Delenda Est
I love how both Becky and Roz say no at the same time, made me laugh.
Is that a new ship being launched?
I could see their interactions being fun, so despite Roz being straight, I’m open to the shipping.
Is Roz straight? Is this a thing we know for sure?
I mean, we know she’s into dudes, but that just means she’s not gay.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/out/
http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1812
The HMAS Just Becroz. takes a fatal torpedo to the stern. And yet, we can still see some crew & passengers trying to keep her running, Hoping it’ll pull through…
XD
I’m slipping in my old age!
According to canon, Roz is willing to make out with other girls but draws the line at lezzo rumby-pumpy.
I think she’s only willing to make out with girls if it annoys her sister.
Roz has her an off-campus party tonight too, and Mary isn’t welcome there either.
That is true, I hope Roz would show up to Joyces party though, to see them reconcile.
Could happen, she might make a cameo appearance before heading into town if the timing works out. Joyce’s party starts at 9PM, that’s early-ish for Saturday night.
I can’t say I expected Roz on the invite list.
Didn’t expect that either but here you go.
And if Mike can get on the list then anything’s Possible
Unless you’re Joe
Or Mary.
I assume she’d be on the invite list for the same reason Mary isn’t.
Confirms Mary not being on the invite list.
She’s on the only invite list that matters. Jesus’
I’m pretty sure Jesus has her on the “if nobody else wants to come” list.
Only ’cause Jesus is a chill dude. It takes a divine level of patience to deal with Mary’s shit.
Once you’ve been nailed to a cross most things kind of pale in comparison.
Hanging out with Mary — not as bad as crucifixion!
Only slightly worse than being whipped!
Some people pay good money for that, you know.
Which DoA character is most likel6 to become a dominatrix for fun and/or profit?
I do not want the end lesson of Roz’s arc to be that she was justified to attack Joyce. This is making me apprehensive.
Wait what?
I don’t see why Joyce would invite Roz unless she decided that her verbal assault was justified, which it very clearly wasn’t.
Or Joyce is trying to take the high road and feels that, even though Roz said some crappy things, she’s not actually dangerous to have around?
She’s not dangerous to have around, but that doesn’t mean she’s good to have around either, isn’t the whole point for Joyce to have a good time?
I think the idea is that either the olive branch of this invitation will chill Roz out, or else she just won’t come, so it’s… not exactly win/win, but at least win/not-be-any-worse-off.
While Roz did take things way to far, there was at least a kernel of truth to what she was saying… Joyce may not have been out there protesting against the gays with the Westboro Baptist crowd, but she did say she “hates homosexuality”. Its that type of attitude that allows anti-gay discrimination to continue.
How do you come to that conclusion? There are shades of gray, in case you forgot?
Must…resist…terrible…BDSM…erotica…reference…
In this strip, Roz is going on about how Joyce must be joking or trying to trick her, when actually her presence on the list is a sincere indication of trust and goodwill. She’s making a fool of herself. And recall that Roz got kicked out of class for that outburst, by Leslie, who is always portrayed in the highest esteem.
Willis is clearly portraying Roz as arrogant and needing to learn to be more thoughtful and empathetic. As someone who really likes Roz, is impressed with her activism (for a college freshman), and feels very sympathetic towards her for being angry towards Joyce, I think it’s good characterization and a necessary step for her that will help her be a better person.
Hear hear.
Assuming she cancels her other plans for the night, then.
She doesn’t have to, she just has to show up, talk to to Joyce, then leave. We’re not even sure there’s a schedule conflict.
Hmmm.
I love this. Immediately after Becky says that Joyce trusts Roz, Roz proves herself trustworthy in a small way, by denying to Mary that there is a party. She’s picked up on the fact that the party is invite only and Joyce is trying to be careful. And, she protects her. Roz isn’t *nice* but in this comic she is doing the right thing for the sake of someone she really doesn’t even like.
after figuring out that something bad probably happened to Joyce at the Ryan party, Roz gave her the number to a support group. despite her outbursts due to their conflicting world views, Roz has shown kindness to Joyce in the past and I think Joyce appreciates that and views her as a trustworthy person because of it.
Roz’s assault was spiteful and hurtful and put bongoing out a fundie over actually helping her to a greater understanding. Doesn’t mean that it couldn’t have a positive effect or show Joyce to a potential ally that could help her and Becks.
It’s pretty surprising she’d invite Roz, considering the tongue-lashing she got in class earlier in the week.
Points up for Roz, points down for Joe.
It’s more surprising since this is like the same freaking day by DoA’s timeline, if I recall.
No this is the next day.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/forthright/
Becky would be intrigued by your choice of words, Jason.
Kinky.
Joyce: “Wait, no, not her! Who was I thinking of… Riley! Yeah”
Ech! I was hoping we would never have to see Mary again…silly me.
Y’know. Unless Roz just decides to raise her baby in your dorm. Did you even think this through, Mary!?
Babies or even gaybies are noisy critters at night.
Babies. Noisier than hamsters, and nowhere near as cute.
And since your the one who jinxed her your going to haft to help raise it, feed it, give it baths and take it on walks.
Is that how it works? I missed the part about jinxes being a leading cause of pregnancy when I got The Talk, and I had no idea they made you responsible for child support.
Roz stop pigeon-holing Joyce. Mary (and half the other “Christian” characters) stop giving Christians a bad name.
Pigeon-holing sounds pretty kinky!
Sounds like what X-rated Bert from Sesame Street might be into.
That might be the funniest comment I’ve read on this site
Hey, it’s called “Doin the Pigeon” for a reason.
That put an image in my head that will take a good long while to remove… that might’ve come out wrong.
None of the other Christian characters really act the same hateful way as Mary does. Joyce and Becky’s beliefs can hurt others but they aren’t hateful like Mary.
Becky’s dad, Joyce’s mom (Joyce’s dad is borderline). They cancel out the reasonable ones like Sierra and Joyce.
Oh right. Forgot about parents. The wonderful, wonderful parents. I was more thinking of Sierra and Agatha. And I’m pretty sure Billie and Danny also identify as Christian.
Give Roz a bit.
And she’ll take a bongo?
no, no, give her a bit and you’ll see why Joyce wanted her there.
I’m starting to think Becky is just inviting ppl on her own recognizance, because Joyce’s feelings < bongoIN' PARTY WOOOOOO
Oh hey, the *itch filter is still on. Neat. XD
It’s also been retroactively applied to older comics, which is awesome. I just clicked one of the above links to comics with Mary in them and “bongo” is absolutely everywhere.
Oh thank god, I thought I just had idiot fingers
But … she has a list. Made by Joyce. The whole reason for this party is FOR JOYCE.
*becky, onpanel, literally points to a list of names crafted by joyce*
“ASSHOLE BECKY’S JUST INVITING WHOEVER, THAT JERK”
BECKY IS LITTERALLY SATAN.
Well, her hair is red, and she is wearing a red jacket. Missing the pitchfork, and Satan wouldn’t be caught dead wearing white shorts after Labor Day.
But, it’s not even Memorial Day. Still safe!
Silly Willis, the note isn’t legible to the readers. Plenty of room for Becky haters to claim she’s just making stuff up. That could be a grocery list for all they know.
Even if it was legible, Becky could have still mind-controlled Joyce to write the names that Becky wanted! For some reason! That fiend!
I was about to give Roz a chance till she said that smart ass comment but if she’s going to be like that then Fuck 2/3rds of everyone in this strip.
It’s not like Roz and Joyce ever really got alone…
Do not want them to get alone?
alonealongI knew what you meant, I was making a joke about the spelling error.
True, I’m just thinking “Roz at least try why don’t you.”
Funny, I’m still waiting for people to give Roz a chance.
I will try, I didn’t have that much of a beef with her till now SO I WILL TRY.
Lot’s of people gave Roz a chance. She was actually pretty well liked for several years until recently. That’s likely why they got so mad, they actually liked Roz so her words and actions angered them even more.
What do you do with the remaining 1/3 of everyone?
Fudge ’em.
It’s hilarious how a commenter can kneejerk write Roz off like that because of her own kneejerk reaction. Life imitates art!
Well, if I had to deal with Mary all day every day like Roz does, I think I’d probably react to Joyce’s invitation with similar suspicion.
Ah Mary. So good to see your pleasant visage again… nope couldn’t type that out without getting sick to my stomach. And Roz, c’mon, give Joyce a chance. Dame is trying at least.
Is kind of instictive the aversion to Mary at this point it seems?
dammit willis I laughed so hard I scared everyone in the house
…So she trusts the girl that spent most of class demonizing her more than Joe. I think Joyce may have forgiveness problems.
But Joe is a sex-mad guy from Joyce’s POV so…
Lets hope Joe gets a chance for redemption at some point, perhaps Ryan will show up again so Joe can punch him in the face.
Roz also offered Joyce access to a support group in the wake of her assault–and, lest we forget, the point of the party is so that Joyce can socialize in an environment where she feels safe. She may think Roz is a jerk, but she knows her heart is in the right place, and ultimately that’s what matters.
Has the invite list specifically included everyone who knows about Ryan’s assault on Joyce?
We don’t know if Sal is invited yet/ but we can probably assume, because Joyce thinks that Sal is the coolest. She probably also wants to invite Sal’s motorbike as well.
Actually I don’t think Roz knows the details. The first time she referred to the party she mistakenly complained about someone “making a scene”, but it didn’t sound like she knew the nature of the problem. And later, when she was talking to joyce about it, she said (to paraphrase) “If something bad happened here’s someone to talk to”.
Of course, it doesn’t mean she didn’t find out more about it later.
Joyce is attracted to Joe, in a physical sense if in no other way.
She is not attracted to Roz.
I think I would feel less safe around the girl who demonised me and condescended to me, but since Joyce was cripplingly afraid of her own sexuality even before she was unfortunate enough to be sexually assaulted, I get where she’s coming from. It has less to do with who Joe and Roz are and more to do with who Joyce is.
She trusts the self-righteous loudmouth who nonetheless helped draw the roadmap of her own moral awakening over the asswipe whose last act in Joyce’s presence is to lament that the gender studies class was talking about real problems LGBT people have rather than his pornographic lezzy fantasies. Hardly a priority problem.
I’m amazed by how many people never overdid anything in their college years. At least, I assume they didn’t, because otherwise I’d be forced to assume that some of this Roz-hate may be slightly hypocritical.
Me, I’m looking forward to seeing her learn better.
Yusssss, I had a feeling Roz would be on the list, I’m thrilled it happened on my birthday.
I want to give every character at least a chance(sounds like a fruitless effort I know) but there are some things some of them do that just pisses me off.
You ever see one of those optical illusion things and count how many people claim that it didn’t fool them? Everyone’s superhuman in every way when they think nobody can prove otherwise.
I have never been able to see an optical illusion, ever. It makes me sad.
I graduated college almost thirty years ago, and I’m still overdoing every furshlugginer thing I can.
I was more of a Dorothy/Sarah type. Stay quite, learn, keep to myself.
Alt-text makes everything better.
Fukkin’ Mary. lol
Man, Mary’s eyes are like a window to the devil’s soul.
So are your avatar’s
they should stuff her in a locker
Awwwwwwww. Roz in panel two
Happy Birthday Invisiblemoose.
I’m trying to make up my mind if Becky is the worst or the best possible choice to be handing out invites.
Considering she’s suppose dot stay out of the hallway and avoid attracting attention to herself I’d say worst.
Okay, right now, Mary believes Becky is a student. Tomorrow we will see if Becky is smart enough to not correct her.
hahahaha I love Mary. Love to hate Mary, anyway.
I love how the synchronised no there, genuinely made me laugh. Plus nice one Joyce for being forgiving enough to invite Roz to the party despite their differences. If it was me, she definiately wouldn’t have been invited
Mary is a bitter maam, bitter maam, bitter maam,
Mary is a bitter maam, who’s heart is black as coal.
And everywhere that Mary went, Mary went, Mary went,
And everywhere that Mary went, she was a hardened troll.
Oh, wow. Did we know these two roomed together? Because of COURSE these two room together.
Yes.
Here’s a link to one of the pages where it is brought up.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-4/01-the-only-dope-for-me-is-you/monsters/
Poor Mary. All we ever learn about her is that she’s a selfish elitist snob in any universe, and her “punishment” in the original is that ever-distasteful evangelical canard of unwed pregnancy. Everyone else gets to learn and grow and change, but Mary just stays evil no matter what happens to her.
I don’t like it. I don’t believe anybody can be that far gone. Something’s got to give.
I think some people might, sadly, be that far gone, but I don’t think Mary is yet. And in Willis’ own words, “whoops now mary’s important”. I think we’ll be seeing more of her, and from some different perspectives too. I’m not the only one either. There have been some… interesting… theories regarding the wristbands she always wears, theories I find quite persuasive, given what we know about Mary. I don’t think I’ve ever seen somebody spit out so much venom without swallowing even more of it.
Important, in that she already has the potential to snitch on Billie/Ruth, and… soon, Becky ?
That was the way he meant it, yes. But I will be disappointed if Mary doesn’t become important in other ways to.
She may never be a likeable character, but I hope we at least get some deconstruction of the fact that, as much as she is angry at everyone else for failing to live up to her standards, she’s got to to be just as angry at herself for failing to live up to them.
Not exactly.
You are recasting Roomies Mary by how she turned out, not how she was originally intended.
I think I read somewhere that she started out as Willis perfect Christian woman, Pretty, nice, moral, upright ( uptight ) etc. Then near the end he realized she represented more what he hated, and then he revealed her to be spiteful, lying , manipulative and two-faced.
So her character arc was one of negative growth.
This Mary starts off with all her negative traits and viciousness up-front and center, and is practically a 2-dimensional caricature of the original. I am hoping DOA Mary has enough growth, just to be a better villain.
Nevertheless character growth and human personal growth is not the same thing. She grow as a character without “salvation” . Human Growth is something that you get because you somehow deserve it. Not every Willis character grows. “Faz” doesnt. Neither does Ambers Dad,Beckys Dad, Head Alien, … actually lots of characters.
The other Mary was more calculating, and had a better developed personality as a cover. This one is too impulsive to keep up a mask for long.
Heyn Faz learned to wrestle lions !
Badly.
He killed it and repurposed its hide as a snazzy outfit. How much better can you be at wrestling lions?
I’m not as well-up on the Walkyverse as the Dumbiverse – was there any indication that Mary mellowed toward the end, recognising that she’d made her own mistakes? Did she take the I-guess-we’re-all-human-after-all route or the double-down-in-spite-and-self-loathing route, I mean. Or just stay as a byword for purity-culture hypocrisy and fundie intolerance?
She decided bad things happened to people because they deserve them.
I could see Mary and Roz adding some unwanted friction to this party, for completely opposite but not dissimilar reasons.
I’m… honestly surprised that Joyce would invite Roz. Especially after how they parted the last time they spoke. But, guess I’ll see what happens next!
I hope Becky and Roz become pals~
Just how the hell big is Joyce’s room? Even if they used Billie and Sal’s room (with the half bath being the most awkward hallway ever), it still seems like they over invited for this thing.
If you can’t fit a dozen people in a dorm room with loft beds, you’re not trying very hard. So far they’re at what, ten, and at least two of them probably won’t show.
Joyce, Becky, Dorothy, Walky, Ethan, Jacob, Amber, Dina, Roz, Sarah, Billie, Sal, possibly Danny.
That’s at least 12 people, possibly 13. My guess is that Sierra might be invited by virtue of being Dorothy’s roomie, but she’s generally a non-entity in the comic anyway.
Assuming Billie and Sal get their invites and actually show up, that’s about a comfortably full room. Sierra’s probably out, if she was getting an invite Becky would have asked Dorothy to relay it the same way she did with Walky. If some of the dodgy ones (Mike, Roz, whatever other surprises pop up) show up they might be legitimately crowded, but this is a dorm party. People will wander in and out as the crowd hits critical mass, and couples (which the list is light on) will drift off for some privacy as the night goes on.
Remember, Sierra has an on-going relationship with Joyce independent of Dorothy… they go to the same church. So it would make sense she would be invited.
Perhaps Becky ran into Sierra off-panel.
“Sierra has an on-going relationship with Joyce independent of Dorothy”
This is relevant to some people’s interests.
It will undoubtedly spill into the shared bathroom, possibly into the connecting room (occupied by, if memory serves me, Billie and Sal; and it wouldn’t surprise me that they are both on the invite list as well), and out into the hallway. Ruth will of course be attracted to the commotion but become distracted by Billie. No problem.
Roz isn’t big on trusting, eh.
And no, I haven’t forgotten a “h”
Go away Mary.
You know the more angles I see Becky’s hair at…..
I really fuckin love it, Willis I am in love with how you drew her hair in this strip!<3
Interesting contrast to Joe, Joyce must know Joe wouldn’t ruin or crash a party if uninvited but might try to show up if he just heard fun stuff going on, while Mary would actively ruin or narc out any party so she has to be kept in the dark.
Roz’ hair isn’t puffy in the last panel.
Yes it is. It’s just that Mary and Becky have both crowded in and obscured some of the puffiness.
Sometimes, I wonder why Roz became such a minor character… She has a nice design.
She’s bidding her time… until..
Is there like an up-to-date ‘rooming chart’ that tells who is roommates with whom and which pairs of roommates share connecting baths? We know Joyce and Sarah share the bath with Billie and Sal, and Dorothy and Sierra share the bath with Dina and Amber, but how about some of the others, like Walky and Danny and Ethan and Jacob.
Something like this would, by the way, be an interesting and usefull addition to the Walkypedia.
Danny and Ethan share the showers.
Headcanon: Splush!
We know roommates are Joyce+Sarah, Billie+Sal, Amber+Dina, Sierra+Dorothy, Rachel+Other Rachel, Mary+Roz. (Actually the only one on the girls side who I don’t think we know the roommate of is Agatha). On the guys side there’s Mike+Walky, Joe+Danny, Ethan+Jacob (Possibly Ken+Arnold?). As far as half baths Joyce+Sarah and Billie+Sal are connected, and Amber+Dina and Dorothy+Sierra are connected. As RA Ruth has a single, and Carla has the other single. For the guys side the RA is probably the same guy as the nameless trekkie RA from the Walkyverse, though we only know that through an offhand remark from Ethan. I think that covers all the characters we know. (Oh and Marcie lives somewhere off campus)
Hey look everybody!!
A Dumbing of Age quiz on Sporcle!!!
Oops …. let’s try that again.
A Dumbing of Age quiz on Sporcle!!!
OK — cut-and-paste this link:
http://www.sporcle.com/games/BossMonster/spider-car-is-not-an-answer
Cut-and-paste the above link — then, after ‘BossMonster/’ add the word ‘spider-car’ so that it reads ‘spider-car-is-not-an-answer’.
And if this doesn’t work, then I give up.
Willis, is there some reason your website continues to delete the word ‘s-p-i-d-e-r-c-a-r’?
I could be wrong, (I came late to the webcomic and had to archive binge to catach up, so I skipped the comments on a lot of strips) but I believe it’s because some time ago people sort of went hogwild claiming that everyone and everything was the aforementioned’s super-hero’s secret identity in every strip, and Willis got fed up with it, so now there’s no, er, arachnomobile for anyone.
Why is there no Edit function? I have a typo on that post! A TYPOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
And now everyone will see it!
At least it doesn’t become ‘bongomobile’.
After all the jacks are in their boxes,
and the clowns have all gone to bed,
you can hear happiness staggering on down the street,
footprints dress in red.
And the wind whispers Mary.
A broom is drearily sweeping
up the broken pieces of yesterday’s life.
Somewhere a Queen is weeping,
somewhere a King has no wife.
And the wind it cries Mary.
The traffic lights they turn blue tomorrow
And shine their emptiness down on my bed,
The tiny island sags downstream
‘Cos the life that they lived is dead.
And the wind screams Mary.
Will the wind ever remember
The names it has blown in the past,
And with this crutch, its old age and its wisdom
It whispers, “No, this will be the last.”
And The Wind Cries Mary.
Willis has been building up to this party for almost a month now. Anyone else got a really bad feeling about this?
I am really hoping nobody dies.
I’m expecting the party to be very awkward and I’m afraid that it’ll happen.
I dunno… Somehow I expected more from the commentator field when Roz and Becky finally met, given how much FORUM RAGE both of them have manged to inspire on their own. It seems like we have all mellowed down a bit the last month.
Good riddance, I suppose.
I think everyone was readying their hatespews, but then Mary showed up, and that hatred soon dissipated before the loathing everyone has for her.
You don’t think Willis planned this, do you?
I wouldn’t put it past him. The PornLord is wise in the ways of the hatedom.
You know, if the person who decides room pairings were truly evil, he’d pair Mary and Sarah.
It may not SEEM evil – they’re both misanthropes, both non-partiers who appreciate being left in peace and quiet. I’m sure they’d get along…
At first…
I would *never* pair up Mary and Sarah in a room! Roomies? Them? Ha! Not in this universe, pal!
hi!
*sigh* they’ve been paired up together in a previous comic, then? I should have known… Damn you, irony (and Wills)!
Mary was the new Joyce.
That’s a pretty raw deal.
Mary would constantly chastise Sarah about Other Jacob. Sarah would always wonder why Other Jacob was never where she remembered leaving it…
You think she’d touch it more than once, rather than using that one time to move it somewhere that she could publicly smash it?
No no, she wouldn’t smash it. If she did that she couldn’t keep chastising Sarah about it, or using it herself when Sarah wasn’t around. (Mary is a hypocrite.)
Suddenly, Mary is voiced by Alan Rickman.
“Misssss McIntyre… Trying to organize a party, are we? Ten points from Lesbiandor.”
Am I the only one thinking ‘Excellent, Mary assumed Becky is enrolled even though she has never seen her before this past weekend. We are in the clear.’
Becky, just keep going to classes with Joyce and pretend like you’re studying sometimes. You’ll be fiiiiiiine.
My friend’s roommate did that in college… except she pretended for everybody. Even my roommates! They didn’t realize she wasn’t actually a student until she stopped paying rent and they tried to get a stop put on her grades until she contributed… and there were no grades to stop.
Roz is the best character in this strip. No doubt.
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Curse your alt text Willis! It beat me and everyone to the punch. A sick reversal of sentence structure to what Mike was doing to Joe’s face. (punching him to a beat. I am oh so very witty. *eyeroll*)
HOW ARE ALL THESE PEOPLE GOING TO FIT COMFORTABLY INTO A SINGLE ROOM
Okay I just needed to get that off my chest.