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by David M Willis on June 26, 2015 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - The Butterflies Won't Fly Away

└ Tags: amber, becky, danny, dina, ethan, jennifer, joyce, ruth, sarah

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    June 26, 2015 at 12:01 am | #

    Throw food at the appropriate moments?

    no wait

    [aww, date night]

    • lejwocky
      lejwocky
      June 26, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

      at the late night… christian-forbidden-feature… picture … show…

      • Rich
        Rich
        June 26, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

        Toast!

      • MeghanTheWorldEater
        MeghanTheWorldEater
        June 26, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

        In the back row (Fudge the back row!) I wanna gooo!

        • Yet_One_More_Idiot
          Yet_One_More_Idiot
          June 26, 2015 at 1:43 am | #

          At the back row, in the dark, Ruthie’s gonna let it goooooo~ (her insecurities that is…for the duration of the movie)

          Cue lots of adorable hand-holding and footsies in the dark. ;P

        • jpic89
          jpic89
          June 26, 2015 at 6:07 am | #

          Fuck the front row!

          • Roborat
            Roborat
            June 26, 2015 at 3:20 pm | #

            Hi back row!

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            June 26, 2015 at 4:41 pm | #

            You fuck ’em! I’ve seen them.

      • Shawn L.
        Shawn L.
        June 26, 2015 at 9:23 am | #

        I’m pretty sure Frozen isn’t “Christian-forbidden”. More like hyper-controlling-parent-forbidden, given Becky’s explanation.

        • Aisling
          Aisling
          June 26, 2015 at 10:19 am | #

          Frozen has magic, so obviously it promotes satanism and demon posession. *rolls eyes*

          • Oddball
            Oddball
            June 26, 2015 at 10:40 am | #

            Of course it does, as does eating a cheese danish (and enjoying it!), praising something other than God himself, blood moons (MADE OF BLOOD), and even walking down stairs before prostrating yourself before God and saying 10 hail marys and a hymn just to round it out. Luckly, I chose something else, and now I am a happy and fulfilled heathen who hugs trees and enjoys nature.

            • Stumplove
              Stumplove
              June 27, 2015 at 9:30 am | #

              You wanna danish?

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nb41ONJeMc&hl=en-GB&gl=SG

        • pumpkincat
          pumpkincat
          June 26, 2015 at 1:20 pm | #

          Becky’s AND Joyce’s. It’s really amazing that both/either of them is as well-adjusted as they are, considering.

        • Yvonne
          Yvonne
          June 26, 2015 at 2:38 pm | #

          Actually, that reasoning was spot on for some Christian parents that I knew growing up.

          • honeynutqueerios
            honeynutqueerios
            June 27, 2015 at 12:38 am | #

            you knew my parents growing up?

    • LeslieBean4Shizzle
      LeslieBean4Shizzle
      June 26, 2015 at 1:34 am | #

      …. DAWWWW!!~!
      <3
      <3

      • LeslieBean4Shizzle
        LeslieBean4Shizzle
        June 26, 2015 at 11:05 pm | #

        Considering the subject matter that ended up directly above it, my daw suddenly seems a bit out of place.

  2. Corvidium
    Corvidium
    June 26, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    Ruth remains the best character

    • Eric
      Eric
      June 26, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

      I can’t agree more.

    • chris73
      chris73
      June 26, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

      The fall Ruths going to experience is gonna hurt big time

      • Corvidium
        Corvidium
        June 26, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

        Hush, you

        • chris73
          chris73
          June 26, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

          Sowwy

        • Rich
          Rich
          June 26, 2015 at 5:12 pm | #

          At least she’s going to survive this time around. Do not need another traffic fatality, thanks.

          • Icalasari
            Icalasari
            June 26, 2015 at 5:21 pm | #

            What if Billie is the one who dies and causes Ruth to go into a horrific downward spiral that results in her becoming a broken shell of her former self?

            …Why are all the webcomics I read going down such paths?

            • Haven
              Haven
              June 26, 2015 at 8:50 pm | #

              Yeesh, more like Bumming of Age.

            • Tacos
              Tacos
              June 26, 2015 at 10:16 pm | #

              Willis has already said nobody will die in this comic.

      • -Sentinel-
        -Sentinel-
        June 26, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

        But she’ll have NO REGRETS

        • Leorale
          Leorale
          June 26, 2015 at 12:25 am | #

          T.T

        • Justin
          Justin
          June 26, 2015 at 12:29 am | #

          Don’t be silly. She hasn’t acted with integrity yet!

          • you can't see me
            you can't see me
            June 26, 2015 at 3:10 am | #

            I see what you did there.

        • Joseph
          Joseph
          June 26, 2015 at 2:19 am | #

          She is ALL regret

          • Gangler
            Gangler
            June 26, 2015 at 5:14 am | #

            She is made of Regret and it’s stronger than you.

            • Weyland
              Weyland
              June 27, 2015 at 11:49 am | #

              She is the high prophet of regret, and your heresy shall stay your feet!

    • Architex
      Architex
      June 26, 2015 at 12:37 am | #

      I get the feeling she suddenly had this idea when she was missing Billie. How sweet <3

    • Cheryl
      Cheryl
      June 26, 2015 at 1:26 am | #

      What about got dumped guy? He seems cool.

      • HeySo
        HeySo
        June 26, 2015 at 1:50 am | #

        Lousy superhero, though.

        • Oddball
          Oddball
          June 26, 2015 at 10:43 am | #

          “I’ll stop you, EVIL doers! Just…just after…I stop remembering…this is the bank Jennie and I used to…G-go to…OH GOD!” *Curls into a ball and starting crying like a baby*

          • AgentKeen
            AgentKeen
            June 26, 2015 at 10:59 am | #

            That might make some criminals uncomfortable enough to just stop what they were doing.

            • HeySo
              HeySo
              June 28, 2015 at 10:47 pm | #

              “Oh gods.. oh, geeze, okay. Hey, hostages, is there a doctor in the building? I mean, like, a psychiatrist or something.”

    • Pecker Holder
      Pecker Holder
      January 20, 2016 at 4:47 pm | #

      How does acting like an abusive sociopath make someone a ”best character” in a socially focused comic?

  3. Kris
    Kris
    June 26, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    I feel like an awwwww<3 would be appropriate here.

    • LiaHansen
      LiaHansen
      June 26, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

      +1

      • LeslieBean4Shizzle
        LeslieBean4Shizzle
        June 26, 2015 at 1:35 am | #

        +2

        • Arianod
          Arianod
          June 26, 2015 at 1:59 am | #

          +3

          • Dean
            Dean
            June 26, 2015 at 2:42 am | #

            +5

            (sorry, thought we were doing an arithmentic sequence)

            • The Churro
              The Churro
              June 26, 2015 at 3:38 am | #

              +8

              (in that case)

              • saki
                saki
                June 26, 2015 at 4:52 am | #

                +13

                • Lieutenant Dan
                  Lieutenant Dan
                  June 26, 2015 at 6:35 am | #

                  +21

                • dmaxx
                  dmaxx
                  June 26, 2015 at 7:37 am | #

                  +20! I WIN(\^~^/)

                • Deanatay
                  Deanatay
                  June 26, 2015 at 12:22 pm | #

                  Goddamn Fibonacci sequences….

                  +34

                • Bill M.
                  Bill M.
                  June 26, 2015 at 5:06 pm | #

                  +55 (Fibonacci continues on!)

                • LeslieBean4Shizzle
                  LeslieBean4Shizzle
                  June 26, 2015 at 11:06 pm | #

                  +89

  4. Packy
    Packy
    June 26, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    Awwwwww!

    • LiaHansen
      LiaHansen
      June 26, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

      +1 for teamwork

      • LeslieBean4Shizzle
        LeslieBean4Shizzle
        June 26, 2015 at 1:35 am | #

        +2

  5. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    June 26, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    I couldn’t imagine Ruth enjoying a movie about an ice queen opening up about her feelings. Shocking.

  6. shadowcell
    shadowcell
    June 26, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    “oh ruth,” purred billie, “inexplicable and flagrant abuse of power gets me so hot…”

    • LeslieBean4Shizzle
      LeslieBean4Shizzle
      June 26, 2015 at 1:36 am | #

      … next slipshine…

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        June 26, 2015 at 1:54 am | #

        … their entire relationship

      • Leonid Islay
        Leonid Islay
        June 26, 2015 at 2:07 am | #

        I want to believe.

  7. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    June 26, 2015 at 12:02 am | #

    What happens when they all start singing along with the movie?

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 26, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

      YouTube parodies happen.

    • DarkoNeko
      DarkoNeko
      June 26, 2015 at 2:35 am | #

      A lot of blood and broken femurs.

    • Oddball
      Oddball
      June 26, 2015 at 10:47 am | #

      …they all look at each other and well, on the next slipshine…Joy is kicked out of her own room…oh My!

  8. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    June 26, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    Whose hands are those? Ruth/Billie or Becky/Dina?

    • Dean
      Dean
      June 26, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

      Ruth and Billie. Check the skin tones. Neither is dark enough for Dina.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 26, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

        I suspected as much but those colours looked close enough to be Becky/Dina to fuel fans.

        • JWLM
          JWLM
          June 26, 2015 at 12:28 am | #

          Also, Becky’s skin has yellow undertones and Ruth’s has pink undertones. That’s Ruth’s arm.

          Although I do want to know where Willis has hidden her freckles.

        • That Damn Rat
          That Damn Rat
          June 26, 2015 at 12:29 am | #

          Okay, your ever-changing avatars were something I thought I was used to, but the pantomime crocodile or whatever the hell that is, gave me pause.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            June 26, 2015 at 1:47 am | #

            Even I need a break from my usual girly gravatars on a rare occasion.

            • Oddball
              Oddball
              June 26, 2015 at 10:48 am | #

              I think the alligator is about to sing, LETS WATCH!

              • Rich
                Rich
                June 26, 2015 at 5:15 pm | #

                Lindsay Ellis would approve. Very fond of singing alligators, she is.

            • Roborat
              Roborat
              June 26, 2015 at 3:23 pm | #

              Well ok, we will let it go (hah, managed to work that in), as long as that is a cute girl crocodile.

          • Marika Oniki
            Marika Oniki
            June 26, 2015 at 9:43 am | #

            It’s Plasma Mongoose’s Big Lipped Alligator Moment!

            • AgentKeen
              AgentKeen
              June 26, 2015 at 11:01 am | #

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX82GGq1l74

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              June 26, 2015 at 9:36 pm | #

              I’ll buy that for a dollar. ^_^

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          June 26, 2015 at 12:24 pm | #

          Ruth’s hands aren’t pink – they’re stained red from repeated femur-rippings.

      • Rich
        Rich
        June 26, 2015 at 12:14 am | #

        Plus the background is the wall they’re standing against. You can tell the experienced couple, they’re at the back of the theater. Poor Becky’s right up front, the newb.

        • DarkoNeko
          DarkoNeko
          June 26, 2015 at 1:31 am | #

          Speaking of which, she got just front of Amber, blocking the view XD

        • fogel
          fogel
          June 26, 2015 at 3:15 am | #

          I expect that Becky would be very happy to make-out in the front row with everyone watching–probably like it more than being in the last row.

          • Rich
            Rich
            June 26, 2015 at 5:09 pm | #

            Takes two to tango, although Dina sure is doing better on the social anxiety front right now, isn’t she?

            • TwinBladeWarrior
              TwinBladeWarrior
              June 26, 2015 at 7:16 pm | #

              Now I think about it sitting at the front means not having to look at everyone elses faces which is what caused the anxiety attack last time.
              Clever girl indeed

              • fogel
                fogel
                June 26, 2015 at 10:05 pm | #

                Right, it works for both Becks and Dina.

            • fogel
              fogel
              June 26, 2015 at 10:10 pm | #

              For some people ‘right now’ is how Social Anxiety works: doing fine one instant, having a good time, the next instant, ‘not so much’. Amazing how fast the tide can reverse 180°.

    • PINtempest
      PINtempest
      June 26, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

      Yes

    • Pier
      Pier
      June 26, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

      Ethan/Danny just for the fun of it. 🙂

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        June 26, 2015 at 12:26 am | #

        man don’t I wish

    • Heatth
      Heatth
      June 26, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

      Ruth and Billie. You can tell because it is close to the wall (also because they were the focus of the previous two panels)

  9. Twilightomens
    Twilightomens
    June 26, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    Ruth is my role model from this comic.

    • fogel
      fogel
      June 26, 2015 at 3:17 am | #

      “You’re coming to my party or I’ll break your legs”?

  10. Dean
    Dean
    June 26, 2015 at 12:03 am | #

    This is Ruth’s way of saying that she REALLY wants everyone to enjoy watching Frozen.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      June 26, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

      It’s Frozen, of course they will enjoy it.

    • shadowcell
      shadowcell
      June 26, 2015 at 1:38 am | #

      LET IT GOOOOOOO
      LET IT GOOOOOOO
      YOU DON’T HAVE FEMURS ANYMOOOOOOOORE
      LET IT GOOOOOOO
      LET IT GOOOOOOO
      SO I’LL THROW YOU OUT THE DOOOOOOOOOOR
      I DON’T CARE
      WHAT THEY’RE GOING TO SAY
      LET THE FROSH RAGE OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON
      the blood never bothered me anyway

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        June 26, 2015 at 2:01 am | #

        Sorry, I already gave today’s Internet to someone else…

      • DarkoNeko
        DarkoNeko
        June 26, 2015 at 2:36 am | #

        Here, have mine.

      • saki
        saki
        June 26, 2015 at 4:56 am | #

        Frosh sounds very similar to Frosch in German, which means frog. I was extremely confused for a second there.

      • saki
        saki
        June 26, 2015 at 4:58 am | #

        Oh and also

        DO YOU WANNA BREAK SOME FEMUUURS
        IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THE FEMUUUUUR

        • StClair
          StClair
          June 26, 2015 at 5:15 am | #

          tibias’re fiiiiiine…

        • shadowcell
          shadowcell
          June 26, 2015 at 11:13 am | #

          SO SHE’S A BIT OF A FEMUR-BREAKER…

          • saki
            saki
            June 26, 2015 at 11:21 am | #

            SO SHE’S GOT A FEW FLAWS
            LIKE HER EXCESSIVE DRINKING
            HER THING WITH THAT STUDENT
            THAT’S A LITTLE OUTSIDE THE UNI’S RULES

            (I don’t do rhymes well…)

  11. Skizz
    Skizz
    June 26, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

    I was really hoping that would happen. Now I hope drunk Billie reacts in a dignified, mature manner. What are my chances?

  12. Marc in MN
    Marc in MN
    June 26, 2015 at 12:04 am | #

    Haha. “And you all may live.” Is this still a party or has it turned into a hostage situation now? 😉

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      June 26, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

      It can be two things, three counting the secret lesbian rendezvous.

    • Hoodiecrow
      Hoodiecrow
      June 26, 2015 at 12:40 am | #

      Once Ruth is involved, everything becomes a hostage situation. If she ever marries Billie, helicopters will be circling the building, and the police will be negotiating on a loudspeaker.

      And they WILL GIVE IN TO HER DEMANDS.

  13. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    June 26, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    I would totally be okay if this became a thing. Like whenever Ruth wants to have a date with Billie she just hijacks her residents and forces them all to hang out.

    “Everyone put down the textbooks, we’re playing Monopoly. Bible-chick, you’re the shoe.”

    “But it’s finals week, we need to study!”

    “Either you’re going to get very well acquainted with that shoe, or with mine.”

    • StrawGirl
      StrawGirl
      June 26, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

      I concur!

    • Sam
      Sam
      June 26, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

      Love it, love everything about it.

    • AgentKeen
      AgentKeen
      June 26, 2015 at 12:10 am | #

      I’m trying to decide what argument fundies might have against Monopoly.

      • Chris ashtear
        Chris ashtear
        June 26, 2015 at 12:22 am | #

        Promotes the worship of money over god, im guessing

        • Leorale
          Leorale
          June 26, 2015 at 12:28 am | #

          I would be extremely surprised if there isn’t a Christian version of Monopoly. That game has like an everything version of it.

          • Jen Aside
            Jen Aside
            June 26, 2015 at 12:34 am | #

            I found this? http://www.urantiansojourn.com/2010/01/christian-monopoly/

            • Jen Aside
              Jen Aside
              June 26, 2015 at 12:37 am | #

              oh yeah, forgot Bibleopoly

              regardless of its skin, it’s still a shitty game, though, and you’re better off playing Power Grid

              • Bermuda
                Bermuda
                July 1, 2015 at 7:43 pm | #

                Motha
                Fuckin’
                Power Grid

                is the shit

          • Leorale
            Leorale
            June 26, 2015 at 12:41 am | #

            –yep it is called Bibleopoly: the Biblical Game of Fun and Faith.

            “The object of the game is to be the first player to build a church in one of the Bible cities. In BIBLEOPOLY, you can’t win by destroying your opponents. You will only win by assisting the fellow players. Cooperation is what allows you to gain the things necessary to build your church and be a winner.”

            https://swissdiva.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/bible-opoly3.jpg

            • David M Willis
              David M Willis
              June 26, 2015 at 12:43 am | #

              Whoever made a Bible-based game about how you shouldn’t destroy your opponents has never read the Old Testament book of Joshua.

              • Leorale
                Leorale
                June 26, 2015 at 12:45 am | #

                Right? Bibleopoly should include razing everything to the last fruit tree.

                • David M Willis
                  David M Willis
                  June 26, 2015 at 12:48 am | #

                  Spare a woman or child, and you lose your next turn.

                • Leorale
                  Leorale
                  June 26, 2015 at 12:52 am | #

                  Also, you don’t go to jail, you go to Hell. FOREVER

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  June 26, 2015 at 9:39 pm | #

                  So if you go to Hell, you just need to roll doubles to get out again.

              • HeySo
                HeySo
                June 26, 2015 at 1:52 am | #

                So, it’s basically God of War, then, but a board game?

                • fogel
                  fogel
                  June 26, 2015 at 3:22 am | #

                  War of Yahweh

              • fogel
                fogel
                June 26, 2015 at 3:29 am | #

                They read it BUT that doesn’t make The Bible ‘intrinsically’ violent, not like some so-called ‘Holy’ books that I could name.

                • Li
                  Li
                  June 26, 2015 at 8:50 am | #

                  If this is an Islamaphobic comment, you clearly haven’t actually read the Quran, and should like… stop.

                • fogel
                  fogel
                  June 26, 2015 at 9:01 pm | #

                  Nope, it’s a sarcastic dig at the folks who rant about Islam being ‘intrinsically violent’, SUPPOSSEDLY in contrast to Christianity and Judaism. I have a cousin who made me crazy with that shif ….

            • Leorale
              Leorale
              June 26, 2015 at 12:43 am | #

              as usual Jen Aside was faster. But yeah Monopoly is a terrible game, everyone should just play Machine Of Death and solve problems while shouting a lot 🙂

            • MeghanTheWorldEater
              MeghanTheWorldEater
              June 26, 2015 at 12:44 am | #

              I really really hate to say it but…that actually sounds like fun…

              Hmm do they have an atheist version?

              • Li
                Li
                June 26, 2015 at 8:52 am | #

                Actually yeah, there’s a couple of cooperative games of monopoly out there!

                Introducing: Co-Opoly

                • alicemacher
                  alicemacher
                  June 26, 2015 at 9:10 am | #

                  That is a super cool idea.

                • Li
                  Li
                  June 26, 2015 at 10:24 am | #

                  Ikr? I think it sounds like a fun game. And all my monopoly games turned into wars of attrition anyway. They tend to stop being fun long before they’re over unless you play by house rules to shorten the game.

                • Jen Aside
                  Jen Aside
                  June 26, 2015 at 7:34 pm | #

                  You may also want to try Pandemic (stop four plagues) and Flash Point: Fire Rescue

    • Dean
      Dean
      June 26, 2015 at 12:12 am | #

      Also works if Joyce is the iron.

    • poppaboo2electricboogaloo
      poppaboo2electricboogaloo
      June 26, 2015 at 12:12 am | #

      Are Hall Monitors(I forget what Ruth’s job is, sue me) not allowed to date other students or something?

      • John
        John
        June 26, 2015 at 12:28 am | #

        RAs aren’t allowed to date the students they have authority over, which in Ruth’s case means most of the ladies in the comic.

      • JWLM
        JWLM
        June 26, 2015 at 12:31 am | #

        Resident Ass. — err, I mean, Resident Assistant.

        And yes, somebody pulled the relevant bit of the IU disciplinary code out a few days ago. It bans RA/resident relationships. (FWIW, I agree — those relationships are tainted by a huge power imbalance.)

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        June 26, 2015 at 12:35 am | #

        If we’re going strictly by the for-real university’s rules, I didn’t see an explicit ban on it?

        [but DoA might have other ideas]

      • tim gueguen
        tim gueguen
        June 26, 2015 at 12:50 am | #

        “Hey, guy, did you know RAs are not allowed to sleep with students on their floor? I guess that means I’ll have to have sex on the bed.”

        -Cal Evans, RA in training, State U.

        • fogel
          fogel
          June 26, 2015 at 3:31 am | #

          Or somebody else’s floor….:-)

        • Chris
          Chris
          June 26, 2015 at 4:55 pm | #

          Undergrads… awesome Canadian animation.

      • Rich
        Rich
        June 26, 2015 at 8:17 am | #

        As people (including myself) have pointed out, that part of Ruth/Billie’s problems is easily fixed by just having Billie request a room reassignment so Ruth is no longer her RA. Swap with somebody up or down a floor and the issue disappears.

        Won’t happen for drama’s sake but compared to the situations Sal/Jason and Penny/Joe are in, easily corrected.

  14. poppaboo2electricboogaloo
    poppaboo2electricboogaloo
    June 26, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    It’s at this point I’m reminded we don’t have a Blu-Ray of the first Land Before Time.

    My life is full of misery.

    • JustCheetoDust
      JustCheetoDust
      June 26, 2015 at 12:16 am | #

      They’re probably in the process of adding feathers remastering.

      • poppaboo2electricboogaloo
        poppaboo2electricboogaloo
        June 26, 2015 at 12:18 am | #

        ….I think Ducky would look adorable regardless of said feathers.

        • Rich
          Rich
          June 26, 2015 at 5:22 pm | #

          You know, when I hear the name Ducky I think “that guy from Pretty In Pink” rather than a cartoon dinosaur. He would look odd covered in feathers – bit like that one guy in Barbarella.

  15. MM
    MM
    June 26, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    “Do you want to build a snowman?” has never seemed like a more suggestive question.

    • Pier
      Pier
      June 26, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

      “Umm, my body fluids are not that many. I or we can try though.”

    • Captain Batson
      Captain Batson
      June 26, 2015 at 12:41 am | #

      If you think that, then we clearly haven’t been reading the same fanfictions.

      • cynthash
        cynthash
        June 26, 2015 at 1:03 am | #

        After Min Soster Burgdagskake, I think I’ll answer the snowman question with a fork. 😉

        • LeslieBean4Shizzle
          LeslieBean4Shizzle
          June 26, 2015 at 1:39 am | #

          … where is the brain bleach? I think this set of comments has scared me for life. And ruined that song for me.

  16. CommunistCanada
    CommunistCanada
    June 26, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    This is going to end really badly for Ruth. I don’t know why, but I can’t see this ending happy for her.

    • -Sentinel-
      -Sentinel-
      June 26, 2015 at 12:08 am | #

      You don’t know why? I know why.

      This is a David Willis comic.

      • CommunistCanada
        CommunistCanada
        June 26, 2015 at 12:10 am | #

        I figured out why. Amber’s been staring all nght at Ruth. She’s going to see the hand grab and interepet it as sexual assault, seeing as the last time she saw Ruth and billie, they were about to fight.

        She’ll either point it out or return as amazi-Girl.

        • chris73
          chris73
          June 26, 2015 at 12:13 am | #

          Returning as Amazi-Girl and smacking Ruth in the head (not that I condone violence against women) would be awesome!

          • Heavensrun
            Heavensrun
            June 26, 2015 at 9:34 am | #

            I don’t condone violence against women. I do condone violence against brutally violent bullies and assholes. That said, Ruth hasn’t really done anything that would justify such a response, at least in this situation.

            Really all she did was start feeling lonely and go to a party to find her girlfriend while putting up her typical terrifying bully front. I’m not sure what the appropriate response to that is, because the first part deserves hugs, the latter part deserves arm punchings.

            • Someone
              Someone
              June 26, 2015 at 12:46 pm | #

              Of course she has done plenty to deserve getting smacked in the head from the beginning of the strip. Mainly assault, thievery, abuses of power, and just in generally being a controlling bongo. If theres anyone I hate its people use who’s positions of power to threaten people.

              • brasca1
                brasca1
                June 26, 2015 at 1:18 pm | #

                Agreed, but I fear it will be the fundamentalist hypocrite Mary who will bring Ruth down. Aside from Billie she has no friends or allies that will support her and would probably back someone as repulsive as Mary if it meant removing a resident assistant that as far as they know is an abusive threatening bully.

                • Someone
                  Someone
                  June 26, 2015 at 1:47 pm | #

                  The weird thing is that Ruth is like, okay i am both banging one of my charges (highly against the roles) and drinking on campus (Also against the rules). Im gonna act like a bongo to the rest of my charges so that they hate me enough to turn me in if anyone finds out. Great plan there Ruth.

                • thejeff
                  thejeff
                  June 26, 2015 at 4:46 pm | #

                  Ruth is also alcoholic and nearly suicidally depressed. “Great plans” aren’t really in character. You’re right that the behavior is self-destructive, that’s the whole point.
                  It’s also why she’s a sympathetic character, despite acting horribly to nearly everyone.

        • Tacos
          Tacos
          June 26, 2015 at 12:17 am | #

          Amber is sitting in front of them though. She’d have to turn around to see them.

        • saki
          saki
          June 26, 2015 at 5:04 am | #

          Amber seeing hand-holding as sexual assault seems like a stretch to me. A very stretchy stretch. Now if she caught them kissing, that’s another thing. I really hope neither of these two is stupid enough to kiss in this situation…

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        June 26, 2015 at 12:15 am | #

        You sir or madam have won this complimentary Internet, enjoy.

  17. Mandy
    Mandy
    June 26, 2015 at 12:05 am | #

    D’awwwww

  18. Budgie
    Budgie
    June 26, 2015 at 12:06 am | #

    this comic will soon be engulfed in a lesbian singularity
    TWO lesbian ships in ONE comic? why, that’s completely unheard of!

    • Makkabee
      Makkabee
      June 26, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

      Now I really miss “I Was Kidnapped by Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space” — not only was it filled with lesbian ships, it even had lesbian spaceships!

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        June 26, 2015 at 1:43 am | #

        Yep that strip sank under the weight of all its lesbianism, not because the creator got ripped off royally (seriously, read about the shitty way Rosalarian got treated over that)

        • Makkabee
          Makkabee
          June 27, 2015 at 2:40 am | #

          I remember reading her message to the readers about that. I hope the company that did all that to her goes belly-up and she gets the rights back some day.

      • saki
        saki
        June 26, 2015 at 5:05 am | #

        No spaceships, but lotsa lesbians and various other LGBTQ characters in Go Get A Roomie. 🙂

        • Disloyal Subject
          Disloyal Subject
          June 26, 2015 at 5:36 am | #

          Surely Lilian has dreamed at least one spaceship?

          • saki
            saki
            June 26, 2015 at 7:03 am | #

            That’s quite possible, but what with my memory being rather terrible and all…

    • curiousg
      curiousg
      June 26, 2015 at 12:46 am | #

      Maybe Danny and Ethan too!

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      June 26, 2015 at 5:12 am | #

      Billie and Ruth are bi. Dina isn’t sure yet.

  19. Makkabee
    Makkabee
    June 26, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

    Mandatory fun!

    • Kelly
      Kelly
      June 26, 2015 at 12:41 am | #

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      June 26, 2015 at 12:38 pm | #

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq7Eki5EZ8o

  20. -Sentinel-
    -Sentinel-
    June 26, 2015 at 12:07 am | #

    “Got-dumped guy”. Awww, Ruth remembers Danny. She really does care.

    • fogel
      fogel
      June 26, 2015 at 3:35 am | #

      What? His real name is Whitebread.

      • Arkham
        Arkham
        June 26, 2015 at 9:41 am | #

        Wonderbread?

        • fogel
          fogel
          June 26, 2015 at 9:03 pm | #

          That too?

  21. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    June 26, 2015 at 12:08 am | #

    *plays Foreigner’s “Cold As Ice” on the Muzak outside*

    • fogel
      fogel
      June 26, 2015 at 3:36 am | #

      Holds up cigarette lighter.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      June 26, 2015 at 12:40 pm | #

      Sry, I think Makkabee & company have the soundtrack covered.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      June 26, 2015 at 12:51 pm | #

      Also – what about “Secret Lovers” by Atlantic Star?

      (Yeah I’m not consistent)

  22. Captain Batson
    Captain Batson
    June 26, 2015 at 12:08 am | #

    So all Ruth knows about Danny is that Dotty dumped him? That sounds about right.

    • That Damn Rat
      That Damn Rat
      June 26, 2015 at 12:35 am | #

      Really, what else is there to know?

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        June 26, 2015 at 5:38 am | #

        Amazi-girl is hitting that, rooms with Joe, kinda cute; nonthreatening nerd.

        • Rich
          Rich
          June 26, 2015 at 4:52 pm | #

          I think you could add “he resisted the temptation to have casual sex with Billie thirty seconds after they met” to that list. Seems like that might be particularly relevant for Ruth, but I doubt she knows about that incident.

          Hey, she and Danny do have something in common. They’ve both seen Billie topless. 🙂

    • Rich
      Rich
      June 26, 2015 at 4:50 pm | #

      That’s literally correct. Do an archive search on Ruth+Danny. They’ve never spoken a word to each other before this, she never knew his name, and the only time they were on panel together was in two strips on the first day in the dorms when Dorothy was asking her for advice about breaking up with her boyfriend.

  23. Sam
    Sam
    June 26, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

    No one is allowed to LEAVE, Ruth would get lonely again!

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      June 26, 2015 at 1:45 am | #

      She wants an almost audience to her and billie. And she wants to see the movie.

  24. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    June 26, 2015 at 12:10 am | #

    Awwww indeed.
    Ruth want company, Ruth makes company. Love Ruth.
    Hope she can find happy and keep it.

    Becky and Dina are okay with it all.

  25. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    June 26, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

    Got-Dumped Guy. Ruth just made Danny’s ideal superhero alias.

    • Hoodiecrow
      Hoodiecrow
      June 26, 2015 at 12:43 am | #

      Amazi-Girl and her sidekick Got-Dumped Guy. Could work.

      • MeghanTheWorldEater
        MeghanTheWorldEater
        June 26, 2015 at 12:47 am | #

        It’s Amazi-Girl! And Got Dumped Guy! The amazing Dannng it up wonder!

        • Dean
          Dean
          June 26, 2015 at 1:01 am | #

          Would he wear Robin-syle briefs and pixie boots?

          • Opus the Poet
            Opus the Poet
            June 26, 2015 at 1:48 am | #

            How else would he hold his tights up? http://thedevilspanties.com/archives/10690

            • saki
              saki
              June 26, 2015 at 5:10 am | #

              Holy hell how have I never thought of that! It seems like such an obvious solution but here I’ve been struggling to pull my tights up whenever no one’s looking!

              • Opus the Poet
                Opus the Poet
                June 26, 2015 at 12:52 pm | #

                Isn’t the Internet a wonderful thing?

                • saki
                  saki
                  June 26, 2015 at 6:00 pm | #

                  Yes. Yes it is. 😀

              • Rich
                Rich
                June 26, 2015 at 5:34 pm | #

                Old trick. Remember it the next time you hear somebody joke about superheroes wearing their underwear on the outside. Of course they do – they’re double-layering like any sensible tights-wearer does.

                • saki
                  saki
                  June 26, 2015 at 6:02 pm | #

                  I shall! :3

                  Well it still looks ridiculous, but when your job description includes running / flying around all day night, you can’t be readjusting your clothes every two minutes.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      June 26, 2015 at 2:53 am | #

      Will Danny ever get respect in- or out of strip? Nah… Didn’t think so?

  26. Tacos
    Tacos
    June 26, 2015 at 12:11 am | #

    Ah ha, so Ruth showing up wasn’t really about finding people to bust. It was about spending some time with Billie. Watching Frozen is just a bonus.

  27. LiaHansen
    LiaHansen
    June 26, 2015 at 12:12 am | #

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn0fsbOTqx4

  28. AnvilPro
    AnvilPro
    June 26, 2015 at 12:12 am | #

    I hope the next year of comics is just the characters reacting to every scene and joke of the movie

  29. RJ
    RJ
    June 26, 2015 at 12:14 am | #

    I am going to be chuckling about “Got-Dumped Guy” for days.

  30. Hoax
    Hoax
    June 26, 2015 at 12:15 am | #

    KNEW IT
    ABSOLUTELY KNEW IT
    CAAAAALLED IT
    ᵗʰᵒᵘᵍʰ ᴵ ᵈᶦᵈᶰ’ᵗ ˢᵃʸ ᵃᶰʸᵗʰᶦᶰᵍ ʰᵉʳᵉ ᵇᵘᵗ ᴵ ˢᵗᶦᶫᶫ
    CAAAALLED IT

  31. LouisvilleRobin
    LouisvilleRobin
    June 26, 2015 at 12:16 am | #

    Blushing happy Dina makes me happy.
    Also yay for Billie and Ruth.

    • hythrain
      hythrain
      June 26, 2015 at 5:46 am | #

      Is it fair to say she’s blushing? Doesn’t Willis always put some colour under almost everyone’s eyes (if not everyone)?

  32. Carms
    Carms
    June 26, 2015 at 12:16 am | #

    Is she really aggressively trying to make it a normal thing for her to hang out in the company of Billie? she might be. that’s great. ohman Ruth, your tactics…. are something else.

  33. arjay2813
    arjay2813
    June 26, 2015 at 12:18 am | #

    anyone else imagine willis finishing this, look at the last panel and then do this? http://k37.kn3.net/taringa/9/9/7/6/6/3/8/pedrocoro1/D05.jpg?538

    • arjay2813
      arjay2813
      June 26, 2015 at 12:19 am | #

      i mean 2nd from the last

  34. Marc
    Marc
    June 26, 2015 at 12:22 am | #

    Becky and Dina being cute in public: cute!

    Ruth and Billie being cute on the sneak tip: farking adorable!

    • That Damn Rat
      That Damn Rat
      June 26, 2015 at 12:37 am | #

      Strictly speaking as they’re in a residential dorm, they aren’t in public.

      • John
        John
        June 26, 2015 at 12:52 am | #

        There’s like twenty people in that dorm room. I think that counts as “public”.

        • HeySo
          HeySo
          June 26, 2015 at 2:00 am | #

          Oh wow, you see those extra 10 or so people also?
          Maybe I’m NOT as crazy as I thought!

          • Pope William T Wodium
            Pope William T Wodium
            June 26, 2015 at 11:46 am | #

            Ten is *like* twenty.

            • HeySo
              HeySo
              June 28, 2015 at 10:49 pm | #

              Keep that in mind when I eat an extra ten of your cookies~

    • Halloween Jack
      Halloween Jack
      June 26, 2015 at 1:18 pm | #

      Decky ship is best ship.

  35. Ashley
    Ashley
    June 26, 2015 at 12:25 am | #

    OMG Ruth MISSED Billie!
    My heart, it melts.

  36. Regalli
    Regalli
    June 26, 2015 at 12:25 am | #

    … Ruth, you are a ridiculous human being and I love you.

  37. Keroshino
    Keroshino
    June 26, 2015 at 12:26 am | #

    Welp, I am now 100% on board with the Becky x Dina shipping!

  38. A Scientist
    A Scientist
    June 26, 2015 at 12:27 am | #

    Oh crap, what if, in my effort to laugh at *all* the appropriate moments, I laugh also at an inappropriate moment?

    Also, what is the policy on singing along?

    • vlademir1
      vlademir1
      June 26, 2015 at 12:49 am | #

      Well, if this were a Monty Python movie I’d expect everyone to quote every line 1/3 second ahead of the cast all through the movie, sing along and laugh uproariously the entire time. I expect Disney movies require a similar mentality of audience investment and participation.

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      June 26, 2015 at 1:18 am | #

      Would you tell these guys not to sing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWnGwj9s-Fk

  39. Kimbo G Pataki
    Kimbo G Pataki
    June 26, 2015 at 12:28 am | #

    She remembers her residents’ names at least. She’s a better RA than I was.

    • Nono
      Nono
      June 26, 2015 at 7:03 am | #

      Remember how she started out calling Billie by her last name? That swiftly dropped.

      My guess is because it would mean Willis would have to give last names for every female resident Ruth had to interact with.

  40. Shanunu
    Shanunu
    June 26, 2015 at 12:31 am | #

    But in real actual buttpounding college, could an RA police a party like this? Would they be allowed to?

    • Kelly
      Kelly
      June 26, 2015 at 12:43 am | #

      “buttpounding”?

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        June 26, 2015 at 1:46 am | #

        I’ve been partying all wrong ( actually my parties usually involve board games)

      • HeySo
        HeySo
        June 26, 2015 at 2:01 am | #

        Lets not get ahead of ourselves, by getting behind ourselves.

  41. man beab
    man beab
    June 26, 2015 at 12:32 am | #

    I love Ruth so much. She’s probably the most self-aware of the whole bunch.

  42. Totz_the_Plaid
    Totz_the_Plaid
    June 26, 2015 at 12:34 am | #

    Until I read the alt-text, I thought it was Becky’s hand moving toward Dina’s, not Ruth’s toward Billie’s. I suppose that’s what happens when you have two pairs of white/Asian girls matched up in the same scene…

    That said, Ruth’s expressions in the final couple panels are fantastic.

  43. Romanticide
    Romanticide
    June 26, 2015 at 12:36 am | #

    Ruth is amazing when she is aiming for hard-ass but nice 😀

  44. Lone Wolf
    Lone Wolf
    June 26, 2015 at 12:36 am | #

    Clever girl…

  45. neeks
    neeks
    June 26, 2015 at 12:38 am | #

    “WE ARE GOING TO HAVE FUN OR SO HELP ME I WILL TURN THIS DORM PARTY AROUND!@”

  46. feli
    feli
    June 26, 2015 at 12:43 am | #

    Smooth Ruth. That kinda rhymes.

  47. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    June 26, 2015 at 12:47 am | #

    Loving the Dina-Becky interactions. I won’t go as far as to proclaim OTP, but they will do for the moment.

    • MeghanTheWorldEater
      MeghanTheWorldEater
      June 26, 2015 at 12:49 am | #

      But but…look how adorable they are!

      I’ll proclaim otp! #>//<

      • vlademir1
        vlademir1
        June 26, 2015 at 12:55 am | #

        Nah. OTP is Willis/butts. Just behind that is Joe/girls and Mike/assholery.

        • MeghanTheWorldEater
          MeghanTheWorldEater
          June 26, 2015 at 12:58 am | #

          …did you just deny a fangirl her otp..?

          -gives Amber’s deathglare-

          You shall know the fury of a thousand suns!

          -gets really grumpy and obnoxious-

          • vlademir1
            vlademir1
            June 26, 2015 at 1:28 am | #

            Nah, I just made light of the entire silly concept of OTP via a silly joke.

            • MeghanTheWorldEater
              MeghanTheWorldEater
              June 26, 2015 at 1:42 am | #

              Well then I present to you a poorly made unsourced quickly cobbled together argumant in favor of my otp.
              They’re so friggin adorable and I just -squeees-
              (Am I fangirling like a pro or what?)

              • John
                John
                June 26, 2015 at 2:59 am | #

                Citations are required for this ship.

          • nothri
            nothri
            June 26, 2015 at 1:47 am | #

            Meghan….eater of worlds or not, that’s Rena your going up against. Don’t try to fuck with Oyoshiro-sama’s number one fan girl. It won’t end well. And then it won’t end well again. And again. And again….

            • Kamino Neko
              Kamino Neko
              June 26, 2015 at 7:21 am | #

              The only timelines that go well are the ones where she’s confronted when she goes mad. So…yeah, not fucking with her makes things worse.

          • Disloyal Subject
            Disloyal Subject
            June 26, 2015 at 6:18 am | #

            Isn’t “grumpy and obnoxious” the default setting for most World Eaters?

            • MeghanTheWorldEater
              MeghanTheWorldEater
              June 26, 2015 at 10:24 am | #

              No that’s hungry and obnoxious. There’s a subtle difference :p

            • Spencer
              Spencer
              June 26, 2015 at 12:55 pm | #

              I dunno man, Raksha was pretty cool.

              *If you get this you are gigantic nerd and I love you*

              • Rich
                Rich
                June 26, 2015 at 5:38 pm | #

                So are all three of you talking about different world eaters at this point?

  48. but I'm a cheerleader
    but I'm a cheerleader
    June 26, 2015 at 12:49 am | #

    Please tell me that this was inspired by the movie But I’m a Cheerleader

  49. ozaline
    ozaline
    June 26, 2015 at 12:53 am | #

    Whosoever posses this laptop, if she be worthy shall have the power of Frozen.

  50. Steven
    Steven
    June 26, 2015 at 12:53 am | #

    I am so freaking conflicted!!

    On the one hand, I am a big fan of telling people who use threats, to shove it where the sun don’t shine.

    On the other Frozen is the best and Sarah just dissed it.

    • Hoodiecrow
      Hoodiecrow
      June 26, 2015 at 1:08 am | #

      Reality is a poor storyteller, and when characters like that appear in reality’s stories it won’t end well.

      Willis is a good storyteller, so I’ll root for Ruth in the confidence that I won’t really regret doing so later on. It might end badly or well, but I don’t think it will end with a sickening feeling.

      • Rheios
        Rheios
        June 26, 2015 at 1:16 am | #

        I find reality to be a fairly amusing, or at least interesting, storyteller at the very least. Maybe not all the time but when you’re writing billions of interconnecting stories some of them are going to have to suck just by statistics.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      June 26, 2015 at 12:48 pm | #

      Sarah didn’t actually diss Frozen in particular, she dissed all Disney movies in general. There was no hatred directed at Frozen itself.

  51. derick
    derick
    June 26, 2015 at 12:57 am | #

    I’m actually getting a bit of a creeper vibe from Ruth right now. It seems like she’s being a bit controlling and possessive.

    • Hoodiecrow
      Hoodiecrow
      June 26, 2015 at 1:16 am | #

      She’s been that from day one. And also neglectful, dishonest, abusive, and a lot of damning qualities. And very occasionally, we see that she is so caring that she might hurt herself if she can’t keep it in check.

      She’s a terrible person and a wonderful character.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        June 26, 2015 at 1:48 am | #

        Wonderful summary

      • StClair
        StClair
        June 26, 2015 at 5:23 am | #

        yes, well said.

    • LiaHansen
      LiaHansen
      June 26, 2015 at 1:21 am | #

      I don’t think she’s being controlling of Billie though- everyone else, yeah, but Billie’s been wanting to spend more time with her in public

  52. Spazman
    Spazman
    June 26, 2015 at 1:36 am | #

    Ruth: “…..and I swear to Cheese, if any of you start talking or a cell phone goes of I’m going to rip your skull out of your head and beat you to death with it.”

    Dina: “That is not physically posible.”

    Ruth: “Hypotheses need to be repeatedly tested to determine their veracity. Are you our first volunteer?” *crackles knuckles*

    • you can't see me
      you can't see me
      June 26, 2015 at 3:08 am | #

      Ruth wouldn’t say I swear to cheese.

      • fogel
        fogel
        June 26, 2015 at 3:47 am | #

        Everyone should say I Swear to Cheese. And wiigii. And Quelle Fromage.

    • TwinBladeWarrior
      TwinBladeWarrior
      June 26, 2015 at 9:17 pm | #

      Referencing

      either way I don’t think anyone could be that cruel to Dina

      • TwinBladeWarrior
        TwinBladeWarrior
        June 26, 2015 at 9:21 pm | #

        …i hate html tagging sometimes. lets try again

        This clip from Red vs Blue or general skull murder?

  53. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    June 26, 2015 at 1:38 am | #

    Ruth’s face in the 2nd to last panel is kinda heart breaking.

  54. Bagge
    Bagge
    June 26, 2015 at 1:51 am | #

    Adorable Becky and Dina are adorable

    Got-dumped-guy stares at his phone and wants to leave. I think he and Amber are communicating behind our back

    Like someone said yesterday, Ruth actually did a great job preventing a possibly escalated drunk situation. Now ask she has to do is to” contain” the source of the problem

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      June 26, 2015 at 2:36 am | #

      Prediction/Theory: Amber and Danny may both plead bathroom break and slip out. Ruth assumes that it is for ‘personal activities’ but it is actually for superhero business!

  55. epershannd
    epershannd
    June 26, 2015 at 1:51 am | #

    collective ‘awwwwww’

  56. dudeface
    dudeface
    June 26, 2015 at 1:53 am | #

    hypersonic squee.

  57. The Thing
    The Thing
    June 26, 2015 at 1:54 am | #

    Back-of-the-room snogging is a go, I repeat, back-of-the-room snogging is a go.

    I need a go/no-go on sneaky groping.

    • overdosed
      overdosed
      June 26, 2015 at 2:33 am | #

      a sneaky groping is inbound i need a go/no-go on a near future let it go pun

      • fogel
        fogel
        June 26, 2015 at 3:49 am | #

        Inbound hot …

  58. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    June 26, 2015 at 1:59 am | #

    Squee!

  59. Adj
    Adj
    June 26, 2015 at 2:09 am | #

    I was having a bad day. Then I read this. And now all the AWWWWW! has turned things around nicely.

  60. BenRG
    BenRG
    June 26, 2015 at 2:13 am | #

    Wow! Ruth must really like Frozen! Either that or she wants to make out with Billie on a movie date and needs to be sure no-one passes them mid-clinch.

  61. overdosed
    overdosed
    June 26, 2015 at 2:32 am | #

    “luagh at the jokes appropriately”
    what funny jokes are there in frozen?! (except for all the let it go puns people make)

    • Gordon
      Gordon
      June 26, 2015 at 4:06 am | #

      If you’re a child, Olaf is a riot. What is not intrinsically funny about a snowman who can’t wait for summer? Same for the reindeer. Animals who act like people are hilarious.

      It’s been awhile since I saw it, but they usually toss a few jokes in to appeal to the parents, as well. There’s an oblique dick joke in there with “Foot size doesn’t matter.” Inside Out has “There are no bears in San Francisco.” “I saw a really hairy guy. He looked like a bear.” Hell, the trailer for the new Shaun the Sheep movie has a reference to Hannibal Lecter in it. Those jokes aren’t for the children in the audience.

      Whether they are funny or not is a matter of opinion, though, I guess.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        June 26, 2015 at 4:11 am | #

        “Anna being hyper” gets me almost any time…. which is about half of the screen time. I like that movie, but I had to battle a five-year-old for the DVD so naturally I haven’t seen it that often (you do NOT stand between a five-year-old and her favorite princess, not if you value your femurs).

        • Kamino Neko
          Kamino Neko
          June 26, 2015 at 7:18 am | #

          You can’t just watch it with her? (Is she like my niece and won’t let you?)

          • Bagge
            Bagge
            June 26, 2015 at 11:37 am | #

            Neighbor, so it’s not always practical. But she has reenacted a good portion of Elsa’s scenes for me.

      • Rebecca
        Rebecca
        June 26, 2015 at 11:19 am | #

        I mean… I’m 23 and laughed so hard at Olaf I almost cried. So there’s that.

    • saki
      saki
      June 26, 2015 at 5:18 am | #

      Uuhhm all the puns in In Summer? My favourite: the unspoken puddle.

  62. John
    John
    June 26, 2015 at 3:02 am | #

    So… odds that Joyce and Sarah are the only people in the room who don’t spend the entire movie making out?

    • Rich
      Rich
      June 26, 2015 at 4:42 pm | #

      I’m going to say Ethan’s out of luck too, unless Danny’s a whole lot more drunk than we think.

  63. Bagge
    Bagge
    June 26, 2015 at 3:15 am | #

    “Man, what a party. three women almost came to blows over a freshman, everyone got drunk and started ‘experimenting’, the RA busted the place but actually joined in, then there was a ‘forbidden’ movie and plenty of lesbian ‘action’ if you know what I mean.”

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      June 26, 2015 at 3:15 am | #

      Come to think of it, that’s actually a pretty tame description compared to the REAL drama that’s going on.

  64. The Gardener
    The Gardener
    June 26, 2015 at 3:45 am | #

    Dina’s smile! I think there’s mutual crushin’ going on

  65. saki
    saki
    June 26, 2015 at 4:28 am | #

    Things that are adorable:
    Ruth’s face in panel one
    Ruth and Billie’s faces in panel 6
    Basically everyone’s faces in panel 4
    DINA’S SMILE OMG 😀

    Okay, fangirling aside… I had suspected Ruth was only crashing this party to be with Billie, but I couldn’t tell if that was a reasonable guess or if it was just my fangirl brain getting ahead of itself.
    Speaking of fangirling… I can’t wait to see if Danny and Ethan end up sitting next to each other~ .

  66. CJ
    CJ
    June 26, 2015 at 4:31 am | #

    I think Danny just got a text from Sal…

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      June 26, 2015 at 6:40 am | #

      Possibly; I wonder if Danny is going to end up with the guy with an embarrassment of riches: More potential romantic partners than he can count on the fingers of one hand but all of them with huge piles of baggage that come with the deal!

    • Rich
      Rich
      June 26, 2015 at 8:36 am | #

      I was wondering about that. Sure looking at something on his phone

  67. Spencer
    Spencer
    June 26, 2015 at 5:30 am | #

    Man, does anybody in-universe even like Danny besides Amber and Ethan?

    • ChocolateRat
      ChocolateRat
      June 26, 2015 at 6:00 am | #

      Sarah said she thought Danny seemed all right. Considering Sarah doesn’t like most people I think that means something.

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        June 26, 2015 at 6:53 am | #

        I loved their few interactions. I know it’s pretty hard to find ways to get them together, but the combination of Danny’s blind, naive honesty and idealism compared to Sarah’s unrelenting cynicism made such a good combo.

    • Nono
      Nono
      June 26, 2015 at 7:04 am | #

      Sal?

    • Shadow Eagle
      Shadow Eagle
      June 26, 2015 at 7:24 am | #

      Sal likes him, to a degree.

    • Rich
      Rich
      June 26, 2015 at 8:34 am | #

      Dorothy’s certainly still his friend despite the breakup straining relations – he chose her to go to with his sexual identity issues. Sal likes him for the tutoring help and game loan. There are a lot of characters he just hasn’t interacted with much, if at all, so still a cypher to them.

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        June 26, 2015 at 8:46 am | #

        You guys have a good point on Sal. Even with their brief interactions Sal’s given Danny a lot more time and patience than she has with even Billie or Walky. I hesitated to include her since it hasn’t been a whole lot, but I agree that it’s significant enough that Sal counts.

        Also, good call on Dorothy. I think those two will patch things up more when Danny decides to close the book on their relationship. The worst parts of their interactions have been mostly due to circumstance and hurt feelings, but otherwise I think they can still get along.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      June 26, 2015 at 11:25 am | #

      Amazi-Girl does; yes, I know you already mentioned Amber but… well, it’s complicated.

      I also think that Sal at least acknowledges that he has his good points. I don’t know if I’d go so far as ‘like’; I’m not sure that Sal really does that or is even entirely capable of it.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      June 26, 2015 at 12:29 pm | #

      I don’t think anyone in universe DON’T like him, except Joe and its more of a mutual ” it’s complicated” ( they’re a little married). Walky had some sort of feud brewing over Dotty, but that was even more laughable than Becky’s and Dorothy’s ‘feud’ and was over when they met.

      • Rich
        Rich
        June 26, 2015 at 12:47 pm | #

        It’s telling that Joe is supposedly his best friend (immortalized while riding a dragon together, even) but almost no one mentions him. Joe is a lousy “friend” at best. I’d argue he isn’t one at all.

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          June 26, 2015 at 1:11 pm | #

          I genuinely cannot see Danny and Joe lasting as friends, even if Joe isn’t so amazingly terrible as to drop him when he comes out.

          • Sam
            Sam
            June 26, 2015 at 3:29 pm | #

            I doubt Joe would drop him as a friend for being bisexual but, it is true that their friendship doesn’t seem like the kind that should last because they are very different people with very different views that do not actually seem to mesh well.

            • Bagge
              Bagge
              June 26, 2015 at 4:20 pm | #

              They were friends as kid and they grew apart. It’s sad but it happens.

              Although I’m not sure we have seen all sides of their relationship yet.

            • Kamino Neko
              Kamino Neko
              June 26, 2015 at 4:24 pm | #

              Yeah, Joe wouldn’t drop him for being bi…he might drop him for emoting about it, though.

              • Spencer
                Spencer
                June 26, 2015 at 6:40 pm | #

                I remain unconvinced. Maybe not directly for being bi, but any attempt to express or even talk about it will send the dude into convulsions. He’s already shown himself as unwilling to talk about the possibility of being attracted to a guy.

                • timemonkey
                  timemonkey
                  June 26, 2015 at 8:35 pm | #

                  No, he showed himself unwilling to have the emotional conversation such a confession would require. He doesn’t care what Danny wants to bang, he just doesn’t want to have to walk the path of feelings to get Danny okay with it.

                • Kamino Neko
                  Kamino Neko
                  June 27, 2015 at 5:35 am | #

                  He showed himself unwilling to have any sort of deep emotional conversation. The potential coming out wasn’t the first time he’s done that, though it was the biggest deal for Danny, so it got the biggest reaction ‘shit, no, don’t start getting all emotional’ from Joe.

  68. OnyxIdol
    OnyxIdol
    June 26, 2015 at 5:32 am | #

    I find it hard to believe Sarah would put up with Ruth threating her like this.

    • OnyxIdol
      OnyxIdol
      June 26, 2015 at 5:38 am | #

      *threatening

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      June 26, 2015 at 6:52 am | #

      if so then you probably missed the first storyline http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/01-move-in-day/stragglers/

      • timemonkey
        timemonkey
        June 26, 2015 at 7:00 am | #

        That was hard to believe too. We know you want her to inspire fear, she just doesn’t.

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          June 26, 2015 at 7:12 am | #

          Yeah, Ruth is fine enough as a character and she needs to be this tyrannical force for her story, but it’s a huge strain on the suspension of disbelief that nobody has reported her abuse, and that everyone kowtows to her.

          • Ensiform
            Ensiform
            June 26, 2015 at 8:17 am | #

            I agree. She is just a snobby martinet in glasses. I get why a timid freshman might be scared, but some of the other, older students? It’s hard to believe.

          • Rich
            Rich
            June 26, 2015 at 8:29 am | #

            One of the other characters is a vigilante superhero. Both the RAs we’ve seen are sleeping with their students. Compared to them, an over the top RA with personal problems doesn’t begin to strain disbelief.

            Moreover, as was pointed out at length yesterday, everyone in that room has secrets they’re hiding, some of them quite damaging. Playing nice with the local authority figure is what you do when you’re trying to cover up your own misbehavior. Sarah’s the only sophomore in that room, and she’s colluding with Joyce to let Becky live in the dorm. That’s plenty of reason to sit down, shut up, and keep Ruth happy right now.

            And the Ruthless act doesn’t work on everyone. Sal takes none of her crap. Dina’s fear emulation is the height of sarcasm. Billie’s her lover and knows better.

            • Willoughby Chase
              Willoughby Chase
              June 26, 2015 at 8:35 am | #

              Good words.

              I was going to leave it at “it’s a webcomic with vigilante superhero who should be behind bars”, but yours is a far better and more complete answer.

            • Kamino Neko
              Kamino Neko
              June 26, 2015 at 8:46 am | #

              We’ve seen one RA and two TAs sleeping with their students. (Wait? Is Penny a TA? I assume she is, since she shares office space with Jason, but I suppose she might not be.) I don’t think we’ve even met the guy’s RA, have we?

              • Rich
                Rich
                June 26, 2015 at 12:41 pm | #

                Whoop, sorry, I was trying to type TA up there, not RA. Penny and Jason are both terrible people, ethics-wise.

                Although heaven knows what the Trekkie RA is up to. We never see him.

            • Spencer
              Spencer
              June 26, 2015 at 8:54 am | #

              Excellent post, but I feel like arguing it.

              It really is just the abuse going unreported when it happens in plain view of a dozen witnesses that raises a flag for me. Billie is one thing, but Sarah and Mary were physically dragged back to their floor for a meeting, and Mary in particular was genuinely assaulted by Ruth. There were witnesses. She had the imprint of a giant dick on her face. Why would she not immediately run down to Security and scream “the crazy RA just assaulted me!”

              As for Amazi-Girl, she’s “realistic” in that she can continue her actions because for whatever reason the cops still haven’t been called. I think to the general populace of IU, Amazi-Girl is just some weirdo running around in a cape. A novelty to glance at in the IDS, since by and large nobody is aware of her violent, illegal acts.

              • Bagge
                Bagge
                June 26, 2015 at 12:38 pm | #

                Billie actually tried to report Ruth, but chose to go via the newspaper to cash in more personal glory instead of official channels, which actually daisy called her on before getting distracted by the sexiness inherent in the situation. ( Daisy kinda channels the commentator field sometimes, doesn’t she?)

                I dunno how realistic it seems to you, but I have no problem with everyone waiting for someone else to report her.

                • Spencer
                  Spencer
                  June 26, 2015 at 12:59 pm | #

                  Yeah, I can see that. Her physical abuse has been largely directed at Billie, barring a small handful of other occasions. Bystander Effect is pretty shitty, yo.

                • Bagge
                  Bagge
                  June 26, 2015 at 2:24 pm | #

                  Yeah. Also, most people have their reasons.

                  Sarah don’t want shit blowing her way. She is still afraid of losing her scholarship and can’t afford to piss off the RA
                  Joyce genuinely forgives and thinks the best of people
                  Mary want to attack her personally instead
                  Sal doesn’t fight via official channels, and she has learnt the hard way that sometimes it’s not worth fighting people like Ruth. (she has been close though)
                  Billie… yeah, we know that one.
                  Dina emulates the other’s behavior
                  Amber is just a shy little nerd. No need to pay attention to her.
                  Amaziegirl… I think we will see more of that. She has already broken up one fight and Amber’s stinky-eyes might indicate that Amaziegirl will take an… interest in the RA.
                  Carla takes no shit and gives no shit.
                  Agatha, Sierra and the other people with less screentime might be tempted to report her, but also afraid to rock the boat. Ruth claims to have the blessings of the higher-ups and she is clearly able and willing to go to insane lengths to keep her authority. Someone should do something… but maybe not me.

                  Dorothy. I got nothing. She is strong, capable, willing, has a strong sense of justice and prefers official channels. Also, she is a fan of the local masked vigilante. Taking down a local tyrant seems just like the thing she would jump at. Maybe she saw how Billie’s attempt was shot down by Daisy, but I simply think that this is one of the instances where we see how young Dorothy actually is. She falls in the usual trap of not acting against what is presented as normality. “OK, the RA is a bit forceful but that is the way it is supposed to be around here. I’m sure the higherups would do something if she really stepped out of line”. If nothing changes I think Dorothy might take action in time, but she is not there yet.

                • Bagge
                  Bagge
                  June 26, 2015 at 2:26 pm | #

                  Roz… still got nothing. She might just have other fish to fry (also, she knows that the Dean is not a fan of her)

                • Rich
                  Rich
                  June 26, 2015 at 4:37 pm | #

                  Why would Roz have an issue in the first place? If anything, she’s probably a fan – Ruth did smack Mary a good one, something I’m quite certain Roz would like to do herself.

                • Greenygal
                  Greenygal
                  June 26, 2015 at 5:25 pm | #

                  Given Roz’s “Fight! Fight!” body language in this strip, maybe she thinks having a violent RA is funny.

                • Rich
                  Rich
                  June 26, 2015 at 5:48 pm | #

                  There are valid reasons to appreciate a brawler RA. You have problems with a stalker or rowdy drunks (visiting or otherwise) having an RA who can and will throw them out on their ass is nice, especially if campus security is as crappy as it was at the schools I went to – they weren’t good for anything but writing parking tickets.

                  Moreover, Ruth’s only been violent toward three people that I know of – Billie, who started the fight where she got tossed and is now her lover, Mary, who got smacked across the face, and her fight with Amber’s helldad. The latter two cases lead to the comments section cheering so loud NASA could hear it through the Mars rover, and certainly didn’t earn her any ill-will from the characters other than Mary. And Billie seems pretty happy with the way things worked out.

                  Ruth mostly runs on the threat of force, not its application.

  69. Arkham
    Arkham
    June 26, 2015 at 5:39 am | #

    Amber looks like she is already having withdrawal symptoms from video gaming.

  70. Les
    Les
    June 26, 2015 at 6:39 am | #

    As kids, we used to refer to situations like this as Forced Family Fun (FFF)…

    • DarkoNeko
      DarkoNeko
      June 26, 2015 at 6:45 am | #

      Most of them seems to not care.

  71. timemonkey
    timemonkey
    June 26, 2015 at 6:58 am | #

    Yup still hate Ruth.

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      June 26, 2015 at 3:54 pm | #

      I made this comment right before I fell asleep at my computer and missed my bus into work.

      • Tenn
        Tenn
        June 26, 2015 at 6:01 pm | #

        Karma. 😛

        • timemonkey
          timemonkey
          June 26, 2015 at 6:07 pm | #

          The only karma one should get for hating a terrible person is good karma.

          • Narf
            Narf
            June 26, 2015 at 7:44 pm | #

            Not sure that’s how karma works, dude. :p

  72. CJ
    CJ
    June 26, 2015 at 7:06 am | #

    BTW: Is there any way to change my automatically assigned avatar without creating an account for a gravatar?

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      June 26, 2015 at 1:08 pm | #

      If you have gmail you can add a .1, .2, .3, .&tc… to your addy to get a valid address that checks out as yours and get all the avatars you want in addition to a Gravatar.

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      June 26, 2015 at 3:55 pm | #

      It’ll also change each time Willis adds a new one to the pile.

      • CJ
        CJ
        June 27, 2015 at 4:33 am | #

        Thanks, so I’ll have to hope Willis does that soon.

  73. Ensiform
    Ensiform
    June 26, 2015 at 8:15 am | #

    Man. I know this is based on real experiences and that there are colleges all over the country like this. But the entire idea of a college where the teachers give a damn if you happen to have a party or drink, much less fellow students getting all authoritarian and moral about it, is hilarious and sad and utterly alien to me. Thank god for small liberal arts schools with a history of celebrating free thought.

  74. HeroErix
    HeroErix
    June 26, 2015 at 8:39 am | #

    This is totally unrealistic. What College student doesn’t want to watch Frozen?

    • Rebecca
      Rebecca
      June 26, 2015 at 11:16 am | #

      A lot of them. Frozen was good, but there are better Disney movies to watch. XD

      • Adj
        Adj
        June 26, 2015 at 3:54 pm | #

        Arguing against Frozen? You need to let it go.

  75. Adork
    Adork
    June 26, 2015 at 9:25 am | #

    If they are watching Frozen they should follow it up with the How It Should Have Ended clip on it. Makes it all better.

  76. RVB
    RVB
    June 26, 2015 at 9:32 am | #

    Joke’s on them – there are no jokes in Frozen, aside from how lame the movie was.

    • Em
      Em
      June 26, 2015 at 3:50 pm | #

      Perfect gravatar is perfect.

  77. Kraken
    Kraken
    June 26, 2015 at 10:14 am | #

    I almost feel like Ruth is doing this so that these dumb drunk kids sober up. At first I thought she was just visiting for kicks, but I have the sneaking suspicion that she’s more perceptive than she let on. Also, Billie, of course, but a girl’s gotta be able to multi-task, right?

    • Romanticide
      Romanticide
      June 26, 2015 at 3:44 pm | #

      hey! that is a good guess. At least I like that one XD

  78. RonMexico
    RonMexico
    June 26, 2015 at 10:48 am | #

    No offense, but I kind of hate the Ruth character. Even if it’s because you’re trying to hide your real feelings and use it as a shield, there’s no excuse for being a bully. Also, nothing about her character makes it even remotely believable that she could issue threats like “I’m going to kill you” and people would take her seriously. She’s kind of an awful person.

    I mean, I love this series overall but I could totally do without Ruth. Sorry.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      June 26, 2015 at 1:09 pm | #

      For lack of a better description, we aren’t really “supposed” to like Ruth as a person. As a fictional character whose actions have no actual impact, where she can fling Billie across a room only for her to get up and walk as if nothing happened like she’s in Tom & Jerry. For the last couple years we’ve also been delving into what makes Ruth tick as a person and what drives the absolute worst of her behaviour, so we have a greater understanding of her as a person rather than “horrible asshole”.

      Ruth is abusive and her actions should not be tolerated, I’m not going to be sad when she gets fired, and I get genuinely frustrated when I see people sweep her behaviour under the rug because she has “issues”, but they are what they are, I guess. It’s not like the comic doesn’t also put her through the ringer as a direct consequence of her actions.

      • Rich
        Rich
        June 26, 2015 at 6:03 pm | #

        You know Billie started that fight after threatening Ruth herself, right? Took the first swing with Ruth’s permission, and she was thrown onto a padded armchair, not body slammed into the floor or a wall. I think pretty much everyone has done worse to friends or siblings while roughhousing – I know I certainly have. It was hardly a brutal martial arts beatdown, just an object lesson.

        If you’re going to be honest and fair about things, Ruth is rarely violent. She talks tough and maintains a menacing persona, but aside from Billie she’s done nothing but smack Mary and fight Amber’s father. If you want to find legitimate criticisms, violence isn’t really it.

        Her thieving and confiscations are much more problematic (albeit still rare) and her drinking is obviously a real problem. The relationship with Billie is also an ethics violation, but it’s so easily fixed with a room swap I have a hard time calling her out on it – Billie is simply not a coerced junior partner in that relationship, which is the real danger in that sort of situation. Probably ought to be in therapy (and maybe on meds) for depression as well, but that might cost her her job if the school’s sufficiently intolerant of mental health issues.

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          June 26, 2015 at 6:10 pm | #

          Bro, no.

          She flung her into a chair, she tripped her, she slammed her into a wall and shoved her tongue down her throat, after Billie helped sober her up she pushed her down onto the ground, she tried to strip her in public, she fucking launched a campaign of psychological torment on Billie out of a misguided grudge against her.

          “Aside from Billie”, God, who do you think I was talking about?

          Violence is absolutely a legitimate criticism for Ruth and you will not even attempt to tell me otherwise.

          • Rich
            Rich
            June 26, 2015 at 6:42 pm | #

            That’s your opinion and you’re welcome to it, but you haven’t changed my mind and I don’t appreciate the demand that I do so or shut up. And I’m not a bro, which is an insult where I come from.

            I’ll give you another chance to clarify here – if her behavior toward Billie is so inexcusable, why are they now in a relationship? Are you arguing that Billie has been intimidated or coerced into having sex with Ruth? Or that Billie’s self-image issues make her vulnerable to psychological manipulation and their entire history has been a twisted courting ritual for Ruth? I give Billie more credit for agency than that, and she’s been the one actively pushing for them to stay together on several occasions.

            Or is there some other point you’re trying to make?

            • Spencer
              Spencer
              June 26, 2015 at 7:12 pm | #

              I wasn’t demanding that you change your mind, I was telling you that I plain will not listen to yet more justification why Ruth’s abuse is okay.

              And my bad on the “bro” thing. It wasn’t my intent to use a term that’s insulting where you’re from.

              Anyway, yes, Ruth’s behaviour to Billie is completely, totally, 100% inexcusable by any definition of the word. She hounded Billie and verbally and physically attacked her whenever she felt like it. She used her position of authority to try and hurt her any chance she got, even threatening to get her expelled for drinking on campus which she only found out by breaking into her room, not to mention how she did the same thing.

              As for their relationship, that’s fucked up too, which I think should be evident because it starts from Billie and Ruth giving up on sobriety and entering into a suicide pact. I don’t doubt that they care for each other, maybe even love each other, but that doesn’t change the fact that both of them are incredibly damaged and suffer from severe problems. Billie totally does have a warped self image, and she barely registers how wrong things are going between her and Ruth, between having the genius idea of “forced moderation”, begging Ruth to let her stay in her room all the time, oh, and the entire basis of them staying together being that Ruth wants to kill herself and Billie is forcing her to take her with her.

              Ruth needs help. She’s a victim of her alcoholism, her depression, and doubtlessly from her grandfather, and she needs to be removed from her position and given that help before she ends up hurting herself or Billie. That does not make the genuinely horrible shit she’s done even remotely okay. There’s an explanation, but that doesn’t mean there’s an excuse. I’ve spent way too much of time listening to the excuses of abusers and I’ m not letting someone else say that shit to me again.

      • JWLM
        JWLM
        June 26, 2015 at 6:35 pm | #

        As one of the most avid shippers of Ruth + Billie, this.

        Ruth is abusive, both physically and socially. She behaves sadistically towards all of the freshmen in her care. She’s secretly violating the IU dry campus agreement — and we don’t know whether she’s even legal in Indiana.

        At the end of the day, she’s really a pretty ugly person, no matter how much fun we have with her.

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      June 26, 2015 at 3:52 pm | #

      I really wish she wasn’t the only Canadian character around. It really bums me out she’s my countries only representation in a comic with so many great characters.

      • fogel
        fogel
        June 26, 2015 at 10:31 pm | #

        I think that Mike and Mary might be closet Canadian immigrants. 🙂

  79. JBento
    JBento
    June 26, 2015 at 10:51 am | #

    Here’s hoping that the Let It Go song resonates with Ethan, because I really feel sorry for that poor bastard.

    Also, I’m torn between this strip making Ruth adorably murderous or murderously adorable.

    And Dina smile is best smile. I’m willing to tolerate Becky if it means we get more of those.

    • -Sentinel-
      -Sentinel-
      June 26, 2015 at 1:51 pm | #

      “Here’s hoping that the Let It Go song resonates with Ethan, because I really feel sorry for that poor bastard.”

      Don’t be! He can now gay-marry in any state he chooses!

      • Em
        Em
        June 26, 2015 at 3:49 pm | #

        YAY!

        But his parents are shit, and he’ll only poke a couple fingers out from under the door. So I kinda feel bad for the poor guy.

      • timemonkey
        timemonkey
        June 26, 2015 at 3:50 pm | #

        First he needs to stop listening to his asshole parents. Fortunately, between Amber, Joyce and now Danny he’s going to get a lot more support on the personal front. (yeah, Danny doesn’t know yet but being a supportive guy who wants to help is the kind of guy Danny is).

      • saki
        saki
        June 26, 2015 at 7:40 pm | #

        OH MY-! I HADN’T HEARD THAT NEWS YET I-I-I-I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MY HAPPY FEELINGS THIS IS SO GREAT 😀

        *calms herself* Oh hey, “gay-marry” is totally a reference to Community, isn’t it? 🙂

        • timemonkey
          timemonkey
          June 26, 2015 at 8:33 pm | #

          People have been saying gay-marry for decades.

          • saki
            saki
            June 26, 2015 at 8:55 pm | #

            Aw I didn’t know that. English isn’t my first language and Community’s the only place I heard that expression. ^^

  80. AeroQC
    AeroQC
    June 26, 2015 at 10:53 am | #

    Seriously, who says no to a Disney movie? Oddly enough, they seem to get more and more enjoyable as you grow up. Not only do you still laugh at the obvious kids jokes, but you understand the in-jokes and underlying messages of the movies as well. Inside Out was so good.

    • Romanticide
      Romanticide
      June 26, 2015 at 3:43 pm | #

      Disney Movies got way more enjoyable when the stopped being the only option (or mostly) at entertainment in my opinion.

  81. Spencer
    Spencer
    June 26, 2015 at 10:54 am | #

    It took me until now to realize that Ruth is forcing everyone to stare at the TV without leaving because she doesn’t want anyone to notice her and Billie.

    • Rich
      Rich
      June 26, 2015 at 12:39 pm | #

      That was the first thing I thought of. You never made out with someone in the back row of a movie theater, did you?

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        June 26, 2015 at 1:10 pm | #

        I wasn’t able to distract people by risk of femur-tearing, unfortunately.

  82. Sammael
    Sammael
    June 26, 2015 at 12:22 pm | #

    I don’t like Becky/Dina pairing.
    Now, before I get attacked for homophobia, I want to say its because I was hoping Dina would be an asexual character.
    There are almost no asexual characters in… well anywhere and I thought David would be capable of writing one that’s not a joke.

    • Nightsbridge
      Nightsbridge
      June 26, 2015 at 12:49 pm | #

      We haven’t revealed it quite yet, but I’m pretty sure Carla is one.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      June 26, 2015 at 12:50 pm | #

      Dina can still possibly be ace. All we know from Willis’ other work is that Dina is at the very least hetero-romantic, and being ace doesn’t preclude someone from being in a relationship.

      Carla, who usually hangs out with Sal and co, is also asexual.

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        June 26, 2015 at 6:03 pm | #

        To clarify: Dina in Willis’ other work (which is a separate continuity to this one) had a relationship with a guy, but it was never confirmed as sexual. I didn’t mean to imply that she was exclusively into men romantically. She could also be bi-romantic or demisexual.

    • Em
      Em
      June 26, 2015 at 3:46 pm | #

      My best friend is ace and she has a steady boyfriend. Being ace *can* mean that you don’t want to have relationships, but it doesn’t have to mean that. Relationships don’t mean that you have to have sex. My friend does not have sex with her boyfriend, but they do make out. A lot. xD She just doesn’t feel the need to have sex, even when she kisses her boyfriend. It’s just not a thing for her. Some people don’t like the idea of sex, some people have had sex and hated it…there are a lot of reasons why people ID as ace! I think Dina can have a very rewarding sex free relationship with Becky. I would also love to have an arc where she and Becky discover her asexuality, and Becky is totes fine with it and still wants to date her because she likes Dina for Dina, not for her sexual parts.

    • Sam
      Sam
      June 26, 2015 at 3:57 pm | #

      Well he said the characters would have the same sexualities as before and someone said Dina had shown interest in guys before. It doesn’t make it impossible for her to be asexual, she could be bi-romantic and asexual, but, there is also the worry that making Dina asexual would fall straight into the trap of ‘awkward people = asexual’, and if you’ve paid attention to the comments when she kissed Becky, a lot of people DID assume she was asexual because she was awkward…

      Carla is actually asexual though.

    • dailybrad
      dailybrad
      June 26, 2015 at 3:59 pm | #

      Carla is asexual, Dina already wasn’t. Willis has made a point of not changing previously established orientations if it contradicted past materials. Dina already had her dealings with Walky and Mike in the past continuity and wasn’t asexual there.

      Ultracar was asexual, but not aromantic, and Carla is probably in the same boat.

  83. Golbez
    Golbez
    June 26, 2015 at 2:19 pm | #

    Cuz everytime we touch…..

  84. Em
    Em
    June 26, 2015 at 2:47 pm | #

    AHHHH AHHHH SO CUTE!

    “Got-dumped-guy” Sick burn Ruth.

    • Rich
      Rich
      June 26, 2015 at 4:26 pm | #

      If you do an archive serach on Ruth+Danny, she literally never knew his name. The only other time they’ve been on panel together was when Dorothy asked her advice about breaking up with him, and Ruth and Danny exchanged zero words in the process. If anything, the fact that she remembers him as well as she does is almost a compliment. Almost.

      • Rich
        Rich
        June 26, 2015 at 6:22 pm | #

        Further fun facts from archive diving, Ruth’s been in 162 strips to date and Billie has been in 391. They’ve shared a strip 134 times. So most of our time with Ruth has been spent with Billie around, although they haven’t always been a couple, obviously.

        So, our take on Ruth’s behavior is largely filtered through the lens of her relationship with Billie. Billie’s had a lot more time to interact with other characters independently – although a fair number of her solo strips have involved her worrying about Ruth.

  85. Jepmz
    Jepmz
    June 26, 2015 at 3:18 pm | #

    Is the bulletin board purposely a square symbolism of how their love for eachother hasn’t changed? 🙂

  86. Roborat
    Roborat
    June 26, 2015 at 3:32 pm | #

    Wait, she set all that up so she can play high school crush with Billy in the back? That is soooo cute.

    • Rich
      Rich
      June 26, 2015 at 4:20 pm | #

      Well, she may also be making sure the drunken freshman are all safely under her gaze for long enough to sober up a bit, instead of having them potentially wandering off where campus security might need to take notice. Pretty sure Ruth knew sending Billie to the party was likely to result in some boozing going on even at a Joyce party.

  87. dailybrad
    dailybrad
    June 26, 2015 at 4:01 pm | #

    I think in addition to wanting to be able to watch it with Billy and not have people hassle them, she also wanted them to not bolt on Joyce’s party. I don’t know what all she is aware of, but probably enough to know how shitty that’d feel.

  88. Edupoet81
    Edupoet81
    June 26, 2015 at 6:03 pm | #

    Apparently, Ruth was missing Billie.

    I suspect she is aware that people have been drinking, and that’s part of why she wants to keep an eye on everyone. It is a dry campus after all, and the majority of the party guests are in violation of that. Even so, I suspect that as long as no one does anything blatantly objectionable under the influence, Ruth will…. let it go.

    Okay, couldn’t resist. I don’t care how overdone that is at this point. It was in my head, and I had to ….ummm…. release it. (I figured repeating it twice in one comment would be overkill.)

    And now I really want to watch Frozen again.

  89. Tenn
    Tenn
    June 26, 2015 at 6:09 pm | #

    I don’t really have anything to say about the comic today, but CONGRATULATIONS, CITIZENS OF THE US OF A! Your Supreme Court did good. 😀

    • Someone
      Someone
      June 26, 2015 at 7:04 pm | #

      YAY!

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      June 26, 2015 at 7:30 pm | #

      Now the DoA cast can gay-marry each other! =D

      • Someone
        Someone
        June 26, 2015 at 7:31 pm | #

        I like to think that the reason for the legalization was because the supreme court members are all really big dumbing of age fans and wanted to make Becky happy!

        • David M Willis
          David M Willis
          June 26, 2015 at 7:34 pm | #

          Gay marriage was already legal in Indiana!

          • Someone
            Someone
            June 26, 2015 at 7:44 pm | #

            Still, she would probably move out of Indiana when she got her life together. Get as far away from toe dad as possible

            • fogel
              fogel
              June 26, 2015 at 8:54 pm | #

              Almost all famous people from Indiana are from Indiana.

          • JWLM
            JWLM
            June 26, 2015 at 10:57 pm | #

            Technically, no. Had The Supes decided the other way — and it was close, only 5-4 — then the decision which had overridden Indiana’s definition of marriage would have no longer held, and same-sex marriage would no longer have been legal in Indiana. Under those circumstances, I doubt that any marriages solemnized after 10am Eastern Daylight time, June 26, 2015 would have been considered valid.

            Of course, they could simply have flown out to the West Coast, married, and then flown back had the decision taken the middle ground offered by both parties (whether or not SSM was legal within your boundaries, you must recognize all marriages if they were legal in the state in which they were solemnized), but the Supes had made it pretty clear during oral arguments that they really weren’t interested in that dodge.

    • nothri
      nothri
      June 26, 2015 at 7:58 pm | #

      I’m glad someone said it. And yeah. In like….the first time in years and years I can unequivocally say I’m proud to be an American! I was pretty proud to be a Texan until I read Texas’ response to the announcement. Now I’m just okay with being from Texas. Still proud to be an Austinite, though, where we aint dragging our feet on issue certificates like some lame ass counties are.

      • fogel
        fogel
        June 26, 2015 at 8:55 pm | #

        Didn’t Rick Perry want to secede from Austin?

        • nothri
          nothri
          June 26, 2015 at 9:25 pm | #

          Not EXACTLY. Rick Perry did suggest succeeding from America and forming the independent nation of Texas. In response some dude from Austin drafted an online petition to allow Austin to succeed back into the Union in the event that Texas succeeded. Last I checked it had a few thousand signatures.

  90. Alex Boston
    Alex Boston
    June 26, 2015 at 9:31 pm | #

    I know you do these strips months in advance, but if you create some DoA/Supreme Court ruling on Gay Marriage wallpaper, I bet that would go over well.

    • JWLM
      JWLM
      June 26, 2015 at 11:00 pm | #

      I think Willis has already done that:

      http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=2160

  91. Waanii
    Waanii
    June 27, 2015 at 1:35 am | #

    i just imagine that reliant k is playing, possibly mood ring, because I can imagine Joyce having that on the play list

  92. JA
    JA
    June 28, 2015 at 3:35 pm | #

    And then Mike, wherever he is, yells “HANDS CHECK!”

    • HeySo
      HeySo
      June 28, 2015 at 10:52 pm | #

      Somehow accidentally saving three lives, reuniting a lost family, helping a family of ducks across a road, burning down the mall, creating an impromptu thrash metal concert, all while wearing nothing but a rainbow flag.

      Because of reasons, okay?

  93. AgentKeen
    AgentKeen
    June 29, 2015 at 12:09 am | #

    I didn’t notice Amber’s face until I saw a close-up on tumblr!
    Ahahaha, she doesn’t know how to process this.

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