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by David M Willis on November 15, 2017 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - Face the Strange

└ Tags: jennifer, nash, rose

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  1. CandidCanid
    CandidCanid
    November 15, 2017 at 12:04 am | #

    Billie, typing furiously: “THERE IS NO ONE IN THIS WHOLE DORM WHOM I CAN JUSTIFY PUNCHING”

    • Nono
      Nono
      November 15, 2017 at 12:10 am | #

      Give her a week with Lucy.

  2. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    November 15, 2017 at 12:04 am | #

    just missing the one fanning with a palm leaf

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      November 15, 2017 at 1:02 am | #

      …. Billie DOES like a leaf fan.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        November 15, 2017 at 1:16 am | #

        Well played. (Unlike a Leafs game.)

        • Kingmonster
          Kingmonster
          November 15, 2017 at 2:46 am | #

          *insert obligatory OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH!*

        • Sunny
          Sunny
          November 15, 2017 at 6:44 am | #

          What is it with the internet and puns today? This is the third webcomic I check today and in all of them the comments were just loaded with wordplay.

          • Charlie Spencer
            Charlie Spencer
            November 15, 2017 at 6:48 am | #

            Whadda ya mean, ‘today’?

          • Br44n5m
            Br44n5m
            November 21, 2017 at 11:36 am | #

            One of us! One of us!

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        November 15, 2017 at 4:18 am | #

        Nice!

    • Remmington Steele
      Remmington Steele
      November 15, 2017 at 3:56 am | #

      And the grapes. I thought there would be grapes.

  3. King Daniel
    King Daniel
    November 15, 2017 at 12:04 am | #

    Mmm, sharp cheddar

    • Dean
      Dean
      November 15, 2017 at 12:31 am | #

      No crackers? What is this, the gulag?

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        November 15, 2017 at 1:01 am | #

        “Sorry, all we got is this bacon and a microwave to melt the cheese onto it.”

        • PB
          PB
          November 15, 2017 at 9:44 pm | #

          … Add in avocados and nachos and you got a deal.

  4. AnvilPro
    AnvilPro
    November 15, 2017 at 12:05 am | #

    Billie the babysitter

  5. JetstreamGW
    JetstreamGW
    November 15, 2017 at 12:05 am | #

    This is getting weird.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      November 15, 2017 at 12:07 am | #

      It’s almost like we’re facing the strange!

    • Nobody
      Nobody
      November 15, 2017 at 2:50 am | #

      As someone who always suspects ulterior motives, I agree

      • begbert2
        begbert2
        November 15, 2017 at 2:54 am | #

        Are you saying you expect the Spanish inquisition?

        • Joe Covenant
          Joe Covenant
          November 15, 2017 at 4:57 am | #

          NOOOO-one expec.. oh bugger!

          • Roborat
            Roborat
            November 15, 2017 at 3:07 pm | #

            Better come in again.

          • TheKelliestKelly
            TheKelliestKelly
            November 16, 2017 at 12:19 am | #

            Rather than no one expecting the Spanish Inquisition, it seems in this case Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

        • SgtWadeyWilson
          SgtWadeyWilson
          November 15, 2017 at 6:53 pm | #

          Well Cardcaptors did tell us to expect the unexpected…

          • JetstreamGW
            JetstreamGW
            November 16, 2017 at 12:03 am | #

            Would Syaoran lie to us?

  6. Derek
    Derek
    November 15, 2017 at 12:05 am | #

    I’m beginning to sense that the theme in this storyline is “no one leaves well enough alone”

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      November 15, 2017 at 1:00 am | #

      …. THIS storyline?

  7. Mr. Mendo
    Mr. Mendo
    November 15, 2017 at 12:05 am | #

    Billie’s gonna have to learn to deal with people who like her.

    Or possibly start singing:

    “This must be just like living in paradise/
    And I don’t wanna go ho-o-o-ome!”

    • Stephen Bierce
      Stephen Bierce
      November 15, 2017 at 12:13 am | #

      Gotta love Diamond Dave…especially when he’s got Steve Vai to back him up.

  8. King Daniel
    King Daniel
    November 15, 2017 at 12:06 am | #

    …wait, “ball pit and caramel pool”? I thought that was exclusively Dorothy’s turf?

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      November 15, 2017 at 1:00 am | #

      …..

      ….. okay, that was a good one.

    • Remmington Steele
      Remmington Steele
      November 15, 2017 at 3:58 am | #

      What in the name of Dina, is a “ballpit”?

      • Joe Covenant
        Joe Covenant
        November 15, 2017 at 5:00 am | #

        Think:
        Someplace approximating a huge enclosed with netting, inflatable swimming pool with high sides.

        Now fill it with (roughly) baseball sized hollow plastic balls…
        Then leap into it !

        Ballpit!!

        • Ferret
          Ferret
          November 15, 2017 at 10:37 am | #

          Or a little kiddie pool in the middle of a giant warehouse.

          Y’know, a ballpit can mean a lot of things.

        • Remmington Steele
          Remmington Steele
          November 15, 2017 at 12:53 pm | #

          Ah, yes. Always accompanied by the vague smell of urine.

      • IllogicalBobcat
        IllogicalBobcat
        November 15, 2017 at 5:09 am | #

        They have them at Chuck E Cheese.

        • Roborat
          Roborat
          November 15, 2017 at 3:08 pm | #

          And some McDonalds.

  9. Danni
    Danni
    November 15, 2017 at 12:06 am | #

    ooh sharp cheddar! the good stuff!

  10. Marsh Maryrose
    Marsh Maryrose
    November 15, 2017 at 12:09 am | #

    “To Serve Mankind”

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      November 15, 2017 at 12:12 am | #

      (Spoiler: It’s a cookbook!)

      • Marsh Maryrose
        Marsh Maryrose
        November 15, 2017 at 12:33 am | #

        In other old spoilers: the Eloi were very well fed by the Morlocks.

  11. Passchendaele
    Passchendaele
    November 15, 2017 at 12:10 am | #

    BRIBERY: SUCCESSFUL

    Rose and Nash gain +2 charisma

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      November 15, 2017 at 12:59 am | #

      Because bribery gets you charisma?

      ….

      *reflects on how people like generous people*

      ….. okay, it checks out.

      • Shade
        Shade
        November 15, 2017 at 1:22 am | #

        Good taste in cheese gives you charisma.

        • Nobody
          Nobody
          November 15, 2017 at 2:52 am | #

          Bribery with good cheese gives you even more charisma

        • Roborat
          Roborat
          November 15, 2017 at 3:09 pm | #

          It gives some people gas.

          • SgtWadeyWilson
            SgtWadeyWilson
            November 15, 2017 at 6:56 pm | #

            So, what… roll for Charisma DC 9? Maybe 12 tops?

  12. Larkle
    Larkle
    November 15, 2017 at 12:11 am | #

    “We phrased it as a question, but it’s actually not optional.”

  13. Shiro
    Shiro
    November 15, 2017 at 12:11 am | #

    The McAwesome’s of dorms?

    • Tacos
      Tacos
      November 15, 2017 at 12:43 am | #

      Seems like it. I wonder if Mike goes there to get drunk.

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        November 15, 2017 at 12:59 am | #

        …. has Mike ever BEEN drunk?

        I know a lot of people get drunk by 18, but a lot of people don’t. Mike doesn’t engage in other vices like smoking or obsessive video games… he’s got his preferred vice and he’s sticking to it.

        We’ve seen no sign that he has any awareness that he’s a nice-drunk, or even that this is the case in this universe.

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          November 15, 2017 at 7:15 am | #

          …you know, that WOULD be a way to use Mike in an interesting story.

          I’m not a fan of him. I think he is an artefact from the other comics where he filled an interesting part in the narrative. Here, he is just an asshole in a cast full of much more interesting assholes. He COULD be put in an interesting spot as an antagonist – because lord knows that men like him exist in real life – but transforming a protagonist to an antagonist is a really tricky thing to do, especially since a lot of people like him*.

          But his attitude to drinking could be a genuinely interesting story that would be about HIM and not his effect on other people. How would he react to finding out he becomes nice when drunk? How would he react to how other people react to it? Would he detest it or welcome it? Would he swear of alcohol forever after the first time or would he experiment with it? Would he be bothered by the alcohol soaked frat-culture?

          A lot of people have complicated relationships to alcohol, and Mikes reverse Jekyll/Hyde syndrom would be an interesting mirror in which to watch it (much like Becky’s hat-fetish is a fun mirror in which to watch physical attraction).

          *) If you like Mike – please do! More power to you. My opinions do not in any way have to dictate yours.

          • Trousle Undrhil
            Trousle Undrhil
            November 15, 2017 at 8:41 am | #

            I always thought his “drunken-niceness” was a part of his alien power, kind of a counterbalance, I guess. I don’t know if Mike in this universe even drinks. He certainly has no reason to, as of yet.

            • Briny
              Briny
              November 15, 2017 at 10:12 am | #

              See, Mike-with-Alien-Powers, I could tolerate because at heart, it was a story about people defending the entire planet. And, you know, you grade on a curve because some cool stuff’s on this planet and if someone’s saving it you make allowances.

              This Mike’s just some schmuck.

          • geno
            geno
            November 15, 2017 at 9:01 am | #

            Willis has already put in underaged drinking, so I wouldn’t be shocked to see it here. Drunk Mike might be a neat gag sometime later. Maybe Mike tries it as a way to talk to Amber without saying something mean? Personally I really like Mike as a heroic douchebag, but I agree that can’t really work here unless he teams up with AG or something. In the old universe even before he had a character arc he had funny moments, but in DOA he mostly just causes trouble. I don’t think he causes nearly enough trouble to make an interesting antagonist though unless he screws over worse villains as some sort of ploy.

          • Goshii
            Goshii
            November 15, 2017 at 1:14 pm | #

            An antagonist does not necessarily have to be unlikable by the audience to be a good antagonist. Not once in the original trilogy did I dislike Vader, he never gave off any dislikable vibes for me, and I absolutely LOVE his character. While Luke as the protagonist, is pretty damn unlikable until the finale of Jedi for me.

  14. Cattleprod
    Cattleprod
    November 15, 2017 at 12:12 am | #

    How does one earn extra time in the ballpit?

  15. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    November 15, 2017 at 12:14 am | #

    Because of the discussion about Rose on Tumblr…
    …Is she steady with a dude named Larry?

  16. Haven
    Haven
    November 15, 2017 at 12:16 am | #

    So is Rose secretly related to Amber in this continuity too, or is it just an unusual resemblance?

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      November 15, 2017 at 2:32 am | #

      Amber is Blaine’s only biological child in DoA. Are they more distant relatives? Anything’s possible, but I think it’s unlikely.

  17. Leorale
    Leorale
    November 15, 2017 at 12:17 am | #

    And a waterslide, and Mike is nice.

  18. Keulen
    Keulen
    November 15, 2017 at 12:19 am | #

    I’m starting to think it would suck to be an introvert in this dorm.

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      November 15, 2017 at 12:29 am | #

      Suck, blow and bite.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      November 15, 2017 at 12:56 am | #

      I dunno. I’d lay at least 50/50 odds that they’d quickly respect “I’m an introvert, please let me people in small doses.” And also an independent 50/50 that Billie’s getting special treatment because she’s the designated awesome.

      • Marsh Maryrose
        Marsh Maryrose
        November 15, 2017 at 1:17 am | #

        Do Lucy and Nash even understand the concept of “introvert?”

        • IllogicalBobcat
          IllogicalBobcat
          November 15, 2017 at 5:15 am | #

          I don’t think most people do. Certainly not the Head Cheerleader who made a failed attempt to be social-queen of her last dorm when she moved in…

        • Miri
          Miri
          November 15, 2017 at 12:48 pm | #

          To my mind (as a Brit, where the expectation is generally that you get your own room at university) the whole idea of room mates seems horrifically geared up towards introverts…

          Seriously – my first term I was in a house share with 5 other girls. They commented on my eating habits enough that I would actually walk the 30 mins to university to eat food alone rather than eat at home sometimes (as the sole veggie living in a household where everybody else thought a meal WAS a meat and two veg I didn’t blend in… I had the same girl tell me on two consecutive days that I never ate and it was a wonder I wasn’t fading away, and that I was always picking on food and it was a wonder I wasn’t the size of a bus). Even with a door you can close to shut out everybody else they can still be horrible for your mental health, if they won’t respect your boundaries… It was in some ways a relief to overhear one of them on the phone to her mum saying she “dreaded” having to talk to me because that was the point it was obvious to me that the problem was them rather than me (if somebody has never been anything other than polite, friendly, etc., towards you and you dread talking to them because of the degree to which you have “othered” them – THEY ARE NOT THE PROBLEM)…

          Space, privacy, quiet time, etc are all SO important. (Not living with judgemental pod-people is also a good idea.)

          • Reltzik
            Reltzik
            November 15, 2017 at 4:05 pm | #

            Yahbut, if everyone gets their own room, how does the university MAKE MONEY?

            [/sarcasm, of course]

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              November 15, 2017 at 9:24 pm | #

              By charging them more for rooms, of course.
              The more appropriate question would be how do the students afford it?

              The answer of course is “Socialism!”

              • Reltzik
                Reltzik
                November 15, 2017 at 9:53 pm | #

                I thought the answer was that they couldn’t, but the ever-burgeoning practice of lifetime debt peonage lets everyone pretend that they can.

      • monkyvirus
        monkyvirus
        November 15, 2017 at 8:36 am | #

        Just like they respected Billie’s first two “no thanks” in this comic? Billie might be OK with it but they’re not psychic they should’ve backed off.

      • Kamino Neko
        Kamino Neko
        November 15, 2017 at 9:13 pm | #

        I see nothing that suggests the odds are that good. This exchange – and the fact that ‘ok, we’ll come over’ isn’t just a threat, but a fait acomplis – suggests otherwise.

  19. CK
    CK
    November 15, 2017 at 12:26 am | #

    Maaaan now I REALLY want some sharp cheddar slices… damn you, Willis.

  20. OnyxIdol
    OnyxIdol
    November 15, 2017 at 12:53 am | #

    “Well if there is CHEDDAR…”

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      November 15, 2017 at 12:59 am | #

      Sadly, the cheddar is a lie…

      • Goshii
        Goshii
        November 15, 2017 at 1:11 pm | #

        You’re not telling me it’s Colby?

  21. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    November 15, 2017 at 12:57 am | #

    Okay, so Billie can be bribed by an offer of someone sitting her bed and repeatedly cutting cheese?

    …. notgonnakinkjudge notgonnakinkjudge notgonna…

  22. Griffin Raynor
    Griffin Raynor
    November 15, 2017 at 12:58 am | #

    please. not a ballpit.

    • Goshii
      Goshii
      November 15, 2017 at 1:12 pm | #

      Ball pits are the best

  23. Architex
    Architex
    November 15, 2017 at 1:34 am | #

    “So this one time at Cheer Camp…”

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      November 15, 2017 at 4:22 am | #

      If you ask Billie for stories, you have to be prepared for some saucy ones.

  24. StClair
    StClair
    November 15, 2017 at 2:02 am | #

    “We also have peeled grapes.”

    • Nobody
      Nobody
      November 15, 2017 at 2:55 am | #

      What sort of monster would peel your grapes for you? That’s the fun part

    • Sunny
      Sunny
      November 15, 2017 at 6:49 am | #

      But the skin is where all the vitamins are! You need to eat that as well.

      • Matt Heath
        Matt Heath
        November 15, 2017 at 11:17 am | #

        And the flavour. Peeled grapes are just for pretending to have a bowl of eye-balls at Halloween

        • Roborat
          Roborat
          November 15, 2017 at 3:13 pm | #

          And peeling them is soooooo tedious. The payoff is so not worth the work.

  25. BenRG
    BenRG
    November 15, 2017 at 2:07 am | #

    The dark side of the friendly folk of Forest Hall: They don’t believe in ‘personal time’!

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      November 15, 2017 at 4:14 am | #

      Yup. I can see that get VERY old very quick.

    • StClair
      StClair
      November 15, 2017 at 5:49 am | #

      “Bound-a-what?”
      “Boundaries.”
      “No… no, never heard of it.”

  26. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    November 15, 2017 at 2:21 am | #

    Ball pits are just low-resolution sandboxes!

    *Gets dragged off by orderlies*

    You all know it’s true!

    • Nobody
      Nobody
      November 15, 2017 at 2:57 am | #

      Yeah but the physics collision also doesn’t let them get in your underwear/swimsuit so that’s good

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        November 15, 2017 at 3:14 pm | #

        Well, they could, but you would have to work at it.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      November 15, 2017 at 4:17 am | #

      …my God, Needfuldoer is right.

      IT’S ALL A SCAM, YOU PEOPLE. EVERYTHING I THOUGHT I KNEW WAS A LIE!!!

    • SgtWadeyWilson
      SgtWadeyWilson
      November 15, 2017 at 7:02 pm | #

      So it’s the indie gaming of pouring something into a pit and jumping into it? What does that make pools? Or a snake pit?

  27. Bagge
    Bagge
    November 15, 2017 at 4:23 am | #

    “What’s this? A minute of your life for yourself? NOT ON MY WATCH!”

  28. Joe Covenant
    Joe Covenant
    November 15, 2017 at 5:09 am | #

    BTW…
    I’m assuming everyone has seen the “It’s Walky!” Kickstarter by now?
    Almost reached it’s target in, what, 3 days?

    I’ve asked Willis if he’ll also be making the “Roomies” books available as PDF’s because (as he acknowledges) postage to the UK is crippling…

    Got an email back saying he thinks that possible and needs to look for the files! So… keep an eye open! 🙂

  29. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    November 15, 2017 at 6:04 am | #

    Is Rose left-handed?

  30. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    November 15, 2017 at 7:24 am | #

    Is that a threat ?

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      November 15, 2017 at 9:07 am | #

      “Come to the party or the party comes to you.” — That can certainly be a threat if interpreted in that way!

  31. altalemur
    altalemur
    November 15, 2017 at 8:00 am | #

    you want this, don’t you Billie? the ego in you is swelling. take the sharp cheddar. eat it. it is freely given. take it and Rose’s offer of friendship. give into the friendship. with each passing moment in that dorm you will become friendlier.

    i am actually wondering. are her dormmates the intrusive kind of friendly? or the would respect any boundaries that you established friendly? then again, I don’t think Billie is the best at establishing her own boundaries just yet.

    • monkyvirus
      monkyvirus
      November 15, 2017 at 8:41 am | #

      The other day people tried to get me to have another drink until I snapped at them to back off. They then looked surprised at my “over-reaction”. I feel her dormmates are like that. They’ll pressure you in a friendly way and when you get angry they’ll be surprised but respect your boundaries. So they won’t force you to do something but they will also pressure you unknowingly.

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      November 15, 2017 at 12:27 pm | #

      It seems like the intrusive type of friendly given their response to “hey not feeling a party” is to barge into the room essentially bringing the party to her.

  32. geno
    geno
    November 15, 2017 at 9:07 am | #

    I wonder if this fanbase is familiar with the Ron the Death Eater trope. Seems like a lot of them like writing that type of fanfiction.

    • Liliaeth
      Liliaeth
      November 15, 2017 at 1:50 pm | #

      Kinda like how teen wolf fandom loves to turn Scott into a bad guy, even though he’s probably one of the sweetest, kindest and gentlest characters on the show.

      It’s as if the genuinely nicer a character is, the more fandom seems desperate to want them to be the bad guy.

      • SgtWadeyWilson
        SgtWadeyWilson
        November 15, 2017 at 7:05 pm | #

        The question on everybody’s minds: Who hurt these fandoms?

  33. hof1991
    hof1991
    November 15, 2017 at 9:36 am | #

    In private life, society and nations, disconnectedness defines danger. People who are disconnected from those around them often end up hurting themselves and others. Groups that cut themselves off from society end up hurting themselves and others. Nations that cut themselves off end up hurting themselves and others.

    Billie could use a little connectedness, something beyond the follie-aux-deux that is Billie-Ruth.

    Plus sharp cheddar is the best cheese. Once had my jaw wired for six weeks and sharp cheddar melting in my mouth was the highlight of my day.

  34. Briny
    Briny
    November 15, 2017 at 10:15 am | #

    I would find it funny if Billie (and us, the audience) keep waiting for the other shoe to drop and the horrible underside to be revealed… and there isn’t one. Just people driving themselves batty waiting for the catch.

  35. Skeptible
    Skeptible
    November 15, 2017 at 10:50 am | #

    Nothing is annoying quite like friendly people being friendly when you just want some peace and quiet.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      November 15, 2017 at 11:08 am | #

      As Malaya knows only too well

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      November 15, 2017 at 12:28 pm | #

      Yeah, as an introvert who needs very specific downtime to maintain mental health, this would be my personal hell.

      I can see why Malaya wanted out.

  36. PB
    PB
    November 15, 2017 at 9:43 pm | #

    They’re super nice and this is awesome of them to be so welcoming, but yeah I’m siding with my fellow introverts on this one. Gimme time and space to process stuff if it’s been hectic.

    Also give the lady some alone time to text her girlfriend, will ya?

  37. Jhon
    Jhon
    November 16, 2017 at 12:15 am | #

    Look out!
    She has a knife!

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