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by David M Willis on June 3, 2018 at 12:01 am
  • 04 – Of Mike And Men
└ Tags: galasso, jason, jennifer

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    June 3, 2018 at 12:02 am | #

    “good thing you’re just his evil twin or I’d be busted”

    • Tacos
      Tacos
      June 3, 2018 at 12:11 am | #

      But I thought all evil twins had facial hair and an eyepatch.

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        June 3, 2018 at 12:30 am | #

        What if I’m the one with facial hair and an eyepatch? What does that make of my twin?

        • MatthewTheLucky
          MatthewTheLucky
          June 3, 2018 at 12:54 am | #

          Your good twin, you fiend.

        • Bruceski
          Bruceski
          June 3, 2018 at 1:35 am | #

          As babies my brother and I had shirts that said “I’m the evil one”.

      • Pablo360
        Pablo360
        June 3, 2018 at 12:32 am | #

        No, you’re thinking of people from the future. Evil twins have facial hair or an eyepatch.

        • SgtWadeyWilson
          SgtWadeyWilson
          June 3, 2018 at 1:11 am | #

          …and what if they’re your alternate universe self’s evil twin’s future self who you run into while exploring your own evil twin’s past?

          • K^2
            K^2
            June 3, 2018 at 1:36 am | #

            Can you rephrase that question as a flow-chart?

        • John
          John
          June 3, 2018 at 10:57 am | #

          No, that’s his evil dad.

          • kendermouse
            kendermouse
            June 3, 2018 at 3:25 pm | #

            …are there any not-evil dads in this comic?

            • Lothir
              Lothir
              June 3, 2018 at 7:22 pm | #

              Hank?

            • Tacos
              Tacos
              June 3, 2018 at 9:41 pm | #

              Dina’s dad?

            • Ana Chronistic
              Ana Chronistic
              June 3, 2018 at 11:46 pm | #

              Dad Not-Appearing-in-This-Comic?

      • Unusually Angry Hippie
        Unusually Angry Hippie
        June 3, 2018 at 5:07 pm | #

        His dads the one with the eyepatch.

      • hof1991
        hof1991
        June 3, 2018 at 10:21 pm | #

        https://youtu.be/7qpH2WL0B3U

        My evil twin, bad weather friend
        He always wants to start when I want to begin
        It scares me so, like I scare myself
        With that book of Nostradamus up upon my shelf
        Playing hangman ’til the morning light
        Doing donuts on the neighbors lawn
        Then sleep all through the day, get up and start again
        I can hear some sirens somewhere but I don’t know why
        My evil twin runs home again
        Search lights look for an alibi, but I’ll be home by then
        Here he comes again, my evil twin
        My friends have seen him hiding underneath my skin
        Who cut the arm off the voodoo doll
        That resembles a Republican president from long ago
        I’d hate to see you leave
        ‘Cause I have grown so grateful for the
        Blame you save me from
        My twin
        My twin
        My twin
        I know he looks like me
        (My twin) Hates work like me and walks like me
        (My twin) He’s even got a twin like me
        My evil twin, bad weather friend
        I know some day I’ll meet him
        But I don’t know where or when

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      June 3, 2018 at 10:06 am | #

      Of course he’s your Math T.A.! Just look at that bowtie!

      …

      Of course he’s not your Math T.A.! Just look at that bowtie!

  2. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    June 3, 2018 at 12:02 am | #

    In fairness, it’s basically impossible to say a name like “Billingsworth” without an English accent.

    I tried it while drinking a Coke once, and it turned into Earl Grey.

    • coru
      coru
      June 3, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

      It is a pretty damn English last name

    • Dean
      Dean
      June 3, 2018 at 12:25 am | #

      I tried it in France, and they made me leave the European Union.

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      June 3, 2018 at 5:43 am | #

      That, or in Doctor Evil’s voice

  3. King Daniel
    King Daniel
    June 3, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

    Think Billie might have a bit of an accent as well?

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      June 3, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

      Possibly but unlikely. You usually pick up an accent based on peers not your parents necessarily.

      And would it be some variety of English accent, some variety of Chinese accent, or a mix of one of each plus Hoosier.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        June 3, 2018 at 12:16 am | #

        I imagine she has my accent “Not from here”

      • wwwhhattt
        wwwhhattt
        June 3, 2018 at 1:04 am | #

        I’ve heard it varies unconsciously depending on who you’re talking to.
        i knew someone from an English family living in Scotland who sounded Scottish at university but who would pass for English when speaking to her family.

        • Yumi
          Yumi
          June 3, 2018 at 1:52 am | #

          I had a friend like that in high school. She had a sort of…unique voice, in that it was a mix of Michigan Midwestern and Indian already, because she was Michigan born and raised but was kind of isolated as a child, so she had more traces of an Indian accent than others in our school had. When she would talk to her parents on the phone, though, it would switch to a full-on Indian accent, which was kind of funny at times.

          Most of my other friends had immigrant parents at well, but they would tend to switch languages when talking to their parents on the phone, so it wasn’t exactly the same from the outside perspective.

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          June 3, 2018 at 2:40 pm | #

          Huh. Interesting!

          • Poofdepoof
            Poofdepoof
            June 3, 2018 at 6:58 pm | #

            Code-switching is cool! I think about it all the time.

            • BBCC
              BBCC
              June 4, 2018 at 12:00 am | #

              I have heard of code switching but only in the context of when you don’t share your regular accent or dialect for fear of mockery or abuse. I didn’t know switching your accent depending on who you speak to was apparently a common thing.

              • N0083rp00F
                N0083rp00F
                June 4, 2018 at 10:26 am | #

                Maybe not common but it does happen.
                I prefer to think of it as being a linguistic chameleon to avoid standing out.
                Unfortunately I seem to have a distinct Canadian accent when speaking German… according to my relatives across the pond anyway.

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      June 3, 2018 at 1:01 am | #

      My friend the linguistics professor reminds us all: everyone has an accent.

      When someone says someone else “doesn’t have an accent,” what they usually mean is that that other person has the same accent that they do.

      Since Billie grew up in the part of Indiana that borders on Kentucky, I’d guess that her accent is sort of Kentucky-ish, whatever that may be.

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        June 3, 2018 at 1:55 am | #

        I always say, “I don’t have an accent, I have a speech impediment,” even though, yeah, of course I have an accent. But usually people bring it up in a “where are you from” sort of way.

        I have responded to people saying, “You have an accent” with “So do you” in the past, which can really throw them off.

      • Savail
        Savail
        June 3, 2018 at 2:49 am | #

        Everyone may have an accent at any given point in time, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s consistent.

        Mine can vary in the same conversation depending on who I’m talking to. My spouse will abuse this by adopting an East Tennessee hillbilly accent because he knows it drives me up the wall when I start sounding like that.

  4. Josh
    Josh
    June 3, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

    That bowtie IS pretty dorky…

  5. Sol Karas
    Sol Karas
    June 3, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

    I love that face of Jason’s. It’s just… so great. There’s volumes of disapproval coming off that expression. I love it.

  6. Danni
    Danni
    June 3, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    thankfully jason was working today! hell be sensible and not give her drinks.

    • newllend(henryvolt)
      newllend(henryvolt)
      June 3, 2018 at 12:30 am | #

      Well certainly not around 9am in the damn morning.

      • Jason
        Jason
        June 3, 2018 at 3:22 am | #

        Not at all, I expect. I doubt he wants to lose two jobs in as many days.

        • geno
          geno
          June 3, 2018 at 2:21 pm | #

          He’s aware she is under aged.

  7. Jess
    Jess
    June 3, 2018 at 12:04 am | #

    One math TA, as requested.

  8. Yumi
    Yumi
    June 3, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    I’m impressed that he recognizes her enough to remember her full name. Big class, she seems to skip often, and she doesn’t even have a face tattoo.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      June 3, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

      Plot twist: he recognizes her because nearly everyone in that class has a face tattoo, so she stands out.

    • Jed!
      Jed!
      June 3, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

      Some universities will provide a photo database to instructors. As a TA, I use it to help with name-to-face association. For a large class, it’s especially useful for students who never come to class/recitation, since there’s that fear that a student nobody’s ever seen will get someone else to take the exam for them. (I’m sure people have done that before, though I’ve never heard of a specific case of it.)

      • CJ
        CJ
        June 3, 2018 at 2:53 am | #

        Don’t they card you for exams? With a photo-id?
        Oh, right, the US doesn’t have mandatory ID cards issued by the state.

        • Dellaran
          Dellaran
          June 3, 2018 at 3:15 am | #

          True, but pretty much every college/university issues photo ID cards to students. So yes, checking in for an exam with your ID is very common.

          • Victor
            Victor
            June 3, 2018 at 1:01 pm | #

            It is? I have no recollection of having to do that, and I went to a large state university.

            I think the only time my college ID ever got used was to check books out of the library, and for a few student discounts.

            • Yumi
              Yumi
              June 3, 2018 at 4:11 pm | #

              Did you take 100+ student classes? Most of my classes were under 30 students, so the professors knew us enough not to need to do that, but in some of my big psych 200-level courses, we had some tests where we showed TAs our IDs.

        • Jed!
          Jed!
          June 3, 2018 at 10:42 pm | #

          Depends on the size. I’ve been in a ~200 person lecture that did, but if it’s in the range of 50-80, usually not, but those classes will usually have a TA who should recognize the students by face.

    • jeffepp
      jeffepp
      June 3, 2018 at 12:11 am | #

      He has, in the past, hoped for the opportunity to… tutor her.

  9. Cattleprod
    Cattleprod
    June 3, 2018 at 12:05 am | #

    I like her commitment to insisting this is some stranger that she just ignores that he knows her name.

    • Nono
      Nono
      June 3, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

      We’ve already seen that Billie is acing denial.

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        June 3, 2018 at 12:13 am | #

        She’s so deep in denial, she bought a summer home in Egypt.

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          June 3, 2018 at 12:17 am | #

          Aswan heck of a place to settle, or so I’ve heard.

          • Marsh Maryrose
            Marsh Maryrose
            June 3, 2018 at 1:21 am | #

            It’s mostly a place for old Gizas to retire to.

            • 3oranges
              3oranges
              June 3, 2018 at 2:04 am | #

              My mom once had a chance to buy some property there, but I think it turned out to be a Ponzi scheme.

              • Fire_daws
                Fire_daws
                June 3, 2018 at 7:14 am | #

                It turns out that pyramid schemes are quite good in Egypt.

                • 3oranges
                  3oranges
                  June 3, 2018 at 11:39 am | #

                  Maybe. I still wouldn’t want to get involved in such a nefertarious scam.

                • King Daniel
                  King Daniel
                  June 3, 2018 at 3:19 pm | #

                  Now that’s what I call game, Set, and match.

        • Keulen
          Keulen
          June 3, 2018 at 12:51 am | #

          Billie should change her name to Cleopatra, because she’s the queen of denial.

  10. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    June 3, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    Billie is the cutest while making terrible decisions.

    Wait, does that mean redhead lady doesn’t card her? Maybe Galasso was tricked into making a good hiring decision.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      June 3, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

      Billie has a fake ID and all the info on it memorized.

      • K^2
        K^2
        June 3, 2018 at 2:08 am | #

        Question is, does Jason know her real age?

        • wwwhhattt
          wwwhhattt
          June 3, 2018 at 3:53 am | #

          He’d know her ID is fake, and would be able to work out that she wouldn’t have one if she didn’t need it.

    • chris73
      chris73
      June 3, 2018 at 12:13 am | #

      No this isn’t cute in the slightest

      • DailyBrad
        DailyBrad
        June 3, 2018 at 6:09 am | #

        I’m referring to her expressions, etc. I find her alcoholism more than a little heartbreaking, given it hits close to home and her youth, so I am not condoning it or making light of it here.

  11. BBCC
    BBCC
    June 3, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    Well thank god it’s not your math TA. I mean that’d just be awkward wouldn’t it?

    …This will not end well but it will be hilarious so I encourage it to proceed.

  12. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    June 3, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

    Denial. Sweet denial.

    • DarkoNeko
      DarkoNeko
      June 3, 2018 at 12:07 am | #

      Also, I choose to believe Jason is saying that like the Terminator’s “Sarah… Connor”

  13. Passchendaele
    Passchendaele
    June 3, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

    “but obviously he’d never be cool enough to get this job, so”

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      June 3, 2018 at 10:10 am | #

      I mean, just look at that bowtie, right?

  14. Agemegos
    Agemegos
    June 3, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

    Are they both cutting class?

    • Jed!
      Jed!
      June 3, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

      Jason was fired. You could say that class cut him.

      • Inahc
        Inahc
        June 3, 2018 at 12:14 am | #

        technically, not yet. … but skipping class sure ain’t gonna help his case.

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        June 3, 2018 at 12:14 am | #

        Technically he’s not been fired yet, but he has, IIRC, decided not to dispute any upcoming inquiry into his actions. Which would likely lead to his being fired.

        But in the meantime, he may well be cutting class. 😛

        • Inahc
          Inahc
          June 3, 2018 at 12:23 am | #

          jinx! 😉

        • Swissaboo
          Swissaboo
          June 3, 2018 at 1:59 am | #

          For maximum comedy i expect him to eventually get told “yeah we fond no actual evidence you fucked a student but also you stopped doing your job so you’re definitely fired for that.”

          • Miri
            Miri
            June 3, 2018 at 4:32 am | #

            Does arguing that he was asked to prove the impossible while aiding the case against him (bring the unnamed student you have been accused of sleeping with to give evidence that you weren’t sleeping with her or be fired) and that made a hostile working environment?

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              June 3, 2018 at 9:12 am | #

              Without more details it’s hard to be sure. It does seem like a Catch-22.

              It’s possible Penny gave them a description and described the events that made her suspicious, so if he could bring that student in to say “No, it really was just a long outside of normal office hours tutoring session”, he’d be fine.

              It really is just about the worst possible way to handle it – not only are they firing him based on an accusation from a decidedly not unbiased third party, but by putting the onus on him to contact the student he’s alleged been sleeping with, they’d be setting up a less scrupulous version of Jason to threaten or bribe her into clearing him.

              • Regalli
                Regalli
                June 3, 2018 at 3:26 pm | #

                Yeah, that is NOT how you would want an inquiry like that to be set up. On many, many levels.

  15. pjeseb
    pjeseb
    June 3, 2018 at 12:08 am | #

    Billie, you can’t order up a math T.A. here. This is a bar, not a brothel.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      June 3, 2018 at 12:16 am | #

      Nonono, a Math TA is a cocktail.

      It’s made from Kahlua, Clamato, Bud Light, a dash of tabasco, and garnished with a protractor.

      • Inahc
        Inahc
        June 3, 2018 at 12:18 am | #

        oh god, that sounds worse than a cement mixer.

        • Circeus
          Circeus
          June 3, 2018 at 12:29 am | #

          I’m sure Billie’s come up with worse recipes.

      • vlademir1
        vlademir1
        June 3, 2018 at 3:26 am | #

        I could see that almost working if, ya know, ya like the taste of cheladas with sweetened coffee…

  16. kay
    kay
    June 3, 2018 at 12:09 am | #

    No. She goes by Billie.

  17. Schpoonman
    Schpoonman
    June 3, 2018 at 12:10 am | #

    Oh thank god, someone who can really just shut her down here.

    Jason’s lines are immensely improved if read as voiced by Alan Rickman.

    Whoops! Now I’m sad.

    • pjeseb
      pjeseb
      June 3, 2018 at 12:28 am | #

      “Turn to page 394.”

      “But I didn’t bring my math–

      “Don’t. Lie. To me.”

      “…Shit.”

    • Bickendan
      Bickendan
      June 3, 2018 at 1:04 am | #

      Aww damn. What has been heard cannot be unheard.

      Also, too soon.
      Too soon 🙁

      • Schpoonman
        Schpoonman
        June 3, 2018 at 1:06 am | #

        It’s been two and a half years.

        • Fire_daws
          Fire_daws
          June 3, 2018 at 10:16 am | #

          Too. Soon.

    • complex
      complex
      June 3, 2018 at 4:50 pm | #

      Oh that is BRILLIANT!
      I’m rereading all the Jason strips now and this is fantastic.

  18. Dafydd
    Dafydd
    June 3, 2018 at 12:11 am | #

    You realize now some bartender’s going to invent a drink called the “Math T.A.”

    • No Name
      No Name
      June 3, 2018 at 12:38 am | #

      I’m pretty sure it actually exists already. It’s like rule 34, but for mixed drinks: if you an think it you can drink it!

      • Abel Undercity
        Abel Undercity
        June 3, 2018 at 7:13 am | #

        A quick Googling suggests not (though the second result about a TA in Iowa accidentally emailing homemade porn to their students sounds like it could be a DoA plotline). I think some enterprising mixologist has an opportunity here.

  19. Tacos
    Tacos
    June 3, 2018 at 12:15 am | #

    I’m not sure Jason can say anything to her. He got fired for doing the nasty with a student, is currently drunk and doesn’t actually work there, and also got an underage kid drunk sooo….

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      June 3, 2018 at 12:24 am | #

      Nah, by this point in the morning he’s hung over, and proooobably semi-hired by way of Galasso declaring he must be legit due to bow tie? Which is fishy and not how that works, but given he hired Becky on the spot and pays in cash, not necessarily the shadiest thing about Galasso’s Pizza And Subs.

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      June 3, 2018 at 12:26 am | #

      This is the next day, so I’d be pretty surprised if Jason’s drunk so early in the morning. Galasso has also employed him (or Galasso himself is under that impression, at least), and Jason has technically not yet been fired – especially since unless Penny’s been shouting it from the rooftops, Jason’s actions have still been mostly under wraps thus far.

      • Tacos
        Tacos
        June 3, 2018 at 1:34 am | #

        Forgot it was already the next day. Anyways Jason said he’s not gonna contest the allegations so he’s good enough counted already as fired.

    • Fart Captor
      Fart Captor
      June 3, 2018 at 12:28 am | #

      Sure, he’s got no right to judge, but he should still refuse to serve her, if only to keep his new job

    • Jago
      Jago
      June 3, 2018 at 7:18 am | #

      So letting Billie drink would make that streak of bad decisions better how?

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      June 3, 2018 at 10:14 am | #

      Willis usually adds drunkie-bubbles around the heads of drunk characters, so I can safely assume that Jason isn’t drunk. Hungover is a distinct possibility, though.

  20. Regalli
    Regalli
    June 3, 2018 at 12:18 am | #

    So: do we think Jason will care about her skipping class? Possible, especially if this is relatively early in her depression-alcohol slide combo. (Remember, Billie showed up in Walky’s bed in a clearly bad headspace before she hooked up with Ruth.) Depends entirely on how much Jason actually cares about his students as a whole. Will he serve her regardless? I doubt it, given he JUST got that job, but we never know. More importantly: Pretty sure Word of Willis is that Billie’s dad is a Brit, and we know he’s pretty wealthy either way. What are the odds Dargon and Billingsworth Sr. know each other somehow?

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      June 3, 2018 at 12:29 am | #

      Billie’s actually stated in-comic to Joyce that her father’s British; she’s also mentioned that her mother’s Chinese, which is presumably where she gets her middle name (Yunru) from.

      • Regalli
        Regalli
        June 3, 2018 at 3:29 pm | #

        Remembered her mother came up, couldn’t remember her dad and her tag’s too big to trawl for a mention like that late at night. (Especially since I couldn’t remember when it came up or who with.) Thanks!

    • CJ
      CJ
      June 3, 2018 at 2:50 am | #

      Huh, will those two actually bond over having rich parents?

      • DailyBrad
        DailyBrad
        June 3, 2018 at 6:14 am | #

        Given both of them really don’t like their dads very much, shit, they might.
        Also both have an affinity for Walky, in spite of themselves.
        Lastly, they could also bond over how both of them have hit on Sal, but I don’t even know if Billie remembers doing that.

  21. Harvest Time
    Harvest Time
    June 3, 2018 at 12:29 am | #

    Oh jeez, this is way to early to be worried about this, but I’m gonna be pissed these two make passes at each other. Jason’s exactly the kind of emotionally unavailable type that Billie would go for.

  22. Keulen
    Keulen
    June 3, 2018 at 12:50 am | #

    Are we sure Billie’s not already drunk? She doesn’t appear to realize that Jason is her math TA and not some random guy who looks and sounds just like him. Or maybe she’s just that in denial.

    • Jago
      Jago
      June 3, 2018 at 7:18 am | #

      No, that’s typical for her… sometimes she doesn’t get obvious things.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      June 3, 2018 at 9:17 am | #

      Context. See someone out of the context you know them in and it’s easy to not recognize them – especially if you don’t know them well and mostly think of them as their job function.

      Besides, it can’t be her Math TA. He’s obviously in the Math class that she’s skipping right now.

  23. Romanticide
    Romanticide
    June 3, 2018 at 12:51 am | #

    I am honestly glad Jason is working the bar right of this moment.

    • stoodmuffin
      stoodmuffin
      June 3, 2018 at 12:58 am | #

      Agreed

  24. CrazyJ
    CrazyJ
    June 3, 2018 at 12:54 am | #

    Fools! Galasso was not given a tag.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      June 3, 2018 at 10:17 am | #

      It’s been fixed.

  25. stoodmuffin
    stoodmuffin
    June 3, 2018 at 12:57 am | #

    Man, how does Willis walk a character from one story line to another with such ease and my brain still puts two and two together the very strip he does it.

    He’ll telegraph a move and I will STILL miss it.

    • Bickendan
      Bickendan
      June 3, 2018 at 1:06 am | #

      That’s because Willis less telegraphed the move and teleported it instead.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      June 4, 2018 at 12:02 am | #

      Dude’s been doing this a long-ass time, so I guess it’s experience.

  26. Axel
    Axel
    June 3, 2018 at 1:12 am | #

    I mean he doesn’t know her age for sure. People take gap years and whatever.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      June 3, 2018 at 1:35 am | #

      And like people in higher years can take classes lower than their average level. I had fourth years in freshman classes in both high school and university because they hadn’t gotten the needed credits yet.

  27. brasca1
    brasca1
    June 3, 2018 at 1:26 am | #

    Methinks someone’s fake ID isn’t going to pass.

  28. Bagge
    Bagge
    June 3, 2018 at 1:34 am | #

    Funny thing is… sneaking away from class, suddenly being confronted by your TA… your MATH TA… that’s WALKY’S nightmare.

  29. chris73
    chris73
    June 3, 2018 at 1:46 am | #

    Quite like how this is playing out, Billie being all “cutesy” in this and the last strip yet its about alcoholism so when the inevitable crash comes it’ll be even more entertaining

    DOA” Come for the drama…stay for the drama

    • Eldritch Gentleman
      Eldritch Gentleman
      June 3, 2018 at 2:43 am | #

      It’s the kind of bizarre dissonance I got from the Dragon Maid anime when I realized that Kobayashi was basically a functional alcoholic…

  30. Koms
    Koms
    June 3, 2018 at 1:59 am | #

    I think Billie looks cute in panel 4.

    • Koms
      Koms
      June 3, 2018 at 2:01 am | #

      I meant panel 2.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        June 3, 2018 at 7:28 am | #

        Why not both?

        • Koms
          Koms
          June 4, 2018 at 12:11 am | #

          All panels. Mr. Willis draws such cute characters.

  31. Lingo
    Lingo
    June 3, 2018 at 2:27 am | #

    The sad thing is that it would be a totally reasonable thing for a university teaching assistant to have a second job … that is, if the university didn’t take away your assistantship for having a second job.

  32. BenRG
    BenRG
    June 3, 2018 at 2:49 am | #

    I think that Jason is going to thoroughly ruin Billie’s drinking experience. She’ll leave Galasso’s in such a discomforted mood that Galasso will promote Jason on the spot for making her ‘quiver’.

  33. Rukdug
    Rukdug
    June 3, 2018 at 3:13 am | #

    You know, given that the bar is inside the restaurant and us secondary to the restaurant, it might be part of Jason’s new job to card the people he’s about to serve if he suspects them of being under the legal drinking age. What happens next in this situation may well depend on Jason’s ability to discern between a fake and real American ID.

    • Eldritch Gentleman
      Eldritch Gentleman
      June 3, 2018 at 4:13 am | #

      To be fair, he knows her and he knows her age so that will just end in trouble for Billie.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        June 3, 2018 at 4:28 pm | #

        How would he know her age? Do US school IDs have birth dates on them?

        • SpookyFox
          SpookyFox
          June 3, 2018 at 5:24 pm | #

          Freshmen are typically not 21+

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            June 4, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

            Does he know for sure she’s a freshman? She’s in a freshman class but in university that can mean exactly diddly. I’ve had so many classes where people were ‘above’ or ‘below’ the class level. Same in high school.

        • Smooti
          Smooti
          June 3, 2018 at 5:45 pm | #

          Well, he teaches freshmen, and while not every freshman is the same age, he knows she was classmates with Walky and Sal, whose ages I think he DOES know.

        • Yumi
          Yumi
          June 3, 2018 at 6:03 pm | #

          Not IDs, in my experience, but professors and TAs (at my school, anyway) do have access to student profiles with basic information like name, preferred name, picture, birth date, and major.

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            June 4, 2018 at 12:03 am | #

            That would make sense if it were the case.

            • Roborat
              Roborat
              June 4, 2018 at 3:27 pm | #

              Don’t forget, it is a fake ID, it likely doesn’t have her real name on it.

  34. Renshear Blade
    Renshear Blade
    June 3, 2018 at 4:42 am | #

    I’ll make you quiver, when I deliver….

    Galasso’s Pizza and subs! score!

  35. GeorgeV
    GeorgeV
    June 3, 2018 at 4:45 am | #

    Already he inspires terror in his customers. Galasso’s truly is a perfect fit for Jason.

  36. ninja_jesus
    ninja_jesus
    June 3, 2018 at 5:33 am | #

    Called it!

  37. Arianod
    Arianod
    June 3, 2018 at 7:04 am | #

    “Since when are you a bartender?”
    “Since when are you drinking age?”

  38. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    June 3, 2018 at 12:46 pm | #

    And I want a sexy female biology professor, Billie, but we can just dream.

  39. nightshade
    nightshade
    June 3, 2018 at 6:54 pm | #

    Id still like official confirmation that hes fired or what ever ….you’d think they’d be looking for him if he was …….

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