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September 28, 2023

Nothingburger

by David M Willis on January 19, 2020 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - To Remind You of My Love

└ Tags: beatrice, jennifer, lucy, nash, rose, ruth

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    January 19, 2020 at 12:01 am | #

    they can smell shenanigans

    • He Who Abides
      He Who Abides
      January 19, 2020 at 1:01 am | #

      Welcome back.

      • Clif
        Clif
        January 19, 2020 at 1:16 am | #

        The world can return to its proper axis, which ie somehow comforting.

    • Whitt
      Whitt
      January 19, 2020 at 2:14 pm | #

      So is Ana Chronistic Willis’ spouse or something?

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        January 19, 2020 at 6:42 pm | #

        Ana Chronistic, Jen Aside, and Sue Aside are all aspects of one who has discovered how to transcend the laws of time, but uses this knowledge for the sole purpose of being first in webcomic comment sections.

        • Jon Rich
          Jon Rich
          January 19, 2020 at 9:51 pm | #

          And making name puns.

          • He Who Abides
            He Who Abides
            January 19, 2020 at 10:33 pm | #

            I’m waiting for her fourth identical twin cousin Misty Meanor to show up.

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      January 20, 2020 at 3:37 pm | #

      Probably just the vomit.

  2. Slartibeast Button, BIA
    Slartibeast Button, BIA
    January 19, 2020 at 12:04 am | #

    So, no pillar of salt upcoming?

    • bryy
      bryy
      January 19, 2020 at 12:10 am | #

      Considering all the different storylines are happening at the same time(?), I’d wager we have at least another week.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      January 19, 2020 at 12:37 am | #

      SOMEONE’s gotta be salty about Mike’s death, right?

      …. right?

      • Dana
        Dana
        January 19, 2020 at 12:57 am | #

        Too soon. Or not soon enough?

        • Felix
          Felix
          January 19, 2020 at 1:06 am | #

          Both. And neither.

          • Clif
            Clif
            January 19, 2020 at 1:14 am | #

            Mike who?

            • Charlie Spencer
              Charlie Spencer
              January 19, 2020 at 6:29 am | #

              I hope that’s explained while I still remember who he is / was.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        January 19, 2020 at 9:36 am | #

        We don’t know he’s dead yet.

        Maybe when he hit the ground he just lost all his nickels, like Sonic losing his rings.

        • HMH
          HMH
          January 19, 2020 at 8:20 pm | #

          Well, at least now we understand his ceaseless quest to fuck every mother.

    • Charles Phipps
      Charles Phipps
      January 19, 2020 at 1:36 am | #

      I find it kind of bizarre both our minds went to Sodom and Gomorrah.

      • Kamino Neko
        Kamino Neko
        January 19, 2020 at 1:59 am | #

        It was obviously intentional – check the alt text.

      • Jim
        Jim
        January 19, 2020 at 9:25 am | #

        The obvious difference is that I doubt the women of the floor intend to inflict violence on Ruth, as the men in Genesis 19 intended on Lot’s guests…

    • Dave
      Dave
      January 19, 2020 at 1:48 am | #

      I, too, went immediately to Sodom and Gomorrah.

    • ReFlex76
      ReFlex76
      January 19, 2020 at 2:39 am | #

      I’m pretty sure the Ruth in The Bible comes from a different book.

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        January 19, 2020 at 10:44 am | #

        The Book of R.A.s?

  3. Passchendaele
    Passchendaele
    January 19, 2020 at 12:04 am | #

    they demand a sacrifice

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      January 19, 2020 at 12:09 am | #

      Worst gender-flipped Three Wise Men update ever.

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        January 19, 2020 at 8:51 am | #

        If they offer Ruth gifts, then I’ll buy it. They don’t even have to be gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

        • Ryek Hvek
          Ryek Hvek
          January 19, 2020 at 9:34 am | #

          Acapulco Gold, Frank’n’Beans, and Myrrth

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            January 19, 2020 at 9:44 am | #

            A gold medallion, franincense shampoo, and a Nintendo DS.

  4. Suet
    Suet
    January 19, 2020 at 12:04 am | #

    Whattaburger? Nothingburger.

    When you say, “stuffed in their rooms“, I say, prime time to hear things from other rooms.

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      January 19, 2020 at 11:02 am | #

      “Stuffed in their rooms” is different than “getting stuffed in their rooms”.
      And I know — shame on me for saying that.

  5. Agemegos
    Agemegos
    January 19, 2020 at 12:07 am | #

    Yeah, but Lucy is creepy.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      January 19, 2020 at 2:28 am | #

      I find Beatrice, Nash, and Rose far more creepy at this point. They’re way too obsessed with anything involving Billie.

      • HMH
        HMH
        January 19, 2020 at 8:21 pm | #

        I think it’s partially that we have less context for them, though. I don’t feel like I intuitively know who these people are yet, even though they’re characters I’m sure I’ve seen, so they still don’t feel human and so like, I’m not really judging their behavior on that level yet, in a rational sense.

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      January 19, 2020 at 2:32 am | #

      The entire frigging quad is creepy. (Except maybe their RA…she hasn’t showed up enough to say anything.)

      • Freemage
        Freemage
        January 19, 2020 at 2:53 pm | #

        Zaph seems pretty chill.

        • Kamino Neko
          Kamino Neko
          January 19, 2020 at 7:13 pm | #

          Oh, yeah, he exists, too. And he’s not here, so he’s provisionally on the ‘not creepy’ list.

  6. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    January 19, 2020 at 12:07 am | #

    Derber Or Nothing

    I’d make a reference to the current Twitter feud between BK and Wendy’s but that sounds like work.

  7. NF
    NF
    January 19, 2020 at 12:07 am | #

    “Quick Ruth, out the window!”

    • Clif
      Clif
      January 19, 2020 at 1:20 am | #

      Close. “Quick, I need you to leave out the window.”
      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/fuckup/

  8. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    January 19, 2020 at 12:08 am | #

    Oh ho ho ho! How unfortunate!…For Billie that is. This is probably the best day ever for everyone else.

  9. miri
    miri
    January 19, 2020 at 12:12 am | #

    … Has Lucy been tweeting or did she message the floor group chat?

    Also if “Bring us the girl! Present her to us now!” isn’t a line in a horror movie it should be.

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      January 19, 2020 at 12:14 am | #

      “Surrender Not-Dorothy”.

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      January 19, 2020 at 12:20 am | #

      Genesis 19:5 springs to mind.

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        January 20, 2020 at 3:49 pm | #

        Not familiar with that album, but then again, not a big fan of the band, what is the 5th song about?

    • abysswatcher1993
      abysswatcher1993
      January 19, 2020 at 1:13 am | #

      Brings us the girl and the debt will be paid.

      Booker Dewitt has many regrets.

      • abysswatcher1993
        abysswatcher1993
        January 19, 2020 at 1:15 am | #

        wipe away the debt.

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        January 19, 2020 at 6:34 am | #

        Remember when Bioshock Infinite ripped off The Magician’s Nephew and nobody seemed to notice? That was a weird sort of game.

        • Deathjavu
          Deathjavu
          January 19, 2020 at 9:45 am | #

          *pulls The Magician’s Nephew off the shelf*

          *boots up Bioshock Infinite*

          ….sorry, I don’t see it.

  10. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    January 19, 2020 at 12:13 am | #

    “We are here to collect lesbians for the Lesbian God”

    • abysswatcher1993
      abysswatcher1993
      January 19, 2020 at 1:24 am | #

      Lesbians for the lesbian god! Bisexuals for the bisexual throne!

      • jmsr7
        jmsr7
        January 19, 2020 at 2:25 am | #

        Lesbians and Bisexuals for the throne of Khorne Slaanesh!

        …that sounds like a fun throne room… >:P

        • Arianod
          Arianod
          January 19, 2020 at 5:42 am | #

          You can’t spell “Slaanesh” without FUN.

          (Chaos names are weird and don’t follow the rules of the grammatical universe)

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      January 19, 2020 at 6:23 am | #

      Appropriate Opal is appropriate.

      • Lieutenant Dan
        Lieutenant Dan
        January 19, 2020 at 8:57 am | #

        Opal is always appropriate. #hopalforopal

  11. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    January 19, 2020 at 12:15 am | #

    Six characters, all with glasses: Is this a DofA record?

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      January 19, 2020 at 12:22 am | #

      It’s a Glasses-Wearing Convention

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        January 19, 2020 at 1:00 am | #

        We’re allllllllllll wearin’ glasses.

        (A callback to a strip with four in glasses, if we count Beef.)

    • Ryek Hvek
      Ryek Hvek
      January 19, 2020 at 10:01 am | #

      Frivolesque is invading DOA

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      January 19, 2020 at 11:05 am | #

      It means that people in Indiana must not be getting enough vitamin A.

    • davidbreslin101
      davidbreslin101
      January 19, 2020 at 2:03 pm | #

      I’m having flashbacks to “Narbonic,” where pretty much everyone except the gerbil wore glasses. In several scenes, cloned, bodyswapped and otherwise duplicated people could be told apart mainly because of their taste in eyewear…

      • John
        John
        January 19, 2020 at 6:33 pm | #

        One of the things that really impresses me about Shaenon’s art is that there were scenes in Narbonic where the differences in eyewear weren’t necessary, because nominally identical characters were distinguishable by the way they stood.

  12. Dave Van Domelen
    Dave Van Domelen
    January 19, 2020 at 12:16 am | #

    No angels in that room.

    • Arianod
      Arianod
      January 19, 2020 at 5:41 am | #

      These are not the angels you’re looking for.

    • drs
      drs
      January 19, 2020 at 4:17 pm | #

      Lucy?

  13. BBCC
    BBCC
    January 19, 2020 at 12:24 am | #

    Ah, I see where Billie went wrong – she’s still thinking of this as a normal dorm with normal people.

  14. Bagge
    Bagge
    January 19, 2020 at 12:43 am | #

    PREEEEEEEESENT HEEEEEEER!

  15. He Who Abides
    He Who Abides
    January 19, 2020 at 1:10 am | #

    So, this must be the dorm where they put all the women who think lesbians/bisexuals are hiding with the unicorns, huh?

    Also, and completely unrelated, but I’ve been wondering since a joke I made yesterday. Who’s on Willis’ “They Died Between Universes, Fuck ‘Em” list? I know Ninja Rick and Guns don’t exist here, and I’m pretty sure that they’re hanging out in Limbo with Wen and Whitney McJority, but is there anyone else confirmed/strongly suspected to never show up?

    • abysswatcher1993
      abysswatcher1993
      January 19, 2020 at 1:17 am | #

      Hooper is still not appearing and will probably not appear.

      • Kamino Neko
        Kamino Neko
        January 19, 2020 at 1:24 am | #

        Aren’t all characters based on real people except Alex and Maggie off the table? So that’d take out Hoop’s entire squad.

        • abysswatcher1993
          abysswatcher1993
          January 19, 2020 at 1:26 am | #

          Oh god! Faz’s girlfriend could appear!

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            January 19, 2020 at 9:53 am | #

            Professor Doc also hasn’t appeared yet. I like to think he’s a chemistry professor, and looks (or at least sounds like) like Christopher Lloyd. His class started calling him “Doc” after BTTF debuted and the nickname stuck. Now nobody remembers what his name actually is.

            We’ve barely seen Alan.

            We’re also not going to see any of the future kids or second-generation characters like Donna, unless they’re incorporated as independent characters. Even if they were conceived now, at the comic’s current pace they won’t be due for decades.

            Joyce had a couple extra older siblings in the old continuity, IIRC.

            • John
              John
              January 19, 2020 at 6:35 pm | #

              Technically, Carla is one of the second-generation characters. I still think it’s weird her having parents who aren’t Joe and Rachel.

              • Needfuldoer
                Needfuldoer
                January 19, 2020 at 6:43 pm | #

                I think she gets a pass as one of the oldest characters.

    • Charles Phipps
      Charles Phipps
      January 19, 2020 at 1:37 am | #

      The important thing is to realize Billie can’t be in a committed loving relationship or it would destroy her rep.

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      January 19, 2020 at 2:54 am | #

      While he hasn’t actually appeared in-universe (yet!), I think Ninja Rick was at least being alluded to here.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        January 19, 2020 at 3:19 am | #

        I doubt he’ll ever appear in ‘person’ because he’s directly based on a real person, but I believe that was the implication, yes.

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          January 19, 2020 at 5:26 pm | #

          The hovertext then implies that Ninja Rick is another one of Galasso’s megalomaniacal fantasies in this ‘verse, as it has Conquest reminding her father – again – that Galasso’s Pizza (and Subs) has not employed any ninja.

    • Sam
      Sam
      January 19, 2020 at 8:44 am | #

      Any character he based off a real person in previous comic universes has a 99.9% chance of not appearing ever again.

      • Jhon
        Jhon
        January 19, 2020 at 10:37 am | #

        Alex.

        • Bicycle Bill
          Bicycle Bill
          January 19, 2020 at 11:08 am | #

          Jhon, your avatar always makes me think you’re pointing up and referring to a comment that precedes yours.

          • Norah
            Norah
            January 20, 2020 at 10:33 am | #

            It was actually appropriate here!

  16. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    January 19, 2020 at 1:12 am | #

    Billie, you forgot about your fan club.

  17. BarerMender
    BarerMender
    January 19, 2020 at 1:28 am | #

    Ah, Ruth? It’s feeding time at the zoo. Put on that A1 Sauce perfume I like so much.

  18. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    January 19, 2020 at 1:35 am | #

    SHOW US YOUR GUEST SO WE MIGHT KNOW THEM!

    *Willis smites Forrest Quad and Lucy becomes a pillar of salt*

    Okay, that was channeling a bit too much old Joyce in my references.

    • Arianod
      Arianod
      January 19, 2020 at 5:38 am | #

      OK, but imagine that Genesis 19 had really gone like that: all the people of Sodom gathered before Lot’s house, squeeing and giggling at the hot strangers that had arrived the night before.

  19. Jay
    Jay
    January 19, 2020 at 1:45 am | #

    Jesus Christ I’d murder someone if I was in Ruth’s position lmao

    • DarkoNeko
      DarkoNeko
      January 19, 2020 at 6:23 am | #

      there’s a reason she used to rip femurs out of people

  20. Shane Wegner
    Shane Wegner
    January 19, 2020 at 2:18 am | #

    I don’t think Billie has started the actual counseling and rehabilitation part of her recovery, maybe talked about thinking about scheduling it. But if she did, I feel like rebasing her self esteem on something besides the mob style adoration of people she barely knows or cares about would be one of the To Do items.

    Priorities-
    Does Ruth have a little bit of barf on her shirt and can she borrow a clean one?
    What will the fan club think of Ruth? Will they be impressed Billie seduced an upper classman and an RA at that?
    Is Mike alive or maybe being slowly tortured somewhere?
    Which borrowed shirt will Ruth pick?? Wardrobe surprises possible!

    • Sam
      Sam
      January 19, 2020 at 8:40 am | #

      We already know the answer to the third question which is that they were impressed by Billie ‘seducing’ an RA like that because they are weird and creepy.

      • Shane Wegner
        Shane Wegner
        January 19, 2020 at 10:58 am | #

        Yes! We got to 2/4 things on the list in this strip. Who knows what whacky shirt Ruth will wear. I guess that cliff hangar will have to wait until tomorrow though.

        • showler
          showler
          January 19, 2020 at 1:54 pm | #

          I’m hoping she picks one of Lucy’s outfits instead of one of Billie’s. Something fun.

  21. Keulen
    Keulen
    January 19, 2020 at 2:32 am | #

    DoA Book 10: Present Her To Us, Now!

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      January 19, 2020 at 3:14 am | #

      “Present her to us now” is the nth instance of Willis’s ability to produce dialog that sounds like it came straight out of the Old Testament but is in fact original with Willis.

      • Bicycle Bill
        Bicycle Bill
        January 19, 2020 at 11:10 am | #

        As someone else pointed out, see Genesis 19:5.  Depending on the translation, how much closer can you get?

        • Kamino Neko
          Kamino Neko
          January 19, 2020 at 9:32 pm | #

          Well, it would be closer if they were demanding to have their way with Ruth.

  22. ReFlex76
    ReFlex76
    January 19, 2020 at 2:38 am | #

    I mean, there *is* a famous Ruth in the Bible.

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      January 19, 2020 at 2:56 am | #

      There’s also a famous Rahab.  So what’s your point?

      • JBento
        JBento
        January 19, 2020 at 3:25 pm | #

        There’s also a famous Ahab, but that’s from a different book.

  23. Delicious Taffy
    Delicious Taffy
    January 19, 2020 at 4:02 am | #

    These creepy locusts are completely insufferable. How does anyone live like that?

    • Charlotte
      Charlotte
      January 19, 2020 at 8:16 am | #

      Hah, I just commented the same thing further down…

  24. Josh Spicer
    Josh Spicer
    January 19, 2020 at 4:09 am | #

    Guys this is fucking weird.

  25. Jago
    Jago
    January 19, 2020 at 4:32 am | #

    I’d hate that.

  26. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    January 19, 2020 at 6:22 am | #

    Genesis 19 *opens duckduckgo* Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed uh

  27. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    January 19, 2020 at 7:28 am | #

    HOORAY! Finally Billie is in a situation where she can’t retreat. If she does it, with Ruth it’s over. I really want to see what she will do.

    • Daibhid C
      Daibhid C
      January 19, 2020 at 9:03 am | #

      “Ruth, the weirdos on my floor want you to be ‘presented’ to them.”
      “Tell them to mind their own f*ckin’ business.”
      “Was planning to.”
      [Door slam]

      • Rabisch
        Rabisch
        January 19, 2020 at 3:35 pm | #

        Not bad at all…

  28. LibertyRazor
    LibertyRazor
    January 19, 2020 at 8:09 am | #

    It’s not Genesis 19 until they start demanding for her to let them have their way with Ruth.

    • Andrew_C
      Andrew_C
      January 19, 2020 at 8:55 am | #

      I was just about to mention that.

    • John
      John
      January 19, 2020 at 6:40 pm | #

      But Billie will be saved from the destruction of Forrest Quad because she offers them Lucy instead.

      (Yeah, Genesis 19 was one I know because I had it bookmarked to bring up with the street preachers when I was in high school in the Bible Belt…)

  29. Charlotte
    Charlotte
    January 19, 2020 at 8:15 am | #

    I find the people on this floor (except Lucy) absolutely insufferable!
    I know that Malaya transferred because of Lucy, but it feels more and more like she’s dodged a bullet when it comes to the rest of them.

  30. JBento
    JBento
    January 19, 2020 at 8:32 am | #

    Malaya was clearly the least annoying person in Forest Quad. It’s true, but yet SO WEIRD.

    • JBento
      JBento
      January 19, 2020 at 8:35 am | #

      Billie’s response should be “Or the entirety of you can fuck right off. Yeah, let’s go with that.”.

      • Rabisch
        Rabisch
        January 19, 2020 at 3:37 pm | #

        I start to feel sorry thinking about Malaya forced to live there.

  31. Cathy Garrett
    Cathy Garrett
    January 19, 2020 at 9:44 am | #

    Bring them out that we may know them.

  32. Falcon
    Falcon
    January 19, 2020 at 10:19 am | #

    I guess we’ll see how far Billie leans into her own self-destructive tendencies or if she somehow manages to handle the crowd without hurting Ruth.

  33. David T. Shaw
    David T. Shaw
    January 19, 2020 at 10:44 am | #

    Is it just me, or do Ruth’s body freckles make it look like she has chicken pox?

  34. Heather
    Heather
    January 19, 2020 at 11:31 am | #

    Okay so I know everyone (plus Billie) found Lucy off putting for a bit but considering how her floor acts she actually is kind of a miracle because she could be far worse. It’s maybe like Joyce: she’s been entrenched in a weird/toxic ‘society’ for some time that it’s almost a miracle she was as good a person as she was to eventually start to overcome it. I mean it’s only been a couple of months but for Lucy who’s been perhaps subjected to the stereotypical high school experience of the populars plus now all this has no idea what normal is.

    And I mean she’s probably escaped to online fandom a lot and we all know how bizarre that can be. Sometimes how it challenges norms is harmless or a good thing. Sometimes not. It’s all a crapshoot.

  35. CJ
    CJ
    January 19, 2020 at 11:48 am | #

    Privacy seems to be a concept Forrest quad has left behind.

  36. Chrissy
    Chrissy
    January 19, 2020 at 12:05 pm | #

    Whose vomit?

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      January 19, 2020 at 1:32 pm | #

      Billie’s, we can assume. She’s been in bad shape from quitting booze.

  37. bcb
    bcb
    January 19, 2020 at 12:34 pm | #

    C’mon Billie! You thrive off of drama (see today’s J&W page). Shouldn’t you know that saying something like “it’s gonna be a total nothing burger” insures that it won’t be?

  38. Slartibeast Button, BIA
    Slartibeast Button, BIA
    January 19, 2020 at 2:45 pm | #

    No Billie, Bisexual Invisibility is a Disadvantage not an Advantage. It only works when you don’t want it to.

  39. Derek
    Derek
    January 19, 2020 at 4:34 pm | #

    oh boy, we’re back to my least favourite dormitory, where everyone acts like pod people

  40. Felian
    Felian
    January 19, 2020 at 7:17 pm | #

    i have no nerve for Billie and Ruth when all i really want is to go back to the Mike cliffhanger that isn’t even a cliffhanger because Mike already fell off the cliff…!

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