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August 1, 2023

In-and-out

by David M Willis on August 23, 2020 at 12:01 am
  • 04 - Is a Song Forever?

└ Tags: jennifer, nash, rose, ruth

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    August 23, 2020 at 12:03 am | #

    Social media never forgets

    Not so with social media consumers!

  2. kgy121
    kgy121
    August 23, 2020 at 12:04 am | #

    Cults can forgive anything. *looks at united states*

    • clif
      clif
      August 23, 2020 at 12:59 pm | #

      Yep, we’re well known for our forgiveness. Just look at how we forgave Japan towards the end of World War II.

      Oh, you mean cults of personality. Yep, just look at how we forgave Joe McCarthy.

      If you’re talking about current cults, I figure it will be just the same. After they’re gone there won’t be a single supporter or ex-supporter to be found anywhere. And almost as many that fought against it from the inside as there were in the French Resistance.

      We’re well known for our forgiveness.

      • C.T Phipps
        C.T Phipps
        August 23, 2020 at 4:36 pm | #

        Ann Coulter wrote a book about how wronged Joseph McCarthy was.

        You’d be wrong to think that demagogues don’t maintain supporters.

        Televangelists like Baker are a perfect example.

      • James
        James
        August 23, 2020 at 11:45 pm | #

        The better example of cultlike behavior was the treatment of Japanese American citizens during WWII by the government and society at large, which many people still insist was perfectly fine rather than what it actually was, which was horrific and racist.

  3. Chris
    Chris
    August 23, 2020 at 12:05 am | #

    Maybe they actually like her? Nah, couldn’t be.

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      August 23, 2020 at 12:45 am | #

      Perhaps they think she has at least a few good qualities in addition to her clearly intense Mental Health Shit She’s Going Through, and want to know her better even if that means she’s not perfect?… Naaaaah.

      Realtalk though it is a bit sad that both Billie and Ruth are so used to thinking so little of themselves (never forget that this relationship truly started with ‘we’re both poison. We can touch each other’ and Billie was the one saying it) that they seem to assume Decent Normal People knowing about their worst moments definitely means they’re totally rejected, by everyone, always. Ruth’s reputation in the hall still isn’t great because of her past RAing (and a nonzero amount of her present, to be frank,) but we’ve also seen people express actual concern for her, too. And Billie’s clearly a mess, but that doesn’t mean they might not want to know about her secret nerddom and such.

      Or, this being Forrest Quad, that they haven’t all decided that since she clearly needs Help and Love and Support, they will provide all of these things in spades! Their niceness hivemind is strong.

    • GeekRyuu
      GeekRyuu
      August 23, 2020 at 10:26 pm | #

      I’m guessing mind control.

  4. Cmasta1992
    Cmasta1992
    August 23, 2020 at 12:09 am | #

    It’s too bad their only character trait is being interested in Billie. Pretty low tier character to obsess over

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      August 23, 2020 at 12:11 am | #

      Ironic Gravatar Strikes Again.

      • clif
        clif
        August 23, 2020 at 1:36 am | #

        We must find the cure for Ironic Gravatar Syndrome.

        Is there an entry in Tropes yet?

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          August 23, 2020 at 10:01 am | #

          Clearly caused by irony deficiency. Consume lots of meat, leafy greens (heheh, Leafs), and online comics. Should fix ya right up.

        • Ana Chronistic
          Ana Chronistic
          August 23, 2020 at 1:36 pm | #

          I’d say the cure is actually assign yourself your own gravatar but I’m sure it could be accidentally ironic even if you chose something like the Twitter egg

          • Leorale
            Leorale
            August 23, 2020 at 3:00 pm | #

            He’s a good egg.

          • Regalli
            Regalli
            August 23, 2020 at 9:45 pm | #

            But sometimes they’re also extremely fitting! (Ah, sweet AmeWhut.)

    • StClair
      StClair
      August 23, 2020 at 3:23 am | #

      It could be worse, they could all be inexplicably obsessed with Roomies Danny.

    • Michael L
      Michael L
      August 23, 2020 at 8:30 am | #

      Hard disagree about Billie’s tier.

  5. BBCC
    BBCC
    August 23, 2020 at 12:11 am | #

    That WOULD explain a lot.

    • Kyrik Michalowski
      Kyrik Michalowski
      August 23, 2020 at 12:15 am | #

      When in doubt, assume there is a time loop involved, 9 times out of 10 you’ll be right.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        August 23, 2020 at 12:20 am | #

        Only because that one guy in a time loop was right 101,374 times in a row, which threw off the statistics!

        • Proxiehunter
          Proxiehunter
          August 23, 2020 at 12:24 am | #

          Time loop Georg is an outlier and should not have been counted.

          • StClair
            StClair
            August 23, 2020 at 3:24 am | #

            Time loop Georg is an outlier and…
            I have the weirdest feeling of deja vu.

      • Geneseepaws
        Geneseepaws
        August 23, 2020 at 12:41 am | #

        Glad to see that you are right. …again. Again.

      • Slartibeast Button, BIA
        Slartibeast Button, BIA
        August 23, 2020 at 6:33 pm | #

        I saw that anime. The trick is to make the one with the Reality Distortion Power do her homework.

    • Stephen Bierce
      Stephen Bierce
      August 23, 2020 at 12:36 am | #

      *resists the urge to play from the Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack*

      • He Who Abides
        He Who Abides
        August 23, 2020 at 12:50 am | #

        Resistance, as they say, is futile.

        • Stanistani
          Stanistani
          August 23, 2020 at 3:12 am | #

          Ω mani padme Ω.

      • AbelUndercity
        AbelUndercity
        August 23, 2020 at 6:55 am | #

        But obviously the perfect tune here is “I Got You, Babe.”

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          August 23, 2020 at 10:04 am | #

          “Be sure to put on your booties, little campers….

          It’s COLD out there!”

  6. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    August 23, 2020 at 12:13 am | #

    I’m actually surprised, I would have expected them to just not acknowledge her. Maybe what’s-her-face talked to them and smoothed things out? I suppose they could just like her now without worshipping her, which would be a nice change of pace.

    • SpookyFox
      SpookyFox
      August 23, 2020 at 12:29 am | #

      well now she’s friends with people who got kidnapped! what’s cooler than that???

    • Redcat
      Redcat
      August 23, 2020 at 9:34 am | #

      Lucy?

  7. Cholma
    Cholma
    August 23, 2020 at 12:15 am | #

    Hand-to-Hand contact?! No, Nash, No! Oh, right, this isn’t Earth-Prime; no COVID to worry about. Lucky bastards.

    • Paradoxius
      Paradoxius
      August 23, 2020 at 12:47 am | #

      Unless a whole lot of stuff changes really really quickly, in about two months, the real-life calendar date will pass the DOA in-universe calendar date for the tenth time, and it will be the first time it’s happened that the strip that day could not have plausibly occurred on the day it was published.

    • He Who Abides
      He Who Abides
      August 23, 2020 at 12:50 am | #

      Earth-Prime has worse things to worry about than COVID. Specifically, Superman-Baby Prime.

      • Tyler Durham
        Tyler Durham
        August 23, 2020 at 3:24 am | #

        Yeah. Ignore him too long he’ll punch reality.

    • Miles
      Miles
      August 23, 2020 at 11:37 am | #

      They’ve all been touching the same doorknobs. It’s fine. The fact that they’re all super close to each other and not wearing masks is less fine.

  8. JetstreamGW
    JetstreamGW
    August 23, 2020 at 12:24 am | #

    Jeeze. Ego. They just don’t care that much anymore 😛

    • Cyrus
      Cyrus
      August 23, 2020 at 2:53 am | #

      I need a time check. The whole DUI reveal thing happened, when, yesterday? Two days ago?

      • JetstreamGW
        JetstreamGW
        August 23, 2020 at 10:19 pm | #

        Couldn’t have been more than two days, I think. Might’ve been yesterday, not sure.

  9. Leorale
    Leorale
    August 23, 2020 at 12:32 am | #

    Maybe they each thought about it, and decided Billie shouldn’t be their idol, but can just be a person? What is this sane, reasonable, non-dramatic hall?

    • Mra
      Mra
      August 23, 2020 at 12:50 am | #

      That would make me dislike them a lot less.

    • JediMB
      JediMB
      August 23, 2020 at 3:06 am | #

      That was my thought. She’s just been downgraded from idol-goddess to a regular person who can be nice to hang with.

      • Nono
        Nono
        August 23, 2020 at 6:44 am | #

        It eventually becomes revealed that each of them actually went through their own phase of idol worship before being downgraded to a regular cult member.

        Rose was a valedictorian. Beatrice was prom queen. Nash shot a man and watched him die.

  10. Cattleprod
    Cattleprod
    August 23, 2020 at 1:04 am | #

    Not particularly related to this, but Rose, Ruth, and Carla have never appeared together. Will we ever have have full glasses redhead power?

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      August 23, 2020 at 1:23 am | #

      We’d also need Howard, to complete the Glasses Redhead Club.

      But doing so would also bring about the end times, so. *shrugs, checks calendar* Maybe next week?

  11. Bagge
    Bagge
    August 23, 2020 at 1:33 am | #

    Oh God, what are these pod people up to now???

  12. Juanoku
    Juanoku
    August 23, 2020 at 1:51 am | #

    Oh my God, these bongoes gay
    Good for them, good for them

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      August 23, 2020 at 6:02 am | #

      Hey. Thats the Sonic picture. I love that one. Penny Parker said it and I knew it. Fuck yes Sonic says gay rights

  13. Keulen
    Keulen
    August 23, 2020 at 2:16 am | #

    These Forrest Hall folks still weird me out.

  14. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    August 23, 2020 at 2:17 am | #

    Nah, this is the work of the secret antagonist of persona 5 royal.

  15. Liam
    Liam
    August 23, 2020 at 2:21 am | #

    Maybe… just maybe… they just like you.

  16. PB
    PB
    August 23, 2020 at 2:59 am | #

    Hmmm.

    This is either deeper or shallower than I expected.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      August 23, 2020 at 5:44 am | #

      I have no idea witch

      and that scares me

    • Cybersnark
      Cybersnark
      August 23, 2020 at 7:59 am | #

      “Sometimes your shallowness is so profound it’s almost like depth.”

      • clif
        clif
        August 23, 2020 at 12:22 pm | #

        Ironic Gravatar Syndrome strikes again. Once you see it, it’s everywhere.

  17. BenRG
    BenRG
    August 23, 2020 at 3:30 am | #

    Or maybe you’re still their friend even though they’re no longer obsessing over you as a cultural guide-icon? I know that you’d find that hard to believe Billie but it is a possibility!

    • Chronos
      Chronos
      August 23, 2020 at 3:35 am | #

      I’m not sure she knows that when she sees that.

  18. Ray Radlein
    Ray Radlein
    August 23, 2020 at 4:39 am | #

    Maybe they’ve decided she’s Amazi-Girl because, you know, who isn’t?

    • Liam
      Liam
      August 23, 2020 at 6:00 am | #

      It was ME

      IT WAS ME THE WHOLE TIME

  19. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    August 23, 2020 at 4:50 am | #

    they grew over it.

  20. Delicious Taffy
    Delicious Taffy
    August 23, 2020 at 5:09 am | #

    I’m fucking agender out to you all and my life partner soulmate bit tonight also my best trans friend thank you UV apple vodka and the USMC? Willis and Cerberus and the rest you gave me the courage to be me to at least two 2 people. Fucking love this comic you all my partner and Jason David Frank you all kick enormous ass. Gosh bless us everybody and I love Fizzy

    • Liam
      Liam
      August 23, 2020 at 6:08 am | #

      I’m drunk rn and I’m assuming you are too.

      Who is Fizzy. What is the USMC. If you remember this post tomorrow please for the love of god give me context.

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        August 23, 2020 at 6:14 am | #

        Gomer Pyle and my catgirl FFXIV spouse

        • Liam
          Liam
          August 23, 2020 at 4:02 pm | #

          Fuck yeah dude.

          I wanna play FFXIV again.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        August 23, 2020 at 9:54 am | #

        USMC = United States Marine Corp.

        We can only assume Taffy got wasted and enlisted last night.

        Just remember, you don’t have to go out and spend all of your salary on a $75,000 lifted Duramax.

        • Delicious Taffy
          Delicious Taffy
          August 23, 2020 at 3:20 pm | #

          Why, surely a prestigious organisation like the Marines would never allow a person to enlist if they were severely inebriated.

          Surely.

    • Sam
      Sam
      August 23, 2020 at 7:26 am | #

      Congrats! Glad you’ve got people you can be open with and that you found the courage to be open with them.

    • JBento
      JBento
      August 23, 2020 at 7:28 am | #

      Welcome to your true-self – may you enjoy your truth, and, apparently, may the hangover not be too bad.

    • He Who Abides
      He Who Abides
      August 23, 2020 at 8:57 am | #

      Dry toast and some aspirin, DT. Hope your hangover isn’t too bad.

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      August 23, 2020 at 10:56 am | #

      Congrats!

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      August 23, 2020 at 3:25 pm | #

      Congrats on coming out! I believe this requires an internet high five.

  21. Ryek Hvek
    Ryek Hvek
    August 23, 2020 at 6:21 am | #

    there is only one L in ‘canceled’ according to spelcheck

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      August 23, 2020 at 6:27 am | #

      Spell check ain’t Tweeter. For one thing it has potential to enrich a human’s life

    • Miles
      Miles
      August 23, 2020 at 11:42 am | #

      Spellcheck is usually not hip to memetic phenomena until they’re positively ancient.

      Like hip.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        August 23, 2020 at 12:17 pm | #

        But “canceled” is a perfectly normal English word – the slang version isn’t spelled any differently.

        Two Ls is British English and older American English. Modern American English uses one L. This only became dominant in the 1980s, apparently.

        • clif
          clif
          August 23, 2020 at 12:28 pm | #

          Ruth saying cancelled is how we know she is speaking with a Canadian accent.

          • Bathymetheus
            Bathymetheus
            August 23, 2020 at 5:58 pm | #

            There is no Canadian accent. It’s all you furriners who have accents.

            • Bicycle Bill
              Bicycle Bill
              August 23, 2020 at 11:42 pm | #

              The Canadian accent is the basic American Midwest accent; the only difference is adding ‘eh?’ to the end of every other sentence.

              • Roborat
                Roborat
                August 24, 2020 at 3:56 pm | #

                There is no basic Canadian accent, the accent depends on where you live, and in some cases, is down to the individual town level.

        • StClair
          StClair
          August 24, 2020 at 12:58 am | #

          The classic science-fiction RPG Traveller, despite being a mostly American thing, uses the British spelling, which messes me up sometimes.

  22. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    August 23, 2020 at 7:15 am | #

    To be a nice person you need to forget a lot of things really quickly.

  23. Raen
    Raen
    August 23, 2020 at 7:58 am | #

    Cancelled? Why? I’m going through her tag, even, and I’m not finding anything like that.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      August 23, 2020 at 9:51 am | #

      Probably referring to the time when she shattered their illusion of her being a hyper-cool alpha bongo cheerleader.

      https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-10/02-to-remind-you-of-my-love/olympus/

      • clif
        clif
        August 23, 2020 at 12:34 pm | #

        Didn’t she realize that being a flawed hyper-cool alpha-bongo cheerleader with a heart of gold was even cooler?

      • Jenny Islander
        Jenny Islander
        August 23, 2020 at 3:07 pm | #

        Wait, I had forgotten that strip.

        She is so out of touch with The Young People of Today if she didn’t realize that their response to this was gonna be “One Of Us! One Of Us!”

    • Miles
      Miles
      August 23, 2020 at 11:39 am | #

      It’s funny because it’s a massive exaggeration of a minor thing that actually happened.

      • clif
        clif
        August 23, 2020 at 12:30 pm | #

        Yeah, it’s funny what’s humorous.

  24. hof1991
    hof1991
    August 23, 2020 at 8:54 am | #

    1. There is another shoe left here. Maybe Lucy smoothed the waters? That would be like her.

    2. Maybe that song wasn’t forever?

  25. Redcat
    Redcat
    August 23, 2020 at 9:33 am | #

    Or maybe they accept you as a flawed human being they can still appreciate even if she isn’t the role model they thought you were.

    Or they’re robots. IDK.

  26. Suet
    Suet
    August 23, 2020 at 9:39 am | #

    RYERSON!!!!

    *bing*

  27. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    August 23, 2020 at 9:48 am | #

    It turns out Rose is the one with comic book superpowers. She’s not bound to the confines of the panels, the entire page is her playground.

  28. Wakeangel2001
    Wakeangel2001
    August 23, 2020 at 11:53 am | #

    maybe they don’t use social media and therefore are still decent human beings

    • clif
      clif
      August 23, 2020 at 12:37 pm | #

      You didn’t know that the last person on Earth that had never looked at social media died in 2020?

      • Bathymetheus
        Bathymetheus
        August 23, 2020 at 6:01 pm | #

        Presumably because they didn’t wear a mask.

  29. Pylgrim
    Pylgrim
    August 23, 2020 at 12:00 pm | #

    Or basically any pre-1990 sitcom.

  30. Jenny Islander
    Jenny Islander
    August 23, 2020 at 1:59 pm | #

    Awww, look at you, Ruth, enjoying things without feeling the need to add a bitter punchline! Good for you, kiddo.

    Now for Course 102: holding her hand in public. Go on, you can do it!

  31. C.T Phipps
    C.T Phipps
    August 23, 2020 at 4:35 pm | #

    They’ve come to view Billy as a cool rebel now!

    DUI is cool now!

    “Get me out of here!”

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