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May 12, 2026

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by David M Willis on March 17, 2024 at 12:01 am
  • 03 – Trystin' in the Wind
└ Tags: jason, robin

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    March 17, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    Not JUST a piece of furniture, like a table to flip

    • clif
      clif
      March 17, 2024 at 1:09 am | #

      But we have it on good authority he’s very fetching.

      • clif
        clif
        March 17, 2024 at 1:28 am | #

        And you have to admire the way Robin teaches by demonstrating her points.

        • James
          James
          March 17, 2024 at 8:54 pm | #

          Robin’s methods are very good at teaching certain ideas, which may or may not be related to what she intends to or thinks she’s teaching.

    • Decidedly Orthogonal
      Decidedly Orthogonal
      March 18, 2024 at 10:08 am | #

      Well, <a
      href="https://www.dumbingofage.com/cast/attachment/2021castjason/&quot;
      Chesterfield isn’t normally so easy to flip. He make be more wobbly due to the stick up his ass being loosened.

      A bit.

      Maybe.

      • Decidedly Orthogonal
        Decidedly Orthogonal
        March 18, 2024 at 10:09 am | #

        Oh yay. I butchered the html.

        Happy Monday all!

  2. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    March 17, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    *plays “Mach 20” from Assassination Classroom Soundtrack on hacked muzak*

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      March 17, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

      Why is Pikachu in a cage? Also, yesterday you said something about your Discord being in the Quite Place. What did you mean by that? It sounds ominous.

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        March 17, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

        i recently fell for a scam in which i lost all my paypal balance and my discord account to IRL team rocket 😭

        • True Survivor
          True Survivor
          March 17, 2024 at 10:55 pm | #

          I am so sorry. That really sucks. I hope you can maybe recover some of it. If you have to make a new discord account, will you at least be able to get back into your old channels?

          • NGPZ
            NGPZ
            March 17, 2024 at 11:08 pm | #

            I don’t know.

            At least a real person replied to my discord ticket 5 days ago, said they investigating further.

            If possible, please support me via KoFi on my tumblr, anything helps to stay afloat 🙏

  3. Rose by Any Other Name
    Rose by Any Other Name
    March 17, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    So the coffee cup was to contain the syrup.
    My curiosity has been sated.

    • anon
      anon
      March 17, 2024 at 1:15 am | #

      luckily that means it wasn’t hot. tho the stickiness is gonna need to be washed off immediately lol

      • Miri
        Miri
        March 17, 2024 at 5:17 am | #

        That sounds like the sort of stuff that would be highly corrosive and really bad for skin to come in contact with, as well as so sticky that washing it off is going to be a challenge…

        • Rose by Any Other Name
          Rose by Any Other Name
          March 17, 2024 at 7:58 am | #

          I mean, it’s meant to be water soluble, so washing should not be an issue.

      • Luminous Lead
        Luminous Lead
        March 17, 2024 at 9:09 am | #

        I imagine Robin put it down before shoving Jason with both hands, or else we’d likely have seen some splatter.

  4. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    March 17, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

    I can see an Optimus Prime pun on the blackboard already.

    Is Willis spending a quarter century plus making webcomics simply to recruit people to Transformers fandom, and is he being paid well for this? Because I didn’t care about them before yet I’m getting curious now.

    • General Tekno
      General Tekno
      March 17, 2024 at 12:26 am | #

      No, no, it’s not a pun. It’s a reference.

      “Not just a bad Optimus Prime comic.”

      https://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Transformers:_Autocracy

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        March 17, 2024 at 12:33 am | #

        Ah. Good to know.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 17, 2024 at 7:30 am | #

      It must be working. Pretty much everything I know about Transformers, I learned through osmosis from reading Willis’s comics.

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        March 17, 2024 at 1:26 pm | #

        I have two sources. Willis is one and Jackie Wolenhaus (Between Failures, which I highly recommend) is the other.

        Wolenhaus’ social media accounts are as full of Transformers as Willis’ is.

  5. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    March 17, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

    Wacky Professor Robin is really good at making the part of me that controls laughter forget that she used to be Amoral Congresswoman Robin.

  6. HueSatLight
    HueSatLight
    March 17, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

    I know that’s Jason’s leg in panel 4, but I also like the idea of Robin pushing him down with three of her four limbs.

    • Icalasari
      Icalasari
      March 17, 2024 at 12:19 am | #

      Wait, she didn’t?

      • Rectilinear Propagation
        Rectilinear Propagation
        March 17, 2024 at 1:00 am | #

        Nah, her pants are a darker color.

        • Decidedly Orthogonal
          Decidedly Orthogonal
          March 17, 2024 at 2:07 am | #

          Pants, or possibly skirt. 🤞

    • Armadillo
      Armadillo
      March 17, 2024 at 12:43 am | #

      Oh, I definitely thought she was throwing a kick in there for good measure.

      • Aura
        Aura
        March 17, 2024 at 11:06 pm | #

        Add me to the count too

  7. True Survivor
    True Survivor
    March 17, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

    The board says Autocracy is bad, but her actions say “All hail Robin”

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 17, 2024 at 7:15 am | #

      “Do as I say, not as I do.”

      • Daibhid C
        Daibhid C
        March 17, 2024 at 9:02 am | #

        That is probably literally one of the things she teaches them about politics.

        Although, technically, the board says Autocracy the Optimus Prime comic book is bad. We can’t see what it says about the political system.

        • True Survivor
          True Survivor
          March 17, 2024 at 10:56 pm | #

          I didn’t catch that – that is funny though. Thank you for pointing that out.

    • Mturtle7
      Mturtle7
      March 17, 2024 at 12:43 pm | #

      The class laughs and cheers, and she’s like “Yeah, that’s right! I sure did kick that stuffy old bureaucrat’s ass, didn’t I?! I’ll bet you’re all pretty entertained right now, and inclined to forgive my wacky transgressions! …The first part of today’s lecture will specifically be about sensationalism, performative rebellion, and their vital role in getting the masses to accept the rise of autocracy.”

  8. UrsulaDavina
    UrsulaDavina
    March 17, 2024 at 12:18 am | #

    I hope I m not the only one who imagined this music started playing when Robin announced the topic:

    https://youtu.be/rk8X_kLYWQA?si=cd6yAWWBHcon7ghc

  9. BBCC
    BBCC
    March 17, 2024 at 12:20 am | #

    She offers very thorough demonstrations

    • clif
      clif
      March 17, 2024 at 1:38 am | #

      Yeah, the students may be actually getting their money’s worth.

      • Sentient Sandvich
        Sentient Sandvich
        March 17, 2024 at 4:17 am | #

        Honestly if I had teachers with that much passion, I’d probably be able to stay awake

  10. C.T. Phipps
    C.T. Phipps
    March 17, 2024 at 12:21 am | #

    I choose to believe Robin will eventually return to power a a Democrat.

    • anon
      anon
      March 17, 2024 at 1:25 am | #

      i mean, if she wins by shoving her opponents off stage, we (voters) dont’ deserve better than that

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      March 17, 2024 at 2:25 am | #

      And I will choose to interpret that as a shift in the Overton window rather than character development for Robin.

    • Da Boy
      Da Boy
      March 17, 2024 at 7:10 am | #

      Please no, she is actually doing something good and productive instead of being a scammer

      • Taellosse
        Taellosse
        March 17, 2024 at 11:48 am | #

        WhyNotBoth.gif

  11. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    March 17, 2024 at 12:22 am | #

    Oh, poor Jason.

    Also, hmm. I mean, putting the Coca Cola syrup into coffee might… kinda-sorta work, unless she’s just using the cup, in which case, yikes.

    • Rectilinear Propagation
      Rectilinear Propagation
      March 17, 2024 at 12:59 am | #

      I suspect it’s the latter.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      March 17, 2024 at 2:24 am | #

      This is Robin we’re talking about. She lives on a strict sugar-and-caffeine diet.

    • Weatherheight
      Weatherheight
      March 17, 2024 at 3:20 pm | #

      It does and better than I had expected.

  12. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    March 17, 2024 at 12:25 am | #

    Must be a typo but love the tag for “i”.

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      March 17, 2024 at 12:28 am | #

      Codinome “i” is the bald person in the first panel

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      March 17, 2024 at 2:14 pm | #

      “i” is gone. Press F to pay respect.

  13. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    March 17, 2024 at 12:27 am | #

    As a terrible politician, she’s a great teacher.

    • General Tekno
      General Tekno
      March 17, 2024 at 12:33 am | #

      Yeah, she’s teaching how the system ACTUALLY works vs how it’s SUPPOSED to work. And doing a pretty fair job of it!

    • anon
      anon
      March 17, 2024 at 1:20 am | #

      i mean, i’m sure it’d be cathartic to imagine yourself pushing someone in ur class as a teacher , i don’t condone violence but there were def some bratty students that need a slap/their ass kicked

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        March 17, 2024 at 1:36 am | #

        Considering his immigration status is a sword of Damocles, it’d be a problem of worker exploitation if he were anybody in the world except for Jason. She should help back up and then push him down again.

        • Reltzik
          Reltzik
          March 17, 2024 at 2:22 am | #

          Jason absolutely does not deserve to be exploited under an unequal power dynamic. /s

          … well, okay, NOBODY deserves that, but if anyone did, Jason would… actually be about C-grade or D-grade baddie tier and there’d be a whole lot of others ahead of him who deserved it more…

          … look, I had a point SOMEWHERE here, could someone help me look for it?

          • Emperor Norton II
            Emperor Norton II
            March 17, 2024 at 9:06 am | #

            Have you looked behind the couch?

          • HueSatLight
            HueSatLight
            March 17, 2024 at 12:31 pm | #

            I just dislike Jason, it doesn’t matter to me if this is ironic punishment.

  14. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    March 17, 2024 at 12:37 am | #

    Robin works a lot by pratical examples eh ?

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      March 17, 2024 at 2:19 am | #

      Which are also practical jokes.

  15. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    March 17, 2024 at 12:45 am | #

    … wouldn’t it be the centralization of authority to consolidate power?

    • Fred
      Fred
      March 17, 2024 at 3:05 am | #

      They are very close, and this not a poli sci class and it IS a webcomic discussion 🙂 However, you are right: That’s the way it is normally phrased, because that’s what Authority figures frequently do: pass laws to expand their authority into domains where they do not currently have power. Most powerful figures without legal authority (like a religious leader, celebrity, or artisan) don’t run for office to gain power, they expand their support base.

  16. Pocky
    Pocky
    March 17, 2024 at 1:01 am | #

    I suppose if Jason has to be back, him getting dunked on is the most palatable way to do it.

  17. clif
    clif
    March 17, 2024 at 1:31 am | #

    Alt text, that may be a fetch too far.

  18. David DeLaney
    David DeLaney
    March 17, 2024 at 2:16 am | #

    weebles wobble
    but what do wombles do

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 17, 2024 at 7:19 am | #

      Presumably, they weemble.

    • NickG
      NickG
      March 17, 2024 at 7:29 am | #

      They go under ground, over ground, Wombling free.

      • David DeLaney
        David DeLaney
        March 17, 2024 at 5:41 pm | #

        grimbling and grambling?

    • CianM1301
      CianM1301
      March 17, 2024 at 2:06 pm | #

      Mostly recycle rubbish from Wimbledon.

    • Aura
      Aura
      March 17, 2024 at 11:12 pm | #

      They make good use of the things that they find (that which was discarded by the everyday folk)

  19. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    March 17, 2024 at 2:28 am | #

    Wasn’t there a whole comic where Robin called out Leslie for using people as props?

    *archive dives*

    …. okay, nevermind, it was less a “how dare you you hypocrite” speech and more of a “see, you’re doing what I do, we’re not that different” speech.

    • John Campbell
      John Campbell
      March 17, 2024 at 8:25 pm | #

      Jason’s not a people, he’s a TA.

  20. Jonah (firelight_waltz)
    Jonah (firelight_waltz)
    March 17, 2024 at 2:48 am | #

    guess barry will be picking up jasons slack(s)

  21. C.T. Phipps
    C.T. Phipps
    March 17, 2024 at 3:19 am | #

    I wonder if Walky will continue his pattern of microaggressions to Jason and Asma along with anyone else he sees as not entirely like him. Hell, he’s weirded out by even the mildly sincerely religious.

    • Woof McGee
      Woof McGee
      March 17, 2024 at 10:12 am | #

      Lots of things have been weird since the time skip

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      March 17, 2024 at 11:00 am | #

      Where does this come from?
      Asma seems more like he just treats her like a piece of furniture. “mail office lady”, which isn’t great but doesn’t have anything to do with her being different or her religion.
      Nor do I see him as weirded out by the mildly religious. He teased first semester Joyce about it, but she was far more than mild and started out being quite obnoxious about it. He dated Lucy, knowing she was a regular church-goer. He was disturbed by the actual services he went to with her, but that’s not quite the same thing.

      • Mr D
        Mr D
        March 17, 2024 at 8:22 pm | #

        Shhh shh shh shh, no logic here. No need for the meddlesome facts. Just let the hate flow.

      • Proxiehunter
        Proxiehunter
        March 17, 2024 at 9:32 pm | #

        And he was disturbed because that service was absolutely fucking terrifying.

        • C.T. Phipps
          C.T. Phipps
          March 18, 2024 at 12:01 am | #

          People are terrified of hymns?

  22. Da Boy
    Da Boy
    March 17, 2024 at 6:17 am | #

    Will she send him to Gulag because he is a potential threat to her power?

  23. Furie
    Furie
    March 17, 2024 at 6:54 am | #

    I will not see Autocracy besmirched! Why, that’s the comic where… something happened, I guess?

  24. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    March 17, 2024 at 7:17 am | #

    Politicians shoving immigrants around as a demonstration of power, a tale as old as time.

  25. Morleuca
    Morleuca
    March 17, 2024 at 9:59 am | #

    every time Robin shows up, I get a little hope that that means we’ll see Leslie soon. And when Leslie shows up, I get a little hope that Robin is around the corner.

  26. staszu13
    staszu13
    March 17, 2024 at 10:08 am | #

    So Robin believes in teaching by demonstration huh? 🤣

    • Stephen Nedland
      Stephen Nedland
      March 17, 2024 at 1:11 pm | #

      Sometimes, the best examples, requires a hands on approach.

  27. Pergola
    Pergola
    March 17, 2024 at 11:04 am | #

    Hey! What about decentralized decision making?

  28. Stephen Nedland
    Stephen Nedland
    March 17, 2024 at 1:09 pm | #

    The more I see Robin, the more I want to be in her Poli-sci class.

  29. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    March 17, 2024 at 1:27 pm | #

    Robin hasn’t had any of her Coke syrup yet, has she?

    We ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

    • PedanticJerkass
      PedanticJerkass
      March 17, 2024 at 6:06 pm | #

      It’s entirely possible that she chugged the entire thing off panel between Jason handing it to her and her shoving him.

  30. HoopsieDaisy
    HoopsieDaisy
    March 17, 2024 at 4:45 pm | #

    Sometimes a second chance is a bad thing…or a third chance waiting to happen.

  31. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    March 17, 2024 at 6:21 pm | #

    Let’s admit this. Robin as a politicians is bad, but as a professor is a genius. Everyone (expecially Jason) is learning so much from her!

    • Hambone Jones
      Hambone Jones
      March 18, 2024 at 12:43 pm | #

      Please, let me know what you’re specifically talking about, lol.

  32. Yeet
    Yeet
    March 17, 2024 at 8:05 pm | #

    that’s certainly a demonstration
    also happy fecking paddy’s day lads

  33. motorfirebox
    motorfirebox
    March 18, 2024 at 8:31 am | #

    He’s not just furniture! He’s a prop!

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