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June 14, 2026

Troubled

by David M Willis on March 20, 2025 at 12:01 am
  • 03 – Me And Who You Say I Was Yesterday
└ Tags: amber, ruth

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  1. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    March 20, 2025 at 12:05 am | #

    Amber talking to herself kind means something different…or maybe it doesn’t?

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      March 20, 2025 at 12:10 am | #

      She’s not talking to herself in this page at all though. Every line here is addressed to Ruth.

      • Sirksome
        Sirksome
        March 20, 2025 at 12:14 am | #

        I realized that after I already typed my comment and to my shame it’s the first one today. 😞 Feel free to start a different topic here. I flubbed it.

        • Effie
          Effie
          March 20, 2025 at 12:40 am | #

          Ruth and Amber start the “Orphans With Awful Dad-like Figures Roof” club

          and then they bang (but not necessarily on the roof)

          so then Amber has to move to a different dorm too

          because somehow Ruth is still the RA

          • Effie
            Effie
            March 20, 2025 at 12:42 am | #

            OH! Oh oh oh!

            “Garbage Ruth on Garbage Roof!”

            (the name of the next plotline)

            • Disastroid
              Disastroid
              March 20, 2025 at 6:01 am | #

              It’s the Garbage Truth with Garbage Proof!

              • Decidedly Orthogonal
                Decidedly Orthogonal
                March 20, 2025 at 2:24 pm | #

                Revealed by the Garbage Sleuth,
                We can’t handle the Garbage Tooth!

                • Lysbeth
                  Lysbeth
                  March 20, 2025 at 7:53 pm | #

                  But he finds the Garbage Sooth:
                  Garbage Dogs have Garbage Floof!

        • Ray Radlein
          Ray Radlein
          March 20, 2025 at 12:58 am | #

          so about those macroeconomic indicators

          • Clif
            Clif
            March 20, 2025 at 9:07 pm | #

            How are you enjoying the Trump recession?

            • Ray Radlein
              Ray Radlein
              March 21, 2025 at 10:08 pm | #

              NOT GREAT, BOB!

              Wife is getting downsized soon and will be having to negotiate the alleged job market while being simultaneously (a) old and (b) female, so this could be a very… interesting year for us

        • Li
          Li
          March 20, 2025 at 1:17 am | #

          Hugs!

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 20, 2025 at 3:15 am | #

      This is how she cries for help.

    • anon
      anon
      March 20, 2025 at 11:16 pm | #

      her text bubble isn’t colored but it would be interesting if she was trying to imitate ruths voice

  2. shadowcell
    shadowcell
    March 20, 2025 at 12:05 am | #

    but there’s people out there

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      March 20, 2025 at 7:19 am | #

      Ewww.

  3. Raven
    Raven
    March 20, 2025 at 12:06 am | #

    I am confusion

    • clif
      clif
      March 20, 2025 at 12:50 am | #

      At first I thought you were saying you were confused, but then I realized that you were making a bolder claim, that you yourself personified confusion. The same way that someone would announce “I am death.”

      • Ray Radlein
        Ray Radlein
        March 20, 2025 at 12:57 am | #

        now I am become confusion, destroyer of certainty

        • Yondrose
          Yondrose
          March 20, 2025 at 3:01 pm | #

          You am become Reddit?
          A dating app, perhaps?
          Tabloid news?

      • Lysbeth
        Lysbeth
        March 20, 2025 at 7:54 pm | #

        I am confusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7X7cEh5au8

        • Clif
          Clif
          March 20, 2025 at 10:35 pm | #

          She makes a good argument though.

  4. Animedingo
    Animedingo
    March 20, 2025 at 12:06 am | #

    Wait so is walky and dorothy banging in ambers room whole becky and dina are banging next door?

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      March 20, 2025 at 12:07 am | #

      Dorothy and Walky are in Dorothy/Becky’s room, I checked when the page went up. So either Dina and Becky left or they’re in Dina’s room.

      I could certainly imagine Amber only being out in the hall because Dina kicked her out.

      • Animedingo
        Animedingo
        March 20, 2025 at 12:12 am | #

        That room must smell awful

      • GholaHalleck
        GholaHalleck
        March 20, 2025 at 12:53 am | #

        I think Becky’s breakdown killed their sexy time, and they went back to Dina’s room for her to change back out of the suit. Or to hide inside the dinosaur like Luke on Hoth.

        • NGPZ
          NGPZ
          March 20, 2025 at 1:37 am | #

          “And I thought it smelled like sex on the OUTSIDE”

          XD

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      March 20, 2025 at 12:08 am | #

      They’re all both banging and not banging until observed.

      • Rose by Any other Name
        Rose by Any other Name
        March 20, 2025 at 12:08 am | #

        Schrodinger’s Fuck.

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          March 20, 2025 at 12:11 am | #

          +1 The cat is suing for psychological abuse…

          • Rabid Rabbit
            Rabid Rabbit
            March 20, 2025 at 5:31 am | #

            Pavlov’s dog is just drooling, though.

            (The dog’s name is Joe.)

        • Jamie
          Jamie
          March 20, 2025 at 1:04 am | #

          I both give and do not give this fuck.

          • Clif
            Clif
            March 20, 2025 at 10:46 pm | #

            Amber both is and is not practicing looking troubled.

        • NGPZ
          NGPZ
          March 20, 2025 at 1:55 pm | #

          Oh yeah!

          Happy Spring Equinox to all who celebrate! ^^

          • elebenty
            elebenty
            March 20, 2025 at 2:36 pm | #

            YAY!
            There were signs (we do have crocuses up), but now it’s official.

            I’m in a location that has had snow in June, though. ‘Officially spring’ doesn’t mean I can put the snow shovels and ice scrapers away just yet.

    • John Campbell
      John Campbell
      March 20, 2025 at 12:08 am | #

      Walky and Dorothy appear to be in Dorothy’s room. Becky and Dina may have sexiled Amber so they can bang on the sex dinosaur.

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      March 20, 2025 at 12:22 am | #

      They’re all in the same room, but they’re all being very quiet so the other couple doesn’t notice.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      March 20, 2025 at 1:01 am | #

      It’s the polite thing to do.

  5. Rose by Any other Name
    Rose by Any other Name
    March 20, 2025 at 12:06 am | #

    … ben’s funeral?
    Who’s Ben?

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      March 20, 2025 at 12:08 am | #

      I *think* it’s a SpiderMan reference, but I ain’t quite sure XD

      • Yeet
        Yeet
        March 20, 2025 at 12:10 am | #

        it’s scrubs

        • clif
          clif
          March 20, 2025 at 12:54 am | #

          Ben Scrubs. Husband of May Scubs. Uncle of Peter Piper of the Pepper Pipers.

          • elebenty
            elebenty
            March 20, 2025 at 2:37 pm | #

            Ah, right next door to the Pumpkin Eaters I believe.

    • Proxiehunter
      Proxiehunter
      March 20, 2025 at 12:08 am | #

      Uncle Ben.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      March 20, 2025 at 12:09 am | #

      My first assumption would be Ben from Spider-Man but I don’t know why that would be the reference here.

    • Yeet
      Yeet
      March 20, 2025 at 12:09 am | #

      JD’s mentor’s ex-wife’s brother

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        March 20, 2025 at 12:11 am | #

        Oh, Scrubs! That would make much more sense than Spider-Man.

        I should probably watch that show, the Pitt has gotten me on a bit of a hospital show kick.

        • Ray Radlein
          Ray Radlein
          March 20, 2025 at 12:56 am | #

          they’re very similar

        • BorkBorkBork
          BorkBorkBork
          March 20, 2025 at 10:43 am | #

          Nah, I don’t watch no Scrubs. Scrubs is a show that don’t get no love from me.

    • Gojira007
      Gojira007
      March 20, 2025 at 12:10 am | #

      It’s a reference to the “Scrubs” episode “My Screw-Up”; Ben is a guest-character on the show played by Brendan Fraser. I won’t go into further details here for spoiler reasons, though.

      • darkoneko
        darkoneko
        March 20, 2025 at 6:33 am | #

        My Scrubs-Up

      • alwayslurking
        alwayslurking
        March 21, 2025 at 1:42 pm | #

        I’m not sure “at ben’s funeral” leaves much in the potential spoiler box…

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      March 20, 2025 at 12:10 am | #

      Scrubs. “Where do you think we are?”

    • AbacusWizard
      AbacusWizard
      March 20, 2025 at 12:10 am | #

      Scrubs. There’s a very emotional episode in which “Where do you think we are?” is a sudden wham line in which it is suddenly revealed that the characters are at a funeral for a character that the viewers did not yet know was already dead.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Screw_Up

      • Benjamin Geiger
        Benjamin Geiger
        March 20, 2025 at 12:33 am | #

        They do leave clues though.

        “So, you still doing the whole kooky-guy-who-brings-his-camera-everywhere thing?” “Till the day I die.”

        And once Cox is told that a patient has died, Ben doesn’t have his camera anymore.

        I’d say this is the second hardest hitting episode, right after “My Lunch”.

        • Furie
          Furie
          March 20, 2025 at 8:49 am | #

          I think I remember seeing the other patient (the one they imply died as a mislead) in the background at one point too. Not sure if that was this episode or even show though.

    • Jo_cubstar
      Jo_cubstar
      March 20, 2025 at 12:10 am | #

      Ok good, it’s not just me trying to figure that one out

    • Tan
      Tan
      March 20, 2025 at 12:11 am | #

      This is actually a Scrubs reference

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      March 20, 2025 at 12:17 am | #

      Based on the six people who couldn’t wait to say it, I think there’s an orphaned Scrub reference.

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        March 20, 2025 at 1:17 am | #

        Honestly a little embarrassed I didn’t catch it. This is like the one Scrubs thing I actually know about

    • Furie
      Furie
      March 20, 2025 at 8:47 am | #

      Scrubs reference.

      A character is brought in and dies. One of the mains goes into denial, seeing and talking to the dead character (Ben) throughout while arranging their baby’s birthday party. Towards the end they talk about babies covered in cake being a nightmare and another main asks where they think they are. We widen to reveal Ben’s funeral.

  6. jeffepp
    jeffepp
    March 20, 2025 at 12:08 am | #

    Now I really want to know what went on between her and Dottie. That Dottie felt the need to apologize for to Walkie about.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      March 20, 2025 at 12:12 am | #

      I think Dorothy was apologizing for sending Joyce a titty pic?

    • Proxiehunter
      Proxiehunter
      March 20, 2025 at 12:12 am | #

      It makes more sense for her to be apologizing about the whole Joyce thing.

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      March 20, 2025 at 12:12 am | #

      Dorothy felt the need to apologize to Walky for sending Joyce lewds instead of him. She’s over correcting for bisexual guilt.

      • GholaHalleck
        GholaHalleck
        March 20, 2025 at 12:59 am | #

        I’m hoping it’s more of an “apologizing for trying to cheat *on* my BF that I just got back with, not long after hinting that he should cheat *with* me on his then current GF.” thing.

        • cbwroses
          cbwroses
          March 20, 2025 at 1:42 am | #

          Considering that she wasn’t acknowledging her feelings, I don’t think the intent at the time would count as cheating.
          But I’m also not sure Dorothy would make that distinction.
          Her freak out with Joe kinda implies she doesn’t make that distinction.

          • GholaHalleck
            GholaHalleck
            March 20, 2025 at 1:20 pm | #

            She realized that she was, at least subconsciously, trying to cheat on Walky. Bisexual panic is not an excuse for repeatedly trying to send someone a sexual picture, “joke” or not.

            That and her trying to convince Walky to cheat with her, or to break up with Lucy and re-date her, are poor looks no matter how you swing them. Her advice to him before that was also selfish, but it got glossed over.

            • cbwroses
              cbwroses
              March 20, 2025 at 4:57 pm | #

              Everything aside from sending the pic to Joyce is irrelevant to whether or not she was trying to cheat and any subsequent apology, regardless of how bad the other stuff looks (pretty sure she already apologized for that stuff as well).

              And I don’t think people should be blamed for subconscious feelings.
              Whether or not Dorothy feels the same way about that is the question.

              • GholaHalleck
                GholaHalleck
                March 20, 2025 at 9:13 pm | #

                Of course you should be blamed for acting on things. Actions should have consequences. Just because Walky’s a sponge of uncaring sponginess, so she gets away with it, doesn’t mean it wasn’t a shitty action.

                • cbwroses
                  cbwroses
                  March 21, 2025 at 1:31 am | #

                  Do you seriously not understand that she’s not apologizing for sending the picture but for the recontextualizing (sp) of what sending the picture means with the realization of her feelings?
                  It wasn’t a 💩 action because the action in and of itself was not wrong.
                  It never crossed her mind that Joyce is trying to cheat on Joe with her or get her to cheat on Walky, and she’s not trying to do the opposite when she sends a pic back.
                  But when she realizes her attraction, now Dorothy feels wrong.
                  But she still doesn’t think Joyce did anything wrong.
                  Why? Because the intent matters, and she knows Joyce didn’t intend to send her pics.
                  If only the action mattered, then Joyce would be just as wrong as Dorothy.

    • Jo_cubstar
      Jo_cubstar
      March 20, 2025 at 12:12 am | #

      What do you mean “her and Dottie”? Who’s her in this case? I assumed Dorothy was apologizing for sending nudes to Joyce? Because she feels guilty that she’s falling for someone other than her bf?

      • Rose by Any other Name
        Rose by Any other Name
        March 20, 2025 at 12:15 am | #

        jefepp is implying that something sexy happened between Dottie and Amber.

        Given Amber’s bored look and lack of “I just got eaten out” hair, I think it’s safe to assume that the answer is that nothing at all happened.

        • John Campbell
          John Campbell
          March 20, 2025 at 12:18 am | #

          Nah, Dotty and A-G totally banged. Amazi-Girl just hasn’t told Amber about it yet.

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            March 20, 2025 at 1:09 am | #

            That brings up the question: If Amazi-Girl thoroughly fucks somebody, does Amber feel thoroughly fucked when she fronts later on? As a person without the relevant anatomy, I’m not entirely sure how that pans out.

            • cbwroses
              cbwroses
              March 20, 2025 at 1:49 am | #

              I assume all purely physical/chemical sensations that lasted past the actual sex would still be there after they switched drivers, depending on how soon the switch happened.
              Anything more than physical like the satisfaction of making Dorothy’s toes curl or the guilt from sleeping with your friend’s/alter’s ex’s girlfriend (are AG and Walky friends?) would probably not affect Amber.
              But this is just an ignorant assumption on my part.

            • GholaHalleck
              GholaHalleck
              March 20, 2025 at 1:21 pm | #

              None of the orgasm, all of the chaffing and calf cramps…

              • Opus the Poet
                Opus the Poet
                March 22, 2025 at 12:06 am | #

                I can relate to that and I’m not even DID. I just refer to Past Me and Future Me.

      • clif
        clif
        March 20, 2025 at 12:38 am | #

        My guess, and this is only a guess, is that jeffepp thinks it possible that when Dorothy had her conversation with Joe, finally admitting (including to herself) that she was attracted to Joyce, and then was tossed by Becky into a room with an extremely attractive Amazigirl, something then happened of the stuff of fanfic for which Dorothy felt she needed to apologize to Walky.

        It seems far more likely that, Dorothy being Dorothy, her recognition of her feelings for Joyce recontextialized sending Joyce the pictures as cheating on Walky for which she needed to apologize. With sex. For her own self respect. Not, mind you, with any explanation why to Walky, who in fairness doesn’t care.

        • morleuca
          morleuca
          March 20, 2025 at 6:25 am | #

          She did try to explain, but his pants were already off.

    • jeffepp
      jeffepp
      March 20, 2025 at 12:17 am | #

      I think the replies so far have missed the point.

      • clif
        clif
        March 20, 2025 at 12:39 am | #

        The point being???

  7. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    March 20, 2025 at 12:09 am | #

    A for effort.

  8. HueSatLight
    HueSatLight
    March 20, 2025 at 12:10 am | #

    Both of them checking “have successful conversation” on their TODO lists.

  9. Suet
    Suet
    March 20, 2025 at 12:11 am | #

    Dumbing of Age: Always Troubled

    Mobile phones are just smaller computers. And if they weren’t so bleh, google glass

    • morleuca
      morleuca
      March 20, 2025 at 8:57 am | #

      there was a company making safety glasses with HUD in them that were just awesome. They were for warehouse picking work. They would have your picklist, and would hilight a path to the nearest item on your list. when you got there, they would check the barcodes on the bins, and then tell you how many to pick, and then count with you. they would also alert you if you were in the wrong bin or if you miscounted. as well as being OSHA approved eye protection

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        March 20, 2025 at 9:54 am | #

        panopticon

      • Embe13
        Embe13
        March 20, 2025 at 10:14 am | #

        cool!

      • StClair
        StClair
        March 20, 2025 at 2:19 pm | #

        shiny jetpack goggle fewcha

      • Clif
        Clif
        March 20, 2025 at 9:15 pm | #

        If the glasses could do all that, what did they need you for?

  10. Proxiehunter
    Proxiehunter
    March 20, 2025 at 12:13 am | #

    That’s my secret Captain, I’m always troubled.

  11. John Campbell
    John Campbell
    March 20, 2025 at 12:14 am | #

    Come on, Amber, you’ve got to do the <q> </q> tags with your fingers if you’re going to do that in meatspace.

  12. TrueVCU
    TrueVCU
    March 20, 2025 at 12:14 am | #

    She’s not out there by choice she’s SEXILED

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      March 20, 2025 at 12:19 am | #

      Sexiled from her own room, where Dorothy is fucking on her bed? Unless you figure she swapped rooms with Becky and Dina.

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        March 20, 2025 at 12:25 am | #

        Becky and Dina are elsewhere. AG’s in Amber’s room having sex.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          March 20, 2025 at 12:56 am | #

          I see no problem with this statement and believe you directly.

          • Aquila
            Aquila
            March 20, 2025 at 2:33 am | #

            Are you actually B-… Jennifer?

            If so, I gotta say : I love you on DoA

    • anon
      anon
      March 20, 2025 at 4:49 pm | #

      im sure she heard walky coming (heh) from a mile away so hopefully she’d be ready as opposed to just leave without grabbing a laptop or so

  13. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    March 20, 2025 at 12:15 am | #

    Underrated dynamic, really.

  14. Deanatay
    Deanatay
    March 20, 2025 at 12:16 am | #

    Nothing to say here. No comment. Nothing interesting. Just two people acting entirely normal. Why is there a comic here? Willis needed to fill time, didn’t he?

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      March 20, 2025 at 12:29 am | #

      A few reasons why you’d make a page like this.

      * The main plot threads need to jump ahead and you want to smooth that over so it doesn’t feel like a big skip forward. Cutaway is a very good way to bridge those.
      * These characters are uninvolved with the plot this chapter but they’re main characters and you don’t want it to feel like they’re absent, so this gives them enough to do that they still feel present in the story.
      * This is going to be an actual scene and so a page like this becomes effectively an establishing shot with a punchline

      In practice it’s probably all three.

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      March 20, 2025 at 12:29 am | #

      You say that now but down the line we will look back at this moment and realize how much we were being told in this interaction and how truly pivotal it was. It all started here. “Leave your computer sometime.” will be the new “Act with integrity.”

      • Ray Radlein
        Ray Radlein
        March 20, 2025 at 12:55 am | #

        so you’re saying she will crash her computer

      • Peep
        Peep
        March 20, 2025 at 7:31 am | #

        Leave your computer sometime! Experience more regrets!

    • Shakes
      Shakes
      March 20, 2025 at 12:38 am | #

      The only answer is Willis forgot to upload the final panel which is Ruth saying “Leave your computer sometime” more forcefully while looking straight at the audience.

      • clif
        clif
        March 20, 2025 at 1:00 am | #

        I thought the final panel was Walky saying don’t care.

  15. Pocky
    Pocky
    March 20, 2025 at 12:27 am | #

    that’s an interesting take on “touch grass”

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      March 20, 2025 at 12:59 am | #

      If somebody is about to get beat up, the beater-upper might say “your ass is grass”, so really if Amber goes and find someone who just got beat up and offers them comfort in the form of touching their butt, she could be fulfilling that imperative.

      • clif
        clif
        March 20, 2025 at 1:04 am | #

        I was about to ask, “what?” so thank you for your explanation which raises many new questions.

      • Jamie
        Jamie
        March 20, 2025 at 1:07 am | #

        Is this a prophecy about how Jennifer and Ruth start fucking again.

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        March 20, 2025 at 4:03 pm | #

        She could skip a step, and just beat someone’s ass.

  16. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    March 20, 2025 at 12:41 am | #

    Ethan can be JD.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      March 20, 2025 at 1:00 am | #

      The couch-fucker?

      • astrotigs
        astrotigs
        March 20, 2025 at 1:06 am | #

        Nope, that’s a Scrubs reference lol

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          March 20, 2025 at 1:07 am | #

          Not everything in life is a Scrubs reference. Y’all are like obsessed with that show.

          • Charles Phipps
            Charles Phipps
            March 20, 2025 at 1:19 am | #

            https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/scrubs

            An incredibly old reference to this script.

          • astrotigs
            astrotigs
            March 20, 2025 at 1:30 am | #

            Hey don’t shoot the messenger, I haven’t thought of that show in a decade, I just recognise the reference.

            • Charles Phipps
              Charles Phipps
              March 20, 2025 at 4:21 am | #

              No congrats for recognizing it!

              • astrotigs
                astrotigs
                March 20, 2025 at 7:55 am | #

                oh wait i was responding on my phone, was meant to click on Taffy’s reply lol!

                • Taffy
                  Taffy
                  March 20, 2025 at 10:34 am | #

                  You did, though. It’s a little ambiguous because my current Gravatar is centered and throws off the lines, but you definitely chained off of my comment.

                  Probably be even clearer if I didn’t often go out of my way to cram thinner icons to the right as a subtle misdirect.

                • Clif
                  Clif
                  March 20, 2025 at 10:29 pm | #

                  Well done.

      • clif
        clif
        March 20, 2025 at 1:07 am | #

        Your thinking of Uncle Ben who died on Scubs after Peter failed to save him.

  17. IntangibleMatter
    IntangibleMatter
    March 20, 2025 at 1:07 am | #

    Amber Nadir from the hit tv show Community

    • clif
      clif
      March 20, 2025 at 1:08 am | #

      Surely one Amber is all we need.

  18. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    March 20, 2025 at 1:07 am | #

    As my t-shirt says, “My brain is trash and I live on the internet.”

  19. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    March 20, 2025 at 1:22 am | #

    … is Amber talking to herself, to Ruth, or to Mike?

    • cbwroses
      cbwroses
      March 20, 2025 at 1:52 am | #

      Yes

  20. BBCC
    BBCC
    March 20, 2025 at 1:47 am | #

    Yeah, Amber is indeed away from her computer right now, gotta give that point to her.

  21. Cloud
    Cloud
    March 20, 2025 at 3:00 am | #

    This is one step removed from saying “upvote” outloud

    • Clif
      Clif
      March 20, 2025 at 9:17 pm | #

      What wrong with that?

  22. Thomas
    Thomas
    March 20, 2025 at 3:04 am | #

    Amber’s not very good at expressions. She looks bored instead of troubled. I wish she just told Ruth what’s bothering her.

  23. Da Boy
    Da Boy
    March 20, 2025 at 5:07 am | #

    [Somewhere in his mind the “Ambiguously Gay Duo” starts to play quietly]

    • StClair
      StClair
      March 20, 2025 at 2:26 pm | #

      “What’s everyone looking at?”
      “NOTHING!”

  24. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    March 20, 2025 at 7:31 am | #

    I assume this comic means Amber expected Ruth to start a dialogue but it completely did not happen.

    Because Ruth doesn’t care about whether Amber lives or dies.

    • morleuca
      morleuca
      March 20, 2025 at 9:01 am | #

      or Ruth didn’t have a chance to talk.

      • Charles Phipps
        Charles Phipps
        March 20, 2025 at 9:23 am | #

        I’d like to see Amazi-Girl and Ruth have a fight.

        It’d be interesting.

  25. thumb
    thumb
    March 20, 2025 at 8:58 am | #

    C’mon Amber, you can totally give “quoting inflection”.
    You know what, it’s probably because you’re troubled today. I get it.

  26. BlackScarabFilmZ
    BlackScarabFilmZ
    March 20, 2025 at 9:33 am | #

    You son of a bongo, why did you make me remember that?

    (“That” being My Screw Up)

    • StClair
      StClair
      March 20, 2025 at 2:29 pm | #

      Treatment is simple. Go to Panucci’s Pizza, get slice, pet dog.

  27. Kyulen
    Kyulen
    March 20, 2025 at 2:38 pm | #

    At first I thought Amber was making a Spiderman reference, but now I’m not so sure. And I can’t blame people for not getting a reference, since not everyone watches or reads the same fiction.

  28. HueSatLight
    HueSatLight
    March 20, 2025 at 4:08 pm | #

    Alt-text is clearly a reference to the The Office episode The Dinner Party, in which Jan yells at Michael, “Where do you think I am?”

  29. Joy
    Joy
    March 20, 2025 at 5:28 pm | #

    Amber’s shirt doesn’t really go with her jacket. I’m not sure she would care, though.

    • Joy
      Joy
      March 20, 2025 at 5:29 pm | #

      …it’s honestly not a great jacket for her hair/skin tone.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        March 20, 2025 at 11:19 pm | #

        That never matters.

  30. AnonGrouch
    AnonGrouch
    March 20, 2025 at 8:35 pm | #

    Big tall vs shawty energy going on here

  31. Yakumo
    Yakumo
    March 20, 2025 at 8:40 pm | #

    Between social awkwardness caused by the misunderstanding and Amber’s real meaning being right, that’s a full on crit hit. Well handled both though.

  32. clif
    clif
    March 20, 2025 at 11:57 pm | #

    Last.

  33. ian livs
    ian livs
    March 21, 2025 at 12:30 am | #

    Technically, she’s in OUR computers right now

  34. Chronos
    Chronos
    March 21, 2025 at 5:52 pm | #

    Two beat panels. Yes, this scene calls for this absolutely (not sarcasm).

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