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by David M Willis on June 13, 2011 at 12:01 am
  • 05 - Media Rumble
└ Tags: dorothy, jennifer, ruth, walky

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    June 13, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

    WOOP

    Ruth is a total bongo =(

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      June 13, 2011 at 12:46 am | #

      Well, yeah, but we sort of knew that already.

  2. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    June 13, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

    There is a Ruth on the prowl. HIDE!

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      June 13, 2011 at 12:09 am | #

      Hide or she’ll steal your FEMURS!

      • David Herbert
        David Herbert
        June 13, 2011 at 12:10 am | #

        I love how they’re hiding in Walky’s room. Wonder if he’ll turn this into a happy ending?

        • Ridureyu
          Ridureyu
          June 13, 2011 at 12:15 am | #

          No, he’s too busy Gollumfacing.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          June 13, 2011 at 12:18 am | #

          At least one end of Walky iwill be happy to have Dotty in the room.

          • Aizat
            Aizat
            June 13, 2011 at 12:46 am | #

            Well, one victory at a time.

        • 1Samildanach
          1Samildanach
          June 13, 2011 at 9:10 am | #

          Hiding… with a ‘happy ending’?

          Sounds kinky.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      June 13, 2011 at 8:26 pm | #

      Quick, hide your femurs!

  3. arjay2813
    arjay2813
    June 13, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

    such a beatific look on ruth’s face in panel 2. to bad its hiding her true self

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 13, 2011 at 12:04 am | #

      Ruth saves her rage for when people like Billie are around.

      • Makkabee
        Makkabee
        June 13, 2011 at 12:54 am | #

        Yeah, Ruth only shows her true self around others — the duplicitous bongo.

  4. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    June 13, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    She is comparing it to WATERGATE?

    • Mkvenner
      Mkvenner
      June 13, 2011 at 12:11 am | #

      Oooohhhhhh…Now i get.

    • milk experiment
      milk experiment
      June 13, 2011 at 12:57 am | #

      Billie has a very high opinion of her personal dramas. And her journalistic chops.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 13, 2011 at 1:28 am | #

        Billie’s ego must only still as big as it is due to the swelling that results from bruises.

        • NF
          NF
          June 13, 2011 at 10:21 pm | #

          That’s a good one.

  5. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    June 13, 2011 at 12:04 am | #

    Danny’s Angels 🙂

  6. Gnoka
    Gnoka
    June 13, 2011 at 12:05 am | #

    Walky must be so excited. Dorothy is in his room!

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      June 13, 2011 at 12:11 am | #

      Now he can show off the shrine he made from her discarded chewing gum!

      (I’m going to see how long it takes someone to get the reference. Shouldn’t be too long.)

      • Alex
        Alex
        June 13, 2011 at 12:26 am | #

        Hey Arnold?

      • ShifterComic
        ShifterComic
        June 13, 2011 at 12:27 am | #

        “Arnold, my love…”

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        June 13, 2011 at 12:46 am | #

        Fifteen minutes. In the middle of the night, no less.

        Well done, internet.

        • G.S.Mercs
          G.S.Mercs
          June 13, 2011 at 1:41 am | #

          I was thinking the music video for “Do I Creep You Out” by Weird Al Yanokovic myslef

        • Yhelta
          Yhelta
          June 13, 2011 at 8:06 pm | #

          “Good job internet…..Cave Johnson, we’re done here”

  7. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    June 13, 2011 at 12:08 am | #

    So what letter will Ruth remove next?

    • Bekah
      Bekah
      June 13, 2011 at 12:19 am | #

      I hope it’s the O

      Billie in DRAG

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      June 13, 2011 at 12:32 am | #

      My guess? O.

  8. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    June 13, 2011 at 12:14 am | #

    Wait, what happened to the hockey jersey?

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 13, 2011 at 12:20 am | #

      Ruth has been removing pieces of it cos she wants Billie to find Sal and sign some document instead of doing her job as RA and finding Sal herself.

    • David
      David M Willis
      June 13, 2011 at 12:24 am | #

      She wore that yesterday. In strip time.

      • Zem
        Zem
        June 13, 2011 at 12:01 pm | #

        Comic book time should not deviate so much from real-time @_@

        Are you following “Girl Genius”? They have been in that freaking castle for -years-. In boom time, three days.

        • ME
          ME
          June 13, 2011 at 2:13 pm | #

          Willis said they’d be in college forever. We didn’t realize he meant exactly that.

        • Arthur Dent
          Arthur Dent
          June 13, 2011 at 9:01 pm | #

          That’s nothing, Wigu has been going for a whole decade and has only progressed *exactly* 2 weeks!

        • gangler
          gangler
          June 13, 2011 at 10:11 pm | #

          It’s not exactly uncommon. Hayate no Gotoku has been running for eight years and about four months have passed in comic. The Fancy Adventures of Jack Cannon has been going for three years now and it’s been three or four days in comic.

          The entire concept of comic book time is that real time isn’t relevant to it. It’s not taking place today. If you read the comics in sequence then I’m sure it’s only half an hour between the passing of days. Just pretend like you’re enjoying a story like any other. 2 hours of The Matrix isn’t literally 2 hours of Neo’s life, nor is the five years between it and the sequel five years of story time. Same in books, television, and comics. Yes, even those of the web variety. Let’s not render the entire concept of comic time meaningless by making it reliant on real time.

    • Orion
      Orion
      June 13, 2011 at 4:43 am | #

      SWEATER. D<

      Oh, right. I like this strip. I read it often. I don't think I've ever commented but I could be wrong.

  9. Ridureyu
    Ridureyu
    June 13, 2011 at 12:14 am | #

    If this is anything like my old college, then documenting Ruth’s abuses, gathering evidence, and reporting on them in any way will get Billie reprimanded and/or kicked out for “slandering rightful authority figures.”

    Or she might just be forced into counseling with the psych department.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 13, 2011 at 12:23 am | #

      She better get her camera out then if that is the case.

      • Ridureyu
        Ridureyu
        June 13, 2011 at 12:47 am | #

        yeah,again, thinking about how my old college worked. Ruth wouldn’t even have to defend herself – pictures or not, evidence or not, it’d just be dealth with.

    • shoeboxjeddy
      shoeboxjeddy
      June 13, 2011 at 12:56 am | #

      Your college was insane. If it was even hinted that I (as an RA) STOLE something and defaced it… man I would be out on my ass so fast it wouldn’t even be funny. Especially if I was stupid enough to be involved in a physical altercation with the supposed victim TWICE in public.

      • Doom Shepherd
        Doom Shepherd
        June 13, 2011 at 2:58 pm | #

        Lots of colleges are insane. My friend slipped on an unsalted walkway (at 10 AM) at my old college and broke his leg. He was flat-out told that if he sued, he’d never graduate, and they’d sabotage his attempts to get his transcript transferred.

        I think he eventually got around that, but it was crazy even to say that.

        • NikNik
          NikNik
          June 13, 2011 at 10:21 pm | #

          Suddenly, your comment reminds me of two separate incidents at my college where both parties were reprimanded for going to the proper authorities for help. Their reasoning, “We can deal with these things ourselves.” Really?

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      June 25, 2011 at 3:34 am | #

      I’m guessing you’re a little bitter about that, huh?

  10. Rikushadow5
    Rikushadow5
    June 13, 2011 at 12:21 am | #

    Panel 1, I actually heard the ” [ ! ] ” sound effect.

    • Lt. Taz
      Lt. Taz
      June 13, 2011 at 12:24 am | #

      The one from MGS? Yeah, me too.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 13, 2011 at 12:26 am | #

        And she doesn’t even have a cardboard box handy.

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          June 13, 2011 at 12:41 am | #

          Or a barrel or cardboard tank.

  11. Tunasammich
    Tunasammich
    June 13, 2011 at 12:25 am | #

    So much for the photoshop theory! 😉

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 13, 2011 at 12:28 am | #

      Looks like Ruth carefully unstitched the N from the cheerleader uniform.

      • Davecom3
        Davecom3
        June 13, 2011 at 2:18 pm | #

        Actually, she didn’t, those are two separate holes in the uniform, the first for the N and the second for the S.

        • Saucialist
          Saucialist
          June 13, 2011 at 6:55 pm | #

          From the look of it, I think the letters are only unstitched : sure the fabric is clearer, but the shadowing is continous. Anyway, Ruth wants to put pressure on Billie, if she can’t retrocede the outfit in wearable shape, why should Billie abide ?

          Beside, this can be a new streak of Ruth wickeness, yay !!

          • Davecom3
            Davecom3
            June 13, 2011 at 7:12 pm | #

            http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/04-the-bechdel-test/supervisor/

            You really think Billie can’t tell the difference between a letter being unstitched and being cut out of her property?

  12. NF
    NF
    June 13, 2011 at 12:27 am | #

    1) Walky appears to be wearing pajama pants.

    2) Billie is vastly overestimating the influence of the IU student paper.

    3) It’s probably for the best that we don’t see Walky’s face as his expression morphs from nervous befuddlement to mind-erasing terror when he realizes that the girl he is infatuated with is in his room and he is wearing pajama pants.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 13, 2011 at 12:30 am | #

      If the PJ pants he is wearing is the type where Mr Winky can flop out, I think I can appreciate his terror.

    • Lis
      Lis
      June 13, 2011 at 12:48 am | #

      maybe he will offer her some more paper for a snack

  13. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    June 13, 2011 at 12:44 am | #

    It’s Drago? Aww, and “RAGON” could have been the perfect warning when Billie is pissed off.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 13, 2011 at 12:57 am | #

      If she removed the D and O, then it would be a RAG.

      • 1Samildanach
        1Samildanach
        June 13, 2011 at 9:18 am | #

        Remove the O and the R (and shuffle the D over a space), an’ you get “DAG” ;).

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          June 13, 2011 at 6:52 pm | #

          DAG? You’re an Aussie too?

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        June 13, 2011 at 8:28 pm | #

        “RAG ON!”

    • John
      John
      June 13, 2011 at 12:59 am | #

      I was hoping for D AGON, personally.

    • Turkey Lurkey
      Turkey Lurkey
      June 13, 2011 at 8:42 am | #

      Am I the only one that’s expecting a “I WILL BREAK YOU” reference?

      • NF
        NF
        June 13, 2011 at 10:24 pm | #

        “IF HE DIES, HE DIES.”

  14. Head Alien
    Head Alien
    June 13, 2011 at 12:57 am | #

    I was just rereading Joyce and Walky and I discovered Walky did have a crush on Dorothy in highschool but she shuned him now Im wondering if the one alternate universe where Dorothy and Walky got together might be this one.

    • David
      David M Willis
      June 13, 2011 at 1:00 am | #

      Naw, Dumbing of Age is a completely new continuity.

      (Besides, in that universe the Head Alien was not a fictional guy, plus a whole bunch of other stuff that conflicts with this story.)

      • Head Alien
        Head Alien
        June 13, 2011 at 1:45 am | #

        But wasn’t the head alien universe and time jumping as well which would feasibly meen he could arrive in this universe but never show his face.

        • David
          David M Willis
          June 13, 2011 at 1:55 am | #

          In that universe, Dorothy and Walky met in high school. In Dumbing of Age they went to separate high schools and met in college. (Plus Walky and Dorothy and Billie were a year younger than Danny, Joe, and Joyce and so wouldn’t be around yet.)

          • Head Alien
            Head Alien
            June 13, 2011 at 10:46 am | #

            Ahh I see now.

    • Head Alien
      Head Alien
      June 13, 2011 at 1:00 am | #

      Sorry for the double post I’m using an iPod touch and the battery’s almost dead.

  15. Organs
    Organs
    June 13, 2011 at 1:18 am | #

    I seriously want something horrible to happen to Ruth. Nothing but a bully and a bongo. Billie gets enough grief being ostracized by everyone else as it is.

    • Head Alien
      Head Alien
      June 13, 2011 at 1:20 am | #

      Ruth may be acting this way due to personal problems of her own.

      • Scot
        Scot
        June 13, 2011 at 3:38 am | #

        That doesn’t justify jack squat. It’s fine if someone has issues, but if it makes a person in power become a tyrannical force, then the gloves come off.

    • turkishproverb
      turkishproverb
      June 13, 2011 at 6:03 pm | #

      Billie’s RA is a great big bongo, she’s the biggest bongo in the whole wide world.

  16. kater
    kater
    June 13, 2011 at 1:36 am | #

    Ooo, I’m David Willis! I’m gonna make my readers do a google search to figure out what they should already know but don’t because public schools barely got up to world war 2. I’m going to make them learn over the summer to fully enjoy my comic strips.

    Damn you…

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 13, 2011 at 2:12 am | #

      I knew about it and I’m not even a Yank.

      • kater
        kater
        June 13, 2011 at 2:35 am | #

        I was left behind.

        • CWR
          CWR
          June 13, 2011 at 5:06 am | #

          Like those rapture books? I thought that wasn’t until Rocktober.

          • Zanosuke_Kurosaki
            Zanosuke_Kurosaki
            June 13, 2011 at 2:27 pm | #

            No, in this case it’s a reference to that POS program, “No child left behind”, which was a complete and utter failure.

            • Doom Shepherd
              Doom Shepherd
              June 13, 2011 at 3:01 pm | #

              It was a government-run education initiative supported by a republican, written by a democrat, and funded by neither. What did you expect?

              • CWR
                CWR
                June 14, 2011 at 4:04 am | #

                I expected people to know the difference between facetious and sarcastic. Sarcastic is basically a way of being nasty and mean. Generally a biting comment meant to insult. Whereas Facetious is playful, fun and teasing. 9 times out of 10 when someone says they were being sarcastic they were actually being facetious. Which I was, I think. Facetious that is.

  17. Jimmy
    Jimmy
    June 13, 2011 at 1:37 am | #

    I’m not going to ask who’s Deepthroat in this scandal.

    • Jimmy
      Jimmy
      June 13, 2011 at 1:40 am | #

      Aw hell by saying that I AM asking. 😉

      • Rex Hondo
        Rex Hondo
        June 13, 2011 at 1:51 am | #

        Roz, of course, but in the OTHER current scandal.

  18. Shifty
    Shifty
    June 13, 2011 at 2:05 am | #

    I’m impressed Billie knows who that is.

    • David
      David M Willis
      June 13, 2011 at 2:16 am | #

      I originally wanted to write “Woodward and Bearenstein,” as in the “Bearenstein Bears,” but infuriatingly, those guys are spelled “Berenstein.” Rats.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 13, 2011 at 3:09 am | #

      Nice to know that Billie isn’t just a stereotypical valley girl.

    • milk experiment
      milk experiment
      June 13, 2011 at 4:44 pm | #

      You know how the things that bother you most about other people are, when you think about it, often the things you like least about yourself? I think that’s one reason Billie’s so down on nerds and is clinging hard to her cheerleader / party girl persona. She’s a journalism nerd, and desperately trying to avoid admitting that to herself.

    • Aydr
      Aydr
      June 13, 2011 at 7:04 pm | #

      Well, she is a journalist in the main continuity, and people are pretty much the same. She’s a bit of a prom queen cheerleader bongo, but she’s always taken her job seriously.

  19. Mr immature
    Mr immature
    June 13, 2011 at 2:40 am | #

    Deepthoat, that would have to be Roz

    I’ll apologize now for my crassness…. sorry

  20. Undrave
    Undrave
    June 13, 2011 at 3:12 am | #

    Allright threesome!

  21. goatman95111
    goatman95111
    June 13, 2011 at 3:14 am | #

    Someone explain to me why Amazi-Girl just hasn’t gone Batman on Ruth yet, with the colorful “Ka-Pow!” or “Bam!” effects yet.

    • Matt
      Matt
      June 13, 2011 at 4:13 am | #

      Because Ruth still works on the side of justice. Granted, Ruth’s justice is more harsh, but hey, Batman puts up with Huntress in his city.

      • Zanosuke_Kurosaki
        Zanosuke_Kurosaki
        June 13, 2011 at 2:29 pm | #

        No. No, she doesn’t. She’s made it personal. That is no longer justice, that is bullying.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 13, 2011 at 6:48 pm | #

      If we are good little boys and girls, maybe Willis will reward use with an Amazi-Girl vs Ruth battle… with lots of Clothing Damage!

  22. Janos
    Janos
    June 13, 2011 at 4:33 am | #

    Well that should quiet all of those “SHE WAS OBVIOUSLY USING A FAKE TO ANGER BILLIE” commenters =D

    • CWR
      CWR
      June 13, 2011 at 5:09 am | #

      No, Sal finally turned in her paperwork on her own, so Ruth is taking the fake to the trash chute.

      NOTHING WILL QUIET US!!

      • Janos
        Janos
        June 13, 2011 at 2:47 pm | #

        Right Ruth has so much time she can go buy a fake dragons cheer leading uniform and cut out the letters from it XD

        • NF
          NF
          June 13, 2011 at 10:38 pm | #

          Time? She’s ruthless. I wouldn’t be surprised if she had prepared a blackmail plan over the summer for every student on her floor.

          • CWR
            CWR
            June 14, 2011 at 3:50 am | #

            Can Ruth be ruthless? Isn’t that a zero sum equation?

  23. Jackson
    Jackson
    June 13, 2011 at 6:53 am | #

    Wait, Woodward and who now?

    • milk experiment
      milk experiment
      June 13, 2011 at 4:51 pm | #

      Here, let me google that for you… 😛

      • milk experiment
        milk experiment
        June 13, 2011 at 4:53 pm | #

        Wow, that seems more harsh than I intended with the angry Galasso avatar. :-\

  24. nothri
    nothri
    June 13, 2011 at 8:52 am | #

    Wow, hey, a strip named after my last name. Sweet.

    Uh-oh. Now Dorothy is involved. Ruth might actually have to contend with an opponent that takes the radical step of reporting abuse to the proper authorities.

  25. begbert2
    begbert2
    June 13, 2011 at 10:57 am | #

    Where was the S, on that sweater? The back?

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      June 13, 2011 at 1:36 pm | #

      Removed long before Ruth got her hands on it, I guess.

  26. Zem
    Zem
    June 13, 2011 at 12:06 pm | #

    We have a hostage situation!

    (“complaining reader” mode on)

    I liked this more on the first read (everyone piling into Walky’s room while he is -in his underwear- for debriefing on a quick assault operation) until I realized that Billie was just going to push that stupid “win a Pullitzer by writing about my tyrant RA” idea again.

    Then I realized that Dorothy was in Walky’s room now.
    Now I like this strip again.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 13, 2011 at 6:45 pm | #

      We can only hope that there will be a debriefing of a different kind very soon.

      • XLR
        XLR
        June 13, 2011 at 8:06 pm | #

        ba dum pish!

      • nothri
        nothri
        June 15, 2011 at 3:47 pm | #

        Wait, are we talking about Walky and Dorothy or Ruth and Billie?

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          June 18, 2011 at 7:04 am | #

          Ruth and Billie, in an epic cat fight that will lead to clothing damage and lesbianism.

  27. Bill M.
    Bill M.
    June 14, 2011 at 1:45 pm | #

    Wait… that faded shadow looks like it would fit an N only, not an N and an S. Ruth is being veeeeeeery elaborate in her prank on Billie.

  28. Wack'd
    Wack'd
    May 24, 2012 at 7:28 pm | #

    WOW! I missed this the first go-around, methinks. Billie actually knows her shit, journalism-wise. At least a little.

  29. DFS
    DFS
    November 10, 2013 at 12:30 pm | #

    DRAGO!!!!!!
    DRAGO!!!!!!
    DRAGO!!!!!!

  30. The_Master
    The_Master
    January 15, 2014 at 9:31 am | #

    Why is there no space for the ‘s’?

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