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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.
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.
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…
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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?
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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they can smell shenanigans
Welcome back.
The world can return to its proper axis, which ie somehow comforting.
So is Ana Chronistic Willis’ spouse or something?
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.
And making name puns.
I’m waiting for her fourth identical twin cousin Misty Meanor to show up.
Probably just the vomit.
So, no pillar of salt upcoming?
Considering all the different storylines are happening at the same time(?), I’d wager we have at least another week.
SOMEONE’s gotta be salty about Mike’s death, right?
…. right?
Too soon. Or not soon enough?
Both. And neither.
Mike who?
I hope that’s explained while I still remember who he is / was.
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.
Well, at least now we understand his ceaseless quest to fuck every mother.
I find it kind of bizarre both our minds went to Sodom and Gomorrah.
It was obviously intentional – check the alt text.
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…
I, too, went immediately to Sodom and Gomorrah.
I’m pretty sure the Ruth in The Bible comes from a different book.
The Book of R.A.s?
they demand a sacrifice
Worst gender-flipped Three Wise Men update ever.
If they offer Ruth gifts, then I’ll buy it. They don’t even have to be gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Acapulco Gold, Frank’n’Beans, and Myrrth
A gold medallion, franincense shampoo, and a Nintendo DS.
Whattaburger? Nothingburger.
When you say, “stuffed in their rooms“, I say, prime time to hear things from other rooms.
“Stuffed in their rooms” is different than “getting stuffed in their rooms”.
And I know — shame on me for saying that.
Yeah, but Lucy is creepy.
I find Beatrice, Nash, and Rose far more creepy at this point. They’re way too obsessed with anything involving Billie.
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.
The entire frigging quad is creepy. (Except maybe their RA…she hasn’t showed up enough to say anything.)
Zaph seems pretty chill.
Oh, yeah, he exists, too. And he’s not here, so he’s provisionally on the ‘not creepy’ list.
Derber Or Nothing
I’d make a reference to the current Twitter feud between BK and Wendy’s but that sounds like work.
“Quick Ruth, out the window!”
Close. “Quick, I need you to leave out the window.”
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/fuckup/
Oh ho ho ho! How unfortunate!…For Billie that is. This is probably the best day ever for everyone else.
… 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.
“Surrender Not-Dorothy”.
Genesis 19:5 springs to mind.
Not familiar with that album, but then again, not a big fan of the band, what is the 5th song about?
Brings us the girl and the debt will be paid.
Booker Dewitt has many regrets.
wipe away the debt.
Remember when Bioshock Infinite ripped off The Magician’s Nephew and nobody seemed to notice? That was a weird sort of game.
*pulls The Magician’s Nephew off the shelf*
*boots up Bioshock Infinite*
….sorry, I don’t see it.
“We are here to collect lesbians for the Lesbian God”
Lesbians for the lesbian god! Bisexuals for the bisexual throne!
Lesbians and Bisexuals for the throne of
KhorneSlaanesh!…that sounds like a fun throne room… >:P
You can’t spell “Slaanesh” without FUN.
(Chaos names are weird and don’t follow the rules of the grammatical universe)
Appropriate Opal is appropriate.
Opal is always appropriate. #hopalforopal
Six characters, all with glasses: Is this a DofA record?
It’s a Glasses-Wearing Convention
We’re allllllllllll wearin’ glasses.
(A callback to a strip with four in glasses, if we count Beef.)
Frivolesque is invading DOA
It means that people in Indiana must not be getting enough vitamin A.
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…
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.
No angels in that room.
These are not the angels you’re looking for.
Lucy?
Ah, I see where Billie went wrong – she’s still thinking of this as a normal dorm with normal people.
PREEEEEEEESENT HEEEEEEER!
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?
Hooper is still not appearing and will probably not appear.
Aren’t all characters based on real people except Alex and Maggie off the table? So that’d take out Hoop’s entire squad.
Oh god! Faz’s girlfriend could appear!
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.
Technically, Carla is one of the second-generation characters. I still think it’s weird her having parents who aren’t Joe and Rachel.
I think she gets a pass as one of the oldest characters.
The important thing is to realize Billie can’t be in a committed loving relationship or it would destroy her rep.
While he hasn’t actually appeared in-universe (yet!), I think Ninja Rick was at least being alluded to here.
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.
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.
Any character he based off a real person in previous comic universes has a 99.9% chance of not appearing ever again.
Alex.
Jhon, your avatar always makes me think you’re pointing up and referring to a comment that precedes yours.
It was actually appropriate here!
Billie, you forgot about your fan club.
Ah, Ruth? It’s feeding time at the zoo. Put on that A1 Sauce perfume I like so much.
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.
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.
Jesus Christ I’d murder someone if I was in Ruth’s position lmao
there’s a reason she used to rip femurs out of people
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!
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.
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.
I’m hoping she picks one of Lucy’s outfits instead of one of Billie’s. Something fun.
DoA Book 10: Present Her To Us, Now!
“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.
As someone else pointed out, see Genesis 19:5. Depending on the translation, how much closer can you get?
Well, it would be closer if they were demanding to have their way with Ruth.
I mean, there *is* a famous Ruth in the Bible.
There’s also a famous Rahab. So what’s your point?
There’s also a famous Ahab, but that’s from a different book.
These creepy locusts are completely insufferable. How does anyone live like that?
Hah, I just commented the same thing further down…
Guys this is fucking weird.
I’d hate that.
Genesis 19 *opens duckduckgo* Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed uh
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.
“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]
Not bad at all…
It’s not Genesis 19 until they start demanding for her to let them have their way with Ruth.
I was just about to mention that.
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…)
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.
Malaya was clearly the least annoying person in Forest Quad. It’s true, but yet SO WEIRD.
Billie’s response should be “Or the entirety of you can fuck right off. Yeah, let’s go with that.”.
I start to feel sorry thinking about Malaya forced to live there.
Bring them out that we may know them.
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.
Is it just me, or do Ruth’s body freckles make it look like she has chicken pox?
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.
Privacy seems to be a concept Forrest quad has left behind.
Whose vomit?
Billie’s, we can assume. She’s been in bad shape from quitting booze.
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?
No Billie, Bisexual Invisibility is a Disadvantage not an Advantage. It only works when you don’t want it to.
oh boy, we’re back to my least favourite dormitory, where everyone acts like pod people
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…!