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by David M Willis on March 2, 2020 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - To Remind You of My Love
└ Tags: becky, dorothy, joyce, robin, sarah

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    March 2, 2020 at 12:02 am | #

    as inconspicuous as Jason

    • abysswatcher1993
      abysswatcher1993
      March 2, 2020 at 11:23 am | #

      Or Michael Myers. How did nobody noticed him in plain day light? He walked across the street easily like some background character, but the characters didn’t notice.

      • Abel Undercity
        Abel Undercity
        March 2, 2020 at 8:54 pm | #

        Well, it WAS Halloween.

  2. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    March 2, 2020 at 12:03 am | #

    I like to think Robin just had those shirts, and insisted.

  3. Hazel
    Hazel
    March 2, 2020 at 12:03 am | #

    Beef found some part time work!

    • clif
      clif
      March 2, 2020 at 1:22 am | #

      Digging a grave for Mike.

      Because they want to bury him alive.

      They found out the source of all the nickles.

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        March 2, 2020 at 1:27 am | #

        What is a “nickle”?

        • Bicycle Bill
          Bicycle Bill
          March 2, 2020 at 1:56 am | #

          Nickname for the European green woodpecker (Picus viridis); also called a ‘nicker-pecker’.

        • Kaidah
          Kaidah
          March 2, 2020 at 9:16 am | #

          They’re those coins your mom has after her weekend visits with your “uncles”.

          • King Daniel
            King Daniel
            March 2, 2020 at 11:41 am | #

            Those are “nickels”.

    • Sunny
      Sunny
      March 2, 2020 at 9:14 am | #

      Yeah, that’s either Biff or Duke Nukem.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 2, 2020 at 9:26 am | #

      He’ll need a partner who can somehow understand his monosyllabic grunts, otherwise how would he call for backup?

      • Sunny
        Sunny
        March 2, 2020 at 12:09 pm | #

        I guess that’s what the goon with the green shirt is there for then.

  4. Undrave
    Undrave
    March 2, 2020 at 12:03 am | #

    Should just ask Ted Cruz to do some Zodiac-ing and get rid of Toedad that way…

    • BigDogLittleCat
      BigDogLittleCat
      March 2, 2020 at 12:05 am | #

      Excellent idea!

  5. BBCC
    BBCC
    March 2, 2020 at 12:03 am | #

    Goddammit Robin. Yeah, not creepy at all.

    • clif
      clif
      March 2, 2020 at 1:17 am | #

      Not only that. Becky is going to ditch them in three,
      Two.
      One.

      … and then.

      • Radiance
        Radiance
        March 2, 2020 at 2:37 am | #

        “I think it’s time we blow this scene.”

        • Tualha
          Tualha
          March 2, 2020 at 5:11 am | #

          “Get everybody and the stuff together”

          • Deanatay
            Deanatay
            March 2, 2020 at 8:19 am | #

            “okay, one, two, three let’s jam”

            *sax commences*

            • Vombatidae
              Vombatidae
              March 2, 2020 at 8:32 am | #

              See you, space cowboy…

            • a/snow/mous/e
              a/snow/mous/e
              March 2, 2020 at 8:40 am | #

              *Three, two, one, let’s jam.

    • Freemage
      Freemage
      March 2, 2020 at 1:28 am | #

      At least this is legitimately a case of ‘right impulse, bad execution’? For Robin as she’s been shown in the strip thus far, this marks some genuine character growth–she’s now at least considering other people.

      She still has a lousy ‘theory of mind’ (the ability to perceive a situation from someone else’s perspective, and understand that what they want might be different from what you want and believe), but she’s trying.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        March 2, 2020 at 3:01 am | #

        Indeed. Very trying. 😛

        • Happilychaotic
          Happilychaotic
          March 2, 2020 at 7:37 am | #

          Lol XD

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        March 2, 2020 at 6:58 am | #

        Protect her without telling and worrying her. Like Joyce wanted to do at first.

  6. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    March 2, 2020 at 12:03 am | #

    I dub them Chuckles and Roadblock.

    • King Monster
      King Monster
      March 2, 2020 at 7:15 am | #

      Two names that sound better if given to a clown and a transformer respectively.

      • King Monster
        King Monster
        March 2, 2020 at 7:17 am | #

        Much like Parapet and Safeguard.

        • Stephen Bierce
          Stephen Bierce
          March 3, 2020 at 12:09 am | #

          For the record, Chuckles and Roadblock are G.I. Joe characters. The Chuckles figure wore a tropical shirt. The Roadblock character wore a tropical shirt in one of the comics’ storylines (told in Special Missions).

          NOW YOU KNOW.

    • Kaidah
      Kaidah
      March 2, 2020 at 9:18 am | #

      Despite being roughly the size of a small barn, I’m willing to bet Roadblock would do a better job at being inconspicuous.

      Until he started cooking and rhyming of course.

  7. Suet
    Suet
    March 2, 2020 at 12:04 am | #

    Hawaiian shirts? Suspicious.

    Uggs? It’s a look, so we’ll let it slide.

    • Kyoulkoa
      Kyoulkoa
      March 2, 2020 at 12:08 am | #

      hawaiian shirts and uggs where do they think this is, Florida in the winter

  8. Tacos
    Tacos
    March 2, 2020 at 12:05 am | #

    Yep that’s not conspicuous at all. No siree.

  9. Kyoulkoa
    Kyoulkoa
    March 2, 2020 at 12:06 am | #

    secret agent man

    • Geneseepaws
      Geneseepaws
      March 2, 2020 at 6:42 am | #

      But I LIKE my name as is!

      • MatthewTheLucky
        MatthewTheLucky
        March 2, 2020 at 1:40 pm | #

        Too bad. Your number is 3.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          March 2, 2020 at 3:15 pm | #

          Who is number one?

          • Vivee
            Vivee
            March 2, 2020 at 4:38 pm | #

            It was him, Mister Krabs! He was number one!

          • He Who Abides
            He Who Abides
            March 2, 2020 at 5:18 pm | #

            The bald kid wearing sunglasses.

            And it’s pronounced “Numbah”, thank you very much.

          • Slartibeast Button, BIA
            Slartibeast Button, BIA
            March 3, 2020 at 12:05 am | #

            By hook or by crook, we will.

  10. Badeyes
    Badeyes
    March 2, 2020 at 12:08 am | #

    Well they’re all on their phones, when they should be eyeballing them. So that will make them stick out to most of the rest of the campus that are buried in theirs.

  11. Mark
    Mark
    March 2, 2020 at 12:09 am | #

    Now might be a good time for an apology Joyce because anger, fear and worry Is no excuse for your behavior

  12. KM
    KM
    March 2, 2020 at 12:09 am | #

    Is Robin still running on a Republican ticket or is she an independent now?

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      March 2, 2020 at 12:13 am | #

      I seem to remember she was nominated by the Party but has been dis-endorsed. So she gets the precious (R) on the ballot but no campaign volunteers.

      • CJ
        CJ
        March 2, 2020 at 6:13 am | #

        What happens to the money donated to her for running? Are those her funds or the party’s?

        • Ryek Hvek
          Ryek Hvek
          March 2, 2020 at 7:31 am | #

          All the funds were cashed out a while ago, and are what the Dina-saur is stuffed with.

  13. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    March 2, 2020 at 12:12 am | #

    I don’t know. How sure are we Ross is even still at large right now? Like nothing has happened after that whole fight cliffhanger so this might all be an overreaction.

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      March 2, 2020 at 12:16 am | #

      Yes. Becky overreacting to a bunch of suspicious guys discreetly tailing her.

      Hijinks are basically promised.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      March 2, 2020 at 7:06 am | #

      Assuming she got word through some official channels, if they were back in custody, she’d have learned of that as well.
      Of course, AG could have just killed them and stashed the bodies, which she wouldn’t know about.

  14. AntJ
    AntJ
    March 2, 2020 at 12:13 am | #

    rich mullins appeared a year ago

  15. sultryglebe
    sultryglebe
    March 2, 2020 at 12:13 am | #

    If anyone was going to be worse on informed consent than Joyce, it would be Robin.

    • Tan
      Tan
      March 2, 2020 at 2:58 am | #

      Robin is in some ways just Joyce with money and a position of power

      • Regalli
        Regalli
        March 2, 2020 at 9:11 am | #

        Yeah, that… basically sums it up, in a lot of Robin’s storylines. (Hanging out in someone’s home and refusing to leave, bringing on a paparazzi swarm is totally fun and goofy, and not incredibly creepy and violating!)

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          March 2, 2020 at 10:42 am | #

          How is that like Joyce? I guess if you took some of Joyce’s worst points, ramped them up to 11 and ignored all her good ones.

  16. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    March 2, 2020 at 12:14 am | #

    She’s doing her best, but she’s still Robin. We can only ask so much.

  17. Agemegos
    Agemegos
    March 2, 2020 at 12:15 am | #

    Well, Robin and Joyce have similar ideas about deciding what’s right for Becky without informing or consulting her.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      March 2, 2020 at 7:07 am | #

      Though Joyce got over it in about 5 minutes. It’s an understandable impulse, as long as you overcome it.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 2, 2020 at 9:33 am | #

      Yeah, Becky’s agency is getting thoroughly trampled in this storyline. That can’t possibly cause any blowback!

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        March 2, 2020 at 10:36 am | #

        Hard to blame Joyce for that, since she’s come here to tell Becky.

        Trampling agency is what Robin does. I’m not sure she recognized that other people have any.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          March 2, 2020 at 1:52 pm | #

          Joyce also wanted to shelter Becky from knowing Ross is out of jail “for her own good” only a few strips ago, but at least she came around.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            March 2, 2020 at 3:12 pm | #

            It’s not an uncommon reaction. Or an entirely bad one.

            As long as you reconsider. It only took her a few minutes, iirc.

  18. Meagan
    Meagan
    March 2, 2020 at 12:16 am | #

    Is Becky’s eye twitching because she doesn’t know why she’s being followed?

    • Miri
      Miri
      March 2, 2020 at 12:18 am | #

      Could be the shirt is so bright it’s triggering a migraine…

  19. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    March 2, 2020 at 12:17 am | #

    So close Robin, so close. At least her heart is in the right place? That counts, right? Although now we have to ask, how did Robin find out?

    • Matthew E Davis
      Matthew E Davis
      March 2, 2020 at 12:26 am | #

      I’d assume someone at the Prison may have let her know, since she made a big deal out of Becky during a press conference as I recall.

      • BarerMender
        BarerMender
        March 2, 2020 at 12:30 am | #

        Yeah. Or maybe Amazi Girl.

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      March 2, 2020 at 12:42 am | #

      I mean Robin is a congresswoman. I know she’s a bit of a joke and our political climate leads most to believe are politicians don’t do anything but Robin actually has surprising amount of power and a personal interest in this situation. It would be quite easy for her to find out. She might have even been able to keep Ross in jail if she’d cared enough to try.

      • JetstreamGW
        JetstreamGW
        March 2, 2020 at 1:06 am | #

        You don’t really even need power to find out if someone posts bond. That’s pretty much always public information. She could probably just have an alert set up for it.

    • NelC
      NelC
      March 2, 2020 at 4:42 am | #

      Her concern about her campaign manager, without whom she has no chance of getting re-elected? Kind of in the right place, I guess, for her heart to be.

  20. Miri
    Miri
    March 2, 2020 at 12:25 am | #

    This is possibly the strip in which we’ve seen Robin at her best so far: caring, looking out for the people around her, and making quick, decisive, proportional decisions.

    And while wanting to keep Becky safe and also not wanting to worry her sounds good on paper – she’s also being short-sighted, underestimating her, patronising her… And if Becky freaks out because she is aware she is being followed by strangers, potentially making the situation worse. Y’know, beyond the whole hiring an adult to do an adult’s job then treating them like a child betrayal of trust thing…

    • Matthew E Davis
      Matthew E Davis
      March 2, 2020 at 12:27 am | #

      Proportional for Robin, at any rate. She still has them dressing like Magnum.

      • Sunny
        Sunny
        March 2, 2020 at 12:13 pm | #

        I think the world would be a better place if all security personnel had to dress like that.

        • He Who Abides
          He Who Abides
          March 2, 2020 at 5:20 pm | #

          Speaking as someone who works security, no thank you. Hawaiian shirts are too baggy.

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      March 2, 2020 at 9:15 am | #

      Yeah, nice to see a bit more of Robin’s potential to maybe someday be a decent human being.

      And meanwhile, show Joyce the exact issues ‘not telling Becky’ would imply, with added Weird Stranger Dudes following her around which she’s clearly noticing and will not trust at all!

  21. Newllend(henryvolt)
    Newllend(henryvolt)
    March 2, 2020 at 12:32 am | #

    This is good and all even if Becky may be safe that doesn’t mean everyone else is since Becky wasn’t the only target. If Blaine and Ross can’t get to Becky then they’ll just go after someone close to her and use them to draw her out. Chances are it’ll be either Joyce or Dina, most likely Dina since she close to both Becky and Amber.

  22. Pocky
    Pocky
    March 2, 2020 at 12:44 am | #

    Stealth check failed

  23. RacingTurtle
    RacingTurtle
    March 2, 2020 at 12:45 am | #

    I know aloha shirts aren’t exactly uncommon, but I can’t help but think that these guys look like they raided Walkyverse Joe’s closet

    • Jhon
      Jhon
      March 2, 2020 at 10:01 am | #

      I should wear mine more often!

  24. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    March 2, 2020 at 12:51 am | #

    Could’ve hired ninjas.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      March 2, 2020 at 8:23 am | #

      Don’t be ridiculous. Ninjas can’t wear hawaiian shirts.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 2, 2020 at 9:35 am | #

      Rick’s hiding in the bushes.

      All the time. In every strip.

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      March 3, 2020 at 12:08 am | #

      “Dad would have gotten us ninjas.”

  25. inqntrol
    inqntrol
    March 2, 2020 at 12:57 am | #

    I don’t know why but the blond guy wearing a hawaiian shirt looks a bit like Duke Nukem to me.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      March 2, 2020 at 3:02 am | #

      Oh good, I’m not the only person who thought that.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 2, 2020 at 9:37 am | #

      He’s here to chew ass and kick bubble gum, and he’s all out of ass.

      (Robin has a budget and it was short notice, she had to take what she could get.)

  26. Bagge
    Bagge
    March 2, 2020 at 12:58 am | #

    That’s a very… Robin solution.

    Still, not bad!

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      March 2, 2020 at 3:39 am | #

      Let’s be real, flawed though it is, it’s hardly the worst decision we’ve seen her make.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        March 2, 2020 at 6:58 am | #

        I’d even say it makes the top-five list of her BEST decisions.

        • Jhon
          Jhon
          March 2, 2020 at 9:58 am | #

          There were five?

  27. Lingo
    Lingo
    March 2, 2020 at 12:59 am | #

    I’m disappointed there’s no “goons” in the tags.

  28. TheFlamingonator
    TheFlamingonator
    March 2, 2020 at 1:01 am | #

    Bodyguard meeting: “what do college kids wear these days? Hawaiian shirts? I’m pretty sure Hawaiian shirts?!”

    • inqntrol
      inqntrol
      March 2, 2020 at 1:05 am | #

      “Yeah, we’ll totally not stick out like a sore thumb!”

  29. Ed Rhodes
    Ed Rhodes
    March 2, 2020 at 2:06 am | #

    Those two guys reminded me of a moment in the Arnold Schwarzenegger film “Red Heat.” In the film, Arnold plays a Soviet soldier sent to Chicago on a case. There, he is teamed up with Jim Belushi, hijinks ensue! At one point, he shows up in a badly fitting suit and exclaims; “Ah am undeh covah!” Belushi’s response? “You look like Gumby!”

    • Mark
      Mark
      March 2, 2020 at 2:19 am | #

      He was a cop not a soldier

  30. BenRG
    BenRG
    March 2, 2020 at 2:06 am | #

    The biggest asset those guards have is that they’re so obvious, no one will ever believe that they are what they look like they are!

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      March 2, 2020 at 3:20 am | #

      On the other hand, Toedad is so stupid so who knows what he might believe.

  31. Keulen
    Keulen
    March 2, 2020 at 3:01 am | #

    Becky definitely won’t notice those guys in Hawaiian shirts following her everywhere.

  32. Judas Peckerwood
    Judas Peckerwood
    March 2, 2020 at 3:13 am | #

    Aw, Robin really cares.

  33. GUIGUI
    GUIGUI
    March 2, 2020 at 3:25 am | #

    Any change she hired Beef too? I kno he is still a sutdent, but Robin woudln’t be above that.

    (I really want Beef to be given more development than in the Walkyverse)

  34. StClair
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    March 2, 2020 at 3:54 am | #

    WITH CAT-LIKE TREAD

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      March 3, 2020 at 12:05 am | #

      UPON OUR PREY WE STEAL
      IN SILENT DREAD
      OUR CAUTIOUS WAY WE FEEL

      • Slartibeast Button, BIA
        Slartibeast Button, BIA
        March 3, 2020 at 12:10 am | #

        Tarantarah, tarantarah!

  35. Chris Phoenix
    Chris Phoenix
    March 2, 2020 at 3:59 am | #

    OK, this is making it less and less plausible that Mike actually died. I know it’s still possible – to DYW all things are possible – but it would take some explanation.

    If a body had been found, it’s really implausible that Robin would not know about it.

    … But it’s quite plausible that Robin would know, and not have mentioned it and/or made the connection.

    … Still, that wouldn’t solve the other mystery: What did Amazi-Girl do after Mike fell?
    1) She didn’t turn into Amber, because Amber doesn’t remember anything.
    2) She didn’t fight the Evil Dads and lose, because Amber’s not beat up.
    3) She didn’t fight the Evil Dads and win, because Toedad would be in jail again.
    4) She probably didn’t run away and notify authorities, because Robin would probably have heard.
    5) She didn’t become totally non-functional, because Blaine would have done something horrible to her.

    All I can guess is that she, as Amazi-Girl, made a strategic retreat… then Amber took over, and didn’t remember anything… leaving the Evil Dads free to remove Mike (dead or alive)… in which case we may have to wait until Amazi-Girl comes back for our next clue.

    • Jon S.
      Jon S.
      March 2, 2020 at 10:04 am | #

      3a) She snapped when Mike fell, and nobody’s found the bodies of the Evil Dads yet. Which would also provide AG with a reason to keep hiding in Amber’s head without telling her what was going on.

      I know, that’s probably the lowest-probability outcome, but a man can dream…

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      March 3, 2020 at 12:12 am | #

      The Evil Dads wake up tied up in some weird way in a warehouse, with a shadowy figure watching them from behind glaring spotlights.

  36. Sombrero
    Sombrero
    March 2, 2020 at 4:17 am | #

    I hope there’s a bit of McHenry there in the buffer to round this great storyline of “adults in the room doing adult things”.

  37. Zaxares
    Zaxares
    March 2, 2020 at 4:36 am | #

    So close, Robin… So close, and yet so far. 😛 If you REALLY didn’t want to tell Becky the truth for the security, you should have just said “Kid, this is just standard practice. ALL political employees at this level have security details assigned to them, just in case.” (Which, btw, is true. Past a certain level, you WILL need security around to provide a buffer against extremely angry political opponents/voters, or just wacko nutjobs packing a gun or other weapon. There was a recent case in Indonesia where a high-ranking minister got out of his car to do the typical meet-n-greet your constituents thing and some crazy just ran up to him and stabbed him with a knife.)

  38. Wraithy2773
    Wraithy2773
    March 2, 2020 at 5:32 am | #

    I swear, Robin is like “sheMeansWell.gif” incarnated…

  39. JBento
    JBento
    March 2, 2020 at 6:39 am | #

    I’d imagine few things make a young, persecuted minority feel safer than being followed by strange, burly men. Few things.

  40. Happilychaotic
    Happilychaotic
    March 2, 2020 at 7:35 am | #

    Definitely not worrying. At all. Nothing to see here.

  41. Geneseepaws
    Geneseepaws
    March 2, 2020 at 7:58 am | #

    my problem is, that as body guards they’re too far away to prevent an attack. Toe-Dad is built like a tank, he may or may not BE fit, but his inertia once moving could do some damage before two or three could stop him.

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      March 2, 2020 at 9:00 am | #

      Unless Toe-Dad comes up with guns a-blazing — and I don’t think that’s likely; remember, he is trying to ‘rescue’ his daughter and put her back on ‘the right path’, not martyr her as a hopeless heretic — those bodyguards are definitely close enough.

    • He Who Abides
      He Who Abides
      March 2, 2020 at 5:22 pm | #

      Ross looks slow to me, and he has knees ripe for the cracking.

  42. raultsi
    raultsi
    March 2, 2020 at 8:35 am | #

    I’m still confused. Is this pre-party flashback? Is it day after party?

    • Alaric
      Alaric
      March 2, 2020 at 8:38 am | #

      I’m pretty sure this is “current”.

  43. thumb
    thumb
    March 2, 2020 at 9:30 am | #

    Being followed by professional government goons? Perfectly normal.

  44. Sibre
    Sibre
    March 2, 2020 at 9:45 am | #

    Today’s electoral campaign activity: walk around campus with posterboard.
    Expected votes accrued: all of them probably??

  45. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    March 2, 2020 at 11:05 am | #

    So they’re EXACTLY as subtle as a florescent Hawaiian shirt print.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      March 2, 2020 at 3:13 pm | #

      The twist is those are thugs working for Blaine. The real agents are much more subtle.

  46. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    March 2, 2020 at 11:07 am | #

    Yep. She looks so relaxed right now.

  47. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    March 2, 2020 at 11:21 am | #

    Joyce, you and Robin are birds of a feather when it comes to extreme actions to protect your friends. Better learn from this so you don’t become like Robin.

  48. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    March 2, 2020 at 12:30 pm | #

    very…stealthy… much…wow…

  49. BlackScarabZ
    BlackScarabZ
    March 2, 2020 at 4:00 pm | #

    I mean, we never really expected Robin to do this the exact correct way, right? By Robin standards, this is surprisingly competent.

  50. C.T Phipps
    C.T Phipps
    March 2, 2020 at 5:31 pm | #

    Peter Parker: I can’t endanger you by letting you know the truth of my secret identity.

    Mary Jane: Being ignorant puts me in MORE danger.

  51. Dracke
    Dracke
    March 2, 2020 at 5:57 pm | #

    I love robbin

  52. Axel
    Axel
    March 2, 2020 at 6:15 pm | #

    I appreciate the one who is, fairly successfully, doing the cartoon move of sucking in his gut and fitting behind a lamp post

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      March 2, 2020 at 9:07 pm | #

      Maybe he’s just down a leg?

  53. Booker
    Booker
    March 2, 2020 at 8:07 pm | #

    I vote we name then Agent Uggsy and Agent lamplit.

  54. Lingo
    Lingo
    March 2, 2020 at 9:13 pm | #

    So does Becky still not have a phone? If not, how can she effectively run Robin’s campaign? If she does, Joyce should just call her and tell her.

    • Lingo
      Lingo
      March 2, 2020 at 9:16 pm | #

      I see this was discussed yesterday and Becky is supposed to have a phone, so…?

  55. Romanticide
    Romanticide
    March 2, 2020 at 11:55 pm | #

    Well at least Becky is already on “something it’s up” mode. Probably not confortable but helpful for the moment, even if she has no idea of the details.

  56. Slartibeast Button, BIA
    Slartibeast Button, BIA
    March 3, 2020 at 12:14 am | #

    My fanon is these are the obvious bodyguards to distract you from the nondescript real bodyguard posing as an old woman feeding the pigeons.

    • SuperZero
      SuperZero
      March 3, 2020 at 2:49 am | #

      Who’s posing? It’s not like she’s faking feeding the pigeons.

  57. Roborat
    Roborat
    March 3, 2020 at 4:01 pm | #

    It is too bad she didn’t have the security on last night. And why do I get the feeling those shirts are modelled after ones in Willis’s closet?

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