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by David M Willis on December 11, 2020 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - Look Straight Ahead
└ Tags: becky, dorothy, joyce, lucy, sal, walky

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    December 11, 2020 at 12:05 am | #

    Taco Bell used to be After Church Food

    not surprised I retained my atheism

    • Kyrik Michalowski
      Kyrik Michalowski
      December 11, 2020 at 12:09 am | #

      Taco Bell helped you realize church was bullshit, you should be thankful. 😛

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        December 11, 2020 at 2:45 am | #

        Sermons go in one ear and out the other. Taco Bell doesn’t linger much longer than that.

  2. Proto_Eevee
    Proto_Eevee
    December 11, 2020 at 12:05 am | #

    they look like they don’t got any hands!

    • UnfrozenNeanderthal
      UnfrozenNeanderthal
      December 11, 2020 at 12:24 am | #

      Welcome to mittens

      • Demoted Oblivious
        Demoted Oblivious
        December 11, 2020 at 12:47 am | #

        And warm fingers!

        • Clif
          Clif
          December 11, 2020 at 1:03 am | #

          Sierra would point out they have no toes.

  3. Nono
    Nono
    December 11, 2020 at 12:08 am | #

    Oh, right, different class schedule, hmm. I wonder when we’ll see Leslie.

    • UnfrozenNeanderthal
      UnfrozenNeanderthal
      December 11, 2020 at 12:24 am | #

      There’s comics with her drawn and uploaded, so relatively soon.

      • Clif
        Clif
        December 11, 2020 at 1:05 am | #

        Becky hasn’t had her class yet.

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        December 11, 2020 at 9:03 am | #

        Unfortunately, Willis has a three-and-a-half month buffer, so ‘relative’ only compared to the overall length of the comic.

        • David M Willis
          David M Willis
          December 11, 2020 at 8:13 pm | #

          *cough* four months

          • Joshua Kronengold
            Joshua Kronengold
            December 11, 2020 at 11:29 pm | #

            I mean, that’s good?

            (ludicrously impressive, really).

  4. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    December 11, 2020 at 12:08 am | #

    Hey, I happen to like Taco Bell and I think it deserves to be considered “real food,” after all it sustained me through college(before I dropped out).

    Also Becky’s “hating Dotty enthusiasm” could use some toning back, like all the way back.

    • Yenklette
      Yenklette
      December 11, 2020 at 12:18 am | #

      Becky’s sort of a hard character to write, because if you let her turn into a cartoon, she’s a kind of unlikable cartoon, in a way, say, Carla isn’t—mainly because Carla is never *mean*, just “obnoxious”. She’s been veering more cartoonish for a while now. I blame the Dads Arc.

      • Clif
        Clif
        December 11, 2020 at 12:31 am | #

        I have bad news for you.

        • Demoted Oblivious
          Demoted Oblivious
          December 11, 2020 at 12:48 am | #

          Damnit Earth, stop interrupting, we’re trying to live here.

      • Kyrik Michalowski
        Kyrik Michalowski
        December 11, 2020 at 12:31 am | #

        It’s a fair thing to blame, she might be leaning extra hard into her Dorothy rivalry so she has someone to take it out on.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        December 11, 2020 at 9:22 am | #

        They’re both hard to write, I suspect.
        Because they both have very strong defense mechanisms that they wear like armor, only very occasionally giving glimpses underneath. It’s tricky to convey that in a way that keeps the focus on it, but still reminds the reader once in a while that the surface isn’t really what’s going on.

  5. BBCC
    BBCC
    December 11, 2020 at 12:10 am | #

    I think that fake enthusiasm is as good as you’ll get here, Dorothy. XD

    • Clif
      Clif
      December 11, 2020 at 12:34 am | #

      Enthusiasm just isn’t right unless it’s a little bit plastic.

      • Demoted Oblivious
        Demoted Oblivious
        December 11, 2020 at 12:50 am | #

        Do you mean that it’s artificial, or that it can be reshaped to fit the needed purpose? Both? Or that it’s derived from petrochemicals? Or… or…?

        • Clif
          Clif
          December 11, 2020 at 1:07 am | #

          Enthusiasm is like Taco Bell.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            December 11, 2020 at 9:23 am | #

            Artificial and derived from petrochemicals? That fits.

        • thumb
          thumb
          December 11, 2020 at 8:59 am | #

          it’s unsustainable for sure

  6. StClair
    StClair
    December 11, 2020 at 12:11 am | #

    Careful there, Becky. Between teasing Joyce about her eating habits and poking Dorothy because you’re jealous she’s Dorothy, you almost went thirty whole seconds without trolling someone.

  7. tim gueguen
    tim gueguen
    December 11, 2020 at 12:11 am | #

    I’m starting to wonder if Becky isn’t following the “I have a crush on someone, but I don’t want to admit it, so I’ll act like a jerk to them” trope.

    • Yenklette
      Yenklette
      December 11, 2020 at 12:20 am | #

      I think she’s trying to be a jerk to Dorothy in a funny-haha way to disguise her actually not-funny resentment over Joyce Envy. Which is kind of misguided and doesn’t make sense, for reasons Dorothy’s explicitly pointed out—Dorothy *doesn’t* really have Joyce for long—but that’s my theory.

      • Clif
        Clif
        December 11, 2020 at 12:37 am | #

        I think she’s doing a shtick, like she always does a shtick, to entertain herself.

  8. Passchendaele
    Passchendaele
    December 11, 2020 at 12:11 am | #

    god panel 4 is way too much of a mood

    • BarerMender
      BarerMender
      December 11, 2020 at 1:31 am | #

      I’m confused. I thought a mood was an emotional state.

      • Clif
        Clif
        December 11, 2020 at 1:51 am | #

        Panel is way too much of an emotional state.

        • Clif
          Clif
          December 11, 2020 at 1:53 am | #

          Panel 4 is way too much of an emotional state and who stole my 4?

          • Azhrei Vep
            Azhrei Vep
            December 11, 2020 at 7:52 am | #

            … nobody. You cle4rly misplaced your four all by yourself.

            • thumb
              thumb
              December 11, 2020 at 8:58 am | #

              Vep is sus!
              (Group proceeds to vote thumb out the airlock)

              • RowenMorland
                RowenMorland
                December 11, 2020 at 10:04 am | #

                It isn’t a good idea to stick your thumb out an airlock.

                • clif
                  clif
                  December 11, 2020 at 11:20 am | #

                  If thy thumb offend thee , stick it out an airlock. Malicia 13:4

  9. LiterallyJustSomeGuy
    LiterallyJustSomeGuy
    December 11, 2020 at 12:13 am | #

    Wait, Joyce is taking this class, too? All three of them will be in a class together? *rubs hands together furiously*

  10. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    December 11, 2020 at 12:15 am | #

    In Honor of Thursday’s Strip of 9 Chickweed Lane, and/or other things.

    • Stephen Bierce
      Stephen Bierce
      December 11, 2020 at 12:18 am | #

      BTW, the closest Mexican restaurant to where I live failed its inspection by the Tennessee Health Department this week. They scored 58 out of 100 and over 100 pounds of queso sauce had to be dumped because it was too warm.

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        December 11, 2020 at 12:36 am | #

        If any of the Mexican places in my area got a visit from the health inspector, they’d get shut down. I’m convinced they’re bribing somebody.

        • Clif
          Clif
          December 11, 2020 at 12:56 am | #

          I live in Texas, so the actual Mexican restaurants are pretty good. The closest is Gringos which is wonderful if overpriced. On the other hand , there are a convenience store which sells warmed over Mexican food, a Mexican meat market that offers lunch, and another convenience store with a Tacarita Cart outside, all of which are closer and all of which I’ve been afraid to try. Taco Bells are an imitation of Mexican food, but for fast food, I’ve had worse.

          • Demoted Oblivious
            Demoted Oblivious
            December 11, 2020 at 4:38 pm | #

            It feels like Gringos is perfectly named then. Delivers on the goods and uses the opportunity to fleece the customers. So named for the clientelle rather than the proprietor perhaps?

          • Opus the Poet
            Opus the Poet
            December 11, 2020 at 10:08 pm | #

            Taco Bell is based on the food Dave Bell found on both sides of the border in SoCal late 1950s, CaliMex as opposed to TexMex. I had some Mexico City style Mexican a few years back and it’s nothing like either.

  11. not someone else
    not someone else
    December 11, 2020 at 12:18 am | #

    The only problem I have ever had with Taco Bell is that I always either don’t have enough money or I’m with people who would look at me funny if I had enough food to actually get full at Taco Bell. It’s like other people’s problem with Chinese food.

  12. Bagge
    Bagge
    December 11, 2020 at 12:26 am | #

    Best friend squad!

  13. UrsulaDavina
    UrsulaDavina
    December 11, 2020 at 12:27 am | #

    I am hoping that this Geffory Nicholson is on subatical and Robin is teaching the class as an adjunct. Mostly beacuse I want to see Robin’s face when she receives her first paycheck at an adjuncts salary. Also Dr. William Bianco teaches Intro To American Politics at IU in the spring.

    • Lingo
      Lingo
      December 11, 2020 at 1:03 am | #

      See, I was thinking Robin changed her name….

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        December 11, 2020 at 5:13 am | #

        It’s just Robin with her hair tucked under a hat, poorly disguising her voice, and wearing Groucho glasses.

        • clif
          clif
          December 11, 2020 at 11:28 am | #

          Would Willis be that good to us though? Even for Christmas.

          • Demoted Oblivious
            Demoted Oblivious
            December 11, 2020 at 4:41 pm | #

            Look to Halloween! The expectations have already been foretold.

  14. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    December 11, 2020 at 12:31 am | #

    It’ll do.

  15. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    December 11, 2020 at 12:34 am | #

    Becky? There’s a fine line between co medically silly passive-aggressiveness and toxic passive aggressiveness, and I can’t help feeling that you’re not so much putting a toe across that line as dancing a merry jig on it just to prove you can.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      December 11, 2020 at 12:35 am | #

      *comically, damn you semi-auto correct!

      (I mean, I right-clicked the squiggly line, so it’s not fully automatic, is it?)

      • Demoted Oblivious
        Demoted Oblivious
        December 11, 2020 at 5:02 pm | #

        I for one, support the use of “co-medically silly,” and intend to embrace it with both of my noodly appendages. I believe I have a co-morbid fascination with your new term. 😆

  16. Delicious Taffy
    Delicious Taffy
    December 11, 2020 at 12:35 am | #

    Man, Dorothy is being absolutely horrendous, here. I can’t believe she has the audacity to demand false enthusiasm from her so-called “friends”. How terribly dreadful of this horrid, evil hwoman.

    /s

    • Clif
      Clif
      December 11, 2020 at 1:17 am | #

      What are you talking about? Dorothy is a perfect cinnamon roll, too good for this school.

      • Clif
        Clif
        December 11, 2020 at 1:56 am | #

        Just ask Yale.

  17. Doom Shepherd
    Doom Shepherd
    December 11, 2020 at 12:37 am | #

    In my PoliSci course in late ‘89, I predicted that the USSR would break up entirely, into 15 states or more. My Prof wrote “unlikely” on my essay.

    I should have gone back a few years later and demanded a grade change.

    • Clif
      Clif
      December 11, 2020 at 1:38 am | #

      In fairness, over two decades later, I still feel it was unlikely.

      Come up with a nonsensical Star Wars program for missile defense, fake the results and let the Soviets bankrupt themselves trying to keep up. I mean, it worked, so I guess it was genius, but jeeze.

      • CJ
        CJ
        December 11, 2020 at 4:09 am | #

        Hey, even in 84 we knew Star Wars couldn’t work. I remember doing a presentation on that when I was 16. Whatever made the Soviet Union collapse, it wasn’t that.

        But I wonder what that prof‘s doing that they already hate the idea of going. Sounds ominous.

        • Agemegos
          Agemegos
          December 11, 2020 at 8:14 am | #

          It was their centrally-controlled command economy.

        • Sam
          Sam
          December 11, 2020 at 11:19 am | #

          The Soviet Union partially collapsed because the Chernobyl disaster crushed the people’s egos and belief in their secretive government at the same time as a politician was advocating for openness with the people. It brought up a lot of issues that helped start the spiral to its collapse by destroying people’s faith in the government they had.

          • Roborat
            Roborat
            December 11, 2020 at 3:40 pm | #

            The widespread systemic corruption didn’t help either.

  18. drs
    drs
    December 11, 2020 at 12:43 am | #

    Dorothy is a fucking saint.

    Feels the timeskip has reduced the interestingness of the characters.

    Billie: might be a semi-trash person, but interesting character. Apparently wandered off.

    Mike: was getting interesting, then got killed, and replaced by a smarmier version of himself.

    Becky: used to have multiple notes, now is just an ungrateful asshole.

    Lucy: reduced to Walky-thirst.

    • He Who Abides
      He Who Abides
      December 11, 2020 at 12:56 am | #

      Mike: caught feelings after manipulating a friend with obvious attraction to him to hurt someone else, got exactly what he deserved, got replaced with a slightly less intolerable version of himself.

      Fixed it.

      • Clif
        Clif
        December 11, 2020 at 1:01 am | #

        Amazigirl replaced by Nightguy. Will the horror never end?

      • Axel
        Axel
        December 11, 2020 at 1:04 am | #

        yeah that seems like something a teenager deserves to get murdered for

        • Clif
          Clif
          December 11, 2020 at 1:27 am | #

          I mean, look at how much trouble we’d save if we just bumped them off once they were teenagers and no longer cute.

          • StClair
            StClair
            December 11, 2020 at 3:57 am | #

            (the plot of so many dystopian YA novels)

            • BenRG
              BenRG
              December 11, 2020 at 4:52 am | #

              Also basically the plot of Logan’s Run!

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      December 11, 2020 at 1:25 am | #

      Eh, give it time. If this comic has taught me anything it is that everyone has nuanced and interesting ways to be trash in.

      • Clif
        Clif
        December 11, 2020 at 1:43 am | #

        Becky has nuanced methods you say?

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          December 11, 2020 at 1:07 pm | #

          Sure! She just doesn’t want to.

  19. Bryy
    Bryy
    December 11, 2020 at 1:15 am | #

    I’m ready for the course credit.

    I KNOW THESE FEELS.

  20. Koms
    Koms
    December 11, 2020 at 1:52 am | #

    Joyce looks ultra cute in her mittens

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      December 11, 2020 at 2:19 am | #

      I think that ‘Joyce is cute’ is an oxymoron.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        December 11, 2020 at 5:18 am | #

        You mean a redundant statement.

        • Delicious Taffy
          Delicious Taffy
          December 11, 2020 at 5:25 am | #

          A tautology, even.

          • Deanatay
            Deanatay
            December 11, 2020 at 9:14 am | #

            So, a statement that adds no meaningful information to a discussion, because everything it says has already been said previously? A tautologous redundancy? Seems superfluous.

            • Clif
              Clif
              December 11, 2020 at 1:15 pm | #

              Superfluous? Superfluous? A superfluous tautologous redundancy is an oxymoron.

              • Koms
                Koms
                December 11, 2020 at 3:22 pm | #

                I’m sorry for stating the obvious but she looked so cute I couldn’t stop myself from writing.

        • Demoted Oblivious
          Demoted Oblivious
          December 11, 2020 at 5:06 pm | #

          Maybe BenRG was serious. Maybe Ben *really* finds Joyce unattractive and socially unnaceptable. Repulsive even.

          … What is the antonym of cute?

  21. Derek
    Derek
    December 11, 2020 at 2:00 am | #

    if Dorothy was a person with a shorter fuse, she would have bopped Becky one on the mouth already. Seriously what the hell

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      December 11, 2020 at 3:03 am | #

      Dorothy has impressive amounts of patience. If I were in Dorothy’s place, I probably would’ve snapped at Becky long ago.

    • RedCat
      RedCat
      December 11, 2020 at 5:51 am | #

      Which, probably good if she’s going into politics and has to have discussions with Republicans.

      • Heather
        Heather
        December 11, 2020 at 8:00 am | #

        Becky is excellent practice. Becky is so considerate giving Dorothy the experience she needs to deal with difficult people.

        • Clif
          Clif
          December 11, 2020 at 1:17 pm | #

          I mean, Becky is practically a saint.

          • Demoted Oblivious
            Demoted Oblivious
            December 11, 2020 at 5:07 pm | #

            Given what horrors so many saints have inflicted upon humanity…

  22. BenRG
    BenRG
    December 11, 2020 at 2:19 am | #

    Dorothy, I hope that you take good notes for this class because I think Joyce and Becky are either going to be snoozing or playing notepad games for the entire session!

  23. Keulen
    Keulen
    December 11, 2020 at 3:00 am | #

    Dumbing of Age Book 11: Yer Daily Recommended Allowance of Things

    • Clif
      Clif
      December 11, 2020 at 3:31 am | #

      Yeah, there was an embarrassment of workable subtitles this time around.

      Real Food has THINGS In It.
      I’ve Got Cartoons to Watch.
      Fake Some Enthusiasm Better Than That.
      Oh No, I Agree with Walky.
      My Scholarship Requires Me to Feel Ready.
      You Can Talk About How I’m Absolutely Right All the Way to Your Next Class.

  24. Sombrero
    Sombrero
    December 11, 2020 at 5:45 am | #

    RDA?

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      December 11, 2020 at 9:18 am | #

      Recommended Daily Allowance? Everyone who grew up in a US elementary school in the 80’s or 90’s knows that acronym. A buzzword for nutritionists everywhere.

      • Sombrero
        Sombrero
        December 11, 2020 at 6:22 pm | #

        Thanks for the explanation!! Being an old non-American non-nutritionist I was completely in the dark. Becky’s shuffling of the words didn’t help either.

  25. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    December 11, 2020 at 7:32 am | #

    That’s right, Dorothy. Keep putting up with the baseless, irrational, illogical, pointless hate from the other side of your house. If you want to be a Democratic President, you’ll need the practice.

    • Demoted Oblivious
      Demoted Oblivious
      December 11, 2020 at 5:09 pm | #

      To be fair, us liberals (or democrats) have a fair number of assholes on our side of the fence too.

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        December 11, 2020 at 8:20 pm | #

        Yeah, but the other side doesn’t feel the need to pretend to play nice with them for some reason.

  26. Josh Spicer
    Josh Spicer
    December 11, 2020 at 8:33 am | #

    Why?

    Like…why reduce a character to a base feeling or idea?

  27. BenRG
    BenRG
    December 11, 2020 at 8:53 am | #

    At some point, Joyce really needs therapy or the attention of a dietician.

    • Joshua Kronengold
      Joshua Kronengold
      December 11, 2020 at 11:36 pm | #

      Dorothy likes what she likes! She’s actually getting better.

      She needs the attention of an optician, though.

  28. Corneel
    Corneel
    December 11, 2020 at 9:42 am | #

    I’ve seen all the comments about the way Becky treats Dorothy and agree with most. However what I don’t see is any remark about the third person in this BFF-Triangle. I think it’s time Joyce took Becky aside and tells her that she’s out of line.

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      December 11, 2020 at 11:28 am | #

      It’s only a matter of time before that happens. Joyce has been super reluctant to express any negative opinion towards Becky since she showed up and Becky’s been pushing harder and harder at the limits of acceptable behavior. Sooner or later Becky will push too hard and go too far and Joyce will have to finally deal with it.

    • Jhon
      Jhon
      December 11, 2020 at 1:26 pm | #

      It’s just an attention getting device.

  29. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    December 11, 2020 at 9:55 am | #

    As an Italian, I was sure that Joyce and Walky’s idea of food was just the American idea of food.

    • seregiel
      seregiel
      December 11, 2020 at 11:42 am | #

      There is both a regional and socio-economic breakdown that can occur for “American” diet considering the size and population of our country… but a reduced synopsis is most people, even those who like that type of meal, generally concede it isn’t in the same category as “food”.

    • nightshade
      nightshade
      December 11, 2020 at 4:11 pm | #

      its somewhat a tradition to survive on barely nutritional trash while in college university etc in the USA

      • drs
        drs
        December 11, 2020 at 6:03 pm | #

        Note Dina “I live on cereal” isn’t any better, nutritionally speaking.

        A friend of mine thinks she started getting scurvy her freshman year. Wasn’t medically diagnosed but started having some of the symptoms, and she says her diet really was that bad. Granted, she probably would have thought it was kind of cool to get scurvy.

  30. Mr.Morningstar
    Mr.Morningstar
    December 11, 2020 at 11:37 am | #

    Becky I love you, really I do, but you seriously need to chill out with Dorothy, she’s literally not your enemy in the slightest.

    • Alaric
      Alaric
      December 11, 2020 at 3:44 pm | #

      And Becky will not rest until that’s rectified!

  31. Alan in DC
    Alan in DC
    December 11, 2020 at 11:55 am | #

    Cartoonists love winter scenes. Know why?

    We dont have to draw articulated hands.

    • Demoted Oblivious
      Demoted Oblivious
      December 11, 2020 at 5:11 pm | #

      Ah… I was wondering why there were so many comics about amputees.

      • Eldritchy
        Eldritchy
        December 11, 2020 at 5:49 pm | #

        Hiromu Arakawa got the memo but then threw it out the window and set it on fire with a flamethrower.

  32. C.T Phipps
    C.T Phipps
    December 11, 2020 at 3:36 pm | #

    Thankfully, Dorothy will soon be gone and there will be more room for Becky’s wacky adventures!

    • Eldritchy
      Eldritchy
      December 11, 2020 at 5:47 pm | #

      Or Becky will fall into a catatonic state because her Arch-Rival is gone and now she has no one to poke.

    • Joshua Kronengold
      Joshua Kronengold
      December 11, 2020 at 11:38 pm | #

      I’m pretty sure Dorothy is conflicted. I mean, yeah, sure, she would have -prospects- at Yale. But her -friends- are here.

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