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i'd like to see dorothy hold up a liquor store badly - wait, i'm the writer, why aren't i doing that
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June 14, 2026

Strategy

by David M Willis on January 7, 2024 at 12:01 am
  • 02 – It's The Love I Haven't Got
└ Tags: jennifer, ruth

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    January 7, 2024 at 12:01 am | #

    “Ms. Billingsworth, you’re trying to seduce me. Aren’t you?”

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      January 7, 2024 at 12:01 am | #

      wow, what if Dotty ends up getting stabbed in the hand when holding up that liquor store

      MATCHING SCARS WITH SAL

      • Ryan
        Ryan
        January 7, 2024 at 12:52 am | #

        I approve of this plan.

        Wait, no I don’t.

        Or do I.

        No, certainly not.

        Unless …

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        January 7, 2024 at 2:09 am | #

        it’s a lot less cool when the scar is self-inflicted

      • Decidedly Orthogonal
        Decidedly Orthogonal
        January 7, 2024 at 2:29 am | #

        And then twinsies seduces Sal, making her break up with…

        Danny! Muwahahhaa!

        • jflb96
          jflb96
          January 7, 2024 at 9:15 am | #

          Be a lot less effort and pain and potential nerve/tendon damage to get with Sal’s twin, who is conveniently single.

          Also, I feel like she’d get halfway through before remembering who Sal’s with and abandoning the plan out of guilt.

    • BarerMender
      BarerMender
      January 7, 2024 at 12:51 am | #

      I visualized, for a few seconds, Dorothy and Ruth having sex. That was jarring. I couldn’t feature a way it could happen. Dorothy might do it if she were drunk, but Ruth would say, “Ew, get off me, you nine-year-old woman.”

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        January 7, 2024 at 7:55 am | #

        She’s not that scrawny…

        • ValdVin
          ValdVin
          January 7, 2024 at 8:30 am | #

          Ruth and Dorothy are each pretty trim, build-wise.

          • HueSatLight
            HueSatLight
            January 7, 2024 at 1:34 pm | #

            what’s that song, with a xylophone and it’s sexy?

  2. BBCC
    BBCC
    January 7, 2024 at 12:02 am | #

    Uh how dare you, Dorothy would meticulously plan that robbery and NAIL it thank you.

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      January 7, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

      Dorothy might be able to plan a robbery, but I don’t think she could pull off a robbery. She’d have to be behind the scenes.

      • Vulcanodon
        Vulcanodon
        January 7, 2024 at 6:45 am | #

        Now I’m picturing alt-universe Dorothy in an evil suit with a white cat…

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          January 7, 2024 at 7:54 am | #

          Now I want to draw TOS-era Mirror Universe Dorothy, but I can’t draw.

          • David DeLaney
            David DeLaney
            January 7, 2024 at 9:50 am | #

            with a blond goatee

          • Time Sage
            Time Sage
            January 7, 2024 at 10:29 am | #

            Just quickly edit any image of her to have an evil goatee

          • Dave the Inverted
            Dave the Inverted
            January 26, 2024 at 6:55 pm | #

            That would be epic.

      • Booyahman
        Booyahman
        January 7, 2024 at 11:25 pm | #

        Dorothy would go Leverage Nate Ford EXTREMELY quickly. Dina would be Parker.

    • Chaucer59
      Chaucer59
      January 7, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

      No, Dorothy would meticulously plan the robbery, execute it flawlessly, and then immediately turn herself in. At the arraignment, she would refuse bail and then demand to represent herself at trial. She would win the case, being found not guilty either by reason of her overwhelming need for the therapy of successful larceny or simply because that liquor store was just asking for it. Then, she would spend the next few years advocating for bail reform.

      • Agemegos
        Agemegos
        January 7, 2024 at 1:09 am | #

        To be fair, the US dose desperately need bail reform.

        • Chaucer59
          Chaucer59
          January 7, 2024 at 11:51 pm | #

          Absolutely!

    • Samniel
      Samniel
      January 7, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

      She would meticulously plan a robbery but the second one thing goes against her plans (which would be… pushing when the door says pull), she’d unravel, try to make up a new plan on the spot, then panic when someone asks what she’s doing and yell “CERTAINLY NOT PLANNING TO ROB THIS STORE!”

      • clif
        clif
        January 7, 2024 at 12:22 am | #

        Hey, I’m going to borrow and adopt that the next time the bank teller asks me how I’m doing today. Or maybe just casually volunteer the information when I walk into the local convenience store.

        But maybe not in a place I’m not known.

      • BarerMender
        BarerMender
        January 7, 2024 at 12:48 am | #

        I walked in a bank one time holding, by happenstance, a banana. I trained it on the teller and said, “This is a stickup.” She gave a look that said, “Boy, you’re about to get your ass in a crack.” But I said, “Give me all te bananas,” and then it was all right.

      • anon
        anon
        January 7, 2024 at 9:30 pm | #

        She’d also write a handwritten apology note to teh cashier and offer to pay for their therapy too lol

    • newlland(Henryvolt)
      newlland(Henryvolt)
      January 7, 2024 at 12:27 am | #

      She would have the plan Thoroughly thought out but she wouldn’t have the stomach to follow through.

    • C.T. Phipps
      C.T. Phipps
      January 7, 2024 at 12:29 am | #

      Dorothy would plan the robbery, someone would walk in, and she’d end up utterly going to pieces as things very slightly go array.

      Either ending in her unable to threaten someone or multiple dead bodies.

      • Miri
        Miri
        January 7, 2024 at 3:59 am | #

        … Do you not recall Dorothy in the basement immediately after being violently abducted, putting together a plan? And coolly telling Blaine that his problem was he left them their teeth? She can function under pressure.

        If Dorothy was thoroughly convinced that she needed to rob a bank and it was the right thing to do, she would do it…

        And ironically it might convince her that she was willing to do the not-so-pleasant things she’d need to as President and re-rail the same career ambitions one might think bank robbery would permanently end… So hopefully she gets a good enough disguise she doesn’t get caught? (A few people have not known who she is, although one of those was Carla… Arguably a decent wig, glasses, specially purchased in cash clothes that can’t be easily traced back to her/her friends group – generic white T-shirt and blue jeans with label hidden or something? The sort of outfit that pretty much everyone her age will own), gloves, and a plan to get past the dye packs (no idea how you do that coz I’ve never planned/executed a robbery)…

  3. clif
    clif
    January 7, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    I have missed these two interacting.

    • Rose by Any Other Name
      Rose by Any Other Name
      January 7, 2024 at 12:18 am | #

      I know, right?

    • Karadaga
      Karadaga
      January 7, 2024 at 12:24 am | #

      I know, right?! They bounce off each other like light off a mirror. It’s like they were made in a lab to be one another’s perfect foil

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      January 7, 2024 at 11:55 am | #

      These two interacting is a double slit experiment. Both particle and wave, and lots and lots of interference.

  4. Masumi
    Masumi
    January 7, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    Hey, Dorothy might be *great* at holding up liquor stores. Every detail taken into account, nobody will ever catch her.

    • Mym
      Mym
      January 7, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

      She’d leave money on the counter

    • Masumi
      Masumi
      January 7, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

      Dammit I’m the first non-Sal in the comments, why am I not Sal?

      • clif
        clif
        January 7, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

        Someone has to wind up with the second best avitar.

      • Makkabee
        Makkabee
        January 8, 2024 at 1:38 pm | #

        That a bunch of Sal avatars are responding makes this even better.

  5. Dave Van Domelen
    Dave Van Domelen
    January 7, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    “Can we try a solution that won’t derail the story into Slipshine first?”

    • Proxiehunter
      Proxiehunter
      January 7, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

      “No.”

      • clif
        clif
        January 7, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

        Absolutely not.

        • newlland(Henryvolt)
          newlland(Henryvolt)
          January 7, 2024 at 12:31 am | #

          The slipshine material here sounds pretty good so it’s hard to agree.

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      January 7, 2024 at 4:44 am | #

      Let’s derail it into Slipshine territory f̶i̶r̶s̶t̶, and then worry about the story.

      • elebenty
        elebenty
        January 7, 2024 at 12:26 pm | #

        Almost every time I see you comment, my brain goes to Shel Silverstein and I wonder if Bicycle Bill lives way up on Bicycle Hill.

        His is “Backward Bill” — and it’s as catchy as any of his poems.
        https://allpoetry.com/poem/14374600-Backward-Bill-by-Shel-Silverstein

  6. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    January 7, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    “Hey we saw you across the room and we like your vibe.”

    • Rose by Any Other Name
      Rose by Any Other Name
      January 7, 2024 at 12:27 am | #

      Jennifer: Okay, new plan. We actually do go fuck Dorothy’s brains out. That’s sure to fix her.

      Ruth: So we’re just leaning in to your unintentional innuendo now?

      Jennifer: I mean, my cooter pulled you out of a depressive spiral. Who’s to say it won’t work again?

      Ruth: I’m pretty sure that was the counseling and medication, actually.

      Jennifer: What, so you’re not on board with my plan?

      Ruth: No, let’s go fuck Dorothy. She’ll probably do a better job eating me out than the brit.

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        January 7, 2024 at 12:50 am | #

        10/10, Professor! XD ^^

      • Sajuuk-Khar
        Sajuuk-Khar
        January 7, 2024 at 3:06 am | #

        Jason, from literally JUST off-panel: Rude?!?

    • Bogeywoman
      Bogeywoman
      January 7, 2024 at 2:47 am | #

      “Hey we saw you from across the room and we hate your vibe.”

      • Bogeywoman
        Bogeywoman
        January 7, 2024 at 4:29 am | #

        https://imgur.com/gallery/D8u1EV6
        Hadta

        • NGPZ
          NGPZ
          January 7, 2024 at 6:16 am | #

          fucking LOL XD

          *plays “Closer” by Nine Inch Nails on hacked muzak*

        • milu
          milu
          January 7, 2024 at 9:38 am | #

          aaaaaaah that is so perfect <3 <3

        • PirateTawnee
          PirateTawnee
          January 7, 2024 at 9:55 am | #

          that’s lovely, great stuff.

        • HueSatLight
          HueSatLight
          January 7, 2024 at 11:35 am | #

          cackling like a hyena

        • Amós Batista
          Amós Batista
          January 8, 2024 at 6:49 pm | #

          YEEESSS

    • Sajuuk-Khar
      Sajuuk-Khar
      January 7, 2024 at 3:04 am | #

      Dorothy: *begins sobbing*

      Jennifer: Hey! What the hell, we’re trying to—

      Ruth: Oh, did someone forget our vibe was “lesbian suicide pact?”

      Jennifer: IT WAS A SEXY LESBIAN SUICIDE PACT, GOD DAMN YOU

    • Rabid Rabbit
      Rabid Rabbit
      January 8, 2024 at 6:57 am | #

      “Hey we saw you across the room and we like think you should use your vibe more.”

      Fixed it for ya.

  7. Dante
    Dante
    January 7, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    You can feel Ruth struggling in these panels. She really wants to stay patient but Jennifer #life is testing her.

    (Jennifer, please stop meddling with Ruth’s sex life, lmaooo)

  8. Mym
    Mym
    January 7, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    Threesome, girlies!!

    • Sajuuk-Khar
      Sajuuk-Khar
      January 7, 2024 at 3:13 am | #

      Jennifer all queuing up “Let’s Get It On”, Ruth growling in aggravation as she grudgingly undoes a bewildered Dorothy’s bra

      • Mym
        Mym
        January 7, 2024 at 12:01 pm | #

        Once again, your gravatar does this justice

    • anon
      anon
      January 7, 2024 at 8:37 pm | #

      other than being shipped with joyce, has dorothy showed any inclination she’d be interested/consider anyone else if she were to hookup with anotehr girl?

      or maybe htey end up drunk first and wake up next to each othr XD;

  9. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    January 7, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    Dorothy X Jennifer!!!! DOROTHY X JENNIFER!!!! <3

    (i really wanna see this happen ^^)

    • RassilonTDavros
      RassilonTDavros
      January 7, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

      Honestly, same.

    • Proxiehunter
      Proxiehunter
      January 7, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

      Dorthifer.

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        January 7, 2024 at 12:11 am | #

        Jennithy! Fuuuuuuuuusion HA!!!

        • David DeLaney
          David DeLaney
          January 7, 2024 at 12:54 am | #

          Darth Billie.

          • Makkabee
            Makkabee
            January 8, 2024 at 1:37 pm | #

            You win seventeen internets.

  10. Drain
    Drain
    January 7, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    TWO gags? DYW is spoiling us

  11. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    January 7, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    These two just can’t interact with each other without inevitably settling into an old married couple dynamic. I love it.

    • UrsulaDavina
      UrsulaDavina
      January 7, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

      Yeah if only their previous romantic entanglment wasn’t so toxic and built on suicide pact.

      • mneme
        mneme
        January 7, 2024 at 12:19 am | #

        I mean, yes. But if it weren’t for that minor (lol) bit they’d be perfect for each other.

        I mean, maybe. Or they’d drag one another back to a hell of their own design. Who Can Tell?

      • Sajuuk-Khar
        Sajuuk-Khar
        January 7, 2024 at 3:05 am | #

        It’s not a bug it’s a feature

      • AlexaSpuds
        AlexaSpuds
        January 7, 2024 at 3:27 am | #

        Yeah but at the point of their break up their relationship mostly transformed from said toxic thing into something stable and beautiful, it’s a fucking shame Ruth’s self destructive tendencies eventually got the best of Billie 🙁

      • Li
        Li
        January 7, 2024 at 5:58 pm | #

        Was this reply necessary

        Especially with that brutal phrasing

        Like did RassilonTDavros hurt your feelings so you wanted to hurt them in return or

        • milu
          milu
          January 7, 2024 at 8:48 pm | #

          i dont read it as particularly brutal fwiw?
          indicative of the sometimes frustratingly different approaches to this comic in this comment section yes, but it doesn’t read as purposely aggro to me

          • Li
            Li
            January 8, 2024 at 1:45 am | #

            “aw these two are cute”
            “yeah they’d be cute IF ONLY they weren’t so toxic and also built on a suicide pact”

            I dunno, this seems to me like bludgeoning someone who, for all you know, finds suicide to be a topic they don’t want to talk about cavalierly, with a short blunt comment that also calls the ship they were just enjoying toxic? It seems mean to me.

            Maybe that’s just me tho.

          • Li
            Li
            January 8, 2024 at 1:47 am | #

            It’s a whole style of reply ’round these parts, too. “I like this interaction!” “Yeah well DON’T FORGET, WORST INTERPRETATION OF THEIR DYNAMIC”

            How is the first person supposed to reply? “Gosh thanks, I’d forgotten!”

            • HueSatLight
              HueSatLight
              January 8, 2024 at 3:59 pm | #

              to be blunt, you’re doing the “WORST INTERPRETATION” about someone’s comment. everyone else managed to read the reply without interpreting that Ursula was trying to hurt Davros’ feelings.

              • Li
                Li
                January 8, 2024 at 7:26 pm | #

                Everyone except Davros, you mean, who hasn’t said anything?

              • Li
                Li
                January 8, 2024 at 7:30 pm | #

                Like you’re talking as if I barged into a happy conversation, but just because you didn’t have an issue with the phrasing doesn’t mean no one else did.

                Idk, friend, I’m really tired of seeing someone try to be happy about a cute moment only for someone else to show up with a bucket of ice water.

                Maybe Ursula didn’t mean anything by it; like I said it’s very normal around here. But I’d argue that they should have at least hesitated to dump “suicide pact” on someone who didn’t indicate a willingness to talk about that specific part of the ‘ship.

    • newlland(Henryvolt)
      newlland(Henryvolt)
      January 7, 2024 at 12:16 am | #

      Old habits die hard.

  12. not someone else
    not someone else
    January 7, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

    Okay, I gotta say, that alt text made me literally lol.

    • clif
      clif
      January 7, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

      You have to admit, it asks a good question.

      • David DeLaney
        David DeLaney
        January 7, 2024 at 12:56 am | #

        technically, it wasn’t a question?

        • milu
          milu
          January 7, 2024 at 9:52 am | #

          is your stance that the sole criterion for a sentence to be a question that it end in a question mark

          • David DeLaney
            David DeLaney
            January 7, 2024 at 7:50 pm | #

            see, that’s simply a request for clarification —

            • milu
              milu
              January 7, 2024 at 8:45 pm | #

              are we doing a bit, i’m confused now.

              • Aura
                Aura
                January 7, 2024 at 10:37 pm | #

                I think you are?

    • Jo_cubstar
      Jo_cubstar
      January 7, 2024 at 12:47 am | #

      I loved it too

  13. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    January 7, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

    Fucking amazing.

  14. UrsulaDavina
    UrsulaDavina
    January 7, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

    As long as they know this a stupid plan I don’t see a single reason. Why they shouldn’t double down. no i see many reasons but devil take hindmost seems to be Jennifer’s motto.

  15. newlland(Henryvolt)
    newlland(Henryvolt)
    January 7, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

    To think if Dorothy was having this crisis at a different point in time she would have been in line for an opportunity for a Jennifer and Ruth 3 way.

    But as hot as that would be and as I hate to say it, Jennifer needs to realize at some point that getting fucked is not an answer to everything. Not even if she’s the one who does it herself. Getting her high was probably a better plan.

    • Coatl
      Coatl
      January 7, 2024 at 12:16 am | #

      The detail is that she believes that everything is fixed with that, well, she believes that she knows everything and her advice is impeccable, without errors.

      • Coatl
        Coatl
        January 7, 2024 at 12:56 am | #

        By the way, I mean Jennifer

  16. HueSatLight
    HueSatLight
    January 7, 2024 at 12:14 am | #

    They should try knocking on doors and asking if anyone on the floor would have sex with Dorothy.

    • Mym
      Mym
      January 7, 2024 at 12:15 am | #

      Get Sarah involved.

      • newlland(Henryvolt)
        newlland(Henryvolt)
        January 7, 2024 at 12:17 am | #

        Now that’s some good juxtaposition right there.

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        January 7, 2024 at 12:18 am | #

        “Hi Mandy, I want to apologize for the other day, that was extremely inappropriate of me. … while we’re here though…”

        • clif
          clif
          January 7, 2024 at 12:24 am | #

          Mandy listens intently.

          • NGPZ
            NGPZ
            January 7, 2024 at 12:25 am | #

            hmm, the grim adventures of Jennifer (formerly Billy) and Mandy

            • HueSatLight
              HueSatLight
              January 7, 2024 at 12:36 am | #

              Ruth as Grim

  17. C.T. Phipps
    C.T. Phipps
    January 7, 2024 at 12:30 am | #

    At one point does trying to get your ex to have sex with other women become a kink?

    This is twice now and while that’s not a lot, it’s still weird it’s happened twice.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      January 7, 2024 at 12:39 am | #

      1) Jennifer’s not actually trying to do that.

      2) It’s not all that weird to hook up an ex, if you’re on good terms with them. Not the most common thing in the world, but not necessarily a kink.

      • Sere
        Sere
        January 7, 2024 at 3:51 pm | #

        I have in fact… hooked up my exes.

  18. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    January 7, 2024 at 12:38 am | #

    Oh dear, Dorothy’s devolving to “tween Sal” levels of messed up.

  19. Bryy
    Bryy
    January 7, 2024 at 12:47 am | #

    Jennifer please fucking stop.

  20. sdrainbow
    sdrainbow
    January 7, 2024 at 12:56 am | #

    One, excellent depiction of the :< face, ten points to Willis.

    Two, "okay, yeah, I hear it" is not a sentence I expected to see in Dumbing of Age ever. Wow.

    • StClair
      StClair
      January 7, 2024 at 1:48 am | #

      Is the latter a reference to something in particular?

      • Daibhid C
        Daibhid C
        January 7, 2024 at 7:43 am | #

        I vaguely associate it with Friends, but I couldn’t tell you the episode.

        • PirateTawnee
          PirateTawnee
          January 7, 2024 at 10:05 am | #

          Season one, an early “Chandler might be gay” episode, when the friends are getting ready for a funeral, and Chandler walks in and says “well don’t we all look nice, dressed up like this? Oh yeah, I hear it now”.

          Now that I think about it, they may have used a similar joke on at least one other occasion, but that’s the one that came to mind.

          • Mark
            Mark
            January 7, 2024 at 5:59 pm | #

            On Big Bang Theory it’s about 10% of Raj’s lines.

    • milu
      milu
      January 7, 2024 at 9:57 am | #

      confused because it sounds like an extremely dumbing of age sentence to me. i would even bet (very little) money it’s been used before at some point?

  21. David DeLaney
    David DeLaney
    January 7, 2024 at 1:02 am | #

    when all you have is a pair of suicidal Pop-Tarts, everything looks like a toaster

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      January 7, 2024 at 1:15 am | #

      Considered as a toaster, Jason is extra-wide, for crumpets.

  22. Agemegos
    Agemegos
    January 7, 2024 at 1:23 am | #

    I wonder what is the highest office that anyone in the USA has achieved after holding up a liquor store.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      January 7, 2024 at 2:16 am | #

      I think it depends on if you get caught or not

      Also whether or not you count raiding a liquor store for supplies during a military campaign

      • Daibhid C
        Daibhid C
        January 7, 2024 at 7:41 am | #

        The highest office anyone in the USA has achieved after holding up a liquor store and not getting caught is President.

        Go ahead, prove me wrong.

        • David DeLaney
          David DeLaney
          January 7, 2024 at 9:55 am | #

          can I do it by noting there are higher offices (unelected of course) that you also don’t know about

        • Thag Simmons
          Thag Simmons
          January 7, 2024 at 5:04 pm | #

          I mean I do not have an exhaustive familiarity with Ulysses S Grant’s military career, and frankly it would not surprise me

    • AlexaSpuds
      AlexaSpuds
      January 7, 2024 at 3:47 am | #

      A governor or a senator from a red state, getting a DUI is basically a requirement to get any political office in Florida.

  23. AGV
    AGV
    January 7, 2024 at 1:52 am | #

    Yeah, you’ll actually do something if you talk to Dorothy directly

    • Mark
      Mark
      January 7, 2024 at 7:16 am | #

      Dorothy: (thinks) “OMG I’m so far gone I’m getting advice from Ruth and Jennifer! I need (actual) help!”

  24. Max
    Max
    January 7, 2024 at 3:06 am | #

    Everybody would hold up a liquor store badly. Those things are heavy.

  25. Holly
    Holly
    January 7, 2024 at 3:45 am | #

    Soooo there’ll be a Patreon strip of Dorothy holding up a liquor store, badly soon?

  26. AlexaSpuds
    AlexaSpuds
    January 7, 2024 at 3:50 am | #

    I’ve been getting a lot of vibes from the last couple strips and other strips since 2020 that Ruth regrets the breakup, and I’m thinking that maybe Billie is slightly thinking about it too, but neither of them wants to admit it (at least got now) 💀💀💀

    Also I wonder who Dorothy would wanna sleep with out of those two even if it doesn’t end up happening, they’re both insane but got different appeals…

    • Mark
      Mark
      January 7, 2024 at 7:27 am | #

      IIRC Ruth never wanted to break up with Billie; she did it because she’s convinced it was the best thing for someone she loves. She’s pretty much said that, and I believe her. I think she’d go back to Jennifer without hesitation, but for the expectation of destroying her.

      I never know what Jennifer is thinking.

      • thumb
        thumb
        January 7, 2024 at 8:46 am | #

        My read is that Jennifer knows that’s why she broke up with her, and thinks it’s a shitty thing to do to someone you care about, and also she’s tired of having to do all the labour to make it work. She’s not wrong. She’s fucking up her current relationship, but she wasn’t wrong about her and Ruth.

  27. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    January 7, 2024 at 5:37 am | #

    yeah, i can see 2 people on this page that need a good hate-fucking.

  28. Mark
    Mark
    January 7, 2024 at 7:31 am | #

    Or makes herself a superhero costume.

  29. Daibhid C
    Daibhid C
    January 7, 2024 at 7:39 am | #

    “I think your plan is bad and flawed.”

    “Ah, but wait until you hear the fullplan! It’s even worse!”

  30. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    January 7, 2024 at 7:50 am | #

    I don’t think Dorothy could hold up a liquor store. Those things are heavy!

  31. Marrow
    Marrow
    January 7, 2024 at 8:32 am | #

    One of the funniest strips in a while 😀

  32. thumb
    thumb
    January 7, 2024 at 8:44 am | #

    where we realise that Ruth really has been dealt a crap hand when it comes to dorms

  33. motorfirebox
    motorfirebox
    January 7, 2024 at 8:47 am | #

    We saw you from across the room and we hate your vibe

  34. Yeet
    Yeet
    January 7, 2024 at 8:52 am | #

    well both of them have (separately) indicated that Dorothy was turning them on or “checking a lot of my boxes” so…

    • milu
      milu
      January 7, 2024 at 10:01 am | #

      wait. they have?

      • Yeet
        Yeet
        January 7, 2024 at 11:50 am | #

        Ruth, when Dorothy showed up at her door for alcohol said she that was “ticking a lot of her boxes” (although she was 90% being sarcastic)
        Jennifer, when Dorothy started yelling at her for taking over wrt helping Joyce said she was “kinda turned on” and may not have been joking

        • milu
          milu
          January 7, 2024 at 3:54 pm | #

          wow indeed! haha thanks

  35. Hof1991
    Hof1991
    January 7, 2024 at 9:36 am | #

    It’s not like Dorothy hasn’t noticed that’s she’s not in a relationship. Danny is happy with Sal. Walky is involved with Lucy. Joyce is busy with Joe.

    Dorothy reads enough international relations books to know that disconnected defines danger. (A quote from The Pentagon’s New Map, a bestseller in the IR community) People and countries are more stable when in a web of relationships. A web that is pretty thin for Dorothy.

    • David DeLaney
      David DeLaney
      January 7, 2024 at 9:57 am | #

      so this strip is actually Spy vs. Spy then?

      • Sajuuk-Khar
        Sajuuk-Khar
        January 7, 2024 at 10:40 am | #

        The horny version thereof

    • TulipKitten
      TulipKitten
      January 7, 2024 at 1:25 pm | #

      Especially since she tried to start things back up with Walky when he was in a relationship with Lucy, and she knew he was. (I dunno. Are they still together? It was really unclear.)

  36. milu
    milu
    January 7, 2024 at 10:03 am | #

    everyone, Bogeywoman made an incredible fanart and posted it as a response to someone way in the dead midle of the page, like a chump. (or a ninja.)

    ctrl-f her now

  37. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    January 7, 2024 at 10:41 am | #

    Why does everyone in this comic (with the possible exception of Joyce) think that a good fuck is the answer to everything?

    • GholaHalleck
      GholaHalleck
      January 7, 2024 at 11:40 am | #

      Hormone driven 20 year olds with only one brain cell between them.

    • milu
      milu
      January 7, 2024 at 3:53 pm | #

      fanservice

      (…which just kicks the question down the road)

  38. Pergola
    Pergola
    January 7, 2024 at 10:58 am | #

    Book 14: “I’m not -that- dedicated of an R.A.”

  39. Steamweed
    Steamweed
    January 7, 2024 at 11:52 am | #

    Geeze, ladies, have some faith that Dorothy can fuck up in her own ways, and not have to retread what others have done.

    • Coatl
      Coatl
      January 7, 2024 at 9:21 pm | #

      The poor blonde has a lot of problems and this duo wants to fill more debris.

  40. Cloud
    Cloud
    January 7, 2024 at 3:36 pm | #

    Remember to do your robbing before the jack daniels, not after.

  41. Coco
    Coco
    January 7, 2024 at 3:42 pm | #

    I didn’t get the joke but I’ll chalk it up to the fact that English is not my first language AND I’m asexual.

    • milu
      milu
      January 7, 2024 at 3:58 pm | #

      Two people (known to be attracted to your gender) walking up to you, together, and saying that they were looking at you and they think “you could use a good fucking” will likely sound like a blunt invitation to a threesome.

    • milu
      milu
      January 7, 2024 at 3:59 pm | #

      and, “they would have to move Dorothy” because of the breach of rules of an RA sleeping with a student they are responsible for. also, that’s literally what happened with Jennifer

  42. WizardPantaloon
    WizardPantaloon
    January 7, 2024 at 3:46 pm | #

    I like this. When they’re focused on helping someone, Ruth and Billie are kind of great together. They still snark at each other but there’s much less venom and bitterness here.

  43. Felian
    Felian
    January 7, 2024 at 5:44 pm | #

    Head Cheerleader, Problem-Solver!
    I am amazed that this strategy would actually work. Either the way Billie describes it, ooor Ruth gets fired for repeated offense of fucking her protegees, but, well, then Dorothy would indeed no longer be her responsibility?…. oh no

  44. Megan Rivera
    Megan Rivera
    January 8, 2024 at 2:41 am | #

    Ruth is SO expressive LMFAO!!

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