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Rapture Ready

by David M Willis on June 29, 2013 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - Answers in Hennessy
└ Tags: ethan, joyce, ruth

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  1. Raine
    Raine
    June 29, 2013 at 12:02 am | #

    THAT’S RIGHT JOYCE. Only MIKE gets to be a force of nature.

    • Jenny Creed
      Jenny Creed
      June 29, 2013 at 5:28 am | #

      “Force of personality” sounds like a mix of forceful personality and force of nature. Maybe she’d rate like 680 milliMikes?

      • Jerbon
        Jerbon
        June 29, 2013 at 1:43 pm | #

        I’ve never encountered the SI unit of “Mikes”, but I can only assume that it is the natural force required to have sex with your mom for a nickel at Standard Temperature and Pressure. While 680 milliMikes might not seem like a lot, my calculations indicate that at STP, such a person could have sex with your mom for approximately 7.35 cents.

        • davidbreslin101
          davidbreslin101
          June 30, 2013 at 1:38 pm | #

          The strength of the mike field over distance is a function of whatever you don’t want it to be.

        • tahrey
          tahrey
          July 1, 2013 at 4:11 am | #

          Ah, you forgot that it’s a logarithmic scale, though. So by my calculations, that means Ruth would be able to bone someone’s parent for either minus-30 cents, or plus-6.6 cents. I haven’t quite perfected the formula yet.

          • Jerbon
            Jerbon
            July 20, 2013 at 11:41 pm | #

            Actually, that’s an entirely different unit, but it has the same name. The logarithmic scale Mike is based a differential equation with terms for the price of optimal devastation, your mom’s blood alcohol content and Mike’s alcohol content. I have devised a marvelous proof which the comment box is ill-formatted to contain.

            Anyway, when the SI unit of “Mike” was adopted, it was decided that that was too complex, accounting for more variables than it really should. Instead, a scale based on a directly reciprocal relationship between Mike-ness and required money was devised, giving us the SI Mike. It’s similar to how the current SI unit of conductance shares a name with a different unit of conductance with a different definition, but that name was eventually co-opted for the SI unit, now defined as an inverse ohm.

            TL;DR I like units and their histories.

  2. Geminia999
    Geminia999
    June 29, 2013 at 12:02 am | #

    I should totally say what Ruth said next time someone comments that to me, just less bluntly :3

  3. Ragnal
    Ragnal
    June 29, 2013 at 12:02 am | #

    HE’S BACK.

    RUUUUUUUUN! THE TREK MEMES WILL OVERFLOW THE FLOOR!

    • Mr. Random
      Mr. Random
      June 29, 2013 at 12:20 am | #

      I wonder if Howard would try to follow his sister in becoming an RA?

      • CleverTrousers
        CleverTrousers
        June 29, 2013 at 4:04 am | #

        I don’t think it’s Howard. I think it’s this dude:
        http://www.bringbackroomies.com/comic/make-it-so/

  4. Aras Pabedinskas
    Aras Pabedinskas
    June 29, 2013 at 12:02 am | #

    Well at least he got the most important rule out there. Well except don’t murder but what can you do.

    • PetrePan
      PetrePan
      June 29, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

      Yeah, I love RAs like that. We had one in the basement of our first year dorm who let us have our own fight club for a while. He watched.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        June 29, 2013 at 12:07 am | #

        You just broke the first rule of Fight Club.

        • Boom
          Boom
          June 29, 2013 at 12:10 am | #

          And the second rule.

          • Brian Lynch
            Brian Lynch
            June 29, 2013 at 1:41 am | #

            And, most likely, at least part of the sixth rule.

            • Jenny Creed
              Jenny Creed
              June 29, 2013 at 1:57 pm | #

              I find it ironic so many people strive to keep the rules of a game made up by a militant discordant anarchist whose life goal is to blow the entire world back to the stone age specifically because he doesn’t want to be tied down by rules.

              I mean I love Fight Club references and everything, but some of it is pretty weird in context.

              • Boom
                Boom
                June 29, 2013 at 11:35 pm | #

                We’re nerds.

            • tahrey
              tahrey
              July 1, 2013 at 4:13 am | #

              “No shirt, no shoes”?

      • TPman
        TPman
        June 29, 2013 at 12:32 am | #

        Was it a SWORDfight club or just the boring kind?

        • David
          David
          June 29, 2013 at 2:32 am | #

          Pillow fight.

          • NightmareWarden
            NightmareWarden
            June 29, 2013 at 4:21 am | #

            Explosive pillows?
            … did they at LEAST have monkey master pillow cases?

        • Crimson Doom
          Crimson Doom
          June 29, 2013 at 9:04 am | #

          The kind of fight where you hit people in the FAAAAAAAACE.

        • tahrey
          tahrey
          July 1, 2013 at 4:13 am | #

          ROBOT CLUB?

  5. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    June 29, 2013 at 12:05 am | #

    Who’s the male RA, Rick?

    • Totz the Plaid
      Totz the Plaid
      June 29, 2013 at 12:13 am | #

      Plausible!

      • tahrey
        tahrey
        July 1, 2013 at 4:15 am | #

        Allegedly it’s the guy who was only ever known as “R.A.”
        http://www.bringbackroomies.com/comic/make-it-so/

    • Count Dracula
      Count Dracula
      June 29, 2013 at 12:17 am | #

      If Ruth didn’t exist, I’d say Howard.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        June 29, 2013 at 12:22 am | #

        Why is Howard’s existence contingent on Ruth NOT existing. They’re siblings.

        • Boom
          Boom
          June 29, 2013 at 1:16 am | #

          Conservation of redheads?

          • nothri
            nothri
            June 29, 2013 at 1:20 am | #

            One of the lesser known laws of thermodynamics. Also why the Doctor has yet to regenerate into a ginger.

            • Buckybone
              Buckybone
              June 29, 2013 at 5:39 am | #

              However, Amy’s dead in the “current” part of the show. There’s an opening now…

    • Steven
      Steven
      June 29, 2013 at 2:43 am | #

      That would be a Naruto marathon then.

  6. NerdHerder
    NerdHerder
    June 29, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

    The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the dorm…

    Wait, is their RA Howard?

    • Totz the Plaid
      Totz the Plaid
      June 29, 2013 at 12:13 am | #

      Nah, probably Rick. He loved Trek, too.

      • Totz the Plaid
        Totz the Plaid
        June 29, 2013 at 12:15 am | #

        …wait, I assumed from Plas’s comment that the R.A. from Roomies was called Rick, but after SpaceInvader42’s comment, I see I assumed wrong.

    • Maycroft
      Maycroft
      June 29, 2013 at 12:14 am | #

      it could still be the same RA as in Roomies! as well, but I’d like to see howard’s character status ascended.

      • Taigan
        Taigan
        June 29, 2013 at 11:47 am | #

        I think Willis has said that he’s sticking with Howard being Ruth’s younger brother. I don’t think he’d be an RA.

        The Trekkie RA from Roomies never did get a name, did he?

        • Boom
          Boom
          June 29, 2013 at 11:39 pm | #

          Mr. Deckard.

  7. Wack'd
    Wack'd
    June 29, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

    Okay, either it’s the R.A. from Roomies!–in which case, alright, mythology gag, neato–or it’s Howard, and the Lessicks run the entire building, which would be AWESOME.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 29, 2013 at 12:17 am | #

      This here’s Lessick country.

      • Wack'd
        Wack'd
        June 29, 2013 at 12:37 am | #

        I’ve never missed a hall meeting yet.

      • JBO
        JBO
        June 29, 2013 at 2:44 am | #

        We can’t stop here! This is Lessick country!

        • Boom
          Boom
          June 29, 2013 at 11:40 pm | #

          She mostly comes out at night. Mostly.

    • Mr. Random
      Mr. Random
      June 29, 2013 at 12:22 am | #

      Isn’t the RA from Roomies the CS teacher in the dumbiverse?

      • Regalli
        Regalli
        June 29, 2013 at 12:26 am | #

        No, I’m pretty sure that’s Alex. He had an actual character.

        • Wack'd
          Wack'd
          June 29, 2013 at 12:38 am | #

          Yep. Alex =/= the R.A.

          You can tell because one of them has never been seen sitting down and the other has rarely been seen standing up.

          • That Damn Rat
            That Damn Rat
            June 29, 2013 at 12:52 am | #

            But have you seen them both sitting/standing at the same time?

    • David
      David M Willis
      June 29, 2013 at 9:39 am | #

      It wouldn’t be the whole building. The RA is only in charge of one floor.

      • Wack'd
        Wack'd
        June 29, 2013 at 3:20 pm | #

        Dammit, I did that deliberately in the hope that in the course of correcting me you’d inadvertently tell me which option–if either–was the right one!

        I could’ve thought this through better.

        • Boom
          Boom
          June 29, 2013 at 11:41 pm | #

          Or at all?

  8. spaceinvader42
    spaceinvader42
    June 29, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

    So the guys’ RA is the same one as in Roomies. I wonder if he’ll get a name this time.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 29, 2013 at 12:17 am | #

      Check BBR.

      • xKiv
        xKiv
        June 29, 2013 at 8:54 pm | #

        His name is R-a?

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      June 29, 2013 at 12:26 am | #

      But… But if he gets one, then he might actually have something to DO!

  9. alicemacher
    alicemacher
    June 29, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

    Ruth, you got off to a good start with “Miss Rapture Ready,” but “You’re just stupid” smacks of phoning it in. However, you recovered nicely with the death threat at the end, even if it lacked the specificity of your earlier “femurs” threat. I give it a 7/10.

    • Emoroffle
      Emoroffle
      June 29, 2013 at 2:25 am | #

      I imagine Ruth would break 7/10 bones for that remark.

      • Steven
        Steven
        June 29, 2013 at 2:45 am | #

        7 out of 10 bones? We have way more bones than that. Unless you meant 7 out of EVERY 10.

        • Boom
          Boom
          June 29, 2013 at 11:44 pm | #

          That wouldn’t work either because the number of bones in the human body isn’t perfectly divisible by ten.

  10. Lazarus
    Lazarus
    June 29, 2013 at 12:08 am | #

    Prediction: Ruth is calling a floor meeting to either:

    1. Humiliate Billie in some public way as a “thank you” for recent events.

    2. Resign her commission as R.A. due to recent events.

    • Thor
      Thor
      June 29, 2013 at 12:23 am | #

      Why not both?

      • Lawzlo
        Lawzlo
        June 29, 2013 at 1:15 am | #

        Maybe Billie can be the new R.A.! I mean, I guarantee no college has an R.A. system where you can just appoint your successor regardless of their qualifications (or lack thereof), but I still want it to happen.

        • Steven
          Steven
          June 29, 2013 at 2:45 am | #

          Also, college RA’s are usually not freshmen.

          • Buckybone
            Buckybone
            June 29, 2013 at 5:42 am | #

            The youngest one that I’ve seen was a second semester sophomore. The jealousy factor (because of dat resume, yo) wasn’t helped by the fact that he had been my roommate in the fall…

            • Doctor Lantern
              Doctor Lantern
              June 29, 2013 at 6:53 am | #

              At my college we had 1st semester Sophomores who got RA. It was hard to do, but possible.

    • Boom
      Boom
      June 29, 2013 at 11:45 pm | #

      Maybe she wants to invite everybody to a massive pillow fight/orgy? You ever think of that? Huh? Huh!?

  11. John
    John
    June 29, 2013 at 12:13 am | #

    “Force of personality” is the polite way to say “Bothriospondylus”, right?

    Roomies! RA! Long live the Federation! *does that nerd thing with his hand*

    Other than the Star Trek/Roomies! ref, that was pretty much how every floor meeting I ever attended went, too.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 29, 2013 at 12:18 am | #

      It’s definitely an easier to spell way to say…That.

      • John
        John
        June 29, 2013 at 1:45 am | #

        That’s why Joyce usually just says “B-word”.

  12. NeutroBlaster
    NeutroBlaster
    June 29, 2013 at 12:26 am | #

    So it’s the same RA from Roomies? That’s interesting. I liked that guy.

  13. aeverett55
    aeverett55
    June 29, 2013 at 12:36 am | #

    Trek Marathon? What is this, the 90’s? Every day is a Trek Marathon when you’ve got Netflix!
    (THIS post brought to you by a half a bottle of Peppermint schnapps surrounded by a humanbeing)

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      June 29, 2013 at 12:42 am | #

      I’d say it’s possible he had plans that evening to marathon some episodes on Netflix with friends, but that would mean he…y’know, has friends.

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      June 29, 2013 at 2:19 am | #

      Who needs Netflix? Any station that focusses on sci-fi is pretty Star Trek marathon every day.

      • merbrat
        merbrat
        June 29, 2013 at 8:21 am | #

        Or DVDs of fave eps.

    • Ivan
      Ivan
      June 29, 2013 at 11:05 am | #

      Every day was a marathon in the 80s too! It was called VHS! or SuperVHS!

  14. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    June 29, 2013 at 12:40 am | #

    I’m guessing Ruth ‘looks terrible’ because not drinking, maybe still hung-over. The ‘I’ll see you there or nobody will ever see you again’ was almost up to the Ruthless tag.
    Will be interesting to see what the subject matter is, hard to second guess Ruth. May just be reasserting her role.

    • John
      John
      June 29, 2013 at 1:43 am | #

      I’m thinking Ruth looks terrible because she was puking in Billie’s lap like an hour ago.

  15. AgentKeen
    AgentKeen
    June 29, 2013 at 12:44 am | #

    So is the RA Howard, or just the same Trekkie RA as in Roomies! ?

  16. taekwondogirl
    taekwondogirl
    June 29, 2013 at 12:52 am | #

    I like that no one’s allowing for the possibility of an entirely new character who likes Star Trek.

    • das-g
      das-g
      June 29, 2013 at 1:24 pm | #

      It would be absolutely, totally, and in all other ways inconceivable.

  17. Bekah
    Bekah
    June 29, 2013 at 12:56 am | #

    When I was in college, my RA was like Ethan’s RA, except that it was Battlestar Galactica instead of Star Trek.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 29, 2013 at 1:12 am | #

      Equally as geeky.

      • timemonkey
        timemonkey
        June 29, 2013 at 6:07 pm | #

        Battlestar Galactica is FAR more geeky. Star Trek has sunk into minds of the general populace.

        • kiapdx
          kiapdx
          June 29, 2013 at 6:17 pm | #

          Kind of not really? New Trek isn’t half as cerebral as actual Star Trek series. The new movies are good action films, but they lack the philosophical bits that make real Star Trek.

          • DSL
            DSL
            June 30, 2013 at 12:02 am | #

            Nah. Trek transcended, even before Starfleet 90210.
            Nothing “cerebral” about it. People who don’t do conventions
            still know what a tribble or a phaser is, while Galactica is
            still pretty much the exclusive province of the SF faithful.

  18. BranTheQuixotic
    BranTheQuixotic
    June 29, 2013 at 1:22 am | #

    Isn’t the word later ALREADY short ENOUGH!?

    I love each and every one of the Community references in Community and Shortpacked!

    • BranTheQuixotic
      BranTheQuixotic
      June 29, 2013 at 1:22 am | #

      I MEANT Dumbing of Age!

      Agh I accidentally shoved my reference appreciation up its own ass.

      • Originalslugboy
        Originalslugboy
        June 29, 2013 at 1:53 am | #

        Oh no! Assception!

  19. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    June 29, 2013 at 2:07 am | #

    Joyce popped her collar like a boss.

    • Notebooked
      Notebooked
      June 29, 2013 at 4:10 pm | #

      All the bongoes in the club go whaaat whaaat

  20. vsophi
    vsophi
    June 29, 2013 at 2:22 am | #

    Ruth is so attractive with developed eyes. I’:

    • ShaggyDonahugh
      ShaggyDonahugh
      June 29, 2013 at 3:09 am | #

      Yea *sigh*….wait, Ruth what are you GAAAH MY EYES! SHE RIPPED OUT MY EYES. OH GOD MY FEM-
      End captain’s log.

    • Gigafreak
      Gigafreak
      June 29, 2013 at 11:20 am | #

      Even with dark bags under them?

  21. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    June 29, 2013 at 2:44 am | #

    Man, I bet my R.A.s WISH they could be like Ruth.

  22. Jodah
    Jodah
    June 29, 2013 at 3:48 am | #

    I think I had two floor meetings my second and third year. One at the beginning, one at before Thanksgiving.

    Beginning: I’m your RA, if there are any question, ask them. Otherwise, we’re done here.

    Thanksgiving: Guys, sign this and mark if your coming back next year.

    Longest part was getting everyone into the room and quiet enough that he could speak.

  23. rachel
    rachel
    June 29, 2013 at 4:22 am | #

    oh my god I love ruth with all my heart

  24. Notebooked
    Notebooked
    June 29, 2013 at 6:34 am | #

    It’s nice to know that even in the depths of misery Ruth can think up mocking nicknames for people. I bet she has a list.

    I wonder if this means Ethan’s R.A. is the one from Roomies! or Howard? Thanks to Jacob we already know not everyone is the same age.

  25. Inarx
    Inarx
    June 29, 2013 at 6:48 am | #

    NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I’ve caught up… Now I’ll have to wait for it to release new comics! Q.Q

  26. ALLxISxGONE
    ALLxISxGONE
    June 29, 2013 at 7:33 am | #

    Oh crap… i caught up… waht do i do now?

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      June 29, 2013 at 9:47 am | #

      Make dirty jokes in the comment sections.

      • Luzahn
        Luzahn
        June 29, 2013 at 10:57 am | #

        You can make other sorts of jokes, but honestly I wouldn’t advise it.

        • AgentKeen
          AgentKeen
          June 30, 2013 at 12:00 am | #

          There’s puns, too. Lots and lots of puns.

  27. Chris
    Chris
    June 29, 2013 at 6:45 pm | #

    Ahhhhhhhhh, read the entirety of this comic today just to get overly attached to the characters. Dammit it man.

  28. Chamelion
    Chamelion
    June 29, 2013 at 10:15 pm | #

    Stumbled upon this comic less then a day ago… caught up just now. Love it. Excellent work..

  29. Peruhain
    Peruhain
    June 29, 2013 at 11:59 pm | #

    Heh. The first time I ran into “rapture ready,” my son was about eight and totally into dinosaurs. With another (non-fundamentalist) friend, I couldn’t resist joking that he would have heard the words “raptor ready” instead.

    That would be a fruitful misunderstanding for Joyce and Dina to have. :p

  30. JA
    JA
    June 30, 2013 at 8:28 pm | #

    Anyone who believes the Rapture will happen needs to go back and reread their bible.

  31. newllend
    newllend
    August 15, 2013 at 7:17 am | #

    aculy you both look like shit

  32. Random Opinion
    Random Opinion
    July 8, 2015 at 3:59 am | #

    I just started reading the comics on “It’s Walky!” and I find it refreshing that Ethan’s RA likes Star Trek like the Walkiverse RA.

  33. JohnnyO
    JohnnyO
    August 1, 2015 at 5:37 pm | #

    Ethan’s RA sounds like my first RA.

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