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by David M Willis on February 9, 2016 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - That Perfect Girl
└ Tags: jennifer, ruth

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    February 9, 2016 at 12:01 am | #

    “Wow, got it in one!”

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      February 9, 2016 at 12:02 am | #

      Curse your awareness of basic reality!

      • LittleMountain
        LittleMountain
        February 9, 2016 at 9:36 am | #

        Quick, Billie, plead the fifth!

        • schmelle
          schmelle
          March 7, 2016 at 4:11 am | #

          No, the third! Plead the third!

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      February 9, 2016 at 12:02 am | #

      what “board”, to be fair, it’s not like the dorm has a free buffet (except at the coming out party sponsored by Galasso’s)

      • Captain Button
        Captain Button
        February 9, 2016 at 12:14 am | #

        Joyce is skipping breakfasts to feed Becky.

        • Leorale
          Leorale
          February 9, 2016 at 12:23 am | #

          But that means Joyce is just giving her paid-for breakfast away. Still the same number of breakfasts as far as the school is concerned.

          • Betty Anne
            Betty Anne
            February 9, 2016 at 12:41 am | #

            Some campuses get butthurt if you give away your meals by buying them and giving them to someone else or swipe someone else in with your meal card. My alma mater frowned on it. “The student’s food account is for that student only” yadda yadda yadda.

            • Needfuldoer
              Needfuldoer
              February 9, 2016 at 3:07 am | #

              Meal plans let the school budget how much they need to purchase from foodservice vendors, and force the students to eat something relatively healthy on a regular basis. Joyce feeding Becky with her meal plan theoretically means you have two people who aren’t eating enough. (Some plans do come with room for a couple guest meals.)

              • Carriethedragon
                Carriethedragon
                February 9, 2016 at 3:10 am | #

                The ‘relatively’ in front of ‘healthy’ there is very important.

                IU students’ meal plans don’t come for free with their room, though I think living in a dorm means you’re required to purchase one, or maybe it’s that freshmen are required to purchase one? I’ve never heard anything about swiping someone else in being “frowned upon” at IU.

                • Carriethedragon
                  Carriethedragon
                  February 9, 2016 at 3:11 am | #

                  That is to say, they’re not complimentary. They would never have been free, of course.

                • Captain Button
                  Captain Button
                  February 9, 2016 at 8:19 am | #

                  When I went to college the meal plan was required for freshmen. My impression was that the idea was to make sure kids who knew nothing about budgeting would not go hungry.

                  As I recall it was all you could eat once you were in, so bringing in strangers on your card this way would increase the amount of food eaten.

                • CleverTrousers
                  CleverTrousers
                  February 9, 2016 at 12:29 pm | #

                  buuts

                • Ana Chronistic
                  Ana Chronistic
                  February 10, 2016 at 12:53 am | #

                  Thing is there are homeless people with jobs–while it’s easy to assume a homeless person’s skimming food, that could easily be true of someone who’s NOT homeless (commuter or relative, for instance).

                  I get that “room and board” is the common phrase, just arguing the point that it’s not necessarily true that getting the one means getting the other.

            • doubleW
              doubleW
              February 9, 2016 at 10:28 am | #

              Schools give you more meals than you could ever use as a healthy adult, and then won’t let you refund them, so screw those guys.

              • Random832
                Random832
                February 9, 2016 at 11:42 am | #

                The largest plan at Purdue was 21 a week – that’s three a day. Granted, that does assume you absolutely never eat anywhere else, but that doesn’t make it “more meals than you could ever use as a healthy adult”

                • Inspector Hound
                  Inspector Hound
                  February 9, 2016 at 11:50 am | #

                  Interesting. The default (only) arrangement in my Purdue dorm days (over two decades ago now) was 20 meals a week, Sunday evening being a “fend for yourself at your nearby pizza place.”

                  And of course, if you were busy with school work, sometimes you skipped a meal anyways.

                • Random832
                  Random832
                  February 9, 2016 at 1:54 pm | #

                  I may have been remembering it wrong. But my point is that the idea that it was “more than you could ever use” is hyperbole (largely based on the effect of it not being the only place most people ate).

                • Toad
                  Toad
                  February 9, 2016 at 10:38 pm | #

                  Largest plan at my school is 20, with no breakfast on Sundays, and smallest is I think like 6 or 7. If you live on campus (as like 95% of students do) you have to purchase a meal plan.

              • Chaucer59
                Chaucer59
                February 9, 2016 at 6:52 pm | #

                Yeah, my daughter was at U of Iowa. The food plan provided enough to feed two people, but I wouldn’t call it healthy. In fact, it was all crap: starchy, breast, greasy crap. Every meal was either mostly pasta, mostly rice, some kind of breaded meat, bad pizza (thick crust, too much sauce, fake cheese, minimal meat), hot dogs, or hamburgers.

              • Hollis
                Hollis
                February 9, 2016 at 11:36 pm | #

                As the alumnus of a school who forced everyone who lived in the dorms to buy an “unlimited” meal plan, this. So much this.

    • Stephen R. Bierce
      Stephen R. Bierce
      February 9, 2016 at 12:02 am | #

      Not like there were a lot of suspects.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        February 9, 2016 at 1:16 am | #

        It is Amazie-girl, right?

    • Tabitha Desanto
      Tabitha Desanto
      February 9, 2016 at 12:03 am | #

      Ruth uses her magic true sight in panel four.

      • xKiv
        xKiv
        February 9, 2016 at 6:35 pm | #

        T-Ruth sight.

        • DarkVeghetta
          DarkVeghetta
          February 9, 2016 at 8:46 pm | #

          *groooan*

  2. Tabitha Desanto
    Tabitha Desanto
    February 9, 2016 at 12:02 am | #

    Billie seemed so proud too. Aw well.

  3. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    February 9, 2016 at 12:02 am | #

    “It’s not…not Becky.”

    • TheNinthShader
      TheNinthShader
      February 9, 2016 at 6:07 am | #

      Why no like buttons willis?! MAKE LIKE BUTTONS

  4. Pantheon the Mantheon
    Pantheon the Mantheon
    February 9, 2016 at 12:02 am | #

    Um… What’s going on with Ruth’s eyes??

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      February 9, 2016 at 12:03 am | #

      demonic possession by her hyperaware senses

    • CaptainBatson
      CaptainBatson
      February 9, 2016 at 12:03 am | #

      Stuff. Things. Stuff and things.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      February 9, 2016 at 12:03 am | #

      She’s using her psychic Canadian powers to read Billie’s mind. They can also locate the nearest Tim Hortons.

      • DSL
        DSL
        February 9, 2016 at 10:16 am | #

        My friends of the Canadian persuasion would use such a sense to search-and-destroy a Tim Horton’s (derisively referred to as “Timmies”) in favor of the local donut-and-coffee shop. I have reason to believe the Timmies in the U.S. (which I kind of like) were intended as retaliation for us sending them McDonald’s.

        • Kamino Neko
          Kamino Neko
          February 9, 2016 at 7:18 pm | #

          ‘Timmies’ is not derisive.

          • void
            void
            February 9, 2016 at 8:01 pm | #

            It is in fact usually not derisive. Also I can confirm that doctor_who has it right. Tim Horton’s sense is the most basic of Canadian abilities.

            • Kamino Neko
              Kamino Neko
              February 23, 2016 at 7:19 pm | #

              Though not one useful at home…hard to turn around without finding one.

    • pumacatrun2
      pumacatrun2
      February 9, 2016 at 12:03 am | #

      It’s a weird interpretation of rolling your eyes back (looking up) I think. Doesn’t quite work with glasses.

      • No Name
        No Name
        February 9, 2016 at 12:07 am | #

        Or bangs.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        February 9, 2016 at 12:08 am | #

        Looks more like demonic possession.

        • CheredisTyping
          CheredisTyping
          February 9, 2016 at 1:47 pm | #

          It does. 100% Ruth is possessed by a demon. Canon now.

          • DarkVeghetta
            DarkVeghetta
            February 9, 2016 at 8:48 pm | #

            Totes cannon.

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              February 9, 2016 at 8:52 pm | #

              Ruth is possessed by a cannon toting demon?
              This is my new head cannon.

              • Znayx
                Znayx
                February 10, 2016 at 1:53 am | #

                XKCD reference FTW

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      February 9, 2016 at 12:05 am | #

      According to patreon, it’s so visually impaired readers can see her dotted eyes in her hair.

      The original strip’s eyes were a lot darker.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        February 9, 2016 at 12:09 am | #

        So they’re not Shimigami eyes?

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        February 9, 2016 at 12:42 am | #

        I would prefer them hidden instead of glowy, but Billie’s faces more than make up for it. Masterful.

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      February 9, 2016 at 12:05 am | #

      Super-RA psychic powers are activating to figure out the squatter.

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      February 9, 2016 at 12:10 am | #

      Powering her lazer vision. Soon, she will melt all of Billie’s bras, leaving no trace.

      • Captain Button
        Captain Button
        February 9, 2016 at 12:12 am | #

        Ouch!

      • Tacos
        Tacos
        February 9, 2016 at 12:16 am | #

        Hey she could always use the laser vision on Mary.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          February 9, 2016 at 12:22 am | #

          Like how Superman lobotomised that villain with his heat-vision in that one episode?

          • inqntrol
            inqntrol
            February 9, 2016 at 12:28 am | #

            And he did it for free! …well he gave that guy a couple of slaps.

      • Rutee
        Rutee
        February 9, 2016 at 3:13 am | #

        ….that’s fuckin’ harsh, yo. She needs those things.

      • Willoughby Chase
        Willoughby Chase
        February 9, 2016 at 7:46 am | #

        Now I’m seeing Billie as some kind of Valkyrie!

      • Emperor Norton
        Emperor Norton
        February 9, 2016 at 9:13 am | #

        Hey, stop giving us hopes that you know will not be fulfilled! That’s the job of damnyouwillis!

    • Dana
      Dana
      February 9, 2016 at 12:11 am | #

      When they went from black to green it was only a step on the way to their final form.

    • Captain Button
      Captain Button
      February 9, 2016 at 12:21 am | #

      RoboRuthless is consulting the MCP database for additional analysis.

  5. LimeSheep
    LimeSheep
    February 9, 2016 at 12:02 am | #

    damn it billie how could you let this happen

    • Tunaro
      Tunaro
      February 9, 2016 at 12:10 am | #

      She overplayed her hand there.

  6. Cattleprod
    Cattleprod
    February 9, 2016 at 12:02 am | #

    Damn, the expressions in the last panels are masterpieces.

  7. Unluckycharm
    Unluckycharm
    February 9, 2016 at 12:02 am | #

    Panel 4 is slightly weird.

  8. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    February 9, 2016 at 12:02 am | #

    http://i.imgur.com/sTqxD2H.png

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      February 9, 2016 at 12:03 am | #

      jiggy jiggy

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        February 9, 2016 at 12:06 am | #

        ♬♬ Jiggypuff…♬♬

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      February 9, 2016 at 12:04 am | #

      Checking for suspicious lumps.

      • Someone
        Someone
        February 9, 2016 at 12:08 am | #

        look, this comic is already depressing enough without, Billy develops breast cancer being added to the mix

        • Yossarianduck
          Yossarianduck
          February 9, 2016 at 1:02 am | #

          That’ll be the moment we’ll know that Willis has gone Full Winkerbean.

          • Captain Button
            Captain Button
            February 9, 2016 at 1:05 am | #

            Can someone tell me what the deal is with Funky Winkerbean? I never read that one.

            (Only if it won’t set off a flamewar, please.)

            • Professor Fate
              Professor Fate
              February 9, 2016 at 2:11 am | #

              Funky Winkerbean is a newspaper comic strip started in 1972 done by Tom Batiuk. It was originally about kids in high school. Now it’s been rebooted and it’s more like a soap opera; angsty and dealing with topical issues. It used to be funny, now it sucks.

            • Rutee
              Rutee
              February 9, 2016 at 3:29 am | #

              The understanding I have, solely from the Comics Curmudgeon (I mean, I read what he posts, but that’s by no means all of it), is that it used to be a comedy starting with kids in high school, but as the author kept going he got progressively more depressed and the strip became progressively more about failure and what a hellhole the town they live in is. Also, there was a cancer arc that fridged a gal and now her husband is riding that train forever more.

              • insomniac
                insomniac
                February 9, 2016 at 4:32 am | #

                “Fridging” is a little harsh. The writer lost his wife to cancer and had the same thing happen to a character in the strip.

                But yeah, after he did that, he changed the whole strip from goofy comedy to unrelenting depression.

                • DSL
                  DSL
                  February 9, 2016 at 10:19 am | #

                  Now it’s a strip about people being sh!tty to each other in the most petty ways imaginable. “Winkerbean” is how Northeast Ohioans pronounce “schadenfreude.”

          • Eric
            Eric
            February 9, 2016 at 11:12 am | #

            Isn’t FW now on its third generation of cast, or something?

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      February 9, 2016 at 12:04 am | #

      They’re like big bouncy stress balls!

    • Architex
      Architex
      February 9, 2016 at 12:05 am | #

      I could curl up inside them and be warm forever

    • LeslieBean4Shizzle
      LeslieBean4Shizzle
      February 9, 2016 at 12:06 am | #

      I… I don’t get it. ^^;;
      I mean, I like it – always love me some cute Ruth/Billie yuri – but… yeah, I think I’m missing some obvious joke here.

      • LeslieBean4Shizzle
        LeslieBean4Shizzle
        February 9, 2016 at 12:08 am | #

        … the four responses before me are entirely concerned with Billie’s breasts. Hm. They are very nice breasts, but I still can’t figure out what the actual joke is. And yes, I know by getting this confused/asking for an explanation, I am killing whatever the joke is. Sorry. I’m just being clueless I guess. ^^;;

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          February 9, 2016 at 12:11 am | #

          Billie is subsiding Ruth’s rage with her ample bosom. It’s not really much of a joke. Maybe a gag at most. (I also accidentally made two question marks instead of just one oops)

          • LeslieBean4Shizzle
            LeslieBean4Shizzle
            February 9, 2016 at 12:13 am | #

            Ahh.
            Well, that does make sense. I think I was thrown because Billie seemed to be confused about it. When I use my bosom to do that sort of thing, I am entirely aware of its effect and the repercussions thereof.

            • Yotomoe
              Yotomoe
              February 9, 2016 at 12:26 am | #

              She’s just being Coy. She knows exactly what she’s doin’.

        • Architex
          Architex
          February 9, 2016 at 12:13 am | #

          Honestly, I’m just happy for said breasts, no idea if I’m missing something.

      • trlkly
        trlkly
        February 9, 2016 at 12:35 am | #

        It makes a lot more sense if you remember Ruth talking about Billie’s giant bras yesterday. Yomatoe made a joke about how, even when angry, it seems that Ruth still can’t stop thinking about Billie’s breasts.

        So maybe they can soothe the savage beast.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          February 9, 2016 at 12:48 am | #

          I even drew a picture to that effect.
          http://i.imgur.com/Ps4J3Cx.png

          • Dave
            Dave
            February 9, 2016 at 9:40 am | #

            At this point the reaction sketches are going to need their own chronological archive!

          • GreyDefender
            GreyDefender
            February 9, 2016 at 2:32 pm | #

            Gotta say, I love your version of Billie in both of these reaction sketches. Have you considered doing your own comic?

            Or do you already, and I’m just making a fool of myself?

            • Yotomoe
              Yotomoe
              February 9, 2016 at 6:48 pm | #

              People have been asking me that question for years.
              The answer is yes. I’m just AWFUL lazy.

  9. MM
    MM
    February 9, 2016 at 12:02 am | #

    Wow, Billie. I think Walky could’ve managed a better poker face.

  10. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    February 9, 2016 at 12:03 am | #

    Becky does represent an excess of redheads in the DoA cast.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      February 9, 2016 at 12:08 am | #

      Pretty sure that’s why Mandy had green hair last time we saw her. She realized that the redhead quotient has reached critical mass and changed to avoid being replaced.

      It’s like that line from 30 Rock when the show is going to add a new cast member. “If it’s a blonde woman, I will kill myself!”

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        February 9, 2016 at 12:11 am | #

        DoA needs more follicle-diversity. 😀

        • Stephen R. Bierce
          Stephen R. Bierce
          February 9, 2016 at 12:16 am | #

          I changed my hairstyle/So many times now/I don’t know what I look like!–Talking Heads, “Life During Wartime”

        • inqntrol
          inqntrol
          February 9, 2016 at 12:18 am | #

          You want to unleash the soggies?!…oh wait, wong universe

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          February 9, 2016 at 3:14 am | #

          Or lack thereof. We’re overdue for another visit to Galasso’s.

    • Willoughby Chase
      Willoughby Chase
      February 9, 2016 at 4:00 am | #

      One can never have too many red-heads, imo.

      • GreyDefender
        GreyDefender
        February 9, 2016 at 2:33 pm | #

        I mean, you’re not wrong.

  11. heyman
    heyman
    February 9, 2016 at 12:03 am | #

    That Darn Becky

  12. Luzahn
    Luzahn
    February 9, 2016 at 12:03 am | #

    Hrm. I’m suddenly nervous with the situation here breaking down just when Becky leaves. Her return may be a bit…compromised.

  13. allaces14400
    allaces14400
    February 9, 2016 at 12:03 am | #

    Panel 3: New avatar. 😀

    • Tacos
      Tacos
      February 9, 2016 at 12:14 am | #

      What about panel 4?

      • inqntrol
        inqntrol
        February 9, 2016 at 12:24 am | #

        Too damn creepy.

        • Disloyal Subject
          Disloyal Subject
          February 9, 2016 at 12:52 am | #

          Coming from one of Raynor’s Raiders, that means something.
          I’m not sure what, but it means something.

          • inqntrol
            inqntrol
            February 9, 2016 at 1:18 am | #

            Not to mention the fact they engage in fights with the other two races. One of them being a Swarm of nightmarish creatures.

        • No Name
          No Name
          February 9, 2016 at 8:53 am | #

          Not for me

          • Solenoid
            Solenoid
            February 9, 2016 at 2:12 pm | #

            Needs lasers.

  14. Cheshrin
    Cheshrin
    February 9, 2016 at 12:03 am | #

    Deft like a ballet dancer.

  15. Architex
    Architex
    February 9, 2016 at 12:04 am | #

    I’m Billie when watching my favorite TV shows or movies with friends and they guess spoilers right before they happen

  16. MrInsecure
    MrInsecure
    February 9, 2016 at 12:04 am | #

    I think Ruth’s hair temporarily ate her eyes. That, or Willis messed up the layers on the cleanup for this one.

  17. TamiDoa
    TamiDoa
    February 9, 2016 at 12:04 am | #

    I think she broke her “deftly” in that last panel.

  18. Kelli
    Kelli
    February 9, 2016 at 12:04 am | #

    Ruth’s epiphany face is kind of bizarre.

    • Just Me
      Just Me
      February 9, 2016 at 12:06 am | #

      I think it’s supposed to be an Eyeroll. Hard to tell behind her thick bangs.

  19. Ancestral Hamster
    Ancestral Hamster
    February 9, 2016 at 12:06 am | #

    Billie’s dismayed face amuses me. She was SO proud of handling the situation “deftly”! Then, BAM, reality strikes! 😀

  20. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    February 9, 2016 at 12:06 am | #

    Shit, Ruth has been possessed by a ghost.

    • inqntrol
      inqntrol
      February 9, 2016 at 12:57 am | #

      It’s possessed o’clock again.

  21. Tacos
    Tacos
    February 9, 2016 at 12:06 am | #

    That 4th panel is terrifying.

    • Hinoron
      Hinoron
      February 12, 2016 at 9:57 am | #

      Yeah… I’m pretty sure the intent was just to have her rolling her eyes, but it came out pretty weird.

  22. Doopyboop
    Doopyboop
    February 9, 2016 at 12:07 am | #

    Billie in panel 2 is KILLING it. In a good way! She addressed that Ruth has put her in a very sticky spot, and she defended Joyce because…yeah, let’s be honest. If Ruth and Billie had not grown to like each other and be in a semi-relationship, Joyce asking Billie to keep this secret from Ruth wouldn’t have been an issue for her. Joyce only knows that they hate each other.

    And about Ruth putting Billie in a sticky spot…yeah. Yeah, she pretty much did. The moment Ruth slammed Billie into the wall and kissed her, she put Billie in a weird spot. A spot Billie wants to stay in, mind you, but the way she did it was still pretty awful. And as we can see here, it’s not so easy to be stuck between your RA girlfriend and your friends. Billie hadn’t considered these things before jumping into a relationship with somebody who suddenly forced a kiss on her after slamming her into a wall who later nearly drank herself to death due to being rejected…

    Boy it sounds bad summarized like that.

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      February 9, 2016 at 12:12 am | #

      Yeah, as nice as some of their moments are, the origins of their relationship were kinda sorta super abusive and not at all okay.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      February 9, 2016 at 12:13 am | #

      The best way to deal with sticky spots is to change the sheets.

  23. Arianod
    Arianod
    February 9, 2016 at 12:07 am | #

    Deft as fuck.

    • Architex
      Architex
      February 9, 2016 at 12:11 am | #

      “They deftly maneuver, and muscle for rank
      Fumes burning fast on an empty tank
      Reckless, and wild, they pour through the turns
      Their prowess is potent and secretly stern”

  24. Psychotic Mantiss
    Psychotic Mantiss
    February 9, 2016 at 12:07 am | #

    Am I the only one that sees Billie’s face as her about to tell Ruth the exact circumstances regarding Becky’s, ah, situation?

    Wait.

    Does Billie even know about those circumstances? I don’t even know.

    • neeks
      neeks
      February 9, 2016 at 12:45 am | #

      well she definitely knows that becky’s gay, but it’s hard to say whether she knows about the monday gunman being becky’s toedad. i know joyce told billie something at the party, when she asked her to keep the fact that becky’s sticking around under wraps, but i’m too lazy to archive dive and get the exact line. so to answer your question, maybe?

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      February 9, 2016 at 3:25 am | #

      She knows Becky was on the run from her father and has nowhere to stay. Whether she knows the connection to the incident isn’t as clear, but it’s not hard to put 2 and 2 together. (Especially if their names were plastered all over the local news.)

  25. Makkabee
    Makkabee
    February 9, 2016 at 12:08 am | #

    Ruth ate Sherlock Holmes’ femurs and gained his powers of deductive reasoning and biting condescension.

  26. Bleh
    Bleh
    February 9, 2016 at 12:08 am | #

    I didn’t realize there was extra commentary when you hover over the comic panel with your mouse. I must go through the entire comic again now.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      February 9, 2016 at 1:08 am | #

      It’s not all the way through, but at least a year or two back. Happy reading!

    • John
      John
      February 9, 2016 at 1:10 am | #

      Not the entire comic. Well, not stopping you if you want to, but the hovertext starts here.

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      February 9, 2016 at 1:14 am | #

      The don’t start until early 2013.

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        February 9, 2016 at 1:15 am | #

        *They. Of course, John beat me to it again. Which is fine, but if I’d known he was pulling it up I’d have gone to sleep by now.

        • Bleh
          Bleh
          February 10, 2016 at 12:44 am | #

          Thanks all! I appreciate the tip!

          • Bleh
            Bleh
            February 10, 2016 at 12:45 am | #

            Damn my choice of words.

  27. Cerberus
    Cerberus
    February 9, 2016 at 12:09 am | #

    Ah, Billie cares so much about keeping secrets. Promises? Promises are just ways to fail people. But people’s secrets? She’ll keep those forever. She’ll work her ass off to hide her involvement with Ruth. She’ll stand up to her scary kinda abusive girlfriend in a totally serious, not flirty way, to keep a random promise to a friend she doesn’t even much personally care for.

    And that probably says a lot about the sort of background she comes from, where appearance and status are everything, but it’s also where she hangs her pride. Just as much as Ruth hangs her pride on her ability to “do right” by her hall by her personal standards.

    And neither of them seems to recognize that this little spark of caring deeply about something is what they need to so desperately nurture instead of putting all their self-esteem in saving each other from the edge.

    If they could just harness and fertilize this little piece, they could be more healthy and thus more able to build what is healthy in their relationship and excise what is toxic. But they’re both too self-loathing to see it as something they can fail at catastrophically. Ruth by being blackmailed, Billie by being found out at every level (by Mary, and now by her girlfriend).

    And that might be a central piece of the epic tragedy that is their self-destructive spiral and the cost of illnesses like depression. That the things that could save them get focused more on for their ability to cause pain than anything else.

    • Jhon
      Jhon
      February 9, 2016 at 11:59 pm | #

      Cerberus does it again. (Plus many.)

  28. Sylvie Wrath
    Sylvie Wrath
    February 9, 2016 at 12:13 am | #

    So…. i suppose shenanigans with Mary will ensue once Ruth and Billie realize Becky’s gone for the weekend?

    • neeks
      neeks
      February 9, 2016 at 12:41 am | #

      actually, the weekend would possibly be a good time for shenanigans, depending on what kind of hours ruth’s bosses keep, since mary can’t exactly storm into a locked office and spill the beans to someone who isn’t even there.

      although email and voicemail are things that exist, particularly useful if mary gets a video/audio recording to prove shenanigans. i guess.

      sort of all depends on what they all have in mind.

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        February 9, 2016 at 12:43 am | #

        I mean, if Billie and Ruth started pulling wacky hijinks on her, then that kind of gives Mary an actual, legit reason to report Ruth’s freckled ass.

        • Betty Anne
          Betty Anne
          February 9, 2016 at 11:41 am | #

          I’d go less the wacky hijinks route and more the goad Mary into more reportable offenses without leaving traces of your own route. With the office staff gone and having to rely on e-mail complaints and/or voicemail complaints, they’ll have to sort it out via whomever has the best documented evidence train. If Ruth and Billie play their cards right while Becky’s nowhere to be found, it’d be quite plausible to not only nail Mary to the wall for hate speech, but to make it look like she was trumping up accusations against both Becky and Ruth/Billie for the sake of her hateful views.

          A lesbian friend comes to visit for a few days and suddenly she’s all of these terrible labels and living there? Billie sneaked in and out of Ruth’s room a few times for typical freshman pranks/asshattery and suddenly Ruth and Billie are sleeping together? Wow, Mary, you’re seeing lesbians everywhere. Wait, a maintenance person found glue ground into the floor in front of your room, and someone said Carla was upset because her skates were ruined with glue. Would you know anything about that? What, you called her a boy? I think we found the problem here, Mary.

  29. Rukduk
    Rukduk
    February 9, 2016 at 12:13 am | #

    Saint putain de merde!!! What the hell is happening to Ruth in panel four? Is an eldritch being possessing her? Is she revealing herself to be a servant of the old gods?

    • neeks
      neeks
      February 9, 2016 at 12:38 am | #

      she’s just rolling her eyes so hard the irises escaped the sclera and are hovering in front of her bangs, that’s all. nbd. comic book biology, y’know?

      • No Name
        No Name
        February 9, 2016 at 12:47 am | #

        So irises are parasites, too? First eyebrows, now this! What next, femurs?

        • Captain Button
          Captain Button
          February 9, 2016 at 12:51 am | #

          Now I recalling a really scary John Varley story.

  30. Catullus
    Catullus
    February 9, 2016 at 12:14 am | #

    See, Billie, this is what’s known as “overplaying your hand.”

  31. FuryOfFirestorm
    FuryOfFirestorm
    February 9, 2016 at 12:18 am | #

    Billie *thinking*: “Can’t read my, can’t read my, she can’t read my poker face!”

    Ruth *thinking*: “girl why you lying, ohh you’re always lying, stop fucking lying!”

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      February 9, 2016 at 1:05 am | #

      NEVER FUCKING LIE TO RUTH!

      • inqntrol
        inqntrol
        February 9, 2016 at 8:30 am | #

        Now you’ve made me a fan of Disturbed. Thanks.

  32. Dave
    Dave
    February 9, 2016 at 12:18 am | #

    Ugh, Billie, dammit. “I withheld information from you, but I ALSO did not tell false information to you, so it evens out” is just… ugh, don’t do that. -_-

  33. Saaaam
    Saaaam
    February 9, 2016 at 12:19 am | #

    What do you care, Ruth?

    • Charles Phipps
      Charles Phipps
      February 9, 2016 at 12:24 am | #

      Ruth thinks doing her job is a function of being mean and brutal to students so they’re terrified. She has NO IDEA what her job is actually supposed to be. She also is probably going to try to kick Becky out.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        February 9, 2016 at 12:34 am | #

        I don’t think that Ruth is likely to be cruel to Becky once somebody tells her Becky’s situation. She might not be able to keep Becky crashing here for free, but she might give her a lead on a job or apartment, reasonable time to move out, whatever is in her power to cut Becky a break.

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        February 9, 2016 at 12:35 am | #

        Ruth sucks at her job but she’s not going to kick a homeless gay kid out on the streets in the name of being a good RA.

        • Leorale
          Leorale
          February 9, 2016 at 12:37 am | #

          Yeah, especially when the point of getting herself together is so that other queer kids won’t be her collateral damage.

          • Cerberus
            Cerberus
            February 9, 2016 at 1:10 am | #

            Yeah, I think when she hears the whole story she’ll make the right call, which means it’s on Billie to spill said rest of the story now that she’s caught out.

            • Captain Button
              Captain Button
              February 9, 2016 at 1:22 am | #

              Ruth can be relied on to do the right thing, but only after exhausting every possible alternative?

              • Spencer
                Spencer
                February 9, 2016 at 5:06 am | #

                Well, technically, removing the homeless vagrant who isn’t authorized to be in the building would be the “right” thing, and Ruth won’t be doing that.

                I’m not entirely sure Becky’s presence is that damning on her, especially with the entire dorm sheltering. At worse I could see them reprimanding her for not noticing that rad haircut sooner.

              • Jhon
                Jhon
                February 10, 2016 at 12:04 am | #

                As Winston Churchill said about Americans.
                (Steal from the best.)

        • Charles Phipps
          Charles Phipps
          February 9, 2016 at 12:42 am | #

          I think Ruth’s priorities are seriously screwed up at the moment.

          • Leorale
            Leorale
            February 9, 2016 at 12:48 am | #

            We could be killed! Or worse, expelled.

          • Leorale
            Leorale
            February 9, 2016 at 12:52 am | #

            (But yes, they are. Ruth has a serious mental illness, which is totally screwing up her emotions, self-perception, energy, priorities, etc.)

      • Someone
        Someone
        February 9, 2016 at 12:50 am | #

        Hello, I am Someone and I am here to talk about a disease that is sweeping the nation. It is called: Thinks it a good idea to assault your charges condition or TIGITAYG. It is shared by many people, include Ruth Lessick and Sarge, from Beetle Baily. Together we can find a way to help these people.

        • Leorale
          Leorale
          February 9, 2016 at 1:23 am | #

          TIGITAYC, the silent puncher.

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      February 9, 2016 at 12:30 am | #

      Ruth answers why she cares in the first panel of today’s comic. It’s her job.

      • Saaaam
        Saaaam
        February 9, 2016 at 12:38 am | #

        A job she’s willing to leave through a double suicide pact with someone she should be looking after

        • Leorale
          Leorale
          February 9, 2016 at 12:46 am | #

          She covered that, too. She believes it’s acceptable to destroy herself, and possibly Billie (because she entered their pact knowingly), but not bystanders who didn’t consent to being destroyed. Depressed logic, it’s internally consistent, but weird to others.

          • Saaaam
            Saaaam
            February 9, 2016 at 12:57 am | #

            OH I know all about depression logic. But unlike Carla, Ruth isn’t looking out for Becky. Getting involved shows Ruth is subconsciously grabbing on to reasons to live, otherwise, who cares about a homeless kid in the dorm if she’s not terrorizing people like Sara.

            • Saaaam
              Saaaam
              February 9, 2016 at 12:58 am | #

              Sorry I meant Mary

              • Leorale
                Leorale
                February 9, 2016 at 1:08 am | #

                Oh, I see what you mean now. Yeah, although she’s getting herself together mainly to spite Mary, helping Becky could accidentally help herself, too. I wonder if her resources for “troubled teens” extend to quite this much trouble.

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              February 9, 2016 at 6:42 am | #

              Though at this point she doesn’t know anything about Becky’s situation that’s not mentioned here or summed up by “perverted vagrant”. Her opinions may change if she learns more.

    • JonasofAtlantis
      JonasofAtlantis
      February 9, 2016 at 2:42 am | #

      Because having someone essentially point it out to her face (in the form of blackmail) has caused her to actually realize HOW hard she’s failing at her job, and she’s overcorrecting in a panic.

      I expect this mostly to end poorly for Becky… technically an RA has a lot of leeway as far as how the details of guest rules work, but the fact that she didn’t notice a homeless squatter for over a week is in the “putting the residents of the dorm in actual physical danger” levels of failure at RAing. So Ruth is probably going to project the failure onto Becky and go with the “come down on her like a tonne of bricks” option which is usually supposed to be reserved for more dangerous cases.

      It would be nice if she was concerned because it was her job instead of because she’s covering her ass regarding her negligence, but Ruth is… kind of a genuinely bad person, honestly.

      • CJ
        CJ
        February 9, 2016 at 2:52 am | #

        Why would not noticing the friend of someone on the floor being there for more than a week be “putting the residents in actual physical danger”?

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          February 9, 2016 at 6:47 am | #

          The ax murderers always live among their prey for at least a week before striking.
          Yeah, the whole physical danger thing is overblown. It’s about not losing money for the college by having students live in the dorms without paying. And giving the roommate an out if they’re not cool with long term guests.

          • Betty Anne
            Betty Anne
            February 9, 2016 at 12:05 pm | #

            ^ This. STRANGER DANGER. Every stranger is an ax murderer arsonist burglar who’s going to kill everybody in their sleep and steal all of their stuff, then burn the whole building down to cover their tracks.

            Or deprive the campus of money they’d otherwise be able to squeeze out of someone else’s financial aid package, whichever. :p

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              February 9, 2016 at 6:27 pm | #

              But only once they’ve been there more than 4? nights. Until then, there’s no problem.

              Mostly I expect the rule is there so the RA has something to point to when the roommate complains.

        • Liliet
          Liliet
          February 9, 2016 at 6:54 am | #

          Especially with the main reason she did not notice being that damn near the entire dorm conspired to hide her!

  34. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    February 9, 2016 at 12:24 am | #

    http://i.imgur.com/L2qSRPM.png

    • TamiDoa
      TamiDoa
      February 9, 2016 at 12:32 am | #

      Yep, that’s the only thing she can do. If she says anything, she’s either lying or breaking the promise. “The only winning move is not to play”.

    • inqntrol
      inqntrol
      February 9, 2016 at 12:43 am | #

      Another one? You sure move fast.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        February 9, 2016 at 12:48 am | #

        I’m great.

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          February 9, 2016 at 1:02 am | #

          You sure are!

  35. Palamdrone
    Palamdrone
    February 9, 2016 at 12:28 am | #

    The real mystery is what happened to Ruth’s eyes in panel 4.

    • No Name
      No Name
      February 9, 2016 at 1:04 am | #

      I dunno, but I’m makin’ it a Grav.

      • inqntrol
        inqntrol
        February 9, 2016 at 1:08 am | #

        As I said earlier: TOO DAMN CREEPY!

    • DinaWho
      DinaWho
      February 9, 2016 at 1:45 pm | #

      My guess is eyeroll shown over bangs (which is Willis’s stylistic choice for eyes covered by hair) except only the irises wound up in a layer above the hair?

  36. Pr Vanessa
    Pr Vanessa
    February 9, 2016 at 12:30 am | #

    Things will get awkward when Ruth realizes next that Billie went as far as giving Becky her room.

    • RP
      RP
      February 9, 2016 at 12:33 am | #

      Ooooh, yep.

    • Ctrl+C D@
      Ctrl+C D@
      February 9, 2016 at 12:41 am | #

      Ohhh I didn’t even think about that. Ruth ain’t gonna’ be happy.

  37. newllend(henryvolt)
    newllend(henryvolt)
    February 9, 2016 at 12:34 am | #

    Well to late to kick her out now.

  38. Ahecht
    Ahecht
    February 9, 2016 at 12:38 am | #

    Becky’s not really homeless now, is she? With her mom dead and her Dad in jail, isn’t her parent’s house available?

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      February 9, 2016 at 1:14 am | #

      It’s unclear. If Becky’s dad is still paying off the mortgage, then the bank owns it. If Ross paid it all off, Becky could squat there, but she can’t sell it, and that community might be unsafe for her.

  39. motorfirebox
    motorfirebox
    February 9, 2016 at 12:38 am | #

    Are Ruth’s eyes glowing from behind her bangs?

    That’s a little scary.

  40. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    February 9, 2016 at 12:38 am | #

    Ruth is rolleyeing so much in the 4th panel her eyes went above her eyebrows

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      February 9, 2016 at 6:49 am | #

      No, they didn’t. They’re just following the eyebrows, which are way up at the top of the head.
      Maybe they’re holding the eyebrows down, because normally in a scene like this, they’d be off the head entirely.

  41. a4lbi
    a4lbi
    February 9, 2016 at 12:39 am | #

    Well, that was easy!

  42. AgentKeen
    AgentKeen
    February 9, 2016 at 12:40 am | #

    I got the header where Dorothy and Joyce look shocked (I think from the party), which I found appropriate.

  43. brionl
    brionl
    February 9, 2016 at 12:45 am | #

    Maybe Ruth will finally make Joyce & Becky go talk to Leslie.

  44. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    February 9, 2016 at 12:46 am | #

    When Ruth learns exactly what happened and why her whole floor is protecting Becky, I think that she will help Becky out by getting her to the college help center. That would be her job. And she wants to do that now.

    If she does take her to the help center that will give her points with the board – all good for her job. And turning in Mary as the bigoted asshole she is, will give her more points.

    Just possible she may keep her job.

    Ruthless did put Billie in a tight spot by expecting her to rat on students, it is her job, and hers alone, to know what’s going on – and she can’t do that if she’s rolled up in her room around a bottle.

    Gotta wonder just how many others know that Billie and Ruth are sharing a room, besides Mary that is. I got a feeling a lot of the hall knows.

    If Ruth stands up for skater girl, just maybe the hall will stand up for Ruth. That would be nice.

    But then we are sorta of leading up to a meltdown aren’t we, been a whole week now? (I’m not forgetting Ms. Brown awaiting the arrive of Joyce and Mr. Brown and their surprise guest).
    2 meltdowns coming up.

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      February 9, 2016 at 1:12 am | #

      Yeah, I definitely agree with all of this. And I can see this ending well for Ruth, if not dramatically and narrowly, but it’s definitely going to take its toll in the meantime as her morality, her anger, and her depression war in three different directions.

      • Jhon
        Jhon
        February 10, 2016 at 12:12 am | #

        “as her morality, her anger, and her depression war in three different directions.”

        Hey, possible static equilibrium! (See ‘free body diagram’)
        Engineer here, sorry, sorry…

    • Ruthmost
      Ruthmost
      February 9, 2016 at 7:11 pm | #

      Billie told people she moved in with her ‘boyfriend’. So anyone aware of Becky’s existence and keeping mum about her will know that too. Joyce even suspected it was actually with a girl.
      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/payup/

      So unless the boyfriend somehow moved into the girls’ side, there’s no way Billie would’ve moved to the boys’ and kept showing up in the girls’ side all the time.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        February 9, 2016 at 8:57 pm | #

        Meh. She comes back to shower and hang around with her girl friends. She’s just over there for the nights.

        The real problem is that Billie’s story will completely fall apart if she’s actually questioned about it. If she had to name him and they wanted to talk to him, for example.
        And, if anyone really starts asking questions about Ruth and Billie, the violence is more likely to come up than the relationship. Which would be even worse for Ruth.

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          February 9, 2016 at 9:03 pm | #

          Yeah, I’m really expecting something like “why are you defending Ruth so much, Billie” or “why wouldn’t you be happy she’s gone/in trouble?”

      • DinaWho
        DinaWho
        February 9, 2016 at 10:42 pm | #

        That comic doesn’t show what you think it does. Joyce never thought Billie had a girlfriend, Becky did.

  45. caesaria82
    caesaria82
    February 9, 2016 at 12:50 am | #

    There’s a range in both of the girls’s faces today that’s incredible lol. Billie especially goes through all the human emotions in the span of four panels xD

    • inqntrol
      inqntrol
      February 9, 2016 at 1:07 am | #

      And Ruth goes through a demonic possession. An usual day at Indiana.

      • Amazi-Stool
        Amazi-Stool
        February 9, 2016 at 6:08 pm | #

        Not out of the ordinary.
        Their reputation is they have witch covens over there.

  46. Bagge
    Bagge
    February 9, 2016 at 1:01 am | #

    I’m with Billie – that was deft fair and square, Ruth has no business being smart like that. I call bullshit.

  47. Captain Button
    Captain Button
    February 9, 2016 at 1:09 am | #

    Panel 3: Billie attacks with her Smile Ray, but Ruth makes her Save versus Cheerful. (She has big bonus for that.)

  48. Owlmirror
    Owlmirror
    February 9, 2016 at 1:10 am | #

    It just occurred to me that now that Ruth has figured it out, this actually might be a perfect time to call Mary’s bluff, if Ruth is willing to push it to that level, and everyone in the know knows to dissemble about it.

    Post clean-up, all of Billie’s stuff is no longer in Ruth’s room (and is presumably back in her shared room with Sal). Bille and Ruth figure out a cover story to explain anything Mary might have observed.

    Becky’s not there.
    Joyce is not there (and therefore would not need to lie to someone in authority, with all of the keeping-a-straight-face implied by that)

    And presumably everyone else in the know would be willing to co-ordinate on what lie (or rather, half-truth) they need to tell (“Yes, Becky was here visiting, but she’s gone now.”)

    So Ruth goes to Mary, and brings her to whatever administrative persons are appropriate.

    “Mary made some very interesting allegations after making transphobic statements to Carla. Let us by all means investigate everything immediately.”

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      February 9, 2016 at 1:16 am | #

      If that’s what’s causing this Mary face, I’m all in favor of it:
      http://dumbingofage.tumblr.com/post/138890342282/may-5-2016

      • Captain Button
        Captain Button
        February 9, 2016 at 1:26 am | #

        My first take on that was “Ooh, these femurs are just what I need for my Strength Of Materials project!”

      • Gamaran Sepudomyn
        Gamaran Sepudomyn
        February 9, 2016 at 3:53 am | #

        Anything that causes Carla to pout and Mary to go into shock can only be good.

        • Kamino Neko
          Kamino Neko
          February 9, 2016 at 2:09 pm | #

          That’s not a pout. That’s ‘oooo!’

    • segnosaur
      segnosaur
      February 9, 2016 at 1:44 am | #

      You are right in that its best to challenge Mary when Joyce and Becky are gone. However, there are 2 problems:
      – Its the weekend, and its possible that they don’t have people with “real authority” around outside of work hours
      – Even if the issue of Mary’s transphobic slurs was brought to someone’s attention, I suspect it would take more than part of a day to investigate

    • JonasofAtlantis
      JonasofAtlantis
      February 9, 2016 at 2:53 am | #

      So… you think that if the RA that the entire dorm knows is sleeping with a student, whom anyone who’s met her can witness is continually drunk on the job, is the sole witness to a student being an asshole to another student, a university association is going to focus on the “one student was rude to another in the heat of an argument” part?

      Because I’m pretty sure the bit where the person with the key that opens every room in the building is continually near a blackout drunk and didn’t even notice a homeless squatter is legitimately more worrisome; I know there’s this whole stereotype of universities overdoing the political correctness, but finding out that someone drawing a school paycheck regularly harasses and assaults the people she’s supervising is gonna win out there.

      That’s the whole reason the blackmail works. If the university investigates this, Mary gets an official letter telling her to be nicer with the number for the mediation office. Ruth gets fired and probably arrested.

      • Liliet
        Liliet
        February 9, 2016 at 7:00 am | #

        Actually nobody knows that
        – Ruth sleeps with Billie
        – Ruth drinks
        other than Billie, that is

        and Mary but I mean the entire point is discrediting her as a queerphobic liar soooo

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        February 9, 2016 at 7:04 am | #

        As far we know, no one other than Mary knows Ruth & Billie are together. I think one of the other girls suggested it but was laughed down. Nor has anyone, other than Billie, ever shown any knowledge of Ruth’s drinking. Even Mary doesn’t mention drinking while she’s ranting about perverted vagrants and defiling cheerleaders.

        If any investigation digs too deeply into Ruth and the threats and violence come up, Ruth’s in trouble. If Ruth’s response is “Yes, there was a guest who stayed a few days too long because of her personal troubles, when I found out I helped her get in touch with the appropriate local resources to find her a safe place to stay. You can ask anyone about my relationship with Billie. We’re not exactly friendly.” then she’s pretty much in the clear and there’s little reason to dig deeper.
        In fact, the way she’s most likely to get in trouble if they ask is that people might reports she’s been physically assaulting Billie.

        Mary’s comment goes far beyond “was rude in the heat of an argument”, but there’s been a lot of talk about that and if you haven’t gotten it by now, you probably won’t.

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          February 9, 2016 at 10:06 am | #

          He’s downplaying Mary’s actions, which y’know; not cool, but I think he’s right that IU would be more concerned with an abusive employee than an asshole student.

        • Eukie
          Eukie
          February 9, 2016 at 10:54 am | #

          Mandy and Grace had a conversation that went something like this:

          “Amber being Amazi-Girl? That’s as likely as Billie and Ruthless having a thing.”
          “I’m telling you, there’s something there.”

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            February 9, 2016 at 1:14 pm | #

            Yeah, that’s what was at the back of my mind. That’s the most support any investigation will find for a relationship between Ruth & Billie. At least among the residents.

          • Amazi-Stool
            Amazi-Stool
            February 9, 2016 at 6:15 pm | #

            That’s the one

  49. Shanunu
    Shanunu
    February 9, 2016 at 1:10 am | #

    See, this is the situation I was in last year. My roommate invited someone to live in our room and when I went to the RAs about it I was supposed to have a conversation with my roommate about it first. Apparently just having someone skimming room and board isnt enough to get them to do their jobs. From my experience, as long as everyone in the room is in agreement, the guest can stay indefinitely. But I also wasnt in a dorm but rather a campus apartment. I don’t remember the rules for the first dorm I was in.

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      February 9, 2016 at 1:15 am | #

      That fits my experiences when a friend’s roommate had their girlfriend move in early in the year. Hell, the RA when I went to school didn’t even do something when it actually did negatively impact a resident, causing my friend to consistently sleep in the study box due to being sexiled. I think he ended up resolving it by refusing to be sexiled anymore leading them to move out into a nearby apartment the next semester.

    • Captain Button
      Captain Button
      February 9, 2016 at 1:17 am | #

      Way back when, I had a roommate move out to move in with friends, and then come back begging to move back with me (off the books) when it didn’t work out. I said OK.

      (No romance was involved anywhere as far as I know.)

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      February 9, 2016 at 7:17 am | #

      Yeah, the idea that an extended guest is this huge crisis situation that Ruth’s going to be in horrible trouble for having solved up front just doesn’t ring true to me.
      Sure, it’s against the rules. If Ruth was actively involved or knowingly condoned it, she’d get yelled at, maybe disciplined, but probably not outright fired. That she didn’t notice right away. Meh. No one’s going to care. Resolve the situation now.
      Now if, like in your case, the roommate had complained to the RA and nothing was done, then there’s a better case for getting her in trouble.

  50. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    February 9, 2016 at 1:29 am | #

    http://i.imgur.com/6l7JwlL.png
    Flexible.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      February 9, 2016 at 1:53 am | #

      No way Billie’s still in good enough shape to do that.

      Unless, like Yomi, she’s just made out of fat.

      • inqntrol
        inqntrol
        February 9, 2016 at 2:15 am | #

        Well she managed once to shove a bag of trash in the trash chute using her leg. I say she’s in good enough shape. Also, that video gave me a good laugh. XD

        • John
          John
          February 9, 2016 at 2:56 am | #

          Yeah, seriously. It’s only been two weeks.

  51. Crumplepunch
    Crumplepunch
    February 9, 2016 at 2:55 am | #

    Is Becky using Midwich Cuckoo powers there in panel 4?

    • Mr. Morningstar
      Mr. Morningstar
      February 9, 2016 at 9:12 am | #

      Uh, you mean Billie?

      • Crumplepunch
        Crumplepunch
        February 29, 2016 at 12:04 pm | #

        Nope! I meant Ruth. Somehow managed to muddle up the names.

  52. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    February 9, 2016 at 3:00 am | #

    http://i.imgur.com/4VJehWz.png
    Last one. NSFW.

    • Captain Button
      Captain Button
      February 9, 2016 at 8:53 am | #

      Deadly Weapons!

      NSFW tacky movie preview omitted.

  53. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    February 9, 2016 at 3:17 am | #

    http://i.imgur.com/0D8ITtb.png
    I lied.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      February 9, 2016 at 7:42 am | #

      Heh! ^_^

    • Psychotic Mantis
      Psychotic Mantis
      February 9, 2016 at 10:36 pm | #

      Would you happen to have a website/blog/whatever? Your art is REALLY cute.

  54. CianM1301
    CianM1301
    February 9, 2016 at 3:42 am | #

    Damn, don’t invite Billie to poker night.

    • Willoughby Chase
      Willoughby Chase
      February 9, 2016 at 7:23 am | #

      She’d be good at bluffing with her muffin.

  55. Raven Stromdans
    Raven Stromdans
    February 9, 2016 at 4:00 am | #

    Why do I feel like Ruth went all “Village of the Damned” to strip that knowledge from Billy’s brain?

  56. TheNinthShader
    TheNinthShader
    February 9, 2016 at 6:06 am | #

    Where did her eyes go in panel four? FOUL DEMON!

  57. Duncan Bayne
    Duncan Bayne
    February 9, 2016 at 6:21 am | #

    This is the perfect theme song for this relationship: Zero, by Smashing Pumpkins.

  58. Thomas
    Thomas
    February 9, 2016 at 6:37 am | #

    Apparently, it’s harder to lie to people you’re sexually attracted to. This is a known fact.

  59. altalemur
    altalemur
    February 9, 2016 at 6:56 am | #

    i did not know eyes could roll that far back. she should see a doctor.

  60. Les
    Les
    February 9, 2016 at 7:06 am | #

    Okay, so Billie doesn’t have a future on the World Poker Tour; that bluff didn’t last long.

  61. Deanatay
    Deanatay
    February 9, 2016 at 9:01 am | #

    Billie’s all like, “*grumble* No fair, using your psychic lesbian girlfriend mind-reading powers on me…”

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      February 9, 2016 at 10:01 am | #

      Ruth is bi.

      • Captain Button
        Captain Button
        February 9, 2016 at 10:31 am | #

        It is like multiclassing. She gets the psychic lesbian girlfriend mind-reading powers and the invisibility ones.

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          February 9, 2016 at 10:40 am | #

          Given Becky’s ability to remain unseen for over a week now, perhaps she and Ruth swapped powersets, and thus Becky lost her psychic lesbian girlfriend mind-reading powers that would help a lot with Dina.

          • Captain Button
            Captain Button
            February 9, 2016 at 10:52 am | #

            Becky is going with the Fugitive Lesbian Archetype rather than the Core Class version. At level 1 she swapped mind-reading for invisibility, and at level 2 she gives up door-locking for escape artist.

            Either that or a power-stealing power.

            Now I am worried that Magneto is going to abduct Becky.

            • Cerberus
              Cerberus
              February 9, 2016 at 11:13 am | #

              Well, the modern X-men stories tend to all be thinly veiled allegories to queer rights, so, in a way…

              • Spencer
                Spencer
                February 9, 2016 at 11:16 am | #

                Due to conflicts over film rights, the X-Men are all going instinct and being replaced as Marvel’s minority metaphor by the Inhumans, a bunch of incestuous space racists.

                • Spencer
                  Spencer
                  February 9, 2016 at 11:20 am | #

                  going extinct*

                  goddamit im bad at this

                • Cerberus
                  Cerberus
                  February 9, 2016 at 5:17 pm | #

                  Of course they are…

                • Spencer
                  Spencer
                  February 9, 2016 at 5:21 pm | #

                  On the plus side, we got Kamala Khan out of it.

              • Fwip
                Fwip
                February 9, 2016 at 7:28 pm | #

                So thin as to be downright translucent. The (in)famous “Have you tried… Not being a mutant?” scene from X2 was apparently based off of the real coming out of a friend of Ian McKellan’s.

                A part of me wonders if the metaphor might be a bit mixed, though. The X-Men were an explicit MLK Jr. vs. Malcom X reference, and the presence of groups like the Nation of Islam and the Black Panthers makes the mutants’ dangerous superpowers have a context in the story. Their ability to harm you is real, and that’s the driver of suspicion; the fear that, just because someone has power, they will use it to harm you, on the unspoken assumption that you’d do the same if you had power over them. The fears of the populace at large aren’t baseless, but they’re also the primary cause of them.

                To my knowledge, there haven’t really been any violent queer activists, though, which makes the threat of violence inherent really out of place at best, and really, REALLY uncomfortable inferences at worst.

                Still, hey, whatever gets people thinking about it. A victory’s a victory.

                • Smiling Cat
                  Smiling Cat
                  February 9, 2016 at 9:20 pm | #

                  I’ve never been comfortable with the idea of using Marvel mutants and their struggle as a metaphor for the gay rights struggle. I mean, in the X-men universe the only thing that keeps some mutants from physically destroying things is good manners. You can actually get people being afraid of them and see something reasonable about it. Only the most deranged televangelist will claim a gay person can explode your family with his eye beams.

                • Spencer
                  Spencer
                  February 9, 2016 at 9:28 pm | #

                  I’ve just accepted that it’s a metaphor that works.

                  Trying to explain it in the context of the Marvel Universe ends up with us reading Uncanny Avengers, and nobody deserves such a fate.

  62. BenRG
    BenRG
    February 9, 2016 at 9:02 am | #

    For crying out, loud, Ruth! Couldn’t you just give Billie the illusion that she had got one over you? 😉

    I’ve said this elsewhere but this is an ideal time to stage a raid on Sal and Becky’s room based on ‘information received’. I bet that Becky has a small- to non-existent footprint right now and it’s unlikely that they’ll find any evidence that she’s staying there; she’s most likely taken everything she owns (which is very little) with her to the Browns.

    • Captain Button
      Captain Button
      February 9, 2016 at 9:35 am | #

      I bet that Becky has a small- to non-existent footprint right now

      I know that Ross is horrible and all, but I doubt even he’d go in for foot-binding…

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      February 9, 2016 at 11:20 am | #

      Unfortunately, she was just able to raid her old closet at Anderson, so she may have considerably more footprint than she did before… though that isn’t difficult to do considering her old footprint was a sweatshirt, shirt and short pants and 2 Arby’s BBQ sauce packets that she lost in a bet.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        February 9, 2016 at 5:36 pm | #

        Despite all evidence, I STILL maintain my headcanon that she brought her old Hymmel tapes, possibly converted to a flashdrive that’s been hidden in her left shoe this entire time.

        Ross, of course, has a large toeprint

        • Captain Button
          Captain Button
          February 9, 2016 at 5:40 pm | #

          Years from now, she blackmails the First Husband by threatening to release them to the media.

  63. Mr. Morningstar
    Mr. Morningstar
    February 9, 2016 at 9:12 am | #

    “She’s literally here all the time and she ain’t a student putting two and two together was easy”

  64. Lan
    Lan
    February 9, 2016 at 10:05 am | #

    Ruth’s eyes kinda look like grapes in that last panel. Did you want grapes when you were drawing that Willis?

  65. Sigurther
    Sigurther
    February 9, 2016 at 10:25 am | #

    Okay, that thing she did with the eyes while she went all psychic detective was *really*creepy. Cool, but creepy.

  66. Eukie
    Eukie
    February 9, 2016 at 11:01 am | #

    It strikes me that Mary might very well decide that she can skip out on the floor meeting now that she has power over Ruth. If Ruth decides to protect Becky, she could use the floor meeting to coordinate an effort against letting Mary put Becky at risk.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      February 9, 2016 at 11:07 am | #

      That would require admitting they’ve been sheltering Becky to the abusive RA who beats up one of her charges.

      I dunno, everyone rallying together seems too easy a solution.

      • Eukie
        Eukie
        February 9, 2016 at 12:10 pm | #

        I’m mostly throwing ideas out here. Not all of them are primed for maximum drama, admittedly. Though my idea was that Ruth would tell everyone that she knows about Becky, and that she’s not going to do anything – but Mary also knows, and Mary could get her kicked out.

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          February 9, 2016 at 12:26 pm | #

          I mean, she kind of has to do something. It’s her job to do something, and publicly announcing to her dorm, a dorm she’s spent the last month mostly terrorizing, that she’s not going to do anything seems a waste of time when she can be just as helpful by not saying anything in front of anyone and maintain some plausible deniability.

          This is why I’m thinking she just privately approaches Joyce and Becky and tells them that she’s not going to report them, but that they need to get Becky out because she’s not allowed to be there.

          • Spencer
            Spencer
            February 9, 2016 at 12:27 pm | #

            gatdanged italics tags

          • Stara
            Stara
            February 9, 2016 at 1:57 pm | #

            Yeeeah, I don’t follow a lot of real-world myopia in the comments when it comes to Ruth being *even more* irresponsible. Plausible deniability and a private conversation, as Spencer noted, is one of the better courses of action for her to take. Or what thejeff considers, though this would make it difficult for Ruth to be evasive because she’d be expected to act pretty quickly after that, especially as she has a student who allegedly knows exactly where Becky’s staying, and it is not difficult to piece it with the kidnapping incident at Showalter Fountain.

            Some commenters seem to place a lack of value on self control and level thinking, compared to gratification-motivated pettiness and one-uppery that only escalates an unfavourable circumstance.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      February 9, 2016 at 1:18 pm | #

      Set up properly by Ruth, she could officially be asking for information, but actually be warning others that she’s been informed. Hopefully also including some advice on how to help homeless lesbians find a more official place to stay.

  67. Nena
    Nena
    February 9, 2016 at 12:35 pm | #

    I sure hope that she helps Becky rather than just abandon her.

  68. Falcon
    Falcon
    February 9, 2016 at 1:58 pm | #

    Come to think of it, Becky’s going to be able to go into her own house right? It’s not too far from Joyce’s? She ought to be able to grab some stuff she needs.

    Also would be an opportunity for Joyce and Becky to bond over contrasting memories of a shared childhood.

  69. Pecker Holder
    Pecker Holder
    February 9, 2016 at 5:24 pm | #

    Ruth: ”That’s my job.”
    *rolls down on the floor from laughter.*

    • Psychotic Mantis
      Psychotic Mantis
      February 9, 2016 at 10:37 pm | #

      Oh, I get it.

      Heh.

      Heh heh.

      Hehehehehe.

      PffftHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

      HAHAHA*MANTIS.exe has stopped working due to humor overload. Please replace MANTIS.exe.*

  70. quarktime
    quarktime
    February 9, 2016 at 7:19 pm | #

    My college had specific rules for visitors, but were only enforced when someone made a nuisance of themselves. If a visitor had to stay longer than a few days, they could ask at the housing office to stay in a guest room if one was available. They had to pay a fee for that, but the rooms were nice. But you could have a friend stay overnight in your dorm room for a short time and no one usually made a stink. A few days was pretty much normal. Beyond 4 days and it might raise eyebrows, but usually if your visitor was the same sex, no one cared a lot.

  71. Nice
    Nice
    February 9, 2016 at 11:23 pm | #

    Her eyes disappear into her forehead while figuring it out.
    What is she? A Cyborg or alien?

    • Rowen Morland
      Rowen Morland
      February 10, 2016 at 12:05 am | #

      (fore)Head Alien

  72. Lordess of madness
    Lordess of madness
    February 10, 2016 at 4:26 am | #

    busted…

  73. Nice
    Nice
    February 14, 2016 at 12:48 am | #

    eh?

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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
(May 14, 2026)
a bemused lucy watches as somebody collapses on her dorm room floor
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
wilbur, savvy enough to know he's in a comic strip but still not a great actor, awkwardly lifts a muffin up into frame so that we, the audience, understand that he has a muffin right now, which is very important narratively, but he's not really selling it well as an organic, human action
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Dumbing of Age: "Up" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomics #webcomic #dofa
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Up
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
i mean i... guess there are people who want toy-accurate hyper-articulated original-toy-look guys but in cartoon colors for some reason
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Fuck you, Clayface!!!
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
www.ebay.com/itm/23609982... selling my LG34 Mindwipe, minus Servant
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Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Transformers Generations TakaraTomy Legends LG34 Wipe (Mindwipe), incomplete at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many pro...
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Menace Level: up to date on his vaccinations
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
Today in #9ChickweedLane I learned Gran is back from the grave so she can jerk it to furry porn with her daughter
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
www.ebay.com/itm/23609184... 5 hours left on my 4-jet titans return tidal wave
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Check out those stickers. They make him look pretty great, actually. That aircraft carrier mode shines. Tidal Wave is loose and incomplete! So there's only four (4) jets!
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
confirming that the reason there's been no Galaxy Version female characters in Blokees until now is that they felt they needed to make Round Lady Thighs For Ladies
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
Dumbing of Age: "For you" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomics #webcomic
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For you
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
y'know there's not an awful lot of rocketeering in The Rocketeer
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wint @dril.bsky.social ⋅ 4d
buddy you came to the wrong ass to fuck
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
Man if they were arresting judges then this'd be the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard but thankfully that's not happening.
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