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May 12, 2026

Accosting

by David M Willis on December 4, 2024 at 12:01 am
  • 02 – The One Where Jocelyne Returns
└ Tags: dorothy, jennifer, ruth

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  1. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    December 4, 2024 at 12:02 am | #

    thinking about:it, Dorothy x Billiefer:would:be the doomest yuri

    • Rose by Any other Name
      Rose by Any other Name
      December 4, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

      The disappointment on Billie/Jennifer’s face in panel 4 is just perfect. Like “we totally would be making out if she wasn’t straight.”

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      December 4, 2024 at 12:18 am | #

      Given that she was basically in a suicide pact last semester and she drove her other girlfriend into a tree, it would probably come in last for doomed yuri for just Jennifer’s canon relationships.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      December 4, 2024 at 12:32 am | #

      You’re straight, I’M straight… we should be straight… together! And occasionally make out just to keep in practice, like straight people do!

  2. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    December 4, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    Bisexuality doesn’t exist…unless they’re hot. Then all bets are off.

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      December 4, 2024 at 12:15 am | #

      she’s just jealous Dotty doesn’t have to hold the girls when walking down stairs

    • anon
      anon
      December 4, 2024 at 1:18 am | #

      being demi is also a thing but at this point who knows maybe she’s also simply joyce-sexual

      • DJTsurugi
        DJTsurugi
        December 4, 2024 at 8:53 am | #

        are we making an EGS reference here? ~<3

    • ktbear
      ktbear
      December 4, 2024 at 1:56 am | #

      I like your reasoning better than the usual, “You’re just greedy.”

      • Jeremiah
        Jeremiah
        December 4, 2024 at 6:38 am | #

        I don’t understand that logic at all, what does greed even have anything to do with being attracted to anyone?

        • Sirksome
          Sirksome
          December 4, 2024 at 7:03 am | #

          It’s very common anti-bisexual rhetoric that bi-people are greedy. They want every sexual option and thus are promiscuous and looking to steal romantic options from both sides. You’re either straight or gay, wanting more than that is selfish. It’s hard enough finding love. How dare you potentially take more from me.

          • VicMortimer
            VicMortimer
            December 4, 2024 at 9:21 am | #

            I’m not stealing anybody. I’m also non-monogamous.

          • Daniel M Ball
            Daniel M Ball
            December 4, 2024 at 9:25 am | #

            I ALMOST understand that line of thinking, then I remember that emotions are not a zero-sum game with a limited resource beyond time. After which, I realize what that logic chain really is. It’s akin to Narcissism-someone whom is limited in their emotional scope assigning the same limits to others.

    • Theluxland
      Theluxland
      December 4, 2024 at 9:40 am | #

      She’s actually attracted to misery

  3. Doopyboop
    Doopyboop
    December 4, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    I appreciate Ruth calling Jennifer out.

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      December 4, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

      Of course Jennifer bullying Dotty was her way of flirting with her (-_-)

      • True Survivor
        True Survivor
        December 4, 2024 at 12:19 am | #

        I know Billie is generally a jerk, but I kind of feel bad for her. She is just so messed up and so confused in so many ways all the time. She basically wonders from one disaster to the other with no conception of her own agency in her misfortunes. Its like she is playing life by completely different rules to how society and reality operates and is too stupid to figure it out. Its got to be like being a 100% sure 2+2=5 and then keep failing math. You know you’re failing but can’t figure out why so you just become more and more angry and confused.

        • Charles Phipps
          Charles Phipps
          December 4, 2024 at 12:29 am | #

          The thing is Jennifer likes disaster and drama. The problem is she doesn’t seem to realize most people…don’t.

        • Thag Simmons
          Thag Simmons
          December 4, 2024 at 12:30 am | #

          There’s a lot to pity about her, and I can certainly relate to doing self-destructive shit for dumb reasons, but unfortunately it is consistently really funny to watch her fail.

          I’ve compared her to Wile E Coyote a few times before for a reason.

          • NGPZ
            NGPZ
            December 4, 2024 at 12:48 am | #

            if she’s Wile E. Coyote, i wonder who’d be Acme Corp…

        • Doopyboop
          Doopyboop
          December 4, 2024 at 12:57 am | #

          I used to feel bad for her. And maybe I still feel a little bit bad for her. She currently has like, no real friends. Raidah’s friend group certainly doesn’t like her, and she ditched all her old ones. But there comes a certain point where someone is so self-destructive and toxic that as bad as you feel for them, it just doesn’t really… go that far anymore? Like as much as I feel for Jennifer, she literally had no reason to stir the pot with Dorothy the way she is. Especially after she tried to pull Dorothy under her wing to cheer her up, hence why Ruth is calling her out.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            December 4, 2024 at 3:16 am | #

            She’ll reboot her personality again eventually.

          • Sirksome
            Sirksome
            December 4, 2024 at 7:35 am | #

            Look I don’t really like “Jennifer” over “Billie” either, but I keep noticing the narrative that she’s always the jerk in every interaction when that’s not true. Dorothy snapped at Jen first when she brought up Dorothy’s widely known desire to get into politics. Dorothy then told her to fuck off when Jen noted Dorothy isn’t doing well. Jennifer did not stir the pot here. Dorothy was the one kind of out of line. The most antagonizing thing Jen did was insult Dorothy’s cleavage.

            It feels like because Jennifer in general is so unlikable now, she can’t do anything without being the bad guy.

            • Nerrin
              Nerrin
              December 4, 2024 at 7:43 am | #

              She opened with a direct insult on Dorothy’s body. That’s… not nice. That’s not showing an interest. That colors everything she says afterward as antagonistic because the first thing she said was antagonistic.

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              December 4, 2024 at 7:43 am | #

              You could argue that her starting off by insulting Dorothy’s cleavage basically out of the blue set the tone for the rest of the interaction, even when the topic changed.

            • Doopyboop
              Doopyboop
              December 4, 2024 at 5:44 pm | #

              See, Jennifer didn’t just point out that Dorothy wasn’t doing well. She was clearly saying it in a pretty mocking way. “Damn Dorothy, you really ARE unraveling. You used to keep your shit together” vs “Wow, Dorothy, you’re not acting like yourself, are you okay?”. If someone, who knew I was going through a mental health crisis of some kind (which Jennifer does since she tried taking Dorothy out to karaoke to make her feel better), started mocking me about it, you know for damn sure I’d tell them to fuck off.

            • Doopyboop
              Doopyboop
              December 4, 2024 at 5:47 pm | #

              Whether she’s likable or not, I’m able to read the comic pages. At no point in these strips has she been un-antagonistic. Even her relaying she and Dorothy both knew Amazi-girl’s true identity was delivered in a very weird, antagonistic way. She insulted Dorothy’s boobs. She’s insulting Dorothy’s mental health crisis. If you’re really trying to argue that saying to someone having a breakdown’s face “you used to keep your shit together” ISN’T out of line, then I have nothing more to say on the subject. But I’m not going to condemn Jennifer for just existing in a strip. I don’t do that for any of the characters. Not even Raidah, who I actually hate.

        • NGPZ
          NGPZ
          December 4, 2024 at 1:04 am | #

          re: completely different rules,

          she’s a cheer-leader who ritualistically thinks schemas which got her social status in high school automatically transfer over to college 9-9

          <a href = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming&quot;”The form is perfect. It looks exactly the way it looked before. But it doesn’t work.”

          — Richard Feynman

          • NGPZ
            NGPZ
            December 4, 2024 at 1:05 am | #

            dammit, that SHOULD have read,

            “The form is perfect. It looks exactly the way it looked before. But it doesn’t work.”

            — Richard Feynman

        • Bruno
          Bruno
          December 4, 2024 at 2:35 am | #

          This is why she’s my favourite character. I was exactly like this in college.

          • Jeremiah
            Jeremiah
            December 4, 2024 at 6:41 am | #

            I can believe that

      • Fridge_Logic
        Fridge_Logic
        December 4, 2024 at 5:19 am | #

        WAIT! Did Jenifer get turned on and or jealous when she saw Dorothy’s down shirt pick and that’s why she sent her own pick (to undermine Dorothy’s flirting by sending a different woman’s cleavage) and then proceed to bully flirt with Dorothy???

        • NGPZ
          NGPZ
          December 4, 2024 at 3:33 pm | #

          I mean looking back, “flirting” is a bit of a generous way of putting it

          what she’s doing is negging, akin to that of so-called “pick-up artists”

          @-@

    • anon
      anon
      December 4, 2024 at 1:18 am | #

      esp since it’s ‘just the other day’ even tho it feels like it’s been over a month for us

    • BadRoad
      BadRoad
      December 4, 2024 at 5:04 am | #

      I’d feel better about it if I knew whether Ruth was protecting Dorothy or hassling Jennifer.

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        December 4, 2024 at 6:10 am | #

        Protecting Dorothy, hassling Jennifer, and flirting with Jennifer.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          December 4, 2024 at 7:45 am | #

          Ruth is efficient.

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          December 4, 2024 at 8:01 am | #

          Those last two things? They’re the same thing.

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      December 4, 2024 at 6:01 am | #

      Sudden Ruth!

      • morleuca
        morleuca
        December 4, 2024 at 3:05 pm | #

        A more refined and adult confection

  4. JA
    JA
    December 4, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    Jennifer: Wrong about most things.

  5. Schpoonman
    Schpoonman
    December 4, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    Fuck off, Jennifer.

    • Gigafreak
      Gigafreak
      December 4, 2024 at 7:03 am | #

      Is Dorothy’s name “Off?”

      • clif
        clif
        December 4, 2024 at 8:43 am | #

        I believe that’s Ruth’s name.

  6. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    December 4, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    There’s a lot of depressed women with medium length hair and glasses roaming the halls of IU.

    • Madock345
      Madock345
      December 4, 2024 at 8:52 pm | #

      That’s every college though XD

  7. Nono
    Nono
    December 4, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    Yay, self biphobia. Couldn’t happen to a nicer(?) person.

    • anon
      anon
      December 4, 2024 at 1:19 am | #

      “Bi disaster” but in a non endearing way, unfortunately lol

  8. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    December 4, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    Don’t blame your sexuality for your failures in relationships, Jennifer

  9. Newlland(Henryvolt)
    Newlland(Henryvolt)
    December 4, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

    Oh what’s the matter Ruth are you jealous Jennifer was going to start another Lesbian suicide pact with someone else?

    For real though I still say if Dorothy was having this crisis several months sooner she probably would have the opportunity to be Ruthe & Billies 3rd, all she would need to do is commit to what the younger ones these days call…”Crashing out.”

    • anon
      anon
      December 4, 2024 at 1:20 am | #

      isn’t she still currently with jason? even if there are lingering feelings would be weird to get jealous again

      • Newlland(Henryvolt)
        Newlland(Henryvolt)
        December 4, 2024 at 3:10 am | #

        That was the part of the comment that was supposed to be a joke, but yes.

        I feel like this is a good opportunity to drop that one hit song that’s been floating around this year though, what was it called?…”Good luck babe?” I know one if these two would be to playing this on loop.

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        December 4, 2024 at 8:25 am | #

        Yeah no one ever gets jealous of their ex when they’re with the new partner. Nopenopenope. That’d be soooo weeeeird.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          December 4, 2024 at 2:00 pm | #

          How very unusual, to feel a way about a person you felt strong feelings toward, after you’re no longer fucking them.

    • Byron Orpheus
      Byron Orpheus
      December 4, 2024 at 3:00 pm | #

      I just realized that soon “Netflix and chill” will seem dated. “Netflix? No one watches Netflix anymore.”

  10. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    December 4, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

    Read to filth, of course.

  11. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    December 4, 2024 at 12:11 am | #

    Billie/Jennifer is having a difficult time lately; I kinda feel bad for her although most of it is her fault.

    To feel bad, or not feel bad? That is the question.

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      December 4, 2024 at 12:50 am | #

      Jennifer is firmly in Asuka territory: She needs 15 hugs and twice as many hours of therapy-per-week, but I want to be on any other continent until she gets the help she so desperately needs.

    • anon
      anon
      December 4, 2024 at 1:22 am | #

      isn’t most of her ‘difficult time’ lately (specifically with asher) more so self inflicted?

      • Kyrik Michalowski
        Kyrik Michalowski
        December 4, 2024 at 1:59 am | #

        I know, I said that her problems are her fault; the situation with Asher is just one example.

  12. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    December 4, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

    Also, I am learning to hate this site. I have a poor internet connection, but of all the sites I visit this is the one that fucks up the most and leaves me the most frustrated.

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      December 4, 2024 at 12:37 am | #

      I am sorry to hear that. This site is defiantly one of the more temperamental ones I have come across.

      Weirdly, I feel like trying to use this site is probably a lot like what life is like for Billie. She wants the fun cute story about friendship and college romance, but her hardware isn’t everything it probably should be and things keep functioning by rules she doesn’t quite understand. Therefore, she gets frustrated and tries to either brute force her way through or keeps coming up with hurried, half-baked plans to get what she wants. Of course, neither of those paths ever work out because she doesn’t really understand the underlying logic everybody is working with.

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    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      December 4, 2024 at 6:12 am | #

      Send Mr. Willis some patreon dollars, and put up an adblocker on this site.

  13. Wraithy2773
    Wraithy2773
    December 4, 2024 at 12:15 am | #

    Smooth as peanut butter.

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      December 4, 2024 at 12:23 am | #

      *eats a spoonful of extra crunchy peanut butter*

      • clif
        clif
        December 4, 2024 at 9:02 am | #

        How come my peanut butter comes in either smooth or extra crunchy, but I never can find the just plain ordinary crunchy?

        • morleuca
          morleuca
          December 4, 2024 at 3:11 pm | #

          I have a theory about this. I think there used to be, and it didn’t sell well. The smoothies didn’t want crunchy, and the crunchies liked the level of peanut inclusions of the extra crunchy better. And if they git rid of crunchy, and called extra crunchy, crunchy instead, it wouldn’t sell as well.

  14. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    December 4, 2024 at 12:16 am | #

    God dammit I love these two. I WANT TO BELIEVE

    • anon
      anon
      December 4, 2024 at 1:24 am | #

      Smash cut 50 years later to more or less teh same cast/crew all living together in a mega-mansion and still bickering at each other lol

      • clif
        clif
        December 4, 2024 at 9:08 am | #

        The mega-mansion is provided by Walky from the spare proceeds from his trampoline park empire. He pays the rest of them to live there and, except for Carla, they can’t afford to move out.

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        December 4, 2024 at 3:59 pm | #

        I mean, Jennifer’s parents basically already own a mansion,

        https://www.dumbingofage.com/2022/comic/book-12/04-dont-stop-billie-ving/bighouse/

  15. Jerach
    Jerach
    December 4, 2024 at 12:19 am | #

    The fact that Jennifer looks wistful here when she’s saying that Dorothy’s straight holy shit. Is she just physically incapable of not being a piece of shit to people she has any positive feelings for?

    • Charles Phipps
      Charles Phipps
      December 4, 2024 at 12:46 am | #

      I mean…no.

      What she did to Asher was absolutely horrible and motivated by nothing.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      December 4, 2024 at 7:50 am | #

      She isn’t incapable. We saw her taking care of Ruth, back towards the end of their relationship.

      But she’s a bratty sub and this is how she flirts. She just needs a partner who’ll properly put her in her place when she tries it. Like Ruth did.

      • DJTsurugi
        DJTsurugi
        December 4, 2024 at 8:56 am | #

        in the most basic terms, Billifer needs a top, a real top not like Ruth. ~<3

        • NickG
          NickG
          December 4, 2024 at 10:55 am | #

          She doesn’t seem to be Dina’s type.

          • DJTsurugi
            DJTsurugi
            December 4, 2024 at 4:03 pm | #

            once again I am in need of being able to upvote a comment. ~<3

  16. Suet
    Suet
    December 4, 2024 at 12:20 am | #

    *insert face of plausible deniability of straightness* The other day

    “if she told you she’s an orphan” i’d rather not think of swapping Ruth’s and Dorothy’s psyches, aight

  17. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    December 4, 2024 at 12:23 am | #

    Is it just me or did Jennifer look a little disappointed in panel 4? Like maybe she wanted Dorothy to kiss her? Ruth and Jennifer have both shown a slight attraction to Dorothy. They really have a type.

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      December 4, 2024 at 8:28 am | #

      A blonde, a brunette, and a redhead walk into a bar – history tells us this, too, is yuri.

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      December 4, 2024 at 8:35 am | #

      Of course not. As Jennifer said, sHe iS s T r A i G h t…

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        December 4, 2024 at 2:46 pm | #

        Usually.

    • Woof McGee
      Woof McGee
      December 4, 2024 at 9:38 am | #

      You are correct. Dorothy/Joyce never had this kind of heat.

  18. Coatl
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    December 4, 2024 at 12:23 am | #

    Jennifer, you can’t get enough of being horrible, can you?

  19. crys
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    December 4, 2024 at 12:24 am | #

    I see it. Dorothy and Ruth are both depressed bespectacled freckled ladies who Jennifer seems uniquely capable of riling up.

    • Michael Steamweed
      Michael Steamweed
      December 4, 2024 at 6:03 am | #

      And gets hots for.

  20. jeffepp
    jeffepp
    December 4, 2024 at 12:25 am | #

    “Except for that one time. Two times. And when I made it weird with Sal. And when I hit on a super hero. And…”

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      December 4, 2024 at 12:35 am | #

      “…and when I hit on my boss…”

  21. staszu13
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    December 4, 2024 at 12:34 am | #

    Mmm. Hmmm. And it’s raining Post Toasties, Jen

    • Doopyboop
      Doopyboop
      December 4, 2024 at 12:58 am | #

      Hehehe, I understood that reference.

  22. Random832
    Random832
    December 4, 2024 at 12:37 am | #

    “Dorothy’s straight. I’m so sure of this I didn’t bother asking who she was sending the pic to, even after making her confirm that it wasn’t the one guy I could name off the top of my head who it might be”

    • Random832
      Random832
      December 4, 2024 at 12:40 am | #

      And also used they/them pronouns for the unknown person Dorothy was sending the picture to.

      • 3oranges
        3oranges
        December 4, 2024 at 1:05 am | #

        That just means she doesn’t know who it is though. Billie also just used “they” to describe Amazi-girl, who is pretty clearly a she based on her name.

      • Regret
        Regret
        December 4, 2024 at 6:02 am | #

        They is inclusive. In absence of a specific request to not use it, it is perfectly fine.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      December 4, 2024 at 2:15 am | #

      It’s not like Jen keeps tabs on who Dorothy’s hanging out with though

  23. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    December 4, 2024 at 12:44 am | #

    I am with Becky that Ruth and Jennifer should never ever get back together. Blame the physical abuse. Once they started punching and throwing each other, I was against them ever getting back together.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      December 4, 2024 at 8:09 am | #

      They started punching and throwing each other before they got together the first time.

      And there’s not necessarily anything wrong with that. They’re both into it. It’s flirting for both of them. They probably would need better boundaries around it – a safeword kind of approach, just to keep from screwing up and one of them getting actually hurt by it.
      but as long as they’re mutually having fun with it, it’s not really a problem.

  24. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    December 4, 2024 at 12:45 am | #

    Billiefer is 100% sure Dorothy was sending that boobie picture to a boy.

  25. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    December 4, 2024 at 12:45 am | #

    So did Dorothy actually send the ohotos to Joyce? I want to see that whole mess, and it’s inevitable conclusion.

    • Kyrik Michalowski
      Kyrik Michalowski
      December 4, 2024 at 12:46 am | #

      Photos*

    • anon
      anon
      December 4, 2024 at 1:25 am | #

      jen took the picture but i don’t think she hit press send unless itw as automatic or so

  26. FlamestAndLight
    FlamestAndLight
    December 4, 2024 at 12:50 am | #

    Me when i’m straight: “She’s straight :(“

  27. BBCC
    BBCC
    December 4, 2024 at 1:01 am | #

    Rock solid, Ruth.

  28. AGV/Ruby
    AGV/Ruby
    December 4, 2024 at 1:01 am | #

    “Amazing. Every single word you said is wrong.”

    • clif
      clif
      December 4, 2024 at 9:12 am | #

      “Ruth” is a word.

      • cbwroses
        cbwroses
        December 4, 2024 at 2:39 pm | #

        It’s wrong because she forgot the -less in Ruthless.

  29. AGV/Ruby
    AGV/Ruby
    December 4, 2024 at 1:02 am | #

    Also, glad that Ruth’s around to restore balance.

  30. Pocky
    Pocky
    December 4, 2024 at 1:12 am | #

    Honestly; Dorothy is one awkward dip into the hot water until she’s like spaghetti.

    • anon
      anon
      December 4, 2024 at 1:26 am | #

      I know ppl talk about joycethy as a ship but idk if there’s rly been any other ‘chemistry’ or sexual tension with her and other girls

      (Tho dina aside, if this was a more ‘anime-like’ story she’d have more ppl in teh fandom shpping her with becky lol)

      • Nymph
        Nymph
        December 4, 2024 at 8:32 am | #

        Bisexuality is a spectrum and it includes people who find same-sex (or other-sex) attraction sparingly rather than 50/50.

    • morleuca
      morleuca
      December 4, 2024 at 3:15 pm | #

      Chewy and toothsome, with a good mouthfeel?

    • mindbleach
      mindbleach
      December 4, 2024 at 3:22 pm | #

      Dorothy was never the one in denial about her bisexuality.

      Just about how much she respects monogamy.

  31. anon
    anon
    December 4, 2024 at 1:16 am | #

    “Titty pics” as a cry for help would be something

    Tho it just reminds me of the always sunny ep like “I wanna feel/see more sadness coming from them (actress’ breasts)”

  32. Juanoku
    Juanoku
    December 4, 2024 at 1:47 am | #

    Holy shit front row seats to THIS?
    Ruth being in the right doesn’t happen much, and getting to tell Billie to fuck off has been coming for a while

  33. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    December 4, 2024 at 1:53 am | #

    Okay, I fully support Jennifer and Dorothy over Ruth and Jennifer.

    Dorothy needs to date disaster a few times before dating Joyce.

  34. IntangibleMatter
    IntangibleMatter
    December 4, 2024 at 1:58 am | #

    They’re both so clearly over each other at this point

  35. John Campbell
    John Campbell
    December 4, 2024 at 3:38 am | #

    Welp, the only thing Jennifer got right was Ruth’s name.

  36. DashWallkick
    DashWallkick
    December 4, 2024 at 4:28 am | #

    Jen’s insecure, terrified insistence that she’s normal and everyone else is a weird nerd makes her incredibly entertaining.

  37. Amelie Wikström
    Amelie Wikström
    December 4, 2024 at 5:40 am | #

    Remember two minutes ago back when Jennifer was following an Amazi-Girl lead? Whatever happened with that?

    Oh right, there it is in panel 1, walking away without worrying about having given up any information. We have established she obviously knows Amazi-Girl and nothing else. Does she want to protect her secret identity? Is Amazi-Girls still being Amazi-Girl? Don’t know anything about that, but at least we have established Dorothy may not be the same person she was six months ago and Jennifer doesn’t like her. Solid journalism Jennifer.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      December 4, 2024 at 8:10 am | #

      Why would Jennifer need to follow up with Dorothy?
      She already knows who AG is and Dorothy basically confirmed she was right. No more need for Dorothy.

  38. Michael Steamweed
    Michael Steamweed
    December 4, 2024 at 6:00 am | #

    Taking, sending, and/or receiving lewds is a _totally_ established part of medical processes. Why, my medical providers have diagrams of naked people (in various closeups) all over their walls.

  39. Jeremiah
    Jeremiah
    December 4, 2024 at 6:33 am | #

    Ah Jennifer, I love your little trash fire brain so much.

  40. spriteless aunty
    spriteless aunty
    December 4, 2024 at 9:03 am | #

    Jennifer, go shag Booster, they would find you fascinating and they could use someone who enforces boundaries. Uhh, just don’t injure them.

    • darkoneko
      darkoneko
      December 4, 2024 at 10:23 am | #

      “unless they ask you to”

  41. Nedlum
    Nedlum
    December 4, 2024 at 10:31 am | #

    “Once is never, twice is always.”
    –Cibola Burn, James Corey

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      December 4, 2024 at 5:18 pm | #

      I should reread The Expanse.

      • Michael Steamweed
        Michael Steamweed
        December 4, 2024 at 7:19 pm | #

        Some _excellent_ hard science fiction.

  42. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    December 4, 2024 at 11:17 am | #

    That sad look, so Jennifer seriously thought about the possibility? Leaving her was the best decision Ruth made.

    • Charles Phipps
      Charles Phipps
      December 4, 2024 at 1:29 pm | #

      Why? She and Dorothy would be great together!

      Dorothy can try to fix her and Jennifer can be horrible!

      🙂

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      December 4, 2024 at 1:59 pm | #

      Is the implication that wishing you could smooch a straight girl is bad?

      • Jeremiah
        Jeremiah
        December 4, 2024 at 2:43 pm | #

        I think it was more about her finding the whole unnecessary confrontation and making Dorothy hot.

        • spriteless aunty
          spriteless aunty
          December 4, 2024 at 4:40 pm | #

          Dorothy could use some positive reinforcement for sticking to her guns.

      • Rabisch
        Rabisch
        December 4, 2024 at 5:35 pm | #

        If you’re insulting them so much to make them angry, yes.

  43. :0
    :0
    December 4, 2024 at 1:39 pm | #

    And so is Asher! Usually.

  44. Adept
    Adept
    December 4, 2024 at 3:05 pm | #

    She’s straight… obviously, usually, because bisexuality doesn’t exist. So there.

  45. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    December 4, 2024 at 4:25 pm | #

    …. so apparently Willis thought that the Love Pentagram needed another line. Is there a name for the Dorothy/Jennifer ship yet?

    • spriteless aunty
      spriteless aunty
      December 4, 2024 at 4:43 pm | #

      I vote for DorWorthy.

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        December 4, 2024 at 8:27 pm | #

        The ironic part is that would still be less hazardous for Dorothy’s well being than actually going to Yale and becoming president 0-0

  46. Rectilinear Propagation
    Rectilinear Propagation
    December 4, 2024 at 7:14 pm | #

    Interesting that Jennifer doesn’t look Ruth in the face after that second panel.

  47. Yeet
    Yeet
    December 4, 2024 at 10:50 pm | #

    jennifer if people are sorry every time they speak to you maybe consider the common denominator

  48. thumb
    thumb
    December 4, 2024 at 11:53 pm | #

    and so is Dorothy. Usually.

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