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Rounds

by David M Willis on March 28, 2014 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - I Was a Teenage Churchmouse
└ Tags: agatha, jennifer, ruth

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    March 28, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    “As you were.”

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      March 28, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

      Rachel and Other Rachel are roommies?? Whoa D=

      • JessWitt
        JessWitt
        March 28, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

        There are two Rachels? I’m confused.

        • BlackIo
          BlackIo
          March 28, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

          One’s Joe’s girlfriend from the Walkyverse, the other one’s a minor character from Squad 82 in It’s Walky!

          • JessWitt
            JessWitt
            March 28, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

            Ah, neat! I haven’t read all of It’s Walky! so I was unfamiliar with Squad 82. I thought Willis made a typo for a sec.

            • BlackIo
              BlackIo
              March 28, 2014 at 2:59 pm | #

              Walkypedia has a pretty good page on her.

        • qka
          qka
          March 28, 2014 at 12:52 am | #

          Put ’em all in the same room. Eliminates confusion.

          • Ivan
            Ivan
            March 30, 2014 at 1:20 am | #

            Easier to call the freckles in this universe ‘melanoma’, hemorrhagic fever in another, and hepatocellular neoplastic dermato-migrations as a result of methanol ingestion (berry flavored) for the third universe.

      • Jay Eff
        Jay Eff
        March 28, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

        Looks like they’re havin’ a li’l “R & R!”

        Dodges Danny Trejo Machetes

        • Jen Aside
          Jen Aside
          March 28, 2014 at 12:58 am | #

          *Machete comes back atcha with a KARATE CHOP*

          **’CUZ IT’S COOL!**

        • Kelly
          Kelly
          March 28, 2014 at 1:04 am | #

          Machetes? I don’t know anything about that. I do know of Bobby “Machete” Walkerton though.

    • Hawkwing
      Hawkwing
      March 28, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      “I should go.”

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        March 28, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

        “I’m in the middle of some calibrations.”

        • StClair
          StClair
          March 28, 2014 at 12:26 am | #

          “Shepard.”

          • Regalli
            Regalli
            March 28, 2014 at 12:33 am | #

            “Wrex.”

            • Jen Aside
              Jen Aside
              March 28, 2014 at 12:59 am | #

              “Beuller?”

              • Cholma
                Cholma
                March 28, 2014 at 1:10 am | #

                Dammit, Garrus, I just want to talk! Why are you ALWAYS in the middle of calculations?! Can’t you see I LOVE YOU?

                • Heavensrun
                  Heavensrun
                  March 28, 2014 at 11:01 am | #

                  No, no, it’s “calibrations” not “calculations” Haven’t you played ME3, wherin they RUN THAT JOKE SO FAR INTO THE GROUND IT COMES OUT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PLANET?

              • Ancestral Hamster
                Ancestral Hamster
                March 28, 2014 at 1:40 am | #

                “I think he’s dead.”

                • The Phantom's Belch
                  The Phantom's Belch
                  March 28, 2014 at 4:25 am | #

                  “He’s dead, Jim.”

                • Gigafreak
                  Gigafreak
                  March 28, 2014 at 9:33 am | #

                  “There is a high statistical probability of death by gunshot. A punch to the face is also likely.”

                • Jen Aside
                  Jen Aside
                  March 28, 2014 at 9:35 pm | #

                  “Life is wasted on the living.”

                • Roborat
                  Roborat
                  April 1, 2014 at 3:04 pm | #

                  “Dammit Jim, I’m a doctor, not a physician.”

  2. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    March 28, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    GO TO HER.

    • Maveric1984
      Maveric1984
      March 28, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

      Yes, you want her. Look at her, you know you do. It’s possible she wants you too, there’s one way to ask her. I don’t take a word, not a single word, go on and kiss the girl!

      • Ed Rhodes
        Ed Rhodes
        March 28, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

        …and don’t have alcohol on your breath when you do!

      • David Herbert
        David Herbert
        March 28, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

        Sha-la-la-la-la-la
        Ain’t that sad
        Ain’t it shame, too bad
        You gonna miss the girl

      • WaveRocker
        WaveRocker
        March 28, 2014 at 1:22 am | #

        What is that beautiful quote from?

        • Jen Aside
          Jen Aside
          March 28, 2014 at 1:24 am | #

          https://www.google.com/search?q=Yes%2C+you+want+her.+Look+at+her%2C+you+know+you+do.+It%E2%80%99s+possible+she+wants+you+too%2C+there%E2%80%99s+one+way+to+ask+her.+I+don%E2%80%99t+take+a+word%2C+not+a+single+word%2C+&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=rcs

          • 3oranges
            3oranges
            March 28, 2014 at 1:59 am | #

            Yes, yes, except that search actually misses the best answer – the first few hits are all Ashley Tisdale. But more of us still know the song from its original source, The Little Mermaid.

            • Maveric1984
              Maveric1984
              March 28, 2014 at 6:43 am | #

              Yeah, I didn’t know someone had covered it recently. I was definitely quoting The Little Mermaid.

          • Bill
            Bill
            March 28, 2014 at 3:48 am | #

            A better link — from the movie (lyrics subtitled)

  3. Levi
    Levi
    March 28, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    Damn…that’s sad.

  4. Kulticose
    Kulticose
    March 28, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Prepare the firing squad.

    • The Phantom's Belch
      The Phantom's Belch
      March 28, 2014 at 4:26 am | #

      “Ready! Fire! AIM!”

  5. Barf Ninjason
    Barf Ninjason
    March 28, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Guilt Blast! Zam!

  6. xain
    xain
    March 28, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    billie apologize and get some make-up make-outs

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      March 28, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

      As things are Ruth seems to have become less terrible, I say leave things as they are.

      • Nothri
        Nothri
        March 28, 2014 at 12:32 am | #

        I’m concerned she is taking her whole “liked it better when I didn’t feel at all” thing to its logical extreme.

        • timemonkey
          timemonkey
          March 28, 2014 at 1:00 am | #

          Whatever makes her less unpleasant.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      March 28, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      I can’t make-out what a make-up Make-out would be like. I guess I could make it up. But who would Make up Makeouts to Make out Making them up.

      • Kiggy
        Kiggy
        March 28, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

        uuuh….*brainz axplodez*

        • The Phantom's Belch
          The Phantom's Belch
          March 28, 2014 at 4:28 am | #

          Yotomoe – 1
          Kiggy – DOA

          FLAWLESS VICTORY!

      • Dilos Ekans
        Dilos Ekans
        March 28, 2014 at 9:21 pm | #

        is your picture of Woolie?

  7. newllend
    newllend
    March 28, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Ooooh thats bad, thats like really bad.

  8. ChaoticCandy
    ChaoticCandy
    March 28, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Awkward turtle revamped. Damn.

  9. GoogerGeiger
    GoogerGeiger
    March 28, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Ruth’s really keeping her composure. Better than I thought she would.

    • newllend
      newllend
      March 28, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

      Did you think she was going to panic and run back to her room without saying anything? That what I thought she was going to do.

      • timemonkey
        timemonkey
        March 28, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

        Pffft, Ruth doesn’t run away. Anger would be the expected emotion.

      • Nothri
        Nothri
        March 28, 2014 at 12:46 am | #

        Yeah I’m not sure if this approach is much better or much worse for her longterm health but it certainly is much more something. And unexpected. Good on her I guess.

  10. Pteropine
    Pteropine
    March 28, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    oh

  11. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    March 28, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Agatha, get a name that doesn’t belong to a grandma.

    • Jay Eff
      Jay Eff
      March 28, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      Or, at least get a roommate named “Christi” so we can make literature jokes every time you’re together.

      • Kelly
        Kelly
        March 28, 2014 at 1:05 am | #

        Yes!

        • insomniac
          insomniac
          March 28, 2014 at 8:44 am | #

          People who make room assignments do, frequently, do this sort of thing. It is a dull job, and anything to make the day more interesting.

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      March 28, 2014 at 1:01 am | #

      “So, Tabitha or Bagatha?”

      • Heavensrun
        Heavensrun
        March 28, 2014 at 10:57 am | #

        Bruce.

    • Ancestral Hamster
      Ancestral Hamster
      March 28, 2014 at 1:50 am | #

      You know, at some point all those girls who were born in the ’80s and were named “Heather” will be grandmothers. Same with the Brittanies. That is going to be weird. “Gramma Heather is coming to visit.” “Put your shoes on kids, Nana Brittany is expecting us for Thanksgiving.”

      • Heavensrun
        Heavensrun
        March 28, 2014 at 10:57 am | #

        Um. Pretty sure there are Gramma Heathers out there right now, and probably a few Nana Brittanies. Those names weren’t invented in the 80’s, they were just popular.

    • John
      John
      March 28, 2014 at 2:38 am | #

      Bah, Agatha is a name fit for a Heterodyne.

      • Zephyr, God of the West Wind
        Zephyr, God of the West Wind
        March 28, 2014 at 10:01 pm | #

        YUS

    • Almost Agatha
      Almost Agatha
      March 28, 2014 at 11:54 am | #

      Agatha actually was my grandmother’s name. In fact, my parents almost named me after her, but didn’t precisely because it’s such an old-fashioned name.

  12. Chubsius
    Chubsius
    March 28, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Aw man. I want to live in a chez!

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      March 28, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

      All you need is a sign on the door. Chez Chubsius.

      • Chubsius
        Chubsius
        March 28, 2014 at 1:04 am | #

        And flowers. And a buddy! One has to do these things properly…

    • Ancestral Hamster
      Ancestral Hamster
      March 28, 2014 at 1:43 am | #

      You could play a game where you live in a Chez and try to be the greatest slacker of all time!

      http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/553/chez-geek

  13. John
    John
    March 28, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Door decorations already?

    Ruth’s a lot more polite about that running thing with girls she doesn’t want to bang.

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      March 28, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

      It HAS been four weeks (comic time). Seems reasonable time for door decorum.

      • John
        John
        March 28, 2014 at 12:36 am | #

        Yeah, but I thought Willis complaining about the blank doors on Tumblr was more recent than this. Maybe he went back and tweaked the backgrounds. Or maybe I just can’t keep track of time. (That’s true regardless, really.)

        • John
          John
          March 28, 2014 at 12:37 am | #

          (Now that I read down further, it’s apparently the former.)

          • Jon P
            Jon P
            March 28, 2014 at 6:09 am | #

            And as to the previews we’ve seen, it could easily be Joyce sees door decorations around the hallway and says “Grumpy Sarah, I won’t stand for this. We need to decorate our door!” And Sarah says “Knock yourself out.”

      • Maveric1984
        Maveric1984
        March 28, 2014 at 6:45 am | #

        Heck, the dorm doors were pre decorated when I arrived a college for orientation week.

  14. oh nooo
    oh nooo
    March 28, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    BILLIE MAKE THINGS RIGHT, QUICK! YOU NEED TO MAKE THE VIOLENT, ABUSIVE RA WHO PRESSURED AN ALCOHOLIC FRESHMAN SHE HAS AUTHORITY OVER INTO A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP SHE WASN’T READY FOR AND THEN MADE THIS CONFUSED STUDENT IN HER FIRST WEEKS OF COLLEGE RESPONSIBLE FOR HER LIFE AND DEATH. THIS IS HOW RELATIONSHIPS WORK.

    • Nothri
      Nothri
      March 28, 2014 at 12:41 am | #

      Dear sir or madam, your use of caps lock is excessive and your sentence incomplete. Also, Billie is far from innocent or naive. Both of them are kind of broken. And they got depth. So disapprove of the relationship as you like (I’m obviously biased myself) but try to treat the situation with the complexity it has in the process if you would be do kind.

      Also it could take upwards of whole minutes of my time to change my gravatar to so clearly I can’t afford for them not to get together.

      • Kevin
        Kevin
        March 28, 2014 at 2:13 am | #

        +50 internets for all of this post, Nothri.

    • Random832
      Random832
      March 28, 2014 at 9:04 am | #

      You didn’t finish your sentence. ” THE VIOLENT, ABUSIVE RA WHO PRESSURED AN ALCOHOLIC FRESHMAN SHE HAS AUTHORITY OVER INTO A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP SHE WASN’T READY FOR AND THEN MADE THIS CONFUSED STUDENT IN HER FIRST WEEKS OF COLLEGE RESPONSIBLE FOR HER LIFE AND DEATH” is all one clause, so your post is equivalent to “BILLIE MAKE THINGS RIGHT, QUICK! YOU NEED TO MAKE RUTH. THIS IS HOW RELATIONSHIPS WORK.” – make her what?

      • Tenn
        Tenn
        March 28, 2014 at 9:52 am | #

        Well, “make” and “do” are sometimes more or less synonyms, so if Billie needs to do Ruth, the sentence is complete as-is.

      • Zephyr, God of the West Wind
        Zephyr, God of the West Wind
        March 28, 2014 at 10:03 pm | #

        Make Ruth… not-a-virgin. *ba-dum-tish!*

  15. sps48
    sps48
    March 28, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    Ruth is being awfully nice to folks lately.

    • KingMabel
      KingMabel
      March 28, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

      So I’m not the only one noticing the lack of headlocks?

      Thank you!

      • The Phantom's Belch
        The Phantom's Belch
        March 28, 2014 at 4:35 am | #

        We need more femurs being wielded as weapons. Maybe Dexter and Monkey Master could show up live and in living color. 😉

        … and Joyce would get down on her knees and kowtow to them, to the amazement of all.

        … and then it’s revealed that Walky and Joe were behind it all, with Dexter being a robot operated by Joe via remote control and Monkey Master a suit worn by Walky.

        … and I just spoiled next year’s Homecoming arc, didn’t I? 🙂

  16. Doc Harleen
    Doc Harleen
    March 28, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

    All the feels, Willis. All the feels.

  17. Jason
    Jason
    March 28, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

    Willis, I could have sworn that you decided on the Rachels being roommates much more recently than 3 months ago. So how are we already seeing references to them, considering the length of your buffer? (Ditto door decorations.)

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      March 28, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

      I went back and edited this strip to make “Rachel” plural and added door decorations while I was at it.

      • Jason
        Jason
        March 28, 2014 at 12:52 am | #

        Huh, and I thought you never edited a strip once it’s in the buffer. But then again you said you redrew the Amber/Blaine fight at the last minute so clearly my memory is bad. (He replied to me, squeeeeee!)

        • Zephyr, God of the West Wind
          Zephyr, God of the West Wind
          March 28, 2014 at 10:05 pm | #

          It is so weird seeing a “squee” coming from a Ruth Gravatar.

  18. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    March 28, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

    DOOR DECORATIONS.

  19. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    March 28, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

    That’s cold, Ruth. Like 3°K cold

    • Kelly
      Kelly
      March 28, 2014 at 1:09 am | #

      Just K. It is “kelvin” (lowercase as well) not “degrees kelvin”

      • Kelly
        Kelly
        March 28, 2014 at 1:10 am | #

        I don’t remember being Mike, but awesome, I dig it.

        Maybe it’s just my email with or without the “+account” I can never keep track of that on here.

      • WaveRocker
        WaveRocker
        March 28, 2014 at 1:15 am | #

        Don’t sweat it, man. I mean, not that you could in that temperature, but you get my point.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        March 28, 2014 at 11:11 am | #

        I took my college physics about 40 years ago. I see some things have changed.

      • Bill
        Bill
        March 28, 2014 at 11:35 am | #

        Disagree, Kelly.  Just like the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales, the Kelvin scale takes its name from a person (the British physicist William Thomson, who was at that time the Baron Kelvin).  So while you are correct that the degree symbol (°) is not needed, the abbreviation (K) would correctly be capitalized.

        So says the Encyclopedia Britannica.  That’s authority enough for me.

      • Blue Dragon
        Blue Dragon
        March 28, 2014 at 7:07 pm | #

        If we omit the degree symbol, my instinct would be to at first read it as K meaning kilo. “That’s cold, Ruth. Like 3000 cold.” Doesn’t have quite the same impact. I’m sure I’d have puzzled it out, but I appreciate the incorrect usage. I always thought the degree symbol was used for Kelvin scale notation, too, so I’m probably biased by my ignorance, though.

  20. newllend
    newllend
    March 28, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

    Hey at least she’s talking to you thats a start….right?

    • Nothri
      Nothri
      March 28, 2014 at 12:52 am | #

      This might actually be one of those “leave it alone cause she is mad and will talk to you when she is ready” situations actually.

  21. Yotsuyasan
    Yotsuyasan
    March 28, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

    This comic amuses me because my girlfriend’s name is Rachel, and her best friend’s name is Rachel. So I know what it is like to have two Rachels around.

    Also, as a big Ruth/Billie shipper… Is it midnight tomorrow night yet? I shall be waiting with baited breath to see what happens next. (Although since the other storyline I’m extremely invested in at the moment is Amber’s, the last few comics had been an interesting intersection.)

    • Nothri
      Nothri
      March 28, 2014 at 12:50 am | #

      Billie had to overcome and forgive some pretty shitty treatment and abuse brfore the relationship could have another shot. Now I guess it is Ruth’s turn.

      • timemonkey
        timemonkey
        March 28, 2014 at 12:58 am | #

        Billie didn’t so much forgive as Ruth almost drank herself to death and Billie felt responsable.

        • Nothri
          Nothri
          March 28, 2014 at 10:48 am | #

          I can’t speak for Billie but I do not generally attempt to kiss or make out with anyone I am pissed at or generally am currently refusing to forgive for some past wrong.

          • timemonkey
            timemonkey
            March 28, 2014 at 11:07 am | #

            You also likely make better life choices than Billie has so far.

            • nothri
              nothri
              March 28, 2014 at 7:41 pm | #

              Possibly, but her attempting to reciprocate a relationship with someone she still despises or even feels bitter towards due to past treatment remains a hard sell. I frankly don’t see it.

  22. Darwin
    Darwin
    March 28, 2014 at 12:24 am | #

    The shirt continues its blockbuster run through the comic. I ship Ruth’s shirt with Dina’s hat.

  23. StClair
    StClair
    March 28, 2014 at 12:25 am | #

    YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID.

  24. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    March 28, 2014 at 12:38 am | #

    Dorm relationships like office ones I guess. A big mistake. No where to hide …afterward. And the higher up has the lowdown.

    Still trying to figure out that makeup make out of Yotomoe’s.
    Very uh….clever..or confusing…not sure. Both. I liked it.
    +1

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      March 28, 2014 at 12:56 am | #

      This was less ‘office relationship’ and more ‘boss harassing subordinant until they just happened to like them back and then acting like a victim when they find out the subordinant lied tot hem for their own good’.

      • insomniac
        insomniac
        March 28, 2014 at 8:39 am | #

        There really was no “for her own good” there.

        • Random832
          Random832
          March 28, 2014 at 9:06 am | #

          Assuming Billie’s continued drinking is immutable [and remember, we’re talking about the lying, not the drinking, so it’s not in question here], lying to Ruth about it was for Ruth’s own good.

          • begbert2
            begbert2
            March 28, 2014 at 10:42 am | #

            Or Billie’s femur’s own good, one or the other.

            • Zephyr, God of the West Wind
              Zephyr, God of the West Wind
              March 28, 2014 at 10:08 pm | #

              I feel like this joke has passed the arc of overuse and is now in the valley of funny-again.

              FEMURS.

  25. Tomas
    Tomas
    March 28, 2014 at 12:45 am | #

    I. Said. Good. Day.

  26. Bill
    Bill
    March 28, 2014 at 12:48 am | #

    So who is in the room next to Ruth?  Looks like something-AI-something and something-RAC-something (Grace?).

    And the rest of the sign — “Welcome to Chez”?  Chez what?

    • Jason
      Jason
      March 28, 2014 at 12:53 am | #

      “Welcome to Chez Mandy and Grace.”

  27. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    March 28, 2014 at 12:51 am | #

    http://i.imgur.com/O0mFvww.png
    Doodled an Amber.

    • Kelly
      Kelly
      March 28, 2014 at 1:11 am | #

      I like it!

    • Tenn
      Tenn
      March 28, 2014 at 9:58 am | #

      Dem hips.

  28. Barf Ninjason
    Barf Ninjason
    March 28, 2014 at 12:52 am | #

    “Annabelle, stop selling meth! Your socks don’t match, Nadine! And Wendy, don’t just shit in a bucket but if you absolutely have to, at least close the goddamn door.”

    • Tenn
      Tenn
      March 28, 2014 at 10:01 am | #

      “YOU’RE NOT MY MOM, RUTH! HhhhNNNNNNggghh!”

    • Zephyr, God of the West Wind
      Zephyr, God of the West Wind
      March 28, 2014 at 10:09 pm | #

      “But mismatched socks are cool and quirky!”

  29. WaveRocker
    WaveRocker
    March 28, 2014 at 1:12 am | #

    “Senpai k-kind of noticed me!”

  30. WaveRocker
    WaveRocker
    March 28, 2014 at 1:17 am | #

    Nice, Willis! It looks like you’ve just about finished the rooming situation for the floor.

  31. SilverArrowArtemis
    SilverArrowArtemis
    March 28, 2014 at 1:20 am | #

    How Ruth said it – “Billie.”
    How Billie perceived it – “I still don’t forgive you, Billie.”

  32. Hoboturtle
    Hoboturtle
    March 28, 2014 at 1:31 am | #

    how nice zhe is is directly inverse to how civil zhez iz to Billie. Thatz hilariouz.

    • Kevin
      Kevin
      March 28, 2014 at 2:11 am | #

      Please do the world a favor and remove the ‘z’ key from your keyboard.

      • Bill
        Bill
        March 28, 2014 at 3:51 am | #

        Perhapz hiz ‘ezz’ key doezn’t work.

        • Thasvaddef
          Thasvaddef
          March 28, 2014 at 8:31 am | #

          Perhaps zzzhe’zzz a wasp

          • Roborat
            Roborat
            April 1, 2014 at 3:14 pm | #

            Perhaps he is a Jaeger? Does he have a hat?

        • Zephyr, God of the West Wind
          Zephyr, God of the West Wind
          March 28, 2014 at 10:11 pm | #

          His ‘s’ key is working, or he would have typed ‘iz’ instead of ‘is’.

    • Hoboturtle
      Hoboturtle
      March 28, 2014 at 2:42 pm | #

      Caveman Johnson here. The boys at the lab say that I should start taking the zs out of my sentences.

      That gave me an idea.

      Put more zs in my sentences!

      No one tellz Caveman Johnzon how to conztruct sentenzez!

    • JJ
      JJ
      March 29, 2014 at 9:36 am | #

      Oh great, of all Beast Wars we could have hanging out in DoA’s forum it had to be Waspinator. ¬¬’

  33. Xavier Nine
    Xavier Nine
    March 28, 2014 at 1:33 am | #

    “Billie.” “Ruth.” “Billie.” “Ruth.” “Billie.” “Wrex.”

    • Big Drahma
      Big Drahma
      March 28, 2014 at 2:23 am | #

      Great, now I want to do the Truffle Shuffle.

  34. Dean
    Dean
    March 28, 2014 at 1:39 am | #

    So, was Agatha running away from Billie, or toward Ruth?

  35. Sock
    Sock
    March 28, 2014 at 1:47 am | #

    Now go away, or I shall shun you a second time!

  36. Leorale
    Leorale
    March 28, 2014 at 2:03 am | #

    Theirs is the relationship of Meaningful Glances.

    • moby
      moby
      March 28, 2014 at 4:05 am | #

      And Mixed Messages.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        March 29, 2014 at 2:37 am | #

        Yes. Those two things.

  37. Kevin
    Kevin
    March 28, 2014 at 2:09 am | #

    Dammit I look at two apartments and now your side ad is vomiting rent.com at me. I fucking hate cookie-tracker ads.

    • Kevin
      Kevin
      March 28, 2014 at 2:14 am | #

      Oh god the top banner to my world is a nightmare

    • Bill
      Bill
      March 28, 2014 at 3:54 am | #

      Maybe if Willis does a few more porns he won’t need to have ads at all.

      • Zephyr, God of the West Wind
        Zephyr, God of the West Wind
        March 28, 2014 at 10:12 pm | #

        Just more sweaty Dorothies advertising Slipshine.

    • davidbreslin101
      davidbreslin101
      March 28, 2014 at 1:54 pm | #

      Fun tip- deliberately look at stuff you’re not interested in, then sit back and enjoy the ads. I now get ads for Muslim marriage agencies and heavy gardening equipment- I’m not a Muslim and don’t have a garden.

      • OldFart
        OldFart
        March 28, 2014 at 7:31 pm | #

        Use Tor and you get multilingual ads. TELEVIZORAL SAMSUNG today.

  38. Neva
    Neva
    March 28, 2014 at 2:59 am | #

    “Strummin my pain with your fingers.
    Singin my life with your woords.
    Killin me softly with this page. Killin me softly. With this page.”

  39. Piedmon Sama
    Piedmon Sama
    March 28, 2014 at 4:05 am | #

    What the fuck kind of college has R.As like that

  40. Robin
    Robin
    March 28, 2014 at 6:10 am | #

    At least Ruth didn’t call her “Jennifer”, so that’s something I guess.

  41. Triniking
    Triniking
    March 28, 2014 at 6:54 am | #

    Keep running Agatha. You can’t keep Red waiting.

  42. jaimehlers
    jaimehlers
    March 28, 2014 at 10:04 am | #

    Cue self-hatred due to alcoholism, which results in more alcoholism, which results in another DUI.

    • Charles
      Charles
      March 28, 2014 at 11:09 am | #

      This plan is perfect and without flaws. Carry on.

  43. Anon
    Anon
    March 28, 2014 at 11:21 am | #

    Am I only one to think the sequence is a bit off– the way it’s presented, it looks as if Billie is scooting *backward*. In panel 3, she’s almost past the “Welcome” door but in panel 4, she’s in front of it while Ruth is past the “Welcome” door.

    Thought about perspective but not sure that jives since Billie was already past the door while the perspective was prior to the door. Or maybe I’m not visualizing it.

    tl;dr: Billie walked backward few steps to lengthen facetime with Ruth

  44. ChaoticCandy
    ChaoticCandy
    March 28, 2014 at 11:46 am | #

    Oh noooooo…. Feels on my birthday.

    • Azumango
      Azumango
      March 28, 2014 at 12:38 pm | #

      Happy feels day!

  45. stainedglassdeity
    stainedglassdeity
    March 28, 2014 at 12:08 pm | #

    Nope. Not missing you at all.

  46. BlackIo
    BlackIo
    March 28, 2014 at 12:34 pm | #

    Is it bad that I’m kind of enjoying Billie’s whole “emo geek” look at the moment? Going from cheerleader wannabe to somebody who looks like she collects White Wolf RPGs in her spare time has somehow done wonders for her relatability.

    • stainedglassdeity
      stainedglassdeity
      March 28, 2014 at 12:45 pm | #

      Yeah, it does. She’s kind of this mirror I’m looking at the moment, actually. I never was the cheerleader in high school but now I’m unraveling like her; people don’t give two shits about you, you’re just one more. When they do, it’s this fragile situation that you have no control over.

  47. Syd
    Syd
    March 28, 2014 at 12:45 pm | #

    Wow, Heterodynes never developed a GPS did they?

  48. davidbreslin101
    davidbreslin101
    March 28, 2014 at 1:56 pm | #

    As one of two Daves in a 3-piece band, I can empathize with the Rachels.

  49. captainswift
    captainswift
    March 28, 2014 at 2:17 pm | #

    Wow. Are RAs really that on-the-ball? I don’t think I ever even met mine when I was in college. Certainly couldn’t have pointed him out of a crowd.

  50. TBeckett
    TBeckett
    March 28, 2014 at 3:54 pm | #

    Yay character development for Agatha! I’m really appreciating seeing this new delinquent side of her and I can’t wait to see what happens next!

  51. Incubus
    Incubus
    March 28, 2014 at 5:10 pm | #

    Billie looks like she’s going through withdrawal to me. . .

  52. Yet-One-More-Idiot
    Yet-One-More-Idiot
    March 28, 2014 at 6:08 pm | #

    Oh Billie, Ruth, you two….just kiss and make out already. 🙂

    • Alex Stritar
      Alex Stritar
      March 28, 2014 at 6:36 pm | #

      You mean kiss and make up?

      • Zephyr, God of the West Wind
        Zephyr, God of the West Wind
        March 28, 2014 at 10:54 pm | #

        Make-up make-out.

  53. Tufto
    Tufto
    March 29, 2014 at 5:52 am | #

    The feels :(.

  54. BrokenEye, True False Prophet
    BrokenEye, True False Prophet
    September 25, 2015 at 5:33 am | #

    So… my old nemesis. We meet again at last.

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President Trump summarily dismissed more than a dozen members of independent oversight bodies during his first two months in office, defying typical procedures and federal laws that say presidents cannot remove certain officials without good cause, like misconduct or neglect.”A diagram shows Trump’s head on the left and symbols denoting nine federal agencies on the right, connected by a faint gray arrow going through a text box reading “Should issue notice citing cause for firing.”
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