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I don’t. I mean, I feel bad about what are obviously deep-rooted psychological issues, but an RA ought to be smart enough not to stash more beer than can be consumed in a sitting in her room.
Why shouldn’t she be stocked up on beer? Does the campus have a no-beer policy? I know it’s a college in the bible belt, but that would still sound outlandish to me. A student can enjoy a frosty beverage when their work is done.
Just want to add, it’s not like that on all US campuses. The school I went to had no outright ban on alcohol, but if you were above 21 and had a roommate who was under 21, you couldn’t have alcohol in your room. If you had a private room or a roommate of legal age you could have it.
They did room checks, but weren’t allowed to search for things (as in go through your stuff). So long as nothing was out in the open it was pretty easy to get by without getting caught if you wanted to drink underage.
My college actually did have a drinking ban on campus. That said, most students didn’t care that much. As long as you weren’t stupidly obvious about it, most RA’s wouldn’t turn you in. Hell, one of my RA’s was even drinking in his room with some friends, and when one of my friends walked in and stared, the RA said, “What? I’m 21.”
It’s kind of funny because my college has a ban on drinking anywhere on campus, and if you leave campus and come back drunk, you could still get in trouble because you are considered a container for the booze you drank.
However, it’s pretty easy to sneak booze into your room because the R.A.s don’t do checks. My roommate and I had booze in our fridge constantly.
Even if Ruth isn’t under the age of drinking, in most US colleges the R.A.’s are not allowed to have alcohol in their room, particularly if they are responsible for those below the age of 21. The schools normally don’t want to risk the chance that a kid could get access to it, or the that R.A. is sharing booze. The schools in America don’t want there to be any chance of being sued by angry parents for their kid getting into a booze related mishap on the campus.
Canadian university recruiters should use that as an incentive. “Come to Alberta, you can drink at 18, and our strippers take everything off”. Enrollment would skyrocket.
Likely because Indiana is one of the stupidest states about drinking laws. Fun fact: if you’re under 21, you can get in trouble simply for driving a friend to and from the liquor store in Indiana.
Also, gangler, “dry campus” translates to “You’re not supposed to drink here, but we all know you do anyways.”
That still might mess with St Patrick’s day. People aren’t usually subtle in their celebration. If I had a nickle for every time I got to spot an obviously drunken athlete in naught but a green speedo marching down the hallways at ten in the morning to some tune only he hears (until he starts singing) I’d probably get a handful of extra nickels annually.
Who knows though? Maybe if we had to be more discrete we’d do that off campus and maybe wait until classes were done. Teachers might be less hesitant to schedule a test on the day of or morning after.
I don’t know… sounds more productive but less fun.
A friend of mine from back in high school was once in a band called “Free Beer.” They couldn’t get anybody to book them, though, because nobody wanted to put that on their signs.
In all seriousness, Billie’s level of alcoholism is really starting to scare me. I’m guessing it’ll lead to a pretty heavy arc at some point, judging by how it’s only been used for one-off-gags at this point.
She can anonymously threaten to release it. Even if she requests something it seems like something that Billie would want to get, she still has the upper hand without Ruth having proof.
Ah, this is where I’m supposed to feel bad for Ruth, right? I’ve seen that cliche one time too many in PG films for it to work on me. I’m anxious to see Ruth’s comeuppance.
Over here in Canada it’s 19. It can still generally be assumed that any college student is either legal age or will be so in a few months. The I.D. check at the in campus bar & grill (often more bar than grill) is really more of a formality than anything just in case.
In the US, enforcement of the drinking age is strict. Any establishment accused of willfully serving minors alcohol can lose their liquor license.
In some parts of the South, whole counties are “dry”. No one is allowed to sell alcohol within the county borders. The US is rather unique among modern Western nations, thank goodness.
Yeah, the ramifications for serving a minor are strict here too. You don’t get to keep your license after that. I don’t think you’d find a place with alcohol anywhere that wouldn’t run the I.D. check. It’s just that on campus no one really expects you to be underage.
You’d still never get in without showing a driver’s license or health card or something. They gotta cover their asses.
In most of Canada, it’s 19. It’s 18 in Alberta and possibly Prince Edward Island (unless that’s changed in the last 25 years). There are still several dry communities in the territories, however, but I don’t think any of them support a university.
Talk of Billie having blackmail material. I don’t see it. I mean, Billie has evidence that Ruth has on at least one occasion drank to excess. Who hasn’t? She has evidence that Ruth has on one occasion allowed her room to enter a state of uncleanliness that was not rectified before sleeping. Messy room is hardly anything she’s gonna lose her position over.
Meanwhile this same photograph stands as evidence that Billie was in Ruth’s room without Ruth’s knowledge in the middle of the night as Ruth slept. I gotta say, if that photo’s harmful to anyone it’s not Ruth.
It’s very important when blackmailing someone that you ensure that the secret not be a double bladed sword, or at the very least that the sharper edge is pointed outward rather than right into your own gut with the Sepuku witness on standby.
Well, for starters, it’s a bit hard to take an RA BELOW THE LEGAL DRINKING AGE who drinks to excess seriously. That’s something she could get fired for. Also, I’ve never done it.
Billie has evidence that Ruth drank to excess in her dorm room, which is illegal as she is too young to drink (probably), and even if she’s old enough, I can assure you that it violates the terms of her RA agreement. She’s supposed to *stop* people from drinking in the dorms.
At the very least, Ruth would get fired for this. Possibly expelled. And a tiny possibility of getting in trouble with the law.
And Billie doesn’t have to expose herself to any recriminations for breaking and entering, as she is not in the picture. All she has to do is threaten to send a copy anonymously to the Dean of Students.
Anonymous would work. I know Billie’s not in the picture, but someone’s gonna have ask who took it and why they were in there. If she doesn’t disassociate herself from the photograph then she’s admitting to a lot.
Anonymous hadn’t occured to me though. That would certainly work, though it would require more thought and precision than poor billie is capable of. That’s another matter entirely though. Evidently this is legitimate and functional blackmail material.
Right. The drinking age and restrictions got brought up after I submitted. Sounds like Ruth could definitely lose her position as RA for this.
Still, I have to believe that the breaking and entering Billie would be professing to would get her booted from the campus at least, possibly from the school. That’s a criminal record right there. That’ll effect the student loans if she’s using them, jobs later. I mean while this’ll hurt Ruth I have to believe it would hurt Billie more.
Given that the original Pyrrhic victory left Pyrrhus with an army too small to continue campaigning, I don’t think I’d consider Billie’s situation such. Her options are limited, but she can still move forwards from here.
“One of These days I swear I’m going to wake up in a place I have before”
“Gonna be sore for a week”
“Naughty Girl”
And no one has made a “that’s what she said” comment?!
For shame…
All this talk about blackmail. No reason, she has her shirt back. This is the front page photo for the newspaper article she’ll be turning in tomorrow.
Lol. I don’t know how far it goes in real life, but if they used “Freedom of the Press” to justify a B&E in a bad movie I wouldn’t question it. Talking bad movie law here.
While this is a good possible angle, I have a feeling Billie won’t go that direction. First off, she now knows that Ruth is some sort of family issues that might make her feel sorry for Ruth and thus she wouldn’t go for the kill blow yet. And second, Billie seems like the kind of person who would lord blackmail material over her victim to watch them twist in the wind and do stuff for her, only to have it blow up in her face later. Which seems like the kind of thing Willis would write.
If Billie’s attempt at blackmail succeeds, I’m not going to find much pity for Ruth. She’s been a terror and a bully, and despite what kind of horrible childhood she’s suffered, I never feel that excuses mistreating other people the way she has.
OK. I have just read the entire archives of It’s Walky, Roomies, and Joyce and Walky; after reading this one first. Now I cannot help but keep a look out for Head-alien. It’s really wierd seeing all the characters… not fighting aliens
She got drunk and passed out… so what? It’s college. You’re going to need something more incriminating that that. Wip-off her top, throw a blanket on her, and then have her cradle a teddy bear with a strap on in her arms.
My train of thought, rereading this strip with the awareness of the existence of Finally, was as follows:
“Suddenly, picturing all of the dialogue from Finally as repurposed dialogue from the main strip. Basically, Willis doing to his own material what Zone does for her flashes. This strip? Full of such dialogue.
‘Naughty girl.’ ‘Gonna be sore for a week.’ And of course, the gorgeous line from their first encounter of ‘I’ll destroy you’.”
This, naturally, lead to an additional layer of meta when my mind made the leap to Zone-tan doing a flash version of Finally.
Well, anyway, I guess this is a kind of a roundabout way of saying this, but the whole point of this is: Ruth and Billie must have more epic hatefucks.
it would be funny if they released it but it was just a cinema painted on the side of a cliff
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BLACKMAIL material FTW
And free beer!
Especially the free beer.
PLAY FREE BEER!
They do say that all the best things in life are free.
Free booze is always the best.
free vodka is better
Ok I have to ask since no one else will what the hell is up with your avitar/s.
I made them myself, I’m using the trolling smily face as a template.
Plasma Mongoose changes avatars every weekday. It’s kind of a thing.
Plasma Mongoose changes avatars like I change my underwear.
You change your underwear with photoshop? WOW that is amazing!
not so much a change as a recolor
alcohlic much.
Curse you dysgraphia!
Carp!
Revenge is dish best served with beer.
EVERY dish is best served with beer. No exceptions.
Especially a dish of beer.
Or deep-fried in beer batter.
Deep-fried beer.
Beer soup! Which is a real thing. And is German. Woop!
Trust the Germans to invent such a thing, that and vienna schnitzel.
Deep-fried beer actually exists, you know. Seriously, go to any state fair in the Midwest, it’s a scary thing.
Seriously? Goddamn, I was just joking when I said that…
Rule #42 of the internet: If it exists, somebody has deep fried it.
What about deep-fried air? Has anyone done that yet?
Not from the lack of trying.
Good for you, Billie. Any leverage is good when you’re this outmatched, and that’s damn good leverage.
For a second, I read leverage as “cleavage” for some reason.
Since cleavage can be useful as leverage, it makes perfect sense.
Especially whilst consuming a beverage.
And as a distraction. Unless the target hates cleavages and/or women in general.
That’s when ‘plumber’s cleavage’ becomes quite handy, thou it is far more likely to disgust than distract.
I was a poet and nobody knows it =[
I GET IT!
For a second I thought she forgot the jersey.
This still doesn’t stop Ruth from breaking into her room, though. If anything Billie is just going to escalate things.
Kinda feel bad for Ruth.
me too.
I don’t. I mean, I feel bad about what are obviously deep-rooted psychological issues, but an RA ought to be smart enough not to stash more beer than can be consumed in a sitting in her room.
Why shouldn’t she be stocked up on beer? Does the campus have a no-beer policy? I know it’s a college in the bible belt, but that would still sound outlandish to me. A student can enjoy a frosty beverage when their work is done.
Most college dormatories have a strict no-beer policy because most college students in the US are below the legal drinking age.
oh, right. Always forget about that American age limit on the booze.
Do we think Ruth’s below drinking age or would it really be that inclusive that even a legal drinker can’t do so in their room?
Most people enter college at 18 and stay for 4 years. The drinking age is 21. I’mpretty sure she is under the drinking age.
That math certainly adds up. Ouch.
Just want to add, it’s not like that on all US campuses. The school I went to had no outright ban on alcohol, but if you were above 21 and had a roommate who was under 21, you couldn’t have alcohol in your room. If you had a private room or a roommate of legal age you could have it.
They did room checks, but weren’t allowed to search for things (as in go through your stuff). So long as nothing was out in the open it was pretty easy to get by without getting caught if you wanted to drink underage.
My college actually did have a drinking ban on campus. That said, most students didn’t care that much. As long as you weren’t stupidly obvious about it, most RA’s wouldn’t turn you in. Hell, one of my RA’s was even drinking in his room with some friends, and when one of my friends walked in and stared, the RA said, “What? I’m 21.”
It’s kind of funny because my college has a ban on drinking anywhere on campus, and if you leave campus and come back drunk, you could still get in trouble because you are considered a container for the booze you drank.
However, it’s pretty easy to sneak booze into your room because the R.A.s don’t do checks. My roommate and I had booze in our fridge constantly.
Ha!
I am a “container for booze”. Always have been, but sometimes I don’t fulfill my primary purpose very well.
Even if Ruth isn’t under the age of drinking, in most US colleges the R.A.’s are not allowed to have alcohol in their room, particularly if they are responsible for those below the age of 21. The schools normally don’t want to risk the chance that a kid could get access to it, or the that R.A. is sharing booze. The schools in America don’t want there to be any chance of being sued by angry parents for their kid getting into a booze related mishap on the campus.
Canadian university recruiters should use that as an incentive. “Come to Alberta, you can drink at 18, and our strippers take everything off”. Enrollment would skyrocket.
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IU is a “dry campus”
Well that’s lame lol. Glad I don’t go to school there. That’d completely kill St Patrick’s day among other things.
Likely because Indiana is one of the stupidest states about drinking laws. Fun fact: if you’re under 21, you can get in trouble simply for driving a friend to and from the liquor store in Indiana.
Also, gangler, “dry campus” translates to “You’re not supposed to drink here, but we all know you do anyways.”
That still might mess with St Patrick’s day. People aren’t usually subtle in their celebration. If I had a nickle for every time I got to spot an obviously drunken athlete in naught but a green speedo marching down the hallways at ten in the morning to some tune only he hears (until he starts singing) I’d probably get a handful of extra nickels annually.
Who knows though? Maybe if we had to be more discrete we’d do that off campus and maybe wait until classes were done. Teachers might be less hesitant to schedule a test on the day of or morning after.
I don’t know… sounds more productive but less fun.
Why would you feel bad for her? Karmatically, she deserves worse than she’s getting.
Also, a beer thief!
Your avatar made my day.
Danke! ^_^
It is an avatar FOR JUSTICE!
FOR GREAT JUSTICE!
SCIENCE!
So, what are we shouting about, guys?
FREE BEER!! That is enough reason isn’t it?
CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG! YEAH! WOO! Gimme another one! *gulp* YEAH! I! AM AWESOME!
That depends. Can you crush a beer can with your head?
A friend of mine from back in high school was once in a band called “Free Beer.” They couldn’t get anybody to book them, though, because nobody wanted to put that on their signs.
A BURNING JUSTICE!
So, she gets blackmail material AND free beer? Awesome.
The first real good thing that has happened to Billie since this comic began.
Is this? It is! PROGRESS!
Yesssssss……….
Uh-oh. Ruth looks depressed. And may have lost her job. This… isn’t going to end well.
For Ruth, it may go downhill from here.
I am definitely intrigued by this unique and entirely unseen turn of events.
You’re being sarcastic, are you?
I thought I had seen this woman before, but Big Brother told me I hadn’t, so I must have been mistaken.
Seriously though, we can’t discuss the old comics here. It’s forbidden. Otherwise, I’d have a few things to say.
Yeah, for Billie. I have a feeling that anything Billie tries to do, Ruth is going to make her suffer for it.
For a second I forgot Billie had a ponytail and thought that was an ominous shadow reaching out the door for her in the last panel.
It’s Cthuhlu!
No, it’s Zalgo!
No, it’s Zul.
ZUUL! ZUUL MOTHERFUCKER ZUUL!
Exactly!
Panels 5 and 6 stand on their own as a fine comic.
Now we just need someone else SEEING her leave Ruth’s room clothes & beer in hand at O Dark 30.
And have it mistaken for a secret lesbian ron-day-voo.
It’s not mistaken, she did just come out of the closet after all.
Yes!! I hope Billie comes out on top from this one, at this point she so deserves it.
Me, too!
I hope no one sees her with the beer…
Stealing her beer was uncalled for!
That’s right up there with daterape, puppymurder and creating holocaust in my book!
At least Billie did not draw a moustache with permanent marker.
She will regret not doing that later on.
She’ll regret the painful agonizing torture death?
No, the Jigglypuff impersonating.
Not funny.
No one should be forced to listen that.
You really REALLY shouldn’t tempt me with statements like that.
This will teach ya!
You do realize that only works if i click on it.
Ohh, but everyone should be forced to listen to Batman singing the Jigglypuff song :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqH5WZhaKEw
(I hope I got my first comment right.)
If Ethan ever sees that video, he will be scarred for life.
Beer for Breakfast! Now that’s dedication!
In all seriousness, Billie’s level of alcoholism is really starting to scare me. I’m guessing it’ll lead to a pretty heavy arc at some point, judging by how it’s only been used for one-off-gags at this point.
Beer-e-O’s.
Jesus!
Beer-O’s. There beerlicious.
Hey Billie, how you gonna use that blackmail material without giving away the fact that you were in her room?
She can anonymously threaten to release it. Even if she requests something it seems like something that Billie would want to get, she still has the upper hand without Ruth having proof.
Or she could release it. Blackmail always ends poorly. Get Ruth fired, and all of her retaliatory options go away.
Well, Ruth IS the RA. Billie could claim that she needed to talk to Ruth, and that she’d left the door open.
Either way, I agree with Viktoria. Forget the threats and blackmail, and just send the picture where it’ll do some good.
Billie was told she could write an article on her horrible RA IF she had proof.
This is proof. And her way to write something that isn’t nerd-related.
Ah, this is where I’m supposed to feel bad for Ruth, right? I’ve seen that cliche one time too many in PG films for it to work on me. I’m anxious to see Ruth’s comeuppance.
You and me both.
Most dorms have a strict no-beer policy because most college students in the US are below the legal drinking age.
Whoops. This went in the wrong place in the thread. Thanks, Chrome!
And to add content, let me just say that it’s hard to root for a winner in this battle.
It’s a shame they don’t live in Australia, over here the legal drinking age is 18.
Over here in Canada it’s 19. It can still generally be assumed that any college student is either legal age or will be so in a few months. The I.D. check at the in campus bar & grill (often more bar than grill) is really more of a formality than anything just in case.
In the US, enforcement of the drinking age is strict. Any establishment accused of willfully serving minors alcohol can lose their liquor license.
In some parts of the South, whole counties are “dry”. No one is allowed to sell alcohol within the county borders. The US is rather unique among modern Western nations, thank goodness.
Yeah, the ramifications for serving a minor are strict here too. You don’t get to keep your license after that. I don’t think you’d find a place with alcohol anywhere that wouldn’t run the I.D. check. It’s just that on campus no one really expects you to be underage.
You’d still never get in without showing a driver’s license or health card or something. They gotta cover their asses.
The “dry” counties with all those meth labs?
Meth sideeffects do include dehydration, so that counts as dry. ^_^
In most of Canada, it’s 19. It’s 18 in Alberta and possibly Prince Edward Island (unless that’s changed in the last 25 years). There are still several dry communities in the territories, however, but I don’t think any of them support a university.
Talk of Billie having blackmail material. I don’t see it. I mean, Billie has evidence that Ruth has on at least one occasion drank to excess. Who hasn’t? She has evidence that Ruth has on one occasion allowed her room to enter a state of uncleanliness that was not rectified before sleeping. Messy room is hardly anything she’s gonna lose her position over.
Meanwhile this same photograph stands as evidence that Billie was in Ruth’s room without Ruth’s knowledge in the middle of the night as Ruth slept. I gotta say, if that photo’s harmful to anyone it’s not Ruth.
It’s very important when blackmailing someone that you ensure that the secret not be a double bladed sword, or at the very least that the sharper edge is pointed outward rather than right into your own gut with the Sepuku witness on standby.
Well, for starters, it’s a bit hard to take an RA BELOW THE LEGAL DRINKING AGE who drinks to excess seriously. That’s something she could get fired for. Also, I’ve never done it.
Billie has evidence that Ruth drank to excess in her dorm room, which is illegal as she is too young to drink (probably), and even if she’s old enough, I can assure you that it violates the terms of her RA agreement. She’s supposed to *stop* people from drinking in the dorms.
At the very least, Ruth would get fired for this. Possibly expelled. And a tiny possibility of getting in trouble with the law.
And Billie doesn’t have to expose herself to any recriminations for breaking and entering, as she is not in the picture. All she has to do is threaten to send a copy anonymously to the Dean of Students.
Anonymous would work. I know Billie’s not in the picture, but someone’s gonna have ask who took it and why they were in there. If she doesn’t disassociate herself from the photograph then she’s admitting to a lot.
Anonymous hadn’t occured to me though. That would certainly work, though it would require more thought and precision than poor billie is capable of. That’s another matter entirely though. Evidently this is legitimate and functional blackmail material.
Don’t forget the whole “alcohol isn’t allowed in the dorms” thing that Billie was told about when checking in.
Gah! I changed from Sal to Joyce!
That’s still hot to me.
NO! NOT RUTH! NOOOOO!
It’s hot to ruth too.
So far, the avatar responses are making me lol. Wonder if I’ve changed from Amber leering with a grin…
Right. The drinking age and restrictions got brought up after I submitted. Sounds like Ruth could definitely lose her position as RA for this.
Still, I have to believe that the breaking and entering Billie would be professing to would get her booted from the campus at least, possibly from the school. That’s a criminal record right there. That’ll effect the student loans if she’s using them, jobs later. I mean while this’ll hurt Ruth I have to believe it would hurt Billie more.
It’s called a pyrrhic victory.
And I just learned a new term. Yay!
…and you thought DoA forums weren’t educational.
Given that the original Pyrrhic victory left Pyrrhus with an army too small to continue campaigning, I don’t think I’d consider Billie’s situation such. Her options are limited, but she can still move forwards from here.
I haven’t drank to excess… or at all.
What would my motivation for doing that be?
And it looks like Billie is only 2 appearances away from overtaking Dorothy in the Title Illustration!
Go drunky!
Well, they have something in common! That’s good, right?
Let’s see how Ruth handles this one…should be interesting!
Billy’s drinking expression is really cute, actually. Although that’s probably because it’s the only time she’s happy. And now I’m depressed. Damn.
McBeth!
How, exactly? Is it the secrets and guilt? Because there wasn’t any blackmail in Macbeth, I don’t recall.
You meant The Scottish Play right?
THANK YOU!
This even means she’s awake at a time Sal would be sleeping. Bustedmuch?
On the one hand, so much for sympathy.
Then again… on the other hand, it should take more than that to redeem her.
Billie’s drinking face is an awesome face.
FAAAACE!!!
I walked right into that one.
…
With my penis.
Which requires your BUTT!
Which needs my FEMURS TO LIVE!
No it doesn’t.
This comic works better this way:
http://i51.tinypic.com/3133ukz.png
Haha.
Prime Billie/Ruth shipping material.
Yes. Someone needs to get on that.
you Are my hero
Win.
Am I the only one that thinks Willis should have ended the strip on panel 6 and left what happened afterwards to the imagination.
You mean end the comment with Billie finally coming out of the closet, calling Ruth a naughty girl, and then licking her lips?
I’m okay with this.
That is EXACTLY what I meant.
So basically Ruth is screwed and Billie finally came out of the closet. Lol
That summary works for me.
“One of These days I swear I’m going to wake up in a place I have before”
“Gonna be sore for a week”
“Naughty Girl”
And no one has made a “that’s what she said” comment?!
For shame…
Too easy.
That’s what she said.
All this talk about blackmail. No reason, she has her shirt back. This is the front page photo for the newspaper article she’ll be turning in tomorrow.
Actually that makes sense, I forgot about that angle.
Hmm… I like this angle. Freedom of the press can even justify her presence in that room at that hour. Score!
What? No it can’t.
Lol. I don’t know how far it goes in real life, but if they used “Freedom of the Press” to justify a B&E in a bad movie I wouldn’t question it. Talking bad movie law here.
While this is a good possible angle, I have a feeling Billie won’t go that direction. First off, she now knows that Ruth is some sort of family issues that might make her feel sorry for Ruth and thus she wouldn’t go for the kill blow yet. And second, Billie seems like the kind of person who would lord blackmail material over her victim to watch them twist in the wind and do stuff for her, only to have it blow up in her face later. Which seems like the kind of thing Willis would write.
BALLLERRRRRR
Yay! It’s a two in one offer! =D GO BILLIE!
I’m starting to wonder if Ruth is just an extreme feminist.
IT’S BEER O’CLOCK
Do you know where your alcohol is?
In the refridgerator, at the convenience store, halfway across the Pacific Ocean, in another country.
Down Billie’s throat and in her belly.
…Now that your avatar is of Ruth, your comment makes a lot more sense.
She sure is holding that phone close to her face to take a picture….
You’re right, if it were one of those older/cheaper film cameras with a small viewfinder, it would make sense.
Billie’s camera looks more like a cameraphone and you would hold those further away so you can see what is on the screen.
“Why Ruth – without your glasses, you – you’re beautiful!”
Or not.
YAY!!
If Billie’s attempt at blackmail succeeds, I’m not going to find much pity for Ruth. She’s been a terror and a bully, and despite what kind of horrible childhood she’s suffered, I never feel that excuses mistreating other people the way she has.
Next panel: Billie becomes drunk in an instant! And passes out right in front of Ruth’s door.
Well, the last panel yesterday, combined with the first today would certainly make for an interesting comic on its own.
OK. I have just read the entire archives of It’s Walky, Roomies, and Joyce and Walky; after reading this one first. Now I cannot help but keep a look out for Head-alien. It’s really wierd seeing all the characters… not fighting aliens
Love you Billie.
Also. Wanna make the comic darker? Those brown things in the second panel, those are not buttons, oh no. Those are pills…
:O
Well, Billie did just do a “random” drug search.
Ruth, not Billie, sorry.
Those are bottlecaps, you can see ’em ON the bottles. We don’t need this comic to be any more angsty than it already is, (not much).
We need a new DoA! poll on the site! There must be meaningless voting or democracy will wither and crumble!
I’m still holding out hope for the Overalls strategy.
She got drunk and passed out… so what? It’s college. You’re going to need something more incriminating that that. Wip-off her top, throw a blanket on her, and then have her cradle a teddy bear with a strap on in her arms.
Now that is blackmail.
It’s a dry campus, though. No alcohol in the dorms. DEFINITELY not for a RA.
all your wood chuck are belong to me!
For some reason, I keep reading the title of this arc in M Bison’s voice.
All in all a pretty good day for Billie.
Regards for this rattling post, I am glad I found this web site on yahoo.
Wow. Sleeping Ruth is cute.
My train of thought, rereading this strip with the awareness of the existence of Finally, was as follows:
“Suddenly, picturing all of the dialogue from Finally as repurposed dialogue from the main strip. Basically, Willis doing to his own material what Zone does for her flashes. This strip? Full of such dialogue.
‘Naughty girl.’ ‘Gonna be sore for a week.’ And of course, the gorgeous line from their first encounter of ‘I’ll destroy you’.”
This, naturally, lead to an additional layer of meta when my mind made the leap to Zone-tan doing a flash version of Finally.
Well, anyway, I guess this is a kind of a roundabout way of saying this, but the whole point of this is: Ruth and Billie must have more epic hatefucks.