Billie just found the Ruth mannequin that Ruth keeps around. She stations it at the door to make it look like she’s keeping an eye on things so she can go get shitfaced.
“It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop — ever —, until you hold hands.”
Seeing as I am one, it’s nice to see other people using the right terminology. 😛
Of course, depending on the situation, it can be better to use ‘test tube’; people might think you’re some sort of sci-fi Gattaca baby, and you shouldn’t discourage the notion.
The other difference is, with the term Petri Dish baby, you can shorten it to just “Petri” and use it as a nickname, and it’ll sound like an actual name. 😛
Have you seen herbivore dinosaur teeth? rows of leaf-shaped knives for shredding what are basically trees. They are more terrifying than the carnivorous dinosaurs’ teeth. Those with just tear you to large, easy to swallow chunks. Herbivore teeth will turn you into hamburger.
Gotta agree with Opus. Google triceratops teeth, they’re actually pretty close to the look of Dina’s. Well, aside from the fact they only had them in the side of the jaws, with the beak dominating the front portion of the mouth.
Weird thought here, but since Willis is having babies – and babies are the worst – maybe he could cut back to just five comics a week, to take some of the pressure off him?
Nope. Under no circumstances. I will have literally nothing to do with my weekends to stave off actually being productive. Do you want that? You monster?
He has enough buffer to deal with it fine, he’s said, so it’ll be alright. Besides, it’s part of the kickstarter, so I imagine he wouldn’t want to back out on that.
I don’t think he really needs to at this point in time. He so far has enough buffer to last until September 30th at least (because the last panel shown on tumblr was labeled with that date). So he has enough buffer for almost two months in advance.
But we should really wait until he actually has babies before making suggestions like that – because it is only when his schedule has to actually change to revolve around babies that he’ll know for sure how much comic making he can fit in per week and if he’ll be able to stay at the same rate of buffer.
Oh, I can explain that. For you see, Ruth has just farted, prodigiously, right before Billie came in, and in a panicked state has decided, somewhat dubiously, that the best way to distract her from noticing is to instead perplex her with unmoving silence.
i love that Ruth fixed their hand position so that she could grab Billie’s hand. Sometimes, in the midst of deep deep depression, that’s the best you can do.
Ruth has trouble showing her real emotions, unless they are femur stealing, Blaine throwing, and terrorizing freshmen. So, this is a big step for her, hand holding now: expressions while holding hands, later.
Oh wow. Dina and Becky the dino’s, are adorable. I hope they pair up: and I never would have thought I’d think that.
Right? I find people get in such rush to correct my grammar, they don’t realize it’s only ever incorrect when it is referring to something else. Looks like that happened here too.
Ruthie currently has a fairly classic “rabbit caught in headlights” look on her face from the hand-holding that is entirely too adorable for words hdgakjkfghdfjkaghjkdfgdsfadf7ahhdgajkhjklh
I was unaware until I saw the Comic-Con image that the world is in desperate need of a crossover where Dina (and possibly Becky) meet Vanessa from S*P.
Vanessa is a TA at UT in Austin. Unless you can come up with a plausible way for a TA at UT to interact in person with freshmen from IU your idea to cross over the Universes of DoA and SP! is DOA.
…because, Billie, she wanted a shred of normalcy, out with her partner, at a party, holding hands. It’s not the same hiding in your room and doing it. That’s good too…obviously.
+1. Everything they have done has been impulsive and hurried. Slow down and share a little human contact. Hold hands. Maybe even talk to each other. Start to build an actual relationship.
I know it looks unnerving, but this is the first sign that they might be good for each other and not just slipshine fodder.
A very bittersweet strip. Am I the only one who thinks it’s sad that Ruth seems genuinely surprised that Billie… that anyone would want to hold her hand?
Ok, yesterday’s strip felt so suicidal, too suicidal in fact for me to comment b/c it hit too close for me, but now Billie is talking about ‘whenever we want’, which implies a future? That’s good! Maybe she’s just planning to lock herself in Ruth’s room forever, which is obviously not much healthier, but at least it’s less suicidal. Well, unless she plans to drink herself to death … 🙁
Oh god, I’m making myself sad, I need to stop.
It’s a good thing we have Willis’ assurance that no one is gonna die in this iteration of the ‘verse. Otherwise I’d be seriously, seriously worried for Billie and Ruth right now.
Nobody’s going to die. One week of DoA is approximately one year in DoA (hell, last Sunday started in late 2013 and we’re only now near the end of Saturday), and if anybody died, even a total bit part or a mentioned name only important to one of the characters, the repercussions would last far too long and it would kill the mood of the rest of the comic.
Some kind of bad shit is going to happen to Billie and Ruth, but they won’t be acting with integrity any time soon.
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I wanna “awww!” but tbh it looks like Ruth’s been replaced by a new Terminator that holds hands instead of outright slaughtering its victims
but awww!
RAWR TERRIBLE LIZBIANS
The Becasaurus doesn’t want to be fed! It wants to hunt!
Perfect.
That hit me right in the feels.
I think the juxtaposition makes it cuter
Are you suggesting that Ruth has being replaced with a T-X?
“I need your clothes, your boots, and your femurs.”
And Dina has been replaced by a T-Rex?
That is a triceratops.
Dina is going to get rich inventing a line of clothing called Tricera Tops.
I FUCKING CALLED IT
That joke was golden, and it went right over your head.
Good for him; gold’s heavy and if it hit him, it could’ve given him a concussion
Yeah, the fact that Ruth’s expression doesn’t change at all for four panels is a bit unnerving.
Very serial killery.
Expect this to turn into Higurashi by next strip.
Elfen Lied may be a better reference, I get the feeling Ruth is going to take out the whole dorm :X
Cuddelbot? I for one welcome our new cozy robot overlords.
Billie just found the Ruth mannequin that Ruth keeps around. She stations it at the door to make it look like she’s keeping an eye on things so she can go get shitfaced.
Sounds legit.
They are merely exchanging long protein strings. If you can think of a simpler way, I’d like to hear it.
“Come with me if you want to cuddle!”
‘Cuddle with me if you want to come!’
“It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop — ever —, until you hold hands.”
filth
SMUTTY SMUT SMUT!
*fists on table* Smut without warning! *fists on table* Smut without warning!*fists on table* Smut without warning!
The best kind of smut!
Pre-marital hanky panky!
THINK OF THE CHILDREN
When smut is involved, the last thing you should ever think of are children.
Though children can be the end product of smut …
Children, aka Smut-trophies!
Heh. Never thought of it that way before!
My children, never forget…you are the end consequence of smut.
Unless you’re a test-tube baby. Freak.
If you’re a test-tube baby(they really should be called petri dish babies), you biggest worries are dingos with straws.
I shall always refer to them from now on as petri dish babies instead. 😛
Seeing as I am one, it’s nice to see other people using the right terminology. 😛
Of course, depending on the situation, it can be better to use ‘test tube’; people might think you’re some sort of sci-fi Gattaca baby, and you shouldn’t discourage the notion.
The other difference is, with the term Petri Dish baby, you can shorten it to just “Petri” and use it as a nickname, and it’ll sound like an actual name. 😛
Lewd
Oh my god this so friggin cute!!! :3
That’s when a smoke was a smoke/And groovin’ was groovin’!–John Cougar Mellenkamp
“And holding hands in the dark was everything….”
No… doesn’t quite work the same.
And yet, it’s quite something, these two holding hands…
Iz Kyute, right?
That comment was directed at the comic, not the news announcement.
Why pick one or the other when you can do both?
I kinda wonder the same thing. This was really sweet, though.
DINA, WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? Triceratops, or any ceratopsian, is an herbivore! Why do you have sharp teeth!?
And HOW do you have sharp teeth? Did she spend all night filing them or something?
Prosthetics are a real thing in this world, and I assume the DoA-verse.
I know, but I worry that Dina would want to go for accuracy.
So no lasers in the Triceratops’ horns, or cybernetic targeting devices for same? Well damn. I guess I’ll just have to play Smash-Up instead.
Have you seen herbivore dinosaur teeth? rows of leaf-shaped knives for shredding what are basically trees. They are more terrifying than the carnivorous dinosaurs’ teeth. Those with just tear you to large, easy to swallow chunks. Herbivore teeth will turn you into hamburger.
Heck, being torn into chunks isn’t terrifying at all!
I rate it as “somewhat frightening”. That’s at least three steps below “terrifying”.
I am kind of hanging out to see Dina in the triceratops hoodie in-comic.
She’s obviously not impersonating a Triceratops; she’s running bipedally. Why must her hoodie limit her dinosaur roleplaying opportunities?
Personally, I’d guess Saurornithoides, judging by previous interest expressed, but she could be any theropod.
Gotta agree with Opus. Google triceratops teeth, they’re actually pretty close to the look of Dina’s. Well, aside from the fact they only had them in the side of the jaws, with the beak dominating the front portion of the mouth.
Weird thought here, but since Willis is having babies – and babies are the worst – maybe he could cut back to just five comics a week, to take some of the pressure off him?
Nope. Under no circumstances. I will have literally nothing to do with my weekends to stave off actually being productive. Do you want that? You monster?
You could always build pillow forts instead.
Best plan ever.
Heehee, I’m so fiendish.
Books. Painting. Games. A social life. Sculpting. Tailoring. Webcomicry.
Endless, the possibilities are.
He has enough buffer to deal with it fine, he’s said, so it’ll be alright. Besides, it’s part of the kickstarter, so I imagine he wouldn’t want to back out on that.
Oh yea, right. He did promise that in the kickstarter. It was for a year?
I don’t think he really needs to at this point in time. He so far has enough buffer to last until September 30th at least (because the last panel shown on tumblr was labeled with that date). So he has enough buffer for almost two months in advance.
But we should really wait until he actually has babies before making suggestions like that – because it is only when his schedule has to actually change to revolve around babies that he’ll know for sure how much comic making he can fit in per week and if he’ll be able to stay at the same rate of buffer.
Tip: there is a buffer watch below the slipshine thingie in the left column (between some ads). :3
Willis is so far ahead that he could stop drawing for the rest of the year and still have comics showing up every day for the rest of this year.
Actually as of this posting that’s only true of up to October 4th.
Wait–Willis is having babies? Why am I just now hearing about this?!
Congratulations, dude! 😀
Congrats on your smut trophies Darth Willis.
Erotic!
I like the way you think.
Billy: “I have questions.”
Ruth: “Just enjoy the moment, stupid.”
These two are cute. Violently self-destructive and headed down a path that can only end in tears, but cute nonetheless.
Hopefully tears of joy.
Hopefully
Agree. On all of it.
Oh, yeah, that’s some hot hand-holding action, right there! I see the next Slipshine! 😀
The next Slipshine will be 20 pages of Ruth and Billie holding hands because BABIES.
Well that’s sorta sweet.
well at least for now this second… all is well
Billie, do you know where that hand has been? Oh, I guess you do…
Right there holding your heart.
What a couple of big romantic softies.
Ruth and Billie are cuties. Dina and Becky are cutiesaurs.
What does that make Marcie and Malaya? Cute on wheels? SkateCute?
>//< L-lewd
I’ll take “between ‘auto’ and ‘asphyxiation’ for 200, Alex.”
…. ruth is looking very creepy.
She could smell the booze.
She knows.
THAT LOOK
Ruth could show just a little bit of emotion….that ruined what could have been a sweet moment.
I would have accepted angry Ruth grabbing Billie’s hand…at least then we would know what was going to happen next.
Oh, I can explain that. For you see, Ruth has just farted, prodigiously, right before Billie came in, and in a panicked state has decided, somewhat dubiously, that the best way to distract her from noticing is to instead perplex her with unmoving silence.
i love that Ruth fixed their hand position so that she could grab Billie’s hand. Sometimes, in the midst of deep deep depression, that’s the best you can do.
The hovertext works best if you read it in the voice of Zapp Brannigan.
Or Quagmire works too (giggity!)
Ruth has trouble showing her real emotions, unless they are femur stealing, Blaine throwing, and terrorizing freshmen. So, this is a big step for her, hand holding now: expressions while holding hands, later.
Oh wow. Dina and Becky the dino’s, are adorable. I hope they pair up: and I never would have thought I’d think that.
So: double AWWWW.
Yeesh…. between this and the Kitteh burial over on Stand Still, Stay Silent my feels meter seems to have cracked…
L-Lewd…
The feels!
Dude, save these NSFW comics for the Slipshine 😛
I can see Dina getting Becky a dilophosaurus-themed hoody because they are the “funny haircut” dinos and Becky has a funny haircut.
Wouldn’t Stygimoloch have more of what would be considered a “funny haircut”?
that is indeed a funny dino haircut, but is it a funny Becky-dino haircut? no, I do not think so.
plus, dilophosauruses are a tad more mainstream, by dint of being movie stars and all
Leave room for Jesus you two, sheesh
Ruth: *holds hand*
Hand: *is hold*
Held.
It’s actually a reference.
Too vague.
Obscure reference, sure, but with an error that glaringly obvious I’d say the intent was pretty clear.
Right? I find people get in such rush to correct my grammar, they don’t realize it’s only ever incorrect when it is referring to something else. Looks like that happened here too.
Awww…
Adorable. Ruth kinda looks like she was struck by lightning, but adorable.
Ruthie currently has a fairly classic “rabbit caught in headlights” look on her face from the hand-holding that is entirely too adorable for words hdgakjkfghdfjkaghjkdfgdsfadf7ahhdgajkhjklh
I was unaware until I saw the Comic-Con image that the world is in desperate need of a crossover where Dina (and possibly Becky) meet Vanessa from S*P.
I don’t know if Vanessa could deal with Dina critiquing her costume….
Vanessa is a TA at UT in Austin. Unless you can come up with a plausible way for a TA at UT to interact in person with freshmen from IU your idea to cross over the Universes of DoA and SP! is DOA.
…because, Billie, she wanted a shred of normalcy, out with her partner, at a party, holding hands. It’s not the same hiding in your room and doing it. That’s good too…obviously.
But still, this is definitely an ‘awww’ moment.
+1. Everything they have done has been impulsive and hurried. Slow down and share a little human contact. Hold hands. Maybe even talk to each other. Start to build an actual relationship.
I know it looks unnerving, but this is the first sign that they might be good for each other and not just slipshine fodder.
OK, now you can progress to hugs.
Man, its going to be so sad when one of them dies.
*sniff sniff*
*breaks through window*
I SMELLED A REFERENCE! WHAT’S THE EMERGENCY!?
awwww
She was lonely, you schmuck!
Great convention poster, or greatest convention poster?
A very bittersweet strip. Am I the only one who thinks it’s sad that Ruth seems genuinely surprised that Billie… that anyone would want to hold her hand?
Pls Ruth stop creeping us out with being doll-like broken. It hurts my eyes … and other stuff. Probably my femurs.
Awwww *melts*
Man, Billie really is going to screw Ruth up when this whole thing inevitably blows up, isn’t she?
It goes both ways.
Ok, yesterday’s strip felt so suicidal, too suicidal in fact for me to comment b/c it hit too close for me, but now Billie is talking about ‘whenever we want’, which implies a future? That’s good! Maybe she’s just planning to lock herself in Ruth’s room forever, which is obviously not much healthier, but at least it’s less suicidal. Well, unless she plans to drink herself to death … 🙁
Oh god, I’m making myself sad, I need to stop.
Ruth went to the party because she missed Billie.
Wasn’t that a given already ? ^^
this is too lewd for me
Awwwwww and a bit lewd for me at the same time.
Woah woah woah, Mike isn’t top for hottest dude so far? Wonders never cease.
His hair is a fucking brick.
No, a hammer, for hammering all hope you have for humanity.
Some may be discarded, but what’s left is refined to better tensile strength and sharpened to a working edge?
I the crucible of Mike, hope is tested.
Willis if anything bad happens to this couple I swear…
Willis is like a capricious Babylonian deity. If you bring anything to his attention your more likely to have it destroyed than get it fixed.
If Walky is Ezra (The Eater of Cities), who is Roland?
Please do not threaten the author.
Woops, mail typo.
It’s a good thing we have Willis’ assurance that no one is gonna die in this iteration of the ‘verse. Otherwise I’d be seriously, seriously worried for Billie and Ruth right now.
If Batman the Animated Series taught people anything, it’s that forbidding death just makes things worse.
Well, he didn’t say anything about expulsion or comas.
Yeah. What I should have been said was “I’d be even more worried”.
He could have been lying to make it a harder punch. He wouldn’t be the first.
Nobody’s going to die. One week of DoA is approximately one year in DoA (hell, last Sunday started in late 2013 and we’re only now near the end of Saturday), and if anybody died, even a total bit part or a mentioned name only important to one of the characters, the repercussions would last far too long and it would kill the mood of the rest of the comic.
Some kind of bad shit is going to happen to Billie and Ruth, but they won’t be acting with integrity any time soon.
One week of DoA is approximately one year in real life*
Who can I hire to proofread these things before I post them? It’s just getting silly now.
Nah, that ain’t his style.
Anybody else read the hovertext in Gilbert Gottfried’s voice? Anybody? Good for you.
i read it in zapp brannigan’s voice. EROTIC!
Yep. It sounded just like GG reading “Fifty Shades of Sh## that will get you divorced and sent to the klink…”
I SURE DID! *grins squintingly*
Willis should make the alt text the page titles, so those reading phones can see it. O3O
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Thank you!!
D’awww…
Ruth is now a “mostly” immobile statue.
Dina’s dino-cap is growing – it’s almost totally consumed her body now. Dina is now driven by its – BESTIAL LUSTS.
Yeah! And if you want to emotionally confuse and manipulate me, you can do that in the dark of your room, too!