I am hoping this blows up in their faces in a major way. I know that it won’t be easy to get there but it would be nice to just get a solid win on removing these two forever.
Have to admit … I’m often tempted to just tune out until this gets resolved. Too much realism in a comic for me that I read for enjoyment. BUT it’s not my story to tell, so that’s my issue not Willis’s
What he knows or thinks he knows is weird.
Somehow he knows that it was Sarah who towed the car, but he also thinks Sarah is Becky’s girlfriend? I don’t even know if Amber knew about Sarah towing Ross’s car.
I can’t think of anything during Faz’s visit that would have made him think Becky/Sarah was a thing.
I wonder if Becky should have been contacted when her dad was released on bail. I don’t know if there were any legal obligations to, but it’s like… ‘hey we’re releasing the shooter, should we uh, give his daughter a heads up?’.
AFAIK if Becky had a restraining order it would have been tied to Leslie’s address, as it’s unlikely she had time to update it to Robin’s. So Leslie might get the message, but there might be a game of phone tag coming?
Unlikely she’d have gotten a restraining order – she lacked the resources to go after one, it was never mentioned and Ross was in jail anyway.
The lack of a way to get in touch with her is a good point. Unless she got back in touch with the legal system and updated her address they wouldn’t even know about her staying with Leslie. And she didn’t have a phone at the time – though you’d think she would have given the police Joyce’s number.
There could be a notice waiting at her official home address, I suppose.
Really brings things into perspective where the guy who brought a gun to campus to threaten and-or shoot his own daughter is somehow the lesser of the two.
And yes, I label him the lesser grossness, because Blaine is pulling his strings. And also because Ross at least has some horrifically misguided protective motivation, while Blaine is powered purely by spite and not wanting to pay money to support his daughter. And also because Blaine’s goal is to wreck more lives than Ross’s.
I mean, he certainly calls it protective, but that doesn’t make it true. It’s about exerting control and trying to force Becky back into fitting with the image of what he thinks she was and should be.
To put it another way, he seems to be lying to himself about it being protective. Compared to Blaine, who at best is doing it to whine about the expense of tuition that he’s legally required to pay.
Caaaareful, Toedad. If you took your neck brace off too early like that, you might cause yourself further long-term harm. And we wouldn’t want anything bad or painful to happen to you as a direct consequence of your own bad choices, would we? (/sarcasm)
(Though to be fair it’s not like his character design has much of a neck to brace.)
The lassic neutral evil guy trying to keep the chaotic evil guy at bay. It’s like Lex Luthor trying to keep to Joker working for him, which is a bad idea on the long run.
Also, if Toe Dad begins saying something on the lines of Deus Vult, Tanya Degrechaff will feel it from another universe and cringe.
Ah, yes. The “God works in mysterious ways” line of reason.
Next, he’ll be citing the apostle Paul in his second letter to Timothy, about being “instruments in the hands of God.”
It’s gonna get worse before it gets better, I’m afraid.
For a moment there I was thinking Tim had re-invented the Sarrusophone. Then I remembered that Sarrusophones are mostly double reeds, and a Sarrusophone with a clarinet mouthpiece is functionally a Saxophone.
So I think Tim is onto something. Something that PDQ Bach would have written a sonata for.
More likely that they wouldn’t be interested in his “scare Amber out of college” plan. They might support Ross going after Becky, but they’d have no interest in Blaine’s real target.
Bringing someone else in would be a bad idea.
For one thing he already knows Ross shares many of his values (men are head of the household by force if nescisary), its kind of a crap shoot if anyone else he brings in will or not.
For another thing he’s being relatively transparent about things and he does not need more people who might tip off the cops.
You can get a lot of mileage out of threatening Ethan.
Mike tends to stick his nose into other peoples business and knows too much. I wouldn’t be too upset if something happened to Mike.
No, this is a conversation that Blaine wants as few ears on as possible. I know we like to consider Joyce’s families church as a bunch of uniform religious zealots who will do any morally dodgy thing imaginable in the name of God, but I think we’ve seem enough of them to know that some of them (like Joyce’s Dad) would easily see through this conversation and realize this has nothing to do with church or family and is just Blaine trying to manipulate other people into settling his own beefs.
Nobody dies in this story. I thought of starting off with “sadly,” but I for one don’t wish them death. I think that is a bit of a barbaric thing to want. I would like them to get roughed up and locked up (and possibly lose some motor function to remind them of their mortality).
Don’t stop there, Blaine! We’re so close to having an evil version of the old cast description page! If only you had some putrescent vomit to burble up about Walky, Dorothy, Billie, and Sal, you could complete this purpose and move on to oblivion.
Blaine’s doing the same thing to Ross that tRump does to his American evangelical supporters. He’s the same kind of person, though not as successful in life (though probably more intelligent.)
Gotta love how Ross was looking ready to beat Blaine up simply for saying something. Ross is 100% gonna go off-plan the moment he sees a woman wearing denim jeans.
I like how the argument “all of them versus the two of us” does not at all justify the conclusion “we should be patient”. Blaine just says something that sounds mystical to Ross and therefore it must be true, just like those unrelated things he said before.
It’s a clear example of thinking in absolutes: if someone is a good christian, he (not “they” because women are not really people) MUST be right and anyone else, well, the opposite of what they say must be true, for they are all out to get us good christians (and our wives and daughters).
Most likely Campus Security will be familiar with him and have him on the Watch List to kick him out of they see him (they have a similar thing with Blaine if i recall).
At the same time though it is Ross after all. He’s just plain not going to care. He just doesn’t see things that way. He is literally incapable of seeing what he’s doing as a plan to kidnap and cause harm. Such is his delusion.
Either Blaine is super-paranoid or he’s found some way of controlling Ross via a narrative, no matter how implausible. In either case, he missed his calling; I’m pretty sure he could have started his own religion, given his talent for oratory!
With some folks, all you have to do is appeal to the proper authority and they’ll think whatever you want them to think. Ironically, many of these folks claim _they’re_ the ones “thinking for myself,” unlike all the rest of us “sheeple.”
At the very least, the picture of Joyce and Sarah came from Blaine himself; the last strip shows Faz in the side of the photo and that it’s raining, suggesting he took it while in the back seat of the car when Yuri came to pick Faz up.
The photos are from Faz’s visit or from Amber’s childhood. I think he actually took the ones with Joyce & Sarah from the back of the car when he & Yuri picked Faz up. Faz is in that picture of Sarah today and both Amber and Joyce were also visible in the one yesterday. The pictures of Ethan and Mike yesterday were probably old – Amber’s in one with a hair style closer to the flashbacks than anything she’s worn in the present.
Other than that the info is detailed, but oddly wrong. He somehow knows about Sarah having Ross’s car towed, but thinks she’s Becky’s girlfriend? I don’t know how Faz would have found out about the first or even if Amber knew and I’ve got no idea where the second idea came from. Unless he just leapt to a conclusion.
What makes you think Blaine thinks Sarah is Becky’s girlfriend??? Did I miss a strip where he indicated Amber and Sarah were roommates? That happens sometimes.
“your daughter’s girlfriend”. That would be Dina, who Toedad has indeed met. I’m just wondering why Blaine assumes that Dina and Becky are “lez be friends”, rather than just friends. Toedad, on the other hand, hears the word “girlfriend” and since he knows why Becky was kicked out of Anderson automatically assumes the worst.
Figuring out that Dina and Becky are a couple isn’t a big deal (there’s a lot of obvious signs, and Amber actually is likely to mention it privately), but I am a little confused how Blaine knows Sarah had Tow-Dad’s car towed.
How funny would it be if after all this planning, they get jumped by the cops as soon as they approach campus, because Toedad is under surveillance as unstable?
Ross, don’t just discard your neck brace. Your face is on track for levels of punchability previously unknown to humanity; you’re gonna need that support.
Like was mentioned back then, the Indiana state constitution mandates bail to be set for everyone (with a single exception in place for those accused of murder).
He’s not really trying to kill her. He’s trying to save her. By driving out the demons of homosexuality or something.
Killing others along the way is just collateral. Of course, killing her is still preferable to leaving her in her state of sin.
Ross is going after his daughter. He’s attempted suicide in the past. I don’t know if he wants to kidnap Becky to “re-educated” her or if he’s thinking murder suicide. But when he attempts it, He might be hampered by Becky’s proximity to the congresswoman.
If it looks like some loon is advancing onnthe congresswoman with a fun, Ross might get dead real fast. It would be unchristian to hope so.
Martyring yourself in a holy cause totally isn’t suicide. Really.
(Very convenient loophole for people trying, consciously or otherwise, to get around an explicit prohibition.)
Can help but feel that Blaine knows about AG. This seems wildly out of proportion for saving college expenses. But them Ross is ready to die / kill for control of his daughter, so maybe not.
Blaine does not know Amber and Amazigirl share the same meatware. His daughter is timid, weak, and ineffectual in spite of his best efforts at criticizing her. Amazigirl is a vicious vigilante who beat the crap out of him. And their voices are completely different. Amber is his property to correct and Amazigirl is his enemy to be destroyed. It would be difficult to convince him that they are identical.
Real talk: I like how Ross almost paused when he saw Joyce. Instead of being enraged immediately, he said it in a way that was like “oh no…not her.”
Maybe that’s just me projecting and trying to find good in this, because honestly both these characters need to be beheaded in the street, but I liked that little detail.
I like that detail, too. Both Blaine and Ross are different kinds of controlling patriarchal buttfaces, but Ross is a religious zealot who genuinely believes he’s acting in Becky’s best interests whereas Blaine is a mob stooge who knows he’s only acting in his own interests. It’s not hard to believe that Ross would at least be uncomfortable with the idea of hurting Joyce.
I was about to say that they are arguing loudly inside a rather small establishment about harming college kids. Plus, they literally are less than 100 feet from where Ross pulled his car over (going the wrong way, I might add), pulled out a gun, and chased after his daughter and her girlfriend. Someone there might actually recognize him.
Feels like this strip is foreshadowing how their partnership is going to fall apart eventually: With Toedad going off-script at a critical moment because of zealotry, and Blaine flipping the fuck out over it and forgetting to add the modifying “because God” words, letting Toedad get an idea of just how much raw contempt Blaine actually has for him.
Even odds this ends with both of them beating the crap out of each other.
Fortunately for Blaine Willis has said no one is going to die, or we might see a “Blaine becomes a dangerous liability for his criminal associates and ends up in a drum full of concrete someplace.”
Dang it. Ross is a pile of critically failed insight checks.
Imbecile. This is why making intelligence a dump stat on top of the zealot path is such a headache. Any schmuck can just walk up to you and have you dancing in their palm.
Weirdly, I don’t think he is. Ross’ idiocy is correctly recognizing nothing Blaine says makes sense. I mean, he’s still a human ****stain but Blaine’s manipulations are stupid and plan is even dumber. Something Ross is aware of.
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I’m p sure Sarah doesn’t have a tow truck tho
…
no, I take that back, Sarah ABSOLUTELY has a tow truck at her beck and call, through the sheer power of SPITE
did anyone name this shipwreck yet?
Blowdad?
…I don’t think that’s getting topped.
unlike toedad
you ever say something and immediately want to punch yourself in the face
Pretty clever though, if disturbing
“You’ll know it when you see it.”
his neck is back
…well i mean
can you call it a neck? i mean like… the back half of the toe
Panel 2 kinda looks like a toe just reached up and removed its nail, revealing a face underneath.
I shall leave you with that image.
This now cannot be unseen.
I don’t know how they found enough neck on Ross to put that brace around.
Beware the flexing of his shoulder-knuckle!
Knuckle?
I know nothing about neck braces but hope something happens to Ross now he’s removed his.
Perhaps he was wearing in jail to win sympathy. He doesn’t seem smart enough to pull a gambit like that, but you never know.
he doesn’t need neck support, GOD will HEAL him.
I assume that it was a mistake and the doctor should have put a big toe brace around his neck.
(Has this joke been done? I feel like it’s been done.)
I am hoping this blows up in their faces in a major way. I know that it won’t be easy to get there but it would be nice to just get a solid win on removing these two forever.
They’ll never go away forever because this comic needs villains.
Hence why I’m already so tired of this storyline.
Have to admit … I’m often tempted to just tune out until this gets resolved. Too much realism in a comic for me that I read for enjoyment. BUT it’s not my story to tell, so that’s my issue not Willis’s
Seriously, how did Blaine get all this info?
Mafia connections are a hell of a thing.
Was awfully helpful to him how Amber just typed this all out in a Word document she saved to her desktop.
Faz, i think. Faz also stole a thumbdrive from Amber’s room.
Amber may have kept a journal on her laptop.
What he knows or thinks he knows is weird.
Somehow he knows that it was Sarah who towed the car, but he also thinks Sarah is Becky’s girlfriend? I don’t even know if Amber knew about Sarah towing Ross’s car.
I can’t think of anything during Faz’s visit that would have made him think Becky/Sarah was a thing.
“My daughter’s (Amber) roommate (Dina) is your daughter’s (Becky) girlfriend.”
Oh, I read that completely wrong. Distracted by the mention and photo of Sarah, I guess.
I wonder if Becky should have been contacted when her dad was released on bail. I don’t know if there were any legal obligations to, but it’s like… ‘hey we’re releasing the shooter, should we uh, give his daughter a heads up?’.
AFAIK if Becky had a restraining order it would have been tied to Leslie’s address, as it’s unlikely she had time to update it to Robin’s. So Leslie might get the message, but there might be a game of phone tag coming?
Becky wasn’t living with Leslie at the time, so it would have been uh, sent to her old house I guess? That or her dorm at Anderson.
He’d probably have orders to stay away from the campus thanks to the gun charge.
Yeah, those work real good.
It will make things worse for both of them when they’re caught, at least.
Unlikely she’d have gotten a restraining order – she lacked the resources to go after one, it was never mentioned and Ross was in jail anyway.
The lack of a way to get in touch with her is a good point. Unless she got back in touch with the legal system and updated her address they wouldn’t even know about her staying with Leslie. And she didn’t have a phone at the time – though you’d think she would have given the police Joyce’s number.
There could be a notice waiting at her official home address, I suppose.
Don’t overestimate law enforcement’s competence.
I can’t underestimate their competence when I am too busy holding a valid opinion of the average bureaucrat’s motivation to do their job right.
A competition to see who the grossest dude is were the guy who brought a GUN to a SCHOOL is somehow not the only possible answer.
Really brings things into perspective where the guy who brought a gun to campus to threaten and-or shoot his own daughter is somehow the lesser of the two.
And yes, I label him the lesser grossness, because Blaine is pulling his strings. And also because Ross at least has some horrifically misguided protective motivation, while Blaine is powered purely by spite and not wanting to pay money to support his daughter. And also because Blaine’s goal is to wreck more lives than Ross’s.
I mean, he certainly calls it protective, but that doesn’t make it true. It’s about exerting control and trying to force Becky back into fitting with the image of what he thinks she was and should be.
To put it another way, he seems to be lying to himself about it being protective. Compared to Blaine, who at best is doing it to whine about the expense of tuition that he’s legally required to pay.
Caaaareful, Toedad. If you took your neck brace off too early like that, you might cause yourself further long-term harm. And we wouldn’t want anything bad or painful to happen to you as a direct consequence of your own bad choices, would we? (/sarcasm)
(Though to be fair it’s not like his character design has much of a neck to brace.)
Toedad dies three strips later of a broken neck. The fandom rejoices.
These two can fuck off now.
I read your comment initially as “these two can fuck now” and I was like – whoa now, that’s a Slipshine I DO NOT want to see.
This may also have something to do with Ana talking about their “ship name” above. **shivers**
Lol I made the same mistake.
I don’t think Willis will write a “Man 1 suggests having sex with Man 2, Man 2’s head explodes as a result” strip.
… I’d read that.
The best part is either of those assholes can be Man 1 or Man 2.
“God made us one…”
Like he made Adam and Eve one.
;p
One evil man plus one angry ignoramus—what could possibly go wrong?
*Two evil men.
One evil man us one evil, angry ignoramus.
Faz?
Faz’s hair graces the photo in the bottom right corner. It fills the area in a percentage which can be seen in this chart.
I gotta say, I don’t care for this ship at ALL
It’s the Exxon Valdez.
At least we knew how much filth would come out of that thing.
The lassic neutral evil guy trying to keep the chaotic evil guy at bay. It’s like Lex Luthor trying to keep to Joker working for him, which is a bad idea on the long run.
Also, if Toe Dad begins saying something on the lines of Deus Vult, Tanya Degrechaff will feel it from another universe and cringe.
classic* Degurechaff*
Ah, yes. The “God works in mysterious ways” line of reason.
Next, he’ll be citing the apostle Paul in his second letter to Timothy, about being “instruments in the hands of God.”
It’s gonna get worse before it gets better, I’m afraid.
Toddler Walky: “Our good actions are god working through us.”
In this case the instrument is a baritone horn, with a clarinet mouthpiece, that’s been run over by a tank.
“Had to use parts from different horns.”
MASH S06 E15 The Smell of Music
For a moment there I was thinking Tim had re-invented the Sarrusophone. Then I remembered that Sarrusophones are mostly double reeds, and a Sarrusophone with a clarinet mouthpiece is functionally a Saxophone.
So I think Tim is onto something. Something that PDQ Bach would have written a sonata for.
Best ever is the TromBoon, by Peter Schickley. Mouthpiece of a bassoon, with a slide trombone. Make the hair in your neck flee in fear.
“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.”
how is it that I’m rooting for the school shooter to go AWOL again?
I guess good job making Blaine competent enough that he’s the greater of two evils?
I hate them both. Blaine you evil manipulative bastard.
Oh come on, it’s a little funny how easy this manipulation is. Ross is not a smart man.
I still hate them both. 😛
I wonder if Blaine could have avoided this by being friendly with someone from Joyce’s church and getting them to act as a middleman.
Then again, that might invite bigger problems from his perspective.
Middleman for Toe Dad, I mean. In case I wasn’t clear.
I mean didn’t he get in touch with Joyce’s church to organize the bail? He could easily have met Joyce’s mum who iirc sided with Blaine.
Honestly he might just be worried that they wouldn’t hold Toedad back.
More likely that they wouldn’t be interested in his “scare Amber out of college” plan. They might support Ross going after Becky, but they’d have no interest in Blaine’s real target.
Bringing someone else in would be a bad idea.
For one thing he already knows Ross shares many of his values (men are head of the household by force if nescisary), its kind of a crap shoot if anyone else he brings in will or not.
For another thing he’s being relatively transparent about things and he does not need more people who might tip off the cops.
You can get a lot of mileage out of threatening Ethan.
Mike tends to stick his nose into other peoples business and knows too much. I wouldn’t be too upset if something happened to Mike.
No, this is a conversation that Blaine wants as few ears on as possible. I know we like to consider Joyce’s families church as a bunch of uniform religious zealots who will do any morally dodgy thing imaginable in the name of God, but I think we’ve seem enough of them to know that some of them (like Joyce’s Dad) would easily see through this conversation and realize this has nothing to do with church or family and is just Blaine trying to manipulate other people into settling his own beefs.
It all makes sense now! Ross is an alien! Look at that “fellow Christian” dodge. He doesn’t understand humans and he’s trying to fit in badly!
“I will shake your hand with my human hand, not a proboscis as a zorblat would have!”
Well, if God truly exists Ross, then he’ll strike the two of you down for daring to try and pull this crap and justify it with his name.
May your immortal souls burn in hell when you finally bite the bullet.
Nobody dies in this story. I thought of starting off with “sadly,” but I for one don’t wish them death. I think that is a bit of a barbaric thing to want. I would like them to get roughed up and locked up (and possibly lose some motor function to remind them of their mortality).
It sure was nice not having to look at this man for a few years
Don’t stop there, Blaine! We’re so close to having an evil version of the old cast description page! If only you had some putrescent vomit to burble up about Walky, Dorothy, Billie, and Sal, you could complete this purpose and move on to oblivion.
Blaine’s clearly done his research.
I mean, that was the whole point of the Faz visit.
These guys are a ringing endorsement for atheism.
I suspect the only gods Blaine worships are himself and the almighty dollar.
Blaine’s doing the same thing to Ross that tRump does to his American evangelical supporters. He’s the same kind of person, though not as successful in life (though probably more intelligent.)
Gotta love how Ross was looking ready to beat Blaine up simply for saying something. Ross is 100% gonna go off-plan the moment he sees a woman wearing denim jeans.
Blaine is an atheist. He just feels like he can use religion to manipulate Ross.
“God Made Us One, So We Must Act As One – A Dumbing of Age Pornographique”
No thank you.
The Slipshine nobody wants to see.
toedad, not remembering blaine’s name at all: thank you………………………..fellow christian
Heh!
let’s hope these two get eaten by a flock of flying piranhas.
Sarah towed his car?
Wow, she’s stronger than I thought.
Ross is in this comic.
Might just as well tag Joyce’s fists and be done with it.
I just wanted to let you know that, in my mind, Jigsaw came up as Toedad’s voice.
Tobin Bell? Not a bad choice.
Oh man, what a positive birthday comic!
…wait
Happy birthday!
I like how the argument “all of them versus the two of us” does not at all justify the conclusion “we should be patient”. Blaine just says something that sounds mystical to Ross and therefore it must be true, just like those unrelated things he said before.
It’s a clear example of thinking in absolutes: if someone is a good christian, he (not “they” because women are not really people) MUST be right and anyone else, well, the opposite of what they say must be true, for they are all out to get us good christians (and our wives and daughters).
uh shouldn’t the college have put Ross on some kind of list by now I mean being an active shooter on government property is not something you ignore
You would think, but he is a straight white Christian man in DEEP red Indiana.
Most likely Campus Security will be familiar with him and have him on the Watch List to kick him out of they see him (they have a similar thing with Blaine if i recall).
At the same time though it is Ross after all. He’s just plain not going to care. He just doesn’t see things that way. He is literally incapable of seeing what he’s doing as a plan to kidnap and cause harm. Such is his delusion.
Either Blaine is super-paranoid or he’s found some way of controlling Ross via a narrative, no matter how implausible. In either case, he missed his calling; I’m pretty sure he could have started his own religion, given his talent for oratory!
It’s not that he’s great at speaking, his audience is just very stupid.
…. so yeah, cult leader at least.
“God made us one, so we much act as one!”
This promises to be an…interesting slipshine.
Blaine: We are connected!
Lain: Everyone is connected!
With some folks, all you have to do is appeal to the proper authority and they’ll think whatever you want them to think. Ironically, many of these folks claim _they’re_ the ones “thinking for myself,” unlike all the rest of us “sheeple.”
You were so close, Ross. Soooo close to thinking for yourself.
Eh, the odds are not good Ross thinking for himself would improve anything.
He wouldn’t do better things, but he’d likely fail and get arrested faster, which is a plus.
Where is O’Malley getting all these photos and intel from? They are both quite detailed. Is this what he tapped Asher for?
At the very least, the picture of Joyce and Sarah came from Blaine himself; the last strip shows Faz in the side of the photo and that it’s raining, suggesting he took it while in the back seat of the car when Yuri came to pick Faz up.
The photos are from Faz’s visit or from Amber’s childhood. I think he actually took the ones with Joyce & Sarah from the back of the car when he & Yuri picked Faz up. Faz is in that picture of Sarah today and both Amber and Joyce were also visible in the one yesterday. The pictures of Ethan and Mike yesterday were probably old – Amber’s in one with a hair style closer to the flashbacks than anything she’s worn in the present.
Other than that the info is detailed, but oddly wrong. He somehow knows about Sarah having Ross’s car towed, but thinks she’s Becky’s girlfriend? I don’t know how Faz would have found out about the first or even if Amber knew and I’ve got no idea where the second idea came from. Unless he just leapt to a conclusion.
What makes you think Blaine thinks Sarah is Becky’s girlfriend??? Did I miss a strip where he indicated Amber and Sarah were roommates? That happens sometimes.
Nah, I just completely misread this strip. Picture of Sarah and comment about “your daughter’s girlfriend”.
“your daughter’s girlfriend”. That would be Dina, who Toedad has indeed met. I’m just wondering why Blaine assumes that Dina and Becky are “lez be friends”, rather than just friends. Toedad, on the other hand, hears the word “girlfriend” and since he knows why Becky was kicked out of Anderson automatically assumes the worst.
Probably through Faz’s snooping.
Figuring out that Dina and Becky are a couple isn’t a big deal (there’s a lot of obvious signs, and Amber actually is likely to mention it privately), but I am a little confused how Blaine knows Sarah had Tow-Dad’s car towed.
“I should be patient…”
No, you should be a patient in a mental institution!
What a way to treat your child 🙁
Willis, I accuse you of having entirely too much fun putting all of these evangelical platitudes into the mouth of this toe.
How funny would it be if after all this planning, they get jumped by the cops as soon as they approach campus, because Toedad is under surveillance as unstable?
I guess it would qualify as comic relief then.
They are basically on campus now. There literally are university offices in the building on the floors above that restaurant.
Ross, don’t just discard your neck brace. Your face is on track for levels of punchability previously unknown to humanity; you’re gonna need that support.
Whew! So glad Blaine was able to get Toedad under control…
wait
“I should be claiming [my daughter] now.” might be the grossest thing anyone has ever said in DoA. Ross is finally good at something. Yay?
Still can’t believe they just let him walk out. He’s not shy about announcing his intention to immediately repeat his crime.
Like was mentioned back then, the Indiana state constitution mandates bail to be set for everyone (with a single exception in place for those accused of murder).
Toedad is genuinely offended by the word ‘girlfriend’, but sees nothing wrong with trying to kill his daughter for being gay…
He’s not really trying to kill her. He’s trying to save her. By driving out the demons of homosexuality or something.
Killing others along the way is just collateral. Of course, killing her is still preferable to leaving her in her state of sin.
Ross is going after his daughter. He’s attempted suicide in the past. I don’t know if he wants to kidnap Becky to “re-educated” her or if he’s thinking murder suicide. But when he attempts it, He might be hampered by Becky’s proximity to the congresswoman.
If it looks like some loon is advancing onnthe congresswoman with a fun, Ross might get dead real fast. It would be unchristian to hope so.
He hasn’t actually attempted suicide, though he was apparently willing to accept suicide by cop in his attempt to reclaim her. “I’d die for you.”
Martyring yourself in a holy cause totally isn’t suicide. Really.
(Very convenient loophole for people trying, consciously or otherwise, to get around an explicit prohibition.)
Why is Faz tagged in this strip?
He’s in the photo of Sarah. Along with Joyce. He was there yesterday as well.
Can help but feel that Blaine knows about AG. This seems wildly out of proportion for saving college expenses. But them Ross is ready to die / kill for control of his daughter, so maybe not.
Blaine does not know Amber and Amazigirl share the same meatware. His daughter is timid, weak, and ineffectual in spite of his best efforts at criticizing her. Amazigirl is a vicious vigilante who beat the crap out of him. And their voices are completely different. Amber is his property to correct and Amazigirl is his enemy to be destroyed. It would be difficult to convince him that they are identical.
Real talk: I like how Ross almost paused when he saw Joyce. Instead of being enraged immediately, he said it in a way that was like “oh no…not her.”
Maybe that’s just me projecting and trying to find good in this, because honestly both these characters need to be beheaded in the street, but I liked that little detail.
That’s how I took it too. It’s not hard to imagine that from his messed up perspective he’s done his best by his daughter’s lifelong friend.
It’s just the devil trying to tempt him away from his righteous path. Don’t worry. He won’t weaken.
“Quick, is there a verse in the Bible for when someone you once drove to Six Flags is encouraging your daughter’s sin.”
… It wouldn’t leave my brain.
I like that detail, too. Both Blaine and Ross are different kinds of controlling patriarchal buttfaces, but Ross is a religious zealot who genuinely believes he’s acting in Becky’s best interests whereas Blaine is a mob stooge who knows he’s only acting in his own interests. It’s not hard to believe that Ross would at least be uncomfortable with the idea of hurting Joyce.
I can’t read these pages, they’re all covered in barf whenever I try.
Hey quick question while I’m at it: what are the chances of someone overhearing them, connecting the dots and reporting their asses?
I was about to say that they are arguing loudly inside a rather small establishment about harming college kids. Plus, they literally are less than 100 feet from where Ross pulled his car over (going the wrong way, I might add), pulled out a gun, and chased after his daughter and her girlfriend. Someone there might actually recognize him.
Feels like this strip is foreshadowing how their partnership is going to fall apart eventually: With Toedad going off-script at a critical moment because of zealotry, and Blaine flipping the fuck out over it and forgetting to add the modifying “because God” words, letting Toedad get an idea of just how much raw contempt Blaine actually has for him.
Even odds this ends with both of them beating the crap out of each other.
I’d be good with that.
I suspect Ross will be little more than a punching bag for Blaine if they get into a brawl.
Thank God Ross’ neck has healed. It’ll be broken again someday.
So what I really want to see…. Is them plotting and meanwhile the camera pulls back and…. Joe or someone is sitting in the booth hearing all of this…
Also I’m kind of surprised Ruth’s Ahole Grandfather isn’t bankrolling the whole evil plot.
Now there’s a potential plot twist, Evil Grandpa is plotting something, and his plot crashes headlong into Blaine’s plot.
I think it would be kind of neat if Asher redeemed himself somehow and helped to shut down this plot before someone gets killed.
Fortunately for Blaine Willis has said no one is going to die, or we might see a “Blaine becomes a dangerous liability for his criminal associates and ends up in a drum full of concrete someplace.”
Joe or somebody? We don’t know where Jacob intends to meet Raidah. So she might be listening to this.
https://twitter.com/Celeste_pewter/status/1176604723203334144
For those of you getting hopped up on the possibility of getting rid of Agent Orange.
Dang it. Ross is a pile of critically failed insight checks.
Imbecile. This is why making intelligence a dump stat on top of the zealot path is such a headache. Any schmuck can just walk up to you and have you dancing in their palm.
Weirdly, I don’t think he is. Ross’ idiocy is correctly recognizing nothing Blaine says makes sense. I mean, he’s still a human ****stain but Blaine’s manipulations are stupid and plan is even dumber. Something Ross is aware of.
Except that all it takes override that awareness is to say: Trust me, this is how God wants it.
That last panel with Toedad’s eyes going all anime shiny is making me uncomfortable D:
It’s like this whole page is one big “bro… bro…” meme.
Mike is going to get hospitalized or worse taking these two out, but it’ll act as a redemption arc for him. Calling it now
But do any of us want Mike redeemed? Let him exalt in his evil from a throne of troll posts.
(thumps fists on table) Redemption arc! Redemption arc!
Toedad is so mean, dumb and guillible, it never ceases to amaze me.