A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Missing Monday
Elle Skinner
Two girls fall in love through a magic door connecting their worlds. When Monday suddenly goes missing, it's up to Foyle to find her. How she's going to navigate an entirely unfamiliar world is another matter.
Beeserker
TJ Cordes
This comic is about a robot powered by bees, but it's also about the kind of people who think filling a robot with bees is a good idea, and why they're wrong.
Sleepless Domain
Mary Cagle (Cube Watermelon)
In a world where magical girls and their battles are commonplace, loss has become all too common as well.
Darkling Bright
Chris Hazelton
Kieran Bright is a college student home for the summer and roped into an online reunion with his old neighborhood friends in the most recent update of their favorite childhood MMORPG.
At least, he was, and that was the idea...
Join Kieran and his friends as they are pulled into another reality that may or may not be real and are forced to confront their own identities, the nature of simulated universes and reality itself.
The Golden Boar
Magnolia Porter Siddell
A young woman joins a group of summoners who call forth Guardian Beasts to protect their isolated magical island. Unfortunately, her Guardian Beast is nothing like she'd imagined, and he's about to change her life, and everything she thought she knew about herself...
Barbarous
Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota
A crummy wizard and an anxious monster have to get over themselves and bring order to an apartment building full of misfits.
The Last Diplomat
Cat Farris
Samma and Tark didn't ask to be stuck together, but now they're partners on the adventure of a lifetime.
Sakana
Mad Rupert
Our heroes must navigate a hazardous dating scene, overcome personal anxieties, and wrangle unruly seafood in order to find love, peace of mind, and a paycheck.
Alice and the Nightmare
Misha Krivanek
Alice finally attends University to learn to collect the dreams of humans, meet new friends, and deal with a pesky reflection along the way.
Astral Aves
Moon Cabal
A fantasy coming-of-age following the adventures of Astra The Black and friends, as they navigate the mysterious world around them. It's politics, adventure, and the supernatural; oh, and crazy hair.
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
The Weave
Rennie Kingsley
A young woman pursued by bad luck is witness to the murder of the Fairy Queen of Summer. Can she get to the bottom of this mystery?
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
Love Not Found
Gina Biggs
Abeille is on a quest to find someone who wants to do it the old-fashioned way in a time when touching has become outdated.
Edison Rex
Chris Roberson
The adventures of the world’s greatest villain who, after defeating his superheroic nemesis, decides that he’s the only one left to defend the world.
Cassiopeia Quinn
Gunwild, Psudonym
A cute, pantsless thief is pursued across the stars by a buttoned-up military officer in the spacey, laser-filled future.
Aquapunk
Lo
In an underwater world of unknown coordinates, inhabited by aliens, ghosts, and robots, a young member of a warrior underclass is framed for a crime and goes on the run. Little does he know he is part of a grand design that only gods and ancestors could choreograph.
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
Reimena Yee
The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.
Not Drunk Enough
Tess Stone
Logan Ibarra is possibly the unluckiest repairman in the world. A late night job should not have landed him in the middle of a mad scientist's squabble, but he soon finds himself surrounded by monsters and further madness with little tools to get out.
The End
August Brown, Cory Brown
Two aliens crash a sci-fi convention and accidentally take seven nerds on an adventure that spans the galaxy!
Scape
Lauren
Sula has always preferred to forge her own path, but before she knows it, she is pulled into the middle of a civil war between man and monster!
Dumbing of Age
David M Willis
Joyce has been homeschooled her entire life until now, when she's suddenly a freshman in college! Things don't go well.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
Gzhel Guardian
Atla Hrafney, nushanchel
The Railway World is a complex, mysterious network of trains, towns and mechanical monsters. Leo is a Guardian of one of these towns, and although their burn-out and depression has taken hold of them, they have one last job to finish.
Ride or Die
Mars Heyward
Ride or Die is an LGBTQ webcomic about two street racers who team up with a demon-possessed muscle car in the search for a missing woman, while being hunted by a deadly religious cult.
ARISE, YE SKELETON KING
Brian Clevinger, Escher Cattle, Lee Black
A troupe of wandering "adventurers" down to their last silver "acquire" a map only to find the real treasure was the fiend they dug up along the way.
Star Impact
Jack McGee
A young, energetic woman fights her way up in the world of super-powered boxing after discovering the mighty gloves of her missing idol!
Augustine
Winter Jay Kiakas, Windy
August and her ragtag group are just like everyone else, simply surviving in the treacherous Crater... When they stumble into what may be an artifact of the ancient past, their lives are thrown into a much bigger loop as they trifle with bounty hunters, monsters and gods.
The Forgotten Order
Christy
A young witch for whom every spell is a misfire finds solace and friendship in her new companion - a cursed doll.
Freakshow
Scotty
A festival of broken people, blood flows in the center ring. Come one and come all, to the greatest show in all of Paris.
Stand Still, Stay Silent
Minna Sundberg
A few generations after the end of the world, a small, poorly financed research crew is sent out to rediscover whatever is left of the forbidden old world in the south.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
How to be a Werewolf
Shawn Lenore
Malaya Walters was bitten by a werewolf as a child. After being raised by her human family, she faces the chance to learn what being a werewolf is really like as an adult.
Blindsprings
Kadi Fedoruk
Tamaura, wrested into a world 300 years in the future, must find a way to save the magic fading from her country.
Monsterkind
Taylor C
Wallace Foster, a young, bright-eyed human social worker, has his entire world view rocked when he's suddenly relocated into a city primarily inhabited by monsters.
Nigh Heaven & Hell
Scotty
Heather Vodihn is on a simple mission: find her father. However she becomes entangled with two strangers with mysterious powers being stalked by a group with bizarre demands. Heather must learn to trust her new traveling companions, even if she is untrustworthy herself.
Lies Within
Lacey
Lysander's aimless and carefree life is turned upside down when he accidentally discovers that the cute boy next door, Simon, is a literal monster
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
Little Tiny Things
Clover
What are the little things that move us? The simple joys that warm our bodies and hearts? The micro life of insects that influence our world more than we think? The tiny steps we make everyday to have a happier tomorrow?
Within
Verena Loisel
A young hitman meanders between a reality that seems to happen without him, and his dreams where he is lost in an endless house. When he makes an accidental friend, his world is shaken up and he realizes there are things he can't remember about himself.
The Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
This is Not Fiction
Nicole Mannino
What do you do when the person you're in-love with is an anonymous romance novelist? Get your best friend to hire your worst enemy for help!
Quick$ilver
Crypto
The flirtatious, directionless, and ever disastrous Luci searches for excitement in a life of crime, and finds himself caught in a web of messy romance and bad blood.
Empowered
Adam Warren
A sexy superhero comedy (except when it isn't) about the never-ending struggles of a plucky but very unlucky young superheroine.
Kochab
Sarah Webb
A YA F/F fantasy comic about Sonya, a lost skier trying to survive a snowy wilderness and find her way back to her village; and Kyra - a fire spirit trying to fix the home that she let fall apart around her.
Widdershins
Kate Ashwin
A series of light-hearted Victorian-era adventure stories featuring grumpy bounty hunters, accidental thiefkings, and more, in England's magical capital city Widdershins!
Guilded Age
T Campbell, John Waltrip, Florence Machina
Welcome to the saga of the working-class adventurer! Enjoy the complete story with new annotations daily!
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“in richness and in poorness, poorness is underlined, in impotence and in potence, in quiet solitude or blasting across the alkali flats in a jet-powered, monkey-navigated… and it goes on like this.”
“But in the eyes of the woman I love,
I’m a hero, a giant, a man who’s as tall as can be
Anyone can see
She’s looking through the eyes of love
Looking through the eyes of love
Looking through the eyes of love
When she looks at me.”
You got creepy from that? Yeesh. Those are LOVE EYES. When you look at the person you love and they are just the most beautiful person in the world and just want to look at them forever.
….
It is also true that my wife and I have had conversations that amounted to:
Me: **LOVE EYES**
Wife: “… why are you staring at me?”
Me: “You’re so beautiful!”
Wife: “… I’ve got runny nose, haven’t showered in three days, and just woke up. I look awful. THe fuck is wrong with you?”
Me: “… I wuv you?”
Wife: “Ugh…”
LeslieBean, I’ve had almost the exact same conversation with my fiancee, except her self-description was “I look like Samara hung over after a three-day bender”.
Worst thing is that ethanol withdrawal is one of the only withdrawals that can actually kill you outright. Other bad ones like opioid withdrawal suck, but aren’t lethal like ethanol withdrawal is. I really hope Billie or Ruth realizes she needs to go to the doctor, and get on an actual regimented plan.
Ruth’s alcoholism does not seem to have been nearly as bad as Billie’s has, or we just didn’t see her withdrawal symptoms, but if Billie is having vomiting after less than 24 hours after cessation, she’s definitely in the severe dependence category. Lets hope she doesn’t start getting the DTs or hallucinations.
We’ve seen withdrawal symptoms from Ruth before – the first dramatic time in her confrontation with Blaine. We’ve never seen them from Billie, which was a sign that she hadn’t given up drinking.
It’s not quite clear when Billie last drank, so it could have been more than 24 hours. The last confirmed time was Friday night (coming back drunk to Lucy’s movie night) and it’s now Monday morning. She went to Galasso’s to drink Sunday evening, but didn’t have time. Most likely she drank Saturday, but we didn’t actually see it. She could have drunk sometime earlier on Sunday, but again, we don’t know.
I am extremely curious about the medical science behind alcohol withdrawal — that is, how and why it is so dangerous and potentially lethal. Do you happen to know a lot about it or know any good sources to read up on it? I ask because your comment makes you sound decently informed about it, though I understand that may not be true regarding the more scientific side of things.
Basically, alcohol is a depressant (a substance that slows processes in body function) and when a person has a problem with alcohol addiction their body can’t produce enough neurotransmitters (chemicals important to brain function) while they’re still a consistent drinker. When that person stops drinking, their body is suddenly able to produce way more neurotransmitters than it had been used to functioning with, which takes time for the brain to adjust to and leads to the symptoms of alcohol withdrawal in the meanwhile. Alcohol withdrawal can include nausea, vomiting, tremors (especially in the hands), racing heart, elevated blood pressure, confusion, visual/auditory/tactile hallucinations, even seizures. It can be a really nasty process to go through, though not every person hits the point of hallucinations or seizures. I’m not an expert myself, but part of my hospital nursing job is taking care of people through their withdrawal experience. Look up “Complications of Alcohol Withdrawal Pathophysiological Insights” for a really good NIH paper on the topic. (Can’t remember if I’m allowed to post outside links here! Sorry!)
My sister explained this to me after I sort of snapped at her because she bought an alcoholic homeless man a beer. He looked really sick and was shaking horribly, my sister said on the streets he could die without it, especially when he was that bad. I don’t exactly remember what happened afterwards but I hope he eventually got in a hospital because god damn, that poor man.
Jury’s out on whether opiate withdrawal can kill – that is, there’s anecdotal evidence it may be, but the literature is still investigating as far as I can tell (but so far, it’s not been borne out). But yeah, alcohol withdrawal can be very dangerous and should be done under the supervision of a doctor.
Damn. I hope she doesn’t get too fucked up from this. I know withdrawal can suck, especially booze, which can be outright deadly. So, I hope she keeps an eye on that.
There’s some anecdotal evidence opiate withdrawal can too, but the literature hasn’t found anything yet that I’ve seen. Still, it’s recommended you detox from those with a doctor.
I feel bad for Billie because alcohol withdrawals are no joke, but mostly I’m just happy to see proof that she is actually keeping her promise this time.
Hey, if this means she’s actually gone without booze for a significant amount of time, I’m counting this as a win. Not because I want Billie to suffer, but because it means she wasn’t lying earlier.
Now is when your body fights you because it wove alcohol into your metabolic processes and you just took it away.
I am curious to see if Billie is willing to go through with this when really starts to suck. The temptation to take alcohol medicinally just to relieve the symptoms, get through midterms etc will be strong. She hasn’t shown a ton of grit. And the underlying issues such as “what is my value as a person if I’m not a high achieving cheerleader?” I imagine she was drinking to ignore aren’t any more resolved.
Not that it’s great, but campus clinic of some kind? Local AA, or other form of treatment? I mean, if you’re at the point of getting withdrawal symptoms, anything would help. Please Billie, just try it. I know you aren’t the only recovering alcoholic in a college town.
That’s a nice, optimistic hope but something tells me that Billie is going to be busy in the ER due to food poisoning or something today! So, it’s going to be up to Ruth to do the heavy lifting and I suspect that the number of parties she’s planned to date is very small.
It’ll be fine. Sarah still isn’t old enough to drink yet, so all Ruth has to do really is rope Joyce in to help throw an impromptu, alcohol- (and Jesus-)free birthday party.
On the bright side, we now have confirmation that Billie has been sticking to her going cold turkey on booze. She may have a hard time seeing that bright side as she scrubs her vomit off the floors though
So, I was out of reading material and rummaged in the garage for a bit. I found an old graphic novel I hadn’t read in a few decades and decided to give it another read. Being the geek that I am, I read the forward, where the author was giving the “How I got inspired to do this thing” spiel, plus some details on how he and some friends came up with the characters.
It’s called: Southern Knights the graphic novel, a superhero team story apparently gathered into graphic novel from from a prior comic book print run circa 1983. It is dedicated to (and lettered by) some guy named David Whilius? Wyles? Oh, it’s David Willis.
I remember Southern Knights – mostly from seeing ads in some other comic, though I think I’ve got an issue or two. Didn’t remember the name from it though.
Not the same Willis of course. I think he would have been a toddler then.
Well, it’s not like I stalk you or anything, so I have no idea how old you are. And although any name (except mine…) is very likely to have duplicates, the same name in the same field shrinks the pool quite a bit. Oh well, so much for my serendipitous discovery…
Yeah, well, voice acting and webcomic writing/drawing are diverse things, so that’s not a connection I would have made even if I had known the name of the Meatwad voice actor…
Do comments just get disabled after some time? I’ve been reading the strip since two days ago and only just figured out how to access the comments in any way.
Thanks to both of you. I only found this webcomic like 3 or 4 days ago and so was reading from the beginning and so many people in the comments are wrong.
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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‘COYOTE VS ACME’ has been officially saved by Ketchup Entertainment, who bought the film for $50M
They plan to give the film a worldwide theatrical release in 2026.
do y'all remember when they found all that tf art in Osamu Tezuka's drawer post-mortem because I think about it often
anyway keep chasing your bliss and draw weird shit, god knows we need that right now
Today in #9ChickweedLane I learned that I have to weigh which is worse: the cartoonist already forgetting what this guy looks like one daily strip later, or that, yes, he's actually meant to be an old man, not a victim to an older cartoonist forgetting what young people look like
Like any average American, I’m for universal basic income and abolishing the police. I can’t get on board with these ultra-leftists calling for the universal hive mind, though!
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going to start calling myself a centrist and then listing all my leftist views as proof, just going to start moving the overton window by force
I've spent the past few days reading through the entire archive of @damnyouwillis.bsky.social's Dumbing of Age and this has been stuck in my head for about 90% of that time.
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in sickness and in health
(mostly sickness rn tho)
aww ♥
**SQUEEE**
Ruth is SO CUTE!
Agreed, and nice comment-gravatar synergy!
“in richness and in poorness, poorness is underlined, in impotence and in potence, in quiet solitude or blasting across the alkali flats in a jet-powered, monkey-navigated… and it goes on like this.”
HOLY SHIT IM FINALLY EARLY
Also billie you dum dum
Ruth is being kinda creepy again. This new trend is troubling.
Yeah, she stared at Billie with her green eyes until she made Billie turn green.
Alien.
She can make things turn green with alien powers? I knew those This Island Earth guys were Canadian!
Billie: Well, suddenly I have a refreshing mint flavor!
(Crystal Gayle music)
“And don’t it make my pink cheeks green”
What’s creepy about gazing at the woman she loves?
My reaction as well. I went back and looked at the comic like three or four more times trying to figure it out.
The woman she loves who *loves her back,* no less. If that’s creepy then life is sad and boring.
“But in the eyes of the woman I love,
I’m a hero, a giant, a man who’s as tall as can be
Anyone can see
She’s looking through the eyes of love
Looking through the eyes of love
Looking through the eyes of love
When she looks at me.”
You got creepy from that? Yeesh. Those are LOVE EYES. When you look at the person you love and they are just the most beautiful person in the world and just want to look at them forever.
….
It is also true that my wife and I have had conversations that amounted to:
Me: **LOVE EYES**
Wife: “… why are you staring at me?”
Me: “You’re so beautiful!”
Wife: “… I’ve got runny nose, haven’t showered in three days, and just woke up. I look awful. THe fuck is wrong with you?”
Me: “… I wuv you?”
Wife: “Ugh…”
Ours is a love for the ages, truly. ^^
Lucky, the both of you.
I call it “gazing lovingly” and it’s emoji equivalent is heart eyes
LeslieBean, I’ve had almost the exact same conversation with my fiancee, except her self-description was “I look like Samara hung over after a three-day bender”.
Love is truly a many-splendered thing.
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”
Creepy how?
Aaaaand THERE’S those withdrawal symptoms. Sorry, Billie, they suck, hope they don’t hang around for too long.
So it begins.
Worst thing is that ethanol withdrawal is one of the only withdrawals that can actually kill you outright. Other bad ones like opioid withdrawal suck, but aren’t lethal like ethanol withdrawal is. I really hope Billie or Ruth realizes she needs to go to the doctor, and get on an actual regimented plan.
Ruth’s alcoholism does not seem to have been nearly as bad as Billie’s has, or we just didn’t see her withdrawal symptoms, but if Billie is having vomiting after less than 24 hours after cessation, she’s definitely in the severe dependence category. Lets hope she doesn’t start getting the DTs or hallucinations.
We’ve seen withdrawal symptoms from Ruth before – the first dramatic time in her confrontation with Blaine. We’ve never seen them from Billie, which was a sign that she hadn’t given up drinking.
It’s not quite clear when Billie last drank, so it could have been more than 24 hours. The last confirmed time was Friday night (coming back drunk to Lucy’s movie night) and it’s now Monday morning. She went to Galasso’s to drink Sunday evening, but didn’t have time. Most likely she drank Saturday, but we didn’t actually see it. She could have drunk sometime earlier on Sunday, but again, we don’t know.
But yeah, get thee to a doctor. And your therapy!
I am extremely curious about the medical science behind alcohol withdrawal — that is, how and why it is so dangerous and potentially lethal. Do you happen to know a lot about it or know any good sources to read up on it? I ask because your comment makes you sound decently informed about it, though I understand that may not be true regarding the more scientific side of things.
Basically, alcohol is a depressant (a substance that slows processes in body function) and when a person has a problem with alcohol addiction their body can’t produce enough neurotransmitters (chemicals important to brain function) while they’re still a consistent drinker. When that person stops drinking, their body is suddenly able to produce way more neurotransmitters than it had been used to functioning with, which takes time for the brain to adjust to and leads to the symptoms of alcohol withdrawal in the meanwhile. Alcohol withdrawal can include nausea, vomiting, tremors (especially in the hands), racing heart, elevated blood pressure, confusion, visual/auditory/tactile hallucinations, even seizures. It can be a really nasty process to go through, though not every person hits the point of hallucinations or seizures. I’m not an expert myself, but part of my hospital nursing job is taking care of people through their withdrawal experience. Look up “Complications of Alcohol Withdrawal Pathophysiological Insights” for a really good NIH paper on the topic. (Can’t remember if I’m allowed to post outside links here! Sorry!)
My sister explained this to me after I sort of snapped at her because she bought an alcoholic homeless man a beer. He looked really sick and was shaking horribly, my sister said on the streets he could die without it, especially when he was that bad. I don’t exactly remember what happened afterwards but I hope he eventually got in a hospital because god damn, that poor man.
Jury’s out on whether opiate withdrawal can kill – that is, there’s anecdotal evidence it may be, but the literature is still investigating as far as I can tell (but so far, it’s not been borne out). But yeah, alcohol withdrawal can be very dangerous and should be done under the supervision of a doctor.
Aaaaaand… Withdrawl?
withdrawal, or hangover
Yeah, only Sal talks withdrawl.
Sorry… I’ll let myself out now…
Ba dum tshh
Don’t let the drawl hit you on the way out.
Hopefully.
Morning sickness!
She’s lesbian pregnant?
Where do you think gaybies come from?
I just assumed gay storks
Dumbing of Age Book 10: HORRK!
…you win.
Awww, their gonna have gall stones together.
Last panel Billie is so ailing that even the arms of her hoodie turned green.
The majestic cheerleader in her natural habitat.
Oh no, Billie is pregnant. Dammit Ruth!
It’s Not Easy Being GREEN…
It ain’t easy bein’ brown…
Well withdrawal had to happen sooner or later, at least you’ve got Ruth by your side right?
I’m guessing this is withdrawal symptoms.
Yup. I feel bad for her. Withdrawal is the work of the devil, even when it’s mild and she’s already worse than I was coming off my seizure meds.
It’s HORRKening!
[Ron Paul freaking out gif goes here]
down with the sickness
I get it. That is sickeningly cute.
Heh
First thought is withdrawal but maybe Billie has the flu? Colleges are a good place to spread germs around.
Why isn’t this storyline titled “Monday Morning Coming Down”?
“Well I woke up
SundayMonday morningWith no way to hold my head, that didn’t hurt”
Ruth: “I am not cleaning.”
Ruth … is smiling? With BOTH corners of her mouth? Why, I’ve suddenly become violently ill!
I thought that at first too, but then I figured it’s probably withdrawal from booze.
Damn. I hope she doesn’t get too fucked up from this. I know withdrawal can suck, especially booze, which can be outright deadly. So, I hope she keeps an eye on that.
Booze and benzos are the only ones that can literally kill you. Booze and/or Benzos, I guess.
There’s some anecdotal evidence opiate withdrawal can too, but the literature hasn’t found anything yet that I’ve seen. Still, it’s recommended you detox from those with a doctor.
At the very least, opiate withdrawal can motivate suicide.
It went from cute to oh shit in a single panel.
That’s usually the way their relationship works.
Sometimes it is the other way around.
Let’s face it, for the two of them this still counts as cute.
Love is holding someone’s hair while they pray at the porcelain altar.
I feel bad for Billie because alcohol withdrawals are no joke, but mostly I’m just happy to see proof that she is actually keeping her promise this time.
Exactly!
BILLIE’S PREGGERS!
…Naw, I’m certain that there’s lots of much more rational explanations than that.
…BILLIE’S PREGGERS!
LESBIAN PREGNANT! HOWARD WAS RIGHT! I AM AS SURPRISED AS ANYONE!
Genuine question from a reader who is somewhat older than Willis:
What is “lesbian pregnant”?
It is… whatever american sex ed has led Howard to believe it is.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/04-just-hangin-out-with-my-family/appearances/
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/04-just-hangin-out-with-my-family/urrgl/
Ahhh, that’s it! Of course.
Somehow I thought I missed out on a meme.
But which one of them grew a weenus so that they could do it?
Billie is gay-pregnant with Ruth’s lesbian love baby, and nobody can give a good argument to the contrary.
nothing says lesbian love like a gayby
Hey, if this means she’s actually gone without booze for a significant amount of time, I’m counting this as a win. Not because I want Billie to suffer, but because it means she wasn’t lying earlier.
… She’s going through withdrawal?
She DID mean what she said! 🥰
Now is when your body fights you because it wove alcohol into your metabolic processes and you just took it away.
I am curious to see if Billie is willing to go through with this when really starts to suck. The temptation to take alcohol medicinally just to relieve the symptoms, get through midterms etc will be strong. She hasn’t shown a ton of grit. And the underlying issues such as “what is my value as a person if I’m not a high achieving cheerleader?” I imagine she was drinking to ignore aren’t any more resolved.
Do not neglect the “I killed someone with a car,” guilt. I b’lieve she has that .driving. her drink as well.
Billie didn’t kill anyone, she crashed her car while drunk-driving and has a DUI as a consequence.
Alice thinks that Billie almost killed her in that crash, iirc.
I guess the other question is, did Ruth see Billie dry heave / throw up in her mouth? If yes she would know that pain and can at least help her.
That, AND she would have some evidence that Billie is being true to her word.
First time seing someone puke has given me warm, fuzzy feelings.
Yeah that’s true, proof her body is withdrawing, and by extension that she cut it off from alcohol.
Not that it’s great, but campus clinic of some kind? Local AA, or other form of treatment? I mean, if you’re at the point of getting withdrawal symptoms, anything would help. Please Billie, just try it. I know you aren’t the only recovering alcoholic in a college town.
That therapy she was supposed to be going to?
Sonofa-
Delirium tremens?
That’s a nice, optimistic hope but something tells me that Billie is going to be busy in the ER due to food poisoning or something today! So, it’s going to be up to Ruth to do the heavy lifting and I suspect that the number of parties she’s planned to date is very small.
It’ll be fine. Sarah still isn’t old enough to drink yet, so all Ruth has to do really is rope Joyce in to help throw an impromptu, alcohol- (and Jesus-)free birthday party.
Joyce will be all over it like a dirty shirt.
Despite everything, I’m back to fully rooting for these crazy kids to go the relationship distance.
…a real (girl)friend will
help you move a bodyclean up your puke and get you to the urgent care clinic.Well, if this is from withdrawal, that’s a good thing in principle, right?
Yep!
>> HORRK! <<
Greatest 'invented' sound effect since the world lost the legendary cartoonist Don Martin.
Google him if necessary.
UH-OH
NOW BILLIE’S LESBIAN PREGNANT
Suddenly Billie has other commitments
On the bright side, we now have confirmation that Billie has been sticking to her going cold turkey on booze. She may have a hard time seeing that bright side as she scrubs her vomit off the floors though
And that was a terrible idea. Severe alcoholism+Cold turkey detox=suckiness.
“To the garbage roof!”
Romance isn’t dead, but it most certainly seems to be under the weather.
Stop everything and listen to the butt chant: https://wellmanicuredman.tumblr.com/post/76381088917
So, I was out of reading material and rummaged in the garage for a bit. I found an old graphic novel I hadn’t read in a few decades and decided to give it another read. Being the geek that I am, I read the forward, where the author was giving the “How I got inspired to do this thing” spiel, plus some details on how he and some friends came up with the characters.
It’s called: Southern Knights the graphic novel, a superhero team story apparently gathered into graphic novel from from a prior comic book print run circa 1983. It is dedicated to (and lettered by) some guy named David Whilius? Wyles? Oh, it’s David Willis.
Anyone ever heard of that guy?
I remember Southern Knights – mostly from seeing ads in some other comic, though I think I’ve got an issue or two. Didn’t remember the name from it though.
Not the same Willis of course. I think he would have been a toddler then.
Oh, wow. And here I thought I’d found an artifact of his earlier works that I’d read so long ago that web comics weren’t even a thing.
yeah i was four
Well, it’s not like I stalk you or anything, so I have no idea how old you are. And although any name (except mine…) is very likely to have duplicates, the same name in the same field shrinks the pool quite a bit. Oh well, so much for my serendipitous discovery…
I’m also not the Dave Willis who voices Meatwad, while we’re on the subject.
Yeah, well, voice acting and webcomic writing/drawing are diverse things, so that’s not a connection I would have made even if I had known the name of the Meatwad voice actor…
Do comments just get disabled after some time? I’ve been reading the strip since two days ago and only just figured out how to access the comments in any way.
Yeah, Willis disabled the addition of new comments to older comics.
Comments are disabled after 30 days.
But the reality is that almost no one goes back and reads more than a couple of days back.
Thanks to both of you. I only found this webcomic like 3 or 4 days ago and so was reading from the beginning and so many people in the comments are wrong.
Also, why are they called “gravatars”? And apparently the comments are non-editable.