I learned long ago never to try and sway folks to your side when feuding with a close fri– er, enemy. R.A.??
Well, anyway, YOU usually come off looking like the antagonist. (or, in this case, a “Batshit Insane Wack-Bag”.
Best to play it cool and let them be their own undoing.
… Poor Billie
“Hey Ruth! I hear you’re the RA. Listen, I think my roommate might be like way dangerously insane. I can’t even enter my own room because she just scares the hell out of me. Could you help me out here? She’s physically aggressive and always drunk and twitchy and obsessive and delusional. She takes pictures of people while they’re sleeping. She has pictures of you. Last night she stormed into our room at 3am and chased me out while shouting up a storm. The entire floor heard her! I can’t even sleep because of her!”
Ruth raises an eyebrow. “Um yeah sure. Let’s make her someone else’s problem. I think that’s within my abilities considering the severity of the complaints.”
It continues to amuse me that Sal seems incapable of acknowledging her own crazy-ass behavior (again, she finds climbing the wall of a four story building easier than simply opening the door to her dorm and stepping over the sleeping body on the floor.)
And yet… Billie is starting to loose her own remaining sanity points towards the end here.
As Gangler has hypothesized, and I’m starting to agree, Sal uses Squirrel-Logic. By the views of Squirrel-Logic, one ignores one’s own contributions to things, as one is barely aware one exists, as one is constantly on the lookout for external threats. Sal is certainly doing this very thing…
She’s right here – Sal *is* Amazi-girl. Have you ever seen them both around at the same time? No. And she’s out at all hours, often inexplicably absent; entering and exiting through upper-story windows; has a better vehicle than anybody else around? Obvious superhero traits. And the capper? Amazi-girl doesn’t wear glasses. Sal doesn’t wear glasses. Q.E.D.
Billie, Billie, Billie. That is not the way to convince people that someone else is crazy. It is, however, a great way to convince people that you need professional help.
That’s why I always trust the crazy person. Everyone else thinks Billie is being insane but really it’s not the kind of thing that even crazy people make up it just sounds crazy. I give people like this benefit of the doubt cuz they are usually right.
Even the ones who start talking about the monkeys and the host sauce and the tickling oh god the tickling why does it tickle so much no god no leave me alone
That’s what high school does to you.
That and teaches you pointless information.
Lke how to cope with developin insanity? I’m takin an advanced course in it and tried applyin it…
Let’s just say this straightjacket can’t get any tighter >_>
I know crazy, it runs in my family, Billie is going crazy
So that’s her plan. If Billie is obviously crazy, nobody will believe her when she reports it.
What no Marcies?
Billie: A picture of mental health.
A not so pretty picture but a picture nonetheless.
Looks like we will have to wait until least Friday for Mike to put his nickel in.
Well, Mike is there, we just have to wait and see.
he’s too busy giving all his nickles to their moms
I’m not sure who is getting the nickel in that arrangement, though
Billie
Billie
Billie
CHILL.
Great, first she’s broken and now she’s corrupted.
Sal, Ruth or Billie? Or I guess all maybe all of them?
Quick, someone run back to Billie’s room and see if there’s still any beer left.
Billie, you’re not helping yourself here.
Sure she is, but only at digging her hole deepet.
Deepet? Is that a new word?
I think it was meant to be deeper.
i dont think that series of avatars could be any more perfect for their respective comments XD
billie really needs to see a counselor. wonder if that will be reagan
no just an RR look-alike
Okay, originally she was wrongly accused of being insane.
NOW there’s liable reason to call her insane.
“You called me a monster, and that’s what I became!”
Lolz Billie is Frankenstein?
Her expression in the last panel seems to support your quote. She looks a bit scary there.
I learned long ago never to try and sway folks to your side when feuding with a close fri– er, enemy. R.A.??
Well, anyway, YOU usually come off looking like the antagonist. (or, in this case, a “Batshit Insane Wack-Bag”.
Best to play it cool and let them be their own undoing.
… Poor Billie
Billie’s smile is starting to creep me out.
Billie’s got a cruuuuush…
Hey, that was canon Walkyverse, wasn’t it?
Methinks Billie is going through the DT’s something fierce.
HAPPY 100TH APPEARANCE, JOYCE!
Revel in the fact that you are no longer the craziest person in the strip.
I think her craziness got transferred to Billie.
Well, they are best friends.
And BBFs share everything, including insanity.
That comment made me imagine Billie and Joyce running through the campus at night, with Billie beating random people while Joyce yells “repent!”
Not to mention lesbian sex. But everyone knew that already.
Billie’s final face is golden. Also, I love Sal’s ventriloquism in the same panel given her mouth is closed around her cigarette, heh.
And now Sal refuses to sign the RA agreement, just because Billie is acting so crazy.
Silly Billie!
“Hey Ruth! I hear you’re the RA. Listen, I think my roommate might be like way dangerously insane. I can’t even enter my own room because she just scares the hell out of me. Could you help me out here? She’s physically aggressive and always drunk and twitchy and obsessive and delusional. She takes pictures of people while they’re sleeping. She has pictures of you. Last night she stormed into our room at 3am and chased me out while shouting up a storm. The entire floor heard her! I can’t even sleep because of her!”
Ruth raises an eyebrow. “Um yeah sure. Let’s make her someone else’s problem. I think that’s within my abilities considering the severity of the complaints.”
Mike… actually looks… WORRIED in the background…
…Or disappointed that he has to stay back and miss the fun.
He’s concerned someone might die. Mums get all upset when their kids die, and he prefers to simply pay his nickel and get down to business.
Wait, wait, wait….
I thought the moms were paying the nickel to Mike…?
That would imply that Mike was the prostitute, not your mom.
He does love the moms. But he’s probably just worried there’s gonna be a fight where he DOESN’T get to punch anyone.
What’s stopping him from punching someone?
I don’t think he’s worried so much as contemplative. How can he make this situation worse… hmmmm?
In light of Walky’s comment, I vote for the second. Why on earth would you want to hang back from a good blood-spattering?
HIV. Hepatitis. Et cetra.
Given that he’s slept with your mum, I don’t think those are a concern for him any more.
😛
Billie’s lack of sleep seems to be hurting her argument. Or maybe this is just how she argues. That’d be worse.
Oh… I laughed so bloody hard at this one. So bloody hard.
If you laugh so hard that it becomes bloody, you might want to see a doctor.
I wish we had a full picture of billies faaace in the final panel so I could use it as a avatar.
Sadly, this isn’t even a record for Break the Cutie.
picture of Ruth sleeping… who is being stalked again?
*manical voice* WHO’S STALKING NOW!
It’s Stalky!
What’s next? Joyce and Stalky?
We’re no longer in the DoA-verse. We’re in the Stalkyverse.
Nah, it’d be Ruth and Stalky.
Billie is slowly walking into the insanity pool.
There’s “walking”, and there’s “taking a running leap and yelling, ‘CANNONBALL!'”
This is the latter.
Blood, hm? Well as they say in Sea World, front row seats are in the SPLASH ZONE.
Don’t you mean the DANGER ZONE?
I think I like this Sal. XD She’s very collected… and I also don’t see her staying in the room for very long from now on….
It continues to amuse me that Sal seems incapable of acknowledging her own crazy-ass behavior (again, she finds climbing the wall of a four story building easier than simply opening the door to her dorm and stepping over the sleeping body on the floor.)
And yet… Billie is starting to loose her own remaining sanity points towards the end here.
As Gangler has hypothesized, and I’m starting to agree, Sal uses Squirrel-Logic. By the views of Squirrel-Logic, one ignores one’s own contributions to things, as one is barely aware one exists, as one is constantly on the lookout for external threats. Sal is certainly doing this very thing…
Sal, just back away slowly. The cornered Billie is capable of great violence when threatened
Also, Mike just showed up. All we need now is Joe, Danny, and Roz, then we could have one hell of a crazy-party.
Just give her a half-full bottle of Jack Daniels and everything will be okay.
Did Bille bring a shovel, or did someone hand it to her? 😛
Bille = Billie.
Where’s Amazi-girl when we need her!?
She’s off fighting the invisible hangman.
So is Sal a superhero or villain?
It is to early to tell.
Sal = Spider-Car
She’s right here – Sal *is* Amazi-girl. Have you ever seen them both around at the same time? No. And she’s out at all hours, often inexplicably absent; entering and exiting through upper-story windows; has a better vehicle than anybody else around? Obvious superhero traits. And the capper? Amazi-girl doesn’t wear glasses. Sal doesn’t wear glasses. Q.E.D.
You’re all wrong. Sal is a squirrel!
Sal’s Squirrel-girl? So she’s unbeatable then!
Yea, she does bear some resemblance to Grace, doesn’t she?
And the plot thickens.
Wouldn’t a EGS crossover make DoA a tad less realistic?
Less realistic than that camera-phone in Billie’s hand?
Maybe Marcie’s her sidekick and has gone off to fetch her?
I agree with Sal on this one.
Billie, Billie, Billie. That is not the way to convince people that someone else is crazy. It is, however, a great way to convince people that you need professional help.
Yes, a professional goon!
Yeah, a professional wrestler or hitman. Whichever comes first.
PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPLEX!
Man, I wish people saw ME in their nightmares. 🙁
Must be nice to have that kind of strong impression on people.
This might actually be a good thing Billie’s going through.
Yeah, Billie’s falling off the slippery slope.
‘It finally happened Bart Billie! You’ve gone crazy!’
… dammit, I forgot the strike tags.
Oh shit son, Billie gone cray-cray.
That’s why I always trust the crazy person. Everyone else thinks Billie is being insane but really it’s not the kind of thing that even crazy people make up it just sounds crazy. I give people like this benefit of the doubt cuz they are usually right.
Even the ones who start talking about the monkeys and the host sauce and the tickling oh god the tickling why does it tickle so much no god no leave me alone
…sorry, no idea what just came over me.
There’s something there. It means run.
You’re not helping your case Billie
Her insanity level is OVER 9000!!!
She’s smoking the cig the wrong way.