The next couple of weeks will include many quiet night shots, awkward silences, conversations where people can’t find anything to talk about, and visits from pest exterminators.
“Tag the Cricket, Animal Hater” is the name of David Willis’ upcoming new webcomic about a cricket named Tag who hates other animals. Excellent viral marketing by Willis.
*confusion over the desk movement/placement in the last panel*
but also yo this is me and the people i’m dating lmao
“WE COULD HANG AND MAYBE EVEN TALK WHILE SITTING NEXT TO/IN FRONT OF EACH OTHER THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS”
*silence and awkward stares exchanged*
“d-do you wanna watch steven universe and cuddle awkwardly until one of us passes out/gets bored and starts smooching-” “YES”
Well, I know (of) people who have a kink for “you try and do a delicate procedure such as accounting or math problems while I try to distract you as best as I can by fucking you senseless.”
Manicure would fit that bill.
This was the moment that both Ruth and Billie learned, to their relief, that their life wasn’t a cheap network sitcom. Unfortunately, that didn’t stop their life from being just darn weird.
This is basically the plot of Pinocchio (the original book, not the movie). Pinocchio’s a jerk, Talking Cricket shows up to scold him for being a jerk, Pinocchio throws a hammer at Talking Cricket and kills it.
Meanwhile the Blue Fairy doesn’t even show up until many chapters later, after Pinocchio has been hanged by assassins. She tells Pinocchio that if he doesn’t take his medicine he will literally die (apparently the hanging is delayed-reaction) and summons forth an apparition of six black rabbits dressed as undertakers carrying a coffin to scare him straight.
It’s more a case of the fact that, for the first time, they don’t have the excuse of immediate drama to distract them from the most difficult part of a relationship of all: Find out who you both really are. For a pair of young women probably not even at the big-2-0 yet, that’s a daunting prospect.
If the sex won’t work cause it won’t be angry sex kind, there will be no hope for them, right?
Maybe these two could start dating but without need for constant abuse, angry sex, booze etc. and just try it in normal way even if it’s a bit boring? Dating is boring and being a couple is even more boring, the secret is to get used to it and be content with small crazy moments from time to time to surprise your partner but in such way which shouldn’t destroy your lives.
Make it (them) a recurring character that breaks awkward silences. They’ve found their way into the ducts and keep breeding and no one can completely get rid of them. Tag as eighth plague.
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Not gonna lie. That was an expertly set up gag.
Seconded.
Both unexpected, and perfectly foreshadowed. A+.
10/10 Would laugh again
Thank you Willis
*slow clap*
magnifique
The next couple of weeks will include many quiet night shots, awkward silences, conversations where people can’t find anything to talk about, and visits from pest exterminators.
I’m naming the cricket Jimmy, tagged or not.
In a couple of seconds, its name is Splat.
Well, that is what happens to him in the original. With a brick, IIRC.
Cricky. It’s Cricky.
No, I’m pretty sure it’s called “Lettuce.”
As in “Lettuce leaf this bag and explore the dorms.”
Brilliant, thank you.
It’s one of Buddy Holly’s.
The other one was Mary Tyler Moore’s.
Strange. I was listening to “I fought the law” this morning.
Uh, oh, trouble in… well, it was never paradise.
nice brick joke
Chekov’s Cricket
The Noisy Cricket, all it needs now is a silencer.
Bricket joke?
It was only set up 2 strips ago, so I’d say it’s a small-piece-of-ceramic-that-shattered-in-the-oven joke at most.
He’s here to tell them to always let their conscience be their guide.
Gee, why make them perpendicular tho
Well, there’s not a ton of room. They do kind of look like they could go side-by-side on the last page, but maybe there’s just not quite enough space?
Surely there’s enough room to put them front-to-front, then we can finally have that hardboiled detective noir subplot!
TAG THE CRICKET WILLIS
#TheCricketWillis also known as #DamnYouCrickyWillis
It does have a line…
Hey they could talk about booze! Like their stance on hops.
Must we ferment this awkward pomace?
That set-up was beautiful, well done
That lettuce has an *epic* sense of timing.
Well, it did know when to escape.
It’s not lettuce.
It’s a cell phone.
You tag that cricket right now mister or so help me!
We’re rehearsing a play.
When You Wish Upon A Star
Makes no difference who you are…
Back in 2009…
A Friend of Mine Name of Robert Vancel…
Had HIS OWN Webcomic that featured a CRICKET as a character.
Of course, I told him if he threw down against Willis, there’d be a smoking crater where he stood.
tag the damn cricket
I can’t believe I actually kinda called that cricket chirping indoors thing in the comments two strips ago. Nicely done Willis.
It’s name is Crikey the cricket.
tag the cricket
That’s its name.
Tag, the cricket.
Hah, the cricket.
…the cricket from the bag that Carla had.
…the bag that was meant to feed a pet.
…a pet which is not allowed in the dorm.
…Aw face.
Right, the cricket. The cricket for Fuckface. The cricket chosen specially to feed Fuckface. Fuckface’s cricket. That cricket?
YES, THAT CRICKET! *Yzma angry face*
So apparently Kronk and Yzma will both be played by Galasso in the upcoming live-action remake. This checks out.
#TagTheCricket
animal hater
🙂
“Tag the Cricket, Animal Hater” is the name of David Willis’ upcoming new webcomic about a cricket named Tag who hates other animals. Excellent viral marketing by Willis.
Non-cricket related, but I like how Ruth seems to be doing well for herself! Really turned that whole situation around.
Excellent.
Welp looks like they’re about to find out about the crickets and iguana. Whoops.
RIP, Chirpy. Died too young.
*confusion over the desk movement/placement in the last panel*
but also yo this is me and the people i’m dating lmao
“WE COULD HANG AND MAYBE EVEN TALK WHILE SITTING NEXT TO/IN FRONT OF EACH OTHER THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS”
*silence and awkward stares exchanged*
“d-do you wanna watch steven universe and cuddle awkwardly until one of us passes out/gets bored and starts smooching-” “YES”
Ruth turned her chair clockwise, or faced that direction while standing up a little.
Tag the cricket.
Her name shall be Cheery.
Pretty much only male crickets chirp, and his name is Chester.
If they’re not drinking or fucking or wallowing in misery together, they seem to have no idea what to actually do… 😛
Maybe they should get manicures.
Also, that’s completely not true that they only fuck or wallow. They ALSO fight.
Sometimes two or three of the above simultaneously! Maybe even all four!
Fucking and getting manicures is a very specific kink.
…It’s an existing kink, isn’t it?
Well, I know (of) people who have a kink for “you try and do a delicate procedure such as accounting or math problems while I try to distract you as best as I can by fucking you senseless.”
Manicure would fit that bill.
This is the Dark Souls of kinks.
I know this game, except with video games. Imagine playing Mario while getting oral sex. If Mario dies, your partner stops, and you switch places.
This seems unfairly lopsided.
I learn so much from this comments section.
Well, and now I’m imagining that scene from “Swordfish”.
Now it is. Thanks for making the universe kinkier.
Rule 34, Bagge. That’s a question you never need to ask.
How surprisingly uncompletionist of you. Tag Chirpy the Cricket and make it the newest, oldest, bestest running gag ever. Go.
Ooo, nice, picture.
TAG THE CRICKET
I propose that the cricket should be named Tag.
Tag, the Cricket.
Pretty sure the name of this cricket is lettuce!
Lettuce Tag the Cricket.
the cricket is mary, here to stop pre-marital hanky panky.
So, she’s an Animagus with an insect form, which she uses to interfere with the lives of others? Seems lore-friendly to me.
yes
oh no! I sense danger a head in the billie ruth relationship!
#TagTheCricket
tag the cricket, don’t be a COWARD
I hereby name the cricket Chester.
*Screaming through megaphone*
It’s time to picket
Tag the cricket!
Don’t be a wicket
Tag the cricket!
Either lick it
Or tag the cricket!
http://hotlix.com/candy/image/cache/data/DB_CRICKETLICKIT_2014MAY-500×500.jpg
This was the moment that both Ruth and Billie learned, to their relief, that their life wasn’t a cheap network sitcom. Unfortunately, that didn’t stop their life from being just darn weird.
Altogether now: “CARLAAA!!!“
Heh, absolutely. I can just see Ruth running down the list of the usual suspects until she reaches Carla. Of course it’s Carla.
I didn’t know lettuce could emit cricket chirps.
This is basically the plot of Pinocchio (the original book, not the movie). Pinocchio’s a jerk, Talking Cricket shows up to scold him for being a jerk, Pinocchio throws a hammer at Talking Cricket and kills it.
And there was all the hatefuck
When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
Any wish you heart desires will commmmme tooooo…
SPLAT
Meanwhile the Blue Fairy doesn’t even show up until many chapters later, after Pinocchio has been hanged by assassins. She tells Pinocchio that if he doesn’t take his medicine he will literally die (apparently the hanging is delayed-reaction) and summons forth an apparition of six black rabbits dressed as undertakers carrying a coffin to scare him straight.
“…sports?”
“Leafs sucks!”
“I’LL END YOU!”
“Yeah, that was just enough foreplay for me too.”
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/02-i-was-a-teenage-churchmouse/colts/
Upvote!
Tag the cricket you coward
That cricket deserves recognition, tag it 😀
…. okay, FINE, I’ll give up on calling the cricket Chester, but only if we can name him Tendulkar instead.
https://media.tenor.com/images/51f8752e740fc46ad2964f6e91f91bcf/tenor.gif
Carla named it Lettuce, and I’m inclined to agree with goddesses.
…ALL the crickets are named lettuce? There’s more than one. There was a whole bag.
Yep, a bag of Lettuce. They go by nicknames like: Iceberg, Butterhead, Romaine and Red Leaf.
So, seeing as this is Ruth’s room, we’re probably seeing Red Leaf.
Prove it. prove it’s a whole bag and not just one immortal cricket. 😀
C’mon mate. Don after Don Bradman surely?
It’s name is Dennis, after Dennis Lillee.
why did she set it up so weirdly that makes me so uncomfortable
Poor cricket. Does this mean he’s gonna die next strip, and you don’t want to tag him for just two strips? Noooo!
You can’t individually tag characters when they’re mostly only going to appear in groups.
Mad Prediction: Joyce, Sal and Amazi-Girl are going to have a fifty-strip adventure finding, rescuing and releasing the crickets into the wild.
NOOOOO! WILLIS PROMISED US NO DEATHS!
I confess, it took me a while to understand where the “setup for the cricket” came from. XD
Also, desks make good furniture for bending someone over. Just leaving that out there for you two girls. 😉
I’ve missed Ruth.
We could have a whole arc of just the misadventures of Ruth with Carla cameos, and I would be completely happy with it.
The game is afoot.
Hm. So now that there isn’t immediate drama around them they realize they have not much that connects them?
It’s more a case of the fact that, for the first time, they don’t have the excuse of immediate drama to distract them from the most difficult part of a relationship of all: Find out who you both really are. For a pair of young women probably not even at the big-2-0 yet, that’s a daunting prospect.
That’ll be the day …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq9FCBatl3A
Probably an escapee from Fuckface’s food dish. :p
Tag the cricket as Jiminy. That way when he dies it’ll have some impact.
Man, the sound of crickets is gonna bug the cast for the rest of the strip, won’t it? Hopefully they’ll bee good to the crickets and won’t squish them
Dina: Amber?
Amber: Can’t talk now, killing spi – arg, CRICKETS! *slams shoe against desk*
Dina’s eyes narrows.
*Should I point out that crickets are not arachnids? She DID change her chosen term, but she did start to say spiders*
omg
#CricketsLivesMatter
So *that’s* where Carla’s lettuce got to!
Well, there’s Fuckface’s dinner
If the sex won’t work cause it won’t be angry sex kind, there will be no hope for them, right?
Maybe these two could start dating but without need for constant abuse, angry sex, booze etc. and just try it in normal way even if it’s a bit boring? Dating is boring and being a couple is even more boring, the secret is to get used to it and be content with small crazy moments from time to time to surprise your partner but in such way which shouldn’t destroy your lives.
Me: “I bet he tagged the cricket, gonna scroll down and check, soon as I read the alt text…”
*reads alt text*
“Dammit!”
This relationship isn’t gonna last…..that’s sad
TAG. THE. CRICKET(s).
Make it (them) a recurring character that breaks awkward silences. They’ve found their way into the ducts and keep breeding and no one can completely get rid of them. Tag as eighth plague.
Okay, fine. His name is Wicket.
…. c’mon, it’s a great name! It’s rhymes with cricket, it references the cricket sport, AND it’s ewokative.