That was originally going to be “Don’t care! Removing shipping pants now!” but it would logically be putting the shipping pants on and that just doesn’t have the same resonance.
Azhrei Vep
No no no, shipping pants just restrain the shipping. So when you want to really go hog-wild on them, the shipping pants have to come off.
I started singing the chorus to this once when I was trying to help my daughter remember to bend and straighten her legs on the swing. She still forgets to bend/straighten her legs, but she sure remembers to sing the chorus every time she’s on the swing!
Oh nice! Coincidentally, it’s also the number of felonies a certain person in power has, and the reason China picked that number specifically for its retaliatory tariffs. I’m sure it’s not intentional given the time buffer Willis has, but I wouldn’t be upset if that turned out to be a meta retcon.
yeah, but defs don’t give them more attention than they deserve, it only feeds into their goals and the corporate clout-seeking stenography machine of social media and shit which really don’t help us and is basically the tobacco of the digital age
heck it’s produced by the same crooked colonial white assholes who have been growing it for centuries at our expense — except in recent decades they ran out of *land* to colonize, and so basically they started colonizing our MINDS
Taffy
Yeah, but porn actually has value in our society. I don’t have multiple flash drives full of bigoted old white men, and I probably can’t buy them from comic artists.
Well you know, it could be that Jennifer left lunch before Joyce spoke on her behalf and possibly made Alice reconsider. Every other bridge has burned and so she may be checking on whether Ruth’s offer to dump Jason and pick up with dysfunctional relationship is real. If she and Ruth happen and then Alice shows interest, what happens then?
I’d also kind of like to see more of them, in part because I’m not sold on it at all (which felt deliberate, after Ruth confirmed that she would go back to Jennifer in a heartbeat if Jennifer asked her to).
I just want to see more of their dynamic. Where is he when he isn’t crashing with her?
But at least she got him a TA position again…?
Falcon
I don’t think we’re supposed to be sold on them.
Li
I mean yeah that’s what I said (“which felt deliberate”), but I’d still like to see more of their interactions.
Some guy with a dick the exact dimensions of a standard soda can, complete with tab.
Proxiehunter
Nah, it’s longer than that. Sal compared it to a pint glass. So no tab either but it’s hollow in the middle to store fluids.
Nymph
That’s kinda efficient.
Mr D phone posting
There is no way Jason and Ruth is a more unhealthy relationship than Ruth and Jennifer. They had to be forced out of a suicide pact.
thejeff
It started as a suicide pact, but they really did help each other become healthier.
Li
If one assumes that a relationship is always and forever defined by its beginnings, sure.
But “had to be forced” is not accurate. When Jennifer found Ruth in a worrisome state, she comforted her; she wasn’t the one who got Ruth to the hospital, but I think she would have, and she made no effort to harm herself or encourage Ruth to get worse.
Adept
How is Jason & Ruth more unhealthy? I find it oddly warming. Billie & Ruth was desctuctive. Mothts to the flame.
193 thoughts on “Champ”
Dot
Oh nice Billie’s back
Davus
Still Jennifer, it seems.
Kazuma Shouri
yea, but the wordplay wouldn’t hit as well to say “Jennifer’s back” since she never exactly left
True Survivor
Frist comment and first rate pun? You are on fire tonight, Dot.
anon
The possible ship returning is not ideal tho even assuming she just wants to re-befriend alice verssu dating her
Clif
Don’t care! Actively shipping now!
Clif
That was originally going to be “Don’t care! Removing shipping pants now!” but it would logically be putting the shipping pants on and that just doesn’t have the same resonance.
Azhrei Vep
No no no, shipping pants just restrain the shipping. So when you want to really go hog-wild on them, the shipping pants have to come off.
Arianod
…and her butt.
Adept
I came to comment about Billie hitting rock bottom, but now it’s just a part of your word play.
Arianod
I pre-emptively played you!
AGV/Ruby
This is what we call entropy
Taffy
Exponential?
Kirdei
Forward and back?
Savail
I started singing the chorus to this once when I was trying to help my daughter remember to bend and straighten her legs on the swing. She still forgets to bend/straighten her legs, but she sure remembers to sing the chorus every time she’s on the swing!
Disastroid
Jennifer is gonna be entropy wife one day.
Elf grrl
The Return of the Disaster Sapphics
Animedingo
Disapphsters
Aquila
Ca-sapph-strophes.
…
Cata-sapphics?
Sapph-tastrophes?
Sillygoose
Catastrophywives
Azhrei Vep
Sapptastrophes, one thousand percent. That’s the perfect portmanteau.
Michael Steamweed
I’m putting my support behind ‘disapphsters’.
Dan
Disast-hers ?
Deanatay
WorthLess!
NGPZ
+1 you made me spit out my tea XD
Jamie
Holy shit. Nice.
windowz97
ruth is so cute this chapter argh !!! the hair & the outfit combo .. i love it. thank u willis for the characters with freckles
Sirksome
Ah. Well…I don’t approve.
PedanticJerkass
Better than her getting more involved with Alice than she already was, anyway.
Not that I think this is the end of her trying to get more involved with Alice in some way.
NGPZ
I see “34” in the middle panel
XD
BTW happy Passover to all who celebrate ^^
Laura
Lucky number?
https://thehockeywriters.com/maple-leafs-100-years-of-the-number-34/
aSnowyEvening
Oh nice! Coincidentally, it’s also the number of felonies a certain person in power has, and the reason China picked that number specifically for its retaliatory tariffs. I’m sure it’s not intentional given the time buffer Willis has, but I wouldn’t be upset if that turned out to be a meta retcon.
NGPZ
also Rule 34, we can’t forget that surely?
bigoted white men in the US aren’t the center of the universe, we should not treat that as though it is true
Nymph
I mean, porn isn’t either. Bigoted old white guys have a lot more impact on my day-to-day life.
NGPZ
yeah, but defs don’t give them more attention than they deserve, it only feeds into their goals and the corporate clout-seeking stenography machine of social media and shit which really don’t help us and is basically the tobacco of the digital age
heck it’s produced by the same crooked colonial white assholes who have been growing it for centuries at our expense — except in recent decades they ran out of *land* to colonize, and so basically they started colonizing our MINDS
Taffy
Yeah, but porn actually has value in our society. I don’t have multiple flash drives full of bigoted old white men, and I probably can’t buy them from comic artists.
Bryy
No, no. 69.
Needfuldoer
Nice.
Ray Radlein
That Rules
Thag Simmons
There are many exciting ways this could go wrong, eager to see what it settles on.
Clif
Well you know, it could be that Jennifer left lunch before Joyce spoke on her behalf and possibly made Alice reconsider. Every other bridge has burned and so she may be checking on whether Ruth’s offer to dump Jason and pick up with dysfunctional relationship is real. If she and Ruth happen and then Alice shows interest, what happens then?
DJTsurugi
we’ve moved from one set of sapphics to another. ~<3
Clif
Willis is being good to us.
It won’t last.
Doctor_Who
Somebody tell Jennifer that being depressed underneath a Maple Leafs decoration is redundant.
Effie
Usually Billie was the one pointing that out
Mel
This is not going to end like Jennifer hopes, regardless of what that is
Bryy
YUP.
Clif
Does Jennifer know how Jennifer hopes it will end?
Mel
See, I’m not entirely sure she does
The 25th
Please break up with that British loser
Taffy
Honestly, I’d love to see more of Ruth and Jason. It’s been very little of them so far, and Ruth having a steady BF is cute, even if it’s just Jason.
Li
I’d also kind of like to see more of them, in part because I’m not sold on it at all (which felt deliberate, after Ruth confirmed that she would go back to Jennifer in a heartbeat if Jennifer asked her to).
I just want to see more of their dynamic. Where is he when he isn’t crashing with her?
But at least she got him a TA position again…?
Falcon
I don’t think we’re supposed to be sold on them.
Li
I mean yeah that’s what I said (“which felt deliberate”), but I’d still like to see more of their interactions.
GreyICE
That relationship is so unhealthy it makes Ruth’s last one look downright stable.
I can’t even tell if Ruth likes him, he’s definitely not her first choice.
Taffy
He’s nobody’s first choice. That’s his entire character, an eternal “Eh. Good enough for now, I guess.”
Thag Simmons
Ruth tolerates him well enough and I think she appreciates that it’s a lower stakes relationship. Billie was her world and Jason’s just some guy
Taffy
Some guy with a dick the exact dimensions of a standard soda can, complete with tab.
Proxiehunter
Nah, it’s longer than that. Sal compared it to a pint glass. So no tab either but it’s hollow in the middle to store fluids.
Nymph
That’s kinda efficient.
Mr D phone posting
There is no way Jason and Ruth is a more unhealthy relationship than Ruth and Jennifer. They had to be forced out of a suicide pact.
thejeff
It started as a suicide pact, but they really did help each other become healthier.
Li
If one assumes that a relationship is always and forever defined by its beginnings, sure.
But “had to be forced” is not accurate. When Jennifer found Ruth in a worrisome state, she comforted her; she wasn’t the one who got Ruth to the hospital, but I think she would have, and she made no effort to harm herself or encourage Ruth to get worse.
Adept
How is Jason & Ruth more unhealthy? I find it oddly warming. Billie & Ruth was desctuctive. Mothts to the flame.
Meagan
I agree, except with the “just Jason” part. He is an under explored character.
VicMortimer
There’s no need for that.
Both women are bi. This could be the beginning of a beautiful thing.
Meagan
Ah, poly shipping?
Joe Moose
It’s the god’s eye view
Everything they say is so
No original sins
The house always wins
-Walter Becker, “God’s Eye View”
IntangibleMatter
I can’t lie, I have the biggest grin on my face right now. My favourite codependent yuri couple might be back! Please!
Charles Phipps
For maximum irony, Jennifer wants Ruth to talk to Alice for her.
Rose by Any other Name