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Chirp
Posted on December 29, 2017 by David M Willis

128 thoughts on “Chirp”

  1. Bagge

    Not gonna lie. That was an expertly set up gag.

    1. Yumi

      Seconded.

    2. Doctor_Who

      Both unexpected, and perfectly foreshadowed. A+.

      1. Frost Magi

        10/10 Would laugh again
        Thank you Willis

    3. Walky_Talky

      *slow clap*

    4. Questionor

      magnifique

    5. Deanatay

      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.

  2. BBCC

    I’m naming the cricket Jimmy, tagged or not.

    1. Marsh Maryrose

      In a couple of seconds, its name is Splat.

      1. BigDogLittleCat

        Well, that is what happens to him in the original. With a brick, IIRC.

    2. JetstreamGW

      Cricky. It’s Cricky.

      1. SgtWadeyWilson

        No, I’m pretty sure it’s called “Lettuce.”

        As in “Lettuce leaf this bag and explore the dorms.”

        1. Danielle

          Brilliant, thank you.

    3. Remmington Steele

      It’s one of Buddy Holly’s.

      1. Needfuldoer

        The other one was Mary Tyler Moore’s.

        1. Remmington Steele

          Strange. I was listening to “I fought the law” this morning.

  3. gen

    Uh, oh, trouble in… well, it was never paradise.

  4. Ana Chronistic

    nice brick joke

    1. Emily

      Chekov’s Cricket

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        The Noisy Cricket, all it needs now is a silencer.

    2. JessWitt

      Bricket joke?

    3. Sunny

      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.

  5. DailyBrad

    He’s here to tell them to always let their conscience be their guide.

  6. DarkoNeko

    Gee, why make them perpendicular tho

    1. Yumi

      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?

      1. Needfuldoer

        Surely there’s enough room to put them front-to-front, then we can finally have that hardboiled detective noir subplot!

  7. Foxhack

    TAG THE CRICKET WILLIS

    1. Raijin

      #TheCricketWillis also known as #DamnYouCrickyWillis

    2. Deanatay

      It does have a line…

  8. Nono

    Hey they could talk about booze! Like their stance on hops.

    1. N0083rp00F

      Must we ferment this awkward pomace?

  9. Shiro

    That set-up was beautiful, well done

  10. Passchendaele

    That lettuce has an *epic* sense of timing.

    1. MM

      Well, it did know when to escape.

    2. Chris Phoenix

      It’s not lettuce.

      It’s a cell phone.

  11. Kazumi

    You tag that cricket right now mister or so help me!

    1. Keulen

      We’re rehearsing a play.

  12. Stephen Bierce

    When You Wish Upon A Star
    Makes no difference who you are…

    1. Stephen Bierce

      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.

  13. Jupiterror

    tag the damn cricket

  14. Keulen

    I can’t believe I actually kinda called that cricket chirping indoors thing in the comments two strips ago. Nicely done Willis.

  15. Kernanator

    It’s name is Crikey the cricket.

  16. Meta

    tag the cricket

    1. thejeff

      That’s its name.
      Tag, the cricket.

  17. Pablo360

    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.

    1. Cybersnark

      Right, the cricket. The cricket for Fuckface. The cricket chosen specially to feed Fuckface. Fuckface’s cricket. That cricket?

      1. Godfather

        YES, THAT CRICKET! *Yzma angry face*

        1. Pablo360

          So apparently Kronk and Yzma will both be played by Galasso in the upcoming live-action remake. This checks out.

  18. Woobie

    #TagTheCricket
    animal hater
    🙂

    1. Blackbird

      “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.

  19. Jupiterror

    Non-cricket related, but I like how Ruth seems to be doing well for herself! Really turned that whole situation around.

  20. JessWitt

    Excellent.

  21. Tacos

    Welp looks like they’re about to find out about the crickets and iguana. Whoops.

  22. Sam

    RIP, Chirpy. Died too young.

  23. tirachokko

    *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”

    1. Needfuldoer

      Ruth turned her chair clockwise, or faced that direction while standing up a little.

  24. Mr. Random

    Tag the cricket.
    Her name shall be Cheery.

    1. Reltzik

      Pretty much only male crickets chirp, and his name is Chester.

  25. nlips

    If they’re not drinking or fucking or wallowing in misery together, they seem to have no idea what to actually do… 😛

    1. Bagge

      Maybe they should get manicures.

      Also, that’s completely not true that they only fuck or wallow. They ALSO fight.

      1. Dana

        Sometimes two or three of the above simultaneously! Maybe even all four!

        1. Bagge

          Fucking and getting manicures is a very specific kink.

          …It’s an existing kink, isn’t it?

        2. Loki

          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.

        3. Delicious Taffy

          This is the Dark Souls of kinks.

        4. nlips

          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.

        5. Delicious Taffy

          This seems unfairly lopsided.

        6. Bagge

          I learn so much from this comments section.

        7. Kryss LaBryn

          Well, and now I’m imagining that scene from “Swordfish”.

        8. thejeff

          Now it is. Thanks for making the universe kinkier.

        9. Deanatay

          Rule 34, Bagge. That’s a question you never need to ask.

  26. Andrew

    How surprisingly uncompletionist of you. Tag Chirpy the Cricket and make it the newest, oldest, bestest running gag ever. Go.

    1. Andrew

      Ooo, nice, picture.

  27. TAGTHECRICKET

    TAG THE CRICKET

    1. AbacusWizard

      I propose that the cricket should be named Tag.

      Tag, the Cricket.

  28. Just for kix

    Pretty sure the name of this cricket is lettuce!

    1. Kryss LaBryn

      Lettuce Tag the Cricket.

  29. Danni

    the cricket is mary, here to stop pre-marital hanky panky.

    1. Delicious Taffy

      So, she’s an Animagus with an insect form, which she uses to interfere with the lives of others? Seems lore-friendly to me.

      1. Danni

        yes

  30. mister gray

    oh no! I sense danger a head in the billie ruth relationship!

  31. Some Random Name

    #TagTheCricket

  32. Sarah

    tag the cricket, don’t be a COWARD

  33. Reltzik

    I hereby name the cricket Chester.

  34. GoblinScribe

    *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!

    1. SgtWadeyWilson

      http://hotlix.com/candy/image/cache/data/DB_CRICKETLICKIT_2014MAY-500×500.jpg

  35. BenRG

    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!!!“

    1. Bagge

      Heh, absolutely. I can just see Ruth running down the list of the usual suspects until she reaches Carla. Of course it’s Carla.

  36. Dana

    I didn’t know lettuce could emit cricket chirps.

  37. AbacusWizard

    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.

    1. Bagge

      And there was all the hatefuck

    2. ValdVin

      When you wish upon a star
      Makes no difference who you are
      Any wish you heart desires will commmmme tooooo…
       SPLAT

      1. AbacusWizard

        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.

  38. Bagge

    “…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/

    1. Chris Phoenix

      Upvote!

  39. Dull

    Tag the cricket you coward

  40. Alex Denton

    That cricket deserves recognition, tag it 😀

  41. Reltzik

    …. okay, FINE, I’ll give up on calling the cricket Chester, but only if we can name him Tendulkar instead.

    1. SgtWadeyWilson

      https://media.tenor.com/images/51f8752e740fc46ad2964f6e91f91bcf/tenor.gif
      Carla named it Lettuce, and I’m inclined to agree with goddesses.

      1. Ozoz

        …ALL the crickets are named lettuce? There’s more than one. There was a whole bag.

        1. SgtWadeyWilson

          Yep, a bag of Lettuce. They go by nicknames like: Iceberg, Butterhead, Romaine and Red Leaf.

        2. Deanatay

          So, seeing as this is Ruth’s room, we’re probably seeing Red Leaf.

        3. Kryss LaBryn

          Prove it. prove it’s a whole bag and not just one immortal cricket. 😀

    2. Remmington Steele

      C’mon mate. Don after Don Bradman surely?

      1. Dean

        It’s name is Dennis, after Dennis Lillee.

  42. Mal

    why did she set it up so weirdly that makes me so uncomfortable

  43. erejnion

    Poor cricket. Does this mean he’s gonna die next strip, and you don’t want to tag him for just two strips? Noooo!

    1. BenRG

      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.

    2. Reltzik

      NOOOOO! WILLIS PROMISED US NO DEATHS!

  44. Zaxares

    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. 😉

  45. MasakiSayz

    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.

  46. Abel Undercity

    The game is afoot.

  47. OnyxIdol

    Hm. So now that there isn’t immediate drama around them they realize they have not much that connects them?

    1. BenRG

      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.

  48. Remmington Steele

    That’ll be the day …

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq9FCBatl3A

  49. Betty Anne

    Probably an escapee from Fuckface’s food dish. :p

  50. Dariu55

    Tag the cricket as Jiminy. That way when he dies it’ll have some impact.

  51. adjudicus

    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

  52. Deanatay

    Dina: Amber?
    Amber: Can’t talk now, killing spi – arg, CRICKETS! *slams shoe against desk*

    1. Bagge

      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*

  53. Liliet

    omg

  54. ETP

    #CricketsLivesMatter

  55. Oberon

    So *that’s* where Carla’s lettuce got to!

  56. bodmans

    Well, there’s Fuckface’s dinner

  57. Lulu

    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.

  58. Tenn

    Me: “I bet he tagged the cricket, gonna scroll down and check, soon as I read the alt text…”
    *reads alt text*
    “Dammit!”

  59. Jay

    This relationship isn’t gonna last…..that’s sad

  60. Jade

    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.

  61. Reltzik

    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.

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