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Confidentially
Posted on June 19, 2015 by David M Willis

336 thoughts on “Confidentially”

  1. Jen Aside

    and then Mike fucked both of them for a dime

    …nah, not the same ring to it

    …

    are they srsly ALL drunk off Billie’s one bottle, tho, what proof is that

    1. shadowcell

      mike would never overpay. one nickel, they can figure out how to split it.

      1. Clif

        Good point.

      2. Cheryl

        LMAO

    2. DarkoNeko

      jet fuel.

      1. blackaeon

        Jet fuel can’t melt Joyce’s dreams, Debra

        1. Doctor_Lantern

          I think I may love you…

    3. Doctor_Who

      No proof, just circumstantial evidence.

      1. Jen Aside

        Is the proof in the pudding?

        ’cause

        pudding wrestling

        1. Dean

          I don’t think they’re quite drunk enough for that yet. Except Billie. And Becky would probably be up for it anyway.

        2. K^2

          Proof in the pudding? That’s a great idea. Lets do pudding shots.

        3. Saucistophe


          Wouldn’t just be the same with pudding around the pool.

        4. Bicycle Bill

          Ugh …. crap music (the ‘c’ is silent).
          There’s four minutes of my life I’m never going to get back.

        5. Lel

          Oh wow, pretentious people judging an entire music genre on the internet.

          There’s 1 second of my life I’m never going to get back.

        6. Coco Pommel

          I like little bits of all kinds of music myself. I tend to judge based on song rather than genre. :V

        7. Disloyal Subject

          To be fair, it’s easy to get prejudiced against rap. Coco has the right idea, though.

    4. Dean

      Spending a prolonged period in a confined space with Billie can result in a state known as ‘contact drunkenness’.

      1. DarkoNeko

        …hopefully they won’t all run for congress.

        1. Disloyal Subject

          I have a strange feeling they’d be the best Congress we’ve had in decades.

        2. Bicycle Bill

          They certainly wouldn’t be any worse than what we have now.

        3. Rich

          That one never worked for me. The Oz characters were well intentioned despite their flaws. Congress is not.

    5. LiaHansen

      he fuck both of ’em for TWO NICKELSSSSS

      http://33.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvfs9mLejB1qeo8kqo1_400.gif

    6. Viktoria

      Whiskey seems to be Billie’s drink of choice. Billie pregamed, of course, so if we figure Walky’s as lightweight as his sister, Dorothy has never had a drink before, you could probably get them this drunk off of 2-4 shots each. Now, how the 2 lightweights managed to drink that much with minimal mixers is a mystery, but the bottle isn’t the problem.

    7. Tunaro

      Never doubt the combination of sufficiently strong booze and lightweights. Seriously, if I had a nickel for everybody I knew who’d passed out from just a shot I’d have more than Mike’s mom budget.

      1. Les

        Or even worse becomes a dangerous idiot on only minor alcohol consumption. On one memorable night,I had a fraternity brother who on literally two beers:

        1) tried to pick a fight with a group of Marines & got kicked out of the bar;
        2) climbed up into a tree (downtown) because he wasn’t ready to go home [we managed to convince a city cop not to arrest him];
        3) refused to get into the elevator when we finally got him back to his dorm [trying to stop us by spreading his arms and legs and yelling he wasn’t ready to go home, which attracted the attention of a campus cop];
        4) proceeded to say some really stupid things to the campus cop [culminating in “What are you going to do, arrest me?”]; and
        5) got arrested [only time in my life I’ve had to arrange to bail someone out of jail].

        As a post-script, he has avoided alcohol for years now since he figured out it leads to stupid behavior on his part.

        So this is a long-winded way of saying that Dorothy and Walky have an infinite possibility of stupid drunken behavior available, depending on where Willis wants to take them…

        1. erejnion

          Such people simply make me doubt that they actually needed alcohol in their blood to behave like this…

        2. Disloyal Subject

          In cervisia veritas.

        3. Spiny Creature

          Two beers physically can’t make anyone behave like that, unless the person is within the 20-50 pound range. That guy is an example of that psychological effect where you act the way you think drunk people should act without actually being drunk.

        4. Spiny Creature

          Now that I think about it, I realize the name for that is just “the placebo effect”. Way to be long-winded, self!

        5. Dana

          If the placebo effect has negative rather than positive consequences, it’s more accurate to call it the nocebo effect. I’m not saying that to be pedantic; I just love that word and wish more people used it. 🙂

        6. Rich

          To be pedantic, Kennedy insisted there were only nocebo reactions, no such thing as a nocebo effect. Medical terminology gets fussy about the differences.

          Being slightly less nit-picky, it’s much rarer to get an opportunity to use it properly in conversation unless you’re a professional torturer or something. Even here it’s only appropriate if you think acting drunk is a negative effect, which isn’t always true. A false drunk gains social camouflage, the relaxation that comes with actual inebriation, and avoids the potential aftereffects of getting seriously lit – although I suppose you could convince yourself you’ve got a false hangover as well. Now that would be a clear nocebo reaction.

          Hmm. There’s another reason you don’t see nocebo much. Spellchecking programs hate the word. Never seen so many red squigglies.

        7. Miles

          You say that but I have a friend who gets drunk WAY too easily and I don’t think he’s a lightweight or anything. He just can’t hold his liquor.

        8. Animal

          That’s actually pretty much the definition of a lightweight.

        9. Halloween Jack

          Or, you look at a beer bottle and see “INSTANT EXCUSE FOR DOING ANYTHING” on the label.

        10. Animal

          There’s a big range of beer potency, but not enough to make anyone larger than Verne Troyer flip out on two cans. I’m working in Utah at the moment, and here in Mormon country even the draft and most bottled beers in bars – not restaurants, bars – is 3.2 hosspiss. You can get some slightly tougher stuff in bottles, or you can go to one of the widely scattered State liquor stores and get stouter beers. When I was a young feller, I could go from Iowa up to Minnesota and get “STRONG” (so labeled on the can) beers that ran 7-8%. I think the toughest beers run 11-12%.

          Two cans of the toughest beers in the world, if you slammed them as fast as you could, might make your face tingle, but you sure as hell won’t be drunk. More likely, someone that acts like an asshole after two cans is just an asshole.

          And yeah, Utah ain’t the greatest place to tie one on – especially if your liver is case-hardened by decades of pickling, like mine.

        11. Amazi-Stool

          Well the top ten of this list might disagree with you, but it’s not really up-to-date: the number one was improved in the meantime and now comes with the name “Snake Venom” and 67.5%!

        12. Animal

          Are those traditional brewed beers? Because I think 12-13% is the strongest you can achieve by fermentation. I’m pretty sure you have to use distillation to get higher than that.

          But then, I’m far more expert at drinking beer than brewing it. After all, I’ve never heard of a really great Man-Story(tm), the kind that usually ends in a trip to the local ER, that started with “Yeah, this one time a bunch of us were sitting around eating salad, when…”

          But if I only had a buck for every really great story than began, “Then Pete turned to me and said, ‘Hey, hold my beer and watch this!'”

    8. AgentKeen

      I mean, Walky barely counts if he’s as much of a lightweight as his sister/alternate dimension self. And who knows about Dorothy’s tolerance.

    9. AustKyzor

      It’s proof is probably about Billie% – you don’t light this stuff on fire; it spontaneously combusts

      1. JWLM

        Hell, I’m always stunned that *Billie* doesn’t spontaneously combust. As it is, I hope she has a warning label “Keep away from heat and open flame.”

        1. Rich

          On the plus side, her touch is an excellent disinfectant and she thins many paints on contact.

        2. darkgloomie

          good thing she doesn’t seem much into makeup; doing her nails’s gotta be a nightmare.

    10. EvolutionistX

      Who says Billie only had one bottle?

    11. Deanatay

      After Mike destroys an enemy, he leaves a nickel on each eye.

      He calls it ‘dropping a dime on them’.

      1. Rycan

        So THAT’S why he always asks for a nickel.

    12. TachyonCode

      Oh god, though.

      1. Coco Pommel

        Aww yiss. Adell.

        Awesome gravitar.

  2. AnvilPro

    Dorothy’s probably taken half a sip of Walky’s drink and just thinks she’s drunk

    1. newllend(henryvolt)

      Wow then she’s more of a lightweight than walky.

      1. Disloyal Subject

        “…and just thinks she’s drunk.”
        Don’t doubt placebos.

        1. newllend(henryvolt)

          Eh, then she’s just weird I guess.

        2. Disloyal Subject

          Aren’t we all?

        3. newllend(henryvolt)

          True

        4. feli

          Placebo effect is strong. We got some gals drunk on ice tea on a festival. Came to us and asked for something to drink, so out of fun we poured them icetea. Pure icetea.

  3. Nono

    Wow. Guess I was right yesterday. Surprised Dorothy let herself slip.

    1. Rich

      Little bit. In hindsight, that last line she said to Billie did have a bit of a “desperate realization that I’m wound way too tight” ring to it. Alcohol isn’t the best way to unwind, but it’ll do as long it doesn’t become a habit.

  4. DarkoNeko

    Hahahhaha Dotty WAS drunk 😀

    1. DarkoNeko

      aaand she’s a fun drunk.

    2. Rich

      I confess to being mildly surprised. Wonder if Billie poured for her or if she’s been sharing with Walky?

  5. Lucina

    C’mon, Joyce, can’t you see the bubbles over their heads?

    1. Nono

      Would that mean Becky’s drunk as well?

    2. JessWitt

      she assumed someone was blowing bubbles. Or brought a bubble machine.

      1. Rich

        Lawrence Welk strikes me as being the kind of person that would make the invite list for this party. Or maybe Don Ho.

        Wonder how many people have to google those two to get the joke.

  6. Khantalas

    Dorothy, there is a line between “not letting yourself relax” and “letting yourself relax too much”.

    Do try not to cross it.

    1. GoogerGeiger

      I don’t mind if she crosses the line, but assuming nobody forced alcohol down her throat, her attitude somehow did a complete 180 from “I’m typing notes on my phone I’m so busy I’m not allowed to relax” to “Fuck it I’m going to drink alcohol”. That just seems weird to me.

      1. claudewicked

        Its not neccesarily a 180- being a good student doesnt neccesarily make you a complete teetotaler.

      2. Disloyal Subject

        It makes sense to me. “Mind racing, so many things I need to do! How am I supposed to relax?
        Maybe this will take the edge off… it’s a party, after all.”

        1. JWLM

          This. Exactly this.

      3. Bagge

        Dunno, I think she’s often good at compartmentaling. NOW I study, NOW I have fun. Even if she often frets about her scheduling, when she is in a FUN timeslot she usually socializes.

        Also, she’s not the first young person to rationalize reasons to be drunk despite it being a bad idea

        1. Deanatay

          Also, it’s the up-tight, focused ones that party the hardest when they let themselves party. They’re very focused on partying when they party.

    2. newllend(henryvolt)

      Your not her mom, she’s already her own Damon mom anyway.

      1. newllend(henryvolt)

        *DAMN

        1. fogel

          You said Damon!! 🙂

    3. leadsynth

      The last time Dorothy was when she was describing the Besties Eternal drawing.

      1. leadsynth

        Is that link not working? Sheesh. Try this one.

        1. Rich

          I’d forgotten that look of diabolic glee she gets when embarrassing Joe. Yet another reason she’ll be getting my vote for President.

  7. chris73

    wow Dorothy told Joyce to shut up, she really is becoming the best girlfriend ever

    1. newllend(henryvolt)

      Not to mention she’s her own mom…that line was just out of no where but I love it.

      1. chris73

        Shes the the sort of girlfriend I’d wish I’d had when I was this age

        1. newllend(henryvolt)

          Smart, understanding, responsible, but also wild and fun when she wants to be, Yahoo I can understand what people see in her.

          Not to mention she looks like Gwen Stacy.

        2. chris73

          Well the slipshine showed her in a completely new light but also didn’t freak out when Walky gets drunk (mostly), gives him space when needed and realises hes a work in progress

        3. Deanatay

          Ooh, so, we might get…

          Spider-Dotty?

          (Sorry I <3 Spider-Gwen)

        4. Rich

          Dorothy’s not as dead as the Gwen Stacy I remember best, but that’s a good thing. Hear she’s back amongst the living anyway, or maybe not. Marvel continuity makes my head hurt.

        5. newllend(henryvolt)

          we call it the Spidyverse dude

        6. Rich

          I know quite a few X-Fans who would vigorously dispute that claim. And their books’ continuity makes my head hurt even worse than Spidey. Clone Saga Spidey, even.

          Plus, didn’t the editors just blow up the multiverse and most of their characters anyway?

  8. Haven

    On the one hand I’m laughing my ass off that everyone got drunk without Joyce noticing, on the other hand it’s kind of sad that a major change happened in what was supposed to be her party like this.

    1. StClair

      Well said.

      1. Clif

        Oh, this party is just begining. When Sal was leaving Marci and her crush, she said she had other places to be. Gee, I wonder where that could be?

    2. TSB

      Mm. Yeah. I think with Walky and Dorothy they probably don’t know their own limits, and Billie is an alcoholic, so I’m inclined to cut them some slack (a tiny amount! Bringing alcohol into someone’s dorm without their knowledge during a party that’s supposed to be for them is still awful even if you only meant to get discreetly buzzed), but this is really uncool.

      Hopefully it can still be salvaged since Joyce is Queen of the Drunks? But even if she ends up having a good time anyway it would still be a jerk move.

      Actually, probably Sarah is about to flip shit and kick everyone out. They brought alcohol into her dorm room while she’s there so they could underage drink and then got super drunk. That’s fucked up on multiple levels and she would have the right to be furious even without her personal history with this kind of thing.

      1. Disloyal Subject

        We don’t know that they’re “super drunk.”

        1. TSB

          I don’t drink heavily and I’ve only seen someone get shitfaced like once, so to me, being visibly drunk is being “super drunk”. My instinct, which I am aware is wrong, is to think of alcohol consumption as coming in three distinct stages: sober -> buzzed -> super drunk. I’ll try to phrase it more clearly next time.

        2. timemonkey

          But these are people who’ve never drunk before, of course it hit them super hard.

        3. Rich

          In fact, they clearly aren’t. They’re still forming sentences and standing upright without holding on to anything. That’s a ways off from “super drunk” and miles from the “call 911 for alcohol poisoning” stage.

      2. Safgaftsa

        Joyce has every right to be pissed. I would want Sarah to defer to Joyce on what to do, but it is also Sarah’s room, so if she wants to throw them out, she’s clear to do so with all the excessive violence necessary.

        1. Rich

          Meh. The Happy Drunk Couple will just go have sex somewhere (where is Sierra, anyway? No party invite for her?) and pass out. Billie didn’t want to be here anyway and has Ruth to go back to. No violence required, and Joyce can have a reality check about inviting a notorious alcoholic (right, Asma?) to a party and expecting it to stay dry. Maybe it’ll cure her of a bit of the Dorothy hero worship thing too, that’s both unrealistic and unhealthy.

      3. Rycan

        Dunno about cutting an alcoholic some slack, though – they’re quite adept at hanging themselves with it.

  9. L!ghtn!ng

    …Is Walky licking Dorothy’s finger?

    1. DarkoNeko

      …how did I not notice that ?

    2. Cephalo the Pod

      Let’s hope he’s not trying to bite it.

    3. Tacos

      I… I had not noticed that.

    4. Rycan

      Yes, yes he is. Walkertons become unpredictable when drunk.

      1. Disloyal Subject

        I dunno, horniness seems more or less predictable.

    5. Rich

      Next on Slipshine, Walky Performs A Fetish.

    6. Rycan

      Also, Walky has amazing tongue-eye coordination for a drunk.

  10. Mr. Random

    Ish a drunkie dunkie party of teenage moms and the guys who do the do with the diddlydoo.

    1. Deanatay

      Go home mr random your drunk

      1. Mr. Random

        The cobbler elves are stealin’ my caramel. I love my camel.

  11. MeghanTheWorldEater

    TIL Drunk Dorothy is best Dorothy.

    1. Bibulb

      I was going to say something approximately the same.

  12. otusasio451

    Oh, God. drunk people! They’re EVERYWHERE! IT’S LIKE A TERRIBLE ZOMBIE MOIVE! THE WALKING DRUNK!

    1. Jen Aside

      The Drinking Walk(y)?

      1. Tunaro

        How about “28 Shots Later?”

        1. Disloyal Subject

          FUND IT

        2. Someone

          Dawn of the drunks

        3. otusasio451

          They die when you shoot them in the mouth. With VODKA!

          …I’ll work more on the tagline.

    2. Tunaro

      How the hell is that a terrible zombie movie? I’d watch the shit outta that.

      1. Disloyal Subject

        The webcomic “Geeks Next Door” ran an arc with that basic premise.

  13. Doctor_Who

    Nice to know Dorothy’s a happy drunk. I was worried that with all the stress she deals with, booze would make her weepy.

    1. Nono

      It’s also interesting that either Dorothy’s alcohol tolerance is just as bad as the Walkertons, or whatever is in Billie’s flask is enough to bring down an elephant.

      1. DarkoNeko

        Hey, it’s not nice to call Billie and elephant XD

        1. saki

          Actually, Billie could probably withstand anything that’s not meant to bring down a dinosaur.

        2. saki

          And I’m just now realising this could be taken as a reference to her weight, so I’d like to clarify I just meant it in terms of her having a high tolerance to alcohol. 🙂

        3. fogel

          Weren’t there chicken and cat sized dinos?

        4. saki

          Sure, but let’s be honest, when anybody says dinosaur, most people think of T-exes, right?

        5. L!ghtn!ng

          I was thinking brachiosaurus myself ?. And I got that you meant her alcohol tolerance, not her size.

        6. saki

          Those are also pretty big so it still holds! *gives you points just because*
          Yeah I just wanted to make sure people knew what I meant. Made a similar joke once and got badly reprimanded and when I tried to explain, people didn’t believe me, so now I’m extra cautious, haha. 🙂

        7. saki

          Btw, I don’t know why but when you said brachiosaurus and I looked it up because I couldn’t remember which one that was, seeing the pictures I had a compulsive desire to have one as a pet. A smaller one of course, like maybe giraffe-sized. Seems like it would be fun to ride it and just, like, travel the land. 😀

        8. Disloyal Subject

          Tyrannosaurus rex, Allosaurus, Edmontosaurus, Utahraptor, Velociraptor, Deinoneichus, Stegosaurus, Giganotosaurus, Triceratops, Protoceratops, Pachycephalosaurus, Diplodocus, Parasorolophus, Compsognathus, and Ankylosaurus are my defaults. Sometimes Baryonyx and Spinosaurus slip in too.

        9. fogel

          Currently, for me, dino = bird, and vice verse, because XKCD.

      2. Disloyal Subject

        I kinda want to see Billie suplex an elephant now. Or punch it out, at least.

      3. Rycan

        Well, consider the fact that Billie managed to get herself drunk off of whatever’s in that flask.

  14. brionl

    I am shocked, Shocked! To find drinking at a college party!

    1. JessWitt

      What’s next, premarital hanky Panky?

    2. Someone

      Won’t anyone think of the college kids!

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        They are, they think they are drunk.

    3. Wack'd

      Your booze, sir.

      1. Rich

        Comedy owes so much to Casablanca.

  15. Vinny

    I love Dorothy’s expression in panel 4. But that “smile” of hers in the last panel… creepy.

    1. Disloyal Subject

      You have a problem with sheepish grins?

    2. yomi

      Actually, it’s exactly the other way around for me, I like her panel 5 grin, but panel 4 is creepy.

  16. Kamino Neko

    … Wow. Dorothy IS drunk. That’s…quite a shock.

  17. Someone

    then they all kneel

    Dorothy: Praise be you Joyce: Queen of the Drunks!

  18. Lord Stoneheart

    I stand corrected. Dorothy did get drunk. Remarkably quickly in fact.

  19. Cephalo the Pod

    Oh shit.
    Joyce threatens to tell Ruth.
    Then Billie, in a drunken stupor, loudly threatens to tell everyone about Becky.

    1. newllend(henryvolt)

      Not before letting out her own secret.

      1. Rycan

        And Sal returns to the party, because a drama singularity had been formed, drawing in all nearby drama sources.

        1. Clif

          And where is Sal headed now?

  20. Catullus

    I suppose it’s only a matter of time when Billie’s involved…

    All the same, color me surprised that Dorothy’s among the intoxicated.

    1. Bicycle Bill

      Me too  She’s the one that wants to go to a prestigious school, go into politics, and has pipe dreams of becoming president, so I would expect that she was trying to keep herself squeaky clean with regard to any indiscretions that could be used against her later on.

      But I suppose that if Clinton can make America believe that getting a hummer from Monica wasn’t sex or that he smoked marijuana but “didn’t inhale”, then a little underage drinking isn’t even a blip on the radar.

      1. fogel

        Depends on the definition of”is”…

      2. Rich

        It really isn’t. Having one drink at a freshman party isn’t going to derail anyone’s political career unless you follow it up with a DWI conviction, and even that might not do it. Plenty of politicos have made “contrition” and “personal struggles” into vote-gathering machines.

        1. Fred

          Also, Dotty’s drunk at Joyce’s party in her and Sarah’s room. Is there a better example of a safe space in the entire dorm?

  21. Stephen Bierce

    “And we Drank Alone/Yeah, with nobody else/’Cause you know when I Drink Alone/I prefer to be by myself!”…

  22. Isaac Rader

    Oh my God, she really didn’t notice it this whole time.

    1. ThatGuy

      She’s used to people being drunk on God, so it can be hard for her to tell if people are God Drunk or Beer Drunk if they dont have the source with them (bibles vs cans)

  23. Tacos

    So I was right that Dorothy also got drunk. I’m not sure how Joyce will react to learning how many people there are drunk.

    1. Opus the Poet

      I guess those boozles were shared in yesterday’s strip…

      1. Bicycle Bill

        I guess you’re right, Opus, and I was wrong.  But we never saw Dorothy spiking her drink, and I can’t imagine that Billie’s flask was holding more than a half-pint of the hard stuff.  At this rate she’s going to have to head back to her room to reload any time now.
        And what happened to your other avatar, with the ‘bent?

        1. Opus the Poet

          I rotate them regularly.

        2. Opus the Poet

          There’s the original, this is the first replacement…

        3. Opus the Poet

          This one is usually Joyce…

        4. Opus the Poet

          And this one used to be Mike, but I don’t remember who it is now.

        5. fogel

          Opus, before you do that with your gravs you should post a trigger warning for people who might otherwise think that their meds have stopped working … or are working too much ….

        6. fogel

          (My preceding use of “trigger warning” ina joke was not intended to deride trigger warnings, let alone that which they warn of. I had a vague sense as I wrote it that it might be inappropriate, but my impulsivity pushed it through my filters. Earlier tonight I was reading about new treatments for ‘unlinking’ PTSD triggers, so, yeah….I sometimes make jokes about things which I care about, a lot. A coping mechanism, I suppose. Sometimes I make jokes which I wish I hadn’t.)

  24. Captain Batson

    This will forever be Dorothy’sgreatest shame.

    1. Tunaro

      They’re college freshmen, they got at least 4 more years for way worse shame.

      1. Willoughby Chase

        Too right.

    2. Deanatay

      (scandal!)

  25. caesaria82

    lmao I love Dorothy so much

  26. Wack'd

    Dorothy is Steven Universe?

    1. ThatGuy

      No, Steven has 3 to 5 moms. Dorothy is just lesbians with herself.

      1. MM

        So she’s Garnet then.

      2. Atomix26

        “On the next slipshine….”

      3. Kamino Neko

        Steven has a bunch of moms, one of whom is him.

  27. Mr. Mendo

    Poor Joyce. She tries so hard…

  28. KingMabel

    Yeah more mommies

  29. Nono

    Considering Sarah’s last statement yesterday, she really is the World’s Greatest Detective.

  30. Idon'tcarenomore

    I think we see how she reacts to drunk people at ‘her ‘party’.

    If Dorothy has never had a drink before tonight, she would get drunk quick most likely-especially on Billie’s flask. And Walky already proved himself a wuss in this region.

    (What tension, Dorothy is the least stressed of the Doa crew, her stress is her ambition: as in comparison to Beckys homelessness, Sarah’s mistrust, Joyce’s ‘everything’, et al.) Dorothy has it easier than most imo.

    Poor Joyce, this is supposed to be a party with people she trusts, and now look. Can’t trust a soul can you?

    1. ninja_jesus

      It was even hinted that the reason some people are drinking is because of Joyce’s kind of party being not what they agree with. Which is kind of whatever, but doing something like this is kinda dickish.

  31. GoogerGeiger

    Joyce might end up drinking. Joyce has said before she objects to underage drinking, not on religious grounds, but on legal grounds. Joyce considers Dorothy to be a role model who has a lot of respect for the law. With those factors considered, I could still see several things stopping Joyce from drinking:
    -Willis retcons Joyce’s morals
    -Sarah refuses to let Joyce drink
    -Joyce decides she doesn’t want to get drunk in her own room
    -Billie runs out of alcohol
    -Ruth breaks this shit up

    1. AgentKeen

      I think you misspelled ‘femurs’ in that last one.

    2. DarkoNeko

      I can’t imagine she would. It goes against her everything.

      1. GoogerGeiger

        Not to my recollection.

    3. Disloyal Subject

      Why would she want to, though? Deciding there’s nothing wrong with something is a far cry from deciding you want to try it.

    4. Rycan

      Yeah, now that Sarah has returned, she ain’t about to let Billie get Joyce drunk.

      1. Rich

        That. A good chunk of Sarah’s Billie-hate comes from her being a substance abuser, which must ring back to her former roomie troubles.

  32. AgentKeen

    Is… is Walky licking Dorothy’s finger?

    1. Tacos

      Yes. Yes he is…

      1. Opus the Poet

        The world owes Phineas and Ferb so much…

  33. Em

    I mean, tbh this was kind of shitty of them to do.

    They knew Joyce didn’t want to be reminded of that party. That party had drunk people. Drunk people could trigger her PTSD. Remember–it hasn’t been that long since the party where she was drugged and Ryan attempted to rape her.

    Little things can set off PTSD. As a person with PTSD, I can say that men trigger mine. More specifically being alone with men. It’s not the individuals I mind, it’s what they make me remember. I still have a hard time being sexually active with anyone. This includes kissing. It makes me remember. I think that this is probably true for Joyce–small things make her remember. Alcohol is probably a big factor for her. Remember, she had been hanging out with a bunch of drunk people before Ryan pulled her away.

    Sorry. I’m just annoyed that they would do this. I know they weren’t thinking. I know this wasn’t on their radar. But it strikes me as something that should’ve been. *sigh* I just hope she’s okay.

    1. saki

      I agree. I’m just hoping the surprise of seeing Dotty drunk of all people will cancel out any PTSD from being triggered. : /

    2. GoogerGeiger

      That’s entirely possible, and I hope it doesn’t happen. Honestly, Joyce having bout of feeling unsafe and seeing Ryan everywhere have almost seemed random though (unless I’ve been blind to certain triggers throughout the comics). If anything, Joyce getting drunk and losing full control of her actions and cognition might be a trigger since she was drugged. But again, I really hope that doesn’t happen since her admission to Becky is what brought this whole party on.

      1. saki

        As far as I recall, her seeing Ryan everywhere was usually triggered by her being alone outside.

    3. SDGlyph

      I was thinking much the same re triggering. Please Dotty, don’t be drunk-oblivious enough to try to push a drink on Joyce. Please don’t.

      1. Rich

        That would be bad, yes.

    4. ahuh

      I think you’re right, but realistically, what are the odds that college freshmen know how to handle PTSD or how complicated triggers can be? If they did then why isn’t Joyce being treated(as far as we know) at any rate?

      1. Disloyal Subject

        We have internet, so I’d expect them to be better at it than most older demographics. Of course, specialists would be best.

    5. Spiny Creature

      Not only that, but Joyce’s assault took the form of people sneaking things into her drinks without her realizing. And now everyone around her is sneaking things into their drinks without her realizing. It’s really shitty, and it wouldn’t surprise me if the “spiking the soda” aspect of tonight upsets her more than anything else.

  34. newllend(henryvolt)

    [SPOILERS]

    Dorothy have you been watching Steven Universe?

  35. saki

    I can’t decide if I should be happy for Dorothy that she’s being easier on herself or disappointed that she’s getting drunk at Joyce’s dorm party of all places or worried at how quickly she seems to be changing her standards for herself and where that could be headed.

    1. mxjosh

      She’ll freak out about it the moment she sobers up

      1. zach

        And how is that a good thing?

  36. morty

    oddly enough, I feel like this is going to be a moderately important moment for Joyce. Something along the lines of “even these Totally Not Entirely Evil people get drunk. and its… fine?”

    1. Jason

      She was actually enjoying the drunk people at the first party she went to, when they were playing Settlers of Canaan (and she knew they were drunk).

      1. Jason

        See here: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/queen/
        Of course, that was before being drugged.

        1. Captain Batson

          I had forgotten this! Maybe Joyce has, too.

        2. Bagge

          That’s part of the problem. Everything was fun at that other party until Ryan happened. This starts to be to similar for her comfort

      2. John

        Settlers of Catan. It’s the secular version of Settlers of Canaan.

    2. Someone

      I don’t think she would make the connection between drunk and evil. It could trigger PTSD but you have to remember that Ryan was sober. No drunk person has come after her in the strip so far.

  37. Well_Played

    Can’t wait for the shenanigans to start.

  38. Bagge

    But, but, but, Dorothy is supposed to be perfect and stuff

    1. L!ghtn!ng

      That’s exactly why I’m interested in this development. I know I’m in a minority here, but Dorothy’s always been TOO perfect for me. I would probably like her IRL, but as a protagonist she’s only “meh” for me.

      1. Rich

        This will taint her from Joyce’s POV, but if anything it makes me like her more. Dorothy doing schoolwork on her phone at a party was scary nuts to me. Dorothy realizing that she needs to relax sometimes and taking a drink from Billie or Walky, that’s a lot more human. Not the best choice ever, but drinking a little now and then is not a problem unless it becomes the only way you can relax.

        1. Spiny Creature

          Honestly, in a hypothetical 30 years from now where Dorothy is running for president, it would hurt her image far more if it came out that she never drank in college because she wanted to be president someday. Maybe that’s not fair, but drinking on occasion before hitting 21 would make her “normal”. Obeying a pointless, illogical law nobody respects out of some obsession with a rigid definition of success makes her seem inhumanly ambitious.

          I would be put off if it came out during this election that a candidate knew at the age of 18 that they wanted to be the leader of the free world, and was already planning their rise to the top. Of course, the drinking age thing wouldn’t be a scandal right now, since the drinking age wasn’t stupidly raised to 21 until 1984.

  39. Usayasha

    Wait… Sal is leaving Marcie and Malaya alone together… meaning she might be coming back. We’re going to have a conflict between Sal and Amber after all, aren’t we?

    1. Clif

      Well, no, because of the underaged drinking Amber leaves just before Sal returns.

      1. John

        Amber leaves, but comes back as Amazi-Girl to bust the party.

        1. Rich

          I really think you’re overestimating how much A-G cares about underage drinking. It was a convenient excuse for jumping Sal and pals in the parking lot, but we’ve never seen her busting other people for it despite the fact that any campus is going to have drunks reeling around pretty regularly. I could see her intervening if it looked like there was an alcohol-induced assault, vandalism, or DWI incident about to take place, but three drunks in a dorm room party where everyone is walking home? Nah.

        2. Disloyal Subject

          She reminded someone it’t a dry campus, and be grumbled and dealt with his booze. I don’t recall how, but it was in that series of comics following one of her patrols.

        3. John

          I really think you’re overestimating how serious I was about that comment.

        4. Amazi-Stool

          She was contemplating it here:
          “Amazi-Girl should respond consistently to the exact same mis-
          demeanor, shouldn’t she?”

        5. Rich

          Amber/A-G puts herself in some nasty ethical positions, doesn’t she? As she points out it is a misdemeanor, whereas just being a vigilante superhero is probably a felony, as are the beatings she’s handed out.

  40. Matthew

    Ah yes, the classic ’80s sitcom “My Two Damn Moms.”

  41. Victor Riley

    Is it just me… or did they all seem to get fershnickered REALLY fast? Clearly, none can handle their hooch.

    1. Rycan

      Except Billie, but I bet she’s finished off the rest of the flask by now.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Billy has much higher tolerance to booze than the rest of the gang.

        1. Kamino Neko

          Combined.

    2. timemonkey

      Walky and Sal have a very low alcohol tolerance. And non-drinkers have no resistance.

      1. Rich

        And Dorothy is an inexperienced drinker and lightly built, which doesn’t help your tolerance any.

    3. Deanatay

      Another theory: since their booze is all coming from one source, who is known to be an uber-alcoholic, I suspect the stuff Billie’s got in her flask is super-potent. Like, straight vodka or something. Any lightweight taking even an adulterated drink of that would get drunk FAST.

  42. Bicycle Bill

    I owe Benjy an apology when he/she shows up here again.
    You were right in yesterday’s comments thread.

  43. BenRG

    That is the sort of statement that would only make sense if you are drunk.

    Now… For some reason, I think that we’re about to get a revelation about Dorothy that, once again, she’d never let out sober. Was she an emancipated minor or an orphan? I get that from ‘I’m my own Mom’.

    1. timemonkey

      We’ve met her parents.

      1. L!ghtn!ng

        But if I recall correctly, wasn’t Dorothy adopted in the Walkyverse? We’ve met her parents, but do we know if they’re her *birth* parents?

        1. Spencer

          I asked Willis on his tumblr. The Keeners are her birth parents in this continuity.

  44. Rycan

    Don’t get too close, Joyce – Waly might lick you next!

    1. Bagge

      In her dreams… no. In his dreams… no, it just didn’t work

      1. Bagge

        In another universe

        1. Rycan

          Nailed it

  45. Khantalas

    Also, it’s kind of weird that Dorothy seems to be drunker of the two between her and Walky.

    1. Kamino Neko

      Walky is licking her finger. She’s just cracking jokes about her own uptightness. I don’t think the evidence points toward Dorothy being drunker.

      1. Khantalas

        You need to be drunk to lick your girlfriend’s finger?

        Man, I’ve been doing it all wrong.

        1. Rich

          No. No, you do not. Although I usually prefer more privacy for that sort of thing. It’s kind of rude when they’re in mid-conversation with someone else.

  46. Arianod

    Well, crap ^^u

  47. Carms

    Dorothy has been WAITING for Joyce to notice. Look at that grin. omanomanoman she’s gonnna be SO DISAPPROVING this is GREAT.

    This is gonna go so downhill, so soon

    1. BenRG

      I’m expecting several strips where Joyce explains to random passerbys that she isn’t talking to Dorothy at the moment whilst Dorothy is standing there.

      Seriously, Dorothy has spat on Joyce here: She knows Joyce’s views and to then ignore that in Joyce’s personal space? Not cool, Dotty; not cool.

      1. madock345

        I don’t think it’s that bad. Joyce doesn’t drink, but she doesn’t seem overly disapproving of those who do. Remember when she was queen of the drunks? She even told he-who-shall-not-be-named that she didn’t have any real problem with drinking, she just didn’t want to do it while she was underaged.

      2. timemonkey

        Joyce hasn’t expressed her views on this subject before, aside from being underage.

        1. Rich

          I think the concern is that drunks will be a Ryan flashback trigger for Joyce, not that she’s actively anti-drinking as such. Not sure I accept that as a likely occurrence, but it’s certainly possible.

  48. Plasma Mongoose

    Dotty is her own mother? Is that anything like Fry being his own grandfather?

    1. Someone

      Can Dorothy defeat the brains?

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        If she can, that would make becoming POTUS that much easier.

  49. madock345

    Just came back to leave a comment on this page, but I completely forgot whatever it was I was going to say when I saw Walky licking dorothy. Goddamn that’s adorable.

  50. John

    Better hope nobody puts this on MyFace, Dotty. I’m thinking underage drinking would be worse for your presidential ambitions than cuddling your boyfriend.

    1. Captain Batson

      The whole point of the party is that everybody there is trustworthy.

      1. BenRG

        *coughBilliecough*

        1. Rich

          I believe you’ve identified the flaw in Joyce & Becky’s plan.

        2. Rycan

          Bronchitis?

      2. John

        Under the circumstances, Dorothy herself isn’t trustworthy. I’ve seen people do way stupider things when drinking than post pictures of it on the Internet. Especially when they don’t have any experience with alcohol.

        Also, Mike was invited to this party.

    2. Spiny Creature

      I’ve already posted this above, but underage drinking would not be bad for anyone’s presidential campaign. I can’t prove that, of course – it’s not an issue right now because the drinking age wasn’t stupidly raised to 21 until 1984, but once we do get to a time where candidates were under 21 after 1984, it will be the opposite of a scandal that they, like a large majority of Americans, ignored a counterproductive and non-respected law on occasion. And the drinking age might very well have been changed back to 18 by that point – I doubt it, but one would hope.

  51. EvolutionistX

    Poor Joyce. It’s like they’re trying to break her.

    1. Deanatay

      The whole purpose of friendship is to stretch our social boundaries. Weak friendships can’t handle the stretching, and break. Strong ones survive it, and grow as a result.

  52. ninja_jesus

    This situation makes me feel very uncomfortable, and I’m usually a drinker. It’s like, they can’t enjoy a party thrown for Joyce without being drunk? Given Joyce’s close call at a previous party with alcohol, you’d think they’d be more considerate. I would never drink at a party if I thought the host wouldn’t be comfortable with it.

    1. timemonkey

      She was roofied at the last party while drinking pop, alcohol had nothing to do with her trauma.

      1. saki

        True, but we’re talking about associative memory here. It’s not about the fact that alcohol was used to drug her but rather the fact that there was alcohol at that party. And I’m pretty sure this was Joyce’s first time attending a party where people were drinking alcohol. So, in her mind, seeing drunk people and being roofied are very closely linked. That could be enough to trigger PTSD.

        1. Rich

          Possible. If so, it’s a trigger that needs to be identified and dealt with fast. Joyce cannot expect to go through life without encountering social drinking on a fairly regular basis.

        2. saki

          I agree. I really hope at some point – hopefully soon – someone is going to suggest Joyce talk to a professional about what happened to her. It’s only been a few weeks and as we’ve seen with Becky she still has a lot of trouble talking about it, or even going anywhere near the subject, so she probably will reject the idea at first, but I’ve never heard of someone getting past their traumatic experiences without at least some professional help.

        3. Amazi-Stool

          Well you need to stretch the goal of your hope, because it already happened:
          Roz already suggested to Joyce to go to a professional and gave her an address – Joyce thought it was an invitation to a witch coven!

  53. Mojo

    Three Moms, actually. If Dorothy is two moms, her ACTUAL mom would make that three. Unless there are more moms we don’t know about…

  54. Willoughby Chase

    I’m surprised Walky and Dotty aren’t making out in the corner … next to Dina and Becky …

    I can dream.

  55. CJ

    Wait, I must be missing something from my European point of view where the topic of “underage drinking” is concerned. These guys are what, 17? And they are legally not allowed to drink anything? No strong liquor and also no beer or anything else with an alcohol content above 1%?
    Not that I wouldn’t be strongly annoyed if I invited people to a party and they got drunk with clandestine alcohol (or really drunk on vine they brought openly). But this would be because of violation of what I like to have in my private space not because some “oh this is underage drinking, this is bad” thingy.
    Don’t get me wrong. I prefer people who do not drink. But in a society with strong habits around social drinking what’s the point in such strict rules for young people above the age of, say, 15 or 16? And why is there such a strong moral stigma?
    I wondered about Amazi-girl’s attitude to finding Sal and friends on the parking lot with a bit of beer, …. Why should this be super heroine business?
    If she wan’t to go after someone for this, it should be the people selling booze to Billie and Ruth.

    1. saki

      The drinking age in the US is set at 21. The social stigma against drinking below that age amazes me too. (I am also European.) I mean, here we’re talking about people who must be above 17 if they’re in college. They’re old enough to be considered responsible enough to drive, but not to drink? It’s beyond me. Not that I’m judging, this is just a cultural thing, I just don’t get it.
      And I’ve heard the fines you can get even for just carrying some cans of beer are insanely high (depending on the state of course). If I recall correctly from something I saw in a documentary a few years ago, this teenager (he was probably between 16 and 18 IIRC) got a $500 fine because he was helping an older friend carry some cans of beer. To us Europeans who are allowed to drink beer in most countries around the age of 16, that sounds kind of insane.

      1. ninja_jesus

        Personally, I think the reason for the social stigma is because adults and corporations refuse to show responsible drinking habits in media or in primary/secondary school, so kids here are more privvy to underage drinking and then getting seriously hurt or killed/killing someone else.

        1. saki

          Could you expand on that first part about how adults and corporations refuse to show responsible drinking habits? I’m not sure what you mean. About corporations, do you mean ads that they make for alcoholic beverages? And about primary / secondary school, do you maybe mean parents & teachers scaring kids into not drinking by telling them it’s bad and they’ll die? I want to make sure I understand what you’re saying. 🙂

        2. Li

          I have no idea what they’re talking about, as also an American. Beer ads always have some tag line about drinking responsibly and mostly show people having fun at parties. All sorts of TV shows feature alcohol consumption, sometimes but not at all always too much. In fact something that pisses me off is how many TV shows and movies normalize preying on drunk women, even though intentionally having sex with someone too drunk to say no is pretty obviously (as well as legally) rape.

          I do think that restricting it until 21 is silly, and increases the forbidden allure, but then my mom gave me wine at Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Years, ever since I was tiny. Small amounts initially, then offering me a glass (just one) as I got older.

          I never developed a taste for it, and I don’t drink or really like being around drunk people now that I’m in my 30s.

      2. Rich

        Keep in mind that 18-year old US kids can be drafted (in theory – we’ll never see a draft again). They can volunteer to join the armed services. They can have sex. They can marry. They can vote. And they’re all still underage for drinking, because learning to drink responsibly is harder and more risky than any of those things???

        We have really screwy laws about alcohol consumption in this country. Some of it is echoes from the Prohibition Era, some of it is the fear mongering attitudes of vocal minority of puritanical types, and some of it is just legislative inertia.

        1. CJ

          Have the laws concerning alcohol changed in the last … 35 years? Or is the difference that in the 80ties nobody thought twice about ignoring them? Or is it a media- or students exchange program warning-induced misconception that in the 80ties, high-school students were already busy with getting drunk and making out in the back of cars as a matter of course and anyone who didn’t was the odd one out?
          I don’t quite get why it should be essential for a future US president to have been perfect every moment of his or her life (never mind what the current concept of perfect implies in detail). Either you get someone who is really good at hypocrisy or someone who never learned anything new. What’s the benefit?

        2. Rich

          IIRC the Federal drinking age came into effect on January 1st, 1985 (I was 18 and legal in my state at the time – imagine my joy). As far as I can tell, the change had about zero effect on underage drinking at the time, and minimal impact to this day. Teens still find ways to drink in high school and college, and they always will. Not everyone does so, but it’s certainly widespread and there’s no real stigma attached to it unless you’re clearly an alcoholic or you do something idiotic (DWI, other crimes) while drunk.

          Some areas and subcultures are less tolerant – the school in DoA has a dry campus, for example – but overall the drinking age is a nuisance, not a effective barrier.

    2. drs

      18 is the standard age for entering your freshman year. They’re probably all 18. Especially the ones who have had Slipshines, because god forbid someone make p*rn of fictional 17 year olds.

      And yeah, US drinking age is 21. State law, but the state laws are made uniform by threat of losing their federal highway funding. (I wonder how the current Supreme Court feels about that.) Given the draft and vote it seems pretty stupid, though it may be correlated with fewer deaths to drunk driving. (Recall most of the US has crap public transit.)

      1. CJ

        A, so the federal government can pressure individual states by the threat of them losing federal funding for stuff that has no direct relation to the matter at hand?
        Germany has had drastic campaigns to reduce the number of alcohol poisening and drunk driving incidents in young people (besides getting more strict in prosecuting places that sell hard liquor to youngster under 18).
        I found an English blog post about one of them:http://erikimk.blogspot.de/2010/06/social-marketing-campaign-kenn-dein.html
        The blogger is not quite accurate in his translations. The texts above the characters is a prediction what will happen for each of them, not of what they currently think they’ll do. This is one of a series which highlighted different aspects of drinking to much.
        It’s not like the campaign wasn’t criticized. There are numerous more-or-less humorous rip-offs with politicans or celebrities.

        1. drs

          “A, so the federal government can pressure individual states by the threat of them losing federal funding for stuff that has no direct relation to the matter at hand?”

          I think so, though I think in this case there was an arguable relation: “increase your minimum drinking age, to reduce highway deaths, or we don’t give you federal highway funding.” So I don’t know if “no direct relation” is true. Also, in the past couple years the Supreme Court balked at Obamacare’s “expand your Medicaid eligibility or lose all Medicaid subsidies”. But that’s a recent decision, drinking age is decades old.

      2. Rich

        Maybe worth mentioning that the statistical connections between the 21-year old drinking age and DWI fatalities are really shaky, in large part because traffic enforcement made big pushes to catch drunk drivers starting around the same time. Bit earlier in a lot of places, actually – so the downtick in deaths that came right after the age change may be traced to the impact of better policing that had started a while before.

        It has helped, obviously, but it’s not clear that it helped as much as was claimed at first.

        1. CJ

          Thanks for the facts. So basically, the stigma attached to underage drinking differs widely between different groups. And the jury’s still out on the question of provable results of the ban where DWI is concerned.
          I’m all for a stigma on DWI because it puts other people at risk.
          Back to DoA:
          Probably the dry campus rule was one of the reasons Joyce was allowed to attend the college.
          Should I assume Amazi-girls has special issues with alcohol, or was her calling out Malaya at the parking lot just a much-needed excuse to start a fight?
          Wait – isn’t she at this party, too?

        2. Spencer

          Amazi-Girl has once told someone to take his alcohol somewhere else.

          She also attacked Sal and her friends with the justification that they were drinking, but that was mostly about finding an excuse to beat Sal up.

        3. Rich

          Yeah, but she didn’t attack or apprehend that one drinker. If anything, she may have saved him from a run-in with campus security. She clearly prefers dealing with vandals, car thieves, bullies, attempted rapists, and the odd cat-in-a-tree scenario. Really don’t think A-G is all that down with going around carding drunks to make sure they’re appropriate targets for vigilante justice.

          That said, drinking (whether underage or not) doesn’t have a universal stigma attached to it in the US, but criminal actions while under the influence sure does – DWI in particular, since the drunk drivers tend to have a much higher survival rate than sober victims when there’s an accident. Virtually everyone over the age of 30 or so knows someone who’s had their lives affected by drunk driving – I lost three classmates to it in high school alone. DWI penalties are serious enough that there’s an entire breed of lawyers that specialize in getting people off from DWI/DUI charges – those are one of the types of lawyers that I feel okay making “dead attorney” jokes about.

        4. fogel

          I’m not sure the US is that serious, relatively. Last time I was in Australia,my sib- & cousin- in laws all made it very clear that you Do Not Drive Close to the Alco Limit because The Cops WILL catch you — they do checkpoints: can pull you over and test — and you WILL be in Trouble.

        5. fogel

          On the other hand the US is way more uptight about drinking than Germany. I often feel “why can’t I drink a beer here, what’s the problem, IN Germany you could”.

    3. Rycan

      There are a couple rational arguments for having a high drinking age, but they’re undermined by the fact that the law isn’t respected and widely subverted.

      First, you have the argument of trying to prevent DWI (now rolled into the category of DUI) among an age group that is already considered to be bad drivers when sober. But, DUI is already illegal for everybody, and we’ve had more success cracking down on drivers who are DUI, along with a PR campaign driving home the point that DUI is not okay.

      Second, you have brain development, which doesn’t really finish until about age 25. This is also the main reason for marijuana, which was recently legalized in my state, being 21 and older as well. Alcohol and marijuana both have impacts on brain development, and it’s not a positive impact. But, we’ve had very little success dissuading alcohol and pot use among teenagers, even though it’s illegal. So, criminalization, with the occasional drug crackdown, isn’t really working.

  56. Willoughby Chase

    Poor Joyce. Becky is turning to the Dark Side of Science and her hero has feet of clay. They always do, mind.

    On the up-side, Dotty does seem to be self-aware enough to realise what’s driving her. Some self-driven autodidacts never do, and it can all go a bit wonky eventually.

  57. saki

    3rd and 4th panel Joyce looks kind of adorable. Must be the sleeves-covering-the-hands thing. Gets me every time. *fangirls*

  58. Majere

    That is super inconsiderate of them. It’s Joyce’s party and she actively decided to excluded alcohol because she isn’t comfortable with that and the people she trusts most in the world and who should damn well know better just don’t seem to care.

    1. DarkoNeko

      It takes at least that to bear with the playlist.

      1. Rich

        But Dorothy likes the playlist.

        1. Lord Stoneheart

          Does she? The only comment she’s made on it is wondering why a Boyz II Men song was on it.

    2. timemonkey

      No she didn’t actively exclude it, they’re underage and on a dry campus, she couldn’t have included it if she wanted to. She didn’t bring the subject up until right now.

  59. Superdud

    Do people really act this out of character when they’re drunk?

    1. L!ghtn!ng

      The way Dorothy is acting? For sure. I was pre-med and hung out with a lot of other students who all of us were very strict studiers and Dorothy in panel 5 reminds me a lot of myself and my college friends when we would get drunk. Which is not necessarily a good thing *cringes*.

      1. Rich

        Yeah, the tighter wound a person is the more the tend to go off script when they’re lit or high.

  60. John Madden

    I was half expecting Walky to say ‘I AM A WABBIT’ in the third panel.

  61. DarkoNeko

    Ruth : “So, how did that party I sent you to chaperone go”
    Billie : “I got them all drunk”
    Ruth : “…damnit Billie”

    1. Rich

      All according to plan.

  62. Kennerly

    That’s it, Dorothy can never be president. She’ll have to settle for being a Senator of Massachusetts.

    1. Rich

      Please. She’s just practicing her Nixon imitation. The guy used to make drunk calls on the Kremlin hotline just to intimidate them.

    2. Aolbain

      Bush Jr. Was an actual (sober) alcoholic, I think her career can handle getting drunk once in college.

      1. Kennerly

        She’s being compared to Nixon and George W Bush…those are two political kisses of death.

    3. cesium133

      If LBJ can drunk dial a tailor to tell him about his balls, I think Dorothy will be okay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zNMo8kl7Ac

    4. Li

      Everyone commenting: *ignores the huge double standard women and people of color are subjected to in politics*

  63. Crumplepunch

    This partying is out of control!

  64. JBento

    Drunk Dotty is best Dotty. We should find a way to keep her like this all the time.

    1. JBento

      Also, the facial expressions on that 4th panel are hilarious – I literally cannot look at it without a fit of giggles.

      1. DarkoNeko

        Same

  65. LordHaw

    Hehe! I like that Walky is licking Dorothy’s finger.
    I was always kind of disappointed that alcohol doesn’t affect me in that way. I don’t lose control or do anything stupid for the most part. I am just my usual self with permagrin and blurred vision. Therefore drinking got rather boring after awhile.

    1. Rich

      My experience was pretty similar. Some people are happy drunks, some are mean drunks, me, I’m a boringly unchanged drunk. Just don’t ask me to juggle chainsaws under the influence, my coordination goes to hell.

      Still, it’s better than being the guy who has a few beers and goes looking for a police car to vandalize.

      1. No Name

        Does that mean we can ask you to juggle chain saws when you’re sober?

        1. Rich

          Sure, but when I’m sober I know better than to even try something like that.

  66. Animal

    Now a red solo cup is the best receptacle,
    For barbecues tailgates fairs and festivals,
    And you sir do not have a pair of testicles,
    If you prefer drinking from glass.

    A red solos cup is cheap and disposable,
    And in fourteen years they are decomposable,
    And unlike my home they are not fore-closable,
    Freddie Mac can kiss my ass woo!

    Red solo cup, I fill you up,
    Let’s have a party, let’s have a party,
    I love you red solo cup, I lift you up,
    Proceed to party, proceed to party.

    Now I really love how your easy to stack,
    But I really hate how your easy to crack,
    ‘Cause when beer runs down the front of my back,
    Well that my friends is quite yucky.

    But I have to admit that the ladies get smitten,
    Admiring how sharply my first name is written,
    On you with a sharpie when I get to hittin’,
    On them to help me get lucky.

    Red solo cup I fill you up,
    Let’s have a party, let’s have a party,
    I love you red solo cup, I lift you up,
    Proceed to party, proceed to party!

    Now I’ve seen you in blue and I’ve seen you in yellow,
    But only you red will do for this fellow,
    ‘Cause you are my Abbot to my Costello,
    And you are the fruit to my loom.

    Red solo cup you’re more than just plastic,
    You’re more than amazing, you’re more than fantastic,
    And believe me that I’m not the least bit sarcastic,
    When I look at you and say,

    Red solo cup, you’re not just a cup. (No, no, God no)
    You’re my, you’re my friend. (Friend, friend, friend, life long)
    Thank you for being my friend.

    Red solo cup, I fill you up,
    Let’s have a party, let’s have a party,
    I love you red solo cup, I lift you up,
    Proceed to party, proceed to party,

    Red solo cup, red solo cup (I fill you up, let’s have a party)
    Let’s have a party (Let’s have a party) Let’s have a party
    (Red solo cup) Oh red solo cup (I lift you up)
    Let’s have a party, proceed to party!

  67. Andrew

    Ugh, why does every webcomic hate alcohol? It’s good stuff, and like 90% of the time doesn’t ruin a good time.

    1. Spencer

      It doesn’t? The only characters for whom drinking is a negative are Ruth and Billie, who are alcoholics. Walky and Dorothy are just being wacky dorks drinking for the first time.

      1. Spencer

        Let me rephrase that: This webcomic doesn’t hate alcohol, and neither does Questionable Content, as an example, since most everyone is a casual, social drinker and Faye alone is the one with a serious dependency on it.

        1. Rich

          Same goes for Girls With Slingshots. I can’t think of any webcomic that does hate alcohol offhand. Most of the time it’s either never addressed as an issue, or it’s mostly positive as a social element with a few characters having to deal with alcoholism or alcohol-related criminal behavior (most often DWI). Being completely positive or negative about drinking is pretty unrealistic either way.

          The only ones I’ve seen that are wholly positive in a “wacky hijinks” kind of way are comedy/parody strips like the PixieTrix stuff (especially Sandra On the Rocks) and Skullkickers. Having a grim story about a character fighting with alcoholism would be pretty out of place in any of those.

        2. John

          Ever read Willis’s earlier work? The whole climactic arc of Roomies! is a messed-up anti-drinking and premarital hanky-panky Aesop.

          But, yeah, I don’t see how this is supposed to be alcohol-hating. Billie and Ruth obviously have a problem, but Dorothy and Walky seem to be having fun among friends, and Dorothy in particular is probably the closest thing to an entirely positive role-model character that the comic has.

        3. Rich

          That is not what I took away from Roomies at all. YMMV, of course. There’s a large difference between being down on alcohol abuse and being an outright Prohibitionist.

        4. No Name

          It was Willis’s original intent. He got better, but still.

        5. Someone

          But even Willis doesn’t like that anymore.

  68. Marie

    I don’t remember who I was going to reply to, but regarding Joyce feeling betrayed and stuff- part of the point of dorm party was for Joyce to have a safe party with Becky, and seeing as alcohol (the atmosphere, mainly) and unknown additions to drinks are probably big triggers for her, it’s probably not safe or friendly feeling now. They don’t probably know that about it; I don’t think Becky gave that info out on the invitation, so it’s not entirely their fault (they do know it would make her uncomfortable, but that’s quite smaller on the scale), but I can see Joyce feeling betrayed, regardless of justification.

  69. Roborat

    Love the grin in the fourth panel. Looks like Dorothy is a fun drunk.

  70. Keulan

    What did Billie put in that flask, Everclear? Either it’s something really strong or they all have really low alcohol tolerance. In any case, drunk Dorothy is hilarious.

    1. Bicycle Bill

      It appeared to be brown when she was pouring it into the Solo cups, so it couldn’t be Everclear or high-proof vodka.  Maybe Bacardi 151 rum?

  71. Plasma Mongoose

    Mum’s the word. ^_^

  72. nothri

    ……Good point, Dorothy. Well made.

  73. Tim m

    Looking forward to drunk Danny, drunk Ethan, and drunk Amber hooking up for some MMF action. I’d subscribe to slip shine for that.

  74. Kaoy

    So, Dorothy is a Paradox Space clone?

  75. halcyon1234

    I won’t believe President Dorothy is her own mom unless I see her long form birth certificate.

  76. Marissa

    Walky licking Dorothy’s finger? Totally drunk me, lol

  77. BrokenEye, True False Prophet

    Your flaw is logicless

  78. de Combys

    Wow. Took me almost a year to realize that Walky was licking Dorothy’s finger in the last panel.

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