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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    January 16, 2020 at 12:01 am | # | Reply

    Hey

    • NickBMorgan
      NickBMorgan
      January 16, 2020 at 12:13 am | # | Reply

      OOOoooo-oooo-ooo
      I do, I do, I do, I do-OOoo!

      • a/snow/mous/e
        a/snow/mous/e
        January 16, 2020 at 12:21 am | # | Reply

        boy you got me helpless~ look into your eyes and the sky’s the limit

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          January 16, 2020 at 12:31 am | # | Reply

          Down for the count and I’m drownin’ in ’em

          (wow is my gravatar appropriate)

          • Ferret
            Ferret
            January 16, 2020 at 1:41 am | # | Reply

            I have never been the type to revel in the spotlight

            • CianM1301
              CianM1301
              January 16, 2020 at 4:14 am | # | Reply

              We were at a revel with some rebels on a hot night

      • Clif
        Clif
        January 16, 2020 at 8:44 am | # | Reply

        Hey girl, hey girl
        We can make it easy if we lift each other

    • a/snow/mous/e
      a/snow/mous/e
      January 16, 2020 at 12:22 am | # | Reply

      What did you say? What’s going on?

    • Clif
      Clif
      January 16, 2020 at 12:24 am | # | Reply

      Make hey where the sun shines. Or where the Lucy shines, as the case may be.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 16, 2020 at 2:12 am | # | Reply

      Hey
      My, my
      Rock and roll can never die

    • Abel Undercity
      Abel Undercity
      January 16, 2020 at 6:24 am | # | Reply

      Don’t you… forget about me…
      I’ll be alone… dancing, you know it baby…

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      January 16, 2020 at 8:22 am | # | Reply

      Hey.

      (with The Shoulder Move)

    • Sazazezer
      Sazazezer
      January 16, 2020 at 11:33 am | # | Reply

      Legitimately thought that was going to be an ‘Into the Spider-Verse’ link of some description.

      • Azhrei Vep
        Azhrei Vep
        January 16, 2020 at 12:45 pm | # | Reply

        Good to know I wasn’t alone in that.

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        January 16, 2020 at 11:00 pm | # | Reply

        dang, that WOULD’VE been better, since that’s ALSO a pretty creepy move

  2. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    January 16, 2020 at 12:01 am | # | Reply

    Extended Edition.

    • Makkabee
      Makkabee
      January 16, 2020 at 2:17 am | # | Reply

      Well played, sir.

      Or madam. Or whatever honorific is appropriate.

      • Casi
        Casi
        January 16, 2020 at 12:41 pm | # | Reply

        Obviously its Doctor! Just Doctor though. Also yeah that was great. Now it makes me want to extend it even more lol but MST3K is the best finisher for it

  3. Madock345
    Madock345
    January 16, 2020 at 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Hey ?

  4. King Daniel
    King Daniel
    January 16, 2020 at 12:02 am | # | Reply

    *segues into Helpless*

  5. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    January 16, 2020 at 12:02 am | # | Reply

    forum doesn’t like my comment today huh

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      January 16, 2020 at 12:04 am | # | Reply

      Forum prefers the He-Man version, maybe?

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        January 16, 2020 at 10:59 pm | # | Reply

        oh, it just hid it from me for some reason. it’s at the top now

  6. Kravis
    Kravis
    January 16, 2020 at 12:02 am | # | Reply

    HELLO THERE

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      January 16, 2020 at 12:03 am | # | Reply

      General Kenobi!

      • JediMB
        JediMB
        January 16, 2020 at 12:13 am | # | Reply

        How uncivilized.

        • Tacos
          Tacos
          January 16, 2020 at 12:16 am | # | Reply

          DO IT

          • King Daniel
            King Daniel
            January 16, 2020 at 12:32 am | # | Reply

            There are too many of them. What are we going to do?

            • Delicious Taffy
              Delicious Taffy
              January 16, 2020 at 12:36 am | # | Reply

              I’ll try spining, that’s a neat tricks.

              • fire_daws
                fire_daws
                January 16, 2020 at 3:15 am | # | Reply

                I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.

                • StClair
                  StClair
                  January 16, 2020 at 3:50 am | #

                  There’s always a bigger fish.

                • Jeff K!,
                  Jeff K!,
                  January 16, 2020 at 4:37 am | #

                  You don’t want to sell me any death sticks.

                • FacelessDeviant
                  FacelessDeviant
                  January 16, 2020 at 5:37 am | #

                  Now THIS is PODRACING!

  7. shadowcell
    shadowcell
    January 16, 2020 at 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Dumbing of Age Book 10: Hey

  8. Keulen
    Keulen
    January 16, 2020 at 12:04 am | # | Reply

    DoA Book 10: Hey

  9. Van Jealous
    Van Jealous
    January 16, 2020 at 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey!

  10. Tan
    Tan
    January 16, 2020 at 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Lucy. No. Creepy.

    • Clif
      Clif
      January 16, 2020 at 12:27 am | # | Reply

      Well, she is sitting there in her own room.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        January 16, 2020 at 2:25 am | # | Reply

        But pulling up a chair to watch her roommate sleep with her girlfriend? Creepy.

        • Thulcandran
          Thulcandran
          January 16, 2020 at 4:03 am | # | Reply

          And chiming in on their sleepily-waking-up greetings, which is just over-the-top rude.

          • Bicycle Bill
            Bicycle Bill
            January 16, 2020 at 8:47 am | # | Reply

            At least Lucy announced herself before Ruth and Billie got too far along into whatever else might have ensued.

          • Clif
            Clif
            January 16, 2020 at 9:36 am | # | Reply

            Well, I’m sure that Billie asked for permission before bringing someone over to spend the night in their shared living space.

            • anonamousethatscurriesinthedarkness
              anonamousethatscurriesinthedarkness
              January 16, 2020 at 10:48 am | # | Reply

              So what’s next?

              Lucy on the morning glomp menu?
              No tackle hugs though, those are dangerous..

              • Azhrei Vep
                Azhrei Vep
                January 16, 2020 at 12:46 pm | # | Reply

                Isn’t that what a glomp is?

                • Freemage
                  Freemage
                  January 16, 2020 at 9:27 pm | #

                  Nah, a glomp usually is simply a forceful and sudden hug, not necessarily involving a tackle component. Also, if you’re in an anime, hands will land somewhere inappropriate. (I’ve never seen a crotch-grab glomp, but I haven’t watched every anime out there, and it wouldn’t surprise me.)

              • Bridgebrain
                Bridgebrain
                January 16, 2020 at 2:10 pm | # | Reply

                I tackle hugged a girl once because I thought it’d be a good idea at the time. It wasn’t. Lost that friendship. Tackle hugs are only cute if you’re significantly smaller than the tackle-ee

                • He Who Abides
                  He Who Abides
                  January 16, 2020 at 5:07 pm | #

                  This is true. And the reason why I’m never the glomper ?

            • Tan
              Tan
              January 16, 2020 at 6:30 pm | # | Reply

              It is not that Lucy is present (she is certainly allowed to be). It is not even that she offers a greeting. It is that -the entirety of her focus- is 100% on the two girls who were just sleeping a minute ago. She is pulled up in a chair directly to look at them, with no object anywhere at hand for even plausible deniability that she was doing anything other than watching them for some unspecified length of time.

              If Lucy were just being in the room doing her own thing, heard Billie and Ruth waking up, glanced over her shoulder, and said ‘Hey’: not creepy. Possibly somewhat startling for Billie and Ruth in their still-waking-up state not really realizing they aren’t alone, but objectively A-OK, especially as it’s better to give them the heads-up sooner rather than later.

              Or if Lucy were angry with Billie bringing Ruth home without notice, there’d be some justification for her to loom without actually waking them up. It’d be a little passive-aggressive, but not creepy. There is nothing in her expression that suggests even mild annoyance though.

              This is being invasive into a relationship that is not hers. That’s creepy.

              • Agemegos
                Agemegos
                January 16, 2020 at 7:11 pm | # | Reply

                Take into account that

                (1) Ruth has an unshared room that she and Billie could have used.

                (2) Lucy was visibly present when Billie and Ruth came into the room.

                And then explain why Lucy should not conclude that they want to be watched.

                • Tan
                  Tan
                  January 16, 2020 at 7:41 pm | #

                  Because most of us moved past ‘But she was wearing a short skirt’ as an acceptable defense about a century ago?

    • He Who Abides
      He Who Abides
      January 16, 2020 at 4:53 am | # | Reply

      THANK YOU! I knew at least one other person would find this creepy.

  11. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    January 16, 2020 at 12:04 am | # | Reply

    LUCY! I missed her.

    Also, Ruth doesn’t seem as surprised, guessing since Billie’s facing away from Lucy, whereas Ruth isn’t. Ruth is also just generally less oblivious.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      January 16, 2020 at 12:09 am | # | Reply

      Billie missed her too.

      But her aim is getting better!

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      January 16, 2020 at 6:36 am | # | Reply

      I think it’s mostly that we can see Billie’s face more clearly. I’d read Ruth as more annoyance than surprise, but it’s hard to say from that angle.

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      January 16, 2020 at 7:02 pm | # | Reply

      Why would Ruth be surprised? She knows it’s Lucy’s room, and doubtless saw Lucy when she and Billie came in last night.

      Speaking of what everybody knows, Lucy knows that Ruth has an unshared room she and Billie could have used.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        January 16, 2020 at 7:19 pm | # | Reply

        Surprised that Lucy is sitting there staring at them, not that she’s there at all. Or, alternately, still waking up and coming to awareness of the world beyond her and Billie, so surprised she’s not in her own room, even if she’ll remember that as soon as she’s awake.

  12. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    January 16, 2020 at 12:06 am | # | Reply

    A question with no good answer: Your place or mine?

    • Kat
      Kat
      January 16, 2020 at 12:26 am | # | Reply

      But the answer should always be “whichever place doesn’t have roommates who can go full Edward on us.”

    • Stephen Bierce
      Stephen Bierce
      January 16, 2020 at 2:00 am | # | Reply

      Footnote: My mental DJ spun up Van Halen’s “Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love”, but I decided against playing it on the hacked Muzak as a service to you.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        January 16, 2020 at 2:32 am | # | Reply

        It’s not off Van Halen III, so it gets a pass.

      • wwwhhattt
        wwwhhattt
        January 16, 2020 at 5:25 am | # | Reply

        This seems appropriate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8pQlygClhQ
        (Charles Hayward – Watching You)

  13. Lawzlo
    Lawzlo
    January 16, 2020 at 12:06 am | # | Reply

    I think the real question is: Why isn’t Andrew Garfield tagged?

    • Clif
      Clif
      January 16, 2020 at 12:28 am | # | Reply

      An oversight, I’m sure.

  14. Laladoria
    Laladoria
    January 16, 2020 at 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Yeah that’s definitely not creepy, and a great way to improve relations with your roommate. Watch them sleep while they cuddle!! What could go wrong.

    • Clif
      Clif
      January 16, 2020 at 12:33 am | # | Reply

      Worst case, you could wind up falling headfirst from a fire escape.

      • Abel Undercity
        Abel Undercity
        January 16, 2020 at 6:25 am | # | Reply

        Sans femurs.

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          January 16, 2020 at 8:07 am | # | Reply

          But you need your femurs to live!

      • anonamousethatscurriesinthedarkness
        anonamousethatscurriesinthedarkness
        January 16, 2020 at 10:56 am | # | Reply

        And Best case is a Pillow barrage and a tickle punishment followup, though that all depends on how ticklish Lucy is.

        Nobody expects the tickle inquisition. Especially from these two.

  15. Architex
    Architex
    January 16, 2020 at 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Hey

    • a/snow/mous/e
      a/snow/mous/e
      January 16, 2020 at 12:23 am | # | Reply

      Hey

  16. Lawzlo
    Lawzlo
    January 16, 2020 at 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Warning, the EP cover associated with the below link may not be safe for work:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNu0EKnrv8U

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      January 16, 2020 at 12:27 am | # | Reply

      The one that goes with this one, on the other hand is just a bit weird.

  17. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    January 16, 2020 at 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Way to ruin a moment Lucy. Granted if they wanted a moment alone they probably should be in Ruth’s room instead.

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      January 16, 2020 at 6:54 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah. Choosing Lucy’s room over Ruth’s for this is pretty gross and inconsiderate.

      • Agemegos
        Agemegos
        January 16, 2020 at 7:05 pm | # | Reply

        Unless, of course, Billie and Ruth knew that Lucy was a voyeur, and put a show on for her.

        With Lucy’s consent.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          January 16, 2020 at 7:21 pm | # | Reply

          “put on a show”?

          I mean, they could have, but more likely they just came home and went to sleep.

          • Agemegos
            Agemegos
            January 16, 2020 at 8:57 pm | # | Reply

            Right. I don’t suggest that that is what Ruth and Billie did. I gave it as an example of something that they might have done that would have ended up in this situation, but that would not have been gross and inconsiderate of Lucy.

            What I suppose they actually did do was to barge in to Lucy’s bedroom when she was asleep, remove their shoes and trousers, then go to bed together and react with hostility to Lucy for being there when they woke up.

  18. mrnoidea
    mrnoidea
    January 16, 2020 at 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Lucy, you’re pulling an Edward.

    • StClair
      StClair
      January 16, 2020 at 12:11 am | # | Reply

      Never go full sparklepire Edward.

  19. Bagge
    Bagge
    January 16, 2020 at 12:10 am | # | Reply

    RESPECT THE SOCK, LUCY! (even if it’s only a metaphoreical sock.)

    • Khyrin
      Khyrin
      January 16, 2020 at 6:34 am | # | Reply

      The Sock is only to be respected if it comes OFF when your done, or if the roommate has ANYWHERE else to go.

      My roommate first term sophomore year got in the habit of locking the door and falling asleep IMMEDIATELY post-coitus. Meaning he was locking me out of my bedroom until he woke up in the morning.

      Then he took his bed off the frame so he and his girlfriend wouldn’t ‘wake me up’. It took me a few days to realize they decided that it was okay for them to initiate WITH ME IN THE ROOM, ASLEEP.

      I eventually just claimed the couch in the common room as my bed.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        January 16, 2020 at 11:19 am | # | Reply

        I have no properly considered the tricky bylaws of sock etikett.

        also: …ouch! I’m sorry. Sounds like quite an experience.

      • TemperaryObsessor
        TemperaryObsessor
        January 16, 2020 at 2:40 pm | # | Reply

        Yea its not like your desire to sleep should be respected less than your roommates desire to fuck. Honestly I think the proper way to go about it is to assume you won’t have privacy that long and thus plan ahead with your room mate if you need privacy longer than it takes you to change.
        Honestly I’m pretty socks are for visitors and maids not those who have equil right to be there as you.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          January 16, 2020 at 3:24 pm | # | Reply

          Well, it’s a courtesy, so that you’re warned what to expect, not an absolute bar.
          I remember walking in on my roommate and his girlfriend once midmorning. I needed a textbook or something for my next class. I wasn’t going to screw up class just to be polite about his sex life.

          • TemperaryObsessor
            TemperaryObsessor
            January 16, 2020 at 4:54 pm | # | Reply

            That makes more sense.

  20. Axel
    Axel
    January 16, 2020 at 12:11 am | # | Reply

    this is at least less weird than when I first looked and thought it was all in Ruth’s room

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 16, 2020 at 5:18 am | # | Reply

      Nah, the murder cave is blue now.

  21. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    January 16, 2020 at 12:14 am | # | Reply

    I like to watch.
    I LIKE.
    TO WATCH.

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      January 16, 2020 at 12:18 am | # | Reply

      Thanks, I choked on my Sun Chips.

  22. BarerMender
    BarerMender
    January 16, 2020 at 12:15 am | # | Reply

    Billie must be feeling better. Or she was until Luch heyed.

    • Clif
      Clif
      January 16, 2020 at 12:47 am | # | Reply

      Lunch heyed? I think it’s more likely that Lucy is breakfast.

      She might be toast.

  23. Tacos
    Tacos
    January 16, 2020 at 12:15 am | # | Reply

    Oh sure that’s not creepy at all Lucy…

  24. Ghastly
    Ghastly
    January 16, 2020 at 12:15 am | # | Reply

    What is this, a Lego City commercial?

  25. BarerMender
    BarerMender
    January 16, 2020 at 12:15 am | # | Reply

    Ach! *Lucy*

  26. RacingTurtle
    RacingTurtle
    January 16, 2020 at 12:20 am | # | Reply

    AWWWWWWWwhuh?

    • Happilychaotic
      Happilychaotic
      January 16, 2020 at 4:34 am | # | Reply

      Hey!

  27. Jay
    Jay
    January 16, 2020 at 12:26 am | # | Reply

    And then people wonder why Billie isn’t Lucy’s biggest fan

  28. BBCC
    BBCC
    January 16, 2020 at 12:26 am | # | Reply

    Lucy, c’mon, don’t watch people sleep.

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      January 16, 2020 at 12:33 am | # | Reply

      She knows what they did, now here’s a surprise…

  29. Solenoid
    Solenoid
    January 16, 2020 at 12:27 am | # | Reply

    At this rate, I expect the last student we’ll see wake up is Mike himself, probably in the hospital with serious shit going down.

    At least he’ll wake up if my gut’s right there. Blaine doesn’t get to wake up, I don’t think.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      January 16, 2020 at 6:41 am | # | Reply

      Or Mike just wakes up in his own bed, with no acknowledgement of anything. Takes a jab at Walky for not coming home last night.

      • Shane
        Shane
        January 16, 2020 at 2:06 pm | # | Reply

        Or in an intense torture/interrogation setting!

  30. Slartibeast Button, BIA
    Slartibeast Button, BIA
    January 16, 2020 at 12:30 am | # | Reply

    Hay is for horses, but it’s better for cows.

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      January 16, 2020 at 12:31 am | # | Reply

      (Not actually a Dad, but I partake of the essence of Dad Jokes.)

  31. Slartibeast Button, BIA
    Slartibeast Button, BIA
    January 16, 2020 at 12:32 am | # | Reply

    Of course, by the time the strip gets to graduation, People will think the mouseover is about *President* Garfield.

    • Clif
      Clif
      January 16, 2020 at 12:51 am | # | Reply

      The fact that President Andrew Garfield wasn’t elected until years after the strip ran will really confuse them.

  32. Delicious Taffy
    Delicious Taffy
    January 16, 2020 at 12:33 am | # | Reply

    It’s cool that Lucky has a signed photo of the Ninth Doctor. I always enjoy a good Dr. WHO referents.

  33. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    January 16, 2020 at 12:44 am | # | Reply

    Many people have woken up in weird romantic arrangements in this story arc. I just hope the next person waking up is Mike in a hospital bed and not dead. If Mike is dead I am going to riot.

    • Geneseepaws
      Geneseepaws
      January 16, 2020 at 1:32 am | # | Reply

      Full-on Riot, like with torches and pitchforks, and peasants in the streets? Per Frahnkensteen? (Or Frankenstein?)

    • RicardtheDragoon
      RicardtheDragoon
      January 16, 2020 at 2:14 am | # | Reply

      For it to be a romantic arrangement in the hospital, does that mean Mike would wake up next to a pretty nurse or doctor or orderly or someone’s mom or just a fellow patient with or Blaine?

  34. Dean
    Dean
    January 16, 2020 at 1:08 am | # | Reply

    This strip will be displayed in a future museum, next to a plaque explaining that during the Renaissance civilization, Andrew Garfield was more often depicted as a corpulent orange cat.

  35. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    January 16, 2020 at 1:14 am | # | Reply

    What? No popcorn?

  36. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    January 16, 2020 at 1:36 am | # | Reply

    So… I guess Lucy has …. MORE boundaries than Joyce?

    • Charles Phipps
      Charles Phipps
      January 16, 2020 at 1:59 am | # | Reply

      Well Lucy is waking up someone who doesn’t consider her a friend unlike Joyce so…no?

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        January 16, 2020 at 6:44 am | # | Reply

        Joyce started with the hovering waking up before any of them were really friends, so probably yes.

        OTOH, Joyce is getting better about it. She’s learned to knock before going in to Sal’s room.

        • JBento
          JBento
          January 16, 2020 at 9:11 am | # | Reply

          Funny how violent choking makes people respect your boundaries REALLY FAST.

          And they say violence never accomplished anything.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            January 16, 2020 at 10:45 am | # | Reply

            Except it didn’t really. She kept doing it after at least the first couple violent chokings. I think it was more of a general change than the violence.

            • Mr. Random
              Mr. Random
              January 16, 2020 at 11:40 pm | # | Reply

              Got it, consistent violence AND stern lectures are how you handle disputes as an adult.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        January 16, 2020 at 12:07 pm | # | Reply

        Lucy didn’t wake them up. She said ‘hey’ after they woke up.

  37. Jamie
    Jamie
    January 16, 2020 at 1:44 am | # | Reply

    Shoulder touch?

    • Kensou
      Kensou
      January 16, 2020 at 3:51 am | # | Reply

      He CAN’T do it ON COMMAND.

  38. Suet
    Suet
    January 16, 2020 at 1:51 am | # | Reply

    hey-</a hey, guess they did leave sometime after midnight

  39. Jimi
    Jimi
    January 16, 2020 at 1:52 am | # | Reply

    What a wonderful kind of day
    If you can learn to work and play
    And get along with each other

    • Jimi
      Jimi
      January 16, 2020 at 1:53 am | # | Reply

      Wow couldn’t have asked for a better Gravatar on this comment

  40. Dana
    Dana
    January 16, 2020 at 1:54 am | # | Reply

    Dammit Billie! That was for the whole situation, not anything specific to today’s comic.

  41. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    January 16, 2020 at 1:58 am | # | Reply

    Breaking and entering to watch people sleep is always creepy, Lucy. It’s vampire stuff. Don’t be a vampire.

    • Xenocide
      Xenocide
      January 16, 2020 at 2:26 am | # | Reply

      Not sure she has to break and enter into her own room, which I’m fairly sure this is.

      • Thulcandran
        Thulcandran
        January 16, 2020 at 4:01 am | # | Reply

        Yeah, but if I fell asleep with my partner in a dorm room and woke up to my roommate sitting backwards on a chair watching us, I’d be creeped out as hell.

      • Charles Phipps
        Charles Phipps
        January 16, 2020 at 10:11 am | # | Reply

        Sorry, misttook it for Ruth’s room.

        But yes, creepy as F.

  42. BenRG
    BenRG
    January 16, 2020 at 2:08 am | # | Reply

    You can’t exactly criticise Lucy for not respecting boundaries if, as I suspect, Bille and Ruth are snuggling in Billie and Lucy’s room!

    • Clif
      Clif
      January 16, 2020 at 9:48 am | # | Reply

      I doubt it. I’d put a small amount of money that you could find people who would criticize Lucy for not respecting boundaries even if Billie and Ruth were snuggling in Lucy’s bed.

      • He Who Abides
        He Who Abides
        January 16, 2020 at 5:20 pm | # | Reply

        Well, some context would help clear things up. If we find out that they woke Lucy up via mad shagging, or left her a note asking to keep an eye on them because of Billie detoxing, or she starts with something like “so, ask next time you want to bring a guest over”, that’s understandable. If she saw them and just decided to stare because she’s into that, that’s different.

        Also, Clif, we (my fiancee and I) did find out why she lived with my family for a while. Apparently her parents had to move back to Japan because of a visa-related SNAFU, and they asked my father to take her in since she was already a citizen and they didn’t want to uproot her while they were taking care of it.

        • Clif
          Clif
          January 17, 2020 at 5:26 pm | # | Reply

          That was generous of your father, and I’m glad everything worked out for everyone.

  43. Kim
    Kim
    January 16, 2020 at 2:18 am | # | Reply

    Hm. Are we going to have to wait ’til Amber becomes AG, this evening, to get info on Mike, maybe?

    • Clif
      Clif
      January 16, 2020 at 9:50 am | # | Reply

      Mike who? None of us recall any Mike. You must be thinking of some other Willisverse.

      • Lumus
        Lumus
        January 16, 2020 at 12:20 pm | # | Reply

        I genuinely keep forgetting that Mike is a thing.

      • Geneseepaws
        Geneseepaws
        January 16, 2020 at 5:46 pm | # | Reply

        Mike and Mike! What IS Mike?
        Or what is this Mike of which you speak?

      • Agemegos
        Agemegos
        January 16, 2020 at 6:35 pm | # | Reply

        I’m not waiting on a status update for Chuck Cunningham, either.

        WARNING! Link to TVtropes!

  44. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    January 16, 2020 at 3:17 am | # | Reply

    Hey, Lucy. What are you doing here?

    • Zee
      Zee
      January 16, 2020 at 8:10 am | # | Reply

      It’s her room

  45. TrueVCU
    TrueVCU
    January 16, 2020 at 3:17 am | # | Reply

    Billie is still absolutely not used to being seen in Lesbian Mode

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      January 16, 2020 at 6:47 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, for all the critique of Lucy watching, it’s great to see that Billie’s dropped enough pretense to bring Ruth over to her dorm. I wonder if we’ll see the rest of the floor’s reaction.

  46. Morrison
    Morrison
    January 16, 2020 at 3:42 am | # | Reply

    Masterful, Author Willis.

  47. Agemegos
    Agemegos
    January 16, 2020 at 4:23 am | # | Reply

    Room-mating at college is a weird custom.

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      January 16, 2020 at 5:00 am | # | Reply

      For starters, how does one mate with a room? Do you just hhhhwhip it out and start jamming stuff wherever it’ll fit?

      • Agemegos
        Agemegos
        January 16, 2020 at 5:13 am | # | Reply

        I imagine so. I have no experience of the custom, though.

      • miri
        miri
        January 16, 2020 at 7:03 am | # | Reply

        Bedknobs and broomsticks.

  48. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    January 16, 2020 at 4:32 am | # | Reply

    ok, the bed is at floor level, so it’s Ruth room isn’t it ? What is that gal doing there lol

    • DarkoNeko
      DarkoNeko
      January 16, 2020 at 4:35 am | # | Reply

      Wait, no, it’s Billie’s uniform, not Leafs

  49. He Who Abides
    He Who Abides
    January 16, 2020 at 4:56 am | # | Reply

    At least Billie doesn’t look as sick as she did yesterday.

  50. Kaz
    Kaz
    January 16, 2020 at 5:07 am | # | Reply

    A few more seconds of this and then it leads into them breaking out into singing “Helpless” because lets keep the Hamilton references going.

  51. Josh Spicer
    Josh Spicer
    January 16, 2020 at 8:08 am | # | Reply

    Oooh, I do I do I do I doooo~

    Sorry.

  52. Deanatay
    Deanatay
    January 16, 2020 at 8:29 am | # | Reply

    Malaya was apparently right.

    Lucy really DOES ruin EVERYTHING.

  53. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    January 16, 2020 at 8:44 am | # | Reply

    This is a litte bit…. I know they are really cute together, but stare at them when they are asleep is…creepy.

  54. hof1991
    hof1991
    January 16, 2020 at 9:09 am | # | Reply

    Reminds me of the Far Side comic where barking dogs get translated and they are all saying “hey”. https://michaelscomments.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/dog-bark-translator/

  55. JBento
    JBento
    January 16, 2020 at 9:14 am | # | Reply

    And then Lucy was hit a rolled-up newspaper, sprayed with water, relieved of her femurs, and never seen again.

    Why do so few people in this comic have a concept of boundaries?

    • Charles Phipps
      Charles Phipps
      January 16, 2020 at 10:12 am | # | Reply

      Wooden stake and mallet. Watching you during your sleep is classic vampire behavior.

    • Clif
      Clif
      January 16, 2020 at 10:13 am | # | Reply

      Lucy woke up this morning to find an unexpected guest in her bedroom. Instead of demanding an explanation she was considerate enough to dress and prepare to face the day without making loud noises and waking them. Then she sits quietly in a chair on her side of the room waiting for them to wake and gives them a friendly “hey” when they do.

      Lucy is obviously the one with no boundaries.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        January 16, 2020 at 10:44 am | # | Reply

        It is weird that she’s apparently sitting there watching them. Would be much less so if she’d been sitting at her desk and turned around to say “hey” when they talked.

      • JBento
        JBento
        January 16, 2020 at 4:52 pm | # | Reply

        Lucy woke up this morning to find her roommate was snuggling with her girlfriend. Instead of going about her day she decided to set up a chair and stare at them while they slept.

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      January 16, 2020 at 6:26 pm | # | Reply

      You’re right about disrespect of boundaries being widespread in this comic.

      Last night Ruth and Billie could easily have got their snuggle on in Ruth’s unshared room. Instead they chose to do it in the room that Lucy has to share.

  56. Mr.Morningstar
    Mr.Morningstar
    January 16, 2020 at 10:36 am | # | Reply

    “you two got really freaky last night damn”

  57. Daikaiju
    Daikaiju
    January 16, 2020 at 10:37 am | # | Reply

    We’re the Monkees?

    • Charlie Spencer
      Charlie Spencer
      January 17, 2020 at 6:16 am | # | Reply

      No, that’s just two ‘Hey’s.

  58. Smallfoot
    Smallfoot
    January 16, 2020 at 10:43 am | # | Reply

    It’s Fat Albert!

    • Charlie Spencer
      Charlie Spencer
      January 17, 2020 at 6:16 am | # | Reply

      Thank you.

  59. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    January 16, 2020 at 12:07 pm | # | Reply

    As a fellow freckled, I don’t remember that we’ve seen the freckles on Ruth’s shoulder blades already.

  60. seen2much
    seen2much
    January 16, 2020 at 12:10 pm | # | Reply

    HI, I’m Daisy!

  61. Ascension
    Ascension
    January 16, 2020 at 12:59 pm | # | Reply

    I haven’t encountered this many “Hey”s without an associated “Adora” in a long time.

  62. BlackScarabZ
    BlackScarabZ
    January 16, 2020 at 1:03 pm | # | Reply

    It’s got one more “Hey” than the meme, but this reminds me of that TikTok trend that uses the opening riff from Redbone’s “Come and Get Your Love”. (The “What?” part of the meme being Billie’s face)

  63. Shane
    Shane
    January 16, 2020 at 2:14 pm | # | Reply

    Lucy, being in her own room, doesn’t owe them having to secile herself. She COULD pretend not to hear and not chime in. But they are putting her in a weird place by adding people to the room without consulting her probably. Plus it’s weird that Ruth is an RA. By dorm policy, guests probably aren’t supposed to stay overnight. I mean imagine how weird it would be for Lucy if a giant football linebacker was who Billie was cuddling with on the couch all night in her room. Ruth isn’t really less weird than that just because she is a woman.

    It’s a little passive aggressive, but Lucy is kind of saying ‘uh right so I can still see and hear you, strange and uninvited roommate who I am TRYING to be cool and sunny about despite not myself getting laid.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      January 16, 2020 at 4:12 pm | # | Reply

      I dunno about policy, but people sleeping over isn’t exactly uncommon in college. I do believe back when Becky was staying the dorms there was talk here of something around a 3 night limit.
      It’s a courtesy to check with your roommate, but it’s not really weird or shocking not to. Rude, certainly.

      What’s offputting about Lucy’s behavior isn’t that she hasn’t left or that she’s talking to them, but that the scene is framed to make it look like she’s been sitting there staring at them while they slept. If she’d been sitting at her desk and looked over her shoulder to say “hey” when she heard them talking, I doubt anyone would object.

  64. TemperaryObsessor
    TemperaryObsessor
    January 16, 2020 at 2:42 pm | # | Reply

    I don’t think Lucy is being rude by existing in her own room. I do think watching Billie and Ruth sleep like that is creepy and rude.

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      January 16, 2020 at 3:04 pm | # | Reply

      I like to think she was doing something else, but she turned around when she heard them stirring. It negates the weirdness of Lucy just watching them sleep.

  65. Buforana
    Buforana
    January 16, 2020 at 3:18 pm | # | Reply

    I love just how hard we’re ignoring Mike at this point! XD

    • Shane
      Shane
      January 16, 2020 at 10:50 pm | # | Reply

      Who?

  66. Crumplepunch
    Crumplepunch
    January 16, 2020 at 3:24 pm | # | Reply

    Honestly I thought that was Jack Quaid.

  67. Wakeangel2001
    Wakeangel2001
    January 16, 2020 at 3:24 pm | # | Reply

    so…she likes to watch eh?

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      January 16, 2020 at 6:43 pm | # | Reply

      And they like to be watched.

      If they wanted privacy they could have had it — in Ruth’s room.

  68. Bunnygurl
    Bunnygurl
    January 16, 2020 at 5:28 pm | # | Reply

    I am like itching with anticipation to see what happened to Mike, is he dead? I’d never have expected this comic to suddenly turn that dark O_O

  69. Agemegos
    Agemegos
    January 16, 2020 at 6:17 pm | # | Reply

    Being drunk is a pretty poor excuse, but Billie and Ruth weren’t even drunk when they came back to the dorm. They could have gone to Ruth’s room. Instead, they chose to sleep together in Lucy’s bedroom. Quite apart from being rather rude to Lucy, that gives them no expectation of privacy. Indeed, if Lucy had construed it as an exhibitionist act that invited voyeurism you couldn’t say that that interpretation was unreasonable.

    They been dogging. Sober.

  70. Pocky
    Pocky
    January 17, 2020 at 4:50 pm | # | Reply

    oh hey- wait a minute

  71. Kyoulkoa
    Kyoulkoa
    January 18, 2020 at 12:30 pm | # | Reply

    Hey-
    I dunno why, I wanted panels 3 and 4 as 1 image.
    here is my fairly crappy attempt
    https://imgur.com/a/SwBeWKX

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