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Morning after
Posted on December 27, 2016 by David M Willis
Yesterday was Boxing Day, and so for this week's Welcome to the Fuck Zone, y'all got Ruth and Billie.  If you look over to the left, there's the usual banner ad preview.   It was kind of hard to carve out a preview image from this one that didn't have some combination of primary or secondary sexual characteristics on there, for the usual attempt at a semblance of work-safeness.  So enjoy some FRIGGIN' ELBOWS, I GUESS.

337 thoughts on “Morning after”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    so wait

    is Leslie JUST NOW getting to bed or

    1. Kathleen

      i assume doing that thing where you wake up and then decide to go back to sleep for another hour.

      It must be Saturday

      1. John

        It’s Tuesday.

        And, whut.

        1. butts

          Like, I want to assume hot professor-on-politician action, but Robin’s still wearing the same shirt from last night.

        2. Cholma

          Panel 4: Leslie’s brain says, “NOPE” and she returns to bed.

        3. Dean

          “Fuck it, no morning classes today.”

        4. Mollyscribbles

          Cuddled and watched Steven Universe under the covers.

        5. Shade

          “Oh crap we got all the way to season 2. That’s way too serious.”

        6. Chaucer59

          Yes, @butts, the same shirt—but is she wearing any PANTS?

        7. Positron

          She’s currently wearing Leslie’s pants

        8. BBCC

          Leslie didn’t wear pants yesterday, she wore a skirt.

        9. Needfuldoer

          She spilled something on hers and helped herself to a clean pair.

        10. BBCC

          Well played.

        11. Psi Baka Onna

          Sometimes it’s brilliant being an English person listening to a bunch of Americans talking purely for the whole pants meaning underwear thing over here.

        12. vlademir1

          @Psi Baka Onna I can see that. Now I find myself wondering just how much funnier that makes this old CN Legion of Doom commercial for you.
          Also biscuits and gravy ;D

        13. onetwoduck

          I’m crossing my fingers. I guess this explains the advert for a new slipshine. I’m going to have to buy all the Dumbing of Age slipshines.

        14. AgentKeen

          “Sure, I’m a Congresswoman. But they don’t actually give me a place to sleep.”

        15. Aeron

          Saturday, Tuesday, what’s the difference?

    2. Bagge

      She is clearly NOT getting out of bed.

      1. Deanatay

        This being the Week After Christmas, I can sympathize.

    3. BenRG

      It seems to be a fairly typical “Next Morning in a Vegas Hotel” scenario. Leslie is just waking up, probably with a teensy bit of a hangover and has found Robin asleep in her bed. Her expression in panel 6 seems to say: “Wait… That bit wasn’t a dream?”

      What happened? “Yo, Teach, Riley tells me that this ‘Steven Universe’ thing is pretty cool! Care to show me the ropes?” There followed a season 1 binge with Leslie doing the über-fan thing and explaining all the subtexts as a running commentary only to find, about two hours in that Robin had fallen asleep in her lap.

      Leslie’s nice; instead of shaking her awake and telling her to go home, she let Robin sleep on her bed with her. Not the sort of decision that others would have made automatically, I know; I suspect that Leslie’s crush probably had more than a little affect on her decision-making here.

      1. Clif

        A truly evil person would tell you that you have to subscribe to Slipshine to find out.

    4. TheAnonymousGuy

      sooo, should we expect a single large freak out panel or several small freak out panels

      1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

        I’d vote for a series of alternating ever-tighter zoom-ins.

  2. Emperor Norton II

    Oh.
    Holy.
    Shit.

    1. Archivist

      I know. I’m excited about her Back to the Future poster too.

      1. butting

        A-and SERENITY!

        1. achallenger

          you are a heck of a nerd IDing it from what, 7% exposed poster area? fortunatly you are among friends and colleagues who can corroberate that is deff serenity. a Bean after my own heart

        2. Dabbler

          That’s clearly about 33% exposed poster.

        3. Disloyal Subject

          The ‘n’ is fully exposed; I’d call it 40%, especially after comparison to the other poster’s dimensions.

        4. butting

          Not to mention that panel 1 CLEARLY shows Mal and Zoe!

        5. Reltzik

          Implied hot lesbian sexings AND Serenity?

          … I’ll be in my bunk.

        6. Slartibeast Button, BIA

          Do homophobic-legislating lesbians go to the special hell?

    2. Bagge

      That sums it up nicely.

    3. DSL

      ” … the slip is brightly shi-i-i-i-i-i-i-ning…”

    4. Noheart6265

      I second this notion

  3. butts

    YESSSS

    i mean nuuu but also YESSSS

    1. Emperor Norton II

      Of course, it’s the third panel that has you going all “YESSSSS”.

      1. butts

        And the sixth. There were two YESSSSes.

    2. SmartAlec105

      Your profile pic makes me thing of this
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKBCW8Hcl4k

      1. butts

        Oh, that’s a good one for when I get sick of Amber’s ample ass.

        1. Emperor Norton II

          Pfft, as if that ever happens!

  4. Mr. Mendo

    Leslie, wherever this is going you ride it out! (Assuming you haven’t already.) 😉

    1. DarkoNeko

      I doubt they have.

  5. shadowcell

    HOT ELBOW ACTION

    1. Jay Eff

      It gives new meaning to the phrase “throwin’ bows”

  6. Porto

    OH SHIT DAWG IT’S ABOUT TO GO DOWN!

    1. Opus the Poet

      I think somebody already went down.

      1. Valerie

        God damn it Opus. ?

  7. Ana Chronistic

    also, DANG, those’re some lewd elbows

    1. David M Willis

      It’s honestly the hottest part, and I’m giving it away for FREE!

      1. butts

        Hot elbow-on-elbow action?

        1. achallenger

          well those elbows are deff frickin!

        2. Deanatay

          WHOA! I thought you said no primary sexual characteristics!!

          I can def see some weenus there…

        3. Slartibeast Button, BIA

          But is it incestous elbow-on-elbow action, like in Rocky Horror?

      2. JetstreamGW

        Whoa there, buddy. Gotta slow that shit down. At least provide some water, lest someone be overcome.

      3. a snow ʍousɐ

        ELBOWS: the most sensuous part of the human body? IS THAT EVEN A QUESTION

        1. Uncola Man

          Well, it’s said that if you want your elbow kissed, then it’s something you can’t do yourself.

        2. Deanatay

          It IS where the weenus is located…

      4. NelC

        Oh, where is my fainting couch!?

      5. Deathstalker

        So you are saying it’s really a funny bone with those two?

    2. Reltzik

      Nothing to get out of joint for.

      … seriously, it’s bent suggestively, but it’s just a funny bone.

      And well-drawn, but it’s got nothing on Picasso’s cubistal works.

      1. Dean

        There’s nothing humerus about the elbow. And that’s no fibia.

    3. AgentKeen

      I mean, look at the fluids.

  8. Siddlaw

    WELL, I’m glad that Leslie is still a Back to the Future fan.

  9. NinjaNick

    Surprise!

  10. ZerglingOne

    WHAT HAPPENED D:

    1. butts

      yo.

      1. ZerglingOne

        Butts happened?

        1. Council

          Clearly.

        2. ZerglingOne

          Clear as mud.

    2. Willoughby Chase

      Intercourse may or may not have taken place.

      People may or may not be happy as a result of the Schrödinger’s intercourse that may or not have taken place.

      You may or may not be happy with this comment.

  11. Shadowypenguin

    why do I feel like Robin broken in…

    1. Shadowypenguin

      *broke

    2. newllend(henryvolt)

      I do know, because there’s a part of our minds that says ” I can see her doing that.”

      1. Clif

        Well, that’s only because it’s perfectly plausible.

    3. Dean

      Assuming they have that kind of relationship, then yes, I would say that Leslie has Robin well broken in.

    4. Reltzik

      Broke? No. Picked the lock? Yes.

  12. ety

    Waht.

    1. Deanatay

      WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  13. MM

    Wow. That is some Walky-level overload.

  14. Kathleen

    ROBIN FUGUE STATE

  15. Whatevsman

    Don’t you just hate when that happens?

  16. Mr. Random

    I bet they watched all the way to Jailbreak.

    1. Jason

      I get that reference! Having recently experienced it!

    2. AgentKeen

      I mean, if you get to Ocean Gem, you kinda hafta just keep going.

  17. Kernanator

    Time to detective our way backwards from our conclusion!

  18. phroggonalog

    Dongs? Where we’re going, we won’t need dongs.

  19. Charles Phipps

    Quick, Leslie, terminate her with a pillow like you could in Fallout: New Vegas.

    1. Dean

      But will Leslie get +5 to Barter and Speech if she puts Robin’s clothes on afterward?

      1. Reltzik

        No, those clothes don’t give a buff. They’re duds.

      2. Needfuldoer

        It’s got a -6 on Logic, she’ll have to decide if the tradeoff’s worth it.

        Maybe if it comes with a good Unusual effect…

      3. Fire_daws

        If she puts on Robin’s glasses she receives a +10 int bonus. But only the ones with the extra thick rims.

        Also wot.

  20. NF

    That was unexpected. Wouldn’t have guessed Leslie is a Back to the Future fan.

    1. John

      It is known.

  21. Keulan

    What.

  22. Jay Eff

    Looks like that King Cobra paid off!!

    *dodges Thunderbird bottles*

  23. spoopyfox

    Cadbury

    not even once

  24. DarkoNeko

    Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha XD

  25. lia47

    go get a roomie, robin

    1. Fart Captor

      Apparently, she has a volunteer

    2. ChessboardMan

      “Hey, how come you’re not naked?!”
      “You’re clothed too- hang on, this is exactly what you were wearing last night!”

    3. Historyman68

      Go set a watchman

    4. Slartibeast Button, BIA

      That is her roomie. Leslie made her dress up as Robin for … stuff.

  26. Cerberus

    Pictured above: Leslie messing up beyond the point of no return.

    1. Emperor Norton II

      Not specifically mentioned, but still pictured: Internal screaming loud enough to wake the whole university if it had actual volume.

    2. trlkly

      The usual way this trope goes is that it turns out they didn’t have sex together, but wound up this way due to wacky shenanigans.

      1. Cybersnark

        In the bed next to them is Mike.

        1. Clif

          DOA Mike is still too young and inexperienced to pull that off yet.

        2. Slartibeast Button, BIA

          Besides, neither of them has a child.

      2. Deanatay

        The word you’re looking for is ‘hijinks’.

    3. Mika

      Yyyyuuuuuupppppp. Still, messing up beyond the point of no return is when the most interesting things happen to you, right?

    4. Bagge

      And they don’t even watch Steven Universe.
      Why don’t they watch Steven Universe?

    5. Reltzik

      …. I’m pretty sure Leslie wasn’t drunk enough to wake up this morning with gaps in her memory, or to have this serious a lapse of judgement last night.

      …. I’d also say that I’m pretty sure Robin wasn’t drunk enough, but Robin doesn’t need drinks to have memory gaps.

      So I’m guessing this is Robin-broke-in wackiness instead.

  27. Rukduk

    Wait. What? How? When? Didn’t Leslie leave Robin at the bar after telling her to stop pretending to be something she isn’t? How did *makes flustered gestures with hands* this happen?

    1. Shanunu

      I love that I can imagine exactly what “flustered gesture” is even though I only read the words “flustered gesture”

    2. Cerberus

      Seriously.

      The implications are dizzying. Most especially because Leslie seems to not at all be expecting to see a congresswoman in her bed.

      So did Leslie continue drinking to the point of incapacitation, despite seeming extremely lucid and relatively sober? Did Robin break in/sneak in to the bed and if so, how would she know where Leslie lives?

      So many questions and none of them imply anything good. Even less good if it turns out they had sex while incapacitated.

      1. DarkoNeko

        It pretty much looks like they only took the time to remove their shoes before crashing and sleeping.

      2. Fart Captor

        Leslie only had one beer before leaving and is in her PJ’s, while Robin’s still in her clothes from last night and seems to be on top of the covers, so I’m inclined to believe Robin continued drinking and has engaged in some breaking and entering.

        Though that just raises the questions of how did Robin know where Leslie lived, and how did get in – super drunk – without waking her up?

        1. Cerberus

          Yeah, that was the possibility that seems likeliest to me, but it makes no sense for the reasons you note. How did Robin know where she lived? How did she get in while inebriated? How creepy is it that she crept into bed without waking her as if she belonged there.

          And if she didn’t and it was consensual and unimpaired, then why is Leslie so shocked to see her and what is with the difference in their states of dress and how did they get there when Leslie seemed to have very effectively made her exit?

          This is a conundrum wrapped in a mystery entombed in a riddle.

        2. Bluewind

          You are missing option number 3. Robin wakes Leslie up at her door drunk after getting her address from Aid. Leslie was too tired to try to talk to a drunk Robin and not gonna toss her out like that so she offers her the couch. After Leslie falls back to sleep, Robin gets up and goes to lay down in the bed. She might not even remember that she was staying at Leslie’s (one time I was half asleep and after getting up to pee ended up laying down next to my boyfriend and going to sleep while staying at his very old fashioned grandmother’s house) especially since I imagine she travels a lot and stays at a lot of different places and/or shared a bed with a sister as a kid because of her family size (meaning she would know how to lay down without waking the other person even when half asleep).

          Option 4? Leslie’s shock is because she just woke up and totally thought that whatever happened last night (sex or crying drunk Robin showing up and crashing there) was a dream until she sees Robin laying there which wakes her up faster than a triple espresso.

        3. Fart Captor

          I don’t think she could’ve gotten it from her aide. There’s no way her staff let drunk Robin wander off again, even if they had to tackle her

        4. Cerberus

          Could be, though I don’t see the aid giving that information or letting her leave again alone on whatever drunk errand Robin had in mind, so if she reached out it would have been to Roz who shouldn’t have that sort of information on her teacher.

          But definitely possible.

          Option 4 is also possible, especially when combined with the possibility of a late-night house-call after she had already left.

        5. bhtooefr

          Option 5: Robin chased Leslie down, immediately after panel 8 of this comic, upon realizing that Leslie had her glasses.

          Option 6: Leslie came back, after realizing that she had Robin’s glasses.

        6. ChessboardMan

          Option 3 sounds a lot like how LT met Roomie…
          Robin could also have turned up at the general dorms, and made a ruckus calling for Leslie, until Leslie, half asleep, went down and collected her, to quiet her down.
          Probably possible, since this does seem to be some form of college dorm?

        7. Heavensrun

          Why do you think this is a dorm? We’ve seen a tiny corner of a room. Just because it has posters on the wall? Dorms don’t COME with posters on the wall, you know. People put them there. They can also put them on regular bedroom walls.

        8. BBCC

          It’s probably an apartment. The dorms have loft beds. Or at least regular beds. This is just a mattress on the floor.

        9. BenRG

          I think that the key phrase flying through Leslie’s head right now is: “Wait a minute, does that mean that the last part wasn’t a dream?”

    3. Rian

      The look on Leslie’s face says she doesn’t remember inviting Robin over or even remember getting drunk enough to not remember inviting her.

      1. Cerberus

        Which just adds a whole second chalkboard of elaborate conspiracy theories especially as Leslie seemed very not impaired and in the act of leaving the bar when we last left her.

        1. Dana

          Put that chalk down! Chalkboards are Robin’s schtick!

        2. Cerberus

          Must. Violate. Copyright. To. Solve. Mystery.

        3. Cerberus

          *Robin’s goons tackle me to the ground*

        4. BBCC

          Robin doesn’t own it.

          So sayeth the Second Eaton.

        5. Reltzik

          Use one of those transparent glass panes and dry erase markers.

          … seriously, how does anyone write on those without being distracted by the stuff on the other side of the glass?

        6. Disloyal Subject

          A thorough disinterest in what’s happening opposite the glass helps.

        7. Dave

          soggies soGGIES SOGGIES

        8. Clif

          Rule.

        9. Bagge

          That’s how you know it is not CRAZY

  28. buddy

    shiiiiiiiit, leslie just picked a whole fuckin bouquet of whoopsie-daisies

    1. Booyahman

      I’m saving this mannerism for future use

  29. Pink Freud

    Hmm.

  30. Stephen R. Bierce

    *realizes that most of the pop music I could quote deal with SUNKEN ships*

    1. DarkoNeko

      “my heart will go on”

      1. DarkoNeko

        Actually, Boom Boom Satellites has one.

        1. butting

          Ship-wrecked love can be cruel

    2. DonDueed

      The winds of November came early.

      1. StClair

        and the Mary Ellen Carter settled low

    3. Marsh Maryrose

      *hacks the hacked muzak to play “Little Talks”*

      This ship will carry our bodies safe to shore!

    4. Slartibeast Button, BIA

      Sinking, or just sailing off the edge of the world?

  31. Tomas

    Nice. Just like that “waking from a nightmare” running gag in the Back to the Future series.

    1. StClair

      “Well, everything’s all right now in 2015.”
      *Leslie sits bolt upright*
      “Twenty FIFTEEN?”

      1. John

        “Oh God I didn’t realize that ‘sliding timeline’ meant I’d have to go through 2016 again.”

        1. StClair

          But this time she can fix, right? Right? She can tell people, warn them, and they can fix it… there’s still time…

          (I might have been having this dream a lot lately.)

        2. Slartibeast Button, BIA

          She can fix it, but that means the Cubs will lose.

  32. Plasma Mongoose

    I hope they used protection since Les-preg is a thing.

    1. Opus the Poet

      They could have gaybies http://www.gogetaroomie.com/comic/this-is-your-song

      1. Rukduk

        Well some scientists have figured out how to make two eggs create an embryo. The process involves using certain chemicals and gene commands to “trick” one of the eggs into “thinking” and behaving like it’s actually a sperm. It’s very rarely successful, and it’s only been done on the level of mice, but it is a distinct possibility that two lesbians could have a child that is related to both partners, with the added effect of always being female as no Y chromosome is involved. So, in the distant future, humanity could become a single-sex species.

        1. Drunken Nordmann

          You mean “could” as in “technically possible” and not as in “likely”, right?

        2. Slartibeast Button, BIA

          This science fiction novel has been written at least twice that I know of, and at least one of them wasn’t horrible.

        3. Dara

          There’s also a thing you can do where you take an egg cell from one partner and replace it with the egg cell of the other, so the mitochondrial DNA is from one parent, and the nucleus DNA is from the other. You still need a sperm cell, of course.

          Which has nothing to do with what’s going on here but I have it on real good authority this has been being done rather longer than is generally admitted and I always thought it was neat.

        4. Disloyal Subject

          That is pretty neat. It’s a far cry from Uryuom eggs, but it’s pretty freakin’ cool.

      2. Bagge

        Becky: “I have questions…”
        Dina: “What have they told you now???!!!”

    2. Bagge

      Howard: OMG

  33. Pink Freud

    I guess Robin REALLY wanted her vote.

  34. BBCC

    I..what….who

    I miss ONE FUCKING UPDATE to go to the boyfriend’s family’s Christmas dinner and I come home to THIS?

    DID I MISS A STRIP?

    1. trlkly

      Not unless you missed Joyce’s evil spirit talking again.

      1. BBCC

        I’m joking around – I’m definitely caught up. xD

    2. Bagge

      I’m pretty sure LESLIE missed a strip.

      1. BBCC

        Agreed.

        Also – well played if that was meant as a double entendre.

        1. Bagge

          It was, thank you for noticing 🙂

        2. BBCC

          Yay! I did a good! 😀

    3. Reltzik

      Nope, both are clothed.

      1. Deanatay

        That’s why we MISSED one…

  35. UltraKyrie

    uh oh

  36. cynicswithcinnamon

    I had to remind myself I wasn’t reading Shortpacked

  37. Fart Captor

    WHAT

  38. Zaidyer

    Hey, I didn’t know we were watching Who Framed Robin DeSanto this week! I think this is the lead-in to the handcuff scene.

  39. Tomas

    And thanks for that unwanted ear worm you son of a bongo.

  40. Fart Captor

    Okay, CLEARLY Roz has resorted to plan B: kidnapping them both and locking them in a room until enlightenment and/or sexytimes occurs.

    Robin is still in her clothes, so she must have run into Roz after got darted, while Leslie was already in bed.

    1. Cerberus

      Turns out Roz is an evil creepy supervillain.

      “Foil my outing plan, will you? We’ll see about that!”

    2. Reltzik

      Looking at the posters, I’m pretty sure it’s Leslie’s room.

      1. Fart Captor

        That just makes the kidnapping even easier to cover up!

  41. Aslee

    EVERYONE’S CLOTHES ARE STILL ON WE CAN SAVE THIS

  42. JessWitt

    The brain said “Goodbye Robin” but the heart said “This ain’t over yet.”

    1. Deanatay

      That… wasn’t her heart.

  43. newllend(henryvolt)

    The Fu-

    1. Lone Wolf

      -ture refused to change.

  44. Bluewind

    Actual text I just sent my friend
    “Ahhhhh! CATCH UP ON DUMBING OF AGE OR I WILL SPOIL ALL THE THINGS FOR YOU WOMAN!”

    1. BBCC

      You are evil.

      I respect that.

      1. Bluewind

        Thank ya much 🙂

    2. Reltzik

      If you think about it, spoilers would improve your friend’s ability to handle these twists and turns.

      …. well, okay, less if you think about it and more if you pun about it.

  45. Wixvhen

    And no phone to take a picture.

  46. abbers

    https://discord.gg/N5nKn

    Bwip~ Got a discord going on~! Come on in!

  47. Aolbain

    AWWW YEAH

    (oh nooo)

  48. StClair

    What.

  49. @zombieundergrnd

    Nightmares are the worst.

  50. drs

    Leslie’s living the high life of a professor, with a floor mattress.

  51. Benjy

    I’m conflicted. As a lesbian, I should be going “YAY LESBIANS”. But I’m actually disappointed in Leslie. You were already on your way out and with a final jab to boot, but you went back! WHY would you go back to someone like that?

    …they ask, as if the fictional character is aware that disappointment is being rained down upon her.

    1. butting

      … Robin came out (“pun always intended” as Darcy said) to sheepishly ask for her glasses back to help with looking smart, which no way would Leslie let that slip without pushing back, then one thing led to another and…

  52. Vulcanodon

    They were watching Steven Universe. (And that ends up making all the difference. Please!)

  53. Dana

    Awesome poster, no?

  54. athan1214

    So that’s how far she’ll go for a vote. I gotta say, I respect it.

    1. Michael Steamweed

      She used the best oral arguments ever!

      1. Reltzik

        Lots of blanket statements.

    2. Jhon

      Constituent services?

  55. phredd

    Does Leslie live in a dorm room? Because that’s what it looks like.

    1. BBCC

      Dorm rooms have loft beds. She’s sleeping on a floor mattress. Probably an apartment.

      1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

        A sparsely furnished one, which makes sense given what I’ve heard about academic salaries these days.

        1. Council

          And also she is a lesbian who was homeless for a couple of years.

          This is still a major step up.

  56. EvilMidnightLurker

    What the hypothetical fuck.

    1. Bagge

      What the POSSIBLE fuck. It might not be hypothetical any longer.

      1. inqntrol

        The slipshine ad on the side of the page is a big hint.

  57. Thanatopia

    Oh. Oh, no.

  58. gqbrielle

    AAAAH

  59. BBCC

    Panel One: Ahhh, morning wakey wakey time. Poor Leslie. Waking up sssuuuucks. I like her apartment though! It’s very much like I’d picture it – lots of posters, purple, and yeah, a floor mattress. While I recognize that is likely a sign of not having a ton of spare cash, I can also just see Leslie buying one anyways.

    Panel Two: Awww, Leslie’s so cute here, sitting there and thinking ‘do I wanna get up now?’

    Panel Three: And yeah, she does not want to get up, she’s just gonna hang out and scratch herself right now and that is the face of ‘fuck it, I’m too tired’.

    Panel Four: Yep, back to bed. She’s not dealing with this right now. She doesn’t have a class today, that we know of, so she gets to sleep in. Yay!

    Panel Five: ….Fuck. Another beat panel. Those never mean anything good. Run, Leslie!

    Panel Six: I echo my fellow commenters. WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED HERE? Did she sleep with Robin? Did Robin get drunk and break in? Did Robin get drunk to the point Leslie brought her home for her safety? Was Leslie intoxicated? What the hell happened here? How did Robin know where she lives? WHAT EVEN?

    1. Cerberus

      Why won’t the characters recognize the impending doom inherent to beat panels?!?

      Beat panels, not even once.

      Also, yes, agree on all the whats.

      1. BBCC

        I brought this up YESTERDAY with Joyce but these silly characters refuse to listen to me despite my beginning series of long winded analyses. Dammit, guys, I realize I haven’t done them as long as Cerberus and I haven’t done them for every strip (maybe if/when the comments on older strips get unlocked again) but dammit, I’ve done them for like a week, and they are hard so at least read them! I am trying to help you ungrateful goofuses!

        1. Booyahman

          This goofus appreciates the term “goofus” and wants to pluralize it as “goofi”. Also wonders what “BBCC” stands for. “British Broadcasting Corporation Combination”? “Big Bend Community College”? “Bored Bailiff Credits Charybdis”?

        2. BBCC

          It’s just a combination of two nicknames I’ve gathered from the two typical usernames I use online – BB and CC.

        3. Dana

          Big Bend Community College? My first girlfriend took classes there!

        4. Cerberus

          Comic characters are so ungrateful for all we do for them. 🙁

        5. BBCC

          I know right? Stubborn kids. And yet, we do it anyways. So rude.

        6. Bagge

          I mean, for all my yelling at ToeDad he is STILL an waste of perfectly good turd-shaped space. What’s the meaning of obsessively follow and discuss the lives of fictive people if they don’t listen?

        7. BBCC

          They’re really really well written and provide potential ad revenue to Willis?

      2. Reltzik

        Beat panels are worse than beatniks.

        ….

        Seriously, they’re awful, while beatniks aren’t.

    2. Bagge

      Panel 1. C-c-offee…?
      Panel 2. No Coffee?
      Panel 3. A day without coffee is not worth my presence.
      Panel 4. NOPE, DAY, NOT LISTENING.
      Panel 5. STILL NOPE.
      Panel 6. MY NOPE IS STILL IN EFFECT BUT FOR ENTIRELY NEW REASONS. ALSO, I DON’T NEED COFFEE ALL THAT BAD.

      …Maybe I’m projecting…

  60. Briny

    Today I am glad I’m one of the older readers, Maureen McGovern FTW. 🙂

  61. Thursday Violist

    Next comic.
    Leslie: Robin! No, stay under the covers! Otherwise they’ll see you!
    Robin: Who? Who will see…o-oh! You mean those secret spy people you talked about last night.
    Leslie: Yes! Exactly. The top-secret spy people who are looking for you will find you!

    1. Dana

      Nah, Robin knew about the top secret spy people. She ran for Congress to expose them.

      1. Thursday Violist

        Oh, right. But the thing is, she’s playing dumb because she knows that their every word is being recorded and doesn’t want to let on that she’s known about them this whole time.

        1. butting

          We’re talking about Robin. There’s no guarantee that after a lengthy binge she didn’t curl up against her new BFF and triumphantly tweet a picture of the both of them with “STEVEN UNIVERSE IS THE BEST OMG THANK U” before passing out.

  62. Yotomoe

    So she CAN count on your vote.

    1. Bagge

      I can’t believe that line worked???!!!!

      1. Reltzik

        ……. so exactly how much does the second-oldest profession have in common with the first?

    2. Deanatay

      NO.

      …yes.

  63. bryy

    More like BONING DAY.

    1. Heavensrun

      …

  64. Bagge

    What the WHAT?

  65. Bagge

    That must have been some Steven Universe Marathon.

    1. Reltzik

      I think you mean S.U.M. Steven Universe Marathon.

      1. Bagge

        …yes… yes, that was exactly what I meant.

  66. Eldritch Gentleman

    Okaaaaaay this is hella awkward XD

  67. Bagge

    “Great, I’m having those Jessica dreams again”

    1. Disloyal Subject

      …huh, hadn’t made the connection to Jessica from Heroes before now.

  68. Danieleon

    BlinkWhatTheFuck.gif

  69. Arianod

    GODDAMIT LESLIE DX

    Well, at least Robin still has her clothes on. Some of them. That means nothing too serious happened… right…?

    1. BBCC

      You can fuck with shirts on.

      1. DarkoNeko

        Occam’s razor.

        1. BBCC

          Oh, I’m not saying they definitely fucked. I’m just saying ‘they have some clothes on’ doesn’t really mean they haven’t either.

          Honestly, I’m hoping they didn’t considering where things ended last night.

    2. BenRG

      FWIW, I think that Leslie would have regarded that as taking advantage of a drunken woman, no matter how insistent Robin was that she wanted it. Of course, in the middle of her third plea, she suddenly started slurring her words, slumped over and started snoring. Unfortunately, Leslie couldn’t untangle herself, hence the bed share situation.

  70. BenRG

    WHOOPS!

    Well, for what it’s worth, I’ve got a feeling that Leslie and Robin didn’t actually do anything (except probably sleep in each other’s arms) baesd on the state of clothing.

    It’s all horribly embarrassing but I bet I know what happened: Robin was a bit too drunk to make her way home and, in her general niceness and concern for others, Leslie decided to let Robin crash in her room rather than embarrass her by trying to contact one of the campaign team to collect her. Things sort of progressed from there and I don’t think that it is possible for there to be a neat resolution to it.

    Next up is the whole awkward ‘what did we do; what do we do now?’ conversation.

  71. Reltzik

    Cue screaming in 3… 2…

  72. Willoughby Chase

    So congress has been in session?

    1. Bagge

      BOOOOOOOOO….. heh, OK, that was pretty clever.

    2. StClair

      Rep. DeSanto brought a motion to the floor.

      1. Willoughby Chase

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI_0tQdEA5k

  73. Derek

    so apparently both Leslie and Joyce sleep with their socks on, which I absolutely hate (for myself, I get too hot and somehow claustrophobic) .
    poll: do you sleep with socks or you can’t?

    1. Clodia

      I cannot stand it at all. Granted, I go barefoot as much as I can, but socks while sleeping is a definite no.

    2. Surah

      Either way. If my feet get hot, I roll them off in my sleep.

    3. Thursday Violist

      If I like how my socks look, I keep on wearing them that night. If I think they’re ugly, I take them off.

    4. Slartibeast Button, BIA

      Is the sock gap not a thing for lesbians?

    5. Kamino Neko

      I can’t even stand wearing them when I have to.

    6. Nate

      Hate it, never do. But someone I know always does otherwise his feet get too cold because he has poor circulation!

    7. Willoughby Chase

      Only when it’s bloody freezing.

      1. Disloyal Subject

        This. Socks chafe my leg hair, but they’re a necessary evil to prevent shoes from chafing and sometimes to keep feet warm.

    8. John

      If I wear socks, but not shoes, my feet get kind of uncomfortably dehydrated for some reason. And wearing shoes to bed is and obvious non-starter.

  74. EvolutionistX

    I feel like something got skipped in the narrative.

    1. Bagge

      So does Leslie

      1. Dara

        That’s what happens when you blackout-binge on Steven Universe.

  75. Abel Undercity (@AbelUndercity)

    This is HEAVY, Doc!

    1. Zaidyer

      “This is the kind of thing that could screw me up permanently. I mean, what if I go back to the future and I end up bein’… gay?”
      “Why shouldn’t you be happy?”

  76. Ilerien

    Every morning of my life

  77. AgentKeen

    I mean, up until panel 5, that’s about how mornings go for me, too.

    -get up, yup I’m up…. nope, back to sleep-

    After that is completely out of my experience.

  78. L!ghtn!ng

    Whaaaa…? Not where I thought this was going but I am intrigued!

  79. AGV

    I highly doubt that anything happened, but anyway, WTF ROBIN?! You don’t get into people’s beds!!! That’s not how you gain the vote of your crush!

    1. BenRG

      This makes me think: Was Robin’s question ‘Do I get your vote’ a code phrase for something else? Not even a generally-known something but a way she personally puts something; Leslie figured that out and replied to both the literal and figurative versions of the question.

  80. Commodore Jeep-Eep

    :Rolleyes: Fucking typical, Leslie.

  81. Martin Smith

    Is this the first strip to not have a one word title?

    1. Disloyal Subject

      Nope.

  82. Charles Phipps

    Yeah, they totes had sex.

    1. theKOT

      She showed robin there’s so many
      Different muscles she can flex

      1. Disloyal Subject

        There’s the deltoids of compassion
        And the abs of being kind

  83. Death By Jazz Hands

    This comic is even better in reverse.

  84. Deanatay

    Robin: mm, Good Morning!
    Leslie: Wha… wha… wha…
    Robin: Oh, man, what a NIGHT! I was ready to quit after the fifth one, but you… you were a MACHINE!! We musta gone through the whole BOX!!
    Leslie: Buh… buh.. buh…
    Robin: MAN! I need a SHOWER!!
    *Leslie passes out*
    Robin: And then… *pulls out another box* SEASON TWO!!

  85. Travestyhat

    God, why.

    These two had a perfect ending: Robin proved that she was an opportunistic self-absorbed jackass and Leslie had FINALLY decided hat she was done with her.

    That should’ve been it. We could be rid of Robin and finally get back to characters who DON’T have unfunny political impressions where their redeeming qualities should be.

    Seriously, Willis, you’re killing me here.

    1. Lulu

      Because Leslie and Robin must end together, and cutting it in perfect moment so both could move on is not welcomed for some reason, and instead making them drunk sleep together makes them happening possible and also adds a lot of drama which can be used for whole next year of Robin/Leslie themed comic strips updates.

      I’m too disappointed, I really hoped Leslie would move on from this version of Robin.

      1. Killjoy

        Let’s see what happened and how it happened before judging…

        1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

          You’re no fun…

        2. Killjoy

          You are correct — thus my name.

          This name was earned.

          I’m a no-fun meanie, expecting people to actually understand things and have pesky facts, before they reach a conclusion.

      2. Commodore Jeep-Eep

        Bear in mind, it was written when a Trump Victory was something that smug liberals smugged about while we leftists raised the alarm that you weren’t taking it seriously enough – I dare say, there’s a high chance that this plot line is changing direction in the sections that haven’t been drawn yet.

        1. Council

          Yeah, sorry girls and boys. The story was written for your entertainment, not your convenience. The characters won’t take a 180 and change because you have more of a dislike of rightwing politicians than you did before.

  86. Jon Lennox

    Is that a Singularikitty blanket and sheet set?

  87. Simplerdayz

    They didn’t do anything. Who gets completely dressed after doing the deed then falls asleep fully clothed.

    1. Killjoy

      Anyone who doesn’t want to be caught or found naked?

    2. Slartibeast Button, BIA

      Happens in the movies and on TV all the time.

  88. gwalla

    WELL THEN

  89. Killjoy

    Curiouser and curiouser!

  90. JBento

    Yesterday George Michael died, today Carrie Fisher. What in the unholiest of fucks, 2016? Who more do you want form us? WHO MORE?

    1. thejeff

      Richard Adams, author of Watership Down.

      1. JBento

        Damn it. At worst we’re supposed to get drunk at Christmas AND New Year’s Eve, not THROUGH.

      2. Bagge

        The Black Rabbit spared him for a long time, but not forever.

    2. Delicious Taffy

      2016: “Well, I was thinking about nabbing Mark Hamill while we’re at it, but I really would like to see what’s going on with the next Star Wars sequel. Maybe I’ll just grab Lawrence Fishburn or Idina Menzel.”

    3. Keulan

      2016 just wants to torment us as much as it can before it ends. Goddammit

    4. Heavensrun

      I’m looking forward to the first month of 2017 when people realize that it wasn’t the year’s fault it’s just that the world is broken from now on.

      1. Willoughby Chase

        This.

        It’s only the start. And not even the finish.

        I’m in a cheerful mood tonight.

      2. a4lbi

        A lot of us already know, I’m sure.

        Blaming a time period is a coping mechanism LET ME HAVE THIS

  91. Just Me

    In honor of the search for a new R.A. :

    Friend, Counselor, Supplier of Condoms

  92. Just Me

    Also, why does Leslie’s room look like a dorm room? She’s a teacher.

    1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

      The poster is the clue. This is actually a flashback to Leslie’s student days and her forgotten affair with Robin’s separated-at-birth virtuous twin.

    2. Heavensrun

      I’m a teacher, and that could pass for my room.

    3. Killjoy

      If she’s an nontenured professor with a position commonly known as “associate”, “adjunct”, etc… she’s not making THAT much.

      With her backstory, she probably got through undergrad and grad mainly on student loans, thanks to the predatory nature of the education-industrial complex, and is still buried under that debt. Her already limited budget is dominated by servicing that debt.

      1. Heavensrun

        Or maybe she’s just a giant nerd who -likes- putting movie posters on her wall.

        1. Killjoy

          I was thinking of the “mattress on the floor” bed when I wrote that.

    4. Doom Shepherd

      I’m 45 and work at a university. My bedroom is full of action figures and the wall by the bed is covered in “women of Marvel” posters.

      They belong to my wife.

  93. leafirebender

    OH

  94. yo.

    Guys, they’re both still dressed. No matter how drunk, I’ve never known someone to manage coitus without removing their clothes.

    1. David M Willis

      meet more people

      1. maxlines

        I was just going to say, I know this is possible from experience.

    2. Heavensrun

      They’re wearing shirts. I agree that they probably didn’t sleep together, because that doesn’t seem like Leslie’s style, but the presence of shirts does not mean sex did not take place. Whether they’re wearing anything else remains to be seen, and shirts are also pretty easy to put on.

      Also Leslie is wearing a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT shirt from what she was wearing the day prior, so at least -somebody- has gone through a process of being naked and then clothed again.

    3. Killjoy

      1) For actual “good ole” PIV, there are multiple positions that don’t require much in the way of undressing.

      2) Do we really need to go into detail as to how women might be able to engage in sexual acts while largely dressed?

      3) Clothes can be put back on.

      1. Boom

        PIV? Particle image velocimetry?

        1. Killjoy

          Yes, totally. It’s very kinky stuff.

      2. Heavensrun

        3)

        What madness is this?

    4. Bagge

      I am fully prepared to accept that coitus has been achieved in any and all circumstances, no matter how weird.

      When it comes to sex, human creativity is limitless

    5. Willoughby Chase

      Leslie managed to change clothes before (or after) she may have had sex. Roz, not so much.

      1. Killjoy

        Roz?

  95. Clif

    Theory one: There is a completely reasonable explanation for this which we will learn in good time.

    Theory two: In order to find out how we got from there to here we have to subscribe to slipshine because Willis is brilliantly evil.

    Theory three: Willis channels his inner Mike and never explains.

    1. Clif

      And totally independent of all these is the theory that tomorrow we cut away to other characters.

      1. thejeff

        Robin never appears in the comic again.

      2. Disloyal Subject

        I’m counting on it, but I suppose I’ll find out presently.

  96. Emily

    Oh for fuck’s sake.

    1. Council

      Seems likely, yes.

  97. Bagge

    “Robin, why are you in my room?”
    “You know why. You want me to have sex with you.”
    “Show me your thing! Rub my tummy with it!”

    http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/06-strange-beerfellows/know-2/

  98. Willoughby Chase

    Another use for the Schrödinger equation.

  99. Hari

    Uh oh!

  100. John Madden

    Needs moar Roundabout.

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