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On a date
Posted on January 1, 2018 by David M Willis

136 thoughts on “On a date”

  1. Mr D

    Happy new year erryone

    1. Mr D

      Also, this is a really sweet strip.

      1. Leorale

        It so is!
        And happy new year, all. May your year be totally super worth it.

    2. Remmington Steele

      Happy New Year ou!

  2. Jean Harghel

    Yay first
    And this is fucking cute

    1. Jean Harghel

      Dammit.
      Happy Mew year I guess Mr D

      1. Mr D

        Happy new year.

        Also, your post is gonna get deleted, “First” are one of the few things that gets your post deleted 😛

        1. Jean Harghel

          Aww come on, the first time I thought I was first ever…
          Oh well.

        2. Ivy

          I thought it was saying first, and nothing else that would get your post deleted.

  3. AnvilPro

    We’re all alive on the inside. Whether we feel it or not.

    1. Reltzik

      Except for trees. They’re only alive on the outside. They’re cold and dead in their heartwoods.

      (And that’s a good thing. …. for trees, at least.)

    2. Dibullba

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlgJs_G8Co8

  4. arjay2813

    daaaaw

  5. Reltzik

    And, of course, they’re kissing, midnight, New Years Eve. Did you plan that, Willis?

  6. Passchendaele

    AAAAAAAAHHH

    *deep breath*

    AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH

    1. Passchendaele

      sweetness overload. ;-;

  7. Joe Moose

    EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3

  8. DailyBrad

    I think Billie and Ruth were due something to get excited about.

  9. Sporky

    I hope nothing fucks this up :c

    1. Reltzik

      It’s a date storylinein a college tramedy (tragedy/comedy) series.

      WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

      1. ozzi

        The forest crew think less of her for being a lesbian. They could all be secretly homophobes.

        1. Reltzik

          RAs all have genders matching the wing they manage, the Forest crew already knows that Billie slept with her RA, and they think it’s super-cool.

    2. Skoyatt

      Well, for a starter, Billie didn’t actually say “Yes.”

  10. FractalDawn

    Thank you for starting the year on a good note. I feel we all needed that.

  11. Too Old To Be Cool

    How sweet!

  12. DinaWho

    Well, glad to know 2018 is off to a good start somewhere. Even if it’s not New Year’s there.

    1. JustCheetoDust

      Watch as there’s a timeskip for the storyline New Year’s…whenever that happens in the 2020’s.

  13. Queen Anthai

    thank you for this small blessing

  14. Friscovi

    I’m not crying your … aw I’m crying like it’s the end of Coco. Good Job Mr. Willis!

  15. pacce

    Awww, they’re not being toxic to each other!
    Happy New Year!

  16. Stephen Bierce

    Some people are made for each other
    Some people can love one another for life…
    How ‘Bout Us?

  17. Yumi

    THIS IS SO FUCKING CUTE

  18. Reltzik

    Waaaait.

    Billie didn’t say yes.

    Is that an acceptance kiss or a pity-before-I-break-your-heart kiss?

    …..

    I’m GUESSING it’s the first, but this is Willis, and he is damnable.

  19. newllend(henryvolt)

    One sweet moment to start off 2018.

  20. adjudicus

    This is amazing. Thank you for this, willis.

  21. SOMEBODY TOUCHA MY SPAGHET

    This is the best way to start off the new year.

  22. John

    Welp, year’s going to be downhill from here.

  23. Plasma Mongoose

    Do you kiss your mother with that tongue?

    1. Stephen

      You kiss your mother with tongue? ?

  24. Kernanator

    Man, it’s so great to have these two being cute in a non-horrifying way.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      The horror will occur later, BWAHAHAHA!

      1. Frost Magi

        I can see that happening lmao
        And everyone who’s stated that this is adorable is right, I can’t…
        Happy New Year everyone 😀

  25. Tacos

    Daaawww.
    While technically it’s still 2 hours here till New Year, I’ll go ahead and say Happy New Years. Hopefully this year won’t be as shitty as the previous one.

  26. Schpoonman

    Oh my goood thank you, Willis.

  27. Deadjolras

    Now this is the best way to start a year! (I mean, 2018 began two hours ago for me, but you know what, the sentiment still stands).

  28. nothri

    15 minutes until midnight in my area. I’m staying up so I don’t make the mistake they make in those slasher movies when they shoot the slasher and then find out later its still alive. I’M MAKING SURE 2017 IS DEAD AND WILL NEVER COME BACK.

    1. Bicycle Bill

      I’m glad to see 2017 in my rearview mirror as well.

  29. StClair

    At the start of 2017, I made one resolution:
    Get through it, somehow.
    I did. And now, thanks to this and other things, I have hope again.
    Let’s keep that rolling ahead into the new year.

    1. ManFromPawtucket

      Glad to hear you made it through as well. Congrats 🙂
      Hope things work out for you and that 2018 doesn’t
      suck as much as 2017 did.

    2. Jhon

      2018 will be another crappy year unless we do something about it.
      I’m demonstrating tomorrow for Net Neutrality.

    3. MasakiSayz

      There’s a Mountain Goats song I’ve adopted as a mantra for just that mindset. The chorus hooks “I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me.”

  30. fogel

    😀

  31. motorfirebox

    Y’know, if Billie and Ruth’s relationship started in 2017, that would explain a fuckin’ lot.

  32. JohnnyO

    Right now I feel Very Alive.

    When I have to wake up at 9 AM with a wicked hangover and go to work?
    Probably not so much.

  33. Keulen

    Best New Year’s strip ever!

  34. Rukdug

    This is so nice….please let this be a good omen for the new year.

  35. Elsendor

    WHAT A GOOD START TO THE NEW YEAR <333333

  36. tirachokko

    FIRST KISS OF THE YEAR THEY HAVE TO BE TOGETHER FOR AT LEAST ANOTHER YEAR RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT?! Then again, one year rl is like 3 weeks dumbiverse time ahhhhhhh

  37. Dara

    Oh good.

    We’re still a couple of hours out as I write this, but happy new year.

    Please.

  38. Joslyn

    hhnnngggglblblblblblblblbbgfgffggnngnggg <3!

  39. avistel

    OM NOM NOM

  40. Justin

    Yeeeeesssssss!!!!!!!!

  41. Cerberus

    I love these assholes so much! <3

    Yay for a happy healthy date and a growth from trauma, self-doubt, and pain.

    May we all get our respite from the hell that has been 2017.

    1. Rukdug

      I second that. 2017 was hellish in a way I couldn’t believe. It’s like it was competing with 2016 to see who could be the worse year.

      Also, it’s nice to see you again Cerberus. I haven’t been here in the comments that often for months because of my first semester as an actual teacher. Here’s hoping that next year is good for you.

      1. Nobody

        I third that, I really hope that 2018 doesn’t try to live up to its predecessors

    2. Falcon

      Oh I don’t know. 2017 delivered on a lot of the hell promised by 2016, but it also gave us a buttload of bright new hope.

      1. Reltzik

        That LITERALLY translates as hopeful sunshine blown up our asses.

        …. but yeah, okay, there’s signs of things improving.

        1. Inahc

          can you tell me what they are so I don’t have to pick through lots of bad news to find them? 🙂

        2. Reltzik

          Focusing on the US, Trump’s lost momentum and support and is increasingly having trouble doing shitty stuff. The Senate margin is razor-thin. There’s a blue wave building. The military trans ban is gone. Pot is being increasingly legalized (meaning less incarceration). Society is actually giving a damn about sexual harassment. The economic recovery’s finally reached the lower economic classes. Minimum wages are rising. And since Trump got the three months he needed to get a clear picture of what’s going on, the travel ban’s gotta be going away any day now, right?

    3. Vulcanodon

      I N that. No doubt at all that this is the best thing I’ll see on my screen all day.

      And a happy new year to you Cerberus. And to each of us, every one.

  42. Cmd1095

    starting the new year out right, love it

    NOT DAMN YOU WILLIS

    I’d say bless you willis but it doesn’t have that same impact

  43. Jezi

    I’m waiting for an entire closet’s worth of other shoes to drop, but for right now, this is sweet and happy and I love it and the holiday season has made me a sop.

    Happy New Year, David. Thanks for all your hard work and your lovely comic. Hope you and your family have the best in all things in 2018.

  44. Hazel

    They are doing it! They are growing towards a healthy relationship!

  45. NinjaNick

    Now this is how you start 2018!

  46. JessWitt

    New Year kiss! <3

  47. Tunisia

    WILLIS I SWEAR TO GOD DON’T YOU DARE HURT ME BY HURTING THEM OR I WILL MAIL YOU MY TEARS

  48. Joker Two

    Yes I’m still here, and that’s a good way to start the year!

  49. David H. Adler

    *sniff*

  50. BenRG

    I think that panel 4 is honestly the sweetest (in romantic terms) panel that Willis has ever drawn of which I’m aware.

  51. Beef

    Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

  52. Dana

    Dawwww. <3

  53. Jaime

    HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!! ?

    I won’t lie – that last panel made me tear up a little bit. It’s just so sweet. Count me as one of the readers who is REALLY rooting for Billie and Ruth.

    I’m more maudlin than usual because today (well, actually yesterday now) is also my 17th year anniversary with my partner. Before I met him I’d paid for a hotel room in Boston for New Year’s Eve 1999. (And I am TOTALLY dating myself here!) At the time you had to make reservations a year or more in advance. When I booked the room I assumed it would be for me and my then-current partner. But things went to h3ll with him unexpectedly quickly. I didn’t want to give up the hotel reservation so I decided I was going to invite all my friends and we’d have a party for the millenium in the hotel room. My friends at the time included my now-current partner. He and I were very good friends and sometimes flirted with each other but hadn’t hooked up and I wasn’t sure it was going to go beyond friendship. Well, ten or so people in a hotel room is a LOT – I landed up basically sitting in my current partner’s lap. One of our other friends looked at us and asked, “So, how long have you two been together?” We stared at each other and said, “UM….” But that was kind of the moment when we realized we were more than friends.

    And we’re still more than friends…17 years later. ?

    1. mschmidt62

      Awesome!

    2. Tan

      If it was New Year’s Eve 1999 (going into 2000), and it is now 2018, then shouldn’t this be your 18th anniversary?

  54. Danni

    *high pitched scream*

  55. Sandbridgekid

    Thanks ending and bengining with….love.

    1. Sandbridgekid

      Why I hate typing on phones!

      1. Sunny

        I don’t know. Y U h8 typing on phones?

  56. Lulu

    A good comic page for a hopeful New Year.

  57. acher4

    Happy New Year all!

    Such a cute strip to start 2018. 😀

  58. DarkoNeko

    Akemashite omedetou gozainya~
    Bonne année !

    1. adjudicus

      Xin nian quai le to you too!

      1. Liquid Len

        Gong He Fat Choi!

        Oh, wait, 6 weeks early…

  59. newllend(henryvolt)

    Yes alt-text Willis, Somehow we haven’t been blown apart yet.

  60. Hoodiecrow

    I just got up and read the strip, so I have to say 2018 is looking good so far.

    These two have shown considerable capacity for mutual destruction. It is becoming clear that there is considerable capacity for mutual healing as well.

    I know that happy couples make for poor stories, but please Mr Willis, bore me to death with productive RA/student days and candlelight evenings. I’m such a jerk, I deserve to see them thrive unto their grandkid years.

  61. mister gray

    I love these guys, can we make there relationship wacky and crazy but full of love mister willis? PWEASE?!

  62. Fire_daws

    D’awwwwwwwwwwwwww and Squeeeeeeeeeeeee :)))))))

  63. Yarrr

    “Us?”

    <3

  64. CoMa

    Thank you, Willis.
    This made me starting off my day (after having just a few hours rest because transport home from a friends place in the night took so damn long) so much better 🙂

  65. Liliet

    BEST

  66. Delicious Taffy

    Wow, so these two are kinda queer, huh?

    1. Liliet

      HUH

  67. Noodle Sauce

    starting the new year with beautiful gays is the only proper way

  68. ValdVin

    Is this the most public they’ve been with displays since the hand-holding after Ruth’s stay away?

  69. Pumpkin Pie

    This is a good way to start 2018 with a moment of happiness and hope for the future. Knowing that from mutual destruction mutual growth is possible.

    Thanks Willis, to you a good year.

  70. Vulcanodon

    Yes we are alive. Starting off the year with a moment of pure goodness. Thank you Willis.

    1. Deanatay

      *checks personal structural integrity*

      Can confirm, seem to have survived 2017. It’s over, thank everything.

      1. StClair

        I’ll second that.

  71. Vika

    yeeesssssssss

    happynesss!

    finallyyyyyy

    yaaaaaaaayy

  72. Zatar

    So Cute.

  73. Valerie Holt

    Don’t you DARE make them have to cancel because of Angst.
    I wanna see an ADORABLE GODDAMN DATE MISTER

  74. DocHarleen

    Please be good to us, Willis! I want this to be nice for them so bad.

  75. Needfuldoer

    Yaay they’re pulling out of their mutually destructive codependent death spiral and developing a healthy relationship out of it!

    1. Liliet

      yesss

  76. ArcNitemare

    I think this strip is a great way to start the year.It speaks so much hope in seven frames.While life isn’t always fair and eventually bad things happen.But for the moment these two get to just enjoy being together,without fear.And right now that is what matters.Let later wait.Now is what is important.

  77. Emperor Norton II

    Yes, We are still alive.

    Also, We were very pleased that this year, there were about 45 seconds worth of fireworks around us. Distracted us less from playing video games.

    1. Bagge

      Huza!

  78. Emily

    I’m still bracing for one of those “character lets their ego get out of control and alienates everyone close to them” plot arcs with regards to Billie because I just can’t see another purpose to the weird hero worship over at Forest Hall.

    1. Liliet

      other things that can happen at Forest Hall:
      – only personally Lucy gets hurt/alienated by the hero worship, and Billie has to do damage control on that;
      – Billie eventually comes to realize she doesnt /actually/ like being treated this way;
      – Billie is actually okay, and some other arc starts instead

  79. Bagge

    *Joyce, steeples fingers.*

    Just as planned.

  80. DownhillSky

    CUTE

    I want to hug them

    1. Bagge

      They are a bit busy right now.

  81. Electriccombines

    Thank you, Willis. <3

  82. Ryek Hvek

    Where’s the “Like” button?

    1. Bagge

      I’m sure Ruth and Billie will find it in due time.

  83. Spencer

    Just like their first kiss.

    You know the one where Billie was thrown into a wall and sexually assaulted by Ruth, but it’s okay because lesbians.

    1. Remmington Steele

      *sigh*

    2. thejeff

      Except it’s not like that, because there’s no assault here.

      Few here disagree that the start was screwed up, but they’ve come a long way.

  84. Remmington Steele

    They’re going to be fine.

  85. 10LettersIsTooLong

    I totally identify with this. My husband and I didn’t “date” until long after we were together, so our first actual-for-real-dates were that much more special. This feels like a lovely, warm nostalgia hug.

  86. Samantha Johnson

    YESS I am so happy with their progress. Ruth is getting help and not hating herself right now. Billie is still into the relationship even with it taking this healthier turn for normal and happy. I was so afraid she was going to recoil at this idea of a normal cute date. I bet this was just the reassurance Ruth needed that Billy still cares about her.

  87. Ryan

    Eeeeeeeeeee!

  88. Jack Finch

    Ruth is being amazeballs. (Has she ever said “Yes, Please” in the entire strip before this?).

  89. Michael William Crichton

    And so, they IMMEDIATELY started f@{%ing. The “date” never actually happened, but their relationship was deepened.

  90. Romanticide

    yessss

  91. PB

    bweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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