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Peter
Posted on April 16, 2012 by David M Willis

222 thoughts on “Peter”

  1. Wack'd

    WOW.

    I mean, just, well…

    WOW.

    1. ViralBiae

      So did you bring the popcorn, or what?

    2. David Herbert

      I’m guessing she doesn’t know yet. If she does though, I may need to borrow Sarah’s baseball bat.

      1. Yotomoe

        Lucky for you there’s a perfectly capable mike with two fists right here.

        1. Scoundrel

          And now we know why he is there.

        2. KingStarscream

          That was some damn good foreshadowing, if true.

          Which I’m sure Walky will say IS true now XD

      2. Jetstream

        This IS the first time she’s been in the comic since she was interviewed by Dorothy, so I guess she could be uninformed enough to not know about this.

        Hell, that was even before Ryan got overtly Rapey.

        1. isitsevenyet

          This was my thought, that she is simply unaware of what happened.

        2. DudeMyDadOwnsADealership

          Probably would want to keep it that way. Such morally
          demanding issue tends to greatly inconvenience the needs
          of people like her to scream “WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” chug
          booze, and visit like they often do just about everywhere else.

          Feel free to drag Roz aboard the guilt train, Joyce. She could use
          the transportation.

      3. TheBenenator

        I think I’ll take the Gutsy Bat, instead.

      4. Nee Hou

        How aboout just a “clue bat”. No one gets expelled then.
        I am surprised tat there’s no “Clunk” sound effect for the jaws hitting the floor.

    3. Jim

      OK… I’ve been reading every day, how come I don’t know what she is talking about or what the big deal is?

      1. Schadetj

        Perfect Avatar.

      2. Kannyn

        Your Gravatar makes this meta.

      3. Trae Dorn

        Umm… look at what happened on the Friday night in question – http://www.dumbingofage.com/category/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/

        Remember – time passes SLOWLY in this comic.

        1. John Harmon

          Yes time dose pass quite slowly, which makes it very hard to remember details from several months ago.

        2. Trae Dorn

          …which is why I linked to it.

        3. Phillip Wilde

          True, although I wouldn’t consider Joyce nearly getting raped to be a detail. More like a major plot point.

  2. Plasma Mongoose

    Oh Roz…

    1. AngryBamboo

      I can see why she views herself as the heroic martyr with her finger on the pulse of society and joyce as the ignorant closeminded shut-in

      1. Nexev

        It was Dorothy I think she viewed as closeminded. Joyce and Roz dont talk much.

        Because Joyce is a good judge of character is my bet.

        1. AngryBamboo

          well they did have that whole explosive argument about each other’s flowers so there’s that. plus roz did call her a fundie and was shocked to hear that she was at the party, hoping that she would be “actually learning something” which ironically she did: some guys are scumbags

        2. porpoiseboy

          Hmmm there are a few comments on here that make me think people don’t really get Roz’s character. She is about freeing women from their gender roles, with the sexual freedom side being her priority. I guarantee if she knew Joyce almost got raped she would be livid. Also, unless you really dig, you hardly ever know what caused a college party fight. Not everyone is omnipotent.

  3. Jen Aside

    STUPID NOT-SEXY FIGHTS

  4. Henry

    There’s Roz, displaying all the sensitivity of a rock.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      That’s assuming she knew what really happened, her tune might change if she knew about the attempted rape.

      1. Ben

        Seriously, who knew Velma could be sexy?

        1. Kamino Neko

          … Everyone?

        2. madd

          I concur.

        3. Spammy McSpamster

          Hardly. May I direct you to the ORIGINAL Scooby Doo.

          Velma was created to be a dumpy unattractive brain girl.
          In the recent movies, they just took an attractive girl and tried to make her look frumpy.

        4. Chupi

          People were attracted to Velma long before the live action movie. For much of the same reasons people might be attracted to say, Amber.

        5. Spammy McSpamster

          Ew.

        6. John

          Lol.

        7. artemi

          The bigger question is who actually thought Daphne was the ‘pretty one’?

        8. Andrusi

          I did!

          But I also thought Scrappy was awesome, so my perception probably isn’t worth much.

    2. AngryBamboo

      i dont like what you’re implying about rocks. my pet rock archibold von igneous is the most sensitive friend and greatest listener i have ever encountered.

      1. Yotomoe

        they actually take the time to listen. I miss my rock…he-he sadly eroded…

        1. Doctor_Who

          Yeah, it’s hard to outlive a pet. Especially since most rocks only last a few thousand years.

          Even less if they’re sandstone and you live in a windy area. But those are the risks of owning a purebred.

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          It’s easy to take them for granite.

        3. Historyman68

          Nice.

        4. Tualha

          Gneiss.

        5. Nee Hou

          Ouch!

        6. Yotomoe

          I marbled at how quickly he went.

        7. Plasma Mongoose

          Too many rock puns can leave one quite jaded.

        8. Usayasha

          I’m laughing so hard, I think I may have chipped a tooth.
          Seriously, these puns are rocking my world!

        9. TheBenenator

          You ore very punny.

          Pass the basalt, please.

        10. Roborat

          All these rock puns are bringing back memories of my geology classes. Makes me feel sedimental.

        11. Nee Hou

          As the river said, “my sediments exactly”.
          Don’t blame me for that one, it’s not my fault,
          it’s San Andreas fault!

        12. Ancestral Hamster

          That’s not gneiss!

          And in tribute to Plasma Mongoose’s Thelma gravatar:
          http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/2012/02/20/55316/

        13. Jetstream

          BLASPHEMER! You dare besmirch the holy name of Velma!?

        14. Plasma Mongoose

          Don’t be misLEAD Jetstream. 😛

        15. Plasma Mongoose

          Thanks Hamster, it’s better slate than never.

        16. Valdrax

          Speaking of that avatar, do you know who the artist is?

        17. Plasma Mongoose

          @Valdrax: Here is the original picture of Velma I based my grav on.

        18. Valdrax

          Thank you, and oh my!
          (Warning: mildly nsfw.)

        19. madd

          I prefer this
          Thelma.

        20. madd

          Obviously, I meant Velma. I think I need more sleep and less internets.

          I wish someone would explain to me where Thelma even came from in my brain.

        21. Shippy McShipper

          Thelma and Louise?
          That’s about the only thing I’ve ever seen that name in.

        22. Ancestral Hamster

          I’m sorry for your loss. Chalk this one up to experience.

        23. Plasma Mongoose

          Let me show you this handy little graphite.

        24. Luciasar

          It’s slated to happen to everyone.
          We know it’s hard. You might feel like a piece of schist.
          But you just gotta tuff it out, feel a little boulder, and enjoy
          your own years before they argon.

        25. AngryBamboo

          i’m not usually so sedimental but im all choked up now

    3. DudeMyDadOwnsADealership

      Runs in the family, perhaps?

  5. Sensedog

    And now add one dose of insensitive bongo to the equation, and the show takes yet another turn.

  6. Dahlia

    I think Roz is about to get bongoslapped by Joyce…

  7. Kirby

    *bops Roz on the forehead with a rolled up newspaper*

    Bad. Bad girl.

    1. AngryBamboo

      *squirts roz with squirtbottle* stop making comments based on incomplete information about possibly traumatic events and pooping on the rug! no treat for you!

      1. Fignewton of my Imagination

        I don’t think the squirt bottle will work for her, she enjoys getting wet.

        1. Bill M.

          Ammonia to the face is never good. Oh, wait, that’s my squirt bottle for when I ride my bicycle… bleach? No, that’s for my dishes… liquid plant food? herbicide? *gets whispered to* Water? Who puts just plain ol’ water into a spray bottle?

  8. Wonder Wig

    Wow, time just DOESN’T fly in this universe.

    1. Yotomoe

      it is basically a snail piggy-backing a turtle at the moment

      1. Wack'd

        No, it’s a turtle piggybacking a snail.

        The turtle is piggybacking four (five?) elephants and a large disc.

        1. Wonder Wig

          Maple syrup on the snail, which is on the turtle, which is on top of a copy of Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe.

        2. Andy

          But is the turtle male or female?

      2. Valdrax

        I see someone was watching Robot Chicken tonight…

    2. Aydr

      It honestly took me a moment to figure out that she was talking about the rape party. Because “friday” seemed so long ago.

      And “rape party” is the best worst thing I’ve ever said in relation to this comic.

      1. Drunken Nordmann

        The worst thing so far.

  9. Mkvenner

    The comic speaks for itself.

    1. JK9000

      Most comics do. At least, ideally.

  10. Vabolo

    Panel 5 must have been hard to draw, eh, Willis?

    1. Sensedog

      Actually, Joyce’s cup size suddenly became smaller. That, or she inhaled deeply upon hearing Roz talk about the party.

      …Just saying!

      1. Yotomoe

        Joyce has mood boobs. They change based on her mood. She’s just slowly adjusting from surprise to anger.

        1. Thor

          And apparently Dorothy has mood lips. At the beginning of the strip they were a pinkish color. But shortly after she broke up with Danny, they turned this weird chocolate brown color. But since swapping spit with Walky, they’ve become this nice dusty rose color that makes her look better.

          I’d say it was lipstick, but it’s sort of a gradual thing. So, mood lips.

        2. Yotomoe

          well Dorothy’s lips clearly have a much longer change rate than Joyces boobs.

      2. Wack'd

        It’s the same artwork, just shrunk. You can tell not just by that, but by the relative distance between the top of Joyce’s head and the top panel border in each one.

        1. Melvin Schlock

          I can’t believe how much time I just wasted flicking my eyes back and forth between (non-real) boobs.
          I want those 5 minutes back, Mr Willis!

      3. Rognik

        I think that’s just a trick of the shading. The shadow on Joyce in panel 5 is different from in panel 2. I don’t know if that explains it all, though. It could just be shrunk like others have pointed out above.

        1. GJT

          It seems to be identical in most regards, size included, but there are some minor differences. I superimposed one over the other and changed opacity to 50% and the breasts and the coloring/shading were different, but otherwise, everything lines up the same on both. The lineart on everything but the breasts is the same, but the coloring is unique between them.

        2. madd

          Joyce’s hair is different in panel 5 as well.

  11. Ragnal

    Oh, Roz, it’s gonna be so cute watching them rip your femurs apart.

  12. Gundi

    Hey, she did not know. She. Did. Not. Know. Just throwing that out there.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Nice to know that I’m not the only one to realise this.

      1. Yotomoe

        we all realise this. I just think 40% of us just don’t care for Roz

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Then again, until recently most of the commenters in SP! hated Faz.

        2. Yotomoe

          and most still hate Malaya. Personally I like this Roz of SP! Roz.

        3. Yotomoe

          over*

      2. invisiblemoose

        I’m really, really, really hoping you are right.

    2. Valdrax

      Probably, but this is Roz we’re talking about.
      I wouldn’t put it past the SP version at least to not really care.

    3. Rognik

      I’m willing to give her the first one, but carrying on about the dumb fight really reduces the sympathy available to her. I think Dotty’s agape face and Joyce’s death glare are enough to indicate to most people that you just said something back.

      1. Valdrax

        My name is Joyce Brown, and YOU WILL FEAR MY LASER FACE!

    4. Lone Wolf

      Yeah, but if I were a betting man (and I am; I just tend to lose frequently), I’d say even if she did find out what happened, she’d probably just blow it off as “the fundie overreacting to someone just trying to get her to loosen up and have a good time” or something.

      Roz strikes me as the type of person who doesn’t give a flying butt taco about anyone else’s feelings or opinions, but by God, you’d better respect HER right to live HER life HER way!

      1. madd

        To me, that just doesn’t jive with the Roz who is handing out condoms, urging people to have protected sex, and talking about owning your sexuality. I think she would be very much opposed to the idea of someone taking away your ability to consent or trying to have sex with you against your wishes.

        1. Loquat

          But it does jive with SP! Roz, who stalked and harassed a guy who’d turned her down until he finally gave in and slept with her. Roz is the kind of sextivist who thinks everyone should be having lots of safe, happy sex; someone who doesn’t want to have sex for reason Roz thinks are BS (religion, sex addiction, etc) isn’t going to find much support from her.

        2. madd

          But Roz never drugged him to have her way. She may not support someone’s moral reasons for abstaining, but that doesn’t necessarily mean she supports taking away their right to choose. Roz doesn’t believe in sexual addiction, so the way she sees it, Jacob freely chose to have sex with her.

          That aside Willis has stated that DoA is not SP. This Roz is not that Roz. You can’t judge DoA Roz based on SP Roz’s actions.

  13. Splash*Boogie

    Roz was way to busy partying in the back of someone’s car to know about Joyce.

    1. Splash*Boogie

      *too
      The need for an edit button…

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Believe you me, there are a number of times when I wish I could edit a post, if only for the first 5 minutes afterwards.

      2. Insomniac

        You were right the first time.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          In the context of Splash*Boogie’s sentence, “way too busy” would have been the correct use.

        2. Insomniac

          Oh. Right. Looking at the wrong ‘to.’ (to know about)

          Carry on.

      3. mechaqua

        I too wish there was an option to edit posts.

        1. Ancestral Hamster

          Thirded.

        2. Valdrax

          That would probably require some sort of registration and login based board software, so DO NOT WANT.

          Seriously, if you want me to create an account first and go through some elaborate email verification system, I’m not generally going to bother. (This counts for web stores as well.)

  14. ScytheAkse

    Óoooo dear jesus

    1. Rex Hondo

      He hasn’t shown up in this comic yet.

      1. James Rye

        IRON WILL!!!
        I`M YOUR BIGGEST FAN!
        GIMME A HANDSHAKE PLEASETHX!!

    2. Fignewton of my Imagination

      Is he the Jesus with antlers, the Son of the Dear God?

  15. Yotomoe

    Hey. one party isn’t going to date rape you. oh wait.

  16. Ter

    Stay classy, Roz.

    1. AngryBamboo

      i dont always cause awkward silences, but when i do i make sure its because i unknowingly made an insensitive comment about daterape

      1. begbert2

        And take it from me, making sure to do something unknowingly is hard!

  17. Jimmy

    I would say “Awkward”, but that would be the understatement of the year.

  18. Chuck Testa

    It’s hard to imagine how large of a foot Roz just put in her mouth.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Australian Size 14? I’m not familiar with American shoe measurements.

      1. mechaqua

        American size 10
        UK size 12
        Germany size 38

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Did you already know that or did you google size size conversions?

        2. Jimmy

          If mech knew the conversions I would hope mech is an expert on shoes. If not I will question mech’s sanity.

        3. Plasma Mongoose

          size size conversions = shoe size conversions

          D’OH!

        4. mechaqua

          Google, the way you actually have to convert these is kind of dificult since Europe uses 2/3 cm for every shoe point and UK is last shoe sizes x 3 -12

        5. Romanticide

          huh? isn’t american size 10 the equivalente to UK size 8? O.o

        6. mechaqua

          Uk is 9.5 i messed up.

        7. TacosForever

          Nope. Wrong direction. American sizes are the ones that sound smaller.

        8. TacosForever

          Unless that’s only clothes, not shoes. I haven’t got a clue with shoes.

        9. Kryss LaBryn

          Pretty sure it’s the UK ones that are a smaller number, because I am a size 9 US and about a 4 or a 5 UK.

  19. KresyAntics

    Joyce looks like an amazon next to Dot and Roz… Could there be “another dumb fight”?

    1. Starfruit

      Joyce is standing while Dorothy and Roz are sitting down. In case her over-large appearance is what you’re referring to.

  20. Jar

    … If Roz is about to condone sexual assualt she is going to become my least favorite character.
    It was so nice to have a sexually active female character who stood up for herself so well about it. It would suck to have that go along with promoting rape culture.

    1. Brasca1

      I doubt she’d do that, but she might blame Joyce for being such a shut-in that she couldn’t detect a predator.

      1. Valdrax

        Which would be at least putting a toe over that line. Blaming the victim is not something a good feminist (or a decent human being in general) does.

    2. Insomniac

      Really doubt she is. No reason to assume she had any idea what was happening.
      Figure we’ll see tomorrow.

    3. Plasma Mongoose

      At least wait until we find out if Roz knew about what Ryan did before passing final sentence, OK?

      1. Yotomoe

        Undertaker: aw…

      2. Jar

        Yes, I know, I feel like it was clear that I hadn’t passed judgment yet.

    4. mechaqua

      I am thinking Roz didn’t realize that Joyce was being sexually assaulted, rather she assuming two idiots got into a fist fight, as she was probably elsewhere when it happened.

    5. Historyman68

      Considering Roz’s general political philosophy, I doubt she’d condone sexual assault. Then again, in Sp!, she denied the existence of sex addiction, so who knows. People’s politics aren’t always internally consistent.

    6. Scoops!

      Perhaps this will be their chance to share a common view. Roz can admit that not all sex is good, and Joyce can admit that not all feminism is about hating housewives.

  21. mechaqua

    I think Roz’s sheer apathy or lack observational skills may have just now caused Dorothy have an stroke or aneurysm.

    1. Sensedog

      I know that she is probably (and understandably) about to flip out on Roz in the next comic or two, but I am getting a kick out of her facial expression in this one.

  22. Wonder Wig

    I applaud you Willis for not simply copy/pasting panels 2 and 5. Bravo!

  23. Plasma Mongoose

    Why is today’s comic called Peter? Is it some kind of reference I am unfamiliar with?

    1. XMD

      Background guy’s name is now canonically Peter.

      1. Historyman68

        I was gonna say that after just reading the title, I assumed we’d discovered green-shirt guy was named Peter.

    2. Yotomoe

      your mom was not used to a peter. Mike taught her about it for a nickel

    3. Yotomoe

      peter means to slowly lose energy. the party petered out as in lost energy cuz there was an attempted rape

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        AH! 🙂

        1. ryan

          plus, roz is acting like a dick.

        2. Fignewton of my Imagination

          Wouldn’t that be more of a Richard than a Peter?

  24. horerczy

    Roz is is reaching Malaya levels of insensitivity.

    1. Historyman68

      Impressive.

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      I read that as “Roz is is reaching Malaria levels of insensitivity.”

  25. Jimmy

    I was going to say since this was Roz’s party I thought someone who knew would tell her what happened but with so much going on I can understand why she wouldn’t know at all. We’ll see what happens when she finds out. That is if Dorothy or Joyce decide to tell her at all.

    1. AngryBamboo

      it wasnt actually roz’s party, it was ron’s, roz was just invited/inviting to the party. she and ron probably did some journalism together at some point

      1. Jimmy

        Thanks for the clarification. All this time I thought it was Roz’s party.

    2. GenericScreenName101

      Agreed. I can understand of being willfully ignorant a a fight at a party. As per my experience I do not investigate the motive of the fight and the persons involved in the fight. All I would register in such a situation is that some kids got into a fight bringing the mood of the party down.

      1. GenericScreenName101

        Unless she knew about the whole thing and is asking them as a part of her character trait. That would put her in the running for Amiza-girl arch enemy “Super B*Word”.

        1. AngryBamboo

          “I’m not going to say b*words”

        2. AngryBamboo

          “I’m not going to say b*words”

        3. Animal

          B*word?

          Borborygmi?

  26. Romanticide

    I am guessing she didn’t knew about the attempted rape… please let it be that… 🙁

  27. Terah

    Well, to be fair, she might not even be referring to Ryan’s attack on Joyce. Before that, in the background, you can see Amazi-Girl beating up the football players who, even earlier than that, tried to beat Danny up.

    1. Melizza

      Terah, you are absolutely right! And honestly, do you expect everyone at one big party to know about every fight that happens? Also, didn’t they kind of agree not to tell anyone, therefore the story of the rape attempt wouldn’t have gotten far amongst peers.

  28. Ridureyu

    I…HOPE…she didn’t know about what happened. Because if she knows, and approves…ugh. We have our new candidate for Worst Person of the Strip.

    1. Aydr

      Obviously she doesn’t know…. which, still, wow. What a tool.

      1. Ridureyu

        Yeah, I’m pretty sure she doesn’t know, but I also wouldn’t put it past being a twist that Roz heard about it, and decided that it wasn’t rape, just overprotective busybodies keeping Joyce from having “fun.”

        1. Ridureyu

          I mean, Roz is already a straw(wo)man, anyway.

        2. Aydr

          Actually I’m pretty sure Willis doesn’t even mean for us to all hate her so much. And I really doubt Roz would be ok with it at all.

          Still hate her though.

    2. Crumplepunch

      I’m not excusing Roz or anything, but I’m pretty sure the actual attempted rapist still ranks worse. Because, you know, he thought she was being too dramatic about it too.

      1. Gundi

        That avatar and comment fit perfectly.

  29. DiDi

    I got a nice laugh out of this. Now, I’m inclined to believe Roz didn’t know.

    Doesn’t make the awkward go away but at least it’s due to ignorance.

  30. Sir Naff

    Wow, suddenly I really want to slap Roz

  31. AliaPie

    Wow.

  32. Undrave

    And suddenly Roz’ head exploded.

    And then it exploded AGAIN!

    1. Valdrax

      This is what needs to happen to Roz.

  33. TacosForever

    Dorothy wins for best facial expression. Just saying.

  34. Aegon01

    Well it’s only been a weekend and nobody (none of the Main Characters) really talked to Roz, so I’d say there’s a 99% chance she didn’t hear about it.

    There is literally no way that someone like her would ever think a sexual assault victim was being melodramatic.

    1. Bekah

      Uh…

    2. invisiblemoose

      I think there are some ways–it’s called being a naive self-absorbed idiot. However if a character who is so strongly in favour in people being able to do whatever they want with their bodies, (which includes the right to say no,) turns out to not see the big deal or whatever in this case… well, I’m gonna be more than a little disappointed.

  35. Kitana Coldfire

    Dorothy’s face has ‘new avatar’ written all over it…..

    Maybe Joyce’s too.

    1. isitsevenyet

      Joyce’s, definitely. I have *never* seen that look on her face before. XD

  36. MR C

    the level of awkward in this strip is ridiculous

  37. Aspect

    And the shit.

    Has hit.

    The fan.

    Although I am curious as to whether or not this is the “show” make alluded to earlier. I don’t remember him ever learning Roz was unaware of the incident, or even Mike being aware of it himself.

    1. Aspect

      make = Mike

      Derp.

    2. Historyman68

      Considering how cryptic Mike was being, it’s possible he knew this exact scenario was about to go down.

    3. Fignewton of my Imagination

      Note if Mike knew about the incident, there would be body parts all over the school.

      Just sayin.

  38. Uniqueantique

    I had to come in to comments to understand this strip, time runs so slow I didn’t realize it was the rape. We have 2 totally different non-conversations going on here-I hope. And Wack’d-it’s a diskworld atop 4 elephants atop the world turtle. Don’t know about the elephants but the turtle is rumored to be female. [Terry Pratchett ?]

  39. Historyman68

    So nobody’s actually addressed why exactly Joyce is glaring. Is it because she knows Dorothy wants to tell Roz what happened, and doesn’t want word to get out? Is the reason Dorothy hasn’t actually said anything, despite her open mouth, because she can feel Joyce’s glare on the back of her head?

    That’s how I read it, but I wouldn’t put it beyond the realm of possibility that Joyce could start telling Roz all about it tomorrow.

  40. TemplarKnight

    In all fairness, She was ALMOST raped.

    if she was ACTUALLY raped, then that would be awful. Almost raped is nothing.

    (PLEASE DEAR GOD KNOW THAT I AM JOKING)

    1. invisiblemoose

      I know you’re joking and it doesn’t particularly matter, you’re still being shitty.

    2. dethtoll

      stop before you hurt yourself

  41. LiC

    Open mouth A, insert foot B.

    Due to the fact that Roz clearly didn’t bother to find out what that fight was about and assumed it was a drunken fight and not an attempted rape situation, I’m not going to get too pissed off at her here (yet). But still… the insensitivity of the comment really hurts.

    1. Zaxares

      A drunken fight is also nothing to dismiss lightly. People have DIED from drunken fights, and weapons don’t even need to be involved. (Don’t get me wrong though. I’m more miffed at Roz than you. 😉 )

      1. LiC

        Yes, that’s true, but drunk fights are usually over misunderstandings or stupid over-reactions that results in one or both parties with a few bruised faces or egos. Their are of course exceptions, but its usually not someone’s intent to go out drink and then to kill someone or hurt someone.

        Rape on the other hand is more often than not, the result of someone having a predatory agenda to perform get sex by any means, regardless of anyone else.

        So in-comparison, a “dumb drunk fight” that didn’t result in death or extreme injuries (which Roz, I believe, seems to be implying) is much easier to dismiss as a minor annoyance, in comparison to rape.

    2. madd

      She might not be referring to the attempted rape at all. There was a fight involving some guys shortly before Joyce went off with Ryan. Roz might mistakenly be assuming that it was this fight that flattened the party.

      1. LiC

        Good point.

  42. Wack'd

    What’s that white thing behind Roz’s head in panel three?

    1. Wack'd

      And now it’s gone, natch, making me look like a crazy person.

  43. Arkadi

    Cue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF_6gI0xHzw

  44. ziggy78eog

    Someone needs to tell Roz what happened. I hope Joyce is not the one to do so, with her fists.

  45. Flimsyfishy

    Would have loved to have seen an eye twitch from Joyce in the last panel.

  46. Farmer_10

    Folks, let’s be rational here. We don’t have all the facts yet. She might not know what happened other than some vague details about a fight. I don’t like Roz that much either, but if I’m gonna get worked up into a frenzy it has be with just cause.

  47. Eggy

    Why would anyone assume Roz knows what happened!?

    *CLEARLY* she doesn’t.

    Not because she’s being insensitive.

    Because she called it a drunken fight which, if she knew about it, she’d have known it *wasn’t*. But it did *look* like one to people who didn’t know about it.

    Seriously. This comic provides no *more* reason for anyone to be pissed at her. No, she’s not coming of smelling like a rose, but would you seriously try and figure out the circumstances behind what seemed like a drunken fight at a party? I know I wouldn’t.

    So yeah. People. If you’re going to be pissed at Roz, YOU SHOULD HAVE ALREADY BEEN PISSED AT HER. To do anything otherwise is to blame her for NOT BEING OMNISCIENT.

    1. madd

      I figured she just thought it was an escalation of the fight that broke out just before Joyce went off with Ryan. She walked by just as that fight broke out and later we see Amazi-Girl getting in the middle of it. That and you don’t see Roz anywhere in the crowd that formed around Joyce and co. after Sarah smacked down Ryan, so the odds are she was no where near where it went down. She probably saw a crowd and heard commotion and was uninterested in what was likely, to her, some drunk guys going at it. Can’t really be mad at her for not wanting to mob up and watch people fight.

      1. MrSmiley

        More specifically she was probably off having sex, and only heard about it third hand.

  48. twobeef

    Willis has created at least three avatar-worthy faces in this strip.

    1. TacosForever

      Agreed!

  49. Chase

    I can’t remember if Roz was the one throwing the party; if she was, then she SHOULD know what happened. Well, hopefully. If it wasn’t her party, then, yeah, I can see where she might have missed the details of what happened.

    1. Aspect

      It was this Ron’s party.

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/ron/

      Roz was just attending.

  50. NinjaMaid

    You’re trying to make us hate Roz aren’t you. It’s a sneaky plan so we unanimously hate Roz and then do something that’ll make us guilty for hating Roz… I’m onto you Willis!

  51. Charles RB

    This won’t end well.

    Except for us, the readers!

  52. chumpersonable

    The dramatic irony!

    IT BURNS

  53. newllend

    What the fuck?

  54. Inkblot

    S’like her foot wasn’t in her mouth enough already. She’s probably throating the thing at this point.

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