Seriously awesome stuff always happens while you’re in the middle of raid, then you can’t go see it and you have to get it second hand. It’s enough to make someone want to quit MMOs.
Oh yeah tell me about it. one time I was in the midst of a raid when a drunken brawl got started outside and I ran to leave the raid for a moment. Claimed it was for the toilet but they banned me from the guild because I saw a drunkard fighting a trash can and get his ass kicked.
In the last comic I stated that Ruth is my hero. Depending on her actions in the following comics that opinion will live or die. I’m not saying that i know what would have to happen for either outcome to happen, all I hope is that she doesn’t let me down.
From my perspective, Ruth is revelling in another human being’s pain. Laws, morals, and the effects she has on others are all distractions from taking her sadistic pleasures. She has claimed the right to force other people to be her playthings.
Until and unless she is characterized otherwise, the best option is to put her down. She probably has some sob story or another in her background, but if that’s the case then the taint has eaten her. She’s a threat to everyone around her.
Please explain what makes her your hero, so that I may gain perspective.
I’m an RA. I see Ruth as a parody of the position. She gets to do and say the things every RA wants to do at some point during their career because its a comic. So many times are RA’s called to solve problems so stupid we just want to scream. Other times we have to deal with really scary situations, like breaking up a party of twenty drunk strangers. Most of the time though, we have to carry out the bone crushing monotony of administration. I’ve had to let in a locked out resident four times in one day. I’ve had to chase people down to do roommate agreements. It wastes my time, and its stressful. Ruth not only does the job, but she’s unfazed by anger, fear, or frustration. She’s rock solid.
On the subject of Billie…
Billie is narcissistic and anti-social. Normal methods to interact with her won’t work, so forget about asking her to do anything for you. Ruth realizes this immediately and so her interactions with Billie have been abnormal, but effective. She has inspired fear and respect in what will be a big problem as the year continues. You see a sadist messing with an innocent, I see a problem being fixed before it ever has the chance to threaten the rest of the residents in the community.
I’ll have to renounce my position however if Ruth fights back. Judo flips and clotheslines are acceptable, but when its your movement hurting someone else you’ve crossed the line. I want to see Ruth make it apparent how she could expel Billie, or beat her, or set her uniform on fire, and then do something Billie could never do, I want to see Ruth let it go and show a little admiration that Billie had the balls to do it. I want to see her demand she get the roommate agreement and see Billie deliver, and i want the theory that the cut up jersey is fake to be true, and that Billie gets it back. And from that point on maybe Billie might get turned around. Maybe she’ll come to see Ruth as a role model. Maybe Billie will become an RA after redeeming herself. Rose colored glasses aside, I just hope I’m not disappointed.
zuche
Thank you for the insights.
Schadetj
As a former RA, Ruth has no excuse for doing what she’s doing. Yes, it can get stressful at times, but if the only way you can handle it is through threats and violence then you have no right being an RA.
Ruth has done NO follow up for the sheets that is HER responsibility to get, she assumed Billie was lying without doing any kind of questioning (Ruth has never seen Sal either so it can be safe to assume that no one does), the only effort she’s done for her job beyond beating people up was finding people for the meeting, and the only reason she did that was because she enjoyed terrorizing people. Most RAs don’t terrorize their students, especially when they realize that the students vastly outnumber you. And she’s destroying any future credit the RAs they’ll get in the years to come will have.
I hope Ruth gets fired. Because she makes RAs look bad, and she’s horrible at her job.
bump
I’d agree with you, except its a comic. Of course no RA in real life could act like that and be called a good RA. But in DoA Mike punches people in the face and we laugh.
You assume Ruth has done no follow up because it hasn’t been depicted, for all we know Ruth has been to the room repeatedly looking for Sal. Also, you say she hasn’t put any effort into her job, but every time we see her thats the only thing she’s been doing. As a former RA, you’d know its required to track down as many of your residents before your first floor meeting, so you cant say Ruth’s reason for doing so is just to terrorize. Lastly, Ruth is rough to make sure her residents know their place in the beginning, but she has been helpful to Dorothy, which shows she’s not a complete sadist like so many people believe she is. She would have chaperoned Joice’s date if she hadn’t been busy “following up” on Billie and Sal’s roomie agreement. Another reason to believe the destruction of the jersey is fake is that it doesn’t take an evening to cut out a letter of a jersey. Photoshopping a picture and stitching a fake letter S would however.
Yes, most RA’s don’t act the way Ruth acts because In real life situations aren’t handled the way she handles them, but in a comic it does, it works, its funny, and I like it.
How close minded a person would have to be to let their first encounter with a person of a certain title influence the way they would see others of that title.
Like Chuck Noris, Ruth doesn’t get stressed, she gets busy. I’ll always laugh, because I’m pretty sure any RA could relate.
“I hate you and your problems.”
gangler
Wow, that’s quite well laid out and informed. It also does a great deal to lay out her more noble characteristics and explains the context within which they are noble.
Makes me seem petty by comparison. I just like her because I delight in suffering and admire the efficiency with which she brings it about lol. You can watch it spread as she inflicts in on Billie, the most likely to pass it on to everyone else she interacts with afterwards.
The way she compounds emotional damage with physical damage, and then proceeds to add another layer of emotional damage through her response to Billie’s retaliation, creating this sandwhich of misery which holds itself together and will stay with her long after Ruth has left, is quite remarkable. Everything she does very specifically plays on all of Billie’s weaknesses and insecurity for maximum effect. She’s an artist, and has even gone so far as to achieve a position of power, despite the inherent inconvenience and lack of rewards, for the sole purpose of pursuing her art.
Of course, all that stuff you say about her is really cool too. I especially like the “I hate you and your problems” part. Really relatable. We’ve all thought it at some point:)
Batfangirl Amby!
Well said! I agree wholeheartedly!
Though to be fair, I can’t stand Billie. I don’t understand why some people like her, since she’s kind of a pompous bongo who pathetically clings to her status as a high school cheerleader like it matters or makes her better than anyone else.
Ruth is a bit of a bully, but at least she’s funny. Like a more interesting Galasso.
Cos
You ever been clotheslined? Hurts like a sonofagun. Not to mention the emotional damage she has clearly inflicted via theft and property damage.
I think bump’s argument is valid simply on the premise that, well, in all likelihood she’s right in that what Ruth is doing is what a lot of RA’s wish they could do. The job seems rather stressful to me, especially when you have to consider that they have to play on a very thin line. They need to come off as authority figures who you should listen to, and yet they can’t do a lot of the things authority figures can to help problems.
To quote someone from yesterday’s comic:
“The policy where I was working was so strict that putting yourself in the middle of a fight to end it (not fighting back understand, just getting in the middle) would be enough to put you on probation.”
If this was high school, a teacher could step in and not get in trouble. Same with elementary school. Hell, the police could too! But an RA has none of these things. The smallest things could get them in trouble, even if they help stop a situation or problem.
Bump isn’t condoning Ruth’s actions. Bump is saying that they see Ruth as their hero for doing the things that an RA likely wishes they could do given these stresses and that for Ruth to maintain this “hero” status she must choose her next action very carefully.
Alix
I don’t see how Billie is SO BAD she deserves to get beaten up and her property stolen and defaced. Yes, she’s snotty and yes, she clings to the high school social structure, but doesn’t anyone else remember how scary the first few days of college were? So she talks down to Walky, who couldn’t care less. So she talks back to Ruth, big frigging deal. It’s really not THAT bad.
And Ruth has supposedly determined that Billie is narcissistic and anti-social to the point of being impossible to treat with any respect or consideration at all from what, exactly? She didn’t want to go to the meeting? She can’t get her roommate to sign a form? Everything she’s done has been a huge overreaction.
Billie has been trying to get the stupid form. She tried to stay up all night to get it. It’s not even her job, it’s Ruth’s job to get it. And now Ruth is keeping her from her classes. Billie really ought to get some administrative help against Ruth, because she’s just been totally abusive so far. I’m sure if it wasn’t the roommate agreement, it would be something just as arbitrary she’d be attacking Billie over.
I could forgive the judo flip from the beginning, since Billie did attack her willingly, but stealing the uniform and beating her up afterward is crossing the line. I’m starting to wonder if Ruth is supposed to have some sort of grudge against cheerleaders that she’s punishing Billie for.
And I don’t care that Ruth was nice to Dorothy. Big whoop, plenty of bullies only target one or two people and treat the rest normally.
Ruth is your hero? What the heck is wrong with you? Do you also enjoy seeing the bully shove little kids into the mud? I don’t give a crap if you’re an RA, what she’s doing should only piss you off more. The fact you actually see it as remotely good makes me pray you lose that RA position before you start electrocuting freshmen for the high it gives you. You should be ashamed if her for the negative stereotype of RA’s she supports, even if it is one common to life in a less severe form. You shouldn’t be praising the psychotic bongo.
Yeah, but we’re talking about vigilantes who think the best way to fight crime is to dress up in bright colored costumes and punch it. Unpredictable/unreliable is sort of par for the course with that kind of mentality.
It beats the heck out of long, sustained verbal and physical abuse that eventually leads the bullied to choose the “disproportionate revenge” ending that ends with SWAT, body bags, and interrupted daytime programming.
228 thoughts on “Raid”
David Herbert
Oh it is on!
Can’t wait to see Amazi-Girl join the fray. There may be clothes ripping.
Scott
If I’ve learned anything from hockey, the first move will be pulling her shirt over her head in prep for uppercuts.
MuldoonX9
That would be very Tie Domi of her.
David Herbert
So do we want to see Ruth boobs or Billie boobs? We’ve seen Billie boobs in the shower strip, but a second look couldn’t hurt.
ProtonCon
Scruffy: Second
Azumango
Decisions, decisions.
nothri
“So do we want to see Ruth boobs or Billie boobs?”
Uhhh….yes?
Bill M.
Or?
What is this or?
AND!
Plasma Mongoose
AND is the correct answer or at least it should be.
hobotron
The question is whether Ruth shelled out the extra money for the Authentic jersey with the fight strap. And, uh, the pads to attach it to, I guess.
At any rate, it looks like Amber’s gonna have to hand out some Five-Minute Majors.
William
Now, now. We haven’t confirmed that Dinah is Amazi-Girl yet.
DeWeese07
or maybe a clothes rack will magically appear between them like when Robin faugh Sarah Palin.. grumble grumble
Seerow
Seriously awesome stuff always happens while you’re in the middle of raid, then you can’t go see it and you have to get it second hand. It’s enough to make someone want to quit MMOs.
Jen Aside
Can you imagine if Minecraft was around when Batman got started? Wouldn’t be a dark knight then, would there?
Lan M.
Oh yeah tell me about it. one time I was in the midst of a raid when a drunken brawl got started outside and I ran to leave the raid for a moment. Claimed it was for the toilet but they banned me from the guild because I saw a drunkard fighting a trash can and get his ass kicked.
Angelicfiend
my roommate and his friend walked in and both barfed on my bed while i as i was in a raid….it was horrible
addude
This was the last time anyone saw Billie with her Femurs
Skye
Oh… snap… Shit’s going down now. Billie must be shakin’ in her boots now!
alicemacher
She does have a “WTF did I just do?” look in the first panel.
Skye
She does. It has me excited. I’m hoping we see her fleeing in fear tomorrow.
David Herbert
That’d be boring. Violence is much more interesting.
David Herbert
Snap is what her femurs will do.
milk experiment
Amazi-Girl to the rescue?
Azumango
Someone call Spider-Car!
Joebo
It is on! On like Donkey Kong!
Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
Very interesting. Looks like Amazi-Girl will be there soon to keep the peace. Sure is hard living a double life isn’t it Amber…
Mint
I approve.
I wholeheartedly approve.
ScytheAkse
god how i wish i could truley see billies face right now
toddtr
I wonder how long it will be before Joe hears about this chick fight and kicks himself for not being there.
alicemacher
Now that was a facepunch. Complete with nosebleed, and not the good anime kind, either.
Skye
No, instead it’s the good VIOLENT PUNCH kind! 😀
Lokitsu
Damn good punch, but the bad news is: Ruth’s still standing and she’s pissed
The Astounding Frogboy
Bent glasses are bent. Back.
bump
In the last comic I stated that Ruth is my hero. Depending on her actions in the following comics that opinion will live or die. I’m not saying that i know what would have to happen for either outcome to happen, all I hope is that she doesn’t let me down.
Remora
From my perspective, Ruth is revelling in another human being’s pain. Laws, morals, and the effects she has on others are all distractions from taking her sadistic pleasures. She has claimed the right to force other people to be her playthings.
Until and unless she is characterized otherwise, the best option is to put her down. She probably has some sob story or another in her background, but if that’s the case then the taint has eaten her. She’s a threat to everyone around her.
Please explain what makes her your hero, so that I may gain perspective.
bump
I’m an RA. I see Ruth as a parody of the position. She gets to do and say the things every RA wants to do at some point during their career because its a comic. So many times are RA’s called to solve problems so stupid we just want to scream. Other times we have to deal with really scary situations, like breaking up a party of twenty drunk strangers. Most of the time though, we have to carry out the bone crushing monotony of administration. I’ve had to let in a locked out resident four times in one day. I’ve had to chase people down to do roommate agreements. It wastes my time, and its stressful. Ruth not only does the job, but she’s unfazed by anger, fear, or frustration. She’s rock solid.
On the subject of Billie…
Billie is narcissistic and anti-social. Normal methods to interact with her won’t work, so forget about asking her to do anything for you. Ruth realizes this immediately and so her interactions with Billie have been abnormal, but effective. She has inspired fear and respect in what will be a big problem as the year continues. You see a sadist messing with an innocent, I see a problem being fixed before it ever has the chance to threaten the rest of the residents in the community.
I’ll have to renounce my position however if Ruth fights back. Judo flips and clotheslines are acceptable, but when its your movement hurting someone else you’ve crossed the line. I want to see Ruth make it apparent how she could expel Billie, or beat her, or set her uniform on fire, and then do something Billie could never do, I want to see Ruth let it go and show a little admiration that Billie had the balls to do it. I want to see her demand she get the roommate agreement and see Billie deliver, and i want the theory that the cut up jersey is fake to be true, and that Billie gets it back. And from that point on maybe Billie might get turned around. Maybe she’ll come to see Ruth as a role model. Maybe Billie will become an RA after redeeming herself. Rose colored glasses aside, I just hope I’m not disappointed.
zuche
Thank you for the insights.
Schadetj
As a former RA, Ruth has no excuse for doing what she’s doing. Yes, it can get stressful at times, but if the only way you can handle it is through threats and violence then you have no right being an RA.
Ruth has done NO follow up for the sheets that is HER responsibility to get, she assumed Billie was lying without doing any kind of questioning (Ruth has never seen Sal either so it can be safe to assume that no one does), the only effort she’s done for her job beyond beating people up was finding people for the meeting, and the only reason she did that was because she enjoyed terrorizing people. Most RAs don’t terrorize their students, especially when they realize that the students vastly outnumber you. And she’s destroying any future credit the RAs they’ll get in the years to come will have.
I hope Ruth gets fired. Because she makes RAs look bad, and she’s horrible at her job.
bump
I’d agree with you, except its a comic. Of course no RA in real life could act like that and be called a good RA. But in DoA Mike punches people in the face and we laugh.
You assume Ruth has done no follow up because it hasn’t been depicted, for all we know Ruth has been to the room repeatedly looking for Sal. Also, you say she hasn’t put any effort into her job, but every time we see her thats the only thing she’s been doing. As a former RA, you’d know its required to track down as many of your residents before your first floor meeting, so you cant say Ruth’s reason for doing so is just to terrorize. Lastly, Ruth is rough to make sure her residents know their place in the beginning, but she has been helpful to Dorothy, which shows she’s not a complete sadist like so many people believe she is. She would have chaperoned Joice’s date if she hadn’t been busy “following up” on Billie and Sal’s roomie agreement. Another reason to believe the destruction of the jersey is fake is that it doesn’t take an evening to cut out a letter of a jersey. Photoshopping a picture and stitching a fake letter S would however.
Yes, most RA’s don’t act the way Ruth acts because In real life situations aren’t handled the way she handles them, but in a comic it does, it works, its funny, and I like it.
How close minded a person would have to be to let their first encounter with a person of a certain title influence the way they would see others of that title.
Like Chuck Noris, Ruth doesn’t get stressed, she gets busy. I’ll always laugh, because I’m pretty sure any RA could relate.
“I hate you and your problems.”
gangler
Wow, that’s quite well laid out and informed. It also does a great deal to lay out her more noble characteristics and explains the context within which they are noble.
Makes me seem petty by comparison. I just like her because I delight in suffering and admire the efficiency with which she brings it about lol. You can watch it spread as she inflicts in on Billie, the most likely to pass it on to everyone else she interacts with afterwards.
The way she compounds emotional damage with physical damage, and then proceeds to add another layer of emotional damage through her response to Billie’s retaliation, creating this sandwhich of misery which holds itself together and will stay with her long after Ruth has left, is quite remarkable. Everything she does very specifically plays on all of Billie’s weaknesses and insecurity for maximum effect. She’s an artist, and has even gone so far as to achieve a position of power, despite the inherent inconvenience and lack of rewards, for the sole purpose of pursuing her art.
Of course, all that stuff you say about her is really cool too. I especially like the “I hate you and your problems” part. Really relatable. We’ve all thought it at some point:)
Batfangirl Amby!
Well said! I agree wholeheartedly!
Though to be fair, I can’t stand Billie. I don’t understand why some people like her, since she’s kind of a pompous bongo who pathetically clings to her status as a high school cheerleader like it matters or makes her better than anyone else.
Ruth is a bit of a bully, but at least she’s funny. Like a more interesting Galasso.
Cos
You ever been clotheslined? Hurts like a sonofagun. Not to mention the emotional damage she has clearly inflicted via theft and property damage.
Sorry, your argument is invalid.
bump
how so?
Skye
Totally invalid!
I think bump’s argument is valid simply on the premise that, well, in all likelihood she’s right in that what Ruth is doing is what a lot of RA’s wish they could do. The job seems rather stressful to me, especially when you have to consider that they have to play on a very thin line. They need to come off as authority figures who you should listen to, and yet they can’t do a lot of the things authority figures can to help problems.
To quote someone from yesterday’s comic:
“The policy where I was working was so strict that putting yourself in the middle of a fight to end it (not fighting back understand, just getting in the middle) would be enough to put you on probation.”
If this was high school, a teacher could step in and not get in trouble. Same with elementary school. Hell, the police could too! But an RA has none of these things. The smallest things could get them in trouble, even if they help stop a situation or problem.
Bump isn’t condoning Ruth’s actions. Bump is saying that they see Ruth as their hero for doing the things that an RA likely wishes they could do given these stresses and that for Ruth to maintain this “hero” status she must choose her next action very carefully.
Alix
I don’t see how Billie is SO BAD she deserves to get beaten up and her property stolen and defaced. Yes, she’s snotty and yes, she clings to the high school social structure, but doesn’t anyone else remember how scary the first few days of college were? So she talks down to Walky, who couldn’t care less. So she talks back to Ruth, big frigging deal. It’s really not THAT bad.
And Ruth has supposedly determined that Billie is narcissistic and anti-social to the point of being impossible to treat with any respect or consideration at all from what, exactly? She didn’t want to go to the meeting? She can’t get her roommate to sign a form? Everything she’s done has been a huge overreaction.
Billie has been trying to get the stupid form. She tried to stay up all night to get it. It’s not even her job, it’s Ruth’s job to get it. And now Ruth is keeping her from her classes. Billie really ought to get some administrative help against Ruth, because she’s just been totally abusive so far. I’m sure if it wasn’t the roommate agreement, it would be something just as arbitrary she’d be attacking Billie over.
I could forgive the judo flip from the beginning, since Billie did attack her willingly, but stealing the uniform and beating her up afterward is crossing the line. I’m starting to wonder if Ruth is supposed to have some sort of grudge against cheerleaders that she’s punishing Billie for.
And I don’t care that Ruth was nice to Dorothy. Big whoop, plenty of bullies only target one or two people and treat the rest normally.
Cos
Yes. To everything.
turkishproverb
Ruth is your hero? What the heck is wrong with you? Do you also enjoy seeing the bully shove little kids into the mud? I don’t give a crap if you’re an RA, what she’s doing should only piss you off more. The fact you actually see it as remotely good makes me pray you lose that RA position before you start electrocuting freshmen for the high it gives you. You should be ashamed if her for the negative stereotype of RA’s she supports, even if it is one common to life in a less severe form. You shouldn’t be praising the psychotic bongo.
thatgirlwiththeglasses
Gah, fights are so inconveniently timed, aren’t they, Amber?!
Kurai_Seraphim
She’s totally going off to change into Spider-car!
Kurai_Seraphim
In lieu of my gravatar, I guess I should say that hitting Ruth means that Billie likes her.
Trae Dorn
Well, in the Walkyverse! they’ve slept together…
…just sayin…
Confuzor
Sooooo this fight could possibly break out into lesbionic hate sex? With Roz recording for…posterity?
Karo
Scruffy: Second.
Joebo
Hooray, someone got it right! 😀
TyrantisTerror
I’m hoping this leads to an Amazi-Girl & Billie team-up, which will then in turn lead to Billie becoming Amazi-Girl’s sidekick, Lush Lass.
Y’know, ’cause she drinks a lot.
dchorror
Wouldn’t that make her really unpredictable/unreliable?
TyrantisTerror
Yeah, but we’re talking about vigilantes who think the best way to fight crime is to dress up in bright colored costumes and punch it. Unpredictable/unreliable is sort of par for the course with that kind of mentality.
dchorror
I meant more in a Jason Todd-y sorta way. It’s too early in the morning to be making me think about these sorts of things.
Corsair114
It beats the heck out of long, sustained verbal and physical abuse that eventually leads the bullied to choose the “disproportionate revenge” ending that ends with SWAT, body bags, and interrupted daytime programming.
Joebo
Yeah… we don’t want VT or Columbine on our hands here. This is a comic. This is for teh laughs not teh cries.
Ridureyu
You don’t understand. Everything is for teh cries.
Everything.
bramblepatch
You do realize this is a comic by David Willis, right?
Loki
And in fact, Willis has stated that the “drama tag” is pre-pulled on this one. We’re not in for a laugh riot here.
TheStranger
For some reason I look at Ruth in a Leafs jersey and wanna say “…Ceilidh?”
Loki
Old school, man. Old school. I’d love to see Willis go for some serious twistiness here.
Rowen Morland
Teachers never pronounce my name right.
Ridureyu
And then Akuma comes in from out of nowhere and Raging Demons somebody.
You know it’s gonna happen.
PedanticJerkass
What.
Mkvenner
the suspence is killing me.
…And i still have perverse sexual lust for Ruth.
MuldoonX9
As much as Ruth deserved that, you don’t go punching someone wearing a hockey jersey. Especially a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey. Billie is about to die.
Opus the Poet
+1 on the ‘leafs jersey thing. Any poseur can wear a Dallas Stars jersey, only a real fan would even bother getting a ‘leafs jersey.
ilvos01