Hmm, revenge fanfic, revenge fanfic….. WILLIS! You’ve given me a great idea! This will be in the Dumbing of Age: Digital and Dino-Thunder Power Rangers crossover.
She needs to:
A) Shave her head
B) Start wearing glasses with different color lenses
C) Get the Dragons logo tattooed on her forehead. THEN she can write columns that take down tyrannical dictators.
I find it funny that Billie is learning the HARD way that college is completely different from high school. She still doesn’t seem to get that there are no ‘social groups’ so much anymore. I also enjoy that with high school people who ask me questions about college. First thing I tell them is to leave EVERYTHING they learned in high school behind. In college, they aren’t there to watch you make an ass out of yourself, there is no more ‘popularity contest’. I feel so self-gratified when I see their reactions to that.
To be fair, I think it depends on what you’re talking. During my college years, I was in various computer related programs (Computer science, then got mentally beaten and came back to just do computer programming, then interactive multimedia) and up until the third one, I got the same experience. There was no social structure, there was no top or bottom. Everyone was friends. It wasn’t until the third program, a postgrade program where I had to deal with a lot of artist-type douchebags, that I saw that change. However, even then it was only one or two people who were like that.
It can also depend on where you live. I’ve had friends from the US tell me what their college or university experience was like, and it in NO WAY matched mine or the one my older sisters had. A difference between US and Canadian colleges/universities? Maybe. or it could again be the program thing and my sisters and I just happened to be in programs that didn’t have these social structures stand as a part of it.
Anyway, Ultra Car’s existence in the Walkiverse kind of directly hinges on Joe being an abductee, remember? So unless we get a different explanation of super-human engineering prowess, probably no Ultra Car in the Dumbiverse.
I know there’s pretty much no chance of Ultra Car making an actual appearance as anything other than a joke (Maybe there’s a TV parody of Knight Rider?), but I’d love to see that, regardless.
Maybe it’s just me, but watching Billie get kicked in the face while she’s down, again and again and again, stopped being funny when Questionable Content was doing it to Marten, and that was before DoA even began.
I really don’t think the Billie-kicking is about making it funny at this point (I could be wrong). I think it’s about introducing her character to a situation she doesn’t really know how to handle and to see how she uses the opportunity to grow.
How many times does Billie need to be kicked before we can get to that character development? Once? Twice? Ten more times? I want an estimate, because to me, it’s already been more than enough for whatever character growth Willis is building towards. Ten more harassment’s from Ruth won’t exactly add anything the first four already haven’t, but I’m willing to bet we haven’t seen the end of it yet.
Piccolo
Changing everything a person believes about themselves, their environment, and the other people inhabiting that environment with them takes time. In comic time, it’s been what, a week? Two? Billie will start to change, we just can’t expect it to be as quickly as if every real day was a comic day.
Cratacon
It’s their third day. In that time, Billie has been harassed by Ruth on three separate occasions and physically hurt on two of them. I realize it often takes more than three days for someone to change, but with the pace this comic is going, I’m just afraid we’ll be stuck on kick-Billie mode for the next few years until comic time reaches the point where her shift can be realistic.
You’re right. Repeated kicking from the same person doesn’t accomplish anything other than forming a vendetta. However, when she’s getting the same sort of treatment from multiple people, it’s much harder for her to ignore. Remember, this is a comic so it’s hard to really get a sense of how often it is since it’s not showing all her other interactions when the spotlight isn’t on her.
College newspapers actually do pretty well- I worked on TNH at UNH and people always took a copy to read during breaks or meals. For bigger newspapers I think we’re just disillusioned with how biased they are, and turn to online sources where we can get multiple perspectives. at least in college newspapers (or at least the one I worked on) they try to keep the slant to a minimum.
or as much as anyone can, and still be interesting.
95 thoughts on “Revenge”
Jen Aside
Revenge Fic can be a column!
Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
Hmm, revenge fanfic, revenge fanfic….. WILLIS! You’ve given me a great idea! This will be in the Dumbing of Age: Digital and Dino-Thunder Power Rangers crossover.
Dedlok
Yeah, like there isn’t Revenge Fan Fic in the newspapers already. They just call them Political Columns.
Seerow
And they make for such good reading!
XLR
Zing!
Doctor_Who
She needs to:
A) Shave her head
B) Start wearing glasses with different color lenses
C) Get the Dragons logo tattooed on her forehead. THEN she can write columns that take down tyrannical dictators.
Croaxleigh
But only if she gets the gun.
Amazo
TWO guns.
They Call Me Sook
Transmetropolitan reference? You’re cool.
turkishproverb
Na, he’s just well read.
Now fez’s? Fez’s are cool. So are stetsons.
Lesharo
What, are you from another planet or something?
Anon
Why yes they are, actually.
It’s called Gallifrey ^^
But the stetson will never be as cool as the fez.
Rognik
You forgot bow-ties. I wear a bow tie now. Bow ties are cool.
Jenny Creed
She can start by writing a column about Ruth that’s just the word “Fuck” repeated eight thousand times. It’s traditional!
Vivvav
I like it when things go wrong for Billie, because she’s a bongo.
dchorror
I like it when things go right for Billie, cause she’s a fun bongo.
Tristan J
I like it when things go left for Billie.
Mirenheart
I like Billie.
benenator
Even though she yelled in your FAAAAACE?
dchorror
That’s a really good reason to like her.
James Rye
Cause she´s a Tsundere and yelling FAAAAACE is her form of telling others that she likes them?
Lokitsu
And because she doesn’t own a Monkey Master to throw.
Jabberwocky
I like it when things go diagonally for Billie.
Janette
I like when things go in any direction involving gay sex with Billie.
Just cause it hasn’t happened yet doesn’t mean I can’t dream.
Daibhid C
But by the same token, things ought to go wrong for Ruth, as well…
R
I think I like this ‘verse’s Daisy more than IW!’s.
zuche
There does seem to be more depth to her characterization this time around.
tdm88
I like Daisy, I like her a lot.
Ridureyu
And so, Billie demonstrates selective hearing. “You can____revenge____Indiana!”
And so, she takes a fedora and a whip and… I dunno, I’ve got nuthin.’
Darth Cariss
Tumblr!? I don’t even know ‘er!
DrDVD
….. I sense a deep throat parody coming up in the future….
Rognik
They do say truth is stranger than fiction.
dchorror
It’s not just about telling the truth, it’s telling it in a manner that is unbiased and believable.
Awesome look from Daisy, it’s a look I use far more often than I’d like.
Ragnal
…I still don’t get Tumblr.
Trae Dorn
It’s hipster livejournal
Tristan J
And here I thought Livejournal was hipster Livejournal.
dchorror
Guess that means Tumbler is even more so.
Chris Blanchard
It was, until it became too mainstream.
Animaniac
Do I want to know what the tagline under a ‘hope’ style poster of Ron Jeremy says?
Yes.
Jabberwocky
Clearly not, since I use it, and I’m as un-hipster as you can get.
taekwondogirl
Being a hipster by being un-hipster? HIPSTER.
Jabberwocky
I think you just broke my brain right there.
Tana
I find it funny that Billie is learning the HARD way that college is completely different from high school. She still doesn’t seem to get that there are no ‘social groups’ so much anymore. I also enjoy that with high school people who ask me questions about college. First thing I tell them is to leave EVERYTHING they learned in high school behind. In college, they aren’t there to watch you make an ass out of yourself, there is no more ‘popularity contest’. I feel so self-gratified when I see their reactions to that.
dchorror
There are social groups. There are always social groups. People just try to say they’re not as important.
Jetstream
So… you LIE to your students?
Cause that’s pretty much the opposite of what college actually is.
In reality, the social groups are simply bigger, more ritualized, and totally disregard whatever you were before.
And you’re at the bottom again.
Skye
To be fair, I think it depends on what you’re talking. During my college years, I was in various computer related programs (Computer science, then got mentally beaten and came back to just do computer programming, then interactive multimedia) and up until the third one, I got the same experience. There was no social structure, there was no top or bottom. Everyone was friends. It wasn’t until the third program, a postgrade program where I had to deal with a lot of artist-type douchebags, that I saw that change. However, even then it was only one or two people who were like that.
It can also depend on where you live. I’ve had friends from the US tell me what their college or university experience was like, and it in NO WAY matched mine or the one my older sisters had. A difference between US and Canadian colleges/universities? Maybe. or it could again be the program thing and my sisters and I just happened to be in programs that didn’t have these social structures stand as a part of it.
Brandon
OFF TO THE INTERNET!
dchorror
Credibility is harder to gain there.
zuche
Why should I believe that?
Dylan
I hate how Super Car isn’t on the poll…
bramblepatch
Who is this Super Car you speak of?
Anyway, Ultra Car’s existence in the Walkiverse kind of directly hinges on Joe being an abductee, remember? So unless we get a different explanation of super-human engineering prowess, probably no Ultra Car in the Dumbiverse.
Dylan
Ultra Car, yes sorry. Brain fart.
I know there’s pretty much no chance of Ultra Car making an actual appearance as anything other than a joke (Maybe there’s a TV parody of Knight Rider?), but I’d love to see that, regardless.
Cratacon
Maybe it’s just me, but watching Billie get kicked in the face while she’s down, again and again and again, stopped being funny when Questionable Content was doing it to Marten, and that was before DoA even began.
Piccolo
I really don’t think the Billie-kicking is about making it funny at this point (I could be wrong). I think it’s about introducing her character to a situation she doesn’t really know how to handle and to see how she uses the opportunity to grow.
Skye
Piccolo nailed it rather well. Billie’s dilemma isn’t suppose to be funny. It’s suppose to be a tool of character growth for her.
Penthesilea
I get the exact same impression, Piccolo.
Cratacon
How many times does Billie need to be kicked before we can get to that character development? Once? Twice? Ten more times? I want an estimate, because to me, it’s already been more than enough for whatever character growth Willis is building towards. Ten more harassment’s from Ruth won’t exactly add anything the first four already haven’t, but I’m willing to bet we haven’t seen the end of it yet.
Piccolo
Changing everything a person believes about themselves, their environment, and the other people inhabiting that environment with them takes time. In comic time, it’s been what, a week? Two? Billie will start to change, we just can’t expect it to be as quickly as if every real day was a comic day.
Cratacon
It’s their third day. In that time, Billie has been harassed by Ruth on three separate occasions and physically hurt on two of them. I realize it often takes more than three days for someone to change, but with the pace this comic is going, I’m just afraid we’ll be stuck on kick-Billie mode for the next few years until comic time reaches the point where her shift can be realistic.
taekwondogirl
You’re right. Repeated kicking from the same person doesn’t accomplish anything other than forming a vendetta. However, when she’s getting the same sort of treatment from multiple people, it’s much harder for her to ignore. Remember, this is a comic so it’s hard to really get a sense of how often it is since it’s not showing all her other interactions when the spotlight isn’t on her.
wynne
Billie in the third panel needs to go on some Che Geuvara-esque shirt.
goatman95111
I concur. However, I’d respect Billie more than Che any day of the week. The guy was a nutcase.
brasca1
If Daisy is going to nix an expose on Ruth then I’m not too sure she’ll have any more luck with a story on student vigilante Amazi-Girl.
Liberal31337
That sure was a pretentious statement for someone in a dying media platform.
fit-to-freak
I like you.
dchorror
Now more than ever, the newspapers have to keep their integrity.
Jason
Hey, they could have an online version!
Vinners
College newspapers actually do pretty well- I worked on TNH at UNH and people always took a copy to read during breaks or meals. For bigger newspapers I think we’re just disillusioned with how biased they are, and turn to online sources where we can get multiple perspectives. at least in college newspapers (or at least the one I worked on) they try to keep the slant to a minimum.
or as much as anyone can, and still be interesting.
Inara
I like that she seemed to have to think about it for a moment – perhaps she’s already acquainted with Ruth?
Robert in San Diego
I wonder how often Agatha’s had to say something like that.
Robert in San Diego
“Daisy”
I meant Daisy, not Agatha. OOPS.
Gabe