Here’s the thing, we’ve all still got the old rights to feel shitty from 2014, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19. They build on each other and keep making it worse!
This is some sick ploy from Willis to get us to request Carol for a bonus strip so we can see it, isn’t it?
Regalli
I mean honestly, they could put it as the prelude to a fucking Slipshine somehow and I’d buy it just to see Carol get beat up by a depressed bisexual Canadian woman. (Billie finds the story the hottest thing ever? Fuck if I know.)
… Though it’s not too late to change our Patreon voting, is it? I mean I still do want to see Jocelyne but if we could get Carla’s Ultra Car toy and Puppy Dorothy and Julia Gray and the Wonder Woman costume through, there’s a chance, right?
RowenMorland
Sliphine Presents: Ruth does a suplex!
thejeff
Yeah, but we’d request Carol so we could see it and then he’d show us a flashback Carol or something else unrelated.
At least that way we can imagine it however we like.
I said this once before, but my preferred version has Ruth dressed as the Undertaker while Billie stands off to the side with a black suit and mustache, hoisting an urn and yelling “OH YES!”
Consider though: Linda recognized bailing out a kidnapper and defending him after he kidnapped your daughter is wrong. I’m pretty sure Carol would not (or hell, possibly even DOES not) see anything wrong with stealing $700 from your child because they wanted to spend it on helping their friend, who’s ‘the wrong kind of people,’ and you want to break up the friendship.
I mean I kind of want to puke saying it, but Linda may actually be a nicer karen. Marginally. Still would not mind her dying in the slightest, though!
SuperFroakie82
Linda being “nicer” doesn’t actually contradict BBCC’s comment though, it just means that she’s incapable of dying.
Geneseepaws
NowTHERE’S and image! Un-Dead Carol!
Hnk, Hnk, must.not.beg.!
David
Uh, the whole point of fundamental Christianism is being undead.
Deanatay
No it’s to worship the undead, namely Lich Jesus. To actually claim you’re undead is heretical and hubristic.
Can I say that is a terrible thing to wish on someone, unless you grant eternal youth at the same time? Because I have been through that scenario, and the damage is cumulative.
Nineteenth anniversary end of this month, and my scars are getting tight and reminding me that I’m going to suffer forever.
Geneseepaws
While we live there is yet hope, but the dead are dead alike.
Hang in there!
*Except for the Vegetarian Un-dead of course; “Grains… Grains!”*
This is the best thing I’ve read on the internet today.
BBCC
I’ve yet to find the insult I’m looking for with Linda. I used asshole for Blaine and I’d probably have used bastard for Ross. None I’ve come up with yet have been satisfactory.
I guess I’ll know it when she too is dead. 🙂
Geneseepaws
Down East, we say (when a boat looks like it needs a mercy sinking**), S.P.1-C., for sh*t pot first class.
“wow I feel shitty!”
“Yeah that makes sense…”
“No but look, there’s all these terrible this happening!”
“….”
“So I don’t get it, why should I feel so bad?!?”
One of the worst things I did when my mental health was in a bad state was use other peoples’ misery to put myself down. Like if I hadn’t absorbed enough suffering it leaked out and infected other people.
Course you can’t even talk about that out loud because then you come to the conclusion of “I’m so selfish, I’m making someone else’s problems fuel for my own issues.”
Be careful, Ruth! If you start feeling empathy for other people, then you might become the beloved protector of the dorm instead of a feared dictator hoarding the femurs of your residents!
That is a beautiful “That can’t be true” comedy take at the end. Not quite as good as Baron Wulfenbach being told that he might be the problem in his relationships, but I don’t know if anyone could beat that.
107 thoughts on “Shitty”
Ana Chronistic
But they were just HANDING OUt rights to feel shitty! It’s 2020! (in some universe outside of DoA)
Solenoid
Here’s the thing, we’ve all still got the old rights to feel shitty from 2014, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19. They build on each other and keep making it worse!
clif
It’s called the law of conservation of accumulated shittyness. Calling it that doesn’t add anything, but it does make it sound more scientific.
Felix
It’s simply conservation of energy, and the energy’s been real shitty since 2008 financial crisis.
Sirksome
She won the 1v1 with Carol!
Leorale
Clearly the author lacks empathy because he didn’t let us see this! (I know that’s not why, it’s just, I wanted to see it.)
Doctor_Who
This is some sick ploy from Willis to get us to request Carol for a bonus strip so we can see it, isn’t it?
Regalli
I mean honestly, they could put it as the prelude to a fucking Slipshine somehow and I’d buy it just to see Carol get beat up by a depressed bisexual Canadian woman. (Billie finds the story the hottest thing ever? Fuck if I know.)
… Though it’s not too late to change our Patreon voting, is it? I mean I still do want to see Jocelyne but if we could get Carla’s Ultra Car toy and Puppy Dorothy and Julia Gray and the Wonder Woman costume through, there’s a chance, right?
RowenMorland
Sliphine Presents: Ruth does a suplex!
thejeff
Yeah, but we’d request Carol so we could see it and then he’d show us a flashback Carol or something else unrelated.
Lumino
It will forever be the Noodle Incident. We will never get to see how it went down.
Doctor_Who
At least that way we can imagine it however we like.
I said this once before, but my preferred version has Ruth dressed as the Undertaker while Billie stands off to the side with a black suit and mustache, hoisting an urn and yelling “OH YES!”
auroki
I need fan art of that now
Undrave
We didn’t see it! DAMN YOU WILLIS!!!
DarkoNeko
it’s probably gonna ends up in a patreon special I guess
Chris
I think she needs Becky’s advice from a few days ago.
Delicious Taffy
Or was it a few moments ago?
Delicious Taffy
Oh no, Carol is also dead. What a loss.
Bagge
Sad.
So very sad.
BBCC
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer karen.
Regalli
Consider though: Linda recognized bailing out a kidnapper and defending him after he kidnapped your daughter is wrong. I’m pretty sure Carol would not (or hell, possibly even DOES not) see anything wrong with stealing $700 from your child because they wanted to spend it on helping their friend, who’s ‘the wrong kind of people,’ and you want to break up the friendship.
I mean I kind of want to puke saying it, but Linda may actually be a nicer karen. Marginally. Still would not mind her dying in the slightest, though!
SuperFroakie82
Linda being “nicer” doesn’t actually contradict BBCC’s comment though, it just means that she’s incapable of dying.
Geneseepaws
NowTHERE’S and image! Un-Dead Carol!
Hnk, Hnk, must.not.beg.!
David
Uh, the whole point of fundamental Christianism is being undead.
Deanatay
No it’s to worship the undead, namely Lich Jesus. To actually claim you’re undead is heretical and hubristic.
Opus the Poet
Can I say that is a terrible thing to wish on someone, unless you grant eternal youth at the same time? Because I have been through that scenario, and the damage is cumulative.
Nineteenth anniversary end of this month, and my scars are getting tight and reminding me that I’m going to suffer forever.
Geneseepaws
While we live there is yet hope, but the dead are dead alike.
Hang in there!
*Except for the Vegetarian Un-dead of course; “Grains… Grains!”*
Koms
This is the best thing I’ve read on the internet today.
BBCC
I’ve yet to find the insult I’m looking for with Linda. I used asshole for Blaine and I’d probably have used bastard for Ross. None I’ve come up with yet have been satisfactory.
I guess I’ll know it when she too is dead. 🙂
Geneseepaws
Down East, we say (when a boat looks like it needs a mercy sinking**), S.P.1-C., for sh*t pot first class.
**Eco-sunk, as a fist habitat.
Geneseepaws
Fish habitat. Fish.
Agemegos
You aren’t fooling anyone, you know.
Scott
That moment when you realize your character development.
Bagge
Oh no, that Joyce-thing is catching
Nono
I may request the footage of said tackling and dragging of Carol. For security reasons.
Dara
And performance analysis.
I expect high marks, I just want to be there to give them.
Plasma Mongoose
Ruth is no Deanna Troi
The Coolest Child
She really did tackle Carol.
Admirable.
Madock345
I will forever be salty that we didn’t get to see that on screen
Undrave
DAMN YOU, WILLIS!!
Delicious Taffy
Imagine the comments, though.
Needfuldoer
Maybe it will end up a Patreon backer bonus strip?
Either that or somebody’s going to request it as a two-character commission in the next book Kickstarter.
Jhon
We will always have her Blaine suplex.
Achallenger
“wow I feel shitty!”
“Yeah that makes sense…”
“No but look, there’s all these terrible this happening!”
“….”
“So I don’t get it, why should I feel so bad?!?”
Ohhh so close
Stephen Bierce
*can’t decide between Simply Red and Phil Collins this time* 🙁
VinzKlortho
I-it’s not like I understand what you’re going through or anything, b-baka!
Cholma
Now I’m picturing Rick Moranis saying this (with a spaghetti strainer on his head, of course). Thank you for that bizarre image, Keymaster of Gozer!
clif
You can say that again.
Cholma
Now I’m picturing Rick Moranis saying this (with a spaghetti strainer on his head, of course). Thank you for that image, Keymaster of Gozer!
Mra
Aw, Ruth tossed Carol and we didn’t even get to see it?
BBCC
Compassion? In THIS brain? It’s more likely than you think!
Also, Ruth, gonna need to see that tackle.
Spencer
One of the worst things I did when my mental health was in a bad state was use other peoples’ misery to put myself down. Like if I hadn’t absorbed enough suffering it leaked out and infected other people.
Course you can’t even talk about that out loud because then you come to the conclusion of “I’m so selfish, I’m making someone else’s problems fuel for my own issues.”
Jerry
Wait, Ruth tackled-and-dragged Carol and we didn’t get to see it?! Shenanigans! SHENANIGANS!!!!
Geneseepaws
Are you calling Shenanigans? Cause if there are loose Shenanigans, I wanna help you stop them.
He Who Abides
I’ll get my broom.
Ellegos
This is either a glaring oversight, or the greatest Patreon incentive EVER DEVISED!
Geneseepaws
Willis only has himself to blame, but he could stop all the chatter and just Show Us The Money!
Geneseepaws
Sorry, I mean show us the monkey, getting suplex’t.
Jess
Great expression and comedic timing in the last panel there.
Jane
Be careful, Ruth! If you start feeling empathy for other people, then you might become the beloved protector of the dorm instead of a feared dictator hoarding the femurs of your residents!
Jane
(Ah, just in case anyone took that the wrong way, I’m just joking about her reputation; I don’t mean to imply that she’s actually a bad person)
ReFlex76
Dammit, I wanted to see Ruth suplex Carol.
Bicycle Bill
I know exactly where Ruth is coming from here.
Mae
If we’re not gonna see Ruth suplexing Carol, can we at least see Carol’s limp, bruised, angry body sprawled out on the pavement?
Regalli
I’m hoping we see her later in the storyline, still visibly limping in pain and scratched up.
I mean what I’m REALLY hoping for is a flashback, buuuut…
Kernanator
That is a beautiful “That can’t be true” comedy take at the end. Not quite as good as Baron Wulfenbach being told that he might be the problem in his relationships, but I don’t know if anyone could beat that.
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070709#.XzoFGjVlDIU
RACHEL BRESLER
I like the Ruth who has her depression medicated. Original flavor Ruth was very toxic, would not recommend.
JessWitt
And she still gets to threaten and tackle people …for the right reasons.
Tan
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DT
It happened off-screen?
Somebody better pick up that phone.
Cause I fucking called it.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-10/04-is-a-song-forever/instructed/#comment-1482465
Regalli
Ruth: I’m… reacting with compassion for other human beings? People who are in my care? Preposterous!
SeanR
NO FAIR!!!1! I wanted to see her suplex Carol!
NinjaNick