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Nightmare
Posted on November 15, 2011 by David M Willis

135 thoughts on “Nightmare”

  1. Henry

    Well isn’t Billie just a beacon of joy and happiness?

    1. Henry

      Oh God, not again.

      1. Valerie

        I just need you to know that I read both of your comments in Applejack’s voice.

        1. Rikushadow5

          As did we all.

        2. alex

          except me.
          i don’t watch ponies.

        3. Henry

          *GASP*

        4. 3DSarge

          Come.

          Come, alex.

          Join the herd.

          We have cupcakes.

        5. lightsabermario

          You mean these cupcakes?
          http://www.terrariaonline.com/threads/mlp-fanfic-cupcakes.47156/
          Thanks, I’ll pass.

        6. Leorale

          I… buh? wha? ::hides from that very, very strange link::

        7. alex

          i… i think i’ll pass…

        8. shadowsneakz

          I WILL NEVER LIKE CUPCAKES AGAIN

        9. Aizat

          Cupcakes? Oh no. Don’t eat it alex, for your own good, don’t eat the cupcakes especially if it’s been serve by a pony.

        10. Cyth

          Same here.

        11. Palmetto

          Is that what it is?

        12. Hayo

          Mmmmm cupcakes

        13. shadowsneakz

          i didn’t read it in her voice until you pointed it out, but now i cannot un-hear it.

    2. Brendan

      Muahaha… I escaped… thanks to YOU.

    3. Wandering Meme

      Billie, you’re an inspiration to us all.

      Seriously, someone should make a successory about her!

  2. Traptfreak

    Creepy last panel is Creepy

  3. Brendan

    Why… what… why are you here?

    Also, happy deuteranniversary, Ethan!

  4. addude

    Ballface!

    1. Wandering Meme

      If i were walky…

      Walky: You’re right…LET’S SUCK FACE!!!!!!

    2. ironballs16

      BallFAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!

  5. Leorale

    Concisely told, Dorothy! Poor Joyce.

    Also, here is the obligatory “ball-FAAAACE”

    1. MediaDuke

      Damn, you beat me to it. Like your mom beat me off last night for a nickel.

      1. Fred

        With her… no wait…

        1. Wandering Meme

          aww man, i was waiting to use the man-gina joke again!

      2. David Herbert

        You got screwed. I went all the way for the nickel.

        1. fellixe

          Or didn’t get screwed, anyway.

        2. Khrene Cleaver

          Without his penis then?

  6. John Harmon

    I’m like this every morning, sans the alcohol.

    1. David Herbert

      Maybe you need alcohol to make you feel better?

      1. a99steaksauce

        i know i do.

        1. André

          Is that icon coincidental?

        2. Kernanator

          Well OF COURSE Drunk Mike would.

      2. Rex Hondo

        No. Coffee!

        1. Semysane

          Is it weird that I read that in Long John Baldry’s voice, then yelled out IRL “By Celestia’s Beard!”

        2. Anon

          Yes.

  7. Mkvenner

    That is an understatement.

  8. Aizat

    Oh come on Billie, you can do better than that.

  9. Plasma Mongoose

    Hungover Billie is not my favourite.

    1. fellixe

      Wow, Billie, you’re cheesy when you’re hung over.

    2. Aizat

      Hungover Billie looks like a zombie.

      1. espanolbot

        Booooooze! Boooooozzeeeee!

        1. Professor Zoot

          So what does it sound like when you extend silent e like that?

  10. iSaidCandleja-

    All that drinking and she is merely hung over? She had enough to give Superman alcohol poisoning!

    1. Aizat

      She have a clock work liver just like Kenshin.

    2. Leorale

      Maybe she barfed a lot..

    3. Henry

      That is Billie’s abductee power.

      Willis, I thought we weren’t going to see any of this abductee crap again!

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        It’s more likely to be the result of Scottish/Irish ancestry power.

    4. Kernanator

      Her liver is iron

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Her liver is why the alarm goes off at airport security.

        1. Kernanator

          Man, we play off each other so well, don’t we?

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          We do at times, it’s a matter of if we are in the zone or not.

  11. Mkvenner

    If you didn’t drink you wouldn’t be hungover!

    1. Bekah

      That’s Sober Logic ™ right there.

      Have about two and a half drinks, and you’ll see things differently.

      1. Mkvenner

        I don’t drink.

        1. Bekah

          Exactly.

    2. insomniac

      If you didn’t sober up, you wouldn’t be hung over, either.

  12. Plasma Mongoose

    No Billie, what you NEED is water and maybe some Vitamin B.

    1. Zuche

      All she needs is love!

      Altogether now!

      1. Aizat

        All she needs is love!

        1. a99steaksauce

          for a nickel.

        2. Ancestral Hamster

          With Billie, it’s free.

        3. Kernanator

          The first one’s free. Every time after can be yours for 5 easy payments of $19.95!

        4. Jacob

          Or any amount of alcohol

        5. Kernanator

          It’s very expensive alcohol.

      2. Andrusi

        And other Beatles songs.

  13. fellixe

    Don’t know if it was intentional but that cluster of thumbtacks behind Joyce in panel one are like those *bloop-bloop* foggy bubbles of confusion, but done subtley. Neat.

  14. T Campbell

    “Holy crap! Dorothy, you just verbed two never-before-verbed nouns in one 22-word sentence! Are you Shakespeare? Should I be following you around with an app that listens to your sentences for further neologisms, and then posts them directly to Urban Dictionary?”

    “Walky, stop linguisting! It’s out of character for you! Joyce is seriously residual-traumaing and maybe identity-crisising, and even though we interventioned last night, we’re still going to be responsibling until we’ve helped her through the Kubler-Rossing.”

    “GENIUS.”

    1. Random832

      Glass has been verbed before. Perhaps not in that sense, though.

      1. Crumplepunch

        I’ve heard “glassed” being used in that sense a lot.

      2. Cybersnark

        Yes, though it makes me think of Joyce as the Covenant, dealing with Ryan from orbit. . .

      3. Michelle J Caboose

        Yes. In the Halo games, the Covenant forces have a procedure they perform on the surfaces of enemy planets they wish to depopulate. Apparently, it involves superheating the planetary surface, and is called “glassing.” A planet that has been thus treated is referred to as having been “glassed.”

        I like to think this is what Dorothy is referring to when she says “then Joyce glassed him.” But I suppose “punched him in the face with a glass” works almost as well…

        1. Michelle J Caboose

          Wow, rereading that, I realize how much that first paragraph makes me sound like a nerd.

          I mean, I am a nerd, but that paragraph really makes me sound like one. :/

        2. Kitsuki Noriyuki

          It’s also a fairly common euphemism in modern sci-fi for nuking a place.

        3. Blob Marley

          The origin of that is, of course, the way sand becomes glass if you superheat it. So if you go to, for example, the first nuclear bomb test site, the whole patch of desert got melted and fused into glass. Kind of cool, in a REALLY eerie sort of way. Basically, that’s what the Elites did to most of Asia. Or Africa. Or wherever it was.

        4. Michelle J Caboose

          Which is why I prefer to think that this is what Joyce did to Ryan. ^_^

        5. Hannover Fist

          Whenever I hear of somebody being glassed, all I can think of is the ‘straya day video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4AchHTN-XQ

      4. waytoomanyusernames

        Yep, certainly in the UK it’s understood to refer to being hit in the face with a broken bottle or glass. The newspapers even use it.

    2. Pat

      Intervened. It’s already a word.

      1. drs

        Next you’ll be saying we should say ‘use’ instead of ‘utilize’ and then the Bureaucracy won’t want to hire you anymore.

        1. drs

          I’m still Happy-Joyce!

    3. Thomas

      Responsibling is what Walky is to Sal, I guess.

      1. Andrusi

        Responsibling is what rappers who want to be good role models wear.

        1. Leorale

          hee hee that one made me smile

  15. Crumplepunch

    I just realized that it’s only a matter of time before Billie is mistaken for a D&D affectionado expressing a preference.

  16. Kernanator

    Speaking of nightmares, hung-over Billie has a scary face.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Billie’s gonna look 45 by the time she reaches 25 if she doesn’t change her lifestyle.

      1. Kernanator

        “Don’t feel bad, Billie! Some guys love a more mature woman. Excluding the fact you still party like a teenager, you are the perfect image of one!”

        1. Aizat

          Especially with your huge….tracts of land.

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          Depends on whenever you prefer Tubs’ tract of land or Jugs’ sweater puppies more.

      2. David

        That just makes it easier to acquire booze without an ID.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          So there is an upside… 😀

  17. NF

    At least she still believes in justice!

  18. David McG

    Oh good, he can tell her about the pajama jeans now.

    1. ryan

      he can tell everyone about them all at once at the same time!

      1. Kernanator

        How convenient!

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          and thus, the PJ jeans become the newest best-seller since the Snuggie.

        2. Hannover Fist

          I bet Walky already has one of those.

        3. Plasma Mongoose

          I can totally see him owning one.

  19. Blob Marley

    You say that, Billie, but wait ’til you see these pants.

    THESE GODDAMN PANTS.

  20. Xi

    And suddenly calling somebody ballface causes everyone to forget about tragedy for a moment. Bravo Billie. If you were real, I would drink with you always if only for the hung over mornings. ( Annnnd if my avatar is still Ruth, then Beerios sexy times. ;D )

  21. Uhm.

    There’s a bit too much an inappropriate mix of seriousness and humour that’s leaving a funny taste in my mouth.

    1. iSaidCandleja-

      It only taste funny because Billie hasn’t showered.

    2. madd

      I don’t know about that, but I was really annoyed with Billie’s entrance in to this scene. I wanted to see what Walky’s reaction was after the first shock of hearing it, but now Billie is likely to monopolize t he conversation or at least insert distracting comments.

  22. Dan

    Hey look, the DRAGONS shirt.

    1. Lunchbox

      Woo!

      Related thought: Does Billy realise the irony of her nerd-hating ways whilst wearing a shirt with DRAGONS emblazoned on the front?

      1. David

        Nerds don’t own dragons!

        Just like how hockey doesn’t own ducks.

        1. Blob Marley

          But, like hockey has the mightiest ducks, nerds have the mightiest dragons. WE WIN!

    2. Andy

      Now we need to see Ruth wearing a shirt that says “Dovahkiin.”

  23. AckAckAck(Bizarro Roz)

    Quick Billie! mix raw egg, ginger and Guiness beer in a big glass, warm it up and drink it!

    Hang over cure? not really, but it going to be so horrible she will snap out if it!

  24. Joraiem

    Dammit Walky, hug Joyce! Do it!

    You hug that girl this instant!

    1. Lord Synick XXIII

      May not be the greatest idea right now.

      1. madd

        Why? It’s not like she’s got physical memory of the assault and it doesn’t look to me like any of the other folk there are being very physically comforting. I think he should probably ask if he can hug her of if she would like a hug, but I don’t see why being hugged by a friend would be a bad.

      2. Joraiem

        Greatest idea or not, I can’t look at Panel 2 and NOT want her to get all of the hugs.

  25. MM

    …I’m not really seeing a marked decrease in quality of insult.

    1. Michelle J Caboose

      I think it’s more that she actually had to stop and think about it, rather than it just rolling off her tongue automatically.

      “Who put this Walky here?” I love this line, more than “and then Sarah baseball-batted him.”

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Cos she would rather have the other Walky(Sal) instead.

        1. Michelle J Caboose

          That kind of raises the question of which Walkerton she finds less annoying. Hmmm…

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          A better question would be: Which Walkerton is more shippable with Billie?

        3. Michelle J Caboose

          Why choose? Why not ship both?

  26. Kelsey

    Billie you’re so clever.

  27. Wix

    This comic doesn’t have enough Dina in it.

    1. ryan

      what are you talking about? she’s been in every strip to date!

  28. ryan

    wasn’t ballface a dick tracy villain?

    1. Michelle J Caboose

      No, he was Butters from “South Park.”

  29. Zem

    At least I… wait… something… you… insult…

    C’mon, Walky, use that one.

    1. Arkadi

      What for? Billie’s kind of used it already.

  30. NerdAtComputer

    This is how imagine this will go:

    Sarah will kick Billie out of the room and Walky (her only “friends”) will finally understand she’s been treating him like crap and give her the cold shoulder.
    Then Billie will notice how pathetic she really is (unwanted, lonely and drunk), and will break down.

    If things don’t go this-way-ish, I’ll be deeply disappointed.

    1. madd

      But Walky is used to Billie treating him this way. Why would he suddenly wise up just ’cause Sarah kicked Billie out? Also, given that Billie was of some help the night before, I’m not 100% sure Sarah will kick her out unless she does something to upset Joyce .

  31. Gargamel

    Billie should eat my Gravatar, maybe with some fried bread and several litres of OJ.

  32. HLY

    I think I’m mostly happy about the “this walky commnet. makes me think she’s encountered more, and more walkys wpuld make the world a better place

  33. Aisling

    Billie is channelling the Tourettes Guy in the last panel. lol

  34. BrokenEye, True False Prophet

    “And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.”

    1 Samuel 1:14

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