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Chase
Posted on January 9, 2019 by David M Willis

165 thoughts on “Chase”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    poke ’em if you got ’em

    1. Aeron

      …Or rub ’em if you don’t.

      1. Treita

        Different strokes for different folks

  2. TrueVCU

    GATE QUEEN IS DISPLEASED

  3. AnvilPro

    Asma’s sick of people messing up her den

    1. Durandal_1707

      Billie and Ruth are about to experience an Asma attack.

      1. Danielle

        7/10

        1. LookingIn

          nah, that deserves at least a 10/10 for apt and funny

        2. Deanatay

          Sarge: Simmons, you earned an F for efficiency… but an A+ for dramatic timing!
          Simmons: Thank you, sir! I’ve always felt appearances were more important than effectiveness!

        3. Treita

          That’s what Griff’s for.

        4. Znayx

          I know I’m sooooo late on this, but… It’s a meme.

      2. Remmington Steele

        She needs to get a-hold of the right end of her stick to clean out her den:)

  4. Yumi

    And then Lucy comes into the lobby?

    1. Rabid Rabbit

      Based on panel 5, Billie already has.

      1. Rabid Rabbit

        Wait, sorry. I read that as “in,” not “into.” Ignore me.

        1. LeslieBean4Shizzle

          Give it a minute. Asma is only now producing the poking stick.

        2. Rabid Rabbit

          I know that, according to Slipshine, Billie has promised to buy Ruth a poking stick, but so far that hasn’t been proved to be necessary for them.

        3. LeslieBean4Shizzle

          There is a big difference between “necessary” and “good fun”

        4. LookingIn

          it works both ways 😉

    2. ktbear

      I fancy your chances of being correct. Comment number 9? Woot!

  5. DailyBrad

    Heh, always glad to see Asma.

    1. LookingIn

      when she’s there, it’s always going to be a good payoff

      1. UnfeignedShip

        Like every comic with Dina is 90% better!

  6. shadowcell

    Dumbing of Age Book 9: Time to Grab My Poking Stick

    alternatively, Time to Grab My Poking Stick: A Dumbing of Age Pornographique Compendium

    1. Khantalas

      So I’ve never been exactly clear on the rules. Do the book titles only have to be complete sentences from the strip, or do they have to be the whole content of a speech bubble? Because I was under the impression it was the latter.

      1. Clif

        The only real rule is that Willis can name them anything he wants. Unfortunately he reserves the best titles for the alt-text.

        1. Khantalas

          He does follow some sort of self-imposed rule that he has mentioned in comments before, though.

        2. Clif

          AND with that clue, activating Google … Dec 20 – “Yeah but maybe if you noticed that, like, the first six Dumbing of Age book titles are all complete sentences, you’d see that, y’know, there’s kind of an established pattern.” – Word of Willis

    2. Keulen

      Dumbing of Age Book 9: This Isn’t Passion. It’s Completely Logical That You Need To Die

      1. Ana Chronistic

        Dumbing of Age Book 9: –oooAGGH!

  7. Stu

    Ken just doesn’t recognize when a couple is dancing the Masochism Tango.

    1. Khantalas

      Sadomasochism Tango. It would be inaccurate to call Billie purely masochism.

    2. Marsh Maryrose

      “Let our love be a flame, not an ember
      Say it’s me that you want to dismember”

  8. BassBone

    Help, it’s adorable!

  9. Kyrik Michalowski

    Well, I am pleased with how this has turned out. They both got exercise, Ruth smiled, even if it was a smile of possible insanity but hey that’s love, and now they’re enjoying some makeouts. Alls well that ends well, right?

    1. LookingIn

      the only thing more dangerous than a Ruth smile is a Sarah smile…if she smiles, RUN!

  10. Danielle

    these bisasters

  11. BBCC

    Aw, Ken, honey, Ruth’s boss isn’t gonna do shit. It’s nice you believe you live in an orderly dorm building though.

    XD Poor Asma though.

    1. Yumi

      Chloe: “I can excuse abusing your residents, but I draw the line at running indoors.”

      1. BBCC

        Rachel: “You can excuse abusing your residents?”

        1. Clif

          It’s all part of our Perverse Incentive program. We pride ourselves on preparing students for the real world.

  12. jeffepp

    If she didn’t want to get caught…

  13. Stephen Bierce

    –The race is on and it looks like Makeouts
    And the winner loses all    –apologies to George Jones

    1. Lokitsu

      And the winner is…..
      Beedlebaum

      1. Ryek Hvek

        “Cabbage by a head!!”

  14. Piotr W

    I don’t understand what triggered Ruth so much…

    1. Yumi

      They’re playing.

      1. LeslieBean4Shizzle

        Foreplaying even.

  15. ShinyNeen

    Sh-shoves is not loves??

    1. Delicious Taffy

      True, but chases is smooching faces.

    2. thejeff

      Except when they are.

      People are complicated.

      1. Clif

        Yep. And some people are more complicated than orhers.

        1. Clif

          Orhers? And we all know how complicated orhers are. Damn it, spell-correct, you had one job.

    3. Deanatay

      For these two, It definitely is.

  16. Wright

    A wild Ken appears!

    1. Lingo

      See you next year, Ken! Maybe.

    2. Bagge

      More mild than wild.

  17. foamy

    Oh look it’s Other Ethan

    1. woobie

      haha that avatar + comment

    2. Dana

      I thought he was a character from Street Fighter, but you’re right. That is Asian Jewish Chuck.

  18. butts

    DEATH FROM ABOVE

    1. Batman

      And it’s a messy score for the leafs. The ref is allowing the tackling and now for the traditional post goal celebrations.

  19. Roger

    ~~~~banter~~~~

    1. Clif

      ~~~~botched attempt at witty reply~~~~

      1. Roborat

        ~~~~incredibly obscure reference~~~~

  20. Shiro

    …I mean. The whole amazing-spider-man-leap-into-makeouts thing is kind of an interesting maneuver, so well done there

  21. Regalli

    Asma’s face is a delight, even as I feel terrible for her.

    1. Jess

      “Asma’s face is a delight” was going to be my exact comment. So I’ll just tack on to the bottom of yours instead. Great minds must think alike!

      1. BarerMender

        Great minds run in the same channel. Fools think alike.
        I hate it when people mess up old saws.

        1. King Daniel

          The easiest way to mess up an old saw is to use it inappropriately. Such as by wielding it like a hammer.

        2. Dana

          Software engineering is the art of finding the right wrench to hammer in the right screw.

        3. Delicious Taffy

          Why don’t you just use a screwdriver?

        4. Drake

          Screwdriver is not supported in the framework API.

        5. MatthewTheLucky

          When all you have is an old saw, everything looks like balsa wood.

        6. Clif

          There’s no saw like an old saw.

        7. Clif

          A cut in nine saves time.

        8. Clif

          A fool and his saw are soon hammered.

        9. foamy

          Great minds think alike; fools seldom differ, is how *I* always heard it.

        10. Clif

          I always heard it as great minds run the same gutter.

      2. Agemegos

        Great minds like a think.

        1. Marsh Maryrose

          Great minds like a drink.

          “David Hume could out-consume
          Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel
          And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
          Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.”

        2. NickG

          “Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle.”

        3. Clif

          And Hobbes was fond of his Rene Descartes

          or something like that.

    2. Nono

      It’s the Sarah face.

      1. ValdVin

        It might even be more Sarah than Sarah.

        1. Emperor Norton II

          This is how I envision Asma and Sarah having a girl’s chat.

  22. Cattleprod

    Cheapass school can’t even afford proper poking sticks, employees have to supply brooms.

    1. Clif

      To the contrary, if brooms were being used as poking sticks, Asma wouldn’t have to go grab one. I choose to believe that the broom closet and poking stick closet are side by side and properly labeled.

  23. abysswatcher1993

    And this is the start of a slipshine.

    1. Bagge

      Start? We are at least two pages in already.

  24. Reltzik

    I feel that it is incumbent upon me to call attention to how completely inappropriate this whole scene is.

    …. I mean, Willis put the winner in a Leaf’s jersey.

    1. Dean

      In a way, they are both winners.

    2. Bagge

      Leafs scores tonight

      1. Solenoid

        Leafs can score as long as they lose the game. I think that’s the law of the universe in play here.

  25. Meta

    Ken AND Asma.. magical

  26. foducool

    get a bucket filled with water lol

    1. Bagge

      Or just get the hose and get it over with.

      1. MatsuoTanuki

        Ken: “It isn’t working you’re only making them sexier!” D:

        https://youtu.be/nBkTmf_Sl9A

        1. Delicious Taffy

          Damn it, I was expecting Futurama.

  27. Electriccombines

    So cute so cute so cute SO CUTE SO CUTE I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

    1. Clif

      Yes, Ken and Asma are quite the pair.

  28. BarerMender

    I don’t think I’d care to poke those two. There might be poking going on.

  29. DarkoNeko

    “Ah HA, I have the high ground !”

    1. Keulen

      “It’s over Billie! I have the high ground!”

  30. LeslieBean4Shizzle

    I know I am.
    (this comment makes no sense unless one reads the hovertext)

    1. Clif

      TMI 😉

    2. Emperor Norton II

      What about the whapping stick, the stick that goes “BZZZZZT”, and the double-poking stick?

  31. Peter

    I rejoice every time Asma is in the comic. She’s one of my favourite supporting characters.

  32. Dana

    I guess if I want in-panel makeouts I’ll have to pay.

  33. mrnoidea

    That fifth panel is magnificent. That is all.

  34. Tenzhi

    RUTH FROM ABOVE!

    1. Marsh Maryrose

      From “Wrath of Khan”

      Spock: He is intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking.” And then a knowing grin spreads across Kirk’s face.

  35. Ivy

    Imagine seeing two people acting like this in real life

    1. BenRG

      Actually has happened to me. Such is the wonder of schooling!

      1. Roborat

        Witnessing the act, or being the act?

        1. BenRG

          Witnessing it only.

    2. Pidgey

      Couple’s are weird. Not seen this but seen a very large guy and his very tiny girlfriend play wrestle each other til they fell off a picnic table bench… Couples are reeeeally weird.

  36. Bagge

    Awwwww, they look so happy.

    …or, I suppose ‘frisky’ is a bit closer to the situation at hand.

    1. MatsuoTanuki

      https://youtu.be/iGfBk5JnDAQ

  37. Needfuldoer

    This has got to be the most “Ruth and Billie” comic we’ve seen to date.

    1. Bagge

      I’m also pretty fond of this one

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/murder/

      1. Bagge

        …although I suppose this one does a good job of encapsulating their relationship as well

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/01-to-those-whod-ground-me/breathing/

      2. Emperor Norton II

        A strip encapsulating the relationship of Billie and Ruth that is titled “Murder”?

        How utterly absurd!!!

    2. Marsh Maryrose

      For all the fun of this scene, “I’m gonna murder you!” “Promise?” kinda harks back to the Sexy Lesbian Suicide Pact days of their relationship.

      “Do not attempt this relationship at home,”

      1. thejeff

        Of course not. That would be silly.

        College is the place for this relationship. 🙂

  38. BenRG

    I wonder how often Asma needs to use her Poking Stick during an average week? I mean, just how common are spontaneous make-outs in that building anyway?

    1. Bagge

      If your job requires you to have a designated poking stick, I’ll take a stab in the dark and say “too often”.

      1. ninja_jesus

        Stabs in the dark aren’t done by the poking stick, though. They’re done with the knife of a serial rapist, by Amber.

        1. Clif

          So what I’m hearing is that the building needs much better lighting?

  39. Eldritch Gentleman

    Yeah Asma, don’t encourage the kinksters.

  40. AutobotDen

    It’s not even noon, and poor Asma is just DONE.

    1. BenRG

      Better than the night shift with the Walkerton and O’Malley girls prowling around playing at superheroes! Or… Asma assumes they are ‘playing’ at superheroes!

  41. Ryek Hvek

    The next Kickstarter needs to have a Poking Stick as a high level bonus incentive.

  42. nothri

    Noooo, your capture of me is highly illogical!!!

    1. Bagge

      …please tell me that’s not a StarTrek slashfic

      1. Clif

        Well, it is now.

      2. Emperor Norton II

        Please tell me that -is- a Star Trek slashfic!

  43. Remmington Steele

    The current and last three comic titles are:

    Illicit poop chase

    also

    narcissistic all-encompassing spirited JELL-O

    That’s almost poetry.

    1. King Daniel

      One leads to the other.

      1. Clif

        Order is important.

  44. Deanatay

    Billie: Faster.

    Ruth: Sneakier.

    Asma: Meaner.

    We all know who’s winning this fight.

    1. Clif

      Well as a general rule sneakier usually wins, but not always.

      1. Warfoki

        If it comes to a fight, sneaky usually doesn’t win. Sneaky tends to win before the other parties would be even aware that there is a fight to be had. That’s kinda the point of being sneaky… 😛

  45. JBento

    *fondness for Asma intensifies*

  46. Bicycle Bill

    If you keep poking at it, Asma, it will never get any better.

  47. SonicBlueRanger

    Hey It’s Chun-Li! …Is that still a thing with Ken? Using other Street Fighter Character names? If not I’m brining it back.

    1. purblebirb

      I thought his name was G

  48. Ziggy

    Ken: “Someone needs to call an RA.”
    Ruth: “I am an RA!”

    1. BenRG

      “Then you should write yourself up for breach of the conduct rules!”

      “… You know, that’s actually a wonderfully bizarre idea. I might even try that!”

      1. Emperor Norton II

        “Ruth?”

        “Yes, Ruth?”

        “… Please don’t do it again.”

        “Carla was right, it would’ve been more fun if I threatened to beat me to death with my own femurs.”

  49. Guest42

    Hey, it’s Ken!

    1. Steve McBeezelbub

      Cool. I came to comments because I wondered if we’d seen this hotties before. Um, now who’s Ken?

      1. Caroline Hewitt

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/tag/ken/

        He works at Galasso’s.
        Some people know him from his larger role in Willis’ old comic Shortpacked!.

        1. Daibhid C

          I don’t remember a Ken in Shortpacked! Did he join at around the same time as …

          …okay, this is the point where I realise I don’t actually know the names of any Street Fighter characters.

        2. Roborat

          Google is your friend.

        3. Emperor Norton II

          Google is your corporate brainwasher that wants your eternal servitude.

        4. Clif

          There’s a difference?

        5. Emperor Norton II

          All hail Hypnotoad Google!

        6. Clif

          An epsilon for effort tho.

        7. Steve McBeezelbub

          Ah yes! He was that terrible woman’s roommate, right?

  50. Jhon

    What Asma needs is a Smakken.

    1. thejeff

      I’ve got to admit, the Smakken is one of the few times in recent Girl Genius history that’s made me laugh out loud.

      1. Roborat

        Yes, I had the same reaction when I read that page.

  51. Tim

    *Kif noise*

  52. Willinwoods

    I’m reading these panels as RUN – RUN – RUN – JUMP, and then Ruth is trying to be a backpack while Billie jumps… It makes perfect sense.

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