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Pill
Posted on November 5, 2013 by David M Willis

172 thoughts on “Pill”

  1. Variaman

    Oh just make out already!

    1. Mkvenner

      second

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Sloppy seconds! 😀

      2. saltchocolate

        Third! (Though I agree with Tunaro below, at the same time…)

        1. Neospector

          At least this didn’t start with “FIRST!”…

    2. Tunaro

      Give it a bit. Insulting each other and bickering a bit is part of the foreplay.

      1. Marcos Dantas

        Like this?
        http://wondermark.com/979/

  2. Jen Aside

    That shirt reminds me of Sailor Moon for some reason.

    1. Mkvenner

      Your Sailor Moon is no match against the ORDO MALLEUS!

      1. Aizat

        Soundwave Superior, ORDO MALLEUS INFERIOR.

        1. Mkvenner

          Tau Superior, Soundwave a pile of slag.

        2. Aizat

          Decepticons Superior, Tau squishy flesh creatures.

        3. Mkvenner

          With godlike fire power.

        4. Joker Two

          The gods of the older, stagnant races are nothing but myth. The Greater Good is the true path into the future!

        5. The Candyman

          Every time I hear about the Tau I keep thinking of the Qunari from Dragon Age, even though the Tau came first.

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      Well Billie is as ‘talented’ as Lita/Makoto after all.

      1. Aizat

        Apparently, Sailor Moon sounds better than I had originally thought…which is not much.

        1. Biege

          the non-dub sailor moon is actually pretty good, if a bit repetative

        2. Aizat

          I never really got into Sailor Moon when it aired in my country…but then again, I was a kid back then. And back then, if you’re a dude and you watch Sailor Moon, you’ll be the laughingstock of the the other boys.

        3. lightsabermario

          Skip both and watch the live action Sailor Moon. Soooo much better.

        4. Andrusi

          Skip all of them and just wait for the new anime. That way you can avoid having 75% of the fandom tell you you like the wrong version.

    3. Mkvenner

      Billie is 4 years older than sailor moon.

      I recommend doug walker’s nostalgia critic review of the show.

      1. Nev

        The one where he watched like a few episodes of the show dubbed and decided her knew something about it? And calls the main character stupid and a slut because she *gasp* wears a short skirt? And talks about how lesbians give him the boner?

        Yeah, I really don’t care about some white dude’s “informed opinions” on a story created by a Japanese woman and aimed for young girls, when he barely did any research.

        1. Mr K

          He did. He does point out that the age of consent is lower in japan, and he is surprised about the censorship of lesbians but not the sexualization of minors

        2. Andrusi

          That doesn’t make “barely did any research” accurate. If I had started out with the viewpoint Nev is complaining about and had decided to do five minutes of halfassed research and call it good, that information is probably the sort of thing that would pop up in my Googling.

        3. Arkadi

          It was well worth watching if only for the Darth Vader scene.

        4. khrene

          1) Why don’t you make a point to specify what was so shoddy about his opinion and research? What could he have done better?

          2) He wasn’t commenting on the series as a whole, he was talking specifically about the cartoon’s impact in America when it first aired in the 90’s. So of course he only gonna talk about the English dub and how they made sailor moon quite ditzy, because thats what was aired. No one watched the Japanese version because it wasn’t available

          3) You have informed opinion in quotes. Who said that? It wasn’t Doug Walker nor anyone else here. Doug just said his opinion and talked his reasoning as to why he felt the way he did/

          4) Also most of the reactions were played up for comedic effect, notably the lesbians.

          5) Oh yeah he never called her a slut. He did mention how her clothes were revealing for American (and Japanese for that matter) standards, especially given that she supposed to be 14. He could’ve mentioned that it was a Japanese fad to pull up ones school uniform skirt to defy uniform regulations, but honestly he spent more than enough time talking about the whole sexualization thing

  3. Gottawonder

    These two are a definite pair. They gotta work.

  4. Rabbling Rouser

    yay for self awareness

    1. -Sentinel-

      Awesome avatar! Did you get it randomly, or is it unique?

      1. Kladeos

        I think all the random ones are close-ups with transparent backgrounds.

  5. Yotomoe

    I honestly don’t have any jokes to say about this strip.

  6. Opus the Poet

    Daww, she still cares. (Who cares is an exercise I leave up to the observer…. 😉 )

  7. Plasma Mongoose

    We need Dina to explain what is going on between these two.

    1. Yotomoe

      Ruth is hiding behind a door, The Dina’s most common habitat.

    2. TJ

      “Billie is knocking on the door in order to gain access. This is a common tradition in all cultures with doors.”

      Yep, we need some kind of nature documentary with Dina narrating.

      1. Doctor_Who

        I want Dina Commentary on all my DVDs.

        1. Aizat

          I want Dina to narrate my life….no matter how depressing it is.

        2. Baf

          The great thing is that she’ll completely fail to understand how depressing your life is and narrate it as if you’re a lot happier than you really are. And then maybe you can convince yourself that she’s right!

        3. xKiv

          Who wouldn’t be happy with Dina around narrating their life?

        4. Totz the Plaid

          …except for the ones with dinosaurs, unless you REALLY want super-accurate and pedantic rants about everything wrong with them.

        5. John

          Doesn’t everyone want super-accurate and pedantic rants about everything wrong with movies?

          … I’ve been watching movies wrong.

        6. ninja_jesus

          If Dumbing of Age ever becomes a TV show, I want Dina commentary for every episode.

        7. elysecat

          This needs to be a thing. Get to it, Willis!

        8. N0083rP00F

          I envision … no that’s not right … enhear? …. is that a word? .. well it is now.
          I enhear her speaking in the style of David Attenborough but with the voice of Hynden Walch. Yup that is her al right. {glomp}

      2. Roborat

        Nah, Marlon Perkins should be narrating. Dina can be the assistant Marlon tries to kill every episode.

  8. Pyr05

    Now, I await the sniffing and realizing someone has been drinking.

    1. Yotomoe

      Ruth is a Boozehound.

    2. Shadow12000

      Calling it now, it’s both of them.

      1. Kladeos

        Ruth seems more serious about the whole thing. I have faith in her.

        1. Roborat

          Why is Faith in her, is she cheating on Ruth?

      2. Plasma Mongoose

        They’re both lushs in both senses of the word.

  9. Gottawonder

    5 Days? Wow.

    1. Adam Lipkin

      Seriously; five days in comic time is five months in our world.

  10. Totz the Plaid

    Looking super? Yeah.
    Looking ’90s? I disagree.

    I see no flannel on her, nor do I see super day-glo, or crop tops, or weird mini pigtails with long hair in the back, or basically anything from Fresh Prince or Buffy.

    1. Yotomoe

      But she is wearing her smug sense of undeserved self assurance and self satisfaction.

      1. Totz the Plaid

        Go back and look at portraits of Sir Isaac Newton, Louis XIV, Thomas Edison, etc. Undeserved smug satisfaction predates the 1990s by quite a bit!

        1. Leonou

          Wait, the frontman of modern science, the last French king to kick some european asses and one of the greatest businessman of his time do not deserve smug selfsatisfaction ?
          Then who does ?

    2. Aizat

      And I see no absurd amount of pouches or one shoulder pads.

      1. Totz the Plaid

        No spikes either, and neither “blood” nor “death” have been awkwardly shoved into her name, which also remains correctly spelled without any Xs or Zs…

        1. Totz the Plaid

          I mean, she’s still Jennifer “Billie” Billingsworth, not “Xennyfyr “Bloody” Deathingzwyrth”…

        2. Aizat

          And she doesn’t carry guns and I can still see her eyes. If this is 90’s Billie, she should have Youngblood’s disease.

        3. Aizat

          And don’t forget that her hips is still not in the swayed position.

        4. Totz the Plaid

          Speaking of her hips, it’s obvious that this isn’t being drawn by a mainstream artist since there are two women in the comic who are both legally adults, yet we barely see a slight bit of one boob on one of them, and neither’s ass is visible whatsoever!

          If this were coming out of one of the main publishers, we’d definitely get at least one panel with T&A.

        5. Roborat

          Ah yes, the dreaded Liefeld disease, crippled many a promising superhero back in the day.

        6. Totz the Plaid

          Now, now, Liefeld is only the most memorably terrible artist of the ’90s. There were still plenty turning out work with visible eyes and at least semi-plausible anatomy.

          That said, you’re right, she is lacking the required gun twice her size…

        7. Totz the Plaid

          (Though, to be fair to Liefeld, he HAS improved noticably. He’s still not good, but he’s not nearly as bad as he was. And he does seem to be a nice enough guy who actually loves and cares about comics even though he’s a bad writer AND artist.)

        8. Roborat

          LOL, I love that compliment, he sucks less now.

  11. Gottawonder

    No Yotomoe, I wasn’t, but now that you mention it…..

  12. Keroshino

    JUST FUCK ALREADY!!!!

    1. Aizat

      Dude, not in public. The last thing we need is an orgy and do you know how hard it is to clean up after an orgy?

      1. JustcallmeSoul

        not to mention how difficult it is to draw, or how many ships willis would need to wreck to cause one.

  13. Kladeos

    Hurry up and ‘fess up, Billie.

    1. Mr K

      *”I’ve been cheating on you. With Dina”

      1. Doctor_Who

        It’s Billie’s large posterior. Dina is predisposed towards such.

        1. MR K

          “and I’m pregnant. Turned out Howard was right”

        2. Mr K

          “She was in love ever since I gave her tickets to the dinosaur exhibit. I’m sorry, but her dick is so large”

        3. Aizat

          Should I even bring the “Everyone goes with Billie” gag again?

        4. Jonathan S.

          “It’s Billie’s large posterior. Dina is predisposed towards such.”
          Is she incapable of deceit on this point, despite her siblings’ tendency toward self-delusion?

      2. Roborat

        Are they playing on the old banjo?

        1. Mr K

          I don’t get the reference.

        2. MR K

          Oh i looked it up. It seems to come from a folk song

        3. Roborat

          Yay, I finally stumped someone, my day is complete. Honestly, I thought that might be just a little too obscure of a reference.

  14. Doctor_Who

    90s Billie is alright, but I prefer Generations Billie.

    1. Yotomoe

      As long as we don’t bring up Billie ’06.

      1. Aizat

        Or Billie R.

      2. Jay Eff

        I prefer Billie ’66, myself.
        Espeially when she does the Bill-Tusi.

      3. ninja_jesus

        Follow me, set me free, trust me as we will escape from this Billie~

        1. xKiv

          Old Testament Billie

    2. DSL

      Not Billie: The Next Generation? Deep Space Whine? Billiger? And we can’t forget Billieprise.

      1. Kernanator

        Bring back Billieprise.

  15. John

    “Geez, Ruth, come on. Wasting all that booze by spilling it on the floor? That’s alcohol abuse!”

    Ruth’s unexpectedly self-aware here.

    (Also voting for “just make out already”.)

    1. insomniac

      Ruth’s always been pretty self-aware. She realizes the irony in her relationship with alcohol and her attraction to Billie.

      Just that her self-awareness doesn’t really help her in changing those things, so it just makes her more depressed.

      1. John

        True. It’s not really her self-awareness that was unexpected, now that I think on it, but that she actually came out and told Billie. But I guess she’s been letting Billie in on everything lately. It’s just such a radical change from her behaviour before the fire alarm, which often seemed to be specifically designed to keep Billie confused and off-balance, though that was probably mostly just a result of Ruth herself being confused and off-balance.

  16. saltchocolate

    What’s Ruth hiding behind Door # 1??

    1. Yotomoe

      MORE DOORS.

      1. saltchocolate

        An infinite regression of doors!

      2. Aizat

        One does not simply hide behind More Doors.

        1. Yotomoe

          I see what you did there.

        2. xKiv

          Best “more door” was in ruby quest …

    2. Dean

      She isn’t wearing pants.

      1. saltchocolate

        And in the dark?? Billie, rush in!

      2. Kladeos

        Sadly not the case… Not only is she wearing pants, she’s wearing pants with shoulder straps.

        1. saltchocolate

          I’m torn between cursing the evidence and laughing at your description of her overall shorts! Thanks, Kladeos!

        2. Aizat

          Ah, overalls. Next to sweater vests, one of the better articles of clothing that can men and women look good.

        3. John

          There’s no straps in evidence now, so just because she’s wearing pants in one panel of tomorrow’s strip doesn’t mean that she doesn’t spend the first three panels sensually wriggling into them for Billie’s benefit. (And then, ’cause this is Ruth we’re talking about, demanding, “What’re you lookin’ at?!” and punching Billie in the sternum.)

    3. Jay Eff

      A NEW CAR!

  17. hof1991

    And booze belongs in your mouth, not in a pool on the floor.

    1. Yotomoe

      But maybe in a pool in the backyard, if you have enough to fill it up.

  18. The Sound Defense

    Gotta appreciate that blunt honesty.

  19. Aizat

    So, wearing a blue shirt looked 90’s? Damn, I must’ve been the 90-iest guy half of the week.

    1. David Willis

      Teal and pink, dude!

      1. Totz the Plaid

        I dunno, that doesn’t strike me as specifically ’90s… It’s more ’80s, if it belongs to any specific decade.

        That’s just how it strikes me.

        1. John

          It’d be ’80s if she were a dude. Not sure about ladies. But I’m probably not qualified to have an opinion; I’m wearing the same black hoodie I was in 1992. (Literally the same one. It’s worn well.)

        2. ninja_jesus

          That… sounds kinda sad.

        3. begbert2

          Being able to fit into the same hoodie you wore twenty years ago sounds victorious.

          Unless it’s all stretched and taut and un-floppy-hoodie-like. *That* would be sad.

        4. Roborat

          He didn’t say anything about being able to fit into it, he just said he is still wearing it.

        5. ninja_jesus

          Which sounds kinda sad because to me, wearing something from your teenage/young adult years has that sort of “can’t let go of the past” kind of feel to it.

        6. John

          So I should get rid of a perfectly good hoodie (which, yes, still fits me) in order to satisfy some stranger on the Internet’s armchair diagnosis of my emotional problems on basically zero information?

          It’s not like I’m getting drunk and putting on a damaged cheerleader uniform that I’ve gotten too fat for and trying to kiss my roommate or something.

        7. Jonathan S.

          I’m just hoping it was laundered once or twice somewhere along the way…

        8. John

          Well, yeah. I’m not Walky.

  20. Beachfox

    “I’ve been cheating and totally drinking at night, so I’m figuring you are too, Ruth. So open up!”

  21. saltchocolate

    You know, that’s a pretty misleading cartoon title there, Mr. Willis! 😀

    Question for the fanbase: which DoA woman is going to need the Pill most? Who’s already on it?

    1. Alex Stritar

      Roz for both. She likes to fool around but always practices safe sex.

      1. saltchocolate

        Sez your gravitar. Well played.

      2. Bill

        Definitely Roz.  Joe even says so – “She said she was on the pill, man” – in this strip.

    2. Leonou

      Seeing as Billie was expecting a lot of action from college, she may have been taking it.
      It may also be the case for Dorothy as she was in a consumated relationship with Danny and soon got attached to Walky.

      Maybe Sal too.

    3. drs

      Who might be on cheaper and more reliable contraception than the Pill?

      –this comment paid for by the IUD and Implant Awareness Service

  22. nothri

    Two thoughts going through my head right now.

    1. What Ruth says in panel four sounds pretty much like how Billie has lived her entire life.

    2. This strikes me as the penultimate opportunity for Ruth to lounge around in a towel and “accidentally” get caught by Billie.

    1. Totz the Plaid

      Wait… she’ll only have one more opportunity for that to happen?!

      1. begbert2

        The next storyline will involve all the towels on the campus -nay, the world- mysteriously vanishing. It will not be suggested that aliens are responsible.

        And then Ruth is going to go chasing after a drunk-driving Billie and get hit by a truck. No regrets!

  23. Super Duper

    I’m using Keys! I mean it! I’ll be polite if I have to!

    1. Robin

      I thought Ruth was the Canadian.

  24. Emoroffle

    Whee! We’re back to my two favorite people.

  25. Kernanator

    90s Billie is a pretty sweet Billie.

    1. MLBlue

      I miss the 90s bad. But Im thinking that her shirt has a little more of a late 80s early nighties flair. Just add some wrap around shades and a scrunchie and give the shirt some glittery lettering. Ugh, Ive gone too far.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        They say that fashions come back every 20 years or so, so that means that the 90s are due to make a comeback anytime now.

      2. Kernanator

        Too far? Nay, good sir, you have not.

    2. Aizat

      Billie is pretty sweet in general.

  26. Tahkuya

    I HAVE THE POWER!

  27. Nono

    I’m still sad that Joe is losing to Danny of all people in the poll.

    1. HMRC4EVR

      I actually like Danny more than Joe. Danny-for his faults-at least tries to think of other people’s feelings and considers the people around him as he lives his life.

      Joe is a jerk of a bed-hopper who’s deepest though was if he wanted mustard on a corn dog at one point.

      So yea, I’d rather have a flawed but more human character like Danny than an ass like Joe.

      1. Kladeos

        Joe’s not that bad. He berated Danny for thinking Billie can’t make her own decisions. He straight-up told Walky that he’s insecure in his masculinity and tries to defend that by projecting arbitrary gender roles/rules on others. He was embarrassed by his dad’s inappropriate behaviour. Being promiscuous, if done honestly and openly, isn’t a flaw. His main flaw is he doesn’t understand Danny, but he’s been trying to stay good friends regardless. And yeah, he can be shallow, but he’s not the only one.

        1. ProfessorZoot

          I hope someday you will join us
          and the world will be as one

        2. Kladeos

          With a Joe gravatar? Nah, I’ve got my fingers crossed for Sal.

      2. Mr K

        Danny’s more complex than Joe. Joe’s sole interest is sex.

        1. Kladeos

          He also harbours a strangely strong interest in being Danny’s friend.

          One could also argue that Danny’s sole interest is being in a relationship.

        2. drs

          Old Joe was an inventor-genius and into geek toys. I forget, is this one also into geek stuff?

  28. Mr. Random

    The 90s were not the best. But they were weird and wonderful, and this is not at all influenced by me having a childhood during that era and not knowing what was going on in politics.

  29. owltawny

    I love this ship so much.

  30. fudo81

    OT: it’s really disappointing that Walky is ahead of Sal in the polls, if just for a handful of votes. Come on, people.

    1. Kladeos

      Sal deserves more love!

      1. fudo81

        Definitely! Now Dorothy and Mike have more votes as well 🙁

        1. Kladeos

          I wonder if some people are voting twice? It seems to go by IP, not device. It’s weird because Sal, along with everyone else I voted for (Ruth, Billie) were consistently in the same places in top 6 until a couple of days ago, when Walky started catching up.

        2. Kladeos

          Looks like Sal’s catching up.

  31. Jack Finch

    Ruth’s so honest. Love her to bits.

    1. Spik

      me too, she has such a strange personality!

      1. Kladeos

        No, it just goes to show that everything she does is deliberate. The whiplash moodswings, and pre-kiss Billie-abuse, were probably things she did for fun or to instil that power and sense of control through the fear of others.

        1. Jack Finch

          Ruth has control issues….most def.
          Ruth starts with the guard all the way up.
          Part of that guard is her taking the offensive.
          Then she opens little windows.
          But she doesn’t lie about what she’s doing.

    2. timemonkey

      Still can’t stand this version of her. But I will admit she was a breath of fresh air while everyone’s horrible families were visiting.

  32. Colineo

    MR. WILLIS:

    I know the character has just recently been introduced and is no longer a student, but would you consider adding Joshua to future fav. character polls?

    Any other support for this, guys?

    1. Kladeos

      Why would Jocelyne appear when the poll is for favourite undergrad? A bunch of actual undergrads didn’t even make it.

      1. David Willis

        Jocelyn isn’t an undergrad and so she won’t be in the undergrad poll.

  33. Spik

    Ruth and Billie are the one of the weirdest love stories. I hope it has a happy ending :p .

  34. Parnifia the Bastard

    Awww… She does care!

  35. CthulhuPanda36

    For a second, I thought the marks on Billie’s back were claw marks. I didn’t think it was weird until I realized there was a very low chance she fought a tiger between her room and Ruth’s.

    1. Mr K

      It’s Dina’s version of foreplay.

  36. LiamAldam

    5 days? Feels more like 5 months for some reason…

  37. sidhe3141

    Was I the only one who saw the title and expected that we’d see Joyce saying something funny?

  38. Tenn

    I believe this is an excellent time for hatefucks.

    The most epic of them.

    1. Jack Finch

      Do you think there’s enough hate at the moment? Not that I don’t want them to, I do.

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      Uoumight have to settle for drunk-fucks.

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