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Eh
Posted on November 27, 2015 by David M Willis
DoAbook4frontcover666Thanksgiving is over!  SUPER JESUS MONTH BEGINS. And so Dumbing of Age book 4 is now in the online store.  You can get it plain or pay extra for me to doodle a Carla face in it. Also, for just this weekend, you can get a combo pack of all five Shortpacked! books for a sweet-ass low price. Note for this holiday shopping season: Maggie's scheduled to get our twins yanked out of her on December 22.  However, twins like to pop out early, so it's possible they'll drop at basically any time.  What this means for you is that I can't, like, super promise any orders you make will get mailed to you before Christmas.  We could be fine and in the clear until the 22nd OR they could randomly birth the day after you order a book and I'm kinda at the hospital for a week.  So keep that in mind!

250 thoughts on “Eh”

  1. EdHead

    Recepie for disaster

    1. EdHead

      That’s why its so perfect

    2. Deowai

      RUTH-cipie? Eh? EHHHHHHH?

      1. Cephalo the Pod

        EHHHHHHHHHHHHH

        1. Chronos

          EHHHHHHHHHHHHH?!

        2. Solenoid

          EHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

        3. saltchocolate

          FAAAAAAAAAAAACE!

          Oh wait—

        4. Deanatay

          NEW MEME! I want in!

          EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

        5. AustKyzor

          Today’s comic was EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-dorable

        6. a4lbi

          SHOW ME YOUR EEEEEEEEH FAAAAAACE

        7. Roborat

          Panel 5, so cute, that FAAAAAAACE!
          .
          EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

        8. Deanatay

          Show us your FEHHHHHHHHHHHHHCE!

        9. DarkoNeko

          eeeh.

    3. inqntrol

      A bit of cinnamon, some booze and angst. Voilà.

      1. nanoi

        can i use whiskehh and vodkehh

        1. Doctor_Who

          How about some Tehquehhlehhh?

        2. Shaunock

          Tanquerehhhhhhhhhh?

      2. EdHead

        This comic actually reminds me of a Garibaldi comic where Garfield is depressed, Jon comes, tickles and hugs him, and Garfield gets in a better mood.

        1. David

          Huh. The punch line I remember is “I think I’m going to throw up”. Which could be a better mood depending on where you started from.

        2. Lurlock

          Garibaldi was a pretty good comic. It’s that spinoff from Babylon 5, right?

  2. otusasio451

    Wuv.

    1. Doctor_Who

      Is what bwings us togevah today.

      1. EvilMidnightLurker

        No, that’s mawwiage.

        1. badmartialarts

          No, that’s a dweam within a dweam.

        2. EvilMidnightLurker

          Wiffin.

        3. Screwball

          I wuv you…

        4. Sensei Le Roof

          Does this mean you wiww fowwow us fowevuh?

        5. Akiosama

          Man and wife! Say man and wife!

  3. abbers

    I LIKE PONYTAILS. WHAT’S WRONG WITH PONYTAILS.

    I ALWAYS KNEW RUTH WAS EVIL.

    1. tim gueguen

      Perhaps Ruth prefers a low ponytail to a high one.

    2. -Sentinel-

      I actually didn’t notice the hairstyle change until I read your comment. No wonder I was confused by the comic strip.

      1. OnyxIdol

        Yes, same here.

        1. Extreme Atomic Marine

          I foolishly failed to notice myself.

    3. Dragon_Nataku

      Most people don’t particularly enjoy other people doing things to their hair, especially things they did not ask for. My arm was kinda busted up the other day (nothing serious) and I didn’t want to do much with it but I needed to put my hair up and asked mum to do it and I was still like, … DO NOT WANT *twitch twitch*, even though I totally asked her to

    4. DarkoNeko

      Kyon approves of this.

  4. shadowcell

    a true canadian, can’t stop saying “eh”

    1. inqntrol

      “We are going to be hit by a nuke! Ahhhh!”
      “Ehhhh.”

    2. Mandy

      Eh, eh?

    3. TheGrammarLegionary

      As a Canadian, this is all too relatable, eh?

      1. ischemgeek

        Trufax: Once, an American was teasing me about how Canadians always say “eh?” and he went on in this fake Canadian accent like, “Yah, eh? So I was goin’ aboot town, eh? and I thought I’d grab a case of beer, eh?”

        And, no word of a lie, I replied, “Canadians don’t say ‘eh’ after every sentence, eh?”

        … and then immediately facepalmed while he damn near pissed himself laughing.

        (also, most Canadians in my region call it a 2-4, not a case, but anyway…)

        1. DarkoNeko

          Heh.

        2. Kryss LaBryn

          This is allegedly a test of whether or not you are a “true Canadian”. Can you make sense of this? 😉

          “Last night, I cashed my pogey and went to buy a mickey of C.C. at the beer parlor, but my skidoo got stuck in the muskeg on my way back to the duplex. I was trying to deke out a deer, you see. Darn chinook, melted everything. And then a Mountie snuck up behind me in a ghost car and gave me an impaired. I was S.O.L., sitting there dressed only in my Stanfields and a toque at the time. And the Mountie, he’s all chippy and everything, calling me a “shit disturber” and what not. What could I say, except, “Sorry, EH!”

        3. N0083rP00F

          That was a script from Trailer Park Boys right?

        4. LordHaw

          Heh! That’s awesome! And I understood every word…I’m from Northern Ontario and that talk (minus the Mountie) is not unusual for me to hear (and probably speak from time to time)

        5. ischemgeek

          If you want a translation: Last night, I cashed my welfare check and went to buy a 375mL bottle* of Canadian Club** at the liquor store, but my skidoo*** got stuck in the acidic bog on the way back to my duplex****. I was trying to avoid ***** a deer, you see. Darn chinook******, melted everything. And then an RCMP officer snuck up behind me in an unmarked car and gave me a ticket for drunk driving. I was shit out of luck*******, sitting there dressed only in long underwear and a knit cap at the time.******** And the RCMP officer is pissed off,********* calling me a “shit disturber” and so on.********** What could I say, except, “Sorry, eh!”

          * pogey is slang for welfare and ‘mickey’ specifically refers to to that size of hard liquor – a 375 mL beer would not be called a mickey.
          ** A Canadian whiskey
          ***a type of recreational vehicle used for travelling over deep snow
          ****A two-unit town house – generally if you’re calling it “my duplex”, you mean your unit in said duplex. You don’t mean you own the whole building, except when you do – context matters.
          ***** deke out is hockey slang meaning to draw an opposing player out of position, but in this context it would just mean to avoid hitting the deer
          ****** chinook is a weather pattern where hot, dry wind sweeps over the foothills of the Rockey mountains in winter, can result in like 10 or 15C weather in the middle of February when it should be more like -30C. Unique to the foothills of the Rockies – so Alberta, for us, and there are some US states that get them too. When I lived in the Prairies, it was sometimes used to refer to an unseasonably warm snap in winter, even though such warm snaps are not actual chinooks – this is not slang used in Eastern Canada, btw
          ******* I don’t think this one needs more translation than expanding the acronym
          ******** Stanfields are a brand of long underwear, and a toque is a knit cap usually worn in winter – don’t call it a beanie here!
          *********chippy means you’re acting like you’ve got a chip on your shoulder
          ********** Shit disturber is probably self-explanatory, but it means someone who’s causing trouble. “and what not” is kind of a more casual way of saying “etc” or “and so on.” In this context it would imply the Mountie had some choice language for the speaker.

        6. Roborat

          Good work there. I spotted a bit of a mish-mash of eastern and western slang in there.

        7. Maveric1984

          Wait, I bought an attached house, and I call it a duplex, I was born in Canada, but now live in the States. Do people think I’m weird when I say that?

        8. Robin

          Some might, but I was born and raised in Virginia and I call them that too. I might just be weird though.

        9. ischemgeek

          IDK. I’d guess it depends on where you live – when I visited Northern California a few years back, all the Californians there looked at me like I had three heads when they realized I was referring to a town house unit and not the duplex building.

          (They also expressed surprise that I, and I quote, “Talk normal and stuff – you don’t say “aboot” or whatever.” But apparently I pronounce “okay” weird, and they didn’t get the phrase, “no worries.”

        10. LordHaw

          We call it a 2-4 in the part of Canada I’m from too!

        11. N0083rP00F

          And we call pop pop, not soda unless it’s a club or cream soda.

        12. LordHaw

          or a “wobbly pop” (beer)

        13. ischemgeek

          Same, though we don’t use wobbly pop unless you’re trying to sound old-fashioned. 🙂

          But yeah, it’s pop unless it’s club soda or cream soda or ginger ale.

        14. OmegaDez

          The worst part is when Americans assume french canadians also do that. How many times I’ve been asked if I said “eh” and “aboot” a lot by US folks after I mentioned my french canadian heritage… I mean, guys, we speak french.

    4. modulusshift

      Dammit, I just realized that I was always teased for acting Canadian because I picked up “eh” from watching the Red Green Show as a kid. Oh well, it was worth it.

  5. miados

    i remember having conversations of pure sound before. eeeeh. meh. bleh etc.

    1. Chronos

      If you count online conversations, I’ve had conversations consisting purely of punctuation.

      1. Someone

        !

        1. Someone

          ?

        2. miados

          0_o

        3. Chronos

          …

        4. Tacos

          ?!

        5. Screwball

          }:D

        6. Falling Star

          -_-

        7. DarkoNeko

          ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

        8. Kryss LaBryn

          <..> v.v <.< …

        9. N0083rP00F

          ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        10. altalemur

          d(^.^)b

      2. Opus the Poet

        I wrote an epic poem with nothing more than punctuation back in the 20th Century. That one was all kinds of fun to perform on stage.

  6. butts

    I mean, I knew she was Canadian, but this is a bit much.

    1. butts

      Damn, beaten to the punch.

      1. N0083rP00F

        Still better than a boot to the head.

  7. WarHamster40K

    [APATHY INTENSIFIES]

    1. gkheyf

      i care little…to the extreme!!!

    2. Deanatay

      I don’t care

      for this at all

    3. nothri

      Shit. I guess we better gets SEES together to go venture further into Tartaros before the Shadows take over.

  8. Nick Piers

    Wow, that hits close to home.

    My ex was like that sometimes. Usually jokingly, but still.

    1. Cerberus

      Yeah, I’ve definitely been there for the “okay, checking in if you’re feeling up to leaving the bed, just nod yes or no if you’re subverbal” bits with both partners and friends. And I’ve been the one in the bed once or twice.

      1. DarkVeghetta

        I feel ya, Cerb, I feel ya. Never had that with friends or myself quite to that extent, but one of my previous girlfriends often had subverbal (good word, I shall endeavor to remember it) days. Usually it took breakfast in bed to get her to start communicating. And Lucozade.

    2. Agemegos

      I’m like that about half the time, and I have no hot biracial cheerleading girlfriend to kick me out of bed.

      So I’ve trained my dog to demand a walk at 05:45 and his breakfast at 06:00. Labradors can be quite demanding about that sort of thing.

  9. Stephen R. Bierce

    The last remake of The Red Pony.

    1. Stephen R. Bierce

      *plays The Big Bopper’s “Chantilly Lace” on the hacked Muzak*

      1. a4lbi

        HACK THE MUZAK

        1. nothri

          With a computer? Or an axe?

        2. DarkoNeko

          Yes.

        3. Stephen R. Bierce

          Remember that Looney Tunes in which Bugs goes berserk over the Federal bounty on rabbits? How he rewired Times Square in Manhattan? Sorta like that.

  10. Rheinman

    Excuse me stewardess, I speak Canadian.

    1. inqntrol

      “Oh, I’m sorry, I can’t understand you, I speak American.”

      1. Bicycle Bill

        But can you speak Jive?

        1. Opus the Poet

          I’ll never be over Macho Grande.

        2. EvilMidnightLurker

          Does anyone here speak 1337?

          (I remember when Megatokyo was good. That was a long time ago.)

        3. Hijean

          Megatokyo. Where the actual strips are just filler
          in between the actual filler.

        4. Screwball

          1337?

        5. Clif

          (((LEET — sh!)))

        6. DarkoNeko

          But it’s still good <3

        7. Roborat

          Yup, that was one of the first webcomics I discovered, ever so long ago, sorry to see the troubles Fred has been having, but there are hopeful signs of returning life stirring in there.

  11. abbers

    Oh hey! A Ruth/Billie storyline!? THE TITLE SAYS IT ALL.

    1. abbers

      Seriously this comic is like, relationship goals.

      1. Tacos

        I must confess that I first read it as relationship goats. I’m not sure why >.>U

        1. Sam

          Who doesn’t need relationship goats to eat all their clothes and bleat rudely at all their guests.

  12. Alice Macher

    “You’re interfering with a perfectly good depressive episode! Stoppit!”

    1. Opus the Poet

      We do what we can.

      1. Jonathan S.

        Because we must?

  13. IDontcarenomore

    Ruth’s cute in a ponytail, that’s probably why the ‘ehhhhhh’. Ruthless doesn’t like cute.
    Keep it up Billie, she needs you. And we know you need her.

    1. Bicycle Bill

      Ruth rules the third floor through fear and intimidation, and that’s why she cannot be seen in a ponytail.  Nobody fears anyone who is wearing a ponytail.

      1. Tacos

        “Nobody fears anyone who is wearing a ponytail.”
        Steven Seagal would beg to differ.

        1. David M Willis

          He would beg, but would we listen?

        2. dmaxx

          Dear, even you know you would get no choice, he will act kindly and first ask you but no is rarely a option, it’s just a matter of facts:-P

        3. Proxiehunter

          Yeah, ponytails terrify him.

  14. Rodimiss

    I strongly identify with Ruth here.

    1. Ellen

      Me too. Things have been tough lately and I feel exactly this a lot.

      Thank you, Willis. You even got me to laugh at this, and therefore, at myself. (That’s a good thing.) 🙂

  15. brionl

    Unh.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtjpUnYtYy0

  16. Wublub

    I see how it is. Make it look like you’re going in for some quality hugging time, then grab her hair and put it in a ponytail instead. Sneaky, sneaky.

  17. nanoi

    ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

    1. nanoi

      my life in a nutshell

  18. EdHead

    Billie is becoming a more mature and useful person now that she’s found someone more fucked up than her. Its a good 1 step back, 2 steps forward.

    1. Leorale

      She’s at her best, by far, when somebody else is having a crisis.
      (I relate strongly to that, too!)

    2. Cerberus

      There’s good in their relationship, but there’s also so so many warning signs.

      The fact that Billie doesn’t have much experience being with people with deep depression and seems to be going overboard with the codependence. The fact that they are both heavily relying on NRE to “save them”. The lack of much communication that isn’t sniping or teasing at each other.

      But at the same time. Even though they are probably so so doomed*, they somehow, at least in this brief moment of time in their early relationship somewhat work. They do bring out better qualities in each other. Ruth is tempering her bullying and her rage and is finding access to at least some of the emotions she thought lost. Billie is finding purpose and someone to play off of who respects and cares about her and think she’s worthy and is finding maturity from that, growing as a person.

      It’s beautiful even though it’s going to go so so wrong eventually.

      *And the reason they are doomed is that they are both putting way too much pressure on the relationship to save them. Ruth “needs” Billie to access her emotions and fully rekindle with what she has lost. Billie “needs” Ruth to stabilize her broken self-esteem and prop her up emotionally. They have flaws that somehow do work together, but both are asking the relationship and the other to straight up save them and that is too much to ask of another person who is suffering or a relationship. Add to that the fact that they are compounding this stress by enabling each others’ alcoholism and it’s just a tragic train wreck waiting to happen.

      They are surprisingly sweet together, but it cannot last without acknowledging and changing some of their most codependent and toxic behaviors.

      1. Leorale

        I agree with all of this, and plus, even though Billie shines when she can go ‘Head Cheerleader: Problem Solver’, she can’t fix Ruth’s severe depression, and even if she could, nobody can survive being in solve-the-crisis mode 24/7. (Even Crisis Services pros have to go home and pet their dogs and get some sleep if they don’t want to burn out like a dying sun.) Billie and Ruth have set up a system that is relentless, exhausting, and endless.

        When people are exhausted, they rely on their habitual coping mechanisms — and, for both Billie and Ruth, that’s overusing alcohol. Unhealthy pattern, getting reinforced, causing itself to repeat. Bad news!

  19. Also Becky

    She looks like an adorable, angry box.

    1. EvilMidnightLurker

      She should team up with Peridot. Angry box, angry slice of pie.

      1. EvilMidnightLurker

        …I swear by everything I hold holy that I did not intend that to come out as the double entendre it looks like. o.O;

  20. Idris

    I… I know Billy’s just a Yank and apparently can’t speak Canadian. But Ruth, what you’re saying is rude and uncalled for. ;_;

    1. -Sentinel-

      I’m not American, but I believe Ruth’s insults aren’t considered quite as insulting south of the border.

    2. MrZombieScordo

      Nice try. Everybody knows Canadians can’t insult people, that’d be rude. they would just end up apologizing.

      1. N0083rP00F

        Ah, that is the beauty of it though. Canadians or much closer to the British when it comes to insulting something through compliments.
        There is a reason so many top comedians are Canadian.

  21. Skizz

    Aaaaahhhhhh, relationships

    1. Hijean

      You mean EEEEHHHHHH relationships.

  22. Edupoet81

    Billie likes to see herself as a Problem Solver, and in this relationship. she gets to take on that role. Unfortunately, Ruth needs significantly more help than Billie can offer, and Billie needs some help for herself as well.

    My thoughts regarding the prognosis for this relationship can best be summed up thus: Ehhhhh.

    1. Cerberus

      That and Billie is not at all ready to jump in to this heavy of a deep end with regards to Problem Solving. Especially with regards to something like depression that can’t really be “solved” by having a really awesome partner doing awesome things for you.

      1. Edupoet81

        That’s true. I am all too aware that depression is not so easily solved, even by professionals. I’m not sure if Billie is aware of that, even with her own depressive tendencies.

        1. Cerberus

          I don’t think she is. And what’s worse, I think she’s tied her self-esteem directly into solving this nigh impossible “problem”, so that she feels she has personally failed if she is unable to “rouse her partner out of it”.

  23. Someone

    I’ve come to realize that there are 3 basic dumbing of age commenters
    A. The jokers: Largest group, those who make short observations 1-2 sentences and jokes. Majority of commenters fall into here. Fanartists are a small offshoot of this group

    B. Observationalists: Those who wright large, multi paragraph comments. Tend to be more serious. Will go back to the other groups if they don’t fell like writing a bunch

    C. The I just hate everyone guys: Those who spend the majority of there time talking about how awful all the characters are. (Blaine, Ross, Ryan, and Mary don’t count). Can range from having slight annoyance at the characters mistakes to taking anything the characters do and twisting it to be so that they secretly want to kill all their friends.

    1. TheWrathabove

      So which are you?

      1. Someone

        Joker

        1. Peduncle

          I don’t know, dude. Four paragraphs.

        2. Bicycle Bill

          And in list form, too!

        3. Someone

          hmmm yesterday I did write a paragraph detailing the hidden motive of Faz

        4. Chronos

          The comment that started this thread, however, totally fits observationalist; it’s a pretty spot on one, too.

        5. nothri

          But if your a joker, how can we trust your analysis? Your probably just being facietious.

        6. Someone

          I mean what I say but I am being satirical

    2. Rycan

      You forgot the trolls. Trolls are people too!

      1. Someone

        They get banned pretty fast though, so
        ehhhhhhhhhh

        1. Disloyal Subject

          The obvious nutbars don’t deserve the title of troll. There’s a subtle artistry to a good trolling, and a few have passed through here.

      2. bhtooefr

        Soylent trolls are people?

    3. TJ Pittsburgh

      Heh, moments before reading your own comment, I recognized and identified the Observationalist trend of commenting: the “Let me spend paragraphs to write an exposition in extreme detail about what we are all witnessing already and what it all means” type.

    4. WolfLann

      I think I sometime A or B depending on the mood.
      If I was C I wouldn’t read the comic 😛

    5. Agemegos

      I would like to suggest a fourth type:

      D. The folk who write about the comments and the commenters rather than the comics and its contents.

      1. Agemegos

        And a fifth:

        E. The jokers who make self-exemplifying statements.

        1. Peduncle

          Not any of those jokers are we!

    6. DarkoNeko

      I’m A, but do not worry : I still hate everyone.

  24. Opus the Poet

    So is today’s comic better titled “Dumbing of “eehhhhhjj””?

    1. Chronos

      No. Bad. (starts to roll up a newspaper)

      1. -Sentinel-

        What’s a newspaper?

        1. Someone

          A paper that prints news.

        2. Bicycle Bill

          An archaic form of communication, similar to the papyrus scrolls of ancient Egypt or the town crier of medieval Europe.

        3. Chronos

          These days they’re primarily used for archaic gags.

        4. Edupoet81

          My seventy year old mother reads newspapers, and my father used to before he got sick and died. I honestly can’t think of anyone else I know who still reads newspapers. Once in a blue moon, I see someone reading one on the subway. I used to see that more often; these days it’s a rare occurrence.

        5. Dragon_Nataku

          My dad still reads them and likes to pull out entire sections of the newspaper to give to me to read even if the article in question is like two paragraphs on one page. He does this even though he knows I am kinda allergic to newspapers (I mean this literally, it is kinda itchy0

          So I use them to cover the kitchen counter to make the cleanup from making kimchi less messy. ^^;;

        6. Dragon_Nataku

          (probably should’ve mentioned my dad is 75)

        7. DarkoNeko

          Easier to fold than a tablet, so eeh.

        8. Opus the Poet

          Like this? http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/spinning_paper.jpg

        9. Opus the Poet

          Something used to wrap fish for vending.

        10. Agemegos

          Newspapers are a form of litter, once used for wrapping fish and lining bird-cages, but now transferred directly from the lawn into the recycling bin. Newspapers’ ostensible purpose is to convey advertising.

        11. Bicycle Bill

          And if you had seen the paper they delivered to my house yesterday you would realize the truth in that statement.  They could have probably built a moderate-sized house from all the wood that was converted into pulp to make the paper for all those “Black Friday” advertising flyers.

  25. Someone

    im kinda hoping Ruth only says eh this entire arc.

    “What do you want for breakfast Ruth”
    “EHHHH”
    “Hashbrowns. Got it”

    1. TheGrammarLegionary

      And you guys can all learn to speak Canadian along with Billie!

    2. Mada

      “Hey Ruth, there’s a homeless kid illegally living on campus.”

      “EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.”

      “Well okay then.”

  26. Eukie

    It’s nice to see Billie genuinely care for Ruth. So far their relationship seemed to have mostly be based on sex and using each other as an excuse to spiral further into depression. Here Billie is making a small effort to help Ruth out of it. It’s sweet. ^_^

  27. JessWitt

    Pony up, Ruth.

  28. 6Qubed

    no amount of canada noise will allow you to shirk your duties

  29. Rycan

    Ruth doesn’t have depression. She just has a chronic case of EHHH.

    1. Regalli

      After a while, that’s pretty much just like depression.

  30. Bagge

    Heh, the thing is that Billie is really, really good at what she does. Ruth wants her button pushed, and wow, Billie can push buttons. Billie doesn’t back off, she doesn’t take eh for an answer and she knows just how to get under Ruth’s skin.

    I love that the pushing she does here also affirms that she think Ruth is beautiful. Dressing her up, doing her hair… not that different from how Dorothy treat Walky sometimes, no other parallels.

    This is adorable. This is terrifying. What was that word again…

    1. Solenoid

      Terrible? Wait, no… that can’t be it.

      1. Proxiehunter

        Adorafying?

    2. Cerberus

      Definitely. They have such moments of genuine sweetness and connection, which makes their unacknowledged problems all the more heartbreaking because they genuinely do have something decent, but are constantly at risk of fucking it up because of the issues they are trying to bury in Becky’s nuked closet or paper over with additional codependence.

  31. Plasma Mongoose

    Something’s wrong with Ruth, did she update to Windows 10 or something?

    1. Needfuldoer

      Looks more like Windows Eh.1…

  32. motorfirebox

    She’s not being apathetic, she’s offering the traditional Canadian greeting.

  33. potatoaddict

    Is anyone else just feeling “meh” over this? I’m pretty much holding down & waiting for Joyce to get her act together, hopefully not being terrified of men anymore, or at least working towards it.

    I like that Billie & Ruth are along well enough into their emotional landscape that they’re at this level of synergy, & its cute to see. But still….

    1. Znayx

      Yes, the desire to see how Joyce is holding up is pretty strong, but I think Willis thought it would be important to un-stress for a while. It’s not healthy to read a comic that makes you sad every day. Smiles and jokes are a good way to balance it out, even though it hard to accept it and relax. This will be a good change of pace, once people get used to it. Then, in no time we’ll be back to Joyce.

      1. Agemegos

        I tend to misperceive all emotion as sadness anyway, and rather like having a comic to which I get to react appropriately.

      2. Commodore Jeep-Eep

        You forget the machinations of Mary. We need to have some set up for when she inevitably causes misery in the name of god, after all.

        1. Znayx

          …But Toedad already had that job. Although, they would be a sickeningly impressive partnership that I wish never to see.

    2. DarkoNeko

      We’re feeling pretty Eeeh right now.

  34. Kactusalliv

    Urge to kill, rising….

    1. James Small

      Hey, Ruth may be obnoxiously nihilistic and mean, but you don’t have to kill her. Just because other characters actually have interesting story-lines doesn’t mean depression and angst can’t be fun…?

      1. Kactusalliv

        No, that’s Ruth.

  35. Someone

    *
    Somedays you just feel ehhhhh

  36. LeslieBean4Shizzle

    … Ruth, take your hair down and stop looking like my wife this instant!
    Ha. No, I’m kidding. She also looks like my wife with her hair down.

    1. Rowen Morland

      Did you catch your wife spitting on piles of dead leaves lately?

      (No? Watch harder!)

      1. DarkoNeko

        Now the matter is wether you step on spit on them first, because, ew.

      2. LeslieBean4Shizzle

        … yes, actually.

  37. AgentKeen

    eh

  38. OnyxIdol

    Man, I feel ya Ruth.

  39. podian

    CANADA INTENSIFIES

  40. Robert

    I like the new Ruth. She seems happy…

    1. Leorale

      Can’t tell if you’re joking! This isn’t happiness, it’s apathy, which is one form of depression.

      (A lot of people think that major depression mainly involves being super-de-duper sad, and uncontrollably crying a lot. Mine did. But, some people get more emotionally numb, where they can’t feel anything at all. That’s tougher to spot, but just as exhausting.)

      1. Cerberus

        The numbness in some ways is worse than the crying jags, because it’s so so hard to get out of. Like, you think you’re doing okay, and then you realize you can’t remember how it feels to be happy and literally everything feels exactly the same emotionally and you realize that you have no idea how to start feeling again and that when you do, all the pain you’ve been burying is probably going to spill out all at once.

        And Ruth? Ruth’s been in that state for a long while. As she said awhile back, the only emotion she’s had access to for awhile has been anger and now she also has some vague emotions that Billie inspires, but things like joy, hope, or a sense of purpose have been long since closed off for her.

        1. Leorale

          Yes. It’s kind of the difference between drowning (in too many intense feelings) and starving (from too few). I think the former is more overwhelming, and the latter more deeply alienating, but either is pretty friggin’ awful and needs way more help than even the greatest girlfriend can possibly provide.

      2. ischemgeek

        When I had situational depression as a teen, it manifested as apathy & boredom.

        Ever been bored? K, imagine feeling like that for a year or two straight. Eventually I just started doing really self-destructive shit because it was the only way I could feel anything at all. Even pain and terror was better to me at that point than more boredom. I mean there were other reason, but that was a big part of it.

        & that’s what I see in Ruth.

        1. Robert

          And I see that none of you understand deadpan humor.

        2. ischemgeek

          More that online makes it hard to tell whether people are being sarcastic or not.

        3. Agemegos

          It’s a dying art.

  41. BenRG

    It sounds to me like Ruth is coming out of a serious depressive ‘low’; unable to DoA anything or commit to anything. Billie seems to be handling this through a combination of loving understanding, practical help and… using Ruth as her personal dress-up doll! The really worrying thing is that it does seem to be working!

  42. JustcallmeSoul

    Has billie lost weight? i think she’s lost weight.

    1. dmaxx

      By the amount am sure they have”exercised” it would come as no surprise really xD

  43. Opus the Poet

    #Canada, America’s thinking cap.

  44. Lia47

    DOMESTIC BABBIES

  45. Thomas

    I love these two gals. Give ’em a big hug from me, will ya? 🙂

  46. brumagem

    It’s okay Ruth, I can totally empathize with how your feeling. I just can’t empathize with the concept of feeling such for more than a few hours each month.

    1. StClair

      Lucky you.

    2. Vex Godglove

      Welcome to chronic depression.

  47. Solenoid

    Oh, look. It’s Grumpelstiltskein. 😛

  48. CianM1301

    She looks like a secretary!

  49. NinjaNick

    Ehhhhh…

  50. EvilMidnightLurker

    What’s that, Ruthie? Timmy fell down the well?

    1. Znayx

      ^Win

  51. Willoughby Chase

    Oh, Canada!

    1. EvilMidnightLurker

      Our home and native land!

      1. Itama

        Truuue lesbian loooo-
        wait thats not right

        1. Spencer

          Ruth and Billie are bi, actually.

  52. Falling Star

    Wait…when did…ponytai…wha?!!

  53. Palamdrone

    Now she just needs to dye her hair black.

  54. Deanatay

    Careful, Ruth. You’re THIS [ ] close to admitting you care about something…

  55. DropsOfRubys

    Ruth looks like she wants to fight, fuck, and is smiling like a dork but desperately doesn’t want billy to know.

  56. DarkoNeko

    Billie likes to care about ruth’s stuff to do, but…
    Unlike the later, we’ve never seen Billie study, have we ?

  57. Arturo

    It suddenly dawns on me that Ruth would totally rock the Pippi Longstocking look XD

    1. LordHaw

      The “Anne of Green Gables” look too…though she’d be like the evil twin of either of them.

  58. altalemur

    this reminds me a little of some of the other webcomics i’ve seen where the partner of someone with depression helps them with executive function type stuff… except Billie is more annoying about it.

  59. Spencer

    Hold on everyone, let me translate for you. I am fluent in Canadian.

    “No”

    “Should I?”

    “Don’t want it.”

    “Not that crap again.”

    “EHHHHHHHHHHHHH”

  60. Akiosama

    Eh eh eh… Ehhh ehhh ehhh… eh eh eh. 😀

  61. Peduncle

    Thanksgiving isn’t quite over! Thank you, David, for a great ride in this webcomic, and best wishes to you, Maggie, and the twins.

  62. NPZR

    MACARENA

  63. Shenia Takashi

    These two are surprisingly adorable. I mean I know that it’s not a healthy relationship and that they should both get some help but still. I mean look at them, adorable.

    1. Spencer

      It’s a detailed and vividly real picture of a toxic, harmful relationship.

      We tend to think of those in terms of Blaine and his wife, where everything is terrible at all times, but a lot of the time we have these happy downtimes where things aren’t explosively terrible.

      1. Agemegos

        “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

        ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

        1. Spencer

          Wasn’t Leo’s Toy Store that book by Warren Peace?

        2. Agemegos

          I thought it was by Anna Karin Inner

    2. Gvickers

      I agree. Adorable. But, right now, Ruth could be cuter.

  64. Zombycow

    she’s canadaing way too hard!!!!

  65. Pinja

    I was really not a fan of the last arc, but this already feel good.

  66. Kugai

    At least Billie speaks her language

  67. Tenn

    I didn’t know Ruth could be so EHHHHHHHHHHHHHloquent.

    1. hack

      you’ll miss her when she’s DEAD!

  68. Just Me

    After the Last Storyline, I’m already bored. Nothing can compete with that.

    Ruth and Billie are about as interesting as watching grey paint dry.

    1. Peduncle

      Just in case we’ve all forgotten, the last storyline began with this. I’m there with Just Me so far, but Mr. Willis has a history. Maybe we can we trust him on this.

      1. Peduncle

        Oh crap, screwed up the html tagging. A hundred times sorry! Was supposed to be

        began with this link.

  69. Azmi

    NOW I know what this reminds me of! Bee and PuppyCat, first ever episode

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