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Visiting
Posted on April 18, 2018 by David M Willis

189 thoughts on “Visiting”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    “Flaws?? OUR WORLD HAS BEEN SHATTERED”

    1. King Daniel

      Just like Billie’s glasses?

    2. Shade

      What if cheerleaders were one of us?
      Just a slob like one of us?
      Just a stranger on the bus?
      Trying to make their way home?

    3. AngryBamboo

      “it seems our leaders are not all-knowing! I will question everything! MAYBE IT IS BUTTER!!!!”

      1. Ana Chronistic

        BUTTERY MALES…glasses?

  2. Doctor_Who

    A red light starts blinking in Cheerleader Central HQ, and a klaxon sounds.

    By tomorrow, Forest Quad will be rubble. The only clue: a tattered pom-pom amid the dust.

    1. Roger Sterling

      The last time CCHQ had to intervene like this was when Krakatoa High discovered cheerleaders used feminine hygiene products too. And don’t get me started on when Franz Ferdinand implied they took showers.

  3. Stu

    Uh… wow. The hell is that reaction?

    1. coru

      That’s a bit intense and kind of sucks.

      1. Stu

        Yeah – if it were JUST Billie’s perception, that’d be one thing, but Joyce’s expression indicates that they’re actually saying it.

        1. C.T Phipps

          Billie has been presenting herself as a seductress living a weird magazine life. The illusion was always there.

        2. JetstreamGW

          Oh come on, y’all. Nothing that any of the people in Forest Quad has been saying has been realistic or even entirely rational. Why is this a surprise? 😛

        3. Noa

          They remind me of Red and Ayilu, from Gunnerkrigg Court, really.

        4. Rowen Morland

          I agree with JetstreamGW and Stu. It does suck and I’d hate to be on the receiving end but it also super fits with the comic-y way these guys have been portrayed.

        5. GoblinScribe

          I wonder if this is part of why Lucy has been so uncomfortable?

        6. Needfuldoer

          Billie’s perception is a bit fuzzier than that right now, unless she got replacement contacts.

    2. Koms

      Why are they so in awe of her?

      1. Some1

        They are very very stupid.

        1. Deanatay

          Again, remember the title of the comic.

      2. Agemegos

        I think — well, hope — that they have been winding her up.

        1. Emily

          I think they may just be wildly immature and kind of dumb.

    3. wwwhhattt

      In the sight deficient dorm hall the bare eyed woman is queen

      1. Koms

        Oh right. They all wear glasses. I have been criminally short sighted to not have noticed that.

        1. thejeff

          Well, Zaph doesn’t, but he might be the only one.

  4. DailyBrad

    This is a weird hall, but I still kinda like them

  5. YanderePanzer

    Faz sees something in her. Like…that’s a new Faz face.

    1. foamy

      … he suddenly looks human instead of a painted bowling ball on legs, and I’m not sure I was ready for that.

    2. Bonnie

      That’s Zaph.

      1. foamy

        Thank you, the universe has been restored to equilibrium.

    3. Starboi

      Pretty sure that’s Zaph

    4. Kamino Neko

      That’s reading a lot into one partially obscured eye and a bit of hair…

      (It’s Zaph who’s visible.)

    5. Tacos

      That’s not Faz. That’s Zaph.

      1. DanLovatClark

        And this is what it took for me to realize that Zaph is the Mirror Universe Faz.

    6. YanderePanzer

      OH WAIT I’M
      JUST AN IDIOT SORRY ZAPH

    7. Yotomoe

      Are you implying all Fazs look the same. I bet you think Wen looks like Faz too.

      1. C.T Phipps

        I never said you looked all the same! I’m not racist, honest!

        *talks to clone army*

  6. Kamino Neko

    No alt text?

    1. Keulen

      I’m not seeing an alt text either. Just the title of the strip right now.

      1. Tacos

        There is now.

  7. admiralnoob

    No matter how far you run, your past will always hunt you down.

    Quite literally in this case.

  8. TemporalShrew

    Do… do these people hate themselves? Because unless they’re kidding their phraseology implies they might.

    1. Doctor_Who

      Maybe they know they’re not Main Characters, and that makes them depressed.

      I’d call it Xanth Syndrome, but I’m pretty sure that term is taken and has something to do with undergarments.

      1. StClair

        I’m embarrassed that I know exactly what you mean.

        1. Doctor_Who

          I’m embarrassed I know what I mean too.

          Is there anything about adolescence that isn’t embarrassing?

        2. Dark

          Wait, are you implying that liking Xanth is embarrassing?

          Because shut up, you’re wrong.

        3. Annonymouse

          Are you embarrassed easily? But it’s nothing to worry about, it’s all part of growing up and being British. This course is designed to eliminate embarrassment, to enable you to talk freely about rude objects, to look at awkward and embarrassing things and to point at people’s privates.

        4. Roborat

          I took that course, and now I can say shoe, megaphone and grunties without embarrassment, although I do still blush slightly when I say wankle rotary engine.

      2. CJ

        Oh, right in xanth there was this strange obsession with undergarments that is only topped by manga (where boys practically faint when they see a girls drawers because ist oh sooooo titillating).

        1. Roborat

          Don’t forget the spontaneous nosebleed. I always wondered why the girls wear such short skirts.

        2. CJ

          Because mangakas like drawing fan service?

        3. thejeff

          Because fan service sells. 🙂

        4. Roborat

          Dammit, don’t ruin the joke.

    2. C.T Phipps

      They believe Billie is an awesome role model. They are deeply stupid.

    3. Needfuldoer

      Rose just has a penchant for melodrama. (I read it with a hint of sarcasm.)

  9. Passchendaele

    *billie’s pedestal explodes*

    1. Annonymouse

      Was that the one that had a dragon on it at one time?
      Wait a sec! She was the cheerleader for the Dragons…
      [belated groan]

  10. tim gueguen

    Wait until they find out Billie does things like burp. They’ll probably collapse and start gibbering nonsense.

    1. Roborat

      Wait, have none of them seen her using the washroom?

  11. Some1

    Holy crap they’re idiots! Can’t say I wouldn’t fuck with them.

    1. Mr D

      Phrasing

      1. Some1

        You’re right

        Can’t say I wouldn’t have sex with all the people in Forest Quad

  12. Marsh Maryrose

    Take Two denied!

  13. Derek

    when did this comic series morph into a corny 80’s teen movie, where did I take a wrong turn

    1. Needfuldoer

      Forest Quad is the cheesy 80s sitcom spinoff of the drama series that is Read Hall.

    2. Roborat

      Albuquerque.

  14. Keulen

    I think Billie looks better with glasses anyway.

  15. StClair

    “…. I’m NOT A NERD!”
    *covers face in shame, flees back into room*

    1. Marsh Maryrose

      Those fuckin’ cheerleaders judged me! I was socially profiled!

  16. Some Random Name

    They are just fucking glasses. Plus, she has a good vibe with them on.

    1. Agemegos

      She can use them for driving too.

      1. Roborat

        I see what you did there.

  17. Haven

    Well, that was quick.

  18. Axel

    I mean, at least her roommate would find out she had contacts, unless she really wanted to put a ton of effort into hiding something this inane.

    1. No Name

      Her contacts broke before school started, which is the only reason she was wearing glasses from the start. I think she’s walking around blind, or she doesn’t actually need corrective lenses all that much.

      1. Woobie

        I’m sure Billie wouldn’t wear glasses unless she HAD to.

      2. Agemegos

        Or her new contacts arrived.

        1. CJ

          As moneys not a problem, the new contacts should have came by now (if she managed to organize that. While you are contemplating suicide, you might not bother about replacements.)

        2. Axel

          I didn’t really think about that aspect (which is silly, because I am out of commission for months at a time for the same reason), but on the other hand, she wasn’t suicidal when she first lost her contacts, and with money being no problem and sites like clearly having shipping that only takes a couple days even in Canada, yeah, I think she’d have them by now.

          Also, when I wrote the first post, I was picturing my husband (I wear glasses myself, but I was thinking about him), and he takes his contacts out in the bathroom across the hall, then can barely make it back to the bedroom without glasses, but Billie’s eyes are pretty unlikely to be that bad.

  19. Reltzik

    Just goes to show that the contest to be popularity queen is a full-contacts sport.

    ….

    *flees for dear punning life*

    1. Keulen

      Eye see what you did there.

      1. King Daniel

        I had a vision that today’s comments would host a pun thread.

        1. Leorale

          Now, let’s not make a spectacle of it.

        2. adjudicus

          From my view, pun should be celebrated! Plus, the nature of commebt sections lens itself to punning.

        3. Nelly Dreadful

          These jokes are getting cornea and cornea…

        4. Koms

          Iris ked a pun way up in the thread.. no one saw it

        5. DSL

          It was specked macular.

        6. King Daniel

          I guess they failed their Spot check?

        7. Keulen

          It appears we were all blind to your earlier pun.

        8. thejeff

          When it comes to puns, I can’t match these. I’m only a humble pupil.

        9. Agnes Nitt

          What devil art thou that dost torment me thus?
          This torture should be roared in dismal hell.
          Hath Billie lost her glasses? Say thou but “ay,”
          And that bare vowel I shall poison more
          Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice.
          I am not I if there be such an I,
          Or those eyes shut that makes thee answer “ay.”
          If her eyes are bad, say “ay,” or if not, “no.”
          Brief sounds determine of my weal or woe.

  20. Roger

    I find myself simultaneously charmed by the blatant meta-commentary this hall provides and absolutely horrified by the idea of these people existing in a conceptual Real World.

    1. C.T Phipps

      I predict all of them will get jobs via neptoism and cronyism — coasting through life.

      1. Annonymouse

        Mind you it all depends on the coaster – Starbucks or Bud Light or maybe something like The Gravity Max or Kingda Ka?

  21. Goki

    From Cool Kat to normal in a few sentences.

  22. Marsh Maryrose

    As always, Nash says the quiet thing out loud. “What is this thing you call a ‘filter’?”

  23. lilyliv

    Now I’m trying to remember how many cheerleaders I knew who actually wore glasses. Honestly, can’t remember any (though I’d assume that’s because contacts were more conducive to the sport).

  24. FLUFFYWOLF

    Oh no. Their tiny little freshman minds have been shattered.

    1. Annonymouse

      Freshman minds are Oobleck – easily shattered yet quick to recover when not under pressure.

  25. Yotomoe

    https://imgur.com/a/w2stheC
    Miss me guys? Well let me fix that.
    Also Faz is still one of my favorite characters. As a creepy loser I empathize with creepy losers.

    1. Bagge

      That was a remarkable uncreepy thing Faz just said.

      Faz IS a great character (and so is his penis). And I still feel there is a shoe waiting to drop…

      1. Yotomoe

        To be fair I had like 8 creepier jokes I was gonna make but got lazy.

    2. DrunkenNordmann

      I assume the Daz ship sunk? 😛

      1. Yotomoe

        There’s all kinds of ships, my friend.

    3. Deanatay

      We all missed you, Yotomoe!

      We’re gluttons for punishment.

      And YAAAS new Yotomoe art!

    4. Roborat

      Who are you?

    5. MacBone

      Hey, Yotomoe! You’ve been missed around here!

  26. Screwball

    CHEERLEADERS AREN’T PERFECT?!?!?!
    *Runs into freeway traffic….*

    1. C.T Phipps

      SHE’S NOT A REAL CHEERLEADER AT ALL, TEAR HER TO PIECES!

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      Of cause they are, there is no way Kim Possible could have lied to me.

      1. Screwball

        Yes, Kim Possible, she’s totally real, right? Yeah, completely. They are still perfect, they are still perfect…
        *Sits in middle of freeway center reserve, curled up in fetal position…*

  27. TrueVCU

    THE SPELL IS BROKEN! THE SERVANTS ARE FREE!

    1. C.T Phipps

      *Youtubes BRAND NEW DAY from The Wiz*

  28. Roger Sterling

    These guys are such parasites.

    1. Fart Captor

      They’re just adorable goobers who happen to have some weird feelings about cheerleaders

      1. Roger Sterling

        I mean this in only the most affectionate way, but Gods above do you make a sport out of contradicting me or is one of us barking mad?

        1. Fart Captor

          Not you specifically, but “disagreeing with someone but just letting it go without comment” is not exactly one of my strengths

        2. Inahc

          aww, you missed a wonderful opportunity to quote monty python. 🙂
          “well if I’m going to argue with you, I must take up a contrary position!”

        3. Roborat

          Yes, but it isn’t just saying “no, it isn’t”.

  29. Bagge

    One of us, one of us, one of us

    1. Marsh Maryrose

      Gooble, gobble!

  30. C.T Phipps

    I predict Billie will prefer to be with a fawning group of sycophants than her genuine best friend in college.

    1. Leorale

      Her self-esteem is so low at the moment that I wouldn’t really blame her for temporarily basking in some absurd hero worship.

      1. Emily

        See I don’t get that because this kind of treatment would just end up making me super paranoid because obviously it’s not justified so either they’re up to something or they’re all just too stupid to realize I’m garbage.

    2. Nono

      Was her best friend Alice, or was her best FRIEND Walky?

      1. wwwhhattt

        She realised her best friend was Joyce, and wasn’t happy about it: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/stall/

  31. Tacos

    Kinda of an extreme reaction aint it? They’re just glasses.

    1. C.T Phipps

      Except she’s been getting an extreme amount of hero worship for being a cheerleader in high school.

  32. C.T Phipps

    I maintain Billie is even sexier in her glasses because her mother is the Baroness and her biological father is Stormshadow. I believe, further, Destro raised her except for the fact he was too busy conquering the world to do so and pawed her off on the Sal’s family.

  33. Miri

    I had assumed Joyce would out Billie as a fallible human by association (“only people with flaws hang out with people with flaws” logic, and Joyce is letting her flaws all hang out with these people) but this route is apparently quicker…

  34. PB

    I guess it was about time.

  35. C.T Phipps

    Wait, in McAwesome’s Dorm, is their R.A. a person who acts nice all the time but is secretly evil?

  36. Pablo360

    Okay so I’m 80% sure (based on Rose’s facial overacting) that they’re being facetious so as to put Billie out of the illusion that she needs to maintain some level of, I dunno, primness in order to retain the accolades and respect of her peers. But in any case, I’m incredibly worried because Faz is here and there has to be a reason Willis jumped through all these narrative hoops to get him in the same place as Billie.

    1. C.T Phipps

      I predict that Faz will live in this dorm the way that Becky did and eventually get adopted by Jason (because he’s the Anti-Leslie).

    2. Agemegos

      I hope — pray — that the whole thing has been an extended prank, and that this is the pay-off.

  37. Marsh Maryrose

    Serious question: how common is it nowadays for people to have hard contacts that can break?

    I know that for a long time after soft contacts came out, hard contacts were still the only option for astigmatism. Is that still the case? Are there other situations where hard contacts are preferable to soft?

    And given that Billie has money, is there some reason she didn’t have Lasik done?

    1. Fart Captor

      To do lasik they have to use a scalpel to cut the membrane over the ocular lens so it can be peeled back, THEN the laser can reshape it.

      You have to be awake for this, because if you were out, your eyes would try to move too much.

      I’d love to be rid of my glasses, but nooooope nope nope nope no way in hell

      1. Inahc

        oh dear god. it sounded scary enough even not knowing you had to be awake for it.

        plus, if you have to be awake so you can hold your eyes still… no, that is not a thing I could physically do. heck, I used to have a lot of trouble in dentist appointments because I couldn’t stop my tongue from poking at things.

        1. Fart Captor

          I’m pretty sure they have some sort of restraint on your eye so it’s not JUST that you have you hold your eye still by sheer concentration. It’s just if you TRY to move your eye, it would be bad, because they can’t COMPLETELY immobilize it.

          They also give you some kinda anxiety meds to keep you from panicking during the procedure, but something happening to my eyes is one of my greatest fears, so I feel like I’d still have nightmares about it afterwards

        2. Remmington Steele

          Restraint? As in Clockwork Orange?

          NOOOOOO!!

        3. Needfuldoer

          I flinched and bit into the drill last time I had to get a filling on a lower molar. No novocaine either, thanks to my primal fear of needles. Thankfully my dentist’s reflexes are still pretty sharp so it didn’t cause too much extra damage, but it certainly didn’t help. That was a fun day.

        4. Roborat

          Pretty sure they anesthetize the eye so it can’t move.

      2. David M Willis

        i died a little just reading this

        1. Agemegos

          Don’t read a detailed procedure.

      3. Nono

        Having done, I can honestly just say that it is the weirdest feeling going through it. It doesn’t hurt, it’s just… very weird.

      4. Koms

        Remember Final Destination 5?

      5. PB

        Also Lasik can be messed up. My mom walked in nearsighted and came out farsighted, all thanks to a misplaced decimal point.

    2. Agemegos

      The FDA has not approved LASIK for children under 18. Since turning 18 Billie has been kind of busy with high school finals, graduation, prom, drunkened driving, car crashes, drinking to forget, being ostracised, and getting fat. It’s all very time-consuming.

      LASIK might be scheduled for the mid-semester break.

      1. Agemegos

        You also have to have had a stable refractive error (prescription) for 12 months, which not a lot of people get until 25 or so.

  38. stoodmuffin

    People can be more sheltered than Joyce.

  39. OnyxIdol

    *Audible Gasp*

  40. JessWitt

    Man, I hope the Forest dormies are just yanking Billie’s chain about the glasses.

    1. Agemegos

      I hope they were just yanking her chain about the cheerleader-worship.

      1. PB

        That … would be a bit of a relief, yeah.

  41. Chronos

    Of all things, it’s no glasses that tips them off.

  42. Mr D

    ….
    Sooo….Is Forest Quad the home for stupid people?

    1. C.T Phipps

      Well all of the Reed Hall people are intelligent but jerks so this is the home for nice but moronic ones.

  43. Griffin Raynor

    I find it amusing how many of these comics are along the lines of ‘what a silly/irrational thing to say.’ Like yeah, that’s why it’s in the punchline panel.

  44. BenRG

    Yeah, a bunch of fangirls but fans are easy to disappoint.

    I’m sure that Joyce has a sermon all ready about ‘being liked for who you really are’. The problem is that even Billie doesn’t like who she really is, so she can’t blame her neighbours for not doing so. Maybe that’s her next major growth area?

    1. Chris Phoenix

      Your first sentence gives me flashbacks to the catgirl massacre in Something Positive.

  45. Eldritch Gentleman

    Aaaaand Joyce just planted plenty of C4 and Dynamite at the base of Billie’s Mount Olympus.

  46. ValdVin

    Panel four Joyce has just the perfect amount of wonder and shock. Now I gotta know if there’s one German word which means that.

    1. CJ

      No word like that comes to my mind.
      Did you ask because German words like Angst made it into English?

      1. Arian

        Probably because of ‘schadenfreude’, which is a word we really needed, so we stole it.

      2. Brotato

        German words having ~deep, complex meanings~ has become a meme.

        1. Yumi

          It’s more “there’s a German word for everything” that’s the meme, in my experience. The actual words that mean said things are often compound words.

    2. Joe Covenant

      Wunderschock!

      (And if it doesn’t exist, I claim it as my own!!) 🙂

      1. CJ

        No google-hits for that one, only hits for both words separated by Komma or full-stop (several of them referring to trump being elected, btw).

    3. Sunny

      Wouldn’t “consternation” be mostly fitting?

  47. DarkoNeko

    oh no, the spell is broken !

    1. BenRG

      Yeah, instead of groupies, Billie will just have to make do with friends. Such rotten luck!

  48. Remmington Steele

    Mark my words, they’re going to burn Billie at the stake because she’s too pure for this world.

  49. CJ

    You are having me on. There is no tiger behind my baAAAAAAARGH

  50. BenRG

    Rose’s apparent need to have someone ‘perfect’ whom she can look up to is adorable in ways that I’m having difficulty processing. Someone hug her!

  51. Joe Covenant

    You have set them all on fire!
    They think they’ve found the new messiah!
    (And they’ll hurt you when they find they’re wrong!)

    1. StClair

      I remember when this whole thing began
      No talk of God then, we called you a man
      And believe me, my admiration for you hasn’t died
      But every word you say today
      Gets twisted ’round some other way
      And they’ll hurt you if they think you’ve lied…

  52. newllend(henryvolt)

    You know guys there’s this nice new invention out there that I think you might of heard about I forgetc what they’re called- wait now remember they’re called contacts !

  53. Emily

    Everyone in this strip except Joyce is a ridiculous baby.

  54. Gojira

    It was a good reign, while it lasted.

  55. erejnion

    Maybe one day the people in Billie’s new dorm will feel like real people; but until then I’ll continue giggling at the… wait, what’s the word for them? Plot devices? Nah…

  56. Deanatay

    We need to check with our local emperor!

    Hey, Emperor of The Internet, are you wearing glasses?

    1. Emperor Norton II

      Of course not. Why would We do such a thing? What ridiculousness to suggest that We are less than perfect.

      (Rumours that We are wearing contact lenses will be neither confirmed nor denied.)

  57. ǝ snow ʍousɐ

    The Superman facade shatters, leaving a bespectacled Clark Kent in its wake.

  58. abysswatcher1993

    Never underestimate the power of glasses in your own persona. They make you look like an intellectual, like Harry Potter, or like Milhouse.

  59. wakeangel2001

    pretty girls are easier to approach when they have a flaw

  60. znk

    The Rumor Come Out: Is Billie wears Glasses?

  61. Zaxares

    And so the marble statue turns out to have clay feet. How will Forest Quad react to this? 😀

  62. AgentKeen

    Danny: No, that just makes the cheerleader HOTTER.

  63. Morrison

    Rose is very cute.

  64. Sock_V

    Oh please, oh please, oh please keep reusing the last panel a la Jazz in Fresh Prince of Bel-air

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