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Sober
Posted on July 20, 2013 by David M Willis

125 thoughts on “Sober”

  1. AHR

    I think this is how they flirt.

    1. Jake

      Isn’t this how everyone flirts?

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Tsunderes in love…

        1. Aizat

          That’s just great and by great I mean, better bring a knife because the tension is going to be so thick.

        2. GoogerGeiger

          Okay, you bring the knife, I’ll make sure Ruth or Billie don’t try to murder each other with the knife.

        3. Chronos

          I dunno, Ruth seems more like a bludgeoning type of murderer to me…

        4. Aeron

          Even though it was Billie who kicked and kicked and kicked until the door died?

        5. 6Qubed

          Is “tension” what we’re calling Billie’s butt now? Also what’s the knife for.

        6. Joe

          A knife for the tension. Right.

        7. Yotomoe

          sounds like a cool anime.

        8. Aizat

          Not for me.

        9. arjay2813

          very tsun-tsun but only barely dere love

        10. Yotomoe

          Same tsun time. Same Dere channel.

        11. das-g

          Mondere to Tsunday.

        12. Fred

          Tsuntimes I Deream

        13. Kernanator

          I love you guys.

        14. Tom Speelman

          Tsunderes in love…blue skies above…

        15. Kernanator

          I think you just described my greatest dream.

      2. Aizat

        I would’ve buttered her up and move in for the kill.

      3. Lord Geovanni

        If it is I screwed myself out of several potential relationships. More if I count girls I wouldn’t take anyway

    2. EvergreenFir

      Reminds me of Beatrice and Benedict

      1. nothri

        Umineko?

      2. Packy

        Yes, it reminds me of them, too. But then, does that make Walky & Dorothy Claudio and Hero?

        1. saltchocolate

          Yep!

        2. inkwell

          So Dogberry would be…

        3. Bon

          Head Alien?

    3. saltchocolate

      I love them together like this!

    4. Aisling

      This is what happenes when a tsundere and a yandere flirt. xD

      Also Billie looks pretty great in that top.

  2. Wonder Wig

    But Billie is the keymaster and you’re the gatekeeper.

    1. Regalli

      There is no Ruth. There is only Zuul.

      1. nothri

        This sounds like a much more traumatic detox than Ruth was letting on…

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      Billie has a ‘key’? *eyebrows waggles*

      1. nothri

        And ruth wants Billie to give it to her.

        1. JBO

          Perfect Gravatar

        2. AgentKeen

          I don’t know, Joe strikes me as the type of guy that’d be creeped out by a girl with a key.

        3. AndaisQ

          I see him being more like Mistertique from Oglaf – puzzled at first, but more than willing to entertain the possibility.

    3. timemonkey

      And now we picture Sigourney Weaver as Ruth.

      1. Aizat

        Ruth as Ripley? Yes, please.

        1. timemonkey

          Then we send her to fight off the Aliens.

        2. Wizard

          Those poor, poor Alien bastards.

  3. Gram91

    Three days sober and no one’s dead?

    1. Psycho

      As far as we know….

    2. Super Duper

      Nope. Yesterday, the entire college was murdered. But that was just Ruth being Ruth, nothing to do with the booze

      1. Aizat

        But there’s no sign of blood anywhere.

        1. Yotomoe

          Ruth was actually blonde. It just soaks into her hair regularly.

        2. Aizat

          So, she’s the Bloody Queen?

        3. Arkadi

          She certainly rules.

  4. Najar

    Your drawing style’s changed recently, Willis. I just can’t pinpoint the exact strip at which it happened…

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Art evolution is a slow process.

      1. Jackson

        I read the entire archive of Questionable Content and could not identify a single art change between one strip and the next.

        1. Not Walky

          Sometimes, it is VERY slow.

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          It’s easier to see the art-evolution if you click on every 100 pages of QC.

        3. Plasma Mongoose

          …click on every 100th page of the QC archive.

          FIXED

        4. TurtlyLooker

          The only noticeable one happens super early, and, otherwise, it’s a really fluid change.

        5. xKiv

          I don’t know, I think I noticed about a dozen particular QC strips where my brain was like “suddenly looks a bit different” …

        6. iggy_rock

          I did the same a couple of months ago. Then I go look at the
          first strip and then the latest and scratch my head. It’s like
          driving to work in the morning. I know I left home and now I’m
          at the office but I’m not really sure how I got here. 🙂

    2. Giant Speck

      I like how far the styles of Dumbing of Age and Shortpacked! have diverged, too.

  5. Ragnal

    How weird this comic is when it’s put next to today’s Roomies! update…

  6. Thor

    I guess this answers the question of for whom she was framing the cleavage.

    1. Yotomoe

      As if there was any doubt.

    2. Arkadi

      As if.

  7. Rhy

    I swear Billie’s boobs are getting bigger.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      All that booze she drank has to go somewhere.

      1. Aizat

        I thought booze goes to your bladder.

        1. Zuzi

          Fat distributes itself a little differently for women, more specifically the hips and breasts

    2. Rex Hondo

      Three days without alcohol, a diuretic, means she’s retaining more fluid than usual.

      Boob science!

    3. EvergreenFir

      Danny got her pregnent

      1. Aizat

        How? By just looking at her?

        1. EvergreenFir

          DS sexy time with Amazigirl
          HHHNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGG into sock
          Repeat 1000 times
          Wash load of socks
          Washer covered in semen
          Whole dorm gets pregnant.

        2. Aizat

          That’s sounds like a bad comic book plot.

        3. nothri

          I think the only way this is possible is if Danny was secretly the spawn of Yog Sothoth. Which WOULD explain why his parents are such dicks to him.

        4. Aizat

          Wait, if Danny is the spawn of Yog Sothoth, shouldn’t everybody go crazy right about now?

        5. Rex Hondo

          Are you implying that everybody is this comic isn’t crazy?

        6. Aizat

          Yes.

      2. Yotomoe

        Danny can’t do anything, let alone impregnate a woman.

        1. Aizat

          Wow, you just made Danny worse than me.

        2. Yotomoe

          I didn’t make Danny worse than you. I’m sure Willis did.

        3. AJBulldis

          We all do our part.

  8. piemanpie24

    I really like Billie in panel one. She just looks so bright and cheery, something we haven’t really seen in a long time with her.

    1. Justnobody

      agreed. Happy Billie is best Billie.

  9. Zuzi

    Billie’s cleavage window bothers me…
    As a large-breasted woman myself, that’s not how lowneck shirts look on us.
    (Specifically panels 3 and 5)

    Also:
    Nooooo! You can’t take away Billie’s copy of your room key!
    You two are my favorite slightly dysfunctional couple!

    1. John

      “Slightly”??

  10. Kernanator

    So, situation normal, then?

    1. Aizat

      As normal as Waspinator getting slagged every episode.

      1. ninja_jesus

        As long as he doesn’t turn into Doctor Bees, everything should be fine.

  11. Wack'd

    I feel like Ruth is going to end up addicted to whatever those little white pills are.

    1. Yotomoe

      She becomes addicted to Tic-Tacs.

      1. Aizat

        Or worse, placebo.

    2. tyren22

      Every year aspirin addiction claims thousands of lives.

  12. Yotomoe

    I read this comic and then read the chapter title “Hanging with my family” and nearly died from adorableness imagining that Billie considers Ruth her family.

  13. Kiggy

    Mmm-m Billie’s got such a nice curvy figure :9

    1. Aizat

      She always have that nice curvy figure.

      1. Kernanator

        And we are all happy for it.

  14. Uniqueantique

    So Billie gets happier and Ruth keeps her edge. Okay deal so far.
    What’s the pills? Vitamins I hope.

    1. Rex Hondo

      Probably just Acetaminophen or Ibuprofen. It’s not a green prescription bottle, so it’s almost definitely OTC.

      1. Rex Hondo

        And by green, of course I mean orange.

        1. tyren22

          I’ve seen both.

    2. tyren22

      I feel like there’s no way to point this out without sounding sarcastic…

      She’s popping them in her mouth in the same panel where she talks about having detox headaches.

  15. Emoroffle

    I wonder if Ruth is enjoying Billie’s shirt as much as I am.

  16. costa

    Probably. While I couldn’t tell you the exact concoction, They do use large doses of certain vitamins in detox centers.
    On a side note, she’s lucky she hadn’t been drinking long enough to get DT’s.

  17. Uniqueantique

    The hotlink hover over the comic is not working for me now. Humm. Getting weirdness the last couple days on my pc. Some things work and some don’t and I’m blaming it on the full moon or something.

    1. Karen

      But it isn’t a full moon yet!

      I would know, I’ve been watching, waiting…

      1. Aizat

        You’re werewolf?

        1. andiemus

          A werebrit, judging by the grav.

        2. Kernanator

          *point* There wolf *point again* there Billie.

      2. CrazyPete

        I knew i wasn’t alone

  18. Crumplepunch

    After studying panel 5 closely, I have come to the conclusion that Ruth is secretly a shark.

    1. Crumplepunch

      Freshwater sharks can swim up the Ohio river into Indiana.

      1. Boom

        Then what will it mean when Billie jumps her!?

        1. timemonkey

          Billie will have jumped the shark.

        2. zomgvampires

          ba dum tish.

  19. Boom

    It’s your body telling you not to be such a dipshit.

  20. Todd

    Hi, Willis. Glad to see the characters quitting. I’m sure someone has told you about these before, but just in case I’m wrong, here are a couple great reference articles on quitting drinking that could help give an accurate portrayal of what these two are going to go through.

    http://www.cracked.com/article_18824_5-things-nobody-tells-you-about-quitting-drinking.html
    http://www.cracked.com/blog/7-things-you-dont-realize-about-addiction-until-you-quit/

    1. The Candyman

      He’s already written all of this storyline and probably the next one too, now Willis is just uploading the ones he finished several months ago.

      It’s nice to see a fellow Cracked reader, but even if your ideas sound like good ones to him, you can’t expect them to implemented until the far future.

    2. khambatta

      So many true things. Thanks for the link.

  21. Bunivasal

    Hailing from a state that’s drunker than whole countries, it’s hard for me to buy that these girls are quitting. It strikes me as a degree of self recognition that’s beyond the average college freshman, especially one as allegedly jaded as Billie. She’s been caring for drunks through high school right? So someone bottoming out like Ruth did wouldn’t rattle her enough to stop her own party train. I could see Ruth offering to slow down. Or denying that there’s a problem at all. But to quit drinking entirely, even with the evidence we’ve seen? Maybe that’s the difference between going to School in Indiana rather than Wisconsin.

  22. Neospector

    I never got the logic behind “Hey, let’s go kill our livers by drinking something that makes us depressed, angry, throw up, and then repeat the same symptoms six hours later but with a migraine”. I just didn’t.

    1. The Candyman

      Not everyone goes through that when getting drunk. Alcohol is used as a means of escape much of the time.

      Of course, different people handle it in different ways.

      1. Neospector

        But why not weed or something, and I’m not trying to sound like a stoner.
        I don’t advocate or necessarily disapprove of using either, but come on, Logic…

        1. bunivasal

          I hate marijuana. For one, I’m asthmatic, so inhaling smoke is uncomfortable. There’s no euphoria when I smoke, just laziness. Where alcohol shuts down the part of my brain that shouts discouragement, weed kills the power and leaves me perplexed.

          Your “logic” cartoon is bullshit propaganda.

        2. Neospector

          You ever see a German with a hangover? I have. It’s not a nice thing. How about you stick to your happy drink, I’ll prefer (if I ever try it) my happy smoke, and we both agree never to shove flaming nicotine death sticks in our mouths?

        3. Neospector

          *Ah, note, my dad’s family is German. I’m allowed to say that.

    2. bunivasal

      The symptoms you’re describing are by no means the only ones alcohol has, nor are they present 100% of the time. For example, alcohol has never made me “depressed or angry”. No, for a socially awkward person who struggles in social situations, loosening my inhibitions allows me to hold conversations I’m too nervous to have sober. Sober me at a party is hiding from a crowd on a balcony or in a bathroom. Drunk me is having a conversation with a pretty girl.

      Having fun on alcohol is like having fun on any drug: be responsible, know your limits, and know what you have to do to combat the side effects. Don’t want to throw up? Stop drinking when you stop feeling like drinking. Don’t want a hangover? Glass of water to wash down your last drink, then another one before you go to sleep.

  23. Kennerly

    How long do you need to be an alcoholic to still feel hung over 3 days later?

  24. LiveWire

    “Like depression, with all the fun taken out…”

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