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Maskin’
Posted on September 19, 2020 by David M Willis
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163 thoughts on “Maskin’”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    well that de-escalated then re-escalated quickly

    at least THIS Ruth is still kicking

    1. butts

      ha ha ha… we’re all fucked

      1. clif

        Speaking of … Is Ruth wearing anything below where her sweater ends?

        Maybe it’s just the coloring and lighting.

        1. Captain Oblivious

          Well…. the tails of her collared shirt are hanging lower. But frankly, now that you’ve put the idea in my head I’m guessing she and Billie were having she-nanigans, so the pants came off. But then the darkness rose, and Ruth was overcome by the need to RA and demand the room-mate agree-ment FORMS. (lightning flashes, thunder crashes, and dun-Dun-DUNNNN plays on Bierce’s haked muzac)

        2. Needfuldoer

          Looks like she’s wearing light blue pants.

      2. Rose by Any Other Name

        Oh I certainly hope so.

        Just in general, I mean.

        1. He Who Abides

          No thanks. You can take my share.

      3. Victor

        There’s always court packing.

        1. Michael Lanting

          It’ll be fine, in 2016 Mitch McConnell said you shouldn’t elect a new justice in an election year… (And if you believe he’ll say the same now, I have a very nice bridge for sale.)

        2. Rectilinear Propagation

          I mean, he’s already said he’ll do the exact opposite now. He didn’t even bother trying to pretend to have any respect for her memory.

        3. Bicycle Bill

          10-4 on that.  He’s already promised in a official statement released Friday (and currently viewable, at least as of this writing, on his Twatter feed) that “Trump’s nominee will get a vote on the Senate floor”.  And then went on to say that it’s “because we Trumpublicans control the Senate and we can do it if we feel like it, so fuck the rest of you.” … although he didn’t use those exact words. But it still meant the same thing.

        4. Ana Chronistic

          It would be nice if 2020 cut us a break and give Moscow Mitch a nice debilitating something or other to prevent him from being able to fuck anything else up for at least until a grown-up is in office

          Not necessarily permanently out of commission, just a months-long intensely severe diarrhea or some such so he can’t take the floor (though props if he’s so desperate to destroy democracy that he’d Zoom from the toilet)

        5. Needfuldoer

          Maybe his feelings about flipping a liberal SC seat will last longer than four hours and cause blood clots.

        6. Concolor44

          I have no problem with such a malady being permanent. A nice, paralyzing stroke, for example. ?

        7. Ana Chronistic

          I mean, I want him to see and wallow in the results of his failure, idk if a stroke will do that (friend had one and lost half his memories)

        8. GeekRyuu

          I’d be happy with certain people being up before the Hague before this is all over.

          You realize that if Americans saw all this happening in another country, we’d have already invaded in order to free that country, right?

        9. seregiel

          They are trying desperately to cancel out the Aria DeMezzo nomination.

      4. Yet_One_More_Idiot

        She’s baaaaaaaaaaaaaaack! xDDDDD

      5. BBCC

        If you guys are looking for ways to help, celeste_pewter (a political staffer) is posting stuff all day: https://twitter.com/Celeste_pewter/status/1307198334050811905

    2. CJ

      Oh, shit.RIP RBG.

  2. Doctor_Who

    She walked down the hallway turning off lights as she went specifically to get that effect.

    So worth it.

    1. StClair

      Remember how Vader turned off his chest panel lights just so he could have that moment?
      Yeah.

    2. clif

      She also has the windows open in each room so the cold air will precede her as she opens each new door.

  3. BBCC

    Yeah, sorry, Becky, gonna have to cut that short. RUTH <3333

    1. Needfuldoer

      YES!

      She’s been waiting for this moment for months now. You’re no longer protected by the power of turning a blind eye, Becky!
      https://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/grab/

  4. Icalasari

    Damn that’s some good shading. Like screw any jokes I could make, the lighting and composition on this is AMAZING

  5. Foxhack

    Did Ruth borrow Carla’s skates or did she get platform shoes

    1. Doctor_Who

      I think she’s floating a couple inches off the floor. Check the teeth, she clearly met a vampire over Christmas.

      1. clif

        Glowing eyes, teeth, malformed hand. Yep, she’s clearly joined the ranks of the undead.

        1. Opus the Poet

          As an Undead American I object to this blatant stereotyping. ?

        2. Slartibeast Button, BIA

          You ran afoul of American Express too?

        3. GeekRyuu

          She could have just simply become an Unseelie.

    2. SpookyFox

      she’s surgically enhanced her own femurs

      1. Dara

        Well, she collected so many, after all. “Oooh, these are nice.”

    3. Slartibeast Button, BIA

      And got Gendo Ikari glasses.

      1. Rectilinear Propagation

        Oh, she’s had those since she had to track Sarah down at Glasso’s in the first storyline.

      2. Roborat

        I always thought she stole those from Dale (QC).

  6. aqua

    How are you 5 minutes in the future?

    1. Lenora

      Willis’ internet is in a gravitational anomaly and is moving faster through space as a result

      1. clif

        Also, how are you 5 minutes in the past?

        1. Agemegos

          Very well, thank you.

      2. Eric

        Well, Willis’ time offset was generated, but then stayed constant. So at one time there was a gravitational anomaly. It’s since gone because the time has not continued to drift.

  7. Lenora

    Ruth feels taller

  8. Yotomoe

    I felt a chill up my shins.

    1. Schpoonman

      Not your thighs?

    2. KingoHrts

      Mine was in my femurs.

  9. Woobie

    t IS Hallowe’en!

  10. Slartibeast Button, BIA

    Not a chill up your spine, but down your femurs…

  11. Kyrik Michalowski

    Ah the ever joyous Ruth, probably here with the whole roommate agreement thing. I would say that her walking in on Becky trying to divide the room in two is not ideal for Becky.

    So who wants to take bets on whether they still have femurs in the next 24 hours?

    1. Byron Orpheus

      They will both still have their femurs. Unfortunately, they will have been removed and grafted to their jaws, turning them into human-walrus hybrids.

  12. pjeseb

    Clichéption.

    1. brionl

      Hey! I was going t say that!

  13. Stephen Bierce

    Mufasa!

    1. Stephen Bierce

      Besides, with Dorothy’s experience in treaty making she’d probably insist on common buffer zones.

      1. Needfuldoer

        Nobody’s allowed to occupy the Neutral Zone, but they’ll have to negotiate treaties for right of passage depending on which sides the door and bathroom end up on.

        1. GeekRyuu

          Im sorry, you said Neutral Zone and I immediately thought “But negotiating with Romulans is SUCH a pain.”

        2. He Who Abides

          Huh. My first thought was “Tell my wife I said ‘Hello'”.

        3. GeekRyuu

          “I have no strong feelings one way or the other.”

  14. miz

    please push your hair out of your face already becky PLEASE you are KILLING ME, it was one thing when it was still just artfully floppy but now it’s just ridiculous like how can you SEE, how do you LIVE LIKE THIS

    1. Nelly Dreadful

      I dunno I mean I somehow got through high school with sheepdog bangs down to my nose through most of it, and that was over BOTH eyes. The English teacher was known to occasionally reach over to part my Cousin It hair like curtains and exclaim “Oh THERE you are!”

      1. miz

        yeah, it’s absolutely an individual thing, but personally i’ve never been able to even have bangs or anything because having any hair on my face makes me itch, haha.

        honestly though, the way it’s drawn on becky just…really gives me the heebie-jeebies, lol. makes me want to reach through the comic and tuck it behind her ear or SOMETHING

        1. Council

          Please don’t do things like that. Many people can see through their bangs just fine, and it’s rude to mess with someone’s hairdo to satisfy your personal tastes.

        2. Fiddler115

          You do realize that she’s pretend right? She’s not going to be offended.

        3. Council

          It’s very weird that people address these characters as real people in the first person all the time in the comment section but we apparently draw the line at a general objection

        4. miz

          i mean, she’s a fictional character who doesn’t actually exist, so.

        5. Reaver

          Oh they’re just trying to make sure you won’t reach out and physically touch someone that has a hair style you don’t like to change it that’s all!

          Wait that’s equally ridiculous…

        6. Council

          I’d think so too, but go around with an irregular hairstyle for a few years, and you’ll become Very accustomed to people taking it as permission to mess with it.

        7. Council

          I mean, seriously, just have Bangs. People will Erase the concept of personal space from their psyche temporarily to brush them out of your eyes. And they will think they are doing you a Favor.

        8. He Who Abides

          According to a friend who has it happen to her a lot, being black also causes people to try and invade your personal space a lot to touch your hair.

          I’ve not seen it happen to her, but the thought gives me the heebie-jeebies.

    2. Roborat

      Depth perception is overrated anyway.

  15. Nevermaker

    First both of her parents, then both of her femurs. Tragic.

  16. Chris

    So what’s the fun kind of chill up your spine?

    1. Schpoonman

      If it’s Becky and Dina knockin’ boots and we’ve been robbed of the lead-up to that, I’ll be furious.

    2. drs

      Your lover running an ice cube up your spine. You would squirm, but she’s tied you to the corners of the bed.

      1. clif

        Well, okay, but I was under impression that the fun came later.

      2. Geneseepaws

        When the squirming starts and the lights go down,
        And there’s not another Ice cube around,…

  17. Doom Shepherd

    Well that’s terrifying.

    Fitting that it should come on the day we all discover we’re about to be living in Gilead.

    1. clif

      Well yes, but we at least get to see Lindsey Graham tap dance.

  18. Spaceforce Captain

    Yo is the Dexter/Monkey Master special going to be incorporated into the print book….11?

  19. OtterBoy1

    Ruh Roh

  20. Mra

    Aren’t both the beds on the same side though?

    1. SuperZero

      Beds can move.

      1. Council

        Well, they can Be moved. To my knowledge, my bed does not shuffle around at night while I’m asleep.

        …*eyes the bed behind her suspiciously*

  21. Norah

    I wonder if Dorothy can put in the roommate agreement that Becky stop with the dividing up the room or “we’re enemies” jokes. I love Becky, but I wouldn’t want to be her roommate if she kept doing that.

    1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

      The roommate agreement must be signed by both persons. In blood. Their own blood. With their own femur.

    2. He Who Abides

      Billie put “Both of us will use the fucking door” into her agreement with Sal, so that could work.

    3. Slartibeast Button, BIA

      Shouldn’t there be a clause about locking the door?

  22. Cyrus

    This is the Ruth we deserve, but not the one we need right now.

  23. BarerMender

    Does Becky realize Dorothy can pull the tape up as fast as she can lay it down?

    1. clif

      Why should she bother to pull it up when she can just ignore it.

      1. BarerMender

        To make a point. Pull it up, wad it, and slap it on Becky’s front. “Stop with the tape, fool.”

  24. gingercake

    Wait, did Ruth ever find out about Becky not being a student?

    1. Sam

      Yes, she politely ignored it.

      1. BBCC

        I mean, she didn’t find out until Becky went with Joyce to visit home. By the time they got back, Ruth was in the hospital. The day Ruth was released was a) the day Leslie invited Becky to live with her and b) the day her shithead grandpa came to visit and so she was in no condition to deal with that anyway.

        1. Diane

          No, Becky didn’t leave right away, she left a few days later, due to not wanting to give Ruth an aneurysm. As stated in the comic below, she thanked her for staying the night, implying this was night one of staying over. She didn’t actually start staying with Leslie until the night before Amber came back from going all crazy stabby on the guy with a slash for a face until Amber changed it more.

          https://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/04-the-do-list/aneurysm/

        2. BBCC

          Okay, fair, I forgot about that strip. I thought I remembered her staying a little later.

  25. abysswatcher1993

    So Ruth is Sans?

    1. Diane

      I like to think Ruth would have more HP than Sans.

    2. Needfuldoer

      She has no serifs, so yeah.

  26. Alex Boston

    Ruth has borrowed Dale’s VR glasses from Questionable Content and is playing violent video games on them.

    1. He Who Abides

      Speaking of QC, anyone else not pleased with May’s new body?

      1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

        Remains to be seen if she can restrain her inner asshole. With her Microsoft Orifice Manager, of course.

        (Narrator: She could not retrain her inner asshole.)

      2. Sam

        I find her choice of hairstyle weird but I’m fine with it over all. Needs better shoes though, can’t just walk around in flip-flops.

      3. Opus the Poet

        May’s new body is fine, her not having problems switching to a new body is fine, Roko’s problems are mostly due to her having to move to a new body because hers was destroyed and not because her old body was falling apart like May’s. And I’m not going to discuss Jeph’s comic on David’s comic comment section. Not after this.

  27. Chronos

    I sense a great disturbance in the Force…

  28. Rainhat

    I assume Becky is kidding at first (since, presumably she and Dorothy ASKED for this room assignment, right? Whole world of other characters with no lines to live with if you’d rather) but damn, is she going to pull a ‘my parents are DEAD’ to every tiny disagreement from now on?

    1. StClair

      Becky has many ways to be “humorously” obnoxious and passive-aggressive toward Dorothy until the latter finally gets fed up and calls her out on it.

      … unless Ruth does something first.

    2. BigDogLittleCat

      Until we know what happened to Sierra, who knows how this came about. Perhaps Becky asked for it and Dorothy being reasonable and friendly said sure. Assuming Dorothy had any say in the matter. Perhaps because of Becky’s high profile the housing dept knew about her relationship with Joyce and thought it would be good to put her near Joyce.

      I suspect Dorothy is already having second thoughts about this.

      Becky might think she’s being funny, but any one-sided joke stops being funny almost immediately. And when it’s this kind of mock “hostility”, yeah, it’s a “joke” all right.

      1. clif

        I’m going by long ago second-hand dorm experiences in another state, but I seriously doubt either of them had any say in room assignments.

        1. drs

          I doubt it’s a coincidence that childhood friends Sal and Billie were living together, and Ethan got asked why he wasn’t rooming with Mike, so I’m pretty sure people can request to be roomed together.

          OTOH there’s less flexibility in the middle of the school year, with Becky coming in. Presumably something happened with Sierra?

          I do wonder if Dorothy&Sarah and Joyce&Becky would have better.

        2. Miri

          Billie was weirded out by the closet full of Catholic boarding school uniforms and clearly hadn’t seen Sal for a really long time and had severe difficulty trying to get hold of her to get the agreement signed – I would buy that that was a coincidence. Or possibly Linda requesting it on Sal’s behalf, if the paperwork for that went to her along with the finance forms perhaps…

        3. BarerMender

          D&S and J&B would’ve been better, but fiction runs on conflict.

    3. Rainhat

      Anyway…. like the Persepolis callback.

  29. Lingo

    Hmm, they’re both redheads and they’re both orphans. They have a lot to bond over!

    1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

      Game Of Thrones!

  30. NinjaNick

    Ruth’s looking scary.

  31. Bagge

    Ooooh! Becky just lost her diplomatic immunity.

  32. BenRG

    Ruth has probably come to remind the girls (especially Becky) of the “no hanky panky in the dorm rooms” rule. “Hypocrite? What makes you say that?”

    1. pjeseb

      Has that ever been a rule? Or at least a rule that Ruth has ever mentioned/attempted to enforce? If I remember right the Grace/Mandy couple (and later the Grace/Mandy/Sierra throuple) has always been pretty open and Ruth has never put up even token opposition to it.

      1. Rotunda

        It is not a rule.

        1. BarerMender

          That was long, long ago when that was a rule.

        2. Rectilinear Propagation

          I don’t think it was ever a rule. It was against the rules for Ruth to have a relationship with anyone in the dorm (or at least the floor) because she’s RA.

    2. Eldritchy

      Becky hanky panking with Dotty… Joyce would have so many conflicted feelings about this.

  33. Reltzik

    Okay, Becky, you win this moment by hugging Ruth and thanking her again for sending Sal to help during the Great Kidnapping of Fall Semester.

    Ruth, you win this moment by not doing what you’re about to. Intimidating and threatening Becky tends not to work out well for authority figures.

  34. Keulen

    I thought Ruth was past threatening to beat people with their own femurs. Maybe I was wrong.

  35. Androiddreams

    Orphan fight!

  36. PB

    Ruth still has her Hirano glasses, I see.

    1. Deanatay

      Please, those are clearly (heh, irony) Gendo Glasses.

      Although, Gendo Glasses usually aren’t rectangular. The Gendo Committee may have some sort of rule about Gendo Glasses having to be ovaloid. Ruth may be in violation.

  37. Bagge

    I really like Dorothy’s polite method of deflecting Becky’s silly provocations.

    I really like how Becky insists to try every cliché in the book to get her full college experience.

  38. Bicycle Bill

    She’s probably thinking, “Shit!  I’m already one semester behind.  I gotta make up for lost time!!”

  39. Juanoku

    SHE’S BACK BABY
    RUTHLESS IS BACK

    1. Needfuldoer

      BACK AGAIN
      TELL A FRIEND

  40. Commander Clash

    Did anyone else hear the Fantasia tune Night On Bald Mountain when Ruth appeared.

    1. StClair

      well now I am.

  41. Agemegos

    This custom of students sharing their bedroom with a stranger is pretty weird and creepy.

    1. Rectilinear Propagation

      The part where they have to move out completely and then move back in every semester is what’s wild to me. Like, I grew up watching A Different World so having to have roommates seemed normal but they only did the big move in/out thing at the start/end of the academic year. Finding out it was per semester in real life was wild.

      1. Roborat

        Is that a thing in the U.S.? I have never heard of it. When I lived in Res in Alberta, we moved in late August and moved out in April.

  42. DarkoNeko

    …did she get even taller ? 😀

    1. Eldritchy

      There must be growth hormones in her anti-depressants… that or the joy she now feels allows her to suck people’s souls out more efficiently and grow in power faster.

  43. Eldritchy

    I’m reminded of that scene from Scientific Railgun… the one where Kuroko’s neck is snapped…

  44. Willoughby chase

    By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes …

    1. Bicycle Bill

      +1 for the classical quote.

  45. Spencer

    “Hey Becky, what are you getting your parents for Christma-”

    “My parents are DEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADDDD”

  46. ValdVin

    I was wondering what interactions Ruth and Dorothy have had. It’s largely group scenes except:

    This last one here.

    And that was setup by what seems like a throwaway here.

  47. Oruncrest

    Sooo… Where’s the DOA banner update?

  48. Rabisch

    GASP! Has Ruth always been this tall or is she using her power of intimidation?

    1. Needfuldoer

      The shadows are there to hide the rigging she’s using to ‘levitate’.

  49. Captain Oblivious

    The Council has spoken. But also, do u identify as a commitee, more of a quorum , or are u more a Mayorial Toady?

  50. Deanatay

    Oh, man, referring to things as ‘so cliche’ is so cliche…

    unless I’m SUBVERTING the cliche oooooo

  51. Owlmirror

    Omake:

    Ruth is not levitating, nor is she using roller skates.

    She is standing on someone’s back, who is crawling along like a turtle.

    Whose back?

    Carol’s back.

    Flash back! Climactic battle between Ruth and Carol! Carol uses Midwestern grit and cunning! Ruth uses FULL CHAOTIC EVIL, puts Carol in a submission hold, and threatens to feed Carol’s soul to Satan himself! Carol submits! Ruth demands service on alternate Mondays and Thursdays as a forfeit!

    Now:

    Becky: Oh, hi Mrs. Brown. Didn’t see you down there. Wait, should I use your maiden name now?

    Carol: *cruelly, angrily* Your mother raised you better than that.

    Becky: Not as well as you’re raising the Ruth! *hi-fives Dorothy*

    Ruth: *glares* Stop fraternizing with my conquered servant.

    Becky: Yeah, we don’t want her getting above herself. *hi-fives Dorothy again*

  52. bcb

    Roommate agreements!

    1. Diane

      It’s always about the roommate agreements. Probably because every day she doesn’t have them all turned in, she gets gently reminded “Hey, this person hasn’t turned them in yet, please hurry the f up with them.” And that’s annoying as hell.

  53. Robert

    This must be what it’s like to work at a Walmart or Target the day after the company was hacked.

  54. Zee

    She’s just here to formally invite Becky to join the Red Headed Orphan Club

    1. Captain Oblivious

      While technically my mom is alive, she hasn’t been part of my life since I was a tween and she threw me out. Can I join? Maybe a supporting membership?

      1. Zee

        The doors are open for you

  55. AGV

    *JoJo villain music intensifies*

  56. demoncat_4

    oh oh the witch is back at last ruthless has returned dotty and her new roomate better be afraid be very afraid now since i can’t use the real word to describe ruthless return the b version of witch being back

  57. Raptorofwar

    RUTH! BEST GIRL!

  58. Jake'm

    Good to know Ruth’s Aura of Fear still works!

  59. qarp

    I’m distracted by the…. hair tie?… on Becky’s wrist, because how would she even tie that hair back? It’d be a side-tail, wouldn’t it? Now I just want to see the side tail.

  60. Fetch85

    So what’s the over/under on her and Billie still being a couple?

  61. Lux

    I feel like Becky’s being a bit too obnoxious here…

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