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Unsuspicious
Posted on June 14, 2013 by David M Willis

157 thoughts on “Unsuspicious”

  1. Sensedog

    And life goes on.

    1. Cheryl

      thus the circle of ruth……

  2. who izzy

    no one will ever know

  3. TurtlyLooker

    Saying you are being unsuspicious is kinda suspicious.

    1. Yotomoe

      Not if you beat up anyone who says otherwise.

    2. TheBenenator

      True, but slight correction: it’s, “your”, not, “you are” — your friendly neighborhood linguistic syntax enthusiast

      1. GJT

        What? No it isn’t. Your is possessive. Am i missing a joke here?

      2. Bekah

        …

      3. Yotomoe

        Uh…no…you’re wrong.-Your friendly neighborhood Linguistic Syntax Entusiast Correctionist.

        1. Flushmaster

          Just admit to being a Grammar Nazi. I never considered myself one until I started seriously learning a second language and actually figured out what “indirect object” actually means. I used to have a handy visual reference to a great Grammar Nazi logo but I lost it in my last computer crash and the ensuing reformat about a year ago.

          Still, here’s your hat. You can have the tailor fit you for the rest of the uniform later. For now just start whacking people in the head with a grammar book until they either learn by forced osmosis or get a concussion (either way we’re going to be happier). I recommend starting with the ones that don’t know the difference between “then” and “than.”

        2. Yotomoe

          Correcting someone once does not a grammar nazi make.

        3. Mrelegos

          Especially when you’re responding to someones own incorrect corrections to your own perfectly correct statement. That’s just defending ones honour.

        4. xKiv

          The hat totally does, though.

        5. davidbreslin101

          Also, make sure to cite Grammar Godwin’s law at every opportunity: “Whoever compares their opponent to Grammar Hitler has lost the argument.”

        6. Ron

          Hugo Boss!

        7. Kernanator

          “Linguistic Syntax Enthusiast Correctionist? That’s a terrible name for a superhero!”

        8. Makkabee

          I disagree — I’d buy a book with that title in a heartbeat.

        9. xKiv

          That’s the Erudite Linguistic Syntax Enthusiast Correctionist Smarmosaur to you. ELSECS for short.

      4. PedanticJerkass

        It’s always amusing to me when someone tries to be a pedantic jerkass but is actually completely 100% wrong about whatever it is they’re trying to correct.

      5. Ziaheart

        Saying “my being unsuspicious” is kinda suspicious. Yes. Totes makes sense.

        Oh, and by the way, Linguistics is a descriptive discipline, not a prescriptive one. We would describe how English is used, not correct. So stop hiding your true identity and trying to hide amongst us.

  4. Wonder Wig

    You have your mother’s eyes…

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      She called; she wants them back.

      1. Totz the Plaid

        She wants back her whole FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!

        1. bookwormdalek

          Aren’t we gonna have to get the penis out of it first?

        2. Doctor_Who

          Nah, start with the femurs.

        3. SUGauthor

          That wouldn’t be fair to Mike, he already paid his nickel…

        4. TPman

          The memes… oh god. Damn you Willis!

    2. Aras Pabedinskas

      NO. TOLD YOU TWO, THREE DAYS AGO, I WANT TO HEAR NONE OF THAT.

      I can’t trust you anymore.

      1. Kernanator

        …But you look like your father.

    3. Makkabee

      You have a woman’s bottom!

      1. CianM1301

        I’d wager that sweet round pair of peaches has never been forced ‘twixed two splintered planks to plug a leak and save a ship!

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Blackadder II reference?

        2. CianM1301

          Indeed!

    4. Kamino Neko

      My life is a lie!

  5. xain

    Does ruth’s eye in this remind anyone else of the hulk

    1. Yotomoe

      The Incredible DRUNK.

      1. xain

        and her side kick alpha-bongo

      2. Plasma Mongoose

        RUTH GET SMASHED!

        1. Doctor_Who

          RUTH IS THE DRUNKEST THERE IS!

        2. Josh

          I am a God! I am not going to be bullied by a…

          *smash*

          Puny Billie.

      3. TPman

        You’re making me start drinking. You won’t like me when I start drinking.

        1. Leonou

          “Now might be a good time to get drunk.”

          Ruth – “That’s my secret. I’m always drunk !”

        2. gangler

          “I got low. I didn’t see an end, so I put a bullet in my mouth… and the other guy spit it out! So I moved on. I focused on advising residents. I was good, until you dragged me back into these old memories and put everyone here at risk!”

        3. Twirls

          … aww :/

  6. Steve

    Awww. It’s like Krazy Kat.

    1. Yotomoe

      Da’hlang.

      1. Doctor_Who

        Now throw a brick at her!

        1. Wack'd

          Transgression!

        2. Notebooked

          There is a heppy place, far, far away…

  7. Draga Noche

    So is Billie now hitting on Ruth?

    1. Yotomoe

      …I’m pretty sure Ruth is hitting on Billie.

      1. Aras Pabedinskas

        There are not enough rimshots in this world for these comments.

      2. Flushmaster

        I think Billie is hitting on Ruth and Ruth is just hitting Billie. Though, considering everything, Ruth hitting Billie might very well count as hitting on Billie in this situation (she is following Billie’s lead and acting unsuspicious, after all).

    2. Handwar

      Who else ships this?

      1. Historyman68

        Who doesn’t?

        1. Handwar

          True.

  8. Plasma Mongoose

    Does this mean that Ruth will be drawn with green eyes from now on?

    1. Shobo

      Cue Billie spending the next 13 comics noticing that people have eye color.

      1. mouseanderson

        Billie stared longingly into Ruth’s eyes, tears forming at the corners of her own. “I’m lost in the green meadows and limpid pools that are your eyes” she said achingly “come with me and we shall be together forever, leave that bottle and come with me!”
        Ruth stared back at Billie and after realizing the offer being given…punched her dead in the face.

  9. vanjealous

    Balance has been restored! (But apparently not ballast)

  10. Yotomoe

    No good deed goes unpunished.

  11. Raine

    I’m so happy you kept showing the eyes even after post glasses-re-putting-on-ness. =D

    1. Kernanator

      Maybe it represents how Billie (and by proxy the reader) now know more about Ruth, and even with her glasses on, this knowledge still shines through.

      1. David

        bingo

        1. Kernanator

          Yay, I got something right!

        2. Boom

          Or he’s fucking with you.

      2. TPman

        Aagh no! Symbolism!

        1. Kernanator

          Your one weakness?

        2. Wack'd

          SYMBOLISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111one
          OMGWTFBBQ GENIUS!!!!!!!!!!!!

  12. Kernanator

    A secret friendship is only a step or two away from a secret romance!

    …Or am I thinking of something else?

    1. Wack'd

      A garden?

      1. Drunken Nordmann

        The Secret Garden was a good movie.

        1. swk3000

          I liked the book better.

        2. xultant

          The musical has one of the most amazing duets for two men EVER.

  13. Luzahn

    Aww, Ruth looks to have been legitimately offended by something Billie said. That’s a shame, it’s always nice when they are interacting on a friendly basis.

    1. Yotomoe

      Billie did drive drunk and never really seemed penitent. Like she never owned up to what she did is wrong, more-so she just owned up to doing it as a reason for Ruth to be aggrivated. And then she gets all defensive when Ruth calls her a drunk driver. I dunno.

      1. Historyman68

        Either I read it wrong, or you did.

        Or we both did. Or neither of us did.

      2. Heavensrun

        I didn’t see any of this. Billie acknowledged, at the very least, that driving drunk was an error in judgement, and clearly she’s been dealing with consequences. I don’t see where she got defensive at any point.

  14. xain

    Billie Ruth really pushed you so she could cop a feel without drawing to much attention to it

  15. Baroncognito

    Does the door open out again now?

    1. Yotomoe

      It’s kinda always open.

      1. Baroncognito

        But that’s a shot from the Hallway, no? At least, the door is set up as if it’s a hallway shot, because the handle is on the same side. If it were a shot from inside the room, it would have to be mirrored.

        Which means now the door opens outward instead of inward and Billie was trapped inside?

        1. Baroncognito

          Oh, and that’s definitely the outside of the door because there’s no locking mechanism. You can see where the deadbolt is, but not the lever you grab to twist it.

    2. NF

      The door swings both ways. We could reverse the particle flow and close it.

  16. Sporky

    oh. my god. BILLIE IS SO CUTE IN PANEL THREE

    yeah im going to ship this until the comic fucking ends i dont even care what happens or who they end up with

  17. timemonkey

    Wait, didn’t she kick the door in? Why is the damage on the outside of the door?

    Aw well, still haven’t seen anything to make me like Ruth so I’m hoping the story moves on to someone else tomorrow. Billie’s still fun though.

    1. Yotomoe

      If you kick in a door, the lock will break the wall where it meets the inside of the wall.

      1. timemonkey

        Ah, that makes sense, thanks. My lack of door kicking experience is showing. Worst I ever did was put my foot through a wall by accident,

        1. Baroncognito

          No, Yotomoe has it wrong. The door frame shouldn’t look like that.

        2. Yotomoe

          Really? Explain?

        3. Baroncognito

          If you get up and look at a standard door frame, you’ll notice that the hinges only open in one direction. When the door is shut, they offer metal-to metal contact. They cannot open any further (unless they’re very special hinges which would be slightly more expensive). On top of that, on the outside of the door (which is to say, the side of the door opposite the direction the hinges face) has a quarter-inch frame on the inside of the door which would contact three of the four sides of the door. If the door had been damaged as shown above, the entire strip would have had to have been torn off the frame.

          Yes, as drawn, the deadbolt would have torn the frame like that, but then again, as drawn, she would have been kicking the door out, not in. As she clearly kicked the door in, http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/03-answers-in-hennessy/hrah/ the door is opening the wrong way this strip.

        4. Yotomoe

          Yes, I realized the door is the wrong way. I was basing this only on this strip, really.

        5. Baroncognito

          Then your first answer should have been “Yes, she kicked the door in. I don’t know why the damage is on the outside of the door” because clearly timemonkey was referencing the strip in which Billie kicked the door in, and not just this strip.

        6. girly2k

          Poor Yotomoe, you’re getting called on on everything this strip. Not wrong, either.

          The doors have always opened into the dorms and not into the hall. Kicking the door in the same direction as the hinges would allow, the metal strip would cause a larger chunk out of the wall, but the strip along the frame wouldn’t be contacted at all except maybe a chunk taken from the frame visible underneath it. the frame would only come off if that were the case AND the chunk just so happened to include a portion where the strip was connected.

          Plus, they were inside the room when looking at the chunk and Ruth shoved Billie out of the room (which means she would have had to finish opening the door before she shoved Billie). The deadbolt isn’t on the wrong side since Ruth DID lock herself into her room. It’s a little detail-lacking, but I believe this is all realistically correct. The damage is on the inside, unable to lock again, and still suspicious in any case.

          I’ve kicked a door off it’s hinges, but never broken the lock, surprisingly enough, though. To be fair, there were people on the other side of the door distributing pressure. lol

        7. David

          The door is not drawn swinging open. It is being seen closing from the inside, but from an angle.

          The door has never been drawn swinging open.

        8. Baroncognito

          Oh, okay. I can kind of see that, but then it seems like we shouldn’t see the edge of the door that we’re seeing, the edge with the deadbolt should be facing away. We should see the deadbolt sticking out,

        9. begbert2

          I should hope not. A hall full of dorm doors that all swing open would be a breeding ground for getting your face smashed in walking into them.

        10. John

          And where would Dina stand?

  18. derick

    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand she’s back.

  19. piemanpie24

    If Ruth doesn’t pass out again and grow a third arm soon, I’ll be a little peeved.

    1. Yotomoe

      NOT BEFORE SHE GROWS A TAIL.

      1. Wack'd

        Nah, that’ll only happen once Willis gets bored of these characters, but before it can happen they’ll travel to the real world and abduct him.

  20. John

    Hang that lampshade, Billie!

    1. Znayx

      You mean,

      “Hand that lampshade, Billie!”

      1. Znayx

        ^Hang, dammit

  21. CathyGarrett (@CathyGarrett)

    …aaaaannd Ruthless returns to form, and all is right with the world.

    BTW, what dorm is this supposed to be in? None of the door jams on the dorm doors where I lived in on the IU campus could REMOTELY have a chunk like that taken outta them with anything short of a jack hammer.

    1. BD

      Well yeah, but she’s…

      BILLIEEEEEEEE!
      (ONE TIME, SHE FOUGHT A BEAR!)

      1. Animal

        Eh?

  22. Kinetic

    Wow, I never noticed the drastic difference in their bust sizes…

    1. Yotomoe

      Billie is the bustiest.

      1. Kernanator

        I think you mean the bestiest.

        1. Wack'd

          She has the best bust, and a bodacious bottom, because she imbibes boatloads of booze.

        2. Kernanator

          Alliteration is always adorable and appealing.

        3. Yotomoe

          Because Beer Boosts her Breasts and buns she binges buttloads of it boisterously.

        4. Kernanator

          You have my respect, because alliterating long sentences is hard.

        5. Shobo

          Oh really? I reckon it’s really really really really easy.

        6. Kernanator

          That’s not alliteration! That’s just repeating one word over and over!

        7. Yotomoe

          Can’t she be both? In fact. I’m sure those things Correlate a little.

        8. Kernanator

          There is some overlap, yes.

        9. DSL

          Sound rough on the spine.

  23. Zababcd

    What’s the time lapse between this and the previous strip? Ruth appears to be relatively sober now, and Billie has no longer got the bottle she confiscated.

    1. Yotomoe

      Like I said yesterday, That bottle was completely drunk the second Billie touched it.

      1. TPman

        She drinks through her skin. Also through the glass.

  24. Uniqueantique

    I’m a bit confused. Billie didn’t tell Ruth she was a drunk driver, Ruth knew it from reading Billie’s records. And supposedly that is why she was harassing Billie.
    Todays strip seems to be: a playoff on when Ruth attacked Billie and Billie threw her off, so today Ruth pushes Billie on her butt to get even for an apparent ‘hit’ by Billie?
    But, yeah if she was nice to Billie in public guess that would be suspicious.
    Love it, never know for sure what’s going on till it goes on.

  25. GoogerGeiger

    And here I was thinking the green eyes meant she was drunk and sick.

    1. Kernanator

      She has kryptonite poisoning.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        …or about to turn super-saiyan.

        1. nothri

          Or secretly she-hulk.

  26. Weebles

    Wow, she sobered up FAST from last strip!

    1. Shobo

      There must be some missing panels!

  27. nothri

    Ruth I am disappointed in you! The girl just saved your life and you shoved her to the ground!

    Billie understands by now that your affections are sent as mixed or opposing signals- you get violent where most get affectionate. But you shove Billie all the time! Now she’s going to think she means nothing more to you than she did before. Surely a life saving gesture is world a few cracked ribs TO SAY THE LEAST! If your really feeling generous, you can confiscate a femur.

    1. Tom T.

      Ruth was drunk on the floor, but was her life ever actually in danger?

      1. Kernanator

        She could have choked to death on her own vomit. Also, there was a very real chance that she had alcohol poisoning. She had an awful lot of bottles, though admittedly they weren’t necessarily all from today.

        In other words, we don’t’ know for sure, but I’m leaning toward yes.

        1. Kernanator

          …Why did I put in an extra apostrophe?

      2. nothri

        I trust Billie’s already tried and proven knowledge of terrible things (see the attempted date rape incident) enough to assume that when she says Ruth would have needed to go to the hospital if she hadn’t been able to throw up she knows exactly what she’s talking about.

      3. The Lurker

        She was drunk, face down on her bunk; a classing survival move by alkys that want to live, or so I’ve read….

  28. bunivasal

    Gratitude, thy name is Ruth.

    Wait, this is a mask. But that means Gratitude was really… OLD MAN JENKINS?

    Wait, no, it’s another mask. OLD MAN bongoY ATTITUDE?

  29. Vex Godglove

    All this simply because Billie doesn’t have pigtails to pull.

  30. Kennerly

    So when is Billy going to get an eye color?

    1. tb

      She’s Asian. That is her eye color.

  31. Josh

    I AM BEING SUSPICIOUS!

    1. Josh

      UNSUSPICIOUS* >.<

      1. Boom

        You were right the first time.

  32. Zaxares

    Well, Ruth sure sobered up fast.

  33. Crumplepunch

    Unsuspicious and still in her underwear.

  34. Notebooked

    Aaaand here we see one of the flaws in this relationship. Ruth still has a public face to put on, so how will Billie know what’s genuine and what’s not? Mixed signals like that can really mess with a head.

  35. OmegaDez

    Well played, sir. 😉

  36. someguywithakatana

    Wait… did Billie do something to piss her off? Because she looks legitimately pissed…

  37. Jay

    That must’ve been one helluva hard shove to have someone actually open their door to check it out O_o

  38. ArkhamTexan

    I am looking forward to the weekend and their Danny strips.

  39. Comment

    Going to draw them now, cute pairing is cute. Love it!

  40. fishamaphone

    … something suddenly occurs to me: did Ruth ever put on pants?

    1. CianM1301

      If I’m not mistaken, she was wearing pyjama shorts.

  41. lightsabermario

    Just noticed, I assume it’s referring to the eyes, but today’s alt-text could be taken HORRIBLY out of context.

  42. Narf

    Oh c’mon Billie, she’s a freckled redhead, what colour did you think her eyes would be???

    1. DarkVeghetta

      Blue?

  43. Jenny Creed

    Is Ruth trying to see her own eyes in panel 3? 9_6

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