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Two months sober
Posted on January 4, 2025 by David M Willis

248 thoughts on “Two months sober”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    not convinced she’s two MINUTES sober

    1. Nono

      People don’t need to be drunk to make dumb decisions.

      Which is why I rarely drink, I don’t need the extra help.

      1. Jamie

        I don’t think I’d say hitting on Tony is a dumb decision.

        1. Thag Simmons

          It’s a perfectly understandable goal that she’s going about in very dumb ways

        2. David

          Maybe she needs to practice on a Whack-a-Mole because she is anything but hitting on Tony.

    2. Charles Phipps

      Maybe she’s got 100% proof moonshine in the bodyfat she’s burning.

      1. NGPZ

        i doubt it, given ethanol is virtually insoluble in lipids

        1. Casi

          Ethanol is a solvent for lipids tho.

        2. Lysbeth

          So she’s got bodyfat to burn in that 100% proof moonshine?

        3. Decidedly Orthogonal

          Some people auto-ferment in their guts and are just drunk all the time.

      2. eh, whatever

        “100-proof”, or “100%”? Because 100-proof booze is only 50% alcohol. The pure stuff (absolute alcohol) is 200-proof.

        1. jflb96

          100%-proof i.e. a shot of proof spirit

        2. Charles Phipps

          I have to ruin this cute bit by saying I don’t know alcohol lingo since my family are a bunch of alcoholics and I opted out completely my entire life.

    3. Joy

      She’s literally behaving like a head trauma patient in this strip, given her recent (in comic, it has been years IRL) altercation with Ruth …

      Honestly I think this strip is low key foreshadowing for however the long term effects of her getting her skull slammed into the floor get addressed.

  2. Doctor_Who

    Jennifer is one journalist who will never have to worry about being replaced by Artificial Intelligence.

    Artificial Stupidity on the other hand…

    1. Coatl

      And she makes it too easy

    2. Ophidiophile

      People would have a much better understanding of the limits of AI, and be less willing to blindly accept AI generated results, if we called it Artificial Stupidity instead of Artificial Intelligence.

      1. Ymbrael


        Big recommend.

      2. Michael Steamweed

        Couple friends o’ mind call ’em Automated Plagiarism programs.

        1. Rectilinear Propagation

          I’ve heard that one. I also like “leechware”.

        2. jflb96

          I’m a big fan of ‘Abominable Intelligence’ or ‘theft machine’

        3. NGPZ

          https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/

      3. HueSatLight

        The Mediocrity Machine

    3. Archieve

      Maybe she can be a joke journalist or something, investigation journalism doesn’t seem to interest her much.

    4. Michael Steamweed

      OpenAI researcher: No I will the hell not train my program on Billingsworth’s writing!

    5. Devin

      No source of artificial stupidity could hope to keep up with the quantities of stupid Jennifer organically creates

  3. NGPZ

    with all due respect Jennifer,

    are you HIGH right now or just plain stupid? (-_-)

    1. GreedOfGram

      Welllll…

    2. General Tekno

      To quote Seymour Skinner….

      “Yes!”

    3. Jeremiah

      Which all due respect, which is none.

    4. Coatl

      Ha, the answer is too obvious

    5. UrsulaDavina

      She’s sober so…

    6. Charles Phipps

      She got off alcohol by switching to weed.

      1. NGPZ

        honestly that’s not a bad strategy, given cannabis has orders of magnitude less body burden an ethanol (as well as not being a diuretic, thank Satan)

        1. Charles Phipps

          she probably does electric carts because they’re 100x more obnoxious for weed.

    7. Amelie Wikström

      I wager she’s caught a dose of the Raidah potent enough that being close to the most famous and influential student in school has got her panties in a twist.

      1. Archieve

        unfortunately, Jennifer doesn’t seem to be any better at attracting people to her then Radiah.

      2. Gigafreak

        It was less than a year ago that her identity was Head Cheerleader, and her self esteem is still tethered to it.

        The Head Cheerleader just encountered a footballer.

    8. Michael Steamweed

      1. Horny, not high.
      2. And yes.

    9. zee

      Horny

    10. Joy

      Concussion, from Ruth. It seems to be getting worse. I’m worried for her.

  4. mindbleach

    She’s thinking fast. Not well. Just fast.

    1. Archieve

      Third panel was pure cavewomen speak. Too bad Jennifer’s refusing Sarah’s metaphorical life raft.

    2. ValdVin

      An L. Frank Baum character, Tik-Tok, is a mechanical man with separate winding springs for talking and thinking.

      Jennifer’s ready for cosplay.

      1. mindbleach

        Oh wow. I found my spirit animal.

  5. Slartibeast Button, BIA

    Terminal flusterment?

  6. shadowcell

    two months sober, as you can tell by her coherent sentences and good judgment

    1. Yumi

      I do like how she went with “Can you get the fuck outta here?” as her question. Not that I want Sarah to go, I just think it’s funny.

      1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

        Sarah: “Yes, I am capable of doing that, but I have no reason to, since I don’t feel like it and no one has asked me to do so.”

        1. Yumi

          Yeah, that’d be less funny or fun, so I would unfortunately Ave to be on Jennifer’s side.

  7. Matrix

    I like how Tony’s design hasn’t changed much from the It’s Walky days

    1. Jeremiah

      You can’t improve on perfection.

      1. Sirksome

        I disagree. He stepped up his hair game. Ya boy’s looking crispy.

  8. Sirksome

    Y’know what? Good for Jen. Two months sober is an achievement.

    1. Jeremiah

      Let’s give her that win. She really, REALLY need it. (I will stop dunking on Jennifer when it stops being fun and deserved)

    2. Charles Phipps

      It’s kind of fascinating that it never occurred to her to try to date a football player before now.

      1. Sirksome

        Pretty sure it occured to her when they first met.

        https://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/01-move-in-day/card/

        Jen was also kind of busy being in a toxic relationship followed by being in another toxic relationship.

        1. thejeff

          It amuses me that Tony apparently remembers that brief interaction well enough to reference it now.

        2. Mturtle7

          I can only assume that that particular interaction was actually repeated many times over in the following months, and that’s what Tony is actually reacting to now!

  9. Pocky

    yeesh, -10 charisma score alright

  10. jeffepp

    Too late. Sarah licked him. Metaphorically.

    Probably.

    1. Jeremiah

      For now.

    2. Michael Steamweed

      They insta-bonded over “people are garbage” so, yeah, it’s a done deal.

  11. Slartibeast Button, BIA

    She is having a conflict between the journalism lobe of her brain and the cheerleader lobe of her brain.

    1. True Survivor

      Oh, that is why she is so flustered. It is all the activity across her Corpus Call-O-Some.

    2. Archieve

      Perfect diagnosis.

  12. Puppeteer Nessus

    Billie is fascinatingly opposite of who she thinks she is

    1. Michael Steamweed

      1. A cogent observation.
      2. Don’t tasp me, bro!

      1. Puppeteer Nessus

        Thank you for your service

  13. Sol

    Well now I want Sarah to get with Tony even more just so it can be rubbed into Billifer’s nose.

    1. Bryy

      We’re about to get two years of Jennifer doing increasingly Looney Tunes stunts in order to get with Tony.

      1. NGPZ

        I’ll get an ACME Popcorn-popper ready, this is gonna be RICH XD

        1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

          “ACME Atomic-Powered Popcorn Poppers have a very poor safety record.” – W. E. Coyote, esq.

          [Reported by accident, sorry.]

      2. Daibhid C

        Two years from now, having got her convoluted plans hopelessly confused, Jennifer is dating Sal. Even weirder, she somehow proved Tony is Amazi-Girl.

    2. Archieve

      fingers crossed when Tony leaves Sarah goes with him.

      1. Archieve

        omg I just realized Sarah’s the one Jennifer is telling to leave. please tony follow Sarah.

  14. Nono

    Man, Tony is W I D E.

    1. Doctor_Who

      Coach wanted a wide receiver, found the right man for the job.

    2. Solaire

      *Plays Song for Denise from Piano Fantasia on the hacked muzak*

  15. BBCC

    Oh god, Sarah and Tony’s connection just got even funnier.

    1. Archieve

      Hoping this side story ends with Sarah apologizing for her weird aquintance to Tony.

  16. Paradoxius

    Sarah finally getting to be on the other side of the *embarrassing yourself in front of a hot boy you like while another girl he has better chemistry with looks on* dynamic that she knows so well.

  17. Animedingo

    Wtf is happening

    1. Jeremiah

      Jennifer. Jennifer is happening. Just hang on, it should past soon enough with only mild second hand embarrassment.

      1. Reltzik

        Are you sure it’s only going to be MILD second-hand embarrassment?

      2. thejeff

        Drama hurricane blowing through.

    2. sultryglebe

      The perfect avatar to ask.

    3. Wereg

      Jennifer is doing her usual attempts at social climbing.

  18. Bittersweet

    I hope this ends so poorly for Jennifer it’s not even funny lol. I try to not root against her, but it’s so hard. She is basically an amalgamation of every single person irl I know personally and dislike lol.

    1. Coatl

      There are characters that create a level of tension that you only see and wish that Karma did not have the slightest act of mercy (Jennifer and Raidah fall into this category)

      1. Michael Steamweed

        Mary and Raidah started off being the two evil ones I rooted against. But slowly and surely, Billingsworth is worming her way into the group.

    2. Doki

      Yeah seriously OMG

      I’ve been reading through the DOA archives recently, and it’s absolutely wild how much more sympathetic Billie was during the period she was with Ruth. Still an absolute fucking mess! But an understandable one who seemed to be making progress.

      I am of course still interested to see where she develops from here, though, because I can tell the comic is definitely NOT done exploring her Issues™️ LOL

    3. Jeremiah

      I mean, I think that is very much intentional

    4. Yumi

      I hope this ends poorly for Jennifer and it’s very funny.

    5. DashWallkick

      “Ending” implies it’s even going to start. I get the feeling she’s going to slam into a brick wall within like 3 comics.

      1. Archieve

        that or have a freakout and try to kiss Tony as Asher and Ethan walk by. Either way Jennifer/Billie will make the worst choice.

        1. Proxiehunter

          Somehow she’s going to freak out and kiss Sarah.

  19. Nono

    This puts Tony in his third year, right? Puts him with I think Ruth and Rachel (and maybe Carla?).

    1. Poskie

      I don’t think so, I think he’s just a sophomore. When Walky was making his expository introductions of everyone to Booster after the small time skip, he referred to Tony as an underclassman. https://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/03-faz-is-great/plebs/

      1. Nono

        Most people start Uni at the year they turn 18 or 19, right? Unless Tony is a late entry (and his dad is the dean, so I don’t think it would be hard for him to get in), him being able to buy beer should put him at at least 21?

        1. Shade

          It might be he’s able to buy beer because he looks older than the other people his age.

        2. Michael Steamweed

          He’s also one of the campus’s star jocks. Very high chances he has access to booze-buying resources.

  20. Viga

    Billjenni get away from my ship!

  21. Newlland(Henryvolt)

    Attention Everyone in the world of DoA. Just let Sarah fucking have this one, like damn when I stop to think about what little I know about this version of Tony I come to the conclusion that this might be what she needs right now.

    And yeah maybe there’s still some out there who are going to try to get between this if it leads any further like Raidah and her hating ass not liking that Sarah is bonding with the star player of the college football team and the Deans son. But whatever I doubt her spinning her sob story about Sarah getting Dana to drop out of school over her self destructive drug abuse is going get much traction this time since Tony seems to dealing with toxic friends dragging him down as well.

    1. Archieve

      Now I want Radiah to try to get sympathy for the Dana story well mentioning the weed only for Tony to remind her that she just admitted to someone with a direct link to the dean that she knowingly concealed someone doing illegal dorm activities.

  22. Shakes

    Jennifer expressions are always gold. She should never play poker.

    1. Dara

      CORRECT

      oh gods don’t let her pick up poker.

    2. Archieve

      she might want to steer clear of serious journalism too.

    3. Michael Steamweed

      Unless it’s strip poker. On Slipshine.

  23. Jeremiah

    Part of me is relieved that we are stepping away from Dorothy and Jocelyne because it was getting fucking exhausting with some really shitty takes about protests.

    1. Charles Phipps

      Cynicism about social activism is understandable if depressing given the past decade.

      1. Jeremiah

        In the way some people were talking about? I don’t find it understandable honestly.

    2. Michael Steamweed

      You know what they say about reading the comments.

      (i says this in comment form. deliberate ironic non-ironicness.)

      1. clif

        What *do* they say about reading the comments?

        1. zee

          Dont

        2. Michael Steamweed

          Don’t

        3. Michael Steamweed

          Don’t

        4. Michael Steamweed

          Don’t

    3. zee

      Oh man am I glad I was too busy to read those comments, I didn’t even realize

    4. :0

      What would the shitty take be? I didn’t notice Jocelyne having a particular take at all, other than her commitment to partecipate to a pacific protest against, well, genocide involvement of nearby academic institutions.

      1. Jeremiah

        I was talking about the commenters not Jocelyn.

  24. Yeet

    Sarah and Tony are going to bond over how annoying they find Jennifer

    1. Taffy

      Right, and then the threesome happens.

    2. Nono

      I mean Sarah and Jacob first bonded over Joyce shenanigans so maybe this is just courting behaviour for her.

  25. John Campbell

    See, this is why I don’t respect Billie’s name change. She doesn’t even believe in it herself.

    1. Coatl

      That’s why she can’t be taken seriously.

      1. Jeremiah

        Not true, she can’t be taken seriously for everything else she says and does but the name thing is honestly not one of them.

    2. Dana

      Is this not the first such slip?

    3. ian livs

      We should always respect what someone wants to be called (provided it’s not a slur or some shit). Also: while Jennifer isn’t changing her name for trans reasons, even half the trans people I know–myself included–have accidentally deadnamed ourselves early in the “I have a new name now, I’m still getting used to it” process. It’s a deeply ingrained habit after nearly 2 decades.

      Hate on her for her behavior to your heart’s content, I sure wouldn’t blame you, but careful who you catch in the crossfire when it comes to bragging about how you don’t respect name changes

      1. morleuca

        I’m 8 years in and I still do it. Still misge der myself sometimes as well. That one rely hurts, even if it’s only in my head.

        1. ian livs

          I’m sure you already know this, but just in case it helps to hear it from other people: that doesn’t make your gender any less real or valid. Sometimes, brains just slip up.

    4. Reltzik

      I read about as much into her calling herself “Billie” as I read into her calling Tony “Football”.

  26. Serendipity

    Jennifer/Billie, please go away.

  27. Charles Phipps

    I wonder if Jennifer realizes she needs to date the Dean’s son to not get kicked out of the Mean Girls.

    1. Jeremiah

      I don’t believe she is thinking that far ahead (or thinking ahead at all).

      1. General Tekno

        oh I just looked up some character tags and this is potentially about to get even better.

        Might I remind people that Asher was a) IN THE ROOM not long ago b) may well STILL BE IN the room and see this happening.

        Yes he’s pretty much done with Jennifer but she’s still in denial.

        1. Jeremiah

          What? In what way is he in denial? It seems so far he has very much move on.

        2. Jeremiah

          Nevermind my eyes are shit and I misread it.

    2. Archieve

      I’m sure it will occur to Jennifer after he’s left. Right now she’s just trying to get ride of/flirt with the guy who makes her forget how to speak sentences.

      1. Archieve

        just realized she wants Sarah to leave. so yes, whether she’s doing it for radiah or to make Asher jealous it doesn’t seen to be working well though.

  28. IntangibleMatter

    Apparently he’s as potent as alcohol. Better reset that sober counter.

  29. darkoneko

    …what the fuck, Jennie

    1. darkoneko

      Sarah and Tony share a look on the next page “yep, people just suck”

  30. Charles Phipps

    There’s a hilarious twist if Tony actually does turn out to be Walky’s half-brother (born perhaps just before her divorce and remarriage).

    Jennifer will INSTANTLY be disgusted by him.

    1. Coatl

      Oh….OHHHH

      That would be gratifying to see.

    2. Nono

      Tony would be at most 2-3 years older than Walky? Which would make it a really quick divorce + remarrying Charles.

      Plus it would mean she gave up rights to Tony really easily too.

      1. Charles Phipps

        It would also be quite probable she was leaving her existing family for Walky’s dad. Which is a very common reason for divorce. Albeit, this one seems to have been quite amicable.

        Either way, Tony and Walky would be born 2-3 years apart anyway given Tony is the Dean’s biological son. The big question would be whether the Dean remarried rapidly or not too.

        1. Nono

          It’s me reading a bit into a character who we don’t see a lot of but I’m not sure I’m seeing racist undertones Linda divorcing her husband for a half-black man, giving up her rights to her son, and then giving birth to and keeping the twins she had with Charles less than 3 years later.

          I know it would be rule of dramedy for Tony and the twins to be related but I just don’t see it lining up feasibly.

        2. Charles Phipps

          I mean, you can very easily see:

          “Linda had her child with the Dean, started an affair soon after with Walky’s dad and then left her husband as well as child for them.”

          It’d only be weird in our society because of it being more typically the behavior of a man.

          But yes, if she’s not Tony’s mother then the Dean and Linda married different partners right after one another.

  31. Coatl

    Jennifer/Billie (Jeez, you can’t even decide now)

  32. Taffy

    Oh cool, literally anything else.

  33. JessWitt

    Love the callback to Jennifer and Tony’s prior meeting. My memory’s shot with events in this comic and yet I recall that one.

  34. Thing2

    Nice to see her flustered!

  35. Taffy

    Billie’s never been hotter to me.

    1. Jeremiah

      Now you finally understand Ruth’s taste.

      1. Taffy

        Not as well as Billie does, heyooooo

        1. Nullset

          ?

        2. Michael Steamweed

          Slow clap.
          +1 point.

        3. Yumi

          Can’t like comments here, so I reported your comment. In the spirit of a like.

  36. Ike

    Do we know what Jennifer wants to ask Sarah?

    1. Jeremiah

      Amazing girl stuff.

      1. Archieve

        Anyone who Jennifer would listen to regarding amazi girl will be conviently forgotten.

        1. Needfuldoer

          Of course they will, Tony is on the football team, therefore adjacent to the all-important cheerleaders, so he can put a good word in for Jennifer with them. Therefore he takes top priority right now.

      2. Nono

        To be more specific, Sarah shares a half-bath with Sal.

        She could have asked Joyce though.

    2. Taffy

      She’s asking her to fuck off, silly.

  37. Drain

    I love you Jenn

  38. peng

    amazigirl come back and kill billie

    1. Jammy

      Can we settle on roundhouse kick? I prefer non-lethal. We don’t need Amazigirl to have to go on the run from the law.

    2. Needfuldoer

      She does have a yellow suit…

      *Battle Without Honor or Humanity intensifies*

  39. DashWallkick

    Jennifer yet again discovers she does not have the swag she thinks she has just because she used to be a cheerleader and has great tits.

    1. Archieve

      Also demonstrating yet again she can’t read the room as well as a goose. The chemistry here is not between you and Tony Miss Billingsworth.

      1. DashWallkick

        I almost give her some credit here — when has Sarah ever been a fun conversation for anyone?

        1. Jeremiah

          It is the pot calling the kettle black.

        2. thejeff

          To quote Jennifer, “the kettle’s still black”

        3. Archieve

          Sarah may not be a fun conversation but I notice she is actually trying to help Jennifer/Billie here by redirecting the conversation instead of letting her continue to put her foot in her mouth.

    2. Michael Steamweed

      Billingsworth will learn that college social dynamics are _very_ much not high school social dynamics.

      Eventually.

      Maybe.

      (perhaps in our real time around 2035?)

      1. StClair

        if man is still alive
        if woman can survive

        1. Mark

          Thank you. I always liked that song.

    3. Taffy

      Honestly if she’d drop the cheerleader thing and replace it with journalism, she’d get by easier.

  40. Poskie

    Oh my goodness, Sarah’s legs are LAWNG. or, I guess alternatively, Tony’s are dachshund-like. Her crotch looks like it’s a foot higher than his, and they are the same height!

    1. Bittersweet

      My husband and I have similar proportions. My legs are ultra long, my dad is 5’6/8 (dyscalculic can’t remember which, think it’s 5’8) and I don’t have to adjust my seat when he drives my car. I physically can’t fit in my seat when my husband drives it. My husband’s torso and arms are very long, he can reach shelves I can’t.

      My husband and I are both 5’2 lol

    2. Da Boy

      Tony has that Dwarf build, short and wide

    3. eh, whatever

      We can’t see his. It’s behind his coat-like shirt.

  41. Joyfulldreams

    Jennifer. There is regressing and then there’s literally forgetting you aren’t in high school anymore. This is legit just sad.

    1. StClair

      I’m not entirely certain she ever left.

      (Bruce Wayne, Crime Alley.)

      1. Archieve

        atleast she’s not handing out cash to make people like her anymore.

  42. Amós Batista

    Hope Jennifer doesn’t break Sarah’s vibe. She’s working so hard to be a better person…

    1. Archieve

      So far she’s unintentionally helping Sarah’s vibe of being the down to earth one with coherent sentences.

  43. Aviator

    And here we have Sarah, demonstrating her amazing eyebrow control.

  44. VolticEXE

    She’s Two Months SOber from Alcohol, but she’s been taking this terrible drug called Raidah, hopefully she cuts that out soon.

  45. darkoneko

    Should we be concerned that Tony remembers her from the time he told her the same thing on the first month of school ?

    1. ian livs

      I’m assuming that wasn’t the only time, just the only time we saw (that or he has the best memory ever)

    2. Archieve

      I think this is a case of a cartoon logic call back rather then a serious case of him remembering. unless it turns out he’s particularly strict with campus rules and keeps track of everyone who breaks the rules.

      1. thejeff

        Probably. Though it could suggest he did specifically remember Jennifer.

    3. Mark

      Maybe “underage girl trying to cadge a beer” is something that happens to him a lot, and he’s just tired and touchy.

  46. Tan

    So if she’s 2 months sober, that would suggest her last drink was around the end of November. Sounds like she got blitzed at Thanksgiving and perhaps got (yet another) wake-up call?

    1. thejeff

      Yeah, I was thinking that. We know she was sober before the timeskip, which would have been a solid 3 months.
      My guess is she fell off the wagon after the breakup, which isn’t really surprising. Glad she was able to get it together and stick with it, even with those failures.

  47. Needfuldoer

    She doesn’t need to do words good, just read words off a teleprompter good.

  48. AGV/Ruby

    I’m reading Jennifer’s rambling in the third panel to the tune of Barney’s song. Lol

    You might as well just unbutton your shirt, Jennifer. You’ll get the point across faster.

  49. Kyulen

    I forgot that the last strip we saw Jennifer and Tony together was early in DoA when she tried get him to buy booze for her. Also wow did she get distracted fast from whatever she was gonna ask Sarah.

    1. Archieve

      She’s forgotten she even had a question for Sarah. Jennifers pov: Why’s Sarah just standing next to me and my future boyfriend like some weirdo??

      1. Mark

        Indeed. In panel 3 she’s dropped her chin to look up at Tony. I think that’s “come hither.”

  50. Da Boy

    AH shit her High School brain turned on, someone smack her and reset her idiot button.

  51. Juanoku

    The more she talks the more taping her mouth shut seems like a service to all others

    1. Daibhid C

      And right now, probably also to her.

  52. CianM1301

    Apparently just seeing Tony caused Jennifer to factory reset.

  53. AbacusWizard

    what the actual heck, Jennifer

  54. Da Boy

    You know, this will make for a fun double punch for Raidah’s crew. Jennifer rejected in favor of Sarah and Sarah dating the Dean’s son.

    1. Michael Steamweed

      I’m hoping to see angst and teeth gnashing amongst them all.

  55. Martin Smith

    Am I the only one not following the first panel entirely? Doesn’t feel like Jennifer is talking to Tony or that Tony would know that she’s talking to him to reply to her. Feels like we’ve entered in the middle of scene but Jennifer then acts like she’s just turned up for it too in the later panels.

    1. GUIGUI

      Sarah was talking to Sarah in the first panel, then noticed Tony.

      1. GUIGUI

        *JENNIFER
        Jennifer was talking to Sarah and only noticed Tony afterwards.

  56. GUIGUI

    https://media.tenor.com/5N9derc9UcgAAAAe/no-bugs-bunny.png

    1. GUIGUI

      (I wish it was possible to insert images in the comment section, but I can easily see it getting out of hand)

  57. Rabisch

    Looks like the hamster in Jennifer’s head started spinning on the wheel after seeing Tony. She’s making a fool of herself, let’s hope this will lead to Sarah and Tony joining together more and more in making remarks about Jennifer.

  58. Axel

    In what world, Jennifer, would this make Tony see you in a positive light?

    1. Michael Steamweed

      Upper Middle School grade levels and lower High School grade levels. (depending on the campus)

    2. Alongcameaspider

      The world she lives in where high school popularity matters after high school

  59. Michael Steamweed

    Braining and wording are hard I will tell you.

    (me has lingwistix degree is very good wording yes)

  60. Deanatay

    “Beat it, Sarah, you’re cramping my style!”

    HAS NO STYLE

    1. Taffy

      SHE HAS NO GRACE

      1. Mark

        Grace is in class right now.

      2. Username Taken

        THIS BILLIE HAS A FUNNY FACE

    2. Da Boy

      Turn her into a Llama and send her on a voyage of self-discovery!

  61. Queezle

    Jennifer is being “High School bully” rude here. What does she think she is doing here?

    1. thejeff

      Jennifer’s being flustered by the hot football star, not really bullying. Or thinking.

    2. Mark

      It’s cute that you believe she is thinking just now.

    3. Dana W

      She is one of those people who can;t accept being popular in high school is meaningless after high school.

      1. Da Boy

        And it’s probably even worse for her because she is a Disgraced High School queen,

  62. Owlmirror

    Huh. Jennifer didn’t get this flustered the first time she saw Tony. I wonder what happened? Maybe she found out that Tony was actually an important player on the local team AND the dean’s son (I don’t think the jersey he was wearing at that first encounter was absolute proof of his status)(incidentally, I note the jersey he wears casually around campus has a different number (4) than the jersey he was wearing the one time we see him on the field (9 or 8 and 6 or 0)).

    I actually find the last panel a bit ambiguous:

    On the one hand, it sure looks like Jennifer wants Sarah to leave so that she can be alone with Tony. But a more charitable reading is that, realizing that Tony’s presence is causing her mind to deteriorate into helpless drooling fangirl, the rational part of her mind is making a desperate attempt to have the distracting presence leave so that she can speak rationally to Sarah.

    I’m pretty sure it’s the former, but there’s that faint possibility of the latter.

    1. Archieve

      I would say it’s that she’s feeling the social pressure since brunch with Walky to reestablish her popularity, Radiahs pressuring her to take Asher back which she doesn’t want to do and the deans son is the answer to all her problems (in her mind). my first thought was that she was telling Tony to leave until I realized the speech bubble is clearly Sarah and it makes more sense for Jennifer/Billie to be responding to that question, especially since she regained the ability to speak clearly.

      1. Charles Phipps

        Jennifer is aware she can’t take Asher back because she didn’t want to dump him but did as a negging tool.

        1. thejeff

          Is she actually aware of that though?

        2. Archieve

          She’s aware she ended things with Asher because she doesn’t think hes good enough for her and in her mind taking him back without him changing for her would hurt her fragile pride.

        3. thejeff

          Well sure, but has she realized he’s not going to come crawling back to her?

  63. Chubseus

    “Sure, I’ll leave. Tony, want to come with? I’d like to get some food together. My treat, as a thank you for your help.”

  64. Mark

    Never thought I’d see Jennifer pop a circuit breaker like that.

  65. Mark

    Tony just standing there the whole time staring into the distance, like he’s thinking about seahorses.

  66. Claire

    Yes…the Billification is happening….

  67. Caro

    oh, this is just what the ship needs to become canon. a reason for sarah to have a little spite in it

  68. Dana W

    People generally get a bit smarter when they stop drinking constantly, she just keeps getting dumber.

  69. zee

    God Sarah’s so hot

    That’s it, that’s the comment

  70. Fussypupy

    This makes me think of “Who do you think you are?! I am!!”

  71. Maddie B

    Billifer is momentarily Billie again.

    1. Jeremiah

      She always has been.

      1. NGPZ

        let’s be real here

        Jennifer / Billie is a quantum super state where she’s both at the same time 😛

  72. Byron Orpheus

    To be honest, I thought Willis was announcing two months of sobriety and I thought “Good for him!”

  73. Maddie

    Through the power of this becoming a dubiously healthy coping mechanism, I somehow read the entirety of DoA in… 5 days.

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