Ruth was right
on June 27, 2014 at 12:01 amChapter: Coming Up
Characters: Danny Wilcox, Howard Lesse, Jennifer Billingsworth, Joe Rosenthal, Ron Brooks, Ruth Lesse
Location: Ruth's house
Ruth was right! Everything’s solvable by punching! Remember to punch just like Ruth, too, framed in the same way, to make sure we keep that narrative circle going.
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There are few problems a good punch to the face can’t solve!
For the rest, there are kicks to the never-regions.
For everything else, there’s MasterCard.
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The never-regions sounds like a peter pan reference 😀
A creepy one.
Holy Shit! The Dan is becoming self-aware. THE DAN IS BECOMING SELF-AWARE!
But will he develop Deadpool powers?
hey, current willis, it’s ok to have narrative circle like that! it isn’t that you’re not better at storytelling now (you are), but that this is really a pretty good narrative! f’real!
I think he’s more down on the use of violence as a “solution” to Danny’s still untreated depression, and the narrative treating it as though he’s suddenly all better.
TBH Ron is specifically asking Dan to make him stop, and currently using violence against Howard. It’s kind of a justified punch, or forgivable at least. And even though violence may not solve your depression, doing something is at least a start.
It’s not the violence that makes Danny better. It’s the reason behind the violence. Danny had no backbone and wouldn’t stand up for himself, let alone someone else. Now he’s punching a dude in the face because said dude is strangling an innocent human being, and more perhaps more importantly, refused to stop when asked nicely.
After all, the difference between violent Batman and the violent criminals he fights is the innocents that Batman stands up for.
Except that Batman’s still obviously mentally ill… (the more violent interpretations, at least.)
Danny, realistically, would be as well.
Narrative circles are fine, I’m just poking fun at its obviousness here.
I really liked this comic, The last few felt kinda odd to me but somehow with this everything feels right again
Good work past Willis
I remember a law of explosions from another webcomic.
I present now the addendum to the Law of Increasing Explosions. The Law of Increasing Punches.
As the amount of punches increases in both strength and number, the amount of social situations that it can not successfully resolve falls to zero.
I never realized Danny was that strong. Or maybe Ron just has a glass jaw.
I can’t tell if Danny’s really strong or if every character in Roomies has like…1 HP of health.
It’s the Back to the Futue rule. The minute a scrawny guy gets a backbone, he can punch out a guy twice his size in one hit. We also see examples (albiet with scrawnier villains) in both live action Garfields.
Plus, he gets a circumstantial bonus for drawing on Ruth’s strength via narrative circle.
Danny’s level has increased to awesome.
Scott Pilgrim awesome?
+ 1 HP health likely. But, I think the surprise probably blew Ron over.
WtG Danny! Can’t think of another who diserved a good punch more than Ron, unless it’s Mary, and she already got hers.
You know, violence is generally an okay solution in protecting others against violence. When you have individuals who just use force to push everyone around, it’s good to have someone who will push back.
Yeah, I would say in this case, the punch was ok because Ron was physically choking Howard at that very moment and refusing to stop.
Is nobody going to acknowledge Danny’s new found owl powers in the third panel?
What? The head turning thing? He’s always been able to do that.
If comics had soundtracks. the opening of Also Sprach Zarathustra would play over this. Seriously, everyone should try reading this comic with that playing at the same time. It even has a matching line for each crescendo.
I’m hearing the Popeye theme instead. Danny just took his spinach and now he’s gonna save the day! (Seriously, I’m imagining Danny’s arms cartoonishly inflating and it’s cracking me up.)
daaaaaaaaannnn, daaaaaaaaaaaaann, daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnn, DAN-DAAAAANNNNN!!!!!! (dan-dan-dan-dan dan-dan-dan-dan dan-dan-dan-dan)
Personally, I’m enjoying Howard’s eyebrows in the last panel. He was so totally surprised by Danny standing up for anyone, least of all him, that they’ve totally crawled into his hair to hide themselves.
I wish I could punch like that without falling over.
Ah, there WAS a Danny-punch! I just forgot its target.
Maybe Ruth-style punches are a technique of intentional restraint on the force of the punch, by not putting any back or hip leverage into it and delivering only a straight-arm blow directly forward?
I like Danny now.
So proud of our little boy!
Well. Good start on not ignoring Howard’s suffering. But. A little too little, a little too late.
Originally posted:
December 8, 1999
Panel 2 Joe happy his boy is growing a spine.
…come to think. Apparently the status of Ruth is like the Santa Clause; Danny caused the circumstances where she died, so he’s contractually obligated to be depressed, date her girlfriend, and now punch like her to protect her little brother—