Are we sure this is the real Rachel? Like, she’s actually showing an iota of sympathy for Ruth, instead of saying she deserved to die because she did a bad thing once and redemption doesn’t exist. This is clearly another alien impostor!
But I’d also point out that we still don’t know what Rachel’s beef with Ruth is. There’s a year of history that’s still completely unknown to us. Rachel could very easily have a Casus Belli here
I’m pretty sure this universe’s Rachel never met Ruth, but I also think she’d probably find her a lot more sympathetic if she had. I think this Rachel is a better person than DoA Rachel, though we still haven’t found out what made DoA Rachel hate Ruth so much yet.
I am really hesitant to judge Rachel until we know what exactly her casus belli is. That resentment is clearly deeply personal, and I really doubt it sprung from just having an unpleasant roommate
My joke about Rachel aside, I like Joe’s segment here. Back in Roomies! proper, Ruth’s death was the first thing that actually prompted a real emotional reaction from Joe, no matter how much he tried to hide it, so it makes sense that he’d be the one to shed a tear in this story, all these years later, no longer trying to hold it in. The fact that Ultra Car’s humanoid body looks so much like Ruth (or, perhaps, like a daughter she and Billie never had) is telling in terms of the impact she had on Joe.
(I’ll save my thoughts on Billie’s segment for next time)
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Is Joe Beard the reverse of that Japanese thing where a man who has been wronged shaves his head or w/e
Are we sure this is the real Rachel? Like, she’s actually showing an iota of sympathy for Ruth, instead of saying she deserved to die because she did a bad thing once and redemption doesn’t exist. This is clearly another alien impostor!
Dumbiverse Rachel might be extreme, but even she’d probably adjust for these circumstances.
Though… most of her arguments hold good water.
Well this Rachel never knew her.
But I’d also point out that we still don’t know what Rachel’s beef with Ruth is. There’s a year of history that’s still completely unknown to us. Rachel could very easily have a Casus Belli here
That’s not Rachel, that’s Billie
Pictured: Billie
Whoops that link is broken, I meant to say “Pictured: [image of rachel, the character seen alongside joe in the second panel of this comic]
I’m pretty sure this universe’s Rachel never met Ruth, but I also think she’d probably find her a lot more sympathetic if she had. I think this Rachel is a better person than DoA Rachel, though we still haven’t found out what made DoA Rachel hate Ruth so much yet.
I am really hesitant to judge Rachel until we know what exactly her casus belli is. That resentment is clearly deeply personal, and I really doubt it sprung from just having an unpleasant roommate
So, about how long until we see the Dumbingverse version of this with Mike and it’s literally all him being an abusive asshole?
Ruth Lesse’s death was published in 1999 and this story came out in 2013; extrapolating from that would give us an estimated year of 2034, maybe?
My joke about Rachel aside, I like Joe’s segment here. Back in Roomies! proper, Ruth’s death was the first thing that actually prompted a real emotional reaction from Joe, no matter how much he tried to hide it, so it makes sense that he’d be the one to shed a tear in this story, all these years later, no longer trying to hold it in. The fact that Ultra Car’s humanoid body looks so much like Ruth (or, perhaps, like a daughter she and Billie never had) is telling in terms of the impact she had on Joe.
(I’ll save my thoughts on Billie’s segment for next time)
Theres a next time??
This is new material for me, but that would be a really weird place for it to end.
There’s a few more strips, and we’ve only seen the first half of Billie’s Ruth story.
So, am I the only one whose first response to the bottom row of panels was wondering when Ruth and Robin hooked up?
Exactly. It took me like a good half minute to figure out that’s Billie. Her hair is very Robinesque here IMHO.
Ruth and Billie (Billie? Jennifer?) is not a pairing I’d seen before DOA so I definitely missed this story the first go around Makes sense though.
Looking forward to reading the rest of this chapter.
Damn, if Mr. Lesse was doinkin’ Billie’s mom, that’s a heckuva relationship