Yeah, this comic was one of three that were NOT intended for the newspaper audience. I didn’t even send them in, though maybe I should have tried. I could have had some hilarious ratings marked in their filenames. These web-only […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Trying to remember why Ruth removes her glasses. It’s an interesting detail, but I’m not sure why it happens! Certainly what follows is possible with them on… What a sexy kitchen this is.
This could be a Dumbing of Age strip, as-is. You can begin to see where its version of these two came from.
Billie’s greatest nemesis has always been the Freshman Fifteen. Well, and alcohol. And self-destruction.
Like with the Comiconference story, Roomies! Redux really let me go in and develop early Billie a lot more. We didn’t get a lot of this backstory stuff originally; often stuff was just mentioned in passing later, if at all.
Here Billie is, in her Malaya stage. Roomies! really had a dearth of Billie/Ruth interactions. You’ll notice I’ve fixed the hell out of that in Dumbing of Age.
Ruth clearly knows very little about what Captain Kirk would do.
I’m glad these strips exist, at least so we know there’s something going on with Ruth besides “has a few too many with her friends at weekend parties.” On the other hand, I think this particular one is just a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back when I wrote the original Roomies!, I didn’t know any grad students, but by the time I was writing Roomies! Redux!, my life was lousy with them. This allowed me to add some more depth to Ruth’s existence. Ruth […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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