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Joseph

The best possible options for substitutes

C

...No better time to review some notes then.

Railway Series Book Club

can't believe Leslie's snubbing Raidah of some DULY-DESERVED THANKS, smh my head

Harold

Joyce would heartily agree with Dorothy's statement in panel 1

tifani

Given that this is the second time Roz has taught Leslie’s class maybe she should just make her the TA? But also yay for Roz and Joyce interacting. I want them to be friends.

jafortee

The college had to sell their promethean activboards to keep the timeline up to date

GundamBradley

I'm sure she'll circle back around to her, but she's probably got limited familiarity with her, versus her basically surrogate daughter.

David M Willis

Last time I visited this classroom, they'd finally been replaced with screens, but a smash cut to a room in the middle of a strip is a very bad time to redesign how a room looks.

tifani

But also shouldn’t it be the responsibility of the university to assign substitutes to the classes they banned their staff from teaching? Why are the kids the ones handling this?

VengeanceKnight

Raidah got to be a smug ass about it. Verily, verily I say unto you, she has received her reward.

Astariel

I hope we see more of Roz and Joyce co-teaching the class. That's bound to be comedy gold.

dorothy keener's left doinker

"i cant thank you two enough. precisely two. of the positive integers, the number of people who helped me is the second one. and that is how many people i'm thanking. two"

Fart Captor

i dunno she seems more of a dom

Fart Captor

Leslie you need better taste in women

Harold

What happened, Leslie, is that for some reason you're still afraid of Mindy finding out you and Anna are dating and so you hung up.

GundamBradley

Some prefer the aesthetics of them versus dry erase, I guess.

Rob McBobson

@David M Willis: That's a valid reason, but also, I like to think of chalkboards in classrooms as one of those things that should remain the same in fiction even if that's not how the world looks anymore. Like the classic toys in Santa Claus's sleigh instead of, say, video games, and also like tourists having big cameras instead of snapping photos with their phones.

Harold

@tifani: I've always loved that Joyce invited Roz to her dorm party even after Roz laid into her in Leslie's class, because she knows she can trust Roz to be honest with her even when it hurts. I agree they should interact more, and I hope that at the very least we see more of this class.

tifani

I think what happened was she called Anna and Mindy answered the phone which makes me think Anna handed Mindy the phone when she saw Leslie was calling because she’s dodging Leslie’s calls.

Megh

@FC: hence why doinks is so surprised

Dan Rabin

Leslie almost certainly called Anna's cellphone, which Mindy normally wouldn't pick up because people tend to keep their cellphones near themselves. So it's likely Anna left her cellphone at home when she went somewhere, just as Joyce and Dorothy did when attending the protest. That's as far as I'm willing to extrapolate here. Once again, our author raises a mystery in passing.

Andrea Andrew

Yeah. I wonder if she’d be into women like Jocelyn.

Dan Rabin

tifani: I don't think that under that scenario Anna would dodge Leslie's call in that way, since phones display the caller's name (as most people set things up).

Sajuuk-Khar

Shocking news: Roz switch …es places with Joyce at some points in the lesson :D

Dan Rabin

It is not disclosed to us how Anna tastes. We do know how Dorothy's neck smells.

Sajuuk-Khar

Mindy is Anna’s accomplice In murdering people

Railway Series Book Club

jocelyne/leslie would be awesome. literally just joyce/dorothy at the next size class up

Harold

I'm starting to think that the "lawyer" that got Robin and Leslie released may have just been Raidah, Becky, and Dorothy in a trenchcoat

Sajuuk-Khar

Mindy answered because Anna’s hands were covered in extremely thick work gloves and also human blood

Fart Captor

Honestly I'm shocked the humanities classrooms got updated at all. When I was in college the humanities building was about the only one that didn't even have air conditioning yet

Sajuuk-Khar

It’s cool, Raidah will just put this in the Dammaz Kron, the Great Book of Grudges (She did it first, Warhammer Dwarves stole the concept)

Sajuuk-Khar

What I’m hearing here is that Jocelyne is going to be murdered

Dan Rabin

Panel 1 frames just the three characters remaining in the conversation. The two subsequent Leslie/Dorothy panels use foreshortening that makes Dorothy take up less screen space than Leslie: the artist has chosen to emphasize Leslie, or wants to narrow the panel to make room for the Roz/Joyce joke, or both. The Roz/Joyce joke that provides the punch-panel is a good use of widening the frame to reveal something funny. Interleaving the progressive reveal with commentary from the remote conversation provides a lot of the comedy here.

tifani

I really think this situation is going to reveal that Anna is actually over this relationship. What it looks like happened is that Anna either left her phone and Mindy answered because she saw it was Leslie calling and knowing Leslie was at the protest and then disappeared for two days she might have wanted to know if Leslie was okay if Anna wasn’t saying anything or Anna saw that it was Leslie calling and didn’t want to answer and handed the phone to Mindy so she’d be the one to have the uncomfortable conversation and then when Mindy was like “She’s in jail.” Anna was like, “I can’t deal with this right now.” Because some people are not good with the difficult shit. She might have seen it as this is a situation Leslie got herself into so Leslie has to get herself out of it. Which is a pov she’s allowed but the problem comes when she doesn’t bother communicating that. So that’s why Leslie doesn’t know what happened.

Rob McBobson

"Comphet" sounds like the name of a Star Wars planet. If you pronounce it sorta like "prophet".

Tessea

Honestly, Roz has a good point here. Given a real chance Joyce would probably have some interesting things to say about comphet.

Beck Chonigman

See! Joyce is already exemplifying it perfectly!

Andrea Andrew

I’d love to hear Joyce’s lesson on feminism now that she’s come out as bisexual.

ArdieBea

Well, i know of at least two from those three who would be perfectly comfortable jammed into a shared article of clothing.

SkittleE

That's it, that's the character

Andrea Andrew

Is…Rox not aware that Joyce and Dorothy are dating now?

Tessea

Roz seems less aware of things outside her own life and interests than Robin is.

Gwen R

Letting a bisexual woman talk about comphet? Tumblr's gonna be pissed.

Lyman Green

(Reads Wikipedia article on comphet) ..reading.. ..more reading.. Well. Ok. This ought to be .. interesting, I wonder what Joyce will do here.

Shane Wegner

“Roz DeSanto isn’t who I paid for today, but let’s hear her out” -remain students, maybe

Shane Wegner

“Oh hey and it’s Kiss Girl from the front page of IDS. Nice!”

Shane Wegner

Presumably a socially polite amount of thank yous were also given to Raidah off panel.

Harold

@Andrea Andrew: At the very least, Roz seems aware enough that Joyce's het was comp to have made that joke in the last panel.

Harold

@Sajuuk-Khar: Your commitment to this bit is causing me to envision Anna as being like "Dr. Garcia" in the toothpaste commercials, randomly popping up in unlikely places, only instead of giving people impromptu checkups she's violently murdering them

Sajuuk-Khar

“Could my teeth be whiter?” “Hahaha! No! But your heart could be outside of your body!!” “NOOOOOOOO—*screams of agony*”

Sajuuk-Khar

Also I want to clarify I do not think Mindy and Anna have any remaining romantic chemistry, Anna just hasn’t found anyone who can dispose of evidence the way Mindy can

tifani

She’s actually pretty impressive when you think about it. She’s substituted this class with no warning successfully in the past and if she and Joyce can keep it together then she will have managed it twice in less than a year. I think becoming a professor is something she should consider as a future career. As annoyed as Leslie might be about it she’s proven herself to be very capable.

tifani

If I was Roz and I knew about Leslie’s reaction to the idea of me substitute teaching her class I’d be like “What the fuck do you mean ‘she isn’t’ this is the second time I will have covered your class at the drop of a hat because you decided to get caught up in something else. The correct response is thank you.” It’s like Leslie is determined to underestimate this kid just because she’s got a difficult personality and has annoyed her in the past and she’s a Desanto. She’s half your age Leslie. She’s the student. You’re the teacher and you’re wasting an opportunity to help a promising student reach their full potential. Get over yourself.

Empress of Robots

Honestly, the funniest thing I can imagine happening is that Roz has no idea about The Kiss/Joyce's new girlfriend and the class gangs up on Roz for trying to talk over and "bi-erase" Joyce.

Empress of Robots

Which I think is fairly likely because let's be honest, Roz is always pretty busy with her side hustle!

Empress of Robots

And YES, I checked Roz hasn't been in a strip since BEFORE THE KISS

Harold

Roz is rockin' that jacket-and-tie combo, BTW. It's almost like she came ready to teach. Wonder if she knew about the arrest and wanted to be prepared to meet her moment (either class would likely have been fine with her).

Albi

oh this one's gonna be fun tomorrow

Minzoku Bokumetsu

see, you could show that they're screens made to LOOK like chalkboards, down to chalk styluses XD

Sajuuk-Khar

You’re gonna love tonight’s strip