A hideously painful 3 month flash.

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Have an excellent winter break, everyone! Enjoy the lack of finals and schooling. I'll be enjoying the break in my own way by taking two weeks off from the comic! So look back here on January 4th for some more JD Comics. If you miss them that much you can always look through the archive and pretend that they're new.

Where's the JOY of law school if there's no abject terror, anyway?

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This is still better than T-Rex's reaction when he learned that Cap'n Crunch wasn't actually a US Naval captain.

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Who knew that D had a soft spot for evidence? Apparently no one!

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For those of you afraid I'm basing Utahraptor and D on people I know, sometimes I do and sometimes I don't. Today is one of the latter.

Utahraptor is silently objecting to D's assumption of facts not in evidence, but that's another comic entirely.

Panel 7 : T-Rex and Utahraptor yell "Adequate and independent state ground doctrine" in unison then stare awkwardly at the ground avoiding eye contact

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This is the longest time in-comic that T-Rex has gone without talking

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Side story: D's stressed out because she lost her Estates and Trusts book. So I make random back stories for small plot points, what of it?

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I'm considering making the switch over winter break to wordpress, since I think I'll have a bit more control over layout and searches and things over there. Thoughts? Would people want to see specific things on here?

What's the point INDEED

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A Public Service Announcement from your friends at J.D. Comics.

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The 1Ls in panel 1 are coming from the bottom of the screen because OH MY GOODNESS THEY ARE SO TINY

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Good luck on finals, everyone!

On a completely non-related note, Ryan North came out with a plushie and OH MY GOODNESS IT IS ADORABLE:


You can go pick one up right here if you're so inclined, and I think we all know you are! It has vestigial arms.

I'm going to take that as a no to Utahraptor's question

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It takes guts to sue yourself. It takes even more guts to ignore a complaint against yourself, and to move for default judgment.

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It's a true case! Look up 173 Cal.App.3d 628 if you don't believe, on whatever is your drug of choice. And by drug I mean Westlaw or Nexis. Or now, I suppose, Google! Google legal search is like cocaine that's free

Man, is Utahraptor ever happy?

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I'm aware I already did an originalism comic, but I felt like I didn't do enough justice to it. IT'S MY COMIC I CAN DO WHAT I WANT.

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Tort law: The antithesis of all practical jokes

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School is off for Thanksgiving Break, and so is J.D. Comics! Comics will return Monday!

Actually, course outlines are basically scooby snacks for a law student of ANY grade.

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How do you even MAKE a " . " sound anyway? Crazy talking dinosaurs.

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For those of you who haven't started outlining yet, I'll see you in the coffee shop and library.

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Are there law review authors more well known than Chemerinsky? PROBABLY BUT I CHOSE HIM ANYWAY.

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Nachos are clearly the food of procrastinators.

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I had a problem putting together today's punchline, but then I was like, "Mark, this is a pun about SUITS" and the punchline basically wrote itself

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You can avoid awkward situations like this. Tell law students what you want for your gift-giving event. Don't make them think on this one.

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Don't tell me you've never played that game with people.

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Bonus panel: T-Rex looks around confused, wondering why he was able to respond so rapidly to such a random question.

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Little T-Rex's look of horror from the shot is actually kind of hilarious. Also, how did they inject into those tiny arms??

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In T-Rex's mind, the 50 different state versions of the bar was like collecting the state quarters: new alcohol rules in every state!

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If you don't get the reference, uhh, sorry?

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Ironically, Clark Kent was being sued for public indecency when seen removing his clothing in a telephone booth.

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What cities have phone booths anymore, anyway?

Being cold called makes fools of us all.

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T-Rex actually forgot to add in poor attempts at humor into his manuscript. It's really what cost him the publishing contract.

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Battles are never pretty, and caffeine vs. sleep leaves no one unscathed.

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How great would that be? "Sorry, Professor, your question goes beyond the scope of what I care about, so basically I'll just ignore it."

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J.D. Comics wishes everyone a happy and hopefully non-copyright-infringing Halloween!

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Chief Justice Marshall may want to consider restraint in the amount of words he uses.

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Yes, I'm aware that the speech lines are thicker than usual. Windows 7 paint apparently doesn't know the meaning of restraint in line thickness.

Thankfully, law school marriage law doesn't discriminate on the basis of gender or number, or things would be even trickier for T-Rex

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Later, T-Rex manages to catch himself in his own web of deceits in a shocking courtroom showdown.

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Things I've seen people looking at in law school include disney sites, farmville, and setting up myspace band pages.

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Ever get the feeling you're reading the same thing over and over and over and over and over...?

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If you replace "professor" with "judge" in panel 3, this could apply just as well to Real Life. J.D. comics: the comic with multiple applications

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The moral, as far as I can tell, is to never assume that anything in law school will EVER be easy.

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As far as I can tell, the more that opposing counsel compliments you, the more worried you should be worried about finding a horse's head in your bed.

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T-Rex derides your proof-handling abilities!

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Brief will be turned in this afternoon. Then slee- oh wait, right, all that OTHER schoolwork. Oh law school.

Turns out half the book is dedicated to perfect stomping techniques. It- it's key to being Awesomely Rad.

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And that wasn't drool from sleeping! I was salivating over the prospect of 10th Amendment jurisprudence!

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Long story short, somehow the professor goes so slow that they actually start going backwards in the reading. Backwards Marbury = no fun.

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We don't really know who T-Rex is telling off in Panel 2 on the Second Amendment, but we can only assume he deserved it.

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Sadly, T-Rex's to-do list is actually longer than his reading from Panel 1 at this point

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True story: Its comments exactly like this in english lit that has killed any faith I have in literary criticism as a legitimate subject

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