It’s that time of year again — the Dumbing of Age Book 3 Kickstarter is live! Not only does this give us the third book, but it will also renew the Saturday and Sunday updates last year’s Kickstarter unlocked. Otherwise Saturday/Sunday strips end in May. So let’s keep 7-day-a-week updates going for another year! Also there’s three different prints available if you want special extra stuff, and another stretch goal is funding the production of Shortpacked! Book 5.
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Maybe it’s cuz you’re a badass who’s good at everything Sal?
And Also cuz Danny fails at everything!
Danny once failed an open-book exam by bringing the wrong book.
Written in a language he didn’t know!
To be fair, English is a hard language to truly master.
I’ve done that before… as well as not bringing a book at all.
Way back when I was in school I’d do better if I didn’t bother with the book during the rare open book tests. With the book I’d just fall into rechecking everything I knew to be certain I was right and running out of time, despite pulling As on most tests the rest of the time.
He also failed a take-home exam by forgetting where he lived.
He failed a medical exam by dying. He’s been a zombie all along.
They caught him cheating on his urine test. He kept peeking at the guy next to him.
One time he failed a pop quiz by pushing.
Given that he’s a CS student, this is entirely plausible.
I did that once. To be fair, the professor had the wrong book written on the Syllabus. Somewhere around 200 students just wasted $150.00 on that.
Sal, she needs her fix 😀
That’s how it always starts isn’t it? One day you pick up a DS for one or two races. Soon you spend all your cash on a brand new gaming rig. Ain’t long ‘fore ya find yerself doing whatever it takes to keep your rank up on whatever new MMO you’re hooked on to keep the high going.
Mario Kart is a slippery slope that leads to Forza, it’s a well known fact.
And this is how Sal became Amber…and thus Amazi-Girl 2.0 was born.
Danny was right all along, he just glimpsed the future.
Wait, since when is Danny allowed to be right about stuff?
If a broken hand clock can be right twice a day, so can Danny.
He’s always been allowed to be right about stuff. He just isn’t very good at it.
You couldn’t have a better avatar.
Speaking of hanky-panky, she needs multiple fixes right now. And it just so happens with Dannyboy she can easily kill two birds with one stone.
she’s learned of the addiction of video games.
Are those times accurate? Rainbow road always felt like it took hours when I played it.
Wait…there’s an end to Rainbow Road?
*still playing it on N64 and hasn’t made it to the finish line*
Don’t worry, many karts enter Rainbow Road.
Many never come out, their only escape being the power button.
Rainbow Road sort of has an end. After about the eighteenth time you fall off the road into space, the last of the computer-controlled players finishes and the game mercifully stops you with the sad music and tells you you got 12th place.
It’d wicked hella depend on the version of Mario Kart. I personally have to mentally adjust whenever someone is NOT talking about the original (and BEST) Mario Kart on the SNES, where Rainbow Road is the freaking last level and takes… I don’t know how long, actually, cuz it’s been awhile, but I think under 2 minutes is inconceivable. As to the versions that you whippersnapping heathens play on the special occasions you can manage to put down your crack pipes and your beer bongs for two seconds, well, elephino.
I think Sal just aroused Danny in a completely different way then he would’ve expected.
Sal arouses a lot of people. Those walkertons are sexy beasts, son.
She’s more appealing in more ways than one I guess
OH NO, I THINK I’M SHIPPING IT. OH DEAR GOD, NO.
We need to ship it as far away as possible!
How about space? What would it take to blast it out the stratosphere?!
I believe Abu Dhabi is the standard protocol.
I hear UPS will do it for about $10,000.00.
See the positive, a mutual love of video games might be a bridge of understanding that that could bring Amber and Sal together.
…As an epic crime fighting vigilante duo?
…Does supporting two characters forming a crime-fighting-vigilante-partnership count as shipping? Because if so, I ship that hard.
Crime-fighting team Amber/Sal/Dina might be my OT3.
My only problem with this ship is I’m not sure what Sal’s superhero name would be. I mean, we’ve got Amazi-Girl, Clever Girl (because her teammates couldn’t manage “Saurornithoides mongoliensis Lass” in the heat of battle), and… ?
Motorcycle Lady ?
Window Breaker ?
PSL girl ?
Batman ?
Astoundi-Lass.
I feel like Sal is one of those types who wouldn’t use a secret identity. She’d just go by “Sal”
Sal would be batman. Think about it. She’s good at everything, and she’s twice as manly as any of the male character….no all of them combined are still sniviling babies compared to her, plus if she’s batman, Amazi-girl and clever girl are her new official sidekicks!
I’ve been saying ever since Danny left the DS with Sal that I want to see her and Amber form a Mario-Kart friendship over multiplayer without either of them realizing who the other actually is. Then maybe they’ll forget all that who took whose friend hostage/who stabbed whose hand nonsense in favor of serious concerns.
(By “serious concerns”, I mean “who gets to play Wiggler”.)
Amber already knows who the other girl is, though. I don’t see that ever becoming a thing unless alien mindwipers become canon in this universe.
I’m not sure that she caught that Danny didn’t get his DS back from Sal, though. Danny mentioned it, but she was… a little distracted at the time. So I could see them playing with Amber assuming that it’s Danny on the other end, and Sal not knowing or caring who this Amazi-Girl person who’s giving her a run for her money is.
Quick! Call Elon Musk!
It’s the ship that sunk in 1997. IT’S A GHOST SHIP.
Yeah… but is it a ghost pirate ship? From the perspective of many here, it may well be hijacking a ship that seems a solid one in Danny/Amber.
What, you mean Sal x Danny’s DS?
I think that’s a ship we can all support.
Sal, master of all things.
“…She’s basically Batman.”
ALL THINGS!
Why do I get the feeling that if you put Sal at the controls of an F-15, she’d have the fucker doing barrel rolls and ailerons before a normal person could figure out the tape deck?
HOLY SHIT THOSE THINGS HAVE TAPE DECKS!?
Clearly you don’t follow Transformers mythology. Starscream and Soundwave got married in 1993. Their kid is an F-15 with a tape deck.
She beat all levels of star fox 64 in one night including the secret ones. On her first try.
EVERY interaction? Even the intimate ones?
Especially the intimate ones.
He probably talks during sex.
Maybe, but there are easy fixes for that.
Hold a pillow over his face until he stops struggling?
Hey let’s be fair here, I don’t think Dan would struggle.
Applogizes.
Well let’s be honest. Those probably last 48 seconds before it’s over anyway.
And that’s with the talking mentioned above, so even the conversation (or would it be a monologue?) can end prematurely.
You can almost hear the sproing.
The one in his pants or the gears in his head busting?
Why not both?
I thought the sound was more of a “Schwing”…
Looks like Amber has got competition. And this one goes 1:38 to Danny’s 2
So she’s not returning it, she just wants him to charge it so she can steal it back.
And here I thought she was being nice.
She’s got an unfinished game, dude. In times of emergency like this social niceties are known to fall by the wayside.
O_O, I think I’m in love
I’ve been lusting over Sal for many years now, since the time of the old Walkyverse.
Fell in love with Sal a looooong time ago. 🙂 I think its the bad ass attitude + glorious long black hair.
The awkwardest of love triangles hath begun – between superhero and archnemesis.
Shit it’s like Spiderman 3 all over again. Hope Amber doesn’t go dark and psycho and start wearing all black-actually I kinda want that to happen, can that be a thing? Please?
If Amber does a version of the dancing scene then all other forms of culture have been made obsolete by DoA.
http://yotwomoe.tumblr.com/image/82170187536
TWO FOR ONE NIGHT.
Sweet.
I’d support this if she’s to be dressing like in the old “Corset” limited print…
Over a minute? Please.
I hate Danny because he consistently reacts the way I would to situations.
Thats not good
It’s never good when a fictional character teaches you about your own flaws.
Mine are Joyce and Dina.
Mine are Osaka and Abiru.
I’m inclined to say Martin and Marigold from QC.
Is that Kobushi Abiru from Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei you mean?
Yes indeed, when I was much younger, I regularly got injured enough to need bandages and I had a fasination with playing with cats and dogs tails.
Mine are Megatron and Cobra Commander.
I’m… not so good at dealing with people.
So you kept on being friends with someone who stabs you in your back more often then you had hot dinners?
Goddammit, I am shipping now.
Overseas.
Hey Sal be nice…
Danny worked hard for that 2 minutes… those turns are a bongo
And so begins the series of misconceptions and misunderstandings that will somehow inevitably end with at least one person being scarred emotionally and two people (whose ability to kick ass are equal) will end up fighting. God… when did I become so cynical? DON’T DAN THINGS UP DANNY! (that’s better)
Excellent approach, Sal. Cut him off mid-ramble, state clearly your intentions, avoid eye-contact.
Do not engage with the Danny. Do not argue with the Danny. Let your intentions be known and be on your way.
Sal’s so badass she literally talks over Danny’s pointless rambling.
Another Kickstarter, Willis? Don’t you have a pile of money already like all other webcomicartists?
He needs another pile of money to pay for the move of the pile he already has 😛
Less than 12 hours since it got started and he’s already at 82% funding.
I wonder what the record is for the shortest length of time it took for a Kickstarter project to achieve its goal. This one has definitely gotta be right up there.
Spike’s Smut Peddler 2 Kickstarter for $20K funded in about six hours a few days ago. I’m way behind.
OK then; let’s see if we can’t make this project the one that exceeds its initial goal by the highest percentage!!!
That’s an even tougher goal to beat. The Order of the Stick kickstarter succeeded by like 2200%. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out there’s something with a higher percent than that.
OotS appears to be the most overkicked comic.
The most overkicked thing ever seems to be, at over ten thousaaaand(!) percent, some digital watch called pebble?
If I remember right, the pebble wasn’t even a digital watch. It was a watch mount for people to place their micro sized ipods into. I have no idea why that took off the way it did, especially since despite the apparent popularity I’ve literally never seen anybody wear one.
TECHNICALLY that was Penny Arcade and their $10 goal =/
Though Aaron Diaz’s The Tomorrow Girl, $30k in ONE HOUR, was damn impressive.
Why must good Kickstarters only come along when I am broke?
Danny has the most confused boner ever.
It doesn’t know where to point. :3
Inwards, to spare everyone else the indignity of witnessing it in action.
Sort of like an inverted nipple, but more horrifying.
At Sierra! BAM!
But which Rainbow Road? The one new to 7 at the end of the Special Cup, or the SNES one at the end of the Lightning Cup?
This strip has a surprisingly adorable interaction. So adorable, in fact, that money for the physical books pledge has managed to jump out of my pocket and pledge itself to the Kickstarter.
Ah well, I’m just a college student. I’m sure that money couldn’t have been spent on anything better.
The nice thing about not having food or gas money is it’s like an automatic diet and exercise regimen!
Top Ramen = diet food!
http://yotwomoe.tumblr.com/image/82157485092
finished!
BLAZOW!
Can I give you all the yes for this?
To bad gravatar doesn’t have a like button.
Favoured for Marcie fanservice. 😀
Commence golf clap
It is a thing of beauty.
Sal’s mouth is trying to escape in panel 3.
Sal: “Danny, your a freaking noob.”
Damn son!
Danny, you just created a gamer…er, a monster.
They’re synonomous!
I CONFESS THE FIRST THING I SAW WAS THE KICKSTARTER SO NOW I WILL BACK FOR MOAR MAKEOUT PICS
That you will never share with the public!
*cry cry*
Willis has to pay for those Transformer collectables somehow.
How you SEEN the price of transformers collectibles nowadays? Oh. My. God.
But is it more expensive than smoking? My sister and brother-in-law spend about $150 a week on a carton of ciggys.
YOU SOUND LIKE YOU’RE ASKING FOR ME TO REQUEST JASONxSIERRA
Woo! I’ve got myself some physical books – with doodles and everything! My first webcomic books. I suspect it’s like a dam breaking and my house will be overflowing soon. Come on you all, it’s been an hour almost and the Kickstarter hasn’t reached its goal yet. If you donate five bucks it goes towards weekend updates!
Wow… Danny even Dans up video games and gets called out on it.
What makes you so sure Danny will give it back to you?
He’ll give it back. He is Danny, after all.
Sal would be a lot more appealing to me if she didn’t smoke and learnt how to put her clothes on properly.
Hey, at least she’s wearing clothes! And as long as she doesn’t smoke near me it’s cool, I guess.
She doesn’t smoke remember? She just like hang around random ass places and make it look like she smoking, what do you think she does with her free time ride her bike up and down places? Naaa.
Don’t read a book and type at the same time kids.
Sal would be more appealing if she stopped wearing clothes and only wore a thin sheen of sweat or coconut oil!
It’s not her clothes she’s wearing here but Joyce’s.
There’s an appealing fellow. They’re a-pealing him off the sidewalk now.
That would make Sal LESS appealing!
Sal is now my favorite character. If you can finish Rainbow Road in less time than it takes to make microwave popcorn, you deserve to be worshipped
Good job Sal.
Wow, 30% on kickstarter already!
Let’s hope these two never become an item. I know in the Walkyverse they were at one point, but this is 2014 now. Things change.
I support this
Unless it’s as a threesome with Jason. Because that would be the hilariousliest awkwardest thing ever… est.
Just when I thought Sal couldn’t get any hotter.
she is about to go super nova
Rainbow Road is one hard-ass challenge I can be perfectly fine wit sucking at. Some of us just fall off cosmic roads easier than others
I agree, im not of that affiliation but it is still true
If meeting with Danny is unsatisfactory (And it always its,) the Danny, Average College Student comes equipped with BIG JIM SLADE
By the way, something I didn’t call out yesterday, “wonderbread” I don’t get it is that an ensolt, or a reference, or what?
Pretty sure it just refers to his whiteness and his plainness.
Thus making it an insult.
If Danny is whitebread, what does that make Jason? A bit of crumpet? 😀
Now you see that just makes it confusing wonderbread and whitebread, those are two different things and still don’t get it since it can mean a hundred different things 🙁
And if so its to Mutch of a elaborate, but yet kind of a stupid insult.
Wonderbread is notorious for being very plain and ordinary (despite its name). It is a type of white bread, but “wonerbread” refers to the type of person while “white bread” refers to the race.
That bit of info helps a lot. ^_^
I see where this is going, and I’m getting weird flashbacks to the early days of Roomies.
It’s like that 3DS is popping out at me!
hue hue hue.
Figured this would happen… now I’m figuring they’re going to go back to his room to get said cord and she’s going to have another “You’ll do” moment.
Sal knows how to sweettalk any guy into dropping his principles and only think of things banging into one another.
Called it! Mario Kart is a hell of a drug!
So, I realize Danny has been rather occupied lately, but…he never missed his DS?
Pretty obvious Sal would get hooked on the games. Surprised she hasn’t bought one of her own.
Bought…?
You serious…?
LOL
Why would she buy something she’s already got?
Sal, I love you just a little more.
And so it begins. The Dumbiverse has seen the Walkyverse and ordered full reverse thrust.
At least this time the Head Alien can’t fuck things up.
Once again I sense continuity shenanigans. At the rate things are going with Amber I think Danny might turn to the next, conveniently into the game he lent her, choice.
ohgodthegrammarithurts.
I really like the super-foreground speech bubble effect in (over?) panel four.
Awesome news, I had to withdrawal my pledge from Book 2, but I’ll be glad to take part in this one
Yes, yes, yes, mistaken identities, tragic past, mysterious vigilante beating her father half to death- CAN WE PLEASE GET TO THE IMPORTANT BUSINESS OF VIDEO GAMES NOW?
And suddenly I’m hoping amber engaged in a bitter rivalry with sal over who can get down rainbow road faster
jeebus, already 72% funded.
Willis, you have too many loyal fans.
Pfft..Rainbow Road? Please, I cleared the Kessel Run in less time than that.
I managed to do it in less than 12 parsecs. How’d you do?
Parsec is a measure of distance, not time.
-runs away
You’re still parsecs away from facing Brock!
Parsec is a very reasonable measure of time. In most situations where you don’t need to pick units that make sense at the human scale, you should pick units where c = 1. Parsecs as a unit of time is acceptable in astrophysics.
So 12 parsecs would be, what, 39 years? Yeah, I guess it’s plausible someone beat rainbow road in that time.
So Aizat clearing the Kessel run in less than 1 Rainbow Road is nothing special?
Lies, lies everywhere!
Ref the alt text:
also avoid interactions with Danny’s briefs.
55 to get the doodle and physical book(canada shipping)? ;-; I’ve supported the other two but its getting harder and harder. I’ll prolly still support the book but ;-;
I have a feeling we may see a new side to Sal…
Fully funded in under 24 hours. At this rate we’re gonnakeep getting the weekend updates no problem.
Hurray for Magnolia! Monster Pulse is probably tied for my favorite webcomic with this one.
Seeing Danny and Sal seems takes me back to reading Roomies after it had a crossover with Sluggy Freelance, using a keenspot drop down, and repeating wiigii in an irc channel of the same name that pertained to a lot of world’s worst transformers fan fiction (Which were all awesome).
The point of this rambling is I’ve been a long time fan to a point your comic has given me nostalgia to your comic. Thank you, Mr. Willis.
That’s twice now in as many weeks I can’t read the comic. I was unable to read the March 30th strip, and now same thing with this one. Same thing that happened last time.
Weird thing is, when I go back in the archives to the 03/30/2014 strip, I can view it now. Whatever the problem is with the strip, it fixed itself after a few days.
Never had this problem reading DoA before, until that one, and now this one. If I view the image directly, I just get a blank screen with nothing but the URL of the image as a placeholder where the image should be displayed.
The symptom looks like what happens to me when I load a very large page with hundreds of images and the browser just doesn’t finish loading all of them, possibly because of some timeouts and parallel connections limits, I guess.
Yay I finally get to back a DOA kickstarter project! Just started reading in 2013, got to be the best webcomic online right now. (And I ordered book 1!)
Hooray! Danny is much more interesting when interacting with Sal (or Sarah) than when he is interacting with Dorothy or Amber. And this adds the interesting ‘oh my recent crush stabbed you in the hand when you were 13’ angle to the whole business. Hooray!
I only realized this now, but I looked it up. 1:38 is about two seconds slower than the world record for that track.
I think at the time of posting, it was THE world record.