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EASY A
I mean, “Easy, eh??”
GET IT ‘CAUSE CANADIAN
Sorry, I’m stuck thinking about the movie now.
There’s a Dumbing of Age movie!? WHERE IS IT!?!!!!??!!??!?!?
Lol, but there should be. prolly be amazing to.
I think they’re talking about the movie “Easy A”. That said, a DOA movie would be killer.
When is the DOA movie coming out?
If it’s not a series it would be horribly rushed.
English-language anime, like Avatar.
Someone make it happen!
pretty sure he’s referring to the movie “easy a”
No, really!?
And, in hindsight that was a dickish thing to say.
Just say, you’re sorry, eh?
Guys, there’s the Patreon link RIGHT THERE. Only you can make it happen!
Someone’s about to be easy eh. While the other gets an easy A.
You have learned well, young padawan.
“Damnit, Ruth. I told you that geek stuff is a total lady boner killer.”
Ya right like ladies don’t fantasias about guys like john carter and mace windu
That comment wins soley because Mace Windu
My ex was gaga for Ewan McGregor. As was an otherwise heterosexual male friend of ours… Eh, theater folk.
Somehow that’s amusing, seeing a Star Wars quote coming from Doctor Who. Tried to think of a Star Trek quote he could toss out, but the best I could come up with was “Dammit, Jim, I’m a doctor not burglar!” Depending on how things progress from here, “Make it so, Number One” might turn out to be appropriate…
The ninth Doctor said “Mister Spock” once, does that count?
Dammit Jim I’m a doctor.. Isn’t that a space planet quote.
“Darn it Jim I’m a doctor… But not that type of doctor”
They were referencing Star Trek though. I didn’t get it until the second watching, and then I was like OMFGLOOOOL
NOW KISS!
or will she dick slap her like she did Mary?
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
Back in my day we called it mushroom stamping!
I always heard of it as pole throwing.
NOW talk about your problems like reasonable human beings!
It’s still Ruth & Billie, don’t get your hopes up too much.
Or like, at all.
Ummm . . . that doesn’t sound right, and considering there were sexual relations between the two. . .
(also mini test
Mongoose, considering that the first couple of significant interactions between these characters involved Billie getting body slammed by Ruth and Ruth getting punched in the face by Billie….I’m not sure whether a dick slap would count as a sign of rejection or a come on at this point…
Yeah, their relationship is pretty fucked up…
Speaking for myself, I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Damn she’s good. Those locks on dorm doors are a bongo to pick.
They used to be so easy then they changed the lock structure
oh balls, things are happening, but I don’t know if their good or not!
It can go either way.
Just like Ruth and Billie, if you know what I mean.
Nudge, nudge. Wink wink. Say no more!
Checkmate.
UNO!
Connect Four!
BINGO!
Yahtzee!
Royal Flush!
SORRY!
Gin!
Poker!
Bullshit!
TAG! (You’re It!)
Swords of Revealing Light!
Poker? I barely know her!
Dabo! Dabo! Dabo!
(Deep Space Nine)
NATURAL 20, B***!!!
Certainly, this body was made out of swords.
INFINITE LOCKPICK WORKS!
Mystical Space Typhoon!
Do they want a Monopoly on each other?
Dual masters
Jen, I think you mean http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/02-guess-whos-coming-to-galassos/bullshit-2/
Noble Peace Prize!
Nobel Big Penis Prize!
Dominion over the Earth!
Darwin Award!
No………..RISK!
You sunk my battleship!
Oh wait…
Asshole!
(No, seriously, it’s a card game.)
Cards Against Humanity.
Fact or crap?
Tichu!
Yay, Billie and Ruth interaction!
Maybe if we’re lucky this will go somewhere.
But we know Willis better than that at this point. Tomorrow is going to be a cliff-hanger, I guarantee it.
Since when have we ever been that lucky when it comes to Willis’s storylines? 🙂
OH, Willis story lines go somewhere, it is just that you are close to retirement age before they reach the finish line.
“And you made The Right Call!” (Referee shows the Touchdown sign.)
At first I thought “Dildo?” but then it was: “Aw no, A bottle of booze.”
Can of Spray cleaner for removing dicks from whiteboards?
I think this is the answer.
Maaaaaaaaaybe, but typically that wouldn’t be wrapped in a brown paper bag like that. Of course that greatly depends on the store and the culture in the area, but the brown paper bag strongly suggests it’s alcohol.
It’s a dildo full of booze. It represents temptation. Joyce gave it to her, of course.
Pity it wasn’t a vibrator full of booze, then you can always have it shaken not stirred.
That is the most clever comment I have heard all day! I commend you. 🙂
I have my moments.
It could be a pregnancy test http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/04-just-hangin-out-with-my-family/appearances/ just to make sure or something >.>
American sex-ed hasn’t helped you either
+1
https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/76307_10201559611413598_1952803110_n.jpg?oh=bea8967bff833607a12cab8715cd384a&oe=546C6A62&__gda__=1415912932_69e6b49a0018d1a73f277338896bafd6
there you go
Would have been even better if it was a white creamy drink they were having.
One time my ex and I went to a Greek restaurant and there was a drink on the menu that was described as a “salty yoghurt beverage”. He had no idea why I thought it was funny.
Colonel Mustard in the library with the booze-filled dildo.
Sorry. 😛
Some nice beige dress socks?
That was my train of thought, too, but then I noticed what looked like a teabag, and tea bagging brought me back to dildos…
ohh…ohhhhh…</3???
I get the feeling that whatever Ruth’s holding, it’s not booze. Alcohol is too obvious. Sex toy maybe?
Pringles!
Ruth can accommodate a Pringles tube?
OH MY!
Thank you for that image, Plasma.
You’re welcome. ^_^
oh god what have you done to my brain Plasma
Many awesome things. 😛
OK, OK, where’d I put my mental floss and brain bleach? I know they’re around here somewhere…
You should keep that stuff near your PC cos you know, the internet.
I am both highly amused and cringing in sympathetic pain.
Once you pop, you can’t stop.
Once you pop, you can’t stop!
Oh, shoot, somebody got to it before I did. >.<
Mwahaha
Well, if you can get a lesbian baby through there…
You know, I read a terrible DBZ fic once where Vegeta’s endowment was described as a “nine inch Pringles can,” and the image could never be bleached from my mind.
…You don’t write DBZ porn by chance, do you Plasma?
I’m sure that’s not booze Ruth is carrying but a bottle of sparkling cider to split between the two of them.
To be precise, to split over Billie’s head.
Now to pick the lock to your heart.
I was literally about to say this and I am angry you came up with it first.
~ Total lockpick of the heart ~
I thank you for this.
Best way to reach her heart is through her stomach, mainly cos the ribcage is such a pain to get through.
Not quite right, but:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBSYX2c1vpg
So long as we’re linking… I found this an appropriate metaphor.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zq6h85VFfEU
Having just finally managing to read the conclusion to Locke & Key, that’s actually a rather scary concept.
Now, let’s have a frank and constructive conversation about our relationship with neither of us being passive aggressive or defensive.
And the name of this new strip shall be “Maturitying of Age”.
After yesterday’s strip, “Smarting of Age”???
That pun stings.
PUN TRAIN!
…I got nothing.
Well, that hurts our chances of it succeeding, doesn’t it?
I think your chances of a pun train just rode away.
That, or got sidetracked.
This may be the end of the line…
Don’t you mean that it smarts?
WHAT’S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?
OH, you know full well what it means!
you have no idea how difficult that ACTUALLY is.
Bagge, I envy you and your hopeful naivete.
…but, but… THIS time I’m sure everything will be all right. Won’t it?
You see that face, Ruth?
That’s the face of alcoholic angel.
Touched by an alcoholic angel?
There must be an angel
Drinking all my booze
When the student is ready, the master will appear.
Quick, Billie! Now teach yourself how to pick your nose!
With an electronic nose picker.
One internet for you!
“Why don’t you take a seat over there, Ms Lessick.”
Please let at least one homosexual score this week, O Venerable Walky.
It’ll be Leslie.
Or Daisy.
Why not bo-oh, oh, I get it.
Neither of these ladies are homosexual.
…and they’re certainly not homersexuals. 😛
D’oh!
Whoa, I totally did not see this coming.
Billie’s smarter than she seems.
She’s just really good at denial.
Billie, smarter than the average drunken Ex-cheerleader.
took me some time to realise that wasnt a dildo in a bag
I dunno what makes you sure it isn’t.
No, it’s obviously nail polish, for when someone figures out how to remove permanent marker from the whiteboards. And because there are lots of them, she needed a large can.
All you need to remove permanent marker from a whiteboard is an erasable marker. You paint over it with the erasable marker, then erase it. It’s the kind of thing that really doesn’t sound like it should work, but does.
You really like to live dangerously, don’t you?
I’ve heard that so many times in these comments that I went from not believing it to believing it to not believing it again.
That’s why you need the nail polish!
Maybe it’s just a sandwich? Maybe?
*nervously brings hands up to face*
*peers through fingers*
“And just so you know, there are OTHER advantages to being “Good with my fingers” as it were”
The Crystal Ship, is being filled, a thousand dreams, a thousand thrills, a million ways to spend your tiiiiiiiiime!
Jerry Springer,Maury,or some other reality show of significance to this.
Wow Billie stockerish much?
i guess she looks a little like ultra car
Who looks like Ultra car?
Everyone who moves goods around in stockrooms.
It’s a little awkward when they’re sixty year old men.
Ultra Car is a custom though.
Billie might not be a car, but she does have a lot of junk in her trunk.
What’s she gonna do with…
Make her drunk?
Ruth started it
Billie is always in stock.
Stalker.
Stockhomerish perhaps.
hell yea
Is it supposed to be booze or just mysterious?
12 inch sub?
This looks crazy now, but just wait till tomorrow’s strip where [DATA EXPUNGED]
NICE TRY THE PATREON EARLY UPDATE ISN’T POSTED YET
but it will in a few minutes
Aw, give us psychics SOME credit!
[which would be more than anyone should give, tbh]
Am I the only one who sees a burrito? Burritos can be a great cause for concern.
One time I got on a bus with a burrito in a paper bag and the driver asked me “is that open?” It took me a moment to figure out what he was asking.
“Oh. Uh. No, it’s a burrito.”
“Right, but is the burrito open?”
It was, in fact.
Don’t you see the way the bag is crinkling on the edges? It’s a slinky! or one of those colorful snake coils that jumps out at you when you open the bag. Surprise! You have people who want you not-dead!
No, really. Is that supposed to be a paper bag with booze in it? What’s the white thing on the top?
Looks to me like a brown paper bag with the top folded over and a receipt stapled to it.
What’s in the bag remains to be seen. It does look about the right size and shape for a bottle, though.
Could it be medicine for detox symptoms? I dunno if medicine comes in bags like that.
It does, but usually the bag is in the colors of the pharmacy and has the logo printed all over it.
That’s a receipt. Some places staple the receipt to the bag. And I assume we’ll find out what it is tomorrow. Alcohol seems most likely, but this could be a fake-out.
I’m not sure whether to cheer for Billie learning to pick locks, or be all, “What the hell, Billingsworth, did you just break into Ruth’s room to give a detoxing alcoholic a brown bag full of booze?”
Depends on what’s in the bag, I guess.
I notice Billie’s back in her outfit from move-in day. I wonder if that’s symbolically significant.
At least this way shes got the upper hand over Ruth for whatever it is she wants to talk about
I think that Ruth took the bottle out of her pack. At the least, that’s how I hold my pack when I’m taking something from it.
That was my first impression, but she looked confused and surprised to see it, so I decided that Billie had left it for Ruth to find. But on third thought, I guess it makes more sense if that’s a combination of internal wrestling with the desire to get back on the sauce and a, “Wait, is there someone behind me?”
So I guess I’m back to, “Go Billie! Use your newfound powers for awesome!”
Since the pack looks to’ve been opened between panels 1 & 2, I assumed she pulled it from her pack, and her expression denoted Feelings. Bad ones.
Whoa, this makes so much more sense than Billie leaving a bottle of booze on the floor for her to find, which was my first theory. The opened pack supports your theory though, plus like I said, it makes a lot more sense.
So, you gonna finish that bottle yourself, or do you want some help? 😉
Bad choices left and right, yet, in my heart, I’d like to think that something positive my come of this.
Billie is not there. Ruth is struggling.
Why can’t I just “like” comments like this? Now I have to comment and tell you I think that’s a great, funny comment.
All this time I never questioned how Billie got in Walky’s room. That was like the hundredth time that Willis threw foreshadowing right in my face and I didn’t see it.
Pretty sure Walky mentioned the “dream” he had where Billie showed up AT their door and walked in without saying anything, which to me implied she had knocked.
Wlaky and Mike don’t lock the door.
Mike only locks the door when Walky doesn’t have his keys.
Which Mike ensures by hiding them in a different location every day.
Thus training Walky to be the best at finding keys. This will become important in 2032.
He said, “Billie came bargin’ in”; no knock. A couple strips later Mike admits he doesn’t know how she got in. Willis had revealed that Ruth can’t keep Billie locked out anymore, and we didn’t even see it, because ZOMG BILLIE IN WALKY’S BED.
Working on the assumption that that is a dildo in the bag, I googled sex toy shops near Indiana University. Found a very nearby one called College Books, Adult Entertainment Center. Trying to be a bit clever with what shows up on the credit card statements, I see.
Want to start a pun train, but can’t think of anything good.
How’s that for a PICK up line?
It’s a-DOOR-able.
From reading other comments, I can see now that Billie put the package in her room. Ruth’s open bag makes me think the package was in there and she took it out.
it is the same backpack ruth was wearing yesterday: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/04-the-whiteboard-dong-bandit/male-anatomy/
Oh I understand now! It IS from her bag! And it’s alcohol! Oh no oh no RUTH
YAY! Our Billie, she is back.
After looking at this all over, I’ve decided that this is a filled barfbag with a teabag stapled to it. And wondered whether this was a thing with aspiring teatotallers.
After reading the other comments, I am still not convinced my interpretation is the worst. Just pretty bad.
Snerk.
I was having a very dramatic conversation with my ex boyfriend about getting back together and I literally stopped mid talk to check this update and then I chanted “Billie! Billie! Billie! Billie!”
The perils of multi-tasking.
When I saw the paper bag, I thought maybe American medication might come in plain brown bags? Dunno why, but I thought of anti-depressants, with the prescription stapled to the top. Apparently that’s unlikely since nobody else mentioned it.
usually american medicine comes in a white paper bag with a pharmacy logo on it.
also the bag prolly wouldn’t be so tall if it was medicine.
Yeah, my pharmacy bags are big fat things. This ain’t that.
Brown paper bags are typically what you put bottles of hard liquor in when you get it from the liquor store. I think because you don’t want people to see the fact that you are purchasing hard liquor.
If you ever want to get a bunch of dirty looks, put a bottle of soda in a brown paper bag and just take swigs of it as you walk down a street in America.
Usually liquor and beer have to go in bags (paper or otherwise) before you leave the store to comply with container laws.
You got that from ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ didn’t you?
No I got it from my college years when I was in love with jäger. On second thought, yes I did get it from To Kill a Mockingbird
My first thought as well
So let me get this straight: you’re supposed to pour your booze into a soda bottle, but that bottle in the booze bag, and then walk down the road drinking and flashing the bottle at critics who think you might be drinking?
No.
Step 1 – Buy a bottle of soda.
Step 2 – Put it in brown paper bag.
Step 3 – Drink from it on occasion and observe how often you get dirty looks.
Is it me or is the lighting for this strip really good.
“Hey so that was a really cool exit line earlier but you’re not getting out of this THAT easily.”
“DUH I picked the lock so I could get IN”
(Unrelated to current page but) I’ve been looking forever for a particular page where Joyce and Ethan are outside (I think) and she gives him some kind of advice, then he puts on a serious face and says “That makes a lot of sense.” Can anyone point me there?
Not sure but try http://www.dumbingofage.com/tag/joyce+ethan/
Nope.
If it’s a comic that has both Ethan and Joyce in it, then it’ll be under that link. Otherwise, it doesn’t exist.
(PS: There are page-changing buttons at the bottom of that page, in case that’s the problem)
Here: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/02-guess-whos-coming-to-galassos/temptation/
That’s not it.
I don’t remember one like that. Could it have been in another Willis comic?
I suppose it could have been someone else talking to Ethan in Shortpacked!. All I know for sure is the srs face and the “That makes a lot of sense.”
Booze! Cheap vodka, probably.
I envision a whacky black comedy where they bond after killing Mary.
Probably accidentally.
things that are actually in the bag: mary’s fingers.
lady fingers they taste just like lady fingers
I really, really doubt Billie got Ruth booze, considering her current character arc. And on that note, it’s awesome to see Billie getting proactive about things.
Why would you think that Billie got Ruth anything that Ruth would remove from her own backpack which Ruth had been carrying? This is clearly a bottle of booze which Ruth has purchased. Now it may be of a shape which could be put to other uses, but it seems clear that it was purchased for purposes of consumption.
i didn’t think of that. you have a very good point.
“This isn’t what it looks like, it’s a bottle of Toilet Cleaner!”
“Ha! Nice try, but I already checked your bathroom, and you had loads of it!”
“Wait, had? Why past tense?”
“Well it turns out I’m actually detoxing at the moment. Or you got me pregnant. Either way, it would be useful if you turn out not to be lying, as you do now need more toilet cleaner. And various other cleaning products.”
Oh! You know, it might be a package she got from her grandpa. Because hard liquor is’nt that shape. Usually.
Based on the fact that she doesn’t have it before she walks in, I’d say it was from Billy.
Oh wait never mind.
i think it’s a meatball sub
Damn you Willis! Why does your 2014 questionnaire only have radio buttons?? I want to choose Marcie, Jacob AND Roz!
Stupid cartoonists, always makin’ me choose…
Anyone else notice a subtle detail… in the background there is a dart board with the logo of the Ottawa Senators. Fits in with her Canadian/Hockey fan background, and if she’s a Leafs fan, throwing darts at a Senators logo is pretty much what you’d expect.
Well done Willis.
Is that what that is? I noticed it but couldn’t figure out what it was.
Has it been too long for me to hypothesize that that’s a Take That aimed at Josh Phillips?
No; there’s a Sens-Leafs rivalry. As someone elsewhere has commented a Habs board might be more likely for a Leafs fan but personally, I think it works and is a nice little background detail.
She could also be a Sens fan with a Sens-themed dart board.
The sympathies of dart players are terribly ambiguous.
Pictures usually have her wearing a tonne of Leafs stuff, so odds are this is a rivalry deal. Honestly though (and as a Sens fan), I think it’s a beautiful touch.
Thanks Willis!
WILLIS! These two better release some sexual tension or I swear I won’t be responsible for my actions.
It’s all a misunderstanding. The brown paper bag is wrapping for a charming pewter figurine.
Tin Hats everyone!
I love that since she’s a Leafs fan she has a Sens dart board! I’m not a huge fan of the NHL but Being Canadian I love the little details!
Most Leafs fans I know would have a Montreal Canadians dartboard
I really like how panel 2 communicates Ruth’s pain and disgust; the way she stares at the bottle with fear, yet clearly intends to drink it, is a very powerful image that resonates a lot with me. This is helped a lot by panel 1, which shows that she’s thinking a lot about what’s in her bag.
I hope that Ruth will be so ashamed of herself that she’ll throw the booze away.
Then again, she does spite ‘really well,’ so who knows.
Gonna be honest the first thing I thought when she brought out the paper bag was “Did Ruth buy a dildo?”
Good save Billie, maybe.
I sincerely hope these two make it. They need somebody so bad, understand each other, and maybe aren’t good for each other. But, they just might make it….if they join AAA.
Just one little comment: as an aspiring lockpick, I can tell you it’s not exactly easy to pick a lock
Current Lockpicking level: 98
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*picks Ruths lock*
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HA-WA-HEY!
Current Lockpicking level: 99