Suddenly Walky is solidly dialed into Lucy’s signal. He just needed to have the appropriate food analogy connection. Lucy of course will analyze this tidbit, and extrapolate to ensure it is used to maximum effectiveness. I see Walky getting food spilled on his shirt and pants significantly more.
Maybe this will work better for you. If you desperately need a lubricant for your car engine (and I DO mean desperately) cola is an acceptable alternative to oil (disclaimer; if it isn’t don’t blame me!)
For posterity: it isn’t, don’t try this. Running a car with soda instead of oil will likely ruin the engine within seconds, causing several thousand dollars of damage.
Magical thinking, plus cola is just barely acidic enough that the true believers can point and say “see! it really works!” after giving it enough time.
Same with vinegar. “Vinegar will clean and freshen anything! It’s magical!” No, it works because it’s a mild acid, and there are so many old wives’ tales about the stuff because it’s been around forever. Sure it can dissolve limescale a bit, but all you’re doing is making everything smell like vinegar. I can’t stand the stuff on anything but fries.
“It really works! It’s so easy! Life hack!” videos are bullshit.
Although distilled white vinegar DOES work as a decent deodorizer in laundry. You just toss a bit in with your wash and it’ll take smells right out. We got to learn that one after trying to get smoke smell out of everything following a house fire.
And don’t put it in the dryer until you’ve gotten the smell out. The heat seals the stink in otherwise.
I have come across an admittedly very specialized coke lifehack in the wild, decades back.
At the ballet I used to be a stagehand at we’d have several a cans of coke standing in the janitor’s closet. They mystified me until I was told they pour a can into some mop water and give the padded mats on the floor a once-over after rolling them out. Apparently a thin film of sugar added stickiness to the mats to help avoid slips and falls.
Like with a lot of performing arts stuff I’m not sure how much of it was just superstition, though.
Have you tried any peroxide-based color-safe bleaches like Oxi-Clean? (Sodium percarbonate, etc.) You might have to try saturating the stain in a heavy dose of the stuff if it’s dry, and if it’s already been through the dryer it might not be able to touch it…
You may find simple sodium percarbonate tho.
What to mix it with, I have no idea.
I’ve found the easiest solution to environmental friendly washing is:
-not to care about marketed or even too socially correct cleanliness
-avoid stains
-wash under water immediately
For me, the “titles” don’t fully register as much as titles since I just come to the site to read the strip and then see the title after I’ve already read it, so maybe some others have that experience too. I understand how you wouldn’t want to actually do titles like that, though if I had seen this promoted elsewhere with the title “All Sucked Off” and then read it, I actually think I would have found it even funnier.
and I use RSS!!! There are DOZENS of us!! I will say I really appreciate the new posting schedule for it with whole arcs at a time, because I can read it with the flow. just a +1 for the RSS updating <3
At one time, making certain that the saved tab kept pace with the strip required opening the next day’s strip in a new tab. That got fixed. (My compliments to the code monkeys responsible)
Also, I have to wonder if there isn’t a little nod to Yotomoe’s work in here. Willis does amazing work but I can see a read where he’s tipping his hat at Yoto’s thirsty, blushing non-sexually sexual situation style. Of course afyer I sleep I guess I’ll read this and think who-tha-f?
The characters don’t look like malformed monsters and the words still seem like things actual human beings might say, so it has yet to cross the Chickweed Event Horizon
I feel like I have to note that the button up was intended as a tactic to throw off Joyce. A tactic that didn’t work mind you, thus the integrity of said button up doesn’t mean much here. Walky could easily just take it off as it’s purpose was rendered meaningless a long time ago. I doubt a nice shirt will give Walky an advantage with Daisy. They’ve created an artificial sense of urgency here.
The idea that dressing nice will help you appear more professional /reliable/other positive characteristic doesn’t just extend to people who might be attracted to you.
And, of course, Lucy wants Walky to look nice for herself.
Looking professional or reliable wasn’t the intent for wearing the shirt though. Walky didn’t give a dump about it for the comic submission. In fact he argued that a nachito smeared hoodie was actually dressing for the job. I think they both got wrapped up in their own false narrative here. Which is kind of a joke in itself.
That was more about your line about Daisy. I also think he could have multiple reasons for keeping it even if the convincing reason to put it on was to throw Joyce off her rhythm (which it hasn’t done *yet*).
Given Daisy’s editorial biases Joyce’s comic is likely to have greater appeal in terms of format and subject matter, so Walky needs every advantage he can get and being able to appear reliable and relatively professional is definitely a plus
I’d say it’s a sort of Pyrrhic victory but it doesn’t match the most common example, where you suffered losses severe enough to doom future actions.
This is a case of fighting the wrong battle, the tactical execution may be flawless but it just wasn’t the thing you should have been doing to accomplish your broader strategy.
I saw it as a possible solution, wasn’t sure Willis would go that way, but am glad he actually did. This is too cute.
By the way, a refer effective way to quickly clean a stain is to apply hand soap (push-liquid one, but soap bar also work) on a micro-fibre tissue, rub it on the stained fabric, rinse with water with the micro fiber again and it’s basically unnoticeable.
Walky’s not that impressed about Lucy getting super bold like that he’s just smitten because he found out she’s exactly as much of a gross degenerate as he is to lick stains off of clothes.
This strip was the turning point in making me realize these two could have something.
And if I’m right about Lucy having her own drama bombs, well, I think it’d be cool for Walky to step up like he did for Amber and never really had to for Dorothy.
Looks like it also sparked something with Walky. He started off almost humoring Lucy, then he seemed more like “this is pretty nice actually”. In today’s panel 4, he had his “HELLO!” moment.
Yeah Dorothy/Walky was straight up Wacky and Uptight and for as happy as they were I think Amber and Walky’s brief thing led to a stronger emphasis on emotional honestly in Walky and showing he’s capable of providing not only valuable advice, but advice that the people around Amber couldn’t think to say.
And if Lucy not only carries that forward but also gets to be a weird nutbar, well count me on.
Wait why are they trying to get there first? The publishers will still read both comics and decide from there, it’s not a first-come-first-serve situation.
Judging by his face in that fourth panel i think Walky has a much bigger problem to deal with now. Which, i suppose can be solved pretty easily with the same method
Honestly while I was kind of like ‘Hmm maybe these two can actually last’ at the newly weds gag they played up before Dorothy and Becky left to unwittingly enter the Disaster Zone this actually has me even more sold that they can. Like in the beginning I was someone shaking my head at Lucy because it felt way too soon in calling Walky a boyfriend to me.
So that means they’ll definitely break up eventually doesn’t it. Why do you do this to us.
Ey it’s not gonna run the rest of their lives. It’s not even supposed to run past the end of their first year. Certain characters ending the series paired off doesn’t necessarily mean they stick together the rest of their lives so much as the story is over and we don’t need to know anymore. If Danny and Sal are still together at the end of the story that just means they’re together at the end of our window into their lives and culmination of the themes and beliefs those two were put together to convey.
I don’t know who this “Lucy Gleen” is, but Lucy Glenn is on record as quoting the Sermon on the Mount’s statement that “the third date” is appropriate.
I’m impressed by the fact that i can imagine the taste and texture of the shirt/sauce combo, and yet i still think the panel did a good job lookin kinda sexy. Uhh…kudos??
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good thing Lucy wasn’t thirsty or anything
She seems pretty thirsty to me… but that’s probably the joke
Suddenly Walky is solidly dialed into Lucy’s signal. He just needed to have the appropriate food analogy connection. Lucy of course will analyze this tidbit, and extrapolate to ensure it is used to maximum effectiveness. I see Walky getting food spilled on his shirt and pants significantly more.
I don’t think saliva is a great stain remover.
It does well enough.
(according to me)
It always worked for my momma and gramma.
The infamous mom spit bath.
Not for ketchup and mustard though.
Those are real hard to get out.
Requires a mixture of soap, water, white vinegar, and elbow grease.
Only when they’ve had time to dry off
GF saliva has similar cleaning properties to mom spit.
Breaks down food and blood
Walky sweats Fire Sauce, Lucy salivates OxiClean, truly they are a perfect couple.
ah but MOUNTAIN DEW plus sliva
LIFEHACK: Use Coka-Cola to remove stains from clothing, because as we all know brown syrupy liquid doesn’t stain anything
Most soda fountains I’ve seen have just a plain carbonated-water button. That’ll do the trick, right?
Why are there so many cola based “life hacks”? I’ve rarely found pouring soda on it to have fixed the problem.
Maybe this will work better for you. If you desperately need a lubricant for your car engine (and I DO mean desperately) cola is an acceptable alternative to oil (disclaimer; if it isn’t don’t blame me!)
For posterity: it isn’t, don’t try this. Running a car with soda instead of oil will likely ruin the engine within seconds, causing several thousand dollars of damage.
That sounds extremely but I do not know enough about cars to dispute it
“extremely wrong” goddamnit, how did i fuck that one up
I’ve heard Coke is good for cleaning engine parts.
And flat Coke syrup is good for nausea, but I prefer ginger ale.
Hey, two for one deal, clean the engine parts, then drink the resulting flat coke. Plus you get all that nutritious dissolved hydrocarbon sludge.
Magical thinking, plus cola is just barely acidic enough that the true believers can point and say “see! it really works!” after giving it enough time.
Same with vinegar. “Vinegar will clean and freshen anything! It’s magical!” No, it works because it’s a mild acid, and there are so many old wives’ tales about the stuff because it’s been around forever. Sure it can dissolve limescale a bit, but all you’re doing is making everything smell like vinegar. I can’t stand the stuff on anything but fries.
“It really works! It’s so easy! Life hack!” videos are bullshit.
Although distilled white vinegar DOES work as a decent deodorizer in laundry. You just toss a bit in with your wash and it’ll take smells right out. We got to learn that one after trying to get smoke smell out of everything following a house fire.
And don’t put it in the dryer until you’ve gotten the smell out. The heat seals the stink in otherwise.
If pouring soda on something doesn’t solve it, then obviously you have the wrong problems.
I have come across an admittedly very specialized coke lifehack in the wild, decades back.
At the ballet I used to be a stagehand at we’d have several a cans of coke standing in the janitor’s closet. They mystified me until I was told they pour a can into some mop water and give the padded mats on the floor a once-over after rolling them out. Apparently a thin film of sugar added stickiness to the mats to help avoid slips and falls.
Like with a lot of performing arts stuff I’m not sure how much of it was just superstition, though.
ice though
It’s good for blood and some other things because it dissolves the proteins
Eight out or ten cats disagree with you.
Momspit is better than 409
Sauce stain is impossible to remove, mainly in clear shirts that not white (I can’t bleach them)…
Have you tried any peroxide-based color-safe bleaches like Oxi-Clean? (Sodium percarbonate, etc.) You might have to try saturating the stain in a heavy dose of the stuff if it’s dry, and if it’s already been through the dryer it might not be able to touch it…
Gonna try, it’s hard to find this in my region.
You may find simple sodium percarbonate tho.
What to mix it with, I have no idea.
I’ve found the easiest solution to environmental friendly washing is:
-not to care about marketed or even too socially correct cleanliness
-avoid stains
-wash under water immediately
Depends how hard you’re sucking.
It works in some cases. Just have to do it before the food dries on the fabric.
Hey would you look at that! I was right!
So far….
Well Done 💯
how is the title not “all sucked off”?!?
Surprised we don’t have to pay for a Slipshine to see this kind of content
how do people keep expecting the punchline to be spoiled in the title of the strip
Don’t dare say it’s because we are stupid!
For me, the “titles” don’t fully register as much as titles since I just come to the site to read the strip and then see the title after I’ve already read it, so maybe some others have that experience too. I understand how you wouldn’t want to actually do titles like that, though if I had seen this promoted elsewhere with the title “All Sucked Off” and then read it, I actually think I would have found it even funnier.
The titles are what link folks from Twitter to here every day, so.
I mean, yeah, I know that.
I just have the site bookmarked…
and I use RSS!!! There are DOZENS of us!! I will say I really appreciate the new posting schedule for it with whole arcs at a time, because I can read it with the flow. just a +1 for the RSS updating <3
I just never close the site.
It sits in my tabs, day in and day out, for months… years…
Always there.
One click away.
Between my email and WorldAnvil.
At one time, making certain that the saved tab kept pace with the strip required opening the next day’s strip in a new tab. That got fixed. (My compliments to the code monkeys responsible)
WorldAnvil, you saaayy?
I type in the address manually. The tough part is memorizing a new page number every day.
I’m on this site so dang much it’s my second recommended when I go to type a new address.
Solution is a chemistry pun!
The ocean is the ultimate solution.
Maybe that should be the next book title.
It’s the title to a GREAT Frank Zappa instrumental!
Lucy Slipshine incoming
God, yess please.
Correction: Walky slipping shine in Lucy coming.
Also, I have to wonder if there isn’t a little nod to Yotomoe’s work in here. Willis does amazing work but I can see a read where he’s tipping his hat at Yoto’s thirsty, blushing non-sexually sexual situation style. Of course afyer I sleep I guess I’ll read this and think who-tha-f?
I yotally agree
Holy cow, Lucy. That’s just impressive.
I know, right?
Well played, Lucy. Well played.
I was expecting Lucy to pull Walky’s tee shirt out of her mouth in the last panel.
So when are we getting our LucyXWalky slipshine? Not just for our sakes, I’m worried she’s going to die of dehydration.
Probably Valentine’s Day, but Willis’s warning to “brace ourselves” could refer to just about anything.
Right?
He could be fucking with us, so that when it does happen we won’t see it coming.
Well, I guess if 2005 Willy Wonka is right about anything, the best kind of prize is a surprize!!!
Which begs the question, IS 2005 Willy Wonka right about anything?
There is no 2005 Willy Wonka.
COULD be?? You do know Willis, right?
Valentine’s Day strips in Dumbing of Age have a long and glorious tradition…of being disastrous for whatever couple features in them.
Damn! Where are my psychic powers when I need them?
Sermon on the Mount says third date.
This is what I think everyone should look for in a relationship. Someone willing to lick Taco Bell sauce off your shirt in a pinch!
This Taco Bell is becoming increasingly NSFW…
Next thing ya know, there’s gonna be people ERPing right there in the booths.
Oh no! What comic would have people doing sexual things right there in a restaurant booth?
Dumbing of Age is turning into 9 Chickweed Lane. Willis is becoming the very thing they swore to destroy.
You were the Chosen One!
The characters don’t look like malformed monsters and the words still seem like things actual human beings might say, so it has yet to cross the Chickweed Event Horizon
*plays T.Rex’s “Jeepster” on the hacked Muzak*
Yes, Lucy, by all means, do that WHILE maintaining visual contact with the “subject”…
Equal parts gross and adorable.
Sums up love in general, really.
also sums up earthworms! aww.
I must admit, I’ve never met an adorable earthworm.
Haven’t met Jim?
Lewcy Glenn, everyone, she’ll be here for quite a long while.
I notice they’re right next to a booth in a restaurant.
cackling maniacally
And that, Dear Walky, is just a teaser for what is to come.
Phrasing
That was awkward to watch, I hope no one around them noticed.
Really?? In front of my taco salad?
I understood that reference.png
Well, I’M aroused.
Next time maybe she’ll do it when you’re not wearing a shirt.
Really hope the skin on his chest isn’t loose enough for it to be recreated exactly.
Of course not! She’ll use his chest hair instead.
All one of them.
She only did that cause they’ve got to leave there lickety-split…
Don’t you mean lickety-spit?
Don’t you mean licky-style?
I feel like I have to note that the button up was intended as a tactic to throw off Joyce. A tactic that didn’t work mind you, thus the integrity of said button up doesn’t mean much here. Walky could easily just take it off as it’s purpose was rendered meaningless a long time ago. I doubt a nice shirt will give Walky an advantage with Daisy. They’ve created an artificial sense of urgency here.
The idea that dressing nice will help you appear more professional /reliable/other positive characteristic doesn’t just extend to people who might be attracted to you.
And, of course, Lucy wants Walky to look nice for herself.
Looking professional or reliable wasn’t the intent for wearing the shirt though. Walky didn’t give a dump about it for the comic submission. In fact he argued that a nachito smeared hoodie was actually dressing for the job. I think they both got wrapped up in their own false narrative here. Which is kind of a joke in itself.
That was more about your line about Daisy. I also think he could have multiple reasons for keeping it even if the convincing reason to put it on was to throw Joyce off her rhythm (which it hasn’t done *yet*).
Joyce is already off her rhythm tho.
Maybe she’ll see Walky in his nice shirt and, in a twist, it will throw her back *on* her rhythm.
He could also just wear the jacket, it’s the middle of winter after all and no one would question it.
Given Daisy’s editorial biases Joyce’s comic is likely to have greater appeal in terms of format and subject matter, so Walky needs every advantage he can get and being able to appear reliable and relatively professional is definitely a plus
Like I said yesterday, Lucy would spontaneously combust if he did that.
Odds are at least one reader did a spit take while reading this strip. And what a fortuitous moment that would be.
And somewhere, Jennifer is disgusted and does not know why.
Oh my.
I remember someone questioning once if Walky was into Lucy, too, and this definitely answers the question.
He really did have something great right under his nose this whole time.
Taco Bell sauce?
Dumbing of Age Book 12: The Solution Is More Food On My Shirt
Dumbing of Age Book 12: All Sucked Off
DoA Book 12: There, All Sucked Off!
With panel 4 as the cover.
PHRASING Lucy.
We’re not doing that anymore.
These two are a gift and I love them.
Why is Lucy licking Walky’s shirt in panel 4 so damn hot to me tho?
Care to take it a little further with a little teasing art of your own?
* hint hint *
Not tonight, but maybe, if you’re good. Tommorow.
I got a fat check from a deposit return from a rental about which I had completely forgotten.
Totally unrelated, just thought I’d air some thoughts out.
I’m happy for ya. I got an animation job after all these years.
Oh I feel so happy for you too!!!
Woah that’s awesome! Congrats ^^
Congratulations!
Yay!!!
Congratulations!
Congrats!
Congrats!
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
(this thread is starting to look like an EVA parody)
(i think anyway idk i should really just watch it)
No idea, but I find it hot too.
Well, if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate.
They aren’t going to get to that editor, are they?
Joyce might not have forgotten about her comic strips but Walky sure as hell might.
What’s white, black and red all over?
A red balloon in a zebra costume!
Is it considered a win or a loss if you miss out on a career opportunity because you’re having sex?
It’s a tactical victory but a strategic failure
Would that qualify as a Pyrrhic victory in this analogy, or do we need to theorize a different event for that?
I’d say it’s a sort of Pyrrhic victory but it doesn’t match the most common example, where you suffered losses severe enough to doom future actions.
This is a case of fighting the wrong battle, the tactical execution may be flawless but it just wasn’t the thing you should have been doing to accomplish your broader strategy.
me, playing minecraft
Panel 4 deserves a museum.
*Beavis and Butthead laughing intensifies*
Lucy makes a move
She finally figured out how to perform a moves
And it’s a pretty good move.
Nice callback!
So this is where food fetishists come from.
Whipped CreamTaco Bell Sauce & Other DelightsAim lower, Lucy!!
I saw it as a possible solution, wasn’t sure Willis would go that way, but am glad he actually did. This is too cute.
By the way, a refer effective way to quickly clean a stain is to apply hand soap (push-liquid one, but soap bar also work) on a micro-fibre tissue, rub it on the stained fabric, rinse with water with the micro fiber again and it’s basically unnoticeable.
this would work on me tbh
These are the little things that make life wonderful ♡.
Lucy <3
That’s spice.
…
The sauce, I mean.
Please properly credit your guest writers, Yotomoe worked very hard on the dialogue and concept of this strip.
Walky’s not that impressed about Lucy getting super bold like that he’s just smitten because he found out she’s exactly as much of a gross degenerate as he is to lick stains off of clothes.
…I have to ask – what the hell is your avatar?
Melted wings of wax.
Despite the way it started this could actually work out for them both.
This strip was the turning point in making me realize these two could have something.
And if I’m right about Lucy having her own drama bombs, well, I think it’d be cool for Walky to step up like he did for Amber and never really had to for Dorothy.
Looks like it also sparked something with Walky. He started off almost humoring Lucy, then he seemed more like “this is pretty nice actually”. In today’s panel 4, he had his “HELLO!” moment.
Yeah Dorothy/Walky was straight up Wacky and Uptight and for as happy as they were I think Amber and Walky’s brief thing led to a stronger emphasis on emotional honestly in Walky and showing he’s capable of providing not only valuable advice, but advice that the people around Amber couldn’t think to say.
And if Lucy not only carries that forward but also gets to be a weird nutbar, well count me on.
Well count me IN
Goddamn it every time. I get jumpscared by my fucking spelling mistakes.
I guess you could say its
Saucy
Your pfp is just right for that comment
Wait why are they trying to get there first? The publishers will still read both comics and decide from there, it’s not a first-come-first-serve situation.
Unless the publisher figures they are going to be lucky to get to any submissions at all and lock down the first opportunity.
Now which fanfic or doujin gave you That idea, Lucy?
The Slipshine for this has the potential to either be EPIC, or will just remind me of Mom wiping my face with her spit on a Kleenex when I was four.
Ooooh I always hated that.
The dreaded mom spit bath. I think it must be hardcoded in genetic memory, because every mom does it.
I feel like Yoto has been summoned
Judging by his face in that fourth panel i think Walky has a much bigger problem to deal with now. Which, i suppose can be solved pretty easily with the same method
I’ve seen bigger.
This stuff is usually only shown on Slipshine…
Lucky it was on his shirt.
or just WEAR IT INSIDE OUT
That’s just as noticeable, because all the seams stick out.
Honestly while I was kind of like ‘Hmm maybe these two can actually last’ at the newly weds gag they played up before Dorothy and Becky left to unwittingly enter the Disaster Zone this actually has me even more sold that they can. Like in the beginning I was someone shaking my head at Lucy because it felt way too soon in calling Walky a boyfriend to me.
So that means they’ll definitely break up eventually doesn’t it. Why do you do this to us.
As cute as it would be, it would not be a realistic college comic if most couples stayed together past graduation.
My wife and I are 41 years tomorrow 🙂
Congratulations to the both of you, for being statistical anomalies. 😉
Ey it’s not gonna run the rest of their lives. It’s not even supposed to run past the end of their first year. Certain characters ending the series paired off doesn’t necessarily mean they stick together the rest of their lives so much as the story is over and we don’t need to know anymore. If Danny and Sal are still together at the end of the story that just means they’re together at the end of our window into their lives and culmination of the themes and beliefs those two were put together to convey.
But also the final strips will be a flash forward to Joe and Joyce’s domestic married life with their three cats.
YES. ABSOLUTELY.
Nah. Joe and Joyce are absolutely dog people.
Next Slipshine strip.
– Only after marriage.
‘Lucy Gleen
I don’t know who this “Lucy Gleen” is, but Lucy Glenn is on record as quoting the Sermon on the Mount’s statement that “the third date” is appropriate.
Shoulda kissed him too, girl.
ngl sorta bummed that it took me like so many years of life to lock down that “dork” was actually my type
Dorks can be a hell of a lot of fun. Both in the sack and out.
I LICKED HIM
HE’S MINE NOW
I like how Walky is like “yay me for asking you out”.
I mean sure, TeChNiCaLlY~
You came for the sexy shenanigans, but you stay for tips for how to clean dirty from clothes.
I had high hopes for Lucy navigating her relationship with Walky, but now I can surely say that she is perfect for him.
She probably licks the Dorito crumbs too
She probably licks the Dorothy crumbs too
not to be undertale cringe on main but this is Noelle Deltarune levels of thirst right about here, i personally feel like
I’m impressed by the fact that i can imagine the taste and texture of the shirt/sauce combo, and yet i still think the panel did a good job lookin kinda sexy. Uhh…kudos??
oh damn
… that is incredibly hot.
I Have no idea why Walky hasn’t taken her in a manly fashion.
She is incredibly sexy and incredibly dorky all at the same time, which is REALLY HOT.