Not to say I don’t love a number of the other characters (in fact, most of them), but this strip is quintessential Walky, both oblivious to collateral damage and dead center of the ten ring simultaneously.
a becky-billie-danny-dorothy-ethan-joyce-roz-sarah-walky slipshine? I dunno, there’s a couple of them who might be into it, but I don’t know if we’re ready to go whole-hog like that just yet
I suspect it would hinge on two major factors: 1) how much money actually in the bank for it.
But, more importantly (I think) would be: 2) the actual conditions for said “plot.” As in, for example, “60% of current characters, your choice, get into an accidental orgy upon discovery that one of them has an impressive collection of adult toys. Joyce is trapped under a bed with Dina and they have to wait until it’s over before escaping. The next morning.”
I might have to do some creative accounting if that one becomes a possibility …
The uncensored version of that phrase doesn’t really imply irrationality or anything, just a take-charge attitude. (General disclaimer about how of course it’s sexist language and people don’t use similar gendered slur words for the equivalent male concept and even using it as a positive-ish descriptor doesn’t really make it okay).
Except for the fact that the word’s been used for a long time as a negative slur towards women… the history of a word’s context doesn’t just disappear because of what it is “supposed” to mean.
There is a history of pejorative terms transitioning to acceptable terms of description. That said such cases, such as “queer”, usually occur through usage as a term of self identity which I can’t imagine happening in general usage with this term (though there is a trend in parts of the BDSM community of certain flavors of dominant women referring to themselves as an “alpha bongo” so grain of salt and all that).
Which is why usage matters. When Billie describes herself as an ‘alpha bongo’, you can be pretty sure she’s not using it as a negative slur. Now, if someone were using it to describe her in an insulting manner, that’s another situation entirely.
ok while there is a context to that word that is negative, I was using the term that Billie used to self describe. Head Cheerleader. Alpha Female Dog. Problem Solver.
No need to disclaim, Random – the Bongo filter protects us from all responsibility! I can think you’re a bongo, and call you a bongo all I like, and there’s no social pressure to stop. It’s great!
Great, now I have Basement Jaxx stuck in my head. And yes, I know that that song’s Bingo Bango, but apparently that’s just how associations work in my sleepy brain. Thanks a lot guys for forcing me to relive this awful, traumatic nostalgia of wonderful 90s music I grew up with! So inconsiderate…
About the party, probably not. But we’ve already had setup in Joyce suddenly bringing up Dana and Ruth saying that Billie could rat out any rulebreaking to her (at least, I figured the Dana outburst was setup for Becky until Raidah turned up – could still be).
I just got what I did, I swear that was a complete accident. I was actually annoyed by the fact that someone can have the same idea as me and post it right before I do. Making me look like a complete idiot.
Did he refuse to own multiple sets of shoes to protect his masculinity? I figured he just never wanted more than one pair, and figured it was a “guy thing” (which it kinda is). He never thought “You know, I really want to get more shoes — but no, I mustn’t! My manhood will not allow it!”
You may think this is needlessly pedantic, but then, I am a needless pedant.
Which even at the time was hilarious to me, since that hasn’t been a thing since the ’90s at the very least. Sneaker collecting goes at least to the ’80s and most adult men I know of own at the very least a pair for work, a pair for dress and a pair for general use with some of us owning specific types of shoes appropriate for various hobbies (hiking, sports, etc) and some of us will have a pair just for messier home repair and maintenance activities like yard care which can stain shoes in such a way as to make them socially awkward to wear in public.
Yeah, there’s a difference between having a collection of shoes for the sake of collecting them, and making sure you don’t show up to the office in the same shoes you used to paint the house last weekend. But if anyone would confuse the two, it would be Walky.
I don’t know, still kinda works. Asking if a line populated entirely by Walky, namely clones, other-universe-versions, other-timelines, future/past versions is great or not? Would definitely be interesting…
You know, Faz would make a great anti-villain. With his story ending in a murder-suicide with Blaine. He also would need to die in Ambers arms, while Danny says something about pitying him.
I would put up with more Faz to see him snap and kill Blaine in the goriest and most painful way possible at some point. Possibly with the statement alluding to Blaine’s monstrousness and his hostility to the fairer half of the species, and how that impacts on his own dating success.
Faz: Destroy Blaine, He made me what I am. Don’t let him to it do anyone else, please.
Joyce: I think I understand you know, you weren’t grieving over your own death, you were grieving because he turned you into what he wanted you to be! you never had a chance to be anything else. Well I still respect you. I know you made a lot of mistakes. But know I see that it wasn’t all your fault. You had the fiery will of an Indiana student. Please share that with me know cause i need it. Thank you for saving Becky’s life and for buying enough time for me to recuperate. I’ll do my best to carry out your wish.
We really need an AU comic where Ruth is a wandering martial artist, who leaves a trail of dead evildoers behind her despite her best efforts to keep out of trouble.
Intuition. I forget when, but Ethan was in Joyce’s room, Joyce was like “I hope nothing bad happens” or similar, and Ruth took a look at him and was like “….Yeah you’re fine.”
Becky is very intent on letting everyone know that she is 100% gay gay gay, Kinsey 6, not straight at all and never was, etc etc.
If she’s like most, she will eventually ease up on letting this define her entire identity. Why, she [i]might[/i] even come to allow that she [i]might[/i] be a 5. (But certainly not one of those imaginary people in the middle.)
did y’all seriously just try to make a legitimate complaint about bi erasure while IN THE SAME BREATH sneeringly insisting that lesbians don’t and cannot exist, demanding that we should not try to accurately describe ourselves, and say we just need to be more open-minded and change our orientations?
ffs. go read up on mirrors, try to find one.
maybe someday y’all will get it through your skulls that people like you two are part of the REASON so many of us tend to be so emphatic and vocal about our orientations, goddamn.
(on-topic, I found Becky’s response here hilariously true-to-life and relatable)
Is she trying to win dem hearts and minds or is she trying to hold (Kritika i Samokritika) sessions in which she can call Thoughtcriminals to account for themselves? (Samo = self)
AFAIK, most times when a dude has two possible love interests, his agency is so assumed in the premise that stating it aloud would be redundant. F’rex, Harry Potter. It’s only not assumed because Sarah’s insanely angry and Joyce is terrible with anything related to romance.
Indeed, you put it in better terms than I did. I’m watching an anime currently, Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, that dismantles romantic tropes and does silly role reversals, among other things, so the current predicament reminds me of that.
I remember at dorm parties at my college (with tiny dorm rooms), we’d end up with 2-4 people sitting in the loft beds, 2-4 people on a futon under the loft bed, people at the desks and people on the floor, too. It’s tight, but we could fit around 16 people in there if we didn’t move much.
Jacob goes to shortpacked universe, has sex with self. Lives off royalties for the rest of his life, get’s SP Jacob the help he needs to beat his addiction.
Will resist making overused joke about how long everything takes in this universe. Will resist making overused joke about how long everything takes in this universe.
I like that while Walky’s had some weirdly traditional views in some areas, like his reluctance to get more shoes due to sitcom gender dynamic notions, he doesn’t seem to sweat other things. He didn’t have any visible discomfort around Ethan after correctly surmising he was gay, and here doesn’t seem insecure in acknowledging that Jacob is very attractive. I don’t know if he himself is earnestly sexually attracted to him, but given how googly eyed he is for Dorothy, I don’t think she’s in any danger of losing his unwavering affections anytime soon, no matter what Walky’s orientation would be.
While Walky seems very shaky in his manhood (as Joe said), he seems to be pretty confident in his sexuality, so it doesn’t surprise me that he’s cool with joking around about that kind of stuff.
There’s nothing in this strip that isn’t great, except for the terrible impending drama looming on Sarah’s horizon. The last panel is particularly fantastic.
Contrariwise, straight porn movies seem to attract the very worst actors, even if the sexy stuff is often uninspired. I do so love terrible acting, even in my smut.
Oh sure, there are decent actors in the industry. But the really, really awful ones seem to cluster in the straight porn end of it – or maybe it just seems that way to me because there’s so much of it out there. 90% of everything is crap, so the bigger the subset of “everything” there is the easier it is to find bad samples.
Yep; i chose to zag with the nerd cult reference when the expected move would have been to go straight up the middle with the middle school English class sex pun.
Wrong – he’s already stated that his big goal is to make a “Super Dew Brew” consisting of all flavors of Mountain Dew mixed together. And, I assume, to drink it. This will give him superpowers. Or, kill him, as I suspect.
I don’t know, considering how many are out of production and how many are region and/or restaurant specific then you toss in whatever is in the various flavors of Mountain Dew Kickstart energy drinks… we can’t all have the constitution of Brad Jones.
It would just be a weird-tasting Mountain Dew. The concentration of sugar, caffeine, and other basic ingredients won’t change. Only problem would be if Walky drinks the whole damn bowl in one sitting, or boils it down to a very weird syrup.
I suspect Dorothy’s going to make him do something about that if he’s expecting any post-party sexy times. That stuff isn’t just coloring – it carries a lot of the flavor/spiciness too.
I’m 100% my headcanon is false, but my headcanon is that Sarah has dreads, so seeing their hair so closely mirrored boggles my tiny mind. I think Roz just has really poofy/curly hair.
I mean compared to other drawn characters, including ones from this same series. Hell, there’s an ad for official porn of some of them if you scroll up.
Nope! Everyone finds the exact same thing attractive. Duh.
Personally I find Jacob to be a handsome dude, just like I think Ethan, Mike, and Joe are attractive. But people are allowed to disagree. I keep seeing these “um *I* don’t find Jacob attractive” posts. It’s okay. You aren’t forced to do so.
Of course not. The title of the strip is DUMBING of Age so we are preoccupied with the bad decisions and actions, not the ones that are actually logical and make good sense.
Indeed, Dorothy exists to make the intelligent observations that we (the audience) agree and sympathize with, which are then completely ignored and trampled by the other characters. This inspires the “Damn you, Willis!”es that David needs to fuel his immortality machine. It’s inspired, really.
… Jacob is, joint with Joe and Mike, the least attractive main-ish male character in the comic. (I mean, if I met him I’d probably look at his biceps and go “damn, those are some biceps” but that’s about it.)
One of the joint-most-attractive male characters in the comic is telling the other that everyone is attracted to Jacob. And eating Doritos.
I contest your standards of two-dimensional male beauty! If I were to be involved in a cartoon all-dude orgy, Jacob and Joe are the first dudes I’d invite, rounded off with Ethan and Bryan. (Sorry, Jim.) Mike only if he’s built like Shortpacked! Mike, and Walky only if he’s recently showered. Danny’s reference to his unwashed hair puts me off.
Eight and a half? I count just eight – or maybe seven and a half since Becky is kind of not entirely in the panel. Unless you’re talking about that shoulder next to Dorothy? Though that’s much less than half a character. Are we counting Sarah or Walky twice since they appear in two frames each? I’m not getting the same count any way I do it…
first panel — (1) Billie and (2) Roz
second panel — (3) Sarah
third panel — (4) Joyce and (5) Becky
fourth panel — Ethan (left arm and shoulder), (6) Dorothy, and (7) Walky
fifth panel — Sarah (again)
sixth panel — Walky (again) and (8) Danny
8 characters in full and part of Ethan (the ‘half-a-character’)
These Sarah faces continue to entertain. Raidah making her so angry that she forgets people are watching is really endearing.
Weird side note: I wonder if she’s supposed to be light complexioned enough that the blush shows through, or if it’s just pure visual language (like a huge manga sweat drop). I’ve kinda gone back and forth on whether I’m glad I don’t visually blush.
I wouldn’t have expected Walky to be secure enough in his sexuality to make jokes like that, but he’s surprising sometimes. Especially since he began dating Dorothy.
Though Danny is looking for someone else who’s bi to discuss the matter with isn’t he? This can only lead to hijinx ensuing. Or drama. Or something in between.
I just reread Sarah’s backstory and I would now really like for her old roommate to show up at some point and thank her for getting her help. She didn’t need to be in college while in that state and Sarah should never had been expected to deal with it.
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…DUDE THREESOME IMMINENT
Nah, foursome. Walky/Danny/Ethan/Jacob.
On the next slipshine…
*whips out checkbook*
…
Yeah, I still write checks! I’m old-fashioned! Leave me alone!
Don’t forget to send it by carrier pigeon.
Make it so.
Starts off as a threesome, then Walky just walks in and go “Eh, i can dig it”
This is the Walky I come here to love.
Not to say I don’t love a number of the other characters (in fact, most of them), but this strip is quintessential Walky, both oblivious to collateral damage and dead center of the ten ring simultaneously.
A strategically placed dorito
bless you and this comment
…What you just said there.
Why do I have to laugh so much fuck you
A++ would buy.
Now whats the limit of people before it becomes an orgy?
more than four is orgy
I only say threesome b/c that’s what was on the poll
Like the side of a tree on the forest moon of Endor!
… I’ll be in my bunk.
Roz wisely withdraw XD
She’s got a real party to go to anyway.
Yeah, Sarah vs Raidah is going to be a knife-fight in a phonebooth. Being monkey in the middle of THAT would suck.
If history is anything to go by then the violence will probably be one-sided.
You have a point. However, there was nothing at stake for Raidah in that incident, while now Jacob is prize worth fighting for.
…sliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiipshiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine…
a becky-billie-danny-dorothy-ethan-joyce-roz-sarah-walky slipshine? I dunno, there’s a couple of them who might be into it, but I don’t know if we’re ready to go whole-hog like that just yet
I like how you left out Jacob, the one everyone would hit.
he just stands on a podest in the middl while they make out and ocasionaly look at him
“EVERYONE hits that.”
Come now, let’s not be ridiculous. He’d never do an orgy Slipshine!
…Or…or WOULD he?
I suspect it would hinge on two major factors: 1) how much money actually in the bank for it.
But, more importantly (I think) would be: 2) the actual conditions for said “plot.” As in, for example, “60% of current characters, your choice, get into an accidental orgy upon discovery that one of them has an impressive collection of adult toys. Joyce is trapped under a bed with Dina and they have to wait until it’s over before escaping. The next morning.”
I might have to do some creative accounting if that one becomes a possibility …
Sex pollen
This is actually a pretty good snapshot of everyone’s characters in a nutshell, except billie, with this only being the alpha bongo side of her.
this is alpha bongo? she seems pretty reasonable to me
The uncensored version of that phrase doesn’t really imply irrationality or anything, just a take-charge attitude. (General disclaimer about how of course it’s sexist language and people don’t use similar gendered slur words for the equivalent male concept and even using it as a positive-ish descriptor doesn’t really make it okay).
Well, considering that a bongo (no not talking about drums) is a female dog, an alpha bongo would be a female pack leader.
Except for the fact that the word’s been used for a long time as a negative slur towards women… the history of a word’s context doesn’t just disappear because of what it is “supposed” to mean.
There is a history of pejorative terms transitioning to acceptable terms of description. That said such cases, such as “queer”, usually occur through usage as a term of self identity which I can’t imagine happening in general usage with this term (though there is a trend in parts of the BDSM community of certain flavors of dominant women referring to themselves as an “alpha bongo” so grain of salt and all that).
Which is why usage matters. When Billie describes herself as an ‘alpha bongo’, you can be pretty sure she’s not using it as a negative slur. Now, if someone were using it to describe her in an insulting manner, that’s another situation entirely.
ok while there is a context to that word that is negative, I was using the term that Billie used to self describe. Head Cheerleader. Alpha Female Dog. Problem Solver.
No need to disclaim, Random – the Bongo filter protects us from all responsibility! I can think you’re a bongo, and call you a bongo all I like, and there’s no social pressure to stop. It’s great!
Great, now I have Basement Jaxx stuck in my head. And yes, I know that that song’s Bingo Bango, but apparently that’s just how associations work in my sleepy brain. Thanks a lot guys for forcing me to relive this awful, traumatic nostalgia of wonderful 90s music I grew up with! So inconsiderate…
Alpha bongo delta Whiskey one Niner.
ABDW19
Translation: Nonsense
Says you.
Message received, captain. Mission is go. Over and out.
Roger dodger and all that jazz.
Reading you loud and clear. Over.
Copy that, ten four good buddy.
Perfect for Becky, Dorothy, and Walky. Pretty good for Sarah and Joyce
And the night has only begun!
Next up is AmaziGirl and later maybe Ruth will find out about the party, stay tuned folks
Ruth definitely knows about the party; the question is, will she do anything about it.
About the party, probably not. But we’ve already had setup in Joyce suddenly bringing up Dana and Ruth saying that Billie could rat out any rulebreaking to her (at least, I figured the Dana outburst was setup for Becky until Raidah turned up – could still be).
Ruth already knows, Billie told her. She doesn’t care. Given that its you know, a party from Joyce.
Dammit I hate when someone posts a reply right before i do!
I see what you did there.
I just got what I did, I swear that was a complete accident. I was actually annoyed by the fact that someone can have the same idea as me and post it right before I do. Making me look like a complete idiot.
Walky has some great lines today.
Yes, indeed.
Perfectly delivered through a mouthful of Russian Doritos, no less.
Walky has come a long way from the guy who refused to own multiple pairs of shoes in order to protect his masculinity! Go Dorothy!
Yep. Incredible sex with a girl who loves him has done wonders for his confidence. Funny that.
Good thing she likes having toys thrown at her head, isn’t it?
Did he refuse to own multiple sets of shoes to protect his masculinity? I figured he just never wanted more than one pair, and figured it was a “guy thing” (which it kinda is). He never thought “You know, I really want to get more shoes — but no, I mustn’t! My manhood will not allow it!”
You may think this is needlessly pedantic, but then, I am a needless pedant.
Iit’s not that he wanted or didn’t want more shoes… he felt that having more than one pair at all was not masculine.
Well, if you remember his original plan was to get man-married. So Walky’s always been cool with the man-lovin.
Which even at the time was hilarious to me, since that hasn’t been a thing since the ’90s at the very least. Sneaker collecting goes at least to the ’80s and most adult men I know of own at the very least a pair for work, a pair for dress and a pair for general use with some of us owning specific types of shoes appropriate for various hobbies (hiking, sports, etc) and some of us will have a pair just for messier home repair and maintenance activities like yard care which can stain shoes in such a way as to make them socially awkward to wear in public.
Yeah, there’s a difference between having a collection of shoes for the sake of collecting them, and making sure you don’t show up to the office in the same shoes you used to paint the house last weekend. But if anyone would confuse the two, it would be Walky.
But line of Walkys isn’t great?
dammit there should have been a “what” between but and line
I don’t know, still kinda works. Asking if a line populated entirely by Walky, namely clones, other-universe-versions, other-timelines, future/past versions is great or not? Would definitely be interesting…
There are not enough Nachitos to possibly sustain such a line.
The most correct thing Walky has ever said.
Aside from his desire and joy at having received pajama jeans.
Oh, and his remarks on girls fake jean pockets.
A particular favorite of mine. I actually got to quote it to a friend this morning.
*That* particular Walky quote was my rabbit-hole into the Walkyverse.
That’s when I started reading, too!! Man, has it been that long?… Must… resist… urge to archive binge…
I have linked the “fake jeans pocket” comic so many times. It comes in handy for all sorts of situations completely outside of the DOA community. 🙂
Except Becky wouldn’t hit Jacob. I feel like this fact makes Walky’s statement incorrect.
Maybe Jacob would be her “Straight for a Day” choice?
I see Ethan’s SHOULDER!
Wheres Ethan!
Shoulder & elbow, panel 4.
The hover text lies, that is clearly less than 50% of an Ethan there. 🙂
That wasn’t a full Becky either.
And now I desperately wish there was a character named Monty.
Ethan’s shoulder, weenus pointed.
Another reason for Danny to glow with embarrassment…
Not helping Walky.
or is he
I don’t know… it helped make my day… ^_^
… as Sexy Maid Korra helps make mine!
This is another post that won’t make sense when PM’s avatar changes. I regret nothing.
Havent you just given the needed info for someone to be able to make sense of it?
It’s helpful to comment readers in the future when you mention what my gravatar was at the time.
Once they “get” what you do with gravs, yes. Otherwise i would think that it will confuse them more.
Oh my god Danny’s face is the best.
Camera pans to the right and Ethan is blushing too…
Dammit, left, I mean. Directions are hard.
Your left, or Danny’s left? I don’t know how stage directions work…
If it was a US or UK stage show, Stage Right or House Left would be correct. But since I’m giving camera directions, pan left will do.
Up Stage is away from the audience, Down Stage is toward them, just FYI. And now you know how stage directions work.
Well, he now has the image of Jacob and Walky having sex in his brain, that’s bound to affect you. At least it should take his mind off Ethan.
So now Danny has Walky for competition for his second-man crush Jacob?
Maybe Dumbing of Age is actually a harem anime, and we just aren’t seeing it from the main character’s POV.
The twist being that Faz is the main character.
OH GOD NO
You know, Faz would make a great anti-villain. With his story ending in a murder-suicide with Blaine. He also would need to die in Ambers arms, while Danny says something about pitying him.
Also, at some point he should go, “you made me!”
I don’t hate Faz enough to wish death upon him (nor, for that matter, do I wish death upon Blaine). I just don’t want too much Faz.
I would put up with more Faz to see him snap and kill Blaine in the goriest and most painful way possible at some point. Possibly with the statement alluding to Blaine’s monstrousness and his hostility to the fairer half of the species, and how that impacts on his own dating success.
Faz: Destroy Blaine, He made me what I am. Don’t let him to it do anyone else, please.
Joyce: I think I understand you know, you weren’t grieving over your own death, you were grieving because he turned you into what he wanted you to be! you never had a chance to be anything else. Well I still respect you. I know you made a lot of mistakes. But know I see that it wasn’t all your fault. You had the fiery will of an Indiana student. Please share that with me know cause i need it. Thank you for saving Becky’s life and for buying enough time for me to recuperate. I’ll do my best to carry out your wish.
Because Faz the Gruesome Murderer is better than Faz the Annoying & Clueless?
That’s it, Megsy, invade the planet already…
NOPE
Oh don’t mind me I’m just sitting here waiting for Dan to spontaneously combust.
Resulting in someone (probably Billie) pulling the fire alarm and Ruth showing up to remove femurs for disturbing her.
Then she’d need to slake her hands’ thirst… for necks.
We really need an AU comic where Ruth is a wandering martial artist, who leaves a trail of dead evildoers behind her despite her best efforts to keep out of trouble.
Hell, after that description I’d settle for seeing her dressed as Kenshiro or Vash….
Wait. No. Not Vash. That’d leave Howard as Knives.
Wait, no neither. Howard as Raoh is actually worse.
Howard as knives would be great.
Also
SUPER FEMUR ATTACK!
Comics would be a very different medium id talking out loud to yourself had more realistic consequences.
DANNY’S FACE, OH MY GOD.
PFFFF. Great choice of person to elbow Walky.
Could’ve been Ethan.
He suspects that Ethan’s gay, so I think he’s trying to get support from a dude that he thinks is straight.
Fair point. I keep losing track of who knows Ethan’s gay and who doesn’t at this point.
Amber, Sarah, Joyce, Dorothy, Walky.
You forgot Mike.
Ah, right Mike. I knew I missed one, thank you.
Ruth is also aware, although she has like, -3 fucks to give on the matter.
How would Ruth know?
I don’t think she does? I remember her thinking that Ethan is straight and that “watching cartoons” was a euphemism.
Intuition. I forget when, but Ethan was in Joyce’s room, Joyce was like “I hope nothing bad happens” or similar, and Ruth took a look at him and was like “….Yeah you’re fine.”
That was Sarah.
If anything, Ruth thinks that Ethan is getting it on with Joyce. Though maybe the occasional foursome may occur. http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/03-answers-in-hennessy/other-guys/
“Who knows Ethans gay” ethan?
I don’t think he does, given that he knows of Ethan’s relationships with Joyce and Amber. He probably assumes Ethan’s straight.
No, Walky has definitely clued in.
Love that last panel. Walky can casually admit even he thinks Jacob is hot, while Danny is freaking out.
Right? I figured Walky for the kind of dude who was afraid of getting the gay on him. But hey, rock on Walkysnark.
…Well, he’s not wrong.
And yet there’s Becky.
Becky is very intent on letting everyone know that she is 100% gay gay gay, Kinsey 6, not straight at all and never was, etc etc.
If she’s like most, she will eventually ease up on letting this define her entire identity. Why, she [i]might[/i] even come to allow that she [i]might[/i] be a 5. (But certainly not one of those imaginary people in the middle.)
Hopefully one day she’ll comprehend the concept of a middle ground.
did y’all seriously just try to make a legitimate complaint about bi erasure while IN THE SAME BREATH sneeringly insisting that lesbians don’t and cannot exist, demanding that we should not try to accurately describe ourselves, and say we just need to be more open-minded and change our orientations?
ffs. go read up on mirrors, try to find one.
maybe someday y’all will get it through your skulls that people like you two are part of the REASON so many of us tend to be so emphatic and vocal about our orientations, goddamn.
(on-topic, I found Becky’s response here hilariously true-to-life and relatable)
Wow, drawing this party scene must have been really interesting/challenging for Willis. I’m looking forward to seeing how he does it. 🙂
*plays Quicksilver Messenger Service’s “Fresh Air” on the hallway Muzak*
Sorry about borrowing the comment-section Muzak player, yesterday. It was an emergency. A grammar emergency.
No need to apologize; I would have done the exact same thing myself. My mother was a teacher of English and would never let us kids forget it!
I really liked Roz for a long time, then I really hated her for a long time, now she’s warming up to me again, this whiplash is very annoying.
Kudos to the Willis for good 3Dimensional character writing!
DoA Roz is kinda fun as long as she’s not trying to make a point at you.
That’s probably her biggest flaw(as presented so far). She hasn’t learned that sometimes she needs to leave the soapbox at home.
Or at least that angry rhetoric doesn’t really sway hearts and minds at the interpersonal level.
The thought of making her point without using a soapbox has not occurred to Roz yet.
When you’re short, you get used to soapboxes.
Is she trying to win dem hearts and minds or is she trying to hold (Kritika i Samokritika) sessions in which she can call Thoughtcriminals to account for themselves? (Samo = self)
Maybe you can bill the neck brace to her insurance?
right? this guy right here knows what I’m talkin’ about. he knows. say hi to everyone danny
Yay for Dorothy asking the right questions to the wrong crowd.
I think she’s been reading yesterday’s comments. That point came up more than a few times.
Also, this is any indication her Gender Studies grade is going to be phenomenal. Leslie would be so proud.
Now there’s something I don’t see at all – putting up a guy’s agency who’s unknowingly in a love triangle between two girls.*
* Not complaining, I really like it.
AFAIK, most times when a dude has two possible love interests, his agency is so assumed in the premise that stating it aloud would be redundant. F’rex, Harry Potter. It’s only not assumed because Sarah’s insanely angry and Joyce is terrible with anything related to romance.
Indeed, you put it in better terms than I did. I’m watching an anime currently, Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, that dismantles romantic tropes and does silly role reversals, among other things, so the current predicament reminds me of that.
Man, how big are the dorms at this university? My school dorms an barely fit like, five people at most.
I remember at dorm parties at my college (with tiny dorm rooms), we’d end up with 2-4 people sitting in the loft beds, 2-4 people on a futon under the loft bed, people at the desks and people on the floor, too. It’s tight, but we could fit around 16 people in there if we didn’t move much.
For an extra layer of awkward, everyone should note that this is Danny and Walky’s first real interaction since the whole shoe-borrowing debacle.
Ooooh!!! You’re right! O_O
Dammit Walky, you don’t need to give the shippers more fuel!
#JacobAll
Jacob: That’s it, I’m DEFINITELY getting the hell out of this comic!
Jacob goes to the Walkyverse
Random Passerby: The city is being attacked by a giant robot ape!
Jacob: Its still better!
Jacob goes to shortpacked universe, has sex with self. Lives off royalties for the rest of his life, get’s SP Jacob the help he needs to beat his addiction.
But then the ships make bigger explosions when they get sunk…
..Bigger bonfires too…
*Recounts marshmallow packets…*
If you’re trying to make a bonfire on the ocean, you’re doing it wrong.
I am loving this party already and it’s been going maybe 5 minutes.
Will resist making overused joke about how long everything takes in this universe. Will resist making overused joke about how long everything takes in this universe.
Marx Bros party levels imminent!!!
Swordfish
The look on Danny’s face in the last panel…
No need to blush, Danny. I mean, I’m a solid zero but that man is statuesque, know what I’m saying?
heh, I keep forgetting my face picture is a woman.
Face picture is the best name for a gravatar ever
‘Selfie’ was taken.
Walky does not have time for you “No Homo” bullshit and I love it.
I like that while Walky’s had some weirdly traditional views in some areas, like his reluctance to get more shoes due to sitcom gender dynamic notions, he doesn’t seem to sweat other things. He didn’t have any visible discomfort around Ethan after correctly surmising he was gay, and here doesn’t seem insecure in acknowledging that Jacob is very attractive. I don’t know if he himself is earnestly sexually attracted to him, but given how googly eyed he is for Dorothy, I don’t think she’s in any danger of losing his unwavering affections anytime soon, no matter what Walky’s orientation would be.
Walky marches to the beat of his own bongos.
While Walky seems very shaky in his manhood (as Joe said), he seems to be pretty confident in his sexuality, so it doesn’t surprise me that he’s cool with joking around about that kind of stuff.
There’s nothing in this strip that isn’t great, except for the terrible impending drama looming on Sarah’s horizon. The last panel is particularly fantastic.
Becky says what I think when I go on my rare quests for porn.
Er I mean
Becky says what I think when I go on my rare quests for porn.
Contrariwise, straight porn movies seem to attract the very worst actors, even if the sexy stuff is often uninspired. I do so love terrible acting, even in my smut.
I think Tori Black is more often than not a pretty capable actress.
But yeah more often than not Porn Actors are pretty bad at acting.
Oh sure, there are decent actors in the industry. But the really, really awful ones seem to cluster in the straight porn end of it – or maybe it just seems that way to me because there’s so much of it out there. 90% of everything is crap, so the bigger the subset of “everything” there is the easier it is to find bad samples.
Man forget all this Jacob shipping, Walky/Bag of Doritos OTP
Threesome with Dorothy. “Dammit Walky, no chips in bed!”
Shhh baby, she’ll come around eventually
Would have to be careful I would think. Wouldn’t want any chips stuck in embarrassing or awkward places.
*crunch*
“DAMMIT, WALKY!”
“Crunch” is one of those noises you pretty much never want to hear during sexy times.
What do you use for lube with Nachitos?
Salsa? “Oh God IT BURNS!”
Perhaps Cool Ranch dip??
Its not a bag of Doritos, its a bag of Nachitos!
Your Gravatar is perfect for correcting people
It’s why I chose it.
Yet he’s worse than Newt Gingrich – discarding each bag when he’s had enough of them, and just moving on to the next.
Nobodys worse than Newt Gingrich: he’s is completely repulsive
But Newt’s only discarded partners two times. Walky’s count is probably up in the thousands.
You are correct, of course, but there is something about Newts reprehensibility that transcends simple arithmetic.
The way that Walky is hitting his current Bag of Doritos, they should find a room that they can use
If Jacob denies them both, STAB HIM! (and set him up with Ethan)
Aye, aye! and I’ll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition’s flames before I give him up.
Kahn really did have a thing about Kirk, didnt he
Urgh. You deserve credit for not making a (Moby) dick joke, at least.
Yep; i chose to zag with the nerd cult reference when the expected move would have been to go straight up the middle with the middle school English class sex pun.
I’m starting to think Walky has really good gaydar.
Sarah is probably still in the lead given how she took one look at Ethan and immediately correctly pegged him as gay.
…I’m trying very hard not to make the obvious joke here.
I think that you just did. Im just saying cause i had to look up pegged only a week ago, i hadnt encountered that use before, butt now …
Having a good vocabulary really pays off.
I see what you did there.
One day, Joyce will look that up…
Unless, of course, she learns to just not look these things up in the first place..
The internet may not be the Devils Playground, but it does make it easier for him to get the word out.
I gotta agree with Walky. I’m not gay but yeah, I’d hit that.
Danny’s freak-out face may be my favorite thing.
Dammit Walky, quiet in the Nachito gallery!
I do not relish the view when Walky piles the current handful of chips he has into his mouth. Like yeah, chips, but there’s limits!
I think Walky retained at least one of his superpowers from his other incarnation – his intestines of steel.
Walkys great goal isa fit an entire bag of Nachitos in his mouth
Wrong – he’s already stated that his big goal is to make a “Super Dew Brew” consisting of all flavors of Mountain Dew mixed together. And, I assume, to drink it. This will give him superpowers. Or, kill him, as I suspect.
Pretty sure it would just taste crappy.
I don’t know, considering how many are out of production and how many are region and/or restaurant specific then you toss in whatever is in the various flavors of Mountain Dew Kickstart energy drinks… we can’t all have the constitution of Brad Jones.
It would just be a weird-tasting Mountain Dew. The concentration of sugar, caffeine, and other basic ingredients won’t change. Only problem would be if Walky drinks the whole damn bowl in one sitting, or boils it down to a very weird syrup.
…Now I’ve given him the idea. Great.
Notice too how Willis has little bits of the artificial coloring from the Nachitos smeared around Walky’s mouth. Details, details!!
I suspect Dorothy’s going to make him do something about that if he’s expecting any post-party sexy times. That stuff isn’t just coloring – it carries a lot of the flavor/spiciness too.
She can just lick it off him.
Danny’s inner monologue: “AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!”
You can see the little tendrils of purple electricity crackling across his skull as his brain shorts out
It just struck me that, at least in this strip, Sarah and Roz appear to have surprisingly similar hair. Check out panels one and two.
I’m 100% my headcanon is false, but my headcanon is that Sarah has dreads, so seeing their hair so closely mirrored boggles my tiny mind. I think Roz just has really poofy/curly hair.
I see a potential book title: The Whole (Hopefully Romantic) Spite-Filled Revenge Part.
You forgot the “Somehow” but it has a nice ring to it.
They have to be the whole sentence, so probably not.
OH! Your avatar is from St. Onii-san. I’d been wondering that for ages.
I love how Walky is thoroughly enjoying himself.
He doesnt even care that hes the implicit butt of his own jokes.
Walkys great goal is to fit an entire bag of Nachitos up his …
I thought his goal was to mix every mountain Dew flavor into one super drink.
As a bi-curious guy, I don’t find Jacob attractive at all.
that might be because you live in the third dimension
I mean compared to other drawn characters, including ones from this same series. Hell, there’s an ad for official porn of some of them if you scroll up.
Woah woah, you mean people are allowed to have different standards of attractiveness?!
Nope! Everyone finds the exact same thing attractive. Duh.
Personally I find Jacob to be a handsome dude, just like I think Ethan, Mike, and Joe are attractive. But people are allowed to disagree. I keep seeing these “um *I* don’t find Jacob attractive” posts. It’s okay. You aren’t forced to do so.
“Bi-curious.” Is that even a thing? Admit it: you just made that word up.
P.S. This is the relevant comic for you!
Dorothy’s completely reasonable concerns is not getting enough attention in this comment section, imo.
Of course not. The title of the strip is DUMBING of Age so we are preoccupied with the bad decisions and actions, not the ones that are actually logical and make good sense.
Indeed, Dorothy exists to make the intelligent observations that we (the audience) agree and sympathize with, which are then completely ignored and trampled by the other characters. This inspires the “Damn you, Willis!”es that David needs to fuel his immortality machine. It’s inspired, really.
This is one of the best scenes.
(Also: Jacob, you evil genius…)
Thank you Dorothy for saying what I was thinking.
… Jacob is, joint with Joe and Mike, the least attractive main-ish male character in the comic. (I mean, if I met him I’d probably look at his biceps and go “damn, those are some biceps” but that’s about it.)
One of the joint-most-attractive male characters in the comic is telling the other that everyone is attracted to Jacob. And eating Doritos.
I am confused! Also, I want Doritos.
Those are Nachitos®!!!
I contest your standards of two-dimensional male beauty! If I were to be involved in a cartoon all-dude orgy, Jacob and Joe are the first dudes I’d invite, rounded off with Ethan and Bryan. (Sorry, Jim.) Mike only if he’s built like Shortpacked! Mike, and Walky only if he’s recently showered. Danny’s reference to his unwashed hair puts me off.
You can’t have Walky, but you can have his chips.
Walky: Ultimate comfort-ability with his heterosexuality, but capable of recognizing someone is a sexy man, worthy of being tapped.
Eight and a half? I count just eight – or maybe seven and a half since Becky is kind of not entirely in the panel. Unless you’re talking about that shoulder next to Dorothy? Though that’s much less than half a character. Are we counting Sarah or Walky twice since they appear in two frames each? I’m not getting the same count any way I do it…
first panel — (1) Billie and (2) Roz
second panel — (3) Sarah
third panel — (4) Joyce and (5) Becky
fourth panel — Ethan (left arm and shoulder), (6) Dorothy, and (7) Walky
fifth panel — Sarah (again)
sixth panel — Walky (again) and (8) Danny
8 characters in full and part of Ethan (the ‘half-a-character’)
These Sarah faces continue to entertain. Raidah making her so angry that she forgets people are watching is really endearing.
Weird side note: I wonder if she’s supposed to be light complexioned enough that the blush shows through, or if it’s just pure visual language (like a huge manga sweat drop). I’ve kinda gone back and forth on whether I’m glad I don’t visually blush.
My favorite character in this scene is definitely Ethan’s left shoulder.
Is Sarah. . . evolving. . . . .
It’s beautiful.
What? Grouchy Sarah is evolving?
Congratulations, you’re Grouchy Sarah has evolved into Slightly Grouchy Sarah.
It’s nice to see Walky becoming more secure in his own identity, even if at Danny’s chagrin (especially at Danny’s chagrin).
I thought for sure there’d be someone complaining that this strip didn’t pass the Bechdel Test.
Be sure to enter your spot of this non-Bechdelian exchange in your Gender Studies app; its worth extra-credit!
“All this STRAIGHT stuff is totes boring”… Becky, can you please be more obnoxious? Sometimes there are things that are not about you.
No. There. Are. Not. Things. That. Are. Not. Things. That. Are. Not. About. Me.
Besides which, i have to give all you straight people the LESBIAN perspective on your boring lives.
I don’t know, girl. Have you -seen- lesbian drama? I’m not sure anyone wants that advice.
I’m glad that Walky finds other people’s dumb drama entertaining because it will keep coming.
Be happy, Joyce. Your cute little matchmaking scheme didn’t go nearly as horribly wrong as it could.
Now, if everyone is done talking about boyfriends, let’s talk about giiiiiiiiiirlfriends, right, Becky? Eh, Eh?
Yeah, eight and a half; but where is Dina?
Behind the door again.
One way or another, Billie called this a loooooooong time ago:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/05-saturdays-all-right-for-slighting/bonecity/
Nah, that was like what, two maybe three weeks ago tops.
I wouldn’t have expected Walky to be secure enough in his sexuality to make jokes like that, but he’s surprising sometimes. Especially since he began dating Dorothy.
Though Danny is looking for someone else who’s bi to discuss the matter with isn’t he? This can only lead to hijinx ensuing. Or drama. Or something in between.
I just reread Sarah’s backstory and I would now really like for her old roommate to show up at some point and thank her for getting her help. She didn’t need to be in college while in that state and Sarah should never had been expected to deal with it.
Also, I just realized I’m fucking Raidah. D:<
no, you’re not jacob
On the second date? Those two move fast. 🙂
[RIMSHOT]
DMW, never has your gravatar so suited one of your postings 🙂
Gaining that level of self awareness would take far longer than what we’ve had so far.
If Dana ever does recognize that Sarah did her a huge favor, it will probably be years from now. The anger needs to subside first, probably.
Sarah: I don’t want to have anything to do with J-j-jacob… that b-baka
So, who will be the next guests? Sal and Amber?
I can just imagine: Sal races in through the door, and heads straight out the window, with Amazi-Girl in hot pursuit.
No, no, this is Sal. It’s in through the window, and maybe, MAYBE, out the door. Or she just makes a 180º and goes out the window as well.
Sal’s motorcycle would be the obvious choice.
we can do it, panel two
This is one of my favorite strips…right here. 😀