New commenting rules, trying them out.
by David M Willis on June 21, 2011 at 1:41 amI know I have a bunch of old webcomics that featured versions of these Dumbing of Age characters. That’s my own fault. It was gonna create confusion, but I figgered the benefits outweighed the downsides. And I still believe they do. I wouldn’t be nearly as excited about this comic otherwise, as I am writing about old friends.
But, dudes, when interacting with each other in the comments, let us restrain ourselves sensibly! When folks are commenting on these strips and ask about a character’s motivation in Dumbing of Age, many of these commenting folks are new to this universe! They haven’t read Roomies! or It’s Walky! or Shortpacked! or Joyce and Walky!, and nor should they have to. And so they do not want to be greeted in response with a detailed blow-by-blow account of character X in another webcomic. That is not helping. You are just being confusing and not even answering the question, since there is no answer to the question yet. This isn’t a SPOILERS! thing. It’s a flood of irrelevant information thing.
So, please, I ask of you. Let’s just talk about Dumbing of Age. If you are not talking about Dumbing of Age, there is a good chance I will delete your posts. I am happy that you are contributing, but I value my new readers.
If a new Dumbing of Age reader wants to find my other work on their own initiative, that is perfectly fine and good as well! But my focus on this website is telling this story this way. And I don’t want it muddled unsolicited. Thank you.
So Dedlok made a “spray” from a Dumbing of Age panel for Team Fortress 2. I show it off now, because it is hilarious.
This webcomic probably doesn’t have quite the same action figure dork following that my other webcomic does, but I should probably note here that I’m gonna be artist-alleying it up at BotCon this weekend in Pasadena, California. I won’t be at my table all the time since there’s panels I want to see, but I will definitely be findable. You could probably spot my red luau shirt from space.
Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!
Sarah’s out of the top image. It makes me very sad. I have big plans for her, but all of these plans stem from her being avoidant and generally anti-people. And having her interact with everyone all the time right off the bat works against that idea, so there hasn’t been very much of her so far.
Regrettably, since she’s one of my favorites.
Meanwhile, I figgered I should have the actual top three DoA characters ranked by number of appearances up in the header. That, at the moment, has Joyce waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay in the lead, with everyone else sort of gathered around the middle battling for second and third place. Joe and Billie take that honor, respectively. Look at the tag cloud down in the lower left to see for yourselves. I think I might start swapping out the people up top as they jostle for position. (Man, this storyline has a lot of Dorothy. She has a real shot of getting up there in a month or so.)
In the meantime, a minor goal of mine is to get Sarah earning her place at the top again. Unfortunately, Sarah won’t like it.