/doag/ Dumbing of Age General: Patreanon's Wake Edition

let the Dewd countdown begin.

>>88046538
>prattering

>>88046538

I haven't been reading, what the fuck is happening and why does Willis think that's how anyone talks or how customer service works.

>>88046634

It's a character from Shortpacked whose whole schtick is being as cartoonishly and seriously over-the-top as Galasso, maybe moreso.

I don't care for her.

>>88046538
I can't stand Sydney's nose. It's so out of place that it makes the Willis nose dot look normal in comparison.

>>88046771
it does make her look like a surly muppet, especially with the doofy purple hair lump on top

>>88046634
Well, he doesn't anymore, so there's that.

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>>88046725
>seriously over-the-top

That's every antagonist.

Its always a christian father with a shotgun, a rapist, a cartoonie cliche politician, a waitress that refuses to take orders.

Its always a one note idiot that of course is going to be on the wrong, the whole thing is an exercise to feel on the moral highground versus one note bigots

I just want to know why he'd introduce Sydney NOW if he's just going to get rid of her before the week is out.

>>88046771
You mean the Willis hole nose.

The comic reads like a body horror piece if you pretend everybody with a dot for a nose just has a gaping hole in their face.

>>88046828
>not realizing he reintroduced Sydney to just be a representation of all the people who shit on Becky here and on the comments he deletes off his website

you poor naive fool

>>88046826
No you see the guy's supposed to be like those Cartoon villains from the eighties and nineties. Cobra Commander, Megatron, the skeleton voiced by Tim Curry. But he works in a toy store. Or in this continuity, a pizza joint. It's a fish out of water bit.

>>88046828
When he had Leslie attending Robin's rally it was especially bad about looking like some kind of alien snout.

Also he's probably going to recycle her gag from Shortpacked! except focused exclusively on Becky.

Patreanon here, I'm not posting the newest strip.

P.S.
Suck my dick.

>>88046890
that doesn't explain every single antagonist being a one note strawmen douche

>>88047006
We understand. You already do so much for us, after all, and yet we hardly ever thank you for your service.

Go ahead and take the night off, yo.

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>>88047030
Fuck you I'll do what I want.

>>88047051

More galasso is the first step to unfucking DoA, unless a document-less Becky is leading to Galasso vs. Trump in which case I'm gonna fucking shoot myself.

>>88047051
please, oh dear agnostic god or gods who may be listening, let becky be too busy with her job to ever show up in the story again. let her crawl under her pizza-grease rock and never come back out

>>88047051
>Are you sayin' I gotta job?
>Yes, you will serve me.
>brazzers_logo.jpg

Also, if that's actually how this pizza joint operates, then I think the IRS or the FCC or DEA or whoever runs finances is going to have a helluva time auditing his place.

>>88047051

>I think we were Table 12

*Stifled Snort*

It's still a retarded storyline, though

>>88047051
>I think we were table 12

I think table 12 is Galasso's dick

>>88047009
Its a joke, anon. The funny bit is you have a cobra commander wannabe staffing a pizza joint. Its supposed to be funny, it isnt, yeah, but you completely missing why willis is doing it is just as retarded as his sense of humor.

>>88047122
It's anti-climactic is what it is. On a narrative scale, it makes sense, in that there is a clear beginning, middle, and end to Becky's job hunt. But the beginning is so subtle it was treated more as an aside, the middle is muxed with a completely separate storyline, and the end just happens as if everything was leading up to it.

It's a story, but not at all a good one.

>>88047051
Wanna headpat the shit out of Galasso.

>>88047051
This is kind of funny. Relatively.

>>88046890

See that doesn't fly though. The protagonists clearly don't have to stay at the pizza joint. Any customer would be out the door and on their way to the nearest Pizza Hut before the waitress could reach for her thesaurus

>>88046538
>'member when it was black and white, about a fucking toystore and didn't suck?
At least this peace of shit isn't technically part of the choochooverse.

>>88047088
>>88047135
Galasso's other schtick besides being an 80s cartoon villain is having no idea how sex works, so no go.

>>88047198
Yoto please

>>88047163

Plus the whole "There must be a God cuz everything works out in Becky's favor despite her not doing much of anything to achieve it" thing in full effect.

>>88047261

I suppose that'd contribute to the joke via the futility of the act.

>>88047084
>>88047122
>>88047199
You're all believing this is a better strip because of Galasso's curt dismissal of Becky's concerns and opinions.

You'd be correct.

>>88046884
If Sydney represents any website, it's Tumblr. She's got the sidecut, dyed hair, is a woman of color, has a huge koala nose, and yells impotently at everyone around her.

>>88046538
Wait. That's a female?

>>88047480

Im legitimately shocked to see Willis make a black chick the antagonist

>>88047051
Kind of reminds me of the time I got a job at a chinese restaurant.

>>88047051
>btw i'm lesbian

Wow 2 panels in, Willis is really restraining himself as we proceed toward the endgame

>>88047480
If she's tumblr she should also be into some really freaky sex stuff.

Anyone have this week's porn pinup? I'm kinda curious.

>>88047537
Actually, in a show of particularly bad writing, Dina revealed her sapphic tendencies.

>>88047051
This may actually be a brilliant move on Willis' part since Galasso actually counter-acts Becky's shittiness. He is the only cartoonish supervillain that Willis is actually good at writing.

>>88047051
So the ENTIRE FUCKING ARC with Becky needing documents, going home with Joyce, completely fucking things up the entire weekend, turning Joyce against half her family, forcing Joyce to help her break into her house, making Joyce lie to her parents, etc etc etc was all COMPLETELY FUCKING POINTLESS because Becky can literally trip on her shoelaces and fall into a job.

Marvelous.

>>88047051
Good strip, bad ending to the storyline.

If Galasso's inherent ability to not give a shit keeps interfering with Becky's inherent ability to be the most important person in the room wherever she goes, this might be worth it.

>>88047944

I didn't read but I hope said documents weren't her birth certificate. Because you can just go right to your city hall and get a new one for like 10 bucks. I had to replace mine last week they didn't even ask for an id.

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Sometimes I come here, and remember that most of you haven't seen real art in a long time.

>>88048167
The fuck is this?

Where's the dot eyes? Where's the exaggerated mouth? I mean, for fuck's sake, she doesn't even have bangs! Is she even human?

Of course we see good art in here, you knucklehead. What do you think yoto and rainbow-flyer are here for?

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>>88048208
>rainbow-flyer
That asshole jumped ship, huh?

I thought he was a QC shill

>>88047863
Which makes no sense here. Becky could have said anything that helps Becky to keep her job--like how she's eager to learn and stuff. But she instead says something like what Becky would point out. Dina is Becky-fying herself.

>>88047860

It's just Amber blowing Danny. You don't even see tits, I think. Just dick.

>>88047860
http://sli.mg/4iagTF

>>88048344
>>88048386

It's so terrible, I fucking love it. Thanks.

>>88047261
I feel like Galasso is one joke Willis made that actually works.

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>>88048726
Are you forgetting the single greatest strip Willis ever drew?

>>88048964
Wow an actual joke with a set-up and everything.

>>88048964

Former Nintendo Fun Club President Howard Phillips?

oh good lord Im old

>>88047051
I love how Dina somehow knows that they were table 12, despite them never getting any information about which tables were which. And that Galasso assumes Becky knows which tables are which.

>>88047136
Anon was asking why ALL the antagonists are one-note wannabes. Not why Galasso is Galasso.

Sydney Yus is as one-note as Ross and Robin and Roz and Mary and anyone else that has shown antagonistic tendencies.

Galasso has the potential to be funny with his shtick. But everyone else is a one-trick pony.

>>88047515
I mean, Raidah's the main antagonist to Sarah's arc not that that has a place in the Beckyverse.

>>88048386
Fucking speedlines again?
Anyone have last week's Marcie?

>>88050445
http://sli.mg/apktEi

>>88050669
Adequate, barring that disjointed foot.
Not just the porn, but I hate how Willis leaves little bits of black in his colored lines.

>>88048145
it was her birth certificate and social security card (because she didn't know her SSN)

you can also get a replacement for your Social Security card too but city hall would probably be run by Trump in Willis land and refuse to give Becky one

>>88051109
I think Billie is still considered under custody of her father, which implies she's still 17.

which would make it difficult to get new ID without his assistance.

>>88051394
Becky, not Billie**

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>Who’s next week????? still figuring it out i dunno
>the form of the destructor has been chosen
I know I sure can't wait for these super important characters to mash their planes against each other.

>>88048964
>Are you forgetting the single greatest strip Willis ever drew?
I refuse to believe he could have drawn something funny or remotely good.

>>88052254
I guess the question is, "when did Willis get replaced by a SJW skrull?"

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Here's the newest strip!

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>>88052885
Use your trip so I don't have to see your shitty comic that doesn't belong in these threads.

>>88048964
Wow this is actually cute and funny
I bet willis' friend came up with the idea.

>>88048964
Someone give that woman a baby and a kitchen!

Or if there are no volunteers...

>>88050424
But we rarely ever see Raidah given how rarely we even see development of the Sarah/Jacob storyline.

>>88051957
>Willis with dyed hair
>some rando
Why does Willis think that even his fans will care about these tertiary bitches?

>>88051957
>>88054184

He stated on Twitter that he'll only draw characters who would probably be comfortable with the situation, being observed or portrayed or something, so "we can guess who will or won't be drawn".

Which actually doesn't answer the question, at all, since off the top of my head there are 9 people who've already gotten Slipshines who could be drawn and haven't yet (Sal, Roz, Robin, Leslie, Ruth, Billie, Joe, Jason, Mike). And since the alleged requirement already encapsulates a handful of people I wouldn't think would explicitly be comfortable having a porno made about them (Danny and Amber, most obviously) that opens up another handful of main/semi-main candidates more relevant than these two.

I mean, it's not exactly a bad thing to, eheh, "flesh out" some tertiary characters, it's Willy's thing; it's just a bit disappointing if you wanted someone different. Of course, by nature, these are all disappointing...

>>88054855

As a side, don't comic artists (and artists in general) draw nudes and lewds of their characters *all the time* because it's good practice, among other things?

>>88054855
>he'll only draw characters who would probably be comfortable with the situation, being observed or portrayed or something
Oh, so NOW he considers his characters to be living creations. I wonder if he gave the same considerations to Mary when he let Billie sock her in the jaw.

>I mean, it's not exactly a bad thing to, eheh, "flesh out" some tertiary characters, it's Willy's thing
True, but it's more a matter of how I honestly still can't remember the names of these two. I really do consider the one with the hair "Willis But With Dyed Hair And Is Also A Lesbian".

>>88055082

I'm just disappointed because I'm sure Mary is kinky enough to make a porno but Willy would never waste time making a pinup of her.

If he did it'd probably be her and Mike.

>>88055125
He's already drawn her with nothing on but panties. He may as well try to pander to the Maryfags like us and make a pin-up.

Though we'd just wait for Pornanon to post it, of course.

>>88048167
Strange, my eyes don't burn when I look at this. Are you sure it's art?

>>88054855
I read it as less "characters comfortable with being portrayed" and more "characters in a situation where they are okay with being naked" i.e. no anime sort of "oh no my skirt blew up and showed everyone my panties I'm so embarrassed!"

>>88052885

As a person making my own webcomic, is baffling to me seeing you waste so much energy and time making a ''parody'' that is nothing like the original comic which sucks to begin with and is unreadable because of that.

Can you at least accept the fact that this thing has nothing to do with DoA and you are just shilling your unrelated comic strip?

If you want to be somebody in the webcomic ''world'' you have to have some pride in your work, not just using another's persons work and even these threads to bring attention to your unrelated work.

>>88054869
Yes, for anatomical purposes at the very least. Or because they can.

>>88056292
>energy
>time
Dude, these little comics take no time at all, that's why I do them, they're just for fun, and I love doing them, I'm pretty sure that's some pretty good pride if you like your own series.

I think you just need to calm down a bit

>>88056520
Then why don't you just create a new thread, just for your own comic?

>>88056679
Nah, that's just silly, come on now anon.

Test

>>88056782
Okay, so those weird 12 numbers that follow dewd's name sometimes aren't his secret secure tripcode.

What gives?

>>88048167
This character isn't constantly screaming "I'm a lesbian!"

I can't even see her gums!

I'm so confused!

>>88056716
No, it's not. Artists post their own webcomics on here all the time. You could have a whole thread to do a storytime all about your webcomic. Or why don't you post in the How's Your Webcomic threads?

>>88056990
>being this passive aggressive

>>88052885
Just report it. Let the mods do the rest.

>>88056804
Oh yeah, I accidentally clicked the auto fill that had my 3d friend code, lol.

I got swapdoodle btw.

>>88056990
Yeah, I know, but posting a comic like this seems a little... much.

Also I do have a webcomic in /hyw/ but it's on hiatus right now because I'm working on a big animation for it at the moment, and I also figured that I don't want to bother them too much with two webcomics because they already kind of hate me over there as well. Also, I mean, there's already a doa thread here, so why not post in it, right?

>>88046725
>she
I had to look again.

>>88056990
He's been shitting those up for years already. He is a human fart, impossible to dispell.

>>88056825
>This character isn't constantly screaming "I'm a lesbian!"
Are they really even a character then? It's just more main-cis-straight-stream media propaganda!

>>88048964
didn't DoA also have a dildo joke with joyce?

>>88056804
that's a 3ds friend code.

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>>88059641
Yes, this one that led to the infamous comic where Willis, the man who didn't masturbate until he was in his twenties, shamed and belittled his readers for not knowing something about sex.

http://pastebin.com/5MwZPhsE

>>88051957
That is a horrible preview panel. If I were still a fan, I would take this moment to feel unsure about his drawing skills.

>>88054855
>>88056151
Ethan is nowhere near comfortable enough with himself to be okay with porn being made of him. And if he's that smiley in the shower, that's a little weird.

>>88055082
Grace and Mandy. I think Grace is the blonde one, but it doesn't really matter which one is which.

>>88056292
>>88056520
I personally think it would be better to start back from the beginning of the comic and make the characters more directly parodies. Billie for example: alcoholic, co-dependent, violent. Kick up those 3 traits to 11 and let her loose. Big boobs? Parody Billie's are bigger.

Mary: judgy Christian artist. Kick those up to 11. She could draw pictures of her floormates asking God for forgiveness and stuff.

Ethan: paranoid and self-conscious about being gay, loves Transformers. Make every word out of his mouth be something almost accidentally outing himself. He always wears Transformers clothes and spends time on TFWiki instead of going to class.

The current comic has characters that are similar to Willis's, performing the same stories. It would be good to see the parody work more directly with the essence of the work, not just a strip-by-strip playback.

>>88048964
God help me I laughed
These truly are the end times

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>>88059641
Beaten, but here's the whole saga.
Alt text for first strip: "coulda retreaded an old it's walky! gag, thought about it, but i didn't"
And you guys wonder if all those awkward shitty callbacks are deliberate...

Edit to put in the intro strip where she finds it.

>>88060743

Last comic is actually pretty good use of repetition

http://www.comicsbeat.com/webcomics-in-review-dumbing-of-age-changing-for-the-better/

>It would be impossible (or at least deeply ill-advised) to summarize every plot thread in Dumbing of Age. Each chapter of the comic revolves around one day and jumps between different characters’ adjacent plot lines. These stories range in tone and subject matter but all feel a part of the same universe. Even the most out-there story line, in which shy computer geek Amber runs around as literal-superhero Amazigirl works out her aggression and past trauma – still feels plausible when next door Sarah is struggling to be personable again after a bad roommate experience in her first year turned her into a misanthrope. There are also a ton of interconnected romance plots for you love-dodecahedron fans. These romances range from causal to committed, healthy to poisonous, straight to gay – but they’re all about showing kids growing up due to the influence of others, which is really what Dumbing of Age is about.

>>88060743
>Alt text for first strip: "coulda retreaded an old it's walky! gag, thought about it, but i didn't"
Should be second strip! My mistake.
And now that I think about it, he still referenced putting vibrators in her hair with the curling iron line.

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>>88059886

>>88047122
>*Stifled Snort*
Kill yourself for typing this out.

>>88060863

Fuck that, what do you think I am, a tranny?

>>88052885
Ahahahah... you're so tired of people blocking your trip that you've stopped using it?

Holy God, you're sad.

>>88060858

Damn, what is this motherfucker's deal? That has to be one of the smuggest, bitchiest responses to an innocent question I've ever seen. I've read it a dozen times and it still catches me offguard.

I think even his fans called him out on this one, too. That's sad.

>>88061025
It's even worse because it's a comic in the style of "Oh Joy Sex Toy," a sex-positive comic. He's a pretty fucked-up dude, and if DoA is anything to go off of, it's his no-good dirty rotten Christian parents' fault.

>>88052885
For what it's worth, I like your comic.

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Galasso had a hard life.

>>88060743
This is actually a relatively decent example of shifting tone from comedic to dramatic. There's enough breathing room between the first strip with Joyce finding the vibrator to the last strip of Joyce having thoughts of a strong, fit man holding her in her arms as he thrusts himself inside of her, hitting places within that have never been touched. It's not like other strips where you have jokes one moment and then "I was raped" the next.

>>88062993
Of course, that's a week worth of strips.

>>88063525
True, but it's still become far more sudden a shift these days. Now there isn't even a transition; it's straight from one end of the emotional spectrum to the other.

>>88062955
feels.

>>88064063
In one strip, at that.

>>88060858
what a fuckin douche

Is there a collection of his pin ups available yet? So far I have only seen two of them,

>>88064752

I dunno but how well would an /aco/ thread dedicated to "stolen" Slipshine shit do?

>>88064752
I just started collecting links to all the Willis Slipshine stuff. Keeping it all in the Google Doc.

Here's what I have so far:

Walkyface
https://sli.mg/a/OpAn4s
Walkyface on roz
https://sli.mg/a/yARBCg
Mask
https://sli.mg/a/lJGjvn
Mike and Amber are terrible parents
https://sli.mg/a/om4Xfh
Sal fucks her way to A
https://sli.mg/a/yV028q
Lesbians featuring speed lines
https://sli.mg/a/Uwz6hW
Ropelingus
https://sli.mg/a/zQiRaN
That one with the dick frotting and a batman reference
https://sli.mg/a/gIzMX2

D/W Pinup
http://sli.mg/a/RADWNf
A/D Pinup
http://sli.mg/4iagTF
Marcie Pinup
http://sli.mg/apktEi

>>88062955
>Loved one dies to give wacky character who never shows emotion some gravitas
No wonder Galasso hired Becky.

Also, I think I know what the Drama Tag is, but I can't understand the first panel at all.
>It it faulty? Does--
>--does someone pull it.
What?

>>88065313
Alternate universe, Becky isn't in it.

Well, hardly in it.

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New strip!

>>88065313
The Drama Tag was a plot device in Shortpacked! It's like those pull-out plastic tags that you pull out of cheap toys in order to activate the electric bits (which Willis would be oh so familiar with).

Basically, the Drama Tag is hidden somewhere within Galasso's store. One day, Robin (being the dumbass she is) finds it and pulls it, which results in 'serious drama' happening in the strip for the first time (namely, Amber's abusive Dad showing up). And since the tag can't be put back in, all of the crazy drama bullshit that now characterizes Willis's work starts showing up en masse, despite Robin's attempts to make things wacky and non-consequential again.

And later, Leslie goes into an alternate timeline where the tag was never pulled and its influence took over the entire world. And in this timeline, Ethan never came out and married Amber in a sexless marriage based on Batman jokes, Galasso's wife never died and Willis draws like he did back when the strip started.

So to answer your question, Galasso's wife developed the Drama Tag because, in a world without drama, nobody dies. And she ended up dying anyways because Robin pulled the tag in the future, so in order to be a source of drama for Galasso in the future, she must die in the past.

It is a complete mess, but it is still the best thing in Shortpacked, and better than anything DoA has done.

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>>88066634
Also, tell me if this comic page doesn't remind you of how DoA is going.

>>88066634
Ok, so that's what I kind of thought was happening from my recollection.

That exchange in panel one is still really awkward to me. I get that she's saying that someone will probably pull it the future, but I feel like her line should maybe be a question, or just worded differently. "Does someone *pull* it." as a statement is a weird sentence. It was so awkward that it confused me, even though I did have a strong grasp of the concept they're talking about.

>>88066943
It's not just you. I think I had to read that page three times before I got it back when I was binging Shortpacked

>>88059886

Im surprised Joyce has even seen star wars. You'd figure her folks would ban it because of space wizards or whatever

>>88065304
Oh dang, you fucking DELIVERED man, good on you! I am gonna pay this forward and save these for later distribution

>>88046538
>>88047051
Anyone else hear Galasso voice as Patrick Warburton, or is it just me?

>>88067785
I hear Littlekuribo.

>>88066798
>>88066634
Leslie's dimension-hopping adventures are a meta-conceptual middle finger from Willis to the critics who asked why Shortpacked can't just be geek humor and comedy. Also, it's extra ironic since he'd go from that to drama-free drama in four years.

>>88066634
>So to answer your question, Galasso's wife developed the Drama Tag because, in a world without drama, nobody dies.
>in a world without drama, nobody dies.

Which has since been disproven given the amount of drama that happens in DoA, and yet Willis has instituted a no-death rule in that universe.

>>88068570
Which is why I said that >>88066798 reminded me of DoA.

>>88068681
Ah, my bad. I thought you were talking about Willis subconsciously describing DoA.

In any case, it's actually somewhat disheartening to see Willis having managed to handle complex stories like the Drama Tag in Shortpacked, then turn around and drop the ball constantly in DoA.

>>88066798

>Every conversation ends on a joke

Sounds like hell, Willy. You'd never do that, would you?

>>88068813
From what I've heard, he handled storylines better even before Shortpacked

>>88068570
The Drama Tag was pulled in the past but Becky's mom sacrificed herself to partially reinsert it, resulting in a world with drama but ultimately minuscule consequences of that drama.

>>88060858
For any one who cares, this is the FIRST strip where I stopped liking Willis and his commenters. If you go to the comment of this strip you can see a young yoto going from joking to actually fucking pissed at these people.

>>88069434
I imagine young Yoto wearing 90s radical kid clothing while visibly growing bitter as the night wears on.

>>88068959
He's freely admitted to starting up DoA because he got too lazy to keep up with toys and other pop culture things to keep Shortpacked! going.

>>88060858
>doesn't touch himself until well in to adulthood out of fear of dead grandmother

>shows in early porn comics that he literally has only a faint grasp of how sex works, and writes woe-is-me admission

>condescending comic calling people 12 year olds for asking how fancy vibrators work

>>88059886
Not even something about sex, LITERALLY ABOUT MASTURBATION.

I read that comic about stimulating the clutoris as someone who doesn't even know himself what it is or what to do with it.

>>88072038
>>88072216

I read through the comments too. The people defending the condescension were using the same line, that people were... shirking the responsibility of being ignorant. SHIRKING THE RESPONSIBILITY?! What does that even mean!

>Uh, well, when we told the stupid retards "God, you fucking idiot, it's for the clitoris" they said "Oh, well that's American sex-ed for you, heheh" like the stupid misogynist shitlord virgin rapists they are.

Stupid cunts, no wonder they got so assblasted over how sex-toys work, it's the only thing they can get to touch their frosty cobwebbed meatholes.

>>88065786
Ok, this was good.
Not great, but still good.

One more hour to go.
We're at a good jumping-off point, so I assume we'll get a scene change. What would be the best place to go from here?

If we don't have a straight scene change, I'd wager we're going to follow Sydney as she plots her cartoonish revenge upon a realistic establishment.

>>88074283
If I had to guess I'd say Sal, since that plotline hasn't been touched in a while.

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In tonight's strip, we go back to Dorothy! She's... making a spreadsheet... of feelings? I don't know why anybody would do this.

>>88075757

holy shit are we seeing an example of Dorothy being wrong

this is a miracle

>>88075757
Willis introduced Dorothy's notebook before, so I guess he feels the need to bring it back. I think it might be shrinking.
This is the kind of thing an RA should be doing, by the way, so maybe Willis is setting up Dorothy to become the new RA? I don't care enough to care.

In any case, this is a lot of nothing. I'd assume there's something in here, but I find nothing myself.

>>88075803
I'm sure you can find several example if you archive-binge.

>>88075757
It allows her to fake concern/interest/knowledge more easily. In a moment of honesty about how shitty a person Dorothy is, he has Joyce correctly compare it to Joe's would/would not fuck list.

>>88075757
Pretty sure someone accused Dorothy of not caring about other people. So she decided to prove them wrong.

>>88075757
>I got some holes to fill
I know this isn't lewd. But I'm gonna choose to assume it's lewd.

Also, I have to say, Carla being an unapologetic asshole is much more satisfying when she's not playing victim. She needs to continue being bitchy far away from any drama or stakes so I can not hate her.

>>88075757
Why would anyone give a shit about how Carla is doing? Nothing has happened to her and she hasn't done anything since outing Billie and Ruth.

>>88066798
>No one ever dies
>mandatory constant jokes
>easiest/laziest solution to any plot problem
It really is DoA.

>>88075757
I wish he would establish what the fuck that spreadsheet is about before having Joyce try to point out the ethics behind it.

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>>88046771
better?

>>88075757
This strikes me as really weird behaviour, but I don't really see it as bad.

Dorothy basically feels like she failed the people around her by not paying better attention. She didn't notice Joyce trying to gay convert Ethan, she didn't notice Billie's failures putting her in a vulnerable spot (in fact she dismissed Walky's concerns when they found out Billie was seeing someone) she didn't notice Ruth's downward spiral. Also, Danny broke up with Amazi-Girl, which she assumes is Danny's fault (which is pretty shitty, especially considering Amazi-Girl was in the middle of beating up people to feel better. I don't understand why no one questions her motives or mental state). Currently she hasn't noticed Walky's true issues about his math grade/class, which will probably be a big reveal relating to this.

So, as far as I can tell, she's trying to become more present in her community. Now the way she's going about it is keeping track of how people are doing. It makes her come off as a busy-body who doesn't actually care, because she's being mechanical about it and writing the stuff down. It seems like more of a Dina solution to figuring out feelings compared to how Dorothy is usually presented (she is a huge nerd, but a lot of her appearances present her as very emotional). But I think it comes from genuinely wanting to help the people around her, or at least not wanting to let anyone slip through the cracks because she was too busy trying to get ahead. I think the artificiality of it smacks of feigning concern, but I think that's different from putting in genuine effort. Sometimes you have to make an effort to connect with people, and just because you have to put in effort doesn't make your desires less genuine.

Of course, this could take a turn that makes it seem more mercenary or self-serving, or she could misuse/lose the info. And it is a pretty awkward way to do things, made worse by Willis' writing. But I won't construe this as Dorothy being bad.

>>88076060
Silly Dorothy. Caring about people in an academic sense is different from being a caring individual.

>>88065786
this is terrible, you are shit. your character designs are shit, your line work is shit, your perspective is shit, there's no shading, and you keep inking outside the panel you fucking hack. quit posting your useless off-topic shit in this thread and keep it in /hyw/ where you are still NOT wanted what so ever

>>88078420
It does make her a good fit for politics though.

>>88078442
I'm sure Willis was all set to positively compare Dorothy to Hillary back when her victory was a sure thing.

>>88078430
Lol, this is going to be great for my hate comments video.

>>88077824
It almost is better. That perfectly spherical shape works better as a knobby chin than a nose. The line above it could easily be a mouth.

>>88078489
instead of making videos and animations, why don't you actually work on your art

>>88078430
>hyw
keep to your own circlejerk, and stop shitting up these threads with your Dewd hateboner

>>88078534
fuck you you're just jealous i get so much pussy I can take your candy ass any day and I aint gay but that don't mean I won't fuck a dudes asshole so come here baby boy and let me show you what it's like to be a real man

>>88078464
I suppose RL events mean Robin won her election.

>>88078575
i suppose we'll find out in 2018

>>88047199

I...don't disagree.

>>88071065
Yeah, he basically realized he could just write college slice-of-life humor in his sleep and not have to keep up with pop culture all the time.

>>88076126
Carla is at her best when she's just an asshole rather than an asshole for a cause

>>88075757
He seems to like the shirt blonde haired girl a lot but I'm not sure what makes her distinguishable or interesting.

>>88060743
I know it may just be running water, but it kind of looks like she's crying in the very last panel

>>88081134
she is.

>>88075757
I'd compare my notes with Joyce and fill HER holes, if you know what I mean.

>>88080735
Agreed. I didn't really hate her before she "prayed" for God to kill Mary and started antagonizing her. She had the appeal of Shortpacked Mike by just being vaguely rude and putting on a tough act.

>>88080927
Because she's a girl interested in politics. That has never, ever happened in the history of ever.

What if Willis was so salty about the election that he had Mary become the new RA so that he could make her into a new Trump analogue, with Dorothy and/or Billie becoming some kind of Hillary?

>>88082593
I would love to read that trainwreck.

>>88046538
wow this is some trash

>>88067550
No problem, dude!

If anyone else has links, I will add them to the list.

>>88078430

I ___________agree___________

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>>88060858
What's even worse is that Willis didn't even draw it right - every vibrator I've ever seen has either a very bulbous, round tip or is forked in order to wrap around the clit.

What Willis drew looks like it would jab right into a woman's urethra and be painful as fuck. Hell, I saw people in the comments section guessing it was an anal attachment rather than for clit stimulation.

Of course Wills is also the person who drew a a woman biting down on the clit some it's probably safe to assume he never touched one in his life.

>>88084853
How Willis managed to sire 2 children will forever be a mystery.

>>88084853
It makes one question how he managed to have sex with his wife and produce children. I'd almost suggest he jizzed in a cup and told her to use a turkey baster.

>>88084882
The most plausible theory is a third party.

>>88084881
I still think this is mostly a coup to re-brand himself as a Cool Nerd Dad, like Kris Straub and the Penny Arcade guys.

>>88084881
Maybe he stole them.

>>88060858
>>88069434
I'm a bit too obsessed with this strip. I still get fucking upset thinking about it. I wish I could go back in time and tear it a new asshole.

>>88086500
The hypocrisy in the strip is just so outlandish, and it's just so overly mean and hateful when he could have just said his piece in the comment section.

>>88084853

>Hell, I saw people in the comments section guessing it was an anal attachment rather than for clit stimulation.

And according to him and his commentors, it was these guesses that made him create a page entirely focused on calling them sexless virgin retards.

>>88080927
That's who he aspires to be like. He wants his future self to be like her. But he already is a self-righteous know-it-all who isn't as smart or interesting as he thinks he is.

>>88084882
>>88084989

Leave Willis and his wive's sons alone

>>88088102

Sex change when?

>>88089668
One of the background characters is literally Willis drawn as a woman.

>>88088089
Are those kind of vibrators even popular? It seems like it wouldn't work well with a large portion of women due to physiological differences.

>>88090836
https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Health-Personal-Care-Vibrators/zgbs/hpc/3777831

They're pretty popular, bruh

>>88090938
Seems like getting regular one and a vibrating egg would work better.

>>88069434
>If you go to the comment of this strip
>>88086500
>>88086896
Man, I went there now, and it's a shithole. Lots of "lol thanks u.s. education," as though "vibrating dildos" is an important topic to cover, and fedora-tier "look at all these people inconsiderate of women's needs, unlike me"

>>88084853
>What Willis drew looks like it would jab right into a woman's urethra and be painful as fuck.

Maybe that's Sarah's fetish?

>>88085367
Given Willis' methodology, he's going to come on too strong and cause his kids to pursue degrees in business and marketing.

>>88090836
>background character
She's getting a pin-up soon, so for all we know she's going to replace Ruth in the character lineup.

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>>88093904
>Maybe that's Sarah's fetish?

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>>88097732
Is women being into sounding even a thing?

That's some shit I don't even want to see the thumbnail for, so I'm sure as hell not googling it to find out.

>>88084853

Female sex toys look WAY more fun and interesting than what we get for our dicks. If I had a vagina I'd probably collect these things compulsively.

No, anal isn't the same thing.

>>88100401
Man I'm glad I don't have to buy a bunch of sex toys to get off. I jerk off several times a day for free.

When does Sarah even have the time to masturbate, Joyce is there a lot and sometimes people barge in the room, not mentioning Dina who sneaks everywhere. This should be a plotline really.

>>88102160
During class.

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Guess what, friends? It's time for a BONUS STRIP.

And if you're curious, the case Jocelyne's writing about really did happen. It's Baskin vs. Bogan and it happened back in 2014. Here is the wikipedia article about the case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baskin_v._Bogan

And here's an editorial from one of the plaintiffs. http://time.com/4576513/mike-pences-hateful-laws/

>>88102570
>my little boy
>He's a good Christian man.
>How do we really know?
>USPatriotEagleTruth.xz

Y'know, if I didn't know any better, I'd say that Carol's a deeply religious conservative woman.

Also, is there really a need for the second panel? I know Willis loves his transparencies, but he doesn't NEED to include one in every strip.

Interesting read about the lawsuit, though why Jocelyn is writing about a case that either has not happened yet (if DoA takes place in 2010) or has long past happened (if DoA takes place in Current Year) when there are cases that are more relevant to investigate. Just a thought.

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>>88102570
jesus fucking christ, willy

how low can you go

>>88102570
Who's got money on this being a subtle with a capital "SUBTLE" dig on Willis's own mother?

How ashamed of him do you think that poor woman is? Does he really think having a baby makes up for him still being one himself?

>>88103053
I wonder how fucked his kids will be.

Probably very

>>88102759

Willis says 'sliding timeline', but....I don't....I don't think he knows what those words mean.

>>88103053
>>88103127
He's going to try and make up for all of his parents' mistakes, only to make them all over again.

But I doubt he'll ever let his mother anywhere near his kids. The only time it'll happen is if he leaves them alone with his father (who he's made amends with, hence why Hank is more forgiving than Carol), then finds himself busy with something else. That is to say, the only way she'll be able to see her grandkids is when David isn't looking.

>>88103157
Nah, he's pretty much got it on tap, in that he incorporates newer references while ignoring the origin point of time. The drawback is that he's never made a definitive statement in-comic about the timeline, but for the most part seems to pretend we're still in 2010.

>>88103157
Next week on Dumbing of Age!

>Dina rides a REAL LIFE DINOSAUR!
>Dorothy wins German leadership election against Adolph Hitler!
>Becky fights against evil futuristic Space-MRAs!
>Walky and Joyce do absolutely nothing ever!

Because sliding timescales, right? Everything is happening at all times? Isn't that's how it works?

>>88102570
It's incredibly overdone (probably for the sake of the joke) but I'd be lying if I didn't say I wasn't in that exact same situation before.


I feel the need to point out that It's equally as frustrating as talking to far right and far left who do this. World ain't black n' white. Some people are waaaaaaaaves of shitty.

>>88103266
I don't mind that reference timeline approach. A problem though is the passing of time is way too slow. The mess of a slice of life this comic partly comes from the constant shifts in perspective because Willis wants to tell everyone's stories simultaneously and has some shitty subplots he feels the need to treat one in a while. One character arc would be better, two at most. Man, I started this point with the intention of saying something positive about this comic. Damn you Willis.

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And here's tonight's actual strip! Dorothy would be a better RA than Ruth. She's never publicly threatened to beat anyone to death with their own femurs.

>>88103266
A sliding timeline only really works for loose, episodic narratives. The way Willy Wonky is doing it is more like >>88103310

It's asinine to have characters clearly restrained to a short time-period be so fluid in when that period is.

>>88103436
>how fucking dare you want to try to work towards your life goals without hurting anyone in the process
Oh Billie

>>88102570
Can someone get the Imgur link with all the Patreon bonus strips and keep it updated?

I'd like to add it to the list of links where I'm keeping the Slipshine stuff too. Get it all in one place, you know?

>>88103436
>It's another 'character starts shit for irrational reasons' episode

>>88103436
>what? you want to replace a fuck-up?
>you're probably thinking about being a good RA and being successful later in life, too

Good fucking god does he need to take lessons on how to draw hands.

>>88103436
That guy in yesterday's thread called it.
And goddamn, if I didn't know any better, I'd say Willis wants everyone to hate LGBT ladies with how shitty he makes all of their characters.

>>88103426
Yeah, Willis' pacing REALLY doesn't help. For a daily comic running six years, things are moving at a snail's pace. We're just over a month into the comic, and yet six years have been referenced throughout that time. Imagine if the past six years of your life happened in one month.

>>88103436
>Joyce's super-strength keeps Mike away
Just something I noticed. Guess punching a grown man into unconsciousness isn't just a one-off thing.

Also, is Billie also on Ruth's period now that she's in the hospital? Because all it does is add on to the pile of reasons why their relationship is co-dependent and unhealthy as fuck.

Like, all Billie's doing right now is giving people reasons NOT to like her. She called Sarah a cunt for narcing her roommate, she punched Mary in the jaw, and now she's calling Dorothy a cunt as well. And she's claimed that she's doing it all for Ruth's sake, right?

>>88103436
dorothy's a freshman she cant get the job anyway

>>88103578
Yeah, and Ruth's an abusive alcoholic who beats and threatens the people on her floor and breaks their shit.

>>88103641
yeah but the people who hired her didnt know that
the jobs literal requirements arent something that can be hidden

>>88103641
She was still a sophomore.

Which reminds me, Billie's a freshman. That's almost an additional layer of unhealthiness to their relationship, though I can't put it into words. Authoritarianism and whatnot.

>>88078489
Now I'm tempted to make up a bad comment just to get in even though I like it.

>>88103436
She's not wrong. Dorothy's way better than Ruth. Ruth was a suicidal, abusive asshole who BARELY wanted to get out of bed and do her job.

>>88093853
What kind of assumption is it that kids in other countries are learning about multi-prong, vibrating dildos in their sex-ed classes?

>>88102759
Yeah, the vagueness about "the court case" is annoying. If you are going to go full political comic, you might as well name names and provide links in the text update.

>>88103565
>>Joyce's super-strength keeps Mike away
>Just something I noticed. Guess punching a grown man into unconsciousness isn't just a one-off thing.
Maybe it's because she has super inner strength?

>>88103436
Does it even matter if Dorothy wants Ruth's job? Ruth lost her RA job on her own (with some help from Carla), so somebody has to fill that position. Might as well be Dorothy since she's already got a system for dealing with people and isn't a violent drunk.

Fuck you, Billie.

>>88103565
>>88104512
She grew up with five older brothers. Christian or not, she had to learn to hold her own in a brawl.

>>88104577
Wrong. It was Mary's fault!

>>88103578
>>88103641
They're all going to be Freshmen Forever anyway (or until Willis gets bored and time skips or starts a new strip), so may as well go with the Dorothy angle.

>>88104803
only if willis has no idea what the requirements to be an RA at their school are and refuses to bother to take the 30 seconds necessary to find out

who am i kidding she might as well already have the job

>>88104803
What could Willis even do for a new strip? "Dumbing Of Age, But Ten Years Later"? "Shortpacked 2: The Quickening"? "It's Like Roomies But All The Genders Are Reversed"?

>>88104577

>Fuck you, Billie.
The trend for RAs on this floor is to do exactly that.

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>>88105094
Then allow me to clarify with this image directed toward Billie, whose been a huge bitch to everyone except Carla.

>>88092115
Then you gotta concentrate on two hands, though.

>>88102570

Wow

All the subtlety of a pie in the face

Or a baseball bat

>>88105094

Heheh, they hire Billie as the occupational concubine and include her on the list of job benefits

>>88103436

Wow

You know what the first thing I noticed about this is?

It doesn't end in a joke

Did Willy have a stroke?

>>88103436
Huh. I wrote that big post >>88077859 defending Dorothy, and Willis actually managed to find a way to undercut her actions.

I don't really have a problem with her wanting to be RA. You guys are totally right, Ruth fucked that up for herself, and if she gets fired someone will have to step in. Dorothy seems as good a choice as any temperament-wise. She wouldn't be eligible because she's in first year http://www.rps.indiana.edu/employment.cfml#elig though. It's why I didn't consider it, but I should know better than to limit my predictions to the limits of reality.

The part I just don't see why she wouldn't just be upfront about it, at least to Joyce. It's not bad to do stuff for that helps you while helping others, but you shouldn't feel the need to hide your own benefits unless you're ashamed of them (which makes her a liar too!).

>>88103436

Gunna punch Dorothy too, Billie? Turn the floor against her?

Fuck this shit.

>>88103436
Bullie is usually taller than them, but she seems even more so in panels 2 and 3. I wonder if she's gonna try physical violence again.

>>88103436

I'm somewhat confused by Billie's appearance.

They're walking forward, looking straight, but Joyce obviously didn't see her coming straight at them, and furthermore Billie was able to pick up on their conversation despite suddenly appearing out of nowhere in front of them. It's like Billie both materialized out of thin air, and was listening in on their conversation from the ether.

>>88103436
I've just noticed, there's an awfully lot of panels in this series about walking away from people.

>>88108340
These are characters who warrant a lot of walking away from.

So when will Joyce finally get knocked up by some weirdo and force herself to settle down with a boring wagecuck?

>>88108477
As soon as she gets drunk enough to forget about her grandma watching her fuck with disapproval.

>>88102825

Here's a tip for you, Davey: Get some therapy.

>>88108153
She's so co-dependent with Ruth that she's copied her power to intrude on conversations at the best time

>>88103436

As much disdain as I have for Dorothy, she IS coming off as a rational person here.

Billie is being EXTRA Turbocunt today

>>88105120
Nope, Carla was the first target of her bitchery. It just wasn't as harsh as the others. Basically, Billie blamed Carla for outing Ruth and thus forcing her to be sent home, which clearly has yet to be the case.

>>88107937
>Bullie
kek

>>88109150
I'd like to see Billie begin growing extremely paranoid of others to the point that she barricades herself up in Ruth's room because, in her mind, they won't be able to clean it out and replace Ruth with a new RA.

>>88109917
You got a link to Billie chewing out Carla? I missed the whole Ruth meltdown arc, and I'd really, really rather not have to dig into the archives for that.

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>>88109972
Here you go.
And this is literally it, by the way. Billie pops in, blames Carla for getting Ruth sent to the hospital, and leaves.

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Meanwhile, scraping the Tumblr, I find that the Galasso's location is based on an actual pizza joint.

>>88109994
suicide is better than living with a grandpa who doesn't like dykes

>>88109994
it boggles the mind that carla is supposed to be the bad guy here and that we're supposed to side with billie. long term risk<short term fucking suicide.

not only that, carla didn't know any of that.

>>88110062
Apparently it's not outright dykery that Gramps hates. Apparently he's just an asshole.
What are the odds he's going to drop into the comic, and we have to deal with another month-long car chase?

Oh, no, I know what's gonna happen: Ruth's gonna snap into survival mode and force the car into oncoming traffic, then ditch (since nobody dies) after hitting somebody else, and for at least two months real-world time we're going to have to watch Bullie try to figure out where Ruth's gone.

>>88110063
That's what a lot of us felt when the comic dropped, I think. Carla didn't know shit about Ruth's situation, and clearly she didn't care if it meant Willis' No-Death rule remains in play.

>>88110011
Galasso's Azza?
What a strange name for a shop.

>>88110113
willis is amazing at writing an army of characters, none of whom are actually consistently right...though I don't think that's his intention. I'm pretty sure mary's supposed to be irredeemably evil and carla and billie are supposed to be down on their luck heroes.

>>88109994
Once again, I'm reminded of the static way that Willis and his characters think. They never look for alternate options or possible outcomes when shit happens. They just pick one option, and that option is Right and What's Going to Happen.

There are support systems in place, especially in college. There are advisors and therapists and student groups and just older students who are willing to help out other students. Between the lot of them, I'm sure someone could have worked out some sort of living situation. Hell, if Ruth had just dropped by Pudding Head's office and said 'Look, I'm not doing well and I need to take a break or something', Pudding Head would have probably done most of the work for her.

I think it's because Willis is so resistant to making new characters. The average college student has, I don't know, at least 10-20 people that they're friends with and at least 5-10 people they're close friends with. Since each character will have a different support system, even accounting for overlap, that's anywhere from 20-50 extra characters that he'd have to come up with, and that's a low ballpark. Since, as we've established, Willy's a big lazy fuck, he's not going to do that, so all that a character has is the 20 or so regular characters, and because most of those characters are freshmen, unpleasant, and/or generally incompetent, no one ever comes up with solutions that aren't stupid and shitty.

>>88110272
>I think it's because Willis is so resistant to making new characters.
For the most part, this seems to be the answer. The recent strips with Robin in Leslie's class had only two visual angles: Watching Robin/Roz/Leslie in the front of the class, and watching Joe/Joyce/Walky/Dorothy in the front corner of the classroom. The rest of the class was completely off-screen or obscured; two non-characters asked questions for Robin and were never actually seen.

The funny thing is that Willis used to draw vague renditions of background characters only a few years ago.

>>88110272
Cont.

Like, tell me that the comic wouldn't be so much better if Willis added a bit more to the cast.

* Joyce and Ruth being in the same Bible Study class
* Ethan, Danny and Amber going to some sort of gaming club
*Jacob and Joe pumping iron with /fit/ guys and talking about girls
* Roz joining a Gay Straight Alliance (or whatever Ally group the college has), and pissing off half of the other members with all the shit she pulls in the name of the cause

>>88110113
>Apparently it's not outright dykery that Gramps hates. Apparently he's just an asshole.

I said this in one of the other DOA threads, but if I were writing this series, just to buck the trend, I'd make Ruth's grandfather an old-fashioned, foul-mouthed irascible old bastard. He'd never have approved of the person his child married (do we even know whether he's Ruth maternal or paternal grandfather?) and make this disapproval known often, and loudly. He'd be an industrial worker or a farmer, someone that, even in his senior years is still a huge, imposing man. It's this combination of disapproval of one of her parents, his size and his penchant for vitriolic language that convinced Ruth at an early age that he was a Bad Man, even though he never (and never would) raise a hand to anyone in his family. He's old-fashioned and prejudiced but not outright racist and he makes off-colour jokes and comments all the time. Her being bisexual made her worried about coming out, convinced that she'd be put out on the street or something worse. Basically, he's a monster of her own insecurities. He's still loud, crude and opinionated but he loves his grandchildren (even if he doesn't know how to show it) and even knows that Ruth is different, but he doesn't know how to address that, either. But if anyone ever threatened or hurt her or Howard, he'd go bull elephant versus water buffalo on them. Basically, the whole point of him is to subvert audience expectations and to show that even though someone may seem like The Enemy(tm), that doesn't stop them from caring about others, or even being able to change. They just might need some help and patience to get there as a counterpoint to Joyce's own development, helping her see that even people like her mother and the other non-Dad church-goers could have hidden layers. Or we could make Ruth's grandfather another homophobic, racist, potentially abusive strawman and stroke our morality boners some more.

>>88110411
You're not at all incorrect.
Half of the problem with the setting of DoA is that Willis rarely ever wants to show the classes his characters take. I think we've only seen Leslie's Gender Studies class and Walky/Sal's math course, with vague looks at other courses like Amber's programming class.

It's like Willis wanted to write QC, but accidentally put his characters in a setting that isn't suitable for slice-of-life stories. The reason that Japanese SOL stories set in schools work is because of how classes in Japan work, wherein teachers move between classrooms and the students remain in one place throughout.

>>88110653

>we could make Ruth's grandfather another homophobic, racist, potentially abusive strawman and stroke our morality boners some more.

I dunno about whatever you were talking about before but this sounds like a fantastic idea

>>88110694
See, this is why I like Jacques better. His stuff may have the literary flavor of plain porridge (with the errant sci-fi being, I don't know, raisins), but at least it's well made plain porridge with raisin. Meanwhile, Willis keeps burning his because he's too lazy to keep an eye on the stove

>>88110816
I don't know what you mean with your analogy, but I'm inclined to agree. Even with everything that's happened throughout the history of QC, from suicidal dads to transsexual girlfriends to robotic Steven Universe girls, at least it feels natural.

>>88107463
Oh goodness. I can see it now.

>>88112561
And now we need Billie in the Slave Leia costume

>>88110653
My guess is that he is going to continue to remain a vague Boogie Man for now. Doubt he'll get any development for at least a few more months, if not years.

I get the sense that he might show up when Ruth gets out of the health center and he sees the medical bills.

>>88110125
Galasso's azza is really good.

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>>88110125
>>88110011
>>88113476
Hmm...

I bet he has one and uses it regularly.

>>88109994
Billie in that last panel looks exactly how crazed and deranged Willis' state of mind.

Pure impotent rage

>>88065786
Your stuff always makes me chuckle.

"... and am ready"
>>88110411
The fact that so much of the narrative is just classes and hanging out in dorms really bothers me - when Unbeatable Squirrel Girl gives a more rounded view of campus life, you have issues.

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>>88066798
>The easiest solutions fix every problem
Christ, it really is describing Dumbing of Age.

>>88111231
>to transsexual girlfriends
I honestly think that Claire is a much better character than Carla.

>>88066798
We need someone to do an edit of this and make it about DOA.

>>88109150
If she can't be happy, then no one can.

>>88115030
Claire is a much better character than Carla. That isn't even an argument. She's, like, at least four times as fleshed out.

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>>88115030
>>88116151
They're both flatter than a 7 micron slice of cardboard. Stop

>>88116182
There is a difference between a 1 micron slice and a 4 micron slice, and here at the offices of 4chan, we don't skimp on the details.

>>88110125
It's supposed to say "Pizza"

>>88116151
>she

Look I get using "proper pronouns" when talk to a tranny to their face. But do you actually believe fucking feelings that are disconnected to reality should be accepted?

Do you also tell people lizardmen run the world government because a fucking schizophrenic told you so?

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>>88116300
Sorry I triggered you, bro. Didn't mean to throw shit into your safe space

>>88116461
>In a thread about a webcomic that claims there isn't anything gay about having a tranny "gf"
>I'm in the safe space

Funny joke fag, how about answering the questions?

>>88116591
Maybe you shouldn't be getting triggered because I used a three letter word that you don't like in a certain context?

Because I'm pretty sure you're triggered.

>>88116697
Nice buzzwords pham, really shows the value of your feeling based thinking.

Again, even supporters of trannies argue that it's a mental issue. So why are you a hypocrite who will feed a tranny's delusions but not a schizophrenics?

>>88116787
This is, what, the third or fourth time you've derailed /doag/ so you can talk about how transpeople are so disgusting?

Such a strong reaction to such a minor thing? I'm pretty sure you're triggered, bro. Have you considered seeing a therapist?

>>88116938
Literally the first time I've been in this libshithole, sorry to shock you but it's not just one person who thinks trannys take this "do whatever" universal tolerance bullshit too far.

>>88117023
So you came in here just so you can start an argument over a three-letter-word?

Huh. Sounds like you're triggered. How about that?

>>88103436
>you're looking to take a job that just opened up, because you're qualified for it and it would be a good stepping stone for your future life goals
literally what is the issue

>>88117127
Better than your position. Can't even defend your support of mentally ill delusions, being mad someone challenged your hugbox thread of tranny lovers and yet still responding like a butthurt fag despite offering nothing to defend cross dressing, body mutilating, mentally ill queers.

>>88117233
>"responding like a butthurt fag"

Hey, I'm not even mad, bro. You're the one who sounds like you want to strangle me to death over a 3 letter word.

>>88117366
Maybe because you can't defend your own views and use the most pathetic replies of "y..you're just mad!"

An ignorant libshit who can't even give a proper reply when the logic of their feeling based views are challenged can be quite "triggering" :^)

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SHUT THE FUCK UP AND POST SOME EDITS, YOU STUPID FARTKNOCKERS

>>88117570
Well, your three identical brothers had shitty arguments when pressed, so I don't expect you to have anything better.

Keep trying to piss me off though! It's pretty entertaining

>>88117621
This is a good one, Minifig

>>88117698
Yeah, totally believe you when you literally have nothing better to do but reply and yet can't defend why one mental illness is ok to encourage their delusions but another isn't.

I mean for fuck sake, how about I help you out on this? Because schizo delusions can be a danger to other people. There was that really that hard?

I mean it still makes you out as a little bitch sub-human who will encourage a lie rather than accept the truth but fuck at least it's a response.

>>88117750
And why exactly am I supposed to indulge you with a proper response? You're an anon on a Mongolian fingerpainting board, hijacking a thread so you can go on and on about a topic that no one else gives a shit about, ostensibly trying to start a fight in the name of your own morals and ethics (though, let's be honest, you're probably just doing this for attention and to make you feel better about yourself). You know who does that? A SJW.

Anyways, Minifig's right. I've spent enough time making fun of you. You want to rant by yourself about the eeeeevils of transpeople, then go ahead. I'm going to go eat dinner.

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>>88103436
Joyce always had super strength.

>>88118541
I like the universe of the edits much better, for the most part.

I wish Willis could create insightful dialogue, like we do when we tackle plot holes.

>>88115051
It already describes DoA perfectly. No edits needed.

>>88046725
okay so why does the boss talk like an ass too

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>>88118745
I sometimes forget that Joyce's brother isn't a Nazi.

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>>88116299

>>88117621
OLD EDITS DON'T COUNT YOU ASS TAXI

>>88116787
Schizophrenics delusions tend to have violent or otherwise dangerous elements. If you believe you're Vlad the Impaler you're probably going to think about impaling some people at one point. If you believe you're Superman you're probably going to try to fly off a building at some point. If you believe you're a girl even though you have a penis, what dangerous consequences do you expect?

P.S. plenty of other nonharmful delusions have been accepted on an individual basis, for example Emperor Norton

>>88119172
fuck you Emperor Norton I is why we need to abolish the presidency you worthless cunt

San Francisco our city, Norton II our emperor

God Save the Emperor reeeeeee

>>88119027
Well fuck you! Some of us don't feel like using editing software right now.

List a fetish or scenario and I might write a quick lewd.

>>88115030
>>88116151
>>88116182
>>88116226
Claire at least came out to somebody else.
Plus, Jacques actually gave viewers a subtle hint about Claire's transexuality, giving her lips normally reserved for male characters. It's a detail few if any people caught onto at the time, and yet it's at least a hint. Meanwhile, Carla said that a penis drawn on her white board was a hate crime.

Which reminds me: Were the white boards a university thing, or did every dorm mate independently hang up a white board on their door? Because white boards are generally for people to leave message for their roommates, and Carla lives in a solo dorm.

Anyways, the fact that Carla didn't come out until she was forcibly outed is far less empowering as a character moment than Claire coming out to Marten. I wish I could word it better, but that's pretty much how I feel about it.

>>88119733
Some dorms provide whiteboards, some do not.

And Claire was pretty well drawn in the beginning in that she didn't really look like any of Jacques other females but not in a very noticeable way. The mousey, chipmunk looking Claire was the best.

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>>88117621

>>88119733
I've heard a lot of complaints about Bobby/Iceman's outing that went along the same lines. Billie outing Carla and Jean Grey outing Bobby basically removes the characters' agency. So them coming out, which should be a fairly important part of their character, is instead turned into an important act for another character. Sort of like how Amazi-Girl co-opted Toedad's Wild Ride and Ryan the Rapist as her enemies when they should be Joyce's.

Also, whiteboards are generally used as real-life shitpost fodder. I can honestly see someone drawing dicks on every single one back in my freshman dorm. Still doesn't explain why Carla has one. Only the sociable students had them, and Carla's not exactly the friendly type.

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>>88119895
Got an example?

>>88119968
Yeah, Bobby/Iceman being outed by Jean Gray was a combination of removal of character agency and adding another fuckboi to the gay pile at Marvel Comics.
And while I don't see how Toedad's Wild Ride was co-opted by Amazi-Girl (she was as equally stupid as Joyce/Sal on the bike), I do feel that way about her role in Rapin' Ryan's storyline.

And yeah, given Carla's personality, the first thing she should have done was tear her whiteboard down and chuck it at somebody.

>>88120074
Amazi-Girl in Toedad's Wild Ride was stupid as hell, but I say she stole the show because she literally appeared out of nowhere after Ross left and then we had, what, two or three straight weeks of her chasing Ross before Joyce showed up again. That's a pretty big hijack.

>>88120188
>she literally appeared out of nowhere
Oh, right, I forgot about that. Was she even visibly/audibly alerted? Or was she just conveniently on-site?

And I don't consider it that much of a hijack since it was still about Becky for the most part. Though now that I think about it, we shouldn't have even had a car chase in the first place; this would have been one hell of a moment for Joyce's inner strength to be tested (as opposed to her physical strength) and defend Becky, even while staring down the barrel of a gun.

It would basically be a callback to that one time she stood up to her parents, but with more stuttering and possibly somebody wetting their pants.

>>88119733
>Were the white boards a university thing, or did every dorm mate independently hang up a white board on their door? Because white boards are generally for people to leave message for their roommates, and Carla lives in a solo dorm.
Most of the girls on my floor had whiteboards. The ones who didn't were more likely to leave college or the building.

I am not a people person, but I had one anyway.

Someone drew a steaming pile of poop on it once.

We mostly used them to leave notes and drawings for our floormates when they were at class and stuff. I could see Carla using one so she doesn't stand out as an exception among the girls.

>>88120317
Now that I think about it, for all the attention Becky got, she didn't really get any agency in that arc. What did she do? Run, get captured, and then dial 911?

>>88119968
>>88120074
Jean Grey outing Bobby also had the unfortunate implication that she was using her telepathy to make him gay.

>>88120317
IIRC, Joyce sent out a mass text or something, same reason why Sal showed up out of nowhere.

>>88120698
Yes. Dina attacked Ross, Joyce stood up to him, Amber chased them down, Sal and Joyce chased them down, and Joyce punched Ross in the face. Becky ran from him and tried to reason with him a bit. Not completely without agency, but everyone else's actions stand out more.

>>88120698
She ran, abandoned her girlfriend, met with Joyce, told her she loved her, got taken away, got involved in a car chase, escalated the situation, and survived a rollover at full-speed without a scratch.
Then she met her girlfriend again at the hospital and pretended she was worried for her. And then three days later she flipped off her dad.

>>88120742
>Joyce sent out a mass text or something
How convenient. I forget if we actually saw that happening or if it was also off-screen, like damn near everything important in this comic that we SHOULD be seeing if we want to make any narrative sense out of it all.

>>88118745
Maybe we can meme willis back into non-shit comics

But then what would we take about

>>88120955
Go back to bitching about Questionable Content?

>>88120988
you mean handstabb? Doubtful.

Hey, guys, I had a wild and crazy idea just now.
But I need a strip where Becky yells that she's a lesbian.

>>88121143
Just make a comic about a rowdy lesbian and spam it on here and dumblr

It will be basically the same

>>88121221
A fair point, but I just wanted to make a quick edit.

>>88120742
>>88120863
Joyce is freaking out about Ryan, so Sal tells her to text Dorothy.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/01-to-those-whod-ground-me/meetin/

And Joyce apparently told her what was happening once Ross left with Becky??
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/01-to-those-whod-ground-me/meetin/

>>88121262
>following this comic

SMDHTBQH SON

https://twitter.com/damnyouwillis/lists/dumbing-of-age

W-was anybody else aware of this, or has this flown under our radar for months?

>>88120742
>IIRC, Joyce sent out a mass text or something, same reason why Sal showed up out of nowhere.
I think she just texted Dorothy, Sal came back because she heard the gunshot.

>>88121472
Considering it went nine months without being updated, I don't think it matters.

>>88121802
Yeah, I think he gave up on it.

>>88103436
How dare you want a job that isn't filled and will be filled by someone eventually

>>88123721
>>88121472
>>88121802
>the strength of /co/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOLzS2MmkzQ

how accurate is this for shitters like willis?

>>88124126
>newspepper

>>88121802
>>88123721
True, but I just never knew it existed at all.
I wonder why he started doing it again a week ago. Was Thanksgiving that boring?

>>88124126
I'm not too fond of this because of how it rags on Lexxy, but I give him the benefit of the doubt in that she hasn't made her anxiety/depression issues as prominent as others are wont to do.

In any case, Willis unfortunately updates his webcomic on schedule, making him exempt from the claims in this video.

>>88125197
he's not exempt from the comments shitting on webcomic artists' fear of criticism.