/doag/ - Dumbing of Age - Lesbians Edition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvJeATp31dw

Has the Malaya slipshine been leaked yet?

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>they actually made out
what

Also, I'm pretty sure the last panel is a reference to something. I'm just not sure what exactly.

>>89697375
No, but here's a preview for May 4th, 2017.

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>>89696978
I find it weird that Leslie is so angry after the last strip.

>Don't pretend to be what you're not
>I wanna live on your couch forever with benefits
>UGH I CAN'T BELIEVE IT

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>>89696978
God, I always hated her. She's so obnoxious. Glad she got kicked out.

>>89697441
>hey i want to be able to leave my house but theres news crews here can you go own up to what happened
>no i wanna live on your couch forever

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>>89697451
Actually scratch that her and her sister. Though, her sister is much worse

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>>89697375
Also, here's the preview banner. Looks like shit.

Also also, a note to Slipshineanon (Slipanon?): I think Slipshine may be cracking down on repostings of Willis' "art" on /aco/. Something to keep in mind; another Anon and myself were given warnings for posting his images direct to /aco/.

>>89696978
>>89697439
>>89697530
Also also also also, the password is "fivesecond".

>>89697488
>Seducing a public political figure
>Being mad when it becomes a media circus

>>89697530
how are they sending warnings?

>>89697530
Oh god, don't remind me of his porn or I'm gonna throw up.

>>89697589
The same way you're notified of being banned. They make you view the warning before you're allowed to post again.

>>89697616
Don't worry. If we're lucky, this should be the last month for his latest series.

>>89697530
imgur galleries are always fine if the mods over at /aco/ want to be like that. Can you link to a nsfw gallery on a blue board?

>>89697582
she didnt seduce her. robin showed up in her house uninvited after their conversation in the bar

>>89697872
Probably. You might be able to use Mixtape.moe if the site still exists.

Also, it's less so the mods and more 4chan's DMCA policy, in that ever since the Fappening the site needs one in order to cover its ass before it can be sued.

>>89697902
Well, she might've seduced her a little before with her hairdo and open blouse before she kicked her out of the class. She laid the groundwork anyway

>>89697902
>>89697980
Dude, the drama is because of her grabbing her hand and telling her what they'd do together in the bar. That's where the picture came from. Robin went to her house because the media was already swarming. This shit is Leslie's fault and her explicit plan from the beginning. She might've had a change of heart, but the damage has already been done with her lesbian wiles.

>>89697530
That's always been a thing, desu. The last time someone leaked an entire slipshine on /aco/, that thread got deleted within hours.

We use imgur for a reason, mates

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Is Andrew Hussie a worse cartoonist than Willis?
I mean, with Homestuck you had single panels and the occasional GIF/animation, which obviously took more work on his part. But he also had some cronies to help, raked it a BUNCH of shekels from his fanbase, and had months or even a year at a time to make his updates.

Meanwhile, willis is putting out multiple-panel strips on a daily basis. Most people, I imagine, don't buy any of his stuff because of figures like pic related. And only major autists like me would go to the trouble of buying any or if you're me all books, but he still seems to put out a comic every day. What gives?

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>>89698499
I've been coming to /co/ for four fucking years, I should know how to do fucking spoiler text by now

>>89698499
Willis has never cared about his work the way Hussie cares about his. DoA is a vague mish-mash of forced quirkiness, watered-down soap opera, and wish-fulfillment fantasy, while Homestuck is a STORY. If nothing else, you've got to give it that.

>>89698566
Oh yeah, I'm not saying that Homestuck is better. It just seems like Hussie woulda been able to get shit done faster, given all the resources he had.

But then, we're not getting a Dumbing of Age videogame/flash game/animation ever, and Willis never hit any real struggles in life. Closest thing would have to be some shitty little kid stealing his favorite Optimus Prime from the Transformers shelf at Wal-Mart

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Thank god he doesn't care enough to actually revisit the strips he drew months ago until they automatically post

>>89698624
*not saying that DoA is better

Fuck

Are there any Willieverse fans out there that have done any fanart/voiceovers of the comics? I'd kinda like to hear some headcanon voices for these kids we hate

>>89698709
There's a few on YouTube, I think. Nothing too substantial.

>>89698729
>>89698709
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9KFsDKVohw

Well hey, we got one animation with a pretty good Danny voice, a pretty eh Joe voice, and some pissy sound effects

>>89698854
Oh, God, I think I recognize that. That's a Roomies!-era flash from the pre-2000 Internet era, and I think that's Willis himself as Danny with a friend as Joe.

>>89698499
Hussie codified and popularized a unique type of webcomic, explored new grounds in varying artstyles and exploiting the medium of internet storytelling, and (by accident or on purpose) created a fictional race that's perfectly designed for people's shitty OCs. Never mind that behind most of it (let's just ignore Act 6 and 7) was a complex story with a bunch of elements that a less talented artist would have probably lost track of. Hussie may not do the usual shit with panel composition and whatever, but if you start talking about the artistic giants of the webcomic world, then Hussie on a good day can bump elbows with Tom Siddell and Tracy J Butler, if not by sheer quality then by a drive to innovate and experiment.

Willis only achieves any work of notice when he's well into sci-fi mode. The bit with Leslie and Head Alien. A few of the fights in Shortpacked. His plots are generally weak and his writing's even worse. His one and only quality is consistent output, but Schlock Mercenary's been doing that for two or three times as well as he he has, and while SM occasionally skimps on the backgrounds, there's usually good art on the Sunday strips.

This isn't even a competition and I'm baffled as to why you brought it up.

>>89696978
Shit, i wanna find the old threads but the way /co/ archives works it's so annoying to find threads that are old.
Anyone think apastebin or somethink with link to old threads could be a decent idea?

>>89699151
https://desuarchive.org/co/
Just search "/doag/" or "Dumbing"

>>89696978
What happened last issue? I'm not giving that fag got page views.

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>>89698499
Andrew Hussie played his fanfic ass fanbase, got a shit ton of money off them, and then made comics that poked fun at the retarded fanbase for liking shut about his story that didn't matter. Only thing he's guilty of is his year long break

Willis is a retarded man baby that panders because he doesn't want to be like "those white people" so he'll jump through all sorts of hoops to make his SJW fanbase happy, even though it sacrifices logic and emotional understanding.

Hussie also isn't afraid to kill characters that people like. Willis out right stated that God in his world is out to protect becky's smile.

You tell me whose worst anon...

>>89698635
Dis niggas topical on ALL the latest pop culture references.

Willis, kys my man

>>89698051
And she's still being a Thirsty cunt expecting a person she "tricked" to be okay with it.

I can tell someone gets their ideas of Lesbian interactions from a porn.

>>89696978
Where is this outrage coming from? Didn't couch potato just get finished saying she wants to stay?
>>89697441
>I'm done pretendin' I don't wanna live on your couch forever an' watch tv
Maybe I'm too much of a shut-in to understand, but isn't it a good thing when the girl you're crushing on stays the night and just wants to just chill with you the next day?

this is the dumbest comic posted on /co/ why do you guys keep talking about this shit?

>>89699483
As a Homestuck General refugee (plz no deport), I can safely say that Andrew's weaknesses lie in his ability to write for the long-term while reconciling aspects of lore, backstory, and ongoing character arcs and personality traits in a way that ultimately feels satisfying. Just ask around any Homestuck thread that pops up about how Rosemary becoming canon was a bad idea to see, among other examples.

The thing is that Willis has the same kinds of problems, but they manifest in different ways that I don't care to figure out at two in the morning.

>>89697488
>no i wanna live on your couch forever
Politicians in a nutshell.
She really is a Hillary parody.

>>89698624
Hussie cranked out a mind-blowing amount of content, nonstop, for years on end. At it's peak it was updating with 6+ new panels, multiple times in a day, every single day unless he was working on a flash. It seems pretty apparent that he got burned out along the way and became disenchanted with how huge his fanbase was, and how much it had changed. Early MSPA readers tended to be people similar to him, which is why the obtuse humor in Problem Sleuth feels so effortless. As Homestuck made it big, it drew in legions of readers who were younger and more "fandom" type, which he appreciated at first, but there's only so many times a pale awkward man in his thirties can be serenaded by legions of cringey teenagers smeared with grey facepaint at conventions before the magic wears off. Late Homestuck reflects this, as he directly mocks his readers with the Act 6 / Dancestor bullshit, which mostly went over their heads. Honestly I don't think he's been the same since 2012 or so. I hope he's alright.

Also his older works, which are in a more traditional comics style (Whistles, And It Don't Stop, etc), showcase how much talent he has as an artist. If I remember right, one of the reasons he went with the minimal style for MSPA was because he couldn't stand how long it took to do things the old fashioned way.

That wasn't supposed to be a dissertation but I have lots of feelings about Homestuck.

>>89696978

People don't talk like this, Willis!

>>89697497
>>89697451


While Robin IS a piece of shit, that doesn't make what Roz did to her okay. Roz IS definitely a shittier person by FAR.

>>89697902

Maybe not seduced her outright. But Leslie DID want to get close to Robin and made distinct efforts to try and do so

>>89697929

Since when did 4Chan give a shit about DMCA? I thought it was supposed to be the lawless frontier.

When did this place sell out to the man? It used to be cool

>>89699572


I know they went to a bar but Leslie really didnt say anything to the effect that she needed to get a drink all that badly

>>89701133
Ever since The Fappening.

>>89697530
Thanks for the warning. Slipshine as a whole is borked for me right now so hopefully I'll be able to deliver. It might be actually good this time...haha, it's never good

>>89701133

Like >>89701394 said

You should realize by now that things that happen to normal mortals are irrelevant until it happens to people who are actually important, ie celebs

>>89698635
I remember Kris Straub was talking about how he didn't like to buffer his more topical commentary-style work likje Checkerboard Nightmare and chainsawsuit (or maybe this was pre-css), because you want your topical immediate jokes to hit when the iron was hot.

Willis seems to have decided that he will continue to do topical humour while having a buffer, because it's hard to tell jokes outside of pop culture, damn it!

I look forward to a bunch of alternative facts jokes in 3 months. I hope there's a gag order on news media by then so they come off as tasteless.

>>89699005
>by accident or on purpose
Nigga everything about Homestuck, from Sburb to classpects to the trolls was designed to make it easy to create OCs.

>>89703001

We are coming up on exactly 3 months after Election Day, right?

I expect the comic to quickly shift back into sci-fi shenanigans as their US is taken over by an evil dictator and the characters join the Resistance while fighting his evil white Christian minions, led by Prime Templar Mary.

>>89696978
Isn't every edition lesbian edition?

>>89703152
Nah, it's gonna be an election between Dorothy and Roz, since apparently RAs are decided via election.

>>89705169

The more I think of it the more retarded it seems.

If Willy were a real writer he would hype up the "election" and both candidates "running" only for Poo-head to show up and reveal the powers-that-be already decided independent of any of the "platforms" or whatever.

>>89705252
If that happened, knowing Willis, the winner would be a complete third-party who isn't Roz or Dorothy.

But since that doesn't seem to be the case, we're just going to get weak yet blatant analogies for Trump and Hilary.

>>89705353

But who's who?

Roz is supposed to be "the asshole with a good point" and Dorothy is supposed to be... what, "the perfect candidate who has trouble with people" (despite there being NO evidence of such before now).

>>89705396
Like I said, it's going to be weak but blatant.
Roz is going to be Trump because she's being put in an antagonistic role, and Dorothy will be Hilary because that's who Willis voted for.

>>89705424

Mm mm, he's gonna piss some of his readers off with that.

I'm sure many see Roz as the perfect woman. Equating her with Trump... that's gonna be a party.

>>89700123
I was never in the HS generals because they were cancer but have loved hussie since homestuck. What do you mean about Rose?

>>89700649
My most notible moment of him mocking fans was when he did the whole The Felt relationship aspect chart. It was awful and funny at the same time

>>89697530
What can Slipshine even do? They don't own /aco/.

>>89705977
I can't regurgitate the entire explanation, but it involves cutting off any and all potential character evolution between Rose and Kanaya in order to make the two a canon ship. If I had a copypasta, I'd post it.

>>89706057
True, but they can still put in a DMCA to have the material taken down. It's basically an anti-piracy measure.

>>89705396
I think from Willis' perspective any and all hate for Hillary was unfounded, undeserved and came out of nowhere. So maybe that's why Dorothy is being hated on despite not deserving it at all.

>>89705396
I mean, she's been accused of being uncaring before. This isn't entirely new.

>>89696978
WHY DOES EVERYONE HAVE DOG NOSES!?

>>89708275

It's not because Willy is lazy

Godforbid Willy be accused of laziness

>>89698566
>Willis has never cared about his work the way Hussie cares about his
Currently, yes, but I think he cared back when he was doing IW and J&W.

>>89697530
I actually enjoyed the lesbian Slipshine comics that Willis did

>>89711222
The clitoris is not a taffy pull, man.

>>89711222
I liked the ones with Danny and Amazi-Girl because it felt really honest and romantic. It wasn't just "and now we sex" it was Amber opening herself up to someone she loved.

And Amazi-Girl smothers his face with her giant ass.

Haven't checked in for a while. Is that guy still making a script to crack the buffer?

>>89711592
I've been meaning to, but I accidentally made that promise just before school started back up.

So fuck me, eh?

>>89703001
>I hope there's a gag order on news media by then
We would all be colossally fucked if that were the case.

>>89711638
Well you probably shouldn't since it's probably in some way illegal.

But I want you to do it regardless.

Slipshine?

>>89712238

Google it, newfag

>>89713065
I don't think this is a request for elucidation, but rather a desire for the porns to be shared.

>>89711638
>So fuck me, eh?
Not It.

>>89699304
Thanks

>>89705353
99% sure that's why he brought in Meredith.

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>>89719163
I completely forgot about her.

>>89719733
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>>89719880
For a moment, I thought you were just spamming.
I feel like the pose itself is a more direct reference to something else, though. The hands specifically.

Regardless, I'm still not sure what to make of any of it.

>>89720730
Mostly spamming and pointing out how unnatural the position is.

>>89706031
>something something COARSE KERMIT COCK

I though the whole "CAUCASIAN" incident (and subsequent retcon to "PEACHY" after they missed the joke) was a pivotal moment in his relationship with the fanbase. The Trickster Mode arc in general (A6A5A2, I guess?) was, in my view, the point where he finally turned on the fandom.

It's great that we can have better discussions of Homestuck in /doag/ than we can in the typical "What went wrong" or "How would you fix this" HS threads.

>>89708275
It's a college populated by a race of chipmunk people, and a few black humans.

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>>89696978
>>89697441
>totes

>>89697687
>If we're lucky, this should be the last month for his latest series.
DoA's ending?

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>>89699005
>codified and popularized a unique type of webcomic

>>89721162
>"What went wrong" or "How would you fix this" HS threads.

Willis is an idiot. He isn't an outright charlatan.

>>89721189
This is an interesting take on things. Someone said they reminded them of the Goofy Movie. It's a twisted version of the Mickey Mouse universe.

>>89721669
I meant "Welcome to the Fuck Zone". His porn comics are generally 16-18 pages in length, and this latest pin-up is number 15.

>>89721623
I use "totes" as well, but now that you bring it up as happening once per strip, I'm starting to think Willis is just using it for flavor.

So...

Where's our "stolen" porn strip?

I don't mean to rush our illustrious Pornanon but I'm drunk as fuck and ready to jack off to something I'm gonna regret.

>>89722944
>I'm drunk as fuck and ready to jack off to something I'm gonna regret.

Story of my life anon.

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In tonight's tantalizing tale, we start to wonder if Robin actually does have LESBIAN SUPERPOWERS!

Like...exactly the superpowers she had in the last comic that Willis wrote. Seriously. How did she avoid the press, root around in a garden, and break in a window?

>>89723338
What is the intended reaction here?

Are we supposed to like Robin? Hate her? Ignore the double standard of her selfish, clingy behavior being played for laughs? Is the double standard the joke? What level of irony are we on?

Seriously, I have no idea how to respond to Robin these days, and the comments section is getting pretty sick of her too. I wonder if it's going to be something as (relatively) innocuous as this that turns Willis' fanbase against him.

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>>89723338
Has Robin gone insane? I haven't been keeping up besides occasionally checking these threads but last time I checked she wasn't an obsessive crazy.

>>89723338
>How did she avoid the press, root around in a garden, and break in a window?
I was about to ask the same thing.

Also, that's a lot of goddamn copying and pasting going on. Was Willis at a convention or something?

Also, I can't figure out the password again. Might be a word not in the actual strip again. Meanwhile, on the front page:
>Welcome To The Fuck Zone #15 is up now, and it features Malaya! Malaya and some unknown penised person, I dunno.
>Next week you get Billie and Ruth.

Peachy.

>>89723467
>>89723484
I think Willis has just given up on having any potential conflict or character progression, and has just had Robin revert back to her Shortpacked personality.

>>89723338
>Snuck back in through a window
>In front of the press

I know she's not terribly smart, but this is actual retarded puppy sort of shit.

>>89723338
>>89723484
Yeah It seems like Willis ditched any characterization. For someone who was supposed to be running for president, she certainly shows a huge lack of focus and cheerful idiocy.

>>89723338
I'm not going to lie, I'm a sucker for jokes like in panel 6.

Leslie's nose dot changes shapes four times in this strip.

>>89723467
I'm not really sure. One could see it as a reflection of Leslie's obsession with Robin being thrown back in her face, but that really doesn't jive with the humorous tone. If everything were presented seriously it'd come off as Robin being desperately lonely. As for his audience getting sick of it, he just has to wait out the strips in his buffer (which more than likely includes the conclusion to this part of the story) then drop the plot point for a couple of months or years.

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>>89723338
Jesus. I know people sometimes comment about how Willis is a cruel, fickle god to this world, punishing and rewarding the denizens unjustly.

That's literally all I could think about reading this strip. Leslie doesn't even like Robin, but she has it in her very code design to be Robin's love interest and can't escape her ordained fate.

It fucking sucks, man.

>>89723467
Robin has been completely incomprehensible since she decided to sleep in Leslie's bed, and DoA has been especially terrible when it has been focusing on them.

>>89723338
>"LOCK!"
Willis' insistence on using ironically 'accurate' onomatopoeias really fucking bugs me. Making the noise out to be the actual verb stopped being funny or clever a long time ago.

>>89723618
Yeah, that's a pretty dark way to look at it. I actually feel bad for Leslie here- I always thought that she would be way better off not with Robin even dating back to her introduction in Shortpacked

>>89723505
>Also, I can't figure out the password again.
>>89723699
>>"LOCK!"
Sans exclamation point.

>>89723933
Ayup, that's it.
Damn onomatopoeia tripping me up.

>>89723609
Panel 6 would be cute if it weren't for Robin's complete lack of any respect for Leslie's boundaries, the whole overly attached stalker vibe, and the whole breaking and entering thing.

In a totally different context, that joke is actually pretty funny.

>>89724003
No, you see it's funny that Robin is trying way too hard to get Leslie without any respect for her wishes, her boundaries and any tresspassing/breaking and entering statutes because they're both women. Also, because they're meant to be together!

>>89723505
>>89723568
The more I think about it, the more I wonder why the press would be there. The pic of them at the bar would have logically been released after they left separately and there would be nothing corroborating the claim that Robin is at Leslie's apartment. The picture of them doesn't show Leslie's face nor does anyone know Robin is at Leslie's apartment, leading to the question of how exact does the press know to be there.

>>89723618
>>89723720
>Look Teach, I mean Leslie, I'm going to level with you. I don't actually want to be here, sitting around your apartment eating cereal. I just...I just feel compelled to do so. No offense, but the young Ellen DeGeneres look isn't really my thing. That look on your face tells me you know what I'm talking about. I'm supposed to be a congresswoman but I don't know my positions or political party. Do you remember your husband's name or what your dad looks like? Please tell me you know what I'm talking about. Do you have the deja vu as well? When I visited my sister I could have sworn I knew everyone who lived on her floor. I was in the elevator with this kid I've never seen before and I knew, not guessed but knew, his name was Mike Warner. Except that I also knew he had a wife named Amber and a kid. It wasn't some delusion, I know some 18 year old living in the dorms isn't going be married with a family, but there it was clawing its way out of the back of my mind. A memory that doesn't exist. Tell me I'm not crazy, Leslie. Please, for the love of god, tell me I'm not crazy.

>>89724571
All those questions can probably be answered by the answer of a single question.

Who took the picture?

>>89724657
we'll find out sometime late october. or midway through 2018. or possibly fucking never, who knows, he has a three month buffer, so unless rapin' ryan took the photo it's probably going to become a forgotten detail.

>>89724657
Given the angle of the shot, it would have had to have been taken from behind the bar.

With that in mind, Roz, it's obviously Roz even though it doesn't make any sense.

>>89724571
This continuity bleed is truly terrifying.

>>89722694
>but now that you bring it up as happening once per strip, I'm starting to think Willis is just using it for flavor
This is a man who got angry over people using the term 'salty' because he could not leave his plastic bubble long enough to discover slang that existed post-2009. He genuinely thought people made it up just to irritate him.

Any benefit of the doubt you give Willis you might as well give instead to Tom Preston for all the good it does you.

>>89723505
>Was Willis at a convention or something
the only time I ever saw him in person, his expensive booth had no one at it besides me and he glared malevolently at me for eyefucking his merchandise without purchasing it

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>>89724957
>continuity bleed
MAYBE the Robin we see here is a alternate timeline Walkyverse Robin whose Leslie died trying to save her in the final Drama Tag plotline of Shortpacked. Now she's looking for universes without a Head Alien, and with an easily replaceable Robin, so she can seduce Leslie as that universe's Robin and be with her lesbian lover forever.

Or something.

>>89725268
Did SP Robin murder DoA Robin?

>>89725268
Or maybe it's just shitty writing and you're reading into nothing creating you own headcanon to filling the mountains canyons of plot holes.

>>89723505
>>Next week you get Billie and Ruth.
????????

Why would we want or need more??

http://i.imgur.com/Bv9RDC5.png
https://sli.mg/a/Uwz6hW

>>89723570
>running for president
She's running for re-election in Congress.

>>89724101
What's scary is that you could almost say the same thing about how Leslie saw Robin before this happened.

>>89724571
>A memory that doesn't exist.
I want them to slowly regain memories of all the previous universes.

>>89724995
>This is a man who got angry over people using the term 'salty' because he could not leave his plastic bubble long enough to discover slang that existed post-2009. He genuinely thought people made it up just to irritate him.
Please tell me there's a link for that. I'd love to read up on it.

>>89698709
Here are the ones VA Anon has done, in one convenient folder:
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/pi3rlni1v293g/DoA_and_Shortpacked

Hoping to see more soon!

>>89725719
>headcanon
just some 2am ramblings, anon. Not trying to defend Willis or anything

>>89726012
don't get it twisted, nobody defends willis here. it's more a warning before you slip too deep down the slope

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>>89723338
>absence of God

>>89725829
>I want them to slowly regain memories of all the previous universes.

That would be the first truly interesting and unexpected thing to happen in Dumbing of Age. Someone needs to pull the Status Quo Tag out of this comic. Mike is probably the only one who could do it.

Still no Slipshine?

>>89728529
Even just the next general strip would be nice.

>>89725829
>Please tell me there's a link for that. I'd love to read up on it.
Sadly all I have are memories of screencaps being posted in one of these generals, not anything I can link. If I kept a folder of webcomic creators being lolcows I'd need to reevaluate how I waste my time on the internet pretty severely.

>>89723338
> good hard/soft punchline
that's the best I can say for this strip

The day Willis stops virtue insulating pet characters from the type of consequences he holds his other characters to, let me know because honestly most of his lead characters should have restraining orders or broken teeth by now

>>89729506

>>89723338

>>89725268
>Report on the Status of Non-Continuous Knowledge in Earth 4151

>After monitoring by detection equipment and observation by a field team, it has been concluded that the Robin DeSanto of Earth 4151 is not dimensional emigrant, but rather a native who is somehow possessing memories of an alternate counterpart. The how and why has yet to be determined, but Science division theorizes the most likely causes to be pineal gland hyperstimulation, tangential contact between alternate realities within the local multiversal cluster causing non-physical overlap, or a destabilization of implicate order space that affects two realities.
>Due to the nature of the middle option as large scale changes within transdimensional physics that can be naturally occurring, the lack of technological advancement within Earth 4151 to locally induce implicate order disruption, and the lack of evidence of any of the usual methods of inducing pineal hyper-stimulation, it is my profession opinion that based on evidence so far that this is an isolated and probably naturally occurring phenomenon. If non-natural, the source is more than likely originating within another dimension.
>As such, this incident is being classified very-low priority. A monitoring team will continue to observe the subject and watch for any additional non-continuous knowledge or memories to surface in her or others. Department of Observation has been given the relevant data to begin examining known realities to determine if there is an external source of the issue at hand. Potential for non-continuous knowledge causing sociocultural upheaval within local society is minimal (C'mon, it's a Robin; no one listens to what they say half the time and don't believe them the other half).

>Maj. Rebecka Saruyama
>Department of Security, Transdimensional Operations Division

>>89731855
If this does turn out to be some sort of wacky universe bleed thing, then I'll have to give Willis some props.

I mean, it would be stupid as hell, but it has the potential to be good stupid rather than bad stupid

>>89732048
I don't know, this is the man who ended his prior comic with an invasion of 80's cereal advertising.

The slimg links for the porns aren't working... I should find and reupload what I have somewhere else

>>89735315
How many of them aren't working?

>>89732048
Seconded. Even if it was bad stupid, we could at least point to it as a "jumping the shark" moment. And it would still be an interesting ride.

>>89719762
>>89719789
>>89719819
>>89719880
>trouble.co.uk
Christ, that takes me back a few years... I don't suppose anyone remembers Flash Boyfriend?

>>89728529
Maybe we should be grateful for that.

>>89735791
Basically everything except the last few pinups were on slimg. So, all of that is gone.

>>89738319
I'm pretty sure there are some imgur links floating around with them.

>>89723618
Leslie's life is terrible in all universes. Her name blatantly labels her as a lesbian, which could easily cause problems. She has a love-hate relationship with Robin that she can't seem to shake. Robin is so obviously terrible for her that it's just cruel that fate/Willis keeps pushing them together.

>>89738319
>Slipshine is cracking down on
>of all the things they've posted in their past
>Dumbing of Age porn

They must really be strapped for cash if they're unwilling to let DoA R34 slide.

>>89740578
Maybe Willis will surprise us and set her up with someone like the new female Alex.

And Robin will lose the election and fuck off from the comic forever, letting Leslie be happy.

>>89701133
Once Net Neutrality dies, this site will end up being closed down anyway. No one's going to be able to afford to run a web site unless they're a corporation or rich.

>>89740788
>>89740578

Hooking her up with Alex 2 could ruffle some feathers.

If we're going under the assumption that Leslie's life is supposed to be terrible and that Robin gets away with shenanigans then the correct course of action would as follows:

Leslie loses her job for causing IU's second political scandal in a month and is then shunned by feminist, liberal, and queer groups for perceived support for conservatives.

Robin gets to be the token gay conservative and is put on a pedestal by her local party, securing her position while being able to use her hat trick minority status to hammer at political opponents and escape criticism.

>>89699876

Because his other comics were really good, and people are sticking with him out of loyalty In like 5 percent of cases.

For everyone else, it's an extremely guilty pleasure, something to lurk on while hiding your powerlevel, or something to bring up how right wing you are and why all you heathens are going to burn in hell. Occasionally all three

>>89711695

What could possibly go wrong by letting Trump have a month or three without the media reporting anything that he does?

>>89741016
Alternatively Robin leaves politics and starts teaching political science at IU, leading to workplace hijinks with Leslie.

>>89741212
I keep coming back to these threads for some surprisingly great lit-crit and Christian apologetics.

>>89741393
The Dean hates her, but Willis could get around that by having the board of trustees push through her hiring.

It turns out that they hired Robin for the express purpose of triggering a violent, destructive protest as part of an insurance scam.

>>89740753
I think it's a general push. I used to post slipshine stuff a while back and it's all been taken down

>>89742131
I got banned a week or two ago for posting some of the links, so I'm trying to do it less.

>>89743944
A few years ago, I did weekly threads sharing porn links on /co/, they lasted about a year before I started getting banned for posting NSFW on /co/ despite never actually posting porn pics.

>>89740788
Actually, do we know if the real-life Alex is into girls? Willis may be incompetent at the activism he clings to, but I doubt he's incompetent enough to invalidate a real-life transgirl's sexuality

>>89741212
There's this infamous Wonderella comic that argues that we shouldn't focus on serial killers in the wake of mass murders because that'll just encourage other potential serial killers to do it so they'll get on the news and become important for five minutes, even if they're too dead to enjoy it.

That would have been good against Trump during the elections. Keep him out of the official news cycles and the endless Facebook/Twitter feeds and leave mocking him to SNL. Never give him any sense of validity. Of course, now that he's conned his way into office, better to know what he's up to next so you'll know what the minimum safety distance is.

>>89744791
The difference is that there is plenty of evidence showing copycat crimes and direct inspiration for certain types of mass murders and the argument is that the media shouldn't sensationalize the murderer and stick to the facts of the case. What you're suggesting is an honest to god conspiracy by media outlets to sway US elections by manipulating press coverage, even moreso than they actually did during the election.

>>89744583
My latest ban said that you can't even post links now. We could dodge that by linking to a link. If we put the stuff in a PasteBin, we'd link to that, and you'd go to the individual ones as you please.

Here's the Doc with all the links and a bunch of other stuff that seemed important enough to hold onto. It was originally for showing how ridiculous Becky was, but it's evolved into a little place for me to hold onto stuff that gets brought up from time to time.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SNqEtHsg_a2zm0ryB0rG8CzTLEVitftj4kQZ_Kg-Hsg/edit?pref=2&pli=1

>>89745208
Holy shit, DocAnon, I had no idea it had gotten so big.

>>89745123
If Trump was actually treated like a normal candidate, I would have no problem with it. But the majority of news media, from both official outlets and informal ones like Facebook and Twitter, were either spreading outright propaganda about Trump or mocking his myriad gaffes. Even more so than a typical political candidate. At some point, it stopped being informative and started being purely sensational, and then it's not news anymore.

And I'm not promoting conspiracy as I'm promoting prudence. All news outlets have some bias, because when there are infinite stories available and finite money to pay interns to run the Twitter account, you gotta make some choices. I just want a bias against sensationalism. And besides, we spend too much of the election season mocking the other side instead of actually deciding who'll be the best leader anyways.

>>89745423
I included some of the very best AUs and some of our newest exploitables.

I've compacted some of the stuff so it's not quite so large.

Should we split some of it up into different docs for different categories of interest?

>>89741714

I come back because there can honestly be some good political dialogue and insight without getting too extreme, most of the time. Not all the time.

>>89723338

Uh, Robin? If she threw you out of her place, that means she doesn't want you in there. That's not an invitation to come back in

How can you not get that?

>>89723618
>Leslie doesn't even like Robin


Then why was she going through so much effort to meet her?

>>89723699

Like when he used "DeLOREAN!" to represent traveling through time

>>89723720

Wasn't Leslie conspiring with Roz to wreck Robin's career?

Im starting to think Robin may be Leslie's karma

>>89747497
Robin's sister talked Leslie into it in order to ruin Robin.

Leslie is in a hell of her own making.

>>89747595
Curse! Curse of the unfulfilled loveless lesbain relationship. MWA HA HA HA HA

>>89723338

NOW that we have "breaking and entering" I think Leslie now has sufficient grounds to call the police.

If there wasn't sufficient grounds with the lesbian allegations to wreck her career, breaking and entering would certainly seal the deal. Particularly since she did in in full view of the press

>>89724571
>leading to the question of how exact does the press know to be there.

Roz told them?

>>89699005
>Willis only achieves any work of notice when he's well into sci-fi mode.

I would argue the only reason most people ever heard of Willis is due to the Batman gag strips in Shortpacked.

>>89697929
>>89697872
we tend to use http://sli.mg/ these days but yeah, it's fine.

>>89747415
Robin is a selfish idiot who thinks Leslie is a pushover.

>>89747497
She hates it when people don't like her, especially when she thinks the reason isn't that good. Robin doesn't think Leslie's politics are important at all, even though Leslie has these views because they affect her directly.

>>89747641
This is the future she chose.

>>89747595
>>89747596
No, Leslie was conspiring with Roz to fuck Robin, Roz was planning on using it to ruin Robin's career.

>>89746765
There was a set of AU posts at the very end of the last thread if you're interested.

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>>89744791
>Of course, now that he's conned his way into office

>>89746450

It's not really a conspiracy theory when there's stuff like the New York Times reporting his tax returns, which is literally FUCKING ILLEGAL.

>>89747904


I still think Roz's plan to ruin her own fucking family member's lives is utterly reprehensible. It's still a shitty thing to do even IF Robin is a terrible person.

However this whole breaking and entering thing has destroyed even the tiniest bit of sympathy I could have had for Robin. May she go down in flames

>>89747928

Okay, why exactly would Roz want to ruin Robin's career? Just because she can? That's the only vibe I'm getting here.

>>89748329
They have opposing political alignments.

>>89701442

Any luck?

>>89748353

Well yeah, but so do me and my dad. But you don't see either of us trying to ruin the others life over it.

What Roz is doing is a whole other level of petty vindictiveness. This goes WAY beyond a simple disagreement

>>89741212
go back to /pol/ please.
>>89741714
you shouldn't encourage them
>>89746450
that's not really true
>>89747415
conservatives have no respect for other people
>>89748965
if more people were like roz we wouldn't be in the rouble that we're in with trump

>>89748965
Reminder that people like willis would see Roz as in the right for ruining robin's life and career because they disagreed with her.

>>89748290
To me, Robin and Leslie's relationship is a direct result of Roz's plan and therefore poisoned.

>>89748965
Roz comes off as a bully and something of a sadist.

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Meanwhile in the plot that wasn't ruined GUESS WHAT IT'S FUCKING RUINED.

Thank Christ we got wacky lesbian shenanigans rather than Joyce talking about her PTSD.

>>89749483
>GUESS WHAT IT'S FUCKING RUINED
how is it ruined?
i mean, its not a good strip, but the story itself hasnt really been changed at all by this. of course shed want them to do it

>>89749483
Did we miss a few strips? When did Dorothy bring this up with Joyce? Surely Willis wouldn't leave the emotionally powerful moment where Dorothy asks Joyce if she's willing to identify her rapist OFF-PANEL, right? Is he really getting THIS lazy?

>>89749580
it really does look like a strips missing but unless willis posted the wrong one i guess this is just how it is

>>89749580
it looks like we missed a years worth

>>89749483
Jesus Christ, Willis is just rushing through all these plotlines and potential character progressions like he's on a budget of zero dollars.

Like, seriously, we had Walky's plotline about failing math tied up with Dorothy helping him, we have Leslie and Robin's secret affair being cleanly put down, and now we have this, wherein not only is Dorothy's soul-searching about telling Joyce made a moot point with this simple "Do it," but Joyce's own traumas regarding the events are made irrelevant.

Like >>89749580 says, it's as if we missed a few strips. Imagine if this were a movie and we just jump-cut from Joyce in the hall going to class to this scene.

>>89749483
The worst thing about this strip is the time lapse whiplash. I mean, ffs, how short are Dotty's drunk math tutoring sessions?

I'm not really getting how doing something they should've done ages ago (report Rapin' Ryan) RUINS anything.

>>89749580
i bet he couldn't find a good punchline for "hey... we want to go extrajudicial with your near rape."

question: is this day just about dorothy? wouldn't there be like, seven other plots happening right now? or is dorothy just going around resolving everything and that's how she gets chosen for RA in the most comically stupid way possible? is carla and mary's conflict next?

>>89749611
The password is "ruin".
This was intentional.

>>89749634
I'm starting to think Willis has a quota he sets for himself for in-universe days. That is, he feels he can only get in X number of strips for one day before it gets too long and he has to order extra pages in his trade collections.

>>89749580
He apparently had Robin and Leslie make out with each other off-screen, is this really a shocker?

>>89749634
Well, if they had reported Rapin' Ryan after he slipped Joyce a mickey there would be a police report, several eyewitnesses, a detailed description of Ryan, and a tox screen whereas now there is a blurry photo, accusations being made on social media, and a direct link to what would be future defendants in a lawsuit.

>>89749625
How can Willis' pacing be so complete shit when he only has self-imposed deadlines and no interesting story ideas?

>>89749580
Powerful moments are what off-panel is for, anon. What are you, the Hallmark channel? On-panel is for snark and violence.

>>89749754
Given Willis and Ryan's track record, instead of suing for libel, he will return to Joyce's dorm and take hostages, and thereby prove himself guilty of a crime beyond all shadow of a doubt.

>>89749754
>if they had
Sure, but they didn't. Going to the authorities late is better than never. It's much better than letting the Social Justice superhero Amazi-Girl continue to run amok trying to "solve" the "problems".

>>89749483

I've got a big fucking idea

Why don't you go to the FUCKING POLICE

God fucking damn, the pageantry of this inanity is infuriating. "Triggering"... bah. Get over it or kill yourself.

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>>89749483
>>89749580
>Surely Willis wouldn't leave the emotionally powerful moment where Dorothy asks Joyce if she's willing to identify her rapist OFF-PANEL, right?

Oh you sweet summer child.

Seriously though, not only did he skip over Dorothy telling Joyce, he also skipped her figuring out how to break it to Joyce, Dorothy telling Amazi-Girl that she was for sure going to tell her, Amazi-Girl revealing that Sal helped her, Sal agreeing to be there and finally, them all discussing if Dorothy's plan to tell her is right. And that's ignoring discussing the merits of posting his name/picture on-line in general, which I'm not so sure will be helpful.

Also, I feel like the new and improved "lets make everything better" Sarah would want to be there, too. I guess she's probably too busy with class to help Joyce with this whole rape thing that she's been supporting her about.

I'm at least happy that Joyce has finally agreed to do something about this instead of trying to pretend it didn't happen. Even if the something is hella weak.

>>89749483
Jesus fuck willy, where'd the intervening dozen strips just go?

>>89749929
After overhearing Dorothy and Amazi-Girl talk about how Joyce's assailant worked for the DeSanto campaign, Sarah checked out the campaign Facebook page, discovered Ryan's identity, spent fifteen minutes combing through his social media accounts, lured him to a disused restroom in an outlying campus building through Tinder, and mercilessly beat him until he was choking on teeth fragments. She then dropped a few of Raidah's hairs at the scene, returned to the dorm, and asked Dina to call Amber a weak-ass bitch before heading to class.

>>89749929
>>89750070
Honestly, when you think about it, this strip is probably Willis' way of handing off Joyce's storyline to the other three. "I'm okay with being a victim and not taking charge of my own conflicts and complications. You three can do all the actual work; I'll just sit here and watch the walls."

>>89748329
She wants to have lots of sex and talk about it as much as possible. Robin visited right after the sex scandal of Roz and Joe's tape, and she told Roz to knock it off.

>>89749483
Instead of showing us Dorothy telling her, we jump to The Moment. What a frickin' cop-out.

>>89749669
It's pretty much one week per one actual, IRL year. I guess he thinks he doesn't have enough real estate for the last day or two of this never-ending week.

>>89749754
>He apparently had Robin and Leslie make out with each other off-screen, is this really a shocker?
I'm also annoyed about this, and I don't even want them to be together. I wanted to see them get real close and see how it happens and see Robin push her away.

>>89749483
Is there a reason Amber has to put on her hero pants before helping anyone? Or is this a part of her 'compartmentalizing' too?

>>89750390
For some reason I'm actually getting some Maximum Carnage vibes off of this.

>Even for someone vile like Ryan, I won't stoop and drop the hammer on him... good thing I have friends who will do it for me."

>>89750943
i'm hoping that now, after being assaulted twice, Rapin' Ryan starts carrying around a concealed weapon, and when Amazi-psycho shows up for round three he dumps a clip into her torso.

>>89749860
And still no cops will show up with ANOTHER crazed lunatic on campus.

>>89750985
Well yea that sack if crazy has gone after you twice.

Ready to see more high impact damage and for next strip to show her just wearing a bandage when she should be in traction or dead.

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>>89749111

Cry moar.

>>89749117


But that's... that's just insane.

>>89750905
the answer is yes, but also sal still doesnt know shes amber so its not like its really a choice

>>89749147

So basically you're saying... Two wrongs DO make a right?

>>89750991
For a hostage situation, the cops get to show up, negotiate through a cell or megaphone, and keep bystanders away. Then AmaziGirl actually resolves shit.

>>89751045
Welcome to modern liberalism of the SJW. Where I'd you are viewed as wrong then it's because your issue is fundamentally wrong and you should be destroyed.

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>>89749483

>>89751059
That's a sign she really needs serious help.

>>89751025
>Amazi-Girl, shot four times in the chest and twice in the upper arm and leg, falls backward out of a fourth floor window.
>the next strip, Sal helps Amazi-girl to her feet from the sidewalk beneath the building.
> "Ah yah ohkhey?"
>"I do parkour, falling is no big deal for me."
>"Ah mint thuh bollots."
>"He didn't hit anything vital. I'll use some Amazi-gauze and we can go after him."

>>89751059
>>89751108
just remembered joyce doesnt know either, dorothys the only one there who does, so what was she supposed to have done

>>89750837
>Robin visited right after the sex scandal of Roz and Joe's tape, and she told Roz to knock it off.
So Roz thought Robin was ruining her fun, and thats why she's doing this?

Did it ever occur to her Robin might have told her partly out of genuine concern for her well being as well as it being embarrassing?

Not putting shit like this of yourself online is NOT bad advice.

Robin may be a a raging dumbass and a hypocrite, but that doesnt excuse anything Roz is doing.

>>89751159
>Did it ever occur to her Robin might have told her partly out of genuine concern for her well being
probably not since robin explicitly told her that she only disapproves because it hurts her chances of re-election

>>89751059
>sal still doesnt know shes amber

How can anyone NOT know that's Amber? A simple domino mask cant hide that. It's literally not possible to NOT see it.

>>89751059
Sal knows she's Amber--that's what she was talking to Danny about when Amber flipped out and dumped him. Amber doesn't know Sal knows, though.

>>89751206
im pretty sure its generally that no one believes amber is capable of the shit amazi-girl gets up to and arent really close enough to her for it to be obvious
of the cast the only one who was is dorothy and she DID figure it out. (danny doesnt count)
sal and joyce arent exactly friends with amber

>>89751264
>that's what she was talking to Danny about when Amber flipped out
try rereading that scene

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>>89751277
Fuck, you're right. How does Sal not know after talking to her on the rooftop?

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>>89750252
>asked Dina to call Amber a weak-ass bitch before heading to class
Love everything about your post, but where are you going with this particular bit?

>>89751159
What's fun is that they appear in exactly 17 strips together, making her reasons even less sensible than they already were.

Here are some relevant strips in the very brief saga.

>>89751264
I think Sal suspects but isn't sure. One of the running gags is that no one can tell. Danny was technically dating Amazi-Girl, hence why Sal talked to him.

>>89751334
Sal is not intelligent.

>>89751334
>>89751855
shes met amber like 3 times in passing, never had a conversation with her, and probably doesnt even know her name. amber could take off her mask and i wouldnt be surprised if sal still didnt know her

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>>89751903
They've appeared in 21 strips together:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/tag/sal+amber/

Sal spoke to her in their dorm as if they were on friendly terms, so she has no ill will toward her. Meanwhile, she despises Amazi-Girl.

She would also remember seeing Amber freak out and run away from her:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-4/01-the-only-dope-for-me-is-you/weirdo/

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>>89752349
>Sal spoke to her in their dorm as if they were on friendly terms, so she has no ill will toward her
i mean she wouldnt have any reason to have ill will towards her if she barely knows her

>She would also remember seeing Amber freak out and run away from her
pretty sure she doesnt; she only knows amber as a girl on her floor, and if she remembered that shed know danny knows her

>>89752504
You know, it's really a massive ripoff that Sal "spaced out" while Amber broke up with Danny. What a cheap way of avoiding conflict.

>>89749483
>Should that everyone on Earth be so lucky

Yes, this is exactly how 18 year old girls talk

>>89753605
Wait, the 18-year-old girls in your life don't talk like they're in some Regency novel?

>>89749483
Willis is tired of all the current plot lines so he's just solving all of them super fast so he can get to "all lesbians all the time" as fast as possible

>>89753736
I know you're being tongue-in-cheek, but it kind of rings true.

>>89749483
This is the most unsatisfying shit ever.

>>89753977
I honestly wasn't kidding, I truly believe that Willis is just tired of real world issues and just want to jack off while making money

>>89751381
What is Dubya/Bottle of scotch supposed to mean?
Isn't Bush jr a teetotaller?

>>89755529
Wasn't Bush Jr. formerly an alcoholic?

>>89749483
- Do it
- Joyce...
- DO IT
*turns to jelly*

>>89755529

he was a recovered alcoholic, and there is a few instances since his sobriety when he fell off the wagon, one at a wedding on cam. anyway at the time of his presidency it was a popular and pointless meme among libs to attack him for falling off the wagon.

>>89756473
Someone needs to shoop Anakin into the second panel, lightsabers at the ready to decapitate Count Dorothy.

i found this in my google history

http://queeringofage.tumblr.com/

For all of Willis' dinosaur talk, I'm surprised he hasn't pimped out The Utahraptor Project.

>>89749483
Cool. Still no police. Not even talking to the school about it. Just keeping it to themselves. Joyce's attempted rape is going to look real legit to the cops after waiting 3 monthes?

>>89749483
Not enough people are talking about how AWFUL Joyce looks in that first panel. Like wow.

>>89756708
if he can't be trusted to stay on the wagon, you shouldn't trust him as president. Maybe a little mean spirited to attack him over it, but it's not pointless, nor unwarranted.

>>89744791
>we shouldn't focus on serial killers in the wake of mass murders because that'll just encourage other potential serial killers to do it so they'll get on the news and become important for five minute
So basicallly Scream 4?

>>89759209
It's also really stupid that the majority of the strip is extreme close-ups. Like, we want to see body language, not stare into the abyss of Joyce's eyes.

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>>89761959
Yeah, it really bothers me a lot recently.

>>89746450

Yeah, I mean, Trump's a piece of shit but there's been several points where I've been told shocking news about something he's done, gone "Oh shit, how could this happen?", then found out later that it was overblown or twisted.

And each time it happens, I'm more skeptical about the next piece of news that comes out about him.

>>89751206

It's part of the joke. It's obvious it's her but they don't see it. Comicbook joke I guess, how a domino mask will make someone unrecognizable.

It would be less egregious if he hadn't switched from comedy to heavy drama.

>>89762502
At the risk of actually joining this cancerous off-topic conversation, name twelve occurrences.

>>89749483
>pretending Sal and Dorothy are good people
UUUUUGGGGGHHHH

Well, at least Joyce's smile isn't gone forever.

>>89749483
>waist-high jacket
>midriff shirt
>denim hotpants
>ripped leggings
>knee-high boots

I don't care how much into brown girls you are; that's a horrible outfit.

>>89764234
Hey now, maybe she's got a photo shoot for a shitty porn site after this little pep talk.

>>89749483
>>89764234
Also, I just noticed how Sal and Amber are just standing there with their arms crossed.

If I had the image, I'd post it, but there's a collage of posts from somebody who worked on the TGWTG movie "Kickassia" who played a drinking game in which you take a shot for every scene with a person who is standing in the background with their arms crossed. They explained it's the ultimate actor's crutch when they don't have anything to actually do in the scene.

>>89749483
DO IT

>>89764291
>They explained it's the ultimate actor's crutch when they don't have anything to actually do in the scene.
Even as someone who hates the TGWTG crew, that just comes off as stupid. It's a common pose people take, acting or not.

>>89764490
>It's a common pose people take, acting or not.
Maybe, but I think it's more that it's such a common and easy pose to take that it becomes a first resort, rather than exploring the scenery around you in a way that silently expands upon your character.

For example, Sal could be checking out whatever's on the board on the wall over to her right, not exactly involved in the conversation but at least listening. If you have to have her crossing her arms like a bad "ass", she could be leaning by a door frame in the back of the room, again distant from the others but still offering to help.

Or something like that. If anything, people standing around with their arms crossed is a sign of bad blocking on part of the director. In this case, Willis is a bad director.

>>89751159
I was under the impression that Roz released the sex tape to purposefully make Robin look bad. I mean, a family-values candidate's little sister posting homemade amateur porn on the internet isn't very family-friendly at all.

>>89764646
It's about "effectively doing nothing." The job of an actor in the background is to look and act like real people without drawing attention away from whatever the audience is supposed to be looking at.

You can lowkey mime a conversation with another background character or flip through a book or act like you're taking notes or do any of the other stuff you mentioned here.

There are a lot of things that a person in the background can do. And instead of looking like they're interacting with Joyce during this pivotal moment, they're just freakin' statues.

>>89764291
>Also, I just noticed how Sal and Amber are just standing there with their arms crossed.
The crossed arm posture just makes me think of them as Dorothy's hired muscle for dealing with this problem. And honestly it's not too far off.

It also makes me want to make an edit where they are thugs for the purpose of breaking Dorothy's kneecaps, but I'm far too lazy, and don't think it'll turn out that good.

>>89749483
> Panel 1: Joyce after me jokingly suggesting raw
> Panel 5: Joyce after me explaining for the 5000th time the dangers of natural birth

>>89749483
What's the goal here? To identify him, or to shame him? Because the very first question they'll be asked is "If this is true, why didn't you go to the police?" and the answer will be "lolidunno"

Willis is on a buffer, so maybe he hadn't seen that mattress girl bit of news, but that turned out to be fake and Columbia got sued over it.

>>89766818
The stated goal is to make other people aware, which doesn't solve the issue you bring up. Even making a Mattress Performance comparison, Sulkowicz waited until after her alleged rapist was cleared by the university and the police before she started her project.

>>89767802
Yeah but everyone thinks she's a bitch, and a lawsuit or two were still filed.
There's also no remaining evidence Ryan ever did anything wrong, so instead of warning other people, it could just backfire and come across as Dorothy slandering someone. All Ryan has to do is lay off the raping, and people will think Dorothy is full of shit.

Although that's a good plan, so I'm sure it has no place in this comic.

>>89767950
Everyone thinks she's a bitch because everything about what she did is sketch as hell at best.

>>89755092

That's what Willis' wife said on their honeymoon

>>89755963

There is no Bush Jr, The names aren't exactly alike. That's kind of a requirement for having a Jr suffix

>>89759387
Still salty over Hillary losing?

>>89762554

Then it's a pretty shitty joke.

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>>89697439
>Also, I'm pretty sure the last panel is a reference to something. I'm just not sure what exactly.

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>>89697439
>Willis can't even do simple matching dots for eyes anymore on Walky

>>89764678

It still comes across as at best needlessly petty, not to mention "Just because I can". And at worst, completely psychotic.

I love my sister but we sure as Hell don't agree politically. And I cannot conceive of hurting her in any fashion just because of a disagreement.

>>89697439
No wonder Joe and Jacob are friends. They have the same "three-heads-wide" shoulder length.

>>89764678

Ive come to the realization that while WIllis' directly intends Robin to be Trump, he's unwittingly making Roz out to look like all these people who riot, stage protests and outright spread lies about him in the media..

To a sane person Roz's actions make her look worse than Robin. Roz hides behind self-righteousness to make herself feel justified in her actions, but really it's just mean-spiritedness

>>89767950
>it could just backfire and come across as Dorothy slandering someone.

A logical train of thought. But we all know logical thinking and Willis have not been on familiar terms for many years.

Ryan WILL get nailed , just like Ross will never be out of prison, even though there ARE ways for that to happen within five years. WIllis WILL see his warped perception of justice realized regardless how illogical the means

>>89769622
It should be noted that Roz's response to the Dean telling her that she'll be expelled if she releases sextapes filmed in her dorm room is, "I hate it when other people have solid arguments."

>>89750837
>Instead of showing us Dorothy telling her, we jump to The Moment. What a frickin' cop-out.
It occurs to me when you say this that Panel 1 should be the final panel of a different strip, and Panel 2 should be the actual start of this strip.

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>>89770628
Roz is just a bully.

>>89772322
I need to impregnate her.

>>89764291
Maybe they had some part to play in the big, important conversation that Willis just skipped entirely.

>>89762502
It's not our fault that Trump's so unbelievable that it's nigh impossible to separate hearsay from stuff he actually did.

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In tonight's comic

THEY'RE FRIENDS NOW!

>>89776042
Not only are they friends, this strip essentially cements that Willis is handing over the emotional baggage of the storyline from Joyce to Amber/Sal/Dorothy, pulling her out of the story almost entirely.

Also, there are Slendermen in the background. What's up with that?

>>89776151
I hate that everything you're saying is true. They're taking the power from Joyce. She can't cope with the problem because it's not her problem anymore.

>>89776042
So they're just going to post a picture of him on the internet, say "Hey, this guy's a rapist!" instead of going to the fucking police? I mean sure, if you want people to shun the fucker instead of actually having him be in jail.

>>89776042
>do you hate that we know his name now? It humanizes him a non-zero amount

I'd say humanizing horrible people is the healthiest thing to do. The concept of viewing bad people as "monsters" is the reason why it's so easy for people to take advantage of you. Because you'd never think that nice sweet boy would rape you.

I'm willing to bet at least 80% of human rape is performed by humans.

>>89776042
>>89776244

I imagine that Willy is the kind of guy who thinks the police are a bunch of limp-dick pigs who're as likely to high-five the rapist on getting wicked tail as they are to arrest him. In between murdering "innocent" black men, surely.

>>89776244
Go to the police and say what? This guy attempted to rape this girl like...2 months ago?
In what way could they prove that?
In what way would they have a case?
Not only would he possibly NOT be convicted but then it could potentially single them out.

>>89776042
>HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO HATE SOMEONE HUMAN, INSTEAD OF THE VAGUE IDEA OF RAPIST AND MALE PRIVILEGE?!

>>89776240
It is Joyce's fault that they are doing this stupid internet libel shit instead of letting the police take care of everything with the wealth of evidence and testimony that they could have been provided right after Joyce was roofied.

>>89776042
Aaaaaaand it turns out his dad is good friends with a high price lawyer who manages to trace the photo back to the original cast and sues them for defamation and Ryan gets to go to graduate from college debt free!

>>89776042
I wonder if Willis is trying to write an unrealistic story, or just failing at writing something realistic.

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>>89776004

Honestly maybe it's because I've been on the Trump Train since 2015 but I'm actually surprised that more people haven't understood the Trump/Bannon machine. Like, once you figure out why they do what they just did, future actions start to make a lot more sense and become a lot more believable.

>>89776042

Amazing that the plot is moving along but it doesn't feel like it at all.

>>89776315
>NOW THAT I KNOW HIS NAME IS RYAN I CAN'T HELP BUT BE CHARMED BY HIS BOYISH GOOD LOOKS AND LOPSIDED GRIN! WHY CAN'T WE JUST GO BACK TO THE DAYS WHEN WAS THE BARON RAPIST VON RAPINGSTEIN WITH HIS RAPING PANTS AND RAPING SCAR!

>>89776328
Yeah, but you can still work with that narratively.

>>89776617
Realism began taking hits pretty early in DoA, by the time Toedad came about it was lurching about punchdrunk and feeble. Some say it's still around, but that's just rumors and hearsay.

>>89776042
>Tying up plots in single strips.
I give this comic a year and a half left. You know it means this.

>>89776268
It's also dangerous because humanizing and empathizing is fucking natural and inescapable. If you qualify someone as a monster and then do something remotely similar to something they did or something associated, then you may, logically, have to see yourself as a monster. Which is TERRIBLE for self-esteem and all.

>>89777246
Eh, he'll just be re-packed as a Misunderstood Loner that got Lead Astray. Maybe find some innocent looking study group pics of him to show what a Promising Future he had.

>>89749483
>>89776042
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS PACING? JESUS CHRIST!

It's like I'm watching a TV show with every single fucking scene transition edited out:

BOOM - we're in Character A's apartment
BOOM - suddenly we're out in the hall, A and B discuss events that happened offscreen
BOOM - it's morning apparently, presumably the next day, we're in Character C's hometown
BOOM - we're in Prague, Characters A and B are stealing the missile plans
BOOM - it's six months later Character C has given birth to the baby

>>89777518
It's a "we got cancelled six episodes in and have to burn off a season's worth of plot by December" episode.

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>>89776042
This comic is a sin against basic narrative structure and it needs to be destroyed.

>>89776328
Im sure the roofie has completely gone through her system by now. So no drug proof.

Now obviously Willis has no concept of reality. But if this WERE to happen in real life, does Ryan have enough for reasonable doubt?

>>89777771
ohhh, so close

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>>89777779
>Im sure the roofie has completely gone through her system by now.
I meant it is Joyce's fault that they didn't go straight to the cops, or her friends for listening to her drugged ass.

>>89696978
is there a website that contains a summary of doa characters and plot?
I'm sort of curious about what's going on but I don't want to spend hours reading bad webcomics.

>>89778115

So even though WE know it, there ISN'T any actual evidence to support the drugged allegation. So as far as anyone outside of Joyce's party and Ryan himself know, it might not have happened?

>>89778115
Holy shit. I forgot Pajama jeans were a thing.

>>89778208
That's like asking someone to sum up all 54 seasons of As The World Turns - it's way too long and none of it actually makes sense.

>>89778208
>bunch of wyman at college
>most are gay
>ones a very bad super hero
>date rape
>patriarchy

Thats literally it.

>>89778544
>wyMAN at college
Um, excuse you. The proper spelling is WOMYN.
How DARE you place a male pronoun inside of a woman's pronoun? How DARE you XIR!?!

RAPIST. THIS MAN IS A WORD RAPIST.

>>89778208
badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Dumbing_Of_Age

>>89778350
That's the point though. We DO know it happened in this case. As a bonus, we can see the bungled efforts of Joyce and her friends to forestall the evidence getting to the proper authorities. Misstep by misstep.

This is not a cautionary tale. this is not a guide on how rape victims should act.

Willis's goal here is that he wants us to extrapolate this story to all other unsubstantiated rape claims we hear from now on. He wants you to see some Facebook post from a girl saying she was raped six months ago by her ex, and immediately lynch the man accused. Innocent until proven guilty? Pssshhh. Social Justice will decide that.

>>89778350
Right. Legally, this whole thing is a baseless smear campaign with no proof at all. A halfway competent lawyer could probably build a case that Joyce was drinking alcohol and turned violent against Ryan for no reason.

>>89778997
It would be nice to get a little support as someone who was threatened with rape, but I'm not so sure that this is the right way to do this.

I was threatened by someone a lot of my friends were also friends with. They were, for the most part, pretty dismissive. It felt like no one was going to stand up for me. At least, no one did so while I was in the same room.

I just wanted to talk to my friends and let them know that something upsetting had happened so they could maybe talk to the guy and let him know that, yes, he was being a total jerk.

But I got left in the dust.

And this still isn't the way. I got very vocal about my issue for a little while. But I can't imagine plastering my would-be rapist's face everywhere and expecting everyone to do something about it.

I wasn't going to call the police, but someone who was worried about me did so. There wasn't enough evidence to go further with it, so I didn't decide to take the law into my own hands.

Defamation, whether it's truth or not, is not the way.

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>>89776042
we're one day closer to the comic just being about short stack lesbians yelling about god doesn't exist every day

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>>89776042
>THEY'RE FRIENDS NOW!
I really can't stand this aspect, their issues dissolved in the most dissatisfying way. I mean, literally, Amazi-Girl revealed that the issues are not hers but Amber's, but since then, we haven't even seen Amber think about Sal at all. Functionally, their beef is entirely squashed.

Just some incidental racism is enough to make her realize that her personal crusade is similar enough to be wrong? It's fucking insulting. And I think AG was wrong to be stalking Sal, to be clear. I just don't think solving it by showing how racist some people think it is was a good conclusion in the slightest. It would be like if Ryan started displaying mental illness, AG caught up to him, and there were some people chanting "yeah club that retard" and she gave up. (And in that case she would also be wrong to want to just beat up Ryan when they need to go to the police, as much as that ship may have sailed by now, but my point is it would be unsatisfying and no one would appreciate that ending)

Also, it's kinda ironic Amazi-Girl is talking about hating humanizing her prey, when that kind of thinking kept her chasing Sal for so long.

Also, Also, it's really dumb to do this before getting his full name from Robin's campaign. If they have his back at all, they'll become more closed off after this. And fuck, I just remembered that Leslie is supposed to be getting that information too [image related]. Can no one stay on track without getting derailed by petty drama for 5 seconds in this strip?

does anybody know how his actual fans are reacting to the last couple of strips?

I just don't see how someone could like them even if you were a fan up to this point.

>>89723338
I checked the comments on this strip, something I haven't done in a long time, and noticed most of the fans are pretty anti Robin.

I'm not sure if Willis thought it was cute and will now have to pivot or if he's genuinely setting up Robin as a horrible sociopath, but I bet it won't end well now.

And it wouldn't be the first time Robin was treated accurately for her shitty behaviour. Amber basically ended up hating her because of how she treated her, and was way closer friends with Leslie by the time they got kicked out of their shared house. With Robin also having The Wrongthink™ I'd be even more willing to bet that she'll be vilified, even though I think he really likes Robin as a character. At the very least he's not afraid to have her be shitty and experience repercussions from that shittiness, so she's a decent pet character to have.

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>>89781589
> Fans
I thought these threads were just some glorified popcorn party.

>>89781589
>And it wouldn't be the first time Robin was treated accurately for her shitty behaviour.

To be clear this is Shortpacked stuff, although the character has been transplanted almost entirely.
>Amber basically ended up hating her because of how she treated her, and was way closer friends with Leslie by the time they got kicked out of their shared house.

Should be "this Robin" as in the DoA Robin
>With Robin also having The Wrongthink™ I'd be even more willing to bet that she'll be vilified, even though I think he really likes Robin as a character.

>At the very least he's not afraid to have her be shitty and experience repercussions from that shittiness, so she's a decent pet character to have.

>>89781624
When I say comments I mean comments on the comic site by people who are ostensibly fans.

Is it's walky worth reading?

>>89781577
It looks like there's a decent share of readers who are weirded out by Willis' fucking bizarre transitions and shit, but as with EVERY update, his loyal cheerleading squad is there to silence every criticism of every page.

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>>89776302
they are as likely to high five the rapist.
Black men are also murdered by police.
>>89777222
how can you be on the trump train? It's nothing but trash. I'm not saying that hillary was perfect, but she's better than him, at least.

>>89784241
>this infographic brought to you by The Society for Bullshit Statistics

>>89784241
Wait, where did they get all those unreported rapists from if they're...unreported?

>>89784386
They make them up

It's just like that all that "statistics show that 5 out of every 4 girls will be raped in college" shit. They literally just pull numbers out of their asses.

>>89784386
Or they use census with BS questions like " Have you ever felt unsafe being close to a man" or " Have you ever been pushed ?"

>>89784241

Honestly can't tell which side you're on in regards to the rape thing...

>>89784386
"Reported" in this case probably means "to the police". So the poll could have been "have you been assaulted?" then "did you report your assault to the police?"

>>89776042
>In tonight's comic
>THEY'RE FRIENDS NOW!
Oh...okay. This is really bad. Also, they literally just started a witch hunt for a guy with no proof. I know we all know Ryan is a piece of shit, but this isn't how justice happens. This is kid shit that let's criminals get away with it. Thanks for letting Ryan be free to rape again.

>>89786878
SJWs believe fully in mob mentality.