Dumbing of Age

>>93351423
Whole lot of words not about Amber hard-murdering a guy with a knife.

>>93351423
So when do baby gays go into their cocoon stage?

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>>93351511
I believe it's sometime right after their eye-beetles take over their body and begin to fill the host with egg sacs.

>>93351511
after college graduation. if they are true gays they metamorphosis into a dyke. if not they revert back

>>93351423
Seems like she would get along just fine with ol' Robin "Twizzlers for breakfast" DeSanto.

Also, I guess Leslie is another picky eater. There's a lot of those in this comic.

>>93351805
If you think Willis doesn't have the same hangups about food, I envy you. He probably lives on carbs and candy.

>>93351805
>I guess Leslie is another picky eater. There's a lot of those in this comic.
You realize of course that Willis is so far down the sperglord tweaker hole that he probably doesn't even realize there's such a thing as a healthy attitude to food or what it looks like? He probably thinks everyone has these hangups and they're just different ones from person to person.

This is just the kind of shit you get as a matter of course when a severely damaged, impaired person writes a story.

>>93351945
I'm surprised he doesn't even fucking like fruit though.
I'm a fat fuck but I love fruit, it's nature's candy.
Whenever I read about Willis's actual circumstances, it makes me incredibly sad. He really shouldn't be making this comic- it only gives him an excuse to obsess on his bitter obsessions and reaffirm every deeply unhealthy choice in his life. I want someone to help the poor schmuck.

>>93351945
>>93352016
>>93352027

It can't be stressed enough - this is a married man and a father of twins.The worst might be yet to come.

>>93352027
I pity his chillins.
>>93351504
Can't you feel the tension building, in this tonally flat faff?
What do you mean boring segues aren't tense?

>>93352075
>Willis's views on parenting
>he is a parent
So is he just going to up and ask his kid to kill him someday for his dad crimes?

>>93351805
It actually makes me envision a Robin that is shifted away from the processed food sugar fiend of the other universe. She'd be great at cooking/baking and the only reason she made such weird stuff (twizzler breakfast, weird muffins) for Leslie is because all she had stocked is candy and easy-to-prepare meals. But there's enough other bits of her being the same kind of womanchild as before that I'm sure that's not the actual case.

>>93351945
Yeah, I've gathered between original Walky and recent Joyce, Walky and Dina that it's not far from him.

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>>93352027
I reeealy hate to go Devil's Advocate on Willy's shit, but here we go...

I've been at the point where I said "fuck fruit" because it costs a lot more than other foods, it usually doesn't sate your appetite, and it doesn't keep for very long if I forget to eat it. That's a reasonable stance towards the stuff for a poor 20-something to have, in my experience.

I get that Willis should know better, having kids and everything, but he's writing 20-somethings who don't have kids. It's not unreasonable for him to write them not wanting to spend money on fucking fruit.

It also doesn't mean he doesn't buy his own kids fruit. Hell...with the money he makes on Patreon, I bet those kids eat the most succulent grapes and strawberries the world produces.

>>93352338
>it costs a lot more than other foods
Like apples and bananas? Cheaper than other sweets.

>>93352338
>expensive
bananas are like $0.50/lb

>>93352338
>bananas are .69$ a pound
>Local fruits usually 2 to 3 dollars

What the sam hell are you talking about. Do you live in arizona or some other barren wasteland?

>>93351423
Did patreanon get b& again or something?

>>93352468
>>93352528
Eat a dollar's worth of bananas and then eat a dollar's worth of pasta, and tell me which let you go to bed not hungry.

I'm not going to bother arguing this further, but you can't tell me you can eat a bunch of bananas for dinner and feel fulfilled.

>>93351423
>Becky's forehead
Holy hell what the fuck
Is that tumor or something?

>>93352119
He would probably kick the kids out if they came out to him as straight.

>>93352630
>bananas for dinner and other asinine arguments
Are you actually Willis?

>>93352641
DoA actually takes place in a post-nuclear world. Sarah has a wig to hide the baldness from radiation poisoning, Becky had to replace one of her eyes with a magnetically levitated cybernetic multicam, and Billie had her growth stunted in a unique way.

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Tonight, we have Joe being a fucking white male, and Joyce being the best at being nothing but a constant victim.

How far the original cast has fallen.

>>93352831
I remember when these two were actually making some progress in getting to legitimately understand one another.

There goes that, I guess.

>>93352831
This response seems completely out of character for Joyce.

>>93352831
Well, I fucking called it that Joyce would see the List. Now for Joe to say that despite the low number, he respects Joyce as a frie-- Oh, he says "Better hit that". Never mind; I guess Joe's being written as a pervert regardless of everything. On the other hand, maybe we'll actually get a third strip in which Danny and Joyce talk to each other directly soon.

Did you know: Approximately fifteen days ago in real-world time, Amber stabbed a guy on those very dorm steps. For all we know, Danny and Joe are walking in dried pools of blood.

>>93352831
>better hit that
i thought joe already decided hed never have sex with joyce

>>93352831
Oh, her wrist brace is already off, I didn't notice last time.

>Ryan gets removed from strip
>Joyce removes wrist brace
It's almost... something? The strip is ignoring that stuff so hard that I didn't even think about it.

Also, I thought Joe didn't want to fuck her anymore. Why didn't he update her notes?

Also, also, Joyce straddling a wall is alright.

>>93352831
Why is he getting dragged?
>>93352929
>Oh, he says "Better hit that"
I don't get why he would, if he rated her 0-. And this strip is about the level of discourse they had in the pizza shop.

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>>93352979
>>93353012
I'll dig through to see if Joe has anything to say, but:

>>93352984
I was gonna suggest it was an art error, but you're right. The wrist brace is gone.

It would be more symbolic if Joyce had an actual role in anything that happened to her. She's been delegated to being no more than a victim, plain and simple.

>>93352929
>Never mind; I guess Joe's being written as a pervert regardless of everything.

It took Joe like 7 years to develop Joyce-lust in the Walkyverse, where everything was universally better.

>>93352929
>Now for Joe to say that despite the low number, he respects Joyce as a frie
He doesn't really respect her as a friend, though. He wanted to bang her, it went super south, he then decided to avoid her (kinda, there was a lot of being in her vicinity with some teasing about how much of a crazy b she is).

She's the one who initiated contact with him about "recognizing his anger" and confided in him over freaking out at home. He just kinda went a long with it because she needed someone to talk to. After she came back to school he basically had to be forced to say hi to her. He even told Jacob as much that he explicitly thinks she's a weirdo.

(And Joe definitely isn't the type to lie to her, especially just to keep her friendship)

I'm not saying it's good, but their relationship is presented pretty clearly.

>>93353059
I was too busy complaining about Joyce's lower body to notice at that point.

>>93352903
Whether or not it's in character will depend on what happens in the next strip; Joyce's response to the do-list should be rooted in Christian morality.

>>93352831
I want to see how Joe ranks Dina, Becky, Ruth, and Carla.

>>93353012
>Why is he getting dragged?
Girls found out about his To-Do List, and they're confronting him about their numbers.

He's freaking out (despite openly giving out the password to the list) and asking Danny to drag him to safety like he used to.

>>93352831
Did someone IM every woman on Joe's list with their ranking and description? Including collecting all the contact information, that seems like a phenomenal amount of work.

>>93351423
>Becky's left eye is higher then her left
Can Willis give Becky Sunglasses please? I'm tired of her eyes bouncing everywhere.

Okay.

Okay.
I got OFF of methDoA, I got CLEAN, and for some reason I've now just read the last 3-4 weeks' worth of strips. Will someone for Christ's sake explain to me how Willis still hasn't put a bullet in his head?

And also, if against all odds something actually happened in the comic, summarize that as well.

>>93353335
My guess is that the password and link were plastered everywhere on campus.

>>93353059
Well, I can't find the specific strip I'm looking for, which featured Joyce explicitly ranked as "Zero-Minus". Was it a Patron bonus?

>>93353199
Well, we're seven years deep into the Dumbiverse, though it's technically only been two months or so.

>>93353206
>I'm not saying it's good, but their relationship is presented pretty clearly.

With Willis' pacing, I don't think you can say that with a straight face. Plus, there's the time when Joyce went back home for a weekend where she was texting him, and he wasn't talking about sex stuff at all.

>>93353212
>I want to see how Joe ranks Dina, Becky, Ruth, and Carla.
You never will.
But you WILL see how he ranks Mary, and it'll be hilarious as it will drag down Mary's reputation.

>>93353358
He's got too much money and Internet clout to do that now. You'd have to find some actual dirt on him, like scamming people on Kickstarter or trading drugs for sex with his wife.

>>93353212
>Dina
>Weirdosaurus
0-
Notes: Cute, but likely a fucking Scalie. Do you have any idea what a fursuit for my frame costs? Also, severely autistic to the point of questioning if consent is valid.
>Becky
>Readhead Muffmaster
0---------------
Notes: I'm pretty sure that Becky is undistilled gayness, and if it was ever brought into contact with my undistilled straightness, there would be some catastrophic explosion of negative sexual energy.

>>93353403
>Willis
>internet clout
Is this a lie or did I end up in the Worst Timeline somehow? Is a cat president? Are we ruled by Chairman Meow?

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>>93353358
>And also, if against all odds something actually happened in the comic, summarize that as well.
Rapin' Ryan was permanently written out of the comic with no resolution for anyone involved.

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>>93353403
Yeah, it was a bonus.

>>93352831
At what point did Joyce change how she was sitting?

In the first panel, her right leg is clearly up on the wall. In the last, it's hanging down like her left one.

I actually do like her pose in the last panel, though. It feels more authentic than anything we've seen in this comic in ages.

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>>93353493
I love how bonus strips range from "this will be super-important to a plot in the future and people who don't see it will be confused at some point" to "lol i dunno copy-paste cereal"

>>93353602
>this is considered a comic strip
I'd be pretty fuckin' salty if I'd paid him any money for that. I mean, I know he's a hack, presumably everyone who signs up knows he's a hack, but fuck, man.

>>93353602
It's more like "Here's a callback to a past strip" to "Here's exposition for a current strip" to "Here's foreshadowing ahead of a future strip" to "lol cereal".

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>>93353403
>Plus, there's the time when Joyce went back home for a weekend where she was texting him, and he wasn't talking about sex stuff at all.

Yeah, and normally you'd think that would lead to a budding friendship, he'd show concern over if she made it through the weekend alright. Ask her if she has anyone else to talk to. But instead, pic related was their in person interaction after she came back.

It was extremely weird and incongruous, without any depiction since of whether he would be fine helping her going ahead or if he wants it to stop. They mostly just text back and forth angrily. But that's how Willis is writing him, supportive in a rough spot and then pretending she doesn't exist otherwise.

>With Willis' pacing, I don't think you can say that with a straight face.
True enough.

>>93353686
I have no idea what direction Joe is supposed to be looking in this comic except panel 4.

>>93353403
I meant seven years of in story time.

Not the endless September of this Hell.

>>93353708
That's what I meant. We're two months into the Dumbiverse, but seven years into "Dumbing of Age".

>>93351423
>I got her number.
>How do you like them apples?

>>93352831
>joyce is apparently unaware of the stabbening

also, I'm positive joe mentioned his list to her before.

>>93353686
>Joe's hand is utterly deformed, each finger half-melted or severed

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>>93353770
I don't remember him mentioning it in front of her, but it's entirely possible.

Closest I can remember was this, but Joyce was at Leslie's instead of in class in this strip.

>>93351423
>that second panel
All I can think about is that Becky really wants to tell Lesbian about seat belts and how people die all the time in car crashes.

>>93353335
Roz is a nasty woman.

I mean I'm going to assume it's Roz. Easiest to just assume that it's something she'd do right?

What the fuck is wrong with their noses?

>>93353457
I hate that he keeps doing this thing where a girl overwhelms a man twice her weight in a fistfight, especially when the guy is also carrying a knife. It's the kind of SJW tardery where it actually becomes dangerous; if anyone were to feel """""empowered""""" to fight by it, Willis would pretty much be responsible for some poor retard getting stabbed to death.

>>93354019
Yes, but the implication is that Rachel is the one who did it.

>>93354098
Not that I doubt you, but where was it implied?

>>93354166
A few strips ago. Joe rated her to her face, she got upset, then a few days later everyone suddenly has access to the list.

>>93354019
Roz would destroy her own flesh and blood, so she is capable of anything.

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>>93353493
I like when Joe an Joyce text

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>>93354404

>>93354404
I really enjoy Joe's look of concern over Joyce's plan in panel 4.

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>>93354435

>>93352831
>Joyce and Joe fighting again, but real fighting instead of just friend-fighting, e.g. >>93354435
God damn it, if they end up avoiding each other again, that's 2 of the comic's less-than-5 likeable characters -- who also had an actual likeable, entertaining dynamic -- that will never be shown together again. Or at least not for about 6 years.

God, I wish we could just write this fucking comic for Willis. No executive control from him, we would write & decide everything, and he would just draw it until we found a more competent artist to take his place.

>>93353602
>people paid money for this
Tragic

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>>93354860

>>93354404
>>93354435
>>93354860
See? Look at this. Good. Character. Dynamics.

>>93353824
>Even Tomi Lahren?
Yes, even Tomi Lahren, Willis; you obtuse, shallow, vindictive cunt.

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>>93354886

>>93353493
>rifle tattoos
That better be a ten. Unless it's fucking Carla or something. Who has rifle tattoos? My only good guess is Sal.

>>93354905
I'd say Guns but I think that one pic of her was revolvers on the arms. Also an april fools.

>>93354905

It's probably Guns, who Willis is never going to put in DoA for...some reason.

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>>93354904
Joyce is for head Pat's not for sexual

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>>93354949

>>93354931
>>93354934
Who?
Was she from Shortpacked or something?

>>93355159
Aww, look when Willis cared to make Joe's stubble actually look like something other than a shapeless mass!

>>93354890
>Good. Character. Dynamics
I agree.
>>93354860
Did we ever find what he was upset about?

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>>93351423
>>93352831

>>93353457

If Willis is not going to use Ryan again, he should at least have ONE panel saying "The police came and carted Ryan off to jail"

A shitty half-assed resolution, but at least it WOULD be a resolution

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>>93355795
>Did we ever find what he was upset about?
This is the closest. He parents had marriage trouble, and they were doing marriage topics in class.

>>93351423
Ah the classic "about it age out of Tumblr/adulting is hard" scenario.

>>93353559
>>93353602

Yeah, Davey really hit a new low with that bonus strip. I mean the words don't exist that can properly convey how shitty it is. It's like Willis is actually holding his supporters in open contempt. Like "I can half-ass EVERYTHING and you pieces of shit will not only take it without question but PRAISE me for it. I hate you all but I'll happily take your money. Idiots."

How was this strip even TOLERATED?

I swear if fucking assbarfy fucks up my perfect joexjoyce ship I'll curse his sons and wife to become copies of Mary.

>>93356384
>assbarfy
???

>>93356181
Those bonus strips are for only the most brainwashed of Willis' followers since they actually pay money to support him.

>>93356468
Willis is a sickly manchild who semi-regularly shits himself and pukes everywhere

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>>93356468
HOO BOY

>>93357628
>>93357647
hivebarf

>comic is literally called Dumbing of Age

If you don't think the lowering of quality over time of DoA isn't planned, you must be insane.

>>93355285
Guns was a minor character from It's Walky and I have no idea why Willis hates her so much. Closest i can figure her main character trait was she liked guns and guns are bad so she's bad.

>>93356181
Not only is a complete rip of a Jeph Jacques strip, it was actually a decent meta gag in the context of QC.

>>93357955
That's still a workable concept. Make her one of those hardcore ROTC types or play off the word "guns" and make her a gymrat.

>>93356036
I want it to just not be mentioned for like a year and then suddenly Stabbin' Amber and Rapin' Ryan appear on TV in a Bonny and Clyde/Natural Born Killers scenario just stabbin' and rapin' their way across the country.

>>93357863
Y'know, that's actually a good topic of discussion: What does "Dumbing of Age" actually mean? I mean, sure, it's obviously a play on "coming of age", and being set in a college environment it would make sense that this is a comic in which characters would come of age and learn or experience harsh truths about the world around them while also finding solace in others who share the same conundrums and obstacles.

But why "dumbing"? Is Willis implying that a person becoming of age is a dumb concept? Is Willis just making a childish pun? The answers are infinite and likely meaningless. I leave the ball in your court.

Also, I need reaction images for the next porn comic. Hit me with your best thot.

>>93356181
Look you might say it's a "new low" or "lazy" or whatever but just you wait until we get the big addiction storyline covering Riley's addiction to Smacks in a very clever opioid epidemic metaphor.

I'm joking of course. The opioid epidemic largely effects white people so there's no virtue signalling ally points to be gained from touching on it.

>>93359301

Expecting or seeking higher meaning from beings as banal and shallow as Willis is a pointless endeavor.

Might as well examine the complexities behind "Batman peens Superman: Dawn of Buttstuff".

Also, I realized in the shower that this storyline with Joe has a 90% chance of leading into some kind of deep introspective look into Joe's past wherein it turns out that his father was a womanizer who would sleep around while neglecting Joe, so Joe would imitate his father in the hopes of being noticed and recognized and respected and fuck all.

Unless, of course, this was all already established in the comic, in which case we're going to either get something completely different or we're going to get a rehash that doubles if not triples down on the whole "bad parenting" angle.

>>93359747
It's established that Joe and Joe's dad are similar in behavior and that Joe's parents are divorced because his dad is a womanizer. We don't know if he's a bad parent, just a bad husband - a fact Joe recognizes.

>>93359304
>that story arc where Smacks are banned and Riley has turn to smuggled Mexican cereal to get her fix

Truly the height of Willis storytelling.

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>>93359301
There was something along the lines of characters being dumb "over and over and over" that he said about the comic's title and concept.

Here's a picture of a screaming bird for your porn reactions.

>>93351423

can we talk about how 90% of the poses in this image are the exact same copypasted thing

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>>93359301
>reaction images
Here's Willy licking Hot Shot in front of his Hot Shot shrine for ya

>>93352877
Joyce's eyebrows are only horizontal. It isn't a too big of a blow on their relationship

>>93362252
You know, this really makes me reflect. If a man this tarded up and cringey, a man who either has undiagnosed epilepsy and doesn't seem to realize he needs a doctor, or actually gets self-evacuating seizures from the pure stress of existing, can be married and wealthy... what must the average robot be like?

I mean, I get that Willis did marry out of desperation and that his marriage is in essence a sham where she spends his money and fucks others, but still.

>>93353059
God I hate carla

I hope he dies

>>93352831
Joyce straddling that wall seems a bit lewd.

Also, as much of the idea of having a "to-do" list that's also online and available to the public, this particular description seems almost uncharacteristically pigheadish, even for Joe. I mean I get that the point he's driving home is that Joe's a jerk but we've seen him be genuine quite a few times and I feel like Willis is almost retroactively trying to say
"Nope Joe's actually a super jerk who only thinks with his penis"

Wouldn't it have been naratively better if Joe having given up on Joyce was shown by him more or less abandoning her description on his list and them growing closer together. But unfortunately we see in that bonus strip that he still references the list to remember who she is.

That way when Joyce discovers his old profile on her when she was just "a conquest" Joe would actually feel some sort of conflict of his past actions coming to haunt him and affect his current and future relationships.

And not just his relationships with girls he wants to fuck, but girls he actually likes being friends with.

Granted MOST people won't see that bonus strip so I guess most people won't get the implications of that.

>>93353824
The real question is if all men are 10s.

>>93361094
>Truly the height of Willis storytelling.
Would honestly be better than most of the stories he's running now.

>>93362629
>Wouldn't it have been naratively better
Bruh. Stop doing this to yourself. You KNOW the answer to this question, just like the rest of us. Willis ALWAYS makes the worst possible narrative choice. Always. Look at every strip featuring Carla, FFS.

>>93362629
The most telling thing is that Willis has so far avoided showing women who already know about his do-list, Dorothy, Roz, Raidah, and literally everyone in Leslie's class. Dorothy is especially remiss, as she's been more or less friends with Joe for years.

The bonus strip can easily be explained away as Joe reminding himself that he doesn't want to sleep with Joyce and allowing him a more earnest and honest response to her issues than what he'd give if he was trying to sleep with her. Though within context Joyce's entry doesn't make much sense, as the reason why he doesn't want to sleep with her is because she's a fundie psycho who hired a chaperone for a dinner date and beat the shit out of him in a restaurant. The current strip implies that she was a zero-minus before their date.

>>93362777
It's decent enough setup for something designed to be humorous on a concept level, but that alone won't carry a story.

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>>93359301
>reaction image

>>93362252
Are...... You guys trying to incite a rule 34?

>>93362413
how's he wealthy anyway

>>93354031
Well. That's what self defense class teaches you. Our default state is 50% chance of fighting , or 50% chance of running, and if you chose running and can't run, such as kidnap or military force killing your neighbors one by one, you naturally accept your death with feeling of powerlessness. The training is meant to ingraine in your head a different approach to the situation so that you at least try to lessen the odds of death with every ounce of your being which includes assessing the situation and taking the necessary actions.

>>93354435
Why would Leslie encircle her boobs in front of the class?

>>93363288
He makes a ton of patreon books alone, his Kickstarters are halfway scams (this is customary among the SJW webcomic artists, notably Dresden Codak) so he rakes in even more there, and on top of that he sells merch. And occasionally he does commissioned work for Transformers sites and shit like that, but I don't think that makes for a noticeable part of his income.

On top of this, as discussed above (and going by his wasted, doughy appearance) he probably eats nothing but mac-and-cheese and Froot Loops; he likely only wears very cheap clothing as well. So in conclusion, despite his obsessive toy habit and leech wife, he probably puts away a good chunk every month as well.

>>93363563
>books
Bucks. Dammit.

>>93363563
It's more likely because he's putting more time towards his twins, but recently he's stopped going to out-of-state comic book conventions, which is bound to cut his costs by at least $2000.

>>93363563
>>93363288
He's probably not wealthy, but he's safely middle-class, if not upper-middle class.

>>93363653
Depends on if those cons pay for travel/lodging. Though I don't know how many cons actually do that.

>>93364358
In my experience, most cons pay for the lodging of their guests. Sometimes, guests will just volunteer to show up and pay for their own stuff. But the cons usually try to take care of their people.

>>93362629
I still don't understand why Joe basically always reacts to Joyce with "hey don't punch me in the face like you did that one time," but had to look up her fuckabilitiy on his list.

Also I think it's worth noting that despite how messy and public Joe is being, and his notes being weirdly out of date and anachronistic in knowing that Sarah is angry but not knowing that she's Joyce's roommate, I can totally get why he'd not want to be with Joyce. Especially early comic preachy annoying punchy Joyce. She's a little more chill now maybe? I'm not entirely sure where her characterisation is at..

>>93364681
>but had to look up her fuckabilitiy on his list
I 100% believe Willis only included that so that the readers could see her rating. Joe would have no reason to look it up if it weren't for Willis wanting to show the reader.

>>93364681
Slightly more chill by virtue of having an intermittent crisis of faith. Keep in mind we're at the beginning of October in-universe, so everything is fairly recent.

>>93359304
Actually, if we go with the information that claims the war on drugs was started to put more black people in jail...

>>93362413
>I mean, I get that Willis did marry out of desperation and that his marriage is in essence a sham where she spends his money and fucks others, but still.
Is this something, or is this memeing?

>>93365889
It's been implied that something along those lines is the case. Maybe someone who's met him in person would know more.

>>93365889
>>93366009
One of the Joel Watson strips about him and Willis implies that.

>>93363452
Also why does she wear a shirt so unbuttoned she's apparently flashing her bra to the class? Not very professional

>>93367247
She was trying to get Robin to notice her.

>>93354435
>Leslie named her boobs after Ghostbusters 2016 characters
>Has a poster of GENERAL Leia in her house
She must be INSUFFERABLE to know personally.

>>93364735
>>93353493
The only way I can get it to make sense is if he already had it open and was considering changing her rating rather than checking what it was, but the composition of the strip doesn't communicate that.

>>93368509
Leslie spent her entire childhood deeply closeted to the point of marrying a guy, then was homeless, and spent years in college to get a doctorate. She doesn't really define herself outside "cool Gender Studies professor who is hip with the kids." In many ways she's much like Becky though not obnoxious about it. So we get things that would indicate she still has something of an immature personality, shitty diet and pop culture focus, that under a better writer would make for an interesting character. Her and Becky being roommates should be an interesting dynamic, as Leslie is basically trying to make sure Becky turns out better than she did while Becky's presence forces Leslie to realize that she's not exactly the put-together adult she presents herself to be.

>>93369104
That's far too deep and developmental. It'll be wacky hijinks in which Becky accidentally re-hooks up Leslie and Robin, and Leslie is happy for it. Robin fails to mention how she was informed that Ryan was murdered.

>>93369104
>yet again, some anon develops elaborate headcanon to improve quite possibly the shittiest cultural product ever produced in the West
Why? Why do you keep doing this to yourselves?

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>>93370270
Because we hate ourselves either just a little more or a little less than we hate what Willis has become.

I'd ask why you and people like you keep asking, but that answer is always just "because I'm retarded and can't see that I'm doing the same thing by asking this question".

>>93370270
>elaborate headcanon to improve quite possibly the shittiest cultural product ever produced in the West

Please, you haven't heard my ideas for America Chavez. Also it's not a headcanon, it's basic character analysis.

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>>93359301

>>93370270
Why do you keep asking this every damn thread? Why do you keep doing THIS to yourself?

If you don't like these threads, then hide them.

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>>93359301
Asking why Dumbing of Age is "DUMBING" of Age is like asking why the people of FO4 universe sent poor Mr. Pebbles into space.

If there even was a coherent reason, it would be far too stupid to comprehend.

>>93362252
The Transformers Armada Hot Shot figure was really cool to be fair.

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>>93359301

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>>93371796
Granted.

How about the other 100+ Hot Shots though?

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>>93359301

>>93371857
I imagine his kids will have a Pavlovian response to Hotshot when they grow up.
I wonder what it'll be? A trigger for the AssBarf in their genes?
A sexual fetish? A deep-seated fear and aversion?
Maybe the knowledge of their father will make hotshot trigger great shame and pity.

>>93371857
Far be it for me to criticize Willis when my gf commandeered a five foot tall display cabinet to showcase a small portion of her Monster High collection, but at least she doesn't have 14 of the exact same figure.

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>>93359301

Catchpa acting up for anyone else? Like moving to another set of images even when you click the proper ones it tells you to? Or gives you the green check of approval then tells you you did it wrong anyway?

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>>93359301
>>93372022
>catchpa
Good thing for you that it doesn't require you to type words correctly anymore.

No issues here other than the usual captcha nonsense.

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>>93371857
>that Hot Shot bug spray on the top of the cabinet
Gets me every time. Only joke Willis has ever made that made me laugh.

>>93362252
>>93371857
i've asked this before and no one has ever answered me but why does Willis love Hot Shot so much? from what i remember of the Armada "trilogy", Hot Shot was the worst transformers in the worst series. he was like Bumblebee or Cheetor but without any of the charm. it's not like he grow up with the character, Willis was 24 when Armada first aired. was the toy really that kick-ass?

>>93372388
>Willis was 24 when Armada first aired
Wait he worships a character from when he was an adult? Nostalgia goggles are one thing but this is something else entirely, holy shit. Is this a joke gone too far?

>>93367669
Was Lesbian really bad before because I remembered a lot of bitching about her during those comics but she's honestly come off as one of the more reasonable characters since I've started following this.

Like compared to the Beckies and Rozes and Ruths and Carlas of the world she's fairly inoffensive.

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>>93372388
I honestly have no idea, but whatever the reason it goes deeeep.

Have this vintage Shortpacked! Where LITERALLY WILLIS with LITERALLY MAGGIE dressed as Hot Shot break into Ethan's apartment and bust up his computer.

>>93372564
She is one of the more reasonable characters. The issue is that she was saddled with an extremely long-running subplot of being massively infatuated with Robin. While a reasonably chuckle-worthy recurring gag for a side character and not a bad place to mine some drama (lesbian gender studies professor infatuated with a possibly closeted conservative politician) it became insufferable when Willis focused on it. You got Leslie ignoring her convictions and signing up with Roz, who was not only explicit about her desire to destroy Robin but open about using Leslie to do so, all so she could chase a woman she me once who actively opposed everything Leslie stood for.

>>93372388
>i've asked this before and no one has ever answered me but why does Willis love Hot Shot so much?

I think it might be the whole "Why my shoulders hurt/Yuum Jaam" think, but that really, really doesn't explain how far he went with it, for a character with maybe two objectively good toys ever?

>>93372388
Maybe he started forcing it as some weird personality quirk, the way an actor or wrestler may use a gimmick, and he was consumed by his own creation.

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>>93372774
>I think it might be the whole "Why my shoulders hurt/Yuum Jaam"
It's at least a little bit of that

>>93372564
In Shortpacked, she and Robin have triplets together that are biologically both of theirs. Robin spends a lot of time vomiting during this.

>>93363167
>The current strip implies that she was a zero-minus before their date.
The bonus strip shows the zero- was an update. With that you can assume that Joe had a higher ranking, but with all her baggage he decided it wasn't worth it, but neglected to delete the notes.

>>93372388
>was the toy really that kick-ass?
No, in fact, it's fucking awful. It's bulky, has almost no articulation and it can barely stand.

>>93373127
Or perhaps he was playing the long game and thought he might forget her sometime in the future.

>>93373299
Maybe there's a toy review on Shortpacked.com that explains the deal.

>>93372514
>>93372388
Hot Shot is the perpetual Young, Hot-Headed Warrior. Like Hot Rod if he never had to grow up and try to lead the Autobots.

I can see Willis getting behind a bot like that, basically being able to be the Wise-Cracking, Fun-Loving One for all time.

So, what do you think's going to happen today? Do you think our fine cast of characters will notice the dried blood caked into the steps upon which they walk?

>>93372997
>In Shortpacked, she and Robin have triplets together that are biologically both of theirs.

How, pray tell?

>>93376190
Fifteen days ago Rapin' Ryan appeared before Dorothy Keener, ready and rarin' for a rapin'. Fifteen days ago Amber O'Malley appeared, no longer Amazi-Girl but still genuinely mentally ill. Fifteen days ago Amber O'Malley wrestled a knife from Rapin' Ryan and attacked leaving a man dead on the steps.

For fifteen real world days Amber O'Malley has been given freedom from answering for her actions and defending herself in a court of law. For fifteen more days she shall continue going free.

>>93376627
Sixteen days, actually. It's amazing she's yet to strike again.

>>93376627
>answering for her actions and defending herself in a court of law
>implying Willis won't just bullshit any consequences away

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>>93376523
There is literally no way to explain this without sounding like I've gone on an acid trip. So here you go. Have fun. Hope you aren't grossed out by vomit.

http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=2002

>>93359301
Considering how many social justice types consider 'dumb' to be very ableist, I'm surprised he went with the title and doesn't get a ton of grief for it.

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>>93376935
The comic is older than that current lvl of PC bullshit.

>>93376921
>*In your face,* harsh reality of biology
I see Willis crusade against science has no bounds.

Also I feel like the only wrinkle being that your kids pop out 13 times faster is pretty fortunate. That seems like something that would fuck all sorts of things up.

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For anyone who thought that Robin had any sanity left by the end of Shortpacked.

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"Science."

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Probable endgame in DoA at this point.

>>93377602
I never got this. He's putting his sperm into a super soaker, but there's a penis on the front? And then Robin puts a bigger one on the front while looking at Ethan?

Is the joke just "ha, penis. HAHAHA, bigger penis!" Or does she think Ethan is gonna use that to stimulate himself and cum into it at the same time?

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>>93352929
>>93376627
>>93376651

>>93370270
I don't know about the others, but I've got a weird obsession with wasted potential.
Batman vs. Superman, WATCH_DOGS, Suicide Squad, and Dumbing of Age. I've still got to watch Sucker Punch at some point.

But I've seen webcomics that were worse than DoA slowly grow and become much better than it has ever been, comics that I now enjoy reading and can heartily recommend (with sidenotes like "just grit your teeth through the first 400 pages"), and I know the same could happen to DoA.

I will personally drag David Willis into the realm of quality storytelling and art, kicking and screaming, if it's the last thing I do.

>>93377582
She had so little to begin with in the Walkyverse, too.

Sugar-speedster permavirgin with probable PTSD is not a healthy mindspace.

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grumble grumble late tonight something something sleep something Willis grumble

hahaha...insufficient data

>>93377703
I mean I know Willis writing is pretty bad but they explained this on that very page
The super soaker he's holding adds Leslie's DNA to Ethan's sperm
The super soaker Leslie's holding applies the sperm to Robin's hoo-ha

>>93377840
>But I've seen webcomics that were worse than DoA slowly grow and become much better than it has ever been, comics that I now enjoy reading and can heartily recommend (with sidenotes like "just grit your teeth through the first 400 pages"), and I know the same could happen to DoA.

It could, but it won't, because Willis has fully embraced his worst tendencies and called them virtues.

>>93377899
Hey, that's pretty good. The insufficient data bit is funny, and there's a bit more development for Joe & Joyce's dynamic (again, already easily one of the best parts of the comic).

I wasn't kidding in >>93377840. I *will* see this comic become good.

>>93377900
I get that part, what's the joke though?

>>93377899
Interesting that Joyce even cares about Joe's opinion.

And after all this time, Willis still refuses to draw hair in a realistic way. Hair does not magically dip inward like that.

>>93377969
I guess it's just that Robin prefers the larger dildo.

As usual, >>93355985.

>>93377899
fuck, i like this strip

>>93352831
>>93353493
>>93362629
>Wouldn't it have been naratively better if Joe having given up on Joyce was shown by him more or less abandoning her description on his list and them growing closer together. But unfortunately we see in that bonus strip that he still references the list to remember who she is.
>>93364681
>I still don't understand why Joe basically always reacts to Joyce with "hey don't punch me in the face like you did that one time," but had to look up her fuckabilitiy on his list.
>>93364735
>I 100% believe Willis only included that so that the readers could see her rating. Joe would have no reason to look it up if it weren't for Willis wanting to show the reader.
>>93368509
>The only way I can get it to make sense is if he already had it open and was considering changing her rating rather than checking what it was, but the composition of the strip doesn't communicate that.
>>93377899
HOLD
THE
FUCKING
PHONE

He remembers her old rating, which was different before. Surely if he remembers the old rating, and bothers with the whole texting thing at all, then he also remembers her well enough.

He wasn't looking up her rating on his list. He was indeed considering changing it, as several people suggested in this thread; it was just made to look like he was only looking her up.

She was a 10. That's why he dated her first. That's why he changed her to a 0- when it worked out so badly, and that's why he's defensive about it now, both in the final panel and in panel 2, and back in the bonus strip when he said "but only because I don't care about you at all."

I can't fucking believe it! This motherfucker actually does know how to write! He just chooses not to, or is so obsessed with having a massive comic buffer that he churns out the comics too fast so a bunch of them look half-baked with crap writing. But here -- look at what we've got going on now. Is it a fluke? Or can he actually write?

>>93377899
Hating the lineart on the third panel. I don't normally notice this stuff, but there's a very clear break in the black outline on Joyce's hair.

>>93378135
The problem with what you pointed out is that it's implications. We have no idea if that's his actual intention as a writer. We might be stretching too far.

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>>93377899
I think this is the first time Joyce has admitted to hurting Joe. She's copped to the punching but there was always the idea that he deserved it or it didn't have any impact. But she seems to be equating the tanking of her sexiness number as proof that she did mess with him enough for him to not want to interact with her.

I'm wondering what Joyce will end up at, seeing as she clearly surprised him with her attractiveness at the date. Maybe like 8 to 10 to 0-? Or did she also achieve that vaunted 11 for those few moments before she brought Mike into the mix.

>Asma
>Insufficient data
There's something really fitting about that.

I wonder how many points Sal lost for smoking.

>>93378166
the part about him considering changing her number, sure, but its pretty obvious from this strip that she was originally a ten

>>93351677
this is some WHOMP level existential terror right here

>>93352831
>blonde

>>93377899
This suspense game that Willis is playing with Amber and Dorothy and "Ryan" is some next level bathos. It's like he's intentionally trying to make the payoff unworthy of the wait. Does he think that's clever somehow?

>>93377995
>Interesting that Joyce even cares about Joe's opinion.

It's interesting that anyone at all gives a shit what Joe rated them or how they all know who Joe is. Also how they found out about the list. It's almost as if they only care, because they want a good dicking from Joe.

>>93378255
I think it has to do with the comic having a bajillion characters, and being slow-paced despite a well-kept seven-days-a-week update schedule because of all the slice-of-life stuff the comic tries to have instead of trimming the fat and focusing more on its bigger plots; readers expect a gag-a-day comic that also simultaneously has a big dramatic story. It makes it seem like it's just meandering along, whether it's dealing with mundane subplots or its most dramatic plot arcs.

Honestly the comic's quality would go up IMMENSELY by just cutting out two-thirds of the characters. A comic that features all the characters from all of Willis' previous comics is just too much when each of those comics already had generously large casts. By removing all the unnecessary, uninteresting, and unlikeable ones, the comic could even keep all the slice-of-life and gag-a-day stuff it already had without fucking up its pacing so bad.

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the more things change…

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>>93378135
This strip basically confirms that he thinks she's a 10 physically who is held back by her other aspects. Here it's prudishness/lack of experience.

It's kinda similar to the It's Walky arc, if you think about it. When he just thought of her as an annoying husband chaser she wasn't really on his radar, but once he started enjoying her personality, he became completely infatuated with her.

>>93378395
Less characters would help overall, I agree, but the specific issue here is that Willis has just completely dropped an extremely dramatic arc right before its conclusion in order to focus on a new (relatively) pedantic arc. For over two weeks no less. I just don't know how he could possibly make the conclusion worth the wait at this point.