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JULY 16

Journalism

by David on February 10, 2012 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - Choosing My Religion

└ Tags: amber, danny, joe

Discussion (235) ¬

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  1. John Harmon
    John Harmon
    February 10, 2012 at 12:01 am | # | Reply

    Journalism all over her face.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      February 10, 2012 at 12:06 am | # | Reply

      I didn’t notice any ‘j-ism’ on her face.

      • John Harmon
        John Harmon
        February 10, 2012 at 12:06 am | # | Reply

        What you did there? That joke? That was brain terrorism. And it was hilarious.

        *InterKNUCKS*

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          February 10, 2012 at 12:11 am | # | Reply

          What can I say? I mastered in Double Entendres with a minor in Puns.

          • fellixe
            fellixe
            February 10, 2012 at 12:18 am | # | Reply

            At ol’ P-U?

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              February 10, 2012 at 12:37 am | # | Reply

              No but I used to go to F.U once a week for fencing classes before my sight deteriorated too much.

      • mechaqua
        mechaqua
        February 10, 2012 at 12:16 am | # | Reply

        Ha ha double entendre

        Ha ha i ve used this joke before

        • Jackson
          Jackson
          February 10, 2012 at 6:50 am | # | Reply

          double double your entendre

          (I’ve used this joke before too)

          • Blob Marley
            Blob Marley
            February 10, 2012 at 2:07 pm | # | Reply

            For a nickel.

          • Michelle J Caboose
            Michelle J Caboose
            February 11, 2012 at 3:39 pm | # | Reply

            Now I’m thinking of the Doublemint Twins. Odd.

        • L
          L
          February 10, 2012 at 1:33 pm | # | Reply

          Ha-ha! Phil Ken Sebben reference

      • tahrey
        tahrey
        February 13, 2012 at 6:56 am | # | Reply

        oh my god. you pair of magnificent bastards.

    • mechaqua
      mechaqua
      February 10, 2012 at 12:06 am | # | Reply

      you mean FACEEEEEEE!!!!!

    • Mikehatesyou
      Mikehatesyou
      February 14, 2012 at 8:47 am | # | Reply

      Your mom gave me journalism for a nickle.

  2. Twinplus
    Twinplus
    February 10, 2012 at 12:01 am | # | Reply

    “Journalism” is now a meme.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      February 10, 2012 at 12:13 am | # | Reply

      I believe the word you were looking for is euphemism.

      • madock345
        madock345
        February 10, 2012 at 12:16 am | # | Reply

        mememism?

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          February 10, 2012 at 12:31 am | # | Reply

          +1 for new portmanteau.

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          February 10, 2012 at 1:02 am | # | Reply

          It’s a meme and a euphemism. But mostly euphemism.

          • lordphulish
            lordphulish
            February 10, 2012 at 2:00 am | # | Reply

            memeception?

        • f.p.
          f.p.
          February 10, 2012 at 3:25 am | # | Reply

          Euphememe.

          • begbert2
            begbert2
            February 10, 2012 at 10:55 am | # | Reply

            madock345 + f.p. = memememe?

            • captainswift
              captainswift
              February 11, 2012 at 1:41 pm | # | Reply

              And this is my assistant, Beaker.

              • Nakama
                Nakama
                February 12, 2012 at 6:46 pm | # | Reply

                captainswift wins the thread!

      • Andrusi
        Andrusi
        February 10, 2012 at 9:48 am | # | Reply

        Euphemism is now a meme?

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      February 10, 2012 at 2:02 am | # | Reply

      You know, I am a Communications major. Think I have a good shot at getting into “journalism”?

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        February 10, 2012 at 2:11 am | # | Reply

        Maybe, but it depends on how impressive your ‘media coverage’ is.

        • HollyDee
          HollyDee
          February 10, 2012 at 2:50 am | # | Reply

          Here, “media coverage” means “boobies”

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            February 10, 2012 at 6:25 pm | # | Reply

            …and as Daisy can attest, chest windows make for improving ‘media coverage’.

            • Khrene Cleaver
              Khrene Cleaver
              February 11, 2012 at 12:10 am | # | Reply

              Yes “media coverage” is all about revealing and getting “big scoops.”

              • Michelle J Caboose
                Michelle J Caboose
                February 11, 2012 at 3:40 pm | # | Reply

                Aaaaaaand now I want ice cream, for some reason. O_o

                (Two scoops, please. And hold the nuts.)

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  February 12, 2012 at 1:20 am | #

                  You should never ask anyone to hold your nuts on a first date.

  3. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    February 10, 2012 at 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Poor Amber. :)

  4. Henry
    Henry
    February 10, 2012 at 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Poor Amber. She looks like she’s about to cry.
    Poor Danny. He won’t be getting saved by Amazi-Girl any time soon.

    • Jackson
      Jackson
      February 10, 2012 at 6:52 am | # | Reply

      Amber keeps making that face, and it fills my heart with sads.

    • ryan
      ryan
      February 10, 2012 at 8:21 am | # | Reply

      Joe: Hey, baby, what’s wrong?

      • Henry
        Henry
        February 10, 2012 at 11:57 am | # | Reply

        I’m not sure Joe’s made himself terribly sympathetic to Amber. If there’s a girl Joe *won’t* get (apart from Joyce “Violent-Reactions-to-Hanky-Panky” Brown), it’ll be Amber.

  5. tylertlat
    tylertlat
    February 10, 2012 at 12:02 am | # | Reply

    And it’s official. “Journalism” is what the kids are calling it these days.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      February 10, 2012 at 12:17 am | # | Reply

      I remember when it was called fornication.

      • fellixe
        fellixe
        February 10, 2012 at 12:43 am | # | Reply

        Ah, yes. I remember fornication. Good times…

        • a99steaksauce
          a99steaksauce
          February 10, 2012 at 12:46 am | # | Reply

          I remember when it was called sex.

          • fishsicles
            fishsicles
            February 10, 2012 at 1:11 am | # | Reply

            the legends were truuuuuuuue

          • Aizat
            Aizat
            February 10, 2012 at 1:11 am | # | Reply

            I remember when they called it bonking.

          • lawzlo
            lawzlo
            February 10, 2012 at 1:14 am | # | Reply

            I remember when it was called “racing submarines.”

            Actually, I’ve never heard anyone call it that.

            • Random Webcomics Junkie
              Random Webcomics Junkie
              February 10, 2012 at 1:38 am | # | Reply

              I’m going to call it that now. Sounds sort of badass.

              • Izzy
                Izzy
                February 10, 2012 at 1:49 am | # | Reply

                Hey, baby, wanna go racing submarines?

            • Animaniac
              Animaniac
              February 10, 2012 at 2:41 am | # | Reply

              Actually it was “Watching the submarine races” aka a fake excuse to have your girl alone at the lake, should someone come upon you and ask.

            • a99steaksauce
              a99steaksauce
              February 10, 2012 at 11:41 am | # | Reply

              It sounds like it would be used as a term for gay sex.

              • Plasma Mongoose
                Plasma Mongoose
                February 10, 2012 at 5:43 pm | # | Reply

                Yes it does, mainly due to all the seamen this term evokes.

                • Khrene Cleaver
                  Khrene Cleaver
                  February 11, 2012 at 12:12 am | #

                  Seaman inside long hard tubes that like to go in deep.

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  February 11, 2012 at 12:49 am | #

                  Exactamundo!

            • a99steaksauce
              a99steaksauce
              February 10, 2012 at 11:42 am | # | Reply

              It sounds like it would be used as a term for gay sex. Maybe even an orgy.

    • Furie
      Furie
      February 10, 2012 at 11:00 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, but only because it suffers the same problems as journalism does. It tends to be one-sided while claiming to benefit both parties, professional journalists are more likely to spread their diseased opinions than tell a good story, the kids these days are leaving expensive paper and video based journalism behind for the free trash they can get on the web and then wonder why they don’t know enough to ensure the survival of the species. And to cap it all off, super injunctions mean you can’t even tell anyone when someone is having journalism anymore…

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        February 10, 2012 at 5:45 pm | # | Reply

        Sounds like you’re saying that journalism is TOO GOOD a euphemism.

  6. Dahlia
    Dahlia
    February 10, 2012 at 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand the good ship Danny x Amber sinks like the Titanic.

    • Henry
      Henry
      February 10, 2012 at 12:04 am | # | Reply

      Maybe not. Just delayed for a while. If anything, a casual DannyxBillie hook-up might have just sunk the DannyxBillie ship more effectively than anything else.

      • Dahlia
        Dahlia
        February 10, 2012 at 12:07 am | # | Reply

        It is possible, but we’ll have to see to know for sure! :3

        • Henry
          Henry
          February 10, 2012 at 12:09 am | # | Reply

          All I’m saying is AmberxDanny isn’t completely sunk yet.

          *Knocks on wood so Willis doesn’t make it a point to sink it completely *

      • tom
        tom
        February 12, 2012 at 8:48 pm | # | Reply

        I think the now-inevitable Billie & Joe hookup will sink the Danny & Billie ship…

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      February 10, 2012 at 12:12 am | # | Reply

      Don’t count the ship sunk just yet, Dahlia.

      • mechaqua
        mechaqua
        February 10, 2012 at 12:14 am | # | Reply

        Yeah it took 3 hours for the titanic to sink!

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          February 10, 2012 at 12:18 am | # | Reply

          It depends on if Billie counts as an iceburg in this case or not.

          • Dahlia
            Dahlia
            February 10, 2012 at 12:33 am | # | Reply

            I certainly hope not! I’m curious to see where this goes o:

            O_O Wow, three hours…my gosh

            And I, uh…I guess in my metaphor Billie WOULD be the iceberg…?

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              February 10, 2012 at 12:39 am | # | Reply

              A bouncy 100 proof iceburg.

              • Dahlia
                Dahlia
                February 10, 2012 at 12:42 am | # | Reply

                xD yep yep yep!

              • mechaqua
                mechaqua
                February 10, 2012 at 12:46 am | # | Reply

                So if amber were to toss a lit match at her would she catch fire?

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  February 10, 2012 at 12:50 am | #

                  More likely than you think. :P

                • Kernanator
                  Kernanator
                  February 10, 2012 at 2:01 am | #

                  I guess this relationship is

                  B-)

                  “On the Rocks”.

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  February 10, 2012 at 2:13 am | #

                  *hehehehe*

            • Usayasha
              Usayasha
              February 10, 2012 at 9:18 pm | # | Reply

              Wait, if Danny and Amber are the Titanic, and Billie is an iceberg, are you saying that you want Danny and Amber to go down on Billie?
              Because you aren’t the first.

              • Michelle J Caboose
                Michelle J Caboose
                February 11, 2012 at 3:45 pm | # | Reply

                O_O

                I want to see this. SO MUCH. (starts checking paheal)

        • Izzy
          Izzy
          February 10, 2012 at 1:50 am | # | Reply

          That’s what? A few weeks minimum for us?

        • Blob Marley
          Blob Marley
          February 10, 2012 at 2:09 pm | # | Reply

          3 hours? We’ll be old and senile before Willis gets to THREE HOURS IN THE FUTURE!

          • mechaqua
            mechaqua
            February 10, 2012 at 4:34 pm | # | Reply

            why do I get the feeling that at some point Willis will jus mind f°€# us and jump ahead a few months?

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            February 10, 2012 at 8:53 pm | # | Reply

            TO THE TIME-MACHINE!

            • mechaqua
              mechaqua
              February 10, 2012 at 9:45 pm | # | Reply

              Its a Time and Relative Dimension in Space machine.

        • Michelle J Caboose
          Michelle J Caboose
          February 11, 2012 at 3:43 pm | # | Reply

          That’s like two months, in this strip!

    • a99steaksauce
      a99steaksauce
      February 10, 2012 at 12:48 am | # | Reply

      One lifeboat of the Danny x Amber ship is still afloat.

  7. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    February 10, 2012 at 12:02 am | # | Reply

    What’s black and white and read all over? THIS GUUUUY!!!!!

  8. OhHayMike
    OhHayMike
    February 10, 2012 at 12:03 am | # | Reply

    wompwompwomp

  9. mechaqua
    mechaqua
    February 10, 2012 at 12:04 am | # | Reply

    So the equation that Joe ranks girls with is boobs+rest of body divided by two

    • MarcinMN
      MarcinMN
      February 10, 2012 at 12:07 am | # | Reply

      At least he has a system established. =P

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      February 10, 2012 at 12:24 am | # | Reply

      I think I will stick with this formula:

      ((2Face + Body)/3)*Chemistry

      • ryan
        ryan
        February 10, 2012 at 8:23 am | # | Reply

        you go for chicks that look like harvey dent?

        • Danny Boy
          Danny Boy
          February 10, 2012 at 1:18 pm | # | Reply

          This comment thread needs a “Like” button.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          February 10, 2012 at 8:45 pm | # | Reply

          I just got zinged! :P

          • Kernanator
            Kernanator
            February 11, 2012 at 12:59 am | # | Reply

            This must be a novel and wonderful experience for you.

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              February 11, 2012 at 7:14 am | # | Reply

              It is indeed, it might even develop into a new fetish, gotta love that Rule 36.

              • Michelle J Caboose
                Michelle J Caboose
                February 11, 2012 at 3:47 pm | # | Reply

                Ah, I thought it was Rule 13. ;P

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  February 12, 2012 at 1:25 am | #

                  Rule 13: When all else fails, just tell them to Google It.

                  Rule 36: If it exists, someone has a fetish for it. No exceptions.

                • Michelle J Caboose
                  Michelle J Caboose
                  February 12, 2012 at 1:37 pm | #

                  Rule 13: Anything you say can be turned into something else. – fixed. – fixed

                  Oddly enough, while trying to find this every time I searched for rule 13, I got a different rule (all of which I recognized). The others were more or less the same; only rule 13 changed. o_O

    • Gordon
      Gordon
      February 10, 2012 at 12:29 am | # | Reply

      I imagine Billie getting bumped up two ranks is because her boobs are particularly exceptional(I guess?), thus making it a special case.

      I’d be willing to bet his normal ranking system is very complex and completely unfathomable by the common man.

      • Jackson
        Jackson
        February 10, 2012 at 6:54 am | # | Reply

        Probably involves multivariable calculus and differential equations. He is a mechanical genius in the Walkyverse, after all.

    • lawzlo
      lawzlo
      February 10, 2012 at 6:46 am | # | Reply

      If he divided the rest of her body in two, wouldn’t she die, or at least be very upset?

      • ryan
        ryan
        February 10, 2012 at 8:27 am | # | Reply

        there’s a king solomon joke in there.

  10. dchorror
    dchorror
    February 10, 2012 at 12:04 am | # | Reply

    How is he doing the scale?

    • mechaqua
      mechaqua
      February 10, 2012 at 12:07 am | # | Reply

      boobs= ten body= six

      boobs/body= 8

      • Pat
        Pat
        February 10, 2012 at 12:33 am | # | Reply

        10/6 = 1 2/3, not 8.

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          February 10, 2012 at 1:15 am | # | Reply

          I think it’s (10+6)/2.

          • S.Yeske
            S.Yeske
            February 10, 2012 at 5:27 am | # | Reply

            I thought he was splitting the difference.

            • Kernanator
              Kernanator
              February 11, 2012 at 1:00 am | # | Reply

              It’s the SAME THING.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      February 10, 2012 at 12:42 am | # | Reply

      Joe’s scale: (boobs+body)/2

    • dchorror
      dchorror
      February 10, 2012 at 12:47 am | # | Reply

      I meant in general, not just for Billie. There are a couple of times I would argue with him on where they’re placed.

  11. Khantalas
    Khantalas
    February 10, 2012 at 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Good to know that Joe rates girls by averaging everything, rather than going by the lowest of all factors.

  12. Aizat
    Aizat
    February 10, 2012 at 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Aaaaaawkwaaard.

  13. Fruit Punch Tsunami
    Fruit Punch Tsunami
    February 10, 2012 at 12:07 am | # | Reply

    So is Danny just busting out into the hallway completely nude, or is it just me?

    • madock345
      madock345
      February 10, 2012 at 12:12 am | # | Reply

      Not just you, I find this comic much funnier if I assume he is.

  14. Aizat
    Aizat
    February 10, 2012 at 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Journalism? Without clothes on? Yeah, have fun climbing out of the hole you’re in, Danny.

    • mechaqua
      mechaqua
      February 10, 2012 at 12:12 am | # | Reply

      as I always say when you dig yourself into a hole just dig deeper inevitably you hit the other-side of the world and come out on top

      • fellixe
        fellixe
        February 10, 2012 at 12:23 am | # | Reply

        You don’t have to have your
        Clothes on,
        To write a byline
        Uh-huh!

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      February 10, 2012 at 12:26 am | # | Reply

      Clearly he is naked cos it was a news expose. :D

    • a99steaksauce
      a99steaksauce
      February 10, 2012 at 12:51 am | # | Reply

      Hey, he could say the article is on sculpting or something.

    • Ancestral Hamster
      Ancestral Hamster
      February 10, 2012 at 2:12 am | # | Reply

      It was an in-depth, probing expose with startling revelations!

      • Khrene Cleaver
        Khrene Cleaver
        February 11, 2012 at 12:21 am | # | Reply

        Aww man, Billie stole the spotlight for Danny’s “head” story! It was supposed to be a real hit!

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          February 11, 2012 at 3:47 am | # | Reply

          Don’t you mean “top story”?

          • Michelle J Caboose
            Michelle J Caboose
            February 11, 2012 at 3:49 pm | # | Reply

            No, he was on the bottom. :P

  15. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    February 10, 2012 at 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Don’t cry Amber, I’m certain that he is perfectly willing to show you his ‘interviewing’ technique. :D

    • fellixe
      fellixe
      February 10, 2012 at 12:25 am | # | Reply

      Oh, yeah! And she can take his dictation.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        February 10, 2012 at 12:34 am | # | Reply

        I just hope he can give her enough column inches to fill her full page spread.

        • fellixe
          fellixe
          February 10, 2012 at 12:46 am | # | Reply

          And he’d better do his due dilligence or he’ll end up having to make an embarassing retraction.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            February 10, 2012 at 12:52 am | # | Reply

            and if that happens, he won’t be allowed on her ‘printing press’ again.

            • fellixe
              fellixe
              February 10, 2012 at 1:00 am | # | Reply

              Leaving him to pursue a Pull-It-Sir all on his own.

              • Aizat
                Aizat
                February 10, 2012 at 1:04 am | # | Reply

                Are you two Pungeon Masters?

                • fellixe
                  fellixe
                  February 10, 2012 at 1:21 am | #

                  I believe the more appropriate term would be pundits.

                • Kernanator
                  Kernanator
                  February 10, 2012 at 1:58 am | #

                  My god, you two are like an endless entendre factory.

                • Plasma Mongoose
                  Plasma Mongoose
                  February 10, 2012 at 2:15 am | #

                  You think the entendres are good, wait until get to the main course.

                • SUTBEric
                  SUTBEric
                  February 10, 2012 at 10:26 am | #

                  I think I’m in love.

                • fellixe
                  fellixe
                  February 10, 2012 at 8:14 pm | #

                  Well.… okay. But if we’re going to
                  do the MenĂ¡geA3 thing I get to
                  be Zii.

    • mechaqua
      mechaqua
      February 10, 2012 at 12:40 am | # | Reply

      Cheer up amber
      “Some things in life are bad,
      They can really make you mad,
      Other things just make you swear and curse,
      When you’re chewing life’s gristle,
      Don’t grumble,
      Give a whistle
      And this’ll help things turn out for the best.
      And…
      Always look on the bright side of life.
      [whistle]
      Always look on the light side of life.
      [whistle]
      If life seems jolly rotten,
      There’s something you’ve forgotten,
      And that’s to laugh and smile and dance and sing.
      When you’re feeling in the dumps,
      Don’t be silly chumps.
      Just purse your lips and whistle.
      That’s the thing.
      And…
      Always look on the bright side of life.
      [whistle]
      Always look on the right side of life,
      [whistle]
      For life is quite absurd
      And death’s the final word.
      You must always face the curtain with a bow.
      Forget about your sin.
      Give the audience a grin.
      Enjoy it. It’s your last chance, anyhow.
      So,…
      Always look on the bright side of death,
      [whistle]
      Just before you draw your terminal breath.
      [whistle]
      Life’s a piece of shit,
      When you look at it.
      Life’s a laugh and death’s a joke it’s true.
      You’ll see it’s all a show.
      Keep ‘em laughing as you go.
      Just remember that the last laugh is on you.
      And…
      Always look on the bright side of life.
      Always look on the right side of life.” Eric Idle

  16. MichaelHaneline
    MichaelHaneline
    February 10, 2012 at 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Suddenly journalism seems far more interesting than I ever realized.

  17. Xailenrath Omniversal
    Xailenrath Omniversal
    February 10, 2012 at 12:10 am | # | Reply

    Wow. Billie has become… aggressive.

    • mechaqua
      mechaqua
      February 10, 2012 at 12:43 am | # | Reply

      Yes but soon Ruth will appear and crush Billies spirits and then she will be back to her normal alcoholic, depressed, sleep deprived state.

  18. mechaqua
    mechaqua
    February 10, 2012 at 12:11 am | # | Reply

    Okay Billie i gave you slack for having a rough week if you do Joe I will call ho

    buttttt Joes is also a whore….

    well there all whores….

    those in this panel at least…

    cept Amber

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      February 10, 2012 at 12:27 am | # | Reply

      whoreswhoreswhores

      • a99steaksauce
        a99steaksauce
        February 10, 2012 at 12:53 am | # | Reply

        Santa: HoHoHo!!

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          February 10, 2012 at 1:04 am | # | Reply

          As Hacksaw Jim Duggan once said “HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!”

        • Shippy McShipper
          Shippy McShipper
          February 10, 2012 at 7:59 pm | # | Reply

          Well Santa does know where all the naughty girls are.

          • mechaqua
            mechaqua
            February 12, 2012 at 5:53 pm | # | Reply

            Thousands of years ago, before the dawn of man as we knew him, there was Sir Santa of Claus: an ape-like creature making crude and pointless toys out of dino-bone and his own waste, hurling them at chimp-like creatures with crinkled hands regardless of how they behaved the previous year. These so-called “toys” were buried as witches, and defecated upon, and hurled at predators who were awoken by the searing grunts of the children. It wasn’t a holly jolly Christmas that year; for many were killed!

            A warlike race of elves from the red planet landed on the ice-encased earth, and they were immediately enslaved by the unevolved Santa ape to make his confused toys, using galactic elfin technology for Evermore Sanchianados. Toys were made into recognizable shapes and given names like ‘train’ but these toys were also thrown at predators and defecated upon because they were so stupid. Christmas still sucked a big way.

            Thousands of years ago, the ice had made the globe unnavigable. Santa ape did not know what a north pole was. How could he? He was born before science existed, so he arbitrarily placed his workshop right here, long before they unionized, and Christmas was celebrated at each full moon in front of the great red ape.

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        February 10, 2012 at 1:05 am | # | Reply

        prostitutes.

  19. Ridureyu
    Ridureyu
    February 10, 2012 at 12:17 am | # | Reply

    Danny’s only hope now is ritual suicide.

    • fellixe
      fellixe
      February 10, 2012 at 12:29 am | # | Reply

      Couldn’t he just start with a little ritual self deprecation and see if that’s enough?

      • lawzlo
        lawzlo
        February 10, 2012 at 6:49 am | # | Reply

        I’d suggest some ritual self-abuse, but I think he’s good for right now.

      • Shippy McShipper
        Shippy McShipper
        February 10, 2012 at 8:01 pm | # | Reply

        He already did some self deprecation today, and look where that…

        He’s right, Danny should start with the self deprecation. Right now.

        • fellixe
          fellixe
          February 10, 2012 at 8:16 pm | # | Reply

          WIN

  20. Aegon01
    Aegon01
    February 10, 2012 at 12:18 am | # | Reply

    Disappointment ALL over the place.

    Okay, so Amber’s going to feel slightly less special. She’ll retreat into WoW-land for a week. But Danny wasn’t really TRYING to sleep with her, he just ENDED UP doing her. He’ll explain himself, they’ll get friendlier, and all will be well.

    • a99steaksauce
      a99steaksauce
      February 10, 2012 at 12:54 am | # | Reply

      Because freedom of choice is not an option when sex is on the table.

      • Aegon01
        Aegon01
        February 10, 2012 at 12:59 am | # | Reply

        When its with Billie, and she’s clutching your shirt saying “I’m on top, you’re on the bottom”, I’m pretty sure there’s only one choice any guy in Danny’s position would make.

        And I love how apropos my avatar is.

        • a99steaksauce
          a99steaksauce
          February 10, 2012 at 1:02 am | # | Reply

          touchee (or however you spell it but im too lazy to look it up as aposed to typing this sentence with errors).

          • vlademir1
            vlademir1
            February 10, 2012 at 6:44 am | # | Reply

            Well yes, there was bound to be some touching.

          • begbert2
            begbert2
            February 10, 2012 at 3:23 pm | # | Reply

            *twitch* It’s ‘opposed’.

            • Michelle J Caboose
              Michelle J Caboose
              February 11, 2012 at 3:51 pm | # | Reply

              Thank you.

        • Wack'd
          Wack'd
          February 10, 2012 at 7:12 pm | # | Reply

          Yes, it is totally and completely impossible for men to turn down sex if the woman initiates it.

          Very astute observation.

          • Aegon01
            Aegon01
            February 12, 2012 at 6:25 pm | # | Reply

            I didn’t say it was impossible. I just know that if I was in Danny’s
            position I wouldn’t have turned it down. Especially since
            I think its clear to both of them (if it’s not clear to Danny yet,
            it soon will be) that it was a one-time thing. And he basically doesn’t
            have a particularly good reason to turn it down either. The only reason
            he *might* have turned it down is if he could have predicted that Amber
            would be at his front door, looking to hang out.

        • Usayasha
          Usayasha
          February 10, 2012 at 9:24 pm | # | Reply

          Actually, there are plenty of other options.
          You’re assuming that the guy is not Ethan, who would refuse the opportunity.
          Or Mike, who would abuse the opportunity. With your mother.
          For a nickel.

    • taekwondogirl
      taekwondogirl
      February 10, 2012 at 10:48 pm | # | Reply

      I think “slightly less special” is really a failure to empathize with her. She met a dude who seems to be nice, is normal and isn’t some crazy playboy and theeen… the first time she seeks him out he’s nailed some chick.

      You’re using audience knowledge to dictate how Amber should behave as opposed to reducing your knowledge to the same that she would know. Obviously if they talk, the knowledge streams will cross but she’ll still have that initial gut wrench. Logic can’t utterly obliterate emotions.

      • MichaelHaneline
        MichaelHaneline
        February 12, 2012 at 12:49 am | # | Reply

        You are banned from Vulcan.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          February 12, 2012 at 1:29 am | # | Reply

          But Vulcan doesn’t exist anymore.

          • BriGuy
            BriGuy
            February 14, 2012 at 2:17 pm | # | Reply

            I think you mean Romulus. We don’t talk about the lens flare universe at this table. :P

            R.I.P. Romulus, Never Forget

        • taekwondogirl
          taekwondogirl
          February 13, 2012 at 10:24 am | # | Reply

          Old Spock informed Young Spock once that sometimes you need to do what “feels right”. Vulcans have emotions too; logic doesn’t get RID of them. They just use logic to make the best (read: most logical) decision.

      • Aegon01
        Aegon01
        February 12, 2012 at 6:28 pm | # | Reply

        All true.

  21. Ter
    Ter
    February 10, 2012 at 12:50 am | # | Reply

    It’s okay Amber. You still have Mike… in the Shortpacked!universe… where you’re having his baby…

    D: AMBER YOU ARE BETTER THAN DANNY.

  22. malal
    malal
    February 10, 2012 at 12:56 am | # | Reply

    well shite

  23. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    February 10, 2012 at 1:08 am | # | Reply

    Don’t listen at keyholes (or linger outside dormitory doors with socks on the doorknob), for you may well hear (see) something you’d rather not.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      February 10, 2012 at 1:22 am | # | Reply

      Or smell something you’d rather not. Not all the socks hanging on the doorknob are fresh ones, you know.

  24. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    February 10, 2012 at 1:13 am | # | Reply

    Oh shit.

    DRAMA LLAMA!

  25. NF
    NF
    February 10, 2012 at 1:17 am | # | Reply

    Joe: Would it be weird if I gave you a high-five right now?

  26. TheStranger
    TheStranger
    February 10, 2012 at 1:21 am | # | Reply

    Y’know, Amber, on the plus side…you expressed a concern about dating a dude and getting left in the lurch when he expresses a preference for wing-wong rather than hoo-hah.

    Danny’s utter excitement over ‘journalism’ should, if nothing else, dispel any doubts as to how he feels about hoo-hah.

    Silver lining!

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      February 10, 2012 at 1:27 am | # | Reply

      You know, the word wing-wong always made me laugh.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        February 10, 2012 at 5:52 pm | # | Reply

        Whenever I hear the word wing-wong, I think of this TROPE.

      • TheStranger
        TheStranger
        February 10, 2012 at 8:46 pm | # | Reply

        Pretty sure that’s where I got that particular euphemism for the pocket rocket.

    • Dave
      Dave
      February 10, 2012 at 8:19 am | # | Reply

      Every time I read/hear hoo-hah I think of Al Pacino.

  27. The Blot
    The Blot
    February 10, 2012 at 1:27 am | # | Reply

    Aw, poor Amber…really enjoying this storyline though. Might be my favorite DoA story yet!

  28. MM
    MM
    February 10, 2012 at 1:42 am | # | Reply

    Look on the bright side, Amber. At least this is evidence he’s straight!

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      February 10, 2012 at 2:00 am | # | Reply

      Yes, at least you’re making progress!

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        February 10, 2012 at 2:38 am | # | Reply

        Don’t you mean PROGRESS?

        • Kernanator
          Kernanator
          February 10, 2012 at 3:44 am | # | Reply

          You’re right! How could I have forgotten?

  29. Izzy
    Izzy
    February 10, 2012 at 1:51 am | # | Reply

    Is it just me or is Danny’s right nipple way too low and centered on his body?

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      February 10, 2012 at 1:59 am | # | Reply

      Why am I not surprised your eyes went there?

    • RaijinK
      RaijinK
      February 10, 2012 at 2:09 am | # | Reply

      Only his left is visible. So either you’re getting right and left mixed up, or you’re seeing his pose in a bizarre way I’m struggling to understand.

      • Izzy
        Izzy
        February 10, 2012 at 3:03 am | # | Reply

        it’s his belly button+Bad Joke

  30. RaijinK
    RaijinK
    February 10, 2012 at 2:05 am | # | Reply

    Amber’s reactions have been tough to read this week. She keeps looking like she’s precipitously balanced between competing emotions. On Wednesday it looked like disappointment watered down by disinterest. Thursday looked like betrayal offset by confusion. By the end of today her expression is a contortion of heartbreak, disgust, and judgement. After all that, I’m still not sure if she actually cares about him, or if she’s just put off by the surprisingly skeevy atmosphere she’s found around a fellow CS geek that initially gave here a very different impression.

    I guess the whole point is that she’s not sure either.

  31. lordphulish
    lordphulish
    February 10, 2012 at 2:06 am | # | Reply

    In a strange way this could speed up the ship by showing amber that Danny is attractive to other women and making him more desirable.

    • KresyAntics
      KresyAntics
      February 10, 2012 at 4:33 am | # | Reply

      highly doubt that it will due to Billie’s comments … “twerp, need guys like Joe and then the bumping into Joe” puts Amber on the extreme defensive.

      • Michelle J Caboose
        Michelle J Caboose
        February 11, 2012 at 3:57 pm | # | Reply

        Then again… He’s a twerp, but she still felt attracted to him enough to journalism with him? Might be enough to make Amber think he really is irresistible. At the very least, she seems to already feel enough attraction to him to be hurt by the idea of him journalisming someone else.

        (funny note: spell check seems to hate the word “journalisming”)

  32. Astro
    Astro
    February 10, 2012 at 2:11 am | # | Reply

    I don’t normally nitpick, but Billie’s hand in the first panel is freaking me out.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      February 10, 2012 at 6:00 pm | # | Reply

      Her thumb seems to be moving towards her elbow.

      CANNOT UNSEE!

  33. Jim
    Jim
    February 10, 2012 at 4:31 am | # | Reply

    I’d go to 8.5 on that rack. :-D

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      February 10, 2012 at 8:55 pm | # | Reply

      I’d give it a 10.

  34. Scoot
    Scoot
    February 10, 2012 at 5:30 am | # | Reply

    I am legit butthurt for Amber.

  35. AJBulldis
    AJBulldis
    February 10, 2012 at 6:57 am | # | Reply

    How many days ago did Danny and Amber start hanging out? Two? Three?

  36. Jabberwocky
    Jabberwocky
    February 10, 2012 at 8:37 am | # | Reply

    I like to think they were actually conducting an interview in the throes of passion.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      February 10, 2012 at 12:04 pm | # | Reply

      “So, when did you (unh!) see Amazi-Girl?”
      “Well, I was walking at night (yes, Yes, YES!) after being dumped by my girlfriend…”

  37. Weebles
    Weebles
    February 10, 2012 at 8:48 am | # | Reply

    I may not be remembering, but did Amber and Danny have a ‘like eachother’ moment that I missed? If they haven’t, then.. I’m not sure why Amber’s looking upset that a random guy she met once in passing got laid via someone who was not her? :/

    • Mr. Morningstar
      Mr. Morningstar
      February 10, 2012 at 9:13 am | # | Reply

      IM pretty sure Danny asked her out.

      Or something like that.

    • Jeffrey Scott
      Jeffrey Scott
      February 10, 2012 at 9:33 am | # | Reply

      Danny and Amber were flirting with each other earlier. That was back when Joe compared Amber to Dorothy.

    • taekwondogirl
      taekwondogirl
      February 10, 2012 at 10:55 pm | # | Reply

      That and Amazi-Girl saved him.

  38. Chuck Testa
    Chuck Testa
    February 10, 2012 at 9:14 am | # | Reply

    Looks like Dann has got some ‘splainin to do.

  39. Thomas
    Thomas
    February 10, 2012 at 9:54 am | # | Reply

    This comic requires a ‘journalism’-tag.

  40. aydr
    aydr
    February 10, 2012 at 10:51 am | # | Reply

    Amber :(

  41. Arkadi
    Arkadi
    February 10, 2012 at 10:55 am | # | Reply

    Journalism is magic.

    • fellixe
      fellixe
      February 10, 2012 at 8:19 pm | # | Reply

      Journalism Is So Magic

      • Arkadi
        Arkadi
        February 11, 2012 at 12:14 pm | # | Reply

        Journalism is Babies.

        • Michelle J Caboose
          Michelle J Caboose
          February 11, 2012 at 3:58 pm | # | Reply

          Journalism makes Babies.

          Fixed.

          • Arkadi
            Arkadi
            February 11, 2012 at 5:28 pm | # | Reply

            No need to be so literal

            • Michelle J Caboose
              Michelle J Caboose
              February 12, 2012 at 1:56 pm | # | Reply

              There is, when it’s funny. :P

  42. Tarkada
    Tarkada
    February 10, 2012 at 11:52 am | # | Reply

    It’s obvious that this is going to be the college episode of Danny conquering every girl to make the viewers laugh then cry.

    P.S.sarcasm.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      February 10, 2012 at 1:49 pm | # | Reply

      Danny becomes Joe?

  43. Aizat
    Aizat
    February 10, 2012 at 1:56 pm | # | Reply

    I just know figured out that Danny is a pretty good flirt. I mean, all he did is just flirt and BAM, he got himself a lady friend and an “interview”.

  44. Phillip Wilde
    Phillip Wilde
    February 10, 2012 at 2:02 pm | # | Reply

    I had honestly forgotten Danny and Amber even knew each other. Thanks to the archive tags, I’m reminded of their flirtation, but goodness, that was three days ago.

  45. Ray Barrington
    Ray Barrington
    February 10, 2012 at 2:29 pm | # | Reply

    He might put his pica pole into her glue pot.

    (NOBODY under the age of 50 will recognize these as newspaper terms)
    (NOBODY under the age of 20 will recognize newspapers)

    • David
      David
      February 10, 2012 at 3:07 pm | # | Reply

      I recognize them! In high school we cut and pasted our newspaper pages together the old fashioned way.

      And because we were teenagers, we made at least one million dumb jokes about pica poles.

    • Animal
      Animal
      February 10, 2012 at 5:45 pm | # | Reply

      I recognize them. But then, I’m over…

      …yeah.

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        February 11, 2012 at 1:04 am | # | Reply

        Over the hill? Over you?

        Over your mom?

        Over-paid?

        • Animal
          Animal
          February 11, 2012 at 10:46 am | # | Reply

          Sure as the hell not overpaid.

          • fellixe
            fellixe
            February 11, 2012 at 11:35 am | # | Reply

            Over easy? Over stimulated? Over the weekend? Overtly pro-colorization?

            • Animal
              Animal
              February 11, 2012 at 12:40 pm | # | Reply

              Overclocked.

    • Alex
      Alex
      February 12, 2012 at 12:18 am | # | Reply

      21 year old design student recognizes them.

  46. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    February 10, 2012 at 5:27 pm | # | Reply

    Dude, put some pants on.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      February 10, 2012 at 9:02 pm | # | Reply

      And know we know why Amber made that face.

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        February 11, 2012 at 1:05 am | # | Reply

        She’s just found out that, contrary to what she’s seen in porn (or on Ethan), guys do not routinely have 14 inch dicks.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          February 11, 2012 at 7:21 am | # | Reply

          I believe that in real life, the average length is closer to around the 14cm mark.

  47. Zababcd
    Zababcd
    February 10, 2012 at 5:41 pm | # | Reply

    I originally interpreted Amber’s expression in the last panel as a, ‘are you really going to try to make that excuse in this situation’ expression, but I believe, upon closer inspection, that there is a slight quiver of the lips. Difficult to be sure.

    • Zababcd
      Zababcd
      February 10, 2012 at 5:48 pm | # | Reply

      *an

  48. fellixe
    fellixe
    February 10, 2012 at 8:12 pm | # | Reply

    Well… okay. But if we’re going to do the MenĂ¡geA3 thing I get to be Zii.

    • Michelle J Caboose
      Michelle J Caboose
      February 11, 2012 at 4:01 pm | # | Reply

      Whoa… Deja vu.

  49. Kelvin
    Kelvin
    February 11, 2012 at 9:20 am | # | Reply

    Why did you quash Danny/Amber, Willis? :O

    I thought you were going for new OTP’s. XD

    • Michelle J Caboose
      Michelle J Caboose
      February 11, 2012 at 4:04 pm | # | Reply

      Obviously, he did it so it will come completely out of left field (for Amber) when Danny starts dating Ethan. ;P

      • Kelvin
        Kelvin
        February 14, 2012 at 2:48 am | # | Reply

        HAHAHAHAHAHH! XD

  50. Bosn_C_Otter
    Bosn_C_Otter
    February 11, 2012 at 7:17 pm | # | Reply

    Yay! sex! … A that Religion
    was making me itch.

  51. Maycroft
    Maycroft
    February 11, 2012 at 11:57 pm | # | Reply

    Danny is gonna have to invent a new kind of journalism.

    • Maycroft
      Maycroft
      February 11, 2012 at 11:59 pm | # | Reply

      Journalism… With his penis!

      • Drunken Nordmann
        Drunken Nordmann
        February 13, 2012 at 12:49 am | # | Reply

        For a nickel.

  52. LiC
    LiC
    February 12, 2012 at 8:15 am | # | Reply

    Umm… Well Amber, look on the bright side. At least you KNOW this one isn’t gay.

  53. invisiblemoose
    invisiblemoose
    February 13, 2012 at 4:47 am | # | Reply

    THIS IS MISSING A BILLIE TAG. D:

  54. Michelle J Caboose
    Michelle J Caboose
    February 18, 2012 at 2:29 pm | # | Reply

    Wait… You notice how we don’t see Billie and Amber together in the same panel? GASP! That means… Billie is Amber! In disguise! And we never noticed it because they BOTH wear glasses!

    Glasses really ARE the best disguise! O-O

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