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by David M Willis on June 27, 2014 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - Up All Night to Get Vengeance
└ Tags: dorothy, jennifer, joyce

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  1. Geminia999
    Geminia999
    June 27, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    But what about the Horseshoes?

    • Tunaro
      Tunaro
      June 27, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      How do you fuck a horseshoe? On second thought, don’t answer that.

      • 3oranges
        3oranges
        June 27, 2014 at 2:05 am | #

        If you really wanted to know, you would take COAS 122.

      • Jaxx Sentinel
        Jaxx Sentinel
        June 27, 2014 at 12:52 pm | #

        The question you should be asking yourself is how do you NOT fuck a horseshoe.

      • Tenn
        Tenn
        June 27, 2014 at 4:48 pm | #

        1. Flip them over.
        2. See all the wriggly pointy bits.
        3. Put your pants back on and walk away.
        4 (Optional). Have nightmares.

        …No, wait, that’s horseshoe crabs.

        • Sir Wafflington
          Sir Wafflington
          June 28, 2014 at 12:31 am | #

          You got crabs from a horseshoe? Just use a magnet-they’ll lift right off.

    • Mr. Random
      Mr. Random
      June 27, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

      What part of EVERYTHING don’t you understand?

      • LiaHansen
        LiaHansen
        June 27, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

        most of it

        • Mr. Random
          Mr. Random
          June 27, 2014 at 12:36 am | #

          Okay, well think of that stuff, okay?

  2. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    June 27, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    …COAS?

    • AHA
      AHA
      June 27, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      College of Arts and Sciences?

      • vlademir1
        vlademir1
        June 27, 2014 at 12:52 am | #

        College of Arts and Sciences seems right… but the courses are listed under a categorical (likely department) code (MATH, ENG, GNDR), rather than COAS directly, on the IU website.

      • BrokenEye, True False Prophet
        BrokenEye, True False Prophet
        September 26, 2015 at 5:04 am | #

        Yeah, definitely sounds like an arts class

    • Seerow
      Seerow
      June 27, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      Was asking the exact same thing.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 27, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      Cocks and Ovaries of All Species?

    • Tunaro
      Tunaro
      June 27, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

      Come Over And Screw?

    • Carriethedragon
      Carriethedragon
      June 27, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      My best guess is “College of Arts and Sciences,” but I’m pretty sure those classes are actually under the COLL heading? So either I’m wrong (I mean, I did literally just register for classes, but I’m an incoming freshman, and I’m ignorant) or it’s just changed since Willis was there.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      June 27, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

      Okay, so it seems that it most likely stands for “College of Arts and Sciences. At my university, there’s a similar thing, but it’s called the “College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences”. And yes, it is abbreviated as CLASS.

    • Mr. Random
      Mr. Random
      June 27, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

      Long list: incoming

      College of arts and sciences.
      Collage of arts and sciences.
      Collage of artists and sensations.
      Colon and the artists that sigh.
      Crazy Oprah and her Army of Snakes.
      Cookies of Apple Sauce
      Common Orphans and the Adult Sacrifices.
      Continue Onwards my A-ward Son
      Cereal Opinions and Appetite Selections
      Clear Opera of Average Snoozing.
      Capable Ollie and his Alligator Seth.
      Etc.

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        June 27, 2014 at 8:37 am | #

        ‘Of’ shouldn’t be included in acronyms. I live in the USA, not the USOA.

      • TachyonCode
        TachyonCode
        July 13, 2014 at 1:07 am | #

        I have had Cookies of Apple Sauce. It was pretty… tasty.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 27, 2014 at 12:27 am | #

      Cathouse Offering Anal Sex?

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      June 27, 2014 at 1:08 am | #

      Googled “Indiana University COAS-S 122”. Got a class site hit. Looks like COAS-S was once the letters for the Communications department, which is now CMLL-C.

      COAS-S 122 is (was) Interpersonal Communication. Course description: “Practical consideration of human interaction is explored. Special attention is given to perception, verbal and nonverbal language, and attitudes in dyads and small groups, in face-to-face, digital, or mediated situations. No prerequisites.”

      …. researching this made it funnier, rather than killing it. I’m as surprised as anyone.

      • Swerve
        Swerve
        June 27, 2014 at 1:24 am | #

        …But what does that course have to do with “horses”, whatever they are?

        • Luke
          Luke
          June 27, 2014 at 2:17 am | #

          Have you ever TRIED interpersonal communication with a horse?

          • Leorale
            Leorale
            June 27, 2014 at 2:22 am | #

            It’s like regular communication, but you have to whisper.

          • Animal
            Animal
            June 27, 2014 at 8:45 am | #

            A horse is a horse, of course, of course.

            • Gigafreak
              Gigafreak
              June 27, 2014 at 9:11 am | #

              So that’s where Mr. Ed went when he retired from show biz.

            • xKiv
              xKiv
              June 27, 2014 at 7:59 pm | #

              – Worse, Mr. Morse! Your horse is off course!
              – Curses!

      • tinfoil theory
        tinfoil theory
        June 27, 2014 at 1:43 am | #

        This is just further proof of Willis’ genius. Thank you for your research.

  3. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    June 27, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    Nope. Billie is Majoring in banging.
    She’s minoring in booze.

    • derick
      derick
      June 27, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

      She seems a lot more proficient with booze. Perhaps she should switch.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        June 27, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

        Well that’s why she’s taking classes! She’s improving her banging! But she’s already Drinking at a proffessional level.

        • Lord Geovanni
          Lord Geovanni
          June 27, 2014 at 12:21 am | #

          im pretty sure Billie is dry from she reached college and there for failing her banging class

        • qka
          qka
          June 27, 2014 at 12:27 am | #

          If she wanted to to drink at the professional level she should have gone to Wisconsin.

          • Bill
            Bill
            June 27, 2014 at 12:40 am | #

            I don’t think she would have been suitably qualified.  One underage drinking/DUI is nothing in Wisconsin, so Madison would have been out of the question.

          • Ancestral Hamster
            Ancestral Hamster
            June 27, 2014 at 12:45 am | #

            In that case Billie should have gone to a Florida party school and double majored in banging and boozing.

            • rachel
              rachel
              June 27, 2014 at 12:15 pm | #

              tip for all of my friends: people binge drink at every school

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          June 27, 2014 at 12:36 am | #

          If Billie became a professional drinker, she couldn’t qualify for the Booze Olympics.

          • Lord Geovanni
            Lord Geovanni
            June 27, 2014 at 1:00 am | #

            coach billie is skipping her pre drinking exercises we need to find her

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              June 27, 2014 at 2:42 am | #

              Yes, Billie really needs to continue to exercise her KEG-el muscles.

              • Catullus
                Catullus
                June 27, 2014 at 10:48 am | #

                That would benefit both her minor and her major!

      • Nono
        Nono
        June 27, 2014 at 2:29 am | #

        But everyone always ends up doing better at their minor than their major.

        • rachel
          rachel
          June 27, 2014 at 12:17 pm | #

          not I! I took a math minor because I looooooved it, but the classes to get the degree (which I ought to just finish up some day) were significantly harder than those of the much less specific minor. my degree was in french, which was a much easier degree for me than math.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      June 27, 2014 at 8:39 am | #

      There’s nothing minor about Billie’s study of booze.

      • xKiv
        xKiv
        June 27, 2014 at 8:01 pm | #

        Drinking as a minor?

  4. NCP19
    NCP19
    June 27, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Sounds like a class that Roz would get all A’s in. Sal too maybe.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 27, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      I think Billie’d do worse than Roz but better than Sal. A solid B student.

  5. Tunaro
    Tunaro
    June 27, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Turn of phrase, or most intense porno title ever? You Decide!

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 27, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

      Not since the trilogy of ” Penis in Vagina.” or the Sequel “Penis in Butt”, or the 3rd film, “Vagina in Vagina” has a porn been so aptly named.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 27, 2014 at 12:26 am | #

        How does one put a vagina into another vagina in a way that doesn’t make it gorn?

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          June 27, 2014 at 12:35 am | #

          That’s why it’s a cinematic masterpiece!

        • neeks
          neeks
          June 27, 2014 at 7:18 am | #

          First thing that comes to mind is the sex scene from “the lawnmower man”, where they kinda goop together with the help of virtual reality and it mentally scars the female participant for life.

          • nekobawt
            nekobawt
            June 27, 2014 at 11:25 pm | #

            and also the viewer.

        • Gigafreak
          Gigafreak
          June 27, 2014 at 9:13 am | #

          Isn’t that something like scissoring?

      • gwalla
        gwalla
        June 27, 2014 at 12:08 pm | #

        So you put the smaller vagina in the larger one, sort of like a sexy turducken?

  6. chris73
    chris73
    June 27, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Forgive my ignorence but what is COAS122?

    • Catullus
      Catullus
      June 27, 2014 at 10:49 am | #

      It’s a communications class.

  7. MrSirk
    MrSirk
    June 27, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    That’s a real class! Ask my ethics teacher.

  8. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    June 27, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    What is featured in this class, erotic MLP fanfiction?

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 27, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

      Clopping and Other Awful Stuff 122.
      Where everyone looks through the entirety of Rule 34.

      (The chapter on sonic’s gonna be intense)

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 27, 2014 at 12:25 am | #

        Sonic R34 can be a whole seperate class in of itself.

      • rachel
        rachel
        June 27, 2014 at 12:17 pm | #

        what’s clo—

        nevermind nevermind nevermind leaving now thankyougoodbye

    • newllend
      newllend
      June 27, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

      Female bride Megatron? That actually kind of cool, youvet had a lot of avatars before but this takes the cake

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 27, 2014 at 12:24 am | #

        I haven’t used Mega-Bride for a number of months now and of cause s/he takes the cake… wedding cake that is. 😛

  9. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    June 27, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Hey 122 is pretty good freshman placement.

  10. newllend
    newllend
    June 27, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    On MY GOD, screen fucking load already!

  11. -Sentinel-
    -Sentinel-
    June 27, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    But Dorothy, the community kitchen won’t get you into Yale!

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      June 27, 2014 at 1:48 am | #

      Au contraire; it rounds out applications and resumes nicely, AND will look good when she runs for President if anyone goes digging.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        June 27, 2014 at 2:24 am | #

        Plus it helps hungry people.

        • merkury
          merkury
          June 27, 2014 at 3:43 pm | #

          helps what?

  12. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    June 27, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    Is that dumblr photo of a specific Star Wars actor holding up a sign advertising DoA for reals or photoshopped? Honestly I can’t tell.

    • Blue Dragon
      Blue Dragon
      June 27, 2014 at 12:41 am | #

      There exist versions of that photo with different messages on the card.

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      June 27, 2014 at 2:20 am | #

      There’s a lot of versions of that picture, but mine’s probably the real one

      • begbert2
        begbert2
        June 27, 2014 at 10:47 am | #

        Okay, how the toothache did THAT come to pass? (Not to imply that international stars wouldn’t want to read your comic, but I haven’t seen a lot of instances of them impromptu advertising, well, anything. Did you give him a hundred million dollars?)

        • Deathjavu
          Deathjavu
          June 27, 2014 at 11:32 am | #

          …oh internet, never change.

          (guys it’s fake, this is willis yanking your chain)

          (I mean come on there’s a few hundred shopped versions of that photo)

          • rachel
            rachel
            June 27, 2014 at 12:18 pm | #

            yank yank yaaaaaaaank

        • gwalla
          gwalla
          June 27, 2014 at 12:10 pm | #

          Willis, this is the point where you mention to begbert2 that you happen to have some prime swampland in Florida you can sell to him cheap.

          • Deathjavu
            Deathjavu
            June 27, 2014 at 3:06 pm | #

            I thought it was oceanfront property in Kansas

          • begbert2
            begbert2
            June 27, 2014 at 3:22 pm | #

            What can I say – I don’t trawl around the dumbass corners of the internet (twitter, tumblr, facebook, reddit, ect) and so I haven’t ever encountered that image before, and I don’t assume that people are always lying. Unless they ask me for money; then they are always lying. (This tends to get me into trouble at supermarkets.)

  13. newllend
    newllend
    June 27, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

    Wow everybody’s blowing her off today, first Walky now Joyce Damn.

    • MrSirk
      MrSirk
      June 27, 2014 at 12:21 am | #

      It’s probably a side effect of the terrible mood she’s in. Your attitude can and will effect the events around you.

      • JessWitt
        JessWitt
        June 27, 2014 at 12:32 am | #

        I recommend the book “Eleven” by Mark Watson. It’s a fictional story about that very thing you mentioned and a stark unfolding chain reaction of events.

      • Ancestral Hamster
        Ancestral Hamster
        June 27, 2014 at 12:48 am | #

        If only since the other people around you quickly tire of you.

  14. AgentKeen
    AgentKeen
    June 27, 2014 at 12:20 am | #

    I don’t think she’s doing very well in that class. I mean, we haven’t seen her fuck anything yet.

    • John
      John
      June 27, 2014 at 12:27 am | #

      Up! She’s fucked up!

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        June 27, 2014 at 1:27 am | #

        And she really Screwed the pooch on the whole relationship with Ruth.

      • XMinusOne
        XMinusOne
        June 27, 2014 at 2:07 am | #

        She must be a Bottom if she can only fuck up. 😀

      • Catullus
        Catullus
        June 27, 2014 at 10:51 am | #

        She fucked a DVD of Up?

  15. Cameron
    Cameron
    June 27, 2014 at 12:24 am | #

    For those curious, I GTS’d COAS 122 and while it’s only the Northwest campus, the University of Indiana lists COAS 122 is part of the College of Arts and Science.

    The course? Interpersonal Communication

  16. Pyr05
    Pyr05
    June 27, 2014 at 12:27 am | #

    Coagulants & Obstetrician Academic Study?

  17. Swerve
    Swerve
    June 27, 2014 at 12:40 am | #

    I can see that I’m not the only one who doesn’t recognize that acronym.

    I have another question: what is a “horse”? Is that the Earth quadruped with black and white stripes, and unsplit hooves? Or is it the flightless avian with a long neck? You used to use both of those species for land transportation, right?

    • Ancestral Hamster
      Ancestral Hamster
      June 27, 2014 at 12:47 am | #

      Neither. A “horse” is an artificial construct made of wood used as a temporary support while working with other pieces of wood.

      • Swerve
        Swerve
        June 27, 2014 at 12:50 am | #

        And by “wood” you’re referring to plant matter acquired by cleaving a deciduous tree apart with an ax or saw, and not using some sort of euphemism that a several million year old sapient robot that transforms into a truck wouldn’t recognize, right?

        • Ancestral Hamster
          Ancestral Hamster
          June 27, 2014 at 1:05 am | #

          Re: “wood”. Although the term “wood” can be used as an euphemism for an erect penis of a sexually aroused human male, that was not how I was using the term in the previous post. As you deduced, it was in the sense of harvested plant matter from a deciduous tree.

          By the way, evergreen trees are used in regions without deciduous trees or where scarcity means deciduous woods are used for the most crucial functions, leaving softer evergreens for less important functions.

          Bamboo, while a member of earth’s grass family, is wood-like in hardness and a remarkably versatile construction material.

          • Swerve
            Swerve
            June 27, 2014 at 1:19 am | #

            So why would anyone ride a stationary harness made out of stationary organic harvested from dead trees? That just raises more questions!

            • Swerve
              Swerve
              June 27, 2014 at 1:21 am | #

              That should read “made out of organic material”. Sorry. Another typo to hide from Ultra Magnus!

            • begbert2
              begbert2
              June 27, 2014 at 10:50 am | #

              Whenever you hear about weird inexplicable behavior in humans, it’s usually reasonable to assume it has something to do with sex.

              • Swerve
                Swerve
                June 27, 2014 at 2:28 pm | #

                Yeah, that’s the general consensus at the bar. Whirl disagrees (no surprise there). He thinks that all of these weird, inexplicable behaviors are related to violence. (That’s not much of a surprise either.) Cyclonus actually agrees with Whirl on that one (which is a monumental surprise, right up there with the outcome of a certain trial). Of course given what happened to Cyclonus on his only visit to your planet…

      • Animal
        Animal
        June 27, 2014 at 8:47 am | #

        That would be a “sawhorse,” although my career-carpenter Grandpa (born 1898 and thus a man of a different era) used the archaic term “sawbuck.”

        • gwalla
          gwalla
          June 27, 2014 at 12:13 pm | #

          I thought that was another term for a $10 bill.

          • Gigafreak
            Gigafreak
            June 27, 2014 at 2:41 pm | #

            If a ride costs you ten bucks, I will direct you to your mom, who offers them for 0.5% that price.

          • Animal
            Animal
            June 27, 2014 at 2:59 pm | #

            True enough, but the two are not mutually exclusive.

            • Swerve
              Swerve
              June 27, 2014 at 5:43 pm | #

              It drives Ultra Magnus up the wall (figuratively, of course; he doesn’t have magnetic tires like Trailcutter does) when words have multiple definitions. He takes it personally when one or more of the definitions is a colloquialism. Magnus has been known to arrest ‘Bots using slang in their reports.

              Anyway, I asked Bluestreak what a “horse” is. He said he’ll schedule showings of “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and “Back to the Future: Part III” so he could point them out.

  18. Calvin Coolage
    Calvin Coolage
    June 27, 2014 at 1:01 am | #

    Took me forever to catch back up, I’m back on the ride.

  19. Liamstrain
    Liamstrain
    June 27, 2014 at 1:02 am | #

    Not C2H60?

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 27, 2014 at 9:25 am | #

      As in ethanol?

      • Liamstrain
        Liamstrain
        June 27, 2014 at 1:01 pm | #

        Aye – I thought it would be clever for someone with a drinking problem, to offer a course number which was the molecular formula for ethanol.

        • Swerve
          Swerve
          June 27, 2014 at 2:43 pm | #

          That would require Billie to have a basic understanding of the chemistry involved in fermentation and distillation. As a metallurgist, most of my work back at the Kimia Station (which has been declassified, now that the war is over) involved analyzing metals on their molecular level, either to find new ways to create stronger alloys (such as for starships hull plating, armor for frontline infantry or for defensive installations), or to study enemy alloys to try to find ways to damage them. That often required me to work in tandem with a weapons engineer like Brainstorm or Ironfist; I may know how to make the periodic table dance at my whim, but I’m not an engineer by any stretch of the imagination.

          The skills that let me analyze metal, also allow me to distill energon (and energon substitutes) into engex using the distillery in my bar. Not just anybody can pull that off! By the same token, just because someone drinks alcohol, doesn’t mean that they know how to ferment or distill it. Grapes and other fruit can ferment naturally, or the process can be sped up by adding sugar or yeast. The problem is that adding too much can cause the liquid to ferment too fast and become vinegar rather than wine. Distilling grain or other plants into vodka or scotch is a delicate process that takes time. And beer? Billie can drink an ocean of beer and wouldn’t know how to brew malt properly.

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        June 27, 2014 at 7:51 pm | #

        Wouldn’t that be C2H5OH?

  20. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    June 27, 2014 at 1:28 am | #

    Someone looked it up already and it is a real class – “Communications” which makes Billie’s “..Fuck it all” statement pretty funny. It communicates her feelings pretty well.

    Joyce can be rude indeed: poor Billie first Walky, then Danny at the door -for Sal, and now Joyce blows her off.

    Oh well. Be like me Billie. Make friends with your computer and you needn’t worry about those pesky old relationships. Or if you can’t, just stop worrying so much what others think about you and live your own damn life.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      June 27, 2014 at 8:49 am | #

      Billie got through high school on her charms and social status – she never bothered learning any of this ‘computer’ stuff. Why bother learning when horny nerds will do your homework for you?

      • Rutee
        Rutee
        June 28, 2014 at 3:37 pm | #

        Uh, because you don’t want them touching your stuff and want to update Facebook yourself?

        I mean, yeah, she’s probably just an average end user, but it’s the modern era – the average end user can manage some stuff.

    • Gigafreak
      Gigafreak
      June 27, 2014 at 9:21 am | #

      I don’t see this as Joyce blowing Billie off– not intentionally, at least. More of a well-intentioned suggestion rooted in the idea that doing something productive would be good for self-esteem. (Is that still blowing her off? I’m not so great at face-to-face stuff.)

  21. Chris
    Chris
    June 27, 2014 at 2:24 am | #

    Panel one and Joyce is already trying to use the new term she just learned.

  22. motorfirebox
    motorfirebox
    June 27, 2014 at 3:37 am | #

    If the next NSFW comic isn’t Billie fucking everything and the horse it came in on, I’m going to throw things.

    • Tenn
      Tenn
      June 27, 2014 at 4:27 pm | #

      Better start picking up things then; it’s Faz fucking everything and the horse it came in on.

  23. Corsair114
    Corsair114
    June 27, 2014 at 4:19 am | #

    Nuclear ship launch detected….

  24. Keith the verbos and boring
    Keith the verbos and boring
    June 27, 2014 at 7:18 am | #

    Okay, I get it, but what did the horse do to her?

    • Swerve
      Swerve
      June 27, 2014 at 9:50 am | #

      I’m still trying to figure out what a horse is. We don’t have any on Cybertron. I’d ask Brainstorm, but Rodimus just called him, along with Skids, Nautica, Nightbeat and Chromedome to the med-bay. I figure Rodimus has finally got a lead on Megatron’s scheme and needs them to save the day.

      • davethedavedave
        davethedavedave
        June 27, 2014 at 10:30 am | #

        Think “Maximal Battle Unicorn” without the horn.

        • Swerve
          Swerve
          June 27, 2014 at 2:25 pm | #

          Um, what’s a “Maximal”? I’ve heard of an Autobot named Battle Unicron, a rather devout guy who wielded a kickass battleaxe and could teleport short distances. I think he was assigned to the Autobot Anti-Infiltration unit on a planet named Equestria. I haven’t heard whether he survived the war or not.

          So what you’re saying is that “horses” are scouts who wield melee weapons, can teleport short distances, and scramble the sensors of their enemies by pounding the ground?

  25. hof1991
    hof1991
    June 27, 2014 at 8:39 am | #

    Dorothy got into a dress to melt Walky’s eyes. Mission accomplished. But now she’s going to wear it to work in a kitchen? Hope she’s a server and not peeling veggies or boiling things.

    • Bill
      Bill
      June 27, 2014 at 10:38 am | #

      Waddya mean?  TV Moms in the ’50s (Donna Reed, June Cleaver, Margaret Anderson, etc.) used to do housework, make meals, and go shopping in dresses, heels, and pearls yet!

  26. Kschenke
    Kschenke
    June 27, 2014 at 9:01 am | #

    I do like how Joyce has gotten used to the swearing and euphemisms.

    • Lord Circe
      Lord Circe
      June 27, 2014 at 9:30 am | #

      I was just thinking the same thing. When this started, her face would have been beet red, and she would slumped over in shock after hearing that.

      • Jackson
        Jackson
        June 27, 2014 at 10:39 am | #

        “…A-And the horse it rode in on?”

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          June 27, 2014 at 11:46 am | #

          *twitch* *twitch* The horse… would be part of ‘everything’, there’s no need to fuck it separately – unless, she’s fucking it twice… *twitch*

          • Jackson
            Jackson
            June 27, 2014 at 12:50 pm | #

            (Deanatay, I believe you mean “fudging” 😉 )

  27. bunivasal
    bunivasal
    June 27, 2014 at 9:30 am | #

    Guys, guys, guys. COA122 is clearly a history class on the golden age of the Russian Empire, and Billie is just doing her midterm project on Catherine the Great.

  28. Paul F
    Paul F
    June 27, 2014 at 11:54 am | #

    I get the feeling Billie is going to flunk out.

  29. Sabre
    Sabre
    June 27, 2014 at 12:09 pm | #

    Obviously it stands for Come On And Slam (a horse)

    • gwalla
      gwalla
      June 27, 2014 at 12:15 pm | #

      And welcome to the jam!

  30. thatindianguy
    thatindianguy
    June 27, 2014 at 12:45 pm | #

    I certainly hope it’s not both! Fucking a horse will kill you on the receiving end. Even on the other end there is a big risk. And infections galore.

    What is wrong with me.

    • OldFart
      OldFart
      June 27, 2014 at 7:04 pm | #

      MAY kill you. If it killed everybody, clandestine zoophilic brothels would not be providing this service. I do not understand how any kind of pleasure is possible, or survivable, for the human bottom, but I guess this is the case. And, yuck.

      Maybe there are horse bottoms who tolerate it without kicking. Or they’re drugged. Also, yuck. Hope I won’t be attacked as zoophobic for the yucks.

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        June 27, 2014 at 11:28 pm | #

        There are naturally gay horses, apparently, so you just gotta time it!

        [don’t ask how I know]

  31. Just Me
    Just Me
    June 27, 2014 at 7:46 pm | #

    Why is Billie so grumpy?

    • GoogerGeiger
      GoogerGeiger
      June 27, 2014 at 8:48 pm | #

      HEY I’M GRUMP!

  32. takashid
    takashid
    June 27, 2014 at 7:54 pm | #

    dorothy volunteers at community kitchens, thats gr8. she’s got my vote in the presidential election

  33. justsomeguy1911
    justsomeguy1911
    June 29, 2014 at 8:26 pm | #

    I didn’t know IU offered classes in Animal husbandry.

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