Dumbing of Age turns four today! To celebrate, a second Dumbing of Age comic goes up on Slipshine tomorrow! IT IS APPARENTLY UP NOW. This comic didn’t exist three days ago, but I drew it due to popular demand to satiate your wanton lustlust.
Discussion (265) ¬
[ Comments RSS ]
Loading ...
“not sure if want”
*wanted, but not like this*
This is not what I expected.
If you want Naked Billies, you gotta draw them yourself.
Don’t. Encourage. Rule 34. Willis does that enough on his own.
Discouraging rule 34 is a form of encouragement.
Never have truer words been said.
Not true!
Don’t bother trying to discourage OR encourage it. It has already begun.
https://www.google.com/search?NSFW Billie
Rule 34 does not need the encouragement of puny humans.
They could have been naked but with convenient censoring.
That’s the fun part of lesbian sex, clothing removal is optional.
I don’t think that’s limited to just lesbian sex. It’s pretty much optional for everyone.
Naahh, for straights and gay men that’s strictly make-outs, but lesbians can make fully clothed or partially clothed complete sex. You need to read more Yuri.
You can do pretty much the same thing either way though? Like I’m trying to imagine something only lesbians can do that straight couples or gay couples can’t.
Can’t think of any, but I’m having fun trying!
A guy doesn’t need to remove his cloths, just unzip his fly.
Or unbutton it.
Or lift his kilt.
imagine no more. Warning all content viewed is weirdly sexual and more than a little disturbing due to the use of paper animation, enjoy at your own risk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai1lmapwkgI
Everyone can have sex with clothes on. PIV is not the only option for straights, and there’s plenty for gay dudes that can be done with clothing. I mean, it’ll be kind of awkward, but ‘kind of awkward’ is true for women as well.
PiV doesn’t require removing clothes, either, just moving it out of the way (easier for the guy if he wears boxers).
Im sure assless chaps count as clothed as well
Naw, my S.O. has a penis and I have a vag, and we’ve done it with everything on, albeit moved slightly.
Wanted in any way OTHER than this
Aftermath.
Geometry?
QED
Uh-oh
“I’ve made a huge mistake.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYrwTVsckmI
Hello darkness my old friend
I’ve come to talk with you againnnnnnnn.
Because a vision so-oftly creeping, left its seeds while I was sleeping.
And the visioooon that was planted in my brain, still remains
within the soooound of silence
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
‘neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp.
Is that not one of the best songs of all time?? It never ceases to trigger goosebumps and feels.
I like the Nevermore version a lot better to be honest, but I fully realize that makes me a heretic in some circles.
What everyone wants to hear immediately after sex.
There’s going to be a lot of that for the rest of this comic.
Second thoughts? Third? Then fourth thoughts?
First thought: “Zzzzz.”
Second thought: “Oh, Billie’s clinging to me.”
Third thought: “Now I can’t get out of bed. Great.”
Fourth thought: “…But I need to use the bathroom!“
One of them should crap the bed.
A true conundrum. She can’t get that bottle to her lips without waking Billie. If she wakes Billie, Billie will claim the bottle for herself.
Use other arm?
Solution – let Billie claim the bottle, then make out with her. Taste it on her lips.
Pour it onto Billie and then lick it off her.
Billie is basically a tub of beer. Ruth should just drink her.
You make a very good point, sir.
But this would be cute minus the booze!
And the depression, and self destructive behaviour.
Nothing more cute than a downward spiral.
I guess you’ve got a point.
Well, that is cute. I have no idea what in the fuck of fucks I’m looking at, but I’ll totally own that its cute.
I love that album. My favorite song is that one that goes, “I want to hug you like a kittycat”
Yes, but this may be the first other human that Billie has ever actually cared about.
In a strange, disturbing, twisted way she would never acknowledge, I think she’s admitted she cares about Walky, or at least accepts that he might possibly care about her, which is almost the same thing.
In general, though, yeah, you’re right.
For some reason, when I saw your name it immediately made me think of what Sarah is up to in her room (minus Joyce)… No offense meant, but “The Rabid Rabbit” would make a great name for a sex toy.
I can’t read that without imagining the Killer Rabbit. Or, by its proper name, the Caerbannog. Now I’m imagining bearded Welsh men complaining that “da damn Caerbannog ‘as replaced mah mahnhood”.
Goddamnit.
Nah, Billie cares deeply about a lot of people. Walky, Sal, Ruth, Joyce… She insults them and talks a good game about how much she doesn’t care, how aloof and superior she is, but when they have real problems, Billie is on it, with her plans and advice and assistance. She’s not very good at it – her plans and advice and assistance are usually stupid – but she’s in there giving it her best effort. And, I mean, this is Dumbing of Age. If her methods of dealing with life weren’t stupid, she’d have to go live in a different comic.
I’m pretty sure the attitude of aloof superiority is a defense mechanism, because Billie is afraid that no one else cares about her, so she pretends she doesn’t need them to (she needs it desperately).
I’ve said before that I operate on the theory that Billie is tsundere for pretty much everybody. I haven’t seen anything that’s made me revise that theory.
What’s with the look?
“Did I forget to take a shower today?”
Cheers! Happy Birthday!
The feels train has derailed and its destroying everyone in it’s path
Who’s blowing bubbles all over the place?
That’s the result of splitting beer atoms.
It is the universal visual representation of “Oh God, what did I do last night?”
Marie will be so proud.
Someone gets it.
They’re on the Lawrence Welk show.
The one on SNL?
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS
The fact that Ruth is still clutching that bottle makes me so sad.
Been there. Many years ago. And yes, it is really, really sad.
Billies is getting used to unfamiliar ceilings, isn’t she.
Billie Ikari?
I wonder if Billie’s father has orange tinted glasses.
“I know, I know I’ve let you down. I’ve been a fool to myself. I thought that I could live for no one else…”
It all returns to nothing, it just keeps tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down.
It all returns to nothing, I just keep letting me down, letting me down, letting me down.
As if that’s new for her.
She’s gotten very good at recognizing exactly where she wakes up by examining the ceiling tiles…”Oh, that means I’m in this house.” “Ah, that means I’m in the fourth floor” “Err…the only place in town with that ceiling is the drunk tank…”
When waking up in an unfamiliar place, my first concern is which side the wall is.
The next, how big the bed is, in case I am about to fall out.
The first thing I notice is usually from what angle the light pours in, if any.
The ceiling is the last thing I care about. Unless it is missing, of course. Most ceilings are the same white, virtually indistinguishable.
“Why are our heads surrounded by tiny white circles?”
“Ugh…forgot about squeans…don’t worry, they’ll go away once you sober up.”
Those are called “floaters”.
Or ‘boozles’.
Go read up on Mort Walker, you ignorant fools.
“Boozles” was from a Bloom County strip poking fun at the Lexicon Of Comicana.
and the related “root boozles”. I remember it well.
So it was! I had forgotten, as it’s been a while since I read Bloom County. Clearly it is I who is the fool.
They remind me of floaters.
In my experience floaters are usually larger, and brown, and do not leave the confines of the toilet unless you are very unlucky.
Those are KIRBY DOTS. Bille and Ruth have THE POWER COSMIC
She definitely looks like she’s staring right at the drunk-bubbles.
Threesomes often end in regret. Particularly if the 3rd party at the party is a bottle of booze.
I don’t know, that bottle looks perfectly content to me.
It’d smoke a cigarette but then it’d probably explode.
I don’t think there’s much content left in that bottle.
This subplot is getting to be kind of a drag
Alcohol works in terms of facilitating such occurrences.
Oh well.
Where’s our porn comic of THIS one, Willis
the porn was INSIDE YOU ALL ALONG
…seriously, there are some serious consent issues here, pretty sure it’s not happening
Same sex adults* mutually drunk?
*Adult enough to join military but not necessarily drink
You must be from Bizarro World, where “impaired judgement” and “clinical depression” form the basis for the element of Loving Consent, like potassium and chlorine
Clinically, love is a form of severe psychosis. And highly addictive.
There is no middle ground?
in an alternate world where two amazingly drunk sad people are somehow a turnon
Rule 36 says otherwise.
Everything ever is a turn on for someone. It’s just some are frowned upon.
You always Know there’s someone in you fan base ready to get a sexual fantasy off of your comics, You knew and accepted that.
okay?
My sense is that this is now a situation with two amazingly hung-over sad people.
Yeah, how could anyone find something attractive in two people with nothing to lose, at their lowest point, with nothing in the world they care about beyond each other. Throwing away their inhibitions and embracing wild, self-destructive desire and passion, clinging to each other like a life preserver with no hope or thought of a future beyond the moment…
*ahem* excuse me a moment.
and halfway through they pass out, super hot
Come on, these two are veteran drinkers. When we last saw them they were sober, and they each started drinking right then, taking clothes off. There’s no way they didn’t get through a few rounds together before getting so drunk they passed out. They’re not going to pass out halfway through in like 20 minutes of drinking, even if it’s straight from the bottle.
You are pretty confident about something that varies considerably, even within one person’s day-to-day experiences!
They didn’t manage to get Billie’s underwear off.
MACDUFF
What three things does drink especially provoke?
PORTER
Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes and unprovokes. It provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.
That’s pretty much the plot of any lesbian novel from the 1960s.
I’m trying to comprehend how someone who knows about rule 34 could make such a statement seriously.
I gotta agree with Willis here. I seriously ship the hell out of these two, and would love to see them… er… intimately enjoying one another’s company. But not like this.
If they ever manage to get into bed with each other without, shall we say, the liquid courage aiding them, then bring on the pornographique! But until then… watching two characters I care about just succumbing to a mutual problem instead of helping one another to rise above it would not at all be appealing.
Seriously. I’d buy that for a dollar. Or far more really.
I’d just like to see more of Billie’s bod, really.
So glad I got into this series 4 years into it’s run. Man I’m glad I caught up. So many poor decisions. And yet.
I got into DoA more than a year after it started. Four years tho, wow, and the 7-days schedule made it feel so quick too.
Alcohol impairs good decision making!
“You know they like to catch you/
In an alcoholic haze/
But I could sure use those thirty days/
To recover from the party!”
I know exactly what ruth is thinking!!
“Maaaan. I really got to pee. But if i move I’ll wake her up but if I don’t I’m pretty sure I’ll get a bladder infection and die….shit wadda I do!!”
Pee the bed and Blame it on Billie. She’s drunk enough to believe it.
Self-destruction has never looked cuter.
Clearly you haven’t seen a cuddly bunny that’s off the wagon.
dat chub. Damn Billie, hotness. Probably a terrible idea on there part.
Dat chub indeed!
Girl Look at that body
Time for Billie to get back in front of that wagon.
Is it possible that we could get a text-free high-res of panel 1?
Please?
She is sad because she the bottle is too far away and may be empty
Just have Billie Drink sum then she can drink it out of her mouth…no wait I think that’s the problem
Well, it’s not the WORST threesome I’ve seen.
To be fair, I made pretty bad decisions when I was four years old, too.
I just want happy queers! Clearly I came to the wrong place.
Happiness ? What is this foreign concept you speak of it does not exist in this realm.
Meanwhile, Leslie is having a lovely night in with a good book.
I’m sure we’ll get some happy quiltbaggers eventually. Willis always makes his characters earn their happiness through blood, pain, and fire.
In any other context, the blood, pain, and fire would be figurative. In David Willis stories, it is often very very literal.
Except that DoA is supposed to run forever so odds are it’s going to be drama forever.
I would settle for content, productive queers with loving circles of friends. Other than Leslie, though, I can’t think of any characters in this comic that have any reasonable hope of reaching that state.
I had *such* hopes for Danny and Ethan.
Except that Leslie develops an utterly unreasonable crush on someone she meets once, without even knowing if she’s queer… I have to admit, aside from Faz, the Leslie/Robin appearance strikes me as the most if-you’ve-read-the-rest-of-the-Walkyverse-it-makes-sense aspect of DoA. It’s a bit disturbing to read if you don’t know its background.
Uh, Leslie has at no point shown being confused in her attraction to women, just in that it’s baffling she wants Robin in the specific. Like, at no point in her list of reasons for it to not make sense does she say “also, Robin’s a woman”. Pretty sure she knew she was queer without actively being in the middle of banging a woman.
It’s ROBIN that Leslie doesn’t know if she’s queer or not, not herself.
Yeah, what’s unsettling is that in the DOAverse, Leslie doesn’t know that Robin is queer, is completely opposed to everything Robin stands for politically/ideologically, yet wants to go on a date with her?
It’s Roz who thinks that Robin is queer. I admit, I’ve spent a lot of time staring at that particular strip wondering what Roz thought she saw, and I confess that I don’t see it, so I simply wonder if Roq is wrong, or if this little sister knowledge of big sister.
@damnyouwillis, is this ambiguity intentional, or am I missing something in the sequence?
Clearly Les maintains her Dramasexuality in this universe.
Grace and Mandy? But yeah, for the most part, happiness is not happening here, especially not to the primary queers.
There might be hope for Ethan?
Ruth: That was amazing ! But wait no I can’t let this happen and I can’t bring her down with me. But I want so badly. No, Yes, No, YES!
Wow a realistically pudgy chick being realistically portrayed as pudgy. Kudos, for not being afraid of drawing some rolls.
I’d prefer Sal/Jason(the TA guy?), but I will take AG/Danny. Begrudgingly.
Also, in the third panel it looks like Ruth is actually looking up at her bubbles of drunkenness.
It’s not enough to satisfy my lusts!! Not enough!!! I’m a monster!
This is not going to help Billie in any way. Or Ruth. Ugh. I’m cringing at the morning-after.
Isn’t it about time somebody made a good decision?
You mean like Willis deciding to make a new Slipshine?
He is, but sadly not of this pairing. (It seems to be Danny/Amazi-Girl, but he wanted it to be Jason/Sal.)
I so want to tenderly pinch Billie’s tummy rolls >:D
Agreed.
Panel 1: “Ugh.”
Panel 2: “Did I…?”
Panel 3: “I think…”
Panel 4: “Oh boy.”
Second thoughts.
Ruth knows.
She knows what she wants is gonna kill her, slowly.
This is sad on too many levels.
I think you summed up my thoughts perfectly and more succintly than I could on my own.
I think that someone messed up and literally shipped those two. . .
Darnit. I’m Mike again. I think I’m just going to stop trying to dina it up. 🙁
I’m pretty sure literally shipping someone would involve delivering them somewhere via boat.
And they don’t look like they’re in a crate to you?
Read fast enough, and it just looks like Ruth is rolling her eyes.
Marginally less depressing that way!
Billie, another woman you care about has just dubbed you “poison.” You can quit now — you’ve already maxed out your first year of college.
On a different note, congrats on your four-year DoA anniversary, Willis! I just have one thing to say: . . . [wait for it . . . wait for it . . . ] Four More Years!
Billie/Ruth for next porn please
No.
Yes! But only if the next one is drawn after Billie and Ruth manage to sober up, and decide to try having bed time fun in that state of mind…
Of course, with our luck it will be another four years before that happens, and I suspect he will be drawing others in that time, so maybe not the next one… but someday?
This.
So much this.
+1
Damn it, I wish these two could be happy and healthy together.
But yeah, that’s not gonna happen for a looooong time. If ever.
I kept hoping I didn’t think of a healthy path to happiness that involved these two banging now. Alt text says “lulnope”. But hey, at least they had a few hours.
I mean, having been in horrible depression, it’s absolutely 100% possible to find love, mean it, and find your way back out again later, in that order, but I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.
What a hot 3 way Billie, Ruth, Booze
The way Billie’s holding onto her… This is all way too sad.
You drew a whole pornagraphique in three days…
Are you a machine?!?!?!
yup, did nothing else but also draw shortpacked! and continue finishing moving into our new apartment
Meh. I’ll take what I can get.
These are not the bi college girls we want. These are the bi college girls we deserve.
+1
The comment is even made better by the avatar. I can imagine Robin saying that.
drat, not even a single panel of ignorant bliss/glow of sexual satisfaction
In my experience, waking up after a night of drinking and arguably inappropriate sex is never pleasant, not even for a moment.
Stupid reality and stupid Willis making a comic that more often than not reflects it!
But
Muh shipping
Bliss and satisfaction likely weren’t any part of the night.
My bias is clearly showing. I think these two are fucked in the head and need to get some serious help to sort out all the mistakes they have made. But I still don’t see them hooking up as intrinsically one of those mistakes. Getting back into the booze….that I can call a mistake.
I agree with absolutely everything you just said.
And I finally break my Willis comic comment virginity….. I regret shipping these 2 now. Billie and Ruth need to work out their own issues before they even think about relationships.
That would be the healthy thing to do, but it would be much more entertaining to see them self destruct. And because they’re all fictional characters no one gets hurt!
I don’t regret shipping them. I honestly think they can still be very good for each other.
Is what just happened incredibly sad? Yes! The whole idea of, “Well, if we’re going both to be self destructive anyway, why not be self destructive together?” is not the direction this needed to go in.
They did actually have a rather good plan, earlier, in the “Let us quit this thing together!” idea. Obviously, it didn’t initially work. But just because t failed once doesn’t mean it can’t be attempted again. They just need to realize this, and perhaps augment their support of one other with some additional outside help. (Perhaps they could join a support group of some sort together?)
I really hope that, in caring for one another and not wanting to see the other hurt, that gives them each the push they really need to improve themselves. What just happened between them was a mistake, but it was one that they can build off of in the hopes that the next time won’t be.
I feel for Billie…her arm is gonna be gonna be awful numb and dead feeling for like 8 minutes when she gets up and tries to regain feeling in it. This is why I only drape an arm over the sleeping partner anymore. Woken up too many times with a dead arm and it is really kind of a creepy panicky thing when you’re really out of it just awake and zomg I can’t feel my damn arm!
Congratulations Willis for having this comic be around for the standard length of time needed for a Bachelor’s degree!
Now to celebrate with sadness in light of today’s comic.
“And everyone’s still making terrible decisions.” Yeah, but the art is way better.
Congratulations!!
Four years and… drinking!
erm… not congratulations?
“For a transcript of what’s going on in Ruth’s head, send $4.99 to ___@moneyscam.com”
Totally worth it, I promise.
It is the morning after the night before… (If anyone gets the reference, I’ll be very impressed.)
Also, huh. Billie’s actually chubbier than I thought at this stage. Nicely drawn (it’s so rare to see it done). It also lets us see how much she’s “let herself go” (in her own estimation, I suspect) compared to thatphoto of her as a cheerleader she has (had?) pinned on her wall.
Also also: dammit, Willis, be fair. It’s four years for you, but it’s only, what, a month for them? Even if it may have felt like four years for some of them…
Billie is holding Ruth like a sad little child would be holding a teddy bear to console herself. 🙁
A Lost Weekend coming up …
And just when Billie wakes up, a drop falls from that bottle and right onto her eye.
She’s not actually asleep, she’s just squinting her eyes shut because the drop actually fell.
OK, this is far less sexier than I believed it would be.
Also known as the standard reaction to putting on a tight Speedo.
….so them declaring they’re poison who destroy everything they touch, giving into despair and getting drunk after Ruth literally said she’s only planning to hold on long enough for Billie to move on before letting her habits kill her made you think it was going to be sexy.
I’m torn between being overwhelmed by FEELINGS about these two and their destructive ride to hell…
….and being totally distracted by the little pudge on Billie’s tummy. That is kind of unfair.
Out of all the couples on DoA this one to me seems to be the most realistic, and though it is very very sad, it is also terribly beautiful. I knew a couple like this (and if it makes everyone feel better, after a metric buttload of hard work and more than a lot of sacrifice, they managed to make it work) and sometimes it seemed their own MOAB situation was a more powerful grounding for care than most other relationships. Not that I’m arguing for relationship MOAB. In general it’s a terrible idea, because someone’s going to get crazy enough to push the big red button.
I’m not sure what Utah has to do with it…
HA! Sorry, I’m an idiot who wrote this at three o’clock in the morning. I meant MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) not MOAB
“No mask.”
“Too bad!”
Oh come on RUTH! At least smile a little and enjoy this small moment! How come you are not grabbing on to those gorgeous love handles! X(
They’re all 18 or 19 or so probably… So making bad decisions kind of comes with the territory.
I dare you to find me someone who wasn’t making a ton of bad decisions at that age.
Hmm, bad decisions. True, true.
But being playthings in the hands of their god isn’t helping either… 😛
4 years old and it’s what? Been a month comic-time?
PArt of me hopes that ‘terrible decisions’ is more the drunkenness than the ‘nailing billie right now’ part. Of course, this is futile.
I bet they just passed out before they got their underwear off, but both were so drunk they’ll assume they had sex anyway
The comic might be 4 years old, but Willis –
How long has it been since the start, IN-UNIVERSE? Like, a month? xD
It’s like Willis is taking what we all want and giving us a horrible, horrible, twisted version of it :p.
Dumbing of Age meets The Monkey’s Paw…
Dumbing of Age meets Dumbing of Age
Welcome to the Internet? 😛
Tragically self-destructive yet amazingly hot. Without pants.
Well Ruth could have self destructed on her own or Billie for that matter. At least they had some enjoyment for a time.
MISTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE
At least such mistake won’t result in unwanted sudden pregnancy.
Or will it?
It will in Howard’s headcanon. Which one is lesbian pregnant, though?
So, I just read “No Mask” over at Slipshine. SO CUTE!
yessss the ALCOHOL, I must CLUTCH IT EVEN DURING SEX AND IN MY SLEEEEEEEEEP.
Walkyverse birthday!
Can we haz Crisis of Finite Willis V’erses?
“I love you all but you’re all terrible! Just terrible!” Terrible decisions everywhere.
What a look on Ruth’s face…
Does this mean it’s going to be 4 more years before we get to the Halloween Party? Will Walky dress as Mouse boy?
If he did, my respect for him would increase a thousandfold.
Right in the feels organ. Before I got to sleep even..
omg, realistic body proportions!!!??? Well there’s nothing wrong waking up next to that. I imagine it’s rather sticky though…
Longest. Semester. Ever.
Okay, on the one-hand: That alcohol-induced action was clearly destructive for both of them, and both would probably have wanted to be together under different circumstances….
On the other, Billie made a good point beforehand that they are both so much alike and have such great chemistry and care so much for each other (in her own Billie way to say it…) that it only makes sense they be together because those intense feelings are mutual and comforting to them….
Damn you, Willis! How many more dilemmas will you inflict upon us?!
That is an obnoxiously optimistic interpretation of “We’re both broken anyway so fuck it”.
I…. I prefer to look on the bright side of life… 🙁
Great avatar for it.
I also love Sal! Judge me not!
I say “drinking and having sex” is a better option than “suicide”, even if it still isn’t a great decision. If those were the only options, I guess I should be happy about this?
Seriously Willis, your contributions to Slipshine are my favorites on the site. Love the new work!
We wouldn’t settle for anything less ^^
omg Billie’s belly fat so cute
REAL WIMMENZ
This is both adorable and heartbreaking.
My first long-form comment here…
I ship these two pretty strongly, and one reason is that clinging to a person AND a bottle is healthier than clinging to just a bottle. It’s not ‘healthy’, don’t get me wrong, but it’s ‘healthier’.
These two have been alone and fucked up; being alone and fucked up doesn’t give you anyplace to go. Being together and fucked up opens other pathways that things can go. That things can get better.
Sure, I’m not taking into account the DYW! effect; He Has Plans for them. I’m just saying…I can’t ding them for wanting to not be alone.
And I vaguely don’t think they actually got to the sex part, I think that tears, emotional wreckage, and alcohol blitzed them into unconsciousness before they could get further than the comforting feeling of warm skin against skin.
This is a very jarring mix of erotic, adorable, depressing and… a feeling of vast emptiness that somehow turns into indifference (or vice versa). :/
But hey, happy birthday, DoA!
You had me till you got to indifference.
I opened up this website and for the briefest of moments I thought this scene was taking place underwater.
You may consider my lust satiated. (for now)
Me and Billie going to the gym and hot sweaty sex on the 3rd day
Making bad decisions? Isn’t that implied by ‘freshmen year of college?’
And considering your lack of plan to have them move to sophomore year…
Huzzah! All the bad decisions!
This is my fav lesbian drama couple evaaaa, and i was there for Willow/Tara
aaaaand, here’s the other banner.