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Paradox, today’s grav is an original character by the same guy who draws the webcomic Frivolesque, which still deserves more love, even more so if you have a thing for girls with glasses.
“Oh hey Beefan. I mean Ethan. Did you have a nice hard- nice hot shower? I’m looking forward to a good soak myself. In the shower. Can you pass my my looming-unvertainty-about-my-sexuality? I mean shampoo?”
Would she recreate that weird “prison hill” ending with the “I’m nobody’s bongo” speech? Maybe leave out the Papa Roach song in the background while we’re at it.
Not going to lie, that was my first thought as well. I don’t quite know what that says about me, but I guess I believe in love? Yeah, let’s go with that.
I’m just hoping that Shortpacked! ending means we get more Leslie on this side of the universal divide. Lucy’s nice and all, but Leslie is the awesomest.
Ya, he’ll just find something new to gripe about. Like how he probably wants sex with both Ethan and Amber, then he’ll just want to have sex with Ethan, amber and sal then he’ll want to bone someone else.
Oh damn i didn’t even catch that! I was too mesmerized by Ethan. That beautiful cover-up makes this EVEN BETTER.
I’m really excited to see where this goes. :3 But I have a hard time shipping it because I love Amber too much. If she would just ditch Danny, maybe we could see some sexy shower time shenanigans.
I wouldn’t say I’m gay. I’m an alien robot, so probably closer to human-form Ultracar from Shortpacked. Tempted to get the chest arm thing, but left the ‘Cons cause they suck so their new doc’s out & Ratchet don’t trust me, so looks like no 3rd arm. Oh well, least my Pretender Armour looks so human it’s fully atanoka-, atemin, atenomical-, it’s fully equipped…
I think it’s “anatomically correct”.
But don’t worry, plenty of grown humans have trouble with that word. Heck, I had to mull it over a few minutes myself.
Def not just you, as I was thinking that the next cartoon might be Becky in the women’s restroom and someone noticing her (Mary?) and making a mental note that she’d been showing up on the floor a lot lately.
Outside of screaming internally, I’m pretty sure Danny’s thinking “Damn, my subconscious did not give Ethan enough credit where chest hair is concerned.”
If Ethan ALONE can make Danny blush…. I don’t want to see the results of both Jacob and Ethan coming in, out, or around the showers together, while Danny is around.
I remember my dorm putting up signs for people to stop doing that because it was clogging the plumbing.
The knowledge that enough dudes were going at it in the showers to clog the fucking plumbing was enough of a turn on that I think the signs kind of backfired on them.
I think it’s so cute the way Danny is perfectly fine in a room full of half-or-more-naked dudes and then Ethan shows up and BOOM composure completely gone.
Idk, he seems to be a bit shifty-eyed even before Ethan shows up. Like he’s trying to keep them fixed on something that won’t make him question his sexuality.
It looks more like Danny is deliberately averting his eyes from Bryan’s attractively naked back in an effort to keep things together. Then Ethan turns up and renders his efforts futile.
I’m fine with it. Danny sitting in class as Ethan rides past on a horse, billowy shirt open to the waist. Danny walks across campus, only to encounter Ethan standing naked under a waterfall…
What is this feeling so sudden and new? I felt the moment I laid eyes on you! my pulse is rushing…my head is reeling…my face is flushing…oh what is this feeling?
*ahem* sorry for that. I just think it fits. Though the first time I heard that song, I thought it was going in a more…well a different direction.
Wait I forgot these are uploaded months in advance so was this written before that one guy complained about the existence of bisexual people? Oh well! This is still beautiful.
Uh… Who?
I remain blissfully ignorant of a lot of bigotry, but this sounds like the kind that flounders so far into the lake of stupidity that he’d be worth laughing at.
Arnold’s from Shortpacked. Ken and Malaya’s roommate. In DoA, he seems to be Ken’s. In this strip, he’s the ear at the edge of the first panel.
It surely says something about Willis’s designs that he’s actually fairly recognizable from just that sliver. I don’t actually know what, but it must say something.
I think I wasn’t looking for a connection between Boris Johnson and Margaret Thatcher because neither served in British politics while the other was active. I was just trying to continue with the Austin Powers references because I had to mention Random Task somehow.
So, is this Bryan dude someone we know from the Walkyverse that I’m just blanking on/unfamiliar-with-due-to-not-reading-IW-until-the-reposting, or someone new?
I’m not sure he has. I think he may still be stuck in the gay/straight dichotomy, thinking that if he just has enough sex with Amazi-Girl, he won’t be attracted to Ethan, and not realizing that he can be attracted to both guys and girls.
wasn’t the whole “My two platonic friends whom I have no sexual feelings” proof danny does in fact realize he can be attracted to both. If anything i see this as danny beginning to figure out how that realization affects even the typical mundane parts of his life
Danny is temporarily blinded by some soap in the eyes, so Ethan has to wipe him down and dress him.
They loudly discuss women the entire time.
Ethan and Amber spend the next few days taking shifts taking care of Danny, creating numerous moments of confusion where he doesn’t realize they’ve swapped out. Ethan leaves, Amber enters and greets him with a kiss, Danny’s like “Whoa, Ethan’s kissing me” until Amber speaks and he realizes what’s happened. That sort of thing.
I do not understand why I am attracted to fictional boys, but flesh and blood women. This is a mystery of the ages.
Anyhow, I am conflicted about the Danny/Ethan.
On the one hand, I want them to do the do, or at least make out. Or have a kiss. Something, anything, PLEASE! But on the other hand, I really like Amber being happy. I don’t particularly like Amber and Danny together, never really did. They just…to me I don’t see this turning into a long term thing. It has the distinctive air of a fling, and it makes me a bit upset that Amber refuses to be Danny’s girlfriend–only Amazigirl is allowed to date him. I would love them to break up.
But I don’t want them to break up because Danny lurves Ethan. I feel like that would really rip Amber apart. Not only is a second boy leaving her for dudes, he’s leaving her for her best friend. I would like to see Danny and Ethan hook up post break up. I would really like Amber and Mike to get together.
Don’t worry, Amber’s psyche is likely to collapse into a heap as she continues to deal with her rage using her second identity she’s becoming more and more engrossed into! Ethan/Danny sexytimes are bound to happen.
Agreed, but it often DOES take a while for people to really and fully understand their feelings. I wouldn’t be surprised if he continues to deny for a while.
Plot prediction! Becky gets wind of Danny’s attraction, and kicks off the Whiteboard Dingdong Bandit Round 2 by drawing Ethan/Amazi-Girl fanfic on everyone’s whiteboards.
I really feel Danny here. He thought he had everything he wanted back, and suddenly something new and undeniable in his life shows up, and he doesn’t know how to deal with it. Plus, the kid seems to have never heard of bisexuality, so he probably thinks he’s sabotaging things with Amber.
Granted, what I really want is for Ethan to feel Danny.
There are so many things I approve of in this strip, starting from left to right with Tony’s tiny red shorts and ending with Danny’s hilariously unsubtle boner-hiding technique.
As a gay dude who lived in a dorm with showers like this for several years, I must say that you’ve captured the experience pretty perfectly.
“Have I mentioned yet today, how much I don’t care about Danny’s sexuality?”
Not as far as I know. It’s a little surprising in an abstract sense, since it’s a major plot point and apparently integral to Danny’s character development and presumably you are reading the comic because you’re interested and not because anyone is forcing you to. What’s interesting though is that you would assume that anyone care’s if you care.
“… he’s currently dating Amber/Amazi-girl, and that makes him, de facto straight”
And by that logic, since Ethan is dating Joyce that makes him de facto straight as well???
“So other than to please the Yaoi fangirls, why do we keep having these random gay moment with Danny?”
Strike three. Definitely not random. Bi moments rather than gay moments by definition. But only to please Yaoi fangirls? Do you not read these comment sections? At all?
Ah Danny, as if you don’t have enough problems …now you’re getting all hot and bothered about a guy who can’t admit to himself he’s gay…let alone to anyone else.
So Arnold’s moving from Shortpacked….hope Galasso makes it
It’s not even about approval. It’s about controlling his identity. He doesn’t think people won’t approve of him…he thinks they’ll approve of The Gay Guy, when he wants to be The Nerd. (Also, looking through the archives to find that strip, the whole Danny-has-a-crush-on-Ethan thing is foreshadowed like a mofo.)
I think it’s pretty safe to say it’s about a lot of stuff. He overall doesn’t like the ways his life changed when he was openly gay. Those were very rough times for him.
Dumbiverse David Willis wrote the comic “The Head Alien” that the “Dexter and Monkey Master” cartoon is based on. I am guessing he doesn’t hang around college campuses much. Though maybe he will be a guest in one of Mary’s art classes at some point or something.
It would be awesome if they have a convention on campus and Joyce, Dorothy and Walky freak out about meeting him. Lots of lampshading about “all the crap you put your characters through”, and someone gruffing “why aren’t there any straight characters” with Danny and Ethan smiling nervously in the background.
I love this strip. I can relate to it to an absurd degree. For me, there was TOTALLY an awkwardness in such settings (e.g. gym locker rooms) once I realized I was bi. That whole “don’t look, don’t look, people might think it’s weird” kinda feeling. Aaaand definitely more than awkwardness seeing your crush in a towel. Yep.
Danny was never written as having an attraction to men in the Walkyverse, but then again he never said he was straight.
Considering all that was happening in Roomies at the time and his subsequent fall from main character status and relationship with Billie, one could easily say that Danny never really had time to figure out his attraction to men.
It’s the same with Becky, really. Her Walkyverse counterpart never expressed any particular sexuality.
wait, is there a theme going on today?
because i could swear there’s a shirtless gay guy embarrasses closeted gay guy who doesn’t know shirtless guy is gay theme going on. http://www.egscomics.com
I have one last thing to say on this strip(hopefully): Danny is terrible at hiding his boner. That is THE MOST OBVIOUS WAY EVER. Granted, I do not have a penis, so I can only guess at excellent ways to hide a boner. I would’ve suggested placing the towel in front, so that it looks more natural. Shoving a shower caddy on your dick is not natural.
I prefer to go for the hidden in plain sight method. No attempt is made to hide it. Rather, I rely on the inherent awkwardness of someone else pointing it out.
And for the record, JUST HOW MANY MEGATRONS ARE THERE OUT THERE?!?! I know my ex-boss was bad, but then I find another Megatron on here, then that video shows me another, just how many are there…?
Still say they might as well get on with it and create a poly-amorous trio. Ethan and Amber love each other, Amber and Danny are getting there, and Danny and Ethan are becoming friends and are clearly attracted to each other.
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Every comic creator's obituary is like, he created this iconic character who was in a movie that made $700 million last year. He died with a net worth of $12 after the publisher countersued him.
thinking of that time i found an abandoned transformers wiki on wikia that was just a bunch of terrible and incomplete lists of character names, sitting back, and deciding i could fix this wiki by writing a comprehensive Donny Finkleberg Robot-Master page.
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Marvel could pay for my healthcare for the rest of my life for a fraction of 1% of profit from Spider-Man Noir, a character whose original comics I edited. For Peter David to die in medical debt, co-creator of Spider-Man 2099 and writer of countless seminal Hulk and X-Factor comics—that's a disgrace
TRUE FACTS: Showers cause a 100% increase in the incidence of boners
And pubic hair shower plugs.
I’ve taken showers all my life and I would report only a 30% increase.
Maybe you should try using some lotion, or something.
I’m black. I’m Loaded on lotion, Bros!
It’s not the lotion, it’s the motion. ^_^
Clearly you don’t have to worry about perpetual ashiness.
Dammit…
Link
Is ashiness loose skin??
No, just really dry skin.
Your gravatar today is interesting. Who is it?
Batman’s other secret identity.
If you mean PM’s, no idea.
JCD’s is Malcolm McDowell’s Alex, Heath Ledger’s Joker, and… some guy.
The third in JCD’s looks like Dexter (the serial killer not the boy genius).
Looks like Tyler Durden to me.
The third one is Tyler Durden. I think Paradox was referring to PM though, because of the part about today’s gravatar.
Paradox, today’s grav is an original character by the same guy who draws the webcomic Frivolesque, which still deserves more love, even more so if you have a thing for girls with glasses.
She’s… not an original character.
It’s a long story, and it feels really weird to see her as your avatar…
OmegaDez: I did find her on your dA account, so…
PM: “even more so if you have a thing for girls with glasses.”
Guilty!
I just checked Frivolesque and once again you led me to a worthy place
Thank you, I’m going to follow you wherever.
I’ve always preferred to take baths rather than showers, and I find an increase of 150% for boners in the bath.
I’m pretty sure I’d re-member if that were true … are you some sort of reptile?
Would that mean Echidnas have a 300% increase in boners?
… if I recall correctly they only erect to use two at a time …
#buttsex
#homosex
#subtext
#besttux
#tubsext
Mutpecks.
“Oh hey Beefan. I mean Ethan. Did you have a nice hard- nice hot shower? I’m looking forward to a good soak myself. In the shower. Can you pass my my looming-unvertainty-about-my-sexuality? I mean shampoo?”
Ah, good old sexual inyourendo.
…Wait…
Just a simple slip of the tonguing Ethan’s riveting pe-
…Wait…
It’s Arnold! ARNOLD CONFIRMED TO HAVE MADE THE MOVE TO DoA!
LET US REJOICE!
Can we REJOYCE instead? I think Becky would appreciate having a second Joyce around. And Sarah’s reaction would be priceless.
I think Becky is pretty close to re-Joyce, especially from Sarah’s point of view
Don’t you dare bring a second Joyce into this. I hardly like the one we have now!
Maybe it’s like Multiplicity, with every subsequent Joyce being worse than the previous one in every conceivable way.
…yeah, I guess that doesn’t really help you out at all.
Oh wait, in that movie it’s a clone of a clone that’s worse across the board. More importantly, why am I not thinking of better Ramis movies?
Try thinking about Groundhog Day.
I’ll give it a shot.
Geez, how many of his movies is Andie MacDowell in?
Do you know, every single time I see her name, I mis-read it as “Roddy MacDowell”, and start thinking of Planet of the Apes.
Every. Damned. Time. For, like, the past twenty years or so, since I first came across her name.
Good idea. I thought about Groundhog day at 5:59 this morning.
I’d like to see Joyce replace Jet Li in The One, now that you mention it.
Would she recreate that weird “prison hill” ending with the “I’m nobody’s bongo” speech? Maybe leave out the Papa Roach song in the background while we’re at it.
He was here during the Whiteboard Ding-Dong Bandit Chapter.
*Looks him up* Ah, so he was. I’M PARTYING ANYWAY! Because otherwise I have to think about the fact that Shortpacked is ending, and that hurts me.
With Ken. Who was probably just his roommate, but I choose to believe was his boyfriend. >_>
Not going to lie, that was my first thought as well. I don’t quite know what that says about me, but I guess I believe in love? Yeah, let’s go with that.
Please tell me once Shortpacked! ends we’re going to see more of the new characters in DoA. I love Arnold almost as much as I love Joyce.
Now…we wait for Sydney.
My guess is that she’s going to be Robin’s challenger in the upcoming election. She’d do well in Congress
I’m waiting for Lucy!
I’m just hoping that Shortpacked! ending means we get more Leslie on this side of the universal divide. Lucy’s nice and all, but Leslie is the awesomest.
(Though we could use Lucy’s magic shipper hands hereabouts.)
Go on, Joyce. Tell Ethan about your revelations so Danny can stop suffering.
STOP suffering? Uh… He’s Danny.
Only momentarily, I’m sure.
No, he will always be Danny.
Suffering without peace to give it definition is meaningless and acclimated to. Keep him on his toes, and make the hapless existence feel more acute.
Darn it. Any way, That reminds me of a song!
Let’s try that again.
THERE we go!
Ya, he’ll just find something new to gripe about. Like how he probably wants sex with both Ethan and Amber, then he’ll just want to have sex with Ethan, amber and sal then he’ll want to bone someone else.
But what shall become of Amb- Amazi-Girl? Amazi-Girl.
“You’ve gotta hit rock bottom before you can build a solid foundation?” Nah
“What goes up must come down?” Not really
“I want a reason to feel disdain for Danny other than considering him incompetent?” Incompetence is good enough reason
“Suffering drives plot?” Closer
“Suffering in this comic is enjoyable, and that’s why we’re all still here?” There we go.
Danny has a girlfriend, so he’s screwed even then.
Discovering he’s bisexual doesn’t mean he has to break up with Amber. It just means she has someone to share her favorite fanfics with now.
Amber would have moral issues with Danny and Ethan together. However, I imagine Amazi-girl would like to watch.
Ah, the perks of technically dating that particular persona.
Amer would go into table flipping mode. AG might kill him in more interesting ways, taking a great deal of time and care.(in bed).
It’s Danny we’re talking about. If he ever rationalized his attraction to men, he’s probably convince himself he’s gay.
And remember; Danny thought imagining kissing Ethan constituted being unfaithful.
Drama bombs await.
Danny commits to everything with wholehearted/foolhardy intensity.
Reminds me of the old Rodney Dangerfield joke that being bisexual doubles your chances of getting a date for Saturday night.
Well, it does open up more options…
I think that was Woody Allen, but still true.
No sign yet that Ethan’s interested in Danny! Also, Ethan’s Jewish, so he may feel that the OT Leviticus doctrine still applies to him.
We have signs, but we don’t have Ethan saying it.
And that doesn’t seemt o remotely be what Ethan’s guilt is about.
Hey Arnold!
Buh-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah!
Shit bongo you is fiiiiiiine.
And Danny agrees with me. Ethan is not leaving a whole lot to the imagination there…(no complaints here)
Man, look at that diagonal liiiiiiiine.
It’s called an inguinal crease, btw.
Also known as: Adonis’ belt.
More naked Ethan, all the time.
Add naked Jacob liberally to taste.
Also, that towel is really low on Ethan, huh?
He planned it that way.
Embarrassing boner coverup accomplished, level up!
Is that in the stealth or illusion tree?
Yes.
I’d say illusion, since he used something to cover it, instead of arranging himself in such a way that it wasn’t visible.
Oh damn i didn’t even catch that! I was too mesmerized by Ethan. That beautiful cover-up makes this EVEN BETTER.
I’m really excited to see where this goes. :3 But I have a hard time shipping it because I love Amber too much.
If she would just ditch Danny, maybe we could see some sexy shower time shenanigans.
this reminds me of a song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdtTfQJCO2Y
I hope you enjoy
Oh no, he’s caught the Walkys.
Well, RIP Danny/Amazi-Girl.
OK here’s what we do Danny and Becky you two switch places, then there would be nothing to worry about.
I’m starting to realize that everyone is gay. . EVERYONE…
Even you, readers.
It’s true.
Whaaaat ?
And you waited until now to tell me ? Okay, B right back, gotta catch for lost time.
These two comments should be testimonials included in the next book.
Well, bi, here. Pansexual? Non-cis-gendered, anyways…
Personally, I think that everyone is at least a little bit gay.
Like, everyone thinks or tries it out eventually. It’s basically inevitable.
I wouldn’t say I’m gay. I’m an alien robot, so probably closer to human-form Ultracar from Shortpacked. Tempted to get the chest arm thing, but left the ‘Cons cause they suck so their new doc’s out & Ratchet don’t trust me, so looks like no 3rd arm. Oh well, least my Pretender Armour looks so human it’s fully atanoka-, atemin, atenomical-, it’s fully equipped…
I think it’s “anatomically correct”.
But don’t worry, plenty of grown humans have trouble with that word. Heck, I had to mull it over a few minutes myself.
And ribbed for *your* pleasure.
Is it just me? Or do Danny and Becky look a lot alike?
Not just you.
Def not just you, as I was thinking that the next cartoon might be Becky in the women’s restroom and someone noticing her (Mary?) and making a mental note that she’d been showing up on the floor a lot lately.
Lynx Shower Gel: For when you want to smell irresistible.
(Axe, for all you non-Commonwealthers out there)
A Tisket A Tasket/A bathtowel and a basket…
Outside of screaming internally, I’m pretty sure Danny’s thinking “Damn, my subconscious did not give Ethan enough credit where chest hair is concerned.”
It tends to look a little thicker when wet.
Chest hair, that is. I’m talking about chest hair.
Keep telling us that. Maybe we’ll believe it. =P
Feel free to do some window shipping
Lucky Becky. She doesn’t have to hide HER boner….
At least I don’t think.
Yes, because visual cues of female arousal may also be caused by sudden exposure to reduced temperatures. So did she get turned on or feel a draft?
Everyone say hello to Tony’s butt. Hi, Tony’s butt! Hope you don’t meet a Horrible Fate this time around!
Hello yourself, Ethan.
Have we met Bryan before?
Hello… Bryan
If Ethan ALONE can make Danny blush…. I don’t want to see the results of both Jacob and Ethan coming in, out, or around the showers together, while Danny is around.
If Ethan came out more there’d be a lot less problems.
Hey man, coming in the dorm showers is a serious party foul.
It’s also the reason why you wear flip flops in those places.
I remember my dorm putting up signs for people to stop doing that because it was clogging the plumbing.
The knowledge that enough dudes were going at it in the showers to clog the fucking plumbing was enough of a turn on that I think the signs kind of backfired on them.
I think it’s so cute the way Danny is perfectly fine in a room full of half-or-more-naked dudes and then Ethan shows up and BOOM composure completely gone.
Well he’s not sexually attracted to the other dudes! Of course he’s excited to see that sexy someone.
Idk, he seems to be a bit shifty-eyed even before Ethan shows up. Like he’s trying to keep them fixed on something that won’t make him question his sexuality.
It looks more like Danny is deliberately averting his eyes from Bryan’s attractively naked back in an effort to keep things together. Then Ethan turns up and renders his efforts futile.
Can the next, like, year or two just be Ethan making Danny question his sexuality? Please?
That doesn’t involve Becky, and is therefore unacceptable.
Personally I’m on board with that
Although I’m also on board with them boning (sorry Amb- Amazi-Girl) within the next year or so.
I’m fine with it. Danny sitting in class as Ethan rides past on a horse, billowy shirt open to the waist. Danny walks across campus, only to encounter Ethan standing naked under a waterfall…
What is this feeling so sudden and new? I felt the moment I laid eyes on you! my pulse is rushing…my head is reeling…my face is flushing…oh what is this feeling?
*ahem* sorry for that. I just think it fits. Though the first time I heard that song, I thought it was going in a more…well a different direction.
Pretty sure that was the point of the song.
SPITE COMIC! THIS IS BEAUTIFUL!
Wait I forgot these are uploaded months in advance so was this written before that one guy complained about the existence of bisexual people? Oh well! This is still beautiful.
Uh… Who?
I remain blissfully ignorant of a lot of bigotry, but this sounds like the kind that flounders so far into the lake of stupidity that he’d be worth laughing at.
When was this?
As someone who is bi I kind of want to go and laugh at him.
Willis can still change the buffer right up until comics are posted, so it could still be deliberately timed.
I got excited and messaged him on tumblr about it. He didn’t seem to remember that guy. I learned a valuable lesson to never assume or get excited.
He was perfectly nice about it. I’m just easily embarrassed.
Inserting a comic into the bottom of a 90-strip buffer is an awful, horrible, tedious task I would have to set aside an entire day for.
I’m spiteful, but not nearly that spiteful.
someone really needs to write a proper insert() method for wordpress…
That was my first reaction too. Willis wasn’t kidding when he said that the shower comic is totally happening.
danny bro i feel u
But he wants Ethan to feel him instead.
dont we all
I gotta ask, which one is Bryan and which one is Tony?
Tony’s the blond, who we’ve met before both in the Walkyverse and the Dumbiverse. Bryan’s the only non-major character whose face we can see.
Thanks for clearing that up. ^_^
First panel, on the left in the background is Tony. We’ve met him before.
Me, I’m confused as to who is Arnold and who is Bryan.
The one with the glasses is Bryan it seems.
Arnold’s from Shortpacked. Ken and Malaya’s roommate. In DoA, he seems to be Ken’s. In this strip, he’s the ear at the edge of the first panel.
It surely says something about Willis’s designs that he’s actually fairly recognizable from just that sliver. I don’t actually know what, but it must say something.
It’s way better than the Archie comics, where the main feature differentiating the women is hair colour?
At least the guys get slightly different builds, as well.
You can click on the tags underneith the comic to figure out who’s who. Bryan’s the handsome black gentleman rocking the ‘sexy geek’ look.
“Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day! Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day!”
Boris showing off his ‘Johnson’.
The Austin Powers movies didn’t age well, so I’d be inclined to forget them and gloss over the reference myself.
… oh, I had assumed that was a reference to the mayor of London …
I think I wasn’t looking for a connection between Boris Johnson and Margaret Thatcher because neither served in British politics while the other was active. I was just trying to continue with the Austin Powers references because I had to mention Random Task somehow.
tyersom, you’re CORRECT!
My complete divorce from almost all popular culture pays off!
So what’s next? John whipping out his Major?? Or his father Tom getting a Major-Balling???
Something like that. ^_^
So, is this Bryan dude someone we know from the Walkyverse that I’m just blanking on/unfamiliar-with-due-to-not-reading-IW-until-the-reposting, or someone new?
Off-hand I believe he was on one of the squads in IW!, but wasn’t really important.
He was a SEMME agent in IW! and only slightly more significant than he’s been in DoA. Part of Daisy’s squad, IIRC.
Thank ye both.
awww he still cant figure out he’s bi thats adorable
He seems to have figured it out just fine. Now what to do with that knowledge…
I’m not sure he has. I think he may still be stuck in the gay/straight dichotomy, thinking that if he just has enough sex with Amazi-Girl, he won’t be attracted to Ethan, and not realizing that he can be attracted to both guys and girls.
wasn’t the whole “My two platonic friends whom I have no sexual feelings” proof danny does in fact realize he can be attracted to both. If anything i see this as danny beginning to figure out how that realization affects even the typical mundane parts of his life
Just because he’s realised he’s attracted to two people doesn’t mean he understands what that means.
Well, in all fairness he is the one who gets to decide that …
One thing I’m hoping now hopeing to see is Joyce being jealous of Danny and trying to fight him.
Oh… Hello there, Bryan. You are my new favorite character and I’m expecting a spin-off focused on you and your adventures.
Because you are -adorable-.
Danny is temporarily blinded by some soap in the eyes, so Ethan has to wipe him down and dress him.
They loudly discuss women the entire time.
Ethan and Amber spend the next few days taking shifts taking care of Danny, creating numerous moments of confusion where he doesn’t realize they’ve swapped out. Ethan leaves, Amber enters and greets him with a kiss, Danny’s like “Whoa, Ethan’s kissing me” until Amber speaks and he realizes what’s happened. That sort of thing.
You’ve given this some thought, I see.
okay i really need to see this strip again but danny’s sexo loco dream as the last panel. come on guys make this happen
How is it that Danny has no problems being barefoot in a shared college bathroom? He always seemed like the squeamish type.
Fear of being gay, or being thought of as gay, and fear of germy communal bathroom floors, are not strongly correlated, if at all.
I am so impressed that Arnold is so instantly recognizably Arnold from just an ear and arm in the panel.
Weight-lifting Jacob was karmic revenge in advance for damp-haired Ethan doing this to Danny.
I do not understand why I am attracted to fictional boys, but flesh and blood women. This is a mystery of the ages.
Anyhow, I am conflicted about the Danny/Ethan.
On the one hand, I want them to do the do, or at least make out. Or have a kiss. Something, anything, PLEASE! But on the other hand, I really like Amber being happy. I don’t particularly like Amber and Danny together, never really did. They just…to me I don’t see this turning into a long term thing. It has the distinctive air of a fling, and it makes me a bit upset that Amber refuses to be Danny’s girlfriend–only Amazigirl is allowed to date him. I would love them to break up.
But I don’t want them to break up because Danny lurves Ethan. I feel like that would really rip Amber apart. Not only is a second boy leaving her for dudes, he’s leaving her for her best friend. I would like to see Danny and Ethan hook up post break up. I would really like Amber and Mike to get together.
Don’t worry, Amber’s psyche is likely to collapse into a heap as she continues to deal with her rage using her second identity she’s becoming more and more engrossed into! Ethan/Danny sexytimes are bound to happen.
I feel you there. I don’t really care about real life gay sex, but Ethan-Danny. That MIGHT be able to lure me in for on of the pay strips…maybe.
Nah, we need to see a trio with Danny in da middle, Amber/Danny/Ethan.
I think it’s reached the point where he really can’t deny it much longer, not without it getting stale anyways.
Agreed, but it often DOES take a while for people to really and fully understand their feelings. I wouldn’t be surprised if he continues to deny for a while.
It’s been, what, two days?
Now Danny thinks he’s dreaming again.
If he was dreaming all the guys would be doing the helicopter.
You mean guys don’t do that in showers all the time?
I’m gonna get whiplash the way Willis zaps from one story line to another.
If you haven’t already, you should be fine.
Plot prediction! Becky gets wind of Danny’s attraction, and kicks off the Whiteboard Dingdong Bandit Round 2 by drawing Ethan/Amazi-Girl fanfic on everyone’s whiteboards.
Nah, not even Willis is that evil.
But if it leads to her becoming a successful webcartoonist, it’s all good.
*looks at calendar* Huh, it’s not my birthday.
It is mine, though. Really!
Happy Birthday! Have some hidden Danny-boners…
Meanwhile, Danny samples some of the finest mens….
Hi Danny! This is Ethan’s tosh.
Could you give me a squeeze?
I really feel Danny here. He thought he had everything he wanted back, and suddenly something new and undeniable in his life shows up, and he doesn’t know how to deal with it. Plus, the kid seems to have never heard of bisexuality, so he probably thinks he’s sabotaging things with Amber.
Granted, what I really want is for Ethan to feel Danny.
So, who else read “shower candy”?
I did! <3
Same!
that’s not what it says?
To be fair they’re both accurate
To be fair they’re both accurate
I’m certain Danny will be thankful that Ethan used up the last of the hot water.
There are so many things I approve of in this strip, starting from left to right with Tony’s tiny red shorts and ending with Danny’s hilariously unsubtle boner-hiding technique.
As a gay dude who lived in a dorm with showers like this for several years, I must say that you’ve captured the experience pretty perfectly.
Danny has that, I just realized I also like guys and am now surrounded by naked ones everywhere and I don’t know what to do face.
I remember making that face a lot when I was in the boy scouts. Fun times.
“Have I mentioned yet today, how much I don’t care about Danny’s sexuality?”
Not as far as I know. It’s a little surprising in an abstract sense, since it’s a major plot point and apparently integral to Danny’s character development and presumably you are reading the comic because you’re interested and not because anyone is forcing you to. What’s interesting though is that you would assume that anyone care’s if you care.
“… he’s currently dating Amber/Amazi-girl, and that makes him, de facto straight”
And by that logic, since Ethan is dating Joyce that makes him de facto straight as well???
“So other than to please the Yaoi fangirls, why do we keep having these random gay moment with Danny?”
Strike three. Definitely not random. Bi moments rather than gay moments by definition. But only to please Yaoi fangirls? Do you not read these comment sections? At all?
As an Ethan/Danny shipper, I’d make a pretty terrible yaoi fangirl. What with my being a dude and everything.
Join the Yaoi Fanboy Club ! We’ve got our own Treehouse and no girl is allowed (except during Shipping-time which is 99.99% of the club’s activity).
…someone actually wrote that.
My head hurts from the stupid.
I’m reading Danny as subtly checking out Tony in panel three as he walks away. I can’t tell if it’s in my head. I’m hoping not.
To clarify: I’m hoping it’s not in my head. Need more Danny checking out dudes forever always.
God help us if he meets Jacob.
He has. But Jacob’s an ethical guy and knows that Danny’s married, so it wouldn’t go anywhere.
I don’t think Danny has enough libido to stretch between three people.
He’s clearly got enough for Amber, Ethan, and Amazi-Girl.
He’s like eighteen. Libido is probably not an issue.
Ah Danny, as if you don’t have enough problems …now you’re getting all hot and bothered about a guy who can’t admit to himself he’s gay…let alone to anyone else.
So Arnold’s moving from Shortpacked….hope Galasso makes it
Well hope no longer!
http://goo.gl/p1lXjn
http://goo.gl/vNCs60
http://goo.gl/5oby3y
http://goo.gl/kZ9sxg
I mean, your hopes have already been answered?
Yes. that one.
He’s the owner of the pizza place!
Ethan has admitted to himself he’s gay, he’s just pretending otherwise to everyone around him in order to gain approval.
It’s not even about approval. It’s about controlling his identity. He doesn’t think people won’t approve of him…he thinks they’ll approve of The Gay Guy, when he wants to be The Nerd. (Also, looking through the archives to find that strip, the whole Danny-has-a-crush-on-Ethan thing is foreshadowed like a mofo.)
I think it’s pretty safe to say it’s about a lot of stuff. He overall doesn’t like the ways his life changed when he was openly gay. Those were very rough times for him.
Who’s the black guy? He looks like he has a story to tell.
His name is Brian, and he’s friends with Jim (not pictured). That’s about all we know about them.
Danny get it together. Either hop on that dick or sit down.
Would it be in bad taste if I were to start yelling “HOP ON THE ETHAN TRAIN DANNY BOY” over and over?
tfw gay
Is that David Willis in the queue in front of Tony?
Sorry, Bryan. I must’ve had a brainfart.
You had two: that’s Arnold, not Willis. I don’t think he’s (Willis) in this comic. Not to say he isn’t in the Dumbiverse, just always off screen.
Dumbiverse David Willis wrote the comic “The Head Alien” that the “Dexter and Monkey Master” cartoon is based on. I am guessing he doesn’t hang around college campuses much. Though maybe he will be a guest in one of Mary’s art classes at some point or something.
It would be awesome if they have a convention on campus and Joyce, Dorothy and Walky freak out about meeting him. Lots of lampshading about “all the crap you put your characters through”, and someone gruffing “why aren’t there any straight characters” with Danny and Ethan smiling nervously in the background.
I do believe this is my cue to award you your +1 Internet. I hope it brings you just as much life changing awesomeness as it has me…
+1 internet – like the regular internet but without trolls and 50% more lolcats. This is the best day of my life!
I approve everything in this discussion.
Also, Becky-gravatar-combo is best gravatar-combo.
Congratulations! An internet without trolls …
… is there anything there?
Becky-gravatar-combo = a brood of Beckies.
I wonder if these characters (Arnold, Bryan, Tony) are some of the people who pledged at the $300 level in the Kickstarter for the first DoA book?.
I love this strip. I can relate to it to an absurd degree. For me, there was TOTALLY an awkwardness in such settings (e.g. gym locker rooms) once I realized I was bi. That whole “don’t look, don’t look, people might think it’s weird” kinda feeling. Aaaand definitely more than awkwardness seeing your crush in a towel. Yep.
Is there even a point to having separate m and f showers at this school
Well yeah, you don’t want to have a pair of tits ruin a perfectly good boner.
This was not the gay person checking out good looking people of the same sex I was looking forward to, but I can live with this.
So, Danny. Did he always have these leanings or is it just this universe? I never read the previous Willis strips….
He never showed feelings towards men in the Walkyverse, but never showed an aversion to them either.
Danny was never written as having an attraction to men in the Walkyverse, but then again he never said he was straight.
Considering all that was happening in Roomies at the time and his subsequent fall from main character status and relationship with Billie, one could easily say that Danny never really had time to figure out his attraction to men.
It’s the same with Becky, really. Her Walkyverse counterpart never expressed any particular sexuality.
Danny was barely admitting to wanting hetero sex before Roomies ended and he got booted off-screen for years at a time.
Don’t panic, Dan, just read this: http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/bonerhiding/
wait, is there a theme going on today?
because i could swear there’s a shirtless gay guy embarrasses closeted gay guy who doesn’t know shirtless guy is gay theme going on.
http://www.egscomics.com
That dude’s got more abs than a 1990s Batman suit.
Search your feelings Danny, you know it to be true!!!
Well he’s just a big wall of sex isn’t he?
I have one last thing to say on this strip(hopefully): Danny is terrible at hiding his boner. That is THE MOST OBVIOUS WAY EVER. Granted, I do not have a penis, so I can only guess at excellent ways to hide a boner. I would’ve suggested placing the towel in front, so that it looks more natural. Shoving a shower caddy on your dick is not natural.
At least I don’t THINK it is…
Maybe Ethan could help him hide it.
I prefer to go for the hidden in plain sight method. No attempt is made to hide it. Rather, I rely on the inherent awkwardness of someone else pointing it out.
My college had communal showers. Poor Danny wouldn’t have stood a chance. I still don’t know how I managed.
Enter Walky: “Whoooo’s got a huge boner?”
Danny: [eyes wide with terror]
Walky: “I DO!” [grins]
Danny must have dealt with communal showers in junior high and high school. I suspect this new “issue” is Ethan-specific.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2t4MBhGAg8
That is all
hahaha
More than a few of those were rather creepy.
And for the record, JUST HOW MANY MEGATRONS ARE THERE OUT THERE?!?! I know my ex-boss was bad, but then I find another Megatron on here, then that video shows me another, just how many are there…?
“It’s a bird…it’s a plane…no, it’s Boner Boy!”
Not a good idea to go barefoot into the showers. it’s a really easy way to get athlete’s foot.
Still say they might as well get on with it and create a poly-amorous trio. Ethan and Amber love each other, Amber and Danny are getting there, and Danny and Ethan are becoming friends and are clearly attracted to each other.
…Come to think of it, we pretty much know everyone in the Girl’s side, but there’s three rooms split amongst the six dudes in the cast.
Alt text: and by “a bunch”, you mean “three”.