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How nice of Walky to voluntarily be mulched for Earth Day!
WITH BURNING JUSTICE AND/OR PEPPERONI
AND/OR/OF pepperoni.
I am drunk enough to desire this.
RIP
Rest in Pepperoni
Real Italian Pizza
…and Subs
“Always be prepared for ninjas.” Sydney Scovill
“Always be peppered for ninjas.” — Wilbur Scoville
Please let it be Ninja Rick! He’s my favorite!
Ninja Rick will not be appearing in this comic according to the author.
It’ll be Ninja sex party.
Nonono, it’s:
“Always. Expect. Ninjas” – Sydney Scoville
(I have the shirt)
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
I’m pretty sure people are even less prepared for Spanish ninjas.
Vega? (aka Balrog)
Spanish Inquisition ninjas?
Ninquijition.
Perhaps even less for New Jersey Ninjette!
damnit, Vega.
It’s sad what passes for a ninja these days
Everyone expected the Spanish Inquisition. They gave you three weeks notice to prepare a defence.
(Am aware you’re quoting Monty Python)
😀
“Ninjas understand quantum mechanics better than people realise.”
– Gordon Freeman
What about Britjas?
Never assume a restauranteur does not have ninjas at his disposal.
“But, father, I’m not assuming. Our ninja committed honorable sudoku last week.”
In that case, have that Becky person trained in the ways of ninjutsu. We must have a ninja at our disposal!
“Yes. He added many numbers in many columns and rows. Very tragic.”
Ninja Becky would be an awesome plotline. Especially since her girlfriend is a master of stealth and could give her some tips.
We can’t have a ninja at our disposal! The ninja is at our dishwasher!
“honorable sudoku” cracks me up 😀
Thanks I stole it from someone but I don’t remember whom
His Mightiness Galasso returns! All praise his pizzas and subs!
Calzones?
I relate both to Walky’s dislike of mushrooms and excitement about dying in a cool way.
Everyone knows the correct way to make pizza is crust, sauce, and loaded with as much pepperoni as possible. 😛
With the right balance of cheese to sauce and heated to such a degree so as to make the pepperoni look like it’s sitting in lava.
Crust. Sauce. Pepperoni. Done. 😛
None pizza left beef
Yes! No other pizza compares!
Do you… Not eat cheese on your pizzas?
I’m allergic to cheese, so I do not. 😛
Then you are allergic to pizza.
BBCC, while I understand you sensitivities, showler is correct. A cheeseless concoction, no matter how delicious, cannot be called ‘pizza’.
Nonsense! In Italy, pizza often (maybe even USUALLY) has no cheese.
I reject your pizza and substitute my own!
Just wrong pizza. 😛
How is that even possible? Even if you’re lactose intolerant there are plenty of cheeses you can eat, and many of which go well on top of pizza.
I’m allergic to the mould in cheese. It gives me flu symptoms and I’m too lazy to commit which cheeses have which mould in them (if any) to memory, I just don’t eat any. Plus most places around here only have two or three kinds of cheese anyways. It’s easier to order a cheese free pizza with a ton of pepperoni.
Italian sausage (with lots of fennel)
linguica from that shop in Little Portugal
green bell pepper
fresh brown crimini mushrooms
shallots
a mix of toma and provolone piccante cheese (lots of both)
a super-thick marinara-ish sauce
a really bready crust
Not that I can get that from a pizza place; I have to make it myself. A lot of work, but damn is it good.
Crust, sauce, pepperoni. 😛
Tricked-out handmade pizza is best pizza.
Pesto. Goat cheese. Garlic. Sundried tomatos and red peppers. I could eat that every day.
I am allergic to pepperoni, or rather one of the spices that is usually used to make it. 🙁 Used to love pepperoni pizza and them my allergies shifted and it started making me sick.
Animal. Pepperoni taste like meaty sweat. The only proper pizza is one with olives, mushrooms, green peppers and onions
This is similar to my pizza preferences, except substituting atrtichokes or broccoli in place of the green peppers.
How did green peppers become a pizza topping anyway?
(casts a suspicious glare at the Hungarians)
You need cheese (cheddar mixed with mozarella is best imo), anchovy, pineapple, garlic and spinach as well. And it has to be a proper tomato sauce, not BBQ sauce.
Mushrooms are a fungi and not a vegetable.
Yup.
Which I assume is why Walkyu mentions them separately
Walky does know this.
That is the reason he warns about fungi explicitly!
Of course, pineapple is a FRUIT.
Pineapple is my favorite pizza topping. I had a coupon for a free large one-topping pizza today, so I got a pineapple pizza.
Also, botanically speaking, tomato is a fruit, as is avocado.
I haven’t seen avocado pizza yet, but as an omnivore I say BRING IT ON!
The secret is adding the avocado raw and on slices, after taking the pizza off the oven.
Apparently you don’t live in California. My best friend does and apparently they put avacado in/on EVERYTHING. THOSE SICK BASTARDS EVEN MADE AVACADO ICE CREAM!!! BLASPHEMY!
Avocado can be used as a fat replacement in desserts. You can use it for frosting as well as in key lime pie.
What? How?
Graham cracker crumbs and butter for the crust. Key lime juice, sweetened condensed milk, and egg yolks for the filling. Possibly with a bit of whipped cream on top.
WHERE would you put the avocado?
I’m guessing it would replace the egg yolk, since that’s mostly fat.
I read that as lime bike.
And no, that is not a recommendation!
Creamy, delicious blasphemy.
yes we do here and I hate it ……
First toast, now pizza?! What will those darn millennials ruin with avocado next?
/s
I had avocado on pizza when I visited L.A. as first prize in a radio contest in 1988. So this is one avocado blasphemy you can’t blame on Millenials.
that never stopped anyone.
Avocado pizza was first prize? What was second, double avocado on the pizza?
I’d like to point out that people in my country have been putting Avocado on toast for well over 50 years.
Like, shit, my mum remembers waking up as a child to my grandma bringing her breakfast to bed in the form of Toast with avocado and cheese.
Italian ninjas are the best ninjas.
Are Italian ninjas the same as the Ninja Mafia?
No. Pretty sure the Ninja Mafia would have hired anyone with a pulse (Italian or not). Also, the rule was that whoever killed their emperor automatically became emperor, so no requirement to be Italian there either.
No, their elites have more arms.
Galasso does not have a ninja… however he DOES have a britja.
And a Ginga! Ninja Becky would be a Ginga Ninja!
Shelly Winters is the one true Ginger Ninja.
I thought Ninja Rick was going to appear but the alt text seems to say otherwise
Ninja Rick was based on a real person and as such will not be appearing in DoA.
Alex was based on a real person too, so I don’t see why she gets to be in DoA and not Ninja Rick.
I have no information on this, but I’d point out that a real person can do things or say things that would make an author not include them. A non-real person can’t do that.
Weird – if you’d have asked me to guess a reason Ninja Rick would not exist here, I’d have said he’s too unrealsitic, not too real. Now I wanna meet the Ninja!
Too unrealistic means you won’t exist as a person, but you can still be included. Dexter, Monkey Master, and Ultra-car are all here as cartoons.
Now that you mention it, Ninja Rick would make a great bad Samurai Jack ripoff…
Well that sucks, I had hoped to see his counterpart show up in this universe as a perfectly balanced individual. Even as a background cameo. Ah well.
Am I misremembering? I could’ve sworn he showed up in an early arc at the restaurant
I wonder if Galasso is almost impressed at his nerve.
Walky’s lack of survival instinct might make him a worthy minion. Never know when you’ll need someone for a suicide mission.
“You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you.”
Or perhaps Galasso as Lou Grant: “You know what? You’ve got spunk…….
I HATE spunk!”
I prefer Lou’s other quote: “Some days I don’t know whether I’m working here or hallucinating.”
Enter Conquest.
I don’t think she’s 18 in this continuity, so better not.
She was in earlier strips, WAY early, when Joyce and Joe went on a date to Galasso’s. She was taking their order.
Nope, still underage. Joe’s attraction to her was HIGHLY inappropriate.
Not ‘repeatedly punched in the face’ inappropriate, but still inappropriate.
Depends on how old she actually is
16/17 is fine, theres not much age difference there and a lot of teenage couples have a year or two between them leading to one being 18 while the other isn’t (like my own)
14/15 is where it starts to get creepy and inappropriate tho
She’s 16. He’s 18, right? Maybe 19. A couple years apart, certainly legal in Indiana – even without relying on Romeo and Juliet laws. Basically still in the same peer group.
Hell, I doubt most people could reliably tell 16 year olds from 18 year olds at a glance. No reason for Joe not to assume she was another college kid working there. Nothing that’d shut down attraction.
Mind you, I wouldn’t want them getting together, especially not for Joe’s usual casual hookup – unless it’s clear she’s into that up front. And it would certainly be skeevy if Joe was deliberately targeting high-school girls – which we’ve seen no sign of.
Oh come on, all he did was look at an attractive young women that doesn’t look 16. If you compare her to Joyce most people would say Conquest looks older. Now if Joe had found out she was 16 and then continued there’d be a problem but all he did was a quick look at someone.
Mother (something) crushed under Galasso’s iron heel?
Mother Bears, aka the real-life pizza place – and once rated among the top five best in the country, or so I’ve been told – at the location of the fictionalized Galasso’s Pizza (and Subs).
Ninja Rick, I maintain is Willis’ best character, and the lack of his use is one of the single worst problems of Shortpacked and now dumbing of age. I identify with him as a bearded anime fan who was into the martial arts.
Also, we both killed a guy at the food court.
Ninja rick is based on a real person which is why we will not see him in dumbing of age, if I remember correctly?
Well that sucks.
Maybe it was you!
Yeah, that’s why he isn’t here. Willis has said characters based on real people will not be appearing in Dumbing of Age.
Well, to a certain extent that isn’t entirely true – Alex is based off of someone Willis knows, who has from time to time made appearances in this very comments section.
She’s not the only commenter to show up in-universe, either.
Okay, then, OLD characters based on real people aren’t appearing in this comic.
Alex is from 1st year Roomies.
Technically, aren’t all of the characters in DoA based off of some part of Willis?
I mean, he said that the inspiration from Danny was originally from his father, and Danny’s in here.
Plus, Faz is based off of a real person. I mean, someone posed for those Fazoli’s ads how long ago.
Bring on Ninja Rick!
Ninja Rick is directly based on the real person though, so Willis has said no go.
It’s one thing to make a character based on parts of yourself or to use a person irl as inspiration, but they’re not directly the real life person.
Aw, dangit, that means that we probably won’t see Horrifically Resurrected Ronald Reagan in DoA.
Though in retrospect, I probably should’ve seen that one coming.
No Jeshua Ben Joseph, either.
His DoA counterpart’s been mentioned often enough, though; he’s more a part of the comic than Head Alien and Ultra Car combined.
And I hear mention that David Willis is, in this universe, some sort of millionaire in a mansion somewhere. Does that mean that Willis is, in fact, not real?
*dun dun DUUUN*
Also Joyce is based on real-world-Willis, so has no right to exist in this Dumbiverse!!!
***justkidding***
Do not confuse the great and mighty Galasso for a mere Garfield convention!
Jason and Walky are on a date. Drunk. This could end up very inappropriate.
Walky is underage for drinking, under U.S. law. If he comes to the attention of the cops, he could wind up spending the night in jail, and facing disciplinary action from IU the next day.
Mind you, I’m with Jason on US drinking age. But that’s not going to help Walky if it comes to that.
Walky underage drinking is less of an offense than Amber’s random acts of assault and battery.
I think he’ll be fine.
I mean, really, underage college freshmen _never_ get drunk in public …
Yeah, they just don’t exist in real life.
Like giraffe Hank on IU campus!
Walky looks an awful lot like someone Jason was into, as well.
Just so. If Jason bags both the Walkerton twins, both of then having gone to him for extra tutoring, he’s gone a million.
That. Is not the way I would put it. But it is a way, I suppose 😐
It’s already inappropriate. Jason has already supplied Walky, WHO IS HIS UNDERAGE STUDENT, with apparently-copious amounts of teaquila.
Ironically, it really is tea. Walky only thinks he is drunk.
Dina?
Oh, I SO hope Willis is going to bring Ninja Rick to the Dumbiverse.
*playing “Shaddap You Face” on the hacked Muzak*
You might think he’s kidding but there are actually six ninjas in the last panel alone
Not to worry, Dina can fend them off.
This, and the resulting hangover, will be a good learning experience for Walky
a ninja with the finest foam sword
I’ve noticed a number of people here have blogs, so this seems like a decent place to ask: what is your preferred blogging platform and why? I want to start blogging, but I’m not totally sure what to use for it. I actually started a WordPress, but then I was like, “Okay, but nobody ever actually reads other people’s WordPress,” but then I got a comment, so what do I know.
I don’t blog myself, but almost all of the blogs I read are on Tumblr. (Mostly people watching Steven Universe.)
I feel like tumblr is the most reader-friendly blogging platform currently out there, occasional frustrations using it as a content creator aside (like, but why can’t I schedule an ask to be posted later? why staff?)
I blog just a bit with my tumblr, but the bulk of it I use to follow SU fan-created stuff also.
I mostly use tumblr. It’s the most convenient platform for me.
I use tumblr too, but, like…I use it in such a different way than what I’m planning that it seems kind of strange to me to use it for that. Like, “Write out long reflective posts about my life? No, this is where I reblog memes and lesbians.”
But I might end up going with it. But there’s at least a 50% chance that I’ll spend too much time trying to decide and lose interest before I ever really start.
Sideblogs! Sideblogs are a good
I used to use WordPress and occasionally got a comment, but I think you mostly have to be Popular for that to happen consistently. I use tumblr now and have done pretty well there, I’ve got a fairly popular dice collection blog (linked in name)
My dude, I don’t actually play any tabletop role-playing games, but I’m involved with a camp for LGBTQ+ youth where said games are pretty popular. That is to say, I may buy some dice from you to gift the camp when you have more in stock.
Sweet, thanks! 😀 I can also rec some pretty awesome rainbow dice sets if you’d like
Oh, god, I just remembered when I had a Xanga. It was when I was thirteen, so it is painful to remember.
(I actually made it the day I turned 13 because they were popular in my middle school and I wanted one, but you had to be thirteen to use the site, so I waited.)
I have been pretty happy with blogger. Tumblr’s strength is if you want to add a lot of animated GIFs and things, so more visual. You don’t have to do it that way on Tumblr, but if that is what you want to do I think Tumblr supports it best. I just write a lot of words and sometimes insert photos, so blogger works great for that.
I have a site that runs WordPress but I got so tired of comment spam and asshats trying to hack into my admin page that I just locked it and left it alone.
Personally, I prefer a CMS like WordPress or Drupal to build a structured site over Tumblr’s “just search the tags” and infinite scrolling. Tumblr did make it relatively easy for content to get shared and spread around, though.
Same. I found tumblr confusing. (Does that mean I’m old? 😉
As much as Ive come to hate it, Tumblr. Ya just can’t get those memes and comics anywhere else
RIP LiveJournal.
(No, it’s not technically dead, but it might as well be.)
These days? Dreamwidth.
If I actually cared about being read by anyone but myself and a few old friends, I guess I’d be on tumblr, but I just hate that whole site, posting/”discussion” model, etc etc.
On one hand, I’m concerned about Walky’s possibly impending death via ninja (even if–totally agree, death via ninja is a rad way to go out), but on the other hand, I find drunk Walky pretty adorable?
I feel Galasso has somehow failed to grasp the intricacies of the service industry
But at the same time, I feel he also must have the highest job satisfaction of anyone who works in it
Well, he never could figure out genders either, so this is less than surprising.
Galasso, the only man who is literally too stupid to be sexist.
“Galazzo, what is best in life?”
“To crush your competitors, to see them driven to bankruptcy, and to smell the inferior quality of their pizzas!”
*Mrs. Galazzo leans in, whispers in ear*
“*grumble*… and subs.”
RE: Alt-text: You can’t prove he doesn’t have a ninja.
Ah, but does Galasso serve Gnome Ann?
What is on the IDS article on the wall?
In panel 2 it kinda looks like
MOTHER
CRUSHED
GALASSO’S
HEEL
Panel 3 doesn’t yield anything I can even guess at.
It’s ‘Mother Bears’ crushed beneath Galasso’s heel’. Mother Bears’ is a RL pizza place in Bloomington.
Ah! In my best Emily Litella voice, “Nivver mind.”
Based on panel 3, I’d say it’s “under” rather than “beneath.”
Never mind. I found the solution in the first strip tagged Galasso:
MOTHER BEARS(?)
CRUSHED UNDER
GALASSO’S IRON
HEEL
I assume the Bears (if that’s right) are IU rivals? Why are they Mother Bears?
Mother Bear’s is an RL pizza joint in Bloomington. The original is right by campus, although they now have a second location that lacks some of the charm of the original but which actually has parking.
It’s a reference to this place. Galazzo’s Pizza is located right where Mother Bear’s is, in Bloomington.
At long last we get to see Ninja Rick again.
Did Rick give you permission to use him in DoA?
Never assume a man does not have ninjas at his disposal.
Ugh.Second try.
This is an interaction I didn’t realize I had been waiting for my whole life.
What do you mean, no ninja !
Well obviously we don’t have any ninjas. Do you SEE any ninjas around here?
I wonder if Becky is working and will meet Drunk Walky.
I mean, she’s met Drunk Walky before, but she didn’t know it until the end.
This is super-drunk Walky, based on the number of drunk bubbles floating over his head.
Mort Walker, creator of “Beetle Bailey” and “Hi and Lois”, coined the term ‘squeans’ for those little drunk bubbles.
By the way, did you know that Lois and Beetle are brother and sister?
Good add which I shoulda thought about!
We’re seeing Super-Squean Walky today. And given how Walkertons (can’t) handle their liquor, he must be up to a shot and a half by now.
I knew about Lois and Beetle, and off the top of my head, I think Beetle used to be called “Spider”, in a college comic strip, before I was born.
Yes — Walker decided to see if people were more interested in Beetle if he enlisted (Korea was much on people’s minds in the 1950s) and had him accidentally enlist when he ducked into a recruiting office to dodge his girlfriend.
But Berke Breathed used “boozles”, which I prefer.
But mushrooms are the best vegetable!
For not being a vegetable at all, that is.
Which is why Walky needs to specify them separately.
Oh boy ninja rick in DOA :DD
Galasso, if you don’t serve drunks, then tell them that you don’t serve drunks. They’re both too far gone to pick up on indirect metaphors!
This bodes well! Unless it bodes Walky not getting kicked in some way shape or form.
let go of the scary man, walky
Wait a minute…! Is Walky suicidal?!?
I think the term is “Fearless” but Suicidal will do too.
No, I’m serious. From what he’s saying to Galasso, he’s looking for someone to put him permanently out of his misery!
He’s drunk and sad. Thats a bad mix.
I expect this is how most college smartasses react to big ham Galasso.
I doubt that does anything to improve his mood.
Okay, drunk in enclosed space good. But public place bad.
Jason does not have an adult grip on reality.
Given that Walky’s digs at Jason have kind of been on the Grand Tour of Europe lately, I’m actually impressed that he’s thought of a stereotype about English food and isn’t trying to order him croissants or a haggis.
(You can get haggis pizza, at least here in Scotland. Sadly, vegetarian haggis pizza remains something I have to make for myself.)
this is adorable?
Suicide by Galasso? This seems a bit extreme, even for Walky.
It’s a bit sad that we have seen the last Walky strip.
At least Willis was good enough to bookend his arks for us. Relationshsip with Dorothy is over, Jason is thrown out. In the end Walky died as he always suspected he would – with his math teacher.
Is Ninj Rick finally getting some DA screen time?!
You know, Jason, there was still the possibility that you could have kept your job before since Sal actually coming forward was unlikely.
Very visibily getting a minor drunk will squash that chance fast.
Ninja Rick!!!!
This is making me want pizza
I’ve always had it twice this week
Never enough
….
I’m torn between either treating Walky’s suicidal ideation with the seriousness and gravity it deserves, or thoroughly endorsing his plan of suicide by pizza establishment.
Whelp, If Jason was not for sure fired before. Pretty sure drinking with an underage student is SURE to get him fired!
“Get this bloke something boiled” and two immediate repeats of variants of boil is a hoot. Jason’s tastebuds may never have recovered.
Thank you for not pluralizing Ninja by adding an s in the meta-text.
…. Why?
Why did I just make a fangirl 8D-face … for RICK?
I’m imagining Willis going, “WHY why does he have such a fandom?”
…
Rick?
just for discussion bbq chicken pizza with mushrooms (red onions can just die) it the best and yes you but bbq sauce on it……. the peasantry may hate all they want ……
erm put
Col. Flagg from M*A*S*H.
The name is Galasso, fools! Remember it, ’cause it’s the last thing you’re gonna hear before I- express my feelings in song!