About

Dumbing of Age is a webcomic about college freshmen in a co-ed dorm at Indiana University, starring a Christian homeschooled girl and her atheist best friend.

If you’re a reader of other works by David Willis, you’ll like this webcomic as well!  It stars some familiar faces in new situations.

If you’re not familiar with his other webcomics, that’s even better!  Why?  Dumbing of Age is its own continuity, with no story ties to any previous works.  All 14 years of old material?  Useless to you here!  It’s a clean slate! A completely new story that merely borrows some familiar characters.  Everything you need to know is within the (slowly increasing) handful of strips on the website.  In fact, it’s probably easier on you if you don’t know the older stuff.  (Just ignore the comments below each strip.  They might think they know what’s going on, having read the old stuff, but they really don’t!  A little knowledge can be a bad thing, after all.)

Dumbing of Age updates Monday through Friday.

(If you want to read the older webcomics anyway, there are big graphical links to all of them on the right-hand column on the frontpage.)

Quick FAQ for commenting:

1) Be nice to other people.  You don’t have to agree with them, but don’t call them morons.  Thankfully, this happens very very rarely because this isn’t YouTube, but I think I should establish this as a ground rule, regardless.

2) Please remember that not everybody reads my other comics. Dumbing of Age is intended to be a stand-alone work and is set in its own separate continuity, and so talking bunches about the old stuff is not only pointlessly distracting, but has been proven to be confusing to new readers.  When this gets out of hand, I reserve the right to delete that stuff.

3) Please don’t make fun of or condescend to the folks who don’t know who Amazi-Girl’s secret identity is.

4) Dumbing of Age is not set in any particular year.  I only say this because every time some pop culture reference shows up, someone is all “OH HEY HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE AREN’T WE STILL IN 2010???”  No.  We are not.  The comic moves slow, but it operates on comic book time.  This webcomic is not gradually going to become a period piece.

5) Asking if Ethan is gay will always get your comment removed.  I totally mean it!  Try it.  It will disappear.

6) (Don’t try it.)