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September 28, 2023

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by David M Willis on September 20, 2010 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - Move-In Day

└ Tags: joyce, sarah

Discussion (49) ¬

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  1. Trae Dorn
    Trae Dorn
    September 20, 2010 at 12:02 am | #

    Ah Sarah… maybe you’ll get to have some character development this time through. 😛

    • Cholma
      Cholma
      September 20, 2010 at 12:06 am | #

      Well, she did have some development. She hooked up with Joe for awhile and eventually became a lawyer and had an impact on the end of It’s Walky!

      • Trae Dorn
        Trae Dorn
        September 20, 2010 at 12:12 am | #

        She DID things, but she was always the same in her characterization

      • Matt
        Matt
        September 20, 2010 at 2:21 am | #

        Counterpoint: Who didn’t hook up with Joe?

        • Trae Dorn
          Trae Dorn
          September 20, 2010 at 9:59 am | #

          Danny.

          • Sili
            Sili
            September 20, 2010 at 10:40 am | #

            Ah! Plenty of time to fix that this time round then.

            We’re due for a new batch of homosexuals.

          • George
            George
            October 31, 2010 at 2:10 am | #

            The retroactive Leslie Gravatar on that comment is just perfect…

        • ProjectXa3
          ProjectXa3
          February 24, 2012 at 12:23 am | #

          Walky. Ethan.

    • Deviltrig
      Deviltrig
      September 20, 2010 at 9:00 am | #

      Joyce

  2. David Herbert
    David Herbert
    September 20, 2010 at 12:05 am | #

    The devil is a major downer.

  3. Wackd
    Wackd
    September 20, 2010 at 12:05 am | #

    THIS is the Joyce we all know and love. None of that “being well-adjusted” shit.

    • David Herbert
      David Herbert
      September 20, 2010 at 12:22 am | #

      How is being religious not well-adjusted?

      • david matthew
        david matthew
        September 20, 2010 at 12:28 am | #

        I don’t think it’s religion that makes her mal-adjusted but *that line in particular*.

        • fangrider
          fangrider
          September 20, 2010 at 2:13 am | #

          maybe its just me but it looks like people named david have oppinions on religion *waits for willis to say no in a overcomplicated and mind rapeing way*

          • fangrider
            fangrider
            September 20, 2010 at 2:54 am | #

            Im also athiest o.o

        • No0ne
          No0ne
          November 7, 2010 at 1:52 am | #

          I’ve used a line close to that before when somebody asked if I wanted to buy drugs from them… AT high school… in the hall…

          But then again I’m like the poster child of being mal-adjusted

      • Ewok
        Ewok
        September 20, 2010 at 7:08 pm | #

        The taking instructional stories and insisting to other people that they’re true.

  4. Viktoria
    Viktoria
    September 20, 2010 at 12:19 am | #

    Her last roommate must have been much worse than the stoners I know. With a few exceptions, drugs make people easier to ignore. Meanwhile, someone addicted to Christianity is going to want to share their bliss with you.

    • Marie
      Marie
      September 20, 2010 at 1:07 am | #

      Unless, you know, the stoner is turning your room into a hothouse and you happen to not like the smoke.

      One winter in high school our stoners managed to smoke up the entire art hall. Not to much of a stretch to assume one person could make a small room just as chokingly horrible over the course of a semester.

  5. Danno
    Danno
    September 20, 2010 at 12:26 am | #

    I have absolutely never heard of a college rooming an incoming Freshman with a Sophomore.

    • David
      David M Willis
      September 20, 2010 at 12:36 am | #

      When I was a sophomore, my roommate was a freshman. It happens.

    • xaan
      xaan
      September 20, 2010 at 12:44 am | #

      Heck, when I was a JUNIOR I was roomed with a freshman. However, I was a mid-year transfer student, so maybe that had something to do with it…

    • agentksilver
      agentksilver
      September 20, 2010 at 12:51 am | #

      My roommate in the one year I went to college was a sophomore when I was a freshman.

    • Heather
      Heather
      September 20, 2010 at 4:23 am | #

      Heck, I’m going into a Masters for a year and I’m in university owned accommodation, and at least one of the people I’ve met is an undergraduate fresher. (We get our own rooms but we share a kitchen).

      I think it’s because they stick postgrads, mature students and international students together though where I’m going. (Which she is in the latters case).

  6. Milosh
    Milosh
    September 20, 2010 at 12:39 am | #

    Joyce was never really this… outspoken about her Churchiness last time around.

    • David
      David M Willis
      September 20, 2010 at 12:53 am | #

      At the time, it was a subject I was too timid to poke with a stick, so it didn’t come up much. Joyce isn’t going to bring it up in every strip or anything, but her religious views will be more obvious this go-round.

      • Trae Dorn
        Trae Dorn
        September 20, 2010 at 5:23 pm | #

        As long as she’s not like Mary, she’ll be likable.

        P.S. Please don’t bring back Mary. 😛

        • David
          David M Willis
          September 20, 2010 at 5:27 pm | #

          Oops!

          • Milosh
            Milosh
            September 20, 2010 at 5:44 pm | #

            This definitely warrants a DYW.

  7. Deviltrig
    Deviltrig
    September 20, 2010 at 12:58 am | #

    Glad to see Joyce is still paired up with Sarah.

    • David
      David M Willis
      September 20, 2010 at 1:00 am | #

      Your avatar is hardcore!

  8. TexasNinjaBuzzard
    TexasNinjaBuzzard
    September 20, 2010 at 2:43 am | #

    It has nothing to do with this strip- all that howling and rolling around on the floor you could probably hear all the way in Ohio was what had to do with this strip- but mousing over the “David Willis- Shortpacked” link on the twitterfeed to the right brings up “http://twitter.com/Shortpacked” in the status bar, and clicking on it opens a new window to http://twitter.com/Shortpacked, but rightclicking on it and selecting “Open in new tab” opens a new tab to… http://www.joyceandwalky.com/ . But only in WinXP Opera 10.62, not Firefox 3.6.

    …WTF? Not actually important in any way, but still baffling.

  9. Dakhran
    Dakhran
    September 20, 2010 at 3:29 am | #

    Y’know, even with the same religiousity as before, I think new-Joyce is less naive — Joyce-prime would probably have had to ask what a stoner was…

  10. Heather
    Heather
    September 20, 2010 at 4:32 am | #

    Scary thing is, this looks like what would happen if First year me (Joyce) and Second year me (Sarah) met. I mean I’m not exactly like either at either time in my undergraduate days, but this scene would have been similar if we’d met in a time warp, or at least Sarah’s line would have been running round in my mind as First Year me said that.

    This what makes the ‘not changing’ line from earlier strips seem even more obvious to me.

  11. Zudarkness
    Zudarkness
    September 20, 2010 at 10:31 am | #

    Well it could of been worse for roommates. At least it wasen’t Jesse’s roomate Charity on Undergrads.

  12. MrGBH
    MrGBH
    September 20, 2010 at 11:17 am | #

    I’ve always thought Joyce was high on something. And does this mean Joyce is going to have the same reaction to ‘premarital hanky-panky’ as before? Because I’m quite certain there’s this couple of people in the lobby who’re daring to hold hands.

    • beeftony
      beeftony
      September 23, 2010 at 2:54 am | #

      She certainly reacted strongly on her twitter when someone linked her to a porn site.

      My bet is it was Mike or Joe.

      • TurtlyLooker
        TurtlyLooker
        July 11, 2013 at 6:47 am | #

        It was Joe.
        Mike was too busy doing her mother.
        For a nickel.

  13. ShadowWing Tronix
    ShadowWing Tronix
    September 20, 2010 at 5:58 pm | #

    I wouldn’t worry too much about the “high on Jesus” line, folks. As a Christian myself, I can tell you it’s something “we” (in quotes, note) say to tell people we don’t need drugs. Only a few people who use that line are a bit “out of it” naturally.

  14. MarkLar
    MarkLar
    September 20, 2010 at 8:12 pm | #

    Surprising amount of these girls at my university. Jesus will Save US!!!!!!!!

  15. Tomb
    Tomb
    October 10, 2010 at 7:38 am | #

    The same thing happened to my brother. Suuuucked/

  16. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    April 7, 2011 at 10:43 pm | #

    It begs the question, What sort of drug would Jesus be? Dope or LSD maybe?

    • Izzy
      Izzy
      July 19, 2011 at 7:37 pm | #

      From a strictly neutral standpoint (being christian myself) if you take into account all the visions God(Jesus being a human incarnation of God) I’m guessing LSD because of all the visions of the future…though I almost said LCD…which also gives you visions…just usually of the past

      • Jenny Creed
        Jenny Creed
        July 19, 2013 at 1:14 pm | #

        LSD might sound obvious but it doesn’t take into account its unique side effects, like Jesus doesn’t make you immune to him if you take him regularly for three days.

        Religion is really its own drug, with euphoric effects triggered by stimulating a very specific region of the brain responsible for a sensation dubbed by scientists “religious ecstasy”. (This doesn’t disprove God or anything; one could say this is how the presence of God makes itself known to man in the material world, if one believes such things.) It’s not a chemical you put in your bloodstream, but otherwise it works just like drugs do, it alters your perceptions (for the better, some would say), it makes you addicted (almost everything does!), it’s a very benevolent drug compared to like heroin that’s incredibly damaging to the body and mind, but the question isn’t “if” Jesus was a drug which is what I was getting to.

  17. Aitherion
    Aitherion
    October 20, 2012 at 12:10 am | #

    Oh, wow. Going back and reading this now, it’s always really stunning how much Willis has worked out in advance.

  18. Zuzi
    Zuzi
    October 22, 2013 at 2:00 am | #

    You know
    I legitimately thought she was joking when she said that…

  19. pyrophobia
    pyrophobia
    September 27, 2014 at 10:37 am | #

    Sarah’s expression
    *ROFL*

  20. Mousa The 14
    Mousa The 14
    March 31, 2016 at 9:28 am | #

    I’m not sure if this is actually a step up from a stoner.

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