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September 28, 2023

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by David M Willis on October 11, 2010 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - Move-In Day

└ Tags: danny, dorothy

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  1. Trae Dorn
    Trae Dorn
    October 11, 2010 at 12:04 am | #

    SOOOOOOOOOOOOOooouuuul cruuuuuuuuush!

  2. Ragnal
    Ragnal
    October 11, 2010 at 12:05 am | #

    Wow. He really can’t see this turning bad at all, can he? O.o

  3. Dashiell Menard
    Dashiell Menard
    October 11, 2010 at 12:06 am | #

    I felt obligated. It just looked so… empty.

  4. JK9000
    JK9000
    October 11, 2010 at 12:07 am | #

    “I *LOVE* talking about our relationship! (Almost as much as I love you!) What should we talk about first? How about the fact that we’ll be together forever?”

  5. David Herbert
    David Herbert
    October 11, 2010 at 12:07 am | #

    … Maybe she’ll wuss out and not bother so they can continue being happy, or at least he will.

    Maybe he knows what’s coming and he’s trying to guilt her into not saying it.

    • agentksilver
      agentksilver
      October 11, 2010 at 2:14 pm | #

      I’d bet dollars to donuts this is what happens.

      • captainswift
        captainswift
        October 11, 2010 at 4:13 pm | #

        I will take this bet. Not because I disagree, but because I wouldn’t mind winning some donuts.

        • Tomb
          Tomb
          October 13, 2010 at 12:35 am | #

          Someone else lost a bet.

      • Tomb
        Tomb
        October 13, 2010 at 12:35 am | #

        Someone lost a bet.

  6. cappadocius
    cappadocius
    October 11, 2010 at 12:18 am | #

    They’re gonna do it now, right?

  7. Alan / Falcon
    Alan / Falcon
    October 11, 2010 at 12:54 am | #

    Hey, this ledge sure looks familiar.

    • Andrew Davis
      Andrew Davis
      October 11, 2010 at 1:26 am | #

      I love that ledge. It’s a beautiful place to relax.

  8. Darth Cariss
    Darth Cariss
    October 11, 2010 at 1:20 am | #

    I always take people to ledges before I break up with them, too. It seems like a good idea somehow. Not like there’s any chance they’ll do something stupid when they are sad. Nope. Totally a good idea.

    • Malph
      Malph
      October 11, 2010 at 2:06 am | #

      I once took a guy to a ledge to… i guess you could call it a “break- up” (he was a stalker who seemed to think I was gay for him). At first I was trying to let him down easy, then just said “look, I’m not gay, dude”. Then I pushed him off the ledge and booked it.

  9. Wackd
    Wackd
    October 11, 2010 at 1:36 am | #

    I feel so sorry for him! He’s like a puppy! You want to scold him for wetting the carpet, but he’s just looking at you with those puppy-dog eyes without a care in the world and to crush that would kill you inside..

    What? Why are you looking at me like that?

  10. Chad from Canada
    Chad from Canada
    October 11, 2010 at 2:18 am | #

    When dogs wet on my carpet, I rub their noses in it and throw them outside… Then again, Canadian’s don’t have souls…

    • Joebo
      Joebo
      October 11, 2010 at 7:53 am | #

      This is true.

    • Elliot
      Elliot
      October 11, 2010 at 11:18 am | #

      If that form of dog training means you’re soulless- Then obviously I’m Canadian.

      Damn! I guess I’ll just have to go partake in some awesome healthcare then…

    • Stephen
      Stephen
      October 11, 2010 at 12:36 pm | #

      Is the lack of souls why you guys don’t wear clothes?

      • Chad from Canada
        Chad from Canada
        October 12, 2010 at 3:12 am | #

        No. Canada is just clothing optional… But most people partake in that option… Because when the windchill his -20 C in December you really wanna be wearing more than your birthday suit… And I live in a warm part of Canada…
        And then, come summer… It gets up into the 30’s C (About 90ish degrees F) And your wearing clothes because no one wants a sunburn on their… Extremities…
        All in all… Not a lot of naked people in Canada.

        • Stephen
          Stephen
          October 12, 2010 at 12:09 pm | #

          Seanan McGuire totally lied to me!
          http://seananmcguire.com/songbook.php?id=152

        • Roborat
          Roborat
          October 12, 2010 at 3:04 pm | #

          You forgot to mention that in the odd times that it is not life threateningly cold or skin burningly hot to not wear clothes, the blackflies and mosquitoes would eat you alive, resulting in head to toe coverage most of the time.

          And the reason we have no souls? They freeze off in the winter.

          • LadyJ
            LadyJ
            January 20, 2014 at 7:28 pm | #

            Oh the black flies. My favourite. They can bite through three layers of clothing, I swear.

  11. Jake
    Jake
    October 11, 2010 at 3:07 am | #

    Am I the only one who thinks this all looks very familiar?

    • beeftony
      beeftony
      October 11, 2010 at 5:35 am | #

      As much as I’ve grown tired of everybody pointing out avatar-irony, I have to admit that yours is too good to resist making a crack.

      • beeftony
        beeftony
        October 11, 2010 at 5:35 am | #

        And yes, it probably is just you.

    • Joebo
      Joebo
      October 11, 2010 at 7:47 pm | #

      Well I recall Willis posting the last panel’s art somewhere on one of these blogs so no, you’re not the only one.

  12. Björn
    Björn
    October 11, 2010 at 3:23 am | #

    Huh? Huh? Familiar what?

    Also, the colouring is wonderful in this strip.

  13. selement
    selement
    October 11, 2010 at 6:15 am | #

    I don’t actually understand why she is breaking up with him. She loves him but didn’t expect him to follow her to uni? Whats the problem? I’d be delighted! Relationships are much easier when they aren’t long distance! And if its because she wants to focus on work why not just explain this and see him less often? First day of uni theres no work to do anyway. Heck first year of uni isn’t really a challenge.

    • SerrJ
      SerrJ
      October 11, 2010 at 6:44 am | #

      I have been in Danny’s position. Only it was at FSU not UNI. Although that wall and building behind it looks really familiar..,anyway Its not fun. She has come to the conclusion that there is no way that there relationship could go the distance so she want’s to end it now. She thought that going to college would give her a convenient excuse but did not count on him following her. The long and the short is that she is between biting the bullet and telling him the truth, or fell like she is stringing him along until she finally goes someplace he cannot follow.

    • SinisterTwist
      SinisterTwist
      October 11, 2010 at 11:54 am | #

      She probably wanted to break up with him long before this but figured that they’d be going to different colleges & as such she could slowly break up with him over a longer period of time & distance. Then she could have the fake security of a long distance boyfriend while she played the field in her new college digs. I doubt that it really had anything to do with scholastics, although she’ll probably try to use that as an excuse.

      Unfortunately Danny followed her, forcing her to actually have to either poop or get off the pot.

      • Wackd
        Wackd
        October 11, 2010 at 12:18 pm | #

        She doesn’t seem like the sort to disturb things just so she could shit comfortably.

        Well, she does, but I’m not the sort to pass up a chance to make a Clerks reference…

  14. Vextra
    Vextra
    October 11, 2010 at 7:36 am | #

    For what its worth, being in a long-distance relationship myself, I can sort of understand the paradox of not wanting to live at Uni with your beau. Its fun seeing them once in a while, but if you spend prolonged amounts of time with them it can start to fray, and you start to miss all the cool stuff you could be doing if you were alone, even if thats a totally selfish thing to think. Its just Human Nature to want what we don’t have, and to lust after other people/things.

  15. Mage the Observer
    Mage the Observer
    October 11, 2010 at 8:42 am | #

    Shut him down, Dorothy. And don’t be nice about it, he needs a good, hard reality check.

  16. Deviltrig
    Deviltrig
    October 11, 2010 at 9:03 am | #

    This is gonna be fun. Danny’s totally got it coming. maybe he’ll be the grim, depressed “old Ruth” of this universe.

  17. x o
    x o
    October 11, 2010 at 9:37 am | #

    i.. cant..

    talking crotch.

    • MrGBH
      MrGBH
      October 11, 2010 at 7:19 pm | #

      He’s even looking at it.

  18. MrGBH
    MrGBH
    October 11, 2010 at 9:42 am | #

    Ahhh, sheer moronic optimism. It’s funny, but not as funny as seeing it get crushed heartlessly.

    Although, even if she does break up with him, it’s probably that she’ll give such a pansy excuse that he’ll spend the next year or two trying to persuade her to get back with him.

    Maybe Dorothy should’ve chosen a higher ledge.

  19. Kyle
    Kyle
    October 11, 2010 at 10:51 am | #

    ITS A TRAP!

  20. Stephen
    Stephen
    October 11, 2010 at 11:56 am | #

    I’m sorry, I appear to have miscalcuted:
    This is the moment where Danny’s soul snaps like a Twix bar.

    • Wackd
      Wackd
      October 11, 2010 at 12:19 pm | #

      She may be evil, but at least she’s n–

      Never mind. Not as funny the second time.

      • Stephen
        Stephen
        October 11, 2010 at 12:23 pm | #

        Didn’t see that comment the first time ’round.
        Ahem.
        I’ll have you know that some of my best friends are full of shit! How dare you compare them to Danny! Face.

  21. SinisterTwist
    SinisterTwist
    October 11, 2010 at 11:56 am | #

    I’m guessing that she’ll break up with him so she can play the field & see what else is out there, but will eventually miss the security & familiarity of the old relationship & will eventually try to get back together with him.

    It makes for great story & drama because it happens so often in real life.

  22. Cha
    Cha
    October 11, 2010 at 12:48 pm | #

    “You’re breaking up with me? Why?” “Your faaaaaaace!”
    …okay, now that I’ve got that out of my system, I’m certainly wondering whether Dorothy’s going to go through with it or not. Either way’ll provide a ton of drama, though.

    …now, let’s see who I am today.

    • Cha
      Cha
      October 11, 2010 at 12:49 pm | #

      Leslie, yay. Still hoping to get Ruth.

    • agentksilver
      agentksilver
      October 11, 2010 at 2:18 pm | #

      faaaaaaace

  23. Mason
    Mason
    October 11, 2010 at 1:58 pm | #

    You’d think he could tell by looking at her body language and facial expression that “sweet” was not the impression he should be getting about the coming talk.

    At least, if you thought he was a sentient human being that has been around people all his life.

    AAAAH! DANNY’S AN ALIEN!

  24. agentksilver
    agentksilver
    October 11, 2010 at 2:17 pm | #

    Soooo Dorothy dumps him, but then it turns out that he signed up for all the classes she signed up for…

    • Joebo
      Joebo
      October 11, 2010 at 9:26 pm | #

      well that much is obvious

  25. Bean
    Bean
    October 11, 2010 at 2:45 pm | #

    The poor guy. I mean, who says ‘sweet’ when a girl wants to talk about your relationship? He should be running for the hills, but he’s trying to be an ideal boyfriend…

    Trying too hard, from her view, I guess.

  26. Shift
    Shift
    October 11, 2010 at 4:48 pm | #

    Okay, so I never got around to reading Roomies. Has Danny always been this… Clingy and… um… naive (i.e. dumb) regarding the obvious unhappiness of his girlfriends? Or is this personality more of an alternate universe version from the original story?

    I mean, I’d have thought an insanely attentive boyfriend like this guy could catch the obvious “I’m not happy” red-flags she’s sending up.

    • Trevbot
      Trevbot
      October 11, 2010 at 6:10 pm | #

      He actually has a similar personality to Joyce at the beginning of roomies. Danny was actually trying to get rid of Joyce back then.

    • Blah
      Blah
      October 11, 2010 at 11:29 pm | #

      Ever read It’s Walky!?
      Because he thought Sal was the ideal, perfect girlfriend. Not some insane broad at all.
      Even when he was dating Billie for years, and she was jumping through prison walls, legally documented insane, he thought she was perfect for him because he clinged to what was once so comfortable.

  27. zinc55
    zinc55
    October 11, 2010 at 6:17 pm | #

    relationship FAIL

  28. Protonos
    Protonos
    October 11, 2010 at 7:37 pm | #

    She’ll break it up but then he’s gonna wine about it and she is going to pitty him and stay with him and then rethink it and think about what OTHERS!! will think of her ( that what all of us do directly or indirectly ) and then dump his sorry behind.

  29. Joebo
    Joebo
    October 11, 2010 at 8:01 pm | #

    It occurs to me, what if Danny is aware of the situation and is about to preempt her?

  30. McMoose
    McMoose
    October 13, 2010 at 2:58 pm | #

    We’ve GOT to get New Danny and Old School Walky in a room together to ‘brainstorm’.

  31. Roborat
    Roborat
    October 13, 2010 at 3:10 pm | #

    Umm, are their groins having a separate conversation?

    • Heather
      Heather
      October 14, 2010 at 5:02 am | #

      Danny looks more like he’s talking out of his ass in that shot to me.

  32. Coder
    Coder
    October 16, 2010 at 2:40 pm | #

    Danny…your man card.

    Hand it over.

  33. Unconquered Sun
    Unconquered Sun
    November 17, 2010 at 1:17 pm | #

    Dude. When a woman tells you that they want to talk about your relationship 99% of the time it’s bad.

  34. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    February 25, 2011 at 10:49 pm | #

    This guy is almost too dumb to live or at least too positive for his own good.

  35. Rheios
    Rheios
    May 12, 2015 at 1:40 pm | #

    I take that back. I’d have gotten a sinking feeling by now. Probably WOULD have gotten it when she wanted to speak alone. That is always ALWAYS a bad sign.

  36. Aisling
    Aisling
    May 22, 2015 at 2:43 pm | #

    Captain Oblivious has entered the room everyone! Not that he notices.

  37. Mousa The 14
    Mousa The 14
    March 31, 2016 at 10:05 am | #

    Damn, I legit feel bad for Danny right now.

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