Dumbing of Age Book Twelve

Dumbing of Age

A college webcomic by David Willis
RSS
‹
›
  • Home
  • About/Read before posting
  • Archive↓
    • by calendar
  • Cast
  • Store↓
    • Main Store (books and stuff)
    • T-shirts
  • Patreon↓
    • Patreon (regular)
    • Patreon (NSFW)
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
this was a stand-alone strip i drew ahead of time so i had something to put on bookmarks i handed out at conventions
First Previous Random 59Comments Share Next Latest
Reddit Digg Facebook MySpace Delicious Stumbleupon Buzz Up! Mixx Technorati Google Bookmarks Yahoo Bookmarks Yahoo MyWeb Windows Live Propeller FriendFeed Newsvine Xanga LinkedIn Blinklist Twitter
Discover more Hiveworks comics
Stand Still, Stay Silent
Minna Sundberg
A few generations after the end of the world, a small, poorly financed research crew is sent out to rediscover whatever is left of the forbidden old world in the south.
ARISE, YE SKELETON KING
Brian Clevinger, Escher Cattle, Lee Black
A troupe of wandering "adventurers" down to their last silver "acquire" a map only to find the real treasure was the fiend they dug up along the way.
Sleepless Domain
Mary Cagle (Cube Watermelon)
In a world where magical girls and their battles are commonplace, loss has become all too common as well.
Dumbing of Age
David M Willis
Joyce has been homeschooled her entire life until now, when she's suddenly a freshman in college! Things don't go well.
Blindsprings
Kadi Fedoruk
Tamaura, wrested into a world 300 years in the future, must find a way to save the magic fading from her country.
Sakana
Mad Rupert
Our heroes must navigate a hazardous dating scene, overcome personal anxieties, and wrangle unruly seafood in order to find love, peace of mind, and a paycheck.
The Weave
Rennie Kingsley
A young woman pursued by bad luck is witness to the murder of the Fairy Queen of Summer. Can she get to the bottom of this mystery?
Ozzie the Vampire
Eric Lide
Ozzie and her best friend Kimmy are your average everyday normal art students – except one is an immortal vampire with superpowers and the other possesses a magic talking grimoire. Also they have to save their town from a demonic invasion.
Monster's Garden
Ash G.
Champion pit fighter Kilo Monster was content to spend the rest of his days tending to his quiet garden alone... until he met a curious robot girl and her human family.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
Darkling Bright
Chris Hazelton
Kieran Bright is a college student home for the summer and roped into an online reunion with his old neighborhood friends in the most recent update of their favorite childhood MMORPG. At least, he was, and that was the idea... Join Kieran and his friends as they are pulled into another reality that may or may not be real and are forced to confront their own identities, the nature of simulated universes and reality itself.
Guilded Age
T Campbell, John Waltrip, Florence Machina
Welcome to the saga of the working-class adventurer! Enjoy the complete story with new annotations daily!
Empowered
Adam Warren
A sexy superhero comedy (except when it isn't) about the never-ending struggles of a plucky but very unlucky young superheroine.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Edison Rex
Chris Roberson
The adventures of the world’s greatest villain who, after defeating his superheroic nemesis, decides that he’s the only one left to defend the world.
Little Tiny Things
Clover
What are the little things that move us? The simple joys that warm our bodies and hearts? The micro life of insects that influence our world more than we think? The tiny steps we make everyday to have a happier tomorrow?
Nigh Heaven & Hell
Scotty
Heather Vodihn is on a simple mission: find her father. However she becomes entangled with two strangers with mysterious powers being stalked by a group with bizarre demands. Heather must learn to trust her new traveling companions, even if she is untrustworthy herself.
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
Augustine
Winter Jay Kiakas, Windy
August and her ragtag group are just like everyone else, simply surviving in the treacherous Crater... When they stumble into what may be an artifact of the ancient past, their lives are thrown into a much bigger loop as they trifle with bounty hunters, monsters and gods.
Heroes of Thantopolis
Izzy Strontium Hall
A living boy fights to save the City of the Dead.
Barbarous
Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota
A crummy wizard and an anxious monster have to get over themselves and bring order to an apartment building full of misfits.
Three Panel Soul
Matt Boyd, Ian McConville
It's a pretty rigid format but we keep the content loose, you know?
Not Drunk Enough
Tess Stone
Logan Ibarra is possibly the unluckiest repairman in the world. A late night job should not have landed him in the middle of a mad scientist's squabble, but he soon finds himself surrounded by monsters and further madness with little tools to get out.
The Messenger
indui
In a ruin-abound town cursed with bad luck, Kai and Kalla--a young boy and a fledgling dragonbird spirit--take on a quest in hopes the reward will solve all of their problems.
The Golden Boar
Magnolia Porter Siddell
A young woman joins a group of summoners who call forth Guardian Beasts to protect their isolated magical island. Unfortunately, her Guardian Beast is nothing like she'd imagined, and he's about to change her life, and everything she thought she knew about herself...
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Peritale
Mari Costa
A fairy godmother with no magic tries her best to successfully fulfill a Fairytale and win the respect of her peers.
Novae
KaiJu
A historical romance with a touch magic and a dash of astronomy. It chronicles the romantic adventures of Sulvain, a sweet tempered necromancer and Raziol, a passionate 17th century astronomer.
Angel's Orchard
Harry Bogosian
After the events in Demon's Mirror, Gerda has accepted her role as a Demon Hunter, and Cezar has traveled back to the Demon City. Demons have existed alongside humans for millennia, so things begin to return to normal. But an impossibly powerful Relic has been taken by one of the Demon Masters, and a silent war enters its final stages.
Lies Within
Lacey
Lysander's aimless and carefree life is turned upside down when he accidentally discovers that the cute boy next door, Simon, is a literal monster
Freakshow
Scotty
A festival of broken people, blood flows in the center ring. Come one and come all, to the greatest show in all of Paris.
BOOKMARK
Click "Tag Page" to bookmark a page. When you return to the site, click "Goto Tag" to continue where you left off.
Goto TagClear Tag


BUFFER WATCH Comics are currently drawn and uploaded through:

May 5, 2026

Shower

by David M Willis on October 25, 2010 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - Uphill From Here
└ Tags: jennifer, joyce, mary, sarah

Discussion (59) ¬

[ Comments RSS ]
  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    October 25, 2010 at 12:01 am | #

    Promo strip! =D I was wondering…

  2. Pariah Jones
    Pariah Jones
    October 25, 2010 at 12:01 am | #

    She’s wearing less than I would’ve expected from her.

  3. Cassidy
    Cassidy
    October 25, 2010 at 12:03 am | #

    Oh Willis. You make my life

  4. Ragnal
    Ragnal
    October 25, 2010 at 12:05 am | #

    Yay, new chapter!

  5. David Herbert
    David Herbert
    October 25, 2010 at 12:06 am | #

    Ah, good ol’ Joyce. Glad to see not all is different.

    • Hinoron
      Hinoron
      July 15, 2013 at 3:30 pm | #

      This reminds me so much of my student exchange trip to Japan. 2 American guys were part of our small group. On our way in and out of the country, we stayed a night in a hostel and had to use the public bathhouse. They didn’t want everyone looking at them, so they wore swim trunks into the public bath… which was so WEIRD, naturally everyone was looking at them. 😉

  6. Drpepperfan
    Drpepperfan
    October 25, 2010 at 12:12 am | #

    I own this on a bookmark! Yay!

    Also; Asian boobage. YES.

    • Joebo
      Joebo
      October 25, 2010 at 12:15 am | #

      where? The only boobage I see is from Billie. She’s not Asian is she?

      • David
        David M Willis
        October 25, 2010 at 12:17 am | #

        Her mother is Chinese.

        • Izzy
          Izzy
          July 19, 2011 at 8:55 pm | #

          ….Chinese? i thought her mother was Japanese

      • Drpepperfan
        Drpepperfan
        October 25, 2010 at 12:18 am | #

        Yup! Half-Asian!

        • David
          David M Willis
          October 25, 2010 at 12:19 am | #

          One of her boobs is Chinese, the other English.

          • Drpepperfan
            Drpepperfan
            October 25, 2010 at 12:19 am | #

            Like Two-Face?

          • captainswift
            captainswift
            October 25, 2010 at 12:22 am | #

            Boob-face. One of Batman’s less well-known but somewhat awesome enemies.

          • David
            David M Willis
            October 25, 2010 at 12:24 am | #

            “Oh? What if… half-Spider-Man, half-Asian asked you?”

            http://www.jaypinkerton.com/blog/archives/000831.html

          • Drpepperfan
            Drpepperfan
            October 25, 2010 at 12:28 am | #

            Oh, so THAT’S where the “My Mom said you’re a faggot” came from! I;ve been wondering forever!

          • Sabin
            Sabin
            October 25, 2010 at 1:58 pm | #

            I’m pretty sure you mean Two-FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!!

  7. Zanosuke_Kurosaki
    Zanosuke_Kurosaki
    October 25, 2010 at 12:43 am | #

    Winter-Ninja!Joyce cracks me up. And Billie-cleavage is just plain awesome. Sir Willis, this strip just plain wins. =D

  8. ziggy78eog
    ziggy78eog
    October 25, 2010 at 12:43 am | #

    …yeeeessssssssss

  9. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    October 25, 2010 at 12:50 am | #

    Joyce, you’re so silly. You’re going to sweating in those layers. 😛

    • NinjaNick
      NinjaNick
      October 25, 2010 at 12:51 am | #

      I mean, to be sweating.

      I wish I could edit posts like I do in forums.

  10. Aesir
    Aesir
    October 25, 2010 at 1:41 am | #

    It’s finally day 2, after all these comics lol

  11. TexasNinjaBuzzard
    TexasNinjaBuzzard
    October 25, 2010 at 3:02 am | #

    This comic really reinforces how much Joyce needs to dress up in a Fremsuit for Halloween. Which should come right around Mother’s Day ’11 at this rate.

    I love strip comics that take weeks or months to tell one day’s story (Freefall is the absolute hands down king of this); it’s like drunk-dialing critics who bongo about decompressed storytelling and just laughing at them until they cry. I say more punchlines per square inch equals more efficient delivery of comedy.

    Gawd, such an adorable panel 3 Joyce.

    • Matt
      Matt
      October 25, 2010 at 5:15 am | #

      Willis’ hated enemy, Jeph Jacques, is pretty good about taking days to tell one day’s story. I think it’s been winter in QC-land since summer of this year, if not spring.

  12. Shift
    Shift
    October 25, 2010 at 3:41 am | #

    Okay, that’s just cute.

    So, what do you suppose she’s hiding underneath all that?

  13. No0ne
    No0ne
    October 25, 2010 at 3:48 am | #

    Joyce is really a Ninja, shes just so ninja she doesnt even know shes a ninja!

    • Shift
      Shift
      October 25, 2010 at 4:24 am | #

      That’s pretty damn ninja.

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      October 25, 2010 at 5:45 am | #

      Joyce has a brother in this reality.

      His name is Rick.

      • Joebo
        Joebo
        October 25, 2010 at 7:51 am | #

        well she has like four brothers, so one of them might be named Rick.

        • MrGBH
          MrGBH
          October 26, 2010 at 3:50 pm | #

          My mind. It has been blown.

  14. Maveric1984
    Maveric1984
    October 25, 2010 at 8:38 am | #

    Why is it that they make the freshman dorms have the communal showers anyway? Always awkward.

    Of course that’s only for the first couple of weeks, then you start seeing women in the men’s room, and that’s when the fun begins 😀

    • HMRC4EVR
      HMRC4EVR
      October 25, 2010 at 10:42 am | #

      Fun?

      In college?

      What reality are you from, and where’s the nearest wormhole for me to get there?

      College was the worse time of my life and I’d rather be trapped in hell with Carlos from Armada forever than go through that again.

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      October 25, 2010 at 5:38 pm | #

      Probably because it is cheaper to build, and cheaper for cleaning. And yes, have to love those co-ed washrooms, nothing like being at the urinal when a girl you are crushing on walks in. My favorite was seeing what the girls looked like in the morning before they got made-up and prettified.

      • Maveric1984
        Maveric1984
        October 25, 2010 at 8:34 pm | #

        Actually this is exactly what I was talking about. Wasn’t as if the girls were having showers in the boys room.

        On the other hand the year before I was there, they plugged all the drains and turn on all the showers and have a co-ed hot tub party. One damned year…

  15. joshquixote
    joshquixote
    October 25, 2010 at 8:53 am | #

    Incoming fanservice?!?!

  16. Zudarkness
    Zudarkness
    October 25, 2010 at 9:57 am | #

    “One of her boobs is Chinese, the other English.” LOL. You made me spit out my coke in laughter David

    As good old Jerry The king Lauler would say PUPPIES!

    Maybe Joyce is hiding the fact that she is wearing a thong? Nahh not Joyce. Yeah group shower bathrooms can be a little intimandating at first expecially in H blocks when I was in reserves. Personally I hated those showers but toughed it out none the less. co Ed Showers on the other hand. Whoo Hoo!!!

    Fan Service!!!!

    Any other guy getting wood from this. I know I am.

    • Malph
      Malph
      March 13, 2011 at 3:16 am | #

      Nope, just you.

  17. Zudarkness
    Zudarkness
    October 25, 2010 at 9:57 am | #

    This looks like a job for Amanzing Girl

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      October 25, 2010 at 11:02 am | #

      The girl who turns people into men?

  18. Animal
    Animal
    October 25, 2010 at 10:16 am | #

    Yes. Yes. More shower scenes. More. Shower. Scenes.

    • Joebo
      Joebo
      October 25, 2010 at 3:19 pm | #

      This isn’t a Manga, sorry

  19. JesseJanitect
    JesseJanitect
    October 25, 2010 at 11:52 am | #

    Didn’t any of these people take Gym in high school?

    • Gianni
      Gianni
      October 25, 2010 at 12:01 pm | #

      Joyce was homeschooled, so no, she probably didn’t take gym.

    • Bramble
      Bramble
      October 25, 2010 at 12:07 pm | #

      Yes, well, for some of us showering after gym in high school was a matter of getting in and out as fast as possible because the temperature and water pressure were lousy and we were fat and/or didn’t want the fat kids looking at us. It was a matter of not completely smelling during math class, and then we’d do a proper job of bathing when we got home. Waiting until you get home to shave and wash your hair isn’t an option when you’re living in a dorm, though, so there is a difference.

    • Joebo
      Joebo
      October 25, 2010 at 3:20 pm | #

      never showered in High School, wasn’t even an option.

      • Pariah Jones
        Pariah Jones
        October 25, 2010 at 4:50 pm | #

        At my high school, showering after gym was only available to people who were on the sports teams.

    • No0ne
      No0ne
      October 25, 2010 at 10:29 pm | #

      (Sarcasm) My bad leg kept me out of high school gyms, but my time in Boy Scouts allowed me to learn the joy of communal showering. (/sarcasm)

  20. Mysterious Stranger
    Mysterious Stranger
    October 25, 2010 at 11:53 am | #

    I wasn’t really getting into this new webcomic of your Willis but as of today I’m officially a fan.

  21. Hawke
    Hawke
    October 25, 2010 at 3:19 pm | #

    Man I want a better view on in a bra billie. Don’t judge me!!

  22. Zudarkness619
    Zudarkness619
    October 25, 2010 at 10:06 pm | #

    nahh your forgiven Hawke I want a better view as well

  23. Undrave
    Undrave
    October 26, 2010 at 3:35 am | #

    BOOOOOOBS…

    I mean FAAAAAAAAAACE!

  24. agentksilver
    agentksilver
    October 27, 2010 at 11:26 am | #

    Joyce must have sizeable breasts if they show that well under all that material.

  25. Me
    Me
    October 27, 2010 at 6:26 pm | #

    just going to ruin this for you guys. I live with communal showers. nothing like this. like at all.

  26. Valkeer1
    Valkeer1
    March 23, 2011 at 9:22 pm | #

    There…brushing her teeth…is that Dina…WITHOUT HER HAT?!?

    • David
      David M Willis
      March 23, 2011 at 9:58 pm | #

      Nope, that’s Mary. Check the tags.

  27. ryu
    ryu
    December 7, 2011 at 7:34 pm | #

    bewbs

  28. RandomPerson12
    RandomPerson12
    October 15, 2014 at 9:03 pm | #

    Joyce is wearing less clothes in the last panel than what I expected.

  29. nothri
    nothri
    November 6, 2014 at 6:57 pm | #

    I dunno about a shower, but she’s just a rope and ice pick away from being able to scale mt Everest.

Pings & Trackbacks ¬

    • Dumbing of Age - We’re one year old today!
      September 9, 2011 at 9:25 pm | #

Who should be the default doodle for Book 14?

View Results

Loading ... Loading ...
  • Polls Archive
CONVENTION APPEARANCES


May 3, 2025 - FCBD @ Laughing Ogre Comics in Columbus, Ohio

©2010-2025 Dumbing of Age | Powered by WordPress with ComicPress | Subscribe: RSS | Privacy Policy | Back to Top ↑