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by David M Willis on April 5, 2011 at 12:01 am
  • 04 - The Bechdel Test

└ Tags: daisy, jennifer

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    April 5, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

    BIKER CHICKS IN COLLEGE NO WAI

    …all we had were chicks in Trans Ams =o

    • goatman95111
      goatman95111
      April 5, 2011 at 1:07 am | #

      Girls with Trans Ams in your school? Urgh! Why did I end up in the college with all the hicks and retards who couldn’t even handle an ATV?

      • Brian
        Brian
        April 5, 2011 at 11:42 am | #

        It’s more likely than you think

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        April 6, 2011 at 12:05 am | #

        Oh, we had hicks and retards. They just had cool cars to fuck up.

    • RandomPerson12
      RandomPerson12
      October 22, 2014 at 9:13 pm | #

      Wow, that’s even better

  2. Chrisby
    Chrisby
    April 5, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

    Poor Billie, look at her sad FAAAAACE.

    • The E-man
      The E-man
      April 5, 2011 at 1:42 pm | #

      I’m more fascinated by her “sanity has snapped” face in the last panel.

      • The E-man
        The E-man
        April 5, 2011 at 3:07 pm | #

        I mean FAAAAAAAACE.

  3. cappadocius
    cappadocius
    April 5, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    Wait, seriously? “Hot chick with motorcycle” is a story? I’m pretty sure that’s not even a headline.

    • Trae Dorn
      Trae Dorn
      April 5, 2011 at 12:13 am | #

      You haven’t read a lot of college newspapers, have you.

    • gangler
      gangler
      April 5, 2011 at 12:35 am | #

      I’m picturing J Jonah Jameson Demanding pictures of the mystery hot biker now. It pleases me.

      • Undrave
        Undrave
        April 5, 2011 at 2:31 am | #

        He’d probably accuse her of being a menace to society and say she worked with the Goblin on a scame or something.

      • RandomPerson12
        RandomPerson12
        October 22, 2014 at 9:15 pm | #

        I’m picturing that too, but with more Spider-Man, and also Batman, who is there because he’s Batman

    • Sarah
      Sarah
      April 5, 2011 at 1:03 am | #

      Whereas “Sadistic RA” is actually news worthy…I think Daisy has her priorities seriously screwed up, or she has a very different idea of what “gossip” is than I do.

      • kagato23
        kagato23
        April 5, 2011 at 4:57 am | #

        Hot girl on motorcycle is a tangible fact. People saw that.

        The evil RA is hearsay at best. A story that can be proven is always better then one that cannot be, no matter how amazing that latter story is, it’s fiction without facts.

  4. LimeTH
    LimeTH
    April 5, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    Ah, the irony is so thick you couldn’t even cut it with a knife.

    • James Rye
      James Rye
      April 5, 2011 at 5:30 am | #

      Here, have my chainsaw.^^

  5. Rognik
    Rognik
    April 5, 2011 at 12:04 am | #

    “Maybe you can get an interview with her roommate…”

  6. Madock345
    Madock345
    April 5, 2011 at 12:07 am | #

    lol, the eye-twitch in panel six is one of the funniest little details in a while. poor billy, although she could very easily use this as an oppertunity for revenge if she is vindictive enough (I would be)

    • Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
      Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
      April 5, 2011 at 12:14 am | #

      That’s a good idea, a good cross news story could be in play here.

  7. arjay2813
    arjay2813
    April 5, 2011 at 12:10 am | #

    lol, eye twitch. on one hand i want her to get the story, but on the other, i don’t want her to

  8. Ridureyu
    Ridureyu
    April 5, 2011 at 12:14 am | #

    And so, Billie’s story about Sal’s brutal murder gets published immediately.

    “She’s such a good writer, it’s like she was really there!”

    • Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
      Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
      April 5, 2011 at 12:48 am | #

      Well, I wonder how good of a fighter Sal is now. Seeing as how she has no alien enhanced powers in this universe, seeing a Sal and Billie fight has to be interesting. Though Walky never trained Billie in alien fighting techniques so I’m thinking that if all she took was martial arts, it would be pretty even.

  9. Piccolo
    Piccolo
    April 5, 2011 at 12:15 am | #

    So what Daisy’s REALLY trying to say here is how one should go about submitting the fanfiction.

    RULES:

    1) It must involve a pairing.
    2) Hot chicks involved is a plus.
    2a) Motorcycles are even better.
    3) Daisy x Hot Girl = instantly published.

    • George
      George
      April 5, 2011 at 12:23 am | #

      4) Her number and favorite place for a date = instant “Columnist” status.

      • Lan M.
        Lan M.
        April 5, 2011 at 12:44 am | #

        You forgot 5).
        5) Also submit various images of said pairing to Daisy’s personal email so she has images to fawn over in pure lust.

  10. Tom Smith
    Tom Smith
    April 5, 2011 at 12:25 am | #

    My school newspaper never does this, so did Daisy drink some paint thinner or something? I hope Daisy does something to recover from this bout of stupidity for even proposing such a pointless story.

    • Skye
      Skye
      April 5, 2011 at 3:54 am | #

      Welcome to comics, where stuff is done that wouldn’t make sense in the real world. Even if the comic is trying to be “more realistic,” it’s still a comic! 😀 Just ignore it and enjoy it for what it is, my friend.

    • Jack Faire
      Jack Faire
      April 5, 2011 at 8:02 am | #

      My high school paper was this bad. It was about making the perceived popular kids look good and ignoring anyone else.

      A story of mine was so well written that the teacher overrode the editor and put it in but then the photo was the team captain who refused to talk to me when I interviewed the team, and whom no one knew why he was the team captain since the guy who did grant me an interview was the one everyone followed.

      The photo had nothing to do with the article and was just a picture of him surrounded by the hottest girls on the track team in a shameless, “Look how awesome and sexy he is” picture.

      Many school papers it sees are like this.

      If Daisy was any sort of real journalist she would know that at times it is the expose by the reporter that exposes a person’s behavior to the public and forces the person’s superiors to finally act when they have been avoiding doing so in the past.

      For all her protestations a gossip rag is exactly what she is publishing and what she is asking for.

  11. brasca1
    brasca1
    April 5, 2011 at 12:25 am | #

    Seeing as how she still needs to get that room mate form signed this would be 2 birds with one stone.

    • NF
      NF
      April 5, 2011 at 9:01 am | #

      Of course, her problem with the roommate form is that she can’t even find Sal.

  12. Brendan
    Brendan
    April 5, 2011 at 12:48 am | #

    No matter what universe, Daisy’s a sucker for a hot girl.

    …especially with a potential slash pairing on the horizon.

    Long-haired Billie+Sal… hmm… at least in the main universe, at least one canonically partners with women…

    • R
      R
      April 5, 2011 at 1:19 am | #

      Motorcycles make women hotter.

  13. Joebo
    Joebo
    April 5, 2011 at 12:59 am | #

    I’ve never seen someone in real life actually use the o.O face. Mind you, I still haven’t…

    Also, if only you could catch people on fire with your mind.

    • Tristan J
      Tristan J
      April 5, 2011 at 6:20 am | #

      I see it all the time. Maybe you’re doing it wrong. Maybe I’m doing it wrong.

  14. R
    R
    April 5, 2011 at 1:18 am | #

    In Daisy’s defense, going to Ruth’s supervisors will accomplish more than bongoing in the paper will.

    Although, hot girl with motorcycle isn’t a newsworthy subject.

    • Undrave
      Undrave
      April 5, 2011 at 2:33 am | #

      Now Amazi-Girl that might be worth it…

    • Jack Faire
      Jack Faire
      April 5, 2011 at 8:04 am | #

      No it won’t. The RA was right if she has the least trouble on her floor of all floors the supervisors will mostly turn a blind eye to her behavior but if public opinion is against the the RA would get thrown under the bus to save face.

      • R
        R
        April 6, 2011 at 12:13 am | #

        It’s may also just backfire, as Billie is a bit of a snob and a jerk, she’s not very sympathetic. Public opinion might not be swayed enough for anyone to do anything about it, as it’s kind of personal problem, Ruth isn’t shown tormenting any of the other girls (and I doubt Billie would care about it if she were). During my undergrad I would only read the school paper for the wacky advice columns, mostly to laugh at them.

  15. Dahlia
    Dahlia
    April 5, 2011 at 1:29 am | #

    <3 Because Sal's just that awesome~

  16. captainswift
    captainswift
    April 5, 2011 at 1:31 am | #

    Okay, guys. What you’re all overlooking is that it’s an awesome motorcycle. Pay attention.

  17. Blah
    Blah
    April 5, 2011 at 1:50 am | #

    “Listen, I’m not going to waste a story on some no-talent fresh out of high school, but I’m all for dark, mysterious biker chicks. Get me enough info on her that I can set up a date, I might like you a bit more.”

  18. Rowen Morland
    Rowen Morland
    April 5, 2011 at 2:30 am | #

    I remeber my uni paper being about that bad. Kinda like a local town paper.

  19. Skye
    Skye
    April 5, 2011 at 3:51 am | #

    And Billie’s mind has officially snapped.

  20. James Rye
    James Rye
    April 5, 2011 at 5:38 am | #

    So… am not saying that Daisy did meant it like that, but you could also read it like that:
    *If Ruth was a really hot girl and had an awesome motorcycle, you could write about her an article. But since she´s not, you gonna do one about Sal.*

    Also hot girl on awesome motorcycle is *Art* but property destroying and power abusive R.A. is *Newsbriefs*?
    Oh well, at least Daisy got her priorities right: Hot girl over crazy chick. 😛

    • Lokitsu
      Lokitsu
      April 5, 2011 at 8:01 pm | #

      If only Billie could convince Daisy that Ruth was a hot, crazy chick…

      • Peace in Our Time
        Peace in Our Time
        April 6, 2011 at 12:01 am | #

        Wait, she isn’t?

  21. Kurai_Seraphim
    Kurai_Seraphim
    April 5, 2011 at 6:05 am | #

    You can’t objectively write a news story about someone who is terrorizing you specifically. You aren’t the writer; you’re a story element. If anything, once Ruth was brought to justice, Daisy would probably have another writer interview Billie (since victims are in the story, not composing it).

    She’s suggesting the hot girl on motorcycle story because it’s gossip. We’ve seen plenty of characters talking about it already. Gossip is the basis of 21st century news. Sad times.

    • Jack Faire
      Jack Faire
      April 5, 2011 at 8:06 am | #

      Modern journalism has also been removing the objectivity. Read just about any article these days and 90% of them are oped pieces even if not labeled that.

      • Sammael
        Sammael
        April 5, 2011 at 10:16 am | #

        Which is why “modern journalism” is nothing more then very public gossiping.
        Back in age of Edward R. Murrow, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward when journalists exposed dirt about someone, it was because it was important, proven and for the good of the public.
        Today dirt is purpose in itself, proof is often circumstential or illigaly obtained, and no one cares about the truth, just about most bombastic developement.
        Journalism today is entertaiment. And bad one at that.

  22. Robert in San Diego
    Robert in San Diego
    April 5, 2011 at 9:29 am | #

    It’s the start of the school year. A “Student Profile” column makes a great idea to fill up the ol’ newshole with some human interest. It could be worse — one of my “writing” visiting professors once said that his gig one of the other big local colleges, where they had an actual “Journalism and Public Relations” program, featured an entire class that couldn’t tell him the difference between journalism and public relations.

    I don’t think he’d exaggerated, but I believe he discounted the “we’re all to shy to raise our hands and speak up in a seventy person lecture hall” factor. The only lecturer I knew who broke that barrier in the large lower division mass lectures was the scary/friendly economist who rewarded right-answering students with high-velocity bags of M&Ms.

    Even so, college papers are real enough. My college paper once fired a section editor for plagiarism.

  23. VigilanteMark
    VigilanteMark
    April 5, 2011 at 9:46 am | #

    Is Billie doomed to be haunted by Sal at every turn?

    “But Professor, I *can’t* lose my spot in this course! I was only even late because I spent all morning looking for my roommate!”
    “Well, I’ll tell you what. I’ll let you stay in if you can get a signed drop/add form from that other girl who’s always late–then you can have her spot. What’s her name? Sam? You know, the one with the motorcy–”
    “AAAAAARRRRRGHHHH!!”

  24. Zem
    Zem
    April 5, 2011 at 9:55 am | #

    “What about en exposé of my editor who is an untalented, elitist hack?”

    And then she walks out.

    (And THEN they bang.)

  25. Robert in San Diego
    Robert in San Diego
    April 5, 2011 at 9:58 am | #

    I forgot to mention that, in comic time, it’s the start of the school year. That’s when the biggest ad buys are made — so Daisy’s probably desperate for articles, otherwise the paper will be 10% editorial, 90% ads instead of whatever ratio is the target goal. The Sports department is probably doing a long story with multiple big photographs about the golf team tryouts.

    Oh wait, that’s what we did at my college. We don’t have a football team, so our sports people had to do a lot of softball, water polo, and soccer reporting. We had some genuinely weird people in Sports, such as the guy who used a 120 format Rollie TLR camera to photograph basketball indoors because he could find 1250 ASA black and white film in that format.

  26. Robert in San Diego
    Robert in San Diego
    April 5, 2011 at 10:27 am | #

    Prediction Time: After about seven strips of Billie tracking down and stalking shadowing Sal, interrupted by at least seven strips featuring other storylines, Billie writes a hatchet job truly talented, gripping, even somewhat accurate profile that not only does harm to Sal but also to others.

  27. XMD
    XMD
    April 5, 2011 at 10:40 am | #

    Debate: Should Sal be a tag?

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      April 5, 2011 at 10:52 am | #

      No, but ‘Newsdude 1’, ‘Newsdude 2’, and ‘Pink Scanner’ should be.

      • Valkeer1
        Valkeer1
        April 5, 2011 at 11:48 am | #

        Does ‘Newsdude 2’ look kinda like Thad, or is that just me?

    • Bill M.
      Bill M.
      April 7, 2011 at 1:14 pm | #

      Sal is already a totally awesome gal…

  28. Valkeer1
    Valkeer1
    April 5, 2011 at 11:47 am | #

    “When or IF she’s fired…”

    So Billie will never get to write that story, will she?

  29. Joe the Cowboy
    Joe the Cowboy
    April 5, 2011 at 12:28 pm | #

    I genuinely feel bad for Billie. Mostly because she’s going through the same exact journalistic BS that I went through in my collegiate days.

    Good times. Not so much.

  30. Doom Shepherd
    Doom Shepherd
    April 5, 2011 at 2:42 pm | #

    This is true to life.

  31. Mr. Jones
    Mr. Jones
    April 5, 2011 at 3:02 pm | #

    looks like God hates Billie almost as much as Ruth does

    • ArchSchnitz
      ArchSchnitz
      April 5, 2011 at 6:39 pm | #

      Are you sure it’s god? I’d think in this case that Willis hates Billie.

      • Lokitsu
        Lokitsu
        April 5, 2011 at 8:03 pm | #

        Willis loves Billie. She’s his favorite chew toy.

  32. Shift
    Shift
    April 5, 2011 at 7:32 pm | #

    So a story about a chick with a motorcycle is bigger news than an abusive RA who is performing essentially illegal acts against the student body (i.e. theft, assault, and abuse).

    Doesn’t really sound much different from the regular media, huh?

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      April 6, 2011 at 12:44 am | #

      A hot chick with an awesome motorcycle is a more valid arts section story than ‘unsubstantiated claims of abuse’ is a news story.

    • taekwondogirl
      taekwondogirl
      April 6, 2011 at 10:53 pm | #

      One can get them sued for libel though.

  33. Jason
    Jason
    April 5, 2011 at 8:59 pm | #

    That sound you hear is Billie’s disbelief crashing to the ground.

  34. shoeboxjeddy
    shoeboxjeddy
    April 5, 2011 at 11:58 pm | #

    This is totally believable seeing as how college newspapers suck out loud. Still, she should be admonishing Billie to deliver evidence or proof of some kind, not that the story is “not news worthy.” My school paper had amazing front page articles like, “It snowed yesterday, did you notice? Here are some pictures of people and snow.”

  35. david with a small d
    david with a small d
    April 6, 2011 at 6:32 pm | #

    aaaand we take three more steps to that bell tower shoot out.

    Poor Billie.

  36. TMP
    TMP
    April 12, 2011 at 10:13 pm | #

    Aah, way to kick her while she’s down. I feel so sad for Billie.

  37. curiouzkatt
    curiouzkatt
    May 16, 2011 at 5:00 am | #

    poor billie, she just seems to keep getting revenge kicked back at her face. But really, I admire her spunk, albeit it’s in all the wrong places. xD

  38. Princessanarchy
    Princessanarchy
    February 7, 2013 at 3:02 pm | #

    why doesn’t billie just tell her supervisor??

  39. Aisling
    Aisling
    May 23, 2015 at 2:19 pm | #

    Billie looks like she’s going to blow a gasket in the last panel. 😛

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