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Billie’s excessive party experience has taught her that shedding clothes while drunk is a fast way to lose them for good. Or at the very least having to travel all across town to go pick up that cardigan…
Faster than a speeding dart, more powerful than a toy locomotive, able to leap a model building in a single bound. Look, down on the floor, it’s a mess, it’s a someone’s stuff, NO IT’S SUPERDRUNK!
Faster than a speeding dart, more powerful than a toy locomotive, able to leap a model building in a single bound. Look, down on the floor, it’s some vomit, it’s a someone’s stuff, NO IT’S SUPERDRUNK!
That’s only if you go to parties where all the booze is free. That didn’t include most of the parties around my school, so people would pregame with shots of something really potent, like 151 proof rum.
Definately predrink if you are going to a bar, waaaaaaaay cheaper. When I was young(er), we would frequently skip the going to a bar part and just continue with the predrinking at home.
Seconded. However the downside mentioned above is that involves using non-free booze. Really why get drunk on your own booze when you can get drunk on a friends’?
*Sigh* No, Billie, that’s when you go to a bar, or any other place you have to pay for the booze. I suppose you could do it before a party, if you just really liked the idea of waking up in a strange bed the next morning.
After she woke up in the RA’s closet she returned to her own bed, slept some more, and was still there when Joyce woke her up for class. I think she might just have a 1 “Wake up in an unfamiliar location” per day quota she has to meet.
This is what happens: Group of upper classmen rent house. They throw a party. At the party they charge for booze to the underagers who can’t get into the bars. The underagers are all super drunk and staggering home to their dorms by midnight. The people who ran the party take the money and go out to the bars until bar close.
Left over money generated by the party then pays for rent.
Very much so. The house I lived in got a keg or two and sold cups for five bucks a pop. Usually had Pabst. We also had a minifridge under the house bar where we stored four pitchers we filled from the keg, so four lines, less waiting. Epic times.
I know a girl who sorta is both. She gets drunk and wants to write an essay. Ironically her Asian boyfriend is a lightweight and loves to tell stories in vietnamese.
Here’s the Digimon example of being SUPERDRUNK! The Digimon’s name is Nanimon. In the English version they decided they’d call it Soda because it wouldn’t be appropriate to call it by what it actually was: Beer of course. Anyways, to get out of the whole situation of him working them half to death, one of the Numemon threw down numerous bottles of beer to him.
The video is in Spanish, but I think it’s more than self explanatory.
Here’s the English so you can see the whole thing. Skip to 6:09, that’s where the whole idea begins. Anyways, this is what Billie reminded me of when I saw this tonight.
Joyce is totally being a normal, sociable, and pleasant person. Hasn’t whipped out a Bible or screamed at people for drinking or anything. I’m so proud *tear*
…And way, way crazier. Actually, I would love to see a massive graphic novel where Jack Chick retells the Bible, but filtered through his own, unique brand of nutso.
She *does* carry Chick Tracts on her person, you know. (At least when she’s not lunching with Dorothy.) Unless they’re merely like security blankets to her, presumably she does get evil with them once in a while and show them to people.
Isn’t anyone polite enough to acknowledge Joyce? I’m glad she’s trying to make a go of her first college party, but someone could at least say “Hi” and point her toward the refreshments.
I can’t help but think she’s always saying it half-ironically – I don’t think she thinks being home-schooled is a bad thing. (Though she does realize that it includes a possibility of limited socialization.)
And after she has a semester of college under her belt, she’ll be technically unqualified to call herself ‘just homeschooled’, so maybe she’ll stop then.
Ah, pregaming. If you get the timing just right, you can get away with not buying a single drink once you get to the bar/club. That’s alcoholism on a budget! ^_^
David– I’m guessing I just don’t meet those people then, because they’re SO sheltered. Though we do have some neo-amish-wannabe homeschoolers lurking, but Joyce doesn’t dress right for one of them– I mean, she wears PANTS, for goodness sake!
One thing to keep in mind– even the most “Holy, Sheltered” families usually have a druggie uncle lurking somewhere– often the “sheltering” reflex is a response to really messy family problems that the kids are familiar with…..
So wait… You’re Walky (namesake) AND you’re Joyce (sheltered childhood)… and said characters you created and admit to being have done the “deed.” My mind is going like 7 different ways with that right now, and I am just as confused as when I saw Mike’s puppy dog eyes…
No offense to one of my favorite comic strippers but you (referring to Mr. Willis above) are kind of quick to jump to conclusions/insult-slinging sometimes. Not everyone is happy with a character’s race being changed for arbitrary reasons? RACISM! Someone makes a joke about how you use female characters to represent yourself? SEXISM! Just saying….
I object to Dorothy’s punchline. I *would* expect Dorothy to know more than Joyce, because she’s definitely not as sheltered as Joyce. For one thing, she’s implied she’s had sex. And I would expect her to know about getting pre-drunk, though not participate in it.
Also, I hope we get to see some more rarely-seen characters here, like Tony or perhaps Beef. And if it’s a real party, I expect Joe to show up.
Dorothy’s pretty clean-cut, though. I would have expected her to spend her time studying or moving in social circles focused on specific goals or accomplishments, to the point that she might never have been to even a high-school level of party. Going to parties where beer is served risks being caught there and labeled as a delinquent, after all.
And who knows, maybe Joe’s having his own private party elsewhere, if you know what I mean.
I would guess that when she pulled her tank top back on, she pulled the neckline down farther than the top of her bra, either on purpose or to be more enticing. Not difficult, considering the size of the bra necessary for her (she’s probably a D cup at least).
You’re a flippin’ GENIUS! Why read about them when I can TOUCH them? Then again, motorboating is something I have always found to be very awkward to do. It’s just not that much fun, in my opinion.
I could go further into detail as to the alternatives I prefer, but that would lead to a candidate for most awkward comment in the thread. I think I’ll exercise wisdom and not do so.
It happens. Gravatars, I mean. They’ll switch again in a few months, and who know’s who you’ll be then!
Also, Shortpacked has been going on for well longer then a year. Even longer if you start with It’s Walky! (chronologically the first series int the SP! timeline. I haven’t even really bothered to start my dive yet; I’m gonna need a week or something, I suspect…
Even longer if you start with Roomies!, which is the actual first series in the SP! timeline – and incidentally the most-similar ancestor to Dumbing of Age, as it was a comic about Danny and Joe entering college, and running into Joyce and Sarah, and eventually most/all the rest of the characters you see in DoA! were introduced in one form or another. Of course, Roomies introduced gags involving aliens, which eventually stopped being gags and redirected the comic far, far away from its ‘college comedy’ roots – which is likely why Willis decided to do DoA!: to go back to the comic’s original roots without the baggage it’d accumulated over the years, to allow him to play with the old cast in new ways, without the interference of aliens this time.
JOYCE IS FROM La Porte!? I’M FROM La Porte!! OH MY GOD PEOPLE HERE ARE TALKING ABOUT JOHNSON ROAD! MY ENTIRE CHILDHOOD IS FLASHING BEFORE MY EYES! CAPS LOCK!!!!!
Just kidding, I stayed at the fairgrounds back in the summer of ’08. Some of our staff got some shirts from the Local Walmart saying: “Where the heck is La Porte IN.”
I also experienced my first Tornado there, but that’s a story for another day.
Note to everyone out there. Underaged drinking causes your tolerance to spike majorly and makes it way more expensive to get drunk in adulthood. Please, be a cheap drunk wait til twenty-one. *nods seriously*
Ok so the fact is I hated the taste of Alcohol until after I was 21 and was slowly introduced to some good liquor but while I have friends who make fun of me for being a lightweight I look at the packs of beers they buy that last a week and mine that last a month and I’m not too upset at my life choices.
I love going back and re reading. It’s like the world is slowly getting more beautiful with each frame, when it’s been only a few weeks after this on the current page.
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*annoyed sigh*
*raised eyebrow*?
*ponderous stare*
*goofy grin*
*shameful nod*
*Smirk*
*Batman’s eyes narrow*
*rubs temples*
*Unforgiving Glare*
With a gravatar to match.
*spidey sense tingling*
……..*fart*
*leer creepily*
*drunken smile*
*cautious glance*
*Spock Eyebrow Quirk*
Fascinating.
*Spit take*
*Meditation*
*faceplam*
*faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacepalm*
Billie put her shirt BACK ON??
Maybe she IS superdrunk…
Or she already nailed a dude and redressed to go nail another.
“Billie you nailed a guy already? It’s been no more than five minutes”
Silly. ‘fore nailin y’get prenailed, so y’get supernailed quicker!
maybe she just passed the slightly embarrased phase of her drinking cycle, and went back to giddy drunk.
Billie’s excessive party experience has taught her that shedding clothes while drunk is a fast way to lose them for good. Or at the very least having to travel all across town to go pick up that cardigan…
She’ll raise her ‘flag again’.
damn if I knew where she was from I’d make a reference to The South.
Man, she DOES work fast.
God, they make such a wonderful pair. The self-aware duo!
Sorry, I thought you were talking about the other wonderful pair for a moment. MY BAD!
Also quite a nice pair, but then I have to wonder how the nickname came to be. Maybe a Bebe’s Boobs Destroy Society type situation?
They ARE quite beautiful.
mike gave all their mom’s a package between her wonderful pair…
A roll of nickels
Joyce x Dorothy is my new ship, forever!
At least Joyce is being friendly…
I think it’s adorable. Most people I know (and I, too) only talk with people they know or stand by themselves alone at a party.
Well, she was the most well-socialized in her homeschool group.
XD
Dorothy and Joyce…two sides of the same coin?
shy and innocent curiosity and mature decisiveness to the point being at times judgmental?
Something like that, with the only difference being faith vs. science.
SUPERDRUNK would make a great superhero.
apparently I got ninja’d on super drunk hero
That’s ok. You can still be the super drunk hero in your neighborhood.
Yea, it’s a franchise, just pick your territory.
Wasn’t that Iron Man?
Zing!
haiyo!
Faster than a speeding dart, more powerful than a toy locomotive, able to leap a model building in a single bound. Look, down on the floor, it’s a mess, it’s a someone’s stuff, NO IT’S SUPERDRUNK!
P.S: Yeah, I don’t think this joke through.
Is that not Andy Capp?
Faster than a speeding dart, more powerful than a toy locomotive, able to leap a model building in a single bound. Look, down on the floor, it’s some vomit, it’s a someone’s stuff, NO IT’S SUPERDRUNK!
Fixed
ouuu.. party virgins
That works more than one way, even! They could be /party/ virgins or party /virgins/.
“Hi, I’m Joyce!”
“I’m Batman.”
Joyce and Batman meet and embark on an epic ‘ship.
But, what happens when Daisy gets in the middle of it?
Daisy is chasing boob windows remember?
http://oi54.tinypic.com/2sb1m51.jpg
Brilliant! I doff my monocle to you, chap.
ಠ_ರೃ indeed.
I LOLed.
Where would you like the internet you just won?
I just snorted my drink from laughing, That was awesome!
Joyce and Dorothy are a surprisingly good match.
Shiiiiip.
Not just a ship, the GREATEST OF ALL SHIPS! The UNSINKABLE VESSEL! The-
Oh wait it sank on iceberg Wait-A-Second-This-Shit-Makes-No-Sense
it’s ok, it’s as good as a submarine as it is a ship.
Oh, wait…
I don’t believe in getting predrunk because that involves using prefree booze.
(but I do occasionally bmob to the party)
That’s only if you go to parties where all the booze is free. That didn’t include most of the parties around my school, so people would pregame with shots of something really potent, like 151 proof rum.
Billie is a horny bangable half Asian freshman GIRL. That’s a perfect recipe for free booze at college parties.
Definately predrink if you are going to a bar, waaaaaaaay cheaper. When I was young(er), we would frequently skip the going to a bar part and just continue with the predrinking at home.
Billie looks middleaged, YIKES!
Alcohol tends to do that to most people.
Is that so? *mhmmmm*
I think it’s because at this angle her glasses look kinda like wrinkles.
Also the alcohol kind of radiates out of her like beautiful rays of liver failure.
everything joyce does is cute,
also, Yay Billie! Superdrunk needs to team up with amazi-girl.
Man, I wish more people did this at parties. There’d be less awkward standing around.
Seconded. However the downside mentioned above is that involves using non-free booze. Really why get drunk on your own booze when you can get drunk on a friends’?
No no, I meant going around and saying hello to everyone.
Well, it certainly seems to be going as well as my technique of pretending to be an airplane.
Oh, wait… That’s POST-drunk.
Aside from the alcohol, this look like a pretty tame party considering the way Roz built it up when she invited Dorothy.
Maybe it doesn’t truly get wild until Roz gets there. =P
…wearing a condom costume perhaps?
You called?
I should have known.
Awwww yeeeaaahhh full body condoms! I feel like I’m banging zero suit samus!
That was so totally Joe.
Yep: Horny manchild with a dash of nerd.
The party don’t start till Roz walks in…
I can imagine Roz talking to Leslie at this moment about the details of her plan to hook her up with Robin.
*Sigh* No, Billie, that’s when you go to a bar, or any other place you have to pay for the booze. I suppose you could do it before a party, if you just really liked the idea of waking up in a strange bed the next morning.
She does.
Poor Billie, seems to be the only way she can have fun. She needs to hang out with Walky on McNugget nights :p
Can you spike McNuggets?
beer battered and served with jack daniels bbq sauce? with a 40 to drink?
Has Billie woken up in her own bed yet in this comic? I know she’s woken up in a chair, on the floor, and in her RA’s closet, off the top of my head.
Maybe the first night. Maybe.
Wait, how did she get on top of your head?
After she woke up in the RA’s closet she returned to her own bed, slept some more, and was still there when Joyce woke her up for class. I think she might just have a 1 “Wake up in an unfamiliar location” per day quota she has to meet.
Most house parties charge you to drink…
This is what happens: Group of upper classmen rent house. They throw a party. At the party they charge for booze to the underagers who can’t get into the bars. The underagers are all super drunk and staggering home to their dorms by midnight. The people who ran the party take the money and go out to the bars until bar close.
Left over money generated by the party then pays for rent.
Very much so. The house I lived in got a keg or two and sold cups for five bucks a pop. Usually had Pabst. We also had a minifridge under the house bar where we stored four pitchers we filled from the keg, so four lines, less waiting. Epic times.
Huh. That’s actually not a bad plan if you don’t immediately blow your cash on more booze.
All SuperDrunk needs is a lighter to activate her super power: FLAMEBREATH
Plasma, who is your avatar supposed to be this time? I recognize the style obviously.
A photoshopped Momo, as pink doesn’t look too good with a red background.
Is she photoshopped to look like someone in particular?
Not really, I just like the look and modified Momo to give her more of that DoA look + my standard red background.
New Momo is freaking adorable.
I shudder to think what Pintsize would be like in a more human body, boobs will never be safe again.
Ah, I thought that looked like Momo.
Now if Billie really were a Drunken Master she’d have nothing to worry about from the RA.
I’m trying to think of a Jade Empire joke here, but I’m coming up as empty as a post-Billiepocalypse bar.
What? No Drunken Fist? For shame.
Superdrunk: For when regular drunk isn’t enough, try Superdrunk.
So, I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that Billie’s the default ‘drunk girl at a party’ at any party she attends.
So Billie is the designated drinker for tonight? Who better!
I’d honestly vote for Joyce. Drunk Billy is expected, drunk Joyce would be a barrel of laughs.
Only if someone adds vodka to her Sprite.
And then she’ll be just like Vodka Drunkeski.
She’d become a boxing Russian stereotype?
Okay, yeah that’d be awesome.
I get the feeling Joyce has a surprisingly high tolerance level. That, or drinking makes her go all philosophical.
I know a girl who sorta is both. She gets drunk and wants to write an essay. Ironically her Asian boyfriend is a lightweight and loves to tell stories in vietnamese.
Ah, so she’ll teach everyone “The Bestiality Song” then. Joy.
The hedgehog can never be buggered at all?
No, that one actually has some creativity to the lyrics. The version I was reluctantly introduced to by a loud drunken blonde was pretty repetitious.
If I remember from my heady highschool days…
“A hedgehog can never be buggered,
For a hedgehog has too many spines!
That’s why you use a hedge-trimmer,
For then you’ll be just fine!”
It swiftly gets worse from there.
It’s nice to see Billie really putting some work into the things she’s passionate about.
pregameing. oorah
Here’s the Digimon example of being SUPERDRUNK! The Digimon’s name is Nanimon. In the English version they decided they’d call it Soda because it wouldn’t be appropriate to call it by what it actually was: Beer of course. Anyways, to get out of the whole situation of him working them half to death, one of the Numemon threw down numerous bottles of beer to him.
The video is in Spanish, but I think it’s more than self explanatory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cDdGTnDHuQ
Here’s the English so you can see the whole thing. Skip to 6:09, that’s where the whole idea begins. Anyways, this is what Billie reminded me of when I saw this tonight.
Haha, I remember that episode. Clearly Billie is the female version of Nanimon
I think that is italian… but is definitely not spanish.
I can’t decide if you avatar is cute, or slightly creepy.
I’m guessing the “party” is Robin’s Value of Family Rally.
Joyce is totally being a normal, sociable, and pleasant person. Hasn’t whipped out a Bible or screamed at people for drinking or anything. I’m so proud *tear*
She wouldn’t use Bibles, they are too heavy, Chick Tracts are way lighter.
…And way, way crazier. Actually, I would love to see a massive graphic novel where Jack Chick retells the Bible, but filtered through his own, unique brand of nutso.
Hey, Joyce may be a little overzealous with her faith, but she’s not EVIL.
She *does* carry Chick Tracts on her person, you know. (At least when she’s not lunching with Dorothy.) Unless they’re merely like security blankets to her, presumably she does get evil with them once in a while and show them to people.
Until it happens onscreen, she’s still not evil. >.< She's too cute to be evil! Look at her!
Isn’t anyone polite enough to acknowledge Joyce? I’m glad she’s trying to make a go of her first college party, but someone could at least say “Hi” and point her toward the refreshments.
And Dorothy’s 4th panel punchline is great.
I wonder if drunk/nice Mike is going to be at this party…
I hope so, and Ethan because I want to see more Joyce / Ethan interaction
*does the protective thing for billie to the point where vodka isn’t 50% of either blood stream* @ ___ @ woo!~
I thought that advice only applied when you were going to bars so you didn’t spend too much.
ANSWER TO QUESTION FROM EXPERIENCE TALKING TO MY HOUSEMATES: Only on your birthday
No, Joyce. That is not a thing. It is not something that ever started being a thing. h0nk.
Pre-partying is just good business.
It’s called pregaming, Joyce. And Billie fucked it up by just getting superdrunk from the get-go.
Game over, man! Game over!
Relax Hudson. There’s no xenomorphs around here.
By my scanner says they’re right on top of us. *Looks up* Oh Shi-
SCREEEEEE!!!!!
When will Joyce stop self-deprecating herself with the “I’m just a homeschooled girl” label?
I can’t help but think she’s always saying it half-ironically – I don’t think she thinks being home-schooled is a bad thing. (Though she does realize that it includes a possibility of limited socialization.)
And after she has a semester of college under her belt, she’ll be technically unqualified to call herself ‘just homeschooled’, so maybe she’ll stop then.
So the joke’s still good for another RL decade then? :p
Oh dear— I think my kids may be part of Joyce’s old homeschool group!
Ah, pregaming. If you get the timing just right, you can get away with not buying a single drink once you get to the bar/club. That’s alcoholism on a budget! ^_^
Though, if she’s from La Porte, she can’t be THAT sheltered– heck, she must have been to Chicago or South Bend before…..
Oh, you can be from La Porte and that sheltered.
Believe me.
David– I’m guessing I just don’t meet those people then, because they’re SO sheltered. Though we do have some neo-amish-wannabe homeschoolers lurking, but Joyce doesn’t dress right for one of them– I mean, she wears PANTS, for goodness sake!
One thing to keep in mind– even the most “Holy, Sheltered” families usually have a druggie uncle lurking somewhere– often the “sheltering” reflex is a response to really messy family problems that the kids are familiar with…..
Obviously I need to drop more hints that Joyce is me, in that I am from La Porte, and I was sheltered in exactly the same way.
So wait… You’re Walky (namesake) AND you’re Joyce (sheltered childhood)… and said characters you created and admit to being have done the “deed.” My mind is going like 7 different ways with that right now, and I am just as confused as when I saw Mike’s puppy dog eyes…
I’m also Billie (alcoholic).
So are many of the women in your stories represent you eh?
You wouldn’t happen to have gender dysphoria by any chance?
It may surprise you to learn that males and females in fact share many feelings and emotions despite having different plumbing.
It’s almost like girls are also people.
No offense to one of my favorite comic strippers but you (referring to Mr. Willis above) are kind of quick to jump to conclusions/insult-slinging sometimes. Not everyone is happy with a character’s race being changed for arbitrary reasons? RACISM! Someone makes a joke about how you use female characters to represent yourself? SEXISM! Just saying….
GIRLS ARE PEOPLE?
HOLY SHIT!!!
My world-view has been shattered!
Every webcomic character is a part of the creator in some way or another, be it an author avatar or a friend that is a part of the creators life.
I’d like to meet the author who writes anything ever that doesn’t have any part of themselves in it.
What part of you is Ninja Rick?
Ninja Rick is an exact copy of one of my art college peers. Find him here: http://cougaraphics.com/
I need brain bleach now. Thanks.
Like-wise
Is it just me, or is Billie by far the most drunk and disorderly thing at this party? The rest of it just seems like a polite and calm get-together.
Though admittedly, if there is music, we can’t hear it. (Though we can deduce that the characters can hear each other at least.)
It certainly seems Billie is the drunk and disorderly thing at the party.
This is not your parents DnD ….
She may be wasted, but she hasn’t been roofied.
Yet.
Or she has been roofied and her tolerance is amazing.
I object to Dorothy’s punchline. I *would* expect Dorothy to know more than Joyce, because she’s definitely not as sheltered as Joyce. For one thing, she’s implied she’s had sex. And I would expect her to know about getting pre-drunk, though not participate in it.
Also, I hope we get to see some more rarely-seen characters here, like Tony or perhaps Beef. And if it’s a real party, I expect Joe to show up.
Dorothy’s pretty clean-cut, though. I would have expected her to spend her time studying or moving in social circles focused on specific goals or accomplishments, to the point that she might never have been to even a high-school level of party. Going to parties where beer is served risks being caught there and labeled as a delinquent, after all.
And who knows, maybe Joe’s having his own private party elsewhere, if you know what I mean.
Oh cheese, people, am I really going to have to be the one to say it?
“With his penis.”
There, you happy now?
has Faz shown up yet?
Even superdrunk, Billie is still covering her drink.
Haha, silly Billy doesn’t even know the proper terminology, that or she’s too drunk to say pregaming.
What is Dorothy wearing under her pink top? A bra with a single strap that attaches in the middle?
Is this some new-fangled form of fashion-undie?
O.o
It’s one of them halter-or-tank-top-loose-t-shirt kinda deals.
and according to the last comic, there’s strap visible in the back, so it’s not a halter.
I would guess that when she pulled her tank top back on, she pulled the neckline down farther than the top of her bra, either on purpose or to be more enticing. Not difficult, considering the size of the bra necessary for her (she’s probably a D cup at least).
They’re talking about Dorothy, the one in pink, not Billie, the drunk girl.
…The hell you talking about? Just go back one strip, you can clearly see the back of the strap is going straight down. She’s just wearing a normal bra with a slochy shoulder shirt. http://thestylechild.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/top.jpg?w=236&h=414
Of course, it appears to be a RED bra, so I guess she is trying to slum it a little, here…
I’m kinda half expecting Joe to show up with Roz, and then wake up with Billie to end Friday and start Saturday.
We’ll have to wait another 8 months to see if you’re right or not.
This is great because my girlfriend is from La Porte, IN and she is a world class drinker. She was however NOT home schooled.
It seems odd that people aren’t talking to someone with Joyce’s homeric sweater puppies. Especially since she’s wearing a sweater.
“Homeric”? Are you saying that people would write poems about them?
Oh, how beautiful
Hidden from sight, yet so clear
Your sweater puppies
Not an epic length poem, I know, but it was the best I could do on short notice. Give me some time and I could probably write a sonnet.
I’d read a sonnet about Joyce’s sweater puppies.
Same here.
As more of a philistine myself, I would rather motorboat them rather than read a sonnet on the subject.
A very practical choice.
I’m sure Walky has done that multiple times in the other universe.
You’re a flippin’ GENIUS! Why read about them when I can TOUCH them? Then again, motorboating is something I have always found to be very awkward to do. It’s just not that much fun, in my opinion.
I could go further into detail as to the alternatives I prefer, but that would lead to a candidate for most awkward comment in the thread. I think I’ll exercise wisdom and not do so.
Oh, I’m sure they will be chatting her up soon, but they’ll get frustrated and leave when she won’t take the sweater off.
Or worse, takes it off and the sweater vest is under it.
Your bra strap is showing. Your argument is invalid.
I thought it was ‘your bra strap is showing – I concede’.
Unless I happen to be wearing a bow tie. Nothing beats a bow tie.
Except fezzes.
Unless you’re Jason.
And to think I started reading this yesterday.
I just hope I still have a longway until I catch up to the latest shortpacked
Why am I monkey master
I never asked for this
It happens. Gravatars, I mean. They’ll switch again in a few months, and who know’s who you’ll be then!
Also, Shortpacked has been going on for well longer then a year. Even longer if you start with It’s Walky! (chronologically the first series int the SP! timeline. I haven’t even really bothered to start my dive yet; I’m gonna need a week or something, I suspect…
Good luck!
Even longer if you start with Roomies!, which is the actual first series in the SP! timeline – and incidentally the most-similar ancestor to Dumbing of Age, as it was a comic about Danny and Joe entering college, and running into Joyce and Sarah, and eventually most/all the rest of the characters you see in DoA! were introduced in one form or another. Of course, Roomies introduced gags involving aliens, which eventually stopped being gags and redirected the comic far, far away from its ‘college comedy’ roots – which is likely why Willis decided to do DoA!: to go back to the comic’s original roots without the baggage it’d accumulated over the years, to allow him to play with the old cast in new ways, without the interference of aliens this time.
Yeah I started with roomes.
Can’t believe I’m almost finished.I just started on Wednesday
Is it just me, or are Joyce’s eyes distinctly fixed to Billie’s cleavage?
It really looks like she’s just staring down that top.
Alcohol
I love you guys
…I live in a La Porte…
…please excuse me while I knock on every door, looking for Joyce’s family
I imagine their house is somewhere on Johnson Road between La Porte and Michigan City.
JOYCE IS FROM La Porte!? I’M FROM La Porte!! OH MY GOD PEOPLE HERE ARE TALKING ABOUT JOHNSON ROAD! MY ENTIRE CHILDHOOD IS FLASHING BEFORE MY EYES! CAPS LOCK!!!!!
Where the heck is La porte IN. ?
Just kidding, I stayed at the fairgrounds back in the summer of ’08. Some of our staff got some shirts from the Local Walmart saying: “Where the heck is La Porte IN.”
I also experienced my first Tornado there, but that’s a story for another day.
Note to everyone out there. Underaged drinking causes your tolerance to spike majorly and makes it way more expensive to get drunk in adulthood. Please, be a cheap drunk wait til twenty-one. *nods seriously*
Ok so the fact is I hated the taste of Alcohol until after I was 21 and was slowly introduced to some good liquor but while I have friends who make fun of me for being a lightweight I look at the packs of beers they buy that last a week and mine that last a month and I’m not too upset at my life choices.
It’s funny, what Billlie said sounds like complete BS to me, but then I found out that my neighbors do that too.
I love going back and re reading. It’s like the world is slowly getting more beautiful with each frame, when it’s been only a few weeks after this on the current page.