Akane has only one way to get back home: collect the 42 keys to parallel worlds. Eri and Ben are just trying to get through the summer before university. When a magical key turns up in an old spare set, all three are forced to change their plans and fast.
Guilded Age
T Campbell, John Waltrip, Florence Machina
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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.
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Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Hemlock
Josceline Fenton
A witch accidentally marries a monster, and now she and her familiar has to navigate life around her monstrous husband and her even more terrifying in-laws.
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mmm I have a bunch of black shirts like that… the kind of shirt a man finds only once in his lifetime…. and the kind of shirt he will spend the rest of his life looking for again.
Okay, Ruth’s alive, and has semi-decent aim. Yay!
Ya know, this reminds me of that one QC strip, way back when. Totally different context, but I can’t help remembering it.
Also, she has issues in her past that she isn’t forthcoming of that also may be influencing the not banging decision (and, possibly, they are daddy issues).
You should put an obnoxious flashing arrow pointing to it right next to it, or below it. Maybe a little dancing Amber, too. Just to show how smug you are about not stealing from your commenters.
The funny thing is one of my friends once had this happen to him once.
I was sleeping over at his and was completely wasted. He offered me his trash can. Instead I vomited all over his mattress. Not one of my prouder moments….
During my first experience with hard liquor (at an age far, far too young to be drinking any alcohol, especially hard liquor), I went to the bathroom and sat on the toilet, needing to pee and thinking to myself “there’s no WAY I’d get it in the bowl right now.” A moment later, I felt very queasy. I’ll remind you, I was at this time sitting on the toilet.
What did I do, you ask? Leaned forward and puked all over the bathroom floor, of course. People drunk enough to puke don’t make consistently logical choices.
I’m just amused that we can see she has green eyes in the semi-dim light of her room, but in bright sunlight we couldn’t see any such coloring. I guess her glasses somehow alters color?
Nah. Pintsize is too sex-obsessed to be a Walky analogue. I think really, Pintsize is Joe. That being said, a Joebot would be a HORRIBLE idea. Funny, but horrible.
Joe would be Sven, as both of them are constantly having sex. At least Sven was before Faye broke him. Potential Joe/Ruth relationships internets you have a new job.
As for who would be Angus, I don’t think we have seen enough of Ruth with other people to make a comparison.
If we are looking for Pintsize we have to look no further than Mike. True we haven’t seen him obsessed with sex, but clearly full of mayhem for his own purposes.
So does this mean Amazigirl (or Amaziboobs) is this universe’s version of the Vespavenger? She made Marten feel, to quote him, “Pain level…Shatnerian…in…intensity”.
I don’t think Amazigirl is above using a groin attack against criminals.
Or a neutering knockout.
Or a hadoken to the ha-has.
Or a kick to the caramel cajones.
Amazigirl, is Pizza Girl instead of delivering pizza’s he delivers Justice and carries multiple electronics.
Amber on the other is so clearly Marigold, especially see how Mike and Ethan had to drag her away from her computer to ensure she ate dinner.
Then there was my brother and his good buddy who were at a third friends room, and during the course of the evening festivities, mixed beer with wine. None of them were educated at that time re: don’t mix booze types.
One of them didn’t quite make it into the bathroom, and vomited all over the third guys basket of fresh laundry, it was right in his path.
Back in the day, when said fresh laundry was 100% cotton and needed to be ironed, yes it had been ironed and neatly folded.
Sooo, while mourning one shirt, think of his entire wardrobe…..
Hey, Billie, if you’re offering her a bucket to throw up in, and you think she might take her up on that offer, why would you randomly lift the bucket away from her face? Seems like kind of a bad idea.
omg “and you won’t get to call me fat any more” is the kind of thing you say during something awful that you are trying to joke about, like saying “heh.. well, at least we won’t apologize to the neighbors any more about all barking” after your dog dies
In an alternate universe, stomach acid stays super dangerous AFTER throwing up. If you ever get puke on your lap, remember that it COULD BE BURNING THROUGH YOUR LAP.
Babies are also considered a dangerous combination of chemical warfare and midrange projectile launchers.
Well, obviously. It’s a rule of fiction that if a person is drunk, they’ll puke, and if the work is at all a comedy, they’ll puke on some other person. It’s practically a law.
Oh, way to screw everything up, Ruth. Now your hatecrushes’ clothes are covered in vomit, maybe yours too. Now the only possible way to exercise option 1 and hide together under the bed would be to strip down to your skivvies or less and…..
At my University, (more years ago than I’d care to admit) the R/A’s were just upperclass students (sophomores or higher) while the person in charge of the dorm, including overseeing the R/A’s, was a grad student or otherwise reponsible adult.
I have never seen a comment section — any comment section — that allowed itself to be swayed by truth, Word of God, actual IRL events, or anything. Like a particularly noxious polluted lake or river, it does what it does, and all you can do is your best to stay out of the way.
Okay, how did she miss the bucket? assuming she only lifted it after Ruth threw up, it was like, just beneath her mouth. Did she had a spasm and accidentally pushed it away?
Unless she was recently drinking, which seems unlikely from her initial unconscious state, having her throw up and then hiding is actually one of the worst things you could do for her, as by then most of the alcohol would be in her system and vomiting would only further dehydrate her and potentially make her more sick.
I read never any of QC until well after I started reading Shortpacked!, and even then it was only because it got linked to a few times. I never really got into it, too many weird non-human characters for me. I got into Shortpacked! Because somebody linked me to it a super long time ago. I think it was for the Batman breathes in space comic or something like that.
Ever since, I’ve made a point to not read It’s Walky or Roomies for fear of being no longer being that ever trusty Shortpacked fan who hasn’t read the original comics and needs things to be explained. Dumbing of Age is its own universe though so I’ve read this from the start.
Vomit-soaked and hiding from people who are clearly going to check the missing RA’s room which has a smashed open door and smells of alcohol and vomit. Real snuggly, alright.
I know this will start a firestorm if ire ( as opposed to Firestorm The Nuclear Man ) but I have a theory about Amazi Girl’s identity no one has mentioned:
What? That’s obviously ridiculous. How could Amazi-Girl be Amber? I mean, Danny has a crush on Amazi-Girl, but he’s just friends with Amber. I think if they were the same person he would have noticed. Duh!
No more tears! She must have willed them back into her eyes as soon as she regained some consciousness. I feel relieved: Given the unpleasant choice, I’m much rather deal with Ruth’s booze-vomit than with those subtly scary tears.
Seems like they are screwed. The door is obviously broken and there is alcohol all over. Even if for some reason they manage to not be found under the bed, Ruth is likely busted. That whole area will probably be checked even more thoroughly than usual just because it was the area where the alarm was set off.
I am glad Ruth is alive though, and maybe this will help her not self destruct again knowing that Billie gives a damn about her.
Even when on the verge of alcohol poisoining related death, she still goes for Billies lap. Awww :’D
But no really Ruth should be going to a hospital anyways
When I worked at computer repair, a DJ brought in his laptop that somebody else threw up on (he worked mostly in bars). Had to replace it, but we were able to copy the data to his new computer.
A classmate threw up in my lap when I was in grade school.
I mean, actually in school.
During class.
Turns out being a vegetarian has tangible benefits in terms of avoiding food poisoning. Unfortunately, not in terms of avoiding the results of other people’s food poisoning.
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I am thankful that I’ve never had to be in the position of being thrown up on, except by myself.
It’s not a good experience…
I lost a good shirt that day :'(
Was it a good shirt?
Allow me to elaborate, as that comment could be taken as repetition. I ask again: Was it a REALLY good shirt?
Was the good shirt good?
As far as good shirts go, it was the goodest.
Yes it was…
Beautiful white color, comfy, with enough space for my manly upper torso and 100% cotton.
Nowadays it’s pretty hard to find one of these near home, all I see are shirts with ugly colors and pictures.
That does sound like a good shirt.
RIP:
Good Shirt
The good shirt got ripped.
It has been ungooded.
mmm I have a bunch of black shirts like that… the kind of shirt a man finds only once in his lifetime…. and the kind of shirt he will spend the rest of his life looking for again.
Ditto, though it’s been a near thing sometimes.
Oh… who hasn’t thrown up into the foul smelling crotch of Cambodian whore at least a few times, ya know? Am I right or what?
Did someone say Goodshirt?
I’ve only ever been thrown up on by cats. It’s gross but I’m sure human puke is evn worse. Especially booze puke.
Jealous. Though perhaps worse than vomit on you is when someone who’s been throwing up for hours tries to kiss you….
Okay, Ruth’s alive, and has semi-decent aim. Yay!
Ya know, this reminds me of that one QC strip, way back when. Totally different context, but I can’t help remembering it.
I totally thought the same thing. Different context though, how so? (tsk tsk tsk)
Needs more headbutting.
A drunken alcoholic barfing into the lap of someone she wants to bang but hasn’t. What’s the difference?
Also, she has issues in her past that she isn’t forthcoming of that also may be influencing the not banging decision (and, possibly, they are daddy issues).
As I said before, it’s missing a headbutt.
The day’s not over.
http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=185 for reference.
i remember this vividly.
So does Marten. Faye, not so much.
It seems that Ruth is a big fan of the third option.
For Ruth, Billie’s lap is always a “first” option.
ho ho! Iseewhatyoudidthere
I feel like Billie’s lap is *never* one of the options.
Ruth just chose to invoke the ‘Take The Third Option’ trope.
Maybe she is too out of it to insult Billie so this is her way of calling Billie a trash can.
She was actually aiming for the trash can but all of Billie’s fat just got in the way.
Billie why should a fire fighter get all the fun of carrying her out in a dramatic fashion you should do it yourself
on the other hand suggling under her bed is also a very compelling option
Depending on your upper body strength, you can do both.
Holy crap, this needs to happen! xD
Laps are popular vomit targets in a number of webcomics.
Obviously in the webcomic universe, people are taught to throw up in laps as a second option if one is not near a toilet.
As opposed to Garth Ennis’ Hitman series, where it was Batman’s shoes.
Then don’t put it in front of her!
It’s like putting candy in plain sight in front of children.
Or beer in front of a Billie.
Or a bible in front of a Joyce.
Or a English TA in front of a Sal.
Or your mom holding a nickel in front of Mike.
Okay, I always thought it was MIKE who gave YOUR MOM a nickel for sex.
Because your mom is a prostitute.
Billie’s plan seems to be forgetting the fact that she kicked down the door…
This comment is not supposed to be here.
It is, I phrased it that way because it flows better.
Ruth’s fine, I feel better.
For a very limited definition of fine.
She’s not dead, that’s all I care about.
Ehh…as long as she’s still warm it counts.
at least wasn’t your FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE.
Yeah, she could have had projectile vomit into her mouth.
Not that I have experience with such things.
Ew.
Dorothy does…
Eww.
Sorry Billie, a nearby lap is ALWAYS one of the options.
Weird. For me, it’s 9pm, but this comic is already up. I wonder what time it went up where Wilis is?
Also, I see Willis has been watching the Comments for his dialogue again.
*facepalm*
You will never escape.
Y’know, I knew it was a futile gesture, putting that “BUFFER WATCH” thing over on the left, but really, I wish it weren’t proved so often.
Every group has its conspiracy theorists, even webcomic commenters, I guess.
(To be fair, even after knowing it existed, I sometimes have a hard time seeing it because of placement).
“This story is not an end yet. Because only you are in the infinity loop.”
Seems fitting. Just replace story with ignorance.
You should put an obnoxious flashing arrow pointing to it right next to it, or below it. Maybe a little dancing Amber, too. Just to show how smug you are about not stealing from your commenters.
Just make sure it’s a slow flash because photosensitive epilepsy is a thing and seizures are suck.
(Not me, but a couple of good friends.)
Really? How did they survive the 90s? </blink>
I said the exact same thing in another forum. You must have just copied my post.
If it makes you feel better, I was actually joking. Probably should have put a little face there. Sorry about that.
That would have been helpful to know.
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Don’t be silly he obviously stole this from QC.
The funny thing is one of my friends once had this happen to him once.
I was sleeping over at his and was completely wasted. He offered me his trash can. Instead I vomited all over his mattress. Not one of my prouder moments….
During my first experience with hard liquor (at an age far, far too young to be drinking any alcohol, especially hard liquor), I went to the bathroom and sat on the toilet, needing to pee and thinking to myself “there’s no WAY I’d get it in the bowl right now.” A moment later, I felt very queasy. I’ll remind you, I was at this time sitting on the toilet.
What did I do, you ask? Leaned forward and puked all over the bathroom floor, of course. People drunk enough to puke don’t make consistently logical choices.
Of course, this just gives Billie a reason to take off her pants.
Well, played Ruth. Well played.
Billie’s wearing short shorts. Billie would probably have to take off her skin.
Or bring Ruth to the shower room, EVEN BETTER!
She took the third option and lost her fourthmeal.
Wait a minute. Have Ruth’s eyes always been green?
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Nope. I guess green eyes just means poised for puking.
Her eyes are green?
yeah, compare the color to here eyebrows
her*
She’s a redhead – of course her eyes are green.
I’m just amused that we can see she has green eyes in the semi-dim light of her room, but in bright sunlight we couldn’t see any such coloring. I guess her glasses somehow alters color?
Is this David Willis’s homage to Questionable Content?
If Billie is Marty, does that make Ruth Faye?
…I….I can see that.
You can? Billie has WAY too much confidence to make a convincing Marten, IMO.
Makes me wonder who’ll end up being Angus…
Clearly it’s whoever she has an antagonistic relationship with. So that narrows it down to, what, 10% of the campus? At a minimum?
Either that, or Sal.
Angus? My guess would be Joe, also Dina would make a good Hannelore.
Then who would make a good Pintsize?
Joe is definitely Pintsize.
Faz.
Pintsize? Walky maybe??
Nah. Pintsize is too sex-obsessed to be a Walky analogue. I think really, Pintsize is Joe. That being said, a Joebot would be a HORRIBLE idea. Funny, but horrible.
Joe would be Sven, as both of them are constantly having sex. At least Sven was before Faye broke him. Potential Joe/Ruth relationships internets you have a new job.
As for who would be Angus, I don’t think we have seen enough of Ruth with other people to make a comparison.
If we are looking for Pintsize we have to look no further than Mike. True we haven’t seen him obsessed with sex, but clearly full of mayhem for his own purposes.
So does this mean Amazigirl (or Amaziboobs) is this universe’s version of the Vespavenger? She made Marten feel, to quote him, “Pain level…Shatnerian…in…intensity”.
I don’t think Amazigirl is above using a groin attack against criminals.
Or a neutering knockout.
Or a hadoken to the ha-has.
Or a kick to the caramel cajones.
Amazigirl, is Pizza Girl instead of delivering pizza’s he delivers Justice and carries multiple electronics.
Amber on the other is so clearly Marigold, especially see how Mike and Ethan had to drag her away from her computer to ensure she ate dinner.
Techicolour yawns: Allowing you to ‘taste the rainbow’ a second time.
In a way, Billy’s lap was always Ruth’s aim
Shouldn’t have moved the can on her then, Billie, duh.
Then there was my brother and his good buddy who were at a third friends room, and during the course of the evening festivities, mixed beer with wine. None of them were educated at that time re: don’t mix booze types.
One of them didn’t quite make it into the bathroom, and vomited all over the third guys basket of fresh laundry, it was right in his path.
Back in the day, when said fresh laundry was 100% cotton and needed to be ironed, yes it had been ironed and neatly folded.
Sooo, while mourning one shirt, think of his entire wardrobe…..
“mixed beer with wine” I truly hope you don’t mean they actually mixed them into a single drink.
I believe the intended meaning is “consumed beer and wine during the same binge.”
Ruth appears to be channeling Faye Whitaker.
Hey, Billie, if you’re offering her a bucket to throw up in, and you think she might take her up on that offer, why would you randomly lift the bucket away from her face? Seems like kind of a bad idea.
Man, maybe I’ve been rereading QC too much, but Ruth acts a lot like Faye here…
You know, as much as I can’t support Ruth as she’s a Leafs fan, I do really want her and Billy to be happy together… so I have a ship sue me.
Silly Billie, the lap is always an option! Sometimes even the first!
It was always your lap, Billie ^^
all the the girls in the world who drank too much and throw up must be a part of Faye’s hive mind 9_9
I didn’t even know Faye’s endearing famous trait is being a drunk.
She’s violent, too! Obviously the same person as Ruth.
All drunk or violent characters were ripped off from Faye. This fact extends back through time at least to Elizabethan times, if not earlier.
And what about the square glasses? Answer me that, Mr. Green Lantern!
omg “and you won’t get to call me fat any more” is the kind of thing you say during something awful that you are trying to joke about, like saying “heh.. well, at least we won’t apologize to the neighbors any more about all barking” after your dog dies
In an alternate universe, stomach acid stays super dangerous AFTER throwing up. If you ever get puke on your lap, remember that it COULD BE BURNING THROUGH YOUR LAP.
Babies are also considered a dangerous combination of chemical warfare and midrange projectile launchers.
Can someone help me come up with a catchy way of phrasing that last part for future description of babies?
Vomiting warbabies?
>>> midrange projectile launchers
Those would be called Vagino-Uterine Portable Launch Batteries.
They just take way too long to reload the batteries – unless your intent is to be FAR out of range when it’s time to launch!!
Someone called this out 2 strips ago.
Well, obviously. It’s a rule of fiction that if a person is drunk, they’ll puke, and if the work is at all a comedy, they’ll puke on some other person. It’s practically a law.
My experience as Designated Making Sure No One Comes Home With A Tentacle Guy tells me it’s just truth in fiction.
That’s a bad designation.
I’d rather be designated as the guy who grows tentacles.
I’m holding out for the laser vision.
Oh, way to screw everything up, Ruth. Now your hatecrushes’ clothes are covered in vomit, maybe yours too. Now the only possible way to exercise option 1 and hide together under the bed would be to strip down to your skivvies or less and…..
and…..
Well played, Ruth. Well played.
God, I cannot imagine how much that alarm is hurting poor Ruth’s head right now.
The juxtaposition of this with the Rule 34 incentive starring these same two girls in the alternate universe is kind of surreal.
Tangentially, how old is DoA Ruth? (Is her drinking violating the law, or just college rules, I’m mostly wondering.)
I imagine it’s breaking crazy American drinking laws?
Dumbiverse Ruth is 20.
How could she be 20, when R/As are typically grad students? Are you suggesting she’s a prodigy?
At my University, (more years ago than I’d care to admit) the R/A’s were just upperclass students (sophomores or higher) while the person in charge of the dorm, including overseeing the R/A’s, was a grad student or otherwise reponsible adult.
RAs are not typically grad students.
I started today wondering how Billie actually got into the room, not realising that Sunday updates have started.
Free comic!
So I have to wonder, reading all the comics that keep popping up…
You guys do remember that Willis said nobody was going to die in this comic, right?
I have never seen a comment section — any comment section — that allowed itself to be swayed by truth, Word of God, actual IRL events, or anything. Like a particularly noxious polluted lake or river, it does what it does, and all you can do is your best to stay out of the way.
Well, I think he said Ruth and Dina were not planned to die, presumably to offset concerns that deaths from the other universe would affect this one.
People may still die, like Tony, just not because of something in the other universe.
Okay, how did she miss the bucket? assuming she only lifted it after Ruth threw up, it was like, just beneath her mouth. Did she had a spasm and accidentally pushed it away?
…You ever been alcohol poisoning drunk? Or been around someone who is? Her head could be in the trash can and she still might miss it.
BROOP
Unless she was recently drinking, which seems unlikely from her initial unconscious state, having her throw up and then hiding is actually one of the worst things you could do for her, as by then most of the alcohol would be in her system and vomiting would only further dehydrate her and potentially make her more sick.
Things I’ve learned today: all DoA readers also read/used to read QC. Pretty educational for before 5.
If it weren’t for Questionable Content I may not have learned of Willis, or Butts Disease.
Momo is the reason I’m nice to machines.
Pintsize is the reason I keep close tabs on my toaster.
I read never any of QC until well after I started reading Shortpacked!, and even then it was only because it got linked to a few times. I never really got into it, too many weird non-human characters for me. I got into Shortpacked! Because somebody linked me to it a super long time ago. I think it was for the Batman breathes in space comic or something like that.
Ever since, I’ve made a point to not read It’s Walky or Roomies for fear of being no longer being that ever trusty Shortpacked fan who hasn’t read the original comics and needs things to be explained. Dumbing of Age is its own universe though so I’ve read this from the start.
Used to be that Roomies/It’s Walky! readers also read/used to read Avalon.
Those were the days. Ah, those were the days.
She deserves to get fired.
Oh, absolutely. Pretty much every single thing we’ve seen her do has been a warrant for her to get fired.
NO! I JUST CAUGHT UP WITH THE WHOLE SERIES SINCE LEARNING OF ITS EXISTENCE 5 HOURS AGO YOU CAN’T STOP NOW! I NEED THIS~
Oh well, time to read everything else David Willis has done in the mean time. To Roomies!
sir you have learned why many fans find them saying DAMN YOU WILLIS!!
so … yeah … welcome to the club
Ruth is altering the deal. Pray she does not alter it further.
It will be altered under the bed. All snuggly and tight! If you know what I mean!
Vomit-soaked and hiding from people who are clearly going to check the missing RA’s room which has a smashed open door and smells of alcohol and vomit. Real snuggly, alright.
I know this will start a firestorm if ire ( as opposed to Firestorm The Nuclear Man ) but I have a theory about Amazi Girl’s identity no one has mentioned:
Amazi-Girl….is Amber!
What? That’s obviously ridiculous. How could Amazi-Girl be Amber? I mean, Danny has a crush on Amazi-Girl, but he’s just friends with Amber. I think if they were the same person he would have noticed. Duh!
No more tears! She must have willed them back into her eyes as soon as she regained some consciousness. I feel relieved: Given the unpleasant choice, I’m much rather deal with Ruth’s booze-vomit than with those subtly scary tears.
Seems like they are screwed. The door is obviously broken and there is alcohol all over. Even if for some reason they manage to not be found under the bed, Ruth is likely busted. That whole area will probably be checked even more thoroughly than usual just because it was the area where the alarm was set off.
I am glad Ruth is alive though, and maybe this will help her not self destruct again knowing that Billie gives a damn about her.
ANY chance she can to sexually harass Billy!
If you consider puking on someone to be sexual harassment, I think you’re doin’ it wrong.
Yeah, seriously…wtf?
I know this isn’t the best time, but she looks hotter without glasses.
You need to hand in your Geek Card for that comment.
HURRK!
(I’m glad Ruth’s still alive)
Even when on the verge of alcohol poisoining related death, she still goes for Billies lap. Awww :’D
But no really Ruth should be going to a hospital anyways
When I worked at computer repair, a DJ brought in his laptop that somebody else threw up on (he worked mostly in bars). Had to replace it, but we were able to copy the data to his new computer.
Awwww! Billy cares! Les Yay!
“Screw you, I choose door number three”
In all seriousness, the hospital is probably the right choice in this situation. I think we’re past the point of trying to hide the booze.
Two girls one bucket.
A classmate threw up in my lap when I was in grade school.
I mean, actually in school.
During class.
Turns out being a vegetarian has tangible benefits in terms of avoiding food poisoning. Unfortunately, not in terms of avoiding the results of other people’s food poisoning.
is that billie’s arm holding up the bin in the last panel? why is her arm so skinny?