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by David M Willis on April 26, 2014 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - I Was a Teenage Churchmouse

└ Tags: dexter, dorothy, hymmel the humming hymnal, joyce

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  1. Geminia999
    Geminia999
    April 26, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Dorothy Smart, she knows when to look away from Joyce’s soul stealing stare and smile

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      April 26, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

      It’s best that Dotty avoid Joyce’s eldridge smile.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      April 26, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

      Joyce steals souls so she can guarentee that they go to heaven.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        April 26, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

        So Joyce is a Good Dementor then?

        • GoldStarz
          GoldStarz
          April 26, 2014 at 12:46 am | #

          Well since Dorothy is an atheist, that’d be the equivalent of stealing your soul and then just dropping it off a cliff.

      • Deathjavu
        Deathjavu
        April 26, 2014 at 6:15 am | #

        Stealing souls to get to heaven, eh?

        http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3330#comic

      • dropping.keys
        dropping.keys
        April 26, 2014 at 11:10 am | #

        Make me a fisher of men, keep me seeking!
        Make me a fisher of men, I pray!
        Make me a fisher of men, keep me seeking!
        Seeking souls until the break of day!

        I did not make that up. I didn’t realize how creepy some of the church-kid songs from my childhood are until I had to teach them. I leave that verse out.

        • rachel
          rachel
          April 26, 2014 at 11:36 am | #

          Tom Waits has a perfectly creepy and wonderful way of singing that on his episode of Fishing With John, a really weird, really good show.

          • Jackson
            Jackson
            April 26, 2014 at 12:30 pm | #

            …Doesn’t Tom Waits has a perfectly creepy and wonderful way of singing everything?

          • Harvey Squidman
            Harvey Squidman
            April 27, 2014 at 8:50 pm | #

            Apparently Waits was incredibly seasick during that episode. And yet he still had the courage to stick two fish down his pants.

      • Cephalo the Pod
        Cephalo the Pod
        April 26, 2014 at 11:00 pm | #

        Sounds like Kriemhild Gretchen.

    • GoldStarz
      GoldStarz
      April 26, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

      “One day I WILL pluck your soul right out of your body with this smile Dorothy. And then I’ll give it to BIBLICAL Jesus!”

    • Hoboturtle
      Hoboturtle
      April 26, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

      Really, I thought she exchanges them annually so that she can continue to do the triangle smile.

    • Lanval
      Lanval
      April 26, 2014 at 1:17 am | #

      That is the smile of a serial killer waiting to happen. Nor ought anyone be that happy that often. I’m with Walky; Dorothy needs to deprogram her before she finally snaps and starts ‘converting’ non-believers into mulch.

      • Jerden
        Jerden
        April 26, 2014 at 9:39 am | #

        That’s fairly unlikely. I can count on one hand the number of people I know that have done that, that’s how improbable it is!

        Not that I’d want to go too near Joyce at the moment.

  2. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    April 26, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Don’t worry, Dorothy, I’m sure nothing bad can come of asking Amber about her father.

    • Bill
      Bill
      April 26, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

      It would be better than asking her father about Amazi-Girl.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        April 26, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

        I doubt he’ll admit to getting beaten on by a girl. He’ll say it was a dozen ninjas and Mr. T.

        • Mr k
          Mr k
          April 26, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

          “It was Broly! You know, the legendary super Saiyan”

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      April 26, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

      She especially enjoys it when she gets asked twice in one day.

    • ninja_jesus
      ninja_jesus
      April 26, 2014 at 2:08 am | #

      This may be the push Amber needs to get help.

  3. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    April 26, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    *plays “The Rhythm Is Gonna Get You” on the Muzak*

  4. The Candyman
    The Candyman
    April 26, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Saved by Amazi-Girl? When was this?

    • No Name
      No Name
      April 26, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      Back when Amber and Billie first met, the topic came up and Amber tried desperately to cover up her knowledge and gut reaction.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      April 26, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      I believe it was something Amber said ages ago IIRC.

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        April 26, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/05-media-rumble/homicide/

        Here’s the specific strip where she said it.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          April 26, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

          Thanks and I thought so. ^_^

    • John
      John
      April 26, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

      Amber claimed to have been rescued by Amazi-Girl back here.

      • No Name
        No Name
        April 26, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

        Ah, it was Dorothy. I knew it was one of those two.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          April 26, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

          Well they do kinda look similar after all.

          • No Name
            No Name
            April 26, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

            If you look higher, I mentioned it was Billie Amber was talking to. Point still applicable, but still.

            • Plasma Mongoose
              Plasma Mongoose
              April 26, 2014 at 12:20 am | #

              Ah gotcha!

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        April 26, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

        Grrr, beat me by 1 lousy minute!

  5. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    April 26, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Ohhhh, aye-dee-di-dee-di-dee-di-dee-di-dee-di-dee-di!
    O’Malley is her last name

    • Kathleen
      Kathleen
      April 26, 2014 at 1:24 am | #

      And Amber is her first
      And all her problems stemmed from that her father was the worst

      • ninja_jesus
        ninja_jesus
        April 26, 2014 at 2:11 am | #

        If Dorothy wants some answers,
        she better be ready to fight

        • Kintrex
          Kintrex
          April 26, 2014 at 1:42 pm | #

          ‘Cause Amber likes to ride on cars
          and say “I AM THE NIGHT”

          • rytsuryn
            rytsuryn
            April 26, 2014 at 1:48 pm | #

            I love all of you

  6. Tomb
    Tomb
    April 26, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Is Joyce’s mouth a mouth or just a large, upside down triangle?

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      April 26, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      It’s a hole in the space time continuum which leads to a realm of madness and ponies.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      April 26, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      YES!

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      April 26, 2014 at 12:20 am | #

      Tomb gets it.

    • Maveric1984
      Maveric1984
      April 26, 2014 at 12:21 am | #

      You mean this is the first time you noticed?

    • ninja_jesus
      ninja_jesus
      April 26, 2014 at 2:14 am | #

      And do you know what the upside-down triangle kinda looks like? Girl panties! Specifically, Dorothy’s.

  7. Galatine
    Galatine
    April 26, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    I’m sure everything is going to be A-OK.

  8. No Name
    No Name
    April 26, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Oh god no.
    Dorothy seeing Amber will cause trouble. I’ll bet she’ll be even cagier than Danny was.
    And then there’s Hymmel. Dorothy will probably end up hurting Joyce’s feelings.
    This can only end horribly.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      April 26, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

      Or Dotty becomes such a hard-core Hymmel fan that even Mary will say “WHOA down girl, it’s just a cartoon”.

      • No Name
        No Name
        April 26, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

        That is even worse than what I imagined. *shudders*

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          April 26, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

          Well hopefully Willis won’t be cruel to the fans that are true.

          • Kiggy
            Kiggy
            April 26, 2014 at 2:12 am | #

            Nice Elvis reference

            • xKiv
              xKiv
              April 26, 2014 at 11:51 am | #

              El Willis.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        April 26, 2014 at 12:23 am | #

        She buys all the Hymmel merchandise and looks like a Hymmel version of Joyce.

  9. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    April 26, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    So which does God want more, for Dorothy to watch gospel programming, or for Amber to have even more difficulties with Dorothy getting close to the truth?

    You can imagine the wheels spinning. “Hmmm, on the one hand, converts are nice. On the other hand, I DO like watching Amber suffer, and the girl in the mouse outfit on that show creeps me the fuck out.”

    • AgentKeen
      AgentKeen
      April 26, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

      Come on, if God’s smart, he doesn’t want Dorothy near Hymmel. Last thing he needs is a fairly intelligent atheist watching his propaganda about brain-washing… I mean, ‘my-plans-for-my-life-erasing.’

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      April 26, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

      And by God you mean Willis right?

    • Mass Confusion
      Mass Confusion
      April 26, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

      There is no god here. Only Willis. So yeah, Amber’s gonna suffer

      • 3oranges
        3oranges
        April 26, 2014 at 12:54 am | #

        That makes it sound like Willis has possessed god, which would have to involve some custom theology.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      April 26, 2014 at 12:25 am | #

      God wants for Sierra to be in more strips.

    • Barf Ninjason
      Barf Ninjason
      April 26, 2014 at 2:10 am | #

      “Maybe God wants you to shut the fucking fuck up for once, huh Joyce? Y’ever think of that one, huh?” -Dorothy from alternate universe where she’s, idk, hella surly with mild provocation

      • No Name
        No Name
        April 26, 2014 at 3:22 am | #

        If that were the case, how would she ever get to be friends with Joyce in the first place? Joyce is a walking, talking peeve bomb for a girl like Dorothy! What with Jesus this and church that.

        • Sam
          Sam
          April 26, 2014 at 4:49 am | #

          In that alternate universe, Joyce would be the one to throw the toy at Dorothy and they’d bond over cartoons and Dorothy would be learning to tolerant JOYCE. It’d be hard.

    • Jerden
      Jerden
      April 26, 2014 at 9:42 am | #

      On the one hand, supporting Christian faith is a godly thing. On the other hand, some things are just Bad. Not sinful, just BAD.

  10. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    April 26, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Joyce, you weren’t humming at ALL

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      April 26, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

      Joyce sounds like a vocaloid knockoff in that vid.

      • Lanval
        Lanval
        April 26, 2014 at 1:13 am | #

        I am pretty sure that this is the sort of thing they play for a hundred years on repeat in hell for the people who run those pray-the-gay-away camps.

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        April 26, 2014 at 1:15 am | #

        If a Vocaloid is a Vocaloid knockoff, well.

        • Marisa Mockery
          Marisa Mockery
          April 26, 2014 at 2:26 am | #

          Which one is it?

          • Jen Aside
            Jen Aside
            April 26, 2014 at 11:05 pm | #

            “[feat. Avanna as Joyce w/ FruityLoops as Grand Piano]”

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      April 26, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

      Not bad. Awful, but not bad. Who did that?

      • Anderhail
        Anderhail
        April 26, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

        I am not sure which part of this is better:
        The comment
        or
        The Gravatar

      • Jay Eff
        Jay Eff
        April 26, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

        Your Mom did it.
        For a nickel.

      • Maveric1984
        Maveric1984
        April 26, 2014 at 12:59 am | #

        Someone on the forums. I think it was Jen Aside. It was on the day of that comic. Too lazy to go back and look.

    • Saintslayer
      Saintslayer
      April 26, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

      Nightmares.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      April 26, 2014 at 12:26 am | #

      WHOAH MAN. THIS IS COOL.

  11. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    April 26, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Rational detective and religious optimist: the two sides of the coin that is Joyce Brown.

  12. Mr k
    Mr k
    April 26, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Joyce, go ahead and admit your love for Dorothy.

    • John
      John
      April 26, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

      Still five days left of Walky’s estimate.

  13. Jay Eff
    Jay Eff
    April 26, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    Dorothy’s gonna have nightmares once she sees the “Church Mice” in Joyce’s old videos

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      April 26, 2014 at 12:31 am | #

      Remember when you have sex before marriage you are the worst kind of person and god will send you IMMEDIATELY to hell.

  14. Jeremy
    Jeremy
    April 26, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

    nooooooo, not her d!ck bag dad agaaaaaaiiin….

  15. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    April 26, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

    Even God knows that Hymel the Humming Hymnal is garbage.

  16. timemonkey
    timemonkey
    April 26, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

    Dorothy can try, but first she’ll have to get past the raptor.

  17. John
    John
    April 26, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

    I can’t help but contrast this with Danny’s investigation methods.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      April 26, 2014 at 12:21 am | #

      What investigation methods?

      • No Name
        No Name
        April 26, 2014 at 12:23 am | #

        I think that was the point.

        • John
          John
          April 26, 2014 at 1:48 am | #

          Yeah. What really gets me is that Joyce, who has no particular reason to care, except that it’s something that Dorothy’s doing, clearly put more thought into this matter in the last three seconds than Danny did in the last three weeks.

          • ninja_jesus
            ninja_jesus
            April 26, 2014 at 2:18 am | #

            I’m sure getting yelled at and potentially assaulted would leave a lasting impression.

    • Saintslayer
      Saintslayer
      April 26, 2014 at 12:23 am | #

      Like giving his DS to a girl who did time for robbing a convenience store?

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        April 26, 2014 at 12:32 am | #

        In Danny’s defense, she was pretty badass. It’s probably easy to confuse her for amazi-girl.

        • Lanval
          Lanval
          April 26, 2014 at 1:11 am | #

          Plus wasn’t most of the board like 90% percent convinced that Amazi-girl was going to turn out to be Sal just to mess with all of us until Willis finally put up that page to shut us up?

          • John
            John
            April 26, 2014 at 1:36 am | #

            I’m pretty sure most of the board was just pretending to think that Amazi-Girl was Sal because they were under the mistaken impression that that joke was still funny.

            • Yotomoe
              Yotomoe
              April 26, 2014 at 2:17 am | #

              That joke will always be funny.

            • Jerden
              Jerden
              April 26, 2014 at 9:44 am | #

              So wait, Sal isn’t Amazi-girl?
              I better reread the archives!

            • Lanval
              Lanval
              April 26, 2014 at 3:54 pm | #

              I suspect Willis is trolling us back with that however by having Danny play along with the audience’s [fake] expectations. I choose to believe that Willis has made Danny both the audience stand-in sometimes just to mess with the people who don’t like him.

  18. Maveric1984
    Maveric1984
    April 26, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

    The puppet episode of Hymmel, on the other hand, is quite terrible.

    • No Name
      No Name
      April 26, 2014 at 12:25 am | #

      Terrible because of the whole series was terrible, or that one specifically was (more) terrible?

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        April 26, 2014 at 12:33 am | #

        Double terrible. Imagine the worst episode of Problem Solverz.

        • No Name
          No Name
          April 26, 2014 at 12:35 am | #

          I take I should be glad I never heard of that show.

          • Opus the Poet
            Opus the Poet
            April 26, 2014 at 12:59 am | #

            Be extremely glad. >shudder<

        • Maveric1984
          Maveric1984
          April 26, 2014 at 12:55 am | #

          Worse than the third review episode in a row in an anime.

          Worse than the sappiest episode of Full House (incidentally, Sagat’s new autobiography is pretty good)

          Worse than the last episode of How I Met Your Mother!

          (Actually, I thought the end for himym was pretty decent)

          • Galatine
            Galatine
            April 26, 2014 at 7:15 pm | #

            Worse than Endless Summer? :O

  19. Pyr05
    Pyr05
    April 26, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

    Meh, no WAY this Blaine O’Malley is visiting Amber O’Malley.

    Also, I can’t help but visualize a vibrating hymnal to help with those extra ‘high’ notes. 😀

    • ninja_jesus
      ninja_jesus
      April 26, 2014 at 2:21 am | #

      And you just reminded me of the bible sex toy. Damn it.

      • Jerden
        Jerden
        April 26, 2014 at 9:36 am | #

        Now that’s a blasphemy that would probably frighten atheists.

  20. Khaner
    Khaner
    April 26, 2014 at 12:20 am | #

    Oh God, that all was just yesterday?

    • Saintslayer
      Saintslayer
      April 26, 2014 at 12:25 am | #

      I feel like I’ll be in my thirties with a stable job and children by the time Willis gets to sophomore year.

      • Maveric1984
        Maveric1984
        April 26, 2014 at 12:49 am | #

        I already am in my 30s and have a stable job. No kids yet tho, so maybe that’s why it’s taking so long…

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        April 26, 2014 at 11:35 am | #

        I’m in my fifties on disability with grandkids. I don’t think I’ll live to see sophomore year.

    • No Name
      No Name
      April 26, 2014 at 12:33 am | #

      No, no, it was *like* yesterday. “Like” became the new “um” because it actually has a meaning in this context: Its like “around” or “sort of”. So, when all these teenagers and who-not are going like this and like that, you can reprimand us on being inexact!
      That said, “Hanging out with my family” was two “days” ago, and it’s Freshman Family *Weekend*. This is “Monday”, so technically, Joyce’s statement is correct.
      I just HATE the “like” thing.

  21. SilverArrowArtemis
    SilverArrowArtemis
    April 26, 2014 at 12:28 am | #

    Oh Dorothy, if only you knew…

  22. desai
    desai
    April 26, 2014 at 12:29 am | #

    Oh dear. Please don’t do this, Dorothy..

    • No Name
      No Name
      April 26, 2014 at 12:37 am | #

      Which one?

  23. shoeboxjeddy
    shoeboxjeddy
    April 26, 2014 at 12:29 am | #

    Oh that’s fun. “Don’t worry, my God will FORCE you to do what I want! And you won’t even know that’s being done to you! … Why are you frowning all the sudden?”

  24. John Madden
    John Madden
    April 26, 2014 at 12:55 am | #

    Ruh roh Raggy.

    • lejwocky
      lejwocky
      April 26, 2014 at 1:55 am | #

      Zoinks

  25. xain
    xain
    April 26, 2014 at 12:58 am | #

    okay Joyce Dorothy gave you a maybe because she care about your friendship but dont tell me your sky genie wants me to do so because if he was a kind and merciful as you claim Hymmel would be dead in a ditch and then set aflame in a bonfire

  26. newllend
    newllend
    April 26, 2014 at 1:01 am | #

    Dorothy, take Joyce with you.

  27. Claire
    Claire
    April 26, 2014 at 1:02 am | #

    Amber run!

  28. Astronomifier
    Astronomifier
    April 26, 2014 at 1:29 am | #

    this amber/amazigirl thing is getting to practically Hannibal levels of DONT YOU REALIZE HOW OBVIOUS THIS CONNECTION IS YOU DUMBASSE

    • Beige
      Beige
      April 26, 2014 at 5:25 am | #

      …dorothy has seen Amber once, and amazigirl once. the latter from a distance. it’d be much, much wierder if she did know they where the same girl

      she does not know Amber, and Joyce does not know Amazigirl. humanity has yet to develop the ability to share information automatically

      so, y’know, chill :p9

      • John
        John
        April 26, 2014 at 2:31 pm | #

        Dorothy’s encountered Amber at least three times: At Galasso’s when Amber discovered Ethan was dating Joyce, in Danny’s room when she was there to interview Joe about the DeSanto tape and Danny brought Amber back, and briefly a long while ago when she suggested exchanging companions. Also in passing at a couple of floor meetings.

        She’s also encountered Amazi-Girl three times: The chase with Walky just recently, earlier when Amazi-Girl cape-whipped her phone out of her hand, and the night no one remembers.

        So, yeah, Dorothy’s getting to the point where she should be putting two and two together here, especially if she interviews Amber and Amber’s as good at not acting suspiciously as Danny is and as inconsistent about keeping her personae separated as she has been lately.

        And Joyce and Dorothy are sharing information here. Telling each other things and giving each other more pieces of the puzzle.

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      April 26, 2014 at 7:17 am | #

      You mean Dorothy’s about to march an army of elephants over the mountains to discover who Amazi-Girl is?

  29. John
    John
    April 26, 2014 at 1:44 am | #

    And, y’know, given how stable Amber’s been of late, I really hope that Dorothy’s, “I’ll talk to Amber and maybe not have to go to the hospital,” doesn’t turn out to be ironic foreshadowing.

    (Is that what that is? I’m not positive. I’m hoping Amber doesn’t physically attack Dorothy is what I’m saying.)

    • Kinoko
      Kinoko
      April 26, 2014 at 5:16 pm | #

      “Save myself a hospital trip” typically tends to mean “avoid severe injury”. So yeah, it sounded like intentional irony to me. :/

  30. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    April 26, 2014 at 2:08 am | #

    Stable?
    The last we saw of Amber, I think, is when she was climbing into Ethan’s window dressed in her street clothes and Amazi-girl mask.

    Dorothy going to see bastard Blaine is a super bad move, as he’s in the hospital maybe he can’t hurt her there anyway. She’s smart, maybe she will recognize the lying scheming asshole for being just that.

    Not sure where this is going, but it ain’t going to be nice.

    (and oh Lord I want to punch Joyce right now. I know, I know. Usually she is just soooo adorable, and pretty much okay. She has grown a lot since the day one of college, but she still has such a long way to go. (size 6…)
    I just can’t stand people ramming their religion down friends throats. To each their own, and let me alone…aggggg. Yeah, it’s personal.)

    • Sam
      Sam
      April 26, 2014 at 4:55 am | #

      I don’t think Joyce is trying to shove her religion down Dorothy’s throat so much as the cartoons she watched in childhood that she loved. XD

      • No Name
        No Name
        April 26, 2014 at 5:01 am | #

        True, but those particular cartoons shove religion down your throat rather blatantly, and I’m sure Joyce knows this at least on a subconscious level.

        • Sam
          Sam
          April 26, 2014 at 3:34 pm | #

          She is likely blind to how much it does force religion on you because she was raised WITH that religion – to her it is likely just a cartoon she loved very much and wants to share with her best friend.

  31. stainedglassdeity
    stainedglassdeity
    April 26, 2014 at 3:00 am | #

    I love the dialog in this one.

    • stainedglassdeity
      stainedglassdeity
      April 26, 2014 at 3:16 am | #

      I reread Dorothy’s fourth speech buble and thought to myself “it’d be pretty fucked up if she actually got in a trip to the hospital because she’s getting all up in this mess”.

  32. LJoL
    LJoL
    April 26, 2014 at 3:09 am | #

    I find one thing absolutely hilarious. 102 comments later and not a single person says anything about Joyce ‘Joycing it up’. I guarantee you if that had been Danny in this strip over half those comments would have been “Way to Danny it up again!” or “GRRR I HATE YOU DANNY!”

    Meh. Whatever continue the Danny hatred and ignoring the exact same situation when any non-Danny character says it.

    In all honesty Joyce is my favorite character even though I am an atheist mysef so whatever y’all want to do is fine.

    • No Name
      No Name
      April 26, 2014 at 3:36 am | #

      To be fair, what Joyce is doing is trying to get her friend to see the light after eighteen years of being brought up to believe Atheism is wrong, not following his girlfriend to college because he couldn’t get the hint or completely not seeing that Amber and Amazi-girl are one and the same. All the “Dannying” comments probably spring from these two instances.
      Besides, Joe never verbed her name.

      • Kelvandil
        Kelvandil
        April 26, 2014 at 6:37 pm | #

        And Danny’s been brought up to believe that his worth comes from being someone’s significant other.

    • Kinoko
      Kinoko
      April 26, 2014 at 5:18 pm | #

      But what about all the Billie-ing though?

  33. Aska
    Aska
    April 26, 2014 at 3:15 am | #

    Joyce is a little scary. 😀 In a ridiculous inteeeense~ way.

  34. Horrible Person
    Horrible Person
    April 26, 2014 at 3:24 am | #

    Dont you put words in your lord and savior’s mouth!

    • Barf Ninjason
      Barf Ninjason
      April 26, 2014 at 10:50 am | #

      Don’t put anything else there either, amirite

      • rachel
        rachel
        April 26, 2014 at 11:40 am | #

        Oh barf ninjason, you always know just what to say

  35. Grievader
    Grievader
    April 26, 2014 at 4:11 am | #

    I love the whole Hymmel the Hymnal thing. Groing up we used the watch e video called Salty the Hymnal, in sunday school. It was a only one of those sunday school cartoon I didn’t like. It…was…creepy.

    • dropping.keys
      dropping.keys
      April 26, 2014 at 11:26 am | #

      I believe you mean Psalty the Singing Psalter. I don’t think I ever saw any cartoons, but I had three of the cassetts. They lived in a little flimsy cardboard Psalty, with two holes on the bottom that one could stick one’s fingers through to make legs, and therefore have a Psalty doll to evangelize to the single Gymnast Barbie that one was allowed.

      From what I remember, the cassettes were straight bible verses put to music, not the creepiness here and on the Psalty site now. I’m not sure if I’m just remembering it wrong or if my parents would only get the bible ones.

      • bexalew
        bexalew
        April 27, 2014 at 12:47 pm | #

        It’s Psalty the Singing Songbook. There would be an incident going on with the children that hung out with Psalty, and then they’d learn a biblical lesson and sing some religious songs. I even went to a Psalty concert in my pre-teen years for a birthday party.

  36. Deathjavu
    Deathjavu
    April 26, 2014 at 6:00 am | #

    So Dorothy’s going to get another door slammed in her face, eh?

    It’s hard to imagine any other outcome of her going to talk to Amber.

  37. nothri
    nothri
    April 26, 2014 at 9:48 am | #

    Well, if nothing else Joyce is encouraging her friend to stick with her journalistic integrity and not half-ass her story by avoiding a trip to the hospital.

  38. NF
    NF
    April 26, 2014 at 10:10 am | #

    “watching Hymmel the Humming Hymnal.”

    An excuse to continue “failing” to solve this mystery if I ever heard one.

  39. Arkadi
    Arkadi
    April 26, 2014 at 10:25 am | #

    Probably, yeah ^^u

  40. Saru
    Saru
    April 26, 2014 at 11:09 am | #

    Is Hymmel a real name? It seems super close to Himmler to me.

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      April 26, 2014 at 11:39 am | #

      THAT’S THE JOKE!

    • Bill
      Bill
      April 26, 2014 at 4:48 pm | #

      “Himmel” — spelled with an ‘i” rather than a ‘y’ — is the German word for “heaven”.  I think that’s the connection/joke rather than to the Nazi who was in charge of the SS and the Gestapo.

  41. rachel
    rachel
    April 26, 2014 at 11:44 am | #

    Oh god, Dorothy, you are so persistent. Hopefully when you learn a bit more you won’t need to learn ALL of the rest and can help Amber, not “the story”.

    • Deathjavu
      Deathjavu
      April 26, 2014 at 1:28 pm | #

      It seems very unlikely she’s going to learn anything from Amber, or Danny, and certainly not anything approximating the truth from Blaine.

      I think something a bit out of left field is going to need to shake this up before Dorothy gets anywhere significant.

      • 3oranges
        3oranges
        April 26, 2014 at 2:00 pm | #

        Dorothy got a pretty good look at Amazi-Girl in day light. She could learn something about her just from Amber’s face, if she’s had enough situational clues yet.

        • Deathjavu
          Deathjavu
          April 26, 2014 at 2:57 pm | #

          Yeah, I was thinking that might happen in some form. If anyone was gonna make the guess based on appearance alone, it’d be Dorothy.

          That could be an interesting way to keep this storyline going without outing Amber entirely.

  42. Marisa Mockery
    Marisa Mockery
    April 26, 2014 at 1:37 pm | #

    Anyone else notice this is the second day in a row Joyce hasn’t worn a sweater-vest? THE WORLD IS TRULY INSANE

    Also, how come every character including background characters wear jeans? When I went to schools–I’ve gone to two schools, a 4 year and a 2 year-there were lots of girls who dressed quite fashionably, and punk guys, hipsters, etc. But it’s all jeans. And especially in my second school, there is A LOT of different dress styles. Sorry, this bugs me, I’m a fashion major at the 2 year and we all look fabulous and I remember envying the girls at the 4 year who could afford beautiful clothes. XD

    • No Name
      No Name
      April 26, 2014 at 4:28 pm | #

      Actually, it isn’t . “Hanging out with my family” was Saturday, “today” is Monday. On “Sunday” she was back to her typical attire. Not a sweater vest per se, but it’s still not two days in a row.

  43. Miles
    Miles
    April 26, 2014 at 1:45 pm | #

    And then it turns out God doesn’t want Dorothy to be forced to watch Hymell and her DVDs get stuck by lightning. After all God is very merciful and probably wouldn’t want to force others to watch something called Hymell the Humming Hymnal….

    Unless somehow its as good as Vegitales because christian or not that show was pretty good. I still like silly songs with Larry

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      April 26, 2014 at 2:16 pm | #

      Judging from the art we’ve seen of Hymmel and Chastity Churchmouse, I somehow doubt it’s as good as VeggieTales.

    • andrew
      andrew
      April 26, 2014 at 3:56 pm | #

      Hymell was based on Psalty, the Singing Songbook

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENGsE-axveQ

  44. Jimmy
    Jimmy
    April 26, 2014 at 2:05 pm | #

    Freshmen Family weekend was yesterday? It feels like months ago. *insert generic joke about comic time vs real time differences here*

  45. ATN
    ATN
    April 26, 2014 at 2:33 pm | #

    God wills it!

    • Tenn
      Tenn
      April 26, 2014 at 4:39 pm | #

      God Willising.

  46. Galatine
    Galatine
    April 26, 2014 at 7:19 pm | #

    Dorothy, no matter what, I want you to know that Amber is mentally damaged and desperately needs help. So you should force her to watch Himmel the Singing Hymnal.

  47. AzureSky
    AzureSky
    April 26, 2014 at 10:44 pm | #

    Ohhhhhhh snap.

  48. BigCheese
    BigCheese
    May 4, 2014 at 11:20 pm | #

    If God wants to see her do it, he should donate to the kickstarter. Or subscribe to slipshine…

  49. Jason
    Jason
    May 11, 2014 at 2:11 am | #

    It just now occurs to me that it’s real odd that these two act like they don’t remember they were both there when Amber flipped out on Ethan at Galasso’s, and Joyce in particular doesn’t mention how Amber flipped out on her in the cafeteria two days ago.

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