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Heart of Gold
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A pianist with failing eyesight seeks out a priest with a miraculous healing touch, drawing him deeper into a world of miracles and curses.
[un]Divine
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Between Failures
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Solstoria
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After her brother goes missing, Samantha vows to become a Knight and help those around her in the Kingdom of St. Helena.
Cyanide & Happiness
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Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
Spinnerette
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When a lab accident gives Heather Brown spider powers and six arms, she does what any midwest comic geek would do: Become Ohio's #3 superhero!
Demon's Mirror
Harry Bogosian
Based loosely off of "The Snow Queen", a story by Hans Christian Andersen, we see things take a different turn as the demons become central characters, and the side characters stick around. Yup, that's the only differences. Enjoy!
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
Far to the North
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Kelu turns to the monsters of her remote mountain home when her family is held hostage by outsiders.
Lunar Blight
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Lunar Blight is a gothic horror story about an elite knight serving a moon cult who must choose between upholding his honoured duty or condemning everything he’s grown to know.
No End
Erli, Kromi
A queer romance about people attempting to build lives in a cold, post-apocalyptic world ravaged by hordes of undead.
Demon Studies
Miyuli
Four students summon and study potentially dangerous demons within the walls of the mysterious Summerland University.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
Goblins
Ellipsis
A fantasy RPG as told through the eyes of the low-level monsters.
Paint the Town Red
Windy, Winter Jay Kiakas
Winona runs a werewolf shelter with partner in crime, Odile in the Gothic city of Merlot. One day they take in an injured vampire, and soon unravels many of the dark secrets of Merlot.
Monster Pulse
Magnolia Porter Siddell
Four kids run afoul of a creepy secret organization's experiments, which turn their body parts into fighting monsters. Part sentimental coming-of-age story, part monster-training shonen manga, with just a bit of sci-fi body horror.
Sam & Fuzzy
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Troubled by gangster rodents, lovesick vampire stalkers, or confused ninja assassins? Don't panic! Sam and Fuzzy are here to help. (For a reasonable fee.)
The Lonely Vincent Bellingham
Diana Huh
Vincent is an unkind man looking to disappear, and finds himself in the care of a vampire and her two wicked children.
Girl Genius
Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio
In a time when the Industrial Revolution has become an all-out war, Mad Science rules the World...with mixed success.
Tove
Severin
The end of the world is coming, and Tove doesn't want to be a hero, but SOMEONE has to look after her little brother.
2 Slices
RJ Morel
After a case of mistaken identity, will awkward Daisuke find help from excitable Mamo, or will his love life be thrown completely off track?
Clockwork
Chikuto
Cog Kleinschmidt is a diligent, quiet worker at the Mercia Fortress, the world power's leading stronghold. His orderly life is thrown into chaos when an enemy kingdom sends a diplomat for peace talks. This diplomat needs something from Cog - whether he agrees to their terms or not!
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
Go Get a Roomie
Clover
Experience the queer journey of an upbeat hippie and the friendships she makes along the way! A tale of self-discovery and love of many forms.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
The Otherknown
Lorian Merriman
Chandra is a 12-year-old accidental time traveler with a reluctant new dad, who happens to be a member of a feared galactic crime syndicate.
Wychwood
Varethane
When Tiara's pyrokinesis is finally noticed, she is captured by a magical research organization for study. If she cooperates, she could be helping to save humanity from a dire threat - but can she trust them?
Anacrine Complex
Sae Cotton
A superhuman heist involving probably too many pigeons than entirely necessary.
Countdown to Countdown
Velinxi
Iris Black is a self-proclaimed inventor with the curious ability to bring his drawings to life, and yearns to find a space where he can use his powers freely.
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
Come Hell or High Water
Jenny/Star, Mori
Prince Gladimir was never meant to fall for a pirate. Swearing off love for duty, the threat of war propels him back into the Captain’s world of high seas and high stakes. Their relationship could be the thing to save the kingdom of Yvoire - or destroy it.
Obelisk
Ashley McCammon
In 1908 New York, a young woman struggles to put her life back together in the wake of her father's death - until she discovers a vampire in the shambles of her inheritance.
Shaderunners
Alex Assan, Lin Darrow
A ragtag band of bootleggers open a speakeasy for bottled colour in the greyscale city of Ironwell.
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.
Killjoys
Flatw00ds
When two disgraced ex-feds fall backwards into trouble with the clown mafia, getting out in one piece is gonna be no joke!
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
Hazy London
Scotty
A story about messy relationships. From friendly foes to crazy families. Nothing is black and white, just full of color. But, all colors can get a little hazy...
How to be a Werewolf
Shawn Lenore
Malaya Walters was bitten by a werewolf as a child. After being raised by her human family, she faces the chance to learn what being a werewolf is really like as an adult.
Empowered
Adam Warren
A sexy superhero comedy (except when it isn't) about the never-ending struggles of a plucky but very unlucky young superheroine.
Sunshine Boy
Moosopp
New-kid Kelly is sweet but naive. Luckily, he's got his outgoing neighbor Grey in his corner.
Drugs & Wires
Mary Safro, Io Black
Dan used to be a VR operator until his brain got fried by malware. Now he's stuck delivering packages in a post-Soviet hellhole all while trying to adjust to his new life and find some answers.
Folklore
Adam Ma, Colin Tan Wei
A superhuman horror story focused on a small band of survivors trying to navigate a war-torn world in the aftermath of the Federation’s collapse.
Fairmeadow
Kendra P. / KP
A wayward soldier finds herself in a pacifist commune deep in the wilderness of a war-weary land. Living in isolation brings her closer to those she was sworn to kill than she could ever imagine - but also threatens to tear the place apart.
MASKLESS
kickingshoes
In a world where people can wield the magic of elemental Masks, all Ashe wants to do is help. Maskless and useless, with dreams of fire and smoke on the back of his tongue, he finds himself on a strange, dangerous path to uncovering the secrets of these incredible objects, and the source of the monsters plaguing his home.
The Witch Door
Anni K.
Katariina Lehto discovers her neighbor is a witch called Jousia Muotka. Jousia introduces Katariina to the strange people and places beyond the witch door...
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
Patrik the Vampire
Bree Paulsen
Patrik loves to knit, bake, and help his friends while dealing with his own demons... like his thirst for blood because, oh yeah--he's a vampire.
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No. “Hugs Bosom” written over the bosom is an actual pun; it clearly describes one thing (a bosom for hugging) while sounding like something else (a fundamental particle predicted by Peter Higgs and others). “Hugs Boson”, with no additional context, doesn’t describe anything in particular. Is it a particle that gives hugs? A particle that causes people to hug each other? An excitation of the Hugs Field, caused by hugs? Is Amber a fundamental particle? It could be worked into a pun, but simply written on a t-shirt like that, it doesn’t really mean anything.
It’s possible that this was already taken into account, and that’s why the shirt is being revealed the way it is. Or it’s a coincidence, utterly failing to demonstrate the light touch of a master who anticipated and solved the problem of his pun’s phonetic awkwardness by introducing it in a way that plays to its typographical strength.
So, the actual story is that I was a couple of years too late to get all the “Clever Anagram” accounts I wanted, but clever enough to think of an alternative. I
“I told my friend I’m in an open relationship and he was like
‘Dude! That means you can have sex with whoever you want!’.
‘I couldn’t do that when I was SINGLE!'”
I feel like Danny could probably tell Joe he was trying out polyamory and Joe would…well, probably be disbelieving, given this is Danny we’re talking about, but also impressed if he could get past that.
I mean he is basically the equivalent of a comic book super scientist in the Walkyverse, so it’s not unreasonable that he would understand what they are talking about.
I don’t think that’s a typo. Think of it like this sentence: “I had had a cold that day so I didn’t go to class.” It’s the kind of awkward construction you would probably edit out of an email or essay or narration, but that would come up in spoken language, and so is far game for dialogue.
I don’t think so, although I’m not infallible. Usually, it would be either “I have possibly” or “I possibly have,” not both. I was thinking that this was just a case of a last-second change combined with a line break.
But maybe I’m wrong. *shrug* Not a huge deal, either way.
Go with, “So, Amber, you still down for that threesome with Amazi-Girl later?” Danny. Joe will be too busy high-fiving you to remember that there’s no joeing way that you’d ever do something like that.
UBB codes were cutting edge when I was 40, and still had kids in HS. Intro to Computers should at least be confined to technology that was current in this century if not this decade… Excuse me while I comb out my neck beard and compile a fresh Linux kernal.
Methinks that Joe is perplexed not at Danny’s awkward covering, but at the idea that having a different lady-friend should preclude him from humping Amber.
Danny you can just tell Joe you’re dating Amber he never believed you were dating a superhero anyway, and he’d probably be proud of you for actually getting some anyway
He didn’t believe he had a chance with “the one girl in CS” either, and here they are.
Joe probably still believes that the superhero girlfriend Danny todl him about is imaginary.
There was a conversation about a newspaper article, so Joe knows the superhero is not imaginary, but still probably not convinced that she is dating Danny.
I know you drew this at least four months ago and it’s been in the buffer since then, but how weird is it that Randal Munroe ran this cartoon on xkcd.com yesterday?
Ohh…looks like Danny is fine. I was thinking he might be weirded out given his “Ethan” thing. Good for both him and for Amber, too. That girl needs something nice in her life.
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Maybe Amber could start dating her OWN superhero! Like Danny the Animal! DANIMAL
no wait
No! We are not turning Danny into a vigilante! Dina next, then Sal, then maybe Sarah. Not Danny!
Also apologies if the coding messes up.
well, coding worked, just not how it was supposed to.
Original line was “Did I hear something about Danimals?”
It kinda worked, the “Did I hear something about Danimals?” is there as hovertext.
That’s the kind of superhero identity that could lure Walky away from Dorothy.
To which Joe replies “Oh, well, ok then”.
I’d probably pick up on it if I cared about your Social life even a little bit.
In panel 4, Joe is actually wondering where he left his keys.
Or why Amber isn’t on his “do” list.
They have made it clear that Amber and Danny are not dating, after all…
More likely he’s thinking ‘is Danny setting up a threesome?’
And should I want to get involved?
That’s Joe for you.
Is he buying it? Is he buying it? I think he’s buying it! He’s not buying it, is he… Cheese it!
Really, if Joe thought Danny was banging two women at the same time, he’d be proud of him.
Joe seems to be an ethical slut. He’d be proud of Danny having two casual FWBs, but I think he’d frown on Danny cheating on a girlfriend.
Joe looks like Shortpacked! Joe.
I think it’s the shave
it looks good on him
You can just tell he’s the kind of guy that needs to shave once every 48 hours. Give him a week and he’ll be at full mountain man beard levels.
48 hours? Try 24.
Still?!!!
Way to fuck the moment up, Joe. Asshole
There is profit to be made in selling Amber’s t-shirt…
Agreed.
I have money that cannot currently buy that shirt, and it is sad. Please rectify.
This is fairly close: http://www.bumblemumble.com/product/hugs-bison-shirt
I want it on MY hugs bosom.
your avatar just drove that point home lol
Is the HUGS BOSON by any chance a new line of merch you’re pushing Willis?
I think it’s HUGS BOSOM. Would make sense for a girl’s shirt.
But HUGS BOSON is funnier, surely…
I concur.
The elusive final particle predicted by our Standard Snuggling Model.
Danny has confirmed it’s existence. Using high-velocity impacts at high temperature and pressure.
No. “Hugs Bosom” written over the bosom is an actual pun; it clearly describes one thing (a bosom for hugging) while sounding like something else (a fundamental particle predicted by Peter Higgs and others). “Hugs Boson”, with no additional context, doesn’t describe anything in particular. Is it a particle that gives hugs? A particle that causes people to hug each other? An excitation of the Hugs Field, caused by hugs? Is Amber a fundamental particle? It could be worked into a pun, but simply written on a t-shirt like that, it doesn’t really mean anything.
I conquer.
Is that a correctly-spelled word used incorrectly, or a massive pun?
especially a rather busty girl like Amber.
I think this needs a subtitle:
Hugs Bosom
The Goddess Particulars
Hard to tell from the drawing, but I think the positioning makes quite clear that the lettering has to be “HUGS BOSOM”.
I believe it’s actually Hugs Bosom. Which is even better.
Blanket response to multiple people: Yes, it is Hugs Bosom.
At least I’m able to use my legal blindness as an excuse for assuming it’s HUGS BOSON.
Aw, I liked “hugs Boson” more.
Even I am certain I would prefer it to be the Hugs Boson. No, the Huggs Boson. Two g’s is clearly essential.
If Willis won’t make this t-shirt a thing, I will. From beyond the grave if need be.
The direction is set, then. We know where we are on this. Huggs Boson it shall be.
Alas, that means how long it will take has to remain an uncertainty.
Yeah… Sorry about that.
All that means is I’ll be getting a HUGS BOSON T-Shirt custom printed.
It would have been better this way …..
http://minimumble.thebookofbiff.com/comics/2012-03-07-0058.png
It’s great as “HUGS BOSON.” “HUGS BOSOM” is phonically weirder as a pun.
Every time! I can’t get a read on you, Willis.
I agree. Hugs Boson is more clear as a pun
It’s possible that this was already taken into account, and that’s why the shirt is being revealed the way it is. Or it’s a coincidence, utterly failing to demonstrate the light touch of a master who anticipated and solved the problem of his pun’s phonetic awkwardness by introducing it in a way that plays to its typographical strength.
I like your name, Bustle… Or is it Bluest?
So, the actual story is that I was a couple of years too late to get all the “Clever Anagram” accounts I wanted, but clever enough to think of an alternative. I
…wasn’t clever enough to avoid hitting Tab+Space Bar just then, though.
Danny…Cheating on your girlfriend? UP TOP.
There is always the “open relationship” excuse?
“I told my friend I’m in an open relationship and he was like
‘Dude! That means you can have sex with whoever you want!’.
‘I couldn’t do that when I was SINGLE!'”
Like Joe would believe that Danny is enough of a hit with the ladies to pull something like that off.
I feel like Danny could probably tell Joe he was trying out polyamory and Joe would…well, probably be disbelieving, given this is Danny we’re talking about, but also impressed if he could get past that.
Polyamory is the solution for SO MANY THINGS.
Joe is just thinking , ” I since dirty talk but I don’t know why.”
I also Sense it.
“My Joe Sense is tingling!”
Preeetty sure Joe only knows enough geeky computer talk to turn “formatting your hard drive” inta an innuendo.
He would need someone like howerd to translate everything else they just said.
He can hear the tone, flirting is all in the tone.
I mean he is basically the equivalent of a comic book super scientist in the Walkyverse, so it’s not unreasonable that he would understand what they are talking about.
You are SO GOOD at this secret identity stuff, guys.
Even though you’ve been found out by like 4 other people I still say you have this secret identity stuff perfectly masterd.
(N+1)th time’s the charm.
X-th time’s the charm.
3x-50=41
Not to be that guy, but I guess it’s better to have a typo pointed out and fixed.
Panel 2: “Besides, what could I have possibly have missed…”
Maybe Amber just likes to throw in extra words.
The hugs boson is causing a causing a temporal paradox.
I read that that wrong the first time.
It’s spilling in the the comments!
Does Willis not appreciate that kind of thing? If not, I’m that guy, too, over in yesterday’s “It’s Walky” . . . Oops. No offense meant, Willis!
I don’t think that’s a typo. Think of it like this sentence: “I had had a cold that day so I didn’t go to class.” It’s the kind of awkward construction you would probably edit out of an email or essay or narration, but that would come up in spoken language, and so is far game for dialogue.
fair* game, haha, the irony
Perfectly normal past perfect tense?
I don’t think so, although I’m not infallible. Usually, it would be either “I have possibly” or “I possibly have,” not both. I was thinking that this was just a case of a last-second change combined with a line break.
But maybe I’m wrong. *shrug* Not a huge deal, either way.
Go with, “So, Amber, you still down for that threesome with Amazi-Girl later?” Danny. Joe will be too busy high-fiving you to remember that there’s no joeing way that you’d ever do something like that.
Nice to see Amber in a happy mood for once.
Time for another character(s) to get shat on.
as if Joe really cares.
I would, in fact, pay money for a Hugs Boson shirt. Not enough money to build an LHC-class accelerator… but some money.
Look at their faces on panel 3.
Now I want them both to turn to villainy.
Aren’t they the best!?
Just look at those delightful little mugs.
It should be on a shirt.
Also, great touch on the hugs bosom or hugs boson shirt.
I’m really liking witty, confident Amber.
That’s why!
They all just leave their doors unlocked.
Love is an open…
(y)
Sandwich!
That’s what I was going to say!
DOOOOOOOOOOOOR~!
Butt!
Love is a battlefield.
Love is a cannibal.
Love stinks.
Yeah, yeah.
Love stinks.
Yep.
<3
Particularly if she is a bowling ball.
UBB codes were cutting edge when I was 40, and still had kids in HS. Intro to Computers should at least be confined to technology that was current in this century if not this decade… Excuse me while I comb out my neck beard and compile a fresh Linux kernal.
Yeah now everyone has rich JS editors and/or support a few html tags. Or Markdown
Some day I’ll understand this.
Cmon Joe use your critical thinking skills. This one isn’t hard to puzzle out.
*plays “I’m Not The Same Girl” on the Muzak*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1XLETvMMg0
“Well, you’re why.”
…Huh?
You’re why the door was open …
This is some champion Danning.
Wait, is Danny claiming that Amber is not his girlfriend or assuring Joe that HE is not his girlfriend?
Danny’s girlfriend is ‘Amazigirl.’
Methinks that Joe is perplexed not at Danny’s awkward covering, but at the idea that having a different lady-friend should preclude him from humping Amber.
Danny you can just tell Joe you’re dating Amber he never believed you were dating a superhero anyway, and he’d probably be proud of you for actually getting some anyway
He didn’t believe he had a chance with “the one girl in CS” either, and here they are.
Joe probably still believes that the superhero girlfriend Danny todl him about is imaginary.
There was a conversation about a newspaper article, so Joe knows the superhero is not imaginary, but still probably not convinced that she is dating Danny.
Yes! Happy characters! Who are smiling and joking around! Insta-better mood.
If you find that you are in need of insta-better mooding, just…y’know. BABY PENGUINS!
Ask and ye shall receive : http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_asoBLjh5Bk0/TKnvlcesCZI/AAAAAAAAAuY/lxePxItuz9g/s400/1267625626_cute-baby-penguins-2.jpg
This is so weird on so many levels, but okay as nobody is screaming.
Ugh this is so adorable!
What a lie, obviously they were (learning how (to) (type (like this)))
(not (enough ()))
“……….Threesome??”
… Is…is learning UBB code in CompSci classes really a thing, these days?
And Joe’s like “you know, I wasn’t suspicious about anything until that last thing you said.”
I’ve been waiting to get back to this side of the plot yay!
Hey Joe, welcome back to the funny papers (of the Net). Experimenting with stubble, is he?
If they were being anymore suggestive, their eyebrows would form a union and go on strike.
Nice save, you two.
Blu-ray? Is that some kind of fancy new modem?
Does Amber’s shirt say “Hugs Bosom”?
Up thread ^
BBCodes are easy.
HTML code is also easy.
Not using one on a site that only accepts the other,
[i]that’s[/i]that’s hard.20 years of computer science, and I don’t even know what UBB codes are. D:
http://www.freebok.net/help/ubbcode.html
I did google it, don’t worry.
Didn’t know they taught those in school.^^
if this comic was animated i imagine they would be waggling their eyebrows at each other the whole time
I’ve noticed Dumbing of Age doesn’t seem to be syncing with Comic Chameleon these last couple of days, does anyone know why?
Oh my god, nerd dirty talk. Forget Joyce, forget Walky, forget Billie and Ruth, THIS is the most adorable thing ever.
I am in total agreement.
thirded
I think they just broke Joe.
And I love that t-shirt.
I know you drew this at least four months ago and it’s been in the buffer since then, but how weird is it that Randal Munroe ran this cartoon on xkcd.com yesterday?
Only Dan could Dan his way into cheating on his girlfriend with his girlfriend’s alter-ego. Way to go Dan.
I like the new Slipshine banner. Somehow showing more skin manages to make it more SFW.
I love when they talk about their intro class, particularly now that they can flat-out flirt about it. I need more nerdy flirting in my comics.
Ohh…looks like Danny is fine. I was thinking he might be weirded out given his “Ethan” thing. Good for both him and for Amber, too. That girl needs something nice in her life.
Oh hey, the Slipshine ad changed to a less explicit one. Is that because of that one dude that complained?
Less explicit? Danny is naked in the pic!
Laugh it up, Danny is still smarter than most of the cast of Smallville.