I’m gonna be in Bloomington, Indiana, on Friday! Come see me at Vintage Phoenix Comic Books from 5-7pm. I’ll have all three Dumbing of Age books, a print or two, and maybe some Shortpacked! books if I feel like it.
On Wednesday, Dumbing of Age Book 3 will be available on Comixology.
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Tomorrow: ENDING OF AGE
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dangit now I want Jimmy John’s
Oh come on, Jimmy Johns isn’t even that good. The only reason to buy it is because they deliver. Subway is way better.
I went to Jimmy Johns once, not really impressed. Rather go to a local shop, they have the good stuff.
KFC isn’t great, either, but I still want it on occasion =p
At least their gravy & biscuits are pretty good.
KFC laces their food with drugs so you crave it nightly.
I take it you have never heard of Bojangles?
The seven secret spices got nothing on ’em.
I grew up in Tennessee. Of COURSE I heard of Bojangles!
They’re on the “failed at least one health inspection” list in our area now. And the last time we ate there, our friends said the gravy was almost as thick as the tea.
Wish to know if people understand reference:
#teamJimmyJohns #teamtuba
Danquan?
Wooooooooo!
#teamtoaster
Hooooooooooo!
“#8 No dijon, no mayo. BBQ Jimmy Chips & Dr. Pepper.”
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What is Jimmy John’s, and why do people keep referring to it?
It’s a “fast-food” sub/sandwich chain. While I wouldn’t say they’re amazing, they are decent at least, but what’s really great is that they deliver.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_John%27s
the only thing I know is that they have non-compete agreements and if you ever lose your job there you cannot work in any place that makes sandwiches within 3 miles of any jimmy jonhs for 2 years. I just read that o.o
That’s not legal surely.
Actually, the 3 mile radius and the fact it’s specifically “making sandwiches” is nicely restrictive, and while most non-competes are 1 year, 2 years isn’t excessively onerous, so I would think it would probably hold up if tested.
No, it’s insane. Can’t work at places that make 10% of revenue from sandwich sales. And in Bloomington, “within three miles of a Jimmy John’s” is *all of Bloomington*.
Even if it’s legal, it’s evil and toxic.
http://kitchenette.jezebel.com/jimmy-johns-non-compete-agreements-are-utterly-psychoti-1645839165
If you think that’s crazy, you should see the ‘Do Not Compete, Fools’ agreement for Galasso’s Pizza (and subs).
This radius specificity is great: if it burst into flames, then you can still work anywhere, cause there isn’t a store location anymore.
Time to light a strike…
(@ drs) Weirdly, I just saw a friend link to that exact article on Facebook, and I’m pretty sure she’s not a DoA reader. And I had never heard of this company before today.
@Tobias the story just broke two days ago, that’s why.
Canadian Property Stars has something similar; can’t offer aeratioj services for another company (or independently) for 30 months upon leaving.
That’s what mine said. An online scan of an old form said 60 months.
Firehouse. There is no reason to go to any other sub place.
Chain sub place anyway. Some local sub places might do better.
Never heard of it. Only sub chain here is Subway.
It seems weird to me that people keep referring to Jimmy Johns and Subway in the same breath… To me at least they seem very different. They both do sandwiches, but that is about it… Though maybe just because of what I always order at subway?
US West Coast reporting in for Togo’s.
Darn it, now I’m hungry.
Dammit, I’m living in New York now, and now I want Togo’s and now I am also hungry. Crappit!
What, does America not have Quiznos?
America has Quiznos. I used to go there all the time when they had those tiny sandwiches, but they don’t anymore so everything tastes like disappointment.
Quizno’s: So good, you’ll eat it out of the trash!
[/actual advert]
Sure we do.
WE LOVe ThE SUUUUUUBS!!!
COZ THEY ARE GOOD TOO US
I’ve only recently discovered firehouse after being mostly subway before hand and I did not know what I was missing.
You bet. For less than a KFC, you can have such wonderlicious things that I cannot even translate what’s in it into proper english.
Firehouse is hot subs. Jimmy John’s is cold subs.
Subway is okay. Submarina is great. Which Wich is the best.
Which Wich FOR LIFE! I actually work at a Which Wich. Gotta love dem discounts.
Which Wich is awesome.
What is making you want Jimmy John’s?
The hover text. Read it. 🙂
oh THERE’S what I was looking for
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/jen_aside/20508/19542/19542_original.gif
Damn it Willis, now you’re just baiting us!
Willis IS a master baiter, I hear.
What you did there… I see it.
Well, yea, I hope so. If someone throws out a straight line like that, it is pretty much guaranteed that it will be hit on.
Perfect gravitar.
I guess Billie will need a Chamber Pot – and Ruth will be carrying buckets of it down the hall. Soon the plague will resurge as the rats roost in the dorm, and those who love RenFests can live the real thing!
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All because Billie won’t leave the room!
Billie was being Literal when she said that?
I was really REALLY hoping that was figurative, and GUESS NOT.
Ok, but what place delivers booze? That’s the real issue here.
Amazon?
We had a neighbor who had booze delivered from a liquor store. It came by taxi.
So yeah, it’s possible.
There ARE drive-thru liquor stores, maybe…??
So I have heard. I think it’s a Texas thing or something? Anyway no state I have spent any amount of time in has had anything like that. Heck in WA we only just dissolved the state-run liquor store system – they were the only ones that could sell anything beyond beer and wine.
Naw, they’ll do it in BC, Canada as well.
Wait, so B.C. is not part of Canada now?
any liquor store is drive thru if your drunk enough.
Showing my age, but when I was in high school/college in South Carolina, 18 was the legal drinking age for beer & wine, & there was no prohibition against driving with an open beer in your hand. Visited relatives in Mississippi & there was a drive through beer place about a mile away. They sold draft beer in a plastic container. Heard it didn’t last too long.
Saw ’em in Ohio.
It still seems like all kinds of a bad idea, but apparently they’re all over, just not in California.
In my hometown there are, but is not on the United States.
There used to be one in my hometown in Missouri, and I think there used to be one (might still be there?) in my parents’ hometown in Iowa. The first time I noticed it I had a hard time believing this was a good idea.
If you live in an area where you can order from yummy.com or if you check out vons or safeway online ordering site where you can have your groceries delivered and you can get booze, food and even cigarettes delivered right to your door.
Delivery booze is becoming a thing in college towns.
In my town, all-night booze delivery came three years BEFORE all-night pizza delivery.
Of course, here, you can drink with 18.
There’s a company in Berkeley that does late night delivery of junk food (burgers, sloppy joes, tater tots) and pho, and on the side they also deliver some non-food items…notably including lighters and rolling papers.
It’s a pretty slick business model if you think about it.
So dramatic.
it really is like high school all over again!
especially the sexy lesbian suicide pactsEnd of everything?
A gigantic face floating in a pool of orange stuff.
Billie: I’m so fucked up…
A monument to non-existence.
“When Somebody Loved Me”.
Dammit, now it’s after midnight and I want Jimmy Johns.
I’ll be useless until I get myself a frigging Turkey Tom.
Jimmy John’s sells Turkey Toms?
That’s adorable.
Until they drive their car off a cliff.
Ouch. That movie goes straight to the core of my heart. May Billie and Ruth *never* feel like they’ve run so completely out of choices . . .
You people cannot be not dramatic for more than a strip at a time
For real guys. I’m 20 and I’ve never been this dramatic, and I’m still depressed over a girl I broke up with when I was 16.
I have a friend from college who in the 8 or 9 years I’ve known him, has only had one girlfriend, with whom he was only with for about 5 months. They broke up in July.
All that time before, he was still hung up on a girl from college. He’s going to be the best man at my wedding. I don’t know that I’ll get the chance to repay the favor at this rate.
…girl from high school, not college. I really hate that we can’t edit posts…
Haha I can’t speak for him, but for me I just have low self-esteem. I don’t think a girl will ever like me so it becomes this self-fullfilling prophecy.
Damn iPad not being able to do hover text…
Make me get my laptop out like some sort of animal…
It just says “plus”
musta got cut off…
It was nothing important
UGH, Why won’t it work?
3rd Time’s the charm, Oh yeah!
I dated a girl for a while in 2011/2012, at age 29-30. That’s it. Never had so much as a single date aside from that. I am still friends with her (my best friend in fact). Aside from her, I didn’t, and don’t, care about being in a relationship much.
I mean, in theory it could be nice, but while I have a pretty good number of friends, including female friends, I just don’t know anyone where the effort needed for a romantic relationship sounds worth the effort. Probably I qualify as demiromantic or anyway some type of grey-romantic. Before I asked her out, I had thought I would never have any romantic relationship in my life, and I didn’t really care.
Some people just don’t care that much about that, and it’s fine.
This comment gives me so much hope for the future
We all remember the ones that ran away…
.
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got away, I meant got away. And not in that stalker movie way.
.
.
Not anymore.
Plenty of places near college campuses deliver. About the only place that doesn’t is the grocery store. You *can* order in every day of the week and have something different every day, but you’d gain about 2000 pounds.
The supermarkets in Tucson will deliver, particularly Safeway, and I suspect a couple of the neighbourhood markets could be inveigled into it. Market On The Move has started doing deliveries, too.
I’m sure they can find a few ways to burn calories.
Is now imagining Billie as Shinji and Ruth as Asuka via End of Evangelion.
Welp, you heard it internet, get on it.
Billie: “I’m so fucked up…”
Wow, that… actually works on many levels as a comparison, once I thought about it.
If I could draw I would draw Billie as Shinji in the scene in EoE where he is in 01 and screaming that crazy ass scream.
does mean Dumbing of EVAs
The end of everything? At the pace of this comic that’ll be another 5 trillion years!!!
That’s ok. That’s about when the universe is going to end too. So obviously there will be a few time jumps to catch up
10 trillion
All I want to know, is if there is a restaurant there.
Okay, I get where she’s coming from now. Things have been so mercurial between them, that any given time they’ve seen each other, it’s been fire or ice between them, and that’s scary. Billie’s clinginess makes sense from a place of not knowing what she’ll be coming back to next time, or knowing if she’s going to fuck up the second she’s out of Ruth’s sight or vice versa.
Billie was being literal?
Good lord, that girl needs counseling.
So does everyone in this comic, this is nothing new.
The rampant alcoholism and on/off love affair with her former tormentor didn’t clue you in?
I promise bla blah blah romantic things forever and ever.
So… sweet. A discussion of the “End of Everything” should not be that sweet.
What’s so sweet about Billie literally threatening not to leave Ruth’s room ever, I wonder. I used to think Ruth was the crazier one in this relationship, but this is just sick.
i was wondering about that… everyone going “ooh ship, my feels this is cute” and i’m here, horrified of their impending doom- dark times m8 haha.
reminds me of SEVERAL melodramatic, self-destructive girls i’ve met in my life. spooky.
Um, not the first three panels. The last two where Ruth snaps Billie out of it.
Nice.
Damn you, Willis. Now I want Jimmy Johns…
I couldn’t take it any longer
Lord! I was crazed
And when the feeling came upon me
Like a tidal wave
I started swearing to my God
And on my mother’s grave
That I would love you till the end of time
I swore I would love you till the end of time
So now I’m praying for the end of time
To hurry up and arrive
‘Cause if I gotta spend another minute with you
I don’t think that I can really survive
I’ll never break my promise or forget my vow
But God only knows what I can do right now
I’m praying for the end of time
That’s all that I can do, ooh, ooh
Praying for the end of time
So I can end my time with you
©1977 Jim Steinman
Somehow I think Billie didn’t put the brakes on as Ruth tried to steal home…
Or would it have been Ruth shouting “Stop right there!” perhaps?
Stop right there, criminal scum! Pay the court a fine or serve your sentence. Your stolen goods are now forfeit!
©2006 Bethesda Studios
I’d lie for you and that’s the truth
Do anything you asked me to
I’d even sell my soul for you
I’d do it all for you
If you’d just believe in me
I’d lie for you and that’s the truth
Move mountains if you want me to
I’d walk across the fire for you
I’d walk on the wild for you
If you’d just believe in me…
I’d lie for you and thats the truth
© 1995 (?) by Diane Warren
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.
©(?) 1921 H.P. Lovecraft
Billie really needs an honest to goodness therapy session. However in typical Willis fashion, it’s got to be the worst person ever suited to listen to people.
So, Dina… or Faz?
In this case? I’d say Daisy.
i’m kinda hoping for mary, faz, or blane….
i like watching my favourite characters suffer…
i am a truly wonderful person….
Mary Faz? Is that like the opposite of a Mary Sue?
Mary Faz: “Set phasers to Faz, baby! These charts show how many Klingon warriors I can seduce, and bend to the will of the Faz!”
Kirk: “Ensign Faz! Please, just… think about… …this!”
Spock: “Let her go, Captain. She is a force more terrifying than any effect our hand or ship weapons, or your hypnotic pauses, could produce.”
Galasso.
Then she’ll never want Jimmy John’s again.
Ninja Rick still hasn’t appeared. . .
Willis said he wont appear already
I am for real biting my nails from anxiety over the fates of fictional characters. This is what you have wrought, Willis.
I just bite my nails cuz it’s the most convenient way to keep them trimmed.
Wouldn’t a nail clipper be better?
But I carry my teeth around wherever I go.
Wow, how organized! I’m always leaving my teeth at home. That’s why my gums bleed.
I live about 2 blocks outside of the delivery radius of the nearest Jimmy Johns, and it kills me…Though I probably weigh a good deal less thanks to that fact.
Ahh, to be young and dramatic….and have no real notion of just how much life is in front of you beyond college.
(Assuming, of course, that one lets life go on to its natural conclusion.)
dawww. I shall now emit a squee only canines can hear.
Alright, Billie. You actually raise a non-trivial point. It actually is kind of valid to be concerned that Ruth won’t flip a switch and change her mind again. You still expressed that valid kernel of an idea in a totally what-the-fuck way. I promise you, trying to spend literally 100% of your time with the love of your life will drive at least one of you bananas. Also, jorbs.
Eventually someone has to poop.
There are always some people that are into that.
So? Most bathrooms accommodate two easily.
Okay, yeah, Billie is not half as together as she seemed.
She has issues when it comes to being lonely.
I saw someone complain about not being able to see this on Twitter, and the websites have been super slow for me tonight, it took over half an hour for this or It’s Walky to finish loading. It’s usually under 30 seconds, and my connection is otherwise fine.
I’m in love with this ship.
These two swing from terrifyingly co-dependent to adorable and back again so fast that it’s giving me whiplash.
“Until the end of everything.” That sounds omnious.
Wow
well, some guy said something about eternal love and infatuation… and which one lasted longer. 🙂
Oh, -that- is not ominous at all. He’s upgraded to six-shadowing!
Oh hey my current employer was mentioned in the alt-text. Cool.
And another great comic (as per usual.)
Don’t they know not to make sweeping declarations?
Wow, it’s nice to see Ruth not act like a total bongo
This will end so sad, too much happiness and undying love declaration never bode well in fiction.
In real life, life is mostly always a bongo too.
But hey since this is a webcomic, artist can maintain their happy time till the end of everything meaning end of DoA comic, right?
Ruth does continue to foreshadow ominously.
Billie could of course use counceling.
Both could use AA.
But somehow, idiot that I am, I have hope for them.
And somewhere, Willis laughs……
I WAS WAITING FOR THAT TINY SPEECH BUBBLE WILLIS
The “never leaving” bit was literal? Man I can see why Alice called her a “Drama Hurricane”.
Surely this couldn’t end badly.
Do I see a Book 5 title? “I Promise, No Matter What, Until The End of Everything.”
No, but I see a book 6 title, if Willis is Willis- THE END OF EVERYTHING.
Those two need help. Like therapeutic help. Badly.
#teamjimmyjohns
Nawwww.
OK yeah that was kinda creepy.
I just realised what this comic reminds me of.
http://www.ferretpress.com/weblog/uploaded_images/harry2-722166.jpg
(Peter’s really PO’d because Norman Osborn just killed Gwen Stacy, for context.)
Yeah geez Ruth having a life is SO “yesterday”
“I don’t care about any of that old stuff”??? Give me a break, Billie. what are you, 14?
Might as well face it; you’re addicted to love.
hahaha, i was expecting like, ONE more page before it got really dark with the unhealthy codependency and disregarding real problems.
OH WELL.
I’m feeling for you Ruth. I can’t imagine how annoying it must be to have Dorothy, Joyce, AND Walky shoving their noses right up in there like dogs at the park.
Goddammit Ruth.
Ah, Jimmy John’s. Savior of shut-in college students and overworked, overmeetinged college bureaucrats everywhere.
… Billie. BILLIE. SEEK. HELP. NOW.
… Dorothy please drag your friends (well, friend and her friend) to the counseling center YESTERDAY.
Whoa! Too Fast!
Billie, hon, I love ya, and I ship you two as hard as anyone, but you seriously need to get a grip. “We can live in your bedroom forever!” isn’t even high school immaturity; that’s serious grade-school level dissociation from the real world.
At least Ruth’s stepping up to take a swing at being the adult here and not still pushing you down on the playground to get your attention.
Okay… this is seemingly a bit suicide pacty.
Of course it also reminds me of “Dramatic College Relationships” and none of those people died when I was in school.
Many are criticizing Billie for behaving rather childishly. She is afraid that this, the only really good thing that has ever happened to her, will disappear like all the other good things. It’s a fair enough fear and I feel for her. Fortunately Ruth is a little more grounded (who thought that would be the case?).
I read the subtext a bit less dramatically perhaps:
Billie: I want you to commit to this relationship rather than swing back to hate me next time we see each other.
Ruth: …Fine. I promise. This is for realz for now, no promises on longterm, though.
…which isn’t that far off from conversations between Danny and Dorothy and Walkie and Dorothy, even if it is filtered through the #BILLIEandRUTHDYSFUNCTIONALDRAMA
“until the end of everything” sounds to you like “no promises on longterm, though”?
Oh, Ruth is still threatening suicide, I don’t deny it. I’m just saying that the conversation works on multiple levels and I believe that the subtext level about their relationship is the most important one right now. Ruth has already made her point about being suicidal, Billie has already made her point of refusing to be repelled about it. What they need to figure out right now is what to do right now.
Look at it this way – Ruth believes that she won’t live that much longer. She has tried to push away Billie before. Here she promises not to try it again, i.e. she commits to the short-term relationship, but she warns that there might not BE a longterm to have a relationship in. It’s way more dramatic than going to Yale, but the effect on their relationship is the same.
Now those are two scary ladies.
SEE A THERAPIST, GALS.
I’m with you.
Yeahhhhhhhhh, this extreme isn’t all that helpful, either.
OMG The roof is gonna fall on them, isn’t it?
Or, like, Ruth ACTUALLY offed herself and tomorrow’s comic is gonna be Billie waking up to go to her funeral.
OMG WILLIS YOU’RE ENJOYING MAKING ME SUFFER AREN’T YOU
Willis has promised us — OK, maybe not *promised* but assured us — that no one dies in DoA.
kinda wish he hadn’t, actually. i’d have liked the possibility to be present in our minds.
Or that Amber’s dad could get in a car crash…
He could be lying.
I don’t wanna kick a dead horse, and I (will) respect his decision to leave DoA deathless.
I just know that if I were writing a story and people were asking me questions regarding major future plot points (such as death), I’d:
A) Not give an answer, insisting that it ought to be kept a secret.
B) Lie my ass off (the funnier option, watching everyone freak out when the twist comes).
I mean, really, do you expect an author to spoil a story for you?
If you get left in a vegetative state that technically doesn’t count as dying now does it?
You evil Twilight Sparkle you.
The most important question: if she wasn’t leaving, why bother putting pants on when only the girlfriend is around?
…or is that just a reflection on my life of squalor?
*sips on 3rd piña colada*
*sees a single dark cloud on the horizon*
*leans back in deck chair, stretches, yawns*
*basks in sunlight a little bit longer*
*finishes piña colada*
Welp, I think that’s enough of that.
*folds up deck chair and goes ashore to shop for life jackets*
Wait, NO ONE is gonna make a joke about smelling Ruth’s anus? It’s like I don’t even know you anymore, Dumbing of Age Comments Section.
This feels like I can place this here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayLiAVJ6vTM&list=PLW30Qp73bL8xMqy-Ar_IxU90BxwUmk-JC&index=45
Paradise by the dashboard light. Anyone? Anyone? I’ll see myself out.
This is satisfying.
That’s a little melodramatic, Billie.