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by David M Willis on February 17, 2017 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - Everything You've Ever Wanted Floats Above
└ Tags: carla, joyce

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    February 17, 2017 at 12:03 am | #

    CARLA TO THE RESCUE

    now the machinations of Joyce’s feet will be cold, swift, and ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      February 17, 2017 at 12:04 am | #

      and her BUTT, TOO

      • butts
        butts
        February 17, 2017 at 12:10 am | #

        i KNOW AURGLAFARGLAH

        • Clif
          Clif
          February 17, 2017 at 12:44 am | #

          Hurrah for ridiculously appropriate avitars.

      • Gigafreak
        Gigafreak
        February 17, 2017 at 2:36 am | #

        Joyce is in such distress that she has said the word “butt” out loud instead of going with “tushie” as usual. Or perhaps the first symptom of Butts Disease to manifest is the fascination with the word “butt.”

        • Pablo360
          Pablo360
          February 17, 2017 at 5:47 pm | #

          In that case I think my sister has a chronic strain.

  2. Danni
    Danni
    February 17, 2017 at 12:04 am | #

    roller skates

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      February 17, 2017 at 12:07 am | #

      Shower shoes with wheels? Revolutionary!

      • Clif
        Clif
        February 17, 2017 at 12:55 am | #

        You only say that because they revolve.

        • ANeM
          ANeM
          February 17, 2017 at 1:44 am | #

          Well, they revolve until they immediately get clogged with hair.

          • Koms
            Koms
            February 17, 2017 at 3:38 am | #

            Ugh.. must burn my brain to cast out THAT image.

          • Inspector Hound
            Inspector Hound
            February 17, 2017 at 10:43 am | #

            Pff. I trust Carla’s engineering ability. She will install cow-catchers… er, hair shields in front of the wheels of the shower shoes. A perfect design!

            • ANeM
              ANeM
              February 17, 2017 at 3:39 pm | #

              If Carla was capable of making skates that could withstand the horrors of those showers, why isn’t she wearing them?

              • Clif
                Clif
                February 17, 2017 at 5:22 pm | #

                Nothing intimidates Carla.

  3. AnvilPro
    AnvilPro
    February 17, 2017 at 12:04 am | #

    I think this is how we all expected Dumbing of Age to end. Joyce quickly dying of Butt’s Disease while the only bystander uncaringly walks away

    • Dana
      Dana
      February 17, 2017 at 12:05 am | #

      She just wants us to think she doesn’t care.

      • Emperor Daniel
        Emperor Daniel
        February 17, 2017 at 1:20 am | #

        baka.

      • Tacos
        Tacos
        February 17, 2017 at 5:25 am | #

        I-I-It’s not like she l-l-l-likes us or anything. Baka!

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      February 17, 2017 at 12:05 am | #

      COMIC OVER

      now to begin work on the Second Dumbing of Christ

      • Jay Eff
        Jay Eff
        February 17, 2017 at 12:11 am | #

        “Dumbing of Christ: A Historical Webcomic by David M Willis”

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      February 17, 2017 at 12:30 am | #

      The floor has claimed her butt. Her butt is part of the floor now.

    • Shade
      Shade
      February 17, 2017 at 2:30 am | #

      But she does care, that’s why she rescued those poor jug shoes.

  4. TheTJ
    TheTJ
    February 17, 2017 at 12:04 am | #

    The horrors of Butts Disease, it haunts me even now…

    (hehe, “butts”)

    • Danni
      Danni
      February 17, 2017 at 12:06 am | #

      this is how it farts

      • poofdepoof
        poofdepoof
        February 17, 2017 at 12:07 am | #

        ^^^^^

        • butts
          butts
          February 17, 2017 at 12:12 am | #

          I used to be a normal, functional person! NOW look at me!

          • Danni
            Danni
            February 17, 2017 at 12:18 am | #

            no cure

          • Emperor Norton II
            Emperor Norton II
            February 17, 2017 at 12:20 am | #

            Oh dear, oh dear…

            If there’s any consolation, nobody ever thought you were normal to begin with.

          • Bagge
            Bagge
            February 17, 2017 at 12:31 am | #

            I’ll be good, I’ll be good… and eat my vegetables or however your avoid the butts disease.

            • Danni
              Danni
              February 17, 2017 at 12:35 am | #

              a donut a day keeps butts disease at bay

              • Emperor Daniel
                Emperor Daniel
                February 17, 2017 at 1:21 am | #

                Can I butt in on this?

                …GET! I meant to say GET! ITS GOT ME TWO AAFHGEFKAKFFFGRLA

                • Pablo360
                  Pablo360
                  February 17, 2017 at 5:48 pm | #

                  You meant to say one thing, butt you said another.

                • Emperor Daniel
                  Emperor Daniel
                  February 17, 2017 at 9:00 pm | #

                  It was inevitabuttle.

          • butting
            butting
            February 17, 2017 at 12:36 am | #

            I’m on the way too, aren’t I?

            sigh

            • butts
              butts
              February 17, 2017 at 1:47 am | #

              butt-gerunding

          • TheTJ
            TheTJ
            February 17, 2017 at 12:39 am | #

            I’m looking at you bu- OH NO! I’M LOOKING AT BUTTS! This will only make things worse!

            You tricked meeeee!….

            • Danni
              Danni
              February 17, 2017 at 12:40 am | #

              all succumb to the butts disease

              • butts
                butts
                February 17, 2017 at 1:47 am | #

                I am the Typhoid Mary of Butts Disease

                • Emperor Daniel
                  Emperor Daniel
                  February 17, 2017 at 2:28 am | #

                  No no, Typhoid Mary was immune to typhoid herself.

                • butts
                  butts
                  February 17, 2017 at 2:53 am | #

                  I must not butts. Butts are the mind-killer. Butts are the little-death that bring total assholification. I will face my butts. I will permit them to pass over me and through me. And when they have gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the butts have gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

                • Emperor Daniel
                  Emperor Daniel
                  February 17, 2017 at 1:32 pm | #

                  Emotion, yet butts.
                  Ignorance, yet butts.
                  Passion, yet butts.
                  Chaos, yet butts.
                  Death, yet butts.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            February 17, 2017 at 2:37 am | #

            What? You’re still a well-rounded individual.

            • butts
              butts
              February 17, 2017 at 2:55 am | #

              ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

          • butts
            butts
            February 17, 2017 at 10:42 pm | #

            apparently I made this exact joke about a year ago

    • Emperor Norton II
      Emperor Norton II
      February 17, 2017 at 2:42 am | #

      Even Something Positive is a victim to this horrible disease!

      (Don’t forget to read the tagline at the bottom.)

  5. Mr. Mendo
    Mr. Mendo
    February 17, 2017 at 12:05 am | #

    Joyce and Carla? THIS is a fresh story pairing! What wacky fun will this pair of misfits get up to? ^_^

    • Hellespont
      Hellespont
      February 17, 2017 at 12:36 am | #

      Hopefully some high type jinks and not too much conflict. Between run ins with Mary and having to go all Sarah on Billie and Ruth, Carla has not had the easiest of runs this semester.

    • Chris Phoenix
      Chris Phoenix
      February 17, 2017 at 2:21 am | #

      Aside from being super-techie and sometimes annoying on purpose, how is Carla even unusual, much less a misfit?

      …Yes, I know she’s trans. That’s a medical detail.

      • Solenoid
        Solenoid
        February 17, 2017 at 2:38 am | #

        Shrug. How’s Joyce a misfit? I think the point is more the jaunty “these goofs and their shenanigans” connotation.

    • Joe Covenant
      Joe Covenant
      February 17, 2017 at 5:24 am | #

      Carla creating *the* perfect shower shoe?
      Joyce forever raising her into a position of sainthood?

      • Pablo360
        Pablo360
        February 17, 2017 at 10:19 am | #

        Carla getting incredibly annoyed at that and thus deliberately being mean to her in order to knock herself off the pedestal?

        Joyce not caring and teasing her about it good-naturedly?

        Carla breaking down and telling Joyce the reason she lashes out is because she’s afraid of showing vulnerability?

        Joyce in turn confiding her deepest weaknesses to Carla?

        Bonded through this mutual revelation, Joyce and Carla’s relationship becoming more intimate?

        I SHIP IT SO GODDAMN MUCH

        • CrockedCop
          CrockedCop
          February 17, 2017 at 12:13 pm | #

          And Beckys head will explode.

        • Kryss LaBryn
          Kryss LaBryn
          February 17, 2017 at 3:40 pm | #

          Welll… You know, Joyce did say that she would be into girls if only she could stop at the neck. She might be perfectly great with Carla! 😀

      • Gwen
        Gwen
        February 17, 2017 at 2:11 pm | #

        Joyce telling Jocelyn about her new trans friend! Jocelyn realizing she can confide in her sister!

        • Jhon
          Jhon
          February 17, 2017 at 7:22 pm | #

          ^*^*^ <3

  6. Jonathan S.
    Jonathan S.
    February 17, 2017 at 12:05 am | #

    And if anyone is an expert on Butts Disease, it’s David Willis.

    • butts
      butts
      February 17, 2017 at 12:13 am | #

      yo

      • 3oranges
        3oranges
        February 17, 2017 at 11:32 am | #

        Wait, aren’t you David Willis? Just, you know, the other half than the one we usually think about?

        • Clif
          Clif
          February 17, 2017 at 5:15 pm | #

          Hmm.

  7. Fart Captor
    Fart Captor
    February 17, 2017 at 12:06 am | #

    I am super excited at the possibility of these two becoming friends.

    Partly because I feel that way of just about any two characters not already friends. Mostly because it would probably mean more Carla.

    • UltraKyrie
      UltraKyrie
      February 17, 2017 at 12:08 am | #

      Carla? Make friends? Ridiculous! She only has cohorts and collaborators!

    • Meta
      Meta
      February 17, 2017 at 12:10 am | #

      Please more Carla

    • Meta
      Meta
      February 17, 2017 at 12:19 am | #

      Initially I thought that if Joyce got into Ultra Car, they could bond over that, but I think Joyce partly likes cartoons because they’re less complicated than real life, like Walky? So maybe a more nuanced show (based on Dorothy and Carla’s descriptions and Walky’s distaste for it) isn’t for her.

    • Cholma
      Cholma
      February 17, 2017 at 12:24 am | #

      Wait a minute. What if… what if… I’m just spit-balling here… what if the comic became all about Carla & Dina and their wacky adventures?

      No, no. That’ll never work. The comic would implode was awesome-overload.

  8. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    February 17, 2017 at 12:06 am | #

    Am I the only one that is thinking Carla will come back with anti-grav boots that allow Joyce to hover effortless above the grunge, sludge, and mess?

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      February 17, 2017 at 12:07 am | #

      Courtesy of Ruttech, of course.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      February 17, 2017 at 12:33 am | #

      That WOULD facilitate her crashing into the ceiling grime, so there is much comedic potential in it. I’m in favor.

    • Streeter
      Streeter
      February 17, 2017 at 4:25 am | #

      This ain’t the walkyverse, Bill.

      • Bicycle Bill
        Bicycle Bill
        February 17, 2017 at 6:32 am | #

        Carla has already tapped into Ruttech at least once in DoA.  Remember the Rube Goldberg thing she built to prank Mary?
        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/03-when-god-closes-the-door/ruttech/
        (there was a mega-post of all the strips that made up the entire sequence from research through creation to payoff but I’ll be damned if I can find it now)

        • Pablo360
          Pablo360
          February 17, 2017 at 10:19 am | #

          That’s all technology that actually exists.

    • showler
      showler
      February 17, 2017 at 5:37 am | #

      I literally do not know whether Carla intends to fix the shoes or just wanted to rescue them and keep them away from the bad engineer.

      • Dragon_Nataku
        Dragon_Nataku
        February 17, 2017 at 9:02 am | #

        I just figured she was going to fix them and then keep them on a shelf in her room instead of returning them to Joyce.

  9. Nono
    Nono
    February 17, 2017 at 12:06 am | #

    Joyce’s milk jugs brings all the Carlas to the bath.

    • Fart Captor
      Fart Captor
      February 17, 2017 at 12:08 am | #

      And they’re all like “These are shoddy and inadequate”

      • 3oranges
        3oranges
        February 17, 2017 at 11:34 am | #

        Damn right, these are shoddy and inadequate
        I can teach you,
        But it’s easier to fix them myself OUT OF THE WAY

    • Mr. Mendo
      Mr. Mendo
      February 17, 2017 at 12:09 am | #

      Well, I always say, nothing livens up a comic strip like an amazing pair of jugs!

      …

      I REGRET NOTHING! 😉

      • Clif
        Clif
        February 17, 2017 at 12:49 am | #

        Yeah, this comic has butts and jugs and everything.

        • Clif
          Clif
          February 17, 2017 at 5:19 pm | #

          Not to mention hubris and effortless wafting.

  10. Dissent
    Dissent
    February 17, 2017 at 12:06 am | #

    Channeling your inner Jeph Jacques with that alt-text I see

    • Van Dyne
      Van Dyne
      February 17, 2017 at 12:14 am | #

      to be fair, he started it

      • Emperor Norton II
        Emperor Norton II
        February 17, 2017 at 12:18 am | #

        Makes you wonder what goes on in the hotel rooms where the cartoonists hold their parties at the end of the day.

        • Emperor Norton II
          Emperor Norton II
          February 17, 2017 at 12:18 am | #

          The end of con days, that is, since that’s the only way cartoonists will meet each other.

        • butts
          butts
          February 17, 2017 at 2:54 am | #

          Yo.

          • Emperor Norton II
            Emperor Norton II
            February 17, 2017 at 3:06 am | #

            Yo, Jeph.

  11. Bluewind
    Bluewind
    February 17, 2017 at 12:07 am | #

    Please tell me Carla is gonna make something awesome!

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      February 17, 2017 at 12:09 am | #

      She totally is!

    • Emperor Norton II
      Emperor Norton II
      February 17, 2017 at 3:52 am | #

      Carla making something awesome is as certain as water being wet.

      • CrockedCop
        CrockedCop
        February 17, 2017 at 12:18 pm | #

        Unless Carla superheats the water turning it into plasma!

    • Jhon
      Jhon
      February 17, 2017 at 7:25 pm | #

      We will now see something worth seeing!

  12. Black Bumblebee
    Black Bumblebee
    February 17, 2017 at 12:07 am | #

    I hope that she gives Joyce’s shoes wheels. We need Joyce on wheels 🙂

  13. Shiro
    Shiro
    February 17, 2017 at 12:07 am | #

    And…and now Carla makes better anti-shower shoes, right? Cause she’s secretly a [hushed whisper]good person who cares about people?

    • Fart Captor
      Fart Captor
      February 17, 2017 at 12:09 am | #

      No no no don’t be silly this just CLEARLY just because she cares about things being done right.

      Wait, no! She just wants to one-up Joyce to assert dominance over her. Yeah, that’s the one.

      • butts
        butts
        February 17, 2017 at 12:17 am | #

        Or maybe she just felt like dumping Joyce on her ass.

      • Shiro
        Shiro
        February 17, 2017 at 12:22 am | #

        Yeeeaaaaah, let’s go with that one! Now Joyce owes her one HAHA PRANKED

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          February 17, 2017 at 12:35 am | #

          Of course she doesn’t care about people, what a silly notion (Joyce is OK, right? Not that she cares, or anything).

      • foamy
        foamy
        February 17, 2017 at 1:32 am | #

        Shoddy design is reason enough on its own. You know that feeling you get when you see someone trying to do something you’re good at, and failing like a kitten in a sack? That’s what Carla’s feeling right now.

        An intervention was OBVIOUSLY required.

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      February 17, 2017 at 12:35 am | #

      LIES! How dare you slander her so!

      *whispers* But you’re totally right.

      • Rukduk
        Rukduk
        February 17, 2017 at 1:20 am | #

        The only way Carla could be anymore obvious about secretly being a good person who likes people is if she started saying “Baka” in her sentences. But she’s not an anime nerd, so that won’t happen.

        • Pablo360
          Pablo360
          February 17, 2017 at 10:22 am | #

          There has been no confirmation in comic that Ultra Car ISN’T an anime…

    • StClair
      StClair
      February 17, 2017 at 4:20 am | #

      She’s an engineer. Damn right she will.

    • Marika Oniki
      Marika Oniki
      February 17, 2017 at 8:48 am | #

      Carla is Chaotic Good. She doesn’t do the right thing because she’s nice, she does it because it’s the right thing to do.

      • Pablo360
        Pablo360
        February 17, 2017 at 12:32 pm | #

        She’s Chaotic Good who thinks she’s Chaotic Evil.

  14. MM
    MM
    February 17, 2017 at 12:08 am | #

    Carla: as ever, the hero we need, not the one we deserve.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      February 17, 2017 at 12:36 am | #

      Pffft, as if we were cool enough to deserve Carla.

  15. Foxhack
    Foxhack
    February 17, 2017 at 12:08 am | #

    … wait, didn’t Carla have a room with her own shower? Or am I misremembering things?

    • UltraKyrie
      UltraKyrie
      February 17, 2017 at 12:10 am | #

      She has her own room but I don’t remember it ever being said she has her own shower.

    • Meta
      Meta
      February 17, 2017 at 12:10 am | #

      Her own room yes, but I don’t think she has her own shower.

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      February 17, 2017 at 12:11 am | #

      Her own room, not her own shower.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        February 17, 2017 at 12:11 am | #

        ..we are all so helpful at the same time, huh.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      February 17, 2017 at 12:13 am | #

      She has her own room, and now she has her own shower of corrections.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      February 17, 2017 at 12:15 am | #

      Considering her nature, she would be the type to want to use the shower when others are not around.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      February 17, 2017 at 12:17 am | #

      Her own room with her own half bath.

      Half baths are a sink and a toilet, no shower.

    • butts
      butts
      February 17, 2017 at 12:20 am | #

      She has her own room, not her own shower

      She has her own room, not her own shower

      Ske hos har omn reem, npt hor ogn sohewr

      • Rukduk
        Rukduk
        February 17, 2017 at 1:22 am | #

        Is that last sentence being said in Scots or Welsh?

      • Pablo360
        Pablo360
        February 17, 2017 at 12:33 pm | #

        All room and no shower makes Carla a dull girl

        Al rom and noo shoewr meks Calla abu ll gril

        Al Capone and the New Shoes meek Call Abu Dhabi

    • Nono
      Nono
      February 17, 2017 at 12:23 am | #

      My guess is that she might have the standard sink/mirror combo that the shared rooms would have in the half-baths, and that’s it.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      February 17, 2017 at 12:36 am | #

      Now I imagine all the above posters saying their lines in unison.

      • Emperor Daniel
        Emperor Daniel
        February 17, 2017 at 1:23 am | #

        We are all individuals!

        • Hellespont
          Hellespont
          February 17, 2017 at 1:39 am | #

          Yes, we are all individuals!

          • Emperor Norton II
            Emperor Norton II
            February 17, 2017 at 2:03 am | #

            How cute, you think you are all individuals, and not just a collective lump of people known better as Our loyal subjects.

            • Emperor Daniel
              Emperor Daniel
              February 17, 2017 at 2:31 am | #

              Me? Subject myself to another Emperor?

              …alright, if you have cookies. The good ones. 😀

              • Emperor Norton II
                Emperor Norton II
                February 17, 2017 at 2:46 am | #

                We are the Emperor of the Internet. Trust Us, We have cookies.

                So what exactly are you emperor of, then?

                • Emperor Daniel
                  Emperor Daniel
                  February 17, 2017 at 1:36 pm | #

                  I’m the emperor of…of…of the palm trees of Bornholm, yes! And my imagination!

                • Bagge
                  Bagge
                  February 17, 2017 at 4:05 pm | #

                  This royal gathering is a meeting for the history books!

              • CrockedCop
                CrockedCop
                February 17, 2017 at 12:22 pm | #

                Heretic!
                The only Emperor is the God Emperor!

          • Joe Covenant
            Joe Covenant
            February 17, 2017 at 5:26 am | #

            I’m not.

            • Emperor Daniel
              Emperor Daniel
              February 17, 2017 at 9:00 pm | #

              Shhh!

    • Hellespont
      Hellespont
      February 17, 2017 at 1:40 am | #

      I love that these characters as so important to people that we can have a relatively long thread discussing their bathroom and shower arrangements.

  16. Tacos
    Tacos
    February 17, 2017 at 12:08 am | #

    Oh noes. Not the dreaded Butts Disease D:
    When Carla is done re-engineering those things, will they end up being able to throw pies at people?

    • CrockedCop
      CrockedCop
      February 17, 2017 at 12:23 pm | #

      Or maybe sing a hymen to Carlas greatness.

      That started out to be a joke but mid writing I realized she just might do it…

      • Pablo360
        Pablo360
        February 17, 2017 at 12:33 pm | #

        A hymen? But Joyce needs those to live!

      • Fart Captor
        Fart Captor
        February 17, 2017 at 12:54 pm | #

        I’m not sure how one would go about “singing” a hymen, but it sounds considerably more intimate than I think Joyce would be comfortable with…

        :V

  17. Leorale
    Leorale
    February 17, 2017 at 12:09 am | #

    I need to start saying ‘oh no! my hubris!’ at every opportunity.

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      February 17, 2017 at 12:26 am | #

      I know! Especially when I have a broken femur.

      • Pablo360
        Pablo360
        February 17, 2017 at 12:34 pm | #

        But you need those to

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      February 17, 2017 at 12:38 am | #

      That’s how you will become a good steampunk villain.

    • Dara
      Dara
      February 17, 2017 at 2:17 am | #

      absofuckinglutely.

  18. FriendlyNeighborhoodDave
    FriendlyNeighborhoodDave
    February 17, 2017 at 12:09 am | #

    …Does Joyce know about Carla? Cause we might be about to get a preview of how she’ll handle learning about Jocelyn.

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      February 17, 2017 at 12:17 am | #

      Joyce doesn’t. She told Becky that Carla gets a room all to herself “for some reason”. Carla isn’t closeted but hadn’t had any reason to discuss this with Joyce.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        February 17, 2017 at 12:22 am | #

        *hasn’t had, I mean.

        Actually I kinda hope that they get to know each other as as people, before Joyce says something shocked and ignorant.

    • Hellespont
      Hellespont
      February 17, 2017 at 12:40 am | #

      I was wondering that, myself. I think that is one of the many talks no one has had to step and have with Joyce yet.

      • JessWitt
        JessWitt
        February 17, 2017 at 4:37 am | #

        Seems like this could be heading into that direction in this book maybe?

    • Streeter
      Streeter
      February 17, 2017 at 5:07 am | #

      Oh god, I can only handle so much conflict and drama at once.

      Willis, I swear, if you start another dramatic arch before finishing the others, I swear I’ll… I’ll…

      I’ll write a very strongly worded letter!

  19. butts
    butts
    February 17, 2017 at 12:09 am | #

    I… I think I like Carla even more now.

    • butts
      butts
      February 17, 2017 at 12:12 am | #

      Also I regret not being earlier, this would’ve been a good time to snipe Ana

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        February 17, 2017 at 12:39 am | #

        Well, then you would have had to get off your butt earlier… oh, sorry.

        • A Scientist
          A Scientist
          February 17, 2017 at 1:26 am | #

          How could you make butts the butt of such a bad joke?

          • Emperor Norton II
            Emperor Norton II
            February 17, 2017 at 2:02 am | #

            The real question is, how could he -not-?

        • butts
          butts
          February 17, 2017 at 5:43 pm | #

          that is RACIST

          I am a Posterior-American

          • Bagge
            Bagge
            February 17, 2017 at 7:49 pm | #

            I got a friend who is a butt…. well, a bit of an arse to be honest.

  20. Just Me
    Just Me
    February 17, 2017 at 12:09 am | #

    Good thing no one ever pointed out to Joyce how many people sit on the classroom chairs she sits on, or the ones in the cafeteria or so on. Eventually she’d be terrified of sitting anywhere.

    • tim gueguen
      tim gueguen
      February 17, 2017 at 12:16 am | #

      At least the shower room floor gets mopped every week. The chairs probably never get cleaned.

      • vlademir1
        vlademir1
        February 17, 2017 at 7:58 am | #

        The cafeteria ones likely do. Unless a TA does it for their own reasons, though, I suspect no classroom surface at a university ever gets properly cleaned. I’ve watched TAs who take that responsibility seriously, rare as that can be, go to the trouble of washing black boards and white boards to ensure proper visibility to the back of the room before actually using the classroom.

    • Barf Ninjason
      Barf Ninjason
      February 17, 2017 at 12:16 am | #

      Betcha she’s a hoverer vis-a-vis public terlets

    • Shiro
      Shiro
      February 17, 2017 at 12:23 am | #

      On the other hand, I’ve never seen a classroom chair with visible grey-pink slime on it.

  21. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    February 17, 2017 at 12:10 am | #

    “shod-dy” engineering.

    I see what you did there.

  22. Passchendaele
    Passchendaele
    February 17, 2017 at 12:10 am | #

    Two days later: why do I have a report card giving me an f in practical engineering? And why am I being billed for it?

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      February 17, 2017 at 12:12 am | #

      Nonono, that’s not an F, that’s a 15. Yes, Joyce, witchcraft is real, and Carla put a hex on you.

      • Fart Captor
        Fart Captor
        February 17, 2017 at 12:24 am | #

        oh my god

      • Passchendaele
        Passchendaele
        February 17, 2017 at 12:46 am | #

        Cursed to bow down in Carla’s magnificent presence

      • foamy
        foamy
        February 17, 2017 at 1:34 am | #

        *narrows eyes*

      • OnyxIdol
        OnyxIdol
        February 17, 2017 at 8:35 am | #

        You…!

  23. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    February 17, 2017 at 12:11 am | #

    BUTT CONTAMINATION! If only she used a Mars bar wrapper, her ass would have been safe.

  24. Cattleprod
    Cattleprod
    February 17, 2017 at 12:15 am | #

    Why bother fixing her shoes? She’s already dead. RIP Joyce, what a strange way to end the comic.

  25. Keulan
    Keulan
    February 17, 2017 at 12:16 am | #

    Apparently butts disease can be spread in multiple ways, and there is no cure that I’ve heard of.

  26. Grant
    Grant
    February 17, 2017 at 12:17 am | #

    I’m sensing the last panel contains the next book’s title.

  27. Barf Ninjason
    Barf Ninjason
    February 17, 2017 at 12:19 am | #

    I would bet real human moneydollars that cute college freshman Christian girls wailing about their butts being contaminated is SOMEONE’S fetish

    • Elacular
      Elacular
      February 17, 2017 at 12:28 am | #

      It’s a thing which exists. Of course it is.

      • vlademir1
        vlademir1
        February 17, 2017 at 7:52 am | #

        Yeah, it is. Anything which can be interpreted in the slightest as skeevy is the fetish of someone somewhere.

    • Jhon
      Jhon
      February 17, 2017 at 7:33 pm | #

      Well, it is now…

  28. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    February 17, 2017 at 12:19 am | #

    Later at the hospital, Joyce tries to explain how it ended up her arse when she slipped in the shower, betcha the doctor has heard THAT excuse a million times before.

  29. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    February 17, 2017 at 12:23 am | #

    I guess it’s good she first tested them with her boots on.

  30. Rukduk
    Rukduk
    February 17, 2017 at 12:25 am | #

    Save the shoes!!!

  31. Bagge
    Bagge
    February 17, 2017 at 12:29 am | #

    She is going to make something ridiculous. I just know it.

    Either that or Joyce will start a life of skating.

  32. caesaria82
    caesaria82
    February 17, 2017 at 12:34 am | #

    God, I really do love Carla the most. Just when I forget, because she hasn’t been around for a while, she walks back into my heart, being flawless.

    • DarkoNeko
      DarkoNeko
      February 17, 2017 at 9:25 am | #

      …that love declaration. With THAT avatar.
      wow XD

      • caesaria82
        caesaria82
        February 17, 2017 at 4:26 pm | #

        Literally every time I make a Carla love comment, I get a ‘but omg Mary avatar’ reply, it’s like clockwork lmao. It’s a random avatar, like, I don’t even notice it anymore, only ever when other ppl comment on it :p

  33. Master of Chaos... Yeah, I chose that
    Master of Chaos... Yeah, I chose that
    February 17, 2017 at 12:36 am | #

    Am I the only thinking we’re not seeing enough Carla? Because we’re not seeing enough Carla.

    • caesaria82
      caesaria82
      February 17, 2017 at 12:40 am | #

      There is NEVER enough Carla. If I was writing this comic, it’d be called Carla of Age. Carla of Carla. Carla Carla Carla.

      Yes. Yes that is my comic and it is a good comic.

      Ahem. I get overly excited about Carla sometimes.

      • Master of Chaos... Yeah, I chose that
        Master of Chaos... Yeah, I chose that
        February 17, 2017 at 1:24 am | #

        Naaaah, it’s barely visible.

        Though, maybe it’s a good thing we don’t see much Carla? Certain characters can get old if overly used, even with amazing writers like Willis.

        • caesaria82
          caesaria82
          February 17, 2017 at 4:27 pm | #

          I mean, this true. But I still want more Carla, always. LOL.

  34. Larkle
    Larkle
    February 17, 2017 at 12:40 am | #

    Has it ever been mentioned what Carla’s major is? Because I imagine her to be an engineering major.

    • Knayt
      Knayt
      February 17, 2017 at 11:04 am | #

      I’m pretty sure it’s been mentioned. Which engineering hasn’t been, although it looks like mechanical is by far the most likely candidate, with electrical in second.

  35. abacuswizard
    abacuswizard
    February 17, 2017 at 12:44 am | #

    ha ha, butts

    OH NO NOW I HAVE IT TOO

    • butts
      butts
      February 17, 2017 at 1:53 am | #

      join us

      join us

      JOIN BUTTSSSSSSSSSS

      • Emperor Daniel
        Emperor Daniel
        February 17, 2017 at 2:33 am | #

        It is the only way.

        It is your destibuttiny.

  36. octochan
    octochan
    February 17, 2017 at 12:44 am | #

    I thought for sure she was going to slip in those “shoes” (walking in HDPE plastic on damp tile? come on!) and fall on her ass. Strangely enough the result was the same anyway.

  37. Bagge
    Bagge
    February 17, 2017 at 12:47 am | #

    All this time I have hoped Carla would be a bad influence on Becky… I change my mind. I want her to be a bad influence on JOYCE. This will be delightful!

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      February 17, 2017 at 1:30 am | #

      Oh ye of little faith.

      Carla can be a bad influence on EVERYONE!

      • Emperor Norton II
        Emperor Norton II
        February 17, 2017 at 1:44 am | #

        As long as you give her cookies, of course.

        • Reltzik
          Reltzik
          February 17, 2017 at 3:09 am | #

          Actually, no.

          If you give her cookies, she will just focus on the source and current-possessor of said cookies, and be unable to be a bad influence on the rest of humanity.

          • JessWitt
            JessWitt
            February 17, 2017 at 4:35 am | #

            Cookies are her weakness. Makes sense.

  38. bryy
    bryy
    February 17, 2017 at 12:50 am | #

    Of course Human Carla is an engineer.

  39. Cerberus
    Cerberus
    February 17, 2017 at 12:50 am | #

    Comic Reactions:

    Eeeeeee, Carla! *composes self* All right, let’s do this.

    Panel 1: Joyce, lord of the jugs. Conqueror of the Sludge Lands.

    Panel 3: “Oh no! My hubris!” may be one of my favorite lines yet. And my top candidate for the next book title.

    Also, I continue to love how fucking fearless Carla is. Like, to wear a towel that short, to talk to someone in a shared shower space in this current climate of trans bathroom panic? I’d never have the ovaries to pull something like that off, so I’m just continuously impressed by her.

    Panel 4: That said, Carla isn’t fireproof. She’s not going to shower when most other people are showering and I imagine she’s mostly been used to sneaking in when no one else is in. Cause that’d be way more hassle in bullshit harassment than anyone would want to deal with.

    And I notice very clearly how fast she’s intervening here to interrupt Joyce trying to dwell on why exactly Carla may be intentionally showering during a time that no one else is.

    And I feel that. I’m out as trans, but in a shared space like a bathroom and a locker room, I’m gonna ghost as best I can, because I’m all too aware of how many trans girls get beaten up in bathrooms and I’ve had my share of harassment from fuckers when I’m just trying to quickly pee and get out.

    Panel 6: Engineer Carla has no time for your shoddy prototypes!

    But seriously, it’s glorious to see Carla’s continued kindness under a defensive layer of snark and toughness. Like, she really is a good person and doesn’t suffer people being in shitty situations or distress well, but at the same time…

    She’s still petrified that letting people know will paint a giant target on her back. And I just weep to think of little Carla trying to be her authentic self and trying to be genuinely kind and having that beat out of her to the point that she cowers behind this caustic shell unable to be the full asshole she erroneously thinks will protect her.

    Also, Eeeeee, Joyce and Carla are talking and interacting. The first tenative steps towards Joyce having someone to talk to about Jocelyne when she comes out are being taken here!

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      February 17, 2017 at 1:00 am | #

      I love the layers we see of Carla. Behind her snark there is compassion and behind her “don’t care” attitude there is an all too real awareness of the need for being careful in certain situations.

      And aside from all that here we also see a real spark of interest for engineering and wanting to share that love with people.

      Carla is, as has been noted, awesome.

    • Rukduk
      Rukduk
      February 17, 2017 at 1:26 am | #

      I feel like “Oh no, my hubris!” is the single phrase most capable of explaining humanity entirely by itself. Also, Carla is so awesome and multi-dimensional!!!

      • vlademir1
        vlademir1
        February 17, 2017 at 7:47 am | #

        I feel like that is a big part of why Icarus is such a common allusion in modern media.

        • hof1991
          hof1991
          February 18, 2017 at 12:10 pm | #

          Icarus is a story about the problem of using wax as an adhesive. Carla would never put up with such shoddy engineering.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      February 17, 2017 at 6:36 am | #

      It probably says a lot about Joyce as a person that, despite being known to be a fairly hardline Christian, Carla doesn’t feel even slightly threatened or defensive towards Joyce. Probably it helps that Joyce simply couldn’t be plausibly seen to be threatening unless you were present at the Toedad Car Crash site and saw her right hook in action.

      • Cerberus
        Cerberus
        February 17, 2017 at 1:41 pm | #

        Yeah, it also shows how plugged in to the general feel of the hall she is even if she separates herself outside of it a lot. Like, Carla is way more relaxed and open here than she was with Mary initially and I think that’s directly related to cottoning in on Mary’s abusiveness to queer folks and Joyce’s relatively good karma in the hall.

        Plus, I want to believe she’s found out about the Underground Becky Railroad that has been happening on the floor, though that is likely a stretch to say is even remotely canon yet.

        • Gwen
          Gwen
          February 17, 2017 at 2:18 pm | #

          I dunno, most of the other floor inhabitants knew and were helping hide Becky. Someone who knew Carla was trans might very well have assumed she’d be in at least basic solidarity and briefed her on the situation.

          • Pablo360
            Pablo360
            February 17, 2017 at 5:46 pm | #

            That does raise an interesting question: WHO knows that Carla is trans? The only people confirmed to be in on it are Sal and Ruth (and the Rutten parents, of course).

            • Cerberus
              Cerberus
              February 17, 2017 at 7:18 pm | #

              I’m gonna guess most of the sophomores do as well. And we definitely know Mary knows.

  40. Jackie
    Jackie
    February 17, 2017 at 12:50 am | #

    Even though everyone thinks Joyce is overreacting she’s actually right to be worried. I got a bacterial infection from a shower when I had a wound on my foot. It almost killed me twice, and I still haven’t fully recovered.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      February 17, 2017 at 1:01 am | #

      Ouch. That’s horrible. I hope you’ll get better.

    • Hellespont
      Hellespont
      February 17, 2017 at 1:45 am | #

      See kids, avoid a University education. It’ll kill you.

      Seriously though, here’s to a full recovery.

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      February 17, 2017 at 4:34 am | #

      Oh my. That’s a good point – any open wounds are indeed susceptible to infection.

      And as funny as Joyce’s shower stall fears are, I did get sick more times from college dorm living than I did in the rest of my pre-college life.

      • Dragon_Nataku
        Dragon_Nataku
        February 17, 2017 at 9:21 am | #

        I didn’t even have an open wound and still managed to get a big old wart growing inside my foot (so the bottom of my foot was still flat) that had to literally be dug out of my foot, all from using the dorm showers. Yaaaaaaaaaay…

        • JessWitt
          JessWitt
          February 17, 2017 at 8:36 pm | #

          Oh god, warts can grow INSIDE your body? That’s terrifying.

    • vlademir1
      vlademir1
      February 17, 2017 at 7:41 am | #

      Not all of us think so (even if I do find it amusing how she reacts in specific).

      Back when I was in college I knew plenty of people who went and worked out first thing in the morning then showered there because the facilities were better maintained both in terms of cleanliness and proper general maintenance. There was a neighborhood five minutes away where many people ended up living in apartments and rental houses to avoid most of that.

      @JessWitt There’s also the risk of conjunctivitis. I know at least two people who got shower stall nastiness inadvertently kicked in their face because of someone being an idiot.

    • CJ
      CJ
      February 17, 2017 at 2:24 pm | #

      Do you have to sign a waver or something that you won’t sue the University for dorm shower infections? If not, why is it not cheaper to have them cleaned at least twice a day?

  41. Ironshell04
    Ironshell04
    February 17, 2017 at 12:59 am | #

    As someone recovering from their third surgery for pilonidal disease, having spent over twenty years dealing with the stigma of this, I cringe every time I see the phrase “butt’s disease” on this comic. You make fun of things like this, you make people feel ashamed about health issues that are important not to let fester.

  42. Emperor Norton II
    Emperor Norton II
    February 17, 2017 at 1:11 am | #

    Carla: “My showers are like my revenges: Cold, swift, and absolutely ridiculous!”

  43. inqntrol
    inqntrol
    February 17, 2017 at 1:25 am | #

    So what’s Carla going to do with those jugs? Will she turn them into proper showers shoes for Joyce or roller skates?

    • inqntrol
      inqntrol
      February 17, 2017 at 1:28 am | #

      Or maybe she’ll create the first roller skates that can be also used as shower shoes.

      • A Scientist
        A Scientist
        February 17, 2017 at 1:29 am | #

        Shower skates!

        I’m sure there’s a market for it.

        • Delicious Taffy
          Delicious Taffy
          February 17, 2017 at 4:02 am | #

          The patients of shady doctors with a quota to fill, more than likely.

  44. A Scientist
    A Scientist
    February 17, 2017 at 1:30 am | #

    Hubris is among my favorite words.

    • Emperor Norton II
      Emperor Norton II
      February 17, 2017 at 1:50 am | #

      It’s one of those words I sort of know what is, but could never explain properly to another person.

      Oh, and because I’m weird, I like having a few of those words in my vocabulary, so feel free to -not- tell me exactly what it means.

      • OnyxIdol
        OnyxIdol
        February 17, 2017 at 8:31 am | #

        It just means excessive pride or arrogance. It’s really not that hard 😉

        • OnyxIdol
          OnyxIdol
          February 17, 2017 at 8:33 am | #

          Whoops, I didn’t ready the second paragraph ;^^. Gomen.

          • Emperor Norton II
            Emperor Norton II
            February 17, 2017 at 1:25 pm | #

            Minus 10 Imperial Internet Points for you!

      • JBento
        JBento
        February 17, 2017 at 9:19 am | #

        Emperor Norton II: “Gah, why won’t this thing hubris properly?”
        Courtier: “Er, sir, that’s not what hubris means.”
        ENII: “Hubris means what I want it to mean, for I am EMPEROR! -10 internet points!”
        Courtier: “Actually, sir, hubris is an actual word that means-”
        ENII: “A definition?! OFF WITH HIS INTERNET CONNECTION!”

        • Joe Covenant
          Joe Covenant
          February 17, 2017 at 11:59 am | #

          “That word you keep using…”

        • Emperor Norton II
          Emperor Norton II
          February 17, 2017 at 1:25 pm | #

          That’s the good thing about being emperor. We heartily recommend people trying it.

          As long as it’s emperor of something other than the internet, that is.

          • Emperor Daniel
            Emperor Daniel
            February 17, 2017 at 1:40 pm | #

            Recommendation taken under advisement.

        • Tenn
          Tenn
          February 17, 2017 at 5:25 pm | #

          “Man, it’s strawman in here! Won’t somebody fix the strawmanning strawman!”

      • 3oranges
        3oranges
        February 17, 2017 at 11:39 am | #

        Instead of a formal definition, I just think of it anything that gets you killed in Greek mythology. Taunting the power of grimyshowerflor would definitely do that.

        • Jhon
          Jhon
          February 17, 2017 at 7:41 pm | #

          I will do hubris to it!

  45. Hellespont
    Hellespont
    February 17, 2017 at 1:44 am | #

    I will give a bajilionty shemolians to anyone that sends me video of them walking, on a wet tiled floor, wearing gallon water jugs that have been cut in half and attached to Ugg boots.

    • Emperor Norton II
      Emperor Norton II
      February 17, 2017 at 1:58 am | #

      Heck, We will give no less than Ten Imperial Internet Points.

    • missilentmurmur
      missilentmurmur
      February 17, 2017 at 5:14 am | #

      unfortunately we neither have gallon water jugs nor UGG boots in my country, otherwise I would gladly provide you with the requested video

      • Hellespont
        Hellespont
        February 18, 2017 at 12:05 am | #

        Many shemolians to you, just for the thought.

  46. BenRG
    BenRG
    February 17, 2017 at 2:02 am | #

    I’ve got the feeling that Carla is one of those engineering minds that, if she sees a problem, she has to fix it; now. If she doesn’t, she’ll spend all the intervening time stressing about it. This will either make her a great friend or a horrible nag who is always trying to take over when you’re trying to do something and she’s convinced herself that you’re ‘doing it wrong’.

    Meanwhile, I’m just wondering who is going to come in next and just take in the sheer unimaginable oddness of Joyce writhing on the floor as if in agony whilst Carla is fiddling obsessively with… Are those half-jugs with shoelaces threaded through the open tops?

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      February 17, 2017 at 1:48 pm | #

      Yeah, it’s interesting to see Carla the fixer approaching all these scenarios with that “okay, there’s the problem, what’s the best solution” mind because I’ve had that mindset in the past (oh, you’re dealing with X, let me figure out the best solution for X and… oh, shoot, I’m forgetting to show empathy with regards to the emotions of dealing with X and need to learn to ask first before trying to help).

      And it’s interesting to see how that affects a lot of things, whether it be her revenge plan against Mary, her handling of Ruth’s depression, or her interventions with Amber’s face and Joyce’s jugs of shower resistance.

      And it’s why I think Billie calling her out on not trying to find out outside factors will be a good thing, because I think it will start her down a good pathway in the future of melding her solution-focus to the strong empathy and want to do right by people that she constantly tries to deny exists.

    • Fart Captor
      Fart Captor
      February 17, 2017 at 8:16 pm | #

      I feel the same way when I have to use a website that’s designed crappily, especially badly designed forms. It’s so frustrating to KNOW how easily something could have been done SO MUCH better, but not be able to fix it.

  47. Roast Chicken
    Roast Chicken
    February 17, 2017 at 2:11 am | #

    omg my bae half naked with a towel on Willis you tease me

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      February 17, 2017 at 4:01 am | #

      Objectification is a sin, you.

      • StClair
        StClair
        February 17, 2017 at 4:26 am | #

        And we are all sinners.

  48. Jackson
    Jackson
    February 17, 2017 at 2:29 am | #

    Is Joyce…not even about to take a shower? Is she just there to gloat?

    • Emperor Norton II
      Emperor Norton II
      February 17, 2017 at 2:40 am | #

      Indeed. But Joyce being Joyce, she cannot gloat about herself to other people, since that’s akin to pride, and pride is sinful.

      So her gloating about herself is to be done to inanimate objects only… Although I suppose some of those shower drains may have acquired a life of their own by now.

      • Emperor Daniel
        Emperor Daniel
        February 17, 2017 at 2:41 am | #

        It’s life . . . but not as we know it.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      February 17, 2017 at 2:56 am | #

      You are right! I completely missed that but she didn’t bring a towel or anything. She is just there to show the filth who is the boss!

      That’s awesome!

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      February 17, 2017 at 7:13 am | #

      A test run? Seeing if wet tile is too slippery? If the shoes wiill hold up that far without breaking?

      The idea of showing Carla here to bear witness and take charge of jug-shoe engineering is it’s own payoff. I want lasers!

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      February 17, 2017 at 7:30 am | #

      It was a test run. If the test failed, as it did, at least she’s properly dressed, not making direct contact.

      She’ll have to burn the clothes, of course.

  49. Queen Anthai
    Queen Anthai
    February 17, 2017 at 3:02 am | #

    butts butts butts butts butts

    • JessWitt
      JessWitt
      February 17, 2017 at 4:31 am | #

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f3RUzl86G8

    • butts
      butts
      February 17, 2017 at 5:44 pm | #

      WHADDYA WANT

  50. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    February 17, 2017 at 3:19 am | #

    On to plan B, Joyce.

    • podian
      podian
      February 17, 2017 at 7:17 am | #

      Butts?

      • butts
        butts
        February 17, 2017 at 5:44 pm | #

        You rang?

  51. Brian
    Brian
    February 17, 2017 at 6:27 am | #

    “Oh no! My hubris!” will be the next DoA book title.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      February 17, 2017 at 6:34 am | #

      Actually, I think that’s the title of Joyce’s in-universe autobiography.

    • Gwen
      Gwen
      February 17, 2017 at 2:21 pm | #

      I hope so. I love the line! It feels a little out of character for Joyce, but it was too good to pass up.

  52. L!ghtn!ng
    L!ghtn!ng
    February 17, 2017 at 6:43 am | #

    I was surprised at first that Joyce wore the shower shoes on top of her boots, but then I realized of course she does.

  53. Boomer Gonzales
    Boomer Gonzales
    February 17, 2017 at 7:21 am | #

    Seriously? Carla is straight bae right now. 😉

    • Fart Captor
      Fart Captor
      February 17, 2017 at 7:49 am | #

      Uh, actually, I think you mean “homoromantic bae”

  54. Lan
    Lan
    February 17, 2017 at 8:58 am | #

    Hehe… Butt contamination.

  55. JBento
    JBento
    February 17, 2017 at 9:19 am | #

    -10 pun points for not saying her butt is tainted instead.

  56. lightsabermario
    lightsabermario
    February 17, 2017 at 10:58 am | #

    Yeah, that talk between Joyce and Carla about Carla being trans might come sooner rather than later. Carla is currently wearing a fairly short towel, and Joyce is on the ground right now. If Joyce looks up, she might accidentally find out the quick way.

  57. CrockedCop
    CrockedCop
    February 17, 2017 at 12:03 pm | #

    Carla for RA!

  58. Commodore Jeep-Eep
    Commodore Jeep-Eep
    February 17, 2017 at 12:15 pm | #

    Oh god, not her again.

  59. Sugarfat Blackman
    Sugarfat Blackman
    February 17, 2017 at 1:19 pm | #

    “Oh no! My hubris!”

    This will be the single most important thing Joyce learns at college.

  60. znk
    znk
    February 17, 2017 at 2:39 pm | #

    Help! My Butt Is Contaminated!
    An Autobiography by Dave Willis.

  61. SirRobin
    SirRobin
    February 17, 2017 at 2:44 pm | #

    Funnier if you hear Joyce in Pinkie Pie’s voice like I do

  62. kkiten
    kkiten
    February 17, 2017 at 4:44 pm | #

    Carla is so cute in this comic! Its nice to see a gap in her usual “I’m an asshole I hate you” facade. But it’s still there and I love it.

  63. Tenn
    Tenn
    February 17, 2017 at 5:28 pm | #

    My Butt is Contaminated by the Sludgy Grip of the Grimy Shower Floor — an erotic novel by Chuck Tingle.

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      February 18, 2017 at 12:29 am | #

      you mean

      CONTAMINATED IN THE BUTT BY THE SLUDGY GRIP OF THE GRIMY SHOWER FLOOR

      FROM HUGO AWARD NOMINATED AUTHOR CHUCK TINGLE

  64. Karishi
    Karishi
    February 17, 2017 at 7:35 pm | #

    Even as a human, UltraCar has no tolerance for shoddy engineering.

  65. trlkly
    trlkly
    February 17, 2017 at 11:54 pm | #

    I hope it doesn’t offend anyone, but Carla is hella hot here. She’s got legs for days, and, then, for some reason, I find wet hair attractive. Noticed it in college, when a girl I’d never given a second thought to came to my room after a shower. Weird.

    And then what Carla is doing is kinda hot, too.

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