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Dumbing of Age
David M Willis
Joyce has been homeschooled her entire life until now, when she's suddenly a freshman in college! Things don't go well.
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Josceline Fenton
A witch accidentally marries a monster, and now she and her familiar has to navigate life around her monstrous husband and her even more terrifying in-laws.
All Known Alternatives
Karolina 'Kajotko' Jankiewicz
Akane has only one way to get back home: collect the 42 keys to parallel worlds. Eri and Ben are just trying to get through the summer before university. When a magical key turns up in an old spare set, all three are forced to change their plans and fast.
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Given how Billie, Ruth or both at the same time are usually so… Byronic about their love (as though Lady Gaga had written “Bad Romance” just for them), I treasure moments like these when at least one of them is lighthearted and playful about it.
Well, Billie did get pushed in the hall by Ruth that one time in just panties since she took her jersey back, so I mean, that’s not out of character for it to go that way
There is a musical number about a related premise in the Gilbert & Sullivan play The Pirates of Penzance, but the hacked Muzak is not equipped to play it, so I’ll spare you.
Anybody for Cher?
Welp. This is it. He’s peaked. This is the best Dumbing of Age strip that ever has been or will be. All bow before the once and future king of punchlines.
Billie’s got her glasses back on. Is she going to try and do a double life thing? Former cheerleader, problem solver, at her new dorm and Billie the recovering alcoholic in a lesbian death pact in her old one? That doesn’t seem healthy.
I think that she’s genuinely trying to get herself out of the mindset of ‘waiting to die’. I suppose that cleaning up the place and making it a living, working room is part of re-aligning her psychology and world-view.
They are ridiculous and beautiful, and I’m very worried for their relationship because Ruth seems to be getting increasingly clingy in response to Billie getting other friends and That Can’t Be Good.
No-one in authority seems to have questioned Ruth ordering furniture for a second student. This might be me but I suspect that, irrespective of any promises Chloe may have made to Clint’s face to get him out of the building without causing a ruckus, the official policy will be to look the other way if Billie wants to openly move into Ruth’s room.
I’m really excited for them to build back up into something healthier now that Ruth is getting help, hopefully with Billie getting the help she needs too. They’re kind of horribly good for each other, in their weird way, and they love each other, and I love them.
I thought lack of parents was Batman’s superpower (assuming you ignore money, which you are supposed to do because it raises awkward political concerns in his case).
In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.
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sweet in its own way
Billie and Ruth’s relationship in a nutshell.
Most of the relationships in this strip in a nutshell.
Given how Billie, Ruth or both at the same time are usually so… Byronic about their love (as though Lady Gaga had written “Bad Romance” just for them), I treasure moments like these when at least one of them is lighthearted and playful about it.
Hopefully it’s indicative of things to come- heavens know Ruth deserves happy in some universe.
*to be happy. Ew to morning grammar.
“I beat myself up over it”
Haha
At least Ruth can laugh at herself… for a moment.
I’m unsure whether she was calling herself or Billie an idiot with that statement, though.
I thought herself, since she was the one who brought up orphans, but either works.
So… this means she pantsed Howard and stole his chair…?
ah noooooo, I’m still Douchey McTwatWaffle. Time to figure out how to fix that
Awwww, Twue Wuv!
Mawwiage
Sewwwx
ITYM Intah-cawse
What’s the diwwwwwffferencwwwee
Hey, you’re the one that brought up orphans, Ruth. Don’t go shouting.
So… it’s Howard’s?
A folding chair is probably the only thing Gramps would let them keep.
If so… wash it first.
trust me, unless he gets off on cold metal it doesn’t need washing…a new cushion maybe, but not a washing.
Unless he sat in it post-pantsing.
Even still, just give it a quick pass with disinfectant cleaning wipes and it will be fine.
He calls it his Iron Throne.
She stole it from herself. From the future.
You figure she’d remember pantsing herself.
That’s where this encounter with Billie is going.
Well, Billie did get pushed in the hall by Ruth that one time in just panties since she took her jersey back, so I mean, that’s not out of character for it to go that way
Thief didn’t.
That 8-Bit Theater reference made me happy inside–I pretty much never see people bringing it up anymore.
Stealing things – the benchmark of love.
This is more of a chairmark…
There is a musical number about a related premise in the Gilbert & Sullivan play The Pirates of Penzance, but the hacked Muzak is not equipped to play it, so I’ll spare you.
Anybody for Cher?
And then there’s the Higgs boson hornpipe
I’ve listened to that song orphan / orften.
*slow clap*
Did you mean orphan frequently?
This is kind of cute
This is adorable in a weird sort of way.
Maybe next time you can take a swing at stealing a box of chocolate from Mary’s boyfriend as a Valentine’s Day gift.
Nah, it’d be religiously themed chocolate and no one would want it.
…Or would they? I could see a snarky character enjoying biting the head off of chocolate Jesuses.
…Yes, that’s really a thing. Google image search finds all sorts of Jesuses in chocolate, some with bites out of them.
Chocolate is chocolate, mate.
It would be carob, because God wants people to suffer.
gonna be honest, wanted to see how the rest of that orphan story played out
I’m digging this foreplay.
It’s really a “doing” desk, not a study desk. And, now, they do it on the desk!
~bonding~
Donate the desk to charity and then take it back.
Welp. This is it. He’s peaked. This is the best Dumbing of Age strip that ever has been or will be. All bow before the once and future king of punchlines.
This is goddamn amazing.
in the name of roomies, it’s walky, and shortpacked, amen
I dunno, Becky and Dina kissing for the third time was pretty hard to surpass.
“Put that desk back where it came from, or so help me…”
Sorry, that was the first funny thing I thought of. I am drunk and sleep-deprived.
Really sounding like Billie has some odd sexual mores.
And/or she falls into character really easily.
Why not both?
I lean toward the “and” in “and/or” as well!
And thus was born the first Dread Pantser Roberts.
Billie’s got her glasses back on. Is she going to try and do a double life thing? Former cheerleader, problem solver, at her new dorm and Billie the recovering alcoholic in a lesbian death pact in her old one? That doesn’t seem healthy.
“That doesn’t seem healthy” will be the title of the first omnibus Dumbing of Age hardcover collection, if there is any justice in the world.
MAKE THIS HAPPEN, WILLIS
Billie? Do something that doesn’t seem healthy? How could such an idea even occur to you?
Of course she wouldn’t do anything unhealthy. She’s far too smart for that. After all, she’s got great intuition.
As usual with these two, I’m left wondering just how healthy this is.
It’s not and it’s still wonderful. That’s kind of the point.
I audibly went “Awwwwwwwwww.” for like ten whole minutes upon reading this.
Ruth sure keeps her murder cave tidy.
I think that she’s genuinely trying to get herself out of the mindset of ‘waiting to die’. I suppose that cleaning up the place and making it a living, working room is part of re-aligning her psychology and world-view.
And yet still another of those orange trash cans. They seem to be multiplying.
The orphans keep making new ones as the old one disappear.
You’re an orphan …
And an orphan was pantsed …
Tell me more
I love this strip. Makes me feel more normal every damn day
I’ve got this feeling that Billie finds all the wrong things about Ruth arousing.
Ahh, stealing, the ultimate form of romance.
That’s TOTALLY romantic, panel 5 Billie
By panel six Billie gets it. Look at the hair twirl.
AND a lip bite. My, my. I think someone scores tonight (not Leafs)
At this.point I’d find out what day it is in-universe and research the Leafs’ success. But who are we kidding? (Not Leafs) is an all purpose axiom.
Lovin’ that top Billie’s got on. Fantastic color.
They are ridiculous and beautiful, and I’m very worried for their relationship because Ruth seems to be getting increasingly clingy in response to Billie getting other friends and That Can’t Be Good.
No-one in authority seems to have questioned Ruth ordering furniture for a second student. This might be me but I suspect that, irrespective of any promises Chloe may have made to Clint’s face to get him out of the building without causing a ruckus, the official policy will be to look the other way if Billie wants to openly move into Ruth’s room.
“Looking the other way” DOES seem to be a favorite method for Chloe.
Moving Billie was never about them living together it was about Ruth not being a direct authority over Billie so they could safely look the other way.
Well… Kinda. It depends on how much Chloe allows “Sir” to influence how she handles the situation.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/03-the-thing-i-was-before/waitlist/
I’m really excited for them to build back up into something healthier now that Ruth is getting help, hopefully with Billie getting the help she needs too. They’re kind of horribly good for each other, in their weird way, and they love each other, and I love them.
They’re starting to remind me of Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn’s characters in the House Sitter.
She’s an orphan, which means she knows all of the orphans’ weaknesses. Lack of parents, for instance.
Excess of dead parents for another.
Excess of grandparents as well, although that might not be an universal weakness of orphans. Maybe it’s just her and Howard.
I thought lack of parents was Batman’s superpower (assuming you ignore money, which you are supposed to do because it raises awkward political concerns in his case).
i have a hard time imagining any version of Batman that doesn’t raise awkward political concerns.
I don’t care who you are, this is both d’aww and funny!