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July 11, 2026

Seclusion

by David M Willis on November 15, 2019 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - Birthday Pursuit
└ Tags: becky, dorothy, grace, joyce, mandy, sarah

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    November 15, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

    I plan to resign before I ever become important enough for them to want to throw me (specifically) a party at work*

    the last three surprise parties we did for the upper guys were an embarrassment and I super wanted a closet of antisocialism for myself… unfortunately, that’s the file room

    (the bathroom, for SOME REASON people go in there and TALK ON THE PHONE)

    [to people who KNOW that the talker is IN THE BATHROOM]

    *”what about a going-away party” luckily, the last folks who resigned, our office has been so disorganized that they just got to fuck off w/o any fanfare

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      November 15, 2019 at 12:18 am | #

      I’ve discovered how to avoid celebrating my birthday at work. A few days before, the HR lady asks you what treat you’d like her to buy for everyone.

      If you go for the obvious choice, cake, then they will drag you and everyone into the conference room at lunch and do the candles and sing the dreadful song and everything.

      On the other hand if you ask for bagels or donuts, then they will put them out first thing in the morning before everyone arrives, and people just come by and help themselves throughout the day. No interrupting your workday for a gathering no one wants to attend, and no being sang at.

      • Clif
        Clif
        November 15, 2019 at 12:27 am | #

        I sense a market for singing doughnut candles.

      • Khyrin
        Khyrin
        November 15, 2019 at 7:11 am | #

        at my last paying job, the head manager and HR rep take everyone born that month out for a meal on a set day. For ease of accounting, if you’re on-duty that day, you clock out for lunch and get back-dated as having returned to work 30 minutes later, no matter how long the lunch runs.(Yes, there were people who end up finishing their shift at the lunch and have to roll back into work just to clock out.) My first year working there, everyone was deeply confused when I rolled up in my normal clothes instead of my work outfit, as I wasn’t scheduled that day, then ordered the ribs at a mexican joint.

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        November 15, 2019 at 11:54 am | #

        Our office is too small for that, also our HR is in a different state (NJ, we’re Delmarva)

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      November 15, 2019 at 12:35 am | #

      Who is this “Jen Aside” and what has she done with Ana Chronistic?

      • Clif
        Clif
        November 15, 2019 at 12:40 am | #

        You might as well ask, who is this Dr. Jekyll and what have they done with that nice Mr. Hyde?

        • Marsh Maryrose
          Marsh Maryrose
          November 15, 2019 at 12:58 am | #

          I think you have the alignments reversed there. 🙂

          I am wondering if the mysterious Sue Aside is lurking around somewhere.

          • LeslieBean4shizzle
            LeslieBean4shizzle
            November 15, 2019 at 10:01 am | #

            … is “Sue Aside” claimed by anyone?
            Cause I am seriously tempted to grab that one.
            And not just because it would let me do the old Tiny Toons “no relation” joke.

            • JBento
              JBento
              November 15, 2019 at 10:37 am | #

              Yes – it’s part of the Jen Aside/Ana Chronistic ensemble.

              • Sue Aside
                Sue Aside
                November 15, 2019 at 11:53 am | #

                o hi

                • JBento
                  JBento
                  November 15, 2019 at 2:12 pm | #

                  *waves*

              • BarerMender
                BarerMender
                November 15, 2019 at 5:14 pm | #

                Jen Aside. I just now got it.

            • Marsh Maryrose
              Marsh Maryrose
              November 15, 2019 at 5:47 pm | #

              There’s a whole branch of the Aside family that hasn’t been claimed yet. Just off the top of my head, there’s Reg, Herb, Phil, and Pear, and there’s plenty more.

              • Marsh Maryrose
                Marsh Maryrose
                November 15, 2019 at 6:02 pm | #

                But whatever you do, don’t invite Phil Aside and Pear Aside to the same party.

                • Jen Aside
                  Jen Aside
                  November 16, 2019 at 12:27 am | #

                  off the cuff:

                  Amb, Basil, Bi, Caan, Christ, Dee, Eek, Fam, Fell, Flor, Gaine, Herb, Herp, Herr, Host, Jen, Jerm, Louse, Luke, Mareet, Pére, Pest, Phil, Ratte, Reg, Scab, Sen, Set, Site, Soarer, Spurm, Sue, Tairan, Tar, Veer, Zarr

                • Jen Aside
                  Jen Aside
                  November 16, 2019 at 1:34 am | #

                  come to think of it, I DID put Pére and Phil in the same party

    • Rabid Rabbit
      Rabid Rabbit
      November 15, 2019 at 12:44 am | #

      Really? Your file room is full of Randroids?

      Sorry, sorry. I was just too amused at the thought of an anti-socialism closet, as opposed to an anti-sociability closet.

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      November 15, 2019 at 12:47 am | #

      Anyway, I’m under the impression that no one under the age of 40 gives a rats ass if they, or the person on the other end of the call, is in the bathroom.

      • sidehack
        sidehack
        November 15, 2019 at 11:25 am | #

        Once again I am happy to be an exception.

      • Diane
        Diane
        November 15, 2019 at 5:05 pm | #

        I completely care if you are trying to talk to me while in the bathroom. I hate phones and really don’t want to hear you peeing/shitting/whatevering in the bathroom. I’d already be uncomfortable being on the phone, don’t really need to hear someone doing their business on the other end.

  2. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    November 15, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

    I’m trying to figure out what Grace’s outfit is. She sort of looks like she’s wearing a jumpsuit over a white turtleneck? With a nametag?

    Is she a 1960s spy / aviatrix / stewardess?

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      November 15, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

      Thunderbirds cosplay.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        November 15, 2019 at 12:12 am | #

        She does sort of have Lady Penelope vibes, doesn’t she?

        • Marsh Maryrose
          Marsh Maryrose
          November 15, 2019 at 12:50 am | #

          I didn’t understand until you named Lady Penelope, but Valdvin absolutely nailed it.

          • ValdVin
            ValdVin
            November 15, 2019 at 2:18 am | #

            I watched more of that show than absolutely necessary when it was broadcast on over-the-air TV.

            • Marsh Maryrose
              Marsh Maryrose
              November 15, 2019 at 2:44 am | #

              Young me watched that show the way that young Willis watched Transformers. I was absolutely the target audience.

              • anonamousethatscurriesinthedarkness
                anonamousethatscurriesinthedarkness
                November 15, 2019 at 10:45 am | #

                I wasn’t all that enamoured with that show.[has the corgies]
                It was on the same level as stingray, joe90 and fireball was even lower on the list.
                Now Captain Scarlet was awesome in my books at the time as was UFO and that one season of Space 1999.
                [there was no second season, just like there was no Star Trek The Movie]

                • StClair
                  StClair
                  November 15, 2019 at 5:49 pm | #

                  I’m a bit further along; UFO et al were before my time, but I loved 1999 as a kid, had an Eagle and everything.

              • Roborat
                Roborat
                November 15, 2019 at 3:59 pm | #

                As did I, I have fond memories of my favourite toy, the Thunderbirds 2 toy, was a favourite possession for years.

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      November 15, 2019 at 12:50 am | #

      She looks like either a Fed trying to infiltrate, or maybe a crosstime spy.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        November 15, 2019 at 12:56 am | #

        Plot twist: she’s an undercover agent who knows Blaine may show up and is running a sting operation to arrest him for his mob connections. As soon as he and Toedad show up, she busts out the kung fu.

        Or else she’s looking for moose and squirrel.

        Man, I’m showing far too much awareness of sixties pop culture tonight. I’m not that old, I swear.

        • Geneseepaws
          Geneseepaws
          November 15, 2019 at 8:26 am | #

          Was it upsie-dasium or unobtanium that Boris was after, Can’t remember?

          • Doctor_Who
            Doctor_Who
            November 15, 2019 at 8:46 am | #

            It was upsie-dasium. Unobtainium is from Avatar.

            Fascinating how the cheapo spy parody cartoon from 50 years ago and the mega blockbuster from 10 years ago gave an equal number of fucks about making the macguffin sound in any way real.

            • Bicycle Bill
              Bicycle Bill
              November 15, 2019 at 9:04 am | #

              I think the term “unobtainium” (alt spelling: unobtanium) predates “Avatar” by quite a bit.

              • thejeff
                thejeff
                November 15, 2019 at 11:00 am | #

                It’s been in use in engineering since the 50s and in science fiction about as long.

              • Shane Wegner
                Shane Wegner
                November 16, 2019 at 6:49 am | #

                Agreed, the idea in Avatar was that the sassy brats who found the metal deliberately named it after the pre-existing term unobtanium because it actually had a lot of nearly impossible and valuable properties.

                Engineering has been using it as a phrase for “we don’t have any material which can fulfill the requirements for tensile strength/conductivity/weight/etc at any price today, but who knows maybe will someday”.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      November 15, 2019 at 2:34 am | #

      I think it’s just a yellow stripe, not a name tag.

      Found the character model for it on the DoA Tumblr.

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        November 15, 2019 at 8:10 am | #

        The yellow stripe was an unofficial symbol for SEMME in the Walkyverse, IIRC. It’s leaked over into the Dumbiverse a couple of times.

        • Bicycle Bill
          Bicycle Bill
          November 15, 2019 at 9:11 am | #

          Yeah, Sal had it on her swimsuit when the group took off to Lake Monroe. https://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-2/01-pajama-jeans/acumen/

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          November 15, 2019 at 11:48 am | #

          It was, and it has. I think it was actually part of the outfit Willis used as a source, funny enough. There’s nothing but that model on the Tumblr, but IIRC he posted photos of the real jacket on Twitter around the same time.

    • FacelessDeviant
      FacelessDeviant
      November 15, 2019 at 9:15 am | #

      Whatever it is, its damn cool!

    • Ryek Hvek
      Ryek Hvek
      November 15, 2019 at 10:39 am | #

      What first came to mind was Tony Daytona from the Luann comic strip

    • JBento
      JBento
      November 15, 2019 at 10:41 am | #

      I’m thinking race car driver.

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      November 15, 2019 at 4:28 pm | #

      I saw Grace mentioned, so I went back to the strip to look for the cameo of our favourite squirrel powered superhero, only to realize you were talking about someone else.

  3. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    November 15, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

    I wonder what the decor is.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      November 15, 2019 at 12:24 am | #

      Dina plans to slowly replace more and more of the things in her dorm room with dinosaurs. Her bed is already gone, the chairs will be next, then the desks. The ceiling fan will be a spinning archaeopteryx, the light fixtures will be bulbs in the mouths of compsognathus, this will be the TV.

      The last straw will be when Amber goes out as Amazi-Girl and realizes too late that she’s wearing a Barney costume.

      • Chris Phoenix
        Chris Phoenix
        November 15, 2019 at 12:49 am | #

        No, the light fixtures will be lambeosaurs breathing flame.

        (…Just kidding!)

        • StClair
          StClair
          November 15, 2019 at 5:50 pm | #

          “It’s a living.”

  4. Danielle
    Danielle
    November 15, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

    ruth runs on gay now

    • Deathjavu
      Deathjavu
      November 15, 2019 at 12:26 am | #

      It’s also a renewable resource like spite, but with none of the toxic emissions! The future of energy.

      • Danielle
        Danielle
        November 15, 2019 at 12:42 am | #

        being gay is good for the environment

  5. Joe Moose
    Joe Moose
    November 15, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

    I thought America runs on Starbucks nowadays.

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      November 15, 2019 at 12:27 am | #

      America runs on Dunkin’.

      • butts
        butts
        November 15, 2019 at 1:11 am | #

        fruit flies run on a banana wait what

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      November 15, 2019 at 12:54 am | #

      Liberal weenie yuppie satanic atheist “America” runs on Starbucks.

      Real America runs on Dunkin’

      • AbelUndercity
        AbelUndercity
        November 15, 2019 at 5:17 am | #

        On behalf of liberal weenie yuppie Satanic “America,” I take offense at your claim that I consume overpriced swill when my locally owned coffee shop is right there.

        • anonamousethatscurriesinthedarkness
          anonamousethatscurriesinthedarkness
          November 15, 2019 at 11:36 am | #

          What?
          You aren’t a mass consumer of flavoured, sugared, oiled up carbonized coffee beans that were not even fit as an industrial source of insecticide?

          • AbelUndercity
            AbelUndercity
            November 15, 2019 at 4:54 pm | #

            Shhh! If the Starbucks Cops get wind of me they’ll drag me in to serve out a sentence of some “venti” milkshake monstrosity.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      November 15, 2019 at 1:09 am | #

      I thought America ran on a mix of converting fossil fuels into greenhouse gasses, exploitative labor practices, maximizing wealth disparity, and fantasies that all of those things are just fine.

      • plasticwrap
        plasticwrap
        November 15, 2019 at 2:27 am | #

        You forgot the arms manufacturing.

        • Reltzik
          Reltzik
          November 15, 2019 at 3:03 am | #

          Oops, yes, how silly of me. And probably a dozen other things. All of which synthesize so perfectly with the fantasies that none of it’s a problem.

        • Keulen
          Keulen
          November 15, 2019 at 3:17 am | #

          And a shitty healthcare system.

          • StClair
            StClair
            November 15, 2019 at 1:59 pm | #

            Our five weapons are…

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      November 15, 2019 at 2:36 am | #

      Starburnt coffee.

      We run on fahkin Dunks heah, ked!

      • anonamousethatscurriesinthedarkness
        anonamousethatscurriesinthedarkness
        November 15, 2019 at 11:38 am | #

        Ah, if only there were those olde tyme Timmies instead of the abomination that it has become under the direction of 3G Capital

  6. StClair
    StClair
    November 15, 2019 at 12:09 am | #

    “Actually, I totally can.”

  7. lawoot
    lawoot
    November 15, 2019 at 12:09 am | #

    So where’s Mandy? I see Dorothy in the background…

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      November 15, 2019 at 12:13 am | #

      Panel 2, next to Grace. Joyce is upstaging her.

      (Yes, I just used upstage in a figurative sense when she is actually downstaging Mandy instead. Bite me.)

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        November 15, 2019 at 12:23 am | #

        Turn in your megaphone, jodhpurs, and beret, stat. You’ll never direct in this town again!

    • RacingTurtle
      RacingTurtle
      November 15, 2019 at 12:55 am | #

      Dorothy’s tag fell off! She needs to turn around and put it back on

  8. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    November 15, 2019 at 12:11 am | #

    Sarah, you can’t run on apathy. Haven’t you seen RWBY volume 6? Apathy kills you slowly, like mean spirited comments from Walkyverse Mike and DOA Malaya. Rage, lust, envy, hatred, craziness, gluttony, greed, and other negative emotions can fuel you somehow, but apathy is the opposite. It’s like leaving all fuel out of your car flow out, and then when a spark of spite sparks your car gets burned down and explodes.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      November 15, 2019 at 12:23 am | #

      Those were depression apathy.

      This is aloof apathy.

      • PSadlon
        PSadlon
        November 15, 2019 at 1:16 am | #

        Apathy doesn’t kill you, it leaves you undead. I should know as I’ve shrugged off electrocution, car accidents, 8 legged Ebola, being stung by a nest of ants, blood pressures that’d drop a healthier man, & death by sleep. I’m honestly more than a bit tired of it all but I can’t be bothered to try to figure out anything short of “when it’s my time, it’s my time.”

        • Kensou
          Kensou
          November 15, 2019 at 5:07 am | #

          Damn, you should consider becoming a Hunter, if you’re not one already.

          (Also, respect for Samurai Showdown Jubei icon!)

  9. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    November 15, 2019 at 12:11 am | #

    “You… can’t possibly care enough to stay in there all night?”

    • PSadlon
      PSadlon
      November 15, 2019 at 1:19 am | #

      “You’re right. I’ll pop out and ignore you when nature calls a/o I get hongry.

  10. Jess
    Jess
    November 15, 2019 at 12:12 am | #

    Amurica Runn no DunDun

  11. PHNX
    PHNX
    November 15, 2019 at 12:12 am | #

    It’s a social faux pas to mis your misanthropes, Joyce!

  12. Bagge
    Bagge
    November 15, 2019 at 12:15 am | #

    Glad to see Dorothy found a kindred spirit at the party and can get some political networking in.

    Dorothy, meet lamp. Lamp, meet Dorothy

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      November 15, 2019 at 12:24 am | #

      My god, you’re right!

      Why is Lamp not tagged?

      • Clif
        Clif
        November 15, 2019 at 12:30 am | #

        The night is too young for paraphrasing.

        • Clif
          Clif
          November 15, 2019 at 12:31 am | #

          What? Try 2. The night is too young for lampshading.

    • Deathjavu
      Deathjavu
      November 15, 2019 at 1:36 am | #

      Whoa whoa whoa, that’s “aide”. Winners don’t know their aide’s names!

  13. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    November 15, 2019 at 12:27 am | #

    Panel one: Just the tilt of Joyce’s torso really tells the viewer how Sarah had to be dragged here.

    Good, efficient showing-not-telling which gives Willis the space to have a beat panel later on.

  14. Woomy
    Woomy
    November 15, 2019 at 12:28 am | #

    What’s Tiffany from the Luann comics doing at this party?

    • Otter
      Otter
      November 15, 2019 at 12:31 am | #

      Just beat me to it! The resemblance is too strong to be purely coincidental.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      November 15, 2019 at 12:35 am | #

      That’s Grace. She’s been around.

      • Slartibeast Button, BIA
        Slartibeast Button, BIA
        November 15, 2019 at 2:52 am | #

        No slut-shaming!

        • JBento
          JBento
          November 15, 2019 at 10:40 am | #

          +1 internets for you.

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          November 15, 2019 at 4:42 pm | #

          A+ wordplay.

    • Clif
      Clif
      November 15, 2019 at 12:35 am | #

      Being Graceful.

      • Clif
        Clif
        November 15, 2019 at 12:42 am | #

        Which beats being ninja-ed.

  15. BBCC
    BBCC
    November 15, 2019 at 12:35 am | #

    Hi, Grace! <3

    I love you Sarah.

  16. Qube
    Qube
    November 15, 2019 at 12:35 am | #

    these days she runs on antidepressants, mostly

  17. Pocky
    Pocky
    November 15, 2019 at 12:54 am | #

    Joyce must run on babies then.

    • abysswatcher1993
      abysswatcher1993
      November 15, 2019 at 1:27 am | #

      She runs towards babies.

    • MutantSentry
      MutantSentry
      November 15, 2019 at 3:23 pm | #

      I think that’s illegal

  18. Slartibeast Button, BIA
    Slartibeast Button, BIA
    November 15, 2019 at 12:56 am | #

    I thought Ruth ran on bone marrow from all those femurs.

    • abysswatcher1993
      abysswatcher1993
      November 15, 2019 at 1:28 am | #

      What a waste of precious bine marrow to treat cancer.

      • abysswatcher1993
        abysswatcher1993
        November 15, 2019 at 1:28 am | #

        bone*

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      November 15, 2019 at 8:14 am | #

      Ruth DOES suck the marrow out of life, now.

  19. Katherine
    Katherine
    November 15, 2019 at 1:06 am | #

    Forgot to tag the back of Dorothy’s head in panel 3

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      November 15, 2019 at 1:51 am | #

      Plot twist: that’s not Dorothy, it’s just a cardboard cutout.

  20. Suet
    Suet
    November 15, 2019 at 1:50 am | #

    Sure, America runs on Dunkin’, but Energizer keeps going and going and going.

    If you’re so smart, Sarah, get past Joyce’s double negative

  21. Keulen
    Keulen
    November 15, 2019 at 3:21 am | #

    Joyce is technically correct in panel 4. Eventually I’m assuming Sarah will have to leave that room to use the bathroom or get a drink of water or something.

  22. BenRG
    BenRG
    November 15, 2019 at 6:33 am | #

    I’d offer Sarah a hug but something tells me that human contact is the last thing that she wants right now!

    I wonder if she’s locked in there with Danny?

  23. Nono
    Nono
    November 15, 2019 at 7:45 am | #

    Joyce recovered from the Jacob thing really quickly, huh.

    • LibertyRazor
      LibertyRazor
      November 15, 2019 at 7:58 am | #

      It wasn’t really anything more than a crush. Also, she’s probably the character most able to bounce back from bad events.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        November 15, 2019 at 10:58 am | #

        Or she’s putting on a happy face for her friends party.

        I expect we’ll see more fallout from it.

        • Diane
          Diane
          November 15, 2019 at 12:28 pm | #

          This. Joyce is known for happy, must be happy, must people please.

          I’m feeling slightly a jerk, and kinda hope Jacob was invited and comes to the party, knowing full well Joyce will be here. And, you know, chaos ensues. (Side note, I really, deep down, hope he DOESN’T come, but it’s a comic about growing up, there’s gonna be drama.)

          • JBento
            JBento
            November 15, 2019 at 2:09 pm | #

            This doesn’t seem likely – at the time the party was planned Jacob was still together with Raidah, and I’m pretty sure no-one would have HER at Sarah’s party.

            • Diane
              Diane
              November 15, 2019 at 2:15 pm | #

              Ah, I did not factor that in. Yeah, that makes tons more sense, less to worry about.

  24. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    November 15, 2019 at 9:25 am | #

    Kinda sad.

  25. JBento
    JBento
    November 15, 2019 at 10:39 am | #

    As an asocial introvert, I heavily and personally resent Joyce’s course of action here (and in several other situations).

    • Diane
      Diane
      November 15, 2019 at 12:22 pm | #

      As an overly shy, gets panic attacks from too much going on person, I completely agree. I kinda get Joyce THINKS she’s helping, but she’s not, and really needs to stop doing this stuff against people’s wishes.

  26. Diane
    Diane
    November 15, 2019 at 12:23 pm | #

    Maaan…wish my family get togethers had a room I could hide in, away from everyone. I just hog a bathroom when it gets too much.

  27. MutantSentry
    MutantSentry
    November 15, 2019 at 3:26 pm | #

    Is Crisis on Infinite Earth’s going on outside?

  28. TheFlamingonator
    TheFlamingonator
    November 15, 2019 at 4:49 pm | #

    Where are the refreshments? The fabled American Red Cups? and most importantly WHERE IS THE DOG.

    Y’all can probably tell who I’d be at this party.

  29. BarerMender
    BarerMender
    November 15, 2019 at 5:30 pm | #

    Hard to believe Sarah is old enough to remember Lesley Gore.

  30. APersonAmI
    APersonAmI
    November 15, 2019 at 9:32 pm | #

    *sigh*

    Consent, Joyce. I really hope that one day, eventually, you will know its glory.

  31. John
    John
    November 16, 2019 at 11:20 pm | #

    It’s funny because in IW! Sarah actually was the character whose job was to believe the exact opposite of everything Joyce believed.

    • John
      John
      November 16, 2019 at 11:20 pm | #

      Or, well, Roomies!, anyway. Walkyverse.

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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1h
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Raidah approaches the Read Hall center desk while Asma sits there at a laptop.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1h
some adult in pokemon: it's weird, nobody's ever seen a pokemon egg before! for thousands of years, no pokemon eggs have ever been discovered by humans! ash: well let's go find one! *fifteen minutes later* ash: oh hey
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3h
Always up for a bonus taking-a-shit face
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 8h
Raidah!
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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social ⋅ 17h
Still researching old sleaze paperbacks and legitimately wondering if the book designer asked the author or editor what should be the tagline at the top and they mumbled out the above tagline and the book designer just...wrote it down.
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Amen break whenever Mario vibrates extremely rapidly while emitting a barrage of "ha", "hoo", and "hmm" soundbites
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In Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, crouch-walking against a switch will make Mario vibrate extremely rapidly while emitting a barrage of "ha", "hoo", and "hmm" soundbites.
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UNIT DLX @unitdlx.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Terrible news! The back of box render for the Classified Series Legacy Firefighter seems to imply Shipwreck's house caught on fire.
The back of box render for the GI Joe Classified Series Legacy Collection Firefighter. A firefighter in the foreground poses dramatically with the jaws of life. Another firefighter in the background sprays a wrecked car with foam. A third firefighter even further back escorts a man away from a burning house.
A firefighter escorting a man wrapped in a fire blanket away from a burning house. The man bears a strong resemblance to the GI Joe Classified Shipwreck figyre.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 9h
"explore the unknown"? mary, it's new york city, this is at least your third time here, and the last time you were here you got mad at your taxi driver for using a gps
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 9h
one of the kids yelled at the other to "drink my BUTT" and i've just picked up a new invective
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D8
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com ⋅ 20h
Dem Party: We are spending $20M to figure out how to talk to male voters. Mamdani: Save your money. I have +45 favorability with male voters & +73 with men under 45. Endorse me. Dem Party: No way dude. Now—why is our favorability is -54? Let's spend $20M on wealthy consultants to figure it out!
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Dumbing of Age: "Supplier" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomics #webcomic
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 19h
toxic yuri
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 20h
Asma!
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
not sure that beats "for sale: baby shoes, never worn"
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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
If JD Vance were a true Catholic instead of defending Trump he would simply assign him to be President of another country
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Kory Bing🔜SDCC 1229 @korybing.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Every webcomic has two stories: the story the artist is telling and the meta story of watching an artist make creative choices over the course of many, many years. You get to watch art evolve and change in real time.
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not to wax poetic about webcomics but I think one of the best things about webcomics is that reading them forces you to confront the fact that artists evolve and change over time, and that "style" is a necessarily evolving thing
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
what time is it? it's time for hasbro fan expo to reveal their "buy $$$$$ of stuff and get one of 200 handpainted-by-acrylics optimus primes" thingers, while every dipshit on the internet gets mad that their copy of optimus prime isn't also handpainted with acrylics, for free
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
love this sketchy penciled alice
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Jim Davis Reveals He Studied Musculature Of Medical Cadavers To Properly Draw Jon theonion.com/jim-dav...
Jim Davis Reveals He Studied Musculature Of Medical Cadavers To Properly Draw Jon
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
me at the coldplay show
A screenshot from the US version of the TV show The Office. Michael Scott is being gently held from behind by a Holly Flax.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Dumbing of Age: "Implausible" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomics #webcomic
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Walmart.com was careful to cancel everyone's Sideways preorders today to remind us there's no point in preordering this one either
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Transformers G1 Inspired Retro Card Seaspray official product photography . Will be available as part of Walmart Collector Con starting July 24th, tracking all SDCC and Collector Con items here - bit.ly/3Sx9inR
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Phil Foglio @thephilfoglio.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
#girlgenius Hated to do it, but we started a GoFundMe. These are chaotic times, and no mistake, and all of a sudden we realized they were chaosing all over us. (www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-f...) Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Donate to Help the Foglios Through Unexpected Challenges, organized by Phil Foglio
We are Kaja & Phil Foglio, creators of the Girl Genius webcomic and owners … Phil Foglio needs your support for Help the Foglios Through Unexpected Challenges
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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Superman movie fan art by Manabu Yashiro, creator ofTANK CHAIR. I love this artist so much.
Mister Terrific looking cool and Hawkgirl looking SKREEEEE!!
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com ⋅ 2d
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We have two major problems in our party: We have a courage problem and we have a competition problem. Because we don't challenge the status quo or people who are in safer blue seats nearly enough, we [end up with certain] candidates who get really comfortable. [highlighted by me] And if there's anything that I've learned from activism and organizing, it's that comfortable people — especially politicians — do not change.
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today @teenvogue.com: @davidhogg.bsky.social ran for a DNC role to push progressive candidates + challenge the establishment. after party backlash, he withdrew. but Zohran Mamdani's win—which he backed in the primary—was based on that strategy now Hogg's calling out "hypocrisy" from "Big Tent" Dems
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David Hogg: Democrats Have A "Courage Problem" and Need Strong Primary Challengers to Survive
"Given the fact that we've talked for about 15 years about how Democrats have a messaging problem, it's gone beyond a messaging problem. It is a messenger problem."
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After Midnight @amidnightstudio.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Paint sample Transmutate for Hasbro’s 10th Anniversary Beast Wars line. (That’s wild they celebrated 10 years of BW! 😆) Rigid, likely cast urethane/resin, no leg warping here! Flexible hoses. Beautiful piece! Any prototype collectors interested, hit me up! #beastwars #transformers
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