Joyce has been homeschooled her entire life until now, when she's suddenly a freshman in college! Things don't go well.
Lunar Blight
Studio CARTRIDGE, Laura Lee
Lunar Blight is a gothic horror story about an elite knight serving a moon cult who must choose between upholding his honoured duty or condemning everything he’s grown to know.
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
Clockwork
Chikuto
Cog Kleinschmidt is a diligent, quiet worker at the Mercia Fortress, the world power's leading stronghold. His orderly life is thrown into chaos when an enemy kingdom sends a diplomat for peace talks. This diplomat needs something from Cog - whether he agrees to their terms or not!
Guilded Age
T Campbell, John Waltrip, Florence Machina
Welcome to the saga of the working-class adventurer! Enjoy the complete story with new annotations daily!
Killjoys
Flatw00ds
When two disgraced ex-feds fall backwards into trouble with the clown mafia, getting out in one piece is gonna be no joke!
Goblins
Ellipsis
A fantasy RPG as told through the eyes of the low-level monsters.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Come Hell or High Water
Jenny/Star, Mori
Prince Gladimir was never meant to fall for a pirate. Swearing off love for duty, the threat of war propels him back into the Captain’s world of high seas and high stakes. Their relationship could be the thing to save the kingdom of Yvoire - or destroy it.
Girl Genius
Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio
In a time when the Industrial Revolution has become an all-out war, Mad Science rules the World...with mixed success.
Anacrine Complex
Sae Cotton
A superhuman heist involving probably too many pigeons than entirely necessary.
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
Patrik the Vampire
Bree Paulsen
Patrik loves to knit, bake, and help his friends while dealing with his own demons... like his thirst for blood because, oh yeah--he's a vampire.
Empowered
Adam Warren
A sexy superhero comedy (except when it isn't) about the never-ending struggles of a plucky but very unlucky young superheroine.
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
Spinnerette
Krazy Krow, Rocio Zucchi, Pablo Rey
When a lab accident gives Heather Brown spider powers and six arms, she does what any midwest comic geek would do: Become Ohio's #3 superhero!
How to be a Werewolf
Shawn Lenore
Malaya Walters was bitten by a werewolf as a child. After being raised by her human family, she faces the chance to learn what being a werewolf is really like as an adult.
Monster Pulse
Magnolia Porter Siddell
Four kids run afoul of a creepy secret organization's experiments, which turn their body parts into fighting monsters. Part sentimental coming-of-age story, part monster-training shonen manga, with just a bit of sci-fi body horror.
Far to the North
Allison Shaw
Kelu turns to the monsters of her remote mountain home when her family is held hostage by outsiders.
Heart of Gold
Eliot Baum, Viv Tanner
A pianist with failing eyesight seeks out a priest with a miraculous healing touch, drawing him deeper into a world of miracles and curses.
Demon's Mirror
Harry Bogosian
Based loosely off of "The Snow Queen", a story by Hans Christian Andersen, we see things take a different turn as the demons become central characters, and the side characters stick around. Yup, that's the only differences. Enjoy!
Wychwood
Varethane
When Tiara's pyrokinesis is finally noticed, she is captured by a magical research organization for study. If she cooperates, she could be helping to save humanity from a dire threat - but can she trust them?
Folklore
Adam Ma, Colin Tan Wei
A superhuman horror story focused on a small band of survivors trying to navigate a war-torn world in the aftermath of the Federation’s collapse.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
The Lonely Vincent Bellingham
Diana Huh
Vincent is an unkind man looking to disappear, and finds himself in the care of a vampire and her two wicked children.
Sam & Fuzzy
Sam Logan
Troubled by gangster rodents, lovesick vampire stalkers, or confused ninja assassins? Don't panic! Sam and Fuzzy are here to help. (For a reasonable fee.)
2 Slices
RJ Morel
After a case of mistaken identity, will awkward Daisuke find help from excitable Mamo, or will his love life be thrown completely off track?
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
Tove
Severin
The end of the world is coming, and Tove doesn't want to be a hero, but SOMEONE has to look after her little brother.
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
Drugs & Wires
Mary Safro, Io Black
Dan used to be a VR operator until his brain got fried by malware. Now he's stuck delivering packages in a post-Soviet hellhole all while trying to adjust to his new life and find some answers.
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
The Otherknown
Lorian Merriman
Chandra is a 12-year-old accidental time traveler with a reluctant new dad, who happens to be a member of a feared galactic crime syndicate.
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
Fairmeadow
Kendra P. / KP
A wayward soldier finds herself in a pacifist commune deep in the wilderness of a war-weary land. Living in isolation brings her closer to those she was sworn to kill than she could ever imagine - but also threatens to tear the place apart.
Demon Studies
Miyuli
Four students summon and study potentially dangerous demons within the walls of the mysterious Summerland University.
Hazy London
Scotty
A story about messy relationships. From friendly foes to crazy families. Nothing is black and white, just full of color. But, all colors can get a little hazy...
The Witch Door
Anni K.
Katariina Lehto discovers her neighbor is a witch called Jousia Muotka. Jousia introduces Katariina to the strange people and places beyond the witch door...
Between Failures
Jackie Wohlenhaus
The low stakes adventures of an assorted group of 20 somethings trapped in the declining years of American retail. They are naughty and say lots of swears.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
Solstoria
Angelica Maria
After her brother goes missing, Samantha vows to become a Knight and help those around her in the Kingdom of St. Helena.
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Sarge: Simmons, you earned an F for efficiency… but an A+ for dramatic timing!
Simmons: Thank you, sir! I’ve always felt appearances were more important than effectiveness!
So I’ve never been exactly clear on the rules. Do the book titles only have to be complete sentences from the strip, or do they have to be the whole content of a speech bubble? Because I was under the impression it was the latter.
AND with that clue, activating Google … Dec 20 – “Yeah but maybe if you noticed that, like, the first six Dumbing of Age book titles are all complete sentences, you’d see that, y’know, there’s kind of an established pattern.” – Word of Willis
Well, I am pleased with how this has turned out. They both got exercise, Ruth smiled, even if it was a smile of possible insanity but hey that’s love, and now they’re enjoying some makeouts. Alls well that ends well, right?
To the contrary, if brooms were being used as poking sticks, Asma wouldn’t have to go grab one. I choose to believe that the broom closet and poking stick closet are side by side and properly labeled.
Couple’s are weird. Not seen this but seen a very large guy and his very tiny girlfriend play wrestle each other til they fell off a picnic table bench… Couples are reeeeally weird.
I wonder how often Asma needs to use her Poking Stick during an average week? I mean, just how common are spontaneous make-outs in that building anyway?
Better than the night shift with the Walkerton and O’Malley girls prowling around playing at superheroes! Or… Asma assumes they are ‘playing’ at superheroes!
If it comes to a fight, sneaky usually doesn’t win. Sneaky tends to win before the other parties would be even aware that there is a fight to be had. That’s kinda the point of being sneaky…
thinking about how mario's head has stayed the exact same size his entire life, while princess peach's head has shrunk on its way into adulthood
David M Willis!@damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3h
do you think Mario, Luigi, and the Princesses have, like, existential crises about the baby versions of themselves also just casually being next to them in all the races
like I would be having ego death right now, not leaping triumphantly
do you think Mario, Luigi, and the Princesses have, like, existential crises about the baby versions of themselves also just casually being next to them in all the races
like I would be having ego death right now, not leaping triumphantly
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Good news for the people still circulating this post: it is now a real t-shirt you can purchase and wear to let the world know you take responsibility for the actions of fictional characters:
The Emotion Engine@emotion-engine.bsky.social ⋅ 9d
Normally I’d let this sort of thing just die out but an alarming amount of you have asked where you can buy this and my wife had to have an emergency surgery the day before I made this, so here is my chance to live the American Dream (selling print-on-demand shirts to pay down medical debt)
The Emotion Engine@emotion-engine.bsky.social ⋅ 12d
Working on a t-shirt to sell to the weird people that show up in your mentions every time you talk about enjoying something that has crime or impure thought in it.
Someone leaked the entire unreleased Micronauts animated series to archive.org
All 52 episodes
Yes they FULLY FINISHED a Micronauts cartoon in the early 2020s and mothballed it
Vangelus@vangelus.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
tested ep1 of Micronauts, skipped to the credits so I could see every name of every crew member who put in so much work with the expectation that anybody would ever see the thing they did as part of their vocation in a creative field, working in service of what should be a reliable client & partner
tested ep1 of Micronauts, skipped to the credits so I could see every name of every crew member who put in so much work with the expectation that anybody would ever see the thing they did as part of their vocation in a creative field, working in service of what should be a reliable client & partner
admittedly, i might be arriving at a little annoyance on behalf of anyone responded to ever with "WELL it's not called SMARTING of age" because that's become a lot, i think the fork might be in that one, it's done
today in #9chickweedlane i learned that "how to lie" is not, actually, achieved by cupping the balls, despite the evidence of the entirety of the first panel, but by some other giant pile of words i guess, tl;dr
“It’s not me who’s a bigot,” they always argue. “I’m fine with all you people. But the rest of the electorate is full of bigots, on whose behalf I will now speak”
The two greatest evils known to mankind, A.I. and the person directly in front of you in line at the post office, have finally teamed up. We’re done.
Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein@fklein907.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Woman in line in front of me at the post office is not happy about the cost of shipping. She just whipped out her phone, asked ChatGPT how much it thinks the shipping should cost, and is trying to get the mailman to honor that price.
OK democrats shutting down congress by attaching Epstein amendments to everything is pretty funny
Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Politico & Punchbowl report House Republican leadership is shutting down the Rules Committee - which is essential for moving party-line bills on the floor - for the week rather than vote on Democratic amendments on the Epstein files.
Dems have effectively halted Republican legislation in the House:
Josh Johnson is brilliant and I’m happy for him and wish him the world
Josh Johnson@joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
This week, I’m hosting The Daily Show Tuesday through Thursday.
It’s my first time hosting anything on TV. Ever.
I’ve spent years writing behind the scenes, learning from truly great and talented people. Now, for three nights, I get to sit at the desk and do it myself.
poke ’em if you got ’em
…Or rub ’em if you don’t.
Different strokes for different folks
GATE QUEEN IS DISPLEASED
Asma’s sick of people messing up her den
Billie and Ruth are about to experience an Asma attack.
7/10
nah, that deserves at least a 10/10 for apt and funny
Sarge: Simmons, you earned an F for efficiency… but an A+ for dramatic timing!
Simmons: Thank you, sir! I’ve always felt appearances were more important than effectiveness!
That’s what Griff’s for.
I know I’m sooooo late on this, but… It’s a meme.
She needs to get a-hold of the right end of her stick to clean out her den:)
And then Lucy comes into the lobby?
Based on panel 5, Billie already has.
Wait, sorry. I read that as “in,” not “into.” Ignore me.
Give it a minute. Asma is only now producing the poking stick.
I know that, according to Slipshine, Billie has promised to buy Ruth a poking stick, but so far that hasn’t been proved to be necessary for them.
There is a big difference between “necessary” and “good fun”
it works both ways
I fancy your chances of being correct. Comment number 9? Woot!
Heh, always glad to see Asma.
when she’s there, it’s always going to be a good payoff
Like every comic with Dina is 90% better!
Dumbing of Age Book 9: Time to Grab My Poking Stick
alternatively, Time to Grab My Poking Stick: A Dumbing of Age Pornographique Compendium
So I’ve never been exactly clear on the rules. Do the book titles only have to be complete sentences from the strip, or do they have to be the whole content of a speech bubble? Because I was under the impression it was the latter.
The only real rule is that Willis can name them anything he wants. Unfortunately he reserves the best titles for the alt-text.
He does follow some sort of self-imposed rule that he has mentioned in comments before, though.
AND with that clue, activating Google … Dec 20 – “Yeah but maybe if you noticed that, like, the first six Dumbing of Age book titles are all complete sentences, you’d see that, y’know, there’s kind of an established pattern.” – Word of Willis
Dumbing of Age Book 9: This Isn’t Passion. It’s Completely Logical That You Need To Die
Dumbing of Age Book 9: –oooAGGH!
Ken just doesn’t recognize when a couple is dancing the Masochism Tango.
Sadomasochism Tango. It would be inaccurate to call Billie purely masochism.
“Let our love be a flame, not an ember
Say it’s me that you want to dismember”
Help, it’s adorable!
Well, I am pleased with how this has turned out. They both got exercise, Ruth smiled, even if it was a smile of possible insanity but hey that’s love, and now they’re enjoying some makeouts. Alls well that ends well, right?
the only thing more dangerous than a Ruth smile is a Sarah smile…if she smiles, RUN!
these bisasters
Aw, Ken, honey, Ruth’s boss isn’t gonna do shit. It’s nice you believe you live in an orderly dorm building though.
XD Poor Asma though.
Chloe: “I can excuse abusing your residents, but I draw the line at running indoors.”
Rachel: “You can excuse abusing your residents?”
It’s all part of our Perverse Incentive program. We pride ourselves on preparing students for the real world.
If she didn’t want to get caught…
–The race is on and it looks like Makeouts
And the winner loses all–apologies to George Jones
And the winner is…..
Beedlebaum
“Cabbage by a head!!”
I don’t understand what triggered Ruth so much…
They’re playing.
Foreplaying even.
Sh-shoves is not loves??
True, but chases is smooching faces.
Except when they are.
People are complicated.
Yep. And some people are more complicated than orhers.
Orhers? And we all know how complicated orhers are. Damn it, spell-correct, you had one job.
For these two, It definitely is.
A wild Ken appears!
See you next year, Ken! Maybe.
More mild than wild.
Oh look it’s Other Ethan
haha that avatar + comment
I thought he was a character from Street Fighter, but you’re right. That is Asian Jewish Chuck.
DEATH FROM ABOVE
And it’s a messy score for the leafs. The ref is allowing the tackling and now for the traditional post goal celebrations.
~~~~banter~~~~
~~~~botched attempt at witty reply~~~~
~~~~incredibly obscure reference~~~~
…I mean. The whole amazing-spider-man-leap-into-makeouts thing is kind of an interesting maneuver, so well done there
Asma’s face is a delight, even as I feel terrible for her.
“Asma’s face is a delight” was going to be my exact comment. So I’ll just tack on to the bottom of yours instead. Great minds must think alike!
Great minds run in the same channel. Fools think alike.
I hate it when people mess up old saws.
The easiest way to mess up an old saw is to use it inappropriately. Such as by wielding it like a hammer.
Software engineering is the art of finding the right wrench to hammer in the right screw.
Why don’t you just use a screwdriver?
Screwdriver is not supported in the framework API.
When all you have is an old saw, everything looks like balsa wood.
There’s no saw like an old saw.
A cut in nine saves time.
A fool and his saw are soon hammered.
Great minds think alike; fools seldom differ, is how *I* always heard it.
I always heard it as great minds run the same gutter.
Great minds like a think.
Great minds like a drink.
“David Hume could out-consume
Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.”
“Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle.”
And Hobbes was fond of his Rene Descartes
or something like that.
It’s the Sarah face.
It might even be more Sarah than Sarah.
This is how I envision Asma and Sarah having a girl’s chat.
Cheapass school can’t even afford proper poking sticks, employees have to supply brooms.
To the contrary, if brooms were being used as poking sticks, Asma wouldn’t have to go grab one. I choose to believe that the broom closet and poking stick closet are side by side and properly labeled.
And this is the start of a slipshine.
Start? We are at least two pages in already.
I feel that it is incumbent upon me to call attention to how completely inappropriate this whole scene is.
…. I mean, Willis put the winner in a Leaf’s jersey.
In a way, they are both winners.
Leafs scores tonight
Leafs can score as long as they lose the game. I think that’s the law of the universe in play here.
Ken AND Asma.. magical
get a bucket filled with water lol
Or just get the hose and get it over with.
Ken: “It isn’t working you’re only making them sexier!” D:
https://youtu.be/nBkTmf_Sl9A
Damn it, I was expecting Futurama.
So cute so cute so cute SO CUTE SO CUTE I LOVE THEM SO MUCH
Yes, Ken and Asma are quite the pair.
I don’t think I’d care to poke those two. There might be poking going on.
“Ah HA, I have the high ground !”
“It’s over Billie! I have the high ground!”
I know I am.
(this comment makes no sense unless one reads the hovertext)
TMI
What about the whapping stick, the stick that goes “BZZZZZT”, and the double-poking stick?
I rejoice every time Asma is in the comic. She’s one of my favourite supporting characters.
I guess if I want in-panel makeouts I’ll have to pay.
That fifth panel is magnificent. That is all.
RUTH FROM ABOVE!
From “Wrath of Khan”
Spock: He is intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking.” And then a knowing grin spreads across Kirk’s face.
Imagine seeing two people acting like this in real life
Actually has happened to me. Such is the wonder of schooling!
Witnessing the act, or being the act?
Witnessing it only.
Couple’s are weird. Not seen this but seen a very large guy and his very tiny girlfriend play wrestle each other til they fell off a picnic table bench… Couples are reeeeally weird.
Awwwww, they look so happy.
…or, I suppose ‘frisky’ is a bit closer to the situation at hand.
https://youtu.be/iGfBk5JnDAQ
This has got to be the most “Ruth and Billie” comic we’ve seen to date.
I’m also pretty fond of this one
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/murder/
…although I suppose this one does a good job of encapsulating their relationship as well
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/01-to-those-whod-ground-me/breathing/
A strip encapsulating the relationship of Billie and Ruth that is titled “Murder”?
How utterly absurd!!!
For all the fun of this scene, “I’m gonna murder you!” “Promise?” kinda harks back to the Sexy Lesbian Suicide Pact days of their relationship.
“Do not attempt this relationship at home,”
Of course not. That would be silly.
College is the place for this relationship.
I wonder how often Asma needs to use her Poking Stick during an average week? I mean, just how common are spontaneous make-outs in that building anyway?
If your job requires you to have a designated poking stick, I’ll take a stab in the dark and say “too often”.
Stabs in the dark aren’t done by the poking stick, though. They’re done with the knife of a serial rapist, by Amber.
So what I’m hearing is that the building needs much better lighting?
Yeah Asma, don’t encourage the kinksters.
It’s not even noon, and poor Asma is just DONE.
Better than the night shift with the Walkerton and O’Malley girls prowling around playing at superheroes! Or… Asma assumes they are ‘playing’ at superheroes!
The next Kickstarter needs to have a Poking Stick as a high level bonus incentive.
Noooo, your capture of me is highly illogical!!!
…please tell me that’s not a StarTrek slashfic
Well, it is now.
Please tell me that -is- a Star Trek slashfic!
The current and last three comic titles are:
Illicit poop chase
also
narcissistic all-encompassing spirited JELL-O
That’s almost poetry.
One leads to the other.
Order is important.
Billie: Faster.
Ruth: Sneakier.
Asma: Meaner.
We all know who’s winning this fight.
Well as a general rule sneakier usually wins, but not always.
If it comes to a fight, sneaky usually doesn’t win. Sneaky tends to win before the other parties would be even aware that there is a fight to be had. That’s kinda the point of being sneaky…
*fondness for Asma intensifies*
If you keep poking at it, Asma, it will never get any better.
Hey It’s Chun-Li! …Is that still a thing with Ken? Using other Street Fighter Character names? If not I’m brining it back.
I thought his name was G
Ken: “Someone needs to call an RA.”
Ruth: “I am an RA!”
“Then you should write yourself up for breach of the conduct rules!”
“… You know, that’s actually a wonderfully bizarre idea. I might even try that!”
“Ruth?”
“Yes, Ruth?”
“… Please don’t do it again.”
“Carla was right, it would’ve been more fun if I threatened to beat me to death with my own femurs.”
Hey, it’s Ken!
Cool. I came to comments because I wondered if we’d seen this hotties before. Um, now who’s Ken?
http://www.dumbingofage.com/tag/ken/
He works at Galasso’s.
Some people know him from his larger role in Willis’ old comic Shortpacked!.
I don’t remember a Ken in Shortpacked! Did he join at around the same time as …
…okay, this is the point where I realise I don’t actually know the names of any Street Fighter characters.
Google is your friend.
Google is your corporate brainwasher that wants your eternal servitude.
There’s a difference?
All hail
HypnotoadGoogle!An epsilon for effort tho.
Ah yes! He was that terrible woman’s roommate, right?
What Asma needs is a Smakken.
I’ve got to admit, the Smakken is one of the few times in recent Girl Genius history that’s made me laugh out loud.
Yes, I had the same reaction when I read that page.
*Kif noise*
I’m reading these panels as RUN – RUN – RUN – JUMP, and then Ruth is trying to be a backpack while Billie jumps… It makes perfect sense.