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May 16, 2021

Fakey

by David M Willis on June 18, 2019 at 12:01 am
  • 04 - Vote for Robin

└ Tags: malaya, marcie, sal

Discussion (137) ¬

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    June 18, 2019 at 12:02 am | #

    never go to the grocery store hungry

    or make booty call plans when DTF, I guess

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      June 18, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

      I think you can make booty call plans when DTF, just make sure you’re not overly short-term horny in the moment? Unless that’s what you meant by DTF, but that phrase stricks somewhat differently in my mind.

      • LeslieBean4shizzle
        LeslieBean4shizzle
        June 18, 2019 at 12:57 am | #

        Yeah, that’s not the context I’ve heard DTF used in either.

        More like “if I encounter a person who fits a certain criteria and who is into me as well, I will have sexual relations with them with little or no work required on their part”.

        Kinda like a person being “on your list” – to use some hot 90s slang.

        • Delicious Taffy
          Delicious Taffy
          June 18, 2019 at 1:13 am | #

          The last time I heard “DTF”, it was in reference to the IRS, as part of a rap song about doing taxes.

          • LeslieBean4shizzle
            LeslieBean4shizzle
            June 19, 2019 at 12:43 am | #

            Kinky.

            **waggles eyebrows suggestively**

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 18, 2019 at 12:42 am | #

      In Japan there is a word “kenjataimu” which roughly translates to post masturbation clarity, maybe that is what Sal is referring to.

      • LeslieBean4shizzle
        LeslieBean4shizzle
        June 18, 2019 at 12:49 am | #

        Sal, tantric meditation practitioner.

        Sounds legit.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          June 18, 2019 at 2:32 am | #

          Sounds like a great spinoff series.

      • Catman
        Catman
        June 18, 2019 at 1:51 am | #

        I had a class mate that claimed that immediately before every exam/performance he’d go to the bathroom and rub one out.

        Must have worked, he had some of the highest grades in the year.

        • Paul
          Paul
          June 18, 2019 at 4:25 am | #

          I’d be worried about side effects.

          Teacher: “OK, everybody, pop quiz!”

          Pupil: “… I just got the weirdest boner.”

        • Charlie Spencer
          Charlie Spencer
          June 18, 2019 at 5:55 am | #

          Sounds like a guy who’d ask his girlfriend to cosplay his high school English teacher and spank him with a wooden ruler.

      • drs
        drs
        June 18, 2019 at 6:26 am | #

        _Cryptonomicon had the male geek thinking about how it was a lot easier to do math right after masturbating. It spoke to me. A female friend considered the passage weird and TMI.

      • Virago
        Virago
        June 18, 2019 at 1:29 pm | #

        ‘Post-nut Clarity’ is very much a concept in modern English as well.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 19, 2019 at 6:49 am | #

      DTF = Down To Fuck??

  2. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    June 18, 2019 at 12:03 am | #

    Is that a cat smile from Marcie in the last panel?

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      June 18, 2019 at 12:05 am | #

      I once knew a girl who actually smiled like that naturally. It was weirdly creepy.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 18, 2019 at 12:43 am | #

      Cat smile cos she wants that puss.

  3. Diane
    Diane
    June 18, 2019 at 12:03 am | #

    Oh thank goodness, Sal’s asking for permission. So Marcie WON’T be out of the loop.

    • Jezi
      Jezi
      June 18, 2019 at 12:26 am | #

      Yeah, for real. That takes this from “oh god oh no oh no” to just “fun college hijinks”. I was really concerned she was going to do it on her own and blow up their friendship in one of about a million possible ways.

      • DailyBrad
        DailyBrad
        June 18, 2019 at 12:27 am | #

        I’m glad, too, does seem like she’s trying to learn from her mistakes and keep their friendship on the right track.

    • BBCC
      BBCC
      June 18, 2019 at 12:29 am | #

      I was hoping she would too – mostly because I didn’t want them to just leapfrog into another fight.

    • Catman
      Catman
      June 18, 2019 at 1:17 am | #

      It’s gone from, “ooooh this bodes poorly” to “ooooh this bodes poorly but it’s gonna be funny”

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      June 18, 2019 at 5:32 am | #

      Yeah, this whole plan will be a lot less terrible if Marcie’s on board the shenanigan wagon.

  4. Batz
    Batz
    June 18, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

    The sex appeal of Malaya is not to be underestimated.
    Or, in Sal’s case – tolerated.

    • Woomy
      Woomy
      June 18, 2019 at 12:11 am | #

      Forget Big-Lips McFreckles. Malaya is the hottest girl Willis has ever drawn.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 18, 2019 at 12:44 am | #

        I’m trying to remember which character was Big-Lips McFreckles.

        • Delicious Taffy
          Delicious Taffy
          June 18, 2019 at 12:45 am | #

          Joyce, clearly.

          • ShinyNeen
            ShinyNeen
            June 18, 2019 at 12:48 am | #

            Dang, I thought it was Danny.

            • Delicious Taffy
              Delicious Taffy
              June 18, 2019 at 12:53 am | #

              That would require He of Respectable Penis to be a girl, though. I don’t think guys qualify for “hottest girl” comparisons.

              • ShinyNeen
                ShinyNeen
                June 18, 2019 at 12:58 am | #

                Oh. I thought you were doing an “obviously wrong answer” kinda thing. Hm.

                I’ll– I’ll see myself out >.>

        • Marsh Maryrose
          Marsh Maryrose
          June 18, 2019 at 1:06 am | #

          I don’t remember if that’s an in-universe reference.

          When I think of freckled DoA girls I think of Becky, Rachel, Malaya, Penny, and Vivian. Of these, only Rachel and Penny are usually drawn with lips.

          In any case,without infringing Rule 8 of the FAQ, for the purposes of this discussion I respectfully draw attention to the character who wears dinosaur pajamas and who is the reigning Favorite Character.

          • He Who Abides
            He Who Abides
            June 18, 2019 at 4:47 am | #

            Don’t Dorothy and Ruth both have freckles?

            • Marsh Maryrose
              Marsh Maryrose
              June 18, 2019 at 10:21 am | #

              Ruth yes, Dorothy no.

              How is it that I remembered Vivian and forgot Ruth? My brain is weird.

              • ShinyNeen
                ShinyNeen
                June 18, 2019 at 12:25 pm | #

                Dorothy also has freckles, as alluded to in this strip that doesn’t feature Dorothy at all.

                … And now it’s hitting me that there’s a lot of characters with freckles in this comic.

                • ValdVin
                  ValdVin
                  June 18, 2019 at 12:47 pm | #

                  Hey, it’s Willis’ comic and he can Author Appeal all he wants.

                • ShinyNeen
                  ShinyNeen
                  June 18, 2019 at 5:28 pm | #

                  And it’s a right he exercises well!

              • ValdVin
                ValdVin
                June 18, 2019 at 12:27 pm | #

                I thought Dorothy had freckles.

                Source: I’m a guy who likes women with glasses and freckles.

              • Amazi-Stool
                Amazi-Stool
                June 18, 2019 at 2:00 pm | #

                The famous beach scene clearly shows Dorothy has freckles.

                • Marsh Maryrose
                  Marsh Maryrose
                  June 18, 2019 at 8:38 pm | #

                  Yes indeed. I was led astray by the fact that Dorothy isn’t drawn with freckles on her face.

                  How common is it for people to have freckles on their body, but not their face?

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          June 18, 2019 at 2:15 am | #

          Rachel, maybe?

          • Nicole
            Nicole
            June 18, 2019 at 1:28 pm | #

            Yeah, must be Rachel. During the most recent Kickstarter I remember Willis posting the preview for Rachel’s magnet with the comment “my wife says this is the hottest girl I’ve ever drawn”

      • abysswatcher1993
        abysswatcher1993
        June 18, 2019 at 12:50 am | #

        I disagree. For me the hottest women in Dumbing of Age are cynical edgelady Rachel, tech wiz Carla and chubby Amber. I could count Penny, but she loses points for being an asshole.

        • abysswatcher1993
          abysswatcher1993
          June 18, 2019 at 12:51 am | #

          Joyce is only sexy when she let’s her sexiness take over, but she is more in the cute category.

        • BarerMender
          BarerMender
          June 18, 2019 at 7:04 am | #

          Amber is the hottest of the hot. Carla is very pretty, but being ace, her hotness switch goes to zero for me.

  5. MatthewTheLucky
    MatthewTheLucky
    June 18, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

    Oh thank Cheese, Sal’s getting confirmation first.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      June 18, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

      Yeah, if she started just hitting on Marcie without letting her in on the plan, that would be very bad.

  6. Yumi
    Yumi
    June 18, 2019 at 12:04 am | #

    Looks like Sal’s gonna talk out the plan with Marcie, yay.

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      June 18, 2019 at 12:31 am | #

      Make out the plan, more like.

  7. Dragonfire
    Dragonfire
    June 18, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

    Huh, that looks new. Is this the first time we’ve seen translated dialogue for Marcie?

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      June 18, 2019 at 12:08 am | #

      Nope: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-9-comic/01-flyin-to-the-red/evidence/

      • Dragonfire
        Dragonfire
        June 18, 2019 at 12:11 am | #

        Aha! Gotcha. My memory totally flaked on that one.

        • Marsh Maryrose
          Marsh Maryrose
          June 18, 2019 at 12:22 am | #

          As a rule, Marcie gets captions when her meaning is not otherwise clear.

          Example: this very apropos strip.

  8. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    June 18, 2019 at 12:06 am | #

    Or he could be in Central Asian robes and be a Fakir. Just sayin’
    *plays Steely Dan’s “Bodhisattva” on the hacked P.A. speakers*

    • Stephen Bierce
      Stephen Bierce
      June 18, 2019 at 12:23 am | #

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  9. Schpoonman
    Schpoonman
    June 18, 2019 at 12:07 am | #

    Get wrecked, Malaya.

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      June 18, 2019 at 12:44 am | #

      With any luck, that’s exactly what Marcie is intending.

      • Schpoonman
        Schpoonman
        June 18, 2019 at 1:31 am | #

        Hilarious, but I still hate Malaya. Marcie can get what she wants, but she could also do better.

        • Keulen
          Keulen
          June 18, 2019 at 2:58 am | #

          I agree, Malaya is a jerk and Marcie should find someone better than her.

  10. BBCC
    BBCC
    June 18, 2019 at 12:10 am | #

    Damn, though, Sal’s on fire here. First getting Malaya out of the way, and then making sure this is something Marcie would want her to do, thus (hopefully) minimizing potential for hurt feelings.

    Pity I’m pretty sure the rules of drama (or at least the rules of rom coms) compel one or both of them to realize their feelings for the other are not platonic. Probably at the worst possible time.

    Granted, Willis is an infinitely better writer than most rom com writers, but still. That trope’ll hit these two on AO3 sooner or later.

    • No Name
      No Name
      June 18, 2019 at 12:05 pm | #

      I think Marcie has already realized that her feelings for Sal aren’t completely Platonic, which I’m sure is part of the reason Sal is talking to her about this. (The other part is that Sal is a decent person and a good friend.)

  11. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    June 18, 2019 at 12:11 am | #

    It’s like avoiding to shop for food when hungry.

  12. Delicious Taffy
    Delicious Taffy
    June 18, 2019 at 12:22 am | #

    This entire cast is unraveling into anarchy. They’ve all drank the juice, and now there’s no escaping what’s to come.

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      June 18, 2019 at 12:23 am | #

      The drama tag has been pulled!

      No wait, that happened a long time ago.

    • mrnoidea
      mrnoidea
      June 18, 2019 at 12:27 am | #

      DAER IZ NO ESKAYP

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      June 18, 2019 at 12:30 am | #

      I assume that panel 6 exists as a standalone somewhere, but it’s too late in the evening for me to try to hunt it down.

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        June 18, 2019 at 12:33 am | #

        If it did, I’d have had a much easier time making this gravatar.

        • ShinyNeen
          ShinyNeen
          June 18, 2019 at 12:47 am | #

          Good gravatars are suffering. … Probably.

          Is your current grav referencing something specific? I’m curious.

          • Delicious Taffy
            Delicious Taffy
            June 18, 2019 at 1:01 am | #

            I was re-reading some older strips and got a wild urge to make a second zombie Joyce. The colors are a little bolder than last time.

  13. Romanticide
    Romanticide
    June 18, 2019 at 12:22 am | #

    Good call Sal! Both of these.

  14. Tacos
    Tacos
    June 18, 2019 at 12:29 am | #

    Oh well that’s good. Sal gave her a heads up and asked for permission before executing her plan.

    • Clif
      Clif
      June 18, 2019 at 10:54 am | #

      Good communication is the most important thing in any relationship.

  15. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    June 18, 2019 at 12:31 am | #

    I’m hoping to get to know Marcie a bit more, she’s pretty fun.

  16. All-Purpose Guru
    All-Purpose Guru
    June 18, 2019 at 12:31 am | #

    Jesus, it’s not like Malaya is very picky about who she shares her twat with.

    Marcie, just tell her what you want.

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      June 18, 2019 at 12:36 am | #

      We’ve seen her fuck exactly one (1) person, and that’s Joe. I don’t think we have a large enough sample size to determine how picky she is.

      Also, you can’t share those. Not without some form of undeath.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        June 18, 2019 at 12:38 am | #

        Sure you can. It’s called donating your uterus to science.

        • Delicious Taffy
          Delicious Taffy
          June 18, 2019 at 12:43 am | #

          Does that count? I thought the ol’ T-word referred specifically to the bits you can reasonably touch with a pebis.

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            June 18, 2019 at 12:48 am | #

            Fair enough question.

            • Meagan
              Meagan
              June 18, 2019 at 3:43 am | #

              You can donate your whole body to science, including your vagina. A friend of mine held a human vagina in a science lab class once. I wasn’t there, but I imagine it being kind of like those weird slime tubes that were popular when some of us were children.

              • Delicious Taffy
                Delicious Taffy
                June 18, 2019 at 10:26 am | #

                I’m imagining a translucent tube of skin filled with water and ğłïţťěŕ. Maybe some of that shiny shapes confetti. Why have you conjured this?

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        June 18, 2019 at 12:40 am | #

        Word of God has her as Bi, but I don’t recall her ever showing attraction to girls, or even a hint of attraction.

        • egg
          egg
          June 18, 2019 at 1:05 am | #

          She dated Carla in Shortpacked. Have we seen her actually show personal attraction to *anyone* in DoA or did she just acknowledge that she and Joe were both hot and so everyone would be jealous if they fucked

          • BBCC
            BBCC
            June 18, 2019 at 1:11 am | #

            She wanted to fuck Joe because she thought Sal was into him. That’s how Sal realized that her acting into Marcie might have a chance.

            I don’t recall offhand her showing attraction to anyone, but then again, Malaya gave off some heavy demi vibes imo in Shortpacked.

        • NubeTrasnochada
          NubeTrasnochada
          June 18, 2019 at 4:48 am | #

          I think she is more biromantic heterosexual? Maybe homoromantic heterosexual? Or demibisexual? Like, she dated Carla and Leslie in shortpacked but she broke it up with Leslie because she didn’t feel physical attraction and she state she liked Ultra Car because she wasn’t either.

        • Fart Captor
          Fart Captor
          June 18, 2019 at 4:33 pm | #

          Yeah, WE may know she’s into girls too, but Marcie doesn’t have any evidence of that. She’s just hoping, since she doesn’t know for sure that Malaya isn’t into girls either.

          So just telling Malaya what she wants is probably a bit scarier than it would be otherwise, because to do so she’d have to come out to a potentially straight person (who’d be a lot more likely to react badly)

      • Marsh Maryrose
        Marsh Maryrose
        June 18, 2019 at 1:17 am | #

        Are you calling Bruce Cockburn a liar?

      • All-Purpose Guru
        All-Purpose Guru
        July 2, 2019 at 1:01 am | #

        Well, in the Walkyverse she humped Leslie, Carla, and that guy from a crossover. She might have also Joed Joe, but maybe not…
        In any case Walkyverse Malaya and Dumbiverse Malaya are different, so that may not carry through.

  17. Dean
    Dean
    June 18, 2019 at 12:32 am | #

    Malaya will be so disappointed when she learns that the guy’s appearance turns out to be a true reflection of his complex inner life.

  18. Kravis
    Kravis
    June 18, 2019 at 12:32 am | #

    Oh, cool!

    Vintage Marcie, now with subtitles.

  19. ShinyNeen
    ShinyNeen
    June 18, 2019 at 12:34 am | #

    There’s some cool stuff going on here, but I’m just enjoying how effortlessly Sal made Malaya go away. That’s a game changer!

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      June 18, 2019 at 6:54 am | #

      Agreed! Sal finally figuring out how to deal with Malaya in the most handling-a-three-year-old-way possible is just so funny

      • ShinyNeen
        ShinyNeen
        June 18, 2019 at 12:20 pm | #

        The power was inside Sal all along. And now that she’s realized it, hopefully it will last longer than five minutes. S’a question of how long until Malaya catches on to how predictably she’s acting.

  20. Yumi
    Yumi
    June 18, 2019 at 12:36 am | #

    Imagine Malaya reading Catcher in the Rye

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      June 18, 2019 at 12:39 am | #

      Imagine catching Malaya in the rye.

  21. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    June 18, 2019 at 12:47 am | #

    It’s obvious Marcie doesn’t like Malaya for her obnoxious personality, but because of something else… cue for Joe to say a sex joke.

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      June 18, 2019 at 1:04 am | #

      Ooh! I know this one! It’s her plump rear, isn’t it?

      • abysswatcher1993
        abysswatcher1993
        June 18, 2019 at 1:54 am | #

        Marcie likes good plumbing.

        • abysswatcher1993
          abysswatcher1993
          June 18, 2019 at 1:56 am | #

          Or a good machine with enough space in the back.

          • abysswatcher1993
            abysswatcher1993
            June 18, 2019 at 1:56 am | #

            I am bad at this.

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        June 18, 2019 at 12:58 pm | #

        In parts plump and muscular.

        I’m reading Check Please, which is a hoot. In it there is a phrase, Hockey Butt, which as someone in New England I should have learned long ago.

        Anyone who does enough skating, of any sort, will have a nicely muscular butt.

  22. Falcon
    Falcon
    June 18, 2019 at 1:26 am | #

    Let the Smartening of Age commence!

    • abysswatcher1993
      abysswatcher1993
      June 18, 2019 at 1:57 am | #

      That would require the characters to realize that the previous generations messed with their future and that they have a lot of responsibilities now.

  23. Bagge
    Bagge
    June 18, 2019 at 1:39 am | #

    No, no, Sal. That is plan B
    http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/04-it-all-returns/amove/

    • abysswatcher1993
      abysswatcher1993
      June 18, 2019 at 2:01 am | #

      Plan B is the solution to all romance pains.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        June 18, 2019 at 2:17 am | #

        And post-romance emergencies.

        • Geneseepaws
          Geneseepaws
          June 18, 2019 at 7:57 am | #

          You made me waste coffee. No jokes this good this early, plz.

  24. Bagge
    Bagge
    June 18, 2019 at 1:59 am | #

    I love how Sal finally have cracked the Malaya code.

    • abysswatcher1993
      abysswatcher1993
      June 18, 2019 at 2:02 am | #

      And she did without Professor Langdon and his long speeches about symbols and Dan Brown’s plot twists that turn everything upside down.

      • Keulen
        Keulen
        June 18, 2019 at 2:51 am | #

        You mean Malaya isn’t the descendant of Jesus or whatever and also somehow related to the leaders of the Illuminati? I’m shocked.

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          June 18, 2019 at 4:25 am | #

          *Omnious leaders of the Order Of The Glorious Brethren Of the Illuminated Ones*: “Young Malaya… now that you have come of age, it is time for you to learn your true heritage and responsibility for ushering in the dawn of the new era”.

          Malaya: “GAAAAAAWD, You are all such NERDS.”

          *Omnious leaders of the Order Of The Glorious Brethren Of the Illuminated Ones*: “…our ways may seem strange for the uninitiated, true, but in time you will learn that our traditions harkens from…”

          Malaya: “WhatEVER. I don’t care. I’m off to hang with people who aren’t such losers.” *Walks away, slams door*

          *Omnious leaders of the Order Of The Glorious Brethren Of the Illuminated Ones*: “…we are not losers, are we?”

          A bit Hellboy meets Mean girls meets the Dan Brown Code

          • abysswatcher1993
            abysswatcher1993
            June 18, 2019 at 12:05 pm | #

            So the Brethern are like the Brethern from Guards Guards? Also, Malaya doesn’t know what cool really is if she ignores magic and secret societies.

            • Bagge
              Bagge
              June 18, 2019 at 12:12 pm | #

              There is a non-zero inspiration from Terry Pratchett, yes. 🙂

          • RicardtheDragoon
            RicardtheDragoon
            June 18, 2019 at 3:24 pm | #

            I might have been playing too much Borderlands 2 lately, but for a second, it seemed like it was Maya and the Order of the Impending Storm rather than what was actually written. Picturing Malaya as Maya is quite entertaining.

  25. BenRG
    BenRG
    June 18, 2019 at 2:14 am | #

    You mean that Sal is actually going to try that suggestion out? Oh boy, nothing good is going to come of this!

    Meanwhile, Malaya proves that, in the end, she’s just a bully and she’ll do anything to prove her superiority to even random strangers.

    • Aelfwine
      Aelfwine
      June 18, 2019 at 7:26 am | #

      At least Sal’s seemingly going to ask Marcie about her opinion of the plan first.

  26. Shane Wegner
    Shane Wegner
    June 18, 2019 at 4:13 am | #

    It is pretty pretentious for Mal to feel like she is an authority on authenticity. Then again, she’s a freshman in college. Not expected to be super wise.

    I don’t see Sal as being all that untrue to herself, she’s had some complicated things happen to her, but I don’t think she’s living a lie or anything.

  27. Bagge
    Bagge
    June 18, 2019 at 4:27 am | #

    Marcie’s sign for “A whole lot” in panel three is the same as the sign for “huge tracts of land”, right?

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      June 18, 2019 at 1:04 pm | #

      Say no more, wink wink! Nudge, nudge!

      Oops; wrong sketch.

  28. CMasta
    CMasta
    June 18, 2019 at 5:05 am | #

    There’s not a single non-Ryan non-Toedad character that bugs me more than Malaya. She’s got the personality of a violent drunk wasp . I can’t decide if I want Marcie to wake up and smell the coffee or if I want this to blow up in her face.

    • Zaxares
      Zaxares
      June 18, 2019 at 5:41 am | #

      I KNOW! D: This is the equivalent of that old trope where a character in a sitcom hooks up with somebody who’s going to be bad for them with a capital B, but despite all the objections from their friends who can see the truth, the character just ignores it all anyway because they’re blinded by lust. >.<

      • BenRG
        BenRG
        June 18, 2019 at 7:06 am | #

        FWIW, Malaya and Marcie is similar in my mind to Leslie and Alex.

  29. FacelessDeviant
    FacelessDeviant
    June 18, 2019 at 6:33 am | #

    I guess Malaya is more into riding switch on the board?

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      June 18, 2019 at 10:19 am | #

      Please don’t operate electronics with your genitals.

  30. AspieCrow
    AspieCrow
    June 18, 2019 at 7:43 am | #

    Gotta say, I’m VERY glad that Sal is actually letting Marcie in on this plan. Given how unoriginal most mainstream romance stuff is, I’ve been conditioned to expect that Sal would just go ahead with the plan without telling her and thus cause Misunderstanding Shenanigans, so I’m very happy that that’s not happening here.

  31. Josh Spicer
    Josh Spicer
    June 18, 2019 at 8:25 am | #

    What IS this plan that everybody keeps talking about?

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      June 18, 2019 at 9:00 am | #

      I forget if it was Joyce or Becky but someone suggested to Sal that the best way to get Malaya to commit to Marcie is to pretend to be trying to seduce Marcie, thus inducing jealousy and making Malaya take decisive action.

      Because this strip is called ‘Dumbing of Age’, this is a grand strategy that can turning into a violent explosion-in-the-face in any number of ways. However, it appears that Sal hasn’t realised that.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        June 18, 2019 at 11:58 am | #

        Thankfully, letting Marcie in on it minimizes chances of Marcie being hurt by Sal.

        Sal doesn’t give a shit if she hurts Malaya.

      • ǝ snow ʍousɐ
        ǝ snow ʍousɐ
        June 18, 2019 at 12:04 pm | #

        Both of them, actually, as MM also pointed out below.

  32. Marsh Maryrose
    Marsh Maryrose
    June 18, 2019 at 10:29 am | #

    It was both of them, simultaneously.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      June 18, 2019 at 12:17 pm | #

      Joyce & Becky are a great double act!

  33. Portland
    Portland
    June 18, 2019 at 11:56 am | #

    I feel like Marcie’s face has gotten a lot more expressive as we’ve gone on. The ASL users I know all have really great facial expressions because that’s a huge part of their language and culture. Kudos to Willis, I love Marcie in these panels!

    • Masumi
      Masumi
      June 18, 2019 at 12:24 pm | #

      Must be hard to be autistic and need to use ASL. Then again, I don’t talk anyway, so…

  34. Victor Riley
    Victor Riley
    June 18, 2019 at 12:08 pm | #

    So some bystander is just standing there, Malaya THINKS he’s “fakey”, and is going to approach him just to harass him.

    Dammit, Malaya. You suck.

    Sal isn’t off the hook… I know she did it to get Malaya away for a second, but still, she’s started it.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      June 18, 2019 at 12:19 pm | #

      Getting randomly assaulted by Malaya… and Mary… and Carla… and Joyce, even if it’s less “assaulted” and more “randomly hugged” seems like something the good people on Campus are starting to take for granted by now.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        June 18, 2019 at 12:20 pm | #

        And Dina, if you dares to even breath a fact about dinosaurs that is not 100% correct according to the latest scientific news.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        June 18, 2019 at 2:46 pm | #

        Case in point…
        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2019/comic/book-9-comic/02-but-the-sun-still-shines/diet/

    • EvilMidnightLurker
      EvilMidnightLurker
      June 18, 2019 at 1:07 pm | #

      Malaya thinks EVERYONE is fakey, about everything, all the time, and she holds the entire human race in all-encompassing contempt for it. If it wasn’t this guy, it would be anyone else.

  35. Mopey
    Mopey
    June 18, 2019 at 6:51 pm | #

    I read Questionable Content as well and for a moment I was convinced Marcie had gotten blue plastic robot arms.

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