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May 28, 2026

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by David M Willis on March 19, 2020 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - When It Crumbles
└ Tags: fuckface, jennifer, joyce, malaya, ruth, sarah

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    March 19, 2020 at 12:02 am | #

    hey, great reminder just when I was starting to get nostalgic about college 👍

    • Rose by Any Other Name
      Rose by Any Other Name
      March 19, 2020 at 12:26 am | #

      Ayup. I remember those nights well.

      They were most unpleasant.

      • DrWattson
        DrWattson
        March 19, 2020 at 3:22 am | #

        As do I; I was living on the tenth floor of a ten floor dorm hall, so every time the fire alarm went off I had to walk down and up ten stories worth of stairs. It was also an older building, so there was no air conditioning making the first two months and the last month or two absolute hell.

  2. Kyoulkoa
    Kyoulkoa
    March 19, 2020 at 12:02 am | #

    Oh this bodes well

    • Shane
      Shane
      March 19, 2020 at 3:48 am | #

      I dunno, trying something with that many witnesses and probably first responder arrival isn’t bright.

      I suppose someone could pull it several nights in a row just to wear everyone down for finals, but that’s how security camera footage gets checked.

      If I was Mike and injured and managed to get to the dorm where my threatened friends were, that might be the fastest way to get everyone’s attention and get an emergency response all at the same time.

  3. Doopyboop
    Doopyboop
    March 19, 2020 at 12:04 am | #

    Oh no…

    So uh, between this and the content warning, I guess I know what’s gonna happen next. Not good stuff!

    • Axel
      Axel
      March 19, 2020 at 12:05 am | #

      where is the content warning?

      • Doopyboop
        Doopyboop
        March 19, 2020 at 12:06 am | #

        If you hit home and scroll down a little, right beneath the post area for the comic there is a blog post from Willis named ‘Blanket Content Warning’ regarding this chapter.

        • a/snow/mous/e
          a/snow/mous/e
          March 19, 2020 at 12:10 am | #

          And considering the title of the storyline as well…

          • Sunny
            Sunny
            March 19, 2020 at 5:48 am | #

            It’s going to be about cookie crumbs.

        • Reltzik
          Reltzik
          March 19, 2020 at 12:13 am | #

          Well, OBVIOUSLY. I mean just look at this comic. I count one… two… three… FOUR of them. With that kind of content in the first strip of the storyline, a blanket content warning is just basic courtesy.

          At least now we can sit back and relax, secure that the blanket content we’ve been warned about is done and past.

          • Cyrus
            Cyrus
            March 19, 2020 at 12:16 am | #

            Joyce’s blanket makes two appearances so I only count three in this strip. There are likely many more to come. Be on your guard.

            • Meagan
              Meagan
              March 19, 2020 at 12:38 am | #

              This thread is amazing

            • Keulen
              Keulen
              March 19, 2020 at 12:45 am | #

              Any time there’s a strip with a character in their bedroom, we’re likely to see a blanket. I’m sure there will be more blankets in this chapter.

            • Reltzik
              Reltzik
              March 19, 2020 at 1:39 am | #

              Well, yes, but you can also see Sarah’s in the background of Panel 3, behind Joyce’s socks. Plus Malaya’s and Ruth’s makes 4.

          • Deanatay
            Deanatay
            March 19, 2020 at 9:12 am | #

            BLANKETS?? *gasp* *covers children’s eyes* Corrupting young minds with… with salacious bedroom content!! I shall write an uncompliementary letter to your editor, sir!

          • Dean
            Dean
            March 19, 2020 at 6:25 pm | #

            And one of them is a Leafs blanket! The horror!!!

        • Axel
          Axel
          March 19, 2020 at 12:19 am | #

          Thank you!

      • Agemegos
        Agemegos
        March 19, 2020 at 12:12 am | #

        Here it is: blanket content warning. There’s a copy on the main page, too.

        • a/snow/mous/e
          a/snow/mous/e
          March 19, 2020 at 12:44 am | #

          I think you mean https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/blog/blanket-content-warning-for-this-new-storyline/

          • Agemegos
            Agemegos
            March 19, 2020 at 7:38 am | #

            Oops! Thanks for covering that for me.

            I ought to know better than to try HTML where I can’t edit errors.

    • Jonah Sanville
      Jonah Sanville
      March 19, 2020 at 1:39 am | #

      i gotta say, as someone with ptsd, it’s really great of willis to put in a content warning. it’s not my first rodeo, and i’ve been reading this comic for YEARS, but it’s just…………really, really nice.

      i remember when he put the content warning for beths mothers suicide as well, it’s something that willis doesnt have to do and does anyway which makes this comic even better

  4. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    March 19, 2020 at 12:04 am | #

    *plays “Love And Happiness” on the hacked Muzak–but it’s drowned out by the alarm*

    • Stephen Bierce
      Stephen Bierce
      March 19, 2020 at 12:07 am | #

      I know it’s not the Al Green version, so sue me.

  5. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    March 19, 2020 at 12:06 am | #

    Place your bets for who pulled it. I guess everyone shown in this strip is out of the running.

    Except for maybe Fuckface, he’s always got a look that says “Yesssss…according to plan”, so I wouldn’t rule out him being somehow behind it.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      March 19, 2020 at 12:10 am | #

      Pretty sure it’s one of the Sinister Sires, as part of their plan to do something to Joyce.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        March 19, 2020 at 12:18 am | #

        That’s too cool a name for them. Wouldn’t want anyone to think they are like the Sinister Six.

        How about DoucheDads Inc? Toe & Schmo? My Two Bads?

        • Rose by Any Other Name
          Rose by Any Other Name
          March 19, 2020 at 12:35 am | #

          It’s probably Blaine… but it might also be Amber/AG. We did get the Amber flashback, so it would fit thematically.
          Mike also, but someone else already said that.

          • BarerMender
            BarerMender
            March 19, 2020 at 12:43 am | #

            More like Asher, who would have access to the dorm.

            • Needfuldoer
              Needfuldoer
              March 19, 2020 at 2:25 am | #

              Maybe the batteries in Meredith’s vape exploded.

        • EvilMidnightLurker
          EvilMidnightLurker
          March 19, 2020 at 3:07 am | #

          The Dadholes.

    • TemporalShrew
      TemporalShrew
      March 19, 2020 at 12:14 am | #

      Mike pulled it. This is all a part of his grand re-entrance.

      • clif
        clif
        March 19, 2020 at 1:33 am | #

        This.

    • abysswatcher1993
      abysswatcher1993
      March 19, 2020 at 12:23 am | #

      Everyone suspects Mike, Blaine and Toedad, or Fuckface, but nobody considered Tzeench, the architect of fate and master of all schemers.

      • clif
        clif
        March 19, 2020 at 2:12 am | #

        No one suspects Big Apple either.

      • EvilMidnightLurker
        EvilMidnightLurker
        March 19, 2020 at 3:08 am | #

        Tzeentch is behind every scheme, and therefore is never counted because why bother?

    • AntJ
      AntJ
      March 19, 2020 at 12:33 am | #

      The dark horse candidate is Asher. He doesn’t live in Read, but he might have access to other residence halls. Perhaps this is the inside job Blaine needed from him?

      • Savail
        Savail
        March 19, 2020 at 12:51 am | #

        I think we can assume he definitely has access to the other dorms since Amber (mistakenly) told Dorothy that the latter would be safe inside the dorm because they had checked the directory, and therefore thought that Ryan wasn’t a student.

    • NinjaMaid
      NinjaMaid
      March 19, 2020 at 12:45 am | #

      I mean, it could be an actual fire.

      • Keulen
        Keulen
        March 19, 2020 at 12:46 am | #

        A fire alarm pulled due to an actual fire? Nah, that can’t be right.

    • FacelessDeviant
      FacelessDeviant
      March 19, 2020 at 8:50 am | #

      I’m thinking it may have been Mike.

    • Xaeon
      Xaeon
      March 19, 2020 at 9:25 am | #

      Even money on some member of Blaine’s cabal or someone who saw an actual fire. Bonus points if it’s someone who saw an actual fire caused by Blaine’s cabal.

    • Portland
      Portland
      March 19, 2020 at 10:45 am | #

      Galasso

    • Sombrero
      Sombrero
      March 19, 2020 at 12:37 pm | #

      Walky. He’s in panic, he’s too hot or both.

  6. MK15
    MK15
    March 19, 2020 at 12:09 am | #

    “If I don’t make it/ know that I loved you all along
    Just like sunny days that / we ignore because / we’re all dumb and jaded
    And I hope to god I figure out what’s wrong”

  7. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    March 19, 2020 at 12:09 am | #

    I’m sure everything’s fine. We’ve all as a unit moved on passed the death of Mike. Nothing else serious or bad will happen.

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      March 19, 2020 at 12:14 am | #

      Fuckface better not be killed. I would be pissed off.

      • Sirksome
        Sirksome
        March 19, 2020 at 12:21 am | #

        I’d stop reading. But don’t worry. I know Willis said he broke some rules but he’d never get that dark. Fuckface is immortal.

        • He Who Abides
          He Who Abides
          March 19, 2020 at 12:43 am | #

          He . . . he wouldn’t actually kill Fuckface, would he? I mean, I know he put a content warning on the home page, but he can’t have gone that far.

          • Delicious Taffy
            Delicious Taffy
            March 19, 2020 at 12:54 am | #

            Unfortunately, it seems like we’re gonna have to read the writing on the wall. Fuckface is probably doomed, and it’s gonna be a tough read.

            • Chris Phoenix
              Chris Phoenix
              March 19, 2020 at 1:12 am | #

              The reptile breathes, and smirks, and shows no fear,
              Unlike the readers, quaking in their boots
              Who know that nowhere’s safe, especially near
              A deadly mobster dad, and one who shoots.
              This storyline is perilous enough
              Without implicit threats toward harmless pets.
              Yet Willis (be Him damned) will make it rough;
              His readers wait, and fear how tough it gets.

              He didn’t even warn us ere Mike fell.
              This arc, it seems, is harder yet to read.
              What danger’s waiting, only time will tell –
              What triggers He will pull to make us bleed.

              Though tragedies galore we look beyond,
              If Fuckface dies, some readers will abscond.

              • Loki
                Loki
                March 19, 2020 at 1:23 am | #

                Amazing! Where did you pull this from? It reads Shakespear-y, but I don’t recognize it.

                • clif
                  clif
                  March 19, 2020 at 1:53 am | #

                  It’s the sonnet rhyme scheme and iambic pentameter that make it sound Shakespear-y. What do they teach you youngsters nowdays?

                  Very nice, Chris.

                • Chris Phoenix
                  Chris Phoenix
                  March 19, 2020 at 2:56 am | #

                  I wrote it just now. When inspiration strikes, I can bang out a sonnet pretty quickly. Something about “Fuckface is probably doomed” reminded me of a sonnet I wrote near the end of Nimona a few years ago. “Who are we kidding? Life just isn’t fair / If we don’t see her soon, Nimona’s dead…”

                  Here’s another I just wrote, not very good…

                  A sonnet’s meter isn’t hard to do.
                  Just listen for the beats and let words change
                  So syllables fall where you need them to
                  By adding and subtracting, or exchange.
                  A large vocabulary helps with rhyme;
                  I’ve read a lot, for decades, and it shows.
                  But if you’re stuck, go back and take your time,
                  And look for any word that sort of flows.

                  If inspiration’s powering your work,
                  The words will out, despite constraining forms.
                  If frustrated, retrace your steps, don’t shirk;
                  You’ll find a way to speak within the norms.
                  Read sonnets, practice meter, practice rhyme,
                  Learn to rephrase – these skills will come with time.

                  (I really like rhymezone.com if you’re stuck for a rhyme.)

            • Bicycle Bill
              Bicycle Bill
              March 19, 2020 at 2:16 am | #

              Offing Fuckface?  Willis wouldn’t go that far, would he/
              More like Fuckface gets found out and evicted.

              • clif
                clif
                March 19, 2020 at 2:42 am | #

                Now homeless, he is reduced to begging on street corners for nickles to buy lizard chow. Big apple wins.

                • King Daniel
                  King Daniel
                  March 19, 2020 at 8:33 am | #

                  Who sells lizard chow to woodpeckers, anyway?

  8. Emily
    Emily
    March 19, 2020 at 12:10 am | #

    i’M SCARED

    • clif
      clif
      March 19, 2020 at 3:18 am | #

      You should be. Big apple.

    • AGV
      AGV
      March 19, 2020 at 6:09 am | #

      “Here we are in the future and it’s wrong”

      • Lieutenant Dan
        Lieutenant Dan
        March 19, 2020 at 7:43 am | #

        “Look at Fuckface; he’s not even singing along.”

  9. JetstreamGW
    JetstreamGW
    March 19, 2020 at 12:11 am | #

    Goddammit, Malaya, don’t assume it’s a crank.

  10. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    March 19, 2020 at 12:17 am | #

    In fact actually set a fire. Like a controlled burn. That will get me so fucking hot. Doesn’t even have to be the near the actual dorms just burn some sticks outsid the quad and I will fuck you right then and there. The potential threat of fire really turns me on.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      March 19, 2020 at 12:20 am | #

      Took me a sec to realize you were speaking in-character as Ruth, and I had some concerns.

      • Meagan
        Meagan
        March 19, 2020 at 12:40 am | #

        I wouldn’t have gotten it if you hadn’t clarified.

        • Delicious Taffy
          Delicious Taffy
          March 19, 2020 at 12:52 am | #

          What do you take Yotomoe for, some variety of pervert?

          • Yotomoe
            Yotomoe
            March 19, 2020 at 12:54 am | #

            I’d say I’m many varieties of pervert, yes.

            • clif
              clif
              March 19, 2020 at 1:57 am | #

              I was going to say, “Don’t answer that,” but I see I’m too late.

            • clif
              clif
              March 19, 2020 at 3:25 am | #

              For the record, Yotomoe is the very best kind of pervert. The artistic kind.

              • He Who Abides
                He Who Abides
                March 19, 2020 at 1:25 pm | #

                Oh. I thought Yotomoe was every kind of pervert.

            • Tan
              Tan
              March 19, 2020 at 4:01 pm | #

              Yotomoe is 300 tiny perverts in a trenchcoat.

  11. Ahecht
    Ahecht
    March 19, 2020 at 12:18 am | #

    Big apple?

    • clif
      clif
      March 19, 2020 at 2:16 am | #

      The New York apple magnates.

    • Gandalf007
      Gandalf007
      March 19, 2020 at 8:54 pm | #

      “Big Apple, 3 AM” is the first level of Turtles in Time, and this strip is titled “Four AM”.

      Disappointed that only one other person (so far) appears to have gotten this. Shout out to Confuzor!

  12. woobie
    woobie
    March 19, 2020 at 12:18 am | #

    Famous Last Words to Fuckface.
    Yes. There is a character who won’t make it out alive.

  13. King Daniel
    King Daniel
    March 19, 2020 at 12:20 am | #

    Narrator: It was not just a prank fire alarm.

    • foamy
      foamy
      March 19, 2020 at 12:43 am | #

      My thought exactly.

  14. CC
    CC
    March 19, 2020 at 12:21 am | #

    “New to college, I see”

  15. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    March 19, 2020 at 12:22 am | #

    My predictions: 1)Amazi-Gil is moving Amber’s body subconsciously, 2)Blaine is still free!, 3)Mike’s ghost is pranking everyone, or 4)Head Alien is finally here!

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      March 19, 2020 at 12:34 am | #

      Amazi-Gil moves Agatha…

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      The ghost in the machine your mom, for a nickel.

  16. Agemegos
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    March 19, 2020 at 12:22 am | #

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        As, in comic, it’s still October, it shouldn’t affect the comic until several years from now.
        (And sending lots of people who where clustered in one busy place all over the country back to their home towns doesn’t look like a concept to not spread the virus to me. In Germany, break period has been extended but the few people who live in dorms still live there anyways.)

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        Agemegos
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          thejeff
          March 19, 2020 at 5:49 pm | #

          The time is pretty much now in most places. And it’s a good idea. Colleges are horrible places to shelter and try to stay isolated – you have to interact in large groups to even eat.
          There may be some spread sending them home now, but trying to keep them as school just guarantees it’ll sweep through the college populace.

          • CJ
            CJ
            March 19, 2020 at 6:32 pm | #

            Cultural differences: in Germany, if you get a room in the Studentenwohnheim, it’s your home for as long a you are a student and don‘t decide to move out. Term or no term, no matter which term. Most students don’t live there but in normal apartments, some in shared, some not. So over here, closing down universities means there are no lectures or anything, but closing down dorms is not a thing, it would be making people homeless.

        • clif
          clif
          March 19, 2020 at 8:49 pm | #

          Okay, if this is the beginning of the zombie apocalypse then anything set before the apocalypse will be a period piece by definition. To be honest, even in likely worse case with lots of people dying, I don’t see the pandemic as causing that level of permanent change. Post pandemic China doesn’t look that different and neither will western civilization as a whole.

  17. BBCC
    BBCC
    March 19, 2020 at 12:24 am | #

    Seems like something Mike would do.

    • AGV
      AGV
      March 19, 2020 at 6:11 am | #

      The optimistic possibility

  18. Catullus
    Catullus
    March 19, 2020 at 12:30 am | #

    I misread “I’m in Forest” as “I’m in a forest” and was briefly very confused about Billie’s circumstances.

    • Savail
      Savail
      March 19, 2020 at 12:53 am | #

      Me, too. “Forest? As in Dunn Woods? What? Why would she be ther–ohhhh, right, her dorm building!”

    • AGV
      AGV
      March 19, 2020 at 6:12 am | #

      To be fair, none of them are out of the woods yet

  19. Slartibeast Button, BIA
    Slartibeast Button, BIA
    March 19, 2020 at 12:30 am | #

    Needs more diving through rapidly closing firedoors.

    • clif
      clif
      March 19, 2020 at 2:24 am | #

      because setting off the fire alarm activates the nuclear weapon and the only way to keep it from exploding is to hit the deactivation switch that is in the room that the firedoors are designed to close off.

      • Bicycle Bill
        Bicycle Bill
        March 20, 2020 at 12:26 am | #

        Shades of the self-destruct cancellation console(s) in “The Andromeda Strain”…?

  20. Someone
    Someone
    March 19, 2020 at 12:34 am | #

    Alright. Which one of you pulled the drama tag this time?

  21. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    March 19, 2020 at 12:36 am | #

    I remember when I was in university, someone set off a fire alarm by badly cooking popcorn.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      March 19, 2020 at 12:38 am | #

      Same here. It was almost always someone trying to cook something and burning it when I was in college.

    • SuperZero
      SuperZero
      March 19, 2020 at 12:42 am | #

      That’s the standard way. Everybody assuming it’s a prank feels weird to me.

    • Sam
      Sam
      March 19, 2020 at 1:18 am | #

      Half the fire alarms I have heard go off in dorms went off because of food.

      • clif
        clif
        March 19, 2020 at 2:02 am | #

        At 4AM?

        • clif
          clif
          March 19, 2020 at 2:25 am | #

          Yes, I know. College students. But still.

          • Hazel
            Hazel
            March 19, 2020 at 2:48 am | #

            The peak time period for insomnia induced bad cooking!

          • Sam
            Sam
            March 19, 2020 at 5:11 am | #

            Usually closer to 1-3am, but yes, absolutely in the middle of the night. Had to stand outside during snow before, also rain, and far more often at night than during the day because that’s when people don’t open windows or stupidly leave the door open a smidge too long and the hallway smoke fire alarm was stupidly right next to the kitchen door!

            • Strangeshapes
              Strangeshapes
              March 19, 2020 at 11:00 pm | #

              Or the smoke arm was smartly next to the kitchen because that’s also where a real fire would likely start by that drunk guy down the hall trying to make hot dogs with a Bunsen burner.

              • Sam
                Sam
                March 20, 2020 at 11:09 pm | #

                The kitchen already had heat detectors inside it. The smoke detector was like 2 inches away from the door outside it which was way too close as any little bit of steam would set it off. It should have been like 2 feet clear of the door so that it would go off if there was an actual fire, not because someone had been making pasta. This is a problem I have had with smoke detectors before in an old house I used to live in too where the smoke detector was so close to the kitchen that it would go off whenever my dad fried an egg. It should be close to the kitchen but never so close that steam from normal daily activities will set it off.

                Putting it right outside the kitchen door with no distance between is a great way to annoy people, not protect people. Heat detectors can be right next to them, smoke detectors should have a little bit of distance or you’ll just get false alarms way too often.

    • Tomn
      Tomn
      March 19, 2020 at 5:34 am | #

      Knew someone who microwaved a banana once, just to see what would happen.

    • CJ
      CJ
      March 19, 2020 at 6:48 am | #

      Seems like a good thing German dorms usually are off-campus and spread out. Berlin has (or had, i’m not sure if it still exists) one rather large cluster of dorms, but no one every mentioned fire alarms being endemic.
      It might just be a modern thing, the fire alarm in the school next to my last workplace tended to get pulled frequently when tests where due.

    • kdmw
      kdmw
      March 19, 2020 at 9:34 am | #

      When I was an undergrad, one time someone set it off by hitting the fire sprinkler with a football. It broke and flooded several rooms on top of the alarm going off.

    • Joyfulldreams
      Joyfulldreams
      March 19, 2020 at 11:13 am | #

      That or forgetting to put water in their microwavable easymac. It was generally one of those two, 95% of the time. So yeah, it’s a little weird that the first thought is that it’s a prank rather than some moron pulling an all-nighter trying to study and fucking up food.

  22. Suet
    Suet
    March 19, 2020 at 12:38 am | #

    Too atrocious to be faulty, too timely to be from a sleepwalker

    It’s all been done with Rachel, so chances are on the ones who can be up at wee hours

  23. Confuzor
    Confuzor
    March 19, 2020 at 12:39 am | #

    Its “Big Apple 3 AM”

  24. Nono
    Nono
    March 19, 2020 at 12:57 am | #

    Billie if your dorm doesn’t have a fire alarm then why are you awake at 4am

    • Loki
      Loki
      March 19, 2020 at 1:25 am | #

      Maybe withdrawal symptoms, or she messed up her sleep schedule due to learning for midterms, or general college tomfoolery.

      (Two of these three happened to me personally.)

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      March 19, 2020 at 1:46 am | #

      I’m assuming Ruth woke her up with a phone call.

      • clif
        clif
        March 19, 2020 at 2:36 am | #

        Alternately alarms could be going all across campus.

    • Diane
      Diane
      March 19, 2020 at 8:27 am | #

      She lives in a building across the parking lot. That’s not that far. And if the alarm is going off loud enough to wake an entire building, I’d assume it’d wake them up too. Besides, if this was a real fire, it would want to wake them up, because it’d be the next building to catch if there was strong winds.

  25. Bagge
    Bagge
    March 19, 2020 at 1:29 am | #

    College continues to live up to Sarah’s expectations

  26. PB
    PB
    March 19, 2020 at 1:29 am | #

    My first thought: “Ah, I remember prank fire alarms.”
    My second thought: “… Oh crap I bet this is something serious and also not a fire.”
    My third thought: “OH NO WILL FUCKFACE GET HURT”

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 19, 2020 at 2:05 am | #

      The entire campus could burn to a crisp and Fuckface would be absolutely fine. He’s eternal, like Michigan J. Frog.

      • clif
        clif
        March 19, 2020 at 2:35 am | #

        I understand that fried lizard tastes like chicken.

        • Roborat
          Roborat
          March 19, 2020 at 5:21 pm | #

          Pretty much everything not beef or pork tastes like chicken.

          • Agemegos
            Agemegos
            March 19, 2020 at 10:43 pm | #

            Lamb, mutton, duck…

      • Chris Phoenix
        Chris Phoenix
        March 19, 2020 at 2:58 am | #

        Or Randy the Bandicoot, from QC.

      • clif
        clif
        March 19, 2020 at 3:10 am | #

        Also https://ew.com/article/2005/07/25/wbs_frog_mascot/

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          March 19, 2020 at 4:46 am | #

          Not canon. The last thing to air on The WB was him taking a bow.

          • clif
            clif
            March 19, 2020 at 7:47 pm | #

            Flashback. 🙂

    • a/snow/mous/e
      a/snow/mous/e
      March 19, 2020 at 11:46 pm | #

      or it could be a fire

  27. Jonah Sanville
    Jonah Sanville
    March 19, 2020 at 1:44 am | #

    i know this chapter started a few days ago so it’s a little late to say this BUT

    thank you willis for giving us a content warning and a timeline for how long the comic may be stressful. as someone with severe anxiety and ptsd, it really means a lot. i wish more people did stuff like this. one of the reasons why this webcomics my favorite is because of how well you treat your readers like me, those of us who have different problems than most.

    you’ve done touching stuff like this before, and i’m sure you’ll do it again, but i really want to say this here: thank you

  28. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    March 19, 2020 at 2:09 am | #

    Billie gets tagged just for being a voice on a cellphone?

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 19, 2020 at 2:22 am | #

      She’s been tagged as two text messages before.

      https://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/03-the-thing-i-was-before/fuckoff/

      I like the consistency of everyone’s phone communication color-coding.

      • Me et al.
        Me et al.
        March 19, 2020 at 12:24 pm | #

        “Golden Dragons, Wooooo”

  29. Kella
    Kella
    March 19, 2020 at 2:18 am | #

    Okay, who would benefit from having everybody leave the building?

    Blain and Toedad because they could sneak into the dorm unseen? But how would that get Becky to them since she doesn’t live in the dorms? Unless… their plan is to kidnap Dina and use her for leverage?

    Could it be amazigirl as a quick way to signal for back up?

    Or Mike who is somehow still alive? But… maybe only just?

    But Willis said this was just the *beginning* of a storyline so how would getting everyone out be just the very first step of something big?

    • Kella
      Kella
      March 19, 2020 at 2:21 am | #

      I’m suspicious that in the characters we see waking up, Amber, Dina, Dorothy, and Walky are not included.

      • clif
        clif
        March 19, 2020 at 2:31 am | #

        Neither are Ethan, Jacob, Sal, Carla, Mary or Rachel.

        Of course it’s the very first step of something big. Big apple.

    • AGV
      AGV
      March 19, 2020 at 6:18 am | #

      Maybe the evil dads will steal AG’s costume while everybody’s outside and then proceed to blackmail Amber to keep her at bay?
      They also could be after Joyce, Dina and anyone who could get in their way

      • CJ
        CJ
        March 19, 2020 at 6:52 am | #

        Sure way to drive both Amber and Amazing-Girl over the edge. Will get Amber thrown out of school but I wouldn’t bet much on Blaine’s survival..

  30. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    March 19, 2020 at 2:19 am | #

    Maybe this chapter we’ll finally get that Emergency! crossover.

  31. clif
    clif
    March 19, 2020 at 2:55 am | #

    I choose to believe that Emergency! is a web comic where weekly they have to dive through rapidly closing firedoors because setting off the fire alarm activates the nuclear weapon and the only way to keep it from exploding is to hit the deactivation switch that is in the room that the firedoors are designed to close off, on account of it being a common design flaw.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 19, 2020 at 4:45 am | #

      It was one of Jack Webb’s TV series, and probably his most casual. It was about the budding paramedic program in the Los Angeles fire department in the 1970s, and took place in the same universe as Dragnet and Adam-12. It got all the big action scenes and large warehouse fires.

      It spawned a cartoon with the two leads driving their rescue truck, assisted by a group of teenagers running an ambulance for some reason. It also almost spawned its own spinoff about the animal control department, starring Mark Harmon.

      I had hoped Chicago Fire was going to be a modern take on this sort of thing when it debuted, but they had to make it a character drama instead…

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        March 19, 2020 at 1:38 pm | #

        In today’s episode, Johnny, Roy, and Chet have to break up a clown fight at a skating rink.

        Seriously.

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        March 19, 2020 at 5:23 pm | #

        It was the inspiration for the paramedic system.

  32. BenRG
    BenRG
    March 19, 2020 at 3:01 am | #

    Yeah, someone’s found Mike and done the rational thing (for a late teen) and panicked.

    Either that or Ross thinks that Becky is still staying at Read Hall and wants everyone out so he can find her and grab her in the confusion.

    • clif
      clif
      March 19, 2020 at 3:29 am | #

      I know that if I were prowling through Ambers closet and found Mikes body where Amazigirl statched it, I’d certainly pull the fire alarm.

  33. PiotrW
    PiotrW
    March 19, 2020 at 3:26 am | #

    What is Sarah wearing on her head???

    • clif
      clif
      March 19, 2020 at 3:31 am | #

      A protective covering akin to a shower cap.

    • Whirlwitch
      Whirlwitch
      March 19, 2020 at 3:40 am | #

      It’s a satin bonnet. Black girls and women use them to protect natural hair styles.

  34. Shane
    Shane
    March 19, 2020 at 3:49 am | #

    The important thing is that by 4AM, all booty calls were probably wrapped up and not interrupted.

  35. Dracke
    Dracke
    March 19, 2020 at 3:59 am | #

    Ok Billie take notes

  36. BenRG
    BenRG
    March 19, 2020 at 5:27 am | #

    I’ve got the feeling that the final battle (at least with Ross and Blaine) is about to begin. Probably with a hostage situation that has to be resolved before Amber/Mazie bleeds out.

    • A Fan
      A Fan
      March 19, 2020 at 12:28 pm | #

      “resolved”

      …

      BwhahahahahHAHAHAJAHAHHAHAhahHahaaaaaa. Hooo, hehe hee. ho hoo heee.

      Oh that was hahaha hoo, that was , hehe, good. heh.

  37. Solenoid
    Solenoid
    March 19, 2020 at 5:49 am | #

    “I romanticize the stupidest shit” Chapter’s coming out the gate with a good book title possibility.

  38. GUIGUI
    GUIGUI
    March 19, 2020 at 7:18 am | #

    Fire alarm goes BROOP, apparently.

  39. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    March 19, 2020 at 7:28 am | #

    …joke’s on them Amber actually set her room on fire trying to stay awake, somehow

  40. Pietro
    Pietro
    March 19, 2020 at 8:38 am | #

    Hello everybody. This is my first coment on this comic
    I have a feeling that toedad is involved in this

    • clif
      clif
      March 19, 2020 at 7:51 pm | #

      Welcome to the comentariate.

  41. Deanatay
    Deanatay
    March 19, 2020 at 9:23 am | #

    Best Character: Whatever, I’ll just sleep in your warm spot. Be sure to be back by 10 for my daily feeding, or I poop in your bed.

  42. Kaz
    Kaz
    March 19, 2020 at 9:45 am | #

    Willis making a casual Turtles In Time reference with the alt text.

    • Christopher
      Christopher
      March 19, 2020 at 10:39 am | #

      yay! I’m not the only one that thought it.

      But how do we really know it’s 3 am?

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        March 19, 2020 at 1:09 pm | #

        Joyce is looking at her phone. Unless something’s very different about it, it presumably has a clock.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        March 19, 2020 at 6:27 pm | #

        3AM is eternal:
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpzpwpCDzEQ

  43. Pat
    Pat
    March 19, 2020 at 10:32 am | #

    AAAGGHHH!

    Okay so in my freshman year I lived in the basement floor, with a fire door at the end. Lazy students heading to the gym would enter the building on the ground floor, go downstairs to our hall, and leave out the fire door instead of going around the building and down the hill.

    This would set off the fire alarm. Multiple times a day. But the school wouldn’t do anything about it. I tried to post about it on the school forums and all the replies were “Everyone always does that! You can’t stop us!”

    Anyways, I left that school because the entire faculty and student body were the most hateful people on Earth. It was a Christian college, naturally.

    • Me et al.
      Me et al.
      March 19, 2020 at 12:33 pm | #

      If you’re ever in that boat again, report it to the Fire Marsha. Not school security, not on site emerg services, but the [off campus] Fire Marshall. Those folks have POWER and aren’t afraid to exercise is.

  44. Michele D Thompson
    Michele D Thompson
    March 19, 2020 at 10:59 am | #

    Anyone else … thinking this isn’t a prank? I was like “Oh, lol, been there” right up until “You’ll be fine, reptile who is beloved by all” at which point this moved from possible prank/inattentive cooking in the hall kitchen… to actual fire, possibly set by Blaine and/or Toedad…

    • egwenna
      egwenna
      March 19, 2020 at 11:12 am | #

      Yes, that is exactly what I’m thinking.

    • Seregiel
      Seregiel
      March 19, 2020 at 12:12 pm | #

      Im hoping they did it to go in and snoop and the iguana eats their faces.

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        March 19, 2020 at 1:11 pm | #

        Iguanas are herbivorous, as Malaya so graciously pointed out.

        …doesn’t necessarily mean Fuckface can’t fuck up their faces with his claws, though.

  45. Zee
    Zee
    March 19, 2020 at 11:22 am | #

    The fire alarms in my dorm do this really annoying thing where, if the power surges or goes out, they’ll start blaring when it comes back on. It happened at like 2am during the orientation period (think hazing but toned way down and no drinking allowed) and I figured it was just the seniors’ way of waking us up

    • Zee
      Zee
      March 19, 2020 at 11:28 am | #

      They don’t actually make us leave the building for fire alarms tho, you learn to just roll over and sleep through them. We’re all gonna burn to death one day lol

  46. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    March 19, 2020 at 12:12 pm | #

    I need popcorn. The following strips will probably be extremely delicious.

  47. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    March 19, 2020 at 12:55 pm | #

    Hey Mr. Iguana. Always nice to see that not-so-friendly face.

  48. Joe Covenant
    Joe Covenant
    March 19, 2020 at 1:09 pm | #

    FOOLS! It was *I*…

  49. bcb
    bcb
    March 19, 2020 at 3:29 pm | #

    I must have been lucky since I never had to deal with prank fire alarms overnight when I lived in a dorm. However, there was one time when someone was making a clay pot and left it in the kiln overnight and that resulted in an actual fire alarm going off at 2 am.

  50. Agemegos
    Agemegos
    March 19, 2020 at 3:46 pm | #

    How narrow Joyce’s bed is!
    Less capacious than Dorothy’s.
    That’s symbolic, I suppose.

  51. Katherine
    Katherine
    March 19, 2020 at 4:53 pm | #

    But it’s been (at least) a whole day between the nighttime potential Mike death and this nighttime alarm…

  52. Beef
    Beef
    March 19, 2020 at 6:48 pm | #

    At first I was worried Willis would kill Fuckface but I don’t think he can kill a god

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      March 19, 2020 at 7:24 pm | #

      If Fuckface dies, that’s clearly just proof of his divinity

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Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Time for One 2.
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Dies Irae (Trap Remix) @gonebabygone.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Every comic creator's obituary is like, he created this iconic character who was in a movie that made $700 million last year. He died with a net worth of $12 after the publisher countersued him.
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Tightest shirt - Transformers Wiki
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
new comics curmudgeon post! joshreads.com/2025/0... love it when my girlfriend's eyes are normal
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crabs in a bucket | patreon.com/lubchansky
PANEL 1:  MATTIE sitting on the floor in front of a bucket.
MATTIE: Man, I put all these crabs in this bucket to watch them fight to the top for my amusement…

PANEL 2: MATTIE peering in close to the bucket. One claw is raised, holding a little piece of paper folded over.
MATTIE: …But it looks like they all just started trading ZINES in there!
MATTIE: Kind of annoying.

PANEL 3: MATTIE grabs the zine.
MATTIE: Hm?

PANEL 4: Close up of the zine in MATTIE's hands. The title is STEVEN, THE CRAB DIRECTLY BELOW ME, IS A PIECE OF SHIT!
MATTIE: Haha okay this is pretty good
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
thinking of that time i found an abandoned transformers wiki on wikia that was just a bunch of terrible and incomplete lists of character names, sitting back, and deciding i could fix this wiki by writing a comprehensive Donny Finkleberg Robot-Master page.
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#DidYouKnow we just turned 20 years old? Yes, really! The original incarnation of TFWiki was originally founded on Wikicities on this day in 2005. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over the years!
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
today in #9chickweedlane i learned the cartoonist definitely forgot the 2023 storyline in which mary showed up again and amos didn't recognize or remember her and mary was very clearly into him, and also her hair is just Juliette's Hair But Black today, rather than Mary's curly hair
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Jubs is auADHD @jubster.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
@damnyouwillis.bsky.social Well that's interesting
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Today I learned...
Psalty's Salvation Celebration: The Movie, starring a young Bethany Joy Lenz
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It's a thing of beauty.
Screenshot of the disambiguation page for
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God, the story of this wiki. It's quite a ride.
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#DidYouKnow we just turned 20 years old? Yes, really! The original incarnation of TFWiki was originally founded on Wikicities on this day in 2005. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over the years!
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
www.ebay.com/itm/23611446... my mp movie megatron auction ends in 8 hours???
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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 LAKE YELLOWWOOD SLAUGHTER on Kickstarter now @alejandrobot.com ⋅ 2d
Marvel could pay for my healthcare for the rest of my life for a fraction of 1% of profit from Spider-Man Noir, a character whose original comics I edited. For Peter David to die in medical debt, co-creator of Spider-Man 2099 and writer of countless seminal Hulk and X-Factor comics—that's a disgrace
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