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by David M Willis on December 19, 2022 at 12:01 am
  • 02 – Turning Saints Into the Sea
└ Tags: dorothy, joe, joyce

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    December 19, 2022 at 12:02 am | #

    the only spoilers that exist are who bangs

    • milu
      milu
      December 19, 2022 at 4:39 am | #

      …ok, the only spoilers are when they bang

      • MIB4u
        MIB4u
        December 21, 2022 at 2:31 pm | #

        only spoiler is that all of them loose their bangs … and get a completely sexy hairstyle… XD

  2. Sporky
    Sporky
    December 19, 2022 at 12:02 am | #

    In this strip, Joe represents the part of David Willis’s brain that added Billie to Roomies!

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      December 19, 2022 at 1:46 pm | #

      Can’t wait to meet Joyce’s new character, Guinevere “Tillie” Tillingsfield

      • Librain
        Librain
        December 22, 2022 at 5:30 am | #

        Oh sweet, an actual original character that’s not “loosely” based on one of her friends!

  3. Lux
    Lux
    December 19, 2022 at 12:03 am | #

    Ok, I guess the nervousness about the walky and lucy storyline will wait till later.

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      December 19, 2022 at 12:19 am | #

      Nervous? I bet they’ve already sorted everything out by now off panel and things will continue to be perfect for those two. Yup.

      • Queezle
        Queezle
        December 19, 2022 at 4:18 am | #

        Oh good! No need to be worried then. I was worried, silly me.

  4. Sporky
    Sporky
    December 19, 2022 at 12:03 am | #

    Anyway it seems like Joe is intentionally antagonizing Dorothy now, which is maybe not the best idea, but seems like a lot of fun so I can’t really blame him tirof

    • Sporky
      Sporky
      December 19, 2022 at 12:04 am | #

      *for it… how on earth did that happen

      • Ryan
        Ryan
        December 19, 2022 at 12:10 am | #

        It looks to me like he’s winning her over. Dorothy is starting to smile.

        • anon
          anon
          December 19, 2022 at 12:12 am | #

          To me it looked more like “Guess i don’t have to worry too much after all” imo

        • StClair
          StClair
          December 19, 2022 at 12:21 am | #

          I get an “Oy” vibe, myself.

        • Mano308gts
          Mano308gts
          December 19, 2022 at 12:42 am | #

          I would certainly interpret that last panel expression as humor/relaxing tension, Dorothy seems to be enjoying seeing Joyce being lightly ribbed… (But then, such a pass time is rather cliche among this friend group)

      • a/snow/mous/e
        a/snow/mous/e
        December 19, 2022 at 7:21 pm | #

        you went into the mirror universe and it reversed your text

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      December 19, 2022 at 1:14 am | #

      In what way is this even remotely antagonistic?

      • anon
        anon
        December 19, 2022 at 1:16 am | #

        feels like it’d be more under joyce’s skin with the sex talk even if she’s past all the stuff from the very first chapter

      • Nova
        Nova
        December 19, 2022 at 7:03 am | #

        I don’t see it either. He’s just talking about one of Joyce’s important interests and being himself.

      • Gigafreak
        Gigafreak
        December 19, 2022 at 8:37 am | #

        Dorothy was just judging him for being a one-dimensional hornball thirsting after Joyce despite his protests to the contrary.

        And now he’s being his usual One-Dimensional Hornball Joe, in Joyce’s general direction, while Dorothy is still present.

        So yeah, I can kinda see it. It might also be something like “I am nudging the line but never crossing it, and Joyce can see it and respect that in her own way,” which still would be a sort of defiance to Dorothy’s insistence that he just stop.

        • Nova
          Nova
          December 19, 2022 at 11:58 am | #

          Being himself is antagonistic?

          Someone being upset at you about something does not mean YOU have upset them. If Dorothy is antagonized by a perfectly friendly conversation, that’s on her, not on Joe. He shouldn’t have to change who he is and how he talks to Joyce for fear of Dorothy’s opinion on it. He’s not trying to date Dorothy.

  5. Wendy
    Wendy
    December 19, 2022 at 12:04 am | #

    Dumbing of Age spoiler alert Joyce eventually starts making comics for ShineSlip, an acclaimed NSFW webcomics platform,

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      December 19, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

      Speaking of which, just how many other webcomics have official canon porn?

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        December 19, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

        I don’t know if I’d call it common but it’s definitely not unheard of

        • The Wellerman
          The Wellerman
          December 19, 2022 at 12:09 am | #

          Any examples?

          • Thag Simmons
            Thag Simmons
            December 19, 2022 at 1:23 am | #

            Not off the top of my head, no.

          • milu
            milu
            December 19, 2022 at 3:05 am | #

            GoGetaRoomie has a spinoff on slipshine

            • Opus the Poet
              Opus the Poet
              December 19, 2022 at 3:51 am | #

              And so does Menage a 3, and a couple of other PG13 or MA web comics. Like Curvy. Actually going through Slipshine’s listing there’s the Ma3 comic, Les3, the GGaR spinoff, the damnYouWillis comic and that’s pretty much it for SlipShine. There might be other webcomics on Filthy Figments, but I don’t subscribe to that service, and there are several comics with adult levels on Patreon, that I do subscribe to, but there are some that have been deplatformed from Patreon because of artistic differences over what characters are minors and which ones aren’t, with any female characters not depicted as smuggling basketballs in their bras getting labled as kiddy porn in spite of storylines having them in college or working post-college.

              Rant over.

              • The Wellerman
                The Wellerman
                December 19, 2022 at 5:06 am | #

                Re: deplatformed for alleged depictions of minors, I’m starting to wonder now if that’s why Dina was decided as more chubby than usual in the slipshine 😐

                • The Wellerman
                  The Wellerman
                  December 19, 2022 at 5:19 am | #

                  *depicted as more chubby than usual

                  I could have sworn I typed that right -_-

              • Taffy
                Taffy
                December 19, 2022 at 12:44 pm | #

                “with any female characters not depicted as smuggling basketballs in their bras”

                Ah yes, because as we all know, women universally grow massive titties as an inevitable product of aging, so you can reliably tell how old a woman is based on her cup size.

                Why are people so stupid?

                • milu
                  milu
                  December 19, 2022 at 1:54 pm | #

                  alternative question: is there anything more to this story than what Opus chose to share.

                • The Wellerman
                  The Wellerman
                  December 19, 2022 at 4:47 pm | #

                  Seriously tho, WTF?!?!?!

                  There exist adults who are less than 5 feet tall. There exist adults who are cup size A and less. I would REALLY wish people would stop referring to us as “children”. It’s fucking OFFENSIVE. 😬

                  Rant over.

                • milu
                  milu
                  December 19, 2022 at 5:14 pm | #

                  Opus provided zero specifics. do you have info that i don’t? i wasn’t able to find a news story on their anecdote.

                  maybe bad decisions were made but if patreon is actually trying to root out pedophilic content, i’d say that’s *probably* a net good. idk, i might be wrong on account of how, again: no context. feel free to provide sources.

                • thejeff
                  thejeff
                  December 19, 2022 at 6:37 pm | #

                  Agreed – but …
                  It’s also a character design often used to appeal to a certain crowd while still maintaining a facade it being okay. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Patreon went overboard trying to police it, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if there was a real problem they were trying to address.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        December 19, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

        XKCD.

        It’s hard to tell, but a lot of the characters are naked.

        • Carms
          Carms
          December 19, 2022 at 12:12 am | #

          the whole comic is highly transgressive flatland porn

          • Sylvie Wrath
            Sylvie Wrath
            December 19, 2022 at 12:15 am | #

            Yeah actually, what kind of dignified upper-class Flatlander attaches linesegments to their body? it’s positively obscene!

          • RassilonTDavros
            RassilonTDavros
            December 19, 2022 at 12:21 am | #

            …huh, did a quick search and apparently the internet hasn’t actually gotten to Flatland yet. Honestly, I’m kind of surprised. Especially since I vaguely recall there being an explanation of how the residents of Flatland reproduce somewhere in there.

            • not someone else
              not someone else
              December 19, 2022 at 12:56 am | #

              There is, annnnnd frankly it’s mind-meltingly racist and misogynistic, which is probably why most people nope out.

              Neat math in that book. Very very clear in some places that it was written around the same time people were fucking around trying to make viable electric lighting.

              • 3oranges
                3oranges
                December 19, 2022 at 1:09 am | #

                I had heard it’s meant to be a parody of how misogynistic Victorian society was, although Poe’s law applies just as well to historical writings.

                Xkcd has definitely gotten to Flatland anyway.

                • Daibhid C
                  Daibhid C
                  December 19, 2022 at 4:07 am | #

                  Poe’s law applied at the time, which is why Abbot actually added a foreword to later editions saying “No, this isn’t how I view women, it’s how society views women. And it’s bad.”

                  Having said that, I am very much of the opinion that if I feel uncomfortable with certain portrayals of non-cis-white-het-male characters, a disclaimer saying “No, I’m parodying those views” doesn’t actually make me feel less uncomfortable reading it.

              • BOOSTER SHOT
                BOOSTER SHOT
                December 19, 2022 at 3:23 am | #

                I reread the first chunk recently, and was pleasantly surprised at how enjoyable and relatable the satire was, even well over a century later. The misogyny would not be read as such at the time, and is some hilariously *literally* pointed satire of the society around the author, a society with rules that the author quite clearly feels trapped by. I didn’t actually get to much of the dimension hopping, I was having fun just hanging out with the Victorian parody. I don’t remember anything explicitly about race (and the striations in flatland society seemed to me more explicitly modeled after class rather than race), but I’ll have to pick it back up and reacquaint myself with the rest.

      • Nono
        Nono
        December 19, 2022 at 12:23 am | #

        I mean, there are the comics which are porn to begin with, like Rock Cocks.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        December 19, 2022 at 1:12 am | #

        Mine, if I ever make one.

      • anon
        anon
        December 19, 2022 at 1:17 am | #

        I would say “menage a 3” but it’s pretty much a porn with plot to begin with

      • ANeM
        ANeM
        December 19, 2022 at 2:34 am | #

        Barbarous has a “rare, unofficial adult fanzine” that they sell at cons that just happens to have the same art style as the main comic.

      • Felis Dee
        Felis Dee
        December 19, 2022 at 4:41 pm | #

        Another webcomic with in-canon porn: Love Not Found. And also that same author’s previous strip Red String (though the comic itself is no longer available online – but I think the Filthy Figments may be).

      • Azhrei Vep
        Azhrei Vep
        December 19, 2022 at 6:58 pm | #

        There’s a pretty decent number that do. And most of the ones I’ve read don’t have it off on a separate pay site, it’s just part of the comic.

        You just gotta look for the right webcomics.

  6. Regalli
    Regalli
    December 19, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

    You know, I’m now starting to wonder what Julia Gray’s gradually-ever-more autobiographical OC who will eventually start drawing a webcomic’s name will be.

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      December 19, 2022 at 12:13 am | #

      We’re not ready to read the incredible exploits Jackylyne Mauve. Race car driver by day, dimension traveling hero by night.

      • Clif
        Clif
        December 19, 2022 at 2:17 am | #

        Speak for yourself.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        December 19, 2022 at 6:41 am | #

        1 DoA day passes over the course of about every 66 real-world days. We can extrapolate that to 1 Gray day passing every 66 DoA days, and 1 Mauve day passing every 66 Gray days.

        A Gray day worth of Julia Gray strips would take 4,356 real-world days to play out, and a Mauve day of Jackylyne Mauve strips would take 287,496 real-world days. That puts the first Mauve arc’s conclusin sometime in the 29th century.

        That’s not accounting for the amount of time it’s going to take for Julia to reach her second semester, when she takes up cartooning.

  7. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    December 19, 2022 at 12:09 am | #

    If people are banging in Julia Gray I’m suddenly way more interested in reading it.

    • anon
      anon
      December 19, 2022 at 12:10 am | #

      Joyce graduates, becomes webcomic artist and works from home for webtoons and spends all her free time with everyone

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      December 19, 2022 at 4:13 am | #

      They’ve been banging, the difference is that Joyce is no longer destroying those immediately after writing or drawing them.

      • Schpoonman
        Schpoonman
        December 19, 2022 at 8:42 am | #

        In one month in-universe Amber is going to stumble across Joyce’s amassment and even she will be shocked at the smut.

        • Sirksome
          Sirksome
          December 19, 2022 at 11:11 am | #

          Probably not. Joyce’s smut is apparently real vanilla. A veteran smut goblin like Amber wouldn’t even flinch at her content regardless of her output.

  8. ADLegend21
    ADLegend21
    December 19, 2022 at 12:10 am | #

    There’s a Character that goes “I am the one who bangs”

    • Adam Black
      Adam Black
      December 19, 2022 at 12:27 am | #

      Tin Roof… rusted.

    • Adam Black
      Adam Black
      December 19, 2022 at 12:30 am | #

      ^ accidentally flagged yer comment when replying. sorry.
      there is no undue

    • Daibhid C
      Daibhid C
      December 19, 2022 at 4:09 am | #

      That was very nearly President Doris’s other personality trait, until Dorothy vetoed it.

      • Daibhid C
        Daibhid C
        December 19, 2022 at 12:45 pm | #

        Oh my God, I have just realised that the hidden joke there is that, while she’s obviously based on Dorothy in terms Dumbing of Age, if you consider Roommates!!! as a riff on Roomies!, Doris is actually in the Joe role to Julia’s Danny.

  9. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    December 19, 2022 at 12:10 am | #

    Every silver lining’s got a…Touch of Grey…

  10. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    December 19, 2022 at 12:13 am | #

    Oh, yeah.  She definitely bangs.

  11. Nono
    Nono
    December 19, 2022 at 12:21 am | #

    So who’s Jakkar based off on? Jacob?

    Though it would be funny if it was Harry Styles.

  12. BBCC
    BBCC
    December 19, 2022 at 12:22 am | #

    Okay, now I’M curious about this story. XD Damn you Willis for torturing us

    And points for the Wizard of Oz reference.

  13. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    December 19, 2022 at 12:24 am | #

    Fifty Shades of Julia Gray: a Roommates!!!! Pornographique

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      December 19, 2022 at 12:25 am | #

      🤣🤣🤣 10/10 👏👏👏

    • Adam Black
      Adam Black
      December 19, 2022 at 12:31 am | #

      : a hankyPankique

      • milu
        milu
        December 19, 2022 at 3:08 am | #

        *upvote*

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      December 19, 2022 at 4:22 am | #

      If I wasn’t already subscribed to SlipShine I would for that.

  14. AbacusWizard
    AbacusWizard
    December 19, 2022 at 12:47 am | #

    Dorothy is smirking in the final panel because she is thinking about all the Julia Gray slashfic she could be writing, or perhaps already has written

  15. JA
    JA
    December 19, 2022 at 1:05 am | #

    Everyone had sex.

  16. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    December 19, 2022 at 1:11 am | #

    All of the other characters Bang.

  17. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    December 19, 2022 at 1:14 am | #

    I’m having throbbing in my head. My friend said I might have high blood pressure. I’m scared now. That’s what did my Uncle in.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      December 19, 2022 at 1:17 am | #

      Oh, shit. Um, hopefully that’s not a sign of anything serious, and also hopefully you can see a professional about that at the earliest convenience. Nobody wants a dead Yoto.

    • anon
      anon
      December 19, 2022 at 1:19 am | #

      i would get a second opinion (even if friend is in med school) but good luck (on one hand, it’d be rly bad to deal with, with american healthcare, but on the other hand, american doctors are probably pretty familiar with this condition to heolp you through it \)

    • milu
      milu
      December 19, 2022 at 3:15 am | #

      Sorry about your uncle.
      I’m sure you’ll be fine if you take care of yourself, like see a doctor and try to follow their advice.
      Let us know when you’ve had this thing checked up?
      Take care <3

    • Uly
      Uly
      December 19, 2022 at 7:50 am | #

      Your friend is not a doctor, or if they are a doctor then they haven’t actually examined you and given you a diagnosis.

      So rather than scaring yourself with what your friend said, you should take steps to see a doctor and see if you do, in fact, have high blood pressure and what steps are necessary to control it.

      Lots of people have high blood pressure. And, yes, it ultimately can be quite serious – but there’s lots of ways to treat it so you can live a long and healthy life.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      December 19, 2022 at 8:46 am | #

      Blood pressure’s easy to check even before a doctor’s visit. Lots of pharmacies have public machines you can use.
      It’s potentially dangerous, but also usually controllable.

    • HueSatLight
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      December 19, 2022 at 10:01 am | #

      If you can, get a check-up from a doctor. Yearly. Even if the throbbing isn’t from blood pressure, it’s something you should keep an eye on because of family history. A lot of prepared food has a boatload of sodium in it, because sodium is like easy mode for flavor.

      but a throbbing headache might just be a toothache or caffeine withdrawal etc.

      • anon
        anon
        December 19, 2022 at 8:01 pm | #

        i feel like a toothache throb would be a lot more distinct/noticeable but it might depend lol, i tend to drink the coffee mixed in with other stuff that it’s not rly coffee anymore so idk if i’ve had ‘caffeine’ headaches versus lack of sleep, but be nice to be able to do what we want with no consequences, never could relate to like the 20 year old college bros that ate/drank whatever they want and partied all weekend and be fine the next week

  18. Keulen
    Keulen
    December 19, 2022 at 1:48 am | #

    One of these days Willis is gonna have to show us Joyce’s entire Julia Gray webcomic universe. Hopefully.

  19. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    December 19, 2022 at 2:04 am | #

    Dotty smiling in the last panel XD Somehow bonding with Joe over teasing her

  20. HueSatLight
    HueSatLight
    December 19, 2022 at 4:06 am | #

    I’ve been thinking about how the Walky/Lucy story is running parallel to the Joyce/Joe story, and how the different characters in the same rolls behave differently.
    Both have a “crushee”, Joyce and Walky,
    and a “crusher”, Joe and Lucy.
    And a cupid, Amber and Dorothy.
    These lunches, they meet their first trial: Dorothy and Lyle. Who’ve known the crusher for a long time.
    The next trial, probably with someone whose known the crushee for a long time: Becky and Jennifer. Their S.O. will likely be involved.
    And potentially a final trial, I’d guess the crushee’s roommate with some uncomfortable revelations. Sarah and Booster, if Walky hasn’t already bailed.

    • milu
      milu
      December 19, 2022 at 4:57 am | #

      Also both crushees are basically author stand-ins.
      I say this is Willis running parallel dating simulations of themself, black mirror style

    • anon
      anon
      December 19, 2022 at 8:06 pm | #

      she might warm up eventually but iwouldn’t consider dorothy ‘cupid status’ as of now lol, or her at the end of it being “joe’s alright, maybe not the perfect bf but i trust you to make the right decisions”

      • poofdepoof
        poofdepoof
        December 19, 2022 at 10:50 pm | #

        Dorothy was cupid for Amber and Walky

        • poofdepoof
          poofdepoof
          December 19, 2022 at 10:51 pm | #

          I mean, Lucy and Walky.

          Cupid was not involved in and Walky

          • poofdepoof
            poofdepoof
            December 19, 2022 at 10:52 pm | #

            Ahhh more typos, I’m done

  21. Mr.Morningstar
    Mr.Morningstar
    December 19, 2022 at 5:06 am | #

    Joyce slowly becoming an Internet porn lord

  22. Sombrero
    Sombrero
    December 19, 2022 at 5:43 am | #

    Do you want Julia Gray slashfic, Joe? I’m sure your stepsister has some.

    • Sombrero
      Sombrero
      December 19, 2022 at 5:44 am | #

      My gravatar is Joe finally hitting on the above.

  23. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    December 19, 2022 at 6:29 am | #

    Joe: Not really helping your case here regarding Dorothy.

    Joyce: I guess hasn’t discovered Patreon yet?

    • Nova
      Nova
      December 19, 2022 at 7:08 am | #

      Joe shouldn’t have to change who he is and how he talks to prove to a woman he isn’t even trying to date that he’s worth dating. He and Joyce like each other, the discussion of what is and isn’t a dealbreaker is between them. I’m glad he hasn’t let Dorothy’s mom-moment scare him into changes he doesn’t want and Joyce hasn’t indicated she wants either.

  24. Hazel
    Hazel
    December 19, 2022 at 6:57 am | #

    Does Joyce draw Julia looking like a stylized version of herself? Do we know?

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      December 19, 2022 at 7:27 am | #

      She does. Julia is obviously herself, Doris is Dorothy with dark hair, and their RA is very obviously Ruth.

      https://www.dumbingofage.com/tag/julia-gray/

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      December 19, 2022 at 7:38 am | #

      Spaceforce Captain Julia Gray was one of the magnets available with the Kickstarter for book 9. Compare that to the ‘Thirsty Joyce’ magnet that was part of the Kickstarter magnet set for book 8, and draw your own conclusions.

      Although i do wonder if, when Willis came up the name for the fictional ‘Spaceforce’, he had any idea that a buffoon with a bad comb-over would make it a ‘real’ part of the US Armed Forces?

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        December 19, 2022 at 8:15 am | #

        The Julia character magnet was drawn in the current DoA style, as she was depicted for the DoA audience when her escapades were only literature. (Imagine “literature” is written in Old English.)

        The comic as ‘drawn by Joyce’ is a Roomies! throwback.

        Both incarnations are very obviously Joyce with aviator shades and a bomber jacket.

      • Sporky
        Sporky
        December 19, 2022 at 12:29 pm | #

        The Space Force was already a thing when Willis came up with Julia Gray. That was part of the joke, that Joyce would be super into the dumb conservative fantasy of it

        • Bicycle Bill
          Bicycle Bill
          December 19, 2022 at 9:38 pm | #

          Are you sure?  I suppose I could take the time to look through all the books (BTW, I finally got my Kickstarter edition of book 11 – well done, Willis!!), but I thought we first heard about Joyce’s fan-fic alter ego back around book three, long before DJT ever announced his political aspirations.

  25. Arcee
    Arcee
    December 19, 2022 at 7:43 am | #

    This is how Joyce/Jacob can still win!!

  26. Schpoonman
    Schpoonman
    December 19, 2022 at 8:44 am | #

    That’s really a great Joyce face in the last panel.

  27. ButWhyASpoon
    ButWhyASpoon
    December 19, 2022 at 11:41 am | #

    I want to see Amber and Joe double-team Joyce on the Banging Front. That could be a bonding moment.

    Joe and Amber are alike in this regard.

    • someone
      someone
      December 19, 2022 at 3:15 pm | #

      I assume you meant Joe and Dotty, and it sounds like a Slipshine exclusive.

      Joe and Amber will only be in the Folgers Christmas special.

      • Nova
        Nova
        December 19, 2022 at 9:42 pm | #

        Joe and Amber are not related to one another in any way that makes it creepy. Their parents married once they were already full adults, they weren’t raised together and they share no blood.

        *cracks a champagne bottle against the new ship* LET IT SAIL

  28. Megan Rivera
    Megan Rivera
    December 19, 2022 at 12:46 pm | #

    Jakkar The Space Vampire ♥

  29. Jonah Sanville
    Jonah Sanville
    December 19, 2022 at 2:19 pm | #

    for a second i thought joyce and dorothy were holding hands

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      December 19, 2022 at 6:09 pm | #

      one day…

  30. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    December 19, 2022 at 6:08 pm | #

    Joe may even marry Joyce, but he’ll get a permanent ban from her future webcomic.

  31. Heavensrun
    Heavensrun
    December 19, 2022 at 9:33 pm | #

    Dotty getting a little territorial in panel 2.

  32. bcb
    bcb
    December 21, 2022 at 12:17 pm | #

    So Walky is a space vampire in this version?

  33. Birion
    Birion
    December 25, 2022 at 1:14 pm | #

    Joyce: Maintaining a proper reading rhythm of one strip a day is the best way to consume my story.

    Dumbing of Age’s RSS feed: We dumping once a week, boys.

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