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Barb O. Saur 
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Later, Booster reveals having learned Joseph Joestar’s secret of knowing what people will say before they say it, except without the them saying it part
They’re more like Rohan with Heaven’s Door really
Of course! Heavens for in read only mode.
Booster’s cheating a little, someone had their phone out at that meeting and Jennifer getting bodyslammed went viral on TikTok and even inspired a brief dance craze.
Yes, the floating timeline means that TikTok was now a thing at the start of this story. Of course, by the time next semester rolls around we’ll all be receiving our memes in pill form, so this comment will be dated.
Booster has at least been told that Ruth bodyslammed someone during a floor meeting, although I don’t know if they specifically know it was Jen
They’ve also heard Ruth scream “I didn’t ‘lose’ Billie!” Probably put together the pieces from there.
But I prefer the dance craze theory.
She screamed that about Billie/Jennifer right in the middle of being psych-profiled by Booster, too, so it’s a double connection.
Meeting starts here, and it’d make a pretty sweet TikTok too.
Thanks for the link. I love people posting links. Also, Booster’s line in that strip is hilarious.
They see Ruth looking at Billie like *that* in the background, especially when her new boyfriend gets mentioned, and connected the dots that they’re exes.
I am just imaging an old school youtube video morfing into a vine converting to an instagram video and finally becoming a tik-tok over time.
Just like this, but videos. Minor nit: there will be no “finally” except until there is so much media produced that entire IP’s just get forgot. Or Sol explodes or something.
Well finally in this context would be “the most recent format as of this comment I just made.”
For those who don’t remember, from almost 13 years ago – https://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/01-move-in-day/pun/
What’s really interesting is to see how much the characters have changed as Willis has honed his art skills over the intervening years….
Didn’t you know? TikTok is old school two decades ago
Jennifer is looking more Amber-like. Is she getting ready to date Walky?
She’s slowly realizing that she already is dating a Walky
I’m not seeing either of these things.
They are both thick of body, and the hair length is sorta comparable, but yeah I otherwise don’t see it so much.
I mean if that’s all, Amber and Jennifer have both always been thick
once the art stopped making everyone’s heads ginormous, anywayEveryone in DOA definitely got a bit thicker as the art evolved.
Honestly I kinda feel like Joyce has gotten a little skinnier since the beginning. (I remember a lot of discourse around her no longer being a twig back in 2010.)
I disagree. She was like…the character I most noticed feeling more filled out. Like early on she read as pretty small/skinny. Now she’s got a bit of a shortstack vibe.
cept ethan but the emo/malnourished ’emaciated’ thing was def a plot point. though hopefully he can get back on track even if he doesn’t rly go back to ‘normal’ or so
Well, I probably don’t need to say that I’d absolutely approve of THAT.
Do what you do best. Express yourself in your art. Please. (And then share it here
)
https://imgur.com/a/VWWEEgL
Honestly all this hostility is getting too tsundere-like to ignore.
Lucky guess.
I intended to write more before I accidentally hit the post comment button, but you know what? It is probably better this way.
bark and they know their breed
knows where they went last night
knows their masters toooooo
Get wrecked, Jennifer.
Yoto, you’re getting to me, why has Jennifer been so much hotter since the timeskip?
Her freshman 15 went right to her boobs.
Y’know, it occurs to me that I’ve never really thought about how much boobs weigh, numerically. What do 15-pound boobs even look like? It sounds like they’d be huge, but again, I’ve never put one in a scale.
Well if it all went straight to her boobs that means it only would’ve increased by 7 1/2 lbs per breast. Which still sounds like a lot actually.
Googled it, and according to some website, the average breast size (36C) corresponds to a weight of around 2lb per breast, while a D cup might mean up to 3.5lb/boob. The same page cautions that these are rough averages and actual weight will vary and even hilariously describes how to use the Archimedes principle to measure your own boobs’ weight.
But i guess the takeaway as far as this crucial conversation is concerned, is that jennifer’s breasts do not weigh 15lb, that is a probably morbidly high weight
MYTH. BUSTED.
sorry to disappoint Yoto. otoh you can still do some damage with some double-D’s.
Also I made a boob pun
Dammit
I got all perky about a chance to link to a Rachel Bloom song and failed to grab the ball and bounce it back
Sorry i flashed my incompetence to y’all
Naw I really appreciate the video. Song has a real bounce to it. It was a happy accident. At least you’re abreast of the situation. Depending on your preference boob puns may not B your Cup of tea.
More if you’re lactating!
I’m sure there are a dozen gross anime with vaguely that plot.
Walky DID already tell that story. Remember, the floor meeting? “Walky said you’d probably bodyslam someone and then date them, and I have to see that.” What they picked up on was the tension between Ruth and Jennifer, and connected the dots that way.
Have you ever french kissed in a Quiznos?
…you just made me remember Quiznos. And with it, the Spongmonkeys.
…I hope you’re happy
Look, I’m also envious of their pepper bar, don’t take it out on the early 2000s abominations.
I just always remember how weirdly horny some of the commercials were.
The 2000s were an aggressively het time
Hey remember when a website building tool used soft core porn on cable to advertise?
I’ve been getting GoDaddy ads again. They’re not horny anymore just annoying
Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned?
Ruth: is silently in distinct discomfort throughout this conversation
I didn’t pick up on that at first, but you’re right.
So, I’m wondering: does anyone have any leading theories on whether/where the name “Charlie” comes from in the original Walkyverse? There’s no obvious connection. Booster’s named for the Power Booster Rod, but that doesn’t give me any easy leads. The PBR is also a Transformers reference, but it’s an obscure one, though Transformers DOES has a lot of Charlies, not to forget Charlenes and Charlottes…?
This may be a little wild, but is it possible that her name is meant to be a distant, humanized corruption of “The Cheese”? The PBR and Cheese were pretty closely connected, but the Cheese is already in DOA as a cartoon character, and it’s a big stretch.
I vaguely remember hearing that Booster was not deliberately named after the Rod, although I can’t be bothered to go back and check
We’re at the point where the Walkyverse characters are pretty thoroughly exhausted, not much left to incorporate unless you want to start picking extras out of crowd shots
ok but if Booster was named after the Power Booster Rod it’d be fun if their birthname was Rodney (rod for short) before they decided to go by booster.
Let’s not speculate on folks’ deadnames please thanks
Thanks, you’re welcome, I appreciate it, thank you, please.
Seriously, don’t? Your reply is reading as too sardonic to parse properly, but just, don’t.
Have we seen Ninja Rick yet?
I think Willis has said we will not see Ninja Rick because that character started out inspired by a real-life person.
My headcanon is that Ninja Rick is a campus therapist, who is not so good at his job.
Charles Entertainment Cheese. Charlie is the Big Cheese.
The original Charles Entertainment Cheese looks like he has the current Chuck E Cheese tied up in the trunk of his 1968 Cadillac Eldorado.
Family entertainment rodents are not to be messed with…
We’ve not actually seen the Cheese in Dumbing of Age as a cartoon. David Powers, Joyce’s old youth pastor, is this universe’s equivalent.
Booster is not named for the Power Booster Rod.
maybe it’s new? Wasn’t malaya only created in shortpacked /something that happened outta spite because others were complaining about other pocs or so having rep
Jennifer of all people declaring boastfully that she is unknowable is a beautiful example of dramatic irony.
She’s an exercise in Willis going “How on-the-nose can I make a character’s dialogue before it stretches SoD too far?”
Honestly “I am unknowable” feels perfectly believable and in-character for Jennifer’s specific neuroses.
She’s kind of wild in that she is sometimes so flustered by certain things, yet she’s also someone who gives zero fucks sometimes about walking around the campus in her underwear other days.
Other than some gritty superhero stuff, how many ppl say “i am an enigma!” unironically and it actually being true lol.
I have never called MYSELF an enigma, but I had a teacher call me one once.
Anyone who genuinely calls themselves mysterious or an enigma is usually laughably transparent to everyone around them, they just lack self-awareness.
that’d be quite a unique compliment but i’d hope even if they don’t necessarily bond , teachers would have most students figured out/able to deal with them
I think it was just that he had a hard time understanding me as a person. I also had a hard time understanding him as a person. Likely as a result of my anxiety + limited facial expressions = it was difficult for people to tell what I was thinking most times and I can’t tell what other people are thinking easily either.
Oh I’ve said the enigma wrapped in mystery thing before, but just as with Patrick Star, it’s more that there just isn’t a rhyme or reason, more so than there being some deep and complex labyrinth to decode.
Also I’m not even enigmatic, most people are just too neurotypical to listen to the words that come out of my face hole.
Granted there are a lot of them
nobody gets her. she’s the wind, baby
Is this getting into the issue of who is allowed to pretend to have mind-reading powers powers and who isn’t? (And how rank works in the former?)
I desperately want to see booster do their thing to her now
As always Jennifer walks the line between Hot as hell and Annoying as fuck.
It can be a potent mix, but I am also someone who regularly considers Carla one of the hottest cast members, so make of that what you will.
Same for both. Though she’s kinda overstepped the boundary this arc and I find her more annoying than hot. Provided she doesn’t do anything hot in the next few issues.
Which side of that line she’s on is entirely dependent on how loud the volume is set.
If you can hear her, and understand her, she’s annoying.
And after such a solid win of knocking Carla down a needed peg, too.
So, she’s Jackie Burkhart?
These two things are the same, actually,
“B*tchiness ” can be hot in small doses. Or like #girlboss moments or so lol
There isn’t a line between them, they’re different axes on the graph. The line she’s walking is between zones of the diagram that denote what type of relationship you’d like to have with her.
Ahhh, sibling interaction!
And Jennifer, please, don’t pick that battle, you will not win.
But isn’t that WHY we want her to pick that battle?
Aw, I want to know more of Charlie’s deal. Spiffy spacy character, please and thank you.
I’m shipping Charlie and Carla in an acexpan way but where the super out there, in your face hottie is the ace and the spacey, aloof, probably definitely autistic introvert is the pan.
Also I just find it really funny to think of Charlie spacing out/hyperfocused on Nintendo while Carla is streaking around like a cat begging for attention. Just knocking glasses off the table, using an airborne, doing jumping jacks naked in front of the tv.
yeah there’s gonna be a chase scene with Jennifer and Walky
more grist for my gamemaking mill!!!!
also damn Jennifer is hot in that color oh my
Remember that old flash game where that guy was hit by a bike, and you have to bounce him as far as humanly possible?
No i don’t. Please, inspire me!
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/NanacaCrash
a bored teenage me spent *hours* on this stupid thing.
It’s called NANACA†CRASH!! See also the HoloLIVE EN-based Delivering Hope:one yeet at a time.
I remember one like that, but it was a cannon that fired a kitty. A little dark, but 10-year-old Taffy got a hearty guffaw out of the firing sound. There was also one with a baby, because Albino Blacksheep was just sorta Like That.
Oh, man, “Albino Blacksheep” isn’t pulling up any specific memories, but I’m feeling something like Alderaan just blew up.
Teenage me loved Flash animations and games. I remember one version of that launch game where a yeti hits a penguin with a baseball bat, and you could make the penguin flap its flippers for slight altitude control. You could pick up boosts and points off of balloons or something like that.
I know Booster’s a divisive cast member, but I am enjoying a bit of them around. I do think it sort of helps when they’re regularly getting called out for the intrusiveness, so everything with them and Amber onward is hitting better than before.
i’d be more concerning about jennifer basically saying “it’s ok to hit him” lol
The belly laugh I just had at the last panel!
plot twist: they didn’t know but ruth actually told them at some point (did they ever go on that date? lol)
“nicer clothes” well i don’t doubt lucy helped pick out some of his wardrobe but i don’t think the hoodie+jacket combo was that much nicer than his regular clothes lol
also, is anyone else getting some vid auto play ads in the corner?
Also a poster on the left side but that’s less obtrusive /intrusive
Me, sometimes.
Reminds me of Eh, I think the outfit he wore to the brunch was more chic than the “I just threw it on” look he normally goes for. It’s not much but as a guy who just wears t-shirts and hoodies all the time, I absolutely recognize that’s a step up, fashion-wise.
well i’m sure ppl can look nice even in a ‘plain’ outfit but the standards are lower for guys in some cases
Interesting how ‘tucked’ shirts are expected in some cases. Other than a shirt being excessively long (or maybe too short and showing a bit of belly ppl wanna hide) i don’t know how practical it is to tuck a shirt rather than exact length , tho i hate waering jeans now, have some sweatpants so if i do get a ‘proper’ job i’d probably have to wear my darker sweatpants/depending on the material and shirts long enough to cover the ‘zipper’ area so it’s not obvious that they’re not normal pants tho i suppose sweatpants should be ok for work pants as long as they’re not super baggy
Tho, there are some pretty neat hoodies out there lol.
I love baggy hanging shirts and jackets that hide my sillhouette cuz they make me feel less chubby. And they just feel loose and free. Button downs and tucked in shirts just make me feel bloated. I love jeans though.
yep, as long as it’s not like that stupid ‘sagging gangster’ trend, tho other than being punched surprised more ppl didn’t take that as n opportunity to punch ppl
def prefer looser dresses. i prefer pullover hoodies but most jackets would make for a nice fit/warmth if you go one or two sizes up, i prolly need new ones, not that i’ve gained too much weight but i think a couple old ones feel a bit ‘tight’ and sometimes my sleeves/under arms area have felt ‘tight’ even tho i have fairly skinny arms be/cause of lack of muscles lol, downsides of time and again, alas lol
something big enough to hide a pet would be amusing ,if not a weapon lol 8D; i haven’t rly needed a belt since high school but i def have to buy 2-3 sizes up because it feels like it’d be too tight if i gained like 2 pounds versus like a full 5 but i prolly just need better brands or more stretchable ones. but hoodie dresses are overall comfier/cuter and a big enough size you can get away with wearing just that and maybe some leggings underneath
sorry kinda babbled on xP
Booster P.I., coming this fall Thursdays at 9 on ABC.
Booster’d look great in a Hawaiian shirt.
The borrowed Ferrari would be an odd choice on campus, but Booster’d rock it anyway.
They accidentally twin it up with Joe, like Asher and Walky did earlier.
I mean, who has lived in a dorm and HASN’T been bodyslammed at a floor meeting at least once?
it’d be hilarious if it was like an “American” thing part of college and any european reading this is bewildered/amused by it
The list of American things that bewilder me is almost as long as a CVS receipt, so there is a fair chance it’s on there somewhere.
I mean, we didn’t really have this “floor meetings” thing.
Dorms are an American thing. Over here, approximately nobody lives on campus… usually there isn’t even a campus, just a few buildings scattered over the city. Most universities don’t own a single bed.
I was in a dorm for my two years of technical school. The dorm actually belonged to the high school that the tech school was administratively a part of. I even got to be floor boss on my second year, or i guess RA? Is that what Ruth is? Whatever that means. i didnt call any floor meetings, never even considered bodyslamming anybody, proved shockingly lax in my application of the rules and in fact got fired from my position when i failed to sleep at the dorm one weekend (basically the only actual job requirement) and something happened? maybe a fire alarm or something. Good times!
I think it actually derives from old British Universities. Places like Oxford had dormitories going way back.
Later in the US, many state universities were built outside of big cities and thus didn’t have a lot rental housing available for students. A lot more dorms were built to house the massive wave of students going to school on the GI Bill after WWII.
Oxford colleges don’t have dormitories, they have staircases. Except Keble, which has corridors.
I actually kinda want Booster and Walky as the Cumberbatch version of Sherlock and Watson.
Except that doesn’t really work since Watson is the sensible one.
Hmm…what detective duo would be a good fit for those two?
Does anyone have any suggestions?
(Might have to check tv tropes).
Watson in that show isn’t sensible! The whole point of him is that he’s the exact sort of person who’d buy Sherlock’s shit while loudly protesting otherwise!
he’s jennifer, in other words, to sherlock’s ruth
Sorry, but I have to disagree with you there.
While Watson has come to accept Sherlock, he’s clearly the voice of reason.
If anyone just goes along with it, it’s the cop (whose name I’m blanking on) because he doesn’t even argue and even invites Sherlock.
Lestrade, I think?
Yes! That’s the name.
I’ve seen only a few episodes of that one, but Watson’s schtick did seem to be “Fine, I’ll go. But I’m gonna sass you the entire time.”
After taking a stroll through tv tropes, I’ve decided that the closes approximation of a buddy cop show that would fit Booster and Walky would be The Andy Griffith Show.
Jen must have visible bodyslam scars somewhere.
I definitely know she’s got some emotional ones.
Isn’t that just called a bruise?
Ah you got me. I’ve never been bodyslammed.
Scars? 🤨 What, was she bodyslammed by fuckin’ Goku?
Goku does look like he can rip out femurs so yes!
Booster not choosing to analyze Jennifer in spite of them wanting too is some positive character growth even though they sort of did but Jennifer was goading them so iam going to say it’s positive.
well, other than that quick analysis , i’d assume they are in a rush unless they change their mind and decide to ‘sit in ‘ on this class lol
She’s seeking validation that she is cool in an aloof way on her own, which is having the opposite effect.
Nervous look on Ruth’s face is priceless.
“Pleeeease don’t reveal that still love her pleasepleaseplease”
Am I the only one who reacted to panel 2 using the phrase “brain-invading” and “slug” close together by thinking of the brain slugs* from “The Puppet Masters”?
* Yes, you’ve seen it dozens of times, in Star Trek (at least twice), Babylon 5, Futurama, and who knows where else, but TPM predates them (but is not the first use of the idea.)
The only brain-invading slugs I accept as currency are Yeerks.
Sus.
How the fuck did they do that
I get the feeling they watched a lot of Columbo and Psych reruns as a kid.
More Psych than Columbo, I’d bet – Columbo had way better subtlety and social skills, he never asked the obvious thing flat out or made leaps like this. That said, I bet Booster liked Columbo better: more psychology involved in his style, less pure visual deduction.
You know that’s right.
If you saw that happen would you ever not tell someone?
Walky told them.
People really need to stop asking Booster to do that. It never ends well for anybody.
Jennifer’s talk about “ruining his boyfriend” coyld be misinterpreted in so many ways, especially since she said it’s because of Walky’s *nice* clothes lmao
Come on Jennifer I think we both know the butt- taco shirt isn’t one of Walkys ‘nicer’ clothing items, your boyfriend just shares Walkys humor.
“Next time, you can come pick me up”
I don’t know why, but I think she must be schizo.
What could be great, because I never see any character in any history that are described as schizophrenic and they are not a murderous maniac.
I feel like Walky just told Booster that one and they’re just messing with her right now.
Anyone remember why this Nintendo has prevented Booster from going home? Have we been told?
Because they had to give it to Charlie.
The process of tracking her down must have looked like a slow motion Benny Hill chase.
Because she’s not in their home. It’s like how waiting in line at Wendy’s keeps you from going home because you’re not there, you’re at Wendy’s, waiting.
Ah yeah that makes sense! I was thinking it was a silly drama of “You must give the Nintendo to your sister or don’t bother coming home!”
I think they’re using “home” in reference to their dorm.
Oh! Maybe
Today’s preview
It’s called a hot reading, Jennifer
Panel 5 in Yoto-verse:
Booster: have you ever had fabulous sex with Walky while mourning another relationship and now feel self-conscious around him and irritated at how much he turns out to be your type sexually and romantically when you’d so far only seen him as an uncool sibling you could bully?
“Ok, that’s way too specific, were you watching?!”
“N-no” *hides the camera*
The addition of a literal camera to this mythos intrigues me. Of course somebody had to take the pictures, or else Yoto couldn’t have them.
Haha that made my day.
Jennifer: how… what… you… shutthefuckuprightnowi’llfuckinCUTYOU
PSA that you can support Yoto’s fanart on Patreon~
(new finalized page of the BilliexWalky Pornographique just dropped~)
(someone gotta do your promo Walky, you advertized for this like, one time)
lol! called you Walky. haha
Reasonable mistake really. Walk is basically just me, but better
Also thanks for the plug. I’m a bit of a perfectionist so sorry it took so long. Tbh there’s still plenty of stuff I wanna fix and change but I know I should move on so I will. Been gathering lots of refs to try to be somewhat consistent at least. Also the dialogue may be a bit unnatural in places. Hmmm
It’s nice to see the DofA kids have a thorough working knowledge of both the mid-70s Ellery Queen TV show, and the novels which preceded them.
Sure a hot reading would be more impressive than a cold reading, but they both know Walky’s telling each other everything.
that’s what a hot reading is, when you got information beforehand, the cold reading is when you just make statistically likely but impressive sounding inferences on first meeting a person
And hot readings [should] flop when it’s not mysterious how they know the information.
Oh right i get your comment now i think. I misunderstood because to me Jennifer does seem impressed
she’s living up to the stereotype of head cheerleader that I grew up with.
She’s a fictional character that’s written that way!
In any case I think she’s often self aware and ironic, with humorous intent? This strip and the previous strip almost make it feel like this character is literally ribbing on the character archetype that she is. It’s funny to me and I like it.
But also, Walky talked about his friend Billie and you sound a lot like her.
I ship it. Not in a romantic way, I just want to see them on screen together more.
Off panel, Charlie smiles at Carla and shares another fact about seahorses that we’ll never know.
I had a dream last night that involved several webcomic characters, mainly from DOA and QC. Some of the details are fuzzy, but at one point, Asher shot Clinton (QC) in the ear.
“That is a LOT to unpack right there. And I want to. But I won’t.” you are a stronger person than i, Booster. lmao
i’m sure there’ll be a chance for them to go back and just completely roast jen
I eagerly wait for that day
Jennifer, you’re ridiculously knowable. You might be the most knowable person in this cast.
Was that a pun?
I thought about the double meaning and I thought it was funny, but honestly no. I just mean she’s depressingly predictable.
Charlie calls it a Switch, so Booster just says “Nintendo” because it amuses them.
wouldn’t be surprised if they actually had multiple nintendos and booster doesn’t bother to distinguish all of it but charlie does
Ruth looks super uncomfortable in this situation.
She dodged a nuke when she broke up with billy.
Please explain to me why Booster isn’t more popular in the fandom? I feel like Booster’s just dead-on every time they open their mouths about the main cast, and I’m here for it. Like, honest, accurate perspective? Hook it up to my veins!
i think they’re fine, any dislike of them i’ve seen is a vocal minority, or coming off as abrasive/maybe an ‘acquired taste’ but can’t like everyone lol. def a much deeper chara/ver to keep around versus mike