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June 14, 2026

Twin sister

by David M Willis on April 26, 2023 at 12:01 am
  • 03 – Joementum
└ Tags: becky, booster, carla, ruth

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    April 26, 2023 at 12:01 am | #

    they sure are!

    (sorry, first one that came to mind)

    [and then it turns out Booster’s twin is someone else entirely lol, very Willis move]

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      April 26, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

      She’s still not tagged in the old ones so maybe

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        April 26, 2023 at 12:24 am | #

        Yup, the lack of tags confirms it’s a fakeout.

        • Carla's #2 Fan
          Carla's #2 Fan
          April 26, 2023 at 4:59 am | #

          I had the same thought. Unless it’s a double bluff! 😮

        • Bicycle Bill
          Bicycle Bill
          April 26, 2023 at 4:59 am | #

          With all the other things he’s probably been doing with the closure of the Kickstarter, he might have been too busy to go back and retro-tag the previous comics.  I’m willing to cut him some slack for the time being.

        • AndysDrawings
          AndysDrawings
          April 26, 2023 at 6:38 am | #

          I feel like sometimes characters have gone un-tagged until a name has been explicitly confirmed on-panel, but I could have dreamed that

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        April 26, 2023 at 10:35 pm | #

        Charlie now tagged in one strip. https://www.dumbingofage.com/tag/charlie

        • shoopdawhoop
          shoopdawhoop
          April 27, 2023 at 7:53 am | #

          Six, now.

    • milu
      milu
      April 26, 2023 at 5:29 am | #

      @first link: awww nice!! I’d forgotten about that comic, it’s so beautiful <3 i am a bit saddened to see it seems abandoned…

      Also, re: ostensibly female but genderwonky comic book characters named Charlie, has anyone been reading "Humor Me" by Marvin W on Webtoons, and if not, what's your excuse 🥰

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        April 26, 2023 at 8:36 pm | #

        My “excuse” is that Webtoons seems strange and unfamiliar to me, and so I don’t trust it to have anything I’ll like on it.

        • Ana Chronistic
          Ana Chronistic
          April 26, 2023 at 11:59 pm | #

          well luckily they seem to be “unscrolling” some of the more popular comics (Cursed Princess Club) so there’s an option!

  2. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    April 26, 2023 at 12:01 am | #

    Oooooh that’s her name.

  3. Caro
    Caro
    April 26, 2023 at 12:02 am | #

    charlie!!! oh that’s perfect i adore that

    • Caro
      Caro
      April 26, 2023 at 12:02 am | #

      i wonder if it’s short for charlotte

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        April 26, 2023 at 12:05 am | #

        It’s short for Charleston Chew.

        Booster is short for Booster Gold

        Their parents had odd naming preferences and eclectic tastes.

        • Sirksome
          Sirksome
          April 26, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

          It was a hot debate for the Booster parents between their favorite snack and their favorite comic book hero. Luckily they had twins!

        • MM
          MM
          April 26, 2023 at 12:33 am | #

          I don’t care if this is canon; it is in my heart.

  4. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    April 26, 2023 at 12:02 am | #

    We finally know her name!!! 🥹

    And what a wonderful name, Charlie. 🥰

    • Clif
      Clif
      April 26, 2023 at 2:52 am | #

      Charlie Rod. Hm.

  5. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    April 26, 2023 at 12:03 am | #

    Hopefully Charlie has Cheetos. Hopefully.

    • Carl Muckenhoupt
      Carl Muckenhoupt
      April 26, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

      Right. If she’s got cheetos she can share them with the nice lady who was looking for cheetos in yesterday’s strip.

  6. BBCC
    BBCC
    April 26, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

    Charlie is a cute name! And yeah, I can imagine she’s hard to track down.

  7. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    April 26, 2023 at 12:05 am | #

    Wait, does Charlie actually to this school, or is she just visiting Booster to get her Switch back?

    • Dave Van Domelen
      Dave Van Domelen
      April 26, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

      I mean, does Charlie actually go to any school? Her migratory patterns would seem to make matriculation difficult.

    • Dr. T
      Dr. T
      April 26, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

      Well, she’s attending Gender Studies class with Carla, Ruth and maybe Becky. I don’t fully recall whether Becky is in that class this semester.

      • Sirksome
        Sirksome
        April 26, 2023 at 12:10 am | #

        I guess it depends on how okay Leslie is with random people sitting in on her class. She’d probably be cool with it. Leslie’s no snitch.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      April 26, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

      Becky seemed to recognize her as a classmate last strip.

      Unless she mistook her for Booster, but I can’t imagine that Becky’s Cute Girl senses would make that mistake.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      April 26, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

      I’m pretty sure she does?

    • Fay
      Fay
      April 26, 2023 at 1:03 am | #

      I’m pretty sure Booster had explicitly said in the past that they have a twin sister that also attends IU.

  8. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    April 26, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

    Damn. Good luck, Charlie.

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      April 26, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

      Finally, a reference I get! XD

  9. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    April 26, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

    I’d love to see Sal and Walky doing the twin thing for a bit. I feel like it’s less about their similar looks and more about the energy they present. Sal with a goofy face or Walky with a serious face would be a godsend.

    • GholaHalleck
      GholaHalleck
      April 26, 2023 at 12:12 am | #

      Fun-sad headcanon of the day.

      Sal used to be the Wacky One, but their mom yelled at her for walky “copying” her, so she stopped.

    • Doopyboop
      Doopyboop
      April 26, 2023 at 12:12 am | #

      https://64.media.tumblr.com/11bbfce9185de1478370b40408bd4d2a/tumblr_n6tp0l4LPw1qkinreo1_1280.pnj Willis drew this once and I loved the concept of the two switching like this.

      • CMasta1992
        CMasta1992
        April 26, 2023 at 12:14 am | #

        Walkified Sal has me feeling some sorta way and now I have to figure if this says more about what I think of Sal or Walky.

        Just moving right along that Kinsey Scale

      • Sirksome
        Sirksome
        April 26, 2023 at 12:17 am | #

        Does this imply Walky has to shave?

        • Dean
          Dean
          April 26, 2023 at 12:38 am | #

          That’s probably barbecue sauce on his face.

      • AGV
        AGV
        April 26, 2023 at 12:21 am | #

        Lol he is a proto-Asher

      • I Know Why the Mowed Lawn Screams
        I Know Why the Mowed Lawn Screams
        April 26, 2023 at 12:57 am | #

        I think about that swapped personalities drawing all the time, it’s arguably one of my favorite doa things to think about.

        • milu
          milu
          April 26, 2023 at 5:11 am | #

          I enjoy how your phrasing implies someone might want to argue with you on this, and all things considered, you’ve decided your chances in that argument are looking pretty good

          • I Know Why the Mowed Lawn Screams
            I Know Why the Mowed Lawn Screams
            April 27, 2023 at 12:28 am | #

            This comment put a smile on my face so thank you for that 🙂

      • Kim
        Kim
        April 26, 2023 at 3:03 am | #

        Globdamnit! I accidentally clocked report instead of the link -_- SORRY

      • Amós Batista
        Amós Batista
        April 26, 2023 at 5:29 pm | #

        OMG, Sally and Wal.

    • brionl
      brionl
      April 26, 2023 at 12:57 am | #

      Sorry, Charlie. We want tunas that taste good, not tunas with good taste.

      • Laura
        Laura
        April 26, 2023 at 1:19 am | #

        Hm?

        • StClair
          StClair
          April 26, 2023 at 1:58 am | #

          It’s a reference to an old ad campaign, featuring a tuna (named Charlie) that kept getting rejected (for getting killed, minced, and put in a can).

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            April 26, 2023 at 2:34 am | #

            Now I’m all worried about Charlie the Starkist Tuna’s mental health.

            And that was BEFORE his role in the movie Food Fight!

            • StClair
              StClair
              April 26, 2023 at 12:26 pm | #

              A rather alarming number of corporate mascots have, as their highest desire/ambition, being selected for human consumption. it’s all very Hitchhiker’s “Dish of the Day”.

              • Opus the Poet
                Opus the Poet
                April 26, 2023 at 6:10 pm | #

                I understood that reference dot gif.

        • Laura
          Laura
          April 26, 2023 at 9:17 pm | #

          Thanks!

      • not someone else
        not someone else
        April 26, 2023 at 1:54 am | #

        I understood that reference!

        • saltchocolate
          saltchocolate
          April 26, 2023 at 7:24 am | #

          Me, too!

          • Opus the Poet
            Opus the Poet
            April 26, 2023 at 6:09 pm | #

            Dittos. I’m that old.

  10. shadowcell
    shadowcell
    April 26, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

    Dumbing of Age Book 13: Girls With Boy Names Are Hot!

  11. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    April 26, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

    Also why does it feel so foreign to me to see Carla declare anything as “Hot”. Not that I disagree.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      April 26, 2023 at 12:50 am | #

      She’s acknowledged certain things as hot before, like she’s got a masochist streak, but yeah, not sure she’s come right out and said it quite like this. And yeah, “guy name” girls can be hot, this is quite true.

    • Angel
      Angel
      April 26, 2023 at 12:58 am | #

      well, you can still appreciate teh aesthetic. she did want malaya to step on her too. though i’d feel like she’d think a fellow roller derby person with ‘skill’ being ‘hot’ versus something like a name lol

      or maybe it also sounds appealing because like ‘tomboyish’-ness or like ‘something something subverting gender roles’ XD

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        April 26, 2023 at 1:52 am | #

        tbf I wouldn’t mind Malaya doing that either.

  12. Raja
    Raja
    April 26, 2023 at 12:13 am | #

    Charlie is such a good name for a gal, big agree. (also fond of Max and Ryan for girls!)

    • BarerMender
      BarerMender
      April 26, 2023 at 1:27 am | #

      Dana used to be a guy name. Joyce used to be a guy name. Evelyn used to be a guy name. Soon there won’t be any guy names left.

      • S
        S
        April 26, 2023 at 4:40 am | #

        Also Stacy, Ashley, Kim, Lauren, Whitney, and Hilary. All names that used to be male (or at least unisex) until a certain point when they heavily skewed female.

        • milu
          milu
          April 26, 2023 at 5:03 am | #

          Hell, even Maria used to be a guy name!
          … Somewhere. a very long time ago. Probably.

          • Thomas
            Thomas
            April 26, 2023 at 7:41 am | #

            Maria is frequently a guy name after a long string of more obviously masculine guy names, especially if the guy is Roman Catholic.

          • Mark
            Mark
            April 26, 2023 at 7:04 pm | #

            You see variants in Spanish and French cultures.

        • Nedlum
          Nedlum
          April 26, 2023 at 9:09 am | #

          Charlotte Brontë singlehandedly feminized Shirley.

        • snakerbot
          snakerbot
          April 26, 2023 at 9:52 am | #

          And Courtney. I think of that one in particular since I’m currently working with a male Courtney at my job.

      • Hedgie
        Hedgie
        April 26, 2023 at 11:33 am | #

        Evelyn has at least been unisex enough that Evelyn Waugh’s first wife was *also* an Evelyn. So they used “He-Evylyn” and “She-Evylyn” to differentiate between them amongst their friends.

      • Raja
        Raja
        April 26, 2023 at 3:33 pm | #

        I’m ok with that. ok with all names being unisex one day tbh

  13. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    April 26, 2023 at 12:13 am | #

    None of her previous appearances appear to have been retroactively tagged “Charlie” as of this writing. Perhaps we have a red herring on our hands?

    • bibulb
      bibulb
      April 26, 2023 at 12:16 am | #

      I was assuming “whoops, hands full with Kickstarter ending ferociously, no time to retroactively update yet.”

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        April 26, 2023 at 2:33 am | #

        Same.

        I’d say it’s only indicative if they’re not retroactively tagged by tomorrow.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          April 26, 2023 at 8:45 am | #

          I wouldn’t expect it until the connection is confirmed in the strip itself – probably when she shows up for class.

    • Angel
      Angel
      April 26, 2023 at 1:01 am | #

      maybe it won’t be officially updated til she appears again and is acknowledged?

  14. foducool
    foducool
    April 26, 2023 at 12:14 am | #

    funny, Charlie is Waldo’s name in the books french versions

  15. newlland(Henryvolt)
    newlland(Henryvolt)
    April 26, 2023 at 12:15 am | #

    I would have gest Jetta or something but alright

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      April 26, 2023 at 2:32 am | #

      Jetta? Fusca? Passat?

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        April 26, 2023 at 6:18 pm | #

        In the anime Solty Rei all the females except Solty were named after Toyota cars, so maybe those were girl names in Japanese. I can see Celica as a girl name, Corolla might have been a girl name before it was a cigar, Cressida I can see as a girl name (Toyota not sold in US). I think there was a Toyota named after the Japanese word for swan, that could be a girls name easy.

        • Mark
          Mark
          April 26, 2023 at 7:07 pm | #

          As in Troilus and Cressida? A very old girls’ name.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          April 26, 2023 at 8:25 pm | #

          There was also Dr. Lisa Catera on Chicago Hope. The writers weren’t paid by GM, they just saw the Cadillac Catera ads and thought it was funny.

          https://apnews.com/article/de08bc9dd395acd8a70e3f9fd75dab69

  16. Suet
    Suet
    April 26, 2023 at 12:16 am | #

    Sure, but how would you consider the names Parker, Sam and Kelly?

    I am so gritting my teeth over the Rocket comment coz we thought THAT would be her name

  17. Jamie
    Jamie
    April 26, 2023 at 12:16 am | #

    As long as the name isn’t a coconut named Charl, we good.

  18. AGV
    AGV
    April 26, 2023 at 12:17 am | #

    Charlie’s angels won’t disclose intel about their boss that easily

    • foducool
      foducool
      April 26, 2023 at 10:10 am | #

      mostly because they don’t know where Charlie’s been either

  19. Bo
    Bo
    April 26, 2023 at 12:21 am | #

    i dont think its going to happen but it’d be absolutely hilarious to get a name drop and then just, like, NEVER see her in the comic again…

  20. Dday
    Dday
    April 26, 2023 at 12:22 am | #

    To be sure, “Rocket” would have been a pretty bongoin’ name as well

    • RassilonTDavros
      RassilonTDavros
      April 26, 2023 at 12:30 am | #

      Prepare for trouble

      • Dara
        Dara
        April 26, 2023 at 5:31 am | #

        Make it double

    • Angel
      Angel
      April 27, 2023 at 10:17 pm | #

      plot twist: that’s booster’s gamer tag name lol

  21. milu
    milu
    April 26, 2023 at 12:24 am | #

    Haha these dumbasses
    That’s some good classic dumbing

  22. Taffy
    Taffy
    April 26, 2023 at 12:32 am | #

    We appreciate a Charlie.

    • Clif
      Clif
      April 26, 2023 at 3:07 am | #

      I choose to believe she is Charlie Rod because she refused to change her last name to Sanchez.

  23. HueSatLight
    HueSatLight
    April 26, 2023 at 12:40 am | #

    Billie, Robin, Alex, Sydney

    • Ray Radlein
      Ray Radlein
      April 26, 2023 at 3:39 am | #

      Leslie is also a guy’s name

      • Benjamin Geiger
        Benjamin Geiger
        April 26, 2023 at 3:27 pm | #

        Surely you can’t be serious.

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          April 26, 2023 at 6:21 pm | #

          Yes I am, and stop calling me Shirley.

  24. milu
    milu
    April 26, 2023 at 12:40 am | #

    After Jocelyn, Riley and Liz, Charlie continues the trend of main characters’ sisters being sweet precious babies 🥰

    • milu
      milu
      April 26, 2023 at 12:49 am | #

      (Though every strip she’s in increases the chance of someone calling her an untitled goose of quasi-fascistic annoyingness)

      • Clif
        Clif
        April 26, 2023 at 3:01 am | #

        Avast you scurvy untitled goose of quasi-fascistic annoyingness.

        Yeah, that works. I approve.

        • milu
          milu
          April 26, 2023 at 4:57 am | #

          Yeah, I got insult game 😎

          • milu
            milu
            April 26, 2023 at 5:01 am | #

            (…in asynchronous writing)

    • sultryglebe
      sultryglebe
      April 26, 2023 at 1:20 am | #

      Who was the one who just wanted to eat cereal in the dining hall?

      • Dana
        Dana
        April 26, 2023 at 1:30 am | #

        Riley

        • sultryglebe
          sultryglebe
          April 26, 2023 at 7:52 pm | #

          Thank you! I could not find it.

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        April 26, 2023 at 1:32 am | #

        Riley DeSanto

        • sultryglebe
          sultryglebe
          April 26, 2023 at 7:52 pm | #

          Thank you!

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      April 26, 2023 at 9:42 am | #

      Amber, Sal

  25. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    April 26, 2023 at 12:52 am | #

    Charlie’s a good name. That was actually one of my exes’ names, but I won’t hold that against her, any more than Robin’s responsible for another of ’em.

  26. TheKelliestKelly
    TheKelliestKelly
    April 26, 2023 at 1:00 am | #

    I have once again, missed out on a Willis kickstarter through procrastination. I blame my terrible, draining job.

    Excited to meet Chatlie. I wonder who she could possibly be

    • milu
      milu
      April 26, 2023 at 1:07 am | #

      It’s a mystery. We’ve yet to see a single character who looks anything like Booster

      • Clif
        Clif
        April 26, 2023 at 3:09 am | #

        Mike. Mike looks like Booster.

        • 0kami
          0kami
          April 26, 2023 at 4:22 am | #

          “Booster”?

          Ooooh, you mean Replacement Mike, right?

        • HueSatLight
          HueSatLight
          April 26, 2023 at 9:48 am | #

          Mike is a guy’s name that gals can have.

  27. Fëanen
    Fëanen
    April 26, 2023 at 1:10 am | #

    Looks like Booster walked in on a meeting of the Red-Headed League.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      April 26, 2023 at 2:31 am | #

      Good thing they didn’t witness the ritual, or else they’d have to either be assimilated or escape to Bulmeria.

    • RacingTurtle
      RacingTurtle
      April 26, 2023 at 8:31 am | #

      The League of Unhelpful Redheads

  28. nobodybasically
    nobodybasically
    April 26, 2023 at 1:40 am | #

    I don’t understand the mouseover text. Anyone wanna enlighten me?

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      April 26, 2023 at 1:50 am | #

      So in the Walkyverse, the comics that preceded this one and which this started as an AU of, “Four words: Your twin sister, Sal” was a major reveal. ( http://www.itswalky.com/comic/shes-decided-to-join-us-after-all/ and the strip following.)

      Wack’d is the expert of all things Walkyverse so making it a reference would have appealed to them very much.

      • saltchocolate
        saltchocolate
        April 26, 2023 at 7:29 am | #

        Would have??

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        April 26, 2023 at 8:49 am | #

        Did the alt-text change?

  29. StClair
    StClair
    April 26, 2023 at 1:52 am | #

    Ruth with the sass.

  30. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    April 26, 2023 at 1:53 am | #

    congratz on Kickstart, Willis

  31. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    April 26, 2023 at 1:55 am | #

    Ruth just can’t get over Billie/Jennifer, huh?

    • a/snow/mous/e
      a/snow/mous/e
      April 26, 2023 at 2:10 am | #

      Ever since she changed her preferred name, she got way less hot.

  32. ANeM
    ANeM
    April 26, 2023 at 2:28 am | #

    Love how all three of these dufuses walked right past a dead ringer for Booster, two even interacted with her directly and still they have no clue.

  33. Architex
    Architex
    April 26, 2023 at 3:07 am | #

    Ah darn I thought the name might have been Turbo.
    As in, “I could have been TURBO??”

  34. Amelie Wikström
    Amelie Wikström
    April 26, 2023 at 4:05 am | #

    I find it hilarious Carla spent all day yelling and carrying signs to get noticed by this person and apparently didn’t at any point check to see what she looked like.

    • Sombrero
      Sombrero
      April 26, 2023 at 5:08 am | #

      That’s because she didn’t look like Carla.

  35. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    April 26, 2023 at 6:50 am | #

    …

    Oh! NOW I get Becky’s joke!

  36. Yumi
    Yumi
    April 26, 2023 at 8:21 am | #

    A fun fact about me (AFAB enby): My birth name is one of those names that used to be unisex but now skews very heavily “girl.” The name I go by now is one that’s traditionally more “boy” but is starting to get more unisex.

    Once, I inquired about volunteering at an organization over email, and then when I showed up at orientation, the person I had emailed with said, “Oh! I guess girls can have that name, too” upon meeting me. To which I replied, “Yes, but that’s not what’s happening here.”

    • Morleuca
      Morleuca
      April 26, 2023 at 5:35 pm | #

      my necronym could’ve been used in the feminine, something I totally didn’t realize until I had shared my chosen name with just about everyone and had gotten very comfortable hearing it said. It was one of those moments where you are just doing something random and mundane and it just pops in there.

  37. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    April 26, 2023 at 8:33 am | #

    Charlie Alpha Romeo Lima Alpha

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      April 26, 2023 at 6:29 pm | #

      Copy/Paste: I understood that reference dot gif.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      April 26, 2023 at 8:30 pm | #

      Everyone who conducts business or does tech support over the phone should know the NATO alphabet. It saves SO MUCH TIME AND EFFORT compared to making up “[letter] as in [word]”.

  38. HueSatLight
    HueSatLight
    April 26, 2023 at 1:25 pm | #

    Just hypothesizing, Carla’s face blind and her egocentric routine functions as a cover.

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      April 26, 2023 at 1:26 pm | #

      second link:
      https://www.dumbingofage.com/jesuschrist/

      • Straximus
        Straximus
        April 26, 2023 at 3:35 pm | #

        You may be onto something.

  39. JepMZ
    JepMZ
    April 26, 2023 at 1:50 pm | #

    Oh. I thought her name was Joementum

  40. Alan in DC
    Alan in DC
    April 26, 2023 at 1:51 pm | #

    I tried to get my spouse involved in DoA. She looked at the latest story arc and declared, “Jesus, aren’t there any normal students in this strip?” (Her choice of words).

    I answered, “Would you read a strip about UNinteresting people?”

  41. SmartAlec105
    SmartAlec105
    April 26, 2023 at 1:57 pm | #

    I feel like no one is properly appreciating how much it must have taken for Ruth to hold back from making a comment on the transbian that said she likes it when girls have boy names.

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      April 26, 2023 at 3:10 pm | #

      Hm. I more thought her “no comment” comment could have been in recognition of similar thoughts– she did date “Billie,” after all.

  42. Yakumo
    Yakumo
    April 26, 2023 at 3:28 pm | #

    Dumbest thing Booster’s done in this comic, to my memory. I mean, there may people who assume that twin just means identical twin, but there’s plenty that know there are twins that do not look alike, even setting aside those who know the category fraternal.

    • shanunu
      shanunu
      April 26, 2023 at 4:16 pm | #

      Maybe to Booster they look enough alike that they can just say “she’s my twin” and its apparent that they must be related. I mean, there were enough people in the comments guessing there was a relation between the person in the previous strip and Booster just from her appearance.

    • Blue
      Blue
      April 26, 2023 at 5:33 pm | #

      Don’t most biological siblings resemble each other?

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        April 26, 2023 at 5:57 pm | #

        That’s definitely going to vary. If you don’t know two people are related, and they look similar but not identical, you’re probably not going to jump to “must be siblings”– especially if you’ve only seen them separate of each other. My dad has a friend who he looks more similar to than he does to his brother. (Sometimes he and his friend have told people they’re brothers, only to come clean when the person responds with something like, “Oooh, yeah, I see it.”)

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        April 26, 2023 at 6:33 pm | #

        I’m not physically similar to my brother, so no.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        April 26, 2023 at 8:47 pm | #

        Depends how many parents are involved, sometimes*. My brother and I look nothing alike, because we each take after our fathers in the looks department. Well, allegedly; I’ve never seen so much as a photo of my sperm donor, but the two relatives I’ve met who knew him say we’re identical. Thankfully he died on his own without me needing to step in, so my brother’s father was my dad instead. My other sibling looks like a combo of our donor and our mom (which I think might be how biology works but I’m not an engineer), so all three of us kids look pretty different. Also once my name change goes through, we’ll all have different surnames, for added fun.

        *Note that I said “sometimes” and not “in all cases, also there’s no variance with just two parents”.

  43. Laura
    Laura
    April 26, 2023 at 9:18 pm | #

    …*plays Djamasté on the hacked muzak*…

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      April 26, 2023 at 11:41 pm | #

      I can’t seem to find any song by that title… or is it a band? 😅

      • Laura
        Laura
        April 27, 2023 at 2:09 am | #

        Here ya go:

        https://www.mixcloud.com/djamaste/ecstatic-dance-nz-spirit-2022/

        Thanks, NG!

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