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by David M Willis on August 29, 2023 at 12:01 am
  • 01 – Everybody's Looking for Nothing
└ Tags: booster, carla

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  1. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    August 29, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

    Carla: “Curses! I’ve been outCarla’d!”

    Booster: “Do you mean outsmarted?”

    Carla: “I changed the word to Carla to be more accurate and descriptive. ”

    Booster: “…I take it back. I don’t want you to marry my sister because that’s the plot of What About Bob, and it doesn’t end well for the psychologist.”

    • Jo_cubstar
      Jo_cubstar
      August 29, 2023 at 12:10 am | #

      *gasp* you beat Ana!

  2. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    August 29, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

    “this hill I’m dying on sure is expensive”

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      August 29, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

      her folks can afford it

      • Angel
        Angel
        August 29, 2023 at 2:32 am | #

        it seems to be emotionally more taxing on her than, well, financial lol.

        • Vigil247
          Vigil247
          August 29, 2023 at 10:24 pm | #

          Don’t say tax around Carla or her family, it makes them break out in hives

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      August 29, 2023 at 12:32 am | #

      Is it a burial mound? Is it going to be a burial mound?

      • Dante
        Dante
        August 29, 2023 at 1:01 am | #

        A monument to her mistakes for sure

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      August 30, 2023 at 12:15 am | #

      That gravatar is perfect for having been beaten as first one to post.

  3. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    August 29, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

    You smartarse 😀

    • Angel
      Angel
      August 29, 2023 at 2:34 am | #

      well, carla would have to recalculate associating with booster if she does wanna even be friends with charlie, let alone datemates/partners/etc.

      booster: i’m not stuck with you you’re stuck with me lol

  4. TrueVCU
    TrueVCU
    August 29, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

    Carla: M U R D E R

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      August 29, 2023 at 10:45 am | #

      More for the Hacked Muzak:

      https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=5L1n_6Exiy4

  5. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    August 29, 2023 at 12:05 am | #

    Fuck yeah Booster!!!

    Operation: Undermine Nepotism is a go!!!!! ✌️😈

    *plays “Pa$$ the Time” from Inside Job on hacked muzak*

    • Jo_cubstar
      Jo_cubstar
      August 29, 2023 at 12:16 am | #

      Nepotism? In what sense?

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        August 29, 2023 at 12:18 am | #

        The alt-text of the last comic.

        • Jo_cubstar
          Jo_cubstar
          August 29, 2023 at 12:24 am | #

          Oh, dunno how I missed that. I’ve been super busy the last couple days. Must not have read the alt-text 🫠

  6. quark
    quark
    August 29, 2023 at 12:05 am | #

    i adore boosters talent for tricking people into character development

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      August 29, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

      They are Replacement Mike, after all,

    • Spriteless Aunty
      Spriteless Aunty
      August 29, 2023 at 12:10 am | #

      Truly they is everything peeps liked about Mike, but with different garbage attached.

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        August 29, 2023 at 12:26 am | #

        They can do all the same sort of psycho-analysis and hard truth stuff but they’re less of an deliberately offensive jackass.

        • Just an Armadillo
          Just an Armadillo
          August 29, 2023 at 12:40 am | #

          Are you trying to say Booster isn’t being an offensive jackass on purpose? I feel like they’d take offense to the implication. They seem very content in their ability to piss people off.

          • Thag Simmons
            Thag Simmons
            August 29, 2023 at 12:50 am | #

            I’m saying they’re not a tenth as unpleasant as their predecessor

            • yak
              yak
              August 29, 2023 at 2:20 pm | #

              They’re unpleasant in a more polite way

          • Wack'd
            Wack'd
            August 29, 2023 at 12:51 am | #

            booster takes offense at the idea that they’re a bad therapist. i feel like they don’t so much wanna piss people off as they wanna help people and have a very limited toolset that they can only wield in highly specific and sometimes not especially competent ways (not terribly different from dorothy, jennifer, and sarah, honestly)

            • Dante
              Dante
              August 29, 2023 at 1:05 am | #

              This!

              “Replacement Mike” is such a misnomer. Mike moved stuff along because he disliked stagnation – whether the outcome was a positive or a bad one, it was more about being done with other people’s bullshit. Babythem genuinely wants to help /o/ They just have limited tools because they’re a first year with a vocabulary too large not to wield.

              • Thag Simmons
                Thag Simmons
                August 29, 2023 at 1:10 am | #

                Booster is replacement Mike in the sense that they are filling a similar function in the ensemble, not that they’re literally the same character.

                • Dante
                  Dante
                  August 29, 2023 at 1:16 am | #

                  I’ve seen it thrown about in a more literal sense, that’s all ^^

                • Miri
                  Miri
                  August 29, 2023 at 2:39 am | #

                  I think people were mostly joking about Mike being Booster in disguise as part of having gone into witness protection… 🤔😉

                • clif
                  clif
                  August 29, 2023 at 5:29 pm | #

                  Mostly.

          • Bash
            Bash
            August 29, 2023 at 1:06 am | #

            Booster is rude and abrasive and doesn’t hold back, but I never got the feeling that their top priority is making people angry or upset.

      • Jamie
        Jamie
        August 29, 2023 at 12:34 am | #

        At this point, the main difference is that Booster smiles when they vivisect your wants and needs. Also they have a sister.

  7. Corronchilejano
    Corronchilejano
    August 29, 2023 at 12:06 am | #

    So, love at first ignoration?

  8. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    August 29, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

    Fucking ouch, Booster.

  9. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    August 29, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

    Aaand this round goes to Booster.

    • AlaninDC
      AlaninDC
      August 29, 2023 at 6:53 am | #

      Only on a technicality … where is their actual proof of Carla’s parents’ conduct?
      Sounds more to me like ol’ Booster is prejudging the parents and using it as a shaky foundation to support a shaky position.
      If they fail at psychology, they have a grand future in politics.

      • Delavan
        Delavan
        August 29, 2023 at 12:33 pm | #

        I think the “round” was actually more about getting Carla to just be honest with her feelings/what she wants. And to have a little fun trolling.

      • Briar
        Briar
        August 29, 2023 at 6:53 pm | #

        Given Carla’s parents are fictional it’s always possible they’re Good Billionaires (TM) But with any verisimilitude to the world we live in, all billionaires got to be billionaires by exploiting people. It is mechanically impossible by the economic system we live in to become a billionaire without both luck and the willingness to step on the livelihoods of the “peons” beneath you. Under this theorem, Booster isn’t prejudging Carla’s parents to come to the conclusion they did.

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        August 29, 2023 at 9:03 pm | #

        Seeing as they’re very wealthy owners of a very well-known tech company, it seems quite likely there is a lot of genuine proof of their conduct. The fact that Booster didn’t start reading from a list of citations doesn’t mean they’re basing it on nothing.

      • Gunslinger
        Gunslinger
        August 30, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

        They’ve probably been fellated by the Wall Street Journal at some point, and data on their company’s average wages wouldn’t be hard to find either. Billionaires and corporations both cry poor to the government, but can’t help but brag to the rest of the world about how successful they actually are.

  10. Alongcameaspider
    Alongcameaspider
    August 29, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

    Booster is having fun with this, good for them

    I think it was pointed out at one point that her parents have fought to advance trans rights, the big question is would they have done so if Carla wasn’t a factor in their lives?

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      August 29, 2023 at 12:10 am | #

      i mean, i guess we wait to find out whether they’ve paid into causes they aren’t a de facto part of in this timeline and extrapolate from there

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      August 29, 2023 at 12:13 am | #

      They were probably liberal types to start, so I’d say yes in the broad sense of backing candidates who are opposed to people who are anti-trans, but probably not in the singlehandedly financing a legal battle to overturn anti-trans legisliation sense

    • ESM
      ESM
      August 29, 2023 at 12:41 am | #

      Has it been explained somewhere why Carla’s in the same school as all these poors in the first place?

      • Wack'd
        Wack'd
        August 29, 2023 at 12:44 am | #

        same reason jennifer, joe, jason, and ruth are

        the plot requires it

      • Dante
        Dante
        August 29, 2023 at 1:08 am | #

        I hope we get to know it! ^^

        … I wonder if it’s because she doesn’t wanna go too far away from her parents, actually. Indiana is the one place she feels safe? Considering their lobbying powers but also because yeaaah, she loves them.

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        August 29, 2023 at 1:14 am | #

        It’s close to home and I wouldn’t be shocked if her parents went to school here, and I doubt Carla would want to go to a super fancy school anyways

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        August 29, 2023 at 2:24 am | #

        Perhaps her parents said they wouldn’t pay for a brand name diploma on principal.

      • Angel
        Angel
        August 29, 2023 at 2:38 am | #

        jen might be upper class rich but probably nowhere near the same level as carla tho i wouldn’t be surprised if there were like millionaire parents/families that send their kids to ‘normal’ schools or so to adapt and blend in with society or so

      • yak
        yak
        August 29, 2023 at 2:24 pm | #

        Not every super-rich person is down to bribe school officials. One of my friends in college turned out to be from a very wealthy old-money family, and my college wasn’t exactly prestigious.

    • Bruno
      Bruno
      August 29, 2023 at 6:58 am | #

      Trans rights to toil in wage slavery, lol.

      A lot of trans women gravitated towards tech (both producing and consuming) because it’s something you can get good at without having to talk to people. So tech companies adopted “pro-trans policies” in terms of not actively discriminating against trans people pretty early on, as a general pattern. But at the same time they’re always involved in undermining all the rights of all their employees, trans or not. So it’s kind of like saying Nike is a Bangladeshi rights group.

      • clif
        clif
        August 29, 2023 at 6:17 pm | #

        I’m confused. Are you pro or con the right of a trans person to toil in wage slavery?

        • Bruno
          Bruno
          August 29, 2023 at 7:03 pm | #

          I’m con the right of a small handful of people to enslave the entire population, and to manipulate acceptance or rejection of certain groups within that demographic for strategic purposes, such as saving money on labour in the long run, and being treated like humanitarians for doing it.

  11. Diane
    Diane
    August 29, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

    New source of joy found: Carla’s annoyed face. Thank you Booster, truly.

    • chuckroast
      chuckroast
      August 29, 2023 at 12:14 am | #

      Booster’s really making a case for themselves lately.

  12. Thag Simmons
    Thag Simmons
    August 29, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

    Well those last three panels feel pretty unambiguous.

  13. RocketRelm
    RocketRelm
    August 29, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

    I’ll be honest the only thing that makes sense is that Carla is interested romantically, perhaps also with strong feelings for booster inexplicably. There’s no other real reason she wouldn’t have blown this off a while back, and for her to emotionally let this rock her so close. Like, she was less immediately emotionally raw when she heard about a ‘suicide attempt’, this ‘has’ to be some kind of crush.

    • Alongcameaspider
      Alongcameaspider
      August 29, 2023 at 12:11 am | #

      Charlie (and now Booster) are the first people she’s dealt with that she can’t browbeat with her obnoxious self centered persona, it makes sense that there would be some kind of interest there

      • Zero
        Zero
        August 29, 2023 at 3:16 am | #

        That has not happened at all.

    • Axel
      Axel
      August 29, 2023 at 12:15 am | #

      I mostly agree with you, but I also think it might just be having her parents, who are actually incredibly great to her, and like, notedly less shitty than most (any?) other billionaires by not trying to reverse human rights, they are still hella unethical billionaires that are certainly doing a lot of wrong in the world, and I don’t know that Carla has considered that fully before. Booster might be the first person (at least IRL) who she didn’t manage to shut up (or ditch) before it got that far.

      • Axel
        Axel
        August 29, 2023 at 12:17 am | #

        like I’m picturing someone being like “your parents are evil billionaires!” in high school or some shit, and Carla being like “my parents are advancing trans rights, and your dad is trying to vote in a literal nazi! and then roller blading off flipping the double bird

      • Alongcameaspider
        Alongcameaspider
        August 29, 2023 at 12:19 am | #

        Honestly I’m kind of excited to explore this, in a series full of awful parents it’s interesting to see how Willis handles parents that are good parents but awful in other ways unrelated to their parenting

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        August 29, 2023 at 12:28 am | #

        I mean we don’t know about their stance on unions or labour exploitation but given the things they make I’m sure it’s not great.

      • Jamie
        Jamie
        August 29, 2023 at 12:37 am | #

        I feel like the only thing we actually know about them right now is that they’re rich. Maybe I missed some information, though.

        • Axel
          Axel
          August 29, 2023 at 2:29 am | #

          I definitely could be misremembering something. let’s amend that to **even IF they are less shitty than most billionaires

    • Bash
      Bash
      August 29, 2023 at 1:03 am | #

      I know Booster likes Amber but I sort of ship them with Carla now. At the very least I’d like to see the two of them on screen more, because this has been excellent.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      August 29, 2023 at 8:52 am | #

      I’m nursing a headcanon in which Carla WASN’T romantically interested in Charlie, but now she is out of spite.

  14. CitrineMonster
    CitrineMonster
    August 29, 2023 at 12:10 am | #

    Kisses Booster i will always love what a cheeky babe u are <3

  15. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    August 29, 2023 at 12:12 am | #

    You’re a Rich Girl/And you’ve gone too far
    But you know it don’t matter anyway…

  16. Bittersweet
    Bittersweet
    August 29, 2023 at 12:19 am | #

    Booster is such a little shit and I love them so much, like they’re probably my favorite character after the time skip (them and Asher which is A Thing). I don’t have anything more specific about the comic today to say, I just gotta give them my appreciation because I know they’re sometimes pretty divisive.

    • Dante
      Dante
      August 29, 2023 at 1:13 am | #

      It’s really nice seeing all this appreciation! I was immediately attached, and it seems last night strip’s was somewhat of a turning point with people’s opinion on them.

      (Really loving Asher too btw, excellent taste)

    • Angel
      Angel
      August 29, 2023 at 2:57 am | #

      i’d like to think that they’ve been on some kinda bluetooth call with charlie who’s been listening in the whole time lol, or a livestream/call but booster’s reading a book and not on a laptop

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        August 29, 2023 at 10:52 am | #

        Phones and earbuds are a thing even in the Dmbingverse.

      • Dante
        Dante
        August 29, 2023 at 6:14 pm | #

        That would be so damn epic, istg

  17. UrsulaDavina
    UrsulaDavina
    August 29, 2023 at 12:23 am | #

    Carla’s dilemma could be solved earlier, if she just waited for a minute for Charlie to notice her and bypass Booster entirely. Charlie has tried to say hello to Carla, but Carla desire for instant gratification caused her to miss it.

    Also I don’t like Booster sort of gatekeepers their sister let her decide for herself if Carla is worth her time. That or Booster is just being an arse to be an arse. Possibly both

    • UrsulaDavina
      UrsulaDavina
      August 29, 2023 at 12:24 am | #

      Oh I should also mention Carla shouldn’t have to goto Booster in the first place if she just was juzt a tad more patient

      • Segnosaur
        Segnosaur
        August 29, 2023 at 5:15 am | #

        Well to be fair, Charlie seemed to be ignoring Carla (at least from Carla’s view). Yes, we (as outside observers) recognize that it was because Charlie is distracted, but standing around (for however many seconds it would take to respond) would be seen as creepy/stalkerish if Charlie didn’t want to talk to Carla for some reason.

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      August 29, 2023 at 12:45 am | #

      i mean, booster isn’t saying they’re gonna take active efforts to prevent charlie and carla from hooking up, just that they’re not gonna do anything to enable it

      • UrsulaDavina
        UrsulaDavina
        August 29, 2023 at 1:12 am | #

        Fair but we don’t know if Booster will take an active effort to prevent them from hooking up. Booster could have just lied and let her be on her merry way wayess effort.

      • RocketRelm
        RocketRelm
        August 29, 2023 at 2:15 am | #

        They actually are saying exactly that. Just last strip they were all “I’m going to internet 4channer troll every family meeting with your parents if we wind up actually hooked up”. That’s pretty active efforts.

        • khn0
          khn0
          August 29, 2023 at 3:46 am | #

          No. That’s passive. Regarding how often we seen Booster and Charlie together, there’s neither reason nor obligation to get the relative’s relative at any table. Plus there is no reason to have your parent’s and your SO at the same table if they don’t get along or if you don’t want to. So there are at least two actions that have to take place before Booster can say anything and none is in their power to make.

          Also 4chan trolling is far from telling honestly what you think to people who protected themselves from consequences of their acts.

          • RocketRelm
            RocketRelm
            August 29, 2023 at 4:37 am | #

            “Consequences”, even going fully into the anarcho commie populist swing, would be them having to see some people actually in bad health or dying that they could have prevented, stories or talking to grieving families. Booster giving them the Capitalism Bad rant over dinner is just that one crazy relative yammering on about some dumb philosophical take they know and care little about when they probably don’t even know how to vote Biden in 2020 because they presumed Both Sides The Same Because Greed.

            Also a threat to take an active action should preconditions be met is active. Drawing an example, “I will murder your parents if we meet at dinner” would be passive under your definition, and calling that a passive action is patently absurd.

            • Professional asexual
              Professional asexual
              August 29, 2023 at 5:42 am | #

              Jeez, rocket. What did socialism ever do to you? Have you considered maybe not jumping to extremes?

              • Professional asexual
                Professional asexual
                August 29, 2023 at 5:53 am | #

                Although I must say it is extremely funny to see these aggressively pro-capitalism takes come from a Daisy gravatar (forgive me if I incorrectly assumed this was pro-capitalism).

                In all honesty though, it sounds like you’ve been interacting with a lot of extremists from both sides. If you’re open to advice I would consider maybe skipping social media for a while? Meet some real people, take care of yourself and others? When I find myself disillusioned by we/them-discourse that usually helps ground me a lot. Take care.

                • RocketRelm
                  RocketRelm
                  August 29, 2023 at 6:27 am | #

                  Depends on what “aggressively pro capitalism” means. I’m a moderate Democrat. If “I don’t think capitalism is inherently evil” qualifies, then sure? But Capitalism has a lot (and I mean a LOT) of flaws, especially on things like providing a populace with Health Care and getting society to deal with Climate Change. But really it’s everyone, everywhere. Sure you can avoid politics and that works well, even the wildest, most insane people are pretty chill, but every person is at least one of: clueless beyond belief, or completely delusional in some way(s), and you need to avoid political topics like the plague lest you set people the fuck off.

                  Hell as recently as last comic strip I got borderline death threats for suggesting that rich people weren’t literal demons in human flesh. At the end of the day, I live in the world of [If you say it, you mean it.], and we’d be a lot better off if more people lived that way.

                • HueSatLight
                  HueSatLight
                  August 29, 2023 at 10:26 am | #

                  The “borderline death threat” looks like it was along the lines of “capitalism and Capital is sociopathic and is killing us, and I want to be clear that I am not advocating killing capitalists”.

            • HueSatLight
              HueSatLight
              August 29, 2023 at 10:16 am | #

              “anarcho commie” when you definitely have an argument and aren’t just using phrases as a pejorative without caring what the meanings are.

              • RocketRelm
                RocketRelm
                August 29, 2023 at 4:34 pm | #

                I’m using the phrase because the populist far left is a very, very wide spread of similar-but-not-same ideologies, and it serves well as a catch-all.

                In any case, lets remove the “I Like This Person So Its Okay Because” filter from this situation.

                As a trans person, I have to deal with another group of people, the “Trans people are pedophiles and want to come rape your kids” group of propagandists. They’ll spread such lies that, if true, would justify hunting people down like animals for sport. They too will say ‘oh I’m not advocating for the killing of Other Group’, but it’s not because of some ethical consideration for the value of life. It’s more in the “ahahaha! Just kidding! ….. unless?” manner that’s really hoping somebody else will pick up the torch to rid the world of this turbulent priest.

                • Dante
                  Dante
                  August 29, 2023 at 5:38 pm | #

                  Hey, hi! I’m a trans person too, and an anarchist-communist on top of it :3 I don’t wanna fight, promise. I understand why you’ve got a lot of pressure and fear, living in the US.

                  The main thing with anarchism and communism, combined, is about guidelines rather than hard rules. Things like forming communities based on horizontal democracy and mutual aid matter a lot. Unionization, too! Also, staying aware of one’s own tendencies to authoritarianism to avoid the pitfalls of the. Like, yes I do want the Glorious Revolution, ngl! But… It starts today. Through direct action, and not all of it is about dismantling the system, but also constructing something in its stead, y’know? It’s the kind of ideology that jives pretty nicely with the survival (and thriving!) of the queer community.

                  I’m sorry to hear you’ve had such bad experiences with people more to the left of you. I promise there’s a lot to explore you might find interesting, if you can find the spoons amidst the legit horrifying stuff y’all are going through; and I know radical hope is really fucking hard as a practice. There’s zero condescension here.

                  Tolerance is a social contract, not a right; and violence can absolutely be a tool to wield when it comes to survival against those who under their institutions and economical system commit violence upon us, to the point they want to eradicate us. I think that’s the point that shocks people more to the center the most. And believe me, I wish it didn’t have to be a thing too – yet here we are.

                  The saddest thing is, if the oppressors just let change happen? This better world we could build would be for them, too.

                • Dante
                  Dante
                  August 29, 2023 at 6:10 pm | #

                  *avoid the pitfalls of the past.

                  I apologize if this thesis-length comment if too out of place here, and send you solidarity on dealing with the far right’s dangerous bullshit over there

            • khn0
              khn0
              August 30, 2023 at 3:27 pm | #

              Well I *am* something like an anarcho communist.
              They do have real consequences, like exploiting people and slavery in many lands (not even speaking of pollution). We do have some responsibilities, me like any tech mogul, on what happens by keeping consuming and producing. Until there, nothing I wrote is related to being an ancom, it’s just describing how tech is made.
              The usual answer is: yes but if “correct”/”integer” people don’t do it, worse people would do it, just look at X (pun intended). And it’s partially true, but it’s not enough, because if USA and France don’t produce and sell weapons, Russia will, sure, but would it mean we should keep producing weapon and selling them to tyrants? Tech may or may not be related to military industry, but the comparison is essentially valid, it’s a matter of morality scale.
              Where as an ancom, I have some different analyze, it’s that *it doesn’t matter who does it since it’s a system*. I’ve nothing against Ruttech’s leaders as persons, but as capitalism they are what keeps making trash happening, even if they do it reluctantly. Regarding any rights they defend, it’s nothing but a personal attempt at redemption: charity. I prefer it to be directed toward progressist stances, but in the end, it’s always charity and not systems change, systems that are interpenetrated and result in the same time at exploiting people in factories, women at homes, gay and trans people in the streets/homes (it’s not an opposition between “people”, “women”, and LGBT, but a gradation of cumulating oppressions). It’s always charity if you keep people from the means to free themselves. and it’s not bad that Ruttech people are told precisely by people they can’t avoid (well I *do* think they would find a way) how it is, they are buying indulgence (even if I do believe they really care about Ruth and every cause related to her in their vision).

              About being aggressive, giving an argumented piece of mind, possibly quietly (I don’t see Booster making a scene) is like a death treat, sure. I may be wrong about how passive it is, but please don’t make me sound like I endorse killing people.

    • Angel
      Angel
      August 29, 2023 at 2:40 am | #

      Well, they do share a class together so there’s plenty more opportunities for carla to interact with charlie even if she’s still oblivious/not receptive to it, unless some classmates crowd around her and tell her to back off charlie, but i don’t know if charlie would approach her first for whatever reason

      …Cue leslie making a group project and they get put into the same one lol.

    • Felgraf
      Felgraf
      August 29, 2023 at 4:55 am | #

      Well, it’s not really gatekeeping, is it? They’re not intervening and saying who their sister should and shouldn’t see.

      This is Carla saying “MAKE YOU SISTER NOTICE THE GREATNESS THAT IS ME!” and Booster going “I see no reason I should do this”.

      I don’t think that’s really gatekeeping, that’s just refusing to play matchmaker.

  18. Viktoria
    Viktoria
    August 29, 2023 at 12:28 am | #

    Let’s take this to first principles:
    1: It is impossible to interact with society in meaningful ways without running into colonialism, exploitation, graft, etc. Both to your benefit and/or detriment depending on the situation. But you can’t meaningfully avoid it, and you can’t meaningfully change it, and someone always is suffering because of it.
    2: Billionaires, as they are owners and themselves multiple international conglomerates of money and power, interact with society a lot MORE than the average person.
    3: Almost all of this interaction is to the benefit of the billionaire, who is large enough to make money selling you water, charging you to take a piss, and then selling your piss.
    4: Billionaires have the scale and power to challenge the exploitation, unlike everyone else.
    5: But they haven’t, because they’re still billionaires. Any business that chooses to pay it’s employees more than they have to, that doesn’t exploit 3rd world resources, that listens to regulations instead of paying a fine for breaking them…that business will be destroyed by the competition that’s less moral and more profitable.

    Does anyone disagree with any of those points? Because if not, then yeah, billionaires are evil.

    The real fun question: Where do we need to push to fix that mess?

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      August 29, 2023 at 1:03 am | #

      I would disagree with most of this, actually. A billion dollars is honestly less than you realize. Like, for all that Bill Gates puts into doing stuff, he hasn’t actually had that much effect. You can argue that he’s doing the wrong stuff (which is a claim I’d make), but you can’t argue he’s not doing stuff.

      That’s not to say this excuses them from trying. Billionaire philanthropy is basically a cottage industry in its own right. But the impact a billionaire can make is a lot smaller than people think it is. Like, now that Mackenzie Bezos divorced Jeffy boy and started donating her billions with fewer strings than most do, she’s had… uh, *checks notes* no discernible effect at scale.

      Like, a billion dollars will change your life, but it’s not going to fix the world. It would dent a state economy for like… a year, after which it’s just gone.

      I’m not saying billionaires are good. A billion dollars basically means you get to be a tyrant over a few thousand people, no questions asked, even if you’re bad at managing the money. That’s not healthy, and I think the slide into evil is somewhat inevitable. But it’s not because they haven’t fixed the world. That’s where your argument eats itself, after all: you’re blaming capitalism, not the billionaires.

      (Also, this is me being optimistic. There are plenty of billionaires who aren’t even trying, and they’re definitely evil. And, I guess, hiding from Chinese assassins, if you’re Jack Ma, but who’s counting.)

      • MArillius
        MArillius
        August 29, 2023 at 1:55 am | #

        You have no understanding of money in any meaningful sense. 1 billion dollars is enough to give 50,000 people 200k dollars a year. Multi-billionaires, i.e. people with 2 or more Billion, can thus assist a minimum of 100,000 people a year.

        But the thing is that if you have a billion dollars and its not from something really lacking in sustainable exploitation, like the pyramid schemes that are crypto, you are going to have multiple billions. And the people at the very top don’t just have one billion, they have hundreds of billions. Jeff Bezos PERSONALLY makes enough to solve poverty in America.

        You really, really need to learn how to math better before you try and argue it.

        Having a billion dollars means you control tens if not hundreds of thousands of peoples lives, and can fix or ruin that many. Having the multi-billions that many of the richest have means they can solve almost all problems that first world countries face. It just means they can’t also go to space ontop of it, so they choose to ignore that.

        And that’s not even getting into the affect that billions of dollars being consolidated like that has on the economy or the active harm that it takes to build that fortune. That’s just talking about the pure monetary amount alone.

        If you’re disagreeing, you’re just ignorant man. The math doesn’t lie, but billionaires do. And Bill gates has never donated a significant or meaningful portion of his wealth to any cause. How do we know this? He’s still a billionaire.

        Do you know what happens if you tax a billionaire 90% of their money? They still have $100,000,000.00 dollars. They could spend a million dollars a year and have money for 100 years if they never made another dime. But that same $100,000,000.00 could also lift 5,000 people out of poverty. So if we taxed every billion dollars by 90%, we could lift 45,000 people out of poverty and just give them money to live better lives, and that billionaire would still be a 100 millionaire.

        • MArillius
          MArillius
          August 29, 2023 at 1:55 am | #

          Minor correct to my own math at the beginning, 20k a year, not 200K.

          • NGPZ
            NGPZ
            August 29, 2023 at 3:27 am | #

            Yeah, personally I think it would do very much good if there were a mandated ceiling and floor to personal wealth. If history tells us anything, it’s that concentrations of wealth serve not but to bring the worse out of everyone, to allow for supreme concentrations of power (including money power) and just praying that it won’t eventually be abused is a fool’s gambit. We should create scenarios where everybody genuinely wins, instead of bourgeois billionaires shuffling words around to make their interests look like universal interests.

            • Nedlum
              Nedlum
              August 29, 2023 at 11:52 am | #

              The question then becomes how is such a ceiling managed? Should Carla’s parents been forced to sell stock in Zoomer once its market cap went over a certain amount, for example?

              • NGPZ
                NGPZ
                August 29, 2023 at 2:37 pm | #

                Why, democracy of course. Ideally direct democracy, which is more possible than ever thanks to modern technology.

                • yak
                  yak
                  August 29, 2023 at 3:56 pm | #

                  That’s not really a policy, that’s just a process for making policies. What should the policy be?

                • UrsulaDavina
                  UrsulaDavina
                  August 29, 2023 at 5:33 pm | #

                  Direct democracy sounds appealing in theory, but to what degree of direct democracy are we talking about? In the US ballot initative problems can be problematic. Because there is often little transparency in the initiative-writing process, citizens with no legal expertise are able to draft poorly written laws, which sometimes come with unintended consequences.

                  Even with modern technology direct democracy is still prone to large information costs. In order policy to be effective the people voting need to be informed on said policy. Even to be slightly informed on all policy takes effort and incurs a significant cost. Representative democracy reduces these costs.

                  Direct democracy also exacerbates collective action problems and free riding.

                  Direct democracy is less prone to intrest group lobbying but you will still see the rise of factions in this system its intlvetiable. Also you can’t expect people to informed all times, or even a great many issues as they have to live their lives.

                  Representative democracy is prone to principal agent problems but it doesn’t require the citizenry to be informed on all issues and reduces information costs.

                  I am not saying that all forms of direct democracy is bad but i prefer repersative democracy.

              • NGPZ
                NGPZ
                August 29, 2023 at 7:00 pm | #

                Specifically I meant direct democracy determining an appropriate floor and ceiling to personal wealth. I mean, it’s not gonna be that high, considering that 1% of the country owns 90% of its wealth.

          • Opus the Poet
            Opus the Poet
            August 29, 2023 at 11:13 am | #

            To illustrate: A million seconds is 11 days, 34 hours, 27 minutes. A billion seconds is 31 years, 251 days, 7 hours, and 47 minutes. There is literally half a lifetime of difference. Look up the game called Spend Bill Gates’ Money and see what a billion dollars can do, especially if there’s no need to make other people into millionaires.

        • khn0
          khn0
          August 29, 2023 at 3:53 am | #

          And price would adjust to make the situation exactly the same as before.
          Hear, I’m not against taxation, but there are a few problematic effects:
          – taxes are perceived mostly where money is put to the bank, and countries where people are the oppressed won’t get more than a cent of it.
          – in the end, how they are used is the choice of millionaires
          – It won’t change a dime in work relations, colonialism, and even exploitation. It’s just deplaced charity, and won’t get people to get the hang over their lives.

        • Nedlum
          Nedlum
          August 29, 2023 at 12:07 pm | #

          “Jeff Bezos PERSONALLY makes enough to solve poverty in America”

          Let’s look at that: Bezos has $150 Billion, which is a lot, obviously. The US has about 40 Million people in poverty. If we were to liquidate everything Bezos has (and cleanly, without e.g. causing the price of Amazon stock to drop, making it only $100 Billion), that comes to about $4k a person. Which isn’t nothing. For some people, it could be life-changing.

          But it isn’t the society-changing amount of money you’re saying it is. By comparison, the expansded, fully refundable, and paid-out-monthly child tax credit of 2021 from the American Rescue Plan would have cost $50-100B a year if made permanent (estimates vary). It cut child poverty in half. So Bezo’s money could reduce child poverty for two or three years. But not eliminate it. Much less eliminate US poverty over all.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          August 29, 2023 at 4:14 pm | #

          But at the same time, you have no idea of the scale either. Sure a billion dollars “is enough to give 50,000 people 200k dollars a year”, which actually tracks pretty well with Jamie’s “It would dent a state economy for like… a year, after which it’s just gone.”

          As Nedlum says various government welfare programs spend 100s of billions and we’re still dealing with all of this.

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        August 29, 2023 at 10:35 am | #

        you just made the argument that Billionaires use a false narrative to justify their hording of wealth. The disagreement we have is I think that’s bad, and you think it’s good.

        If Bezos had safe working conditions and paid his employees appropriately, he would not have as high a score in the “collect all the money” game. go galt yourself with “a billion isn’t a lot of money it wouldn’t fix anything”.

        • Jamie
          Jamie
          August 30, 2023 at 1:48 am | #

          No? Wealth hoarding is bad for literally everyone.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      August 29, 2023 at 8:22 am | #

      5) I do really disagree with this point. It’s commonly stated, oddly by both ardent capitalists and their opponents, to claim that businesses force optimization. That whatever is done by business must be the most efficient way because otherwise they’d be beaten out by more efficient businesses. I’ve seen it used like this to attack companies, but also to do things like claim they couldn’t discriminate against minorities because then they wouldn’t get the best employees and would be less competitive.

      In reality we see companies do completely dumb shit all the time and survive and thrive perfectly well. We also see companies who are forced to pay better wages and treat their employees better by unions thrive. There’s a pretty decent argument that low pay and poor conditions are at best short term optimizations and that better pay and treatment make a company more profitable, not less over the long run.
      Which implies that a successful company is not, in itself evidence of bad practices.
      At the megacorp level or at the local business level either, since the same theory applies.

      • Nicoleandmaggie
        Nicoleandmaggie
        August 29, 2023 at 1:15 pm | #

        If we lived in a world of perfect competition then racism would be competed out so long as one non racist company existed. We don’t.

        There’s also lots of market failure in the system and markets actually function best with fetters.

      • yak
        yak
        August 29, 2023 at 4:04 pm | #

        >There’s a pretty decent argument that low pay and poor conditions are at best short term optimizations and that better pay and treatment make a company more profitable, not less over the long run.

        Indeed, but in many jurisdictions, shareholders can collectively force a company to increase their short-term profits at the expense of long-term viability, so in a lot of ways this entire situation is artificial and not a result of market forces.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          August 29, 2023 at 4:17 pm | #

          In some circumstances, but it’s probably more common for management to piously intone “we must do this to maximize shareholder value” than for shareholders to actually organize en masse to do anything.

    • UrsulaDavina
      UrsulaDavina
      August 29, 2023 at 6:10 pm | #

      No one seems to be talking about taxing the companies themselves, maybe everyone is implying it, but Bezos is worth 150 million Amazon is worth over a trillion. If companies didn’t have tax loopholes alot more money could be collected. Also the OECD introduced a 15% minimum on corporate tax rates of which 130 countries have accepted its not alot but its a start to prevent companies from switching their operations to countries with less stringent corporate taxes.

      Also raising taxes on Billionaires would help to combat systemic poverty and create a robust social saftey net income taxes need to be raised across the board ( I prefer a progressive tax system).

      Also taxes taken from Billionaires does not necessarily mean that capital acquired will directly benefit lower income status, taxes are used to fund the government no a transfer of funds from one income bracket to another. The government must make the decision to reallocate funds.

      The government also needs to fund the bureaucracy, education system prexisting programs the infrastructure and the military(how much of what should allocated to defense is whole other disscusion) so these tax dollars won’t all go to combating poverty.

      Taxing Billionaires more is a great idea but it won’t solve all systemic problems or even most of them if institutions are not in place to so and also if your not properly taxing the source of Billionaires incomes.

      I am sure that’s self evident to you folks I just wanted to say this.

  19. JA
    JA
    August 29, 2023 at 12:29 am | #

    Oh dear, seems we finally found someone who can get Carla’s goat.

  20. LordCirce
    LordCirce
    August 29, 2023 at 12:30 am | #

    The thing that bugs me with this is whether Booster is speaking from specifics (where the Rutten’s are known in this universe to pay unfair wages / not pay full taxes), or from generalities (billionaires must be evil, because they don’t need all that wealth, and could just redistribute all of it to the poor).

    • shrub
      shrub
      August 29, 2023 at 12:39 am | #

      I’m not a fan of sweeping generalisations such as this however I am a big fan of Carla getting push back and getting a much-needed reality check

      • MArillius
        MArillius
        August 29, 2023 at 1:58 am | #

        1. How the hell is stating that billionaires don’t pay taxes or fair wages a sweeping generalization? 2. See number 1.

        It’s a fact. You need to think about that, like really a lot, because it’s really weird that you don’t understand that. Sweeping ‘generalizations’ aren’t even inherently a bad thing, but when you’re talking about an objective fact that covers a few hundred people it’s not even an appropriate term.

        • shrub
          shrub
          August 29, 2023 at 3:49 am | #

          It’s a sweeping generalisation because some do and just because you’ve gotten all emotional about it doesn’t make it a fact

          • khn0
            khn0
            August 29, 2023 at 3:56 am | #

            Billionaires don’t pay enough taxes. It can’t possibly happen.
            And a fair wage doesn’t exist: a fair wage results of property of production tools, but also of distribution, exchange and international solidarity means – no more a wage.

            • Segnosaur
              Segnosaur
              August 29, 2023 at 5:22 am | #

              It is true that the super-wealthy could (and should) probably be taxed more. However, I don’t think there is a mechanism for an individual tax payer to say “I personally want to pay more taxes”.

              The best that they can do is:
              – Political Donations to candidates who support higher taxes/social spending (probably democrats). Or at least publicly support higher taxes
              – Donate to charitable causes that the government could/should be funding but are not, hopefully at a rate that matches what a ‘fair’ tax rate should be (and hopefully with no strings attached)

              • Willoughby Chase
                Willoughby Chase
                August 29, 2023 at 6:19 am | #

                Write a cheque to the IRS, or in my case HMRC, and they will happily accept it

                • clif
                  clif
                  August 29, 2023 at 6:10 pm | #

                  Should you care to make a donation to reduce the national debt, they try to make it as easy as possible. https://www.pay.gov/public/form/start/23779454

      • Felgraf
        Felgraf
        August 29, 2023 at 5:01 am | #

        It’s not really a sweeping generalization. It… okay.

        Even one billion dollars is a truly absurd quantity of money, so stupidly large that it’s honestly hard to even comprehend.

        Let’s put it in terms of hourly pay.

        Let’s say you got paid a truly ludicrous hourly pay. $3600 per hour. More money per hour than a lot of people make in a *month*.

        Let’s make it even sillier. You’re getting paid that money every hour, of every day, 24/365. Whatever you are doing. Waking, sleeping, vacation? Still getting paid.

        It would take you… oh. About 12 or so days to make $1M.

        But do you know how long, even at that absurd rate, even being paid while you sleep, to reach $1B?

        Over 32 Years.

        And you wouldn’t even HAVE $1B at the end of that unless you also incurred 0 costs during that time span.

        And there are people out there with MULTIPLE billions of dollars. I believe hard work deserves reward! I believe good ideas deserve rewards!

        NO ONE works THAT hard.

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      August 29, 2023 at 12:47 am | #

      can you name a billionaire who pays fair wages and full taxes

    • Bash
      Bash
      August 29, 2023 at 1:00 am | #

      This kind of belief about billionaires is pretty common among leftists, and a lot of trans people are leftists. Apparently Carla’s parents support her being trans, so I don’t think they’re just outright evil.

      • MArillius
        MArillius
        August 29, 2023 at 2:00 am | #

        They can be great parents and still have destroyed tens of thousands of families with unfair wages while perpetuating a society that they could probably, honestly, just fix (if they’re making Bezos money, which given the delivery service this comic is implying).

        Tldr: They can be good to someone they love and still absolute horrid monsters that have the blood of countless people on their hands.

        • Bash
          Bash
          August 29, 2023 at 3:56 am | #

          OP was asking if Booster just believes this about all billionaires or if the Rutechs are known to be particularly unethical in-universe, and I think it’s the former.

      • Swissaboo
        Swissaboo
        August 29, 2023 at 2:01 am | #

        Even outright evil people can love their children

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      August 29, 2023 at 1:52 am | #

      An understanding of economics that ain’t from PragerU 😛

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        August 29, 2023 at 2:37 am | #

        I have been surprised by the number of temporarily embarrassed billionaires in the comments section that seem bewildered that not everyone loves robber barons.

        • NGPZ
          NGPZ
          August 29, 2023 at 2:49 am | #

          “The genius of capitalism is that it requires businesses to do good things for society to make a profit”.

          Actual PragerU rhetoric. 👀

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            August 29, 2023 at 4:07 am | #

            And they’re trying to weasel their way into textbooks via Texas…

            • Opus the Poet
              Opus the Poet
              August 29, 2023 at 11:18 am | #

              They are already in FL.

          • clif
            clif
            August 29, 2023 at 5:56 pm | #

            That capitalism requires businesses to do good things for society to make a profit, is patently false. That capitalism requires businesses to produce things that people want, is patently true.

            There are lot of things that I want.

    • Angel
      Angel
      August 29, 2023 at 2:44 am | #

      I think booster is just being intentionally difficult, even if carla didn’t have ‘billionaire parents’ i’m sure he would’ve used something else as a pretext

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      August 29, 2023 at 5:36 am | #

      There are no “good” billionaires. Literally everyone with that ridiculous amount of money got it from exploiting a lot of workers, or inheriting it from their parents, who got it from exploiting lots of workers.

  21. V
    V
    August 29, 2023 at 12:30 am | #

    tfw no mate

    • Professional asexual
      Professional asexual
      August 29, 2023 at 5:29 am | #

      No maidens? 😨

      • Dante
        Dante
        August 29, 2023 at 6:46 pm | #

        Maidenless, even

  22. Nono
    Nono
    August 29, 2023 at 12:31 am | #

    I mean, if dating someone meant having to deal with Booster all the time, I might have to reconsider it too.

    • Angel
      Angel
      August 29, 2023 at 2:59 am | #

      makes me wonder what kinda partner booster would have, if at all, assuming they don’t accidentally self sabotage. or somehow ‘improve’ someone else and ending the relationship and the next person they both move onto will be better for it

    • Zero
      Zero
      August 29, 2023 at 3:05 am | #

      Same if your sister dating someone meant you have to deal with Carla all the time, though.

  23. ESM
    ESM
    August 29, 2023 at 12:40 am | #

    Carla: Why do *I* have to disown my parents? It’s everyone else’s who suck! The least evil parents here besides mine are Walky’s, and they’re white fucking supremacists!

    • Vukodlak
      Vukodlak
      August 29, 2023 at 12:45 am | #

      Except Dina… and Amber if you exclude dead parents.

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      August 29, 2023 at 12:48 am | #

      let’s be fair, the walkertons aren’t white supremacists, they’re just slightly above average amounts of racist for middle class boomers

      • Bash
        Bash
        August 29, 2023 at 12:59 am | #

        Carla has famously never exaggerated anything.

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        August 29, 2023 at 1:16 am | #

        Honestly they might be slightly better than average, which is a sad thought

    • Angel
      Angel
      August 29, 2023 at 3:01 am | #

      i assume lucy’s parents would be fairly decent, tho we’ve only seen her bro, but any issues she might have probably doesn’t stem as much from her parents, well, no more than the average person

  24. BBCC
    BBCC
    August 29, 2023 at 12:44 am | #

    Yeaaaaah, absolutely no romantic interest here.

  25. Qube
    Qube
    August 29, 2023 at 12:52 am | #

    gotta say that I love it when billionaires don’t get what they want

  26. Dante
    Dante
    August 29, 2023 at 12:58 am | #

    I had way too much fun last night and this afternoon here, y’all – I mean it. Today I’m exhausted so I’ll just add: I fucking love Booster and I’m glad people are enjoying them too.

    Honestly none of this would’ve happened if Carla had gone to Charlie directly and had been patient. It’s just that, like billionaires are won’t to do, she feels entitled to her attention and wants to bypass a normal-er kind of interaction.

    So of course Booster’s having fun with this (and I’m convinced it’s something they ideologically believe in, too). They aren’t going to forbid Charlie to see Carla if Charlie wants – It’s more of a “give me a good reason to help you!” and so far… Carla has given them none.

    • Angel
      Angel
      August 29, 2023 at 2:54 am | #

      well, i assume carla’s going to booster as an option because she hasn’t had an opportunity to talk to her again, versus not being able to track her down/assumed that ‘directly approaching’ didn’t work because she didn’t stick around long enough for her reaction

      unless it’s been a while til their next class together

      • Dante
        Dante
        August 29, 2023 at 5:57 pm | #

        Well, it is true Booster is in her same building, while Charlie is in… I think it’s the Clark wing?

        I wonder, actually, if we’re going to be told why in the world she came to ask for help. Like, in the next strips Carla could go “YOU KNOW WHAT, FORGET I SAID ANYTHING”, and skate away – They have been making difficult questions.

    • Mturtle7
      Mturtle7
      August 29, 2023 at 5:29 pm | #

      I see it less as a “give me a good opportunity to help you” vibe and more of a “you have given me an opportunity to mess with you and By God I will not pass that up for any reason!”

      • Dante
        Dante
        August 29, 2023 at 5:52 pm | #

        “Give me a reason to help you” isn’t the same than “you’ve given me an opportunity to help you”. The first one is like, conditional? Because Carla messed up that first interaction. It became an opportunity to mess with her only afterwards.

        I do think Booster is trying to get Carla to stop it with her 24/7 performance on how awesome she is, and get past her armor. She couldn’t even admit she’s doing this because she likes Charlie! That they’re achieving this by Doing A Class War is a bonus.

  27. Bo
    Bo
    August 29, 2023 at 1:25 am | #

    “You might know every obnoxious thing I’m going to do, but that won’t help you, because I know every obnoxious thing *YOU’RE* going to do!! *STRANGE*, isn’t it!?!?”

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      August 29, 2023 at 6:10 pm | #

      “There is only one Carla”

  28. Chaucer59
    Chaucer59
    August 29, 2023 at 1:35 am | #

    Carla in the last panel: bloody peasant!

  29. DashWallkick
    DashWallkick
    August 29, 2023 at 1:42 am | #

    I reiterate my thesis that Carla finally found someone who refused to put up with her bullshit and it jammed the needle from “Attention source” to “I must have her”

    • Angel
      Angel
      August 29, 2023 at 3:03 am | #

      i mean, charlie was just ‘oblivious’ tho i feel like she’d be indifferent at most as opposed to someone that actively ignores her/’refusing to put up with her’ because charlie didnt even know carla was obnoxious or had any commentary afterwards besides “oh, i’m charlie–and they’re gone”

      but it would be amusing if she somehow crushed on both of them as a twist (that said i imagine most ppl who are siblings, even twins, would ever date the same person)

    • Dante
      Dante
      August 29, 2023 at 6:07 pm | #

      +1

      She likes them mean, and the meanest thing you can do to Carla is ignore her.

  30. Icalasari
    Icalasari
    August 29, 2023 at 1:42 am | #

    Oh damn, Carla’s showing emotional vulnerability?

    Booster got past her narcissistic shell and wounded her!?

    I

    I am impressed

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      August 29, 2023 at 1:51 am | #

      Do you remember when she asked them to analyze her, to her have gotten a NO?

  31. Barf Ninjason
    Barf Ninjason
    August 29, 2023 at 1:50 am | #

    “Taxed properly” – yeah, Carla, c’mon, the government really needs that money for bombing cities and imprisoning drug users. Selllllfiiiiiish

    • MArillius
      MArillius
      August 29, 2023 at 2:05 am | #

      You’re not wrong about where the money would go in this current society. But just to make sure you are aware, it’s a bit redundant to think that.

      In a world where billionaires get fairly taxed 90-99% of their money (i.e. a world with real change affected upon the government) that money has a lot better places to go.

    • Da Boy
      Da Boy
      August 29, 2023 at 4:33 am | #

      To be fair all that cash is currently going to Stopping the bombing of cities. As a neighbour of Russia I am deeply grateful to the American War Industry XD

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      August 29, 2023 at 8:30 am | #

      There’s almost no connection in the US between amount of money taxed and amount of money spent. As far as that goes, we could stop taxing billionaires entirely and still bomb the same number of cities and imprison the same number of drug users.

      Taxing billionaires is itself a public good though. The point is preventing the concentration of wealth, not funding government.

      • MK15
        MK15
        August 29, 2023 at 10:55 am | #

        I agree about the disconnect between revenue and spending, but in order to prevent the concentration of wealth, spending on people on the lower end of the wealth distribution needs to increase too (if it’s just spent on DoD and Medicare, billionaires owning shares of military contractors or the health/pharmacare industry will just get it back in the end).

        Unfortunately it’s what little spending there is on people on the low-end of the wealth spectrum is often what gets targeted for cuts. SNAP cuts, work-requirements for various programs, eventual Social Security cuts, etc..

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          August 30, 2023 at 9:06 am | #

          Honestly, if we just increased taxes on the rich enough to cover the deficit with no increased spending on anything – then concentration of wealth drops. The rich also get most of the interest on the deficit.

          Which isn’t to say that more money shouldn’t be spent on the lower end, even though any of that still tends to filter back up to the top, whether it’s Medicaid spending or direct cash used to buy things that usually profit large corporations in the end.

  32. Raja
    Raja
    August 29, 2023 at 1:50 am | #

    Well I’m rooting for you and charlie, Carla

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      August 29, 2023 at 10:16 pm | #

      Good Luck, Charlie. 🥰

  33. Jon
    Jon
    August 29, 2023 at 1:52 am | #

    I’m not…really excited to read any extended amount of “are Carla’s parents bad people for being rich” storyline.

    I agree wholeheartedly with the premise, and I’m not here to defend billionaires. But what draws me to Dumbing of Age is the personal growth and discovery of its individual young people at a formative time of their lives. Carla grappling with her complicated privilege as a trans person with significant wealth is interesting…if it *stays personal.*

    But if this camera pans out any further and the scene turns into Baby’s First Economics Debate between two smarmy college first-years…well, that just sounds obnoxious in the best of cases.

    • Imogen
      Imogen
      August 29, 2023 at 2:11 am | #

      I kind of agree here. I also feel a little weird about the prospect of our first serious Carla storyline since her pranking Mary being about “humbling” her. I feel like we need to humanize her first. It’s been too long since we’ve seen sympathetic facets of her, and people forget things like “Carla freaking out over Ruth being suicidal” or “Carla struggling with loneliness”.

      I think we might be going in a more sympathetic, personally-grounded direction here, and I’m all for it if that’s the case. Carla deserves to be criticized just as much as any other character, but a lot of the jokes lately have been at her expense anyways, so I’m not sure that’s really a priority.

      What I worry that people don’t seem to get is that Carla can’t be easily “humbled” because her arrogance is itself a defense mechanism against humiliation.

      • Nono
        Nono
        August 29, 2023 at 2:25 am | #

        Yeah, the tricky part is that for Carla to be more than a trope in a storyline, she needs to express vulnerability… and that’s not something that a lot of people other than Ruth are gonna be able to open her up to.

        There could have been something with her and Malaya re: gender identity, but that seems to have been largely resolved during the time-skip and also that would have just been more Smug Carla rather than Vulnerable Carla.

      • Dante
        Dante
        August 29, 2023 at 4:04 am | #

        I trust Willis to treat the subject with care. Carla is after all a character he loves! In DOA her traits mix two hardcore opposite demographics; and before Willis started going by he/they, I used to be consistently amazed by a straight cis man’s ability to write such excellent LGBTQ storylines, so rife with excellent female characters. (Allies this unwavering are a luxury, let’s admit it.)

        What’s happening here is… Booster couldn’t go past Carla’s defenses in a more normal interaction. They’re high and mighty, Carla can’t stand to be seen as nice by other people most times! She’s better even than social conventions on niceness!! The thing is, no honest communication can happen with all that armor on, And through this angle, Booster found the first inkling on how to derail the 24/7 Performative Carla Show of Awesomess. they’ve just found the first inkling they might be able to stop the 24/7 Carla Performance Show of Awesomess and get to, well, Who is Carla. What does she want to do with their sister That’s not for him to decide, but hey. Forewarned is forearmed and all.

    • Angel
      Angel
      August 29, 2023 at 2:52 am | #

      who knows, it could be a one-off scene even if carla contemplates it, i mean we’ll probably see more of charlie either way but i don’t think carla’s parents are just gonna invite themselves overnight and hangout with carla the same way walky’s have so far.

    • Aura
      Aura
      August 29, 2023 at 3:43 am | #

      Eh, I’m reading this as being about Carla interacting with people (Booster and Charlie) in a new and different way; it’s a character development and relationship storyline, not a ‘dunk on Carla because her parents are rich’ storyline.

      Also there is an interesting tension within her background which has such a dramatic mix of insane class privilege and very much the opposite to that due to her very public experience of being trans and I don’t think it’s a terrible choice to explore the way that affects her character and the way she relates to the world around her.

    • StClair
      StClair
      August 29, 2023 at 3:43 pm | #

      In much the same way that an earlier development wasn’t so much about “all Presidents are bad, actually” as forcing Dorothy to start examining some things she’d taken for granted, I believe this is mostly a way of piercing Carla’s performative awesomeness and dismissive denial(s) and making her, as they say, “get real.”

    • Bash
      Bash
      August 29, 2023 at 4:02 pm | #

      Notice that Carla’s responses aren’t anything to do with economics. She’s not pro-capitalism here, she just loves her parents. So I don’t see it turning into a big debate. I think it’s just a chance to see a new side of Carla.

  34. pope suburban
    pope suburban
    August 29, 2023 at 1:56 am | #

    I mean as a working person who played the whole damn game only to get crushed at every turn by rising costs, flat wages, zero worker protections/rights, the American health care access industry, underfunded social safety nets, and horrific global pollution, yes. Booster is correct and I enjoy hearing them be so.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      August 29, 2023 at 5:40 am | #

      I didn’t like Booster when they first appeared in DoA, but these last couple strips are starting to make me like them much more, especially if they actually mean what they’re saying about billionaires. Which I hope they do, because they’re correct.

  35. Imogen
    Imogen
    August 29, 2023 at 2:05 am | #

    It’s funny because, skimming these comments sections, you can really tell that the “Carla needs to be humbled, she’s had it easy for far too long” crew and the “Booster needs to be humbled, they’ve had it easy for far too long” crew were not ready to be put at odds like this, but they welcome the challenge.

    • Imogen
      Imogen
      August 29, 2023 at 2:06 am | #

      their battle will be legendary

    • Mr.Morningstar
      Mr.Morningstar
      August 29, 2023 at 2:14 am | #

      have a third party come by and humble them both

      balance the world

    • Nono
      Nono
      August 29, 2023 at 2:26 am | #

      I’m just here waiting for Dina to come in from the high rope with a steel chair.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        August 29, 2023 at 1:57 pm | #

        No Dina would come from the high rope with a Utahraptor claw. Get the trope right.

      • Imogen
        Imogen
        August 29, 2023 at 9:51 pm | #

        Oh, that’s when the “Dina needs some actual flaws” crew comes in. also with steel chairs.

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      August 29, 2023 at 3:08 am | #

      i love booster and carla and this storyline makes me happy because whoever loses, i win

    • BadRoad
      BadRoad
      August 29, 2023 at 4:27 am | #

      I don’t like either of them, so if they must show up, I’m glad they’re annoying each other.

    • Autogatos
      Autogatos
      August 29, 2023 at 4:42 am | #

      I see the potential in this storyline to challenge the tendency many people (who try to be socially and politically aware) have to paint everyone in terms of “good” vs “bad” or pick “sides” in character conflicts based on who is “right”. Most people are a complicated mix of positive and negative traits, and the characters in this comic reflect that. Both Booster and Carla are members of marginalized groups which deserve support, yet both also have some problematic/toxic traits, and Carla is in the complicated position of being marginalized in one way and privileged in another.

      Neither character can be painted as 100% good or 100% toxic, and this is something I see many young activists today struggle with. They want easy boxes, easy black and white labels, but that’s not how the world works. Most people aren’t cartoonish archetypes, they’re just people, who make mistakes and while they hopefully learn and grow from them, no one is ever perfect, everyone will continue to make mistakes throughout their lives.

      Though I do anticipate people trying to take sides in this battle anyway. But I look forward to what seems to be an exploration of “two people in a debate can each have good points and also be wrong in some ways at the same time.”

      • Bash
        Bash
        August 29, 2023 at 3:56 pm | #

        This should be the top comment. The characters have flaws and make mistakes because that’s what makes the comic realistic and entertaining.

    • Anon A Mouse
      Anon A Mouse
      August 29, 2023 at 6:30 pm | #

      I’m firmly in the “f**k both of them” group. Carla is a narcissistic a-hole, regardless of her personal or financial situation. “Replacement Mike” needs to be wrong once in a while, but that doesn’t seem to be in the cards same as old Mike. The “feels whisperer” will just have a pinpoint read on everyone’s personality after a few conversations and they will say whatever is necessary bluntly and the epiphany that follows will justify it. Huzzah. I hope this scene means we won’t see either of them for a good while.

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      August 29, 2023 at 11:39 pm | #

      i just over here like popcorn.gif

  36. kater
    kater
    August 29, 2023 at 2:17 am | #

    Wild to see a Billionaire’s daughter at a public school

    • Angel
      Angel
      August 29, 2023 at 2:50 am | #

      i mean, i’m sure there are rich parents who don’t care/let them go on their own as an adult

      tho i mean it would be funny of someone indulged there kid like “i wanna go to 2-3 universities” and such and it being a drop in the bucket for them.

      all the ethical and morality talk aside, it’d be interesting if there was some kinda eccentric millionaire/billionaire philantropist who picked a dozen ‘average’ kids and paid for them to have a full ride through college and see how they turn out

      • Nicoleandmaggie
        Nicoleandmaggie
        August 29, 2023 at 4:42 am | #

        See: Kalamazoo promise

  37. Angel
    Angel
    August 29, 2023 at 2:31 am | #

    master fisher lol

  38. sdrainbow
    sdrainbow
    August 29, 2023 at 3:09 am | #

    hmmm.

    My instinct is to say “DRAG HER, BOOSTER”, but I’m actually less satisfied that Carla’s getting called out for her parents’ behavior. I want her called out for her OWN shitty behavior, independent of the number of 0s in her trust fund.

    I mean, they can be related, sure. The number of 0s in her trust fund can be on screen. I just also want some “hey actually you are, as a direct result of the actions you are taken, intensely unlikeable, maybe change your behavior if you’d like a different result”

    • Dante
      Dante
      August 29, 2023 at 3:37 am | #

      It’s tough. I feel like the angle Booster grabbed was because Carla came to simultaneously demand their help while framing it as the world needing to give her the attention she’s entitled to… While being absolutely incapable of admitting it’s because she might like their sister.

      Like. Look at how much it has taken only for Carla to not-deny that’s the reason.

    • Autogatos
      Autogatos
      August 29, 2023 at 4:46 am | #

      I mean in some ways, her behavior is likely rooted in these facts about her parents. She’s the only child of very wealthy parents, and I have to imagine that her sense of entitlement when it comes to attention/getting her way is inescapably linked to that fact.

      I think developing an awareness of one’s own privilege in the context of their parents’ wealth and the uncomfortable truths related to it is kind of an essential step in developing some humility/a better awareness of how their own behavior might be problematic.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        August 29, 2023 at 8:37 am | #

        Her behavior may also be linked to the fact that she’s not only trans, but was the very public face of a landmark trans rights case. As a child, very much in the public eye.

        My theory has long been that her behavior is directly tied to being that much the center of attention, whether she liked it or not.

        • StClair
          StClair
          August 29, 2023 at 3:59 pm | #

          You and Autogatos both make good points, IMO.

  39. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    August 29, 2023 at 4:00 am | #

    Carla doesn’t get outmaneuvered often.

    It must be the skates.

    • Da Boy
      Da Boy
      August 29, 2023 at 6:31 am | #

      Booster must be rocking some rocket boots.

  40. Chester
    Chester
    August 29, 2023 at 7:00 am | #

    Disowning your family? No, not good enough. You’re going to need to murder them

    • Da Boy
      Da Boy
      August 29, 2023 at 7:04 am | #

      Then fight in Middle East as a child soldier and eventually pilot a Gundam to stop all wars.

  41. AlaninDC
    AlaninDC
    August 29, 2023 at 7:02 am | #

    Carla + Charlie
    =
    A very difficult Slipshine to pull off

  42. morleuca
    morleuca
    August 29, 2023 at 7:30 am | #

    Is…is Carla on the verge of tears in that last panel?

  43. Chubsius
    Chubsius
    August 29, 2023 at 8:06 am | #

    This is all one big game of duck season – rabbit season, isn’t it? Booster is pulling a Bugs Bunny.

  44. poyo
    poyo
    August 29, 2023 at 11:43 am | #

    Brilliant gambit, Booster. Well done 😌👏👏

  45. Nedlum
    Nedlum
    August 29, 2023 at 12:06 pm | #

    “Jeff Bezos PERSONALLY makes enough to solve poverty in America”

    Let’s look at that: Bezos has $150 Billion, which is a lot, obviously. The US has about 40 Million people in poverty. If we were to liquidate everything Bezos has (and cleanly, without e.g. causing the price of Amazon stock to drop, making it only $100 Billion), that comes to about $4k a person. Which isn’t nothing. For some people, it could be life-changing.

    But it isn’t the society-changing amount of money you’re saying it is. By comparison, the expansded, fully refundable, and paid-out-monthly child tax credit of 2021 from the American Rescue Plan would have cost $50-100B a year if made permanent (estimates vary). It cut child poverty in half. So Bezo’s money could reduce child poverty for two or three years. But not eliminate it. Much less eliminate US poverty over all.

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      August 29, 2023 at 1:28 pm | #

      If I lived in that Hall, I would avoid the ground floor, so many uncomfortable truths delivered. Thursday Dorothy, Friday Lucy, Saturday Carla. On Sunday, Arnold will be told he doesn’t have enough character flaws to show up in the strip.

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        August 29, 2023 at 1:29 pm | #

        (not a reply)

        • HueSatLight
          HueSatLight
          August 29, 2023 at 1:29 pm | #

          (that one was though)

    • Bash
      Bash
      August 29, 2023 at 3:53 pm | #

      When people say “solve poverty” it usually refers to establishing services that would help people get out of poverty, not just giving them money.

  46. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    August 29, 2023 at 2:03 pm | #

    It’s my headcanon that Carla’s father’s name is Bert because: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Rutan
    of the name similarity. Even though the real person is an Aeronautical Engineer and the fictional one is a computer engineer, there’s enough overlap between the two to make Burt the prototype for Bert.

  47. Nothri
    Nothri
    August 29, 2023 at 2:11 pm | #

    I feel like if Carla wasn’t interested romantically before now she is out of spite.

  48. Vulcanodon
    Vulcanodon
    August 29, 2023 at 2:31 pm | #

    If Carla’s vengeance for this humiliation involves pie, could Booster specify the flavor?

  49. Allie_KO
    Allie_KO
    August 29, 2023 at 3:57 pm | #

    Lotta people not wanting to grapple with problems with their favorite rich people in the comments today.

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      August 29, 2023 at 4:32 pm | #

      The bourgeois successfully making their interests look like universal interests among those folk, in and of itself perfectly exemplifies the class struggle.

  50. ElderlyMarxist
    ElderlyMarxist
    August 29, 2023 at 4:55 pm | #

    wait, i thought carla was ace/aro? is she just ace? (or just aro?) (or am i misreading this bc booster is just annoying her in general rather than the crux of her annoyance being that booster is revealing a secret crush)

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      August 29, 2023 at 4:59 pm | #

      As far as we know, she’s definitely ace. As for her romantic orientation, I guess we have yet to see?

      • pope suburban
        pope suburban
        August 29, 2023 at 5:08 pm | #

        She expressed some kind of attraction to Malaya, which I think could count as romantic. Specifically she wanted Malaya to stop on her; normally that’s a sexual thing but in Carla’s case, if she’s ace, then I think “romantic” is the best bin to sort it into.

        • NGPZ
          NGPZ
          August 29, 2023 at 6:07 pm | #

          “stop on her”? i do not know that earthling term, I’m afraid 😅

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            August 29, 2023 at 6:14 pm | #

            Seems like a typo for “step on her”.

            Which is a good thing to want, tbh

    • Dante
      Dante
      August 29, 2023 at 5:14 pm | #

      Back in the Shortpacked days, when Carla started her days as UltraCar, there was a storyline that highlighted how many queer people worked at that store.

      Carla defined herself as a “trans-chassis homoromantic asexual woman”; which would translate (heh) in DOA almost word for word :3

  51. jimbotherisenclown
    jimbotherisenclown
    August 29, 2023 at 5:12 pm | #

    It’s amazing how Carla entered this conversation with full obnoxiousness on display, and I’m *still* more annoyed by Booster. Not because of the points Booster is making, but because Booster is just too friggin smarmy to ever really be endearing.

  52. Daniel M Ball
    Daniel M Ball
    August 29, 2023 at 10:50 pm | #

    In a way, Booster’s right-you don’t HAVE to take that Exemption, or apply for those waivers. Nobody held a gun to, say, Warren Buffett’s head to make him accept paying less taxes than his receptoinist. He could absolutely pay more..nobody would stop him..except him.
    Ditto for Jeff Bezos, or Zuckerberg etc. and so on.

    The major difference being, whether Carla’s rich parents do their bit avoiding paying taxes…while insisting on higher taxes for people who aren’t themselves.

    • C.T. Phipps
      C.T. Phipps
      August 29, 2023 at 11:58 pm | #

      The problem with this line is that paying more taxes is not a net good when the majority of them is going to the US military. He’s far more likely to pay for bombs than childrne’s education.

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Walt Disney and Comcast's Universal filed a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney on Wednesday, calling its popular AI-powered image generator a "bottomless pit of plagiarism" for its use of the studios' best-known characters.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 13h
climb into the shower vagina
lebowski76.bsky.social's user avatarthe_dude @lebowski76.bsky.social ⋅ 20h
I have NO words
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 17h
Guess if they were gonna start remaking anybody in Studio Series it'd start with this guy. (Earlier version lightly Sharpied)
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Dan Larson @danlarson.bsky.social ⋅ 20h
The GIJoe Legacy Police Officer is conspicuously absent from today's Classified pre-orders. I wonder if Hasbro is trying to cut a deal with the President to release it in exchange for tariff relief.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
When I heard the mom of a trans girl say the night her daughter came out to her was the first time she'd ever seen her child happy, I knew it was a story I needed to share. These are the stories the public isn't hearing. An honor to get to report on 3 family's journeys for @teenvogue.com.
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Why These Trans Teens and Their Families Risked Everything to Get Gender-Affirming Care
It’s as simple as love.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
huh wonder why the gijoe stream today was canceled what were they gonna reveal oh i see
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
how dare this plushie not be available to me, an american
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leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
thinking about how fireflight's robot mode animation model is nonsense he just grows extra wings everywhere, like he transforms into biblically-accurate fireflight
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
A Well Regulated Militia (2020)
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
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Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com ⋅ 1d
the sega genesis is my favourite video game console named after a book of the bible. also i think the only one, but i could be wrong www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...
T-Rex: Suppose I theorized that
T-Rex: So far we're in Normal Land, but stay with me. Now, if I then SAW a black raven, then that'd be some nice evidence that supports my
Utahraptor: Seems normal to me!
T-Rex: IS IT THOUGH??

T-Rex: Sure, a black raven supports my
T-Rex: So we've LOGICALLY PROVEN that seeing SONIC D. HEDGEHOG is somehow evidence for all ravens being black!! BUT THAT'S NUTS! We're in CRAZY LAND now, and we all just have to live with this unsolved problem in logic!!
Off panel: Frig, my sanity!!
T-Rex: FRIG, MINE TOO!
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
dawn: ha ha, you believed the fish but not me!
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Dumbing of Age: "Saturday" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomics #webcomic
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Saturday
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
meaningful number!
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatarDavid M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
www.makeship.com/petitions/tr... Wanna Tricerahoodie Dina plush? GO PLEDGE FOR ONE! We need 200 people to make it happen! Pledge period will end in 10 days!
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Tricerahoodie Dina Plushie
Dina is so small and quiet that she goes completely unnoticed by most people for long stretches of time. She doesn’t talk much — she prefers to observe. People and how they interact is a puzzle to Din...
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Tirk @tirkarokujo.itch.io ⋅ 2d
im sorry but this is just indefensible, why the fuck is Judge Judy still on the air
mskellymhayes.bsky.social's user avatarPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Chicago.
A city bus with the words Fuck ICE written on its windshield
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
worst where's waldo ever, he's right fucken there
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
ahh nah, if it does attach on his back, it attaches upside-down from my expected arrangement, so guess that chunk of vehicle mode hanging off his back already is the "cape"
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatarDavid M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
Looks like the shield attaches via 5mm port to his arm, and there IS a 5mm port also on what becomes his back, so... maybe! If it doesn't get covered over in the transformation!
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
I've got a lovely box of Dorothy deedlely dee dee There they are all standing in a row
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
ACAB means Dennis the Menace
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEAk... all right, let's find out about everything amazon leaked yesterday
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Transformers Fanstream | June 2025 | Hasbro Pulse
YouTube video by Hasbro Pulse
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DollaryyDoos (she/her) @dollaryydoos.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
I don't care if I've said this before, unofficial or not, this is one of the best crossovers in history.
joechoui.bsky.social's user avatarJoe Chouinard @joechoui.bsky.social ⋅ 8m
My old 16-page comic where Frasier meets Columbo can be read on my website: joechouinard.com/columbo
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Dumbing of Age: "Self-serving" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomic #webcomics
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Self-serving
Starting yesterday and for the next nine days, Makeship has begun collecting pledges for a Tricerahoodie Dina plush!  If we reach 200 pledges in those 10 days, Dina will be made! That sounds pretty ra...
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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
omg 😍 eeee! ♥️🧡💛💚💙💜
shaenon.bsky.social's user avatarShaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
The writer and artist from Understanding Comics drawn into the panel about survival and reproduction originally illustrated with a couple flirting in a bar. Understanding Comics gets into the weeds sometimes.
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