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by David M Willis on December 23, 2023 at 12:01 am
  • 02 – It's The Love I Haven't Got
└ Tags: asher, charles, jennifer, linda

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    December 23, 2023 at 12:05 am | #

    If you were them, you’d be FUCKING LOADED

    what is she even basing that “incredible, put-together” part on, the fact they’ve spent two minutes together?

    • MisterJinKC
      MisterJinKC
      December 23, 2023 at 12:06 am | #

      They’ve known each other since she was a kid at least.

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        December 23, 2023 at 11:58 pm | #

        but I mean “today” after not seeing her for a while

    • Ryan
      Ryan
      December 23, 2023 at 12:06 am | #

      Well, she iiiiiis white.

      • Laura
        Laura
        December 23, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

        -ish. Passably.

      • StClair
        StClair
        December 23, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

        and she’s pretty good at presenting / passing as “put together”, at least in short bursts.

        • Shade
          Shade
          December 23, 2023 at 12:27 am | #

          Also her family is wealthy and influential which certainly doesn’t hurt how Linda evaluates people.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        December 23, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

        Biracial. But white-passing.

        • Nicoleandmaggie
          Nicoleandmaggie
          December 23, 2023 at 8:15 am | #

          Some racist white people consider East Asian to be the “master race”. Because they’re “smarter”. Source: live in the south.

      • True Survivor
        True Survivor
        December 23, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

        Huh, all this time I thought she was at least half-Asian. Shows what I know.

        • Jo_Cubstar
          Jo_Cubstar
          December 23, 2023 at 12:10 am | #

          Pretty sure she is, yeah. But white-passing.

        • Dana
          Dana
          December 23, 2023 at 12:10 am | #

          Chinese on her mom’s side, British on her dad’s.

        • NGPZ
          NGPZ
          December 23, 2023 at 12:11 am | #

          She actually confirms her mom is Chinese in an early strip, can’t remember which one…

          • tim gueguen
            tim gueguen
            December 23, 2023 at 12:19 am | #

            And used her Chinese middle name Yunru on her fake ID.

            • NGPZ
              NGPZ
              December 23, 2023 at 12:21 am | #

              Sauce?

              • Tan
                Tan
                December 23, 2023 at 12:46 am | #

                I do not blame you for forgetting. It was almost 9 years ago.

                https://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/bigred/

                • Steamweed
                  Steamweed
                  December 23, 2023 at 10:32 am | #

                  Dang! Billy, er, Jennifer, is 30 years old now! She sure doesn’t look it! 😀

                • Needfuldoer
                  Needfuldoer
                  December 23, 2023 at 2:45 pm | #

                  Her blessing, her curse.

              • RassilonTDavros
                RassilonTDavros
                December 23, 2023 at 12:47 am | #

                This strip right here! Which was a bongo to find, since Jennifer’s the only named character in it– the one real weakness of an otherwise easy-to-search archive.

                Said strip also has her give a specific (albeit fake) birth date of October 19, 1993, which is just going to get more and more hilarious as the timescale slides on. Alt-text says that October 19 may not be her actual birthday either.

                • Daibhid C
                  Daibhid C
                  December 23, 2023 at 7:19 am | #

                  2015: Jennifer uses a fake ID that claims she’s 21, and is offended when the clerk implies she looks it.

                  2023: A few months ago, Jennifer used a fake ID that claims she’s 29, and was offended when the clerk implied she looks it.

                  2030: Last year, Jennifer used a fake ID that claims she’s 35 and…

        • Sol
          Sol
          December 23, 2023 at 1:58 am | #

          In the walkyverse iirc she’s fully white but enough people thought she was asian that willis made her half-asian for the dumbingverse

        • ValdVin
          ValdVin
          December 23, 2023 at 6:02 am | #

          Way back when, Jennifer uses a fake ID, and it has her real name, “Yunru”. She tells the liquor store guy that it’s Chinese, as is her mom, and her dad is English.

          • ValdVin
            ValdVin
            December 23, 2023 at 6:03 am | #

            (This is in the Dumbiverse, as Adam already mentioned.)

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            December 23, 2023 at 8:26 am | #

            She mentions there that her middle name is Chinese, but doesn’t say anything about her dad being English. Is that somewhere else?

            • Tan
              Tan
              December 23, 2023 at 1:33 pm | #

              ValdVin is confusing it for the time she shows her fake ID to Jason, where it also comes up.

              https://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/04-of-mike-and-men/backpacked/

              (final panel: “My dad’s an English immigrant. Your powers have no effect on me.”)

              • Tan
                Tan
                December 23, 2023 at 1:36 pm | #

                Also even earlier, Jennifer just straight-up tells Joyce “Dad’s from England, mom’s Chinese”

                https://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/mixed/

      • Adam Black
        Adam Black
        December 23, 2023 at 2:32 am | #

        Half Chinese in dumbiverse.

    • anon
      anon
      December 23, 2023 at 12:44 am | #

      wonder if we’ll get to meet them. or linda sucking up to them or whatever lol

    • DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
      DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
      December 23, 2023 at 6:28 am | #

      Hard Up Climber-Lady need to squeeze all her fat-cat connections for all they’re worth (MUCH less than she expected) and that includes her surrogate daughter’s parents, ’cause that karen-assed lawsuit against the broke fringe church and the ex-family of the dead gangster cost her more than expected?

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        December 23, 2023 at 8:33 am | #

        I don’t think so, but I don’t read as much of the social climber thing in her as others do. Not sure how this would really tie into that. She knows Jennifer’s parents are basically absent.
        Of course that make wrapping this supposed praise of Jennifer with mentions of her parent worse, she knows it’s a sore spot.

  2. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    December 23, 2023 at 12:06 am | #

    You don’t think… we’ll actually get to see Jennifer’s parents this arc? 😨

    • Nono
      Nono
      December 23, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

      We’ll actually get to see their cardboard cut-out stand-ins.

      • Cholma
        Cholma
        December 23, 2023 at 12:12 am | #

        Or maybe their stunt doubles!

        • John Campbell
          John Campbell
          December 23, 2023 at 12:15 am | #

          I think Charles and Linda are their stunt doubles.

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      December 23, 2023 at 12:11 am | #

      Maybe? Or maybe they shall remain like Maris Crane in Frasier or (until the last episode) the Cook in Enterprise – often discussed, yet never seen.

      • Daibhid C
        Daibhid C
        December 23, 2023 at 7:26 am | #

        We didn’t really see Chef in the last episode of Enterprise. We saw Will Riker deciding that the best thing to do in the middle of the Pegasus crisis was to cosplay as him, because Will Riker makes very poor decisions.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          December 23, 2023 at 10:15 am | #

          Maybe he was replaying Chef’s holonovel of the Pegasus crisis, and it puts the viewer in his shoes with some Wonder Years style voiceover commentary.

    • Jon
      Jon
      December 23, 2023 at 12:32 am | #

      I don’t think we’re ever going to see them. Their value to the story is in their absence — so showing up would likely devalue/confuse that role.

    • anon
      anon
      December 23, 2023 at 12:50 am | #

      i wouldn’t mind seeing carlas parents. XD; tho idk how jen would react given that they’re seemingly not around, either aloof or desperate for their attention

      tho i imagine at this point i imagine she’d want ‘distance’ like she said (or, maximum drama of them showing up on campus and running into ruth first XD)

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      December 23, 2023 at 8:34 am | #

      Maybe Nina will visit.

  3. Cattleprod
    Cattleprod
    December 23, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

    Linda trying to argue that she’s not the worst parent because she’s a supportive parent to someone else’s kid.

    • Zamperla
      Zamperla
      December 23, 2023 at 1:05 am | #

      There it is. And also still displaying the Refuses To Let Something Go Or Take a Cue even to the ‘good kid’ (who is not actually her kid).

    • Coatl
      Coatl
      December 23, 2023 at 1:28 am | #

      She told herself
      “Well, if my children do not appreciate my sacrifice, I will place my appreciation on other people’s children.”

    • Bryy
      Bryy
      December 23, 2023 at 6:42 pm | #

      Linda. A mom who needs to get Angry Drunk in order to hang out with her child.

  4. Nono
    Nono
    December 23, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

    Maybe Linda should dare Jennifer and Charles can date Asher.

    There, Jennifer gets to be snooty and Asher gets to date Walky-but-older.

  5. AGV
    AGV
    December 23, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

    Lol of course

  6. Animedingo
    Animedingo
    December 23, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

    They deserve each other

  7. cmd1095
    cmd1095
    December 23, 2023 at 12:11 am | #

    We knew Linda was kinda racist and an overbearing mother, now we can add “cannot read a room” and “lack of tact” to the list of traits

    • Bryy
      Bryy
      December 23, 2023 at 1:00 am | #

      Nah, Linda doesn’t care. She wants to make it painstakingly clear to herself that Billie is her true daughter.

      • Archieve
        Archieve
        December 23, 2023 at 3:03 am | #

        Yep whoever the child is it’s always about how they make Linda look and Linda wants to look like the caring mother in a safely white passing biracial family, the minute the cast in her mind looks too dark she searches for a replacement.

      • DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
        DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
        December 23, 2023 at 3:46 pm | #

        This. Also because she’s a Billingsworth….For which Fair Lady Linda took a back-to-back pregnancy for…..Linda did act as Jennifer’s surrogate mother, correct?

        • Archieve
          Archieve
          December 23, 2023 at 4:16 pm | #

          Definitely. Linda wishes she had a title like ‘Lady’ shes a wannabe social elite who can’t get into their social circles so instead takes in an emotionally neglected child of said elite instead.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          December 23, 2023 at 4:20 pm | #

          Not surrogate in that sense. Just someone who was around when Jennifer’s parents weren’t. They met when the kids were first getting a bus to school.

  8. True Survivor
    True Survivor
    December 23, 2023 at 12:13 am | #

    Denial is the first stage of grief.. apparently quickly followed by anger.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      December 23, 2023 at 10:12 am | #

      Then hate, then suffering, then the dark side.

      • True Survivor
        True Survivor
        December 23, 2023 at 12:00 pm | #

        Amazing comment. This really brightened my day. Thank you.

  9. Yumi
    Yumi
    December 23, 2023 at 12:14 am | #

    Holy shit, Linda. (Also, I’m very curious about the extent to which she doesn’t know Billie’s issues. Did she hear about the drunk driving thing and excuse it? Did that information never reach her?)

    • Samniel
      Samniel
      December 23, 2023 at 12:32 am | #

      Walky mentioned it at the very beggining of the comic, and it’s well known enough that it’s mentioned in her file, so I’m thinking that Linda’s excusing it as a “youthful indiscretion.”

      • Jamie
        Jamie
        December 23, 2023 at 2:41 am | #

        That’s what it’s called when a rich person does it, yes.

        • Schpoonman
          Schpoonman
          December 23, 2023 at 7:11 am | #

          “Affluenza.”

          • Yumi
            Yumi
            December 23, 2023 at 2:38 pm | #

            Oh my god, I forgot about affluenza.

  10. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    December 23, 2023 at 12:15 am | #

    Linda continues her path of not understanding the people around her, or at least she doesn’t understand “her”* children.

    What would it take for Linda to learn to be kind?
    I’d ask what it would take to make her a good person, but I think we should go for reasonable wishes.

    *I know Billie/Jennifer isn’t actually Linda’s kid, but she sure acts that way sometimes.

    • anon
      anon
      December 23, 2023 at 12:45 am | #

      given how she once called herself their ‘white passing daughter’ i can imagine a younger jen maybe going to their house often when she was lonely/basically spent more time with the walkertons versus her own house

      • Kyrik Michalowski
        Kyrik Michalowski
        December 23, 2023 at 1:17 am | #

        That makes sense; it would also explain why she is touchy about the parent visit thing.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        December 23, 2023 at 8:36 am | #

        Which makes Linda pushing on her parents visiting here worse.
        She knows.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          December 23, 2023 at 10:11 am | #

          Linda knows, so she could be fishing for Jen to fall over herself adulating her for the positive attention. It’s a narcissist’s passive-aggressive power move.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        December 23, 2023 at 1:10 pm | #

        She said before parents weekend that she sometimes calls the Walkertons ‘mom’ and ‘dad’. Sal remarked that at least they have one daughter they like.

    • Amelie Wikström
      Amelie Wikström
      December 23, 2023 at 5:43 pm | #

      Disclaimer: I’m not qualified to offer a real diagnosis. But in basic psychology terms Linda has a lot of signs of anti-social or narcissistic disorders, meaning she looks at other people as means to access resources for her own benefit; financial security, social standing, political influence, whatever they’ve got. It’s possible she wants these things for her kids and this unofficial ward of hers out of a genuine wish for their wellbeing, limited to these terms she understands, or just because she wants for them to reflect well on her, but it would be a mistake to take her approach to her relationships with her kids as any indication for her approach to human relationships in general anyway.

      In so far as it’s possible for her to learn kindness, learn to value other people’s lives beyond their usefulness to her, it depends on having motivation to do so. Which is not very likely to happen with the very financially secure high status life she has. A long, long period of being without human contact while also needing to rely on other people’s kindness to survive on a day to day basis might help.

  11. BBCC
    BBCC
    December 23, 2023 at 12:19 am | #

    Jesus, Linda let her take the wad of cash her dad gives her as his emotionally constipated way of saying ‘I love you’. It’s bad enough you’ll ditch your own recently disabled kid in another state when she disappoints you without turning up to the rich family friend with adoption papers.

    Fuuuuuck offff.

    I wonder if Asher passes the boyfriend test – he’s from a rich, probably influential family.

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      December 23, 2023 at 12:25 am | #

      His family’s SO INVOLVED in local businesses, of COURSE she approves! Probably for the same reasons Raidah does.

      • Bryy
        Bryy
        December 23, 2023 at 12:59 am | #

        I’m super expecting Linda to approve of Asher doing the same shit Walky does.

      • DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
        DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
        December 23, 2023 at 3:50 pm | #

        And ex-employee of his grandad kidnapping her son notwithstanding….

  12. audkitten
    audkitten
    December 23, 2023 at 12:20 am | #

    She’s happily spending time with someone who set her daughter up to rob a convenience store. I want to believe Linda doesn’t know, but I doubt it

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      December 23, 2023 at 12:24 am | #

      I think there’s a pretty good chance Linda’s in the dark there. Walky didn’t initially know as I recall, and Linda doesn’t strike me as all that aware. (Also, because the irony of Linda objecting to Sal hanging out with Marcie while calling Asher a “nice young boy/man” is just SUCH low-hanging fruit for us all.)

      • Jamie
        Jamie
        December 23, 2023 at 2:44 am | #

        Walky looked it up pretty easily. It’s really a question of whether or not Linda “Charles, google whether or not we can sue a church” Walkerton has bothered looking it up.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          December 23, 2023 at 9:43 am | #

          Sal actually looked it up, but all she looked up was whether Asher was on campus.
          When Walky goes to look for Asher, he already knew Asher was involved with the robberies.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      December 23, 2023 at 12:43 am | #

      I would not be shocked if Linda never knew of Asher’s involvement, and maybe didn’t even know Asher and Sal were once friends, since by the time she associated with him, she was already probably trying to keep her mom out of her business.

    • anon
      anon
      December 23, 2023 at 12:47 am | #

      i’m not sure if she knows asher specifically, if not just knowing his ‘family’ or whatever but i can imagine “well, sal still made her own decisions, regardless of influence” /saw marcy as a ‘bad influence’ on her even tho she didn’t do anything esp bad as a kid before then

    • Derek
      Derek
      December 23, 2023 at 1:19 am | #

      how the heck would Linda know Asher called the cops if SAL didn’t know until recently?

      • Daibhid C
        Daibhid C
        December 23, 2023 at 7:43 am | #

        I don’t think anyone suggested she did — just whether she knew he was involved in the robberies at all.

        Honestly, if she did know that, she’d probably take the view that Asher and Sal both made mistakes, but one of them did the responsible thing afterwards. And no, that doesn’t make sense.

      • anon
        anon
        December 23, 2023 at 6:30 pm | #

        I think sal did know, or she figured it out eventually b/c “boarding school/juvie gives you a l ot of time to think”/it’s not like she would’ve name dropped any of her other ‘friends’ besides marcie

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          December 23, 2023 at 10:43 pm | #

          She does say she figured it out “long ago” when she first talks to Asher again.

  13. sdrainbow
    sdrainbow
    December 23, 2023 at 12:20 am | #

    I keep expecting Linda to present a TWIST and it keeps not happening

    • Archieve
      Archieve
      December 23, 2023 at 3:08 am | #

      It’s because she keeps acting like theres something she’s expecting/came for. Here she says “they” aka herself might stay a few more hours depending,which leads to the question what is Linda expecting in the next few hours?

      • clif
        clif
        December 23, 2023 at 3:15 am | #

        Information on whether she got the job.

        • Archieve
          Archieve
          December 23, 2023 at 3:19 am | #

          For the sake of Sal and Walkys sanity I sincerely hope not.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      December 23, 2023 at 10:07 am | #

      She twists the knife, does that count?

      • M!a
        M!a
        December 23, 2023 at 11:54 am | #

        Ooh, ya beat me to it.

  14. Regalli
    Regalli
    December 23, 2023 at 12:21 am | #

    Oof, the deflecting. Either their constant absence IS a sore spot for Jennifer or she doesn’t enjoy spending time with them when they deign to be around. Realistically I can see it being a bit of both. The money was always used as a substitute for affection, and what little we’ve heard of the Senior Billingsworths sure does not bode well. That Jennifer’s willing to compare her dad to a mob boss suggests she doesn’t exactly think HIGHLY of him as a whole. (I still think that’s a flawed comparison and that Jennifer is almost certainly not operating off the critical information that Asher Is Not As Out as I think he’d like to be, but I think there’s a pretty reasonable chance Jennifer DOES know Gramps is a mobster rather than “he owns a lot of businesses in town” or whatever euphemism I’m sure they’ve given Raidah.)

    • Shade
      Shade
      December 23, 2023 at 12:24 am | #

      She probably just doesn’t also like what Linda is doing right now in general. She knows why Linda thinks so highly of her.

      • Regalli
        Regalli
        December 23, 2023 at 12:27 am | #

        Yeah, Jennifer’s seemed aware and uncomfortable with the whole “white-passing surrogate daughter (Linda) wanted”, good point. She’s also like. Desperate for parental affection, I think, so I can see why she DID it, but that doesn’t mean she LIKES any of her parents or has many remaining illusions about them.

        • Shade
          Shade
          December 23, 2023 at 12:48 am | #

          Yeah its the only option for any kind of approval she’s got sadly.

        • Bryy
          Bryy
          December 23, 2023 at 1:24 am | #

          Yup. Billie has shown to be both utterly disgusted by it but also craves it.

    • Bash
      Bash
      December 23, 2023 at 1:19 am | #

      The strained smile in the last panel says “This does bother me but I’m trying to put a good face on it”.

    • Sajuuk-Khar
      Sajuuk-Khar
      December 23, 2023 at 2:56 am | #

      She knows Linda sucks, but she also knows Linda loves her (for her money and white-passing status but you know what, Jennifer will take it) and will shower her with praise while letting her maintain her independence and never really pushing back on Real Billie Hours.

      She clearly doesn’t believe this about Papa Billingsworth, and is pretty sure he’d crack the proverbial whip; whether that’s simply him ceasing to be a wallet and trying (probably badly) to be a dad or something much darker remains to be seen, because Papa Billingsworth is our Sauron—despite knowing of his power we never see his ass.

      (I have a raft of wild theories on what exactly his deal is. None of them are good, or nice.)

      • Archieve
        Archieve
        December 23, 2023 at 3:15 am | #

        It occurs to me that now that Walky is in Linda’s bad graces Jennifer might find Linda attempting to cut into more of her “Billie hours” to feel like a sucessful parent. Aside from the strain on Jennifer to keep looking put together if Radiah notices she might just stop pretending to want to be friends with Walky and go back to love bombing Jennifer more. Wonder how long Jennifer can deal with all the fake people in her life pretending to like her? Last panel implies she’s reaching her limit.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          December 23, 2023 at 9:40 am | #

          Jennifer needs someone to follow her around and tell her when people are being fakey.

          I read the last panel more as her not wanting to think about how uninvolved her biological parents have been in her life.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      December 23, 2023 at 9:47 am | #

      It’s probably both. It is a sore spot, but because it is and because they ignore her so much, it’s also bad when she does see them.

  15. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    December 23, 2023 at 12:34 am | #

    Hrm. So recently, Willis has been making posts on Twitter to the effect that they can’t post any preview panels from the upcoming storyline they’re currently working on because there’s spoilers basically everywhere. Could we finally see the Billings-‘rents soon?

    That or it’s Guns, either or

    • Bryy
      Bryy
      December 23, 2023 at 2:43 am | #

      So…. big arc in, what, six weeks?

      • clif
        clif
        December 23, 2023 at 3:18 am | #

        Hm. It’s too early for Amber to become involved with Asher, the one who arranged to have her father killed. That pairing has to be endgame.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          December 23, 2023 at 9:37 am | #

          I think she’d be more upset about the kidnapping part than the Blaine part. He had Asher over a barrel, after all.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        December 23, 2023 at 9:47 am | #

        More like 6 months.

        • Bryy
          Bryy
          December 23, 2023 at 6:36 pm | #

          Yeah, sounds more like it.

          So six days.

  16. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    December 23, 2023 at 12:34 am | #

    couldn’t stand Walky anymore so she went bother her step daughter eh ?

    • anon
      anon
      December 23, 2023 at 12:55 am | #

      lol well, i imagine jennifers been fairly polite and never given any inkling that she’d dislike linda and charles, but i’m sure it’s also to find things to talk about to compare sal with if they bother to say goodbye lol

      • Vanessa
        Vanessa
        December 23, 2023 at 1:12 am | #

        Pretty funny they struck out on feeling like good parents with Sal first then Walky, and now they are trying their luck with the neighbor’s child. What are they going to do if they piss Jennifer off too?

      • GholaHalleck
        GholaHalleck
        December 23, 2023 at 1:13 am | #

        Jennifer was a head cheerleader who played the mean girl in high school, but was still friends with Walky.

        Linda basically turned her into Replacement Sal, with White Passing Kung Fu Grip!

  17. Bryy
    Bryy
    December 23, 2023 at 12:36 am | #

    wait we’re getting a Billie/Linda breakfast?

    Holy shit. We eatin’.

    • anon
      anon
      December 23, 2023 at 12:52 am | #

      She said lunch but yeah, be interesting if they went to the same place again as her group and stayed calm this time versus walky’s ‘trolling’ of that burger XD

      • Bryy
        Bryy
        December 23, 2023 at 12:57 am | #

        10000% chance of that happening.

        Linda’s being VERY PERSISTENT in implying that she is Billie’s parent.

  18. Steelbright
    Steelbright
    December 23, 2023 at 12:56 am | #

    Woohoo, now everybody’s happy pretending things are wonderful and trying not to see the cracks, perfect lunch combo for all involved

  19. BMBLB
    BMBLB
    December 23, 2023 at 12:59 am | #

    I guess garbage attracts garbage?

  20. Vanessa
    Vanessa
    December 23, 2023 at 1:14 am | #

    What do we bet Walky shows up to belatedly stand up for Lucy and loudly blame them for breaking them up? Perhaps Walky and Linda could make yet another huge scene in the same restaurant.

  21. Vanessa
    Vanessa
    December 23, 2023 at 1:17 am | #

    My gosh look at the four of them walking the same way with the same arm around the girl. L Who is mirroring whom?

  22. Bash
    Bash
    December 23, 2023 at 1:19 am | #

    This is gross on so many levels.

  23. DashWallkick
    DashWallkick
    December 23, 2023 at 1:32 am | #

    The fact that everyone knows *exactly* what Linda is actually doing and are trying to rebuke her in soft and hard ways and she literally does not understand or think they have any kind of point to their annoyance and anger is so painfully real.

  24. Coatl
    Coatl
    December 23, 2023 at 1:33 am | #

    Wow, what a moving scene.
    I’m just wondering, what kind of events have to happen for Linda’s neurons to finally work?

  25. BadRoad
    BadRoad
    December 23, 2023 at 1:37 am | #

    Is Linda congenitally unable to accept a hint?

    • Archieve
      Archieve
      December 23, 2023 at 3:27 am | #

      When it goes against her own agenda? Always.

  26. Suet
    Suet
    December 23, 2023 at 2:13 am | #

    Linda?!? BACK!! Back, vile beast!! But bring some gingersnaps tho, please.

    Plus who the heck even knows what Billie’s mom is doing, let alone her dad!!

    • David DeLaney
      David DeLaney
      December 23, 2023 at 2:25 am | #

      apparently her dad is making money (means as yet unspecified)

      –Dave, it can’t possibly be that they’re dead and Billie helped hide the bodies, as there would have been SO MANY flashbacks during a particular earlier storyline. or two.

  27. Sam
    Sam
    December 23, 2023 at 2:28 am | #

    Imagine calling Jennifer put-together.

    Jennifer’s mind is literally held together by a piece of duct tape and two pieces of string at any one moment.

  28. Archieve
    Archieve
    December 23, 2023 at 2:56 am | #

    I think aside from sending Jennifer cookies this is the only time Linda has actively sought Jennifer out, only other time they were in the same room in comic is when Jennifer came to them to convince them not to try to get amber expelled. Figures even though Jennifer’s the golden child she’s still third choice in some regards. Sal and Walky are no longer white passing enough so now they remember their “other daugther”

  29. Sajuuk-Khar
    Sajuuk-Khar
    December 23, 2023 at 3:00 am | #

    Jennifer all “Man, I love going through my villain arc because I have so much power and status, but why do I have to hang out with all these assholes?!”

  30. EmTaya
    EmTaya
    December 23, 2023 at 3:08 am | #

    Oh, gross

  31. Archieve
    Archieve
    December 23, 2023 at 3:32 am | #

    Charles translation: thanks for appeasing my wife so we don’t have to dwell on the fact that both our bio kids hate us now! With how awful Linda is I think it’s worth remembering that this guy can watch his wife verbally abuse both his kids one day then play proud father to the neighbour’s kid the next day.

    • Sajuuk-Khar
      Sajuuk-Khar
      December 23, 2023 at 12:13 pm | #

      Charles is absolutely a huge jerkoff asshole and I hope people stop waiting for his redemption arc. It ain’t happening. He’s not Hank.

      • Li
        Li
        December 24, 2023 at 11:02 am | #

        Ehhhhhhh. Hank was pretty awful for his first few appearances. Like, he was worse in some ways than Charles has been.

        I don’t think we’ve seen nearly enough of Charles yet to actually write him off.

  32. Pylgrim
    Pylgrim
    December 23, 2023 at 3:43 am | #

    Is she trying to get Billie to think her parents suck so she’d instead let Linda be her mom? Just so she can get the feeling of being the parent of a white (-ish) successful kid?

    • Archieve
      Archieve
      December 23, 2023 at 3:52 am | #

      Yep, Linda needs a new prop kid now that her two bio ones have failed at being white passing enough for her.

    • Sajuuk-Khar
      Sajuuk-Khar
      December 23, 2023 at 3:54 am | #

      Counterpoint: the Billingsworths do, in fact, suck

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        December 23, 2023 at 9:50 am | #

        Yeah, there’s a pretty decent argument that the Walkerton’s really are the better parents, terrifying as that is.

      • Archieve
        Archieve
        December 23, 2023 at 10:02 am | #

        One one hand, yes they actually acknowledge jennifers existence, on the other hand parenting is one of those things were you have a bare minimum bar to meet before you can call yourself good and the Walkersons don’t meet that bar either for Jennifer. Jennifer is just kept around as the optional child because Linda can spend the good times with her and doesn’t have to be informed about all the little hiccups alobg the way like drunk driving and suicide pacs etc.

        • Sajuuk-Khar
          Sajuuk-Khar
          December 23, 2023 at 12:10 pm | #

          This is all true but like, at least the Walkerton are there and they kind of give a fuck.

          The Billingsworths are not there and do not give a fuck. Jennifer isn’t being conditioned to think her birth parents suck by shitty parents Linda and Chuck, she KNOWS her birth parents think of her as a problem to be solved with money, and hence prefers shitty parents Linda and Charles. Even if they are quite shitty, as empirical evidence has proven.

          • Archieve
            Archieve
            December 23, 2023 at 12:59 pm | #

            It’s debatable if they do give a fuck or not. Linda doesnt seem to know any of her children outside of how she wants to be viewed. Sal and Walky each tried in their own way yesterday to get their parents to know them a bit better (Walky admitting why he failed and Sal trying to have a one on one lunch with her parents as herself) both failed because Linda doesn’t want to know them as people and Charles gives no real indication either. I personally doubt Jennifer’s any different in that regard and if so I feel she’d almost be better off hiring actual actors to pretend to be living parents. Atleast actors might not rub their toxic traits off on their pretend kids. I just really do not think the manipulative way Linda is trying to claim Jennifer as a daughter to replace her own bio kids is a better long term alternative to absent parents, it’s like Linda is stringing Jennifer along emotionally and conditioning her to think transactional relationships are all she can expect which is just messing up her chances to have people in her life who sincerely care because she keeps thinking she belongs with people like Radiah.

  33. twig
    twig
    December 23, 2023 at 4:28 am | #

    “incredible put-together woman”

    ………..uh-huh. sure.

  34. Taffy
    Taffy
    December 23, 2023 at 4:38 am | #

    Godfuckingdammit she’s still here?

  35. Rosstifer
    Rosstifer
    December 23, 2023 at 5:12 am | #

    What’s supposed to happen in the next couple hours? Will Charles grow a spine and actually stand up for his kids? Will Linda gain enough self awareness to realise that her racism and status-seeking has severely harmed her kids? My fear is that Linda’s expecting an apology from ‘David’ at least. And if that is the case, from the bottom of my heart; Fuck You Linda.

  36. Yeet
    Yeet
    December 23, 2023 at 6:10 am | #

    is it really worth it for billie to keep interacting with this awful couple off or is it just that she might be stuck without any support in getting to and from college if she pisses linda off

    • zee
      zee
      December 23, 2023 at 10:16 am | #

      She seems good at acting as a wall between her and the kids she abuses so that’s good. She also knows generally how to talk Linda down

      • Yeet
        Yeet
        December 23, 2023 at 3:44 pm | #

        I mean that’s true yeah but if I was her I’d be keeping the optional encounters to a minimum

  37. fireprincesslily
    fireprincesslily
    December 23, 2023 at 7:22 am | #

    Remember when people were REALLY upset with Jennifer a couple months ago for saying she’s Linda’s favorite child?

    Anyway how are y’all doing?

    • fireprincesslily
      fireprincesslily
      December 23, 2023 at 7:26 am | #

      Accidentally flagged my own post… That’s embarrassing.

      Anyway when I said a couple months, I meant half a year.

      My bad.

      https://www.dumbingofage.com/2023/comic/book-13/04-but-dont-give-yourself-away/magicalgoldenchild/

    • Bryy
      Bryy
      December 23, 2023 at 6:39 pm | #

      Billie absolutely enjoys her status as favorite.

      • Li
        Li
        December 24, 2023 at 10:58 am | #

        I mean that’s okay, you can be wrong about things

  38. Daniel M Ball
    Daniel M Ball
    December 23, 2023 at 8:00 am | #

    It’s been a decade, near enough, and I still don’t quite grasp how Linda Walkerton and her husband managed to find enough attraction to do the deeds needed to make offspring, much less to spend actual time together long enough to even half-ass raise them without a nasty divorce.

    • Sajuuk-Khar
      Sajuuk-Khar
      December 23, 2023 at 9:11 am | #

      Linda isn’t a Klansman type of racist, she’s a Get Out type of racist. She probably says she’d have voted Obama for a third term in the same breath that she says she’d support BLM if they weren’t so violent, and disruptive, and discriminatory, don’t they know you have to respect our hardworking police officers?

      And Charles? He’s probably from a well-off family that never struggled or never talked about it, at any rate; he’s the kind of guy who votes Republicans into office. Linda’s racism isn’t the kind that he thinks matters.

      Also, Linda did a crime for him, I bet, and it made him her forever simp.

      • zee
        zee
        December 23, 2023 at 10:17 am | #

        He’s also half white and I’m guessing that half had the stronger influence growing up

  39. Raen
    Raen
    December 23, 2023 at 8:49 am | #

    I have to wonder – while the fact that Lucy’s Black is certainly a part of it – otherwise she would have objected more strongly to Amber and Dorothy – has it always been Linda’s scheme to set her “quadroon” son up with the rich Chinese girl down the street?

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      December 23, 2023 at 9:22 am | #

      Racists in the US tend to frame Asians as “the good immigrants” for prejudiced and/or bigoted reasons I’d rather not enumerate.

      • Li
        Li
        December 24, 2023 at 10:18 am | #

        @Raen: Jeez I know you’re saying it “as” Linda, but. Jeez.

        Anyway, yes she’s rich, but more important probably is that she’s “the reasonably white-passing daughter” Linda always wanted, according to Jennifer herself. I doubt Linda even considers Jennifer Asian. Probably in her mind it’s more like Jennifer is ~a little bit acceptably exotic~.

  40. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    December 23, 2023 at 9:15 am | #

    Aww, Linda gets to spend quality time with her favorite daughter.

    • Bryy
      Bryy
      December 23, 2023 at 6:39 pm | #

      We’ve never actually SEEN how Billie and the Walkertons interact, have we?

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        December 23, 2023 at 8:24 pm | #

        Even this little glimpse is more pleasant than any of the interactions we saw her have with Sal, sans-Danny.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          December 23, 2023 at 10:46 pm | #

          Not by a lot though. Poking at the “your parents don’t care” thing is just cruel, even your pretending to wrap it in praise of how “put together” she is.

          • Vanessa
            Vanessa
            December 24, 2023 at 12:09 am | #

            It was passably OK to mention it once but geez Linda, have some social graces.

  41. Pergola
    Pergola
    December 23, 2023 at 9:34 am | #

    Is IU ‘up here’ or ‘down here’? Confused.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      December 23, 2023 at 10:27 am | #

      Depends on whose perspective we’re coming from, since their hometowns are all over the state.

      The Billingsworths and Walkertons are from Evansville, which is well south of Bloomington on the Kentucky state line. (Oddly they are not from the town of Walkerton, ID.)

      Becky and Joyce are from La Porte, which is up near Lake Michigan.

      Danny, Dorothy, and Joe are from Mishawaka, about 45 minutes west of La Porte.

      Amber is from Indianapolis.

      (All these facts were hastily pulled from the wiki, so hopefully they’re accurate because I didn’t double check them all.)

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        December 23, 2023 at 10:29 am | #

        *East of La Porte.

        • Vanessa
          Vanessa
          December 24, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

          Oh good explanation! People also could be referring to elevation like we do in Colorado or even sailing against the prevailing winds, like “downeast Maine.”

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        December 23, 2023 at 1:16 pm | #

        It’s all from the books iirc, so they’re right.

  42. Tesset
    Tesset
    December 23, 2023 at 9:38 am | #

    Honestly a litte disappointed that Linda didn’t refer to her as Billie, in contrast to Sally and David. Would have been a neat trick to misname all three of her kids at this moment and still be maximally racist about it lol

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      December 23, 2023 at 10:29 am | #

      Honestly I wouldn’t expect Linda to have ever called her anything but Jennifer. She seems to have a thing about nicknames.

      • Tesset
        Tesset
        December 23, 2023 at 12:38 pm | #

        Indeed, and being willing to look past that thing for her white-passing daughter, even after the point where said daughter stops using the nickname? Dismissive of everyone’s feelings, while being inconsistent in the most racist way – feels very much like how Linda’s been acting the rest of this arc.

        • Regalli
          Regalli
          December 23, 2023 at 9:35 pm | #

          Yeah, but I think it being based off her last name (pretty sure Billie was made up at the same time Walky was,) AND how generally formal Linda is about the full first names, I don’t think she would have used it ever, either. She’s racist and emotionally abusive, but she’s CONSISTENT about it.

  43. Jonah Sanville
    Jonah Sanville
    December 23, 2023 at 1:30 pm | #

    do charles and linda not know who asher is?? i find that surprising. and if they do know, i find it EXTRA suprising

  44. C.T. Phipps
    C.T. Phipps
    December 23, 2023 at 3:20 pm | #

    Billie’s father has more important things to do like building that nice farm upstate for all the homeless people he sent them to.

    They’ve never been heard from again because they’re so happy there.

  45. Taffy
    Taffy
    December 23, 2023 at 5:46 pm | #

    Like, there’s nothing enjoyable about this dickass. Even her damn hair is a dull, lifeless color. She’s the kind of parent whose funeral people cry at because of what she could have been but consistently refused to be, not because she’s worth missing.

  46. CardinalFan
    CardinalFan
    December 23, 2023 at 5:56 pm | #

    Is it just me or are the Walkerton’s just a complete caricature of bad parent? I know it’s a comic so everyone is going to be an overstated type but the Walkertron’s are just like literally everything you think of when you think of bad parent and projectionist parent.

    • Bryy
      Bryy
      December 23, 2023 at 6:40 pm | #

      Nah, they’re just racists.

    • C.T. Phipps
      C.T. Phipps
      December 23, 2023 at 7:07 pm | #

      Sadly, I feel they’re just as realistic as the Browns.

    • StClair
      StClair
      December 23, 2023 at 7:19 pm | #

      Are you saying you don’t believe such people actually exist?
      Oh, you sweet summer child.

      • Mr D phone posting
        Mr D phone posting
        December 23, 2023 at 11:57 pm | #

        I think they’re saying the opposite.

        • Li
          Li
          December 24, 2023 at 10:10 am | #

          No, StClair had it right. What CardinalFan appears to be saying is that they know “everything” in this comic is exaggerated, because apparently that’s just a storytelling rule for comics, but Linda and Charles are extra cartoonish and exaggerated. Hence, StClair’s comment.

          CardinalFan’s assumption that these two parents are super duper exaggerated does kind of imply that they think people like this don’t really exist.

          • CardinalFan
            CardinalFan
            December 24, 2023 at 4:50 pm | #

            No. They most certainly exist. Which is sad.

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I think you mean Poop. Prints don't drop from the butt.
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Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Happy Nonbinary People's Day, you gemstones. A year or two back we introduced FLASH GORDON's first enby, the outlaw lawman Bones Malock. Having known and loved a lot of nonbinary people, I knew the truest way to represent you was as a unsettling desert pirate with a lightning sword
Flash Gordon's Bones Malock:
Bones Malock, under captions reading:
Bones Malock and Flash Gordon.

Flash: Okay... wait thirty seconds, then give me a distraction.

Bones: Got just the thing.

Flash: Do NOT blow the place up.

Bones: You're the boss.
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Hannah Who @notablyuncool.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Happy International Non-Binary People's Day to all those who work, create, parent, protest, love and live without ever fitting into someone else's category.
header image - a yellow purple and black flag flies in the wind
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a yellow purple and black flag flies in the wind
Alt: Non-binary flag blowing in the wind
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
A blond female Philly Phanatic says
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
Mood
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Jacob @jacobaugust.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Nice.
A screenshot of the Dumbing of Age archives, showing the chapter titles of Book 15 and their respective number of strips. Chapter 4,
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DaisyFM ✒︎ @daisyfm.net ⋅ 2d
Okay, everyone's jumping to conclusions, but Joyce was hit with a mysterious pink gas in Thursday's strip. Now, in recent years, the police are known to increasingly use military grade weapons. Which reminded me of this bit of proposed technology from the 1990s: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb
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Gay bomb - Wikipedia
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
I ain't readin' all that!
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatarDavid M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Dumbing of Age: "LIVE JOCELYNE REACTION" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomics #webcomic
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LIVE JOCELYNE REACTION
that's not the end!  there's more tomorrow, already on patreon!...
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Dumbing of Age: "LIVE JOCELYNE REACTION" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomics #webcomic
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LIVE JOCELYNE REACTION
that's not the end!  there's more tomorrow, already on patreon!...
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
hey, kid, what do you want to play with from the cool superhero movie? is it a nude, melting senator who feels like a stretch armstrong doll that has been left out in the son and maybe mildly chewed by a neighborhood dog? WELL, SON, YOU'RE IN LUCK!
the most upsetting toy of all time: a small and horrible statue of melting, nude Senator Kelly from the first x-men film
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
James Gunn i demand u bring back Conservative Superman
Superman shaking Jared Fogle’s hand
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
(July 10, 2026)
Sal and Danny saw you from across the room and enjoy your vibe.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
trying to voice recognition a search for superman's actor
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Drivaaar @drivaaar.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
I want YOU to transform Autobot City (with generous green spaces, affordable public transport and amenities, and plentiful social initiatives)
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 3d
welp back to drawing comics featuring a character you can't see yet for like 11 months
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