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Dreadful

by David M Willis on February 12, 2024 at 12:01 am
  • 03 – Trystin' in the Wind
└ Tags: danny, sal, sarah

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  1. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    February 12, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    Danny’s Assets:

    1) Nice.

    2) Honestly kinda rocks a scarf.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      February 12, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

      3) Honestly, loyal as fuck and often very considerate, which pairs interestingly with his tendency to put his foot in his mouth sometimes.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        February 12, 2024 at 6:09 am | #

        4) Hat

        • Makkabee
          Makkabee
          February 12, 2024 at 1:16 pm | #

          5) SHREDS on ukelele

          • Mturtle7
            Mturtle7
            February 12, 2024 at 1:37 pm | #

            6) Owns a Nintendo with Mario Cart on it

            • Oz
              Oz
              February 14, 2024 at 2:13 pm | #

              7) Is neither intimidated nor competitive towards Sal

    • AY
      AY
      February 12, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

      For all his faults, I like Danny, so I propose: Danny pinup with only the scarf

      • David M Willis
        David M Willis
        February 12, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

        *scratches chin*

        • Finix
          Finix
          February 12, 2024 at 12:51 am | #

          Scarf, hat, ukulale. It’s all he needs

          • Ferret
            Ferret
            February 12, 2024 at 12:36 pm | #

            The ukelele placed to tastefully cover his junk.

            • Leadsynth
              Leadsynth
              February 12, 2024 at 5:36 pm | #

              Would be an excellent magnet for my collection.

            • Kazuma Taichi
              Kazuma Taichi
              February 12, 2024 at 5:48 pm | #

              but also tastefully angled to suggest an erection barely concealed

              • Jerach
                Jerach
                February 12, 2024 at 10:58 pm | #

                Honestly sounds pretty excellent.

      • Sirksome
        Sirksome
        February 12, 2024 at 12:11 am | #

        How about only the hat. In fact…forget the Danny. The people demand hat pinups!

        • Dday
          Dday
          February 12, 2024 at 12:32 am | #

          For a slipshine, just stuff the scarf into the hat.

          • Decidedly Orthogonal
            Decidedly Orthogonal
            February 12, 2024 at 2:24 am | #

            bites lower lip mmmm Papi!

    • Mturtle7
      Mturtle7
      February 12, 2024 at 2:09 pm | #

      Oh, wait, this is interesting: I was just skimming the “Danny” tag, and it turns out that a couple years ago there was LITERALLY a strip where Danny lists his potential assets as a boyfriend. https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-12/01-sister-christian/pullin/

      “Maybe it’s cause I play some dope ukelele. Maybe it’s the hat. Maybe it’s my encyclopedic knowledge of Robo-Vac comics. Maybe it’s because I’m willing and eager to perform cunninlingus even while swinging three stories off the ground from a grappling hook.”

      Though, I can see why his response to Sarah asking him to justify himself would be different from his response to Joe doing the same.

      • Dave the Inverted
        Dave the Inverted
        February 13, 2024 at 5:15 pm | #

        I feel like the cunnilingus one is a synecdoche for his ability to focus on his partner in distracting circumstances and his general willingness to go along with whatever fits his partner’s vibe.

  2. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    February 12, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    “and by nice I mean white”

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      February 12, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

      I do not think that’s what Sal means

      • Masha
        Masha
        February 12, 2024 at 1:30 am | #

        She does call him Wonderbread. That’s basically wonderbread’s whole thing. Just being an otherwise unremarkable, inoffensive white bread(guy) that people kinda like and you go with when there’s no other interesting options available.

        • Decidedly Orthogonal
          Decidedly Orthogonal
          February 12, 2024 at 2:25 am | #

          It’s a nickname, not a label of the defining characteristic she loves about him.

          • Thag Simmons
            Thag Simmons
            February 12, 2024 at 4:53 am | #

            Especially since it definitely did not start out as complimentary

            • Masha
              Masha
              February 12, 2024 at 5:29 am | #

              Struggling to understand how describing him as a plain white guy is complimentary but I guess in regards to the rest of the cast some might see it that way.

              • Thag Simmons
                Thag Simmons
                February 12, 2024 at 6:53 am | #

                I was not trying to imply that it was complimentary, the opposite in fact, I was saying it started as a derogatory nickname.

                She’s started using it more affectionately, especially now that they’re dating, but it’s still more of a friendly insult than anything else.

                • Ana Chronistic
                  Ana Chronistic
                  February 12, 2024 at 11:47 pm | #

                  It’s the “Deku” of DoA!

        • HueSatLight
          HueSatLight
          February 12, 2024 at 2:59 am | #

          Probably a play on “Wonderin’ if you lost a bet”

          • Eric
            Eric
            February 12, 2024 at 11:12 am | #

            It’s actually short for “Mayo on Wonderbread(tm)”

    • anon
      anon
      February 12, 2024 at 1:37 am | #

      well, that’s her parents definition of ‘nice’

  3. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    February 12, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    Not everything has to be dramatic. Sometimes… things are nice.

    • clif
      clif
      February 12, 2024 at 1:00 am | #

      Wait. No. Sal and Danny must be pissing someone off.

      Let me think. Ethan maybe?

      • Enkrod
        Enkrod
        February 12, 2024 at 2:29 am | #

        Malaya’s not a fan

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          February 12, 2024 at 6:15 am | #

          Who would Malaya accuse of being fakey here? I’d have to guess Sarah.

          Sal’s the usual target, but she genuinely likes Danny and Malaya recognizes that.
          https://www.dumbingofage.com/somedork/

          Is Danny even capable of being fakey if he tried?

          Sarah’s honest in her grumpy, asocial misanthropy, but sometimes it seems like she’s going out of her way to justify it.

          • Azhrei Vep
            Azhrei Vep
            February 12, 2024 at 11:19 am | #

            Look. If she really wanted to walk to class alone, she clearly had time to go before anyone else showed up. She’s totally being false right now. (I refuse to use Malaya’s second-favorite ‘F’ word)

        • Mark
          Mark
          February 12, 2024 at 6:41 am | #

          Malaya is not a fan of anyone or anything, not even Malaya. Iguanas, perhaps.

      • Daibhid C
        Daibhid C
        February 12, 2024 at 3:43 am | #

        Sarah, for some reason.

        • Daibhid C
          Daibhid C
          February 12, 2024 at 3:43 am | #

          Oops, that wasn’t even ninja’d. That was me not reading down two replies.

      • zee
        zee
        February 12, 2024 at 10:26 am | #

        Every other guy on campus who wants sal. Particularly of the dudebro variety

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      February 12, 2024 at 2:32 am | #

      Oh, Nice Things Are Nice (and Bad Things Are Bad)

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        February 12, 2024 at 7:39 am | #

        Boffo reference from a great episode pair.

        I don’t know if I’ll ever have cause to drop “Pull the trigger, you big baby!”

  4. Dean
    Dean
    February 12, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    He’s pissing Sarah off, but I don’t think that counts.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      February 12, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

      not like it’s hard

      • David DeLaney
        David DeLaney
        February 12, 2024 at 2:38 am | #

        that’s what SHE said

        –Dave, whilst stroking her bat

    • UrsulaDavina
      UrsulaDavina
      February 12, 2024 at 12:17 am | #

      Not a high bar to achieve apparently.

    • anon
      anon
      February 12, 2024 at 1:38 am | #

      at this point it’d be easier to count off what /doesn’t/ piss her off

    • Mark
      Mark
      February 12, 2024 at 6:45 am | #

      Doesn’t matter; she should run with it. “Actually, Sarah, I’m dating a nice guy who makes me happy just to put your nose out of joint. Enjoy.”

  5. Jo_cubstar
    Jo_cubstar
    February 12, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    Poor hat guy

    • anon
      anon
      February 12, 2024 at 1:45 am | #

      at least it’s not a fedora

      but yeah either for transition or finding a partner sometimes ‘just some nice guy’ is enough of a standard for ppl

  6. Thag Simmons
    Thag Simmons
    February 12, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    How’s Marcie feel about him?

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      February 12, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

      Legit very good question, I’d love to know.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        February 12, 2024 at 12:14 am | #

        We had a patreon strip about it. She told him “Congratulations and if you fuck this up, I will end you.”

        • David DeLaney
          David DeLaney
          February 12, 2024 at 2:40 am | #

          Mother Marcie Moment

          –Dave, some day, a Patreon collection release, twice the price of a standard collection?

          • Li
            Li
            February 12, 2024 at 11:24 am | #

            I get that this is a play on Mother Bear but I don’t think Marcie’s energy towards Sal is any more motherly than Becky towards Joyce. “I was ALSO in love with that girl and my feelings are still a little complicated but bottom line she’s super important to me and always will be, you will NOT hurt her.”

            • BBCC
              BBCC
              February 12, 2024 at 8:28 pm | #

              You can’t hurt someone’s best friend without incurring wrath.

              • Li
                Li
                March 4, 2024 at 4:37 pm | #

                Agreed, but. Idk. It’s a pet peeve when folks put characters into the Family Zone when they definitely don’t belong there. Sal’s feelings for Marcie are probably v sisterly tho.

  7. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    February 12, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

    Danny really is a difficult person to offend, outside of Danny.

    • anon
      anon
      February 12, 2024 at 1:46 am | #

      walky is the only person i’ve seen rly get under his skin and occasional frustration with joe but that’s not rly an offensive thing versus an aspect of their friendship

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        February 12, 2024 at 2:38 am | #

        Mike did. Then he died. so … best of luck, Walky.

        • anon
          anon
          February 12, 2024 at 8:14 pm | #

          i mean the purpose of mikes chara was to get on everyone else’s skin lol

    • David DeLaney
      David DeLaney
      February 12, 2024 at 2:40 am | #

      and inside of Danny it’s too dark to meme

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      February 12, 2024 at 7:06 am | #

      Whoops, meant to say Walky instead of the second Danny, though as Hue points out, so has Mike. Though, in both cases, it was usually not him getting mad at insults directed at him, specifically, which usually rolls off his back because he’s been getting that at home, too, basically his whole life, something even Amber (in Amazi-Girl form) found rather disturbing.

      • Mturtle7
        Mturtle7
        February 12, 2024 at 1:40 pm | #

        Honestly, I didn’t even notice the typo. I just assumed you were saying that Danny is one of the only people who regularly manages to offend Danny, which is arguably true! The poor guy does not exactly have great self-esteem.

        • DailyBrad
          DailyBrad
          February 12, 2024 at 11:09 pm | #

          That makes total sense, yeah, he can be very critical of himself.

          Though, if Walkyverse is any indication, his worry he’s going to lose his hair is at least unfounded.

  8. Newlland(Henryvolt)
    Newlland(Henryvolt)
    February 12, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

    Sarah trying REALLY hard to put up an antisocial act. As if Danny isn’t one of the few people she doesn’t find as a complete nuisance.

    • anonymsly
      anonymsly
      February 12, 2024 at 12:18 am | #

      I don’t think it’s an act. I think she’s just genuinely not happy unless she’s shitting on the choices, personality, and general existence of everyone around her.

      She’s like if sandpaper was a person. A very very few people have learned her ways and can interact with her and mostly end up un-bloodied – to those people she can be good/valuable without being other than she is. To the rest, she’s just a pain to deal with.

      • Imogen
        Imogen
        February 12, 2024 at 12:57 am | #

        I’m not sure it makes her happy, but it’s a way to engage socially. Sarah is really bad at making conversation that isn’t about criticizing someone. Remember her conflicted feelings trying to talk to Jacob? She only lit up when she was making fun of Joyce, but it made her (rightly) feel awful.

        Sarah seems to be extremely insecure about simple sincere positivity. It doesn’t feel real or honest to her, and she can’t perform it like other people can, so she just makes herself sandpaper so she doesn’t have to feel artificial–or worse, like someone else’s sucker. Sarah literally introduces herself to people by telling them she’s not fun to be around. She’s constantly trying to manage expectations.

        Shitting on other people doesn’t make Sarah feel happy. Negativity of all stripes makes Sarah feel safe, because if she’s never positive about herself or others, nobody can make her feel stupid for being vulnerable. She’s been burned in the past, and maybe she’s had performative vulnerability forced from her beyond her comfort levels (like in an enmeshed family).

        What I’m getting at is that this level of guardedness probably comes more from fear than sadism. I relate to this aspect of Sarah a lot, even when, like today, it feels incredibly excessive.

        • Bash
          Bash
          February 12, 2024 at 1:40 am | #

          This is an excellent observation. She doesn’t know how to engage socially unless she’s being critical of something. Here we even see her waiting for her friends, then acting like she wanted to walk alone.

          • anonymsly
            anonymsly
            February 12, 2024 at 2:14 am | #

            It’s all well and good to say ‘she doesn’t know how’ for most people, but Sarah wants to be a LAWYER, aka a career path all but requiring social skills: persuasiveness at least, with shout outs to charm and likeability.

            Soft skills are practical skills, and she has perfect opportunities to learn and practice in her current friend group comprised of people who already like her when she’s an unrelenting ass to them all. But she’d rather be an unrelenting jerk and triple down on it at every opportunity than go to an iota of effort for a non-academic skill.

            • Casi
              Casi
              February 12, 2024 at 2:30 am | #

              You don’t necessarily need social skills or persuasiveness to be a lawyer unless you’re going to be a trial lawyer. If you’re doing tax law, or contract law, and never setting foot in the courtroom proper, you don’t need to be personable.

              • Mark
                Mark
                February 12, 2024 at 6:49 am | #

                Weeel, you do need to at least be pleasant to prospective and actual clients or you won’t have any.

            • Mturtle7
              Mturtle7
              February 12, 2024 at 1:52 pm | #

              …Look, in fairness to Sarah, she’s literally only 1.5 years into her undergraduate degree. She has time! And she’s made a LITTLE progress, in spite of the massive setback she suffered last year. She’s honest-to-goodness close friends with Joyce, at least, and is engaging in more and more social contact with Joyce’s other friends, these days.

              Pretty much this whole comic is about people doing really stupid shit because they’re young and inexperienced, and gradually maturing, bit by bit, as a result. Sarah is no exception.

      • Miri
        Miri
        February 12, 2024 at 3:16 am | #

        Dang, why does she sound so much like early Ruth here??

        It makes phrases like, post kidnapping “the worst thing about having divorced parents is you have to deal with them in waves, rather than being able to blast through” https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-10/04-is-a-song-forever/separated/ (needed to look it up, remembered it as her saying it means you can blast through the waves…) possibly hit different, even with her asserting that her parents never hit her with a wooden spoon and her mother may have sometimes used an open palm https://www.dumbingofage.com/2022/comic/book-12/03-trial-and-sarah/notweirdatall/ (but that is just one out of at least 3 parent figures, given a near-same-age half-sister. With similar-to-Joyce fundie hang-ups…)

        I think Sarah probably does take “being prickly” to “trauma response would make sense as an explanation (but not excuse)” levels…

        • BBCC
          BBCC
          February 12, 2024 at 3:28 am | #

          Sarah doesn’t seem to get along with her parents, no. “Lying to your parents is an adulthood rite of passage, like pretending you love them.”

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            February 12, 2024 at 9:41 am | #

            She does seem close with her grandmother though.

            It’s hard to tell with Sarah whether not getting along with her parents is just standard teen stuff added to her general dislike of people or if there’s something more specific going on there.
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              In two cases of shit hitting the fan, Sarah’s idea was to call someone’s parents. I don’t think it would have been if her experience with her own parents had been terrible.

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                Depends on the kind of horrible. Sarah gives big “enmeshed family” vibes. Her parents might be reliable enough in a crisis, just codependent outside of one.

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      February 12, 2024 at 1:07 am | #

      She’s been in a particularly sour mood lately (since Friday / May 2023). I think she probably thinks she’s incapable of being loved, and Lucy’s “so-called friends” barb struck that nerve. Then her hate-sink is dating her roommate (and spent the night). And she screwed up with Jacob twice.

      It’s a recipe for a shitty mood, and she’s taking it out on Danny and Sal. Maybe resenting their affection for each other (back to speculation #1).

      • Imogen
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        February 12, 2024 at 1:10 am | #

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    • Warcodered
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      February 12, 2024 at 3:35 pm | #

      Feel like Sarah usually isn’t this bad, but is in a bad mood from other things like Joyce and Joe and her complete incompetence with Jacob. She’s just taking it out on other people.

  9. VolticEXE
    VolticEXE
    February 12, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

    Sometimes Sarah’s more negative tendencies are welcome.

    This is not one of those times.

    • Bash
      Bash
      February 12, 2024 at 1:35 am | #

      I like the way Sal has to give a straight answer about why she is with Danny. I think it’s good for her to say it out loud.

    • anon
      anon
      February 12, 2024 at 1:44 am | #

      would be interesting if someone like this said that and then ppl are like “you’re right, why are we together? we should break up” of course other than for a bit/joking with a group of friends, mostp pl wouldn’t rly do that unless they’re super young and changing their mind but i wouldnt’ be surprised if some engagements were called off over something ‘tiny’ given all the diff relationship dynamics that exist in the world

  10. Steelbright
    Steelbright
    February 12, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

    Glad to see Sal hasn’t dumped Danny bread because her parents liked him. Tbh that was kinda a long shot but i was worried there’d be more fallout

  11. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    February 12, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

    Sarah and Danny is another rare pair.

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      February 12, 2024 at 12:28 am | #

      They have met though. I guess most of it was the first week or so of school, so Danny reintroducing himself does make some sense.

      … or this is more evidence of the multi-dumbiverse.

      • RassilonTDavros
        RassilonTDavros
        February 12, 2024 at 12:55 am | #

        My personal headcanon is that there are alternate Dumbiverses, but since none of them have invented inter-dimensional travel they’ll never interact.

        • David DeLaney
          David DeLaney
          February 12, 2024 at 2:42 am | #

          except that a lot of them already have, like two settings back

  12. Nono
    Nono
    February 12, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

    I want to say Sarah and Malaya would be friends, but maybe they would hate each other too much.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      February 12, 2024 at 12:27 am | #

      Sarah and Malaya have too much in common to get along. It’s the same reason Sal doesn’t get along with either.

  13. C.T. Phipps
    C.T. Phipps
    February 12, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

    What’s hat guy’s name again?

    Also, is Hat Guy actually nice? I remember a lot of cases of him being a NICE guy.

    • Dday
      Dday
      February 12, 2024 at 12:37 am | #

      He’s one if those “nice guys” that’s always tipping his hat.

    • Anon A Mouse
      Anon A Mouse
      February 12, 2024 at 1:12 am | #

      He says the wrong thing a lot ( and, lets be honest, things ARE better because Mike never woke up ) but how much has he done to not be considered a generally “nice” person?

      • Jon S.
        Jon S.
        February 12, 2024 at 1:23 am | #

        A version of him from another universe was a jerk. That appears to be the root of all Danny hate. That and the ukelele

        • Li
          Li
          February 12, 2024 at 11:35 am | #

          Nah, I hadn’t ready anything but Shortpacked before I started DoA and I didn’t like Danny for a long time. It was tempered only because Willis themselves ragged on Danny so much, so I knew he was in for character growth.

          His initial appearances were pretty sucky. He’s a good egg these days and a much better boyfriend to Sal than he was to Dorothy.

      • Charles Phipps
        Charles Phipps
        February 12, 2024 at 4:25 am | #

        I mean things are NOT better because Mike never woke up because it emotionally destroyed Amber and Ethan. Proof that even awful-awful people can be loved by good people.

        • Anon A Mouse
          Anon A Mouse
          February 12, 2024 at 11:27 am | #

          While those two, in particular, are not better I’d say the (fictional)world as a whole is still objectively and quantifiably better without him. Also, this gives them a better chance at growth without Mike, which is STILL better.

    • Bash
      Bash
      February 12, 2024 at 1:33 am | #

      He was a bit of a NICE guy at the beginning, but he’s always been genuine and kind in his interactions with Sal. He always though she was out of his league, so he just acted like a friend.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      February 12, 2024 at 2:10 am | #

      Eh, he’s alright

    • Karadaga
      Karadaga
      February 12, 2024 at 4:05 am | #

      I don’t know, most of the time, he’s quite nice, but he also keeps getting mad about who Dorothy, Amber, or Ethan (before the timeskip) dated, which is a big red flag for me.

      Also, probably not the intended audience interpretation, but he knew Sayid would be giving her the room extension while they were overbooked and he still tried to intimidate him, someone in a position of service. I hate that shit

      • PigmyWurm
        PigmyWurm
        February 12, 2024 at 12:50 pm | #

        While I generally agree that you should treat service workers well, even if the service is lacking because often it can be due to factors beyond your control (people being out, poor management, ext). However, if you overhear someone openly mocking you, I think some pettiness is understandable. One of Danny’s issues for a long time is that he didn’t have enough of a spine. That seems to be improving, but sometimes he migh/ overshoot a little.

      • Mr D
        Mr D
        February 13, 2024 at 3:02 am | #

        Look mate, if a service worker is mocking me behind my back (Or to my face!!) and I hear them, I’m no longer gonna be polite to them. I assume that even Danny would agree with that.

    • wwwhhattt
      wwwhhattt
      February 12, 2024 at 4:15 am | #

      Judging from his strips with Sal he has successfully transitioned from being a Nice Guy to being a guy who is nice.

    • Mturtle7
      Mturtle7
      February 12, 2024 at 2:25 pm | #

      He’s actually nice. At least, he is now.

      To my knowledge, the defining trait of a “Nice Guy”(TM) is expecting women to fawn over him because he completed a self-determined checklist of supposedly nice things, and getting mad and sullen when they don’t. I can’t remember if pre-time-skip Danny ever really acted like that, but post-time-skip Danny has actually made it very, very, clear that he has no expectations of Sal when he does nice things for her. Skimming the tags points me to three great examples: ,
      , and
      .

      I hope that answers your question!

      • Mturtle7
        Mturtle7
        February 12, 2024 at 2:27 pm | #

        Ok, I screwed up the text for those links, but it looks like they still work. They were supposed to read like “here, here, and here”. But maybe I shouldn’t have tried to get fancy.
        for clarity’s sake, here’s the straight links:
        https://www.dumbingofage.com/2022/comic/book-13/01-bring-me-to-life-drawing/expectations-2/
        https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-12/01-sister-christian/impress/
        https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/05-as-long-as-its-free/pickmeup/

  14. Steelbright
    Steelbright
    February 12, 2024 at 12:11 am | #

    Wow what a typo. dunno why “bread” is in there but “Danny bread” isn’t inaccurate

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      February 12, 2024 at 12:14 am | #

      I didn’t even think that was a typo.

      I guess he is bread, because all the ladies want a slice?

    • Bash
      Bash
      February 12, 2024 at 1:43 am | #

      What? Was it corrected later?

      • True Survivor
        True Survivor
        February 12, 2024 at 11:35 pm | #

        It was in Steelbright’s first comment on this strip – I think it is the 5th primary comment up from this one.

  15. Rabbit
    Rabbit
    February 12, 2024 at 12:11 am | #

    Bets on Walky and Dorothy waking up together and one of them yelling.

    • justin8448
      justin8448
      February 12, 2024 at 2:05 am | #

      This idea was nowhere near my brain before, but now I simultaneously want this and do not want it.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      February 12, 2024 at 2:13 am | #

      shit, they’re still unaccounted for aren’t they

      • Rabbit
        Rabbit
        February 12, 2024 at 2:26 am | #

        And they both likely got drunk last night. Jennifer, Dorothy and Walky are all unaccounted for.

        • clif
          clif
          February 12, 2024 at 2:47 pm | #

          Jennifer and Walky wake up together and neither of them would give it a second thought.

    • Mark
      Mark
      February 12, 2024 at 7:01 am | #

      They’re cuddled up together in one of those isolation chairs. Which will be a shock for both when one awakens.

      Lucy’s little gasp is what awakens them.

  16. Grimey
    Grimey
    February 12, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

    I appreciate Sal’s face in the fifth panel. It’s very much giving ‘you just wanna live in your misery, do you’.

  17. EAG46
    EAG46
    February 12, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

    Ugh we *get* it Sarah you hate everyone and everything. Peeing in everyone’s popcorn is getting old, sweetie. Find a new personality trait.

  18. BBCC
    BBCC
    February 12, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

    Sarah, people who like Jacobs shouldn’t throw stones.

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      February 12, 2024 at 12:18 am | #

      Jacob is a very cordial and kind man. However, I think Sarah may also be interested in him for other reasons (see biceps).

      • justin8448
        justin8448
        February 12, 2024 at 2:07 am | #

        What would Sarah think of Jacob if he was a jerk? I kind of want to know now.

        • anonymsly
          anonymsly
          February 12, 2024 at 2:16 am | #

          She’d probably find him easier to deal with.

        • Charles Phipps
          Charles Phipps
          February 12, 2024 at 4:27 am | #

          Sarah would love a jacob who just wanted sex and no emotional connection.

          • Francoinblanco
            Francoinblanco
            February 12, 2024 at 10:24 am | #

            Like old Joe?

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              February 12, 2024 at 2:41 pm | #

              But without the predatory side. Her first intro to Joe was him trying to pick up Joyce to fix her. With his penis.

              If he hadn’t been so aggressive at the start I do think they could have made decent fuck-buddies.

        • zee
          zee
          February 12, 2024 at 10:36 am | #

          I mean, he and Joe are built the same. Even if she won’t admit it his sweetness is very likely a big part of what attracts her

  19. abi
    abi
    February 12, 2024 at 12:14 am | #

    Sarah’s really been more grouchy than usual the past couple in-comic days, hasn’t she? Normally I find her funny, but she’s wearing on even me lately.

  20. UrsulaDavina
    UrsulaDavina
    February 12, 2024 at 12:15 am | #

    He offers flowers and a bike and he is nice honestly exchange the bike out with dinner at a mid teir resturant and Danny checks most of my boxes.

    • anon
      anon
      February 12, 2024 at 1:46 am | #

      that’s def more than anything sarah’s offered jacob

      tho i wonder if she would be mellowed out if she was able to find a partner or at least a fling

  21. HueSatLight
    HueSatLight
    February 12, 2024 at 12:16 am | #

    Danny: “sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays”

  22. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    February 12, 2024 at 12:16 am | #

    Sarah…

  23. nobodybasically
    nobodybasically
    February 12, 2024 at 12:17 am | #

    Wait is this the first time Danny and Sarah have interacted? Also, how do you search multiple character tags at once?

    • Km
      Km
      February 12, 2024 at 12:24 am | #

      Just edit the url to be sarah+Danny

      Like so

      https://www.dumbingofage.com/tag/danny+sarah/

      • Anon A Mouse
        Anon A Mouse
        February 12, 2024 at 1:19 am | #

        So, she DOES know his name from interactions and still chooses to call him “that guy”. Wow. Sarah’s really trying hard to get hated right now, eh?

        • Bash
          Bash
          February 12, 2024 at 1:25 am | #

          The emphasis on THAT guy implies that she is familiar with him, yet unimpressed.

    • Aura
      Aura
      February 12, 2024 at 12:27 am | #

      Just a plus symbol, like so:
      https://www.dumbingofage.com/tag/danny+sarah
      🙂

      • Aura
        Aura
        February 12, 2024 at 12:29 am | #

        Lol get ninja’d idiot

    • Tan
      Tan
      February 12, 2024 at 5:12 am | #

      She has remembered his name in both of their significant interactions since being introduced. https://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/05-media-rumble/justice/ and https://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/03-the-first-step-towards-recovery/deign-2/

  24. Steve
    Steve
    February 12, 2024 at 12:18 am | #

    If Men Without Hats were holding ukulele auditions, and Danny showed up, he would be politely but firmly asked to leave.

    • Dean
      Dean
      February 12, 2024 at 12:40 am | #

      If they hired him he would be simultaneously with and without a hat, causing a paradox and possible multiversal collapse.

      • Casi
        Casi
        February 12, 2024 at 2:34 am | #

        or would it be like an inverse ZZ Top situation, where the only person in the band without a beard is named Beard

        • Disastroid
          Disastroid
          February 12, 2024 at 5:53 am | #

          Now all I can see is Danny doing the ZZTop guitar spin with his ukelele

      • David DeLaney
        David DeLaney
        February 12, 2024 at 2:45 am | #

        it would mean he’d be performing with a cat on his head

        –Dave, which none of the other band members would EVER make any reference to

      • Mturtle7
        Mturtle7
        February 12, 2024 at 2:30 pm | #

        This sounds exactly like something Past Willis would write as a Head Alien evil scheme!

  25. UrsulaDavina
    UrsulaDavina
    February 12, 2024 at 12:19 am | #

    Sarah if you are trying to be a lawyer you do need to be cordial sometimes.

  26. Suet
    Suet
    February 12, 2024 at 12:22 am | #

    If Sarah was asking Walky, then these questions make more sense.

    If we experience winter comics in July, now we’d have a problem.

  27. CMasta1992
    CMasta1992
    February 12, 2024 at 12:25 am | #

    Sarah Not Be A Judgy Jerk About Other People’s Relationships Challenge
    DIFFICULTY: IMPOSSIBLE

  28. cbwroses
    cbwroses
    February 12, 2024 at 12:31 am | #

    So I get why Walky and Lucy might not show up to class today, as they wouldn’t exactly be in a mood to see each other and/or having to explain why the other one isn’t there.

    But why is Joyce missing?
    Is she skipping to sleep since she stayed up all night?

    Also, I wonder what prompted Sal to have Danny walk her to class; he must have rocked karaoke.

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      February 12, 2024 at 1:14 am | #

      Taking a long time in the shower.

    • Anon A Mouse
      Anon A Mouse
      February 12, 2024 at 1:14 am | #

      She might have managed to get Roz to hear her out, which may take longer to unpack than either considered.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      February 12, 2024 at 9:46 am | #

      Didn’t Lucy say she’d see him in class?

  29. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    February 12, 2024 at 12:40 am | #

    “I hope she said hat guy because Ive got a brand I’m trying to build so if I can get as many people to start calling me hat guy, that’d be swell”

  30. Taffy
    Taffy
    February 12, 2024 at 12:43 am | #

    Fuckers

    • milu
      milu
      February 12, 2024 at 4:54 am | #

      brave.

  31. Cassie
    Cassie
    February 12, 2024 at 12:44 am | #

    Sarah are you happy with literally anybody’s choice of partner? Wait, no, strike that.

    Sarah, are you willing to shut the fuck up and let anyone else choose their own partner without feeling the need to insert your opinion?

    • anon
      anon
      February 12, 2024 at 1:41 am | #

      well, to be honest that’s how a lot of ppl are even if they don’t respond in a negative way about it, esp in a place as social as college

      tho i can totally imagine some insecure women when their bfs are complimented feel threatened and think that someone’s hitting/thirsty for their partener XP

    • Rabbit
      Rabbit
      February 12, 2024 at 2:28 am | #

      My guess is her agitation is stemming from her being single and frustrated cuz she wants Jacob but also not enough to stop being a surly asshole, and now Joyce is with Joe (Sarah hates him) and Danny is just bein Danny and nobody thinks he’s good enough for Sal (except for me).

      Who knows, maybe Dorothy hooked up with Jacob last night somehow. I think Walky is more likey but it would be a hilarious twist.

  32. Imogen
    Imogen
    February 12, 2024 at 12:50 am | #

    Sarah has no idea how to make normal conversation, huh? Poor girl.

    • anon
      anon
      February 12, 2024 at 1:40 am | #

      to be fair, to her that’s prolly a feature and not a bug to get ppl to go away

      • anonymsly
        anonymsly
        February 12, 2024 at 1:57 am | #

        She wants to be a lawyer, aka profession wherein success frequently to constantly involves being persuasive and/or likable. It’s not only abut,it’s a potential gamebreaker, and the dev team just says ‘eff you’ whenever it’s reported.

        • Rabbit
          Rabbit
          February 12, 2024 at 2:30 am | #

          I feel like if you told her that she’d either argue that you just need to beat the opposition into submission with proof, or have a dorothy scale meltdown vis a vis president

        • anon
          anon
          February 12, 2024 at 8:08 pm | #

          well, she still has time/room to grow, better to get it outta your system now than to sass the judge and be held in contempt lol (tho i can imagine her working in the firm as like an assistant/behind the scenes versus actually in court)

          i would love to see an ace attorney crossover with sarah dressed as the charas XD; who would edgeworth and the judge be tho

  33. Francoinblanco
    Francoinblanco
    February 12, 2024 at 1:09 am | #

    Here once again our brave heroine, who apparently only wants to be left to her own devices, engages in a conversation in which it turns out that she knows everything better.

  34. Hazel
    Hazel
    February 12, 2024 at 1:27 am | #

    The reason why Sal is with Danny is honestly not that different from why Sarah is friends with Joyce. Despite their differences, being around him makes her feel good about herself.

  35. anon
    anon
    February 12, 2024 at 1:40 am | #

    i don’t know about ‘nice’ but anyone that’s ‘effortlessly charming’ esp at a younger age i’d just assuem would be a serial killer/ulterior motives /shot XD; if they don’t work as a salesman/some kinda job where being socially/’friendly’ is in the job description, or too good to be true

    or a pretty lucky/blessed life so far to be ‘confident’ not affected by too many mistakes yet

  36. EmTaya
    EmTaya
    February 12, 2024 at 1:47 am | #

    Slipping in the polls, Sarah

  37. ReFlex76
    ReFlex76
    February 12, 2024 at 2:07 am | #

    He’s apparently quite the cunning linguist.

    • Mark
      Mark
      February 12, 2024 at 7:09 am | #

      That definitely should have been in the brochure.

  38. ReFlex76
    ReFlex76
    February 12, 2024 at 2:09 am | #

    “Washing machine-kun, you’ve been wonderful. Because of you, I have felt things I could never have otherwise. However, *sniff* it’s time for me to move on. I hope you understand I can’t depend on you all the time. Good . . . goodbye . . . I love you.”
    “Yeah, I think I left a sock h- . . . Joyce?! Why do you have your arms arou- . . . are you kissing that washing machine??!!”

  39. Queezle
    Queezle
    February 12, 2024 at 3:35 am | #

    Sometimes it is okay to just not comment at all Sarah.

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      February 12, 2024 at 5:29 am | #

      To be fair, every single character always comment on things, wherever they should or not. There be far fewer interactions otherwise.

  40. Juanoku
    Juanoku
    February 12, 2024 at 4:11 am | #

    I’m glad those two just get to be happy. But last time two people were happy in this comic they broke up, so we’ll see how long this lasts

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      February 12, 2024 at 4:54 am | #

      Becky and Dina have been happy together for basically their entire run of comics.

  41. Chris
    Chris
    February 12, 2024 at 5:15 am | #

    THAT guy is a disparaging remark on Sal’s choice. Which is kind of awful to do to his face. OK, not even kind of, it simply is.

    HAT guy would (probably) be meant to be just as disparaging, but is an identifiable identity, meaning she’d (Sarah) noticed him and mentally packaged him not in any of the usual way (race, etc). Still offensive to do to his face, but would have been easier to ignore.

    In any event, Wonderbread IS a nice guy, and probably so nice that he’ll not even notice OR understand the underlying insult(s).

  42. Da Boy
    Da Boy
    February 12, 2024 at 5:23 am | #

    Get a coffee cup Sarah, your bitterness is spilling and if you collect it maybe you can sell it to some hipsters.

  43. AY
    AY
    February 12, 2024 at 6:27 am | #

    I keep reading “I’m Danny!” With the exact tone as “I’m Webby!” Because I’ve been showing my friend 2017 DuckTales for the first time

  44. BadRoad
    BadRoad
    February 12, 2024 at 6:32 am | #

    He’s pissing off you, Sal.

    • BadRoad
      BadRoad
      February 12, 2024 at 6:33 am | #

      ugh I meant Sarah, he’s pissing off you Sarah

  45. Rogue 7
    Rogue 7
    February 12, 2024 at 7:20 am | #

    Sarah has gotten exceptionally tiresome.

    • Zaxares
      Zaxares
      February 12, 2024 at 7:33 am | #

      Yeah. I KNOW for a fact that Sarah is smart enough to understand that attraction is variable, and quiet, nice, low-drama guys are just some people’s type (even if they may not realize it at first because pop culture has conditioned us to believe that guys must be strong, fierce, in-your-face or have some kind of deep-seated trauma/problem that only love can solve), so this is just her being more bitter/misanthropic than normal.

  46. morhek
    morhek
    February 12, 2024 at 7:39 am | #

    He’s Hat Dan, the Dan with a hat!

  47. Schpoonman
    Schpoonman
    February 12, 2024 at 8:35 am | #

    Sarah continues to channel Mike, and therefore fucking suck.

    • clif
      clif
      February 12, 2024 at 9:42 am | #

      Nah. Mike would have gone into it with a motive and a plan. Sarah isn’t going to cause any painful self examination.

      • Schpoonman
        Schpoonman
        February 12, 2024 at 9:46 am | #

        And he’s about as useful as you typically are, at that!

        • HoopsieDaisy
          HoopsieDaisy
          February 13, 2024 at 2:05 pm | #

          Yeah, insult other people in the comments who are trying to have a character discussion. That’s a great look. Your initial post was the epitome of wit and insight.

  48. Steamweed
    Steamweed
    February 12, 2024 at 8:39 am | #

    “I also play the ukulele!”
    “Ah, _that_ variety of pissing someone off.”

  49. Harmony
    Harmony
    February 12, 2024 at 8:52 am | #

    To be fair, niceness pisses off the entire Republican Party.

  50. Segnosaur
    Segnosaur
    February 12, 2024 at 9:00 am | #

    So Sarah, despite wanting to be an anti-social longer, decided to wait outside the hall for SOMEONE to walk with. Which to me raises the question of why.

    – is this an indication that despite her abrasive attitude she actually likes interacting with people
    – is it (as some have suggested) that she likes being abrasive and is using the opportunity with whomever shows up?
    – maybe she is forcing herself to interact more (even f she doesn’t like/want to) because it is useful in her goals (learn how to converse with Jacob, learn how to be a better lawyer)

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      February 12, 2024 at 1:56 pm | #

      I’d say it’s mostly #1 https://www.dumbingofage.com/agoodbye/

      I don’t know where people are getting the idea that being well-liked is a necessary quality of an effective lawyer. Have you all been watching that show, “Trustworthy Cops and Charming Lawyers”?

      • Segnosaur
        Segnosaur
        February 12, 2024 at 2:33 pm | #

        I never said sarah wanted to be ‘well liked’ in order to be an effective lawyer, I said she might want to be able to interact better (pick up on social cues, etc.) Plus, as I said, it would also help her with her relationship with Jacob.

        Yeah, you can probably be a good lawyer even if you are a malcontent, but the ability to at least put up a veneer of “friendly” might be a useful tool (even if its not necessary or used..)

  51. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    February 12, 2024 at 10:17 am | #

    I’m starting to see the possibility of a future where Lucy and Sal might be united by a shared dislike of Sarah.

    • anon
      anon
      February 12, 2024 at 8:13 pm | #

      double date hangouts aside i can imagine them being alright friends, i don’t think sal esp disliked lucy other than the one time she agreed with malaya about her

  52. staszu13
    staszu13
    February 12, 2024 at 11:18 am | #

    Just wondering if male DJ Wilcox came from this particular pairing in the Dumbiverse and somehow did the crossover to the Walkyverse

  53. PigmyWurm
    PigmyWurm
    February 12, 2024 at 1:04 pm | #

    I really don’t want to give any credit to Rhadia and her clique but, with how Sarah has been acting recently, if this is at all how she started acting last year, I can see why they saw her as the villan.

  54. HueSatLight
    HueSatLight
    February 12, 2024 at 1:30 pm | #

    Hat’s looking a little worse for the wear. compare the first day he wore it: https://www.dumbingofage.com/compromised/

  55. egg egg
    egg egg
    February 12, 2024 at 5:43 pm | #

    “let women be mean” you guys can’t even handle when a [insert Sarah’s age] year old female character is slightly rude and has a bit of an attitude.

    • anon
      anon
      February 12, 2024 at 8:11 pm | #

      lol it’s one thing if it’s just a single strip outta context but from what i’ve seen no one’s exactly cheered on any of the previous female chara’s ‘meanness’ towards another c hara unless they deserved it like mary

    • tunasammich
      tunasammich
      February 12, 2024 at 9:56 pm | #

      It’s funny because Sarah is my favorite character and has been forever but somehow in my mind THIS is where she’s going too far

      I mean maybe it’s not just her I just want Sal to defend him in earnest, or for him to defend himself

  56. GoblinBagsSumo
    GoblinBagsSumo
    February 13, 2024 at 11:39 am | #

    Once again, Sarah proves she is the biggest b-hole in the comic. I honestly can’t stand her.

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May 3, 2025 - FCBD @ Laughing Ogre Comics in Columbus, Ohio

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David M Willis!
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✨️𝓝𝓪𝓷𝓲 🕸🕷 @lisanani.bsky.social ⋅ 5h
Feel like this strip is very relevant now for some reason Strip: www.dumbingofage.com/2023/comic/b...
Two panel snippet from the Dumbing of Age webcomic showcasing Dorothy Keener in a laundry room.

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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 6min
Star Wars Episode IV
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1h
I got my Prop Scaffolding in, so it was NO WAY HOME SHELF DISPLAY TIME
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KP @hagofbolding.bsky.social ⋅ 5h
Andor thoughts My friend also suggested they could be vapes and I wish I'd thought of that
A comic of two people (myself and my partner) watching Star Wars Andor on TV.
Me: What are those things in their front pockets? (Referring to Deirdre's imperial uniform with metal cylinders poking out of the front pockets.)
Partner: That is THE question.
Me: Maybe they're like... pens, for writing their fascy memos at double efficiency! (Deirdre frantically scribbles notes on a sheet of paper with a pen in both hands.)
Partner: No, no, no...
(A panel of Lio Partagaz unclipping the metal things and lifting them out of his pockets. In the next panel, his pants fall to the floor with a FWUMP.) 
Partner: ...it's the only way they can take their pants off.
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After Midnight @amidnightstudio.bsky.social ⋅ 7h
Nice.
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hotcyder @hotcyder.bsky.social ⋅ 1m
Few style explorations for the thumby of this one
patrickhwillems.bsky.social's user avatarPatrick Willems @patrickhwillems.bsky.social ⋅ 1m
the speed racer episode is out now on youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwh9...
header image - The Most Important Movie Of The 21st Century
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The Most Important Movie Of The 21st Century
YouTube video by Patrick (H) Willems
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 11h
an animated octopus asking an animated fish
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Return of the Cmonmacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Never logging off
Return of the Cmonmac... @cmonm... • 1d
For my new followers you should know I hate
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 7m
no matter what happens i promise you dumbing of age will be even gayer next year
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 20h
Dumbing of Age: "Threshold" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomics #webcomic
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Threshold
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
For May's first bonus strip, folks voted for CARLA! and you'll enjoy this non-carla preview image Read this bonus strip and hundreds of previous at the Dumbing of Age Patreon: patreon.com/dumbingofage and remember you can always pledge up to read tomorrow's strip right the eff now
Sal relaxes on one of the couches in the commons room while looking at her phone.  There's no Carla here presently.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Bros
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Wack'd @wackd.bsky.social ⋅ 4d
so my paycheck came back a little light this week because i missed work because i was in a car crash. if anyone wants to help me make up the $400 i owe my insurance company this month for their heroic effort to avoid paying me, i'd appreciate it www.paypal.com/paypalme/sah... venmo: sah32
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Pay Seth Hershman using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/SAHershman and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
mr stark i don't feel so good
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Kei Zama @keizama.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Rondom sketch of Squirrel Girl and One Bee
Pencil sketch on a sketchbook page. There is squirrel girl bust shot with her squirrel in her left shoulder. There is super rough sketch of Transfomers one bumblebee full shot, his arms are on his hip.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
www.ebay.com/itm/23612235... Auctioning my Electro-Scramblerless, yellowing Kingdom Blaster/Eject! Bidding starts at 99 cents, BIN is six friggin' bucks!
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
"We can't ask people if we can do this because they'll say no" hey man maybe that means what you're doing sucks
theverge.com's user avatarThe Verge @theverge.com ⋅ 1d
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
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Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Time for One 2.
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Dies Irae (Trap Remix) @gonebabygone.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Every comic creator's obituary is like, he created this iconic character who was in a movie that made $700 million last year. He died with a net worth of $12 after the publisher countersued him.
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Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
tfwiki.net/wiki/Tightes...
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Tightest shirt - Transformers Wiki
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
new comics curmudgeon post! joshreads.com/2025/0... love it when my girlfriend's eyes are normal
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com ⋅ 1d
crabs in a bucket | patreon.com/lubchansky
PANEL 1:  MATTIE sitting on the floor in front of a bucket.
MATTIE: Man, I put all these crabs in this bucket to watch them fight to the top for my amusement…

PANEL 2: MATTIE peering in close to the bucket. One claw is raised, holding a little piece of paper folded over.
MATTIE: …But it looks like they all just started trading ZINES in there!
MATTIE: Kind of annoying.

PANEL 3: MATTIE grabs the zine.
MATTIE: Hm?

PANEL 4: Close up of the zine in MATTIE's hands. The title is STEVEN, THE CRAB DIRECTLY BELOW ME, IS A PIECE OF SHIT!
MATTIE: Haha okay this is pretty good
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
thinking of that time i found an abandoned transformers wiki on wikia that was just a bunch of terrible and incomplete lists of character names, sitting back, and deciding i could fix this wiki by writing a comprehensive Donny Finkleberg Robot-Master page.
tfwiki.net's user avatarTransformers Wiki @tfwiki.net ⋅ 2d
#DidYouKnow we just turned 20 years old? Yes, really! The original incarnation of TFWiki was originally founded on Wikicities on this day in 2005. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over the years!
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
today in #9chickweedlane i learned the cartoonist definitely forgot the 2023 storyline in which mary showed up again and amos didn't recognize or remember her and mary was very clearly into him, and also her hair is just Juliette's Hair But Black today, rather than Mary's curly hair
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Jubs is auADHD @jubster.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
@damnyouwillis.bsky.social Well that's interesting
josiahhawthorne.bsky.social's user avatarJosiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Today I learned...
Psalty's Salvation Celebration: The Movie, starring a young Bethany Joy Lenz
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Timmerjoe @timmerjoe.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
It's a thing of beauty.
Screenshot of the disambiguation page for
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M Sipher @msipher.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
God, the story of this wiki. It's quite a ride.
tfwiki.net's user avatarTransformers Wiki @tfwiki.net ⋅ 2d
#DidYouKnow we just turned 20 years old? Yes, really! The original incarnation of TFWiki was originally founded on Wikicities on this day in 2005. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over the years!
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
www.ebay.com/itm/23611446... my mp movie megatron auction ends in 8 hours???
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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 LAKE YELLOWWOOD SLAUGHTER on Kickstarter now @alejandrobot.com ⋅ 2d
Marvel could pay for my healthcare for the rest of my life for a fraction of 1% of profit from Spider-Man Noir, a character whose original comics I edited. For Peter David to die in medical debt, co-creator of Spider-Man 2099 and writer of countless seminal Hulk and X-Factor comics—that's a disgrace
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Dumbing of Age: "Fingering" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomics #webcomic
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Fingering
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