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June 1, 2026

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by David M Willis on February 12, 2025 at 12:01 am
  • 03 – Me And Who You Say I Was Yesterday
└ Tags: jennifer

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  1. brionl
    brionl
    February 12, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

    Oh, snap!

    • Clif
      Clif
      February 12, 2025 at 2:07 am | #

      And thus Jennifer breathed her last.

  2. Animedingo
    Animedingo
    February 12, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

    Lol

    And I cannot emphasize this enough

    Lmao

    • Lumino
      Lumino
      February 12, 2025 at 11:56 am | #

      Right? I always love watching Jennifer get smacked down a little more.

      Especially since she’s deserved the humbling lately.

      • Bryy
        Bryy
        February 12, 2025 at 5:26 pm | #

        I love it when people ACKNOWLEDGE in this strip that they’ve been smacked down.

        Too bad it takes 4 years for any real character development.

  3. Karla Jean
    Karla Jean
    February 12, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

    Gotta start somewhere.

    • Clif
      Clif
      February 12, 2025 at 2:22 am | #

      I’m just hoping she turns the page so that we can read Joyce’s comic.

      • Archieve
        Archieve
        February 12, 2025 at 2:40 am | #

        Maybe if she angrily gose to Dorothy to confront her about “stealing” the story and accidentally has it on the wrong page.

      • Kammon
        Kammon
        February 12, 2025 at 3:59 am | #

        And finds Joyce’s comic is also credited to Dorothy, appearing in ‘Keener’s Spot’.

        • Dave the Inverted
          Dave the Inverted
          February 12, 2025 at 5:11 am | #

          I see what you did there….

        • Bryy
          Bryy
          February 12, 2025 at 5:26 pm | #

          oh fuck

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        February 12, 2025 at 6:49 pm | #

        Today’s strip introduces Julia’s new friend Bobbi Jennings, who’s well-meaning but self-centered. She tries to do the right thing, but goes about it the wrong way which leads her into trouble.

        • PedanticJerkass
          PedanticJerkass
          February 12, 2025 at 7:25 pm | #

          Bilbo Jennins

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            February 13, 2025 at 3:12 am | #

            Greatest little hobbit of them all!

    • Decidedly Orthogonal
      Decidedly Orthogonal
      February 12, 2025 at 9:00 am | #

      It’s gotta start somehow.

  4. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    February 12, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

    This Keener girl needs to be dealt with.

    • Davus
      Davus
      February 12, 2025 at 12:05 am | #

      Maybe Jennifer will ask Dorothy out. (And get rejected obviously)

      • Effie
        Effie
        February 12, 2025 at 12:27 am | #

        “Dorothy beat me for the byline?!?

        … feel vaguely turned on.”

        https://www.dumbingofage.com/2022/comic/book-13/01-bring-me-to-life-drawing/sudden/

        • Smallmoon
          Smallmoon
          February 12, 2025 at 3:36 am | #

          Alternatively:
          Jennifer: I can’t understand how some yokel from Mishawaka is suddenly getting every hot story in town.
          Dorothy: “Well, Jennifer, the truth is I’m actually Amazi-Girl and I only pretend to be a journalist in order to hear about disasters as they happen and then squeeze you out of the by-line.”
          Jennifer: “You’re a sick woman, Keener.”
          Dorothy: “you asked!”

          • Lokitsu
            Lokitsu
            February 12, 2025 at 6:24 am | #

            (Dorothy turns to the fourth wall and winks)

        • Steamweed
          Steamweed
          February 12, 2025 at 10:17 am | #

          Sudden Dorothy!

  5. mindbleach
    mindbleach
    February 12, 2025 at 12:05 am | #

    Come on, you’re both equally qualified for the biline.

    … wait, it’s spelled how?

    • Davus
      Davus
      February 12, 2025 at 12:05 am | #

      byline

    • Amy
      Amy
      February 12, 2025 at 12:13 am | #

      Byline, literally the line of who the article was written by.

    • Uly
      Uly
      February 12, 2025 at 12:13 am | #

      Byline. It’s the line that says who it’s by.

    • Devin
      Devin
      February 12, 2025 at 12:18 am | #

      Oh no, people’s desire to explain things once again trips over a pun

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        February 12, 2025 at 12:20 am | #

        Right?
        @mindbleach: I thought the joke was funny.

      • mindbleach
        mindbleach
        February 12, 2025 at 12:27 am | #

        Hyphenation may have prevented this disaster – and countless others.

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      February 12, 2025 at 12:23 am | #

      Should be called the “bi”-line. Am I right?

      • Jamie
        Jamie
        February 12, 2025 at 3:16 am | #

        Tbh, I think it’s more of a biplane.

        Because she’s two-dimensional.

    • Aura
      Aura
      February 12, 2025 at 12:23 am | #

      I know explaining jokes is uncool, but this one seems to be going over a lot of heads.

      Look at how mindbleach has misspelled byline as ‘biline’ the relationships the 2 characters being referred to have to their sexuality 😉

      • Aura
        Aura
        February 12, 2025 at 12:24 am | #

        oops the joke has already been pointed out in the time it took me to type that so this was entirely unnecessary ><

        • Vanessa Pinter
          Vanessa Pinter
          February 12, 2025 at 12:28 am | #

          Very nice

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      February 12, 2025 at 1:03 am | #

      The WLWline

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      February 12, 2025 at 3:23 am | #

      In this case it’s “byeline”, because it’s not for her.

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      February 12, 2025 at 4:02 am | #

      I see your little pun on Jennifer’s and Dorothy’s sexualities…

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      February 12, 2025 at 10:18 am | #

      You mean ‘Billie-line’?

    • Adept
      Adept
      February 12, 2025 at 2:22 pm | #

      I liked biline 🙂

  6. Alongcameaspider
    Alongcameaspider
    February 12, 2025 at 12:06 am | #

    Psh, Dorothy doesn’t even know that Amazigirl is Sal, why does she get the bigger byline

    • Freezer
      Freezer
      February 12, 2025 at 2:10 am | #

      like.png

      • Decidedly Orthogonal
        Decidedly Orthogonal
        February 12, 2025 at 9:03 am | #

        👍

  7. Thag Simmons
    Thag Simmons
    February 12, 2025 at 12:07 am | #

    Look considering the quality of her work I’m surprised enough was used for her to get any credit at all

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      February 12, 2025 at 12:39 am | #

      I expect there was something to it. Something billing’s worth.

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        February 12, 2025 at 10:19 am | #

        *slow applause

        *whispers into walkietalkie: “The hit is a go.”

        • Casi
          Casi
          February 12, 2025 at 4:04 pm | #

          “the mcnuggets are on their way. repeat, the mcnuggets are on their way”

    • Archieve
      Archieve
      February 12, 2025 at 2:25 am | #

      Yeah even Jennifer briefly acknowledged that Daisy should kill her for missing everything so it shouldn’t be a shock to Jennifer that she didn’t have enough to get primary credit.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      February 12, 2025 at 3:24 am | #

      She got one incidental detail right, just by chance.

      • Rolf of Many Doors
        Rolf of Many Doors
        February 12, 2025 at 8:49 am | #

        Yes – that Sal is Amazigirl

  8. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    February 12, 2025 at 12:07 am | #

    I’m confused how she has any headline attribution given she didn’t see anything and didn’t interview anyone.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      February 12, 2025 at 12:09 am | #

      Dorothy is a generous soul

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      February 12, 2025 at 12:10 am | #

      She was their at the very end and also is the one who modified AG’s outfit and also knows Amber is AG and probably did ask her friends what happened and is also such a neurotic overachiever and better writer than Jennifer that this is very likely.

      • Daibhid C
        Daibhid C
        February 12, 2025 at 12:49 pm | #

        Are you … talking about Dorothy? Because I’m not sure Charles is talking about Dorothy.

        • Sirksome
          Sirksome
          February 12, 2025 at 2:19 pm | #

          I was talking about Dorothy but it’s hard to know who Charles meant considering their statement applies to both Dorothy and Jennifer. In fact Jennifer did interview at least one person. Sal. We didn’t see Dorothy interview anyone.

          But yeah, Charles was probably talking about Jen in context of their other comments in this thread.

    • CrazyJ
      CrazyJ
      February 12, 2025 at 12:11 am | #

      You’d think that would be enough to end a career and yet Tim Pool proves otherwise.

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        February 12, 2025 at 12:13 am | #

        I hate to say it but at her current trajectory “failed journalism major turned internet reactionary” is a pretty plausible lifestyle path for Jennifer

        • Jeremiah
          Jeremiah
          February 12, 2025 at 12:29 am | #

          Yeah you don’t actually have to worry about “facts” or “sources” or “logic” you just say whatever you think it’s truth or lie when is convenient and many people will eat it up as long as you say what they wanna hear.

        • Aquila
          Aquila
          February 12, 2025 at 3:18 am | #

          I hate to say it, but so is becoming POTUS.
          (“You steal my dreams? I steal yours!”)
          (Also, Jeremiah’s comment fits this possible career path just as well, if recent election results are any indication.)

          • Tan
            Tan
            February 12, 2025 at 1:42 pm | #

            “What inspired me to become president… Well there was this one bongo in college… Can I say bongo? …They’ll censor it automatically? Okay, so there was this one bongo in college…”

          • PedanticJerkass
            PedanticJerkass
            February 12, 2025 at 7:32 pm | #

            Yeah, considering who the current POTUS is, it’s certainly within her qualifications. And I don’t doubt for a second that she’d still manage to do a better job at it, regardless.

            (I mean, even taking into account that she’s just a fictional character. I’d rather have a cardboard cutout of a picture of Jennifer Billingsworth as the POTUS instead of what we’ve been shackled with now.)

            • Aquila
              Aquila
              February 13, 2025 at 2:42 am | #

              More fun to look at, certainly.

        • Steamweed
          Steamweed
          February 12, 2025 at 10:20 am | #

          A terrible path for Jennifer, and I’m afraid it’s plausible for her. 🙁

          • Kelibath
            Kelibath
            February 12, 2025 at 11:10 am | #

            Oh, I don’t know. Seems the USA will do ANYTHING other than elect a non-white woman to the White House.

            • PedanticJerkass
              PedanticJerkass
              February 12, 2025 at 7:44 pm | #

              Seems the USA will do ANYTHING other than elect a non-white woman to the White House.

      • Charles Phipps
        Charles Phipps
        February 12, 2025 at 12:14 am | #

        I’m now imagining Dorothy in the Robbie Robertson role.

        Daisy: AMAZI-GIRL IS A LESBIAN!

        Dorothy: I’m pretty sure she’s straight.

        Daisy: Bah, she’s got everyone fooled! I’m going to get the pictures that prove it!

        • Charles Phipps
          Charles Phipps
          February 12, 2025 at 12:15 am | #

          In obvious JJ Jameson voice, of course.

        • Deanatay
          Deanatay
          February 12, 2025 at 7:35 am | #

          GET ME LESBIAN AMAZI-GIRL PICTURES!!

          … I mean, get me Amazi-Girl pictures.

      • Jeremiah
        Jeremiah
        February 12, 2025 at 12:27 am | #

        Being the world worst guesser is hard work you know.

    • Nono
      Nono
      February 12, 2025 at 12:18 am | #

      Daisy probably wants to keep any reasonably attractive female staff somewhat happy (for reasons).

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        February 12, 2025 at 12:29 am | #

        Honestly Daisy doesn’t seem like she’s trying that hard to keep Jennifer happy.

        • Taffy
          Taffy
          February 12, 2025 at 1:05 am | #

          I mean, she’s got two hands. It wouldn’t be difficult.

          • Steamweed
            Steamweed
            February 12, 2025 at 10:21 am | #

            Appropriate joyce-face-gravatar is appropriate.

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      February 12, 2025 at 12:26 am | #

      Well neither did Jennifer so.

      • Daibhid C
        Daibhid C
        February 12, 2025 at 12:51 pm | #

        Does Jennifer have different pronouns and I missed it? I’m confused as to why people seem so sure that “she” in Charles’s comment is Dorothy.

  9. Queezle
    Queezle
    February 12, 2025 at 12:07 am | #

    So Jennifers day is going great.

    • Bryy
      Bryy
      February 12, 2025 at 5:28 pm | #

      It’s times like these that I’m reminded of how much actual shit these characters go through in 24 hours.

  10. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    February 12, 2025 at 12:08 am | #

    Now Jennifer, remember that second billing’s worth something.

    …

    … maybe that would be easier if there was some sort of mnemonic that you could tie it to?

    • Aquila
      Aquila
      February 12, 2025 at 3:20 am | #

      She’d be keener to get top billing. (see what I did there?)

      • Decidedly Orthogonal
        Decidedly Orthogonal
        February 12, 2025 at 9:06 am | #

        Maybe they could switch by taking turns.

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        February 12, 2025 at 10:22 am | #

        Some keener billing’s worth something.

  11. King_Salty
    King_Salty
    February 12, 2025 at 12:08 am | #

    “Protests escalate” well let’s just hope that doesn’t mean anything bad.

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      February 12, 2025 at 12:15 am | #

      Please tell me Jocey isn’t gettin arrested. I’m worried.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        February 12, 2025 at 3:29 am | #

        Maybe, as part of a group.

        At least it would give us a reason to see Hank again?

    • Charles Phipps
      Charles Phipps
      February 12, 2025 at 12:16 am | #

      I’d make jokes about exaggerated police response to peaceful protests but there’s no such thing in America.

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        February 12, 2025 at 10:24 am | #

        I made a comment about this, but it got scrubbed by the newly formed Department of Internet Censorship of Knowledge.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      February 12, 2025 at 1:07 am | #

      Rubber nuclear weapons had to be deployed to disperse the crowd.

      • Rectilinear Propagation
        Rectilinear Propagation
        February 12, 2025 at 1:33 am | #

        Your avatar is changing the tone of your comment.

    • Queen Anthai
      Queen Anthai
      February 12, 2025 at 4:45 am | #

      Yeahhhhhhhh Jocelyne better be okay or SO HELP ME–

  12. Dean
    Dean
    February 12, 2025 at 12:09 am | #

    Look on the bright side, Jennifer – newspapers are dying!

  13. Shaith86
    Shaith86
    February 12, 2025 at 12:10 am | #

    To paraphrase an old Spoony/Dr. Insano bit, “This is where Jennifer’s soul snaps like a Twix bar.”

    • StClair
      StClair
      February 12, 2025 at 12:26 am | #

      or an even older bit,
      “Here’s where Cameron Jennifer goes berserk.”

    • M!a
      M!a
      February 12, 2025 at 12:27 am | #

      Except when you snap a Twix bar, you see multiple layers.

      *waggles eyebrows in anticipation of Beeg Laffs*

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        February 12, 2025 at 10:26 am | #

        Lay-ers? Well, ya got A-G, Amber, Becky, Danny, Dina, Dorothy, Jennifer, Joe, Sal, Sarah, Walky, and several others.

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      February 12, 2025 at 2:18 am | #

      ngl that sounds like it go really good with coffee :9

  14. Puppeteer Nessus
    Puppeteer Nessus
    February 12, 2025 at 12:10 am | #

    Is Tony Amazi-girl?

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      February 12, 2025 at 10:28 am | #

      Probably not. We saw them both in the same place at the same time. A-G might be just that good at quick in-between panel costume changes, but probably not.

      • Casi
        Casi
        February 12, 2025 at 4:08 pm | #

        Actually The tony we saw there was a LMD used to keep his identity secret. He already didn’t like hanging out with his football “friends” so he left the social stuff to his LMD, he just didn’t expect the Incellerator to instigate a fight with Danny that night.

  15. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    February 12, 2025 at 12:10 am | #

    I hadn’t really considered it, but Dorothy dedicating herself to journalism over a political career is honestly really heartening to see after seeing her so defeated inside.

    • Coatl
      Coatl
      February 12, 2025 at 12:26 am | #

      At Karaoke night, I said that maybe music is Dorothy’s true place, I mean, she really put her effort into singing, but seeing that she continues in journalism is also good.

      I know it’s too soon to speak, but I think this is Dorothy’s place.

    • Shakes
      Shakes
      February 12, 2025 at 12:54 am | #

      Investigative journalist is for sure a way to be an irritant and do good for society. It’d suit the person Dorothy is becoming very well.

      Jennifer can always switch her career path to… Uh…

      • Coatl
        Coatl
        February 12, 2025 at 12:57 am | #

        I think you mean…uh

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        February 12, 2025 at 1:09 am | #

        If nothing else, there are thousands of people who’d pay her to get half-naked and insult them.

        • Clif
          Clif
          February 12, 2025 at 2:11 am | #

          And that’s just in the comment section.

        • Steamweed
          Steamweed
          February 12, 2025 at 10:29 am | #

          Billifer the Domme is a possibility. Maybe Veronica Reed can mentor her.

    • Bash
      Bash
      February 12, 2025 at 2:44 am | #

      It might be a good fit for her. She’s relentless and has a good moral compass.

      • Archieve
        Archieve
        February 12, 2025 at 2:48 am | #

        and lying to advance her career woulnt be a given on this career path.

        • Proxiehunter
          Proxiehunter
          February 12, 2025 at 5:38 pm | #

          Well, not to the audience of her reports anyway. Feels like good odds an investigative journalist might need to tell a few whoppers to get access to the information they need to get the truth published.

    • DashWallkick
      DashWallkick
      February 12, 2025 at 3:48 am | #

      Joyce DID say she has a “commitment to the truth, even if it’s painful.” Sounds like a journalist to me.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      February 12, 2025 at 7:49 am | #

      Is she really doing that though? The journalism isn’t new. She’d started that early 1st semester, as part of her path to the Presidency.

      I’m not sure she’s treating it as a alternate career path at this point.

  16. jeffepp
    jeffepp
    February 12, 2025 at 12:12 am | #

    Dorothy is Jen’s rival. Joe is Dorothy’s rival. Joyce is inches away from having a “good morning” with Joe.

    • M!a
      M!a
      February 12, 2025 at 12:25 am | #

      Inches, and the whole Rich Mullins discography.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        February 12, 2025 at 4:11 am | #

        (snicker)

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      February 12, 2025 at 10:30 am | #

      Joyce is very tempted to enjoy a cuppa Joe.

      • jeffepp
        jeffepp
        February 12, 2025 at 10:20 pm | #

        The best part of waking up…

  17. M!a
    M!a
    February 12, 2025 at 12:16 am | #

    Jennifer is the Christopher Columbus of reporting.

    She wasn’t where she meant to be, didn’t know where she actually was, murdered or enslaved the entire native population and still got remembered as a hero.

    …okay so the metaphor was pretty weak. Lemme try again–

    *gets yoink’ed offstage by a giant hook*

    • M!a
      M!a
      February 12, 2025 at 12:20 am | #

      So Jennifer is the Edison to Dorothy’s Tesla–

      *stage hook yoink’d again*

      • Charles Phipps
        Charles Phipps
        February 12, 2025 at 12:22 am | #

        Jennifer’s reporting efforts is less read than an ad for meeting Bulmerian girls in your area.

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          February 12, 2025 at 4:17 am | #

          I don’t know about that, I heard Bulmerian girls are really skinny, almost emaciated.

          • Schpoonman
            Schpoonman
            February 12, 2025 at 7:44 am | #

            Oh, finally, someone else said it.

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        February 12, 2025 at 10:33 am | #

        Jennifer is the Tommaso Caccini to Dorothy’s Galileo Galilei.

        *gets blank looks from giant hook crew

    • Chubseus
      Chubseus
      February 12, 2025 at 9:45 pm | #

      Dorothy is Jimmy Olsen, and Jennifer is either Lois Lane or Steve Lombard depending on how generous you want to be.

  18. HueSatLight
    HueSatLight
    February 12, 2025 at 12:17 am | #

    I wonder if this made the story.

  19. Pocky
    Pocky
    February 12, 2025 at 12:17 am | #

    seems about right

  20. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    February 12, 2025 at 12:21 am | #

    I wonder if Jocelyn is unhappy that she’s been upstaged by a superhero fight.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      February 12, 2025 at 12:23 am | #

      I think she likely expected it, she’d probably be pleasantly surprised it made the front page at all, given the university being unlikely to want to acknowledge it.

      • Charles Phipps
        Charles Phipps
        February 12, 2025 at 12:27 am | #

        Yeah, those murderous Antifa psychopathic peace protestors needed an article about how they had to be stopped.

  21. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    February 12, 2025 at 12:25 am | #

    I wonder if Jennifer even managed to turn in anything substantial, or if Dorothy or Daisy felt like throwing her a bone with the “additional reporting” mention.

    • Coatl
      Coatl
      February 12, 2025 at 12:29 am | #

      Daisy sounds more likely.

    • Archieve
      Archieve
      February 12, 2025 at 2:16 am | #

      Yeah from what we saw Jennifer went from shocked that AG was actually there to failed flirting with the deans son. Being given credit for additional reporting on something she didbt actually see or investigate is very generous of Daisy.

  22. IntangibleMatter
    IntangibleMatter
    February 12, 2025 at 12:25 am | #

    Jennifer, maybe if you actually did your work well instead of trying to get into people’s pants and harass people who are totally unrelated you’d do better.

    • Archieve
      Archieve
      February 12, 2025 at 2:46 am | #

      But that would mean she needs to improve! and worse, that she hasn’t been the keeper of secret identities this whole time!!

  23. staszu13
    staszu13
    February 12, 2025 at 12:28 am | #

    Oh oh. I smell drinky fall off the wagon time

  24. Coatl
    Coatl
    February 12, 2025 at 12:28 am | #

    Yes Jennifer, we already saw you, it is unfortunate that you do not have more recognition.

  25. Newlland(Henryvolt)
    Newlland(Henryvolt)
    February 12, 2025 at 12:34 am | #

    still think Jennifer can go rogue to be a independent journalist, I’m talking something along the lines of kyle kulinski from secular talk not Joe Rogan to be more specific.

    Maybe even go as far as convince some programmer friends to start up an entire sight for it. Maybe then she doesn’t haft to cover Amazi-Girl stories to appease Daisy’s touch starved antics any longer.

    • Charles Phipps
      Charles Phipps
      February 12, 2025 at 12:39 am | #

      Jennifer isn’t being silenced. She’s just terrible at her job and barely puts any effort into it.

      • Newlland(Henryvolt)
        Newlland(Henryvolt)
        February 12, 2025 at 12:53 am | #

        But she doesn’t even want to do the Amazi-Girl story anyway, that’s just what Daisy is Lazer focused on.

        • GholaHalleck
          GholaHalleck
          February 12, 2025 at 12:59 am | #

          It’s her job, not her hobby.

          Do you think Peter Parker wants to go out in his skin tight spandex outfit every day and sell his boss his poses? He does not. But that’s his job.

        • DashWallkick
          DashWallkick
          February 12, 2025 at 3:40 am | #

          Jennifer is not a good journalist. You’ll notice a pattern of things where she declares that she is something — head cheerleader, problem solver, good with people, ace reporter — and lacks the introspection to come to terms that she is just flattering herself.

      • Sirksome
        Sirksome
        February 12, 2025 at 12:53 am | #

        I don’t actually think Jennifer is bad at journalism in general but this very specific scenario involving Daisy forcing her to pursue Amazi-Girl stories she’s not good at investigating because of her own biases. It would be like asking Dorothy to write an article on how to slack off or be a bisexual washout.

        • Shakes
          Shakes
          February 12, 2025 at 1:16 am | #

          Jennifer wanted the sports beat at the start of the comic purely because she was a cheerleader. She also admitted to not actually doing anything for the school newspaper despite being named editor.
          Early on you don’t get to pick a beat and get work assigned to you, which Jennifer has failed at massively. Her intuition sucks, she’s never in the right place and has been overshadowed by Dorothy who was just writing for extra credit.
          Jennifer might have an academic knack for English but if I was Daisy I’d be gently nudging Jennifer to find a new major.

          • Sirksome
            Sirksome
            February 12, 2025 at 1:31 am | #

            Jennifer actually has decent intuition. She might even be onto something with Incelerator’s origin. She just never checks her own biases and assumes she’s right. She thinks Amazi-Girl is Sal. Nothing can convince her she’s wrong so she will forever fail at her task. Dorothy is better at this yes, but Jennifer hasn’t really put the effort in to see if she is good at it. Journalism probably isn’t the right fit for Jennifer though, yeah.

            • Amelie Wikström
              Amelie Wikström
              February 12, 2025 at 3:17 am | #

              Like Jennifer says, she has a deep intuitive understanding of people. It’s her whole thing and she was mad at Booster for stealing it. It’s just that her intuitions are typically completely wrong.

              • DashWallkick
                DashWallkick
                February 12, 2025 at 9:31 am | #

                If anything, some introspection and awareness of her delusional confidence and frequency of mistakes would make her a pretty dynamite therapist. But instead she keeps running from the idea that she was ever wrong or needs guidance because when would Billie need to take other people’s advice on things? And so we get the car crash who instead of introspecting, runs from herself.

            • Jeremiah
              Jeremiah
              February 12, 2025 at 3:39 pm | #

              You just described all the reason she has a bad intuition.

        • Tesset
          Tesset
          February 12, 2025 at 2:22 pm | #

          Idk, “bisexual washout” is kind of the direction Dorothy’s character is going. Having some external rewards for exploring that might be a good thing for her

          • Tesset
            Tesset
            February 12, 2025 at 2:24 pm | #

            “Hey Joyce, let’s skip class & makeout, I need to do research for an article Daisy asked me to write.”

            “Of course Dorothy, anything for my platonic bestie!”

      • Bryy
        Bryy
        February 12, 2025 at 5:30 pm | #

        So is Joe Rogan.

  26. Archieve
    Archieve
    February 12, 2025 at 2:35 am | #

    Looks like Dorothy has unintentially upstaged Jennifer in journalism just like Becky unintentionally upstaged her in politics.

  27. Amelie Wikström
    Amelie Wikström
    February 12, 2025 at 3:09 am | #

    Was not expecting Jennifer to turn into Elliot Reed of all things

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      February 12, 2025 at 3:17 am | #

      She’s not writing an incel manifesto and shooting up a building, good golly.

      • Amelie Wikström
        Amelie Wikström
        February 12, 2025 at 3:26 am | #

        No, Elliot Reed, the character from Bill Lawrence’s Scrubs.

        • Schpoonman
          Schpoonman
          February 12, 2025 at 7:49 am | #

          I’m assuming Taffy is Taffying about the Scrubs character’s name being spelled “Reid”. I’m only being this nitpicky twerp because Google threw me a “Did you mean…?”

          • Taffy
            Taffy
            February 12, 2025 at 8:02 am | #

            Oh fuck, I was thinking of Elliot Rodger. I only know of two Elliot’s (the other being Page), so I saw the surname starting with R and I guess my brain said “close enough”. I’ve never seen Scrubs.

            • HueSatLight
              HueSatLight
              February 12, 2025 at 5:10 pm | #

              There’s also Elliot, Pete’s dragon. And T. Eliot, of: "T. Eliot, top bard, notes putrid tang emanating, is sad." I'd assign it a name: Gnat Dirt Upset On Drab Pot Toilet

              • PedanticJerkass
                PedanticJerkass
                February 12, 2025 at 8:00 pm | #

                There’s also this guy.

          • Amelie Wikström
            Amelie Wikström
            February 12, 2025 at 9:04 am | #

            Dangit, and I used to know the show forwards and backwards. (Indeed, my brother and I once watched the whole thing in reverse episode order just to make that joke.) But it was a few years and hundreds of Marvel comics ago.

            I guess everyone was confused today.

        • Bryy
          Bryy
          February 12, 2025 at 5:31 pm | #

          Yeah, but you could have specified when talking about someone who shares the names a high profile murderer.

          • Yumi
            Yumi
            February 12, 2025 at 6:47 pm | #

            Turns out that wasn’t the case at all, though… and you commented this after the previous discussion that the person Taffy was thinking of was Elliot Rodger. So it’s a weird thing to put on them.

          • Amelie Wikström
            Amelie Wikström
            February 12, 2025 at 7:02 pm | #

            My dad has the same first name as Anders Breivik, that doesn’t usually cause any confusion. . .

  28. George
    George
    February 12, 2025 at 4:32 am | #

    Oooooh. The jimmies… they have been rustled!

  29. TheFlamingonator
    TheFlamingonator
    February 12, 2025 at 5:43 am | #

    Even WITH my glasses I would need a magnifying glass to read Jennifers name. What is that font size, 2??

    • Lingo
      Lingo
      February 12, 2025 at 6:58 pm | #

      I was about to say! More like zero-point-two. The difference in font sizes between Dorothy’s and Jennifer’s bylines is comically ridiculous. No way Dorothy’s name is as large in a newspaper as it appears on our screen, so if those proportions are correct, you’d probably need a microscope to read Jennifer’s 😆

  30. Alan in DC
    Alan in DC
    February 12, 2025 at 6:41 am | #

    Then she turns the page and sees Walky’s “Ha ha haaa” strip and her head explodes like a confetti cannon.

  31. Deanatay
    Deanatay
    February 12, 2025 at 7:44 am | #

    “I deserve top billing, goddammit! It’s IN MY NAME!!”

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      February 12, 2025 at 8:03 am | #

      She gets the billing she’s worth.

  32. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    February 12, 2025 at 8:09 am | #

    The IDS looks to be bigger than my local Alden Capital fishwrap. Yes, it’s a venture capital firm.

  33. Thomaskattus
    Thomaskattus
    February 12, 2025 at 9:16 am | #

    Oh Damn!

  34. Kyulen
    Kyulen
    February 12, 2025 at 9:22 am | #

    I’m more curious about the “protests escalate” story. I wonder if we’ll hear more about that soon.

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      February 12, 2025 at 11:36 am | #

      Oh noes, Willis is doing the Foreshadowing again 😱

    • Bryy
      Bryy
      February 12, 2025 at 5:32 pm | #

      In comics time, “this weekend” should be the next arc.

  35. Suet
    Suet
    February 12, 2025 at 9:56 am | #

    It’s
    Dorothy’s
    Scoop
    Additional scoop by Jennifer Billingsworth

    Something will boil over from this. Something will boil over.

  36. Oli
    Oli
    February 12, 2025 at 10:45 am | #

    Wait.. protest escalates? Is big sis ok?

    • Pseudowolf
      Pseudowolf
      February 12, 2025 at 1:05 pm | #

      I noticed that too. I’m wondering if someone decided to start breaking/throwing things.

      • Serendipity
        Serendipity
        March 1, 2025 at 9:25 am | #

        That’s not what “protest escalates” usually means.

        It usually means that the cops had enough of peaceful protesters’ presence and began the state sponsored violence.

  37. Charles Phipps
    Charles Phipps
    February 12, 2025 at 12:37 pm | #

    As a THE DIVISION fan, it’s always funny remembering Dorothy’s last name is Keener. That’s the name of the insane manipulative psychopath who is waging war against the United States.

  38. HueSatLight
    HueSatLight
    February 12, 2025 at 5:06 pm | #

    Jennifer is right to be frustrated. Unless Dorothy is acknowledging her part in AG’s return, she’s doing journalistic malpractice. And if she is acknowledging her part, Daisy’s doing malpractice by running Dorothy’s piece as reporting. I don’t think Dorothy pressured AG into getting back into it so that she’d get the scoop. I do think Dorothy pressured AG to get back into it, and also she’s getting the scoop.

    For whatever Jennifer’s flaw are as a journalist with little experience, she’s not lying. I saw some criticisms of Jennifer not being good at investigative journalism. Ok, but she’s trying to, and possibly learning how. Dorothy is not doing investigative journalism at all. Is that how she’s presenting herself?

    • Bryy
      Bryy
      February 12, 2025 at 5:34 pm | #

      Jennifer has no knowledge of those things, though. She can’t be in the right for stuff only the reader has seen.

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        February 12, 2025 at 6:34 pm | #

        no.

        • HueSatLight
          HueSatLight
          February 12, 2025 at 6:35 pm | #

          like. just no. you can only be frustrated if you know all the details? wtf. no absolutely not.

          • Jeremiah
            Jeremiah
            February 12, 2025 at 8:12 pm | #

            I mean, if by all the details you mean any of the details. Also journalistic malpractice? It is a college newspaper article a about a superhero I doubt anyone would care.

            • HueSatLight
              HueSatLight
              February 12, 2025 at 10:02 pm | #

              you’re tedious.

              • Jeremiah
                Jeremiah
                February 12, 2025 at 10:20 pm | #

                Right back at ya.

            • Taffy
              Taffy
              February 12, 2025 at 10:52 pm | #

              Journalistic malpractice at least won’t cause a patient to die on the operating table, so we’ve got that going for us.

        • HueSatLight
          HueSatLight
          February 12, 2025 at 6:49 pm | #

          https://www.dumbingofage.com/newspaperassignment/
          Dorothy lied to her, poorly, when Jennifer was investigating on assignment, and then Dorothy scooped her.

  39. morhek
    morhek
    February 12, 2025 at 7:39 pm | #

    So is Jennifer the Eddie Brock to Dorothy’s Peter Parker? I’m not sure who would be Venom in this analogy, but I’m excited to find out.

  40. Zamperla
    Zamperla
    February 12, 2025 at 8:50 pm | #

    ….yeah but see. Sal is COOL and Amazigirl is cool, and if someone says Amazigirl is white people have a lot of racial bias, which is, admittedly, true.

    • Charles Phipps
      Charles Phipps
      February 12, 2025 at 9:48 pm | #

      “I don’t live hereTM!”

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