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by David M Willis on June 3, 2025 at 12:01 am
  • 04 – The Only Exception
└ Tags: alice, charlie, jennifer, joyce

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  1. The 25th
    The 25th
    June 3, 2025 at 12:03 am | #

    They also have a similar taste in bony point dexters

    • anon
      anon
      June 3, 2025 at 1:20 am | #

      well, alice is skinnier than jen but idk if she’s particularly ‘bony’ tho i suppose it’s hard to tell with those clothes/art style

      • Lee
        Lee
        June 3, 2025 at 1:23 am | #

        They probably meant Ruthless.

        • Jacob Crawford
          Jacob Crawford
          June 3, 2025 at 8:04 am | #

          Maybe this is a stretch, but I interpreted “point dexters” as an intentional finger/fingering joke. Again, might be a stretch.

          • Laura
            Laura
            June 3, 2025 at 9:03 am | #

            I got that one, too. Index fingers.

            • Laura
              Laura
              June 3, 2025 at 9:04 am | #

              Or right index, I got my etymologies confused.

    • Tessea
      Tessea
      June 3, 2025 at 3:31 am | #

      Just so you know, It’s ‘poindexter’. I havent heard that one in a long time…. God, I’m old.

      • Daibhid C
        Daibhid C
        June 3, 2025 at 7:26 am | #

        I was wondering what the derivation of that is, and whether it’s related to “point” (or the various shades of meaning of “dexter”) so I looked it up, and apparently it’s originally the name of a scientist character on Felix the Cat. I think if I ever knew that, I assumed he was called Poindexter because he was a poindexter, but no, it’s the other way round.

        • Casi
          Casi
          June 21, 2025 at 6:06 pm | #

          It’s actually older than that. Felix The Cat used the name for that character and it stuck. Kind of like how Nimrod has come to mean “idiot” rather than “great hunter” because of bugs bunny calling Elmer Fudd “Nimrod”

      • The 25th
        The 25th
        June 3, 2025 at 4:34 pm | #

        Thank you because I did not know.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      June 4, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

      And both will VEHEMENTLY DENY any sexual interest in a young Mr. Walkerton.

  2. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    June 3, 2025 at 12:03 am | #

    re: alt-text,

    it seems Dina Sensei has taught her well ^-^

    • emeraldbeacon
      emeraldbeacon
      June 4, 2025 at 12:00 am | #

      Is Willis going to start Mandela Effect-ing us by editing Charlie into the background of past strips?

  3. Megan
    Megan
    June 3, 2025 at 12:03 am | #

    read em and weep

    • xronium
      xronium
      June 3, 2025 at 12:19 am | #

      i wish there was a like button +2

  4. shadowcell
    shadowcell
    June 3, 2025 at 12:03 am | #

    Dumbing of Age Book 15 – With a BOY

    • Tan
      Tan
      June 3, 2025 at 12:06 am | #

      I think you mean Dumbing of Age Book 15: Totally Normal Now

    • Pocky
      Pocky
      June 3, 2025 at 12:50 am | #

      Dumbing of Age Book 15: According to other definitions.

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        June 3, 2025 at 1:34 am | #

        I see you read the alt text. One of the alt texts. Some thing that I saw on the home page but not on this page.

    • KiaStirling
      KiaStirling
      June 3, 2025 at 4:14 pm | #

      Dumbing of Age 15: She’s Normalled Up a Bit

  5. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    June 3, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

    The two group leaders! They must fight! There can be only one!

    • Renshear Blade
      Renshear Blade
      June 3, 2025 at 1:32 am | #

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7QaN0NpGws

  6. Dread Pirate Robin
    Dread Pirate Robin
    June 3, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

    Wonder if Charlie being here to hear this is gonna come back to bite Joyce.

    • Akane
      Akane
      June 3, 2025 at 12:05 am | #

      I’m sure Charlie will notice something.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      June 3, 2025 at 12:07 am | #

      I both doubt that Charlie is paying attention and doubt that she’d snitch.

      • Dread Pirate Robin
        Dread Pirate Robin
        June 3, 2025 at 12:14 am | #

        My concern’s that a) she could be more observant than you’d expect and b) she’s in the dark regarding social cues too much to know she’s snitching. She mentions it to Dina not comprehending that it’s sensitive, Dina tells Becky. Becky puts 2 and 2 together. Drama bomb waiting to go off.

        • Rose by Any other Name
          Rose by Any other Name
          June 3, 2025 at 8:36 am | #

          … OH.
          Yeah, particularly given that Joyce said “my best friend” which is a title that Becky still sometimes claims.
          Many and varied misunderstandings might well ensue.

    • Whirlakitty
      Whirlakitty
      June 3, 2025 at 9:28 am | #

      Eh…I don’t think its likely that Charlie will bite Joyce.

    • Shakes
      Shakes
      June 3, 2025 at 1:49 pm | #

      Chekov’s Charlie?

  7. Justnobodyfqwl
    Justnobodyfqwl
    June 3, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

    This makes me want the two meteors to collide and Joyce/Billie to aggressively make out while both insisting it’s “normal heterosexual friend behavior”

    • Megan
      Megan
      June 3, 2025 at 12:12 am | #

      i mean as long as it only happens once, it is

      • clif
        clif
        June 3, 2025 at 1:03 am | #

        That’s what reading the comic has taught me.

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          June 3, 2025 at 1:39 am | #

          And reading Pixie Trix Comics has told me it’s perfectly normal for two dudes who are friends to “bro out” once in a while. It’s all Perfectly Normal.

          • StClair
            StClair
            June 3, 2025 at 2:51 am | #

            and if there’s one thing Jennifer prides herself on being, it’s “normal”.

            • Rose by Any other Name
              Rose by Any other Name
              June 3, 2025 at 8:40 am | #

              … I mean it is perfectly normal. No quotes required.

              Best friends make the best life partners.

  8. Longshot97
    Longshot97
    June 3, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

    Interested to see the dynamic between Alice and Billifer without dramatic, outright antagonism.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      June 3, 2025 at 2:09 am | #

      I’m kind of still trying to get a read on what Alice is normally like.

      Most of her previous appearances are like painful reunions and car crashes, which can tell you a lot about someone but aren’t going to give you a sense of the baseline.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        June 3, 2025 at 3:53 am | #

        She did call Walky “Wally” that one time, so either she didn’t think much of him in high school or Jennifer was that insistent on keeping her friendship with him separate from her cheerleader life.

  9. Purple Floof
    Purple Floof
    June 3, 2025 at 12:04 am | #

    And Charlie was there, spacing out in the background

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      June 3, 2025 at 8:53 am | #

      And Dina is on the opposite side. Both are unobserved. Excellent intel gatherers. CIA has nothin’ on either of them.

      • Purple Floof
        Purple Floof
        June 3, 2025 at 9:52 pm | #

        The order of information-gathering effectiveness goes Charlie, the CIA, Dina, the NSA, and Apple/Google

  10. Wilde
    Wilde
    June 3, 2025 at 12:05 am | #

    A WEEK?! Masturbating didn’t keep Joyce away from sex for long!

    • Dread Pirate Robin
      Dread Pirate Robin
      June 3, 2025 at 12:06 am | #

      Given the usual pacing of this comic I’m surprised it’s been that long. I’m not some republic serial villain, the laundry room scene with Dorothy was 35 minutes ago.

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        June 3, 2025 at 8:57 am | #

        I understood that reference!

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      June 3, 2025 at 12:08 am | #

      hahahha how ironic >:D

    • John Campbell
      John Campbell
      June 3, 2025 at 12:12 am | #

      Ten days, actually. It’s Saturday morning. Dorothy taught Joyce to do laundry on Wednesday of last week.

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      June 3, 2025 at 12:16 am | #

      Going by storylines, I think it was ten days ago, but close enough. (With, I guess, the note that being ten days ago means it was before she started dating Joe, as opposed to having just started dating him… otherwise, close enough.)

      • Sirksome
        Sirksome
        June 3, 2025 at 12:22 am | #

        Joyce and Joe have only been dating a week?! Haven’t even made it longer than Walky x Lucy?!

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          June 3, 2025 at 1:43 am | #

          To Lucy’s chagrin no, bit they did last longer than Lucy’s current toy boy. Lucy had him in like a few hours.

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      June 3, 2025 at 12:29 am | #

      starting to think maybe Dorothy‘s kind of full of crap sometimes.

      • Sirksome
        Sirksome
        June 3, 2025 at 12:35 am | #

        She can be but the masturbation wasn’t to keep Joyce away from sex it was to keep Joyce away from Joe which also didn’t work.

    • Wilde
      Wilde
      June 3, 2025 at 7:00 am | #

      I wish my neurodivergence flavor was the kind that would now go make a thorough list of all important plot events and character developments in th time between laundry and now, but alas, I would probably get distracted and bored doing that by end of day two of that week.

    • Decidedly Orthogonal
      Decidedly Orthogonal
      June 3, 2025 at 9:01 am | #

      What about “best friend” and Becky’s feelings? Because “sister” also hadn’t been taken (iirc) when Jocelyn popped into Joyce’s comprehension.

      Of course Joyce loves Becky regardless of what label is ascribed, but Becky herself hasn’t always been as sure.

  11. Doopyboop
    Doopyboop
    June 3, 2025 at 12:05 am | #

    Mark my words… Charlie is definitely picking up on everything being said right now. I say this as a fellow ADHD haver who has sensitivities to sounds and has eavesdropped on many a convo by accident I’m so sorry everybody around me I cannot control my ears I can hear across the building but if you’re talking to me face to face your words are garbled

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      June 3, 2025 at 12:07 am | #

      Is that a form of sensory integration disorder?

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        June 3, 2025 at 12:09 am | #

        speaking as someone with ADHD and autism including sensory integration, is very much a thing, yes

      • Doopyboop
        Doopyboop
        June 3, 2025 at 12:10 am | #

        Pretty much! I’ve heard it called sensory processing disorder, and it happens with other neurodivergences. When I was a kid I called it ‘dyslexia of the ear’ because unless I am concentrating VERY HARD, there’s many times where someone is speaking face to face to me and the words are unfortunately just processed either with a delay, or very hashed up. I love captions on the tv for this reason.

        • Doopyboop
          Doopyboop
          June 3, 2025 at 12:12 am | #

          It also makes it very stressful when more than one person tries to talk to me at once, or when people try to talk to me while I’m doing a task. In loud environments I’ll usually get overwhelmed because there’s just too much sound that I cannot focus on or filter out correctly.

          • NGPZ
            NGPZ
            June 3, 2025 at 12:29 am | #

            I really feel this, at this point i practically LIVE in a pair of noise-canceling headphones T^T

            • Doopyboop
              Doopyboop
              June 3, 2025 at 1:03 am | #

              I feel that, there are definitely some days where I gotta pop in my ear buds and block the world out for a bit!

          • Laura
            Laura
            June 3, 2025 at 12:50 am | #

            Oh, yeah, I hear ya! I’ve basically gotta get everything captioned. If there’s a TV or a radio playing in the background, I literally cannot hear the things being said in the room. Makes it impossible when my S.O. tries to ask me questions about things going on, in a TV show or movie. (Snugglebuddy cannot follow a plot or distinguish between characters to save hir life…) I literally cannot hear what my hunny is saying, if he’s said it while I’m watching TV and reading the captions.

            Actually, I was reading recently that ACEs can contribute to the development of sensory processing challenges. Fascinating study. I’m trying to find the citation but can’t seem to locate it now.

            • Laura
              Laura
              June 3, 2025 at 12:56 am | #

              Even phone calls and meetings were captioned.

              When I was younger, I was serving as an interpreter for a multilingual family with little in the way of common language. (Mom spoke Peul and some French, Dad spoke Wolof and some French, kiddos both spoke babble.) The baby and kiddo were having language developmental delays, so the county sent developmental specialists to their home to for play therapy intervention with the little ones. I was there to interpret in French between the therapists and the Mama.

              To teach the kids English, as the parents could not do so, the mom had Sesame Street and other children’s educational programming on the TV, constantly. I was listening for the 3 languages at play (French, English, and any intelligible words that might be made out of the kiddos’ babble) and trying to interpret, while the TV was playing in English in the background. Just about impossible! I had to tell them I had to have the TV off; I couldn’t hear with it on. It wasn’t even loud. Just the fact that it was there.

              …Sorry… bit of a tangent… tales of auditory processing…

              • Doopyboop
                Doopyboop
                June 3, 2025 at 1:09 am | #

                I appreciate the tangent! makes me feel better about my own! I have captions on many things as well. It actually started because my mother was hard of hearing, and I found that I really enjoyed growing up with captions on the tv. Now I used it on streaming as well! That also made for funny situations similar to your’s because my mom would usually depend on me to help her hear things. Sometimes I was very helpful! Other times… not so much. I did also appreciate that my mom did try to accommodate; when I was around the age of having chores to do. She would list them off to me the night before, like “tomorrow after school I need you to do x, y, and z”. Fast forward to the next day, I completely blank on what those things are. Instead of getting mad, my mom began to write them down on a note on the fridge for me to check off and it was a LOT easier for me.

                I wouldn’t be surprised; honestly a big part of accepting that I’m neurodivergent is also accepting that there’s a chance I am neurodivergent due to certain ACEs that occurred when I was a kid. It makes for a muddy cocktail, similar to Joyce’s struggles, but in the end I be who I be!

                • Taffy
                  Taffy
                  June 3, 2025 at 2:08 am | #

                  ACEs?

                • Doopyboop
                  Doopyboop
                  June 3, 2025 at 2:14 am | #

                  I can’t say for sure what Laura was referring to but I googled ACEs and the results I saw where ‘adverse childhood experiences’ and I think that’s what Laura was referring to. But, I don’t mind being corrected in case I’m wrong!

                • Laura
                  Laura
                  June 3, 2025 at 3:06 am | #

                  Thanks, Doopyboop. Sorry, my comment below was meant to be a reply to yours here. Thar’s the phrase I meant.

                  Couple other typos:

                  *extreme, not “eztreme”
                  *is, not “us”

              • Laura
                Laura
                June 3, 2025 at 3:01 am | #

                Yes, that was the acronym I meant. Thanks for the story, too, Doopyboop!

                I’ve been reading up a lot abut developmental trauma, these past 8-9 months (just came off the tail end of an 8-month flare-up) and I came across a fascinating diagram showing areas of the brain that could potentially grow in different ways as adaptations to eztreme early sensory exposure. Unfortunately, for the life of me, now I can no longer find the study it was illustrating…

                Not to imply that there us any particular “cause” behind learning differences and neurodevelopmental conditions, of course! Just it would be fascinating if the brain developed certain self-protective “calluses” to reduce or increase sensitivity in response to stressors in the sensory environment.

                …Sorry, sorry, I know this is a hot-button topic! No offense whatsoever intended to anyone by raising such a sensitive subject…

                • Taffy
                  Taffy
                  June 3, 2025 at 4:42 am | #

                  I wouldn’t sweat too much about the “cause” thing. Sometimes stuff happens and something contributed to it happening in some way, we can all admit that. Adding extra layers and analogies to our description won’t change the result, and everything you ever experience contributes to something else in your life in at least a tiny way, so all we really need to do is avoid pointing to one singular thing and saying “This always causes that in all cases.” Any finer detail is just the gravy of politeness on the meatloaf of situational tact.

                • Laura
                  Laura
                  June 3, 2025 at 5:00 am | #

                  I love that metaphor. Thanks, Taffy!

        • Marianne
          Marianne
          June 3, 2025 at 3:22 am | #

          This is one reason I prefer pirated television. Subtitles work best for me when they’re delayed by about 0.7 seconds (so that if I’m struggling with processing towards the end of a line I still have time to read it), which with VLC is easily done with one button, whereas Netflix, Disney+ etc doesn’t support that feature at all. You pay more for less accessibility.

    • Kyulen
      Kyulen
      June 3, 2025 at 4:45 am | #

      I often wonder how much Charlie is aware of what’s going on around her, because she looks more like she’s spacing out to me. And in multiple previous strips when we’ve seen her standing somewhere while people are talking near her or even talking directly to her, she only seemed to realize there were people around after they had walked away.

    • P!enapple
      P!enapple
      June 4, 2025 at 7:20 am | #

      I always say that my brain and ears are working at 2 different speeds 😁

      Tangentially, I used to work with a college student with multiple neurodivergent issues, including Asperger’s and adhd. Part of my job was teaching him how to ride the ciry bus. One day, he was having q lot more trouble than usual with focusing, so I gently reminded him of his task to pay at least a bit more attention. He muttered something about not being in a good mood and something about being a martyr and not doing it on purpose. I didn’t hear what he waid at all, being on a bus with a lot of people talking. So i asked him, astonished, if he saidhe was eating gargoyles with honey on porpoise. He burst out laughing, told me what he had really said, and it broke up the bad mood totally. For years after, we each used part of what I heard as an in joke and to break up bad moods.

      • Doopyboop
        Doopyboop
        June 5, 2025 at 12:51 am | #

        One time my mom told me to “put away the utensils” and I swear to God, what I heard was “go fuck a monkey” and I gave her the most incredulous look. It became an in-joke as well, and one we’d frequently laugh about whenever putting dishes away.

  12. Hastur
    Hastur
    June 3, 2025 at 12:05 am | #

    I thought it was Danny that suffered from saying-the-quiet-part-out-loud syndrome?

    • Effie
      Effie
      June 3, 2025 at 12:33 am | #

      It’s Dumbing of Age, I think everyone suffers from everything

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        June 3, 2025 at 3:56 am | #

        Especially O’Brien, and the succotash.

  13. True Survivor
    True Survivor
    June 3, 2025 at 12:06 am | #

    What the hell is Charlie looking at? Her eyes are all over the place. Is she looking beyond the veil or something? She grows to powerful.

    • MeghanTheDreamCrusher
      MeghanTheDreamCrusher
      June 3, 2025 at 12:08 am | #

      She’s looking through the other side of the panel, watching a giant stylus bring her into being

    • anon
      anon
      June 3, 2025 at 1:20 am | #

      she’s just vibing/hanging out lol

      or she’s just accidentally eavesdropping on like 3 diff convos at the same time

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      June 3, 2025 at 8:59 am | #

      She watches us.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        June 3, 2025 at 9:37 pm | #

        Tomorrow she makes unbroken eye contact with the camera for the entire strip.

    • ValdVin
      ValdVin
      June 3, 2025 at 7:49 pm | #

      Charlie is watching Carla’s funny offscreen event. tying together the shoelaces of at least three people.

  14. 3oranges
    3oranges
    June 3, 2025 at 12:06 am | #

    Heyoooo
    Also, sorry Becky.

  15. Eiim
    Eiim
    June 3, 2025 at 12:06 am | #

    That was only a week ago? Her sex life certainly escalated quickly.

  16. MeghanTheDreamCrusher
    MeghanTheDreamCrusher
    June 3, 2025 at 12:06 am | #

    So what’s everybody think Charlie is thinking about as she stands there in the background? My bet is on giraffes

    • Megan
      Megan
      June 3, 2025 at 12:13 am | #

      see i was gonna say giraffes

      • MeghanTheDreamCrusher
        MeghanTheDreamCrusher
        June 3, 2025 at 12:36 am | #

        Well you know what they say about great minds

        • Megan
          Megan
          June 3, 2025 at 12:42 am | #

          Named Meg 🙂

    • anon
      anon
      June 3, 2025 at 1:26 am | #

      she’s prolly thinking about how many ppls shoelacse she can tie in the whole room before the hours up 8D

      • morleuca
        morleuca
        June 3, 2025 at 6:11 am | #

        I was thinking the reproductive cycle of the whelk

        • Nymph
          Nymph
          June 3, 2025 at 7:39 am | #

          Please explain this in as much detail as you would like.

      • Daibhid C
        Daibhid C
        June 3, 2025 at 7:31 am | #

        She’s already tied everyone’s shoelaces together, and is now thinking about dark matter. She knows what it is, but she keeps forgetting that everyone else doesn’t.

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        June 3, 2025 at 9:00 am | #

        Tomorrow’s strip shows Alice, Jennifer, and Joyce all falling down, with their shoelaces all tied together.

  17. Suet
    Suet
    June 3, 2025 at 12:07 am | #

    maybe it’s easier to list what they don’t have in common at this point

    can’t say that Joyce being a different-flavored Jennifer isn’t giving me a massive existential crisis

    • Dread Pirate Robin
      Dread Pirate Robin
      June 3, 2025 at 12:27 am | #

      Maybe after a couple more whiskey flights.

    • not someone else
      not someone else
      June 3, 2025 at 12:41 am | #

      Think of it this way: Jennifer and Joyce are like Elohaba and Glinda wait shit no that’s just my shipfic hold on I dropped some papers

    • Nadamás
      Nadamás
      June 3, 2025 at 2:01 am | #

      She also rised in a cult, called “being rich” that things messes up your brain.

  18. thakoru
    thakoru
    June 3, 2025 at 12:08 am | #

    She’s just standing there. Menacingly!

    • Cmasta1992
      Cmasta1992
      June 3, 2025 at 12:14 am | #

      Damnit. Sniped.

  19. IntangibleMatter
    IntangibleMatter
    June 3, 2025 at 12:09 am | #

    It’s rare that I’m brought to cackling. 10/10 response, Alice

    • BarerMender
      BarerMender
      June 3, 2025 at 1:43 am | #

      Also, Jennifer’s face in the last frame.

      • Thing2
        Thing2
        June 3, 2025 at 1:58 am | #

        Yessss! Gravatar!

  20. BBCC
    BBCC
    June 3, 2025 at 12:12 am | #

    I love Jennifer and Joyce’s friendship.

    And yeah, I’m sure Jennifer will have thoughts on this.

    • anon
      anon
      June 3, 2025 at 1:25 am | #

      i’m sure joyce will bring up the “So how many besties have you fucked once platonically?” or so XD

      • Steamweed
        Steamweed
        June 3, 2025 at 9:01 am | #

        “You’re allowed to bang a bestie once. But what about the non-besties? Once each, also?”

  21. Cmasta1992
    Cmasta1992
    June 3, 2025 at 12:13 am | #

    She’s just standing there…MENACINGLY

    • anon
      anon
      June 3, 2025 at 1:24 am | #

      i’m sure carla will rise back up and somehow be more compeititive between them on a thriving relationship (tho i imagine she and charlie are a bit more ace coded/leaning and not rushing into sex)

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        June 3, 2025 at 2:43 am | #

        of course, Carla is very sex repulsed, probably never will happen

  22. jeffepp
    jeffepp
    June 3, 2025 at 12:13 am | #

    1. Joyce, it wasn’t an accident.

    2. Alice, everyone!

    3. Alice, it wasn’t an accident. (Not talking about THE accident. )

    • Pea Pod
      Pea Pod
      June 3, 2025 at 12:32 pm | #

      It kind of by definition was an accident with Joyce? Her intention was never to have sex, at least not in the moment.

  23. Derek
    Derek
    June 3, 2025 at 12:15 am | #

    the dryer incident was a week ago???

    • Ray
      Ray
      June 3, 2025 at 12:21 am | #

      I was making the mistake of drinking a beverage while reading the update, and almost inhaled and choked getting slapped by that hilarious bit of comic book time too

    • anon
      anon
      June 3, 2025 at 1:23 am | #

      wonder how long ppl expected it to be, a week makes sense versus liek, next2-3 days of her ‘having sex’ the seoncd time lol

  24. Animedingo
    Animedingo
    June 3, 2025 at 12:15 am | #

    A week ago was last year

  25. AbacusWizard
    AbacusWizard
    June 3, 2025 at 12:18 am | #

    Dumbing of Age, Book 17: A Week Ago, By Accident, With My Best Friend

    • Laura
      Laura
      June 3, 2025 at 1:01 am | #

      Colonel Mustard, in the Library, with the Candlestick.

      • Laura
        Laura
        June 3, 2025 at 1:02 am | #

        Alongside Mrs. Peacock and Miss Scarlet!

        • morleuca
          morleuca
          June 3, 2025 at 6:14 am | #

          *gasp* The Cook!

          • Nymph
            Nymph
            June 3, 2025 at 7:41 am | #

            Dr Scott! (wait, wrong movie where people shout names for a scene)

            • Laura
              Laura
              June 3, 2025 at 9:06 am | #

              “Rocky!”

              “Bullwinkle!”

              • Laura
                Laura
                June 3, 2025 at 9:09 am | #

                “…Sonic the Hedgehog.”

                “What, we’re just ominously sayin’ names, right?”

                https://www.dumbingofage.com/2022/comic/book-12/04-dont-stop-billie-ving/rendezvous/

              • Embe13
                Embe13
                June 3, 2025 at 11:21 am | #

                “MOOSE!!!”

                “SQUIRREL!!”

                “SPOOOOOOONN!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

                • Laura
                  Laura
                  June 3, 2025 at 11:28 am | #

                  “GAZPACHO SOUUUUUUUUUUP!”
                  (–Red Dwarf)

                • Laura
                  Laura
                  June 3, 2025 at 11:28 am | #

                  “KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!”
                  (—Star Trek)

                • Deanatay
                  Deanatay
                  June 4, 2025 at 12:16 am | #

                  Pavitr: But gazpacho means soup! It’s like you’re saying soup soup. Which is the same as saying chai tea!

                  Spot: Ooh, I love chai tea!

                  Pavitr: NOOO!!

  26. John Campbell
    John Campbell
    June 3, 2025 at 12:18 am | #

    I see Joyce has got her colors on for Pride Month.

    • MeghanTheDreamCrusher
      MeghanTheDreamCrusher
      June 3, 2025 at 12:25 am | #

      Hey but if a random question, but one I’ve had in the back of my mind for years, if you’ll humor me. What’s your profile picture from?

      • John Campbell
        John Campbell
        June 3, 2025 at 1:05 am | #

        It’s the Selkie Daddy from John Allison’s amazing Bad Machinery.

        • MeghanTheDreamCrusher
          MeghanTheDreamCrusher
          June 3, 2025 at 1:16 am | #

          Many thanks!

        • Crow
          Crow
          June 3, 2025 at 3:23 pm | #

          Just realized that John Allison’s last name is, in fact, Allison, and you are a different John

          • John Campbell
            John Campbell
            June 3, 2025 at 6:43 pm | #

            That’s actually part of the reason I’ve gone to using my full name in webcomics comment sections. Reduces confusion in the Solver and Bad Machinery comments. I still had to tell people several times in the GoComics Bad Machinery comments that I was not, in fact, the creator, just a fan who’d been reading since early in Bobbins.

            Part of it is also that over on the Roomies! reruns, which had fewer random avatars, I had a hash collision with another John, so we both had Sarah for avatar.

      • tyersome
        tyersome
        June 3, 2025 at 1:12 am | #

        Not sure if you’ll get a reply from him, but I’m pretty certain it is … something … drawn by John Allison.
        It might be a the the father of a couple of selkies from a long ago story line, or a custom avatar based on that?
        Well worth checking out IMO …

  27. Ray
    Ray
    June 3, 2025 at 12:19 am | #

    Waiter! Waiter! The cartoonist appears to have put more planning and setup into a punchline than most authors put into fictional wars yet again!

    • Ray
      Ray
      June 3, 2025 at 12:21 am | #

      That is to say, compliments to the chef.

  28. SvenTS
    SvenTS
    June 3, 2025 at 12:24 am | #

    Charlie’s glasses ‘lens flare’ in panel 3 is the only footage of her Quantum Pranking caught on film.

    • anon
      anon
      June 3, 2025 at 1:21 am | #

      somehow, she’s tied all of their laces together while they were talking

      • Nadamás
        Nadamás
        June 3, 2025 at 1:58 am | #

        By that we everyone in the campus.

      • Thing2
        Thing2
        June 3, 2025 at 2:17 am | #

        I used to be able to tie laces with my toes… not sure about “without looking” tho!!

  29. Twinsword
    Twinsword
    June 3, 2025 at 12:31 am | #

    *DED*

  30. Scolopendra
    Scolopendra
    June 3, 2025 at 12:39 am | #

    Extremely underrated roast by Alice here. Damn girl, way to drag your ex.

  31. GholaHalleck
    GholaHalleck
    June 3, 2025 at 12:48 am | #

    That last pose on Alice. Yes, I would like some more of that please and thank you.

  32. GholaHalleck
    GholaHalleck
    June 3, 2025 at 12:49 am | #

    Also Bravo Willis for putting BOTH the Bi and the lesbian flag colors on Joyce. Delicious.

  33. AGV/Ruby
    AGV/Ruby
    June 3, 2025 at 12:52 am | #

    Is Alice the best friend with whom Jennifer had accidental sex (according to some definitions)?

    • clif
      clif
      June 3, 2025 at 1:09 am | #

      Yes.

    • anon
      anon
      June 3, 2025 at 1:22 am | #

      idk how ‘accidental’ it’d be other than a shorter fling from before i’d assume they would’ve hooked up after jen publically called out that prom king/date guy to where they would’ve done something together afterwards. unless they were both drunk or so and then made out or so before the accident

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        June 3, 2025 at 2:23 am | #

        I would absolutely assume they were doing non-platonic things well before prom, it seems to have been a long-term affair and I doubt Alice had too many hangups about cheating on the creep who roofied her.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      June 3, 2025 at 1:37 am | #

      Billie/Jennifer’s acknowledged it happened before, though she seems to sort of treat it as an experiment, and Alice put more weight into it. It was known enough by Walky that he made a joke about being a “drama hurricane” must be sexually transmitted, after Alice’s outburst in her first appearances. Whether Walky knew about it due to Billie or because it was common knowledge, I couldn’t say.

    • Li
      Li
      June 3, 2025 at 4:46 pm | #

      Teensy correction, Jennifer doesn’t have any qualms about calling what she and Alice did sex, she just thinks it doesn’t necessarily mean they have romantic feelings for each other, because best friends are allowed to make out and “bang” once, maybe twice.

  34. M!a
    M!a
    June 3, 2025 at 1:37 am | #

    Jennifer going on about who’s weird/normal is giving me vibes of her old statis-reinforcement-police behavior. That won’t go well with Alice for long.

  35. Dana W
    Dana W
    June 3, 2025 at 1:46 am | #

    No sweater vest AND cleavage! She has changed!

  36. Thing2
    Thing2
    June 3, 2025 at 1:46 am | #

    Charlie still waiting?

    • Thing2
      Thing2
      June 3, 2025 at 1:47 am | #

      Ooops, missed that Willis’ comment drew attention to that.

  37. Hazel
    Hazel
    June 3, 2025 at 2:09 am | #

    The orange stripes did, in fact, fool me.

  38. Getes
    Getes
    June 3, 2025 at 2:30 am | #

    Joyce and dotty’s special laundry day was only a week ago? That’s insane. I was only a few years older than these kids when this comic started. They’re on track to graduate just after the sun engulfs the earth.

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      June 3, 2025 at 2:38 am | #

      “laundry day is a very dangerous day” XD

    • yak
      yak
      June 3, 2025 at 7:26 pm | #

      kids these days, eh?

  39. AK
    AK
    June 3, 2025 at 3:20 am | #

    Alice bringing incredible levels of shade to the party. A+

  40. Kyulen
    Kyulen
    June 3, 2025 at 4:39 am | #

    I kinda wonder what Billifer means by saying that Joyce has “normalled up” since they first met and became friends. Because while she’s changed a bunch since early DoA, I’m not convinced Joyce is that normal. And that’s not a bad thing, I tend to prefer weird people over what most people in the US consider “normal”, probably because as an autistic person I’ve never really been normal myself.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      June 3, 2025 at 5:08 am | #

      For one thing, Joyce isn’t pestering people with Bible nonsense anymore.

      • Daibhid C
        Daibhid C
        June 3, 2025 at 7:44 am | #

        I’m quite prepared to be wrong here, but did she ever really do that? She was never Mary. I recall Original Flavour Joyce as someone who’d bring up Bible nonsense when explaining why she wasn’t comfortable with something, but never forced her values on other people (even when she was dating Ethan, she seemed to accept that his reasons for not wanting to be gay had nothing to do with being “saved”). BICB(AUA)W.

        • Li
          Li
          June 3, 2025 at 4:43 pm | #

          When Dorothy agreed to hang out with Joyce for the first time, she asked Joyce not to try to convert her. Joyce responded by dumping Chick Tracts (designed for exactly that purpose) out of her purse:

          https://www.dumbingofage.com/tracts/

          Her pre-date quiz for Joe involved asking if he’d accepted Jesus Christ as his lord and savior, and she was somewhat stymied with both him and Ethan by the fact that they’re Jewish, which she — like her parents at the time — clearly viewed as being sorta halfway there but needing a different tactic than other non-Christians.

          She was mega anxious when Dorothy first told her she’s an atheist (which is why Dorothy then felt the need to ask her not to try to convert her).

          She was super duper uncomfortable around the girls who believe even slightly different flavors of Christianity on their floor, and she was especially bad at hiding her nerves when Agatha told her she’s a Mormon, and then stage-whispered to Dorothy that at least Agatha wasn’t a Catholic…….

          Early Joyce was definitely weird about Christianity, to put it nicely.

    • Daibhid C
      Daibhid C
      June 3, 2025 at 7:40 am | #

      Jennifer has a very simple definition of normal. It’s her. She’s normal, and the more like her other people are, the more normal that makes them.

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      June 3, 2025 at 7:45 am | #

      Yeah, I’m with Taffy. I think the “normalled up” is a nice way of saying “is no longer actively trying to recruit those around her into the cult she grew up in” more than anything else.

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      June 3, 2025 at 7:48 am | #

      Six months ago Joyce couldn’t even say the word sex and would freak out at the concept of anything sexual while also holding very problematic ideas of purity and sin. Now she’s casually talking about sex with her friends. I don’t like defining things as “normal” but she’s definitely less high strung about sex and sexual topics. She’s also in general less sheltered than she was and better capable of addressing different life experiences than her own. I think the more accurate description of Joyce is she’s more open minded than she was but normal is a more common generalization.

      • John Campbell
        John Campbell
        June 3, 2025 at 11:51 am | #

        (talking about sex) (with her friends) and also (talking about (sex with her friends)).

        Joyce has always been pretty open-minded. She just had to empty out some of the garbage that her cult poured in there. That’s the difference between her and Mary. Mary has the same garbage in there, but she’s kept the lid tightly closed.

        • TheFungus
          TheFungus
          June 3, 2025 at 1:15 pm | #

          it was mentioned Mary is also a born again christian and now, despite being technically raised christian i didn’t pay attention to any of that shit (i only went to church as a kid because it was the only way i could interact with my old school friends) but i’ve always gotten the read that Mary got into Christianity later in life adopting it when it became fashionable as opposed to Joyce who was born and raised christian her entire life. I could be entirely wrong though but Mary really reminds me of a lot of dipshit bigots who flopped from being athiests or agnostic to full on Christians when traditionalist bullshit became the go-to for fascists. Actually forgot we got Tristian back in book 14 who’s an even better example of the exact kind of person i’m referring to with starting out pretty lax before backsliding into full right-wing christian trad asshole.

          • Sirksome
            Sirksome
            June 3, 2025 at 2:22 pm | #

            I’m curious about how Mary became who she is. Apparently her parents are decent people I think? I can’t confirm but I vaguely remember conversations on her popping up and comments mentioning Willis stated she didn’t get her detestable personality and beliefs from her parents. If that’s true then why is she so awful? Although it dawns on me in the recent decade or so of the US socio-political climate Mary would be fairly popular with many people. It might just be bad luck for her that she lives in a very liberal and gay hall of campus.

            • Nadamás
              Nadamás
              June 3, 2025 at 4:33 pm | #

              Yeah if she went on TikTok there would actually be a pretty big audience for her, she might even make bank if she call a child a racial slur on camera.

  41. Adept
    Adept
    June 3, 2025 at 5:59 am | #

    Brilliant strip, bravo 😀

  42. Plain Marie
    Plain Marie
    June 3, 2025 at 6:24 am | #

    Oh, was that only a week ago??? Uuhhh…

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      June 3, 2025 at 7:46 am | #

      It was “last week” which isn’t necessarily a week ago (it can be almost two weeks ago!) and in this case is about ten days.

      Which is still time dilation, but I wanted to be specific.

  43. Pergola
    Pergola
    June 3, 2025 at 6:44 am | #

    They are about to have a perfectly normal meal. Nothing weird at all.

  44. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    June 3, 2025 at 8:10 am | #

    No, Jennifer, you’re the weird one.
    Those people…tsc tsc tsc ¬¬

  45. Steamweed
    Steamweed
    June 3, 2025 at 8:52 am | #

    “When did I have sex for the first time? Who knows?! I exist in a superposition of first time sexified/non-sexified at all times!”

  46. Poppakat
    Poppakat
    June 3, 2025 at 9:43 am | #

    This is one of the few comics you have done that made me laugh so hard I snorted.

  47. finep
    finep
    June 3, 2025 at 10:35 am | #

    That seems like a perfect setup for an embarrassing call-back.
    Joyce is pressured into explaining by Bilifer and, hearing it, Carla says:

    “Oh, so that’s what happened!”
    Beat panel
    “Then what the fuck did you do yesterday?”

  48. Segnosaur
    Segnosaur
    June 3, 2025 at 10:38 am | #

    The alt-text:

    Wait a sec, if Charlie is “always in the background”, what about comic strips where she is a central character? Are there actually 2 Charlies then (one in the background one as the main character)? Or is she like Schrodinger’s cat, appearing in 2 places at once?

    • Nymph
      Nymph
      June 3, 2025 at 2:42 pm | #

      It’s interesting that there are two, unrelated, jokes about superposition in this comment section today (that I’ve seen so far).

  49. Laura
    Laura
    June 3, 2025 at 10:57 am | #

    I think, for those of us raised without comprehensive sex ed or frank discussions of boundaries and consent, many physical situations or activities or forms of contact may have seemed more “accidental” than planned.

    Just stumbled across this resource, kind of a “planning guide” so to speak, so that one can make decisions in advance. Looks good. I’m glad universities offer it.

    https://www.colorado.edu/oiec/sites/default/files/attached-files/sex_workbook_id_v2.pdf

    As the (nurse midwife?) lamented in Something Positive, 1937:
    “I have to explain how babies are made to more and more already pregnant girls every year.”
    (Pity, the archives of that storyline appear to have gone offline.)

  50. John Campbell
    John Campbell
    June 3, 2025 at 11:44 am | #

    I keep interpreting the hand in front of Billie in panel 2 as Alice’s and going, “Aw, cute, she has her arm around her,” then realizing it’s just Billie’s and being sad.

  51. Caro
    Caro
    June 3, 2025 at 12:06 pm | #

    charlie overhearing this surely wont cause any problems in the future

  52. Morrismorris
    Morrismorris
    June 3, 2025 at 12:15 pm | #

    Got’em Alice! Beautiful roast.

  53. DashWallkick
    DashWallkick
    June 3, 2025 at 12:25 pm | #

    She seems unbothered by the fact that she had sex with Dorothy, which at least promises we’re getting a full integration of the “it’s okay if you do it once or twice with your friends, it doesn’t mean you’re like, *gay* gay.”

  54. Dorjojoe
    Dorjojoe
    June 3, 2025 at 6:45 pm | #

    My agenda progresses

  55. Kaz
    Kaz
    June 3, 2025 at 7:11 pm | #

    So does that mean youre adding Charlie’s tag to all comics?

    • Steamweed
      Steamweed
      June 3, 2025 at 11:45 pm | #

      The archivists would just cry.

  56. Sharizard
    Sharizard
    June 4, 2025 at 5:13 am | #

    I’ve lost track. Did Jennifer and Alice ever actually sleep together? I know Jennifer has said in the past that you get ‘one or two with a friend’ but then i remember we also have the prom night car crash where nothing happened and went downhill from there, which gave me the impression that romance was about to blossom and then didn’t.

    I’m not sure if they’ve just had drunk makeouts, or have explicitly gone further than that.

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