I mean, given the adult track record, it’s kind of understandable. The only parents so far that haven’t been absolute disasters are the ones that showed up like. Once or twice and didn’t leave much of an impression.
I guess the joke is Leslie has bad taste in women or likes being negged? It’s not really that funny to me when that’s all Anna apparently has to offer. But whatever. Humor is subjective.
I’d link more but too much and the comment goes into moderation purgatory. Her every appearance is like this. While I don’t think she’s a bad person (admittedly we aren’t given much info about Anna) all she does is insult Leslie and complain. That’s her bit in every appearance. It doesn’t leave a great impression and I need a bit more if I’m supposed to enjoy the idea of her dating Leslie. But maybe I’m not? Maybe she’s supposed to be irritating as a kind of troll or something to folks who take the comic too seriously or some other kind of joke?
As someone who has thick brows, this one also made me feel personally insulted. …Granted I AM single and DO have caterpillars on my face, but it just makes me sad that the beauty standards for ‘being a woman’ (whether you were born as one or not) means thick eyebrows are seen as gross. Thick eyebrows rock! Fuck beauty standards!
Are you perhaps also USAmerican? I can’t believe some of the shit that comes from there about ‘beauty’. I adore caterpillars and lots of other funky eyebrows.
I am indeed USAmerican! And it’s true, Americans are really weird about any reminder that women have any sort of body hair. I know quite a few other women who routinely get their eyebrows waxed or threaded and I can’t be assed to do that. Even tweezers honestly hurt like hell.
For me, tweezers are fine for plucking one eyebrow and then hurr a ton for the other. Luckily I’m fine with their general shape and volume as they are. But plucking the occasional strays will get one eye watering.
I mean thick eyebrows did come into the beauty standard in the mid to late 2010s, though it was aore manicured, unnatural style. And people would go way overboard with it. As fast a i know we haven’t gone back to the day of tweezers and pencil thin brows yet. Last I checked I think naturalistic brows are in right now? Feather brows were a trend a few years ago and I still like doing them? Anyway my point is eyebrow beauty standards (like all beauty standards) are fickle and ever changing, it’s not the 90s anymore and I hope to god we’ve learned from hearing millennials complain about their brows never growing back after over plucking. I like a thick brow, it makes your face stand out in a really nice way and I don’t think that’s an unpopular opinion right now
We’ve seen so little of her I have no idea if she’s genuinely bad but I really dislike how she harps on people’s physical appearance. Like saying her ex Mindy is obviously single cuz she “has caterpillars on her face” or telling Lesie how her hair is a good distraction to how big her nose it.
It feels like those kinds of loaded statements pickup artists use to immediately lower a girl’s self-esteem
idk about ‘trust’ but it def did seem more like attraction than something long term unless she’s like faye and takes a while to let ppl in versus just being a bongo to everyone like how she treated her supposed ex/best friend when they first met
Now that she doesn’t believe her mother is watching her, she went to find a replacement. Good for her. Maybe Leslie will give her advice so SHE AND DINA DON’T BREAK UP FOR REAL
If you can get the scratch together to order it online, iherb.com does sell California poppy tincture – quite lawful pain relief. It’s also in some grocery stores, like Sprouts, if that’s easier. Apologies if that’s not helpful. It’s just the closest OTC I know of, to being able to get pain medicine by Rx.
GABA and Theanine supplements also help, as does Magnesium supplementation, depending on the budget for supplements.
Personally, listening to music at 174 hz for some reason helps me with the pain.
I appreciate the help, but like, isn’t poppy tincture just opium? XD
Thankfully I got cannabis for daytime pain relief as well as diphehydramine to help me sleep despite the pain, (the anti inflammatory ointment Im on is also supposed to help a bit with it but I’m not noticing that yet as of 3 days on it :/
it hasnt been that much time passed as far as i know but i imagine anna would be more casual about it or straight up say it was an fwb situation and not like ‘dating’
Oh God, Anna’s still in the picture. Leslie deserved so much better.
Also, I feel like it’s pretty wild that Becky got over there. I was about to ask how before I remembered that Uber existed and then realized that I don’t think Uber existed when the comic started.
Public transportation also exists. It’s shit in a lot of places, but often decent in college towns. And Leslie’s apartment doesn’t seem like it’s that far from campus.
Down where I live bus stops aren’t usually located in suburbs or really near them, so I guess I never considered one could be in a neighborhood in the US. Bus would’ve dropped her off at the nearest shopping center and she’d have had to hoof it.
I went to state college in a town with about 10K residents. This made pretty much everything in the town effectively walking distance, and yet even here they ran a bus line. I all but assume that for any college big enough to have a campus that they have public transportation.
Bloomington has both public buses, running every 30 minutes last I knew, and some campus buses I think running between main campus and dorms. I forget if we know if Leslie has a car, but if not she’d be likely to either live close to campus or close to a bus line.
Also, Bloomington has been putting some effort into better bicycle infrastructure, not that Willis draws many bicycles.
The comic does have a legally distinct Uber equivalent, no? It’s called “Zoomr” or something, and Ruttech owns it.
I should also reiterate: sliding timescale. Tech that didn’t exist when the comic started will exist in-universe when it’s relevant. We have preview strips showing off characters with a Switch 2 and everything.
Yeah but like, it is wild that something which just was not a thing back when the comic started is now so ubiquitous. Like in HS Uber existed, but not in my town. People would get stranded places after drinking (or just drive home drunk because they were irresponsible and had no other options.) I know it’s a sliding timescale, it’s just wild.
chances are decent, given that they are decidedly older figures and if they were near the protests the police might have arrested them thinking “older folk, might be leaders”
A former GOP Congresswoman’s arrest would be all over the media, including everyone’s news feed. I’d think everyone would know, even in the specific worl of DOA.
Ok, this has good potential, Becky is being smart, go to an elder gay in that regard, someone who can give decent advice. Even though said elder gay might be a hot mess at times.
My hot take. While Leslie is definitely Becky’s surrogate mom to a certain extent, I actually think the Duo of Robin and Leslie are actually Becky’s best support system. For all Robin’s…Robinisms you get the feeling she really cares about Becky and while her advice isnt always mature and informed like Leslie i think she actually gets Becky more on a personality level.
less responsible about the simple stuff and will actively get you into trouble on occassion but still absolutely loves you and will bail you out when you need them.
I am a little concerned that Dorothy and Joyce, thinking that they have to fix things and unable to find Becky, will charge in and flail at Dina about her breakup with Becky…which may be news to Dina, since as commenters pointed out at the time, she didn’t actually say she was breaking up with Becky, and she’s usually very direct. Dramas!
I’m glad Becky is trying to get help from someone who could probably give her some really good advice for her situation. Of course, that’s assuming Becky actually finds Leslie and gets a chance to talk with her soon.
I really like the light.
I’m also stupidly bothered by all the Ss, which I think of as a hissing sound. One s can be a z, but lots of them. On the other hand Lezzzzzlie might look funny. Then again it would also be funny.
Snorts softly. Well. True, but even a relatively quiet life has grocery shopping in it. I’m glad she’s seeking out leslie about this, i think thats a very solid choice. I’m glad Leslies in her life. Also her new haircuts cute.
I kinda hope she also winds u trying to talk to Robin about this, because I think it would cause or solve problems.
I’m just gonna start detailing out stuff I like about every strip, because I like this comic.
Nice try trying to make me dislike Doyce less by reminding me actually abusive Anna exists, Willis, but I can dislike multiple things at the same time.
Becky’s looking fire in this though, great colour scheme on her.
I’ll say, beyond the fact that it will be good for Becky to try to talk to some other than Dorothy… It’s also a pretty good sign that Becky is seeking support in general. She hasn’t given up.
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Wait, is Becky going to an adult for help? That would be great.
HAHAHA no one in this universe goes to any adult for help. ~<3
“I need an adult!”
Clint: “I’m an adult!”
…
“… I need a different adult.”
I mean, given the adult track record, it’s kind of understandable. The only parents so far that haven’t been absolute disasters are the ones that showed up like. Once or twice and didn’t leave much of an impression.
Does Leslie count as an adult? I’m of two minds.
tbf leslie’s only 25-26 and barely considers herself an adult but more so b/c she’s gay idk if she’d go to leslie if she wasn’t a lesbian
I am so upset. Don’t trust Anna the dentist. I mean it.
Unlike Asher I have no reasoning for this beyond I just don’t like her.
I distinctly remember Anna being extremely unpleasant iirc. Like, negging unpleasant. It has been a long while.
She’s not great, no.
You remember correctly.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-8/01-face-the-strange/office-2/
I guess the joke is Leslie has bad taste in women or likes being negged? It’s not really that funny to me when that’s all Anna apparently has to offer. But whatever. Humor is subjective.
She seems generally bossy but not bad or abusive.
She’s just a little bit of a dirtbag butch. Not a crime but she’s probably not an incredible long term partner.
Have another.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/04-the-do-list/lovesleuth/
I’d link more but too much and the comment goes into moderation purgatory. Her every appearance is like this. While I don’t think she’s a bad person (admittedly we aren’t given much info about Anna) all she does is insult Leslie and complain. That’s her bit in every appearance. It doesn’t leave a great impression and I need a bit more if I’m supposed to enjoy the idea of her dating Leslie. But maybe I’m not? Maybe she’s supposed to be irritating as a kind of troll or something to folks who take the comic too seriously or some other kind of joke?
Just reminded me of Mindy too lol
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/04-the-do-list/single/
As someone who has thick brows, this one also made me feel personally insulted. …Granted I AM single and DO have caterpillars on my face, but it just makes me sad that the beauty standards for ‘being a woman’ (whether you were born as one or not) means thick eyebrows are seen as gross. Thick eyebrows rock! Fuck beauty standards!
Are you perhaps also USAmerican? I can’t believe some of the shit that comes from there about ‘beauty’. I adore caterpillars and lots of other funky eyebrows.
I am indeed USAmerican! And it’s true, Americans are really weird about any reminder that women have any sort of body hair. I know quite a few other women who routinely get their eyebrows waxed or threaded and I can’t be assed to do that. Even tweezers honestly hurt like hell.
For me, tweezers are fine for plucking one eyebrow and then hurr a ton for the other. Luckily I’m fine with their general shape and volume as they are. But plucking the occasional strays will get one eye watering.
I mean thick eyebrows did come into the beauty standard in the mid to late 2010s, though it was aore manicured, unnatural style. And people would go way overboard with it. As fast a i know we haven’t gone back to the day of tweezers and pencil thin brows yet. Last I checked I think naturalistic brows are in right now? Feather brows were a trend a few years ago and I still like doing them? Anyway my point is eyebrow beauty standards (like all beauty standards) are fickle and ever changing, it’s not the 90s anymore and I hope to god we’ve learned from hearing millennials complain about their brows never growing back after over plucking. I like a thick brow, it makes your face stand out in a really nice way and I don’t think that’s an unpopular opinion right now
Sorry this kinda sounds like I’m caping for beauty standards. I just. I like big eyebrows and I also don’t think that’s uncommon anymore. Is my point
We’ve seen so little of her I have no idea if she’s genuinely bad but I really dislike how she harps on people’s physical appearance. Like saying her ex Mindy is obviously single cuz she “has caterpillars on her face” or telling Lesie how her hair is a good distraction to how big her nose it.
It feels like those kinds of loaded statements pickup artists use to immediately lower a girl’s self-esteem
Leslie’s terrible taste in women is a multiversal constant.
Uh, Thanks Sirksome. I had completely forgotten her. She does seem pretty unpleasant.
she was openly negging, and toxic, and it showed very much in the other girl who got really quiet despite the fact that Leslie was there for her. ~<3
idk about ‘trust’ but it def did seem more like attraction than something long term unless she’s like faye and takes a while to let ppl in versus just being a bongo to everyone like how she treated her supposed ex/best friend when they first met
Mama please, let me back inside…
no literally, please let me inside, i’ve been waiting outside your house for 15 minutes
If Becky just killed a man, I’m hoping for Buckets of Blood Guy. It’s what he would’ve wanted.
Fair, but not where my mind would go first.
“Mama, please, let me back inside” is a lyric from a Queen song.
A different Queen song includes the lyric “Mama, just killed a man.”
Also “tie your mother down”
Man. What’s with Queen and mothers
Y’know, with how much Leslie was THIS close to adopting Becky, you’d think she’d make her a copy of her keys.
She wouldn’t promise not to lend them to Robin for pranking purposes.
Becky’s going to Leslie! That’s probably a good sign!
Wait, Leslie’s also a mess half the time
shit
Still, Leslie time!
Now that she doesn’t believe her mother is watching her, she went to find a replacement. Good for her. Maybe Leslie will give her advice so SHE AND DINA DON’T BREAK UP FOR REAL
Nitrous oxide?
ngl that actually sounds really good right about now X~X
Wishing you pain relief.
🪷🎵🫖🍵
If you can get the scratch together to order it online, iherb.com does sell California poppy tincture – quite lawful pain relief. It’s also in some grocery stores, like Sprouts, if that’s easier. Apologies if that’s not helpful. It’s just the closest OTC I know of, to being able to get pain medicine by Rx.
GABA and Theanine supplements also help, as does Magnesium supplementation, depending on the budget for supplements.
Personally, listening to music at 174 hz for some reason helps me with the pain.
I appreciate the help, but like, isn’t poppy tincture just opium? XD
Thankfully I got cannabis for daytime pain relief as well as diphehydramine to help me sleep despite the pain, (the anti inflammatory ointment Im on is also supposed to help a bit with it but I’m not noticing that yet as of 3 days on it :/
California poppy is related to regular poppy but contains no opium. It does have similar analgesic effects, though. It’s legal to buy and use.
Oh hell yeah, back to Becky!
Well that’s just rude lol
Yes! Yes! More of this! Let’s stay on this let’s- no, no, don’t cut back to Joyce and Dorothy, no, stay here, more of this!
First thought: Oh god, Leslie’s still dating Anna, FUCK. Leslie you need better taste in women, respect yourself sweetie.
Second thought: Oh right Leslie might have been arrested…? Though there was that bonus strip preview of her in her bed… So maybe she’s just at work.
Leslie appears to be legally free and clear.
Thank god for that much at least.
Based on what? Her last appearance was at the protest, we haven’t seen her since.
She’s in a recent bonus strip.
it hasnt been that much time passed as far as i know but i imagine anna would be more casual about it or straight up say it was an fwb situation and not like ‘dating’
Oh God, Anna’s still in the picture. Leslie deserved so much better.
Also, I feel like it’s pretty wild that Becky got over there. I was about to ask how before I remembered that Uber existed and then realized that I don’t think Uber existed when the comic started.
Public transportation also exists. It’s shit in a lot of places, but often decent in college towns. And Leslie’s apartment doesn’t seem like it’s that far from campus.
Down where I live bus stops aren’t usually located in suburbs or really near them, so I guess I never considered one could be in a neighborhood in the US. Bus would’ve dropped her off at the nearest shopping center and she’d have had to hoof it.
I went to state college in a town with about 10K residents. This made pretty much everything in the town effectively walking distance, and yet even here they ran a bus line. I all but assume that for any college big enough to have a campus that they have public transportation.
Larger universities may have their own bus service. That’s what Fred Gallagher of Megatokyo is doing for his day job now.
Bloomington has both public buses, running every 30 minutes last I knew, and some campus buses I think running between main campus and dorms. I forget if we know if Leslie has a car, but if not she’d be likely to either live close to campus or close to a bus line.
Also, Bloomington has been putting some effort into better bicycle infrastructure, not that Willis draws many bicycles.
The comic does have a legally distinct Uber equivalent, no? It’s called “Zoomr” or something, and Ruttech owns it.
I should also reiterate: sliding timescale. Tech that didn’t exist when the comic started will exist in-universe when it’s relevant. We have preview strips showing off characters with a Switch 2 and everything.
Yeah but like, it is wild that something which just was not a thing back when the comic started is now so ubiquitous. Like in HS Uber existed, but not in my town. People would get stranded places after drinking (or just drive home drunk because they were irresponsible and had no other options.) I know it’s a sliding timescale, it’s just wild.
In ten years, every character in the comic will be traveling using Jetsons-style glass tubes, and nobody will call attention to it.
We haven’t seen Leslie or Robin since the protest. Odds that they’re in jail?
chances are decent, given that they are decidedly older figures and if they were near the protests the police might have arrested them thinking “older folk, might be leaders”
Robin trying to go viral with goofy mugshots 100%
Leslie at least is not in jail.
What if theyre in bed.
Together!
Leslie and Anna? Or Leslie and Robin?
We can hope that Robin and Anna are right out.
Leslie and Robin and Anna?
A bonus strip set after the protests shows Leslie at home. Either she bailed out or she dispersed with the rest of the crowd and wasn’t arrested.
A former GOP Congresswoman’s arrest would be all over the media, including everyone’s news feed. I’d think everyone would know, even in the specific worl of DOA.
Oh, good! Really glad to see Becky reaching out to Leslie.
Ok, this has good potential, Becky is being smart, go to an elder gay in that regard, someone who can give decent advice. Even though said elder gay might be a hot mess at times.
I guess Leslie is in there fucking Robin and doesn’t want Becky to know.
This would be such a disaster but I support it 100%.
🎶 Leslie’s still in jaai-all 🎶
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I mean, it seems likely that not everyone escaped the kettling, even with Amazi-Girl cutting the fence and beating up a lot of cops, right?
I like this theory!
Ooh, finally!
A lot of us wanted her to be able to reach out to Leslie much earlier than this. But better late than never!
Aurelia from QC has better Mom Energy, but she is over in Northampton.
Genuinely can’t recall what day it’s meant to be in-universe. Is the Gender Studies class today?
Considering The protest likely happened over the weekend and Hank came by I believe that today is most likely Monday for the comic.
ooooh leslie!! Haven’t had a leslie story in a bit
Good old Nitrous OxOooohYeaaaa
Anna has not appeared in half a decade btw. Let that sink in.
Six and a half years. Long enough that I literally forgot the character existed.
Unless sadly out pay Willis one dollar. In which case you had to see her fairly recently
My hot take. While Leslie is definitely Becky’s surrogate mom to a certain extent, I actually think the Duo of Robin and Leslie are actually Becky’s best support system. For all Robin’s…Robinisms you get the feeling she really cares about Becky and while her advice isnt always mature and informed like Leslie i think she actually gets Becky more on a personality level.
Basically I’m saying theyre her two moms.
That ain’t a hot take, that’s just facts.
Robin’s like a fun aunt to me
less responsible about the simple stuff and will actively get you into trouble on occassion but still absolutely loves you and will bail you out when you need them.
They owe Becky a Two Moms Pizza!
I am a little concerned that Dorothy and Joyce, thinking that they have to fix things and unable to find Becky, will charge in and flail at Dina about her breakup with Becky…which may be news to Dina, since as commenters pointed out at the time, she didn’t actually say she was breaking up with Becky, and she’s usually very direct. Dramas!
I’m glad Becky is trying to get help from someone who could probably give her some really good advice for her situation. Of course, that’s assuming Becky actually finds Leslie and gets a chance to talk with her soon.
I dunno man, dentists are into that weird shit
True.
So is everyone else.
I completely forgot Leslie had a girlfriend, since the last time we saw Anna was in this strip back in 2019.
Time binding is an important skill.
I really like the light.
I’m also stupidly bothered by all the Ss, which I think of as a hissing sound. One s can be a z, but lots of them. On the other hand Lezzzzzlie might look funny. Then again it would also be funny.
I am also here for this conversation.
Snorts softly. Well. True, but even a relatively quiet life has grocery shopping in it. I’m glad she’s seeking out leslie about this, i think thats a very solid choice. I’m glad Leslies in her life. Also her new haircuts cute.
I kinda hope she also winds u trying to talk to Robin about this, because I think it would cause or solve problems.
I’m just gonna start detailing out stuff I like about every strip, because I like this comic.
Well, going to Leslie. Now that’s a good decision.
Only hope chance doesn’t blew this over. :/
Well, shit. Leslie and Robin are in jail, aren’t they?
Yeah, I have a feeling that is the shoe.
Isn’t it the middle of a schoolday? Wouldn’t Leslie just be at work?
She probably doesn’t have any classes scheduled today. Or not yet
i’m surprised she wouldn’t have her number and give her a headsup text or so
Leslie’s kind of the last person Becky feels safe in confiding in right now, isn’t she… 🙁 Poor kid needs some good trauma dump catharsis.
Poor Becky. Blew all her fuses over a headline photo and completely forgot to read where it was taken.
Nice try trying to make me dislike Doyce less by reminding me actually abusive Anna exists, Willis, but I can dislike multiple things at the same time.
Becky’s looking fire in this though, great colour scheme on her.
The shortest day of the year is tomorrow. The lighting Willis uses here for that week early morning sunlight in winter is really sharp. Highest marks.
I’ll say, beyond the fact that it will be good for Becky to try to talk to some other than Dorothy… It’s also a pretty good sign that Becky is seeking support in general. She hasn’t given up.
She also teaches, so maybe that.
Oh good she went to her Responsible Adult Mentor
I kind of wish Jocelyne was a regular part of the cast. I feel like she should be someone that Joyce and Dorothy consult on the Bulmeria issue.