Vincent is an unkind man looking to disappear, and finds himself in the care of a vampire and her two wicked children.
Love Not Found
Gina Biggs
Abeille is on a quest to find someone who wants to do it the old-fashioned way in a time when touching has become outdated.
The Automan's Daughter
Mike Stamm
Aisha Osman and her uncle Siddig outwit bikers, spies and kidnappers while gearing up for a showdown with the formidable Widowmaker mecha.
Kiwi Blitz
Mary Cagle (Cube Watermelon)
Steffi thinks she can use her kiwi mech to become a superhero. This idea turns out to be very stupid.
Kochab
Sarah Webb
A YA F/F fantasy comic about Sonya, a lost skier trying to survive a snowy wilderness and find her way back to her village; and Kyra - a fire spirit trying to fix the home that she let fall apart around her.
Go Get a Roomie
Clover
Experience the queer journey of an upbeat hippie and the friendships she makes along the way! A tale of self-discovery and love of many forms.
Devil's Candy
Rem, Bikkuri
A lush fantasy about boy genius Kazu Decker, the girl he constructed for his 9th grade science project, and the world of devils and monsters they live in.
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
The Witch Door
Anni K.
Katariina Lehto discovers her neighbor is a witch called Jousia Muotka. Jousia introduces Katariina to the strange people and places beyond the witch door...
Guilded Age
T Campbell, John Waltrip, Florence Machina
Welcome to the saga of the working-class adventurer! Enjoy the complete story with new annotations daily!
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
Caramel Corn
Potchimew
Sarah is the only human left in a world full of mythical creatures and monsters. All she wants to do is live a quiet life, but everything changes when she meets her guardian angel, Jacob.
Anarchy Dreamers
Emily Ree
Sparkly undead kids fight society's worst Nightmares in this pastel-punk urban fantasy coming-of-age!
Tigress Queen
Allison Shaw
A barbarian warlord and a pampered prince try to avoid a marriage alliance that could end decades of violence.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
Dumbing of Age
David M Willis
Joyce has been homeschooled her entire life until now, when she's suddenly a freshman in college! Things don't go well.
Widdershins
Kate Ashwin
A series of light-hearted Victorian-era adventure stories featuring grumpy bounty hunters, accidental thiefkings, and more, in England's magical capital city Widdershins!
Sam & Fuzzy
Sam Logan
Troubled by gangster rodents, lovesick vampire stalkers, or confused ninja assassins? Don't panic! Sam and Fuzzy are here to help. (For a reasonable fee.)
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
Starhammer
J.N. Monk, Harry Bogosian
A teen girl inherits a powerful alien artifact and proceeds to make a series of increasingly poor decisions
Hazy London
Scotty
A story about messy relationships. From friendly foes to crazy families. Nothing is black and white, just full of color. But, all colors can get a little hazy...
Demon's Mirror
Harry Bogosian
Based loosely off of "The Snow Queen", a story by Hans Christian Andersen, we see things take a different turn as the demons become central characters, and the side characters stick around. Yup, that's the only differences. Enjoy!
The Sanity Circus
Windy
Magic, monsters and mysteries await in the odd city of Sanity. It's up to Attley and a colorful group of characters to find out just what is going on.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
Astral Aves
Moon Cabal
A fantasy coming-of-age following the adventures of Astra The Black and friends, as they navigate the mysterious world around them. It's politics, adventure, and the supernatural; oh, and crazy hair.
Monster Pulse
Magnolia Porter Siddell
Four kids run afoul of a creepy secret organization's experiments, which turn their body parts into fighting monsters. Part sentimental coming-of-age story, part monster-training shonen manga, with just a bit of sci-fi body horror.
Lilith's Word
inkPangur
If you had the power to make any wish come true using just one word, what would you say?
Star Impact
Jack McGee
A young, energetic woman fights her way up in the world of super-powered boxing after discovering the mighty gloves of her missing idol!
Wychwood
Varethane
When Tiara's pyrokinesis is finally noticed, she is captured by a magical research organization for study. If she cooperates, she could be helping to save humanity from a dire threat - but can she trust them?
The End
August Brown, Cory Brown
Two aliens crash a sci-fi convention and accidentally take seven nerds on an adventure that spans the galaxy!
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Awaken
Koti Saavedra/Flipfloppery
Superpowers, monsters and conspiracies. Piras, the spoiled Dameschi heir, fights to recover his identity after becoming a terrorist!
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
Monsterkind
Taylor C
Wallace Foster, a young, bright-eyed human social worker, has his entire world view rocked when he's suddenly relocated into a city primarily inhabited by monsters.
Girl Genius
Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio
In a time when the Industrial Revolution has become an all-out war, Mad Science rules the World...with mixed success.
Never Satisfied
Taylor Robin
Lucy Marlowe, a magician's apprentice, competes against other apprentices for an important, magical, Goverment Job.
This is Not Fiction
Nicole Mannino
What do you do when the person you're in-love with is an anonymous romance novelist? Get your best friend to hire your worst enemy for help!
Empowered
Adam Warren
A sexy superhero comedy (except when it isn't) about the never-ending struggles of a plucky but very unlucky young superheroine.
Between Failures
Jackie Wohlenhaus
The low stakes adventures of an assorted group of 20 somethings trapped in the declining years of American retail. They are naughty and say lots of swears.
Stand Still, Stay Silent
Minna Sundberg
A few generations after the end of the world, a small, poorly financed research crew is sent out to rediscover whatever is left of the forbidden old world in the south.
Alice and the Nightmare
Misha Krivanek
Alice finally attends University to learn to collect the dreams of humans, meet new friends, and deal with a pesky reflection along the way.
Cut Time
Juby
Rel and her trusty avian friend Fugue are on a quest to save a world that's lost track of time. Follow them and their new recruits, in a story written with help from the stars.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Ghost Junk Sickness
Studio CARTRIDGE, Laura Lee
Two hunters try to survive and end up being pushed to pursue a deadly bounty dubbed "The Ghost".
Sufficiently Remarkable
Maki Naro
Two young women living in Brooklyn discover that you're always coming of age.
Paranatural
Zack Morrison
Superpowered middle schoolers fight evil spirits in their rural hometown. Come for the jokes, stay for the cast, the creatures, and the mystery that ties them all together!
Godslave
Meaghan Carter
Edith has been thrown into the dangerous world of modern-day Egyptian mythology. Fighting monsters and dealing with family drama of godly proportions.
Jailbird
Charlie Davis
An all-ages comic about a recently escaped prisoner's struggle to understand the outside world, and vice-versa. Also, a magic cape!
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
Cassiopeia Quinn
Gunwild, Psudonym
A cute, pantsless thief is pursued across the stars by a buttoned-up military officer in the spacey, laser-filled future.
Fireweeds Moors
Gato Iberico
A cat-headed man and a girl with a sandwich hankering accidentally end up in a myth-infused country where magic chalices are a really big thing.
BOOKMARK Click "Tag Page" to bookmark a page. When you return to the site, click "Goto Tag" to continue where you left off.
BUFFER WATCH
Comics are currently drawn and uploaded through:
Okay Joyce, let’s be real. Those are some exceptionally adorable faces you’re making there, but that doesn’t distract from the fact that you’re misuing Fuckface’s powers.
Dorothy needs a nap. You with me, Joyce? A nap!
Also I’m really surprised Dorothy just agreed to spontaneously hang out with Joyce! I must be overestimating how far gone she is, I would have expected her to put up some kind of a fight or something.
(Ennh, okay, I had a rough day and saw an excuse to doodle.)
I think it’s been about a day since they last interacted. It’s not implausible that Dorothy might have a bit of free time if she’s been studying consistently since then. Funny drawing! Nice.
Dorothy has been neglecting sleep, meals, exercise and hygiene in favor of studying. If she’s somehow managed to carve out free time in her schedule, the sleep should probably be prioritized. (She has at least been eating semi-regularly, and sleep is the one that takes the longest to reset and compensate for after a period of skimping on.)
Yeah, this is fair, but considering A: everything Regalli said, and also B: that, on top of all her other corner-cutting, she broke up with Walky in order to be less distracted, it feels remarkable to me that she’d so casually give time to Joyce. I mean, I’m always glad to see them interact, it’s just surprising.
Unless Dorothy pulled an all nighter, it’s reasonable to assume she only woke up a few hours ago. Plus she looks pretty decent.
I don’t think she needs a nap at the moment.
Catching up on sleep and getting some extra in there is actually necessary with sleep deprivation, and Dorothy has definitely been cutting hers to the point where she’s low-grade deprived. Sleep is weird that way. The sleep she’s been getting recently is probably more REM rebound for the all-nighters she has pulled, which doesn’t work as well.
Neglecting your health drives the quality of your studying and work down! Self-care is efficient and productive!*
* Self-care is entirely necessary and even if it weren’t productive people would still need to do it, but appeal to someone on an unsustainable study crunch in language they understand.
And then Becky starts hanging out with her (secretly to convince her to win Dorothy away from Joyce), and Joyce and Dina team up to for sitcom hijinks!
Yeah no Joyce this is very firmly in ‘stealing and endangering someone else’s pet’ territory now. The rooms sharing a half-bath is one thing, especially since it can be hard to remove an iguana from where it wants to be, but once you’re in the hall all deniability is gone and the chances of Ruth seeing Fuckface (or someone else who can pass it onto Ruth) go up exponentially.
(Mary probably wouldn’t report to Ruth, but I’m betting she might try appealing to Puddinghead on the subject.)
Joyce I like you but SHEESH this story’s got you in a bad light so far.
I did not think about that until I read your comment, so how long until Malaya finds her and gets(rightfully) pissed that she took Fuckface out of her room? Or until Ruth sees her with Fuckface and she has no plausible explanation why she has an iguana on her head? I’d say take bets but with the timeline we live in, it is likely both happen at the same time.
I really hope this is the ‘yes, here is this flaw the character has and we’re being repeatedly reminded it’s bad before it gets confronted’ point, but I do tend to think we still have another storyline or two before Joyce actually learns. Mainly because this arc’s supposed to be Sal-heavy.
Just as a side note: Mary would not report it to Puddinghead. That’s not like Mary at all.
Mary would note it down in her little black book and save it for leverage over Malaya. She’d threaten to report Fuckface, but there’s no advantage in actually doing so.
Reposting what I wrote yesterday for Dumblr of Age–Football Season:
Call it being inspired by B.D. from Doonesbury, or succumbing to my Research Addiction™, but overnight I went over Wikipedia to the Hoosiers Football Team history pages and check the timeline of Dumbing of Age against what happened in the corresponding dates and years.
The result? The reason why nobody talks much about the football team is that they’re having a poor season. At this point (Book 9), it’s Week 8 of the season and the Hoosiers are 2-4 with no in-conference wins.
Book 1: Win over Towson. Book 2: Loss to Virginia and win over South Carolina State. Book 3: No games scheduled (takes place entirely on weekdays). Book 4: Loss to Missouri. Book 5: Bye Week. Book 6: Loss to Ohio State. Book 7: Loss to Nebraska. Book 8: No games scheduled.
So the next game is a very “important” one, against Penn State. The Hoosiers must win this one and two of the remaining five to have a chance at a Bowl game. There’s going to be considerable social pressure on the student body to have everybody show up to the stadium and fill the seats.
(I’m using the sliding progression scale. The Penn State game mentioned will be played this month!)
Dorothy? Are you ok? Actually, that was a stupid question, we all know that you are not okay right now. Better question, how long until you realize you aren’t alright and ask for help instead of secluding?
Also – Dorothy is absolutely right here. If the iguana were actually magic and could actually compel people to do things, using it to get someone to do something you KNOW they don’t want to do, for good reason like trying to get their grades up, and get around their no would be an incredibly shitty thing to do.
And Dorothy did hang out with her yesterday. She’s been running herself ragged slightly less these last couple of days, and actually maintaining some social contact. There have been times where I’m like ‘someone get Dorothy away from her classwork for an hour or two for her own good,’ but this one is not it.
Yeah, that’s a very normal rational approach.
But it’s still a sign her issues with it are fading away now that she’s broken up with Walky. Before she wasn’t making time for sleep and food, now she’s happy to take a break to hang out.
That’s good. That’s healthy. You actually accomplish more that way.
I just don’t like the implication that breaking up with Walky was actually the fix for her impending overwork breakdown.
I think the break is still coming – she still doesn’t look very good (her hair’s a mess). I think she might be hiding it better though, possibly to avoid dealing with the break up?
Every single comic with Dorothy, people talk about how she is completely horrible all the time, even though she never seems any worse than any of the other characters. I should really start avoiding the comments when she shows up.
… What is Dorothy doing wrong here? She agrees to hang out despite her super-busyness. She points out that an iguana with convincing powers would actually be uncool, and she is right. She questions why Joyce, who has no iguana, has an iguana on her head. All of this is reasonable. The studying isn’t HEALTHY, but that’s Dorothy’s choice to make.
Oh right. I forgot Dorothy must always be hated because she’s a woman with Ambition and that makes her The Worst. Silly me.
Clearly you mean Joyce. If Joyce really DOES believe the iguana can make people do what they don’t want to do, then she’s being a terrible person here, let alone not a friend.
Heh, I wonder… that was SLIGHTLY more sharp than usual with Dorothy. Methinks there was a passive aggressive fishing for a compliment in there.
“Do you really think I don’t want to hang out with you?” No, no, of course not, Dorothy. You want to hang out with me all the time because you are such a great friend, and I totally understand that you have to study most of the times. Incidentally, dumping Walky does not make you a bad friend either. <- Dorothy's inner Joyce-voyce
Yo, Willis? Getting a bunch of scammy redirects claiming I’ve won Amazon gift cards or whatever these last couple days. Assuming there’s a bad ad somewhere or the like?
That happens to me a lot on iOS too. It’s not just here and on It’s Walky, so it’s definitely scammy redirect ads sneaking through the networks.
At this point I just tell Chrome to request the desktop site before coming here. It loads exactly the same page, but it seems like the un-closeable “congratulations you are $500 gift card winner” pop-ups only happen if the ads get requests from smartphone user agents.
Mary would only be a problem insofar as Malaya being able to intimidate her. Ruth would blink twice and then look the other way on the grounds that she knows no way to say “I saw Joyce Brown with an iguana on her head” without it sounding like she needs a week of in-patient treatment.
Well, to be frank, Dorothy, the way you’ve been acting over the last couple of days, Joyce would be forgiven for thinking you’d need a little extra persuasion to get you to quit cramming and actually relax for a while!
Regarding the lizard…? Well, you have to prioritise. Joyce doesn’t seem to have too many problems with her ‘passenger’ so that needs to take its place in the list of mysteries to solve today!
Huh. I wonder if Willis is going to have Dorothy use this example of a “mind controlling/wish granting” Iguana to confront Joyce with how praying for someone to change their mind is a violation of free will? And that mind control is evil?
(And also lazy – you want to change someone’s mind you should really put in the effort)
Calling it now: Fuckface is going to climb on Dorothy’s bed and refuses to be moved (and an Iguana’s claws make such an opinion stick). Malaya thus inherits Dorothy’s bed covers.
No, I pick it up too. Probably something to do with breakup+workload+that whole RA thing+friends being chased with guns+Joyce having a lizard on her head.
I wonder if Fuckface is genuinely confused or contemplating just what the constantly-moving endotherm is about? He definitely seems to be watching Joyce closely on occasion!
Yes, but she still hung out with her and them having a spat yesterday wouldn’t give Joyce the right to try to magic Dorothy into complying with what she wanted.
Yeah, none of that was Dorothy’s fault tho. Joyce was the source of all the conflict and tension, and if she was really trying to magically make Dorothy hang out with her ignoring what happened, that’d be kinda shitty.
Dorothy has only been in crunch mode for a few days. And she’s managed to make time to have social interactions with Joyce in spite of that. It’s not like she’s been rebuffing Joyce for weeks. They literally hung out yesterday.
Love your comic, but speaking from painful personal experience – having a big lizard with big claws sitting on your head is a great recipe for facial lacerations. They especially seem to catch on your ears, but I’ve had my eyelids and cheeks scratched up as well. I hope Joyce has better luck than I did.
today in #9chickweedlane i learned we have to be shown children learning and relearning what sex is, for Reasons, even though they already clearly know and have prepared nuanced questions about it!
also that Gran must hate, if she's still alive, how Old Juliette is the same but with gray hair
one of my favorite things is when a commenter explodes WHEN DO THESE CHARACTERS GET THERAPY but directed towards a character who canonically has a regular therapist
Hot Toys Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith 1/6 Scale Darth Vader Deluxe ($495) & Standard ($315) is up for preorder at Sideshow - shrsl.com/4wcx6 #ad
If you preorder make sure to hit the Exclusive versions since they include a commemorative plaque and cost the same.
btw if you're one of those rando bluesky weirdos who doesn't know me but sees me in the wild being sarcastic and don't know i'm being sarcastic because you haven't taken like 30 seconds to, like, maybe look at my user profile or something, keep walking, you're not going to score internet points here
Here's an entertaining cite at the bottom of the first page
Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
JUST IN: Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan moves to dismiss federal criminal case against her for allegedly helping immigrant hide from ICE. Her lawyers say she's protected by official acts & judicial immunity and 10th Amendment. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Where did Hollywood go so wrong? I thought movies were supposed to be an escape from reality, a chance to put your worries aside and not have to think about any underlying ideas or concepts. Well, not anymore.
theonion.com/you-can...
It's not a new argument, of course, but Chesterton dismissed it effectively in 1908.
"You will hear everlastingly... this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The fact is, of course, that the rich man is bribed; he has been bribed already. That is why he is a rich man."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com ⋅ 2d
Hawley dismisses Trump lining his pockets with his memecoin: "Listen, I think nobody believes that Donald Trump can be bought. I mean, what does Donald Trump need more money for?"
wilbur, savvy enough to know he's in a comic strip but still not a great actor, awkwardly lifts a muffin up into frame so that we, the audience, understand that he has a muffin right now, which is very important narratively, but he's not really selling it well as an organic, human action
preternia @preternia.com ⋅ 1d
Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com ⋅ 2d
Pavel
@spavel.bsky.social ⋅ 11d
Loading ...
“ok I lied it’s actually Celebi”
“That only works on Amber, MAYBE“
“Why is there an iguana on your head?”
“DEUS VULT!”
The Duck Man from Discworld had this exact same origin story.
What origin story? He was just a perfectly normal fellow with some odd friends.
What duck?
quack.
buggerit!
millennium hand and shrimp.
Nothing you’ve said actually disproves the iguana theory though.
Theory? The Alt-Text is proven fact!!
The real question is how long until Malaya realises Joyce is walking around with her illegal pet on her head?
Is it officially lizardnapping at this point? Should we call in Grand Theft Iguana?
It’s not really “Grand”. Petty Theft Iguana?
So thats what “GTI” on cars means… (°◇°)
Maybe it’s just me, but does Dorothy seem oddly cold to Joyce here?
The last time they spoke, Dorothy told her to get a receipt for personal lubricant for her own good. Instead she got a lizard hat.
I mean, she doesn’t know for sure Joyce didn’t get both.
She agreed to hang out instantly with a smile on her face. Not sure how that’s cold.
Right, didn’t Dorothy promise Joyce she’d hang out if Joyce bough some personal lubricant?
(Now this sounds rather leading without the context.)
It’s because her view of Fuckface is obscured by the bunk. His full squee-inducing powers are muted as a result.
Fuck face’s true power is the ability to compel women to put him on their heads.
It is actually Fuckface who’s stolen Joyce!
Fuckface is taking Joyce out for a Joyce-ride.
A Joyceride is like a joyride, but with more Bible verses.
Dorothy, don’t be a killjoy.
I think a better question would be why isn’t there an iguana on your head?
Dangit, beat me to it.
DO NOT QUESTION THE IGUANA!
Dang it Lisa… I mean Dorothy, stop turding things up by overthinking.
Okay Joyce, let’s be real. Those are some exceptionally adorable faces you’re making there, but that doesn’t distract from the fact that you’re misuing Fuckface’s powers.
Dorothy needs a nap. You with me, Joyce? A nap!
Also I’m really surprised Dorothy just agreed to spontaneously hang out with Joyce! I must be overestimating how far gone she is, I would have expected her to put up some kind of a fight or something.
(Ennh, okay, I had a rough day and saw an excuse to doodle.)
I think it’s been about a day since they last interacted. It’s not implausible that Dorothy might have a bit of free time if she’s been studying consistently since then. Funny drawing! Nice.
Dorothy has been neglecting sleep, meals, exercise and hygiene in favor of studying. If she’s somehow managed to carve out free time in her schedule, the sleep should probably be prioritized. (She has at least been eating semi-regularly, and sleep is the one that takes the longest to reset and compensate for after a period of skimping on.)
Obviously she’s broken up with Walky and is now fine. All her problems have been resolved.
Yeah, this is fair, but considering A: everything Regalli said, and also B: that, on top of all her other corner-cutting, she broke up with Walky in order to be less distracted, it feels remarkable to me that she’d so casually give time to Joyce. I mean, I’m always glad to see them interact, it’s just surprising.
(Also thank you for compliment!)
Unless Dorothy pulled an all nighter, it’s reasonable to assume she only woke up a few hours ago. Plus she looks pretty decent.
I don’t think she needs a nap at the moment.
Catching up on sleep and getting some extra in there is actually necessary with sleep deprivation, and Dorothy has definitely been cutting hers to the point where she’s low-grade deprived. Sleep is weird that way. The sleep she’s been getting recently is probably more REM rebound for the all-nighters she has pulled, which doesn’t work as well.
She’s not deprived of low grades, and that’s the whole problem!
Neglecting your health drives the quality of your studying and work down! Self-care is efficient and productive!*
* Self-care is entirely necessary and even if it weren’t productive people would still need to do it, but appeal to someone on an unsustainable study crunch in language they understand.
Dorothy will sacrifice whatever is necessary to recover her grades! And that’s fairly terrifying!
…hey, does anyone else want to see one pf Dorothy’s childhood friends appear in this strip? Just to see Joyce get jealous?
And then Becky starts hanging out with her (secretly to convince her to win Dorothy away from Joyce), and Joyce and Dina team up to for sitcom hijinks!
I’m going to be honest I don’t think she had a lot of friends growing up.
Yeah no Joyce this is very firmly in ‘stealing and endangering someone else’s pet’ territory now. The rooms sharing a half-bath is one thing, especially since it can be hard to remove an iguana from where it wants to be, but once you’re in the hall all deniability is gone and the chances of Ruth seeing Fuckface (or someone else who can pass it onto Ruth) go up exponentially.
(Mary probably wouldn’t report to Ruth, but I’m betting she might try appealing to Puddinghead on the subject.)
Joyce I like you but SHEESH this story’s got you in a bad light so far.
I did not think about that until I read your comment, so how long until Malaya finds her and gets(rightfully) pissed that she took Fuckface out of her room? Or until Ruth sees her with Fuckface and she has no plausible explanation why she has an iguana on her head? I’d say take bets but with the timeline we live in, it is likely both happen at the same time.
I’m still pissed she took Fuckface to see Sarah. She didn’t know Sarah knew about him and she promised to keep him a secret.
Between this and her obnoxious habit of waking people up, it’s only a matter of time before Malaya decks her.
Oh yeah. Joyce is setting herself up for trouble here. And I will cheer for Malaya.
I could see if Fuckface were clingy, but clearly she’s trying to exploit his persuasive powers rather than anything like that going on.
I love Joyce, but I’m out of patience for this particular trait of her’s.
I really hope this is the ‘yes, here is this flaw the character has and we’re being repeatedly reminded it’s bad before it gets confronted’ point, but I do tend to think we still have another storyline or two before Joyce actually learns. Mainly because this arc’s supposed to be Sal-heavy.
Yeah, as much as “Fuckface’s new meat puppet” is, I hope it’s this chapter’s B-plot. We need some Marcie-Sal reconciliation!
I think it’ll be a C-plot. I think Amber/Walky will be B plot because that’s leading to some serious stuff with Sal.
Yeah, I think you’re right. I know she’ll develop past this stuff eventually, but rn it’s extremely uncool.
She just openly carried him over the floor. His presence is known to everyone who saw her. And she has to go back.
Exactly. So much for keeping him secret/
Just as a side note: Mary would not report it to Puddinghead. That’s not like Mary at all.
Mary would note it down in her little black book and save it for leverage over Malaya. She’d threaten to report Fuckface, but there’s no advantage in actually doing so.
Gee, it sure is a shame Mary disappeared after trying to blackmail Malaya.
We think she moved to a different art school, we dunno.
A missing person who nobody missed at all.
I mean, her parents might. They’re supposed to be good people who love their daughter.
Mr Lizard? Is Joyce going to need another Timmy?
So fuckface is basically the hypno toad except not the hypno toad.
Glory to the hypno iguana!!
Reposting what I wrote yesterday for Dumblr of Age–Football Season:
Call it being inspired by B.D. from Doonesbury, or succumbing to my Research Addiction™, but overnight I went over Wikipedia to the Hoosiers Football Team history pages and check the timeline of Dumbing of Age against what happened in the corresponding dates and years.
The result? The reason why nobody talks much about the football team is that they’re having a poor season. At this point (Book 9), it’s Week 8 of the season and the Hoosiers are 2-4 with no in-conference wins.
Book 1: Win over Towson. Book 2: Loss to Virginia and win over South Carolina State. Book 3: No games scheduled (takes place entirely on weekdays). Book 4: Loss to Missouri. Book 5: Bye Week. Book 6: Loss to Ohio State. Book 7: Loss to Nebraska. Book 8: No games scheduled.
So the next game is a very “important” one, against Penn State. The Hoosiers must win this one and two of the remaining five to have a chance at a Bowl game. There’s going to be considerable social pressure on the student body to have everybody show up to the stadium and fill the seats.
(I’m using the sliding progression scale. The Penn State game mentioned will be played this month!)
Maybe that’s why we hardly ever see Tony?
Dorothy? Are you ok? Actually, that was a stupid question, we all know that you are not okay right now. Better question, how long until you realize you aren’t alright and ask for help instead of secluding?
Dumbing of Age Book Nine: Why Is There An Iguana On Your Head?
Unsurprisinglym Dotty4s not feeling too cheery uh<
Joyce, put the damn iguana back. I know you have a difficult time grasping things like this, but he’s actually not fucking yours.
Also – Dorothy is absolutely right here. If the iguana were actually magic and could actually compel people to do things, using it to get someone to do something you KNOW they don’t want to do, for good reason like trying to get their grades up, and get around their no would be an incredibly shitty thing to do.
And Dorothy did hang out with her yesterday. She’s been running herself ragged slightly less these last couple of days, and actually maintaining some social contact. There have been times where I’m like ‘someone get Dorothy away from her classwork for an hour or two for her own good,’ but this one is not it.
Yeah, pretty much. I’m glad Dorothy’s happy to hang out. She deserves it and maybe she’s almost done catching up.
I kind of hope she’s not. That smacks a little too much of “She broke up with Walky and now everything’s fine.”
That’s true. Maybe she’s just done enough work that she can take a break to hang out?
I spent all weekend doing school stuff and prepping to apply for grad school, but I still had some free hours between things.
Yeah, that’s a very normal rational approach.
But it’s still a sign her issues with it are fading away now that she’s broken up with Walky. Before she wasn’t making time for sleep and food, now she’s happy to take a break to hang out.
That’s good. That’s healthy. You actually accomplish more that way.
I just don’t like the implication that breaking up with Walky was actually the fix for her impending overwork breakdown.
I think the break is still coming – she still doesn’t look very good (her hair’s a mess). I think she might be hiding it better though, possibly to avoid dealing with the break up?
Possibly stimulant pills.
Dang Dorothy, can you not be the worst ever? Like for even an entire comic, just not be awful?
Every single comic with Dorothy, people talk about how she is completely horrible all the time, even though she never seems any worse than any of the other characters. I should really start avoiding the comments when she shows up.
Dorothy, Sal, Amber, Ruth, and Carla have always attracted some…very interesting comments.
… What is Dorothy doing wrong here? She agrees to hang out despite her super-busyness. She points out that an iguana with convincing powers would actually be uncool, and she is right. She questions why Joyce, who has no iguana, has an iguana on her head. All of this is reasonable. The studying isn’t HEALTHY, but that’s Dorothy’s choice to make.
Oh right. I forgot Dorothy must always be hated because she’s a woman with Ambition and that makes her The Worst. Silly me.
He didn’t really do anything though.
*She
I’m not seeing any behavior from Dorothy that’s even remotely awful here, or in most strips with her either.
Clearly you mean Joyce. If Joyce really DOES believe the iguana can make people do what they don’t want to do, then she’s being a terrible person here, let alone not a friend.
Because she put it there. Come on Dorothy your supposed to be the smarrt one!
“Because if I wear it anywhere else it chafes.”
But technically, I believe Fuckface put himself there.
So, if the iguana powers work, couldn’t that be argued as her using witchcraft?
Does hypnosis count as witchcraft?
Heh, I wonder… that was SLIGHTLY more sharp than usual with Dorothy. Methinks there was a passive aggressive fishing for a compliment in there.
“Do you really think I don’t want to hang out with you?”
No, no, of course not, Dorothy. You want to hang out with me all the time because you are such a great friend, and I totally understand that you have to study most of the times. Incidentally, dumping Walky does not make you a bad friend either. <- Dorothy's inner Joyce-voyce
Yo, Willis? Getting a bunch of scammy redirects claiming I’ve won Amazon gift cards or whatever these last couple days. Assuming there’s a bad ad somewhere or the like?
Similar thing happened here, except my anti virus software blocked it.
Yeah, don’t believe there’s anything for it on IOS.
That happens to me a lot on iOS too. It’s not just here and on It’s Walky, so it’s definitely scammy redirect ads sneaking through the networks.
At this point I just tell Chrome to request the desktop site before coming here. It loads exactly the same page, but it seems like the un-closeable “congratulations you are $500 gift card winner” pop-ups only happen if the ads get requests from smartphone user agents.
Ah, thanks! I’ll see if that helps.
Technically that’s Question Three, Dorothy.
ALL HAIL HYPNOGUANA!!!
It’s cute and all to wear an iguana on your head, but don’t blow Fuckface’s cover in front of Ruth or Mary!
Also, I’m loving that The Good Place application for google named the iguana “Forkface”.
Mary would only be a problem insofar as Malaya being able to intimidate her. Ruth would blink twice and then look the other way on the grounds that she knows no way to say “I saw Joyce Brown with an iguana on her head” without it sounding like she needs a week of in-patient treatment.
At this point Dorothy just rolls with it, no real questions asked.
The real question here is Dorothy is why don’t you have an iguana on your head?
Well, to be frank, Dorothy, the way you’ve been acting over the last couple of days, Joyce would be forgiven for thinking you’d need a little extra persuasion to get you to quit cramming and actually relax for a while!
Regarding the lizard…? Well, you have to prioritise. Joyce doesn’t seem to have too many problems with her ‘passenger’ so that needs to take its place in the list of mysteries to solve today!
I know DoA is supposed to be more realistic than the Walkyverse, but I’m still kinda disappointed that Fuckface’s powers didn’t carry over into DoA.
Honestly, were I in Joyce’s fur clad boots, panel 4 would make me a bit hesitant as to why I wanted to hang out with Dorothy :/
“So you’re saying that the Iguana made me agree…”
Huh. I wonder if Willis is going to have Dorothy use this example of a “mind controlling/wish granting” Iguana to confront Joyce with how praying for someone to change their mind is a violation of free will? And that mind control is evil?
(And also lazy – you want to change someone’s mind you should really put in the effort)
Lets see what happens in the next few strips.
Fuckface is God in this allegory.
Calling it now: Fuckface is going to climb on Dorothy’s bed and refuses to be moved (and an Iguana’s claws make such an opinion stick). Malaya thus inherits Dorothy’s bed covers.
Does Dorothy seem a little existentially rattled to anyone else, or is that just me?
No, I pick it up too. Probably something to do with breakup+workload+that whole RA thing+friends being chased with guns+Joyce having a lizard on her head.
…you know, college stuff.
Also one of her friends carved off a man’s face in front of her like a week ago.
Ah, careless college days
“The Power of JoyceFace Compels You!”
Yay, I was hoping somebody would utilize that incredible panel 1 for an avatar. Nice!
Great stuff!
I wonder if Fuckface is genuinely confused or contemplating just what the constantly-moving endotherm is about? He definitely seems to be watching Joyce closely on occasion!
Reiterating that I love Dorothy, here and everywhere, to counter some of the hate for her in the comments.
I love Dorothy too! I don’t understand the hate for her.
Maybe Joyce does believe you arent going to hang with her because of your workaholism
She hung out with her yesterday and even if she hadn’t, that wouldn’t give Joyce license to try to magically make her hang out.
She hung out with her yesterday and look what that turned into. Tense lunch with romantic conflict, followed by tension between them over it.
Yes, but she still hung out with her and them having a spat yesterday wouldn’t give Joyce the right to try to magic Dorothy into complying with what she wanted.
Yeah, none of that was Dorothy’s fault tho. Joyce was the source of all the conflict and tension, and if she was really trying to magically make Dorothy hang out with her ignoring what happened, that’d be kinda shitty.
Didn’t say it was or that it would justify Joyce.
Might make her less likely to want to hang out though.
Dorothy has only been in crunch mode for a few days. And she’s managed to make time to have social interactions with Joyce in spite of that. It’s not like she’s been rebuffing Joyce for weeks. They literally hung out yesterday.
Carrying an iguana named “Fuckface” around on your head seems to be just begging for disaster.
Panel 4 was a truly “laugh out loud” panel. Thanks for the laugh.
Answer 2: “New Munchkin card.”
“How many more times are you not going to work before I think maybe you don’t work?”
Maybe fuckface needs someone to write a bunch of songs and picture bibles about him, then Joyce would give him the time of day.
Mr Lizard?! YES! We’re gonna need another Timmy!
I love Dorothy. She’s clearly vulnerable right now, but I still don’t interpret her as bongoy.
omfg that third pane joyce face is ADORABLE holy shit
Was gunna say
The first three panels,ESPECIALLY the third, is one of (if not) my FAVORITE Joyce expression. SO cute.
But I love both your dorks, here. But I think, Dorothy may need some self care, here.
Love your comic, but speaking from painful personal experience – having a big lizard with big claws sitting on your head is a great recipe for facial lacerations. They especially seem to catch on your ears, but I’ve had my eyelids and cheeks scratched up as well. I hope Joyce has better luck than I did.
“How many more times are you not going to work before I think maybe you don’t work?”
You think she’s having an existential dilemma now, wait till she asks that question about prayer.