Dumbing of Age Book Twelve

Dumbing of Age

A college webcomic by David Willis
RSS
‹
›
  • Home
  • About/Read before posting
  • Archive↓
    • by calendar
  • Cast
  • Store↓
    • Main Store (books and stuff)
    • T-shirts
  • Patreon↓
    • Patreon (regular)
    • Patreon (NSFW)
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
well that's romance -- inconvenient
First Previous Random 106Comments Share Next Latest
Reddit Digg Facebook MySpace Delicious Stumbleupon Buzz Up! Mixx Technorati Google Bookmarks Yahoo Bookmarks Yahoo MyWeb Windows Live Propeller FriendFeed Newsvine Xanga LinkedIn Blinklist Twitter
Discover more Hiveworks comics
The Lonely Vincent Bellingham
Diana Huh
Vincent is an unkind man looking to disappear, and finds himself in the care of a vampire and her two wicked children.
Demon Studies
Miyuli
Four students summon and study potentially dangerous demons within the walls of the mysterious Summerland University.
Killjoys
Flatw00ds
When two disgraced ex-feds fall backwards into trouble with the clown mafia, getting out in one piece is gonna be no joke!
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
The Otherknown
Lorian Merriman
Chandra is a 12-year-old accidental time traveler with a reluctant new dad, who happens to be a member of a feared galactic crime syndicate.
2 Slices
RJ Morel
After a case of mistaken identity, will awkward Daisuke find help from excitable Mamo, or will his love life be thrown completely off track?
Folklore
Adam Ma, Colin Tan Wei
A superhuman horror story focused on a small band of survivors trying to navigate a war-torn world in the aftermath of the Federation’s collapse.
Far to the North
Allison Shaw
Kelu turns to the monsters of her remote mountain home when her family is held hostage by outsiders.
Patrik the Vampire
Bree Paulsen
Patrik loves to knit, bake, and help his friends while dealing with his own demons... like his thirst for blood because, oh yeah--he's a vampire.
Real Science Adventures
Brian Clevinger
Spin off stories and other adventures from the world of Atomic Robo!
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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.
Atomic Robo
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener
The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.
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.
Clockwork
Chikuto
Cog Kleinschmidt is a diligent, quiet worker at the Mercia Fortress, the world power's leading stronghold. His orderly life is thrown into chaos when an enemy kingdom sends a diplomat for peace talks. This diplomat needs something from Cog - whether he agrees to their terms or not!
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?
Come Hell or High Water
Jenny/Star, Mori
Prince Gladimir was never meant to fall for a pirate. Swearing off love for duty, the threat of war propels him back into the Captain’s world of high seas and high stakes. Their relationship could be the thing to save the kingdom of Yvoire - or destroy it.
Tove
Severin
The end of the world is coming, and Tove doesn't want to be a hero, but SOMEONE has to look after her little brother.
Lunar Blight
Studio CARTRIDGE, Laura Lee
Lunar Blight is a gothic horror story about an elite knight serving a moon cult who must choose between upholding his honoured duty or condemning everything he’s grown to know.
Goblins
Ellipsis
A fantasy RPG as told through the eyes of the low-level monsters.
Spinnerette
Krazy Krow, Rocio Zucchi, Pablo Rey
When a lab accident gives Heather Brown spider powers and six arms, she does what any midwest comic geek would do: Become Ohio's #3 superhero!
Knights Errant
J.R. Doyle
Wilfrid's humble quest for revenge becomes bigger and bloodier by the day.
Solstoria
Angelica Maria
After her brother goes missing, Samantha vows to become a Knight and help those around her in the Kingdom of St. Helena.
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...
Anacrine Complex
Sae Cotton
A superhuman heist involving probably too many pigeons than entirely necessary.
Star Trip
Gisele Weaver
Jas is a human taken from her home planet on a trip across the galaxy she will never forget.
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!
Whomp!
Ronnie
A depressed, portly, hirsute anime fan stumbles through life in the ever-pursuit of chicken nuggets and other life-shortening indulgences.
[un]Divine
Ayme
A highschool senior thought giving up his soul for a demon was a good idea. It wasn't.
Lighter Than Heir
Melissa Albino
A young Volant woman joins the military in an effort to upstage her war-hero father.
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.)
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.
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!
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.
Fairmeadow
Kendra P. / KP
A wayward soldier finds herself in a pacifist commune deep in the wilderness of a war-weary land. Living in isolation brings her closer to those she was sworn to kill than she could ever imagine - but also threatens to tear the place apart.
Drugs & Wires
Mary Safro, Io Black
Dan used to be a VR operator until his brain got fried by malware. Now he's stuck delivering packages in a post-Soviet hellhole all while trying to adjust to his new life and find some answers.
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...
How to be a Werewolf
Shawn Lenore
Malaya Walters was bitten by a werewolf as a child. After being raised by her human family, she faces the chance to learn what being a werewolf is really like as an adult.
Heart of Gold
Eliot Baum, Viv Tanner
A pianist with failing eyesight seeks out a priest with a miraculous healing touch, drawing him deeper into a world of miracles and curses.
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.
El Goonish Shive
Dan Shive
WARNING: This comic often ignores the Laws of Physics
Wilde Life
Pascalle Lepas
Oscar decided to rent an old haunted house, and that's when things got weird...
BOOKMARK
Click "Tag Page" to bookmark a page. When you return to the site, click "Goto Tag" to continue where you left off.
Goto TagClear Tag


BUFFER WATCH Comics are currently drawn and uploaded through:

July 11, 2026

Hup

by David M Willis on November 11, 2020 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - This Bright Millennium
└ Tags: lucy, walky

Discussion (106) ¬

[ Comments RSS ]
  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    November 11, 2020 at 12:05 am | #

    “It would’ve saved a lot of trouble if he’d have just had Love at First Sight like me and we hooked up immediately like”

    • clif
      clif
      November 11, 2020 at 12:23 am | #

      But to walk you across the street, he would have had to real with emotions.

    • Cholma
      Cholma
      November 11, 2020 at 12:49 am | #

      Lucy hasn’t realized yet that if she wants Walky, she needs to throw a toy at his head.

      • Felix
        Felix
        November 11, 2020 at 4:13 am | #

        Ah yes, the classic approach.

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        November 11, 2020 at 11:17 am | #

        Does it work with HP toys? Which does Lucy own?

  2. Chris
    Chris
    November 11, 2020 at 12:06 am | #

    I was hoping she’d recognize him.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      November 11, 2020 at 2:38 am | #

      Amber already has the ‘impenetrable paper-thin disguise’ trope covered.

      • MacareuxMoine
        MacareuxMoine
        November 11, 2020 at 6:02 am | #

        Works for her because Amazi-Girl is different from Amber, while Nightguy is 100% acting like Walky in a costume.

      • Psychie
        Psychie
        November 11, 2020 at 6:05 am | #

        I mean, to be fair to Amazigirl, Amber tends to be quiet/unobtrusive and thus relatively forgettable, coupled with the fact that she hid her training from her very small circle of friends (Ethan and Mike) so well before coming to IU that even THEY didn’t think Amber would be capable of the sort of athleticism Amazigirl displays, let alone those who have come to know her since. Also, the design of the uniform might have an impact on how her figure looks compared to Amber’s usual style of dress, their respective postures are drastically different, the way they carry themselves is drastically different, their mannerisms are rather different, etc.

        Additionally, I think Billie and possibly maybe a couple others were the only ones to correctly narrow down Amazigirl’s base of operations to that floor of that dorm, to anyone else she could be basically any brunette girl with that build and height (not super uncommon) and that’s before considering the possibility that she might be a thin girl of other hair color/style wearing a bodysuit and wig.
        On top of all this I don’t think very many people got especially good looks at Amazigirl, adding to the difficulty to recognize her out of uniform.

        Honestly, it’s people complaining about Clark Kent’s glasses while ignoring literally everything else about the disguise all over again.

        • Psychie
          Psychie
          November 11, 2020 at 6:06 am | #

          Ninja’d, curse my sesquipedalian loquatiousness!!!

          • Kaidah
            Kaidah
            November 11, 2020 at 8:41 am | #

            Curse you for making me look up words before I’ve finished my morning coffee. lol

          • Makkabee
            Makkabee
            November 11, 2020 at 9:23 am | #

            Bless you for casually dropping “sesquipedalian” in a conversation!

          • MacareuxMoine
            MacareuxMoine
            November 11, 2020 at 10:13 am | #

            You misspelled loquaciousness 😉

            • Ana Chronistic
              Ana Chronistic
              November 11, 2020 at 11:19 am | #

              Loquaciousness is a long way to say verbosity 🤔

              😬👍

              • Opus the Poet
                Opus the Poet
                November 11, 2020 at 1:53 pm | #

                No, verbosity is just lots of words, loquaciousness is lots of fancy words. I’m the opposite of that, I used to have tweets that didn’t use the 140 character limit.

                And yes I know it’s 280 now, I’m just making a point and hanging a timeframe on the statement.

                • Ana Chronistic
                  Ana Chronistic
                  November 12, 2020 at 12:04 am | #

                  you’re terse

          • Reltzik
            Reltzik
            November 11, 2020 at 5:54 pm | #

            I pity any Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobics reading this thread.

    • MacareuxMoine
      MacareuxMoine
      November 11, 2020 at 10:37 am | #

      called it: she was just rolling along with Walky being perfectly disguised – apparently to not kill the romance (which Walky isn’t aware of ;-)).

  3. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    November 11, 2020 at 12:07 am | #

    …. I can’t tell if Lucy is being intelligent or stupid here. I’m going to go with stupelligent.

    • SeanR
      SeanR
      November 11, 2020 at 12:08 am | #

      High INT, low WIS.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        November 11, 2020 at 12:11 am | #

        Maybe she’s just rolling weird. Both Perception and Sense Motive are wisdom skills, and she nailed the first but flubbed the second.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      November 11, 2020 at 12:10 am | #

      Walky seems to be catnip for smart girls somehow.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        November 11, 2020 at 12:16 am | #

        Apparently he’s sculpted out of caramel.
        It also reminds me of my most favourite line, in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, when the incredibly gorgeous and talented Jessica Rabbit is asked what she sees in that guy, and she says, “He makes me laugh”.

        • Ana Chronistic
          Ana Chronistic
          November 11, 2020 at 11:22 am | #

          That’s actually Dr. Nerdlove’s relationship selling point, that FUN is the most important compatibility factor. Looks and riches often go away, smarts can often mean snobbery, kindness is great but… fun blows that away.

      • DaisyFM
        DaisyFM
        November 11, 2020 at 12:17 am | #

        He’s cute!

      • Keulen
        Keulen
        November 11, 2020 at 12:28 am | #

        He definitely seems to attract them like moths to a flame.

    • YakkoRex
      YakkoRex
      November 11, 2020 at 1:29 am | #

      I believe the term is Smart, Smart, Dumb.

  4. Beau Kirin Maysey
    Beau Kirin Maysey
    November 11, 2020 at 12:08 am | #

    Amber just apparently evades recognition as a masked vigilate. Walky… not so much…

    • JepMZ
      JepMZ
      November 11, 2020 at 12:13 am | #

      She’s so head over heels for him, she memorized every geometry of his figure in every angle

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        November 11, 2020 at 12:14 am | #

        The butts match!

        • drs
          drs
          November 11, 2020 at 12:18 am | #

          One time in high school, a friend thought she recognized her best friend by the butt. Our classrooms were wall to ceiling glass, but the upper part was obscured by blinds or something, so some girl was visible from the waist down. Jan stared, bolted out to say hi, and came back miffed because it was not in fact her friend.

        • Icalasari
          Icalasari
          November 11, 2020 at 1:19 am | #

          The Joker would probably turn himself in while laughing a ton, amazed that BATMAN has a sense of humour and would pull that off

          • JR
            JR
            November 11, 2020 at 3:36 am | #

            Where’s my goddamn electric car, Bruce?!

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

    • JetstreamGW
      JetstreamGW
      November 11, 2020 at 12:45 am | #

      “You think I wouldn’t recognize you just because I can’t see your cheekbones?”

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      November 11, 2020 at 3:14 am | #

      TECHNICALLY we haven’t seen Walky cross the line to vigilante quite yet.

      We’ll know when he does, due to the extensive amount of medical care he’ll need. (Unless he gets hurt doing parkour instead.)

  5. nobodybasically
    nobodybasically
    November 11, 2020 at 12:08 am | #

    Unclear if Lucy is smarter than every other character or if Walky’s disguise is canonically worse than Amazigirl’s.

    • SeanR
      SeanR
      November 11, 2020 at 12:11 am | #

      Yes.
      Walky is wearing an off-the-shelf ski-suit, “cape”, (which might be terrycloth, for all we know), and mask.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        November 11, 2020 at 2:41 am | #

        The Amazi-Costume isn’t much more advanced than that. The biggest difference is the utility belt, other than that it’s just coveralls, mask, gloves, boots, and a cape.

    • CrazyJ
      CrazyJ
      November 11, 2020 at 12:18 am | #

      Walky’s disguise is definitely going to be easier to see through. AG changes her hairstyle, demeanor, and takes off her glasses, and tends to go unnoticed as Amber. Not only does Walky do none of that, but he’s also black so it narrows the list down a little (unless you are Billie).

      • Juanoku
        Juanoku
        November 11, 2020 at 12:23 am | #

        That’s… A LITTLE racist my guy

        • CrazyJ
          CrazyJ
          November 11, 2020 at 4:33 am | #

          Pointing out that race is (usually) a physically distinguishing characteristic isn’t even a little bit racist, it’s just pointing out the obvious.

          • Fay
            Fay
            November 11, 2020 at 7:39 am | #

            From a quick search, only about 7% of students at IU identify as African American, so it actually does narrow down the pool quite a bit.

    • drs
      drs
      November 11, 2020 at 12:20 am | #

      Or DID gives you extra disguise power in this universe. No one can recognize Amber as AG because she isn’t AG.

      • Chris Phoenix
        Chris Phoenix
        November 11, 2020 at 3:30 am | #

        Body language changes can be a powerful disguise.

    • Scoops!
      Scoops!
      November 11, 2020 at 12:53 am | #

      https://www.dumbingofage.com/tag/amazi-girl+lucy/

      From the tags, Lucy hasn’t met Amazi-Girl so we don’t have a direct comparison. I do like the theory that she’s spent so much time closely examining Walky that she would recognize him, specifically, no matter what.

    • Lars
      Lars
      November 11, 2020 at 2:41 am | #

      If you ask Billie who Nightguy is, she probably suspects Joe.

  6. Diner Kinetic
    Diner Kinetic
    November 11, 2020 at 12:10 am | #

    She was wrong in _just_ the wrong way, and it’s adorable

  7. Leorale
    Leorale
    November 11, 2020 at 12:10 am | #

    Her jacket even says “LOVE”. The power of the jacket compels him.
    On the other hand, he could totally be doing this to impress Amber/AG, to start us on wacky love-rectangle adventures.

    • MacareuxMoine
      MacareuxMoine
      November 11, 2020 at 9:56 am | #

      As I said before: somebody has to give Lucy some ‘I’ and ‘U’ pins, so at least her jacket can spell it out for Walky.
      New thought: How are the odds that ‘I’ and ‘U’ pins are available at IU?

  8. BBCC
    BBCC
    November 11, 2020 at 12:11 am | #

    I mean, it is traditionally the love interest who notices first…

  9. Tsa
    Tsa
    November 11, 2020 at 12:11 am | #

    her little :3 face though!!!

    • Jade
      Jade
      November 11, 2020 at 12:15 am | #

      omg totally spies!! that was my hyperfixation for a beat over the summer.

  10. Dean
    Dean
    November 11, 2020 at 12:12 am | #

    Just like a dame, thinking that mild-mannered nobody Walky is actually Nightguy! Why, they’re nothing alike!

  11. Nono
    Nono
    November 11, 2020 at 12:13 am | #

    Who’s gonna rack up more delusion points by the end, Lucy or Joyce?

    Though Billie is definitely a contender.

  12. Kelli
    Kelli
    November 11, 2020 at 12:13 am | #

    I can guarantee that Walky is still oblivious.

  13. Proto_Eevee
    Proto_Eevee
    November 11, 2020 at 12:13 am | #

    I’m totally glad we get to see more Night-Guy. I hope this is a long term thing now

  14. Mae
    Mae
    November 11, 2020 at 12:15 am | #

    I ship Lucy x Walky SOLELY for the reason being that I want Lucy to be happy. She deserves the best.

    • SeanR
      SeanR
      November 11, 2020 at 12:16 am | #

      Long-term happy or short-term happy?

      • AbelUndercity
        AbelUndercity
        November 11, 2020 at 7:49 am | #

        The way time works in this strip, it can be both.

    • Rectilinear Propagation
      Rectilinear Propagation
      November 11, 2020 at 12:22 am | #

      Oh that reminds me of that recurring joke in the What Your Favorite Ship In [Fandom] Says About You series on YouTube:

      “You just want good things for [character]. And really, who wouldn’t?”

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      November 11, 2020 at 12:27 am | #

      I ship them both for that and because I suspect they’d be a cute couple. And because I like to ship any pairing that’s even remotely possible, and maybe a few that are impossible as well.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      November 11, 2020 at 12:56 am | #

      I mean… I want the best for her as well. She is cute as a pie, sweet as honey and make the world better for the people around her (with the possible exception of Malaya).

      I just don’t see “the best” including “Walky”.

      • brute
        brute
        November 11, 2020 at 3:18 am | #

        ^^^

  15. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    November 11, 2020 at 12:15 am | #

    Oh Lucy, what are you going to do if Walky still wants to hook up with Amber? They never officially ended things as far as I remember. Not to say that something didn’t change over the break, maybe it did.

    Also is Walky actually trying to be like Amazi-girl and if so, does he have any idea what he is getting himself into?

    • deathjavu
      deathjavu
      November 11, 2020 at 12:58 am | #

      Cry, yes, not even slightly.

  16. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    November 11, 2020 at 12:15 am | #

    *cues up Stevie Wonder for the hacked P.A. speakers*

  17. mackabre
    mackabre
    November 11, 2020 at 12:15 am | #

    to quote How I Met Your Mother, “Oh, honey…”

  18. Spencer
    Spencer
    November 11, 2020 at 12:15 am | #

    One day Lucy’s heart is going to break in two and I don’t know if I’ll be able to handle it.

  19. JenGen
    JenGen
    November 11, 2020 at 12:20 am | #

    Oh dear, my sweet child…you’re crusin’ for an emotional bruisin’

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      November 11, 2020 at 2:25 am | #

      Agreed; read any comic book or watch any superhero show and you’ll realise that nothing good ever comes from being a superhero’s first love interest. Optimistically, you’ll be left embittered and emotionally broken.

      • CJ
        CJ
        November 11, 2020 at 3:57 am | #

        That’s why there’s so much supergirl/Lena luthor fanfic around.

  20. Juanoku
    Juanoku
    November 11, 2020 at 12:23 am | #

    This can only end well…
    Also weren’t her hands freezing

    • Wizard
      Wizard
      November 11, 2020 at 12:51 am | #

      Now they’re warmed by the power of love.

      • RowenMorland
        RowenMorland
        November 11, 2020 at 1:37 am | #

        And adrenaline from a scary situation.

      • Tawnee
        Tawnee
        November 11, 2020 at 3:57 am | #

        This *demands* I follow up with “the warmth of a glove”, but then I remembered this is a fairly US heavy board so I don’t know how recognisable Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s song The Power of Love is.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          November 11, 2020 at 6:46 am | #

          I think us Millennial Yanks would instantly recall the Huey Lewis and the News song of the same name, because it was in Back to the Future.

  21. Keulen
    Keulen
    November 11, 2020 at 12:25 am | #

    Lucy, as much as I ship you and Walky, you’re really reading too much into this. You’re gonna have to be a lot more direct if you want Walky to know how you feel about him.

    • Vukodlak
      Vukodlak
      November 11, 2020 at 12:34 am | #

      That boy can be pretty dense, if he slipped into bed and found Lucy waiting in her underwear he might think she forgot which room was hers.

      • Wraithy2773
        Wraithy2773
        November 11, 2020 at 1:45 am | #

        Yeah, probably best if she skipped the underwear.

        I mean, it’s been how long since the last Slipshine?

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        November 11, 2020 at 6:04 am | #

        Platonic underwear-only spooning is in her future.

  22. lia
    lia
    November 11, 2020 at 12:25 am | #

    who the hell is walky

    • Geneseepaws
      Geneseepaws
      November 11, 2020 at 7:31 am | #

      Night Guy’s alter ego.

  23. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    November 11, 2020 at 12:40 am | #

    Poor Lucy doesn’t realize that she’s got cooties.

  24. Bagge
    Bagge
    November 11, 2020 at 12:48 am | #

    Lucy, NO!

  25. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    November 11, 2020 at 12:49 am | #

    I feel sad about Lucy. Walky has no obvious interest in her. There’s a big difference between being in love and being good to others.

  26. Ashley
    Ashley
    November 11, 2020 at 1:16 am | #

    Oh, honey, no.

  27. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    November 11, 2020 at 1:44 am | #

    It’s not romantic; it’s just heroic.

  28. BenRG
    BenRG
    November 11, 2020 at 2:23 am | #

    *Sigh* Poor Lucy. This is so not going to go well. She is not Lois Lane and Walky is not Superman. He’ll, he’d struggle to be the 1980s Blue Beetle! Most importantly, of course, this is not a game, as Walky seems to think it is.

    FWIW, though, I wouldn’t say ‘no’ if the ultimate direction to this mask would be for Lucy to follow her Walkyverse counterpart and ultimately become the new Amazi-Girl!

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      November 11, 2020 at 8:45 am | #

      How dare you demean Ted Kord like that.

  29. Varangian
    Varangian
    November 11, 2020 at 3:21 am | #

    HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA oh my God

  30. Josh Spicer
    Josh Spicer
    November 11, 2020 at 7:38 am | #

    Saved you trouble?

    Yes.

    Avoided that skeezy dude despite Walky’s presence?

    Debatable.

  31. Amy
    Amy
    November 11, 2020 at 9:01 am | #

    This is weird, the next comic button stopped working on my archive bin- wait, what do you mean I caught up? ;w;

  32. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    November 11, 2020 at 9:04 am | #

    I just hope that poor Lucy is not full herself of illusions about Walky.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      November 11, 2020 at 9:29 am | #

      Oh, she’s full to the brim of illusions about it! Crushes blind you to reality oh so effectively!

  33. hof1991
    hof1991
    November 11, 2020 at 9:10 am | #

    Amber wears glasses. Walky doesn’t. The glasses are essential to a secret identity.

    • He Who Abides
      He Who Abides
      November 11, 2020 at 10:42 pm | #

      Y’do know that the Clark Kent/Superman dichotomy goes well beyond glasses, yes? There’s body language, attitude, slightly-too-large clothing cleverly altered to both mask his build and contain his cape, plus the well-documented “fact” that Clark Kent has the constitutional fortitude of a wet piece of tissue paper . . . but no, it’s just glasses and stupid people /s

      • StClair
        StClair
        November 11, 2020 at 11:53 pm | #

        I used to have a better, shorter, more focused video, but this one is what I could find … skip ahead to about 1:20 if you like.

        • StClair
          StClair
          November 12, 2020 at 12:01 am | #

          Found it! Watch that one instead. 🙂

  34. Sporky
    Sporky
    November 11, 2020 at 9:39 am | #

    Lucy probably loves books. Someone should give her a copy of He’s Just Not That Into You.

  35. Zee
    Zee
    November 11, 2020 at 11:23 am | #

    AaaaaaaaaaA she’s so adorable I can’t handle it

  36. thumb
    thumb
    November 11, 2020 at 2:04 pm | #

    It is doomed, but I can’t help but smile.

  37. Spaz8
    Spaz8
    November 11, 2020 at 2:25 pm | #

    Everyone is talking about Walky and Lucy and mentioning Lucy shouldn’t be with Walk because she needs better. So my friend had a big Brian idea that Jacob and Lucy could be a thing since Lucy said that she is similar to Joyce and Jacob mentioned that he’d start looking for girls like Joyce to date. (It fits with Jacobs crush on Lucy in shortpacked! too)

    • RacingTurtle
      RacingTurtle
      November 12, 2020 at 3:04 am | #

      I thought the same thing when Jacob said that. Glad I’m not the only one!

  38. Heather
    Heather
    November 11, 2020 at 6:25 pm | #

    Somehow with his lack of martial arts training and mcnuggets diet I’m not sure how long Walky can keep this up long term if he gets the inkling to try to do this regularly.

    Granted Amber had rather troubling attitude to maintaining physical health too at points like in the form of sleep.

  39. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    November 11, 2020 at 9:34 pm | #

    Lucy’s expression in panel four is wonderful. I hope she’s not too disappointed.

  40. Jackson
    Jackson
    November 12, 2020 at 9:56 am | #

    He can deal genuinely with emotions.

More Asma?

View Results

Loading ... Loading ...
  • Polls Archive
CONVENTION APPEARANCES


September 13/14, 2025 - Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland

David M Willis! avatar
David M Willis!
@damnyouwillis.bsky.social
reposted by David M Willis!
feralcommie.bsky.social's user avatar
Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social ⋅ 6d
Harsh, but fair
To teach my kids a lesson about socialism, I gave all my kids a list of chores that I thought they could handle, but set their allowances at the same level. 

Then I had the CIA murder me and install a puppet dad.
44
628
3447
 
reposted by David M Willis!
wackd.bsky.social's user avatar
Wack'd @wackd.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
"what do you ship in #dumbingofage? joyce/dorothy? joyce/joe? dorothy/walky?" i am so glad you asked
a complicated diagram of romantic and sexual relationships, including
- joyce/dorothy
- joyce/joe
- dorothy/walky 
- an arrow pointing from dorothy to joe with an angry face
- arrows pointing between joyce and walky with a meh face
- arrows pointing between dorothy and jennifer with an angry face and sweat drops
- arrows pointing between jennifer and ruth with the lyrics to
3
3
19
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1h
Not sure where I am
7
21
 
reposted by David M Willis!
bransonreese.bsky.social's user avatar
Branson Reese @bransonreese.bsky.social ⋅ 13h
"...I cancelled the show but I stand by my decision"
Tweet from Variety:
6
11
230
 
reposted by David M Willis!
ryanestrada.com's user avatar
Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com ⋅ 6h
I hope Josh Johnson is given The Daily Show and is allowed to rebuild it from scratch in his own image just like Jon Stewart got to do in 99. He has built his own groundbreaking form of topical comedy, and imitating the style of others is something he is great at, but better than.
10
30
287
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 13h
thinking about how mario's head has stayed the exact same size his entire life, while princess peach's head has shrunk on its way into adulthood
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatarDavid M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 15h
do you think Mario, Luigi, and the Princesses have, like, existential crises about the baby versions of themselves also just casually being next to them in all the races like I would be having ego death right now, not leaping triumphantly
4
9
84
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 14h
Dumbing of Age: "Take stock" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomics #webcomic
www.dumbingofage.com
Take stock
6
6
61
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 15h
do you think Mario, Luigi, and the Princesses have, like, existential crises about the baby versions of themselves also just casually being next to them in all the races like I would be having ego death right now, not leaping triumphantly
14
10
112
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 15h
y'know not sure I trust the impartiality of a race track that has a giant statue of one of the guys I'm racing against
3
3
48
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 15h
For July's first bonus strip, folks voted for DEXTER and MONKEY MASTER! For world domination! Read this bonus strip and hundreds of previous at the Dumbing of Age Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-... and remember you can always pledge up to read tomorrow's strip 👀
dexter and monkey master decline, apparently, to take over the world
2
3
42
 
reposted by David M Willis!
emotion-engine.bsky.social's user avatar
The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social ⋅ 9d
Good news for the people still circulating this post: it is now a real t-shirt you can purchase and wear to let the world know you take responsibility for the actions of fictional characters:
emotion-engine.bsky.social's user avatarThe Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social ⋅ 9d
Normally I’d let this sort of thing just die out but an alarming amount of you have asked where you can buy this and my wife had to have an emergency surgery the day before I made this, so here is my chance to live the American Dream (selling print-on-demand shirts to pay down medical debt)
16
42
 
reposted by David M Willis!
goronamber.bsky.social's user avatar
amber @goronamber.bsky.social ⋅ 18h
I just wanna post this in the comments bsky.app/profile/emot...
emotion-engine.bsky.social's user avatarThe Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social ⋅ 13d
Working on a t-shirt to sell to the weird people that show up in your mentions every time you talk about enjoying something that has crime or impure thought in it.
A stock photo of a man holding a phone wearing a shirt that says “I PERSONALLY ENDORSE EVERY BAD THING IN THE MEDIA I WATCH. MAY THEIR CRIMES ONE DAY BE MY OWN”
1
5
25
 
reposted by David M Willis!
generaltekno.bttoons.com's user avatar
Tekno 😈🌐👑🇨🇦 | TEAM FOSSILS @generaltekno.bttoons.com ⋅ 1d
Someone leaked the entire unreleased Micronauts animated series to archive.org All 52 episodes Yes they FULLY FINISHED a Micronauts cartoon in the early 2020s and mothballed it
vangelus.bsky.social's user avatarVangelus @vangelus.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
tested ep1 of Micronauts, skipped to the credits so I could see every name of every crew member who put in so much work with the expectation that anybody would ever see the thing they did as part of their vocation in a creative field, working in service of what should be a reliable client & partner
9
95
161
 
reposted by David M Willis!
vangelus.bsky.social's user avatar
Vangelus @vangelus.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
tested ep1 of Micronauts, skipped to the credits so I could see every name of every crew member who put in so much work with the expectation that anybody would ever see the thing they did as part of their vocation in a creative field, working in service of what should be a reliable client & partner
9
24
119
 
reposted by David M Willis!
wackd.bsky.social's user avatar
Wack'd @wackd.bsky.social ⋅ 20h
gotta go back to the original tagline
1
1
42
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 21h
admittedly, i might be arriving at a little annoyance on behalf of anyone responded to ever with "WELL it's not called SMARTING of age" because that's become a lot, i think the fork might be in that one, it's done
5
1
92
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
the people have spoken
3
1
74
 
reposted by David M Willis!
senatormeow.bsky.social's user avatar
Senator Meow @senatormeow.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
they're selling twink dongs at the grocery store now
Hostess Ding Dongs x Twinkies mashup with delicious Twinkies cake covered in Ding Dongs fudge
68
1086
2988
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
today in #9chickweedlane i learned that "how to lie" is not, actually, achieved by cupping the balls, despite the evidence of the entirety of the first panel, but by some other giant pile of words i guess, tl;dr
7
2
32
 
reposted by David M Willis!
louisathelast.bsky.social's user avatar
Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
“It’s not me who’s a bigot,” they always argue. “I’m fine with all you people. But the rest of the electorate is full of bigots, on whose behalf I will now speak”
19
113
 
reposted by David M Willis!
beetlemoses.bsky.social's user avatar
beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
7
291
2124
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Same, Dunkin, same
2
28
152
 
reposted by David M Willis!
kevinmkruse.bsky.social's user avatar
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
factpostnews.bsky.social's user avatarFactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
House Republicans have shut down floor votes and will likely adjourn for 6 weeks to avoid voting for the release of the Epstein files.
40
219
963
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
😬 Rainbow Friends
1
3
34
 
reposted by David M Willis!
lukeknox.me's user avatar
Luke Knox @lukeknox.me ⋅ 2d
this is why layout matters
video thumbnail
33
542
2579
 
reposted by David M Willis!
kibblesmith.com's user avatar
Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com ⋅ 2d
The two greatest evils known to mankind, A.I. and the person directly in front of you in line at the post office, have finally teamed up. We’re done.
fklein907.bsky.social's user avatarFrances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Woman in line in front of me at the post office is not happy about the cost of shipping. She just whipped out her phone, asked ChatGPT how much it thinks the shipping should cost, and is trying to get the mailman to honor that price.
23
2022
9677
 
reposted by David M Willis!
kenplume.bsky.social's user avatar
Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
I still love this Glen Brogan artwork capturing a truly iconic Star Wars moment...
Glen Brogan art of a trio of seagulls attacking a fleeing Yoda, who is valiantly trying to protect his head from the onslaught...
7
91
296
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Dumbing of Age: "Moratorium" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomics #webcomic
www.dumbingofage.com
Moratorium
12
9
69
 
reposted by David M Willis!
swilua.bsky.social's user avatar
🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
OK democrats shutting down congress by attaching Epstein amendments to everything is pretty funny
fritschner.bsky.social's user avatarAaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Politico & Punchbowl report House Republican leadership is shutting down the Rules Committee - which is essential for moving party-line bills on the floor - for the week rather than vote on Democratic amendments on the Epstein files. Dems have effectively halted Republican legislation in the House:
10
236
836
 
reposted by David M Willis!
billcorbett.bsky.social's user avatar
Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Josh Johnson is brilliant and I’m happy for him and wish him the world
joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social's user avatarJosh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
This week, I’m hosting The Daily Show Tuesday through Thursday. It’s my first time hosting anything on TV. Ever. I’ve spent years writing behind the scenes, learning from truly great and talented people. Now, for three nights, I get to sit at the desk and do it myself.
6
45
538
 

©2010-2025 Dumbing of Age | Powered by WordPress with ComicPress | Subscribe: RSS | Privacy Policy | Back to Top ↑