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by David M Willis on January 1, 2023 at 12:01 am
  • 02 – Turning Saints Into the Sea
└ Tags: leslie, robin

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    January 1, 2023 at 12:01 am | #

    guess she’s not Owl DeSanto

    • Scoops!
      Scoops!
      January 1, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

      Whoooo?

      • Clif
        Clif
        January 1, 2023 at 12:15 am | #

        I dunno, but panel 5 is channeling Jennifer.

        • Juanoku
          Juanoku
          January 1, 2023 at 11:16 am | #

          No, it’s a owl joke
          A real hoot

    • Decidedly Orthogonal
      Decidedly Orthogonal
      January 1, 2023 at 11:20 am | #

      Sounds like she bent her wookie.

    • Leadsynth
      Leadsynth
      January 2, 2023 at 1:21 pm | #

      Owl be the judge of that.

  2. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    January 1, 2023 at 12:01 am | #

    Happy New Year East Coast!

    • Rose by Any Other Name
      Rose by Any Other Name
      January 1, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

      Cheers!

      • The Wellerman
        The Wellerman
        January 1, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

        Cheers! *sips Cherry Kool-Aid*

        • Clif
          Clif
          January 1, 2023 at 1:01 am | #

          Happy New Year Central Time Zone.

  3. The Wellerman
    The Wellerman
    January 1, 2023 at 12:02 am | #

    🥳🎉🍾

    Here’s to another interesting new year of the future that never was!

    Good as an excuse as any for fireworks, champagne, anime marathons or however else you wanna celebrate!

    *plays “Ride on Shooting Star” by the Pillows” on hacked muzak*

    • thakoru
      thakoru
      January 1, 2023 at 12:23 am | #

      I refuse to listen to any music on New Year’s that isn’t an off-key rendition of Auld Lang Syne that keeps going long past the point where the singers know or agree on the lyrics.

      • maarvarq
        maarvarq
        January 1, 2023 at 4:34 am | #

        I heard and saw a rendition last night by a choir and orchestra, and it just kept going and going and GOING …

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      January 1, 2023 at 12:26 am | #

      I am once again staying up past midnight … to study for my last college final. I can’t afford to drop the ball with this. (get it?)

      Are you marathoning an anime, if so which one?

      • The Wellerman
        The Wellerman
        January 1, 2023 at 12:28 am | #

        FLCL 🤩 It’s why I chose that song LOL

      • Marma
        Marma
        January 1, 2023 at 6:04 am | #

        I’m binge reading Komi Can’t Communicate. It’s oddly cute and funny.

  4. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    January 1, 2023 at 12:02 am | #

    Robin’s over 30. This just proved she’s over 30.

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      January 1, 2023 at 12:03 am | #

      I felt this statement in my spine. 🙁

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      January 1, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

      Thing is, I’m under 30 but my back is ahead of the curve.

      • Masumi
        Masumi
        January 1, 2023 at 12:13 am | #

        I’m over 30 but my back started off in such bad shape that I’m still improving it?

        (“oh hey, look, another muscle I didn’t know I was supposed to have!” – me, about once per year)

        • Laura
          Laura
          January 1, 2023 at 12:18 am | #

          That’s great that you are improving it! Good for you!

    • RassilonTDavros
      RassilonTDavros
      January 1, 2023 at 12:52 am | #

      My 25-ish year old neck would beg to differ!

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        January 1, 2023 at 11:59 pm | #

        just remembered I as a COLLEGE FRESHMAN could crack my neck on command

    • Tan
      Tan
      January 1, 2023 at 1:11 am | #

      How dare you and where’s my ibuprofen.

      (ha ha, this is a joke because I know exactly where my ibuprofen is)

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        January 1, 2023 at 9:34 am | #

        Ibuprofen: it’s Band-Aids for your insides!

  5. Cattleprod
    Cattleprod
    January 1, 2023 at 12:04 am | #

    I like the untied bow-tie around her neck, implying that she honestly assumed she could just wing it.

    • anon
      anon
      January 1, 2023 at 12:08 am | #

      i feel like i’d either fidget with it too much or need to tie it loosely or it’d come off even if teaching doesn’t require as much ‘walking around’ in classtime lol

  6. Barswanian
    Barswanian
    January 1, 2023 at 12:05 am | #

    Thanks Robin.

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      January 1, 2023 at 12:31 am | #

      She never ceases to provide her constituents and students with … something. I’m not exactly sure what, but its definitely something.

      Fun fact: The very real novel “Hope Never Dies: An Obama Biden Mystery” by Andrew Shaffer’s acknowledgements read simply “Thanks Obama”

      • spriteless aunty
        spriteless aunty
        January 1, 2023 at 1:14 pm | #

        When someone says “The very real novel” I don’t expect to actually find the novel exists. 😀

  7. anon
    anon
    January 1, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

    wouldn’t her neck hurt first? but lol tbh those ‘blush’ marks look more like facepaint but i’d assume they’re being flirty lol

    • TerribleTransit
      TerribleTransit
      January 1, 2023 at 1:07 am | #

      Those blush marks are just a thing. Many (most?) characters have them at almost all times, no matter how flirty they’re being.

      • anon
        anon
        January 1, 2023 at 5:48 pm | #

        guess it depends on the skin tone tho it does stick out a bit more with robin’s flirty face/eyes lol. tho i have fairly pale skin so unless i’m worn out/sweaty i don’t think m yface ever looks flushed unless i also get tipsy or so lol

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        January 1, 2023 at 7:04 pm | #

        It is, for example, the key distinguishing trait between Amber and Amazi-Girl.

    • Swissaboo
      Swissaboo
      January 1, 2023 at 7:08 pm | #

      I mean, the neck… includes part of the spine

  8. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    January 1, 2023 at 12:07 am | #

    I mean, I dig it, but maybe she should get a bolo tie if she can’t tie a tie.

    • anon
      anon
      January 1, 2023 at 12:14 am | #

      other than the mild cleavage (that shouldn’t be inherently sexual to begin with), i’d think it’d be fine without any kinda tie to begin with, i’d assume the profs don’t have too strict a dress code

      I never went to a college but i can imagine seeing a prof show up in sweatpants and some snarky printed T that a young adult/teen would wear and think “Yeah that seems about right”

      • woobie
        woobie
        January 1, 2023 at 12:22 am | #

        Décolletage is always sexy, and why shouldn’t it be?

        • BarerMender
          BarerMender
          January 1, 2023 at 2:01 am | #

          Selah!

      • eh, whatever
        eh, whatever
        January 1, 2023 at 5:07 am | #

        Universities don’t have dress codes. Except “Liberty” “University” and the like.

      • Victor
        Victor
        January 1, 2023 at 8:41 am | #

        Jeans and a t-shirt were not uncommon for my professors. I don’t immediately recall sweatpants, but they weren’t really all that popular anyway.
        I think I may have had one or two professors who wore ties on a regular basis, it was uncommon.

      • Tan
        Tan
        January 1, 2023 at 5:28 pm | #

        Bear in mind that the day before yesterday Leslie commented on Robin no longer wearing the “bowtied professor” look, and almost immediately it’s back. So.

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

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      January 1, 2023 at 9:04 am | #

      Or go back to the gimmick spinning bow tie she had earlier.

  9. UrsulaDavina
    UrsulaDavina
    January 1, 2023 at 12:15 am | #

    Thats why you tie the bow tie, it keeps your spine in place Robin.

  10. Joe Moose
    Joe Moose
    January 1, 2023 at 12:18 am | #

    Happy New Year, you infernal spooks. [toasts with his vodka gimlet]

  11. RacingTurtle
    RacingTurtle
    January 1, 2023 at 12:20 am | #

    Oh, um, hi, Robin

  12. Clif
    Clif
    January 1, 2023 at 12:20 am | #

    And that’s why Robin ultimately didn’t make it as a politician. In spite of appearances, it turns out she had a spine.

    • spriteless aunty
      spriteless aunty
      January 1, 2023 at 1:16 pm | #

      Lol thanks for that

  13. Yumi
    Yumi
    January 1, 2023 at 12:26 am | #

    If New Years is daunting for anyone here, this is just a reminder that it’s okay to take it one day at a time, one minute at a time if you have to. The turn of the year can be overwhelming, but I hope 2023 is a positive experience for us all.

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      January 1, 2023 at 12:32 am | #

      That’s good. And I hope so too. 😌

    • Clif
      Clif
      January 1, 2023 at 12:35 am | #

      Here’s hoping Ruth collects twice the femers she collected in 2022.

    • StClair
      StClair
      January 1, 2023 at 12:51 am | #

      Thank you.

  14. EpochFlame
    EpochFlame
    January 1, 2023 at 12:30 am | #

    rip robin

  15. Suet
    Suet
    January 1, 2023 at 12:39 am | #

    Fireworks? Nah, we have Robin’s skeletal structure.

    I can see why Leslie said that in Panel 4, Robin’s channeled Jennifer-middled Joyce

  16. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    January 1, 2023 at 12:43 am | #

    Karma can hit pretty fast

  17. The Wellerman
    The Wellerman
    January 1, 2023 at 12:49 am | #

    Anyone here have any New Years plans and/or resolutions they wanna share?

    • RassilonTDavros
      RassilonTDavros
      January 1, 2023 at 12:55 am | #

      I’m planning to clean up my bedroom a bit, take some things to storage. And put as many posters on the walls as is physically possible.

      • Clif
        Clif
        January 1, 2023 at 12:58 am | #

        I’m going to educate myself about quantum computing circuits.

        • The Wellerman
          The Wellerman
          January 1, 2023 at 1:02 am | #

          😍 That’s super awesome! Care to let me know about the specific reading material you intend to check out?

          • Clif
            Clif
            January 2, 2023 at 12:48 am | #

            Sure, I’ll update you as I go.

        • Joy
          Joy
          January 1, 2023 at 8:47 pm | #

          Yo me too

      • Slartibeast Button, BIA
        Slartibeast Button, BIA
        January 1, 2023 at 8:11 am | #

        I’m planning get the rest of my stuff out of storage, and save on the rental. Already got maybe 50% out in six months.

    • Sol
      Sol
      January 1, 2023 at 2:59 am | #

      Gonna restart my diet so I can fit into my goth clothes again T_T Also exercising and eating well is good for you health and shit, I guess.

    • Morleuca
      Morleuca
      January 1, 2023 at 7:40 am | #

      Get myself below the cutoff weight for grs (just a handful of pounds left!) and start the consultation process with Mt Sunai

    • Azhrei Vep
      Azhrei Vep
      January 1, 2023 at 8:11 am | #

      I resolved to survive until dawn.

      I succeeded!

    • cain
      cain
      January 1, 2023 at 8:21 am | #

      I am going to somehow acquire a banjo and try to learn to play it.

    • spriteless aunty
      spriteless aunty
      January 1, 2023 at 1:19 pm | #

      I’m planning to exercise, despite the cold. I’ve been slacking this winter. Don’t want to let my desk job* kill me.

      Not actually at a desk. Just sitting on my laptop at work wherever I fit.

    • Laura
      Laura
      January 1, 2023 at 10:33 pm | #

      I’m listening to the full Bible straight through as an audiobook. I’ve read it before but never all the books in order. Kinda need a refresher these days, you know? It’s been too long.

      Been reading Minna Sundberg’s work and found it inspiring.

      My library has “Inspired by… the Bible Experience,” which is pretty epic. Kind of like a Star Wars movie or a long orchestral / spoken-word concept album. So it’s a bit more accessible. Kind of like eating brownie bites with walnuts and bits of prunes in them.

      🙂 (I read the Bible mostly to queer it, and as an index to the turns of phrase in western literature, but it’s good to re-read the classics just to have them in mind.)

      • Laura
        Laura
        January 1, 2023 at 10:42 pm | #

        I mean the local public library.

  18. deathjavu
    deathjavu
    January 1, 2023 at 12:53 am | #

    And that was the last we heard from DoA Robin. She was largely unmissed.

  19. Pocky
    Pocky
    January 1, 2023 at 1:02 am | #

    Robin has surprisingly little game.

    Real talk tho; stiff necks are the worst.

  20. C.T. Phipps
    C.T. Phipps
    January 1, 2023 at 1:15 am | #

    I’m surprised Leslie and Robin aren’t dating. After all, trashing a Republican campaign in Indiana and electing a Democrat is the kind of grand romantic gesture you’d think she’d be all over.

    • Thomas
      Thomas
      January 1, 2023 at 6:52 am | #

      I get strong Marion Ravenwood vibes from Robin in this outfit. Which I believe is thing that works for Leslie.

      (Replying here because you said Indiana.)

    • Slartibeast Button, BIA
      Slartibeast Button, BIA
      January 1, 2023 at 8:13 am | #

      I’ve lost track. Did Leslie’s thing with Anna the dental hygienist go anywhere?

      • Inbar Fink
        Inbar Fink
        January 1, 2023 at 8:25 am | #

        Leslie talks about having a girlfriend in the present tense here – https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/03-see-you-in-the-funny-page/relevant/

        Presumably that means Anna, although I guess we can’t discount the possibility that she got a new different girlfriend over the timeskip.

    • TerribleTransit
      TerribleTransit
      January 1, 2023 at 9:44 am | #

      Trashing a Republican campaign might be a nice gesture for Leslie, but it’s somewhat soured by the fact that Robin was the Republican in question and has a history of rhetoric and voting record to match. One good deed can only go so far to make up for that.

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        January 1, 2023 at 1:38 pm | #

        Also soured by several days of home invasion.

  21. John
    John
    January 1, 2023 at 1:22 am | #

    Ugg, I still pretty much hate Robin. I really hope Leslie never dates her. She can do so much better.

  22. BBCC
    BBCC
    January 1, 2023 at 1:33 am | #

    AH ROBIN, NO. YOUR NECK!

    • spriteless aunty
      spriteless aunty
      January 1, 2023 at 1:21 pm | #

      She really does better in a world with cartoon physics!- 😀

  23. Nothri
    Nothri
    January 1, 2023 at 1:42 am | #

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h1MO4XchZt8

  24. JediMB
    JediMB
    January 1, 2023 at 2:55 am | #

    Well, the “or am I” would def work on me.

    Damn you, Robin.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      January 1, 2023 at 4:08 am | #

      She had me at “See,”

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      January 1, 2023 at 1:39 pm | #

      Credit where credit’s due, achieving that level of sexy coyness is backbreaking work.

  25. Taffy
    Taffy
    January 1, 2023 at 3:22 am | #

    Robin’s hot…

    • The Wellerman
      The Wellerman
      January 1, 2023 at 3:42 am | #

      Yeah! Her lesbian energy alone is enough to penetrate the 4th wall 😳

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      January 1, 2023 at 4:05 am | #

      I thought Robin was hot before it was cool….

    • Kim
      Kim
      January 1, 2023 at 5:30 am | #

      agreed! But is this The Hottest She’s Been (thus far)?

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        January 1, 2023 at 9:36 am | #

        Easily in the top 5.

  26. Cmasta1992
    Cmasta1992
    January 1, 2023 at 3:41 am | #

    Congratulations to Robin for being the cause of my first GAWDDAYUM of 2023

  27. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    January 1, 2023 at 4:03 am | #

    Damn, I hate being late to a comic this HORNY.
    So let me give a belated HOT DAMN DESANTO.

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      January 1, 2023 at 9:29 am | #

      The first comic of the year is in the horny.
      In this way, I believe it will be a spicy year for us.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 1, 2023 at 11:17 am | #

      Yeah, that’s… wow.

      But it’s also Robin.

      But also, wow.

      But also, Robin…

  28. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    January 1, 2023 at 4:06 am | #

    I just realized I misread what Robin said. I thought she said “I’m open for business”. ie a not subtle hint at Leslie to reach inside there like a cookie jar.

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      January 1, 2023 at 8:41 am | #

      It’s Robin, she’d be thrusting her chest at Leslie in that case.

  29. Acher4
    Acher4
    January 1, 2023 at 4:46 am | #

    OOOOR AAAAAAAM….? *let the bodies hit the floor*

    • Grayfinity
      Grayfinity
      January 1, 2023 at 7:08 am | #

      +1

  30. Acher4
    Acher4
    January 1, 2023 at 4:47 am | #

    HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! <3

  31. Chaucer59
    Chaucer59
    January 1, 2023 at 9:40 am | #

    Getting old’s a bongo, eh, Robin?

  32. David Doty
    David Doty
    January 1, 2023 at 9:54 am | #

    My neck! My back!

    • ButWhyASpoon
      ButWhyASpoon
      January 1, 2023 at 10:12 am | #

      My weiner and my sack!

  33. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    January 1, 2023 at 11:07 am | #

    I think Leslie is annoyed because despite knowing that Robin is wrong, she still manages to cause her an effect, unwanted.

  34. bagge
    bagge
    January 1, 2023 at 11:36 am | #

    …I think she is here for business

  35. Amelie Wikström
    Amelie Wikström
    January 1, 2023 at 11:36 am | #

    This brings to mind the bit in Disco Elysium where you can get Harry to nod his head for like twenty minutes until his neck makes a sound that “echoes across the city”. Has Robin maybe been drinking so heavily for so long it’s made her joints go bad?

  36. Devin
    Devin
    January 1, 2023 at 1:21 pm | #

    You’re gettin’ old Robin, I can go further than that.

  37. poyo
    poyo
    January 1, 2023 at 1:56 pm | #

    happy new year everyone !!! excited for another year of DOA !!

  38. HueSatLight
    HueSatLight
    January 1, 2023 at 2:33 pm | #

    Thinking about Watsonian explanations for plot setup on joke day.
    1) The reason Jason’s advisor seems non-existent is because they are a terrible advisor, probably out of the country most of the time and never checking in. An advisor who was present would be aware of the accusations, and Jason quitting his TA job. An advisor who was doing their job would know Jason was on a work visa instead of a student visa.
    2) Jason has a work visa instead of a student visa because US immigration is byzantine, and for some reason he was unable to get a student visa, but he got a work visa as a work-around.
    —
    Robin will end up hiring him as a “research” assistant, and his duties will be to wear a tailed tuxedo and butle for her.

    • Nicoleandmaggie
      Nicoleandmaggie
      January 1, 2023 at 6:25 pm | #

      It’s so much easier to get a student visa than a work visa, especially for someone coming from a G7 country like the UK. I’ve been assuming it’s a student visa and he has no money but can only work 20hrs/week on campus. Like he’s not literally going to be deported until a grace period after he’s unable to pay his tuition and fees (which might trigger the student visa to fail).

      A university will do the work visa for a professor but no way does that make sense for a math grad student.

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        January 1, 2023 at 7:55 pm | #

        Yeah, but it has recently been referred to in-comic as a work visa by both Ruth and Jason.

        • Nicoleandmaggie
          Nicoleandmaggie
          January 1, 2023 at 10:33 pm | #

          Like I said, I’ve been assuming that’s shorthand for a student visa where he can only work on campus but he needs money and not a literal work visa.

          That’s the only thing that makes sense (because I refuse to believe that there would be anything unrealistic in this comic…)

          • Yumi
            Yumi
            January 1, 2023 at 11:58 pm | #

            To be fair, it being shorthand like that doesn’t make sense either.

            • Nicoleandmaggie
              Nicoleandmaggie
              January 3, 2023 at 2:42 pm | #

              In that he needs to work to keep his student visa.

  39. CardinalFan
    CardinalFan
    January 1, 2023 at 3:24 pm | #

    LOL. It’s like that South Park episode where all the realtors crack their spines trying to lean the right way for their photos in order to compete with Cartman.

    Happy New Year everyone! May this be the first year of the decade where if we wake up in the morning and see Godzilla outside rampaging we’ll actually be surprised and not just go back to our breakfast! 🙂

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