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June 8, 2026

Very good mornin’

by David M Willis on August 31, 2024 at 12:01 am
  • 01 – Love Dares You To Change
└ Tags: jacob, lucy, sal

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    August 31, 2024 at 12:02 am | #

    oh NOW Sal’s good at maths

    • NGPZ
      NGPZ
      August 31, 2024 at 12:02 am | #

      she’s always MATH ^^ <3

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      August 31, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

      I imagine there are a lot of people who have a very good grasp on this level of math who would struggle mightily in a college course.

      …

      Also I’m pretty sure Sal canonically is good at maths now, we had several years of tutoring and character development

    • Clif
      Clif
      August 31, 2024 at 12:48 am | #

      Obviously Jason’s fault.

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        August 31, 2024 at 3:54 am | #

        He did give her a couple of lessons in applied combinatorics.

        ….

        …. and that was wrong, but the pun is more important than that.

        • Shadowsnail
          Shadowsnail
          August 31, 2024 at 11:59 am | #

          He skipped calculus and went straight to injective functions on splitting fields.
          She put the “gal” in Galois theory.

    • stePH
      stePH
      August 31, 2024 at 10:25 pm | #

      She did fine in math; Jason was just a crappy tutor. Danny helped her get it.

  2. Thag Simmons
    Thag Simmons
    August 31, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    I feel like even if you’re a few days off that’s still a pretty good margin of error on the prediction.

    • a/snow/mous/e
      a/snow/mous/e
      August 31, 2024 at 3:07 am | #

      I assumed it was a maximum anyway.

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        August 31, 2024 at 4:27 am | #

        Isn’t that usually the implication?

  3. Jonah (firelight_waltz)
    Jonah (firelight_waltz)
    August 31, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    we all called that one sal

  4. shadowcell
    shadowcell
    August 31, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    a year ago it was Thursday

    • shadowcell
      shadowcell
      August 31, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

      but for me…it was Tuesday

      • The Chosen One
        The Chosen One
        August 31, 2024 at 12:25 am | #

        Or as I like to call it…Friday

        • lightsabermario
          lightsabermario
          August 31, 2024 at 11:54 am | #

          Today is Friday in California.

          • NGPZ
            NGPZ
            August 31, 2024 at 1:30 pm | #

            Um it’s Saterday here actually. XD

            • Marillius
              Marillius
              August 31, 2024 at 10:53 pm | #

              I don’t think California has evolved that far past the rest of the country to be inventing new days.

      • Reltzik
        Reltzik
        August 31, 2024 at 3:56 am | #

        For Me It Was Tuesday was at most about 4 months ago.

  5. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    August 31, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    Sal: It’s real on these cold ass streets so pay me!

    • Newlland(Henryvolt)
      Newlland(Henryvolt)
      August 31, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

      +1

  6. RassilonTDavros
    RassilonTDavros
    August 31, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    Honestly, I tend to lose track of what day it’s supposed to be in-universe so the reminder is very much appreciated.

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      August 31, 2024 at 12:15 am | #

      I get confused too. Like what exactly happened Sunday? Was that the party? I think there should be an official calendar or something. I’m sure it’s probably been charted out to know what happened for every in comic day that has passed.

      • DashWallkick
        DashWallkick
        August 31, 2024 at 1:40 am | #

        Sunday was when they went to church together.

        You can remember this because, uh, church is always on Sunday.

        • Reltzik
          Reltzik
          August 31, 2024 at 3:57 am | #

          Except when it’s on Wednesday!

          … Or Christmas, that’s only Sunday 1/7th of the time.

          …. also, I think the Seventh Day Adventists do church on Saturday.

      • Dark_T_Zeratul
        Dark_T_Zeratul
        August 31, 2024 at 1:41 am | #

        Sunday was when Lucy met his parents, saw they were casually kinda racist, and then Walky basically didn’t defend her. And that led her to realize that she liked him a whole lot more than he liked her, and realize she deserved better:
        https://www.dumbingofage.com/2023/comic/book-14/02-its-the-love-i-havent-got/navigate/

        • Dark_T_Zeratul
          Dark_T_Zeratul
          August 31, 2024 at 1:42 am | #

          Oh, totally forgot the church thing. That also happened and was the final straw in her realization. Thanks Dash.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          August 31, 2024 at 9:18 am | #

          Parents would have been Saturday. Church and their breakup were the next day.
          And while all that played a role, the fight was really triggered by him not saying “I love you” back after she prompted for it a couple of times. It all goes back to her taking his casual “I love that about you” far too seriously – and then him not correcting her and prompting that fight on the spot.

        • Marillius
          Marillius
          August 31, 2024 at 10:55 pm | #

          The parent fight is still ridiculous. She knew they were racist, he warned her, she pushed him into trying to spend time with them despite that, and when he didn’t stand up to his parents despite him telling her how complicated the situation was for him and how conflicted he was, she got upset.

          She didn’t really deserve better because she forced herself into the situation for her own gratification rather than accept Walky’s initial assessment that ‘my parents suck’.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      August 31, 2024 at 4:29 am | #

      There’s a calendar on the wiki, too.

    • Qlx
      Qlx
      September 1, 2024 at 6:57 pm | #

      Yeah I definitely thought they had been dating for months since it’s been so long for us lol

  7. mindbleach
    mindbleach
    August 31, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

    Their whole deal was only two weeks, in-universe? Wow. Comic time befits the emotional weight Lucy put on this. We the audience have seen it at much greater length. I had bickered about it with people on reddit – so that must have been a year and a half ago.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      August 31, 2024 at 12:41 am | #

      In her defense, she was into him for significantly longer than they actually dated.

      • Marillius
        Marillius
        August 31, 2024 at 10:55 pm | #

        Yeah, she was doing that creepy thing some people do and hanging around him with the explicit hope of dating him while pretending it was about friendship.

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      August 31, 2024 at 12:43 am | #

      Are there people that bicker about DOA on reddit?

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        August 31, 2024 at 2:16 am | #

        Yeah, they go to r/fuckjoycebrown

        • a/snow/mous/e
          a/snow/mous/e
          August 31, 2024 at 3:08 am | #

          honestly a plausible subreddit name

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            August 31, 2024 at 4:31 am | #

            It’s deeply divided into two factions that have opposing interpretations of the name, but neither group has split off yet because both refuse to cede the URL to the other.

            • Nymph
              Nymph
              August 31, 2024 at 8:24 am | #

              headcannon accepted.

              • jflb96
                jflb96
                August 31, 2024 at 11:09 am | #

                Never accept a headcannon, it’s really bad for your shoulders

                • Nymph
                  Nymph
                  August 31, 2024 at 8:42 pm | #

                  You’re not my real dad.

        • Thag Simmons
          Thag Simmons
          August 31, 2024 at 5:25 am | #

          i chose to make no effort to verify this claim

      • mindbleach
        mindbleach
        August 31, 2024 at 6:35 pm | #

        It’s reddit. Bickering is its raison d’etre.

    • Amelie Wikström
      Amelie Wikström
      August 31, 2024 at 2:11 am | #

      It’s like the decompressed time represents how important these days feel to the teenager characters!

      • Zamperla
        Zamperla
        August 31, 2024 at 12:03 pm | #

        honestly i definitely had semesters that ran on daily comic time. 2016 was six years long I think.

  8. HueSatLight
    HueSatLight
    August 31, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

    simple rounding error.

  9. Taffy
    Taffy
    August 31, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

    This gay-ass hetero nonsense continues, and Sal knows the score.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      August 31, 2024 at 3:59 am | #

      … I feel there was an oxymoron in there, but I’m not complaining.

  10. IntangibleMatter
    IntangibleMatter
    August 31, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

    Sal is always right when it comes to predicting how people will be annoying

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      August 31, 2024 at 3:59 am | #

      I guess her time rooming with Malaya was good practice.

  11. Newlland(Henryvolt)
    Newlland(Henryvolt)
    August 31, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

    Sals like “Damn, Ah should’ve put money on that.”

  12. HueSatLight
    HueSatLight
    August 31, 2024 at 12:14 am | #

    The real reason Sal and Danny had to leave early.

  13. Getsu
    Getsu
    August 31, 2024 at 12:14 am | #

    Betting Jacob isn’t gonna like that knowledge

    • Newlland(Henryvolt)
      Newlland(Henryvolt)
      August 31, 2024 at 12:21 am | #

      What that he’s a rebound? Does he have room to judge when he hooked up with her the same night he was having a hard time Swoozing Sarah?

      • Jeremiah
        Jeremiah
        August 31, 2024 at 12:52 am | #

        Let’s be honest, Sarah had a hard swoozing Jacob.

        • Jeremiah
          Jeremiah
          August 31, 2024 at 12:57 am | #

          *Hard time. But you know what? This way is funnier.

    • Reaver
      Reaver
      August 31, 2024 at 1:53 am | #

      If he doesn’t then who cares? Lucy would probably not like that he was kissing another girl behind his gfs back after faking like she was his gf to meet his brother either.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        August 31, 2024 at 2:16 am | #

        Doesn’t “was kissing” imply a continuous behavior, kinda? He kissed Joyce one time only, and then never did it again.

        • Reltzik
          Reltzik
          August 31, 2024 at 4:01 am | #

          But it was an extended kiss. There were several seconds during which he was kissing Joyce.

        • Mark
          Mark
          August 31, 2024 at 8:33 am | #

          I think it does imply repetition, or else one would use the simple past “kissed”. So you’re correct, I think.

          But it’s not continuous, like Klimt’s “The Kiss”. That guy has been kissing her since 1907-8 and will go on doing so for who-knows-how-long.

        • HueSatLight
          HueSatLight
          August 31, 2024 at 8:17 pm | #

          this feels like a dialect thing.

    • Bash
      Bash
      August 31, 2024 at 2:22 am | #

      If he was there for the argument he presumably already knows some of it. But it’s an uncomfortable reminder of the reality of their situation.

  14. Yumi
    Yumi
    August 31, 2024 at 12:15 am | #

    “Take that, Sal, your disparaging remark was an overestimate on the sustainability of our relationship.”

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      August 31, 2024 at 12:53 am | #

      I don’t think Lucy really care all that much about that. I bet she forgot she said that.

      • Yumi
        Yumi
        August 31, 2024 at 1:53 am | #

        Forgot in that it wasn’t an active thought, sure, but here she clearly remembers.
        Also, like, my comments was meant more joking.

        • Mark
          Mark
          August 31, 2024 at 8:35 am | #

          One of her eyebrows clearly is digging up that memory and everything it’s linked to.

  15. BBCC
    BBCC
    August 31, 2024 at 12:22 am | #

    Never doubt a big sister’s estimate. XD

  16. Chaucer59
    Chaucer59
    August 31, 2024 at 12:32 am | #

    Sal may not always be right, but she’s never wrong.

  17. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    August 31, 2024 at 12:36 am | #

    Now that Jacob is part of this I am starting to get curious about IU’s layout. I know some of the walking group attend the same class (Robin’s political science and/or Prof. Whatever his name is’ chemistry) but do they all have classes in the same direction? Are some of them doubling back around?

    • Mark
      Mark
      August 31, 2024 at 8:40 am | #

      https://map.iu.edu/iub/

      Looks like academic buildings are more to the south and west, while a lot of the dorms are south and east, with sports and support more toward the north.

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      August 31, 2024 at 2:04 pm | #

      On one hand, it mostly matches the real one. Most of the classes we’ve seen are in the west part of campus (I don’t know about CS or life drawing), and Read and Forest are kind of central/east, near the south part of campus. McNutt is north of there.
      On the other hand, Dumbiverse Read is probably physically impossible, if the sun rises and sets the way it does in real life.

  18. AGV/Ruby
    AGV/Ruby
    August 31, 2024 at 12:39 am | #

    They used to call Sal “Gróa” the way she predicts the future.

  19. Jeremiah
    Jeremiah
    August 31, 2024 at 12:41 am | #

    Love how genuinely confused Lucy looks. I bet she entirely forgot she said that.

    • Newlland(Henryvolt)
      Newlland(Henryvolt)
      August 31, 2024 at 12:49 am | #

      That was literally like 3 days ago for them.

      • Jeremiah
        Jeremiah
        August 31, 2024 at 12:54 am | #

        Yes, I know.

    • Mark
      Mark
      August 31, 2024 at 8:42 am | #

      To me she looks like “I knew there was something I didn’t want to remember!”

  20. egon
    egon
    August 31, 2024 at 1:03 am | #

    yess judgment

  21. Marianne
    Marianne
    August 31, 2024 at 1:08 am | #

    It’s 14 days when you include sales tax

    • tim Rowledge
      tim Rowledge
      August 31, 2024 at 11:08 am | #

      “Sal’s tax”, surely?

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        August 31, 2024 at 3:37 pm | #

        Sal’s tacks. That was a sharp, pointed comment.

  22. moon
    moon
    August 31, 2024 at 1:35 am | #

    jokes on you guys i cant count

  23. Masha
    Masha
    August 31, 2024 at 2:10 am | #

    “So was that an accurate prediction of me, your brother, your mother or all of the above?”

    • Newlland(Henryvolt)
      Newlland(Henryvolt)
      August 31, 2024 at 2:19 am | #

      Yes

  24. darkoneko
    darkoneko
    August 31, 2024 at 2:45 am | #

    Sal, why is this the one thing you want to talk about in front of her new boyfriend

    • Emperor Norton II
      Emperor Norton II
      August 31, 2024 at 4:31 am | #

      As a friend of mine (who is a paralegal) responds whenever someone asks her why she keeps arguing with what can only be best described as the internet’s bottom-feeders*:

      “I love being right.”

      *Think defenders of famous sex pest Vic Mignona

      • Felgraf
        Felgraf
        August 31, 2024 at 5:54 am | #

        … Is your friend Tewson?
        (Ah, the threadnaut. Such fond memories)

        • Emperor Norton II
          Emperor Norton II
          August 31, 2024 at 6:12 am | #

          It is indeed her!

          • Felgraf
            Felgraf
            August 31, 2024 at 1:55 pm | #

            OH, RIGHT, YES, I hadn’t looked at your handle I *REMEMBER* you from those Twitter threads and the threadnought. =D

            I don’t think I know her well enough to call her a FRIEND, but!
            (… god, the fact that that saga resulted in two people getting recruited to create a highly functioning law team that is currently on the precipice of pantsing Elon is. Truly incredible.)

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        August 31, 2024 at 9:19 am | #

        Man, my sister is still saying “They need to leave that poor guy alone” about Mignogna.

    • Newlland(Henryvolt)
      Newlland(Henryvolt)
      August 31, 2024 at 5:41 am | #

      My reply to that would be something along the lines of, “Boyfriend? Damn I thought it was a one night stand. But hey all power to you.”

  25. yak
    yak
    August 31, 2024 at 4:07 am | #

    Damn only fourteen days of in-comic time hs passed. Guess it’s been a long summer for me.

    • Emperor Norton II
      Emperor Norton II
      August 31, 2024 at 4:33 am | #

      But the last day of summer
      Never felt so cold
      No the last day of summer
      Never felt so old

  26. eh, whatever
    eh, whatever
    August 31, 2024 at 4:35 am | #

    True blondness comes from within.

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      August 31, 2024 at 9:38 pm | #

      within a bottle of peroxide.

  27. Bryy
    Bryy
    August 31, 2024 at 4:44 am | #

    It just dawned on me that we’re getting 678878778788767677667 more days of winter in this comic.

  28. GUIGUI
    GUIGUI
    August 31, 2024 at 5:22 am | #

    A bit harsh and unnecessary, no?

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      AK
      August 31, 2024 at 3:16 pm | #

      Absolutely, but I do think there is something to not loving interlopers in your friend group. Lucy more or less decided with the mild help of Walky to join a friend group where nobody was really down to have her there? And while many of them are pretty open friendly people and Sarah is coming around, she’s still inserted herself into a friend group and some people are still not going to love that if after more exposure they don’t really get along.

  29. Allison Branford
    Allison Branford
    August 31, 2024 at 6:45 am | #

    Aww, I love that Sal is looking out for her brother, occasional asshat that he is. And as much as I wish Sal was wrong to look on this new ‘fling’ with skepticism, I don’t actually see Jacob and Lucy as compatible. Jacob sees himself as always needing to improve, to measure up to his brother, while Lucy has always been pursuing a relationship to justify getting physical, based on the demands of religion. Can’t be a slut, three dates. I’ll be curious how Jacob responds to Lucy’s insistence.

    • Aslan
      Aslan
      August 31, 2024 at 8:56 am | #

      I don’t see how Sal is “looking out” for Walky here, or how she’s being skeptical of Lucy and Jacob. If anything, her assessment of how quickly his relationship with Lucy would end was more likely based on her well-documented lack of esteem for him rather than anything to do with her.

      Also, what is Lucy insisting on here? That Sal not misconstrue the facts of her last relationship (which ended days ago in canon)? I think you’ve just reduced Lucy down to an oversimplified level. Yeah, she was horny to the point of being preoccupied by it during her relationship with Walky, but that doesn’t mean she was always just looking to get laid. It wasn’t even an established part of her character until she started dating Walky. She just demonstrated that she doesn’t care about the “three date” rule anymore, either, so that’s not even an accurate assessment of her character.

    • Taffy
      Taffy
      August 31, 2024 at 9:16 am | #

      It’s been said a lot already, but the “three dates” thing was never actually a hard line.

      • StClair
        StClair
        August 31, 2024 at 5:52 pm | #

        ha HA, “hard”

  30. Chubseus
    Chubseus
    August 31, 2024 at 8:21 am | #

    Sal: Now we can go on a double date.

  31. pyrock_mania
    pyrock_mania
    August 31, 2024 at 8:52 am | #

    I mean, she let Lucy give Walky the business at the party, I’d say it’s pretty tame to point out that the relationship didn’t last very long, and wonderful symmetry with Lucy’s “two whole days” comment regarding Walky’s rekindled relationship with Dorothy.

    • Puppeteer Nessus
      Puppeteer Nessus
      August 31, 2024 at 10:43 am | #

      Sal, being a sister of some quality, is fine here

  32. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    August 31, 2024 at 9:19 am | #

    I always use “fling” to refer to a situation with more canoodling between folks than Walky and Lucy ever had, maybe compressed into a short time. Of course Sal doesn’t know the limits of the canoodling they (didn’t) have.

  33. thumb
    thumb
    August 31, 2024 at 10:48 am | #

    11 days? Pretty close enough to right.

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      August 31, 2024 at 2:26 pm | #

      I feel like Lucy clarifying that isn’t really a win for her.
      “Told’ja it would only last two weeks.”
      “Actually it was even less than that.”
      Feels like kind of a self burn.

      • Jeremiah
        Jeremiah
        August 31, 2024 at 4:28 pm | #

        Kind of show how little she actually cares about it now.

  34. Twirls
    Twirls
    August 31, 2024 at 12:47 pm | #

    Sal Predicting Two Weeks: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/05-as-long-as-its-free/objectively/

    • Twirls
      Twirls
      August 31, 2024 at 12:48 pm | #

      Sal Checking in on Thursday, day 8: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2023/comic/book-13/03-joementum/throwaway/

    • Ragnarok101
      Ragnarok101
      August 31, 2024 at 4:27 pm | #

      Two IRL years to cover two weeks real-time.

      Lordy.

      • Bryy
        Bryy
        August 31, 2024 at 4:59 pm | #

        OH MY GOD this comic is never resolving anything.

        • NGPZ
          NGPZ
          August 31, 2024 at 5:15 pm | #

          The good news is, that gives me all the more time to make quality fan games.

          Life gives you lemons, take them out the freezer.

  35. SocietyPilled
    SocietyPilled
    August 31, 2024 at 2:01 pm | #

    You know quoting people for how long one thinks their relationship will last is usually frowned upon in the real world.

  36. Joe Helfrich
    Joe Helfrich
    August 31, 2024 at 6:12 pm | #

    He’s still got his hand in her pants, doesn’t he?

  37. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    August 31, 2024 at 7:20 pm | #

    https://opusthepoet.wordpress.com/2024/08/30/where-ive-been-the-last-2-months/
    The story of what happened to me the last two months, with pictures.

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      August 31, 2024 at 8:15 pm | #

      whoa

  38. WallyWest
    WallyWest
    August 31, 2024 at 9:04 pm | #

    I just want to say I love all you peeps for your comments I wish I could like them all! Also DoA is absolutely tremendous!

  39. Jammy
    Jammy
    August 31, 2024 at 11:29 pm | #

    Dayum. I (almost) don’t even have anything to say, that was so cold. Chills. I mean, Walky isn’t even unhappy, nor was it that serious. It even put Jennifer into sexile, which is kinda funny. Sal, WTF?

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      August 31, 2024 at 11:47 pm | #

      Sal is the perfect amount of petty.

  40. anon
    anon
    September 1, 2024 at 1:46 am | #

    i wonder how long they would’ve lasted if walkys paernts hadn’t visitedl ol

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