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Icarus

by David M Willis on April 9, 2013 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - Guess Who's Coming to Galasso's
└ Tags: dexter, dorothy, monkey master, walky

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    April 9, 2013 at 12:02 am | #

    OH BURN

    • Skull025
      Skull025
      April 9, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

      Apply cooled smooch to burned area. Apologize beforehand to receive emergency smooch.

      • Neospector
        Neospector
        April 9, 2013 at 12:19 am | #

        Does that count as angry hanky-panky or makeup hanky-panky?

        • Skull025
          Skull025
          April 9, 2013 at 12:25 am | #

          We only accept the greatest of hatefucks here at Fanservice Inc.

          • Josh
            Josh
            April 9, 2013 at 4:13 am | #

            I believe the term is ‘most epic of hatefucks’. Please get the terminology right, we’re very strict on it here at Grammatically Correct Fanservice Inc.

        • Van Jealous
          Van Jealous
          April 9, 2013 at 12:28 am | #

          Hey! You just unintentionally coined a sniglet: “Hangry Pangry”. Nice one!

          • Blob Marley
            Blob Marley
            April 9, 2013 at 4:06 pm | #

            Also “Hankup pankup”?

      • timemonkey
        timemonkey
        April 9, 2013 at 12:33 am | #

        I misread that as cooled cooch *facepalm*

        • CiaranLovejoy
          CiaranLovejoy
          April 9, 2013 at 11:37 am | #

          WOO! Hexadecimal!

          • timemonkey
            timemonkey
            April 9, 2013 at 6:25 pm | #

            Queen of Chaos! Whoo!

    • David Herbert
      David Herbert
      April 9, 2013 at 4:21 am | #

      He got too drunk on power. And smooches.

      • Cooledd
        Cooledd
        April 9, 2013 at 2:54 pm | #

        Well…Hes walky I think he hasnt seen girls this naked since…HAS WALK EVER SEEN GIRLS NAKED?

        • xKiv
          xKiv
          April 9, 2013 at 7:02 pm | #

          The beach?

    • justcallmeSoul
      justcallmeSoul
      April 9, 2013 at 4:59 am | #

      haha, get it? burn? icharus?
      you shall be PUNished.

      • JustcallmeSoul
        JustcallmeSoul
        April 9, 2013 at 12:06 pm | #

        hmm… thats not my gravitar…

  2. Skull025
    Skull025
    April 9, 2013 at 12:02 am | #

    Nothing is cooler than “Wedding Smashers” Walky. NOTHING.

    • Tbf
      Tbf
      April 9, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

      I don’t believe you’ve seen that episode.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        April 9, 2013 at 12:08 am | #

        Yeah. Cuz if he did he’d admit that it pales in comparison to “Time’s Short”

        • Skull025
          Skull025
          April 9, 2013 at 12:13 am | #

          At least Wedding Smashers had a bride thrown into her own wedding cake! When she got up and clobbered that dude with the ice-sculpture, my heart overflowed with happy-tears!
          IT’S A COMMON CONDITION!

          • George
            George
            April 9, 2013 at 12:22 am | #

            Yeah, but “Time’s Short” had the bit where Dexter had to pretend to be an alarm clock. THAT BIT WAS GENIUS! GENIUS, I SAY!

            • Joe
              Joe
              April 9, 2013 at 12:30 am | #

              Given the choice between Dexter pretending to be an alarm clock and Dexter pretending to be a wedding cake topper, I’ll gladly take the alien in the wedding dress.

            • Regalli
              Regalli
              April 9, 2013 at 12:33 am | #

              But Wedding Smashers had the whole subplot of the wedding buffet being the only source of shrimp in the state! That buffet montage was GOLDEN.

              • George
                George
                April 9, 2013 at 12:40 am | #

                I will concede that the buffet montage was among the greatest scenes ever, but the Princess Bride references fell a little flat during the fake ceremony, which I didn’t even think was possible. “Time’s Short”, on the other hand, did the best interpretation of the cheese shop sketch I’ve ever seen (besides the original of course). How can you claim an episode is the greatest ever when it’s so clearly outmatched in terms of the series’ traditional pop-culture gags?

                • Regalli
                  Regalli
                  April 9, 2013 at 1:22 am | #

                  Because while, okay, that fake priest’s voice WAS on the wooden side, I felt it fit his character better, since he was clearly not supposed to be into it. Besides, I felt that the ending of “Time’s Short” was a bit unbelievable. I mean, it was inspired, I’ll give you that, but do you REALLY think Monkey Master could get a regiment of French soldiers to perform a full Busby Berkeley chorus number while Dexter and Napoleon were fighting?

                • Jon P
                  Jon P
                  April 9, 2013 at 1:34 am | #

                  I love this fandom.

                • Ziaheart
                  Ziaheart
                  April 9, 2013 at 2:27 am | #

                  Thank you, Regalli. For a while there, I thought you were discussing episodes from an actual series… like Transformers or something. And then I thought it was Dexter’s Laboratory. And then Monkey Master came and it was like, oh.

                • Wack'd
                  Wack'd
                  April 9, 2013 at 5:11 am | #

                  I think that, while “Time’s Short” is a better character piece, “Wedding Smashers” is far funnier. (I think the bit where Monkey Master’s monkey cannon goes of during the rice throwing is one of the best gags the show’s ever done, though, so I may be a bit biased.)

                  It’s all about what you think is more important to the show. I’ve always favored “The Tim Horton Machine” myself, personally.

                • Josh
                  Josh
                  April 9, 2013 at 5:17 am | #

                  You’re all reading way too far into this… any episode that shows an alien in a wedding dress almost marrying a giant monkey is priceless

                • Wack'd
                  Wack'd
                  April 9, 2013 at 6:13 am | #

                  I made a Dexter & Monkey Master page on TVTropes. Go nuts.

                • Notebooked
                  Notebooked
                  April 9, 2013 at 6:52 am | #

                  I prefer “Wedding Smashers” mostly for the scene where Dexter proposes (no pun intended) that they infiltrate a wedding, Monkey Master tells him that there are lots of other sources of shrimp from around the country (the buffet scene proved him wrong, but he didn’t know that at the time) and outlines a plan for breaking into a shrimp farm, with the camera zooming in on his intense, concentrated face…and then zooms right out again to show Dexter in the wig and wedding dress.
                  “You, uh…you’ve already got your sights set on this. …Oy.” The facepalm completes it. (No, hang on, Dexter doing the little spin completes it.)

  3. Eszee
    Eszee
    April 9, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

    Pictured here: the kicking point to at least 50 fanfictions.

    • Skull025
      Skull025
      April 9, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

      Your guess is not within reason.

      • Eszee
        Eszee
        April 9, 2013 at 12:09 am | #

        Too few?

        • Skull025
          Skull025
          April 9, 2013 at 12:10 am | #

          Too few. You’re forgetting all the fics that watch them grow old together or stumble on an ancient artifact that grants them mystical macaroni powers.

          • Eszee
            Eszee
            April 9, 2013 at 12:13 am | #

            I would hella read a fanfic where they get macaroni powers.
            Featuring Walky as Macaroni Man and Doroty as Lady Queso!

            • Skull025
              Skull025
              April 9, 2013 at 12:17 am | #

              They fight supervillains such as “Pea-man” and “Broccoli-Ninja.” Their allies, “Protein-Bros” and “Cheesy McSleazy” aid them in protecting the deliciousness of macaroni everywhere!

              • Eszee
                Eszee
                April 9, 2013 at 12:19 am | #

                Cheesy McSleazy sounds like the PERFECT antihero.

              • Blob Marley
                Blob Marley
                April 9, 2013 at 4:08 pm | #

                Dude, you can totally put broccoli into mac and cheese. That’s how you make vegetables *respectable.*

          • Valdrax
            Valdrax
            April 9, 2013 at 12:23 am | #

            Or the ones in which one travels back in time to put right what was wrong and save Walky’s shoes from Ruth, and it CHANGES EVERYTHING.

            • Skull025
              Skull025
              April 9, 2013 at 12:27 am | #

              They find a portal in the SUPPLY CLOSET.

              • George
                George
                April 9, 2013 at 12:42 am | #

                Fortunately, they are able to retrieve their pants before it closes behind them. Sadly (or also fortunately depending on your point of view), Dorothy’s shirt is lost outside of time itself when they just barely fail to get it through.

                • Skull025
                  Skull025
                  April 9, 2013 at 9:35 am | #

                  She can’t put on any of the shirts from the past. Doing so would directly violate the space-time continuum. Or, that’s Walky’s reasoning at least.

    • Volkai
      Volkai
      April 9, 2013 at 7:05 am | #

      And a dozen… other… fanfictions. Probably.

    • Darkflame
      Darkflame
      April 9, 2013 at 11:33 am | #

      This could help:
      http://fanficmaker.com/beta/Fanficmaker.html
      If theres demand/suggestions, I could put in a preset.

      • Maycroft
        Maycroft
        April 9, 2013 at 10:46 pm | #

        Ok, how manny comments do you need?

        • Darkflame
          Darkflame
          April 10, 2013 at 7:59 am | #

          lol. Yes Good reviewz please else no more fics!

  4. Axel
    Axel
    April 9, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

    Man, you always make me lonely.

    Also, Dorothy is a pretty great girlfriend.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      April 9, 2013 at 12:07 am | #

      As long as you wear nice pants and don’t foolishly believe that “Time’s Short is better than “Wedding Smashers”

      • Resne
        Resne
        April 9, 2013 at 1:52 am | #

        YOU ASK TOO MUCH YOTOMOE

    • Kintrex
      Kintrex
      April 9, 2013 at 2:55 pm | #

      As long as you don’t want to stay with her past college.

      • Blob Marley
        Blob Marley
        April 9, 2013 at 4:08 pm | #

        Perfect gravatar is perfect.

      • timemonkey
        timemonkey
        April 9, 2013 at 6:15 pm | #

        Not necessarily, as long as you’re not a clingy wuss with no personal ambitions she may be open to a long distance relationship.

  5. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    April 9, 2013 at 12:03 am | #

    YAY Fanservice!

    • Skull025
      Skull025
      April 9, 2013 at 12:04 am | #

      Forget the freckled ass, look at those SHOULDERS.

  6. Juliecat
    Juliecat
    April 9, 2013 at 12:04 am | #

    I’m afraid this could be the end of the relationship 🙁

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      April 9, 2013 at 12:09 am | #

      Old TV shows are serious business after all… 😛

      • Juliecat
        Juliecat
        April 9, 2013 at 1:51 am | #

        No lie, I’ve seen more than one relationship fail over one party’s like/dislike of a movie.

        Granted the movie in each case was Spice World…

        • Wack'd
          Wack'd
          April 9, 2013 at 2:39 am | #

          You expect me to believe at least two people liked Spice World?

          • Bri
            Bri
            April 9, 2013 at 4:44 am | #

            Spice world was a great movie. Granted I was a 7 year old when I last saw it, but it still seems like something pretty enjoyable.

            • patrick
              patrick
              April 9, 2013 at 9:10 am | #

              Then do yourself a favor and never watch it again. I have had more then a few movies ruined from going down that route.

          • timemonkey
            timemonkey
            April 9, 2013 at 9:06 am | #

            I LOVE Spice World, that movie was hillarious. My sisters and I used to have the entire movie memorised.

            • Sir Robin
              Sir Robin
              April 9, 2013 at 10:10 am | #

              For me, it was when she wanted to watch Twilight and I foolishly watched it with her

  7. Robbie C
    Robbie C
    April 9, 2013 at 12:04 am | #

    My heart’s racing. Looks like Walky’s plucked up some courage since last time. (That was just an invitation for puns).

    This is so unfair of me, I know, but I can’t help but feel a little resentful of Dorothy. I know she’s only human and she doesn’t have any obligations, but still. Poor Danny.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      April 9, 2013 at 12:10 am | #

      A feather thread, eh. What Quill we think of next?

      • Stara
        Stara
        April 9, 2013 at 12:17 am | #

        I’m down with this, their relationship is plume awesome.

        • Stara
          Stara
          April 9, 2013 at 12:18 am | #

          Although there is a tendency among readers to pinion negative feelings on Dorothy– but as she says, it’s “within reason!”

          • Stara
            Stara
            April 9, 2013 at 12:20 am | #

            And we get better fluff from them than Joyce/Ethan or Joe/campus!

            • Anon
              Anon
              April 9, 2013 at 12:53 am | #

              Dayyymmnn Stara just blew that shit outta the water with a 3-combo of punstruction.

              • Andiemus
                Andiemus
                April 9, 2013 at 1:31 am | #

                Pssht. Kid’s still a featherweight.

                • Stara
                  Stara
                  April 9, 2013 at 9:36 am | #

                  That’s the lowest bird pun I’ve feather seen!

                  😀

                • Stara
                  Stara
                  April 9, 2013 at 9:39 am | #

                  Bird that said, I could probably think of some that would be more ruff in execution.

                • Notebooked
                  Notebooked
                  April 9, 2013 at 2:29 pm | #

                  They’re just parroting bad points. Keep on winging it — this is just a lark, after all! What quail you think of next?

    • Soozi
      Soozi
      April 9, 2013 at 12:55 am | #

      To be fair, Danny is off with AmaziGirl and making friends with Amber – I think Dorothy, while was harsh, if completely off the hook and owes Danny nothing.

      • Wack'd
        Wack'd
        April 9, 2013 at 2:40 am | #

        Amazi-Girl I can understand but I fail to see how Danny making friends with other women changes anything.

  8. Regalli
    Regalli
    April 9, 2013 at 12:04 am | #

    Have we heard a summary of Time’s Short before now?

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      April 9, 2013 at 12:29 am | #

      I definitely need sleep.

      • Andiemus
        Andiemus
        April 9, 2013 at 8:11 pm | #

        But Lyndis, I need you to talk to Florina.

    • Mogotoo
      Mogotoo
      April 9, 2013 at 12:29 am | #

      It was explained alongside Wedding Smashers on October 1, 2012.

      From season 3, “The Head Alien goes back in time to fight Napoleon to prove himself to be history’s greatest tiny dictator”.

      • Wack'd
        Wack'd
        April 9, 2013 at 2:41 am | #

        Man, you’re lucky I was asleep.

  9. Derek
    Derek
    April 9, 2013 at 12:04 am | #

    Do not ever question a fangirl’s opinion on her fandom, YOU WILL REGRET IT

  10. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    April 9, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

    His spine has evolved from styrofoam to plastic!

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      April 9, 2013 at 12:27 am | #

      Walky evolved into Walker.

      • Wack'd
        Wack'd
        April 9, 2013 at 5:03 am | #

        So is the final stage Walkest?

        • Volkai
          Volkai
          April 9, 2013 at 7:09 am | #

          Walky > Walker > Walkerton

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            April 9, 2013 at 7:30 am | #

            I was thinking more of the lines of Walky > Walker > Walker, Texas Ranger.

            • Notebooked
              Notebooked
              April 9, 2013 at 2:31 pm | #

              Nah, the evolution goes Walky > Walker > Walkertron.

              (http://transfanon.wikia.com/wiki/Walkertron)

              • xKiv
                xKiv
                April 9, 2013 at 10:05 pm | #

                The obvious post-final stage is Walkyverse.

  11. Sensedog
    Sensedog
    April 9, 2013 at 12:06 am | #

    This comic has me admitting that I like freckles.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      April 9, 2013 at 12:10 am | #

      Secretly everyone does.

      • Kernanator
        Kernanator
        April 9, 2013 at 12:44 am | #

        Man, I hope so. I have a tone of them just all over.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          April 9, 2013 at 1:15 am | #

          Sepia tone?

          • Kernanator
            Kernanator
            April 9, 2013 at 1:45 am | #

            Ton, I meant ton.

            Why did I put an e at the end of it? Am I secretly British? That’s what British people do, right?

            • eerilychildish
              eerilychildish
              April 9, 2013 at 2:38 am | #

              No, they’d spell it toun. The British love adding U’s after O’s where they don’t belong.

              • John
                John
                April 9, 2013 at 3:03 am | #

                Bonus points for Jason grav.

            • Wizard
              Wizard
              April 9, 2013 at 2:41 am | #

              But then you’d need another n.

            • Blob Marley
              Blob Marley
              April 9, 2013 at 4:11 pm | #

              I believe the British English spelling would be “Toeunne”

              • xKiv
                xKiv
                April 9, 2013 at 10:07 pm | #

                This couuld entertain us four houurs.

  12. addude
    addude
    April 9, 2013 at 12:07 am | #

    Wait, so who officially is the first couple in this comic to have hanky panky?

    • General Tekno
      General Tekno
      April 9, 2013 at 12:09 am | #

      Well, Joe/Roz were probably the first to do the deed. Though they weren’t really a “couple” per say.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        April 9, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

        Then perhaps Sal/Jason, unless that was a one time thing.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        April 9, 2013 at 12:12 am | #

        A couple of hanky-pankiers!

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      April 9, 2013 at 12:14 am | #

      PREMARITAL Hanky Panky at that, if you ignore what happened with Roz and Joe anyway.

    • Mogotoo
      Mogotoo
      April 9, 2013 at 12:32 am | #

      If you count past couples, Dorothy and Danny had sex back in high school.

  13. ReFlex76
    ReFlex76
    April 9, 2013 at 12:08 am | #

    *looks up*

    Yeah, still no idea what they’re talking about.

    • Ragnal
      Ragnal
      April 9, 2013 at 12:10 am | #

      My guess is the Monkey Master and HA show, but…I’m not sure…Google isn’t really helpful in my case, and it’s a TV Tropes page that pops up first.

    • Mogotoo
      Mogotoo
      April 9, 2013 at 12:32 am | #

      It’s definitely the Head Alien show.

    • Dragdamar
      Dragdamar
      November 6, 2013 at 9:41 pm | #

      The reference in the last panel is to Icarus, who flew on wings made of feathers and wax. He flew to close to the sun and the wax melted, releasing the feathers and he fell to his death. The original crash and burn.

  14. Count Dracula
    Count Dracula
    April 9, 2013 at 12:09 am | #

    She’s got shoulder freckles. That is rad.

    Say it with me fellas. Shoulder. Freckles.

    • Doom Shepherd
      Doom Shepherd
      April 9, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

      Shoulder freckles. NOM NOM NOM.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        April 9, 2013 at 12:14 am | #

        Froulder Sheckles. No…I have failed.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          April 9, 2013 at 12:19 am | #

          But is she freckled in OTHER PLACES?

          • Count Dracula
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            Does it matter? Shoulders should be enough for anybody. Or are you a heretic? Choose your words wisely.

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              Plasma Mongoose
              April 9, 2013 at 12:33 am | #

              I’m greedy that way, my first 3D crush had higher contrast freckles all over her body.

            • Blob Marley
              Blob Marley
              April 9, 2013 at 4:13 pm | #

              Commis-SAH Holt.

              Choose your next words with exceptional care.

              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOi3CzZjV0M

    • Michael Michael Motorcycle
      Michael Michael Motorcycle
      April 9, 2013 at 12:12 am | #

      Anal. Gaping.

      Shit, I think my translator’s busted…..

    • Sensedog
      Sensedog
      April 9, 2013 at 12:12 am | #

      I like shoulder freckles, and I cannot lie…

      • Skull025
        Skull025
        April 9, 2013 at 12:14 am | #

        Just call em “Shreks” bro.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          April 9, 2013 at 12:17 am | #

          Dorothies are like onions. They have layers.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            April 9, 2013 at 12:22 am | #

            Also there are tears when if you tried to peel her.

        • Zababcd
          Zababcd
          April 9, 2013 at 3:29 am | #

          Shreks and Dorothy, off on another whirlwind adventure!

  15. David Burnward
    David Burnward
    April 9, 2013 at 12:09 am | #

    Giggity

  16. Neversleptincollege
    Neversleptincollege
    April 9, 2013 at 12:10 am | #

    Wait, is Dorothy a bit of a sub?

    • Rosicrucian
      Rosicrucian
      April 9, 2013 at 12:12 am | #

      You’re reading way too much into this.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        April 9, 2013 at 12:15 am | #

        Yeah. Get the cliff’s notes, like me.

      • Neversleptincollege
        Neversleptincollege
        April 9, 2013 at 12:18 am | #

        I dunno bro, she looks awfully excited while saying “as you command”. Also why she dumped danny, he’s a sub if there ever was one! Lol hell a little bit ago Billie was being shoved up against a wall. This comic is brimming with BDSM subliminal messages!

        • Neversleptincollege
          Neversleptincollege
          April 9, 2013 at 12:19 am | #

          Or BDSMSM’s

          • Yotomoe
            Yotomoe
            April 9, 2013 at 12:22 am | #

            And then yoto hoped he was reading a very persistant joke and not an actually thought process.

            • Rosicrucian
              Rosicrucian
              April 9, 2013 at 12:29 am | #

              Some people see what they want.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            April 9, 2013 at 12:24 am | #

            I rather have BDM&Ms myself. 😀

            • Blob Marley
              Blob Marley
              April 9, 2013 at 4:14 pm | #

              > BDSM&Ms

              The candy shell cracks in the iron maiden, not in your hand!

        • John
          John
          April 9, 2013 at 1:35 am | #

          Gotta do something with the subtext, since the homosexual agenda is the actual text.

          • Raiser
            Raiser
            April 9, 2013 at 9:40 pm | #

            Can’t spell “subtext” without “buttsex”!

            No, seriously, you can’t.

    • Pinja
      Pinja
      April 9, 2013 at 12:56 pm | #

      Sub is too much of a commitment, like saying someone who took a module on political thinkers is now a philosopher. It’s just something that spices things up a bit.

      More importantly, she’s showing Walky that he can ask things of her rather than it just her always asking him things. It may not be submission as much as it nice to know people want you.

    • xKiv
      xKiv
      April 9, 2013 at 10:21 pm | #

      I think she was just granting him her own wish.

  17. MTBDude
    MTBDude
    April 9, 2013 at 12:10 am | #

    Careful, Icarus…

  18. Michael Michael Motorcycle
    Michael Michael Motorcycle
    April 9, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

    Flew too close to the Sun and now he’s being flung into the Blue Ball Cloud.

  19. alicemacher
    alicemacher
    April 9, 2013 at 12:13 am | #

    So okay, I’ve tried a general Google search; I’ve tried an IMdB “TV Episode” search; I’ve tried Wikipedia; I’ve tried TV Tropes. I still have no idea what show is being referred to. Could someone please elucidate?

    • TheStranger
      TheStranger
      April 9, 2013 at 12:15 am | #

      Dexter & the Monkey Master would be my guess.

      • alicemacher
        alicemacher
        April 9, 2013 at 12:18 am | #

        Ah, an in-universe show. Makes sense. I mean, the punchline works on its own, but I’d thought there was maybe some sort of fandom in-joke for a real show that would give it an added dimension. Don’t overthink, Alice.

    • John Harmon
      John Harmon
      April 9, 2013 at 12:16 am | #

      Probably the Monkey Master and Head Alien cartoon they initially bonded over.

    • David
      David M Willis
      April 9, 2013 at 12:25 am | #

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/06-strange-beerfellows/mattered/

      • alicemacher
        alicemacher
        April 9, 2013 at 12:33 am | #

        Aha! Thank you.

        Now I wonder how many other episodes of that show you have floating in your mind.

      • George
        George
        April 9, 2013 at 12:46 am | #

        Dang it, I forgot Time’s Short already had a plotline. Now my contributions to the fake fandom debate are going to look silly .

        Well, whatever. The time travel involved a clock shop. There, problem solved.

  20. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    April 9, 2013 at 12:18 am | #

    Basically, basically, basically… basically… I first quickly glanced the images of the panel and at the last one thought that Dorothy just went downtown on Walky, and then I actually read the speech bubbles.

    • Robbie C
      Robbie C
      April 9, 2013 at 12:36 am | #

      This is hilarious. Judging by Walky’s face in the last panel, looks like she’s doing it right.

    • Spiny Creature
      Spiny Creature
      April 9, 2013 at 2:03 am | #

      If THAT’S where she went, the left-hand speech bubble is definitely not her voice. Now I’m picturing some spectator/commentator/Voice of God viewing from above and keeping Walky in line 😀

      • Andiemus
        Andiemus
        April 9, 2013 at 5:01 pm | #

        Dina.

  21. AndaisQ
    AndaisQ
    April 9, 2013 at 12:19 am | #

    Where did Walky even read classical mythology?

    • Rosicrucian
      Rosicrucian
      April 9, 2013 at 12:28 am | #

      He’s not as dumb as he looks!

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      April 9, 2013 at 4:59 am | #

      You’ll notice he doesn’t explicitly mention Icarus. “Flew too close to the sun” is a pretty common turn of phrase.

    • Blob Marley
      Blob Marley
      April 9, 2013 at 4:18 pm | #

      Dude, classical mythology is awesome! Dudes fightin’ monsters and killin’ each other and never havin’ to put on stupid pants or eat stupid salads…

      • Andiemus
        Andiemus
        April 9, 2013 at 5:00 pm | #

        Killin lions with wrestling moves…

        • Notebooked
          Notebooked
          April 9, 2013 at 5:15 pm | #

          Doin’ hot babes disguised as swans…(pause)…okay, maybe that bit I can skip over.

          • Andiemus
            Andiemus
            April 9, 2013 at 8:09 pm | #

            Making women fall in love with you by being nice to other women…

  22. Somebody
    Somebody
    April 9, 2013 at 12:32 am | #

    Am I the only one that thinks Dorothy just got sexier?

    • John
      John
      April 9, 2013 at 1:36 am | #

      I find that frequently happens when women take their shirts off.

  23. ridtom
    ridtom
    April 9, 2013 at 12:34 am | #

    “Wedding Smashers” is a classic and you will not tarnish it’s name!

    • Viredae
      Viredae
      April 9, 2013 at 1:49 am | #

      Seriously? You’re gonna go with that? Give it up man, “Time’s Short” was the better episode, no two ways about it.

      • Ty Ty
        Ty Ty
        April 9, 2013 at 9:09 am | #

        Can’t they both be good?

        • Leonou
          Leonou
          April 9, 2013 at 11:10 am | #

          They can and they are.
          No one i’s arguing about one of them being bad … we’re fighting to the death to determine which one is slightly better than the other !

  24. Nena
    Nena
    April 9, 2013 at 12:49 am | #

    Haha! Walky is a goofball.

  25. Ivan
    Ivan
    April 9, 2013 at 12:59 am | #

    That kid needs 100mg of testosterone acetate every 48 hours until he fsckin’ grows UP.

    • Pinkie
      Pinkie
      April 9, 2013 at 3:14 am | #

      I agree. My message to my friend after seeing this strip: “Dorothy is now the hottest character in the DoA universe.”

      • Pinkie
        Pinkie
        April 9, 2013 at 3:15 am | #

        Meant to be in reply to Sporky but I misclicked.

      • timemonkey
        timemonkey
        April 9, 2013 at 6:10 pm | #

        No wonder Joyce is so jelous. XD

  26. Sporky
    Sporky
    April 9, 2013 at 1:02 am | #

    Yknow, you had waited to post the “hottest lady” poll until after this strip, I probably would’ve ended up picking Dorothy as one of the three options. Alas!

  27. John
    John
    April 9, 2013 at 1:38 am | #

    Yeah, come on, Walky. You wait to ask questions like that until she’ll say, “Oh, God, yes!” no matter what you say to her.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      April 9, 2013 at 1:43 am | #

      Seriously, that’s, like, Relationships 1000.

      • Wack'd
        Wack'd
        April 9, 2013 at 2:49 am | #

        What’re the other 999?

        • Kernanator
          Kernanator
          April 9, 2013 at 3:15 am | #

          It’s the basic class level at my university. Not sure about others though.

  28. Viredae
    Viredae
    April 9, 2013 at 1:47 am | #

    Walky’s priorities are certainly ordered well.

  29. Kyrros
    Kyrros
    April 9, 2013 at 2:06 am | #

    Anyone else think of that scene in Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark) where he leads Marion on a kissing trail up his own body?

    • Jimmy
      Jimmy
      April 9, 2013 at 6:44 am | #

      “Well Goddamnit Indy, Where doesn’t it hurt?”

  30. oddjobpr
    oddjobpr
    April 9, 2013 at 2:40 am | #

    Every time I hear the name Icarus I think of this song:
    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7g4L47kEcS0
    Yes I was a teenager in the 90s, why do you ask

  31. KaelemGaen
    KaelemGaen
    April 9, 2013 at 3:19 am | #

    Woo finally caught up… I should have started reading this Earlier.

  32. Zababcd
    Zababcd
    April 9, 2013 at 3:45 am | #

    Poor Dina of my previous comment’s diagram.

    Or… hooray for her? In what way does Dina relate to human sexuality?

    • turkishproverb
      turkishproverb
      April 9, 2013 at 11:08 am | #

      She’s Dinosexual.

      • Ivan
        Ivan
        April 11, 2013 at 8:19 pm | #

        Dinosexual – it’s right here (among other places!)

        http://pbfcomics.com/257/

    • John
      John
      April 9, 2013 at 3:09 pm | #

      I’m imagining her dispassionately narrating events from behind the door.

      • Notebooked
        Notebooked
        April 9, 2013 at 5:14 pm | #

        “The young Dorothy displays her udder in a display for the Walky. The Walky, interested, accepts mating initiation — but a mistake in the carefully coordinated mating dance causes the Dorothy to lose interest in him. He must wait for another day.”

        (In a David-Attenborough-as-a-teenage-girl voice.)

    • mrelegos
      mrelegos
      April 9, 2013 at 5:21 pm | #

      Wait, why would Dina be in her room? Dina is Amber’s roommate.

      Poor Sierra, more like.

      • timemonkey
        timemonkey
        April 9, 2013 at 6:08 pm | #

        Dina is everywhere, in every shadow, behind every door, in every group of her peers. There is no escape from the Dina.

      • Zababcd
        Zababcd
        April 9, 2013 at 7:08 pm | #

        My logic was that the places where Dina does not belong are the ones where she is most likely to turn up.

  33. JustSoul
    JustSoul
    April 9, 2013 at 4:53 am | #

    I… I’m caught up?
    I started reading DoA at 9 A.M this morning, took a 8 hour break for work, and… and I’m caught up… NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
    this means i have to wait to find out what happens like everyone else!

    • ASmellyOgre
      ASmellyOgre
      April 9, 2013 at 2:37 pm | #

      Ha, ha! Sucker. Now you’re no better than the rest of us. Although, if you want more binge material, I can think of a few things.

  34. Wack'd
    Wack'd
    April 9, 2013 at 4:57 am | #

    I love how neither of them appear to have noticed the door is still open.

  35. DesiDesiDesi
    DesiDesiDesi
    April 9, 2013 at 6:19 am | #

    Does Walky not have eyebrows or are they so far above his head in absolute surprise they’re off panel? I like to think it’s the latter myself!

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      April 9, 2013 at 7:36 am | #

      They’re just the same color as his hair.

    • ASmellyOgre
      ASmellyOgre
      April 9, 2013 at 2:34 pm | #

      Walky only has eyebrows when it’s needed for an expression. Sometimes he even only has one eyebrow.

  36. ArkhamTexan
    ArkhamTexan
    April 9, 2013 at 9:58 am | #

    Ahhhhh, “As you command” is definitely my favorite thing to hear in my relationships.

    • bunivasal
      bunivasal
      April 9, 2013 at 10:53 am | #

      Anybody else read “As you command” in an Elvish Ranger voice? And then just start rotating through character voices from Warcraft 2?

      • Blob Marley
        Blob Marley
        April 9, 2013 at 4:20 pm | #

        Join the army they said.
        See the world they said!
        I’d rather be sailing. :-[

  37. J42
    J42
    April 9, 2013 at 11:15 am | #

    Dear David Willis,

    Please make a spin-off webcomic called “Dotty and Walky”

    Sincerely, All your readers

    • Leonou
      Leonou
      April 9, 2013 at 11:32 am | #

      And if you have trouble coming up with enough storylines for both Doa and “Dotty & Walky”, you can just give us cheap filler material with “Dexter and Monkey Master” show’s extrcats.
      We won’t mind ^_^

  38. G.G.
    G.G.
    April 9, 2013 at 11:22 am | #

    the door was still cracked

  39. Pinja
    Pinja
    April 9, 2013 at 12:58 pm | #

    Those aren’t freckles, it’s eczema!

    • Blob Marley
      Blob Marley
      April 9, 2013 at 4:21 pm | #

      Meh. I’d still nibble on dem shoulders.

  40. Roborat
    Roborat
    April 9, 2013 at 4:14 pm | #

    And then they discover her roomate was in the room all along.

    • Shariku Onikage
      Shariku Onikage
      April 9, 2013 at 6:18 pm | #

      Ooooohhhh yeahhhh. BAM CHICKA BOW WOW!

      (i apologise to everyone in the universe. I don’t know what compelled me to do that. I think – and this may sound a little crazy – i think it may have possibly, just possibly, and i realise i’m stretching things here, it may have been something to do with the notions of a threesome)

  41. someguywithakatana
    someguywithakatana
    April 9, 2013 at 4:37 pm | #

    I really need to stop reading this strip. It reminds me too much of something that happened between me and my recently ex-girlfriend…

    • Uncle Rylon
      Uncle Rylon
      April 9, 2013 at 5:57 pm | #

      Don’t worry, soon I’m sure that soon we’ll have Mike tormenting Walky.

      • Uncle Rylon
        Uncle Rylon
        April 9, 2013 at 5:58 pm | #

        Gah! Darn extraneous “soon”.

    • Will
      Will
      April 9, 2013 at 11:34 pm | #

      Same here, though my ex is not so recent.

  42. Zoey
    Zoey
    April 9, 2013 at 8:48 pm | #

    David Willis marry me…..

  43. Maycroft
    Maycroft
    April 9, 2013 at 10:43 pm | #

    Out of the sun and downright into de ocean

  44. null
    null
    April 10, 2013 at 12:30 am | #

    Wait, he forgot to tag Dorothy’s breasts: Wiggles and Mrs. Hutchinson

  45. lightsabermario
    lightsabermario
    April 11, 2013 at 4:21 am | #

    I can make this comic ten times better:
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v625/lightsabermario/2013-04-09-icarus.png

  46. Narf
    Narf
    June 26, 2013 at 12:41 am | #

    Dorothy’s freckled shoulders are completely adorable, and I don’t give a FUCK who thinks I’m strange for that. 😀

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