After the events in Demon's Mirror, Gerda has accepted her role as a Demon Hunter, and Cezar has traveled back to the Demon City. Demons have existed alongside humans for millennia, so things begin to return to normal. But an impossibly powerful Relic has been taken by one of the Demon Masters, and a silent war enters its final stages.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
Blindsprings
Kadi Fedoruk
Tamaura, wrested into a world 300 years in the future, must find a way to save the magic fading from her country.
Little Tiny Things
Clover
What are the little things that move us? The simple joys that warm our bodies and hearts? The micro life of insects that influence our world more than we think? The tiny steps we make everyday to have a happier tomorrow?
Ozzie the Vampire
Eric Lide
Ozzie and her best friend Kimmy are your average everyday normal art students – except one is an immortal vampire with superpowers and the other possesses a magic talking grimoire. Also they have to save their town from a demonic invasion.
Three Panel Soul
Matt Boyd, Ian McConville
It's a pretty rigid format but we keep the content loose, you know?
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.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
The Golden Boar
Magnolia Porter Siddell
A young woman joins a group of summoners who call forth Guardian Beasts to protect their isolated magical island. Unfortunately, her Guardian Beast is nothing like she'd imagined, and he's about to change her life, and everything she thought she knew about herself...
Darkling Bright
Chris Hazelton
Kieran Bright is a college student home for the summer and roped into an online reunion with his old neighborhood friends in the most recent update of their favorite childhood MMORPG.
At least, he was, and that was the idea...
Join Kieran and his friends as they are pulled into another reality that may or may not be real and are forced to confront their own identities, the nature of simulated universes and reality itself.
Sleepless Domain
Mary Cagle (Cube Watermelon)
In a world where magical girls and their battles are commonplace, loss has become all too common as well.
Sakana
Mad Rupert
Our heroes must navigate a hazardous dating scene, overcome personal anxieties, and wrangle unruly seafood in order to find love, peace of mind, and a paycheck.
Not Drunk Enough
Tess Stone
Logan Ibarra is possibly the unluckiest repairman in the world. A late night job should not have landed him in the middle of a mad scientist's squabble, but he soon finds himself surrounded by monsters and further madness with little tools to get out.
ARISE, YE SKELETON KING
Brian Clevinger, Escher Cattle, Lee Black
A troupe of wandering "adventurers" down to their last silver "acquire" a map only to find the real treasure was the fiend they dug up along the way.
Peritale
Mari Costa
A fairy godmother with no magic tries her best to successfully fulfill a Fairytale and win the respect of her peers.
Augustine
Winter Jay Kiakas, Windy
August and her ragtag group are just like everyone else, simply surviving in the treacherous Crater... When they stumble into what may be an artifact of the ancient past, their lives are thrown into a much bigger loop as they trifle with bounty hunters, monsters and gods.
The Weave
Rennie Kingsley
A young woman pursued by bad luck is witness to the murder of the Fairy Queen of Summer. Can she get to the bottom of this mystery?
Monster's Garden
Ash G.
Champion pit fighter Kilo Monster was content to spend the rest of his days tending to his quiet garden alone... until he met a curious robot girl and her human family.
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
Freakshow
Scotty
A festival of broken people, blood flows in the center ring. Come one and come all, to the greatest show in all of Paris.
Novae
KaiJu
A historical romance with a touch magic and a dash of astronomy. It chronicles the romantic adventures of Sulvain, a sweet tempered necromancer and Raziol, a passionate 17th century astronomer.
The Messenger
indui
In a ruin-abound town cursed with bad luck, Kai and Kalla--a young boy and a fledgling dragonbird spirit--take on a quest in hopes the reward will solve all of their problems.
Heroes of Thantopolis
Izzy Strontium Hall
A living boy fights to save the City of the Dead.
Barbarous
Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota
A crummy wizard and an anxious monster have to get over themselves and bring order to an apartment building full of misfits.
Edison Rex
Chris Roberson
The adventures of the world’s greatest villain who, after defeating his superheroic nemesis, decides that he’s the only one left to defend the world.
Lies Within
Lacey
Lysander's aimless and carefree life is turned upside down when he accidentally discovers that the cute boy next door, Simon, is a literal monster
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.
Stand Still, Stay Silent
Minna Sundberg
A few generations after the end of the world, a small, poorly financed research crew is sent out to rediscover whatever is left of the forbidden old world in the south.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
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!
Nigh Heaven & Hell
Scotty
Heather Vodihn is on a simple mission: find her father. However she becomes entangled with two strangers with mysterious powers being stalked by a group with bizarre demands. Heather must learn to trust her new traveling companions, even if she is untrustworthy herself.
BOOKMARK Click "Tag Page" to bookmark a page. When you return to the site, click "Goto Tag" to continue where you left off.
BUFFER WATCH
Comics are currently drawn and uploaded through:
You, Teach, are the first comment on the first strip of the entire Dumbing of Age universe. Thousands of people read your words as the very first DoA comment they read. Congratulations.
I feel nostalgic rereading this comment.
I first read it a year back, before I knew ANYTHING about the Walkyverse. And it was such a weird experience, reading all three, seeing the stories mix and mingle, characters leaving and coming back… it was a fun ride.
And this was the first comment I read for this incredible cartoonist.
Wow.
So this is what im thinking Mr. Creator (AKA David). I think this entire webcomic is infact reference the ending in Its Walky where Joyce wonders if they still would have ended up together under entirely different cercumstances “like at college or something”.
Again, you may delete this if you wish.
I just finished reading pretty much everything you’ve put on the internet that doesn’t require a PayPal (took me about two ‘n a half months) and something just occured to me: when the interdimensional Head Alien was talking to Dorothy about a universe where Walky became a doctor and married her and all, that was *this* universe wasn’t it? Nicely done, Mr. Willis.
Not sure what is happening it looks like it has character from itswalky(roomies) and all but its a new time line? I havent been following the comic in quite a few years but stumbled upon this… is there some sort of timeline/explanation of whats going on or does the previous/current story lines explain it with in the stories :D.
Basically, it’s an alternate universe, but here, it isn’t quite a “what if” scenario like I (and a few others…they exist) thought it was. Basically, everyone from every comic series is in college, co-existing, as the same actors from a different show, only typecasted.
I just clicked an ad that brought me to the first strip, and wow has the art evolved since then. It’s not as noticeable as say early and late It’s Walky! strips but quite impressive nonetheless. Doubt many people will read this but it’s worth stating.
I lucked up on this strip. It is the greatest! I have spent the better part of the last 8 or 9 hrs. reading this, can’t stop. I am a big Daria fan and this is an equal. This strip could easily be made into a toon with the right voices for TV. Can’t wait to see what other stuff Dave has written.
I’ve been caught up for a while, but I had to say this to somebody.
I don’t know why, but I wasn’t expecting much from the start; maybe the artwork and strip format turned me off a little, making me think it was far more generic a series than it actually is (I wouldn’t know why I’d subconsciously think this; I came here at the suggestion of T. Campbell, and his stuff is far removed from mediocrity)? But any doubts I had were proved wrong soon enough, and I’m glad for that.
I’ve been searching for slice-of-life webcomics for a while, now, and this series is simply phenomenal. You treat your characters with an understanding that makes the strip feel more authentic, and that’s simply treasurable. Thank you, Willis, for this.
Also, my gravatar is apparently Sarah, and that’s fucking rockin’.
Wow, just doing an archive dive, and noticed that people are still posting on this page. Also noticed that I didn’t post here when the strip started, bad me.
It’s interesting to come back to this page these early pages and see how Willis drew Joyce and the rest of the cast then compared to now (four years later).
To think I started this comic a number of months ago & I still have much to catch up with. Definitely one of the more interesting comics I’m reading at the moment.
I love just lazing in bed, and alternating between re-reading all of Dumbing of Age on my phone, and then doing the same with my laptop when my phone battery dies.
*To be read in the voice of a news reporter in the 1930s*
Future report no. 1: Good evening ladies and gentlemen, this is Rani ——–, reporting to you now from the Dumbing Of Age strip Crazy. My fellow readers and novices, we are at war. Not against a maniacal super-villain. Not against a mere asshole. We are at war against an army of fundamentalists who would make IU unsafe for decent people. Fear, intimidation, a conspicuous lack of neck, violence. These are the tools of this nefarious scoundrel known as the moral values crusader.
Oppression and obsession are the currency of these reprobates, cranks and misogynists as they struggle for control of our nation’s students.
Both ———- and ———- are committed to this battle, which they must and will win.
This has been Rani ——–, broadcasting from October 20th, 2015
Becky was the first character to say something in this comic, and she’s the first to appear when reading left to right
i guess she’s the main character then. I wonder how often she’s be appearing.
In case you’re here because you just noticed that there’s alt text (or hovertext if you prefer) for every comic and you want to read them all, the first one is here, two and a half years after the comic began:
Where did Hollywood go so wrong? I thought movies were supposed to be an escape from reality, a chance to put your worries aside and not have to think about any underlying ideas or concepts. Well, not anymore.
theonion.com/you-can...
It's not a new argument, of course, but Chesterton dismissed it effectively in 1908.
"You will hear everlastingly... this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The fact is, of course, that the rich man is bribed; he has been bribed already. That is why he is a rich man."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com ⋅ 15h
Hawley dismisses Trump lining his pockets with his memecoin: "Listen, I think nobody believes that Donald Trump can be bought. I mean, what does Donald Trump need more money for?"
wilbur, savvy enough to know he's in a comic strip but still not a great actor, awkwardly lifts a muffin up into frame so that we, the audience, understand that he has a muffin right now, which is very important narratively, but he's not really selling it well as an organic, human action
confirming that the reason there's been no Galaxy Version female characters in Blokees until now is that they felt they needed to make Round Lady Thighs For Ladies
It's #webcomicday? We have a special day???
Well, my name is Pat McHoarney and I draw 69 Mouse-Ear Blvd, a multigenerational story about women who all have sexy legs and probably other features. There was a grandmother, but she wasn't hot and so she died off-panel.
Elizabeth Holmes is in prison for defrauding investors through her blood-testing company, Theranos. Her partner, Billy Evans, is now trying to raise money for a company that describes itself as “the future of diagnostics.” nyti.ms/3FbtZm9
www.ebay.com/itm/23609767...
selling my netflix war for cybertron megatron -- the walmart exclusive one that came with pinpointer and lionizer (but being sold here without pinpointer and lionizer)
Gran... IS ALIVE?
okay, juliette still has brown hair, so this is probably definitely a flashback
i'm just surprised that the comic has remembered her, at all
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com ⋅ 15h
Pavel
@spavel.bsky.social ⋅ 10d
The New York Times @nytimes.com ⋅ 5d
preternia @preternia.com ⋅ 3d
Loading ...
starting it off with a poop joke. classy
You, Teach, are the first comment on the first strip of the entire Dumbing of Age universe. Thousands of people read your words as the very first DoA comment they read. Congratulations.
I feel nostalgic rereading this comment.
I first read it a year back, before I knew ANYTHING about the Walkyverse. And it was such a weird experience, reading all three, seeing the stories mix and mingle, characters leaving and coming back… it was a fun ride.
And this was the first comment I read for this incredible cartoonist.
Wow.
Poop jokes. Hah.
no better way to inagurate a place!
What about sex?
Touche sir
She doesn’t know what that is yet in this universe.
Yet.
Dude! Your name is one letter away from my (real life) name! Lolz!
About this comic: Looks good!
Home = Where you poop. It’s a saying around here…
I refer to David, eh? The ‘nesting’ doesn’t make that clear…
Just testing…
Yes! It works!
A webcomic with a main page that links to the first comic. I like that. I actually wish more webcomics would do that.
Seconded.
Poop is cheaper than Champagne after all.
Poop is, in fact, the answer to all your problems.
Same with monkeys
Poop and monkeys are the best combonation of things. XD
And so it begins…
cool this started on my birthday
The Beginning always a good place to start I think. Yeah this was just an excuse to get my name remembered on here.
This reminds me of the comic of Winnie the poop.
Oh Bother!
This first comic needs more attention.
So I’ll just say hello to the strip. ENJOY YOUR ETENITY IN ARCHIVE HELL MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!
…but no, seriously, enjoy yourselves.
Frack. Eternity. Not etenity. Whatever that is.
So this is what im thinking Mr. Creator (AKA David). I think this entire webcomic is infact reference the ending in Its Walky where Joyce wonders if they still would have ended up together under entirely different cercumstances “like at college or something”.
Again, you may delete this if you wish.
You got it backwards!
Thank you. I was always wondering about that.
Does that mean that this was envisioned first?
(not that it really weighs heavily on me, I like all your continuities)
I just finished reading pretty much everything you’ve put on the internet that doesn’t require a PayPal (took me about two ‘n a half months) and something just occured to me: when the interdimensional Head Alien was talking to Dorothy about a universe where Walky became a doctor and married her and all, that was *this* universe wasn’t it? Nicely done, Mr. Willis.
No. It is a universe that you see in the pay only Joyce and Walky! comics. It is almost the same as the normal Walkyverse. But with some differences
this looks like a good comic, and its helping me figure out this gravatar thing to!!!
thats pretty cool
Not sure what is happening it looks like it has character from itswalky(roomies) and all but its a new time line? I havent been following the comic in quite a few years but stumbled upon this… is there some sort of timeline/explanation of whats going on or does the previous/current story lines explain it with in the stories :D.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/about/
Basically, it’s an alternate universe, but here, it isn’t quite a “what if” scenario like I (and a few others…they exist) thought it was. Basically, everyone from every comic series is in college, co-existing, as the same actors from a different show, only typecasted.
I hope Becky moves to IU
I just clicked an ad that brought me to the first strip, and wow has the art evolved since then. It’s not as noticeable as say early and late It’s Walky! strips but quite impressive nonetheless. Doubt many people will read this but it’s worth stating.
Current strip is http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/02-guess-whos-coming-to-galassos/poke/#comment for reference.
You moved Ethan and Amber over here. Now I have to read all of these.
DAMN YOU WILLIS!
Already passes the Bechdel test. Good start.
Two named female characters talking to each other about pooping …
sup /co/
Not much, /co/mrade.
I lucked up on this strip. It is the greatest! I have spent the better part of the last 8 or 9 hrs. reading this, can’t stop. I am a big Daria fan and this is an equal. This strip could easily be made into a toon with the right voices for TV. Can’t wait to see what other stuff Dave has written.
I just realized. Right out of the gate, this series passes the Bechdel Test.
html test
I held her close
Until the storm passed,
And we fell down laughing in the wet grass.
Both our bodies drying in the sunshine.
I held her close
Until the storm passed,
And we fell down laughing in the wet grass.
Both our bodies drying in the sunshine.
I’ve been caught up for a while, but I had to say this to somebody.
I don’t know why, but I wasn’t expecting much from the start; maybe the artwork and strip format turned me off a little, making me think it was far more generic a series than it actually is (I wouldn’t know why I’d subconsciously think this; I came here at the suggestion of T. Campbell, and his stuff is far removed from mediocrity)? But any doubts I had were proved wrong soon enough, and I’m glad for that.
I’ve been searching for slice-of-life webcomics for a while, now, and this series is simply phenomenal. You treat your characters with an understanding that makes the strip feel more authentic, and that’s simply treasurable. Thank you, Willis, for this.
Also, my gravatar is apparently Sarah, and that’s fucking rockin’.
Wow, just doing an archive dive, and noticed that people are still posting on this page. Also noticed that I didn’t post here when the strip started, bad me.
It’s interesting to come back to
this pagethese early pages and see how Willis drew Joyce and the rest of the cast then compared to now (four years later).Joyce moves from the world of inaugural poops and innocence to rabbit dildos and ‘sparkly plastic man-dangles’.
Oh, how the times go.
I like Joyce
She’s nice
To think I started this comic a number of months ago & I still have much to catch up with. Definitely one of the more interesting comics I’m reading at the moment.
Is it okay to re read this a fourth time?
It will never not be okay.
Only four? Pffft, amateur.
.
.
.
Just kidding.
I love just lazing in bed, and alternating between re-reading all of Dumbing of Age on my phone, and then doing the same with my laptop when my phone battery dies.
#CompletelySerious
*To be read in the voice of a news reporter in the 1930s*
Future report no. 1: Good evening ladies and gentlemen, this is Rani ——–, reporting to you now from the Dumbing Of Age strip Crazy. My fellow readers and novices, we are at war. Not against a maniacal super-villain. Not against a mere asshole. We are at war against an army of fundamentalists who would make IU unsafe for decent people. Fear, intimidation, a conspicuous lack of neck, violence. These are the tools of this nefarious scoundrel known as the moral values crusader.
Oppression and obsession are the currency of these reprobates, cranks and misogynists as they struggle for control of our nation’s students.
Both ———- and ———- are committed to this battle, which they must and will win.
This has been Rani ——–, broadcasting from October 20th, 2015
Becky was the first character to say something in this comic, and she’s the first to appear when reading left to right
i guess she’s the main character then. I wonder how often she’s be appearing.
Man, this one strip makes it all seem so simple.
OH MY GOSH. I JUST CLICKED BACK HERE AND THE ART BURNS MY EYES. The art has SERIOUSLY improved. inaugural poop!
r00d
You know what they say
Home is where the shart is.
In case you’re here because you just noticed that there’s alt text (or hovertext if you prefer) for every comic and you want to read them all, the first one is here, two and a half years after the comic began:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/02-guess-whos-coming-to-galassos/scoot/
Spoilers, obviously.
Alt-text. Title text title-text. This comment is here to make extra sure potential search keywords are picked up. Whee!