Dumbing of Age Book Twelve

Dumbing of Age

A college webcomic by David Willis
RSS
‹
›
  • Home
  • About/Read before posting
  • Archive↓
    • by calendar
  • Cast
  • Store↓
    • Main Store (books and stuff)
    • T-shirts
  • Patreon↓
    • Patreon (regular)
    • Patreon (NSFW)
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
'so how's life been?'  'well i'm at a chick-fil-a so not that great'
First Previous Random 210Comments Share Next Latest
Reddit Digg Facebook MySpace Delicious Stumbleupon Buzz Up! Mixx Technorati Google Bookmarks Yahoo Bookmarks Yahoo MyWeb Windows Live Propeller FriendFeed Newsvine Xanga LinkedIn Blinklist Twitter
Discover more Hiveworks comics
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.
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
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.
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...
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.
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.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Peritale
Mari Costa
A fairy godmother with no magic tries her best to successfully fulfill a Fairytale and win the respect of her peers.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Angel's Orchard
Harry Bogosian
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.
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.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
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?
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
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.
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?
Three Panel Soul
Matt Boyd, Ian McConville
It's a pretty rigid format but we keep the content loose, you know?
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.
Heroes of Thantopolis
Izzy Strontium Hall
A living boy fights to save the City of the Dead.
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.
BOOKMARK
Click "Tag Page" to bookmark a page. When you return to the site, click "Goto Tag" to continue where you left off.
Goto TagClear Tag


BUFFER WATCH Comics are currently drawn and uploaded through:

June 8, 2026

No idea

by David M Willis on August 12, 2014 at 12:01 am
  • 04 - The Whiteboard Dingdong Bandit
└ Tags: alice, jennifer

Discussion (210) ¬

[ Comments RSS ]
  1. An Average Loser
    An Average Loser
    August 12, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    The awkwardness is palpable. . .

    • -Sentinel-
      -Sentinel-
      August 12, 2014 at 12:29 am | #

      Even more so if you look at the 4th panel and imagine that the thing in Billie’s left hand is a bloody tampon.

      • Toad
        Toad
        August 12, 2014 at 1:29 am | #

        I am not convinced you know what a tampon looks like.

      • Spiny Creature
        Spiny Creature
        August 12, 2014 at 1:47 am | #

        I think you’re thinking of a pad.

        Anyway, didn’t we see someone sitting across from Alice at the table in yesterday’s strip? Billie is just totally ignoring her. That’s Social Skills 101, Billie!

        • showler
          showler
          August 12, 2014 at 7:09 am | #

          Kinda looks like Alice was getting up to leave so the other person may have already left.

          Anyway, college life destroyed, time to retroactively destroy her high school life.

    • Safgaftsa
      Safgaftsa
      August 12, 2014 at 12:40 am | #

      I am literally palping the awkwardness.

      • TrueVCU
        TrueVCU
        August 12, 2014 at 1:58 am | #

        Molesting the awkwardness

      • TrueVCU
        TrueVCU
        August 12, 2014 at 1:58 am | #

        Fondling the awkwardness

        • Pantheon the Mantheon
          Pantheon the Mantheon
          August 12, 2014 at 2:12 am | #

          Should i be calling someone?

          • TrueVCU
            TrueVCU
            August 12, 2014 at 10:21 am | #

            A threesome? Kinky!

          • someone
            someone
            August 12, 2014 at 11:09 am | #

            no

    • T Campbell
      T Campbell
      August 12, 2014 at 7:40 am | #

      Billie
      BILLLLLLIE won’t you lose my number
      Cause I’m not anywhere
      That you can’t find meeee

    • L33tmaster
      L33tmaster
      August 12, 2014 at 4:31 pm | #

      This can not end well.

  2. Nono
    Nono
    August 12, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    Go Dragons?

    • An Average Loser
      An Average Loser
      August 12, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

      Go Dragons. . .

      • Swerve
        Swerve
        August 12, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

        Autobots, Transform and Roll Out!

      • lejwocky
        lejwocky
        August 12, 2014 at 12:43 am | #

        Mahfaeraak Dovah!!!

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        August 12, 2014 at 3:56 pm | #

        Hail Hydra.

      • L33tmaster
        L33tmaster
        August 12, 2014 at 4:32 pm | #

        COBRA!!!!!!

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      August 12, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

      in high school they had an entire language which consisted of nothing but “Go Dragons!”

      The trick was the inflections.

      • Swerve
        Swerve
        August 12, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

        Vin Diesel was their Speech Class teacher. 😀

        • Marc in MN
          Marc in MN
          August 12, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

          Ha! (Thanks to a trip to the local multiplex last night, I get that joke…) 🙂

          • Ed Rhodes
            Ed Rhodes
            August 12, 2014 at 12:25 am | #

            Actually, I was thinking of a “Teen Titans GO!” episode that
            just recently aired where Cyborg and Beast Boy said nothing
            but the word “Waffles” on a constant basis with changes in
            the inflection! Drove the rest of the Titans (and the villain)
            crazy.

            • Rachel Roth
              Rachel Roth
              August 12, 2014 at 12:30 am | #

              . . . Trying very hard not to say something I shouldn’t. . .

              • tinfoil theory
                tinfoil theory
                August 12, 2014 at 2:05 am | #

                Give in to temptation; you may not get the opportunity again.

                • Kelly
                  Kelly
                  August 12, 2014 at 2:35 am | #

                  I agree, Robert

                • Rachel Roth
                  Rachel Roth
                  August 12, 2014 at 8:14 pm | #

                  I. . . I miss the teen titans! D;

              • Pantheon the Mantheon
                Pantheon the Mantheon
                August 12, 2014 at 2:19 am | #

                If you wont say it, I sure as hell will. TEEN TITANS GO! Is nothing more than the patgetic, casual pandering, rip off, version of its superior older sibling: Teen Titans. In short, it is the latest of many feeble minded ratings grubbing, trying-to-be-“hip” shows that is both a mockery to the characters and an insult to DC. And now i say, let the casuals come for me.

                • Rutee
                  Rutee
                  August 12, 2014 at 3:45 am | #

                  Dude, the best parts of its older sibling were the Titans interacting with each other, not the fighting. TTG! is 100% the Titans interacting with each other. That’s not to say I don’t miss a narrative, of course, but…

                • NCP19
                  NCP19
                  August 12, 2014 at 9:10 am | #

                  You forgot to say how it’s obviously raped your childhood and obliterated the original show from the collective memory of the human race. I can’t take your rant seriously if you leave that part out, otherwise you just sound obnoxiously bitter. Thank goodness that was just an oversight on your part.

                • Van Dyne
                  Van Dyne
                  August 12, 2014 at 9:34 am | #

                  Man, didn’t this start out as a joking discussion of inflections?

                • begbert2
                  begbert2
                  August 12, 2014 at 10:32 am | #

                  I’m a casual! Do I get a prize?

                  Also you are hilarious, because you seem incapable of knowing what you’re watching. For it to be a “patgetic, casual pandering, rip off” of Teen Titans, it would have to be trying to be the same show. It’s not. Obviously. I mean seriously, did you watch the ‘superior older sibling’? Protip: Robin was sliiiiiiightly less neurotic in it. (Everyone else was exactly the same though. Raven was totally whipping out the Pretty Pretty Ponies every time she went off-frame.)

                  Now I’m imagining you watching the 90’s animated Batman show and somberly shaking your head that their editing department was so lax in putting in the BAM! POW! BIFF!s.

                  PS: Teen Titans GO! is laugh out loud hilarious. Teen Titans was, well, never trying to be be.

                • Gadgeteer Smashwidget
                  Gadgeteer Smashwidget
                  August 12, 2014 at 10:43 am | #

                  The show was conceived as a way to parody Teen Titans, I believe.

                • Swerve
                  Swerve
                  August 12, 2014 at 11:54 am | #

                  Protoforms, protoforms, there’s no need to overreact! Both shows are quality shows with different demographics, and it’s possible to like both or to like only one and not the other!

                  By contrast, I defy anyone who actually likes the G1 Transformers cartoon, the G1 Marvel comic, Beast Wars, Transformers Animated, the IDW Transformers comics, the War for/Fall of Cybertron games, or Transformers Prime, to have anything good to say about the Bayformers movies or the Dreamwave Transformers Comics. In fact, Pat Lee actually makes Michael Bay look good, since Michael Bay isn’t infamous for not paying his actors or staff and running off with company money.

                  As for how I know all this… I blame Brainstorm’s meta-gun. I am clearly still feeling the after-effects all these lunar cycles later!

                • David M Willis
                  David M Willis
                  August 12, 2014 at 5:19 pm | #

                  not sure if serious

                • Rachel Roth
                  Rachel Roth
                  August 12, 2014 at 8:19 pm | #

                  I wasn’t going to put it like that. . .

                • Rachel Roth
                  Rachel Roth
                  August 12, 2014 at 10:38 pm | #

                  What I was going to say was more along the lines of Teen Titans Go advertised to the original fans, then they ripped my heart out. MY HEART! No more are the five young superheroes united by their superheroes, no longer are these heroes on patrol; their broken, their cores destroyed, their essential qualities and defining characteristics missing! I. . . I loved them as they were before, but I can’t love the new ones, devoid of all maturity and emotional issues of being, well, them.

                  It feels like they’re trying to make me accept a Dina who is Mike, and love her like she was Dina, and that’s sickening. Dina’s Dina: the social recluse who knows dinosaurs but is curious about people, silent most of the time and hides behind doors, but is not un-ignorable when she speaks; not Mike.

                  I WANT MY TITANS BACK!

                  Okay, enough hijacking David’s comments with Teen Titans Go complaints.

            • Mo
              Mo
              August 12, 2014 at 1:05 am | #

              Also, the argument in Baseketball that was entirely composed of the word “Dude.”

              • Doctor_Who
                Doctor_Who
                August 12, 2014 at 1:32 am | #

                I love that scene. The weird thing is I could understand them perfectly.

                Then again, my own vocabulary is at least 30% “Dude”.

                • tinfoil theory
                  tinfoil theory
                  August 12, 2014 at 2:06 am | #

                  … dude.

                • Rachel Roth
                  Rachel Roth
                  August 14, 2014 at 7:47 pm | #

                  Dude?

              • Deanatay
                Deanatay
                August 12, 2014 at 8:02 am | #

                Dude! DUDE.

                Ok, good point.

        • AgentKeen
          AgentKeen
          August 12, 2014 at 12:24 am | #

          I am Go Dragons?

          • Jay Eff
            Jay Eff
            August 12, 2014 at 1:00 am | #

            We are Go Dragons.

            • Pink Freud
              Pink Freud
              August 12, 2014 at 1:16 am | #

              WE ARE WAFFLES

              • Opus the Poet
                Opus the Poet
                August 12, 2014 at 3:32 am | #

                But your Grav is 2D!

      • Rachel Roth
        Rachel Roth
        August 12, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

        Gooooooooooooooooo DRAgons

        • xKiv
          xKiv
          August 12, 2014 at 7:55 pm | #

          I heard about ghost dragons, metal dragons, twin dragons, dwarf dragons and faery dragons. But the worst of them are goo dragons, second only to vomit dragons.

      • Ancestral Hamster
        Ancestral Hamster
        August 12, 2014 at 12:25 am | #

        Ah, so they were pokemons.

        • Doctor_Who
          Doctor_Who
          August 12, 2014 at 12:29 am | #

          Dragon types, naturally.

        • RandomGuy
          RandomGuy
          August 12, 2014 at 12:29 am | #

          We are go dragons!

        • Gadgeteer Smashwidget
          Gadgeteer Smashwidget
          August 12, 2014 at 10:46 am | #

          *Pokémon. The word Pokémon is both singular and plural.

      • Tawdry Quirks
        Tawdry Quirks
        August 12, 2014 at 5:47 am | #

        “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.”

      • vonnegut
        vonnegut
        August 12, 2014 at 4:07 pm | #

        This. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lElf7D-An8 [graphic/NSFW]

      • HMRC4EVR
        HMRC4EVR
        August 12, 2014 at 6:58 pm | #

        That would be kind of awesome.

        Not as awesome as say a whole civilization built on historical figures and the actions they took like in ‘Darmok’ from ST:TNG, but still pretty awesome.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 12, 2014 at 12:40 am | #

      Find those DRAGONBALLS. Searching For them All!

      • John
        John
        August 12, 2014 at 12:48 am | #

        Check inside the cloaca?

  3. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    August 12, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    Uncomfortable.

    • Swerve
      Swerve
      August 12, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

      Awkward!

    • An Average Loser
      An Average Loser
      August 12, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      I feel this will be the catalyst of something horrible.

  4. Blackbird
    Blackbird
    August 12, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    This… will end badly.

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      August 12, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      I dunno, how bad could “HEY MY LAST TIE TO MY GLORY DAYS OF BEING A CHEERLEADER” go?

      wait

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        August 12, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

        “YOU KNOW, BEFORE I GOT KICKED OFF THE TEAM FOR BEING A DRUNK DRIVER, THOSE WERE THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”

        • Jon P
          Jon P
          August 12, 2014 at 12:56 am | #

          Oh shit I forgot about that. Yeah, I can’t IMAGINE why Alice may have “forgotten” to mention to Billie she was also going to UI.

    • Emperor Kiva
      Emperor Kiva
      August 12, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      I’m with you, dude.

      • tinfoil theory
        tinfoil theory
        August 12, 2014 at 2:10 am | #

        This is just a cafeteria, Billie is with Walky and Joyce, she will be alright.

        • Swerve
          Swerve
          August 12, 2014 at 11:26 am | #

          She’s with Walky and Joyce. Things can only get more uncomfortable. Alice might remember Walky (“You’re friends with that dork now?”) and Joyce is still not cleared to speak to new people after the last few panels.

    • Vim-Hogar
      Vim-Hogar
      August 12, 2014 at 2:08 am | #

      It’s certainly starting badly enough.

  5. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    August 12, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Wow, Alice might have more teeth than Joyce.

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      August 12, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      Teeth are directly proportional to awkwardness. Witness Agatha and Joyce: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/02-choosing-my-religion/mormon/

      • Whittier
        Whittier
        August 12, 2014 at 10:44 am | #

        Ah, yes, I couldn’t remember how I deduced that they were attending Evangelical Community Church, but that was the strip that did it. Native Bloomingtonian for the win.

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        August 12, 2014 at 8:54 pm | #

        Next comic: FIFTY TEETH IN ONE MOUTH

  6. Leorale
    Leorale
    August 12, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Ohhh, poor Billie. Everyone else has moved on. :S

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      August 12, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

      Billie is going to be one of those sad people who just completely peaked in high school, and don’t understand why everyone else has gotten so lame.

      She’s the female Al Bundy.

      • Bibulb
        Bibulb
        August 12, 2014 at 1:09 am | #

        She was beginning to figure that out, and this is another perfect opportunity for backsliding.

      • Spiny Creature
        Spiny Creature
        August 12, 2014 at 1:49 am | #

        I read that as Ted Bundy at first. Thought you were being a bit harsh.

      • tinfoil theory
        tinfoil theory
        August 12, 2014 at 2:16 am | #

        More like that athlete guy from Napoleon Dynamite, Rico. Al Bundy wasn’t doing so bad by comparison, he had a steady job and was married with children.

        • Farmer_10
          Farmer_10
          August 12, 2014 at 4:51 am | #

          And Al did have have higher apsirations after high school, but one session of unprotected sex ruined everything. To Al, high school wasn’t the absolute best time of his life, it was the period of his life where he actually still had a bright future ahead of him….They constantly rerun that show over here, and I find myself thinking too much about it sometimes.

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        August 12, 2014 at 8:55 pm | #

        I read that as Bud Bundy…

        you know, Avatar Korra’s love interest

        [so weird]

  7. Marvelman
    Marvelman
    August 12, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Alice doesn’t seem very happy to see Billie. I wonder why?

    • John
      John
      August 12, 2014 at 1:01 am | #

      I’m pretty sure the answer is, “Go Dragons.”

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      August 12, 2014 at 8:22 am | #

      Some people treat college as a fresh start, an opportunity to put certain things behind them. Now, think about what Billie was like during high school. Got it, yet? Self-absorbed drama queen with a drinking problem? Good. Now, the fresh start. Do you take those memories with you, or leave them behind?

      Of course, Billie is oblivious to this. She’s so desperate for connection right now, the draw of an old ‘friend’ is irresistible.

      • leftwingfox
        leftwingfox
        August 12, 2014 at 9:27 am | #

        Given Alice’s eyeline and response to Billie’s “You look great”, I’m predicting cheerleader-level body issues.

        • Jen Aside
          Jen Aside
          August 12, 2014 at 8:56 pm | #

          Alice [under breath]: “She’s, uh… fat.”

          Billie: “Really?”

  8. chris73
    chris73
    August 12, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Its all good, its part of the steep learning curve Billies on

    • newllend
      newllend
      August 12, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

      Is it, because it feels like she’s about to take one huge ass step back.

      • chris73
        chris73
        August 12, 2014 at 12:26 am | #

        Shes about to learn that Springsteen said best in “GloryDays” but she’ll be better for it…hopefully

        • qka
          qka
          August 12, 2014 at 12:49 am | #

          But a lot more quickly than the folks in the song.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 12, 2014 at 12:41 am | #

      She’s got those learning Curves all right.

  9. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    August 12, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    I guess she missed all the hints in High School that it is gauche to continue to wear High School stuff at College–unless you happen to have a cute or unusual school or mascot to show off.

  10. Rachel Roth
    Rachel Roth
    August 12, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    That. . . might just be whose outfit Ruth stole. . .

    • newllend
      newllend
      August 12, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

      That I can see that happening, I want that to happen.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      August 12, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

      I dunno, didn’t Ruth say she managed to find a cheerleader who more closely match Billie’s…proportions?

      Alice looks a little too petite to share Billie’s measurements.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        August 12, 2014 at 12:25 am | #

        My first reading had Alice quietly judging Billie’s new measurements with that glance down in panel 3. I’d really prefer if she is just judging the high-school clothes.

        • Dean
          Dean
          August 12, 2014 at 12:36 am | #

          That’s what I took from it too. Alice’s line in panel 3 can also be read as, ‘So, you got super FAT, huh?’

          • Chaucer59
            Chaucer59
            August 12, 2014 at 12:44 am | #

            So, that’s the Freshman Fifteen, huh? It’s barely noticeable. :^D

          • Swerve
            Swerve
            August 12, 2014 at 12:45 am | #

            Yeah, Alice is appraising Billie like a slab of metal she’s about to smelt into armor plating.

        • Chris Phoenix
          Chris Phoenix
          August 12, 2014 at 3:12 am | #

          Not likely, after the “You look great!” “Um…” exchange.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        August 12, 2014 at 12:42 am | #

        Alice used to be a fatty.

  11. newllend
    newllend
    August 12, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Wow just when we thought she was moving on with her life she relapses.

  12. Mo
    Mo
    August 12, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    Dude, all Billie is missing is her high school letter jacket.

    • Swerve
      Swerve
      August 12, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

      Have we seen her with one? Or only the cheerleader uniform Ruth stole and performed elective embroidery on?

      • AgentKeen
        AgentKeen
        August 12, 2014 at 12:28 am | #

        Would that qualify as something they could use as part of her punishment?

    • Quinctia
      Quinctia
      August 12, 2014 at 1:49 am | #

      Wow, that reminds me of the time I saw someone in my college computer lab wearing a letter jacket from my high school.

      I went to college two states away, and I still just side-eyed him and walked away without a word. (It was about five years after the dude graduated high school, couldn’t believe he was wearing the thing.)

      • Jelli
        Jelli
        August 12, 2014 at 10:23 am | #

        I would have totally worn my high school letter jacket in college if my parents had let me take it with me. I didn’t have a huge connection to my high school; it was just a really nice jacket. I was so pissed when I spent all that money on it and then found out social convention would only let me wear it for about half a year.

        • Mo
          Mo
          August 12, 2014 at 10:35 am | #

          I got mine as a sophomore, so I had plenty of time with it. Otherwise, yeah, I probably would have been mad. Nobody even told me it was no longer kosher in college; I just sort of realized it. But I figured it was OK to wear it to band competitions when I was an assistant director. And if my kids end up going to the same school, I might find an excuse to bust it out and embarrass them.

        • Swerve
          Swerve
          August 12, 2014 at 11:06 am | #

          You think fashion’s a harsh taskmaster on your world? Think about what wealthy Cybertronians, who underwent expensive modifications to their exostructure to conform to the latest fashion standards, only to have those standards change a few solar cycles later. Boy, business was good for me back in the day, but I couldn’t help the slightest bit of sympathy for the latest sucker who’d walk into my metallurgy shop asking for dorsal fins because Blurr had them. Dude, Blurr is cool because he’s Blurr, not because of his fins.

        • Huttj
          Huttj
          August 12, 2014 at 5:40 pm | #

          Mine was homemade, fleece. Quite nice, warm, and was tailored for me (my mother made it).

          …I wonder where it ended up. I could at least wear it around Civil War season (green and gold, same colors as U of O, where my parents went).

        • Quinctia
          Quinctia
          August 13, 2014 at 2:16 am | #

          I didn’t want to blather for too long about it, but I was a junior or senior in college and I could tell from the patches the guy had graduated when I was a freshman in h.s., so we are talking about someone 6-7 years out of h.s. I would’ve thought it a bit less weird if it was a younger person, I guess?

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        August 12, 2014 at 5:57 pm | #

        Hmm, not aware that was an issue. I wore my high school jacket in University, so did many others, and not just from my high school. I never heard anything about it being considered a social faux pas.

    • mistrali
      mistrali
      August 12, 2014 at 7:51 am | #

      Her high school letter jacket? Sorry, non-US resident here.

      • airyu
        airyu
        August 12, 2014 at 9:02 am | #

        Many American high schools have jackets like these for their sports players:http://www.varsityjacketstore.com

        • Swerve
          Swerve
          August 12, 2014 at 11:31 am | #

          Colleges also have letter jackets, but it’s acceptable to wear your college’s jacket at your college. I’m pretty sure we’ve seen someone wearing one before.

      • gwalla
        gwalla
        August 12, 2014 at 2:33 pm | #

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterman_(sports)#Letter_jacket

  13. Emperor Kiva
    Emperor Kiva
    August 12, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    I got a dragon but it ain’t going anywhere…..heh, heh.

    • newllend
      newllend
      August 12, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

      I got one too,I call him Godzilla king of the monsters because there’s not a nother one bigger or bader.if you know what I mean

      • Swerve
        Swerve
        August 12, 2014 at 12:22 am | #

        We’ve got a dragon of sorts on the Lost Light, Doublecross. Two heads, two competing personalities, and always arguing with himself. But he’s a better tipper than Grotusque. Grotusque is not pleasant to be around when he’s drunk, lemme tell you!

  14. Cholma
    Cholma
    August 12, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    [whispers]And here we see the trapped animal chew its own foot off to escape…

  15. Shazam
    Shazam
    August 12, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

    It almost painful to watch this train reck come to a start

    • newllend
      newllend
      August 12, 2014 at 12:35 am | #

      Nice avatar who or what is that exactly?

      • Swerve
        Swerve
        August 12, 2014 at 12:47 am | #

        That’s Iceman, right? A super-deformed version of the Iceman from Marvel’s Ultimate X-Men comic, if I’m not mistaken.

        • Farmer_10
          Farmer_10
          August 12, 2014 at 4:56 am | #

          I thought it might’ve been from that A-Babies Vs X-babies comic.

          • Swerve
            Swerve
            August 12, 2014 at 11:22 am | #

            Mojo has much to answer for!

  16. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    August 12, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

    “Soooo, how have you been?”

    “Go Dragons!”

    “…I was going to say, ‘That’s not an answer,’ but now that I think about it, it kind of is.”

  17. HMRC4EVR
    HMRC4EVR
    August 12, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

    This will end badly for alll involved.

  18. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    August 12, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

    Alice seems, uncomfortable.

    • Swerve
      Swerve
      August 12, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

      Well, then she shouldn’t have listened to that Cheshire Cat, should she? 😀

    • newllend
      newllend
      August 12, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

      She’s probably thinking, “man I hated this bongo back in high school.”

    • neeks
      neeks
      August 12, 2014 at 1:47 am | #

      What was your first clue, panel 1 where she’s practically physically recoiling from the idea of Billie joining them for lunch?

  19. Fit-to-freak
    Fit-to-freak
    August 12, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

    Sometimes Billie shows like incredible social awareness and is very aware and responsive to the needs of the person she’s talking to. Like at times she displays a level of sensitivity and social awareness that exceeds the rest of the main cast. And then she has moments like this, where she’s so clearly missing the obvious cues Alice is giving off. I mean part of the problem here might be that she doesn’t want to see it.

    • Swerve
      Swerve
      August 12, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

      Billie has displayed more of the latter than the former. There was her insistence that Sal was Amazi-Girl, for example, or starting a fight with Ruth at the first floor meeting. The former have come in small drips, usually regarding Ruth, following her discovery of Ruth’s alcoholism.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        August 12, 2014 at 12:29 am | #

        She was also beautifully sensitive to Sal/Walky.

        Billie’s high school prowess is her major blind spot. She’ll see everything social, except what threatens her faltering self-esteem.

        • Fit-to-freak
          Fit-to-freak
          August 12, 2014 at 6:42 am | #

          I would also argue that her sensitivity to Joyce’s wishes after the rape attempt was another good moment. It’s really important to let people respond to that kind of thing on their own terms and she supported Joyce. And I’d say that the ‘Sal is amazigirl’ thing is more about observational/logical skills than social awareness.

          • Swerve
            Swerve
            August 12, 2014 at 11:21 am | #

            If Billie can put her ego in neutral for a short time, she is capable of astounding acts of empathy. But her ego’s as big as Rodimus’, and as long as she’s focused on herself and her glory days in high school, she won’t be able to mature.

    • Katrika
      Katrika
      August 12, 2014 at 12:31 am | #

      I think that’s the entire problem, to be perfectly honest.

  20. Khaner
    Khaner
    August 12, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

    Dragons Go!

  21. Fit-to-freak
    Fit-to-freak
    August 12, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

    Also, Jesus Christ, Alice is attractive.

    • Ancestral Hamster
      Ancestral Hamster
      August 12, 2014 at 12:26 am | #

      Yes indeed.

    • Thomas
      Thomas
      August 12, 2014 at 1:50 am | #

      I’m glad to hear this coming from you, Mary. 😉 There’s still hope.

  22. Jesse
    Jesse
    August 12, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

    For some reason, I’m reminded of this: http://hrwiki.org/w/images/c/cd/tgs4.png

    • weasel_0802
      weasel_0802
      August 12, 2014 at 8:39 am | #

      #Like. #MissingHSR

  23. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    August 12, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

    Billie, your glory days are beyond numbered, they’re negative numbered.

  24. Kani
    Kani
    August 12, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

    Chick-fil-a is delicious though.

    • Swerve
      Swerve
      August 12, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

      Too bad about their menu lacking any energon options…

      • Gadgeteer Smashwidget
        Gadgeteer Smashwidget
        August 12, 2014 at 11:01 am | #

        isn’t that stuff basically caffeine for Cybertronians?

        • Swerve
          Swerve
          August 12, 2014 at 11:19 am | #

          No, no, no! Energon is the lifeblood of my people, the fuel we need to live! Like chicken fingers for humans.

          You’re thinking of energon boosters, which come in a variety of forms. The weakest energon boosters are essentially like caffeine, in that they are stimulants, but the stronger boosters, especially circuit speeders, are like hard drugs for humans. At my bar I only serve forms of engex, a highly refined and distilled form of energon, which acts like alcohol does on humans. No energon boosters allowed, or I have my Legislator bouncer kick the offender out.

  25. Sporky
    Sporky
    August 12, 2014 at 12:26 am | #

    You can just see the “please oh please get this person away from me” look on her face.

  26. AgentKeen
    AgentKeen
    August 12, 2014 at 12:31 am | #

    Wait, so how ‘un-curvy’ was Billie before the summer?

    Also, I feel bad for Alice’s out-of-frame friend. The comic frame is a harsh mistress.

    • hurocrat
      hurocrat
      August 12, 2014 at 6:28 pm | #

      Chapter 1 Billie is noticeably thinner than yesterday’s Billie. Granted, part of that is the bulk of the hoodie she’s now wearing, but still. Beer does a pretty good job of accelerating the freshman fifteen…

      Billie’s nowhere near overweight, but to someone used to having a cheerleader’s build it probably seems like it.

  27. NF
    NF
    August 12, 2014 at 12:31 am | #

    With every new minor character, I keep on thinking, she wasn’t in the Walkyverse, and then I find out, holy cow, she was.

    That is impressive.

  28. Victor Riley
    Victor Riley
    August 12, 2014 at 12:33 am | #

    Billie came to college thinking it would be “High School part 2”, but is now feeling lost… and now meets a reminder of her good ole times, when she felt like she ruled the world… but that someone obviously wanted to leave it all behind in High School, where it belonged… this is going to be painful for her, again… isn’t it?

  29. Strain Of Thought
    Strain Of Thought
    August 12, 2014 at 12:39 am | #

    PAIN.

  30. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    August 12, 2014 at 12:44 am | #

    Billie, noone liked the Dragons. The dragons didn’t like the dragons. Noone but you wear those colors with pride. Plenty still wear them in shame, though.

  31. March
    March
    August 12, 2014 at 12:44 am | #

    Person trying to escape from their high school self confronted with a friend from that former life who was disgraced = awkward
    Person who thinks they’ve found a former friend/ally and is about to be dismissed = painful
    Billie is going to need Walky and Joyce o prop her up real soon.

  32. Beachfox
    Beachfox
    August 12, 2014 at 12:45 am | #

    Oooooh Billie Billie Billie… You haven’t even -begun- to suffer the social fallout of that Drunk Driving Fuckup, have you?

  33. Flimsyfishy
    Flimsyfishy
    August 12, 2014 at 12:48 am | #

    I personally think that hovertext is blasphemous. Chick-Fil-A is about the only decent chicken sandwich place around here. Whichwich is a terrible rip-off of Chick-Fil-A, and the only other decent fast food chicken around here is Popeyes.

    KFC… not even once.

    • Blue Dragon
      Blue Dragon
      August 12, 2014 at 2:34 am | #

      Two words.

      Fifty McNuggets.

      • Swerve
        Swerve
        August 12, 2014 at 1:17 pm | #

        Note to self: ask Brainstorm to help me whip up a recipe for Energon McNuggets.

    • Jimmy
      Jimmy
      August 12, 2014 at 7:23 am | #

      Agreed. Best chicken sandwiches there are.

  34. KoTS_V
    KoTS_V
    August 12, 2014 at 12:55 am | #

    Dammit, Willis! Quit introducing attractive characters for me to like!

  35. rachel
    rachel
    August 12, 2014 at 12:55 am | #

    owwwww my heart, it hurts already

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      August 12, 2014 at 6:00 pm | #

      Are you sure it’s not just indigestion? What have you eaten recently?

  36. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    August 12, 2014 at 1:02 am | #

    Go Dragons. Alice is so cute.

  37. Aeron
    Aeron
    August 12, 2014 at 1:20 am | #

    Alt text confirmed what I suspected.

  38. Rani
    Rani
    August 12, 2014 at 1:25 am | #

    Okay everyone, take my lead and think this really hard at the comic:

    “Billie. Stop staring into that light at the end of the tunnel. That’s a train.”

  39. coolhandluke
    coolhandluke
    August 12, 2014 at 1:53 am | #

    What are you talking about Willis. If you are eating at a chic-fil-a i’d say your lifes looking pretty good at that moment

  40. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    August 12, 2014 at 2:31 am | #

    Billie is about to take another slam dunk to the head.

    Alice can’t wait to get away from her, and Billie is either oblivious to that fact or trying desperately to ignore it? Hard to be sure. Maybe both.

    One thing this may do, Billie may finally get the hint she is the only one flying the HS cheerleader flag from her former friends. As mentioned earlier in this thread, Billie’s entire idea of social life ties to cheering (and beer). When she can break our of that mold, she mayl find life beyond HS. I like the ‘HS part 2″ quote.

    Get ready to catch her when she falls over, Joyce and Walky.

  41. Ben
    Ben
    August 12, 2014 at 5:09 am | #

    oh boy…. this is gonna hurt a little…

  42. Yarrr
    Yarrr
    August 12, 2014 at 5:24 am | #

    Hey this might finally give Billie the kick she needs to turn her life around.

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      August 12, 2014 at 11:02 pm | #

      But she’s already been facing a series of increasingly painful kicks. Billie is already beginning to try to be a better person! Therefore, no more kicking is needed. And yet, the kicks will continue. Because that is how this works.

  43. maxlines
    maxlines
    August 12, 2014 at 5:51 am | #

    Awkward. But I know just how Alice feels.

  44. Doc Harleen
    Doc Harleen
    August 12, 2014 at 6:03 am | #

    Oh man… Not much has happened yet and I am still filled with worry. Poor Billie.

    Must say, though, masterful work on Willis’s part. I’ve never felt this much sympathy for a head cheerleader “queen of high school” type before.

  45. timemonkey
    timemonkey
    August 12, 2014 at 6:32 am | #

    Let’s hope Billie gets the message before she dismisses Walky and Joyce.

  46. Aolbain
    Aolbain
    August 12, 2014 at 7:02 am | #

    Oh God, this might be the most awkward thing ever.

  47. Lord Geovanni
    Lord Geovanni
    August 12, 2014 at 7:36 am | #

    Ummm. Did you get fat…?

  48. mistrali
    mistrali
    August 12, 2014 at 7:49 am | #

    As someone who’s still invested in her childhood, this makes me feel for Billie. It’s hard to let go of your old self unless you’re given opportunities to make a new one. Especially in Billie’s case, since so much of her high school life has been invested in alcohol and now she’s using it as a crutch. 🙁

  49. RandomRedMage
    RandomRedMage
    August 12, 2014 at 8:20 am | #

    escape face.. she is making the escape face, excuse to be anywhere but here right now is what she is wishing for.

  50. hof1991
    hof1991
    August 12, 2014 at 8:33 am | #

    Whole lot of ways they are not going to the same college.

    BTW, Walky should know Alice too, right? At least to say hi to? Even in college, its just polite to say hi to old acquaintances, even if you don’t hang out with them. Guess it would depend upon how big their high school was.

    • Aolbain
      Aolbain
      August 12, 2014 at 9:12 am | #

      Billies old friends used to stuff him in lockers, so I think he would rather hang back…

      • Swerve
        Swerve
        August 12, 2014 at 11:58 am | #

        But those were the guys, not the cheerleaders. Still, if Alice does remember Walky, it won’t help Billie’s position any at all.

        • hurocrat
          hurocrat
          August 12, 2014 at 6:16 pm | #

          The cheerleaders might not have been actually stuffing him in lockers, but they probably did the verbal equivalent. Or non-verbal, anyway, since it would have been beneath their dignity to be caught acknowledging his existence.

  51. lordhaw
    lordhaw
    August 12, 2014 at 8:51 am | #

    Alice’s smile is a little strained. At least she’s trying to be nice to Billie (with a definite “Please go away” kind of vibe to it).

    You can almost hear Alice think “Gee you’ve gotten fat Billie” when she looks down and gives the fake compliment.

  52. Huh?
    Huh?
    August 12, 2014 at 9:00 am | #

    Okay, I know she’s probably being setup to put Billie down, but I love her design!

  53. Killjoy
    Killjoy
    August 12, 2014 at 9:04 am | #

    Willis — amazing job conveying the awkwardness of this moment.

    • Killjoy
      Killjoy
      August 12, 2014 at 9:19 am | #

      Yay, self-reply.

      1) I need to “get a Gravatar”, I’m not sure Dorothy is the most fitting

      2) On the subject of Billy: sadly, she’s coming across as one of those people who will look back 20 years from now and tell her kids “school is the best time of your life!” Every time someone told me that while I was in school, the thought that things were going to get worse made me want to jam in knife in my chest.

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        August 12, 2014 at 10:02 pm | #

        “If school was the best years of your life, it didn’t work.” – Spike Trotman

  54. ajm5007
    ajm5007
    August 12, 2014 at 10:26 am | #

    I feel like Alice pretty much every time I visit my mom in the town I grew up in. It’s THAT kind of town, y’know. My mom’s only still there because the house is paid for.

  55. Alexx
    Alexx
    August 12, 2014 at 10:32 am | #

    Hoo boy….yeah, this ain’t gona help.

  56. OmegaDez
    OmegaDez
    August 12, 2014 at 11:00 am | #

    What is so awkward here? I’m curious.

    • Swerve
      Swerve
      August 12, 2014 at 11:09 am | #

      Alice doesn’t really want to talk to Billie, either because she’s embarrassed that they went to high school together, because Alice isn’t a cheerleader anymore and isn’t really interested in reliving the “Glory Days”, or some other reason. Whatever the specific reason, Alice is really trying hard to avert her eyes from looking Billie directly in the face, she’s not really into the whole “Golden Dragons” thing anymore, and she’s giving off a vibe of “Why is this person still talking to me?”

      Billie, meanwhile, is completely oblivious to Alice trying to shoo Billie off.

    • atatata
      atatata
      August 12, 2014 at 12:26 pm | #

      It’s kind of like when your childhood friend is still into power rangers and reasonably expects you to be too, when you really couldn’t care less about that anymore.

    • atatata
      atatata
      August 12, 2014 at 12:29 pm | #

      Except worse. Because Alice might not even *like* the person she used to be. She might be intensely embarrassed by that phase.

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        August 12, 2014 at 10:01 pm | #

        “I came to college to GET AWAY FROM high school!”

  57. JimmyMcNuggets
    JimmyMcNuggets
    August 12, 2014 at 11:26 am | #

    Just because Chik’Fil’A has questionable politics doesn’t mean that they don’t have unquestionably the best chicken biscuits.

  58. Seraph
    Seraph
    August 12, 2014 at 12:32 pm | #

    It seems that an awful lot of Billie and Walky’s classmates are going to the same college as them.

    With that in mind, I have one request, and one request only: that at least one representative of the goth kids that Billie bullied in high school is there to witness her nadir.

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      August 12, 2014 at 7:03 pm | #

      Only Billie, Walky and Alice so far. Even Sal doesn’t count since she spent years at a different school.

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      August 12, 2014 at 10:00 pm | #

      I went to a high school that was part of a larger college. Most of us went there, by which I mean pretty much anyone who was going to go to college but had no money or larger aspirations to get us somewhere out of state.

  59. XMinusOne
    XMinusOne
    August 12, 2014 at 1:01 pm | #

    Makes one wonder if Alice might have had a crush on Billie in high school and is trying to forget that time in her life and that she might be Gay.

    • Andiemus
      Andiemus
      August 12, 2014 at 1:43 pm | #

      Or she just realizes that lots of people in college hate that freshman who runs around talking about high school.

    • Seraph
      Seraph
      August 12, 2014 at 2:17 pm | #

      Not impossible, but there doesn’t seem to be a lot in the text to base that on.

  60. Orangey
    Orangey
    August 12, 2014 at 2:18 pm | #

    ouuuuuuch this is painful to read

  61. Ciritus
    Ciritus
    August 12, 2014 at 4:06 pm | #

    Hail Hydra!!!

    Haha sorry I have to

  62. Eukie
    Eukie
    August 12, 2014 at 4:59 pm | #

    I’m slightly curious as to whether Billie’s “fall from grace” might not have started before college; if her cheerleader peers found her annoying or overbearing in the last semester of high-school, it could explain why they all dropped contact with her after her drunk driving incident.

    And it would be a seriously blow to Billie’s self-esteem (that black-and-blue, battered poor thing) if she learned that her perceived popularity in high-school was a delusion and that nobody really liked her.

    • Bill
      Bill
      August 12, 2014 at 10:33 pm | #

      So figure from square one that no one likes you and you won’t be disappointed when you find that out later.
      And if someone really does like you, you can get that Sally Field 1984 Oscar speech vibe going: “I can’t deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!”

  63. nothri
    nothri
    August 12, 2014 at 11:16 pm | #

    That last panel man…that’s the sort of expression I would have if I was talking to someone I had just realized was a serial killer and hoped desperately did not know that I knew.

  64. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    August 12, 2014 at 11:19 pm | #

    Dang, was gonna say I thought I found where they went to high school, but it’s orange and blue.

    Or, this one in Arkansas with “royal blue” and gold.

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      August 12, 2014 at 11:33 pm | #

      Unlike their university, Walky and Billie’s high school is fictional.

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        August 13, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

        Coulda been you accidentally matched a real one!

        [or intentionally didn’t match any of them, more likely]

      • Bill
        Bill
        August 13, 2014 at 11:46 am | #

        Since you’ve kept everything else as real-to-life as possible — even the background details of the locale when Amazi-Girl gave Blaine his beat-down — why did you decide to put Billie and Walky’s high school into the world of make-believe?

        Not trying to start anything, merely curiosity.

  65. Eve
    Eve
    August 12, 2014 at 11:34 pm | #

    …did the hovertext change for anyone else? Something about what god wants back on the air?

Who should be the default doodle for Book 14?

View Results

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


May 3, 2025 - FCBD @ Laughing Ogre Comics in Columbus, Ohio

David M Willis! avatar
David M Willis!
@damnyouwillis.bsky.social
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 19min
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
1
9
 
reposted by David M Willis!
hausofdecline.bsky.social's user avatar
Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social ⋅ 1h
A woman asks a clerk
14
820
2927
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2h
So he's been playing Jiggly Ball.
4
22
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 10h
Dumbing of Age: "Sneaking" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomic #webcomics
www.dumbingofage.com
Sneaking
2
5
34
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 13h
jesus christ how many studio series leader class guys are there next year and the year after probably also
6
2
24
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 13h
excuse me
3
1
19
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 14h
5
1
17
 
reposted by David M Willis!
aaronhuertas.bsky.social's user avatar
Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social ⋅ 16h
“I’m just going to say it, shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for thinking they’re going to get elected. That child deserves our support. Don’t worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity.”
startribune.com's user avatarMinnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com ⋅ 1d
Gov. Tim Walz is doubling down on trans rights — and criticizing members of his party who are retreating — at a time when the issue has become a political lightning rod nationally and back home in Minnesota.
header image - Gov. Tim Walz backs transgender kids as Democrats grapple with debate over sports bans
www.startribune.com
Gov. Tim Walz backs transgender kids as Democrats grapple with debate over sports bans
The Minnesota Democrat has been critical of other members of his party who are retreating at a time when the issue has become a political lightning rod nationally and in Minnesota.
92
3412
12744
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 18h
Hasbro making my customs real Part II! (Part I was Fangry)
3
3
55
 
reposted by David M Willis!
sixotf.bsky.social's user avatar
Sixo | Transformers @sixotf.bsky.social ⋅ 20h
Well, there it is
SS86 Devastator
32
30
231
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
look how incredibly photoshopped these lower legs are they definitely lassoed that lower leg color and desaturated it in post
preternia.com's user avatarpreternia @preternia.com ⋅ 1d
Takara Transformers Studio Series TS-12 Megatron is up for preorder at HLJ (¥7,440) - bit.ly/3HpjRak
1
1
12
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
hey look, ABS vs nylon vs paint perfect example in comparative light absorbing qualities
2
4
36
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
they managed to get the arms and thighs to be different grays, which I wasn't sure they'd be able to do, the way the mold's set up though maybe they're just producing a lot of extra thighs and/or arms in the wrong colors and throwing those away, i dunno
1
1
22
 
reposted by David M Willis!
preternia.com's user avatar
preternia @preternia.com ⋅ 1d
Takara Transformers Dramatic Capture Series Decepticons Part 1 (Thundercracker & Reflector) is up for preorder at HLJ (¥13,950) - bit.ly/43uIcEm
7
38
 
reposted by David M Willis!
preternia.com's user avatar
preternia @preternia.com ⋅ 1d
Takara Transformers Studio Series TS-12 Megatron is up for preorder at HLJ (¥7,440) - bit.ly/3HpjRak
8
51
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
www.ebay.com/itm/23613670... selling my titans return scorponok head (and his card, and grotusque's weapon)
1
13
 
reposted by David M Willis!
sixotf.bsky.social's user avatar
Sixo | Transformers @sixotf.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
I’m so happy for them
Masterpiece MPG Hauler teaser
MPG Hauler & MP Hound
10
33
226
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
*squinting* marvel legends.... NIOO...??
preternia.com's user avatarpreternia @preternia.com ⋅ 1d
Hasbro Marvel Legends 85th Anniversary Odin is down to $45.49 on Amazon - buff.ly/DrH7fuq #ad
2
2
22
 
reposted by David M Willis!
dredpiraterobn.bsky.social's user avatar
Dread Pirate Robin 🩷💜💙 @dredpiraterobn.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
2
3
44
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
in today's mary worth, the part of wilbur weston will be played by Toby Jones
6
35
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
Dumbing of Age: "No big deal" www.dumbingofage.com/2025/comic/b... #webcomic #webcomics
www.dumbingofage.com
No big deal
10
6
45
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
more like starsCREAM am i right lookit that beige
6
3
47
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 1d
oh no the cool gray legs we hate on ss86 megatron are infecting older toys back through time
5
1
65
 
reposted by David M Willis!
shaenon.bsky.social's user avatar
Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Andrew bought a Transformer from @damnyouwillis.bsky.social‬ and he included magnets of the Walkyverse characters who look the most like us.
Two magnetic characters: a black-haired guy and a brown-haired girl with glasses. He included a third one that I think is the character who looks the most like Helen from my webcomic Narbonic.
2
4
65
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Jim!
it's jim

he's wearing a yellow collared shirt over a gray sweatshirt
5
1
45
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Bryan!
it's bryan, who hasn't had a new character model drawn since 2015

he's wearing a vest

that's his thing, vests
1
2
40
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Tfw it's Pride and you're Questioning (about recycling)
2
4
57
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
When you're explaining your size difference fetish commission to the artist
2
18
118
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
they both suck actually
32
19
192
 
damnyouwillis.bsky.social's user avatar
David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 2d
Extremely Dorothy coded
1
2
87
 

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