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“Hmm… I wonder when it will hit them that, sometime, they going to have to explain that ‘this is totally babies’ expression to someone who was their own baby…”
I do typesetting for all of my translation projects, so I picked up on it pretty quickly. I like it better than the old one, personally. The one used until now looked more handwritten, but this one just looks cleaner. It also manages to not look too machined, which is nice. (I generally use Komika Slim on my projects, for what it’s worth.) What font is this, Willis? It looks familiar– is it Zud Juice?
Red or pink backgrounds for black text are generally tougher on the eyes for anyone, if I remember correctly. I can imagine it’s worse with a color disorder in the mix.
This site uses a style sheet, not HTML. The News/Tags box was never white, and it’s always a different color from the rest of the site, to set it off from the background. Its choice of color is on purpose.
Well, from a dental care standpoint, toothpaste doesn’t help THAT much at all. It’s actually the brushing that does like 90% of the work. (Toothpaste does contain fluoride, which has long-term benefits, but that’s not doing much to get rid of food debris in your mouth.)
Toothpaste also contains surfactants, substances that allow oil and water to mix, to make getting the really ground in stains out easier. It’s like the difference between washing the dishes without soap and washing them with. Still, soap can’t replace elbow grease.
Yeah, gonna have to side with Sal on this one. As well intended as what Joyce and Becky are doing, it can also be a way to dismiss learning consideration for other people’s personal space.
We’ve had the blue-green for as long as I’ve been reading here. Dunno how long that is, but it’s a lot more than a month or a book, amd I’m not even one of the old guard.
It’s the night cap that looks so weird. Only time I ever wore a hat to bed was when it was below 0 and I was trying to save money by keeping the thermostat low.
The first thing I thought was “Sal’s wearing a BONNET to bed now? LOL” But then I thought that if I was in the comic she’d probably kill me right along with Joycy and Becky. So I’m glad I’m not there to be killed.
… I was meant to be having a job interview today, instead I’m commenting on this. So it’s all good.
And I’ve seen the poll, but I still honestly can’t tell the difference in the typeface. People are saying it’s squarer-looking than before?
Sal’s wearin’ her ‘murder bonnet’. It keeps her hair free of blood while she’s murderin’. (She was wearin’ it for Malaya, these two are just opportunity murderin’.)
Maybe she doesn’t feel entirely okay about going commando with a stranger sleeping in the other bunk. Sal has a deep reserve of vulnerability under all her spikes and armour plate; she may not feel entirely safe sleeping around Becky (as sad as that is).
Well, especially not if she’s going to wake up to the basically-an-unvetted-stranger watching her sleep. While grinning hugely. Who then, when asked why they’re watching her sleep, replies it’s because they want to love her. A lot. So wake up. Now.
Urm, well, she’s mixed race and wears her hair straightened. I just meant she was wearing the sort of bonnet I always associated with kids (from being a nanny) instead of a scarf like what Sarah wears. (Though Sarah wears her hair natural, from what I can tell in the comic style)
Those two smiling is every religious nuthouse who comes to your door trying to get you to believe in whatever. I however only believe in Jibbers the flying lobster who orbits Saturn’s rings ALL PRAISE JIBBERS
Honestly, i see no change whatsoever in colors and anything like that p, guess i need visit couple of times more before it goes into effect on my end xD
Nah, I’m just kidding. Everyone knows the Care Bears got fucked up every night at college. We all saw the photos online of Tenderheart puking of that balcony onto the Getalong Gang, and Funshine Bear making out with Sister Berenstain.
The t-shirt is interesting and may be a subconscious indicator of her response to her new roomie.
Sal has no problem sleeping topless when she’s alone or with someone she’s known so long that she might as well be her sister (Billie). Stick her with a stranger (Becky) and she’ll cover up. She isn’t that wild, it seems!
Is it normally worn with most of her long hair outside the bonnet?
Seems odd… but then I have no practical experience maintaining black hair (though I did see Chris Rock’s “Good Hair” documentary. This Caucasian Canadian boy never knew ANY of that!)
No, lol, I’ve never seen anyone do that before. Kinda defeats the purpose (also can’t see how it stays on through the night, like that? ehhh) Usually if you have long straight hair you wrap it with a scarf.
I’ve never seen the documentary but I’ve heard lots of black women complain about it being inaccurate, seeing as Chris Rock is not a woman with hair and all, so I’d take it with a grain of salt.
Becky’s smile is not yet on par with Joyce’s manic grin. You can tell Becky has human teeth. Her joy has not yet upgraded to the white void that is the triangle grin of the Joyce human.
I specifically searched for ‘triangle’ and found your post. I KNEW someone would say it again. It spreads! May the triangle smile shine forever in our hearts.
If you’re on Windows, try ctrl-shift-R to refresh the page from scratch. It’s a rather eye-searing shade, like a pale cantaloupe. I know that Willis loves all things orangey but it makes the comments harder to read.
Apparently it was some shade of orange for like an hour but then was put back, presumably because too many people said they had a hard time reading the comments against it. So, good on Willis for listening.
I’d feel bad about the injuries to their feet from the caltrops, if it weren’t MY ROOM.
I’m not really coherent enough to strangle when I wake up, and grappling isn’t my forté anyway. The steel pipe tucked into my bedframe is pretty easy to use, though.
I would totally strangle a person. And a jury would find me not guilty as well, because morning people should all be goddamn arrested and I was just acting in self-defense.
I’m feeling this on a deeply spiritual level. If someone were to wake me up by hovering over me and be obnoxiously happy and morning-person-y, I would straight-up punch them in the face. Hard. No exceptions, not even for loved ones, family members or beloved pets. (… ok I might be kidding about the pets. But not about everything else!)
because of the color change, I now want to go through my physical book and compare the past strips in the book to the ones on the website. All the solid colored backgrounds have changed.
Not seeing the color change everyone is talking about. The page looks the same as it always has on my computer.
Gah, relentless cheerfulness first thing in the morning. That would be like nails on a chalkboard for me. I hope Sarah is actively working on bottling Joyce’s morning person-ness so she can launch that bottle into the sun, and maybe Becky’s as well. http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/bottle/
Sal would not be the only one to thank her for that.
Stylistically, Willis always does eyebrows disconnected from the face, just like he does semi-transparent hair. The most notable eyebrow excursion was Joe’s reaction to Joyce in her yellow sundress.
I said this elsewhere but the fact is that Joyce and Becky are two relentless, discouragement-proof optimism, friendship and cheer generators.
Poor Sal! It must be like being permanently in the presence of Disney Princesses! The continual glare of sunlight and taste of sugar must be overwhelming! No-one deserves facing that first thing in the morning!
Yeah, why shouldn’t they be confused like the rest of us. Who do you think you are, future archeologists? “Ooooh, I’m so cool because I can surf the ANCIENT INTERNET instead of digging up plastic. oooh”
Archaeologists have ALWAYS had to deal with lots of butts in whatever media they are currently investigation – pictograms, stone carvings, ancient scrolls… It’s like history made by Walky, sometimes.
If DMW feels like it, there could be an interesting back-story. Maybe she remarked to Jason that she didn’t like having to wrestle with her hair every morning; he recommended a bonnet. The sudden impact on her self-image when she realises she’s taking tips from her supposed casual squeeze would be… interesting.
Yes, I ship them; I just like the idea of the ultra-wild biker chick ending up with the straightest and most restrained guy in the cast.
Sal: “Sensei, Ah must have a defense against the people that would see me awake at unholy hour-” *RRKH…* “Ah… beg you… teach me…!”
Sensei Hekuvva: “Don’t hova’ ova’ me while Ah’m nappin’…”
Me yesterday (word-for-word): “I can’t help but wonder if this was a reflex; her time in prison may have taught her to always be wary of people trying to get her in her sleep…”
Me today: “A reflex, eh…? How interesting…!” ‘,:-)
She may not have wanted to. Her parents would be unlikely to make the effort and Sal would probably play the ‘you come and see ME’ game. Though even if she did show up I doubt there was much interaction, her parents ignore her and she resents Walky for being favoured.
She was a teenager in Tennessee. Would she even be able to make it to Indiana on her own? Besides, would the school even keep her over holidays?
I’d like to think her parents cared enough to visit her, but given the Freshman Family Weekend arc it does seem likely that they’ve almost totally blotted her out of their minds.
Seeing each other for holidays counts as ‘barely spoken’, especially if she’s as taciturn as always WHEN she visits.
Add in that she always dresses nice and acts nice around her parents, and his mild confusion over her more ‘badass’ appearance fits well, since he really wouldn’t have seen much of it.
The strangling thing is much too funny, it’s gonna end up being revealed that she has terrible night terrors or something like that, putting all of these humorous moments into a new, darker context.
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Morning people are a crime against humanity.
Even Becky, who isn’t helping things with her four-day-old stank breath.
oddly enough, I didn’t even notice the typeface change until the poll
I noticed it in the last panel of yesterday, but didn’t think about it until someone mentioned it in the comments.
I guess I didn’t notice because It’s Pregnancy! already uses it
“Hmm… I wonder when it will hit them that, sometime, they going to have to explain that ‘this is totally babies’ expression to someone who was their own baby…”
I do typesetting for all of my translation projects, so I picked up on it pretty quickly. I like it better than the old one, personally. The one used until now looked more handwritten, but this one just looks cleaner. It also manages to not look too machined, which is nice. (I generally use Komika Slim on my projects, for what it’s worth.) What font is this, Willis? It looks familiar– is it Zud Juice?
It’s based on my handwriting, same as the old one. I just had nicer handwriting this time around.
You can say that again. Your handwriting’s pretty fantastic. (I will say that I miss the old DoA logo, though.)
I think the new font looks nice. But it will take some getting used to for me. I have a soft spot for the old one. RIP, old font.
I’ve seen the poll and I still can’t tell the difference.
I had to doublecheck when a few people commented on it yesterday =_=
It’s squarer, and more difficult to read if you’ve got dyslexia.
Os someone with a protanomalia (red anomaly colourblind), it’s more the new background that’s hindering.
Red or pink backgrounds for black text are generally tougher on the eyes for anyone, if I remember correctly. I can imagine it’s worse with a color disorder in the mix.
What are you guys talking about? Where’s the red/pink background?
It’s gone now
Apparently maggie put her foot down!
It was all a plot to hide the logo change, anyway.
I think Willis missed a html tag somewhere yesterday.
Today only the News/Tags box has the pink/salmon background instead of the old white.
This site uses a style sheet, not HTML. The News/Tags box was never white, and it’s always a different color from the rest of the site, to set it off from the background. Its choice of color is on purpose.
Yeah I know was kidding about HTML
I know about CSS as I take care of my Boss’s company website (And CSS make it so easy to change stuff!!!).
The box did look whitish before but was probably because my monitor.
Yeah, seems like that could have been an option in the poll.
Yeah, there should have been a ‘no perceived change’ option in the poll.
That’s what “this poll is a sham” is for.
Anyone mind if I wash my hair here? This sham-poll is great!
I really really wanted to say “yes” to the poll, but the other answer was too perfect.
Hey, maybe she’s gotten a toothbrush by now.
Not much good without toothpaste.
it helps getting the sushi bits out, if anything.
Sure they are.
With toothpaste is a lot better, but even without they can scrub off food residue that swishing and toothpicking miss.
You can’t get Hep C from bumming toothpaste.
I’d rather not test this theory, if it’s all the same to you.
Well, from a dental care standpoint, toothpaste doesn’t help THAT much at all. It’s actually the brushing that does like 90% of the work. (Toothpaste does contain fluoride, which has long-term benefits, but that’s not doing much to get rid of food debris in your mouth.)
(‘Course, I’m not a dentist.)
Toothpaste also contains surfactants, substances that allow oil and water to mix, to make getting the really ground in stains out easier. It’s like the difference between washing the dishes without soap and washing them with. Still, soap can’t replace elbow grease.
I always thought the toothpaste was to disguise the taste of what the toothbrush was removing from your teeth/gums/tongue/etc.
And maybe Toe Dad isn’t a another asshole lets not get crazy here
Morning people are even worse with morning breath.
Morning people are why I wish I had pyrokinesis.
Because it’d be a nifty way to brew yourself a cup of coffee to help you tolerate morning people? Right? Right?
Hmm, roasting coffee.
But if I’m to trust QC we’re supposed to wait a day or 2 before using them after.
But think of all the burninating you could do. Burninating!
That sounds like what happens when you pee after too many spicy tacos or something. Yeesh.
*Wakes up at half past noon* What’s this? There’s a morning now?
A-frigging-men… I would have resumed strangling.
T_T I’m sorry for being a crime against humanity.
As long as you keep your door locked and don’t disturb decent sleepy people everywhere, we forgive you.
Yeah, gonna have to side with Sal on this one. As well intended as what Joyce and Becky are doing, it can also be a way to dismiss learning consideration for other people’s personal space.
Morning people are why, when I get out of the house, the garbage is already taken away and the stores are already stocked up.
nah, they’re night people
“How come you’re so damn chipper?”
“It was easier to stay up all night than to wake up early.”
Waking up at 5am doesn’t count as “night people” around here.
*I* am “night people”.
AAAAH
WHEN DID EVERYTHING TURN ORANGE?
Yesterday,i really like the way it looks.
I’m gonna miss the blue-green. This color is a little more aggressive than I prefer my backgrounds.
Eh, I’ll get used to it.
Was wondering to, but first time I noticed. It changes monthly ? or by book ?
I have to say it makes stuff kinda harder to read for me
We’ve had the blue-green for as long as I’ve been reading here. Dunno how long that is, but it’s a lot more than a month or a book, amd I’m not even one of the old guard.
Orange? I see no orange on the site…
Also, panel 3: Hnnnnnng, the cute. :3
The orange is gone now! Willis must’ve changed it to this lovely pale blue, which is very easy to read. Thank you Willis!
oddly enough, though I cleared my cache for my Gravatar change, I didn’t get the orange until this comment =p
also, there’s still that one teal bar throwing everything off
It didn’t, your monitor died.
Considering that I check DoA updates on my phone, that’d be a problem. Monitors are a lot cheaper.
Ok my went orange to are we about to get overrun by something? If so I would like it to be something delicious like Nachos for instance
OK the site just went salmon on my browser a few seconds ago…
And now it’s blue again… WTF??!?!?!?
It’s not even the same blue! (At least I don’t think it is, if I told you I already forgot would ya call me dumb?)
It was salmon a few moments ago. Now it’s white for me.
That’s just what happens when Instrumentality occurs, the orange is PEOPLE.
Yum.
Doesn’t taste as tangy as I expected.
Not in Rebuild though.
For some reason it’s orange on my PC but on my phone it’s still blue.
Nvm it just changed on the phone too.
I theorize the mobile version has a bit of specific CSS ? (that or cache)
It’s so prettyyyyy I like change
New Theory
Beckys Hair has taken over first the page then the world
I accept our new overlord.
Better than Sogmaster.
It hadn’t for me, and so I reloaded after seeing this comment and it changed.
ONE OF ONE OF ONE OF US XD
sorry i missed to US’s please forgive me Becky’s hair
This color is orange, not pink, right?
Guys, on my screen it looks the same as always. It must be a browser thing.
Nah you’re just late to the party, it was orange for like an hour.
Glad I missed it!
Pfft,morning people.
Clothes!?
On a sleeping Sal?!
SORCERY!
Sal Wakes Up: The Slipshine Edition.
Sleepshine.
Maybe it’s getting a tad colder ?
So…there’s a bit of a nip in the air?
Sorry, Sorry. Couldn’t resist.
It’s the night cap that looks so weird. Only time I ever wore a hat to bed was when it was below 0 and I was trying to save money by keeping the thermostat low.
It think that’s to keep her glorious chocolate mane straight, especially since the “fwoomp” not to long ago.
The first thing I thought was “Sal’s wearing a BONNET to bed now? LOL” But then I thought that if I was in the comic she’d probably kill me right along with Joycy and Becky. So I’m glad I’m not there to be killed.
… I was meant to be having a job interview today, instead I’m commenting on this. So it’s all good.
And I’ve seen the poll, but I still honestly can’t tell the difference in the typeface. People are saying it’s squarer-looking than before?
Sal’s wearin’ her ‘murder bonnet’. It keeps her hair free of blood while she’s murderin’. (She was wearin’ it for Malaya, these two are just opportunity murderin’.)
She got the idea from Mal.
Yep, it’s squarer and more even.
Maybe she doesn’t feel entirely okay about going commando with a stranger sleeping in the other bunk. Sal has a deep reserve of vulnerability under all her spikes and armour plate; she may not feel entirely safe sleeping around Becky (as sad as that is).
Well, especially not if she’s going to wake up to the basically-an-unvetted-stranger watching her sleep. While grinning hugely. Who then, when asked why they’re watching her sleep, replies it’s because they want to love her. A lot. So wake up. Now.
STRANGERDANGERSTRANGERDANGERSTRANGERDANGERSTRANGERDANGERSTRANGERDANGE
This website is swimming in pink.
Its really more of a beige.
It strikes me as a salmon.
Totally.
I so need to watch that again.
It’s.. it’s all so orange.
Orange? It looks like Pink to me.
it’s peach, actually
Just to make sure I’m not just slipping because I’m exhausted: does Becky have braces, or are her teeth just drawn differently than Joyce’s?
Teeth are drawn differently.
Specifically, she HAS teeth, as opposed to the white triangular plate that Joyce has in her mouth.
We’re not sure how she eats. Possibly she can strain plankton through it like a baleen whale.
Or uses an acid to melt the food and then drink it.Might have watched too much spider documentaries.
Maybe that’s why she insists on separating all her food.
whats with the pink
orange. salmon. 12 hue 206 luminance. whatever.
I think salmon is usually a touch redder. Peach?
Is Nacho a colour?
On a Willis site, probably.
those are some cotton-candy-ass nachos
Coral?
Tangerine?
Sandy Brown?
Blanched Almond?
Slap-Jackin’?
Bonky-tonkin’?
We’re both just making up names now, right?
Yes
Actually It looks a bit like a vomity colour expect it’s missing the splotches
coral works
its just pale red-orange
I wonder how many comments there’ll be of people trying to guess the color?
probably like a million, but personally im still more interested in why its here than what we decide to call it
I’m not guessing I know that it’s #ffdbcd
Pantone Pastels Neons Coated 9221 C YOU CHARLATAN
Pale cantaloupe! Orangey blush! Eye-searing peach!
Aww, Sal and her bonnet.
I was just gonna mention that. How did she go from sleeping practically nude to dressing like a cartoon mom from the 1940s?
She was already wearing it before. “helps with keeping the hair straight”
Urm, well, she’s mixed race and wears her hair straightened. I just meant she was wearing the sort of bonnet I always associated with kids (from being a nanny) instead of a scarf like what Sarah wears. (Though Sarah wears her hair natural, from what I can tell in the comic style)
I have this idea that Sal inherited that nightcap from her great-great-great grandmother.
Let it be canon, O Willis.
Nope. She got it from Mal.
Sal’s great-great-great grandmother waas the coolest person in the 19th century. She smoked a meerschaum pipe and rode a steam velocipede.
Someone needs to draw thing.
Kate Beaton already did. <3
My hero
(heroine ? does it work in that context ?)
Whoa what is this?!?!
Sal no longer rockin’ the Mickey Mouse look, or the site’s background color?
Or maybe both?
Well now I’m wondering what happened to the pink-orange background!? It was growing on me.
Those two smiling is every religious nuthouse who comes to your door trying to get you to believe in whatever. I however only believe in Jibbers the flying lobster who orbits Saturn’s rings ALL PRAISE JIBBERS
There is only the Emperor, and he is our shield and protector.
All hail Dab!
I serve none but KORROK!
omg somebody else read John Dies at the End.
Not evem the Emperor is match against the <a href="http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/katamari/images/c/c8/We_Love_Katamari_King.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090706012638" rel="nofollow"
HERESY.
Praise the Omnissiah!
All hail Offler!!
Ghue forever. Also Rosco.
Salmon pink!
The color is not really orange or pink. It is more of a melon or apricot.
Ok that’s too much happiness for morning.
Has this page always looked like the color of mcnuggets?
Honestly, i see no change whatsoever in colors and anything like that p, guess i need visit couple of times more before it goes into effect on my end xD
God, it’s like if the Care Bears went to college.
Nah, I’m just kidding. Everyone knows the Care Bears got fucked up every night at college. We all saw the photos online of Tenderheart puking of that balcony onto the Getalong Gang, and Funshine Bear making out with Sister Berenstain.
I’m currently picturing the Care Bears and Friends encouraging Braveheart Lion to chug a keg of beer.
I thought only Ruth thirsted for necks.
I think it was actually Femurs.
I get those two things mixed up, which explains why I never got into medicine.
Her hands are the thirsty ones.
So I was right… THANKS for the link.
Sal has a nightcap!
Hovering over sleeping folks is good practice for being a ghost.
Joyce mentioned it way back in some comic I’m too lazy to look up.
That so? Joyce is more spiritually inclined than I thought.
… I kid, I kid. The nightcap’s not a new thing? It needs its own tab pronto.
And here’s the strip.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/introductions/
…Yeah, I don’t blame Sal for revoking that apology.
Sal is wearing a T-ship and nightcap? Is this Bizzarro World?
Might as well be with the new font and the salmon backdrop.
The t-shirt is interesting and may be a subconscious indicator of her response to her new roomie.
Sal has no problem sleeping topless when she’s alone or with someone she’s known so long that she might as well be her sister (Billie). Stick her with a stranger (Becky) and she’ll cover up. She isn’t that wild, it seems!
Neutral on the color.
What’s with all these people seeing the site in pink and orange? It still looks the same on my laptop.
Who knows.Did you clear your cache and reloaded the page?
Oh hey, it’s Sal’s sleep-bonnet.
Three questions:
1. What is Sal wearing on her head, and is she wearing it on purpose?
2. When did Sal learn to wear clothes in bed?
3. Why is everything tan now? Noooooo! I fear change!
::hides in a closet to cry and scream::
She got really drunk, so Sal, Marcie and Carla dressed her up like that as a prank. She’ll scream as soon as she sees a reflective surface.
1. A bonnet(have no clue why,old people usually wear that)
2. Have no idea,but it dissapoints me.
3.Too much sun exposure.
Black women wear satin bonnets to maintain their straightened/styled hair. I’m wearing one right now, in fact.
Is it normally worn with most of her long hair outside the bonnet?
Seems odd… but then I have no practical experience maintaining black hair (though I did see Chris Rock’s “Good Hair” documentary. This Caucasian Canadian boy never knew ANY of that!)
No, lol, I’ve never seen anyone do that before. Kinda defeats the purpose (also can’t see how it stays on through the night, like that? ehhh) Usually if you have long straight hair you wrap it with a scarf.
I’ve never seen the documentary but I’ve heard lots of black women complain about it being inaccurate, seeing as Chris Rock is not a woman with hair and all, so I’d take it with a grain of salt.
I’ve seen it referred to as a ‘mob cap’. Think back to pictures of the women sitting alongside the guillotine during the French Revolution.
1. It’s a nightcap and yes, probably, to help keep her hair under control overnight. That’s kind of a thing for Sal, as we’ve seen.
2. Probably when Becky started sleeping in her room. (because Billie was gone half the time, not because Becky might have wandering eyes)
3. I got nothin.
3. Tell me about it. I recently upgraded to yosemite and it just fucked me up man. THE ICONS ARE JUST SO DIFFERENT MAKE IT STOP
Joyce’s hands are already thirsting for her own neck
Ow. Painful color. Is it blush or bashful?
Prepare for trouble !
…and make it double.
Becky’s smile is not yet on par with Joyce’s manic grin. You can tell Becky has human teeth. Her joy has not yet upgraded to the white void that is the triangle grin of the Joyce human.
I specifically searched for ‘triangle’ and found your post. I KNEW someone would say it again. It spreads! May the triangle smile shine forever in our hearts.
OH GAWD…THE PINK…IT BURNS US!!!
The hell are you guys on about with all the color complaints.
Racist grandmas?
Colour police.
Clearly puke green and whargarble brown are the only acceptable choices.
All that just says I haft to get a restraining order on those two.
Sal, running to the law instead of solving the problem herself? I don’t think so.
But that’s what strangling is for!
What is this orange everyone is talking about? I even switched off my Browser settings to check and the background still looks bluish to me.
Pink, orange, blue I don’t get it?
My settings are such that the background is always black, so…
Right usually busy running from it, but of course its not like it’s in her character to run from anything.
Oops wrong comment that was supposed to go to Disloyal
Did you clear your cache? I didn’t see it until I did that.
If you’re on Windows, try ctrl-shift-R to refresh the page from scratch. It’s a rather eye-searing shade, like a pale cantaloupe. I know that Willis loves all things orangey but it makes the comments harder to read.
Still blue despite refreshing, not as it matters as my screen looks like THIS!
You made me “HISS HISS HISS” when I saw the IE symbol. I hope you are content with thyself!
It’s not the greatest browser but I’m used to it and all its quirks.
Apparently it was some shade of orange for like an hour but then was put back, presumably because too many people said they had a hard time reading the comments against it. So, good on Willis for listening.
As someone who isn’t a morning person, I can say while I wouldn’t strangle the person who woke me up, there would be some choice words said.
Maybe some surreptitious alarm setting and hiding in their room for like, 3 am, 5 am, and 5:12.
I’d feel bad about the injuries to their feet from the caltrops, if it weren’t MY ROOM.
I’m not really coherent enough to strangle when I wake up, and grappling isn’t my forté anyway. The steel pipe tucked into my bedframe is pretty easy to use, though.
I would totally strangle a person. And a jury would find me not guilty as well, because morning people should all be goddamn arrested and I was just acting in self-defense.
For a second there I thought Sal had a weirdly colored Metroid sleepin’ cap on, then I realized what it was.
Congratulations sir, you’ve raised my hopes and dashed them in one blow, good job.
I’d strangle those 2 as well….
But would you do it with your penis?
I’m feeling this on a deeply spiritual level. If someone were to wake me up by hovering over me and be obnoxiously happy and morning-person-y, I would straight-up punch them in the face. Hard. No exceptions, not even for loved ones, family members or beloved pets. (… ok I might be kidding about the pets. But not about everything else!)
My dog licks my face, jumps into my lap, and then lets me go back to sleep. She and I have an unspoken agreement.
because of the color change, I now want to go through my physical book and compare the past strips in the book to the ones on the website. All the solid colored backgrounds have changed.
I love that after how much they’ve grown apart, you can still tell theyre childhood best friends
They’re DoA’s 2nd pair of twins.
Not seeing the color change everyone is talking about. The page looks the same as it always has on my computer.
Gah, relentless cheerfulness first thing in the morning. That would be like nails on a chalkboard for me. I hope Sarah is actively working on bottling Joyce’s morning person-ness so she can launch that bottle into the sun, and maybe Becky’s as well. http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/bottle/
Sal would not be the only one to thank her for that.
So in the 2nd panel Sal’s eyebrow is overlapping her cap… it has become part of her!
Thats not a cap…Sal is secretly part jelly fish
So, is she a kid, or a squid ?
Both, of course!
Expressions of Martian heritage
Clearly, the only reasonable explanation.
Just how Becky’s eyes always go through her hair. The physics of the human body work differently in this universe xD
They even have nostrils! What is this black magic?
Damnit, now I see it too! What unholy plague has befallen our fair community?!
Stylistically, Willis always does eyebrows disconnected from the face, just like he does semi-transparent hair. The most notable eyebrow excursion was Joe’s reaction to Joyce in her yellow sundress.
“Love me by letting me sleep”
I am Sal before my coffee. I mean, not literally, I just have no interest in people.
Unfortunately for “people,” I usually wait a solid five hours after waking up to drink my coffee.
Isn’t it cold by then?
Sal, you’ll get better results if you just kick them off the bunk.
This ! is ! indiana ?
It is a sin to be that chipper at any point before 9 in the morning.
Also, why is everything pink all of a sudden? It’s garish.
It’s a pity Sal and Sarah didn’t hit off – they have So much in common
Well Sal strangles people and i think Srah would prefer to hit them with a bat.
A more hands-on approach, if you will.
Doesn’t Sal sleep naked???
Not anymore, it seems, interestingly enough! Does having a stranger (Becky) in her room make her feel more defensive and vulnerable?
A lesbian of the female persuasion no less. Hmm… it is a good point, but I need more information before I accept this new and confusing reality.
Anyone who gave that as an excuse for waking me in the morning would immediately find themselves being strangled again. Morning people… UGH!
The worst thing about morning people is that they can’t just keep it to themselves.
Aack, new logo?! I’ll miss the scrawled out version of “Dumbing” contrasting with college-lettered “Of Age”.
I think the letter-jacket block letters look appropriate.
Guys? Is it just me,or did the font return to blue-green?
Oh good, I was hoping I wasn’t just seeing things
I prefered the salmon colour,but blue-green works as well.
TELL MY WIFE
That she’s correct?
…you got it boss!!!
I’m not sure it would set a good precedent to whine to your wife when there’s something we don’t like with the comic.
“You MUST tell David to have Becky and Dina kiss again, at a museum! And what’s up with Danny and Ethan?”
Just have one big fan-service scene with half the cast kissing one another.
Except Faz, Faz will be kissing Faz in mirror.
And Galasso will just be staring down in confusion.
“Is this how babies are made?”
Behind every great man is a woman…who tells him when to change his stupid salmon colored webpage.
Speaking from experience, Gallasso? How’s Pamela, by the way?
Now I want to see the homepage of Galasso’s Pizza.
I suppose it’s just a blinking gif that spells FOOOOOOOOLS
Rebellious.
It’s salmon, for a split second then, it fades to burgundy…
… But I already got a new monitor.
#Colo(u)rgate
Where is this blue-green font? Everything on the site seems to be black, with dark red for links. Am I missing something obvious?
I think they’re referring to the background colour of the page? If not, I got nothin’.
Yesterday the background changed to the color that’s inside the box that orangey salmon color.
Now we know why Sal strangles folks who sneak up to her in her sleep. LEAVE NO WITNESSES.
Check out the Force Choke in panel 1.
omg they are so beautiful. look at them with their carebear team work. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
I said this elsewhere but the fact is that Joyce and Becky are two relentless, discouragement-proof optimism, friendship and cheer generators.
Poor Sal! It must be like being permanently in the presence of Disney Princesses! The continual glare of sunlight and taste of sugar must be overwhelming! No-one deserves facing that first thing in the morning!
Extroverts. D:
Aaand just when I was warming up to Becky and Joyce they pull this kind of stunt
I just love the Joyce&Becky double act.
For kindred spirits over in the Questionable Content universe:
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2127
And to listen to the song itself:
http://www.questionablecontent.net/mp3/Wakeupmartenfinal.mp3
The fact that the most devout Christians in the strip are being nearly killed by someone with stigmata is ironic and amusing.
future archaeologists will be so confused by this comment section
As I was. But then I’m always late to the party
Yeah, why shouldn’t they be confused like the rest of us. Who do you think you are, future archeologists? “Ooooh, I’m so cool because I can surf the ANCIENT INTERNET instead of digging up plastic. oooh”
I think they will be more confused by large number of songs and photos with butts as subject…
Archaeologists have ALWAYS had to deal with lots of butts in whatever media they are currently investigation – pictograms, stone carvings, ancient scrolls… It’s like history made by Walky, sometimes.
When I saw that first panel, I immediately thought of my grandmother.
Those things made it out of the 18th Century? Gadzooks!
If DMW feels like it, there could be an interesting back-story. Maybe she remarked to Jason that she didn’t like having to wrestle with her hair every morning; he recommended a bonnet. The sudden impact on her self-image when she realises she’s taking tips from her supposed casual squeeze would be… interesting.
Yes, I ship them; I just like the idea of the ultra-wild biker chick ending up with the straightest and most restrained guy in the cast.
It’s Sal’s. She wears it to keep her hair straightened when she sleeps.
Um… Yeah, I don’t think I said anything different, did I?
Jason didn’t buy it for her. That’s what I was getting at.
For some reason, I can see Sal wearing a tee-shirt this in-universe day with the slogan: “No Perkiness Before 10am, Please!”
possible title for a horror movie with Sal as the monster: Neckthirst
Sal: “Sensei, Ah must have a defense against the people that would see me awake at unholy hour-” *RRKH…* “Ah… beg you… teach me…!”
Sensei Hekuvva: “Don’t hova’ ova’ me while Ah’m nappin’…”
I was fine with Becky until just about this strip. Now I hate her and want her expunged from the earth. Joyce too.
Mornings are the devil and no one whould have to suffer through them.
Sal practices her grip reflex.
Nope. That doesn’t remind me of any particular scene with Jason at all.
Not one bit…
Me yesterday (word-for-word): “I can’t help but wonder if this was a reflex; her time in prison may have taught her to always be wary of people trying to get her in her sleep…”
Me today: “A reflex, eh…? How interesting…!” ‘,:-)
Sal didn’t go to prison or juvie. She was sent to a boarding school in Tennessee for five years.
Boarding school can be even more vicious than prison sometimes; the guards are less vigilant in boarding schools!
Specifically, she went to an all-girls Catholic boarding school.
Although this does make me wonder. Walky says they’ve barely spoken in five years. Was Sal not allowed to return home for holidays or the summer?
She may not have wanted to. Her parents would be unlikely to make the effort and Sal would probably play the ‘you come and see ME’ game. Though even if she did show up I doubt there was much interaction, her parents ignore her and she resents Walky for being favoured.
She was a teenager in Tennessee. Would she even be able to make it to Indiana on her own? Besides, would the school even keep her over holidays?
I’d like to think her parents cared enough to visit her, but given the Freshman Family Weekend arc it does seem likely that they’ve almost totally blotted her out of their minds.
Seeing each other for holidays counts as ‘barely spoken’, especially if she’s as taciturn as always WHEN she visits.
Add in that she always dresses nice and acts nice around her parents, and his mild confusion over her more ‘badass’ appearance fits well, since he really wouldn’t have seen much of it.
She was sent to one of those houses of horror, what did she do to deserve that? They are worse than prison.
HANG ON
I just noticed.
Panel 4 is the image used for that “Straight Outta Clark Wing” pic that Willis put up back on the 9th.
The strangling thing is much too funny, it’s gonna end up being revealed that she has terrible night terrors or something like that, putting all of these humorous moments into a new, darker context.
Or maybe she’s just not a morning person.
Sal looks like Faz in this strip.
Enjoy this handy chart that extrapolate what Faz would look like with boobs.
I just have to say at this point that panels 3 and 4 are the funniest moment that I’ve seen so far in DoA!
That hat on Sal just makes me think of Miss Muffet.
Wow, that is THE worst reason to wake up in the history of “get up, it’s morning.”
All joking aside, it is ruder than holy hell to climb INTO someone’s bed uninvited just because it’s morning.
I can barely imagine how Joyce climbed then moved to the wall side of it without waking Sal up, too
Jesus walked on water.
Joyce walks on air.
Is that ‘original’ Joyce (as in the clothing, possibly minus a SEMME stripe)?
Yes.
…in a mobcap.
She sleeps in a mobcap.
BLACKMAIL MATERIAL!
You may resume strangling.
To all those wondering how the new color looked like:
Willis has kept a part of the page on his tumblr.
Apology accepted, almost. Sal knows how to react when she is awake.
I thought Sal slept nude…
And I don’t see her just up and changing that for someone else..
Continuity error?
Or maybe she was cold that night ;P
I can’t say I blame Sal.
“Good morning” is a contradiction in terms.