Amber’s mom, Stacy O’Malley, suffered no huge changes in her translation from Shortpacked! other than shaving about a decade off her age. (Shaving a decade off one’s age doesn’t matter quite as much when we’re talking about scooting it from 50 […]
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The Saruyamas
All I knew going into this was that I wanted both the parental Saruyamas to wear hats. And on strip 4 of Dumbing of Age, they certainly did! Now we get a closer look.
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Dr. Rosenthal
The Original Universe’s Joe’s Dad was Joe with a beard. But Walkyverse Joe has a beard now, so I decided to grizzle up Dr. Richard Rosenthal’s beard a bit in the Dumbiverse. That’s right, he’s a doctor. A BONE doctor. […]
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Another Brown
Hey, it’s an honest-to-gosh older brother of Joyce! In the Original Continuity, Joyce’s older brothers were relegated to photographs or token appearances at weddings and I don’t think any of them got official names. But here in Dumbing of Age, […]
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The Browns
Joyce’s parents are a bit older than the other characters’ parents. Joyce is the youngest of four siblings, while the rest of the cast are mostly first or second in birth order, so I get to gray and wrinkle up […]
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Howard!
It’s Howard! Seriously, it’s just Howard. No changes from the original Walkyverse Howard, down to the shirt and pants and everything. Well, he’s younger, I guess. But I didn’t see any reason to redesign him.
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The Wilcoxes
Here’s Danny’s parents, the Wilcoxes. I haven’t really, truly drawn them since they appeared in late Roomies! stuff back around the early 00’s, so this was another case of “how do I translate these ancient character designs into my current […]
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The Warners
Here’s the Dumbiverse version of Mike’s parents, the Warners. They’re younger here than when we met them in the Other Universe. And since they’re in a dorm, Mike’s dad can’t smoke a pipe and also his mom probably shouldn’t be […]
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The Keeners
Have some character models!
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Billie by Grounded-Zeroes
Billie doesn’t often look vulnerable; mostly she looks like she wants to kick your ass. Grounded-Zeroes has captured this disposition for us. Hurrah!
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