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Book 14 Kickstarter Good Friday update: CHRIST FALLS, DINA IS RISEN

by David M Willis on April 18, 2025 at 7:10 pm
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The Dumbing of Age Book 14 Kickstarter reached the next stretch goal of $45K on Good Friday, unlocking the PAJAMAS DINA MAGNET tier!  That’s right, Christ has fallen and DINA IS RISEN.  Take that, LORD!!!!

Pledge at the PAJAMAS DINA MAGNET tier to get a Dina magnet along with your book!  (And don’t forget you get a free DOROTHY magnet in there too!)  Or if you’re aiming for Dina plus two or four other magnets of your choosing, huzzah, there’s the PICK THREE or PICK FIVE MAGNETS tiers!  And if you want all of them unlocked during this campaign?  Well, there’s a few tiers that hand you COMPLETE MAGNET POWER!

Up next?  Jacob, I think, at $50K.  I don’t have a silhouette for him yet.  Still trying to decide which look to go for him: exercise wear?  casual wear?  It’s a quandry!!!  But there’s a surprise magnet reveal popping up soon who’s not Jacob!  They do have a silhouette.

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Book 14 Kickstarter update: EXERMACISES SARAH MAGNET tier unlocked!

by David M Willis on April 14, 2025 at 10:21 am
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The Dumbing of Age Book 14 Kickstarter is at $41,752! And you know what that means: absolutely nothing!!!! But we’re surprise-revealing the EXERMACISES SARAH magnet anyway!

Pledge at the EXERMACISES SARAH MAGNET tier to get just Sarah (plus the free Dorothy magnet), or go all-in at one of the COMPLETE MAGNET POWER tiers and consider her and all other unlocked magnets automatically yours! Want more than just one magnet but less than the whole roster? We got PICK THREE and PICK FIVE MAGNETS tiers available for you folks.\

Still unlocking at $45K: PAJAMAS DINA MAGNET tier! And some more after that, probably!

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Book 14 Kickstarter $40K stretch goal unlocked: HALLOWEEN BILLIE and HALLOWEEN RUTH magnets!

by David M Willis on April 12, 2025 at 10:04 am
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The Dumbing of Age Book 14 Kickstarter has passed $40K, which means: Double magnet unlocking! The HALLOWEEN BILLIE and HALLOWEEN RUTH magnet tiers are now available! Or get both of them (plus the free DOROTHY magnet) by pledging to the HALLOWEEN BILLIE AND RUTH magnet tier! And, of course, if you went all-in on a COMPLETE MAGNET POWER tier, consider them added to your pile.

Don’t want the whole run, but want a choice of three magnets? Of five magnets? Then the PICK THREE and PICK FIVE magnet tiers are there for you.

Scheduled next is the PAJAMAS DINA magnet at $45k! Plus, you know, sudden surprise magnets may occur. (well, a surprise if you don’t recognize distinctive silhouettes) And even more TBA!

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Book 14 Kickstarter update: Surprise #DRANKS JOYCE MAGNET tier reveal!

by David M Willis on April 8, 2025 at 10:09 am
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It’s morning of the second day of the Dumbing of Age Book 14 Kickstarter!  Let’s juice things up with a SUDDEN MAGNET REVEAL: #Dranks Joyce!

Pledge at the #DRANKS JOYCE MAGNET tier to get just Joyce (plus the free Dorothy magnet), or go all-in at one of the COMPLETE MAGNET POWER tiers and consider her automatically yours along with every other new magnet revealed by the end of this campaign!

Up next: HALLOWEEN BILLIE and HALLOWEEN RUTH unlock at $40K, and also some other magnets are waiting in the wings.

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Book 14 Kickstarter update: FREE DOROTHY MAGNETS unlocked!

by David M Willis on April 7, 2025 at 10:54 pm
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As the Dumbing of Age Book 14 Kickstarter completes its first day, we’ve hit a second stretch goal: FREE DOROTHY MAGNETS for everyone!!! (who pledges for something I snail-mail to you) Pledge for a book, there’ll be a Dorothy magnet in there, no extra charge! Pledge for anything that’s not just PDFs, that’s a free Dorothy magnet! Pretty rad.

The $30K stretch goal spot used to belong to the perennial “extend weekend comic strip updates for another year” thing, but…. look, my buffer’s out a whole-ass year. 365 days. The stretch goal of “I’ll keep updating 7 days a week instead of 5” is just kind of ridiculous on the face of it. So out it went! And I skooshed up the Free Magnet stretch goal to take its usual spot.

Next up: HALLOWEEN BILLIE and HALLOWEEN RUTH magnets at $40K, with probably a surprise magnet reveal along the way, to keep us on our toes.

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I need more Muslim characters! Or at least more prominent ones who aren't Raidah. It is a huge giant hole in my strip that makes it suck. The current storyline would've been way better if they existed. But they don't, and no amount of throwing Asma in for three strips solves it.
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Also, I see we're bringing back the ol' love octagon.
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Flash: Okay... wait thirty seconds, then give me a distraction.

Bones: Got just the thing.

Flash: Do NOT blow the place up.

Bones: You're the boss.
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Nice.
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Okay, everyone's jumping to conclusions, but Joyce was hit with a mysterious pink gas in Thursday's strip. Now, in recent years, the police are known to increasingly use military grade weapons. Which reminded me of this bit of proposed technology from the 1990s: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb
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I ain't readin' all that!
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hey, kid, what do you want to play with from the cool superhero movie? is it a nude, melting senator who feels like a stretch armstrong doll that has been left out in the son and maybe mildly chewed by a neighborhood dog? WELL, SON, YOU'RE IN LUCK!
the most upsetting toy of all time: a small and horrible statue of melting, nude Senator Kelly from the first x-men film
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James Gunn i demand u bring back Conservative Superman
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