Topic: Damn you, Willis! (Dumbing of Age) (Read 516089 times)

BenRG · « **Reply #2450 on:** 11 May 2016, 06:24 »

For some reason that last panel of today's strip (5/11) seems to have a subtext of Sarah thinking: "Please don't try to make me feel better, Dina. I don't want to feel better; I don't deserve it."

Endellion · « **Reply #2451 on:** 11 May 2016, 10:31 »

Quote from: dexeron on 11 May 2016, 06:14

I just need to point out that I blame you all for my discovering DoA and binging through the entire thing yesterday.

For the kindest values of blame, of course.

Did that last weekend. Had a little cry when the 'next' icon was greyed out as I had come up to the latest strip.

Kugai · « **Reply #2452 on:** 12 May 2016, 17:02 »

Yup, Amber/Amazi-Girls on a rampage alright.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #2453 on:** 12 May 2016, 21:09 »

Hmm...she seems kinda calm now? I wonder if she'll take the selfie.

Kugai · « **Reply #2454 on:** 13 May 2016, 14:50 »

Looks like she will

BTW, has anyone else had a loading issue with the comic the last few days? I don't know if it's me or not, but for the last three or four days when I go to the Comic Site, it seems to 'hang' on an empty screen for a minute or two, then suddenly it loads in a rush.

Masterpiece · « **Reply #2455 on:** 14 May 2016, 02:23 »

Welp, pulling Dorothy on your side by not even remotely telling her you dumped him, great job Amber.

Kugai · « **Reply #2456 on:** 14 May 2016, 16:42 »

At least she's gonna hold off the hurtin' until she speaks to Danny

chaospersonified · « **Reply #2457 on:** 14 May 2016, 22:08 »

Well, Danny got to Ethan first, and we'll see how this little confession-of-desire unfolds. I hope for positive, that Danny and Ethan enjoy each other very awkwardly, fumblingly, for a short time, but expect Ethan to back away quickly.

BenRG · « **Reply #2458 on:** 14 May 2016, 23:29 »

This is Ethan; his most likely response is to run a mile (at least in emotional terms).

Method of Madness · « **Reply #2459 on:** 14 May 2016, 23:34 »

He's in pretty good shape, he could probably run a mile in actual terms.

Masterpiece · « **Reply #2460 on:** 15 May 2016, 06:45 »

OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH

Masterpiece · « **Reply #2461 on:** 15 May 2016, 06:46 »

DANNY YOU BAD BOY THIS IS AMAZING

Welu · « **Reply #2462 on:** 15 May 2016, 09:38 »

Kugai · « **Reply #2463 on:** 15 May 2016, 13:52 »

This .... is getting complicated

Method of Madness · « **Reply #2464 on:** 15 May 2016, 15:33 »

Why did Willis go and make things so complicated?

cesium133 · « **Reply #2465 on:** 15 May 2016, 16:36 »

'Cause right now I'd give anything to just get my bowels evacuated...

...wait, no, that's the Weird Al version.

cesium133 · « **Reply #2466 on:** 15 May 2016, 21:22 »

"We would be the fucking worst."

More like the fucking wurst.

... sorry...

(someone has probably already made this pun in the DoA comments section, but I can't get it to load because the site's slow)

BenRG · « **Reply #2467 on:** 15 May 2016, 23:11 »

Quote from: Method of Madness on 15 May 2016, 15:33

Why did Willis go and make things so complicated?

I'm guessing that it is because he gets a deep and profound pleasure from watching our reaction.

dexeron · « **Reply #2468 on:** 16 May 2016, 05:32 »

Quote from: Kugai on 13 May 2016, 14:50

BTW, has anyone else had a loading issue with the comic the last few days? I don't know if it's me or not, but for the last three or four days when I go to the Comic Site, it seems to 'hang' on an empty screen for a minute or two, then suddenly it loads in a rush.

Not being familiar with it, I just figured that was how the site always was. It made my binge through the entire archives last week frustrating at times until I got all caught up.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #2469 on:** 16 May 2016, 05:55 »

Quote from: Benergy on 15 May 2016, 23:11

Quote from: Method of Madness on 15 May 2016, 15:33
Why did Willis go and make things so complicated?

I'm guessing that it is because he gets a deep and profound pleasure from watching our reaction.

I know Willis probably isn't on this forum but I kinda wish he was.

hedgie · « **Reply #2470 on:** 16 May 2016, 12:26 »

I think that he gets off on torturing his characters *and* his readers.

Kugai · « **Reply #2471 on:** 16 May 2016, 15:51 »

Quote from: dexeron on 16 May 2016, 05:32

Quote from: Kugai on 13 May 2016, 14:50
BTW, has anyone else had a loading issue with the comic the last few days? I don't know if it's me or not, but for the last three or four days when I go to the Comic Site, it seems to 'hang' on an empty screen for a minute or two, then suddenly it loads in a rush.

Not being familiar with it, I just figured that was how the site always was. It made my binge through the entire archives last week frustrating at times until I got all caught up.

It seems a lot better now, but I know what you mean

Amber would probably go all Dark Amazi-Girl on them both if they wound up dating.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #2472 on:** 16 May 2016, 21:08 »

I don't think Jacob'll tell anyone, because why would he?

BenRG · « **Reply #2473 on:** 16 May 2016, 23:47 »

Jacob's only feelings in the matter appear to be annoyance that they're interrupting his studying with their moment!

Kugai · « **Reply #2474 on:** 17 May 2016, 17:12 »

It seems that Jacob has his own priorities in regards to what is going on

chaospersonified · « **Reply #2475 on:** 17 May 2016, 20:29 »

It just occurred to me that Jacob was also there for the part where they were discussing Amber AS Amazi-girl, using both names, so they also outed her. This seems the more likely thing he'd tell people about. I doubt he will, but I expect there will be more reason given for him to keep quiet.

BenRG · « **Reply #2476 on:** 17 May 2016, 23:12 »

Today (5/18) is the day when Mary realises that she has made very few friends and many enemies who would be only too pleased to help Carla play with her head.

Kugai · « **Reply #2477 on:** 17 May 2016, 23:58 »

Karma is a bitch named Carla Mary

hedgie · « **Reply #2478 on:** 18 May 2016, 00:05 »

Mary is such a complete and total smeghead.

sitnspin · « **Reply #2479 on:** 18 May 2016, 00:34 »

I would say that Mary is too cartoonishly evil and one-dimensional if I hadn't actually met (and been related to) ppl just like her.

hedgie · « **Reply #2480 on:** 18 May 2016, 00:56 »

I have been assaulted by people like her multiple times, and the filth always said it was "free speech".

Neko_Ali · « **Reply #2481 on:** 18 May 2016, 06:28 »

And the beautiful thing about this revenge is that Carla won't even have to do anything to Mary. She's going to be a nervous wreck by the end of the week trying to anticipate what horrible thing Carla has planned...

Welu · « **Reply #2482 on:** 18 May 2016, 07:12 »

Your post leads me to wonder if maybe what Carla is doing is actually for something else, like a class project, but it's giving her the excuse to do these suspicious looking actions.

Kugai · « **Reply #2483 on:** 18 May 2016, 14:49 »

There is that, and if that is the case, Carlas revenge is even more sweet as she reduces Mary to a complete nervous wreck

Masterpiece · « **Reply #2484 on:** 19 May 2016, 00:00 »

Mary reminds me of the Christian ultra from Orange is the New Black, as in, I want to disembowel her.

chaospersonified · « **Reply #2485 on:** 19 May 2016, 11:22 »

Quote from: Masterpiece on 19 May 2016, 00:00

Mary reminds me of the Christian ultra from Orange is the New Black, as in, I want to disembowel her.

Mary as Pensatucky? Yeah, I can see that.

Kugai · « **Reply #2486 on:** 19 May 2016, 14:57 »

I think even God is fed up with Mary and may be actually on Carlas side here

Nice try though Ruth

chaospersonified · « **Reply #2487 on:** 20 May 2016, 01:04 »

Quote from: Kugai on 19 May 2016, 14:57

I think even God is fed up with Mary and may be actually on Carlas side here

Nice try though Ruth

If there IS a god, and He is truly just, he fucking hates Mary, I'm sure of it, though I'm only well-versed in Judeo-Christian thelogy with a moderate speckling of islamic knowledge. Jesus spoke against judgment, but regarding Mary, my only sin is observing her judgmental shit.

BenRG · « **Reply #2488 on:** 20 May 2016, 01:17 »

Today's strip (5/20) is very sad. It's so in-character for Ruth not to be able to see beyond surviving today.

Neko_Ali · « **Reply #2489 on:** 20 May 2016, 07:41 »

Honestly, for the longest time that's pretty much how I felt. Survival was a day to day thing, no guarantees. I never figured I would make it to the ripe old age of 30, much less where I am now. Truth is, I still feel that way a lot of the time. The rest of the time I just don't think about it.

Kugai · « **Reply #2490 on:** 20 May 2016, 12:02 »

At least it shows that Billie still cares

chaospersonified · « **Reply #2491 on:** 20 May 2016, 12:04 »

Billie, somehow, had hope. Ruth may have crushed it. We'll see.

Kugai · « **Reply #2492 on:** 22 May 2016, 21:25 »

It's nice to see Joyce channeling her rage to positive ends.

BenRG · « **Reply #2493 on:** 22 May 2016, 23:35 »

Yep; come sophomore year, Joyce will be patrolling with Amazi-Girl as an anger-management strategy!

cesium133 · « **Reply #2494 on:** 23 May 2016, 08:31 »

Amazi-Girl is turning to the dark side. Joyce will be the new superheroine who will fight Amazi-Girl.

Kugai · « **Reply #2495 on:** 23 May 2016, 15:12 »

Dumbing Of Age: Civil War

BenRG · « **Reply #2496 on:** 23 May 2016, 22:51 »

Um... am I the only one who's been having spotty luck with the DoA website for a week or so now? Sometimes (more often than not) it doesn't load beyond the front page, making it impossible to use the comments. This morning, I'm getting a 'server takes too long to respond' error in place of the site.

[Edit]
Well, it's up now with 160+ comments (this only about 90 minutes after the strip was posted). The only explanation I can think of is that there were so many requests being sent to the server that it was, in effect, a non-malicious DoS attack.

Congratulations, Willis! Your strip really is that popular!

chaospersonified · « **Reply #2497 on:** 24 May 2016, 11:12 »

Today's strip makes me feel really sad.

Kugai · « **Reply #2498 on:** 24 May 2016, 15:58 »

I think that that had to happen sometime for Becky.

Welu · « **Reply #2499 on:** 24 May 2016, 16:32 »

Yeah, this strip hurt. Poor Becky, I think this has stopped being a fun adventure and suddenly got very real.

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