Previously, on a very special "Dumbing of Age":
>A lot of shit went down
>But it went down really slowly
>Dragged out over several days
>Nobody got out alive
>They died of boredom
And now, it's lunchtime.
Remember, folks: Dorothy is not only buzzed after her talk with Billie, but walking with enough stability to carry a lunch tray with a burger, drink, and chips, as well as carry and read a book while holding a pencil or pen in her mouth. This is the epitome of white privilege.
I hate everything
Becky *lesbian lesbians* Willis *contentious unrelated debate*
Oh? New thread? Awesome. Here's the new strip.
You and me both, brother.
>Becky seen with lunch
>now at Galasso's for no reason other than to talk with Becky
Does Dorothy even know Becky that well?
Also, Dorothy's problems seem to be not taking Roz aside and asking her to help, putting aside their plastic rivalry for a moment to find a not-really-a-rapist.
Maybe Willis just wanted to give Becky the right answer because Becky is perfect and is by no means fallible.
Also, the password is "bridges".
>dorothy is at least buzzed
>able to balance food on a tray while reading while getting back to her room
>finished eating and studying (?)
>walked to the pizza place to talk to Becky
>still drunk
Welp
The transparent BG in panels 1 and 4 are practically gifts to our friends with 1000+ hours training in MS Paint.
>oh no i didn't ask roz/robin to get his last name
>i wish i knew his first name, what he looks like, what college he goes to, who he works for, or that he frequents parties
I've said it before and I'll say it again, a bored 10-year-old could find this guy.
Some bad writers write meaningless drama that stems from random events rather than personal failings, so characters can't grow.
This is meaningless drama that stems from everybody being so utterly inept, they don't grow even when they can.
>Dorothy is at least buzzed
>still drunk
I know she doesn't drink often, but my god. How long ago did she share a flask (which we can assume is a pint at most) of liquor with Billie? Hours ago at best, right?
With her behaving like she isn't drunk at all, I can only guess the "DRUNK BUBBLES" Willy is drawing are just to preemptively excuse her behavior at this point. I just don't see what behavior Willis is trying to excuse prematurely.
What's wrong with her faaaaceeee?
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We're doing that thing where we skip over important context because Willy's a lazy, lazy man.
Also, did you see Becky's little self-directed pat on the back in the last strip? Yes, Becky, we know that you now have yet another notable role in another storyline that you shouldn't even be intruding on. Stop fucking gloating about it.
I kinda want a picture of Billie seeing Dorothy doing all that stuff while buzzed. "You're better at handling liquor than me too!? KEENEEEEEEEEEERD!" Seriously, though, it's really strange that she's doing all that without any missteps.
Anyway, this is a pretty big time jump going from Dorothy in the dorm to her at the pizza shop. Usually he'd cover that up with a cutaway. This is probably better, although with Joyce and Sarah coming from the pizza place and Dorothy going there, there's probably a more natural pace if Willis had them cross paths outside.
This is a weird time to reveal that Dorothy and Becky know that each other knows about this. I guess when Becky found out she probably heard that Dorothy was there, so maybe she went to her about it, off-screen? Seems
>Every second that dude's out there, he's able to do more evil
Well, Dorothy is actually doing something about that, as misguided as it may be to use Amazi-Girl. She may be stalling on getting the name from Roz, but stopping the dude is pretty much completely unrelated to telling Joyce unless she now decides to press charges (although it would be a much weaker case without physical evidence).
Joyce deserves this moralizing way more. I'm still sorry it happened to her, but her bad choice to not go to the police is still a very bad choice.
I'd like for drunk Dorothy to give Becky a piece of her mind about this dumb rivalry she's got going on in her mind.
Remember also that Becky has a one-sided rivalry with Dorothy over being friends with Joyce. She lowkey hates Dorothy's guts, and is probably trying to push her to do something that will hurt Joyce to get them to break up with each other.
Does she, now? I know there was internal screaming when she learned that Dorothy and Joyce were paired together during an assignment, but I didn't think it was on the level of an actual rivalry.
Mostly because if there is, it sure as hell ain't never been brought up before.
Willis can only write relationships that end in hatred, I think
I'd like a refresher on the Dotty/Becky rivalry as well.
I'm not remembering anything too contentious, but I'm often wrong.
Why do they act like he's some sort of super villain? He's a pathetic failed rapist, not the fucking Joker. Contempt is the proper response, not fear.
Besides, he got fucked up the last time he tried raping anyone and now he's being hunted by a psychotic woman in a mask. Reasonably speaking, he's probably scared shitless.
>inb4 he tries to rape someone for revenge or some other contrived nonsense
These show it pretty well, I think. It isn't that contentious, and isn't reciprocated. It's mostly Becky being insecure about thinking she's losing her best friend, and taking it out on Dorothy.
Huh. I actually forgot that Becky looked like an actual human with eyes that didn't float about on her head for a while there.
Just before internal screaming is where her face went to hell. I'd love if Internal screaming was the turning point, but that'd be too perfect. It was a few strips before it, clearly.
Oh, look, Dorothy is wearing casual clothes prior to gunning for the RA position. Hmmmm, Roz is pretty unobservant.
Oh yeah, Becky wasn't around when Joyce was completely fine with letting Rapin' Ryan get away scot free.
Yikes. Don't know if I like that collection of strips. Reminds me of a time when I didn't hate Becky for being a poorly drawn, shallow caricature.
Also, Willis could be the only person I've ever seen to make Cards Against Humanity look just awful and unpleasant.
I'm starting to really hate the black Pacman eyes no matter what character they are on.
This was while Willy was still reconciling the cavalier tone of the Walkyverse with how hard he wanted to fuck his own characters in the ass....emotionally, of course.
That's Apples to Apples, you scrub.
Aww...Becky. You were almost likeable for a minute there.
What do the circles highlight?
I'd never thought I'd say that, but Becky is right, it is a stalling tactic. Way to go Dorothy, that's why you're not Joyce's bestest friend.
Panel 2 is just the weirdest way to shoe horn in a Becky reference they could have done. She didn't ask about Becky.
Everyone used to spend a lot of time debating about what and who was responsible for Joyce not going yo the police right away, so I collected the relevant strips and marked the bubbless where the conflict happens.
>Apples to Apples
Didn't know such a game existed.
Seems a bit stupid to keep selling you game once a better version got released, doesn't it?
Unless you're a small child I suppose, and want to play a worse version of Cards Against Humanity because you can't handle mature subjects yet
That's great news for me and my wife Joyce
>Cards Against Humanity
That game only works if you use the optional rules that let you discard shit hands, have five black cards as the goal, and only play it every couple of months.
Or, y'know, just play Funemployed.
>Unless you're a small child I suppose
I mean, it's made for 4-10 year olds. And sheltered Christian kids like Joyce. There's even a Biblical version!
Probably literally too. At least the males
Christ, what an asshole.
Y'know, in retrospect, the Toedad Saga would have been a great place for Becky to have been knocked down a peg rather than just being validated for her obnoxiousness.
It's because Willis drew her hair as longer and thicker than before. The first two strips have her bangs nose-level, but the party strips have them reaching down to her mouth and covering her ear.
With the final two strips, her hair officially begins covering her eye. And we all know how well that turns out in the end.
Hey, Apples to Apples isn't bad. It's just a variation on the gameplay. Instead of applying objects to situations like in CAH, you apply them to adjectives.
Dorothy is comfy as hell, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Her slang irks me
I can't but help think that Willy is doing it less to characterize characters and more to be "hip with the crowd".
I think it's meant to play up Becky's personality, whatever the hell that is.
Right now I'm getting vibes of "sanitized yandere" with a dash of "I can say what I want without repercussion".
There's not really much slang here, though. She is truncating words and slurring them together, but the words are fairly standard.
From a criminology standpoint rapists who use intoxicants are not only the most likely to reoffend, they're the least likely to rehabilitate or feel guilt/responsibility for their actions.
Realistically he'd lay low for awhile and relocate his hunting grounds, but realistically all cast would need to do is get the word out that a guy with a massive, noticeable facial scar is roofying women and there is no way he'd be able to get away with it.
Some of Willis' slang is totally babies, right?
Actually, wasn't the guy who was hosting the party making sure to tell people to watch out for Ryan?
Come to think of it, the giant scar would negate the need for roofies in the first place:
>Hey there.
>Uhh, hi. Wait, is that...
>A scar? Yup. Huge, isn't it?
>Yeah! What happened?
>Oh, nothing too bad. Just got it saving my friends from a bear attack while we were camping once.
>Holy shit, that's amazing! What happened?
>Well, it all began when I got back from fishing and had a bucket or two of mackerel with me.
Et cetera. His scar is his ticket to crushing pussy from now on. He should be thanking Joyce!
>Oh my God, what happened!
>There was this psycho chick in a mask starting shit with this black girl. I stop them from fighting then the psycho chick starts attacking me and my buddies.
>Oh my God, what happened?
>I was at this party, there was this chick who was totally wasted stumbling down the hall, and when I went to help her she tried to fight me and smashed a glass in my face.
>Oh my God, what happened?
>I was chatting up a girl at a party when her psycho ex or something jumped me from behind. It was pretty bad, had to spend two days in the hospital for a concussion.
Rapin' Ryan is going to crush so much puss thanks to Joyce.
You shitlords, Ryan can only get a boner when it's non-consensual!
Yep.
These are actually really good ideas. People like him would just use it to his advantage.
This is probably true.
Rape by deception. Plus the power dynamics of manipulating a woman into sleeping with him through a self-aggrandizing version of him attempting to rape another woman would probably feed very well into his mentality.
Chicks dig scars, but Ryan looks like he's got an earthworm tattooed on his face. That's not very sexy.
We're assuming that Willis' art isn't reflective of actual appearance in-universe. Otherwise Jacob probably has a genetic disorder.
>Rape by deception.
Does that really count when you embellish or lie about features that people already find attractive? Feels like we're kinda veering into all sex is rape territory, and Ryan doesn't get down with that. He's got a litmus test in his pants that says otherwise.
>Jacob probably has a genetic disorder.
It's called being black.
Her accent or pronunciation, then.
Whatever it is, he does it with too many characters and it gets my goat.
Oh you
Legally rape by deception occurs when the deception is integral to the commission of the sexual act in question. Lying to make yourself seem more impressive isn't legally rape by deception, but fucking your twin brother's wife by pretending to be him is rape by deception. However, he might be liable for civil injuries and it'd certainly work against him in a divorce proceeding.
Becky's way of speaking more resembles a Southern accent than Sal's.
Have you seen what actual scars from broken glass look like? If we're going realistic, he won't be able to pull off the rugged scar look.
It's not rape by deception, but it's about as big a dick move as you can pull while picking someone up without it being rape by deception
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>World Star!
The most subtle part of this edit is the best part.
How he scars up would depend on a lot of factors.
I have a pretty jagged scar from my ribcage down to my pubes from emergency surgery. I've tried every embellished and just plain made up story you can think of, including fighting a guy with a sword to save a girl.
It has yet to get me laid.
Real scars are not as sexy as some works of fiction would have you believe.
How can the picture be "grainy"? Captain Fatty Girl took a photo on a modern cell phone all of three feet away from him. How incompetent IS she?
It's meant to be an icebreaker from which you can springboard, not a coupon for free fucks.
I'm pretty sure Willis is using it as a synonym for blurry.
Guy I knew got glassed during a barfight and it was perfectly circular.
Well he's wrong an an idiot then. They're two totally different adjectives for a picture with two vastly different meanings.
An abdominal scar is pretty tough to use as a springboard, to be fair.
Unless you're hanging out on a lot of beaches.
the guy who glassed him was an amateur then. you're not meant to jab with a broken glass you're meant to slash
You can always bring the conversation topic to that, lift up your shirt and reveal your scar and your sexy abs. You have sexy abs, right?
>You have sexy abs, right?
I've been called the skinnyfat body type. I'm tall and have a lean figure, but if I lift my shirt up randomly, my bit of paunch might be a turn off.
It's like the worst of both worlds. No love from fat lovers or /fit/izens.
>Becky's way of speaking more resembles a Southern accent than Sal's.
When I was looking for specific slang usage, I noticed this. It seems like by accident he lucked into a more natural southern drawl* than when he tries purposefully.
*Note, I'm not southern, american or interact with southern americans, so I wouldn't know outside of media representation anyway.
Work on that paunch.
Southern American accents are a family of roughly a dozen accents. The most common you'll hear are Virginian, Texan, and Appalachian. Virginian and Texan are the stereotypical "drawls" while Appalachian is more clipped. The Hollywood Southern accent, the one used by films and tv who don't give a shit about authenticity, is mostly a mix of Virginian and Texan.
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It's Babies MacIntyre. Wiigii!
>That was painful to type
>Wiigii!
Has willy used this in DoA much, or has he pretty much admitted it's cringe at this point?
Walky might have said it.
i'd ask for a source, but i don't want to ask someone to comb through ten years of this garbage
Has he though? I'm almost positive Willis hasn't used WiiGii in DoA
A lot of his older stuff is referenced in DoA even if it's not shown.
>Has he though? I'm almost positive Willis hasn't used WiiGii in DoA
>A lot of his older stuff is referenced in DoA even if it's not shown.
How do you reference a word without typing it? Seriously? What are you on about? He's either used WiiGii or not. It's not like "Head Alien", which he acknowledged directly
He could have put it on a shirt or something.
Come to think of it, Becky being jealous of Dorothy and Joyce's friendship could be a good character arc. It would create a new narrative involving Becky/Dorothy, the two of whom interact rarely if ever.
It's about the only arc Becky still has that doesn't involve her being a lesbian.
Even that arc is tainted, because being a lesbian is the most prominent part of her personality, You're left wondering when Becky is gonna dive into Dotty's muff.
Becky will slowly use Dorothy's insecurities and fear of harming Joyce to slowly turn her into a broken, dependent wreck, ultimately dominating her psychologically and sexually until Dorothy lives in a cage in Becky's garage wearing nothing but a butt plug and a dog collar with "Madame President" on the tag.
Except that time when Walky said that Dorothy and Joyce had to pretend to be lesbians for a group project in class
Goddammit, this is one of the few places I go to on the internet to not be horny. Stop that.
Not that I think Willis would do this, but she was kinda handsy with Dorothy early on, and I was half-wondering if she was negging her and was going to eventually make a move.
Great. Now I've got a boner to deal with. Thanks for that. Not even a fan of lesbian porn, but that's the only thing that'll get the job done now.
The only lesbian porn that will exist involving Becky is her with Dina
I'm still anticipating Becky becoming a rapist and going after Joyce.
See the thing is that Becky can't reciprocate sexually with Dorothy as it might give her validation as a human being; so while Dorothy services Becky sexually, Becky forces Dorothy to pleasure herself by humping furniture, after which she punishes Dorothy.
I dunno. I'm getting a serious asexual yet romantic gay vibe from Dina. I'd be shocked if they ever do more than cuddle.
Fucking hell, m8. I can only get so hard.
Hey dudes, you missed a few comics, but here's the newest one.
>you missed a few comics
No we didn't. Didn't miss them at all.
What is that in her mouth, Sup Forums?
..What is this image from?
Your dramatics a few nights ago makes me wonder if you actually think we kid when we say it's not any good. I'm legitimately confused.
Toothpaste, obviously.
And before anybody says anything, Joyce is OBVIOUSLY wearing a tube-top, having been convinced (or manipulated) into doing so by Roz, who believes that a change in wardrobe is the first step to personal freedom and free expression.