In tonight's weird work, we have Howard the schmuck in a dark room, belonging to a random student, oddly detached from reality, and not even spouting "Game of Thrones!" like a spaz.
Psh, but I'm sure everything will turn out peachy in the end, right?
Howard, campus cable has a bunch of stuff, but HBO is never one of the channels you get. As a Penn State alum I can say that.
Okay, so Howard is some kind of retard. What Ruth assumes is abuse on Clint's part is simply caretaker burnout after she left an elderly man alone to care for a teenager with mental deficiencies.
So wait, he broke into a random dorm room? Howie really is Autistic....
Clint was probably afraid that he would have to deal with somebody with Ruth's bad temper riling up Howard.
I wasn't even 100% certain who Meredith was, so after a quick tag search, she seems to be the one to the right of Dina in this strip.
She's only tagged in 5 DoA strips so far, and I'm not sure who her roomie is.
Who the hell is Meredith and why was Howard able to gain access to her room?
>Doesn't know why he's not in school that day (or if it's even a school day)
>Doesn't know why she would even think about bringing someone with clear mental problems home
I feel Howie is getting more and more retarded as this arch keeps going
You know Howard still doesn't seem as maladjusted as he should be if he came from an abusive home. Besides being a geeky pleb.
... wait, I get it now.
This is going to be a gender thing.
>Howie: "Surprise! I was a girl all along!"
>He then goes to find Carla to ask for advice on "certain things."
I mean Grandpa is gonna turn out to be a sexist who plays favorites with Howard.
>howie
>meredith
Yeah that's what we need, more fucking characters.
I called it on jumping back to Ruth, though
He's a pretty maladjusted, geeky pleb from where I'm standing.
It's always current year in the Dumbiverse. Is there nothing off to you about a high-school aged boy who seems to know nothing of internet porn or piracy? In 2017?
Except Ruth herself has said that Clint is hard on Howie.
>Wow! Thanks Carla for helping me discover my true self and teaching me that the secret to getting through life is to be a complete jackass with rich parents!
>Don't mention it, kid. I mean it, I have a reputation to uphold.
>Game of Thrones!
>...what?
>Sorry, I have Tourette's.
I don't think they have the internet in indiana
I'd be hard on Howie too, the nerd.
>Sir Gramps
I kinda like that as a moniker for Clint, akin to what "Toedad" was for Ross.
This isn't remotely creepy. Just stupid.
Creepy would imply he was actually on this planet and somewhat observant to his surroundings
Faz always saying he wants to have sex with Amber with that same pleasant smile in Shitpacked... Now THAT was creepy. And even THAT was more interesting than this halfassed dialogue
DoA spinoff, Everybody Bullies Howie.
>hard on
Fucking Howard man. I remember what I read of him in Roomies. So he wasn't as autistic, but he was effectively Willis in regard to liking nerdy shit. He did kind of grow with the rest of the crew...then Ruth died in a drunk accident that...Danny caused or something? Idk, he was very irrelevant. I feel like he would work here if they did what they did originally and had Danny cone to school and Ruth be some fuck off and some apartment.
Id love to see Clint raise his hand in front of Howie for some innocuous reason and Howie & Ruth flinch in terror
It's unsettling, but in the seeing a special needs person wandering alone and you're torn between seeing if they're okay and running away lest they imprint on you and think you're their new mother kind of way.
Just gonna dump a few of "Howie's Greatest Hits" from Roomies! for anyone who doesn't remember what a tool he was back then too.
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I'm starting to wonder whether willis has
ever actually met a normal human being.
At this the most plausible thing is that he's a hermit who only visits the surfacedwellers through the internet, which he also uses to purchase transformers on amazon. His love for transformers stems from imprinting on them as a young cave-dweller, and his "wife" and "children" are rock statues he made.
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Oh, this one's a gem, where he loudly proclaims what a huge erection a photo of Billie gave him while she stands a few feet away.
I'm beginning to wonder if Howie is Legitimately meant to have a mental condition.
But then there's the really funny stuff, like social ostracization from a group you've built your identity around....
Most of these just make Joe seem like an asshole.
...and lastly, Willy really flexes his comedy muscles with this hilarious little lark.
Did Howie get raped?
Nah his sister got smeared into the sidewalk by a truck I think, It was Dany's fault
Also hilarious.
>implying there is someone out there who would rape Howard
Nah, Danny just got blamed for Ruth's death because she killed herself by saving him from a drunk-driving collision with a truck
From a certain point of view it's free *and* comes with extra sausage at no additional charge.
Forgot to post this pic for the user in the last thread.
Willy's full Hot Shot shrine.
I imagine there's a Hot Shot body pillow just out of sight
I'll give it to Willis. I do wanna motorboat those tiddies.
why? hotshot was a shitty character with terrible judgment
even more than willis' characters
also, i have that transformer, its not very good quality compared to the others, even fucking starscream is more poseable despite being top-heavy
>Willis's kid becomes teenager
>he brings a girl home
>girl sees this shit
Which is less embarrassing, /doag/?
>"Oh... yeah... that's my dad's..."
>"Oh... umm... yeah those are mine."
I think the only people he ever interacts with on a regular basis are Transformers fans and webcomic creators
Willis is going to try to be a Cool Dad™, and he's going to fail so hard.
>over the next 15 years we see Dumbing of Age slowly morph from "parents are evil" to "kids are ungrateful shitlords"
>Hot Shot brand pesticide on the top
Okay, that's pretty funny.
>4.47 heads high
I too would like to bang this halfling.
She's pretty much exactly 5 heads high in the strip in the second panel. She's 4.68 heads high in the stickers he put out, and 4.91 in the Billie and Ruth image from before they broke up.
She's wasting away to nothingness.
(They are pretty nice tits, though.)
>Which is less embarrassing
depends on the girl.
She may be a nerdy girl who's into Transformers.
Oh yeah, Billie doesn't know that Clint Sirwood is pulling strings to make Ruth keep her job. I find it pretty weird that we go from Ruth losing her shit at her to this, I thought she might take some time to herself. I guess Billie has learned to ignore Ruth's treatment of her, because she truly loves her! And now she's found Howard, so Ruth will thank her for helping!
Old Howard is kind of a generic dork, kissed Kate Mulgrew but wasn't constantly horny.
New Howard is obsessed with Game of Thrones but probably only for the edgy nudity, one of the only characters to stare at Billie's tits, and is sneaking into girls' rooms to find boobs on the teevee. I dunno if Willis has just decided to be a bit more realistic by making him a horny bastard, or if he's trying to point towards "nerd culture as toxic masculinity".
That and her being tubby are the sole merits to her character
Took me a second to realize that wasn't a missile in the lift.
His name is Sir Clint, Knight of the Patriarchy.
>Willis' son becomes a total Chad Thundercock
>gets cucked by his father after bringing home a nerdy Transformers fan with severe daddy issues
That's not toxic masculinity, that's a lack of boundaries, common sense, and proper social decorum.
Nah, Willis wouldn't get anywhere more than first base. They'd kiss, she'd take her shirt off, and then he'd jizz himself right away in his pants.
What if he already worked out the easy O jerking it to his Hot Shot collection?
Not gonna work. He'd still jizz upon seeing tits that weren't his wife's tits.
Speaking of which, it should be suggested that the only way the two actually had children was if his wife flashed Willis, he creamed himself, and she scooped whatever she could into herself.
How come Willis doesn't want any conflict in his comment section? Does he just want an echo chamber?
I think it's partly that. I also think it's partly because he doesn't want to deal with the collective autistic screeching of the SJW nutjobs he's accumulated as fans when someone challenges of of their ideals.
He can't help it. He may have changed his ideology to incorporate acceptance of non-straight, non-white people, but he can't change what he is... a conservative fundie. And conservatives need their safe spaces, or they feel persecuted by people conflicting opinions.
So where's this scene gonna go I wonder.
>Inb4 Billie shows Howie her tits to satisfy his quest for TV Boobies apparently.
>teenager desperate for fictional tiddies
>is obsessed with game of thrones and HBO
>Not just a weeb like every other high school loser
How is Willis so fucking out of touch with everything?
Then Meredith walks in on Billie showing her tits to her girlfriend's teenage brother.
>That's not toxic masculinity, that's a lack of boundaries, common sense, and proper social decorum.
All of those things are part of toxic masculinity, user.
Never forget the golden rule of feminist theory; Heads I win, tails you lose.
While a lot of toxic masculinity is completely contextual, he's not showing any indication of it. If anything Ruth is completely wrong about how Clint treats Howie, as Howie acts like someone who doesn't get enough attention, discipline, or really much of any parenting at all. If Howie isn't retarded or have some other kind of mental condition then the reasonable explanation would be that Clint more or less ignores his developmental needs. If Willis weren't afraid to have a complex villain it'd be perfect for what we've seen of Clint. Have him so obsessed with "fixing the mistakes" he made with his daughter that he's overbearing and controlling of Ruth while Howie gets no attention at all.
What about edge?
Here's Howie's character so far:
>Game Of Thrones?
>Man up sis, US is the same as Canada
>Where's Game of Thrones?
I know he's a joke side character, but god damn...
She appeared, like, near the end of last year, apropos of nothing. When she showed up in a preview, everyone thought that she was going to end up being Ruth's replacement, thus rendering the Dorothy/Roz conflict even more pointless than it already was. But nope, just one more crowd-filler.
I'm pretty sure Willis made a joke about it on his tumblr or twitter. Because the man likes nothing more than pretending that joking about his incompetence makes it okay.
I feel like once we get shitty development for his character like this arc seems to be heading to we're gonna miss Howie the Shitty Joke character
And toxic femininity.
Well he's probably the only character that can give us some more details/background on Clint since he's the one living with him. Unless Willis just has Ruth spill those beans about him.
Huh. I didn't really pick up on it last night, but
>Why would we bring Ruth home?
would imply that Howard actually has no clue about the alcoholism or 'suicide attempt'.
I wonder how he's gonna react when someone lets that slip.
>Most of these just make Joe seem like an asshole.
Mike wasn't in the cast during Roomies so Joe had to pull double-duty. Personally, I love Joe more as a jerk.
Reminder that the culmination of Mary's story in Roomies was her getting knocked up and having an abortion.
And willis wonders why anyone sympathizes with his fucking chew toy.
I wouldn't mind seeing Hooper again in DoA
Mary suffers for her cruel god's idle pleasure.
>Act with Integrity
>No regrets
What did they mean by this?
Act with integrity, murder your brother.
>Perform with probity
>No penitence
I just have a thing for alliteration
This always bugged me. It's one of like, two or three distinctly WILLIS lines (one of the others being the "It's the rain" thing), but it really had no place in this scene.
I'm pretty sure he just added it for effect at the time and probably regretted it later.
>"No, Sal has never met Ruth. There is no reason why she should have this phrase in her brain other than it being a fun subversion of the original sentiment. I knew it made little in-universe sense, but it was too difficult a warped connection to resist at the time."
Willis recently added her to the floor and said she'd totally been there all along.
Sometimes, girls leave their doors unlocked when they go to shower. Might be her roommate's fault.
>Sometimes, girls leave their doors unlocked when they go to shower
Really? I lock my apartment when I'm going out for a smoke, and I only share the entryway with one other old dude who probably couldn't climb the stairs if he tried
Hooper's a character based on a real person, so I don't think he's going to show up anymore.
I didn't say it was smart. It's usually the girls who are really good friends with everyone on the floor, so they trust their floormates not to pull anything.
but what about the dueling Alexes?
>Willis has retreated so far into his internet bubble, he doesn't have any real, new friends to base any dynamic new characters on anymore
>LIQUID!
>BROTHHEERR!
Freshman year my stoner roommate continually left the door unlocked, even after this led to her computer, ipod, and wallet getting stolen on a party night. So either Meredith or her roommate's kinda dumb.
Well, to be fair, my overcautious nature is borne of being burned in the past when I was more trusting, so I guess everyone gets at least one naive, dumb trust fuckup when they're young.
>no new irl friends
>yet plenty of internet sycophants
So if Wiily got desperate for fresh characters, what would a Cerberus insert's role be in the Dumbiverse? What would that even look like?
A three-headed dog.
One bitch head, one dick head, but what's the third?
don't be numberist, she can be a Cerberus with only two heads.
Greek Mythology is problematic and patriarchal.
An attack helicopter propeller
If it was my comic and I wanted to thank her for all her interaction, I'd either make her online writing an inspiration for Jocelyne, or make her a teacher in Leslie's department that she could talk with.
>online writing an inspiration for Jocelyne
It would then be a joke that no one reads Jocelyne's blog while he/she ponders why.