Dumbing of Age

Yesterday, we were treated to a comic reminding us that it is everyone's responsibility to police the thoughts of our best friends.

Tonight...I honestly can't expect anything different.

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>Danny talking to any female other than Amber or Sal
That's one for the bingo card.

I like how Willis is caring about scenic continuity for once with the shadow in the background. Normally he just has people milling about doing nothing but standing and talking to each other. This is actually the most effort I've seen yet, or at least since he stopped making the background blobs other than shadows.

JOE WAS GUILTY OF WRONG-THINK.

How dare he share his opinion among acquaintances.

And indeed, tonight we get more of the same.

Rachel was the "hacker" of Joe's ancient RSS feed, and now the dysfunctional duo are hot on her tracks.

Remember, kids! It's perfectly acceptable to make personal information public if you don't like what a person says, thinks, or feels.

This is obviously going to be a red herring to give Joe and Danny something to do to pad out Volume 8 of the TPBs.

Knowing Willis, though, that means that Rachel DID hack Joe's RSS feed. Or he's expecting us to think like this, which means that Rachel didn't do it. But she DOES condone it. Or something like that.

Also, adjust the eyes in the first panel and you have something straight out of a Willis porno.

Two Wrongs make a Right, yo! Also, I can practically hear Willis whispering in the back that ladies don't have to worry about him because he's a Nice Guy and an Ally.

>three of us
one of thems amber, dont know who else. carla?

These faces...

I think I actually prefer when Willis doesn't try. Also Rachel's chest looks really weird in the side view shots . Also I feel like that is a decent time to put in another hat insult, but I can't act like I would've really found it funny. Just seems like a weird time to drop the running gag.

I thought that Rachel made the most sense, but I guess we might be in for a bait and switch. Maybe it'll be Raidah, Jacob will break up with her because of it, and then Joyce will date him wearing that yellow dress. Or maybe it'll just be the most obvious choice. The uncertainty feels very artificial.

It's kind of a grey area considering Joe freely offers access to his list.

First panel is worthy to end up in a slipshine of rachel-joe hatefuck, with some added NYEEEEAARGH.
Why do mods delete these threads, is it because patreon strips?

its not really "personal information" if its entirely about everyone around him and not him

>Also, adjust the eyes in the first panel and you have something straight out of a Willis porno
The eyes are fine. You just gotta flip that mouth upside-down.

Carla is mech eng major I think.

Jesus fucking Christ delet dis.
I'm gonna have wet nightmares involving clowns tonight.

Is this comic any good?

No. Joyce and Mary are the only worthy things in this sea of shit, you better off not knowing.

>Why do mods delete these threads?
I would also like to know this. At some point someone was mad about all the incindiary talk around Carla and political derails, but I feel like the recent threads have been fairly on-topic but they still got deleted.

Almost feels like there's a Willis fan modding/janitoring, but that's a complete asspull from me. I have noticed bcb threads randomly getting deleted at times, so I wonder if it's just low tolerance for webcomic talk.

He said real women

most people here dont think so. its definitely not great, but its not completely unreadable, especially if you read it all at once and not daily, so you dont have to deal with the shit pacing

Haques threads are not deleted, so I suppose shitty webcomics are fine.

It'd be simple to just outright say "No more DoA threads because [Reason]", I'd think.
But I guess I expect too much.

Personally I enjoy all the discussion here and think it entirely relevant. The comic itself is highly politically charged, the author's tweets and his readers' comments give one a good understanding of the kind of person the comic is actively pandering to and promoting, etc.

Might be somebody's just got it in their heads to harass it without really rationalizing.

user, if it wears a skirt it is a girl yiu fucking faggot.

Better?

Yet another day since amber killed a man and nothing is happening.

nope, still bad
maybe just remove those nightmare lips entirely

Swap left and right eyes to make them slope upwards instead.
Rachel looks like shit to begin with tho.

I think it's actually the one guy who's actually necrobumping. I mean I'm against calling everyone that, but there is definitely at least one guy who is convinced that the threads have to last 24/7 for some reason.

I have to check count again, but I believe we're on 40 days now.

A Killer On Campus!

I think originally (like early on in /doag/'s life around the Toedad Saga) they were getting deleted because of talking about certain specific commenters on the main site. That isn't really relevant anymore and I think it's more or less due to one mod or janitor getting a hair up their ass and not wanting to see any DoA talk.

>remove those nightmare lips entirely
I'm pretty sure this is perfect.

Make the eyes black holes too and you nailed my fetish.

There's just something that irks me about how rude this strip is. Whether it's being snarky to someone you just met, or the uppity attitude about educating him.
And I don't know what that face is supposed to mean.

It's personal in that it's all his opinion. It's a bit like sharing someone's diary, but with fewer details revealed.
I think you mean a stupid area.
>oh no people looked at the list i gave out to some people

It has more character development than Bittersweet candy bowls

That's willy's "oh snap I have been found out" face.

perfect

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Looks like I'm not done fapping for today.

Since when did it start getting called necrobumping and not just bumping? Necro'ing a thread is something forums without time or post locks would do.

Mods usually delete individual posts that just say bump which is fine.

it's when it's a dead thread on page 10 being samefagged. I think mods can tell if that's happening

When we gonna see more Mary?

I don't recall Rachel having Liz tier giant lips.

it's more like if she handed out a link to Joe's private twitter. Obviously Joe wanted people to see it. Just not...those people.

I feel bad for anyone that has to go with that dude for commissions. I know he's cheap, but how cheap was that?

It's about the same as Questionable Content.

They both have their bad and not as bad points, but they even out to be the same overall quality.

>Why do mods delete these threads?
As Patreanon, I think I can answer this one.
The last thread was my fault. I posted a cap of the Patreon comments, and even though I blacked out the names, it was still off-topic. I knew better, but I was kinda drunk and didn't care at that moment.

I only got a warning, but still decided not to post last night to let the heat die down.
>I think it's actually the one guy who's actually necrobumping
I agree. I actually cringe when I see that it's well after noon EST, and the thread is dead, and then someone bumps it from page 10. I hate that. It's not against any rules that I know of, but it's still cringey.
>Since when did it start getting called necrobumping and not just bumping?
And that pisses me off more than the actual bumping from page 10. "Necrobump" is not a term that was ever casually used on Sup Forums until about 7 months ago. You can confirm that on desuarchive. It's definitely just one guy pushing the term.

I do hate when people bump our threads when it's good and dead, but I hate the the "necrobump" poster a loooot more.

And finally, to keep this post in the spirit of Sup Forums, isn't Mary the fucking best girl?

You should ignore the threads that people force alive for days. You are the only reason they keep doing it after all.

That's a Catch 22 bud.

If I ignore the bumped threads and post a new OP like normal, I'm definitely violating Sup Forums standards by making a second Dumbing of Age thread when one already exists.

There's not a rule against a second thread. QC does it the few times that one lasts. Could get people to stop treating the threads like that

>And finally, to keep this post in the spirit of Sup Forums, isn't Mary the fucking best girl?
Mary is a cute good girl in a world of ugly heathens.

>since when did it started
It didn't. That's what

Well... It's not like we are going-
>CARLA IS A CUTE ROFL WHO IS BEST WAIFU AND WHY IS IT RAPING RYAN?

Ehhhhh. I'm reluctant to test those waters. I'd rather just have one thread and one thread only for better or worse.

The other thing is that sometimes threads naturally last over 24hrs without blatant frivolous bumps. If there's legit discussion, why make a new thread and promote senseless crosslinking?

Also, I don't want to be held responsible for deciding if a series of bumps were "valid". I don't think moderation should be making that decision either, but that's neither here nor there. They can do whatever they want.

$5

You can't really compare QC to DoA. There's nothing good about either one except for a few characters here and there. QC is just really fucking boring while DoA is the mental projections of an emotionally stunted man closing in on 40s obsessed with Transformers who has never gotten over his mommy issues.

What's wrong with him?
Is he shady?

Well mods can see samefagging or not.

I don't see how he could be considered shady.

I don't like his art, but he clearly delivered the product paid for to his commissioner...

...even if it's questionable fetish art that the subject matter would be disgusted by.

You don't know what weird kinks Mary has.

>You don't know what weird kinks Mary has
Whatever they may be, they're definitely not yours, just because Mary is a living embodiment of spite.

What if she's Sprite, because she's delicious?

Then she'd hate Sprite out of spite since it's trying to be as delicious as her.

So her favourite drink is Dr. Pepper?

I think it's pretty fair to say that Sprite and Dr. Pepper are opposites of each other on the soda spectrum, so sure.

I've never met anyone who loves both of them equally, or even close to similarly,

>soda chat
Posting a related crop.

I do, actually. It's a weird relationship. When I was little, I used to drink Dr. Pepper all the time. It's the drink almost everyone in my immediate family can agree on.

But one year, I decided to do Lent out of solidarity for a friend, and I cut out caffeine, slowly but surely. I transitioned to non-caffeinated beverages, mainly through Sprite. I'm still avoiding caffeine, but I do like to take a sip every now and then if someone has one open. Sprite is my main drink, though, because it's caffeine-free. (Fanta is my next go-to.)

I wonder what soda Mary likes to drink. Probably some off-brand, like Dr. K.

Really if Mary is as patrician as she is then her true choice in soda is going to be Inca Kola

So level with me guys. Is Square Jaw the character who's actually entertaining in a shitshow like this comic because he's allowed to be an actual character and not just a cardboard cut out of whatever the author wants to rant about today? Cause all the comics I catch where he's there are actually entertaining.

Rachel got beestung in the lip between yesterday and today.

Joe is allowed to be half the character that he was in Willis's past comics, and a tiny fraction of what Mike used to be to make up for the fact that Willy can't write Mike anymore.

Mike no longer exists because the same god that breaks physics for Becky's happiness has decided that he's too problematic to exist.

The only thing Joe did wrong was not protecting his RSS feed. Other than that, he literally did nothing wrong.

Gross, but not technically wrong, yes.

He has the right to post whatever he wants, but everyone else has the right to be upset by whatever it is he says.

If they didn't want to be upset, why would they read a list that rates them? That's just counter-intuitive.

It may not have been descriptive when they were given the information. It could have been like "hey, you really need to see this, because it pertains to you." Or some kind of clickbait like "you won't believe what this one guy posted."

FEEL
THE FIZZ!

Then that would point to active obfuscation on Rachel's part. The real issue of this arc is that not only does Joe freely offer access to the list, he directly tells people their rating and openly makes the existence of the list known.

His password is probably password.

Probably, I'm also confused why Danny had to create the RSS feed for Joe, including encryption, when going by the sliding timescale the list would have been created sometime around 2013, long after after pre-made web tools were the norm. I'm pretty sure RSS feeds aren't natively supported by any browsers other than IE either.

Is it just me or has Rachel been upping her bitch game to be almost main character-tier lately?

I wonder when the new Slipshine premiers

I wonder who it will feature.

If anybody decides to become Pornanon remember to grab the last few Pinups as well.

So why does everyone hate Mary for going against asshole Carla and getting the shitty drunk RA replaced?

Is it just because she's supposed to be the bad guy despite doing nothing bad and all non-bad-guy characters implicitly agree with the writer?

Also did that chubby psycho kill the guy with the scar or what

I haven't seen a comic this hamfisted since nu-sinfest

>did nothing wrong
I think the transphobic comment was the biggest offender. And blatant blackmailing. She definitely ain't holier than the person she hates which also breaks the "love thy neighbor" commandment. And she's super hypocritical with her faith after all with all the judging during the church talks (regardless the commonness of shitty Christians in the world)

No, the scar guy slashed the chubby girl with a knife and then raped her on the front steps of her dorm

>she a bad christian
who the fuck cares

>transphobic comment
I didn't realize everyone saw the quotes around "her", I guess everyone's just reading the word bubbles.

>muh blackmail
remind me again what this was, because I'm pretty sure she was blackmailing the RA into not being a drunken waste of space

Everyone in this comic sucks

The problem is that in context Mary's transgressions amount to an indirect slur and unsuccessful blackmail that mostly entailed Ruth doing her job. Ruth on the other hand was an abusive, bullying drunk who committed several illegal actions on top of not actually doing her job. Mary as an antagonist is just a snooty bitch, which makes her better than several characters and on-par with most of the rest. Ruth on the other hand has been a goddamn monster since day one yet we're supposed to forgive and absolve her. Carla intentionally cultivates an asshole personality and disregards others, Amber dumped her boyfriend when he didn't validate her dysfunctional mental state, Sal fucked a TA for grades and shits on Malaya for daring to want to be friends with Marci, Joe ranks women to their face, Malaya is a piece of shit to her roommate, Walky is sabotaging his collegiate career and leading his girlfriend on, Roz manufactured two sex scandals and forcibly outed her sister for the express purpose of destroying Robin's career, Billie engineered a social structure that allows her to freely abuse Mary both physically, mentally, and emotionally, and Joyce paid Mike to beat up Joe.

Why only.make the eyes tiny in surprise?
I feel like it'd be better to make the rest of the face react too.

I can hate both characters just fine

I skipped this whole comic and just read the parts with Billie and Ruth. Did I do good?

>who the fuck cares
Every one here seems to care about something to hate the characters for. Why can't I find her disgusting for being blatantly repulsive to bare feet girl?

Where's the link for mask or no mask, I need to fap to a fat psychotic slut.

To be fair, Sierra's feet would realistically be pretty nasty. Even if she cleaned them twice a day they'd be covered in filth and the soles of her feet would be giant calluses. That's not even getting into the personal sanitary issues of walking barefoot in highly populated public spaces including restrooms. It's weird that going barefoot was the singular straw that broke the camel's back for Mary, but thinking Sierra is gross for never wearing shoes wouldn't be weird.

If it makes you feel better, I didn't think Mary deserved to get slapped the ink the fuck out of her that one time

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Phew! I almost killed my curiosity cat

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She didn't even get Ruth replaced. Worst "villain" ever.

People hate Mary because they can. I guess it's a "the ends don't justify the means" kind of thing. And if we're being realistic, she should have just reported Ruth in the first place, instead of trying to blackmail her. Bad form.

Mary knows that snitches get stitches. She never would've went to the higher ups.

On a more serious note, pic related in the middle of the hallway with a big crowd including Mary. It's likely that she was worried that they wouldn't believe her, she'd try her best only to lose her leverage. Of course, Ruth did flinch, but Mary might've still though that her complaint wouldn't work.I can see it now:
>Ruth: Oh, Mary, I got an interesting call from my superiors. They said that someone is making up false reports against me despite how amazing an RA I am. So, I guess I can just torment you freely now.

Despite Mary not making the best decision, Ruth absolutely set up a very contentious and unsafe situation with how she did her job. And this strip is an example of her making her residents feel like they have nowhere to go. She reaped what she sowed.