Dumbing of Age is getting close to hitting that peak retardation point where it's worthy of active mockery again.

>>149339278 (OP)
what's going on here? they finally taking down that tranny?

>>149339304
Willis operates on a backlog and it finally caught up to when the college Gaza protests were topical. He's a coward so it's fake countries in the comic.

>>149339388
can the tranny be shot at least? something?

>>149339422
Based Mary did come dangerously close to calling out that the tranny's hormones and surgeries are funded though genocide thanks to having rich military industrial complex parents, but she's a cartoon punching bag and is never allowed to have a real win.

>>149339278 (OP)
Toedad was 2015, Blaine was 2020. Dumbing of Age started in 2010. I said it once but schizo tardkino in this comic comes in 5 year cycles so we're about due.

How pissed will he get by /co/'s inevitably better and/or funnier edits and parodies this time?

>>149339512
Pants-shittingly

>>149339468

If you don't want to bother catching up, these are the main relevant bullet points from the current arc.
>Joyce's secret tranny bother came to the college for the dual purposes of coming out to Joyce and participating in the protest
>Joyce got with Joe, no actual sex yet just fingering
>Dorothy is now in lesbian love with Joyce
>Joyce is in lesbian love with Dorothy but doesn't realize it
>Joyce and Dorothy go to masturbate on washing machines together when Joyce got a text from her dad asking if the tranny he's seeing on the news is her brother
>Joyce and Dorothy run to the protest to warn him that the dad might be onto him
>Everyone at the protest is acting like the cops are going to literally gun everyone down with no survivors

>>149339598
I hope Dorothy gets gunned down. I'd say she's the most unlikable character but I don't know if Ruth is still relevant.

The washing machine thing has come up enough times that I'm convinced it's Willis' barely disguised fetish.

>>149339636
I think it's more that he's just a moron and thinks it's funny and a good example of a weird bonding or meet cute or something because his entire view of the world comes from Twitter/Bluesky, his weirdo evangelical parents and Transformers.

>>149339304
>>149339422
You hate Carla because she's a transgender person
I hate Carla because she's an awful fucking person.
We are not the same

>>149339564
Man, Willis really is behind the times. If Mary’s still supposed to be le evil righty she should surely be carrying a
>Not Dying for Bulimia
sign, or whatever he’s called not-Israel. These kids are supposed to be in college, only boomers still support BOG.

>>149339598
>Joyce got with Joe, no actual sex yet just fingering
link?

>>149339685
I hate Carla becuase she's the author's pet who he absolutely refuses to criticize in any way

>>149340109
That's Dina actually.
And she gives him both queer and neurodivergant representation points!

I don't get how Dina literally being feral due to autism doesn't offend his audience.

>>149340208
His audience is very dumb/autistic.

>>149339278 (OP)
Man, I remember this comic.
The author talking like they know what people like... They should make more porn? I think the porn was good? was it? It's been so long.

This shit's still going? I remember reading this when I was still in HS and thinking college was gonna be fun, turns out it was just as soulless and gay

>>149340390
>I think the porn was good? was it?
The stuff Willis drew himself? Fuck no, it was laughably terrible, particularly for someone who actually has a wife and kids and so has presumably had sex. The sex faces look like the characters are possessed by demons, I think he still has yet to work out some of that fundie upbringing.

>>149339564
There should be people directly protesting Carla attending university, largely made up of queer and trans people specifically so the protestors can avoid the optics.

>>149339685
before shillis stopped pretending mary was a character and not just a strawman the fucking rollerblading shit was legitimately awful. How much Carla is portrayed as being in the right there is insane.

>>149339564
Every time I read this comic Mary somehow winds up being based, almost entirely against Willis' own will. I still remember her "your merit badge isn't coming" line. Out of nowhere some 10/10 dialogue, and Willis put it in the mouth of his fundie strawman.

>>149339564
Mary continues to be my favorite.

Dorothy is kinda a cunt huh?

>>149341000
She wants to get arrested in an attempt to prove that she actually believes in anything other than 'becoming president', her only aspiration up until now. It's also a convenient way to block her out of that career path, so she can focus on the only thing she cares about now, cheating on her boyfriend with Joyce (also making Joyce cheat on her boyfriend)

>>149341000
>checked
No it's okay see because she feels really bad after she does awful things and- nope wait she's actually made joyce liable for a charge for assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest because dorothy wanted to idk feel like she was a "rebel" because her self-esteem got hurt by a sandwoman and oh wait the whole reason she's even here is because she's trying to cheat with one of her oldest friend's girlfiriend! And that's also going to be shown as a good thing probably! Idk how but the comic is going to try to make dorothy the good guy here wait for it!

>>149340730
Mary works because she's over the top and the rest of the characters suck even more. So having a character just walk around making verbal shitposts towards people who are completely rotten and unlikable is funny.

>>149341017
She's also completely aware of what she's doing. She's not just caught up in the excitement of her new feelings, she explicitly went to Danny to try and get some kind of weird justification for bisexual cheating, which he shut down.

>>149339278 (OP)
fuck, do I even like anyone in this comic anymore? Jason and Joe aren't terrible (because they were white straight males they actually had to face consequences and grow a little bit) but I guess they're both being set up to be lesbian cucked?
Sal? Has Sal done anything recently? Usually she's also retarded but at least she's entertaining.

>>149339278 (OP)
I had no idea Dumbing of Age was still ongoing, and somehow that's more surprising than the fact Willis thinks sympathizing with terrorists is heroic (with fake stand-in names, I assume, but we all know what he's actually talking about here), and tries to justify it by pretending the police are cartoon villains ready to have snipers open fire on a crowd of people.

I know you said it was reaching peak retardation, but until I clicked the thumbnail, I had no idea how right you were!

when will you all learn that there's no such thing as a good comic, and ESPECIALLY no such thing as a good webcomic.

>>149341045
>I know you said it was reaching peak retardation, but until I clicked the thumbnail, I had no idea how right you were!
Who the fuck writes like this? It sounds like dialogue from a fucking advert. “Have you tried new Peak Retardation? I couldn’t believe the results!”
>sympathising with terrorists
Oh, hi JIDF, welcome to /co/, I presume your feed of all posts containing the word “Israel” brought you here.

>>149341041
Probably one of the unimportant ones like Sierra or Agatha.

>>149341017
Setting aside the viability of "president" as a valid career path, in what world is an arrest at a protest going to block her out of a career in politics?

>>149341258
Probably will stop her from making the move to Yale (they've said in the comic that she's turned it down, but I don't know how final that truly is, as far as I know she just hasn't responded yet). In theory she can hold elected office, but having any kind of criminal record will make it harder for her to make Washington connections

>>149341353
Consider her politics. An arrest at a protest solidifies her cred and won't be seen as a negative by anyone she's likely to work with or under, and could be used as a selling point.

>>149341368
You’re kidding, right? It’s gonna cut her off from all that AI… I mean ABPAC money you need to get elected.

>>149341368
This is a pretty basic misunderstanding of american politics. Sure, she's a dem/lib, but most democrats do not want radicals working for them. I think Dorothy early on expressed support for Hillary Clinton, which should give you more of an idea.

>>149341368
yeah no offence but you're kinda retarded.

>>149341397
>>149341428
>>149341431
17 members of Congress were arrested in 2022 for protesting.

>>149340730
Mary's a bitch, but she's a bitch among a cast of absolute trash characters. It's like being the cleanest dung beetle.

>>149341469
It's actually a major characterization problem because Willis is unwilling to have Mary be genuine offensive. So we're left with what is ultimately a somewhat condescending and snippy woman being treated as the ultimate evil. She's not the cleanest dung beetle, she's a relatively normal person in a setting where the "good people" have normalized violence as a means of personal expression.

>>149341456
They've already got their foot in the door, Dorothy doesn't.

>>149339697
Mary is the designated Wrong Opinion Haver™ for the comic and since supporting not-Israel is bad, she’s gotta be the one to do it. Also does anyone know if Israel’s and/or Jews have ever been mentioned by Mary before? I vaguely remember a comic where she called Israel "a country of heathens" or something but I’m not sure if that was a real comic or like, an edit from here

>>149341089
>that image

>>149341368
>An arrest at a protest solidifies her cred
It's not the 60s anymore. Now "protesters" run like little bitches as soon as they have a whiff of the fuzz.

>>149339697
Mary's not just a conservative caricature, she's meant to be an evangelical caricature. A genuine thing that many evangelicals in America believe is that the Jews need to control Israel in order for the end of days where they will ascend to heaven will occur.

>>149341809
There's a term for that, it's called being a death cult.

>>149341809
More specific, they need the Jews to build the Third Temple but don't see that happening unless Jerusalem is under Jewish control. What a lot of people don't get is that the establishment of Israel was seen as validating religious prophecy by those who believe in it which has exacerbated the disconnect in discourse between those who believe and those who don't.

>>149341809
Yeah, that’s retarded but is also pretty specific to Israel. For that to work with this fictional country he’s created because he’s too pussy to use Israel, Christianity would also have to be different in Willisworld and consider this country to be the holy land instead.

>>149341929
Either way, she's a normiecon, not some terminally online alt-righter.

>>149340716
Iirc at the time of the rollerblading story Carla's bio still said "if you don't hate her she's not trying hard enough".
Like he specifically made the character to be a combative shitbag and expected people to take her side.

>>149342129
She's always been a Dubya-era neocon, which means she's always been mainstream in her beliefs, so the contrast has always come from the characters whose beliefs and actions are more extreme which is kind of the opposite of what Willis wants. I think it's best exemplified when you compare her to Roz in the context of the early years of the comic. Mary is a fairly boilerplate conservative evangelical who is holier-than-thou and snotty but isn't actually politically active while Roz makes and distributes amateur porn starring herself in an attempt to sabotage her sister's political career due to a differing alignment.

>>149341765
Why can't things change for the better?

>>149341469
>>149341510
Mary is a judgemental cunt. But when the rest of the cast behave like toxic cunts they are "flawed human beings", while when Mary does it she's irrideemable evil.
I will take the condescending Evangelical girl over the girl that thinks a suicide pact is peak lesbian romance.

Do you think Willis will introduce the Mary pregnancy/abortion storyline in Dumbing of Age at point?

>>149339598
Another dad with a shotgun incoming?

>HI WE ARE THE STATE RIOT POLICE, NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH YOUR LOCAL POLICE
>aw shucks they rush-changed a law! dagnabbit!
>also we're dispensing the fucking army to a bumfuck Indiana community college

thankfully the army/police is helpless against a stout midget with a cape

>>149341456
Against Israel?

>>149340992
>ends in brainwashing the OC

terrible.

>>149342243
>it was better when technology was hoarded by muh sekrit klub of emotionally stunted sociopaths
I bet you still bitch about phone phoneposters too you pedantic fuckin baby

>>149343335
>it was better when technology was hoarded by muh sekrit klub of emotionally stunted sociopaths
nta but it definitely was, yes.

>>149343335
Internet communities were better before the normie invasion, yes. And before that they were better before Eternal September.

>>149339278 (OP)
Is this comic new, or did it accurately predict what was going to happen?

>>149339685
You ever think that maybe those two things go hand in hand?

>>149342580
Probably not unfortunately, Joyce's Dad is pretty clearly being set for a "redemption" arc because he divorced the mom for being too crazy fundie.

>>149343019
There are plenty of pro-Hamas dems in congress

>>149342985
It's funny that Willis is so ignorant of the real world because they wouldn't have to change the law to designate a protest as an unlawful assembly since you need a permit for that shit and all they have to do is revoke it if you get too rowdy.
>also we're dispensing the fucking army to a bumfuck Indiana community college
I think he's trying to make parallels with the ICE protests in Commiefornia but that shit only happened because the State and Local government were actively obstructing Federal law.

>>149344268
>ICE protests
Willis makes these comics almost 9 months in advance so he has a "buffer". This arc was written during the Biden administration. The Gaza protests had a fairly heavyhanded response by the police, which then in turn got exaggerated in the comic because Willis is a dramatic bitch.

>>149339598
>tranny bother
On /co/ I literally can’t tell if this means mtf or ftm

>>149342197
Mary and Roz hatefucking should have 100% been a thing.

>>149342351
>Do you think Willis will introduce the Mary pregnancy/abortion storyline in Dumbing of Age at point?
He might but if he does it'll be to dunk on her instead of giving her a real storyline that adds some depth and nuance to her character because Willis is too autistic and sees things too much in black and white and cares nothing about actually, truly getting into the heads of his characters in order to develop them.

>>149344640
MTF, also her new name is Jocelyne and if you think that’s kinda weird, well apparently the reason is that Willis didn’t realize that Joyce is short for Jocelyne when he came up with the name 10 years ago. To be fair, I think he addressed that in a patreon strip but I’m too lazy to look it up

>>149344547
It's a specific exaggeration of what happened at the real world IU-Bloomington in 2024, in which IU changed policies to disallow overnight camping or erecting of structures hours before a protest began. The policy change, which was allowed under existing rules and laws regarding use of IU public spaces, was ignored by protestors due to the university failing to effectively inform people of the change - they put up signs on campus but failed to update the website or send out official emails and when policy updates were posted online no indication was made of changes - which led protestors to believe the signs were fake. Unlike with what Willis is going to portray, however, in the real world 34 protestors were arrested and the protest dispersed following an 18 minute confrontation with police on the first day, the second day had zero confrontations between police and protestors, and the third day had 23 people arrested following a 15 minute confrontation with police. As far as I can tell the only significant injuries suffered were a broken finger and a bite wound that needed stitches, both suffered by police, with all post-hoc assessments putting the blame on IU for mishandling its policy change implementation and communication.

>>149339278 (OP)
I don't know much about it where can I read it free online?

>>149345651
In all fairness to Dave, that's some straight up "Tess is short for Elizabeth" level shit. Jo, Celine, and Lynn are what I'd assume someone named Jocelyne would use as a short name; Joyce is like a guy named William going by Wilford.

>>149345459
He will never do the Mary pregancy arc even if the topic would be very relevant with the anti-abortion laws in the US.
Doing so would make Mary look sympathetic, something he will never want to happen.
Or if he still makes Mary look like the villain or use the pregnancy as some kind of karma, his readers may call him out on his sexism for portraying teen pregnancies as a divine punishment or the victim as a villain.

>>149345928
The names do sound awfully similar to the point it almost looks like the brother is trying to steal the younger sister's identity.

>>149345459
>>149345939
A Mary pregnancy arc would end in Carla swapping babies around in the maternity ward as an epic prank so Mary doesn't actually get her child, and the comic would treat it as harmless wacky fun.

>>149345939
Isn't her bf also shown to be a cheating scumbag? Setup alone it'd be a bad call, but it would also require either his ostensibly pro-abortion cast to denigrate a woman for getting an abortion or for Willis to completely change how he writes Mary - and "evil religious character has an abortion and turns into a good progressive character" is certainly not something that would go over well with anyone.

>>149345974
Schlock Mercenary Halloween Arc story of Jocelynn killing and skinning Joyce to take over her life, and murdering cast members when they start to suspect something is wrong in full slasher-style when?

>>149346080
I'm actually looking forward to something like a Mary pregnancy arc. One way or another Willis will fuck this up and cause a massive shitstorm. It will be glorious.
If he won't do it then perhaps a fan-comic will suffice?

>>149346080
Joyce finds her underwear missing and learns Jocelyn took them.

>>149345939
>Or if he still makes Mary look like the villain or use the pregnancy as some kind of karma, his readers may call him out on his sexism for portraying teen pregnancies as a divine punishment or the victim as a villain.
His readers are as myopic as him and would share his viewpoint because Mary is the devil as far as he and they are concerned. I remember back during the original Mary/Carla story, they were flipping out at the mere suggestion of shipping them because Mary is evil and as to stay evil no matter what. They don't want Mary to have depth or be redeemed or repent or anything, they want her to be a punching bag that represents all the chuds and chuddery and their parents and etc. that they hate.

>>149346155
>Mary gets knocked up
>bf abandons her
>cast finds out when she goes into labor in the common room
>Carla sneaks into the maternity ward to steal Mary's baby
>pretends its her kid when caught
>the people who caught her turn out to be Mary's parents
>they assume Carla is the dad
>Carla goes along with it because "transwoman breaks into maternity ward" is gonna hard reset trans rights and the economy isn't good enough for trustifarians to get away with kidnapping
>Mary goes along with it because watching your enemy hoist themselves upon their petard is the best revenge and also holy shit how is giving birth so damn expensive

>>149346303
I am 100% down for JoycexJocelyne. Can anyone get in touch with Yoto or the guy who does all the smut in the QC threads?

>>149339564
I want her so bad, bros

>>149339278 (OP)
Are they actually fighting ICE now?

>>149346155
>If he won't do it then perhaps a fan-comic will suffice?
There's a part of me that's wanted to do a comic about Mary having an existential crisis/crisis of faith at the realization that she exists in a universe were God (Willis) is a spiteful, petty and emotionally immature asshole.

>>149339278 (OP)
Did this guy ever draw any more porn

>>149346795
>ICE
No, this is about not-Israel and not-Gaza.

>>149339564
Oh shit, what if Mary gets injured since she is out protesting?

Which character would be the most likely helping Mary get an abortion?

>>149346899
She's fine, she's counter-protesting. The cops are on her side because they're also cartoon villains.

>>149347073
She still might get a face full of tear gas or hit by a rock, but that would make her dangerously sympathetic.

>>149346994
If it were being handled by a writer with tact and nuance? Roz. If it were being handled by a writer who just wants to use the character as a punching bag? Also Roz.

>>149346822
Dear Lord I don't know if I will be able to handle it when Willis' buffer catches up with the ICE protests. My money is Amber beating up literal attack helicopters as they launch airstrikes at campus in an attempt to kill Marcie.

>>149339304
Turned out Dorothy was bi all a long and is in love with Joyce and is inspired by her compassion so she joined the protest

>>149344043
Nta, but no one really hated the trans math teacher

>>149347629
>Dorothy's current arc is just Becky's arc with somehow less realism

>>149342985
>bumfuck Indiana community college
to be clear, it's a pretty large college. Not, like top 10 in the country, but probably top 20. This isn't a community college it's a massive school.

>>149346747
>Carla tries to kidnap a baby.
>Carla ends up having to no-contest her 'paternity' of the baby to keep herself out of a men's prison.
>Carla ends up on the hook for child support.
>Carla's parents never looked at her funny before.
>They look at her like a real freak after she tries to explain this shit.

>>149347081
kinda based dunk desu

>>149345939
You could totally do a storyline about that and still make her a bitch, you just have to think like a hack. In fact I can think of three ways to do it right now:
>Mary’s as a hypocrite
First, someone else needs to have an abortion, let’s say, I dunno, Roz why not. Then after shaming Roz or whoever for their abortion, either Mary gets an abortion without much thought to it or we find she already had one, either way the important part is that we establish she feels absolutely no guilt for it. Then when the other characters call her out, Mary can say something like "Unlike her I actually have a future to worry about". Wow, watta cunt, I hope Carla pulls her pants down in front of everybody
>Mary as a hypocrite AND racist
She cheats on her boyfriend with a minority and getting pregnant, Mary has it aborted but NOT because she has her future to worry about, but because the child would have been mixed race and "We all know how that turns out", says Mary while gesturing at Sal and Walky (or any other mixed character(s) it doesn’t really matter). Woah Mary, I hope Carla slaps the teeth out of your mouth with her horsecock.
>Mary as a hypocrite but this time in a comically evil way
Mary is pregnant and scared which we play fairly straight, maybe play up how pathetically worried she is but for the most part we need to actually feel bad for her. Eventually someone, let’s say Roz again, suggests that she gets an abortion and tearfully, Mary actually agrees. So Roz takes her to a clinic, walks her through what’s going to happen, and it all goes smoothly… except for where THE POLICE BURST IN BECAUSE ABORTION IS ILLEGAL IN INDIANA AND MARY TOLD THEM WHERE THIS SECRET CLINIC WAS LOCATED (after her procedure was finished, of course)! Even worse Mary is claiming that Roz FORCED her to do it. My God Mary, I hope Carla shoves a buttplug tail up your ass, stuffs you into a bitchsuit, and then walks you around campus like the bad girl you are

>>149347962
It's the main college in Indiana and has a pretty famous basketball program. It's not some rural hick school or something.

>>149347968
>Carla's parents are actually okay with Mary
>they use her and her parents to help them pivot PR to conservatives now that the DBS crowd is targeting them

>>149346080
>Isn't her bf also shown to be a cheating scumbag?
I check and at this current time, no. He only had about eight appearances total and there’s no suggestion that he’s cheating in any of them. One of them probably will cheat on other at some point tho, and if it’s Peter Paul doing the cheating (that’s the boyfriend’s name btw) then I want to bet it’ll be handled like the Nancy/John Redcorn affair in early seasons of KotH, where the main joke was "Haha how could they not know, it’s SO obvious they’re cheating that idiot". I also want to bet that it’ll be a guy he’s cheating with.

>>149348060
How could she tell them where the clinic was after her procedure when you have the cops busting in before the procedure?

>>149348416
"it all goes smoothly" was me trying to imply the abortion finished and it went fine. I should have made that more clear but I was running out of space, my bad

>>149348376
Yeah, I got him confused with Eric, the guy who knocked up Mary in Roomies!, who in DoA cheated on his unnamed girlfriend with Mike. Remember Mike? He's been dead for five and a half years.

>>149348562
Honestly I miss Mike. He was the only character left who could be still be intentionally funny. Now we’re stuck with fucking Booster, who’s like if Mike was written by Jeph Jacques

>>149348620
Mike was an asshole who could be an asshole but also well-intentioned. Carla is an asshole you're expected to pretend isn't an asshole. Booster is just unpleasant. Probably the biggest difference is that Jeph can write a waifu and a loveable asshole when he wants to.