Also exhibiting Flash-like speed to get her comment typed in the micro-instant between when the code where comments are counted is executed and when the code that assembles the comments are executed. Since the super-human speed required will invariably set the keyboard afire, I deduce she has obtained a unbelievably good deal on the mass purchase of keyboards.
Deathjavu
Or…copy paste after pre-making a comment from the patreon day-ahead feed?
King Daniel
If you checked the linked image, it shows Ana as having already made a comment – but with the page still claiming that the comic had had zero comments as of yet.
Judging by Joyce’s staring at Dorothy every time she says something… I’m going to guess she’s wondering if her prompts have made Dorothy curious enough to spill the beans to. Which, while disappointing, isn’t surprising.
*chuckles* I honestly can’t tell if Joyce is just being Joyce or is she is teasing Dorothy with information she will want to know. Or if she just really is THAT bad at keeping gossip down.
I think Joyce was expecting Dorothy to ask her what the information she knows is, and she didn’t know what to do when Dorothy told her not to tell her.
Yay, time for gender studies? I hope all the drama comes out and Leslie’s like, “Please. Just let me teach this class. Okay, fine, I’ll make it about your lives.”
Leslie has seen the site and realized that she is the only teacher at the school with a cast bio. She will never escape the drama. She has become part of it.
Her lesson planning revolves around predicting the drama in her students’ lives, but sometimes she’s wrong and that gets frustrating.
Dana
When she said she was dressing up for Robin, she was really just angling for more panel time. Hanging out in the Dumbingverse is pretty boring if you mostly live in front of backgrounds Willis has yet to find reason to draw.
Needfuldoer
Leslie knows there’s more coming, but she can’t edit the future. She’s stuck watching the comic play out at its natural pace like the rest of us, and finds that infuriating.
Hardly. Just doing that thing where you keep bringing a secret up so a person will ask and you’ll feel justified sharing it.
I love Joyce but some of the shit she pulls is irritating
SillyGoose
This. She’s deliberately trying to get D to ask her about it even though it was made absolutely clear that D knows it’s a) none of her business and b) probably not very healthy for her.
So Joyce, honey, your *desire* to gossip does not trump Dorothy’s *need* to be left alone.
Joyce if anyone should do the deed of Breaking Bad news to Dorothy it should be Mike….( not for tactical reasons it’s because the pot needs to be stirred once in awhile)
I think either the 2022 midterms or 2024 presidential, depending on the comic’s pace.
Roughly one DoA week passes per real-life year (though that’s slowing a bit), it’s currently Friday, October 15th, and election day is Tuesday, November 2nd.
Right now, it would probably be the…2020 election, I think, since Dumbing of Age is always set in the eternal present, which would make this strip currently set in 2019.
I’m always sort of amused by how the elections interact with comic time.
Robin is a first term Representative
When she first appeared back in 2011, she was a member of the big Republican wave in 2010.
The rally storyline was in 2016 – She’d won in the smaller wave in 2014. The arc with Leslie continued through the 2016 election into early 2017. I’m not quite sure how that interacts with comic time – whether DoA’s eternal October of Now matches the closest October or the October of the current calendar year.
Robin hasn’t been seen since then, but now she’d have won election for the first time in 2018’s blue wave, which would have been an incredible feat for a Trumpy Republican in a swing district.
KimboGPataki
Robin is in my district. Sadly, we elected a Trumpy Republican pretty handily in 2018 (though not a first time Republican to be fair). It’s not really that swingy.
Marsh Maryrose
But would your district re-elect a Republican who turned out to be a lesbian, and who vowed to prosecute a poor Christian boy who had been victimized by a violent knife-wielding feminist? Oh, and whose party had withdrawn its endorsement of her?
Or would they stay home on election day and let the generic Democrat win?
Roz seems pretty sure it’s the latter, but of course she’s a fictional character.
vlademir1
Looking at the info for Indiana’s 9th District I’d expect that they would. Since the 2011 redistricting they are absolutely Republican leaning (only just a bit less so than Ohio’s 8th, which I live just outside of) and the current zeitgeist of Republican voters (last eight years or so) in the OH/IN/KY tristate area has been of the flavor “better a Republican who doesn’t match the party ideal than a Democrat of any stripe”.
thejeff
Maybe the redistricting is why the initial take on her seat is that it was something of a tossup.
In-universe, Move-In Day was Sunday, Aug. 29, so election day is Tuesday, Nov. 2, which is 18 days after today. At the current rate, and assuming no major time skips, that’s 1202 days in real time, not counting the strips that are still left in the current storyline (which no one but Willis can count).
That puts us in 2022, somewhere between the middle of May and middle of June, which is the end of the midterm primary season. (Most states, including Indiana, will have already had their primaries by then.)
Oh, for an editing button: in-universe, today is Friday, Oct. 15, hence in-universe Nov. 2 is 18 days away.
Needfuldoer
Right, and election day is November 2nd because it’s always the first Tuesday of the month, and DoA follow’s 2010’s calendar for its days of the month. (So in 2021 it will align with real time again!)
Tan
> because it’s always the first Tuesday of the month
It’s actually the Tuesday after the first Monday of the month. So if November starts on a Tuesday (as it did in 2016), Election Day is November 8th. But regardless, yes, it’s Nov 2.
(the reason for this was to keep consistent the number of days between Election Day and when the Electoral College meets, which at the time was the first Wednesday in December, and now is the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December)
((I don’t know why it’s now the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December. They felt it was a good idea in 1936 apparently.))
Needfuldoer
Okay the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
Though to be fair, if it’s for extra class credit, it may be part of trying to make up for bad grades she got during her slump.
I’m still not really happy that ditching Walky seems to have solved all her problems. But maybe there’s more fallout to come.
BBCC
It certainly is but I don’t like that she’s replaced one commitment with another.
I don’t think Dorothy’s problems are solved. Her eyes look better but she’s still got her hair in a mess, and we’ve just heard she’s adding more stuff to her plate. I think breaking up with Walky freed some time up but it’s ultimately just kicked the can down the road.
My OTP is Dorothy/Drama-free Life and Joyce is getting in the way of my ship.
Also, if Gender Studies is up next, does that mean we get to see more Roz and Joe, and Joe interacting with Joyce? Please, Willis, I’ve been good so far this year!
130 thoughts on “Canvassing”
Ana Chronistic
urge to spill, rising
Tan
Okay, for real, what the hax Ana…. https://i.imgur.com/DLLIh5b.jpg
(screenshot not edited at all except to crop and add red arrows)
Dana
I think Ana’s sysadmin friend at Hiveworks didn’t fully test that script they wrote her to cheat on comments.
Anthony Paoli
Ana’s comments are so integral that they’re now considered part of the page and not counted with the rest of us.
Schpoonman
She’s very powerful.
Clif
Also exhibiting Flash-like speed to get her comment typed in the micro-instant between when the code where comments are counted is executed and when the code that assembles the comments are executed. Since the super-human speed required will invariably set the keyboard afire, I deduce she has obtained a unbelievably good deal on the mass purchase of keyboards.
Deathjavu
Or…copy paste after pre-making a comment from the patreon day-ahead feed?
King Daniel
If you checked the linked image, it shows Ana as having already made a comment – but with the page still claiming that the comic had had zero comments as of yet.
AnvilPro
Oooh nooo
JetstreamGW
You’re bad at this, Joyce.
Reltzik
Or good at this. Depends what “this” she’s actually aiming for.
Arawn
Judging by Joyce’s staring at Dorothy every time she says something… I’m going to guess she’s wondering if her prompts have made Dorothy curious enough to spill the beans to. Which, while disappointing, isn’t surprising.
ValdVin
Lots of great Joyce faces here. Panel 4 is my favorite.
Dana
Panel four makes me want to see if my aim is good enough to throw popcorn through the fourth wall and into Joyce’s mouth.
jeffepp
Buttered only, no salt.
Sunny
You think Joyce would have her popcorns and butter touch? They’re in separate bowls and she eats them with different spoons.
Bagge
I also love her looking for a reaction in panel 5
ValdVin
Yeah, Joyce is thinking, “Really, you’re not asking me to spill?”
William Leonard Reese Jr.
*chuckles* I honestly can’t tell if Joyce is just being Joyce or is she is teasing Dorothy with information she will want to know. Or if she just really is THAT bad at keeping gossip down.
not someone else
I’m reading it as “wants to tell her so badly for the exact reason Dorothy doesn’t need to know”.
Doctor_Who
“Joyce, I really don’t want this information.”
“But I’ve prepared a musical number complete with choreography!”
Marsh Maryrose
I’m reading it as Joyce is trying to manipulate Dorothy into asking Walky about the dorm drama, but I’ll admit it’s kind of a coin flip at this point.
Keulen
I think Joyce was expecting Dorothy to ask her what the information she knows is, and she didn’t know what to do when Dorothy told her not to tell her.
Nono
Oh hi Roz. Is that your impending rising relevance?
Joe Moose
You’re so bad at this, Joyce… XD
Yumi
Yay, time for gender studies? I hope all the drama comes out and Leslie’s like, “Please. Just let me teach this class. Okay, fine, I’ll make it about your lives.”
Doctor_Who
Leslie has seen the site and realized that she is the only teacher at the school with a cast bio. She will never escape the drama. She has become part of it.
Yumi
Her lesson planning revolves around predicting the drama in her students’ lives, but sometimes she’s wrong and that gets frustrating.
Dana
When she said she was dressing up for Robin, she was really just angling for more panel time. Hanging out in the Dumbingverse is pretty boring if you mostly live in front of backgrounds Willis has yet to find reason to draw.
Needfuldoer
Leslie knows there’s more coming, but she can’t edit the future. She’s stuck watching the comic play out at its natural pace like the rest of us, and finds that infuriating.
C.
She lives with Becky, which pulls her in to Joyce’s drama.
Kyrik Michalowski
Somebody better answer that phone because I called it. Joyce, you continue to be just insufferable.
timemonkey
She COULD have just run up and spilled all of Walky’s private information all over Dorothy. She’s actually respecting a boundry right now!
I mean, we’ll see if she can keep it to herself but right now she’s only mildly being inappropriate.
merbrat
“respecting the boundry” by being the pesky kid sister, putting foot over the “line”, repeatedly.
Beef
Hardly. Just doing that thing where you keep bringing a secret up so a person will ask and you’ll feel justified sharing it.
I love Joyce but some of the shit she pulls is irritating
SillyGoose
This. She’s deliberately trying to get D to ask her about it even though it was made absolutely clear that D knows it’s a) none of her business and b) probably not very healthy for her.
So Joyce, honey, your *desire* to gossip does not trump Dorothy’s *need* to be left alone.
Stephen Bierce
*plays “Careless Whisper” on the hacked Muzak*
Stephen Bierce
Is He Ever Gonna Dance Again?
newllend(henryvolt)
Joyce if anyone should do the deed of Breaking Bad news to Dorothy it should be Mike….( not for tactical reasons it’s because the pot needs to be stirred once in awhile)
Doctor_Who
Did you capitalize Breaking Bad on purpose, or did autocorrect think you were talking about the show?
Opus the Poet
Uhh, yes?
newllend(henryvolt)
I used the Google voice translater this time and for some reason it just did that.
Keulen
I kinda wonder what upcoming election it’ll be by the time we get to election day in-universe.
Needfuldoer
I think either the 2022 midterms or 2024 presidential, depending on the comic’s pace.
Roughly one DoA week passes per real-life year (though that’s slowing a bit), it’s currently Friday, October 15th, and election day is Tuesday, November 2nd.
Badgermole
The upcoming election? Which upcoming election?
BBCC
The one Robin’s running in. Seems like a midterm iirc.
King Daniel
Right now, it would probably be the…2020 election, I think, since Dumbing of Age is always set in the eternal present, which would make this strip currently set in 2019.
thejeff
I’m always sort of amused by how the elections interact with comic time.
Robin is a first term Representative
When she first appeared back in 2011, she was a member of the big Republican wave in 2010.
The rally storyline was in 2016 – She’d won in the smaller wave in 2014. The arc with Leslie continued through the 2016 election into early 2017. I’m not quite sure how that interacts with comic time – whether DoA’s eternal October of Now matches the closest October or the October of the current calendar year.
Robin hasn’t been seen since then, but now she’d have won election for the first time in 2018’s blue wave, which would have been an incredible feat for a Trumpy Republican in a swing district.
KimboGPataki
Robin is in my district. Sadly, we elected a Trumpy Republican pretty handily in 2018 (though not a first time Republican to be fair). It’s not really that swingy.
Marsh Maryrose
But would your district re-elect a Republican who turned out to be a lesbian, and who vowed to prosecute a poor Christian boy who had been victimized by a violent knife-wielding feminist? Oh, and whose party had withdrawn its endorsement of her?
Or would they stay home on election day and let the generic Democrat win?
Roz seems pretty sure it’s the latter, but of course she’s a fictional character.
vlademir1
Looking at the info for Indiana’s 9th District I’d expect that they would. Since the 2011 redistricting they are absolutely Republican leaning (only just a bit less so than Ohio’s 8th, which I live just outside of) and the current zeitgeist of Republican voters (last eight years or so) in the OH/IN/KY tristate area has been of the flavor “better a Republican who doesn’t match the party ideal than a Democrat of any stripe”.
thejeff
Maybe the redistricting is why the initial take on her seat is that it was something of a tossup.
Marsh Maryrose
In-universe, Move-In Day was Sunday, Aug. 29, so election day is Tuesday, Nov. 2, which is 18 days after today. At the current rate, and assuming no major time skips, that’s 1202 days in real time, not counting the strips that are still left in the current storyline (which no one but Willis can count).
That puts us in 2022, somewhere between the middle of May and middle of June, which is the end of the midterm primary season. (Most states, including Indiana, will have already had their primaries by then.)
Marsh Maryrose
Oh, for an editing button: in-universe, today is Friday, Oct. 15, hence in-universe Nov. 2 is 18 days away.
Needfuldoer
Right, and election day is November 2nd because it’s always the first Tuesday of the month, and DoA follow’s 2010’s calendar for its days of the month. (So in 2021 it will align with real time again!)
Tan
> because it’s always the first Tuesday of the month
It’s actually the Tuesday after the first Monday of the month. So if November starts on a Tuesday (as it did in 2016), Election Day is November 8th. But regardless, yes, it’s Nov 2.
(the reason for this was to keep consistent the number of days between Election Day and when the Electoral College meets, which at the time was the first Wednesday in December, and now is the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December)
((I don’t know why it’s now the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December. They felt it was a good idea in 1936 apparently.))
Needfuldoer
Okay the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
Coffee first, then comment!
StClair
“Subtle.”
By which I mean, not at all.
abysswatcher1993
Joyce really wants to tell, but she has to restrain her gossip instincts.
BBCC
Yes, Dorothy, because if there’s a thing you need, it’s more commitments.
And yeesh, Joyce is not good at subtle is she? Then again, I’m not entirely sure she’s trying to be.
Zee
I think she’s more talking about some sort of governmental election, not a school one
BBCC
That’s still another commitment though.
thejeff
Though to be fair, if it’s for extra class credit, it may be part of trying to make up for bad grades she got during her slump.
I’m still not really happy that ditching Walky seems to have solved all her problems. But maybe there’s more fallout to come.
BBCC
It certainly is but I don’t like that she’s replaced one commitment with another.
I don’t think Dorothy’s problems are solved. Her eyes look better but she’s still got her hair in a mess, and we’ve just heard she’s adding more stuff to her plate. I think breaking up with Walky freed some time up but it’s ultimately just kicked the can down the road.
Deadjolras
My OTP is Dorothy/Drama-free Life and Joyce is getting in the way of my ship.
Also, if Gender Studies is up next, does that mean we get to see more Roz and Joe, and Joe interacting with Joyce? Please, Willis, I’ve been good so far this year!
Yumi
Well, based on panel 1, I gotta assume there’s at least going to be more Roz. Hopefully for you, Joe will get there soon.
Beef
What was the previous Roz-Joe interaction? Was she mad about the list?
thejeff
“Don’t rate women, Joe.” Plus the early sex tape.
I don’t think we’ve actually seen them interact since the list came out publicly. She seemed fed up with his schtick even before that though.
Tacos
Dammit Joyce.
Pacce