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Decent
Posted on August 27, 2021 by David M Willis

260 thoughts on “Decent”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    “are we manscaping?”

    “I have no idea what this is”

  2. Doctor_Who

    Upgrading your rig?

    Evolving Walkychu to his next form?

    Filling some potholes for a smoother drive?

    Applying male-polish?

    Making him HD Ready?

    1. Delicious Taffy

      Damn it, “male-polish” is really good.

      1. Schpoonman

        Right? I’m a little in awe.

    2. Nayann Martinelli

      Upgrading to next-gen?

      1. Leadsynth

        Rebooting the franchise?

        1. Clif

          Dunno. Pimping your ride generally results in something you like better. Rebooting the franchise is always a crap shoot.

        2. Reltzik

          This is Walky we’re talking about. His instagram has a hashtag for crap shots.

        3. Common sense

          As the last five years have shown. Rebooting Never Works out well.
          …..Except for Ducktales. Ducktales was great.

        4. David M Willis

          honestly a pretty hilarious thing to say with Dumbing of Age Walky as a user image

  3. Ralph Oscar

    What’s a “two-sie”??

    1. Queen Anthai

      How do I put this…?

      “Going number two.”

      1. ESM

        Why…..why would Wallky be pooping in the dorm room….

        1. Lingo

          Presumably he’s in the half-bath that lies between their room and … hmm, I don’t know if we know who their neighbors are that share their half-bath.

        2. Thulcandran

          Ken and Arnold, I think.

        3. Mr D

          those poor bastards.

        4. Delicious Taffy

          [topical comment about certain people who take animal medicine]

        5. Sam Smith

          Because this dorm is set up so that two adjacent rooms share a half-bath. The showers are down the hall, though.

        6. Leadsynth

          But yeah, none of my dorms had half-baths. Toilets and sinks were down the hall, with the showers.

    2. Yumi

      Shit

      1. King Daniel

        Crap

    3. Doctor_Who

      Never seen Scrubs, I assume?

      (It’s pooping)

    4. StClair

      Taking a shit.
      You asked.

    5. Yotomoe

      Dumping ass.

      1. He Who Abides

        Funny, that’s what I call some of your sketch dumps.

        Not all of them, just the sex-themed ones.

        1. Yotomoe

          I should draw some more DOA butts.

        2. Wagstaff

          Ah, Butts Disease.

          At this point though, calling it a disease is a disservice. It’d be like calling the good bacteria that live in our stomaches a “disease”.

        3. Clif

          But Yotomoe should definitely draw some more DOA butts.

          For reasons.

      2. BarerMender

        Dropping bombs.

    6. He Who Abides

      Takin’ a shite.

    7. mrnoidea

      An overly fragrant Tootsie Roll.

    8. UAW

      Dropping the kids off at the pool.

    9. Reltzik

      From context, it would appear to be something that could get Lucy dumped.

      *flees for dear crappy-punning life*

    10. Charles Spencer

      Uploading processed data to the cloud.

      1. mrnoidea

        ooh I like that one

    11. Deanatay

      AKA “Dropping a deuce”

  4. Suet

    Oh NOW it’s January? Huh.

    Depends on what ride we’re pimpin- oh… oh I hope so.

  5. Sirksome

    I see no issue with Walky’s fashion! Stop trying to change him!

    1. Doctor_Who

      I mean, it’s Walky, not Eliza Doolittle.

      Wouldn’t hurt to chisel a few of the Arby’s Sauce stains off his underwear, now would it?

      1. Sirksome

        Bah! He had the Arby’s sauce stains and spicy nuggets crumbs when Lucy was silently pining for him in the background and every straight girl was thirstier than a mermaid in the desert! I find it insulting to claim rights to upgrades now that he’s been locked down.

        1. woobie

          Lucy has not yet learned that you can’t change people.

        2. Delicious Taffy

          No, but you can scrub them. All she’s gotta do to get him to agree is offer to join him.

      2. Yotomoe

        The Arby’s stains are part of the package.

        1. Delicious Taffy

          That’s because he doesn’t shower enough

    2. Needfuldoer

      Walky’s girlfriends always dress him, as is tradition.

      1. Keulen

        Except Amber, but I’m not sure if they ever officially called themselves boyfriend and girlfriend.

        1. Yotomoe

          She was too busy UNdressing him.

  6. BBCC

    Booster is my everything. They are a gift that keep on giving. <3

  7. tim gueguen

    And thus began the beginning of the end of Walky’s relationship with Lucy.

    1. butts

      it’s just gonna be the pajama jeans debacle again, but in slow motion

      …or maybe normal motion, that one kind of happened at warp speed

      1. Clif

        If you find someone that’s perfect, you gots to change them. Thems the rules.

        Though to be fair, Walky *is* a bit of a fixer-upper.

        1. Delicious Taffy

          Oh god, you just reminded me of that song from Frozen.

        2. I am Nothing

          It’s 2021, people really ought to let it go now.

        3. drs

          “Do you want to have a flash-back?
          A memory from the past?”

        4. Steelbright

          That song made me so angry hahaha

        5. Deanatay

          That’s how relationships work.

          You start with perfect.

          And go downhill from there.

  8. Deathjavu

    When Lucy’s done, Walky will have a built in TV and sound system, 22″ spinning hubcaps, and customizable vibration settings.

    1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

      And those annoying underneath LED lights ?

      1. Deathjavu

        Light up sneakers. Relationships are about compromise, and that include was to appease Walky.

        1. Delicious Taffy

          It’s either the sneakers like you said, or Lucy has very interesting taste in toys. Or those subdermal LED implants except in his asscheeks instead of anywhere good.

        2. Clif

          I was assuming Monkey Master underwear and socks.

        3. Delicious Taffy

          What are you, some kinda pervert? Matching socks with underwear, what’s society coming to grumble grumble…

  9. brionl

    Decent? Eh, fair to middling…

  10. Brumagem

    I’ve talked bull about booster but I take it all back after seeing that hoodie

    1. Doctor_Who

      Stylish, I’ve gotta give them that.

      A hoodie that bares your midriff? It’s simultaneously appropriate for no weather, and every occasion.

    2. Delicious Taffy

      Yeah, tbh maybe we’ve been to hard on them. They do dress nice.

    3. not someone else

      I know, right, they look fucking amazing.

    4. Bicycle Bill

      Still having a hard time wrapping my mind around referring to a single individual hominid biped as “they”, no matter how many personalities/genders said individual claims. 

      1. Delicious Taffy

        It’s really nothin’ new, folks just didn’t notice it so much before us queers got a little louder in recent years. Long as you at least try to understand and roll with it regardless, I don’t see much harm.

      2. Lanie

        It’s pretty easy with some practice. Instead of using ‘he’ or ‘she’, just use ‘they’ instead. That’s quite literally all you have to do, and I have confidence you’ll be able to do it.

        1. Delicious Taffy

          True enough.

      3. Thag Simmons

        ‘They’ as a singular gender neutral pronoun is already something I’m used to, and it’s just common courtesy to call someone what they want to be called.

        I have a harder time wrapping my head around non-binary genders. Male and Female, those make sense to me, both because they’ve been hammered into my brain since I was a baby but also because they correspond to observable human dimorphism. The purpose, use and origin of the social construct seems clear to me, it clicks.

        Non-binary gender hasn’t clicked for me. Outside of the basic concept it’s something I don’t really get quite yet. I don’t know, It’s something I probably need to look into more.

        1. asmodai

          I can relate to that a bit, though as I have a few enby friends, I did some research, and concluded that I cannot fully understand enbies anymore than I can fully understand women (being a man myself), and that is totally OK in my view, so long as the partial understanding is enough not to accidentally harm them.

        2. Alex

          Society has some pretty funny ideas about how “men” and “women” should act. Some people don’t feel like they fit into either category. It’s sort of a rejection of the idea of gender roles by declaring you’re somewhere in between man and woman.

        3. thejeff

          Maybe. Sort of. I don’t really get non-binary myself in some ways.

          But gender roles and the ideas of how men and women should act aren’t the same as gender identity. You can certainly reject the cultural stereotypes of either or both men and women without declaring yourself not be one.

          As I understand it, it’s more like being binary trans is, except that instead of rejecting the one assigned to you in favor of the other, neither fits you properly. Or in some cases, sometimes you lean towards one side of the binary, other times towards the other.

        4. Delicious Taffy

          Speaking strictly for myself, it’s like a lack of any pull toward “feeling” feminine or masculine, at least as they’re generally understood in America. I look at “he” stuff and it’s like… For Other People, if that makes sense? And then I look at “she” stuff and it’s the same feeling but less severe.

          So like, I’m “biologically male”, for whatever that means, but I don’t feel, never really have felt, and have no inclination to feel like a Man, and trying to or other people trying to put me in that category leads to Extremely Bad Thoughts that border on end-it-all stuff. I’ve also tried out “Woman stuff” (again, whatever that means), and it’s felt like… trespassing? Or eating a new food and just not really liking it all that much? One half is an outright repulsion, the other is closer to “Hmmm, naah.”.

          So, for a lack of other terms and concepts, at least in my culture of origin, I look at “None” as the closest thing to a gender identity I can apply. I hope that helps.

        5. Leorale

          I’m assigned female, but when I call myself a woman, it feels exactly like I’m lying. Calling myself a man also feels like I’m lying. When I call myself nonbinary, or Jewish, or an educator, or any of my other identities, that feels like I’m telling the truth.

        6. Delicious Taffy

          That’s a really good way of putting it. It feels like lying to claim a binary gender. Thanks for that!

      4. deathjavu

        Singular they dates back to the 1600s and is used in Shakespeare. The idea that it’s grammatically incorrect is much more recent.

        1. Khyrin

          The idea that singular they is grammatically incorrect in general is road apples in my opinion. Singular they is how one refers to a person of unknown/indeterminate gender, after all.

        2. Clif

          I have no problem at all with indeterminate pronouns. I just think that calling something a hoodie when there is no visual evidence of a hood is a crime against nature.

        3. Brumagem

          you can see the drawstrings about the neck. You can’t see the hood itself but the strings are indicative of a hood.

      5. Brumagem

        It’s sad that English teachers spent so much time telling us it’s incorrect even though the singular they has been in regular use for hundreds of years.

    5. Keulen

      Booster’s hoodie looks kinda cool, but at the same time the bare midriff part makes it super impractical for keeping you warm in the winter.

      1. zee

        High waisted pants, boom

    6. Wereg

      Oh that kinda hoodie/shirt is always a look.

  11. Joe Moose

    Makeover? Is Booster channeling Tip all of a sudden?

    Actually, don’t answer that…

    1. Tawdry Quirks

      I’m picturing Booster with James’s pencil mustache now. (James being the same universe Tip-analogue from the Anasigma inspection team.)

      1. dralou

        If a mustache must be placed upon Booster’s face, then it’s Moustachio’s magnificent masterpiece that’s to be chosen.

  12. Thag Simmons

    I think last-panel Booster qualifies as a dreamworks face.

  13. Bagge

    “Tending her garden?”

    1. Reltzik

      So THAT’S what the moral of Candide actually was!

  14. mrnoidea

    Pimp my ride like it’s 2004 again and we’re playing NFSU2.

    those suvs looked really weird with the spoilers

    1. mrnoidea

      How do y’all know “Pimp my Ride” and not Need For Speed?!? Now im sad

      1. Delicious Taffy

        I always preferred Midnight Club, personally.

        1. Needfuldoer

          I was always more into Gran Turismo and Forza, or kart racers (especially Crash Team Racing. Those in-between, “action movie realistic” racing games trip me up, I always reflexively tried to correct for the automatic oversteer drifting in NFSU. Even regular arcade-style racers like the Need for Speed series and Test Drive throw me off sometimes.

        2. Schpoonman

          One time at a friend’s we started on a dragracing mode tht included automated “lane” changes at the tap of the joystick.

          Imagine our horror when we didn’t see that information and every tap to try to realign our forward vector instead produced mad sweeping turns.

  15. LiterallyJustSomeGuy

    Will Walky be out-styling Booster and their colorful crop top hoodie? Only time will tell

  16. Yotomoe

    It does imply that Lucy is going to be riding him at some point, doesn’t it?

    1. Yotomoe

      Incidentally, I think the only way to get me to agree to a makeover is if you referred to it as “pimping your ride”. Sounds trashy, just like me!

    2. Delicious Taffy

      God, I hope so. That girl deserves it. Let’s just hope Booster and/or Jennifer can exit gracefully when The Time arrives.

      1. Yotomoe

        It’d be weird if they stayed to watch, wouldn’t it. Weirder if they took notes. But it’d be nice if they yelled encouragement at them.

        1. Delicious Taffy

          I don’t know if an enthusiastic audience would make it more or less fun for me, personally. On the one hand, it might be neat to have that encouragement and motivation to make it a good show (partner allowing, we assume). On the other, they’d have to see my goblinoid figure and probably-weird sex faces. So…. ?

        2. Yotomoe

          If you can’t handle me at my most Goblin you don’t deserve me at my best.

        3. Delicious Taffy

          You. I like you. *approving nod*

        4. Wagstaff

          You guys think you’re goblin?

          Hopefully your bodies and brains don’t leave you occasionally questioning whether you’re completely human.

        5. Delicious Taffy

          Yeah, it’s called dysphoria.

        6. Wagstaff

          Well whatever it is, I guess I’m just gonna have to live with it. At least until I can pour my brain into a computer. And if not a “computer”, then something I guess you could call a “homonculus flesh puppet”.

        7. Delicious Taffy

          I’m not sure if you’re joking, in tune with your Mad Scientist thing. If so, please don’t, at least not to the person whose regular icon is a non-cis gender flag overlayed with an actual non-human alien designed as a visual representation of their self-image. If you’re not joking, we’ve all got our coping mechanisms and I’m sorry you’re in that boat. Not snapping at you, of course, just a gentle nudge.

        8. Wagstaff

          Don’t worry. When I talk about mad science, I’m always dead serious.

          But just so you have more context, the body I inhabit right now is basically like a rusty robot — some part of me is always malfunctioning every day.

          I’ll spare some of the more gruesome details for now, but let’s just say I have more things in common with my alias and avatar than I really want to.

        9. Clif

          Pouring your brain into a computer is not looking good at the present time. At least not in the short term of the next 25 years. We are currently able to train artificial neurons to form models with billions of parameters, and they can do amazing things. But it now turns out that single neurons are a lot more computationally complex than we thought and that a single real neuron is about the equivalent of a 10-layer network of artificial neurons. And we have no way, not even destructive, to obtain the parameters that define your software.

          On the other hand, if advances in medical science keeps you alive long enough to reach computers smarter than us, say another century, all bets are off. We have currently reached the point in medical technology of extending the average lifespan slightly more than one year each year, except that the opioid and covid epidemics have screwed up the statistics. And the politicians may yet screw up our current medical research system whereby insane amounts of money are spent in the hope of making a buck.

        10. StClair

          Well, you know, it is supposed to start this year.

        11. thejeff

          I’m always amused by fiction set just far enough in the future to be caught up to.

          And we would have seen the other metahumans by now. Not to mention the dragons.

        12. Clif

          In fairness, we those dragons are hard to see correctly.

        13. thejeff

          IIRC, while they could certainly hide, they also tended to be pretty obvious much of the time.

        14. Bathymetheus

          The coffee famine of 2022?

          That may very well happen – no metahumans required (but they are not forbidden).

        15. Wagstaff

          Not if I could use the power of science to find a process that can produce the major and active chemical constitutes of coffee without coffee beans!

  17. Dean

    Is a bare midriff really a January look?

    1. Yumi

      If you plan on throwing on a winter jacket before going outside anyway, sure, I guess.

    2. Delicious Taffy

      January is a social construct, like gender or nylon.

      1. mrnoidea

        Or the Queen of England

        1. milu

          Or the concept of a social construct

        2. thejeff

          Oooh, meta.

    3. adam Black

      in overheated dorms, maybe

      1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

        This is my cue to recount that in my northern college I kept my middle of the building window cracked open all winter because the middle rooms had to be horribly overheated for the rooms at the end to get any heat at all.

    4. Yotomoe

      It’s whatever season you want due to the advent of controlled internal temperature.

      1. Wagstaff

        Thank science for that!!!

        1. Clif

          Technically technology. We started controlling inside temperature with fire and steam and suchlike long before we understood what made combustion was or even what heat really was.

        2. Yotomoe

          To be fair, creating controlled fire and making steam are also Science.

        3. Thag Simmons

          is it really science if it predates the formalized scientific method?

        4. Wagstaff

          Good point! 10/10

          My original comment were really referring to the modern implementations of temperature control.

          But those who painstakingly tried to figure out how heat worked so they can harness its nature, trying out many configurations with the materials they had, experimenting with different setups, were performing what we in the modern day would call a scientific investigation, even before the formalized scientific method cleaned up and streamlined the process.

          The scientific method is really important, not only because it provides a system that’s intentionally designed to eliminate biases in our investigations, but also lets us find new opportunities for investigation to learn even more about how the universe works!

        5. thejeff

          I’m with Thag here. The scientific method is really a revolutionary breakthrough. People certainly tried to figure stuff out before that, but it’s not really correct to call it science. Engineering. Natural philosophy.
          Just fiddling around with something trying to make it work better isn’t science.

        6. Yotomoe

          I think science, scientific method or not, is just people trying stuff out, seeing what works and then establishing that that is how it works. Science is the explanation of the world around us. Combining materials and then figuring out that you can use them in such a way with some level of consistency I definitely feel like it should be considered science. Especially fire which is a chemical reaction that very rarely occurs naturally outside of our ability to conjure it.
          (like forest fires were always a thing and volcanos and lava too but the idea of having fire all the time whenever you need it is definitely a human thing)

        7. Wagstaff

          Totally agree! When people think of the scientific investigation streamlined with the help of the invaluable advent of the scientific method, and call it “science”, it’s really short for “rigorous science”.

          Rigorous science should DEFINITELY be opted for, given that with it we have made more scientific and technological progress in the last few centuries than in the thousands of years prior!

          That said, confusion cleared, I sure hope the next major lingua franca on this planet to come after English will be a hell of a lot less confusing and stupid.

        8. Wagstaff

          The people who first started doing that were just using the most advanced models of heat available at the time, so still science as well as tech.

          Our understanding of heat is still advancing even to this day –for instance in modern physics research that seeks to deduce the quantum effects present in super high and super low temperatures, and others which may one day help us achieve room temperature superconductors and superinsulators.

        9. Clif

          Fair enough. But my original point was that technology frequently proceeded the science, and then science enabled the engineering to produce better technology. This was almost universally true up until my lifetime, when the transistor and laser took a different route.

          But in any case, if we are going to personify Science, then as beautiful as she is,, it’s actually her sisters, Engeneering and Technology, we should be thanking as they are the ones actually responsible. And while Science may be supporting them, on that basis it’s Queen Mathematics we should be worshiping.

        10. thejeff

          And yet, it was with the development of the scientific method that all that took off after thousands of years of slow incremental progress.

    5. Thag Simmons

      It is if you’re indoors, or stupid, or a frost giant, or any combination of the three really

      1. Clif

        If you’re a stupid indoors frost giant then you’re home free.

    6. zee

      Maybe they’re just one of those people who’s like a furnace. They’re indoors anyway

  18. Ian livs

    I want that hoodie, goddamnit

  19. plasticwrap

    Isn’t Pimp My Ride old enough now that most college freshman don’t even know it? Or do they still rerun it on MTV?

    1. Delicious Taffy

      It’s a colloquialism at this point, I assume. I barely knew it was a show back when it was big, it was just something the other third-graders said.

    2. John

      it ran until 2007, so if they were 5 when it ended they’d be 19 now, which is old enough to remember it and also be a freshman if their birthday’s during the fall semester.

    3. HeySo

      Putting aside the DoA uses relative to real life, I see the phrase used ironically/jestingly or by association [eg, “gonna pimp your fridge?”] enough now that I’m pretty sure most people’d get the reference for its general pop-culture meaning, even without understanding its origin.

      1. HeySo

        Ugh, stupid formatting issues. *DoA uses (a condensed timeframe) relative to

        1. HeySo

          More curious why it erased “the [fact that]” before that line, since that bit I didn’t have in brackets. o.O;

    4. adam Black

      Cribs is coming back

      1. mrnoidea

        I wonder if any of those people are still living in their same “cribs” today.

        1. Delicious Taffy

          Probably very few, and I bet it got old fast for those few. Expensive too, I bet.

    5. He Who Abides

      Never been to a game shop, have you? Even the little kids call it “pimping out” a deck.

      1. Delicious Taffy

        Probably not all that much cheaper than with a car, either depending on the game. I’ve got a playset (3) of a Yu-Gi-Oh! card that runs for about $100 a pop, and that’s only because I paid someone on Etsy $5 for some proxies (obvious fakes created specifically to fill in for the stupidly expensive cards).

        1. He Who Abides

          Which card? Dragun, or something else?

        2. Delicious Taffy

          Oh, I do have a legit copy of Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon (and a proxy from before), along with the other cards that let you summon him super fast. But I’m talkin’ about Magician’s Souls, the card so good it costs half a month’s rent to have in a deck. See, if it’s in your hand, you can say so, then you can toss a Dark Magician/Girl straight to the discard pile, and then it either summons itself or you can discard it to get the Magician you just chucked right on the field. In a deck based around summoning and fusing Dark Magician cards, Magician’s Souls is absolutely invaluable, and it’s only had one print, hence the price.

          Taffy very much likes their Dark Magicians, you see.

        3. He Who Abides

          Oof, yeah, Magician’s Souls. The card that makes Dark Magicians cost close to my Legacy Reanimator deck.

          Well, if Taffy likes their Dark Magicians, what does Taffy think about their new support that recently dropped in Japan?

        4. Delicious Taffy

          I want like 2000 of that new Kuriboh, and every single one if those other cards is getting put in at least the side deck. They’re all so cool.

        5. Clif

          Games. Pft! Wait till you guys hear my scheme for collectable bit coins.

        6. Delicious Taffy

          Bits of coins? It’ll never catch on, but a niche hobby is still a hobby.

    6. zee

      I’m only a couple years older than them, i don’t really know anything about pimp my ride itself, but pimp my ride memes were massive when i was a kid and the source of all my knowledge

  20. adam Black

    just noticed the chapter title.

    Maybe Jocelyne is transitioning?

    1. Delicious Taffy

      Please please please it would coincide with irl stuff so nicely (not 1:1 but related)

      1. He Who Abides

        Are congratulations of any sort in order?

        1. Delicious Taffy

          Not entirely sure? I’ve just been taking steps to start being much more open about my identity. Y’know, come out to my D&D group, mention a legally-legal name change to this person or that. Of course, I don’t know that it’s the same as like, a capital-t Transition, but close enough that the idea of a Jocelyn Transitioning story arc makes happy chemicals.

        2. Miri

          Hoping you find much support, acceptance, and people appreciating your authentic self 🙂

        3. Delicious Taffy

          So far, so good, thank ya kindly. There are definitely (always) people who won’t and can’t Get It, but ya know how it is.

        4. a/snow/mous/e

          I can imagine… :/
          Good luck, Taffy <3

        5. Clif

          So say we all.

    2. Thag Simmons

      The title might suggest that. It’s certainly a popular bit of speculation

    3. Nenja

      I was thinking about that too. Would love to see more of her in the comic.

    4. Reltzik

      Very possible.

      Alternatively, one of Joyce’s brothers might show up and assume their sister is still Christian.

      Also Becky’s now Joyce’s (informally) adopted sister so that might be it.

      1. Clif

        We haven’t seen much in the way of Becky-Mary interaction.

        1. Delicious Taffy

          That’s true. I’m not sure Becky has it in her to be too bothered by Mary, which could probably lead to some really funny moments.

  21. Barf Ninjason

    No…longer… I wonder if Booster’s hust guessing here, or if David Phinneas Walkerton has really taken a dump in front of Lucy the Nice. Guessing it’s the former, since that would just add fuel to the fire of look how subtly rude Booster is. *Hoping* it’s the former, cuz there are approximately zero friends you should be comfortable shitting in front of. Though I know two weird stories female friends of mine have told me about pooping together as little girls. But that’s neither here nor there.

    1. Delicious Taffy

      Do you make your friends leave the house when you run to the bathroom? I figure some people do that, but I don’t think Walky’s the sort to.

      1. Bicycle Bill

        No, but I do shut the door to the bathroom while I’m taking care of business.

      2. Barf Ninjason

        I mean, no one does THAT, right? Unless they jave a +1 Screw of Loosedness. I figure that’s gotta refer to the door being open while he poops up a poop storm, eh wot.

        1. Delicious Taffy

          Thank you for that lovely visual. Please disregard the large bottle labeled “Brain Bleach” from which I will be chugging in short order.

    2. Tan

      I believe what Booster is saying is that they have previously allowed Lucy into the dorm room while Walky was in the adjoining bathroom pooping. There is no reason to assume the bathroom door wasn’t closed.

      1. Clif

        I believe Booster was being a smart-ass.

        I heartily approve. ?

    3. Thag Simmons

      I think the implication is that Lucy has more permissions to enter than she had previously, not less

    4. Keulen

      Now I’m wondering what Walky’s middle name is. It’d be funny if it’s actually Phinneas or something similar.

      1. Barf Ninjason

        I almost wrote something with an X, cuz I felt like it started with one, then I realized I was just thinking of how David S. Cohen switched his name to David X. Cohen when he went over to Futurama.

        1. Delicious Taffy

          David Xehanort Walkerton.

  22. Nayann Martinelli

    Booster has what we used to call “sharp wit”, back in the old days… By what I mean, me, in the lost age of 2018 and before

    1. Delicious Taffy

      There was nothing before 2018, don’t be silly.

      1. Clif

        Life begins at 2018.

  23. Opus the Poet

    Just gonna drop that I became one of Willis’ Army of Unkillable Badasses twenty years ago coming Tuesday. Just in case he wants to say somethin’.

    Or the rest of you.

    And I hear they never did get the door open on the truck after I pancaked the cab and had to sell the truck for scrap.

    1. Delicious Taffy

      Tuesday seems like a good enough day to celebrate a couple of decades. Try not to replicate the event, probably though?

      1. Clif

        Yeah. What Taffy said. It’s the army that’s unkillable, not the individual Badass.

    2. Bicycle Bill

      Unkillable, huh?   Challenge accepted!!

      Seriously, though, good on ya for coming through it and toughing it out this long. Your body may be pranged up, but your sense of humor seems more-or-less intact.

  24. Johan

    Oh god.
    Men aren’t projects. Let Walky be himself. It’s what you liked, right?

    1. Clif

      Men aren’t projects. Good one. One of the funniest comments I’ve read here.

    2. zee

      She bought clothes for her boyfriend, the horror

  25. BenRG

    Wow! Lucy and Walky are already at the point where she’s trying to “improve” him and “tidy him up”?

    1. Delicious Taffy

      Dorothy did the same thing and he was generally (reluctantly (performatively)) receptive.

      1. ValdVin

        Well, his receptiveness was helped by (as he described it) an increase in butt grabs.

  26. Chris

    “Booster, you do not get to use the word ‘we’ in reference to what is about to happen, because you will not be part of it.”

    1. Delicious Taffy

      They may be using the Royal We.

      1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

        Or Booster is three raccoons in a trenc— hoodie.

        1. Delicious Taffy

          A trench-hoodie, you say? So, there’s a chance they’re in Organization XIII.

        2. Beau Kirin Maysey

          Which Dumbing of Age character do YOU think is secretly Xehanort??

          Type in your answer below!

        3. Sam

          Xehanort is Mike in disguise.

        4. Delicious Taffy

          It’s either Carl or Agatha.

      2. a/snow/mous/e

        The third-person we?

        1. a/snow/mous/e

          I’d say that’s more Voyeural than Royal

        2. Clif

          We is convinced by your logic.

        3. Clif

          I am, of course using the third person singular we.

  27. PB

    Booster looks great in a crop top. That is all for now.

    1. Delicious Taffy

      You’re right, and we’re glad you said it.

  28. Atrius

    For the love of god, Willis. Do something about these video ads that completely cover the strip on mobile and can’t be closed or skipped.

    1. Wagstaff

      Use Brave Browser, open the image in a new tab, or use a free VPN like Cyber Ghost.

      At least one of those should work.

      1. Deanatay

        I don’t get pop-up ads (at least, not on THIS comic), but I am one of those freaks who still uses Firefox.

        1. Clif

          Turn your mobile sideways so the ad doesn’t eat up the entire screen. Then enlarge the print so a comment takes up the full width.

        2. StClair

          Deanatay: Same. On a desktop mini-tower, even.

    2. Delicious Taffy

      I agree that those damn video ads have gotten out of hand. I don’t imagine they’ve gone completely unreported to Hiveworks, but I also don’t know what the turnover might be for chucking ’em. Changing browser modes and whatnot is just a band-aid on the bigger problem, which is that these ad companies think it’s totally fine to just cover up huge chunks of what people want to see, all so they can make like a tenth of a cent advertising some product nobody cares about.

      1. Wagstaff

        Willis doesn’t even get to see a penny of that ad money, does he?

        1. asmodai

          Him or Hiveworks, otherwise, why put those ads on this website? They are still getting paid by an ad agency (probably orders of magnitude less than what that agency gets from the companies that place those ads)

        2. Clif

          Selling ads is not easy or cheap and I do not begrudge the ad agencies their profit. While I can hope that a few pennies on the dollar makes its way to Willis to support the opulent lifestyle I unrealistically imagine for him, he benefits from Hiveworks services, as do we. Covering up what we are here to see for over half the viewing time is not a winning formula for making friends and influencing people and I anticipate someone will eventually figure this out. In the mean time, there are a large number of courses of actions available if aggravated enough, of which ad blocking is the extreme. For me, it is as simple as sighing and turning the tablet so that the long way is top to bottom.

        3. BBCC

          Willas has always told folks they need to report them to Hiveworks because he cannot get rid of them. In my experience, they’re very prompt about it.

    3. asmodai

      TBH, this was the final straw that made me subscribe to Willis’s Patreon: supporting them though Patreon allowed me to guiltlessly re-enable my adblocker on the DOA website. Oh what a delightful feeling!

      But please, don’t use this as a means to get more patroen subscribers, invading ads should never be a means to an end!

    4. Needfuldoer

      Set your mobile browser to request the desktop version of the site. It won’t load that video ad anymore.

      Then complain to Hiveworks. They’re responsible for the nuts-and-bolts work of keeping the site up AFAIK.

  29. bogeywoman

    I don’t want to start another pro/anti booster thread, but I like that they are both very respectful of clearly defined boundaries (like door permissions as likely outlined in their roommate agreement) AND unskilled on picking up unspoken boundaries. It’s one of the things I relate to big time and consider Autistic coded

    1. Delicious Taffy

      I see what you mean, yeah. That’s as far as I’ll go, in the spirit of Booster-centrism.

    2. Smooti

      … yknow, I hadn’t clocked why I liked Booster so dang much (besides being nonbinary as well and loving every bit of rep I can get)

    3. Spencer

      Yeah, ditto.

      I think something we kind of forget about that rapid fire analyses in the girls’ dorm is that Booster only started after Ruth dragged it out of them, whereupon they couldn’t really stop until someone was shouting and a clearly upset Amber made a rueful comment.

    4. Sunny

      It IS nice to just get some good snark out of them.

  30. Moon

    my last boyfriend had no bedframe no bedsheets no nightstand just a king sized mattress in the center of his bedroom

    1. Moon

      i didn’t finish but maybe ive said enough… jk he would put his laptop and game consoles directly onto the mattress it made them sounds like they were taking off like a rocket

  31. Rabisch

    Lucy snd Booster seems to be good friends
    . This is refreshing ♡.

  32. darkoneko

    dorothy tried that, too

    1. Clif

      Dorothy succeeded at it. She was also negotiating from a position of strength. We’ll see how it goes.

  33. Lone Duck

    Phrase it as “I’m offering free upgrades to your Charisma stat”. Walky will be like “I know I’m being played, but who am I to turn down a level up?”

  34. Keulen

    Much as I like this ship, maybe Lucy could try liking Walky as he is and not trying to “improve” him unless he actually wants it.

    1. JBento

      Lucy never liked WALKY, because she didn’t KNOW Walky. She liked an image of Walky that she built in her mind that had no connection with reality.

      I’m hoping this blows up spectacularly, as “girl: ooh, I like HIM. And now I’m going to make some drastic changes” is one of my least favourite narrative arcs, right after “the murderous villain is a good person actually, and just needs kindness and TWU WUV to be redeemed”.

      1. Vukodlak

        They’ve spent a lot of time together. I don’t think I you can honestly claim they don’t know each other.

        1. David M Willis

          i mean technically, they’ve been hanging out for four months, which is longer than the duration of the entire strip before then

        2. Clif

          Well obviously nothing of any importance happened during those four months or we would have seen it.

          (Not that we’re bitter about Halloween or anything.)

        3. Spencer

          I view it less as “Lucy doesn’t know Walky” and more “the Walky that Lucy latched onto is the one who annoys everyone talking about his bowel movements.”

          Because Dorothy and Amber didn’t fall for this Walky, they fell for the lovable goofball who’d go to the ends of the earth for the people he cared about.

        4. JBento

          NOW, they have. But Lucy was going for Walky 5 minutes after knowing him.

        5. Spencer

          Yeah like, Walky takes her on a date and she goes “so when did we first realize we like each other?”

          That is a loaded statement, and I think there’s major drama to plump in the idea of Walky dating someone who doesn’t challenge him or prompt him to grow, especially in the aftermath of Walky going through a deeply traumatic incident, and they start enabling their worst aspects.

          (your dang avatar placement made me think you were replying to me again)

  35. temperaryobsessor

    Hey Walky is way more likely to like the idea of Lucy pimping her ride than giving him a makeover.

  36. Username Taken

    I’m loving Booster today. Pimp my ride… They’re in rare form. 😀

  37. TheScreenJockey

    “You are NO LONGER allowed in for two-sies” is the true punchline of this strip, and it’s incredibly brilliant.”

    1. Amos Batista

      Dumbing of age Book 12: “You are NO LONGER allowed in for two-sies”

  38. Beau Kirin Maysey

    Booster, I’m still nothing but iffy on you and have no idea what you’re talking about, BUT the aesthetic in on POINT today

  39. William

    Oh, I do love Booster. They have been an excellent addition to the cast.

  40. AlexaSpuds

    I love booster lol, they’re so cool, I’d date someone like them irl
    in fact, I sorta did cuz my ex gf had a personality similar to theirs

  41. John

    Okay, I really like Booster here. They have been a bit of an ass in the past, but I don’t believe they are a bad person. And this easy back and forth with Lucy and Walky helps confirm that.

  42. Alex

    I love everything about Booster here. I can’t decide if I love the outfit or the expression in the last panel more.

  43. bcb

    So, from the title I’m guessing this chapter will either be where Joyce finally gets the courage to tell Becky the truth, or it will involve Jocelyn.

  44. Bicycle Bill

    The more I read this comic, the more I find myself in awe of Willis’ attention to detail.  Just take that first panel, which I have up on my brower along with an aerial shot of the IU campus – specifically Read Quadl – from a website called virtualglobetrotting.com/map/indiana-university/view/google/  Not only does he have the sun just peeking over the horizon – and from the correct direction (east, which is to the right in this view)! – but he’s even got the size and the spacing of the windows on Read Quad correct; hell, he’s even got the building color close enough to be a near-perfect match.

    And then there’s the background — buildings like the Diversity, Equity, and Mullticultural Affairs (the gable-roofed building just above Read Quad) and what appears to be Weatherly Hall (at the top right) are just where they are on the actual campus.  I’ve never been there myself, but I feel that just from carrying a few DoA pictures like this I could still probably find my way around easily enough.

    1. Bicycle Bill

      And what’s even more amazing is that it’s not like he lives in Bloomington nd can just scoot down the street to check his references.  He’s doing this from an entire state away!!

      1. Clif

        Yeah, but we’re worth all the extra trouble, right?

  45. Chris (the other one)

    These are “real” questions I’m truly curious about. They could apply to any Uni, but being that this is where it is, I’m actually asking about IU specifically. To be clear, I mean in the real, really real, IU, not the DoA IU.

    Does IU still have male/female exclusive dorms, and or floors? If so, how are occupants determined from a gender separation? Does a student declare what they are, and are assigned rooms accordingly? What happens to non-declared? Do they just get put into gender mixed rooming? Finally, where do trans-male and trans-female go?

    1. Chris (the other one)

      Also, please don’t read too much into the above. I am a 57-yo binary hetero male . I really do my best to stay current with all of the names, titles, and thoughts about diversity and equality, but it’s a battle. I grew up in a very rural mostly white town in an age where there were gay men and women, but most of them were closeted. I think the world of today is better in a lot of ways, but I still get confused about many things. I may sound like a troll here, but I promise I don’t intend my self to be one.

    2. Clif

      I have no idea for universities generally. Back in my day we pretended that gender was immutable, predetermined and binary.

      And that because men behave badly, women were inferior and needed to be protected for their own good, even if, like Lucy, we phrased it more delicately than that.

  46. zee

    Quick booster love thread, bc I’m very tired despite it being 1pm

    My baby is looking SO CUTE in that cropped hoodie and I’m jealous. I kinda want them to share their closet with me or give me fashion tips. Like someone else said earlier they’re very good with boundaries here in a way that’s. V relatable to my ND, struggles with understanding boundaries for possibly different reasons brain. While still being very funny about it.
    I’m also excited to see Lucy pimp her ride

  47. chuckroast

    Just keep not being weird, Booster. It’s doing wonders for you.

    1. Brumagem

      To be fair Booster is far from the only person who would make a comment like that.

  48. Cmd1095

    Booster’s sass never gets old lol

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