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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    September 19, 2018 at 12:02 am | # | Reply

    “it’s .̷͓̇~̴̜̀~̸̿ͅ.̷̝̿~̵̢́^̶̪͆*̸͇̚*̵̳̽.̴̙̽*̴͎̊^̵̦̕MAGIC^̴̣͒*̴͕̓.̷̝̕*̸̜͐*̶̭͛^̴͍̈́~̵̘̿.̴͕͑~̴̺̅~̶̤̄.̴̘̓ up to the time it absolutely doesn’t work”

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      September 19, 2018 at 8:39 am | # | Reply

      Oh, it works fine. It’s just that Fuckface controls the suggestions, not Joyce.

      He’s currently suggesting Sarah give him some lettuce.

  2. AnvilPro
    AnvilPro
    September 19, 2018 at 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Fuckface has been nerfed in the jump between universes

    • Cholma
      Cholma
      September 19, 2018 at 12:10 am | # | Reply

      +1

    • ShinyNeen
      ShinyNeen
      September 19, 2018 at 12:11 am | # | Reply

      It’s like the sequel to a video game- all the old strategies have been nerfed. Devs want us to use the new, sparkly fresh stuff!

      But maybe we just want to wear lizards on our heads.

      • Makkabee
        Makkabee
        September 19, 2018 at 5:01 pm | # | Reply

        “But maybe we just want to wear lizards on our heads.”

        This is a deep and profound truth.

    • Passchendaele
      Passchendaele
      September 19, 2018 at 12:12 am | # | Reply

      hopefully they’ll fix that in the next patch

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        September 19, 2018 at 7:45 am | # | Reply

        The devs can nerf him until he’s inert, and we’ll still see comments complaining “Fuckface is OP”.

      • Clif
        Clif
        September 19, 2018 at 3:09 pm | # | Reply

        I play exactly one video game and I play it occasionally and on the PC. Sadly this resonates.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          September 19, 2018 at 7:25 pm | # | Reply

          Sup TF2 buddy? I’ve been playing it off and on since The Orange Box launched and it’s been declared dead at least every few months for the last few years…

  3. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    September 19, 2018 at 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Yes, be less sarcastic.

  4. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    September 19, 2018 at 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Joyce, it’s only a -1 to their will saves, don’t expect to part the Red Sea with that lizard.

    • Dana
      Dana
      September 19, 2018 at 12:05 am | # | Reply

      Wait, Moses made the Red Sea fail a will save?

      • Tacos
        Tacos
        September 19, 2018 at 12:06 am | # | Reply

        Of course. I thought everybody knew that.

      • Zach
        Zach
        September 19, 2018 at 12:08 am | # | Reply

        He used ‘intimidation’ and it buckled under the pressure.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        September 19, 2018 at 12:09 am | # | Reply

        No, he made everyone else think he parted the Red Sea, and they walked across without noticing how wet they were getting.

        • Dana
          Dana
          September 19, 2018 at 12:23 am | # | Reply

          Hard to picture, but hey, you’re the Time Lord.

    • butts
      butts
      September 19, 2018 at 12:28 am | # | Reply

      it’s a masterwork item, it gives a +2 to diplomacy

      • woobie
        woobie
        September 19, 2018 at 1:20 am | # | Reply

        If Fuckface wasn’t green, I would suspect a Mulberry Ioun Stone.

  5. Nono
    Nono
    September 19, 2018 at 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Maybe it just amplifies already present traits? So it makes Sarah ULTRA sarcastic, and Joyce disrespect boundaries EVEN MORE.

    • Dana
      Dana
      September 19, 2018 at 12:06 am | # | Reply

      It makes Carla ULTRA CAR-la.

    • Freemage
      Freemage
      September 19, 2018 at 11:03 am | # | Reply

      … Mike must never meet Fuckface.

  6. Tacos
    Tacos
    September 19, 2018 at 12:04 am | # | Reply

    So is she just gonna walk around all day like that or…?

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      September 19, 2018 at 12:07 am | # | Reply

      I cannot imagine Malaya allowing Joyce to keep FF on her head all day.

    • pjeseb
      pjeseb
      September 19, 2018 at 12:07 am | # | Reply

      Why not? He IS her iguana now, after all.

      Finders, keepers!

      • Bicycle Bill
        Bicycle Bill
        September 19, 2018 at 12:59 am | # | Reply

        On the contrary. Fuckface has adopted Joyce in much the same way cats adopt a⃥n⃥ ⃥o⃥w⃥n⃥e⃥r⃥ support staff.

        • bhtooefr
          bhtooefr
          September 19, 2018 at 5:43 am | # | Reply

          …we do have HTML tags for strikethrough here (and whatever you tried with Unicode didn’t work on my system)…

          • Deanatay
            Deanatay
            September 19, 2018 at 8:42 am | # | Reply

            Works fine for me…

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          September 19, 2018 at 7:58 am | # | Reply

          That’s absolutely something cats will do. One of my neighbor’s indoor/outdoor cats decided “fuck this, I’m out” one day, and moved in with a family down the street. (It wasn’t abused or anything, they’re just the type to leave food and a box out and call the cats in every night, but otherwise leave them to their own devices.) Now it’s exclusively an indoor cat, and it’s pampered and showered with attention every day.

          Joyce is a convenient heat source for Fuckface right now, but I bet he’ll crawl right back onto Malaya’s head once she finds them.

          • Logan Hawkes
            Logan Hawkes
            September 19, 2018 at 1:39 pm | # | Reply

            “Joyce is a convenient heat source for Fuckface right now, but I bet he’ll crawl right back onto Malaya’s head once she finds them.”

            I sense that Fuckface may be a metaphor.

    • toby
      toby
      September 19, 2018 at 12:08 am | # | Reply

      Fuckface’s powers might get her some bonus points if she lets him tag along to class… although I think Joyce is too good to intentionally use his powers for that.

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      September 19, 2018 at 1:25 am | # | Reply

      Might be hard to hide him from the authorities if so.

      Then again, maybe Fuckface’s powers extend precisely to ‘make anyone in a position of power overlook the iguana on a student’s head’? I’d accept that.

  7. tim gueguen
    tim gueguen
    September 19, 2018 at 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Sorry, Joyce, but she’s too cynical for that magic to work.

  8. Passchendaele
    Passchendaele
    September 19, 2018 at 12:04 am | # | Reply

    i hate to break it to you joyce, but if sarah *weren’t* sarcastic, the world would probably end

    • Passchendaele
      Passchendaele
      September 19, 2018 at 12:07 am | # | Reply

      also rip tropical storm joyce

    • Tan
      Tan
      September 19, 2018 at 12:13 am | # | Reply

      So it’s a win-win for Joyce.

  9. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    September 19, 2018 at 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Joyce, I don’t think you understand what is actually going on around you. In other news, the sky is still blue, Mike is still an asshole and I’m still grumpy.

    • lilyliv
      lilyliv
      September 19, 2018 at 12:11 am | # | Reply

      Perfect profile pic is perfect.

      • Emperor Norton II
        Emperor Norton II
        September 19, 2018 at 3:21 pm | # | Reply

        I’m already looking forward to going through the comments archive in 3-5 years, when Willis (most likely) next changes the avatar roulette; just to see if Kyrik’s profile pic still is perfect.

  10. Electriccombines
    Electriccombines
    September 19, 2018 at 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Come on Sarah, don’t be cold blooded! That’s Fuckface’s job!

  11. Foxhack
    Foxhack
    September 19, 2018 at 12:05 am | # | Reply

    … Ruth is going to see Fuckface, isn’t she?

    • DaveM
      DaveM
      September 19, 2018 at 10:00 am | # | Reply

      Unless I’m quite mistaken (which I freely admit I could be), Ruth is not Malaya’s RA. Therefore Fuckface will be hidden by an S.E.P. (somebody else’s problem) field and this will be unnoticeable to Ruth unless she actively tries to trick herself into noticing him. Anyone who’s read the late great Douglas Adams can see this. 🙂

      • Clif
        Clif
        September 19, 2018 at 10:20 am | # | Reply

        Originally that was true, but Billie got traded for Malaya and now Ruth is Malaya’s RA just as she was Billie’s.

        • DaveM
          DaveM
          September 19, 2018 at 7:49 pm | # | Reply

          Thank you, I’d forgotten that little detail (I knew Billie was traded, but forgot Malaya was the other end of that trade). Oh well, hopefully Ruth will recognise that FuckFace’s femurs are too small for her to bother with (Malaya’s femurs are a seperate issue).

  12. Cheshrin
    Cheshrin
    September 19, 2018 at 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Fuckface might be giving you advantage on your Persuasion checks, Joyce, but Sal’s DC is too high for your proficiency modifier.

  13. motorfirebox
    motorfirebox
    September 19, 2018 at 12:05 am | # | Reply

    And then Joyce went directly to Hell forever because she used WITCHCRAFT

    • toby
      toby
      September 19, 2018 at 12:10 am | # | Reply

      Jack Chick’s latest posthumously-published tract, “IGUANAS: The Devil’s Reptile”

      • Regalli
        Regalli
        September 19, 2018 at 1:30 am | # | Reply

        Hasn’t some apprentice taken over Chick Tracts? (Especially since I think some of them were ghostwritten in his later years.) I mean, they’ll never have the same nearly-charming failure of storytelling, proselytizing, or painting the religion and deity they’re supposed to promote as anything but horrifying and the nonbelievers as having lived under rocks for the last 2000 years, but I guarantee it’ll be written by someone who’s never seen an iguana in their life and thinks they’re a plot by the Devil!

        • C.T Phipps
          C.T Phipps
          September 19, 2018 at 4:13 pm | # | Reply

          Chick Track:

          Nonbeliever: Oh ho, time to go kill some babies.

          Believer: NO! Killing babies is wrong.

          Nonbeliever: Says who?

          Believer: Jesus!

          Nonbeliever: Who?

          Believer: Our savior who will smite and destroy all baby-killers come the apocalypse, which is NOW

          Nonbeliever: Oh my gosh! How do I avoid this horrifying apocalypse!

          Believer: You can’t. *kicks him into fissure which has appeared behind him* BUT YOU CAN, READER!

          • Regalli
            Regalli
            September 19, 2018 at 4:30 pm | # | Reply

            Yeah, but a real Chick Tract would go on for at least three more pages to get the same information.

      • CJ
        CJ
        September 19, 2018 at 5:15 pm | # | Reply

        Wait, chick tracts are named after a person?

        • Agemegos
          Agemegos
          September 19, 2018 at 9:13 pm | # | Reply

          Jack Chick. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Chick

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      September 19, 2018 at 2:56 am | # | Reply

      Bummer.

  14. Dafydd
    Dafydd
    September 19, 2018 at 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Sarah’s last speech bubble makes Fuckface look like a little Dimetrodon.

  15. AndroidDreams
    AndroidDreams
    September 19, 2018 at 12:06 am | # | Reply

    i think everyones just noticing how cute Dorothy is juxtaposed against fuckface and developing instant crushes

    • Zach
      Zach
      September 19, 2018 at 12:12 am | # | Reply

      I’ve played MassEffect, now I see all lizards as HAWT

    • Tisroero
      Tisroero
      September 19, 2018 at 12:45 am | # | Reply

      What’s Dorothy got to do with this?

    • Bonnabella
      Bonnabella
      September 19, 2018 at 1:01 am | # | Reply

      Do you mean Joyce?

    • Zee
      Zee
      September 19, 2018 at 8:09 am | # | Reply

      Dorothy was very cute in yesterday’s strip

  16. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    September 19, 2018 at 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Meanwhile, it’s Gator Hater Week in Tennessee–and a four-foot alligator was caught in the state. Whether it was wild or just BBQ on the hoof, we don’t know just yet.
    *plays “Crocodile Rock” on the hacked Muzak*

  17. ShinyNeen
    ShinyNeen
    September 19, 2018 at 12:07 am | # | Reply

    C’mon, Joyce, you’re testing your new powers on all the wrong subjects. Go get Dorothy, make her take a break from studying. A real one this time, one that’s good for her. Or, heck, maybe just a nap.

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      September 19, 2018 at 1:39 am | # | Reply

      Make her take a shower longer than strictly necessary, followed by a nice, relaxed breakfast containing plenty of protein and carbohydrates and exactly as much sugar as she pleases. Then let her block out a good hour or so to just listen to music or a podcast, something not related to her classwork at all. (She can listen to the riveting nonfiction stuff later.) And then after class, she can have structured productive I Feel Motivated To Continue study time for ninety minutes, and then another break. And a nap somewhere in there, plus twelve hours sleep tonight. Fuckface Demands It.

      (Honestly twelve hours is probably low-balling the sleep she needs given she’s clearly been operating on sleep deprivation for a while, but baby steps. The weekend, though? In her bed, alarm off. Studying is not self-care, Dorothy.)

      • ShinyNeen
        ShinyNeen
        September 19, 2018 at 2:28 pm | # | Reply

        Dang, Regalli, you rea- I-I mean, dang, Fuckface really knows what’s good.

        • Regalli
          Regalli
          September 19, 2018 at 4:37 pm | # | Reply

          I have had a lot of time to think of how much of a break Dorothy needs and what she’d likely accept to get her to take one already. And so has Fuckface.

  18. PB
    PB
    September 19, 2018 at 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Wonder when Malaya will notice Fuckface is gone. Will she be mad?

  19. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    September 19, 2018 at 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Joyce and Sarah’s dynamic remains one of my favorites.
    And Carla is free to talk about herself whenever, she’s a treasure.

  20. Kaunisenkeli
    Kaunisenkeli
    September 19, 2018 at 12:09 am | # | Reply

    In this case, Joyce, I do believe you’ll be seeing the opposite of your suggestion.

  21. Bagge
    Bagge
    September 19, 2018 at 12:15 am | # | Reply

    Don’t steal pets, Joyce.

    • newllend(henryvolt)
      newllend(henryvolt)
      September 19, 2018 at 1:19 am | # | Reply

      Lock up your pets and boy friends because Joyce Brown is here to steal them all.

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      September 19, 2018 at 1:42 am | # | Reply

      Fuckface has a perfectly nice tank, with a heat lamp and lots of space and branches and stuff. Fuckface has a perfectly nice room, with even more space and warmth and high places. The outside in Indiana in October is not where Fuckface should be, Joyce. (Also, do not give iguanas blankets, Joyce. It won’t help.)

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        September 19, 2018 at 7:55 am | # | Reply

        Fuckface wasn’t in his tank to start with. That’s not on Joyce.

        Nor has she taken him outside. Or even into the hall. She’s in her room, which is attached to theirs.
        Let’s not blow this up to be more than it is.

        • Regalli
          Regalli
          September 19, 2018 at 10:47 am | # | Reply

          No, but if we’re saying ‘don’t steal pets Joyce’ that’s the most likely thing Joyce would do in the process of stealing Fuckface. Joke is a joke.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            September 19, 2018 at 11:49 am | # | Reply

            I don’t know. Some people seem to be saying it pretty seriously.

    • Nono
      Nono
      September 19, 2018 at 2:23 am | # | Reply

      She steals pets she totally steals pets.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        September 19, 2018 at 2:54 am | # | Reply

        I SPECIFICALLY TOLD HER NOT TO!!!

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          September 19, 2018 at 8:02 am | # | Reply

          You would have had to tell hee three months ago, when this strip was written.

          • Bagge
            Bagge
            September 19, 2018 at 10:18 am | # | Reply

            AND THAT WAS MY UNDOING!!!

            • Emperor Norton II
              Emperor Norton II
              September 19, 2018 at 3:22 pm | # | Reply

              FOOOL!

          • ShinyNeen
            ShinyNeen
            September 19, 2018 at 2:18 pm | # | Reply

            Wait, Bagge’s comments don’t echo across time and space to be heard at least three months before and after they were first uttered? Do nobody’s comments do that?

            I thought that was one of the perks you could pick up after posting here long enough. Now I feel disillusioned!

            • JBento
              JBento
              September 19, 2018 at 3:08 pm | # | Reply

              In case I don’t see you in the coming week, merry Christmas.

              • ShinyNeen
                ShinyNeen
                September 19, 2018 at 4:19 pm | # | Reply

                Aww, thanks, same to y- wait a second…

                *Gasp*

            • Bagge
              Bagge
              September 19, 2018 at 3:44 pm | # | Reply

              Then imagine how I feel.

              • ShinyNeen
                ShinyNeen
                September 19, 2018 at 4:12 pm | # | Reply

                If it’s any consolation, Joyce probably wouldn’t have listened anyway.

    • Emily
      Emily
      September 19, 2018 at 5:35 am | # | Reply

      Joyce just has like no concept of boundaries whatsoever does she? Like who just takes someone’s pet?

      • JBento
        JBento
        September 19, 2018 at 6:34 am | # | Reply

        Same person who tries to take someone’s boyfriend?

        • JBento
          JBento
          September 19, 2018 at 6:35 am | # | Reply

          Though I feel I must add I rather like Fuckface more than Jacob.

          • DaveM
            DaveM
            September 19, 2018 at 10:11 am | # | Reply

            While both of them display a talent to being remarkably oblivious to what is happening around them, I will grant you that Fuckface has the better excuse in that he can hardly be expected to be interested in the business of mammals.

            • Bagge
              Bagge
              September 19, 2018 at 10:18 am | # | Reply

              Mammals are weird

              • thejeff
                thejeff
                September 19, 2018 at 11:50 am | # | Reply

                They are however warm. Which is nice.

                • Bagge
                  Bagge
                  September 19, 2018 at 1:24 pm | #

                  Everyone has their purpose

    • Zee
      Zee
      September 19, 2018 at 8:11 am | # | Reply

      But she needs to steal pets from the popular people then dress them up like the popular people.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        September 19, 2018 at 10:19 am | # | Reply

        That sounds… more awesome than it should, honestly.

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        September 19, 2018 at 3:47 pm | # | Reply

        And lock them in her shed.

        • Clif
          Clif
          September 19, 2018 at 10:08 pm | # | Reply

          The popular people?

          • StClair
            StClair
            September 19, 2018 at 10:56 pm | # | Reply

            sure, let’s go with that.

            • Sibre
              Sibre
              September 20, 2018 at 2:12 pm | # | Reply

              ALL OF THEM ARE MINE
              http://oi66.tinypic.com/wrki7a.jpg
              Love Rachel Bloom.

  22. foducool
    foducool
    September 19, 2018 at 12:18 am | # | Reply

    and I promise to use these powers to do good… ish

  23. Sporks5000
    Sporks5000
    September 19, 2018 at 12:28 am | # | Reply

    Fuckface is the best hat!

    • foducool
      foducool
      September 19, 2018 at 6:17 am | # | Reply

      I’m surprised she’s not freaking out about having a giant clawy lizard sitting on her head

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        September 19, 2018 at 7:57 am | # | Reply

        Maybe that’s Fuckface’s real power: To make the hairless apes unconcerned about him sitting on their heads.

  24. Barduwulf
    Barduwulf
    September 19, 2018 at 12:32 am | # | Reply

    Nice to see Joyce and Fuckface get along

  25. FLUFFYWOLF
    FLUFFYWOLF
    September 19, 2018 at 12:36 am | # | Reply

    Just like my family tradition of wearing a stuffed dog on the head.

  26. Luf
    Luf
    September 19, 2018 at 12:43 am | # | Reply

    Wait, Christians totally believe in Magic.
    If you pray to Satan you get magic powers like all those witches in Salem.
    And if you pray to Jesus he performs miracles (magic). And if you pray really really hard you more powerful spells / miracles from Jesus.

    And if that sounds like Clerical magic from D&D…. where did you think they got it from.

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      September 19, 2018 at 2:18 am | # | Reply

      Joyce is autobiographical, mind – and if my own experience is something to go by, I was raised to believe that, essentially, “the Devil’s stuff is fake, not real; none of the powers he offers you can do anything.”

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        September 19, 2018 at 2:58 am | # | Reply

        Carol seem to have a slightly different attitude, if Walky’s phone conversation with her is anything to go by

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/hail/

        “Thank you, hail Jesus, Amen, communion waffers, catcha later”

        • King Daniel
          King Daniel
          September 19, 2018 at 5:09 pm | # | Reply

          There was a difference, mind, between “Satan’s power to harm you (but only if you let him by not following Jesus)” and “Satan’s power that he offers you” – one, I was taught, was real; the other one, no.

      • Luf
        Luf
        September 19, 2018 at 5:29 am | # | Reply

        @King Daniel
        HERESY. Teh Devil power is totally real and he totally can (give you power) / (do things for you) if you pray to him. That is why we had to burn those witches across the centuries who very clearly had magic powers as many, many witnesses will tell you.

        But your statement is interesting. I always read the book burning of Harry Potter as “this encourages people to worship Satan who will give his followers actual magic power which will be used against us good people”.
        But your version is that Harry Potter “encourages people who want magic to worship Satan who will clearly talk to them and will PRETEND to give them magic powers but he can’t”.

        Now my young heathen I will tell you why your version is heretical. Your version implies that Satan is physically incapable of (giving people magic powers) / (doing things his followers ask him to do). This is hilarious because this means that Satan is completely powerless and cannot act on the physical plane in any way. No possessions, no mind warping people, totally lame. And if he is totally powerless why would we ever be afraid of him at all? You can talk to him, but he can’t talk back because if he could talk back then he could give you info like bank account passwords or military data.

        Or at least he can’t mind warp you, unless you let him as fellow commentator Bagge states. In which case worshiping Satan won’t make you magical or give you info, but it will screw you over by allowing him to mind warp you {which conforms to your theory perfectly}

        Regardless of which of the two theories is true at least we can all be in perfect agreement that praying to God will grant you magical powers because that is why we pray. Amen.

        • Rabid Rabbit
          Rabid Rabbit
          September 19, 2018 at 2:20 pm | # | Reply

          For a long time, though, it wasn’t “Burn the witches”, it was “Burn the heretics who believe in witches even though we, the Church, have told them that witches don’t exist.”

          • CJ
            CJ
            September 19, 2018 at 5:10 pm | # | Reply

            The Hexenhammer definitely believed in witchcraft and provided ways to identify witches. (Mostly by torture), I think it even stated explicitly that not believing in witchcraft was heresy.
            It took a long time till Friedrich von Spee dared to write in cautio criminals that you could invent anything and get as many confessions for it as for witchcraft when using those methods.

            • Rabid Rabbit
              Rabid Rabbit
              September 19, 2018 at 11:05 pm | # | Reply

              Yeah, that’s when the Church’s position changed and somehow managed to do a full 180 on the matter.

            • Luf
              Luf
              September 20, 2018 at 2:19 am | # | Reply

              God Darn, skimming the Hexenhammer wikipedia page on Malleus Maleficarum is more cryptic, mystic, vile and stupid thing outside of the Warhammer 40K wiki which is trying to do all of that stuff on purpose.

              Denying the existence of witches being heretical totally makes sense if they believed that. If you were a witch the first thing you would do would be try to make people think witches are not real so you could go about unhindered.

          • Agemegos
            Agemegos
            September 19, 2018 at 9:21 pm | # | Reply

            It’s very interesting to look at the Inquisition and see the different targets it focussed on in different places. In Spain and Portugal, almost entirely Moriscos and recusant Jews. In southern France, Cathars. In Italy, heretics. Later on, Protestants. I think that witch-hunts were an unofficial and Protestant thing.

      • JBento
        JBento
        September 19, 2018 at 6:33 am | # | Reply

        Willis apparently went around with chick tracts in his youth, and at least one of those things says you can learn magic powers from the D&D books. Pretty sure Satan scores higher than those in the crazies power-o-meter.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          September 19, 2018 at 7:59 am | # | Reply

          Why do you think I played D&D so long? No matter what level I got to though, I could never learn the real spells.

          • Bagge
            Bagge
            September 19, 2018 at 10:19 am | # | Reply

            Bummer

            • JBento
              JBento
              September 19, 2018 at 3:10 pm | # | Reply

              -ang

          • JBento
            JBento
            September 19, 2018 at 2:41 pm | # | Reply

            I’m STILL playing D&D and I haven’t been able to fire off even a single magic missile, which only requires(d) an Intelligence of 11. Blow to my ego, let me tell you.

            • Bagge
              Bagge
              September 19, 2018 at 3:45 pm | # | Reply

              Heh, nice one.

            • Luf
              Luf
              September 20, 2018 at 2:20 am | # | Reply

              It could be worse.
              https://smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=638#comic

  27. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    September 19, 2018 at 12:45 am | # | Reply

    Even more magical, having Fuckface on your head can cause Malaya to be RUDE when she demands her iguana back.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      September 19, 2018 at 2:01 am | # | Reply

      If I were Joyce, I’d challenge Malaya to prove he wants to move.

      • JBento
        JBento
        September 19, 2018 at 6:31 am | # | Reply

        I wouldn’t. Iguanas have REALLY good claws, on account of having to cling to tree branches. If Fuckface doesn’t want to move and Malaya tries to pull him off, he’s ripping Joyce’s scalp right off.

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      September 19, 2018 at 8:08 am | # | Reply

      I don’t think Malaya needs a magical reason to be rude. And if she’s truly concerned about it, she should keep Fuckface in the tank when she’s not there, so he doesn’t harass her roommate or wander off on stranger’s heads.

  28. Darkoneko
    Darkoneko
    September 19, 2018 at 12:50 am | # | Reply

    still waiting for the iguana to crap on someone’s head

    • hof1991
      hof1991
      September 19, 2018 at 10:52 am | # | Reply

      Only if it advances the story. Chekov’s crap.

  29. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    September 19, 2018 at 12:52 am | # | Reply

    Gentleman Fuckface needs a top hat, a monocle, and/or a bow tie.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      September 19, 2018 at 12:55 am | # | Reply

      No way! He’s already got some serious balance issues. Letting him benefit from item buffs would be game-breaking.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        September 19, 2018 at 6:09 am | # | Reply

        I for one welcome our new, dapper Iguana overlords.

        • Clif
          Clif
          September 19, 2018 at 2:56 pm | # | Reply

          It would be an improvement. I grant you that.

  30. Keulen
    Keulen
    September 19, 2018 at 1:03 am | # | Reply

    Not even Fuckface can make Sarah less sarcastic.

  31. Koms
    Koms
    September 19, 2018 at 1:35 am | # | Reply

    Powers are working. Joyce and Sal both look very cute!!

  32. Saaaam
    Saaaam
    September 19, 2018 at 1:48 am | # | Reply

    Sarah stop eating my pens

  33. OrfulBedentockr
    OrfulBedentockr
    September 19, 2018 at 1:51 am | # | Reply

    Be FEWER sarcastic. Common mistake.

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      September 19, 2018 at 2:21 am | # | Reply

      …what?

      • Rabid Rabbit
        Rabid Rabbit
        September 19, 2018 at 2:21 pm | # | Reply

        I think they’re being sarcastic.

    • anonymsly
      anonymsly
      September 19, 2018 at 9:57 am | # | Reply

      No, I think ‘less’ is correct. Sarcastic is a volume, not a number of units.

      • 3-I
        3-I
        September 19, 2018 at 2:02 pm | # | Reply

        i have six sarcastics

        • Clif
          Clif
          September 19, 2018 at 2:59 pm | # | Reply

          3-I is the sarcasticest. They win.

          • 3-I
            3-I
            September 20, 2018 at 8:30 am | # | Reply

            Thank you, I’m honored. It’s days like this I’m glad I became a professional sarcast.

  34. BenRG
    BenRG
    September 19, 2018 at 2:00 am | # | Reply

    I’m wondering if anyone has noticed that Joyce is walking around with an iguana on her head? Seriously, it would raise huge questions about how everyone sees her if her walking around with a head-lizard just makes them think: “Joyce, only moreso“!

    • Nono
      Nono
      September 19, 2018 at 2:23 am | # | Reply

      Sal and Joyce share a half-bath. Joyce hasn’t left out the door yet.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      September 19, 2018 at 2:56 am | # | Reply

      And as for the people who HAVE seen her with the Iguana on her head, I’m pretty sure Sarah, Sal and Carla thinks it make her Joyce, only moreso.

      Well, Carla seems to think it makes her KAWAII

      • MatthewTheLucky
        MatthewTheLucky
        September 19, 2018 at 11:19 am | # | Reply

        Carla already thought that, she made her a cool present and everything!

  35. JoeCovenant
    JoeCovenant
    September 19, 2018 at 3:11 am | # | Reply

    Have we ever seen…
    Dina wearing Dinohat and ‘anyperson’-with-Iguana-on-Head meet up.
    (And Hi-Jinx ensue!)

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      September 19, 2018 at 3:40 am | # | Reply

      I still think we will have a VERY STUPID Jealous!Dina storyline ending up with a truly epic hat

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-9-comic/01-flyin-to-the-red/storytimeintensifies/?replytocom=1350642#comment-1350634

      • JoeCovenant
        JoeCovenant
        September 19, 2018 at 5:24 am | # | Reply

        Yeah! That’s pretty much exactly what I’m thinking too! 🙂

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        September 19, 2018 at 8:01 am | # | Reply

        The truly epic hat is then topped by Fuckface getting a tiny cute hat like Dina’s normal one.

        • DaveM
          DaveM
          September 19, 2018 at 10:18 am | # | Reply

          And the tiny cute hat will have it’s own tinier cute hat.
          “It’s hats all the way down”

          • Bagge
            Bagge
            September 19, 2018 at 10:20 am | # | Reply

            OBSERVE!

            https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2189

            • JoeCovenant
              JoeCovenant
              September 19, 2018 at 11:56 am | # | Reply

              Even better… “Malaya’s Iguana” gets a tiny hat that looks like Dina!

              • Bagge
                Bagge
                September 19, 2018 at 3:49 pm | # | Reply

                The hat will be like something a very pedantic Luna Lovegood would do if she was into dinosaurs.

    • Rabid Rabbit
      Rabid Rabbit
      September 19, 2018 at 2:22 pm | # | Reply

      No, we’re going to get “Becky comes face-to-face with Joyce-with-Fuckface-on-Head”, and her weird fetish and remaining lust for Joyce is going to make her explode.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        September 19, 2018 at 3:46 pm | # | Reply

        That thing with the lady syrup again?

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      September 19, 2018 at 3:26 pm | # | Reply

      Think that is a different webcomic.

  36. BBCC
    BBCC
    September 19, 2018 at 8:35 am | # | Reply

    Joyce, what the fuck? Don’t take other people’s pets anywhere without their okay. Especially since she didn’t know Sarah knew about him already and Sal already told her they weren’t supposed to have him. I mean, I feel like ‘grown ass adult knows not to steal other’s pets’ is a low bar, c’mon.

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      September 19, 2018 at 9:29 am | # | Reply

      I think that it’s worth noting that Joyce has been an entirely passive party in this matter. It is Fuckface who appropriated Joyce’s head and has decided to keep it even though she has left his normal territory.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        September 19, 2018 at 10:21 am | # | Reply

        That is an excuse.

        I mean, not a STELLAR excuse, but it is an excuse.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          September 19, 2018 at 11:48 am | # | Reply

          I think it’s a stellar excuse.
          It’s a lousy reason, but it’s a great excuse.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        September 19, 2018 at 10:22 am | # | Reply

        She has hands. She can remove the iguana. She doesn’t want to.

      • DaveM
        DaveM
        September 19, 2018 at 10:23 am | # | Reply

        At this point one of the Rachels will point at them and ask “Where did you get that weird thing”, and Fuckface will reply “It just wandered in and made itself available”

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          September 19, 2018 at 10:26 am | # | Reply

          Heh!

    • Inahc
      Inahc
      September 19, 2018 at 1:52 pm | # | Reply

      That would require knowledge of boundaries, and we already know Joyce has none of that.

    • Emily
      Emily
      September 19, 2018 at 4:06 pm | # | Reply

      This moves beyond evangelical disrespect of other people’s personal boundaries and into just straight up theft. Like she just walked off with a total stranger’s property completely unbeknownst to them.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        September 19, 2018 at 6:10 pm | # | Reply

        Oh good lord. She’s in the next room, showing her roommate the cool thing. There are issues with her behavior here, though it’s mostly just Willis playing with the in-joke from Shortpacked!, but theft is not one of them.

        • Emily
          Emily
          September 19, 2018 at 6:17 pm | # | Reply

          This isn’t actually debatable. Walking off with someone’s pet without their permission is a bad thing.

          • chris73
            chris73
            September 19, 2018 at 7:17 pm | # | Reply

            Agreed, by all means play with the pet in Malayas room but leave the room. If something was to Fuck-Face (I don’t know, Joyce accidentally drops it or someone in authority happens to walk by etc etc) what would Joyces response to Malaya be, an inadequate oops or sorry?

            • chris73
              chris73
              September 19, 2018 at 7:21 pm | # | Reply

              “but don’t leave the room”

              Dagnabbit!

            • Emily
              Emily
              September 19, 2018 at 7:30 pm | # | Reply

              Really, you shouldn’t even be touching an animal (especially not an exotic) without its owner’s go ahead. You don’t know the animal, you don’t know if it tends to bite or if it’s nervous or if it’s just not healthy for it to be handled. Like, iguanas are well equipped to give you a hella bad time.

              • chris73
                chris73
                September 19, 2018 at 8:19 pm | # | Reply

                Yeah true, I was looking at it like the Iguana came to Joyce first but you raise some good points

                I’m more used to four legged furry friends

              • Delicious Taffy
                Delicious Taffy
                September 19, 2018 at 8:28 pm | # | Reply

                This is a minor nitpick, Fuckface climbed onto Joyce’s head on his own. She didn’t pick him up and put him there. Yeah, she definitely shouldn’t be walking off with him, though.

              • Inahc
                Inahc
                September 19, 2018 at 8:39 pm | # | Reply

                Which is also an argument for not leaving him to roam the room unattended.

                • thejeff
                  thejeff
                  September 19, 2018 at 10:48 pm | #

                  Pretty much. Malaya can’t complain about somebody touching Fuckface without her permission when she leaves him loose to bother people.
                  If she’d left him closed up in his tank and Joyce had opened it up and taken him out without permission, that would be a different story.

                • BBCC
                  BBCC
                  September 19, 2018 at 11:58 pm | #

                  Malaya shouldn’t be letting him wander around, but Joyce shouldn’t be taking him out of her room. She has fully functional hands, she can put the iguana back on the bed or wherever before she leaves.

                • Inahc
                  Inahc
                  September 20, 2018 at 12:06 am | #

                  True. Two wrongs don’t really make a right.

                • the final pam
                  the final pam
                  September 20, 2018 at 8:56 pm | #

                  thejeff: Joyce shouldn’t just be fucking around in Malaya’s room without permission from either her or Sal lmao Joyce didn’t have permission to go in their room to begin with, and she definitely shouldn’t be taking anything out of their room into hers. There is no way that Joyce is not in the wrong here, regardless of what Malaya has done.

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              September 19, 2018 at 10:45 pm | # | Reply

              What if Joyce dropped it in Malaya’s room? Or someone in authority walked in, which is no more likely in Joyce’s room than in Malaya’s?
              Again, she didn’t even go into the hall.

              • chris73
                chris73
                September 19, 2018 at 11:48 pm | # | Reply

                If Joyce is, nominally, in charge of Fuck-Face then its on her but if it happens in Malayas room then its on Malaya

              • BBCC
                BBCC
                September 19, 2018 at 11:57 pm | # | Reply

                No, she went to show Sarah, when she didn’t know Sarah already knew about Fuckface and DID know Fuckface wasn’t supposed to be in the dorms. Either report the thing or don’t but don’t go spreading secrets that can get people in trouble without telling them and especially don’t take the pets out of their room.

  37. Ryek Hvek
    Ryek Hvek
    September 19, 2018 at 9:58 am | # | Reply

    not-a-hat

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      September 19, 2018 at 10:22 am | # | Reply

      #NotAHat

      • Clif
        Clif
        September 19, 2018 at 3:13 pm | # | Reply

        #NotMostHats

        • Delicious Taffy
          Delicious Taffy
          September 19, 2018 at 3:51 pm | # | Reply

          #YesMostHats

          • Ryek Hvek
            Ryek Hvek
            September 19, 2018 at 5:47 pm | # | Reply

            maybe FF can get a little purple derby a la QC

  38. Skeptible
    Skeptible
    September 19, 2018 at 9:59 am | # | Reply

    Usually the key to making sarcastic people less sarcastic is to say fewer dumb things in their presence. Which is why it rarely happens.

    • Clif
      Clif
      September 19, 2018 at 10:16 pm | # | Reply

      If they didn’t want me to say dumb things in their presence, they should have left while there was still time. Or something like that.

  39. fujoshipeanut
    fujoshipeanut
    September 19, 2018 at 11:11 am | # | Reply

    I’VE CAUGHT UP NOOOOOOOOO…

    But at least I can comment… hi.

    • Clif
      Clif
      September 19, 2018 at 3:04 pm | # | Reply

      Welcome to realtime.

  40. abysswatcher1993
    abysswatcher1993
    September 19, 2018 at 12:31 pm | # | Reply

    Joyce, I need you to show the famous trick of Obi Wan Kenobi.

    • abysswatcher1993
      abysswatcher1993
      September 19, 2018 at 12:31 pm | # | Reply

      need to show you*

  41. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    September 19, 2018 at 12:56 pm | # | Reply

    Panel five may be the highest combo of ultimate A Sarah and ultimate Joyce yet.

  42. wakeangel2001
    wakeangel2001
    September 19, 2018 at 2:31 pm | # | Reply

    for the most part these things are pretty clean and safe, but I HAVE seen one poop on a girl’s head

  43. Roborat
    Roborat
    September 19, 2018 at 3:29 pm | # | Reply

    Love the eye roll in the last panel. Even Fuckface ( I really had to resist the urge there), is getting exasperated with Joyce’s antics.

    • Clif
      Clif
      September 19, 2018 at 10:20 pm | # | Reply

      Um. As near as I can see, the eye and expression in the last panel is identical to that in the third panel.

  44. Sir_Naff
    Sir_Naff
    September 19, 2018 at 6:48 pm | # | Reply

    What kind of “fine gentleman” climbs on top of a girl ten minutes after meeting her for the first time?

    • Clif
      Clif
      September 19, 2018 at 10:24 pm | # | Reply

      Where else would an overlord ride?

  45. Romanticide
    Romanticide
    September 19, 2018 at 11:28 pm | # | Reply

    Sarah has to admit that fuckface is great oil that makes social situations go more smoothly by it’s mere presence

  46. Hari
    Hari
    September 23, 2018 at 4:27 pm | # | Reply

    You GOTTA make a Fuckface plushie for us to buy!!!!!!

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