Very true.
… also, is it just me, or did the Slipshine ad to the left change from one pic of Danny and Sal to a similar pic facing the other direction?
“Dumb, Mad, and Horny” sounds like a bad 2006 adult comedy film that hasn’t aged well
Decidedly Orthogonal
Agree to disagree. As a member of the trifecta, I think DMH has aged extremely well. It has managed to document an authentic view of the geopolitical pornographic violence-scape to a degree not seen since owmyballs swept the daytime television sweepstakes.
Hmm… the tags indicate that we have never seen an interaction between Jacob and Booster, as of yet. I suddenly want Jacob and Booster to meet.
And, for that matter, the one meeting between Jacob and Mike was essentially a “two ships passing in the night” type of situation. I wonder if Jacob could have brought out the best in Mike (whatever “best” would have been, in Mike’s case), if they had ever properly interacted with each other.
Smallmoon
I mean, as things go… Mike, as he was in his last active moments, was far from the worst he could have been.
PedanticJerkass
I mean, he was actively trying to kill a dude in his last active moments. Sure, the guy absolutely deserved it and it’s unfortunate that it didn’t work, which is why it wasn’t Mike at his “worst,” but still…
I doubt if Jacob and Mike had interacted and that interaction had brought out the best in Mike, it probably wouldn’t have involved Mike trying to murder-suicide someone.
thejeff
Trying to take out someone who’s about to kill a friend isn’t “murder-suicide”. That’s heroic sacrifice.
I think she understood both sides of her attraction to him when she knocked on his door, but she tried to push him away with the overt sexuality first because that’s how she is. I think Jacob was unsure whether she liked him for more than just his body, and he crafted his response days/weeks ago with the intent of leaving either option open.
Now, for the very first time in the comic, we get to see Sarah open up with someone else, and Jacob is too kind and emotionally intelligent to screw it up. Even if they don’t end up together, only good things could come from this.
She’s been spending a lot of time with him in ways that were more than just leering. And this is *after* Joyce tried to sell him on her. He’s not stupid.
Don’t kid yourself. Nobody knew for sure, that’s (possibly) why he was so diplomatic with his last response. Did you expect this to happen after the last comic?
thejeff
It’s been pretty clear she’s emotionally invested.
It was a lot less clear whether she’d be able to admit it. Or even be tricked into admitting it.
I kinda love this a lot actually. Sarah has achieved FULL HONESTY! And I’m happy that it’s with Jacob, someone who exercises extreme patience yet still puts his foot down haha.
I am still a little confused. Are you saying that your friends are leeches in view of 17th century physicians (wonderful little guys who with numbing properties that balance out all those sanguine humors making feel ill and irritable) or leeches in the view of modern-day campers (clingy, blood-sucking parasites that leave you feeling exhausted)?
Also, sweet song. I can’t really make out the lyrics, but it provides a bit of strange tranquil bliss all the same.
Comfortable numb means, not happy, but not depressed either.
Like, the kind of thing SSRIs are supposed to do, if you have SSRIs.
APersonAmI
“Supposed to” is an interesting and accurate way to put that, because like any medication, they might not work like that for any specific person, especially if they are neurodivergent.
I’ve had chronic depression for 14 years. In 2021, it got worse, and I started looking for treatment. After trying therapy for half a year, the therapist recomended I try medication, because it kept getting worse.
After trying four drugs that had basically no effect, I found an SSRI that did something. But it sure didn’t make me numb.
Sertralin doesn’t even out the emotional graph for me, it lifts the top and lowers the bottom. While I still have bad days, I am able to appreciate the world around me, to more often feel happiness when I should. But it also lets me feel anxiety and remember traumas more vividly.
Also, it lets me feel hunger again. Let me tell you, that’s *weird* when you haven’t been able to feel hunger at all for fourteen years. Going from having to guesstimate that I might be hungry from how tired I am to having a stomach that tells me to put food in it (sometimes more food than it actually needs) is weird as hell. Kinda like it though! I feel more alive.
So yeah. The brain is complicated, medications are not tested on a broad enough audience that we can know what they’ll do, and depression is rough.
I’m sorry for you going through it. Glad to hear you have friends to support you. Good luck, survivor.
Weed helps make me feel better and hungrier. Whatever works 🙂
Leorale
SSRIs aren’t supposed to numb you out. (If they do, you might be on too high a dose, or they may be the wrong med for you entirely.)
Mine were intended to cut the extreme sadness/anxiety, take the edge off, type of thing, but they are not supposed to / did not get me numb. They let my other emotions through. Hooray!
That said, I’m glad your 420 works just how you want it to. Whatever works, for sure. ?
True Survivor
Sorry about that – I saw ‘comfortably numb’ and for some reason my mind went “you know, leeches have numbing agents in their saliva.” I guess that just stuck.
I am glad you feeing better, even if it that doesn’t mean happy right now.
Why would it be a hatefuck? They seem to genuinely like one another, Sarah’s just got issues handling her emotions when they aren’t grumpy. There’s no hate here.
I was just reading a comic that their schtick is body swapping, usually M/F or F/M and an occasional F/F but wide age differences as one is going through puberty and the other is mid-life but not menopausal. It’s hilarious when there’s a mid-life F takes over for a M in Puberty and every other panel the person is thinking about sex because “stupid teenage male hormones!” The comic is Lady Valiant, and they’re coming off an arc where a bunch of Roman deities swipe some bodies because that’s what they have to do to manifest in our universe, and sometimes they are in the right gender body sometimes they’re not, and a couple just change the stolen body to the deity’s preferred gender, and after the deity leaves/gets defeated the person gets their body back but at the wrong stage of life/gender. It could be bad, but it’s treated as comedy, and the writers managed to manke it funny.
I knew this had to be why she was so fixated on Jacob. There are other hot dudes that she could’ve objectified. Jacob is hot and also genuinely kind and optimistic, in a really specific way. Most dudes with his level of obvious appeal would’ve taken advantage for a series of hookups, but he clearly hasn’t (for multiple reasons).
102 thoughts on “Howso”
Doctor_Who
So Jacob basically covers Sarah’s entire emotional spectrum.
Other Jacob was really only good for the one, the genuine article has a lot more range.
IntangibleMatter
“mad and horny” sums up a, candidly, disturbing amount of this comic
Rose by Any Other Name
Very true.
… also, is it just me, or did the Slipshine ad to the left change from one pic of Danny and Sal to a similar pic facing the other direction?
Opus the Poet
Well it’s Sal and Danny, and it’s different than the ad before, but past that I can’t vouch for anything.
Clif
I will believe this regardless of any evidence to the contrary.
Clif
What?
This was a reply to Dr. Who below.
Doctor_Who
It’s actually an animated gif, it just moves very slowly.
Miri
Don’t blink.
Decidedly Orthogonal
Clown will eat me.
Michael Steamweed
Appropriate name and avatar for response!
ValdVin
“Scaroused” is a perfect coinage for its two feelings but I can’t put “mad” and “horny” together in one word.
Needfuldoer
Brannigan and Fry, chained to the wall.
Azhrei Vep
I like Angrousal.
Shadowsnail
Angrandy? or Hornery.
Kelibath
Ooh, I LOVE “hornery”.
I was thinking “shame hangry is already taken”.
Azhrei Vep
Oooooh, Hornery is super good.
Reltzik
Throw in “dumb” and you’ve got most of the comic.
IntangibleMatter
“Dumb, Mad, and Horny” sounds like a bad 2006 adult comedy film that hasn’t aged well
Decidedly Orthogonal
Agree to disagree. As a member of the trifecta, I think DMH has aged extremely well. It has managed to document an authentic view of the geopolitical pornographic violence-scape to a degree not seen since owmyballs swept the daytime television sweepstakes.
raultsi
the name of my next album
thanks, Willis 😀
Animedingo
Hes walky fused with Joe
shadowcell
so he’s…Woe
BarerMender
Or Jocky. Sorry. I’ll show myself out.
Reltzik
Congratulations. You found exactly the right words to end Sarah’s lady-boner for him.
Annika
I love these two so much
Michael Steamweed
Appropriate gravitar is totally appropriate.
shadowcell
Dumbing of Age Book 14: Mad and Horny
DinaJoyce
Like button needed
Decidedly Orthogonal
No can do. That’s the title of the DoA Omnibus and Willis’ Retirement Memorial Edition
RassilonTDavros
Jacob just keeps winning.
RassilonTDavros
(In terms of getting the people around him to show their best selves)
PedanticJerkass
Hmm… the tags indicate that we have never seen an interaction between Jacob and Booster, as of yet. I suddenly want Jacob and Booster to meet.
And, for that matter, the one meeting between Jacob and Mike was essentially a “two ships passing in the night” type of situation. I wonder if Jacob could have brought out the best in Mike (whatever “best” would have been, in Mike’s case), if they had ever properly interacted with each other.
Smallmoon
I mean, as things go… Mike, as he was in his last active moments, was far from the worst he could have been.
PedanticJerkass
I mean, he was actively trying to kill a dude in his last active moments. Sure, the guy absolutely deserved it and it’s unfortunate that it didn’t work, which is why it wasn’t Mike at his “worst,” but still…
I doubt if Jacob and Mike had interacted and that interaction had brought out the best in Mike, it probably wouldn’t have involved Mike trying to murder-suicide someone.
thejeff
Trying to take out someone who’s about to kill a friend isn’t “murder-suicide”. That’s heroic sacrifice.
AY
I’m feeling pretty good about this interaction so far, it’s refreshing
ABunchOTrees
I think she understood both sides of her attraction to him when she knocked on his door, but she tried to push him away with the overt sexuality first because that’s how she is. I think Jacob was unsure whether she liked him for more than just his body, and he crafted his response days/weeks ago with the intent of leaving either option open.
Now, for the very first time in the comic, we get to see Sarah open up with someone else, and Jacob is too kind and emotionally intelligent to screw it up. Even if they don’t end up together, only good things could come from this.
Sirksome
Oh, wow Sarah is actually emotionally invested in Jacob! Who knew?!
Throwatron
Jacob definitely knew XD
DashWallkick
She’s been spending a lot of time with him in ways that were more than just leering. And this is *after* Joyce tried to sell him on her. He’s not stupid.
ABunchOTrees
Don’t kid yourself. Nobody knew for sure, that’s (possibly) why he was so diplomatic with his last response. Did you expect this to happen after the last comic?
thejeff
It’s been pretty clear she’s emotionally invested.
It was a lot less clear whether she’d be able to admit it. Or even be tricked into admitting it.
Tan
Multiple feelings confirmed
Blume
I kinda love this a lot actually. Sarah has achieved FULL HONESTY! And I’m happy that it’s with Jacob, someone who exercises extreme patience yet still puts his foot down haha.
DailyBrad
I’m really digging this, not gonna lie.
Jeremiah
I am loving emotionally honest Sarah. It took a while to get here but it was absolutely worth it.
NGPZ
Mad and horny… basically the only emotions I was able to feel for the past few days.
But thankfully my friends as of recently have helped me get comfortably numb, so that’s nice… T_T
NGPZ
Much better than depression, I tell you.
*plays “Comfortably Numb” on hacked muzak*
True Survivor
I am still a little confused. Are you saying that your friends are leeches in view of 17th century physicians (wonderful little guys who with numbing properties that balance out all those sanguine humors making feel ill and irritable) or leeches in the view of modern-day campers (clingy, blood-sucking parasites that leave you feeling exhausted)?
Also, sweet song. I can’t really make out the lyrics, but it provides a bit of strange tranquil bliss all the same.
NGPZ
Leeches? Where’s that coming from? 😮
Comfortable numb means, not happy, but not depressed either.
Like, the kind of thing SSRIs are supposed to do, if you have SSRIs.
APersonAmI
“Supposed to” is an interesting and accurate way to put that, because like any medication, they might not work like that for any specific person, especially if they are neurodivergent.
I’ve had chronic depression for 14 years. In 2021, it got worse, and I started looking for treatment. After trying therapy for half a year, the therapist recomended I try medication, because it kept getting worse.
After trying four drugs that had basically no effect, I found an SSRI that did something. But it sure didn’t make me numb.
Sertralin doesn’t even out the emotional graph for me, it lifts the top and lowers the bottom. While I still have bad days, I am able to appreciate the world around me, to more often feel happiness when I should. But it also lets me feel anxiety and remember traumas more vividly.
Also, it lets me feel hunger again. Let me tell you, that’s *weird* when you haven’t been able to feel hunger at all for fourteen years. Going from having to guesstimate that I might be hungry from how tired I am to having a stomach that tells me to put food in it (sometimes more food than it actually needs) is weird as hell. Kinda like it though! I feel more alive.
So yeah. The brain is complicated, medications are not tested on a broad enough audience that we can know what they’ll do, and depression is rough.
I’m sorry for you going through it. Glad to hear you have friends to support you. Good luck, survivor.
NGPZ
True.
Weed helps make me feel better and hungrier. Whatever works 🙂
Leorale
SSRIs aren’t supposed to numb you out. (If they do, you might be on too high a dose, or they may be the wrong med for you entirely.)
Mine were intended to cut the extreme sadness/anxiety, take the edge off, type of thing, but they are not supposed to / did not get me numb. They let my other emotions through. Hooray!
That said, I’m glad your 420 works just how you want it to. Whatever works, for sure. ?
True Survivor
Sorry about that – I saw ‘comfortably numb’ and for some reason my mind went “you know, leeches have numbing agents in their saliva.” I guess that just stuck.
I am glad you feeing better, even if it that doesn’t mean happy right now.
Michael Steamweed
Far, far better than depression.
True Survivor
Does mean that somewhere, Joyce is melancholy and halcyon?
Ray
Next Pornographique, “Sarah & Jacob: Epic Hatefuck, the Sequel”
Nymph
Why would it be a hatefuck? They seem to genuinely like one another, Sarah’s just got issues handling her emotions when they aren’t grumpy. There’s no hate here.
Smallmoon
I see it as ‘performative hate’: Sarah is just the grumpiest as Jacob helps her to unpack her all her emotional constipation, including the lust.
Michael Steamweed
Her relating everything from her freshman year would take at least a couple sex therapy sessions.
PirateTawnee
Three things. Mad, Horny, and MadHorny.
Stanistani
McHorny. Lovin’ it!
Michael Steamweed
I’d hit it.
Jesse
She’s *very* angry and *very* horny.
Dara
She been ridin’ mad and horny
(I tried to post it four times like in the song but the censorbot doesn’t like that)
Azhrei Vep
She been ridin’ mad and horny
(I got 1/3 of your back)
zee
Cumillionaire
BBCC
Let it all out, Sarah, he’s into it.
Opus the Poet
I was just reading a comic that their schtick is body swapping, usually M/F or F/M and an occasional F/F but wide age differences as one is going through puberty and the other is mid-life but not menopausal. It’s hilarious when there’s a mid-life F takes over for a M in Puberty and every other panel the person is thinking about sex because “stupid teenage male hormones!” The comic is Lady Valiant, and they’re coming off an arc where a bunch of Roman deities swipe some bodies because that’s what they have to do to manifest in our universe, and sometimes they are in the right gender body sometimes they’re not, and a couple just change the stolen body to the deity’s preferred gender, and after the deity leaves/gets defeated the person gets their body back but at the wrong stage of life/gender. It could be bad, but it’s treated as comedy, and the writers managed to manke it funny.
Hazel
I knew this had to be why she was so fixated on Jacob. There are other hot dudes that she could’ve objectified. Jacob is hot and also genuinely kind and optimistic, in a really specific way. Most dudes with his level of obvious appeal would’ve taken advantage for a series of hookups, but he clearly hasn’t (for multiple reasons).
GholaHalleck