Either
1. she’s being extra careful with her rule about different food not coming into contact
2. she’s worried about what might have been transferred between Walky’s Mouth and any other McNuggets nearby by debris from Cookie-Monstering about three dozen of them
Yeah plus with the taco thing everything was touching then she separated it my money is on her not wanting to eat from the same box as walky
Also I honestly spent way too much time last night wondering “HOW could one nugget not touch any other nuggets in that box? Would they build walls or something in the box? What the FUCK Joyce?”
There are so many DoA characters we don’t really know that well –Bryan, Sayid, Spencer, Tony, Norville, Faye — it’s hard to conclude who is the most sane. (Yes, I know the last three have outside-of-DoA existences — but their in-DoA personalities are not well established.)
But it has been demonstrated that Asma is so far the best at keeping an even keel in the face of people losing their cool at her.
Turns out, Asma is super into stealing people’s cartoons, taking off the watermarks, intro, and credits, and adding a big white border with a caption saying “WHO MADE THIS!??” on it. With like 6 emojis.
Poor Sarah, though you’d figure she could go to their room with Joyce out and about.
I think it’s cute Walky’s sharing, even if he’s wolfed down a lot of them already. Which I can’t blame him for, mcnuggets are one of my fast food indulgences I never wish to outgrow.
Polyamourous relationships are great.
Also, you automatically share them with their friends and family, and if you somehow don’t that’s a very unhealthy relationship.
Well, not necessarily. I’ve been in a “let’s keep this secret because it’s fun to have naughty-conspiracies” relationship and it was, well, fun. But larger point taken.
But if someone’s not into poly, I’d already had this example ready to switch from “accurate” to “amusing” with nary a qualm.
Unfortunately, IU cannot refund your time or energy either, but can we direct you to our public sitting room? Perfect for socialization and studying combined!
“Oh, I see. Have you tried the quiet sections in Wells Library?”
“….”
“You didn’t know about them? West Tower, floors 2 and 3, East Tower, floors 4 through 10?”
“….”
“Ah, you’re already practicing your ability to remain silent for once you’re there. Great! Now you just need to find a way to shush the people around you without making noise yourself.”
Walky: Where are we supposed to find a hospital here!
Joyce: Just figure it out!
Walky: You think I’m not upset?
Danny: Guys calm down, look the spell book has a healing spell.
Danny: Tempus Medicus
Suddenly a bright light envolopes Dorothy, and she staggers to her feet. Barely able to stand she coughs up blood.
Billie: Well she seems a bit better…
Suddenly a voice can be heard behind them.
Mysterious Old Man: She has been poisoned with the sun’s flame. No typical healing spell can cure that.
Everyone turns around to look at a old man with a whispy beard, and balding head. He wears a long black cloak.
Walky: are you a wizard?
Mysterious Old Man: once I was. I am Cyrus Kzar, my shack is not far from here, there I can cure her ills.
Billie: Do you think we can trust him?
Joyce: we don’t have a choice.
And so, they traveled with this strange old man to a small log cabin, the inside had a faint sent of rosemary and had a deep red carpet. There was only a single room, with a small bed made of straw and cotton. There Dorothy know lay, sweat dripping her brow.
Joyce: You can really save her?
Cyrus Kzar: yes, but I’ll need a special herb, located at the very center of this forest. It grows in the swamp of desolation, which shows you your greatest fears.
Danny: That seems dangerous.
Cyrus Kzar: Indeed, if you don’t have the strength of will…
Billie: Of course we have the bloody strength of will.
Joyce: I’ll do anything to save her.
Walky: I’m with them.
Danny: I don’t like this, but I’m not going to watch my ex-girlfriend die, I owe her that much at least.
Cyrus Kzar: Then go, young ones, head westward until you reach the stone wall.
Is Asma a student? Are there any other people that share her shifts? Or does she always get the shifts where there just happen to be drama/Sarah? Inquiring minds want to know.
I swear I remember her stating at one point that she is a student worker but I can’t find it in the archived Asma strips so a) she said so in a bonus strip b) Willis stated that she is a studnet or c) my brain completely made this up.
Yeah, Ethan probably realises that telling Joyce he made out with Mike will probably lead to her raising far too many red flags for him to keep his good mood. Meanwhile, hopefully, he’ll eventually also work out that one does not normally discuss these things with one’s ex.
Meanwhile, Sarah is learning that Joyce is so her diametric opposite (Outgoing, social and optimistic) that she is likely to always be surrounded by little crowds of people. Not good for privacy but, IMO at least, possibly good for the soul.
“one does not normally discuss these things with one’s ex.”
I’m gonna disagree with you there. It definitely depends on the conditions of the break up and post-break up relationship. Joyce is delighted to hear this news – this is exactly the kind of thing she’d like to be in the loop for. I personally have one ex that I happily (and platonically) tell everything boy-related, and one ex that I cut off contact with because after I broke up with him, he first insisted to be friends and then immediately asked “as a friend” why in all his relationships girls never liked him as much as he liked them. O.o
Anyway, it definitely depends on each pair of people! I feel like Ethan probably has a good handle on these boundaries, considering that he’s kiss-and-telling to Joyce and not, say, Amber.
So is anyone else going to mention how Walky just suddenly appeared in the back of the chair. Like I expect there to be a little ninja smoke poof and everything.
This strip epitomizes these cast members. Namely, Ethan makes terrible romantic/sexual choices, Sarah wants to be left alone, Walky is Walky, Joyce is Joyce, and Asma is just trying to do her job but these other kids are testing her every damn day.
I just waited for Dina to pop in and tell Sarah about dinosaurs and Becky letting her know that she is a lesbian. This strip could easily have been extended to include almost the entire cast.
Carla: *sees the flaws of the privacy chair* Sarah, I will make innovative adjustments to the chair for you, in exchange for your reverent worship of me, for I am a goddess and you are a bug!
Asma: Please go away, this is a drama-free zone.
Sarah: THAT’S WHERE I WANTED TO BE.
Asma: …and how is that working out for you?
Joyce: THERE you are. Come back, I have more things to tell you about my toe, Walky is in some sort of denial, Dina need you to know something about styracosaurus and Becky wants to tell you something about her being a lesbian.
Sarah: NOOOOOOO
Biomedical science majors do not have this problem. The human body is gross, I remember having to put up warning post it notes after someone complained I was looking up gross things on the net and not studying. So yeah bring up medical microbiology with all the pus and gore and you will have a nice free chair to study in.
sure, licky-style is great and all but WALKY LEFTOVERS
…anyway, how are they privacy chairs if they’re so dang huge you can hold a party in them
That’s because with how easy it is to interrupt people hiding in those chair, they could only chair-itably be called privacy chairs
I seat what you did there.
They’re not the bench-mark of privacy, then?
Poor Sarah, I don’t think she’s got any studying done sofa-r
Personally I think Sarah should learn to chair her time anyways.
Hopefully she stool has time later to study
Holy sit you guys like puns.
I recline to follow this pun chain any further!
D’ohh, ninja’d!
I holy see what you have done here!
Why yes we do, and I shall be sure to couch a pun in this sentence. 🙂
Come on, we don’t need to chaise this any longuer.
–Dave, could not attempt pun based on ‘davenport’, shame mounting
I recline to participate. I’m too lazy, boy. Maybe I’ll wing back later.
Walky, Joyce and Ethan is a good friendship, and Sarah’s tagging along whether she wants to or not
Sarah has learned from her adventures, that Friendship is Tragic.
I begrudgingly admit that this joke was great.
Okay Joyce, I think you’re taking food-neurosis to a level that exceeds parody.
Either
1. she’s being extra careful with her rule about different food not coming into contact
2. she’s worried about what might have been transferred between Walky’s Mouth and any other McNuggets nearby by debris from Cookie-Monstering about three dozen of them
These may not be equally unreasonable.
I think she’s joking.
She’s not joking. Remember, this is the same person who just a few weeks ago (in Walkyverse time) dissected tacos.
But this is a case of completely identical food chunks “touching” each other! How can one Nugget contaminate another nugget?! SPACE MADNESS!
Yeah plus with the taco thing everything was touching then she separated it my money is on her not wanting to eat from the same box as walky
Also I honestly spent way too much time last night wondering “HOW could one nugget not touch any other nuggets in that box? Would they build walls or something in the box? What the FUCK Joyce?”
Just to let you know Bill this is the Dumbiverse. The other verse is the Walkyverse. The Soggies took it over
Hangs head in shame for not remembering the difference.
Builds hunting lodge and fireplace around hanging head.
Sometimes, I think about murder.
That avatar is perfect for that comment.
So is the name, if it’s referencing the squirrel I think it is.
No relation. I’ve been using this name since before that was a thing.
before what was a thing? rabid squirrel foaming at the mouth?
Damn, that’s a long time, then.
Different gravatar, but: “My secret is I’m always thinking about murder.”
This is so cute. Poor Ethan is SO happy.
And then next he goes outside and tells Danny and Sal
Wait.
It’s like he’s never even met Mike despite knowing him for years.
You can see the exact moment that reality catches up with him in panel 3.
‘He’s actually more screamy than dreamy…’
So, is Asma the sanest person in DoA?
Alomst certainly
How long she remains that way is probably based on how many more times she has to interact with these people.
There are so many DoA characters we don’t really know that well –Bryan, Sayid, Spencer, Tony, Norville, Faye — it’s hard to conclude who is the most sane. (Yes, I know the last three have outside-of-DoA existences — but their in-DoA personalities are not well established.)
But it has been demonstrated that Asma is so far the best at keeping an even keel in the face of people losing their cool at her.
Betcha she isn’t as sane as you think she is, we just haven’t seen her brand of insanity yet.
Turns out, Asma is super into stealing people’s cartoons, taking off the watermarks, intro, and credits, and adding a big white border with a caption saying “WHO MADE THIS!??” on it. With like 6 emojis.
I don’t think Willis could bring himself to write a character so evil
Are you sure that is the whey?
Ma and Pa Keener?
It’s a box of McNuggets Joyce, no he doesn’t.
She’ll spend 10 minutes picking the one that’s touched the fewest McNuggets, even though they’re all from the bottom of the box.
“How about the non-privacy chairs, they’re basically the same thing.”
She needs a quilt fort.
Or a cushion castle
That would ensure the exact opposite of privacy.
A furniture fortress!
Or an egg chair from the 70s.
You talking about one like this?
Sarah hasn’t even said anything, Asma just knows
Probably not the first time she’s been asked.
Asama, in case it wasn’t clear, HATES her job.
Poor Sarah, though you’d figure she could go to their room with Joyce out and about.
I think it’s cute Walky’s sharing, even if he’s wolfed down a lot of them already. Which I can’t blame him for, mcnuggets are one of my fast food indulgences I never wish to outgrow.
I just wish McD’s hadn’t done away with the Hot Mustard dipping sauce. That was the only one I liked. (plus it was also good with Fries!)
The best things in life are meant to be shared.
…. no, seriously, think about it. Every example will be accurate and/or amusing, which is basically the same thing.
Ok, so food is an automatic yes. What about your significant other? Is that, better if shared?
Polyamourous relationships are great.
Also, you automatically share them with their friends and family, and if you somehow don’t that’s a very unhealthy relationship.
Well, not necessarily. I’ve been in a “let’s keep this secret because it’s fun to have naughty-conspiracies” relationship and it was, well, fun. But larger point taken.
But if someone’s not into poly, I’d already had this example ready to switch from “accurate” to “amusing” with nary a qualm.
Oh, wait, share them with friends and family in the sense of they spend time and pathos with them. Yeah, okay, not doing that’s unhealthy.
but he’s eaten THIRTY-EIGHT of them. How are his teeth so gleaming white still?
Dave, could it be a dentrifice? a force field? REALLY white breading?
Unfortunately, IU cannot refund your time or energy either, but can we direct you to our public sitting room? Perfect for socialization and studying combined!
“NO! NO COMBINING!”
“Oh, I see. Have you tried the quiet sections in Wells Library?”
“….”
“You didn’t know about them? West Tower, floors 2 and 3, East Tower, floors 4 through 10?”
“….”
“Ah, you’re already practicing your ability to remain silent for once you’re there. Great! Now you just need to find a way to shush the people around you without making noise yourself.”
“…” >:(
“PERFECT! You’re all set!”
Poor Asma, dealing with the students day in and day out
This is a good comic
Dungeons and Dumbing part 6
Billie: We need to get her to a hospital.
Walky: Where are we supposed to find a hospital here!
Joyce: Just figure it out!
Walky: You think I’m not upset?
Danny: Guys calm down, look the spell book has a healing spell.
Danny: Tempus Medicus
Suddenly a bright light envolopes Dorothy, and she staggers to her feet. Barely able to stand she coughs up blood.
Billie: Well she seems a bit better…
Suddenly a voice can be heard behind them.
Mysterious Old Man: She has been poisoned with the sun’s flame. No typical healing spell can cure that.
Everyone turns around to look at a old man with a whispy beard, and balding head. He wears a long black cloak.
Walky: are you a wizard?
Mysterious Old Man: once I was. I am Cyrus Kzar, my shack is not far from here, there I can cure her ills.
Billie: Do you think we can trust him?
Joyce: we don’t have a choice.
And so, they traveled with this strange old man to a small log cabin, the inside had a faint sent of rosemary and had a deep red carpet. There was only a single room, with a small bed made of straw and cotton. There Dorothy know lay, sweat dripping her brow.
Joyce: You can really save her?
Cyrus Kzar: yes, but I’ll need a special herb, located at the very center of this forest. It grows in the swamp of desolation, which shows you your greatest fears.
Danny: That seems dangerous.
Cyrus Kzar: Indeed, if you don’t have the strength of will…
Billie: Of course we have the bloody strength of will.
Joyce: I’ll do anything to save her.
Walky: I’m with them.
Danny: I don’t like this, but I’m not going to watch my ex-girlfriend die, I owe her that much at least.
Cyrus Kzar: Then go, young ones, head westward until you reach the stone wall.
Have we figured out what sauce Walky got with his order? My money is still on Habanero.
My bet it’s the Mulan sauce.
It’s totally the Rick & Morty sauce — Walky had to get him some of that.
Or rather, the sauce that the R&M fanboys were really salty when some locations ran out of it — Szechuan, was it?
To be fair
Asma, later that day: “Why do I have to deal with the weirdest shit?”
Passing facilities maintenance crew member: “Wait, you think YOU have to deal with the weirdest shit?”
I’d suspect that gastroenterologists have to deal with the weirdest shit.
Maybe a coprolitologist? Now they’ve seen some rock-hard shit.
NO FACE JOURNEYS
Is Asma a student? Are there any other people that share her shifts? Or does she always get the shifts where there just happen to be drama/Sarah? Inquiring minds want to know.
I swear I remember her stating at one point that she is a student worker but I can’t find it in the archived Asma strips so a) she said so in a bonus strip b) Willis stated that she is a studnet or c) my brain completely made this up.
She did say but it was in a patreon strip/bonus comic in the books.
Yup, it’s one of the ones that ended up in book 5.
Haha, my memory is accurate! Thank you both
Shame, since these ones are clearly defective. 😛
Ok now it’s invasion of privacy because the other two didn’t even fucking ask nor was give a ok.
That’s just how it is in college. You see a friend in a study area, and you jump at them. Shenanigans ensue
Joyce needs her nuggets arranged like a box of chocolates.
I can kinda understand not wanting different food touching each other but nuggets are the same food.
Yeah. Seriously.
The boot-shaped nuggets can’t mix with the round ones!
Dreamy is not a word that should ever be used to describe Mike.
Unless you compare him to a beutifal nightmare.
He’s pretty handsome, but yeah dreamy usually implies some sort of dashing prince or something
Mike isn’t a boy, he’s a MAN(-someone).
-creature
Next time, Sarah, bring a thin blanket-sheet (transluscent white, maybe) to cover the chair with.
…. oh, and noise cancelling headphones.
here is kitty’s finnish word of the day!
unohdin (to forget, forgot)
i forgot to show up yesterday ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
have a nice day!
How do you conjugate that?
It’s actually already conjugated. Unohdin = I forgot. The non-conjugated word is unohtaa (= to forget)
And now I have learned a thing!
Maybe they should just rename them “non-privacy chairs”.
I hope the person who complained about repeated panels yesterday, is paying close attention today. Especially to Sarah in panels 1-4.
Seems like we’re still waiting for the other shoe to drop on Mike’s scheme, then.
Those chairs simply don’t work. Just ask Amber
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/03-the-thing-i-was-before/signal/
I would argue that putting ‘privacy’ chairs in a high-traffic public area of the building probably was a bad idea anyway.
Why don’t you find a quieter place, Sarah. Like the storeroom in “A Night at the Opera”?
Okay, that auto’ed from “stateroom”.
You can just tell that this is not the first time Sarah has asked this kind of question.
Asma’s hijab in this strip is super pretty. I like it a lot.
Agree
man I missed asma
Yeah, Ethan probably realises that telling Joyce he made out with Mike will probably lead to her raising far too many red flags for him to keep his good mood. Meanwhile, hopefully, he’ll eventually also work out that one does not normally discuss these things with one’s ex.
Meanwhile, Sarah is learning that Joyce is so her diametric opposite (Outgoing, social and optimistic) that she is likely to always be surrounded by little crowds of people. Not good for privacy but, IMO at least, possibly good for the soul.
“one does not normally discuss these things with one’s ex.”
I’m gonna disagree with you there. It definitely depends on the conditions of the break up and post-break up relationship. Joyce is delighted to hear this news – this is exactly the kind of thing she’d like to be in the loop for. I personally have one ex that I happily (and platonically) tell everything boy-related, and one ex that I cut off contact with because after I broke up with him, he first insisted to be friends and then immediately asked “as a friend” why in all his relationships girls never liked him as much as he liked them. O.o
Anyway, it definitely depends on each pair of people! I feel like Ethan probably has a good handle on these boundaries, considering that he’s kiss-and-telling to Joyce and not, say, Amber.
So is anyone else going to mention how Walky just suddenly appeared in the back of the chair. Like I expect there to be a little ninja smoke poof and everything.
The chair has a strong magnetic pull it draws people rapidly towards it
If by “dreamy” you mean that I have no memory of how it started and now that I’m awake it doesn’t make a lick of sense, then yes, he was dreamy.
It had a pretty clear start. Mike said “Wanna make out?” and Ethan started kissing him.
Dreamy? Well… Nightmares count as dreams, don’t they?
Look, Sarah. Life Lesson.
Other People are basically cats.
If you don’t want them to come over, they’ll come over.
This is why I’m afraid to own any power tools
The ratcheting up of Sarah’s grimace is wonderful.and should not go unmentioned.
thank you, I was coming here looking for that mention. I like the scrunching down until it became too much.
This strip epitomizes these cast members. Namely, Ethan makes terrible romantic/sexual choices, Sarah wants to be left alone, Walky is Walky, Joyce is Joyce, and Asma is just trying to do her job but these other kids are testing her every damn day.
I just waited for Dina to pop in and tell Sarah about dinosaurs and Becky letting her know that she is a lesbian. This strip could easily have been extended to include almost the entire cast.
I’m a bit sad we never got to see Carla’s contribution.
Carla: I am a motherfucking goddess and you are all bugs!
I thought of a better alternative.
Carla: *sees the flaws of the privacy chair* Sarah, I will make innovative adjustments to the chair for you, in exchange for your reverent worship of me, for I am a goddess and you are a bug!
Like it!
And Animal dance.
Looks like ethan is… TONGUE TIED
ha ha
Aaaand now I have the Cat singing stuck in my head.
Asma: Please go away, this is a drama-free zone.
Sarah: THAT’S WHERE I WANTED TO BE.
Asma: …and how is that working out for you?
Joyce: THERE you are. Come back, I have more things to tell you about my toe, Walky is in some sort of denial, Dina need you to know something about styracosaurus and Becky wants to tell you something about her being a lesbian.
Sarah: NOOOOOOO
In Dwemer culture, Sarah would be justified in evaporating the others.
Walky timed his appearance perfectly to provide the distraction needed from awkward questions, maybe thats his superpower
Sarah needs the…….. Cone of Silence
I just realized that I am Sarah
I might be a pessimist here but, I think Ethans journey of who not to smooch is far from over.
Personally I think that’s an ongoing journey for most people. Look at Leslie.
Sarah: I’ll drown your FAAAAAAACE in McNuggets, Wilis!!
Biomedical science majors do not have this problem. The human body is gross, I remember having to put up warning post it notes after someone complained I was looking up gross things on the net and not studying. So yeah bring up medical microbiology with all the pus and gore and you will have a nice free chair to study in.
Someone needs to market a line of LMTFA headphones.
¿que?
“Leave Me The Alone”
That’ll teach me to use angle brackets to indicate a euphemism in an HTML zone.
I’m sure you can infer the missing word.
Fraggle.
Exactly.
The fact that Ethan was smooching Mike is a pretty clear indicator he still has a long way to go on that particular journey.
I like how Sarah’s quiet time morphs into a scene out of a Marx brothers movie.
I think this is my favorite Walky universe because of these character inaction’s,Joyce and Ethan are so cute! ^.^
gah