Permanent
Posted on July 7, 2014 by David M Willis
Thanks for coming to visit me at the Laughing Ogre today, guys!  Don't worry, if you missed me, I'll be back there again next Sunday from noon until three for the Ogre's "Mini Indie" con.  Danielle won't be there, though, sorry!  Just me! Speaking of Danielle, my GUEST WEEK begins over on her Girls With Slingshots website.  That's right, GUEST WEEK.

312 thoughts on “Permanent”

  1. Doctor_Who

    Glad to see Carla gets it.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Another clever girl.

    2. Ivan

      Why, in panel 1, does that drawn dick get to speak for itself?!?

      Is this the use foreshadowing? (of things to come? hahahahaha!) – giant drawn dicks that speak and then come to life, like TRANSFORMDICKS!

      1. Ivan

        in this case it could be a combo of using the techniques “foreshadow” and “foreskin” within the same space, causing a…. (next reader take a shot here at finishing this one, I’m all out!) ____________ event!!

        1. Gigafreak

          We call this dicktation

  2. ankhtahr

    Permanent. Now that is just a dick move.

    1. Yotomoe

      They really Shafted everyone.

      1. Aischylos

        Who’s the black private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks….SHAFT!

        1. Aizat

          You damn right.

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          SHAFT!

        3. Chickolito

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfK-UzQ48JE

    2. Tunaro

      That just had to come out, huh?

    3. timemonkey

      How penis of them.

      1. R. Sohmer

        Hexadecimal?

    4. Plasma Mongoose

      No matter how long or hard you rub them, they won’t come…off.

      1. Azumango

        Doooooooooongs

    5. Doctor_Who

      Someone is being very hardon their dorm-mates.

    6. Kitanin

      Actually, if they’re permanent marker, it’s more of a dick no-move.

      1. Jen Aside

        I don’t have a whiteboard I’m allowed to try it on, but I’m pretty sure it’ll actually rub off quite well with a good Staedtler eraser [or one of the “click” erasers]. Works for me for most laminated surfaces I’ve had “permanently marked.”

        1. Kisai

          Actually, those special erasers that erase everything destroy a layer of the surface, especially on plastic, which whiteboards are made of.

          So while it might work the first time, it will eventually render the surface unusable if it was happening in the fashion shown in the comic.

        2. Asherian

          You can just go over it with dry erase marker then it will erase. Accidentally sharpied mine enough to have tested that a few times.
          Two dicks to will clean that slate.

        3. Ashirogi

          One of my kids drew on the dining room table with one (no dongs, thank ghod) and Bon Ami and elbow grease took it off. Too bad he was three, else I would have made him do the job.

        4. Kryss LaBryn

          Baby wipes also work really well, especially on skin and leather. Ask me how I know. *eyeroll*

          Also don’t leave the permanent markers where the toddlers can find them.

        5. Jen Aside

          At least I didn’t recommend the same “use the dry erase marker” method EVERYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD did

        6. bodug

          covering the permanent marker with dry-erase marker and letting it sit for awhile will let you erase it like normal.

        7. William

          Actually, what I’ve usually done is draw all over it with regular marker, then erase normally.

        8. RedDude

          Actually, all you have to do to get rid of permanent marker on a white board is scribble all over it with a dry – erase marker, then use a normal white board eraser or damp paper towel to erase it. I don’t know why it works, I just know it does.

        9. JM

          SCIENCE LESSON TIME!

          The reason it works is that both markers use a solvent (usually isopropyl alcohol or xylene) to carry the ink. These solvents dissolve the ink so it’s liquid in the pen, but they evaporate quickly when exposed to air leaving the ink behind. When you scribble over the permanent ink with the dry erase marker, the solvent from the dry erase marker dissolves the permanent ink too, making it easy to wipe off. You can also use pure solvent (like rubbing alcohol or hand sanitizer/vodka) for the same effect, though some solvents can be more smeary than others.

        10. Morgauxo

          The real trick for removing permanent marker from a white board is to draw over it with an actual white board marker. Then wipe it all up before it dries. The ‘permanent’ ink comes right off with the rest.

        11. Deathjavu

          5 people with the same comment, spread out over several hours…

          *marks another tally in the “people don’t read” column*

          Anyway, I heard that you can remove permanent marker by drawing over it with a regular dry-erase marker, and then erasing both.

        12. Jerden

          But then Mike wins! Because YOU ARE ALSO DRAWING A DICK ON YOUR WHITEBOARD!

        13. Deathjavu

          See also: my comment somewhere down there about it being a better prank than it first appears.

        14. Opus the Poet

          Rubbing alcohol wipes from the first aid kit work perfectly as well.

    7. TachyonCode

      Hehe, permanent dicks.

      1. hof1991

        Not a problem until they last more than four hours. Then a doctor has to be involved.

    8. Touchfuzzy

      I think if you rub the dicks enough, you can get them off.

    9. vine409

      ironically permanent marker is incredibly easy to get off of a white board; it’s not even challenging. All you have to do is draw over it with a white board marker and it will come right off. They probably don’t know that however.

    10. arjay2813

      i really just wanted this up high, but its also a dick move

      1. arjay2813

        aaaaaaaaaaaaand i forgot to post the link /facepalm

        http://www.circusriot.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/12.jpg

  3. Jen Aside

    So I’m guessing it wasn’t Carla

    [or she’s being really sly about it]

    1. Doctor_Who

      It’s Ethan. He’s so stressed from suppressing his sexuality that he’s sleepwalking and drawing dicks.

      Alternately, it’s Joyce for the exact same reason.

      1. gwalla

        Sleepcocking

  4. Yotomoe

    Carla is my favorite forever.

    1. Gigafreak

      Oh look, her mouth actually has two rows of teeth and a tongue inside, instead of a nondescript white membrane as in the other universe.

      It makes her final-panel grin excellent.

      1. David M Willis

        YES

  5. Plasma Mongoose

    Carla is my new favourite! 😀

  6. Paul

    Oh my God, it’s the Rachels!

  7. MrSirk

    Whoever this is at least thier an equal opportunity dick vandal.

    1. Yotomoe

      YOU GET A DICK AND YOU GET A DICK!

      1. Aizat

        EVERYONE GETS A DICK!

        1. Doctor_Who

          I think 4chan’s weirder boards have that as a motto.

        2. Aizat

          That’s a motto?

        3. Cthulhu's Intern

          http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101111204123/theyhadrealgoats/images/b/bd/Buzz-and-woody-Dicks-Dicks-everywhere.jpeg

        4. CianM1301

          Wow, now there’s something I haven’t seen in a while.

        5. Treb

          Huh, I didn’t know Oprah had so many DICKS.

        6. Lieutenant Dan

          Everybody gets a dick, Rose! Just this once, everybody gets a dick!

      2. Ivan

        Meh… those Mr. Clean white sponges take permanent marker right off of a white board and countertops, desks, computers, etc.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Does the fact that Mr Clean kinda looks like a dick count as irony?

        2. Anarchy 101

          I’d say so

        3. Ivan

          He is circumcised (for non-smegmata cleanliness), and just by looking at his shine you can tell he knows how to polish the knob!

        4. E.R.

          I’m relatively sure that because you’re basically sandpapering them.

        5. Gigafreak

          If you see Mr. Clean come to life to help you with your chores like in the commercials, stop inhaling the fumes immediately.

  8. Wonder Wig

    S-s-s-s-sh-sh-ship?

    1. Aizat

      No….White Board.

  9. dailybrad

    http://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7irvcQQVV1rbjoeao3_500.gif

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Still better than whores whores whores. 😛

      1. Yotomoe

        But is it better than Spagetti Spaghetti anoe;waoawf;Spaghetti-O’s!

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          YES, yes it is.

  10. David

    Nailpolish remover. Might damage (dull) the board itself depending on its material, but will definitely remove the marker.

    1. Yotomoe

      David…I hate to be the one to tell you this but…They can’t hear you…

    2. Stephen S.

      Just write over it with an erasable marker and wipe it off. The extra chemical in the erasable works on the “permanent” ink too.

      1. isitsevenyet

        Rubbing alcohol works wonders, too.

        1. David

          Not all that much I think.

    3. Aizat

      Or you could draw on it with a regular marker and then wipe it off.

  11. Plasma Mongoose

    The only proper response is to draw vaginas, vaginas on all the white boards, TAKE THAT PHALLOCRACY!

    1. Lanval

      The scheming Joyce avatar makes this perfect.

    2. Deanatay

      But, since you can’t erase the dongs, you’d have to draw the vaginas on top of them – or, around them…

      I’ll be in my bunk.

      1. Mollyscribbles

        Solution: Vagina dentata.

        1. John

          ♪ What a wonderful phrase ♫

  12. AHR

    I had to explain this to everyone in my room because I made a loud “haaah” noise

    1. JessWitt

      Wow, your bedroom sounds amazingly spacious. Do you throw parties often?

      1. AHR

        No, it just has thin walls and a lot of doors

  13. Aizat

    Hate crime? I don’t see anyone’s dong on a pike.

    1. AHR

      hate crimes don’t have to be violent. they just usually are, but it’s not required.

    2. Yotomoe

      That’s because it’d make this comic too R-rated.

    3. David M Willis

      Carla’s circumstances are different.

      1. Aizat

        Oh…I see.

      2. Plasma Mongoose

        I smell a Carla based ploty-plot coming on.

        1. JessWitt

          Given her indoctrination into the new main cast page (which looks spiffy btw, Willis, very much like), I figured Carla would take the spotlight, no complaints.

        2. Gigafreak

          Dorothy’s still the only one with both her first and last name underneath her thumbnail. At least everyone’s hovertext still includes their full names…

        3. Arkadi

          ‘Indoctrination’ is what Joyce’s parents did to her. I think the word you’re looking for is ‘induction’. Just saying 😉

        4. JessWitt

          Oopsie, thanks. It’s funny tho, like if the DoA cast has a special ceremony to promote new characters (and demote some). 😀

        5. Kennerly

          So that’s why she has her own room…

      3. Kaoy

        Carla is MtF, right? Honestly, I haven’t read much of the other Williverse works, but I recall something someone linking to once referencing the fact that Super Car was originally designed to be male, but redefined itself as female after gaining sentience/sapience.

        Is there where I get to right to say “calling it”?

        1. Gordon

          Ultracar was originally designed to be a car. She was given no gender.

          In our society, though, a lack of obviously feminine traits means we default to an assumption of male.

          When Ultra Car decided to get a humanoid body, she decided she was a she or that she had always been a she. I don’t recall the explicit details ever being given.

        2. MindLink

          Never understood that myself, just like with the Transformers, I hated it when they started to talk about “male” and “female” transformers, and that they used pronouns like “he” instead of “it”. To me, a robot is a robot, it doesn’t have any gender because it IS an object, a thing, a bunch of bytes and gears. Gender has no meaning outside of reproductive functions, and a robot is assembled, not “created”. If a character is not a biological creature, I never assign gender to it, it’d be like assigning gender to the buildings they live in, the clothes they wear, etc. But then again, I’ve never understood the concept of “gender identity” either, how does one “feel” like a man or a woman ? I am a man, but I have never felt like a man, it’s just something that I am, I have no idea how to either, so how can a person build an identity around such a random part of their physiology ? I am honestly confused. To me the phrase “I identify as a woman” sounds just like “I identify as a red head” or “I identify as a person with two legs”. And I’m not asexual, I just never felt that my gender was a very important part of me, apart from sexual relations, otherwise I can’t really see any point in genders at all. If I read a book, and a characters name is ambiguous, I don’t visualize a male, I visualize a foggy “blob” until more information has been given.

        3. Penis

          Gender is a social construct. It’s something that has no meaning outside of the cultural connotations we give it. Biological sex is a completely different matter. Transgender people are saying “I fit better into this set of cultural connotations than this other part of the culture,” not “I have this specific arrangement of chromosomes and genitalia.”

        4. Cybersnark

          Not to mention that, in some languages, inanimate objects are indeed gendered simply as a matter of grammar.

          (Indeed, I assume this is what Transformer gender refers to, rather than anything to do with reproduction. For a TF, “lady parts” might well mean a certain type of laser core or T-cog or dataprocessor or something.)

        5. BobaFett2

          Ultracar was assumed male by her creators. It’s in the strip where she talks things over with her mother about Malaya.

        6. Raibean

          A better term than MtF is MaaB woman. MAAB is “male assigned at birth”.

        7. IAmDeltaS

          I’ve also heard DMAB (designated male at birth) and AMAB (assigned male at birth) are good alternatives.

        8. Jon Rich

          At some point, I’m hoping that the permanently-shifting terminology stabilizes somewhat—I’m always afraid of offending someone by using the wrong term, because some people object to MtF, some people object to AMAB, and then there’s MAAB, and, above all, I’m never quite sure if there’s another term that’s become more appropriate within the last several months, and I do hate to be offensive. Unfortunately, I can only keep track of so many acronyms…

      4. Tenn

        “Carla’s circumstances are different.”

        Her circumcision was also different.

        1. Kennerly

          Was her part removed, or is it still attached, perhaps with a white glove covering it, and she uses it to throw cream pies in people’s faces?

        2. xKiv

          How about circumferences?

  14. arank11

    Okay, so if it’s not Carla, and it’s probably not Mike (This seems a little small potatoes for his standards), who is it? Who is the Whiteboard Ding-Dong Bandit?

    1. AHR

      my money is on walky

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        My Monopoly money is on Bizarro Amazi-Girl.

    2. Yotomoe

      *Case Closed theme plays*
      ONE TRUTH PREVAILS IN THE NEXT EPISODE*

      1. Aizat

        Case Closed?

        1. Yotomoe

          If you haven’t seen this breakout english adaptation of the anime Detective Conan then I pity your poor unfortunate soul.

        2. Mass Confusion

          As do I, good sir

        3. Aizat

          I prefer watching the original Japanese version, thank you very much. Besides the Japanese version has, or had, my favorite voice actor.

    3. toddtr

      It’s Joyce. This is how her repressed sexuality has manifested itself.
      Obsession with dicks.

      1. Aizat

        Well, Dick Grayson is a very interesting fellow.

      2. arank11

        It’s the rise of Anti-Joyce!!!

      3. Aubri

        My thought, perfectly.

      4. timemonkey

        Like I said yesterday: Joyce snaps and draws like a billion dicks.

        1. Tenn

          And then she starts drawing porn for Slipshine.

          …I know she’s autobiographical, but I feel like we’re missing some character development here.

      5. CianM1301

        That’s actually a decent theory.

    4. Anarchy 101

      My money is on Joyce.
      Here’s how it goes
      Mike draws a dick on Joyce’s door, so since she doesn’t want to look weird being the only one to have a dick on their door, she draws one on everyone else’s using the one on her door as a model

      1. timemonkey

        She could have, and has already, just erased the dick he drew.

        1. Ivan

          TOO DETAILED A DRAWING — she wouldn’t have the guts to print and trace (and get caught) and she doesn’t know what they look like on her own (unless her and the brother played doctor a lot… which if that were true, she’d be a lot more at ease with the discussion).

          THEREFORE I RULE JOYCE OUT AS THE CULPRIT BY PROCESS OF EJACULATORY ELIMINATION!

  15. Kernanator

    Suddenly, one of the Rachels gets a chill down her spine and looks up.

    “OH MY GOD, THEY’RE ON THE CEILING!”

    1. DavidMcG

      She looks down at her arms and there are dicks drawn all over them!!!!

      1. Yotomoe

        “Rachel…don’t look in the mirror” *Rachel immediately takes out her makeup mirror and looks at her face and it’s covered in drawings of dicks!*

        1. Anarchy 101

          She then hands the mirror to Carla, who looks at her face and finds someone tattooed a dick next to her mouth

        2. Kaoy

          Then, the guy from Trolls 2 shows up and exclaims “They drew dicks on her… and then… they are going to draw dicks on me!”

        3. ninja_jesus

          OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!

        4. Kaoy

          Good sir, your avatar makes this thread.

        5. Kryss LaBryn

          *bzzzzzzzzzzzzz*

        6. Björn

          Carla doesn’t get tattoos. She gets bumper stickers. 😀

  16. Kas

    Oh god Carla, I love you so much.

  17. Hib

    Supposedly if you draw over permanent marker with a normal marker you can erase both of them.

  18. Swerve

    Permanent marker?!? By the Matrix, Allspark and the Guiding Hand, who could have sunk to such depths of villainy?

    1. Aizat

      Skywarp?

      1. Swerve

        No, I don’t think so. In fact, this doesn’t seem like the work of a Decepticon at all. This must be the work of … Lord Chumley! (Or possibly Nanosec.)

        1. Aizat

          Nah, Chumley prefer to have Optimus’s head on his wall rather than drawing dicks. Nanosec…isn’t he old to do that sort of thing….or even be moving right now?

        2. Swerve

          Well, obviously this part of one of Chumlry’s overly complicated traps. Perhaps he’s going after Amazi-Girl!

          As for Nanosec… he got better. See season 2 of TF:A.

        3. Aizat

          Yeah, I saw it…and I still don’t believe it. They managed to reverse the process of aging…AGING.

        4. Swerve

          Yes, but they used a fragment of the Allspark. If the Allspark can keep bringing Starscream back to life, it can restore Nanosec’s virility. I’m surprised you’re not more offended that Angry Archer, Nanosec, Slo-Mo and Professor Princess named their organization after a car.

        5. Aizat

          The SUV? It’s not a bad organization name. I’ve seen worse.

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      Dick Dastardly of cause.

      1. Swerve

        Ah, I see what you’ve done there! You used a pun, the lowest form of humor in the galaxy. Use of vulgar puns violates the penal code in over two dozen systems!

        1. Aizat

          And that’s why Earth is still not in the Galactic Alliance or something.

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          As a self confessed pungeon master, puns are a venerable form of humour that even non-comedians can engage in.

        3. Bill

          And “dick” puns violate the ‘penile’ code.

          Sorry — the devil made me do it.

        4. Plasma Mongoose

          That’s the spirit, you should stand proudly erect for that comment.

        5. CianM1301

          You probably think that you’re the cock of the walk with all these penis puns.

    3. Yotomoe

      You thought it was a college student, But it was I, DIO.

      1. Aizat

        Well, Speedwagon was trying to do it but when he saw Dio doing it first, he withdraws coolly.

        1. Yotomoe

          EVEN SPEEDWAGON IS AFRAID.

        2. Aizat

          Meanwhile, Polnareff…is a turtle.

  19. GoogerGeiger

    Trololololo lolololo

  20. The Aussie Bloke

    And then it turns out to be Ruth, in an effort to teach folks not to put whiteboards on their doors.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Or maybe it was that previously unmentioned Australian exchange student who is compelled to draw a cock and balls whenever possible. 😛

      1. Anarchy 101

        Or it was anti-Joyce

      2. TJ Baltimore

        This leads me to believe that the culprit is Sydney Yus . . . who doesn’t even go to this school, and she’s actually a Purdue student!

    2. isitsevenyet

      The fact that all the doors have them tells me that it wasn’t the students’ idea.

  21. FortyTwo

    Rachel and Carla in the same strip–but not interacting yet! DYW

    1. caesaria82

      It’s the being-the-same-age-as-your-mom AU every piece of fiction needs. As long as Carla doesn’t have to get Rachel and Joe together or she won’t exist, Marty McFly style.

  22. Plasma Mongoose

    “A single dick is a travesty; a million dicks is a hilarious statistic”.

    1. Aizat

      Oh, so that’s what they call a gathering of a million guys.

    2. Yotomoe

      A million dicks describes people who comment on youtube videos.

      1. Betty Anne

        ^ *does the “THIS” dance*

      2. CianM1301

        No, a million dicks is what they call 4chan.

      3. Mc

        So Joyce will end up sucking a million youtube-commenters?

        1. Yotomoe

          That sounds like the kind of video that’d end up on youtube!

        2. Opus the Poet

          YouPorn… Too hot for YouTube.

  23. Em

    This seems like a Mike thing? Well at the very least, I think he did Joyce’s. Or maybe Ethan in a fit of rage drew one on Joyce’s door, but then evened it out to make her guess. (this is a stupid theory, but it is a theory that makes me giggle)

    1. timemonkey

      He already drew one on her door. He’d already made his point, no need to do this.

    2. someguywithakatana

      I don’t think Mike would draw dongs on every door. He’s more into the personalized sort of torture. He likes to really get in there with his victim. Savor the suffering. Plus, I get the sense this is about to turn into a mystery, and Mike wouldn’t have any reservations about admitting to this.

      This almost seems like Walky’s sort of thing, if not for the fact that it’s a bit… I dunno…. ambitious for him? It’s the kind of thing he’d think was funny, but even if he thought of it, I doubt he’d actually go through with the work.

      My guess is it’s a character we haven’t seen yet. Maybe Duncan. Or Ninja Di- I mean, Rick

      1. timemonkey

        Plus I don’t think Walky would use permanent marker. There’s playing a joke and then there’s just being a dick.

        As for Mike, it seems to be less about the personal torture and more about making a point in the most dickish way possible. His actions are rarely without purpose.

      2. John

        We’ve actually seen Duncan.

        1. someguywithakatana

          Have we? Did I forget? I suppose I did…

  24. JessWitt

    Neat-o! Checking in on the minor chars of DoA – and Carla.

  25. Cattleprod

    I’m hoping for a Carla-focused storyline in the hopes that if she gets more developed I wont have to remind myself she’s not a sentient car when she shows up.

  26. NAME - Get a Gravatar

    I’m sorry for being the tip jerk, but you can remove permanent marker by scribbling over with dry erase marker and then wipe off.

    1. rowanmikaio

      You can also use alcohol!

      1. Koms

        Billie ought to have some.

        1. JacHunter

          Zing!

      2. NAME — Get a Gravatar

        But that requires you to not drink it.
        At least you can sniff marker while scribbling.

    2. FireWater

      My first thought. Permanent marker isn’t an issue, it comes off almost as easily as erasing normal dry erase if you know that trick.

  27. caesaria82

    Carla’s smile lights up my life.

  28. Mr. Random

    Not sure I’ll like Carla.
    She seems a little self-centered.
    …
    …
    …
    and a bit of a dick.

    1. someguywithakatana

      It’s not really self-centered. She thought she was the victim of a very cruel act and then discovered that it wasn’t transphobia directed at her, but a prank she just happened to be one of many targets of. That’d probably be a huge relief to anyone.

      1. Mr. Random

        Honestly, I can see that. I can.
        But she seems to first assume it’s directed at that, and not, y’know, just someone drawing a dick on her whiteboard. If you have a white board, people will draw dicks. This is apparently a rule in all colleges.

        1. clodia

          It’s like her life experiences have changed her expectations of people. It’s like transphobia is common enough that she can pretty easily assume that dick jokes aimed in her direction are done so with a purpose. That’s no more self-centered than anyone else. Her experiences color her interactions with others – that’s called situational awareness.

        2. Mr. Random

          At this point, it would depend on the person. The amount they were bullied, and the amount of support they felt. I can understand her feeling like it’s directed at her because she’s trans, but I could also see her assuming it’s just because of a random asshole with a marker.
          So, you’re right in a way, we don’t know much about her yet.
          So we’ll need to wait for more backstory.
          Though since this is Willis, and Willis loves drama, I feel you may be right, and the bullying will outweigh the support.
          I still say she’s a bit of an ass though.

        3. Reverie

          The fact that you consider it reasonable for her to assume it isn’t about her gender identity is a textbook example of cis privilege. Without having lived through having people dropping little hints and references and straight-up insults regarding your presumed genitalia, assuming this is yet another in a long line of people pointing out that you’re a freak seems like an overreaction. Many things can seem more innocent through innocent eyes. Be grateful for yours.

        4. Mr. Random

          It is reasonable to assume she might not assume its aimed at her gender identity because not everyone in the world is going to care about her gender identity.
          If she has lived through that, she could assume it is, maybe.
          If she lived through that, she could assume it isn’t, maybe.
          Because always assuming if someone draws a penis, a really REALLY common prank for anyone with a white board, is aimed specifically at your gender identity and not because they were being assholes, is self-centered with a victim complex at most, or seriously symptoms of a person who’s gone through a hell of trauma deeper than Amber and her dad.
          I don’t think her bullying was Amber levels.
          I don’t think she’s completely self-centered.
          But she is assuming it’s directed at her gender identity.
          Not as her as a person, and not at her specifically, not at her in general.
          She’s assuming it’s about her gender identity.

          Once again,
          I do think she’s been through bullying.
          I do think she’s a little self-centered.
          But I do think it would be reasonable.
          Would.
          Be.
          Reasonable.
          To assume that a random dong on her white board, isn’t directed at her gender identity.

        5. Lee

          when you’re a trans girl, you start to assume the worst of cis people because it’s just what you can expect to get

          don’t think poorly of her for being defensive about a thing she probably gets tons of shit over

  29. Brady

    So, why would it be a hate crime? Even if this Carla’s asexual, it doesn’t seem to compute.

    Now, based on the diversity of drawings, at least one of which has a very low skill level, I’d guess they were drawn by several people. Either that or one person trying to make it look like several people.

    1. Wack'd

      Because she’s also trans.

      Lotta folks seem to forget that.

      1. AHR

        To be fair, it hasn’t been stated in comic yet. It’s only a matter of time, but if you don’t pay attention to the asks of Willis it might not compute.

        1. Betty Anne

          I basically never read the asks, and I got it. Knowing a girl is transgendered and drawing a dick on her stuff anyway is pretty obvious transphobia.

          That’s why Carla was suddenly relieved it was just a random run-by vandalism targeting ALL the girls – which, indeed, makes it hilarious. (Why, you ask? Because not only is a transgendered woman not being outed or harassed, but because it’s obviously a juvenile stunt with virtually no thought – hate or otherwise – behind it. It’s someone who knows dicks are guaranteed offensive to 99% of the population and so went to town with them.)

        2. Raibean

          You mean transgender. “Transgendered” isn’t a word because “transgender” isn’t a verb. you can’t “transgender” someone. Additionally, transgender also isn’t a noun, for anyone who wasn’t clear on that point.

        3. Betty Anne

          I won’t use transgendered after this post anymore, since it bothers you. However, I would like to point out this very discussion HAS been done, and those who would normally be under the “transgender” label don’t always agree on the usage of the word, especially when they’re linguists.

          Off the top of my head, examples can be found in the comments area for the HuffPost article, “Transgender or Transgendered?” While the author proposes to speak for the entire community and declare “transgender” the official and only acceptable label, it’s pretty clear in the comments the community is not okay with that. Specifically, Roger K., DoktorHyena, JayceRen, iammeandme, and Storm4u presented several of the more prominent arguments in favor of NOT stamping everyone with “transgender.”

          http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joanne-herman/transgender-or-transgende_b_492922.html

        4. gwalla

          You can use turn any noun in English into a verb.

        5. Mr. Random

          Verbing weirds language.

        6. sps48

          How is Hobbes?

        7. a snow ʍousɐ

          +1 to both of you

    2. sps48

      The draw-er would have to know a lot of personal information about Carla to make a silly prank into a hate crime.

  30. Brady

    It’s possible that the several people weren’t even conspiring. There may have simply been a dozen people who all saw blank whiteboards and decided to draw penises on them.

    1. Aizat

      Or a secret organization that likes doing sort of thing.

      1. xKiv

        IRTA secret orangutans. Imagined an army of Librarians.

      2. Kryss LaBryn

        Completely misread that as “a secret organization that likes dong sort of thing.”

        I’m not convinced I’m wrong.

    2. Kamino Neko

      All of them in permanent ink? Seems unlikely to be a coincidence.

      1. tinfoil theory

        It was the Laughing Man.

        1. Jon Rich

          ^You win a point.

  31. ShaggyDonahugh

    Someone definitely has their priorities straight. -_-

  32. Koms

    Seems like something out of an Ali Baba story. And Carla looks beautiful!!

    1. Kennerly

      I thought Carla was a sophmore, what’s she doing living in the freshman dorm?

      Or are all undergrades housed together in this school?

      1. JessWitt

        In my college, a certain smaller number of rooms were reserved for upperclassmen on campus if they preferred to stay in dorms the following year. Same rules could apply in IU, mayhaps?

      2. David M Willis

        There’s no “freshman dorm.” Everyone lives together.

      3. nekobawt

        sarah’s a sophomore as well, and rooms with joyce, a freshman. just pointing that out.

        1. Kennerly

          I forgot about that.

    2. JessWitt

      Gadzooks, what kind of Ali Baba stories have you been perusing lately?

      1. Aizat

        Well, I seen one version of the Forty Thieves where the Bandits consists of a little man(is that a good way to address them?), a WW2 Japanese among other things and Chief rides a bike.

      2. Koms

        This one..http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Baba

  33. J-Debs

    Why is everyone assuming it wasn’t Mike? Also, I don’t think anyone guessed Billie either and she’d be my #2 guess after Mike!

    1. Yotomoe

      Because Mike is the obvious guess.

    2. timemonkey

      As I mentioned above: Mike tends to do things for a reason, to make a point to a specific person. Here there’s no reason to penis all the doors, especially not in permanent marker. He was doing it before to upset Joyce and managed it even with her attempts to block him,. thus his point was made, thus he was finished with her.

      This is wide scale harassment that will likely end in someone getting in big trouble, Mike isn’t stupid enough to do this.

      1. rachel

        lol “penis” as a verb

  34. Andrusi

    I just think it’s funny that “other rachel” comes before “rachel” in alphabetical order and therefore in the tag list.

    1. Jason

      I was just thinking the same thing! Every time Rachel and Other Rachel appear together, Other Rachel will be listed first.

      1. Bill

        Unless Willis changes their tags to “First Rachel” and “Second Rachel”.
        And which Rachel is which?  Enquiring minds want to know.

        1. Heavensrun

          Rachel is the one with black hair. Other Rachel is the one with purplish hair.

  35. Tom Speelman

    Carla, I like you more and more.

  36. stargrabber5

    That sounds like it can be a band name:
    PERMANENT DONG

    1. Mc

      I was thinking on how it’s a shame that these were dongs and not Dickbutts and now I feel compelled to start a band under the name “Permanent Dickbutts”.

  37. Anarchy 101

    Anti-Joyce finally take the stage!

  38. Kris

    Surprisingly, pencil eraser is pretty great at getting permanent marker off of things such as whiteboards.

  39. jackson

    honest question, who’s the redhead??? did the girl who invited joyce to the party die her hair or is this a new character??

    1. Jason

      That’s Carla. She was hanging out with Sal and the other in the previous storyline. Click the Carla tag.

      1. Jason

        …Sal and the others in the Walmart parking lot after midnight. She bought the beer.

  40. Jason

    OK, there goes my Walky theory…he doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who would draw them with a permanent marker. Unless he didn’t know it was a permanent marker, which DOES sound like him actually. Hmmm…

    1. Heavensrun

      Or he thought that dry erase boards were magical and could erase any marker.

      Oh, man, I want this to be true now.

  41. nothri

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnxdcm7yQOU

    I’m not sorry.

  42. Jason

    Isn’t this early morning? I’m surprised everyone’s already dressed, not in their showering attire.

    1. David M Willis

      but they ARE in their–

      oh

      huh

      forgot to upload the updated version, HOLD ON

      1. David M Willis

        There, refresh your cache. DAMMIT I REDREW THAT LIKE FOUR MONTHS AGO BUT FORGOT TO UPLOAD THE NEW ONE

        1. Camachri

          From the twitter- “the next 70 days are going to be a hell consisting of nothing but people telling me whiteboard marker removal tips”

          I heard you can rub permanent marker off using the hook thingy from Sarah’s dildo.

        2. John

          I dunno about that, but Sarah can definitely rub herself off with it.

        3. Jason

          Heh, didn’t see your reply until now….So, Other Carla still looks fully dressed, I suppose she took a very early shower?

        4. David M Willis

          There is only one Carla and she keeps her own hours, as evidenced by her early morning Walmart attendance.

        5. Jason

          Whoops, meant Other Rachel…y’know what, never mind.

  43. Bernadotte

    I don’t know why but I think that this chapter is going to be how everybody are going to hate Mike because Joyce manage to make every girl blame him and at the end is going to be all “oh I’m sorry it wasn’t you but the real criminal is still out there” and the one doing it is going to be Sarah

  44. Nyxness

    Of course this is the comic up the day I decide to introduce my mother to DoA.

    1. JacHunter

      Let’s face it, she was going to find out eventually no matter which strip you started on. Might as well dive in head first.

  45. Aurora

    Fun fact, you can get rid of permanent marker by writing over it with a dry erase marker. The solvent in it makes the permanent ink erasable. Works on any smooth surface.

    1. Gigafreak

      Hard to tell if that dark rectangle at the bottom is the accompanying marker or the empty marker holder.

      ‘cuz if they just stole all the markers at the same time, this information is suddenly moot.

      1. Aurora

        True, the Penis Bandit may have planned ahead.

  46. Kugai

    Well, we have some idea of who the dickhead is that did this.

    *Ducks*

  47. teddydragon

    She looked at me!

  48. Marvelman

    Dave… Are we ever going to get an idea of what makes Mike tick? Or, is the whole point of the character that he is one of those people who is an asshole for no discernible reason?

    1. Wack'd

      Yes.

    2. cmd1095

      He’s just an asshole, at least based on the “it’s Walky” comic he was just constantly a dick… unless drunk

    3. JWLM

      Well, according to the cast page, he’s just an asshole:

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/cast/attachment/2014castmike/

      (Well, and Walky’s roommate. But an asshole first and foremost.)

  49. Ry

    Enjoy getting permanent marker removal tips for the rest of your natural born life, David.

    1. JWLM

      I’ve always heard that the best way to remove permanent marker from a white board is with a sponge and a bucket of xylene.

      And a gas mask.

  50. Orangey

    I reckon someone felt sorry for Joyce being the only one with a dick on her whiteboard in permanent marker, so decided to even it out. DICKS FOR EVERYONE!

    1. Bagge

      It was Amazi-girl!

  51. Idon'tcarenomore

    Carla is cute, but weird. She fits in just fine.

    Not in Mike’s category. He always has a reason for what he does, and there doesn’t seem to be a reason for this: other than to amuse Carla.

  52. Lawzlo

    Another excerpt from the Scottish Penis… I mean play:

    Lady MacBeth: “Screw your schlong to the sticking place, and we’ll not fail.”

  53. Lord Geovanni

    they did pretty well considering all mistakes wood be permanant

    1. Mass Confusion

      Icwutudidthar

  54. 2K

    This case is hard to erase, don´t? 😛

  55. CianM1301

    …it’s Mike, isn’t it?

    1. Heavensrun

      Possibly Malaya. They’re the only ones that would use permanent marker.

      1. Blackbird

        Malaya doesn’t live in their dorm and is probably too lazy to walk across campus for a silly prank.

  56. 2K

    They can try rubbing it a little more. Maybe some genius come out.

  57. Pat Myers

    Poor Carla. She must have been so upset. I’m sure Joyce will be glad her whiteboard cheered up Carla.

  58. maarvarq

    I suppose Danielle knew what she was letting her poor, innocent (well, maybe not innocent) characters in for by turning them over to your tender mercies.

  59. FuryOfFirestorm

    Mike may be an asshole, but he’s also an equal opportunity penis drawer.

    1. Mr. Morningstar

      Ah ha! But who says it was mike! Someone could have done this and framed Mike for the crime!

  60. starkruzr

    A little acetone’ll get that right off.

  61. thatindianguy

    Sorry if I missed something but why would this be a hate crime?
    It could possibly be termed as sexual harrasement but why hate crime.

    1. John

      Bluntly, ’cause Carla has (had?) a dick. (No, this hasn’t been established in-comic yet.) So directed at her, it’s a transphobic hate crime. Directed at everyone, it’s just an obnoxious joke.

    2. Deathjavu

      Because Carla is transsexual, if I remember correctly.

      Not revealed in the comic yet, but Willis has said it.

      1. Axel

        I think this is the first in-comic hint that that is the case, it may be something Carla wouldn’t bring up on her own anyway.

        I’m curious how many people would have noticed what she meant if Willis hadn’t already mentioned that she’s trans on tumblr.

        1. Ikaru

          I don’t follow Willis’ tumblr but I was still able to figure out what she meant by context.

        2. Deathjavu

          Or, people that remember her from Shortpacked! could guess…

    3. Catullus

      Carla is trans, and before she saw that everyone had whiteboard dongs, she assumed the dick was specifically targeting her.

  62. Deathjavu

    A lot of people are saying you can remove permanent marker off whiteboards by drawing over it with a normal dry erase marker.

    Frankly, if the prank forces other people to draw dongs, it’s more brilliant than previously imagined.

    1. Ether101

      http://www.wikihow.com/Remove-Permanent-Marker-from-a-White-Board

      The prank isn’t very effective other then wasting people’s time.

  63. Dorje Sylas

    Well you know the commercial… If it last more than 4 hours consult a doctor.

    IMO a REAL subversive artist would have draw them all flaccid, thus we can infer the joker is just being juvenile. 😛

  64. Touchfuzzy

    I think that the only reason this story arc exists is that Willis just wanted to draw a bunch of dongs.

    1. The Candyman

      Not all of us can resist the urge.

  65. Willoughby Chase

    Out, out damned spot!

  66. OmegaDez

    Carla is the cutest girl in this entire comic for sure.

    1. TJ Baltimore

      She really is!

  67. SonicBlueRanger

    First attempt at reading a full Dumbing of Age story. It’s about someone drawing Dicks on whiteboards. Seems like a great starting point.

    In all seriousness Carla is awesome and I’m going to need to fight calling her Ultra Car.

  68. Alexx

    So what do we call this vagrant? The Dick Doodler? The Schlong Sketcher? The Wipe-Away Weiner? Or should we just call this whole situation The Plague of the Pecker Pictures?

    1. PWolf

      It’s Amazi-Girl’s new arch-nemesis: The Dorker

  69. EnerPrime

    So, is Carla open and public about being trans? Because even if she was the only one to get door-dicked, wouldn’t the perpetrator have to know about her being trans for it to count as a hate crime?

    1. Betty Anne

      Legally, yes. In the court of public opinion, no.

      1. Rutee

        The court of public opinion that so frequently thinks that there’s no such thing as a hate crime in the first place? C’mon.

    2. Sir Robin

      Carla is trans-gender? Did I miss a strip?

      1. Rutee

        You’re fine. It was on Willis’ tumblr.

        1. podian

          I thought she was car-to-female.

  70. Karen Lynn

    Tips for fixing permanent marker: Take a dry erase marker, scribble over the permanent, wait ten seconds. Wipe.

    If that doesn’t work, Isopropyl alcohol will clean them quick.

  71. bunivasal

    Tips to fixing permanent marker.

    1) Get bleach, water, a bucket, and a rag.
    2) Everything but the bucket inside the bucket.
    3) Lay down flat on the ground beside the bucket.
    4) Think about your hopefully distant but inevitable demise.
    5) Keep thinking
    6) Suddenly, that permanent marker doesn’t seem so important.
    7) Why even bother?

    1. Mrelegos

      And now, listeners, I take you, to the weather…

  72. Clif

    Sure fire way to get rid of permanent ink drawings. Incinerate the white board.

    1. JWLM

      Better still, incinerate the whole building…

  73. Dr. Paul

    Where I did my undergrad, the whiteboards were provided by the school who paid for them by selling advertizing along the edge of them. One of the adds had the headline, “pregnant? Need help?”. Goes great with the artwork.

  74. Faye

    I feel obligated to point out that writing over permanent marker with whiteboard marker will make it come right off. Anyone who had a college whiteboard should know this…

  75. Kay

    Y’know, it’s pretty easy to get permanent marker off: just go over it in dry erase and then erase it. Works like a charm.

  76. gwalla

    I hear that you can get permanent marker off of a whiteboard by drawing over it with a dry-erase marker.

  77. LiveWire

    Dry erase works great.
    Really helps to rub one out.
    Wait, no…

  78. Ernie O'Dell

    If only someone knew how to remove permanent marker from a dry erase board… oh well, guess they’ll all have to be replaced. 🙁

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