Silly boy. Just this past year, I made a triple playlist of remake hits from 1975 to 1995 as a Facebook note. I sent a copy to a press of “greatest hits collection” CDs in hopes they’d be interested enough to make a product.
I leave the askings of “why?” to others, but you know the answer is always “MONEY”.
Hm, I got a question about definitions for Sid’s My way, would it really be a cover? Since the original is not Sinatra’s… and not titled My way… (also sure it’s the most known version, but my heart stands for Nina Hagen there).
Great playlist overall if not directed toward my tastes – and I’d have had Nirvana remaking some if I’d just
About the intrinsic greedy and poor quality of remakes, let’s remember how Bach spent his time covering himself, before even some insect’s time.
Things that annoy me: That the sound effect in the fifth panel is not “Hat? Hat? Hat?”
Things that don’t annoy me: absolutely everthing else! This is just so cute and pure and wonderful and squeeeeeeee! Poor Becky! If she was a boiling pot of neuroses and hormones yesterday, she will have a let of soul searching to do today as well. Let’s just hope they remembered to close the door this time around so Robin got some sleep.
Becky please, you are going to wake the entire neighborhood with that kind of yelling. Besides, you are the one who decided to feel up her girlfriend first thing in the morning. (I can’t blame you there though.)
I’m kind of hoping there will just be a solid two weeks of non-violent strips until one of then ends with a pan over to reveal Mike bleeding to death in the corner.
If Charlie’s wife can hand him a sandwich, she could hand him the nickel exit fare. Change my mind.
(Fun fact: that song is why the MBTA calls the ticket system CharlieCard. Also Scollay Square was the red light district until it got demolished. Now City Hall is there, so the region is still populated by people who take your money and eff you.)
A singularity occurred and Mike transformed into The Cheese. AG was transported back in time to bed where Amber had gone to sleep. The Terridads were destroyed.
So, that aside, I wonder how many page until we realize he fell on a mattress or on Blaine’s car or whatever, softening the fall into manageable range or something.
While falling, Mike was bitten by a radioactive spider, and turned into Supermike. He threw the evil dads into space und then flew away into the sunrise on a gentle breeze.
Throwing people unprotected into space generally kills them, so it’d still be an evil act. Crisis Averted. (But a Crossover Crisis becomes exponentially more likely.)
Not the plot thread I was hoping to see rn, but for those worried Mike’s dead I never thought there was a chance in hell considering (1) he IS in the main cast, go check the character page, and (2) we just saw Amber wake up and spend a good few minutes looking at her phone, and even her reclusive ass would have a few notifications if one of her best…uh, longtime acquaintances that frequently aggrandizes her had got shoved off a building and died.
Not ruling out he’s laid up in the hospital right now next to Ross with a matching neck brace, though.
(I hope all the partygoers including Robin were chased out of the place by now so that no one but Becky may see the sacred crown hair of the Dinasaur)
I just realised the hanky-panky isn’t the possibility of sex (which didn’t happen, and Becky knows this because she wasn’t drunk). It’s hanky-panky because Dina’s hat-free.
These two are just friggin’ adorable. As for Mike, if he is dead or even permanently damaged, I hope Blaine—when he caught AG’s rope—at least swung against the stairs and knocked out all his front teeth.
Apparently Mike’s alive-ness isn’t a priority question right now.
Is the author’s intent to annoy the audience or what?
“HAHA I MADE YOU CARE THEN LOOKED AWAY”. I’m… kinda unamused.
Have you not been reading long enough yet to expect this to happen regularly? As someone else said, there’s a reason the expression DAMN YOU WILLIS! exists. You get used to it – or at any rate, you come to expect it
It’s no more blatant than the time skip after the Ryan stabbing. Admittedly, there was little reason to think Amber was dead then, but there was much speculation that she’d been arrested or was on the run.
That’s quite the voice Becky has — it scared the hell out of the gulls in the sixth frame, and the nearest sizable body of water (Lake Monroe) is 6 miles to the southeast.
Seagulls have actually been moving further and further away from the water and into cities. It’s a lot easier for them to find food around humans than it is to catch fish. Many seagulls don’t even know how to catch fish anymore.
The Talk? Betting not, Toedad would prohibit such things until she was safely heterosexually paired off (I’ve heard ‘the Mom gives a how-to talk the night before the wedding’ is a thing in some fundie communities.) Bonnie might have done so behind his back (during homeschool time, maybe,) but she’d have to do it while they were alone – Joyce has mentioned a homeschool group beyond just her and Becky, any of whom could talk to their parents who would be horrified at the subject, and… I mean, bless Joyce, but she’d probably talk too. And of course, since Bonnie died there’s no chance of that.
That said, I can entirely see Becky being savvy enough to use a private browser and do some studying online, but she’d have to feel REALLY confident she wouldn’t be walked in on, especially since it probably wasn’t even a computer in her room. (Based off the ‘no phone’ thing, among others.) Since she escaped, though, she’s had way more freedom to contemplate it… but oh, the shame. And that shame’s been around for a while, I’d bet.
(We also know ‘no hat’ is also a ‘Becky’s kind of got a Thing now’ from dating Dina, so it may be a joke/cosleeping hatless, even otherwise clothed, is over Becky’s Acceptable Premarital Contact line?)
We can hope a scene like that appears in some form, someday. Cause yeah it’d be cute and awkward as hell. (Both flashbacks and people paying Willis a shitload of money for him to draw a whole comic exist. We can dream.)
You can take the lesbian out of the right-wing evangelical religion, but it may
take a bit longer to take the right-wing evangelical religion out of the lesbian.
When my phone isn’t on great WiFi the comic slowly loads top to bottom… So I started out being unexcited about Billie and Ruth and then ended up full of squee for Becky and Dina ?
And a weak voice from the outside ground struggles to make itself heard.. “I… had premarital hanky panky.. with… your moms… for a nickel. Uhhhhhh.” And Mike dies.
PREMARITAL HATTY-PATTY
Panels 3-5: Becky gets elbow, cheek, and top of head action.
And we didn’t even need to sign up for slipshine.
Hatless Dina and not Slipshine?
I don’t know if that’s even safe to post on Tumblr anymore.
Idk man, female presenting headtops are pretty nsfw
I touched her NAKED parts!
I need to be punished!
Heh, hatty-patty!
“…and next weekend at the funeral, we can lie about how Mike died too young. An’ ‘cuz my roommate’s dead, they’ll give me automatic “A”s for the semester.”
Dumbing of Age “Included” – posted 6 October 2016, three years and three months ago
(Just throwing this out here.)
Oh, wow
At least he died doing what he loved.
Your mom.
For a nickel.
The weird part for me is that I have the same sweatshirt that Walky’s wearing somewhere.
Hey, congrats, you managed to find it!
Thanks for finding it!
How far back is this in universe?
According to the wiki, that chapter takes place on October 4th (A Monday). Today is.. probably October 20th?
Fixed it.
When your defining trait is blowjobs you shouldn’t be that judgey.
You can’t hear it, but his tone is actually rather congratulatory.
Yeah, I can’t imagine BJC being anything but supportive here.
(She should still be tagged, though!)
Shouldn’t the comic have a “blowjob cat” tag?
The real one I mean.
It would have blown her cover when she ungargoyled and went all Harun-al-Rashid on the party. She has a thing for Sarah.
THERE BEST BE A SLIPSHINE AT SOME POINT HERE.
It will likely be them holding hands, followed by the “Lewd” anime meme
This is as close as we’re likely to get to a Slipshine in the next decade of realtime, given how slowly comic time is running….
I mean, I guess one could fill people in on what Sal and Asher were up to during the party.
Plot twist: they played Magic: the Gathering.
Or possibly apples to apples…
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/applestoapples/
I’d love to know what Sal’s Magic: the Gathering deck is.
It’s probs just 20 panels of cuddling; and we know we’d all be happy with that anyways
Oh yes!
Oh, Hell Yes!
Then Becky has a spontaneous orgasm when Dina takes her hat off.
My only question about the slipshine is how to narrow down the title. There are so many good to chose from.
“Becky does a Premartial Hanky-Panky?”
“Dina’s getting touched (in many places)”
“Take your hat off”
“Lady syrup”
“Dinosaur mating dance”
“Scientific dating”
“Holding hands (among other things) and looking at dinosaurs”
How do you pick just one?
“Dina and Becky engage in the pageantry of tricking their bodies into believing an egg has been fertilized”
“Dina and Becky throw themselves at The Cragged Shame Pits of the Lustwolves”?
Why should you pick just one?
Now that’s the kind of thinking we need around here.
Let’s do it like they do on the Discovery Channel ?
“A miracle of science?”
I’m guessing, given how clothed they are, that they didn’t really hanky-panky.
Yeah, Becky gets that a lot.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/definitely/
I guess that given how few sheets of paper there are, they effectively didn’t
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/overstepped/
Heh, nice callback.
Maybe she uses the voice recorder that comes preinstalled on her phone? http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/02-choosing-my-religion/recorder/
And if Becky is turned on by that, it adds yet another layer to her jealousy of Joyce and Dorothy…
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/spreadsheet/
Annoying reminder, Kraft stopped making/selling that t-shirt.
just as the relationship between Dorothy and Walky it symbolises ended, so that’s very fitting.
*cries*
My Baby Does The Hanky Panky…
I think they’re alone now.
Doesn’t seem to be anyone around…
This and maybe one other song avoided getting remade in the late Eighties. Why?
It might be better to list some of the songs that DID get remade in the late eighties, and THEN ask “Why?”
Silly boy. Just this past year, I made a triple playlist of remake hits from 1975 to 1995 as a Facebook note. I sent a copy to a press of “greatest hits collection” CDs in hopes they’d be interested enough to make a product.
I leave the askings of “why?” to others, but you know the answer is always “MONEY”.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/stephen-r-bierce/final-revision-the-re-decade-playlist/10157501216304169/
Hm, I got a question about definitions for Sid’s My way, would it really be a cover? Since the original is not Sinatra’s… and not titled My way… (also sure it’s the most known version, but my heart stands for Nina Hagen there).
Great playlist overall if not directed toward my tastes – and I’d have had Nirvana remaking some if I’d just
About the intrinsic greedy and poor quality of remakes, let’s remember how Bach spent his time covering himself, before even some insect’s time.
Very much of their moment, and existing in the same world as the Beach Boys, the Who, and the Rolling Stones
Waiting for the twenties to make it meaningful again…
No one’s dead! This is a good sign!
I would say there are some people confirmed to be alive.
changing my major to premarital hanky-panky
Things that annoy me: That the sound effect in the fifth panel is not “Hat? Hat? Hat?”
Things that don’t annoy me: absolutely everthing else! This is just so cute and pure and wonderful and squeeeeeeee! Poor Becky! If she was a boiling pot of neuroses and hormones yesterday, she will have a let of soul searching to do today as well. Let’s just hope they remembered to close the door this time around so Robin got some sleep.
Becky please, you are going to wake the entire neighborhood with that kind of yelling. Besides, you are the one who decided to feel up her girlfriend first thing in the morning. (I can’t blame you there though.)
I’m loving the fact that Becky wakes up the *moment* she couldn’t find the hat.
It took me a sec to realize, oh yeah, the hat.
Also, gosh, I love these two.
Mike who???
I’m kind of hoping there will just be a solid two weeks of non-violent strips until one of then ends with a pan over to reveal Mike bleeding to death in the corner.
Mike, Blaine, and Ross will never be seen or mentioned again, and Willis will never tell us what happened to them.
But did they ever return?
No they never returned.
And their fate is still unlearned.
If Charlie’s wife can hand him a sandwich, she could hand him the nickel exit fare. Change my mind.
(Fun fact: that song is why the MBTA calls the ticket system CharlieCard. Also Scollay Square was the red light district until it got demolished. Now City Hall is there, so the region is still populated by people who take your money and eff you.)
Try the Dropkick Murphys version instead. Skinhead on the MBTA.
https://youtu.be/2qPm9JFM484
A singularity occurred and Mike transformed into The Cheese. AG was transported back in time to bed where Amber had gone to sleep. The Terridads were destroyed.
It all makes perfect sense?
Personally, I’d prefer it be Blaine and Toedad bleeding to death in a corner….
That would be a good twist. AG took their lives in a fit of rage after Mike fell. Mike, magically, is fine. Holds it over Amber.
Each day will be a different cast member waking up for the morning. With the cast Willis has, this could drag out all month.
I wouldn’t be surprised.
PREMARITAL HEADY-PETTY
Kinky!
YEAH BOOOIII! PREMARITAL HANKY-PANKY!
(Though given that they’re still clothed, more likely just premarital snugglin’. Which ain’t bad either.)
But she touched Dina’s head.
Becky’s touched Dina’s head before – Dina first took off her hat in Dumbing of Age to celebrate its 2,000th strip a couple of years ago.
In public, no less.
Willis will no doubt keep switching scenes for AT LEAST the next couple of weeks. The man’s a sadist.
Does he know his clientele or what?
BLOWJOB CAT likes to watch.
Shit panel 2 is just straight up wholesome cuteness.
This is one of the most adorable comic strips so far. Definitely top 10 material.
Yes.
I’d say at least half of the other top-ten also feature Dina and Becky.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/04-walking-with-dina/edmontosaurus/
Once again Amber’s clownery pulled the narrative away from The Good Stuff.
Willis’ storytelling technique of delaying the resolution of cliffhangers is getting tiresome :\\
gotta get those patreon subs for next-day comic somehow
Promethium! Hydrogen! Phosphorus! What do those elements’ symbols spell?
PrHP? I want to buy a vowel, Pat.
Promethium’s symbol is Pm.
PmHP – Premaritial Hanky Panky.
And now I have just explained the joke, and thus killed it.
How many times do I have to tell you, Harley? If you have to explain the joke, it’s. Not. FUNNY!
Dina and bscky r so adorable i almost forgot mikes very likely bleeding out on the pavement as they speak
Don’t be silly.
It’s already sunrise, Mike would have already bled out a long time ago.
Hi your username fills me with rage
You’re at a loss for words?
alt-text: I never stop giggling about those little pieces of backstory of Becky being a bad influence on Joyce
Blowjob cat is watching
I’m cackling over here. Thank you, Willis!
Awwwww
So, that aside, I wonder how many page until we realize he fell on a mattress or on Blaine’s car or whatever, softening the fall into manageable range or something.
Hey, I can dream.
While falling, Mike was bitten by a radioactive spider, and turned into Supermike. He threw the evil dads into space und then flew away into the sunrise on a gentle breeze.
I can dream, too.
B-but acting good is Mike’s kryptonite !
Throwing people unprotected into space generally kills them, so it’d still be an evil act. Crisis Averted. (But a Crossover Crisis becomes exponentially more likely.)
At the very least we know that whatever went down, Toedad was too distracted to go after Becky in the end.
Either that, or Dina quickly removed him so he wouldn’t distract from her getting touched in many places
I mean, how long do YOU think he would last against a naked, hormon-crazed Dina in mating frenzy armed with a raptor claw?
Somewhere on the Net, Rule 34 is happening…
This took me way too long to compose after pulling myself back off the floor and into my chair because I was laughing so hard.
Okay, is she excited or dismayed? XD
Yes.
Vey much yes.
…and the kid goes for broke.
(nice Trudeau homage)
…Doonesbury Trudeau?
Joanie and Rick’s first night together, a 3 strip long pan from Joanie’s bedroom across the town to Rick’s with J & R in bed together.
Absolutely beautiful sequence. Impressive for being willing to linger like that without a punchline.
Also censored by multiple papers for showing the new couple in bed.
Oooh, okay, thank you. Either it’s been so long since I read it that the sequence slipped thru the old memory cracks, or I didn’t see it at the time.
Why is there smut on my screen?
Surely this will lead to degenerate behaviours like holding hands or worse, HEAD PATS!
Regarding Alt-Text:
Huh, I thought it was Joyce taught her.
Regarding Alt-Text:
Huh, I thought it was Joyce that taught her.
Willis takes away but also giveth
yay lesbian content
nay no answers to WHAT HAPPENED
I certainly hope her hanky was thoroughly panky’d.
I dunno… maybe she’s just trying to get up to go pee…..
Is it normal if there isn’t a previous button anymore?
Maybe they just hugged?
There is no “just” about hugging without a hat.
Don’t know if it was assigned to you randomly, but your Grabbatar is fitting perfectly to your reply.
I picked it myself, from the bestest Becky strip 🙂
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/01-to-those-whod-ground-me/unlimited/
Not the plot thread I was hoping to see rn, but for those worried Mike’s dead I never thought there was a chance in hell considering (1) he IS in the main cast, go check the character page, and (2) we just saw Amber wake up and spend a good few minutes looking at her phone, and even her reclusive ass would have a few notifications if one of her best…uh, longtime acquaintances that frequently aggrandizes her had got shoved off a building and died.
Not ruling out he’s laid up in the hospital right now next to Ross with a matching neck brace, though.
(I hope all the partygoers including Robin were chased out of the place by now so that no one but Becky may see the sacred crown hair of the Dinasaur)
Oh hey, a fellow autsy sleep-cuddler. Now, that’s representation I can get behind.
This is too cute.
Blowjob Cat watches
Blowjob Cat always watches
While I like this strip, I’m still annoyed at Willis for continually delaying showing us what happened to Mike, Blaine, and Ross.
And that’s why the expression ”DAMN YOU WILLIS!” exists.
I can’t even be mad about this delay in cliffhanger resolution. It’s just too adorable.
I just realised the hanky-panky isn’t the possibility of sex (which didn’t happen, and Becky knows this because she wasn’t drunk). It’s hanky-panky because Dina’s hat-free.
Which, yeah, is legit.
In possibly the first time this is ever said.
BLESS YOU WILLIS!
This strip made me smile.
Right! An odd reprieve but a reprieve nonetheless. I hope we someday have a chance to bless them again…
Better for Becky to get used to it. She and Dina together are so adorable♡♡♡
Becky + Dina, we need you to be there, one little pocket of happiness we can aspire to.
Sweet children!!
Keep your voice down, Becky! Your girlfriend was asleep!
These two are just friggin’ adorable. As for Mike, if he is dead or even permanently damaged, I hope Blaine—when he caught AG’s rope—at least swung against the stairs and knocked out all his front teeth.
Apparently Mike’s alive-ness isn’t a priority question right now.
Is the author’s intent to annoy the audience or what?
“HAHA I MADE YOU CARE THEN LOOKED AWAY”. I’m… kinda unamused.
Have you not been reading long enough yet to expect this to happen regularly? As someone else said, there’s a reason the expression DAMN YOU WILLIS! exists. You get used to it – or at any rate, you come to expect it
This is more blatant than the previous Damn You Willis-es!
It’s no more blatant than the time skip after the Ryan stabbing. Admittedly, there was little reason to think Amber was dead then, but there was much speculation that she’d been arrested or was on the run.
That’s quite the voice Becky has — it scared the hell out of the gulls in the sixth frame, and the nearest sizable body of water (Lake Monroe) is 6 miles to the southeast.
Damn, she’s loud.
Seagulls have actually been moving further and further away from the water and into cities. It’s a lot easier for them to find food around humans than it is to catch fish. Many seagulls don’t even know how to catch fish anymore.
Staving off the DYWs with Becky/Dina snuggling.
… Well played, Willis. Well played.
She has no clue what sex is… does she? Starting to think she never had a sex ed talk.
The Talk? Betting not, Toedad would prohibit such things until she was safely heterosexually paired off (I’ve heard ‘the Mom gives a how-to talk the night before the wedding’ is a thing in some fundie communities.) Bonnie might have done so behind his back (during homeschool time, maybe,) but she’d have to do it while they were alone – Joyce has mentioned a homeschool group beyond just her and Becky, any of whom could talk to their parents who would be horrified at the subject, and… I mean, bless Joyce, but she’d probably talk too. And of course, since Bonnie died there’s no chance of that.
That said, I can entirely see Becky being savvy enough to use a private browser and do some studying online, but she’d have to feel REALLY confident she wouldn’t be walked in on, especially since it probably wasn’t even a computer in her room. (Based off the ‘no phone’ thing, among others.) Since she escaped, though, she’s had way more freedom to contemplate it… but oh, the shame. And that shame’s been around for a while, I’d bet.
(We also know ‘no hat’ is also a ‘Becky’s kind of got a Thing now’ from dating Dina, so it may be a joke/cosleeping hatless, even otherwise clothed, is over Becky’s Acceptable Premarital Contact line?)
I for one mourn that we never got to see Leslie sit down to give Becky the talk, will all heartwarming hilarity that would have entailed.
We can hope a scene like that appears in some form, someday. Cause yeah it’d be cute and awkward as hell. (Both flashbacks and people paying Willis a shitload of money for him to draw a whole comic exist. We can dream.)
Becky is not a virgin WRT mattress action:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/definitely/
You can take the lesbian out of the right-wing evangelical religion, but it may
take a bit longer to take the right-wing evangelical religion out of the lesbian.
Now they’re both teeeeeeeeeeeen pregnant!
Fuck yeah, Gaybees https://www.gogetaroomie.com/comic/this-is-your-song
You do the hanky panky and you throw away the hat…
When my phone isn’t on great WiFi the comic slowly loads top to bottom… So I started out being unexcited about Billie and Ruth and then ended up full of squee for Becky and Dina ?
This is so cute.
I literally said “‘D’awwww” out loud. They are adorable.
Also just realized that 2 of my other webcomic updates today were wonderful lesbian moments. You can never have too much lesbian, apparently.
Anybody else catch how this sequence of panels harkens back to an iconic moment in Doonsbury – when “Joanie Beds Rick” ? 1976. Might be before most of ya’ll’s time… https://media.npr.org/assets/artslife/books/2010/10/doonesbury/db761113.jpg
And a weak voice from the outside ground struggles to make itself heard.. “I… had premarital hanky panky.. with… your moms… for a nickel. Uhhhhhh.” And Mike dies.
Live feed Web Cam footage or it didn’t happen