Detritus
Posted on November 1, 2014 by David M Willis

262 thoughts on “Detritus”

  1. Jen Aside

    welp, Joyce hit her head and died falling in the shower stall, COMIC OVER

    …tomorrow, ALL NEW COMIC: The Second Dumbing of Christ

    1. thebombzen

      No, Becky’s going to see her covered in someone else’s hair and she’s gonna say, “It’s not what it looks like!”

    2. Boomwolf

      I know want that to exist for some reason

      1. Tunaro

        It will be Historical Jesus leaving Shortpacked and having wacky hijinks with a brand new cast of characters tangentially connected to the first four series.

        1. John

          Historical Jesus and his twelve disciples, Bart O’Ryan, Fuckface, Honey Bun, unimpressed coed, Stan the Alien, Daniel the dog, that snarky convenience store clerk from the “Man of Steel, Woman of Steel, Bed of Kleenex” segment near the end of IW!, B.o.B. Guy, Batman, Carly, Mike’s cat, and Walter Mondale!

          (SPOILER: Bart O’Ryan betrays him with a kiss.)

        2. aipom45

          You mean Lego batman?

        3. Matthew Davis

          Is Batman the one who doubts Him, because of deduction?

    3. Cholma

      The shower stall killed Joyce! You bastards!

  2. Haven

    Goodbye friend

    1. newllend

      Joyce died that day fighting a noble battle , one that inspired future net freaks to vow never to let anyone fall again to evils of the dirty bathroom

  3. Anderhail

    Awwwww…

  4. MrSirk

    Well I guess that’s it for Joyce. Dina’s the star now!

    1. Gadgeteer Smashwidget

      yaaaaaay

    2. Adam Black

      Dinas always been the Star

    3. Tunaro

      Now? She’s been the star since she was first drawn into the comic.

      1. JacHunter

        If I remember correctly, I was upset that Dina wasn’t an option for the “Dumbing of Age Main Character” poll. I feel like she would have won.

        1. Jen Aside

          A wise person once said, “Don’t make an answer a poll option if you know it will win.”

    4. MrSirk

      It will just be comic after comic of her explaining different dinosaur facts. Sometimes she’ll pitch different ideas about how to fix the Jurassic Park sequels and once a week it will be empty background panels because she’s hiding from us. Maybe Amber can get a cameo once in awhile but no lines.

      1. Gadgeteer Smashwidget

        That would probably become my favorite comic

      2. auo> mous

        I love dinosaur comics!

  5. Stephen Bierce

    Nobody has a can of Scrubbing Bubbles on campus? To shame.

    1. Tunaro

      Given what I know of dorm bathrooms, this’d require a time bomb set to detonate with Mr. Clean and bleach.

      1. Ancestral Hamster

        Kill it with fire! Someone has gotta be a Chem or Chem Engineering major! Use thermite!

        1. Opus the Poet

          Thinly spread so as not to burn through, you want there to still be a scorched shower stall to use.

        2. whatintheliteralfuck

          Get a few bottles of alcohol together and make a simple fire bomb, that should suffice.

        3. xKiv

          Or termites.

  6. Plasma Mongoose

    The shower wookie strikes again. 😛

  7. JQuire

    Buffer count says you’re wrong, alt-text! Muahaha.

    1. Taigan

      But if the plane crashes, who’s going to update it?

      1. whatintheliteralfuck

        update the plane or the comic?

        1. JacHunter

          Yes.

  8. tlaurence

    Doesn’t Willis have like two months of buffer? Referencing alt-text, this would never be the final strip.

    1. Catullus

      The alt text was written when Willis first uploaded the strip into the buffer, so it could have been the final strip at one point.

  9. David Alexander McDonald

    Ha ha, Willis, BUFFER WATCH.

    So, after fermenting for a bit, Joyce is going to return as Shower Detritus Thing?

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Well I hope that in the movie, they will use more practical effects and less CGI to create Joyce.

      1. David Alexander McDonald

        Gallons and gallons of latex soap scum!

  10. Yu'Karaya

    I’d almost be okay with the comic ending on this strip.

    But not really.

  11. chris73

    Just curious but why doesn’t she just buy some jandals?

    1. Yotomoe

      I hope that’s a typo and not a product cuz just based on the name I immediately hate them.

      1. Boomwolf

        Nope they’re a thing

      2. Plasma Mongoose

        jandals: New Zealand rubber flip-flops.

      3. chris73

        I’m from NZ so for me its jandals, if you’re from from Australia its probably thongs but I believe people from USA may know them as flip-flops (correct me if I’m wrong though)

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          You’re spot on mate. ^_^

        2. oldFart

          In the US, we used to call them thongs until that word was co-opted by butt-floss. My Mom used to call them zorries. I grew up with that word, and did not realize its probable Japanese origin until I saw a Japanese film called ‘The Funeral’, and heard them call the straw sandals they put on the corpse “zori”. Mom had some Japanese neighbors as a girl, I theorize she learned the word from them. I call them flip-flops now.

        3. fogel

          Zoris! What my father called them. He picked that up when he was in the military and based in Japan.

      4. Pier

        Jandals – Jeggings + Sandals as one outfit.

  12. Michael Steamweed

    Sunday’s strip: Joyce wakes up. It was all a dream.

    1. Yotomoe

      The entirety of Dumbing of Age is actually an autistic girl staring into an Hour Glass with IU inside it.

      1. whatintheliteralfuck

        we’re not actually commenters, just another part of Willis’ imagination.

  13. meghantheworldeater

    I just wanna say I herby officially cast my vote to ship Becky&Joyce.
    That is all.

    1. Atomix26

      ^

      1. 00dette

        ^^

        1. JacHunter

          ^^>

  14. nothri

    The Queen of the drunks is dead. Long live the Queen.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Does that mean that Becky will become Sarah’s new room-mate then?

      1. nothri

        No, of course not. Her new roommate is gonna be Jacob 2.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Is that another new character like “Other Rachel”?

  15. Emperor Kiva

    Joyce you silly girl. No guys she’s not a lesbian. Because she’s based off of Willis himself.

    1. Michael Steamweed

      But Willis likes girls. Which means Joyce likes girls. 😀

      1. Yotomoe

        But Willis likes the opposite gender. Meaning Joyce likes the opposite gender.

        1. Mkvenner

          Yeah, women.

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          A woman of the opposite sex or of the same sex?

        3. nothri

          I don’t even know anymore. I lost track like three comments back.

        4. Plasma Mongoose

          It’s a Willis comic, it could go either way.

        5. nothri

          Sounds a lot like Billie.

        6. Adam Black

          Unexpected: She wakes up as the Anti-Joyce

        7. Opus the Poet

          Yes. Using the Mike avatar because it’s more funny with this comment.

        8. Emperor Kiva

          ass

        9. Emperor Kiva

          Exactly!

    2. Emperor Kiva

      Meaning he’d be gay and that’s not right he’s married to a woman.

      1. Emperor Kiva

        She’s straight because Willis is straight

        1. Mkvenner

          There is no proof either way.

      2. Seth

        That comment just earned you a link to DAR.

        1. saltchocolate

          😀

      3. AgentKeen

        Just because Joyce is semi-autobiographical doesn’t mean everything has to match, liking guys doesn’t preclude being sexually, or even ‘just’ romantically, interested in women as well, and personally I feel like Willis’s sexuality is his own business and really doesn’t require being brought up in the comments because discussing someone else’s sexuality without them feels kinda squicky.

        (‘Just’ in quotes because I don’t want it to be misinterpreted that I mean romantic interest is less than sexual interest).

        1. 00dette

          ^^thank you thank you

        2. Opus the Poet

          Antimony grav! You read Gunnerkrigg Court.

    3. optimistic pessimist

      That totally increased my respect for Willis by like, a lot. Not that he’s straight, but that he’s based off Joyce, because I have a load of respect for her.

      1. Seth

        Willis is based off Joyce? Somehow, I thought it was the other way around.

        1. Kamino Neko

          Time travel accident. We don’t like to talk about it.

        2. HeySo

          You remember how Wally survived the first series?

          Well, the manner of his survival wasn’t leak-proof.

          The story was actually the auto-biography of Willis’ birth.

        3. whatintheliteralfuck

          I don’t think any birth is “leak proof”

        4. HeySo

          The topic was condoms (lots, and lots of condoms), and superpowered heroes tearing through them with their superpowers and impregnating with their supersperm.

          Super keep up, okay? :X

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvlWP4lQ6m8

    4. That Damn Rat

      Willis also isn’t female, so that logic doesn’t really hold water. Joyce is a character in her own right with her own (fictional) life. I highly doubt Willis dated a closeted Jewish gay man in his freshmen year either.

      1. David M Willis

        While in college I dated a closeted lesbian.

        1. Emperor Kiva

          OK then

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          So you also continued to be her beard after you found out she was les?

        3. David M Willis

          Naw, she didn’t figure it out until long after we’d stopped dating. But the relationship worked for similar reasons as Joyce/Ethan.

        4. Plasma Mongoose

          AH!

        5. Historyman68

          Whoa.

        6. Adam Black

          Boo-YAH!

    5. Seth

      By that logic, she’s not a girl either.

      1. Emperor Kiva

        Ok then why does she think about guys or even “date” a guy or even kiss a guy.

        1. Emperor Kiva

          Answer that

        2. That Damn Rat

          And that’s a valid point, doesn’t change the fact that the logic in your first post was faulty. The way she acts does seem primarily heterosexual yes, but she’s also been heavily programmed by her upbringing and her behaviour with regards to both Dorothy and Sal has been to be frank, pretty damn gay, so much so that Willis felt it necessary to hang a lampshade on it by having Walky call her on it.

        3. Opus the Poet

          Heterosexual but homoromantic then?

        4. Seth

          I never said she’s a lesbian. I know she’s not. What I’m saying is that your logic is flawed.

        5. Emperor Kiva

          Mine? Or the guy with the Jacob avatar?

        6. Seth

          Yours. I’d have to be a precog for that to have been a response to That Damn Rat. Nothing wrong with TDR’s logic, anyway.

        7. Emperor Kiva

          Ok fine

        8. John

          Y’know, bisexuals exist.

        9. Emperor Kiva

          Well yeah I know that, but I say I love my friend who’s a guy but that don’t make us gay. You guys are all “Joyce said she loves Becky, she’s a lesbian.”

        10. AgentKeen

          I don’t think anyone said that in reference to this strip before your comment.

        11. Seth

          And I am certain that no one did. I checked earlier, when the comment section was more sparsely populated.

        12. Emperor Kiva

          Oh for the love of… You weren’t saying it out right but you were hinting at it or some guy was

        13. Seth

          Closest thing I can find is meghantheworldeater talking about shipping Joyce/Becky, which hints at nothing. Orientation-defying ships are nothing new to this fandom (or any fandom, really).

        14. Seth

          … and aren’t lesbians.

        15. Emperor Kiva

          You know I had to look up the shipping thing….Yeah go ahead laugh I have no idea what the internet language is. As long as it doesn’t mean Joyce is a lesbian. She’s my fav, and I’m tired of being the guy who don’t know if someone is saying bad things about his favorite character. Yes I do have a mental disability, because of a car accident.

        16. tinfoil theory

          You seriously didn’t know what shipping is?

          Welcome to the internet. I’ll be your guide.

        17. Emperor Kiva

          Yeah so……I’d prefer The Doctor to be my guide thank you!
          http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/229/c/1/stargazing_11th_doctor_x_reader_by_epicgirl53-d7vjghy.jpg

        18. HeySo

          Uhm, wow.

          Kiva, here you go:
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tc7MH5ZXbg
          (Not Literally Productions – I Ship It; Awesome AMV version.)

        19. 00dette

          Why would it be bad to say that Joyce is a lesbian?

        20. Emperor Kiva

          Because that would totally screw with the character gays in Christian belief gays go to hell. Meaning where would she go, Hell.

        21. Rutee

          Oh, it would make a character feel sad for us to ship.

          Not like Joyce is sad at all for any reason.

        22. 00dette

          Believing in hell does not make it real and a person’s religious beliefs do not change their sexual/romantic orientation. I’m not arguing that Joyce is a lesbian (although I do think of her as bisexual) but everything that you’ve said on the topic is super not okay and pretty darn homophobic to be honest.

        23. Emperor Kiva

          I’m done to hell with it. I try to say something and somehow it gets all screwed up.

        24. 00dette

          Sorry, I’m not trying to attack you or anything, I’m just letting you know that saying someone is going to hell for being a lesbian is homophobic.

        25. Seth

          In Kiva’s defense, I don’t see anything homophobic about pointing out that Joyce was raised to be homophobic and that consequently, discovering that she herself is gay or bi would be excruciating for her. Pretty sure that’s all they meant, although it could have been phrased better.

        26. Seth

          Personally, though, I wouldn’t mind seeing that happen. It’s the sort of conflict Willis thrives on, and it’d necessarily result in character development. Also, while I maintain that I see nothing in these comments to indicate that Kiva is homophobic, I’m kinda uncomfortable with the implication that Joyce’s homophobia deserves plot armor.

        27. Emperor Kiva

          I ain’t homophobic

        28. Emperor Kiva

          Thanks Seth

        29. Adam Black

          As does Bisexual-denial and closeting.
          I had a friend come out to me as ‘”homosocial’ .
          True story: First time I heard that word

          Since he said this 2 days after sucking my cock — that word did not mean what I thought it meant

    6. Rutee

      If you’ve read Hijinks Ensued, you’d probably know that Joel and WIllis are at least a little married.

      http://hijinksensue.com/comic/the-show-is-over-say-goodbye/

      1. Kamino Neko

        They’re every bit married to each other as they are to their respective wives!

        It’s a 4 way polyamorous relationship!

  16. Buckynone

    Let that teach all of you to never try to go into a college shower while barefoot.

    EWWWW

  17. Yotomoe

    Joyce? Why are you in the shower hall without sandals?

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      I wear thongs for my shower even at home out of sheer habit from showering in so many motels, hotels and other public places.

      1. Yotomoe

        Wearing thongseverywhere? That’s gross. They’re so uncomfortable and you can’t even drive in them! Like I literally can’t drive wearing them. It’s so fucking awful man.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          I never had a drivers licence and thongs are perfectly comfortable to wear, otherwise they wouldn’t be worn so often by so many Aussies.

        2. Boomwolf

          So I’m safe in assuming you mean things the article of footwear, or as we her in Murica call them, saddles, and not the thin uncomfortable looking undergarment that is often found wedged between buttocks, yes?

        3. Kelly

          you can totally drive in thongs!

        4. Yotomoe

          I can’t.

        5. kelticat

          I don’t drive in thongs, because in my area there is a law against it. There is no law about driving barefoot though, which is what I do. Then I put on the thongs as I get out of the car.

      2. newllend

        0///0….ya well umm, damn it I cant think straight long enough to Reply to that.

        1. Yotomoe

          Well can you think gay for long enough to think of a response?

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          Thongs as in footwear not the budgie-smugglers with the build in wedgie AKA the thong.

        3. JacHunter

          I had a feeling as soon as I saw your original post that people were gonna get the wrong idea…

      3. nothri

        I read that as wearing a swimsuit bottom into the shower 😀

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Aussies call those things as either speedos or budgie-smugglers.

        2. chris73

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-Lx2ihpGbc

        3. Plasma Mongoose

          Togs, togs, togs, UNDIES!

        4. fogel

          What happened to “bathers”?

        5. whatintheliteralfuck

          Really huh, I’ve heard ’em called banana hammocks before, but not budgie smugglers

        6. JacHunter

          Wait, budgie smugglers, as in budgies? Parakeets? o.O Now I HAVE to know where that name came from.

        7. Plasma Mongoose

          They’re called budgie smugglers cos when a guy wears them, the resulting front lump kinda looks like you’re smuggling a budgie inside his swimming daks.

  18. Kernanator

    Joyce’s last words were “Save yourselves!”

  19. Boomwolf

    Who’s been using that stall, Bigfoot?!

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Maybe it’s one of those au natural feral new age types.

      1. Mkvenner

        There is always one isn’t there.

        1. nothri

          Werewolves. Definitely werewolves.

        2. Opus the Poet

          Lady Bears.

        3. nothri

          Hmmm….new ages big foot lady bear werewolves?

        4. nothri

          All part of a fiendish plot to eliminate the meal of dinner!

        5. Mkvenner

          Someone has been feeding you lies, its dessert they’re after.

        6. nothri

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

        7. Bagge

          Wasn’t that a Dresden Files short story?

        8. Plasma Mongoose

          If you spent time in a backpackers hostel, there will be way more than one.

      2. Rutee

        …I would assume multiple people are just ultimately adding to the hair? How much do you shed when you go au naturale, because I promise you if I make that mistake I do not turn the bathroom into a hairy mess. Maybe if my hair started falling out or something.

        1. nothri

          So you think there was an accomplice involved? Interesting theory.

    2. buckybone

      The dorms that I lived in had a single drain for each floor’s showers…might be a similar situation here.

    3. Yotomoe

      Craig’s mom.

    4. kelticat

      Perhaps everyone uses that stall to shave in. Or someone shoves all the crap from the other stalls into that one.

    5. Knightsky

      Mandy’s the obvious choice, but she’s also waiting in line.

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-3/01-if-the-shoes-split/long/

  20. newllend

    Noble effort but yet another one falls to the will of the shower

  21. XMinusOne

    The hair clumps, soap scum, shampoo residue and dried spooge in that shower stall have organically bonded to produce a ravenous slop monster that feeds on the immortal souls of innocent Christian virgins. Joyce is it’s first victim.

    1. JacHunter

      And seeing how this is college, might possibly be the last.

  22. Khaner

    I’m reminded of a scene from Corruption of Champions.
    I can’t tell you much else, but suffice to say, it ain’t pretty.

  23. Aubri

    Despite daily cleanings this still happens on the carrier. Blech.

  24. JessWitt

    The things we do for love.

  25. acher4

    Thank the cheese this isn’t the last strip :P.

    But truthfully, this is extra hillarious.

  26. Idon'tcarenomore

    Just wondering why as soon as a female says she love her friend, or a guy says he really likes a guy….some jumps up shouting “I SHIP THESE TWO”.

    Where the ships for the straight pairs:
    Joyce and Danny: never a chance
    Amber and Danny: see above
    Sal and Danny: he had to be kidding
    Dorothy and Amber: nope
    Sarah and Mr. Hot Jacob: she mess it up herself, but we all knew she would
    Joe and anybody: haha
    Faz and anybody: we all know the answer to that

    Just wondering.
    And why isn’t Joyce wearing sandals as weird as she is over ‘hair’?

    1. Emperor Kiva

      Can I hug you?

    2. AgentKeen

      Some of those pairings have had almost no interaction, some of those characters get very little ‘screen’ time, and a couple of those have had people shipping them?

    3. tinfoil theory

      I like your avatar.

    4. 00dette

      Maybe because there is currently so little queer representation in mainstream media so when any kind of bone gets thrown to us we jump for it.

      1. ninja_jesus

        I was going to say something like this. Straight couples are way too common. Queer relationships can be much more interesting.

    5. Tenn

      Pffft, as if we’d need an excuse like “they said they loved them” or “they looked at them funny” or “they were in the same room, once” to ship people with each other. 😛

      As for the Danny couplings, I shipped the hell out of Danny and Amber. The other two (Sal and Joyce) aren’t interesting to me because they sort of happened, more or less, in the old universe.

      Dorothy and Amber, admittedly, haven’t been shipped very much, but they wouldn’t be a straight pair either, so…

      Sarah and Jacob? They’ve been shipped to Abu Dhabi and back!

      Joe doesn’t need shipping.

      Yes, Faz, even though he’s often shipped with characters of any gender, is only shipped either as a joke, as a mindfuck or as a hate pairing. But that’s because he’s… Faz.

  27. Yumi

    Why aren’t more of these characters wearing shower shoes? As someone who is in college right now, I never see anyone not wearing flip flops when they head to the shower. Also, what is the layout for the dorm? Are two rooms connected by a bathroom that’s just a toilet and a sink? Where did Joyce make her inaugural poop?

    1. Regalli

      Seriously. COLLEGE SHOWERING 101, PEOPLE.

    2. Ancestral Hamster

      Gods yes! Like Regalli says, “COLLEGE SHOWERING 101, PEOPLE.”

      For instance, the football player always spit in the shower. You could hear him really bring up a huge gobbet of mucus and then spit it on the floor. You want to stand barefoot in that? I don’t, thus the flip-flops.

    3. Flight03

      Under the mattress.

    4. Plasma Mongoose

      Also why has no one go around with a handy tool-claw and a plastic bag to get rid of that shower tribble.

      1. Halloween Jack

        Sheeeit, just grab a hunk of toilet paper and use it to scoop up the crap into one big wad, pinch it up, take it over to the toilet and flush, and boom, done. FFS.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          But that requires bending over. 😀

  28. Yotomoe

    This comic is probably the foot fetishists’ favorite one.

    1. Thomas

      Naked part of Joyce being sexualized! In the shower no less! This is what you get for your efforts to prevent that from happening, Willis. 😛

  29. Saaaam

    Where are these ladies’ SHOWER SHOES

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Clearly they have never heard of Athlete’s foot or other foot infections.

    2. Emperor Kiva

      I went to a college like school once. I didn’t use ’em and I didn’t catch anything

  30. nothri

    Amazigirl! Time to solve the case of the dorm shower detritus leaver!

    (Spoiler alert!! It was Joyce! Somehow.)

  31. Lanval

    Cut to Black:

    Fin.

    1. Rani

      “Don’t stop believin’
      Hold on to that feelin’
      Streetlight people-”
      [Cut to Joyce’s face as she faces the stall. We don’t see what she’s seeing.]
      Don’t stop-”
      [Smash to black]

  32. Aeron

    Headcanon: Dina showers with the hat on.

    1. John

      It’s not a hat.

      1. JacHunter

        After fifteen minutes of searching I was unable to find a picture of Kevin the Sea Cucumber with his “hat” ripped off.

        *hangs my head and walks away in shame*

    2. Sir Robin

      Seconded

  33. John

    I like other Rachel. She’s snarky. It’s good seeing her becoming a character.

    1. Communist Canada

      She’s my Favorite Background Character, even beating Gallaso.

  34. Stormrunner

    See, I went to a school with private bathrooms for a dorm room (only 2 people shared). But before I went there I pondered going to a school with public bathrooms and had shoes ready for it.

    Just…so much you can get from public showers *shudder*.

  35. Yoohoo

    Was there ever a strip about Joyce getting shower shoes or am I dreaming that up.

    1. Communist Canada

      At one point Sarah let her borrow some. But they didn’t work, resulting in Joyce being Upside Down.

    2. 00dette

      Well she made some out of toilet paper at one point but that stuff can only last so long…

  36. oldFart

    I can’t believe they aren’t all wearing flip-flops/thongs/jandals/zorries. Like, three-inch thick ones. Or else, waterproof jika tabi. That would be the perfect college dorm footwear, and you can garden in them, too.

    1. oldFart

      *college dorm SHOWER footwear, I meant to say. But the mistake is an interesting idea. They would look better than Uggs.

  37. TheZachariah

    Calm down you guys, @damnyouwillis just tweeted about it. http://itswalky.tumblr.com/post/101469074052/how-can-dina-be-the-only-one-wearing-sandals-shower

    1. NotBigOnCommenting

      I’m not sure how much that explains… I would be wearing shoes/flip-flops in the halls and in the bathroom, too. But I come from a fussy culture re:perceived hygiene.

  38. S'toon

    When I was in the army we all wore shower sandals. I don’t understand why people in this college don’t.

    1. Bill M.

      People in college usually are on a budget, thus their main foodstuff is instant ramen and care packages from home.

      1. JacHunter

        You’d be surprised how often soldiers are in that same situation…

  39. Jake

    how did both of Joyce’s feet end up on the outside of the stall? before I went back and looked over it, I read it as if she tripped and passed out, not that she passed out before falling.

  40. Krylani

    Part of the stall, part of the [janitorial] crew…

    1. ZeDingo

      I don’t understand how all the shipping talk could’ve gone on without this reference.

  41. Anywhere

    [chants] In the stall, part of the stall. In the stall, part of the stall.

    1. Blob Marley

      I came looking for this one. Glad to see other people are on board the cool train.

      1. JacHunter

        Second.

    2. Emperor Kiva

      Oh you like to chant well so do I!
      Exorcizamus te, omnis immundus spiritus, omnis satanica potestas, omnis incursio infernalis adversarii, omnis legio, omnis congregatio et secta diabolica, in nomine et virtute Domini Nostri Jesu Christi, eradicare et effugare a Dei Ecclesia, ab animabus ad imaginem Dei conditis ac pretioso divini Agni sanguine redemptis.

  42. Anywhere

    If this were an old adventure game, this would be the sort of decision that would kill your character.

  43. Romanticide

    At this point I do wonder why nobody has taken out some pliers and/or rubber gloves and gpt to work on removing the hair

    1. Evil Fairy

      I actually had a makeshift attachment that ended in a kitchen sink sprayer that I could attach to the shower heads in my dorm. But then, I was taking some engineering classes at the time.

    2. cdot

      because women

      1. turbanous

        It’s not because they are women. It’s because they are teenaged who feel that other peoples hair and detritus is gross, abs that it’s not their job to clean someone else’s mess.
        Judging by Mike and Walky’s facial expressions in this comic http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/hair/ guys are not any more willing to clean someone else’s shower crap.

  44. onethousandnames

    Man, I must be the only person here whose college dorm showers were actually kept clean.

    1. Jen Aside

      My dorm’s were clean, but because I always went after they were just cleaned [PROTIP: not after the morning rush]

  45. CianM1301

    The stall has claimed another. Joyce’s name will be carved on the wall of the remembered, and her story will be told every Stall Memorial Day.

  46. timemonkey

    Joyce will be forced to watch others shower forever.

    1. Bill

      “You know, if you die down there, you can share my toilet.”

  47. Evil Fairy

    By the way, it is now official…when applied to matter left by humans, ‘detritus’ is now the most disgusting word in the English language.

  48. Thomas Wrobel

    nah, we know you got a huge queue of comics in the event of your death.
    right?
    right???

    1. fogel

      Now, yes, but the alt text was done when this was the comic he had just finished and was put into the buffer. He’s drawn many more since because he did not die on that plane

  49. Cat

    You know what’s awesome for showering in college? Being nearsighted.

    You can’t see that nasty shower gunk if you don’t bring your glasses into the bathroom! Being nearsighted is awesome when it comes to gross showers. Of course, now that i have my own apartment, I have the inverse problem. I can’t see, so I can’t see how gross it has gotten.

  50. saltchocolate

    First, eeeeeeeewwwwwwww!
    Second, Willis, don’t joke about that!
    Third, if Joyce really fell in a shower stall in the way her feet suggest (straight forward, face down), she’d have to be dead of a caved-in skull or a broken neck. Yet, I suppose she’ll rise from her fatal injury . . .
    . . . Omigod! Joyce is related to Wile E. Coyote!!

    1. Emperor Kiva

      I hope she’s ok

  51. Jonathan Woodward

    Yay, Mandy sighting!

  52. DSL

    She’s more plumbing now than human. Twisted and evil.

    1. Emperor Kiva

      NO!
      Exorcizamus te, omnis immundus spiritus, omnis satanica potestas, omnis incursio infernalis adversarii, omnis legio, omnis congregatio et secta diabolica, in nomine et virtute Domini Nostri Jesu Christi, eradicare et effugare a Dei Ecclesia, ab animabus ad imaginem Dei conditis ac pretioso divini Agni sanguine redemptis.

  53. Ailorn

    How is it that they don’t have shower flip flops. When I was in college you never showered without them otherwise you touch the floor.

  54. democraticMayonaise

    Dina’s wearing sandals. Why doesn’t SHE go into the dirty stall?

    Answer: There’s so much that when you step in it, it rolls over onto your feet. It’s probably like half an inch high, equally distributed throughout the stall.

    1. democraticMayonaise

      A thick, flesh-colored mixture but darkened by liquified hairs, melted into paste from futile attempts to first destroy the mixture with fire, then explosions from homemade bombs, then dangerous chemical reactions that release flammable gas that explodes on contact with fire, with a lit match taped to the inside of the stall. And then all at once. YOU CANNOT KILL THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS.

      1. Emperor Kiva

        Sounds like a demon in DEVIL MAY CRY

    2. Bagge

      Dina is standing in line because people are standing in line. She has no particular reason to rush the process like Joyce.

  55. DeathBrewer

    No, that would be very sad, not hilarious, you morbid SOB

  56. DOA'S CATO THE ELDER

    In the tradition of antiquity, I will throw the phrase:
    “Delenda est Mary,”
    which in Latin means:
    “Mary must be destroyed”
    Into every thread, non-sequitor or not.

    1. Emperor Kiva

      Well of course, Mary must be destroyed.

      1. Emperor Kiva

        She’s a devil

  57. JA

    This is why you never live in a place with communal showers.

    1. JA

      Oh yeah, and the off-white globs on the floor that you HOPE are spilled bodywash…

  58. Bagge

    Worst supervillain origin ever. Amazi-girl doesn’t get a higher class of criminals to deal with, does she?

    Also, other Rachel is new favorite character.

  59. vmgx

    i want “the detritus has claimed her” as the title of book 4. because yes

  60. Dave

    Dina is the only one sensible enough to use flip-flops and thus avoid athlete’s foot. I approve.

  61. Bill

    Just curious — why are these girls such a bunch of slobs that they would let a shower stall get into that condition in the first place?  Or do they all have this attitude of privilege and super-entitlement which makes them all feel that cleaning up after themselves is demeaning and beneath them, and is rightfully the job of the Building and Grounds Maintenance people?

    1. Ikaru

      When I was in Basic Training for the Army, one woman kept insisting on trying to flush her tampons, she never admitted to her identity, but we all got in major trouble for her being so gross. So I would say, one girl made a mess and figured that it was beneath her, and as for the rest…ew. Do you want to really clean up someone else’s nasty….pubic hair and the like? I mean, sure, get on some big rubber gloves, use tongs, whatever, get it done, but really….I’d not want to go near it myself.

      1. Quinctia

        If you have actual sewers and not septic systems, it’s generally fine to flush tampons. Sanitary pads and plastic tampon applicators? Not so much.

  62. gwalla

    Will there be a Slipshine of this?

  63. Farmer_10

    Wiener Mange claims another victim.

  64. Ikaru

    Did….she just fall…INTO the detritus? Oh, ew.

  65. Tenn

    Next strip, same thing happens:

    Amber: “Hey, what’s up with the line?”
    Dina: “There is one free stall, but it is so full of hair and other detritus that we are all avoiding it.”
    Joyce (off-panel): “Hey!”

    1. Bagge

      It is now my headcanon that exactly that happens. If the next strip is about something else I will believe that that happens in between.

  66. Darth Cariss

    I saw the crowd of people and my eyes noticed the feet sticking out of the stall in the last panel and immediately came to the conclusion that we were getting a murder-mystery storyline.

    1. Bagge

      Dina did it

  67. Lord Geovanni

    thats some deep dark humor willis deep and dark

  68. OmegaDez

    I never noticed just how good Willis was at drawing feet under a plethora of different angles before!

  69. Crimson

    Detritus may rule?

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