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Very good mornin’
Posted on August 31, 2024 by David M Willis

120 thoughts on “Very good mornin’”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    oh NOW Sal’s good at maths

    1. NGPZ

      she’s always MATH ^^ <3

    2. Thag Simmons

      I imagine there are a lot of people who have a very good grasp on this level of math who would struggle mightily in a college course.

      …

      Also I’m pretty sure Sal canonically is good at maths now, we had several years of tutoring and character development

    3. Clif

      Obviously Jason’s fault.

      1. Reltzik

        He did give her a couple of lessons in applied combinatorics.

        ….

        …. and that was wrong, but the pun is more important than that.

        1. Shadowsnail

          He skipped calculus and went straight to injective functions on splitting fields.
          She put the “gal” in Galois theory.

    4. stePH

      She did fine in math; Jason was just a crappy tutor. Danny helped her get it.

  2. Thag Simmons

    I feel like even if you’re a few days off that’s still a pretty good margin of error on the prediction.

    1. a/snow/mous/e

      I assumed it was a maximum anyway.

      1. Needfuldoer

        Isn’t that usually the implication?

  3. Jonah (firelight_waltz)

    we all called that one sal

  4. shadowcell

    a year ago it was Thursday

    1. shadowcell

      but for me…it was Tuesday

      1. The Chosen One

        Or as I like to call it…Friday

        1. lightsabermario

          Today is Friday in California.

        2. NGPZ

          Um it’s Saterday here actually. XD

        3. Marillius

          I don’t think California has evolved that far past the rest of the country to be inventing new days.

      2. Reltzik

        For Me It Was Tuesday was at most about 4 months ago.

  5. Sirksome

    Sal: It’s real on these cold ass streets so pay me!

    1. Newlland(Henryvolt)

      +1

  6. RassilonTDavros

    Honestly, I tend to lose track of what day it’s supposed to be in-universe so the reminder is very much appreciated.

    1. Sirksome

      I get confused too. Like what exactly happened Sunday? Was that the party? I think there should be an official calendar or something. I’m sure it’s probably been charted out to know what happened for every in comic day that has passed.

      1. DashWallkick

        Sunday was when they went to church together.

        You can remember this because, uh, church is always on Sunday.

        1. Reltzik

          Except when it’s on Wednesday!

          … Or Christmas, that’s only Sunday 1/7th of the time.

          …. also, I think the Seventh Day Adventists do church on Saturday.

      2. Dark_T_Zeratul

        Sunday was when Lucy met his parents, saw they were casually kinda racist, and then Walky basically didn’t defend her. And that led her to realize that she liked him a whole lot more than he liked her, and realize she deserved better:
        https://www.dumbingofage.com/2023/comic/book-14/02-its-the-love-i-havent-got/navigate/

        1. Dark_T_Zeratul

          Oh, totally forgot the church thing. That also happened and was the final straw in her realization. Thanks Dash.

        2. thejeff

          Parents would have been Saturday. Church and their breakup were the next day.
          And while all that played a role, the fight was really triggered by him not saying “I love you” back after she prompted for it a couple of times. It all goes back to her taking his casual “I love that about you” far too seriously – and then him not correcting her and prompting that fight on the spot.

        3. Marillius

          The parent fight is still ridiculous. She knew they were racist, he warned her, she pushed him into trying to spend time with them despite that, and when he didn’t stand up to his parents despite him telling her how complicated the situation was for him and how conflicted he was, she got upset.

          She didn’t really deserve better because she forced herself into the situation for her own gratification rather than accept Walky’s initial assessment that ‘my parents suck’.

    2. Needfuldoer

      There’s a calendar on the wiki, too.

    3. Qlx

      Yeah I definitely thought they had been dating for months since it’s been so long for us lol

  7. mindbleach

    Their whole deal was only two weeks, in-universe? Wow. Comic time befits the emotional weight Lucy put on this. We the audience have seen it at much greater length. I had bickered about it with people on reddit – so that must have been a year and a half ago.

    1. DailyBrad

      In her defense, she was into him for significantly longer than they actually dated.

      1. Marillius

        Yeah, she was doing that creepy thing some people do and hanging around him with the explicit hope of dating him while pretending it was about friendship.

    2. Jeremiah

      Are there people that bicker about DOA on reddit?

      1. Taffy

        Yeah, they go to r/fuckjoycebrown

        1. a/snow/mous/e

          honestly a plausible subreddit name

        2. Needfuldoer

          It’s deeply divided into two factions that have opposing interpretations of the name, but neither group has split off yet because both refuse to cede the URL to the other.

        3. Nymph

          headcannon accepted.

        4. jflb96

          Never accept a headcannon, it’s really bad for your shoulders

        5. Nymph

          You’re not my real dad.

        6. Thag Simmons

          i chose to make no effort to verify this claim

      2. mindbleach

        It’s reddit. Bickering is its raison d’etre.

    3. Amelie Wikström

      It’s like the decompressed time represents how important these days feel to the teenager characters!

      1. Zamperla

        honestly i definitely had semesters that ran on daily comic time. 2016 was six years long I think.

  8. HueSatLight

    simple rounding error.

  9. Taffy

    This gay-ass hetero nonsense continues, and Sal knows the score.

    1. Reltzik

      … I feel there was an oxymoron in there, but I’m not complaining.

  10. IntangibleMatter

    Sal is always right when it comes to predicting how people will be annoying

    1. Reltzik

      I guess her time rooming with Malaya was good practice.

  11. Newlland(Henryvolt)

    Sals like “Damn, Ah should’ve put money on that.”

  12. HueSatLight

    The real reason Sal and Danny had to leave early.

  13. Getsu

    Betting Jacob isn’t gonna like that knowledge

    1. Newlland(Henryvolt)

      What that he’s a rebound? Does he have room to judge when he hooked up with her the same night he was having a hard time Swoozing Sarah?

      1. Jeremiah

        Let’s be honest, Sarah had a hard swoozing Jacob.

        1. Jeremiah

          *Hard time. But you know what? This way is funnier.

    2. Reaver

      If he doesn’t then who cares? Lucy would probably not like that he was kissing another girl behind his gfs back after faking like she was his gf to meet his brother either.

      1. Taffy

        Doesn’t “was kissing” imply a continuous behavior, kinda? He kissed Joyce one time only, and then never did it again.

        1. Reltzik

          But it was an extended kiss. There were several seconds during which he was kissing Joyce.

        2. Mark

          I think it does imply repetition, or else one would use the simple past “kissed”. So you’re correct, I think.

          But it’s not continuous, like Klimt’s “The Kiss”. That guy has been kissing her since 1907-8 and will go on doing so for who-knows-how-long.

        3. HueSatLight

          this feels like a dialect thing.

    3. Bash

      If he was there for the argument he presumably already knows some of it. But it’s an uncomfortable reminder of the reality of their situation.

  14. Yumi

    “Take that, Sal, your disparaging remark was an overestimate on the sustainability of our relationship.”

    1. Jeremiah

      I don’t think Lucy really care all that much about that. I bet she forgot she said that.

      1. Yumi

        Forgot in that it wasn’t an active thought, sure, but here she clearly remembers.
        Also, like, my comments was meant more joking.

        1. Mark

          One of her eyebrows clearly is digging up that memory and everything it’s linked to.

  15. BBCC

    Never doubt a big sister’s estimate. XD

  16. Chaucer59

    Sal may not always be right, but she’s never wrong.

  17. Sirksome

    Now that Jacob is part of this I am starting to get curious about IU’s layout. I know some of the walking group attend the same class (Robin’s political science and/or Prof. Whatever his name is’ chemistry) but do they all have classes in the same direction? Are some of them doubling back around?

    1. Mark

      https://map.iu.edu/iub/

      Looks like academic buildings are more to the south and west, while a lot of the dorms are south and east, with sports and support more toward the north.

    2. HueSatLight

      On one hand, it mostly matches the real one. Most of the classes we’ve seen are in the west part of campus (I don’t know about CS or life drawing), and Read and Forest are kind of central/east, near the south part of campus. McNutt is north of there.
      On the other hand, Dumbiverse Read is probably physically impossible, if the sun rises and sets the way it does in real life.

  18. AGV/Ruby

    They used to call Sal “Gróa” the way she predicts the future.

  19. Jeremiah

    Love how genuinely confused Lucy looks. I bet she entirely forgot she said that.

    1. Newlland(Henryvolt)

      That was literally like 3 days ago for them.

      1. Jeremiah

        Yes, I know.

    2. Mark

      To me she looks like “I knew there was something I didn’t want to remember!”

  20. egon

    yess judgment

  21. Marianne

    It’s 14 days when you include sales tax

    1. tim Rowledge

      “Sal’s tax”, surely?

      1. Needfuldoer

        Sal’s tacks. That was a sharp, pointed comment.

  22. moon

    jokes on you guys i cant count

  23. Masha

    “So was that an accurate prediction of me, your brother, your mother or all of the above?”

    1. Newlland(Henryvolt)

      Yes

  24. darkoneko

    Sal, why is this the one thing you want to talk about in front of her new boyfriend

    1. Emperor Norton II

      As a friend of mine (who is a paralegal) responds whenever someone asks her why she keeps arguing with what can only be best described as the internet’s bottom-feeders*:

      “I love being right.”

      *Think defenders of famous sex pest Vic Mignona

      1. Felgraf

        … Is your friend Tewson?
        (Ah, the threadnaut. Such fond memories)

        1. Emperor Norton II

          It is indeed her!

        2. Felgraf

          OH, RIGHT, YES, I hadn’t looked at your handle I *REMEMBER* you from those Twitter threads and the threadnought. =D

          I don’t think I know her well enough to call her a FRIEND, but!
          (… god, the fact that that saga resulted in two people getting recruited to create a highly functioning law team that is currently on the precipice of pantsing Elon is. Truly incredible.)

      2. Taffy

        Man, my sister is still saying “They need to leave that poor guy alone” about Mignogna.

    2. Newlland(Henryvolt)

      My reply to that would be something along the lines of, “Boyfriend? Damn I thought it was a one night stand. But hey all power to you.”

  25. yak

    Damn only fourteen days of in-comic time hs passed. Guess it’s been a long summer for me.

    1. Emperor Norton II

      But the last day of summer
      Never felt so cold
      No the last day of summer
      Never felt so old

  26. eh, whatever

    True blondness comes from within.

    1. HueSatLight

      within a bottle of peroxide.

  27. Bryy

    It just dawned on me that we’re getting 678878778788767677667 more days of winter in this comic.

  28. GUIGUI

    A bit harsh and unnecessary, no?

    1. AK

      Absolutely, but I do think there is something to not loving interlopers in your friend group. Lucy more or less decided with the mild help of Walky to join a friend group where nobody was really down to have her there? And while many of them are pretty open friendly people and Sarah is coming around, she’s still inserted herself into a friend group and some people are still not going to love that if after more exposure they don’t really get along.

  29. Allison Branford

    Aww, I love that Sal is looking out for her brother, occasional asshat that he is. And as much as I wish Sal was wrong to look on this new ‘fling’ with skepticism, I don’t actually see Jacob and Lucy as compatible. Jacob sees himself as always needing to improve, to measure up to his brother, while Lucy has always been pursuing a relationship to justify getting physical, based on the demands of religion. Can’t be a slut, three dates. I’ll be curious how Jacob responds to Lucy’s insistence.

    1. Aslan

      I don’t see how Sal is “looking out” for Walky here, or how she’s being skeptical of Lucy and Jacob. If anything, her assessment of how quickly his relationship with Lucy would end was more likely based on her well-documented lack of esteem for him rather than anything to do with her.

      Also, what is Lucy insisting on here? That Sal not misconstrue the facts of her last relationship (which ended days ago in canon)? I think you’ve just reduced Lucy down to an oversimplified level. Yeah, she was horny to the point of being preoccupied by it during her relationship with Walky, but that doesn’t mean she was always just looking to get laid. It wasn’t even an established part of her character until she started dating Walky. She just demonstrated that she doesn’t care about the “three date” rule anymore, either, so that’s not even an accurate assessment of her character.

    2. Taffy

      It’s been said a lot already, but the “three dates” thing was never actually a hard line.

      1. StClair

        ha HA, “hard”

  30. Chubseus

    Sal: Now we can go on a double date.

  31. pyrock_mania

    I mean, she let Lucy give Walky the business at the party, I’d say it’s pretty tame to point out that the relationship didn’t last very long, and wonderful symmetry with Lucy’s “two whole days” comment regarding Walky’s rekindled relationship with Dorothy.

    1. Puppeteer Nessus

      Sal, being a sister of some quality, is fine here

  32. ValdVin

    I always use “fling” to refer to a situation with more canoodling between folks than Walky and Lucy ever had, maybe compressed into a short time. Of course Sal doesn’t know the limits of the canoodling they (didn’t) have.

  33. thumb

    11 days? Pretty close enough to right.

    1. Sirksome

      I feel like Lucy clarifying that isn’t really a win for her.
      “Told’ja it would only last two weeks.”
      “Actually it was even less than that.”
      Feels like kind of a self burn.

      1. Jeremiah

        Kind of show how little she actually cares about it now.

  34. Twirls

    Sal Predicting Two Weeks: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/05-as-long-as-its-free/objectively/

    1. Twirls

      Sal Checking in on Thursday, day 8: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2023/comic/book-13/03-joementum/throwaway/

    2. Ragnarok101

      Two IRL years to cover two weeks real-time.

      Lordy.

      1. Bryy

        OH MY GOD this comic is never resolving anything.

        1. NGPZ

          The good news is, that gives me all the more time to make quality fan games.

          Life gives you lemons, take them out the freezer.

  35. SocietyPilled

    You know quoting people for how long one thinks their relationship will last is usually frowned upon in the real world.

  36. Joe Helfrich

    He’s still got his hand in her pants, doesn’t he?

  37. Opus the Poet

    https://opusthepoet.wordpress.com/2024/08/30/where-ive-been-the-last-2-months/
    The story of what happened to me the last two months, with pictures.

    1. HueSatLight

      whoa

  38. WallyWest

    I just want to say I love all you peeps for your comments I wish I could like them all! Also DoA is absolutely tremendous!

  39. Jammy

    Dayum. I (almost) don’t even have anything to say, that was so cold. Chills. I mean, Walky isn’t even unhappy, nor was it that serious. It even put Jennifer into sexile, which is kinda funny. Sal, WTF?

    1. HueSatLight

      Sal is the perfect amount of petty.

  40. anon

    i wonder how long they would’ve lasted if walkys paernts hadn’t visitedl ol

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