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Hunt me down
Posted on April 7, 2023 by David M Willis

229 thoughts on “Hunt me down”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    “I knew I could count on your sanctimoniousness!”

    “…might actually go as far as BACON BITS on her salad”

  2. Vanessa

    That DOES seem worrisome.

    1. Vanessa

      Is she running back to Walky (ugh no girl have some respect!)

      1. Kyrik Michalowski

        To be fair she was happy with Walky, and despite the slight dip in her grades they were good for each other. That doesn’t give her the right to break up Walky and Lucy, even if she was the one to push Walky towards Lucy.

        Best case scenario: Walky and Dorothy agree that if they suddenly both become single then they can try and be a couple again. Without any sabotage on either end.

        Best case scenario for me: Walky dumps Lucy, and he rides off into the sunset holding hands with Dorothy

        1. TheStranger

          I honestly think Walky would push back. His whole thing was he felt like he was/would be holding her back. If she goes to him and says “I don’t know WHAT I want, but it isn’t Yale; can we try again?” I feel like he’d interpret that as she gave up on her dream because of him and his reaction would be an incoherent “nonononononononono” because he would feel like it was his fault, no matter how much he DOES love her.

        2. justin8448

          And that’s just his objections on the Dorothy side of the equation. I don’t think Walky is is ready or able to just dump Lucy the moment his ex reappears.

        3. Nedlum

          On one hand, he certainly wouldn’t want hurt Lucy.

          On the other hand, we know that he’s at best conflicted about his feelings for her. Moreover, after the hostage situation, he’d asked Dorothy if they should get back together; at the time, he and Amber had gone much farther physically, and much deeper emotionally, than we’ve seen him go with Lucy.

        4. thejeff

          But it wasn’t even that she gave him up for Yale. She gave him up for lack of time and her grades were slipping. If she’s got that under control, why not try again?
          Other than Lucy of course.

      2. Nono

        Could be Yale.

        1. Vanessa

          Fingers crossed.

        2. Tawdry Quirks

          ¿Por qué no los dos?

      3. Shadowsnail

        She’s running back to the washing machine.
        Now she calls it the Walking machine.

    2. anon

      i mean i can imagine her doing a semi-impulsive kiss but doing anything more than that i’d hope walky would stop her

    3. Frank M.

      Walky is a “small selfish thing” right?

      1. Clif

        We can hope.

  3. Sol

    Dorothy nooooooooooo!!!

    1. shellshockbp

      This is how Willis is leading up to his next Slipshine.

    2. Mark

      We’re sure that she isn’t just thinking of taking a motel room for the night so she can spend an hour in a hot bath with a glass of wine and nobody she knows anywhere in the building?

  4. Yotomoe

    I feel like JOYCE would find that as more of a moral failing than Dorothy.

    1. anon

      i mean it’d be hypocritical given what happened with jacob

      but you can be hypocritical and still right/of all ppl she would know better by now lol

    2. ValdVin

      You mean putting cheese on salad? I mean if there’s any statement Joe could make that’s designed to make Joyce chase down Dorothy, some threat about combining one food with another would be it.

      1. Clif

        The Cheese stands alone.

        Surprise twist. In the Dumbing Universe the Cheese is Carl Kevin.

        1. Marma

          Brought to you by, the cheese man from Buffy.

  5. Yumi

    This one actually made me laugh. Hope Joyce follows up on that instinct of hers, though.

  6. Karla Jean

    SMALL, Dorothy! Small!

    1. Freemage

      Yeah, she just glossed over that, din’t she?

    2. Mark

      OMG you don’t suppose she’s decided to sign up for a fall class that’s unrelated to her career, just because it sounds interesting?

    3. thejeff

      Walky’s not nearly so big as Joe.

  7. AntJ

    Is that an aroflux flag on Dorothy’s shirt?

    1. Thag Simmons

      I think it’s just stripes. Maybe the flag of Tajikistan

      Probably stripes

    2. Nathan

      I see more pansexual, although the blue is off

    3. anon

      i don’t think it’s intentional but there was like multiple posts about it when she first wore it and one of walkys shirts with stripes too

    4. Amós Batista

      No, probably is nothing. Willis has made DoA character clothes inspired by department stores, so nothing spacial from their outfit.

    5. Pergola

      Book13: All her Stripes are Flags.

  8. Wraithy2773

    *sighs* Someone grab the spray bottle..

  9. Dana

    Small selfish things like referring to selfishly breaking up a relationship as “small”.

    1. Clif

      Dorothy doesn’t have the ability to break up Walky and Lucy’s relationship. Walky is a (technically) adult human being and is perfectly capable of making his own decisions. If you don’t like his decisions, fine. But in such a case blame Walky, not Dorothy.

      1. justin8448

        That fact that Joe and Joyce are holding hands throughout this entire comic makes me happy.

        1. justin8448

          I did not intend for this to go here. Oops!

      2. Kirdei

        I mean, that’s technically true in that it would be Walky and/or Lucy’s choice to end the relationship, but there is a lot she can do to sabotage their relationship.

        1. thejeff

          But that’s fine because Walky has free will and any attempt to blame Dorothy for it is denying his agency. Or something, I don’t really understand this viewpoint.

          Though, if she’s open and honest about asking him, I’ll respect that more than Joyce’s more subtle attempts to “steal” Jacob.

        2. thejeff

          Of course being open and honest would involve first making it clear she’s still hung up on him and shouldn’t be giving him relationship advice.

    2. Amós Batista

      Big selfish thing to her is, like, dropping a MoAB somewhere…

  10. Sirksome

    Unless that’s actually anti-Dorothy and she’s thinking about putting herself on Walky!

    1. Yotomoe

      Anti-Dorothy wants to be the opposite of the president. Whatever that is.

      1. Dday

        Anti-Dorothy is still an American president, currently getting indicted tho.

      2. Dana

        Bonapartist dictator of the Third French Empire. Or maybe a mall cell phone kiosk manager.

      3. Taffy

        The opposite of the President

        Google provided me with some potential answers, including “baby”, “society”, “slave”, and “corporation”. Nothing specific or even helpful, just scattered things that vaguely don’t mean “one person in direct power over a large group”.

        1. Dday

          Maybe Anti-Dorothy is the entire population of the United States *except* the president.

        2. Clif

          The opposite of the president is the absodent.

          We have spoken.

        3. Pergola

          It gets hits on Google.

      4. Shadowsnail

        Vice president

  11. Thag Simmons

    Ah, so that’s how everything’s going to go wrong.

    1. anon

      i feel sorry for lucy but i did think walky and dorothy seemed more into each other but hopefully lucy would be able to tell dorothy to back off

    2. milu

      Willlis shall dutifully be damned and all will be well with the world

  12. shadowcell

    Dumbing of Age Book 13: Well That Seems Worrisome

    1. Clif

      We have a winner.

  13. NGPZ

    Mmm… cheese….

    New Poll: Grilled Cheese or Mac and Cheese? ??

    1. UrsulaDavina

      Neither I don’t like the texture of Mac and cheese and I don’t like having a single piece of cheese on toasted bread unless it comes with ham and also the cheese has to be swiss.

      1. morleuca

        Oooo! Add tomato and bacon!

    2. Dana

      The one time I had grilled cheese with mac and cheese as the filling it was not as good as you’d think. Uh, I mean grilled cheese.

    3. Joe Moose

      Mac & Cheese

      Baked mac&cheese. With sharp chedder sauce. And with bacon bits on top.

    4. cbwroses

      Grilled Cheese, but only if someone else makes it because mine is mediocre at best.
      Mac and Cheese, but only if my mom makes it (I can make it well enough, but I don’t like all the hassle).

    5. Proxiehunter

      Grilled mac and cheese.

    6. anon

      depends, i’ve never been that fond of some store bought mac but i like this one baked mac and cheese as a side from a fast food chicken place i’ve been to, idk if it’s the flour/roux but some cheese in the mac and cheese tastes kinda ‘off’ to me or just a bit heavy lol, tho one time my culinary arts teacher made mac and cheese with velveeta? or something like that and it tasted surprisingly good, but it’s def not something i’d eat a huge amount of compared to being able to eat a whole grilled cheese sandwich

      tho surprisedo ther than places with kids menus, ‘grilled cheese’ ‘isn’t a more popular option in like burger places (unless it’s those places with those ‘stacked’ grilled cheeses with a ton of stuff on it and paying like 4x you would just getting the ingredients and doing it yourself), it with bacon is nice if a bit greasy. and maybe eggs too. so basically a breakfast sandwich lol.

    7. Clif

      Neither. You take each cheese slice and seperate it four quarters. Then around each quarter you sandwich a pretzel on top and bottom. Grilling is unnecessary.

    8. thejeff

      Yes please.

      Both are good in their place

    9. RassilonTDavros

      Depends on the girlled cheese, depends on the mac.

      1. RassilonTDavros

        Grilled cheese, not “girlled.”

        Although. hmm. …begins brainstorming AU where Linda’s consciousness gets sent back in time in the robot body instead of whatsisname

  14. Kyrik Michalowski

    She’s going to go back to Walky and is going to do something stupid, isn’t she?

    Fingers crossed that happens, it will be very interesting.

    1. Yotomoe

      If by “Do something stupid” you mean “Walky” then yes.

      1. Kyrik Michalowski

        If only we all had a Walky to do dumb things with in our lives. I personally wouldn’t date Walky though, he needs to improve his hygiene first.

        1. Yotomoe

          I would definitely prefer to BE the Walky in the relationship if I’m being honest.

        2. Kyrik Michalowski

          Fair enough; having a smart and kind partner to balance out my own shortcomings would be nice.

        3. Kyrik Michalowski

          Also, I accidentally hit the flag button, I am sorry.

        4. Clif

          That’s okay. I flagged you to make up for it, so now you are morally neutral.

        5. Kyrik Michalowski

          Ah, thank you lol.

    2. Proxiehunter

      Of course not, Walky’s relitively smart.

      1. Clif

        It’s actually not clear how smart any of Walky’s closest relatives are, including Sal, but Walky is cannonically smart.

    3. Amós Batista

      Isn’t called Dumbing of Age for no reason…

  15. Caro

    oh she’s Breaking Down.

    1. Proxiehunter

      She’s breakin down, she’s breaking bad, she’s breaking down bad.

      1. Shadowsnail

        And now it’s time for a breakdown.
        Never gonna get it never gonna get it
        neeeever gonna get it never gonna get it
        neeeever gonna get it never gonna get it
        never gonna get it
        never get it

  16. RassilonTDavros

    …well that’s definitely not disconcerting.

  17. Grimey

    DOTTIE NO!

    1. UrsulaDavina

      DOTTY YES! By yes I mean putting. Cheese on a salad I mean yeah the calories but it’s okay to be a little selfish.

      1. cbwroses

        “Dotty No!”
        “Dotty Yes!”
        I love Team Dumb Star; Dumbing Ball Z Abridged is one of my favorite series.

        1. Schpoonman

          But who says the second “Dotty, no”?

        2. cbwroses

          Danny?

  18. Dave Van Domelen

    And we have a candidate for volume title. “Well, that seems worrisome.”

  19. Jo_cubstar

    That does seem worrisome

  20. Regalli

    Ohhh, no, Dorothy. I was concerned last strip but oooooh, Dorothy.

    1. NGPZ

      Girl could really some of her favorite comfort food. And a hug. ?

      1. Proxiehunter

        Her favorite comfort food is Walky.

  21. Yotomoe

    I’m torn. All this Joyce/Joe stuff makes me REALLY wanna draw Joyce. But the Kickstarter book thing makes me wanna draw Liz. Maaaybe I should continue that Joyce/Liz/Joe thing I was drawing

    1. Kyrik Michalowski

      Listen to the demon on your shoulder: draw the threesome and enjoy it.

      I would volunteer to be the demon on your shoulder but I’m fat and you would be crushed. I’d still give the same advice though, after your recovery of course.

  22. Imogen

    Yup, yup, yup. This isn’t the “Dorothy learns to leave Walky alone” arc. It’s the “Dorothy decides she’s ‘allowed to be selfish’, and that means she’s allowed to give Walky calculated advice to exacerbate his doubts about him and Lucy so Dorothy can cut in” arc.

    Dorothy’s messing up and making some mistakes. I’m here for it.

    1. BOOSTER SHOT

      SO HERE FOR IT

      Dorothy hasn’t had a quality arc in a little bit, and I’m loving this

  23. thakoru

    …Well in that case we need to stop her IMMEDIATELY.

  24. UrsulaDavina

    Everyone speculating that she could be trying to sexify Walky again. BUt it maybe she is thinking about actually putting cheese on her salad also maybe she may want to put half a hard-boiled egg as well and some black beans with balsamic vinegaratte!

    1. Imogen

      To everyone in the comments flying into a frothing rage at the thought of this happening: Read the title of the webcomic. This isn’t about a bunch of teens making smart decisions. Dorothy is ALLOWED *CLAP* TO ADD *CLAP* EGGS AND CHEESE *CLAP*

      1. UrsulaDavina

        What about black beans and Balsamic vinegarette?

        1. Imogen

          I missed that part. Oh, look, Dorothy being an awful, manipulative beans-loving harpy again. I hope everyone from last week insisting that Dorothy is somehow blameless is ready to apologize to me, personally. 🙂

        2. Allie_KO

          My hubris! I was a fool, and I can’t say sorry enough. Those beans… I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me.

        3. Taffy

          In your defense, the beans were only mentioned twice, both of them between books 5 and 8. And even then, they were in the last panel of their respective strips, which is usually saved for a punchline.

        4. Taffy

          “Balsamic” is just an anagram for…. [looks it up] “Cabalism”. The fuck is that? [looks that up too]

          often capitalized : esoteric doctrine or interpretation according to the Jewish cabala

          I don’t know how to make an exaggerated, jokey “Dorothy is bad because of this” claim without it being antisemitic or at least adjacent to it?

        5. Jaime

          I’m not Jewish but have a bunch of (Ashkenazi) Jewish heritage and have read a fair amount about the Calabala/Kabbalah/Qabalah/etc. (Many different spellings.) And there are about as many interpretations as spellings. Part of the issue is that some believe that Kabbalah should be an oral tradition passed down only to men who have a practicing history of Judaism on both sides of their family. But there is still a lot of information available about there about Kabbalah and the Tree of Life. Long story short, it’s a way of trying to understand the universe, the Divine, life the universerse and everything, and people’s place in it.

          So, if Dorothy’s choice to make her salads fancier (BTW, I am a HUGE fan of fancy salads) leads to spiritual transcendence for the DoA characters…that’s good! 😉

        6. Jaime

          (sorry for typos – it’s late at night where I am!)

        7. Taffy

          Well, I’m sold. Valhalla for alla.

        8. Clif

          Dorothy is an anagram for thy door. And a door without a mezuzot is an entryway to an evil world.

          See, it all makes sense.

    2. Nicoleandmaggie

      Her last Twitter exchange with Joyce involved bean sprouts IIRC.

  25. Joe Moose

    Oh deary deary me…

  26. Archieve

    …..did Dorothy just put words in Joyce’s mouth in order to hold her accountable for Dorothy’s hypothetical questionable decision?

    1. Clif

      Shh!

  27. Suet

    Small, selfish things for yourself… Climbed up a tree to hide your butts disease… Yeah Joyce was right to say yes.

    Alt-text, don’t let me see you drop a rocket on a cheese wheel, aight?

    1. Clif

      alt-text would get along fine with my friend who likes a little bit of tea in her sugar.

    2. Pergola

      No, it was ‘cheese wheel on a rocket’. Get it straight.

  28. Qube

    y’know if you think about it, a hamburger is basically a salad

    1. Kyrik Michalowski

      Anything is a salad if you believe hard enough. 4 slices of pieces in a bowl? Pizza salad. M&Ms and broken up Hershey bars in a bowl? Chocolate salad.
      The possibilities are endless.

      1. Dana

        If you start randomly listing off things to put in a salad and it doesn’t work at least you have word salad.

        1. System_Anomaly

          This is a top-tier comment.

      2. HueSatLight

        I know etymology ≠ definition, but salads are named after the salty dressings the Romans used. So when you have pieces of fresh vegetables with oil and vinegar, but no salt… kind of not a salad.

        1. Taffy

          As a wise scholar once said, “Fuck salt.”

        2. morleuca

          Mmmmmmmmmmm, salt

        3. Pergola

          A wise scholar on a low sodium diet?

        4. Shadowsnail

          It’s like when something tragic happens in a webcomic.
          (or a free ride when you’ve already paid)

      3. Yumi

        The Midwest has entered the chat.

    2. RassilonTDavros

      Careful. Down this path lies Radical Salad Anarchy.

      1. StClair

        worse.
        Jello “salads”.

      2. Clif

        Radical Anarchist Islamic Salad Insurrectionist Network or RAISON as we call it in the biz.

  29. Yotomoe

    Is it selfish to try to see if Walky and Lucy are into an open relationship?

    1. Dana

      It is if you know you’re likely to find a way to eject Lucy from the situation if they are.

    2. a/snow/mous/e

      Probably! It’s certainly motivated by personal desires rather than altruism, but at least it would be considerate to ask directly, rather than attempt to sabotage the relationship.

      1. a/snow/mous/e

        (Assuming, of course, that it’s not in an attempt to sabotage their relationship.)

    3. Fay

      I think she’d only be down if their third is Nightwing.

    4. milu

      Sure it’s selfish, but now that everyone agrees being selfish is Good Actually, that’s not an issue

  30. HueSatLight

    Good choice on the not-quite-the-truth in panel 1.

  31. Cmasta1992

    Dorothy asking permission to be self destructive rubs me the wrong way because I am so guilty of that MO and I don’t like looking at a thicker version of me make these mistakes

    1. cbwroses

      Dorothy is THICKER than you?
      You must be svelte.

      1. CMasta1992

        I am but Amber isn’t exactly a beanpole neither

  32. Alongcameaspider

    Well here’s hoping Walky’s self control is better then Dorothy’s at the moment

    1. HueSatLight

      He seems like he’s really trying to do right by Lucy, but I can’t tell if he’s going to give in, turn Dorothy down calmly, or turn her down angrily. Or mystery fourth option.

  33. Jamie

    I’m kinda fascinated by how Dorothy decided to ask that question anyways. She knew the answer and didn’t care about the real answer. She just wanted to hear something that sounded like the answer.

    I’ve used that trick in reverse before. Didn’t expect to see Dorothy use it, too.

    1. a/snow/mous/e

      What’s the reverse version?

      1. Clif

        It’s where you trick someone else into asking the question, you don’t know the answer, and nobody cares what the real answer is. It just has to sound good.

  34. BarerMender

    Maybe Dorothy is going to hold Lucy down while Jennifer punches her.

    1. Kyrik Michalowski

      Geez, I don’t think Lucy is a great fit for Walky, but there is no need to beat the shit out of Lucy.

      1. Vanessa

        Dorothy’s been taking shit from Becky for a long long time. How about punching her? Just once will do.

        1. HueSatLight

          Sideling up to Amber: “So hypothetically, are fight clubs real?”

        2. Moonlighter

          Why are we so violent today?
          Opportunities for self-destruction abound on a college campus, no need to involve external parties.

        3. Clif

          But if you hold your parties externally, you don’t have to worry about University regulations.

        4. Bryy

          Why?

        5. BarerMender

          I don’t like Lucy. For all her “I want to help everyone,” she’s a self-centered little shit.

        6. Schpoonman

          Are you shrub’s gender-bent alterego?

        7. Taffy

          Oh, just because she keeps breaking up happy couples by psychically inserting herself into their minds weeks or even months before making her move, disrupting their happiness and subtly influencing them toward negative behaviors?

  35. BBCC

    Oh come on, Joe, we all know she has to move on to dressing first.

  36. Taffy

    Dorothy, we can all see you slinking off while you ask that question. You’re foolin’ no one, mate.

    1. milu

      Plausible Deniability, baby

  37. Agemegos

    She’s talking about presidential war crimes, right?

    1. Vanessa

      Just a little bit of war crimes, as a treat.

    2. Lawzlo

      She may have committed some… *light* treason.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0GCKXZTV8E

    3. milu

      War crimes are to presidency what cheese is to salad.
      Overdone, it’s bad for you in the long run, but sparingly your face goes on a banknote

    4. Mark

      This made me wonder if she’s thinking of getting a bit of her own back from Raidah. I’m not sure about that peaceful smile, though — is it telling me I’m wrong, or is it ominous?

      Dorothy working against somebody on the sly could rise to almost Carla levels of devious.

      1. Taffy

        She’s gonna throw everyone for a loop and go make out with Raidah.

  38. Warcodered

    I think the key word here is small, and Dorothy is being very flexible with it.

  39. Dr. T

    She’s gonna try to break up Walky and Lucy, isn’t she?

    1. anon

      well, you can see a blurry walky in the preview so…

  40. Proxiehunter

    She’s thinking about putting Walky on her salad. Salad may or may not be a metaphore.

    1. milu

      What dressing may represent in this metaphor, well.

  41. anon

    I’m sure walky’s thing isn’t that small, dorothy lol /shot

    1. Taffy

      Bigger than hers, anyway.

      Not that I’ve read that Slipshine chapter like a dozen or more times, or anything ahaha…

  42. Bryy

    So. In recap.
    Dorothy saw Joe and Joyce together as a healthy pair and completely haywired into fucking Walky.

    Because, originally, she was looking for Joyce to talk her out of it.

    1. vulcanodon

      Pretty much. I’m not buying her explanation that she was going to be cool with JoJo and just ask a question about caramel treats or whatever

  43. DailyBrad

    Super out of nowhere and not happening, but this makes me want to see Dorothy and Jacob bang.

  44. Net-Zero Joeyce Shipper (no engine, slowly following the current)

    As much as I want Walky to break up with Lucy, I still have “sexual rejection from Walky” on my Dorothy breakdown bingo card

  45. Moonlighter

    Cheese on salad that’s some sick shit.

    Lifehack: If you end up with a salad in front of you, for diet reasons or just cause it came free with the meal, ask for an A1 bottle instead of normal salad dressings.
    It’s similar to vinegar based dressings in terms of complimenting the salad flavors, but is much more reliably good if you’re not sure about the quality of the dressing they’ll provide you or if you, like me, just don’t like most salad dressings period.

    1. Yumi

      Some of us just… like salad…

      (I’d be willing to try the A1 thing out of curiosity, but I found the list of reasons to have a salad being “diet” and “free” to be funny.)

  46. Needfuldoer

    A general answer to a vague question is not permission to steal Walky back, Dorothy.

  47. Icalasari

    Huh. Dorothy’s snapped. Was wondering when that would happen

  48. Amós Batista

    I think we can call Joyce and Joe a couple now, right? What’s exactly moment two people can call themselves a couple?

    1. Mark

      When they discover that they agree on this?

      1. Amós Batista

        I like this explanation, without irony.

        Two person that kisses and holding hands can’t be necessary a couple.
        Two other person that are so far, or even don’t want to touch each other can consider themselves a couple.

  49. StClair

    Ha, and this is the person who thought she was too moral and honest to be a politician?
    She’s got nothing to worry about. Nothing at all.

  50. DaveM

    There are people who DON’T consider cheese part of a salad?

  51. Daibhid C

    Oh, hey, it looks like Dorothy didn’t do the bad thing we were mad at her because she was obviously going to do. Welp, time to get mad at her for the next bad thing she’s obviously going to do!

    1. Reaver

      CLEARLY now she’s going to go seduce Walky because she’s a horrible person and every breath she breaths at Walky is her trying to break him and Lucy up :V

      1. thejeff

        I actually like the Walky side of plotline a lot better. I still think it’s wrong, but it’s a very understandable kind of wrong and ties up their original break up falling flat narratively.

        I also don’t like the way Joe’s character arc has been handled, so having Dorothy’s character flaws less tied to that works for me.

        1. BBCC

          If you don’t mind my asking, how come you’re not a fan of Joe’s arc? I know you wanted to see more of how his shit worked with a woman who isn’t inclined to yell at him to back off but is it more than that?

        2. thejeff

          It feels way too easy to me. He was never allowed to be bad enough, other than by implication, for his redemption to be meaningful. It’s easy to think that it was basically all a pose. He always was the ethical slut who would never really push too hard. The list was really the only thing bad and he dropped that easily enough.

          In this arc, if we don’t dig deeper into it, it really does leave Dorothy looking like either over controlling or just a really bad judge of character, with no hint that her concerns could have been valid, even if they were outdated thanks to Joe’s recent growth. Joe really always was a safe nice guy, despite having been a walking red flag.
          Other characters get their growth and redemption after doing some seriously bad things. Joe rated women.

    2. Nicoleandmaggie

      damnyouWillis is a tease.

    3. HueSatLight

      There’s a difference between “angry at her” and “speculating on her spiraling”.

  52. milu

    Aaaah finally the drama
    HOOK IT STRAIGHT INTO MY VEINS

  53. Zaxares

    For some reason I’m reminded of Max Payne 2, where *spoilers ahead for a near two decade old video game*

    Vladimir Lem has a conversation with Max about how “if life forces you to do something you don’t really want to do, it’s not really your fault, is it? It’s more like fate.” Max, not understanding what the question is about, can only shrug and go “I suppose.” Of course, we find out later that Vladimir put a hit out on Max, despite Max being his friend, because Max was perilously close to uncovering his criminal scheme. He was essentially asking Max for his blessing to let Vlad murder him.

  54. insertname

    Stop!!!!Define small, Dorothy!!!!!

  55. insertname

    Also, Joe and Joyce are holding hands!!!

  56. Amelie Wikström

    Mmm, salad, aka “an excuse to have cheese for a meal”.

    Sometime last month, in a Ron Swanson appreciation thread, I mentioned my perfect meal would probably include a side of salad rather than bacon with my meat. Someone asked “why would you eat the food that your food eats”, I just said “because I’m an adult”, and I haven’t heard from them since. Might be a useful tip for talking to incredibly boring people.

    Dorothy, like Ron, knows what she likes, and she’s very demonstrative about the pleasure she takes in these things. This is great. It generally improves one’s day to when you can see someone care about things. Such people make the world around them a little more bright.

    1. thejeff

      I do like veggies and eat plenty of salads, but I’m still fond of the “food that food eats” joke.

    2. Mark

      Since when do we need an excuse? Bread-and-cheese has a long and tasty history.

    3. StClair

      I am very fond of meat, cheese, pasta, etc etc, but there are times when I really want a salad. Often a Cobb or a Caesar with bits of grilled chicken, but when I’m in that mood, I’m down for just some romaine and dressing.

  57. Fetch85

    Lucy needs to stop her

  58. DashWallkick

    Wait, Dorothy, no, wrong lesson! That’s the wrong lesson!!!

    1. milu

      Remember who she got the lesson from

    2. Yumi

      I love learning the wrong lesson from conversations I have. (Therapists Hate Them!)

  59. adam Black

    Dorothy should ask Amber who to sex up, and go for whoever she says.

    I’m sure Amber has already thought of this with a fanfiction to lay out

    1. TerribleTransit

      Amber’s answer is “everyone, simultaneously”.

    2. HueSatLight

      Arnold. He’s wearing his sexy hoodie today.

  60. adam Black

    Wait… what if she proposes a 3 some to Walky to ‘help’ him & Lucy.

    Knowing Walky would say yes and it would break them up. And Walky asking for advice ( and that she pushed them together) could make the offer seem legit

  61. JepMZ

    Okay I laughed

  62. Yeet

    I know Walky isn’t the tallest but calling him a “small selfish thing” is pretty fecking harsh, dotty

    1. spriteless aunty

      = D

  63. Keulen

    Gonna have to agree with Joyce, that does seem worrisome.

  64. Arachnid

    Dorothy, please don’t do anything stupid.

    1. Yumi

      Dorothy has the name of the comic to live up to.

  65. Pergola

    Joyce has just validated Dorothy’s decision to accept Yale.

  66. Valerie

    Dorothy is fully going off the rails, like genuine nervous breakdown. This is like the rising action of a villain origin story.

  67. Yumi

    Well here’s my alternative theory for how Dorothy’s gonna use her permission to be selfish: She’s going to put up “out-of-order” outside of the laundry room, along with something blocking people from seeing in (if there’s not a door to just close). It’s going to be really inconvenient for those looking to do their laundry, but Dorothy is going to have A TIME.

    1. Clif

      Well, *I* think she’s just going to hang out with Walky and have fun with maybe a little light flirting and see what happens.

      1. Yumi

        Right, right, in the laundry room.

  68. Reltzik

    Absolutely nothing could possibly go wrong with whatever plan Dorothy has, and I unreservedly endorse it.

  69. poyo

    DOROTHTY NO

  70. Needfuldoer

    *gasp*

    Hand-holding!

  71. Hydrargentium

    If you put lettuce on your nachos, that’s counts as salad, right?

    Hg

  72. Wendy

    DOROTHY NO!!

    Speaking of Dorothy. I finally drew her again after like, ten years.

    https://twitter.com/namioshiro/status/1644424594491682819

    1. NGPZ

      Oh how splendid!!!

      You really should write a manga one of these days.

    2. milu

      awww she’s a cutie

  73. Dday

    Maybe the “small, selfish thing” is actually going to Yale and leaving Joyce to fend for herself? So Joyce can get glasses and take pills and sign up for classes and learn how to masturbate and choose boyfriends on her own, while Dotty joins Skull and Bones and chills with the other future war criminals.

  74. Raen

    It is THE ULTIMATE FILTH. (Sorry, I’m a crazy person. And on my last stint in rehab the doctor thought I might be autistic… also everyone who has ever met me ever.)

    1. Taffy

      Welcome to the club. Meetings aren’t a thing because they’re awkward. The uniforms are a JoJo reference.

  75. cmd1095

    Dorothy please let the selfish thing be going to Yale and not trying to bang Walky…

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