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Solution
Posted on October 17, 2021 by David M Willis

213 thoughts on “Solution”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    good thing Lucy wasn’t thirsty or anything

    1. Tannen

      She seems pretty thirsty to me… but that’s probably the joke

    2. Decidedly Orthogonal

      Suddenly Walky is solidly dialed into Lucy’s signal. He just needed to have the appropriate food analogy connection. Lucy of course will analyze this tidbit, and extrapolate to ensure it is used to maximum effectiveness. I see Walky getting food spilled on his shirt and pants significantly more.

  2. Sirksome

    I don’t think saliva is a great stain remover.

    1. Yumi

      It does well enough.

      (according to me)

      1. Bicycle Bill

        It always worked for my momma and gramma.

        1. Roborat

          The infamous mom spit bath.

      2. A Red Balloon

        Not for ketchup and mustard though.

        Those are real hard to get out.

        1. Reltzik

          Requires a mixture of soap, water, white vinegar, and elbow grease.

        2. Felix

          Only when they’ve had time to dry off

    2. Lokitsu

      GF saliva has similar cleaning properties to mom spit.

    3. Johan

      Breaks down food and blood

    4. Doctor_Who

      Walky sweats Fire Sauce, Lucy salivates OxiClean, truly they are a perfect couple.

    5. Ray Radlein

      ah but MOUNTAIN DEW plus sliva

    6. Thag Simmons

      LIFEHACK: Use Coka-Cola to remove stains from clothing, because as we all know brown syrupy liquid doesn’t stain anything

      1. Delicious Taffy

        Most soda fountains I’ve seen have just a plain carbonated-water button. That’ll do the trick, right?

      2. Sirksome

        Why are there so many cola based “life hacks”? I’ve rarely found pouring soda on it to have fixed the problem.

        1. ktbear

          Maybe this will work better for you. If you desperately need a lubricant for your car engine (and I DO mean desperately) cola is an acceptable alternative to oil (disclaimer; if it isn’t don’t blame me!)

        2. tk2

          For posterity: it isn’t, don’t try this. Running a car with soda instead of oil will likely ruin the engine within seconds, causing several thousand dollars of damage.

        3. Thag Simmons

          That sounds extremely but I do not know enough about cars to dispute it

        4. Thag Simmons

          “extremely wrong” goddamnit, how did i fuck that one up

        5. GeekRyuu

          I’ve heard Coke is good for cleaning engine parts.

          And flat Coke syrup is good for nausea, but I prefer ginger ale.

        6. Roborat

          Hey, two for one deal, clean the engine parts, then drink the resulting flat coke. Plus you get all that nutritious dissolved hydrocarbon sludge.

        7. Needfuldoer

          Magical thinking, plus cola is just barely acidic enough that the true believers can point and say “see! it really works!” after giving it enough time.

          Same with vinegar. “Vinegar will clean and freshen anything! It’s magical!” No, it works because it’s a mild acid, and there are so many old wives’ tales about the stuff because it’s been around forever. Sure it can dissolve limescale a bit, but all you’re doing is making everything smell like vinegar. I can’t stand the stuff on anything but fries.

          “It really works! It’s so easy! Life hack!” videos are bullshit.

        8. GeekRyuu

          Although distilled white vinegar DOES work as a decent deodorizer in laundry. You just toss a bit in with your wash and it’ll take smells right out. We got to learn that one after trying to get smoke smell out of everything following a house fire.

          And don’t put it in the dryer until you’ve gotten the smell out. The heat seals the stink in otherwise.

        9. Clif

          If pouring soda on something doesn’t solve it, then obviously you have the wrong problems.

        10. Mopey

          I have come across an admittedly very specialized coke lifehack in the wild, decades back.

          At the ballet I used to be a stagehand at we’d have several a cans of coke standing in the janitor’s closet. They mystified me until I was told they pour a can into some mop water and give the padded mats on the floor a once-over after rolling them out. Apparently a thin film of sugar added stickiness to the mats to help avoid slips and falls.

          Like with a lot of performing arts stuff I’m not sure how much of it was just superstition, though.

    7. adam Black

      ice though

    8. Axel

      It’s good for blood and some other things because it dissolves the proteins

    9. Stifyn Baker

      Eight out or ten cats disagree with you.

    10. Tsath

      Momspit is better than 409

    11. Amós Batista

      Sauce stain is impossible to remove, mainly in clear shirts that not white (I can’t bleach them)…

      1. Needfuldoer

        Have you tried any peroxide-based color-safe bleaches like Oxi-Clean? (Sodium percarbonate, etc.) You might have to try saturating the stain in a heavy dose of the stuff if it’s dry, and if it’s already been through the dryer it might not be able to touch it…

        1. Amós Batista

          Gonna try, it’s hard to find this in my region.

        2. khn0

          You may find simple sodium percarbonate tho.
          What to mix it with, I have no idea.
          I’ve found the easiest solution to environmental friendly washing is:
          -not to care about marketed or even too socially correct cleanliness
          -avoid stains
          -wash under water immediately

    12. Jeff

      Depends how hard you’re sucking.

    13. JA

      It works in some cases. Just have to do it before the food dries on the fabric.

  3. A Red Balloon

    Hey would you look at that! I was right!

    So far….

    1. milu

      Well Done ?

  4. misanthropope

    how is the title not “all sucked off”?!?

    1. Yumi

      Surprised we don’t have to pay for a Slipshine to see this kind of content

    2. David M Willis

      how do people keep expecting the punchline to be spoiled in the title of the strip

      1. Agemegos

        Don’t dare say it’s because we are stupid!

      2. Yumi

        For me, the “titles” don’t fully register as much as titles since I just come to the site to read the strip and then see the title after I’ve already read it, so maybe some others have that experience too. I understand how you wouldn’t want to actually do titles like that, though if I had seen this promoted elsewhere with the title “All Sucked Off” and then read it, I actually think I would have found it even funnier.

        1. David M Willis

          The titles are what link folks from Twitter to here every day, so.

        2. Yumi

          I mean, yeah, I know that.

        3. Shitbird

          I just have the site bookmarked…

        4. owen

          and I use RSS!!! There are DOZENS of us!! I will say I really appreciate the new posting schedule for it with whole arcs at a time, because I can read it with the flow. just a +1 for the RSS updating <3

        5. Rose by Any Other Name

          I just never close the site.
          It sits in my tabs, day in and day out, for months… years…
          Always there.
          One click away.
          Between my email and WorldAnvil.

        6. Ryek Hvek

          At one time, making certain that the saved tab kept pace with the strip required opening the next day’s strip in a new tab. That got fixed. (My compliments to the code monkeys responsible)

        7. Delicious Taffy

          WorldAnvil, you saaayy?

        8. Roborat

          I type in the address manually. The tough part is memorizing a new page number every day.

        9. Spencer

          I’m on this site so dang much it’s my second recommended when I go to type a new address.

    3. Nicoleandmaggie

      Solution is a chemistry pun!

      1. Needfuldoer

        The ocean is the ultimate solution.

    4. Keulen

      Maybe that should be the next book title.

      1. Mr. L. Shade

        It’s the title to a GREAT Frank Zappa instrumental!

  5. Cmasta1992

    Lucy Slipshine incoming

    1. Delicious Taffy

      God, yess please.

    2. Decidedly Orthogonal

      Correction: Walky slipping shine in Lucy coming.

      Also, I have to wonder if there isn’t a little nod to Yotomoe’s work in here. Willis does amazing work but I can see a read where he’s tipping his hat at Yoto’s thirsty, blushing non-sexually sexual situation style. Of course afyer I sleep I guess I’ll read this and think who-tha-f?

      1. milu

        I yotally agree

  6. Delicious Taffy

    Holy cow, Lucy. That’s just impressive.

    1. Rose by Any Other Name

      I know, right?
      Well played, Lucy. Well played.

    2. Roborat

      I was expecting Lucy to pull Walky’s tee shirt out of her mouth in the last panel.

  7. Kyrik Michalowski

    So when are we getting our LucyXWalky slipshine? Not just for our sakes, I’m worried she’s going to die of dehydration.

    1. A Red Balloon

      Probably Valentine’s Day, but Willis’s warning to “brace ourselves” could refer to just about anything.

      Right?

      1. Kyrik Michalowski

        He could be fucking with us, so that when it does happen we won’t see it coming.

        1. A Red Balloon

          Well, I guess if 2005 Willy Wonka is right about anything, the best kind of prize is a surprize!!!

        2. Reltzik

          Which begs the question, IS 2005 Willy Wonka right about anything?

        3. Needfuldoer

          There is no 2005 Willy Wonka.

        4. ktbear

          COULD be?? You do know Willis, right?

      2. King Daniel

        Valentine’s Day strips in Dumbing of Age have a long and glorious tradition…of being disastrous for whatever couple features in them.

        1. A Red Balloon

          Damn! Where are my psychic powers when I need them?

    2. Reltzik

      Sermon on the Mount says third date.

  8. BlackScarabFilmZ

    This is what I think everyone should look for in a relationship. Someone willing to lick Taco Bell sauce off your shirt in a pinch!

  9. Joe M.

    This Taco Bell is becoming increasingly NSFW…

    1. Delicious Taffy

      Next thing ya know, there’s gonna be people ERPing right there in the booths.

      1. zee

        Oh no! What comic would have people doing sexual things right there in a restaurant booth?

        1. King Daniel

          Dumbing of Age is turning into 9 Chickweed Lane. Willis is becoming the very thing they swore to destroy.

        2. StClair

          You were the Chosen One!

        3. Thag Simmons

          The characters don’t look like malformed monsters and the words still seem like things actual human beings might say, so it has yet to cross the Chickweed Event Horizon

  10. Stephen Bierce

    *plays T.Rex’s “Jeepster” on the hacked Muzak*

  11. Kravis

    Yes, Lucy, by all means, do that WHILE maintaining visual contact with the “subject”…

  12. Wendy

    Equal parts gross and adorable.

    1. Doctor_Who

      Sums up love in general, really.

      1. milu

        also sums up earthworms! aww.

        1. Clif

          I must admit, I’ve never met an adorable earthworm.

        2. Roborat

          Haven’t met Jim?

  13. Schpoonman

    Lewcy Glenn, everyone, she’ll be here for quite a long while.

  14. Huehuetotl

    I notice they’re right next to a booth in a restaurant.

  15. not someone else

    cackling maniacally

  16. Yotomoe

    And that, Dear Walky, is just a teaser for what is to come.

    1. Needfuldoer

      Phrasing

  17. Carla's #2 Fan

    That was awkward to watch, I hope no one around them noticed.

  18. mackabre

    Really?? In front of my taco salad?

    1. Kyrik Michalowski

      I understood that reference.png

  19. Matty

    Well, I’M aroused.

  20. newlland(Henryvolt)

    Next time maybe she’ll do it when you’re not wearing a shirt.

    1. Yumi

      Really hope the skin on his chest isn’t loose enough for it to be recreated exactly.

      1. Seventh-Sandwich

        Of course not! She’ll use his chest hair instead.

        1. Yotomoe

          All one of them.

  21. Kravis

    She only did that cause they’ve got to leave there lickety-split…

    1. Reltzik

      Don’t you mean lickety-spit?

      1. Lieutenant Dan

        Don’t you mean licky-style?

  22. Sirksome

    I feel like I have to note that the button up was intended as a tactic to throw off Joyce. A tactic that didn’t work mind you, thus the integrity of said button up doesn’t mean much here. Walky could easily just take it off as it’s purpose was rendered meaningless a long time ago. I doubt a nice shirt will give Walky an advantage with Daisy. They’ve created an artificial sense of urgency here.

    1. Yumi

      The idea that dressing nice will help you appear more professional /reliable/other positive characteristic doesn’t just extend to people who might be attracted to you.

      And, of course, Lucy wants Walky to look nice for herself.

      1. Sirksome

        Looking professional or reliable wasn’t the intent for wearing the shirt though. Walky didn’t give a dump about it for the comic submission. In fact he argued that a nachito smeared hoodie was actually dressing for the job. I think they both got wrapped up in their own false narrative here. Which is kind of a joke in itself.

        1. Yumi

          That was more about your line about Daisy. I also think he could have multiple reasons for keeping it even if the convincing reason to put it on was to throw Joyce off her rhythm (which it hasn’t done *yet*).

        2. Clif

          Joyce is already off her rhythm tho.

        3. Yumi

          Maybe she’ll see Walky in his nice shirt and, in a twist, it will throw her back *on* her rhythm.

    2. bleepbloop

      He could also just wear the jacket, it’s the middle of winter after all and no one would question it.

    3. Thag Simmons

      Given Daisy’s editorial biases Joyce’s comic is likely to have greater appeal in terms of format and subject matter, so Walky needs every advantage he can get and being able to appear reliable and relatively professional is definitely a plus

    4. Needfuldoer

      Like I said yesterday, Lucy would spontaneously combust if he did that.

  23. JessWitt

    Odds are at least one reader did a spit take while reading this strip. And what a fortuitous moment that would be.

  24. Slartibeast Button, BIA

    And somewhere, Jennifer is disgusted and does not know why.

  25. DailyBrad

    Oh my.

    I remember someone questioning once if Walky was into Lucy, too, and this definitely answers the question.

    1. Needfuldoer

      He really did have something great right under his nose this whole time.

      1. Agemegos

        Taco Bell sauce?

  26. Tan

    Dumbing of Age Book 12: The Solution Is More Food On My Shirt

    1. It Is I

      Dumbing of Age Book 12: All Sucked Off

    2. Keulen

      DoA Book 12: There, All Sucked Off!

      1. Clif

        With panel 4 as the cover.

  27. ADLegend21

    PHRASING Lucy.

    1. Raen

      We’re not doing that anymore.

  28. BBCC

    These two are a gift and I love them.

  29. Yotomoe

    Why is Lucy licking Walky’s shirt in panel 4 so damn hot to me tho?

    1. A Red Balloon

      Care to take it a little further with a little teasing art of your own?

      * hint hint *

      1. Yotomoe

        Not tonight, but maybe, if you’re good. Tommorow.

        1. Schpoonman

          I got a fat check from a deposit return from a rental about which I had completely forgotten.

          Totally unrelated, just thought I’d air some thoughts out.

        2. Yotomoe

          I’m happy for ya. I got an animation job after all these years.

        3. A Red Balloon

          Oh I feel so happy for you too!!!

        4. Leorale

          Woah that’s awesome! Congrats ^^

        5. JBento

          Congratulations!

        6. Clif

          Yay!!!

        7. Schpoonman

          Congratulations!

        8. StClair

          Congrats!

        9. a/snow/mous/e

          Congrats!

        10. OBBWG

          Congratulations!

        11. RassilonTDavros

          Congratulations!

          (this thread is starting to look like an EVA parody)
          (i think anyway idk i should really just watch it)

    2. Keulen

      No idea, but I find it hot too.

  30. brionl

    Well, if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate.

  31. jeffepp

    They aren’t going to get to that editor, are they?

    1. Heather

      Joyce might not have forgotten about her comic strips but Walky sure as hell might.

    2. A Red Balloon

      What’s white, black and red all over?

      1. Shitbird

        A red balloon in a zebra costume!

    3. Yotomoe

      Is it considered a win or a loss if you miss out on a career opportunity because you’re having sex?

      1. Thag Simmons

        It’s a tactical victory but a strategic failure

        1. King Daniel

          Would that qualify as a Pyrrhic victory in this analogy, or do we need to theorize a different event for that?

        2. Thag Simmons

          I’d say it’s a sort of Pyrrhic victory but it doesn’t match the most common example, where you suffered losses severe enough to doom future actions.

          This is a case of fighting the wrong battle, the tactical execution may be flawless but it just wasn’t the thing you should have been doing to accomplish your broader strategy.

        3. Amós Batista

          me, playing minecraft

  32. Wraithy2773

    Panel 4 deserves a museum.

  33. Qube

    *Beavis and Butthead laughing intensifies*

  34. Bagge

    Lucy makes a move

    1. King Daniel

      She finally figured out how to perform a moves

    2. Keulen

      And it’s a pretty good move.

    3. ValdVin

      Nice callback!

  35. Blibdoolpoolp

    So this is where food fetishists come from.

    1. Needfuldoer

      Whipped Cream Taco Bell Sauce & Other Delights

  36. Anywhere

    Aim lower, Lucy!!

  37. GUIGUI

    I saw it as a possible solution, wasn’t sure Willis would go that way, but am glad he actually did. This is too cute.

    By the way, a refer effective way to quickly clean a stain is to apply hand soap (push-liquid one, but soap bar also work) on a micro-fibre tissue, rub it on the stained fabric, rinse with water with the micro fiber again and it’s basically unnoticeable.

  38. Throwatron

    this would work on me tbh

  39. Rabisch

    These are the little things that make life wonderful ♡.

  40. Kim

    Lucy <3

  41. Amós Batista

    That’s spice.

    …

    The sauce, I mean.

  42. Spencer

    Please properly credit your guest writers, Yotomoe worked very hard on the dialogue and concept of this strip.

  43. Spencer

    Walky’s not that impressed about Lucy getting super bold like that he’s just smitten because he found out she’s exactly as much of a gross degenerate as he is to lick stains off of clothes.

    1. Raen

      …I have to ask – what the hell is your avatar?

      1. Spencer

        Melted wings of wax.

    2. Alex

      Despite the way it started this could actually work out for them both.

      1. Spencer

        This strip was the turning point in making me realize these two could have something.

        And if I’m right about Lucy having her own drama bombs, well, I think it’d be cool for Walky to step up like he did for Amber and never really had to for Dorothy.

        1. Needfuldoer

          Looks like it also sparked something with Walky. He started off almost humoring Lucy, then he seemed more like “this is pretty nice actually”. In today’s panel 4, he had his “HELLO!” moment.

        2. Spencer

          Yeah Dorothy/Walky was straight up Wacky and Uptight and for as happy as they were I think Amber and Walky’s brief thing led to a stronger emphasis on emotional honestly in Walky and showing he’s capable of providing not only valuable advice, but advice that the people around Amber couldn’t think to say.

          And if Lucy not only carries that forward but also gets to be a weird nutbar, well count me on.

        3. Spencer

          Well count me IN

          Goddamn it every time. I get jumpscared by my fucking spelling mistakes.

  44. Mr.Morningstar

    I guess you could say its

    Saucy

    1. AGV

      Your pfp is just right for that comment

  45. Dark

    Wait why are they trying to get there first? The publishers will still read both comics and decide from there, it’s not a first-come-first-serve situation.

    1. Clif

      Unless the publisher figures they are going to be lucky to get to any submissions at all and lock down the first opportunity.

  46. Eldritchy

    Now which fanfic or doujin gave you That idea, Lucy?

  47. Alan in DC

    The Slipshine for this has the potential to either be EPIC, or will just remind me of Mom wiping my face with her spit on a Kleenex when I was four.

    1. Alex

      Ooooh I always hated that.

    2. Roborat

      The dreaded mom spit bath. I think it must be hardcoded in genetic memory, because every mom does it.

  48. AGV

    I feel like Yoto has been summoned

  49. zee

    Judging by his face in that fourth panel i think Walky has a much bigger problem to deal with now. Which, i suppose can be solved pretty easily with the same method

    1. Agemegos

      I’ve seen bigger.

  50. Adept

    This stuff is usually only shown on Slipshine…

  51. Deviant

    Lucky it was on his shirt.

  52. TheFlamingonator

    or just WEAR IT INSIDE OUT

    1. Needfuldoer

      That’s just as noticeable, because all the seams stick out.

  53. Heather

    Honestly while I was kind of like ‘Hmm maybe these two can actually last’ at the newly weds gag they played up before Dorothy and Becky left to unwittingly enter the Disaster Zone this actually has me even more sold that they can. Like in the beginning I was someone shaking my head at Lucy because it felt way too soon in calling Walky a boyfriend to me.

    So that means they’ll definitely break up eventually doesn’t it. Why do you do this to us.

    1. Alex

      As cute as it would be, it would not be a realistic college comic if most couples stayed together past graduation.

      1. Vulcanodon

        My wife and I are 41 years tomorrow 🙂

        1. StClair

          Congratulations to the both of you, for being statistical anomalies. 😉

      2. Spencer

        Ey it’s not gonna run the rest of their lives. It’s not even supposed to run past the end of their first year. Certain characters ending the series paired off doesn’t necessarily mean they stick together the rest of their lives so much as the story is over and we don’t need to know anymore. If Danny and Sal are still together at the end of the story that just means they’re together at the end of our window into their lives and culmination of the themes and beliefs those two were put together to convey.

      3. Spencer

        But also the final strips will be a flash forward to Joe and Joyce’s domestic married life with their three cats.

        1. Joyfulldreams

          YES. ABSOLUTELY.

        2. Rabisch

          Nah. Joe and Joyce are absolutely dog people.

  54. ziggy78eog

    Next Slipshine strip.

    1. Amós Batista

      – Only after marriage.
      ‘Lucy Gleen

      1. King Daniel

        I don’t know who this “Lucy Gleen” is, but Lucy Glenn is on record as quoting the Sermon on the Mount’s statement that “the third date” is appropriate.

  55. Disastroid

    Shoulda kissed him too, girl.

  56. Throwatron

    ngl sorta bummed that it took me like so many years of life to lock down that “dork” was actually my type

    1. All-Purpose Guru

      Dorks can be a hell of a lot of fun. Both in the sack and out.

  57. Falconer

    I LICKED HIM

    HE’S MINE NOW

  58. milu

    I like how Walky is like “yay me for asking you out”.
    I mean sure, TeChNiCaLlY~

  59. Amós Batista

    You came for the sexy shenanigans, but you stay for tips for how to clean dirty from clothes.

  60. voidsiren

    I had high hopes for Lucy navigating her relationship with Walky, but now I can surely say that she is perfect for him.

  61. LazyReader

    She probably licks the Dorito crumbs too

    1. RowenMorland

      She probably licks the Dorothy crumbs too

  62. Beau Kirin Maysey

    not to be undertale cringe on main but this is Noelle Deltarune levels of thirst right about here, i personally feel like

  63. Steelbright

    I’m impressed by the fact that i can imagine the taste and texture of the shirt/sauce combo, and yet i still think the panel did a good job lookin kinda sexy. Uhh…kudos??

  64. darkoneko

    oh damn

  65. TK

    … that is incredibly hot.

  66. All-Purpose Guru

    I Have no idea why Walky hasn’t taken her in a manly fashion.

    She is incredibly sexy and incredibly dorky all at the same time, which is REALLY HOT.

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