THE SEVENTH DUMBING OF AGE KICKSTARTER IS GO! Collecting (obviously) the seventh year of Dumbing of Age, this 228-page book's also got strip commentary and 27 Patreon bonus strips! Also, hey, as always, character magnet add-ons. This year we're starting out with Sierra, Amber, and Ukulele Danny! If/after we hit $50k, everyone who pledges for a paper book gets a Ruth magnet for freeeeeeeee!
159 thoughts on “Cold turkey”
Ana Chronistic
“of course I smell. I have a nose. Which no longer wants to be near your mouth wind, thank you very much”
BBCC
Having a nose doesn’t necessarily mean the ability to smell. My boyfriend has no sense of smell. 😛
Ana Chronistic
whereas Walky has no sense *badum-tss*
Pablo360
And Dina has no smell, which assists in her going undetected
Needfuldoer
She just has to be mindful of breakfast.
Chris Phoenix
Have we just figured out the real reason she always only eats cereal?
Pablo360
The Saruyamas are actually distant cousins of the Zoldycks. This explains a lot more about Dina’s character than it should while simultaneously explaining nothing at all.
CandiedBeetles
Obligatory “taste” joke
CandidCanid
he’s filthy and he knows it
Pablo360
Dorothy: “Walky, you dirty dirty boy.”
Walky: “Are we doing sexy talk?”
Dorothy: “No. Go take a shower.”
(I’m assuming this is taking place in a flashback.)
Annonymouse
Walky: “Why not both?”
(Now I feel dirty)
Architex
Is it really over?
StClair
At least until after she finishes her (solitary) implosion.
Doctor_Who
Isn’t it over?
DailyBrad
+4 points.
Pablo360
Bravo! You get a Pearl Point!
Proxiehunter
Then why can’t she move on?
Pablo360
Going by this analogy, either Walky was right about Joyce or Ethan is about to get a new romantic option. Depends on which one of Dotty & David is Rose (and thus which one is dead).
Lin
I choose to believe you’re here and for that, I thank you.
Lin
Well that didn’t work. I choose to believe you’re paraphrasing Pearl here and I appreciate that.
Goshii
The more things I see from the actual show rather than the adverts for it. The more I actually want to give Steven Universe a chance, but then i see ads for it and i’m like… god this looks dumb.
Stu
For now, I think. I could see her being able to better balance it after Walky gets his own act together.
thejeff
Walky’s got his act together a lot better than she does. This isn’t going to be good for either of them.
Mind you, assuming this is actually a breakup I don’t expect it to be any more successful than the pause was.
Stu
“Walky’s got his act together a lot better than she does. This isn’t going to be good for either of them.”
Except he’s flunking his math course, and I’m not sure how he’s doing in other classes – that was what started it all, as Dorothy was trying to tutor him in that so he’d stay on-campus.
thejeff
True, he’s got his own problems, but he’s not working himself into a breakdown, not sleeping and skipping meals either.
And that’s not what started it all either – She only found out about his grades the day before she got her bad one and she was already starting to show signs of stress by then.
tim gueguen
Yes, because next Monday Walky will die of toilet bowl nachito poisoning.
Yumi
Ah, Walky. Sweet and gross in one strip.
So, so gross.
BBCC
Yeah, that was my initial reaction too.
DarkoNeko
oh gods, Walky.
Adj
Idiots.
Love is such a rare and amazing thing, and these two are just throwing it away.
Doctor_Who
Never let love or a perfectly good if slightly damp Nachito go to waste!
RacingTurtle
I don’t think you were intending to convince your fellow readers that the Nachito is a metaphor, but you’ve convinced me anyway.
StClair
Some would say that enabling your beloved’s doomed, self-destructive quest – up to and including sacrificing yourself also – is the noblest thing.
These people are idiots.
Liliaeth
Clinging to her, and going in against her wishes would also be wrong. By going along with her wishes and trying to make it easy on her, he’s being more mature than a large number of the people on campus.
Wolfbeckett
In a crazy twist of fate, Dorothy is being stupid and immature by engaging in her bizarre self-destructive quest to achieve ALL THE THINGS even if it kills her, while Walky is being the mature adult and trying to make things easier on her.
Nobody saw that reversal coming.
Emily
I mean he’s also being stupid and immature by not realizing how self-destructive what Dorothy is doing is.
ezzy
Yeah, but also… He’s an 18 year old boy. He doesn’t have the knowledge base to know that Dorothy is being self-destructive. *Dorothy* doesn’t have the knowledge base to know that she’s fucking herself over.
Walky did a good. Walky is a good, even if he’s immature and stupid.
thejeff
Though in this case, and going by what she said yesterday, a protest of “Don’t do this for me” would be reasonable. If she wants to break up with him or feels she needs to make more time, that’s one thing. If she thinks she should because she hasn’t been fair to him and he doesn’t agree, that’s another thing entirely.
In addition to, as Emily says below, missing how self-destructive she’s being.
Deanatay
Check the title.
Bagge
Something like this?
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/bestpossiblething/
ValdVin
I would never wish to make Joyce act that way to me. The red panel was entirely called-for.
Catullus
At first, I misread Walky’s last line as “…one fell in the bowl…”
And I am deeply, deeply thankful that it actually just says “on.”
Jess
Oh thank God, you saved me.
Yumi
I had the same misreading.
Shiro
…oh…I also misread it and did not reread, and now I feel somewhat better
Yumi
I think we slipped into an alternate timeline à la Berenstein/Berenstain Bears.
BBCC
Saw this strip yesterday, can confirm it said ‘in’ last night.
Yumi
I was honestly pretty sure that it said “in” when it first loaded, but like, reading is weird. And my memory has generally proven to be pretty solid, but I still don’t trust it.
David M Willis
…what?
It was never changed. What on Earth.
BBCC
Wait shit, that should be ‘on’.
Of all the typos to make.
Yumi
Was it a typo or was it the TRUTH
BBCC
It was a typo.
Yumi
*dramatically suspicious music plays*
But really, hell of a time to typo.
Koms
Shit would definitely be in the bowl
Yumi
Alternate timeline
jimbotherisenclown
Of course you would say that. You’re in on the conspiracy.
Jess
Really??
Marsh Maryrose
That is exactly how I read it, and I was like, no, he’s just trying to gross out Dorothy.
Now, I’m trying to figure out how he could on the “on the potty” and have a nachito fall “on the bowl.” On the seat, sure, and he would eat it. Or if he were peeing, it could fall on the rim, and…ick. But what does it mean for something to fall “on the bowl” in this context?
Bicycle Bill
You really, really don’t want to know. Just take my word for it.
Chris Phoenix
But in case you actually do want to know… (warning, TMI)
Split toilet seat. Very common in men’s restrooms. They leave a gap in front so, in theory, if a guy dribbles while peeing standing up, it falls on the bowl rim rather than on the seat.
…No, it’s not very effective. The gap just isn’t wide enough. Maybe when men’s average height was 5’5″/167 cm…
And yes, that does substantially increase the level of grossness of eating off of the bowl.
Axel
also of accidentally touching it with your pants, which makes me paranoid and grossed out every time
HeySo
“Very common in men’s restrooms”
By my experiences they dominate in gender-neutral ones, as well. And yeah, the design seems crazy in-effective: Neither sex really manages to urinate without to some degree imitating a garden sprinkler, so even if they manage to mostly get it in that split section, the design still encourages an approach that gets urine on the rest of the seat, as well. :S
Vulcanodon
The pressure-valve toilets in our building splash back onto the seat when flushed, leaving the impression the previous person was careless. Even worse, that means those stains aren’t just urine.
Zaxares
On is still bad. That’s where all the dried, congealed pee is. 😛
Jess
noooooooooooo
cybik
The Art of Walky, chapter 3: “U SMELL”
Ivy
I’m calling the police
TooOldToBeCool
It’s shameless how they flirt.
JoeCovenant
Calvin would never eat toilet nachitos!
🙂
Shiro
Walky NO
Passchendaele
hey, honesty is at the heart of a good relationship, even one that’s (temporarily, I hope) ending. 😛
Stephen Bierce
*plays the U2 “Maggie’s Farm/Cold Turkey” live twin-spin on the hacked Muzak*
m-m