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Your ex
Posted on July 1, 2022 by David M Willis

268 thoughts on “Your ex”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    Jason summarising the DoA comments for the last TWO YEARS

    1. Kyrik Michalowski

      Has it really been two years? I am losing track of time lately, today I thought my dog was a year old and he’s actually five years old. Makes me wonder what else I’m missing.

      1. The Wellerman

        The global events of the last two years and their heavy impacts really seem to distort one’s sense of time and space. ?‍?

        1. Sharaku

          Also, Spiders are on the increase.

        2. Decidedly Orthogonal

          Two and a half years

        3. autogatos

          Yeah the past 2 years have somehow felt like forever and only a couple months at the same time.

      2. ShellShockBP

        September 10 2020 was the first strip of the new semester (not counting the art montage)

      3. autogatos

        This comic is apparently older than my child and yet my child is somehow now 7.

        I also discovered 2 days after my birthday this year that I somehow spent the entirety of last year genuinely thinking I was a year older than I actually was. Just skipped RIGHT over 35 apparently. Told people I was turning 37. But no…apparently I am 36. Again.

        So yeah…what even is time…

        (I actually just finished re-reading DoA from the beginning this week and wow I can’t believe it’s been over 10 years!)

    2. Bryy

      ………… wait what

      two what

      what did you just say

      1. King Daniel

        It has been 662 days since it was confirmed we would be skipping over Halloween.

        (663 days for Patreon readers)

    3. Steelbright

      fukkin RIGHT

    4. Amós Batista

      in this rhythm, it will too like, 8 years, to Joe start date Joyce, or Dorothy leaves the Campus

      1. autogatos

        Re-reading the comic from the start this week I got to Dorothy’s Yale letter again and went “Oh…I wonder if she’s gonna go…will she be written out of the comic?” But then I realized it’s cool, even if she decides to go, that’ll probably be like a decade from now, we got lots of time with her still.

    5. Kazuma Taichi

      me realizing that Mike’s been dead for 2 years :notlikethis:

      1. Jo_cubstar

        Mike’s been dead for TWO YEARS!?!?!

    6. AlexaSpuds

      oh my god I can’t believe it’s already been 2 years since the big 10 year anniversary time skip
      I also can’t believe I’ve been reading for like 5 years at this point

  2. The Wellerman

    Brace yourselves! This is gonna be a crazy WILD ride back in time!!!!

    *demonic laughter*

    ? ⏳ ⏰ ⌛ ✌️?

    *plays “Apocalypshit” by Molotov on hacked muzak*

  3. shrub

    Well thats not helpful at all

    1. Yumi

      Tomorrow starts the chapter “This Was Halloween.”

      1. shrub

        Now thats helpful

        1. Andy

          As a surprise it’s one strip long, and that strip is just Mary in her bedroom ranting and raving about demonic holidays.

        2. khn0

          Never been so sad it’s not april 1st tomorrow

  4. Yumi

    My prediction for today’s strip wasn’t far off. Nice.

  5. Sunday

    WHAT HAPPENED ON HALLOWEEN??????

    1. Thag Simmons

      Seems like we’re about to find out

      1. Bryy

        In a month or two.

    2. Needfuldoer

      We’re finally gonna find out what happened…

      Back then…

      [Voice echoing]

      Back then…

      [Screen goes all wavy]

      Back then…

  6. Kyrik Michalowski

    So basically what everyone was expecting it to have been, damn you and your teasing Willis. We’re going to pass our own Halloween before we get any answers.

    1. Yumi

      Naw, we’ll probably get some answers in the coming storyline, which goes tomorrow through some time in August.

      1. Roe

        I wouldn’t be surprised if we don’t find out until actual Halloween 2022

  7. Taffy

    Fuck off and die, Mary.

    1. Kyrik Michalowski

      If only it were so simple; even if she was about to die, I’d expect her to make time to insult one more person before she goes to hell.

      1. Taffy

        Yeah but then she’s permanently gone.

        1. Casi

          With our luck, she’d come back after 3 days because her soul was rejected from all the after lives.

    2. The Wellerman

      Oh thanks for reminding me!!! Last chance to do this!

      Fuck off and die, Mary! ??

      1. Kyrik Michalowski

        Why is this the last chance to do this?

        1. The Wellerman

          I mean until Mary appears, which is probably gonna be a while.

        2. Yumi

          Tragically, Mary makes seven appearances in the next storyline. Maybe they’ll all be grouped together at the end, but the storyline isn’t a super long one either.

        3. Bryy

          How do you know this? What dark magics?

        4. Yumi

          A fair description for my source… Twitter.

          https://twitter.com/damnyouwillis/status/1503516472101978112

        5. Tawdry Quirks

          Hmm…Fuckface makes 11 appearances. My prediction is that someone went to play with Fuckface while Malaya wasn’t in, something goes wrong (possibly a molt being mistaken for something worse), then Billie and Ruth have to take him to the emergency vet and things spiral out of control from there.

        6. The Wellerman

          Oh no…. uh… why haven’t we seen Fuckface since the time-skip? ?

        7. The Wellerman

          If you think that’s worthy of attribution to dark magics, you haven’t even seen what’s in store. ?

        8. Taffy

          The Ritual wasn’t completed and so the Old Ones will rise from the earth and reclaim the lands they wrought. So, like, probably no WiFi for a while.

        9. The Wellerman

          Speaking of cosmic horrors, did you know I just completed a map of Galasso’s?

          A real labyrinth, I tell ya! Also did you know Newgrounds has a chat feature?

        10. Taffy

          #TomFulp’sAss

        11. The Wellerman

          If it’s possible, maybe we can use the chat feature to collab on the game? It’d just be you and me and brainstorming!

        12. Taffy

          I keep forgetting Newgrounds exists. It’s a neat website. Lots of talented creators on there.

        13. The Wellerman

          RIGHT?!?! Also, much less censors on your ass all the time!

          https://www.newgrounds.com/chat

        14. Taffy

          It’s a shame about that Incident last year. O/The staff hand their hands full that week.

        15. The Wellerman

          You know what isn’t a shame? Log into your Newgrounds account and see! ?

        16. Taffy

          Sounds like more of a job for Sober Taffy. My ass barely makin’ sentences.

        17. The Wellerman

          Can drunk Taffy still play Yugioh? ?

        18. Taffy

          Drunk Taffy can’t even tie her own shoes. It’s High Taffy ya gotta worry about, they’re dangerous at cards.

        19. The Wellerman

          Thanks for the tip, much appreciated! ?

          Also, I take it I should update your preferred pronouns?

        20. Taffy

          Hm? No, that was a typo. Or a froydian slip. Or possibly I lost track of who I was talking about mid-sentence. Idk, I’ve been blazed to the point of nigh-incoherence every night for like a week now. If I updated my pronouns during that time, no I didn’t.

        21. The Wellerman

          Ah, thanks for clean that up, friend. ?

        22. Needfuldoer

          If you told 2005 me that “Newgrounds Chat” is a thing, I’d write it off as a wretched hive of scum and villainy. I hope the site’s discourse has matured in the last… 17 (?!) years!

        23. The Wellerman

          Sorry, am I missing something here? Was it really toxic for a long time even relative to the vast majority of the internet?

        24. The Wellerman

          I ask because, besides contacting prominent creators, I was really only ever there for the games and art. And as of more recently lack of censorship.

        25. Needfuldoer

          It was just your garden-variety mid-2000s teenage edgelord bullshit.

          It was nicer than the imageboards, but rougher than DeviantArt.

    3. Icalasari

      Nah, Satan made her immortal so as to create Hell on Earth

  8. Joe Moose

    I was gonna complain on the cliffhanger you left us, but I remember that you update during the weekend.

  9. Thag Simmons

    Yes… Ha ha ha… Yes..

    1. Thag Simmons

      Also this was a good storyline. Enjoyed it a lot and “Billie” is hands down my favourite individual update from this entire comic.

      Very eager to see what comes next

      1. Rose by Any Other Name

        Yeah, Billie was an excellent comic. Tons of visual story telling crammed into a very small space.

  10. Sirksome

    Why does Mary know? Also Ruth turning to drinking is not a good sign. Also also Jason’s bartender class really should give him better insight.

    1. Yumi

      Sounds like Halloween was a bad time all around, makes sense that Mary was there.

    2. King Daniel

      I’d assume it was a very public breakup.

    3. Thag Simmons

      Halloween party I assume. Hopefully not one she was present for, but who knows

      1. Bryy

        Mary has been established to LOVE Halloween.

        1. Yumi

          Love? Sarah loves Halloween, but as far as I know, Mary is just “not averse” to it.
          https://www.dumbingofage.com/2019/comic/book-9-comic/03-sometimes-the-sky-was-so-far-away/discretionary/

        2. Bryy

          Hm. I see.

        3. thakoru

          For Mary, “not averse” is the closest possible emotion to love.

        4. PirateTawnee

          I clicked on a few pages from that link, as it was interesting, and stumbled into Jacob telling Joyce “You’ve got a leather jacket. That means YOU make the rules.” And the FIRST rule she made was about what other people can put inside themselves.

          *Squints carefully at Christian America*
          *sucks air in over teeth*
          *departs the comments section*

    4. thakoru

      My guess is that Mary doesn’t actually know any more than us, she’s just heard other people use that as an explanation and now repeats it to sound knowledgeable.

    5. Masumi

      Maybe she caused it.

    6. Needfuldoer

      I wonder if we’ll get an objective view of what ‘actually’ happened, or if different characters will retell the same story from their own perspectives…

      1. thakoru

        Ooh, I hope that’s what happens. Rashamon stories are a lot of fun.

      2. thejeff

        So far, all our flashbacks have been objective, but they’ve sometimes left out important bits that didn’t become clear until we saw the same scene from another characters perspective.

  11. BBCC

    Jason is us and we are Jason.

    1. Sirksome

      I heavily disagree with this statement.

      1. 3oranges

        …I heard that in an English accent. 😉

  12. Cmasta1992

    Oh good Ruth is still drinking. So none of the problems were solved.

    Jason seriously, freckles aren’t worth it. Get out of there.

    1. Kyrik Michalowski

      I suspect Ruth had stopped drinking and this is her falling off the wagon due to Billie/Jennifer and her little tantrum.

      1. Yumi

        Ruth drank on her 21st birthday, when she and Jason bonded.

        https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/04-hompk/superlative/

        Before then, it seemed she hadn’t been drinking. Since then, I don’t think there’s been indication of more drinking. That may have given her the idea that she can handle drinking once in a while– which, honestly some recovering alcoholics can, but for Ruth, it feels too recent, and this instance of seeking out alcohol is too “need this to deal with emotions” to feel comfortable.

        1. Cmasta1992

          [Accidental flag. Fat fingered on mobile]

          That’s right. I thought was pre timeskip for some reason

        2. eh, whatever

          I read “bonded” as “boned” first.

        3. Ed Callahan

          In comic time, that was only a couple of days ago.

        4. pope suburban

          Yeah I thought she was maybe at a place where she was doing well with it and able to responsibly drink, socially. I wasn’t, like, whole-hog *committed* to that idea, since people in recovery sometimes can’t manage that, or can’t for a while, but it looked possible. Seeing this reaction here really dashes my hopes in that regard, and makes me deeply frustrated with Jennifer. Yes, Ruth is responsible for her own actions, but Jennifer’s little fit of pique here seems designed to drag Ruth back into a dynamic that was deeply shitty for Ruth, Jennifer, and frankly everyone round them.

    2. Johan

      Ruth was drunk when she met Jason.

    3. Taffy

      “Woman have problem, not worth dating.”

      1. Nova

        No, no… I can fix her.

        1. Taffy

          God, same

        2. Proxiehunter

          “I can make her worse.” – Jenifer probably.

          Come on, roll a Jenifer gravitar for this one . . .

      2. Cmasta1992

        Or maybe someone who has a clear drinking problem and just assaulted her ex in front of you probably just showed some flags so red they could be Buccaneers logos.

        1. Taffy

          No, Ruth did not “assault” Billie. She hit her back. Billie started it and Jason saw it. I’m not even touching that “drinking problem” crack, though.

        2. Cmasta1992

          I mean Ruth is a confirmed alcoholic the entire first half of this series goes over this. That’s not a crack. Thems the facts.

        3. Taffy

          We read the same comic. I’m not refuting anything. I said I wasn’t touching it. There is a difference.

  13. Mr D

    Halloween gonna start on July 2nd? o boy, that’s gonna be quite a birthday present!

    1. Laura

      Happy Halloween, and Happy Birthday, Mr D!

    2. newlland(Henryvolt)

      And most like will end right before October if it’s timed right.

      Also I accidentally flagged your comment when I meant to hit reply, sorry

  14. RassilonTDavros

    I REMEMBER
    DOING THE TIME WARP
    DRINKING
    THOSE MOMENTS WHEN…

  15. Sirksome

    I wonder if the Halloween chapter is indeed a flashback like the name implies if that whole chapter will be in the flashback blue tint?

    1. The Wellerman

      Willis DID say “it is very blue”. That could mean it figuratively too, yes, but I sure hope not literally.

      I like all the bright and stimulating colors of this comic, doing away with them during one of the most fun-packed holidays of the year seems like cheating at best, and a let-down at worse.

      1. Laura

        I think Willis meant “Very Blue,” as in, the color of flashbacks.

        …Some reason, none of my comments are posting.

        1. Bryy

          Which is a shame because Halloween is a chance to be very colorful.

        2. Azhrei Vep

          OR ARE THEY?!

  16. JA

    WHAT HAPPENED ON HALLOWEEN??

    1. Taffy

      Le epic cringe, I bet.

    2. Needfuldoer

      Costumes, candy, and drama.

    3. Opus the Poet

      Many epic Slipshine openings.

  17. Mr. Random

    Halloween.
    The night if masks where we have a chance to drop ours.

    Or just fucking hang out and watch cheesy shit.

    1. Taffy

      We likes to watch the spooky movies, yes. Play the games and drink the ciders, gollum.

      1. The Wellerman

        “Do you like scary movies?” ?

  18. Thag Simmons

    Just noticed that Sarah never replaced her halloween witch portrait. Delightful

    1. Nova

      Hmm, first message didn’t send – Trying again!

      “Oooo. Nice catch!”

    2. PirateTawnee

      She paid two pretzels for that, she needs to get her money’s worth. (see archive link above)

      1. The Wellerman

        And to think if Mary ever goes on a pretentious pious pilgrimage, she could easily sustain herself by drawing for food on the road!!! ?

  19. Bunny

    if there was a halloween party, who had been there?

  20. RedComet

    Nice touch with the Halloween picture still on the door (or perhaps not actually still on the door/ a temporal connection to the oncoming flashback)

    1. Sirksome

      I’m a little surprised Mary actually drew that for her. It seems out of character for her to do something nice like that.

      1. thakoru

        Well it wasn’t out of pure altruism. She got two pretzels out of it.

        1. Needfuldoer

          And more of her art is now on public display.

        2. thakoru

          Right, lest we forget that ever-important exposure.

        3. Laura

          Plus, she got to depict Sarah as an unrepentant witch being tortured in hell. Win win!

  21. Nova

    Readers beware, you’re in for a scare dramatic reveal!

  22. AbacusWizard

    WHAT HAPPENED ON HALLOWEEN

    WE MUST KNOW

  23. Yumi

    Quick, before we start getting real answers:

    What happened on Halloween? Wrong answers only.

    1. Bryy

      Jennifer was wronged.

    2. cbwroses

      The Cheese appeared, watched Dexter and Monkey Master with Walky, then left, with some McNuggets for the road.

    3. Pinkie

      Ruth got too drunk at the party and Jennifer broke up with her for falling off the wagon?

    4. The Wellerman

      Emo-than got an alien parasite.

    5. Taffy

      Billie ate Ruth’s little brother as a party trick, but forgot to take him back out and she fused with his soul, grossing Ruth out and causing her to break up with Billhoward.

    6. thakoru

      Absolutely nothing. It’s been a red herring this whole time.

      1. Bryy

        I see what you did there.

        1. thakoru

          Wait, are you sure? Because I’m not sure I see what I did there. Did I accidentally reference something? Is there some wordplay I’m missing? Honestly, I wasn’t even super proud of that joke.

        2. The Wellerman

          Basically me whenever I’m online ?

        3. Bryy

          OP asked what happened. They asked for wrong answers only. Since some of us were thinking nothing happened, I thought you were implying something did actually happen.

      2. Taffy

        Red Herring was fucking framed, every single time. Freddy just had a fucking vendetta.

        1. Needfuldoer

          Except for that one time it actually was Red Herring.

        2. cbwroses

          7 hours to realize this was a pup named scooby doo reference.

          This whole time I’m wondering what Freddy Kruger has to do with red herrings.

          (Smacks forehead)

        3. Nova

          Nostalgia bomb accepted.

          I can hear Freddy’s crazed tinfoil hat chatter now “IT WAS RED HERRING!”

    7. Nono

      Ruth caught Jennifer making out with Alice.

      1. Laura

        No, no, that was Alice and Bob with Carol and Mike.

    8. RassilonTDavros

      While Ruth was preoccupied with Billie, Carol broke into the dorm, said “It’s Carolin’ time,” and Caroled all over everybody. Her singing voice was so awful that Agatha’s roommate died from complications due to a ruptured eardrum, after which Ruth decided to purge her life of all distractions so that such a fate would never befall another student under her authority.

    9. King Daniel

      Bloodrose finally showed her face for the first time.

    10. Needfuldoer

      Guns locked everyone else out of the exercise room.

    11. Tan

      Becky and Dina did it.

    12. Tan

      The Leafs won at sports.

      1. Taffy

        Let’s not be ridiculous here.

    13. Opus the Poet

      Joe had a foursome with triplets.

    14. Azhrei Vep

      Joyce fucked Mike to literal death.

      1. Taffy

        Great, now I’m jealous of Mike.

    15. Laura

      Everyone caught COVID and the couples had to Isolate in dorm rooms together for 2 weeks. That’s why they broke up.

    16. Mturtle7

      Mary seduced Billie, made sure Ruth caught them together, and then converted a distraught Billie to her particular sector of Christianity. Hence her current smugness.

  24. thakoru

    Dumbing of Age Book 12: WHAT HAPPENED ON HALLOWEEN?

    1. Sirksome

      It would have to be one long ass flashback to justify titling a whole book after it.

  25. jeffepp

    Wain’s World flashback!

  26. cbwroses

    Whatever happened on Halloween must have been extremely bad considering Mary is smiling.

    1. Bryy

      Mary smiling is like Trump throwing a tantrum.

      1. The Wellerman

        ? thanks for putting that image in our heads

  27. Suet

    After realizing the phrase “Don’t Stop Believing” only occurs at the end of the song, its only chorus, “Don’t” by Neil Cicierega is now being played at the broken strike plate

    I guess Mary’s art is staying up until Groundhog Day

  28. Adam Black

    My guess: Ruth drives drunk puts Billie in the hospital. Ruth breaks up with Billie.

  29. newlland(Henryvolt)

    What the hell was Halloween!? I kept my piece about it because I thought it would be addressed in do time but Willis keeps fucking with us by dangling it over our heads like one does with a dog and a treat it really wants.

    1. Taffy

      Dude wait like ten seconds more, the next story is about to explain to you.

    2. Yumi

      I think it’s fair to discuss whether this whole something-big-happened-over-the-timeskip style of storytelling is really enjoyable/effective or not, but it’s pretty funny to me that people are reaching their breaking point with it so close to the reveal.

      I mean, assuming “This Was Halloween” is actually a reveal. If it’s more fucking with us…

      1. Taffy

        This is like leaving the subway station just before the train arrives.

      2. Sirksome

        Personally I was never interested in Halloween and still am not. I figure the time skip shook up the status quo a bit and the mysteries of what happened made it fun. We don’t really need to know the why of things sometimes. Sometimes the answers are even unsatisfying. I tr

        1. Sirksome

          -ust Willis to tell a good story but I also have to admit it’s a little bitter sweet to lose the ambiguity of some developments.

        2. Cmasta1992

          Agreed. It’ll be interesting to see who in the comments have to backtrack who they were caping for once what happened is revealed.

        3. Bryy

          We get 55 days of Halloween. Don’t be a downer.

        4. PirateTawnee

          Dang, we only get 1 day of Halloween over here in Britain. Good job always having things bigger America.

          Wait, you meant in the strip, didn’t you?

        5. Laura

          No, Halloween does go on for a while in parts of the states. There’s ding-dong doorbell night, mischief night (also called Devil’s Night), Halloween, All Hallow’s Eve, All Saints Day, All Souls Day, Dia de Muertos… sometimes these happen on the same night, sometimes the festivities get spread out over a week or more. Depends on the community.

          …You’re right, it IS bigger in the States!

        6. Taffy

          Go figure, the country that takes up like half a continent has more variety than an island you can walk across in a couple hours.

        7. Taffy

          Like when it was revealed that DW grew up to be a cop.

        8. Yumi

          I like the Legend of Korra, but I’m forever bitter that Toph grew up to be a cop.

          (And in a wider sense, yeah, sometimes– often– the flashforwards at the ends of shows or as extras or whatever just aren’t necessary. Like, I mostly watch shows where I like the characters, so it’s nice to see them happy, but it feels superficial.)

        9. The Wellerman

          Perhaps it is because we seek characters that we can also live vicariously through in ways that feel more “real” but also satifying?

        10. Sirksome

          Tops being a cop isn’t so bad in Avatar, although yeah it is disappointing. Especially since she was so anti-authority. I chose to see it as the more Hollywood idealized version of cops than the incompetent and/or corrupt and cowardly bullies we have in real life.

        11. Yumi

          Eh, copaganda isn’t a great defense, though I see the show as more police-neutral overall. Which still isn’t great for Toph.

          It’s also, like, the Avatar comics start to show stepping stones for how Toph got to be a cop, but those comics are coming out after Legend of Korra, so instead of natural character growth and exploration, it just feels forced with a foregone conclusion.

        12. Laura

          Yeah. I did love the ending, but I felt they could have made the queer text more explicit. They kind of beat around the bush when they had a beautiful lady-lady love story on their hands.

        13. Laura

          I mean, I loved the ending of the cartoon, where Korra and Asami finally make their goo-goo eyes out in the open.

        14. Yumi

          “They could have made the queer text more explicit”– well, I don’t know about that. I mean, I would have loved it, but they had to fight hard enough to do what they did. It’s possible that they really *couldn’t* have done much more. To me, what we did get felt very natural, and it served a very important place in the trajectory of queer content in kids’ shows.

          All that said, I do respect the desire for there to have been more. There’s a Korra movie planned for the future, so if that happens, hopefully we’ll get a good amount of Korrasami content (but not in the form of drama, ideally– I think in the first two seasons, the show was really bogged down by the way shipping stuff was handled). The comics have kisses, but I want to see them animated.

        15. Laura

          Ooh, thanks for telling me about the movie! I can’t wait!

        16. PirateTawnee

          Flashforwards have been dead to me ever since I discovered that Kevin didn’t marry Winnie.

        17. Laura

          …The Wonder Years. Took me a minute, there.

        18. Sirksome

          I usually think of Star Wars and Midichlorians. Is Star Wars better now that we know what the Force is? Not really, not to me anyway, it was better as a mystery. Knowing why Ruth and Billie, or to a lesser extent Walky and Amber broke up might be interesting, or it might not live up to expectation, or be unsatisfying in some other way.

        19. Devin

          That…wasn’t a burning question extremely relevant to the plot though.

          This very much is.

          If you don’t want to know, you can always just stop reading. Or skip the next storyline and hope you don’t pick up on it with context clues.

        20. Sirksome

          Saying just don’t read isn’t really a great answer or even really the point. I’m not particularly adverse to knowing the answer and the comment discussions I like engaging with make it virtually impossible to stay ignorant anyway.

          I was just giving my opinion on the story telling devise of this type of flashback. Like I said I trust Willis to tell a good story, I just think sometimes a mystery is better. We don’t always have to know every detail. I can respect that some readers do like having every answer though.

        21. Laura

          Midichlorians are just mitochondria. That’s my theory, anyway.

        22. The Wellerman

          Is that a reference to how mitochondria are actually bacteria that merged with eukariotic cells to eventually change all of life on earth over a billion years ago? ?

        23. 3oranges

          Mitochondria + chloroplasts, the other endosymbiotic organelle.

        24. The Wellerman

          I don’t even know if “organelle” is the right word for them.

          They have their own DNA, and if they’re destroyed in the cell, they don’t regenerate.

        25. 3oranges

          So does the nucleus, and it gets called an organelle. 😉

        26. The Wellerman

          Seeing symbiotes like myself change all life on the planet billions of years ago, just so…. inspiring ?

        27. Laura

          …Or you could think of the mitochondria as being like the host universes described in “A Wind In the Door,” by Madeleine L’Engle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wind_in_the_Door#Plot_summary

        28. Needfuldoer

          Midichlorians are the powerhouse of the Force.

        29. 3oranges

          The thing with midichlorians is they were tacked on after the fact. That’s risky, you aren’t always going to come up with something worth explaining.

          When it’s something that people had planned in advance, deciding a certain aspect of the story is better to save as a surprise for later on, it tends to go a bit better.

        30. The Wellerman

          Or in a very diabolical twist, the information that technically “explains” it just raises more questions than it answers.

        31. eh, whatever

          The midichlorians don’t bother me at all, and I don’t get why they make so many people upset. The midichlorians aren’t even plot-relevant; even the Force is still a mystery (…so, instead of humans having magic powers, their endosymbionts have magic powers… nothing has actually changed there).

        32. The Wellerman

          “any sufficiently analyzed magic is science”

  30. cbwroses

    Readers and fans of Dumbing of Age,
    We only have to wait one more day,
    Til it finally can be seen,
    All the drama of Halloween!

    1. Taffy

      I am the one drinking all your rum
      Eating all the cake and leaving only crumbs

      1. Devin

        Is that why the rum is always gone??

    2. june gloom

      That’s cute.

  31. Francoinblanco

    Boys and girls of every age
    Wouldn’t you like to see something strange?
    Come with us and you will see
    This, our town of Halloween

    1. Taffy

      I am the one pissing under your stairs
      Framing your cat and earning her glares

      1. The Wellerman

        Mischief and mayhem make a wonderful pair
        Come with us if you dare

  32. Rabisch

    It’s weird seeing Mary don’t use a possibility for tell her, distorted, version of the story to someone so shocked and confused to probably believe in everything she will say. I’m sad for Jason here. Ruth is still no over her dangerous ex and just go away for poisson herself with alcohol. Probably the best thing for him is go away, but disgracefully he seems to really like Ruth a lot.

    1. Cmasta1992

      “When you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.”

      1. The Wellerman

        Brilliant! ?

  33. Devin

    Wouldn’t you like to know, weather boy?

  34. ADLegend21

    on second thought, I don’t wanna know what happened on Halloween.

  35. Lingo

    FINALLY

  36. Darkseide

    Schrodinger’s Halloween

  37. Dr. T

    Maybe one of these days Jason gets to be in a healthy relationship.

    Oh, and Mary just is the absolute worst.

    1. Rabisch

      Or in a relationship with Mary. I’m sure his father will love her!

      1. Tan

        Jason’s father is a supervillain, not an evangelical. I’m sure his standards are higher than that.

  38. alongcameaspider

    Part of me hopes that what happened on Halloween was something completely benign that everyone just decided to blow way out of proportion

    1. Alex

      Nah, that’s the commenters not the characters.

  39. Romanticide

    Oh, Sarah kept the witch chibi

  40. Eldritchy

    What the fuck Mary? You were yelling all that good shit a moment ago and now you just go for one word answers? Spill the beans Mary! Spill the LORE!

  41. Acher4

    This is either going to be a constant noodle incident,
    or we are going to get a book tittled
    “What happened on Halloween?????!!???!?!!???!”

    And yep. Jason is all of us 😛

  42. Opus the Poet

    JFC would someone please Toedad Mary? Or something equally fatal and messy?

    1. Laura

      Anything but that! A fate worse than Toedad! X-D

  43. Sombrero

    Do I have enough popcorn? I have less than one day to get more popcorn!

  44. Laura

    …On a completely unrelated note, I finally just finished the very last assignment for a project I’ve been working on for the past 25 months.

    All done. No more. All gone. (As I used to say to the pup dog, when explaining why I could no longer play with him or give him treats.)

    Time to walk away, delete all my files, reformat my brain. No more of that whole field of knowledge. All done. Gotta just admit defeat (or at least a tactical retreat and impasse) and walk away.

    Time to fill the brain up with new information, get ready to plunge into a whole different field, after 25 months’ absence from it.

    It’s scary. And sad. And a little peaceful. And bittersweet. And regretful. It’s all those things.

    1. Laura

      We didn’t succeed in our mission. But the mission didn’t quite beat us yet, either. So it’s a tactical retreat, to conserve forces and defend other fronts. With hope that the reinforcements will come from somewhere else, and will be enough.

      1. Taffy

        Uh, this sounds vaguely military? Not gonna pry, but I’m not sure we should know about it if it is.

        1. Alex

          I assume it’s metaphorical and they’re not talking about literal reinforcements.

        2. Taffy

          Wait til it turns out Laura was leading the research team that’s gonna invent Sephiroth. You’re gonna look silly and my personal bunker will look really smart in hindsight.

        3. Laura

          A personal bunker is ALWAYS in order! ;-D

        4. Laura

          Thank you for being so sensitive about pronouns, Alex! That was very thoughtful of you. 😀

      2. Laura

        Oh, no, sorry sorry! Not military. Public health.

        1. The Wellerman

          That sounds like really important work!

          Regardless of whether you succeeded in your mission, just dedicating so much to it must come from a really good place. ?

        2. Laura

          Well, a sad place, anyway. It’s like that old song goes: “Sadness comes from a quiet place.”
          (Plays Radical Dance Faction on the hacked Muzak:
          https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EvCbVTt9QhU )

  45. Adam Black

    Imagine Joe and Dorothy merged their Spreadsheets,
    Life imitates art;

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FWhtRyOWAAMP4mJ?format=jpg&name=4096×4096

    1. Beau Kirin Maysey

      Is the OP of that post perhaps Mark Elliot Zuckerberg?

  46. Raen

    You’re British, Jason, you should know that anything can happen on Halloween.

  47. Chris (the other one)

    Hey Willis? You’re a right shite.

    1. Yumi

      Seems uncalled-for.

  48. Just another fan

    At least we’re gonna learn now.

  49. Reed

    You know I do think it would be kind of funny if we never found out what happened on Halloween.

  50. Beau Kirin Maysey

    This is is the most evil Mary has ever been…

  51. JBento

    So, after so many people shitting on Jason, it turns out he’s all of us. How do you feel now, commentariat? HOW DO YOU FEEL NOW? /s

    1. Taffy

      Kinda hungry, mostly.

      1. JBento

        Fuck, now *I*’m hungry.

  52. Darkoneko

    There is always more halloween

    1. Beau Kirin Maysey

      there is always more money in the halloween stand

  53. Arianod

    Looks like ‘Halloween’ is going the be DoA’s ‘Newcastle’

  54. Fetch85

    What happened on Halloween?

  55. thumb

    HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

  56. Adept

    As a reader I’ve been pretty annoyed at the timeskip. Maybe we’re finally about to be filled in on what the eff happened.

  57. Keulen

    Considering “This Was Halloween” is an entire chapter, it might still be a while before we find out what happened on Halloween.

    1. JBento

      Everything. EVERYTHING happened on Halloween.

    2. Caro

      that chapter starts tomorrow tho

    3. Alex

      Aren’t chapters usually a day long in comic time?

  58. Caro

    sarah still has her witch drawing up!

  59. Caro

    I just looked through Mary’s tag- her appearance in this arc is the first time we’ve seen her in over a year! this comic makes time go weird

    1. Alex

      I actually thought it had been way longer than that.

  60. Alex

    Jason is all of us right now.

    1. Taffy

      How dare you accuse me of being Bri’ish

  61. DavidAre

    Chainsaw man reference xD

  62. schmess

    I have been looking forward to Halloween since forever, and like I’m obviously super excited to learn about all the- drama, plot, backstory and everything!

    …on the other hand I think I’m equally, if not more excited, to see costumes.

    1. schmess

      OH and I just noticed the sarah art reveal after mary moved omg love that as part of the transition

      1. Ana Chronistic

        haha yeah why do they still have the witch Sarah on their door in January

  63. schmess

    really really wanted Mary to get that exposure

    1. schmess

      (whoops meant to reply that to ana lol)

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