I mean, given the adult track record, it’s kind of understandable. The only parents so far that haven’t been absolute disasters are the ones that showed up like. Once or twice and didn’t leave much of an impression.
I guess the joke is Leslie has bad taste in women or likes being negged? It’s not really that funny to me when that’s all Anna apparently has to offer. But whatever. Humor is subjective.
Bill Erak
She seems generally bossy but not bad or abusive.
Dot
She’s just a little bit of a dirtbag butch. Not a crime but she’s probably not an incredible long term partner.
I’d link more but too much and the comment goes into moderation purgatory. Her every appearance is like this. While I don’t think she’s a bad person (admittedly we aren’t given much info about Anna) all she does is insult Leslie and complain. That’s her bit in every appearance. It doesn’t leave a great impression and I need a bit more if I’m supposed to enjoy the idea of her dating Leslie. But maybe I’m not? Maybe she’s supposed to be irritating as a kind of troll or something to folks who take the comic too seriously or some other kind of joke?
As someone who has thick brows, this one also made me feel personally insulted. …Granted I AM single and DO have caterpillars on my face, but it just makes me sad that the beauty standards for ‘being a woman’ (whether you were born as one or not) means thick eyebrows are seen as gross. Thick eyebrows rock! Fuck beauty standards!
Thing 2
Are you perhaps also USAmerican? I can’t believe some of the shit that comes from there about ‘beauty’. I adore caterpillars and lots of other funky eyebrows.
Doopyboop
I am indeed USAmerican! And it’s true, Americans are really weird about any reminder that women have any sort of body hair. I know quite a few other women who routinely get their eyebrows waxed or threaded and I can’t be assed to do that. Even tweezers honestly hurt like hell.
Yumi
For me, tweezers are fine for plucking one eyebrow and then hurr a ton for the other. Luckily I’m fine with their general shape and volume as they are. But plucking the occasional strays will get one eye watering.
zee
I mean thick eyebrows did come into the beauty standard in the mid to late 2010s, though it was aore manicured, unnatural style. And people would go way overboard with it. As fast a i know we haven’t gone back to the day of tweezers and pencil thin brows yet. Last I checked I think naturalistic brows are in right now? Feather brows were a trend a few years ago and I still like doing them? Anyway my point is eyebrow beauty standards (like all beauty standards) are fickle and ever changing, it’s not the 90s anymore and I hope to god we’ve learned from hearing millennials complain about their brows never growing back after over plucking. I like a thick brow, it makes your face stand out in a really nice way and I don’t think that’s an unpopular opinion right now
zee
Sorry this kinda sounds like I’m caping for beauty standards. I just. I like big eyebrows and I also don’t think that’s uncommon anymore. Is my point
Doopyboop
You could be right Zee, I didn’t even realize thick eyebrows apparently became a good thing. Maybe it’s regional? All I can say is I’ve never recieved a compliment on mine, just many many many remarks like “Why don’t you trim your eyebrows? You need to use tweezers. You have bushy caterpillars on your face. Here, I’ll help you trim them with scissors. There we go, much better, you look better with thin eyebrows.”
We’ve seen so little of her I have no idea if she’s genuinely bad but I really dislike how she harps on people’s physical appearance. Like saying her ex Mindy is obviously single cuz she “has caterpillars on her face” or telling Lesie how her hair is a good distraction to how big her nose it.
It feels like those kinds of loaded statements pickup artists use to immediately lower a girl’s self-esteem
Throwatron
She’s been putrid but she’s also one of the characters that I have a tiny shred of hope might turn out to be complex? She could easily just be an antagonist and a piece of shit, but on the other hand, the two women she was “negging” were both women she clearly had no interest in, so maybe it wasn’t actually that? Maybe her obsession with aesthetics, is part and parcel with being a dentist?
IDK, I wouldn’t tolerate her attitude or behavior at all if I had to be near her, but she was around just enough that maybe there’s some kind of point to why she is so outwardly shitty, that actually goes somewhere interesting.
Throwatron
oh sorry lol i managed to not remember the exact 2 strips that proved Anna actually hooked up with Leslie. fuck her, then
Leslie’s terrible taste in women is a multiversal constant.
Adept
Uh, Thanks Sirksome. I had completely forgotten her. She does seem pretty unpleasant.
Astariel
Didn’t Willis say back when Anna first showed up that she was an experiment where he wrote a woman of color exactly like Mike to see what kind of reaction she would get? I feel like that was a thing that happened.
I didn’t like Mike either, so I feel justified in not liking Anna. You can do better, Leslie!
Lee
Problem is she wasn’t developed enough to really see if it compared. Mike had a heart of gold somewhere deep down and was, in his twisted and roundabout way, at least sometimes trying to nudge somebody where they needed to be like getting Walky to study or Blaine to be less of a bongo ass to Amber. We never saw Anna do anything but blurt out COMPLETELY unnecessary and unprompted insults.
Sirksome
I don’t like Mike either. I’m not one of his fans that argues he had a heart of gold or reasons for being jerk. He just was one. That aside though, he also wasn’t actively dating nice characters I like. He had a brief thing with Ethan who was already fully aware of Mike’s attitude and had no desire to be serious. If he was dating and being mean to his partner long term every time we saw them together I’d have a problem with that too. There was a time skip and Leslie was with Anna before it so it’s been months and they’re likely living together. It seems relatively serious which is another bummer. Oh well, I guess. We don’t see Leslie that much and thankfully Anna even less.
StClair
I’ve never liked the “joke” that Leslie will, apparently, always choose the partners that are worst for her. It makes me sad and angry, not amused.
idk about ‘trust’ but it def did seem more like attraction than something long term unless she’s like faye and takes a while to let ppl in versus just being a bongo to everyone like how she treated her supposed ex/best friend when they first met
Leslie’s a mess, but she’s her own mess, and generally doesn’t spread it to others, for the most part. The closest is when she decides she can’t help someone through their poop because her own poop stinks so much.
Now that she doesn’t believe her mother is watching her, she went to find a replacement. Good for her. Maybe Leslie will give her advice so SHE AND DINA DON’T BREAK UP FOR REAL
You know, it’d be vaguely amusing if Joyce shows up to tell Becky to get back together with Dina and accidentally walks in on them on their reunification boink on the dinosaur.
If you can get the scratch together to order it online, iherb.com does sell California poppy tincture – quite lawful pain relief. It’s also in some grocery stores, like Sprouts, if that’s easier. Apologies if that’s not helpful. It’s just the closest OTC I know of, to being able to get pain medicine by Rx.
GABA and Theanine supplements also help, as does Magnesium supplementation, depending on the budget for supplements.
Personally, listening to music at 174 hz for some reason helps me with the pain.
I appreciate the help, but like, isn’t poppy tincture just opium? XD
Thankfully I got cannabis for daytime pain relief as well as diphehydramine to help me sleep despite the pain, (the anti inflammatory ointment Im on is also supposed to help a bit with it but I’m not noticing that yet as of 3 days on it :/
Laura
California poppy is related to regular poppy but contains no opium. It does have similar analgesic effects, though. It’s legal to buy and use.
(which makes me sad that we can see Anna’s hair there, I was low-key hoping it was a fakeout that Leslie’s actually with some other dentist now, or Becky hasn’t kept up with Leslie’s lovelife updates since she moved out or something)
Astariel
The bonus strip could be set before the protest, though.
thejeff
Possible, but it was 5 months after she was last seen and Willis is usually pretty good about not spoiling or confusing things with the patreon strips.
it hasnt been that much time passed as far as i know but i imagine anna would be more casual about it or straight up say it was an fwb situation and not like ‘dating’
Oh God, Anna’s still in the picture. Leslie deserved so much better.
Also, I feel like it’s pretty wild that Becky got over there. I was about to ask how before I remembered that Uber existed and then realized that I don’t think Uber existed when the comic started.
Public transportation also exists. It’s shit in a lot of places, but often decent in college towns. And Leslie’s apartment doesn’t seem like it’s that far from campus.
Down where I live bus stops aren’t usually located in suburbs or really near them, so I guess I never considered one could be in a neighborhood in the US. Bus would’ve dropped her off at the nearest shopping center and she’d have had to hoof it.
CrazyJ
I went to state college in a town with about 10K residents. This made pretty much everything in the town effectively walking distance, and yet even here they ran a bus line. I all but assume that for any college big enough to have a campus that they have public transportation.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Larger universities may have their own bus service. That’s what Fred Gallagher of Megatokyo is doing for his day job now.
Bloomington has both public buses, running every 30 minutes last I knew, and some campus buses I think running between main campus and dorms. I forget if we know if Leslie has a car, but if not she’d be likely to either live close to campus or close to a bus line.
Also, Bloomington has been putting some effort into better bicycle infrastructure, not that Willis draws many bicycles.
154 thoughts on “Where”
ZombieKyrik
Wait, is Becky going to an adult for help? That would be great.
DJTsurugi
HAHAHA no one in this universe goes to any adult for help. ~<3
NGPZ
“I need an adult!”
Clint: “I’m an adult!”
…
“… I need a different adult.”
Bill Erak
I mean, given the adult track record, it’s kind of understandable. The only parents so far that haven’t been absolute disasters are the ones that showed up like. Once or twice and didn’t leave much of an impression.
Clif
Does Leslie count as an adult? I’m of two minds.
Casi
Leslie does, but i’m not sure Robin does
DJTsurugi
legally she does, literally her brain is the least adult of everyone currently on campus… ~<3
anon
tbf leslie’s only 25-26 and barely considers herself an adult but more so b/c she’s gay idk if she’d go to leslie if she wasn’t a lesbian
Sirksome
I am so upset. Don’t trust Anna the dentist. I mean it.
Sirksome
Unlike Asher I have no reasoning for this beyond I just don’t like her.
Bittersweet
I distinctly remember Anna being extremely unpleasant iirc. Like, negging unpleasant. It has been a long while.
Dot
She’s not great, no.
Sirksome
You remember correctly.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-8/01-face-the-strange/office-2/
I guess the joke is Leslie has bad taste in women or likes being negged? It’s not really that funny to me when that’s all Anna apparently has to offer. But whatever. Humor is subjective.
Bill Erak
She seems generally bossy but not bad or abusive.
Dot
She’s just a little bit of a dirtbag butch. Not a crime but she’s probably not an incredible long term partner.
Sirksome
Have another.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/04-the-do-list/lovesleuth/
I’d link more but too much and the comment goes into moderation purgatory. Her every appearance is like this. While I don’t think she’s a bad person (admittedly we aren’t given much info about Anna) all she does is insult Leslie and complain. That’s her bit in every appearance. It doesn’t leave a great impression and I need a bit more if I’m supposed to enjoy the idea of her dating Leslie. But maybe I’m not? Maybe she’s supposed to be irritating as a kind of troll or something to folks who take the comic too seriously or some other kind of joke?
Pocky
Just reminded me of Mindy too lol
Doopyboop
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-7/04-the-do-list/single/
As someone who has thick brows, this one also made me feel personally insulted. …Granted I AM single and DO have caterpillars on my face, but it just makes me sad that the beauty standards for ‘being a woman’ (whether you were born as one or not) means thick eyebrows are seen as gross. Thick eyebrows rock! Fuck beauty standards!
Thing 2
Are you perhaps also USAmerican? I can’t believe some of the shit that comes from there about ‘beauty’. I adore caterpillars and lots of other funky eyebrows.
Doopyboop
I am indeed USAmerican! And it’s true, Americans are really weird about any reminder that women have any sort of body hair. I know quite a few other women who routinely get their eyebrows waxed or threaded and I can’t be assed to do that. Even tweezers honestly hurt like hell.
Yumi
For me, tweezers are fine for plucking one eyebrow and then hurr a ton for the other. Luckily I’m fine with their general shape and volume as they are. But plucking the occasional strays will get one eye watering.
zee
I mean thick eyebrows did come into the beauty standard in the mid to late 2010s, though it was aore manicured, unnatural style. And people would go way overboard with it. As fast a i know we haven’t gone back to the day of tweezers and pencil thin brows yet. Last I checked I think naturalistic brows are in right now? Feather brows were a trend a few years ago and I still like doing them? Anyway my point is eyebrow beauty standards (like all beauty standards) are fickle and ever changing, it’s not the 90s anymore and I hope to god we’ve learned from hearing millennials complain about their brows never growing back after over plucking. I like a thick brow, it makes your face stand out in a really nice way and I don’t think that’s an unpopular opinion right now
zee
Sorry this kinda sounds like I’m caping for beauty standards. I just. I like big eyebrows and I also don’t think that’s uncommon anymore. Is my point
Doopyboop
You could be right Zee, I didn’t even realize thick eyebrows apparently became a good thing. Maybe it’s regional? All I can say is I’ve never recieved a compliment on mine, just many many many remarks like “Why don’t you trim your eyebrows? You need to use tweezers. You have bushy caterpillars on your face. Here, I’ll help you trim them with scissors. There we go, much better, you look better with thin eyebrows.”
Freemage
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-8/01-face-the-strange/missionary/
She’s not quite in irredeemable territory for me, yet–this strip was kind of cute.
YourCousinJay
We’ve seen so little of her I have no idea if she’s genuinely bad but I really dislike how she harps on people’s physical appearance. Like saying her ex Mindy is obviously single cuz she “has caterpillars on her face” or telling Lesie how her hair is a good distraction to how big her nose it.
It feels like those kinds of loaded statements pickup artists use to immediately lower a girl’s self-esteem
Throwatron
She’s been putrid but she’s also one of the characters that I have a tiny shred of hope might turn out to be complex? She could easily just be an antagonist and a piece of shit, but on the other hand, the two women she was “negging” were both women she clearly had no interest in, so maybe it wasn’t actually that? Maybe her obsession with aesthetics, is part and parcel with being a dentist?
IDK, I wouldn’t tolerate her attitude or behavior at all if I had to be near her, but she was around just enough that maybe there’s some kind of point to why she is so outwardly shitty, that actually goes somewhere interesting.
Throwatron
oh sorry lol i managed to not remember the exact 2 strips that proved Anna actually hooked up with Leslie. fuck her, then
John Campbell
Leslie’s terrible taste in women is a multiversal constant.
Adept
Uh, Thanks Sirksome. I had completely forgotten her. She does seem pretty unpleasant.
Astariel
Didn’t Willis say back when Anna first showed up that she was an experiment where he wrote a woman of color exactly like Mike to see what kind of reaction she would get? I feel like that was a thing that happened.
I didn’t like Mike either, so I feel justified in not liking Anna. You can do better, Leslie!
Lee
Problem is she wasn’t developed enough to really see if it compared. Mike had a heart of gold somewhere deep down and was, in his twisted and roundabout way, at least sometimes trying to nudge somebody where they needed to be like getting Walky to study or Blaine to be less of a bongo ass to Amber. We never saw Anna do anything but blurt out COMPLETELY unnecessary and unprompted insults.
Sirksome
I don’t like Mike either. I’m not one of his fans that argues he had a heart of gold or reasons for being jerk. He just was one. That aside though, he also wasn’t actively dating nice characters I like. He had a brief thing with Ethan who was already fully aware of Mike’s attitude and had no desire to be serious. If he was dating and being mean to his partner long term every time we saw them together I’d have a problem with that too. There was a time skip and Leslie was with Anna before it so it’s been months and they’re likely living together. It seems relatively serious which is another bummer. Oh well, I guess. We don’t see Leslie that much and thankfully Anna even less.
StClair
I’ve never liked the “joke” that Leslie will, apparently, always choose the partners that are worst for her. It makes me sad and angry, not amused.
DJTsurugi
she was openly negging, and toxic, and it showed very much in the other girl who got really quiet despite the fact that Leslie was there for her. ~<3
anon
idk about ‘trust’ but it def did seem more like attraction than something long term unless she’s like faye and takes a while to let ppl in versus just being a bongo to everyone like how she treated her supposed ex/best friend when they first met
QueenofSodor
Mama please, let me back inside…
no literally, please let me inside, i’ve been waiting outside your house for 15 minutes
Tan
If Becky just killed a man, I’m hoping for Buckets of Blood Guy. It’s what he would’ve wanted.
Clif
Fair, but not where my mind would go first.
Tan
“Mama, please, let me back inside” is a lyric from a Queen song.
A different Queen song includes the lyric “Mama, just killed a man.”
Andy
Also “tie your mother down”
Leorale
Man. What’s with Queen and mothers
Freemage
Well, that’s what happens when you get raised by a nanny…..
Pocky
Y’know, with how much Leslie was THIS close to adopting Becky, you’d think she’d make her a copy of her keys.
Doctor_Who
She wouldn’t promise not to lend them to Robin for pranking purposes.
IntangibleMatter
Becky’s going to Leslie! That’s probably a good sign!
Wait, Leslie’s also a mess half the time
shit
Still, Leslie time!
Freemage
Leslie’s a mess, but she’s her own mess, and generally doesn’t spread it to others, for the most part. The closest is when she decides she can’t help someone through their poop because her own poop stinks so much.
Bill Erak
Now that she doesn’t believe her mother is watching her, she went to find a replacement. Good for her. Maybe Leslie will give her advice so SHE AND DINA DON’T BREAK UP FOR REAL
Freemage
You know, it’d be vaguely amusing if Joyce shows up to tell Becky to get back together with Dina and accidentally walks in on them on their reunification boink on the dinosaur.
NGPZ
Nitrous oxide?
ngl that actually sounds really good right about now X~X
Laura
Wishing you pain relief.
????
If you can get the scratch together to order it online, iherb.com does sell California poppy tincture – quite lawful pain relief. It’s also in some grocery stores, like Sprouts, if that’s easier. Apologies if that’s not helpful. It’s just the closest OTC I know of, to being able to get pain medicine by Rx.
Laura
GABA and Theanine supplements also help, as does Magnesium supplementation, depending on the budget for supplements.
Personally, listening to music at 174 hz for some reason helps me with the pain.
NGPZ
I appreciate the help, but like, isn’t poppy tincture just opium? XD
Thankfully I got cannabis for daytime pain relief as well as diphehydramine to help me sleep despite the pain, (the anti inflammatory ointment Im on is also supposed to help a bit with it but I’m not noticing that yet as of 3 days on it :/
Laura
California poppy is related to regular poppy but contains no opium. It does have similar analgesic effects, though. It’s legal to buy and use.
apocryphascribe
Oh hell yeah, back to Becky!
darkoneko
Well that’s just rude lol
Dot
Yes! Yes! More of this! Let’s stay on this let’s- no, no, don’t cut back to Joyce and Dorothy, no, stay here, more of this!
Doopyboop
First thought: Oh god, Leslie’s still dating Anna, FUCK. Leslie you need better taste in women, respect yourself sweetie.
Second thought: Oh right Leslie might have been arrested…? Though there was that bonus strip preview of her in her bed… So maybe she’s just at work.
Dot
Leslie appears to be legally free and clear.
Doopyboop
Thank god for that much at least.
Heavensrun
Based on what? Her last appearance was at the protest, we haven’t seen her since.
Needfuldoer
She’s in a recent bonus strip.
Tan
Providing of source: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2025/blog/patreon-bonus-strip-for-november-2025-leslie/
(which makes me sad that we can see Anna’s hair there, I was low-key hoping it was a fakeout that Leslie’s actually with some other dentist now, or Becky hasn’t kept up with Leslie’s lovelife updates since she moved out or something)
Astariel
The bonus strip could be set before the protest, though.
thejeff
Possible, but it was 5 months after she was last seen and Willis is usually pretty good about not spoiling or confusing things with the patreon strips.
anon
it hasnt been that much time passed as far as i know but i imagine anna would be more casual about it or straight up say it was an fwb situation and not like ‘dating’
Bittersweet
Oh God, Anna’s still in the picture. Leslie deserved so much better.
Also, I feel like it’s pretty wild that Becky got over there. I was about to ask how before I remembered that Uber existed and then realized that I don’t think Uber existed when the comic started.
Yumi
Public transportation also exists. It’s shit in a lot of places, but often decent in college towns. And Leslie’s apartment doesn’t seem like it’s that far from campus.
Bittersweet
Down where I live bus stops aren’t usually located in suburbs or really near them, so I guess I never considered one could be in a neighborhood in the US. Bus would’ve dropped her off at the nearest shopping center and she’d have had to hoof it.
CrazyJ
I went to state college in a town with about 10K residents. This made pretty much everything in the town effectively walking distance, and yet even here they ran a bus line. I all but assume that for any college big enough to have a campus that they have public transportation.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Larger universities may have their own bus service. That’s what Fred Gallagher of Megatokyo is doing for his day job now.
drs
Bloomington has both public buses, running every 30 minutes last I knew, and some campus buses I think running between main campus and dorms. I forget if we know if Leslie has a car, but if not she’d be likely to either live close to campus or close to a bus line.
Also, Bloomington has been putting some effort into better bicycle infrastructure, not that Willis draws many bicycles.
Freemage
There’s also the pre-Uber/Lyft option–most mid-size college towns should have a taxi service or five.