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Four
Posted on September 10, 2014 by David M Willis
maskpreview01 Dumbing of Age turns four today!  To celebrate, a second Dumbing of Age comic goes up on Slipshine tomorrow!  IT IS APPARENTLY UP NOW.  This comic didn't exist three days ago, but I drew it due to popular demand to satiate your wanton lustlust.

265 thoughts on “Four”

  1. Jen Aside

    “not sure if want”

    1. timemonkey

      *wanted, but not like this*

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        This is not what I expected.

        1. Yotomoe

          If you want Naked Billies, you gotta draw them yourself.

        2. Tunaro

          Don’t. Encourage. Rule 34. Willis does that enough on his own.

        3. Kennerly

          Discouraging rule 34 is a form of encouragement.

        4. Plasma Mongoose

          Never have truer words been said.

        5. Ivan

          Not true!

        6. RevenantBacon

          Don’t bother trying to discourage OR encourage it. It has already begun.
          https://www.google.com/search?NSFW Billie

        7. Tenn

          Rule 34 does not need the encouragement of puny humans.

        8. Plasma Mongoose

          They could have been naked but with convenient censoring.

        9. Opus the Poet

          That’s the fun part of lesbian sex, clothing removal is optional.

        10. Yotomoe

          I don’t think that’s limited to just lesbian sex. It’s pretty much optional for everyone.

        11. Opus the Poet

          Naahh, for straights and gay men that’s strictly make-outs, but lesbians can make fully clothed or partially clothed complete sex. You need to read more Yuri.

        12. Yotomoe

          You can do pretty much the same thing either way though? Like I’m trying to imagine something only lesbians can do that straight couples or gay couples can’t.

        13. nothri

          Can’t think of any, but I’m having fun trying!

        14. Kennerly

          A guy doesn’t need to remove his cloths, just unzip his fly.

        15. Disloyal Subject

          Or unbutton it.
          Or lift his kilt.

        16. coolhandluke

          imagine no more. Warning all content viewed is weirdly sexual and more than a little disturbing due to the use of paper animation, enjoy at your own risk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai1lmapwkgI

        17. Rutee

          Everyone can have sex with clothes on. PIV is not the only option for straights, and there’s plenty for gay dudes that can be done with clothing. I mean, it’ll be kind of awkward, but ‘kind of awkward’ is true for women as well.

        18. Kamino Neko

          PiV doesn’t require removing clothes, either, just moving it out of the way (easier for the guy if he wears boxers).

        19. Aint seen nothin yet

          Im sure assless chaps count as clothed as well

        20. airyu

          Naw, my S.O. has a penis and I have a vag, and we’ve done it with everything on, albeit moved slightly.

      2. LittleMountain

        Wanted in any way OTHER than this

  2. An Average Loser

    Aftermath.

    1. Pink Freud

      Geometry?

      1. JWLM

        QED

  3. sps48

    Uh-oh

  4. NCP19

    “I’ve made a huge mistake.”

    1. Cliff B

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

    2. Wack'd

      Hello darkness my old friend

      1. otusasio451

        I’ve come to talk with you againnnnnnnn.

        1. nothri

          Because a vision so-oftly creeping, left its seeds while I was sleeping.

        2. AndromedaRage

          And the visioooon that was planted in my brain, still remains
          within the soooound of silence

        3. David Herbert

          In restless dreams I walked alone
          Narrow streets of cobblestone

        4. Ed Rhodes

          ‘neath the halo of a street lamp,
          I turned my collar to the cold and damp.

        5. Cattus

          Is that not one of the best songs of all time?? It never ceases to trigger goosebumps and feels.

        6. dethtoll

          I like the Nevermore version a lot better to be honest, but I fully realize that makes me a heretic in some circles.

    3. Yotomoe

      What everyone wants to hear immediately after sex.

      1. newllend

        There’s going to be a lot of that for the rest of this comic.

  5. Xailenrath

    Second thoughts? Third? Then fourth thoughts?

    1. Gigafreak

      First thought: “Zzzzz.”
      Second thought: “Oh, Billie’s clinging to me.”
      Third thought: “Now I can’t get out of bed. Great.”
      Fourth thought: “…But I need to use the bathroom!“

      1. Ivan

        One of them should crap the bed.

  6. Doctor_Who

    A true conundrum. She can’t get that bottle to her lips without waking Billie. If she wakes Billie, Billie will claim the bottle for herself.

    1. sps48

      Use other arm?

    2. NCP19

      Solution – let Billie claim the bottle, then make out with her. Taste it on her lips.

      1. Totz the Plaid

        Pour it onto Billie and then lick it off her.

    3. Yotomoe

      Billie is basically a tub of beer. Ruth should just drink her.

      1. airyu

        You make a very good point, sir.

  7. Opus the Poet

    But this would be cute minus the booze!

    1. timemonkey

      And the depression, and self destructive behaviour.

      1. Yotomoe

        Nothing more cute than a downward spiral.

        1. gwalla

          I guess you’ve got a point.

        2. nothri

          Well, that is cute. I have no idea what in the fuck of fucks I’m looking at, but I’ll totally own that its cute.

        3. thinkingofthechildren

          I love that album. My favorite song is that one that goes, “I want to hug you like a kittycat”

      2. Opus the Poet

        Yes, but this may be the first other human that Billie has ever actually cared about.

        1. Rabid Rabbit

          In a strange, disturbing, twisted way she would never acknowledge, I think she’s admitted she cares about Walky, or at least accepts that he might possibly care about her, which is almost the same thing.

          In general, though, yeah, you’re right.

        2. LWS

          For some reason, when I saw your name it immediately made me think of what Sarah is up to in her room (minus Joyce)… No offense meant, but “The Rabid Rabbit” would make a great name for a sex toy.

        3. Lel

          I can’t read that without imagining the Killer Rabbit. Or, by its proper name, the Caerbannog. Now I’m imagining bearded Welsh men complaining that “da damn Caerbannog ‘as replaced mah mahnhood”.

          Goddamnit.

        4. John

          Nah, Billie cares deeply about a lot of people. Walky, Sal, Ruth, Joyce… She insults them and talks a good game about how much she doesn’t care, how aloof and superior she is, but when they have real problems, Billie is on it, with her plans and advice and assistance. She’s not very good at it – her plans and advice and assistance are usually stupid – but she’s in there giving it her best effort. And, I mean, this is Dumbing of Age. If her methods of dealing with life weren’t stupid, she’d have to go live in a different comic.

          I’m pretty sure the attitude of aloof superiority is a defense mechanism, because Billie is afraid that no one else cares about her, so she pretends she doesn’t need them to (she needs it desperately).

          I’ve said before that I operate on the theory that Billie is tsundere for pretty much everybody. I haven’t seen anything that’s made me revise that theory.

  8. Emperor Kiva

    What’s with the look?

    1. Dean

      “Did I forget to take a shower today?”

  9. Dreadhawk177

    Cheers! Happy Birthday!

  10. Yu'Karaya

    The feels train has derailed and its destroying everyone in it’s path

  11. Yotomoe

    Who’s blowing bubbles all over the place?

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      That’s the result of splitting beer atoms.

      1. Tunaro

        It is the universal visual representation of “Oh God, what did I do last night?”

      2. tinfoil theory

        Marie will be so proud.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Someone gets it.

    2. Historyman68

      They’re on the Lawrence Welk show.

      1. Koms

        The one on SNL?

    3. gwalla

      SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS

  12. Kodra

    The fact that Ruth is still clutching that bottle makes me so sad.

    1. vonnegut

      Been there. Many years ago. And yes, it is really, really sad.

  13. Khaner

    Billies is getting used to unfamiliar ceilings, isn’t she.

    1. sps48

      Billie Ikari?

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        I wonder if Billie’s father has orange tinted glasses.

        1. Totz the Plaid

          “I know, I know I’ve let you down. I’ve been a fool to myself. I thought that I could live for no one else…”

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          It all returns to nothing, it just keeps tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down.

          It all returns to nothing, I just keep letting me down, letting me down, letting me down.

    2. Yotomoe

      As if that’s new for her.

    3. JWLM

      She’s gotten very good at recognizing exactly where she wakes up by examining the ceiling tiles…”Oh, that means I’m in this house.” “Ah, that means I’m in the fourth floor” “Err…the only place in town with that ceiling is the drunk tank…”

    4. tinfoil theory

      When waking up in an unfamiliar place, my first concern is which side the wall is.
      The next, how big the bed is, in case I am about to fall out.
      The first thing I notice is usually from what angle the light pours in, if any.
      The ceiling is the last thing I care about. Unless it is missing, of course. Most ceilings are the same white, virtually indistinguishable.

  14. Uberminz

    “Why are our heads surrounded by tiny white circles?”

    1. Wack'd

      “Ugh…forgot about squeans…don’t worry, they’ll go away once you sober up.”

    2. JessWitt

      Those are called “floaters”.

      1. Dean

        Or ‘boozles’.

        1. Wack'd

          Go read up on Mort Walker, you ignorant fools.

        2. gwalla

          “Boozles” was from a Bloom County strip poking fun at the Lexicon Of Comicana.

        3. StClair

          and the related “root boozles”. I remember it well.

        4. Wack'd

          So it was! I had forgotten, as it’s been a while since I read Bloom County. Clearly it is I who is the fool.

    3. JessWitt

      They remind me of floaters.

      1. gwalla

        In my experience floaters are usually larger, and brown, and do not leave the confines of the toilet unless you are very unlucky.

    4. Ray Radlein

      Those are KIRBY DOTS. Bille and Ruth have THE POWER COSMIC

    5. Andrusi

      She definitely looks like she’s staring right at the drunk-bubbles.

  15. Xailenrath

    Threesomes often end in regret. Particularly if the 3rd party at the party is a bottle of booze.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      I don’t know, that bottle looks perfectly content to me.

      1. Yotomoe

        It’d smoke a cigarette but then it’d probably explode.

      2. xKiv

        I don’t think there’s much content left in that bottle.

  16. stevecharb

    This subplot is getting to be kind of a drag

  17. Sensedog

    Alcohol works in terms of facilitating such occurrences.

    Oh well.

  18. Sageress

    Where’s our porn comic of THIS one, Willis

    1. Jen Aside

      the porn was INSIDE YOU ALL ALONG

      …seriously, there are some serious consent issues here, pretty sure it’s not happening

      1. sps48

        Same sex adults* mutually drunk?

        *Adult enough to join military but not necessarily drink

        1. Jen Aside

          You must be from Bizarro World, where “impaired judgement” and “clinical depression” form the basis for the element of Loving Consent, like potassium and chlorine

        2. tinfoil theory

          Clinically, love is a form of severe psychosis. And highly addictive.

        3. sps48

          There is no middle ground?

    2. David M Willis

      in an alternate world where two amazingly drunk sad people are somehow a turnon

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Rule 36 says otherwise.

      2. Yotomoe

        Everything ever is a turn on for someone. It’s just some are frowned upon.

      3. newllend

        You always Know there’s someone in you fan base ready to get a sexual fantasy off of your comics, You knew and accepted that.

        1. David M Willis

          okay?

      4. JWLM

        My sense is that this is now a situation with two amazingly hung-over sad people.

      5. insomniac

        Yeah, how could anyone find something attractive in two people with nothing to lose, at their lowest point, with nothing in the world they care about beyond each other. Throwing away their inhibitions and embracing wild, self-destructive desire and passion, clinging to each other like a life preserver with no hope or thought of a future beyond the moment…

        *ahem* excuse me a moment.

        1. David M Willis

          and halfway through they pass out, super hot

        2. SpicyBrown

          Come on, these two are veteran drinkers. When we last saw them they were sober, and they each started drinking right then, taking clothes off. There’s no way they didn’t get through a few rounds together before getting so drunk they passed out. They’re not going to pass out halfway through in like 20 minutes of drinking, even if it’s straight from the bottle.

        3. David M Willis

          You are pretty confident about something that varies considerably, even within one person’s day-to-day experiences!

        4. John

          They didn’t manage to get Billie’s underwear off.

        5. StClair

          MACDUFF
          What three things does drink especially provoke?

          PORTER
          Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes and unprovokes. It provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

        6. Keeveet

          That’s pretty much the plot of any lesbian novel from the 1960s.

      6. masterofbones

        I’m trying to comprehend how someone who knows about rule 34 could make such a statement seriously.

      7. Yotsuyasan

        I gotta agree with Willis here. I seriously ship the hell out of these two, and would love to see them… er… intimately enjoying one another’s company. But not like this.

        If they ever manage to get into bed with each other without, shall we say, the liquid courage aiding them, then bring on the pornographique! But until then… watching two characters I care about just succumbing to a mutual problem instead of helping one another to rise above it would not at all be appealing.

    3. LeviT

      Seriously. I’d buy that for a dollar. Or far more really.

      1. Totz the Plaid

        I’d just like to see more of Billie’s bod, really.

  19. Adam D

    So glad I got into this series 4 years into it’s run. Man I’m glad I caught up. So many poor decisions. And yet.

    1. JessWitt

      I got into DoA more than a year after it started. Four years tho, wow, and the 7-days schedule made it feel so quick too.

  20. MrSirk

    Alcohol impairs good decision making!

  21. Stephen Bierce

    “You know they like to catch you/
    In an alcoholic haze/
    But I could sure use those thirty days/
    To recover from the party!”

  22. Kenny the toliet king!

    I know exactly what ruth is thinking!!

    “Maaaan. I really got to pee. But if i move I’ll wake her up but if I don’t I’m pretty sure I’ll get a bladder infection and die….shit wadda I do!!”

    1. Yotomoe

      Pee the bed and Blame it on Billie. She’s drunk enough to believe it.

  23. Kernanator

    Self-destruction has never looked cuter.

    1. Yotomoe

      Clearly you haven’t seen a cuddly bunny that’s off the wagon.

  24. LeviT

    dat chub. Damn Billie, hotness. Probably a terrible idea on there part.

    1. Totz the Plaid

      Dat chub indeed!

      1. TheZachariah

        Girl Look at that body

        1. jeffepp

          Time for Billie to get back in front of that wagon.

  25. Totz the Plaid

    Is it possible that we could get a text-free high-res of panel 1?

    1. Totz the Plaid

      Please?

  26. Jason Lee

    She is sad because she the bottle is too far away and may be empty

    1. newllend

      Just have Billie Drink sum then she can drink it out of her mouth…no wait I think that’s the problem

  27. GoogerGeiger

    Well, it’s not the WORST threesome I’ve seen.

  28. Shrugs

    To be fair, I made pretty bad decisions when I was four years old, too.

  29. jayllenrup

    I just want happy queers! Clearly I came to the wrong place.

    1. newllend

      Happiness ? What is this foreign concept you speak of it does not exist in this realm.

    2. Leorale

      Meanwhile, Leslie is having a lovely night in with a good book.

    3. LeslieBean4Shizzle

      I’m sure we’ll get some happy quiltbaggers eventually. Willis always makes his characters earn their happiness through blood, pain, and fire.

      1. Gigafreak

        In any other context, the blood, pain, and fire would be figurative. In David Willis stories, it is often very very literal.

      2. timemonkey

        Except that DoA is supposed to run forever so odds are it’s going to be drama forever.

    4. JWLM

      I would settle for content, productive queers with loving circles of friends. Other than Leslie, though, I can’t think of any characters in this comic that have any reasonable hope of reaching that state.

      I had *such* hopes for Danny and Ethan.

      1. Rabid Rabbit

        Except that Leslie develops an utterly unreasonable crush on someone she meets once, without even knowing if she’s queer… I have to admit, aside from Faz, the Leslie/Robin appearance strikes me as the most if-you’ve-read-the-rest-of-the-Walkyverse-it-makes-sense aspect of DoA. It’s a bit disturbing to read if you don’t know its background.

        1. Rutee

          Uh, Leslie has at no point shown being confused in her attraction to women, just in that it’s baffling she wants Robin in the specific. Like, at no point in her list of reasons for it to not make sense does she say “also, Robin’s a woman”. Pretty sure she knew she was queer without actively being in the middle of banging a woman.

        2. Kamino Neko

          It’s ROBIN that Leslie doesn’t know if she’s queer or not, not herself.

        3. Spiny Creature

          Yeah, what’s unsettling is that in the DOAverse, Leslie doesn’t know that Robin is queer, is completely opposed to everything Robin stands for politically/ideologically, yet wants to go on a date with her?

        4. JWLM

          It’s Roz who thinks that Robin is queer. I admit, I’ve spent a lot of time staring at that particular strip wondering what Roz thought she saw, and I confess that I don’t see it, so I simply wonder if Roq is wrong, or if this little sister knowledge of big sister.

          @damnyouwillis, is this ambiguity intentional, or am I missing something in the sequence?

        5. Kamino Neko

          Clearly Les maintains her Dramasexuality in this universe.

    5. Rutee

      Grace and Mandy? But yeah, for the most part, happiness is not happening here, especially not to the primary queers.

    6. fogel

      There might be hope for Ethan?

  30. newllend

    Ruth: That was amazing ! But wait no I can’t let this happen and I can’t bring her down with me. But I want so badly. No, Yes, No, YES!

  31. Yoohoo

    Wow a realistically pudgy chick being realistically portrayed as pudgy. Kudos, for not being afraid of drawing some rolls.

    I’d prefer Sal/Jason(the TA guy?), but I will take AG/Danny. Begrudgingly.

  32. Shrugs

    Also, in the third panel it looks like Ruth is actually looking up at her bubbles of drunkenness.

  33. Chest Manly

    It’s not enough to satisfy my lusts!! Not enough!!! I’m a monster!

  34. March

    This is not going to help Billie in any way. Or Ruth. Ugh. I’m cringing at the morning-after.

  35. Marvelman

    Isn’t it about time somebody made a good decision?

    1. Jen Aside

      You mean like Willis deciding to make a new Slipshine?

      1. Totz the Plaid

        He is, but sadly not of this pairing. (It seems to be Danny/Amazi-Girl, but he wanted it to be Jason/Sal.)

  36. Kiggy

    I so want to tenderly pinch Billie’s tummy rolls >:D

    1. Totz the Plaid

      Agreed.

  37. Jon P

    Panel 1: “Ugh.”
    Panel 2: “Did I…?”
    Panel 3: “I think…”
    Panel 4: “Oh boy.”

  38. Idon'tcarenomore

    Second thoughts.
    Ruth knows.
    She knows what she wants is gonna kill her, slowly.
    This is sad on too many levels.

    1. Darwin

      I think you summed up my thoughts perfectly and more succintly than I could on my own.

  39. Rachel Roth

    I think that someone messed up and literally shipped those two. . .

    1. Rachel Roth

      Darnit. I’m Mike again. I think I’m just going to stop trying to dina it up. 🙁

    2. Cephalo the Pod

      I’m pretty sure literally shipping someone would involve delivering them somewhere via boat.

      1. Rachel Roth

        And they don’t look like they’re in a crate to you?

  40. RaijinK

    Read fast enough, and it just looks like Ruth is rolling her eyes.

    Marginally less depressing that way!

  41. saltchocolate

    Billie, another woman you care about has just dubbed you “poison.” You can quit now — you’ve already maxed out your first year of college.

    On a different note, congrats on your four-year DoA anniversary, Willis! I just have one thing to say: . . . [wait for it . . . wait for it . . . ] Four More Years!

  42. Angel

    Billie/Ruth for next porn please

    1. Aolbain

      No.

      1. Yotsuyasan

        Yes! But only if the next one is drawn after Billie and Ruth manage to sober up, and decide to try having bed time fun in that state of mind…

        Of course, with our luck it will be another four years before that happens, and I suspect he will be drawing others in that time, so maybe not the next one… but someday?

        1. LeslieBean4Shizzle

          This.
          So much this.
          +1

  43. Regalli

    Damn it, I wish these two could be happy and healthy together.

    But yeah, that’s not gonna happen for a looooong time. If ever.

    1. Rutee

      I kept hoping I didn’t think of a healthy path to happiness that involved these two banging now. Alt text says “lulnope”. But hey, at least they had a few hours.

      1. Rutee

        I mean, having been in horrible depression, it’s absolutely 100% possible to find love, mean it, and find your way back out again later, in that order, but I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.

  44. newllend

    What a hot 3 way Billie, Ruth, Booze

  45. epershannd

    The way Billie’s holding onto her… This is all way too sad.

  46. Dave

    You drew a whole pornagraphique in three days…

    Are you a machine?!?!?!

    1. David M Willis

      yup, did nothing else but also draw shortpacked! and continue finishing moving into our new apartment

  47. Philip Petrunak

    Meh. I’ll take what I can get.

  48. PopuluxeCowboy

    These are not the bi college girls we want. These are the bi college girls we deserve.

    1. Hoodiecrow

      +1

    2. 4th Dimension

      The comment is even made better by the avatar. I can imagine Robin saying that.

  49. advancecasette

    drat, not even a single panel of ignorant bliss/glow of sexual satisfaction

    1. Kennerly

      In my experience, waking up after a night of drinking and arguably inappropriate sex is never pleasant, not even for a moment.

      1. Jen Aside

        Stupid reality and stupid Willis making a comic that more often than not reflects it!

        1. advancecassette

          But

          Muh shipping

    2. timemonkey

      Bliss and satisfaction likely weren’t any part of the night.

  50. nothri

    My bias is clearly showing. I think these two are fucked in the head and need to get some serious help to sort out all the mistakes they have made. But I still don’t see them hooking up as intrinsically one of those mistakes. Getting back into the booze….that I can call a mistake.

    1. Yotsuyasan

      I agree with absolutely everything you just said.

  51. Stephanie

    And I finally break my Willis comic comment virginity….. I regret shipping these 2 now. Billie and Ruth need to work out their own issues before they even think about relationships.

    1. Kennerly

      That would be the healthy thing to do, but it would be much more entertaining to see them self destruct. And because they’re all fictional characters no one gets hurt!

    2. Yotsuyasan

      I don’t regret shipping them. I honestly think they can still be very good for each other.

      Is what just happened incredibly sad? Yes! The whole idea of, “Well, if we’re going both to be self destructive anyway, why not be self destructive together?” is not the direction this needed to go in.

      They did actually have a rather good plan, earlier, in the “Let us quit this thing together!” idea. Obviously, it didn’t initially work. But just because t failed once doesn’t mean it can’t be attempted again. They just need to realize this, and perhaps augment their support of one other with some additional outside help. (Perhaps they could join a support group of some sort together?)

      I really hope that, in caring for one another and not wanting to see the other hurt, that gives them each the push they really need to improve themselves. What just happened between them was a mistake, but it was one that they can build off of in the hopes that the next time won’t be.

  52. Zak

    I feel for Billie…her arm is gonna be gonna be awful numb and dead feeling for like 8 minutes when she gets up and tries to regain feeling in it. This is why I only drape an arm over the sleeping partner anymore. Woken up too many times with a dead arm and it is really kind of a creepy panicky thing when you’re really out of it just awake and zomg I can’t feel my damn arm!

  53. licoricepencil

    Congratulations Willis for having this comic be around for the standard length of time needed for a Bachelor’s degree!

    Now to celebrate with sadness in light of today’s comic.

  54. Archivist

    “And everyone’s still making terrible decisions.” Yeah, but the art is way better.

  55. acher4

    Congratulations!!
    Four years and… drinking!

    erm… not congratulations?

  56. Hannah

    “For a transcript of what’s going on in Ruth’s head, send $4.99 to ___@moneyscam.com”

    Totally worth it, I promise.

  57. Rabid Rabbit

    It is the morning after the night before… (If anyone gets the reference, I’ll be very impressed.)

    Also, huh. Billie’s actually chubbier than I thought at this stage. Nicely drawn (it’s so rare to see it done). It also lets us see how much she’s “let herself go” (in her own estimation, I suspect) compared to thatphoto of her as a cheerleader she has (had?) pinned on her wall.

    Also also: dammit, Willis, be fair. It’s four years for you, but it’s only, what, a month for them? Even if it may have felt like four years for some of them…

  58. Cowgirl

    Billie is holding Ruth like a sad little child would be holding a teddy bear to console herself. 🙁

  59. Willoughby Chase

    A Lost Weekend coming up …

  60. Malchus

    And just when Billie wakes up, a drop falls from that bottle and right onto her eye.

    1. neeks

      She’s not actually asleep, she’s just squinting her eyes shut because the drop actually fell.

  61. Zaxares

    OK, this is far less sexier than I believed it would be.

    1. Malchus

      Also known as the standard reaction to putting on a tight Speedo.

    2. timemonkey

      ….so them declaring they’re poison who destroy everything they touch, giving into despair and getting drunk after Ruth literally said she’s only planning to hold on long enough for Billie to move on before letting her habits kill her made you think it was going to be sexy.

  62. hmq

    I’m torn between being overwhelmed by FEELINGS about these two and their destructive ride to hell…

    ….and being totally distracted by the little pudge on Billie’s tummy. That is kind of unfair.

  63. Shaggy_Donahugh

    Out of all the couples on DoA this one to me seems to be the most realistic, and though it is very very sad, it is also terribly beautiful. I knew a couple like this (and if it makes everyone feel better, after a metric buttload of hard work and more than a lot of sacrifice, they managed to make it work) and sometimes it seemed their own MOAB situation was a more powerful grounding for care than most other relationships. Not that I’m arguing for relationship MOAB. In general it’s a terrible idea, because someone’s going to get crazy enough to push the big red button.

    1. gwalla

      I’m not sure what Utah has to do with it…

      1. Shaggy_Donahugh

        HA! Sorry, I’m an idiot who wrote this at three o’clock in the morning. I meant MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) not MOAB

  64. Vree

    “No mask.”
    “Too bad!”

  65. Just for kix

    Oh come on RUTH! At least smile a little and enjoy this small moment! How come you are not grabbing on to those gorgeous love handles! X(

  66. DT

    They’re all 18 or 19 or so probably… So making bad decisions kind of comes with the territory.
    I dare you to find me someone who wasn’t making a ton of bad decisions at that age.

  67. ArkArks

    Hmm, bad decisions. True, true.
    But being playthings in the hands of their god isn’t helping either… 😛

  68. Furubatsu

    4 years old and it’s what? Been a month comic-time?

  69. Rutee

    PArt of me hopes that ‘terrible decisions’ is more the drunkenness than the ‘nailing billie right now’ part. Of course, this is futile.

  70. Sir Robin

    I bet they just passed out before they got their underwear off, but both were so drunk they’ll assume they had sex anyway

  71. Yet_One_More_Idiot

    The comic might be 4 years old, but Willis –

    How long has it been since the start, IN-UNIVERSE? Like, a month? xD

  72. Tufto

    It’s like Willis is taking what we all want and giving us a horrible, horrible, twisted version of it :p.

    1. Ntrovert60

      Dumbing of Age meets The Monkey’s Paw…

      1. SpicyBrown

        Dumbing of Age meets Dumbing of Age

        1. Yet_One_More_Idiot

          Welcome to the Internet? 😛

  73. Cynthia

    Tragically self-destructive yet amazingly hot. Without pants.

  74. brasca1

    Well Ruth could have self destructed on her own or Billie for that matter. At least they had some enjoyment for a time.

  75. TrueVCU

    MISTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE

    1. Lulu

      At least such mistake won’t result in unwanted sudden pregnancy.

      Or will it?

      1. OldFart

        It will in Howard’s headcanon. Which one is lesbian pregnant, though?

  76. LeslieBean4Shizzle

    So, I just read “No Mask” over at Slipshine. SO CUTE!

  77. beetnemesis

    yessss the ALCOHOL, I must CLUTCH IT EVEN DURING SEX AND IN MY SLEEEEEEEEEP.

  78. Synnerman

    Walkyverse birthday!

    Can we haz Crisis of Finite Willis V’erses?

  79. Slinx

    “I love you all but you’re all terrible! Just terrible!” Terrible decisions everywhere.

  80. Killjoy

    What a look on Ruth’s face…

  81. Ixupihunter

    Does this mean it’s going to be 4 more years before we get to the Halloween Party? Will Walky dress as Mouse boy?

    1. Heavensrun

      If he did, my respect for him would increase a thousandfold.

  82. JA

    Right in the feels organ. Before I got to sleep even..

  83. wakeangel2001

    omg, realistic body proportions!!!??? Well there’s nothing wrong waking up next to that. I imagine it’s rather sticky though…

  84. Whittier

    Longest. Semester. Ever.

  85. Dahlia

    Okay, on the one-hand: That alcohol-induced action was clearly destructive for both of them, and both would probably have wanted to be together under different circumstances….

    On the other, Billie made a good point beforehand that they are both so much alike and have such great chemistry and care so much for each other (in her own Billie way to say it…) that it only makes sense they be together because those intense feelings are mutual and comforting to them….

    Damn you, Willis! How many more dilemmas will you inflict upon us?!

    1. Heavensrun

      That is an obnoxiously optimistic interpretation of “We’re both broken anyway so fuck it”.

      1. Dahlia

        I…. I prefer to look on the bright side of life… 🙁

        1. Clif

          Great avatar for it.

        2. Dahlia

          I also love Sal! Judge me not!

        3. Slinx

          I say “drinking and having sex” is a better option than “suicide”, even if it still isn’t a great decision. If those were the only options, I guess I should be happy about this?

  86. Maveric1984

    Seriously Willis, your contributions to Slipshine are my favorites on the site. Love the new work!

  87. Arkadi

    We wouldn’t settle for anything less ^^

  88. jose231ful

    omg Billie’s belly fat so cute

  89. penguintruth

    REAL WIMMENZ

  90. Ashley

    This is both adorable and heartbreaking.

  91. Cypherfox

    My first long-form comment here…

    I ship these two pretty strongly, and one reason is that clinging to a person AND a bottle is healthier than clinging to just a bottle. It’s not ‘healthy’, don’t get me wrong, but it’s ‘healthier’.

    These two have been alone and fucked up; being alone and fucked up doesn’t give you anyplace to go. Being together and fucked up opens other pathways that things can go. That things can get better.

    Sure, I’m not taking into account the DYW! effect; He Has Plans for them. I’m just saying…I can’t ding them for wanting to not be alone.

    And I vaguely don’t think they actually got to the sex part, I think that tears, emotional wreckage, and alcohol blitzed them into unconsciousness before they could get further than the comforting feeling of warm skin against skin.

  92. Tenn

    This is a very jarring mix of erotic, adorable, depressing and… a feeling of vast emptiness that somehow turns into indifference (or vice versa). :/

    1. Tenn

      But hey, happy birthday, DoA!

      1. Clif

        You had me till you got to indifference.

  93. Jason

    I opened up this website and for the briefest of moments I thought this scene was taking place underwater.

  94. derick

    You may consider my lust satiated. (for now)

  95. Lord Geovanni

    Me and Billie going to the gym and hot sweaty sex on the 3rd day

  96. Mally

    Making bad decisions? Isn’t that implied by ‘freshmen year of college?’

    And considering your lack of plan to have them move to sophomore year…

    Huzzah! All the bad decisions!

  97. chromacandi

    This is my fav lesbian drama couple evaaaa, and i was there for Willow/Tara

  98. Onion

    aaaaand, here’s the other banner.

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