/doag/ Dumbing of Age General

let's light this poorly paced candle

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Oh thank god. How did we ever survive without our jive talking, carpet munching savior.

God I fucking hate Becky. I'd rather go back to Amazi-Girl bumbing around like a retard then have to look at this hideous idiot.

>he doesn't love Becky

neither of these are tomorrows strip where is it

Give Willis a dollar and find out.

Man, don't even joke about that.

>our jive talking, carpet munching savior.

I'd read the shit out of the adventures of blaxploitation dyke Jesus.

>he thinks I'm kidding

I wonder what Dina is staring at while Joyce and Becky commiserate 3 feet away.

The door, wishing she was behind it

Damnit Willis, stop teasing me and give me a Dina/Becky porn.

Two strips today.

general Jack dickery

and secrets revealed!

I still wonder what Mike is planning.

That perspective in panel two is one of the best things I've seen so far in your strip. I really like it.

This has become painful to read

We'll find out in 5 years or so.

he just wants a boyfriend

And he won't go away.

oh God forgive me I actually laughed.

bet he will if morons stop encouraging him

Thanks my dude!

Even if we do nothing he will still post.

I'd suggest trying more effects like that in the future. Your art can seem static and repetitive at times and playing with format will help with that immensely.

Have an exclusive look at what's under Dina's hat.

It's probably actually more unkempt and oily than this mockup implies.

Patreanon is here to save the DAY!

Well, if no one else is going to do it.

>Becky has a hat fetish

You realize the implications this has for the eventual Slipshine, right?

He'll never do a Dina Slipshine because she's to underagey looking.

It's like the whole Poison Ivy thing but in reverse.

>Scalp Fetish.
Where is Willis heading?

Man, y'know, I almost forgot just how incredibly obnoxious Becky is exactly. Glad Willis decided to remind me.

...

yeah, fifteen pages of becky taking off her hat and giving her a scalp massage

this will somehow morph into beckys excuse for being cool with dina being asexual, like with malaya and ultra car

You see, it's not Becky that I hate right now. I mean, I hate her and I hate how Willis hooked her up with Dina, but that's not what I hate at this moment.

What I hate right now is how Willis is setting up a comedic storyline sure to be rife with chuckles and mirth and sexual innuendo... after having already set up a storyline discussing whether or not to expose a person as being a sexual predator in order to protect the feelings of (not the safety of, mind you, but the feelings of) a victim of said predator's attacks. Furthermore, he's set up said victim to be at their most optimistic since months and months prior, in what I can only assume is a set-up to knock them down when the time comes.

That's why he spent days establishing how happy Joyce is. It's so that he can crush that smile.

Willis is, was, and always will be a horrible, vindictive, and downright awful God.

Willis is a soulless creature who will undermine his own standards for easy money

And BeckyxDina would sell like gangbusters, and he'll use that scalp thing to take up page space so he doesn't have to draw as much sexy stuff.

It's just like the second-to-last slipshine where he drew, like, one page of gay porn out of the entire thing

Yeah, usually I draw these strips in the morning when I'm very lazy, but if I can think up of anything I'll do it.

He feeds off these threads and he would go away if there were no more DOA threads.

Stop pretending you don't hate read both comics.

I wanna' fuck Willis.

And in between those moments of Joyce being torn down, we get Becky bumblefucking around cracking jokes about how lesbo she is for scalps.

>Stop pretending you don't hate read both comics.
Yeah, but these threads are made for Willis's comics.

user, no, you don't know where that thing's been

I wanna' fuck him so hard that shit comes out of his ears and boogers come out of his nose.

>Stop pretending you don't hate read both comics
i read doa. i dont read dewds shit
i maintain hed go away if everyone ignored him

If you fuck him while he's all "pee pee poo poo barfy barf", stuff will be coming out of him alright.

user, you have family and friends that love you, and want you to have some standards, for fuck's sake

I'd love it if Becky says "You should be a lesbian, Joyce! Then you'll never get raped!"

Exactly. If there's anything Willis is good at, it's mood whiplash.

He'll smash-cut from Joyce having a panic attack after being left alone on campus to Becky trying to grab Dina's hat when she isn't looking, and then back to Joyce ready to cry in an open field.

I have come to see the comic of this thread.
These threads have been connected
Tied to the Dewd…
Soon to be completely eclipsed.
You do not yet know what lies beyond this comic.
There is so very much to learn.
You understand so little.

If the endgame of this comic isn't Joyce being converted into an atheist lesbian and hooking up with Becky, I'll buy myself a hat then eat it.

Yes. Lesbians would never do such a ghastly thing.

>you know what, this was actually a funny page!
>I wonder what people are saying in response and they just hate becky

man, I wish I could blindly hate. it's so rare to see good(ish) willis pages.

that's going on the edit tumblr. (by the way, you people need to make more edits)

If that is true, then he is immortal. No matter what, there will always be at least one person who reacts to him. Good or bad, there will always be one person.

But really, can you remember the last time you saw him outside of these threads?

Becky having a ridiculous scalp fetish is probably the best Becky thing that's happened since the car chase.

But if we admit that it's kind of a good strip, then we introduce hope that Willis might not fuck it up. And since Willis will fuck it up, we might as well keep being negative.

So if all the 'good' characters are based on Willis, and Becky has a scalp fetish, then...

Did he have a girlfriend with a hat thing or what?

Thanks, but it's not worth reposting.

It needs to be shaded properly and maybe shortened a few pixels to look like a proper head shape.

I didn't think it was that funny.

I did. She had nice pretty hair and everything too. She just really liked this hat her nan knitted for her before passing. We ended up getting into different schools though so that kinda killed that relationship.

user, no, you're going to make me sad

It's not really funny. It's more like dragging the previous strip's joke across another 6 panels. The idea itself might have potential, but I'd have to see someone competent try to make few jokes with it.

The strip is just weird. I wondering what directions we're going to go with this.

It's not funny funny, but I'll take any strip in which Joyce is clearly done with Becky's bullshit

He's said it's because she will not be ready for that sort of thing in the scope of time that can occur in the Dumbiverse. Nothing to do with her appearance. The way people talk to Dina is the way people (used to?) talk to him, so he hates being under-adulted. I don't even have a good word for this right now. Point is that it's not related to how she is perceived. It's about her personal interest in sexual relations--or, rather, the lack thereof.

I didn't notice the freckles going through the hair too. It's pretty awkward.

Also, this story could possibly set up the idea that Becky is attracted to things that are close but just out of reach/taboo. I mean lots of people are to some extent, but maybe it's an obsession with her.

Image is my attempt to transplant Frieda's crown onto Dina. I think the size is a bit off, but it would be a pain to adjust at this point.

That's weird, cause it seemed like she's way into trying stuff. I wonder if her reason for a hard limit will come up or if this relationship will just stay at cute levels to avoid the issue.

I've got mixed feelings about this strip. I do enjoy the idea that Becky's all hot and bothered by Dina's head but she seems a bit too self aware of the reasoning why to really be believable. The dialogue doesn't flow naturally which is why I feel so uncomfortable whenever she talks. She doesn't talk how people talk. She's like if someone who's only interaction with other human beings speach patterns was reruns of animaniacs.

>The dialogue doesn't flow naturally
This is a general Willis problem.

What is this shit?

>It's like the whole Poison Ivy thing but in reverse.
What?

Okay so in Gotham, the tv show, Poison Ivy, Bruce, and Selina are all like fourteen. Latest season has Ivy get aged up to her twenties by some metahuman, and the producers or writers stated that they did this so that Ivy could now use her seductive wiles without people feeling awkward.

Except

Ivy is still technically a 14 year old girl, she only looks older. People are getting creeped out by this whole thing too and I wouldn't be surprised if they cut some scenes with Ivy this season.

That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. How the fuck did the producers of the show not realize what the fuck they were doing?

I think they were getting high off of how fun and well Season 2 did and didn't think anyone would mind.

People fucking minded.

Here's one thing I don't get.

Dave Willis and Tatsuya Ishida are both SJW faggots who make shitty comics, but only ONE of these two have actual talent, yet the one with actual talent is FORBIDDEN to be discussed here, while the talentless hack that is Dave Willis's shit is allowed to be discussed here. Tatsuya's comics, for how shitty they are in terms of writing, are actually beautiful to look at.

Yeah. It's like what they did with Amy in the original Archie sonic comic. It just doesn't work unless you make it a timeskip. Just saying "X is older now" doesn't suddenly mature them.

Didn't they point that out in the comics at one point too?

But yeah the whole Ivy thing is really awkward. On the one hand she's campy as all fuck like the rest of the show, on the other they're trying to have a fourteen year old do sexy things on prime time tv.

>Latest season has Ivy get aged up to her twenties by some metahuman
Different actress? And if the rest of the cast is supposed to be 14, then it still wouldn't be any better, since there's nobody of age to seduce.

I like some of the lines, but I also realize that this whole comic wasnt necessary
que sera sera

Actually from what I've read they're going to have her try and seduce Bruce anyways.

So you've got a fourteen year old who looks like a twenty year old seducing a fourteen year old boy.

I want to agree to walk Joyce to class and change course halfway through the trip so that she's like "h-hey this isn't the way to c-class" but she's too scared of her serial rapist to leave my side. Forever.

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I cant understand why Dina didnt hear that. Theyre like three feet from her and Becky is incapable of NOT being loud and brash when it comes to being a dyke

Dina is asian. It's blatantly obvious she is hiding a bald spot.

Spider-Woman from Marvel still has something similar as her canon backstory. Despite looking like a woman in her late 20/early thirties she's in her late teens at the oldest.

Conversation on webcomics on Cred Forums is inversely proportional to how shit they are.

You notice how we never talk about the good ones?

That'sourBECKY!

Oh, I see what's going on here.

Becky wanted an excuse to touch boobs with Joyce.

Nah, she'll just text Mike and pay him 20 bucks to beat your ass bloody.

That's genius.

That's why you bring a gun, of course.

How come none of the women who are attracted to other women in this comic fetishize any of the standard parts of women. The closest is Ruth mentioning Billie's gigantic boobs, but she only mentions them as if they are an abnormality not an attraction point.

But then Joyce obsesses over Billie's boobs for the "is she gay" mini-arc, Sal mentions how huge (and thus good) Marcie's are when they're talking about how Malaya might not be gay, and she also checks out Malaya's butt. Billie has said that Joyce has nice legs, but she's 100% not attracted to her and I think that was more just girl to girl complimenting (hard to tell when there is a possibility of attraction but that's my reading).

I can get not wanting to write lesbians the same as horny teenaged boys, but the way Willis writes it's more like an entirely emotional attraction where the physical interaction just assumed. This is not the case with Dorothy and Walky, who both enjoy each other's bodies, or Joyce's attraction to Ethan's body, specifically mentioning his nice butt, Danny's attraction to Ethan, Sal's love of Jason's dick, Sarah's attraction to Jacob's body, etc. What's the deal?

(The deal is that Willis is bad)

None of the examples you mention show any fetishization at all and your examples for "women who are attracted to other women" outside of Ruth all involve a straight woman. It sounds more like you're reaching for a point to hate more than anything. If you wanted to criticize Willis' lesbians you should have brought up how Willis made Billie and Ruth an extreme example of U-Haul lesbians.

Panel 2 does look really nice
... God damn it.
Let's be honest here: Cred Forums went fucking insane for ragging on Sinfest, to the point where the mods had to impose a "one thread per week" rule... AND SOME FUCKWITS STILL HAD TO MAKE THREADS EVERY DAY.
Most internet artists seem to think bangs are completely transluscent, and I fucking hate it. It makes reading JL8 kinda annoying, but Yale Stewart only does that with Diana, so it's not too bad.
>U-Haul lesbians
You're gonna have to run that by me again...

U-Haul lesbians are a stereotype that lesbians will enter into committed relationships rapidly when they start dating someone. In this case Ruth and Billie's relationship lasted 3 weeks in universe, but they were already cohabiting. The term itself seems from a LGBT joke: What do lesbians bring on a second date? A U-Haul."

And honestly this current arc really wouldn't be so weird if he had pushed Amazi-Girl and the Return of Roofie Ryan to a different point in time.

Punished Ryan
A rapist denied his victim

>implying Mike doesn't have a bigger gun on hand.

>"women who are attracted to other women" outside of Ruth all involve a straight woman.
The second paragraph is not a list of "women who are attracted to other women." It is a list of straight women (with Billie as an exception, that I explained) who have acknowledged the attractiveness of other women as a contrast to the fact that gay women in this comic never refer to any physical attraction. There's other examples too, like when Dorothy suggests that Danny shouldn't date until he figures stuff out, and then laments sending Billie, "a big-breasted half-asian girl," to interview him.

Then you have Daisy, who is a background character. She's a thirsty lesbian that is played as a joke. She demands to know if Amazi-Girl has a chest window, when she hears about her. She bites her lip while looking at a picture of AG (that she must've seen many times at that point) and has looked for nudes of her. It's not just an Amazi-Girl obsesion either, she also pervs on Billie too. A lot of the other stuff I mentioned before is played as a joke as well, like Joyce's obsession with Billie's tits and Sal's hair.

Considering all the talk about how sexy different characters are, it's weird that none of the lesbian relationships have any of that. This Becky thing is also weird on its own, because when she met Dorothy, she looked her over and called her a "bony poindexter" and said that Joyce would have awful taste if Dorothy was Joyce's crush. But now, it turns out she doesn't care about bodies (or nerdiness), just... Dina's head, for reasons...

The only thing I will concede is that there haven't been any normal girl-girl relationships in this strip so far, so it's hard to comment. Ruth and Billie was constantly antagonistic, and I dunno what this Becky Dina thing is.

That points to Daisy having a solid type, athletic chubby chicks.

And Dorothy has to be taken in context of Becky being weirdly antagonistic towards her.

>... God damn it.
Exactly my thoughts.

I honestly feel like Willis hates Joyce now, and is just using her to lash out at his own inadequacies. Joyce was roofied, she was threatened with a gun, she had to reject her lesbian friend's advances... If I had to guess, Willis hates his own sexual frustrations and religious background, and since they are represented in Joyce in "Dumbing of Age", he drops all his own shame onto her.

I think he might be projecting on her in a different way. He's upset that he didn't have some big, reality shattering moment that made him abandon his religious background, but rather slowly realized that fundamentalist Christianity didn't afford him the answers he sought and began changing his beliefs.

There is no drama or climax to it; it's an utterly normal and banal example of how beliefs and personal constructs evolve. And I think that maybe on some level Willis wishes he had a more exciting story to tell about himself.

Hi Dewd!

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Willis really needs to suck it up and go to a therapist.

Even if you don't think he deserves to be well in the head, the fact is that DoA suffers because his issues bleed out through his work and through his relationship with his critics. If we just, I dunno, kidnapped him and stuffed him in a psych ward for a month or so, we might be able to get some fucking quality out of him

>Even if you don't think he deserves to be well in the head,
who the fuck thinks that?

No, really, what the fuck kind of depraved mental state is that where you believe mentally traumatised and ill people deserve to stay in their position because they annoyed you while they were mentally unstable?

-shrugs-

Just playing Devil's Advocate. I know that the average /doag/ person isn't a complete shitstain, but I know that we get the occasional complete shitstain in here.

Except the boob-window question was before she knew what build Amazi-Girl had. And she's daydreamed about Dorothy.

She doesn't have a type, she's just thirsty about any of the women who have intersected with her character.

and we mock and laugh at those shitstains. You don't need to cater to them.

> He was just trying to do God's will of putting a baby in Joyce's ripe belly.

Every time I clear my cache, the first thing I do when returning to Cred Forums is to block your garbage attention whoring comics.

Congratulations, you're actually a priority about blocking "steven," "universe," and "sug." Be proud of yourself, garbagefag.

Now, off to set those preferences!

Daisy gets all hot and bothered over the idea of a theoretical boob window in Amazi-Girl's costume.

Another method would be to make people think he is a danger to himself or others--say, if he posted a blog wanting to hurt people or he tweeted about suicide or whatnot--and then have them come take him involuntarily, like they did with Ruth. It's comics come to life!

It would do him some good, but it would be pretty sketchy and have debatable ethical implications.

Yeah, that's hella sketchy. And relies too much on tired stereotypes about the mentally ill.

What about hypnotizing him at a convention and telling him to go to a therapist?

Sorry, only one strip today.

Windows 10 is being an asshole and restarted on me out of no where.

>themoreyouknow.png
It's spelt "psychology", and "superhero undercover" isn't great syntax - "costumed vigilante", maybe?

Oh my god she's so tiny.

I don't get why someone would need to block something. Like, I just ignore stuff, personally.

More reliable would be to make a flash cartoon with Optimus Prime saying that therapy is great.

That might actually convince him.

Because just the mere act of noticing something is enough to send people into an uncontrollable rage.

It's the same way with tumblr and pomegranates.

That makes sense.

I never thought the average Tumblrina and Cred Forums Faggot were that different, desu

Well Sarah is around, 6'4 and sora is barley 5 feet.

I stand by what I said.

Oh.
Well then I'll just make her a little bit taller next time she appears.

Sorry, the other comic I do she's a frog girl and I'm used to drawing her small.

It's one thing to not talk about good comics.

It's another thing to delete and ban ANY discussion of said comic. (Not saying Sinfest is good, but it IS objectively better than this, at least in terms of artwork)

Dude it wasn't a complaint I was just saying she's tiny. Not everything's a criticism.

Ah sorry, guess I'm kinda on edge lately.

Yeah, being hardly 5 feet tall is definitely considered a small person. I'm 5'5" and still get teased for supposedly being short.

Are you at least sexy?

Why don't you make your own thread instead of derailing this one?

You know, I've been considering it now that I've been talking with my publisher about publishing this as a book.

Surprisingly enough, apparently I am. Growing up ugly was the worst, but now I am what you would refer to as "thicc." All the boys want me, and it is the strangest thing.

It's flabbergasting but flattering. Life after braces is pretty awesome, even 9 years later.

I am also apparently adorable. No clue how I can be sexy AND adorable, but whatever.

Pedophiles.

Because I'm average height for a female in America?

please, just do it.

No, you asked how someone can be sexy and adorable at the same time. Ask pedophiles

Shh. Don't ask an user to make sense. You'll just end up wasting precious moments of your life that you could be using to catch boys with your thiccness

Bump.

Did someone say thicc?

Here is tonight's comic! If Becky's face wasn't so... Becky, I think the last panel would be pretty cute. Like if she was just smiling instead of making whatever the hell that face is.

>that angry look walky gives mike

for what purpose

seems to be a "growing eyestalks and attempting to look through own hair at girlfriend's scalp" face

Threadly reminder that your comics suck and you should stop drawing them

First of all, what the fuck is any of this?
Secondly, I thought Mike was just an ass in terms of telling people what they needed to hear, but didn't want to be told. Here, he just seems aggressive. Maybe it's the whole Ethan/Danny thing Willis is shoving him into.

Also, what's Walky's deal with Sarah?

Also, what the FUCK happened to Becky's face in the last panel? Jesus Christ; that's a fucking birth defect right there.

Walky considers Billie his friend for some reason, despite the two not really having any friendly chemistry together.

I love how he had to draw a dotted line, because his style for Becky is so bad you wouldn't know where she was looking. At first glance I thought her eyes were on crooked

WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON WITH HER FACE IN THE LAST PANEL!?

>Becky's prolly happy to be 'round someone who actually reciprocates her, um, urges.

Is that a slam on Joyce rejecting Becky? If so, Walky would have been more savage.

>Becky's prolly happy to be 'round someone who didn't say no to eating her out.

I've actually gone around to some more... Willy-friendly centers of discussion, and apparently the current crop of fans *despise* Mike for "slutshaming" and other such "offenses".

Yeah, in the original runs he was "the asshole" whose schtick was that you could sorta tell there was good intentions behind what he did and said, but whenever it seemed like it'd be revealed it subverted it (the only time it wasn't was when Dina died).

I can imagine Willy trying to go that way in this continuity, but the Tumblrtards and whatnot who now comprise his principle readership couldn't handle that. He's not telling harsh truths, he's hurting feelings, and that's horrible.

Walky is still attached to the friendship he and Billie had back when they were kids.

Also Becky is secretly an alien.

The color inverted eyes he gives some of his characters are terrible for showing expression and direction.

Mike has been SAVAGED in the comments recently for his "privileged, entitled, toxic attitude" and I can just picture Willis breaking out into hives and hurriedly changing up his plots to avoid pissing them off any further.

I wish he actually would slip up and get called out on it. It'd be hilarious.

i really dont get how much they hate mike. i mean yeah hes an asshole, but ruth's been way worse. what, does she get to do whatever the fuck she wants because shes depressed?

I may or may not have fixed Becky's eyes in the last panel.

The thing is that the "asshole with an intent of gold" concept can still be utilized. The problem is that for some reason, Willis isn't doing it.

I wonder if he thinks he's run out of antagonists, and using established protagonists is the only way he thinks he can do it. Sort of like Marvel Comics.

It would be nice if we could see some of that friendship. You know, like in flashbacks.
Instead, we got Sal and Marcie's friendship in a flashback. Remember when that happened? Remember how it became an integral component in the main plot, and that without the flashbacks we would have no connective tissue between certain plot points and character developments?

Do you remember who Leland was?

I like Sarah's outfit. Along with Joyce, that's two good outfits.

Mike was a dick to Walky before, he's been a dick to Joyce too. I dunno why they're hanging around with an asshole if he's just gonna be an asshole. It's not like SEMME where they were on an alien fighting team, (or Shortpacked, where they work at the same job, and Mike is a commission monster that won't get fired) just ditch your shitty roommate and walk to class without him.

Becky's face is dumb. Having all the parts of the eye would help this look less awkward, but it just looks like her eyes are sliding wherever they want. Because they are.


>Also, what's Walky's deal with Sarah?
Yeah, Walky and Sarah haven't really interacted enough for him to have a problem with her. It's basically a useless panel.

>ruth's been way worse
Walky was mad at Ruth for lying to him.

Ruth, Mike, and Sarah are all people who are complete assholes to other characters because they "Tell it like it is".
But...
Ruth is a bisexual/lesbian(?)
Sarah is black
And Mike is the blonde haired white guy.

Of course they're going to hate him. He's the only one they can say anything mean about without being called homophobic or racist.

He needs to do the Peanuts eyelids, to show where she's looking.

mike is also bisexual so no that doesnt apply

Yeah but he's not in a relationship with anyone so there's not retarded shippers to argue for his case. Plus he's white.

> for some reason, Willis isn't doing it.

Again, because they can't handle it. He's not going to pussyfoot around the truth, pull his punches, express sympathy, etc. And that's what they would demand.

Ruth and Sarah both have sympathetic backstories that got a good amount of focus in the past. Mike is more of 'some men just want to watch the world burn' sort of person. Which can be done right, even as a protagonist, but as we all know, Willis can't write grey characters to save his miserable hide

ruth is also white
and mikes going after ethan now or whatever, but that only pissed people off more

"He" being Mike. Not Willy.

Willy is a pussy.

To be fair Mike does have a pretty toxic attitude.

Of course I remember who Leland was; he was the kid who pushed Marcie into the pit of concrete rubble and rusted steel in the middle of the playground then threatened another kid with bodily harm in front of the teacher.

Sarah at least has the decency to be an asshole because she wants to be left alone and will feel bad if she thinks she's crossed a line. Mike is also bi and seems like he's a giant asshole for no other reason than to spite his parents. Ruth has a lot of the symptoms of borderline personality disorder and needs extensive psychological treatment for it and her comorbid depression and alcoholism.

Bizarrely this is the only instance where drawing the eye over the hair actually makes sense since with one eye seeing her line of sight is difficult. That said, not impossible. Here's my attempt and a sketch of a better way to set a scene.

>To be fair Mike does have a pretty toxic attitude.
but all he really does is insult people and try to get under their skin. (with the exception of punching joe, which joyce hired him to do). ruth assults people regularly and was majorly abusive to billie

I'm pretty sure that Mike just pops up whenever he feels like messing with someone

Holy crap, it looks so much better with a different perspective

I feel as though Willis might be forcing himself to draw Becky with one eye over her hair and one eye on her face, and never the two eyes on the same plane. It would at least explain why it's lopsided.

I think creators should know their audience and know when to be more distant or closer to them as need be. Like, I'm sure the SU guys know who comprises their fanbase and hatebase, and so pretty much ignores everything that happens except to call people retarded when they do extra stupid shit
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Willis really shouldnt be interacting so closely with his fanbase, because the people who comment are going to be only a tiny amount of the people who read, and the subject matter, with religion and politics and social issues brings the kind of people who might end up doing shit like this

Him talking so close to the fans is probably what led to the very gradual quality drop

I feel like half the stuff Willy does is to annoy us specifically.

It's common knowledge that Willis is a being powered only by spite

I swear, he gets more pleasure out of pissing us off than he does supporting the groups that he supposedly stands for

I'm starting to actively get pissed at how inept Willis is at drawing Becky. HE'S SO FUCKING BAD AT IT.

You can always tell how new an SU employee is by how much they interact with the fans. Pretty much all of them have learned "Do not engage."
Except Matt Burnett who seems to love drama.

Wait until the inevitable Slipshine.

I'm gonna jack off to it but I won't be proud of it

Everyone draws all of Willis's characters better than Willis

Well now let's not go too far.

You should see some of the shit his fans churn out that he showcases on Tumblr.

I think I have to force myself to get turned on by his art. He should stick to cute honestly. And I don't even think Willis draws badly.

I think IVE' jacked off to everyone one of them except the leslie/robin one and the multiple story one. I'll be honest, having a femdom fetish makes a lot of them quite a bit more tolerable.

A parody of DOAG i think

I dunno it's not like i actually read it.

The dewd's persistent i'll give him that

Dear God,

Please Kill Becky

Amen

>tfw you thought Amber surpassed Becky in being the worst
>second strip of Becky's return is already unbearable

never underestimate the queen

Amber has an inherent absurdist quality to her that inoculates you to her shittiness. Becky is the kind of shittiness that one could easily find in real life, making her all the worse.

Becky's character design is so bad that Willis can't even draw it properly without needing dotted lines to indicate what she's looking at.

Like. it's bad enough she's such a shit character, it's bad enough she has a hideous character design, but Willis literally can't fucking draw her? And this is supposed to be our new main character?

What has Amber even done recently?

Because clearly the worst people (besides Becky) are Billie/Ruth and Mary/Carla

Also I forgot Carla's name and ended up on the Walkyverse wiki and she literally wears a shirt that says "fuck humanity"

Jesus Christ

Yeah, I knew somebody who reminds me of Becky, down to the exact same appearance.

She was wacky, quirky, random, and prided herself in it. And she was, in truth, alot of fun to hang around, especially in our teens. But it became apparent that her personality carried pros and cons that leaned more to the latter, as we matured.

She was prone to extreme self-centerdness. She saw her friends (including myself and my now-gf, her inseparable companion at the time) as playthings, and as soon as we began to mature, she abandoned us for others; in most cases, kids several years our junior, who were as immature as her, but also deferred to her seniority, a perfect combination for her. In the end she left everyone she grew up with far more bitterness than fond memories.

Probably why I can't stand Becky. Everything about her reminds me of that friend, and in my experience, what Willis perceives as a good wacky-fun-quirky character is, in reality, unsustainable.

Willis is actually not half bad when he puts effort into it. but he's in such a hurry to build a huge buffer that he won't spend time refining his art. He's just content with creating a mediocre product and that's the most disgusting thing about his art.

Not to mention that he was practically bragging about how easy writing DoA was going to be when he was ending Shortpacked! Six years later and I wonder if he still feels that way.

>Six years later and I wonder if he still feels that way.

Who the fuck knows. Call him lazy for it and he'll sperg the fuck out.

I would but I don't want shit and vomit everywhere.

She dumped Ethan because she saw him as taking Sal's side when Amber is the one who purposefully withheld information about exactly how serious the Toedad incident was. Then she stalked Sal, and threatened to start a fight. Then informed an attempted rapist that she knew he was an attempted rapist, had taken his picture and uploaded it to her social media to find out who he is. Then the attempted rapist got hold of her phone, deleted said picture and probably got ahold of a whole bunch of personal information about her and her phones, because apparently she uses her personal cellphone instead of a burner when she's out hero-ing.

tl;dr: Amber's a hypocrite and a moron.

It's as if even Becky eyes have had enough of her and are trying to make a break for it

Willis has indicated before that Becky's outward personality is a front to cover her insecurities and personal issues. The problem is that that due to his pacing the last time he made that clear was two or three years ago.

I knew guy who came out when he got to college and went through a "look at me, world, I'm gay," phase. For about six weeks he hammered that point constantly, bringing it up whenever he could , but eventually he calmed down and baselined. It's not uncommon to see that due to the very liberated feeling that comes with being able to freely express one's feelings especially if the person was closeted. Having Becky be that person is problematic in two ways. The pacing Willis' uses is far too slow; so what would be a reasonably short period in real life would take years to resolve in the strip, if my friend's experience was mapped onto Becky as a character arc it wouldn't be resolved until 2020 at the earliest. Secondly, Willis doesn't give Becky many other character traits. She has the same background as Joyce, almost exactly, but it never shows. Hardcore conservative and fundamentalist Christian upbringing, home-schooled, and sheltered, but Becky never brings up religion and comes off as very world-wise. Becky is not a fully realized character, she has no traits outside of "lesbian" and her background is ultimately inconsequential instead of informing.

So Becky is going to be in her Let It Go phase for years?

In-universe, yeah. Maybe even the entire run of the strip. She needs actual character traits. She's not the only character who needs them either.

nigger

monthly bonus strip?

It was the strip showing Amber flipping up the side of a building to reach a pokestop.

Willis has learned a while ago that internet cred is all the cred he has, so he's going to cling to his core audience for as long as he can.

It's why he'll never get into real comics like his Transformer pals or animation. Still, he can rake in the money from Patreon and Kickstarter, at least.

Not being able to use Mike like he used to has to be gnawing on him, but he should have realized his core audience shatters like crystal if he used him at full strength.

He could just direct him at "problematic" people. Mary versus Mike when? Fuck, why not Mike versus Ryan?

But then the minorities wouldn't get the chance to fight back against da white man

Mike is still bi, play it up a bit. Hell, bring in some other characters for his schemes. I don't think Carla would mind teaming up to fuck with someone.

Mike and Carla should get into some kind of angry prank war that ends with them having hate-sex and discovering they're both 'hatesexuals' and Carla has some pillow-confessions that thats why she antagonizes Mary.
Mike will have something clever and douchebag to say to her moment of weakness. Like "Well you have the 'talk too fucking much' part of being a woman down."

Only if it ends with Mike having sex with Mary to antagonize Carla only for Carla to turn around and ingratiate herself with Mike's parents by pretending to be his girlfriend and inviting them to things like football games.

I think Mike's sexuality has always operated on "what will fuck with people the most".

I mean, in the original, less-grounded continuity it did.

>Six years later and I wonder if he still feels that way.

And then several of his fans off themselves at the insensitivity of the world.

Mike impregnates Mary with Carla's seed that he collected during the times they fucked. Mike calls it the ultimate prank, because Mary won't abort and she can claim child support from Carla's wealthy family. Mary, proudly petting her belly will say "Now there will be a living, breathing reminder that you were, and always will be, a man."

>Six years later and I wonder if he still feels that way.

Fuck, I meant to quote

>"Well you have the 'talk too fucking much' part of being a woman down."

>Ma: "How'd you even do that?"
>Mi: "I used this as a turkey baster *pulls out ridiculously BBC dildo*"
>Ma: "Wtf Mike?! We haven't used that one in weeks"

I'm really starting to like MikexCarla as a thing.

Didn't Willy draw MikeXMary?

The backlash is glorious. The comments section erupts into a 'who raped who' war as some claim Mike raped Carla, others say Mary is wrong for keeping the baby, all while Willis has a seizure behind the computer.

>You know how our Youth Pastor
that whole section feels like Willis think of a cool reason for those feelings and needing to share it, even though it feels entirely unnatural for her to say it in that way

Sinfest is a comic that became a completely different thing entirely, and is now devoid of humor

DOA is still relatively the same, with the same ongoing storyline, and an occasionally humorous moment.

Yeah man, but occasionally interacting with them is a whole different thing from regularly commenting in your own comments section

Mike raped Carla, Mike raped Mary, Carla raped Mary, and Mary raped Carla. Carla then sues for sole custody of the child, then lists Mike as the father on the birth certificate.

This is a hundred times better than whatever Willis would do.

Heaven help Becky if she ever plays TF2

Mike is the only one who raped anyone, because only men can rape. Duh.

So then Carla raped Mike.

You might think that, as a patriarchal shitlord, but no matter how much you make the noise that shall not be named with your mouth, Carla isn't a man, she's trans. Besides, Even if she was a man, men can't be raped.

Touche, rad-fem, but you forget that Carla is white and rich.

Ah, but you have fallen into the classic pitfall of assigning an economic class to someone based purely off that of their parents. Carla's parents are rich. Carla is merely a college student, among the most economically disprivileged!
While she is white, her place in the stack is buoyed by her other minority classes.

Not a rad-fem, either, just a feminist.

But from the bottom of my hole I can see that you have fallen into the classic pitfall of assuming that class benefits are exclusively economic! While she is buoyed by her minority statuses, you forget that intersectionality is a personal interaction and not mutually transferable socio-cultural currency.

Not a patriarchal shitlord either, just a libertarian.

I can't tell what's memeing and what isn't now

Do you think Willy is leading up to a Becky-Dina Slipshine?

Yeah, it'll be a slipshine all about revealing the top of Dina's head. Maybe Becky will rub her tits on it.

I think Becky was making a double entendre.

Dear lord I hope not. That would be genuinely horrifying.

Maybe it'll be a huge bait and switch. Becky sees the top of Dina's head and realizes sex is going to happen and her Jesus-sense kicks in and she won't disrobe. Dina is also freaked out by a woman's vagina as it is nothing like the cloaca porn she touches herself to.

Becky doesn't really act like a human, so maybe she has a cloaca, don't rule it out yet.

>Becky pisses, shits, and fucks with the same hole
It's called her mouth.

I will probably jack off to a Becky-Dina Slipshine

But I won't be paying for it which makes it somewhat okay

savage

>almost having friends it's basically the perfect quantity of having friends

it's not

Is cloaca porn even that common among scalies? Hell, would Dina even be able to schlick to dino porn considering all the errors and artistic license taken?

Dina has art commissioned.

I certainly get a stick in my craw over putting breasts on things that have no reason to have them.

Worse, when whoever the cunt is that drew it tries to *justify* it.

>mfw fag artist says titty-fied reptilian xeno is possible with genetic mutation

Now THAT'S hate-fucking.

The Slipshine comic was just rough sex. Hell, it was Church-approved compared to this.

If you already fapping to something not real, breasts where they shouldn't be are simply a matter of personal tastes.

Dina's parents were so excited about her getting a girlfriend because it means they're no longer going to be receiving copious amounts of Dina's self-insert dino porn in the mail.

It's okay, Becky; Dina is used to the idea of not making eye contact while talking to someone.
Get it? Because she has autism. Did you get it?

This would be an amazing scenario for Mary to frame Carla for rape. Mike gets in on it, because Mike knows Carla won't go to jail but he can't stand her money flaunting.
So Mary accuses Carla of rape, the DNA matches Carla's, and stupid rich tranny gets blacklisted from everything.

>breasts where they shouldn't be are simply a matter of personal tastes.

Yeah but then the argument should be "she has tits because it's hot" not "she has tits because even though she's an egg-laying ay lmao, it's possible for her to have a genetic mutation which gives her milk-producing mammaries".

Wouldn't a better answer be that they produce milk to feed the young after hatching?

Maybe, but it's a longshot for what's generally a bunch of bipedal lizards or crocodiles, and usually it involves ay lmaos which canonically don't have tits.

I mean, it's not like it's a "sperg out like Willy" thing, more a "grumble a bit before finding something else to fap to" thing.

>Dina's parents were so excited about her getting a girlfriend because it means they're no longer going to be receiving copious amounts of Dina's self-insert dino porn in the mail.
I love this idea.

Nothing lasts forever. And SJW types can be hairtrigger fickle. They usually end up eating their own.

His mental issues have only gotten worse over the years, and will continue to do so. And one day, Willis will fuck up.

No matter how annoying or spastic Becky acts, Dina's parents will love her because she's still less embarrassing than the 3.7 million word long, vanity published, hyperpreg, egg-laying fic she brought to the last family reunion.

I'm surprised Carla being rich hasn't tipped the scales yet.

>Dina's parents were so excited about her getting a girlfriend

Their reaction to that was basically staring off into space like THEY had Asperger's themselves

Only a little less, I imagine.

What's Dina's nationality, btb?

American. Ethnically Japanese.

Rich doesn't really matter that much in and of itself. No one cared that Caitlyn Jenner was rich until they realized she was a conservative.

Right, I meant ethnicity.

Weird, I thought she was Vietnamese for some reason.

SJWs are all about payback, not justice. These "people" want blood.

They could easily turn on Willis because he isn't hardcore enough on their chosen evils. We aren't dealing with rational people here.

I have no doubt WIllis would compromise his "No death" mantra and kill Mary in a second if he felt it would help cement in his fanbase and reinforce his internet cred.

All he really has to do is keep doing what he's doing now. Most of his arcs are fairly banal and separate from current politics. As long as he's got his comment section wearing their politics on their sleeves it's easy for him to throw them bones.

I was looking up Slipshines on the DoA site and it looks like he has only 4 listed out of 7.

How lazy is that?

Wait, there are seven Slipshines?

People really should have complained about an entire family of pureblood East Asians being portrayed as hapless and socially awkward and basically nothing else.

There's a chance that a chunk of his fanbase will stick with him until the end. Fact is, there aren't a lot of big webcomics with LGBT characters, so people will support him for that, no matter how badly he writes every single one of them

Robin/Leslie
Mike/Amber

Walky/Dorothy
Amber/Danny
Billie/Ruth
The 4 Miniplots One
Amber/Danny fanfic

Billie/Ruth was the best

I'm still impressed he got away with the miniplots one. Even by Willis's low, low standards, it was pretty shitty

Is it any worse than how Mike's parents were portrayed?

Mike's parents are the contrastingly cheerful ones, right?

I mean, it's as tired a cliche as one can get, but I wouldn't call it stereotyping

The first 2 are Shortpacked so he kinda gets away with not listing those (even though the characters are 90% similar), no reason for the other one to be missing though.

Willis doesn't even update his own character pages, why would he update the slipshine list?

Money?

he already hates making slipshines, money means nothing

That didn't take too long. Slipshine money not balancing the Internet Cred he's getting?

No, its a lot of work to draw backwards penises so he's just shitting them out. His contract with Slipshine is either 10 or 15 issues, can't remember which one

It's also probable that he's unhappy with the flat rate or percentage he's getting from the Slipshines.

you mean it's any kind of freelance comic book writing/ art work?

What a travesty

Considering he gets 100% of everything else, it's not an unreasonable assumption.

Bumping for Patreanon. Bring the """goods"""

Here's tonight's strip, in which everybody is terrible!

Also, weeks, Walky? It's been like two days in comic time.

Actually 2 of those 4 are the Shortpacked ones.

So yeah, no excuse.

Was Becky's hair originally jaw length or a pixie cut? That edit makes it look like a pixie cut which would mean that her current hairstyle doesn't make sense.

God I fucking hate Billie. What a cunt.

her hair got longer when she cut it. willis is aware of this, he just didnt care.

>Also, weeks, Walky? It's been like two days in comic time.
hes known shes been acting weird for pretty much the whole time she and ruth have been together. so yeah, weeks.

Told you it's all about breaking Joyce's smile.

Willis seems to love the Break The Cutie trope for some reason.

In which Sarah speaks for Cred Forums

In which it is revealed Ruthy is a synonym for bitchy.

I hope Billie gets hated on in the comments.

If I had to guess, Becky got a combination sidecut and combover, in which the side of her head was shaved, but the longer back hair was combed over to cover her eye in the front.

Bitch, your self-destructive girlfriend of three weeks started feeling lethargic after she blamed you for leaving her after she broke up with you because she had to be sober for a day to cover up for the fact that she was a shitty RA. Everyone knows exactly how you're feeling; you're feeling like a melodramatic cunt.

wow, I hate everybody in this

I used to say I at least liked Joyce, but knowing this is gonna make her all grumpy and bitch AND she refuses to do anything about the almost rape meaning more rapes will occur just...

just fuck everyone

WHY IS THERE A PANEL THERE?
WHAT IS IT'S PURPOSE??

So is Willis trying to re-establish how awful everyone is after such a long time of not seeing them? Becky is already reaching unbearable levels and Billie is literally screaming and threatening violence.

there awful because this is like REAL LIFE, user

Willis is the voice of this generation!

You mean the last 2 essentially being one panel split up? I have no idea, it's almost as if he forgot the basic idea that the things in a panel happen chronologically along with the text.

Willis needs throat cancer

>Here's tonight's strip, in which everybody is terrible!

You're overstating things.
Walky is completely neutral here, save for his likely accurate assessment that Billie's true personality is that of a bitch.

For someone who dumps on comics and newspaper strips for using cheap drama, Willis has no qualms with using Break the Cutie and other cheap tricks to build 'tension'.

Ruth's complete meltdown from having to stop drinking for a weekend was such a thing.

Who knows more about young college co-ed life than the middle aged dude who flamed out of it within his first year of college.

Think you found the real reason DOA moves so slow. After year 1, Willis will be officially in uncharted waters and will likely have a seizure.

Joyce's gradual transformation into a bitter god-hating asshole has been one of the slowest, most painful things about this comic.

The thing about Willis is his character development turns characters into bigger, more obnoxious douchebags. Generally character development is supposed to make characters into better people.
And the sad thing is this is probably exactly what Willis thinks he's doing. He probably thinks Joyce being a petty, bitter atheist who hates her parents just like him is an improvement.

And he'll probably half-assedly make her switch sexual preferences just so he can pair her with Becky, because if there is one immutable truth in DoA, Becky always gets what she wants.

>"Panel 1: Uggggggh, let’s lance the boil that is Mike in this universe. So, yeah, in other universes, Mike is a force of destruction, an uncontrollable ball of chaos that cannot be tamed, merely endured.
>Mike in this universe is not that. He’s a guy. And he’s not just any guy, he’s that shitty ass edgelord friend who thinks a pose of detached apathy makes his shitty little downward punches anything other than the conceited behavior of an overprivileged asshat taking advantage of social niceties and existing oppressions to not get his shit pushed in.
>Cause, here’s the thing. There’s no joke here from him. The “joke” is “ha ha, Billie has sex”. And well… that’s not the first time that’s been the “joke”. Where he’s just slut-shamed some woman because he can, because as a guy, that gives him an axis of power he can exploit. He did it to Sal over Jason’s obscene breach of professional ethics. He did it to Dorothy, straight up harassing her by posting her photos of her cuddling with her boyfriend on Facebook with the specific hope of harassing her over her political aspirations. And he’s doing it now to Billie.
>And that’s kind of insufferable, because punching down is all he does. He’s planning to fuck with Ethan. Why? Because Ethan doesn’t have much power to fuck with him back. Every chance he’s had to go after someone with some measure of institutional power, he’s backed out. Every guy he’s attacked outside maybe Joe, he’s gone after by going after the women in his life.
>And it’s becoming clear that in this universe, he’s not some badass of destruction people should fear. He’s a channer bully using a slight air of menace to avoid any real consequences for his very real microaggressions and bullshit."

All this because Mike said Billy did the RA.

Are we supposed to feel sorry for Billy and Ruth? They were terrible people who treated everyone around them like shit. Like I honestly have no problem with someone like them suffering.

I totally forgot Cerberus was a thing and now I'm mad at you for reminding me that they exist

>crawlinginmyskin.jpg

i mean shes not wrong

>she

He already faked it with Roomies.

And he's said before that we're never getting past freshman year. I assume this will be the case even if the pacing of DoA miraculously picks up and we somehow get to the last days of freshman year at the end of 2017.

Honestly, I think Cerberus has Willis' interpretation of DoA Mike down pat. Though they didn't need a wall of text to say "Mike used to be an asshole, but now he's an asshole who is targeting people that I like."

>He’s a channer bully

It referenced us!

that is literally the reason why he stated it will never go past freshman year

the man can barely write what he "knows", how the hell do you think he would deal with the unknown?

...

I like to think Cerberus is just Willis' wife who is doing this in a long term plan to make Ol Willy kill himself so she can save the kids from his madness

Cerberus is pretty spot on here, actually (even though 'channer bully' should be 'Cred Forums bully'. Way to lump us in with the comparatively larger shitstains)

My only problem is that she's blaming Mike for being a bad person instead of Willis for not being able to write properly. This isn't because Mike's a terrible person. It's because Mike's a cartoonishly terrible person who's been transplanted into a universe where he doesn't work. It's the same reason why Amazi-Girl doesn't work, except that his fans like Amazi-Girl

Does that count as a Mary win? She completely destroyed Ruth in an almost off-hand fashion to get her to remain out of her business.

>Blaming Mike for being a bad person

In the context of this strip, Mike has done literally nothing wrong. He pointed out that Billy engaged in something really stupid and self-destructive and that no, you shouldn't HAVE to feel sorry for her. In a sense, he's just holding her accountable for her shitty decisions, and I think that's why the audience hates him so much right now. He's introducing accountability to a group of people who fear and despise it.

It's not really about Willis' characters, is it? It's never about the characters. It's just Cerberus giving another snippy, high-handed lecture about people she doesn't like to a crowd of people who will rarely if ever disagree with her.

If a straight white dude started posting lengthy rants full of projecting about how the comic is All About Him and speaks to His Issues, Willis would delete that shit immediately and then mock him on Twitter. I almost wish someone would try that.

>Friend asks how person is feeling
>Person: I don't want to talk about it
>Moments later
>YOU DON'T KNOW THE DEPTHS OF MY PAIN AND THERE'S NO WAY YOU COULD EVER

Jesus, get over yourself and fuck off. I dunno why these people even hang out with each other. Walky dislikes Joyce, Billie can't stand Walky (or at least puts on that air), none of them like Mike, Sarah would rather be left alone.

SEVER

At least Mike has the sense and tact to start poking Billie about Ruth first thing in the morning.

>he’s that shitty ass edgelord friend who thinks a pose of detached apathy makes his shitty little downward punches anything other than the conceited behavior of an overprivileged asshat taking advantage of social niceties and existing oppressions to not get his shit pushed in.
Perfectly describes Carla.

>He did it to Sal over Jason’s obscene breach of professional ethics.
Sal actively sought out trading favors for a good grade.

>He did it to Dorothy, straight up harassing her by posting her photos of her cuddling with her boyfriend on Facebook with the specific hope of harassing her over her political aspirations.
Roz made a sextape and released it for the express purpose of ruining her sister's political aspirations.

If my experiences with college are anything, everyone moves into apartments and most of them get a job, friend groups become smaller or become less constantly interactive, and people start driving more often.

>Cerberus.
>She.
>Her.

Not even an entire weekend. She stopped drinking Friday night and was taken to the hospital for suicide watch on Sunday morning.

Mary not only managed to win, she won on multiple levels.

The cover story is that Ruth was about to kill herself because she's co-dependent, but when you guys bring up her drinking, I'm like "Holy shit, I completely forgot about that."

God, we're daily readers of DoA, but could you imagine reading this in one go? Like those compilation of Funky Winkerbean strips that get posted whenever we have an FW thread.

So I bothered looking up the actual symptoms for Alcohol withdrawal, and yeah they can happen as soon as two hours after your last drink.
Shakiness, hallucinations, vomiting, and there's even a 1-5% death rate.

And just to clarify this took me two minutes to look up, in comic time Billie's probably had what, twenty four hours, she's probably freaking out way more.

The big question is though, will Willis treat what's happening as because of how much of a sordid drunk Ruth was, or because of Mary being Mary?

In hindsight, the changes that Willis made to that arc were probably to mask how badly Mary wrecked Ruth's shit by having Mary fail to acquire "blackmail material" and causing a scene in the hallway.

>He did it to Sal over Jason’s obscene breach of professional ethics.
Wait... wow, she actually did absolve Sal the blame of it and put it all on Jason?

You know, we gotta give Cerberus credit: it succeeds in being a Grade-A Bitch.

I guess that's what can be expected of someone who's so mentally out-of-it that they talked about their suicide attempts like "Yeah, my last attempt was a couple months ago, here's hoping I fail the next one too!"

>What could have been.
This still makes me mad because his whole goddamn reasoning if because "It was awkward".
NO SHIT IT WAS AWKWARD! His childhood friend is dealing with their girlfriend possibly dying, and he wants to be there for her but he doesn't know how. It's going to be awkward Willis, not everything has to be a fucking punchline.

But really, what really pisses me off is he did this also because he needed a few more strips to fill out his next book.

The problem is Ruth didn't show those symptoms. She showed signs of a hangover on Saturday and nothing on Sunday.

Reading it in one go would help. Willis obviously paces for the trade and the quicker progression of binge reading makes it far more tolerable. Though you still have problems if you keep track of chronological progression, which is somewhat hidden by the constant focus switching.

>"Yeah, my last attempt was a couple months ago, here's hoping I fail the next one too!"

Assuming the last attempt was serious and the statement was made with sincerity, that's actually a pretty good sign from a clinical perspective.

wasn't Sal the one who forced herself on Jason? Like she actually jumped over the desk, took off his pants, made fun of his uncircumcised dick and then just fucked him raw?

What if the artist has a canon reason while also just saying they wanted the characters to have boobs?

I have the theory that Cerberus has never read the slipshine comics.

>then just fucked him raw?
Sal pregnancy arc when?

I realized that Becky's character design would look so much better if her hair were actually opaque. Seeing the eye and freckles through the hair really bugs me.

man this looks so much better and you can stil tell where shes looking. why does he insist on making it transparent?

Also I took the liberty of removing all of her hair from the last panel to show how messed up her facial proportions really are.

Do you think we could influence Willy's story decisions through reverse psychology? Since he does half of what he does out of spite, we might be able to get him to do shit in the hopes that he's pissing us off.

>Willis, this is your Cred Forums fanbase, and we just want to say that we don't want you to EVER create a Slipshine involving Mary.
>Not only do we think your Slipshines are bad, but Mary is our favorite character, and it would completely ruin her Christian-values image if you did so

Then we need only wait for the inevitable release of a Slipshine where Mary gets plowed.

I'd rather trick him into destroying himself. Not drawing mary with her hair copied and shrunk over her cooch.

That's Phase 2

Goddamn that's sexy for some reason.

>"Also Futa's bad."
>"Yeah F-futa's bad, don't do any of that."
>"Definitely don't do that...."

>Willis draws a Slipshine with every character as a futa
>except Carla

Technically he's already done that

He drew Ruth with a dick in the short stories one

it's a shame billie is the hottest one

It's like how a woman in lingerie that just baaaarely covers the goods is way more alluring than if she was naked. You can't stop thinking about the stuff you can't see, but you can see enough that it pushes your imagination (and libido) into overdrive...

...Did we all just suddenly understand what Becky feels about Dina's head?

I understood it. It's just stupid because Becky was raised a fundie. She should still be lusting after the tits more than anything.

Eyes are an attractive bodily feature. Scalps, not so much.

Somewhat ironically, Willis doesn't understand it, or at least doesn't apply it to his comic, despite writing strips about it.

If we don't see a strip referencing that Becky herself does this, I'd wager he just plain doesn't realize.

>Scalps, not so much.
Yeah, about the best Becky can hope for is that Dinah doesn't have dandruff.

He can't color in the lines

I wish I didn't remember seeing that.

Okay, that was a mediocre but amusing joke at first. But making a second strip about it is Cred Forums drawthread level of obnoxious dragging a joke for too long.

Willis should have just given her a hair fetish.

...

Yeah, kinda like that except lusty and directed at other people. Think about it, Joyce has a head of thick, fluffy, blonde hair while Dina has long, glossy, black hair, it's not hard to see why a hair fetishist would be into both of them.

It's all a joke about cartoon characters who never take off their hats, like Edd in "Ed Edd 'n' Eddy" or Louise in "Bob's Burgers".

The thing is that Willis is making an actual storyline out of the whole thing for some reason.

He's probably not even going to have the decency to end it on an anticlimax of Dina taking her hat off when Becky asks.

Knowing Willis, it'll probably end with Dina taking off her hat and it's completely normal underneath. He won't stick with the classic trope of revealing it offscreen.

I've always understood it.

This is just a way of making Becky even "quirkier" by giving her an outlandish yet mundane fetish. Like youre supposed to react like "Silly Becky! Scalps aren't sexy! How quirky and wacky!"

A tiny bald spot would be nice.

Turns Becky goes complete weirdo with it and has a binder full of pics of women's scalps with annotations and ratings.

Today in College, SD knows a little bit too much about blow jobs.

> WORDS, the parody of a parody of a comic
When does it get good?

I minored in Sexonomics and can say with some authority that Annabeth would be able to easily get fifteen dollars by playing up nervousness as a submissive trait. Next time don't get all your dick sucking math information from wikipedia.

Why is this still shit?

>SD
I know they usually have a hat and glasses, but the character looks like they're completely different. Is the body shape consistent?

Anyway, you might wanna reference his name, if Annabeth knows it. So people know who it is, since it's his first time appearing out of his usual duds.

He just has all that muscle under all his clothes.

I mean, I have had him appear with out his hat and sunglasses before.

Also, people can just look at the character tags when the comic is on the site.

link to the rest of these?

freakanimes.com/collegeusa/
Here you go my dude.

cheers bud!

cheers and enjoy!

Wow user that's a really specific comparison
Is there something you want to get off your chest?

That's why I've always gone through the trouble of making it opaque. Drawing eyes over hair is just a cheat for people who can't be bothered to show a character emote.with one eye, or frame a shot so that you can see both.

>bisexual
Literally worse than being straight (by tumblr-kin standards)

This is significantly cuter.

I second the question of what in the world Dina is doing in that first strip.

Again, the only black character that clearly looks black loos like shit!

I mean, look at asian girl in panel 4, she looks like willys put more care into her drawing while black girl looks really shitty

I want to fuck the trap.

There I said it.

Yeah, I think the end result is going to be Nothing.

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>My son didn't die for this

And she got good grades... not by fucking the T.A., but by studying more.

I find it weird how Willis has to make Sal morally superior, even when she does awful things.
I fucking hate this "transparent bangs" trend with art these days... but I've been in too many online slapfights over it to get mad right now.

>I find it weird how Willis has to make Sal morally superior, even when she does awful things.
he didnt though. she was trying to exchange sex for grades, it just backfired. the comic made it clear she wasnt doing the right thing. she studied more afterwards cause it was her only option

Eh, I like Sarah's face in that panel.

I just like when she does stuff, and isn't entirely socially stunted.

yeah you're right but Cerberus is just blaming the TA Sal banged instead.

Cerberus is the worst, basically

Cerberus is easier to handle when you realize they write those long ass posts because it's therapeutic for them.

But yeah they're ignoring the facts so that Sal will still look good in their eyes. I wonder what she sees?
A cult of personality.

They were both being shitty, depending on how much you care about general ethics, or violating employee agreements.

Jason came on to Sal when they first met, was super glad to fuck her, but then he didn't alter her grade. Then he fucked her again.

Sal went to Jason for real help multiple times and got nowhere, because Jason's teaching method is incompatible with Sal (either that, or he's just shitty, I really thought by now he'd be helping Walky, and we'd see if he's any good). Then after a long session with high emotions, she banged Jason for fun and also to get a good grade which she never got. Then, as other people have mentioned, she eventually just got better at math on her own (which is weird from a plot standpoint, I guess the idea is that she does better on her own than she does with Jason? But it also makes it seem like she wasn't trying on her own at all when she was going to his office hours), and then started meeting with Danny for tutoring that actually helped.

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RIP thread
RIP Joyce's smile

Joyce's smile isn't dead yet. He's going to drag it out as long as possible.

I want an artist other than willis to draw joyce being date raped by ryan while being semi-conscious

But with the exact same style, and then "leak" it in a way that it would look like willy did it.

In tonight's strip, Ruth gets a pudding cup.

Well I can already tell this is going to be unbearable.

is not having eyebrows part of her design or is this just one of those things willis does

Oh, great. Now Willis is trying to make suicide wacky and comedic.

Like, seriously, we just had a big stink about Ruth being suicidal to the point of being catatonic. Now she's quipping with the rest of them.

Also, that's a lot of copying and pasting. Again.

where the hell is the doctor's eyebrows? She looks alien and like you could land a plane on that forehead.

Why does Ruth not have her glasses on? I know Willis doesn't like doctors but even a toddler will tell you there's no reason a hospital won't let you put on your glasses even if you are suicidal

Just fucking fuck me I hate

I remember going through a depressed period.

It was most certainly not characterized by snark and acting pissy.

If I'm wrong let me know, but otherwise acting in-character right now would be pretty out-of-character, IMO.

when going through my depressed lulls it's usually just vacant staring and answering questions with "I don't know" since it's hard to think

Willis loaned them to Dobson a while back and he never got them back.

Ruth doesn't have her glasses on since because depression and suicidal thoughts? Maybe it's symbolic.

Let's get a brief timeline here. Ruth and Billie clean house of alcohol, they break up in the parking lot despite their co-dependent issues, Ruth barely lasts 24 hours before starting to sulk in her bed, and everybody assumes she's ready to kill herself because of it. Did I miss something here?

I wouldn't say snark exactly, but irritability is actually relevant to depression. I've definitely found myself being a real cranky-pants.

I've had days where my boyfriend will come up and say "So I heard you bit some people's heads off today," and I won't have even realized I acted that way.

I sometimes sound a lot meaner than I realize when I want to be left alone.

I will emphasize here that when I've been suicidal, even my crankiness wasn't anything like Ruth's. Ruth is being her normal self, pre-emo day.

Yeah, I think if Willy wanted to be both accurate and make an impact on the audience, he should have had a whole strip of Ruth being passive, answering "Okay" to the doctor, saying "Thanks" to a pudding cup, then setting it down and resuming a blank stare.

Amusingly, he would have made a powerfully relatable strip by employing almost less effort than he usually does.

Gotta keep the fucking jokes flowing, though. Can't afford to think the readership won't kill themselves when they're reminded that depression exists (literally, they're his bread and butter

>Did I miss something here?

I think that about sums it up.

You know, my little funk had periods when I was alot closer to "I'm thinking about killing myself" than "Lol I wanna die" Ruth, and the doctor told my family that hospitalization wasn't deemed necessary until I actually started giving serious consideration to ropes and knives and shit. So her hospitalization here seems a bit premature.

Logically, it is premature. If anything, she shouldn't even still BE in the hospital. Emily Osment's character in "Cyberbully" was out of the hospital faster than Ruth was, and she was ready to take pills. Good thing she couldn't get the cap off.

I feel like Willis doesn't have any idea how shit like this actually works, and assumes that being so depressed that you stay in your room all day immediately means that you're suicidal and need to be hospitalized. It's almost insulting in a sense.

Willis doesn't know how depression works because that means he'd have to research it and agree that doctor's can be right about things which he IS NOT gonna do.

Doctors are like parents and parents are ALWAYS WRONG!

maybe Ruth takes them off when she goes to sleep and just got up. That's the only reasonable reason to me.

Those eyes look really lopsided in the first and fifth panels.

Also, I guess he's doing a thing where her eyes are beady and there's no sclera cause she's depressed? They kinda just look shitty...

It does make me curious how much experience Willy has had with depression.

I can imagine him going through a few mild funks like literally everybody else would, and thinking "Wow I'm depressed, now I *know*!"

Jesus fuck. Is this what Basement dwellers act like? What's it like being a virgin?

Well, this is going to be fun. Now I can call out Willis for being wrong about college AND psych wards, both based on my personal experiences.

It is, essentially, a vacation. A vacation where you're effectively not allowed to leave, but a vacation nonetheless. There are group activities that you can participate in, but no one gives that much of a crap as long as you don't entirely seclude yourself. I spent most of my time sleeping through everything and working on a puzzle.

Also, yeah, is right. If you're going through heavy depression, there's no way you'll be quipping like you're in a Marvel movie. Especially since psych wards usually give you extra doses of anti-depressants, which makes you sleepy as hell

I think it's to show that her eyes are dead and empty. She's expressing nothing because that's totally how this works.

Personally, my eyes just look really sad when I'm depressed. When I'm in an episode, I feel soul-crushingly sad or simply numb (or the occasional furious-beyond-all-reason moments), but I still *look* sad (except for previously mentioned fury).

I pretty much permanently look miserable and/or sad, never dead-eyed.

I mean, that could be true for some people, but Ruth can't be snarky AND dead-eyed. If she's got enough fire to actively insult people, then she should have normal eyes.

Based on these, I tried my hand at an impromptu editing session.

Lemme know if it's more accurate to what an actual stay in a hospital due to depression would be like.

the dialogue is better, just needs the art to be completely changed on Ruth's side.

Yeah, I couldn't do much for panel three without having to redraw Ruth's profile. And I don't have a tablet that works.

honestly you'd have to redraw here to just be staring vacantly, eyes closed have the time thinking of what to say even if it's a simple answer, sighing out of tiredness, bags under her eyes even though she sleeps 18 hours a day

it's not your fault user, it's all Willis' for thinking he could tackle such a big thing just because he likes lesbians

I can be pretty pissy and irritable when I'm depressed. And I sometimes have really dark gallows humour during those periods, usually in the vein of "wouldn't it be fucking hilarious if I was dead?"

Not really defending this strip because I know Willis will fuck it up somehow, just offering my own two cents. I know this doesn't apply to everyone, and depressed people will vary.

I don't think it's so much that he did this because he likes lesbians. I mean, I like lesbians, but I'm not going to try and write a dramatic story of loss because I would go on to jack off to thoughts of the two of them having sex.

I think Willis is more trying to prove that he is capable of stories such as this, which would otherwise require some more tact and talent to pull off successfully.

oh no that is true too

I don't think anyone in the throws of depression would walk into a set up about fucking puddin cups though

Well he's already failed at it because he obviously hasn't even done the bare minimum research

Why is Billie so wanting to cling to a woman who mistreated her?

Nah, I get you. It's usually a bad sign if I'm not joking about killing myself when I'm feeling down

But I'm not going to joke about that to the first person I meet. Especially if I'm doped up on anti-depressants, which she probably is.

Co-dependent relationships are a hell of a drug, user

When I want to hear from an asshole, I'll fart.

It's like Willis did zero research into mental health facilities. She wouldn't be in a "hospital bed." Once they see you have no physical injuries, they move you to an area that's like a living space for other patients with issues. There you would talk with doctors and people like you, as you come to grasp your illness. I doubt we'll see anything like this.

>she

Technically, she's not in a mental ward. She's in the college's health center.

Again, I feel as if she'd have been in and out of that place within 24 hours. She probably didn't even need to be overnighted.

So, what exactly is that black rectangle supposed to be?

I moused some eyebrows on your edit user.

The fifth panel is the only time Ruth's eyes came even close to being drawn competently

Seriously? Fuck, I didn't even realize that.

A college health center is more often than not unsuited for long-term care (at least, if it's anything like mine, and looking at IU's healthcare page, it is). If she's fine, she would have been released on the grounds that she keeps going to counseling and gets shit sorted out concerning her classes and her job. If she's not, she would have gotten transferred to a real medical institution that's more suited for this sort of shit.

I mean, does IU have enough students having suicidal moments that they need facilities to house them and 'activities' for them?

He's doing the 'dot eyes for people with glasses' I think.

Ah.I used to got to OSU which had an entire fully operational Hospital as well as a unit for the mentally ill. It just hit me not all colleges have that, but she still wouldn't be at the school medical facility. She'd have been sent to whatever mental hospital they have on file. Unless this school has the type of place OSU does.

A badly placed TV?

Nope, instead we get a happy, successful, BLM, woman, doctor. Who is doing the duty of a nurse or an intern, no less.

But her eyes are green:

...?

What does being a doctor have to do with BLM?

shes black, thats what hes trying to say

Nothing, but you look at her and immediately get a "He went down the SJW checklist when he made her, and felt a smug satisfaction like he changed the world by drawing a doctor who is a woman and black" vibe because it's willis.

i mean, maybe you do. but that sounds pretty stupid to me

Didn't they make a whole thing out of Ruth's design changing to give her green eyes? Like, right after when Billie broke her door down?

You're reading way too much into this

I mean if that WAS Willis' intention than it failed. Medicine is one of the few fields that has a pretty half and half split of the genders

I mean, he's never actually BEEN to a doctor so maybe he just assumes it's a man's world or something

All the administrative people at the school so far have been women and minorities.

there's the british TA that fucked Sal

and uh

The gay guy who worked at the Campus Chic-Fil-A

The British TA is Jason, he's a main character who has to be there because Willis said the universe has to be a complete alternate universe.

You mean Asma, who's basically a non-character?

RAs dont count because the dorms are divided by gender but both ruth and the RM were white, aside from that theres just asma (who doesnt even have a real job at the school), jason (white dude) and the teachers. (three white guys and a white woman)
and this new doctor i guess

>muslim character named Asma
>Asma is a lung disease
>muslims use anthrax to kill people
She's a terrorist.

>Asma is a lung disease

What

scratch that, i remembered dorothy's unidentified teacher as a white guy but hes black. still, 3/4 teachers men, 3/4 teachers white

but i also forgot the dean, whos absolutely a white guy and appears a whole bunch

oh there's also Puddin Head

thats the RM, mentioned her already

Hm, if friends' stories of the pre-med experience are any indication, there's a blatant desire to skate incompetent blacks (blacks, not minorities) through medical school in an attempt to fill minority quotas.

But that might be off-topic

Thats all over the place in every field these days.

Reminder that Mike is worst best guy character

Is this in response to her sleeping with the TA?

It's a pity his fans are too simple to handle Mike's truthbombs.

Yeah, that's what it's from. But the truthbombs don't bug me, those are actually funny. It's just that, as evidenced here, he just does shit to be obnoxious and edgy, which just agitates the SHIT out of me for some reason

Seeing her eyes move around her face disturbs me.

To be fair the conditions of suicide watch sound horrific. Almost suicide inducing. It's the little ironies in life.

Mike's character has always been "the asshole", but he's also always been a "good guy" too. One problem with his character in this continuity is that, in the original, the extremely rare occasion in which his better nature shines through are unlikely to occur (the two that leap to mind are his reaction to Dina's death, and saving Joyce from getting torn apart by aliens at the cost of his own life).

Other than that, while he did have a tendency to fuck with people for the hell of it, there was also the vague implication that for the people he called friends, there was an intent to get them to recognize and overcome their flaws.

At least, that's how I remember it. I mostly just appreciate a character who is actually "the Asshole", not "[insert whatever character traits here]" + an asshole because Willy is a shitt writer.

It's a pity. And certainly not going to help whatever "racist tendencies" I have if I ever end up under the care of a black doctor.

>in the original, the extremely rare occasion in which his better nature shines through are unlikely to occur

Meant to say, the circumstances of the original continuity are unlikely to occur in this one.

Also the major difference here is that Willis forgot to update Mike like he did with a lot of the main cast.

Let's see, he kept Mike the same, pretty sure Leslie and Robin have the same personalities, Ethan is still gay guy who likes robots, and Carla acts the same but is now immune to any criticism.

It's annoying that, with all the free time he had up until his babies were born, he didn't try to expand upon the characters.

He can't spell 'asthma'.