Dumbing of Age

And then they did a polyamory

yeet cute

teehee

Now that's gonna cause controversy

Is that some new collective titling for the 9 Episodes? Specifically to exclude the spinoffs?

...I cannot for the life of me understand why, with two plotlines that have much more important and pressing stuff going on in them, we keep cutting to the less important ones like this. Once or twice to get some misdirection, that I would understand, but no, we keep coming back. Two days ago, Amber got a big hint about Mike's current state... and that was followed by Walky feeling bad about not being with Dorothy, and now an entirely irrelevant scene of Billie being annoyed by being a nerd. I really don't get what Willis is doing with this chapter.

Getting trolled by the author is half the fun of reading this series.

The other half is shipping.

Oh right, consequences

lmao get fucked Ruth

Disclaimer: Just because I like it when characters receive the slightest bit of consequence for their actions does not mean I hate them nor the entire comic.

"I really don't get what Willis is doing with this chapter"

Pacing the story very badly. This is really just serving to frustrate me rather than build any tension.

I admit to not being into it because even the author has joked about Mike's fate, but I figure his actual circumstance could be interesting. I imagine they want to build back up to the big climactic moment after letting us breathe for so long after the Blaine fight.

My theory thus far is that Mike was kidnapped by Blaine. If he were dead or injured then someone would have heard by now.

(Plus I figure pacing a daily gag strip that's meant to go on forever is a really tall order)

Edited by RodimusMinor on Mar 10th 2020 at 1:14:32 PM

Pacing this is probably a tall order, yeah, but then Willis is generally good at it. It's how he gets to play around with our expectations once in a while.

This is just baffling.

Well we're back

ok not gonna lie, even I would be flustered.

"By the way did you hear that Mike died?"

"wait what"

Becky: "Who's Mike?"

Obviously this will end in Robin deciding to change parties

Considering that she herself is a long list of everything her party hates, that wouldn't be surprising.

Guess we'll find out next storyline

OK, should we start a pool on who finds Mike first?

...so this was a storyline with a big climatic moment in the middle, then a bunch of teasing and buildup that had no payoff whatsoever.

I really don't get what Willis was thinking with this one, but it was very underwhelming.

Amber just admitted she knows that she blacks out and lets a violent persona free every night and she still won't do anything about it.

Anger.

It's been a whole day so he's definitely not sprawled on the pavement. If he were dead then someone would have found him by now.

My guess is he was kidnapped by Blaine.

Edited by RodimusMinor on Mar 15th 2020 at 9:37:50 AM

If we're following comic book tropes, probably in an attempt either to lure out Amaze-Girl, or to try to convert Mike into his evil sidekick, Sarcastic Lad with a lot of monologuing and a bit of chemical help.

At least he won't get tentacle'd by Martians this time.

EDIT: omg imagine Joker Mike.

Edited by RodimusMinor on Mar 15th 2020 at 1:49:59 PM

Trying to pull an all-nighter is what she's doing about it. Short of physically restraining herself with ropes there's not a ton more she can do when she literally loses control of her mind.

And I'd bet Amazi-Girl could undo any knots Amber could tie, anyway.