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I like it alright. But then I am historically a lot more forgiving of comics with a daily or near daily update schedule. Not as good as Sluggy or Schlock Mercenary but still maybe the fourth best daily update comic I read? Although if anyone wants to point to better daily update comics to read instead I am all for it...
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Newspaper Spiderman.
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newspaper spiderman is the best spiderman.
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Newspaper Spider-Man is beyond all things.
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There's at least three other newspaper comics that are more entertaining reads than dumbing of age or any other daily webcomic
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David Willis really likes to show off in Dumbing of Age how his values have changed, but stylistically he's the same as he's always been. He can make some fun jokes to draw you in, but he's always inexorably drawn towards making the most ridiculous drama plots he can imagine. I think he's trying to make Amazi-Girl into one of the darker versions of Batman. He's still the same person who in his gag-a-day comic had one of the characters sacrifice her life to save the main character from drunk driving and then followed it up with a wacky story where another of the characters gets kidnapped by aliens.
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SlothfulCobra posted:David Willis really likes to show off in Dumbing of Age how his values have changed, but stylistically he's the same as he's always been. He can make some fun jokes to draw you in, but he's always inexorably drawn towards making the most ridiculous drama plots he can imagine. I think he's trying to make Amazi-Girl into one of the darker versions of Batman. This is still something you could say in many fewer words with just "soap opera."
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The good things about Dumbing of Age center around Joyce and her journey from being a crazy fundamentalist to a more open and accepting person. Since Dave Willis is writing from experience there he pulls it off decently well. Everything else in the comic seems like it's either the bad kind of melodramatic cheese, or obvious pandering. Joyce and her stuff is engaging enough for me to keep following, but I'm well aware that 90% of this comic is not good. Since I've been reading his comics since It's Walky I'm kind of numb to the dumb jokes and melodrama, so it's just kind of background noise to me. The new LGBT stuff seems... sincere, I guess? Like I get the sense that he's honestly doing his best trying to do right by it. I might not think it's especially good treatment of the subject, but it's not really hate worthy either. Most of the time. But the stuff with Amber being a costumed vigilante feels like Willis read some critical essays about how Batman would really be messed up psychologically, then thought "Wow, I should do that. It'll be so deep." But it's not deep. Just dumb and out of place.
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amber belongs in a psychiatric ward other then that, i have no issues with dumbing of age
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Galvanik posted:The good things about Dumbing of Age center around Joyce and her journey from being a crazy fundamentalist to a more open and accepting person. Since Dave Willis is writing from experience there he pulls it off decently well. Everything else in the comic seems like it's either the bad kind of melodramatic cheese, or obvious pandering. Joyce and her stuff is engaging enough for me to keep following, but I'm well aware that 90% of this comic is not good. Same, except I can't push through the other stuff to keep up on the Joyce plot.
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I also like that he expects people to take any Amazigirl drama seriously when her name is Amazigirl and she wears a bright yellow costume
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Dangerous Person posted:I also like that he expects people to take any Amazigirl drama seriously when her name is Amazigirl and she wears a bright yellow costume Par for the course in superhero comics.
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Yeah I mean, Bruce Wayne runs around in a bat outfit and people still take him seriously somehow.
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Because he talks like he smokes a crate of cigars every hour and as we all know smoking is really cool.
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Renaissance Robot posted:Because he talks like he smokes a crate of cigars every hour and as we all know smoking is really cool. strong avatar post combo here.
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Bongo Bill posted:Par for the course in superhero comics. Dumbing of Age is not a cape comic. It's not even satire.
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i like this latest twist in bad machinery. kids are plenty smarter than we give them credit for
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Tenebrais posted:The question is whether he's sincere about this, or whether he's covering for his monster threatening him. We've seen little enough of their interactions that it could go either way, though if the latter I think his would be the only monster hostile to its host? Is it too late to throw in the wild theory that the 'person' who has been talking and doing weird science this whole time is the skin monster, and the whispering voice is the human Rjinder?
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Bobulus posted:Is it too late to throw in the wild theory that the 'person' who has been talking and doing weird science this whole time is the skin monster, and the whispering voice is the human Rjinder? I think it's been brought up a few times before. Imo I think its definitely possible.
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Synthbuttrange posted:
Arsenic's gleeful expression is the best part of that
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It's clevins all the way down.
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Today's Oscar Wilde is a glorious payoff. Going back and reading the first few pages of the chapter, and it's a whole new way of looking at it.
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Nuns with Guns posted:Arsenic's gleeful expression is the best part of that Sucks to be Coco though
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Axiem posted:Today's Oscar Wilde is a glorious payoff. Going back and reading the first few pages of the chapter, and it's a whole new way of looking at it. Yah, that "hope you didn't hear me singing" turned out to be literal. Pretty nifty.
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Axiem posted:Today's Oscar Wilde is a glorious payoff. Going back and reading the first few pages of the chapter, and it's a whole new way of looking at it. It's also sad 
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To be honest, I wasn't really digging this hipster-barrista plot until now. But I also am not a coffee-shop person at all.
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I am not a coffee shop person either but murderous sirens are extremely my bag
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I find that Oscar really needs to develop a modicum of awareness. I mean he's rented a haunted house from Barbara Yaga and is friend with Clifford the Big Red The next chapter of Wilde Life: Oscar finds that Podunk is oddly deserted, despite all the efforts apparently made to attract tourists, like this whole statue park that appeared. He goes on a date with the attractive girl at the park's entrance booth, a goth chick with a pet snake, named Maddie Ouza.
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To be fair, I don't think he picked up that there was something weird about his landlord, so he hasn't really been on the lookout for Alucards and other obvious supernatural naming conventions. (Clifford is less a reference and more a good joke the author is having on Cliff, I think)
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Bobulus posted:To be fair, I don't think he picked up that there was something weird about his landlord, so he hasn't really been on the lookout for Alucards and other obvious supernatural naming conventions. (Clifford is less a reference and more a good joke the author is having on Cliff, I think) I actually really like the way that the comic handles Oscar's reactions. He's learned that magic is real and mythical creatures exist and he's intelligently digging into the stuff he's seen but he doesn't immediately go  MAGIC IS EVERYWHERE ALL MYTHS ARE REAL. He's in Oklahoma and most of the supernatural stuff he's seen is rooted in Native American mythology, so that's where his attention is focused. I think this episode will open his eyes a bit but for now I'm enjoying a modern fantasy story where the protagonist isn't super genre-savvy about everything right away.
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http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20170803 I want to be a freeloader, too.
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Cat Mattress posted:http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20170803 It's a great job until the resonance cascade hits and aliens start teleporting in.
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Straight White Shark posted:It's a great job until the resonance cascade hits and aliens start teleporting in. That'd pretty much like how all his jobs end.
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In Poppy news: Watch a high powered telekinetic kill literally everyone!
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