In my original concept for Dab, he looked like Bruticus, but with an oversized Mini-Con scooter which he could ride backwards.
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College Roomies from Hell!!!
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Hark, a vagrant
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We love you, too, Mike.
AAGH ZIGGY
Ziggy is somehow less disturbing with tentacles.
“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Ziggy R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!”
(And for those of you who do not speak dead cultist languages: In his house at R’lyeh, dead Ziggy waits dreaming)
oh lord, i actually knew that before reading the translation…
This. You win all the Internets.
Who is this Ziggy you speak of?
Read a Sunday newspaper from the 90′s.
At the very least it explains the lack of pants.
you mean the japanese version of ziggy
Silly Mike, the last thing you would want is a wife who ends up speaking psychobabble.
it’s only fair that mike is also an asshole to himself.
Agreed.
I demand you sketch this original concept now.
Merry Christmas!
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y185/Ridureyu/Tree_Topper.png
I couldn’t find the tree-topper.
What’s that? Liefeld’s version of Starro, or a somewhat forgettable Power Rangers’ monster of the week?
An Ultraman thing whos ename I can’t remember.
For about two weeks, the topper was 2002 Mer-Man.
great. now i want to buy a tree just to top it with moss man.
Mer-man war? The great war between the various races of men and mer?
Crafty elves [mer].
Oh, Mike. How we do love you and your snark. I really can’t wait to see how your kid turns out.
Evil and near-sighted?
Mandark?
HA ha-ha! ha HA-HA ha-ha!
/\ Gravatar enhancement – even if it’s not actually Mandark.
The irony is that his kid will be his polar opossite.
A.K.A nice and soft…. until he gets high (or sugar-overdosed, or something), and becomes a magnificent Bastard.
Green Bastard?
I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON.
Dab is the hypothetical lovechild of Ziggy and Ursula the sea witch.
Is it weird that the thing that creeped me out was the stockings?
you just made me look at the decorations again. they are creepy! also those ziggy head ornaments!
Yeah, I love the hypnotized stockings, great detail!
Hypnotoad?
Who is Dab?
DAB IS
Dab is Darkseid?
Dab is the son of the FSM, who came down to Earth for your sins.
Floating Steer Monger?
Flying Spaghetti Monster
Your delicious, delicious sins.
I’m not pregnant but this comic is going to cause me to have crazier dreams.
Urosite! I love this.
“This man’s tentacles are part of a VERY important business deal.”
Wait… What?
I think my brain just popped the clutch.
I have found my new god.
By the way, Shirley is my old new God, and may still be some sort of prophet or messiah:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBgGoiGXQp8
Still beats Scientology.
Hey-oh!
Am I the only one who was freaked the hell out by Amber and her mom staring right through the fourth wall before they burst into flames? Like the fictional demon-god from the dreams of a fictional character was actually struggling to get a foothold in this world?
they stared through the fourth wall, straight into my soul!
With glowing eyes, no less!
Hypnotoad style?
What is your “fourth wall” to one such as I, who was birthed beyond the gates of Madness?
Now THERE’S a deity I can get behind!
ALL HAIL DAB!
So Dab is as random as everything else in this dream like the fact that he looks like Ziggy with tentacles, urosite as a gift exchange and ornaments that seem to display expressions matching the scene?
Yeah…. that one does beat any pregnacy dream I had, and I had thought mine were good.
I have to agree with Mike on this one…go Amber, go Soon.
Just a little Dab will do ya.
What the heck is urosite supposed to be? Wikipedia thinks I’m talking about urolite, Google tells me about Uro’s Site and a number of people who have this as their last name (including Marcie, Doris, Josh, Mary, and Mike Urosite).
I’m thinking that the baby’s Martian powers are starting to show – think about it, Mike was Martian enhanced AND reborn in that Lazarus machine thingie, any kid of his won’t be normal!
Merry Christwaanzahnakkah!
And a Happy Generic Non-Denominational Cultural-Heritage-Appropriate Overcommercialized Winter Gift-Giving Holiday Season to you, as well.
Or solstice for short.
I’ve seen enough Ziggy and hentai to know where this is going…
Happy Xmas, Dave!
Nobody’s really answered it but does Pregnancy REALLY cause crazy dreams?
Yes, it does. That haunted look in mothers’ eyes isn’t all from their children.
I thing that dream is a whole lot less fucked up than Ninja Rick.
Dab is the reverse of bad, and therefore Dab is good.
Dab? Urosite? Are these references to something I’m unaware of?
I don’t think so. “Dab” is apparently a Dagon parody/pastiche, I’d say. And “urosite” a parody of those fictional materials that often appear in pulp fantasy and horror.
Sometimes I wonder how your mind works Willis. Then I quikly quit caring when I notice even the Stockings have Hypno Eye’s and immediately start cracking up.
What the fuck?
No, Mike you guys can’t afford a psychologist. You live in a small apartment with your roommate sleeping on the couch, you’re on the hook for Jacob’s therapy, and you’re about to have a kid, which means increased costs and loss of income. Unless it’s all covered by Medi-Cal and your employer has great maternity benefits…
Am I the only one seeing a “You’ve been banned” page on the Dumbing of Age webcomic? It’s kind of odd, seeing as I almost never comment, so I could only be banned for non-participation… Tried different browsers and from different IP addresses, so I’m guessing it’s a server side problem.
I hope it’s an easy fix.
The IP you’re posting from right now isn’t on the ban list. Dunno what the problem is! Sometimes the banning software gives false positives. Try again in a small while and hopefully it’s cleared up by then. Apologies!
Yep, I tried again this morning and it was fine. Thanks.
I hope to have dreams like this tonight.
I LOLed at Mike’s punchline.
Merry X-mas!
-airfox
Dab is responsible for bringing Mike back, I just know it… this is no dream, it is a message!
Actually pregnancy dreams are a real thing and they are scary. One of my friends had one where she was hanging from a cliff and her limbs kept falling off and getting eaten by alligators
So is it bad that I have those sorts of dreams without being pregnant? It’s actually a normal occurrence for me, and a part of my life that I value. Do most people just have boring dreams, or what?
The other night I had a dream that Axl Rose had been President of the United States in 1993. Only ’93, his term evidently only lasted a single year.
At least he’d bring the fun and games.
His foreign policy centered around bringing democracy to China.
…eventually.
I’ve been prone to some pretty messed up dreams since I started antidepressants.
I’ve had these my entire life. They rarely get as disturbing as the comic above, but when they do, they go all out and surpass it. I’ve had dreams where I wake up inside another dream, or where several years pass. I’ve seen my family slaughtered by robots, watched in horror as a whole town laughed gleefully as they were eaten alive by demons in human form, and fled from a sadistic Santa Claus as he set a pack of rabid dogs after me. Once, my car fell through a hole in the world, beneath which were a few gears and conveyors, and then limitless black void.
I have incredibly bizarre dreams as well. Most of the time they aren’t scary but just straight up weird. And with a bit of a mean streak. Describing them to my boyfriend has made me realize that most people do in fact have more boring dreams than me. And probably you. So if we don’t want to go insane… we should probably avoid being pregnant.
As a male, this should not prove difficult for me to avoid.
A friend of mine refers to those as her “fukitol dreams”.
Amber should see a psychiatrist, and it should be Kal Penn (vis-a-vis How I Met Your Mother).
Ah, Shortpacked does Seaguy. *shudders*
Every time I see Mike, I want to whack off.
What does this say about me?
Every time I see Mike, I want to whack off.
What does this say about me?
Hmmm, time to over-analyze Mike. With the assumption that he is a decent human being, this assumption having been made because he had to get drunk to propose to Amber, then is it not possible that, despite the fact that the “Then no” was clearly intended to stymie, this was truly the “good” “guy” Mike expressing himself and trying to get the help which he knows he needs.
When Mike gets drunk, he’s a nice guy, when I get drunk I’m wildly horny and will sleep with any guy around.
When I see Mike, my cock needs attention…..
Hmmmmmmmm……
I fully expect a CAD reference at some point in this whole “Amber is pregnant” thing.
I also expect it will come from Mike, but that’s the wimp’s bet.
No.