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Early update for June 24, 2025 (Patreon)

Published:
2025-06-23 03:55:01
Imported:
2026-06

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i thought the subversiveness was to be mild, this is too extreme!

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The25th

That arm around Joyce!!!

Girlycore

Asma's kind of a badass. New fave!

C

Well, I'm not entirely surprised by this as a possibility, but it'll make for a memorable second date.

L2theBell

Yay! Super happy for this development. Every time I see the banner, I’m like, “Can’t wait for Asma to be more of a character.” Like, don’t get me wrong, I trust Willis enough to assume they’d get to it, but I’m thrilled to see it happening.

Railway Series Book Club

hooray, asma!!! nothing says "there's nothing wrong with what we're doing" quite like aiming snipers at a crowd of people armed only with signs

Joe360

I remember reading somewhere they were sniper on the roofs during the manifestation against the gaza genocide in Indiana University. I suspected it might come up... Crazy stuff...

David M Willis

btw, dorothy and asma were tied, last count, for this month's first bonus strip, so, uh, here you go sorta

HenryVolt

Now all we need is a group of goons claiming be to some type of federal law officials so they can recreat the Mahmoud Khalil incident. ..50/50 chance they're even real agents.

Harold

@Girlycore: Asma's always been a fascinating minor character. In all of her appearances, she's given off the vibe of someone who has seen it all, and does not have time for anyone's bullshit. Exactly the kind of person a couple of well-intentioned but in-over-their-heads individuals would want to run into at a potentially dangerous protest, come to think of it.

Harold

@The25th: And vice versa!

Dan Rabin

I had a feeling this was going to darken when I saw the fence go up in the preceding strip. The borderless panels isolate Dorothy querying the situation, with Asma supplying the reality. Asma's sign is in view in every panel in which she appears; Joyce and Dorothy aren't carrying any. They may have thought they were just visiting to find Jocelyne, but the fence, the sniper, and their commanders only recognize inside vs. outside. Joyce and Dorothy are now inside, of course. The fact that their impetus for attending depends on two personal matters [1] recedes in importance for now. I think we're seeing the re-emergence of the Dorothy who led the way out of the basement. Asma in panel 5 looking at Dorothy (and us) over her shoulder is riveting. [1] Personal matters: Joyce: inform Jocelyne that Hank knows what's up; Dorothy: Don't let Joyce be taken away from her into danger. Reference for "gargoyle" vs. "grotesque": https://www.dumbingofage.com/2024/comic/book-15/01-love-dares-you-to-change/maxwell/ Read residents not having learned Asma's name is a recurring bit, and I'm going easy on Joyce for not knowing it: https://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/03-when-god-closes-the-door/name-2/

Maybeeus

Yeah this is might be a few tiers above carrying an iguana around the halls, dare i say even a few above going to a gay bar. Really feels like these two are a few steps away from having a date night at Mordor at this point. ASMA!!! She's been around since the very beginning and is as far as i know DOA's first new character its surprising that it took this long for her to take front stage but obvious that it would be now of all times. I kinda hope that these two form a sort of RPG party here in dun meadow of characters they would otherwise never have interacted with normally. The symbolism seems pretty clear that at this point Joyce and Dorothy know about as much as the other and are totally out of their depth. They're venturing into new territory together... Very new and very scary territory that'll eat them both alive if not careful but i think they'll get by with a little help from some newfound friends. For the record i do not think the protestors are "the forces of evil" rather i think it might be some other force in the area, maybe the guys with TRAINED FUCKING SNIPERS but i do think that Joyce and even Dorothy have to watch what they say here what would be an embarrassing blunder in another situation for them could make a way larger mess here and i think the best thing they can do is keep doing what they did up to that last panel. It's way better to be mistaken for gay than mistaken for a MAGA freak.

Andrea Andrew

Man, it’s like Willis predicted the future last year when they wrote this. Or rather, they probably remembered the George Floyd protests.

The Balloon Animal

Oh there's something grotesque on top of the union alright

Fart Captor

Or the protests against the Iraq war, or Kent State, or just left-wing protests throughout the history of this country, tbh

Jeremy AR

And the gaza protest taht happened literally last year.

Fart Captor

I would've thought Dorothy would be informed enough to know that a protest being "a little subversive" is more than enough to get cops hyped up for violence

Jesse

Heyooo!

TobyTura

listen, dotty is slowly realizing her 2010s era cis(het, until a day ago) white feminism is actually very narrow and consisted mostly of wikipedia-ing things

Jeremy AR

There is some argument at the main site about how dangerous this protest coukd actually be and i guess it got answered pretty quickly

Jasmijn Wellner

She's very quickly realising it, in-universe. It's just slow for us because of webcomic time!

crufl

oh it's plenty grotesque, dottie

Alexandra Falk

As someone who was protesting in encampments in New York until very recently... I hope Willis continues to handle this with the right balance of gravity and humor.