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Early update for March 8, 2026 (Patreon)

Published:
2026-03-07 04:55:01
Imported:
2026-10

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there is no dana, only school

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Bronxden

you know what, i like this man getting to the point but also not one to be pulled into to childish drama (yet)

Omnithea

He's growing on me.

C

"I'm bored. You're boring me." - Tony, 20XX

Kazo

Drag her ass

Lazuli

raidah must be a window pane since people are seeing clear through her

Buck Caldwell

This guy has had far longer to prepare for being the Dean's Son than you have had for manipulating one.

DramaQueen

Oh really, R, you had a friend once? How much effort has she spent checking up on this so-called friend and helping her to get clean so she could come back to school? Has she encouraged her friend to attend therapy so she could process her grief and learn better coping strategies? Has she reassured this friend’s parent that she has a healthy support network at school? Hmmm?

EnterTheHero

Called it! Absolutely love how he has NO TIME for her bullshit.

Astariel

Really liking Tony here. No one is buying your bullshit, Raidah!

Gale Tazzin

i have more faith in his lasting relationship with sarah than dina lasting with becky

Michael Flannagan

I mean, he's the dean's son. Does she not think he'll verify what she says?

GundamBradley

Not everyone is hungry for your validation and thus freely chows down on your stream of bullshit, Raidah.

Populuxe

The pole up Tony’s ass may have a pole up it’s ass, but that doesn’t mean he can’t see through Raidah’s bullshit.

IAmDeltaS

lmao get fucked Raidah

Gale Tazzin

tony is very familiar with what it takes to expel someone not just because he's the dean's son but because he's tried to get paul expelled several times

Lazuli

"you merely adopted social manipulation. i was born into it."

Harold

@Lazuli: She may or may not be a window but she's certainly a pane

voyager-ngc5195

Fucking hell Raidah, have you even *talked* to your 'friend' Dana since she left school, or did you just use that whole opportunity yourself to get with her ex?

The-Wall

Can someone remind me of some details about the roommate? I know she broke up with her boyfriend started to self medicaid but for Raidah to care this much and be this bitter was this real friendship or a golden goose because. P.s I literally just thought of this is Raidah so mad because this girl went home and died because we never heard about this girl in the present tense.

Em

So raidah is actually openly lying about what exactly Sarah did. Fuck her. I’m done hearing anybody talk about how she can change and blah blah. She’s 20 fucking years old and being a fucking lying weirdo.

EnterTheHero

Raidah's most significant flaw is that she is nowhere near the queen bee she believes she is. Not smart enough, not likable enough, and nowhere near enough connections to get what she really wants.

Dan Rabin

Tony sipping his drink works with his dialogue to show Raidah that he's not receptive to whatever she's about to say, and it's the only panel in this strip and the previous one in which his eyebrows are not down in full-glare position. It's Raidah vs. straw: suck or be sucked. There have been comments to the effect that despite Raidah's thoughts outside the police station, she's still an evil conniver, but I don't want to appraise her that way. She is, in fact, actively conniving, but I insist that it matters that she's *no good at it*. She has managed to assemble some other students around her, but Char, Chan, and Carl don't add up to one Tony even if you throw in Jennifer, Asher, and Walky. We don't know how she would have impressed Harrison Williams if Joyce hadn't intervened, but it's quite possible that Harrison's spiel about checklists would still have influenced Jacob. The ex-congresswoman "in her pocket" is *Robin*, sheesh. Raidah is doing her best acting in this strip—look at her careful modulation of her eyebrows and mouth—and it's not working, because her mark is very solidly grounded and doesn't do petty. Is this thread going to re-do Raidah the way Raidah did to Dorothy? I don't know. Indeed, Raidah's character as a storytelling resource resembles Jennifer's in that she is so far blind to her bad take on how to do life. Willis could put her, like Jennifer, through cycles of approaching cluefulness, or he could just leave her as a recurring antagonist, or she could have a magical epiphany, or she could double down, or whatever. Having many possibilities to choose from works in the author's favor.

Dan Rabin

It's not likely that any official of the school would comment, but I see your point.

Kelly (they-them)

Dana is her name. Her father was a lawyer with good connections. Edit: presumably is still a well connected lawyer.

Lazuli

dana fell into a emotional pit from grief from a grandparent's death. sarah caught on and informed her parents.

Gale Tazzin

this is also uncharacteristically tactless of Raidah. she's always targeted people AROUND her goal. going directly to Tony to crowbar him off Sarah instead of playing the long game with people in his orbit reeks of desperation

Crunchos cereal

Hey, how would checking up on a college drop-out with alleged drug issues help Raidah with getting the proper connections? Think, McFly, think! Yeah, some people in the comic apparently have forgotten that the world outside of college exists.

Gale Tazzin

I think that version of events is actually what Raidah believes. "exaggerate" is the same word Sarah used to describe how Raidah viewed her concerns at the time: https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/choice/ but "I don't want anything" in the previous strip is the most blatant lie she's told so I'm not gonna hand it to her lol

Maude Reads Things

Also, a parent wouldn't be able to force Dana to withdraw if she was over 18. They could stop paying for it but that's different. Tony doesn't have time for this, thankfully, so I don't think it'll hurt Sarah much. Context for those who don't remember - Dana was Sarah's roommate, Raidah's friend and Carl's ex. She had a dad who owns a law firm. She tried to bring Sarah out of her shell but once her mom died, she started smoking her weed in the dorm room and keeping Sarah awake at night. Sarah suggested a therapist but her friends said she'd be fine and would bounce back and doesn't need help. Sarah was worried because her scholarship was at risk if her grades slipped because she wasn't sleeping. Dana broke up with Carl and 'Sarah stopped getting any sleep at all'. It also sounds like Dana was either spiralling into harder drugs or a depression so deep that her self-medicating was no longer helping. Sarah said Dana might end up in a coffin. Her midterm grades and aforementioned coffin worries spurred her to contact Dana's father, who came to bring her home. Raidah...disapproved. Frankly, I think if Sarah was as ruthless and mercenary as Raidah said, she would've told the school about the weed on the first day. She very easily could get kicked out of school if they'd been caught with the weed in their room (either because she didn't report it or because the school or Dana would blame her).

Maude Reads Things

Dana doesn't need therapy or to get clean because she's not REALLY struggling. She just smoked a little extra weed to cope with her mom dying. Sarah's just being mean and unforgiving (and ungrateful). Dana did a pretty good job hiding how bad it was to her friends. Raidah probably honestly believes that and refuses to hear she was wrong.

Alexandra Falk

I'm impressed that Tony comes right out with the term (kompromat). Not common among 19-20yos, despite what the personal history of nerdish circles may have you believe. Were we ever told Tony's major?

NinjaZaku

Damn Tony is just not even humoring her. Good for him.

HenryVolt

Toni is not an idiot, and the more detail Raidah gives on what really happened the more he's going to side with Sarah. "So Sarah had her roommates family pull her out of school because she was struggling with a depression induce self destructive drug problem? Seems like she did the right thing to me...Not for the right reasons you say? What does it matter your friend lives to try again either way, it's a win for everybody.

Astariel

Dana, the roommate, was a big weed smoker, but partway through the semester, her mother died and after that, she started smoking in the room all the time. Sarah couldn't sleep or study and was in danger of losing her scholarship. Raidah insisted Dana was fine and Sarah was exaggerating. Sarah called Dana's father and told him what was going on and he pulled Dana out of school and brought her home. We haven't had any indication that she's dead. Last semester Raidah said Dana was bitter about being pulled out of school, but we don't know when she said that or whether Raidah is still in touch with her.

Steph

Raidah if you really want to be making a power play on Sara you should be making the moves on Liz.

Tessea

To be fair, that's what Raidah believes happened. But she never gave Sarah the chance to explain. As usual Raidah _wants_ to be angry about things, so burdening herself witch facts would just damage her narrative. If this is how she handles everything she won't last long as a lawyer.

Tessea

Good for Toni! If Raidah can't be bothered to get both sides of a story straight and jumps directly to judgement about people (as she clearly does often), she won't last long as a lawyer. Maybe Orange Jussolini would hire her, but that would say even more about her character.

Em

For me, “kicked out” had specific connotations — it means expelled. Can’t return. Etc. Per this strip: Better https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/better/, Sarah tells Raidah that Dana’s father *took* her out of school. It’s not the same thing and Ms-wants-to-be-a-lawyer is aware. She began this conversation with a lie — that Sarah got her roommate kicked out of school. Then because Tony saw through that, she pivoted to another lie.

William Lewis

I'm much more impressed with Tony at this point. Sarah? You did well to hook up with this guy. Yeah a bit too LG for my tastes (I am sooo NG) but a real fucking Paladin is never a bad thing to have on your side.

T Campbell

I feel like right now, this gambit of Raidah's can't POSSIBLY succeed unless she somehow convinces Tony that Sarah was the one taking drugs. (Tony does not seem like he'd give any quarter to casual drug use.) So my main question is, how will the failure affect Raidah, and what's next? Raidah seems to have shifted for unexplored reasons. It's true she's always been a social climber, but she seemed to form real bonds of loyalty at first, even to her own detriment. As she is now, she couldn't be sending the "you're useful to me or you're nothing" message to Jennifer and others any more clearly if she tried...she's putting on a nice face for Tony, but he sees right through that ("What do you want?"). The Raidah of today seems like she would've kicked Dana to the curb the moment Dana's dad showed up...or even blown the whistle on Dana herself. I'm not sure what caused this shift, but maybe we're about to get some insight.

Shane Wegner

I think if he asked "Dad, what would the school do in a case like this?" he could get a more candid private answer than the general public about a not so hypothetical situation.

Shane Wegner

I'm still 150% on Team Sarah for the Dana Incident. (Not that anyone's rolling Team Raidah.) It's sad what happened to Dana and I empathize, yet Sarah isn't equipped to get pulled into that whirlpool and save her and isn't obligated to try. Calling in grown-up help was a wise play. Dana's consequences catching with her after that is not the fault of Sarah for not covering them up forever. Raidah is having a hard time coping with this. Maybe it's easier to villianize Sarah than accept bad stuff just stacks up sometimes. Even if Raidah magically gets Super Revenge on Sarah, Dana isn't just magically cured and comes back to school like nothing happened.

KittyKai

I am beginning to suspect that Tony is actually the best ever GADDAMN

Michael Flannagan

I really more meant that he's clearly very level-headed, and being the child of someone powerful he's probably used to people trying to manipulate him. He's not going to take anyone at their word, and especially not Raidah, who he knows to be untrustworthy.

Steve McSheffrey

There has to be more to the Dana-Raidah story. Why is she holding on to this so hard? Were they lovers? Co-conspirators? Is the loss of Dana what made Raidah see others as things to use because caring hurt her so bad? Or was Dana the best stepping stone Raidah had ever met and Sarah's getting Dana the help she needed cost Raidah that?

Packy Anderson

@Kelly: that's got to be it. Raidah is constantly angling for connections, and Dana was a connection.

Packy Anderson

Ghostbusters reference in the hovertext? 👏👏👏

Packy Anderson

Ugh. Dana hasn't shown up since the time skip, so we can't ask for a bonus strip to see how she's doing.

Packy Anderson

Really, Sarah's only other option—getting assigned to a different room—would have required telling the school, and would have had the same results.

Harold

@Steve McSheffrey: As BBCC notes in their excellent summary post, Dana's father isn't just a lawyer, he runs his own firm. So Raidah had definitely been cultivating her as a connection. (I'm prepared to believe that the two had an actual friendship, but it's too easy to see everything Raidah does through a mercenary lens right now.)

Maude Reads Things

I don't even think there were official consequences. Dana's father took her home, the school didn't kick her out. Officially speaking, she could still be able to re-enroll once she's doing better. If it turns out her dad's an abusive prick, as some have speculated, that would be terrible but there aren't really any great options if she refuses to see a counsellor and puts on a good face for everyone else.

Andrea Andrew

Raidah claims to be a leftist, but she’s more like a conservative trying to use people to get ahead. She sees friendships as connections, she ignores human rights protests, and she tries to scare Joyce back into the closet.

Beck Chonigman

I only just now at 32 and 3/4 am learning this word for the first time. Needless to say I am very impressed by Toni indeed.

Beck Chonigman

YOOOOOO!!!!! Get wrecked Raidah!!!!!!

Dan Rabin

Why would we do that? Whatever Willis has planned is probably much better than anything he could put in a single stand-alone strip.

Packy Anderson

But he originally had planned that Snoop was just going to the pound, but he then got adopted because nobody liked that.

Gale Tazzin

Dana adopted Snoop and lives in a polycule with Jordan

Harold

@Gale Tazzin: And Penny lives on a nice little farm upstate

PigmyWurm

Also, it doesn't seem like Raidah has actually reached out to Dana. Everything is always in the past tense. What happened a year ago. She never says anything about how Dana is doing now, other than that she isn't here anymore, so Raidah clearly isn't trying to keep in touch with Dana and seeing how she is doing, like you would expect an actual friend would do.

Shane Wegner

Great points all! @BBCC You're right, it's very likely her dlawyer ad would have done damage control. and handled things quietly. We haven't heard anything about law enforcement getting involved, or the school having _proof_ drugs were involved. They can spin it as "No-no, she's just taking some much needed mental health time." Especially plausible if something bad happened to her mom. Heh, how sweet would it be if Dana just showed up next semester "Hey I'm back, everything's fine, I needed the break, you can call off any blood vendettas you may have rashly launched against anyone." @Packy True, they wouldn't have wanted a reason. "Not a maelstrom of drugs that's ruining my career, that's for sure!" If there's a more discrete way Sarah could have handled this, I don't know it. "What about just failing all your classes, losing your scholarship and flunking out, Sarah?! Did you even _consider_ that?!" -R @Peter I agreed when I saw some folks mentioning that. "Oh, I don't actually care about Dana, I just care about being mad about her." -R