Dumbing of Age Book Eleven

Dumbing of Age

A college webcomic by David Willis
RSS
‹
›
  • Home
  • About/Read before posting
  • Archive
    • by calendar
  • Cast
  • Store
    • Main Store (books and stuff)
    • T-shirts
  • Patreon
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
Put-on
First Previous Random 67Comments Share Next Latest
Reddit Digg Facebook MySpace Delicious Stumbleupon Buzz Up! Mixx Technorati Google Bookmarks Yahoo Bookmarks Yahoo MyWeb Windows Live Propeller FriendFeed Newsvine Xanga LinkedIn Blinklist Twitter


BUFFER WATCH Comics are currently drawn and uploaded through:

September 18, 2023

Put-on

by David M Willis on February 24, 2011 at 12:01 am
  • 04 - The Bechdel Test

└ Tags: joyce, sal

Discussion (67) ¬

[ Comments RSS ]
  1. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    February 24, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

    there are no cameras joyce is just stalky.

    • David Herbert
      David Herbert
      February 24, 2011 at 12:22 am | #

      And unsure.

      • Madock345
        Madock345
        February 24, 2011 at 12:31 am | #

        …with her penis

        • PedanticJerkass
          PedanticJerkass
          February 24, 2011 at 8:39 pm | #

          *facepalm*

          • ilvos01
            ilvos01
            April 9, 2011 at 3:58 pm | #

            It’s Joyce and Stalky!

    • MarkusN
      MarkusN
      February 24, 2011 at 2:37 am | #

      What’d you call Willis’ sketchpad, then?

      • Cranberrier
        Cranberrier
        April 18, 2011 at 6:08 am | #

        “Whatchu drawin ’bout, Willis?”

  2. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    February 24, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

    I wanna be different, just like everyone else!

    And like you, but not.

    • alicemacher
      alicemacher
      February 24, 2011 at 12:11 am | #

      “You are all individuals!”

      “Yes- we- are- all- individuals.”

      “You are all different!”

      “Yes- we- are- all- different.”

      (“I’m not.” –“Shh.”)

      • NF
        NF
        February 24, 2011 at 12:17 am | #

        I forget what that was from.

        • David Herbert
          David Herbert
          February 24, 2011 at 12:21 am | #

          Monty Python’s Life of Brian

          The guy actually improvised that and got elevated to speaking actor for it.

          • Kamino Neko
            Kamino Neko
            February 24, 2011 at 8:14 am | #

            Seriously? I didn’t know that. It’s my favourite line in the whole movie.

      • James
        James
        February 24, 2011 at 1:03 am | #

        You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake

        • zuche
          zuche
          February 24, 2011 at 9:08 am | #

          Not once I’ve got this flamethrower working, anyway.

        • You
          You
          April 2, 2011 at 4:46 am | #

          You’re the same decaying organic matter as everyone else.

          • Jenny Creed
            Jenny Creed
            July 20, 2013 at 7:45 am | #

            You know Tyler says those things to people he’s brainwashing into obedient robots, right?

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      February 24, 2011 at 12:21 pm | #

      I want to be cool like you, except without taking on anything that makes you cool. Yeah, that’ll work

  3. Coppermouth
    Coppermouth
    February 24, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    I spy with my little eye a Tarantugun(?) tattoo.

    • Cholma
      Cholma
      February 24, 2011 at 12:35 am | #

      Beat me to it! (good eyes you got there)

    • Jason
      Jason
      February 24, 2011 at 2:23 pm | #

      Huh. In this universe wouldn’t a Tarantugun only be seen in a cartoon like Dexter and Monkey-Master? Sal doesn’t seem like the type to get a tattoo based off a cartoon.

      • David
        David M Willis
        February 24, 2011 at 3:14 pm | #

        See, those are Sal’s tarantula “guns.”

  4. Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
    Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
    February 24, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    Haha! Sal has no idea what’s going on. She’s just as much confused as Joyce is confused trying to say what she means. Joyce is just forgetting she should be herself.

  5. Wackd
    Wackd
    February 24, 2011 at 12:07 am | #

    I don’t think I’ve read or heard the phrase “is this a put-on” since I last read my Bloom County collections. I wasn’t aware people still used it.

    Also, I love Sal’s face in that last panel for some reason.

    • JessyB
      JessyB
      February 24, 2011 at 2:12 am | #

      I think it’s because it’s kind of Walky-like. Maybe? Just a thought =)

      • Cholma
        Cholma
        February 24, 2011 at 4:26 pm | #

        Perhaps Sal is a fan of the Who’s “Eminence Front”. 🙂

  6. JediAutobot
    JediAutobot
    February 24, 2011 at 12:09 am | #

    If you take away all of that stuff, you’re already there Joyce.

    • Dean
      Dean
      February 24, 2011 at 12:16 am | #

      Well, almost. She could get a Vespa, though.

      • Madock345
        Madock345
        February 24, 2011 at 12:30 am | #

        and get an accent, I don’t know about the hair, would joyce look good with waist length hair? It must be a pain in the group showers.

        • aqua
          aqua
          February 24, 2011 at 1:24 pm | #

          its great for protecting your modesty

  7. MeFailWords
    MeFailWords
    February 24, 2011 at 12:14 am | #

    I love cool smooth Sal!

    • MeFailWords
      MeFailWords
      February 24, 2011 at 12:15 am | #

      and a matching appropriate joyce icon… now my comment seems silly.

      • Madock345
        Madock345
        February 24, 2011 at 12:30 am | #

        it diddn’t take an Icon.

        • MeFailWords
          MeFailWords
          February 24, 2011 at 12:50 am | #

          Touche

  8. Guitar Dude From SD
    Guitar Dude From SD
    February 24, 2011 at 12:26 am | #

    Does she still speak with a southern accent?

  9. Shift
    Shift
    February 24, 2011 at 12:41 am | #

    I don’t know about the rest of you all, but hearing someone say “I wanna be just like you” seems kinda unsettling in that “Single-White Female” slasher film sort of way.

    • Ancestral Hamster
      Ancestral Hamster
      February 24, 2011 at 1:36 am | #

      It’s also a song from Disney’s Jungle Book!

      And Sal is looking mighty good here. It’s PSL time!

      (Okay, this is a David Willis webcomic. There has to be PSL involved somehow.)

    • goatman95111
      goatman95111
      February 24, 2011 at 1:46 am | #

      That does actually come off a bit creepy… Though I doubt Joyce would go “Talented Mr. Ripley” or “Roommates” on Sal. Besides, Sal could take her if she did.

  10. Dierna
    Dierna
    February 24, 2011 at 1:37 am | #

    Joyce suddenly reminds me of King Louie from The Jungle Book.

    *sings* Oh, oobee doo
    I wanna be like you
    I wanna walk like you
    Talk like you, too
    You’ll see it’s true
    An ape like me
    Can learn to be humen too

    • Malph
      Malph
      February 24, 2011 at 2:46 am | #

      Oh, oobee doo
      I wanna be like you
      Except without the tattoo
      the rebelling
      and the smoking too.
      But, other than that
      I wanna be like you

      • Osaru Sensei
        Osaru Sensei
        February 24, 2011 at 3:49 am | #

        ROFLMAO.

        love Sal in the final panel.

  11. TexasNinjaBuzzard
    TexasNinjaBuzzard
    February 24, 2011 at 3:04 am | #

    Is… is that a crawfish tattoo? Is this like a bumper-sticker-of-a-hotdog, bumper-sticker-of-a-taco kind of thing?

    • Shivore
      Shivore
      February 24, 2011 at 7:18 am | #

      It’s a Tarantugun tattoo I think. Ref: http://www.joyceandwalky.com/d/20010812.html

  12. MuleyBob
    MuleyBob
    February 24, 2011 at 6:52 am | #

    It looks kinda like a Stich tattoo to me…

  13. DaniellePhantom
    DaniellePhantom
    February 24, 2011 at 7:13 am | #

    i don’t know why, but everytime i look at the cigarette i forget it’s a cigarette and i’m always wondering,”why does sal have a lollipop?”

    • zuche
      zuche
      February 24, 2011 at 9:13 am | #

      Heh. It’s probably for the same reason Kojak had lollipops, then.

  14. Ozzmandius
    Ozzmandius
    February 24, 2011 at 7:22 am | #

    Sooooo, not like her at all then.
    Oh, Joyce, this is one of the times when I find your naïvity adorable. Better than before when I wanted to slap her silly.

    • sainki
      sainki
      February 24, 2011 at 5:35 pm | #

      The urge to slap is still in full swing.

  15. creativerealms
    creativerealms
    February 24, 2011 at 8:18 am | #

    “I want to be just like you minus everything that makes you you.”

    • Gordon
      Gordon
      February 24, 2011 at 10:05 am | #

      Is that too much to ask?

  16. Loki
    Loki
    February 24, 2011 at 10:14 am | #

    Guys, you’re forgetting one thing she didn’t mention that she COULD imitate.

    The outfit. I want you to imagine Joyce in that outfit, not smiling, without the cigarette.

    Same hair, though.

    • Robert in San Diego
      Robert in San Diego
      February 24, 2011 at 10:45 am | #

      That would be interesting. She’d have to work into it by wearing a sweater vest without a blouse first….

  17. begbert2
    begbert2
    February 24, 2011 at 10:31 am | #

    “Okaaay, wayll then, here’s step one: staht barin’ your midriff.”

    “…what?”

  18. Matt of Steel
    Matt of Steel
    February 24, 2011 at 11:06 am | #

    Those things are just things Sal does … not the stuff she’s made of. It is perfectly normal for Joyce to want to empower herself and to have confidence. You can be cool without the cliche “rebel with a cause” candy shell.

    Just take all those same things and put it on someone else and you could have a villian, or a jerk in a bar, or worse still … a hippie.

    • Matt of Steel
      Matt of Steel
      February 24, 2011 at 11:07 am | #

      “without a cause” — derp.

  19. Bill M.
    Bill M.
    February 24, 2011 at 12:36 pm | #

    That’s not a tattoo, that’s what remains after Sal glared at a spider that dared crawl on her arm.

    • Bill M.
      Bill M.
      February 24, 2011 at 12:37 pm | #

      I forgot to mention this happened when she was 5, thus why it seems so large now.

      • DaniellePhantom
        DaniellePhantom
        February 24, 2011 at 6:11 pm | #

        would that make sal the female chuck norris?

        • zuche
          zuche
          February 24, 2011 at 11:22 pm | #

          Chuck Norris wishes he was Sal.

          • DaniellePhantom
            DaniellePhantom
            February 25, 2011 at 12:04 am | #

            is it weird that these are all the same amber gravatar?

          • zuche
            zuche
            February 25, 2011 at 12:09 am | #

            Trapped in Amber?

  20. DrDVD
    DrDVD
    February 24, 2011 at 1:44 pm | #

    I sense a party with spiked punch that joyce is clueless about.

  21. Animal
    Animal
    February 24, 2011 at 1:55 pm | #

    Joyce, step 1: Immediately stop wearing a bra.

    Ever.

  22. Heather
    Heather
    February 24, 2011 at 4:48 pm | #

    “Probably the tattoos” Joyce? Just ‘probably’?

    Why do I get a sudden sense of foreboding if she has her first taste of alcohol?

    While the bible apparently isn’t down on tattoos, the bible doesn’t approve of a lot of things and not every christian even tries follow them to the letter anyway (granted it’s impossible anyway). And I do hear of bikers for jesus- (don’t they have tattoos?)

    Maybe Joyce will try to get Sal to join that gang much to Sals annoyance.

    • Heather
      Heather
      February 24, 2011 at 4:49 pm | #

      “down with”

    • Heather
      Heather
      February 24, 2011 at 4:53 pm | #

      -Rereads- And simply ‘maybe’ on the smoking too?

  23. RandmPerson12
    RandmPerson12
    October 22, 2014 at 8:45 pm | #

    She’s a fictional character, does that count?

Pings & Trackbacks ¬

    • Tweets that mention Dumbing of Age - Put-on -- Topsy.com
      February 24, 2011 at 1:15 am | #

Who's that guy over there?

View Results

Loading ... Loading ...
  • Polls Archive
CONVENTION APPEARANCES


probably not anywhere for a while 'cuz the world is covered in death

Tweets by @damnyouwillis

©2010-2023 Dumbing of Age | Powered by WordPress with ComicPress | Subscribe: RSS | Privacy Policy | Back to Top ↑