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May 19, 2026

Booty call

by David M Willis on June 26, 2014 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - Up All Night to Get Vengeance
└ Tags: danny, jennifer, joyce, sal

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  1. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    June 26, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    Good Grief.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 26, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      Joyce needs some sexual relief.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        June 26, 2014 at 12:21 am | #

        That’s the prob, in brief.

        • GrrArg42
          GrrArg42
          June 26, 2014 at 12:34 am | #

          But… that might upset a strongly held belief!

          • ShaggyDonahugh
            ShaggyDonahugh
            June 26, 2014 at 12:46 am | #

            Aye, but maybe what she needs is just a good old fashioned innocence thief.

            • dailybrad
              dailybrad
              June 26, 2014 at 12:50 am | #

              She might not be the best recipient for Billie’s advice she wishes to bequeath

              • Aizat
                Aizat
                June 26, 2014 at 1:01 am | #

                Unless the advice calls for Joyce to dress in nothing but a leaf.

                • Yotomoe
                  Yotomoe
                  June 26, 2014 at 1:07 am | #

                  Because then Billie and Joyce would have a beef.

                • Aizat
                  Aizat
                  June 26, 2014 at 1:09 am | #

                  And it will not be a relief.

                • Usayasha
                  Usayasha
                  June 26, 2014 at 1:09 am | #

                  Have you considered Ethan’s reaction? He might have some real beef.

                • TwentyThree
                  TwentyThree
                  June 26, 2014 at 1:24 am | #

                  Where is it hidden, inside a sword sheath?

                • Disloyal Subject
                  Disloyal Subject
                  June 26, 2014 at 1:25 am | #

                  Musing on Ethan’s beef has already brought Joyce grief.

                • Yotomoe
                  Yotomoe
                  June 26, 2014 at 1:28 am | #

                  She’s just so obsessed his tight pants, and what could be underneath.

                • Aizat
                  Aizat
                  June 26, 2014 at 1:49 am | #

                  But little did Joyce knows, what underneath Ethan’s pants is beyond belief.

                • BalRog gets a "D"...and PASSES!!!
                  BalRog gets a "D"...and PASSES!!!
                  June 26, 2014 at 2:46 pm | #

                  That wouldn’t be too hard. Since Joyce can barely imagine seeing a boxer (or brief).

                • Roborat
                  Roborat
                  June 30, 2014 at 4:04 pm | #

                  I just hope that she doesn’t queef.

          • ProjectXa3
            ProjectXa3
            June 26, 2014 at 1:27 am | #

            Sorry to break it up, but that is the best possible icon for that comment!

        • Bunk
          Bunk
          June 26, 2014 at 10:40 am | #

          More like, in Briefs… Actually I think Ethan wears boxers.

    • SeanNOLA
      SeanNOLA
      June 26, 2014 at 7:43 pm | #

      But in all the excitement, she’ll probably queef.

      • SeanNOLA
        SeanNOLA
        June 26, 2014 at 7:44 pm | #

        (I know, I know, but it was low hanging fruit)

  2. Mr. Random
    Mr. Random
    June 26, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    See Joyce. You’re learning!

    • Kiapdx
      Kiapdx
      June 26, 2014 at 12:23 am | #

      At least she understood that the booty was the recipient of the call. A friend of mine thought it was just another name for “butt-dialing” and said her dad booty called her.

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        June 26, 2014 at 1:08 am | #

        D:

        • Tunaro
          Tunaro
          June 26, 2014 at 1:16 am | #

          http://explosm.net/comics/2189/ (*x*)

        • Kiapdx
          Kiapdx
          June 26, 2014 at 11:31 am | #

          I have an unfortunate number of friends who make these mistakes. I feel like I need to just give them an afternoon to browse Urban Dictionary for any phrase they have ever heard so it stops happening.

    • Aeron
      Aeron
      June 26, 2014 at 8:05 am | #

      Gooble, gobble, gooble, gooble, ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

  3. An Average Loser
    An Average Loser
    June 26, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    hehe, Tushie.

    • Tunaro
      Tunaro
      June 26, 2014 at 1:17 am | #

      The mushy tushie was very cushy.

    • Tunaro
      Tunaro
      June 26, 2014 at 1:17 am | #

      The mushy tushie was very cushy.

      • Gigafreak
        Gigafreak
        June 26, 2014 at 10:11 am | #

        There’s no need to be so pushy.

        • Dibullba
          Dibullba
          June 26, 2014 at 11:02 am | #

          Unless it is on the very cushy, mushy tushie

  4. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    June 26, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    That’s exactly how I’d do it. If I had booties to call.

    • Tom Speelman
      Tom Speelman
      June 26, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

      There’s one out there for everyone!

  5. synnerman
    synnerman
    June 26, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    *fugue* I would love to see alternate universe Ethan/Jacob porn. I would pay money.

    • TJ Baltimore
      TJ Baltimore
      June 27, 2014 at 4:26 pm | #

      I second that!

  6. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    June 26, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    SJoyce has the worse case of blue ovaries I have ever seen.

    • Tandel
      Tandel
      June 26, 2014 at 1:27 am | #

      With the social groups I’ve hung out with, I’ve never gotten to see what a sexually repressed person looks like in person. Without a frame of reference, this feels accurate.

      Having experienced plenty of blue balls, however, empathizing with her pain is easy.

  7. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    June 26, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    It’s just…what is that Joyce face in the last panel?

    • Sam
      Sam
      June 26, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

      The rare “unaware she’s suffering from sexual frustration” Joyce.

      • dailybrad
        dailybrad
        June 26, 2014 at 12:51 am | #

        She’s all too aware, really. What she lacks is the proper respect for her libido, and thinks she can bury it.

        • Tunaro
          Tunaro
          June 26, 2014 at 1:19 am | #

          And soon, it will erupt from the grave with an undead horny vengeance.

          • Gigafreak
            Gigafreak
            June 26, 2014 at 10:13 am | #

            Is it still necrophilia if the zombie is the one seducing you

            • Catullus
              Catullus
              June 26, 2014 at 11:55 am | #

              It would depend on how much they’ve decomposed.

            • Time Sage
              Time Sage
              June 26, 2014 at 10:22 pm | #

              “I was alone, and I needed a date;
              I was takin’ a walk past the cemetery gate
              When I, I saw a sign that said “For a good time
              “Take a left down at Tombstone Number 8”.
              Went to the gateway, and I’m pretty sure I
              Saw some eyes peepin’ out of a “seplucher”, I
              Took a step into the Tomb of Ill Repute
              That’s where I met her, the Zombie Prostitute”
              -Zombie Prostitute by Volitare

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 26, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

      “Billie…did you fart?”
      “Well all of your talk of tushies reminded me I ate like 20 tacos last night”
      “is that why you’re so fa-”
      “Fabulous? Yes.”

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        June 26, 2014 at 12:55 am | #

        Billie’s fat? How dare you, good sir! She is pleasantly plump, I say.

        • Tunaro
          Tunaro
          June 26, 2014 at 1:21 am | #

          Quite. Why I should dare say that she is down right Rubenesque.

          • Aizat
            Aizat
            June 26, 2014 at 1:48 am | #

            You’re quite right, Tunaro. And I don’t see anything wrong with that.

          • Yotomoe
            Yotomoe
            June 26, 2014 at 1:48 am | #

            She’s what I’d call squishy.
            I NEED a girlfriend that’s squishy!

            • Anarchy 101
              Anarchy 101
              June 26, 2014 at 10:51 pm | #

              I’d call her downright fluffy

  8. Xailenrath
    Xailenrath
    June 26, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Oh, Joyce…
    She’s just so… SWEET.
    The planet will crush her someday. I don’t wanna be ’round when it happens. It’ll be ugly.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 26, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      I want front row seats.

      • Tunaro
        Tunaro
        June 26, 2014 at 1:24 am | #

        I imagine it would be like a small egg falling from its nest on the roof of a high-rise building. It simply rolls out, falls through the air long enough for people to see it coming, then just splatters all over the sidewalk.

        • Rabid Rabbit
          Rabid Rabbit
          June 26, 2014 at 2:10 am | #

          On the other hand, if it’s anything like a penny, it’ll kill whoever it lands on.

          • Bill
            Bill
            June 27, 2014 at 12:28 am | #

            Mythbusters busted that one years ago.

    • -JAD-
      -JAD-
      June 26, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

      It’s the rain…

      • Wack'd
        Wack'd
        June 26, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

        It’s the storm we all have to endure…

        • IAmDeltaS
          IAmDeltaS
          June 26, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

          We hate it, but it’s every drop that runs down your face that traces out who you are…

      • Bill
        Bill
        June 26, 2014 at 1:26 am | #

        God is in the rain.

      • Ocbrad1
        Ocbrad1
        June 26, 2014 at 9:19 am | #

        https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NwrL9MV6jSk

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      June 26, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

      Joyce is a good kid. It’ll be sad when this world breaks her.

      • ShaggyDonahugh
        ShaggyDonahugh
        June 26, 2014 at 12:47 am | #

        Winter is coming.

        • Anarchy 101
          Anarchy 101
          June 26, 2014 at 10:52 pm | #

          And a Willis never pays his debts?

  9. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    June 26, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Everyone should know about *69. People still have blocked numbers!

  10. Leorale
    Leorale
    June 26, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    I fully intend to use this line whenever it next becomes relevant.

  11. Nono
    Nono
    June 26, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Have we ever seen Ethan’s butt? I feel like we should, if Joyce is that captivated by it.

    Then again she also wants his chest.

    Maybe we should just have Ethan naked.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 26, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      We should have everyone naked. What’s with all these clothes? Gettin’ in the way of the fun parts.

      • Nono
        Nono
        June 26, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

        Hey, clothes have their uses! Like accentuating fun parts.

        • Tom Speelman
          Tom Speelman
          June 26, 2014 at 12:14 am | #

          That type of clothing can be quite painful; let it be said.

      • Sam
        Sam
        June 26, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

        But I like my clothes! They are fun and dapper and I put a lot of thought into them. :<

      • Bill
        Bill
        June 26, 2014 at 1:10 am | #

        Think of it like eating crab legs, shrimp, or oysters.  If you want to get to the good stuff, you’ve got to take off the outer layer……

        • 4th Dimension
          4th Dimension
          June 26, 2014 at 3:28 am | #

          With a hammer? 😀

          • Bill
            Bill
            June 26, 2014 at 12:51 pm | #

            And a screwdriver and pliers, If necessary.

      • tinfoil theory
        tinfoil theory
        June 26, 2014 at 3:12 am | #

        pockets

    • Tunaro
      Tunaro
      June 26, 2014 at 1:36 am | #

      http://itswalky.deviantart.com/art/Pin-Up-Week-Ethan-311395895
      Not his butt, per se, but I feel this works.

  12. Khaner
    Khaner
    June 26, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    May also touch Ethan’s tushie?

  13. Leorale
    Leorale
    June 26, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP_BsSUXGx8&feature=kp

    Betch!

  14. Rosicrucian
    Rosicrucian
    June 26, 2014 at 12:04 am | #

    Billie is continuing her trend of guessing every last relationship wrong, I see.

    • -JAD-
      -JAD-
      June 26, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      But I like how she tries to help, she is a good person despite her… anger and pride, I guess?

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 26, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

      Every Relationship is wrong
      Guys are girls
      Gay is straight
      and booze is wrong.
      And everything you thought was so important doesn’t matter!
      Every Relationship is wrong
      So just make out all night long.
      All you need to understand is
      Every Relationship is WRroooooooooooooong.

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        June 26, 2014 at 12:46 am | #

        And I’m imagining the disembodied head of Colonel Sanders yelling.

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        June 26, 2014 at 8:47 am | #

        Yotome, I now officially love you. Anyone who parodies WAY is too adorkable to resist.

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      June 26, 2014 at 12:11 am | #

      You’re Still Wrong (You Stupid Drunk)

    • Charlie Spencer
      Charlie Spencer
      June 26, 2014 at 5:31 am | #

      Seriously. If it was a booty call, why would Sal bother getting dressed?

  15. CaptMuffin
    CaptMuffin
    June 26, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    Dude, everyone in my high school knew about *69. How else could we prank call Pizza Hut after they blocked Skype calls?

    • timemonkey
      timemonkey
      June 26, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

      Why would you prank call Pizza Hut? You are preventing people from ordering valuable pizza!

      YOU SICKEN ME! *spits*

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        June 26, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

        No, he’s preventing people from ordering regular pizza. Now if he was prank calling DOMINOES, THEN it’d be valuable pizza.

        • Bill
          Bill
          June 26, 2014 at 1:07 am | #

          Forgive him, chef Eduardo, he is inexperienced in the ways of pizza and does not know any better.

        • StClair
          StClair
          June 26, 2014 at 1:10 am | #

          Dominoes is the opposite of valuable.

          • Ocksgrough
            Ocksgrough
            June 26, 2014 at 2:25 am | #

            You are terrible.

            • Rutee
              Rutee
              June 26, 2014 at 5:23 am | #

              Much like Dominoes.

          • gwalla
            gwalla
            June 26, 2014 at 9:45 pm | #

            Dominos is the opposite of pizza.

        • timemonkey
          timemonkey
          June 26, 2014 at 6:40 am | #

          ALL PIZZA IS VALUABLE!

        • Thanks, I'll Have Another!
          Thanks, I'll Have Another!
          June 26, 2014 at 10:11 am | #

          I pity tha fool who tries to prank call Galasso’s, though.

          • nothri
            nothri
            June 26, 2014 at 6:49 pm | #

            “I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for a delivery, I can tell you we only serve walk in customers. What I do have to deliver is a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you hang up now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you call here again, I WILL look for you, I WILL find you, and I will kill you. ALL HAIL GALASSO!”

            • Yotomoe
              Yotomoe
              June 26, 2014 at 9:57 pm | #

              Yes.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        June 26, 2014 at 12:29 am | #

        Pizza Hut was my favourite pizza chain because for a long time here in Australia, most other pizza places didn’t include ingredients like beef as I didn’t like ham or bacon.

        • Kryss LaBryn
          Kryss LaBryn
          June 27, 2014 at 1:28 pm | #

          Pizza Hut has the best crusts.

    • Random832
      Random832
      June 26, 2014 at 3:08 am | #

      How could *69 possibly be useful for making prank calls?

      • Rutee
        Rutee
        June 26, 2014 at 5:27 am | #

        It’s not, but *67 is. *69 is just apparently something you learn about incidentally.

  16. Rani
    Rani
    June 26, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    Danny’s so money and he don’t even know it

  17. CarlaGriffin
    CarlaGriffin
    June 26, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    Thank you please.

  18. timemonkey
    timemonkey
    June 26, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    It’s pretty interesting how Joyce is becoming more willing to talk about her desires and just who she’s willing to open up to about what. Sarah for life information, Dorothy about her fears and faith and Billie about her sexual desires.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 26, 2014 at 12:22 am | #

      If there’s anyone to talk to about sexual desires it’s the queen of sexually desiring people/being sexually desired.

  19. Marc in MN
    Marc in MN
    June 26, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    I would get the *69 joke!

    Who’s going to give me an “old person” high-five? Anyone?…

    • Tom Speelman
      Tom Speelman
      June 26, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

      *high-fived!*

    • Chris Phoenix
      Chris Phoenix
      June 26, 2014 at 12:38 am | #

      I remember *before* *69… when you coudn’t dial *69… because there was no star on the dial! (I wonder how many kids today don’t realize why it’s called “dialing” a number?)

      • StClair
        StClair
        June 26, 2014 at 1:11 am | #

        The sound of a phone ringing, or a record being scratched, will outlive all of us.

      • Gigafreak
        Gigafreak
        June 26, 2014 at 1:15 am | #

        I never used a rotary phone myself, but stared at one long enough to figure out how to use it, and why it works that way.

        If you REALLY wanna go way back, how about the ones neither a dial NOR buttons, where you just tap the lever X times really fast for each number?

        • Betty Anne
          Betty Anne
          June 26, 2014 at 1:25 am | #

          Whippersnapper with your new-fangled phones. Why, back in the day we just picked up the handset and asked Peggy to connect us to the party line!

          • EEWWW
            EEWWW
            June 26, 2014 at 5:38 am | #

            After the party line was vanquished by Ma Bell bureaucrats, and almost every phone sold *everywhere* was touch tone because most companies were going to automated systems, my aunt kept her rotary dial phone. Why? It was bought already (after years of having to LEASE a phone, she’d made the decision to never pay for another phone again!) and it worked perfectly fine. Also, she discovered that the local phone company was going to charge her an extra $6/mo. for the touch tone feature… which her paid for, working phone couldn’t even use. We kept it that way for a year after she passed away, until my sister (who moved into the house) got married and her (now ex) husband changed it cause he’s a douche.

            • Morgauxo
              Morgauxo
              June 26, 2014 at 8:47 am | #

              Meh, not that big of a douche. At least not for that reason. He did have to live in the place!

              I had rotary and pulse dialing as a young kid and I don’t remember hating it. After many years of not expeiencing it I got ahold of an old rotary phone and hooked it up just to be different. This was probably 14 years ago now and at the last place I ever lived with a landline. It turned out that I couldn’t stand to use the thing. All that waiting between digits was driving me nuts! Sorry, after living in the present for a while one gets used to the conveniences.

        • Kryss LaBryn
          Kryss LaBryn
          June 27, 2014 at 1:32 pm | #

          That worked with the rotaries as well, if you were careful.

          I actually do have an antique-styled rotary phone (which is pretty much an oxymoron these days *sigh*) but I don’t have a land-line to plug it into.

          Know what’s awesome? The recording for the main number into CFB Kingston still says “…if you’re calling from a rotary phone, please stay on the line and the operator will be with you shortly.” <3

          • Roborat
            Roborat
            June 30, 2014 at 4:10 pm | #

            Well, in their defense, there are still a lot of hillbillies around Kingston.

      • Random832
        Random832
        June 26, 2014 at 3:03 am | #

        On dial phones it’s 1169, and I believe the service actually existed before touch tone.

      • Ocbrad1
        Ocbrad1
        June 26, 2014 at 9:22 am | #

        Right there with you. Now get those kids off my lawn!

      • John
        John
        June 26, 2014 at 12:55 pm | #

        I have a wall-mount rotary phone that’s old enough that it has a plaque on the inside of the receiver that says “BELL SYSTEM PROPERTY : NOT FOR SALE”. It was installed by the phone company back when Ma Bell owned the entire system and everything connected to it, down to the instrument in your house, and was just letting you pay for the privilege of using it.

        It’s still hooked up, because a) it’s wired directly into the phone box, no modular jacks – an unbroken wire comes out the back of the phone unit, goes down the wall, behind the baseboard, through the floor, across the basement through a couple of walls down there, through the outside wall, and into the phone box – and I haven’t felt like messing with it, and b) the last time the room got wallpapered, they just papered around it, so there’s a big square hole in the wallpaper behind the phone.

        I don’t have voice service on my landline. The line it’s hooked to only does DSL. There’s no dial tone on the phone, but you can listen to my Internet on it because there’s nowhere to put a DSL filter in because no modular jacks.

    • Jen
      Jen
      June 26, 2014 at 9:22 am | #

      I still have rotary phones! Granted, they’re not hooked up to anything currently, but perhaps one day they will be again. 🙂

      There is something tangibly satisfying about dialing a number on those and listening to the noise it makes as the dial rotates back to home position.

      • Swerve
        Swerve
        June 26, 2014 at 12:50 pm | #

        Pfft. Rotary phones! Cybertron adopted mobile phones with keypads over ten million years ago! Next you’ll tell me your planet still uses cable television, asphalt highways, fiat currency based on reserve banking or chlorinated swimming pools!

        • Gadgeteer Smashwidget
          Gadgeteer Smashwidget
          June 26, 2014 at 1:55 pm | #

          and what do you prefer over asphalt, o mighty Transformer?

          • Deanatay
            Deanatay
            June 26, 2014 at 7:41 pm | #

            Tempered glass with built-in solar power generation and smart lights for on-the-fly traffic direction?
            http://www.solarroadways.com/intro.shtml

            • gwalla
              gwalla
              June 26, 2014 at 9:48 pm | #

              Not if they’re smart.

          • xKiv
            xKiv
            June 26, 2014 at 8:52 pm | #

            Levitation?

          • Swerve
            Swerve
            June 26, 2014 at 10:54 pm | #

            Ferrous highways, complete with magnetic suspension, and Guardian Droids directing traffic. You’ve never truly driven down a freeway, until you’ve been to Nyon. And I’m not kidding about chlorinated pools. Those are breeding grounds for Scraplets.

  20. Null Set
    Null Set
    June 26, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

    This is why I like Billie. She is straightforward enough to not just laugh at Joyce when she doesn’t know something.

  21. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    June 26, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

    The real trick is teaching your booty to take a message.

  22. Swerve
    Swerve
    June 26, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

    Rung would have a field day with the way Billie assumes that everything either a) revolves completely around her, b) is all related to intercourse or c) revolves completely around having intercourse with her. 😉

    Got some interesting news from the Lost Light. Bluestreak’s helping me out now that we’ve taken on a larger crew. He’s my assistant bartender and the ship’s official “entertainments officer”. So he’s been arranging poetry slams, karaoke night, showings of Earth movies, and uploading comic books he downloaded on Earth to a select mailing list.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      June 26, 2014 at 12:45 am | #

      Bluestreak? That chatterbox? BTW, what ever happened to the coffin the Lost Light brought in?

      • Swerve
        Swerve
        June 26, 2014 at 7:40 am | #

        I believe the appropriate phrase is “Spoilers”!

        Seriously, buy “Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye” issue 30 to find out!

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          June 26, 2014 at 9:47 am | #

          Oh right, sorry. By the way, I never heard of this Riptide fellow before, is he on the level?

          • Swerve
            Swerve
            June 26, 2014 at 12:42 pm | #

            No good sir, he’s been sent by the devil!

            Heh, sorry, Bluestreak was showing us “Simpsons” episodes recently. That monorail song is a real audio-receptor worm, isn’t it?

            Yeah, Riptide’s great. He and his fellow Hydrobots came in real handy when we were fighting those Ammonite creeps. And he helped me and Crosscut run the “crewditions”, though I don’t think Riptide’s fuel pump was in it. He’s a real loyal Autobot and a valuable member of the Lost Light’s crew. Unlike a certain genocidal tyrant who somehow finagled himself into becoming co-captain, that I could mention. Have I mentioned how much I distrust Megatron yet today? Because this whole “co-captain” thing of his is obviously part of an intricate scheme to defeat the Autobots from within, murder Optimus Prime and conquer the galaxy! Just you guys wait!

            • Swerve
              Swerve
              June 26, 2014 at 12:44 pm | #

              That last part came out way too Italic-y. Ultra Magnus would blow a gasket if he saw that the italics I’d intended for The Lost Light somehow spilled over to the rest of the comment. I blame your planet’s primitive computer languages. :p

              • Aizat
                Aizat
                June 26, 2014 at 1:27 pm | #

                Nah, don’t worry about it. Unlike Magnus, I’m not too retentive about grammar. Then again, I never Autobots are so particular about punctuations. What’s this about the semi-colon I hear about?

                • Swerve
                  Swerve
                  June 26, 2014 at 10:58 pm | #

                  Hey, deleting that semi-colon saved over half the Cybertronians who survived the war! Three cheers for Tailgate, and to Ultra Magnus for forcing Tailgate to study like a college student cramming for finals! (Bluestreak’s shown us “Animal House”.)

                • Bill
                  Bill
                  June 27, 2014 at 12:31 am | #

                  Hey, you two, get a room!!

    • Cybersnark
      Cybersnark
      June 26, 2014 at 8:47 am | #

      I get the feeling Rung would have a field day with everyone in this comic.

      • Swerve
        Swerve
        June 26, 2014 at 12:35 pm | #

        True, but Rung would find some members of the cast much more, shall we say, interesting to analyze, than others. 😉

  23. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    June 26, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

    Billie still hasn’t done anything to make me not believe she’s the dorm’s Psyduck.

    • Gigafreak
      Gigafreak
      June 26, 2014 at 10:20 am | #

      They are both even wearing yellow

      It must be true

  24. ProfessorBlind
    ProfessorBlind
    June 26, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

    I’d never refer to mine as a ‘charging cord for the DS’ but far be it from me to criticize Sal for her choice of euphemism

    • Ocbrad1
      Ocbrad1
      June 26, 2014 at 9:23 am | #

      +1

    • Gigafreak
      Gigafreak
      June 26, 2014 at 10:22 am | #

      DS totally stands for Delightful Socket

  25. A5PECT
    A5PECT
    June 26, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

    Billie may be getting a little rusty. Booty calls usually involve the removal of clothing, rather than putting more on.

    Well, sometimes it can be the former. Sal does like to wear a lot of leather, after all.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 26, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

      Don’t imply that sometimes sex is kinkier with a top on.
      Either that or maybe she’s putting it on so she can dynamically take it off mid cowgirl.

      • Thanks, I'll Have Another!
        Thanks, I'll Have Another!
        June 26, 2014 at 10:15 am | #

        Billie would know a thing or two about that, to be sure. Especially where Danny’s concerned.

  26. Nono
    Nono
    June 26, 2014 at 12:22 am | #

    I misread that fourth panel as ‘putting a phone up someone’s butt’.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      June 26, 2014 at 12:31 am | #

      That would be one awkward visit to the emergancy ward if booty calls did work like that.

    • Wizard
      Wizard
      June 26, 2014 at 12:38 am | #

      I’m pretty sure that’s not quite how phone sex is supposed to work.

  27. newllend
    newllend
    June 26, 2014 at 12:28 am | #

    Ethan booty: STOP CALLING ME!

    • AgentKeen
      AgentKeen
      June 26, 2014 at 12:34 am | #

      I’M IN THE BATHROOM, GOSH!
      -FRRT-

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        June 26, 2014 at 12:57 am | #

        Well, we can safely say that Ethan’s booty is talking out of his ass.

        • Gigafreak
          Gigafreak
          June 26, 2014 at 1:17 am | #

          He’s an aspiring comedian, remember? It’s his impression of Jim Carey!

      • thinkingofthechildren
        thinkingofthechildren
        June 26, 2014 at 3:43 am | #

        I am ashamed that this sophomoric fart joke made me laugh harder than Willis’ well crafted comic…yet…here we are.

    • Deanatay
      Deanatay
      June 26, 2014 at 7:48 pm | #

      Ethan’s Body: STOP CALLING ME I’m waiting for Jacob’s body to call… c’mon, ring… ring… RING RING RING RING…

  28. AgentKeen
    AgentKeen
    June 26, 2014 at 12:29 am | #

    See, I was approaching the alt-text from the wrong direction. ‘I mean, they’d get the 69, I think, so does he mean the star is an anus or something?’

    Then I realized it was the actual use of star69, which I’m not sure I know even though I’m old enough, because I never liked phones or using them. My cellphone is pretty much a watch.

    • The1exile
      The1exile
      June 26, 2014 at 2:37 pm | #

      I only know the fatboy slim song star 69. Didn’t even know it had an alternate meaning.

      • gwalla
        gwalla
        June 26, 2014 at 9:50 pm | #

        There’s a Fatboy Slim tune by that name? I know there’s an REM one…

  29. Bill
    Bill
    June 26, 2014 at 12:33 am | #

    Love the way that Joyce’s huge baby-blues shrink down to the size of pencil erasers in the last panel.  And this seems to be a common occurrence when she finds herself thinking about things that she thinks she shouldn’t be thinking of….

  30. Chris Phoenix
    Chris Phoenix
    June 26, 2014 at 12:34 am | #

    Joyce _REALLY_ needs to hear this song:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NicfLmpYuy8

    It’s a very clever song about how to keep your virginity (technically)…
    It’s NSFW, and probably offensive to fundamentalists.

    • Kelvandil
      Kelvandil
      June 26, 2014 at 8:44 pm | #

      Offensive? They practice it!

  31. Pyr05
    Pyr05
    June 26, 2014 at 12:34 am | #

    Hey lookit! Joyce got one!

  32. Aizat
    Aizat
    June 26, 2014 at 12:42 am | #

    You know, I’m glad I understand what a bootie call is before I went to college. Thank you, Western movies.

    • Animal
      Animal
      June 26, 2014 at 8:41 am | #

      I’m glad I understood what a bootie call was before the term entered mainstream American slang. Thank you, summer of 1978.

      • Gigafreak
        Gigafreak
        June 26, 2014 at 10:25 am | #

        Yes, your glory years of sailing the seven seas on a pirate ship, and shouting out to alert your crewmates when you discovered the treasue: the booty call.

        • Animal
          Animal
          June 26, 2014 at 11:12 am | #

          The treasure’s name was Mary.

          • The Candyman
            The Candyman
            June 26, 2014 at 6:36 pm | #

            One of these days you’re going to have to write a memoir.

  33. MrSirk
    MrSirk
    June 26, 2014 at 12:43 am | #

    Okay, Joyce knows waaay more than she lets on.

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      June 26, 2014 at 12:51 am | #

      So, she’s a Salarian?

      • Don't Mind Me
        Don't Mind Me
        June 26, 2014 at 1:49 am | #

        The very model of a scientist Salarian.

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          June 26, 2014 at 2:42 am | #

          But it’s Joyce.

        • Roborat
          Roborat
          June 30, 2014 at 4:17 pm | #

          I tired to make something work with the Major General song, but failed miserably.

  34. Nanibeth
    Nanibeth
    June 26, 2014 at 12:57 am | #

    oh god please don’t say “wouldn’t get the *-69 reference”. That makes me feel sad and old.

    • Rutee
      Rutee
      June 26, 2014 at 1:13 am | #

      Old is 65.

      • Bill
        Bill
        June 26, 2014 at 1:31 am | #

        Whew!!  I’m safe by 5.4 years.

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        June 30, 2014 at 4:17 pm | #

        65 is the new 40.

        • Rutee
          Rutee
          July 2, 2014 at 3:26 pm | #

          I think you have to grow up in an elephant graveyard like Florida to be saying it? Most people seem to still say 40.

    • Mc
      Mc
      June 26, 2014 at 8:38 am | #

      Can’t blame Willis for not taking the chance after the vibrator-incident.

      • Gigafreak
        Gigafreak
        June 26, 2014 at 10:27 am | #

        I think “these kids” means Joyce and Billie. In the age of smartphones, caller ID and redial, *69 is pretty obsolete.

  35. Ridureyu
    Ridureyu
    June 26, 2014 at 1:42 am | #

    I refuse to believe that Danny is more sexually knowledgeable than Joyce.

    Danny is a virgin.

    Even if Danny had sex, he would still be a virgin.

    • 3oranges
      3oranges
      June 26, 2014 at 1:49 am | #

      Not if: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-3/01-if-the-shoes-split/bandaid/

      • Ridureyu
        Ridureyu
        June 26, 2014 at 1:58 am | #

        Exactly. Danny is still a virgin. He would dan sex up so much that it doesn’t count.

        • Ridureyu
          Ridureyu
          June 26, 2014 at 1:58 am | #

          Danny doesn’t have a penis. Just a frowny face.

          • Yotomoe
            Yotomoe
            June 26, 2014 at 2:26 am | #

            When Danny tried to have sex with Dorothy his junk just veered out of the way like one of those cartoon keys that doesn’t wanna go in the keyhole.

          • gwalla
            gwalla
            June 26, 2014 at 9:54 pm | #

            That reminds me of something (NSFW)

    • tinfoil theory
      tinfoil theory
      June 26, 2014 at 3:27 am | #

      Virginity is a state of mind.

      In this universe, Danny is not a virgin.

  36. Jason
    Jason
    June 26, 2014 at 1:43 am | #

    I’m amused that Billie thinks that Danny is in Sal’s league.

    • luxlucis
      luxlucis
      June 26, 2014 at 1:47 am | #

      He is! Multiversally even!

      • Jason
        Jason
        June 26, 2014 at 7:56 pm | #

        Eh, different universe, different Sal, a much different relationship, for which the words “booty call” don’t apply, at least in my book.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      June 26, 2014 at 2:24 am | #

      Billie thought Danny was at least in her own league. At least for a brief lapse in judgement.

      • Rutee
        Rutee
        June 26, 2014 at 5:31 am | #

        This league nonsense makes even less sense than the sports it’s named after, but I’m pretty sure turning Billie down makes Danny the one who’s out of her league.

        • Coco
          Coco
          June 26, 2014 at 7:06 am | #

          Whenever Leagues and the like are brought up, I always think of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR6sxFBm1P8

          • Rutee
            Rutee
            June 26, 2014 at 12:46 pm | #

            So the motto of the video is that tiers are for people of taste?

        • Jason
          Jason
          June 26, 2014 at 7:55 pm | #

          But Billie knows that Danny didn’t turn her down because she isn’t hot enough, he did it because he was protecting her from herself! *eye-roll*

      • Jason
        Jason
        June 26, 2014 at 7:52 pm | #

        I’m equally amused that Billie thinks she’s hotter than Sal.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          June 26, 2014 at 9:59 pm | #

          Come on Jason. I know you and Sal are an item, but we all know Billie’s got it goin’ on.

    • Kodra
      Kodra
      June 26, 2014 at 8:51 am | #

      To be perfectly fair, Sal sure does seem to like the taste of wonderbread, as exhibited in her interactions with Jason, who may be the only man on the entire IU campus whiter than Danny.

      • Jason
        Jason
        June 26, 2014 at 7:53 pm | #

        That’s a good point, although at least Jason has a spine.

  37. Ancestral Hamster
    Ancestral Hamster
    June 26, 2014 at 2:00 am | #

    Billie is like the Anti-Relationship counselor: she just getting everything all wrong.

  38. Orangey
    Orangey
    June 26, 2014 at 2:11 am | #

    It shows that Joyce has come a long way when she doesn’t freak out over Billie mentioning ‘casual sex’ and instead makes a joke about tushies. Woo Joyce!

  39. All-purpose guru
    All-purpose guru
    June 26, 2014 at 2:16 am | #

    Hell, he never got any from Sal in the Walkyverse and he was DATING her. If he gets some now it will just show how twisted Willis really is.

  40. ANeM
    ANeM
    June 26, 2014 at 3:06 am | #

    So, how long until someone tells Amber about Dannys “Booty Call” with Sal and she flips right off the deepend again?

    • Betty Anne
      Betty Anne
      June 26, 2014 at 5:43 am | #

      I expect Joyce is going to mention it casually as soon as she sees her (since she was willing to ask everyone to borrow a strap-on without knowing what one was), and Billie’s not going to stop her because she’s not going to know any better. :/

      • Gigafreak
        Gigafreak
        June 26, 2014 at 10:35 am | #

        Danny informed Billie that Amazi-Girl is his girlfriend.

        Billie believes Amazi-Girl is Sal.

        Therefore, Danny arrived at Billie&Sal’s room to see his girlfriend.

        • Catullus
          Catullus
          June 26, 2014 at 12:14 pm | #

          But since then, Danny discovered that Amazi-Girl is actually Amber.

          • John
            John
            June 26, 2014 at 2:03 pm | #

            But Billie doesn’t know that.

            • Gigafreak
              Gigafreak
              June 26, 2014 at 2:39 pm | #

              Hell, Amber even told Billie and Billie refused to believe it.

  41. Kschenke
    Kschenke
    June 26, 2014 at 8:05 am | #

    So Amber is going to hear this all from Joyce and stop talking to Danny because she’ll think he gave up on her.

    Ugh. I hate knowing how good a chance there is of that happening.

    On the other hand, Joyce is doing really well right now even though she knows someone she knows might be having sex.

    • Argon
      Argon
      June 26, 2014 at 10:57 am | #

      At this point I think pre-marital hanky-panky is water under the bridge for her.

    • Gigafreak
      Gigafreak
      June 26, 2014 at 2:42 pm | #

      Presuming Joyce has a reason to talk to Amber in the first place. Joyce kind of dislikes Amber due to Ethan-related jealousy, if memory serves.

      • David M Willis
        David M Willis
        June 26, 2014 at 6:25 pm | #

        Plus Danny and Amber aren’t dating, Danny and Amazi-Girl are.

        • The Candyman
          The Candyman
          June 26, 2014 at 6:33 pm | #

          So Danny can only get it up when she’s wearing a costume?

          • nothri
            nothri
            June 26, 2014 at 7:24 pm | #

            Hey man, don’t judge him. Everybody’s got their own kinks.

        • nothri
          nothri
          June 26, 2014 at 7:25 pm | #

          Did…Did…Did David Willis just make a “Amber isn’t really Amazigirl teehee” joke? I think we’ve just seen a sign of the Apocalypse!

          • David M Willis
            David M Willis
            June 26, 2014 at 7:27 pm | #

            ….no….?

            I’m saying Joyce wouldn’t tell Amber anything about Danny because JOYCE DOES NOT KNOW SHE IS DANNY’S GIRLFRIEND, WHO IS AMAZI-GIRL.

            • John
              John
              June 26, 2014 at 8:02 pm | #

              Does Joyce even know that Amazi-Girl is Danny’s girlfriend?

  42. James Rye
    James Rye
    June 26, 2014 at 8:15 am | #

    If Danny really ends up sleeping with Sal….. I’m not sure how I should react to that.

    • hof1991
      hof1991
      June 26, 2014 at 11:15 am | #

      Sal does have a history of paying her tutors and Danny would be better for her than hate fucks with Jason. Still hope it doesn’t go there.

  43. Chris
    Chris
    June 26, 2014 at 8:22 am | #

    I’m loving the phrase “thank you please” here.

    Also, Billie’s “That’s not that far off, actually.”: Indeed, only inches away…

  44. Angel
    Angel
    June 26, 2014 at 8:23 am | #

    ha, it’s like she’s five…

  45. Tenn
    Tenn
    June 26, 2014 at 8:58 am | #

    “I even know a booty call when I don’t see one.”

  46. OmegaDez
    OmegaDez
    June 26, 2014 at 9:12 am | #

    I smell gossip and misunderstandings in the near future.

  47. FuryOfFirestorm
    FuryOfFirestorm
    June 26, 2014 at 9:34 am | #

    Not to be confused with butt-dialling.

    • Axel
      Axel
      June 26, 2014 at 11:37 am | #

      Her guess was pretty close to butt-dialing, though.

  48. CommentSpawn
    CommentSpawn
    June 26, 2014 at 5:34 pm | #

    I know what *69 is! I’m 23, so no idea if you were thinking of my age as a kid or not.

  49. nothri
    nothri
    June 26, 2014 at 7:13 pm | #

    “I would have thought it was like, phoning up someone’s butt or something”

    …..you know, when I first read that line last night, my brain interpreted it in the worst way possible. As in someone’s phone was currently lodged in a very painful and unfortunate space.

  50. Seerow
    Seerow
    June 26, 2014 at 11:48 pm | #

    I’m confused as to how Billie thought Sal getting dressed made this situation into an obvious booty call.

  51. Kani
    Kani
    June 27, 2014 at 2:14 pm | #

    Oh man. I had forgotten all about *69.

  52. BrokenEye, True False Prophet
    BrokenEye, True False Prophet
    September 26, 2015 at 5:01 am | #

    No, Joyce, that’s butt dialing

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