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June 14, 2026

Scowl

by David M Willis on August 11, 2014 at 12:01 am
  • 04 - The Whiteboard Dingdong Bandit
└ Tags: alice, jennifer, joyce, walky

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  1. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    August 11, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    whoops?

    • An Average Loser
      An Average Loser
      August 11, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

      Oh, Hi Alice.

      • L33tmaster
        L33tmaster
        August 11, 2014 at 12:39 am | #

        oh snap here it comes

      • Krell
        Krell
        August 11, 2014 at 1:38 am | #

        YOU ARE TEARING ME APART, ALICE

        • A
          A
          August 25, 2014 at 11:00 pm | #

          WHY ALICE WHY

    • Azrael
      Azrael
      August 11, 2014 at 9:41 pm | #

      Yeah, I love when the happy, upbeat, and optimistic stuff that comes out of Joyce’s mouth is actually the Toll of Doom. 😆

  2. Shadic
    Shadic
    August 11, 2014 at 12:01 am | #

    DoA being my introduction to Walkyverse, I am confused.

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      August 11, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

      There is nothing yet you need to know. It will all be made known.

      • Shadic
        Shadic
        August 11, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

        I assumed, but I still figure I’m missing something.

        P.S. Hi, I met you at ECCC and I tipped you like five bucks (which confused you) for drawing Danny in my book (which confused you more.)

        • RevenantBacon
          RevenantBacon
          August 11, 2014 at 12:17 am | #

          well yeah. Who would want a drawing of Danny? It might Dan up your notebook! Plus, you could get a drawing of Walky instead, and that’s like, a bajillion times better.

          • Leorale
            Leorale
            August 11, 2014 at 12:23 am | #

            Or a drawing of your TA being eaten by a t-rex.

            • BarGamer
              BarGamer
              August 11, 2014 at 2:23 am | #

              Or a drawing of your TA being eaten OUT by a T-Rex.

              • -Sentinel-
                -Sentinel-
                August 11, 2014 at 9:19 am | #

                Your TA being, of course, Dina.

            • Rowanmikaio
              Rowanmikaio
              August 11, 2014 at 9:13 am | #

              Danny being eaten by a T-Rex is probably an acceptable Danny.

              • Felix
                Felix
                August 11, 2014 at 9:55 am | #

                Nah, he’s gonna Danny it up buy givin’ the T-Rex indigestion.

          • Jen Aside
            Jen Aside
            August 11, 2014 at 1:03 am | #

            Haha, just remembered that we say “pulling a Dan” because my BIL has this game strategy of putting all his snipers in the front [whaaaaaaat]. I wonder if Danning things up is universal among Daniels.

        • nekobawt
          nekobawt
          August 11, 2014 at 5:37 am | #

          well yeah, most people tip him to NOT draw danny in their books.

      • Rachel Roth
        Rachel Roth
        August 11, 2014 at 12:22 am | #

        I was waiting for a Dina strip to ask this, but I guess I shouldn’t wait indefinitely; my birthday is next month and I need to have a list of things that people close to me can get me. Can you please put some Dina merchandise (preferably shirts, Dina’s hat, or mugs, but especially shirts) on your website so that I can direct them to it?

        • David M Willis
          David M Willis
          August 11, 2014 at 12:54 am | #

          It depends on when the Hiveworks store goes live! There’ll be at least one thing there when it does.

          • Clif
            Clif
            August 11, 2014 at 7:09 pm | #

            A Hiveworks store with potentially one thing? But it will be a Dina thing?

            Works for me.

          • Rachel Roth
            Rachel Roth
            August 11, 2014 at 11:58 pm | #

            What’s the current estimate? Also, will it be okay to wear to school? (no beer or any other questionable content. . .) Or will it hold hot cocoa? Great, now I want hot cocoa which I can’t have cause I’m out!

      • Ivan
        Ivan
        August 11, 2014 at 8:13 am | #

        LIES! If Willis knows it, it must be important to the story!

        (he didn’t think anyone would figure that out!)

      • Lord Geovanni
        Lord Geovanni
        August 11, 2014 at 2:37 pm | #

        Willis that’s not fair to us new people

        • David M Willis
          David M Willis
          August 11, 2014 at 3:23 pm | #

          I have NO idea how “read the story as I deliver it to you, at the same speed as everyone else” is unfair to anybody. What the hell?

          • Rachel Roth
            Rachel Roth
            August 12, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

            THIS IS NOT A PUN STRIP. PLEASE POST YOUR PUN ELSEWHERE.

            [Actually don’t. I just wanted someone to see the pun.]

          • Vree
            Vree
            August 14, 2014 at 6:25 pm | #

            You only have yourself to blame, Willis.

            When new people start seeing nonexistent references to an earlier work it’s not their own fault.

            • Lord Geovanni
              Lord Geovanni
              August 15, 2014 at 1:01 am | #

              I just dont like being out of the loop. I like Knowledge. Knowledge is power.

        • John
          John
          August 11, 2014 at 3:46 pm | #

          The Dumbiverse isn’t in continuity with the Walkyverse, so you don’t need to have read the Walkyverse to know everything you need to know (though DoA does, admittedly, sometimes have bonus funny for Walkyverse readers).

          And if you really want to know the tiny, tiny amount about another Alice in another universe that Walkyverse readers know, the Walkyverse is still there, get to readin’.

          (Seriously, tiny, tiny amount. I’ve read Roomies! through probably at least a dozen times, and I’d forgotten that Alice even existed until Willis pointed her out in the Roomies! reruns a few months ago.)

    • Historyman68
      Historyman68
      August 11, 2014 at 12:31 am | #

      This is exciting. Could be an absolutely new character with no meta-baggage from the previous universe. I’ll bet Willis is both excited at that prospect and annoyed at all the folks who are asking this exact question.

      Not because those folks are annoying, necessarily, more because the comments section is so full or stuff outside this universe that it makes new readers intimidated, which is the exact opposite of the purpose of this current webcomic.

      Not to presume to know Willis’s motivations or feelings, of course.

      • Camachri
        Camachri
        August 11, 2014 at 4:05 am | #

        Alice showed up at least once in Roomies!, so no absolutely new charactering this time.

    • Pink Freud
      Pink Freud
      August 11, 2014 at 11:54 am | #

      When this happpens to me I generally google that character’s name and “Walkyverse” and eventually it leads me to the walky wiki and a description of that character in other continuities, which of course never helps because everything in DoA is basically separate and different so screw it just keep on truckin.

      • David M Willis
        David M Willis
        August 11, 2014 at 3:23 pm | #

        EXACTLY.

        NEVER BOTHER.

    • gwalla
      gwalla
      August 11, 2014 at 4:12 pm | #

      DoA isn’t in the Walkyverse so it can’t be an introduction to it.

      DoA is basically Willis starting over from scratch with no continuity baggage or sci-fi elements (or old attitudes & beliefs he no longer holds), so it’s self-contained. Any additional enjoyment old Walkyverse fans get is strictly trainspotting (“Oh hey, it’s so-and-so!”).

      • John
        John
        August 11, 2014 at 4:35 pm | #

        Plus the occasional, “Ha ha would you believe those two are married with kids in the other universe?”

        (Case in point, panel one.)

        • Clif
          Clif
          August 11, 2014 at 6:59 pm | #

          Of course he could really blow peoples minds with occasional strip links and references to bits of an alternate continuity, the Chuck verse, in which the very same characters existed with a completely different history and have some sock puppets to make bogus comments about what the characters did there. Did you know that Alice and Joe were a thing in the Chuckverse after he dumped Billie?

          • Clif
            Clif
            August 11, 2014 at 7:02 pm | #

            Willis, the fact that you don’t is completely unfair to us crazy people!

  3. SUGauthor
    SUGauthor
    August 11, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Plot twst!

  4. Nono
    Nono
    August 11, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Can’t remember who she is.

    My guess in this universe, ex-cheerleader friend.

    • Maveric1984
      Maveric1984
      August 11, 2014 at 12:51 am | #

      She’s the one who invited Billy to the party just before the end of Roomies! and tried to convince Billie to drink. She had the novelty beer glass.

      • Lord Geovanni
        Lord Geovanni
        August 11, 2014 at 2:41 pm | #

        So indirectly responsible for billies get together and break up with Ruth and and some other stuff

        • John
          John
          August 11, 2014 at 3:52 pm | #

          No, because those happened in different universes.

          • Maveric1984
            Maveric1984
            August 11, 2014 at 5:30 pm | #

            She was, however, Billie’s maid of honor in Walkyverse.

  5. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    August 11, 2014 at 12:02 am | #

    Bad timing, Billie. You only go ask “Alice?” when she’s ten feet tall.

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      August 11, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

      Some make you rounder, some will make you tall, but those in the cafeteria don’t do anything at all

      • Stephen Bierce
        Stephen Bierce
        August 11, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

        Feed Your HEAD!

      • AgentKeen
        AgentKeen
        August 11, 2014 at 12:25 am | #

        I think someone yesterday thought that Chick-Fil-A was making Billie rounder.

        • Charlie Spencer
          Charlie Spencer
          August 11, 2014 at 7:25 am | #

          That can’t be true. Yesterday was Sunday; Chick-Fil-A was closed.

        • Mangulwort
          Mangulwort
          August 11, 2014 at 9:57 am | #

          That was me. There is nothing wrong with that, but I just cant help but notice. She is probably eating away her depression instead of drinking.

          • hurocrat
            hurocrat
            August 12, 2014 at 7:40 pm | #

            More likely it’s both. Lots of fast food (CFA is fairly healthy as fast food places go, but it ain’t exactly a salad bar) combined with a liking for beer – which is a lot of calories in a form that doesn’t encourage you to go out and burn them.

      • Jen Aside
        Jen Aside
        August 11, 2014 at 12:56 am | #

        this is just asking for “EAT ME” art

        • Doctor_Who
          Doctor_Who
          August 11, 2014 at 8:08 am | #

          I think with Billie, “Drink me” is more appropriate.

          • John
            John
            August 11, 2014 at 9:53 am | #

            She tastes like booze!

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 11, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

      Alice….What HAVE you done?…

    • KingoHrts
      KingoHrts
      August 11, 2014 at 9:43 am | #

      Actually, I thought of this…. “All the young girls love Alice. Tender young Alice, they say. Come over and tease me, come over and please me. Alice, it’s my turn today.”

  6. Emperor Kiva
    Emperor Kiva
    August 11, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Joyce’s right you know.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      August 11, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

      Happens about twice a day.

      • fogel
        fogel
        August 11, 2014 at 8:49 am | #

        I have a watch that needs a new battery that’s like that.

  7. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    August 11, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    Goddammit, Joyce, don’t you know better than to say things like that yet?

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 11, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

      Joyce. Knowing better.
      oxymoron.

    • Nono
      Nono
      August 11, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

      It’s funny how Joyce says ”it’s just a cafeteria”’when she was at the Table Flip Galä just a week ago.

      • ninja_jesus
        ninja_jesus
        August 11, 2014 at 7:49 am | #

        Table Flip held a Gala? 😀

  8. Khaner
    Khaner
    August 11, 2014 at 12:03 am | #

    She no longer looks like a genderswapped Faz.
    I am disapointed.

    • newllend
      newllend
      August 11, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

      You want something like that, get amber to squint and grin in a creepy manner that will do just fine.

  9. Liahansen
    Liahansen
    August 11, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    Anyone else sad Willis doesn’t seem to have decided to run with that “disturbing resemblance to Faz” thing?

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 11, 2014 at 12:15 am | #

      I love Faz and all Faz-like people and am, too, dissapointed.

      • Catullus
        Catullus
        August 11, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

        This graph demonstrates that over 98% of people love Faz-like people in all forms! :▷

        • Clif
          Clif
          August 11, 2014 at 7:11 pm | #

          You’re holding it upside down.

          • Gadgeteer Smashwidget
            Gadgeteer Smashwidget
            August 11, 2014 at 9:03 pm | #

            Lies! The Great Faz has charts to prove you wrong!

  10. nekobawt
    nekobawt
    August 11, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    in panel 3 joyce might as well be asking “what’s the worst that could happen?”

  11. Gangler
    Gangler
    August 11, 2014 at 12:05 am | #

    She looks cool!

  12. newllend
    newllend
    August 11, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    A NEW CHALLENGER HAS ENTERED THE RING ! translation completely new character makes her debut for the first and possibly the last time since starting DoA.

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      August 11, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

      Wrong! Raidah and friends are all original, while Alice is from like four Roomies! comics.

      • Salmo
        Salmo
        August 11, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

        There’s what’s-her-name, too, who works at the… front desk, I guess you’d call it?

        • Catullus
          Catullus
          August 11, 2014 at 12:20 am | #

          Asma.

          • Pantheon the Mantheon
            Pantheon the Mantheon
            August 11, 2014 at 2:31 am | #

            Gesundheit

          • Deanatay
            Deanatay
            August 11, 2014 at 8:44 am | #

            Do you need an inhaler?

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          August 11, 2014 at 12:20 am | #

          I think her name’s asma

      • newllend
        newllend
        August 11, 2014 at 12:12 am | #

        Oh sorry I only completely read through Itswalky, Joyce and Walky, shortpacks , and this.any character that was mentioned only in Roomies I don’t think I would know too well.

      • Lieutenant Dan
        Lieutenant Dan
        August 11, 2014 at 1:30 am | #

        Since nobody’s linked it yet, here is where Alice appeared in Roomies!
        http://www.itswalky.com/character/alice-chen/

        • Lieutenant Dan
          Lieutenant Dan
          August 11, 2014 at 1:32 am | #

          Bah, my Reply-Fu has failed me! This was meant to be placed elsewhere.

        • Random832
          Random832
          August 11, 2014 at 2:11 am | #

          Did Billie always not wear glasses in Roomies?

          • John
            John
            August 11, 2014 at 9:56 am | #

            Yeah, she didn’t get her glasses until well into IW!.

  13. Elva Rodríguez
    Elva Rodríguez
    August 11, 2014 at 12:06 am | #

    Hope this is a good reunion, please be a good reunion

    • Aeron
      Aeron
      August 11, 2014 at 12:28 pm | #

      This webcomic is also fueled by comment hubris.

      • Clif
        Clif
        August 11, 2014 at 7:14 pm | #

        Oh, yay! Someone will now do the rain speech with comment hubris standing in for rain.

  14. Wack'd
    Wack'd
    August 11, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    Yay! The return of super-ancillary Roomies! characters no one asked for!

    • Salmo
      Salmo
      August 11, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

      Next stop: Guns!

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      August 11, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

      Mark my words, one day we WILL have an appearance from Guns.

      • Wack'd
        Wack'd
        August 11, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

        Guns is a super-ancillary It’s Walky! character. Totally different.

        • Gigafreak
          Gigafreak
          August 11, 2014 at 10:08 am | #

          You mean like Toots Sierra?

        • Tenn
          Tenn
          August 11, 2014 at 2:16 pm | #

          I keep hoping for a Hooper cameo.

    • Wack'd
      Wack'd
      August 11, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

      …that came out far more sarcastic than I intended by sheer dint of coming out sarcastic at all.

      • Archivist
        Archivist
        August 11, 2014 at 12:25 am | #

        I’m trying to read it as not-sarcastic but it’s hard.

        • AgentKeen
          AgentKeen
          August 11, 2014 at 1:32 pm | #

          I don’t know, it’s not that hard considering Wack’d is utterly devoted to the Walkyverse!.

          Anyone else and I’d probably think it was sarcastic, though.

    • Catullus
      Catullus
      August 11, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

      Maybe next we’ll get Larry!

  15. timemonkey
    timemonkey
    August 11, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    Is that one of Billie’s friends from high school? Is she about to get another huge blow to the self-esteem?

    • newllend
      newllend
      August 11, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

      Either that or the opposite.

      • Kelly
        Kelly
        August 11, 2014 at 7:03 pm | #

        The opposite? She is one of Billie’s friends from self-esteem, and she is about to get a huge blow to her high school?

        • Clif
          Clif
          August 11, 2014 at 7:16 pm | #

          No, no. That would be a huge blow to the self-astern.

    • J-Debs
      J-Debs
      August 12, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

      This is what I think as well. My guess is something like “I knew you were coming here too but you party too much and I’m here to study and can’t let you drag me down.”

      Maybe not so straight-forward but yeah.

  16. Leorale
    Leorale
    August 11, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    In Roomies, Alice invited Billie to a party and offered her a beer. And I think she was a bridesmaid or something at Billie’s wedding. So I guess they’ve been buddies in other universes, but we the readers don’t know Alice yet.

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      August 11, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

      (whoops, this was meant to be a reply, not meant as unsolicited multi-universe info. Sorry.)

    • buckybone
      buckybone
      August 11, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

      So, you’re saying that Alice is probably the person who gave Billie her first beer in this ‘verse. This is TOTALLY gonna go well…

  17. caesaria82
    caesaria82
    August 11, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    I’m liking this girl Alice’s haircut a lot.

  18. March
    March
    August 11, 2014 at 12:07 am | #

    Alice is going to ruin all the joy Walkie and Joyce brought, isn’t she?

  19. JessWitt
    JessWitt
    August 11, 2014 at 12:08 am | #

    New girl!

  20. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    August 11, 2014 at 12:09 am | #

    TAKE COVER!!!!

  21. Aolbain
    Aolbain
    August 11, 2014 at 12:10 am | #

    This could be good, bad, neither or both.

    Good, now I have all bases covered.

    • Gigafreak
      Gigafreak
      August 11, 2014 at 10:12 am | #

      Bad, they could still hit a home run.
      Neither, they could strike out.
      Both, your man on first base might fumble the ball so hard that it goes viral on YouTube, earning him fame and humiliation both.

  22. HMRC4EVR
    HMRC4EVR
    August 11, 2014 at 12:13 am | #

    I’d make a ‘Where’s Dobermon?’ joke but I don’t think anyone would get it so I’ll just say “Welcome to the Dumbverse Alice! Hope you survive the experience!”

    • Izumi Ryu
      Izumi Ryu
      August 11, 2014 at 12:22 am | #

      Yes, some people remember Alice from Digimon Tamers.

  23. Spack
    Spack
    August 11, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

    Billie, go ask Alice.
    I think she’ll know.

    • Maveric1984
      Maveric1984
      August 11, 2014 at 12:52 am | #

      Nah, she’s chasing a white rabbit.

    • K. Ivan Ruppert
      K. Ivan Ruppert
      August 11, 2014 at 6:27 am | #

      Alice? Who the fuck is Alice?

      Twenty-five years just waitin’ for a chance…

      • hof1991
        hof1991
        August 11, 2014 at 8:29 am | #

        That kind of comment drives me Sturr crazy.

      • Jadedcynic
        Jadedcynic
        December 27, 2014 at 9:18 pm | #

        Well, since you’ve finally gotten that out of your system, it must seem like a New World to you now.

        ….yeah, I’ll show myself out.

  24. Catullus
    Catullus
    August 11, 2014 at 12:16 am | #

    My gut tells me that things are about to fall apart.

    …Just the way I like it.

    • Aolbain
      Aolbain
      August 11, 2014 at 12:21 am | #

      The good news are that Billie is pretty near the bottom, so the fall won’t be so bad.

      • AgentKeen
        AgentKeen
        August 11, 2014 at 12:30 am | #

        The bad news is she’s pretty near the bottom of thin netting with a long drop underneath, and that little push will probably rip it.

  25. Brian With Cheese
    Brian With Cheese
    August 11, 2014 at 12:18 am | #

    Camera pans out & reveals Alice is sitting in a wheel chair. Billie flashes back to her drunk driving incedent.

    OK, maybe not.

  26. Questionor
    Questionor
    August 11, 2014 at 12:19 am | #

    Remember Alice? It’s a song about Alice.

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      August 11, 2014 at 12:23 am | #

      Dude, how old are you anyway? My copy of that album disappeared so long ago I don’t even remember what state I was living in when it went bye-bye.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        August 11, 2014 at 12:34 am | #

        Oh man, if you were young for the original, here is the reprise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjKF7aQthcQ
        you will be a very happy baby boomer indeed.

        love, a 2nd generation hippie.

      • gwalla
        gwalla
        August 11, 2014 at 4:18 pm | #

        I dunno about him but one of the radio stations around here plays it every Thanksgiving.

        • Fots
          Fots
          August 4, 2015 at 3:18 pm | #

          Only one? I’m guessing you only get two radio stations where you live.

    • Archivist
      Archivist
      August 11, 2014 at 12:27 am | #

      Yesss, thank you.

    • TrinityLast
      TrinityLast
      August 11, 2014 at 12:29 am | #

      You can get anything you want…at Alice’s Restaurant (Ceptin’ Alice)

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      August 11, 2014 at 12:31 am | #

      It’s not the name of the restaurant, it’s just the name of the song. That’s why I call this song: Alice’s restaurant.

      …You can get anythin’ you want…

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57gzA2JCcM

      • TrinityLast
        TrinityLast
        August 11, 2014 at 12:33 am | #

        What I love is that anyone who hasn’t heard the song thinks you’re lecturing. Anyone else just started singing. (the song is now stuck in my head, BTW)

        • Leorale
          Leorale
          August 11, 2014 at 1:36 am | #

          Then my work here is done! ::dramatically swoops away::

          • xKiv
            xKiv
            August 11, 2014 at 4:38 pm | #

            … how many things in the world are eighteen minutes and twenty seconds long?

            • JWLM
              JWLM
              August 11, 2014 at 5:41 pm | #

              I don’t know, but there are twenty-seven eight-by-ten glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back describing what each one was.

              (I owned the original back in the day. So stay off my lawn, you kids!)

    • nekobawt
      nekobawt
      August 11, 2014 at 5:54 am | #

      man, fuck that song. ok no, actually it’s a fun song, but i hold an unfair grudge against it and arlo guthrie because of a former coworker of mine, who was very clearly not ok in her noggin, whether from drugs, brain damage, or just plain born that way. this lady was always talking to herself, only it was ore like she was holding a conversation with someone else who was not present on any plain of reality the rest of us were privy to, and we only ever heard her side of the conversation. well i guess both sides were technically hers, but ANYWAY. she was always talking about being in a band with her buddy arlo (yeah, THAT arlo) and occasionally she’d mention alice’s restaurant and crack up laughing.

      the weird part (not that any of this is not weird) was my office had her working phones, so she was always pausing her self-chatter to mumble “thankyouforcallingfamilyassistancem’nm’s’ndahowcanidirectyou” in a lower register of voice, so all the customer complaints to management about her were directed at “the guy who answers the phone”. this became funnier when we had a male part-timer who also mumbled really fast and was also the recipient of customer complaints.

      tl;dr: i irrationally and unfairly hate arlo guthrie because of all the time he spent as a resident in a crazy lady’s head.

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        August 11, 2014 at 4:24 pm | #

        So did she actually know Arlo?

        • neeks
          neeks
          August 12, 2014 at 2:44 am | #

          Almost certainly not.

  27. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    August 11, 2014 at 12:21 am | #

    Walky, even depressed people sometimes smile. If they never smile they are in deep depression.

    • Chaucer59
      Chaucer59
      August 11, 2014 at 1:14 am | #

      Or they are heavily injected with Botox.

  28. Giant Speck
    Giant Speck
    August 11, 2014 at 12:22 am | #

    The only thing I can find regarding Alice is alcohol-related. This can’t be good.

  29. Anywhere
    Anywhere
    August 11, 2014 at 12:24 am | #

    And now we sit and wait, hoping that Alice’s blow-up punchable beer mug makes its appearance. Along with Joyce’s unexplainable giant calculator.

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      August 11, 2014 at 11:33 pm | #

      I totally ship the giant novelty beer mug and the inexplicably giant calculator. OTP!

  30. Michele
    Michele
    August 11, 2014 at 12:25 am | #

    SHE DOESN’T EVEN GO HERE

  31. Keroshino
    Keroshino
    August 11, 2014 at 12:27 am | #

    Shut up, Walky!
    a happy Billie is happy…me!!!

  32. Mattyos
    Mattyos
    August 11, 2014 at 12:41 am | #

    WOOOOOOOOO!

  33. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    August 11, 2014 at 12:44 am | #

    For some reason my brain has started to see the outlines of people’s mouths as black lipstick….

  34. Marvelman
    Marvelman
    August 11, 2014 at 12:44 am | #

    Whose Alice? Am I supposed to know who she is? Did I miss something?

    • Catullus
      Catullus
      August 11, 2014 at 12:48 am | #

      This is her first Dumbiverse appearance; we don’t know anything about her yet. Well, besides her name, obviously.

    • Jon P
      Jon P
      August 11, 2014 at 12:54 am | #

      Presumably we will (start to) find out 24 hours from now. This is this character’s first appearance in this comic so anything else is sheer speculation. But clearly it’s someone Billie knows and is surprised (?) to see here.

    • Ancestral Hamster
      Ancestral Hamster
      August 11, 2014 at 1:40 am | #

      “Go ask Alice
      When she’s ten feet tall”

  35. Karfsma778
    Karfsma778
    August 11, 2014 at 12:55 am | #

    Who the Fuck is Alice?
    (ten points to everyone who gets it)

    • Aolbain
      Aolbain
      August 11, 2014 at 1:15 am | #

      The Gompie song?

    • Lieutenant Dan
      Lieutenant Dan
      August 11, 2014 at 1:15 am | #

      Some girl who lived next door for 24 years.

    • Jeffrywith1e
      Jeffrywith1e
      August 11, 2014 at 1:58 am | #

      10 points right here, Dr Hook!

    • Crumplepunch
      Crumplepunch
      August 11, 2014 at 2:43 am | #

      I searched the comments section to check that nobody else had posted it before I did.

  36. epershannd
    epershannd
    August 11, 2014 at 1:57 am | #

    !!! Yessss cool new cast member

  37. nothri
    nothri
    August 11, 2014 at 2:13 am | #

    Please do not revert to type, Billie. Please!

  38. Orangey
    Orangey
    August 11, 2014 at 2:18 am | #

    Please be nice Alice, please be nice, please be nice, I don’t think I can take much more of Billie in depressed mode

    • Thomas
      Thomas
      August 11, 2014 at 4:22 am | #

      New girl seems cute, so she’ll probably be horrible.

      • Orangey
        Orangey
        August 11, 2014 at 2:12 pm | #

        It’s got to be someone she’s known from her cheerleading days so either way something will happen I reckon

    • Eukie
      Eukie
      August 11, 2014 at 4:52 am | #

      She’s perfectly nice, but a bit annoyed that someone has stolen her cheerleader uniform. Are you aware of how hard they are to find in her size?

      • tinfoil theory
        tinfoil theory
        August 11, 2014 at 5:56 am | #

        Your avatar makes this perfect.

  39. Idon'tcarenomore
    Idon'tcarenomore
    August 11, 2014 at 2:29 am | #

    Go ask Alice…Jefferson Airplane (before they became Jefferson Starship).
    Grace Slick vocals.

    As to Billie, stay happy.

    • fogel
      fogel
      August 11, 2014 at 9:08 am | #

      Go ask Alice…You think she’ll know?

    • xKiv
      xKiv
      August 11, 2014 at 4:30 pm | #

      Jefferson was always out of luck?

  40. Ancestral Hamster
    Ancestral Hamster
    August 11, 2014 at 2:32 am | #

    Apropos of nothing, but as Transformers are periodically subject matter for DoA …

    Self-Constructing Origami Robots
    http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28660904

    • tinfoil theory
      tinfoil theory
      August 11, 2014 at 6:24 am | #

      This is pretty interesting.

  41. Barf Ninjason
    Barf Ninjason
    August 11, 2014 at 2:35 am | #

    Are logic and proportion about to fall sloppy dead?

    • Clif
      Clif
      August 11, 2014 at 6:52 pm | #

      What? Again?

  42. Jimmy
    Jimmy
    August 11, 2014 at 7:00 am | #

    Alice? Are we going through the Looking Glass now? Guess we’ll have to wait and see!

  43. Swerve
    Swerve
    August 11, 2014 at 8:17 am | #

    Curiouser and curiouser.

  44. Chubsius
    Chubsius
    August 11, 2014 at 8:28 am | #

    I’m beginning to think Joyce’s level of social awareness is actually on par with Dina. Smile=all better!

    Also, “This is just a cafeteria.” As opposed to what? A suicide cliff? The den of the lust-wolves?

    • John
      John
      August 11, 2014 at 4:01 pm | #

      A fateful highway?

      • Clif
        Clif
        August 11, 2014 at 6:50 pm | #

        A truck stop.

  45. Deanatay
    Deanatay
    August 11, 2014 at 8:55 am | #

    Ah, subverted hubris. The same concept that makes ‘We’re safe here’ and ‘what could possibly go wrong?’ such hideously dangerous expressions.

  46. Animal
    Animal
    August 11, 2014 at 9:10 am | #

    One pill makes you larger
    And one pill makes you small
    And the ones that mother gives you
    Don’t do anything at all

    Go ask Alice
    When she’s ten feet tall
    And if you go chasing rabbits
    And you know you’re going to fall

    Tell them a hookah-smoking caterpillar
    Has given you the call
    Call Alice when she was just small
    When the men on the chess board
    Get up and tell you where to go

    And you just had some kind of mushroom
    And your mind is moving slow
    Go ask Alice
    I think she’ll know

    When logic and proportion
    Have fallen sloppy dead
    And the white knight is talking backwards
    And the Red Queen’s lost her head
    Remember what the dormouse said

    Feed your head
    Feed your head

  47. Killjoy
    Killjoy
    August 11, 2014 at 9:38 am | #

    Maybe we’ll get Lillith — she’s a WALKY! character that had decent page-time and some actual story.

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      August 11, 2014 at 9:57 am | #

      Characters directly based on real people I know will not make appearances in DoA. See also: Hooper, Ninja Rick.

      • John
        John
        August 11, 2014 at 10:04 am | #

        Whoa, Ninja Rick’s a real person?

        • Opus the Poet
          Opus the Poet
          August 11, 2014 at 12:06 pm | #

          Did you think someone could MAKE UP a Ninja Rick?

          • John
            John
            August 11, 2014 at 3:51 pm | #

            I figured he was digitally composited from multiple real-world individuals like most of the Shortpacked! customers.

      • Rachel Roth
        Rachel Roth
        August 11, 2014 at 7:18 pm | #

        Does that mean you are no longer in touch with your Dina?

      • Killjoy
        Killjoy
        August 12, 2014 at 9:06 am | #

        Understood. Apologies if you’ve covered that one before and I missed it, or if I hit a touchy subject.

  48. John
    John
    August 11, 2014 at 10:03 am | #

    I bet Alice is really, really sick of people making Lewis Carroll/Jefferson Airplane/Arlo Guthrie references at her.

    And I hope she brought her giant inflatable beer mug to this universe.

    • xKiv
      xKiv
      August 11, 2014 at 4:36 pm | #

      She’s also probably sick of chains.

  49. Toes14
    Toes14
    August 11, 2014 at 10:12 am | #

    Somebody want to explain to a rookie who only knows the DoA universe who Alice is?

    • Gigafreak
      Gigafreak
      August 11, 2014 at 10:22 am | #

      She’s new to DoA.

      Back in Roomies, she was a side character and an acquaintance of Billie. In the storyline where she (briefly) appeared, Alice offered Billie alcohol– unaware that Billie had decided to cut back on it. (Billie drank it, but felt super guilty afterward so she didn’t regress.)

    • Tenn
      Tenn
      August 11, 2014 at 2:29 pm | #

      First rule of Dumbing of Age: You don’t need to know anything Willis-produced outside of Dumbing of Age.

      • Emperor Kiva
        Emperor Kiva
        August 11, 2014 at 11:58 pm | #

        This is my first Willis comic anyhow. I’m sticking to it!

  50. lordhaw
    lordhaw
    August 11, 2014 at 10:31 am | #

    I love the Alt Text on this one…I am now waiting to see how big a brick is going to fall on poor Billie.

    Willis is like the Old Testament God when it comes to his characters…nothing is earned except by pain and misery.

  51. OmegaDez
    OmegaDez
    August 11, 2014 at 11:49 am | #

    Nothing I like more than coming back from a three week vacation and seeing a buttload of new DoA to read. 🙂

    Also, damn. I don’t know who that Alice girl is, but I feel like Billie won’t stay happy for long…

  52. averystrangeplace
    averystrangeplace
    August 11, 2014 at 12:21 pm | #

    I am so surprised that nobody has started singing “Alice, Alice, Who The Fuck Is Alice?!” yet.

    • Tenn
      Tenn
      August 11, 2014 at 2:34 pm | #

      Except for the two who have.

  53. Aaron Bourque
    Aaron Bourque
    August 11, 2014 at 3:14 pm | #

    So. Go ask, “Alice?”

  54. Kugai
    Kugai
    August 11, 2014 at 3:57 pm | #

    All hands Red Alert!!

  55. Rachel Roth
    Rachel Roth
    August 11, 2014 at 7:31 pm | #

    Is it just me, or is Joyce usually cross-eyed?

  56. creaks
    creaks
    August 11, 2014 at 10:30 pm | #

    Alice? Who the hell is Alice?

  57. Joe
    Joe
    August 11, 2014 at 10:39 pm | #

    Anyone else disturbed at how Joyce and Walky can see Billie’s smile through the back of her head?

    • tinfoil theory
      tinfoil theory
      August 12, 2014 at 2:00 am | #

      Joyce can hear her smile.

      • Vree
        Vree
        August 14, 2014 at 6:27 pm | #

        And hear the angels laugh.

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