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May 12, 2026

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by David M Willis on January 10, 2020 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - To Remind You of My Love
└ Tags: becky, blowjob cat, dina

Discussion (167) ¬

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    January 10, 2020 at 12:01 am | #

    PREMARITAL HATTY-PATTY

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      January 10, 2020 at 12:03 am | #

      Panels 3-5: Becky gets elbow, cheek, and top of head action.

      And we didn’t even need to sign up for slipshine.

      • ValdVin
        ValdVin
        January 10, 2020 at 7:18 am | #

        Hatless Dina and not Slipshine?

        I don’t know if that’s even safe to post on Tumblr anymore.

        • Zee
          Zee
          January 10, 2020 at 10:48 am | #

          Idk man, female presenting headtops are pretty nsfw

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        January 10, 2020 at 8:22 am | #

        I touched her NAKED parts!

        I need to be punished!

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      January 10, 2020 at 7:27 am | #

      Heh, hatty-patty!

  2. King Daniel
    King Daniel
    January 10, 2020 at 12:02 am | #

    “…and next weekend at the funeral, we can lie about how Mike died too young. An’ ‘cuz my roommate’s dead, they’ll give me automatic “A”s for the semester.”

    Dumbing of Age “Included” – posted 6 October 2016, three years and three months ago

    (Just throwing this out here.)

    • ian livs
      ian livs
      January 10, 2020 at 12:03 am | #

      Oh, wow

    • Yumi
      Yumi
      January 10, 2020 at 12:04 am | #

      At least he died doing what he loved.

      Your mom.

      • Kravis
        Kravis
        January 10, 2020 at 12:12 am | #

        For a nickel.

    • Andy
      Andy
      January 10, 2020 at 1:07 am | #

      The weird part for me is that I have the same sweatshirt that Walky’s wearing somewhere.

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      January 10, 2020 at 1:12 am | #

      Hey, congrats, you managed to find it!

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      January 10, 2020 at 2:34 am | #

      Thanks for finding it!

    • bodmans
      bodmans
      January 10, 2020 at 9:57 am | #

      How far back is this in universe?

      • Henshu
        Henshu
        January 10, 2020 at 1:15 pm | #

        According to the wiki, that chapter takes place on October 4th (A Monday). Today is.. probably October 20th?

  3. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    January 10, 2020 at 12:02 am | #

    Fixed it.

    • Cattleprod
      Cattleprod
      January 10, 2020 at 12:03 am | #

      When your defining trait is blowjobs you shouldn’t be that judgey.

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        January 10, 2020 at 12:05 am | #

        You can’t hear it, but his tone is actually rather congratulatory.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          January 10, 2020 at 2:38 am | #

          Yeah, I can’t imagine BJC being anything but supportive here.

          (She should still be tagged, though!)

    • LeslieBean4shizzle
      LeslieBean4shizzle
      January 10, 2020 at 12:12 am | #

      Shouldn’t the comic have a “blowjob cat” tag?
      The real one I mean.

      • David
        David
        January 10, 2020 at 6:45 am | #

        It would have blown her cover when she ungargoyled and went all Harun-al-Rashid on the party. She has a thing for Sarah.

  4. Mada
    Mada
    January 10, 2020 at 12:02 am | #

    THERE BEST BE A SLIPSHINE AT SOME POINT HERE.

    • Wraith_Ferron
      Wraith_Ferron
      January 10, 2020 at 12:05 am | #

      It will likely be them holding hands, followed by the “Lewd” anime meme

    • Dave Van Domelen
      Dave Van Domelen
      January 10, 2020 at 12:12 am | #

      This is as close as we’re likely to get to a Slipshine in the next decade of realtime, given how slowly comic time is running….

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        January 10, 2020 at 12:16 am | #

        I mean, I guess one could fill people in on what Sal and Asher were up to during the party.

        Plot twist: they played Magic: the Gathering.

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          January 10, 2020 at 1:07 am | #

          Or possibly apples to apples…

          http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/applestoapples/

        • He Who Abides
          He Who Abides
          January 10, 2020 at 3:45 pm | #

          I’d love to know what Sal’s Magic: the Gathering deck is.

    • Diner Kinetic
      Diner Kinetic
      January 10, 2020 at 12:25 am | #

      It’s probs just 20 panels of cuddling; and we know we’d all be happy with that anyways

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        January 10, 2020 at 1:08 am | #

        Oh yes!

        • Geneseepaws
          Geneseepaws
          January 11, 2020 at 8:30 am | #

          Oh, Hell Yes!

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        January 10, 2020 at 4:08 pm | #

        Then Becky has a spontaneous orgasm when Dina takes her hat off.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      January 10, 2020 at 1:10 am | #

      My only question about the slipshine is how to narrow down the title. There are so many good to chose from.

      “Becky does a Premartial Hanky-Panky?”

      “Dina’s getting touched (in many places)”

      “Take your hat off”

      “Lady syrup”

      “Dinosaur mating dance”

      “Scientific dating”

      “Holding hands (among other things) and looking at dinosaurs”

      How do you pick just one?

      • Marsh Maryrose
        Marsh Maryrose
        January 10, 2020 at 1:58 am | #

        “Dina and Becky engage in the pageantry of tricking their bodies into believing an egg has been fertilized”

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          January 10, 2020 at 3:05 am | #

          “Dina and Becky throw themselves at The Cragged Shame Pits of the Lustwolves”?

      • Clif
        Clif
        January 10, 2020 at 2:33 am | #

        Why should you pick just one?

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          January 10, 2020 at 3:06 am | #

          Now that’s the kind of thinking we need around here.

      • Jaxx Sentinel
        Jaxx Sentinel
        January 10, 2020 at 2:46 am | #

        Let’s do it like they do on the Discovery Channel ?

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          January 10, 2020 at 3:17 am | #

          “A miracle of science?”

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      January 10, 2020 at 1:14 am | #

      I’m guessing, given how clothed they are, that they didn’t really hanky-panky.

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        January 10, 2020 at 1:19 am | #

        Yeah, Becky gets that a lot.

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/definitely/

      • Khno
        Khno
        January 10, 2020 at 3:01 am | #

        I guess that given how few sheets of paper there are, they effectively didn’t
        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/overstepped/

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          January 10, 2020 at 3:14 am | #

          Heh, nice callback.

          Maybe she uses the voice recorder that comes preinstalled on her phone? http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/02-choosing-my-religion/recorder/

          • Bagge
            Bagge
            January 10, 2020 at 3:17 am | #

            And if Becky is turned on by that, it adds yet another layer to her jealousy of Joyce and Dorothy…

            http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/spreadsheet/

            • Opus the Poet
              Opus the Poet
              January 10, 2020 at 5:47 pm | #

              Annoying reminder, Kraft stopped making/selling that t-shirt.

              • Bagge
                Bagge
                January 10, 2020 at 7:19 pm | #

                just as the relationship between Dorothy and Walky it symbolises ended, so that’s very fitting.

                *cries*

  5. Stephen Bierce
    Stephen Bierce
    January 10, 2020 at 12:02 am | #

    My Baby Does The Hanky Panky…

    • Ryek Hvek
      Ryek Hvek
      January 10, 2020 at 12:05 am | #

      I think they’re alone now.

      • Stephen Bierce
        Stephen Bierce
        January 10, 2020 at 12:07 am | #

        Doesn’t seem to be anyone around…

    • Stephen Bierce
      Stephen Bierce
      January 10, 2020 at 12:05 am | #

      This and maybe one other song avoided getting remade in the late Eighties. Why?

      • Bicycle Bill
        Bicycle Bill
        January 10, 2020 at 12:34 am | #

        It might be better to list some of the songs that DID get remade in the late eighties, and THEN ask “Why?”

        • Stephen Bierce
          Stephen Bierce
          January 10, 2020 at 11:56 am | #

          Silly boy. Just this past year, I made a triple playlist of remake hits from 1975 to 1995 as a Facebook note. I sent a copy to a press of “greatest hits collection” CDs in hopes they’d be interested enough to make a product.

          I leave the askings of “why?” to others, but you know the answer is always “MONEY”.

          https://www.facebook.com/notes/stephen-r-bierce/final-revision-the-re-decade-playlist/10157501216304169/

          • Khno
            Khno
            January 10, 2020 at 10:22 pm | #

            Hm, I got a question about definitions for Sid’s My way, would it really be a cover? Since the original is not Sinatra’s… and not titled My way… (also sure it’s the most known version, but my heart stands for Nina Hagen there).
            Great playlist overall if not directed toward my tastes – and I’d have had Nirvana remaking some if I’d just

            About the intrinsic greedy and poor quality of remakes, let’s remember how Bach spent his time covering himself, before even some insect’s time.

      • Ryek Hvek
        Ryek Hvek
        January 10, 2020 at 12:34 am | #

        Very much of their moment, and existing in the same world as the Beach Boys, the Who, and the Rolling Stones

      • Opus the Poet
        Opus the Poet
        January 10, 2020 at 5:53 pm | #

        Waiting for the twenties to make it meaningful again…

  6. CZieg
    CZieg
    January 10, 2020 at 12:02 am | #

    No one’s dead! This is a good sign!

    • Guerisso
      Guerisso
      January 10, 2020 at 2:02 am | #

      I would say there are some people confirmed to be alive.

  7. lia47
    lia47
    January 10, 2020 at 12:03 am | #

    changing my major to premarital hanky-panky

  8. Bagge
    Bagge
    January 10, 2020 at 12:03 am | #

    Things that annoy me: That the sound effect in the fifth panel is not “Hat? Hat? Hat?”

    Things that don’t annoy me: absolutely everthing else! This is just so cute and pure and wonderful and squeeeeeeee! Poor Becky! If she was a boiling pot of neuroses and hormones yesterday, she will have a let of soul searching to do today as well. Let’s just hope they remembered to close the door this time around so Robin got some sleep.

  9. Kyrik Michalowski
    Kyrik Michalowski
    January 10, 2020 at 12:03 am | #

    Becky please, you are going to wake the entire neighborhood with that kind of yelling. Besides, you are the one who decided to feel up her girlfriend first thing in the morning. (I can’t blame you there though.)

  10. Joe Moose
    Joe Moose
    January 10, 2020 at 12:05 am | #

    I’m loving the fact that Becky wakes up the *moment* she couldn’t find the hat.

  11. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    January 10, 2020 at 12:06 am | #

    It took me a sec to realize, oh yeah, the hat.

    Also, gosh, I love these two.

  12. Woomy
    Woomy
    January 10, 2020 at 12:06 am | #

    Mike who???

  13. Cattleprod
    Cattleprod
    January 10, 2020 at 12:06 am | #

    I’m kind of hoping there will just be a solid two weeks of non-violent strips until one of then ends with a pan over to reveal Mike bleeding to death in the corner.

    • tim gueguen
      tim gueguen
      January 10, 2020 at 12:13 am | #

      Mike, Blaine, and Ross will never be seen or mentioned again, and Willis will never tell us what happened to them.

      • Slartibeast Button, BIA
        Slartibeast Button, BIA
        January 10, 2020 at 1:40 am | #

        But did they ever return?
        No they never returned.
        And their fate is still unlearned.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          January 10, 2020 at 2:47 am | #

          If Charlie’s wife can hand him a sandwich, she could hand him the nickel exit fare. Change my mind.

          (Fun fact: that song is why the MBTA calls the ticket system CharlieCard. Also Scollay Square was the red light district until it got demolished. Now City Hall is there, so the region is still populated by people who take your money and eff you.)

          • hof1991
            hof1991
            January 10, 2020 at 11:03 am | #

            Try the Dropkick Murphys version instead. Skinhead on the MBTA.
            https://youtu.be/2qPm9JFM484

        • miri
          miri
          January 10, 2020 at 6:49 am | #

          A singularity occurred and Mike transformed into The Cheese. AG was transported back in time to bed where Amber had gone to sleep. The Terridads were destroyed.

          It all makes perfect sense?

    • LeslieBean4shizzle
      LeslieBean4shizzle
      January 10, 2020 at 12:13 am | #

      Personally, I’d prefer it be Blaine and Toedad bleeding to death in a corner….

      • Rikunda
        Rikunda
        January 10, 2020 at 12:49 pm | #

        That would be a good twist. AG took their lives in a fit of rage after Mike fell. Mike, magically, is fine. Holds it over Amber.

    • Roborat
      Roborat
      January 10, 2020 at 4:14 pm | #

      Each day will be a different cast member waking up for the morning. With the cast Willis has, this could drag out all month.

      • Someguy
        Someguy
        January 10, 2020 at 9:10 pm | #

        I wouldn’t be surprised.

  14. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    January 10, 2020 at 12:10 am | #

    PREMARITAL HEADY-PETTY

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      January 10, 2020 at 1:36 am | #

      Kinky!

  15. Tacos
    Tacos
    January 10, 2020 at 12:11 am | #

    YEAH BOOOIII! PREMARITAL HANKY-PANKY!

    (Though given that they’re still clothed, more likely just premarital snugglin’. Which ain’t bad either.)

    • SuperZero
      SuperZero
      January 10, 2020 at 12:17 am | #

      But she touched Dina’s head.

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        January 10, 2020 at 12:22 am | #

        Becky’s touched Dina’s head before – Dina first took off her hat in Dumbing of Age to celebrate its 2,000th strip a couple of years ago.

        • Reltzik
          Reltzik
          January 10, 2020 at 1:22 am | #

          In public, no less.

  16. Dr. D.
    Dr. D.
    January 10, 2020 at 12:11 am | #

    Willis will no doubt keep switching scenes for AT LEAST the next couple of weeks. The man’s a sadist.

    • Marsh Maryrose
      Marsh Maryrose
      January 10, 2020 at 2:54 am | #

      Does he know his clientele or what?

  17. Kravis
    Kravis
    January 10, 2020 at 12:13 am | #

    BLOWJOB CAT likes to watch.

  18. Ferret
    Ferret
    January 10, 2020 at 12:13 am | #

    Shit panel 2 is just straight up wholesome cuteness.

  19. Sunny
    Sunny
    January 10, 2020 at 12:17 am | #

    This is one of the most adorable comic strips so far. Definitely top 10 material.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      January 10, 2020 at 1:17 am | #

      Yes.

      I’d say at least half of the other top-ten also feature Dina and Becky.

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/04-walking-with-dina/edmontosaurus/

  20. Pacce
    Pacce
    January 10, 2020 at 12:18 am | #

    Once again Amber’s clownery pulled the narrative away from The Good Stuff.

  21. Piotr W
    Piotr W
    January 10, 2020 at 12:18 am | #

    Willis’ storytelling technique of delaying the resolution of cliffhangers is getting tiresome :\\

    • Hugo Bedward
      Hugo Bedward
      January 10, 2020 at 4:26 am | #

      gotta get those patreon subs for next-day comic somehow

  22. King Daniel
    King Daniel
    January 10, 2020 at 12:20 am | #

    Promethium! Hydrogen! Phosphorus! What do those elements’ symbols spell?

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      January 10, 2020 at 5:58 pm | #

      PrHP? I want to buy a vowel, Pat.

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        January 10, 2020 at 11:10 pm | #

        Promethium’s symbol is Pm.

        PmHP – Premaritial Hanky Panky.

        And now I have just explained the joke, and thus killed it.

        • He Who Abides
          He Who Abides
          January 11, 2020 at 12:37 am | #

          How many times do I have to tell you, Harley? If you have to explain the joke, it’s. Not. FUNNY!

  23. 1 2 2 50 in Roman numerals
    1 2 2 50 in Roman numerals
    January 10, 2020 at 12:23 am | #

    Dina and bscky r so adorable i almost forgot mikes very likely bleeding out on the pavement as they speak

    • King Daniel
      King Daniel
      January 10, 2020 at 12:25 am | #

      Don’t be silly.

      It’s already sunrise, Mike would have already bled out a long time ago.

    • Zee
      Zee
      January 10, 2020 at 10:44 am | #

      Hi your username fills me with rage

      • King Daniel
        King Daniel
        January 10, 2020 at 3:25 pm | #

        You’re at a loss for words?

  24. Bagge
    Bagge
    January 10, 2020 at 12:26 am | #

    alt-text: I never stop giggling about those little pieces of backstory of Becky being a bad influence on Joyce

  25. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    January 10, 2020 at 12:35 am | #

    Blowjob cat is watching

  26. BBCC
    BBCC
    January 10, 2020 at 12:35 am | #

    I’m cackling over here. Thank you, Willis!

  27. RacingTurtle
    RacingTurtle
    January 10, 2020 at 12:43 am | #

    Awwwww

  28. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    January 10, 2020 at 12:52 am | #

    So, that aside, I wonder how many page until we realize he fell on a mattress or on Blaine’s car or whatever, softening the fall into manageable range or something.

    • DarkoNeko
      DarkoNeko
      January 10, 2020 at 12:52 am | #

      Hey, I can dream.

    • nobilis
      nobilis
      January 10, 2020 at 1:32 am | #

      While falling, Mike was bitten by a radioactive spider, and turned into Supermike. He threw the evil dads into space und then flew away into the sunrise on a gentle breeze.

      I can dream, too.

      • DarkoNeko
        DarkoNeko
        January 10, 2020 at 3:19 pm | #

        B-but acting good is Mike’s kryptonite !

        • Doom Shepherd
          Doom Shepherd
          January 10, 2020 at 5:06 pm | #

          Throwing people unprotected into space generally kills them, so it’d still be an evil act. Crisis Averted. (But a Crossover Crisis becomes exponentially more likely.)

  29. Tomn
    Tomn
    January 10, 2020 at 12:59 am | #

    At the very least we know that whatever went down, Toedad was too distracted to go after Becky in the end.

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      January 10, 2020 at 1:05 am | #

      Either that, or Dina quickly removed him so he wouldn’t distract from her getting touched in many places

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        January 10, 2020 at 1:14 am | #

        I mean, how long do YOU think he would last against a naked, hormon-crazed Dina in mating frenzy armed with a raptor claw?

        • Jhon
          Jhon
          January 10, 2020 at 4:19 pm | #

          Somewhere on the Net, Rule 34 is happening…

          • Opus the Poet
            Opus the Poet
            January 10, 2020 at 6:02 pm | #

            This took me way too long to compose after pulling myself back off the floor and into my chair because I was laughing so hard.

  30. Circeus
    Circeus
    January 10, 2020 at 1:13 am | #

    Okay, is she excited or dismayed? XD

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      January 10, 2020 at 1:15 am | #

      Yes.

      • DarkoNeko
        DarkoNeko
        January 10, 2020 at 3:20 pm | #

        Vey much yes.

  31. questionwriter
    questionwriter
    January 10, 2020 at 1:14 am | #

    …and the kid goes for broke.

    (nice Trudeau homage)

    • Kensou
      Kensou
      January 10, 2020 at 4:52 am | #

      …Doonesbury Trudeau?

      • NickG
        NickG
        January 10, 2020 at 3:12 pm | #

        Joanie and Rick’s first night together, a 3 strip long pan from Joanie’s bedroom across the town to Rick’s with J & R in bed together.

        • thejeff
          thejeff
          January 10, 2020 at 10:32 pm | #

          Absolutely beautiful sequence. Impressive for being willing to linger like that without a punchline.

          Also censored by multiple papers for showing the new couple in bed.

        • Kensou
          Kensou
          January 11, 2020 at 4:30 am | #

          Oooh, okay, thank you. Either it’s been so long since I read it that the sequence slipped thru the old memory cracks, or I didn’t see it at the time.

  32. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    January 10, 2020 at 1:18 am | #

    Why is there smut on my screen?
    Surely this will lead to degenerate behaviours like holding hands or worse, HEAD PATS!

  33. ReFlex76
    ReFlex76
    January 10, 2020 at 1:35 am | #

    Regarding Alt-Text:

    Huh, I thought it was Joyce taught her.

  34. ReFlex76
    ReFlex76
    January 10, 2020 at 1:35 am | #

    Regarding Alt-Text:

    Huh, I thought it was Joyce that taught her.

  35. Hazel
    Hazel
    January 10, 2020 at 1:39 am | #

    Willis takes away but also giveth

  36. TheFlamingonator
    TheFlamingonator
    January 10, 2020 at 1:43 am | #

    yay lesbian content

    nay no answers to WHAT HAPPENED

  37. brionl
    brionl
    January 10, 2020 at 1:45 am | #

    I certainly hope her hanky was thoroughly panky’d.

  38. Ray
    Ray
    January 10, 2020 at 2:12 am | #

    I dunno… maybe she’s just trying to get up to go pee…..

  39. Skoyatt
    Skoyatt
    January 10, 2020 at 2:33 am | #

    Is it normal if there isn’t a previous button anymore?

  40. GUIGUI
    GUIGUI
    January 10, 2020 at 2:45 am | #

    Maybe they just hugged?

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      January 10, 2020 at 3:18 am | #

      There is no “just” about hugging without a hat.

      • GUIGUI
        GUIGUI
        January 10, 2020 at 10:18 am | #

        Don’t know if it was assigned to you randomly, but your Grabbatar is fitting perfectly to your reply.

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          January 10, 2020 at 12:54 pm | #

          I picked it myself, from the bestest Becky strip 🙂

          http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/01-to-those-whod-ground-me/unlimited/

  41. Minder
    Minder
    January 10, 2020 at 2:57 am | #

    Not the plot thread I was hoping to see rn, but for those worried Mike’s dead I never thought there was a chance in hell considering (1) he IS in the main cast, go check the character page, and (2) we just saw Amber wake up and spend a good few minutes looking at her phone, and even her reclusive ass would have a few notifications if one of her best…uh, longtime acquaintances that frequently aggrandizes her had got shoved off a building and died.

    Not ruling out he’s laid up in the hospital right now next to Ross with a matching neck brace, though.

    (I hope all the partygoers including Robin were chased out of the place by now so that no one but Becky may see the sacred crown hair of the Dinasaur)

  42. Delicious Taffy
    Delicious Taffy
    January 10, 2020 at 3:13 am | #

    Oh hey, a fellow autsy sleep-cuddler. Now, that’s representation I can get behind.

  43. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    January 10, 2020 at 3:36 am | #

    This is too cute.

  44. fire_daws
    fire_daws
    January 10, 2020 at 3:52 am | #

    Blowjob Cat watches

    • MutantSentry
      MutantSentry
      January 10, 2020 at 11:50 am | #

      Blowjob Cat always watches

  45. Keulen
    Keulen
    January 10, 2020 at 4:03 am | #

    While I like this strip, I’m still annoyed at Willis for continually delaying showing us what happened to Mike, Blaine, and Ross.

    • inqntrol
      inqntrol
      January 10, 2020 at 4:17 am | #

      And that’s why the expression ”DAMN YOU WILLIS!” exists.

  46. He Who Abides
    He Who Abides
    January 10, 2020 at 4:53 am | #

    I can’t even be mad about this delay in cliffhanger resolution. It’s just too adorable.

  47. kilgaen
    kilgaen
    January 10, 2020 at 5:26 am | #

    I just realised the hanky-panky isn’t the possibility of sex (which didn’t happen, and Becky knows this because she wasn’t drunk). It’s hanky-panky because Dina’s hat-free.

    Which, yeah, is legit.

  48. Booker
    Booker
    January 10, 2020 at 5:40 am | #

    In possibly the first time this is ever said.
    BLESS YOU WILLIS!
    This strip made me smile.

    • Jess
      Jess
      January 10, 2020 at 8:23 am | #

      Right! An odd reprieve but a reprieve nonetheless. I hope we someday have a chance to bless them again…

  49. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    January 10, 2020 at 7:27 am | #

    Better for Becky to get used to it. She and Dina together are so adorable♡♡♡

  50. Vulcanodon
    Vulcanodon
    January 10, 2020 at 7:48 am | #

    Becky + Dina, we need you to be there, one little pocket of happiness we can aspire to.

  51. Jess
    Jess
    January 10, 2020 at 8:24 am | #

    Sweet children!!

    Keep your voice down, Becky! Your girlfriend was asleep!

  52. Chaucer59
    Chaucer59
    January 10, 2020 at 8:28 am | #

    These two are just friggin’ adorable. As for Mike, if he is dead or even permanently damaged, I hope Blaine—when he caught AG’s rope—at least swung against the stairs and knocked out all his front teeth.

    • Shane
      Shane
      January 10, 2020 at 10:02 am | #

      Apparently Mike’s alive-ness isn’t a priority question right now.
      Is the author’s intent to annoy the audience or what?
      “HAHA I MADE YOU CARE THEN LOOKED AWAY”. I’m… kinda unamused.

      • Arian
        Arian
        January 10, 2020 at 8:17 pm | #

        Have you not been reading long enough yet to expect this to happen regularly? As someone else said, there’s a reason the expression DAMN YOU WILLIS! exists. You get used to it – or at any rate, you come to expect it

        • Shane
          Shane
          January 10, 2020 at 8:31 pm | #

          This is more blatant than the previous Damn You Willis-es!

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            January 10, 2020 at 10:35 pm | #

            It’s no more blatant than the time skip after the Ryan stabbing. Admittedly, there was little reason to think Amber was dead then, but there was much speculation that she’d been arrested or was on the run.

  53. Alan in DC
    Alan in DC
    January 10, 2020 at 11:03 am | #

    That’s quite the voice Becky has — it scared the hell out of the gulls in the sixth frame, and the nearest sizable body of water (Lake Monroe) is 6 miles to the southeast.

    Damn, she’s loud.

    • Sunny
      Sunny
      January 10, 2020 at 3:31 pm | #

      Seagulls have actually been moving further and further away from the water and into cities. It’s a lot easier for them to find food around humans than it is to catch fish. Many seagulls don’t even know how to catch fish anymore.

  54. PB
    PB
    January 10, 2020 at 11:41 am | #

    Staving off the DYWs with Becky/Dina snuggling.

    … Well played, Willis. Well played.

  55. Rikunda
    Rikunda
    January 10, 2020 at 12:45 pm | #

    She has no clue what sex is… does she? Starting to think she never had a sex ed talk.

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      January 10, 2020 at 1:39 pm | #

      The Talk? Betting not, Toedad would prohibit such things until she was safely heterosexually paired off (I’ve heard ‘the Mom gives a how-to talk the night before the wedding’ is a thing in some fundie communities.) Bonnie might have done so behind his back (during homeschool time, maybe,) but she’d have to do it while they were alone – Joyce has mentioned a homeschool group beyond just her and Becky, any of whom could talk to their parents who would be horrified at the subject, and… I mean, bless Joyce, but she’d probably talk too. And of course, since Bonnie died there’s no chance of that.

      That said, I can entirely see Becky being savvy enough to use a private browser and do some studying online, but she’d have to feel REALLY confident she wouldn’t be walked in on, especially since it probably wasn’t even a computer in her room. (Based off the ‘no phone’ thing, among others.) Since she escaped, though, she’s had way more freedom to contemplate it… but oh, the shame. And that shame’s been around for a while, I’d bet.

      (We also know ‘no hat’ is also a ‘Becky’s kind of got a Thing now’ from dating Dina, so it may be a joke/cosleeping hatless, even otherwise clothed, is over Becky’s Acceptable Premarital Contact line?)

      • Bagge
        Bagge
        January 10, 2020 at 2:14 pm | #

        I for one mourn that we never got to see Leslie sit down to give Becky the talk, will all heartwarming hilarity that would have entailed.

        • Regalli
          Regalli
          January 10, 2020 at 11:35 pm | #

          We can hope a scene like that appears in some form, someday. Cause yeah it’d be cute and awkward as hell. (Both flashbacks and people paying Willis a shitload of money for him to draw a whole comic exist. We can dream.)

    • Joe Archer
      Joe Archer
      January 11, 2020 at 10:41 am | #

      Becky is not a virgin WRT mattress action:
      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/definitely/

  56. Schol-R-LEA
    Schol-R-LEA
    January 10, 2020 at 2:20 pm | #

    You can take the lesbian out of the right-wing evangelical religion, but it may
    take a bit longer to take the right-wing evangelical religion out of the lesbian.

  57. Pinja
    Pinja
    January 10, 2020 at 5:04 pm | #

    Now they’re both teeeeeeeeeeeen pregnant!

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      January 10, 2020 at 6:10 pm | #

      Fuck yeah, Gaybees https://www.gogetaroomie.com/comic/this-is-your-song

  58. Suet
    Suet
    January 10, 2020 at 5:32 pm | #

    You do the hanky panky and you throw away the hat…

  59. Poofdepoof
    Poofdepoof
    January 10, 2020 at 5:33 pm | #

    When my phone isn’t on great WiFi the comic slowly loads top to bottom… So I started out being unexcited about Billie and Ruth and then ended up full of squee for Becky and Dina 😁

  60. David L.
    David L.
    January 10, 2020 at 6:38 pm | #

    This is so cute.

  61. Atrius
    Atrius
    January 10, 2020 at 8:00 pm | #

    I literally said “‘D’awwww” out loud. They are adorable.

  62. Atrius
    Atrius
    January 10, 2020 at 8:51 pm | #

    Also just realized that 2 of my other webcomic updates today were wonderful lesbian moments. You can never have too much lesbian, apparently.

  63. Marie
    Marie
    January 10, 2020 at 10:58 pm | #

    Anybody else catch how this sequence of panels harkens back to an iconic moment in Doonsbury – when “Joanie Beds Rick” ? 1976. Might be before most of ya’ll’s time… https://media.npr.org/assets/artslife/books/2010/10/doonesbury/db761113.jpg

  64. TlalocW
    TlalocW
    January 10, 2020 at 11:23 pm | #

    And a weak voice from the outside ground struggles to make itself heard.. “I… had premarital hanky panky.. with… your moms… for a nickel. Uhhhhhh.” And Mike dies.

  65. Sarpiedon
    Sarpiedon
    January 11, 2020 at 9:37 pm | #

    Live feed Web Cam footage or it didn’t happen

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