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May 12, 2026

Obligatory

by David M Willis on March 16, 2022 at 12:01 am
  • 03 – Trial and Sarah
└ Tags: becky, dina, joe

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    March 16, 2022 at 12:05 am | #

    Becky and Joe in agreement? 😱

    • Ana Chronistic
      Ana Chronistic
      March 16, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

      what did butts ever do to Joe

      (butts, pls respond)

      • Doctor_Who
        Doctor_Who
        March 16, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

        Not as much as he’d like.

      • Shitbird
        Shitbird
        March 16, 2022 at 12:20 am | #

        Joe prefers feet

        • Nono
          Nono
          March 16, 2022 at 12:26 am | #

          Nah, that’s Joyce.

      • Jamie
        Jamie
        March 16, 2022 at 1:33 am | #

        I deny that I did anything.

      • Gigafreak
        Gigafreak
        March 16, 2022 at 1:35 am | #

        Dina: “Oh your God, Becky. Look at her butt.”

        • elebenty
          elebenty
          March 16, 2022 at 1:45 pm | #

          I needed that, tks.

        • Shadowsnail
          Shadowsnail
          March 16, 2022 at 8:35 pm | #

          It is so big. She looks like one of those list bros’ girlfriends. But, you know, who understands those list bros?

      • Judas Peckerwood
        Judas Peckerwood
        March 16, 2022 at 2:39 am | #

        I suspect that it’s more about what butts DIDN’T ever do to Joe.

      • Decidedly Orthogonal
        Decidedly Orthogonal
        March 16, 2022 at 6:53 am | #

        ASS-umed he wasn’t impacted by philandering.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      March 16, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

      In this case they have a shared interest re: female secondary sexual characteristics.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        March 16, 2022 at 12:19 am | #

        The secondary ones are my favorite!
        This is actually true

  2. King Daniel
    King Daniel
    March 16, 2022 at 12:06 am | #

    Why WOULD Joe be looking for Joyce? Wrong answers only.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      March 16, 2022 at 12:07 am | #

      “Joyce, I’ve decided to join the priesthood, you don’t need all those old bibles and things, right?”

      • demonmonkey89
        demonmonkey89
        March 16, 2022 at 12:21 am | #

        The fact that Joe is Jewish iirc makes this even funnier to me

      • milu
        milu
        March 16, 2022 at 7:20 pm | #

        “I’ll trade you for all my condoms, lube, sex toys, and porn subscriptions”

    • RassilonTDavros
      RassilonTDavros
      March 16, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

      Does “nobody has seen her since Sal kidnapped her to train her to fight aliens” count as a wrong answer

      • Clif
        Clif
        March 16, 2022 at 11:51 am | #

        No, since it’s technically true. Just as no-one has heard from you after the time you swum the Atlantic in a single day.

        • milu
          milu
          March 16, 2022 at 7:12 pm | #

          RassilonTDavros swam across the atlantic in a day in an alternate universe? Was it the one where continental drift got lazy?

    • alongcameaspider
      alongcameaspider
      March 16, 2022 at 12:14 am | #

      He’s worked through his issues and is ready to try to take her on a date for real

      Too unrealistic?

      • milu
        milu
        March 16, 2022 at 7:22 pm | #

        what is this, smartingofa— *chased off by untitled goose*

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      March 16, 2022 at 12:18 am | #

      He’s seen the error of his hedonistic ways and has become incredibly devout in his religion. Now that Joyce has rejected Christianity he thinks she’s a prime candidate to help spread the word of Judaism.

      • milu
        milu
        March 16, 2022 at 7:29 pm | #

        You’re an atheist now? Yeah I know, what’s your point?

      • Shadowsnail
        Shadowsnail
        March 16, 2022 at 8:38 pm | #

        In high school, I saw a video about Oscar Wilde where a person with an unusual accent pronounced that word like “head on a stick”. That’s the only way I have read it ever since.

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      March 16, 2022 at 12:23 am | #

      His square chinned brothers from Easter Island have come to drag him back. He needs to hide in a pile of Joyce’s sweater vests till things cool down.

      • milu
        milu
        March 16, 2022 at 7:30 pm | #

        Hate it when that happens

    • not someone else
      not someone else
      March 16, 2022 at 1:11 am | #

      Joe has realized he’s actually the secret identity of a magical girl mascot and it’s his responsibility to help Joyce become Cure Sweater Vest.

      • Tsa
        Tsa
        March 16, 2022 at 1:49 am | #

        Mew Buttered Noodles

    • Sporky
      Sporky
      March 16, 2022 at 2:05 am | #

      Hide and seek game. Becky doesn’t realize it, but she just helped him cheat.

      • milu
        milu
        March 16, 2022 at 7:36 pm | #

        But he won’t admit it of course, it’s secret hide-and-seek. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t worry, oh by the way have you seen King Daniel, they’re my um… comment partner. It’s a thing, look, where are they

    • Daibhid C
      Daibhid C
      March 16, 2022 at 6:45 am | #

      Because you can’t spell “Joyce” with out “Joe, why?” See?

      I would like to say this made more sense in my head, but I’m not sure it did.

      • milu
        milu
        March 16, 2022 at 7:16 pm | #

        You also can’t spell “That was a lovely pun Dhaibid” without “Daibhid”. See?

    • Decidedly Orthogonal
      Decidedly Orthogonal
      March 16, 2022 at 6:55 am | #

      You ask why would he? He answers, why WOOD he not Joyce?

      • milu
        milu
        March 16, 2022 at 7:17 pm | #

        noooooo
        but also yeeeeees

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      March 16, 2022 at 8:53 am | #

      He has feelings for Liz now so he has to have sex with Joyce to get over them.

      • milu
        milu
        March 16, 2022 at 7:18 pm | #

        What could go wrong

    • misanthropope
      misanthropope
      March 16, 2022 at 11:33 am | #

      he wants sarah to walk in on him making out with joyce, as a fun and harmless prank.

      • milu
        milu
        March 16, 2022 at 7:43 pm | #

        “we’re science lab partners and we’ve got a class on tuesday! …wait, why did i think this would work”

    • zee
      zee
      March 16, 2022 at 1:21 pm | #

      A proposal of marriage

      • milu
        milu
        March 16, 2022 at 7:44 pm | #

        “I propose that we marry Becky to Dina. The poor girl is gonna explode”

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      March 16, 2022 at 6:00 pm | #

      Joyce misplaced her glasses and can’t see properly to look for them, so she needs someone to look for her.

      • milu
        milu
        March 16, 2022 at 7:47 pm | #

        “Joe I’ve lost my glasses, can you look for me”
        “I’m right here. I think I’ve found you”
        “…”
        “Oh”

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      April 7, 2022 at 6:13 am | #

      “Joyce Brown, you shall be visited by three spirits (not counting me), without whose visits you cannot hope to shun the path I tread! Expect the first (again, not counting me) to-morrow when the bell tolls One!

      (Oh, also not counting the carriage horses on the stairs earlier. Honestly even I’m not sure what that one was about. You won’t see them again, though, so really I wouldn’t worry about it).

      Wait a minute… why am I dead?”

  3. The Wellerman
    The Wellerman
    March 16, 2022 at 12:08 am | #

    The Full Moon is rising. 🎑

    Let it fill your heart and mind with ecstasy! 🥰

    *plays “Bamboo Dreams” by Elvira Björkman on Hacked Muzak

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      March 16, 2022 at 12:20 am | #

      I don’t understand. Is there something going on with astronomy tonight? Apparently there is supposed to be a “Worm Moon” Friday.

      • Nova
        Nova
        March 16, 2022 at 1:19 am | #

        Worm Moon is just a name for the full moon that happens in March. Each month has one or several animals attached to the moon (usually with local significance wherever they sprung up).

        A second full moon in any of those months just adds “blue” to it. So two full moons in March would be a “Worm Moon” and a “Blue Worm Moon”.

        • brionl
          brionl
          March 16, 2022 at 1:25 am | #

          They’re not all animals, for example the Harvest Moon and Hunter’s Moon in the fall.

          • Clif
            Clif
            March 16, 2022 at 3:37 am | #

            A hunter 8s an animal. A harvest, possibly not.

          • Nova
            Nova
            March 16, 2022 at 5:53 pm | #

            Fair. Thank you for the correction.

        • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
          BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
          April 7, 2022 at 6:21 am | #

          No, the Worm Moon is a mysterious recently discovered rogue planetoid made entirely of abominable undying worms, or, upon closer inspection, a single worm of immeasurable length knotted endlessly upon itself, currently on a stable earthbound trajectory. And it’s growing.

      • BarerMender
        BarerMender
        March 16, 2022 at 1:19 am | #

        “In March, the Full Moon is the Worm Moon; if it occurs on or after March 21, it is also the Paschal Moon. It is also called Lenten Moon, Crow Moon, Crust Moon, Chaste Moon, Sugar Moon, and Sap Moon.” So sayeth timeanddate dot com.

        • Clif
          Clif
          March 16, 2022 at 11:54 am | #

          Who knew the moon was so crowded?

          • milu
            milu
            March 16, 2022 at 7:57 pm | #

            not the moon people!

            • Clif
              Clif
              March 16, 2022 at 11:44 pm | #

              Or the moon worms apparently.

              • The Wellerman
                The Wellerman
                March 17, 2022 at 12:01 am | #

                Moon worms…

  4. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    March 16, 2022 at 12:15 am | #

    Whelp. I know what I’m drawing.

    Tommorow.

    • ThunderNight
      ThunderNight
      March 16, 2022 at 12:55 am | #

      flat butts?

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        March 16, 2022 at 12:57 am | #

        o3o perhaps.
        We’ll just have to wait and see.

        But also I would be ever so entertained if people just continued to blindly guess.

        • Clif
          Clif
          March 16, 2022 at 11:55 am | #

          I’m so disappointed. i was hoping for moon worms.

        • milu
          milu
          March 16, 2022 at 8:04 pm | #

          “Joyce, we both know you and I are… well… we’re not just friends, right? we’re also, um… wait… *plucks eyelash from Joyce’s cheek* we’re science lab partners aren’t we, so i thought we should study for tuesday’s plant microscopy lab, and i was thinking…”
          Joyce: *has spontaneously combusted, is no longer listening*

        • Shadowsnail
          Shadowsnail
          March 16, 2022 at 8:41 pm | #

          Blind guess:
          Butts disease is not about the butts you see. It’s about the butts you don’t see.

      • Judas Peckerwood
        Judas Peckerwood
        March 16, 2022 at 2:40 am | #

        I draw in only two dimensions, so all of the butts are flat.

        • misanthropope
          misanthropope
          March 16, 2022 at 11:34 am | #

          literally the reason 3d printers were invented

          • Clif
            Clif
            March 16, 2022 at 11:56 am | #

            To print flat butts?

          • milu
            milu
            March 16, 2022 at 8:09 pm | #

            “the reason X was invented” is basically always butts

    • Delicious Taffy
      Delicious Taffy
      March 16, 2022 at 1:13 am | #

      Goku eating scrambled eggs?

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      March 16, 2022 at 1:19 am | #

      Butts…

      • Bicycle Bill
        Bicycle Bill
        March 16, 2022 at 1:25 am | #

        … and more butts.

    • Agemegos
      Agemegos
      March 16, 2022 at 1:27 am | #

      The Pont Saint-Bénézet?

    • Jamie
      Jamie
      March 16, 2022 at 1:34 am | #

      Scenes from science class.

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 16, 2022 at 2:16 am | #

      Multiple butts of various description?

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        March 16, 2022 at 2:30 am | #

        Hm.

  5. Joe Moose
    Joe Moose
    March 16, 2022 at 12:18 am | #

    Oh no, we got a case of Butts. Someone contact Pintsize!

  6. BBCC
    BBCC
    March 16, 2022 at 12:21 am | #

    Why YES, Joe, that WOULD be an excellent reason to go drop in on Joyce.

    Spencer, how hard are you squeeing right now?

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      March 16, 2022 at 2:17 am | #

      I can hear the squeeing from here. The neighborhood dogs are barking like mad.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      March 16, 2022 at 9:46 am | #

      I’m in complete despair because tomorrow’s Monday and then we’ve got the Halloween flashback, so I’m left adrift wondering when biology class will resume.

      My JoJo-induced serotonin is running drastically low.

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        March 17, 2022 at 12:13 am | #

        There, there, friend.

  7. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    March 16, 2022 at 12:22 am | #

    Y’know as a fellow connoisseur of the lewd, I like to imagine that Joe is the kinda guy who can appreciate flat butts. Sure maybe it’s not his preference but butts/boobs of all sizes can have their appeal. Only the weak are hindered by such trivialities.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      March 16, 2022 at 12:23 am | #

      (also due to Willis’ butts disease I can’t imagine anyone in the immediate vicinity of this dorm hallway has what I’d consider a flat butt.)

      • Nono
        Nono
        March 16, 2022 at 12:28 am | #

        Let’s say Mary.

        Also I feel like Jason would be a little boney in the heiny.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          March 16, 2022 at 12:37 am | #

          I have done my research and looked through every strip with mary in it. For posterity (posteriorty?). And funny enough she is almost always drawn from the waist up. After further research however I am led to believe that your assertion may be correct.

          She does have somewhat curvy hips sometimes though.

          Also early Billie was pretty hot too. Unrelated but it came up in my research.

          • Nono
            Nono
            March 16, 2022 at 1:00 am | #

            Joe did apparently give her a good rating, so she must have… something going for her.

            • Yotomoe
              Yotomoe
              March 16, 2022 at 1:32 am | #

              There’s a very real possibility that Joe has a Christian fetish.

              • King Daniel
                King Daniel
                March 16, 2022 at 1:41 am | #

                *raises finger*
                …
                *lowers finger, grasps own chin with a pensive expression*

              • Nono
                Nono
                March 16, 2022 at 2:05 am | #

                I mean, we’d have to re-examine Rachel and Malaya, then.

              • RacingTurtle
                RacingTurtle
                March 16, 2022 at 2:39 am | #

                He lives in Indiana. His options are, statistically, almost all some variety of Christian.

                • Yotomoe
                  Yotomoe
                  March 16, 2022 at 2:44 am | #

                  A very convenient coincidence for him then!

  8. Adam Black
    Adam Black
    March 16, 2022 at 12:45 am | #

    lookat Joe showing some chest division

  9. Bagge
    Bagge
    March 16, 2022 at 12:48 am | #

    Yo, Joe!

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      March 16, 2022 at 1:03 am | #

      Knowing is more than half the battle.

  10. Nono
    Nono
    March 16, 2022 at 1:01 am | #

    ‘Obligatory greeting’ is my favourite part of this friendship.

    • june gloom
      june gloom
      March 16, 2022 at 1:55 am | #

      It’s a good example of one of Joe’s most endearing qualities: he does genuinely care about Dina and is willing to engage with her on her terms.

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      March 16, 2022 at 11:59 am | #

      I like that too.

  11. AbacusWizard
    AbacusWizard
    March 16, 2022 at 1:12 am | #

    Dumbing of Age Book 11: Most Mad About Butts

  12. Ava-Ann
    Ava-Ann
    March 16, 2022 at 1:46 am | #

    I’m curious, has anyone actually done a ranking of the DoA butts? I’ll be honest, I’ve noted shapely hips but can’t recall anyone’s butt 🤔

    • Nono
      Nono
      March 16, 2022 at 2:07 am | #

      We only have contextual clues, but I think Walky apparently has a good butt by canon.

      Aside from that, there’s I think Amber and Ethan with notable butts? Well Ethan’s is by word of Joyce.

    • woobie
      woobie
      March 16, 2022 at 2:17 am | #

      Like… a list?

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      March 16, 2022 at 2:17 am | #

      I’ve drew out my favorite butts once but that’s pretty dated. I could always try my hand at a tier list though!

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        March 16, 2022 at 2:18 am | #

        An UHD remaster we can all get behind.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        March 16, 2022 at 2:29 am | #

        https://imgur.com/a/hpSCAed
        I decided that the idea of a tier list implies that there’s such a thing as a bad butt so I made them all categorical instead. Having said that unfortunately the list I made isn’t exactly comprehensive so there’s a lotta characters missing :T

        Liz would be the same tier as Joyce

        • Amós Batista
          Amós Batista
          March 16, 2022 at 5:23 am | #

          Nice to see the average butt level in DoA is on a nice level.

        • The Wellerman
          The Wellerman
          March 16, 2022 at 7:28 am | #

          Seriously the sites bots must be on some bad shit, it ate my damn comment TEN times in a row.

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          March 16, 2022 at 8:05 am | #

          Danny’s ass is well-placed.

          • Deanatay
            Deanatay
            March 16, 2022 at 8:11 pm | #

            I have issues with Ethan’s placement.

            Well, maybe pre-Mike’s-Death Ethan. Emothan is probably more bony. Boy hasn’t been eating right.

    • Blue
      Blue
      March 16, 2022 at 5:25 pm | #

      How has Joe’s butt not been mentioned yet? Did people forget the scene where he walks by Joyce to get to the shower?

  13. Carms
    Carms
    March 16, 2022 at 1:52 am | #

    This one makes me happy.

  14. Friendly Frankenstein
    Friendly Frankenstein
    March 16, 2022 at 2:27 am | #

    …Okay all I have to say about this one is that I really like Joe returning the ‘Obligatory greetings’. It’s cute!! I think their odd friendship(??) is very very cute. Good job all around. Slaps this comic. Thats a good one!

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      March 16, 2022 at 10:07 am | #

      Yeah, Dina and Joe are fun. I imagine they also see each other more than they ever used to due to the Amber connection.

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      March 16, 2022 at 11:51 pm | #

      The only thing better would have been for Joe to reply with, “Obligatory response.”

  15. RacingTurtle
    RacingTurtle
    March 16, 2022 at 2:36 am | #

    Panel four Joe has borrowed a Danny-face. Love turns us all into dorks. (But does it turn us all into good eggs?)

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      March 16, 2022 at 5:21 am | #

      Danny getting a bit of Joe’s confidence, too.
      It’s the equivalent exchange. I learnt this in Full Metal Alchemist.

  16. Delicious Taffy
    Delicious Taffy
    March 16, 2022 at 3:18 am | #

    Becky is admitting that she saw Liz’s parts, which obviously means she openly lusts after Liz and is going to cheat on Dina with Liz. There are no other possibilities.

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      March 16, 2022 at 5:19 am | #

      I wonder when Becky saw Liz. I just remember when she was playing with Joyce at Joe’s room.

      • Delicious Taffy
        Delicious Taffy
        March 16, 2022 at 5:41 am | #

        Musta been some time in those five seconds.

      • alongcameaspider
        alongcameaspider
        March 16, 2022 at 9:06 am | #

        I assume she had seen pictures on Facebook, she recognized that Liz was one of Joyce’s Facebook friends

        • Delicious Taffy
          Delicious Taffy
          March 16, 2022 at 10:22 am | #

          That’s physically impossible. Teenagers can’t access anything but the most trendy websites, it’s just genetics.

  17. Darkoneko
    Darkoneko
    March 16, 2022 at 4:05 am | #

    why not both.png

  18. zaratustra
    zaratustra
    March 16, 2022 at 4:10 am | #

    So Joe is secretly Ray Smuckles?

  19. Spencer
    Spencer
    March 16, 2022 at 6:48 am | #

    “It’s not like I like you or anything” is and always has been hilarious actually

    • Keulen
      Keulen
      March 16, 2022 at 12:02 pm | #

      I used to not like tsunderes but now I think they’re freaking hilarious.

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        March 16, 2022 at 4:32 pm | #

        It works like this!

        Starting out, a romantic dynamic between two characters with clashing egos is fun!

        The novelty wears off after you’re exposed to it for so long, and then you need particularly good examples to stick out in your mind.

        So overdone that you never want to see one again.

        It gets to the point where you can make ironic references to this dynamic when relevant in an off-handed jokey way.

        The cliche is gone for so long that it becomes fresh again.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      March 16, 2022 at 1:50 pm | #

      Obvious denial is funny

  20. Beau Kirin Maysey
    Beau Kirin Maysey
    March 16, 2022 at 8:25 am | #

    Eh-yooooooooooo

  21. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    March 16, 2022 at 9:21 am | #

    Joe is loosing his coolness just hearing about Joyce… Becky will soon understand what is going withhim… Can’t wait to see how she will react.

  22. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    March 16, 2022 at 10:08 am | #

    I mean, they aren’t wrong. Liz is a mess. Liz is also a very attractive mess.

  23. Hof1991
    Hof1991
    March 16, 2022 at 10:56 am | #

    The reverse of Butts Disease is Chest Fever. https://youtu.be/h_7q9_EJYvE

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      March 16, 2022 at 5:48 pm | #

      I miss listen prog rock…

      • Needfuldoer
        Needfuldoer
        March 16, 2022 at 9:26 pm | #

        Nothing’s stopping you!

    • Opus the Poet
      Opus the Poet
      March 16, 2022 at 7:27 pm | #

      I think Joe has a different disease:
      https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ammcy3J6dPg&list=RDAMVMammcy3J6dPg

  24. Heather
    Heather
    March 16, 2022 at 5:00 pm | #

    Becky is staring off screen because Liz is right behind Joe having realised her gift of teleportation. Sarah is currently in the back seat of the car alone twitching in confusion and rage as the driver feels a wash of dread.

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