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May 12, 2026

Breasticular

by David M Willis on March 7, 2024 at 12:01 am
  • 03 – Trystin' in the Wind
└ Tags: joe, joyce

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    March 7, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

    switching with Joe is the new doing the laundry

    • Rowan
      Rowan
      March 7, 2024 at 3:46 am | #

      the best euphemism!

    • RoyanRannedos
      RoyanRannedos
      March 7, 2024 at 11:50 am | #

      Good thing I read this between my sips of coffee.

    • Decidedly Orthogonal
      Decidedly Orthogonal
      March 7, 2024 at 2:55 pm | #

      Dina may be busy ’till Tuesday, but it appears JoJo have time to get arrested. 😍

  2. Red
    Red
    March 7, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    🤣🤣🤣

  3. shadowcell
    shadowcell
    March 7, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    they’re only breasts if they come from the breasticular region of France, otherwise they’re just boobs

    • Thomas
      Thomas
      March 7, 2024 at 12:16 am | #

      I think you mean either Brest or the Seine region.

      • Laura
        Laura
        March 7, 2024 at 2:11 am | #

        Ooh la la!

        (Or should I say:
        “Où?”
        “Là! Là!”)

      • Icarus
        Icarus
        March 7, 2024 at 4:35 am | #

        Ooh, nice wordplay.

      • Pergola
        Pergola
        March 7, 2024 at 7:33 am | #

        Appellation Contrôlée.

      • someone
        someone
        March 7, 2024 at 9:01 am | #

        You man the île de Sein.

    • M!a
      M!a
      March 7, 2024 at 12:42 am | #

      Boobticular doesn’t really flow the same.

      • TheLurkerAbove
        TheLurkerAbove
        March 7, 2024 at 12:45 am | #

        How about breasticles? XD

        • Eric
          Eric
          March 7, 2024 at 9:00 am | #

          Chesticles?
          (stolen from Andy Zaltzman)

        • APW
          APW
          March 8, 2024 at 12:24 am | #

          Breast tickles is what you get when someone accidentally brushes against them

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        March 7, 2024 at 3:15 am | #

        Boobtacular!

    • Pylgrim
      Pylgrim
      March 7, 2024 at 5:48 am | #

      *sparkling boobs

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        March 7, 2024 at 2:51 pm | #

        The sequel to DBZ Sparking Blast.

  4. Mym
    Mym
    March 7, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    Get a room!!

    • Nothri
      Nothri
      March 7, 2024 at 11:28 am | #

      “They’re in a room!”

      “Then lose some weight!”

  5. BBCC
    BBCC
    March 7, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    Welp there goes the rest of the food. Ah, but they’re cute.

  6. Grimey
    Grimey
    March 7, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    Didn’t we already confirm that Joyce has a donk in an earlier comic?

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      March 7, 2024 at 12:20 am | #

      She does have a Dork. His name is Joe.

      • Renadt
        Renadt
        March 7, 2024 at 1:33 am | #

        No, donk. As in badonkadonk. And yes, Joyce do.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          March 7, 2024 at 1:44 am | #

          oh whoops.
          Yeah. Dat ass fat.
          Also she has Jugs. Again, confirmed in the comic.

          • Needfuldoer
            Needfuldoer
            March 7, 2024 at 3:05 am | #

            Those are just her regular tan Uggs, not her shower boots.

            • Yotomoe
              Yotomoe
              March 7, 2024 at 3:16 am | #

              She has them. Just not right this second.

            • dday
              dday
              March 7, 2024 at 3:48 am | #

              Ya know, I thought that was Joyce on the cover of Uggs n’ Juggs Quarterly…

  7. Dave Van Domelen
    Dave Van Domelen
    March 7, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    Romantic clipping. Thanks Todd!

  8. Blume
    Blume
    March 7, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

    Buncha dorks. Dorks in love (lust) 🙁

  9. sdrainbow
    sdrainbow
    March 7, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    this is adorable

    and I acknowledge that it is adorable

    but also I am increasingly certain that joe is going to flame out.

    • Warcodered
      Warcodered
      March 11, 2024 at 8:10 pm | #

      I don’t know he’s the one that’s embarrassed, that we can see not ruling out Joyce being just as much the case. This whole thing feels very different for Joe I think.

  10. Nono
    Nono
    March 7, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

    There’s gonna be a lot of crusty stocks in Joe and Danny’s room, huh.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      March 7, 2024 at 12:20 am | #

      Oh is Joe getting into the stock market? Good for him.

      • Slartibeast Button, BIA
        Slartibeast Button, BIA
        March 7, 2024 at 12:22 am | #

        No, the old time punishment stocks, for kinky stuff.

  11. Nono
    Nono
    March 7, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

    As we can see in the last panel, Joyce is on top.

    • Miri
      Miri
      March 7, 2024 at 9:40 am | #

      Oh, Joyce is definitely the top in this relationship. I am just trying to work out if she can say then do stuff like this and genuinely not realise what she is doing to him…

      • Kitty
        Kitty
        March 7, 2024 at 12:51 pm | #

        I’d argue that Joyce is a power bottom. Seemingly subservient but totally controls what happens/doesn’t.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        March 7, 2024 at 2:45 pm | #

        How could it affect him? He’s the experienced worldly one. He’s used to all this sex stuff. She’s the one who’s struggling with temptation and her fundie upbringing.

        • Schpoonman
          Schpoonman
          March 7, 2024 at 2:56 pm | #

          He’s not used to being infatuated with someone like he is Joyce. Context changes everything.

          • thejeff
            thejeff
            March 7, 2024 at 10:57 pm | #

            Of course, but from her point of view …

  12. Animedingo
    Animedingo
    March 7, 2024 at 12:08 am | #

    Bruh

  13. HueSatLight
    HueSatLight
    March 7, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

    they’re about 30 seconds from 9CL-ing that booth.

    • M!a
      M!a
      March 7, 2024 at 12:44 am | #

      Does Joyce even *have* thigh gap?

  14. Dean
    Dean
    March 7, 2024 at 12:16 am | #

    Joyce is choking! Quick Joe, perform the Heimlich maneuver!

    • M!a
      M!a
      March 7, 2024 at 12:46 am | #

      …your hymen’s been removed??

  15. Schpoonman
    Schpoonman
    March 7, 2024 at 12:17 am | #

    This is going to become a euphemism for them, isn’t it?

    • Reltzik
      Reltzik
      March 7, 2024 at 12:28 am | #

      Switching?

      … I hope so. I don’t thing Joyce is ready for the BDSM version.

      • David DeLaney
        David DeLaney
        March 7, 2024 at 12:52 am | #

        next step s to switch over each other, starting from the tops of adjacent dryers

      • Schpoonman
        Schpoonman
        March 7, 2024 at 11:09 am | #

        Nah, it’s the former fundies who are the really kinky ones.

        • Kitty
          Kitty
          March 7, 2024 at 12:53 pm | #

          Can confirm. ;⁠-P Not as Fundy as Joyce, but still was pretty into it.

  16. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    March 7, 2024 at 12:19 am | #

    Golly I sure do have a Wistful desire for myself to be in the place that Joe is right this moment.

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      March 7, 2024 at 12:31 am | #

      A college cafeteria? I sure don’t. I spent too many nights just staring into the inky darkness beyond mine’s single vast glass wall, haunted by the stress and yawning blackness the awaited a meal’s end, accompanied only by the piles of bird corpses the piled up beneath the cold panes.

      It had amazing all you could eat desert and yogurt, though, and the garlic bread was to die for.

      • Jamie
        Jamie
        March 7, 2024 at 2:12 pm | #

        There are things I miss about college. The cafeteria is not one of them. It’s not that I have complaints or anything; I just don’t miss it. At all.

    • DailyBrad
      DailyBrad
      March 7, 2024 at 12:38 am | #

      Does Joyce got the booty? She do!

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        March 7, 2024 at 12:42 am | #

        Joyce is quite shapely, I concur. One might even call her comely.

        • Justnobodyfqwl
          Justnobodyfqwl
          March 7, 2024 at 2:17 pm | #

          Comely, shapely, and downright curvetastic. A little thiccie. It would not be unfair to call her borderline PAWGy.

    • butting
      butting
      March 7, 2024 at 1:27 am | #

      PSL: The Next Generation

  17. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    March 7, 2024 at 12:23 am | #

    Joyyyce get a room

  18. Reltzik
    Reltzik
    March 7, 2024 at 12:24 am | #

    … this is going to be another example of rule 34, isn’t it?

    *very pointedly does not Google*

    • zee
      zee
      March 7, 2024 at 10:38 am | #

      I mean doa does fulfill rule 34. This is just the rare case where the artist did it themselves

  19. True Survivor
    True Survivor
    March 7, 2024 at 12:26 am | #

    Ahhh the scapula, the surely the sexiest part of your ripped goliath of a boyfriend – good choice Joyce, good choice.

    Also the teaser for the new monthly strip is soul crushingly dark.

    • butting
      butting
      March 7, 2024 at 1:28 am | #

      … like a mountain.

  20. Ray
    Ray
    March 7, 2024 at 12:55 am | #

    Is “Moving In Stereo” playing in the background???

  21. Francoinblanco
    Francoinblanco
    March 7, 2024 at 1:19 am | #

    Lets go play twister

    • Laura
      Laura
      March 7, 2024 at 8:29 pm | #

      *Plays “Come on, let’s twist again,” on the hacked boombox…*

    • anon
      anon
      March 7, 2024 at 10:06 pm | #

      Time for joe to put those muscles to use and give her a piggy back ride 8D; not sure how enjoyable a chest would be on someone’s back but i’m sure they could both appreciate it XD

  22. DashWallkick
    DashWallkick
    March 7, 2024 at 1:24 am | #

    Joe trying to not ruin Joyce who is achingly touch starved is funnier than I thought it would be.

    • anon
      anon
      March 7, 2024 at 10:02 pm | #

      Time for massages, doesn’t count when ur just relaxing tense muscles 8D;

  23. CianM1301
    CianM1301
    March 7, 2024 at 1:27 am | #

    No, not the croissant!

  24. Bash
    Bash
    March 7, 2024 at 1:29 am | #

    Just make out already!

  25. Steamweed
    Steamweed
    March 7, 2024 at 1:58 am | #

    Oh, no, not the awkward lunchtime brush-up accidents! That’s a gateway to a game of Twister! The topological risks!

  26. Acher4
    Acher4
    March 7, 2024 at 2:26 am | #

    Are they… are they frotting? <.<

  27. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    March 7, 2024 at 2:53 am | #

    Joyce will never be able to take this sensation, of mounting in someone like that, off her head. Joe’s so screwed, too

  28. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    March 7, 2024 at 3:04 am | #

    Oh no a butts disease flare-up :c

  29. Suet
    Suet
    March 7, 2024 at 3:46 am | #

    His chosen term… breastickles my fancy.

    There’s not enough information to garner from this, but window seats are the worst for the indecisive.

  30. Rowan
    Rowan
    March 7, 2024 at 3:57 am | #

    so happy we’re finally here! go Joyce and overcoming repression 🤟

  31. BSD
    BSD
    March 7, 2024 at 6:17 am | #

    Sarah’s prophecy inches closer to fruition. Though, because Joyce seems to be instinctively monogamous, it’s not going to be a whole team, just wearing Joe down to dust.

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      March 7, 2024 at 7:52 am | #

      “Someone get me a granola bar and orange IV! This man is withering!

    • Da Boy
      Da Boy
      March 7, 2024 at 8:55 am | #

      Funnily enough Sarah will HATE it, she’d prefer if it was a whole team so long as it wasn’t Joe XD

      • Schpoonman
        Schpoonman
        March 7, 2024 at 9:38 am | #

        Good.

        That Sarah hates it, I mean.

  32. Mark
    Mark
    March 7, 2024 at 7:01 am | #

    SO much fun watching Joe fish around in his brain for a way to say something delicately, and having so little experience that he has to invent one.

    I must say, shy nervous Joe is more interesting to me than horndog Joe. Possibly because I was that guy, and it’s nice to savor the growing intimacy, even vicariously, without having to feel all that desperate uncertainty.

    • pope suburban
      pope suburban
      March 7, 2024 at 5:30 pm | #

      I too am here for nervous Joe. I’m not offended by raunchy humor and I am all for clearly communicating in matters of sex, but there is a charm to someone trying to hard to figure out an appropriate way to say something. I have a Joe-like figure in my own life and while I don’t mind it when he’s straight-out lewd, I find the moments when he’s careful and sweet to be really endearing.

  33. Pergola
    Pergola
    March 7, 2024 at 7:35 am | #

    Pervert here.

  34. ValdVin
    ValdVin
    March 7, 2024 at 7:41 am | #

    Breasticulars are the female equivalent of Equesticles, right?

  35. Hydrohead
    Hydrohead
    March 7, 2024 at 7:52 am | #

    “Moving through each other” is now my new favorite euphemism for sex.

  36. Schpoonman
    Schpoonman
    March 7, 2024 at 7:57 am | #

    The previous strip is actually pretty innocent, definitely accidental brushing of any erogenous zones. Then Joyce puts her fantasy in Joe’s head by rubbing her butt over Joe’s head. They’re gonna get weeeeeird.

  37. Carla's #2 Fan
    Carla's #2 Fan
    March 7, 2024 at 8:03 am | #

    Idiots (affectionately)

  38. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    March 7, 2024 at 9:14 am | #

    Breast torsion?

    • ThatDerpGuy
      ThatDerpGuy
      March 7, 2024 at 8:09 pm | #

      Breasticular torsion!

  39. Odo
    Odo
    March 7, 2024 at 9:57 am | #

    Its going to be really cute when the finally do it. Like Joe has had sex before, but I don’t think he’s had a real relationship. The emotional intimacy changes everything.

  40. superglucose
    superglucose
    March 7, 2024 at 10:25 am | #

    ok this has passed cute and entered obnoxious.

    Go fuck, you two.

    • Mturtle7
      Mturtle7
      March 7, 2024 at 11:01 am | #

      You say, “obnoxious”, I say “hilarious”! Let ’em cook, @superglucose! I want to see them awkwardly try and fail to not be simultaneously be respectful of and not be horny for each other for at LEAST a couple more weeks of in-universe time! Their schemes and rationalizations will grow so convoluted as to utterly defy comprehension by the average human mind, it’ll be great.

      • NGPZ
        NGPZ
        March 7, 2024 at 11:07 am | #

        Dumbing of Age is slowly but surely evolving into an Ecchi manga.

        • Da Boy
          Da Boy
          March 7, 2024 at 12:49 pm | #

          I’m eagerly waiting for Joyce to trip and land boobs first on Dotty’s face.

    • pope suburban
      pope suburban
      March 7, 2024 at 5:35 pm | #

      I’m having similar thoughts. I agree that they’re right to take things slow because neither one of them is experienced in having a romantic relationship, but like…the formality and hangups around everything can get exhausting. Yes, not every touch is sexual, but some are and that is okay. Having to, like, vet every stage/aspect of relationships through the friend group (instead of God, in Joyce’s case) is tiring. You can make your own choices, it’s okay if your friends don’t approve, and not everything has to be meticulously examined and signed off on in triplicate. I get that that’s kind how things are in Gen-Z dating culture and I don’t actually hate it, I think learning the importance of consent and communication is stellar, but also sometimes you can just bone. It’s okay. Buuuut who am I to really be upset at how any given couple/person/generation sublimates their anxiety about Fucking It Up through the use of arbitrary rules. So I agree they should just do it already but I get why we’re not there right now too.

  41. Mr.Morningstar
    Mr.Morningstar
    March 7, 2024 at 11:22 am | #

    … Willis you just wanted to draw Joyce’s tush didn’t you

    Don’t lie >:]c

  42. Nothri
    Nothri
    March 7, 2024 at 11:31 am | #

    Now I can’t tell if Joyce is being innocent and naive of if she is teasing poor Joe. I also can’t decide which scenario is funnier to me.

    • Mturtle7
      Mturtle7
      March 7, 2024 at 5:01 pm | #

      I don’t think she can tell either, honestly.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      March 7, 2024 at 9:00 pm | #

      I hope it’s the latter cuz it’s hotter

  43. Rabisch
    Rabisch
    March 7, 2024 at 11:47 am | #

    This is so sweet. But also, this is so wrong. But also, this continues to be so sweet.

  44. poyo
    poyo
    March 7, 2024 at 12:36 pm | #

    oh my god i just realized these two are the horniest characters in this whole comic. this will definitely end well

  45. Adept
    Adept
    March 7, 2024 at 1:13 pm | #

    Completely innocent. Also, entirely unrelated…. butt!

  46. Joyfulldreams
    Joyfulldreams
    March 7, 2024 at 1:34 pm | #

    I promise it’s okay you guys. You can fuck and the world wont end.

    • Felian
      Felian
      March 7, 2024 at 3:49 pm | #

      That depends. Don’t fuck in a nuclear plant and then break things. 😛

    • anon
      anon
      March 7, 2024 at 10:04 pm | #

      that would be a pretty funny ending to a slipshine liek “breaking news” : Indiana seceded from the US or some bs like htat XD

  47. Joe Moose
    Joe Moose
    March 7, 2024 at 2:09 pm | #

    Great. Oh just great.

    They got the Butts disorder, now.

  48. Felian
    Felian
    March 7, 2024 at 3:48 pm | #

    This hits too close to the weird christian rules of How To Sex Without Doing The Sin. Shit like “it’s not sin if it’s anal“ or “it’s not sin if you penetrate, but don’t move“ (soaking! THERE IS EVEN A TERM FOR THIS), or “it’s not sin if i didn’t initiate it and only happen to enjoy it accidentally“, or “it’s not sex if we’re not naked“……. somehow i keep thinking JUST FUCK ALREADY AND GET IT OUT OF YOUR SYSTEM.
    Like, even as a christian, if the teaching is “sex is too distracting, you should focus on god“, they seriously underestimate how fucking distracting it is to spend all this energy on restraint, or on tiptoeing around how to totally get off without sinning……. this is not helpful at all!

  49. Schpoonman
    Schpoonman
    March 7, 2024 at 4:39 pm | #

    Okay, last one.

    Jennifer once told Lucy to throw herself crotch first at Walky. Kiiinda looks like Joyce may have done something similar at Joe’s face and he either ducked it or the last panel is just after that.

  50. Amós Batista
    Amós Batista
    March 7, 2024 at 5:07 pm | #

    I’ll praise Willis for making Joyce more and more hot in each storyline.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      March 7, 2024 at 8:59 pm | #

      I used to not find her all that appealing but hot damn if you’re not right. I kinda wanna draw some saucey pics of her but also that just feels…wrong.

    • anon
      anon
      March 7, 2024 at 10:07 pm | #

      How long til she reaches ‘maximum hotness’ like robin tho?

      https://www.dumbingofage.com/2022/comic/book-13/02-turning-saints-into-the-sea/unduly/

  51. HueSatLight
    HueSatLight
    March 7, 2024 at 5:38 pm | #

    They’re called bubbies, Joe. It’s Shakespearean (in Love).

  52. Kazuma Taichi
    Kazuma Taichi
    March 7, 2024 at 5:49 pm | #

    perverts :3

  53. Throwatron
    Throwatron
    March 7, 2024 at 9:05 pm | #

    Joyce truly is an avid mountaineer

    • Rowan
      Rowan
      March 7, 2024 at 11:44 pm | #

      Climb those peaks, girl!

  54. anon
    anon
    March 7, 2024 at 10:01 pm | #

    lol anyone 5 feet away from them must be having an interesting view hha

  55. Max
    Max
    March 8, 2024 at 3:22 pm | #

    Where’s Butts when you need them? This would make a great new avatar for them.

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