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

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    February 7, 2024 at 12:01 am | #

    DEFINITELY not Sarah imagining that toothbrush is instead maybe something of Jacob’s

    …

    idk I got nothin

    • True Survivor
      True Survivor
      February 7, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

      Ahhh, it is a metaphor his integrity, of course. I see it now.

      • Thag Simmons
        Thag Simmons
        February 7, 2024 at 12:32 am | #

        Oh, is that what we’re calling it these days?

        • milu
          milu
          February 7, 2024 at 1:04 am | #

          Not on my watch. Freaks.

          • clif
            clif
            February 7, 2024 at 2:10 am | #

            Watch with integrity!

            Or something like that.

        • Juanoku
          Juanoku
          February 7, 2024 at 8:57 am | #

          That got me, goddammit

    • Mr D
      Mr D
      February 7, 2024 at 9:10 am | #

      tongue

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        February 7, 2024 at 11:47 pm | #

        Spouse sucked on my fingers, actually, it was NIIIIICE

  2. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    February 7, 2024 at 12:02 am | #

    Re: Panel 2

    Don’t be silly, Joe. If/when Sarah castrates you, she wants you to be wide awake so she can savor the terror in your eyes as she revs up the hedge trimmer.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      February 7, 2024 at 12:03 am | #

      Hedge Trimmer’s good for intimidation but it’s no good when it comes time for the actual cutting

      • Rose by Any Other Name
        Rose by Any Other Name
        February 7, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

        **psst**
        That’s the point.

        • Thag Simmons
          Thag Simmons
          February 7, 2024 at 12:18 am | #

          I mean, I guess? I think you could do a lot better, both if you want “quick and clean” or “messy and painful”.

          Although I guess it is easily obtainable and relatively deniable, having to conduct torture on a college student budget does constrain your options a bit. Hmm… I think I’m coming around to it.

          • milu
            milu
            February 7, 2024 at 1:06 am | #

            Phew good, foe a second there it sounded like the kind of silly argument where nothing ever gets done

            • Thag Simmons
              Thag Simmons
              February 7, 2024 at 1:31 am | #

              I try to keep an open mind about this sort of thing.

          • Decidedly Orthogonal
            Decidedly Orthogonal
            February 7, 2024 at 1:08 am | #

            You won’t be coming to it after the first pass.

          • ktbear
            ktbear
            February 7, 2024 at 1:25 am | #

            As someone who’s used disinfectant and a razor blade I can confirm no one looks sideways at you when buying them and theyre also quite discreet.

            • Thag Simmons
              Thag Simmons
              February 7, 2024 at 1:29 am | #

              Right, but sometimes you don’t want clean and surgical you want to make a spectacle of it. Now, unless you’re doing a public execution I think spectacle in these matters is overrated, but for the Bond villain on a budget I can see the appeal of the hedge trimmer as a torture implement.

              • clif
                clif
                February 7, 2024 at 2:19 am | #

                I lost track and thought the hedge trimmer was a tortured metaphor to begin with.

              • morleuca
                morleuca
                February 7, 2024 at 4:56 am | #

                A pair of cinderblocks, perhaps?

          • Mark
            Mark
            February 7, 2024 at 6:47 am | #

            Pruning saws are cheap, scary looking, and crude.

          • Theluxland
            Theluxland
            February 7, 2024 at 7:55 am | #

            The more I think about it the worst it gets

          • David DeLaney
            David DeLaney
            February 7, 2024 at 9:48 pm | #

            and around, and around, and around?

  3. JA
    JA
    February 7, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    Sarah didn’t want to traumatize Joyce by killing Joe in front of her.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      February 7, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

      He was asleep! You can move him to a secondary location and dismember him there.

    • Coatl
      Coatl
      February 7, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

      The only thing she can do is imagine and fantasize the possibilities.

  4. Sirksome
    Sirksome
    February 7, 2024 at 12:04 am | #

    Lol. I want Sarah x Jacob but I don’t actually believe it will happen. Like every Cowboy fan when you ask if they’ll get to the superbowl.

  5. True Survivor
    True Survivor
    February 7, 2024 at 12:05 am | #

    How does Sarah fit all her books and binders in such a tiny back pack? Is she really a witch, after all?

    • Sirksome
      Sirksome
      February 7, 2024 at 12:07 am | #

      How many classes does she have a day? She can’t need them all everyday right?

      • True Survivor
        True Survivor
        February 7, 2024 at 12:13 am | #

        I guess? I think the main problem is that it is so short vertically – you could barely fit a standard sheet of lined paper in there, not to mention a binder or a full sized text book. I guess she uses lots of electronic texts and notes. I was just never a fan of those – I just didn’t believe I learned as well without the physical act of writing on paper and for some reason I could not feel fully focused when trying to learn from notes on a screen.

        • milu
          milu
          February 7, 2024 at 1:10 am | #

          You don’t learn from reading your typed notes, you learn from spending the entire night before the exam trying to make sense of them through the typos and mysterious gaps

          • clif
            clif
            February 7, 2024 at 2:02 am | #

            Thus speaks the voice of experience.

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        February 7, 2024 at 12:16 am | #

        She has at something at 10, when Joyce and them-all have Calc (she walks with them, and was there when Linda and Charles showed up), and then after lunch she has polisci 102 with Robin.

    • Jeremiah
      Jeremiah
      February 7, 2024 at 12:09 am | #

      That’s a backpack? I thought it was a hood or something.

      • jflb96
        jflb96
        February 7, 2024 at 12:16 am | #

        Yeah, that’s not giving me rucksack vibes

      • Li
        Li
        February 7, 2024 at 3:35 pm | #

        +1 it’s the hood on her hoodie.

        Who would be wearing their backpack while brushing teeth, tbh?

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      February 7, 2024 at 12:10 am | #

      Maybe she has them all on a tablet? Do kids do that now?

      I went to college back when they still made you buy books, but I had a CS professor who went on a big rant about how much he hates his publishers and the only reason he’s making us get the book at all is he’d have to redo the whole syllabus without it.

      Then the next powerpoint slide was just a big QR code, which he held on in silence for a solid minute. Liked that guy.

      • jflb96
        jflb96
        February 7, 2024 at 12:18 am | #

        I think I was about the only one in my friend group who used traditional paper and pen for taking notes, rather than downloading the lecture slides onto their tablet and adding notes in one of the drawing apps. We graduated last year, except for the people on the four year course, for chronocontext.

      • Otl1973
        Otl1973
        February 7, 2024 at 12:38 am | #

        One of the advantages of CS when I took it was no PowerPoint, because no PCs. Otoh, we had to punch cards, so no easy editing for typos.

        • clif
          clif
          February 7, 2024 at 2:46 am | #

          And there were never enough punch card machines for all the people who wanted to use them.

          I survived only because I found the secret punch card machine hidden in a tiny room under the stairs over in the biology department.

        • Hof1991
          Hof1991
          February 7, 2024 at 8:48 am | #

          Found my tribe. Tired of “the olds don’t understand computers” when some of us have built computers. And used them for 50 years.

          • Mark
            Mark
            February 7, 2024 at 5:48 pm | #

            I think I still have my 029 keypunch manual somewhere….

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      February 7, 2024 at 12:11 am | #

      Eh, it’s all digital now.

    • zee
      zee
      February 7, 2024 at 10:21 am | #

      Who actually carries books and binders anymore? All you need is a tablet or laptop. I haven’t seen an actual physical textbook since before I started college. Then again I also haven’t paid for a textbook since before I started college

      • BBCC
        BBCC
        February 7, 2024 at 11:20 am | #

        I did. Not all textbooks have ebook versions. I probably could’ve found a PDF somewhere but those sites can be super sketchy and I’d rather not risk it.

      • Benjamin Geiger
        Benjamin Geiger
        February 7, 2024 at 3:31 pm | #

        I tended to reserve my textbook purchases in grad school for books that are considered standards (Operating System Concepts by Silberschatz et al, Introduction to Algorithms by CLRS) or books that were directly related to my research area (Image Processing, Analysis, and Machine Vision by Sonka et al, Data Mining by Witten et al).

        Incidentally, a lot of professors made a point of not requiring the most recent edition of the book. Generally, when they gave reading assignments they’d give the chapter ranges for several editions, and homework assignments were sent out in full.

        • butting
          butting
          February 8, 2024 at 12:06 am | #

          Awwwww I knew Ian, though! We only vaguely overlapped when I was studying, but for a few years pre-Covid the folk fest I was part of organising needed neighbourhood approval I had the job of canvassing them to convince them we weren’t untrustworthy nutters, so I got to have a quick catch-up with him each year. Never managed to get him to come over and play clarinet for us, though.

  6. Nono
    Nono
    February 7, 2024 at 12:12 am | #

    Are those arms belonging to a giant Jacob, or proportionally giant arms on a normal sized Jacob

    • clif
      clif
      February 7, 2024 at 2:47 am | #

      Doesn’t matter. She’s really fantasizing about his glasses. https://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/03-up-all-night-to-get-vengeance/tonguing/

      • Makkabee
        Makkabee
        February 7, 2024 at 2:06 pm | #

        Well, they are very stylish.

  7. Suet
    Suet
    February 7, 2024 at 12:16 am | #

    The forecast for Jacob x Sarah right now is chilly so she’ll soon be the queen of wishful thinking.

    ♪I hear the secrets that you keep, when you’re castrated in your sleep♫
    ♪When I get that feeling, I need Sexual Brain Freeze♫

  8. BBCC
    BBCC
    February 7, 2024 at 12:16 am | #

    I wonder which one! It’s a mystery for the ages!

  9. Mym
    Mym
    February 7, 2024 at 12:20 am | #

    Does any other character brush their teeth or just Sarah?

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      February 7, 2024 at 12:30 am | #

      Coupla questions —
      I’ve never seen people irl walk around while brushing their teeth, unless it’s someplace where they can spit with total abandon (like outdoors, camping)…
      and how many people irl can speak understandably with a toothbrush jammed in their mouth?

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      February 7, 2024 at 12:34 am | #

      Dorothy did it at least once, but I don’t recall if anyone else has?

      • clif
        clif
        February 7, 2024 at 2:51 am | #

        Imna mouf pifutu amoura toom!

      • Tesset
        Tesset
        February 7, 2024 at 6:38 pm | #

        Joyce
        Amber

        Those are the only ones I remember tho

        • Tesset
          Tesset
          February 7, 2024 at 7:00 pm | #

          Thought maybe there was one for Ruth during one of her “pull myself together” montages, but none of the ~3 have it.
          This page of her bathroom has a cup with no toothbrush in it, which isn’t definitive, but suggests she doesn’t own a toothbrush which is funny.

          There is of course, the classic Becky not owning a toothbrush, which probably points to her owning one again now that her living situation is more stable.

          Thought maybe I could find a Leslie or a Becky during the time where Becky was staying (and Leslie was seeing Anna), but looks like that’s a no as well.

  10. DailyBrad
    DailyBrad
    February 7, 2024 at 12:26 am | #

    Oh, tooth brush, I somehow missed that and thought she shoved her thumb in her mouth as some sort of weird act of defiance.

    • CMasta1992
      CMasta1992
      February 7, 2024 at 12:34 am | #

      “Do you bite your thumb at me sir?”

      • clif
        clif
        February 7, 2024 at 2:33 am | #

        I did bite my thumb at you, foul Capulet.

        Do we get to improvise? It’s been awhile since I perused the Bard.

        • David DeLaney
          David DeLaney
          February 7, 2024 at 9:52 pm | #

          Sir, in these comments here we improvise
          The while our brains spin frantically a-whirl
          To come up with the next successful line
          Replying to the text that went before

    • Needfuldoer
      Needfuldoer
      February 7, 2024 at 2:54 am | #

      It always worked for Linus Van Pelt.

  11. Kitschensyngk
    Kitschensyngk
    February 7, 2024 at 12:27 am | #

    READ HALL – CLARK WING
    presents
    PRE-MARITAL HANKY PANKY TOUR

    featuring
    GIANT JACOB ARMS
    with
    SEXUAL BRAIN FREEZE

    Doors 9pm – Show 10pm
    $5 cover
    18+

    • Steelbright
      Steelbright
      February 7, 2024 at 12:48 am | #

      I’d go to that show

      • clif
        clif
        February 7, 2024 at 2:36 am | #

        I choose to believe that Pre-Marital Hanky Panky Tour is the opening act for the opening act.

        • Needfuldoer
          Needfuldoer
          February 7, 2024 at 2:53 am | #

          They’re all good band names.

        • David DeLaney
          David DeLaney
          February 7, 2024 at 9:54 pm | #

          No, that would be Slow Foreplay, alternating with Third Base on Tuesdays and Thursdays

  12. HueSatLight
    HueSatLight
    February 7, 2024 at 12:33 am | #

    I don’t think her cynicism has given way to joy, so they probably shouldn’t spend all their time in Joyce and Sarah’s room. So more time in Joe and Danny’s room. I wonder who they share a half-bath with. It’s not Walky, Booster, Arnold, Ken, Jacob, or Ethan.
    That leaves Jim, Tony, Bryan, Thad, Eric, Manny, Tom, and Evan. And like dozens more who haven’t even been mentioned. And Peter. It’s probably Peter.

    • Thag Simmons
      Thag Simmons
      February 7, 2024 at 12:39 am | #

      Do we even know if all those guys live in the wing?

      • HueSatLight
        HueSatLight
        February 7, 2024 at 1:08 am | #

        they’re on my list, but I didn’t record the source for each. we’ve seen some in the bathroom, and Mike rattled off a list once, giving Ethan a pep talk. I do remember the source for Peter though.

        • HueSatLight
          HueSatLight
          February 7, 2024 at 1:19 am | #

          Walky introduces Tony as a hallmate to Jason and/or Booster. Bryan has been in bg shots in the showers. The rest are mentioned:
          https://www.dumbingofage.com/brace/

          I may have assumed Jim was Bryan’s roommate. There’s also maybe a second Ken or maybe a Kev, who shares the halfbath with Ethan and Jacob. https://www.dumbingofage.com/tonguing/

          • Thag Simmons
            Thag Simmons
            February 7, 2024 at 1:28 am | #

            This all checks out, although I don’t think Peter hanging out with Mary in the wing is strong evidence, we know she lives there and we only ever saw him in her company.

            • Tan
              Tan
              February 7, 2024 at 2:09 am | #

              The evidence of the linked strip regarding Peter is the last panel where Joe says “Your wing can keep Peter”, implying that he is otherwise in the same wing as Joe

              • clif
                clif
                February 7, 2024 at 2:58 am | #

                I am both impressed and appalled by the amount of thought that has gone into this.

                • David DeLaney
                  David DeLaney
                  February 7, 2024 at 9:55 pm | #

                  on the commenters’ part, or on Willis’?

              • Thag Simmons
                Thag Simmons
                February 7, 2024 at 1:32 pm | #

                Well alright then, that all checks out

  13. shrub
    shrub
    February 7, 2024 at 12:37 am | #

    I wonder if Sarahs treatment of Joe is in part because is a “safe” target for her particular brand of nastiness

    • HueSatLight
      HueSatLight
      February 7, 2024 at 12:01 pm | #

      In part, yes. He gave her permission. https://www.dumbingofage.com/hatesink/

      But he also has been a skeezball around her. a lot.

      • shrub
        shrub
        February 7, 2024 at 12:53 pm | #

        Good call back.

        Yeah he has been but she’s also been pretty mean to bith Joyce and Lucy whereas Joe, because he’s been a skeezball, is an acceptable target

        I dunno but to me it’s getting a bit tired, like sort out your own issues first kind of thing

        • Daibhid C
          Daibhid C
          February 7, 2024 at 1:27 pm | #

          Well, this is where it gets complicated. She’s mean to Joe because she doesn’t like him. She was mean to Lucy because she doesn’t like her (because Lucy called out that she’s mean to people). However, she’s mean to Joyce because she does like her. Because to her, this is what a big sister does.

          Whether it is always taken that way is another, and sometimes uncomfortable, question, which is why I’m always happy to see strips like this, where Joyce is shown to be quite comfortable teasing her back.

          • shrub
            shrub
            February 7, 2024 at 3:28 pm | #

            That’s true and push back is good but there’s quite a bit of difference between the levels of teasing going on here

            In some cases it’s almost bullying

        • HueSatLight
          HueSatLight
          February 7, 2024 at 7:29 pm | #

          Mean to Lucy because Lucy started parotting Raidah at her. Before that she was just generally cynical around Lucy. When Lucy decided to be a cop and say Sarah didn’t have any friends, Sarah was teasing Joyce back. Joyce had teased Sarah about masturbating before.
          I’m not saying Sarah’s not abrassive or handles social situations well. I am saying people pleaser Lucy went personal for one person only. It is a case of bullying, and trying to bully someone who can snap back harder.

  14. Steelbright
    Steelbright
    February 7, 2024 at 12:48 am | #

    I think today’s is one of the strips where everybody is a little bit right in all the wrong ways. This pleases me greatly

  15. Aura
    Aura
    February 7, 2024 at 12:54 am | #

    Now who’s the repressed one, Sarah? 😛

  16. NGPZ
    NGPZ
    February 7, 2024 at 12:57 am | #

    😏😂

  17. Taffy
    Taffy
    February 7, 2024 at 1:04 am | #

    Castration is such a weird thing to do. Kinda cringe, NGL.

    • Decidedly Orthogonal
      Decidedly Orthogonal
      February 7, 2024 at 1:21 am | #

      Kind of a eunuch perspective there. Kinda steering the conversation in a weird direction, but I can’t say you’re wrong.

      • Joel
        Joel
        February 7, 2024 at 2:11 am | #

        I think you deserve to havier a geld star for your analysis.

        • NGPZ
          NGPZ
          February 7, 2024 at 7:12 am | #

          All of you make excellent points!!!

          Treat yourselves to cookies or (insert fav snack here), ya earned it.

          • HueSatLight
            HueSatLight
            February 7, 2024 at 12:02 pm | #

            Just going to steer this thread back into wordplay.

      • Mturtle7
        Mturtle7
        February 7, 2024 at 10:54 am | #

        Sharp as your criticism may be, I think you could fix it by making the tone a little less cutting!

  18. milu
    milu
    February 7, 2024 at 1:22 am | #

    In banning news, Pepe the Nazi Gamer who was also unpleasant and dumb got the yeet.
    *high-fives Taffy*

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      February 7, 2024 at 2:22 pm | #

      Thank you for the service, taffy.

      • Taffy
        Taffy
        February 7, 2024 at 9:18 pm | #

        The fuck did I miss out on?

  19. Dday
    Dday
    February 7, 2024 at 1:27 am | #

    Y’know, Joe doesn’t strike me as the “drank so much I don’t remember how I got here” type.

    • Mturtle7
      Mturtle7
      February 7, 2024 at 10:57 am | #

      He’s not surprised that he’s in Joyce’s bed — just surprised that GIVEN he’s in Joyce’s bed, Sarah hasn’t already castrated him!

    • thejeff
      thejeff
      February 7, 2024 at 2:46 pm | #

      He did once comment on alcohol helping with threesomes and also about not remembering what kind of threesome he’d had.

      OTOH, we know he didn’t actually have any threesomes.

      • David DeLaney
        David DeLaney
        February 7, 2024 at 9:57 pm | #

        Ghost of Mike: “… are you sure?”

  20. Bicycle Bill
    Bicycle Bill
    February 7, 2024 at 1:32 am | #

    Joe:  “I’m surprised … Sarah hasn’t castrated me in my sleep.”

    Did you check?  Maybe the Novocaine just hasn’t worn off yet.

  21. Needfuldoer
    Needfuldoer
    February 7, 2024 at 2:51 am | #

    Either Sarah heard Joe wake up and left the half-bath to keep an eye on him and Joyce, or she’s been standing in the middle of the room brushing her teeth with a dry toothbrush for some reason.

    You need toothpaste too, Sarah. Dental hygiene is important!

  22. David
    David
    February 7, 2024 at 6:37 am | #

    Has Joyce brushed up on her French? At least I cannot help hearing that immortal chanson line “serré par des bras audacieux” when she is talking about Jacob’s arms.

  23. Keith
    Keith
    February 7, 2024 at 7:35 am | #

    Honestly, I find her little blushes like these cute…which is something I normally reserve for pups, cats and the derriere.

  24. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    February 7, 2024 at 10:06 am | #

    POtentially maybe

  25. Raen
    Raen
    February 7, 2024 at 11:11 am | #

    “Giant Jacob Arms” sounds like a Christian Rock band. Not sure why they’d open for “Sexual Brain Freeze.”

  26. poyo
    poyo
    February 7, 2024 at 11:16 am | #

    man. i do feel bad for joyce. there is no way she’s gonna be able to enjoy sex without SOME form of therapy

    • Amós Batista
      Amós Batista
      February 7, 2024 at 12:19 pm | #

      My bet is: as this storyline started with Joyce’s flashback of her starting looking at boys, Joyce will have her first time.

  27. Icalasari
    Icalasari
    February 7, 2024 at 12:22 pm | #

    The alt text would be a great book title

  28. nicoleandmaggie
    nicoleandmaggie
    February 7, 2024 at 2:50 pm | #

    I was going to say something this morning but it was 69 comments and that was so perfect I couldn’t. And now I’ve forgotten what my comment was.
    #welcometomyTedtalk

  29. Opus the Poet
    Opus the Poet
    February 7, 2024 at 8:14 pm | #

    Well I finally tried the Rule 34 for DoA, and it was disappointing, over 240 images of characters with breasts the size and shape of blimps, and some were futa. Dina with a set of Z-cups just isn’t Dina, doubly so for Dina with Z-cups and 24″ of penis. Without the character label I wouldn’t have known who most of them were.

  30. David DeLaney
    David DeLaney
    February 7, 2024 at 9:58 pm | #

    Wrapped in Giant Jacob Arms is the Baptist hymn I never knew I needed

  31. staszu13
    staszu13
    February 24, 2024 at 12:41 pm | #

    Joyce, you really ought to stop the smug raised index finger thing. It never works

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