Dumbing of Age

Beach

by David M Willis on November 23, 2011 at 12:01 am

01 - Pajama Jeans

└ Tags: dorothy, jennifer, joyce, sal, walky

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JackNapier

November 23, 2011 at 12:01 am | #

That sounds almost as bad as Raccoon AIDS
- Wandering Meme
  
  November 23, 2011 at 12:19 am | #
  
  Raccoons RAPE PEOPLE?!?!?
  - Xalticus
    
    November 23, 2011 at 12:22 am | #
    
    I think it’s more so the exact opposite of that which is the source of the problem.
    - wererat2000
      
      November 23, 2011 at 12:47 am | #
      
      what’s truly shocking about this comment is how little surprise i could muster.
      - Wandering Meme
        
        November 23, 2011 at 1:28 am | #
        
        You’re right, i’m assuming too much…
        
        Raccoons HAVE UNPROTECTED SEX WITH HUMANS?!?!?!?
        
        Despite Rage
        
        November 23, 2011 at 12:39 pm | #
        
        Wouldn’t it be more impressive if they used protection?
        
        Heh… “tool” using mammals
        
        Rowen Morland
        
        November 24, 2011 at 1:21 am | #
        
        Yeah but its bad form to assume the raccoons will bring the birth control. Both parties need to show a sense of responsibility.
  - SlenderTroll
    
    November 23, 2011 at 12:45 am | #
    
    Nope! Just Chuck Testa.
    - AndaisQ
      
      November 23, 2011 at 1:04 pm | #
      
      Exclamation point used in a sentence said by Chuck Testa?
      
      Nope. It’s Chuck Testa.
  - Jetstream
    
    November 23, 2011 at 7:56 pm | #
    
    No, that’s Dolphins.
- Jason
  
  November 23, 2011 at 3:45 pm | #
  
  It’s better than Butts Disease.
Kurai Seraphim

November 23, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

Good call Walky, Taids is a serious problem in this day and age.
- Jen Aside
  
  November 23, 2011 at 11:59 pm | #
  
  So… would breast aids be Braids?
  - Jenny Creed
    
    June 3, 2013 at 7:05 pm | #
    
    Or Baids, which is portentous seeing as we’re probably heading for a storyline where one or more character
    
    . . .
    
    bathes.
  - hamstap85
    
    November 26, 2013 at 11:28 am | #
    
    but… but… you get Band AIDS from healing stuff!!! AAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
David Herbert

November 23, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

Beach episode? I’m guessing Joyce’s will be a 30s full body thing.
- wynne
  
  November 23, 2011 at 12:05 am | #
  
  Dammit, you beat me to it.
Jen Aside

November 23, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

Or Worthington’s Syndrome! D=
- ubun7u43v3r
  
  January 24, 2014 at 3:08 pm | #
  
  ^THIS!^
Plasma Mongoose

November 23, 2011 at 12:04 am | #

Looks like there will be an increase in the fanservice quotient very soon.
- dchorror
  
  November 23, 2011 at 12:09 am | #
  
  But will it be enough? Stay tuned.
  - Roborat
    
    November 23, 2011 at 2:56 pm | #
    
    What are you saying? There can never be enough fan service!
    - MichaelHaneline
      
      November 23, 2011 at 4:59 pm | #
      
      Yes there can.
      Ever heard of the webcomic Exposure?
      - lokitsu
        
        November 23, 2011 at 7:09 pm | #
        
        God dammit! I just HAD to google Exposure and now it cannot be unseen!
        Next time can you warn a guy?
        
        Zababcd
        
        November 25, 2011 at 9:17 am | #
        
        …resisting the temptation to google Exposure…
Compass

November 23, 2011 at 12:06 am | #

Walky going with a bunch of girls to the beach. I see where this is going.

A horror movie.
- Plasma Mongoose
  
  November 23, 2011 at 12:07 am | #
  
  Will Walky be the one to die first?
  - Wandering Meme
    
    November 23, 2011 at 12:15 am | #
    
    nah. he’s the comic relief.
    
    So third or fourth i’m thinking. but only when it’s funny.
  - Ian
    
    November 23, 2011 at 12:54 am | #
    
    It could very well be Joe. The ones are planning a sexual encounter are the first to go.
    - Joraiem
      
      November 23, 2011 at 1:23 am | #
      
      But Billie’s the drunkard. She’s pretty high on the murder list.
      - Wandering Meme
        
        November 23, 2011 at 1:31 am | #
        
        It’s Sarah…simply for lack of a stereotypical black male…
        
        …Curse you hollywood.
        
        Ian
        
        November 23, 2011 at 2:18 am | #
        
        No, she gets shot by a deputy Sheriff at the end.
        
        Wandering Meme
        
        November 23, 2011 at 7:09 am | #
        
        Ahhh…my mistake.
        
        Still, curse you hollywood. I still haven’t forgiven them for Deep Blue Sea…Star wars Episode 3 maybe, but never deep blue sea…
        
        I mean c’mon! Samuel L. WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS INSPIRING SPEECH!!!!!
        
        Wandering Meme
        
        November 23, 2011 at 7:15 am | #
        
        No Forgiveness…ever. If only because they let the sharks share him…
        
        hamstap85
        
        November 26, 2013 at 11:29 am | #
        
        What about Joyce? All she’d do is pray, no actual evasion or attacking.
  - Osaru Sensei
    
    November 23, 2011 at 5:25 am | #
    
    Black Funny Dude Dies First
    - Osaru Sensei
      
      November 23, 2011 at 5:26 am | #
      
      dammit, it was STRIKE, not just S.
    - Kat
      
      November 24, 2011 at 4:18 am | #
      
      HOW DARE YOU LINK TV TROPES??
      - Osaru Sensei
        
        November 24, 2011 at 9:16 am | #
        
        “And I, for one, welcome our new ~~insect~~ Internet overlords!”
- TPmanW
  
  November 23, 2011 at 5:52 pm | #
  
  Joyce is the only one ensured to survive a horror scenario. Sal might be the one who turns the tables on the chainsaw murderer but she’ll probably die in the “twist” ending where it turns out the bad guys not really dead.
Scoops!

November 23, 2011 at 12:07 am | #

Anybody know the commercials with the cartoon crow? That feels like a real reference filtered through Walky’s brain.
- dchorror
  
  November 23, 2011 at 12:10 am | #
  
  Dunno. I’m in Illinois and we get a cartoon parrot.
  - Scoops!
    
    November 23, 2011 at 12:20 am | #
    
    Okay I found this:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgqoXKC3zdg
    - Rex Hondo
      
      November 23, 2011 at 12:29 am | #
      
      Bingo.
      - James Rye
        
        November 23, 2011 at 4:06 pm | #
        
        OMG! Starswirl the bearded! oO
        Oh, its just Twilight with her magic trick number 6 or 7.^g^
        
        @Topic
        Do we get the typical anime beach arc now? :3
    - JK9000
      
      November 23, 2011 at 12:22 pm | #
      
      Am I misunderstanding something, or are they advertising that their amusement park is as fun as a giant toilet?
      - MichaelHaneline
        
        November 23, 2011 at 5:07 pm | #
        
        Yup
    - Professor Zoot
      
      November 23, 2011 at 2:27 pm | #
      
      Aww, Bloomington, summer 1979, waterslide parks every five miles in every direction. Back then you needed a rubber raft because those things would strip the flesh from your skeleton.
- Trae Dorn
  
  November 23, 2011 at 12:31 am | #
  
  There’s more than corn in Indiana…
  - ShadowDragon
    
    November 23, 2011 at 10:01 am | #
    
    At Indiana Beaaaaach. Used to have a blast at Monticello…
    - Trae Dorn
      
      November 24, 2011 at 12:17 pm | #
      
      I’ve never been, but when I was a little kid in Chicago in the 80s, I used to see commercials all the time.
      
      Now that I live in Indiana, and I see the occasional ad for Indiana Beach, it’s amusing.
  - Aidenn
    
    November 23, 2011 at 4:54 pm | #
    
    There’s Soy!
- jucasjr
  
  November 23, 2011 at 6:52 am | #
  
  I grew up seeing that commercial all the time! I still think about that tagline sometimes… Willis, this reference made my morning.
- madd
  
  November 23, 2011 at 10:14 am | #
  
  What comes from being late. I grew up with those commercials. There’s more than corn in Indiana! At Indiana Beeeeach!
- Kschenke
  
  November 28, 2011 at 6:17 pm | #
  
  Oh hell yes, that’s a real thing! I’ve lived in Indiana since 1995 and every summer we see commercials for Indiana Beach and that damn crow in the old-timey bathing suit. This comic made me so, so very giddy.
NCP19

November 23, 2011 at 12:09 am | #

Actually Billie, I don’t think those kind of cartoons are what Walky watches…
A. Colunga

November 23, 2011 at 12:12 am | #

Don’t play footsies before marriage or else ya get the toe aids!
CP

November 23, 2011 at 12:12 am | #

They’d better watch out for lake sharks.
- MichaelHaneline
  
  November 23, 2011 at 5:09 pm | #
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshwater_shark
Wandering Meme

November 23, 2011 at 12:12 am | #

Toe aids…hmm…

So basically its like the beach is raping your foot.
- Jamal K.
  
  November 23, 2011 at 3:05 pm | #
  
  Toe AIDS only costs a leg to cure, one way or the other! >:D
Jelli

November 23, 2011 at 12:14 am | #

But…but there’s more than corn in Indiannnnnna!
- David M Willis
  
  November 23, 2011 at 12:15 am | #
  
  YAYYYYY
- Shockwave005
  
  November 23, 2011 at 12:22 am | #
  
  The straw hat. The red and white full-body swimsuit. Ahh, memories of youth…Damn I feel old, now.
- Wandering Meme
  
  November 23, 2011 at 1:37 am | #
  
  …holes?
  …to be “corned”?
Mkvenner

November 23, 2011 at 12:15 am | #

The syringe to sand ratio is very important.
- Mkvenner
  
  November 23, 2011 at 12:21 am | #
  
  There are however a lot of fossils along the shore.
  - Plasma Mongoose
    
    November 23, 2011 at 4:37 pm | #
    
    Nothing quite like seeing old half-naked people on the beach.
Thor

November 23, 2011 at 12:15 am | #

Wait…Dorothy, Billie, Sal, Joyce, and Walky in swimsuits at a beach? Didn’t I see a piece of art from Willis depicting this? And didn’t I see someone alter said artwork so that all the girls’ breasts were showing? This all sounds verra familiar…

Oh, and they’ll have to bring Dina along. I believe she was in the picture too.
- Mkvenner
  
  November 23, 2011 at 12:18 am | #
  
  Wait, what!?
- Thor
  
  November 23, 2011 at 12:18 am | #
  
  Ah yes. I did see this picture:
  
  http://itswalky.deviantart.com/gallery/26929205#/d3bcfbr
  
  You’ll have to find the defaced version on your own.
  - a99steaksauce
    
    November 23, 2011 at 12:49 am | #
    
    the defaced was not all that hard to find.
    - Thor
      
      November 23, 2011 at 1:58 am | #
      
      I never claimed it would be difficult; I just stated that I wasn’t going to find it for you.
      
      And actually, there are defaced versions, with one version much more indisputably awesome than the rest. If you see it, you’ll know what I mean.
      
      Sigh, I miss SMUT WITHOUT WARNING.
      - Lordphulish
        
        November 23, 2011 at 3:42 am | #
        
        Why would someone remove the faces? Creepy.
    - McGruff the Crime Dog
      
      November 23, 2011 at 4:24 am | #
      
      I couldn’t find it.
      - Thor
        
        November 23, 2011 at 5:25 am | #
        
        Just remember the Rules of the Internet. One of them applies here.
        
        Plasma Mongoose
        
        November 23, 2011 at 7:29 am | #
        
        Ah! Good old Rule 34.
  - vlademir1
    
    November 23, 2011 at 6:54 am | #
    
    I could comment on the odds of what happens to be my random wallpaper for this 15 minute period… but it was what reminded me to check DoA and SP just now.
  - Kalan
    
    November 23, 2011 at 7:04 pm | #
    
    Why are the mallards eyeing Walky’s feet hungrily?
Undrave

November 23, 2011 at 12:16 am | #

“Everything’s fuckin’ cartoons with you!” is a GREAT expression!
TheDarkEricDraven

November 23, 2011 at 12:16 am | #

I say this is forshadowing. My prediction is that Joyce will be raped at the beach and get aids. Or at the very least, she will step on a spiky sea urchin. No matter which, the angst level will be the same.
- Thor
  
  November 23, 2011 at 12:22 am | #
  
  A freshwater sea urchin?
  - Rex Hondo
    
    November 23, 2011 at 12:32 am | #
    
    Sewer Urchin.
    - MichaelHaneline
      
      November 23, 2011 at 5:11 pm | #
      
      that has AIDS.
Rex Hondo

November 23, 2011 at 12:35 am | #

Given the current Indiana weather, I was confused for a few seconds until I remembered that in-story it’s still August last year.
- NakedDumblydore
  
  November 23, 2011 at 12:43 am | #
  
  I grew up going to the beach in October, but MD is probably milder than Indiana.
  - Rex Hondo
    
    November 23, 2011 at 1:33 am | #
    
    I don’t think I’d be exagerrating too much in calling central Indiana weather “wildly erratic.”
John

November 23, 2011 at 12:38 am | #

Sal and Walky seem very siblingy today.
- dchorror
  
  November 23, 2011 at 1:45 am | #
  
  They’ve catching up to do.
TeslaSunburn

November 23, 2011 at 12:39 am | #

I love that Walky’s just sort there for this adventure.
NakedDumblydore

November 23, 2011 at 12:42 am | #

Cartoon crow? Are there advertisements for Indiana lakes in Dumbo??
- Random832
  
  November 23, 2011 at 1:34 am | #
  
  There’s more than COOOORRRRNN in INDIAAAANAA… at INNDDIIAAANNAAA BEEEEAAAAAACH!
  - Wandering Meme
    
    November 23, 2011 at 1:36 am | #
    
    why does your “Beach” sound like “Be-ya-tch” when i say it?
  - carl320
    
    November 23, 2011 at 1:43 am | #
    
    Then they drive four hours only to stand in a long line to get in XD
TaZZerath

November 23, 2011 at 12:42 am | #

… hmm, what if a wild Scumbag Pastor’s Son appears?
- Ridureyu
  
  November 23, 2011 at 1:22 am | #
  
  A Wild Rapist Appears!
  
  Sarah Uses Louisville Slugger!
  
  It’s Super effective!
  - Wandering Meme
    
    November 23, 2011 at 1:34 am | #
    
    gotta catch ’em all,
    GOTTA CATCH ’em ALL!!!
    
    It’s your destiny…JusT LiKe ThE SoNg!
  - a99steaksauce
    
    November 23, 2011 at 1:36 am | #
    
    Joyce uses Glassed Attack!
    Its heavily effective!
    
    Amazi-Girl uses Capture!
    Amazi-Girl misses!
  - Lordphulish
    
    November 23, 2011 at 3:45 am | #
    
    Pokemon rap. It’s super effective.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCYnTLLb1oA&feature=relmfu
    - saturnwonder
      
      November 23, 2011 at 10:56 am | #
      
      OMG no
Big Ninja Jim

November 23, 2011 at 1:28 am | #

Holly Crap I no joke live about less than ten miles from that beach and worked there the last two summers.
Norcekri

November 23, 2011 at 1:33 am | #

No beach? It’s not that far to Indiana Dunes — about 3 hours from Indianapolis, 2 from Purdue.
- David M Willis
  
  November 23, 2011 at 8:37 am | #
  
  It’s pretty far when you don’t have a car!
  - Pat
    
    November 24, 2011 at 11:28 am | #
    
    That sounds pretty far when you DO, too…
Lumina

November 23, 2011 at 2:38 am | #

I used to go to Indiana Beach every summer I still have a piggy bank with the logo on it. Fond memories of throwing candy at people from the skyline…
Beacon

November 23, 2011 at 3:16 am | #

Are Walky and Sal the only native Hoosiers here or do the others just not watch TV? Those Indiana Beach were kind of ubiquitous in my childhood.

(Wait, never mind. I keep forgetting that I’m now ten years older than the cast)
aaron_bourque

November 23, 2011 at 3:23 am | #

Isn’t it still, like September? I don’t think that’s the beach time of year in Indiana. But then again, it’s just a lake.
- Rex Hondo
  
  November 23, 2011 at 6:53 am | #
  
  Y’know what they say. If you don’t like the weather in Indiana, wait five minutes.
- David M Willis
  
  November 23, 2011 at 8:39 am | #
  
  It’s possibly still late August.
  - Roborat
    
    November 23, 2011 at 3:04 pm | #
    
    So they are in university in August, when do classes start anyway? Up here in northern Canadastan, they start in September.
    - David M Willis
      
      November 23, 2011 at 3:32 pm | #
      
      Indiana University starts its fall semesters in late August.
      - Roborat
        
        November 25, 2011 at 2:56 pm | #
        
        Wow, sucks to be going to that school; up here, that is usually the best part of summer. Thanks for clarifying that.
    - fabforest
      
      September 2, 2014 at 7:27 pm | #
      
      In Quebecstan, CÉGEPs start around the next-to-last or last week of august, while university initiations, and sometimes class, starts around the last week of august
AliaPie

November 23, 2011 at 3:27 am | #

Well, as long as it’s not Butts Disease.
Mebhy

November 23, 2011 at 3:48 am | #

There really is more than just Corn in Indiana. There is also Soybeans.
- Beacon
  
  November 23, 2011 at 5:21 pm | #
  
  And Racecars!
espanolbot

November 23, 2011 at 3:50 am | #

Yeah, have a feeling that Rapey Ryan’ll be there somehow.
- Rex Hondo
  
  November 23, 2011 at 6:55 am | #
  
  So long as somebody has the foresight to bring a couple of cinder blocks and some rope along, everything should work out just fine.
- Pat
  
  November 24, 2011 at 11:26 am | #
  
  He was a threat because they didn’t know he was. It wouldn’t be very much of a fight for him to take on this group directly. Sarah, Sal, and sober Joyce? I’d think any one of them could take him down; all three with Walky and Dorothy there? He’s a non-threat.
Locke

November 23, 2011 at 4:16 am | #

Is Sal going along? That’d be nice of her.

Also, used syringe beaches are very under-rated. You get a tan, a slight-high, AND a debilitating mystery drug addiction!
- Kernanator
  
  November 23, 2011 at 6:28 pm | #
  
  It’s fun for the whole family!
Whit

November 23, 2011 at 8:05 am | #

When I was a kid, we’d go to Fairfax Beach, it was such a dump, broken glass everywhere. But I was six, so I figured it was the best thing ever.
Kamino Neko

November 23, 2011 at 8:15 am | #

Aw, Sal and Walky getting along. It’s heartwarming.
Ezechiehl

November 23, 2011 at 8:39 am | #

Seems somehow familiar, doesn’t it?

http://www.itswalky.com/d/20000619.html
- saturnwonder
  
  November 23, 2011 at 10:54 am | #
  
  Best comic strip ever! It’s especially funny because I live in Colorado XD
  
  For the longest time I was afraid to go to the lakes here as well, thinking I would get something from the sand. This concers my thoughts.
Queen Anthai

November 23, 2011 at 8:40 am | #

Dammit, now I have “THERE’S MORE THAN COOOOOORRRRN IN INDIANA” stuck in my head.
Robert in San Diego

November 23, 2011 at 8:54 am | #

I hope they remember to bring sunscreen.
Zanosuke_Kurosaki

November 23, 2011 at 10:35 am | #

Coolest Fans reference ever.
- insomniac
  
  November 23, 2011 at 12:19 pm | #
  
  I don’t think it’s a Fans reference. It’s just a good question to ask about beaches.
  - David M Willis
    
    November 23, 2011 at 3:33 pm | #
    
    I’ll pretend it was meant to be a Fans! reference. It was really just my morbid train of thought taking command.
Gargamel

November 23, 2011 at 4:06 pm | #

Hmm I wonder if Willis is planning to move the comic forward in time… A trip to the beach sounds like a pretty good break in the story to me.
Speaky2k

November 23, 2011 at 8:31 pm | #

My girlfriend is from NW Indiana and I showed her this comic… Now she is walking around the house singing “Innndiaaaaana Beeeeach!”
airfox

November 23, 2011 at 10:27 pm | #

So …let me try to guess:

Either on the way out to the beach, or coming back, Joe’s going to see Walky with all these girls, right?

Then … hilarity.

-airfox
Asuka L.S.

November 29, 2011 at 8:20 am | #

Um…two lakes came to mind immediately: Heritage and Raccoon. Both are good lakes for swimming, and have excellent beaches.
Asuka L.S.

November 29, 2011 at 8:22 am | #

There’s also Monroe Lake, which is much closer to Bloomington.
Rogue of Space

June 27, 2013 at 5:39 pm | #

Go to the beach? When did this turn into every high school anime I’ve ever seen?
VentusRex

January 17, 2014 at 5:57 pm | #

It made me super giddy to hear about Indiana beach on here. Though the Crow lies about there being more than corn in Indiana.
BrokenEye, True False Prophet

September 16, 2015 at 11:09 pm | #

“And in the thirty and ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet; his disease was exceeding great:”

2 Chronicles 16:12