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I took it as a joke; Walky being close to right but, not completely, still in a way where he could succeed thus pronouncing some ambiguity that lay in the perfected information.
I don’t know gambling lingo, but I’m assuming that “pays 1:4” means “you get back one fourth of what you bet”? Because if it’s the other way around, I see a big problem with that business model.
Well, I can tell you now, not including you writing of “Kickstarter” or my own just then, Ctrl+F shows 5 other matches for it, with 3-4 hours till the next strip goes up. So how much does that cough up…
Taking wagers on the number of people who bet on 30+ comments with intent to ensure that there will be 30+ such comments.
4 to 16 pays 1:2
4 to 12 pays 1:3
4 to 8 pays 1:4
Tried posting a reply with second email to show how you could use one grav just for rp, then moderation reminded me of the other thing that makes an alternate email with a grav a little annoying.
Both statements are true, changing your name and/or e-mail addy changes the assigned-by-the-site avatar, AND your first post after the change is moderated.
Trampoline parks are a real thing. Google, if you’re in a major metropolitan area there’s likely one near you. Be warned though, it’s definitely a workout.
It’s worse when you tucker yourself out in like five minutes, your whole body in pain, and then you sit down and watch kids maintain themselves the whole damn hour.
please note: i have never been to a trampoline park, nor have i ever shot a paintball gun at anyone outside of a regulation match. i have said this for humorous effect and do not condone the harming of annoying children who are in better shape than i am.
Agreed, I’d hoped Walky would do something like this. Walky points out hes ok with being alone and then Joyce was starting to be quite bongey in that second panel so I’m glad that Walky nipped it in the bud (in quite an amusing manner as well)
And his comeback wasn’t even that mean spirited. Absolutely not to the degree of Jocye’s needling. It was a great way of deflecting her without stepping over the line. I still think he remembers big sisters words of caution.
Based on the clear panic in her face in the final strip it was indeed a sharp blow, right past all her defenses and directly into her thermal exhaust port. And I’m pretty sure Walky knew it would be, and simply felt that she was asking for a little mean spirit with all her needling.
It’s only really ironic if they were being pedantic about English. Individual pedants don’t have to ruin everything by themselves – there’s enough to go around.
I’m not sure if that link works the way it’s supposed to, so I’ll just spell it out: someone made the exact same typo in the comments of today’s Girls with Slingshots.
FWIW, I’m not sure if Walky is serious or if he’s just teasing Joyce because he enjoys watching her fly off the handle. In a lot of ways, the way he interacts with Joyce is similar to the little five-year-old boy who yanks the pigtails of the girl sitting in front of him in class so she’ll notice him.
It’s disturbing how realistic this is. He might have to gain some extra funding with a youtube channel though. That could help with both the starting capital and with supporting the venture once it’s begun.
Considering that you’ll probably get like 200 views for every sub, at a rate of .05 cents per view, you’d get 10000 dollars for the video. Is that enough? I don’t know the average upkeep expenses of a trampoline park.
definitely enough to get you started. And if you can maintain even a fraction of that popularity while issuing a new video every 1-2 weeks, you’re making a pretty good living.
I highly doubt you’d get a nickel for every viewer, unless every viewer is a mother. Which is, considering that that is quite a common demographic subset of the cat video-watching demographic, quite possible.
Oops, she would also have to surpass the current record for verified oldest human ever by 30 years, but IT COULD BE DONE WITH SCIENCE (and blood sacrifices).
I know Joyce is husband hunting, but does she actually have any intention of finishing school and getting a job?
Because if she expects to live comfortably on a single income in this day and age (especially with as many kids as she probably expects to poop out), then Walky’s understanding of finance dwarfs hers.
I’m not sure if that has ever been addressed, actually. Like a lot of late teens, I think that Joyce has a fairly unrealistic view of adult life. I’m pretty sure she was expecting to run into ‘Mr Right’ pretty much immediately so she didn’t think much about a possible career.
The real world has a tendency to slap you upside the head like that.
In Joyce’s defense, that college-educated career is uncomfortably likely to be “flipping burgers somewhere.”
Suddenly I wonder if I’ve discovered the source of Arby’s nihilists.
Stay up late. Study hard. Endure the student debt. Graduate with honors to work a minimum-wage service job. The last twenty years of your life were meaningless.
this would be trolling if walky didn’t mean it. the thing is, that’s how kickstarter works. this may turn out like cartman’s amusement park in south park, though
So it’ll eventually collapse on itself, Walky will go balistic, and someone will be cured of a hemorrhoid and their faith in whatever religion they follow will be restored?
I will now predict what will happen to every character:
Joyce: Assassin
Walky: Elementary school teacher
Dorothy: Due to a series of both tragic and confusing events is declared a saint.
Mike: Day care teacher (this may be the most horrifying one)
Faz: President
Ethan: Also assassin (Joyce’s partner)
Amber: Due to a series of confusing events gains billions of dollars (becomes Amazi-Girl full time)
i can’t decide whether this makes me happy or sad, but i do totally believe it now. all that remains is to explain away the bodies of the rest of the cast. i’m thinking “skipshine gone wrong”
No the most horrifying one is Faz, I don’t even want know what he do with that power all I can think is possibly a Mad Max World future as the outcome.
Dina: assumes world domination nine years after college.
Daisy: starts a career as a photographer for the fashion industry.
Anyone else have any ideas?
Considering the instantaneous flood of sexual harassment suits that would result, Daisy becoming a photographer seems as likely as Mike becoming a day care teacher. Both would enjoy those jobs, but neither would be hired.
Okay, but has anyone else heard of Airtime? Because it is an actual place and it’s kind of awesome and you can learn what I’m talking about here: http://airtimetrampoline.com/
Skyzone is pretty much the same. And they’re all over the Midwest. Thanks to the sliding timeline, Walky should be pretty knowledgeable about them: There’s one in Evansville.
I’ve found him kind of irritating in DoA. I mean, yeah, I knew some somewhat manic man-children in college, but I tended to stay away from them. Him being with Dorothy has always seemed wrong, because he comes across as a precocious twelve-year-old.
And to be perfectly blunt, I’m not entirely sure she considers him to be more than a walking vibrator fuckbuddy, someone to satisfy her physical needs before she “inevitably” transfers to Yale and leaves all of this behind – a mere prologue to the road she imagines for herself.
Modern trampolines appeared during the 30’s,probably Mike’s grandfather was the one that contribued to the name change and his name was Jebediah Nickel. The nickel reference must be a homage to him.
Whole new meaning to the term “flophouse”.
*plays Tears For Fears’ “Head Over Heels” (album version with the extended live jam on the end) on the Muzak*
It’s still fun comparing this Joyce and Walky to Joyce and Walky from the comic with the same name. Still strikes me as funny to think of how the characters from both universes would interact with each other.
Eh Elemantary education, also known as the age where history and science don’t really matter because they are all going to be retaught anyway during high school, and college. I retained nothing of use from my elementary history and science classes.
I see Jealousy rearing it’s sinful head, and it’s perched on Joyce’s shoulder. So, is she more Jealous of Walky’s relationship with Dorothy? or Dorothy’s relationship with Walky?
And on Sal’s hair, and on Billie’s boobs. Joyce is basically going to sleep with some body part of every character in the strip by the time it’s over (except for Becky, because she can’t catch a break).
I sort of wished that, after Becky ambushed Joyce with a kiss, there was a panel of the two looking at each other before Becky said something like “Now I know what it’s like to kiss my sister.” and then just walk away.
That’s the thing about their relationship – Becky mistook becoming Joyce’s sister-in-all-but-blood for romantic interaction (just as Joyce mistook Becky’s emotional intimacy as something platonic). I can foresee scenarios where Joyce and Becky have some manner of a sexual encounter but I don’t think anything good would come of it for either of them.
Well they are the same people, just with different family backgrounds and a lack of super-powers (to the best of our knowledge). However, their personalities are more-or-less the same, even though their circumstances are not and it makes sense that they would affect each other the same way.
In this case, Walky being driven to say and do stupid things because Joyce’s attitude of being ‘I am the sensible one’ annoys him and Joyce getting more and more frustrated with an intelligent and handsome young man wanting to act like an entitled 13-year-old.
Interesting! I sort of knew that this was the case – Joyce’s problem with Walky has nothing to do with the fact that he’s ‘meant’ to be with Billie. It’s everything to do with him not being worthy of Dorothy!
Of course, Walky has a point that Joyce hasn’t really considered her future; his plans may be moronic and childish but at least they’re plans! Something else you need to be aware of with Walky is that it isn’t easy to tell when he’s kidding about these things.
In the Walkyverse, it took being face-to-face with the end of the world in general and the horrible death of his friends in specific to make Walky grow up. I wonder what it will take here?
I say that is the face of a girl who just realized she desperately wants the trampoline park life, but will never be able to express this dream because it was given to her by a jerk she was in a fight with. If she says that sounds amazing he wins!
Will Joyce swallow her pride and admit that the trampolin park life is the life she wants? Will she stand up for her morals and principles? Will kickstarter back Walky’s dream or will it turn out that trampolin parks are not for losers who fail math tests? THE DRAAAAAAAAAMA
I don’t like seeing Wally and Joyce having a scene alone together. Makes me think that they’re endgame like in the other comic that I have yet to read.
If it turns out that way, I’ll be very surprised, to be honest. In that other comic, very specific and traumatic circumstances led to the Joyce/Walky ship that it is simply not possible to happen here. We’ll see, I suppose but I can’t see it happening in DoA, especially as both of them are too loyal in nature to betray Dorothy in that way.
You are apparently suffering from “shipping sickness”, which causes a decline in reading comprehension. Joyce clearly said that Walky’s body was a “perfect black hole for fast food”.
This strip is a good example the sort of “Willis-speak” the characters sometimes do with tons of euphemism and references that make the whole thing barely intelligible that could be an attempt at creating a new slang but is probably only the result of trying to cram a long conversation into four panels.
I had to google what a trampoline park is. If they are anything like the images google links to, then I don’t think we have those around here. Look fun Though (:
…aaaaaaand there’s the elephant in the room: Joyce and her real major in college: Earning her MRS. I’m surprised she didn’t get all indignant over that; maybe in tomorrows strip?
Now that Joyce is accepting of the existence of romantic (if not sexual) relationships between people of the same gender, when will her gender role kick change? I mean, she’s still planning on being ‘taken care of by’ a male. Does she ‘expect’ Dina to ‘take care of’ Becky because Becky is her best friend from way back (hence locked in gender role expectation) and Dina is ‘weird’ and ‘other’ so must be the one ‘that is gone and found’? Now sure, Becky has slim hopes for a college degree and Dina could probably discover NorthKoreaSaurus by being unnoticed when she slipped over the border. But her other best friend is an ambitious, conscious about her relationship, take charge person dating that wacky ditz in every romantic comedy.
I have a feeling that it’s going to be Jocelyn coming out that’s going to break through that one. Seeing how tightly enforced gender roles have hurt her sister growing up will probably make her analyze what she has learned in gender studies class in a whole new light.
(I actually have a suspicion that Joyce might end up swapping to a Gender Studies major later on giving her general antipathy towards education and how much of a role her gender studies classes have played in her personal growth.)
She seems pretty okay with Dorothy’s non-traditional ambitions. Just because Joyce wants to be a girly girl housewife doesn’t mean she has a “gender role kick”. That’s just who /she/ wants to be.
Ah yes, the Mrs. degree. My sister had one of those. It didn’t do her much good when her(now ex)husband decided to sell the four-bedroom/two bath house in order to buy an RV to go free-wheeling across the country with their three under 10 year old children. It really didn’t help when the family RAN OUT OF MONEY less than 150 miles from where they started. Thus two years spent first in the RV and then in a complementary mobile home as park hosts for a state park, then a series of jobs managing apartment complexes as she got a non-Mrs. degree in business.
Ironic thing, she was the first woman in four generations on our mom’s side to decide that a Mrs. degree was a good thing. Our mom supported our dad when he was getting his Masters and continued to work outside the home as we were growing up, our grandmother worked in a bank before and after seperating from our grandfather, our great-grandmother worked for the railroad to support her children, and our great great grandmother was a farmer’s wife and worked the family farm. FYI my grandmother was born in 1904 and my mother in 1934. And my sister was born in 1952 and married 1973.
“I’m just going to say it, shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for thinking they’re going to get elected. That child deserves our support. Don’t worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity.”
Minnesota Star Tribune@startribune.com ⋅ 1d
Gov. Tim Walz is doubling down on trans rights — and criticizing members of his party who are retreating — at a time when the issue has become a political lightning rod nationally and back home in Minnesota.
they managed to get the arms and thighs to be different grays, which I wasn't sure they'd be able to do, the way the mold's set up
though maybe they're just producing a lot of extra thighs and/or arms in the wrong colors and throwing those away, i dunno
Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com ⋅ 1d
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Taking wagers on the number of comments about how many words “Kickstarter” is
10+ pays 1:2
20+ pays 1:3
30+ pays 1:4
I was about to say something on the subject…but I’ve seen this before I know how this goes
i agree. anyone for tennis?
so according to Joyce, walky has a perfect bod
There’s room for ambiguity there. I think she’s saying that his body is a perfect black hole for fast food — specifically nuggets and Nachitos.
*SHOTGUN BLAST*
Nice… game?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0OLdctjnWo
I’m guessing polls close at tomorrow’s comic posting?
WELL I was about to, but your ruined it
I took it as a joke; Walky being close to right but, not completely, still in a way where he could succeed thus pronouncing some ambiguity that lay in the perfected information.
“Crowdfunding” is only one word.
I don’t know gambling lingo, but I’m assuming that “pays 1:4” means “you get back one fourth of what you bet”? Because if it’s the other way around, I see a big problem with that business model.
curse you figuring out how the house every time!
house wins every time
dang swiss cheese brain lately
Damn it I opened the comments to say this…. how I see this.
Maybe these are just my kind of people!
Well, I can tell you now, not including you writing of “Kickstarter” or my own just then, Ctrl+F shows 5 other matches for it, with 3-4 hours till the next strip goes up. So how much does that cough up…
Taking wagers on the number of people who bet on 30+ comments with intent to ensure that there will be 30+ such comments.
4 to 16 pays 1:2
4 to 12 pays 1:3
4 to 8 pays 1:4
Hey, does changing your display name on here change your Gravatar?
Yes.
nah, though it does mean your first comment with the new name goes to moderation
(said with zero authority after having never used a preset Gravatar)
It changed mine after I forgot my space.
Never mind, I misremembered.
Okay. Because I kinda want to RP Daisy with some of my responses to the comics.
I mean just copy the icon and set it as your gravatar with the handy dandy link?
the preset daisy avatar can be found at http://i1.wp.com/www.dumbingofage.com/wp-content/themes/comicpress-dumbingofage/images/avatars/201502/avdaisy.png
Because like Viktoria said, Gravatars are common on sites, and I don’t want to be Daisy everywhere.
You could always put the gravatar on a secondary email, little harder to remember though.
Tried posting a reply with second email to show how you could use one grav just for rp, then moderation reminded me of the other thing that makes an alternate email with a grav a little annoying.
RP in comment sections is… iffy.
You’ll probably just be ignored unless you manage to be REALLY funny.
I mean, that happens a lot anyway, so. I’m mainly just trying to amuse myself.
Both statements are true, changing your name and/or e-mail addy changes the assigned-by-the-site avatar, AND your first post after the change is moderated.
IIRC it’s generated by email address. I’d recommend going with a custom one though, Gravatars are getting common on sites by this point.
OH DAMN
WALKY FROM THE TOP ROPE
Pro wrestling would be 87% more awesome if the mat was a trampoline.
Think of all the new moves that would be possible!
A billion terrible backyard feds say otherwise. It never ends well.
Things don’t have to end well to be awesome. Remember the Alamo?
It would be more like SlamBall.
I’m thinking of all the new moves that would be possible if other things were trampolines.
Pro wrestling would also involve 78% more broken spines.
That’s only because it would be so much harder to fix the matches.
Er… you know professional wrestling isn’t real, right? I’m sorry if this comes as a shock.
Of course it’s fake, that’s what fixing a match means.
scripted, if you please. No more fixed than Hamlet is. But with real knives and swords.
I grew up not watching wrestling, in a family of people who didn’t get it.
That is a good way to explain it.
I think someone said it was kinda like a soap opera. Just with more body slams.
No matter how bad things in a trampoline park get financially, you can always bounce back.
*ba dum tss*
And now we are all worse people for having read that.
says the mike gravatar
Just the way Willis intended!
No matter what mood you’re in, living in a trampoline park guarantees you will have a spring in your step.
that sounds like a terrible injury brought on by a poor quality of trampolines
I still always think of “You were supposed to bring a TAMBOURINE, not a TRAMPOLINE”
Only if you land poorly.
The secret is to surround it with more trampolines…
See, we just need to cover everything in trampolines and no one would get hurt. You fall off the trampoline… and hit another trampoline!
That fourth panel, Walky’s response. All I could picture was the ‘studio audience’ going “Ooooohhhhh!”
T’was a sick burn.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who hears a studio audience in their head when ready DoA.
Good good good, I wasn’t the only one.
Joyce’s MRS degree… He had to call out the MRS degree, hehe.
You’ll notice she didn’t deny his claim.
I would fully support an amusement park filled with nothing but trampolines if I could get a lifetime pass.
Trampoline parks are a real thing. Google, if you’re in a major metropolitan area there’s likely one near you. Be warned though, it’s definitely a workout.
At the one I went to, you could buy jump time in hour increments. I did not last anywhere near an hour.
It’s worse when you tucker yourself out in like five minutes, your whole body in pain, and then you sit down and watch kids maintain themselves the whole damn hour.
it’s better if you sneak in a paintball gun. those kids just keep on bouncing…
please note: i have never been to a trampoline park, nor have i ever shot a paintball gun at anyone outside of a regulation match. i have said this for humorous effect and do not condone the harming of annoying children who are in better shape than i am.
…the court orders around here work fast
Paint ball trampoline park. Now THAT’S worth a Kickstarter.
There are a surprising number of hits on YouTube for “paintball trampoline.” O.O
Yea, getting old sucks, doesn’t it?
I must say, after the way Joyce was needling him in the previous strip, I kinda like how he’s gone and turned the tables on her here.
Agreed, I’d hoped Walky would do something like this. Walky points out hes ok with being alone and then Joyce was starting to be quite bongey in that second panel so I’m glad that Walky nipped it in the bud (in quite an amusing manner as well)
And his comeback wasn’t even that mean spirited. Absolutely not to the degree of Jocye’s needling. It was a great way of deflecting her without stepping over the line. I still think he remembers big sisters words of caution.
Based on the clear panic in her face in the final strip it was indeed a sharp blow, right past all her defenses and directly into her thermal exhaust port. And I’m pretty sure Walky knew it would be, and simply felt that she was asking for a little mean spirit with all her needling.
I’m pretty sure nothing has ever come near Joyce’s thermal exhaust port.
Pun intended.
Well, I wouldn’t say nothing, I would agree with nobody, however.
Well, if it wasn’t intended, it wouldn’t make any sense.
*pendant*
Technically, Sal’s not a big sister – they’re twins. And it was more of a threat than a caution.
*/pendant*
Someone trying to announce that (s)he’s being pedantic… spelled “pedant” incorrectly while doing so. Twice, so it wasn’t even a simple typo.
Is… is this true irony? Or is this “rain on your wedding day” irony?
It’s only really ironic if they were being pedantic about English. Individual pedants don’t have to ruin everything by themselves – there’s enough to go around.
Not that Deanatay was ruining anything. I just meant pedants in general.
Hee hee I made somebody be pedantic about my pedantry… (still, ‘pendant’? ack)
The pendants weren’t there to indicate the hypnotic watch-the-pendant-swing voice? *Sigh*… it had such a gloriously creepy vibe going.
What a weird and wonderful coincidence!
I’m not sure if that link works the way it’s supposed to, so I’ll just spell it out: someone made the exact same typo in the comments of today’s Girls with Slingshots.
Joyce spends so much time as ‘the naive one’ that I’m loving her pointing out all the massive logistical problems in Walky’s plan.
Despite that, I’m obviously on Walky’s side here.
FWIW, I’m not sure if Walky is serious or if he’s just teasing Joyce because he enjoys watching her fly off the handle. In a lot of ways, the way he interacts with Joyce is similar to the little five-year-old boy who yanks the pigtails of the girl sitting in front of him in class so she’ll notice him.
It’s disturbing how realistic this is. He might have to gain some extra funding with a youtube channel though. That could help with both the starting capital and with supporting the venture once it’s begun.
Put a cat on the trampoline. 100k subs, like that.
Considering that you’ll probably get like 200 views for every sub, at a rate of .05 cents per view, you’d get 10000 dollars for the video. Is that enough? I don’t know the average upkeep expenses of a trampoline park.
definitely enough to get you started. And if you can maintain even a fraction of that popularity while issuing a new video every 1-2 weeks, you’re making a pretty good living.
Wait, did you mean .05 cents as in 1/20th of a penny or .05 *dollars* as in a nickel?
I highly doubt you’d get a nickel for every viewer, unless every viewer is a mother. Which is, considering that that is quite a common demographic subset of the cat video-watching demographic, quite possible.
That gif/video was pretty horrible.
Just gonna leave this right here…
What a succinct encapsulation of the collision of tradition with modernity!
Oooh, Queen Elizabeth reads DoA too!
She does?
Did you know that today she overtook Queen Victoria as the longest-reigning monarch in British history?
Congratulations, Your Madge!
Really? Awesome!!
May she live long enough for an encore!
Oops, she would also have to surpass the current record for verified oldest human ever by 30 years, but IT COULD BE DONE WITH SCIENCE (and blood sacrifices).
>Collision of tradition with modernity
>Queen Elizabeth
Even war can be civil!
Just think, you’d never need to walk anywhere. Just slide out of bed and bounce for the whole day.
wasn’t there a plan for that for london’s streets? their mayor was a master of distraction
I know Joyce is husband hunting, but does she actually have any intention of finishing school and getting a job?
Because if she expects to live comfortably on a single income in this day and age (especially with as many kids as she probably expects to poop out), then Walky’s understanding of finance dwarfs hers.
Husband skins are worth a lot more these days.
*slow clap*
Speaking of open season.
If you have enough faith, God will provide, as demonstrated by those preachers who fly in private jets.
I’m not sure if that has ever been addressed, actually. Like a lot of late teens, I think that Joyce has a fairly unrealistic view of adult life. I’m pretty sure she was expecting to run into ‘Mr Right’ pretty much immediately so she didn’t think much about a possible career.
The real world has a tendency to slap you upside the head like that.
Slap you upside the head?
Nah man, the real world kicks your ass out to the curb and dumps a bucket of ice water* on you while laughing the entire time.
*does not count for ALS fundraising or awareness
If she’s looking to meet a soon-to-be-wealthy Mr Right, she ought to be hanging out with the medical/legal students. Just sayin’.
Well, she actually does hang out with Sarah.
And has with Jason.
In Joyce’s defense, that college-educated career is uncomfortably likely to be “flipping burgers somewhere.”
Suddenly I wonder if I’ve discovered the source of Arby’s nihilists.
Stay up late. Study hard. Endure the student debt. Graduate with honors to work a minimum-wage service job. The last twenty years of your life were meaningless.
Arby’s. Now hiring.
That was quality.
this would be trolling if walky didn’t mean it. the thing is, that’s how kickstarter works. this may turn out like cartman’s amusement park in south park, though
So it’ll eventually collapse on itself, Walky will go balistic, and someone will be cured of a hemorrhoid and their faith in whatever religion they follow will be restored?
1 guess as to who’s faith will lapse if walky ever succeeds!
poor joyce’s kaboodle…
An they will be beaten by their own security guard?
You could make a living running a trampoline park, that is a real job.
Behold! The love story for the ages!
Tell me if I’m wrong but these two are making it sound like they’re planning to Bullshit their way through their future.
how dare you accuse the young master walkerton of such an offense? a duel, i say!
You forgot to slap me across the face with imaginary glove but CHALLENGE ACCEPTED! We will meet at the cracks of dawn.
pffft…like in a butt-taco
So basically just like everyone else at 18.
Seriously, I’m amazed every major character even has a major. Half the people I knew were undeclared at this point. We just had no clue.
I will now predict what will happen to every character:
Joyce: Assassin
Walky: Elementary school teacher
Dorothy: Due to a series of both tragic and confusing events is declared a saint.
Mike: Day care teacher (this may be the most horrifying one)
Faz: President
Ethan: Also assassin (Joyce’s partner)
Amber: Due to a series of confusing events gains billions of dollars (becomes Amazi-Girl full time)
I didn’t take this very seriously.
Faz: Lord & Saviour.
FTFY
You just cracked at Mike being a day care teacher. He would probably teach the kids the way of the nickel.
*cracked me*
*cracked me up* I hope.
i can’t decide whether this makes me happy or sad, but i do totally believe it now. all that remains is to explain away the bodies of the rest of the cast. i’m thinking “skipshine gone wrong”
No the most horrifying one is Faz, I don’t even want know what he do with that power all I can think is possibly a Mad Max World future as the outcome.
Donald Trump would still be worse
Faz, but with Trump’s hair.
http://imgur.com/w8M49qp
I’m gonna go and atone for my sins now.
I’m just gonna go ahead and print that…
whyyy
It’s… disturbing how naturally and smoothly those two things go together!
Dina: assumes world domination nine years after college.
Daisy: starts a career as a photographer for the fashion industry.
Anyone else have any ideas?
They can’t be realistic
For example
Daisy: Due to not being able to find love, went on a killing spree and required 75 US marshals to bring her down.
Photography would make sense.
Ruth: cab driver
Mary: Pope
Blaine: Motivational speaker
Random guy: Blaine is just don’t feel very motivated!
Blaine: Well, are you a dick to your family?
Random guy: No?
Blaine: Well, theres the problem
Everyone missed Billie!
Billie: psychologist to the stars
Have you seen the movie, One Hour Photo?
Don’t do it, Daisy.
Considering the instantaneous flood of sexual harassment suits that would result, Daisy becoming a photographer seems as likely as Mike becoming a day care teacher. Both would enjoy those jobs, but neither would be hired.
Never underestimate what Mike is able to get people to let him do.
Presumably Faz is assassinated.
Amber links ISIS to the Koch brothers and the bounty money pays 50% of their fortune.
Wait which major has Danny?
Or is dannying it up now considered a subject you can study?
Computer science
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/01-move-in-day/worry/
Eh, it’s worked for me so far.
OH MY GAWWD! TRAMAMPOLINE! TRABAMPOLINE!
(To the Tune of Chandalier by Sia:
I’m gonna bounce on the trampoline! ON THE TRAMPOLIIIIIIIIIIIINE!
I’m gonna live like tomorrow doesn’t exist, like it doesn’t EXIIIIIIIIIIIIIST
C’mon, Joyce, be more supportive!
first she’s anti-gay, now she’s anti-bounce. learn faster, joyce!
Joyce, you’re being sucked into the madness. Just give in…
Okay, but has anyone else heard of Airtime? Because it is an actual place and it’s kind of awesome and you can learn what I’m talking about here:
http://airtimetrampoline.com/
Skyzone is pretty much the same. And they’re all over the Midwest. Thanks to the sliding timeline, Walky should be pretty knowledgeable about them: There’s one in Evansville.
He is knowledgeable; that’s why he’s saying it’s a viable life plan. Joyce, on the other hand, doesn’t get out much.
These two make way better antagonistic pseudo-siblings than they ever did a couple.
Why couldn’t they just both? Then again I think that’s what Willis was going for a little bit towards the end of Walky and Joyce.
Aside from the incest factor? (Which is sort of the basis of Walky’s disgust here…)
Heresy!
I agree.
This is the strip where I realize Walky was me at age 18
I’ve found him kind of irritating in DoA. I mean, yeah, I knew some somewhat manic man-children in college, but I tended to stay away from them. Him being with Dorothy has always seemed wrong, because he comes across as a precocious twelve-year-old.
Consider her previous boyfriend.
And to be perfectly blunt, I’m not entirely sure she considers him to be more than a
walking vibratorfuckbuddy, someone to satisfy her physical needs before she “inevitably” transfers to Yale and leaves all of this behind – a mere prologue to the road she imagines for herself.He’s still miles ahead of his original incarnation.
Hey Joyce: Yes you are
They were called “jumpolines” until your mother jumped on one. For a nickel.
Modern trampolines appeared during the 30’s,probably Mike’s grandfather was the one that contribued to the name change and his name was Jebediah Nickel. The nickel reference must be a homage to him.
Whole new meaning to the term “flophouse”.
*plays Tears For Fears’ “Head Over Heels” (album version with the extended live jam on the end) on the Muzak*
“wtf is a trampoline park”
*googles*
“omg”
Lawyers loved them.
Injury waivers are a thing, you know.
Who could’ve imagined Joyce and Walky would have such amusing chemistry? Maybe this dynamic warrants investigating.
I refer you to previous comics Willis made, in one of his universes Joyce/Walky is a thing, and it is great
People that red certain other comics?
Yes. Yes it does.
It’s still fun comparing this Joyce and Walky to Joyce and Walky from the comic with the same name. Still strikes me as funny to think of how the characters from both universes would interact with each other.
Joyce is majoring in Education, but doesn’t believe in evolution, dinosaurs, or that the Earth is >6000 years old…
Never mind, I forgot – there are schools for those who wear blinders.
Thankfully not outside the US.
How I wish that was true…
In Australia the states won’t fund them, so in the late ’90s the Federal government started doing so.
Not public ones, anyway.
Eh Elemantary education, also known as the age where history and science don’t really matter because they are all going to be retaught anyway during high school, and college. I retained nothing of use from my elementary history and science classes.
Also I am really defensive about Education majors.
Delightful bickering ensues.
Living the dream, Walky, Living the dream.
I see Jealousy rearing it’s sinful head, and it’s perched on Joyce’s shoulder. So, is she more Jealous of Walky’s relationship with Dorothy? or Dorothy’s relationship with Walky?
It’s obvious that Joyce has a crush on Walky.
And a crush on Dorothy as well.
And on Sal’s hair, and on Billie’s boobs. Joyce is basically going to sleep with some body part of every character in the strip by the time it’s over (except for Becky, because she can’t catch a break).
I sort of wished that, after Becky ambushed Joyce with a kiss, there was a panel of the two looking at each other before Becky said something like “Now I know what it’s like to kiss my sister.” and then just walk away.
That’s the thing about their relationship – Becky mistook becoming Joyce’s sister-in-all-but-blood for romantic interaction (just as Joyce mistook Becky’s emotional intimacy as something platonic). I can foresee scenarios where Joyce and Becky have some manner of a sexual encounter but I don’t think anything good would come of it for either of them.
Joyce has noted before that her idea of what a platonic relationship looks like is skewed towards the sapphic:
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/cuddlin/
Walky’s got a point about Kickstarter. If people’ll finance friggin’ potato salad then they could finance this.
Walky’s brand of weird has remarkably sound underpinnings here and there.
Walky thinks Joyce is “not unpretty” and Joyce is talking about Walky’s “perfect […] body”…
MATCHMAKER MATCHMAKER MAKE ME A MATCH!
His “perfect black … body.”
We all saw her say it!
If he’s a perfect black body, then the only way we can see him in colors is that he’s really hot.
Well, you do know how that goes in a parallel universe, right?
I sometimes forget that all weird brainwashing notions aside joyce is actually quite smart.
Are you a moon, or a goddess?
Did Willis loop back around to that old familiar groove?
Well they are the same people, just with different family backgrounds and a lack of super-powers (to the best of our knowledge). However, their personalities are more-or-less the same, even though their circumstances are not and it makes sense that they would affect each other the same way.
In this case, Walky being driven to say and do stupid things because Joyce’s attitude of being ‘I am the sensible one’ annoys him and Joyce getting more and more frustrated with an intelligent and handsome young man wanting to act like an entitled 13-year-old.
Oh, brilliant. Walky will get a paralyzing neck injury before he hits 30.
Yup I can totally see Joyce getting sloppy seconds once Dorothy leaves
…Why?
Point goes to Walky on that match.
Sounds like a perfect job for him actually.
Interesting comparison of Joyce’s world view from her taunting Walky, to her acceptance of Becky & Dina as a couple.
Interesting! I sort of knew that this was the case – Joyce’s problem with Walky has nothing to do with the fact that he’s ‘meant’ to be with Billie. It’s everything to do with him not being worthy of Dorothy!
Of course, Walky has a point that Joyce hasn’t really considered her future; his plans may be moronic and childish but at least they’re plans! Something else you need to be aware of with Walky is that it isn’t easy to tell when he’s kidding about these things.
In the Walkyverse, it took being face-to-face with the end of the world in general and the horrible death of his friends in specific to make Walky grow up. I wonder what it will take here?
I can’t believe this strip wasn’t titled “Trampoline Park”.
Willis must be saving that for a later strip.
Time for the inappropriate comment of the day :
“Now kiss.”
If that is our worst today will be a good day
Heh.
I say that is the face of a girl who just realized she desperately wants the trampoline park life, but will never be able to express this dream because it was given to her by a jerk she was in a fight with. If she says that sounds amazing he wins!
Meh. A trampoline park is just like a trailer park. Only trampier.
Trampier? So there a tramps in it?
And Joyce likes this?
Satan really has used his evil influence to make her a drifter!
Will Joyce swallow her pride and admit that the trampolin park life is the life she wants? Will she stand up for her morals and principles? Will kickstarter back Walky’s dream or will it turn out that trampolin parks are not for losers who fail math tests? THE DRAAAAAAAAAMA
I don’t like seeing Wally and Joyce having a scene alone together. Makes me think that they’re endgame like in the other comic that I have yet to read.
If it turns out that way, I’ll be very surprised, to be honest. In that other comic, very specific and traumatic circumstances led to the Joyce/Walky ship that it is simply not possible to happen here. We’ll see, I suppose but I can’t see it happening in DoA, especially as both of them are too loyal in nature to betray Dorothy in that way.
I don’t think Joyce/Walky will happen over here if only because it was thoroughly explored over in the Walkyverse.
The only relationship that’s continued over here is Sal/Jason, and even that’s somewhat different.
Wait, Joyce just said Walky had a perfect body…
And Walky’s already said he finds her attractive…
Oh yeah, these two are still gonna hook up, regardless of which universe! ^_^
You are apparently suffering from “shipping sickness”, which causes a decline in reading comprehension. Joyce clearly said that Walky’s body was a “perfect black hole for fast food”.
Your point?
Man, Walky has his plan set
Bonus point if he can make a trampoline park in the White House, as the first mate.
This strip is a good example the sort of “Willis-speak” the characters sometimes do with tons of euphemism and references that make the whole thing barely intelligible that could be an attempt at creating a new slang but is probably only the result of trying to cram a long conversation into four panels.
I had to google what a trampoline park is. If they are anything like the images google links to, then I don’t think we have those around here. Look fun Though (:
Walky just isn’t fit for this mad world.
Come to think of it, neither is Joyce.
Yes.
So, you enjoy talking to yourself and you answer your questions when asked…?
I totally see those two end up in their senior years if they continue this way. XD
MAKE YOUR DREAMS TRAMPOLINES! JUST DO IT!
Wait shit he could actually fund that couldn’t he? Damnit Walky you’re one brilliant character.
Walky is a man after my own heart.
Oh, Joyce. You know you’re jealous of Dorothy and her perfectly sculpted heterosexual boyfriend. And you’re jealous of Walky and his trampoline park.
At least you’ll always have a ridiculously perky attitude!
…aaaaaaand there’s the elephant in the room: Joyce and her real major in college: Earning her MRS. I’m surprised she didn’t get all indignant over that; maybe in tomorrows strip?
Now that Joyce is accepting of the existence of romantic (if not sexual) relationships between people of the same gender, when will her gender role kick change? I mean, she’s still planning on being ‘taken care of by’ a male. Does she ‘expect’ Dina to ‘take care of’ Becky because Becky is her best friend from way back (hence locked in gender role expectation) and Dina is ‘weird’ and ‘other’ so must be the one ‘that is gone and found’? Now sure, Becky has slim hopes for a college degree and Dina could probably discover NorthKoreaSaurus by being unnoticed when she slipped over the border. But her other best friend is an ambitious, conscious about her relationship, take charge person dating that wacky ditz in every romantic comedy.
I have a feeling that it’s going to be Jocelyn coming out that’s going to break through that one. Seeing how tightly enforced gender roles have hurt her sister growing up will probably make her analyze what she has learned in gender studies class in a whole new light.
(I actually have a suspicion that Joyce might end up swapping to a Gender Studies major later on giving her general antipathy towards education and how much of a role her gender studies classes have played in her personal growth.)
She seems pretty okay with Dorothy’s non-traditional ambitions. Just because Joyce wants to be a girly girl housewife doesn’t mean she has a “gender role kick”. That’s just who /she/ wants to be.
…Given her views on relationships and her planned relationship arc, she quite definitely has a ‘gender role kick’.
Sigh… Freshmen.
Should I start another joke kickstarter campaign
Go ahead — I’m curious to see what you offer for incentives at the various funding levels and what sort of stretch goals you come up with.
Just no potato salad please.
Ah yes, the Mrs. degree. My sister had one of those. It didn’t do her much good when her(now ex)husband decided to sell the four-bedroom/two bath house in order to buy an RV to go free-wheeling across the country with their three under 10 year old children. It really didn’t help when the family RAN OUT OF MONEY less than 150 miles from where they started. Thus two years spent first in the RV and then in a complementary mobile home as park hosts for a state park, then a series of jobs managing apartment complexes as she got a non-Mrs. degree in business.
Ironic thing, she was the first woman in four generations on our mom’s side to decide that a Mrs. degree was a good thing. Our mom supported our dad when he was getting his Masters and continued to work outside the home as we were growing up, our grandmother worked in a bank before and after seperating from our grandfather, our great-grandmother worked for the railroad to support her children, and our great great grandmother was a farmer’s wife and worked the family farm. FYI my grandmother was born in 1904 and my mother in 1934. And my sister was born in 1952 and married 1973.
No, Joyce, what you’re doing is the made-up baby thing.
(Because you know the assumed, inevitable outcome of all these ships is babies babies babies.)
Still loving this way more than I would normally because I know they are married and pregnant in another universe.
i still ship them, honestly.
Moments like these just add fuel to the ship.
What makes me sad for the world is that such a kickstarter would probably be successful. :p
Now this is a real college conversation. Arguing over the logistics of something stupid and inane is a staple of my college conversations.
SERIOUSLY? NOBODY made an Emperor’s New Groove reference?? And now I’m too late to the party for the joke to be relevant…
For the LAST TIME…we did NOT order a giant trampoline!
What’s interesting is that, in a way, they’re both very right and both very wrong. But it also just shows that they’re both 18 or 19