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by David M Willis on February 12, 2016 at 12:01 am
  • 02 - That Perfect Girl
└ Tags: becky, hank, joyce, snoop

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  1. Ana Chronistic
    Ana Chronistic
    February 12, 2016 at 12:01 am | #

    “Big BwotherJoyce!”

    • Schpoonman
      Schpoonman
      February 12, 2016 at 12:01 am | #

      NO.

      • gkheyf
        gkheyf
        February 12, 2016 at 12:05 am | #

        holy friggin crap! your ‘disapproving joyce looking up’ gravatar is spookily fitting!

        • Jay Eff
          Jay Eff
          February 12, 2016 at 12:11 am | #

          Yeah, it makes it look like Joyce got some Adult Swim viewing under her belt when she was a kid!

          (don’t tell her mom..)

          • Clif
            Clif
            February 12, 2016 at 12:46 am | #

            i’ve watched Adult Swim a few times over the years, but I can’t help thinking there’s some kind of cultural reference there I’m not getting.

            • Spring
              Spring
              February 12, 2016 at 1:04 am | #

              Fullmetal Alchemist.

            • Pan
              Pan
              February 12, 2016 at 1:04 am | #

              Maybe a reference to the “dog” from Fullmetal Alchemist. Do not watch that episode on Netflix. Straight up horrifying.

              • Captain Button
                Captain Button
                February 12, 2016 at 1:06 am | #

                A dad way worse than Blaine or Toedad. Or Gendo Ikari, for that matter.

                • Someone
                  Someone
                  February 12, 2016 at 1:25 am | #

                  Fullmetal Alchemist does seem to have an evil dad theme going for it, I mean the main villain is called Father, for crying out lou!

                • KarkatTheDalek
                  KarkatTheDalek
                  February 12, 2016 at 3:33 am | #

                  It occurs to me that Hank could probably pass for Shou Tucker if you gave him glasses and maybe gave him a bit of a hair cut…

                • GreyDefender
                  GreyDefender
                  February 12, 2016 at 7:50 am | #

                  Don’t even go there, Karkat. Last thing we need is a light-haired chimera.

        • Schpoonman
          Schpoonman
          February 12, 2016 at 9:14 pm | #

          It’s from when Sarah tried to give Joyce $20 for cussing. It’s appropriate for many situations.

    • Russ
      Russ
      February 12, 2016 at 12:01 am | #

      do not

    • seventhsword2
      seventhsword2
      February 12, 2016 at 3:37 am | #

      Guess I am the only one who literally laughed at this until my lungs hurt

    • Tyler Durham
      Tyler Durham
      February 12, 2016 at 3:59 am | #

      That was… that was mean.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      February 12, 2016 at 11:37 am | #

      This comment chain is a mess.

      Like the one Scar made out of the Ninadog :V

      • Ana Chronistic
        Ana Chronistic
        February 12, 2016 at 7:05 pm | #

        is Chimerajoyce out of the question then or

        • Captain Button
          Captain Button
          February 12, 2016 at 7:32 pm | #

          We might get Carla’s soul bound into a car….

    • Mattyos
      Mattyos
      February 12, 2016 at 8:37 pm | #

      I actually want to gut you like a fish for this…

      • Schpoonman
        Schpoonman
        February 12, 2016 at 9:10 pm | #

        Me too. =(

  2. Captain Button
    Captain Button
    February 12, 2016 at 12:01 am | #

    So has the dog taken over No Flashbacking! duty?

    • inqntrol
      inqntrol
      February 12, 2016 at 12:03 am | #

      “Warning! Anti Flashbacking dog, do not even think about it!”

    • LeslieBean4Shizzle
      LeslieBean4Shizzle
      February 12, 2016 at 12:48 am | #

      **rereads a random shitton of Shortpacked!**
      **thinks back about the first time she read Shortpacked!**
      **realizes that she is herself flashbacking**
      **imagines Robin leaping out to stop me from flashbacking, possibly with lesbian makeouts**
      … I’ll be in my bunk.

      • Emperor Norton
        Emperor Norton
        February 12, 2016 at 10:29 am | #

        Damn, now I want Robin leaping out to stop me from flashbacking, although in my case, the makeouts would not be lesbian…

        …Still, I’ll be in my own bunk for a while.

        • Emperor Norton
          Emperor Norton
          February 12, 2016 at 10:30 am | #

          Dammit! I confused Robin with Roz for a second there. Ignore my entire stupid post. I apologize for it!

  3. Psychotic Mantis
    Psychotic Mantis
    February 12, 2016 at 12:01 am | #

    Awwwwwww.

    We all know this is gonna end in tears, though, right?

    • Kayla
      Kayla
      February 12, 2016 at 12:04 am | #

      yeah :'(

    • Captain Button
      Captain Button
      February 12, 2016 at 12:04 am | #

      Duh! Willis!

    • Lia47
      Lia47
      February 12, 2016 at 12:05 am | #

      next strip, the dogs turbulent history of drug abuse is revealed

      • tim gueguen
        tim gueguen
        February 12, 2016 at 12:10 am | #

        He’s one of Ruth’s best booze sources.

        • Cerberus
          Cerberus
          February 12, 2016 at 12:11 am | #

          Really shouldn’t have trained him to be a sterotypical comic strip mountain rescue dog.

        • Dana
          Dana
          February 12, 2016 at 12:24 am | #

          What is drinking age in dog years anyway?

          • Spidergirl
            Spidergirl
            February 12, 2016 at 12:27 am | #

            One regular year is seven dog years, right? If so, a little under three years.

            • Imp
              Imp
              February 12, 2016 at 4:10 am | #

              If in the UK, a little under three years.

            • Ana Chronistic
              Ana Chronistic
              February 12, 2016 at 7:06 pm | #

              a little under one, actually–animals mature much faster than people, so one year = ~18, each thereafter = ~4

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        February 12, 2016 at 12:13 am | #

        So the dog’s a mule then.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      February 12, 2016 at 12:07 am | #

      So Snoop going to have an Old Yella moment then?

      • JustCheetoDust
        JustCheetoDust
        February 12, 2016 at 12:13 am | #

        Euthanasia Was the Case

    • John
      John
      February 12, 2016 at 12:08 am | #

      Check the hovertext.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        February 12, 2016 at 12:11 am | #

        The most depressing thing about any show featuring animals is that if it’s more than a decade ago, the chances are, the animals starring in it are dead.

        • Reltzik
          Reltzik
          February 12, 2016 at 12:44 am | #

          Well, if it’s a dog or a cat, sure, but if it’s a longer-living animal like a whale…

          … huh. According to Wikipedia, Free Willy died in 2003.

          Well, okay, that’s just one datapoint. The Star Trek IV whales…

          … *wikipedia* were robots.

          So let that be a lesson to you. Only fall in love with ROBOT animals!

          • Disloyal Subject
            Disloyal Subject
            February 12, 2016 at 12:52 am | #

            Praise the Machine.

          • Plasma Mongoose
            Plasma Mongoose
            February 12, 2016 at 1:10 am | #

            Sea mammals like whales and dolphins live on average far shorter lives in captivity than they do in the wild unlike almost every other creature that ends up in a zoo.

          • maarvarq
            maarvarq
            February 12, 2016 at 6:46 am | #

            Sorry, but I can’t resist this … but are those robots still in one piece?

            • N0083rP00F
              N0083rP00F
              February 12, 2016 at 8:38 am | #

              Yes, disassemble ALL OVER THE PLACE!

        • JonasofAtlantis
          JonasofAtlantis
          February 12, 2016 at 2:36 am | #

          Is it, though? I mean, the animals don’t care, and I don’t spend a lot of time mourning the loss of Aaron Burr and Julius Caesar when reading about them.

          There’s nothing inherently sad about things having finite lifespans, chances are that animals used as TV actors all hit the upper edge of their breed’s lifespan, technically they’re probably doing better than most humans on that count.

          • Chris Phoenix
            Chris Phoenix
            February 12, 2016 at 3:39 am | #

            Finite lifespans are sad. The death of a person is like the burning of a library.

            • DarkVeghetta
              DarkVeghetta
              February 12, 2016 at 4:52 am | #

              Depends on the library. The one in Alexandria was a real shame, but the one in the next town over… eh. Also: little new libraries!
              But yes, finite lifespans are unfortunate, but necessary.

              • Andrusi
                Andrusi
                February 12, 2016 at 7:35 am | #

                Huh. I never really thought about the library reproductive cycle before.

                • Captain Button
                  Captain Button
                  February 12, 2016 at 7:53 am | #

                  Terry Pratchett could write good book about that. If he were still here. 8~~~-({

    • Steampunkette
      Steampunkette
      February 12, 2016 at 3:23 am | #

      I suspect Mom is heading to the Hospital, or something.

      No response on return of her hubby and youngest daughter?

      Could be dead.

      Or banging the neighbors.

      • GreyDefender
        GreyDefender
        February 12, 2016 at 7:53 am | #

        Or banging the d-…never mind, I don’t think this is the right kind of crowd for that humor…

        • Reltzik
          Reltzik
          February 12, 2016 at 5:04 pm | #

          ….. do I even want to know what IS the right kind of crowd for that humor?

          • GreyDefender
            GreyDefender
            February 13, 2016 at 6:04 am | #

            My best friends, apparently.

  4. inqntrol
    inqntrol
    February 12, 2016 at 12:02 am | #

    D’awww, that dog is so cute!

  5. Stephen R. Bierce
    Stephen R. Bierce
    February 12, 2016 at 12:03 am | #

    Snoop. Dog. Dog. Snoop.
    Wait a moment.
    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10207082969610004&set=a.1567195857180.2115034.1153939353&type=3

    • Lia47
      Lia47
      February 12, 2016 at 12:04 am | #

      i think it MIGHT be a reference to something else

      • Captain Button
        Captain Button
        February 12, 2016 at 12:08 am | #

        Wasn’t there some famous comic with a dog named Snoopy?

        • Someone
          Someone
          February 12, 2016 at 12:13 am | #

          Sparky, wait your talking about the comic strip…and yes this comment is entirely made for me to brag about my peanuts knowledge

          • StClair
            StClair
            February 12, 2016 at 4:52 am | #

            you mean Li’l Folks, right?

    • marianne
      marianne
      February 12, 2016 at 7:04 am | #

      If a Joyce comes to visit you, drop it like it’s hot, drop it like it’s hot, drop it like it’s hot!

  6. MapleAmber
    MapleAmber
    February 12, 2016 at 12:03 am | #

    Dogs are the best <3

  7. John
    John
    February 12, 2016 at 12:03 am | #

    You wish you’d gotten to give Joyce that much tongue, Becks.

    • Lasenna
      Lasenna
      February 12, 2016 at 3:06 am | #

      Awww geez, that revolts me. Joyce, for heaven’s sake, please turn your head or close your mouth! You literally already have dog drool all over you teeth.

  8. gkheyf
    gkheyf
    February 12, 2016 at 12:03 am | #

    becky can empathize with this dog

  9. ozaline
    ozaline
    February 12, 2016 at 12:04 am | #

    The font makes me think of Soggies!

    Soggies may drool!

    • GreyDefender
      GreyDefender
      February 12, 2016 at 7:57 am | #

      We don’t talk about the Soggies anymore. Don’t you remember what happened ?

      • GreyDefender
        GreyDefender
        February 12, 2016 at 7:58 am | #

        …as a web design student, that’s embarrassing.

      • Deanatay
        Deanatay
        February 12, 2016 at 8:00 am | #

        dab dab dab

  10. Lan
    Lan
    February 12, 2016 at 12:04 am | #

    I hereby declare Snoop as best dog.

  11. miados
    miados
    February 12, 2016 at 12:04 am | #

    for some reason i thought she would have a cat over a dog.

    • Someone
      Someone
      February 12, 2016 at 12:06 am | #

      I can see you have not read Roomies

      • miados
        miados
        February 12, 2016 at 1:02 am | #

        you are correct sir

        • Someone
          Someone
          February 12, 2016 at 12:54 pm | #

          Danny is a cat person! Which is ironic because his personality is that of a big overtrusting puppy.

          • miados
            miados
            February 12, 2016 at 6:51 pm | #

            I heard someone say dog owners are like cats and cat owners are like dogs once

    • -Sentinel-
      -Sentinel-
      February 12, 2016 at 10:09 am | #

      A dog seems appropriate for the bubbly, enthusiastic Joyce.

  12. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    February 12, 2016 at 12:04 am | #

    Becky, I can’t help but feel like that comment’s a tad inappropriate.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      February 12, 2016 at 12:08 am | #

      Comedy works on inappropriate.

      • Kintrex
        Kintrex
        February 12, 2016 at 2:18 pm | #

        Becky works on inappropriate.

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      February 12, 2016 at 12:12 am | #

      Maybe. It could have also been about being that excited to see her after a long absence. Especially given the circumstances of her second visit to IU.

      • Emperor Norton
        Emperor Norton
        February 12, 2016 at 11:11 am | #

        Or it could even have been that Becky’s also been “attacked” by Hobbes Snoops in the same manner herself when visiting Joyce at her home.

    • evan
      evan
      February 12, 2016 at 12:38 am | #

      More like getting crap under the radar, with Joyce’s dad right there.

      • DarkVeghetta
        DarkVeghetta
        February 12, 2016 at 4:55 am | #

        A proud tradition.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      February 12, 2016 at 7:56 am | #

      Yeah, I’m hoping Cerberus is right but my initial reading of it was “lol remember when i kissed you without your consent that was rad.”

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        February 12, 2016 at 9:50 am | #

        I can’t really see even Becky thinking that. Not so much for the consent issues, but for the “And then my heart broke” issue.

        She might make a joke about it, but it would be more obvious and painful.

        • Cerberus
          Cerberus
          February 12, 2016 at 10:10 am | #

          Yeah, I don’t think that was the intended usage, largely for the reason you bring up. I could see it potentially being a “sigh, yeah, I’ve wanted to pounce on Joyce and make out with her licky style” kind of comment. I dunno, she just looks too casual and wistful for it to seem like she’s reliving when she got rejected and she’s in comic been extremely affected by finding out about Joyce’s assault and how her surprise kiss could have evoked that.

          I mean, she’s like been super respectful of boundaries with everyone, checking in before making moves and letting others make first moves largely because of that, even for things she used to do regularly with Joyce such as hug her. So it just seems like that particular interpretation would be out of character for where Becky is now.

          • Spencer
            Spencer
            February 12, 2016 at 10:38 am | #

            I mean, even if it’s just “yeah I wanted to do that too”, that’s still something Joyce has asked Becky to stop saying to her. Becky ain’t wrong for carrying a torch but Joyce is entitled to not having comments directed at her.

            Which is why I’m agreeing with your interpretation, that she’s just referring to how happy she was seeing Joyce again for the first time in weeks, because otherwise Becky’s being kinda lame.

            • Sam
              Sam
              February 12, 2016 at 1:12 pm | #

              Given the giant “SLOBBER! SLURP!” letters I am inclined to believe she is actually referring to the kiss.

              Becky puzzles me exceedingly, so I could be wrong.

  13. Mr. Mendo
    Mr. Mendo
    February 12, 2016 at 12:04 am | #

    Poor Becky. That dog will get to second base with Joyce before she does. :/

    • cesium133
      cesium133
      February 12, 2016 at 12:07 am | #

      All the way to cuddling!? What’s next, meeting the parents?

      • Tenzhi
        Tenzhi
        February 12, 2016 at 12:27 am | #

        There will likely be heavy petting…

        • heyman
          heyman
          February 12, 2016 at 12:38 am | #

          Snoop is a heavy pet?

          • Bagge
            Bagge
            February 12, 2016 at 1:18 am | #

            *can’t decide if that comment is genius or very stupid*

            • Spencer
              Spencer
              February 12, 2016 at 7:57 am | #

              It’s the perfect grav for that comment, though.

            • DSL
              DSL
              February 12, 2016 at 11:03 am | #

              Or, you know, just funny.

          • Sam
            Sam
            February 12, 2016 at 1:12 pm | #

            STOP FATSHAMING THE DOG!

        • John
          John
          February 12, 2016 at 12:40 am | #

          That only leads to trouble…

          • N0083rP00F
            N0083rP00F
            February 12, 2016 at 8:42 am | #

            Lets make it double.

            • cesium133
              cesium133
              February 12, 2016 at 9:35 am | #

              To protect the world from Ross’ face-shin…

          • Kryss LaBryn
            Kryss LaBryn
            February 12, 2016 at 12:17 pm | #

            And seat-wetting.

            • Captain Button
              Captain Button
              February 12, 2016 at 12:43 pm | #

              “I love you, you love me …”

            • thejeff
              thejeff
              February 12, 2016 at 4:44 pm | #

              More, more, more!

    • Someone
      Someone
      February 12, 2016 at 12:07 am | #

      Will Joyce give birth to 8 wish granting pearls

      • Someone
        Someone
        February 12, 2016 at 12:09 am | #

        If you get the reference you get a cookie. From your own cupboard, payed for with your own money.

        • Someone
          Someone
          February 12, 2016 at 1:07 am | #

          Wait shit, the pearls don’t grant wishes, they become children…anywho

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nansō_Satomi_Hakkenden

          • EvilMidnightLurker
            EvilMidnightLurker
            February 12, 2016 at 3:02 am | #

            I got it, but since you spoiled it there’s no way I can prove that now…

            • Someone
              Someone
              February 12, 2016 at 12:54 pm | #

              I believe you

  14. Falcon
    Falcon
    February 12, 2016 at 12:04 am | #

    See Joyce? That dog will love you unconditionally. Unlike your mother.

    • Thrabalen
      Thrabalen
      February 12, 2016 at 11:30 am | #

      Well, that went zero-to-dark rather quickly.

    • Dara
      Dara
      February 12, 2016 at 3:37 pm | #

      Thanks, GlaDOS.

  15. Kayla
    Kayla
    February 12, 2016 at 12:05 am | #

    I’m terrified of what Joyce’s mom is going to say. Joyces father seems like the calmer parent.

    • Ruthmost
      Ruthmost
      February 12, 2016 at 5:24 pm | #

      “Starting tomorrow, you will live in the church.
      But now is exorcism time. Hank, bring enough rope and holy water for these 2 lambs lost to Satan.”

  16. Ctrl+C D@
    Ctrl+C D@
    February 12, 2016 at 12:05 am | #

    I don’t trust that rock in the front lawn. Looks like it’s up to no good.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      February 12, 2016 at 12:08 am | #

      It’s waiting for the perfect time to break in and rob the Browns’ home.

      • Ctrl+C D@
        Ctrl+C D@
        February 12, 2016 at 12:10 am | #

        After the Pioneers rode off with all his friends he’s been waiting for the longest time to get some revenge on the humans.

        • Steampunkette
          Steampunkette
          February 12, 2016 at 3:26 am | #

          Those gravatars are perfect for that talk!

    • Bagge
      Bagge
      February 12, 2016 at 4:17 am | #

      It’s spying on Becky, waiting for the perfect time to get to Dina.

      The Space Rocks thought they got all the dinosaurs, but they missed one…

      (Oh, and all the birds of course, but space rocks can be a bit dense)

      • Cerberus
        Cerberus
        February 12, 2016 at 4:44 am | #

        Bobdamnit, Jasper.

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          February 12, 2016 at 4:59 am | #

          I got the reference!!!

          Clod.

      • DarkVeghetta
        DarkVeghetta
        February 12, 2016 at 4:58 am | #

        “rocks can be a bit dense” – *grooooan* xD *applause with eyes closed and head held down*

        • Bagge
          Bagge
          February 12, 2016 at 4:59 am | #

          *bows*

    • Captain Button
      Captain Button
      February 12, 2016 at 7:55 am | #

      Probably involved in satanic rock music.

  17. Paul
    Paul
    February 12, 2016 at 12:05 am | #

    Where’s mom?

    • tim gueguen
      tim gueguen
      February 12, 2016 at 12:09 am | #

      Hiding with the rest of the prayer squad waiting to ambush Becky.

  18. Ash Ketchup
    Ash Ketchup
    February 12, 2016 at 12:06 am | #

    IT HAS BEEN AUTUMN FOR YEARS NOW

    • Psychotic Mantis
      Psychotic Mantis
      February 12, 2016 at 12:17 am | #

      #comictime

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      February 12, 2016 at 12:21 am | #

      Eternal Fall… just getting darker and darker as time goes on.

      • StClair
        StClair
        February 12, 2016 at 12:28 am | #

        Winter is coming.

        • Cerberus
          Cerberus
          February 12, 2016 at 12:35 am | #

          Awww, that’s awesome for Winter. I know she was having trouble with that for awhile.

          • Captain Button
            Captain Button
            February 12, 2016 at 12:38 am | #

            It was the ice cube trick that did it.

          • Reltzik
            Reltzik
            February 12, 2016 at 12:48 am | #

            She’s just slow. Some people just come at different paces. Winter always comes after Autumn, and Autumn always comes after Summer.

            • DannyZebra
              DannyZebra
              February 12, 2016 at 10:34 am | #

              But who comes first?

              • Tabula Rasa
                Tabula Rasa
                February 12, 2016 at 2:24 pm | #

                Third base!

              • Bicycle Bill
                Bicycle Bill
                February 12, 2016 at 6:16 pm | #

                The chicken or the egg.

  19. Chrysalis
    Chrysalis
    February 12, 2016 at 12:07 am | #

    Has Joyce learned nothing from Calvin and Hobbes?

    • Psychotic Mantis
      Psychotic Mantis
      February 12, 2016 at 12:17 am | #

      Apparently not. Neither has her dad, but it looks like Becky finally caught on. Now it’s just a matter of time before Joyce becomes Spacewoman Stiff.

      • JonasofAtlantis
        JonasofAtlantis
        February 12, 2016 at 2:38 am | #

        If Hank starts telling her blatant lies about how the sun is actually the size of a quarter and sets near Phoenix, I feel that can’t really do anything but improve the character further.

        • John
          John
          February 12, 2016 at 3:58 am | #

          … and the world is only six thousand years old, and dinosaurs lived
          beside man, and once the whole world was entirely covered in water and the only survivors were breeding pairs that this one dude caught and put on a boat…

        • StClair
          StClair
          February 12, 2016 at 4:57 am | #

          Betcha she won’t buy the one about the past being in black and white, though. She’s seen Superbook!

      • Amazi-Stool
        Amazi-Stool
        February 12, 2016 at 3:00 pm | #

        The logical next step after becoming a fighter pilot!

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      February 12, 2016 at 1:20 am | #

      Or Fred and Dino?

  20. TPman
    TPman
    February 12, 2016 at 12:08 am | #

    Dog’s got a weird bark, sounds just like “honey”.

    • begbert
      begbert
      February 12, 2016 at 1:28 am | #

      That’s Hank. He walks fast.

      • CandidCanid
        CandidCanid
        February 12, 2016 at 2:31 am | #

        Faster than the speed of panel borders.

  21. Moonshine McGee
    Moonshine McGee
    February 12, 2016 at 12:08 am | #

    Oh my god, the basketball pole and the nextdoor neighbors with the useless fence, the ranch with a bay window and garage.

    Willis, your childhood is middle america.

    • Psychotic Mantis
      Psychotic Mantis
      February 12, 2016 at 12:11 am | #

      YES.

      • Someone
        Someone
        February 12, 2016 at 12:33 am | #

        That has been made expressly clear

    • CandidCanid
      CandidCanid
      February 12, 2016 at 2:30 am | #

      That’s not a bay window, that’s a picture window! And we’re talking about Indiana here, what did you expect?

  22. Jezi
    Jezi
    February 12, 2016 at 12:11 am | #

    Oh dear. Mom being gone is not a good sign.

    My money says she’s either refusing to be in the house with The Lesbian, or fetching backup for the conversion therapy. Leaning more towards the latter, since there would have at least been a conversation with Hank in the former case and he wouldn’t be asking around about where she is.

    Or Willis is pulling a Milholland and she’s dead in the backyard after a completely unexpected massive stroke.

    • Captain Button
      Captain Button
      February 12, 2016 at 12:17 am | #

      You are thinking of a different tragic backstory over in Questionable Content.

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        February 12, 2016 at 12:57 am | #

        I don’t remember any massive strokes in QC, and haven’t read Milholland’s works very thoroughly. Mr. Whitaker didn’t have a stroke, he put a gun to his head amd squeezed the trigger.

        • Jezi
          Jezi
          February 12, 2016 at 9:10 am | #

          I’m thinking of S*P where we have all this foreshadowing and hinting that Davan’s dad Fred is falling seriously ill and hiding it (which he was), but in the middle of it he wakes up one morning and his wife has passed unexpectedly in her sleep. (I don’t recall if her cause of death was ever mentioned or what it was, ‘stroke’ was just the first thing to mind.)

          • Thrabalen
            Thrabalen
            February 12, 2016 at 11:33 am | #

            Not gonna lie, that comic crushed me the day I read it. It was wonderfully crafted misdirection… “Fred’s sick, Fred’s sick, FAYE’S DEAD.”

            • Jezi
              Jezi
              February 12, 2016 at 2:12 pm | #

              I swear I just sat there with my jaw hanging open mid-gasp for like ten minutes when I read that. I could just hear that little tremble in Fred’s voice. Randy is a bastard of epic proportions.

              It’s actually made me really worried. My dad is 60 and in generically poor health, but my mom’s family is riddled with heart disease. If he died, she would suffer financially, but without her his life would literally fall apart. [/downer]

    • Leorale
      Leorale
      February 12, 2016 at 1:06 am | #

      I think she’s baking cookies! (Or some other favourite food of Joyce.)

    • Steampunkette
      Steampunkette
      February 12, 2016 at 3:27 am | #

      Banging the neighbors.

    • Carolyn
      Carolyn
      February 12, 2016 at 9:18 am | #

      It probably is a sign of something dramatic coming…though I’m holding on to the slim hope that she’s just in a back room or the bathroom or something and didn’t hear them come in.

    • hof1991
      hof1991
      February 12, 2016 at 10:26 am | #

      Chekhov’s mom. Carol not being there to welcome her daughter and husband home is significant. Has she left rather than be seen to support an “evil lifestyle”?

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        February 12, 2016 at 11:31 am | #

        Hopefully it’s just a fakeout/room for happy scene with dog. She’s actually in the kitchen making Joyce’s favorite meal and she’s just pulling something off the stove so she can’t come out so quickly.

        What? I can hope, right?

    • Kryss LaBryn
      Kryss LaBryn
      February 12, 2016 at 12:20 pm | #

      I figure there’s a small chance she and the brothers are about to jump out and yell “Surprise!!” This being Willis, though, it’s only a small chance.

      If it happens, it will be followed by terrible things.

  23. syd
    syd
    February 12, 2016 at 12:13 am | #

    :-/

  24. Synnerman
    Synnerman
    February 12, 2016 at 12:14 am | #

    Fee fie fo fum, I smell the scent of an intervention. 🙂

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      February 12, 2016 at 12:37 am | #

      “Becky, when exactly did you choose to ruin your family with your evil demonic lesbian ways?”

      “What? I came in here for an argument.”

      “Oh, sorry, this is abuse.”

      • Captain Button
        Captain Button
        February 12, 2016 at 12:40 am | #

        What makes a wholesome Christian college girl want to be a mouse?

        • John
          John
          February 12, 2016 at 1:34 am | #

          Now-age-appropriate mouse boys and/or girls?

      • EvilMidnightLurker
        EvilMidnightLurker
        February 12, 2016 at 3:03 am | #

        “What a stupid concept.”

      • 3-I
        3-I
        February 12, 2016 at 9:46 am | #

        That might be the best use of a python quote I’ve seen in years.

      • anonymsly
        anonymsly
        February 12, 2016 at 11:37 am | #

        Awesome Python quote!

    • JonasofAtlantis
      JonasofAtlantis
      February 12, 2016 at 2:32 am | #

      Unlikely, since Hank seems to be making an effort to be supportive of the wrong side and didn’t know Becky was there until she asked for a ride.

      • No Name
        No Name
        February 12, 2016 at 8:51 am | #

        Ah, but Hank called ahead, to warn Carol of that haircut, and Carol could have gathered up an intervention between then and now without Hank’s knowledge.

  25. Cephalo the Pod
    Cephalo the Pod
    February 12, 2016 at 12:15 am | #

    Ehh, let’s calm down folks. Carol’s new character art has her in an apron and wearing oven mitts. She’s probably busy in the kitchen.

    • Psychotic Mantis
      Psychotic Mantis
      February 12, 2016 at 12:16 am | #

      Making Bible-themed brownies/cakes.

      PLOT TWIST!

      • Captain Button
        Captain Button
        February 12, 2016 at 12:17 am | #

        Does Holy Water burn lesbians?

        • Cerberus
          Cerberus
          February 12, 2016 at 12:19 am | #

          Well, we’re definitely going to find out!

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          February 12, 2016 at 12:22 am | #

          Only if by Holy Water, you mean Heat Balm and they attempt to use it as a lubricant.

          • Tenn
            Tenn
            February 12, 2016 at 3:45 pm | #

            Weeeeell…

    • Amazi-Stool
      Amazi-Stool
      February 12, 2016 at 3:08 pm | #

      So she currently is roasting Hansel and Gretel?

  26. Cerberus
    Cerberus
    February 12, 2016 at 12:18 am | #

    Hey, at least the scam artist pastor got a sweet ass car outta the deal… I mean, mumble mumble, something about God and faith and… yeah, no, it’s just awful no matter what. *appropriate gesture of support*

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      February 12, 2016 at 12:19 am | #

      Whoops… the comment I was responding to disappeared.

      • Peduncle
        Peduncle
        February 12, 2016 at 1:50 am | #

        It’s happened to me too. You were entirely correct about the Inca diodes, though.

    • TheNinthShader
      TheNinthShader
      February 12, 2016 at 9:46 am | #

      *middle finger towards the pastor*

      • Disloyal Subject
        Disloyal Subject
        February 12, 2016 at 12:17 pm | #

        …Do I want to know? It’s not like my faith in humanity isn’t already in rough shape.

  27. iain
    iain
    February 12, 2016 at 12:19 am | #

    She’s gone to get the pastor and her friends. They’re gonna stage an intervention.

    • Cerberus
      Cerberus
      February 12, 2016 at 12:19 am | #

      Exorcisms are a nice look this time of year.

      • Captain Button
        Captain Button
        February 12, 2016 at 12:26 am | #

        Have to get that demon out before the end of October, or else …

        • JustCheetoDust
          JustCheetoDust
          February 12, 2016 at 12:44 am | #

          …outbreak. Within hours that whole town will have same sex orgy piles like the one in South Park that was supposed to get rid of time-traveling immigrants from the future.

  28. Dana
    Dana
    February 12, 2016 at 12:19 am | #

    The dog dead are rising from the dog graves to be judged by dog Christ at the end of dog times.

    • Captain Button
      Captain Button
      February 12, 2016 at 12:27 am | #

      Which circle of Dog Hell is the endless “Bad Dog!” level?

      • Dana
        Dana
        February 12, 2016 at 12:39 am | #

        I’m only familiar with Dog Heaven, where instead of circles they have Frisbees.

        • Leorale
          Leorale
          February 12, 2016 at 1:07 am | #

          All dogs go to heaven! They made several movies about it.

          • Leorale
            Leorale
            February 12, 2016 at 1:08 am | #

            …I mean, people made movies. The dogs probably didn’t.

            • Captain Button
              Captain Button
              February 12, 2016 at 1:13 am | #

              Dog movies are all in Smellovision.

            • CheredisTyping
              CheredisTyping
              February 12, 2016 at 1:21 am | #

              You can’t prove dogs didn’t at least help in the making of the movies

            • Spencer
              Spencer
              February 12, 2016 at 11:35 am | #

              How dare you diminish the impact dogs had on cinema.

              They made a movie about that prejudice and everything.

      • JonasofAtlantis
        JonasofAtlantis
        February 12, 2016 at 2:30 am | #

        Dog hell cosmology:
        Circle 1: Arf? In which the owner is always walking around with a leash but never takes you for a walk.

        Circle 2: Woof, the circle of greater Arf, where no matter how many times you roll on your back no one scratches your belly.

        Circle 3: Yip, where all chihuahuas go. All dogs here are tired, but can’t get to sleep because of the yipping. The most ironic circle.

        Circle 4: Woof, where you catch a car and must spend eternity figuring out what to actually do with it.

        Circle 5: Whine-yip, where that tasty-looking rabbit thing was actually a porcupine, every time.

        Circle 6: Woof, where the last sheep will just never go through the door, and it’s always almost supper time.

        Circle 7: Om nom nom, where dogs who ate too much people food are put on an infinite vegan diet for their ‘health’. The saddest of the hells.

        Circle 8: Grrr, where violent dogs are forced to work out their differences over a poker game, but no one knows how to play or who’s winning because they are dog.

        Circle 9: The silent level, where traitor dogs who don’t obey their alpha or owner are put up for adoption. Such bad dogs.

        • Gamaran Sepudomyn
          Gamaran Sepudomyn
          February 12, 2016 at 3:49 am | #

          The idea of alphas in canines is completely outdated. As with human politics, a dog may be dominant over a dog who is dominant over a dog that is dominant over the first dog, or weirder structures.

          • Captain Button
            Captain Button
            February 12, 2016 at 8:03 am | #

            So we need dog dominance dodecahedrons?

        • Joey245
          Joey245
          February 12, 2016 at 9:50 am | #

          This is just all kinds of fantastic.

        • Sudden Clarity Clarence
          Sudden Clarity Clarence
          February 12, 2016 at 11:31 am | #

          OK, that’s just brilliant. Now for someone to draw each circle.

    • Disloyal Subject
      Disloyal Subject
      February 12, 2016 at 12:59 am | #

      Does that happen beforr or after the Wolftime?

      • John
        John
        February 12, 2016 at 4:20 am | #

        As in, “Wind time, wolf time / ere the world falls”?

        I’m not an expert on pre-millennial dispensationalist theology, but I’m pretty sure they believe that the Rapture occurs just in advance of Ragnarok. Jesus comes and whisks all the good dogs off to Heaven, where they have to watch their owners’ sexual shame reels, and then Fenrir snaps his fetters and all the bad dogs join him in the battle against the gods.

  29. Tekkactus
    Tekkactus
    February 12, 2016 at 12:21 am | #

    Maybe they’ve been raptured!

    • Captain Button
      Captain Button
      February 12, 2016 at 12:31 am | #

      “Maybe we’ll get Raptured!”

      ‘And maybe we won’t. Maybe we’ll get ruptured!‘

      – Riders of the Storm aka The American Way (1986)

  30. Jay Eff
    Jay Eff
    February 12, 2016 at 12:21 am | #

    Tomorrow on DOA:

    Joyce learns her parents got a second dog!

    His name is “Nate“.

    • Captain Button
      Captain Button
      February 12, 2016 at 12:32 am | #

      I thought that was a snake…

      • inqntrol
        inqntrol
        February 12, 2016 at 2:53 am | #

        This one?

  31. detective boomwolf
    detective boomwolf
    February 12, 2016 at 12:26 am | #

    So… thats what having a dog can be like?

    Suddenly, I’m glad my cat was so lazy.

    • Gamaran Sepudomyn
      Gamaran Sepudomyn
      February 12, 2016 at 3:50 am | #

      On the positive side, dogs aren’t likely to give you mind control bacteria when you clean up their poop.

      • No Name
        No Name
        February 12, 2016 at 8:56 am | #

        Those are protozoa.

        • Kryss LaBryn
          Kryss LaBryn
          February 12, 2016 at 12:23 pm | #

          Oh well then.

  32. Whittier
    Whittier
    February 12, 2016 at 12:37 am | #

    This is me every time I visit one of my friends. Good thing his dog is smallish.

  33. Icalasari
    Icalasari
    February 12, 2016 at 12:40 am | #

    Me reading the comic: DAWW!
    Me reading the Alt Text: Aaaand now I have a sad again

  34. Guairdean
    Guairdean
    February 12, 2016 at 12:41 am | #

    That’s pretty much how our grandsons would greet us when we’d visit. We’re the “cool” grandparents.

  35. heyman
    heyman
    February 12, 2016 at 12:42 am | #

    The house I grew up in still feels like home, years later. I remember every detail still.
    I went by to look at it after a funeral. The current owner didn’t let me go in the backyard to take a picture. 🙁

  36. Makkabee
    Makkabee
    February 12, 2016 at 12:44 am | #

    Ah, the unconditional love of a dog.

    • JonasofAtlantis
      JonasofAtlantis
      February 12, 2016 at 2:22 am | #

      Dog love is conditional on it being fed properly.

      Everything after that is just bonus points, which is why most of them are so happy all the time. They’ve already achieved their life goals by being chubby by canis lupus standards.

  37. andrew
    andrew
    February 12, 2016 at 12:49 am | #

    why do I feel like Mom isn’t home because Becky was coming with them?

    • CheredisTyping
      CheredisTyping
      February 12, 2016 at 1:22 am | #

      Maybe she’s poopin

  38. Lordess of madness
    Lordess of madness
    February 12, 2016 at 12:56 am | #

    At least becky seems to be coming to terms with it! Maybe. Or perhaps she’s jealous…

    That dog has really sharp teeth. Piranha teeth.

  39. yakkorex
    yakkorex
    February 12, 2016 at 1:05 am | #

    Oh. No. I have grave concern.

  40. SomeUnregPunk
    SomeUnregPunk
    February 12, 2016 at 1:07 am | #

    I bet the mother is dead.

    Blonde blames herself and turns into a fundie hulk.

    • Captain Button
      Captain Button
      February 12, 2016 at 1:11 am | #

      She said “I would die for you!”

      • SomeUnregPunk
        SomeUnregPunk
        February 12, 2016 at 10:25 am | #

        Ans she does.
        she dies for her daughter’s old self.
        Her new self is obviously devil spawn now. So she goes now to join her daughter in hell.

  41. OnyxIdol
    OnyxIdol
    February 12, 2016 at 1:07 am | #

    Nothing like a dead dog to cheer you up, amirite?

  42. ninja_jesus
    ninja_jesus
    February 12, 2016 at 1:08 am | #

    Nice use of warm colors for the trees and sky. That whole first panel is pretty aesthetically pleasing.

  43. Dariu55
    Dariu55
    February 12, 2016 at 1:13 am | #

    Joyce is easily tackle-able.

  44. andmangrewproud
    andmangrewproud
    February 12, 2016 at 1:22 am | #

    “If it takes forever / I will wait for you / for a thousand summers / I will wait for you…”

    • brionl
      brionl
      February 12, 2016 at 1:57 am | #

      Joycerassic Bark?

    • StClair
      StClair
      February 12, 2016 at 5:00 am | #

      AUUUGH.

  45. Bagge
    Bagge
    February 12, 2016 at 1:24 am | #

    Heh, I like Becky’s gallows humor. “Yeah, that’s how I was a week ago.” Sorry, Becky. You were barking up the wrong tree.

  46. BenRG
    BenRG
    February 12, 2016 at 2:01 am | #

    This is only a guess but I think that Snoop is happy to see Joyce again. 🙂

  47. Evergreen
    Evergreen
    February 12, 2016 at 2:06 am | #

    Time to ogle some new backgrounds!!

  48. brionl
    brionl
    February 12, 2016 at 2:08 am | #

    I’ve got a picture of one of my deceased cats as the wallpaper on my phone.

    I even kept playing World of Warcraft for an extra couple of months because the Stranglethorn Panther my Hunter was using as a pet was the exact same color as the cat.

  49. JonasofAtlantis
    JonasofAtlantis
    February 12, 2016 at 2:20 am | #

    The dog is apparently both a dog and a ninja, making it a more developed character than the mother already.

    I approve of this development. Perhaps it can become Amazigirl’s mentor and be the Batman to her Robin.

    • Kryss LaBryn
      Kryss LaBryn
      February 12, 2016 at 12:25 pm | #

      Or Ace the Bathound? Or I guess Deuce the Amazi-hound or something.

      • Spencer
        Spencer
        February 12, 2016 at 12:54 pm | #

        Ace the Bat-Hound is a cherished piece of Batman history and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.

  50. NinjaNick
    NinjaNick
    February 12, 2016 at 2:24 am | #

    Sneaky snoop.

  51. Thebatman22
    Thebatman22
    February 12, 2016 at 2:32 am | #

    Its the one and only D-O-double-G!!!!

  52. Lorien Inksong
    Lorien Inksong
    February 12, 2016 at 2:57 am | #

    Aw how cute- *reads alt text*
    …Willis may I offer you an internet hug?

  53. DarkoNeko
    DarkoNeko
    February 12, 2016 at 3:45 am | #

    Ewww. Ew ew ew !!!

    See, it’s because of that kind of crap I don’t like dogs. Especially the ones that tries to put their paw full of mud on your brand new jeans.

    • DSL
      DSL
      February 12, 2016 at 11:10 am | #

      You have my pity.

    • JustCheetoDust
      JustCheetoDust
      February 12, 2016 at 8:59 pm | #

      At least they don't try and eat tampons out of the garbage.

      • DarkoNeko
        DarkoNeko
        February 13, 2016 at 12:00 am | #

        …what

  54. Trolldrool
    Trolldrool
    February 12, 2016 at 4:12 am | #

    I really doubt Carol is dead, else I think we’d see a much different reaction from the dog, even in being happy to see Joyce again. I think it’s far more likely that she’s waiting for them in the living room preparing a list of arguments to defend Toedad’s conviction to the sanctity of his family.

    Unless she’s so unlikable that the dog doesn’t care that she’s on the kitchen floor having a stroke.

    • Doopyboop
      Doopyboop
      February 12, 2016 at 4:34 am | #

      It’s so awful, but the mental image your comment conjured, of Joyce’s dog happily licking her while her mother twitches and groans in the kitchen made me laugh.

      Really awful, strokes are no joke. Unless intercut with HAPPY DOG THAT DON’T GIVE NO FUCKS.

      • Trolldrool
        Trolldrool
        February 12, 2016 at 7:49 am | #

        In my experience, there are some jokes that are so horrible, so reprehensible, that the only rational reaction is to cry. And then there are some jokes that are so awful that there IS no rational reaction and the only option left is to laugh.

  55. Willoughby Chase
    Willoughby Chase
    February 12, 2016 at 4:19 am | #

    Hank looks worried.

  56. BenRG
    BenRG
    February 12, 2016 at 4:44 am | #

    Meanwhile, over on http://www.questionablecontent.net, the divorced owner of ‘The Secret Bakery’ has finally had a canon surname given to him: Bean. Because I’m like that, until otherwise show, he is the nice guy that Leslie married under pressure to be hetronormative but later left.

    I am already writing a scene in my head where Becky and Dina are asked to look out for Samantha, her reptile and amphibian fangirl daughter when she’s in Bloomington for a maternal access visit. Just imagine a 14-year-old girl who gives non-venomous snakes or giant frogs as bonding presents to new acquaintances hanging out with the core cast!

    • David M Willis
      David M Willis
      February 12, 2016 at 4:45 am | #

      Do you, like, not remember Leo or what?

      • BenRG
        BenRG
        February 12, 2016 at 4:59 am | #

        Remember? I haven’t even HEARD of him before!

        • DSL
          DSL
          February 12, 2016 at 11:12 am | #

          You just need to start writing your own strips.

        • Narf
          Narf
          February 12, 2016 at 7:50 pm | #

          “Until otherwise shown.”

          Go read Shortpacked! and you will be shown. You don’t even have to read all of it, you meet the guy towards the end.

      • Captain Button
        Captain Button
        February 12, 2016 at 8:14 am | #

        Obviously that is the more distant and sinful part of the Bean clan, which is why Sam is being tempted by serpents. We know who likes to dress up as a serpent, right?

    • Kryss LaBryn
      Kryss LaBryn
      February 12, 2016 at 12:28 pm | #

      “her reptile and amphibian fangirl daughter” I had to reread that a few times; for a minute I thought you were claiming that Sam was into some kind of fandoms; but was also, like, a lizard alien or something.

      It makes more sense now. Apparently I need more caffeine.

    • Spencer
      Spencer
      February 12, 2016 at 12:55 pm | #

      Leslie’s maiden name was Bean.

      #funkiller

      • Captain Button
        Captain Button
        February 12, 2016 at 1:00 pm | #

        So Sam is her niece then?

        • Spencer
          Spencer
          February 12, 2016 at 1:02 pm | #

          I guess that’s the kid? I haven’t read QC in forever.

          Marten’s mom is dating that guy who was with Dora for five minutes?

          • Captain Button
            Captain Button
            February 12, 2016 at 1:24 pm | #

            Yes. Dora is with Tai the librarian now, Marten is with Claire the not-a-twin, Faye works in the robot fighting underworld, and Marigold is with Dale despite their fundamental ethnic incompatibility*.

            Pintsize is still creepy.

            * She’s Horde and he’s Alliance.

            • Spencer
              Spencer
              February 12, 2016 at 2:11 pm | #

              Right I knew Marten/Claire has been a thing for a while (was that 2014 or 15 that happened? Dale/Marigold was around there too I think. I remember liking that one but I can’t remember if it ever got developed) and I think it was after a while there that I stopped.

              • a snow mous e
                a snow mous e
                February 12, 2016 at 5:19 pm | #

                The big news is that Coffee of Doom is down an employee. Or it was, until Dora hired Cosette and accidentally “hired” Emily.

                • a snow mous e
                  a snow mous e
                  February 12, 2016 at 5:20 pm | #

                  Although I haven’t read QC for a while, so there might be more big news by now.

                • trlkly
                  trlkly
                  February 12, 2016 at 11:46 pm | #

                  Yeah, you’re way behind. I assume we’re being cagey to avoid spoilers, so I’ll just say that the big news resolves a significant portion of what you are describing. The comic was completely wordless.

  57. QD
    QD
    February 12, 2016 at 4:56 am | #

    After the shock of that mostly pleasant ride back, be prepared for whatever Mom is being set up to be doing instead of Being Home to be awful/terrible/very very sad-inducing

    • BenRG
      BenRG
      February 12, 2016 at 5:00 am | #

      If the preview art is any indicator (and it isn’t always), we’re being set up for a fried supper.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        February 12, 2016 at 6:51 am | #

        But it’s an awful/terrible fried supper.

        • Captain Button
          Captain Button
          February 12, 2016 at 8:14 am | #

          But which of them will betray who?

          • Kryss LaBryn
            Kryss LaBryn
            February 12, 2016 at 12:29 pm | #

            The corn will betray the mashed potatoes. It’s always the corn. Man, corn, amirite?

    • Snowmon89
      Snowmon89
      February 12, 2016 at 9:02 am | #

      Calling it now. The wife is calling an intervention for Becky.

  58. podian
    podian
    February 12, 2016 at 5:03 am | #

    At least the dog’s name isn’t Daniel 😉

    • John
      John
      February 12, 2016 at 5:13 am | #

      To be consistent with the established Joyce-dog-naming scheme, I’m thinking his name should be “Mousie”.

  59. BenRG
    BenRG
    February 12, 2016 at 5:38 am | #

    Y’know, that house must be bigger on the inside than it looks! How did the Browns fit their four kids in there at the same time?

    • Harvey Janus
      Harvey Janus
      February 12, 2016 at 8:26 am | #

      Joyce’s sister and her two brothers in the same room, Joyce in a second, Chinmom and Hank in a third. I’ve been in a similar situation for the past 9 years. 3 bedrooms, 7 people.

      • tim guegue
        tim guegue
        February 12, 2016 at 10:45 am | #

        Do Indiana houses have basements? There’s probably at least one bedroom in the basement if they do.

        • DSL
          DSL
          February 12, 2016 at 11:14 am | #

          I knew a family with seven kids in a house that looked smaller than that. The dad walled off the back half of the attached garage to make a room for the last two boys. I don’t know where/how they housed the two girls produced afterward, though the older kids may have started moving out by then.

  60. altalemur
    altalemur
    February 12, 2016 at 8:03 am | #

    adorbs

  61. Deanatay
    Deanatay
    February 12, 2016 at 8:14 am | #

    Oh, Willis. You could have drawn any house, any dog. You’re the one who dredged up old memories.

    Unless, of course, the five-month delay dredged them up for you. In which case…. I’ve got nothing.

  62. Harvey Janus
    Harvey Janus
    February 12, 2016 at 8:28 am | #

    Joyce parked a ways back from that garage door… Is it a garage door or am I stupid?

    • QWERTY
      QWERTY
      February 12, 2016 at 8:31 am | #

      It’s a garage door but it might not have enough room for 2 cars or is a work room. She parked away from it so her parents and siblings could still use the walkway and not be blocked in.

  63. TheNinthShader
    TheNinthShader
    February 12, 2016 at 9:31 am | #

    Fuck me, that dog is cute.

  64. hof1991
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    February 12, 2016 at 10:35 am | #

    Details! The look on Hank’s face as he walks into the house. He knows something is wrong and is already worried. Then his hand in panel 3 is in a fist, showing his tension and probable dismay at what is about to happen. Not anger, but preparing for something unpleasant, some new shitstorm that Carol will occasion.

    • LongDistanceDriver
      LongDistanceDriver
      February 12, 2016 at 10:39 am | #

      Ross is waiting.

      I really hope I’m wrong.

      • tim guegue
        tim guegue
        February 12, 2016 at 10:47 am | #

        I doubt he’d get bail very easily, or very cheaply.

      • Luzahn
        Luzahn
        February 12, 2016 at 11:38 am | #

        This is my worry as well. No matter how unlikely I just feel like it’s going to happen. Like in a horror movie, where someone thinks they’ve escaped, but the monster is just in the room with them.

        I mean hell, the church could have raised bail money or something. It sounds evil enough to do.

      • Someone
        Someone
        February 12, 2016 at 12:55 pm | #

        Ross is waiting…with a gun to Carola head

        • Spencer
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          February 12, 2016 at 1:12 pm | #

          “Mom oh my god!”

          “He’s a good Christian man, Joyce, and he’s entitled to his opinions.”

          “He has a gun to your head!”

          “Try to see things from his point of view. He’s just worried about his daughter.”

          • John
            John
            February 12, 2016 at 3:15 pm | #

            And then Hank gets to live not vicariously through his daughter!

    • Russ
      Russ
      February 12, 2016 at 5:32 pm | #

      Details in the same panel: Hank has his hand clenched in a fist, and it isn’t an art oversight since Becky’s is relaxed in the same shot. Some one is worried!

      • merbrat
        merbrat
        February 13, 2016 at 12:03 am | #

        I’m thinking happy thoughts, and maybe he just has the car keys in his grip. But, ya know…Willis. Oh, dear.

  65. Renee J
    Renee J
    February 12, 2016 at 10:57 am | #

    If Joyce’s mother is setting up an intervention, I can see that as the catalyst for her sibling to come out.

    • Guairdean Beatha
      Guairdean Beatha
      February 12, 2016 at 6:23 pm | #

      I wonder if the conversation would go something like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vudJivvHWqI Some of you may remember when Soap originally aired. It was highly controversial, and hysterically funny.

  66. Sigurther
    Sigurther
    February 12, 2016 at 11:21 am | #

    Puppers make everything better.

  67. Alexx
    Alexx
    February 12, 2016 at 11:25 am | #

    Sometimes people warn me like: “Oh, my dog can be a handful, she likes to jump on you.” And then when I get in the door I’m IMMEDIATELY on the ground rolling and laughing with the dog and they’re like “Oh. I see. You’re a dog person.”

    • 3-I
      3-I
      February 12, 2016 at 1:06 pm | #

      That’s rough.

    • begbert
      begbert
      February 12, 2016 at 3:20 pm | #

      Dog-owners always tell me “I don’t believe it, he NEVER growls at people like that! He’s always loving and friendly!” And then I’m like “bullshit, stop lying to yourself, you just saw your animal threaten me.”

      I have a very real phobia of dogs, earned from being attacked by one as a child. I’m pretty sure pedophiles get more sympathy and accommodation.

      • Marie
        Marie
        February 12, 2016 at 4:19 pm | #

        This used to be a tl;dr, but I cut it down because I figured you wouldn’t want to read a bunch of dog stories;

        people can be dicks about fears but nonetheless probably aren’t lying

      • Heather
        Heather
        February 12, 2016 at 4:33 pm | #

        Could you really not with that comparison.

      • Doopyboop
        Doopyboop
        February 12, 2016 at 5:41 pm | #

        I may not have a phobia of dogs, but one time my neighbors’ dog bit me in the face. Got me above the eye, nearly got the eyeball. He wound up only grazing me but I was 8 and I was TERRIFIED. When I went back over I’d hide behind their couch or chair to put furniture between myself and their chow. And…yeah they were all “why are you doing that, he won’t bite you again” “stop being dramatic”.

      • Tan
        Tan
        February 12, 2016 at 6:40 pm | #

        I am similarly phobic, for a similar reason, and what makes it suck all the more is that I used to LOVE dogs before that, and I still kinda do in concept, but being around them, especially first meeting them, is one of the most stressful situations possible for me. Everyone likes to think ‘Oh, but MY dog…’ whatever whatever… I can understand that feeling. They love their dog, they see their dog in the best possible light… But goddamn, I’m just asking you to control the dog, not have the dog put down.

  68. Mo
    Mo
    February 12, 2016 at 2:02 pm | #

    Basketball hoop! Because Indiana.

    • Bicycle Bill
      Bicycle Bill
      February 12, 2016 at 6:10 pm | #

      Basketball hoop!  Because Indiana — and Joyce had 3 brothers….

      OK, question time.  If a person is trans-gender and makes the switch — like Bruce Jenner > Caitlyn — that does not negate everything that had gone on prior to that, correct?  “Bruce Jenner” as a person in the historical record — along with his Olympic records and medals, his television career, and everything else up to 2015 — still exists as a male, right?  So the same should hold true for Joshua Brown > Jocelyne Brown.

      • Narf
        Narf
        February 12, 2016 at 7:46 pm | #

        I’m pretty sure that’s one of those “case-by-case basis” things.

        Like, I’m a cisgender male, but when I was younger, one of my best friends since childhood came out to me as transgender before beginning her transition. Starting then, with the exception of a few accidental slips of the tongue, I called her by her new name and used female pronouns when referring to her, but otherwise, everything else just felt like being with my friend. From that point on, she changed a lot. Really, it was like the identity she wanted was slowly becoming hers, and it was inspiring to watch.

        However – and I want to stress that this is my perspective, not hers (I don’t actually know how she feels about this today) – this new identity was so different (and not because of the clothes, hair, makeup or new name, either) that it felt like knowing two individuals, one male and one female. I had memories of this male individual with a particular name, whom I called by that name in those memories, so I felt it made sense to ME to use the name I knew back then when I was referring to things that happened back then.

        Like I said, I don’t know how she feels about this today – we don’t speak anymore – but I know that mentions of her life before her transition were at least in the first few years following it very uncomfortable for her. She’d laugh nervously or make a joke and quickly change the subject.

        I guess I’d have to say that I feel there’s merit in the idea of using the name of the person the world knew at the time in the same way there’s merit in the idea of using the name of person that I knew at that time, because it fits my memories. I’d also have to say that I don’t presume to know how this kind of perception would feel for a trans* person, and that my first priority would be to respecting someone’s personal wishes on the matter.

      • thejeff
        thejeff
        February 12, 2016 at 9:25 pm | #

        I’ve been told, and told pretty strongly at that, that it’s offensive to dead name anyone, even when referring to before they were out. Consider that in many cases they thought of themselves that way long before they transitioned or were even open to anyone else about it.
        Obviously people may differ and you should reflect someone’s wishes once you know them.
        Joyce’s sister is Jocelyne, she’s just pretending to be Joshua. That she’s not actually out yet makes it more complicated as it’s not safe to refer to her correctly. Even if you know, you wouldn’t want to risk outing her. Of course, that’s in world. Out of world, it’s Jocelyne. A strong hint that this is preferred is that as soon as the secret was revealed to us, Willis changed all the tags to refer to Jocelyne. Even those before we knew, when she was posing as Joshua.

      • 3-I
        3-I
        February 13, 2016 at 1:20 am | #

        Everything thejeff said. But in addition, it seems like halfway through your comment, you decided you already knew the answer. So speaking as a trans person… No. When someone tells you they are trans and gives you their new name and pronouns, there is NEVER any reason to look at their accomplishments- the ones made by the person still standing right there, asking you to use the right name for them- and attribute them to a dead name and incorrect gender.

        I don’t even care if Caitlyn Jenner says otherwise. She’s said a LOT of transphobic shit. Also, homophobic and racist shit. Rule of thumb: When someone comes out as trans, they are not becoming a different person, and all their achievements are still THEIR achievements. So you use their new name and pronouns.

  69. Marie
    Marie
    February 12, 2016 at 4:43 pm | #

    Maybe Snoop saw the opportunity and ate Carol

  70. Sock_v
    Sock_v
    February 12, 2016 at 4:48 pm | #

    Just hoping there’s not an intervention waiting in the living room for Becks.

    • Marie
      Marie
      February 12, 2016 at 5:36 pm | #

      I’m at the point where I could believe or hope Hank would let her leave.

      But then it might turn into an ‘all three of you’ intervention.

    • hof1991
      hof1991
      February 12, 2016 at 8:05 pm | #

      From the previews, it looks like a sustained intervention with Carol calling in all her sons to help “adjust” Joyce and bring her back to Christ. That won’t go the way she thinks it will.

      • Lord Stoneheart
        Lord Stoneheart
        February 12, 2016 at 10:15 pm | #

        Maybe they’re just visiting home because it was possible and they want to see their little sister again? (Holds onto false hope)

    • Luzahn
      Luzahn
      February 12, 2016 at 8:33 pm | #

      Aw man, I really hope so. We know they’re not gonna break either of these two, so that just mean we get to see them be awesome and defy the jerks.

  71. trlkly
    trlkly
    February 12, 2016 at 11:48 pm | #

    Wait. Is the title text about the old comic? (I’d assumed it was an autobiographical thing). Is Willis breaking his own rules. Naughty, naughty.

    • trlkly
      trlkly
      February 12, 2016 at 11:49 pm | #

      (In case you’re wondering, while the older comics look good, I decided to stop reading them as my brain was blending them together and getting me confused. I’m still not sure whether certain things happened in one comic or the other.)

    • showler
      showler
      February 13, 2016 at 12:02 am | #

      The alt-text? That’s a reference to Willis’ childhood home and pet.

  72. 2K
    2K
    February 13, 2016 at 8:02 am | #

    ains! It´s cute!

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