Teen Titans!
I remember as a kid, my babysitter was real into that show and she turned my on to it. I don’t think I watched it regularly (I may have been to young to figure out how to use a channel guide), but I recall she showed me this flash-2D fighter game Cartoon Network (I assume) put up to play online for free. I loved it, even if I didn’t get all the characters. Later when I got hospitalized with a really really bad rare version of strep, I recall binge watching Teen Titans on the TV they had in the room. I felt terrible but was having a great time with that show through the haze of illness. I was not informed how close to actually dying I was.
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Well, if *anybody* is Beast Boy, it’s got to be Walky! (It’s Walky!)
Cholma
Ah, it seems that if I wait until after the server is being hammered (it is currently 90+ minutes after comic posted) then I can post without getting the “timeout/cannot find that page” error.
And so now, I can see the Edit button! (name & email still weren’t saved though)
Edit: Oh, Bee Tee Dubs, David: whatever change you made to the links code worked– I can now see previously clicked links again. Thanks!
When I was in high school in the 90’s,kids used Booya! fairly often. The first time I remember hearing it in media was Disney’s The Emperor’s New Groove
The reporter who just so happens to be covering the local bowling tournament for the school paper will see it and take a photo.
Daisy will immediately mark that as front page news.
The next morning, Sal will awkwardly try to tell Danny that she has to break up with him when Dorothy comes in the room and drags Sal away after telling Danny Sal is with them now.
Joyce will poke her head in and start to laugh, because, for some reason, she feels someone has ro, but then the laughter will trail off when she realizes Joe is staring at her expectantly (to which she’ll promise ro talk to him another time).
Then, as Sal is trying to figure out why she should care about the picture in the paper, they’ll all three enter her room where they’ll find Marcie standing in the dark crying, signing to Malaya that God isn’t real.
I prefer the latter. It sounds like the comic got its advertisment sloganmixed up with a barbie doll’s. This generates a noncongruenty which I find hillarious…. and I have once again overexplained and murdered someone’s joke again, haven’t I?
It’s more efficient and if you don’t have a banger idea for a scene where they ask Sal to bowl with them there’s not much value in overelaborating. It’s a pretty reasonable choice I think
Remind the audience that this plotline is still happening, which would be much less relevant on a binge read anyways.
“hey Sal, me and the girl I cheated on your brother with are going to go bowling with the Front Desk girl who’s name escapes me right now to absolve our guilt over kissing at a protest. Are you game?”
I’ve said this before but I think the expectation that Sal should be really invested in her brother’s love life is a bit unreasonable. What is she supposed to do? Stop being friends with Joyce and Dorothy in solidarity with Walky even though he never expressed wanting that? They are all adults-ish and capable of making their own decisions and Sal has the right to friendship with Joyce and Dorothy outside of their relationship to her brother’s love life. It’s also really not her business until any of them decide to involve her.
anonymsly
Yeah, it’s totally normal and solid loving sibling behavior, to tell your twin brother to stop whining, grow a pair, and find a different chick immediately after the girl his girlfriend cheated on him with broke up with him for her and laughed in his face. And it’s likewise super normal to go hang out for fun times with both the ex-girlfriend and the girl who cheated with her and took obvious loud joy in his pain.
This is totally normal affectionate sibling behavior and not cold or dickish at all.
Sirksome
You do know Walky was dating and is once again trying to date the girl that stabbed his sister in the hand and stalked and antagonized her for weeks if not months right? They’ve pretty well established it’s okay to have relationships outside of the personal baggage each other has with people. Sal was also arguably friends with both of them before and after Walky’s first run with Dorothy. What exactly do we expect here?
Yotomoe
Didn’t Walky literally break up for her BECAUSE of that? Or at least have a shaky relationship with her because of that drama and literally only reconciled when Sal herself showed up to say “bro, I don’t care, fuck whoever you want”
Sirksome
@Yotomoe-That’s my point entirely. Sal didn’t ask Walky to hold some sort of moral stand on her behalf without any of her input and got actively frustrated when he tried to force that. It also didn’t really stop him. Neither of them expect the other to end or not pursue relationships for the other. This desire for Sal of all people to stop associating with Joyce and Dorothy or perhaps chastise them for how they’ve treated Walky feels more born from a dissatisfaction that Joyce and Dorothy have not been punished enough for their behavior than an actual reasonable expectation of Sal.
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I get it in some ways. I really want this friend group to burn from the fiery backlash of their interpersonal bullshit. But I think it’s kind of just out of character for Sal to be the one towing a line over something as low stakes as Walky and Joe’s love life.
I think it’s been long enough that we all have to acknowledge that this is just what the vibes after the kiss is gonna be. I don’t think that big moment is coming from the boys.
Unrelated but it’s funny Sal definitely remembers Asma’s name because most people don’t and it fits her image of going against the grain.
Asma should have realized she lives in a comic universe and this sort of hijink will happen all the time if she isn’t specific about who she is referring to
I think the only thing that really surprised me about this strip is that Sal actually knows Asma’s name. Most of the characters in their residence hall didn’t know her name until pretty recently.
I still don’t understand why Asma even associated Alice with Joyce and Dorothy. She never saw them together, Alice hasn’t even interacted with Dorothy and she lives in another building. The only opportunity she had was when Raidah was complaining about the newspaper, but Alice did say “I don’t know ANY of these people”.
On the other hand, Asma, who is the front desk girl of the building Joyce and Dorothy live, SHOULD know that they are friends with Sal, whom she also should recognize.
Guess that Asma just doomed herself with her wishful-thinking, but that’s on her.
I don’t know if she would necessarily know that Sal is good friends with Joyce and Dorothy. They walk together, sure, but they all meet up in front of the building. Whereas Alice was absolutely gossiping as if she knew them very well.
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Yeah, she did say she didn’t know any of those people, but that’s an easy thing to either miss or misinterpret, especially if you’re basically listening in on a stranger you’re enamored with and start off assuming that they’re good friends. Whereas I’m not sure that it would ever occur to Asma that Sal is friends with Dorothy and Joyce. The closest they ever *really* get is in walking to class, which they meet outside the building.
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The real reason why this is so awkward, though, is because the Asma storyline is one that was inserted into the buffer when Willis realized the only named Muslim characters they had were one villain and two background characters, and so they had to create a plausible reason for Asma to think that Alice was friends with Joyce, and then a plausible reason for Joyce and Dorothy to want to befriend Asma. That’s why the whole meet-cute setup is so awkward, with Raidah calling Joyce a “hussy” and Alice infodumping that she’s gossiping about people she doesn’t know, and Asma acting so thirsty. Trying to do a lot in a single strip with just ultra-side characters.
Asma’s excitement over that strike is pretty adorable.
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I also enjoy Joyce’s tiny “I assume” after describing Sal’s hair as extremely brushable. It’s true that she doesn’t have first-hand experience!
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And yeah, I found this gag fun and don’t think it in any way took too long to come to fruition. I also think it does in fact make sense for Asma to think Joyce knew Alice, but also that it makes sense for Joyce and Dorothy to think first and foremost of Sal when asked if they can get “that friend with the boots and the hair” to show up. Frankly, it Asma had explicitly asked after their hot friend, I’m sure Sal would’ve been #1 in Joyce’s mind, though then it probably would have occurred to them to inform Asma that Sal has a boyfriend.
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I also don’t think it’s especially weird that Sal showed up — for one thing, we don’t know why yet, so it could be for any number of reasons, including the opportunity to covertly give Dorothy an earful on Walky’s behalf. So, too soon to say either way.
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(But also, it really seems like only Jennifer and Amber currently have any idea that Walky’s at all upset about the breakup or the cheating, and I’m not sure I see Sal as the type to go to bat for Joe, someone she doesn’t know very well? Sal’s fiercely loyal, but she also tries to keep the number of people in her inner circle kind of small, and as we’ve seen with Danny, repeatedly, is also a bit reluctant to directly own up to caring about other people. I think only more so for Walky specifically, tho she definitely does love him.)
74 thoughts on “Booyah”
Doctor_Who
I choose to interpret the “Booyah!” as evidence that Asma is a Teen Titans fan, and should make friends with Lucy.
TrueSurvivor
Teen Titans!
I remember as a kid, my babysitter was real into that show and she turned my on to it. I don’t think I watched it regularly (I may have been to young to figure out how to use a channel guide), but I recall she showed me this flash-2D fighter game Cartoon Network (I assume) put up to play online for free. I loved it, even if I didn’t get all the characters. Later when I got hospitalized with a really really bad rare version of strep, I recall binge watching Teen Titans on the TV they had in the room. I felt terrible but was having a great time with that show through the haze of illness. I was not informed how close to actually dying I was.
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clif
This version of the website is new and still has problems. I expect they will slowly get solved.
Gin
We got Lucy as Starfire, Asma as Cyborg, if we get three more we can get a full squad.
Cholma
Well, if *anybody* is Beast Boy, it’s got to be Walky! (It’s Walky!)
Cholma
Ah, it seems that if I wait until after the server is being hammered (it is currently 90+ minutes after comic posted) then I can post without getting the “timeout/cannot find that page” error.
And so now, I can see the Edit button! (name & email still weren’t saved though)
Edit: Oh, Bee Tee Dubs, David: whatever change you made to the links code worked– I can now see previously clicked links again. Thanks!
Tessea
When I was in high school in the 90’s,kids used Booya! fairly often. The first time I remember hearing it in media was Disney’s The Emperor’s New Groove
IntangibleMatter
New last panel which works well when tacked on to any strip, along with “TAKING OFF PANTS NOW”
Jon
It also works as the panel following “TAKING OFF PANTS NOW”.
clif
Internets all around.
drs
Or the panel preceding “TAKING OFF PANTS NOW”
Sirksome
Don’t trust Sal.
Bogeywoman
Called it
Bogeywoman
https://www.reddit.com/r/dumbingofage/comments/1p4osbk/asma_getting_ready_for_her_date_doodles/
Jon
It also works as the panel following “TAKING OFF PANTS NOW”.
Thag Simmons
Everyone called it
Zero
That was less foreshadowing and more just text.
Taffy
I can’t believe this. Sal is going to cheat on Danny with Asma??? That’s the canon direction this story is going in? Oh no!
Reaver
No, no no, she’s going to cheat on Danny with Dorothy and Joyce
Astariel
That would be hilarious.
Cbwroses
She’ll kiss Joyce and Dorothy in a triple kiss.
The reporter who just so happens to be covering the local bowling tournament for the school paper will see it and take a photo.
Daisy will immediately mark that as front page news.
The next morning, Sal will awkwardly try to tell Danny that she has to break up with him when Dorothy comes in the room and drags Sal away after telling Danny Sal is with them now.
Joyce will poke her head in and start to laugh, because, for some reason, she feels someone has ro, but then the laughter will trail off when she realizes Joe is staring at her expectantly (to which she’ll promise ro talk to him another time).
Then, as Sal is trying to figure out why she should care about the picture in the paper, they’ll all three enter her room where they’ll find Marcie standing in the dark crying, signing to Malaya that God isn’t real.
shadowcell
Dumbing of Age Book 16 – All of This Has Been a Mistake
alternatively, Dumbing of Age Book 16 – With the Extremely Brushable Hair!
Steamweed
(I assume.)
TrueSurvivor
I prefer the latter. It sounds like the comic got its advertisment sloganmixed up with a barbie doll’s. This generates a noncongruenty which I find hillarious…. and I have once again overexplained and murdered someone’s joke again, haven’t I?
DiDi
Welp, nice to see this wasn’t dragged out any more than necessary.
Dot
Yeah there was really no point in having this be ambiguous at all
Thag Simmons
It’s more efficient and if you don’t have a banger idea for a scene where they ask Sal to bowl with them there’s not much value in overelaborating. It’s a pretty reasonable choice I think
Remind the audience that this plotline is still happening, which would be much less relevant on a binge read anyways.
Yotomoe
No, that wasn’t a mistake. You were supposed to knock down all of the pins.
RassilonTDavros
Interesting detail that Sal, despite seemingly never learning most people’s names, actually does know Asma’s.
Yotomoe
“hey Sal, me and the girl I cheated on your brother with are going to go bowling with the Front Desk girl who’s name escapes me right now to absolve our guilt over kissing at a protest. Are you game?”
Taffy
Sal, who could be having awesome sex with Danny right now: “Sure, that’s a reasonable thing to ask.”
Yotomoe
“Ah don’t even like bowling that much, but I’ll be there.”
NullSet
No its cringe sex with Danny ( which she loves)
Taffy
How about it’s the thing I fucking said and you grow the fuck up and get the anti-cringe surgery like you told our daughter you would?
KtBear
Wait, when did Taffy and Nullset get married? Or am I completely misinterpreting what Taffy said?
yak
Yeah it really is weird how Sal did any of this
Thag Simmons
Sometimes you’re curious about whatever nonsense your trainwreck nerd [s]friends[/s] acquaintances are trying to involve you in.
Thag Simmons
Are the tags borked or did I just forget the right
formattingclif
Don’t trust square brackets.
Sirksome
I’ve said this before but I think the expectation that Sal should be really invested in her brother’s love life is a bit unreasonable. What is she supposed to do? Stop being friends with Joyce and Dorothy in solidarity with Walky even though he never expressed wanting that? They are all adults-ish and capable of making their own decisions and Sal has the right to friendship with Joyce and Dorothy outside of their relationship to her brother’s love life. It’s also really not her business until any of them decide to involve her.
anonymsly
Yeah, it’s totally normal and solid loving sibling behavior, to tell your twin brother to stop whining, grow a pair, and find a different chick immediately after the girl his girlfriend cheated on him with broke up with him for her and laughed in his face. And it’s likewise super normal to go hang out for fun times with both the ex-girlfriend and the girl who cheated with her and took obvious loud joy in his pain.
This is totally normal affectionate sibling behavior and not cold or dickish at all.
Sirksome
You do know Walky was dating and is once again trying to date the girl that stabbed his sister in the hand and stalked and antagonized her for weeks if not months right? They’ve pretty well established it’s okay to have relationships outside of the personal baggage each other has with people. Sal was also arguably friends with both of them before and after Walky’s first run with Dorothy. What exactly do we expect here?
Yotomoe
Didn’t Walky literally break up for her BECAUSE of that? Or at least have a shaky relationship with her because of that drama and literally only reconciled when Sal herself showed up to say “bro, I don’t care, fuck whoever you want”
Sirksome
@Yotomoe-That’s my point entirely. Sal didn’t ask Walky to hold some sort of moral stand on her behalf without any of her input and got actively frustrated when he tried to force that. It also didn’t really stop him. Neither of them expect the other to end or not pursue relationships for the other. This desire for Sal of all people to stop associating with Joyce and Dorothy or perhaps chastise them for how they’ve treated Walky feels more born from a dissatisfaction that Joyce and Dorothy have not been punished enough for their behavior than an actual reasonable expectation of Sal.
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I get it in some ways. I really want this friend group to burn from the fiery backlash of their interpersonal bullshit. But I think it’s kind of just out of character for Sal to be the one towing a line over something as low stakes as Walky and Joe’s love life.
Kyulen
It genuinely bothers me how little Sal seems to care about how the bad behavior of Dorothy and Joyce recently has hurt her brother Walky.
Kyulen
The edit function doesn’t seem to be working and it keeps sending me to “Page Not Found” whenever I post a comment right now, by the way.
Scruffy looking nerfherder
I think it’s been long enough that we all have to acknowledge that this is just what the vibes after the kiss is gonna be. I don’t think that big moment is coming from the boys.
Unrelated but it’s funny Sal definitely remembers Asma’s name because most people don’t and it fits her image of going against the grain.
yak
Asma should have realized she lives in a comic universe and this sort of hijink will happen all the time if she isn’t specific about who she is referring to
Lensi
So who did she expect?
Taffy
A L I C E
tim gueguen
Alice, probably.
Ty34er
I’m trying to figure out who it was supposed to be and I really got nothin here.
Axel
iirc Malaya
Taffy
Go back through Asma’s tag, you’ll find it.
Yotomoe
Alice
NullSet
Alice
Steamweed
And that’s 2 strikes for Asma. First with the pins, and second…welp.
Kyulen
I think the only thing that really surprised me about this strip is that Sal actually knows Asma’s name. Most of the characters in their residence hall didn’t know her name until pretty recently.
Taffy
And yet, Asma is asking who Sal is. The shoe is on the other foot, for once.
darkoneko
…too blunt, Asma
darkoneko
wait I can’t edit anymore ? oh well.
That’s quite a nice expression in panel 2
Cameron Stone
Never have truer words ever been spoken.
Taffy
It makes a lot of sense that you would say this.
Giguioto
I still don’t understand why Asma even associated Alice with Joyce and Dorothy. She never saw them together, Alice hasn’t even interacted with Dorothy and she lives in another building. The only opportunity she had was when Raidah was complaining about the newspaper, but Alice did say “I don’t know ANY of these people”.
On the other hand, Asma, who is the front desk girl of the building Joyce and Dorothy live, SHOULD know that they are friends with Sal, whom she also should recognize.
Guess that Asma just doomed herself with her wishful-thinking, but that’s on her.
Sirksome
You’re right. This is actually a pretty funny joke retroactively.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic/whatshername/
BorkBorkBork
I don’t know if she would necessarily know that Sal is good friends with Joyce and Dorothy. They walk together, sure, but they all meet up in front of the building. Whereas Alice was absolutely gossiping as if she knew them very well.
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Yeah, she did say she didn’t know any of those people, but that’s an easy thing to either miss or misinterpret, especially if you’re basically listening in on a stranger you’re enamored with and start off assuming that they’re good friends. Whereas I’m not sure that it would ever occur to Asma that Sal is friends with Dorothy and Joyce. The closest they ever *really* get is in walking to class, which they meet outside the building.
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The real reason why this is so awkward, though, is because the Asma storyline is one that was inserted into the buffer when Willis realized the only named Muslim characters they had were one villain and two background characters, and so they had to create a plausible reason for Asma to think that Alice was friends with Joyce, and then a plausible reason for Joyce and Dorothy to want to befriend Asma. That’s why the whole meet-cute setup is so awkward, with Raidah calling Joyce a “hussy” and Alice infodumping that she’s gossiping about people she doesn’t know, and Asma acting so thirsty. Trying to do a lot in a single strip with just ultra-side characters.
Lingo
Everyone but me! lol
Shepsquared
So Danny stormed off to nowhere? Remember when he was trying to get Joe to express his vulnerabilities and would’ve continued that conversation?
Lanz
[runs in from off screen]
THE ALL IS LOST MOMENT
Adept
That was a long walk to an obvious punch line. I’m not really seeing the payoff.
Li
Asma’s excitement over that strike is pretty adorable.
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I also enjoy Joyce’s tiny “I assume” after describing Sal’s hair as extremely brushable. It’s true that she doesn’t have first-hand experience!
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And yeah, I found this gag fun and don’t think it in any way took too long to come to fruition. I also think it does in fact make sense for Asma to think Joyce knew Alice, but also that it makes sense for Joyce and Dorothy to think first and foremost of Sal when asked if they can get “that friend with the boots and the hair” to show up. Frankly, it Asma had explicitly asked after their hot friend, I’m sure Sal would’ve been #1 in Joyce’s mind, though then it probably would have occurred to them to inform Asma that Sal has a boyfriend.
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I also don’t think it’s especially weird that Sal showed up — for one thing, we don’t know why yet, so it could be for any number of reasons, including the opportunity to covertly give Dorothy an earful on Walky’s behalf. So, too soon to say either way.
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(But also, it really seems like only Jennifer and Amber currently have any idea that Walky’s at all upset about the breakup or the cheating, and I’m not sure I see Sal as the type to go to bat for Joe, someone she doesn’t know very well? Sal’s fiercely loyal, but she also tries to keep the number of people in her inner circle kind of small, and as we’ve seen with Danny, repeatedly, is also a bit reluctant to directly own up to caring about other people. I think only more so for Walky specifically, tho she definitely does love him.)
Astariel