NEW DUMBING OF AGE BOOK 2 KICKSTARTER STRETCH GOALS
$15K DOA BOOK 2 <—- funded
$20K SATURDAY UPDATES UNLOCKED <—-funded, starting immediately
$27K ROOMIES! BOOK 2 in black and white <—-funded
$32K ROOMIES! BOOK 2 with color Sundays <—-funded
$42K SUNDAY UPDATES UNLOCKED
$75K will for-reals draw a multi-page uncensored sexytimes scene involving a canon couple of my choosing, for backers only*
*drawn art doesn’t seem to count against Kickstarter’s “no porn” thing (remember Smut Peddler?), just live-action people. Plus it’s just a stretch goal and not the project itself, so.
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OH NO I LIKE THINGS AM I GAY
(just the two things i could crawl inside and be warm forever in)
It’s okay Joyce, we all want to do that.
Joyce is so easily manipulated.
I personally like how Mike is just drifting past in the background, scowling, feeding off Joyce’s panic and negative emotions 😀
(that must be the reason he grows from shorter-than-Walky in panel 1 to much-taller-than-Walky in panel 5)
The room is at an incline. It’s auditorium seating.
So it’s even uphill inside!
… I still maintain that Mike is feeding off Joyce’s panic and negative emotion.
Led: Or, you know, perspective. He is further back from our viewpoint in the first panel and closer to our viewpoint in the last.
Actually, now that I had to look back at the last panel, I think Mike is using Walky as dummy/puppet and having him say ‘Don’t flatter yourself’.
How does one treat the Gay Panics?
With the Water Vapors.
no. water sports and spandex.
Motor boating?
Motorboating while in a motorboat?
While on Sal’s motorcycle.
These are all surprisingly good answers. 😀
Making out with Billie.
If you are gay, you will enjoy it. If you aren’t, you will still enjoy it because it’s Billie.
I am in favor of this solution! Although I ship Billie and Ruthless.
So, Billie is an asari?
That. Explains. Everything.
And suddenly everything makes sense.
Hope she’s not an Ardat-Yakshi.
Damn, Aizat, where is the +1/Like button?!
Gay, Bi, Trans, Asexual, DON’T matter
Everyone is Billiesexual.
Except Sal. If she was then her little spat with Billie in IW would have been far, far cooler.
Porn. And giant robots and violence but that’s just me.
It’s kind of like a Pon Farr. You can give in to it or you can just meditate and push through. Or I suppose you can fight to the death, but I’m pretty sure that just ends in giving in to it, anyway.
It’s a little hard, you gotta spend a while on the grind, but eventually you’ll cum around.
I saw what you did there.
You rub the area with soothing Been-Gay.
And wash it down with Schmitts Gay.
I don’t know. Let’s see what the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has to say about it.
The Gay Panic is best treated with bengay.
If gay people are normal that means normal people are gay!
Too bad I’m weird. Sorry Fellas!
I got multiple personalities.
I got personality multiples.
One is lost, another is looking for it,
Should it return before it gets back
ask it to wait.
Lucky for me, most of mine are quite stable.
Mine on the other hand…….well, let’s just say that unstable is an understatement.
I’ve got multiple personalities, but all of them are just a bunch of imatators trying to act like me so it even’s out.
I have personality multipliers, except they’re all x0.
So all your other shadies are just imitating?
My mother’s a fish. Man, I hope that someone gets this.
Got it. Love it.
She likes fish sticks?
Gay people are normal. Joyce is normal. Therefore Joyce is gay?
Do I have to get all logic on you?
While “Gay People” is a subset of “Normal People”, and “Joyce” is an element of “Normal People”, “Normal People” is not a subset of “Gay People”, and so it’s not necessary that “Joyce” by an element of “Gay People” (though it doesn’t preclude it).
That’s the joke, of course.
Maybe. She’s burying herself deeper, that’s for sure.
Also, everyone gay is Joyce.
I hope you aren’t majoring in Statistics. By your logic, if tigers are cats then all cats are tigers.
this is logic, not statistics. The associated major is philosophy (logic is the one exception to the usual perception of philosophy, and everyone should take a logic elective if they can. It helps avoid so many mistakes)
Is set theory a subset or superset of logic or statistics?
She realized that gay people are normal people…
WIUDNEOIYFNPDIOQISWMIOEFNBOUBHLFDINEOUY$DHIWNSEYDS PROGRESS!!!!
DRAMA BUTTON!
I KNOW!
Hopefully now she’ll be able to talk with Ethan and not try to make him straight!
DOUBTFUL!
But if she doesn’t, then she can’t hump him
Humping is always first priority.
What’s a ‘normal person’ to Joyce?
Ethan?
I’m guessing her home schooling group.
Which, of course, totally represents an accurate cross-section of all people.
He meant, don’t talk like you’re completely normal, you neurotic!
Ah, Walky, nice as always.
It’s totally going to be a Galasso/Pamela story, isn’t it?
Will Galasso be as delightfully oblivious about sex and gender in Dumbing of Age?
Oh god now I want Galasso to ask Joyce to sire an heir with Conquest and Joyce starts freaking out.
What? She’s just complimenting Sal’s appearance.
If you complement someone, you obviousely want to intertwine orifices.
If that’s true, I’ll be in a relationship with about 75% of people in my life.
Lucky you. I have enough trouble maintaining a relationship with one person.
Nah! Joyce just forgot to add the “NO HOMO” disclaimer at the end of her statement.
Walky should have said “Pause”.
All of the homo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Wx8w2EeKA
ALL OF IT!
I think The Gay Panic is a Scissor Sisters album.
Oh, there’s Billie.
Still wondering what’s up with her Twits.
Billie has pregnant goldfish? 😛
Twits? Is that what they call it these days?
It’s what I call them. If the thing is a Twitter, what it produces must be Twits. Rumors of other names for them are just marketing-speak.
What’s a Twittest then?
Danny.
Twin tits?
Twittledee and Twittledum? Is that what she calls them?
Oh hey, there’s Billie.
And no, Joyce, you are not a normal people. You are a neurotic people.
(Also erotic, but that’s neither here nor there)
Neurotic isn’t normal?
…uh oh.
Nue-erotic. She’s crazy and sexy. Like Harley Quinn.
New Erotic: It’s New and Erotic! Coming to a store never.
Sadly, New Erotic requires us to retcon the previous 70+ years of Erotic out of existence. But I’m sure the fans of Erotic will enjoy it anyway!
(Okay, I have to admit that was pretty weak.)
A jab at the New 52?
Boob 52
The side that carpet boobs the enemy first, wins.
As long as you root out the 70s, 80s, and 90s I don’t mind losing the 60s.
I think Neo Erotic works better. Like Neo Romantic or Neo… Geo?
Or Neo Tokyo.
HMMMMMMMMMMM…
and so joyce and ethans relationship became that of mutual beards
That. ^
Billie! Yay!
Les yay!
Just so we make this clear Willis:
For teh sake of the kickstarter stretch goal Dotty/Joyce is canon right?
If they aren’t openly dating or if they haven’t banged, they aren’t canon for the purposes of this.
Does kissing count? (Aka is Ruth/Billie – or for that matter Daisy/Billie – canon for the stretch goal?)
Only if they’re dating or they’ve banged.
Canon from DOA or Canon from the Walkyverse?
In honor of this week’s strip, make it Sal and Jason. I want to see which is kinkier in the moment: her hair or her sexuality! Win-win!
They are a possibility.
[reagan]Either they’re canon or they’ve banged![/reagan]
Just embrace it Joyce
Embrace Sal’s hair, you mean?
I feel like that would physically hurt.
Only if she forgets to come out for air.
Sal’s hair, when unruly, would be difficult to stuff in a helmet, or cause a lot of drag on the motorcycle. Explain this to Joyce, and she’ll forget her gay panic.
That is very true I ride a vespa and if I go a long time straightening my hair my home it is extra tight. And straight hair is easier to deal with after I take the helmet off.
This may be a weird place to ask this, but I don’t have a tumblr (or what have you) to ask you elsewhere. If I pledged more than the 31 dollar amount on the kickstarter, will I get a hard copy of Roomies! book 2? I’ll pledge more money if I need to, I would really like to have the hard copy. I have never backed a Kickstarter before. I don’t know these things.
You get the actual Roomies! Book 2 book if you pledge at one of the levels on the right hand side which includes it. The lowest is at $21, which includes shipping within the United States. International shipping is $17 extra.
Thank you! That’s really good to hear (read?).
Stay tuned for a quick comic from yours truly on recent events.
done
Give in, Joyce. Give in to the Billie.
ALL HAIL QUEEN BILLIE!
With boobs, all things are possible.
(Especially Billie’s.)
Joyce just cannot resist the chest puppies.
The power of boobs compels her.
Very nice. Your artwork is also.
Gay people are nomal people.
WHAAAAAAAAAAAT? I would have never guessed!
Everyone’s normal in one way or another. Everyone’s abnormal in one way or another. This kind of thing would stop being a big deal if people in general would learn to just mind their own goddamn business.
Well SMB 2 did feature arguably the first trans* character in video games (Birdo)
Interesting fact (sorry – “interesting” fact, actually), Birdo was actually in Doki Doki Panic – unlike the player characters, the enemies weren’t reskinned for SMB2. So even though it was until the NA manual for SMB2 mentioned ‘thinks he’s a girl,’ Doki Doki Panic sound have the honor of having the first trans character.
Maybe SMB2 gets credit for the first OPENLY trans character? Maybe I’m putting way too much thought into this…?
She is breaking again, it’s okay she can be rebuild 😛
We can rebuild her. We have the technology.
Flirtier, Fundier. Busti-oh…we’re not addin-….no no I get it. y-yeah trying to apeal to a more wide demographic. Y-yeah. Alright.
uh….Biblier!!!
Biblier? Dangerously close to Belieber, and that, my friend is idolatry.
Rebuilt of Joycegelion: You can (not) be gay.
Danny is Shinji then.
There’s an argument, who’s manlier; Shinji or Danny?
Let’s see: Original Shinji, whiny as all hell, Rebuild Shinji: Whiny but more or less a normal person in a world full of assholes, SRW Shinji: Manly enough.
Bright Slaps will do that to ya.
*knowing nod*
Shinji. Not by much, but still …
And Amazi-Girl is Rei, while Amber is Asuka.
…and Billie is Mari.
Thank goodness that it’s the Rebuild Asuka, not “the failed attempt of Tetsuya Tsurugi” Asuka.
Ok guys lets get down to it:
Shinji: Danny
Asuka: Ruth
Rei: Dina
Mari: Billie
Kaworu: Joe
Misato: Amber
Ritsuko: Dorothy
Gendo: Mike
Fuyutsuki: Ethan
Kaji: Jacob
Maya, Makoto & Shigeru: Sarah, Walky and Jason
Yui: Joyce
EVA Unit 01
So, Dina is a clone of Joyce, who gave birth to Danny, who is also Mike’s son. Danny is also under the care of Amber, who had a thing with Jacob, who is being crushed on by Ruth. Dorothy is Amber’s old friend from college and is having sex with Mike and is being crushed on by Sarah. Amber is in turn being crushed on by Walky. Joe is totally fixated on Danny and Jason doesn’t give a fuck about anyone or anything except music. Ethan was Joyce’s old college professor, and is Mike’s accomplice. And nobody is 100% sure what Billie’s deal is, but she clearly has her own agenda.
Whew.
Walky’s always willing to puncture delusions, huh? 😛
And the visual amazingness of those curls aside (because caring for them would be triple HELL at that length), gotta admit, Sal is not someone I would have thought had the interest or patience to spend 3-4 hours at a stretch, every week? every couple days? ‘murdering her curls’. If it was some kind of long-term ‘solution’ then that’s different, but doing it manually? Damn, that is some dedication/obsession.
Well….she may have a seeming devil may care attitude, but, c’mon, she obviously didn’t arrive at that look by accident. Cultivating that kinda personality takes time, brotha.
C’mon, Joyce x Sal’s Motorcycle!
Finally, we’ll be able to see her put those theme songs she wrote to use!
I just realized that I CAN SEE SEX IN EVERYTHING OH GOD WHY.
Because you are wearing a condom hat!
It’s like glasses of truth, except it’s a hat.
And can be used to study human anatomy! 😀
Because you’re in college.
Shit, I realized that when I was twelve.
Maybe I’ll refine this tommorow but probably not!
That’s not true. THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE!
digged
Magnificent.
I really wanna go over this with color if you don’t
Do it you fool.
YAY!
okay, I finally finished, so, click here to see the final product
okay, I backed, AND NOW WE HAVE TO FIND A $45,000 BENEFACTOR
Not that rich, but I did just kick us over the $32K mark! Woo-hoo!
hot dang
Walky surprizes me when he downs another person. He was pretty much laid back, live and let live I thought. But then, he does know Joyce…
Joyce is not normal. But who is?
DoA-Walky seems to be slightly more of a jerk than Walkyverse-Walky.
Is DoA the “Ultimate Walkyverse” then?
He definitely is a bit more jerkier, but in the Walky-verse he was in a vastly different place. In DoA, he’s done well in school, was able to go to college, and, most importantly, actually GOT the girl. In Walkyverse, at this point he was an aimless high school grad and lab assistant/glorified janitor who was completely overshadowed by his superpowered brother and politically powerful mother. It’s no wonder he has more confidence in this universe, and convince at 18 often comes out as jerkiness.
This is why I love DoA so much. I can’t imagine reading it without the knowledge of the Walkyverse story lines. With that knowledge, it’s this amazing reconstruction and subversion of years and years of character development over four different strips! Otherwise it’s just a college dramedy gag strip. A great gag strip, mind you, but so much more when you Willis is able to fuck with these characters that were so carefully constructed before and turn them into something radically different and yet still just as good.
Er…at this point I’ll end the fawning Willis-fanboy rant. (one last bit of butt kissing – Willis is just about the first cartoonist since Bill Watterson that has made me really consider a four panel comic strips as a legititmate medium for art and literature.)
Walkyverse Walky could be a massive jerk at times, but the massive emotional trauma, especially in regards to Joyce, and his coping devices tended to keep that in check.
Guys, I’m sort of worried here. Does anyone think Joyce might have…sexuality issues?
Only if you think the sky is blue, death is inevitable, and America is still in debt.
Ha! Very funny, wise guy. Next thing you’ll tell me the sun is bright.
Ladies, would you hope over the fence for Billie?
Is Billie really supposed to be that attractive? I mean, I’m gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous, but she strikes me as kinda…middling In the looks department.
Or is it an issue of her attitude makes her sexy? Cause I behind that. Hell, throw a dong on her, and let’s talk!
No, it’s mostly the bod. Her attitude is pretty poor most of the time. She has her moments, but so far I’d do her just for the bod.
Monkeys on nitrous. Heh. I see what you did there ^^
As Willis himself once said, “Bille is very curvy in many places”
Yes. If I had to, I would become straight to avoid dating her. 😛
“Those curls are fantastic!”
Relax, Joyce. You’re not a lesbian. You’re a gay man in a female body.
We say FABULOUS, not FANTASTIC.
Yes, that’s Eccleston.
Joyce complimenting Sal’s hair isn’t new, although apparently she likes it whether it’s curled or straight. Also, Willis’ background characters always look miserable about the fact that they don’t get to be part of the story.
Ah, the Gay Panic. An important event America’s history, right before the Gay Nineties, (AKA the resolution of the Gay Panic).
Anyone else getting the Amy Grant CD ad? It’s an intentional attempt to cause a Willis’ fundie relapse. We need a trigger warning for that kind of stuff.
I’m still sad that Weird Al’s never given us “Fart in Motion.”
Though I guess that’s more Mark Lowry’s territory.
THAT’S RIGHT I JUST MEMORYBOMBED MARK LOWRY, SHITS JUST GOT REALS YO
You know, something just occured to me
I really REALLY hope we get to see Joyce’s dream tonight. I mean, she doesn’t have any real clear conceptualization of how heterosexual sex works, her idea of what various flavors of homosexual sex are like must be absolutely hilarious.
I just realized that Joyce has successfully acted as a wingman for both Sal and Dorothy.
She is the best wingman ever. In contrast to Joe, the worst wingman ever.
And Billie is all grumpy again. The natural order of things is restored.
coming to the realization that “gay people are normal people” is actually a really good way of putting the process of being educated past your sheltered experience. Regardless of what Joyce’s own sexuality is, getting punched in the face with the fact that gay people exist and are just people is a really strong growth moment.
That last panel is like 27 flavors of great.
I don’t quite get the first part of the strip–seems like Billie’s equating the appreciation of others to sexual curiosity. Maybe she’s just pulling Joyce’s chain? Women notice others’ nice clothes, hair, etc., all the time without it being sexual. Guys notice stuff, too, but don’t always voice it. For example, there’s a guy at work whose beard, I think, is friggin’ awesome (it’s a lot longer than mine, so it looks like he could curl up in it and take a nap ;), but I haven’t told him that because I can’t think of a way to say it that doesn’t sound weird. It doesn’t mean I want to take him to bed, I just notice his beard is amazing.
I’m glad, though, that Joyce is discovering that gay people are just normal people. I don’t personally know anyone IRL that’s gay, but the ability to treat any people group as ‘just people’ is part of growing up. It’s also part of the process of getting disentangled from Moral Majority-type thinking, getting free from being used as a tool by the Republican Party and similar interest groups. I haven’t met any Christians who are outspokenly anti-gay and quick to use the phrase ‘Sodom and Gomorrah’ who can logically explain why America wasn’t levelled to the ground by their version of ‘God’ decades ago. (Oh, wait, you have to have an open mind and actually know your Bible to answer that.)
I definitely took it as Billie yanking her chain. And you’re a quieter man than me. I know this one guy who has the BEST chin/jawline. It looks good with or without scruff and I don’t hesitate to tell him so pretty much every time he changes his facial hair. Of course, that being said, he was pretty awkward the first few times I complimented him. But eh, what can you do.
I think it’s mostly yanking her chain, with small amounts of jealousy thrown in (similar to telling Sal to go away when she took her jacket off at the beach, and being disappointed at how quickly Sal replaced her as Joyce’s new idol) with maybe a trace of projection of her own feelings.
I might be over analyzing a bit…
We’ll only know if anything happens between her and the RA. Nice analysis, though. Probably won’t surface either way until she uses Ruth’s absence to her advantage for the RA position and becomes worried about her… my prediction.
I was really confused with her statement, too, especially because it has a question mark at the end. I thought she was trying to “Now, back to what *I* was talking about” as a really bad segue until Joyce responded, connecting the two for sure.
Joyce’s paranoia was an interesting way to take this dilemma. Does that mean her next dream will be about Billie and her “thingy”?
I think Billie is seeing homosexuality everywhere after pretty much everyone comes onto her. I think, like, everyone tries it out eventually. We get curious. It’s basically inevitable.
Also jealousy, yeah.
Um on your poll where is the option “I had to become a backer to see the potential porn”?
I think that’s covered under the “screw everything else, I want that $75K thing” option.
Hmm, yeah OK. Thank you.
… wow, its been awhile since I genuinely laughed out loud x’D
“Don’t flatter yourself” oh Walky 😛
I need a ‘I CAN’T DECIDE’ options on that new poll. That new $75K goal doesn’t help matters, but it’d make you my first (Kickstarter).
Damn you Willis!
…Did I do that right?
Joyce is so gay that she doesn’t even like straight hair! OMG!
I love that Walky zinged her and she read it the wrong way
Joyce is only sexual about Sal’s motorcycle.
I’m going to start using “normal” as a noun. “You sound like a normal” “Should normals be allowed to marry?” “I’ve got a bad case of the normals”
It’s okay to be prejudiced against normal people, right?
Sure, if you don’t mind coming across as a complete tool.
I know I’m not a normal person
Does Joyce even know what Gay Panic is, to be so sure she doesn’t have it? Because she really is just about a perfect example.