Youre using the colloquial definition. A true tricercockblock needs to involve Sarah and 3 males one being an observer (in order for it to remain a threesome)
According to fanan theory, it would be Jacob and Joe partnered with Sarah, with Danny being the most eligable to remain on the sidelines.
Probably industrial sheet cake with that plasticky frosting you find a grocery store bakeries across the country. Nasty stuff – I only ate two slices before I got tired of it.
Regular CAH feels positively tame when you get used to the internet’s custom expansions… unless someone’s owned it for a while and some of the blank cards have horrific anecdotes penned in, then it’s great.
*a queer character voices his discomfort at being at an LGBT meeting*
And you decide to make this about women? Minorities talking about their feelings isn’t enough for you?
Not every woman.
I have to try to be seen by males, and i’m generally not successful. Being reminded that being stared at constantly is expected for most females feels pretty shitty for someone apparently not worth being seen at all.
99.99999999999% of the time there is something beautiful and worth looking at in every women. Regardless of age, ethnicity or size. Clearly they must be missing something.
Me personally I don’t like to “Stare” but like to steal a few good glances here and there. I feel like some kind of stalker if I end up staring for too long.
The best thing about not having a social life or any chance of ever getting one (esp involving a woman) is that after a while you just stop caring and don’t bother to look at them anymore.
That way you’ll never get into trouble by someone thinking you’re looking at them.
I’ve heard this from other women, too; and laments that as they get older, they get cat called less. Even though being cat called is horrible, we’ve been trained to associate it with being attractive, and trained to associate that with having worth. So not being harassed on the streets makes us feel worthless.
I will say that I get catcalled the most when I wear something big and pink. Guys holler as they drive by at speeds too fast to actually SEE me, it’s purely them reminding what they assume is a woman that we aren’t allowed to exist in public without commentary. (Like I have a big boxy pink coat that goes down to my knees. I wear it in fall and winter. I get honked and hollered at a LOT in that outfit by men who can’t see my body or face. It’s not actually a measure of attractiveness.)
Also, I was catcalled the most often when I was a teenager. And by that I mean 14 or so. (Catcallers are the grossest people on the planet.) By the time I was 16 I had shaved off my hair and had taken to wearing military fatigues and big tshirts, so I was no longer read as female at a glance and no longer harassed for the rest of my tenure in high school.
Recent studies have suggested that Doasaurus wilcoxii and the smaller species Doasaurus saruyamensis competed for food. Whilst we do not know much of the diet of D. wilcoxii, extensive studies have shown that D. saruyamensis was omnivorous, with a diet consisting of the meat of small, oblong mammals, and supplemented with compacted, grain-based material present in various morphologies, including circular and in flake form. Some scientists have suggested that the digestion of said grain-based material was aided by the ingestion of a proteinous and fatty liquid, similar to the milk produced by mammals. However, as no reptile has been observed doing this in the pas, these studies are still being debated worldwide.
interestingly with its slow reaction times and the fact that it was bad at sneaking. The wiicoxii was mainly a scavenger who would survive by gaining the trust and protection of the S. Walksaurus and the A. malsaurus. as well as others.
Note by the editors of Willis Science Daily: The names S. walksaurus and A. malsaurus are newly coined synonyms for recently discovered species. These names are currently under review, as they do not conform with more traditional systems of naming reptiles in clade Dinosauria. Additionally, paleontologists are still attempting to determine whether the new species are a member of the genus Doasaurus, or are part of separate, more sturdy genera. We anticipate the final results of these reports to be finished soon, but will use the names S. walksaurus and A. malsaurus in the meantime, to minimize confusion.
Most herbivores are actually situational omnivores. And there’s an interesting article somewhere by Mark Witton about the shape of a Triceratops’ beaks being well suited to cutting up flesh.
Dina: oh I was stalking this one couple and I ended up in a gay pride meeting where I also saw your boyfriend and gay Ex-boyfriend there bonding over pizza, but how was your day?………why are you crying?
Considering Danny’s inability to obfuscate the truth, this could all be a means of driving a wedge between Danber without compromising Danny’s integrity (in this continuity at least)
i think she would just ask ‘how was your day?’ then politely wait for amber to stop crying to hear the answer. she may deftly dodge any furniture flung around in anger in the mean time.
if amber falls asleep without answering, then dina will wait and ask again as she wakes up
“I have read that leaking from the tear ducts indicates some extremity of emotion. I have told her that two close acquaintances are bonding over pizza – perhaps this is joy? I should study Amber more closely to learn more…”
Also, Danny, RUDE. Don’t tell people your relationship is going to be awkward because of their sexuality, without giving context! You’re just making him feel bad! He has no idea that you want his dick.
It most certainly does not! Can you imagine being forced to wear a muzzle designed specifically to prevent you from eating muffins! They’re probably blueberry muffins, too, darn it!
And good grief and holey moley and all that stuff.
Ethan said he’s Gay, right out loud, to another person.
Danny is handling it, no pun intended, sort of.
Oh my gosh, THREE things:
One, how is there only *one* sausage pizza for *this* event?
Two, I never noticed just how short Dina is. I mean, Galasso towered over her, but he’s like seven feet tall. Danny isn’t too abnormally tall, but still an entire head and shoulders over Dina.
Three, the adorkableness of Danthan is going to kill me via overdose of squee. Get me an IV of their Slipshine, *stat.* .. What do you mean, there isn’t one yet?
It might be the only one left, or the only one open. I’ve known other events to have one of each type of pizza they have open with 2-4 closed & stacked up behind the open box to stay warm until they’re needed.
My mind mentally “corrected” Dina’s line in the last panel to “You are”. Should I be worried my subconscious is aware of character tics and adjusting for them when they’re not present?
I feel like there are three things going on in the comments sections of late: 1) the Ethanny shippers can’t wait for Ethan and Danny to bang; 2) the Danny-haters pre-emptively hate Danny even more because they presume he will inevitably cheat on Amber; and 3) the possibility of an Ethan/Amber/Danny threeway relationship is discussed (or perhaps hoped for?).
Isn’t that all a bit premature?
I mean, just because Danny is bi doesn’t mean that he *ever* has to have sex with a guy, let alone Ethan. Bisexuals can be monogamous, too!
And even though Danny is somewhat dense–probably on par with people in the real world–and a little whitebread/boring, loyalty to his romantic partner is his “thing.” I see no reason that he would be tempted to cheat on anyone, even if his confused feelings or attractions are reciprocated by Ethan.
And finally, I see nothing to suggest that any of the three would be comfortable in a poly relationship. It’s not for everybody. I think Ethan would be uncomfortable with Amber being there, I doubt Danny could wrap his head around the concept, and I think it could break Amber. She’s not exactly stable, you now, much as I love her. And non-traditional relationships are especially difficult for people with mental/emotional problems. (Source: my personal life.) Besides that, Amber has previous emotional baggage with Ethan and sex, which makes a poly relationship even more potentially problematic.
That being said, I think Amber would enjoy a threesome with Danny and another guy–which I suspect because of this strip–but not with Ethan, because of the aforementioned emotional baggage.
(Unrelated: any idea when Sayid will show up? I’m in love with him already!)
It’s still fairly annoying when people talk about how Danny needs to fuck Ethan right this second while ignoring his current relationship, or the demands that the two of them wander off together while they were drunk, or how people screech that Danny better not cheat like he’s ever given any indication that he would, but suddenly it’s possible because he’s into guys.
(I’m not even touching the poly debate because I’ve said so much hurtful and offensive shit about polyamory that I’m just not allowing myself to do so anymore until I can better articulate myself.)
Whether or not I’m being overly sensitive to perceived dismissal of Danny’s struggles and personal agency (and I am), it’s still cringe inducing to go through every time he’s on-page.
It’s not that. Last strip Danny was insisting that Ethan had to be straight. Here, he’s trying to make an effort to accept that it’s true and hastily ensure Ethan that he’s okay with it.
I just assumed that the joke is meta. Dina’s looking directly at Danny in panel three and telling him that he’s blocking the sausage pizza — i.e., Danny is preventing the readers from getting the ONLY guy/guy relationship that could exist in this comic, at least right now.
I read the title before the comic, so when I saw “Sausage,” I was thinking Walky might be blundering through with an insulting innuendo. Nope, just 2 awkward guys blocking Dina’s access to the pizza she wants…
IF YOU WERE GAY
THAT’D BE OKAY.
I MEAN ‘CAUSE, HEY,
I’D LIKE YOU ANYWAY.
BECAUSE YOU SEE,
IF IT WERE ME,
I WOULD FEEL FREE
TO SAY THAT I WAS GAY
(BUT I’M NOT GAY.)
Well, Ethan and Danny, I think you have got what you need from the questioning meeting for now. Now I suggest you stroll down to the comic shop or wherever else you are comfortable and do some talking!
Shit, the Republicans are right: LGBT folk ARE terrible, sinful, hideous people. What kind of monster only puts out ONE sausage pizza?! YOU MONSTERS!!!
(since tone doesn’t convey over written text, that was tongue-in-cheek)
Also, I threw up a bit in my mouth writing “the Republicans are right,” let us hope Willis doesn’t give me a reason to do it again – heavens know the real republicans don’t…
Interesting how Ethan isn’t asking why *Danny* is here. I suppose he’s respecting Danny’s right to disclose if and when he’s comfortable doing so. Still, Ethan does care for Amber, and now he’s just seen her current boyfriend at a questioning meeting. Under the circumstances, you’d think Ethan would have, well, questions.
Now watch Amber come in, looking for advice on how to better help her friend Ethan, only to find Ethan and Danny bonding over their shared love of sausage.
Would Amber flee from the room in tears straightaway, or would she stick around long enough to hear Danny’s explanation?
It does seem that Amber and Ethan at least are still on speaking terms tomorrow. http://dumbingofage.tumblr.com/post/122339983209/itswalky-september-18-this-is-for-real-just-a
Of course, Amber could be in the midst of a full-on psychotic break, and Ethan just realized that box contains what’s left of Danny.
Or on a less horrifying note, maybe Amber just told Ethan that she just wrote a super-hot fanfic about Ethan and Danny getting it on while she watches, and Ethan won’t be allowed to read it — ever.
I’m guessing that Walky showing up for some free gay pizza, and Danny claiming that he has no idea where he is, gave him the impression that Danny is also just here for the food.
If Danny were more of a smooth operator, he *could* have played it off like that. However, his awkward sputtering and claim that he was leaving to look at chicks indicates that he’s (unsuccessfully) hiding something.
That was supposed to be a reply to Spencer, regarding the assumption that Danny is there for the free food, but I clicked “post comment” instead of reply, because I’m dumb.
Sure, but to Ethan, Danny is straight as an arrow, and I’m going to make a huge assumption and say that Ethan wants Danny to be straight so that Amber doesn’t lose another boyfriend. Plus, right now he’s more concerned with whether Danny’s okay with him being gay.
Danny awkwardness aside, I imagine it’s comforting to Ethan hearing from a friend that they’re okay with his sexuality. He seems to mellow out somewhat from Panel 3 and on.
Has there been anyone (except his parents, and I’ll grant that that is a big “except”) who hasn’t been supportive? Even Joyce has come around and has been super supportive!
The only people who’ve acted on their knowledge have been Walky, Joyce and Danny, while Dorothy knows but has yet to say anything.
It’s not just a matter of “Okay I’m cool with it!” because Ethan has the lingering fear that being gay will change how people will see him. If Dorothy were to walk up to him and talk about how totes supportive she’s going to be, he’d probably be a bit annoyed that he’s being defined as “Gay Ethan” again.
His relationship with Danny has so far gone smoothly, and he’s been able to go full on nerd like he hasn’t been able to lately. Walky, meanwhile, undermines his sexuality by making Ethan’s declaration about how is super smart he is for sussing him out.
If Danny were Ethan’s straight friend reacting that way, then sure, it’d be awful. But we know that Danny is reacting this way because he doesn’t know how to deal his own attraction. It “makes things awkward” because now it’s not just a completely impossible fantasy anymore. Plus, I think his insistence that Ethan being gay is okay is significant when trying to determine Danny’s feelings.
I understand why someone would interpret Danny’s reaction negatively, because “You being gay makes things awkward” is something bandied by straight dudes when their friends come out to them, but I do feel that there’s a different context to Danny saying it then if it were Walky or Jacob.
No, that is just poor catering, if you are going to have pizzas, you should have plenty of supreme and meat-lovers, some Hawaiian and margarita pizzas and depending on how many vegetarian/vegans you believe are going to show up, at least one pizza that they can enjoy too.
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I always feel like… somedino’s WATCHING meeeeeee…
also [insert cockblock joke here]
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{insert joke about where exactly is “here” here]
[insert insurance joke here]
[insert insertion joke here]
[insert [insert joke here] here]
She’s preventing a threesome with both of them and Amber, It’s a Triceracockblock.
Youre using the colloquial definition. A true tricercockblock needs to involve Sarah and 3 males one being an observer (in order for it to remain a threesome)
According to fanan theory, it would be Jacob and Joe partnered with Sarah, with Danny being the most eligable to remain on the sidelines.
surely it should be jacob and other jacob
Then it would have to be Big Sausage pizza…
STOP SAUSAGE(pizza)-BLOCKING ME!
There’s your joke sir.
Eh, on second thought that was kinda obvious. I swear I’m funny some times!
You Rock…well.
I see what you did there.
And I have no privacy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY
Ohhh-ohh-OHHH-oh!
I like this version too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkf95onRgcc
Also called it! Dina was just off panel this whole time, Unnoticed.
Just remembered there was some dance music from the 90’s with a chorus that sounded like that song too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAnmLLRphqo
And I have no privacy! (Sad lack of 80s pop song knowledge here).
WELCOME!…to the Internation House of Sausage. 😛
Every single day… Every move you make… Every smile you fake… I’ll be waaatching you.
She used a contraction!
RICH MAN IN ROLLS-ROYCE #1: Baloney!
RICH MAN IN ROLLS-ROYCE #2: Weiner!
Another Classic Of Madison Avenue
RICH MAN IN A ROLLS-ROYCE #3: Grey Poupon!
Strange, my poupon is whiter.
Pizza is serious business. Bevity was called for.
Sarah’s advice is Serious Business, and not to be taken lightly.
Lot of sausage-blocking going on here.
Yeah, guys, stop keeping all the sausage for yourselves.
Share the sausage! Share it with everyone who wants it!
And show us! somewhere our credit cards can regret!
I don’t know why, but I snickered at the title. I’m an awful person.
Incoming sausage innuendos in 3…2…1…
In-your-end-ohs began before the first comment.
Love flies out the door when sausage comes innuendo.
Incoming sausage in 3…
Do not google “Big Sausage Pizza”. Do NOT.
You leave me no choice but to do so.
Oh God there was a penis, inside the pizza, and there was a woman grabbing the penis.
Don’t block the food. It’s why everyone’s here.
Buy Dina, they need that for their sausage fest.
Dang, I ended up with a typo. This goes to show that one should never rush their puns.
Although the Whiteboard Dingdong Bandit is in attendance, everyone is too late for the Sausage Festival.
damn. Beat me to it.
i went to one of these awkward gay meetings yesterday. they had bad cake and cards against humanity.
How bad was the cake?
it was still cake so y’know like meh
Probably industrial sheet cake with that plasticky frosting you find a grocery store bakeries across the country. Nasty stuff – I only ate two slices before I got tired of it.
Or worse. FONDANT. *shiver*
How can cake be bad?
They should’ve invited more asexual people. I hear they’re the best at having cake.
But sexual people not only have cake, they EAT IT too!
Agreed, I rather not have sexual people “having” any cakes I wanted to eat.
No sausage pizza? Lame
Regular CAH feels positively tame when you get used to the internet’s custom expansions… unless someone’s owned it for a while and some of the blank cards have horrific anecdotes penned in, then it’s great.
>Sausage Pizza
I GET IT!
If you feel uncomfortable, somebody else is probably doing something wrong. A mantra to live by.
Because you are perfect and should never strive to improve. It’s everyone else who is terrible.
Finally, Someone gets it!
Well they’re talking so thats a good sign but its still awkward so what they really need here is an injection of…Joyce
…to make it more awkward? Or so someone in the conversation is even more awkward than the guys are?
Yes to both but really just to make it even more awkward
joyce: ‘helping’ situations whenever she gets the chance
I wonder when was the last time I ever just said, “That was a good comic!” instead of trying to make a relevant joke.
Return of the Dina!
And yet Dana’s the one doing the sausage-blocking
Dana isn’t even AT UI, how is she blocking anything? Especially blacking anything in the “questioners meetup”.
Ha Ha, dick jokes.
Danny: “I feel like there’s eyes on me constantly .”
Me: Congrats you now know how every woman feels when they leave their house in a skin tight top and shorts.
It doesn’t matter how I’m dressed. I feel that way anyhow.
And also how men feel when they wear their day-glo codpieces, the shaming must stop.
Yup. A difference though is that most women’s situation are not primarily triceratopcy in nature.
*a queer character voices his discomfort at being at an LGBT meeting*
And you decide to make this about women? Minorities talking about their feelings isn’t enough for you?
There, there.
Right, because… no queer people are women. Is that really your argument?
You are only allowed to talk about the social ills of one group at a time. It is the law.
Failure to comply makes you a total pandering SJW.
I laughed, thank you <3
Not every woman.
I have to try to be seen by males, and i’m generally not successful. Being reminded that being stared at constantly is expected for most females feels pretty shitty for someone apparently not worth being seen at all.
…And that’s why overgeneralizations are bad.
99.99999999999% of the time there is something beautiful and worth looking at in every women. Regardless of age, ethnicity or size. Clearly they must be missing something.
Me personally I don’t like to “Stare” but like to steal a few good glances here and there. I feel like some kind of stalker if I end up staring for too long.
The best thing about not having a social life or any chance of ever getting one (esp involving a woman) is that after a while you just stop caring and don’t bother to look at them anymore.
That way you’ll never get into trouble by someone thinking you’re looking at them.
I’ve heard this from other women, too; and laments that as they get older, they get cat called less. Even though being cat called is horrible, we’ve been trained to associate it with being attractive, and trained to associate that with having worth. So not being harassed on the streets makes us feel worthless.
I will say that I get catcalled the most when I wear something big and pink. Guys holler as they drive by at speeds too fast to actually SEE me, it’s purely them reminding what they assume is a woman that we aren’t allowed to exist in public without commentary. (Like I have a big boxy pink coat that goes down to my knees. I wear it in fall and winter. I get honked and hollered at a LOT in that outfit by men who can’t see my body or face. It’s not actually a measure of attractiveness.)
Also, I was catcalled the most often when I was a teenager. And by that I mean 14 or so. (Catcallers are the grossest people on the planet.) By the time I was 16 I had shaved off my hair and had taken to wearing military fatigues and big tshirts, so I was no longer read as female at a glance and no longer harassed for the rest of my tenure in high school.
Recent studies have suggested that Doasaurus wilcoxii and the smaller species Doasaurus saruyamensis competed for food. Whilst we do not know much of the diet of D. wilcoxii, extensive studies have shown that D. saruyamensis was omnivorous, with a diet consisting of the meat of small, oblong mammals, and supplemented with compacted, grain-based material present in various morphologies, including circular and in flake form. Some scientists have suggested that the digestion of said grain-based material was aided by the ingestion of a proteinous and fatty liquid, similar to the milk produced by mammals. However, as no reptile has been observed doing this in the pas, these studies are still being debated worldwide.
interestingly with its slow reaction times and the fact that it was bad at sneaking. The wiicoxii was mainly a scavenger who would survive by gaining the trust and protection of the S. Walksaurus and the A. malsaurus. as well as others.
Note by the editors of Willis Science Daily: The names S. walksaurus and A. malsaurus are newly coined synonyms for recently discovered species. These names are currently under review, as they do not conform with more traditional systems of naming reptiles in clade Dinosauria. Additionally, paleontologists are still attempting to determine whether the new species are a member of the genus Doasaurus, or are part of separate, more sturdy genera. We anticipate the final results of these reports to be finished soon, but will use the names S. walksaurus and A. malsaurus in the meantime, to minimize confusion.
There is only one way we can remove the awkwardness is for Dina to give Danny a brain-parasite err I mean dino-hat.
A Jacquesian Worry Hat would be more appropriate to Danny I think.
Until you get blood on it and run screaming through the city.
Wasn’t Triceratops a vegetarian?
This one’s more of a flexitarian.
How do you know? You weren’t there!
Yes I was.
Eating vegetarian animals kinda counts as a form of vegetarianism.
They are what they eat, right? If I eat vegetarians….
I’m a vegatarian. I only eat Vegans.
So if I’m a humanitarian…..
Yes.
I’m a herbivore. That’s why I only eat guys named Herb.
You eat humanins?
Most herbivores are actually situational omnivores. And there’s an interesting article somewhere by Mark Witton about the shape of a Triceratops’ beaks being well suited to cutting up flesh.
COCK BLOCK
Hello Dina are you going to tell Amber about this?
Only if Amber asks I would guess.
Amber: hello Dina how was your day ?
Dina: oh I was stalking this one couple and I ended up in a gay pride meeting where I also saw your boyfriend and gay Ex-boyfriend there bonding over pizza, but how was your day?………why are you crying?
That would be one of the most commented comics EVER!
Considering Danny’s inability to obfuscate the truth, this could all be a means of driving a wedge between Danber without compromising Danny’s integrity (in this continuity at least)
I don’t know if Amber’s going to react that violently to Danny’s bisexuality. She knows he’s huge on being faithful, and he likes girl parts.
I could see Amber having a knee jerk “But he likes guys!” reaction, but I think since Ethan’s coming out she’s tried to educate herself on sexuality.
i think she would just ask ‘how was your day?’ then politely wait for amber to stop crying to hear the answer. she may deftly dodge any furniture flung around in anger in the mean time.
if amber falls asleep without answering, then dina will wait and ask again as she wakes up
“I have read that leaking from the tear ducts indicates some extremity of emotion. I have told her that two close acquaintances are bonding over pizza – perhaps this is joy? I should study Amber more closely to learn more…”
*staaaaaaaaaaaaa~re*
Also, Danny, RUDE. Don’t tell people your relationship is going to be awkward because of their sexuality, without giving context! You’re just making him feel bad! He has no idea that you want his dick.
Ok. I understand where you’re coming from but what about Ethan’s face makes you think Danny’s comment made him feel bad?
Is there a female equivalent to, um, c*ck blocking that’s also food-related, a la clams or tacos?
I’ve heard a few but the only one I remember off the top of my head is clam jamming
Points for the rhyme, but sounds kinda violent (I might be overthinking it).
“Cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh”
Now I’ve Black Betty stuck in my head
Odd, “jamming” sounds like the opposite of the problem at hand.
twat swat
clitoference
muffin muzzle
beaver dam
Muffin muzzle sounds neat.
It most certainly does not! Can you imagine being forced to wear a muzzle designed specifically to prevent you from eating muffins! They’re probably blueberry muffins, too, darn it!
I like ‘beaver dam’ that’s clever.
Taco stop-o?
I recall seeing ‘box-blocked’ used a time or two.
Clam Jam
great use of snausage!
Okay, thank you for being honest, Ethan. Hope Danny can explore what his own questions and feelings are.
So many eyes in panel 4
i know. so many. how are people focusing on the sausage when there are so many eeeyyyyeees!
staring is one of dina’s greatest strengths, amiright?
Is this what is called a ‘sausage fest’?
WHY DID I NOT THINK OF THAT?!?!
That was actually my first thought.
SPEED UP AND GET YOUR HEAD IN THE GAME,SON!
Wait, so you’re saying if I want head, I have to get it “in the game”?
It was, until Dina interrupted it. Dina’s taking the sausage pizza, so… sausage fest over.
My favorite kind of pizza: sausage and pineapple.
Man, everyone is comming up with good sausage related puns… I gotta come up with something…
HAHA, SAUSAGE IS ANOTHER WORD FOR SHLONG!
… Nailed it.
Why can’t I Like your comment
+1
Hey, remember when people said “+1” in comments? I feel like they stopped doing that a few years back, though.
Brace yourselves. Dick jokes are cumming.
that joke was ballsy
Really? It’s making me a bit teste.
A true stroke of genius.
These puns are teste-ing my patiences.
My question with any pun war is if there will be a happy ending or if it will just peter out.
What’s the deferens either way?
The important thing is not to cock it up.
some of these jokes kinda blow
This whole pun cascade sucks.
Even though some of the jokes are a bit thick, this went on longer than I expected.
This chain is a bit schlong, wouldn’t you say?
THIS WHOLE CHAIN IS A PHALLASY!!!
We went from a sausage pizza-party to a sausage-pizza party!
By George, I think that she’s solved the mystery!
The triceratops strikes to feast on low-growth vegetation
you mean low-hanging fruit puns?
Ouch
i genuinely thought that was the joke you were making. you see all of the sausage puns here? dina feasts upon them!
Sadly, the fish tacos remained untouched.
Which is odd, considering Becky is constantly yelling about how much she loves them.
Well, you can’t just run up to someone and start chowing down on their fish tacos. You have to persuade them to share them with you first.
Becky’s still working on that bit.
Becky’s not there, yet. Once she shows up, ALL of the fish tacos will be eaten.
Guess there is no problem ‘not seeing’ Dina, unless you get in between her and a sausage pizza.
Damn, Dina is too cute.
Probably works for cereal, as well
And good grief and holey moley and all that stuff.
Ethan said he’s Gay, right out loud, to another person.
Danny is handling it, no pun intended, sort of.
Now then, where is Joyce?
Priorities
Oh my gosh, THREE things:
One, how is there only *one* sausage pizza for *this* event?
Two, I never noticed just how short Dina is. I mean, Galasso towered over her, but he’s like seven feet tall. Danny isn’t too abnormally tall, but still an entire head and shoulders over Dina.
Three, the adorkableness of Danthan is going to kill me via overdose of squee. Get me an IV of their Slipshine, *stat.* .. What do you mean, there isn’t one yet?
It might be the only one left, or the only one open. I’ve known other events to have one of each type of pizza they have open with 2-4 closed & stacked up behind the open box to stay warm until they’re needed.
My mind mentally “corrected” Dina’s line in the last panel to “You are”. Should I be worried my subconscious is aware of character tics and adjusting for them when they’re not present?
“Dina is hungry and could not care less about your plumbing of choice.”
I feel like there are three things going on in the comments sections of late: 1) the Ethanny shippers can’t wait for Ethan and Danny to bang; 2) the Danny-haters pre-emptively hate Danny even more because they presume he will inevitably cheat on Amber; and 3) the possibility of an Ethan/Amber/Danny threeway relationship is discussed (or perhaps hoped for?).
Isn’t that all a bit premature?
I mean, just because Danny is bi doesn’t mean that he *ever* has to have sex with a guy, let alone Ethan. Bisexuals can be monogamous, too!
And even though Danny is somewhat dense–probably on par with people in the real world–and a little whitebread/boring, loyalty to his romantic partner is his “thing.” I see no reason that he would be tempted to cheat on anyone, even if his confused feelings or attractions are reciprocated by Ethan.
And finally, I see nothing to suggest that any of the three would be comfortable in a poly relationship. It’s not for everybody. I think Ethan would be uncomfortable with Amber being there, I doubt Danny could wrap his head around the concept, and I think it could break Amber. She’s not exactly stable, you now, much as I love her. And non-traditional relationships are especially difficult for people with mental/emotional problems. (Source: my personal life.) Besides that, Amber has previous emotional baggage with Ethan and sex, which makes a poly relationship even more potentially problematic.
That being said, I think Amber would enjoy a threesome with Danny and another guy–which I suspect because of this strip–but not with Ethan, because of the aforementioned emotional baggage.
(Unrelated: any idea when Sayid will show up? I’m in love with him already!)
They are mostly jesting and shipping. It shouldn’t be taken too seriously.
It’s still fairly annoying when people talk about how Danny needs to fuck Ethan right this second while ignoring his current relationship, or the demands that the two of them wander off together while they were drunk, or how people screech that Danny better not cheat like he’s ever given any indication that he would, but suddenly it’s possible because he’s into guys.
(I’m not even touching the poly debate because I’ve said so much hurtful and offensive shit about polyamory that I’m just not allowing myself to do so anymore until I can better articulate myself.)
Whether or not I’m being overly sensitive to perceived dismissal of Danny’s struggles and personal agency (and I am), it’s still cringe inducing to go through every time he’s on-page.
Lord I wish they would come off the constant dan-hating-assuming the worst, too. He’s like the new Becky.
Or as I often put it : “it’s called DUMBING of age for a reason”.
I was honestly expecting Danny to freak out. He’s taking this better than I initially thought he would.
It’s easy to exceed expectations when they’re low enough.
It’s not that. Last strip Danny was insisting that Ethan had to be straight. Here, he’s trying to make an effort to accept that it’s true and hastily ensure Ethan that he’s okay with it.
All hail Dina, breaker of awkward tension!!
dina is known far and wide as the maker of awkward tension. she may do with it what she wishes, even break it
And that particular speech balloon is blocking our view of their own sau- (ahem) crotches.
Coincidence? Is Willis trying to tell us something? Or does he want us to think that he is? Perhaps it means the universe will collapse on itself.
Or perhaps we Dumbifans have a tendency to read too much into things because we’re so impatient for the next instalment.
I just assumed that the joke is meta. Dina’s looking directly at Danny in panel three and telling him that he’s blocking the sausage pizza — i.e., Danny is preventing the readers from getting the ONLY guy/guy relationship that could exist in this comic, at least right now.
Pedro says
You never Sausage a place!
I read the title before the comic, so when I saw “Sausage,” I was thinking Walky might be blundering through with an insulting innuendo. Nope, just 2 awkward guys blocking Dina’s access to the pizza she wants…
Heh, I took the reverse road : I saw the alt text and immediatly thought “I bet the page is named…” 😀
THE SAUSAGES ARE TOUCHING.
CODE RED, I REPEAT, CODE RED.
Sausage Pizza. It’s Pizza topped with irony.
Dina! Stop interrupting their sausage fest!
(Yeah, I know, the joke’s probably been done already.)
With panel 2, I thought we were segueing into a musical number from Avenue Q.
IF YOU WERE GAY
THAT’D BE OKAY.
I MEAN ‘CAUSE, HEY,
I’D LIKE YOU ANYWAY.
BECAUSE YOU SEE,
IF IT WERE ME,
I WOULD FEEL FREE
TO SAY THAT I WAS GAY
(BUT I’M NOT GAY.)
Well, Ethan and Danny, I think you have got what you need from the questioning meeting for now. Now I suggest you stroll down to the comic shop or wherever else you are comfortable and do some talking!
Shit, the Republicans are right: LGBT folk ARE terrible, sinful, hideous people. What kind of monster only puts out ONE sausage pizza?! YOU MONSTERS!!!
(since tone doesn’t convey over written text, that was tongue-in-cheek)
Also, I threw up a bit in my mouth writing “the Republicans are right,” let us hope Willis doesn’t give me a reason to do it again – heavens know the real republicans don’t…
Hey, blame Galasso for that one !
If Dan and Ethan are standing in front of the only sausage pizza, then that section of the lunch counter is a total sausage fest.
Next page may give Danny a new person to try and talk about bisexuality with.
Well, if it comes back to the question of why he’s here.
One can hope.
Interesting how Ethan isn’t asking why *Danny* is here. I suppose he’s respecting Danny’s right to disclose if and when he’s comfortable doing so. Still, Ethan does care for Amber, and now he’s just seen her current boyfriend at a questioning meeting. Under the circumstances, you’d think Ethan would have, well, questions.
Now watch Amber come in, looking for advice on how to better help her friend Ethan, only to find Ethan and Danny bonding over their shared love of sausage.
Would Amber flee from the room in tears straightaway, or would she stick around long enough to hear Danny’s explanation?
It does seem that Amber and Ethan at least are still on speaking terms tomorrow. http://dumbingofage.tumblr.com/post/122339983209/itswalky-september-18-this-is-for-real-just-a
Of course, Amber could be in the midst of a full-on psychotic break, and Ethan just realized that box contains what’s left of Danny.
Or on a less horrifying note, maybe Amber just told Ethan that she just wrote a super-hot fanfic about Ethan and Danny getting it on while she watches, and Ethan won’t be allowed to read it — ever.
And by tomorrow, I mean tomorrow in comic-time. Not sure how clear that was.
I’m guessing that Walky showing up for some free gay pizza, and Danny claiming that he has no idea where he is, gave him the impression that Danny is also just here for the food.
If Danny were more of a smooth operator, he *could* have played it off like that. However, his awkward sputtering and claim that he was leaving to look at chicks indicates that he’s (unsuccessfully) hiding something.
That was supposed to be a reply to Spencer, regarding the assumption that Danny is there for the free food, but I clicked “post comment” instead of reply, because I’m dumb.
Sure, but to Ethan, Danny is straight as an arrow, and I’m going to make a huge assumption and say that Ethan wants Danny to be straight so that Amber doesn’t lose another boyfriend. Plus, right now he’s more concerned with whether Danny’s okay with him being gay.
It’s nice he could get down from his closet-induced panic thanks to their meeting, I feel.
Danny awkwardness aside, I imagine it’s comforting to Ethan hearing from a friend that they’re okay with his sexuality. He seems to mellow out somewhat from Panel 3 and on.
Has there been anyone (except his parents, and I’ll grant that that is a big “except”) who hasn’t been supportive? Even Joyce has come around and has been super supportive!
Since he’s been to college, I mean. I imagine that high school kids are still merciless when it comes to things like this . . .
The only people who’ve acted on their knowledge have been Walky, Joyce and Danny, while Dorothy knows but has yet to say anything.
It’s not just a matter of “Okay I’m cool with it!” because Ethan has the lingering fear that being gay will change how people will see him. If Dorothy were to walk up to him and talk about how totes supportive she’s going to be, he’d probably be a bit annoyed that he’s being defined as “Gay Ethan” again.
His relationship with Danny has so far gone smoothly, and he’s been able to go full on nerd like he hasn’t been able to lately. Walky, meanwhile, undermines his sexuality by making Ethan’s declaration about how is super smart he is for sussing him out.
Yes, because ‘that makes things awkward’ is totally supportive and part of a good, normal relationship.
If Danny were Ethan’s straight friend reacting that way, then sure, it’d be awful. But we know that Danny is reacting this way because he doesn’t know how to deal his own attraction. It “makes things awkward” because now it’s not just a completely impossible fantasy anymore. Plus, I think his insistence that Ethan being gay is okay is significant when trying to determine Danny’s feelings.
I understand why someone would interpret Danny’s reaction negatively, because “You being gay makes things awkward” is something bandied by straight dudes when their friends come out to them, but I do feel that there’s a different context to Danny saying it then if it were Walky or Jacob.
dina like sausage pizza and there’s nothing wrong with that.
An extended game of hunt the sausage?
Badum-tish.
That’s it, folks. The end of Dumbing of Age. Goodness, it’s almost been five years! Time sure flies.
Well, I don’t know about you, but I’m looking forward to the spin-off strip, “Orgies Solve Everything”.
Orgies of Age ?
Man,mthose guys sure ordered a load of pizza.
They didn’t ; probably left that logistic for Galasso to bring whatever he wanted.
Only one sausage pizza at the gay meeting thing?
Is that irony?
No, that is just poor catering, if you are going to have pizzas, you should have plenty of supreme and meat-lovers, some Hawaiian and margarita pizzas and depending on how many vegetarian/vegans you believe are going to show up, at least one pizza that they can enjoy too.
Plain cheese isn’t just good for veggies though. Also good for us picky omnivores.
Aw, I like Danny with sclera!
And Sarah is still sitting in the cafeteria waiting for the intel. Agent Dina has become distracted by all the free food.