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Sniffing
Posted on April 1, 2014 by David M Willis
Oh hey!  Have you heard of "Stripped," the sweet-ass film about comics?  Well, it exists!  And it has, holy moley, BILL WATTERSON in it (he also did the poster seen on left), plus anyone else in cartooning you can think of, both from traditional media and the web.  I'm not, like, physically in it, because of camera shyness and whatnot, but I sent Dave Kellett, one of my longest-time webcomics pals and one of the bestest dudes on Earth, some art to throw in there to paper mache over my obviously-felt absence.  And it's a beautiful film.  Like, super beautiful.  It will cause tearflakes to come out of your eyeballs.  It is masterfully done.  It's available on iTunes starting today!  

157 thoughts on “Sniffing”

  1. Jen Aside

    “You mean, not based on Joyce-bashing?”

    1. Jen Aside

      “…or even Joyce-would-be-rapist-bashing?”

  2. Mr. Random

    She wants his body.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      I can understand that, I sometimes wish I could swap bodies with someone else.

      1. Yotomoe

        That’s obviousely not what he meant. He means that she wants to stuff him with sand and put him in a display case at her house.

        1. nothri

          No, I’m fairly certain she just wants to hire him to keep her safe and protected while on an adventure in foreign lands or illegal deal brokering.

        2. Jarid Scott

          Yes, that’s obviously not what he meant, just like it was obviously a joke. Good to see we’re all so good at noticing obvious things. You DID notice, right?

        3. nothri

          Pretty sure we did, yeah. Did you?

        4. Heavensrun

          Obviously not.

        5. nothri

          +1 for the “obvious” joke.

      2. Shadow12000

        That is the 3rd time in a row I’ve seen you with a different gravitar, I do not want to hear about body swapping from you.

        1. Yotomoe

          “3rd”
          HAHAHAHAHA.

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          The reason Yotomoe is laughing is cos I have changed my gravatar many dozens of times since I started posting in DoA about 3 years ago, it is true that I will recycle my gravs a lot but I also create new ones semi-regularly.

        3. Steven

          Nice Catalina avatar, by the way.

        4. Plasma Mongoose

          Kiitti ^_^

        5. Legasher

          I was under the impression that you changed it every day. But then, I haven’t been around here long.

        6. Plasma Mongoose

          It can be everyday but sometimes I keep using the same grav for several days in a row but even when I do change my grav, the chances are it is a grav that I have used a number of times before.

        7. sps48

          I like the Azula one.

      3. Ghostforge

        seconded, but personally if i could choose what
        i looked like, id go for straight-out hot-girlification.
        on that note, love the catalina avatar!

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Thanks, if I could change my RL appearance as easily as I could change my gravatar, I would be pretty happy.

      4. Animal

        Me too. I’d like to switch bodies with Kate Beckinsale, just long enough to take a shower. With soap. Lots of soap.

    2. mangulwort

      My body is ready.

  3. Nono

    Quick Sarah, scholarship or Jacob body?

    1. Yotomoe

      Can’t she just MAJOR in banging Jacob?

      1. Doctor_Who

        I’m sure there would be grants available.

        1. Boom

          Wouldn’t that be a threesome?

      2. Count Dracula

        Not in this school. She can probably transfer over to Metropolitan Sex College 9 and keep most of her credits though.

        1. newllend

          Probably can ask joe for help to get in.

        2. Dean

          Yes, Joe is an expert at getting in.

        3. tinfoil theory

          Not in this universe.

        4. Boom

          Not according to the quote, “… had sex with at least one girl for every pair of shoes he owns.”

        5. Thixophobia

          What if he only owns like … two or three pairs of shoes?

        6. WaytoomanyUIDs

          Isn’t the Kinsey Institute part of IU?

      3. newllend

        Depends can walky still major in watching TV?

  4. Plasma Mongoose

    I take it that Sarah isn’t really looking for a serious long-term relationship either then?

    1. KingMabel

      You never know, maybe she has dreams of waking up next to a man, hearing her 2.3 kids yelling for the bath…

      Yeah fuck it, she just wants some pants-less fun!

      1. Yotomoe

        That makes me wonder. What happened to the .7 of that 3rd kid. Are they just a head?

        1. Deathjavu

          This joke is probably older than anyone reading these comments.

          “Statistics is silly if you don’t understand it, ha ha ha.”

        2. Yotomoe

          Hey, I don’t come to where you comment and slap the keyboard out of your hands!

        3. JustCheetoDust

          On a somewhat related note, I miss watching Mr. Show With Bob and David.

        4. Deathjavu

          Yeah, that was largely unprovoked. Sorry.

        5. Yotomoe

          Naw. I respect your right to be a jerk to me for no reason. It’s better for me to learn to take a joke at my expense than to get all worked up. I’m not ashamed about how old my joke was. I’m proud of how dorky I am!!!!

        6. Deathjavu

          Allow me to apologize anyway, since I don’t like what I said.

        7. Meyers was Here

          You guys are being way too civil for this to be an Internet conversation I demand a duel to the death

        8. Coru

          Seriously. I mean, earlier I was reading an article about ‘Make-a-Wish’ and the comments were all about socialist warmongers (who were apparently all in Texas).

          The internet does not allow for politeness.

        9. Opus the Poet

          I don’t know, some of us are pretty old. We just wear our young hats.

        10. StClair

          “The Phantom Tollbooth” by Norton Juster (and famously illustrated by his neighbor Jules Feiffer) was published back in ’61. At one point the protagonist, Milo, encounters .58 of a boy (the average family at the time having 2.58 children), split down the middle.

      2. Plasma Mongoose

        Pantsless fun is the best fun after all. ^_^

        1. JustCheetoDust

          Depends on the setting. Don’t want to end up in a sex offender registry like that guy with the Power Glove in The Wizard, do we?

        2. Shadow12000

          Recently, he was asked how he felt about the situation. He replied “It’s so bad.”

        3. Meyers was Here

          The sequel to Walky makes a sex: Sarah and Jacob make a sex

    2. RaijinK

      A lot of the comments so far seem to be interpreting this as Sarah only wanting sex from Jacob. To me, that sudden shift in expressions says something more along the lines of “Great! I too would love a real relationship, but oh crap, I forgot I was a misanthrope and relationships are the exact thing I suck at. Now what?”

      This resonates with me as someone who simultaneously longs for and is terrified by social interaction.

      1. DiDi

        I dunno. Remember when she was talking to Joyce about him the first time. And she said she didn’t want to marry him, she just wanted to use his body once or twice.

        Granted, marriage is a far cry probably from what Jacob is thinking but the just wanting to use his body thing told me she wasn’t interested. At least at the time. Not to say that couldn’t change.

        1. saltchocolate

          Oops! That’s right! I forgot about this — and I just posted something like what RaijinK argues downstream. Oh well…

        2. RaijinK

          Sure, she says that to Joyce, whose embarrassing encouragement she’d like to discourage. Then we see her get all flustered around him like Walky around Dorothy and I don’t think it’s all just that he’s too hot for her to control herself. She totally wants a relationship, she just has a lot of anxiety over it.

      2. Bill

        And I took the last panel and look on Sarah’s face as that moment of realization that he didn’t say he isn’t gay….

      3. Jordan

        I think you hit the nail on the head. Sarah REALLY would love to be in a relationship, but with her misanthropy and social anxiety, she’s afraid to reach out. Hopefully the potential of being in a relationship AND having sex with Jacob is enough to encourage her to get out of her shell.

        She’s going to have to learn to talk about stuff other than Joyce though…

      4. TJ Baltimore

        Maybe other people sat this down-page, but my interpretation was:

        4th panel – “Yes! He doesn’t want Roz because she and Jacob want different things! He’s available to me!”

        5th panel – “Wait a minute . . . Jacob and *I* also want different things. Damn.)

        1. Raijink

          Problem with this reading is that Sarah has no reason to fear competition with Roz if all she wants is casual sex. Why would she have a problem if Roz got to him first? Is she really getting despondent over the thought of sloppy seconds?

        2. Jen Aside

          It’s not “sloppy seconds,” it’s “I do not feel attractive enough to compete with a meeting of sexy torsoes and therefore clearly could not get into those pants if I strapped him down and climbed on in”

        3. RaijinK

          But there IS no competing if they both just want to do him a couple times. They could share! The only way Sarah being intimidated by Roz makes sense to me is if Sarah secretly wants Jacob for more than just a hookup. She’s envisioning Jacob being more or less exclusive with someone and she would rather it was herself.

    3. nothri

      That’s what she says, anyway.

    4. shietka

      “I don’t want to marry him. I just want to use him for his body once or twice.”
      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-4/01-the-only-dope-for-me-is-you/dna/

      1. tinfoil theory

        And Walky is just Dotty’s fling.

    5. WaveRocker

      I think she’s not used to the idea of such a thing, a real relationship… or even a consensual relationship

      1. Opus the Poet

        That would be sad.

  5. Kiggy

    There you go, Sarah.

  6. Aubri

    “So… coming back to my place is out of the question?”

    1. newllend

      Jacob:”Oh so we can study up on our Biology ok.”

      Sarah:”ya Biology, I guess you can say that.”

      1. Leorale

        Journalism.

  7. newllend

    Sarah:oh thats great so that means you can have sex with me instea- wait a minute…

  8. LiaHansen

    Oh man, that’s a good comic and everything up there, but now I’m really psyched up for this movie thing!

  9. Tom

    Sarah, all those facial expressions you’ve used in the past few days were supposed to keep the entire cast running for over a month.

    1. Doctor_Who

      Now everyone is just going to stand around and Stare. Dina will feel like she finally fits in!

    2. Yotomoe

      DID YOU EVEN BRING ENOUGH EXPRESSIONS FOR THE REST OF THE CLASS?

      1. nothri

        Oh, I got more than enough expressions for the whole class. Most of em just aren’t expressions you’ll want impressionable minds to pick up. Also, several of them involve your mother.

    3. davidbreslin101

      The whole cast except Joyce. Joyce uses so many expressions she’s supplied with them separately by a entire industry devoted to mining and refining Joyce-Faces.
      (Some worry that we may have already reached Peak Joyce-Face)

  10. Cragalanch

    Poor Sarah, looks like looking for mister right now backfired. Totally a surprise on my part

  11. IAmDeltaS

    I’m headcanoning Sarah as aromantic and no one can stop me! Except for Willis. And now I bet he’s going to do something to stop me, isn’t he. Damn you Willis!

    1. Animal

      “I’m headcanoning Sarah as aromantic”

      I initially read that as “aromatic” and my head was going down a completely different path.

      1. Ocbrad1

        Yeah, I thought exactly the same thing, and was trying to figure out where that was going. Could be good, could be rather not so good.

        1. IAmDeltaS

          Haha, understandable mistake. Though I guess being aromatic might aid her in getting Jacob’s body…

  12. Idon'tcarenomore

    Sarah has a very large range of expressions. And too bad she isn’t looking for long term.
    That is if he is playing it straight. Hard to trust a guy that says that…

    1. Yotomoe

      “That’s just what I say to get more chicks. Can you believe they fall for that shit? FUCK YEAH I’ll be banging Roz. But only if it’s an 11-way!”

      1. newllend

        No wonder joe and him are tight.

      2. Opus the Poet

        That 11 is in binary, right?

        1. Pope William T Wodium

          No, he totally meant an 1011-way.

  13. Gram91

    Irony at it’s cruelest. Joyce would have a field day with this.

    1. KingMabel

      No she wouldn’t, because being boastful is a sin.

      Even if she was right about a man wanting marriage over hanky-pankies, she would NEVER rub it in anyone’s FACE.

      1. John

        … at least not until after marriage.

      2. Yotomoe

        As if being selectively hypocritical is unheard of in the fundie community.

      3. Doctor_Who

        Joyce: “So, how did the thing with Jacob work out?”

        Sarah: “He’s not interested in pre-marital hanky panky at all, just long term commitment and-” *ZIP!* “hey, where’d you go?”

        *Meanwhile*

        Jacob: “Who are you again, and why are we standing at an altar?!”

        1. Hoboturtle

          Somewhere close a ship is being constructed.

        2. Caffienated

          *holding hammer and nails* hmm? What you say?

        3. StClair

          “Right! What’s a cubit?”

        4. Ocbrad1

          Let’s see, I used to know what a cubit was.

        5. Opus the Poet

          Ancient cubit or modern cubit? Ancient is the distance from the tip of the elbow to the tip if the middle finger, modern is 18″ (457mm)

        6. Alex Stritar

          But this is DoA Joyce, not Roomies Joyce.

      4. Plasma Mongoose

        KM is right, Joyce doesn’t seem to be the type to rub “it” into somebody’s face, she would be more inclined to rub it against a boner the way God intended for her to do so. :3

        1. nothri

          …..you aren’t talking about Dinosaur skeletons, are you?

        2. Plasma Mongoose

          …maybe… ^_^

      5. saltchocolate

        Whoa!! There’s a long distance between one-night stands and marriage. And a “real relationship” does not equal “here’s the ring”!

        1. KingMabel

          Of course not!

          Really, some of the best relationships I have witnessed are between people who aren’t married, and about half of American weddings end in divorce, with about 2/3rds of second marriage divorces.

          But I’m not here to ramble about “forced” marriages do to people’s religion say that they NEED to be married to experience a full relationship, media plastering marriages on almost every tv show and magazine, the government giving extra benefits to being married and peer pressure to fit into the “new norm”. I just wanna make funny comments on the internet tonight.

        2. David

          A “real relationship” is not just “here’s the ring” but also “and I’m not cleaning it off the bathtub again you lazy pig!”

      6. 3oranges

        Oh yes, Joyce is much too modest too gloat over when she’s right about things like that.
        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/06-strange-beerfellows/stumped/

        On an unrelated note, are these avatars going to last forever now? Because I think being Mary so long is making me a less patient person.

    2. Gram91

      Who said anything about rubbing it in. I’m betting when Joyce gets word of somebody actually desiring a real relationship, she’ll probably be all over it…until pre-marrital hanky panky takes place.

  14. Plasma Mongoose

    Sarah still cannot compete with Joyce when it comes to making epic reaction faces.

  15. SHAZAM

    Yeah I celebrate April Fools in September, weird right?

    1. JustCheetoDust

      Depends on who you ask.

    2. newllend

      Holy shit tomorrows April first I totally didn’t notice.

    3. nothri

      Feh. I’ve been a fool all year, and I will continue to be one well after this day has past. The rest of you are just posers.

  16. Yotomoe

    Oh right…I’m about as fun to be around as pre-enlarged heart Grinch.

  17. theKOT

    The solution? Obv Ros and Sarah hookup. They are both looking for the same thing.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      But Roz might get kicked out if she tries to webcam that sort of thing again.

  18. Kernanator

    “Oh good, I’m so glad you won’t have sex with just any-wait, what?”

  19. newllend

    But still sarah has nothing to worry about when it comes to Roz, according to the last poll 322 people think that sarah is sexeir than Roz.

    I mean just look at that face she making in that last panel that just screams sex appeal…*chuckle*

    1. Yotomoe

      Well Sarah gets bonus points because of purple lipstick, which is in my top 3 sexiest shades of lipstick…of course…my ex used to wear purple lipstick…
      *cries self to sleep*

      1. newllend

        ………

        1. Gigafreak

          All excellent points

  20. nothri

    Come on, Sarah. You know it isn’t that you aren’t able to have a long term relationship. Its that last year’s attempts to establish long term connections got severely burned because you did the right thing and you’ve been bitter and withdrawn ever since. You can do this relationship thing and go to college. LOTS of people do. This doesn’t have to be the deal breaker you think it is.

    Then again, if you insist on the one night stands, you know you got a willing partner in Joe. Now I’m not a fan of the guy, but its well established he has certain skills a lady in your position might be in need of.

    1. saltchocolate

      I think this is it, Nothri — not that she wants a one-night stand, but that she’s scared of what’s involved in pursuing something more . . .

    2. tinfoil theory

      It’s not like Joe hadn’t already offered himself to Sarah, and accepted her rejection.

      1. Leonou

        Don’t worry, Joe’s still ready to please the lady if she ever change her mind.

        1. Jerden

          Joe’s ALWAYS ready!

  21. Giant Speck

    “Near damn anything”?

    1. Yotomoe

      It’s down the street from damn nothing.

    2. KingMabel

      Yes, having sexual relations in close proximity to everything in the surrounding area.

      What’s not to understand?

      1. nothri

        But the ‘damn’ implies they are only near things that are suffering an eternal torment in a fiery afterlife. Which can’t mean anything good.

        1. John

          Well, yeah. Anything near premarital hanky-panky is condemned to an eternity of fiery torment. Just ask Joyce.

  22. rayrayravona

    So I take it Jacob doesn’t suffer from sex addiction in this universe?

    1. nothri

      Well, he was going to law school before the addiction set in. So maybe he has yet to suffer it?

      1. begbert2

        Just wait until Roz corners him. He’ll never be the same.

    2. newllend

      Well not Yet as long as he hangs out with Roz and joe

  23. WaveRocker

    I like this strip. It shows Jacob’s good qualities (e.g. not a man slut), and sets up an important challenge for Sarah

    1. WaveRocker

      In othe words, I like where this is headed.

    2. fit-to-freak

      Why is not having having sex with someone a ‘good quality’? I mean, it’s not a bad quality either. It’s just kind of an attribute.

  24. GhostWriterL

    Long term doesn’t necessarily mean serious or even monogamous. Jacob could mean that he wants a FWB type deal, except more than just sex and one-night-standing. I’ve heard of plenty of people who had longterm friendships that evolved into having sex where neither fell into the “oh shit now I’m in love and want commitment” category, and even open relationships where two (or more) people truly trusted and loved one another, but were fine with their partner(s) being with other people too, so long as they still remained close in some other way.

    So… he COULD just be like “I’m only going to have sex with someone I’m dating and I have the ultimate goal of finding out if they’re “the one” that I’m going to be with forever” or “I’m saving myself for marriage because I think intimacy like that is special”… or he just doesn’t like the prospect of “get in get out and harbor no obligations” like Roz and knows any relationship in college is likely not going to last but wants something that DOES last for awhile… of which he can remain facebook friends with after it does end and still remain in contact with.

    Either way, Sarah might misunderstand or completely not fit what Jacob wants. All depends on what he means, and if she asks, or just assumes that he wants more than she’s willing to give and abandons her efforts.

    1. Jerden

      Yes, but the important thing is that he wants some sort of commitment, and Sarah is really not so sure about that.

  25. Pyr05

    Sarah is confused whether or not that this revelation is a good thing.

  26. Valmore

    Wait – the reclusive Bill Watterson could make an appearance, and you couldn’t get your candy ass over shyness?

    1. Animal

      I have a few Willis photos that I could have submitted, but I’m holding them as potential blackmail material.

    2. 3oranges

      Maybe being with Bill Watterson is a reason to be more shy.
      Maybe he’s reclusive to keep the public in the dark about his true nature.

      1. WaytoomanyUIDs

        Just had a thought. Have you ever seen Bill Watterson anfdd David Willis in the same room?

    3. sps48

      I’m afraid that a Bill Watterson-adjacent project is an April Fools joke.

  27. Miles

    wait its april fools day, that means he does want a one night stand with that one girl!

  28. OmegaDez

    He’s a respectable man.

    Quite unusual, for a buff, good looking guy.

  29. Deirdre Mundy

    Oh dear… he has a crush on Joyce, doesn’t he? That’s why he’s pumping Sarah for all those Joyce stories… so he can bring her a hamburger without onions…….

    Sarah’s headed for a major disappointment…

  30. Brady Kj

    On March 12, I was positive that this Jacob has the same problem as the other Jacob, but now I’m not too sure. I suppose he does, but more nuanced than that.

  31. maycroft

    OWWWW!!!!!

  32. Gigafreak

    Guns, the last member of Walkyverse Squad 48, had her hypothetical Dumbiverse design posted to David Willis’ tumblr. She is a weightlifting enthusiast, and her nickname “Guns” now is a reference to her biceps. It’s labeled April Fools, but now I am curious as to
    1) what her real name is
    2) if she and Jacob ever run into each other at the campus gym, and
    3) if so, whether they’ve ever arm-wrestled

  33. SilverArrowArtemis

    I voted for Danny and he’s STILL last. :r

  34. Quatoria

    Oh….

    1. Quatoria

      Oh dear. He’s a virgin, isn’t he.

  35. WildeEngineer

    So…..is Jacob saying he’s a virgin?

  36. Kschenke

    I’m focused on how casually he says, “She just wants to have her way with me.”

  37. Marisa Mockery

    Will it be available on things that aren’t iTunes? I don’t have/want iTunes.

    1. David M Willis

      check the faq on the site i linked: http://www.strippedfilm.com/

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