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Temptation
Posted on April 5, 2013 by David M Willis

254 thoughts on “Temptation”

  1. Valdrax

    The perfect intro for Jacob. I just about died laughing.

    1. NCP19

      Heh, exactly!

    2. David Herbert

      Woo, JACOB! And he’s totally getting my sexy vote.

      1. Khrene Cleaver

        Yeah! I’m straight and I’d ship it!

        1. Li

          lol what

          Your sexual orientation should have no bearing on which couples you ship. If it did, I’d have to be some kind of pansexual, because I like couples that range from gay to straight to cross-species to talking animals.

          Seriously. 😉

        2. taekwondogirl

          I’m wondering if Khrene is just incorrectly saying “ship” instead of “hit” here? Like, I’m straight and I’d still hit it! would make sense, but yeah… shipping it doesn’t really require any particular orientation.

        3. Andrusi

          A lot of people have this weird idea that shipping is always motivated by being sexually attracted to the characters. (The easiest way to flush out people like this is to bring up a pairing consisting of teenagers.)

        4. sd

          You make it sound as though there’s something strange about being sexually attracted to one or more teenagers.

        5. Li

          Depends on your age.

        6. vlademir1

          That’s not really apt. Age only really enters into how society at large, law enforcement and psychology view it if the sexual attraction is being acted upon in some way or if it’s an exclusive attraction. Meanwhile, in some circles, a more than passing sexual attraction to those who are just pubescent and those who are prepubescent is considered concerning at any age, as it may be a sign of a future exclusive attraction to those of that age.

        7. Li

          1.) That’s very silly. Morality has and will always continue to exist independent of “laws” and “society at large”. Whether or not society thinks so, it is still wrong to have sex with a teenager if you yourself are an adult. This is not because of a magical invisible line between 20 and 21, but because of very real brain development going on in the teen years. The developing brain can be manipulated by the developed brain, and that is what renders such relationships morally suspect: the power imbalance.

          2.) Maybe I’m just lucky, but I’ve found that the age range of people I’m attracted to moves with me. I was attracted to other teens and twenty-somethings when I was a teen, twenty-somethings and thirty-somethings when I was a twenty-something, etc. Nearing thirty, people in their forties are looking less old and more age-appropriate to me.

        8. sd

          “This is not because of a magical invisible line between 20 and 21, but because of very real brain development going on in the teen years”
          This reasoning does not lead where you think it leads. It leads to a minimum age of consent of 25.

        9. Somebody

          Um what? 16 and 17 are the legal age in some states. Those circles are fucking idiotic.

        10. Somebody

          Ha “not apt” my ass.

        11. Somebody

          Whoops…I thought you were saying it wasn’t limited to age. My bad.

        12. Li

          “It leads to a minimum consent age of 25.”

          Unless of course my point was ALWAYS that adults shouldn’t manipulate teens into sex, meaning IMHO two teens can have sex with each other.

        13. Gemma Weasley

          Let’s all just agree that we ship it. Age doesn’t matter ( well I mean legally it does) but I know 10 year old boys who are gay, 13 year old girls who are bi and 17 year old pansexuals.

    3. Undrave

      I know right! Oh god…

      I wonder if he and Joe will be bond over man-whoring? XD

    4. Volkai

      Truer words!

    5. Reepicheep-chan

      Oh God I know right? I just about choked. This is the most perfect DOA strip.

    6. Anonymous

      Yes! *checked the ‘jacob’ tag, just to confirm that the impact was all I thought it was*

  2. JebJeb

    I knew his roommate was either gonna be Jacob or Faz!

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Faz would be a LOT LESS tempting, unless the temptation is to murder him, then that’s a different story.

      1. JebJeb

        Well my train of thought for this was “How does Willis hate Ethan? Subject him to Faz as a roommate, or subject him to eye candy?”

        1. timemonkey

          Could have helped explain the stupidity in regards to his sexuality if Faz had tried to explain the kinsey scale to him. XD

      2. Wonder Wig

        The great Faz makes no distinction between come-ons and murder threats. Faz finds them equally arousing.

        1. Yotomoe

          Faz finds everything arousing. Faz would watch a 2 hour porn about 2 desk lamps.

        2. Wonder Wig

          So, Luxo Jr.?

        3. Valdrax

          *squeaka* *thump* *squeaka* *thump*
          You know, if you close your eyes and just listen to the sound effects…

        4. Marcos Dantas

          That is … sick!
          They are father and son!

        5. Bill M.

          Not when they put on the blinds…

        6. ProjectXa3

          GAAH MY BRAIN!!

        7. Narf

          IIRC Mr. Willis’s preferred onomatopoeia for bed-sexin’ is “thumpaSPRUNG, thumpaSPRUNG!” 😛

        8. Zach

          I have the overwhelming urg to see, or possibly direct such a porno. They would be those articulating lamps, though using the coiling ones would be cheating… A dentists lamp maybe?

        9. Baroncognito

          Either way, it sounds like something Linkara should review.

        10. Andiemus

          please, this just screams cinema snob. “Clearly, they should have gone with a desk lamp here, since the scriptwriters must have written this BLIND.”

        11. Baroncognito

          But Lamps are Linkara’s purview.

        12. Lukkai

          Team up maybe?

        13. Eisu

          Them Pixar lamps?

        14. Spiny Creature

          Haha, I wasn’t reading carefully, and so I saw “I have the overwhelming urge to see, or possibly direct, a porno.” And I was like “…you’re skipping a lot of steps there, sheltered Joyce avatar. You need to watch at LEAST four hours of porn before you can become a director.”

          I dunno, I just pictured Joyce never having seen porn because it’s a sin, but convinced that she could become a porn director regardless 😛

        15. John

          In Christ, all things are possible.

        16. Tenn

          “Faz, are you just looking at things in the store and saying that you love them?”
          “I love lamp.”

      3. Aizat

        They should made a book on why for some insane reason that Faz is still alive.

      4. Khrene Cleaver

        Your gravatar ain’t Azula, it must be her nega-verse twin who is totally chillaxed and cool.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          If canon Azula was like Shaundi from Saints Row 3, then my grav version of Azula is the SR2 version.

        2. Yarrr

          <3 Azula, stoner version included!

    2. Foxhack

      Oh god, can you imagine Faz being attracted to males?

      … you know, I think we found a way to make ANYONE asexual!

      1. Lukkai

        Can you imagine Faz being attracted to males?

        Very easily in fact! And not only because of Ninja Rick sheathing his sword.

  3. John Harmon

    Instaboner.

    1. NerdHerder

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nu14L2myvE

      1. Khrene Cleaver

        That was… unpleasant to watch given the context of boners…

      2. AckAckAck

        Spineless version.

    2. jiynx

      i’m straight…. and i can’t blame him.

  4. Yotomoe

    First Joe, now Jacob!? What is it with guys and being in their underwear in front of their roomies!? IT’S AN EPIDEMIC!!!

    1. jrgolden42

      Clearly you never lived in a dorm. That is an unavoidable event sometimes. Especially after a few weeks of living together

      1. timemonkey

        Not if they’re like me and don’t wear underwear at all!

        1. Peruhain

          Living in a dorm kinda pushes one in the direction of wearing . . . underwear . . . jammies . . . SOMETHING at least. I used to sleep naked before I went off to college, but took to wearing shorts to bed after the first time my roommate invited a girl into the room when I was in bed, attired in my birthday suit for sleep.

      2. David Herbert

        I’ve always changed in the bathroom.

      3. Whittier

        My first school had communal showers for the guys. And some of the guys found all sorts of other excuses to be/become naked.

    2. Jake

      I honestly don’t think my closest friends have seen me with pants on since High School.

  5. Aizat

    What is with guys named Jacob and working out with no clothes on?

    1. Yotomoe

      What is the deal with gay guys named Ethan and crippling denial?

      1. NCP19

        And why will no one ever tell me what the deal is with airline food? It’s a simple enough question!

        1. Aizat

          And why won’t they make a sequel to Shin Mazinger? And where is my flying car? I was promised flying cars! Why? Why? WHY?

        2. AckAckAck

          Maybe they want to make Neo Shin Mazinger? also you need to wait for flying hoverboard before flying car.

        3. KingStarscream

          Well that depends. Would you be willing to say, cut off your foot for a flying car?

        4. Jay

          Since you asked: The high altitude numbs your sense of taste, so everything seems more bland. Additionally, the food has to be prepared ahead of time and refrigerated to be reheated on the flight.

      2. Saru

        What is up with characters studying in a comic about college?

    2. Brian Lynch

      What is up with people named Dina Sarazu and dinosa-NOW I GET IT.

      1. John

        She’s actually “Saruyama” in this world.

        1. Brian Lynch

          Weird. I thought I typed that. I didn’t even read It’s Walky, I’m just dimly aware of it, and of her name in it.

        2. AckAckAck

          Saru=Monkey

          Yama=Mountain

          so………

        3. Li

          Really depends how it’s written. Could mean that. Probably does have the “yama” character in it, but saru could be written any number of ways and could also be sa-ru, two different characters. Names, you know? Anything goes, just like in any other language.

        4. Andiemus

          Wouldn’t that mean that Dina is definitively pronounced Dee-na too?

        5. David

          #3: http://www.dumbingofage.com/about/

        6. Andiemus

          I’m not sure if I should be happy to have gotten it right, or sad that my linguistic detective skills were entirely unneccesary.

        7. Li

          I find it is unnecessary to render further response.

        8. vlademir1

          Knowing Willis it likely is “monkey mountain” if any thought into it’s meaning was ever given, but, at least by the Japanese to English dictionary I use online, it could also give the meaning of “last mountain” or “a particular mountain… that, of course, doesn’t include the open potentials of bad transliteration (intentional or not) or dialectual differences that dictionary doesn’t know. I’ve come across a few in manga, but my understanding of Japanese is fairly limited anyway so I’m more prone to find such things than if I understood the language better.

  6. Z3tto

    Now kiss

    1. HK-A6A7

      … Slowly.

      1. timemonkey

        Licky style.

  7. Jen Aside

    Ohhhhh myyyyy

    1. NCP19

      I’m hearing this in George Takei’s voice, I can only assume this was your intention.

    2. Joe H

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WahBH9sANg

    3. Aizat

      Damnit Takei!

  8. licoricepencil

    I’m sure Ethan’s temptation feels tight in his pants heheheheheheh.

  9. Juliecat

    oh that is just EVIL

  10. Wonder Wig

    Walky may be sculpted caramel, but Jacob is a hunk of pure chocolate.

    1. Yotomoe

      So if I were to ship them, it’d be called Reeses’ Shipping? HEY! YOU GOT YOUR JACOB IN MY WALKY! HEY! YOU GOT YOUR WALKY IN MY JACOB!

      1. NCP19

        Reese’s are peanut butter though…I think that’s more like Snickers (which is a funnier shipping name I think). Is someone in the cast smooth peanut butter?

        1. jiynx

          nah, it’s like a milky way.

          which sounds like a porn move…

      2. timemonkey

        Reeses is chocolate and peanut butter, not caramel.

        1. Yotomoe

          You’re right. In my eagerness to make a clever throwback to a very dated reference to a commercial, I have accidentally mentioned the wrong candy bar. It’s time for me to do the right thing and commit seppukku.

        2. timemonkey

          Unless you can think of someone else to be peanut butter, then they can be a threesome representing those sucky limitted time Resses.

        3. KingoftheBookcase

          I’m pretty sure caramel and chocolate is just a Rolo packet.

        4. Senorvorpalkickass'o

          Caramilk.

          Now now down before my genius.

        5. N0083rP00F

          Nobody knows how they willis get the caramel into the chocolate ….

      3. Coru

        As has been pointed out, Reese’s are peanut butter.

        I’m a Twix shipper myself.

        1. LockeZ

          Twix have a third ingredient, cookies. I think you must mean Caramello.

          Twix would be Walky + Jacob + Roz. Since Roz has the nicest pair of cookies.

        2. tyren22

          Twix is a Walky/Jacob/Ethan threesome.

          Hot, melted chocolate covering flowing caramel and a white cookie.

          Now I’m hungry.

        3. Led

          Well that puts the breakfast Twix I have some days into a whole new perspective…

        4. Spiny Creature

          It should worry me that I’ll be entering the post-college job market in a little over a year, yet if someone asked me right now what being a financially independent grownup means to me, I would say “the freedom to eat breakfast Twix.”

        5. begbert2

          Twix: the phallic candy bar.

        6. Lukkai

          Say…

          How many do still remember Twix being named Raider?

        7. taekwondogirl

          I’ll ship that for a dollar.

      4. ArkhamTexan

        Let’s see the kids in high school that sell candy for fundraisers sell THAT!

    2. Grimlockimus

      Ethan just got his own Chocolate Bear, the Scrubs fantasy shall commence.

    3. Plasma Mongoose

      Both high in sugars and causing you to crack some fat?

  11. Khantalas

    Ah, Jacob, I really missed you.

  12. Aizat

    Ethan, if temptation comes your way, do this: Imagine the hot guy looking like Jeff the Killer.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Or just imagine BoB guy NAKED!

      1. Aizat

        Or imagine BoB guy looking like a naked Jeff the Killer.

        1. Lukkai

          If everything else fails: Man-Faye!

  13. SUGauthor

    I was wondering who his roommate was.

    1. Aizat

      I thought it was Joe.

      1. timemonkey

        Joe is rooming with Danny, we learned that in the first chapter.

      2. Yotomoe

        That’s Danny, fool!

        1. Aizat

          I’m sorry, Mr. T. Please don’t hit me.

        2. Yotomoe

          Only if you stay in school and eat your vegies. Also helping out around the house helps you to be an aid to your family and helps you work to being a contributing member of society.

        3. Andiemus

          That’s right. Teach us to be somebody!

        4. Hatman

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhZRqPPTNjE

  14. DanielleM

    So is he clinching his erection between his legs in that last panel?

    Yeah Ethan you can “totally” do this.

    1. Andiemus

      On both beds and against the door, maybe.

  15. Kurai Seraphim

    I just did a spit take and I wasn’t even drinking. Well played, Willis… well played…

    1. Senorvorpalkickass'o

      DAMN

  16. Nono

    Ahahahha YES

    Please make this ship happen Willis. Even though Jacob is straight.

    1. Zach

      Is that established? All we know is he’s a sex addict. This ship, though shantally built, may yet sail.

      1. Nono

        Willis has said that all characters’ orientations are the same in this universe. Jacob has (so far) only shown interest in women in the Walkyverse.

        Doesn’t necessarily make him straight, but it’d be weird for a sex addict to only be addicted to sex of one gender if he wasn’t attracted to only one gender.

        1. vsophi

          What else is college for but bi-curious experimentation?

        2. Aydr

          Who knows, maybe he developed said addiction as a defense mechanism against his homosexual urges.

          Doesn’t make a lot of sense but why not, let’s be honest we basically know fuck-all about Jacob.

        3. Aydr

          …that really was not supposed to be a pun. Honest.

  17. Sean

    And so the downward spiral begins…..

  18. Turkey Dave

    Come and knock on our door…..
    We’ve been waiting for you……
    Where the kisses are his and his and hers,
    Three’s company too!

  19. Kernanator

    Oh god, I nearly died laughing at that last panel. Totally unexpected, well done.

    On a related topic, I need to remember not to eat when reading Willis’ comics.

    1. Yotomoe

      I need to not read while eating Willis’ comics.

    2. Heimdallw32

      Or drink, for that matter.

  20. NCP19

    And now the poll is “DoA’s hottest guy” WELL THAT’S NOT FAIR AT ALL. I MEAN LOOK AT JACOB UP THERE. No seriously, look at him. HE’S VERY PRETTY.

    1. Aizat

      What, and the caramel perfection is not? Or the lovable sex machine isn’t either?

    2. John

      I’m still votin’ for Mike.

  21. Safgaftsa

    I wonder if Joyce will end up with Jacob once Ethan stops trying to change himself. Jacob is, by origin, a Jewish name…

    1. John

      So’s “Michael”. And “David”. And “Daniel”. And “Dorothy”.

      (Okay, that last isn’t. I just wanted another excuse to ship them.)

      1. timemonkey

        That is a worthy reason.

      2. Safgaftsa

        There are already plenty of reasons that people ship Joyce and Dorothy.

      3. Davriel

        And Joe, Ethan, Dina, Ruth, Sarah…half the cast has names of Jewish origin

  22. Beachfox

    YES!
    (I just shouted this outloud. My husband is giving me an odd look.)
    Dear god, YES.
    That’s it, Ethan. Surpress your inborn desires to run your tongue over every inch of that chiseled block of manmeat. More for the rest of us!

    1. Beachfox

      Also: Yet another romantic entanglement unique to the Dummiverse!

  23. John

    Oh yeah, I saw this coming. I guess I don’t get points for it because I didn’t call it beforehand, but between Willis mentioning that some roommate assignments were secret surprises, him hiding the corner of the finished poster where I’d spotted Jacob on the sketchy version and saying that it contained secrets, and the question, “Who could Jacob room with that would cause the most possible emotional trauma?”… it seemed pretty obvious.

    1. John

      Oh, and of course this is why the “hottest dude” poll had to wait ’til today.

      1. Zach

        Where was i for this? I was shipping him with Mike. It just seemed organic in fact I bet Mike will help Ethan through his denial the same way he has in the past.

        1. Zach

          Wow. They need to have separate votes on who is the most datable, screwable, and for having the most long term potential.

      2. Senorvorpalkickass'o

        Five of the same avatar. IN. A. ROW.

        …I’m going to regret saying that.

        1. John

          Yeah, we need to get some other people posting in here. The Billie density is getting dangerously high. Before long, this part of the comments section will be informing everyone that it was a cheerleader in high school and trying to put drunken moves on Sal.

          Oh, and since I missed my opportunity to call this development in advance, I’ll go double-or-nothing with this one: The threesome Joe couldn’t quite remember was Joe, Jacob, and some chick (I’ve got no good guesses for her identity… One of the only-background-so-far Squad 48 girls? Mary? Someone we haven’t met?). They kicked Ethan out of the room so they could get their bone on, thus compounding Ethan’s frustration problems.

        2. vsophi

          Oh god yes. Please let Jacob be the third party in that ambiguous threesome.

  24. vsophi

    I FELL TO THE GROUND LAUGHING I JUST CAN’T

  25. Theozilla

    That is just too perfect. I wonder if Ethan’s first reaction when he met Jacob was one of these:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X4v3WmpNo8
    Although it seems like Ethan does not have to do much imagining on his part.

  26. Ter

    Oh… Oh *my*.

  27. Robert

    Okay that was just brilliant.

  28. Audiophillie

    …and there goes the basis for all of my previous arguments… ^^;

    1. Li

      /hug?

      It happens to us all sometimes!

      1. Audiophillie

        Thanks. Oh well. ^^;

  29. Regalli

    HAHA! YES! ETHAN, YOUR SUFFERING IS GONNA BE DELICIOUS!

    1. Aizat

      How does suffering tastes like, your lordship?

      1. Andiemus

        I personally prepare it with citrus and ground hopes. Wash it down with orphan tears. The saltiness of the tears and the hopes offset the sweet and tanginess of the suffering and citrus.

      2. Regalli

        Like chicken, of course, seasoned with the lemon juice poured over their open wounds.

  30. Mr Soviet

    The revelation of Ethans roomate was even more perfect than I imagined. Man I love fridays!

  31. Emoroffle

    Temptation is beefy. Willis, you are a terrible person and I love you for it.

  32. moocartoons

    KIND OF CALLED IT.

  33. Brian Lynch

    I’ve been wondering the past few days who Ethan’s roommate is and why Jacob didn’t get the new main character spot in the Shortpacked banner. I now know both of those things.

    1. Reepicheep-chan

      Haha, I was wondering where our” hottest dude” poll was. QUESTION ANSWERED.

  34. SUGauthor

    So basically you were holding off the hottest dudes contest for Jacob’s introduction? It seems to me you’re just setting the other dudes up for failure.

    1. Greenygal

      It does appear to be going pretty well for Jacob, doesn’t it?

  35. Doctor_Who

    Didn’t see that coming. Nice one, Willis.

  36. Uniqueantique

    Well played indeed. Poor Ethan. or Lucky Ethan?

    1. Yotomoe

      Plucky Ethan.

    2. Heavensrun

      Pluck-oh goddammit, Yotomoe!

  37. Yotomoe

    I would like to think Jesus WOULD want you to spot him. It is the neighborly thing to do.

  38. Somebody

    OH SHIT LOL

  39. Grimlockimus

    Jacob’s the temptation Ethan deserves, but not the one Ethan needs right now. So, we’ll ship them, because Ethan can take it. Because he’s not our straight guy. He’s a silent homosexual. A watchful protector. A Jewish Chuck

    Just got done watching Dark Knight, couldn’t be helped.

    1. Andiemus

      I applaud your adaptation of that line, friend.

    2. J42

      “Thank you”

  40. Equuizzicals

    Bravo willis. Bravo.

  41. Aras Pabedinskas

    … So is Jacob a sex addict in this world too, because I want to see Joyce, Ethan and him all form this sort of Anti-sex support group.

    1. Senorvorpalkickass'o

      Thereby forming the greatest love triangle in the walkyverse!

      1. andysdrawings

        If by “love triangle” you mean “threesome”.

    2. timemonkey

      Joe and Roz will destroy them. XD

  42. Tom Speelman

    FUCKING CALLED IT!!!!

  43. Alex Stritar

    So Jacob is at college. Well, there goes my headcanon of him, Ken, Malaya and Lucy all going to the same high school together.

  44. name

    Alright Ethan I understand your problem and I got your soultion. Just picture Joyce whenever you see some hot dude you wanna bone. After a while, you’ll associate boning with Joyce, and all problems will be solved. I’ll take my money now please.

    1. Whittier

      There are folks actually making fortunes doing exactly that. :-\

  45. CRtwenty

    Am I the only one who got RuPaul’s “Supermodel” stuck in their head after looking at the last panel?

    1. clodia

      Nope, but now I do! Thanks! [note, this is not sarcasm. being the internet, it is hard to tell. but that song is hella fun.]

  46. arglbargl

    FUCKING I KNEW IT

    he was in the poster (you can’t hide from me!), and i was like, i wonder when jacob’s gonna show up but here he is

  47. Kiggy

    That last panel reminded me of Giz Lagace’s MenageA3…

  48. E.C.

    Control takes a lifetime to achieve, Ethan.

  49. Zoey

    Bro do you even lift?!

  50. Romanticide

    Wondering what Jacob’s adictions are this time…

    1. Spiny Creature

      It would be kind of hilarious if he was a compulsive exerciser (and yes, that is a real thing). Given the nature of his introduction, and Willis’ love of making Ethan suffer, it could totally happen.

    2. Roborat

      He exercises in his room> Boy, if he is a compulsive exerciser, that room is gonna smell really interesting.

  51. bunivasal

    Jacob’s chocolate abs are temptation regardless of your sexual preference.

  52. Dierna

    Oh hai Jacob. Fancy meeting you here…Now excuse me while I go find my drool bucket….

  53. Giovanni

    PERFECT PLAY. This is why I will follow all the Willis comics forever. The dramatic trap always snaps shut at exactly the right moment, and after the shock wears off you’re left wondering just how long the author waited to reveal this information (or, in some cases, to call back to a clue or joke that is sometimes many years old). I never expected things to be going in the directions they’re going in either comic but this one especially, and I’m totally gripped.

  54. andysdrawings

    HI JACOB

  55. Jimmy

    I’m very happy to see Jacob again. And even though Ethan doesn’t show it, I’m sure he’s happy too. 😉

  56. Gordon Blvd

    Man…….you go away for two days and you miss a “SHIP”LOAD of stuff on here, dontcha? lol

  57. Charles RB

    TEMPTATION WON.

  58. Ragnal

    Why did I NOT see that coming?! *facepalm*

  59. Notebooked

    After so much drama, this is, like, the biggest punchline.
    The concealing. The non-conspicous absence of a character (who might have been believably absent on account of not playing a big part). The setup. The everything. So very well played.

  60. Sir Robin

    Oh crap!!!

    http://www.dramabutton.com/

  61. Arturo

    I can’t recall, is this Jacob’s first appearance in the DoA universe? Willis has so many universes it seems, so many universes with so much many man chests.

    1. Jason

      Yes…check the tags!

  62. Ronnie

    Ah, Jacob. Well-played, Willis. Epic punchline.

  63. clodia

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

    Also, thank you for the fanservice, Willis.

  64. Whittier

    That was one of the toughest votes I’ve ever had to make.

  65. Otera

    hahaha Ethan’s gonna have one hell of a hard time with this!
    hmmm….. I know how I hope to see Ethan and Joyce’s relationship go down in flames! Ethan and Jacob… and then Mike and Joyce. she already kinda seems to see him as a protector in this universe and he…. seems to have avoided tormenting her. maybe it’s a silly thought…. brought on by a prolonged lack of Mike

    1. Tarkada

      Mike willing came with her to a date with someone that he probably knew was a very sex-driven male. He knew he didn’t have to torture her to see her burn down.

  66. taekwondogirl

    I’m slightly confused by Jacob being in college with them; Shortpacked! gave me the impression that he was younger than everyone else by several years.

    1. Enkai

      He’s not the first with a different relative age, though. Robin and Leslie are the same age as the main Shortpacked crew in the Walkyverse. They’ve been aged up several years here, as Robin has to be at least 9 years older than everybody else (became a Representative at 25, and I think she mentioned it’s an election year, in the fall, so she’s been a rep for close to 2 years at least).

    2. Gaiash

      They’re whatever age allows them to have the role that it planned for them.

      1. David

        ding ding!

  67. girly2k

    Well, shoot. I forgot this was a COMIC strip for a bit. Still excited for what’s to come! 😉

  68. rayrayravona

    Haha of course Willis waited until Jacob was introduced into the dumbiverse to put up the hottest male poll.

  69. Ashley

    Todo mal, Ethan.
    Todo mal.

  70. anywhere

    Soooo glad you kept Ethan’s roommate a secret until now. 😀 😀 😀

    This was the best possible roommate reveal ever, so this is the best possible of all Walkyverses.

  71. Pinja

    Are there any other major characters whose roommates we haven’t seen?

    1. Greenygal

      Assuming that Ruth rooms alone, I think that’s everybody.

      1. Regalli

        Looks like she does, considering she drinks in her room and enlists Billie as a drinking buddy that one time.

        So, assuming that,
        Joyce-Sarah
        Danny-Joe
        Mike-Walky
        Billie-Sal
        Amber-Dina
        Dorothy-Sierra
        Ethan-Jacob
        Roz-Mary (Roz has a page on the cast list, and considering the developments going on she’ll probably be reappearing eventually)

        Semi-important characters whose roommates we don’t know:
        Raidah (Though it seems likely to me either Chan or Char is hers)
        Beef (Most important character in all of DoA or the Walkyverse, folks, mark my words)

        Burning questions:
        Buckets of Blood Guy (He’s not at all important. I just want to know what poor bastard got stuck with him)

        1. John

          It was standard at my college, anyway, for the RA to have a single.

          I’m sure that it’s always entirely safe to just ignore Beef. There’s no way that could ever come back on anyone with any lamentable consequences whatsoever.

        2. timemonkey

          Were the consequences really that dire? Did anyone, in comic, really seem to care after the fact?

        3. Greenygal

          I would say that the consequences were pretty dire for the people who died.

        4. timemonkey

          But Beef only killed Guns. Does anyone care about Guns?

        5. Greenygal

          I think Beef also has some culpability for the deaths of Mandy and Grace, since he was helping the bad guys get in and out of SEMME. And Daisy and the rest of Squad 48 were pretty broken up about it at the time.

  72. maycroft

    “girl look at that body
    tchewwwww

    girl look at that body…
    I work out.”

  73. Christina

    I just came here to say that my vote for Jason as one of my two ‘hottest guys’ is Jason with his hair messed up and his bowtie undone, because *that* was the hottest thing ever. I feel like “Jason with his bowtie undone” should be a totally separate option from “Jason,” in fact.

    1. LittleWyvern18

      OH MY GOD THE AMOUNT THAT I AGREE WITH YOU

  74. Dahlia

    ^^;; I think Ethans about to get a good taste of what he made Amber feel like with the whole “my Barn door don’t swing that way” on prom night, because I’m not certain Jacob’s barn door swings THAT way…

  75. LittleWyvern18

    yeah unfortunately “trivial” and “manageable” were not the words I had in mind whenever something like this happened to me…

  76. TJ Baltimore

    Late to the comments, but . . .

    OK, so although Jacob is easy to lust after, I see Ethan falling hard for Danny. He likes Danny’s hair, and Danny probably has that nerdy social awkwardness that can be so endearing. Not act on PSL for a probablynstraight and therefore unattainable hunky roommate? Easy. Not letting yourself fall in love with a sweet, likable guy whose no one else seems to notice? Not so easy.

    (Maybe I’m just channeling my own coming-out-to-myself story here . . .)

    1. vsophi

      I ship it. >.> <.<

    2. timemonkey

      So, Ethan’s gonna fall for the guy Ambers with?

      1. Andiemus

        Oh, god. The awkwardness there would be catastrophic. So of course Willis will do exactly that.

  77. Roborat

    Yay, Jacob! I was wondering if he was ever going to show up. For some reason I thought he would show up as a teacher.

  78. Ray

    The ongoing punchline through roommate reveal is hilarious. Amazing how many of these David has been sitting on, waiting for the right time.

  79. Anthony

    Jacob makes any temptation unbearable!

  80. Stephen

    David Willis thinks I’m sexy! 🙂

    (Thanks for the huge drawing of Joyce in my autographed book! I just read it cover-to-cover! The making-of comments are great. I can tell that you put a lot of thought and effort into making a quality strip. Looking forward to Volume Two!)

  81. Ty Ty

    Off with the socks,

    Out with the c*cks!

  82. Zababcd

    Every so often I use various pictures in my environment to test out new features I build in to the image editing program I develop as a hobby. This includes Dumbing of Age comics. Normally I wouldn’t bother to post one of my test images, but I felt that it was necessary to share my program’s interpretation of Ethan in the last panel.

    Actually, I’ve just decided that I won’t post a link to it; I’ll just make it my gravatar. The current one was getting old anyway. Give me a moment to update.

    1. Kernanator

      Hahahahaha, what the shit.

  83. Jason

    Ha, I think it’s hilarious that Jason is beating Danny AND JOE in the poll! (I voted for Jason ironically, and also because of his name.) Joe just gets no love in these polls.

    1. timemonkey

      There are people who think Danny is hot?

  84. MR C

    Ethan:

    “stupid sexy jacob”
    http://24.media.tumblr.com/5b11d08fea2148dbbed31a097b148d6b/tumblr_mgunssmF4H1rklwdco1_500.gif

  85. Esser-Z

    And crunches. Lots of crunches.

  86. Cat

    Why won’t the poll let me pick Jacob more than once?

  87. Ashley

    Why would you fight that temptation? I mean, that’s the kind of temptation I’d rather not fight. Or fight while covered in oil.

  88. rachel

    oh yaaaay a re-read has rewarded me with an AMAZING alt-text!!

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