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Traditionally
Posted on May 3, 2023 by David M Willis

136 thoughts on “Traditionally”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    is exhibitionism part of the danger

    1. jeffepp

      You’ve seen how she dresses when it’s warm enough. So, yes.

      1. Decidedly Orthogonal

        Damn you Willis for giving us this in Winter Semester. Fingers crossed for an unseasonably short winter and hot spring. Or they just go to hotsprings during winter. Either or.

        1. Lysbeth

          HOT SPRINGS OVA

        2. rachel

          HOT SPRINGS OVA!!!

        3. Taffy

          Oh yeah, all those hot springs laying around all over Indiana.

    2. Dara

      yes.

      yes, it is.

  2. Doctor_Who

    Joe, climbing out a window in pursuit of sexy shenanigans? Not in this universe.

    1. TerribleTransit

      In this universe the sexy shenanigans climb the window to him.

      … Look, it’s fine. If Joyce can climb a tree that fast I’m sure she can safely scale a building if sufficiently mortified.

      1. GholaHalleck

        Sal has to take her to home depot to find a study enough smoochin’ ladder, and Joyce gets lost in the dryer aisle and fantasizes about one of those bachelor shows her mother forbade her to watch.

      2. Freezer

        Scale it? She could probably vault it.

    2. Angel

      it’d probably be something joyce would have julia grey do maybe lol

  3. C.T. Phipps

    Joe realizes in that moment….he wanted Dan.

    1. Paradoxius

      Joyce outright stated in that moment that she wanted Sal…

  4. BBCC

    YES, Joe! You shut your face!

    1. BBCC

      Huh. Lyle’s here now.

      Yay! Hoping that means a bigger role going forth.

  5. NGPZ

    Awe!!!! ?

  6. CMasta1992

    Joyce already has the ability to ascend to great heights when embarrassed. She’s halfway there already.

    1. Risky

      Certo! This was my first thought as well.

  7. Just an Armadillo

    Joe has already spent too much time in this relationship getting Joyce down from high places to even entertain the idea of letting her climb her way up to a third story window.

  8. nobodybasically

    Finally, all of Danny’s sucking has paid off!

    1. True Survivor

      Thanks for the smile.

    2. GholaHalleck

      the perfect gravatar for this statement.

    3. PirateTawnee

      To paraphrase Wayne Campbell – “He certainly does suck”.

      Just kidding Danny, you’re a good boy.

  9. Sirksome

    Everyone’s hooking up post winter break. All it will take is Sarah finding some D and this will be the season of horny.

    1. Angel

      i think sarah has the ‘other jacob’ for that, i can’t think of anyone she’d hookup willingly on campus even as a one night stand lol

      1. Nono

        Well there was Jacob. Otherwise ehhhhh Drew I dunno? He *is* bi and seems decently built.

        1. Angel

          well, Jacob and raidah not being together anymore ,not sure if sarah would still be interested since it was mostly sexual (on sarah’s end) and i don’t think jacob wants a one night stand

    2. HueSatLight

      Dorothy still has to make a new connection (with Arnold).

  10. sultryglebe

    Panel 4 Dan face!

    1. sultryglebe

      And Panel 3 Sal. They are chemistry-ing. They will work it out.

  11. DailyBrad

    Wait, so were Joe and Joyce there this whole time or did they just come in?

    Also, this is very cool of Sal and all, but no one tell her that Danny has had sex where a grappling hook was part of the process. She might feel a tad inclined to overcompensate.

    1. TerribleTransit

      She’s already been told

      1. DailyBrad

        Ah, good catch, I’d forgotten that. Such a great punchline, between both her and Joe’s reactions.

  12. UrsulaDavina

    How long have they been there?

    1. cbwroses

      Accidentally clicked flag.
      My bad.

  13. brute

    Joyce wishes to make love like an eagle, falling out of the sky

    1. NGPZ

      More like an eagle piloting a blimp! ?

  14. UrsulaDavina

    Tbh Joyce seems pretty adept at climbing so this is a realistic goal for her and Joe.

  15. Dr. T

    Sal thinks that’s dangerous, but Danny definitely has that beaten, I believe.

  16. Jo_cubstar

    I love Joyce’s face in the last panel. She looks adorable and so excited

  17. RassilonTDavros

    Even though I started with DoA there is still something deeply hilarious about seeing Joyce get all excited over Danny and Sal kissing.

  18. Joe Moose

    YES!

  19. Suet

    I mean, who’s who in that scenario?

    *plays Come to My Window* I know Sal’s knees are bent forward but don’t let go!

  20. Yotomoe

    Joe is not gonna climb through any windows and he’d have a heart attack if Joyce tried to.

    1. Decidedly Orthogonal

      This Joe, mayyyybe, but it’s not completely out of character for
      Joe to climb through windows.

  21. Taffy

    This one’s just cute. Find problems with it in a way that’s coherent, motherfuckers, I dare you. I double dare you.

    1. Bittersweet

      Sal standing on that ledge is making me uncomfortable. Idk why, just this strip specifically is the first one where I’m like “WAIT BUT GRAVITY” lol.

      1. Keulen

        Same, I’ve been worried that Sal might slip and fall off the ledge for the past couple strips of her and Danny. Other than that this is cute.

    2. Justnobodyfqwl

      … Wait, have people tssk-tssking the characters for imagined moral sleights EVER been coherent here?

    3. GholaHalleck

      Think of the poor janitor who has to keep squeegeeing Sal’s bootprints off the windows every day!

      1. justin8448

        The real hero of this comic!

      2. Taffy

        She wipes her boots on the window mat Danny left out. It’s got extra grip and fastens to a spot on the wall. Checkmate, lib.

        1. GholaHalleck

          But what about the other two floors?! Checkmate yourself whatever they use for not lib!

        2. Taffy

          The other two floors are bypassed by the tree. Those are the rules of chess.

      3. zee

        I doubt anyone actually cleans the windows tbh

      4. Decidedly Orthogonal

        Yeah, but that’s be offset by also getting to lick uh… clean off the smear her chest leaves too.

        1. Taffy

          If you’re horny enough to lick somebody’s third-floor bedroom window just because some teenager’s clothed boobs touched it, you’re horny enough to wash some dishes for once.

  22. Nono

    Imagine if Joyce and Danny swapped relationships.

    No I didn’t mix up those names.

    1. Dana

      Pretty sure not even Joyce would ship Danny and Joe.

      1. Clif

        Amber, on the other hand …

  23. Grimey

    Now this is a double date I can get behind.

  24. shadowcell

    Dumbing of Age Book 13: Ah’m Dangerously Romantic

  25. anonymsly

    Danny and Sal are cute, this whole strip is cute, but what’s really making me joyful is the right now it looks like Joe’s purposely showing Joyce off to Danny – his eternal BFF being fully brought in the loop of Joe Is Doing Feelings.

    I’m just really happy anytime Joe or Danny act like they’re actually friends, okay.

  26. foducool

    well, we’ve seen that Joyce is very good at climbing, lately
    so pulling that stunt off isn’t off the table lmao

  27. Alongcameaspider

    It occurs to me that Joyce and Danny haven’t interacted much in the comic, I’m not even sure they know each other’s names

    1. thejeff

      Joyce definitely knows who Hat Guy is.

    2. Tan

      It has been a running gag that Joyce ‘forgets’ Danny’s name. However, Danny definitely knows not only Joyce’s name but who she is as a person. https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/05-as-long-as-its-free/proxy-2/

  28. thenamelesssamurai

    @Yotomoe: So I missed the racism conversation from two days ago, but I was wondering if I could share two videos with you that might interest and help you whenever the conversation comes up.

    1. Yotomoe

      I mean…There’s a very real chance I won’t watch them (I’m bad about watching things people send me) and plus I got really heated there and I don’t like feeling that way. Is this a thing that’ll upset me?

      1. thenamelesssamurai

        Fairy nuff. I’m bad about it too. It helps that one of them is legimately funny as hell and entertaining, even while being over an hour. Like it’s so funny, my dad watched it multiple times after I showed it to him. And naw I feel like it would be the opposite and you’d agree with it and would strengthen the arguments you were making.

  29. Yotomoe

    Would you consider this a Reverse Spider-man kiss?

    1. cbwroses

      I think a reverse spider-man kiss would be when the heroine, standing with feet on the ground, kisses the tied up and hanging upside down gentry in jeopardy, before letting them down.
      During the daytime, on a sunny day, while the gentry in jeopardy is hanging from a tree in an open plain.
      (Got to include as many opposites as possible in relation to the original scene.)

    2. Dday

      The “Reverse Spider-Man Kiss” is when a spider gets bitten by a radioactive human and develops human-themed abilities. He stands bipedally to kiss his spider-girlfriend and drives away before she can eat his head.

      1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

        What does a “human sense” ability tell you?

        1. Kirt Dankmyer

          How to ruin things.

        2. Chaucer59

          Not a lot. Most humans have less sense than a cigarette butt.

        3. Taffy

          Spider-Sense is like, impending danger, basically enhanced reflexes. The opposite of that is pretty much intoxication. If you want human sense, have a couple martinis.

  30. Ionic

    I’m not sure Danny looks happy with this kiss

    1. Alongcameaspider

      Pretty sure that’s just him realizing there’s an audience he didn’t expect

    2. ollie

      I do believe he’s unhappy at the peanut gallery, not the kiss itself!

  31. Hazel

    Aww, Sal is adorable.

  32. Throwatron

    classic space captain julia gray

  33. thakoru

    Does Joyce know who Danny is by now?

    1. DailyBrad

      Probably, dating Sal has got to send him way up in her estimation.

    2. Hoboturtle

      I feel like they had at least one conversation where Joyce was struggling to remember who he was and Danny was insisting that he wasn’t that forgettable.

  34. Ophidiophile

    Being involved with Joe is already paying off.

  35. DailyBrad

    I am loving panel 4 Danny’s expression. I know he’s easy to dunk on sometimes, but I can definitely see why Sal likes him so much.

  36. Needfuldoer

    Wait, wouldn’t Joyce just see Sal smooching a floating question mark with a hat over it?

    https://www.dumbingofage.com/guys-2/

    1. Amós Batista

      Ugh, gross.
      Also: I think it’s not, because she alread have to negotiate with him to send Danny as a proxy.

  37. Reltzik

    OG Roomies gang!

  38. Amós Batista

    Hey, they are cock-blocking themselves. It’s a good and bad timing.

  39. Axel

    I don’t think they’re there to bang but if they are they support it

    (more realistically, maybe kissing, which I also support)

  40. Steelbright

    Joe and Joyce ended up back in Joe’s room, huh? I’ll be very curious to see what they intend to do here. (And what actually happens. Haha)

  41. Thomas

    One of these days, Sal’s gonna fall off the building and break an arm or a leg. Seems a realistic outcome.

    1. Dara

      eh, I dunno, I had to climb in and out of the art building in undergrad enough times, you get good at it

      1. Reltzik

        Sal’s too much of a rebel to just follow along in Mike’s footsteps like that.

        1. Reltzik

          (Ack, meant to reply to BarerMender, ah well.)

    2. BarerMender

      If she drops three stories, she’ll break her whole body.

    3. HueSatLight

      wow, who left all this mulch just piled up here waiting to be used?

  42. AGV

    Hello there!

  43. DarkoNeko

    Joe it’s your time to leave the room and tactfully leave a sock on the handle of the door, for once.

  44. Chasey

    This is cute. My sleepy brain’s mostly wondering how the window works, though. I’m sure it’s been shown plenty of strips back; just too lazy/sleepy to go look.

    1. thejeff

      It’s afraid of Sal busting through it, so it bends physics to let her in.

    2. Reltzik

      It comes down to the material qualities of glass, and two features are important here. The first is how difficult it is to excite the electrons in silicon-dioxide molecules. It takes a particularly high-energy photon to excite them, requiring something in the UV spectrum or higher. The photons responsible for visible light just pass by the atoms without interacting. (Remember, on that scale matter is almost entirely empty space, with our macro notions of solidity just being electromagnetic interactions of charged particles.) No interaction means no reflection or absorption. The second feature is the amorphous nature of glass. This helps maintain internal homogeneity, resulting in few inconsistencies that could cause internal refraction.

      1. Rachel

        Lmao this is beautiful, thank you

      2. Mark

        But Sal could be adding some strains.

  45. ValdVin

    “I require examples” turns out to be a really charming and sexy line.

    But not in Doc Brock’s science class. Or is it? Dina and Becky, Joe and Joyce…

    1. Queezle

      Yes, I was kind of surprised how smooth Danny can be. And he clearly knew what he was doing too. I am still waiting for him to danny things up.
      But so far I am kind of impressed with him.

  46. milu

    why, this sounds like an alignment chart

    1. Zaxares

      So I guess Joe changed alignment from Traditional Nihilistic to Traditional Neutral (on his way to Romantic)? 😉

      1. milu

        My thinking exactly, please be argumentative goddammit (see below)

        1. milu

          Wait i didn’t end up placing Joe on the chart. So i guess this means it was up to me to argue over your suggestion. Oops well then no i disagree i’d say he started off as dangerously nihilistic and just skipped all the way to traditionally romantic in one fell [and narratively dubious /curmudgeon /anti-joeyce shipper) swoop

    2. Reltzik

      How is Amber nihilistic/dangerous?

      Sure, I’ll grant that Amber’s nihilistic. And I’d grant that Amazi-Girl is dangerous. (Even if the picture is of Amber.) But Amazi-Girl has too many romanticized notions of good and evil to count as a nihilist, and that came across in her relationship with Danny. I’d describe Amazi-Girl as Dangerous-Neutral, and Amber as Neutral-Nihilistic.

      (Because what’s an alignment system without alignment system arguments?)

      1. milu

        Well Amber is extremely horny, chronically sleep-deprived and liable to turn into/merge with (?) Amazi-Girl at any moment which i translated (perhaps hopefully) as dangerous in this context.
        But yes, thank you, i was absolutely hoping to get some arguments going here. Who would you have fill that slot if you’re so smart? (Just being casually confrontational for kicks, love ya ?)

    3. The Oracle

      What does “Neutral dangerous” even mean, in terms of romantic alignment?

      1. milu

        Exactly! It makes no sense at all! Hence Malaya <3

  47. Mr D

    Danny keeping Sal up with the succ power

  48. Hof1991

    Liking this smile on Joyce more than the triangle of teeth.

  49. Zane Becker-Byrd

    As they’re relationship progresses, Sal builds a basket for the sole purpose of even more physics defying makeout sessions.

  50. Acher4

    So many years later, so many things changed…
    but here are the four of them in that room…
    having relationship hijinks.

    This feels wonderfully nostlagic but also new. 😉

  51. Dot

    It’s Roomies!

  52. Call Me Deacon Blues

    So… I want very much for Joyce and Danny to start interacting. It was funny for the first 15 years of the comic, but now that we’re rolling on into year 25 of DoA it’s crazy the 2 have barely spoken

    1. Dot

      Are you a time traveler from 2035?

  53. Rachel

    Frick this is just so cute I’m simply melting ?

  54. Rabisch

    First time I realize how hot Danny is. Now I really want to see his reaction seeing that Joyce is the girl Joe was talking about, and also Sal’s reaction. This could be a great double date.

  55. Joy

    Hahaha omg

  56. Amós Batista

    Kissing with eyes opened are weird.
    Even weirder is seeing other people kissing with eyes opened.

    1. Rotunda

      Danny’s eyes are probably open in surprise at Joyce and Joe’s entrance.

  57. LIGHTWEIGHT BAYBEE

    and they truly were
    Roomies

  58. newlland(Henryvolt)

    No as in “Joyce I know I’m crazy about you but I’m not doing that.”

  59. Rectilinear Propagation

    Haaaaah, Danny has a type!

  60. bagge

    Joyce YES

  61. Kravis

    If Sal is, indeed, held in the window entirely through “Danny’s suction” that’s full proof of what we knew all allong: DANNY SUCKS!

  62. yak

    fucken smooth, dan-boy

  63. Felian

    NO.
    (i’m not opposed to romance and whichever way anyone wants to express it, but i’m opposed to taking what you see other people do and pushing your relationship into that, without thinking about whether it suits your relationship and the people involved in it.)

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