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Gay
Posted on October 19, 2010 by David M Willis

147 thoughts on “Gay”

  1. demoncat?

    danny is a homosexual and will die alone and buttloved.

    1. beeftony

      No, Demoncat, that’s you.

      1. Joebo

        <> Don’t Feed The Trolls

        1. beeftony

          But they’re so hungry, mommy!

        2. Mkvenner

          let them starve.

    2. Angeldog

      Demoncat wrongly assumes that the guy who we’ve seen with a girlfriend is homosexual, rather than the overcompensating football players talking about gays.

      1. Munkiman

        It’s a joke on the “Billie is an alcoholic and will die alone and unloved” thing from an earlier strip, calm down.

      2. Virnin

        That’s how I remember every one I’ve ever met from IU.

    3. XLR

      If he’s buttloved how is that alone?

    4. anonymous

      Half right!

      1. nothri

        ::slow claps::

    5. Cale Baird

      So far, you’re half a third correct.

    6. Mally

      You know, if he’s buttloved, he’s not exactly alone.

  2. Jen Aside

    BEEF

    1. SteveCharb

      BEEEEEEEEEF!!!

      1. ilvos

        BEEEEEEEEEEFF!!!

        1. Chrisby

          STEEEEEEEVEN!

        2. SpiffytheCreative

          FAAAAAAAACE!!!!!!!!

        3. Mkvenner

          Bovinae!! 🙂

        4. anonymous

          Moo?

    2. nothri

      Its….what’s….for….dinner….?

  3. Ella

    How gay.

  4. TheStranger

    Now why did I know Beef was gonna be on the football team?

    1. Akilika

      Well, where else was he going to be?

      1. TexasNinjaBuzzard

        …In a freezer? That’s where I’d leave him.

        Just sayin’.

        1. Joebo

          No no, he’s “fresh, never frozen Beef.”

        2. Sher

          Really? You went there? (:

    2. Joe

      He might be a soccer player… I play with a guy who played at a rival school in college, and those dudes fit the description of IU soccer players. But whatever, noone but the football team gives a shit about the football team.

    3. Matt

      Because he already was! Beef caught the footballs!

      http://www.itswalky.com/d/19991226.html

  5. Sinan

    BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEF!!!!!

    1. Joebo

      Didn’t realize it was beef until I read the tag. I’m not used to him looking like a real person.

      1. creativerealms

        Oh the was a dead give away to me.

        1. creativerealms

          Er the “Grunt” in my last post was lost damn.

          “Oh the Grunt was a dead give away to me”

          Thats what I said.

        2. Joebo

          did you put it inside<>? If so, don’t in the future, coding for this thread appears to do that

      2. Mkvenner

        I didn’t realize it was him until July 29, 2011. 😐

  6. David Herbert

    Beef!

  7. Trae Dorn

    Wait… I think you’ve confused college with high school. In college, the football players are too busy getting drunk to pick on someone like Danny. 😛

    1. AaronS

      As a current college student, I totally and completely agree with this statement. Football players rarely pick on anyone at my school. Booze usually fills up their time pretty nicely (at least, stereotypically speaking).

      I do love that they’re wearing sunglasses at night.

    2. Malph

      Maybe they’re on their way to get drunk and hadn’t reached their daily quota for saying the word gay.

  8. Pariah Jones

    I want something very horrible to happen to those guys (except Beef).

  9. Doominbottle

    Beef is back suckas! Let the pummeling begin. My wondering is this though, since this doesn’t involve aliens….beef isn’t Walky’s bro anymore…. how will this effect Beef and even more…. Sal?

  10. Dr. Worm

    Oh my god, where’s Ruth when you need her to destroy people?

  11. FortMax

    dood

    1. Joebo

      Dood?

      1. FortMax

        *Throws a Prinny*

  12. NinjaNick

    Hey, it’s Beef!

    Poor Danny, getting made fun of by jocks. 🙁

  13. Brendan

    Now where is that parody someone (I think Greg Dean) drew of Funky Cancercancer?

    And do I even want to know who the one who isn’t DYW or Beef is?

    1. Brendan

      Should note, before someone responds, that I don’t mean the Shortpacked parody of Funky Winkerbean, but the parody of that strip poking fun at the level of homosexuality in Shortpacked.

      Also, not totally buying David Willis as a jock.

      1. No0ne

        I’m pretty sure that the strip you refer to is a gest strip by Willis for Real Life Comics which poked fun at himself.

        Not 100% sure though because its been a while since I read it.

        1. No0ne

          I also am unable to type apparently…

        2. David

          http://reallifecomics.com/archive/090723.html <---gaayy

        3. No0ne

          AH HA I KNEW IT!

        4. ProjectXa3

          It 404’d on me, anybody got a backup?

    2. david matthew

      Pretty sure our fearless leader here wrote Funky Cancercancer.

      1. TexasNinjaBuzzard

        Has Tom Batiuk ben added to the federal list of Known Carcinogens yet? I’m pretty sure he’s already illegal in California.

  14. Dashiell Menard

    I have to say, I don’t like new danny. All the other characters are basically the same, but he’s just.. such a little bongo.

    1. Wackd

      Meh, it’s arguable. I can’t say I’m too pleased with the change either, but he’s got a lot of room to grow from here. Besides, he was pretty attached to Sal, we just didn’t see that side of him as often because she was so far away.

      And Joyce is waaaaaaaaaay more well-adjusted now, so Danny’s not the only one who’s changed.

      1. Deviltrig

        well, we’re not entirely sure how well adjusted Joyce is yet. we have yet to see when she gets into a relationship. oh, the drama to ensue!

    2. beeftony

      Danny was always like this, he just didn’t get the chance to show it because Sal wasn’t around for him to obsess over and Joyce’s clinginess vastly overshadowed his own. Plus, he had to grow up pretty damn quick after Ruth’s sacrifice. The only difference I see is the circumstances.

    3. ashleyw

      He reminds me of what freshmen can be like when they first start college. Kind of unrealistic. I think he’ll probably learn from this and become easier to like.

  15. BetaMagnus

    Huh. When I was in college I never saw jocks beating anyone up, at least not randomly. There was a whole lot of folk calling other folk “gay” though.

    1. Alice Macher

      Yeah, this does seem rather… high-school-ish.

      1. AaronS

        High school was the time that most jocks beat up babies.

        The name calling with “gay” seems pretty on target, though.

        1. AaronS

          Now I seem like an ass. I meant to type “freshpeople”. Sorry about that, was talking while I typed. That was not meant as a joke.

      2. hobotron

        Yeah, I’m glad I’m not the only one that thought that. But I dunno; maybe we’re in for some kind of Revenge of the Nerds-type reference or something.

        REVENGE OF THE GAYWADS

        IN THEATERS THIS OCTOBER

    2. Everyl

      They might not really be planning to beat him up. Danny is still a new freshman; he could just be assuming incorrectly that college is more like high school than it really is.

  16. Wackd

    My guess is Sal comes out of the bushes and pummels the hell out of these guys. And that’s how she and Danny meet.

    This is just sad, really. You can that he had the breakup coming to him and Joe had the right to be a douchebag about it after their conversation that morning, but this is just kicking him when he’s down.

    1. Joebo

      Not out of the bushes, through a window. Don’t care if there are no windows anywhere near by.

      1. Wackd

        There’s windows in the background of panels three and four….

        Huh. It could work, if this was the Walkyverse, but here it’d be a bit of a stretch.

        It would be nice to keep up the gag, though.

      2. DCHorror

        She’s pushing around a wall on wheels just so she can bust through it in these types of situations.

  17. Zach Adams

    …gaywad? Wow. I haven’t heard that in probably twenty years.

    1. David

      I’m bringing it back.

      1. Joebo

        Like… that one boy band guy… brought Sexyback? Please God no!

        1. drivethruwhale

          “I’m bringing gaywad back. You other homo’s don’t know how to act” Yeah, that could be a song.

        2. Shift

          Probably already is by the rules of the internet. If not: QUICK COPYRIGHT IT!

      2. David

        It’s already working. “Gaywad” was used in Thursday’s Community. Booyah! I’m streets ahead!

  18. Cassidy

    Maybe Danny is gay and it will be Danny and Ethan together!

    One can dream

    1. Wackd

      Consider Shortpacked for a moment.

      Now try to convince yourself this isn’t foreshadowing.

    2. Schornforce

      The only thing that would make me happier is if Danny were paired with me! 😛

      Danny and Ethan do seem to be a pretty good fit!

    3. Shift

      Welcome to the world of Willis: Where EVERYONE will be gay if he has any say in it.

      …I wish I lived in that world…

    4. PsychokineticEX

      *4 years later* http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/04-the-whiteboard-dong-bandit/thoughts/#comment-252513

      YOU ARE A FUCKING PROPHET

      1. anonymous

        PROFIT from your psychic abilities!

        1. anonymous

          Except that Danny isn’t gay, and he’s not with Ethan. But you were right about him not being straight!

  19. No0ne

    I wear my sunglasses at night!

    No, I really do, I’m blind in one eye and bright light makes it 100 times worse… But apparently those football players do too.

    1. Kamino Neko

      Dammit, this strip already got that damn song stuck in my head…why did you have to cement it?

      1. No0ne

        Because I’m evil, can’t you tell from my avatar?

        1. Kamino Neko

          Nah…that just telegraphs the crazy…

          Now, Dorothy…that would indicate evil. >_>

        2. LiamKav

          Hang on, how can you be 100 times more blind? Does bright light make you deaf as well?

          (genuinly confused)

        3. No0ne

          It is a cataract, so in dim to normal light conditions I’m only blind in the left side of my left eye. However, in bright light conditions (I.E. inside a class room or a sunny day) the light bounces around inside my eye because the cataract is reflective as well as semi transparent making it so I get an intense pain as well as being completely blind in the eye. Not fun…

          And my insurance refuses to pay to have it removed because its 1 milimeter to small. As my eye doc put it, its just to small to remove but big enough to blind you.

          I’m just lucky I managed to fake my way through the eye exame to get my drivers lisence. No, not really I’m not THAT blind XD.

          (Talking way more then I need to)

  20. beeftony

    Anyone else think the background in the first panel is folding up Inception-style? Actually, perspective seems to be a consistent problem with you when you try and draw detailed backgrounds, Willis.

  21. Cope

    Hi there Beef and two other guys I don’t know!

  22. Viktoria

    See this? This is why so many gay teens are killing themselves. Here’s hoping Sal turns the entire football team into ground beef.

    1. No0ne

      Punny :/

    2. Trenton

      I saw the strip and knew, knew, knew somebody was going to say something like this. Sigh.

      Danny is not actually gay it is not the same oh my godd

      1. No0ne

        So… this is why many streight teens are killing themselves? :O

  23. Karen R

    “She GAY-broke up with your GAY-FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!”

    Fixed that for ya. 🙂

  24. Darth Cariss

    Yay, typical gay-hating jock(s) who bully people, but will likely end up in a situation that makes their sexuality look questionable as some form of poetic justice. It’s like I’m reading Dominic Deegan.

    Anyway, only the one that looks like Duke Nukem should be allowed to wear Sunglasses at night.

  25. MacBetty

    Gay-FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!

  26. Undrave

    Maybe the next strip is Danny drunk with his new jock buddies or something. This isn’t high school after all.

    “You’re better without her buddy! Here have a keg!”

    But the more likely scenario is Sal showing up.

  27. LiamKav

    I really don’t think these guys are “gay-hating”. They’re using it as an insult, sure, but mainly because it’s an easy and current label to leap on. It’s more that they are unimaginative with their choice of insults.

  28. Leeatard

    Look at those smiles! They seem so friendly! I bet they just wanna know if those sweet shades make them look gay.

  29. KS Claw

    And when you guys are done, you can go back through your closets and back to Narnia *rolls over and goes back to sleep*

  30. ziggy78eog

    Danny, this is not High School anymore, they are mot going to beat you up. What they are going to do is get you drunk until you pass out, draw penises all over your face, and post the pictures all over the campus web page.

    1. DCHorror

      You just never know. They might beat him up for suggesting that they might beat him up.

  31. Zudarkness

    Welcome to Collage life. Time to get your chin up and have a stiff lip and be a man

  32. Zap

    omg gay.

  33. Feenyks

    I had just been asking myself, “Where’s the Beef?”

  34. Sauron Bane

    Aww… I actually feel a little bad for Danny now… Poor guy doesn’t know how to take a shot at his sexuality.

  35. agentksilver

    I actually just noticed that Beef is rather handsome in his Varsity coat. He never struck me as such from IW, but now…damn.

  36. TPTBeyond

    But their faces look so pleasant! If I weren’t reading the text, I’d think they were being nice guys.
    “Hey pal, have a beer.”

  37. Roborat

    So, are they going to punch him in the faaaaaaace?

    Sorry, I just wanted to play too. Anyway, good to see Beef making an appearance, but why does he look like Duke?

    So who’s next? I am guessing Sal, saving Danny’s ass.

  38. Cha

    Beef has a rather funny faaaaaaaaaaace.
    >> Uh, anyhow, yay Beef! I’m also hoping this somehow causes Sal to show up.

  39. MrGBH

    Is that Alan? There’s Beef, some odd incarnation of Willis and a random dude. But just like Rachel, his face rings a bell.

  40. PetsinWinter

    Yay Beef!

  41. Chaun

    Wait, does this make Beef not a freshman? Shouldn’t he still be at least relatively the same age as Walky?

    1. David

      The relative ages of characters in the previous continuity don’t matter in Dumbing of Age. After all, we’ve been hanging out with a Billie and Danny who are the same age for about 25 strips now, when they were a year apart in Roomies!.

    2. Rali

      Oh, but it’s an alternate universe! 😀

      That’s… pretty much all I can come up with. :B

      1. mpark6288

        “Whatever our lives might have been if the time continuum was disrupted – our destinies have changed.”
        Spock (before being beaten by Lizard).

  42. zinc55

    n00b here: Who the f**k is Beef?

    1. Blah

      Walky’s brother.

    2. David

      Less confusing answer:

      In my previous comics that used these characters, Beef was Walky’s adopted brother. But that relationship doesn’t exist in this continuity, so what’s actually important is that Beef is a huge muscled jock who speaks only in grunts.

      1. No0ne

        Is Beef part Wookiee?

        1. Joebo

          yes

        2. Mkvenner

          It is quite possible.

      2. Magnus369

        I thought beef was his horridly traumatized swapped baby brother from another mother. Or arnie clone. yeah, screw that. he was an arnie clone from the future sent to the past to completely screw any chance of that making any sense what so ever.

  43. Kiwii

    I’m gonna have to agree with Everyl and others. the jocks are probably just being dicks, but they likely have better things to do than beat up freshmen. Danny just assumes he’s going to be attacked.

    American universities are strange though. As far as I’m aware even verbal harrasment doesn’t really happen at the universities here. Elsewhere in the city sure, junior highschools definately, but the college students and jocks here are pretty nice people. But what do I know? I’m Canadian. Its october and I haven’t even gotten drunk yet this term.

    1. Kiwii

      by which I mean, I feel as though the drinking culture of the universities here is far less emphasized than what my understanding of the drinking culture of the american schools is.

      Canadians in general drink quite a bit I think.

      1. Roborat

        Don’t forget the drinking age in the U.S. is 21, in most of Canada, it is 18 or 19, so most university age kids can drink legally in Canada. You know, the forbidden fruit thing.

  44. GoldStarz

    Even in this universe he a jerk.

    You might even say he’s more jerky than Beef. *get tomato’d*

  45. night walker

    omg its beef still waiting to see Sal!!!!!!!!!!

  46. Wannabe Hero

    Hehe… ‘She GAY-broke up with your GAY-face’

    Fun stuff. Keep on rocking the goods!

  47. Shift

    I really hope a gay character kicks their asses. Just because the irony would be delicious.

    1. Matt

      Yeah, gay-kicks their asses.

  48. thatgirlwiththeglasses

    BEEF!

  49. Chrysophase2003

    Is jocks getting homophobic and beating up on people a common occurence in most colleges? It’s been a few years since I left UCF, but as I recall the one time a student transfered in from South Carolina on football scholarship and tried to mess with a freshman, he ended up taking a knife between the ribs. It’s too dangerous out there for that schoolyard bully crap nowadays.

  50. Al the Mighty

    Nice to see human-sized beef…

  51. Kelsey

    Hey! Looit that! It’s the resident Jack ass squad!

  52. nothri

    Yeah, I don’t recall ever being hassled by anyone in College. In fact, at least for me, college was the age when I began to realize that being attacked by people meant I could…you know…call the police and press assault charges and stuff.

  53. Boilerboy

    purdue: much better, cuz the coolest kid on campus still probably is an engineer.

  54. SonicBlueRanger

    Aha ha oh those Jock’s are so cleaver.

  55. Yuki

    Okay, can I say how much I hate it when people use “gay” like it’s an insult?

    I don’t have anything against this comic using it, because it’s highlighting just how lame-ass those football jocks are, calling someone gay and bullying him. I mean, I don’t have a problem with this comic at all, so don’t jump on me for that. But seriously, it’s just… when you grow up with people who say that kind of stuff, it does hurt, doesn’t it? And I just seriously hate jerks like that. .___.

  56. Maycroft

    It took me most of “it’s walky” to notice that’s beef.

  57. phroggonalog

    does this actually happen at colleges these days?

  58. FakeAccount3000

    I don’t have any personal experience; I found people were surprisingly pleasant or indifferent in college. Even more so than in the adult world; but it’s undeniable there are jerks everywhere so it’s not outside the realm of possibility.

  59. Jenny Creed

    Getting beaten up by those three guys actually sounds a lot better than having to listen to them talking. I approve of Danny’s line there.

  60. newllend

    Take this a a lesson kids, If your going to be an ass, don’t be a stupid ass like jock#1 here

  61. RandomPerson12

    I see Beef, and I don’t recognize the other two.

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