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Hypnotism
Posted on September 9, 2015 by David M Willis

252 thoughts on “Hypnotism”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    Taking wagers on the number of comments about how many words “Kickstarter” is

    10+ pays 1:2
    20+ pays 1:3
    30+ pays 1:4

    1. MeghanTheDreamCrusher

      I was about to say something on the subject…but I’ve seen this before I know how this goes

      1. gkheyf

        i agree. anyone for tennis?

        1. Justin

          so according to Joyce, walky has a perfect bod

        2. Bicycle Bill

          There’s room for ambiguity there.  I think she’s saying that his body is a perfect black hole for fast food — specifically nuggets and Nachitos.

        3. Deanatay

          *SHOTGUN BLAST*

          Nice… game?

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0OLdctjnWo

    2. Mr. Random

      I’m guessing polls close at tomorrow’s comic posting?

    3. DarkoNeko

      WELL I was about to, but your ruined it 😐

    4. m2iCodeJockey

      I took it as a joke; Walky being close to right but, not completely, still in a way where he could succeed thus pronouncing some ambiguity that lay in the perfected information.

    5. Bicycle Bill

      “Crowdfunding” is only one word.

    6. Tenn

      I don’t know gambling lingo, but I’m assuming that “pays 1:4” means “you get back one fourth of what you bet”? Because if it’s the other way around, I see a big problem with that business model. 😛

      1. Ana Chronistic

        curse you figuring out how the house every time!

        1. Ana Chronistic

          house wins every time

          dang swiss cheese brain lately

    7. G.G.

      Damn it I opened the comments to say this…. how I see this.

      Maybe these are just my kind of people!

    8. Screwball

      Well, I can tell you now, not including you writing of “Kickstarter” or my own just then, Ctrl+F shows 5 other matches for it, with 3-4 hours till the next strip goes up. So how much does that cough up… 😛

    9. Seth

      Taking wagers on the number of people who bet on 30+ comments with intent to ensure that there will be 30+ such comments.
      4 to 16 pays 1:2
      4 to 12 pays 1:3
      4 to 8 pays 1:4

  2. Yumi

    Hey, does changing your display name on here change your Gravatar?

    1. Gamaran Sepudomyn

      Yes.

    2. Ana Chronistic

      nah, though it does mean your first comment with the new name goes to moderation

      1. Ana Chronistic

        (said with zero authority after having never used a preset Gravatar)

        1. Gamaran Sepudomyn

          It changed mine after I forgot my space.

        2. Gamaran Sepudomyn

          Never mind, I misremembered.

      2. Yumi

        Okay. Because I kinda want to RP Daisy with some of my responses to the comics.

        1. Evan

          I mean just copy the icon and set it as your gravatar with the handy dandy link?

          the preset daisy avatar can be found at http://i1.wp.com/www.dumbingofage.com/wp-content/themes/comicpress-dumbingofage/images/avatars/201502/avdaisy.png

        2. Daisy

          Because like Viktoria said, Gravatars are common on sites, and I don’t want to be Daisy everywhere.

        3. SgtWadeyWilson

          You could always put the gravatar on a secondary email, little harder to remember though.

        4. SgtWadeyWilson

          Tried posting a reply with second email to show how you could use one grav just for rp, then moderation reminded me of the other thing that makes an alternate email with a grav a little annoying.

        5. Disloyal Subject

          RP in comment sections is… iffy.

        6. timemonkey

          You’ll probably just be ignored unless you manage to be REALLY funny.

        7. Yumi

          I mean, that happens a lot anyway, so. I’m mainly just trying to amuse myself.

      3. Opus the Poet

        Both statements are true, changing your name and/or e-mail addy changes the assigned-by-the-site avatar, AND your first post after the change is moderated.

    3. Viktoria

      IIRC it’s generated by email address. I’d recommend going with a custom one though, Gravatars are getting common on sites by this point.

  3. shadowcell

    OH DAMN

    WALKY FROM THE TOP ROPE

    1. Doctor_Who

      Pro wrestling would be 87% more awesome if the mat was a trampoline.

      Think of all the new moves that would be possible!

      1. FinalOwen

        A billion terrible backyard feds say otherwise. It never ends well.

        1. electromagneticDestroyosaur

          Things don’t have to end well to be awesome. Remember the Alamo?

      2. C.

        It would be more like SlamBall.

      3. Inkblot

        I’m thinking of all the new moves that would be possible if other things were trampolines.

      4. MeghanTheDreamCrusher

        Pro wrestling would also involve 78% more broken spines.

        1. Rabid Rabbit

          That’s only because it would be so much harder to fix the matches.

        2. Dean

          Er… you know professional wrestling isn’t real, right? I’m sorry if this comes as a shock.

        3. Tacos

          Of course it’s fake, that’s what fixing a match means.

        4. hof1991

          scripted, if you please. No more fixed than Hamlet is. But with real knives and swords.

        5. RedFloyd

          I grew up not watching wrestling, in a family of people who didn’t get it.
          That is a good way to explain it.

        6. Kelly

          I think someone said it was kinda like a soap opera. Just with more body slams.

  4. Frogboy

    No matter how bad things in a trampoline park get financially, you can always bounce back.

    1. Mandy

      *ba dum tss*

    2. tekjr

      And now we are all worse people for having read that.

      1. gkheyf

        says the mike gravatar

      2. DarkVeghetta

        Just the way Willis intended!

    3. Plasma Mongoose

      No matter what mood you’re in, living in a trampoline park guarantees you will have a spring in your step.

      1. gkheyf

        that sounds like a terrible injury brought on by a poor quality of trampolines

        1. Ana Chronistic

          I still always think of “You were supposed to bring a TAMBOURINE, not a TRAMPOLINE”

      2. Deanatay

        Only if you land poorly.

        1. Kryss LaBryn

          The secret is to surround it with more trampolines…

        2. AgentKeen

          See, we just need to cover everything in trampolines and no one would get hurt. You fall off the trampoline… and hit another trampoline!

  5. Miroku2235

    That fourth panel, Walky’s response. All I could picture was the ‘studio audience’ going “Ooooohhhhh!”

    1. DarkVeghetta

      T’was a sick burn.

    2. andmangrewproud

      I’m glad I’m not the only one who hears a studio audience in their head when ready DoA.

    3. Architex

      Good good good, I wasn’t the only one.

    4. Some Brewer Guy

      Joyce’s MRS degree… He had to call out the MRS degree, hehe.

    5. Charlie Spencer

      You’ll notice she didn’t deny his claim.

  6. Tunaro

    I would fully support an amusement park filled with nothing but trampolines if I could get a lifetime pass.

    1. Viktoria

      Trampoline parks are a real thing. Google, if you’re in a major metropolitan area there’s likely one near you. Be warned though, it’s definitely a workout.

      1. Daisy

        At the one I went to, you could buy jump time in hour increments. I did not last anywhere near an hour.

        1. David M Willis

          It’s worse when you tucker yourself out in like five minutes, your whole body in pain, and then you sit down and watch kids maintain themselves the whole damn hour.

        2. gkheyf

          it’s better if you sneak in a paintball gun. those kids just keep on bouncing…

        3. gkheyf

          please note: i have never been to a trampoline park, nor have i ever shot a paintball gun at anyone outside of a regulation match. i have said this for humorous effect and do not condone the harming of annoying children who are in better shape than i am.

          …the court orders around here work fast

        4. Charlie Spencer

          Paint ball trampoline park. Now THAT’S worth a Kickstarter.

        5. Kryss LaBryn

          There are a surprising number of hits on YouTube for “paintball trampoline.” O.O

        6. Roborat

          Yea, getting old sucks, doesn’t it?

  7. Mada

    I must say, after the way Joyce was needling him in the previous strip, I kinda like how he’s gone and turned the tables on her here.

    1. chris73

      Agreed, I’d hoped Walky would do something like this. Walky points out hes ok with being alone and then Joyce was starting to be quite bongey in that second panel so I’m glad that Walky nipped it in the bud (in quite an amusing manner as well)

    2. Bagge

      And his comeback wasn’t even that mean spirited. Absolutely not to the degree of Jocye’s needling. It was a great way of deflecting her without stepping over the line. I still think he remembers big sisters words of caution.

      1. begbert

        Based on the clear panic in her face in the final strip it was indeed a sharp blow, right past all her defenses and directly into her thermal exhaust port. And I’m pretty sure Walky knew it would be, and simply felt that she was asking for a little mean spirit with all her needling.

        1. Charlie Spencer

          I’m pretty sure nothing has ever come near Joyce’s thermal exhaust port.

          Pun intended.

        2. Roborat

          Well, I wouldn’t say nothing, I would agree with nobody, however.

        3. Tenn

          Well, if it wasn’t intended, it wouldn’t make any sense.

      2. Deanatay

        *pendant*

        Technically, Sal’s not a big sister – they’re twins. And it was more of a threat than a caution.

        */pendant*

        1. Gigafreak

          Someone trying to announce that (s)he’s being pedantic… spelled “pedant” incorrectly while doing so. Twice, so it wasn’t even a simple typo.

          Is… is this true irony? Or is this “rain on your wedding day” irony?

        2. wwwhhattt

          It’s only really ironic if they were being pedantic about English. Individual pedants don’t have to ruin everything by themselves – there’s enough to go around.

        3. wwwhhattt

          Not that Deanatay was ruining anything. I just meant pedants in general.

        4. Deanatay

          Hee hee I made somebody be pedantic about my pedantry… (still, ‘pendant’? ack)

        5. BB

          The pendants weren’t there to indicate the hypnotic watch-the-pendant-swing voice? *Sigh*… it had such a gloriously creepy vibe going.

        6. Tenn

          What a weird and wonderful coincidence! 😀

        7. Tenn

          I’m not sure if that link works the way it’s supposed to, so I’ll just spell it out: someone made the exact same typo in the comments of today’s Girls with Slingshots.

  8. Cattleprod

    Joyce spends so much time as ‘the naive one’ that I’m loving her pointing out all the massive logistical problems in Walky’s plan.

    Despite that, I’m obviously on Walky’s side here.

    1. BenRG

      FWIW, I’m not sure if Walky is serious or if he’s just teasing Joyce because he enjoys watching her fly off the handle. In a lot of ways, the way he interacts with Joyce is similar to the little five-year-old boy who yanks the pigtails of the girl sitting in front of him in class so she’ll notice him.

  9. Gamaran Sepudomyn

    It’s disturbing how realistic this is. He might have to gain some extra funding with a youtube channel though. That could help with both the starting capital and with supporting the venture once it’s begun.

    1. Doctor_Who

      Put a cat on the trampoline. 100k subs, like that.

      1. Gamaran Sepudomyn

        Considering that you’ll probably get like 200 views for every sub, at a rate of .05 cents per view, you’d get 10000 dollars for the video. Is that enough? I don’t know the average upkeep expenses of a trampoline park.

        1. Seerow

          definitely enough to get you started. And if you can maintain even a fraction of that popularity while issuing a new video every 1-2 weeks, you’re making a pretty good living.

        2. No Name

          Wait, did you mean .05 cents as in 1/20th of a penny or .05 *dollars* as in a nickel?

        3. Gamaran Sepudomyn

          I highly doubt you’d get a nickel for every viewer, unless every viewer is a mother. Which is, considering that that is quite a common demographic subset of the cat video-watching demographic, quite possible.

      2. DarkoNeko

        That gif/video was pretty horrible.

    2. Kryss LaBryn

      Just gonna leave this right here…

  10. Agemegos

    What a succinct encapsulation of the collision of tradition with modernity!

    1. JessWitt

      Oooh, Queen Elizabeth reads DoA too!

      1. Agemegos

        She does?

        Did you know that today she overtook Queen Victoria as the longest-reigning monarch in British history?

        Congratulations, Your Madge!

        1. Kryss LaBryn

          Really? Awesome!! 😀

        2. Tenn

          May she live long enough for an encore! 😉

          Oops, she would also have to surpass the current record for verified oldest human ever by 30 years, but IT COULD BE DONE WITH SCIENCE (and blood sacrifices).

      2. Gigafreak

        >Collision of tradition with modernity
        >Queen Elizabeth

        Even war can be civil!

  11. timemonkey

    Just think, you’d never need to walk anywhere. Just slide out of bed and bounce for the whole day.

    1. gkheyf

      wasn’t there a plan for that for london’s streets? their mayor was a master of distraction

  12. Doctor_Who

    I know Joyce is husband hunting, but does she actually have any intention of finishing school and getting a job?

    Because if she expects to live comfortably on a single income in this day and age (especially with as many kids as she probably expects to poop out), then Walky’s understanding of finance dwarfs hers.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Husband skins are worth a lot more these days.

      1. DarkVeghetta

        *slow clap*

      2. inqntrol

        Speaking of open season.

    2. -Sentinel-

      If you have enough faith, God will provide, as demonstrated by those preachers who fly in private jets.

    3. BenRG

      I’m not sure if that has ever been addressed, actually. Like a lot of late teens, I think that Joyce has a fairly unrealistic view of adult life. I’m pretty sure she was expecting to run into ‘Mr Right’ pretty much immediately so she didn’t think much about a possible career.

      The real world has a tendency to slap you upside the head like that.

      1. Architex

        Slap you upside the head?

        Nah man, the real world kicks your ass out to the curb and dumps a bucket of ice water* on you while laughing the entire time.

        *does not count for ALS fundraising or awareness

      2. Kryss LaBryn

        If she’s looking to meet a soon-to-be-wealthy Mr Right, she ought to be hanging out with the medical/legal students. Just sayin’.

        1. Amazi-Stool

          Well, she actually does hang out with Sarah.
          And has with Jason.

      3. Gigafreak

        In Joyce’s defense, that college-educated career is uncomfortably likely to be “flipping burgers somewhere.”

        Suddenly I wonder if I’ve discovered the source of Arby’s nihilists.

        Stay up late. Study hard. Endure the student debt. Graduate with honors to work a minimum-wage service job. The last twenty years of your life were meaningless.

        Arby’s. Now hiring.

        1. StClair

          That was quality.

  13. gkheyf

    this would be trolling if walky didn’t mean it. the thing is, that’s how kickstarter works. this may turn out like cartman’s amusement park in south park, though

    1. detective boomwolf

      So it’ll eventually collapse on itself, Walky will go balistic, and someone will be cured of a hemorrhoid and their faith in whatever religion they follow will be restored?

      1. gkheyf

        1 guess as to who’s faith will lapse if walky ever succeeds!

        poor joyce’s kaboodle…

    2. inqntrol

      An they will be beaten by their own security guard?

  14. Someone

    You could make a living running a trampoline park, that is a real job.

  15. Smiling Cat

    Behold! The love story for the ages!

  16. newllend(henryvolt)

    Tell me if I’m wrong but these two are making it sound like they’re planning to Bullshit their way through their future.

    1. gkheyf

      how dare you accuse the young master walkerton of such an offense? a duel, i say!

      1. newllend(henryvolt)

        You forgot to slap me across the face with imaginary glove but CHALLENGE ACCEPTED! We will meet at the cracks of dawn.

        1. gkheyf

          pffft…like in a butt-taco

    2. Doctor_Who

      So basically just like everyone else at 18.

      Seriously, I’m amazed every major character even has a major. Half the people I knew were undeclared at this point. We just had no clue.

      1. Someone

        I will now predict what will happen to every character:

        Joyce: Assassin
        Walky: Elementary school teacher
        Dorothy: Due to a series of both tragic and confusing events is declared a saint.
        Mike: Day care teacher (this may be the most horrifying one)
        Faz: President
        Ethan: Also assassin (Joyce’s partner)
        Amber: Due to a series of confusing events gains billions of dollars (becomes Amazi-Girl full time)

        I didn’t take this very seriously.

        1. MeghanTheDreamCrusher

          Faz: Lord & Saviour.
          FTFY

        2. inqntrol

          You just cracked at Mike being a day care teacher. He would probably teach the kids the way of the nickel.

        3. inqntrol

          *cracked me*

        4. Kryss LaBryn

          *cracked me up* I hope.

        5. gkheyf

          i can’t decide whether this makes me happy or sad, but i do totally believe it now. all that remains is to explain away the bodies of the rest of the cast. i’m thinking “skipshine gone wrong”

        6. newllend(henryvolt)

          No the most horrifying one is Faz, I don’t even want know what he do with that power all I can think is possibly a Mad Max World future as the outcome.

        7. Someone

          Donald Trump would still be worse

        8. Dean

          Faz, but with Trump’s hair.

        9. MeghanTheDreamCrusher

          http://imgur.com/w8M49qp
          I’m gonna go and atone for my sins now.

        10. Disloyal Subject

          I’m just gonna go ahead and print that…

        11. DarkoNeko

          whyyy

        12. BenRG

          It’s… disturbing how naturally and smoothly those two things go together!

        13. Gamaran Sepudomyn

          Dina: assumes world domination nine years after college.
          Daisy: starts a career as a photographer for the fashion industry.
          Anyone else have any ideas?

        14. Someone

          They can’t be realistic
          For example

          Daisy: Due to not being able to find love, went on a killing spree and required 75 US marshals to bring her down.

          Photography would make sense.

        15. Dean

          Ruth: cab driver
          Mary: Pope
          Blaine: Motivational speaker

        16. Someone

          Random guy: Blaine is just don’t feel very motivated!

          Blaine: Well, are you a dick to your family?

          Random guy: No?

          Blaine: Well, theres the problem

        17. Deanatay

          Everyone missed Billie!

          Billie: psychologist to the stars

        18. zach

          Have you seen the movie, One Hour Photo?

          Don’t do it, Daisy.

        19. Gamaran Sepudomyn

          Considering the instantaneous flood of sexual harassment suits that would result, Daisy becoming a photographer seems as likely as Mike becoming a day care teacher. Both would enjoy those jobs, but neither would be hired.

        20. begbert

          Never underestimate what Mike is able to get people to let him do.

        21. Disloyal Subject

          Presumably Faz is assassinated.

        22. Opus the Poet

          Amber links ISIS to the Koch brothers and the bounty money pays 50% of their fortune.

      2. Amazi-Stool

        Seriously, I’m amazed every major character even has a major.

        Wait which major has Danny?
        Or is dannying it up now considered a subject you can study?

        1. AgentKeen

          Computer science
          http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/01-move-in-day/worry/

    3. TheGrammarLegionary

      Eh, it’s worked for me so far.

  17. Frogboy

    OH MY GAWWD! TRAMAMPOLINE! TRABAMPOLINE!

    1. Deanatay

      (To the Tune of Chandalier by Sia:

      I’m gonna bounce on the trampoline! ON THE TRAMPOLIIIIIIIIIIIINE!
      I’m gonna live like tomorrow doesn’t exist, like it doesn’t EXIIIIIIIIIIIIIST

  18. Twilightomens

    C’mon, Joyce, be more supportive!

    1. gkheyf

      first she’s anti-gay, now she’s anti-bounce. learn faster, joyce!

  19. Mr. Mendo

    Joyce, you’re being sucked into the madness. Just give in…

  20. Yumi

    Okay, but has anyone else heard of Airtime? Because it is an actual place and it’s kind of awesome and you can learn what I’m talking about here:
    http://airtimetrampoline.com/

    1. Henry

      Skyzone is pretty much the same. And they’re all over the Midwest. Thanks to the sliding timeline, Walky should be pretty knowledgeable about them: There’s one in Evansville.

      1. begbert

        He is knowledgeable; that’s why he’s saying it’s a viable life plan. Joyce, on the other hand, doesn’t get out much.

  21. John

    These two make way better antagonistic pseudo-siblings than they ever did a couple.

    1. newllend(henryvolt)

      Why couldn’t they just both? Then again I think that’s what Willis was going for a little bit towards the end of Walky and Joyce.

      1. Rabid Rabbit

        Aside from the incest factor? (Which is sort of the basis of Walky’s disgust here…)

    2. DarkVeghetta

      Heresy!

    3. timemonkey

      I agree.

  22. Tunasammich

    This is the strip where I realize Walky was me at age 18

    1. Halloween Jack

      I’ve found him kind of irritating in DoA. I mean, yeah, I knew some somewhat manic man-children in college, but I tended to stay away from them. Him being with Dorothy has always seemed wrong, because he comes across as a precocious twelve-year-old.

      1. StClair

        Consider her previous boyfriend.

        And to be perfectly blunt, I’m not entirely sure she considers him to be more than a walking vibrator fuckbuddy, someone to satisfy her physical needs before she “inevitably” transfers to Yale and leaves all of this behind – a mere prologue to the road she imagines for herself.

      2. timemonkey

        He’s still miles ahead of his original incarnation.

  23. The Aussie Bloke

    Hey Joyce: Yes you are 😛

  24. Inkblot

    They were called “jumpolines” until your mother jumped on one. For a nickel.

    1. inqntrol

      Modern trampolines appeared during the 30’s,probably Mike’s grandfather was the one that contribued to the name change and his name was Jebediah Nickel. The nickel reference must be a homage to him.

  25. Stephen R. Bierce

    Whole new meaning to the term “flophouse”.
    *plays Tears For Fears’ “Head Over Heels” (album version with the extended live jam on the end) on the Muzak*

  26. liahansen

    “wtf is a trampoline park”

    *googles*

    “omg”

    1. Clif

      Lawyers loved them.

      1. MaximumZero

        Injury waivers are a thing, you know.

  27. antiqueChairman

    Who could’ve imagined Joyce and Walky would have such amusing chemistry? Maybe this dynamic warrants investigating.

    1. cmd1095

      I refer you to previous comics Willis made, in one of his universes Joyce/Walky is a thing, and it is great

    2. DarkVeghetta

      People that red certain other comics? 😛 Yes. Yes it does.

  28. Tannen

    It’s still fun comparing this Joyce and Walky to Joyce and Walky from the comic with the same name. Still strikes me as funny to think of how the characters from both universes would interact with each other.

  29. Vinny

    Joyce is majoring in Education, but doesn’t believe in evolution, dinosaurs, or that the Earth is >6000 years old…

    Never mind, I forgot – there are schools for those who wear blinders.

    1. DarkVeghetta

      Thankfully not outside the US.

      1. Bagge

        How I wish that was true…

        1. Agemegos

          In Australia the states won’t fund them, so in the late ’90s the Federal government started doing so.

      2. DarkoNeko

        Not public ones, anyway.

    2. Someone

      Eh Elemantary education, also known as the age where history and science don’t really matter because they are all going to be retaught anyway during high school, and college. I retained nothing of use from my elementary history and science classes.

  30. Daisy

    Also I am really defensive about Education majors.

  31. Liz

    Delightful bickering ensues.

  32. Bagge

    Living the dream, Walky, Living the dream.

  33. Just Me

    I see Jealousy rearing it’s sinful head, and it’s perched on Joyce’s shoulder. So, is she more Jealous of Walky’s relationship with Dorothy? or Dorothy’s relationship with Walky?

    It’s obvious that Joyce has a crush on Walky.

    1. Gamaran Sepudomyn

      And a crush on Dorothy as well.

      1. begbert

        And on Sal’s hair, and on Billie’s boobs. Joyce is basically going to sleep with some body part of every character in the strip by the time it’s over (except for Becky, because she can’t catch a break).

        1. BenRG

          I sort of wished that, after Becky ambushed Joyce with a kiss, there was a panel of the two looking at each other before Becky said something like “Now I know what it’s like to kiss my sister.” and then just walk away.

          That’s the thing about their relationship – Becky mistook becoming Joyce’s sister-in-all-but-blood for romantic interaction (just as Joyce mistook Becky’s emotional intimacy as something platonic). I can foresee scenarios where Joyce and Becky have some manner of a sexual encounter but I don’t think anything good would come of it for either of them.

    2. Cerberus

      Joyce has noted before that her idea of what a platonic relationship looks like is skewed towards the sapphic:
      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/cuddlin/

  34. Tacos

    Walky’s got a point about Kickstarter. If people’ll finance friggin’ potato salad then they could finance this.

    1. Clif

      Walky’s brand of weird has remarkably sound underpinnings here and there.

  35. Kraken

    Walky thinks Joyce is “not unpretty” and Joyce is talking about Walky’s “perfect […] body”…

    MATCHMAKER MATCHMAKER MAKE ME A MATCH!

    1. hatless

      His “perfect black … body.”

      We all saw her say it!

      1. xKiv

        If he’s a perfect black body, then the only way we can see him in colors is that he’s really hot.

    2. Rex Vivat

      Well, you do know how that goes in a parallel universe, right?

  36. io

    I sometimes forget that all weird brainwashing notions aside joyce is actually quite smart.

    1. fizzywafflezsuperstore

      Are you a moon, or a goddess?

  37. Rowen Morland

    Did Willis loop back around to that old familiar groove?

    1. BenRG

      Well they are the same people, just with different family backgrounds and a lack of super-powers (to the best of our knowledge). However, their personalities are more-or-less the same, even though their circumstances are not and it makes sense that they would affect each other the same way.

      In this case, Walky being driven to say and do stupid things because Joyce’s attitude of being ‘I am the sensible one’ annoys him and Joyce getting more and more frustrated with an intelligent and handsome young man wanting to act like an entitled 13-year-old.

  38. Rycan

    Oh, brilliant. Walky will get a paralyzing neck injury before he hits 30.

  39. Anonymous Commenter

    Yup I can totally see Joyce getting sloppy seconds once Dorothy leaves

    …Why?

  40. Idon'tcarenomore

    Point goes to Walky on that match.
    Sounds like a perfect job for him actually.

    Interesting comparison of Joyce’s world view from her taunting Walky, to her acceptance of Becky & Dina as a couple.

  41. BenRG

    Interesting! I sort of knew that this was the case – Joyce’s problem with Walky has nothing to do with the fact that he’s ‘meant’ to be with Billie. It’s everything to do with him not being worthy of Dorothy! 🙂

    Of course, Walky has a point that Joyce hasn’t really considered her future; his plans may be moronic and childish but at least they’re plans! Something else you need to be aware of with Walky is that it isn’t easy to tell when he’s kidding about these things.

    In the Walkyverse, it took being face-to-face with the end of the world in general and the horrible death of his friends in specific to make Walky grow up. I wonder what it will take here?

  42. begbert

    I can’t believe this strip wasn’t titled “Trampoline Park”.

    Willis must be saving that for a later strip.

  43. DarkoNeko

    Time for the inappropriate comment of the day :

    “Now kiss.”

    1. nightsbridge

      If that is our worst today will be a good day

      1. DarkoNeko

        Heh.

  44. Cass

    I say that is the face of a girl who just realized she desperately wants the trampoline park life, but will never be able to express this dream because it was given to her by a jerk she was in a fight with. If she says that sounds amazing he wins!

    1. Kryss LaBryn

      Meh. A trampoline park is just like a trailer park. Only trampier. 😛

      1. Amazi-Stool

        Trampier? So there a tramps in it?
        And Joyce likes this?
        Satan really has used his evil influence to make her a drifter!

    2. Bagge

      Will Joyce swallow her pride and admit that the trampolin park life is the life she wants? Will she stand up for her morals and principles? Will kickstarter back Walky’s dream or will it turn out that trampolin parks are not for losers who fail math tests? THE DRAAAAAAAAAMA

  45. Rob

    I don’t like seeing Wally and Joyce having a scene alone together. Makes me think that they’re endgame like in the other comic that I have yet to read.

    1. BenRG

      If it turns out that way, I’ll be very surprised, to be honest. In that other comic, very specific and traumatic circumstances led to the Joyce/Walky ship that it is simply not possible to happen here. We’ll see, I suppose but I can’t see it happening in DoA, especially as both of them are too loyal in nature to betray Dorothy in that way.

      1. Spencer

        I don’t think Joyce/Walky will happen over here if only because it was thoroughly explored over in the Walkyverse.

        The only relationship that’s continued over here is Sal/Jason, and even that’s somewhat different.

  46. Mr. Mendo

    Wait, Joyce just said Walky had a perfect body…

    And Walky’s already said he finds her attractive…

    Oh yeah, these two are still gonna hook up, regardless of which universe! ^_^

    1. Bicycle Bill

      You are apparently suffering from “shipping sickness”, which causes a decline in reading comprehension.  Joyce clearly said that Walky’s body was a “perfect black hole for fast food”.

      1. Clif

        Your point?

  47. nooB

    Man, Walky has his plan set

    1. DarkoNeko

      Bonus point if he can make a trampoline park in the White House, as the first mate.

  48. Vree

    This strip is a good example the sort of “Willis-speak” the characters sometimes do with tons of euphemism and references that make the whole thing barely intelligible that could be an attempt at creating a new slang but is probably only the result of trying to cram a long conversation into four panels.

  49. Lars

    I had to google what a trampoline park is. If they are anything like the images google links to, then I don’t think we have those around here. Look fun Though (:

  50. Jean

    Walky just isn’t fit for this mad world.
    Come to think of it, neither is Joyce.

  51. m2iCodeJockey

    Yes.
    So, you enjoy talking to yourself and you answer your questions when asked…?

  52. James Rye

    I totally see those two end up in their senior years if they continue this way. XD

  53. HiiroArana79

    MAKE YOUR DREAMS TRAMPOLINES! JUST DO IT!

  54. Lan Mikoto

    Wait shit he could actually fund that couldn’t he? Damnit Walky you’re one brilliant character.

  55. Spencer

    Walky is a man after my own heart.

  56. Alex

    Oh, Joyce. You know you’re jealous of Dorothy and her perfectly sculpted heterosexual boyfriend. And you’re jealous of Walky and his trampoline park.

    At least you’ll always have a ridiculously perky attitude!

  57. Duncan

    …aaaaaaand there’s the elephant in the room: Joyce and her real major in college: Earning her MRS. I’m surprised she didn’t get all indignant over that; maybe in tomorrows strip?

  58. Kirbilius Clausius

    Now that Joyce is accepting of the existence of romantic (if not sexual) relationships between people of the same gender, when will her gender role kick change? I mean, she’s still planning on being ‘taken care of by’ a male. Does she ‘expect’ Dina to ‘take care of’ Becky because Becky is her best friend from way back (hence locked in gender role expectation) and Dina is ‘weird’ and ‘other’ so must be the one ‘that is gone and found’? Now sure, Becky has slim hopes for a college degree and Dina could probably discover NorthKoreaSaurus by being unnoticed when she slipped over the border. But her other best friend is an ambitious, conscious about her relationship, take charge person dating that wacky ditz in every romantic comedy.

    1. Cerberus

      I have a feeling that it’s going to be Jocelyn coming out that’s going to break through that one. Seeing how tightly enforced gender roles have hurt her sister growing up will probably make her analyze what she has learned in gender studies class in a whole new light.

      (I actually have a suspicion that Joyce might end up swapping to a Gender Studies major later on giving her general antipathy towards education and how much of a role her gender studies classes have played in her personal growth.)

    2. Heavensrun

      She seems pretty okay with Dorothy’s non-traditional ambitions. Just because Joyce wants to be a girly girl housewife doesn’t mean she has a “gender role kick”. That’s just who /she/ wants to be.

      1. Rutee

        …Given her views on relationships and her planned relationship arc, she quite definitely has a ‘gender role kick’.

  59. Pat Myers

    Sigh… Freshmen.

  60. charlierw1

    Should I start another joke kickstarter campaign

    1. Bicycle Bill

      Go ahead — I’m curious to see what you offer for incentives at the various funding levels and what sort of stretch goals you come up with.

    2. Tacos

      Just no potato salad please.

  61. kelticat

    Ah yes, the Mrs. degree. My sister had one of those. It didn’t do her much good when her(now ex)husband decided to sell the four-bedroom/two bath house in order to buy an RV to go free-wheeling across the country with their three under 10 year old children. It really didn’t help when the family RAN OUT OF MONEY less than 150 miles from where they started. Thus two years spent first in the RV and then in a complementary mobile home as park hosts for a state park, then a series of jobs managing apartment complexes as she got a non-Mrs. degree in business.
    Ironic thing, she was the first woman in four generations on our mom’s side to decide that a Mrs. degree was a good thing. Our mom supported our dad when he was getting his Masters and continued to work outside the home as we were growing up, our grandmother worked in a bank before and after seperating from our grandfather, our great-grandmother worked for the railroad to support her children, and our great great grandmother was a farmer’s wife and worked the family farm. FYI my grandmother was born in 1904 and my mother in 1934. And my sister was born in 1952 and married 1973.

  62. StClair

    No, Joyce, what you’re doing is the made-up baby thing.
    (Because you know the assumed, inevitable outcome of all these ships is babies babies babies.)

  63. Wafflebob

    Still loving this way more than I would normally because I know they are married and pregnant in another universe.

  64. jennyfers

    i still ship them, honestly.

    1. Iron Glenn

      Moments like these just add fuel to the ship.

  65. Marc in MN

    What makes me sad for the world is that such a kickstarter would probably be successful. :p

  66. Jerach

    Now this is a real college conversation. Arguing over the logistics of something stupid and inane is a staple of my college conversations.

  67. MichaelHaneline

    SERIOUSLY? NOBODY made an Emperor’s New Groove reference?? And now I’m too late to the party for the joke to be relevant…

    1. Sailor_Arashi

      For the LAST TIME…we did NOT order a giant trampoline!

  68. TheKelliestKelly

    What’s interesting is that, in a way, they’re both very right and both very wrong. But it also just shows that they’re both 18 or 19

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