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Bluffing
Posted on September 9, 2014 by David M Willis

174 thoughts on “Bluffing”

  1. An Average Loser

    Pants.

    1. JA

      Only squares wear them.

      1. David Herbert

        Skirts mean you can keep modest and still get pleasure.

        1. Gentleman Breakfast

          Then can we please make kilts casual wear for men, I’m tired of only the fairer sex being allowed a breeze down there.

        2. Disloyal Subject

          They are if you choose for them to be. Which I do.

        3. Sambo

          Perfect avatar.

          Now imagining Joe in a kilt…

        4. LittleMountain

          ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew

        5. Rowen Morland

          Can someone fanart this?

    2. AgentKeen

      Pants are the new face.

    3. Dubstowel

      Face is the new pants.

    4. Dubstowel

      Face is the new pants.

      1. Felix

        Face is the new pants.

        1. Lord Geovanni

          My face is female size 22 pants

    5. Van Jealous

      “Face Is The Place!”

  2. Kerry

    except for ethan >:

    1. Sam

      Well, he can be helping himself…you know, just like Sarah is. We just hvnt seen it. 😀

      1. Kerry

        oh dang
        I kind of wonder if he even does, though?
        since he’s trying to avoid temptation and repress his sexuality and all that

        1. Khrene

          Its likely the only thing keeping him sane and not pouncing on Danny like rabid man-couger.

        2. Kerry

          I would think common decency would be the thing keeping him from pouncing on danny…?

        3. Khrene

          Smirks Not in my head cannon.

        4. Khrene

          Speaking of which, in a couple more years it’ll be November in DoA time…

        5. John

          So… the DoA characters will be writing 50,000-word novels?

        6. Seth

          It’s homosexuality specifically that he’s trying to repress, which really doesn’t have anything to do with masturbation.

        7. Kerry

          um… do you not fantasize about things ever, when you masturbate?
          like, ethan’s probably not just going to keep his mind a total blank while he does it or whatever
          it seems like indulging himself in fantasies would be viewed as encouraging it, more than anything else

        8. Slinx

          How much is he really trying to repress his homosexuality? Certainly his parents don’t approve, and he is avoiding public knowledge about his homosexuality, but he seems otherwise comfortable with his sexuality.

        9. Lin

          He is dating a woman. So that’s pretty repressed.

          And before I get jumped on, yes, I know that bisexuality and pansexuality are things. But Ethan has never said that he’s bi, just that being gay was too hard and that he wanted to try to be straight again.

          Thus: repressed.

        10. Clif

          No, he’s dating a woman who knows he’s gay, so that he doesn’t have to deal with being defined by his gayness, which isn’t repressed at all. He’s not uncomfortable with himself, he’s uncomfortable with the way others define him. Joyce on the other hand gets to engage in her fantasies while still feeling safe and there is lots of repression involved.

        11. John

          He’s dating a woman, who knows he’s gay only because Amber brow-beat him into telling her, and has led her to believe that she can “fix” him and have with him the heterosexual relationship she obviously aspires to, with marriage and regular post-marital Jesus-approved banging and fruitful multiplication.

          I’m not entirely clear on to what extent Ethan has actually bought into this plan, but whether he really believes it can work or not, he is actively cooperating with it. If he keeps on like he has, he’s going to end up married to a woman, having unsatisfying sex as infrequently as he can get away with it, and pretending that this is what he’s always wanted.

          If that’s not repressing his sexuality, I don’t know what is.

    2. newllend

      Watch him show up for Joyce to offer him another make out session just so he can turn it down and go to his room to do the same.

  3. Yotomoe

    Masturbating with Joyce in the room is actually her kink.

    1. newllend

      Sarah’s kink or Joyce’s ?

      1. PlaneSite

        Yes

      2. Emily

        Joyce’s kink is masturbating while Joyce is in the room.

        1. Atomix26

          yes

    2. Doctor_Who

      She enjoys the corruption of the pure.

      Of course, who doesn’t?

    3. Pink Freud

      “Aw.C’mon, Sarah, we can play with them together! You can shove ’em around if I get to make the noises!”

      1. Koms

        That was quite a Freudian comment. +1 internet

        1. Pink Freud

          It’s a quote from an earlier strip.

        2. Lume

          Lol, which one???

        3. m

          Noises

        4. Deanatay

          For those who prefer a link

        5. Koms

          I know, which is why I give you one hundred internets

    4. Hannah

      “Your misery, it sustains me Joyce!” -shudder-

  4. Yotomoe

    Even Joyce got some. She got some trousers RIGHT to the face.

    1. Camachri

      She got on to Sarah’s pants. Not quite the same as getting into them.

      1. Jen Aside

        Sarah’s pants got onto Joyce, though

        1. Camachri

          Bah, semantics!

      2. Mr k

        She will, sooner or later.

    2. GoogerGeiger

      Indirect cunnilingus.

      1. thinkingofthechildren

        I like the way you think.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Two in the pink, one in the stink. 😛

        2. Jen Aside

          are you talking about pant legs or

        3. Jen Aside

          [/sarcasm] btw

        4. Do Over

          Two in the cute and one in the poot.

    3. Uberminz

      Nice pants, Sarah. Although they’d look better hanging off my face!

  5. cmd1095

    Why is Joyce still wearing the pants on her face?

    1. Camachri

      Lesbian shield.

      1. LiaHansen

        Your feminine wiles will never reach me through THESE, Sarah!

        1. Doctor_Who

          Makes sense. Those pants are all that contain Sarah’s wiles under normal circumstances, so it makes sense that they’d be wile-proof. It’s like how lead shielding can protect you from radiation.

        2. LiaHansen

          “plus they smell kinda nice”

        3. JessWitt

          Joyce can pair them with the shirt she lent Sal.

        4. Plasma Mongoose

          All Joyce needs now is Sal’s bike and Billie’s boobs and she’s set.

        5. Jen Aside

          Wow, it’s like building a whole new person out of specific fetishes! Just needs some Ethan tushie.

        6. Plasma Mongoose

          Them’s the rules.

        7. gwalla

          Get on it, Yotomoe.

    2. Doctor_Who

      You know how Joyce makes these really over the top reaction faces when something shocks her?

      And you know how your mother always used to tell you not to make faces, or they’ll stick that way?

      Joyce needs to hide the fact that she’s currently sporting a hilarious reaction face and it won’t go away.

    3. Yotomoe

      They’re warm.

    4. Alden

      There’s still the mild chance she might accidentally see something distressing.

  6. LeslieBean4Shizzle

    … Joyce seems to be keeping those pants on her face a curiously long time. Hmmm.

  7. MrSirk

    Sarah’s pretty serious.

    1. Yotomoe

      She takes her “Self Love” very seriousely.

      1. Deanatay

        Nobody else does. Love her, I mean. Besides chat people, and since they’re not part of the Dumbiverse, they don’t count.

  8. Hoboturtle

    Joyce should’ve tied those pants onto the doorknob

  9. Rocketboy1313

    I’m confused. Why did we smash cut? There was too much lost in that comedic smash cut.

    1. Kernanator

      I wanted to see Joyce’s haunted/horrified reaction too!

      1. Khrene

        Ya see no reaction big enough would suffice, so the funny here is that she went full circle and simply calmly walked out of the room and allll the way to the common room with pants still on her face.

    2. Andrusi

      It’s a subtle reminder that we’re less than a month out from the new Super Smash Bros.

  10. DemonSomething

    Damn Sarah, we don’t go to the nuclear option so quickly. It’s masturbating mutually assured destruction!

    1. Yotomoe

      That is a death worth dying.

      1. gwalla

        The little death.

  11. newllend

    You underestimate the sexual hunger of a woman who hasn’t had it since God know how long.

    1. Jen Aside

      Sarah and Other Jacob pound each other every night in the most epic of hatefucks

      1. newllend

        So she’s thinking of everyone she hates while she’s doing it ?

        1. Khrene

          Oldies ‘splains it all!

  12. MrSirk

    The pants help repress the mental image.

    1. newllend

      So pants are the new mind wipe ?

  13. Kathleen

    So did the sheer force of her masturbating fling Joyce into the hall, or did she start and Joyce ran away?

    1. Kiggy

      That…reminds me of an episode of the H-anime La Blue Girl @_@U

    2. Yotomoe

      The room became densely filled with Adult energy and Joyce’s christian purity created a barrier and flung her into the lobby.

    3. Doctor_Who

      The force of it warped space time and opened a wormhole under Joyce’s feet.

      It also took her five minutes back in time. When she gets back to the room she’ll be just in time to witness the event all over again.

      Wibbly wobbly, fappy wappy.

      1. Opus the Poet

        This deserves a +1! for the “fappy wappy”. Except girls don’t “fap” when they fap, it’s more of a “schik slick” noise.

    4. Jen Aside

      For the next fifteen minutes, they don’t know each other.

    5. J-Debs

      Joyce can’t remember what happened so why should we?

  14. Kiggy

    My sides are aching XD XD XD

    1. Kennerly

      Sarah’s insides are aching.

      1. Kiggy

        Wrong. They are quaking.

        1. Opus the Poet

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuoXkMZvD5Q

          Cause The Walls Start Shaking
          The Earth Was Quaking
          My Mind Was Aching…

        2. Khrene

          Oh baby!

    2. No

      Sarah masturbating raises the question: Can you hatefuck yourself?

      1. BalRog gets a "D"...and PASSES!!!

        If anyone could, it would be Sarah.

  15. Kernanator

    Good thing too, because Charisma is Sarah’s dump stat.

  16. winter

    So… *looks at the clock in the last panel* Is it supposed to be 3:30PM in the dumbiverse right now? Are we really only halfway through this day?

    1. Yotomoe

      Yeah WHAT? I thought it was like Afternoon when Billy and Ruth were banging.

    2. Kerry

      it looks more like 2:25pm to me, though admittedly, I was always shit at reading clocks

      1. winter

        Yeah, it’s closer to 2:25 I think.

        But I’m with Yoto on this. Admittedly alot of this day has taken place in poorly lit rooms, but I thought we were at least 4PM or so with Billie and Ruth.

        1. Jen Aside

          It could easily be ANY TIME YOU WANT, because who uses analogue clocks anymore?! I mean, shit takes fuckin’ AA batteries! Gotta save those for vibrators!

        2. Slinx

          It would not surprise me if the clock in a college common area was wrong. Or sideways. These things happen.

  17. Salmo

    You know what? I’m on Joyce’s side. Not on her views on masturbation in general, but come on, there’s a roommate code. You’re supposed to at least *pretend* you don’t masturbate in the room.

    1. Katrika

      Yeah, but I sort of suspect Joyce would use that to try to stop Sarah from masturbating /ever/. Not saying Sarah is in the right here, but I’m not sure Joyce is, either.

      1. Salmo

        She can’t be there all the time. You wait until you know they have a class, then you take care of business. It is The College Way.

        1. Jen Aside

          Notice how it wasn’t a gross thing until she knew where it’d been

    2. winter

      Hear, hear!

      Masturbating in a dorm room is a joy for four o’clock in the morning when you think your roommate is asleep, or for those fleeting moments when you get back in the afternoon and your roommate isn’t done with classes yet.

      (Of course, Sarah’s probably followed this code so far, and is breaking it as payback for Joyce sticking the rabbit attachment up her nose.)

      1. Kerry

        I really hope she washed it after that

      2. Salmo

        Oh, man, I had a whole system for arranging the sheets in such a way as to give meself a surreptitious handy if I woke up late at night.

        1. winter

          lol, college memories

          And because you wrote meself instead of myself, I’m now imagining that you are a pirate and went to pirate college.

        2. John

          Harrrrrvarrrrrrd?

        3. remi

          Not Yarrle?

        4. vlademir1

          Damnit people, you’re like ten days early…

    3. LWS

      Had a roommate in college that was the male equivalent of Sarah. No subtlety, no pretense, no escaping knowledge of what was going on 6 feet away…

  18. shoeboxjeddy

    That… is commitment to self love. I’m impressed in a bad way.

  19. Gram91

    Joyce took that rather well

  20. JessWitt

    There’s a pool table in the common room? Whoa.

    1. newllend

      Ya I thought Ruth broke that when she threw Billie into it ?

      1. Yotomoe

        Billie’s family is loaded. It was immediately replaced.

        1. newllend

          Does that mean they replaced the hip Ruth Broke too? If so that means they can replace other one Ruth’s about to break because I don’t think Billie won’t be walking properly after her night done.

      2. Kelly

        She threw Billie into a chair, and it fell over but didn’t break. I am sure of this even though I did not go back and check just now.

  21. Mkvenner

    Bravo, Willis, Bravo.

  22. synnerman

    Cockblocking a vibrator? Bad form Joyce.

  23. newllend

    And with coming off that signals a very sexual evening for Five people

    1. Kennerly

      Will this be on slipshine too?

  24. IAmDeltaS

    I’m surprised Joyce isn’t freaking out more…

    1. newllend

      She freaking out internally.

  25. Romanticide

    You should have said please Joyce… maybe it wouldn’t stop her but it would probably have helped…

  26. nothri

    Karma is a harsh mistress…

    http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/02-i-was-a-teenage-churchmouse/dressing/

    1. Koms

      Such karma..much awesome observation… wow!

  27. Josh

    So… I haven’t been counting the days, but…. haven’t we been in September this whole time? Not that I’m complaining.

    1. Catullus

      It’s been about 25 days, so it’s now late September.

    2. NoOneOfConsequence

      It is always September

      ALWAYS!

  28. nothri

    And somewhere, at the exact moment panel three is taking place, Joe suddenly and inexplicably wishes he was Joyce for the first and last time in his life. He has keenly honed sexy senses.

  29. Kamino Neko

    She’s never bluffin’ ’bout her muffin, Joyce.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Now she’s busy buffing and stuffing.

      1. Deanatay

        …and huffing and puffing?

        1. BalRog gets a "D"...and PASSES!!!

          And rebuffin’ the MacGuffin.

    2. Animal

      The Muffin Man is seated at the table in the laboratory of the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen. Reaching for an oversized chrome spoon, he gathers an intimate quantity of dried muffin remnants and, brushing his scapular aside, proceeds to dump these inside of his shirt.

      He turns to us and speaks:

      “Some people like cupcakes better. I, for one, care less for them.”

      Arrogantly twisting the sterile canvas snoot of a fully charged icing anointment utensil, he poots forth a quarter-ounce green rosette near the summit of a dense but radiant muffin of his own design.

      Later he says: “Some people, some people like cupcakes exclusively, while I myself say there is naught, nor ought there be, nothing so exalted on the face of God’s grey earth as that prince of foods, the Muffin!”

  30. zmm

    I didn’t see nearly as many slipshine jokes about Sarah teaching Joyce about that item in detail before she went to the common area haha.

    Joyce didn’t freak out nearly as much as I would guess… I’m guessing she doesn’t hate that sorta thing as much as other stuff.

  31. Lawzlo

    Joyce, take those pants off your head before someone makes a rude and offensive comment about your mental faculties.

    1. Catullus

      Don’t worry, Charlotte lives in a different dorm.

  32. TemplarKnight

    My theory is she just teleported. There was no buzzing and then she walked away, she just instantly teleported away from the sinful act.

  33. Idon'tcarenomore

    Sarah is not politically correct. She also knows Joyce.

    You don’t reason with Joyce. You just do what you gotta do.

    Joyce will remove herself, along with your pants, if need be.

  34. Idon'tcarenomore

    Zmm Joyce freaked out about it when she discovered she had shoved the rabbit up her nose, while playing with it and trying to figure out what it was used for.
    Much to Sarah’s chagrin when she walked in on her.

  35. Spongegirl Circleskirt

    Oh gawd. Laughing so hard! Thanks Willis!

  36. Pyr05

    Such velocity… such moisture to stick to her face!

  37. Bunivasal

    Trying to calibrate how angry I should be about Joyce’s opposition to Sarah fist-bumping the camel like this.

  38. Professor Fate

    Joyce must have run down the hall to the common room and now she’s panting.

    1. Jen Aside

      She was panted BEFORE that!

  39. JA

    Other Jacob must have done well to make those pants stick so long. Bravo Other Jacob!

  40. Zaxares

    Damn you, Willis. Now you have me imagining Sarah putting on a bit of a show just to get Joyce out of the room.

    … On second thoughts, perhaps I don’t hate you so much. 😉

  41. APersonAmI

    I’m not sure the comment from Joyce in the 4th panel was necessary. I think I’d prefer it to just show that, yes, contrary to her earlier statement, Joyce left the room eventually.

    Like the Mononoke dub, which is very, very good, except for that one scene where the main character realizes his body is still being consumed by the curse, and in the original, it just shows him stare and flinch in silence, as it lets that sink in, but they felt the need to make the actor in the dub say “It’s still there”.

    But it might be just because it stretches my suspension of belief a bit that she says that sentence after the fact, with no one there to hear her.

    1. Slinx

      What, you don’t talk to yourself while rehashing things that happened five minutes ago?

    2. Blue Dragon

      She’s not certain that nobody is there to hear her. She can’t see whether she’s alone.

      Perhaps Dina will appear. “I don’t understand THIS game. You don’t appear to be superficially mirroring the actions of others in a futile attempt at assimilation anymore, though.”

  42. nothri

    Well, say what you like, Joyce has now successfully gotten into Sarah’s pants.

    1. Leonou

      +1

  43. Slinx

    What does it say about Joyce that her reaction to that situation is “Huh.”?

  44. LWS

    Why do I picture their dorm room sounding like a little kid playing with a truck right now: vroom, vroom, vvrroomm, VVVRRROOOMMM!!!

  45. Bagge

    As Joyce leaves, Joe show up to put a sock on the door.

  46. King_Crimson

    for some reason im just imagining biff from back to the future walking by and going “hey butt head” and then laughing hysterically

  47. Fred

    Where did Joyce get Sarah’s pants?
    On her FAAA- nah, too old

  48. rachel

    has anyone actually ever been masturbexiled??

    1. Aint seen nothin yet

      yeah… yeah i have…
      I’ve also been sexiled by people in my own bed. the second time it happened, i stumbled in drunk, got naked and jumped in bed with them and proceeded to pass out. just before passing out, i remember them running into the hall naked, freaking out. it never happened again.

      1. Slinx

        … Why were they in your bed? Was this a party or something?

  49. Tenn

    Sooo… did she peek?

  50. Mang

    AAAH!! WHY WON’T THE NEXT COMIC ARROW WORK???

    What am I going to do for the next 4 days? 🙁

  51. NaYa

    …Are we getting slipshine on this one too?

  52. Just Here

    Was paging through the archives, and came across this page. What makes this page utterly priceless is that Joyce still has the pants on her head.

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