So this was weird. Guess who won this month's vote to star in the Dumbing of Age Patreon monthly bonus comic? O HAI BECKY. Well, uh, that's spooky timing. But I drew a Becky strip anyway (also Asma is in it), so if you wanna go check it out, all you have to do is be a member of the Patreon. The first panel of the bonus strip is on the left. You can see the monthly bonus strip (and the monthly wallpaper) for any pledge amount, and if you pledge $5 or more you get to see tomorrow's strip a day early. That's right, those folks knew Becky was showing up 24 hours ago! But not a month ago, or they probably wouldn't have voted this way.
We're not going to have any shortage of Becky, is what I'm saying. Angel
Tags: becky, joyce, sarah
So this was weird. Guess who won this month's vote to star in the Dumbing of Age Patreon monthly bonus comic? O HAI BECKY. Well, uh, that's spooky timing. But I drew a Becky strip anyway (also Asma is in it), so if you wanna go check it out, all you have to do is be a member of the Patreon. The first panel of the bonus strip is on the left. You can see the monthly bonus strip (and the monthly wallpaper) for any pledge amount, and if you pledge $5 or more you get to see tomorrow's strip a day early. That's right, those folks knew Becky was showing up 24 hours ago! But not a month ago, or they probably wouldn't have voted this way.
We're not going to have any shortage of Becky, is what I'm saying.
Discussion (168) - “Angel”
Jen Aside
Becky, Becky, she so cool
I don’t get Becky I can’t sleep
I need Becky ‘fo I beat
Becky, Becky, marry me
thebombzen
You mean
Sal, Sal, she so cool ohwait wrong comic
Mr. Random
No, I think that applies to this one too.
Very Good Karma
Maniac, Maniac, he’s so cool.
Maniac, Maniac, don’t go to school.
Runs all night, runs all right.
Maniac, Maniac, *kissed a bull*!
PASchaefer
Holy crap, that takes me back.
Oddball
You kissed a Bull?
Roborat
Yea, Red Bull.
tarmaie
I didn’t know there was anyone else in the world who read that book.
Very Good Karma
Are you kidding?? It won a Newberry Medal! There are *curriculums* written for teaching that book.
Renadt
Damn it, that was a good book.
An Average Loser
Ohai Becky.
Tunaro
So, how’s your school life going?
Tenn
It’s not true, it’s bullcrap, I did not draw dingdongs, I did naaaht.
0kami
So, anyway, how is your premarital-hanky-panky life?
Tunaro
Oh joy, more wood to add to the fire!
Yotomoe
That sounds like a euphenism.
Van Dyne
It’s not. It is in fact another comment reflecting the OP’s desire to randomly immolate certain characters.
Jen Aside
It feels wrong to start a phrase “oh joy” and not conclude it with “sex toy”
Aubri
+68
Opus the Poet
+1 more
Joy
This is especially true when you know people named Joy.
xKiv
Oh joy, more wood to add to the fire sex toy!
/couldntresist
Mr k
“Hey, Joyce, want to meet my atheist girlfriend?”
AgentKeen
“Wait, that came out wrong, I’m just a friend of Dorothy!”
Yotomoe
“No? How about my Jewish boyfriend? Don’t worry, nothing’s happened yet. He’s gay”
newllend
Or my other alcoholic and possibly BI friend and her EX criminal roommate.
Dalky
I think you guys missed the point… BECKY would be the one with the athiest girlfriend. And I’d say something like that seems inevitable.
HMRC4EVR
Maybe this is the point we find out Becky is gay and has been trying to hide it from Joyce out of fear, but Joyce realizes she has feelings for Becky that’s been transferred to Dorothy in lieu of Becky not being there.
So we add another can of romantic gasoline to the fire.
Nanchatte
no that’s taylor swift
Doctor_Who
The fundieness has been doubled!
Let’s hope Mary doesn’t ruin it. Perky fundies are more fun than bongoy ones.
Yotomoe
They put the fun in fundies.
Lone Wolf
Conversely, Mary puts the “fundament” in “fundamentalist”.
Mr k
No, she puts the mental in “fundamentalist”
Lone Wolf
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Fundament?r=75
Opus the Poet
You’re both right, she’s an ass and she’s mental.
GamaranSepudomyn
You beat me to that one. Although I was going to make that joke about Joyce.
Jen Aside
you’re talking about these amirite
gwalla
omfg what
saltchocolate
Jen Aside — I demand a refund of my brain-before-checking-out-your-link. A *full* refund. No trace memories of that insanity.
Tunaro
A rabid opposum covered in barbed wire’d be better than Mary.
AgentKeen
Hey, alt-text, I’m the one that makes ‘SAL?!?’ jokes.
…and probably like 50 other people.
Jen Aside
That’s how Willis knows us so well. One pool of jokes =p
AgentKeen
“Nobody has made a ‘FAAAACE’ joke in a while; better have someone get hit in the face with a pie.”
Opus the Poet
We haven’t had an “unkillable badass” joke for a while either… Probably because unkillable badasses are so rare, unlike religious fundamentalists that hate all things fun.
Wack'd
This would be a lot more dramatic if Becky had called Joyce earlier to break up with her, followed by an extended flashback of the two of them in high school.
Mattyos
Well this is going to be a spectacular truck crash
Dean
Don’t worry Joyce, God has just been ‘paying attention’ to Billie and Ruth lately, if you know what I mean.
Yotomoe
“I made the right decision making these too so hot. If only people’d stop spreading that “I hate gays” rumor. My whole schtick is I don’t hate anyone!
Shadowtechie
+1 for TRUTH!
Tenn
“Oh hey there little fella!”
Brain, you are far too good at recalling things thought forgotten.
Tommy Fresh
Becky-Joyce Shippers!
Assemble!
buckybone
ALL ABOARD
Mr k
It turns out that Becky always had a crush on Joyce. This conversation will go badly.
newllend
how can there already be shippers !? everyone would have forgot she existed if it wasn’t for the fact she’s on the cast list.
Jen Aside
or in the VERY FIRST STRIP if you accidentally click the “First” button??
Disloyal Subject
Or when you follow ads here to check the daily update, only to feel that tiny spark of rage when they bring you to page one instead and negate the time saved in not typing the URL manually by requiring a click to reach the homepage…
Opus the Poet
Dude, bookmarks save tons of time.
lipstick_suckerpunch
I am often reminded of Beckys existence when my large thumb tries to click the ‘previous’ button on my phone and mashes into the first button instead.
I’m actually kinda excited to find out what happened to Becky. How long in the DoA universe has it been since Joyce last saw her?
Opus the Poet
The last strip with Joyce and Becky in the same physical locale was posted September 15, 2010 http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/01-move-in-day/forget/
Hoboturtle
Actually I don’t even think Becky is still on the cast list.
Orangey
I ship them so hard and I DONT KNOW WHY? I’ve got it in my head that Becky has a massive crush on Joyce for some reason.
Tenn
I will not ship Joyce with Becky unless Dorothy is also involved.
Emperor Kiva
I knew Joyce would cheer up quickly somehow. Way to go, Joyce! 😀
Kernanator
Oh this is going to be fun!
…Hopefully.
JessWitt
It’s been a while, Becky! Can’t wait to see what comes of this little get-together.
GoogerGeiger
Plot twist: God is real.
Kennerly
We all knew that already, at least within the world of Dumbing of Age. His name is Willis.
Plasma Mongoose
And this God of the DoA is an atheist.
Yotomoe
He looks in the mirror and says “You’re not real”
Deanatay
I imagine our God (if he exists) to be an atheist. He knows what he is and why he exists, so he doesn’t have to believe in himself, and there’s nothing bigger than him to believe in. So, yeah, atheist.
Mkvenner