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Poke poke poke
Posted on January 10, 2020 by David M Willis

167 thoughts on “Poke poke poke”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    PREMARITAL HATTY-PATTY

    1. Doctor_Who

      Panels 3-5: Becky gets elbow, cheek, and top of head action.

      And we didn’t even need to sign up for slipshine.

      1. ValdVin

        Hatless Dina and not Slipshine?

        I don’t know if that’s even safe to post on Tumblr anymore.

        1. Zee

          Idk man, female presenting headtops are pretty nsfw

      2. Deanatay

        I touched her NAKED parts!

        I need to be punished!

    2. Bagge

      Heh, hatty-patty!

  2. King Daniel

    “…and next weekend at the funeral, we can lie about how Mike died too young. An’ ‘cuz my roommate’s dead, they’ll give me automatic “A”s for the semester.”

    Dumbing of Age “Included” – posted 6 October 2016, three years and three months ago

    (Just throwing this out here.)

    1. ian livs

      Oh, wow

    2. Yumi

      At least he died doing what he loved.

      Your mom.

      1. Kravis

        For a nickel.

    3. Andy

      The weird part for me is that I have the same sweatshirt that Walky’s wearing somewhere.

    4. Reltzik

      Hey, congrats, you managed to find it!

    5. Needfuldoer

      Thanks for finding it!

    6. bodmans

      How far back is this in universe?

      1. Henshu

        According to the wiki, that chapter takes place on October 4th (A Monday). Today is.. probably October 20th?

  3. Doctor_Who

    Fixed it.

    1. Cattleprod

      When your defining trait is blowjobs you shouldn’t be that judgey.

      1. Doctor_Who

        You can’t hear it, but his tone is actually rather congratulatory.

        1. Needfuldoer

          Yeah, I can’t imagine BJC being anything but supportive here.

          (She should still be tagged, though!)

    2. LeslieBean4shizzle

      Shouldn’t the comic have a “blowjob cat” tag?
      The real one I mean.

      1. David

        It would have blown her cover when she ungargoyled and went all Harun-al-Rashid on the party. She has a thing for Sarah.

  4. Mada

    THERE BEST BE A SLIPSHINE AT SOME POINT HERE.

    1. Wraith_Ferron

      It will likely be them holding hands, followed by the “Lewd” anime meme

    2. Dave Van Domelen

      This is as close as we’re likely to get to a Slipshine in the next decade of realtime, given how slowly comic time is running….

      1. Doctor_Who

        I mean, I guess one could fill people in on what Sal and Asher were up to during the party.

        Plot twist: they played Magic: the Gathering.

        1. Bagge

          Or possibly apples to apples…

          http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/03-the-butterflies-fly-away/applestoapples/

        2. He Who Abides

          I’d love to know what Sal’s Magic: the Gathering deck is.

    3. Diner Kinetic

      It’s probs just 20 panels of cuddling; and we know we’d all be happy with that anyways

      1. Bagge

        Oh yes!

        1. Geneseepaws

          Oh, Hell Yes!

      2. Roborat

        Then Becky has a spontaneous orgasm when Dina takes her hat off.

    4. Bagge

      My only question about the slipshine is how to narrow down the title. There are so many good to chose from.

      “Becky does a Premartial Hanky-Panky?”

      “Dina’s getting touched (in many places)”

      “Take your hat off”

      “Lady syrup”

      “Dinosaur mating dance”

      “Scientific dating”

      “Holding hands (among other things) and looking at dinosaurs”

      How do you pick just one?

      1. Marsh Maryrose

        “Dina and Becky engage in the pageantry of tricking their bodies into believing an egg has been fertilized”

        1. Bagge

          “Dina and Becky throw themselves at The Cragged Shame Pits of the Lustwolves”?

      2. Clif

        Why should you pick just one?

        1. Bagge

          Now that’s the kind of thinking we need around here.

      3. Jaxx Sentinel

        Let’s do it like they do on the Discovery Channel ?

        1. Bagge

          “A miracle of science?”

    5. Reltzik

      I’m guessing, given how clothed they are, that they didn’t really hanky-panky.

      1. Bagge

        Yeah, Becky gets that a lot.

        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/definitely/

      2. Khno

        I guess that given how few sheets of paper there are, they effectively didn’t
        http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/overstepped/

        1. Bagge

          Heh, nice callback.

          Maybe she uses the voice recorder that comes preinstalled on her phone? http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/02-choosing-my-religion/recorder/

        2. Bagge

          And if Becky is turned on by that, it adds yet another layer to her jealousy of Joyce and Dorothy…

          http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/spreadsheet/

        3. Opus the Poet

          Annoying reminder, Kraft stopped making/selling that t-shirt.

        4. Bagge

          just as the relationship between Dorothy and Walky it symbolises ended, so that’s very fitting.

          *cries*

  5. Stephen Bierce

    My Baby Does The Hanky Panky…

    1. Ryek Hvek

      I think they’re alone now.

      1. Stephen Bierce

        Doesn’t seem to be anyone around…

    2. Stephen Bierce

      This and maybe one other song avoided getting remade in the late Eighties. Why?

      1. Bicycle Bill

        It might be better to list some of the songs that DID get remade in the late eighties, and THEN ask “Why?”

        1. Stephen Bierce

          Silly boy. Just this past year, I made a triple playlist of remake hits from 1975 to 1995 as a Facebook note. I sent a copy to a press of “greatest hits collection” CDs in hopes they’d be interested enough to make a product.

          I leave the askings of “why?” to others, but you know the answer is always “MONEY”.

          https://www.facebook.com/notes/stephen-r-bierce/final-revision-the-re-decade-playlist/10157501216304169/

        2. Khno

          Hm, I got a question about definitions for Sid’s My way, would it really be a cover? Since the original is not Sinatra’s… and not titled My way… (also sure it’s the most known version, but my heart stands for Nina Hagen there).
          Great playlist overall if not directed toward my tastes – and I’d have had Nirvana remaking some if I’d just

          About the intrinsic greedy and poor quality of remakes, let’s remember how Bach spent his time covering himself, before even some insect’s time.

      2. Ryek Hvek

        Very much of their moment, and existing in the same world as the Beach Boys, the Who, and the Rolling Stones

      3. Opus the Poet

        Waiting for the twenties to make it meaningful again…

  6. CZieg

    No one’s dead! This is a good sign!

    1. Guerisso

      I would say there are some people confirmed to be alive.

  7. lia47

    changing my major to premarital hanky-panky

  8. Bagge

    Things that annoy me: That the sound effect in the fifth panel is not “Hat? Hat? Hat?”

    Things that don’t annoy me: absolutely everthing else! This is just so cute and pure and wonderful and squeeeeeeee! Poor Becky! If she was a boiling pot of neuroses and hormones yesterday, she will have a let of soul searching to do today as well. Let’s just hope they remembered to close the door this time around so Robin got some sleep.

  9. Kyrik Michalowski

    Becky please, you are going to wake the entire neighborhood with that kind of yelling. Besides, you are the one who decided to feel up her girlfriend first thing in the morning. (I can’t blame you there though.)

  10. Joe Moose

    I’m loving the fact that Becky wakes up the *moment* she couldn’t find the hat.

  11. DailyBrad

    It took me a sec to realize, oh yeah, the hat.

    Also, gosh, I love these two.

  12. Woomy

    Mike who???

  13. Cattleprod

    I’m kind of hoping there will just be a solid two weeks of non-violent strips until one of then ends with a pan over to reveal Mike bleeding to death in the corner.

    1. tim gueguen

      Mike, Blaine, and Ross will never be seen or mentioned again, and Willis will never tell us what happened to them.

      1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

        But did they ever return?
        No they never returned.
        And their fate is still unlearned.

        1. Needfuldoer

          If Charlie’s wife can hand him a sandwich, she could hand him the nickel exit fare. Change my mind.

          (Fun fact: that song is why the MBTA calls the ticket system CharlieCard. Also Scollay Square was the red light district until it got demolished. Now City Hall is there, so the region is still populated by people who take your money and eff you.)

        2. hof1991

          Try the Dropkick Murphys version instead. Skinhead on the MBTA.
          https://youtu.be/2qPm9JFM484

        3. miri

          A singularity occurred and Mike transformed into The Cheese. AG was transported back in time to bed where Amber had gone to sleep. The Terridads were destroyed.

          It all makes perfect sense?

    2. LeslieBean4shizzle

      Personally, I’d prefer it be Blaine and Toedad bleeding to death in a corner….

      1. Rikunda

        That would be a good twist. AG took their lives in a fit of rage after Mike fell. Mike, magically, is fine. Holds it over Amber.

    3. Roborat

      Each day will be a different cast member waking up for the morning. With the cast Willis has, this could drag out all month.

      1. Someguy

        I wouldn’t be surprised.

  14. Yotomoe

    PREMARITAL HEADY-PETTY

    1. Bagge

      Kinky!

  15. Tacos

    YEAH BOOOIII! PREMARITAL HANKY-PANKY!

    (Though given that they’re still clothed, more likely just premarital snugglin’. Which ain’t bad either.)

    1. SuperZero

      But she touched Dina’s head.

      1. King Daniel

        Becky’s touched Dina’s head before – Dina first took off her hat in Dumbing of Age to celebrate its 2,000th strip a couple of years ago.

        1. Reltzik

          In public, no less.

  16. Dr. D.

    Willis will no doubt keep switching scenes for AT LEAST the next couple of weeks. The man’s a sadist.

    1. Marsh Maryrose

      Does he know his clientele or what?

  17. Kravis

    BLOWJOB CAT likes to watch.

  18. Ferret

    Shit panel 2 is just straight up wholesome cuteness.

  19. Sunny

    This is one of the most adorable comic strips so far. Definitely top 10 material.

    1. Bagge

      Yes.

      I’d say at least half of the other top-ten also feature Dina and Becky.

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/04-walking-with-dina/edmontosaurus/

  20. Pacce

    Once again Amber’s clownery pulled the narrative away from The Good Stuff.

  21. Piotr W

    Willis’ storytelling technique of delaying the resolution of cliffhangers is getting tiresome :\\

    1. Hugo Bedward

      gotta get those patreon subs for next-day comic somehow

  22. King Daniel

    Promethium! Hydrogen! Phosphorus! What do those elements’ symbols spell?

    1. Opus the Poet

      PrHP? I want to buy a vowel, Pat.

      1. King Daniel

        Promethium’s symbol is Pm.

        PmHP – Premaritial Hanky Panky.

        And now I have just explained the joke, and thus killed it.

        1. He Who Abides

          How many times do I have to tell you, Harley? If you have to explain the joke, it’s. Not. FUNNY!

  23. 1 2 2 50 in Roman numerals

    Dina and bscky r so adorable i almost forgot mikes very likely bleeding out on the pavement as they speak

    1. King Daniel

      Don’t be silly.

      It’s already sunrise, Mike would have already bled out a long time ago.

    2. Zee

      Hi your username fills me with rage

      1. King Daniel

        You’re at a loss for words?

  24. Bagge

    alt-text: I never stop giggling about those little pieces of backstory of Becky being a bad influence on Joyce

  25. DarkoNeko

    Blowjob cat is watching

  26. BBCC

    I’m cackling over here. Thank you, Willis!

  27. RacingTurtle

    Awwwww

  28. DarkoNeko

    So, that aside, I wonder how many page until we realize he fell on a mattress or on Blaine’s car or whatever, softening the fall into manageable range or something.

    1. DarkoNeko

      Hey, I can dream.

    2. nobilis

      While falling, Mike was bitten by a radioactive spider, and turned into Supermike. He threw the evil dads into space und then flew away into the sunrise on a gentle breeze.

      I can dream, too.

      1. DarkoNeko

        B-but acting good is Mike’s kryptonite !

        1. Doom Shepherd

          Throwing people unprotected into space generally kills them, so it’d still be an evil act. Crisis Averted. (But a Crossover Crisis becomes exponentially more likely.)

  29. Tomn

    At the very least we know that whatever went down, Toedad was too distracted to go after Becky in the end.

    1. Bagge

      Either that, or Dina quickly removed him so he wouldn’t distract from her getting touched in many places

      1. Bagge

        I mean, how long do YOU think he would last against a naked, hormon-crazed Dina in mating frenzy armed with a raptor claw?

        1. Jhon

          Somewhere on the Net, Rule 34 is happening…

        2. Opus the Poet

          This took me way too long to compose after pulling myself back off the floor and into my chair because I was laughing so hard.

  30. Circeus

    Okay, is she excited or dismayed? XD

    1. Bagge

      Yes.

      1. DarkoNeko

        Vey much yes.

  31. questionwriter

    …and the kid goes for broke.

    (nice Trudeau homage)

    1. Kensou

      …Doonesbury Trudeau?

      1. NickG

        Joanie and Rick’s first night together, a 3 strip long pan from Joanie’s bedroom across the town to Rick’s with J & R in bed together.

        1. thejeff

          Absolutely beautiful sequence. Impressive for being willing to linger like that without a punchline.

          Also censored by multiple papers for showing the new couple in bed.

        2. Kensou

          Oooh, okay, thank you. Either it’s been so long since I read it that the sequence slipped thru the old memory cracks, or I didn’t see it at the time.

  32. Plasma Mongoose

    Why is there smut on my screen?
    Surely this will lead to degenerate behaviours like holding hands or worse, HEAD PATS!

  33. ReFlex76

    Regarding Alt-Text:

    Huh, I thought it was Joyce taught her.

  34. ReFlex76

    Regarding Alt-Text:

    Huh, I thought it was Joyce that taught her.

  35. Hazel

    Willis takes away but also giveth

  36. TheFlamingonator

    yay lesbian content

    nay no answers to WHAT HAPPENED

  37. brionl

    I certainly hope her hanky was thoroughly panky’d.

  38. Ray

    I dunno… maybe she’s just trying to get up to go pee…..

  39. Skoyatt

    Is it normal if there isn’t a previous button anymore?

  40. GUIGUI

    Maybe they just hugged?

    1. Bagge

      There is no “just” about hugging without a hat.

      1. GUIGUI

        Don’t know if it was assigned to you randomly, but your Grabbatar is fitting perfectly to your reply.

        1. Bagge

          I picked it myself, from the bestest Becky strip 🙂

          http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/01-to-those-whod-ground-me/unlimited/

  41. Minder

    Not the plot thread I was hoping to see rn, but for those worried Mike’s dead I never thought there was a chance in hell considering (1) he IS in the main cast, go check the character page, and (2) we just saw Amber wake up and spend a good few minutes looking at her phone, and even her reclusive ass would have a few notifications if one of her best…uh, longtime acquaintances that frequently aggrandizes her had got shoved off a building and died.

    Not ruling out he’s laid up in the hospital right now next to Ross with a matching neck brace, though.

    (I hope all the partygoers including Robin were chased out of the place by now so that no one but Becky may see the sacred crown hair of the Dinasaur)

  42. Delicious Taffy

    Oh hey, a fellow autsy sleep-cuddler. Now, that’s representation I can get behind.

  43. NinjaNick

    This is too cute.

  44. fire_daws

    Blowjob Cat watches

    1. MutantSentry

      Blowjob Cat always watches

  45. Keulen

    While I like this strip, I’m still annoyed at Willis for continually delaying showing us what happened to Mike, Blaine, and Ross.

    1. inqntrol

      And that’s why the expression ”DAMN YOU WILLIS!” exists.

  46. He Who Abides

    I can’t even be mad about this delay in cliffhanger resolution. It’s just too adorable.

  47. kilgaen

    I just realised the hanky-panky isn’t the possibility of sex (which didn’t happen, and Becky knows this because she wasn’t drunk). It’s hanky-panky because Dina’s hat-free.

    Which, yeah, is legit.

  48. Booker

    In possibly the first time this is ever said.
    BLESS YOU WILLIS!
    This strip made me smile.

    1. Jess

      Right! An odd reprieve but a reprieve nonetheless. I hope we someday have a chance to bless them again…

  49. Rabisch

    Better for Becky to get used to it. She and Dina together are so adorable♡♡♡

  50. Vulcanodon

    Becky + Dina, we need you to be there, one little pocket of happiness we can aspire to.

  51. Jess

    Sweet children!!

    Keep your voice down, Becky! Your girlfriend was asleep!

  52. Chaucer59

    These two are just friggin’ adorable. As for Mike, if he is dead or even permanently damaged, I hope Blaine—when he caught AG’s rope—at least swung against the stairs and knocked out all his front teeth.

    1. Shane

      Apparently Mike’s alive-ness isn’t a priority question right now.
      Is the author’s intent to annoy the audience or what?
      “HAHA I MADE YOU CARE THEN LOOKED AWAY”. I’m… kinda unamused.

      1. Arian

        Have you not been reading long enough yet to expect this to happen regularly? As someone else said, there’s a reason the expression DAMN YOU WILLIS! exists. You get used to it – or at any rate, you come to expect it

        1. Shane

          This is more blatant than the previous Damn You Willis-es!

        2. thejeff

          It’s no more blatant than the time skip after the Ryan stabbing. Admittedly, there was little reason to think Amber was dead then, but there was much speculation that she’d been arrested or was on the run.

  53. Alan in DC

    That’s quite the voice Becky has — it scared the hell out of the gulls in the sixth frame, and the nearest sizable body of water (Lake Monroe) is 6 miles to the southeast.

    Damn, she’s loud.

    1. Sunny

      Seagulls have actually been moving further and further away from the water and into cities. It’s a lot easier for them to find food around humans than it is to catch fish. Many seagulls don’t even know how to catch fish anymore.

  54. PB

    Staving off the DYWs with Becky/Dina snuggling.

    … Well played, Willis. Well played.

  55. Rikunda

    She has no clue what sex is… does she? Starting to think she never had a sex ed talk.

    1. Regalli

      The Talk? Betting not, Toedad would prohibit such things until she was safely heterosexually paired off (I’ve heard ‘the Mom gives a how-to talk the night before the wedding’ is a thing in some fundie communities.) Bonnie might have done so behind his back (during homeschool time, maybe,) but she’d have to do it while they were alone – Joyce has mentioned a homeschool group beyond just her and Becky, any of whom could talk to their parents who would be horrified at the subject, and… I mean, bless Joyce, but she’d probably talk too. And of course, since Bonnie died there’s no chance of that.

      That said, I can entirely see Becky being savvy enough to use a private browser and do some studying online, but she’d have to feel REALLY confident she wouldn’t be walked in on, especially since it probably wasn’t even a computer in her room. (Based off the ‘no phone’ thing, among others.) Since she escaped, though, she’s had way more freedom to contemplate it… but oh, the shame. And that shame’s been around for a while, I’d bet.

      (We also know ‘no hat’ is also a ‘Becky’s kind of got a Thing now’ from dating Dina, so it may be a joke/cosleeping hatless, even otherwise clothed, is over Becky’s Acceptable Premarital Contact line?)

      1. Bagge

        I for one mourn that we never got to see Leslie sit down to give Becky the talk, will all heartwarming hilarity that would have entailed.

        1. Regalli

          We can hope a scene like that appears in some form, someday. Cause yeah it’d be cute and awkward as hell. (Both flashbacks and people paying Willis a shitload of money for him to draw a whole comic exist. We can dream.)

    2. Joe Archer

      Becky is not a virgin WRT mattress action:
      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/definitely/

  56. Schol-R-LEA

    You can take the lesbian out of the right-wing evangelical religion, but it may
    take a bit longer to take the right-wing evangelical religion out of the lesbian.

  57. Pinja

    Now they’re both teeeeeeeeeeeen pregnant!

    1. Opus the Poet

      Fuck yeah, Gaybees https://www.gogetaroomie.com/comic/this-is-your-song

  58. Suet

    You do the hanky panky and you throw away the hat…

  59. Poofdepoof

    When my phone isn’t on great WiFi the comic slowly loads top to bottom… So I started out being unexcited about Billie and Ruth and then ended up full of squee for Becky and Dina ?

  60. David L.

    This is so cute.

  61. Atrius

    I literally said “‘D’awwww” out loud. They are adorable.

  62. Atrius

    Also just realized that 2 of my other webcomic updates today were wonderful lesbian moments. You can never have too much lesbian, apparently.

  63. Marie

    Anybody else catch how this sequence of panels harkens back to an iconic moment in Doonsbury – when “Joanie Beds Rick” ? 1976. Might be before most of ya’ll’s time… https://media.npr.org/assets/artslife/books/2010/10/doonesbury/db761113.jpg

  64. TlalocW

    And a weak voice from the outside ground struggles to make itself heard.. “I… had premarital hanky panky.. with… your moms… for a nickel. Uhhhhhh.” And Mike dies.

  65. Sarpiedon

    Live feed Web Cam footage or it didn’t happen

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