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Obligatory
Posted on March 16, 2022 by David M Willis

131 thoughts on “Obligatory”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    Becky and Joe in agreement? ?

    1. Ana Chronistic

      what did butts ever do to Joe

      (butts, pls respond)

      1. Doctor_Who

        Not as much as he’d like.

      2. Shitbird

        Joe prefers feet

        1. Nono

          Nah, that’s Joyce.

      3. Jamie

        I deny that I did anything.

      4. Gigafreak

        Dina: “Oh your God, Becky. Look at her butt.”

        1. elebenty

          I needed that, tks.

        2. Shadowsnail

          It is so big. She looks like one of those list bros’ girlfriends. But, you know, who understands those list bros?

      5. Judas Peckerwood

        I suspect that it’s more about what butts DIDN’T ever do to Joe.

      6. Decidedly Orthogonal

        ASS-umed he wasn’t impacted by philandering.

    2. Doctor_Who

      In this case they have a shared interest re: female secondary sexual characteristics.

      1. Yotomoe

        The secondary ones are my favorite!
        This is actually true

  2. King Daniel

    Why WOULD Joe be looking for Joyce? Wrong answers only.

    1. Doctor_Who

      “Joyce, I’ve decided to join the priesthood, you don’t need all those old bibles and things, right?”

      1. demonmonkey89

        The fact that Joe is Jewish iirc makes this even funnier to me

      2. milu

        “I’ll trade you for all my condoms, lube, sex toys, and porn subscriptions”

    2. RassilonTDavros

      Does “nobody has seen her since Sal kidnapped her to train her to fight aliens” count as a wrong answer

      1. Clif

        No, since it’s technically true. Just as no-one has heard from you after the time you swum the Atlantic in a single day.

        1. milu

          RassilonTDavros swam across the atlantic in a day in an alternate universe? Was it the one where continental drift got lazy?

    3. alongcameaspider

      He’s worked through his issues and is ready to try to take her on a date for real

      Too unrealistic?

      1. milu

        what is this, smartingofa— *chased off by untitled goose*

    4. Yotomoe

      He’s seen the error of his hedonistic ways and has become incredibly devout in his religion. Now that Joyce has rejected Christianity he thinks she’s a prime candidate to help spread the word of Judaism.

      1. milu

        You’re an atheist now? Yeah I know, what’s your point?

      2. Shadowsnail

        In high school, I saw a video about Oscar Wilde where a person with an unusual accent pronounced that word like “head on a stick”. That’s the only way I have read it ever since.

    5. True Survivor

      His square chinned brothers from Easter Island have come to drag him back. He needs to hide in a pile of Joyce’s sweater vests till things cool down.

      1. milu

        Hate it when that happens

    6. not someone else

      Joe has realized he’s actually the secret identity of a magical girl mascot and it’s his responsibility to help Joyce become Cure Sweater Vest.

      1. Tsa

        Mew Buttered Noodles

    7. Sporky

      Hide and seek game. Becky doesn’t realize it, but she just helped him cheat.

      1. milu

        But he won’t admit it of course, it’s secret hide-and-seek. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t worry, oh by the way have you seen King Daniel, they’re my um… comment partner. It’s a thing, look, where are they

    8. Daibhid C

      Because you can’t spell “Joyce” with out “Joe, why?” See?

      I would like to say this made more sense in my head, but I’m not sure it did.

      1. milu

        You also can’t spell “That was a lovely pun Dhaibid” without “Daibhid”. See?

    9. Decidedly Orthogonal

      You ask why would he? He answers, why WOOD he not Joyce?

      1. milu

        noooooo
        but also yeeeeees

    10. Spencer

      He has feelings for Liz now so he has to have sex with Joyce to get over them.

      1. milu

        What could go wrong

    11. misanthropope

      he wants sarah to walk in on him making out with joyce, as a fun and harmless prank.

      1. milu

        “we’re science lab partners and we’ve got a class on tuesday! …wait, why did i think this would work”

    12. zee

      A proposal of marriage

      1. milu

        “I propose that we marry Becky to Dina. The poor girl is gonna explode”

    13. Reltzik

      Joyce misplaced her glasses and can’t see properly to look for them, so she needs someone to look for her.

      1. milu

        “Joe I’ve lost my glasses, can you look for me”
        “I’m right here. I think I’ve found you”
        “…”
        “Oh”

    14. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet

      “Joyce Brown, you shall be visited by three spirits (not counting me), without whose visits you cannot hope to shun the path I tread! Expect the first (again, not counting me) to-morrow when the bell tolls One!

      (Oh, also not counting the carriage horses on the stairs earlier. Honestly even I’m not sure what that one was about. You won’t see them again, though, so really I wouldn’t worry about it).

      Wait a minute… why am I dead?”

  3. The Wellerman

    The Full Moon is rising. ?

    Let it fill your heart and mind with ecstasy! ?

    *plays “Bamboo Dreams” by Elvira Björkman on Hacked Muzak

    1. True Survivor

      I don’t understand. Is there something going on with astronomy tonight? Apparently there is supposed to be a “Worm Moon” Friday.

      1. Nova

        Worm Moon is just a name for the full moon that happens in March. Each month has one or several animals attached to the moon (usually with local significance wherever they sprung up).

        A second full moon in any of those months just adds “blue” to it. So two full moons in March would be a “Worm Moon” and a “Blue Worm Moon”.

        1. brionl

          They’re not all animals, for example the Harvest Moon and Hunter’s Moon in the fall.

        2. Clif

          A hunter 8s an animal. A harvest, possibly not.

        3. Nova

          Fair. Thank you for the correction.

        4. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet

          No, the Worm Moon is a mysterious recently discovered rogue planetoid made entirely of abominable undying worms, or, upon closer inspection, a single worm of immeasurable length knotted endlessly upon itself, currently on a stable earthbound trajectory. And it’s growing.

      2. BarerMender

        “In March, the Full Moon is the Worm Moon; if it occurs on or after March 21, it is also the Paschal Moon. It is also called Lenten Moon, Crow Moon, Crust Moon, Chaste Moon, Sugar Moon, and Sap Moon.” So sayeth timeanddate dot com.

        1. Clif

          Who knew the moon was so crowded?

        2. milu

          not the moon people!

        3. Clif

          Or the moon worms apparently.

        4. The Wellerman

          Moon worms…

  4. Yotomoe

    Whelp. I know what I’m drawing.

    Tommorow.

    1. ThunderNight

      flat butts?

      1. Yotomoe

        o3o perhaps.
        We’ll just have to wait and see.

        But also I would be ever so entertained if people just continued to blindly guess.

        1. Clif

          I’m so disappointed. i was hoping for moon worms.

        2. milu

          “Joyce, we both know you and I are… well… we’re not just friends, right? we’re also, um… wait… *plucks eyelash from Joyce’s cheek* we’re science lab partners aren’t we, so i thought we should study for tuesday’s plant microscopy lab, and i was thinking…”
          Joyce: *has spontaneously combusted, is no longer listening*

        3. Shadowsnail

          Blind guess:
          Butts disease is not about the butts you see. It’s about the butts you don’t see.

      2. Judas Peckerwood

        I draw in only two dimensions, so all of the butts are flat.

        1. misanthropope

          literally the reason 3d printers were invented

        2. Clif

          To print flat butts?

        3. milu

          “the reason X was invented” is basically always butts

    2. Delicious Taffy

      Goku eating scrambled eggs?

    3. Bicycle Bill

      Butts…

      1. Bicycle Bill

        … and more butts.

    4. Agemegos

      The Pont Saint-Bénézet?

    5. Jamie

      Scenes from science class.

    6. Needfuldoer

      Multiple butts of various description?

      1. Yotomoe

        Hm.

  5. Joe Moose

    Oh no, we got a case of Butts. Someone contact Pintsize!

  6. BBCC

    Why YES, Joe, that WOULD be an excellent reason to go drop in on Joyce.

    Spencer, how hard are you squeeing right now?

    1. Needfuldoer

      I can hear the squeeing from here. The neighborhood dogs are barking like mad.

    2. Spencer

      I’m in complete despair because tomorrow’s Monday and then we’ve got the Halloween flashback, so I’m left adrift wondering when biology class will resume.

      My JoJo-induced serotonin is running drastically low.

      1. BBCC

        There, there, friend.

  7. Yotomoe

    Y’know as a fellow connoisseur of the lewd, I like to imagine that Joe is the kinda guy who can appreciate flat butts. Sure maybe it’s not his preference but butts/boobs of all sizes can have their appeal. Only the weak are hindered by such trivialities.

    1. Yotomoe

      (also due to Willis’ butts disease I can’t imagine anyone in the immediate vicinity of this dorm hallway has what I’d consider a flat butt.)

      1. Nono

        Let’s say Mary.

        Also I feel like Jason would be a little boney in the heiny.

        1. Yotomoe

          I have done my research and looked through every strip with mary in it. For posterity (posteriorty?). And funny enough she is almost always drawn from the waist up. After further research however I am led to believe that your assertion may be correct.

          She does have somewhat curvy hips sometimes though.

          Also early Billie was pretty hot too. Unrelated but it came up in my research.

        2. Nono

          Joe did apparently give her a good rating, so she must have… something going for her.

        3. Yotomoe

          There’s a very real possibility that Joe has a Christian fetish.

        4. King Daniel

          *raises finger*
          …
          *lowers finger, grasps own chin with a pensive expression*

        5. Nono

          I mean, we’d have to re-examine Rachel and Malaya, then.

        6. RacingTurtle

          He lives in Indiana. His options are, statistically, almost all some variety of Christian.

        7. Yotomoe

          A very convenient coincidence for him then!

  8. Adam Black

    lookat Joe showing some chest division

  9. Bagge

    Yo, Joe!

    1. Opus the Poet

      Knowing is more than half the battle.

  10. Nono

    ‘Obligatory greeting’ is my favourite part of this friendship.

    1. june gloom

      It’s a good example of one of Joe’s most endearing qualities: he does genuinely care about Dina and is willing to engage with her on her terms.

    2. Keulen

      I like that too.

  11. AbacusWizard

    Dumbing of Age Book 11: Most Mad About Butts

  12. Ava-Ann

    I’m curious, has anyone actually done a ranking of the DoA butts? I’ll be honest, I’ve noted shapely hips but can’t recall anyone’s butt ?

    1. Nono

      We only have contextual clues, but I think Walky apparently has a good butt by canon.

      Aside from that, there’s I think Amber and Ethan with notable butts? Well Ethan’s is by word of Joyce.

    2. woobie

      Like… a list?

    3. Yotomoe

      I’ve drew out my favorite butts once but that’s pretty dated. I could always try my hand at a tier list though!

      1. Needfuldoer

        An UHD remaster we can all get behind.

      2. Yotomoe

        https://imgur.com/a/hpSCAed
        I decided that the idea of a tier list implies that there’s such a thing as a bad butt so I made them all categorical instead. Having said that unfortunately the list I made isn’t exactly comprehensive so there’s a lotta characters missing :T

        Liz would be the same tier as Joyce

        1. Amós Batista

          Nice to see the average butt level in DoA is on a nice level.

        2. The Wellerman

          Seriously the sites bots must be on some bad shit, it ate my damn comment TEN times in a row.

        3. Spencer

          Danny’s ass is well-placed.

        4. Deanatay

          I have issues with Ethan’s placement.

          Well, maybe pre-Mike’s-Death Ethan. Emothan is probably more bony. Boy hasn’t been eating right.

    4. Blue

      How has Joe’s butt not been mentioned yet? Did people forget the scene where he walks by Joyce to get to the shower?

  13. Carms

    This one makes me happy.

  14. Friendly Frankenstein

    …Okay all I have to say about this one is that I really like Joe returning the ‘Obligatory greetings’. It’s cute!! I think their odd friendship(??) is very very cute. Good job all around. Slaps this comic. Thats a good one!

    1. DailyBrad

      Yeah, Dina and Joe are fun. I imagine they also see each other more than they ever used to due to the Amber connection.

    2. Bicycle Bill

      The only thing better would have been for Joe to reply with, “Obligatory response.”

  15. RacingTurtle

    Panel four Joe has borrowed a Danny-face. Love turns us all into dorks. (But does it turn us all into good eggs?)

    1. Amós Batista

      Danny getting a bit of Joe’s confidence, too.
      It’s the equivalent exchange. I learnt this in Full Metal Alchemist.

  16. Delicious Taffy

    Becky is admitting that she saw Liz’s parts, which obviously means she openly lusts after Liz and is going to cheat on Dina with Liz. There are no other possibilities.

    1. Amós Batista

      I wonder when Becky saw Liz. I just remember when she was playing with Joyce at Joe’s room.

      1. Delicious Taffy

        Musta been some time in those five seconds.

      2. alongcameaspider

        I assume she had seen pictures on Facebook, she recognized that Liz was one of Joyce’s Facebook friends

        1. Delicious Taffy

          That’s physically impossible. Teenagers can’t access anything but the most trendy websites, it’s just genetics.

  17. Darkoneko

    why not both.png

  18. zaratustra

    So Joe is secretly Ray Smuckles?

  19. Spencer

    “It’s not like I like you or anything” is and always has been hilarious actually

    1. Keulen

      I used to not like tsunderes but now I think they’re freaking hilarious.

      1. Spencer

        It works like this!

        Starting out, a romantic dynamic between two characters with clashing egos is fun!

        The novelty wears off after you’re exposed to it for so long, and then you need particularly good examples to stick out in your mind.

        So overdone that you never want to see one again.

        It gets to the point where you can make ironic references to this dynamic when relevant in an off-handed jokey way.

        The cliche is gone for so long that it becomes fresh again.

    2. Thag Simmons

      Obvious denial is funny

  20. Beau Kirin Maysey

    Eh-yooooooooooo

  21. Rabisch

    Joe is loosing his coolness just hearing about Joyce… Becky will soon understand what is going withhim… Can’t wait to see how she will react.

  22. DailyBrad

    I mean, they aren’t wrong. Liz is a mess. Liz is also a very attractive mess.

  23. Hof1991

    The reverse of Butts Disease is Chest Fever. https://youtu.be/h_7q9_EJYvE

    1. Amós Batista

      I miss listen prog rock…

      1. Needfuldoer

        Nothing’s stopping you!

    2. Opus the Poet

      I think Joe has a different disease:
      https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ammcy3J6dPg&list=RDAMVMammcy3J6dPg

  24. Heather

    Becky is staring off screen because Liz is right behind Joe having realised her gift of teleportation. Sarah is currently in the back seat of the car alone twitching in confusion and rage as the driver feels a wash of dread.

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