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DNA
Posted on December 12, 2013 by David M Willis

207 thoughts on “DNA”

  1. Simian Bros

    Y’know, just use that sexy sexy man-body once or twice
    No reason, just sexy is all

    1. KingMabel

      I don’t see nothing wrong with a little bump and grind

      Maybe once or twice

      1. MrPotamus

        Oh, the music in my head.

        1. Simian Bros

          Bow chicka wow wow

        2. Steven

          AND THE GIRL IN FRONT IS WAVIN’ HER CABOOSE. YOU SNEEZE ACHOO SHE CALLS YOU OUT IN FRONT. I KNOW YOU HEAR THAT BASS, BUMPIN’ IN MAH TRUNK.

        3. The kid

          and we’ll do the kind of things that only Prince would sing about…

        4. BackslashEcho

          I am hugely entertained by the perfect Gravatars here…

      2. Tunaro

        Do a little dance, make a little love
        Get down tonight, get down tonight

      3. Guest Person Dude

        That’s the wrong face.

  2. Tunaro

    You can really feel the love in the air.

    1. N0083rP00F

      And here I though it was the bean burritos.

  3. David Herbert

    “I’m just a prom night dumpster baby”

    Though I don’t think Joyce was talking about that.

    1. Keroshino

      Dammit, i was thinking the same thing! Lol

  4. Yotomoe

    She will find the classiest Dumpster in Indiana.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Nothing quite like 5 star dumpster diving for a first date.

      1. Just Cheeto Dust

        Do we switch to Michelin stars if the dumpster’s behind a restaurant?

    2. GoldStarz

      “Oooh this one’s called Wasted Gold and it’s the only dumpster in Indiana to be made of solid gold… It costs a bit much to use though, but they have child services available on stand-by at all times”

    3. The Phantom's Belch

      “Getchyer own dumpster, ya perv!”

  5. Ourorboros

    Yes, you are wise in the ways of the world.
    Hook them up, respect the sock on the door, and let the woman who has helped you and saved you from rape get a moment of happiness.

    1. Yotomoe

      Let your sister get her freak on!

      1. KevinGriffin3CD

        If Joyce continues to try to hook them up after this strip, it’ll mean she’s knowingly encouraging premarital hanky-panky.

        1. ninja_jesus

          That’s why she’s looking up chapels, so they can get married before getting any hanky-panky on.

        2. Ourorboros

          Perfect icon if you would have spoken of damnation and hellfire.

        3. anonymous

          Perfect icon if you had focused on the “hanky-panky” part of the comment rather than the avatar.
          .<

        4. anonymous

          =And who the hell is my avatar?! What is twitchy girl’s name?? >.<
          Is it one of the DeSantos?

        5. anonymous

          Never mind, it’s apparently Mary, that girl who never gets a storyline/backstory in either DoA or It’s Walky. And in It’s Walky she looks just like Joyce, which is so confusing.
          God, I hate her. OTOH it makes the twitchiness of my avatar work. o.o

  6. Stephen Bierce

    I don’t want you to be tru~u~ue/
    I Just Wanna Make/
    Lo~o~o~ove To You!

  7. Romanticide

    Or thrice maybe! No need to limit oneself in life! :3

  8. Leah Rockshard

    Oh, Joyce. I’d say never change, but… I really want you to change.

  9. Kernanator

    Please let the title of this book be “Ruinous mistakes in a motel dumpster”. That has to be the name of SOMETHING.

    1. JessWitt

      Second this.

    2. Beige

      I’m sure its the name of lots of things people are unwilling to mention again

    3. Noxx

      I’m sure it’s the name of a spice girls cover band.

      1. bibulb

        …I think we have a winner.

    4. Tandel

      I concur.

    5. David Willis

      It has to be the full sentence, so wow, that’d be an even longer title than book 2.

      1. timemonkey

        Maybe each book could have a longer title? XD

      2. Doctor_Who

        Break the record with every book. By book 20, the title of the book will be the complete text of the book, including forward and copyright page.

      3. Curacaobill

        This could start a trend every books name must be longer than the last!

      4. Regalli

        Hey, it’s that or “Heretofore Undiscovered Nucleobases Which Help Spell Out ‘FUCK ME'”, and one of those would need censoring.

        Which is to say, this strip is potential title gold.

      5. Kernanator

        I fail to see the problem with this.

    6. Wack'd

      Thirded.

      1. locixloci

        Sixty-nineth’d.

  10. Plasma Mongoose

    WOW Google’s really is handy. ^_^

    1. KingMabel

      I can vouch for that! Quite useful in searching for furry po..

      CAKE RECIPES!!

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Furry pouches? Why you want furry pouches, you want to make a novelty purse or something?

        1. KingMabel

          Right…a novelty purse… that’s what I…

        2. Gabe

          King Mabel has to keep his girlish figure at a lithe 500 lbs.

        3. KingMabel

          Thank you for noticing. I recently started eating a light 2nd lunch and cut down on my 2 a.m. dinner.

        4. Gabe

          But not sacrifcing second breakfast!

        5. Ancestral Hamster

          Oh, heavens no! Second breakfast is the second most important meal of the day!

      2. Sammie1053

        Ah KingMabel, I worry about you sometimes…

        1. Yarrr

          Sometimes?

          Hmm I wonder if look at the same…. furry pouches… websites.

        2. N0083rP00F

          What is this fascination with marsupials?

      3. Curacaobill

        I don’t use google to look up ….. “Cake recipes” I use sites like furaffinity to avoid the “cake” haters

    2. Reltzik

      The Hilton Chicago Oak Brook Suites, in Chicago, is Google Maps top (and only) hit for “ruinous mistakes in a motel dumpster near Indiana University”.

      … I feel like I should be damning Willis for inspiring me to enter this into Google and thus have all future searches of mine weighted forever by this one.

      1. Sammie1053

        Oh my god
        I drive past that hotel on a weekly basis
        That is AMAZING

  11. KingMabel

    Bumpin’ Unglies!

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      Rumping pumpies!

      1. Turbo Sexaphonic Delight

        Bumperstump Cabbagepatch!

        …if you know what I mean.

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          Not sure of the reference but it sounds kinky enough.

        2. Tristan

          Having some hey-hey!

        3. Yotomoe

          Horizontal Monster Mash!

        4. coolhandluke

          The beast with two backs!

        5. Fuzzydaemon

          Having me some of that ol’ jelly roll.

  12. Noxx

    Joyce is gettin pretty liberal with that scant inch of cleavage. Next; dogs and cats, living together.

    1. MM

      Also, she’s at least willing to allow for the encounter. Still highly judgmental about it, mind you, but she’s not freaking out and trying to prevent it.

      1. N0083rP00F

        O M G, she is evolving [homealoneface]

    2. Curacaobill

      I already have cats and dogs living together! It’s cute when they fall asleep snuggled up together.

  13. Yotomoe

    Also the fact that Joyce has reffered to herself and Sarah as sisters has now made this one of the best comics ever.

    1. timemonkey

      Not just said it but Sarah did not deny it. They are now sisters officially forever! When they get out of school they’ll move in with Dorothy and live in a big house with all their friends forever and own all the Skittles.

      1. Andrusi

        And they’ll steal the auto-tuner from the Glee kids.

  14. Doctor_Who

    DNA can’t spell out “FUCK ME”. It can spell “CAT” or “TAG”. Or “AT AT.”

    Yes, that’s what Jacob’s DNA says. That he is an AT-AT walker, assaulting the rebel base that is Sarah’s heart.

    1. JessWitt

      Maybe in hex code?

    2. David Willis

      for fuck’s sake did you even read sarah’s sentence god dammit

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        You might need to explain, not all of us have had advanced education you know.

        1. LiaHansen

          “heretofore undiscovered”

        2. Kevin

          You mean high school biology?

      2. Doctor_Who

        I’m willing to accept that Jacob may be some sort of mutant who possesses RNA instead of DNA and therefore has Uracil instead of Thymine. That accounts for U and C, but means no T.

        So we have AGCU and FMEK? Then, considering the length of genetic material, statistically it must also say “MAKE ME CUM MEEK GEEK” somewhere in there.

        So maybe Ethan has a shot with him after all.

        1. David Willis

          HOW DO YOU KEEP MISSING THE TWO LARGEST WORDS IN THE DAMN SENTENCE

        2. Doctor_Who

          I don’t! The undiscovered ones must be the F, M, E, and K!

        3. David Willis

          WHY ARE YOU RUINING THIS BEAUTIFUL PUNCHLINE

        4. Tandel

          This and my Facebook feed prove that Doctor Who is why we can’t have nice things.

        5. Doctor_Who

          SCIENCE IS FOR RUINING THINGS! LIKE UNICORNS!

        6. timemonkey

          SCIENCE CAN BUILD ROBOT UNICORNS THAT FIRE RAINBOW DEATH RAYS!

        7. KingMabel

          Now Mr. Doctor, let’s not say anything that someone could regret… let’s just keep this real and not delve into touchy topics.. like science… and friendship…

        8. Rufus Saltus

          “Since 1543”

        9. N0083rP00F

          Heretofore Undiscovered Nucleobases have been overshadowed my the well know but easily forgotten penchant for pedantry and willful glee in breaking things exhibited by a ubiquitous sociopathic minority in the online comment community.

        10. Badeyes

          I envisioned Willis standing above his computer hands wildly flailing about while screaming this.
          That was at least as funny as the admittedly quite funny punchlines.

        11. sps48

          Relax, those readers can still enjoy 4 out of 5 punchlines!

        12. LiaHansen

          Actually, there are minor, theoretical “bases” for M and F that don’t appear in nature because they have no complement.

        13. begbert2

          Are there also ones for potassium and the speed of light?

        14. Reltzik

          Because they ARE the largest words and our eyes just glaze over when we hit them. You have to remember that most of your readers are Walky. Sure, we COULD apply ourselves and actually make sense of what it means. But we don’t.

          Also, not a single language in Google Translate renders “fuck” into a word consisting entirely of As, Gs, Cs, and Ts. Even worse, fuck in Hungarian is “Fasz”. That’s entirely too close for comfort.

        15. Andrusi

          That’s what’s wrong with him.

        16. Robin

          You have to remember that most of your readers are Walky.

          Hey, speak for yourself!

    3. KingMabel

      It can spell “Gataca” which is a nice movie to watch when you need background sound

    4. Shade

      Truly you are the greatest poet of love sonnets of our generation.

    5. MM

      Have you analyzed Jacob’s DNA? Maybe Willis has been lying to us all along about the lack of sci-fi in this universe, and he’s actually the vanguard for an alien invasion. A sexy, sexy alien invasion.

      1. Leonou

        And do you, for one, welcom our “sexy, sexy” alien overlords ?

    6. anonymous

      Flouramine, Uracil, Cytosine, Kerosene, Mysterybase, Everybodymakeloveum. Some of the nucleobases are heretofore undiscovered.

  15. Jen Aside

    Book 3: “Ruinous Mistakes in a Motel Dumpster” MAKE IT HAPPEN

    [despite the genericide of “dumpster”]

    1. Jen Aside

      shit I mean book 4

      dammit I can read

  16. March

    I kind of love them together. Not in a romantic sense, just in a “I want them to spend holidays together and godmother each other’s children and possibly work together but that’s not a deal-breaker” sort of way.

    1. Yotomoe

      I want them to be sisters until they die.

      1. Regalli

        SisTP. (I’d say BroTP, but given the strip, it seemed appropriate to adjust for gender)

  17. Pizzathehutt

    The phrase “I want you to want me” comes to mind.

    1. Ourorboros

      Sure we know what you want, but what do you need?
      Do you even know what you love or beg?

      1. StClair

        I’ll tell you what I want, what I really really want!
        So tell me what you want, what you really really want!

      2. xKiv

        Needing is one thing – but getting’s another.

    2. Roborat

      So, someone is a Cheap Trick?

  18. chris73

    Ruinous mistakes in a motel dumpster with Sarah sounds pretty damn good to me

    1. Yotomoe

      I would totally make repeat mistakes of the ruinous kind with Sarah, even IF it involves a motel dumpster.

    2. Lu86

      I think it sounds like something out of Warhammer 40k.

  19. Sammie1053

    They both pose a few valid points. I say Joyce wins just because of how ADORABLE SHE IS#

  20. Beige

    did joyce turn into moneky master in that last pannel or is it just me?

  21. Wonder Wig

    Romantic conquests!

  22. JessWitt

    DNA – Dat nice arse (I’m assuming Jacob’s nice.)

    1. JessWitt

      *Jacob’s bum is nice. Curse these errors.

  23. KingMabel

    I counted at least 7 punch lines…

    1. anonymous

      Could you list them chronologically?

  24. DiDi

    Is anyone else surprised that Joyce didn’t react to Sarah’s use of the word “Fuck?” Is it just me? I’d be sure that would get a reaction.

    Then again, it has been a few months, right? Maybe she’s past that.

    1. MM

      Like I said, I’m impressed she’s not covering her ears with her hands and screaming “Premarital hanky-panky!”

      1. Yotomoe

        Her virgin ears have been tainted!!! QUARANTINE!!!QUARANTINE!!!

      2. Ancestral Hamster

        This ain’t your Roomies! Joyce.

    2. Plasma Mongoose

      The f-word is not as dreaded as the a-word.

      1. Andrusi

        Yes, Joyce’s fear of applesauce is well-documented.

      2. ninja_jesus

        What if both were used in a declarative sentence stating that one desires to f-word someone’s a-word?

    3. Ourorboros

      It’s the beginning of week 4.
      I take it as Joyce’s excitement about a potential new couple forming.

    4. Roborat

      They are roommates, her ears are probably acclimatized to that by now.

  25. Jay Eff

    Look at Joyce’s expression in that final panel.

    Look at it. THIS, I COMMAND!

  26. Alex Stritar

    So many punchlines, and all of them are golden. These two make the best character combo.

    Also, am I the only one who dawwed at Joyce’s Big Sis Lil Sis comment?

    1. tom

      Naw… I had the cold realization that Joyce didn’t suffer any amnesia from getting roofied… poor girl is just bottling it all up.

      1. Deathjavu

        Yeah, I also thought it was weird Joyce used that exact phrase. I can’t think where else she would’ve gotten it from, and I don’t believe in coincidences in well-written fiction.

        1. Ourorboros

          I’m not going to do an archive dive, but I’m sure Joyce has mentioned wanting a sister.

        2. David Willis

          http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/sisters/

        3. Ourorboros

          Wow thanks.
          Now about Saturday’s Powerball numbers, or Fridays MegaMillions . . .

        4. Andrusi

          I am suddenly aware that, when Joyce said this, she already had a sister and didn’t know it.

        5. ninja_jesus

          I’d argue that she legitimately did get a sister the moment Jocelyne made herself known.

        6. Kelly

          She hasn’t made herself known though.

        7. ninja_jesus

          She made herself known to us, though, which is more than enough for me. <3

        8. Alex Stritar

          Hoping when she makes herself known to Joyce, she’ll be happy about it. (Figuring that it’ll be after Joyce graduated college. by then she’ll be unfazed by the idea.)

      2. Ourorboros

        The same Joyce who asked if the pastor’s son was okay?
        Even Joyce is smart/experienced enough to realize acting like she remembered nothing would be the better deception.

  27. Dimonite

    I think Joyce’s pouty face in the last panel needs to be a gravatar. All in favor?

    1. Cragalanch

      Cragalanch is in full agreement

  28. Kitschensyngk

    Whatever happened to “leave me alone, I’m only here to study, I wish more people took their time in college more seriously”?

    1. Tandel

      Jacob’s nucleobases happened.

    2. HFish

      Jacob happened.

    3. Ourorboros

      Sarah is tired of Joyce making “Vroom Vroom” noises when playing with her toys.

    4. timemonkey

      Sarah has bonded with Joyce and to a lesser extent Joyce’s friends. She has a social life and it’s not disrupting her studying. Because she’s Joyce’s Big Sister.

    5. Ourorboros

      “Everybody needs a place to rest
      Everybody wants to have a home
      Don’t make no difference what nobody says
      Aint nobody like to be alone”

  29. Tandel

    Panel two is basically the best panel ever. Never have I heard a more powerful expression of physical attraction. Poetry.

    1. bibulb

      Great phrasing, combined with Sarah BITING HER LIP in ferocious lust. I mean, DAMN.

      1. tom

        Yeah, I love it when girls bleed on me… from the mouth… not. What is WRONG with you.

        1. MM

          I can’t help envisioning this as an actual conversation between Jacob and Joe.

        2. tom

          I dig it.

  30. Bill

    Sarah: “I’m not looking for Mr. Right, I’m looking for Mr. Right Now.”

    1. KingMabel

      “I’m not looking for a person to spend my life with, I’m looking for a person to spend a night or two with.”

    2. Tahkuya

      or a “hook up” as is described by today’s urban youth

  31. Bunivasal

    I was really loooking forward to a Dina/DNA joke.

    1. Bill M.

      Well, with those heretofore undiscovered nucleobases, her DNA does spell out “Clever Girl”

    2. xKiv

      That was not in the PLN.

  32. Brigid Keely

    Sarah reminds me of a specific person that I know. She feels incredibly real.

  33. Opus the Poet

    Ruinous Mistakes in a Motel Dumpster dot tumblr dot com

    1. ninja_jesus

      “Ruinous Mistakes in a Motel Dumpster” for 500, Alex.

      1. Roborat

        What is a goat, two hundred pounds of crisco and a dozen midgets?

  34. Ancestral Hamster

    Wow, Sarah, don’t settle for a dumpster. Insist on a glass hotel elevator at least.

    1. Ourorboros

      It refers to a disposed fetus. Or maybe the original story was a killed baby.
      Either way, Joyce is not referring to sex, but the possible ruinous effects.
      Joyce would be brought up to think birth control and abortion are unthinkable sins, of course and sex is only for procreation.
      I think Sarah is well capable of launching Joyce down the hall if she wants some privacy. Billie, Sal, and Dorothy can explain the sanctity of the sock. Joe would have an entire discourse.

      1. Ancestral Hamster

        Forgotten the significance. Although, now that you remind me, I think it was a killed baby.

        1. David Willis

          You were right the first time.

  35. Baker

    Meanwhile back in the cafeteria Amber continues to struggle mightily against the Dark Hado while Ethan talks about how he was just trying to spite her, and isn’t “very” seriously considering his parent’s suggestion to have lots of sex with Joyce.

  36. Historyman68

    Wow, Sarah’s revealing a lot to Joyce.

    1. Ourorboros

      Not as much as she wants to reveal to Jacob.

  37. FuryOfFirestorm

    “DNA”…”dumpsters”…there’s a dirty joke here just waiting to be written.

    1. Bill M.

      Congratulations! You’ve found one of the 5 minimum that Willis mentioned in the hover text. It only gets harder from here…

  38. Varangian

    This made me smile. Good on you, Willis.

  39. All Else Fails

    Joyce, don’t ruin this.

  40. LBD "Nytetrayn"

    “Big Sis” “Lil’ Sis” is amazingly cute.

  41. caesaria82

    Oh Sarah. You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me haaaappppyyyy when skies are grey ~

  42. rachel

    Hahahaha, Sarah is totally uncowed by Joyce’s earnestness. “Yeah, that’s actually fine”

  43. Aakriti

    Bwahahahahahahahahaha…that’s all.

  44. TaintedSpud

    I need to invest in some genetic engineering. For… Science…. Yes, science…

    **totally wants the “FUCK ME” DNA

    1. Tahkuya

      science has shown that saliva contains several chemicals that cause arousal in opposite genders …so there’s a start

      1. ninja_jesus

        So you’re saying… I need to spit on everyone?

    2. Fernando

      The fact that you’re alive is more than enough evidence that your DNA has said “fuck me” millions of times already.

  45. CianM1301

    Pouty face Joyce!

  46. Kiggy

    Wow, Sarah’s got it BAAAAD!!!

    1. ninja_jesus

      You.

      You made me remember a song.

      You shall suffer through this with me.

      1. Rani

        Iiiiiiii got it bad. And that ain’t gooood.

        See, I got that song in the context of Oz. It’s been seared into my subconscious where it will burn until I die.

  47. Gordon Blvd

    now I tell you …………that is the sweetest interaction I have yet to see in this series ……………………….

  48. Leonou

    Lil Sis and Big Sis would be great costarring in a buddy cop show.
    We already know which one would be the bad cop / good cop. And Sarah’s bat would be great for an “off the book” interrogation. She’d get results damnit !

  49. Arkantos

    The best part is that Sarah is probably aware of the fact that Joyce isn’t joking.

  50. fintikisniko

    Nice that your avatar is someone getting beat up as you say that

    1. Curacaobill

      Your plain speech style shames your avatar.

  51. Arturo

    How can I obtain this DNA? Is there a serum? Because I don’t want to go through the rigmarole of sperm-jacking someone again.

  52. Mr K

    Joyce was angry until Sarah invited her to the ¨date¨.

  53. begbert2

    In the last panel Joyce’s collar flips itself up without reason. From this I conclude her clothes are sentient.

    1. Mr K

      They’re possessed by Satan. Why do you think that she’s been rebelling against her parents?

    2. xKiv

      I think she flipped it with her hair.

  54. Bill

    Love Sarah’s desperate expression on panel 2.

  55. Rani

    WAIT A GODDAMN MINUTE how does Joyce remember to call Sarah “Big Sis”? Wasn’t she supposed to be so ruffeed up that she couldn’t remember the conversa-

    Awww…she did remember that last conversation.

  56. Pennjamin

    https://scontent-b-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/q71/960114_620620877973020_1363653102_n.jpg

    So these t-rex heels made me think of Dina.

  57. man in black

    great page

    1. LiaHansen

      How are you always the last comment?! REVEAL YOUR SECRETS TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

  58. Roborat

    So, I see this Sarah has the same libido as the one in Roomies, just a different target.

  59. Chiatroll

    Ok. So Amber has a hamburger, or some other kind of burger veggie, chicken ect. Dina and Riley have cereal. Jacob had an apple with his meal or maybe an apple for his meal. What was the yellow mush Ethan has. Pudding? Extra buttery mashed potatos? It’s very important.

    1. Chiatroll

      I comment now because I’m assuming this food part of the story is coming to an end so I can reflect on the dishes.

  60. Raven Biggers

    Does anyone know any other good comics to read? I’ve already read all the current strips from Gunnerkrigg Court, Go Get a Roomie, Tripping Over You, and, Of course, this one…. I NEED SOMETHING TO OCCUPY MY TIME?! ANYONE WANNA HELP ME?!

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