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Gorge
Posted on October 29, 2013 by David M Willis

224 thoughts on “Gorge”

  1. Jen Aside

    OH COME ON JOYCE ALL REBELS ARE LESBIANS

    1. Doctor_Who

      James Dean? Total lesbian.

      1. desolation0

        The good Doctor? Total rebel.

      2. Kathleen

        Am I a bad person because I first thought of the porn star and not the actor?

        1. Scott

          That’s Deen with two ‘e’s. And yes you are a bad person.

      3. p

        He actually is a lesbian icon! I read a paper about it in undergrad in a gay lit class, and wikipedia has more:

        “Lesbian icons, sometimes called dykons, a portmanteau of the words “dyke” and “icon” are most often powerful women who are, or are rumored to be, lesbian or bisexual.[7][8] However, a few male entertainers have also had iconic status for lesbian people. James Dean was an early lesbian icon who, along with Marlon Brando, influenced the butch look and self-image in the 1950s and after.”

        1. adinfinitumspero

          Weird, he’s always been one of my own icons as well, though I’ve also read the accounts of his bisexuality may have been overrated

      4. Makkabee

        James Dean: Lesbian without a Cause.

        Also, I’m totally going to start calling the Confederate naval jack “the lesbian flag” now just to piss off the neo-Confederates.

        1. hylleddin

          Here, use this one

        2. Matthew Davis

          Or maybe this one?

    2. Em

      One just has to look at your gravatar to see the truth, Jen!

      1. saltchocolate

        Omg, I hadn’t noticed that until you mentioned it! What an amazing gravatar! Is it canon that I somehow missed?? The hotness!

    3. Venapax

      Truth!

    4. Farmer_10

      Seriously, go watch Star Wars again. The whole thing is an allegory for Gay Marriage and Lukes Jedi training is actually about his gender confusion.

      1. Mr K

        Luke! I am your mother.

        1. Aizat

          And I’m also a fucking scorpion!

        2. Neospector

          Wait…what?

        3. Aizat

          Japanese Star Wars game.

        4. Neospector

          Can I get some more context? I still don’t get it. ._.

        5. Aizat

          OK, there’s a Famicom Star Wars game in which in the first stage in the sandcrawler, you fight Darth Vader. However, after you hit Vader once, he turns into a scorpion. Or, you could just watch that one episode of AVGN that covers the Star Wars games.

        6. DarkVeghetta

          @_@ … I must see this.

      2. Varangian

        This gives the whole Dagobah/Yoda sequence a whole new level of…really weird.

        1. Reynard-Miri

          Which it totally needed, am I right?

        2. Charlie Spencer

          Dagobah? Where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbonated soda?

        3. sps48

          s-o-d-a Soda

    5. -Sentinel-

      Never seen this Marcie/Sal avatar before… Does it come from a larger image?

      1. Jen Aside

        Because it is approximately one day old, give or take some hours.

        1. Slinx

          I like it! Did you draw it? It mimics Willis’s style really well!

        2. Jen Aside

          Maybe because Willis did it for $300 =<

        3. Slinx

          I am sure it was worth every penny.

    6. Ancestral Hamster

      So the entire Confederated States of America were lesbians? That’s a whole new take on the American Civil War.

      1. Aizat

        So, AVALANCHE are a group of lesbians? FF7 just got more interesting.

    7. Parnifia the Bastard

      I think every person who ever existed is now a lesbian.

      …I’M SO KUNFUSED…

  2. CleverTrousers

    Cleavage cleavage everywhere.

    1. Tunaro

      And not a bra in sight.

      1. taekwondogirl

        Well, yeah. There’s not really any way to see a bra from our vantage points with their shirts positioned the way they are unless it’s a sports bra.

        1. Tunaro

          I prefer to believe that they were simply never there in the first place.

        2. taekwondogirl

          Of course, if there wasn’t a bra, the cleavage wouldn’t be visible anyway. Without bras, boobs don’t really get pushed up to form cleavage like that.

        3. garaden

          Yeah. I’m having some trouble discussing cartoon boobs with a straight face (though I think I’m on the wrong site in that case) but boobs don’t look like that without help. I can tell from some of the pixels and seeing a lot of, uh…boobs in my time?

          I guess technically these *are* all Photoshopped 😀 (sleep time now please)

    2. Yotomoe

      I guess there’s a little. Nothing to go nuts about.

      1. begbert2

        There was nothing to go nuts about until I looked at panel 4 and realized that the topmost button done up is below Dorothy’s breasts. She’s one good yawn-stretch from giving Joyce a view of her navel.

        1. The_Master

          In the immortal words of Jayne Cobb, “I’ll be in my bunk.”

    3. Wevah

      Oh good; someone said “cleavage”.

      1. CleverTrousers

        Eh, I don’t pay a ton of attention to the comments but I think it came up over the last few strips and these two do generally dress pretty conservatively so it might be indicative of something or other.

        1. CleverTrousers

          Dear God, are Joyce’s irises always that big?

        2. Slinx

          Only when she’s feeling appreciative or thinking about Jesus.

        3. begbert2

          Joyce’s irises are actually a portal to another dimension. The blue dimension. One of these days Willis is going to draw too close of a close up, we’re going to fall through, and nobody will ever hear from any of us ever again.

  3. Tunaro

    Does anybody notice Ethan’s even there or has he just mastered perfect ninja…ry?

    1. someguywithakatana

      Don’t let Rick hear you say that.

    2. Van Dyne

      He’s still shocked from yesterday. Everyone implicitly understands that talking to him will shatter his delicate sense of security.

      1. Yotomoe

        Good. Ethan deserves to feel insecure >:T.

        1. Sammie1053

          Aww, but why? Ethan is adorable!
          And I totally don’t feel weird saying that as a non-gay dude!
          That totally wasn’t sarcasm!

    3. Aizat

      Perfect ninja-ry? Nonsense! Ethan had just mastered the art of not being noticed in plain sight.

      1. mai876

        He’s like Dina… ‘cept he’s Ethan.

  4. Mkvenner

    feck

    1. Doctor_Who

      …Drink! Arse! Girls!

      Father Jack is an inspiration to us all.

  5. TheStranger

    Aw, Joyce, as long as you’re defying your parents, go big or go home, amirite?

    1. Yotomoe

      You can’t stop with a LITTLE defiance. You gotta defy so hard that they don’t know what’s what!

  6. Chadington Bear

    Come on, Dorothy! Push her over that edge!

    1. TJ

      Given your “Angry Mike” gravatar you might mean that literally…

      1. Tunaro

        Is there even any cliffs near that school to get pushed offa?

        1. TJ

          No, but they’re headed towards the stairs and Dorothy’s got her hand behind Joyce….

        2. Bill

          There’s the old limestone quarries outside of town….

        3. Whittier

          Rooftop Quarry!

        4. Wizard

          Plenty of old quarries. That should work.

      2. Whittier

        Is there any other kind of Mike gravatar?

  7. Doctor_Who

    “Alright, how about we just tell them that we’re eating out?”

    1. That Damn Rat

      I suspect that would fly over Jocye’s parents’ collective heads.

      1. Yotomoe

        I dunno. They’ve got quite a few kids. They may know every trick in the book.

        1. Tunaro

          If they’re anything like they were in the Walkyverse, they probably have a couple copies of that book around the house.

        2. Foxfire

          The Good Book, I hope.

          I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;
          And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.

        3. Wack'd

          The very good book…

        4. adinfinitumspero

          Not sure if you’re being facetious or not, but if you were unaware and *minor spoiler alert* Joyce’s folks owned the kama sutra

    2. Twirls

      This comment is my favorite.

  8. TJ

    Ethan’s just waiting for the conversation to naturally gravitate towards Transformers… then he’ll chip in.

    ….Aaaany day now.

    1. LiaHansen

      It always happens eventually. Then, and only then, will he strike.

      1. Tunaro

        Batman would be proud.

        1. Batman

          I am proud.

        2. TheMagicShortbus

          Are you also batman?

  9. Wonder Wig

    In another universe Dorothy could be Ellen DeGeneres, and Joyce would be powerless to her charms.

  10. Doc Harleen

    Joyce wants Dorothy to lunch date her all night long.

    1. Salmo

      Would that be a box lunch?

      …

      I’ll get me coat.

  11. horrorshow88

    Love Ethan’s sort of shifty, “Uhhh…” look.

  12. Bunivasal

    Dorry’s neckline really sells this punch line. Now if Joyce can see a topless Billie she’s even with Walky.

    1. Yotomoe

      When did Walky see a topless Billie? And where was I?

      1. Aizat

        Wait, Billie topless? When did this happen? WHAT YEAR IS THIS?

      2. taekwondogirl

        My guess is as kids?

        1. bunivasal

          Ding ding ding! While it may not be accurate to current continuities, Billie and Walky grew up together and there was some indication they may have bathed together in the past.

  13. fatso

    Dorothy – *buttons back up* “Yeaaahhhh…”

  14. I don't even know

    It seems Joyce doesn’t really have any personal objections to calling it a date.

    HMMMMMMM

  15. Em

    OH GOD THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT GAY PEOPLE will they talk about me oh god oh god oh god
    That’s what his face looks like to me. xD Either that or he’s just looking down. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar…(or is it?)

    1. Jay Eff

      Took the words right out of my keyboard, Em.

    2. Ragnal

      Glad I’m not alone on this.

    3. TJ

      I think someone actually dropped their cigar and he’s trying to think of who might smoke that.

      The obvious answer is Mike, just to piss off people who lobby for No-Smoking zones.

    4. nothri

      I’m seeing more of a “oh, they’re talking about gay people…oh. Joyce’s parents will hate me if they find out. Now I’m sad.”

    5. timemonkey

      I see it more as ‘even sheltered, naïve, innocent Joyce can stand up to her parents and I can’t.”

    6. Slinx

      But he did stand up to them, sort of… with help. But yeah, I see it as an “uhhhh” reaction to Joyce’s parents disliking gay people.

    7. begbert2

      I’m seeing more of an ‘oh my, is that a dog turd on the floor over there? Glad I didn’t step in it’ expression. But I’m not that good at reading faces.

  16. John

    Joyce, if you’re going to be eating out with Dorothy, it isn’t going to matter what you’re calling it.

    1. Yotomoe

      You could use some prettier words for it, though.

    2. Slinx

      That “with” is unnecessary.

      1. John

        Kids these days. Don’t appreciate the subtle difference between a double entendre and open obscenity.

        1. Drunken Nordmann

          Yeah. “Früher war alles besser”, as we say in our UAS.

        2. Slinx

          Would it be better if I said, “I see what you did there”?

  17. Kernanator

    Oh come on, Joyce, you say that like they don’t already know.

    1. Yotomoe

      Yeah, I mean, what kind of parents would they be if they didn’t notice the sexual preference of one of their childre-

    2. John

      They probably only suspect. It’s not like she’s been kissing girls on television in this universe.

      1. Kernanator

        It’s only a matter of time.

  18. Plasma Mongoose

    Les-be-friends indeed.

  19. JustDucky

    This is my favorite ship. ^^

    1. Mr K

      My favorite ship is Billie/Sal. I hope one day Sal gives Billie a sloppy kiss. On the boobs

      1. ess

        Why. Isn’t. It. Canon?
        So crushing. Really.

        1. John

          Because Billie is hilarious when she isn’t getting what she wants.

        2. Kladeos

          Maybe Sal’s waiting for a more sober Billie to proposition.

        3. Slinx

          She might be waiting for a while, then

        4. Tahkuya

          When every ship is cannon …none will be

  20. timemonkey

    “God damnit, why is my straight girlfriend better at being gay than me?”

    1. Doctor_Who

      Because pretty much everyone is.

  21. dailybrad

    Dorothy and Joyce are totes adorbz, as the kids would say.*

    *probably not actually a thing the kids would say.

    1. John

      Sounds like something Robin would say, though.

    2. Aizat

      Who even say totes?

      1. timemonkey

        Robin totes says totes.

        1. Aeyt

          Dude. I totes say totes all the time. For serious. Okay broseph?

  22. AgentKeen

    “What’s that blue spot on my cheek? OH GOD, I’M A SMURF, TOO? HOW WILL I FIND A GAY, NERDY, JEWISH SMURF?!?!”

    But seriously, what’s with the blue dot on Ethan’s cheek?

    1. Yotomoe

      Where?

      1. AgentKeen

        It’s right below his right eye (pretty much exactly where he seems to be looking) and it moves with the picture when I scroll, so not just a dead pixel or something on my screen. I’m guessing just something that didn’t get erased from the blue sketch, but couldn’t pass up on the joke.

        1. Doctor_Who

          I had to zoom in to 400%, but yeah it’s there.

        2. Tunaro

          I just found it and now I can’t not see it every time I look at the panel

        3. Kiggy

          Oh yeah, you’re right

    2. Opus the Poet

      That might be an artifact from your monitor. Try scrolling a pixel at a time to see if the blue spot moves on Ethan’s face…

    3. David Willis

      It was a tiny translucent hole, which is now fixed. It was showing the teal background through the comic.

      1. NightmareWarden

        So the hole didn’t lead to the Ethan universe? Darn, I wanted to experiment with more tears in reality… Then Willis had to go and fix it.

      2. Badeyes

        And with a single mouse stroke Willis destroys the only wholly Holy artifact of the New Church of Ethan the Smurfcheeked. The hopes and dreams of many are instantly crushed.

      3. Tahkuya

        Teal… the color of Champions

        1. Cybersnark

          Or the science/medical branches.

  23. Darwin

    The look of horror on Joyce’s face in the last panel. How could you not love that girl?

    1. CRtwenty

      I dunno let’s ask Ethan.
      ~cymbal crash~

  24. Mr. Random

    Drama bomb, Incoming. Warning, WARNING!
    Bomb is incoming. Prepare for impact within one week!

  25. Mr K

    Looks like Dorothy listened to Walky.

    1. Aizat

      Or Walky is influencing her..

  26. Hawkwing

    That’s what I like to call tactical cleavage….

    1. Spliced

      didn’t know what you were talking about until I went back. Now I can’t unsee it.

      Ha! That makes Joyce’s mind jumping to “lunch date” so much more!

    2. Aizat

      What’s a cluster cleavage? Or even better, what’s an atomic cleavage?

      1. John

        Billie’s is atomic cleavage.

  27. Henry

    Dorothy’s expression in the last panel is perfection.

    1. Spliced

      heh, yeah. “The horror…!”

      1. Aizat

        More like “the pleasure!” Or “Walky is right all along?”

        1. Spliced

          na, I mean, “the horror of my parents finding out…!”

          But I hadn’t thought if the tactical cleavage when I wrote the horror. A new level is revealed!

  28. EvergreenFir

    Dorothy can be Joyce’s [business] partner. [Business] partners always go on [lunch] dates!

    1. Aizat

      Replace business with….what exactly?

      1. Mr K

        Sex

      2. timemonkey

        Life

        1. Aizat

          But what about lunch?

        2. timemonkey

          marriage

        3. N0083rP00F

          It is pronounced Meh-Widge.

        4. EvergreenFir

          Wuv… Twoo wuv…

        5. EvergreenFir

          romantic?

        6. Tahkuya

          i have a dirty mind so luch still works for what im thinking

    2. Spliced

      It’s business time

      1. Aeyt

        you can tell because it’s Wednesday and I’m wearing my business socks

        1. Slinx

          The conditions are perfect. There’s nothing good on TV. The conditions are perfect.

  29. Emoroffle

    Dorothy may be taken but I’m sure there’s a girl out there for ya Joyce. I feel like I should throw out another “Kiss her you fool!”

    1. Slinx

      Joe down the hall: “Now kiss!”

  30. Najaru

    hi ethan

    bye ethan

  31. nothri

    No, no, see Joyce, what you should do is make wild, passionate love to Dorothy right here and now. If you do that and you don’t enjoy it, you can say for absolute sure you aren’t gay!

    Course, you should do it again every few days just to make sure nothing has changed.

    1. Heavensrun

      Careful, you’re starting to sound like Ethan’s mom.

      1. Mr K

        Maybe the alternate universe counterpart of her?

  32. LiaHansen

    Y’know, if you tilt your computer back so the colors go all funny, Dorothy kinda looks like she’s wearing clown makeup.

    1. Kelly

      Damn you, shoddy TN panels!

    2. tahrey

      *weaves side to side in front of cheap SXGA panel turned to portrait orientation* … hahahaha 😀

  33. Pie

    Ethan is a good conversationalist. Does he get that from his father?

  34. timemonkey

    Also: they both look SO happy to see each other it’s so ridiculously adorable.

    ….can DoA have a spinoff when it’s finished: ‘Joyce and Dorothy’?

    1. Slinx

      In this spinoff, Ethan is straight and Mike is dating Walky.

  35. TrueVCU

    2nd straight comic in which Ethan has no lines

    This tells me he is an easily manipulated shell of a man.

    This tells me he and Dorothy should non-bang.

    1. Riku

      Or he just has nothing to say

    2. Slinx

      I’m not sure if this can be considered a “straight comic”. Nak nak nak.

    3. Whittier

      He’s just the straight man. Trying to be, anyway.

      1. Heavensrun

        (rimshot)

  36. Formerly Glenn

    If Ethan keeps this up he will turn into his father.

    1. tahrey

      “Keeping it up” is probably an exceptionally important quality for that, in fact. That and the ability to grow a damn fine mustache.

      Question is, which one will end up having to convert? Or will they maintain a mixed-faith marriage?

  37. Corronchilejano

    We should really run a kickstarter to get these two together.

  38. Mr K

    That explains the storyline.

  39. Raibean

    wow joyce you really did kiss billie

    1. Rutee

      Alright I’ll bite. What?

  40. Gottawonder

    Maybe Ethan just believes that if you have nothing to say…don’t say it?

    Gottawonder if Joyce is alluding to the fact that her parents ‘have to know’ about her sisbrother, but maybe not.

    1. Tahkuya

      Joyce’s Brosis will be my favorite thing that unfolds in this universe

    2. Slinx

      I don’t think Joyce knows.

  41. Badeyes

    Elsewhere, Walky is suddenly tremendously aroused and he doesn’t know why.

  42. MrMercury

    UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

    1. Aeyt

      I think you’re a little late. this strip doesn’t end with ffffffffff

    2. Slinx

      I like to think that’s what Joyce was saying when Dorothy got out of the elevator.

  43. Just for kix

    So … lunch date leads to sex, right?

  44. Robin

    This is an incredible amount of awareness for miss “I wasn’t alone with my boyfriend, sometimes two other guys joined in”.

    1. saltchocolate

      Well, that was about sex and it was all innuendo. Here, she’s just imagining her parents’ response to hearing the word “date” in the same sentence with her name and Dorothy’s. (Joyce is such a good Christian that even if she was a lesbian, she would wait until she’s married. No [lesbian] pre-marital hanky-panky!)

    2. Heavensrun

      “You can push them around if I get to make the noises!”

  45. The Phantom's Belch

    Joyce’s eyes in the first panel are drawn to the cleavage.

    1. The Phantom's Belch

      … As are Ethan’s! Is he sure he’s gay?

      1. tahrey

        Panel one: Joyce is looking at Dot’s mouth, which is actually a fairly standard thing for two women in conversation. Ethan is looking at her hair. Totes gay, like 😀

        Panel four: Both of them are avoiding eye – and indeed, eye-to-body – contact with her.

        Besides, Joyce has almost as much decolletage on show as Dorothy, so he could have oogled that as much as he wanted.

        BTW, all babies suckle, including gay male and straight female ones, and he is rather a manchild. He might well still look at a well endowed woman and (mostly subconsciously) think… mmm… I could do with a drink right now. Maybe without even realising why/the link.

        1. Slinx

          “When you talk to someone, you should look at their eyes, not their mouth.” “But that’s the part that’s moving!”

        2. Slinx

          It seems well-established by everyone, including gay guys, that boobs (in moderation) are awesome.

        3. Bill

          New research from U-Nebraska says that everyone — male, female, hetero or not — looks at boobies.
          http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-10/uon-mea102913.php

      2. David Willis

        you are bad at following eyelines

      3. Hotsauce

        Wow, somebody is projecting. A lot!

  46. hof1991

    Joyce’s parents probably already assume that Dorothy is a lesbian. She’s an avowed atheist and all atheists are lesbians, even the men. That’s why you should find your husband at a Bible college.

    1. The Candyman

      Does that make Richard Dawkins king of the lesbians?

  47. Jack Finch

    Joyce, Joyce….it’s a slippery slope from gluttony to the rest of the sins, so times a wastin’.

    1. Animal

      The key to living large is making sure all your sins are sins of commission, not sins of omission.

  48. TGS

    Panels two and three are even better than the cleavage of one and four. They are both swooning and blushing and making the googly eyes at each other.

  49. Melissa

    I am disappointed that the first comment wasn’t “CLEAVAGE!”

  50. Greg White

    Joyce is the name of Buffy’s mother in Buffy the vampire slayer.

  51. Hoboturtle

    So wait. Joyce and Dorothy are both aware of the Joyce/Dorothy ship?

  52. Crumplepunch

    Silly faces for everyone!

    1. garblegarble

      what an incredibly apt gravatar there :p

      1. Crumplepunch

        Likewise.

        Let us hate them together. From our scowls combined there shall be no escape.

        1. Kernanator

          We are the Scowling Trinity.

        2. hof1991

          Smiles don’t always mean good intent. The right smile can be more evil than a scowl.

        3. Batman

          I don’t trust people who smile.

          I don’t trust people.

  53. Mantis

    But what about Walky!! She can’t cheat on Walky!

    1. Mr K

      I think it’s an open relationship, not a serious one.

      1. The Candyman

        Walky would probably be alright with it anyway, so long as he could join in.

      2. John

        It’s casual, but that’s not necessarily the same thing as open. I think either of them would be upset if they found that the other were smooching someone else without prior notification.

        On the other hand, I don’t think it would take a lot of talking to convince Walky to be the other slice of bread in a Dorothy sandwich. He’s already offered to let Joyce watch.

  54. Schist

    Is Joyce’s face in panel 4 the same face she made when she said she could crawl into Billie’s boobs and be warm forever?

    1. Heavensrun

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/03-answers-in-hennessy/curiosity/

      Similar, but not quite the same.

  55. Flare

    Now to ship

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