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Boyfriend dance
Posted on June 27, 2021 by David M Willis

155 thoughts on “Boyfriend dance”

  1. Cmasta1992

    Be nice Becky.

    1. Rabisch

      GOOD ONE!

    2. Demoted Oblivious

      Sometimes it doesn’t matter what else people will do, you just need a little celebration. Other times you find out they’re psychopaths and the reason no-one else was celebrating with you is because you are too. But do your little dance anyways, because we all deserve a little celebration when we need to.

      1. Clif

        Wait. Who was the psychopath again?

        1. Demoted Oblivious

          Yes

        2. Clif

          Just wanted to be sure.

        3. Needfuldoer

          What did Jon Anderson and company ever do to you?

  2. Leorale

    Agatha is super nice! And also looks like Leslie.

    1. Clif

      But she is fueled by Robin’s skittles.

      1. RassilonTDavros

        I mean Robin’s design was always basically just a palette-swapped Agatha, and Shortpacked! used her as Robin’s “Good Twin” at McAwesome’s, so it kinda fits.

  3. Shitbird

    I feel like Becky might genuinely be happy for Lucy

    1. Leorale

      I agree. Becky’s got a genuine little smile there. (She just saves her dancing and singing for news of girlfriends.)

    2. brute

      Also she should empathize with someone wanting to shout to the world about their romantic endeavors

  4. Nono

    How does Lucy know so many people in this dorm? She lives in a completely different one unless she’s been by really often to visit Walky.

    1. Sirksome

      Yes.

    2. Schpoonman

      We did miss two and change months. Sarah said Thursday that it felt like she and Walky had been dating without Walky ever being informed that they were dating.

    3. Lokitsu

      Also, Lucy is the friendly sort who’ll introduce herself to everyone.

    4. Keulen

      I’m assuming she’s been to this dorm a lot to visit Walky, possibly during the time skip and definitely after it.

      1. Thomas

        Yeah, but Walky *also* doesn’t live in this dorm, am I right? So it’s probably more like Lucy introduced herself to Walky’s friends that he hangs out with, which in turn led to her visiting their dorm.

        1. zee

          No he does, just not this wing

        2. Clif

          But Walky spends a lot of his time in this wing. Note his tour guidance of Booster and maybe of Jason.

          https://www.dumbingofage.com/2018/comic/book-8/03-faz-is-great/actualfactual/

          https://www.dumbingofage.com/2020/comic/book-11/01-this-bright-millennium/highstakes/

    5. Lone Duck

      I mean, yeah she’s in a different dorm, but it’s not like she’s a music major or something.

      1. Cmasta1992

        Are music majors completely self contained at other universities too or is it just UNT

        1. Clif

          I believe it’s standard protocol for everyone’s protection.

        2. thejeff

          Read Hall is close to the Music building so it’s apparently the dorm traditionally favored by music majors.
          Which is either the joke of the original comment or makes it ironic, I’m not sure which.

  5. Sirksome

    Just because a person likes to dance doesn’t make it not special. Who sucked the fun out of you, Becks?

    1. Nono

      She used up her fun for the day with the Isle of Lesbos.

      1. He Who Abides

        *Pile* of Lesbos. I don’t like Rebecca, but that joke was too good to misquote.

        1. Demoted Oblivious

          True, Mr. The Dude, however Becky did also say “Isle of Lesbos” when beating the equine corpse.

    2. Thag Simmons

      I mean she’s saying that with a smile.

  6. BBCC

    Agatha is an actual angel and we don’t deserve her.

    1. Wagstaff

      Now, just what makes you think that?

      1. Clif

        That she’s an angel, that we don’t deserve her, or that her name is Agatha.

        1. Wagstaff

          The first two claims.

        2. Clif

          Simple logic.

          Angels do not exist. Agatha does not exist. QED. Agatha is an angel.

          Agatha is a character in Dumbing of Age. We don’t deserve Dumbing of Age. Therefore (drum roll] we don’t deserve Agatha.

        3. Wagstaff

          Besides the claim that we don’t deserve this comic having no substantiation at all, you really shouldn’t deploy seriously flawed logic like that.

          Lest you end up like this guy.

        4. Reltzik

          … I can’t remember logic any more. Is that inversion, conversion, or subversion?

        5. I am Nothing

          Forget logic, reasoning or laws of physics!

          What have they have ever done for us?

        6. Wagstaff

          Without those, you wouldn’t be able to comment on webcomics like this.

          In fact, there would be no webcomics, or even computers at all, for that matter!

        7. I am Nothing

          Forget computers!

          What have they ever done for us?

        8. Reltzik

          Computed.

          Do YOU want to do your own math?

        9. I am Nothing

          As long as it’s not anything important.

          If anyone asks you’re my accountant.

        10. 3oranges

          Webcomics depend on computers, and computers depend on logic, so without logic you couldn’t have webcomics.

          But without logic, that also wouldn’t matter, so you could have webcomics anyway. 😉

        11. Demoted Oblivious

          [citation needed] –
          What have the romans ever done for us?

        12. Roborat

          I don’t even have to look at the link, Monty Python Life of Brian.

        13. Clif

          When has logic, reasoning or the laws of physics had anything to do with the Internet?

        14. I am Nothing

          Without the laws of physics, it’d be upside-down.

        15. Wagstaff

          Oh, I believe you guys are joking…

          But my Tommy Gun Dina doesn’t!!!!

        16. Reltzik

          Dammit, I don’t want .au in my web address!

        17. Clif

          I hear that Wagstaff believes this is the comic we deserve and that they named their gun Tommy.

      2. BBCC

        Agatha being an angel is self-evident. As for not deserving her, personal judgement. 😛

        1. Wagstaff

          Self-evident? That’s a very odd claim to make to people who don’t believe angels exist, at least in the supernatural sense.

        2. Spencer

          Of course literal, factual angels exist, as Agatha is one of them.

        3. Clif

          She might even be two of them.

        4. BBCC

          Exactly.

    2. Lone Duck

      Original Comment: Agatha’s a cutiepie.
      Subsequent comments: *lengthy debate about whether ‘cutie’ is a real pie filling*

      1. Spencer

        Original Comment: Agatha is nice.

        Subsequent comments: *arguing about whether Agatha is precise*

        1. Clif

          A debate about whether cutie is a real pie filling?

          https://zagleft.com/life-changes-sweet-recipe-cutie-pie/

        2. Clif

          But orange you glad you brought it up?

        3. Clif

          Comment: Agatha is nice.

          Exactly.

  7. RassilonTDavros

    …at first I thought that somebody put Sal in the trash chute and was wondering who could even accomplish such a feat and why.

    Then I remembered oh, right, Agatha grabs people and starts dancing with them.

    Agatha’s fun

    1. Lokitsu

      We could all use an Agatha in our lives.

      1. Clif

        Though preferably not until after morning coffee.

        1. Wagstaff

          Oh! Yes! Her presence would go PERFECTLY with coffee! Right next to the almighty muffin, she would be the perfect complement!

        2. Demoted Oblivious

          Thought #1: I’d eat a muffin.
          2: Her Muffin
          3: Or her pie
          4: Ugh, too vulgar for sunday morning.
          5: ah! I got it:

          “I’d eat her muffin with some fava beans and a bottle of cianti. tf – tf – tf – tf – tf”

        3. Clif

          That conversation certainly took a turn.

          I was just going to point out that though the Muffin may be complementary, only the Cheese is almighty.

        4. Wagstaff

          Now that I think of it, cereal may very well supercede both. However, Agatha would still rival it very much as a complement.

  8. King Daniel

    It was Agatha all along

    1. Lokitsu

      +1

      1. Cmasta1992

        x1

        1. Clif

          **1

        2. Reltzik

          ++1.

          YES THE PREFIX ONE DEAL WITH IT!

        3. Clif

          ^1

        4. Demoted Oblivious

          GOTO Lokitsu June 27, 2021 at 12:11 am

        5. Clif

          Is that circular reasoning?

        6. Demoted Oblivious

          Compile time error. Unreachable code block @
          Clif June 27, 2021 at 11:25 am

        7. Clif

          *** EXECUTE PROGRAMMER AND EXIT ***

        8. thejeff

          There’s some code I’ve been maintaining where that sounds like a reasonable approach.

        9. milu

          var yallsjokes;
          yallsjokes:array[1..10] of integer;

          begin
          yallsjokes:=10
          end.

        10. milu

          ok i forgot a semicolon but a single typo in an entire program is pretty impressive i think

        11. Reltzik

          /* Comments are left as an exercise to the product maintenance team */

        12. Jhon

          @milu: What language is that? Pascal?
          What would that snippet have done had it run?

        13. milu

          It is pascal (ish?) and it would have done absolutely nothing ^_^
          I was just trying to blend in with the hip kids by fawning in geek but I doubt using pascal is the way to do that (I had an intro to pascal in high school and enthusiastically embarked on a very ambitious text-based RPG project on my free time, made it as far as designing the start menu and figuring out how to make save points then quit programming forever ^^)

        14. Wagstaff

          @milu I’m just about the same in that regard, at least for now.

          In high school, I took a class on C++ which I succeeded, yet remember little.

          Since then I got into programming in Gamemaker: Studio, although I just played around with its coding language (a lot like Javascript), but I never really made any games.

          I will eventually have to learn C# or something if I want to make it far in physics, so there’s that.

        15. Demoted Oblivious

          Wagstaff: If you want to start some intro physics programming, Python has a lot to recommend it. Very concise syntax, large library set, cross OS support, Open codebase and many open science libraries. Can be as effective for quick scripts, large professional application suites and everything in between. Of course there’s also matlab and mathematica, but you need to pay to (legally) do anything serious in them.

          Caveat: I am not a python programmer, though i’ve used it here and there. My experience is more db, java, c and web development with a smattering of shell scripting.

    2. DailyBrad

      Who will dance to anything?
      It was Agatha all along!

      Who will take every chance to swing?
      It was Agatha all along!

  9. Wagstaff

    *plays “Orange’s Kiss” on Voxola PR-76*

  10. Proto_Eevee

    Agatha is just very pleasant

  11. newlland(Henryvolt)

    Hmm, I’m starting to think maybe Walky is going to haft to play a role where he helps Lucy build her confidence. I know that people start to glow at the prospects of new romance and that this his probably her first relationship but she’s REALLY over the moon about the idea that a boy gave her a shot.

    Granted that might also mean leading by example and I don’t think he’s impressed with himself all that much to know how to do that.

    1. Leorale

      She really likes this particular boy. Plus it’s exciting to have a new relationship, to say nothing of a first relationship. It’s exciting, she’s excited.

    2. Reltzik

      Most of us are pretty quick to see Walky’s myriad faults. But he’s also got a positives, and those are what people like Dorothy and Lucy are drawn to. Lucy probably could benefit from greater confidence, but she’s got every right to celebrate.

  12. MugiwaraNoPancakes

    The world needs more Agatha’s in it

  13. JessWitt

    Aw I wanna see Agatha dancing with Sal. Unless there’s a bonus panel tier I don’t know about on Patreon.

    1. Demoted Oblivious

      @Yotomoe may also have some idea of what Agatha and Sal ‘dancing’ together may look like.

  14. Sirksome

    Okay here me out here. Sal is in this strip. The tags and speech patterns of the last speech bubble indicate such, but upon closer inspection tells a tale missed by 99% of readers! Sal is secretly enjoying the dance. See how small the bubble is compared to Agatha’s, the lack of capitalization or exclamation point. Sal despite her words is not strongly protesting against the dance. In fact the words seem less enthusiastic than average coversation. As if she’s just going through the motions.

    I argue that Sal is putting up a front because “cool” people don’t dance despite her being amused and enjoying the dance and human connection thus………Sal = fakey!

    Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. This comment was sponsored in part by Malaya.

    1. Anon A Mouse

      I actually took that as Agatha is singing so loudly that it can be heard clearly from down the hall as if she were right there. Sal’s voice is at an appropriate level for the distance.

    2. Johan

      Sals in the tags

      1. Clif

        She wouldn’t fit in the trash chute.

        1. milu

          alternate reading: Agatha is dancing with the trash chute. the trash chute is not impressed. the trash chute has a southern accent. Willis himself got confused because a talking trash chute is such a nonsense notion he mistakenly tagged Sal instead.
          it all scans

        2. I am Nothing

          Sal is a talking trash chute?

        3. milu

          what? is she? i’m so confused now

  15. electriccombines

    Agatha is genuinely so fucking cute in this strip, I am LOVING her energy. <3

  16. Brumagem

    One if by mouth and two if by peen.

    1. a/snow/mous/e

      that’s where the british are coming? 😛

  17. Rognik

    Validation is validation, even if it’s hollow.

  18. Leorale

    Panel 1 & 2 demonstrate the correct amount of weight to give most of Sarah’s advice.

  19. Bicycle Bill

    Trash chute’s full?

    Where’s a goddamned cheerleader when you need one?

    1. Bicycle Bill

      Incidentally, while searching for this particular strip I see that Willis has retro-tagged all the “Billie” tags to now read “Jennifer”.

      1. Clif

        Dimebox has always been at war with Flatonia.

      2. Reltzik

        Someone should’ve called no-tag-backs.

  20. theKOT

    She’ll dance to anything… She’ll dance to ANYTHING!

    Willis now has panic’s hurricane stuck in my head… I’m not complaining.

    1. Jhon

      ‘Hurricane’ by ‘Panic! At the Disco’

      You’ll dance to anything!

  21. Josh Spicer

    Huh.

    Who knew Agatha had such a positive personality.

    1. Thag Simmons

      I mean read basically any comic where Agatha has dialogue.

  22. Keulen

    I don’t care what anyone else says, Agatha is freaking adorable.

    1. Bagge

      I’m pretty sure everyone else also say’s agatha is freaking adorable.

  23. Opus the Poet

    That’s the kind of support (almost) everyone needs.

  24. Max

    Which dead Paul Revere is the alt-text referencing?

    1. Anon A Mouse

      Probably the “midnight ride” one. As in, Lucy is letting everyone know she is dating now.

    2. Deanatay

      One if by land,
      Two if by SEE I GOT A BOYFRIEND!!

      or maybe

      THE BOYFRIEND IS COMING
      THE BOYFRIEND IS COMING

      1. Demoted Oblivious

        They don’t seem to have gone far enough for the latter one (yet).

        1. Clif

          Not till the third date.

        2. Demoted Oblivious

          I raisin that’s enough to preserve her fruitful modesty.

        3. milu

          you make terrible fruit punch

    3. Clif

      Which dead Paul Revere is the alt-text referencing?

      Mike. Wasn’t it obvious?

  25. Bagge

    agatha has the right attitude

  26. darkoneko

    Becky is keeping her hands far, far away from reach, just to be safe

  27. Rabisch

    Awwww. Lucy is so happy and Agatha so precious ♡. But I hope Lucy will not really go around saying to everyone about her private life. Let’s hope Becky and Sal will stop her.

    1. Demoted Oblivious

      ? Agatha is Awesome,
      Everything is cool when she’s part of your team ?

      1. Demoted Oblivious

        Bloody mobile, messing up my bloody replies all the bloody time!

      2. RassilonTDavros

        Forget what Linda said about 128, Squadron 82 was the real best possible team.

    2. Clif

      if you have good news in your private life, why wouldn’t you go around telling everyone?

      1. Demoted Oblivious

        Murphy’s Law
        flash BOOM
        dun, dun, DUNNNN

  28. Thomas

    This is probably the first time we see Agatha wearing trousers. I was under the impression that she only wore dresses. (For religious reasons, also.)

    1. He Who Abides

      She’s worn trousers before. She just apparently prefers to wear dresses.

      1. Clif

        Mormon women wear pants, just usually not to church.

  29. JBento

    Listen, my children, and you shall hear
    Of the new boyfriend of Lucy, dear
    On whatever date we are in Dumbing of Age:
    A relationship in a new stage
    So long delayed by Walky’s obliviousness sheer.

    1. Clif

      Applause!

      Now, where are the other verses?

      1. JBento

        Ooof, tough crowd in this place.

    2. Demoted Oblivious

      Bravo (golf clap)

  30. ValdVin

    Nice to find out something more about Agatha.

  31. C.T. Phipps

    I am choosing to believe Becky considers the two subjects equally worth singing about, which is to say not.

    🙂

  32. Kali

    I like that Sal is tagged for a word balloon here…

    1. Eldritchy

      Sal already has one ray of sunshine to deal with, another would be overdose for her.

  33. Makkabee

    I love Agatha. *dances around room singing Agatha’s praises*

    1. Demoted Oblivious

      ? Agatha is Awesome,
      Everything is cool when she’s part of your team ?
      (this belongs here, not at the other place. -grumbles-)

      1. Makkabee

        Thank you, that made my day.

  34. Jackie Howe

    Wait! WHERE is Ana Chronistic! How can there be a comments page with her not at the top of the page?

    1. Demoted Oblivious

      See my misplaced reply to milu (below).

  35. milu

    Becky has learned

    1. Demoted Oblivious

      Retired, maybe? Ever since she got a comic named after her, the pressure is off.

      1. Demoted Oblivious

        G*d fucking damnit piss mobile page reloading between checkin url’s ass dick y*hw*h feces baboon.

        1. Clif

          Come on, don’t soft peddle it. You can tell us what you really think.

    2. Clif

      By the way, thank you, Milu. I had forgotten that strip.

  36. milu

    Welcome. you mentioned Agatha was a Mormon which I didn’t remember and prompted me to trawl through her tag, so thank you too

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