Becky is a problem.
>>150975702You know what? I like this. It's a realistic sort of drama where everyone has a valid reason to be upset and it hinges on unresolved emotional contexts that have always been in the background.
>>150975702The only interesting plot hiding in this terrible arc.
>>150975702I hate to say it but Becky really did nothing wrong. Everyone else is awful.
>>150976198If you assume Becky's attention-seeking is actually masking behavior she's a rather pitiable person.
>>150975702>Becky commits suicideHot
>>150975702>It has been a long, long timeHasn't it only been like 2 months or something? Normally I wouldn't care, but Willis just justified Joe getting cucked by saying it's only been 12 days, so he's drawing attention to the wonky timeline.
>>150976223It would be nice to see her more serious. But she's entirely justified in feeling shitty. I don't give a single shit about Dina though, she's too much of a cartoon.
>>150976198>Becky really did nothing wrongExcept forcing her lesbianism onto others.
>>150977598Like who?
Maybe Toedaughter will go on a killing spree
>>150975702oh hey Persepolis! Awesome movie to be honest.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrtwN7lolHs
>>150977659No jury would convict her.
>>150977669It's one of the 3 movies Willis has seen and enjoyed that isn't some stupid shit he watched as a kid.
>>150975702Are we supposed to be on dinas side here? Because I'm not
>>150977669I did like the book but I haven't seen the full movie yet
>>150975702Whilst I don't think Willis will split up Dina/Becky so easily, I wouldn't object if he did then decided to pair up a couple of loose ends.
>>150978524You know, now that we're here these two should hook up
>>150976326I hope she blows up the whole school
>>150977553I like Dina as a character, but she's an asshole. Not a quirky, snarky Willis asshole, but a judgmental, arrogant person who is pleasant enough most of the time.>>150978524>>150978962>enough size diff for Dina to use Joe as a steed in and out of the bedroomPersonality-wise they'd make an interesting match too.
>>150978307No
>>150979530I don't mean us chuds I mean Willis's cult how are they taking it
Who would win in a fight, Becky from Funky Winkerbean or Becky from Dumbing of Age
>>150980933Yes that explains why you said "us"
BECKY'S GOT A GUN!!!!
I can't wait for the daughter of toedad slasher arc
>>150981014Becky
>>150977659>An exact shot-for-shot replay of toedad, but with Becky hunting Dorothy and JoyceWillis doesn't have the stones to do something that funny.
>>150982024nah, he'll have to figure out some way to make a straight male the villain here.
>>150981014What is Funky Winkerbean and why does it keep coming up during these threads?
>>150982233What is Google and why can't you fucking use it
>>150981871Slasher Becky, supervillainess Becky, or school shooter Becky?
>>150982482Supervillainess going by the name Toe Girl
>>150982233It's a comic strip that Willis notoriously hates despite his own comic having all the same problems.
>>150982482>>>PAPA! I'M COMIN' HOME!!!!!!! BLAM BLAM BLAM
>>150982024>Dorothy and Joyce split up in the woods>Dorothy turns and hides to ambush Becky>gets shot in the face>Becky gets Joyce into the car at gunpoint>Never fear, Amazi-Girl is here!>Amber's out of her mind on stolen opioids>grappling hook's the wrong car, gets pulled in the opposite direction, then multiple broken bones when the driver notices a chick in a homemade superhero costume on top of their car and slams the brakes
>>150976117That’s a more thoughtful analysis than this shit deserves, anon.
>>150977383The first ToeDad incident was only like six weeks ago.
>>150978524>Joyce cucks Becky with Dorothy>Dina cucks Becky with JoeBecky getting doublly-cuckqueaned is something I could get on board with.
>>150977383>12 daysThe timeline of this comic is so messily condensed that it makes all the characters involved look like schizos with how fast they go through relationships..
>>150976198Joe and Becky really are getting fucked over by Joyce and Dorothy.
>>150983845>Becky, in desperation, hooks up with Mary
>>150984110Joyce and Dorothy are really the two most rotten characters in the entire comic. Well, Dorothy already was but she's so rotten that she's making Joyce even worse than her. Toxic is the perfect word for her because she contaminates, degrades and ruins everything around her.
>>150982548The difference is that FW was a lighthearted "Goofy kids in high school, no one ever ages" strip for 3 or 4 decades and then the creator decided it had to be tragic-serious with not one but two timeskips where the titular character became a forever alone alcoholic, his adorably nerdy best friend lost his wife to cancer, the band instructor went deaf, people died in Iraq, etc. Willis sucks at drama but even he wasn't going overboard from the original concept with DoA.
>>150985736The original strip (Roomies) was a grounded slice of life college story that spun off into an angsty and serious sci-fi story which spun off into a gag comic about a toy store which evolved into an angsty and (literally) gay soap opera which has since been rebooted as a grounded slice of life college dramedy that also has supervillain dads and a cartoonish and outdated depiction of multiple personality disorder (which isn't real) that's treated as a serious and inspiring IRL superhero.
Becky deserves nothing but pain
>>150985499Is there lesbian Joyce porn yet?
>>150983816Moreso than QC, DoA is fairly engaging in that there is the foundation of some good soap opera underneath what readers actually get. >>150984419>Carla cries and masturbates outside Mary's dorm>>150985993Roomies! was a college comedy that took a swerve into drama and sci-fi, It's Walky! was a sci-fi action comedy that repeatedly swerved in and out of drama, and Shortpacked! was a comedy that swerved into sci-fi drama. All of Willis' main works had massive tonal and even genre shifts.
has anyone posted the slipshine anywhere yet?
>>150986895Nobody seems to want to brave it or is willing to pay. Not that I can blame them.
>>150986327I miss the gif of Becky where her eyes are cockroaches
>>150985736Lmao mate you're out of your fucking gourd, DoA's had a slew of retarded shit happen in it. There's been a school shooting, mass kidnapping, rapin' Ryan, Amber's superhero bullshit, and the protest that got tear gassedYou don't have to look far in DoA for some ridiculous beyond Funky Winkerbean melodrama, especially with how glacial the pace moves in the comic . Pick any arc and you'll find something
>>150986419its on slipshine. some anon will post it eventually, no doubt. if just to spite willis
There is no way this shit isn’t AGP from Willis
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>>150988211Funky has the talking ape that shot a movie star, Lisa's ghost calling in a bomb threat so Les wouldn't take a plane that was otherwise going to crash, Phil Holt faking his death despite his ghost showing up, and the entire Harley/TimeMop/Time Janny shit that ends the series if you want to talk about absurd non-melodrama plots.Also, Blaine is basically just the Dumbing of Age version of Frankie Pierce right down to acting like an absurd smirking villain.
>>150988929No, a writer imagining sex from the perspective of the opposite sex is not in fact AGPAGP is waaaay cringier than this and massively narcissistic
>>150988211Fairness to Willis, that's just an exaggeration of a real event for melodrama.>>150989041Obviously Phil dressed up as a ghost several times to mess with everyone.
>>150989173Yes, it’s a coincidence that Willis has said Joyce is a self-insert and recently got a bob haircut and has done nothing but write about 18 year old Yuri for six months
>>150975702so does anyone know of a link to the new slipshine? I'm not giving willis money but I want to screencap the terrible terrible sex faces he's so known for.
>>150989206I just have 8 more years to get through and I'll have the whole thing (minus a few months of 1974/1975 strips that GoComics is only uploading simultaneously with the reprints for some reason) and then it'll be storytime. But god, everything is a slog after 2013.>>150989209A bunch of characters are self-inserts for Willis. Joyce, Danny, Ethan, Walky and probably a few others I'm forgetting.
>>150975702Becky suicide arc when?
>>150988929The fact he calls them pornographiques really tells you how pretentious he is. He'd probably play it off as "heh, no I'm being humorously ironic you see" but knowing him and his general personality, it is definitely not (or at least not wholly) ironic at all.
>>150989597It’s curious that none of those men have gotten anywhere near the level of focus during their slipshine activities
>>150989721Because Willis is a hetero pervert and he's not going to draw gay porn. I think he did do one slipshine though.
>>150988469Is the Slipshine content canon?
>>150990221Yes
Willis is the kind of guy who thinks he's a feminist lgbt ally for frantically jerking his micropenis to the college lesbians he made a comic about.
>>150990440well, yeah. he's a 40+yr old webcomic artist drawing college girls. he hasn't seen the inside of a college since before 9/11it's 100% projection
>>150990604Pre-9/11? Hell, the last time he was in college Clinton was still president. He presumably attended in 1997 or 1998 (when he would have been 18), dropped out after a semester, crashed in the dorms for another semester or so, then left completely.
>>150989701>The fact he calls them pornographiquesHe doesn't? This is today's update on the DoA website, so I guess he assume this is still technically SFW.
>>150988929I'd expect more reactions from today's comic.
Has anyone seen the new slipshine? How is it?
>>150976198No? Regardless if Joyce was out or not, Joyce genuinely has no romantic interests with her. She should have gotten over it like a normal person the first time she raped her mouth
>>150989721I came to canon drawings of Mike's asshole at least
>>150990745Someone posted the transcript of it on the announcement page and Willis deleted itIt isnot good
>>150991182Keep in mind that happened about 4 months prior in-universe, Joyce turned Becky down because she wasn't a lesbian, and Becky isn't a fan of Dorothy in general. I think Becky being in her feelings for a few hours (seriously, it's been less than a day since Dorothy and Joyce were outed) is perfectly fine.
>>150975702The fuck? This is still going?
>>150991236>Someone posted the transcriptYou know very well that the transcript is not anyone is caring about.
>>150991182That doesn't mean it's her fault to have an heart break. That's not something you can actually control.
>>150991338>I want to get off Mr. Willis’ Wild Ride
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>>150990725Yes he does. The official title of the DoA porn is Porographique.
>>150988929Why are they having sex with glasses on?
>>150993117Again, this is today's ipdate on the Dumbing Of Age Page. The comic strip you are quoting there:>>150988929>>150989701isn't part of his pornographic collection.It's on main, thus invalidating your premise that he call this pornographic.
>>150993519It's David Willis's fetish.
>>150993766It's essentially an advertisement for the porn you dumbass.
>>150993797It's also part of the regular DoA's strips and, therefore, you complaining that he call it "pornographic" is without basis.
>>150991368If you’re asking “is David Willis’ art good” then I think we both already know the answer
>>150994362That it is fine and actually fappable to?
>>150994152Are you getting off on being autistically pedantic or something? Are you Willis?
>>150994420nobody, who isn't disturbed, can fap to Willis' art
>>150989173>massively narcissisticsoooo Willis, then.
>>150994505>Are you getting off on being autistically pedantic or something?There is being pedantic and there is pointing out that what you are saying is outright false.But Alright, I'll eat my words if you can point to me where Willis called this strip in question pornographic.
>>150994826The strip in question advertises his fucking "pornographique" that he has a big fucking banner of right below that you conveniently left out. I was making fun of his stupid pretentious fucking name for his shitty porn that he is advertising with this particular strip and, again, the literal advertisement right below said strip. You're sperging out, either in sincere autism or insincere faggotry, that I'm somehow confusing one for the other and referring to it as the "wrong" thing.In short, fuck off.
>>150975702So what was the strip before this/build up to Dina realizing, again, that she's Becky's participation prize? I don't want to give Willis views.
>>150994927That girl Becky wanted to fuck since childhood is gay and cheated with other girl who cheated. Also tear gas
>>150994879>The strip in question advertises his fucking "pornographique"Yes, advertise. He still doesn't call the strip itself pornographic, unlike what you are claiming there>>150989701thus making your whole complain nonsensical. Why is it so hard for you to admit you were mistaken?
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>>150995049>>150995025>>150995031I really hate how mechanical she is. What's her mental problem?
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>>150995069She literally has autism.
>>150995069Autism but it's cartoon autism because Willis' entire understanding of the world is based on cartoons from his childhood.
>>150995124That's some severe autism.
>>150995144Willis is medically diagnosed with autism.Dina is just him representing his own tism that he pushes to a cartoonish level.
>>150975702It feels so weird that the girl who rejected Becky for not swinging that way and freaking out over getting the pill for period related reasons is now perfectly okay with making out with another girl in public and letting the entire dorm know she's fingering her.Did Willis get bored or horny while writing about the not-Palestine protest?
>>150995164It's actually Willis being very clear that he's never explicitly clarified what's wrong with Dina so he always has an out if people complain about how he writes her. For all the times he writes Dina as not being able to get how people interact, you get strips like >>150995049 she immediately grasps the subtext.
>>150995403Joyce is basically completely broken now, this is her way of dealing with it.
>>150995580Dina's beep boop dino autist thing being nothing but her fucking with people would actually be pretty entertaining so he'd never do it.
>>150995741Personally, Dina reads as an introvert who had issues with socializing as a kid and is stunted in that field or someone who is very mildly autistic but infantilized and sheltered by her parents.
>>150995856Both of her parents are literally the exact same as her.
>>150995878>Dina's dad is a train autist>Dina's mom is a construction autist>they met, married, and conceived Dina taking photos at the same railway tunnel
>>150975702Damn, is every woman here a lesbian?
>>150996296Sarah, Mary and Roz are aggressively straight. Sal, I think? I'm sure the background ones like Asma are straight until proven otherwise.Actually Asma is funny because it's obvious Willis wanted the brownie points for having a hijbai muslim girl in his cast but didn't want to deal with the backlash he'd get for actually attempting to write a muslim character. Because either he writes her correctly and gets shit for her adhering to shitty and regressive religious and cultural practices (but she's brown so can't be bad like Mary) or he writes her "correct" and suddenly he has a fatwah against him.
>>150996469>Sarah, Mary and Roz are aggressively straight.For now, at least.
>>150995108Becky's back to ruining lives again
>>150997048Her own, maybe
So, why exactly is Joyce a lesbian now? When did Walky and Dorothy break up?
>>150998083>So, why exactly is Joyce a lesbian now?Because>When did Walky and Dorothy break up?She didn't. Joyce and Dorothy are cheating on their boyfriends.
>>150998129What a mess
>>150998129>>150998260At this point they're both broken up with their respective boyfriends: Walky ate 100 chicken nuggets and moved on while Joe is moping and trying to figure out a way he can still be with Joyce.
>>150991329>>150991371She had four months to get over it. Several characters already have at least two relationships already. And I'm not even sure if this all there is. There's already been fears that she feels she is owed Joyce's love if they are both lesbians. I see no evidence to debunk that theory among all the instances where her viewpoints are challenged, and if true, she's a piece of shit to have that incel mindset. And of course. She's breaking up with Dina over this on her end
>>150998596I think it's going to be the opposite, Dina is going to dump Becky. Everyone focuses on Dina being Becky's rebound, but Dina hooked up with Becky because she was tired of the cast treating her like a child due to her stature and social issues. Dina doesn't need that anymore. Becky and Dina have always been a couple that, when viewed cynically, are only together because it benefits them to be dating someone, not because there is any actual chemistry or interest beyond someone to slam clam.
>>150998596>She had four months to get over it.Becky basically threw away everything she cared about because she was in love with Joyce and likely was in love with her for a long time before that. Her father is dead in part because of this and he also went nuts and put her and others in danger because of it. Becky was probably willing to accept that okay, Joyce isn't gay and can't love her and that sucks but whatever, she's found someone else. But then a couple of months after the fact, whoops turns out that Joyce actually was gay and she's not only gay but she's gay for the one person that Becky fucking hates at that. And now it seems like everyone's treating her as the problem for having that wound reopened, getting stabbed in the heart and having the knife twisted.I can, and often do, shit all over Willis' bad writing but Becky's reaction to this is pretty understandable and (for Willis) realistic because she basically was told "it's not me, it's you" and then her girlfriend told her "lol get over it you self-centered bitch". Now where this goes, who knows? It's Willis so the options are "Becky gets over it and gets back with Dina so the whole story is a big pile of nothing" or "completely batshit insane when Becky takes her father's gun and becomes Toe Girl".
>>150998735You also left out it's been less than an hour since she found out, immediately after she found out she had to run interference for them to Joyce's dad only for Joyce and Dorothy to come out to Joyce's dad anyway, got to watch the two of them suffer zero repercussions to being forcibly outed, learned that her best friend and long-term crush never once even considered her as a possible romantic interest, and right after is getting needled by Dina over Dina's insecurity about their relationship before she can even process her feelings. Oh, and she doesn't really have anyone she can go to about this because they're all part of the same social circle and Dorothy, Joyce, and Dina are more central to it. Girl has had a rough 20 minutes.
>>150998129>She didn't. Joyce and Dorothy are cheating on their boyfriends.What the fuck is Willis endgame for this fucking mess?
>>150979064>autistically judging everyone around her at all times, but keeps it inside to outwardly present herself as calm and flat, as to easily slide through social situationsshe just like me fr
Is "It's Walky" worth reading? Or is it just as this?
>>150999575I'm going to assume that reading it long after it's finished, no. It's likely one of those things that really only worked if you caught it early enough to be drawn into the autism while it was going. Like El Goonish Shive.
>>150999264>Dorothy a shit>Joyce a shit>Joe didn't deserve it>Becky surprisingly tragic>Sarah continues to be low-key best girl
>>151000082Sarah's fine because her role seems to be the on sensible and normal person in a campus full of psychotic, autistic retards.
>>150999264>What the fuck is Willis endgame for this fucking mess?There is no endgame. The second he stops pumping out lesbianslop he's outside living in a cardboard box and he knows it.
>>151000478She's judgmental, antisocial, and a curmudgeon but she's also consistently one of the most supportive members of the cast and the only one to regularly admit when she's wrong and change for the better. It just sucks she's the designated tard wrangler for a bunch of self-centered, sociopathic idiots.
>>150999264>endgameHe is going to keep writing this comic forever and milk it until he dies. Everyone will break up with and hook up with everyone else, endless pointless shipping will happen, he'll keep pumping out bad Slipshine porn people will post 4free on here to laugh at all the stupid faces, and if he ever decides to end it he'll just make a new alt universe comic with the same characters to ship into oblivion again until he dies.
Him sexualising lesbians once again and character assassinating a bunch of characters works. It made people pay attention to his webcomic again.
>>150995580>WHY CAN'T WRITTERS SPELL EVERYTHING OUT FOR ME?Jesus, Christ guy. That kind of complain is made when you don't actually have a legitimate critic to do.
>>151001709If he was smart/lazy he'd do some kind of spinoff and get someone else to draw it so all he as to do is script it.
>>150975702cute green beret
>>151001763How is your response coherent to the statement, "the writer is nonspecific as to provide an out in case of criticism?"
>>151001709>He is going to keep writing this comic forever and milk it until he diesDon't forget it will still carry on for 6 months to a year after Willis dies because he draws strips well in advance. That's gonna be a weird time, presuming anyone here outlives him.
>>151000082I wonder if Sarah is the only character in this comic capable of empathy or if she's getting ready to pick Joe up on the rebound?
>>151003955Like, it straightforward is.
>>151004084Sarah is currently dating Tony.
bump for slipshine
He's really bad at this. There's nothing cute or romantic about it.
>>151005586I don't care. Naked women.
>>151005599Yeah that's how he gets away with it. Lizardbrains and people who only care about shipping.
>>151005586why not show the boobs? why does it need to be artfully implied here?
>>151006051Issues he doesn't want to deal with if he makes it an adult comic, so that's just for patrons.
>>151006051Because it's the regular comic, not the sliphine one.
>>150975702Yes, I always hated Becky so much. Yeah, I get it, she got a lot of trauma in her life quick succesion. But maybe she should go see a therapist, instead of being in everybodys face about how awesome she is for being a lesbian. Also her relationship with Dina always felt artifical and forced. >>150976117Becky doesn't have a valid reason to be upset. Being Joyce childhood friend didn't give her dibs on eating her pussy.
>>151006051Because these strips with the two liverspotted blob women is an advertisement for the actual porn comic about them that you have to pay for.
>>150976223Ofcourse it is. Nobody spends so much time talking about how being lesbian is bestest thing ever, she's so happy to be one, and not lesbians are inferior, if they don't use it as a cover for being fucked up in the head, and unable to admit it.
>>150977636LMAO, literally everyone. There are dozens of strips when she's in everybodys face about it. Come on. The only bigger attention whore is Carla.
>>151006085>>151006130even then, a webcomic can show a boob and not have it be explicitly pornographic. For example, Octopus Pie had plenty of shots of the main characters tits with only a few of them being in scenes that are explicitly sex-related.
>>150993519Because Willis never takes his glasses of either. Otherwise how could he see his wife cucking him, from his cuck chair.
>>150994152Oh, you're one of those people who don't argue about the point, but rather the technicallity. Yeah, ignoring you.
>>150995136Good. Fuck Dina, and not in a fun way.
>>150999264>What the fuck is Willis endgame for this fucking mess?Getting money from LGBT who think that only LGBT love is real, and justifies hurting stright people.
>>151006228No, I am arguing about the POINT. You complained that he called that strip "pornographic". THAT'S the point. Show me that he actually called it that or admit you complained about some BS you made up in the first place.
>>151005586I'm supposed to believe, that two first time lesbians had amazingly mind blowing sex for 30 minutes, and knew exactly what to do the whole time?
>>151006301Willis puts women on a pedestal and believes that only men can be bad at sex.
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I know it's not gonna happen, but I really wish post nut clarity (or whatever ladies call it) hit's Joyce and Dorothy like a speeding truck, about everything that happened around them.
>>151006455Now skipping to October 19 2025, when they have finally realised they were gay for each other.
>>151006301>>151006328I actually do legitimately think that's the case for a lot of people. Even some women seem to believe that only men can be bad at sex or that sex with a woman is inherently good.
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>>151006483Posting this too as a bonus.
>>151006496Ok, but reading theory is not the same as doing it. You can read every book about how to drive a car, but there's still going to be learning curve, once you actually get behind the wheel.
Who's more annoying attention whore, Becky or Carla? And was Mary right to be mad at that scating cunt?
>>151006301This is Willis' darling ship. It is wholesome and perfect.
>>151006457Out of the two, it would most likely hit Joyce first, but since it didn't happen, the deal is sealed. Joyce is gonna marry Dorothy probably after a month within the comic's timeline and then adapt a kid who strangely resembles the two of them in both appearance and personality.
>>151006520I think the human body allow for enough course correcting, for this sort of things.
>>151006531Carla, because she's more rude about it and deliberately and proudly goes out of her to be annoying and antagonistic. Becky can read a room.
Joe? Fucked over.Walky? Dumped again.Becky? Heartbroken.Dina? Impacted by Becky's heartbreak.Joyce and Dorothy's relationship has been a disaster to those around them and it's so romantic!
>>151006636And there are still people in the comments, hoping for poly with Joe and Walky, lmao.
>>151006457would be sorta funny but I can't imagine that happening without him getting blowback for it
>>151006205Becky has the excuse of coming from a fucked up repressive hyper-religious background and it's not like the religious kid experiencing the world for the first time and going wild isn't a stereotype. And what Becky does clearly comes from a place of insecurity brought on by her new experiences and revelations about herself versus her upbringing.Carla is a rich kid with war profiteer parents who's had everything handed to her for her entire life. She's an annoying and entitled twat who basically dislikes/thinks she's better than everyone and should be allowed to do whatever she wants because she's spent her whole liffe doing whatever she wants with no consequences. Mary is great because she seems to be the only person willing to give her even mild pushback and when Carla does get pushback she shuts down because she's never had to deal with not getting her way..
>>151006380>>151006470Reminder that this has been the equivalent of like... a week.
>>151006457Would be well-deserved considering they've basically blown up the lives of not one or two but four (or more) of their closest friends.
>>151006693The only thing they should do is a poly with Joyce/Dorothy/Ruth/Billie that ends with all four of them jumping off of a bridge.
