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Andrea Andrew

Woah! Is…Danny the mouthpiece of discord?

Zesstra

Love this for Danny, fantastic reaction.

Dan Rabin

He's the Good Egg of Discord.

Samel da Camel

There's that Danny walking away yelling I've been waiting for

Logibear

"Yeah, he does this every once in a while when he feels like he should be angry about something. Best thing to do is just let him wander around for a while and then let him snack on some titties when he gets tired" "Joe... what do you think would be happening right now if you weren't here"

Emily Lamont

Every time Danny suffers an angel gets their wings.

Andrea Andrew

So Danny didn’t know about Joyce and Dorothy?

Lia

Queer elder

Brendan T

New reaction image just dropped

Rob McBobson

I mean, in fictional media at least, it *is* a stereotype that cheating on her romantic partner is a part of a bisexual woman's flowering into her true self.

Railway Series Book Club

theres a lot going on here but im choosing to focus on the first panel bc even though the joebros have poisoned me against him i still believe in the jojo's bizzare dorventure throupling (not to be confused with the dorothy/joyce/joe hinge arrangement) coming to pass someday. you will learn to love bony poindexter ass, joe.

Harold

He'll feel better once he remembers the partner that Dorothy cheated on was Walky

Harold

@Dan Rabin: Something I've always wondered about that strip - Mandy's list doesn't mention Grace loving either her or Sierra. I remember commenters at the time speculating whether that meant that Grace is aromantic.

Lazuli

danny didnt know about joyce and dorothy.

Lazuli

does dan think joe is lying?

GundamBradley

This is Biphobia, This is Biphobia! We mean you! god, I have not thought about that show in forever.

Grace Serenity

I don't think that's how it works, Danny...

Annie

Joe don't try to take away Danny's principles! Especially since Dorothy seemed to spit on those principles after the talk about sending photos. Let the man have his principles!!

Railway Series Book Club

i think the various reactions to the joyce/dorothy coupling along the lines of "this is just the cheating bi stereotype, smh my head" are Odd, bc like. DOA's main cast is basically 60% bisexual? two of them having this plotline is like, whatever imo. it feels like claiming an author did "bury your gays" by killing a queer character even if their cast is chock full of queer characters who *don't* die. like, idk, i think there's nuance to these things. part of it also feels like it's motivated by one of anxieties people felt about the protest storyline, wherein for whatever reason some just. assumed the issues stemming from the optics of what happened that day would be left unaddressed by future strips? for some reason?? and much like the protest optics, (which seem like they were gonna be addressed even before the Asma Patch, based on the way the Bart O'Ryan class played out), in a completely predictable turn of events, the bisexuality optics are also being addressed by the story for what they are! yippee! so anyway i've been anticipating danny having this exact reaction to joyce and dorothy getting together since the moment they kissed and i'm very glad it's come to pass.

Empress of Robots

There's that Danny reaction I've been waiting months for lol

Tessea

Sal - "I'm actually impressed, Joe. You're even weirder than I thought you were."

Dan Rabin

Or maybe there was already a lot of text in that panel, with barely enough room for Mandy's face.

HenryVolt

Could have been worse, he could have went to go mock Walky. Fortunately he's a good enough egg to mock someone who recently got their heart shited on due to infidelity...kind of have it up to here with the unspoken notion that a caring and committed partner deserves to get cheated on just because its Walky.

Mitzi B.

I want one million more cheating bisexuals to make Danny suffer even more!

NinjaZaku

You can practically hear the record scratch in the second panel.

KittyKai

Danny being salty over this being a bi stereotype of all things is surprisingly funny xD

Mariah

not danny being the main site comment section.

Shane Wegner

I'm #TeamHinge. They both want Joyce to be happy, but seem very Not Into Each Other. Dorothy seems to be at best suspending disbelief that Joe isn't an active sex monster, probably doesnt get how much Joyce actively likes Joe and likes being smooshed by him, let alone wanting Joe or wanting to be smoothed by him herself. Who knows what the future could bring though? I could sort of imagine imagine some supervised situation where Joyce feels better if Dorothy is there for Joe stuff and Dorothy eventually says "Eh you know what, let me try summa that next." Maybe. We'll see.

Gale Tazzin

he's got the bangst again

tifani

Okay this reaction for Danny makes way more sense.

AE Gonzalez

Danny seriously didn’t wonder why she asked that unusually specific question.

SmurfJuice

Yes, that is definitely why more cheating bisexuals are desired to be in the strip. Not for more mere slipshine comics or the lulz or anything... haha... 😅

Sajuuk-Khar

*busting through the wall, putting Shane in some kind of Stone Cold Stunner, John Cena entrance music even though that doesn’t fit at all* IT’S THE REAL OT3, Y’ALL, ALL THROUPLING, NO HINGE, NO PILLOWS, SOMEONE PLAY SODO CHI NO SADAME PREFERABLY BEFORE CENA SUES ME

Sajuuk-Khar

He’s our Miles O’Brien, but with Bashir’s twink body

Sajuuk-Khar

Danny is crashing out in the EXACT voice and cadence of George Costanza and Willis himself cannot tell me otherwise

Sajuuk-Khar

He didn’t know about ‘em!

Sajuuk-Khar

This, too, is a George Costanza monologue

Thomas

I don't get the "biphobia" thing. 1. Is it meant to be a punchline or Danny being clueless, without actual impact? Then the following doesn't matter much. 2. "X-phobia" is used for phobias and similar reactions but also for "hatred of X". Which is it? And who does Danny refer to, Joe or who else?

Rob McBobson

Basically, the joke is that he's upset with Joyce and Dorothy publicly cheating on their partners in a very public way, since that spreads the (already existing) prejudice that bisexuals cheat. And spreading prejudice about bisexuals cheating is usually biphobic, since it portrays bisexual people as bad people. Except it's clearly a bit absurd to call this particular case biphobic, since it's people *coming out* as bi. Basically, it's like this one-panel cartoon I saw once where a white reporter, interviewing a black basketball player, asked "Isn't it a bit of a nasty stereotype for you to be so good at playing basketball?"

Terra Bruder

making it about Danny is Danny's whole thing

Zesstra

I'm mentally appending "We live in a *society*!" to Danny's storm-off.

Zesstra

I've laughed out loud all over again reading the strip in Jason Alexander's voice.

Jasmijn Wellner

"aw man now i feel even worse about not macking on ethan when i had the chance"

Mohmi

IT'S BIPHOBIC, JERRY.

David M Willis

What about that bonus strip intersects with this sequence at all?

Harold

"YEP THAT'S ME"

Harold

@HenryVolt: Next strip will be Danny finding Walky and going "AHH HA HA HA"

Packy Anderson

I think about it a lot, considering the theme song was sing by Jess Harnell, the voice of my favorite cartoon character ever, Wakko Warner.

joe mcguire

I was worried Danny wouldn’t find a way to make this about him, but I should have known he’d figure it out.

Gale Tazzin

it's funny that he immediately realized she was bi but totally missed the actual thing she wanted to know

Harold

Now I'm reminded of the scene where George says he always imagines lesbians looking at him and thinking, "That's the reason I'm not heterosexual"

I Know Why the Mowed Lawn Screams

genuinely it is nice to see two of danny’s uglier character traits (his baseline dismissal of Joe’s sexual agency + tendency to make things about him) come back in full swing. I <3 when fan favorite characters do something uncute.

Empress of Robots

I continue to love that Joe is telling everyone to fuck off re: saying Joyce cheated with Dorothy (including telling Joyce that) because HE TOLD DOROTHY TO FOLLOW HER HEART. Joe's got like an Armada Starscream character arc going on right now lol (from insecure shitheel to precious cinnamon bun who must be protected at all costs)

Empress of Robots

Kiiiiiinda worried that Joe might become the next Mike depending on what the mob and/or Carol Brown do in future arcs...

Harold

@Dan Rabin: Possibly, but as someone who intensively analyzes this comic you know as well as anyone that everything that is or isn't included in a given strip represents a deliberate choice. Willis could just as easily have written something like, "Each of us loves both of the others equally." Of course, I could be wrong and it's like the Monty Python sketch where a pretentious film critic asks the director he's interviewing about the deep aesthetic/metaphorical reasons behind his film's abrupt switch to black-and-white, and the director replies, "We run out of color film."

Harold

@Empress of Robots: "Rosenthal, Perfect Cinnamon"

Harold

@I Know Why the Mowed Lawn Screams: Reminder that Danny's first half-assed (and quickly discarded) attempt at hitting on Sal, pre-timeskip, came from the rationale that Sal would at least be a girlfriend that Walky couldn't date after him

InkyD

Wait, what’s that about Starscream?

Thomas

As I wrote on the previous strip: I see some people going in with the assumption that Danny hasn't spoken / commiserated with Joe about the break-up. Myself, I only remembered today that that bonus strip exists (and I hope I forget it soon again).

Maybeeus

GODDDDDDDD I KNEW SOMEONE WOULD BRING UP THE BIPHOBIA STEREOTYPE STUFF I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS DANNY THIS IS SO GOOOOOOOOD!!! EVEN DANNY IS HAVING A MELTDOWN!!! I love the clear shift in mood Danny has when Dorothy is mentioned. He's trying so hard to sell that it's about biphobia and not the fact he's upset Dorothy was willing to stay for someone other than him. (Him and Dorothy were together longer than this entire comic has taken place in universe i think that gives him some slight justification)

Thomas

That makes a difference for me because some readers know Danny & Joe spent time together but apparently didn't speak about much after the punchline for unknown reasons. For other readers, Danny appears this week the first time for a long while – and they don't know that Danny saw Joe waiting for someone to come in in that situation... If it's just a throwaway gag and outside of the comic timeline that would help, I guess – similar to Leslie waking up in bed at home, when in the main timeline she seems to have been in jail with Robin since the protest.

Thomas

There are other possible interpretations but knowing if you consider that bonus strip canon/in-universe or not (or only parts without that gag) would help, at least me

Thomas

One thing while I'm at it: that bonus strip (or hearing about it) was the only thing we saw of Joe for 3 months, and 6 weeks before as well as 6 weeks later he behaved very differently. https://www.dumbingofage.com/comic-tag/joe/

C.T. Phipps

Dan learned absolutely nothing from saying Mike being in a coma was a good thing.

5099 5618 v2.0

@Harold TIL: The song that usually plays over this meme is "Baba O'Reilly" by The Who

5099 5618 v2.0

@Andrea Andrew In fairness, it hasn't been that long, and he's been distracted by the cops, his own rather happy relationship, and the fact that he doesn't read the school paper that much.

David M Willis

In Transformers Armada, Starscream had a Dinobot-esque heel-face turn where he joined the good guys for a little bit.

David M Willis

All bonus strips are canon. And sometimes characters involved in the narrative have other things going on! Like waiting at the door for pizza.

C.T. Phipps

Dan will now kick Joyce and Dorothy out of the bi category. Because he can do that. Nope, sorry, you're going to have to choose another letter in the categories.

Mariah

The 2 types of characters who repeat the criticisms of these last few arcs are eithier A has a valid point B has a valid point but is insuffferable and annoying C does not have a valid point and is insufferable and annoying. Really captues the discourse .

Empress of Robots

Until he DIED, that stupid tragic adorable cinnamon bun Starscream. #spoilers (I guess)

Thomas

David M Willis: "All bonus strips are canon. And sometimes characters involved in the narrative have other things going on! Like waiting at the door for pizza." Thanks for the confirmation. I won't pretend to be suddenly surprised or outraged by that. Since Joe isn't someone who prepares sexual harassment and Danny isn't someone to act as a bystander to sexual harrassment, that bonus strip can't be canon for Dumbing of Age. And the bonus strip with Leslie at home in bed – while she was actually in prison – doesn't fit the canon timeline. I guess the most charitable interpretation is that you lied about that (only) today, for whatever reason. I definitely don't consider you someone who makes jokes like that. Nevermind, sorry to bother you.

David M Willis

....joe wasn't actually planning on keeping masturbating when he opened the door for the pizza? why would you think that and of course leslie's strip doesn't take place as-the-strip-is-inserted, because she won a poll, and her immediate circumstances would have been spoiled ahead of the narrative telling us, but NOT doing a strip with Leslie even though she won would've ALSO spoiled ahead of the narrative, because that kind of gives things away, so, yes, of course it's just a random leslie strip that could've happened at any time during the previous several months, i am so so sorry jesus

Harold

That Ain't Dipping Sauce: A Dumbing of Age Pizzagraphique

Harold

Perhaps "A" doesn't exist

Maude Reads Things

Welp, this oughta make his next chat with Dorothy interesting given how the last one went.

Rob McBobson

@Empress: Uh, I'm not sure what the point is of having a spoiler warning *after* the actual spoiler...

Empress of Robots

It's a joke because it's a 25 year old cartoon soooo I dont think spoiler warnings apply?