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Take the characters of ''[[Walkyverse|It's Walky!]]'' and ''[[
The comic is a [[Continuity Reboot]] of the [[Walkyverse]] as a whole. It reprises the ''Roomies!'' idea by putting [[Everyone Went to School Together|all the characters together at Indiana University]]--including characters who were introduced after ''It's Walky!'' was completed. It also removes the sci-fi elements in favor of just letting people bounce off each other. It is being produced concurrently with ''[[
Our cast:
* '''Joyce''', a sheltered fundamentalist [[Innocent Bigot]] who gets to go to IU because both her parents did and because she's the "best socialized" out of her entire homeschool group.
* '''Sarah''', a sophomore who had a bad experience the previous year involving a drug-addicted roommate. She's not very popular because people liked her roommate, whom she busted. Now she's stuck with Joyce.
* '''Becky''', Joyce's childhood friend, who's going to Anderson.
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* '''Sal''', who held up two convenience stores as a young teenager and was sent off to a Catholic boarding school in Tennessee. Now she's back and has a motorcycle, which instantly garners her a fanclub. She should have gotten a scooter.
* '''Amber''', a bespectacled nerd-girl and ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' addict who went to [[High School]] with Mike and Ethan. Slightly less reclusive than her roommate Dina
* '''Amazi-Girl''', an anonymous costumed vigilante who just happens to bear a remarkable resemblance to Amber [[Clark Kenting|without her glasses]].
* '''Ruth''', a somewhat [[Ax Crazy]] RA. '''''She will break you.'''''
* '''Dina''', Amber's roommate. Wears a dinosaur hat, and prefers to hide behind the door.
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[http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/01-move-in-day/home/ First page can be found here]
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* [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]]: Played straight, and then subverted -- Joyce hires resident [[Jerkass]] Mike to ''punch Joe in the face'' whenever he steps out of line, then joins in at the end of the night after Joe was distracted by the waitress wearing a [[Stripperiffic]] outfit. The next day, he points out the [[Hypocrisy]] of a Christian paying someone to commit violence ''and'' joining in on said violence. Joyce is visibly shaken.
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'''Joyce''': But... but... guys can't ''actually'' get hurt by a girl. Guys are, like, ''strong.'' }}
* [[Adorkable]]: Joyce.
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** Character ages are different as well, with some who are adults in the Main Verse (like Ethan) being college freshmen, while others (like Leslie and Robin) are still older.
* [[Amnesiac Dissonance]]: When under the influence of a date-rape drug, Joyce defends herself, cutting her hand in the process. When she wakes up the next day...
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'''Joyce:''' ... Th-that doesn't sound like me. }}
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Ryan, who appeared in a grand total of four strips back in the ''Roomies''/''It's Walky'' days as part of a Ruth-flashback subplot, has a much bigger role here.
* [[Author Appeal]]: Willis has shown that he likes the idea of [[Alternate Universe|Alternate Universes.]]
* [[
* [[Berserk Button]]: Joyce does ''not'' like guys who think of nothing but sex.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: {{spoiler|Sarah saves Joyce from [[Rape
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{{spoiler|'''Sarah''':}} Yeah. [[Pre
* [[Break the Haughty]]: Billie seems to be going through this, having been a social queen of her High School (editor of the student paper, cheerleader, popular) only to find that absolutely none of this matters in college.
** To date:
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* [[Broad Strokes]]: Willis stated at Anime Fest 2010 (where the comic was unveiled) that he plans to write the characters so that they are up to date with the other continuities. For example, Joyce starts off with the same level of maturity she had gained at the end of IW (thanks to not having been abducted and actually having a friend her own age), and Ethan came out some time in high school. This is so that he doesn't have to cover the same character arcs that people have already read.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Life seems to be developing a bit of a habit of kicking Danny in the balls.
* [[Call Back]]: According to Mike's [[Character Blog|Twitter]], his turn-ons are [https://web.archive.org/web/20120307092925/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20020511.html hats], [http://www.shortpacked.com/2005/comic/book-2-pulls-the-drama-tag/01-addicted/iloveyoumaggie/ strong tempers], and [[Refuge in Audacity|fuckable moms on the brink of death]], referencing Mike's romantic relationships in It's Walky! and Shortpacked!
* [[The Cameo]]: Apparently [[Archie Comics|Archie]] is not above attending college parties.
** [[Word of
** An early and shortlived meme among readers was to find background characters who look like [[Scooby Doo|Shaggy.]]
** How could we have missed [[Community
* [[Character Blog]]: Apparently, any "official" Twitter feeds from Walkyverse characters are from this version of them.
* [[Cleavage Window]]: Amazi-Girl [[Averted Trope|does not]] have one, to [[You Need to Get Laid|Daisy]]'s extreme disappointment.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Walky.
** Dina, due to having [[No Social Skills]].
* [[Comic Book Time]]: Willis claims that this will be his first series to use the technique, but it is in fact closer to [[Webcomic Time]] (we're about eleven months in and have just finished covering the first week of the semester) crossed with [[Sliding Time Scale]] (what year said semester is in changes to avoid ''Dumbing'' from, in Willis's words, "slowly becoming a period piece.")
* [[Continuity Reboot]]: Though it doesn't null out the previous continuity, it just [[Multiverse|throws one more on the pile]].
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]:
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* [[Different As Night and Day]]: Sal and Walky, even though they weren't raised apart this time.
* [[Does Not Like Shoes]]: Sierra, who has apparently been barefoot since sixth grade (that's her best guess at least). [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight|It took a while for anyone to notice]], including the reader, since her feet were not shown until the characters noticed her shoelessness.
* [[Ethical Slut]]: Roz, though YMMV. She encourages safe sex and even insisted on putting a clause of politically correct language in her roommate agreement, but is also not above sabotaging her sister's political career because the two have opposing views.
** Possibly Joyce as well. When she hired Mike to chaperone her date, it wasn't just to keep Joe from trying anything but also to keep herself from trying anything as well. So despite her being a conservative christian who wants to wait until marriage, she expected to be swayed by Joe's charms into having sex on the first date.
* [[Everyone Went to School Together]]: A lot of the premise of DoA is "What if everyone in the [[Walkyverse]] went to college together?", along with "What if no one got crazy powers from being abducted by aliens?"
* [[Funny Background Event]]: Amazi-Girl can be seen beating up people [http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/mark/ in this strip.]
** The framed review on the wall of Galasso's Pizza headlined [http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/03-men-are-from-beck-women-are-from-clark/olives/ "Mother Bear's crushed under Galasso's iron heel".] (Mother Bear's Pizza is a popular IU student hangout in [[Real Life]].)
* [[Gayngst]]: Ethan. He even angsts about the fact that he angsts so much.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Sarah can actually see the character's archetypes miles away, but her flaw is that she's been right so many times she's built a wall around herself so that she wouldn't need to make friends ever again.
* [[Go Mad
* [[She's Not My Girlfriend|He's Not My Boyfriend:]] Billie gets pretty vocal when Ruth asks if Walky's her boyfriend.
* [[He
* [[High School AU]]: Technically college, but it mixes [[The Men in Black]] alien fighters from the previous continuity into an ordinary college setting.
* [[Iconic Item]]: Dina's hat.
* [[I Just Want to Have Friends]] / [[I Just Want to Be Loved]]: This are Joyce's main motivations. One could argue that [[Jade Coloured Glasses|Sarah]] [[Shadow Archetype|is repressing her desire to be loved.]]
* [[Innocent Bigot]]: Joyce frequently makes offensive remarks to non-Christians (especially atheists, which she seemed genuinely shocked to discover ''actually exist''), due to her sheltered, homeschooled environment. She has since made similar comments about minorities.
** However as soon as she was called out on it, she did try to ignore it, willing to ignore Dorothy's atheism to continue their friendship and attempting to tone down her racism. Unfortunately it's been [[Webcomic Time|less than a week]] so not much progress has been made.
* [[Is That What
* [[Jade
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: Mike is very subdued compared to his Walkyverse counterpart and shows his "[[Jerkass With a Heart of Gold|Heart of Gold]]" far more often. However, this is more likely a function of the Dumbiverse being ''sane'', whereas Walkyverse Mike specializes in ''very'' over-the-top acts of jackassery and is almost superhumanly apathetic to other people's pain.
* [[Loves My Alter Ego]]: Amber, Danny, and Amazigirl. [[Epileptic Trees|Possibly]].
* [[Morality Pet]]: Joyce is one for Sal and Sarah. [[
* [[Mythology Gag]]: Every now and again. For example, [http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/02-uphill-from-here/why/ this strip] shows Leslie joking that every female in Gender Studies is a lesbian. Readers who've read ''Shortpacked!'' know that she ''is'' a lesbian. She also displays a noticeable crush on Congresswoman Robin DeSanto, the same dynamic she had with Robin in ''[[Shortpacked]]''.
** Walky mentioning that Sal is basically Batman (and is thus prone to disappearing). Sal's usual method of entry (the window) was done as a Batman parody back in ''It's Walky!''.
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** Not exactly a gag, but Joyce losing her memory when she was drugged parallels nicely with being mind wiped in the Walkyverse.
* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]
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* [[Nice Guy]]: Ethan.
* [[Nightmare Face]]: [http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/02-choosing-my-religion/church/ Joyce] [http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/02-choosing-my-religion/catholic/ is] prone to these.
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Dorothy thought Walky was a slacker until she found out he's so smart (he pulled a 4.0 in High School) he doesn't ''need'' to study.
* [[Odd Friendship]]: All over the place. [[Love Martyr|Danny]] and [[The Casanova|Joe]] are a long-established pair. [[The Fundamentalist|Joyce]] appears to collect these like flies, having begun developing friendships with [[The Slacker|Walky]], [[The Alcoholic|Billie]], [[The Smart Guy|Dorothy]], and even [[Jerkass|Mike]].
* [[Paper
* [[The Pollyanna]]: Joyce. [http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-2/01-pajama-jeans/rollcall/ It's even lampshaded in this comic.]
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: [http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/04-the-bechdel-test/serious/ Joyce], of all people.
** [http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-2/01-pajama-jeans/something/ Billie gets in on this as well when asked if there's something between she and Walky.]
* [[Rescue Romance]]: Danny seems to have developed a crush on Amazi-Girl after she saved him from bullies.
* [[Running Gag]]: Walky has a crush on Dorothy. Whenever she's present, he gets a wide-eyed, lip-biting expression frozen on his face ([http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/05-media-rumble/onenote-2/ best seen here], since he's wearing it in his only panel).
** Amber has [http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/margaret/ a weird look on her face] every time [http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/badfriends/ she sees another girl with glasses.] Probably referencing [http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/03-men-are-from-beck-women-are-from-clark/glasses/ how she and Danny met.]
* [[Shipper
* [[Shout
** Sal's outfits in [http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/01-move-in-day/schoolgirl/ this strip] look an awful lot like the school uniforms in ''[[Avalon (
** Sort of shout out [http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-2/01-pajama-jeans/vouch/ by Walky] - Willis originated the joke about [[Questionable Content|Jeph Jacques]] having 'Butts Disease', which concludes with the ability to only draw butts.
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: Sarah gets taken down several notches when Joyce replies to her lecture about the dangers of college parties.
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** Unfortunately, Sarah was right about that [[Rape
*
* [[Sibling Rivalry]]: Sal really seems to resent Walky for being the favorite child.
** Roz & Robin.
* [[Sibling Yin
* [[Ted Baxter]]: Billie was the editor of her high school newspaper, although she admittedly did no work on it, getting the title due to popularity and then using it only as social currency (even ''Walky'' knew more about Journalism than she does) -- she's rather surprised to discover that [http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/04-the-bechdel-test/pyle/ this doesn't give her a free pass to the student paper at her college].
* [[This Is Sparta]]: [http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/05-media-rumble/chestwindow/ Did. She have. A CHEST WINDOW?]
* [[Two
* [[Unsound Effect]]: [http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/01-move-in-day/pun/ FRUMPH!] (Also counts as a [[Shout
* [[Webcomic Time]]: Possibly one of the worst offenders of all time. As of December 2011, the strip has been running for roughly a year, and the amount of time that's passed? From Monday to ''Sunday.'' That's not even a ''full week.''
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: ''Mike'' of all people does this to Ethan when Ethan (who is Jewish) agrees to go to church with Joyce. With one word.
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'''Ethan:''' ''(in a small voice)'' Do not judge me. }}
* [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?]]?: After all the trouble Billie went to in order to get Sal to sign the agreement, [http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/freak/ Sal offers a simpler solution.]
* [[Word of God]] David Willis wrote on the DOA blog that we're not going to be seeing Amazi-Girl out of costume. '''Amber''' subsequently appeared being dragged out to lunch by Mike and Ethan. A [[Lying Creator]] or an [[Un Reveal]] to come? Either is plausible, knowing Willis. (Unless ... Amber ''isn't'' Amazi-Girl in this continuity...)
** It could also mean that we're not going to see Amazi-Girl ''changing'' out of her costume (i.e. revealing precisely who she is).
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Billie ''thinks'' she's still the [[Alpha Bitch]], but hasn't quite realized that college is a much bigger place than high school.
* [[You Need to Get Laid]]: Daisy, the college newspaper editor, needs a girlfriend. ''Desperately''.
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'''Dorothy:''' A girlfriend?
'''Daisy:''' [''[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|idly playing with a pair of scissors]]''] How'd you know? }}
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