/doag/ there's becky edition

So what's in the secret room guys? Is it a homo room? I'm betting it's a homo room. All homophoges are secretly faggots, you know.

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I want to play with blue loli Joyce.

Man, if I didn't have such a low opinion of Becky this might actually make me feel something.

Becky Mom

Is than an imaginary trashcan in the 4th panel?

Laundry basket

I am going to be visibly disgruntled if they open the closest and find some gay porno mags or something to that effect. I wouldnt put it past Willis to change Toedads rampage from a misguided act of love and desperation to a M-MUH GAYS thing.

dyke in an empty house - is this Gone Home?

A cute!!!

Oh me neither.

>they enter the secret room
>empty but for a refridgerator box in the middle of the floor
>inside is a mummified body
>it's Becky
>comic becomes a psychedelic horror mystery with a distinct David Lynch-ian vibe

Wow, that last panel was almost emotional. To bad the last two interactions Becky had with her Dad was her flipping him off while he was in the hospital and texting him photos of her kissing her gf to taunt him before getting on a soapbox about the fact the head of a fast food chain had a different opinion then her. I want to try to writers credit and the benefit of the doubt, but Becky is written with this "i don't take anything seriously which makes me funny" attitude that it makes these moments seem worthless. I'm also fairly certain that if Becky's mom was still alive in the comics she would be a villain.

Gone Home was all about how the dyke had left the house

>DoA will become a genre unto itself
>by doing the exact same thing everyone else in its wheelhouse has done, but with '90s nostalgia glued on

Is this an Allegro non Troppo reference?

youtube.com/watch?v=mn8NHgfMLS4

There is no fucking way willis would ever get that artsy.

>it's a homo room
What else could it be? At this point literally everyone in DoA is LGBT. And the B is just a phase.

Nah it's gonna be a nazi memorabilia room.

You guys are giving Willis too much credit. Toedad being gay gives him depth.

>That alt text

No, please tell me David Willis hasn't seen Book of Mormon, Fuck he's ruined it for me.

I KILLED FIDDY MEN

Willis Trigger warninged his trigger warning, holy shit.

[TRIGGERING INTENSIFIES]

God Becky is such a huge bitch.

Good God

Sad lesbian is sad.

>an answer you wanted in a way you didn't want it, as per usual

And now, I OP, still don't have my disappointing answer, but I wouldn't be surprised if that chekov's gun never fires now. I guess dead parents are okay for nuance. Cause they are dead so Willis has to worry about them watching him jerk off.

He didn't understand it even if he liked it, it's okay brah.

Oh no it's Loss all over again

Oh my god

Oh no, I meant on the previous page.

>Now here's the part of our story, that gets a little bit sad.

I mean, it might be a coincidence, but its the same thing word for word so I don't know.

Dammit I wanted the Nazi room!

>knowing your audience too well

...

Yeah, I know. And there's no way he understood it even if he liked it. All he would have taken away from that show is "God sucks". So you can still like it and not question your judgement that Willis liked it too.

How the fuck does he expect people to be so fucking soft that they can't even see the word suicide?

I hate him, I really do

God I'm so fucking mad right now, he can never do a serious moment.

That's it, I'm coming out of hiatus with new comics tomorrow.

so THIS is what rock bottom looks like for this strip.

He can't risk triggering the masses.
Well fuck now I like this strip, if only for the return of the dewd.

the worst thing is he's probably right about most of his audience

I would try to kill myself if Becky was my kid. Totes for real guys, I'm serious.

Reminds me of my own mum's death. But the giant in your face trigger warning is just insulting.

youtube.com/watch?v=4gO7uemm6Yo

Fucking hell, this "artist". I can only imagine what a book by him would be like.

>Chapter 65: WARNING, A MAJOR CHARACTER IS BEHEADED IN THIS CHAPTER, IF YOU ARE DISTURBED BY DEATH, BLOOD, AND LIFE IN GENERAL THAN SKIP THIS CHAPTER

No man you cant handle the word suicide. WE NEED TO PROTECT YOU FROM THE WORD SUICIDE

Oh wow, it gets even better in his description text;

>National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (United States)
1 (800) 273-8255
>Text worldwide: crisistextline.org/textline/

This

Fucking

Guy.

>Attempted Suicide.

Spoilers.

Hold on, I'm venturing into the comments section...

...

Some guy wanted to know if it was Joyce or Becky who attempted suicide.

Idiots, all of them.

He put a trigger warning on the trigger warning. It's moments like these I can understand why some people choose not to live in this world any more.

Jesus Christ, it's like a fucking PSA.

And I thought Hacques was the oaf.

He's worried his strip is so awful it will drive people to kill themselves.

Also, apparently Cerberus tried to off themselves recently.

I feel like it'd be rude to say "bummer", so I won't.

Yeah, it kinda affected the punch at the end.

You should write better luck next time

TRIGGER WARNING: TRIGGER WARNINGS

Did that person say they skipped reading the strip after the warning?

YO DAWG I HEARD YOU LIKE TRIGGER WARNINGS

>The comic suddenly turns into a recreation of Rubyquest

This is it. This is the culmination of all the trigger warning bullshit applied to a narrative by the author himself. This is the vindication of every criticism of the concept.

Any sense of tension or surprise or even meager pathos is robbed by this treacly bullshit. It brings any narrative momentum to a grinding halt to yank the reader out of the story for utter nonsense. And for what purpose, personal good boy points?

Why even make this storyline or comic if you can't trust your readers to handle it? What human beings are so fragile, so mentally precarious that the mere notion of a fictional character committing suicide throws them off the age? Anybody in that sort of mental state is long gone well before they read a hack's meandering slice of life webcomic strip.

If you're making a strip for preschoolers, then it seems like you shouldn't be touching the subject in the first place.

Wait, so is the word "suicide" allowed in the comments? Then what's the point of hiding it in the comic?

Oh, there's one guy calling him out on being such a bitch about this.

Let's see how long it takes for Willy to take it down and bitch about it on Twitter.

Based on the amount of comments sucking his dick about it, yeah. Yeah he nailed it.

For all the shit Questionable Content gets, they at least had Faye's dad blow his brains out in front of her without any of this warning shit.

This is some outline of somebody taking pills. I've given this strip a lot of leeway, but this trigger warning is completely ridiculous and unnecessary.

The picture of the kitten also ruins whatever seriousness the moment may have had, so Willis fails on both accounts.

I don't always come into these threads or generally follow this comic, but I'm glad I was here for this. This one is so bad, it's something special.

To be fair to Willy, 90% of Tumblr has tried to off themselves for attention and otherwise, and they make up like 99% of his audience.

So he doesn't want to lose all those precious tree fiddies.

twitter.com/damnyouwillis/status/735327538512297985

Wow he's reading the thread.

QC did that years ago though, wayy before the stabbening part 2 and I think maybe even before the term "trigger warning" had taken such a hold on the internet. Current QC wouldn't have those kinds of balls.

Remember when he bitched about when we made edits of Becky visiting her dad in the hospital, and called them cliche?

Guys

Guys I have an idea

What if

What if we standardized trigger warnings?

>twitter.com/damnyouwillis/status/735327538512297985
No he's reading his own comments section. Willis would never come here.

This...really makes me want to make horrifying,gory and heighnous things happen in a comic with absolutely no warning at all just to offset it.

he didnt hide it, its in a darker text so you dont have to be spoiled unless you want to

Sounds fine to me. The problem isn't the trigger warnings per se, but the overbearing nature of these that completely sucked all the fucking emotion out of what is supposed to be a sad moment, followed by a random picture of a fucking kitten.

If there were a standardized system, where we could just not see any trigger warnings if we didn't want to, and people who wanted to see them would get them, then that's fine.

I mean, I don't give a shit about trigger warnings, but I'll just let other people do whatever they want, even though it's dumb as hell.

How the fuck can awareness be raised on this issue if people can't even feel comfortable enough to read the word, let alone write it without excusing themselves first?

There's actually more people calling him out on the warning than I thought there would be.

It'd be fun if Willy gradually pissed off his fanbase one segment at a time, causing them to comment something negative and him to ban them, pruning away his sycophantic readers until only a handful are left.

>mfw my film classes have to give trigger warnings before showing movies to analyze in class now
the normalization is already happening

It's sad because the punch could actually give more humanity to Becky that all the psycho-religious gay-hating dads chasing daughters with guns could ever bring to her.

Like, heavy subjects like that makes for good storytelling because walking in on a mother attempting suicide is actually somewhat believable and even relatable. You feel for the character. Even the people on here, who hate Becky, could still feel for her in this situation.
And the supposedly necessity of the trigger warning at least proves that it's a subject that Willis wants to add but also does not want to hurt people. He wants to use this storytelling device in order to further Becky's development, and he knows that people would react to it and feel for the character. I understand that.

To not only rob the people of the punch and drama of the situation, but end it on the fucking kitten is just ridiculous. Willis does not care about the integrity of his own comic and would rather please the people in the short term than try to amass a decent comic in the long term. That's a horrible way to do this.

I understand his desire to not want to cause undue harm to people who may react negatively to being shown suicide, but he's not a fucking counselor. He's a comic writer.

Movies have had content warnings forever, but somehow the word trigger warnings are so much more odious.

He made it harder to see so you could pass over it, is what I mean. Like, you know it's there but he threw a sheet over it so you don't have to look at it.

there wasnt a warning on joyces god damn assault but there is on an outline of a flashback of a suicide? dont really get what hes going for here

It makes me want to read those comics.

yeah... so you dont have to get spoiled. not because people cant handle the word suicide.

In these cyber-times of 2016, it turns out the most Problematic thing is existing. Each day a person can experience something they didn't the day before.

That's what happened to Jeph Jacques, and it drove him crazy.

He can't even function as a human anymore.

I'm curious as to the end of Willis, though.

He's obviously deluded and developmentally stunted to an extreme level already.

I bet he'll go down caterwauling to the last man.

>It's your fault, YOURS
>My behaviour has NO consequences

I mean more of the professor explaining what going to happen before the movie begins and pausing it before the "triggering" event happens to allow people to leave the room.

Hot damn, you're right. I guess maybe because the assault didn't go all the way? Sexual assault and rape are the few things that I can maybe see trigger warnings being sometimes applicable. That and PTSD from war, like those WWII vets who watched Saving Private Ryan and got seriously messed up by the opening scene.

Did anyone leave the room?

I don't like the idea of coddling people to the point of emotional stunting, but if people need it in order to function (and are still getting help while doing it), then I'm fine with the idea of a trigger warning for those who want it.

I'm sure having a standardized site that warns people ahead of time what they can expect of certain pieces of media would be fine, too.

Hell, what they should do is make an app that lets you define what you want to see and don't want to see, and sites that care about that stuff can pick what they feel is an appropriate warning. They can even integrate it into stuff so the artist can warn people in specific posts if they don't want to ruin the entire experience. And they can do custom lists so that people can see the warnings even if the artist doesn't put in the effort.

An app like that could get incredibly popular with shit like Tumblr around. It's their job to tailor their viewing experience to their own tastes, not the creator.

I think if you're affected that badly by these things then you need therapy, not warnings. You can't be in a healthy mental state if you're rendered unable to function by fiction.

Or how about Toedad bringing a gun to school. I'm sure there's people who went through shit like that.

One time my Soc professor said that people didn't have to come to a lecture because she was having a guest speaker about Rape, and I didn't go.

She was literally an SJW, too; it was a crazy class.

I remember one time she had the gall to compare herself to the disabled because of her anxiety.

As someone who "suffers" from anxiety as well, as per my retarded doctor, I can't tell you how disgusted I was.

do you think therapy is like, immediately effective or something? or that people should just not consume fiction until theyre "healthy" again

Not once. Still ruined a lot of scenes when he would pause the film right before a woman would wall into a room and say
>the husband is about to jump out and commit a violent act, if you can't handle that wait outside for a minute.

youre in class though. youre watching the movie to analyze it, not to be entertained.

So what exactly caused Becky's mum to become a heroine? Was it realizing she wasn't Christian enough to endure being a Christian Wife? Did she decide being a Martyr was easier than being a Has-Been?

satan

That sounds like a good idea, yeah.

You can't analyze a scene if it's interrupted in the middle.

why not

You shouldn't take a film class if you are going to be to "triggered" by serious films to be able to sit through them.

why didn't he put a giant warning on this

Because it interrupts the pacing, you oaf.

If you're going to do your retarded TW spiel, do it at the beginning of the film.

If someone's too speshul to watch any of the movies, just pass them.

Why not?