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Mean how? Honestly back when I believed christinaity this may have helped break the awkward ice as well as show how silly I was. It is funny after all and I’d want the persons forgiveness for how I acted if I acted like Joyce had.
But Joyce still goes eek so the resemblance ends there I guess, even if I was more over-sensitive back then.
True enough, but Red Rooster counts as the lowest market for fried chicken ever, their chicken is so sup-par, I’m surprised it wasn’t shut down years ago.
How crazy would it be if it actually succeeded though? Willis isn’t exactly known for not messing with his characters’ fundamental beliefs about themselves or the world.
Nah, he’s been establishing it as Joyce’s “thing”, I don’t think he’s gonna throw that away. This isn’t Walky! where characters go through dramatic changes. I think.
This comic seems pretty static, personality-wise, but it hasn’t been very long. Danny’s gone from lovey-dovey to emo to super-geek and then back to emo, but everyone else (except Walky) is pretty unchanged from their first appearance.
Which is exactly how it should be, seeing as how it’s only been 5 days.
It often takes week, months or even years for Character development to occur, but considering how slow Comic Time flows in DoA, we might be lucky to see some by the 2050s.
Yeah, it’s kinda slow, innit? That’s what I like about it actually. In the Comics-that-shall-not-be-named, also by Willis, about a week’s worth of stuff would happen, and then all of a sudden it’s TWO YEARS later, to keep up with real time.
that sort of time flow makes sense to me though. noteworthy things don’t happen to most people every day. i just see the walkyverse as hitting on the things that are worth exploring. and then when there isn’t much happening, stand alone strips are used to illustrate the passing of time.
It might be honestly difficult for Joyce to tell the difference. All of her favorite conversation topics seem to revolve around Jesus, after all – unless she starts talking future husbands.
Not so much not christian as specifically atheist. Her efforts to proselytize have so far been mostly restricted to people she views as potential husbands.
I’m impressed that we’ve gotten this far into the school year without Joyce screaming about “hanky-panky” yet. Cheese knows that she’s been given the opportunity too.
I don’t think that will frighten her so much as induce a psychotic snap in which she’ll take out everyone in a 2 mile radius with her rage… to their FAAAAAAAAAACE.
Ahem. Cut off by the edge. Femurswithmypenisyourmomforanickelfor
yourinformationMikeandipoundeachother
inthemostepicofhatefucks”IsEthanGayIn
ThisUniverse””FAAACE!FAAAITH!PRE
MARITAL-HANKY-PANKY!
Also:
Badgering the witness
Basting the ham
Burp the worm
Charm the snake
Choke the chicken
Crank the shank
Defrosting the fridge
Flick your Bic
Get to know yourself
Having sex with someone you really love
Hoisting your own petard
Pulling rank
Pump the python
Relishing your hot dog
Sailing the mayonnaise seas
Tenderizing the beef
Wax the dolphin
Try freshman, more like. You would not believe some of the crap they’ll say when they’re wasted. Or sober. Or any time they’re supposed to be quiet. Goddamn freshers.
I gave 6 hours for Joyce to go insane if she was roommates with Roz in my comment yesterday. Someone else said half an hour and I’m now going with that. If she’s going to be like this after a few days, I’m wondering how she’ll make it through an entire school year.
Oh no, the SS. Incompatibility is approaching starboard! Boom goes the canon! The Jorothy ship is sinking and the survivors are clinging to chunks of fanfic!
It’s admirable that Joyce is trying to move past her atheist phobia, but I still can’t help finding her reaction to Dorothy’s “Boo” funny. Silly Joyce!
I feel sorry for Joyce but i think that’s because I have a cousin who is exactly like her because her brother kept waking her up in the middle of the night with pictures of other religions saying they were coming after her. Plus her parents (my aunt and uncle) are very over the top christians.
Aww… that would be so adorable if it wasn’t for the fact we know that Joyce is freaked out because Dorothy doesn’t believe in God and is judging her, while trying to give off the thinly veiled impression that she’s cool with it…
So did Joyce grow up with her parents telling her that if she wasn’t a good little Christian girl, the nasty Atheists were going to get her?
Possibly. Likely more a matter of exposure though. I’m sure Atheists have always been talked about as a “next town over” type phenomenon. Something that happens in other places, but not here. To actually encounter one has probably been shocking for her. Gonna be fun to see her reaction when she starts realizing that Dorothy isn’t a lone incident.
Though as I understand it this school is still situated somewhere in the Bible belt, so I don’t really know how uncommon to think this is. Heck, if there was even just a small percentage of the student body that’s not religiously affiliated I’m sure Joyce would blow a gasket.
Most well adapted of her class basically means she’s the only member of the group potentially fit for mainstream society. That we’re assuming the rest of her peers would actually crack under the shock of what they’d see here is an indicator for how sheltered we can expect Joyce to be. Just a notch above the sights she’ll behold here being dangerous to her sanity, or such is her Pastor’s hope. Probably a bit of a dice roll involved in that.
I don’t read this as Joyce judging her at all. She’s scared of Dorothy, sure, because she doesn’t understand her beliefs, but she’s making an effort to connect. This is behavior to be encouraged!
She’s was so scared of Joyce she broke into hiccups and couldn’t talk properly and now freaked out at “boo”. She’s got some pre-concienved judgements about Atheists going on there. Not to the point where she will act against Dorothy but enough to to be freaked out.
Man, I’m a Christian and *I* find Dumbiverse Joyce annoying (actually, more like Joyce in general after Joyce and Walky started). I mean, wow, how closed-minded can you get? Then again, quite a few Christians are kind of like Joyce, isolating themselves from anything that might challenge their views and believing that anything that isn’t “Bibley” is wrong. I definitely don’t think non-Christians are right in their beliefs, but I’m not about to hate a person just because he or she is wrong about something. Believe it or not, it’s not a choice between Christianity and common sense; they are actually compatible. It’s just that the portion of the Christian community that is the most verbal also happens to be the most, well, stupid.
You’ve done nothing but been constantly insulting and belittling. That’s not expressing opinions, that’s being a fucking asshole. If everything you do is inflammatory, guess what, you’re not gonna last.
To be honest if someone came to me and suddenly he/she was with their arms like that and screaming ”boo” I would make the same reaction as Joyce…but that’s just me heh.
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Refresh my memory, what happened yesterday?
I’m thinking the Bechdel thing, but days are pretty long in this strip…
This: http://www.dumbingofage.com/comics/2011-04-07-gasp.png
And then the hiccups because of it.
If she gives her the hiccups again I don’t even know what I’m going to do.
Besides post comments, I mean.
laugh your ass off?
Ahh, yes.
The days are too long here =p or my memory’s too short… [both!]
I believe that was when she said she was atheist. But then again, I’m too lazy to look through the archives to see where in time we are.
Yeah,but at least Joyce is managing to see past it and trying to still be friends. Too bad Dorothy’s being mean.
Mean how? Honestly back when I believed christinaity this may have helped break the awkward ice as well as show how silly I was. It is funny after all and I’d want the persons forgiveness for how I acted if I acted like Joyce had.
But Joyce still goes eek so the resemblance ends there I guess, even if I was more over-sensitive back then.
What did Joyce do, exactly? she just went quiet, it’s not like she started screaming “Purge the Unbeliever!”. What should she apologise for?
For acting like Dorothy is the boogeyman perhaps?
Not taking a stance, just looks like that’s what was being referred to.
Doesn’t take much, does it, Joyce?
EEEEEEEK!
Is it wrong that I think that was cute?
No, just as long as it doesn’t happen too often.
You changed your gravatar just for that joke, didn’t you?
It was a great reason anyway.
Not JUst for that joke, I change my gravatar as often as some people change their undies.
So… what, twice a month?
Oh, I smell what you did there.
Hardy har har!!
Atheists are apparently quite spooky.
Its because that don’t have souls, which is lucky as that means they cannot be sent to Hell.
Aww, I wanted Arby’s…
No wait, hell is NO Arby’s. My mistake.
No Arby’s here in Oz, we do have Hungry Jacks thou, its like a lower market version.
Burger King/Hungry Jacks is lower market to EVERY restaurant.
True enough, but Red Rooster counts as the lowest market for fried chicken ever, their chicken is so sup-par, I’m surprised it wasn’t shut down years ago.
You’re supposed to pause after “Their chicken is so sup-par” for us to chorus “How sub-par is it?”
Although, “I’m surprised it wasn’t shut down years ago.” wouldn’t really cut it as a punchline.
If they don’t have souls, then why do Christians spend so much time trying to convert them? Its that a losing battle?
I think that was sarcasm on Plasma Mongoose’s part.
Ah…sarcasm. “For what profit is it to a man if he gains the world, and loses his own soul?” Matthew 16:26, I believe.
Don’t be silly. Atheists do too have souls.
You’re thinking of gingers.
Joyce is going to try to convert Dorothy, isn’t she.
It’s gonna fail
How crazy would it be if it actually succeeded though? Willis isn’t exactly known for not messing with his characters’ fundamental beliefs about themselves or the world.
Nah, he’s been establishing it as Joyce’s “thing”, I don’t think he’s gonna throw that away. This isn’t Walky! where characters go through dramatic changes. I think.
This comic seems pretty static, personality-wise, but it hasn’t been very long. Danny’s gone from lovey-dovey to emo to super-geek and then back to emo, but everyone else (except Walky) is pretty unchanged from their first appearance.
Which is exactly how it should be, seeing as how it’s only been 5 days.
It often takes week, months or even years for Character development to occur, but considering how slow Comic Time flows in DoA, we might be lucky to see some by the 2050s.
Yeah, it’s kinda slow, innit? That’s what I like about it actually. In the Comics-that-shall-not-be-named, also by Willis, about a week’s worth of stuff would happen, and then all of a sudden it’s TWO YEARS later, to keep up with real time.
that sort of time flow makes sense to me though. noteworthy things don’t happen to most people every day. i just see the walkyverse as hitting on the things that are worth exploring. and then when there isn’t much happening, stand alone strips are used to illustrate the passing of time.
Noteworthy things happen to alien-fighting secret agents every day, though. Why else would you be one?
Health plan?
I sincerely hope not. I would like to think she’s making an effort to be friends with her regardless of their different views.
Both are likely true.
It might be honestly difficult for Joyce to tell the difference. All of her favorite conversation topics seem to revolve around Jesus, after all – unless she starts talking future husbands.
“Joyce is going to try to convert Dorothy,” with her PE– wait a minute…
“Joyce is going to try to convert Dorothy,” with her FAAAACE!!!!!
Don’t you mean With Her FAAAAAITH?
i like this.
Not unless she has a lisp, no.
Attention Fanbase: “FAAAAAAAAAAITH!” is now a Joyce meme.
Can’t be stopped. It’s already happened.
Memes are unstoppable like the Juggernaut… bongo!!
Yeaaah, Shadowcat proved he’s pretty stoppable. Also, a wussy.
O ye, of little FAAAAAITH!
Nah, its the sort of conversion Roz will film and Daisy will enjoy :D.
that was about her being upset that dorothy is not christian right? i’m glad not all people (christian or otherwise) are that stupid
Not so much not christian as specifically atheist. Her efforts to proselytize have so far been mostly restricted to people she views as potential husbands.
Fear her. FEAR HER ATHEISM!!!
Atheists are spiritual equivalent to zombies you know, they love the taste of god-fearing flesh.
Mmmmmmm….God-Fearing Flesh.
HA. Made funnier because I now have the Joyce avatar.
And if you are Catholic, you can enjoy the great taste of Jesus’s flesh and blood during Mass.
i like were this is going
Just as long as you don’t go to Mass and drive.
Yeah, those communion wafers get you wasted SO quickly.
Moreso when you wash them down with several helpings of the communion wine.
“Is that really the blood of Christ?
“Yes.”
“What a guy, he must have been wasted 24 hours a day!”
That remind me of a joke I read the other day.
If you ever see Jesus walking around with bite marks on his neck, odds are there’s a vampire nearby who’s WASTED.
The fact that Jesus survived for 33 years with 40 proof blood shows he really is the son of God.
40 proof!???
I thought Jesus’ blood was supposed to be wine, not Jack Daniels!
Jack Daniels tends to be 80 proof.
Depending on which denomination of the Catholic belief you follow, the wine can range from non-alcoholic to 50 proof.
They’ll DESTROY US ALL! DESTROY US ALL! DESTROY US ALL! DESTROY US ALL! DESTROY US ALL! DESTROY US ALL!
Billy and Mandy references? Here of all places?
Ahem…
CLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWNS!
I always wanted to do that.
thank you. now i want to see a 50s era anti-atheism propaganda film.
I feel like this is still pretty good for Joyce.
I’m impressed that we’ve gotten this far into the school year without Joyce screaming about “hanky-panky” yet. Cheese knows that she’s been given the opportunity too.
4 days? Yeah, that is pretty impressive actually. Don’t think we’ll make five though.
I do, too. She’s trying!
To be fair to Dorothy, though, maybe she was just pre-emptively trying to cure more hiccups?
I want to run around scaring Dorothy all day.
Don’t you mean Joyce?
I meant Joyce, but sure, I’ll take both.
Just tell her her Yale application was rejected. That’ll put a fright in her.
I don’t think that will frighten her so much as induce a psychotic snap in which she’ll take out everyone in a 2 mile radius with her rage… to their FAAAAAAAAAACE.
With BOYS!
Is that going to catch on?
No
Oh God i hope not… we have enough memes already.
Blasphemer! We can never have enough memes!
Quiet you.
FacewithmypenisyourmomforanickelforyourinformationmikeandipoundeachothereverynightinthemostepicofhatefucksFAAAAAAAAAACE!
Ahem. Cut off by the edge. Femurswithmypenisyourmomforanickelfor
yourinformationMikeandipoundeachother
inthemostepicofhatefucks”IsEthanGayIn
ThisUniverse””FAAACE!FAAAITH!PRE
MARITAL-HANKY-PANKY!
You’re welcome.
Fhtagn?
This would be wrong to start shipping about right?
There is nothing that cannot be shipped.
EXAMPLE: Walky/Monkey Master
Walky loves playing with his monkey!
A Walky wanky!
*throws up violently*
Spanking may be involved.
Spanking the monkey?
Also:
Badgering the witness
Basting the ham
Burp the worm
Charm the snake
Choke the chicken
Crank the shank
Defrosting the fridge
Flick your Bic
Get to know yourself
Having sex with someone you really love
Hoisting your own petard
Pulling rank
Pump the python
Relishing your hot dog
Sailing the mayonnaise seas
Tenderizing the beef
Wax the dolphin
You get the drift.
Burninating the countryside
am I doing it right?
Burninating is natures way of saying, “use more lube.”
Rex is right, that sounds painful.
I prefer the euphemism “strangling the old wizard.”
It’s a Krull reference.
I haven’t seen Krull since I last owned a Betamax.
I’m shipping Jason with Dina. But only if he’s wearing the bow tie and she’s wearing the dino-hat when they do it.
How else WOULD they do it?
How else COULD they do it?
With their reproductive organs perhaps?
Points for avoiding the obvious meme.
With their Femurs…two months late
This ship is already on the sea. I was among the first to call it. YOU ALL SAW ME.
Yet another comment made priceless by the associated avatar.
Dorothy is talking out loud to herself with other people around.
She’ll make an excellent grad student someday.
Try freshman, more like. You would not believe some of the crap they’ll say when they’re wasted. Or sober. Or any time they’re supposed to be quiet. Goddamn freshers.
Yes, I’m annoyed today, how’d you guess?
you are right to fear the atheists, Joyce. FEAR THEM!
They will find you in the night. They will make you question what is real.
They will take away your hopes of a better afterlife BWAHAHAHAH!!
YES THAT IS RIGHT FEAR ME!!!
Any particular reason why Dorothy would scare Joyce away?
because she can?
To prevent more hiccups?
I usually drink a lot of water to prevent that.
do you drink it upside down? because that’s the only way it will work!
personally, i’m a fan of eating a spoonful of sugar.
No, I drink water normally and then hold my breath.
Devouring souls is the only hiccup cure I’ve found that works for me so far.
you think of cows that is the one TRUE WAY…
of curing hiccups
She’s teasing Joyce. Not really that hard to figure out.
Because trolling Fundie types is too fun to resist, even when you like them.
Sad but true. I’m trying to cut down.
Because Dorothy is MEAN! seriously though, it’s hard to resist spooking someone so damn nervous.
Hannelore Ellicott-Chatham.
Uh-oh, it looks like we’ll ned the emergency skirt.
I gave 6 hours for Joyce to go insane if she was roommates with Roz in my comment yesterday. Someone else said half an hour and I’m now going with that. If she’s going to be like this after a few days, I’m wondering how she’ll make it through an entire school year.
It’s nice to see Joyce trying to be accepting, but I love how Dorothy spooks her just by going boo!
At least Joyce is trying.
Sometimes very trying.
Plasma Mongoose, I think you win the comments.
^_^ My ego is inflated! ^_^
HAAAH!
That was scary! DAMN YOU WILLIS!
Sail on, Jorothy! Sail on!
Oh no, the SS. Incompatibility is approaching starboard! Boom goes the canon! The Jorothy ship is sinking and the survivors are clinging to chunks of fanfic!
It’s admirable that Joyce is trying to move past her atheist phobia, but I still can’t help finding her reaction to Dorothy’s “Boo” funny. Silly Joyce!
I feel sorry for Joyce but i think that’s because I have a cousin who is exactly like her because her brother kept waking her up in the middle of the night with pictures of other religions saying they were coming after her. Plus her parents (my aunt and uncle) are very over the top christians.
I’m helping her get used to the idea that other religions aren’t so bad.
“NOOOOOO, DON’T SUCK OUT MY SOOOOOOULLLLLL!!!!”
That’s Cthuhlu, athiests just want you to use all of your little gray brain cells.
Only thing I woulda done differently if in Dorothy’s position: instead of ‘boo’ I’d have said GRAR!
If only Joyce was looking the other way in panel 3. It would totally be a LOL face.
Albeit a nervous one.
aww… Joyce is so cute when she tries to be tolerant.
It’s an effort doomed to failure.
Too funny…
A wild Joyce appeared, you used atheism.
wild Joyce ran away.
JOYCE used “Screech”. The Wild JOYCE fled.
I can Identify with Dorothy. I’m both a journalist [46Q, US Army] and an atheist, so I know how both of those situations can be frustrating.
Man, Dorothy has a mean streak. Awesome.
The “Boo” reminds me of Frank Langella’s character in The Ninth Gate.
Heh. Cute.
As an atheist, I approve of this strip! Fear us! Bwahahahaha!
Also I see that the PDA knows not to hang around and get in the way of a good joke.
Personally, I’m just reminded of Azumanga Daioh. And that’s always a good thing.
So, Joyce is Fluttershy now?
I’m liking Dorothy more and more.
“Go for the eyes! RAAASK!”
Aww… that would be so adorable if it wasn’t for the fact we know that Joyce is freaked out because Dorothy doesn’t believe in God and is judging her, while trying to give off the thinly veiled impression that she’s cool with it…
So did Joyce grow up with her parents telling her that if she wasn’t a good little Christian girl, the nasty Atheists were going to get her?
Possibly. Likely more a matter of exposure though. I’m sure Atheists have always been talked about as a “next town over” type phenomenon. Something that happens in other places, but not here. To actually encounter one has probably been shocking for her. Gonna be fun to see her reaction when she starts realizing that Dorothy isn’t a lone incident.
Though as I understand it this school is still situated somewhere in the Bible belt, so I don’t really know how uncommon to think this is. Heck, if there was even just a small percentage of the student body that’s not religiously affiliated I’m sure Joyce would blow a gasket.
Most well adapted of her class basically means she’s the only member of the group potentially fit for mainstream society. That we’re assuming the rest of her peers would actually crack under the shock of what they’d see here is an indicator for how sheltered we can expect Joyce to be. Just a notch above the sights she’ll behold here being dangerous to her sanity, or such is her Pastor’s hope. Probably a bit of a dice roll involved in that.
I don’t read this as Joyce judging her at all. She’s scared of Dorothy, sure, because she doesn’t understand her beliefs, but she’s making an effort to connect. This is behavior to be encouraged!
She’s was so scared of Joyce she broke into hiccups and couldn’t talk properly and now freaked out at “boo”. She’s got some pre-concienved judgements about Atheists going on there. Not to the point where she will act against Dorothy but enough to to be freaked out.
Ack! My avatar has changed again! Must be cause I’m on safari instead of firefox.
Oh, an I meant Dorothy rather than Joyce.
Man, I’m a Christian and *I* find Dumbiverse Joyce annoying (actually, more like Joyce in general after Joyce and Walky started). I mean, wow, how closed-minded can you get? Then again, quite a few Christians are kind of like Joyce, isolating themselves from anything that might challenge their views and believing that anything that isn’t “Bibley” is wrong. I definitely don’t think non-Christians are right in their beliefs, but I’m not about to hate a person just because he or she is wrong about something. Believe it or not, it’s not a choice between Christianity and common sense; they are actually compatible. It’s just that the portion of the Christian community that is the most verbal also happens to be the most, well, stupid.
Nothing like getting posts deleted for expressing opinions. Nope.
You’ve done nothing but been constantly insulting and belittling. That’s not expressing opinions, that’s being a fucking asshole. If everything you do is inflammatory, guess what, you’re not gonna last.
To be honest if someone came to me and suddenly he/she was with their arms like that and screaming ”boo” I would make the same reaction as Joyce…but that’s just me heh.
In other news ewww I got whatsherface
Naked Girl. A sometimes ally of Bible Belt.
I’d like to ask: new comics every week; where are we in the actual time span of the comic?
It’s the first Thursday of the semester.
Aww. Joyce is so adorkable.
Scary Athiest is Scary!
(ahahaha)
I thought that Dorothy was supposed to be a mature adult, obviously I do not know the definition of the term.
She’s trying so hard. It’s kind of sweet. Joyce simultaneously makes me smile and frustrates me.