Ha! At a very old job, we had a cot for people who put in a long day and didn’t have time to go home. There was one guy who would stay at work for 3-4 days in a row… Before one all-hands meeting, I discreetly told him that his BO was very strong. He left immediately to go home for a shower, and missed the all-hands. Not so good for him, but excellent for the rest of us cramped into the largest conference room which still lacked capacity.
Naw, David just erased part of the glasses frames so we can properly see Billies eye, as pupil direction, pupil size, and pupil highlight size all tell us about the character’s emotions.
Given on the angle like that her glasses would have to be bent around her face like swim goggles to look like that, even without the erased part. (In actuality they’d be much closer to a straight line hovering in front of her eye.) This is apparently just Willis’s way of implying glasses at the moment.
I always found that weird looking, cause glasses have a bit curve to them and even if a straight line is a bit closer than this, exaggerating details rather than taking them is always weird looking to me and it gives less info to reader/veiwer or whatever you call someone looking at some kinda drawing.
Seeing as how that’s the very last thing said in the last panel, it could very well be that the in the next one Joyce will go all, “Ewww grody, church church church. “
That’s some odd church you got there, I’m not a Christian (anymore) or opposed to whatever people want to stick their hooha in and whatnot, but the bible kind of explicitly condemns homosexuality (Abomination and such), so I’d think Christians would want to avoid abominations in their church. Or maybe that was just my church, well, not that they’d go so far as to KICK people out. But they definitely not just let it go, you know.
Heck, over here they get fussy when people live together without getting married.
Take it from the outside world, Heat, but I’m afraid to say that you went to a pretty odd church, then. There are plenty that refuse to allow discrimination define them.
I’ve been to about four churches over the course of my life. All of them pretty much fell in line with what Heat described. Including, I was surprised to find out, the Christian youth group I joined which I later discovered was led by an ex-drug dealer. Go figure.
Well… I AM an Episcopalian. I guess I hadn’t considered that we would be ahead of the times on this one. Homosexual priests are not that uncommon (my local parish has one) and just a month ago at the natinal convention we ruled for developing same-sex union blessings. So… yeah. Maybe I AM the odd one.
Well, some claim that Paul, properly translated, is only against pedastry not homosexuality, and his are the only prescriptions against homosexuality that would count, as the Old Testament doesn’t count as Christian Law except for when it does.
Oh, and the reason the Old Testament prohibitions do apply is Acts 15, where Paul cautions against “porneia,” usually “sexual immorality” or “fornication,” which in the language of the time would be understood to refer to the prohibitions laid down in Leviticus 18, including – yep. Granted, the connection’s not totally clear (especially in those translations that take the word in the then-obsolete sense of “whoredom” or the NAB’s euphemistic “unlawful marriage”), but the initial prohibition in Leviticus, at least, is alaways there, plus the lengthier bit in Romans 1 is harder to spin than the word “arsenokoites” that pops up in 1 Corinthians 6:9 and 1 Timothy 1:10.
Keep in mind that Jesus did say nothing about homosexuality – while living in a society where gay men could be stoned after one warning, and lesbians flogged.
I feel it translates most correctly to sodomite, because that’s what New Revised Standard Version says and NRSV is 100 times better than NIV, which is stupid and dumb.
/is never argumentative
A lot of people argue the word “castrated” is referring to homosexuality in Jesus’s discussion about how some people are born castrated, but that passage makes little sense no matter how you chose to translate or argue about it. That’s for the translating guys to do. :3
Nope, pretty much an atheist, just like doing historical research on religion, it helps me drive the fundies crazy when I can call them on their bullshit.
Christians come in both “thinks the Bible is the infallible word of God” and “thinks the Bible is the very fallible word of some guys who had lunch with God a few times” flavors.
Considering my (very much Christian) faith has gay bishops and the number of LGBT-friendly churches out there, I’d think quite a few Christians would disagree with you on that “avoid abominations in their church” blanket statement. That said, I’m v. curious to see Joyce’s response, because the home-schooled Christians from a small denomination I met while in college (in Indiana, but not IU) were all over the spectrum when it came to meeting or even discussing us queer kids.
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What’s she going to buy for Dorothy then?
pajama jeans SO SHE MAY FINALLY UNDERSTAND
This would be the best plot twist.
YES.
Should always have these
Look at her eye. I think she’s losing it.
Maybe Joyce just stinks and Billie is too nice to say anything.
So long as Billie doesn’t randomly gift Joyce with deodorant.
(Yes, this has actually happened to me.)
I recently had my boss tell me that ALL the staff was complaining about me…and made me take a shower immediately…embarassin’!
Man, I’m in college, I’m too busy to worry about how I smell!
I bet your classmates love you… 😛
Did they strip you down and throw you in the shower right there and then? I think that’s how some pornos start…
Thats how my porno would start. Only instead of water they would shower in bavarian cream.
That sounds delicious.
Right up until it gets in your eyes, and then the screaming starts.
Yes. Dairy products and human dander go together like Sprite and bananas…
lucky you aren’t in the old navy. they would have turned the fire hose on you when you were in your rack asleep.
Wow, I never knew how intense some clothing stores could be!
Ha! At a very old job, we had a cot for people who put in a long day and didn’t have time to go home. There was one guy who would stay at work for 3-4 days in a row… Before one all-hands meeting, I discreetly told him that his BO was very strong. He left immediately to go home for a shower, and missed the all-hands. Not so good for him, but excellent for the rest of us cramped into the largest conference room which still lacked capacity.
Nah she’s just lost in her fantasy.
Billie lives in a magical fantasy world where people are Andrew Garfield and two hunky friends and they say things like that.
Assuming, of course, that she ever had it.
It’s just a twitch, but perfectly normal under the circumstances.
Her expression reminded me of invader zim, lol.
Is that how you draw glasses from the side? It looked weird on Amber yesterday, but I guess it could be the frame…
Naw, David just erased part of the glasses frames so we can properly see Billies eye, as pupil direction, pupil size, and pupil highlight size all tell us about the character’s emotions.
Given on the angle like that her glasses would have to be bent around her face like swim goggles to look like that, even without the erased part. (In actuality they’d be much closer to a straight line hovering in front of her eye.) This is apparently just Willis’s way of implying glasses at the moment.
I was reading it as heavily convex lenses, like those things weigh a pound and she has very poor eyesight.
I always found that weird looking, cause glasses have a bit curve to them and even if a straight line is a bit closer than this, exaggerating details rather than taking them is always weird looking to me and it gives less info to reader/veiwer or whatever you call someone looking at some kinda drawing.
Andrew Garfield?
Billie’s fantasies are not what I’d have guessed…
Who is Andrew Garfield? I feel the reference is lost on me.
The new Spider-Man (and the guy who got cheated out of money in The Social Network)
DON’T FORGET THAT TWO PARTER OF DOCTOR WHO HE DID! Man his accent was terrible in that…
If it was a british accent… isn’t Andrew Garfield actually british? Wouldn’t that be his normal voice?
According to the Tardis Wiki, it was Tennessean. I can see that ending badly.
Oh, he IS adorable in that baby-faced way.
She harbors P.S.L.
He’s too pretty to be Spiderman. Nobody who looks like that kid would have been picked on in high school and have a hard time getting ladyfriends.
And thus Billie has revealed her true intention.
Yes, doing a hunk and get to watch some guy on guy action at the same time.
That.. that doesn’t sound so bad.
Especially considering shes the catcher, which means that very little pressure would fall on her to please any of the other members involved.
*Doing a hunk and watching some guy on guy on Joyce action.
You look disappointed with that statement, care to share?
It’s the Grav. Donna does not approve of a lot of things I’m for. *laugh*
Kinda surprised that Joyce didn’t flinch at the mention of “bisexual”.
Maybe she thought Billie said that they are “Bicycles” and now she thinks they’re really crappy Transformers.
Naïve as Joyce is, she probably thought Billie was serious about wanting to have sex with Sal.
(…whether she was is immaterial.)
Seeing as how that’s the very last thing said in the last panel, it could very well be that the in the next one Joyce will go all, “Ewww grody, church church church. “
I hope not, besides most churches are okay with the LGBT crew. Atleast where I live.
Pretty clearly not Joyce’s – pretty much as a rule, any church whose members find deep time and evolution “controversial” is not fond of gays.
That’s some odd church you got there, I’m not a Christian (anymore) or opposed to whatever people want to stick their hooha in and whatnot, but the bible kind of explicitly condemns homosexuality (Abomination and such), so I’d think Christians would want to avoid abominations in their church. Or maybe that was just my church, well, not that they’d go so far as to KICK people out. But they definitely not just let it go, you know.
Heck, over here they get fussy when people live together without getting married.
Take it from the outside world, Heat, but I’m afraid to say that you went to a pretty odd church, then. There are plenty that refuse to allow discrimination define them.
I’ve been to about four churches over the course of my life. All of them pretty much fell in line with what Heat described. Including, I was surprised to find out, the Christian youth group I joined which I later discovered was led by an ex-drug dealer. Go figure.
I dunno about Heat, but I live in the US. Artemi71’s church would be the odd one out here, as best I can tell, in most regions in the area.
Well… I AM an Episcopalian. I guess I hadn’t considered that we would be ahead of the times on this one. Homosexual priests are not that uncommon (my local parish has one) and just a month ago at the natinal convention we ruled for developing same-sex union blessings. So… yeah. Maybe I AM the odd one.
Churches come in a variety of flavors. Some are like the one you know. Some aren’t.
The King James translation of the bible used by most christian comes in only one flavor though. The one that condemns homosexuality.
God is an angry little man.
That’s not a translation issue; all versions of the Bible condemn homosexuality.
Well, some claim that Paul, properly translated, is only against pedastry not homosexuality, and his are the only prescriptions against homosexuality that would count, as the Old Testament doesn’t count as Christian Law
except for when it does.Actually, do a little historical research, and you will find that they don’t.
Almost always from a Christian, “do historical research” = “read apologetic spin without cross-referencing.”
Oh, and the reason the Old Testament prohibitions do apply is Acts 15, where Paul cautions against “porneia,” usually “sexual immorality” or “fornication,” which in the language of the time would be understood to refer to the prohibitions laid down in Leviticus 18, including – yep. Granted, the connection’s not totally clear (especially in those translations that take the word in the then-obsolete sense of “whoredom” or the NAB’s euphemistic “unlawful marriage”), but the initial prohibition in Leviticus, at least, is alaways there, plus the lengthier bit in Romans 1 is harder to spin than the word “arsenokoites” that pops up in 1 Corinthians 6:9 and 1 Timothy 1:10.
Keep in mind that Jesus did say nothing about homosexuality – while living in a society where gay men could be stoned after one warning, and lesbians flogged.
I feel it translates most correctly to sodomite, because that’s what New Revised Standard Version says and NRSV is 100 times better than NIV, which is stupid and dumb.
/is never argumentative
A lot of people argue the word “castrated” is referring to homosexuality in Jesus’s discussion about how some people are born castrated, but that passage makes little sense no matter how you chose to translate or argue about it. That’s for the translating guys to do. :3
Nope, pretty much an atheist, just like doing historical research on religion, it helps me drive the fundies crazy when I can call them on their bullshit.
Christians come in both “thinks the Bible is the infallible word of God” and “thinks the Bible is the very fallible word of some guys who had lunch with God a few times” flavors.
Considering my (very much Christian) faith has gay bishops and the number of LGBT-friendly churches out there, I’d think quite a few Christians would disagree with you on that “avoid abominations in their church” blanket statement. That said, I’m v. curious to see Joyce’s response, because the home-schooled Christians from a small denomination I met while in college (in Indiana, but not IU) were all over the spectrum when it came to meeting or even discussing us queer kids.
I really just hope Joyce literally says “ew, grody, church church church.”
Seconded.
Grody?
To the max!
She flinches in between this strip and the next one.
Billie used Sexual Fantasies!
Joyce Fliched!
Billie is left in a daze after using Sexual Fantasies!
Joyce used Outrage!
What will writer Willis do?
Joyce uses “PRE MARITAL HANKY PANKY!!!”
It is ineffective.
Joyce uses “PRE MARITAL HANKY PANKY!!!” outrage.
It is ineffective.
Hey! Joyce has been to the internet, ok!?
She knows how it is!!!
It’s sort of like upgrading your party members and giving them some good gear and potions so that together you can defeat the harder bosses.
I have a feeling Billie would punch you in the face for comparing what she’s doing to something that nerdy.
and the bosses are bisexual
and all your potions are really just booze
I think booze works like health potions in certain games.
In Bastion, alcohol grants passive bonuses and can be ‘equipped’ at distilleries. If only it worked that way in real life.
I’ve never played a game where you barf on your buds car or send embarassing texts to your ex
That sounds like it could be an interesting game.
I think that what the Heavy Rain sequel should involve…
UUGG last Saturday X[
Beer me, then take me and the Sheriff to the General Store.
Fuck yeah!
Try kingdomofloathing.com , where drinking gives more turns, and the currency is meat!
Welp, she’s gone crazy.
Since the reality Billy operates in (high school) is quite insane, that’s not a surprise that she, too, seems insane.
Not that college is sane by any measure, but it’s a different kind of crazy.
Darn it, Nillie. Sweater vests are cool.
Nillie sucks.
Nillie sucks butt tacos.
Thank you! Finally, someone who sees the light.
Is…is your gravatar wearing a sweater vest?
A fascinating window into Billie’s world.
And the window has barf all over it.
Really? I thought it was just rose-tinted.
Her barf is very weird.
She should see a doctor…
That is only because of what she was drinking at the time.
How so? Billie has shown a remarkable ability to hold her liquor.
Yes but she has the strangest inability to not hold down figs…
For a little bit I confused Andrew Garfield with James Garfield.
For a second I confused Andrew Garfield for Garfield.
Now I’m picturing her Garfield fantasy minus Garfield.
So, they just run into two random bisexual dudes?
I can’t imagine she’d complain.
Unless she ran into, say, Judas Lamo and Crazy Cabbie. Then she might complain.
Billy needs an operation to remove the words ‘cheer leader” from her memory. Any yeah if her barf is rose colored she surely needs to see a doctor.
Without “cheer leader” she would cease to exist. She’s allowed it to completely define who she is.
Is there an inverse relationship between the rise of a girl’s jeans and her popularity?
*Ponders*
Man, can’t believe I even asked that. Anyway, so far Sara’s been spot on. Wonder where Billie plans to stop for the suds?
And we get a random look into Billie’s pervert mind.
And it is hilarious.
I’m not sure if anyone has commented on this but that manikin has an eerie resemblance to that British TA who has a thing for Sal…
But then again…
Actually I find that Willis has a fairly impressive amount of facial variation amongst his characters, especially accounting for the simple art style.
I’ve noticed that too
Hooray for disturbingly specific hypothetical scenarios involving bisexuals!
In fairness, I hear Andrew Garfield stares at a lot of people. He’s a starer.
I too would like to meet a bi (or gay) Andrew Garfield and his two hunky pals…
For a second I thought Billie was a furry.
Then I actually looked up Andrew Garfield, and was disappointed.
Well, he is cosplaying as a spider.
Billie’s fantasies involve Spider-Man? Well, this explains her being a “nerd magnet”, as she put it.