Allow me to show you charts depicting Joyce’s excitement level and God’s presence. As you can see, the overlap occurs when God is more present than present all the time.
Hehe, double-ply. I have a very religious friend I need to quote that to. I keep trying to get her to read this strip, because she basically IS Joyce (but slightly saner).
That ain’t the half of it, Joe. Synagogues charge for admission, and if you aren’t pals with the Board of Trustees you can forget about getting the good seats. My family always ended up in the rented annex space for “parallel” Rosh Hashanah services with the crummy assistant rabbi…
Well, God the Father is everywhere, but the Holy Spirit is present when two or more are gathered in his name. If you are Catholic like me, Jesus is present in the Eucharist as well.
I go to church every Sunday, and Joyce’s level of enthusiasm for religion even annoys me. Though, American Catholicism and whatever fundamentalist group Joyce is a representation of don’t really seem to have a whole lot in common.
She’s so holy that her frown don’t quit.
You wonder out loud “Mary girl, why can’t you just co-exist?”
Be-Be-Because being all prepared to proselytize is less devout
And she ain’t about to relinquish holy clout.
So, since this comic is addressing Joe’s religion head-on–is he going home for Rosh Hashona? Is he gonna fast on Yom Kippur? Or is he just kinda done with everything?
In ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ the two main characters are in a church’s meeting room (where their counselor keeps saying they’re in the heart of Jesus) and after the meeting have a conversation about how it can’t be healthy to have a bunch of cancer kids hanging out in Jesus’ heart and how they wish they could warn Jesus but sadly they’re still trapped in his heart.
In the town where I was born, Christians only went to church at Christmas, Easter, weddings, baptisms and funerals. Exactly because they felt close to God through the world around them every second they were awake, so going to church every sunday just felt redundant.
I keep drawing comparisons between Joe and Ethan, and I’m convincing myself more and more that Joe’s gonna find out he’s bi and then they’re gonna get together.
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Faz-Joyce is Fazzy.
Er, creepy o_o
Wait until she pulls out a whiteboard to demonstrate how excited she is.
Faz would be super into that.
Allow me to show you charts depicting Joyce’s excitement level and God’s presence. As you can see, the overlap occurs when God is more present than present all the time.
This pleases Faz in the most perverse of ways.
That just makes me laugh because of the current storyline.
Danno would be excited if Amazi-Girl were at church.
He’d be even more excited if she had her own church. Perhaps that should be her next move: to found Amazi-Church.
It worked for Captain Marvel.
Looks like mary is still irritated
Since when is she NOT irritated?
I misread that as ‘irradiated’.
She’s Irrigated.
of the colonic variety.
That sounds extremely unpleasant for everyone involved.
You bet your bottom dollar it is.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go have nightmares.
don’t tell me how to spend my bottom dollars
they spend like any other dollay, they just have a
certain musky smell…
example.
lol
Bitten by an irradiated Mary, Peter Parker has become BITTER-MAN!
He gains the ability to write snarky comics in a single bound.
He can push their own religious preferences from 400 feet.
And his bitter sense tells him when a non-beliver is about to pounce nearby.
It’s cool, God is two-ply, with aloe.
And twice as absorbant as the next leading diety.
3ply cos you know Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
Holy Ghost is the aloe. I t leaves you with that good feeling.
That makes sense, since I usually find myself praying while on the can.
Psalm #2 (verse 4) is appropriate in some instances: He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
What, like… legit prayers, heal the sick, bless my finances, that sort of thing?
Or OH GOD OH GOD I PROMISE I’LL NEVER EAT AT DENNY’S AGAIN IF YOU JUST MAKE IT STOP HURTING OH GOD kind of prayer?
Yes.
The second. Usually after 12 jalapeno poppers. It’s like pooping hell.
Mmmm … jalapeño poppers ….
Jalepeño poopers…
this comment made my day. thanks
Church is to Exciting as Internet is to Innocence.
So, church is where you lose your excitement?
Well, I for one lose my will to live with each moment in one. Does that count?
…Eh, close enough for government work.
There’s a catholic priest joke about excitement somewhere in there but we’re too classy for that.
which comics’ comments do you believe you’re commenting in?
The comic with comments containing classy contents on the comic’s comments?
Eh, it depends on how you use it.
Just like with the internet, which can be a place of perfectly innocent progressive learning if you only use it for that purpose (as some people do).
I love Mary in the background giving her disapproval face.
“How dare you act excited over this experience.”
“Nobody does religion as good as me.”
“I am the religiest of them all!”
‘Debbie Does Denominational’
Is your avatar Mattie Ross?
Likening God to toilet paper. That’s… an odd concept.
He has wiped evil off the face of the earth a few times.
Wait, face? I think you’re doing toilet paper wrong dude.
Face is the end you talk out of right? I think Plasma Mongoose may have gotten it correct… judging by past comments.
What about the great stone ass of Mars?
And all the puppies.
People use both of them to cover their asses.
God is like toilet paper huh? Who knew? 😛
Dammit, I’m trying to find something God has in common with toilet paper, and it’s making my brain hurt.
I figured it out in Luke’s response :3
You need to use 3ply then. 😀
I could start listing, but as tempting as it is it would come off as *way* rude.
I wonder if double-ply faith is quilted or not?
Striped Joyce with the triangle smile.
Hehe, double-ply. I have a very religious friend I need to quote that to. I keep trying to get her to read this strip, because she basically IS Joyce (but slightly saner).
Man, sometimes you make a joke so out there, I can’t even comment on it.
So all I’m going to say is, Mary does not approve of your metaphors.
“I’m Mary and I don’t approve this message”
Either that, or she doesn’t approve of Ethan’s presence. Jewish *and* gay has to be a double whammy for someone like Mary.
Mary is eager for the stoning to begin. “Let she who is a hypocrite cast the first stone.”
This of course assumes that she has Jewdar. (The gay part is obvious, of course.)
I’m only into religion for the money. (I’m honestly surprised Joe’s comment didn’t have anything to do with chicks)
I think Joyce learned him about the potential downside of dating religious chicks.
Joe is a good Jewish boy. He only wants a woman who isn’t like his mother.
Hang on, one of the two Jewish characters only went to temple for money?
Isn’t that sort of offensive?
That ain’t the half of it, Joe. Synagogues charge for admission, and if you aren’t pals with the Board of Trustees you can forget about getting the good seats. My family always ended up in the rented annex space for “parallel” Rosh Hashanah services with the crummy assistant rabbi…
Whaaa? You guys need a new synagogue. One that respects you.
Double-ply usually pertains to toilet paper, but I guess it’s the little things in life that make Joyce happy.
It’s like 2 sheets of god combined together in cotton stitching that makes praying more enjoyable…praying anywhere else chafes.
Not to mention all of the lint they leave behind!
damn look at joe’s nipple in the third panel. thats a big nipple
Gravatar is disturbingly appropriate.
That’s his areola, not his nipple.
Common mistake.
Anatomy level: win.
I forget — have Joyce and Danny met yet?
Either way, this foreshadowing makes me happy 😀
Begun the shipping wars will.
One of my Christian friends suddenly makes a lot more sense to me.
… Do I even want to know?
Probably not, no.
Hey, Luke, what’s your gravatar? Anime confederacy is kinda unusual.
Oh? How so?
If only she knew he’s gay
But he doesn’t look all that happy to me.
Talk to reagan
Hopefully the sermon doesn’t end up being something most would call ironic, though it wouldn’t be by defintion.
If the sermon was on how the congregation should start attending synagogues on the sly in order to date secretly Jewish women, would that be ironic?
I confess that the more I learn about irony, the less I understand it. I that ironic? I have no idea.
Er, to secretly date Jewish women. I think that being secretly Jewish at a synagogue would blow their cover.
If they married any of their secret Jewish girlfriends, wouldn’t that just make all of their children Jewish?
Not if they’re baptized.
Or if they’ve been nail to a cross.
I love how Sierra still gets a character tag, even though her arm and part of her boob are the only things in the shot.
There’s a joke in there somewhere.
Please, her hair and the edge of her torso are in shot too. That’s more than enough.
Plus, it’s a very nice boob.
I look forward to Willis posting a wider version of the church scene on his tumbr. 🙂
Hmm…super-omnipresence. I like this theology.
The only way to be more present than all around you is to be inside you too. Hmm, no wonder Joyce is excited.
Just a guess, but she’s probably pretty excited to be in the presence of Ethan too.
Don’t Squeeze the G-dHead
Thought she said he’s ‘Double-Fly’
Hoping she was getting hip. =<
i’m glad i’m not the only one.
Word to your virgin mothers.
… I don’t… No. Just no.
Joyce’s “Faz Face” is mildly disturbing…
Noooooo Joe’s stubble from yesterday’s comic is gone!
Joe’s dismissal of Judaism yesterday offended his stubble, and it retreated back into his face in protest.
He does this every morning; it’s easier than shaving.
Of course Joyce thinks that toast is super exciting, so she’s really not the best judge.
You didn’t tag God.
Whoa, that’s like deep man
Shouldn’t he be tagged in every comic, since he’s everywhere?
Unless, perhaps, he’s *not* everywhere…
There you have it, folks – we now know Willis’s theology; he’s an atheist! There is no god!
Oh, and look, this other webcomic author is an atheist too, here’s a strip without god tagged!
And look at this site over here too, here’s another! And another one there!
They’re everywhere! Run for your lives!
No guys, WIllis IS God, and he used to tag himself in the bottom left of every strip, then it got old for him.
Jump cut!
…I think church is exciting…
The church serves a great purpose.
Keeping my favorite pancake house empty until 11 am. 😉
With all this church talk, you guys are missing the important things.
Has Joe been that hirsute throughout this comic?
Yes. Yes he has.
I totally read that as “yeah but in churches he’s double-fly.”
word
Double-fly for a Rabbi. Our temple’s had a fair share..
Well, God the Father is everywhere, but the Holy Spirit is present when two or more are gathered in his name. If you are Catholic like me, Jesus is present in the Eucharist as well.
Triple-ply baby! Now that’s luxury.
this should go swimmingly
I have literally never been asked whether or not I’m going to church on Sunday.
Then allow frightened Elan to ask: Are you going to church this Sunday?! If you don’t you might not get any snacks. I hear they have snacks.
I go to church every Sunday, and Joyce’s level of enthusiasm for religion even annoys me. Though, American Catholicism and whatever fundamentalist group Joyce is a representation of don’t really seem to have a whole lot in common.
She’s nondenominational, I believe. So she probably isn’t supposed to represent any one group in particular, but common traits of many.
She’s so holy that her frown don’t quit.
You wonder out loud “Mary girl, why can’t you just co-exist?”
Be-Be-Because being all prepared to proselytize is less devout
And she ain’t about to relinquish holy clout.
I never realized how much I want Ethan to be Joe’s college experimental phase until just now.
Silly Joe, Christians don’t go to church for free. Most of them pay for the privilege.
So, since this comic is addressing Joe’s religion head-on–is he going home for Rosh Hashona? Is he gonna fast on Yom Kippur? Or is he just kinda done with everything?
In ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ the two main characters are in a church’s meeting room (where their counselor keeps saying they’re in the heart of Jesus) and after the meeting have a conversation about how it can’t be healthy to have a bunch of cancer kids hanging out in Jesus’ heart and how they wish they could warn Jesus but sadly they’re still trapped in his heart.
I love Joyce freaking out like a schoolgirl
In the town where I was born, Christians only went to church at Christmas, Easter, weddings, baptisms and funerals. Exactly because they felt close to God through the world around them every second they were awake, so going to church every sunday just felt redundant.
I keep drawing comparisons between Joe and Ethan, and I’m convincing myself more and more that Joe’s gonna find out he’s bi and then they’re gonna get together.
I need to stop doing this to myself.