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The convertible is a combination flesh-light/dildo hat.
Complete with screwdriver and air pump.
I’m not sure what kind of toys you use, but the only time “screwdriver” should be involved is if you’re on a bus, and even then it’s a loose definition of “toy.”
Where are you pulling this information from?
Should I be worried?
Oh, no, not at all. Just being a little… dat crass.
OMG! the perfect way to have sex with out the worry of breaking a condom! flesh light plus dildo!
Isn’t that just a really thick condom?
Silly Sarah. You seriously expected Joyce to know what toys are?
At least…not that particular type of toy.
…the sad thing is, Willis being Willis, my first thought was the same as Joyce’s.
Dildo-Tron! Ecstar-scream! Vibratrons! Attack!
Aaaand now I’m thinking of this:
http://nonadventures.com/2007/07/07/hardware-conflict/
Luckily I don’t have anything important to do today, since it looks like I now have a Wonderella archive binge to schedule.
reminds me of that episode of Panty and Stocking when they all turned into Transformers.
Auto-eroto-bots?
I just assumed she was being a hedonist. “Screw romance, I’ve got cars ‘n shit!”
Yeah, I didn’t really register much beyond valuing material possessions over human connections. I was actually a little weirded out when the conversation took a turn in such an unexpected direction.
My second thought is this could be a whole new frontier in obsessive-collectors comics
Joyce/Sarah Ship: FULL SPEED AHEAD!
You seem unhealthily excited by that. Perhaps you should see a doctor.
Says the guy with the dildo hat grav. 😛
Especially if the ship lasts for more than four hours!!
Every night in my dreams
I see you, i feel you,
That is how i know you go on
Far across the distance
And spaces between us
You have come to show you go on
Near, far, wherever you are
I believe that the heart does go on
Once more you open the door
And you’re here in my heart
And my heart will go on and on
Even if it only lasts for 4 hours thats like 4 weeks of comic strips!
Joyce. Joyce no. Stop. Joyce, you don’t-no, listen. It’s a toy tha-…shit this is gonna be harder to explain than I tho-WILL YOU STOP BOUNCING AROUND AND LISTEN?!
Just show her a dildo then she can make the scream with no sound and possibly inversed colour.
What type of mutant abbility would it be to reverse the colours of a local field? And what ways would that be useful?
“Don’t push the red button?”
“Okay” *boop*
*machine disassembles*
“I said not to press the red button!!”
“But I didn’t…”
YOU CAN KEEP BOUNCING AROUND BUT YOU NEED TO LISTEN!
She said quagmire… giggitty.
If I remember right Quagmire was a 2nd Gen Water/Ground Pokemon.
That’s a QuagSire.
But hey, I’ve done it before too, if it helps.
I read that as my butler pointing out pokemon in the wild.
“That is a quag, sire.”
You have a butler?
You DON’T?? :O
How else am I going to become the best at everything?
so you’re Batman?
He’s obviously not Batman yet if he’s not the best in the world at everything, already.
He’s Zubatman.
One day, he will evolve into Golbatman, and then finally Crobatman.
And his side kicks! Woobatgirl, Swoobatwoman, Nightwing Attack, and Red Ho-od, and Red Rhybin!
My bad, but it has been quite a while though.
If you think that’s a pokemon, I’d say you just made a quagmire.
It certainly presents a conundrum.
So innocent.
It’s only been three weeks in-universe? Dayum.
I know, right? I did a archive binge about a week ago (due to a Rommies comment) and noticed the time span. I think it’s their Wednesday there.
This is the best thing ever. I am literally having trouble typing this from laughing so hard.
That’ll teach you to say the T-word when you’re being a B-word.
Sarah wasn’t being a B-word. =\
“blackperson”
I think this may win at ‘Best Strip’
Joyce must have some sex-toy knowledge, remember her weird dream?
Now that was just instinct.
That was just Ethan’s Thing.
and it goes right on your tummy.
Do Mike get involved in this?
Was a nickel offered?
Wouldn’t someone’s mother have to be present?
Maybe she’ll think they’re curling irons:
http://itswalky.com/d/20010621.html
Dammit! I just wanted to read that one strip again, ’cause it’s funny! Now I’m thirty Next-Button clicks into Walky and Dina’s relationship drama, and I can’t stop, and it’s after midnight, and I have work tomorrow and it’s all your fault!
Waaah!
I was more distracted by the sudden appearance of (a really badly drawn) Filis from Elf Life, and realised it’s probably ten years since I last regularly read it following a descent into longform prose that my brain can’t handle 🙁
Kinda miss it still, so I do …
Also, will the Walkerton twins prove to be quite as susceptible to alcohol this time round, one wonders?
Forget the whole Ethan and Joyce controversy.
JOYCE AND SARAH’S TOYS: THE NEW AWKWARD RELATIONSHIP FOR THIS COMIC.
I can’t be the only one to want this relationship between Joyce and Sarah’s toys to work out, can I?
Sarah’s just a big meanie.
But which cargo ship will suit Joyce more; Sarah’s sex toys or Sal’s motorcycle?
Why choose? She can use both at the same time.
VROOM!
I think it was laundry day, if I remember the Deviantart correctly.
I-Is that your catchphrase?
I thought the same more or less…
Comment + avatar = hilarity
Joyce X Sarah’s “Toys”: OTP
The thought of Joyce putting hair and an adorable dress on a vibrator fills me with laughter.
Does this mean that you will make a fanart picture of said comment?
He probably should and/or will.
Meet Vibrita. You can make her dance and everything!
Seeing that would kill Sarah’s girl-boner for sure.
Please just let Sarah explain straight up what’s going on in the next comic. “THEY’RE SEX TOYS. I SHOVE THEM IN MY VAGINA.”
With the voice of Gilbert Gottfried.
Oh god, why did you have to say that? I ended up hearing that line in his voice. With his face attached.
errrrghghgh
I saw Iago’s face.
There are two clips that may or may not make you learn to love Gilbert Gottfried.
First, is his infamous rendition of the Aristocrats joke.
Second is the opening lines of his roast of Hugh Hefner in which he utterly shreds Ice-T’s time at the podium.
The only reason I am not howling with laughter right now is because it would bother my roommates.
Wait, why am I letting that stop me?
Cos then yopu have to explain to your roommates why and that sounds bloody awkward.
see this cartoon chick masturbates and the other one is like super sheltered and fundie and doesn’t get that toys mean dildos and vibrators and the like and thinks she is referring to toys like barbie and My little pony and is begging to play with them!
End it with “Now you go back to sleep and let me masturbate in peace.”
“You can shove ’em around if I get to make the noises!”
Some of the best nights in history were started with this statement.
“And I will bring the camera”
That statement will made it the best night in internet.
Middle Panel
Best possible thing
Must have as gravatar
Then where is it? I don’t see any change in your gravatar!
I HAVE NO IS COMPUTER BRAIN!
I’m very much enjoying DOA this week. All we need now is for Billy to join the conversation.
oh you’re in luck
Will this also involve more lip-locking? 😀
As long as I’m around.
And to think that I thought this was the best strip ever. Foolish, I tell you.
We’re going to need a lipsmith.
Oh no.
Hilarity ensues, I can just tell 😀
For a moment there I read your comment as “Hillary (as in Hillary Clinton) ensues.
Too precious to handle.
I’m a prude and I found this hilarious.
I’m hilarious and I found this comment made by a prude.
Suddenly all the Sarah Joyce shippers
Jarah?
Jorah?
Soyce?
Soy Sauce!
From now one this shipping will be called Soy Sauce.
So their toys are coated in soy sauce? Blargl. Even if we refer to their female “happy batter” as soy sauce, that is still kind of gross.
Clearly Sarah forgot how naive Joyce really is
Alright everyone get in gear, these two aren’t gonna ship themselves! Kernanator, start with the Slash- Fic, Doctor Who find every shipping connection possible!
And Yotomoe….you know what to do.
From now on, I’m calling them the DoA Team.
I’m taking BATTLE STATIONS.
giggity giggity.
This is the number one best DoA strip and I’m now convinced it’s all downhill from here, not because the next strips will be bad but because nothing on Earth will ever be as funny as this one
Sorry can’t stop laughing.
So sheltered!
OK talented people… in the words of Mike and Jerry.
“Ready. Set. Art.”
Not going to lie, Joyce’s reaction would probably be my own reaction too, since if someone says toys, my mind doesn’t automatically jump to Sarah’s type of toy, but Joyce’s type, no matter what context.
I had a rather sheltered childhood. Not as sheltered as Willis’s, but sheltered.
She’s got literal stars in her eyes. HOW DID I NOT NOTICE THIS EARLIER?
That’s a good question. What else could you possibly have been looking at!?
Sarah’s epic face.
That sound…it’s the sound of awful AWFUL fanfic being written.
BTW, this made me laugh hardcore; also, can’t wait for an Android version of Comics Chamelon and DoA 2 Kickstarter!
The sound of tapping of the keyboard echoed across the internet.
Ahahaha
Time to tag in Roz, Sarah.
Agree. Great strip, thank God I wasn’t drinking something when I pulled it up or it’d have been all over the monitor.
I LOVE Sarah and Joyce (not as a ‘ship’ NOT) but because they play off each other so perfectly.
Hope android gets an app soon.
Joyce sure gets herself in the most awkward situations.
I’ll be in my bunk.
They look so… glamorous
Re: “You can shove ‘em around if I get to make the noises!”
If Joyce ever learns exactly what kinds of toys Sarah means she’ll just die of embarrassment when she thinks of the above line.
IIRC, one can get a Hello Kitty “toy” if one orders direct from Japan. Perhaps that be used to break the concept gently to Joyce.
(There are also Hello Kitty condoms for those who prefer a partner.)
What happens if you put the HK condom ON the HK vibrator?
The plot of Event Horizon.
“Break the Joyce gently” you say? Well Sarah brought this up, meaning it is her responsibility to show Joyce how to use every. Single. Last. One.
Does she have a two-foot-long Dildoplex?
oh god that was terrible i’m sorry
ROFL Oh man, Sarah opened a barrel of worms there!
I laughed. So hard.
After this, is hard to wait the next chance to Walky have a good chat with Sarah.
Is there any character that has even close to the amount of reaction faces Joyce has?
Joe froze mid-leer, and slowly lowered his come-hither hand. The cheerleader he’d been hitting on stared as, compasslike, his entire body rotated towards the dormitories. “I heard the tales, but I did not think they could ever be true.” He whispered, eyes welled with tears. Then there was a crack, like thunder, and he was gone.
<3
+1
WHERE IS A LIKE BUTTON?!
Why don’t we just ship everybody with sarah’s toys?
Oh Joyce you poor, innocent thing…
oh. oh god no
ROFL!
Jesus christ, it’s gonna be 200 years before these guys graduate…
They’re not going to! I wouldn’t wait for it.
Is there at least an evens chance they’ll make it not only to Christmas, but into the spring semester?
And I say that with the most genuine of sentiments, as someone who’s been patiently waiting for Freefall to make it into its second month for the last five years…
Does no sophomore year mean no chance for Howard?
Howard will turn up as Ruth’s *older* brother – as the dean.
Heads will explode.
Isn’t the dean already established to be Big Boss?
No, that’s your headcannon talking. Of course, it’s a safe deduction. Sort of like working out that DoA willis is the creator Dextor.
Aside from the time he showed up in that capacity? Alongside Robin? Remember?
Oh, hey! I totally forgot about that!
Clearly Prime’s been messing with my memory banks.
Joycus.
I’m sure Sarah would just decide not to bother with the romance stuff, but I really can’t understand how she imagined Joyce would have some other reaction.
This is also what kind of worries me about Joyce right now. In one moment she’s really ill at ease, in the other she’s super-excited about toys. Maybe the shift is a protection mechanism…or maybe it’s just short attention span. (Actually, the latter sounds kind of likely. She seems able to be mature about things or understand them quite deeply, but she doesn’t maintain that understanding in everyday life.)
She didn’t say not bother, just to give it a freakin’ break for a while. Joyce is at one guy per week so far, and that’s with zero recovery time after one of them nearly raped her.
Ohhhhhh she’s going to break Joyce’s brain beyond the point of repair when she explains what her “toys” are…
No no no no don’t stop talking. Go on I (and my recorder) am listening.
Pretty sure Joyce is going to kiss Billie next week.
“Polly Pocket Pool” … *dredges depths of depraved knowledge* … would that be a “sybian”, then?
You know the /34/ for this stuff is just going to be epic verging on horrific.
So Dumbing of Age 2 will come before Roomies 2?
with the mental scarring Joyce is causing here I don’t think anybody is going to be coming anytime soon
Roomies 2 is the stretch goal for DoA 2.
Even if this weren’t the case: yes, yes, yes, of course. I’m doing a Dumbing of Age book every year as a first priority, everything else is an “if I can also do it” thing. Dumbing of Age has twice the readership of Shortpacked! and four times the readership of It’s Walky! and ten times the readership of Roomies!. I want DoA books to keep up to date with the strip, so skipping a year is not on the menu.
It’s important to keep the rabble appeased.
… Please, Sarah. Say “yes”. PLEEEEEAAAASSE!
I was literally screaming by the end of this comic.
I had cereal in my mouth.
“HAD” IS THE OPERATIVE VOWEL THERE
Someone, somewhere, needs to fanfic this going in that direction.
I see Girls With Slingshots is rubbing off on you Willis. It must be Toy Week!
App is get.
And, of course, comic is great.
This needs a sister strip in Shortpacked, where complaints are made about the use of Day-glo being use in all the toys nowadays.
Man I wish my toys were Day-glo damn.
Aaaaand app is great.
But still
DAMN YOU WILLIS!
(it has no IW! or BBR! or most importantly Shortpacked! yet. Also no way to set up a favorites list or reorganize the comics list. On the other hand, it’s only v1.0 yet, so….)
Lol wow just wow. Is she going to be embarrassed when this one is explained to her
Now I have the image of them in their separate bunks, with Sara–unaware that Joyce is in the room–playing with her toys and Joyce with her blanket pulled up to just below her terrified eyes while she mumbles “vroom, vroom… vroom, vroom…”
Oh, and poo on iPhones. ANDROID. We need Willis-approved comics on ANDROID.
Here’s the scenario that I had come to mind:
(two days after the awkward explanation)
Sarah goes into the bathroom. A few minutes later, a buzzing noise starts up. Joyce tentatively approaches.
“Sarah? Are you, are you, p-p-playing w-with your-”
“I’m shaving my legs – god!”
Maybe she should go play with Joe?
Yes, I’m sure Joe has a wide variety of toys Joyce can play with if she asks.
Apple? Won’t they ban the app at the first comic about Walky’s stool?
As you’ve traded Joyce’s extreme for one simply on the other end of the spectrum, Sarah, you may want to recommend someone else to discuss Joyce’s getting far too ahead of herself…
Billie’s obviously out of the question for more than just the obvious reason,
Walky just got his first girlfriend as it is. Besides, he doesn’t hold what Joyce needs to work towards in high regard anyway,
Danny? Advice on romantic prospects from an even bigger clingy, codependent weenie? Seriously?
Unless what Joyce needs to help her situation involves making it much worse for her in the short run, not Mike,
Suggesting Joe alone would be a bad idea, even if she was joking,
Amber, even as Amazigirl, lacks experience,
Dorothy is the same as Amber, plus the situation with Ethan may add a minefield to the mix,
Roz’s only interest in Joyce’s desire to have a family of her own would be criticizing the anti-feminist allusions of it all, so she’s out for that alone,
Leslie may be more inclined to give Ethan advice about dealing with being homosexual,
Marcie would probably be a good choice, but I don’t think Joyce can read sign language well enough,
Sal’s advice would be limited to a laconic, cynical one-liner,
Ugh, list keeps getting shorter and shorter………..
Actually, Leslie would probably be an awesome choice. Aside from being a professor in gender studies, she seems to be a well-adjusted adult and is probably also in a good position to recommend an actual counselor if necessary.
Which is probably why we’re not likely to see her get involved.
“Professor in gender studies”
that degree comes with an MBA in “bad life choices” and “phony majors”.
Maybe Sarah has the R.I.D. Rail Racer set
As a R.I.D. diehard, can I say you have made my day?
I have to say, the expressions is really what makes this joke work. It’s amazing what good detailed art can do.
BEST … STRIP … EVAH!
and the rush of Rule 34 pics will crash the net….
also the titty time ad is an added bonus
DOA Book 2 is the next Kickstarter?
Not complaining, but why not Shortpacked #5?
Because Roomies! Book 2.
Dumbing of Age books will always be Priority 1, and another book will be the stretch goal. It was past R!2’s time.
Didn’t you do an SP! Kickstarter before your first DoA Kickstarter?
PLEASE let there be a new scene with Joyce having dildos in her hair, PLEASE!
I claim this image in the name of my gravatar!
You have to keep it now, or this comment will look weird later.
That or just constantly use different images from this strip.
Well-timed, Willis.
For those unaware: May is apparently National Masturbation Month, and this week is International Clitoris Awareness Week.
So in other nations, you’re supposed to be aware of the clitoris, but not of masturbation?
Just be aware of it. Not in any particular sense. Just know that it’s there.
Maybe it’s a sex month! I honestly have no idea, it’s just something I spotted on the front page this morning 😉
NOO, DON’T STOP TALKING XDXDXDXDDDDDD
Given who writes this comic it took me until the fourth panel to figure out what kind of toys she meant.
Also, I love how Joyce turns “take it easy, don’t be overeager, you’ve got plenty of time” into “stop looking for a boyfriend forever”.
To be fair, it is likely that Sarah would go to the other extreme, and her response only backs that up.
Dramatic irony at its most hilarious!
This makes me think there will be a Father Dougal style moment where Joyce suddenly snaps awake in the night with realisation and yells “OMG SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT SEX!”
Willis with regards the kick starter will you give an option to purchase book 1 AND 2 together? For those who missed it? (One of those interested if so).
LOL
That was SOOOO WRONG!!! I Started snickering at her expression and was laughing by the time she said “Stop Talking”
LOL.
Did anyone else read the last line in Rigby’s voice? Also I actually DID have toys in my dorm at college, one of my favorites was my Rokusho action figure that I kept on my computer desk. Actually even now nearly 5 years after graduating it’s STILL on my computer desk.
Panel 3….the EYES!
Can’t…breathe…
…laughing…
…too hard…
…tell…
…my wife…I…said…
…hello…
Hmm. Sorry, I forgot to do that today.
AHAHAHAHAHA!
Oh god, today’s comic is peerless!
Well done, Sarah. You’ve really stuck your foot in it this time.
Which takes some impressive flexibility, really.
What kind of toys are Joyce talking about? Wouldn’t she just assume she was talking about a Barbie or something?
Or a polly pocket pool…
Keep talking Joyce, Keep Talking!!
And don’t ever stop!!!
One day, not too far in the future, Joyce will be wiser than she is now, and she will remember this conversation, and she will scream.
And the screaming will never stop.
Her terror will dream forever.
This… this needs a Dumblr image…
You covered two years of plot and exposition into three weeks of actual time??
loooooool…