Well, let’s see, you cut the head off a chicken, and you cut the top off an egg, but generally you boil the egg before cutting the top off, while you cut the chicken’s head off before boiling it. I’m not convinced.
OMG, no, no, NO! cutting the head off of a chicken precedes the chase-the-damned-headless-chicken-all-around-the-yard-and-laugh-at-your-city-cousin-when-he-screams … ahhhh shit, triggered. sorry.
“If you’re a bird, be an early bird,
To catch a worm for your breakfast plate.
Yes, if you’re a bird, be an early bird,
But if you’re a worm, sleep late.”
Actually, it is, “what is good for the goose, is good for the gander”; the idea being that a particular situation should be treated equally between multiple (traditionally it is two) parties. Typically this is applied to relationships; “if the guy can do “insert whatever action or behavior”, then the girl can also do, “exactly the same action or behavior”.
Honestly, my first though was “what is Sarah’s scheme here?” I’m down for whatever it is because I like Sarah, but there are definitely ulterior motives at play.
Definitely a weekday; I’d guess Tuesday or Wednesday since “yesterday” was the first day of classes after winter break. We don’t have enough clues to pin down the exact date yet.
JOYCE: “Sarah, it’s 1:23. This is not ‘daytime’.”
SARAH: “Well, 1/23 is the DATE, I’M told!”
JOYCE: “…”
SARAH: “See, it sounds like ‘date I’m’ when you say it aloud. And also ‘told’ means to say it aloud, so it works!”
JASON (jolting out of bed): ‘My British-sense is tingling! It’s telling me that … someone has somehow accidentally made a cryptic crossword clue?’
(cryptics aren’t actually exclusively british; in the USA, henry cox and emily rathvon also do them [currently publishing in the WSJ, and they formerly published in the Atlantic], and also us nerds who do puzzle hunts
but i don’t think anyone in the cast is likely to be a word nerd except possibly jason, so)
Oh no, not all of them, not by far. To mention but one example: Those he made in which he basically looks back at his own life as a fundie, as well as strips inspired by his relationship with his mother. Can’t imagine them being just plain fun to make. Important, yes. Fun, no.
Truly, revenge is a dish best served cold and Sarah is enjoying every second of this. I most wholeheartedly approve of this scenario and hope we see more of Grumpy Glasses Joyce in the near future.
Also where is Dorothy’s salad wrap? It’s been driving me crazy not knowing.
I don’t think it’s waiting anywhere. It’s right there on Sarah’s face. But I think I follow where you’re going. It would be nicer if this wasn’t driven by Joyce’s obvious misery about glasses, but I can’t say it really bothers me either. Joyce’s discomfort shall pass like a spring rain, and if her lenses are even marginally ballistic, perhaps they will save her vision in another way shortly. What with the way things catch fire and explode around here.
And I now have my answer about the color of Joyce’s frame. Namely, she really should have been wearing glasses when she picked them. Or rather, they may have matched her jacket when she picked them, but that doesn’t mean they match everything she wears.
There is clearly sight, and if not sound, at least word balloons. Joyce and Sarah are in fact not of one mind. And quite obviously it’s morning and not twilight.
Unless in fact we are simply viewing another dimension, that of DoA, via a virtual portal rendered digitally by Willis but in fact only present in his head, thus being one of mind. In which case we aren’t entering that dimension either way you slice it. And in that case it may still be the best thing since slice universes.
…. I could ALMOST buy that Sarah was being cheerful just to make the point that she’s not as afraid of redefining herself as Joyce is, but I don’t think she’d put in this much effort to make that point.
Once upon a time I did one of those on-line things where you are shown a lot of pairs of pictures in sequence and choose the one you prefer each time, and a software widget tries to infer things about you and your tastes. The one in question conclude that I liked tanned blondes or something like that, but in fact I was choosing the woman who looked more cheerful each time.
Aaaand with that I’m caught up on the archive! Started reading from the beginning all the way back in mid-December.
And it’s on a strip where something is very clearly wrong with the universe. And my OTP has dissolved… and I’m going to be waiting day to day to see what the hell happened (apart from, y’know, the fact that their relationship always had some issues).
I’m cackling far too much at Sarah’s turnabout here, but I’m also really liking how ‘big sister’ is basically doing ‘Time to be up! Before you can properly wake up and think to object, here’s your glasses, and hey I’ve now tricked you into admitting that you have to leave the dorm, so again before you can properly fight back, go out into the world and start adjusting to seeing distance through new glasses’ – in a way that lets Joyce safely blame and be challenged by Sarah, providing motivation. It’s touching.
I just realized… her phobia of being alone after her attack was probably in part due to her lack of vision… It’s a lot easier to be afraid of generic males when you cannot make out their features to know who they are before they approach closer than comfortable. I know she has already worked past that part on her own, but if Sarah has figured that out… yeah, embrace the glasses Joyce. You’ll at least know who is approaching you as you’re on your way to carefully deconstructed omelets.
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turnabout is good for the gander, or something
Nah, it’s “What’s good for the chicken is what’s good for the egg.”
“Finally. It’s my go.”
Well, let’s see, you cut the head off a chicken, and you cut the top off an egg, but generally you boil the egg before cutting the top off, while you cut the chicken’s head off before boiling it. I’m not convinced.
Well, yes, but neither the boiling nor the head cutting is particularly good for the avian in question.
Nor is it exactly good for the egg. I mean, no chance it’s alive after that.
I think that maybe a hen’s egg counts as an avian.
OMG, no, no, NO! cutting the head off of a chicken precedes the chase-the-damned-headless-chicken-all-around-the-yard-and-laugh-at-your-city-cousin-when-he-screams … ahhhh shit, triggered. sorry.
Revenge is dish best served first thing in the morning with a cheerful smile.
She needs to practice her obnoxiously cheery triangular smile though. But this is a pretty good start I guess. 🙂
Sarah’s been out of practice as far as smiling goes for quite a while. She needs to warm up before she can pull off a full Joyce Triangle.
What goes around is worth two in the bush.
The early bird is always greener on the other side.
Sometimes you get the early bird and sometimes the early bird gets you.
Is that some sort of eastern thing?
You’re thinking of “Man who walk in middle of road get hit by cars going both ways.”
Ehh, I’ll burn that bridge when I get to it.
“Do you want breakfast?”
“Yes!”
“Then you should go out and catch it!”
Dan who drive in middle of road get hit by car with no regrets.
“If you’re a bird, be an early bird,
To catch a worm for your breakfast plate.
Yes, if you’re a bird, be an early bird,
But if you’re a worm, sleep late.”
“It’s a beautiful bird, lovely plumage.”
And don’t cross the road if you can’t get out of the kitchen.
WAKEY WAKEY CHICKEN BAKEY
I do not like cobra-chicken OR New Sarah.
You can’t make a silk purse out of a pig in a poke.
The early bird, the second mouse, but the third wheel keeps a motocycle upright.
Don’t count your geese before they’ve crossed the road?
A fool and his money are as some party.
Once begun is early to bed.
My, my, how the turntables.
What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice makes perfect.
It ain’t over until the cat lady sings
Actually, it is, “what is good for the goose, is good for the gander”; the idea being that a particular situation should be treated equally between multiple (traditionally it is two) parties. Typically this is applied to relationships; “if the guy can do “insert whatever action or behavior”, then the girl can also do, “exactly the same action or behavior”.
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I love Sarah and look forward to seeing where this goes.
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This feels wrong on a fundamental level.
It did, until that last panel.
I’m midly horrified yet laughing a lot
Okay, Sarah is officially one of my favorite characters
am i “someone else”? 😮
but yeah! sarah seems to be in an actually good, albeit mischievous, mood! exciting!
We’re all someone else.
I’m not. It’s the rest of you who are someone else.
Proportedly.
*purportedly
and a very happy unbirthday to you~
ok i guess maybe it wasn’t a “don’t confuse me with the other bjcat” thing then, lol
well played.
Wow.
This was almost “Opposite Day”.
I was gonna say like a freaky Friday thing, but same idea.
Oooooh! I’m Dina now! This is the first time I’ve been either of the characters in my username!
And it is Saturday
Sarah has been waiting for this opportunity for months now.
Sadly, this will turn out to be the happiest moment of her life. It’s all downhill from here.
It’s weird to compare this to the last time she woke Joyce up while smiling. But then, that was part of an Evil Plan. https://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-8/01-face-the-strange/hnnnrrgh/
Honestly, my first though was “what is Sarah’s scheme here?” I’m down for whatever it is because I like Sarah, but there are definitely ulterior motives at play.
She wants the room to herself for a little while. Is that mysterious?
Honestly, I’m surprised that she isn’t sporting an unusually triangular smile!
Ah I see this storyline is set in the mirror universe
Good to know
Neat my new gravitar is Lucy
I’m cool with this
Can’t be, mirror universe characters must either wear Van Dyke beards or dress in stripperiffic outfits.
(I don’t make the rules.)
Mirror Riker was pretty normal. No wait, that was transporter glitch Riker. As you were.
Atheism: because we don’t have to pretend we’d rather sleep in
Is it supposed to be Sunday in-comic?
Not unless we’ve skipped a day without it being mentioned. Or if they somehow have Saturday classes. So I’m gonna go with not likely.
Definitely a weekday; I’d guess Tuesday or Wednesday since “yesterday” was the first day of classes after winter break. We don’t have enough clues to pin down the exact date yet.
When you’re both an atheist and not a morning person like me, you’ve got two reasons for wanting to sleep in.
Seemed like a huge role reversal for a second there, I was worried something had gone wrong.
We’re through the looking glass, people.
*checks phone* “…Sarah, it’s 4 AM.”
“So?”
“That’s not daytime.”
“It’s a time… of day!”
“ijeaf;od”
It’s daytime somewhere in the world!
JOYCE: “Sarah, it’s 1:23. This is not ‘daytime’.”
SARAH: “Well, 1/23 is the DATE, I’M told!”
JOYCE: “…”
SARAH: “See, it sounds like ‘date I’m’ when you say it aloud. And also ‘told’ means to say it aloud, so it works!”
JASON (jolting out of bed): ‘My British-sense is tingling! It’s telling me that … someone has somehow accidentally made a cryptic crossword clue?’
(cryptics aren’t actually exclusively british; in the USA, henry cox and emily rathvon also do them [currently publishing in the WSJ, and they formerly published in the Atlantic], and also us nerds who do puzzle hunts
but i don’t think anyone in the cast is likely to be a word nerd except possibly jason, so)
I’m sensing some distinct differences when their dynamic is reversed.
“Well then go get some.”
I will turn your face to alabaster
When you find your servant is your master!
Oh! You will be Wrapped Around My Finger…
I wonder how much Sarah is secretly worried her face will stay that way from smiling too much.
Obviously not enough.
There are times when you look at a particular comic strip, and you can just tell that the creator had way, way too much fun making it.
This is one of those times.
I just assumed that was every Willis strip ever.
Oh no, not all of them, not by far. To mention but one example: Those he made in which he basically looks back at his own life as a fundie, as well as strips inspired by his relationship with his mother. Can’t imagine them being just plain fun to make. Important, yes. Fun, no.
The strip is healing after the trauma before the time skip.
Truly, revenge is a dish best served cold and Sarah is enjoying every second of this. I most wholeheartedly approve of this scenario and hope we see more of Grumpy Glasses Joyce in the near future.
Also where is Dorothy’s salad wrap? It’s been driving me crazy not knowing.
what is this, character growth? gross
This is certainly a welcome change of pace
The circle is complete.
When Sarah left us she was but the learner, now she is the master.
First it was round, but now it has been squared.
Such a troll, I love it.
Sarah’s expression in the last panel is adorable. In a delightfully trolling way, obviously
It’s a smile I want to protect.
Cackling like I just put my archnemesis in the shark pit. (Yes, it’s a pit, not a pool. Don’t ask.)
But do the sharks have laser beams attached to their heads?
You can’t be considered an evil genius unless you have sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads.
*plays We’ve Only Just Begun by The Carpenters*
Well this Sarah™ brand cheer could use some Sara Lee, Joyce’s grump shall not spread beyond… 8 am.
I find this cheeriness highly suspect.
I reckon there’s some sort of scandalous Schadenfreude type thing waiting in the hall or dining hall
I don’t think it’s waiting anywhere. It’s right there on Sarah’s face. But I think I follow where you’re going. It would be nicer if this wasn’t driven by Joyce’s obvious misery about glasses, but I can’t say it really bothers me either. Joyce’s discomfort shall pass like a spring rain, and if her lenses are even marginally ballistic, perhaps they will save her vision in another way shortly. What with the way things catch fire and explode around here.
With that facial expression and the glasses, Joyce looks more like a blonde Amber than Dorothy ever did.
Sarah is having too much fun with Joyce’s grumpiness. The tide has turned, and it is so sweet!
And I now have my answer about the color of Joyce’s frame. Namely, she really should have been wearing glasses when she picked them. Or rather, they may have matched her jacket when she picked them, but that doesn’t mean they match everything she wears.
Seriously, that is a hideous clash.
I like that your gravatar is happy Sarah.
I think she looks super cute in those glasses. Also, she’s always been a blue kind o’ girl.
IDK the teal goes well with her hair and eyes.
Revenge is a dish best served smiling.
Well well well.
How the turn tables
What alternate universe is this
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Or do you mean theirs and not ours. Colloquially it’s the Dumbingverse, but more correctly, Walkyverse Mark II.
Clearly he asked about this one, not that one.
Last panel Sarah is trying to tempt me into changing my avatar again but I will resist, even if it is more square than my current one.
Smiley Sarah is wonderful and I love this role reversal!
Are we entering another dimension?
And by any chance would this other dimension be neither of sight nor of sound, but in fact one of mind?
There is clearly sight, and if not sound, at least word balloons. Joyce and Sarah are in fact not of one mind. And quite obviously it’s morning and not twilight.
The linguistic persecution rests.
Unless in fact we are simply viewing another dimension, that of DoA, via a virtual portal rendered digitally by Willis but in fact only present in his head, thus being one of mind. In which case we aren’t entering that dimension either way you slice it. And in that case it may still be the best thing since slice universes.
I would happily wake up to this. The bratty sarcastic tone rings through even without audio ;D.
The last panel is so, so close to unlocking the triangle grin achievement.
No breakfast cereal could be as sweet as this moment is to Sarah.
This gravatar is pretty sweet too, not gonna lie.
…. I could ALMOST buy that Sarah was being cheerful just to make the point that she’s not as afraid of redefining herself as Joyce is, but I don’t think she’d put in this much effort to make that point.
…. Grav Roulette must be pre-reading my posts.
These two need their own comedy series x3
Like Sarah you too can relax and enjoy psychosis!
I’d freak out if Sarah develops a triangle grin. This “normal” feels new.
Are we sure Sarah and Joyce didn’t switch bodies recently?
Who is this unmasked woman?!
Too late for Saturnalia but I guess the spirit remains.
“Sarahnalia” is still available to coin.
why not? sounds good to me.
Did we change universes again? How many splintered worlds are you going to make?
Huh. I’m bothered but cautiously hopeful at this turn of the tables.
Oh no. The Smiley has taken over the host.
This is why one should never smile, and be suspicious of those who do.
“Any smile that lasts longer than a second and a half is a conman’s ruse.” -Captain Holt, Brooklyn 99
Smiley Sarah is the gift that just keep giving.
…well, to a point.
It’s nice to see her smile that way.
…And then, it was all a dream~~
Agreed
God, Sarah, I love you so much. Just the best.
Oh no oh dammit, Roz? No thank you.
Horny J. Jonah Jameson is a huge improvement but I think we can do better.
WALKY’D
What’s amazing about this is how in-character that is for him.
(You wish you were getting Walky’d, Lucy.)
Diminishing returns, I see. I’ll take my Professor DeSanto then.
I guess in this alternate universe, the Pod Person is the nice one.
Oh my god, Sarah, I love you even more right now!
A-class trolling, Sarah. 11/10. Marry me.
Sarah revelling in this change is something I did not expect but will gladly accept.
Payback.
Wh-what kind of upside-down world is this
HOORAY!!!!!! FINALLY WORLD HAS GONE UPSIDE DOWN!!!! By the way Sarah, you need to clean the glasses before to put it on a nose.
Who are you and what have you done with Sarah?
Ahhh two adorable strips in a row, the willis is kind today
The Willis taketh away, but today the Willis giveth.
Having Joyce on a bit, by playing… Joyce!
Thinking about it, daytime is pretty late in the winter.
Phew I’m not ready for a perpetually cheery Sarah.
Sarah is hot when she’s cheery.
Love the role-reversal.
Is Sarah about to get some?
Once upon a time I did one of those on-line things where you are shown a lot of pairs of pictures in sequence and choose the one you prefer each time, and a software widget tries to infer things about you and your tastes. The one in question conclude that I liked tanned blondes or something like that, but in fact I was choosing the woman who looked more cheerful each time.
I think happiness suits Sarah.
Aaaand with that I’m caught up on the archive! Started reading from the beginning all the way back in mid-December.
And it’s on a strip where something is very clearly wrong with the universe. And my OTP has dissolved… and I’m going to be waiting day to day to see what the hell happened (apart from, y’know, the fact that their relationship always had some issues).
…Damn you, Willis!
Wow. She’s really dedicated to this bit. Now that’s character development
I’m cackling far too much at Sarah’s turnabout here, but I’m also really liking how ‘big sister’ is basically doing ‘Time to be up! Before you can properly wake up and think to object, here’s your glasses, and hey I’ve now tricked you into admitting that you have to leave the dorm, so again before you can properly fight back, go out into the world and start adjusting to seeing distance through new glasses’ – in a way that lets Joyce safely blame and be challenged by Sarah, providing motivation. It’s touching.
(And also delicious delicious revenge.)
Now this is the story all about how my life got turned upside-down~
I require that last panel as a roulette gravitar now.
I just realized… her phobia of being alone after her attack was probably in part due to her lack of vision… It’s a lot easier to be afraid of generic males when you cannot make out their features to know who they are before they approach closer than comfortable. I know she has already worked past that part on her own, but if Sarah has figured that out… yeah, embrace the glasses Joyce. You’ll at least know who is approaching you as you’re on your way to carefully deconstructed omelets.
Also I love Sarah.
Another new character? I can barely keep up with all the ones we already had. And how did she get past Sarah to wake Joyce up?
Who is this brand new character?
Soooo many ways Sarah’s last line can be interpreted, especially with that face.
Sarah is having far too much fun with this. I hope she milks this for all it’s worth.