I don’t know Nono, but I’m pretty sure that ship is not freight style shipping that can go on a train, although I agree a train would sink. Usually I think that ship is like a large, ocean-going vessel, often colloquially described as a boat. Then again, maybe that’s not the kind of train you meant, but I think those are not shipped, but rather … pulled.
I’m not fond of eating hearts out. Maybe a pizza? with mozzarella? Or a Caesar salad, I dunno. Hell, I wouldn’t mind a large fries. Not fried chicken though.
I don’t know, Spousal ValdVin is 5’3″ and I’m 6′, and my chin clears her head by a couple inches, and Joe’s seems to have a couple more inches clearance than than.
I would agree. My wife is 4’10” and I’m 5’10” and there’s a similar difference in position. Using my teen daughter who actually is Joyce’s canonical height, based off my own height it’d probably be about correct for someone 6′ – 6’3″ or so
Yeah, if we’re going that Joyce is 5’4″ and measure it by that, he’s probably about that height. I’m about 5’9″ and my friends that are 5’4″ go up to around my chin, so if Joe’s a good five inches taller than me, it would put Joyce around his chest. I think it’s just a low door, if anything.
You’re right. And yet his hand on the door frame, or wall, also with the bend of his elbow, indicates that he is comfortably close to the entry. Yet when I had a door open 45d, I had to stretch my arm full out to rest my hand on the wall with my hip behind the door. Along with the foot on front brings us back to, meh it’s a comic and the art isn’t intended to be a physically perfect representation of the real world. wooo-woop-woop-woop hoo hoo hoo HOOOOO
I dunno, my inlaws house was built for someone less than 5’5″, I can touch the ceiling easily and anyone over 6′ might not fit in the house. I’m only 5’8″ and I have to duck through some of their doorways. Some buildings are built weird.
Let’s face it … Joyce is still a unicorn; a bashful, blushing virginal unicorn – but somewhere along the past eighteen years she’s learned SOMETHING about the birds and the bees and the boys and the girls …
And as Dustin Hoffman (as Captain Hook) said in the movie “Hook”, “To a 10-year-old, I’m huge.”
So I think Willis is drawing this so that we are ‘seeing’ Joe from Joyce’s perspective. Half-nekkid man, flat abs, chest hair — and that bulging ‘package’ of his….. well, in her eyes, he’s larger than life itself.
Now THAT is a solid interpretation featuring artist license(TM). But it leaves all of us poor geometers holding our protractors and compasses ultimately unsatisfied with the numerical information we’ve derived. What about OUR needs?
There’ve been days where I’ve seen both of em playing music. Hell, I’ve got a particular track in mind myself for whenever one of three potential (or rather nearly inevitable) scenarios finally play out.
I mean, if Newton and Leibniz could conceive of calculus completely independently of each other and with extraordinary synchronicity, I guess anything is possible in that regard.
On that note, there’s a good chance that I was also thinking of at least two of the same scenarios as you, for which I have reserved much revered cinematic masterpieces.
I think that just happens in most forms of media. Usually all characters are made more attractive unless intentionally designed otherwise. Especially when stylized. Pretty much everyone even the horrible characters like Mary or Blaine can be appealing to someone design wise.
Danny is bi and barely blinks at his half naked roommmate every day. I think Joe doesn’t do anything for him, because it’s Danny and Joe and his brain just doesn’t register that combo.
Is it just me or is 2 hours really last minute to do this assignment that I totally forgot what even was if it was even told to us? Like maybe do it the day before at least if you’re slightly serious about turning it in?
In college (fifteen years ago holy smokes) I had a project assignment that was basically “make a tutorial on how to build a PC”. What I failed to register was that it was supposed to be an illustrated tutorial, so it had zero pictures and it was due in a couple hours. I only had a hard copy on me, the Word document was on my PC at home and the one on my laptop was an early draft. I had my digital camera with me though, so I quickly took a lab PC apart, reassembled it (taking iFixit style pictures along the way), retyped some of the paper, and did some last minute analog page layout with scissors and a Xerox machine.
Not sure if it was just an easy class or if the teacher took pity on me, but I got an A.
It definitely depends on the assignment and subject. English paper? 2 hours before its due is plenty of time. Programming assignment? Buddy, you started that the second it was assigned and you’re still screaming about the bugs you haven’t had time to fix seconds before it’s due.
Biology (at least the level they’re at) would definitely fit as a ‘spare 2 hours before its due’ level assignment.
I’d normally expect a lab partners assignment to get done the night before, rather than morning of though. Unless you’d both checked and blocked out those hours.
But neither of them want to work with the other, so they’ve been avoiding dealing it with.
Even with English, you have to put aside time to read the book and get any sources you need ready. But yeah, actually writing the paper rarely took me too long.
🙂 I just want to rip into the fact that THAT is the key information you got from this comic. I am of course severely undermined in my own derailment from the artistic license shown with my participation in the analysis of Joe’s height.
For a positive contribution to your observation though: It is interresting that despite their occasional texting, Joyce and Joe have left this so late. Like character-wise, what is going on between them now?
And there’s Joe Boxer and Joe’s Boxers, so there may very well be Joe’s Joe Boxer Boxers that would have been purchased in Joe’s Joe Boxer Boxer’s Box, unless there’re many pairs then they would have come in Joe’s Joe Boxer Boxers’ Boxes.
Just imagine what her imagination will go through if she ever gets the guts to buy a sex toy. I wouldn’t be surprised if she named it after him in secret.
We are looking slightly downward at a distance at a door only slightly taller than Joe. This cuts off the top of his head. This is in contrast to the previous panel where we are Joyce high.
I feel like that door is still too small. The handle is about level with Joe’s crotch and again I’m only measuring against my own personal frame of reference but door handles come to my belly button. Again I’m an above average height person. Joe’s looking real tall here.
Here’s a question. I know we’ve had height discussions before but how tall is Joe? He’s head’s like hitting the door frame and that tells me he’s at least above 6ft, but if I’m being honest here that’s at least above 6’6. I’m 6’7 myself and my head doesn’t hit door frames!
I do. If I stretch my neck up or stand on my toes my head hits the frame, but Joe’s looking like he has to bend down a little to avoid scraping off his scalp. Either he’s taller than me or IU’s contractor cuts some corners on these doors.
I have enough close calls at 6-2, I wouldn’t think I’d want to be more than an inch or two taller… but even at my height I know most people find that ridiculous. Do you ever think you’d like to still be just a /little/ taller? Or are you tall enough that the drawbacks outweigh enough of the benefits to be a wash? (if this isn’t all too personal, or inappropriate)
I don’t want to be taller. The drawbacks kind of break even. It’s nice to be able to reach stuff easily on the top shelf at the grocery store, but it’s annoying a ton of people ask if I play basketball. *Might also have to do with me being black lol*. Also shoes are more expensive and you can’t wear some of the more fashionable ones without custom ordering which is even pricier. Same with clothes. I’ve been told being tall is attractive to most people. Maybe that’s something? I feel like it hasn’t had an effect positive or negative. I can tell some people are more intimidated and really young kids tend to stare.
My wife is six feet and that was a selling point even before I said hello on that first date. Subsequent selling points included a mutual love of Indian and Thai food, joint devotion to the Democratic Party and a 97 percent commonality in our moral codes (actual test results). The final clincher was when she mentioned she despised pulp in her orange juice. In that instant, I stopped feeling so alone in the world.
Orange pulp is so WRONG.
Frankly, I’d have assumed he wasn’t getting his part done and handed it in myself by now. Then again, I never lived on campus so I suppose it would’ve been easier if I had.
Joyce’s face in panel 3 is awesome . She was expecting him to wear a pajamas… How sweet ♡!!! Joyce is just too funny. She and Joe are a funny/sweet couple.
Yeah. I remember a strip where Joe and Jacob were in the gym together. Jacob was complaining about Joyce being deceptive, and Joe was. (sort of) praising her. Until he stopped unexpectedly.
My assumption was that Joe stopped because HE realized he was attracted to Joyce and didn’t want any competition from Jacob.
Also Joe: Joyce is literally the most wonderful person here and you’d be a sucker to not want to be in her life. She is constantly improving and trying to be a better person and eventually she’s going to be the most perfect Joyce she can be. What kind of idiot would want to miss out on that? Does such a fool even exist?
That was Old Joyce, before she had her epiphany and she was still trying to make her world fit the way her religious upbringing led her to believe it was. I think it was even before Becky came out.
It was in the third storyline of this strip, I’m pretty sure. DEFINITELY long before Becky came out. She and Dorothy weren’t even best friends yet and she hadn’t been to That Party yet.
Here’s a prediction: Joyce and Joe will end up together and grow up to be Mr and Mrs Boring Conventional Middle Class Couple. It just seems right that those two would end up having the most exciting college adventures and the most routine later adult lives.
Agreed on all points except the scope on Boring and routine. Like, maybe the phrase “outside the bedroom” could be tucked in there somewhere, or maybe “mentals”.
I’m not sure “having a different threshold of familiarity” is limited to men. I’m a man and I don’t think I would ever feel comfortable answering the door in my underwear.
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Joyce, you should know better about waking people up, after Sal
That’s why she sent expendable Danny to get strangled instead
SHE SENT A PROXY
admittedly the proxy also appreciates the male form in general, but does not want to do so with Joe in particular.
JoJo Shippers eat your heart out
I was never on that train. I don’t know who I ship Joe with, but it’s not Joyce. They work way better as friends for the foreseeable future.
“Foreseeable future” yes. Jojo shippers are playing the long game
How long a game depends on exactly how far into the future one can see.
10 seconds, of course. The problem is whatever we see always comes true
We definitely are, I mean, they definitely are.
They are eating a lot of healthy foods.
This is the only way to ship Jojo
I’m still shipping Joyce and Dorothy. Even though Dorothy is straight as a string and finds Joyce’s crush on her a little freaky.
I mean, strings don’t have to be straight. You can make whatever shapes you want with them!
It’s the alliteration. And there is such a thing as a string
level.
I don’t know Nono, but I’m pretty sure that ship is not freight style shipping that can go on a train, although I agree a train would sink. Usually I think that ship is like a large, ocean-going vessel, often colloquially described as a boat. Then again, maybe that’s not the kind of train you meant, but I think those are not shipped, but rather … pulled.
I’m not fond of eating hearts out. Maybe a pizza? with mozzarella? Or a Caesar salad, I dunno. Hell, I wouldn’t mind a large fries. Not fried chicken though.
There are so many options for eating out!
Not if you’re Batman!
Batman can go with Catwoman!
DC wouldn’t let Batman go downstairs on Catwoman. It was (is?) a whole thing
Fucking what.
On the plus side it’s starting to cause a fanart boom.
Batman can eat out Catwoman!
as a treat
Apparently not, sadly. DC says that heroes don’t, ah, eat catwomen.
I will. 😛
Apparently Joyce is wearing the pants in today’s engagement. Joe, how does that make you feel?
Aroused.Respectful.
Heart ate.
I still ship them!
I like this ship, but I refuse to call it “JoJo”.
What do you call it?
“Inevitable”
JOECE
I prefer “Joey Jo-Jo Junior Shabadoo”
Man…Joe’s tall.
Look at panel 4, he’s about the same as the doorframe. If it’s a normal sized door, he’s like six foot eight.
If we go by a standard ceiling, (8′) he’s taller still and it’s a tall door too. If it’s a commercial height (9’+), he’s huge.
I’m going to chalk it up to the weird angle. Unless Willis decides to confirm that Joe is super tall.
Weird angle/artist was challenged is my guess. Like the recent call back to Joyce being 4′ tall standing outside the dorm’s main doors.
Joyce is canonically 5’4″, Joe would have to be about 7 feet tall for her eye level to land where it does.
I’ll chalk it up to ‘artistic license to make the joke land’.
I don’t know, Spousal ValdVin is 5’3″ and I’m 6′, and my chin clears her head by a couple inches, and Joe’s seems to have a couple more inches clearance than than.
I would agree. My wife is 4’10” and I’m 5’10” and there’s a similar difference in position. Using my teen daughter who actually is Joyce’s canonical height, based off my own height it’d probably be about correct for someone 6′ – 6’3″ or so
I think he’s supposed to be about 6’3 he’s always been very tall
Yeah, if we’re going that Joyce is 5’4″ and measure it by that, he’s probably about that height. I’m about 5’9″ and my friends that are 5’4″ go up to around my chin, so if Joe’s a good five inches taller than me, it would put Joyce around his chest. I think it’s just a low door, if anything.
Parallax.
While this is something of a downwards perspective, Joe doesn’t appear to be /that/ far away from the door frame.
Joe is past the edge of the door, and the door is open widely.
You’re right. And yet his hand on the door frame, or wall, also with the bend of his elbow, indicates that he is comfortably close to the entry. Yet when I had a door open 45d, I had to stretch my arm full out to rest my hand on the wall with my hip behind the door. Along with the foot on front brings us back to, meh it’s a comic and the art isn’t intended to be a physically perfect representation of the real world. wooo-woop-woop-woop hoo hoo hoo HOOOOO
It’s all in the mentals.
I have a friend who is 6’9 and has to duck to get into doors. I think standard door frames are 6’8. My guess is Joe is 6’9
You mean the villian from that Green Lantern movie that crashed and burned?
The big yellow fear bug that made Hal Jordan not boring and greyed his temples, yeah.
I wonder how tall Joyce is then. 5’3″ or 5’5″?
5’4″.
https://mobile.twitter.com/damnyouwillis/status/1402437792777617412
I dunno, my inlaws house was built for someone less than 5’5″, I can touch the ceiling easily and anyone over 6′ might not fit in the house. I’m only 5’8″ and I have to duck through some of their doorways. Some buildings are built weird.
Let’s face it … Joyce is still a unicorn; a bashful, blushing virginal unicorn – but somewhere along the past eighteen years she’s learned SOMETHING about the birds and the bees and the boys and the girls …
And as Dustin Hoffman (as Captain Hook) said in the movie “Hook”, “To a 10-year-old, I’m huge.”
So I think Willis is drawing this so that we are ‘seeing’ Joe from Joyce’s perspective. Half-nekkid man, flat abs, chest hair — and that bulging ‘package’ of his….. well, in her eyes, he’s larger than life itself.
Now THAT is a solid interpretation featuring artist license(TM). But it leaves all of us poor geometers holding our protractors and compasses ultimately unsatisfied with the numerical information we’ve derived. What about OUR needs?
Maybe we’re seeing him the way Joyce is seeing him at the moment, rather than his actual height?
*plays “Calm Sightseeing” by Yugo Kanno on Voxola PR-76*
I would have used “Boys Keep Swinging” by David Bowie.
or “Playing With the Boys”, by Kenny Loggins.
which, like the scene that uses it in Top Gun, is not at all gay.
nope. not one bit.
It’s just a volleyball game….
Did I miss a post where you officially passed the torch, or is Waggy just quicker on the draw?
There’ve been days where I’ve seen both of em playing music. Hell, I’ve got a particular track in mind myself for whenever one of three potential (or rather nearly inevitable) scenarios finally play out.
Great minds think alike, I guess.
I mean, if Newton and Leibniz could conceive of calculus completely independently of each other and with extraordinary synchronicity, I guess anything is possible in that regard.
On that note, there’s a good chance that I was also thinking of at least two of the same scenarios as you, for which I have reserved much revered cinematic masterpieces.
I was thinking The Boys Are Back in Town by Thin Lizzy.
There’s suddenly a lot man in this comic. See this is what Asher is competing with and you want to tell me he’s pure sex!
Joe’s definitely hot, too. Jacob, too, for that matter. And like the comic characters, I am digging Walky’s hair.
Really, there is a good looking cast across the board.
I think that just happens in most forms of media. Usually all characters are made more attractive unless intentionally designed otherwise. Especially when stylized. Pretty much everyone even the horrible characters like Mary or Blaine can be appealing to someone design wise.
You all forgot Ethan the dreamboat.
You don’t have all the sex that Joe has without being at least decently hot.
Ron Jeremy
Touche
no, those women were paid to get with Ron.
Except maybe Trishelle.
(And he didn’t look bad in the 70s).
Joe and Jacob really aren’t my type, at least. They’re just too bulky-muscled. They’ve been established as Joyce’s type, though. Different strokes!
Ethan, too.
Joyce likes them tall and broad. And… 2/3 are Jewish?
To be fair, christians have been super into jews since day one, but also like, /crazy/ conflicted about it.
Now, if Joe was bi/gay, that third panel would have a much different meaning.
Danny/Joe slow burn confirmed?
Danny is bi and barely blinks at his half naked roommmate every day. I think Joe doesn’t do anything for him, because it’s Danny and Joe and his brain just doesn’t register that combo.
I’m surprised Joyce’s head didn’t explode from exposure to that much Joe
his eyes are up there, joyce
Just imagine if she accidentally caught a good look at his butt. She might spontaneously combust from the pure horny.
Mind reader
She’s made her choice.
Is it just me or is 2 hours really last minute to do this assignment that I totally forgot what even was if it was even told to us? Like maybe do it the day before at least if you’re slightly serious about turning it in?
Guessing they at least started it already or it’s not a super big assignment.
2hrs was not that unusual.
It didn’t normally get me “A”s, either, but I once got an Honorable Mention on a last minute project.
In college (fifteen years ago holy smokes) I had a project assignment that was basically “make a tutorial on how to build a PC”. What I failed to register was that it was supposed to be an illustrated tutorial, so it had zero pictures and it was due in a couple hours. I only had a hard copy on me, the Word document was on my PC at home and the one on my laptop was an early draft. I had my digital camera with me though, so I quickly took a lab PC apart, reassembled it (taking iFixit style pictures along the way), retyped some of the paper, and did some last minute analog page layout with scissors and a Xerox machine.
Not sure if it was just an easy class or if the teacher took pity on me, but I got an A.
I usually handed mine in the day of and often within five minutes. I usually got As and Bs. Depends how good you can make your stuff.
I think it depends on the assignment. I went to art school and good luck filling 2-5 pages of your sketchbook in 2 hours.
It definitely depends on the assignment and subject. English paper? 2 hours before its due is plenty of time. Programming assignment? Buddy, you started that the second it was assigned and you’re still screaming about the bugs you haven’t had time to fix seconds before it’s due.
Biology (at least the level they’re at) would definitely fit as a ‘spare 2 hours before its due’ level assignment.
I’d normally expect a lab partners assignment to get done the night before, rather than morning of though. Unless you’d both checked and blocked out those hours.
But neither of them want to work with the other, so they’ve been avoiding dealing it with.
Even with English, you have to put aside time to read the book and get any sources you need ready. But yeah, actually writing the paper rarely took me too long.
Once I got the procrastinating done, it never took long, but that was an important part of the process and couldn’t be rushed. 🙂
Same.
They have apparently been avoiding each other, or at least avoiding their mutual homework. https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/04-hompk/partner/
If it’s not really difficult, 2 hours isn’t too bad. Though they probably should have done this assignment much earlier.
🙂 I just want to rip into the fact that THAT is the key information you got from this comic. I am of course severely undermined in my own derailment from the artistic license shown with my participation in the analysis of Joe’s height.
For a positive contribution to your observation though: It is interresting that despite their occasional texting, Joyce and Joe have left this so late. Like character-wise, what is going on between them now?
I really like Joyce ‘s shirt and would like one for myself
Indeed, honestly would like some of Joe’s shorts there, too. It’s a good color combination.
Joe wears a fair amount of purple and green, it’s just part of his style at this point.
Joe is the Dumbiverse’s Hulk confirmed?
Joyce’s whole look is adorable.
The words “Where the boys are” remind me of “Where the boys aren’t“.
Good times.
Oh come on Joyce, it’s just boxers; not like he is wearing a speedo or going commando. Besides, you can learn plenty about biology from Joe. :V
There are boxer shorts
and there are boxer shorts.
And there’s Joe Boxer and Joe’s Boxers, so there may very well be Joe’s Joe Boxer Boxers that would have been purchased in Joe’s Joe Boxer Boxer’s Box, unless there’re many pairs then they would have come in Joe’s Joe Boxer Boxers’ Boxes.
Quiet, you.
Boop
holy shit joe is tall
Now, Due to her glasses, She’s seeing his body in HD for the first time. Lucky Duck.
Just imagine what her imagination will go through if she ever gets the guts to buy a sex toy. I wouldn’t be surprised if she named it after him in secret.
Oh Joe, Sex Toy
Brilliant.
Oh Joye
(it’s not quite Joe and not quite Joyce)
Oh Joe, Sex Toe
That made me remember the toenail arc and I feel nauseous about it all over again. Ugh, I’m so squeamish about it.
Yup, went from 640 by 480 to 4K 3D.
That’s a rather small doorway.
If so, then it’s an even more ridiculously low ceiling (for North America).
Is the door small or is Joe that tall?! I must know!
Yes
We are looking slightly downward at a distance at a door only slightly taller than Joe. This cuts off the top of his head. This is in contrast to the previous panel where we are Joyce high.
I feel like that door is still too small. The handle is about level with Joe’s crotch and again I’m only measuring against my own personal frame of reference but door handles come to my belly button. Again I’m an above average height person. Joe’s looking real tall here.
I mean, I’m 6’4″ and routinely find door handles to be crotch-high for me.
Eh, this comic’s cheated with scale & proportion before
Just be glad Beef isn’t a major player in this universe. He’s like a friggin Steven Universe character with how frequently he changes sizes.
Here’s a question. I know we’ve had height discussions before but how tall is Joe? He’s head’s like hitting the door frame and that tells me he’s at least above 6ft, but if I’m being honest here that’s at least above 6’6. I’m 6’7 myself and my head doesn’t hit door frames!
You must have some close calls then, since residential doors are framed at 6’8″. (2032mm)
I do. If I stretch my neck up or stand on my toes my head hits the frame, but Joe’s looking like he has to bend down a little to avoid scraping off his scalp. Either he’s taller than me or IU’s contractor cuts some corners on these doors.
I have enough close calls at 6-2, I wouldn’t think I’d want to be more than an inch or two taller… but even at my height I know most people find that ridiculous. Do you ever think you’d like to still be just a /little/ taller? Or are you tall enough that the drawbacks outweigh enough of the benefits to be a wash? (if this isn’t all too personal, or inappropriate)
I don’t want to be taller. The drawbacks kind of break even. It’s nice to be able to reach stuff easily on the top shelf at the grocery store, but it’s annoying a ton of people ask if I play basketball. *Might also have to do with me being black lol*. Also shoes are more expensive and you can’t wear some of the more fashionable ones without custom ordering which is even pricier. Same with clothes. I’ve been told being tall is attractive to most people. Maybe that’s something? I feel like it hasn’t had an effect positive or negative. I can tell some people are more intimidated and really young kids tend to stare.
I’m a corrections officer and 6ft so any spare height you want to send my way would be appreciated
I’d spare a bit of my 6’4″, but I need it all for being a bouncer, sorry
(plus, the missus gets first dibs on spare height, them’s the rules)
Completely understand (my wife is also short)
I’m 5’11.5″. If any of you can spare that half an inch it would be greatly appreciated. (Round numbers are just easier.)
My wife is six feet and that was a selling point even before I said hello on that first date. Subsequent selling points included a mutual love of Indian and Thai food, joint devotion to the Democratic Party and a 97 percent commonality in our moral codes (actual test results). The final clincher was when she mentioned she despised pulp in her orange juice. In that instant, I stopped feeling so alone in the world.
Orange pulp is so WRONG.
Joe doesn’t like orange pulp either. It’s in his mentals.
Damn Joe is body goals ngl. Get his mentals right Willis!
What.. what are mentals?
More than one mental. You know, like those of us here in the commentariate.
We’re all mental except for Sirksome who just kind of wandered in.
Yes, we’re all mad here!
Dure we’re all mad of star stuff,
but what the mental are mentals?
The mental…
Mentals mental mentals ment a ls.
MENTALS!
I remember enjoying the Stardust movie a great deal.
The book is also awesome, and doesn’t ring as many mysogeny bells that I can recall. (not there’s a lot in the movie.)
You don’t have to be mad to post here, but it helps.
Frankly, I’d have assumed he wasn’t getting his part done and handed it in myself by now. Then again, I never lived on campus so I suppose it would’ve been easier if I had.
It’s also possible that the 2 of them had made vague plans to get the work done “before class” and this is the first time both have had free.
I know Joe is preoccupied with sex, but is there any evidence he is a bad student overall? A slacker?
I think she’s been avoiding seeking him out for it too, until now when there’s no more time to stall. Joyce is conflicted about working with Joe.
Damn. When did Joe get taller than the door? Or is that just how he seems to Joyce?
No! Bad Willis! Down boy! We dont need sinking ships like these.
Yes we do
I assume you’re referring to Danny’s band.
https://web.archive.org/web/20071230185920/http://www.legitimatebros.com/main.php?pg=sinking_ships
I don’t see any ships sinking here
I don’t even see anything that could be used to sink a ship
What you see is smooth sailing.
Oh Tactical Chest right in her unresolved sexual tension XD
I AM GETTIN THE BOTTLE READY TO CHRISTEN THIS DAMN SHIP
But Joe’s Jewish.
I feel like christening ships has no religious boundaries.
Naming mentals surely doesn’t,
But christening them very much mentals.
How about atheistic boundaries?
I don’t mind ships getting christened, but it feels like it’d take an enormous cross to do it. And who’s hoisting the things up there?
Honestly, he’s probably just as flustered.
Joyce’s face in panel 3 is awesome . She was expecting him to wear a pajamas… How sweet ♡!!! Joyce is just too funny. She and Joe are a funny/sweet couple.
Heeheeheeheehee
I like that Classic Joe’s aloha shirt has been repurposed into DoA Joe’s boxer shorts
Joe: Fi, Fi, Fo, Fum, I smell the fun of Joyce Browndum.
Joyce: I AM NOT DUMB!
Poor Joyce! Hot and flustered by Joe!
And I’m gonna ship it EVEN HARDER. Thaaaaaaank you.
I just now remembered that Joe and Joyce have already been on a date. Ship burnt at port but may be repuilt
Yeah. I remember a strip where Joe and Jacob were in the gym together. Jacob was complaining about Joyce being deceptive, and Joe was. (sort of) praising her. Until he stopped unexpectedly.
My assumption was that Joe stopped because HE realized he was attracted to Joyce and didn’t want any competition from Jacob.
That was the best strip ever.
Joe: I hate Joyce, she’s so uptight.
Also Joe: Joyce is literally the most wonderful person here and you’d be a sucker to not want to be in her life. She is constantly improving and trying to be a better person and eventually she’s going to be the most perfect Joyce she can be. What kind of idiot would want to miss out on that? Does such a fool even exist?
Give it the Vasa treatment!
That was Old Joyce, before she had her epiphany and she was still trying to make her world fit the way her religious upbringing led her to believe it was. I think it was even before Becky came out.
It couldn’t hurt that much for them to try again…
Won’t hurt that much because Mike’s not around for the punching any more.
It was in the third storyline of this strip, I’m pretty sure. DEFINITELY long before Becky came out. She and Dorothy weren’t even best friends yet and she hadn’t been to That Party yet.
Eh, the Joece never really sunk. It’s lost its canon (sp intended), but remains in service due to the hard work and devotion of her shipping crew.
I appreciate Joyce SO MUCH. I do not have this problem, but still, she is ACCURATE.
Here’s a prediction: Joyce and Joe will end up together and grow up to be Mr and Mrs Boring Conventional Middle Class Couple. It just seems right that those two would end up having the most exciting college adventures and the most routine later adult lives.
Agreed on all points except the scope on Boring and routine. Like, maybe the phrase “outside the bedroom” could be tucked in there somewhere, or maybe “mentals”.
Is “mentals” going to become a recurring gag here in the comments section? 😛
I still don’t get it, myself. What is it even about?
Mentals
More than one mental.
I’m not sure “having a different threshold of familiarity” is limited to men. I’m a man and I don’t think I would ever feel comfortable answering the door in my underwear.
Same. I guess it’s just Joe trying to be Pure Sex.
Joe doesn’t want to be Pure Sex around Joyce. He’s just a grumpy just woken up dude who can’t be bothered to play nice around Joyce of all people.
Yes, Joyce, go for it!
No, Joyce, don’t do it!
I got a equal reason to ship and sink Joyce and Joe.
Fight me.
In the square corner, featuring a slightly custom grav, and a linked handle weighing in at twelve characters in length we have !*A-mosss BA-TIS-taaa*! In the red corner, with a fully custom black and white gravatar and a whip snapping seven character handle is _the challenger_: *!SPEN-CERRR!*. Now for the moment you’ve all been waiting for. Let’s get ready to MENNNNNNN-TALLLLLLLLLLLLLLSSSSSSS!
Round One: FIGHT
I love this so much.
hahaha, nice!
and with her glasses she can now see each chest hair clearly
No, no, Joyce, don’t fall into the cragged shamepit of the lustwolves!
Meh. I could use the company. Or at least some help digging down past the shame layer, cause that shame stuff’s some BULL-shit.
If I could get over to the cragged regularpit of the lustwolves I’d be much happier.
The boys of Beckentown da noaw da doaw
(emperor palpatine voice) Yes. Let the horny flow through you. Do him.
Just after the last comic, I found myself thinking, “I wonder how Joyce is adjusting to life with glasses?”
Maybe we’ll find out!
Ok. Calm down just try to imagine him in his underwear. Wait he is in his underwear. Oh no he’s hot. Abort mission. We’ll get him next time.
“Julia Gray and the Biology Homework”
Volume 327.
Did Joyce just teleport again?
so, is it the eyes that are laser guided, or the nipples?
I read that as,
“I PROnt a SExy”