With the volume of blood Faz has indicated as currently relocated south of the belt, there is a chance he would not wish to end physical contact initiated by the female party. Here is a chart that proves how much he is enjoying this…
Eh, the Biblical god would demand that Joyce remain a virgin for life, unless she couldn’t control her hormones, in which case she could maybe get married rather than go to Hell, depending on how you interpret the Pauline letters.
…. Faz is less clear-cut, but I think he gets a smiting for pride.
Multiple libraries really. Just the core torah has at least four to five major variants in common usage. The Samaritan, Masoretic, Septuagint, and Latin Vulgate texts each differ enough to count as distinct and some parts of the Coptic text may as well to my understanding.
Well, yes, but when a conversation is talking about “the” biblical god, the presumption is that you’re trying to reconcile all those versions into a single, coherent gestalt.
I know it’s a whole day late, but I just want it noted that I’m now picturing Walky trying to cram a bunch of beardy dude palette swaps with name tags in their respective languages into one small cardboard box.
Is’nt that kind of anti-Semitic? Your basically saying the God of the Old Testament (aka the Jewish God) is unloving. I’ve seen some pretty heated discussions about this on other blogs between Jews and gentiles and while I don’t want to overgeneralise, I know that many Jews do find that very offensive.
Hm. I’ve read the (Christian version of the) Old Testament, and it seems like that God is _selectively_ loving. Not universally loving, the way the New Testament God is (except for the occasional fig tree or herd of swine).
It’s hard for me to imagine anyone, even someone loyal to the OT God, saying it was a “loving” act to command complete genocide on a conquered people. And at least the translation/version I read doesn’t leave much room for interpretation on that.
Sure, the Old Testament God did a lot of messed up shit, so I can understand someone finding him unloving. I think what I really take issue with and did’nt really properly convey is that of the idea of the Old Testament God being less loving than the New Testament God. Sure, the God of the New Testament did’nt exactly do as much overt evil as the OLd Testament God, but he still allows a ton of evil to happen. I get that some evil in the world is necessary for free will and all, but surely things like natural disasters subvert free will by putting people in desperate situations where it might feel like the only way to survive is to be selfish. There’s more than enough man made evil in the world without adding to it. And that’s without getting into the concept of Hell that was introduced by the New Testament which to me is worse than anything the Old Testament God did. I’m aware that not all Christians believe in hell, but I think enough do for my point to Stand.
One should ask, what would drive a loving God into wrath, when He’s slow to anger?
One, Israel’s constant failure to mainly obey ten simple rules. (Sure, there’s Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, but the “Laws” is the Ten Commandments).
Two, humanity’s perverted nature.
However, Israel did not vanish from existance.
Also, for parts like the Amalekites, God commanded the Israelites to destroy them as revenge for the Amalekites trying to kill off the Israelites’ handicapped people.
I could go on, but my brain is tired from studying all day.
I wouldn’t call it anti-semitic, it’s a wildly common trope that old school god is much more vengeful and badass than the newer love your enemies god. I believe Sarah has invoked this trope herself when she beat that rapist with a baseball bat.
For some reason I’ve been seeing the DoA characters in contrast to their Walkyverse counterparts this week. Joyce and Faz interacting is slightly weirder than Walky not knowing Jason’s name.
How about “…blood flowing into MY nether regions…”!!!
Not ‘… into FAZ’S nether …’? Maybe he latched onto Joe’s comment about referring to one’s self in the third person? If so, I hope the change is permanent. It reduces the character’s annoyance factor by a full order of magnitude.
When did he come back to it?
It’s been a lot of strips, but I remember both Sarah and Joyce telling Joe Sarah was off limits pretty intensely in the cafeteria (right before they met Jacob) and I don’t remember him asking her out again after that.
what’s weird for me is, the “old joe” just kinda disappeared abruptly with no serious reflection and we’re all kinda accepting that he’s changed. i’m not sure if this is naivete of the readership or the author or both or neither, i guess time will tell. IRL i certainly would not have gained any trust for joe at this point
There’s been a few scenes of the old Joe resurfacing and him stomping it back down. He’s definitely made a step forward, whether he relapses or not is another question.
More subtly, he’s also still stuck in the “I’m doomed to be my father” mode. He’s just now realized that even his prior casual approach was damaging and he’s sworn off women entirely. That’s unlikely to last and the real test will be seeing if he can handle some actual sexual/romantic interaction without reverting to his old habits.
Hey let’s be fair to Joe here Joyce. Joe doesn’t speak in third like fucking pokemon like Faz… that’s the only difference I can think of besides having the common sense to not straight up walk into the women’s bathroom.
He didn’t respect Sarah’s no, repeatedly hitting on her even after he said he would stop.
He knew Joyce wasn’t interested in casual sex but tried to convince her otherwise.
I know there’s something else (I think alcohol was mentioned at some point?) but Joe respected the word of consent, without actually understanding the spirit of it. He wants to respect consent, but he doesn’t fully grasp everything involved with mutual consent.
And even before he got better, it was more out of legitimate dumbfoundedness(emphasis on the ‘dumb’) that any woman legitimately did not desire his company.
If you told me when I first started reading this comic that the only other good friend Joe would have besides Danny is Joyce i would have laughed in your Facebook but now…..still contemplating the status of their friendship
Given the fact that she grasped Joe’s error immediately, I’m thinking she had hold of Faz in panel one. Also, she’s typing one-handed, though maybe that’s normal for her?
It’s kind of hard to swipe type with two hands. I’m not a fan of swipe typing…I prefer pecking with my two thumbs but she is clearly swiping her thumb across the keyboard.
It’s odd. When are they going to have voice to text? So we can see them carrying on conversations like they are on the phone but …not?
People type on phones with both hands (or just two thumbs)? Jeez, I can barely do that on a 7″ tablet, never mind a 5″ phone. Maybe it’s a remaining habit from the bad old days of the PocketPC, but hunt-and-peck with one thumb is fast and accurate enough for me on a screen that small.
well, also joe is an adult who flirts with/hits on age-appropriate women, and also is capable of normal human interaction when he’s not being a lech. i don’t mean to 100% defend joe’s behavior because he’s definitely out of line at times, but there’s more of a difference between them than just attractiveness.
semi-unrelated, but strips like these feed my joexjoyce ship (but also the ship, in my mind, is fed by any indication that they are on decent terms. Like, it’s less of a ship and more of a “I want you guys to be close friends and comfortable with each other, not necessarily kiss.”)
Look the people here are unable to conceive of Walky asking to be friends with Jason without assuming they’re going to fuck. The idea of “friendship” holds no meaning to them.
I love the implication that Joyce grabbed and restrained a small Asian boy first and only after she had done so did she check to see if it was the one Joe was talking about.
So, Faz didn’t refer to himself in the third person in the last panel. Maybe it’s too early to say, but did he actually decide to follow Joe’s advice about not talking in the third person? Because that would mean he can be taught/reasoned with.
I’ve got the feeling that, by the end of this day, Faz will have been yanked around by the hood by just about every girl in the primary cast. Here’s the thing: He will remember this as a positive thing and as a show of affection!
Wow I don’t think I have ever seen Joyce so consistently annoyed panel-to-panel. Interacting with Two pre-marital hankey pankers must really put a strain on her XD
This chapter is some kind of horrible parallel to “Walking with Dina.” In that chapter we followed Dina as she trotted along her day being awesome, bumping into the rest of the cast as she went along. In this chapter we follow Faz as he Fazes around and annoys people, bumping into the cast as he goes along.
And I still think he will turn out to be a parallell to Becky and/or Howard.
When I look at this… I’d love to see Joyce being Joe’s sister instead of Amber. They already have this “I’m annoyed by him/her but I have his/her back when push comes to shove” dynamic. I mean Joyce captured Faz before Joe even contacted her. She has this “fixing dumb brother’s mistakes for him” feel to herself in this scene.
That’s the thing about Joyce – She’s all the characters’ dumb, happy, helpful, pesky and/or loving sister. It’s entirely in her nature to give this impression to everyone. One of the big things that is necessary for her to have a romantic relationship with anyone is for her to push beyond that sisterly safe-zone. So far, Jacob has been the closest with whom this has happened.
It is no wonder she did a Very Dumb Thing as soon as she could in her interaction with Jacob. She was WAY out of her depth.
In one way, she’s a romantic version of that old joke about the dog chasing cars. “I finally caught it – now what do I do?”. For all her talk about finding a man, Joyce had NO idea* what to do with a boyfriend if she snagged him.
*) Well, OK, some ideas, but they were sinful so she tried to suppress them, and they were probably anatomically wrong anyway.
I think Bagge might have been referring to her saying it was “her pleasure”, heavily implying it was the violence itself that was a pleasure.
I mean, punching a thief- sans any sort of damage beyond bruising- I’m kinda okay with. He could have seriously screwed over the guy he stole from, depending not only on the monetary value of the contents but what he’s studying; and this got the bag back, and hopefully shook the thief up enough to behave differently. But taking active pleasure in hurting someone, I can understand that making someone leery.
To be fair I interpreted it as more a stock phrase than someone Amazi-girl genuinely Felt. And even if she did mean it literally it was more about Stopping Crime than just hurting someone for the fun of it… but then again Amber has Issues and it’s really hard to tell sometimes. She might have an inherent drive towards violence and just channels it into more positive actions, kinda like a kid-friendly Dexter.
Sadly, drop-kicks do not put people in a self reflective state. I think Faz just needs to have some contact with people other than Blaine. He needs a wake up call, not a good night foot, so to speak 😛
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“Search your feelings, you know it to be true.”
“Nooooooo, that’s not possible!”
“Faz has a chart showing the possibility. It has UP-ness!”
Golden
I love this so much.
Joyce didn’t even grab onto him. Faz is really sticky, and her hand brushed against him.
Random Prediction: Next comic, Joe will arrive and Joyce will be standing there with the hoodie but no Faz.
With the volume of blood Faz has indicated as currently relocated south of the belt, there is a chance he would not wish to end physical contact initiated by the female party. Here is a chart that proves how much he is enjoying this…
He seemingly has no idea Joyce is connected to either Joe or Amber, so he has no reason to flee her begrudging company.
That’s not a chart, it’s a whiteboard stolen from a dorm door during an earlier arc.
Damn now that is a call back.
If a woman was involved in removing any piece of his clothing, Faz would stay.
Joyce and Faz. A combination of Willis character over 10 years in the making. May God be with us all.
A hearty amen to that tbh.
*cue infinite vomit*
Seems like Joyce actually has the situation under control, somehow.
We’ll see how long her patience lasts.
That doesn’t look so much like patience as grim determination.
*WWF pay-per-view opening package voice* May God have mercy on our souls.
Pretty sure that no loving god would allow this ship to ever happen.
But the biblical god probably would.
Eh, the Biblical god would demand that Joyce remain a virgin for life, unless she couldn’t control her hormones, in which case she could maybe get married rather than go to Hell, depending on how you interpret the Pauline letters.
…. Faz is less clear-cut, but I think he gets a smiting for pride.
Depends which Biblical god.
The Bible’s not a book, it’s a library.
Multiple libraries really. Just the core torah has at least four to five major variants in common usage. The Samaritan, Masoretic, Septuagint, and Latin Vulgate texts each differ enough to count as distinct and some parts of the Coptic text may as well to my understanding.
Excellent point.
Well, yes, but when a conversation is talking about “the” biblical god, the presumption is that you’re trying to reconcile all those versions into a single, coherent gestalt.
I know it’s a whole day late, but I just want it noted that I’m now picturing Walky trying to cram a bunch of beardy dude palette swaps with name tags in their respective languages into one small cardboard box.
The Old Testament version, anyway.
Is’nt that kind of anti-Semitic? Your basically saying the God of the Old Testament (aka the Jewish God) is unloving. I’ve seen some pretty heated discussions about this on other blogs between Jews and gentiles and while I don’t want to overgeneralise, I know that many Jews do find that very offensive.
Hm. I’ve read the (Christian version of the) Old Testament, and it seems like that God is _selectively_ loving. Not universally loving, the way the New Testament God is (except for the occasional fig tree or herd of swine).
It’s hard for me to imagine anyone, even someone loyal to the OT God, saying it was a “loving” act to command complete genocide on a conquered people. And at least the translation/version I read doesn’t leave much room for interpretation on that.
Sure, the Old Testament God did a lot of messed up shit, so I can understand someone finding him unloving. I think what I really take issue with and did’nt really properly convey is that of the idea of the Old Testament God being less loving than the New Testament God. Sure, the God of the New Testament did’nt exactly do as much overt evil as the OLd Testament God, but he still allows a ton of evil to happen. I get that some evil in the world is necessary for free will and all, but surely things like natural disasters subvert free will by putting people in desperate situations where it might feel like the only way to survive is to be selfish. There’s more than enough man made evil in the world without adding to it. And that’s without getting into the concept of Hell that was introduced by the New Testament which to me is worse than anything the Old Testament God did. I’m aware that not all Christians believe in hell, but I think enough do for my point to Stand.
Sorry, forgot to put it in paragraphs
Or as I’d say: The main difference between OT god and NT god is that the OT god is full of overt horror, while NT god tries to* make it covert horror.
*Not that it always succeeds.
One should ask, what would drive a loving God into wrath, when He’s slow to anger?
One, Israel’s constant failure to mainly obey ten simple rules. (Sure, there’s Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, but the “Laws” is the Ten Commandments).
Two, humanity’s perverted nature.
However, Israel did not vanish from existance.
Also, for parts like the Amalekites, God commanded the Israelites to destroy them as revenge for the Amalekites trying to kill off the Israelites’ handicapped people.
I could go on, but my brain is tired from studying all day.
I wouldn’t call it anti-semitic, it’s a wildly common trope that old school god is much more vengeful and badass than the newer love your enemies god. I believe Sarah has invoked this trope herself when she beat that rapist with a baseball bat.
“Pretty sure that no loving god would allow this ship to ever happen.
But the biblical god probably would.”
This sums up my view on the Biblical God pretty much perfectly.
*Chris Matthews bark-laugh* HAH! I got Mary for that comment!
Triangle Smile Club is born!
Never hated Jazz so much.
Joyce is good at swipe typing.
Faz better shut up. He does not want to meet the Joyce with the red eyes.
The texting is the only thing keeping her punching hand from, well, punching.
That’s an incredible ship name and I hate you for it. Jazz was a good thing before this day.
The legacy of Scatman Crothers shall never be tarnished!
where’s the upvote button when it’s dearly needed?
For some reason I’ve been seeing the DoA characters in contrast to their Walkyverse counterparts this week. Joyce and Faz interacting is slightly weirder than Walky not knowing Jason’s name.
The Joyce/Faz ship is in desperate need of an iceburg.
And torpedoes. And mines. And reefs. And maybe a great white whale.
No kill like OVERKILL!
Concidentally with the first panel, Faz also wants Joyce to do him a solid.
He’s gross, but can you really blame him?
yes
Texting while Faz-wrangling? Joyce is clearly too powerful.
…. every now and then, Joyce reminds me that she’d be an okay mother.
…. just, you know, not able to clean up messes. Or deal with any aspect of pregnancy or childbirth.
iirc, there was a comic about her dealing with pregnancy…
found it! http://itspregnancy.tumblr.com/
I also discovered there’s a wiki: http://walkypedia.wikia.com/wiki/Walkypedia_Wiki
I had no idea this tumblr even existed and I am hella thankful to you for linking it.
I’m not sure if that’s even Walkyverse canon. But either way, Walkyverse!Joyce =/= Dumbingverse!Joyce.
…but silly me put two links in one comment, so, it’ll take a while to appear.
or not. ha 🙂
Well, yeah, but we already knew that
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/02-that-perfect-girl/kd/
Well, yeah, but we already knew that.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/03-when-god-closes-the-door/frame/
Some excellent,called-for Joyce faces today!
There’s a different great Joyce face in every panel, it’s perfect.
Faz seems less prepared. But then again, he did drop all of his charts.
Faz keeps a report binder full of charts and chart templates with him at all times.
His binder is not full of women yet, but that is his dream.
Always sad to see a kid with no future or hope of improvement.
Yeah, Joe’s in a sorry place.
Joe isn’t actually in this comic – just his voice.
I think Taffy means Joyce.
I think Joe has seen Joyce in person enough to know she’s probably never smiling at anything he says.
“smug and sarcastic” is what I think he’s seeing
“Woman of no relation”? Does that mean he knows he and Amber are related?
He says Amber’s father is his own, so he probably thinks that. Whether or not he knows that is another (false) matter entirely.
Wait, could that mean Faz’s biological father is even worse than Blaine? Is that even possible?!
Well, his mother in the Walkyverse was presumably in the Korean mob, so…
I just hope it means that he doesn’t own an Amber body-pillow.
How about “…blood flowing into MY nether regions…”!!!
Not ‘… into FAZ’S nether …’? Maybe he latched onto Joe’s comment about referring to one’s self in the third person? If so, I hope the change is permanent. It reduces the character’s annoyance factor by a full order of magnitude.
Step-sibling is related. Not biologically, but still. I assume that’s all he means.
hella wicked game, brah
Aah, you’re mixing the coastal slang!
Wickit pissah, ked!
*Chugs Dunks ice coffee while tossing a plastic patio chair in the parking space he shoveled out*
To be fair, Joe is much, much better at it.
Yeah, but Faz is a very low bar to clear.
Joe also understands what a “no” is. Not to mention that he probably knows what he’s talking about when he talks about sex. Unlike Faz.
So yeah, any similarities are probably superficial at best.
Joe understands what a “no” is. It’s a challenge.
At least for the old Joe.
He respected Sarah’s no pretty easily.
Though, to be fair, the no was pretty intense, so we didn’t get to see how he’d react to a more casual one.
That intense of a no and he kept coming back to it every time they interacted.
When did he come back to it?
It’s been a lot of strips, but I remember both Sarah and Joyce telling Joe Sarah was off limits pretty intensely in the cafeteria (right before they met Jacob) and I don’t remember him asking her out again after that.
He absolutely did not respect Sara’s no properly.
what’s weird for me is, the “old joe” just kinda disappeared abruptly with no serious reflection and we’re all kinda accepting that he’s changed. i’m not sure if this is naivete of the readership or the author or both or neither, i guess time will tell. IRL i certainly would not have gained any trust for joe at this point
There’s been a few scenes of the old Joe resurfacing and him stomping it back down. He’s definitely made a step forward, whether he relapses or not is another question.
More subtly, he’s also still stuck in the “I’m doomed to be my father” mode. He’s just now realized that even his prior casual approach was damaging and he’s sworn off women entirely. That’s unlikely to last and the real test will be seeing if he can handle some actual sexual/romantic interaction without reverting to his old habits.
Hooray, Joyce caught him! Poor Joyce. XD
It’s like when you catch the neighbors’ dog in your yard and while you’re returning him, you wonder why they can’t just keep him on a damn leash.
You forgot to mention the part where it insistently humps your leg.
OK, Joyce, you’ve got him. Now you need to figure out what you’re gonna do with him.
Like all rescued strays, he should be neutered.
Be careful what you wish for. There are many women who would not wish to stop at Faz.
I mean, at least Faz has *some* standards.
(Also, Joyce’s aggravated expressions are oddly adorable. But I mean, they’re Joyce expressions, so.)
Joyce’s consternation face is the best face.
Hey let’s be fair to Joe here Joyce. Joe doesn’t speak in third like fucking pokemon like Faz… that’s the only difference I can think of besides having the common sense to not straight up walk into the women’s bathroom.
Many women have actively enjoyed Joe’s company.
Joe also backs off when rebuffed, and heavily emphasises mutual consent.
canon evidence contradicts this. sure he says he does, but he doesnt seem to actually follow it
Source?
He didn’t respect Sarah’s no, repeatedly hitting on her even after he said he would stop.
He knew Joyce wasn’t interested in casual sex but tried to convince her otherwise.
I know there’s something else (I think alcohol was mentioned at some point?) but Joe respected the word of consent, without actually understanding the spirit of it. He wants to respect consent, but he doesn’t fully grasp everything involved with mutual consent.
These days Joe listens when women tell him no
And even before he got better, it was more out of legitimate dumbfoundedness(emphasis on the ‘dumb’) that any woman legitimately did not desire his company.
has this actually been demonstrated? or has he just been not approaching people in a first place due to his now-deflated ego?
If you told me when I first started reading this comic that the only other good friend Joe would have besides Danny is Joyce i would have laughed in your Facebook but now…..still contemplating the status of their friendship
Face*
Book.
Boooooooooook
I here I was hoping that was intentional.
*”Runaway” finishes and is replaced by the instrumental version of “All Time High” from the same soundtrack over a hacked P.A. speaker*
I am getting the weirdest Judy Hopps-Nick Wilde vibes from Joyce and Joe
She’s been on the verge of introducing him to her parents as her Bulmarian boyfriend for years/days.
That should be Joyce’s Halloween costume.
Now that you mention it…
Should hang in the Louvre.
I wonder if that would cause Team America to think twice before destroying the place?
*snrk*
Hmmmm, nearer to Al Kapp, or Matisse? Hmmm, hard to say, but a solid 10, Permanent collection for sure.
Excellent use of the zoom out in the last panel.
Technically Joyce isn’t actually touching Faz’s body, she’s touching the hood of his hoodie.
You say this as if it is at all relevant to Faz’s construction-paper-esque arousal.
I like how Joyce is pulling on Faz’s hoodie and yet keeping his body a certain distance from her own
It’s amazing how such a small dose of him can be enough for ever.
Yeah, but at the rate it takes these stories to play out, it’ll be almost three years before he’s gone.
EWW, Faz
So did Joyce grab him while he was running past in panel three, or did she have him from the beginning
She actually captured him under Joe’s nose using the teleport powers she was established to have in this strip
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2017/comic/book-8/01-face-the-strange/helping/
Given the fact that she grasped Joe’s error immediately, I’m thinking she had hold of Faz in panel one. Also, she’s typing one-handed, though maybe that’s normal for her?
It’s kind of hard to swipe type with two hands. I’m not a fan of swipe typing…I prefer pecking with my two thumbs but she is clearly swiping her thumb across the keyboard.
It’s odd. When are they going to have voice to text? So we can see them carrying on conversations like they are on the phone but …not?
People type on phones with both hands (or just two thumbs)? Jeez, I can barely do that on a 7″ tablet, never mind a 5″ phone. Maybe it’s a remaining habit from the bad old days of the PocketPC, but hunt-and-peck with one thumb is fast and accurate enough for me on a screen that small.
We’ve seen her swipe type before when Joe was checking out Leslie in class, so it seems normal for her
Faz isn’t just creepy. He’s also WEIRDLY SPECIFIC… o_0
I would say strangle him with his sweater but I think that would just arouse him.
Be very careful, Faz. Joyce is not one to harass. I mean nobody is okay to harass but Joyce is especially dangerous.
Sadly the difference between Faz and Joe is he has a body that grants him more leeway.
well, also joe is an adult who flirts with/hits on age-appropriate women, and also is capable of normal human interaction when he’s not being a lech. i don’t mean to 100% defend joe’s behavior because he’s definitely out of line at times, but there’s more of a difference between them than just attractiveness.
Well, we can do the alt-text all day with these gravatars, can’t we?
The prison-industrial complex is a bountiful source of free labor while also making it so that incarcerated black men can’t vote for laws against it!
semi-unrelated, but strips like these feed my joexjoyce ship (but also the ship, in my mind, is fed by any indication that they are on decent terms. Like, it’s less of a ship and more of a “I want you guys to be close friends and comfortable with each other, not necessarily kiss.”)
That, funnily enough, i believe is actually called a Friend-Ship. Sorta like your NO-T-P but you still want them to enjoy each others company.
Look the people here are unable to conceive of Walky asking to be friends with Jason without assuming they’re going to fuck. The idea of “friendship” holds no meaning to them.
That’s called a brotp, the best tp
I love the implication that Joyce grabbed and restrained a small Asian boy first and only after she had done so did she check to see if it was the one Joe was talking about.
Well… it’s Faz we are talking about. I’m pretty sure he did something restrain-worthy first.
Joe is apparently from Northern California?
Joyce Brown always catches her man.
Unfortunately for her, the men she catches are usually hot. This one must be awfully disappointing.
Yeah, Faz probably hears that a lot
And those were his final words.
So, Faz didn’t refer to himself in the third person in the last panel. Maybe it’s too early to say, but did he actually decide to follow Joe’s advice about not talking in the third person? Because that would mean he can be taught/reasoned with.
He is evolving. This can only make him more terrifying.
Joe did advise Faz not to use the ‘third person’ thing so much. Maybe he’s trying out the advice now?
I honestly can’t tell if that would be a heel-face turn or just regular character development.
All that hoodie-grabbing with Walky finaley pays up!
She has experience in handling annoying little brothers… but she might underestimate just HOW horribly annoying this one is.
I thought she was the baby of the family
She was, until she found her new extended family
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/forever/
On the plus side, Joyce found Faz.
On the down side, Joyce found Faz.
On the plus side, Joyce has experience with Joe so she knows what a younger, less experienced Joe would be like.
On the down side, Joyce has to deal with a younger, teenaged Joe.
And now my shipping senses much dictate that Faz is Joyce and Joe’s son.
I refuse to believe either of them could be that bad at parenting. Even Joe.
Joe was himself raised by Joe, and he’s not nearly as bad as Faz!
For one thing, he understands the concept of consent.
Well, Joyce isn’t wrong…
Joe better run and get him ASAP.
I’ve got the feeling that, by the end of this day, Faz will have been yanked around by the hood by just about every girl in the primary cast. Here’s the thing: He will remember this as a positive thing and as a show of affection!
if he lives long enough
How nice of Faz to affix “no relation” to the woman in his hypothetical scenario. /s
Wow I don’t think I have ever seen Joyce so consistently annoyed panel-to-panel. Interacting with Two pre-marital hankey pankers must really put a strain on her XD
This chapter is some kind of horrible parallel to “Walking with Dina.” In that chapter we followed Dina as she trotted along her day being awesome, bumping into the rest of the cast as she went along. In this chapter we follow Faz as he Fazes around and annoys people, bumping into the cast as he goes along.
And I still think he will turn out to be a parallell to Becky and/or Howard.
Well at least he’s not talking in third person. That’s a… start?
Joyce’s expression is frickin adorable and I love it.
When I look at this… I’d love to see Joyce being Joe’s sister instead of Amber. They already have this “I’m annoyed by him/her but I have his/her back when push comes to shove” dynamic. I mean Joyce captured Faz before Joe even contacted her. She has this “fixing dumb brother’s mistakes for him” feel to herself in this scene.
That’s the thing about Joyce – She’s all the characters’ dumb, happy, helpful, pesky and/or loving sister. It’s entirely in her nature to give this impression to everyone. One of the big things that is necessary for her to have a romantic relationship with anyone is for her to push beyond that sisterly safe-zone. So far, Jacob has been the closest with whom this has happened.
Very, very true.
It is no wonder she did a Very Dumb Thing as soon as she could in her interaction with Jacob. She was WAY out of her depth.
In one way, she’s a romantic version of that old joke about the dog chasing cars. “I finally caught it – now what do I do?”. For all her talk about finding a man, Joyce had NO idea* what to do with a boyfriend if she snagged him.
*) Well, OK, some ideas, but they were sinful so she tried to suppress them, and they were probably anatomically wrong anyway.
They involve rubbing things on her tummy, apparently.
Lewd
Prediction: Joyce and Joe are totally gonna get hitched within 10 years. They’re way to comfortable with each other.
*sigh* I give up. I can’t add any more levels to the S.S. Joece without it capsizing. There’s just no way. The ship is full.
…
*begins construction on the S.S. Joece II*
Just call them Fleet Group Joece!
I’m just waiting for Carol’s head to explode when Joyce tells her that her boyfriend is Jewish and, yes, she’s converting before the marriage.
Frankly considering the way she is going Joyce might end up an atheist, or at least someone loathing organized religion.
Technically Faz, she’s making contact with the back of your hoodie.
Also love how it’s a running thing where Joyce captures people by their hoodies
It’s part of his carapace
Is he a very inept Genestealer? CALL THE DEATHWATCH!
Amaza-Girl needs to drop kick the little shit.
N-o-o-o-o-o… Amazi-girl is not always perfectly on board with the concept of proportional respons.
And Faz is a kid.
Actually… she is? It’s Amber you need to watch out for.
I’m not comfortable with the concept of Amazi-girl dropkicking anyone
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/03-when-god-closes-the-door/pleasure/
He was a thief, a bit of ass-kicking was in order.
I think Bagge might have been referring to her saying it was “her pleasure”, heavily implying it was the violence itself that was a pleasure.
I mean, punching a thief- sans any sort of damage beyond bruising- I’m kinda okay with. He could have seriously screwed over the guy he stole from, depending not only on the monetary value of the contents but what he’s studying; and this got the bag back, and hopefully shook the thief up enough to behave differently. But taking active pleasure in hurting someone, I can understand that making someone leery.
To be fair I interpreted it as more a stock phrase than someone Amazi-girl genuinely Felt. And even if she did mean it literally it was more about Stopping Crime than just hurting someone for the fun of it… but then again Amber has Issues and it’s really hard to tell sometimes. She might have an inherent drive towards violence and just channels it into more positive actions, kinda like a kid-friendly Dexter.
Sadly, drop-kicks do not put people in a self reflective state. I think Faz just needs to have some contact with people other than Blaine. He needs a wake up call, not a good night foot, so to speak 😛
Yeah, Joe doesn’t deal in charts, he deals in lists. That’s toootally different.
Irked Joyce is the best Joyce.
Ugh, I’m going through the last few arcs and it just hit me that Faz is just a Howard with less of a leash.
Yep, still better than more Malaya.
I’m still overjoyed by the fact that Joyce and Joe are canon texting buddies. Their friendship warms my heart.