“Joyce has only recently started to grasp the concept of “slang.””
Actually, “bouncing your eyes” means that one is supposed to condition himself from not staring at his or her object of affection, which is lustful, since lusting is bad. Apparently the term comes from the fact that our eyes have a tendency to gravitate towards things that sexually please us but since it’s rude to stare at a woman’s chest, you should immediately look away a soon as you catch yourself doing that, thus creating a “bouncing” effect with your eyes.
Bouncing of the eyes comes from the contemporary men’s purity movement (see Every Man’s Battle) where men who don’t want to look lustfully on a woman train themselves to reflexively bounce their eyes away from eye candy.
Babes, Babes it’s okay!
Doesn’t matter if your straight or gay,
though you might think it’s deranged,
you wont think twice once I’ve slept with you babe
Babes, Babes,
I love ’em I need em.
I’m the only thing that could ever cum between them.
I don’t date, because that would be to boring
They always learn to like me by the morning
woaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
…That sounds like I’m saying it’s impossible, like “in your dreams” or “not in a million years”. I mean it really happened in that other universe. Went quite a bit further than makeouts too, if I recall.
The completely ineffectiveness of hitting on Sarah aside, you’d think Joe would know better than to hit on girls in a group where they can back each other up. It’d probably be easier to work on them alone.
Unless he’s that good that he can convince multiple girls at once.
I’m not even convinced he’s really hitting on them (as in actually hoping to get one on a date) so much as just doing his usual thing. You gotta figure if a guy spends as much time chasing skirts as Joe has, it kinda becomes a reflex.
Well yes except that is the creeper way to do it. If you are not a gross, rapey ass you do not intentionally target girls with the goal of making them feel less able to say no (ie where they can ‘back each other up’)
I am not saying to never hit on a girl who is alone, but your reasons should not be ‘oh boy without her friends she will be less resistant to my advances,’ that is how an abuser thinks.
That is, of course, not how Joe’s thinking. Joe’s thinking, “If she says no, maybe one of her friends will say yes. Better yet, maybe she’ll say yes and her friends will also say yes.”
Sarah: Joe, take the taco, shine it up real good, turn it sideways and stick it straight up your candy ass. IF YOU SMELL WHAT SARAH…-raises eyebrow- IS COOKING.
And now I have that theme stuck in my head. The one where it is basically just the dude going “eh-eh-eh-X-MEN, GET IT, X-Men, eh-eh-eh-X-MEN” over and over. If there is any justice in this world, I will be the instrument of all of your destructions. Every. Last. One.
When she’s angry? Sarah’s face in that 4th panel seems to indicate that a yes will result in Joe being beaten to death with his own junk. Never mind the dick punching….
accidentally hit random at some point, and coincidentally randomized the beginning of a scene that ALSO occurred in the cafeteria, was quite confused for about 5 strips.
He said “ladies”, which is a form of hi, just a bit awkward. If you really pay attention to what he says and does in the comic, he isn’t as bad as he’s assumed to be.
It’s because right from the beginning he’s been the womanizer stereotype. Still, he has a much better attitude towards women then Danny (who presumes to have better judgement about them than they do and prefers his girlfriend to remain a personal fantasy than a real person).
I agree with you.
Liking sex and wanting sex do not make a person bad, especially considering he is in no way deceptive or malicious in his behavior.
He does what he does.
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Bounce…?
Joyce has only recently started to grasp the concept of “slang.”
“Keep it pushin, home-boy. I ain’t no holla back girl”
Well her shit is bananas.
B-A-N-A-N-A-S
Sounds like she needs to go see a gastroenterologist. One should not be shitting bananas.
Unless you’re from the Night-O-Sphere.
Shitting bananas from your ears.
“OMG Y U POOP BANANS” ?
“ooooo, this my sh- stuff, this my stuff.”
Shbananas.
I think “This my stuff” is a way better lyric. if only because I find it hilarious.
“Joyce has only recently started to grasp the concept of “slang.””
Actually, “bouncing your eyes” means that one is supposed to condition himself from not staring at his or her object of affection, which is lustful, since lusting is bad. Apparently the term comes from the fact that our eyes have a tendency to gravitate towards things that sexually please us but since it’s rude to stare at a woman’s chest, you should immediately look away a soon as you catch yourself doing that, thus creating a “bouncing” effect with your eyes.
Thank you Einar for the highly informative comment. ^^
(P.S- Not sarcasm.)
(P.P.S- Seriously, what is wrong with the internet that I feel the need to explain that it’s not sarcasm?)
Joyce is Totally Radical.
Also, is she saying it’d better be Dorothy…?
Is-is she trying to imply a threesome?
Oh wait, Walky.
4-way?
Yeah, the “bounce” sounded funny to me, too, but it’s Joyce so…? (Not sure where to go with that, really. I guess Tunaro’s got it right.)
Also, Jen – I love your avatar. I love it much.
truly you are all completely unfamiliar with fundie slang
Oh, huh. I learned something today!
…but does Joyce have…fundie SWAG?
I’m sure her bible is blinged to the max
If I hear that world one more time, I’m going to kill everyone.
Swagworld?
*word
#fondsweg
Man, who considers “ladies are wearing less clothing” to be a problem?
Anyone who feels like having control over their own level of sexuality?
I’m into the ladies and I’ve never found it hard not to ogle scantily dressed women.
I find it hard not to ogle anybody in scanty clad.
Don’t go to a Pride Parade or Caribbean festival.
Take a cold shower and either learn to control that thing in your pants or lose the privilege to use it.
I don’t know what ‘fundie’ is, much less it’s slang. Does it have anything to do with those powdered onion rings?
Fundamental Christian.
Fundamentalist*
(sorry, pedantic, I know, but there is in this case a difference)
Bouncing of the eyes comes from the contemporary men’s purity movement (see Every Man’s Battle) where men who don’t want to look lustfully on a woman train themselves to reflexively bounce their eyes away from eye candy.
I suspected that’s what it was. Eyes fall on eye candy, eyes bounce away.
Run Joe. Run like you’re on fire.
If he waits he won’t have to pretend.
So light em up up up
Light em up up up
Light em up up up.
He’s on FII-AHHHHHHH!
I do believe I’m on fire.
THERE IS SPY IN BASE! WERE IS SASCHA!?
In hindsight, I could’ve kept the puns going by just typing “MMPH MMMPPHHH MMPPH!” But I like Heavy, so fuck it.
THAT HEAVY IS A SPY!
THAT SPY IS A SPY!
YOU ARE NO MATCH FOR ME.
He’s not heavy…he’s my brother?
You died as you lived: Morbidly Obese.
There is only one reasonable response to this.
POOTISPOOTISPOOTISPOOTISPOOTISPOOTISPOOTISPOOTIS
“Combustible Heaaaad….Joe’s on Fiiiirrrree!”
Irony: Joyce unlocked his fetish for beatings
He now has nightly dreams about Mike.
See, but if Mike knew you wanted him to hit you…
I’m suddenly reminded of this QC strip.
Not sure if I’d subscribe to that specific brand of death by Snu Snu
Ah yes, the sadomasochist’s dilemma
…Now that I might ship.
Oh damn, he must’ve got one of them combustible heads.
I read an article all about them!
He’s on fi-ire
He’s on fi-i-i-ire
I won’t lie
HE’S ON FIRE!
Yeah, I don’t see Joe/Sarah (Jarah? Soe?) happening in this universe.
I dunno. Hatesex seems to be kinda a recurring thing in Willis’ stories.
Fair point!
I’m with it. “Epic,” I believe, is the term.
The most epic of hate-fucks, to be exact
They’d be the snarkiest couple! I like this pairing because we all know that Sarah would have all the power.
If I may be even more blunt than usual for a moment… I think most of us would agree that Sarah really needs to get laid.
I disagree. I think she’s great the way she is! Just a little lonely, but that’s being fixed by Joyce & co.
If anyone could get Joe to behave, it would be Sarah.
For some reason i’m feeling a Sarah/Mike right now….
Joe you so stupid.
Stupid, horny, either way
There’s a difference?
Horny and with the intelligence to not assume everyone else is == not stupid.
Not horny and has no idea who is trying to get into your pants == stupid
Horny and assuming everyone else is, too == stupid horny
Clear as mud?
Opaque as glass.
Sweet as mike
(Sober)
Forecast cloudy, with a chance of punches. Scattered baseball bats later.
And a swift kick to the balls blowing in from the east.
Are we talking Asia or Philadelphia?
Jontron nice.
Sarah’s crazy eyes have made Joe’s shrink!
They are some incredible crazy eyes.
It’s almost amost as if she zapped the eye size from Joe!
The shrinkage of Joe’s pupils is entirely hilarious.
He’s imagining Sarah in leather chaps punching him in the faaaace.
You can really see his thoughts reflecting on his faaaaace.
It’s probably worse…so much so that he would wish for it to be Mike’s punches instead!!
You mean he’s imagining Mike in leather chaps punching him in the face?
Kinky.
Yeah, you’d think when a character already has dots for eyes, that’s as small as they could get.
It is symbolic of what’s happening down below.
This compounded by the fact that his eyebrows have disappeared as well.
Sarah
seems way madder then she should be.
Don’t forget, she’s Joyce’s older sister figure. Don’t fuck with the mama/sister bear!
Thanks Yotomoe
Now I won’t be able to not think of Sarah dressed as Rebecca Cunningham from Talespin and Joyce dressed as Rebecca’s daughter Mollie.
Wait-would that make Joe Don Karnage??
Parent Weekend has her on edge.
1) it’s Sarah, her tolerance for this crap is already low
2) Joyce likely told her all about her date with Joe
3) I think Joe already hit on her way back when.
Joe’s dad hit on her yesterday. She’s way past her quota of Rosenthal pickup attempts.
3rd person speech plus “The Crazy Eyes”.
Sarah’s just a big, capital letter beltbuckle away from being a supervillain at this particular moment.
Sarah’s not the supervillain type. She’s totally ethical. And totally annoyed with you. And you. And . . .
I’m just sayin. She bats for Team Justice.
Ba-dum tish.
Is she a switch-hitter? :p
No, but Joyce might be.
So she is this colleges version of Strikeman. So Strikegirl … well because batgirl has already been taken.
And a white cat.
Joe, sometimes you don’t have to obey your boner. Now is the time to do that.
Obey Obey, you must obey.
You can’t resist, do as I say.
This made me think of the Brains song.
Well hello there little boy, don’t be shy
Step right up I’m a reasonable guy
Babes, Babes it’s okay!
Doesn’t matter if your straight or gay,
though you might think it’s deranged,
you wont think twice once I’ve slept with you babe
Babes, Babes,
I love ’em I need em.
I’m the only thing that could ever cum between them.
I don’t date, because that would be to boring
They always learn to like me by the morning
woaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Sarah also uses the royal we.
And is not amused.
and thus TORCHWOOD was born.
And then destroyed by the Doctor.
I thought Miricale Day did that.
And then brought back by Captain Jack Harkness.
Is she ever?
And the Royal Wii.
Someone needs to check this out.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RoyalWe
Auugh! A Tvtropes link, run for your lives!
“We are not amused!
And neither are Joyce and Dorothy!”
Yes, Sarah DOES refer to Sarah in the third person.
Does Sarah Clinton have to choke a bongo?
“Sarah Clinton makes Stacey Dash look like Angela Davis.”
If Jpe gets out of this cafeteria in choked he better thank Joyce Brown.
Wait, didn’t Joe and Sarah, like, make out once? Am I completely making that up? That doesn’t sound like something they’d do.
Not in this universe.
Not in this universe.
…That sounds like I’m saying it’s impossible, like “in your dreams” or “not in a million years”. I mean it really happened in that other universe. Went quite a bit further than makeouts too, if I recall.
Ooooooooooooooh, rightrightrightrightright, sorry about that.
Why is it in every piece of fiction the guy always goes for the ones that could kill them?
Because what’s the fun of sex without the danger of dying?
Yeah, but there will comes a point where the boner will have to agree with the brain.
aw come on, a little death never killed anyone.
In fact, le petit mort is the objective.
What, you don’t?
Granted, I won’t mind if she could floor me with one punch but I want to live to see the grandkids, you know?
Joe doesn’t take a hint that’s not in punching form very well, does he?
I kind of want to go back through the archive and count punches now.
Oh my. I appear to be shipping.
Sarah gravs approve this strip. And the strip we predict going down in Joe’s room before long.
There’ll be going down all right!
He’s going to be waggling his fingers at her, all right.
yes I concur
Whom?
Sarah/Joyce, hissssssss
Didn’t Joes dad hit on her in the last arc?
Is she female? Then yes.
Testicular Torsion was threatened
Pip pip, cheerio and all that rubbish.
Beware Joe, Sarah is an anagram for ‘a rash.’
Also, Ashra(h)! O:
This comic pleases Mr. Random.
CthulhuPanda is also satisfied.
Aizat is not amused.
KingMabel likes it!
ANOTHER!!!
*Smashes glass on table
Got glass everywhere and bleeding… rf
PAPER TOWELS AND THE FIRST AID KIT!
Always carry them. Here.
Jay Eff is duly appreciative.
Sarah Clinton, however, is most displeased at the moment.
And Del Monte cares about the Mouselope!
Tahkuya Is enthused and is wishing for a cafetiere brawl in the upcoming weeks
Joyce you might be nice to look at and have a beautiful personality but your not worth the hassle
Side note is this conversation going anywhere
Joe is hoping it’s going to end with leather chaps, an egg beater
And a live chicken, and some peach preserves!!!
Nice Ray Stevens reference.
I am surprised anyone got that referance.
She kinda isn’t. No offence.
Sarah will take you down Know Your Role Boulevard which is on the corner of Jabroni Drive and check you directly into the Smackdown Hotel!
The completely ineffectiveness of hitting on Sarah aside, you’d think Joe would know better than to hit on girls in a group where they can back each other up. It’d probably be easier to work on them alone.
Unless he’s that good that he can convince multiple girls at once.
He is experienced with the pre-marital hankies-panky.
*hanky-pankies
I meant what I said.
Hanky-spanky? :p
Only if Joe can get Sarah to wear the chaps.
I took it to have two. Hankies, for multiple people doing the hanky-panky, while Pankies denotes multiple occurences of the hanky-panky.
I’m not even convinced he’s really hitting on them (as in actually hoping to get one on a date) so much as just doing his usual thing. You gotta figure if a guy spends as much time chasing skirts as Joe has, it kinda becomes a reflex.
Joe was hitting on Sarah when she wasn’t in a group! Or was preparing to do so when those other two showed up.
Well yes except that is the creeper way to do it. If you are not a gross, rapey ass you do not intentionally target girls with the goal of making them feel less able to say no (ie where they can ‘back each other up’)
I am not saying to never hit on a girl who is alone, but your reasons should not be ‘oh boy without her friends she will be less resistant to my advances,’ that is how an abuser thinks.
That is, of course, not how Joe’s thinking. Joe’s thinking, “If she says no, maybe one of her friends will say yes. Better yet, maybe she’ll say yes and her friends will also say yes.”
Sarah is so not taking your shit, Joe. Don’t even go there.
He looks so genuinely disappointed though, I feel bad. Like, maybe he actually likes her, you know?
Well…. he likes her in at least one way.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/03-men-are-from-beck-women-are-from-clark/children/
Yeah, but he likes every girl in that way.
He thinks she’d be great in bed.
What you don’t realize is that Joe has a punching fetish and you’re playing right into his hands.
The next thing Sarah knows she’s in the middle of the desert with a shovel and a very bloodstained rug with no memories of what just happened.
Joe doesn’t need any of this crap. He really would be better off just walking away.
Joe: My date with Joyce involved her punching me in the face, clearly hitting on women she’s clearly friends with is a good idea!
Hey, it works for Ryo Saeba…and he got hit with a 100 ton hammer.
Make sure to do this in front of her.
… is anyone else getting a Han Solo/Leia vibe off of Joyce & Joe?
“I’d rather kiss a Walky!”
“I can arrange that! He could use a good kiss.”
“Hrrrrrrnnnnnn!”
Winner of today’s internet!
Not really. A slight vibe between him and Sarah, perhaps, but that would also be a long shot.
No, though I could see them getting there. (And I kind of ship it.) They definitely had that kind of vibe going in the other universe.
I WAS ABOUT TO SAY THE SAME THING
Also a Threepio/Chewie vibe from Sarah and Joe
Way late, but…
Personally, I was thinking of Sandra Bullock as Lenina Huxley. That mix of extremely formal English and odd (“future”) slang.
(Until I found out that “bounce your eyes” is apparently a current thing. Go fig. Still sounds like “enhance your calm” etc to me.)
And thus Joe was disintegrated by Sarah’s laser eyes.
“My name is Lenard Church, and you will fear my LASER FACE!”
Geez there are a lot of comments already.
Sarah and Joe would be the best couple! Even more fun than Ruth and Billie.
Or Dina and Faz. I hope that they all marry. Well, except maybe Ruth and Billie. I want Billie to end up with Sal
What about Ruth, Billie AND Sal?
I have found my NEW OT3
That has always been my OT3.
Except… Sal and Ruth… Hmm…
Good news, Joe. Sarah won’t punch you in the face!
No. Sarah uses a baseball bat.
Honestly though, if he was eventually able to charm Sarah into bed, that would be truly worthy of an “achievement unlocked”.
Well, in another place and time….by which I mean the original Walkyverse…he totally did. Sarah wasn’t as developed back then, though.
Sarah: Joe, take the taco, shine it up real good, turn it sideways and stick it straight up your candy ass. IF YOU SMELL WHAT SARAH…-raises eyebrow- IS COOKING.
And then Sarah Suplexes him through a table*
“AND SHE GOT HIM WITH WITH HER PATENTED NARK SLAM! And now she’s got him in the Anti-social hold!
Table-San, NOOOOOoooooo!!!!
NIna from Code geass would be angry.
Aww…why do you made me remember that? That poor table was sexually assaulted.
Because I’m Evilllll. EeeeeVViiill.
Yes…yes you are!
Careful Joe…Sarah has been looking for a good reason to bring her good friend, Mr. Louisville Slugger!!!
That last panel is my new favorite Joe face.
Why chaps?
Sexy Dominatrix shit
or so I’ve heard…
Also fun fact: I got spell-checked on Dominatrix because sex
Chaps are assless.
Joes are asses.
Asses are for sitting on Joes
I dare say I take offense, my good sir and/or madam! I am nothing of the sort! Harrumph!
There seems to have been a translation error form English to English.
I filled out no such form, you must be mistaken.
You win this round internet! But I will return; stronger, smarter, and better at spelling!
panel 4: that is the face of someone about to fear pee
Joe, my friend, you’re entering a world of pain.
Sarah: Joe, WELCOME…TO PAIN!
Welcome…to DIE!!!
X-CHICKEN!
And now I have that theme stuck in my head. The one where it is basically just the dude going “eh-eh-eh-X-MEN, GET IT, X-Men, eh-eh-eh-X-MEN” over and over. If there is any justice in this world, I will be the instrument of all of your destructions. Every. Last. One.
YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS, JOE? YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TRY TO FUCK A STRANGER IN THE ASS?!
YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS, JOE? YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TRY TO FIND A STRANGER IN THE ALPS?!
DO YOU SEE WHAT YOU GET, CARLA??? DO YOU SEE WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU MESS WITH THE WARRIOR?!?
And this is why I read Willis’ tumblr now: I knew as soon as they all went to the cafeteria I was in for some hilarious faces.
(http://itswalky.tumblr.com/post/62129740520/darthshadow-itswalky-oh-you-did-not-just)
It was as good as I imagined.
Sarah’s angry face is the best thing I’ve ever seen, bar none.
*Looks at Gravitar*
Oh great, I almost forgot I answer to THAT guy. Thanks.
Dorothy is waiting for Sarah and Joe to go to Joe’s room, so she can make out with Joyce.
Joe, to answer your Alt-text question … that would be “NO.” However, Sarah is amenable to castrating you with a chainsaw.
Who else talks about themselves in the third person? Oh, yeah… and you really won’t like her when she’s angry 🙂
When she’s angry? Sarah’s face in that 4th panel seems to indicate that a yes will result in Joe being beaten to death with his own junk. Never mind the dick punching….
Back away Joe, while you still can.
Good luck, Joe. You don’t know what you’ve stumbled into.
I’m glad Joes back. He’s my favourite character (though no one seems to like him :S)
He’s my favorite!
He might actually be my favourite of all the guys. Danny and Ethan are meh, Mike we don’t know about, and Walky I’ve yet to forgive.
accidentally hit random at some point, and coincidentally randomized the beginning of a scene that ALSO occurred in the cafeteria, was quite confused for about 5 strips.
I have to ask, what exactly did Joe do wrong this time other than say hello… then get threatened by Joyce?
you’d think Dorothy would be willing to stand up for her friend, seeing as how she’s here as well…
He didn’t say “hi” though, he just ogled her.
Silently staring at someone while they eat is something only Dina is allowed to do without it seeming creepy.
And I’m not sure even Dina can get away with “waggling fingers” at someone in complete silence without it seeming a bit creepy.
He wasn’t silent.
Joyce wishes He was silent
He said “ladies”, which is a form of hi, just a bit awkward. If you really pay attention to what he says and does in the comic, he isn’t as bad as he’s assumed to be.
It’s because right from the beginning he’s been the womanizer stereotype. Still, he has a much better attitude towards women then Danny (who presumes to have better judgement about them than they do and prefers his girlfriend to remain a personal fantasy than a real person).
I agree with you.
Liking sex and wanting sex do not make a person bad, especially considering he is in no way deceptive or malicious in his behavior.
He does what he does.
Them eyes.
Them soul burnin’ eyes.
I really want panel 5, Joe face as my gravatar now
Likewise…..
Danny’s practically making that face. Maybe with an extra pinch of “puppy dog eyes,” though.
Sarah, your answers to everything are either aggression and tell an adult. I think you need to expand your toolbox.
Me thinks the lady doth protest too much! Maybe.
While we’re punching people in the face in this comic, can Joe’s face be punched? Pleeeeeeaaaaase?
Just keep this in mind joe, the only other person I know of who speaks in the third person when they’re extremely angry is the incredible hulk.
Or The Rock.
If I were Joe, my eyes would bounce all the time.
It was nice to meet Joe.
Is Sarah actually Wazzpinator?
Joe should probably just head on over to Mike and save himself the trouble, because I don’t think Sarah has chaps.
Dumbing of Age has been around for four years, and Joe hasn’t mentioned Transformers once!This version of Joe is completely one-dimensional