I always thought that quote referred to that, if my GF takes off all her clothes, I rapidly lose all interest in arguing with her.
Works on me every time.
…and I’m cool with that.
Actually, the line is “Remember, man, that thou art dust,and to dust thou shalt return.” (Original Latin reads: “Meménto, homo, quia pulvis es, et in púlverem revertéris.”)
But we HAVE seen Jocelyn tease Joyce, and Joyce thinks she’s her older brother, as Jocelyn isn’t out yet to her family. I wouldn’t put shin-kicking past either of them.
She ahead those two who think they’re a ‘cheerleader’ and a ‘valedictorian’ simply because that what they were about back in high school.
College, especially university college, is, among other things, a time grow past that dog and pony show of high school. Any skills or bad habits they pick up here will actually have a real effect on how the leave their marks in life, for starters.
Considering Sal doesn’t instantly lose consciousness from a single sip of alcohol in this universe as she does in the other one, Mike might not suddenly invert his temperament under the influence either.
Truefacts, I have several distinct divots in my shins because half my life ago I made a habit of trying to jump over things that I couldn’t actually completely clear because I’d try to keep my legs under me for fear of landing on my face so I’d instead end up banging my shins on things like the backs of couches (like the hard-frame kind) and the stage at the high school and run-on sentences.
I got really good at disguising a limp as a bored amble as a result.
Girls kind of sometimes wear panties instead of boxers and/or briefs
What we need is to have someone wear panties and briefs and boxer briefs and boxers and long underwear all at once in layers as some kind of demented matryoshka chastity suit
Just don’t put them on in backwards order or you may be mistaken for a superhero
The problem is using Brute Force too much would be the amount of money necessary!. I mean, who knows how much maintenance fees are on a cybernetic lion, kangaroo, eagle, dolphin and bear cost???
Oh, wait. You mean brute force as in the non-Cybernetic, Ecological Defense Force sense of the of the word. Gotcha.
Joyce is absolutely saying that last line in a stereotypical Brooklyn accent. She watched a gangster movie one time by accident when her parents were asleep
Pure Evil is still pure. Purity is an abomination, and alloys are generally stronger.
(I like Joke, though; aside from the hilarity, it has a nice ring to it.)
Your shin is technically your tibia, the fibula is off to one side and behind it (and if I never have to look at another x-ray of my shattered lower leg it will still be too soon)
Yeah, this is going to be a fun conversation between Walky and Dorothy. They really need to hammer out their respective expectations of their relationship, even if it’s “just for fun.”
Did Joyce take self defence classes??
Because that looks an awful lot like a (slightly sloppy) stomp kick. And she seems to be guarding her face competently….
Suddenly there’s actual merit to the sidekick theory! o.o
yeah, but she’s also “the princess” (don’t remember when exactly she said that.)
course’ that doesn’t mean she never got into fights with them, but i can’t see her brothers fighting back in a way that would teach her to guard her face and throw potentially crippling martial arts moves.
Well, she did manage a pretty competent glassing on Ryan’s face. I don’t think she even cut her hand when it broke, and it was really the wrong style glass for that. She may be a natural.
Why can’t the older sibs have taught her to fight. I can see that happening with Jos teaching her how to use the knee, or the stomp, or the claws(as an ex once taught me).
i guess that’s possible. still, Joyce seems a little to sheltered to have learned this stuff at home.
having her sister/brother teach her the basics would some sense, i guess. that said, i’ve drilled a number of beginners in basic kickboxing, and she’s looking like she’s had more than just a half hour of instruction. it takes a lot of repetition to learn to instinctively keep your hands up like that, so either she’s been practising regularly, or she’s a natural.
I am skeptical. Kicking someone in the shin like that will result in broken/sprained/dislocated toes for Joyce. When you kick, you pull your toes up and strike through the ball of your foot.
Speaking as someone with congenitally extra short toes it still hurts like hell when you stub them.
Or, you know, have a pin surgically imbedded in them that your cat bumps into while jumping onto your bed, knocking it loose a week before your doctor removes it. You know, hypothetically.
i was kind of assuming the animation was off, more than technique. i mean she got everything perfect but the angle of her toes. hard to think of that as a coincidence.
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Good choice. So it seems Joyce is once again employing violence. Though if Mike’s reaction to being interrogated by Ultra-Girl is any indication, Mike might be a masochist.
Your drink is almost ready. Don’t worry! The way Dorothy is worried about getting in trouble almost reminds me of Ultra Magnus. You see back on Hedonia, Magnus… um, actually I think your drink is uh, er, ready. Here you go, and stick around for tonight’s entertainment: knocking down a pinata of Megatron.
The way she’s going, it appears that assault and battery is a gateway crime that leads to vandalism, looking at porn, and maybe someday to saying the ‘F’ word.
So along with Walky (who first goes to college, then gets a girlfriend, and then eventually hopefully learns to tie his own shoes), Joyce is growing up in backwards order.
If you think Mike is failing, you have underestimated him. He wants an entry with maximum fuss and noise, followed by an accusation from Dorothy. Letting them in quietly would have been a failure.
no. believe it or not, the kick joyce just used looks a lot like a classic stomp kick. the animation is a bit wonky, but if she did it right, mike could be a lot worse off. hell, if she aimed better, she could have broken his knee.
like i said. wonky animation.
look at the movement lines, though. if she were swinging her foot UP she would have little power and be using her toes (which is admittedly what i’d expect of joyce) but she’s not. she’s lifted her foot and is bringing it DOWN. she cant have hit with her toes like that, because they would skid right off, and mike wouldn’t be hurt.
Do you mean like an axe kick? To me it looks like a simple kick to the shin which, given Joyces background, seems like something she’d be familiar with
Mind you she did glass someone so anythings possible I guess
maybe. my experience with axe kicks is that they utilize the back if the heel in ways that wouldn’t really work here, but that move rarely ever came up in my training, so i don’t really know for certain.
Yup, I was taught in karate to pull the toes up, and strike through the ball of the foot. Broken toes for sure that way, particularly when striking the shin.
That was different. He was getting paid, and it was someone else doing the resorting. By carrying out their will, he was exerting greater assholitude (and possibly catalyzing Joyce’s epiphany that it’s not okay to punch people in the face). It’s when carrying out a proper scheme of his own like this that he doesn’t bother with violence.
All I can imagine is all the talking heads commentary about this “incident” in 25 years during Dorothy’s presendential campaign. I think the internet has made me jaded.
Joyce is DEFINITELY somebody who grew up with a gaggle of older brothers. I can say from personal experience that a well-placed kick to the shins does indeed topple much larger foes. (I would have kicked higher but I’m like 5’2 and all of my brothers are freakishly tall.)
OK, “two massive points” was the funniest line in this comic for weeks. And it probably pissed off Dorothy whose points of interest are more modest. Bless you Willis. Made my day. Moar Mike pls.
Joyce WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU. I mean, yeah, haha Mike got kicked woo but she’s forcefully entering his room by violent means. I’m totally gonna be the wet blanket and say that this is so many types of not okay.
But this is a comic. Probably shouldn’t take it so seriously.
(Also saw some people wondering. The points of interest are: Bille and Walky literally sleeping together, and Walky sending her a lot of texts. Or at least those are what I would guess the points of interest are)
It also would have been much easier to pretend that Walky was going to be in trouble, because Mike would have let them in right away if he thought crap was about to go down.
Getting attacked by a script from pixel.mathtag.com when visiting DoA. I can’t say for sure that it’s malware but it’s trying to execute itself improperly.
I like to read the bold words in a Dune style Bene Gesserrit Voice. Mike: Trouble. Handful. Points of Interest. He is goading them into the foolish thing they are about to do.
I guess Joyce remembered that when answering “What would Jesus do?”, chasing people with a whip and flipping tables aren’t out of the question. 🙂
And anyways, I’d say that while Joyce may not get the Nobel Peace prize, she’s got a future with the U.N. To quote Clue:
Wadsworth: How would your colleagues at the U.N. respond knowing that you were implicated in not one but six murders?
Professor Plum: You don’t know what kind of people they have at the U.N. I might go up in their estimation.
You really don’t get Mike, do you? That applies for the common asshole, be they morons like me who don’t realize they were doing anything wrong until someone snaps them out of it or cowards who can be cowed, but Mike is on a whole ‘nother level. And quite likely is a masochist.
Wait, do we count Joshua as a brother or Jocelyn as a sister.
Hmm. Girls can pick on younger siblings too. (Remember, other-universe Walky learned to fight from Billie!) So the brother/sister terminology is irrelevant. The point is that Joyce had three older siblings picking on her.
The trick is to pull your toes back out of the way and strike with the ball of your foot.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Joyce knows that and/or considers it common knowledge. Or if she’s just sufficiently hateful of Mike to feel no pain.
So who would call Joyce out on this kind of thing?
Mike is right there, but she probably wouldn’t listen to him.
Sarah would do it, and Joyce would probably accept it from her, but Sarah doesn’t know Joyce was the Whiteboard Dingdong Bandit yet.
Mary would love to find a reason to be judgmental, and might spontaneously point the dingdong finger at Joyce without actually being informed that it really was her, but lacks credibility specifically because of this attitude.
Ideally Mike will get her back, if not with an immediate reveal (which probably won’t have much of an effect with Walky and Dorothy) or a more long drawn out campaign of torment.
…And how many people like that have ever seen the error of their ways after an escalating war of harassment? That’s historically only made them believe they’re more right.
Remember, if it’s happening, its because Mike wants it to happen.
Perhaps his plan was to coerce Joyce into even greater displays of violence all along.
Looks like a total victory for Mike, in that he successfully manipulated them both into doing bad things that will have bad consequences for them.
He knows that walky and billie are in bed together fully clothed, but has planted the undisprovable idea that walky’s hands are inside billie’s clothes.
Drama ensues from all three girls bad behavior, of which behavior the boys are entirely innocent.
I have to say I am happy to see that Joyce keeps a tight guard up even when shes just kicking someone’s shin. Bothers the crap out of me when I see someone throw a kick and have their arms fling around wildly, or worse shoot down to their waist as if it helps. Then again having something ingrained into you like keeping a tight guard it’s no wonder that’s what I notice.
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“Naked force has resolved more conflicts throughout history than any other factor.”
How well does half naked force solve things?
This thread is getting rapey.
no guys, not the turkey baster
less rapey, more drunky
*although thats still pretty rapey*
I prefer a full frontal assault
And by naked force, you mean sex right? 😛
Solved and created more conflicts, then.
YUP! ^_^
“You will sign this treaty and I will see your penis” Said some foreign dignitary.
Well, “let’s make peace and your son can bang my daughter” was essentially the how feudal monarchies operated for a good 15 hundred years or so.
I always thought that quote referred to that, if my GF takes off all her clothes, I rapidly lose all interest in arguing with her.
Works on me every time.
…and I’m cool with that.
My mind can’t avoid reading that in superhero comic style.
Like there’s some extradimensional force.
Only accessible when you’re in your birthday suit.
Starslipshine Troopers
“Starslipshine Crisis”?
For those unfamiliar: http://starslip.chainsawsuit.com/
Gives whole new meaning to “the Flash”.
If you are 17 or older I point you towards Sex Criminals. That is literally the elevator pitch.
You mean like this?
http://nebezial.deviantart.com/art/now-you-know-410571226
http://nebezial.deviantart.com/art/droppin-some-science-on-ya-418821212
Go Go Naked Force!
WHAT DOES MIKE’S SHIRT SAY
Just speculation, looks like it might say “You Eventually Die”
Looks like one more word in there. You Will Eventually Die
Valar morghulis
Valar morghulis means all men must die not you will eventually die
Remember, man, thou art mortal.
Actually, the line is “Remember, man, that thou art dust,and to dust thou shalt return.” (Original Latin reads: “Meménto, homo, quia pulvis es, et in púlverem revertéris.”)
I’m seeing, “You Ewoks! Die!”
I vote for that one.
You will like this short video then. 😀
http://youtu.be/5r_TlPwZOvU?t=56s
i’m agreeing on the ewoks one.
Nothing because it lacks the mouth, tongue, teeth, larynx, and lungs to actually be able to say anything.
Fine, then, what does the Fox say?
“You will eventually die!”
Foxes are frightening creatures indeed
I actually lol’d. Well played.
“Yip.”
“I want to believe.”
“Get in behind me, Falco!”
“Firefly is cancelled.”
No one likes a literalist.
Well, not “No one”, obviously…
Figuratively speaking, no one likes a literalist.
“Stop Reading My Shirt”
Incidentally, I used to have one of my own.
Joyce and Dorothy: Campus Hoodlums!
“Goddamit Joyce!” doesn’t get a reaction by this far down???
Joyce is really learning a lot a college isn’t she?
Methinks that’s a tactic learned from a lifetime with older assumed-to-be-male siblings, not college.
Well in the other universe, she did have older brothers, so that’s very likely an accurate assumption.
They’ve been confirmed here too, good sir. At least two, by my memory, one of whom’s been on-panel.
That was an older sister.
But we HAVE seen Jocelyn tease Joyce, and Joyce thinks she’s her older brother, as Jocelyn isn’t out yet to her family. I wouldn’t put shin-kicking past either of them.
Wasn’t there a panel where Joyce mentioned being possessive of her stuff due to having older brothers, plural?
She ahead those two who think they’re a ‘cheerleader’ and a ‘valedictorian’ simply because that what they were about back in high school.
College, especially university college, is, among other things, a time grow past that dog and pony show of high school. Any skills or bad habits they pick up here will actually have a real effect on how the leave their marks in life, for starters.
At least it wasn’t your balls Mike.
Thank god. He might of liked that.
Is it time to start shipping them yet?
…but actually.
Mike/Mike’s Balls
Not yet, but soon the time will be right.
There are weirder fetishes I suppose…
He might’ve, indeed. He might have.
Thank you. Thank you SO MUCH.
If Mike was actually bothered by being kicked in the shins by someone not wearing shoes then he has no balls to worry about.
Maybe he has got glass femurs.
Eggshell femurs…
Have to be to feel that much pain from getting kicked in the tibia…
But he needs his femurs to live! Ah, who am I kidding, Mike could survive as a torso on hate alone.
But what if he gets drunk?
Considering Sal doesn’t instantly lose consciousness from a single sip of alcohol in this universe as she does in the other one, Mike might not suddenly invert his temperament under the influence either.
Never seen Joyce and Walky, really. Only Shortpacked!
have you ever been kicked in the shins really hard by someone? it hurts like a motherfucker because it’s just bone and nerves there.
Joyce is also strong and tends to hit hard.
“Guys can’t actually get hurt by a girl. Guys are, like, strong.” – Joyce Brown
I second that. Being kicked in the shins hurt. A lot.
I was sparing with a friend while in the Army, and he was a kick boxer, I blocked his shin with my shin. His shin won.
Truefacts, I have several distinct divots in my shins because half my life ago I made a habit of trying to jump over things that I couldn’t actually completely clear because I’d try to keep my legs under me for fear of landing on my face so I’d instead end up banging my shins on things like the backs of couches (like the hard-frame kind) and the stage at the high school and run-on sentences.
I got really good at disguising a limp as a bored amble as a result.
Mike wants them to storm into the dark room. Not how a trusting girlfriend behaves. Hijinks will ensue.
Joyce missed. She was aiming for his femurs.
And now you’re a vice cop of Indiana U
Boxer briefs. Huh.
Who actually wears anything other than briefs or boxers?
Jason wears tighty whities. (Which, incidentally, my phone wants to correct to “tightly Shiites”.
“Tightly Shiites” is a thing of beauty.
wow, Tightly Shiites is up there with Skittlefarted
Mormons. Sumo wrestlers. Wearers of boxer briefs.
God bless the inventor of boxer briefs.
My husband certainly loves them.
Arguably the best underwear option without exposing too much.
“Who actually wears anything?”
Fixed that for you.
Girls kind of sometimes wear panties instead of boxers and/or briefs
What we need is to have someone wear panties and briefs and boxer briefs and boxers and long underwear all at once in layers as some kind of demented matryoshka chastity suit
Just don’t put them on in backwards order or you may be mistaken for a superhero
Or the main character of “In Victoria’s Secret Service”
Nice Joyce!
The only way to win is to not play his game. Joyce is smarter than she may appear.
Mind you, Amazi-Girl tackling him didn’t work to well for her…
Are you saying Mike is functionally identical to thermonuclear war?
only identical to the game.
Like the computer, he wouldn’t be given the keys or the code (it’s all zeros! Ask McNamara! He’s 98 but still breathing!)
The best answer to solving problems is brute force, if it doesn’t work, you simply aren’t using enough!
Kind of like XML!
Sorry, old programmer’s joke…
The problem is using Brute Force too much would be the amount of money necessary!. I mean, who knows how much maintenance fees are on a cybernetic lion, kangaroo, eagle, dolphin and bear cost???
Oh, wait. You mean brute force as in the non-Cybernetic, Ecological Defense Force sense of the of the word. Gotcha.
Maxim #6, a good one. So nice of Joyce to apply #27 so quickly, she may make a decent mercenary yet. #13 would also apply to this situation.
Did Joyce just out-Mike Mike?
Yes… I believe she did.
The student has become the master. 😀
She gets extra points for figuring it out before Dorothy.
And Mike probably got wood.
Man, Joyce is working out lots of aggression today. Maybe she will become just like Amazi-Girl.
Insane?
A danger to others and herself?
Yep! Although, come to think of it, those answers already describe her.
Sanity IS FOR THE WEAK
Amazi-Girl and Bible Lass! Throwing the Good Book at evil-doers everywhere!
I want to see that as fan art. Heck, I think I will just draw the fan art myself!
Good call. Don’t forget the Amazi-Stool
Well, it appears i am kind of late to that party!
Hint: That fanart already exists!
Poor Joyce broke her foot after kicking that solid steel.
Should have some where softer like the dick. ( I like Mike but I had to say it.)
Probably not soft any more, right now ;3
She has learned well
Her training is nearly complete.
Joyce is absolutely saying that last line in a stereotypical Brooklyn accent. She watched a gangster movie one time by accident when her parents were asleep
Nyeh! Brooklyn rage!
I concur.
No, she didn’t, but she saw the Goodfeathers section on Animaniacs.
Let’s be honest, Mike respects that.
Respect is not the same as lack of consequences.
This is the consequences of him switching her dry erase marker with a permanent one.
So do I for some reason.
….
Is it bad that now I ship it just a little.
aLL OF THE SHIPS ALL OF THE TIME
Which ship are you referring to? Doyce or Joke?
I feel the same (if you’re talking about “Joke”)
JoMik.
Moyke
Joyce = Purity
Mike = Evil
Therefore I call this combination “Pure Evil”
Pure Evil is still pure. Purity is an abomination, and alloys are generally stronger.
(I like Joke, though; aside from the hilarity, it has a nice ring to it.)
Of all the people to figure this out, I highly doubted Joyce would be the first.
Going for the femurs, though? Makes almost too much sense. Everything she knows about inspiring fear she learned from Ruth.
…oh, whoops, femur’s higher up. And this is why you Google these things before posting.
I made that mistake too, I always thought they were the lower leg bones.
Your shin is technically your tibia, the fibula is off to one side and behind it (and if I never have to look at another x-ray of my shattered lower leg it will still be too soon)
Well, no way this behavior can damage a relationship…. J. Herbert Christ, Dorothy, what happened to you?
Joyce happened.
Can we get her to happen somewhere else?
Joyce is irrelevant. Dorothy still had the choice to NOT barge into Walky’s room.
Yeah, this is going to be a fun conversation between Walky and Dorothy. They really need to hammer out their respective expectations of their relationship, even if it’s “just for fun.”
HOLD ON ONE SECOND THERE!!
Did Joyce take self defence classes??
Because that looks an awful lot like a (slightly sloppy) stomp kick. And she seems to be guarding her face competently….
Suddenly there’s actual merit to the sidekick theory! o.o
She’s got three older brothers.
yeah, but she’s also “the princess” (don’t remember when exactly she said that.)
course’ that doesn’t mean she never got into fights with them, but i can’t see her brothers fighting back in a way that would teach her to guard her face and throw potentially crippling martial arts moves.
Well, she did manage a pretty competent glassing on Ryan’s face. I don’t think she even cut her hand when it broke, and it was really the wrong style glass for that. She may be a natural.
She did, sorry http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/allergies/
Why can’t the older sibs have taught her to fight. I can see that happening with Jos teaching her how to use the knee, or the stomp, or the claws(as an ex once taught me).
i guess that’s possible. still, Joyce seems a little to sheltered to have learned this stuff at home.
having her sister/brother teach her the basics would some sense, i guess. that said, i’ve drilled a number of beginners in basic kickboxing, and she’s looking like she’s had more than just a half hour of instruction. it takes a lot of repetition to learn to instinctively keep your hands up like that, so either she’s been practising regularly, or she’s a natural.
Or three older siblings, anyway. I failed to connect that factoid with the actual identities of the siblings in question.
Maybe she’s been looking up more than wieners on the Interwebs! 😀
Maybe….
I’m actually curious if she started looking this stuff up to cope with her fear of Ryan…
That stuff she was giddily watching last night was guys getting the snot beat out of them in self-defense videos on YouTube.
(No it was probably really cartoons)
I am skeptical. Kicking someone in the shin like that will result in broken/sprained/dislocated toes for Joyce. When you kick, you pull your toes up and strike through the ball of your foot.
Darn, beat me to it.
She might be doing that and just have short toes, though; hard to tell with socks on.
Speaking as someone with congenitally extra short toes it still hurts like hell when you stub them.
Or, you know, have a pin surgically imbedded in them that your cat bumps into while jumping onto your bed, knocking it loose a week before your doctor removes it. You know, hypothetically.
i was kind of assuming the animation was off, more than technique. i mean she got everything perfect but the angle of her toes. hard to think of that as a coincidence.
Joyce you deserve +1 in respect.
Unexpected boner from Mike in 3…2…1…
I ship it.
Well, its a start…now aim higher Joyce!!!
Go for the femurs!
Hello, and welcome to “Swerve’s”! Been a while since we’ve seen you. What can I getcha? Engex? Weak Energon Spritzer? How about this new drink Nautica showed me how to make? She calls it “Fetish Fuel”.
Good choice. So it seems Joyce is once again employing violence. Though if Mike’s reaction to being interrogated by Ultra-Girl is any indication, Mike might be a masochist.
Your drink is almost ready. Don’t worry! The way Dorothy is worried about getting in trouble almost reminds me of Ultra Magnus. You see back on Hedonia, Magnus… um, actually I think your drink is uh, er, ready. Here you go, and stick around for tonight’s entertainment: knocking down a pinata of Megatron.
Joyce: “Ripoff artist!” *kick*
Mike: “OW MY SHIN”
… Thank you for reminding me of Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends.
And dammit, now I want to watch that entire series and they only have the first season on Netflix!
That is the cutest kick in the shins I have ever seen.
JOYCE IS MASTERING COLLEGE!
One day you’re looking at penises on the internet and the next, you’re committing assault, and breaking and entering.
Is college corrupting your youth? More at eleven.
Joyce started with the assault.
The way she’s going, it appears that assault and battery is a gateway crime that leads to vandalism, looking at porn, and maybe someday to saying the ‘F’ word.
So along with Walky (who first goes to college, then gets a girlfriend, and then eventually hopefully learns to tie his own shoes), Joyce is growing up in backwards order.
…Okay, it’s funny seeing Mike failing like this.
If you think Mike is failing, you have underestimated him. He wants an entry with maximum fuss and noise, followed by an accusation from Dorothy. Letting them in quietly would have been a failure.
She’s not talking to you Dorothy. She wants the Door to search the joint.
I could see Joyce getting along in London Below
Good for Joyce for kicking that asshole.
Actually, it’s a leg.
Ahahahahaha..+1 internet
Any BAMF valedictorians in the comment board ta-nite?
Well, I’m not BAMF, but I’m a valedictorian! 🙂
Unless Joyces toes are made of iron or she has steel capped socks she’d have at least one broken toe
She could be using the outside edge of her foot, that hurts like hell on a shin.
no. believe it or not, the kick joyce just used looks a lot like a classic stomp kick. the animation is a bit wonky, but if she did it right, mike could be a lot worse off. hell, if she aimed better, she could have broken his knee.
A stomp kick leading with the toes?
like i said. wonky animation.
look at the movement lines, though. if she were swinging her foot UP she would have little power and be using her toes (which is admittedly what i’d expect of joyce) but she’s not. she’s lifted her foot and is bringing it DOWN. she cant have hit with her toes like that, because they would skid right off, and mike wouldn’t be hurt.
Do you mean like an axe kick? To me it looks like a simple kick to the shin which, given Joyces background, seems like something she’d be familiar with
Mind you she did glass someone so anythings possible I guess
maybe. my experience with axe kicks is that they utilize the back if the heel in ways that wouldn’t really work here, but that move rarely ever came up in my training, so i don’t really know for certain.
Yup, I was taught in karate to pull the toes up, and strike through the ball of the foot. Broken toes for sure that way, particularly when striking the shin.
You know this reminds me of the time Joyce smash a glass in Ryan’s face just before Sarah broke his ribcage. 🙂
… is that a Gaunt’s Ghost screenname I spy?
Got it in one.
Best, Scottish Ninja with a Flamer.
Yes, Dorothy, and Joyce is clearly a Vale-kick-dorian.
Billie, the source of the trouble, has already proven herself as a vale-kick-door-in.
Now I want an AU where Dorothy and Joyce are cops. That sounds amazing.
you my man, just give me an idea for an DOA AU fanfic.
Some teams play good-cop-and-bad-cop.
These two play good-cop-and-insufferable-cop.
Mike out-Miked by Joyce. The shame of this will burn him forever.
Mike doesn’t resort to physical violence that easily.
Did you forget Joyce’s date with Joe?
I might have o_O Chapter?
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/03-men-are-from-beck-women-are-from-clark/bliss/
Joyce and Mike punched the shit out of Joe together. More to the point, if you go into the preceding pages, you’ll see Mike taking any possible excuse to punch him more.
That was different. He was getting paid, and it was someone else doing the resorting. By carrying out their will, he was exerting greater assholitude (and possibly catalyzing Joyce’s epiphany that it’s not okay to punch people in the face). It’s when carrying out a proper scheme of his own like this that he doesn’t bother with violence.
Actually, I’d say that since Mike wasn’t expecting this, he probably respects Joyce more now. He may also be slightly turned on, not completely sure
That was what I was thinking. The turned on bit. XD He is something of a masochist.
I bet he tangos to Tom Lehrer.
All I can imagine is all the talking heads commentary about this “incident” in 25 years during Dorothy’s presendential campaign. I think the internet has made me jaded.
Man, this is some serious invasion of privacy right here. I wonder what Walky’s reaction is going to be when he finds out about this.
A similar incident caused Martin and Dora to break up in Questionable Content.
Sometimes. it takes a kick to the shins to get to the truth.
With Mike, it’s in the Top Five.
I bet the next one will start with Mike holding Joyce in a headlock.
That’s an important lesson for a future President to learn.
Joyce is DEFINITELY somebody who grew up with a gaggle of older brothers. I can say from personal experience that a well-placed kick to the shins does indeed topple much larger foes. (I would have kicked higher but I’m like 5’2 and all of my brothers are freakishly tall.)
The whiteboard ding-dong bandit has super strength
My guess, Yeah her brothers taught her well.
Add to that Mike’s total lack of fear of her
= successful sneak attack
Doesn’t make up for goading Dorothy about Walky being with Billy all night, but it is amusing.
Goading?
Huh?
Hmm. What’s the second point of interest? Obviously, Billie waking up in Walky’s bed the other day is one. But what else?
That being said, it is perfectly clear that Mike’s going to start stalking Joyce now in the hopes of more.
Billie’s two huge tits
She’s an aviculturalist?
And an apiarist.
He’s referring to Billie’s bosom. It helps him deserve that shin-kick.
OK, “two massive points” was the funniest line in this comic for weeks. And it probably pissed off Dorothy whose points of interest are more modest. Bless you Willis. Made my day. Moar Mike pls.
“two massive points of interest” 🙂
Aaaaaaaaaaah, finally Mike is treated as he deserves.
I love this comic.
Mike earns his abuse. Something is seriously wrong in that skull.
Joyce WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU. I mean, yeah, haha Mike got kicked woo but she’s forcefully entering his room by violent means. I’m totally gonna be the wet blanket and say that this is so many types of not okay.
But this is a comic. Probably shouldn’t take it so seriously.
(Also saw some people wondering. The points of interest are: Bille and Walky literally sleeping together, and Walky sending her a lot of texts. Or at least those are what I would guess the points of interest are)
Or Billie’s breasts. Maybe my mind is in the gutter, but I thought he was trying to make a joke about Billie’s chest.
Definitely a boob joke. Coming right after ‘handful’ is obviously not a coincidence.
He’s selling Billie short there. I’m pretty sure she’s got more than a double handful.
Aw man, I didn’t even notice that!
I agree!
It also would have been much easier to pretend that Walky was going to be in trouble, because Mike would have let them in right away if he thought crap was about to go down.
I don’t know about that alt text, incapacitating Mike could make great contributions to the overall peace and harmony of the world.
That is not what the Nobel Peace Prize is given for.
It is meant as a reminder that you should avoid using violence.
Joyce no! That’s how Mikes Flirt! Bad Joyce!
Joyce is wise in the ways of Mike.
WILLIS ALERT MALWARE IN AD
Getting attacked by a script from pixel.mathtag.com when visiting DoA. I can’t say for sure that it’s malware but it’s trying to execute itself improperly.
WILLIS ALERT WOO WOO WOO WOO
Given the circumstances, she’s probably more likely to win the peace prize now.
There’s hope for you yet, Joyce.
Why am I suddenly shipping Mike and Joyce?
She kicked him in the dick. Mike IS a dick. Therefore, anywhere she kicks him is “in the dick.”
Plot twist: Mike is a eunuch.
So he is a dick because he lacks a dick? no… that’s not right Eunuch just means he lacks balls…
Yesh, fine.
Plot twist: Mike is a nullo.
wow Joyce taking the violent way out… AWESOME!
Technically, she’s taking the violent way in.
I dunno why that reminds me of a fighting game.
“STOP SPAMMING THE LOW KICKS!”
“It’s a legitimate move in the game!”
“WELL DO SOMETHING ELSE!!”
“But I’m playing Chun Li!”
or Divekick
“Dammit, Joyce, I’m a valedictorian, not a common ruffian!”
She figured out Mike, that’s it. The story’s over. Pack it up folks.
Mike suddenly wishes he was wearing a jockstrap.
Mike is totally turned on right now.
I like to read the bold words in a Dune style Bene Gesserrit Voice. Mike: Trouble. Handful. Points of Interest. He is goading them into the foolish thing they are about to do.
I approve of Mike being kicked.
Really, the only reason that Mike is such an asshole is because he hasn’t had anyone give him physical retribution for his verbal abuse.
Maybe he’ll start to think twice about being such a fucktard to other people if a good little Christian would resort to violence.
I guess Joyce remembered that when answering “What would Jesus do?”, chasing people with a whip and flipping tables aren’t out of the question. 🙂
And anyways, I’d say that while Joyce may not get the Nobel Peace prize, she’s got a future with the U.N. To quote Clue:
Wadsworth: How would your colleagues at the U.N. respond knowing that you were implicated in not one but six murders?
Professor Plum: You don’t know what kind of people they have at the U.N. I might go up in their estimation.
You really don’t get Mike, do you? That applies for the common asshole, be they morons like me who don’t realize they were doing anything wrong until someone snaps them out of it or cowards who can be cowed, but Mike is on a whole ‘nother level. And quite likely is a masochist.
The other universe’s Mike on more than one occasion provoked others into beating the shit out of him just to make them feel bad about doing it.
I don’t understand how someone could feel bad about beating the shit out of a complete asshole, but then again I’m a hateful bastard, so… *shrugs*
Mike x Joyce needs to happen.
^
That last panel is awesome. From The ‘Dor’, to the accent, and the phycial movements. Hehehehee
Joyce knows how to put up her dukes…who knew?
Well, how many older brothers does she have? You have that many, you learn to fight.
Three, according to the wiki (since I couldn’t find the page from Just Hanging Out With My Family that detailed their locations at the time)
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2013/comic/book-3/04-just-hangin-out-with-my-family/undeclared/
The Brown kids are Jonathan, Joshua (Jocelyn), Jordan, and Joyce herself.
Wait, do we count Joshua as a brother or Jocelyn as a sister.
Hmm. Girls can pick on younger siblings too. (Remember, other-universe Walky learned to fight from Billie!) So the brother/sister terminology is irrelevant. The point is that Joyce had three older siblings picking on her.
I wish there was a way to upvote your comment.
Haha, checkmate Mike!
A kick to the shin works much better when you’re actually wearing shoes. If you’re just in socks, it’s barely an inconvenience.
Now you mention it… that actually should have hurt Joyce as much as it hurt Mike.
The trick is to pull your toes back out of the way and strike with the ball of your foot.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Joyce knows that and/or considers it common knowledge. Or if she’s just sufficiently hateful of Mike to feel no pain.
This person knows what’s up.
A proper front kick with bare feet can really hurt someone as long as you remember to curl those toes.
What a jerk, specially considering her recent vandalism spree. Does she think Mike is concealing some sort of illicit orgy that she’s so eager to see?
I hope someone eventually calls her on how she acts.
So who would call Joyce out on this kind of thing?
Mike is right there, but she probably wouldn’t listen to him.
Sarah would do it, and Joyce would probably accept it from her, but Sarah doesn’t know Joyce was the Whiteboard Dingdong Bandit yet.
Mary would love to find a reason to be judgmental, and might spontaneously point the dingdong finger at Joyce without actually being informed that it really was her, but lacks credibility specifically because of this attitude.
Ideally Mike will get her back, if not with an immediate reveal (which probably won’t have much of an effect with Walky and Dorothy) or a more long drawn out campaign of torment.
…And how many people like that have ever seen the error of their ways after an escalating war of harassment? That’s historically only made them believe they’re more right.
Remember, if it’s happening, its because Mike wants it to happen.
Perhaps his plan was to coerce Joyce into even greater displays of violence all along.
Ans the reason Dorothy is concerned is because of Joyce blurting out certain information
Get those toes curled up if you are going to front kick someone.
No use breaking your own toes. Use the ball of your foot.
Looks like a total victory for Mike, in that he successfully manipulated them both into doing bad things that will have bad consequences for them.
He knows that walky and billie are in bed together fully clothed, but has planted the undisprovable idea that walky’s hands are inside billie’s clothes.
Drama ensues from all three girls bad behavior, of which behavior the boys are entirely innocent.
Ah Joyce, ever the true Christian, resorting to violence when you don’t get a good answer the first time.
It’s almost like Christians are human. Wow…what a revelation. =P
I have to say I am happy to see that Joyce keeps a tight guard up even when shes just kicking someone’s shin. Bothers the crap out of me when I see someone throw a kick and have their arms fling around wildly, or worse shoot down to their waist as if it helps. Then again having something ingrained into you like keeping a tight guard it’s no wonder that’s what I notice.
Yeah, what the hell, Joyce? Don’t you know that being Valedictorian means you get first dibs on laying down beatings?
Goddammit, Malaya! …Er I mean Joyce.
OK I’m late, but, that last panel was so BADASS!
I find the progression of Joyce’s character intriguing 🙂 First-comic (Dumbing of Age) Joyce probably wouldn’t have kicked anyone in the shins.
That is exactly how you should deal with Mike. Bonus points to Joyce.
I’m so glad it was below the knee.
Wow, reading back on this… I’m totally shipping Mike/Joyce.