Could have just been scratching, or just be one of those guys that keeps a hand in his shirt a lot. I wouldn’t be surprised, there’s a reason I always notice when guys do stuff like that, and Joe is probably well aware.
I think this is a thing right now, a guy pulling up his t-shirt to expose taut, toned abs is an accepted mating ritual right now. And Joe, he’s all about mating rituals.
Isn’t that from the “Shoe of the Manitu”? With Joe who’s the favorite of Santa Maria, who is basically allowed to do anyting like putting someone else’s pen in his ass?
Z is in all birds and also a bunch of other animals: some reptiles, some amphibians, some insects, etc. Sex determination gets super weird outside the mammals (except the monotremes which are just as weird as their anatomy) and the birds.
E.g. there is a frog, Glandirana rugosa, that has populations that are XY and populations that are ZW. Seriously what the fuck?
oops should have said W, but same diff, Z and W always go together. And of course there is the X0 system (X male, XX female) and the systems that are temperature dependent instead of chromosome-based.
Three months? Hell, no — that fetus is going to spontaneously abort before the blastula stage. You just can’t make much…I mean “don’t get much”…time if you don’t have at least one X.
(Ob. disc. When I was a post-doc (at IU, actually,) I knew a geneticist who had a calico cat named “Merry Lion.” Hands up, anyone who gets the joke.)
“Really let that seep in. What are you getting? Because to me, that’s part man-smell, and the other part is really bad man-smell. I don’t know why, but overall it just smells like the color brown. Your thoughts? “
I think there’s already a decent Joyce and Becky ship so maybe just every person in DoA. I’m voting for Becky is a polyamorous pansexual and ends up dating everyone and it is lovely and no one is ever ever sad again.
Head cannon: it’s an alternate timeline in which the Creator’s characters CAN live happilly ever after. Tho if Creators REALLY torture their characters I have stopped reading, even in the middle of books, and tried to forget what I already read.
So long as Becky keeps her legs stiff trying to resist being pushed it works because the force of Joyce’s disapproval of the Y’s gives her the strength of 10.
I now want a series of strips where she pushes Becky around like that and around every corner is a different loser guy.
Danny wants to talk about feelings, Ethan quickly closes his browser and puts down a banana, Mike is Mike. Finally Joyce settles on Galasso and lets Becky talk to him.
I think it would be funniest if he turned out to be interested in historically accurate ninjas in this universe. It would make a job as a janitor that much more appropriate, although I’d bet the RA’s would be scared of him. Although, to be honest, I’d think everyone would be scared of him.
What does being based on a real person have to do with one’s ability to be a Dumbing of Age character, unless that specific real person requested the omission and Willis adhered to that request? After all, no real persons would mean, just to name a few examples, no Joe (who is in this very comic) or no Mike. (Heck, Mike’s real person even has almost the same name in real life: Jason Michael Warner.)
Anyways, re: the janitor idea, I could see him wielding a mop handle as if it was a sword. 😀
Speaking of which, I vaguely wonder, since Mike’s been in a Slipshine, how (a) the real person felt about that, and (b) what it was like for Willis drawing a character who, even if he has well taken on a life of his own, is at least distantly based on someone who was a childhood friend of his.
Nothing I loose sleep over wondering… But it is a slight curiosity.
Because there’s a difference for a character who was a vague stand in for someone you knew decades ago and doesn’t even resemble who that person used to be and a character who was always basically that person.
Moon shoes are more fun, heelies more useful. They do take some practice to zoom around on, though; I never bothered to get the hang of it, and the people I knew who used them usually just kept the wheels in their pockets in case of need and capped the sockets.
Joe’s Y brings lotsa girls to the playground. He once did what you suggest in the Walkyverse and a bunch of female Semme agents were VERY unhappy with him.
After seeing she likes Joe less than Walky (or is just keeping him from trying to seduce Becky in general), I now want to see a chart of a comparison of all of Joyce’s likes and hates.
Gene Simmons is one of the all time biggest a-holes. I’m pretty sure that he uses that tongue to lick himself when he’s not using it to be say truly offensive and insufferable carp. He’s totes misogynist and totes FIGJAM.
No no, I was genuinely seeing a different strip, refer to post below.
(Although if that weren’t the case though I could see my brain blocking out panel 3 from my memory)
Okay, no, I just refreshed the page to see if anyone responded to me and not only did your replies appear but THE STRIP CHANGED.
I-I think I was having a glitch maybe? Where I was seeing a totally different strip from everyone else? Cuz I swear to God the strip I was *just* looking at involved a not-old strip with Walky being angsty about Dorothy… Even though the tags and title were the same…
…WILLIS WHAT JUST HAPPENED
Had you visited the site with that device/browser since you looked at the older strip? That would be the simplest way you could get a cache glitch that could do that..
Yeah I meant a strip not previously-published
I do think I got a glimpse into the future. We’ll only be able to confirm later this week tho if that’s the case.
Ah yeah. And Joyce is normal?
Outside of being homeschooled fundamentalist repressed female whose parents rule along with the church was almost raped and hiding behind a gay bf.
Um no, still don’t excuse this running your friend up an down the hallway like a hand cart.
Let me rephrase that, who hasn’t atleast thought of doing that at least once, because I did that to my cousin once but instead of his door I drew it on his face before he got up early in the morning to go back home after visiting, ha fucker.
I’ve got one better. Me and my friends used to all spend the nigh frequently at one friend’s house, and it was always the same guy who fell asleep first. Finally, we decided to teach him a lesson by enlisting the help of the sister of the friend who lived there to make a realistic fake used tampon and place it on his cheek.
His face in the morning could not have been more priceless.
Joyce’s reaction and flight are bit more excusable now that we’ve learned that she’s been using Walky/Ethan as pseudo-protection so that she can handle going outside post Ryan. I empathize.
My girlfriend Rachel’s best friend Rachel (which is why I am amused this comic features a pair of Rachels as roommates) loves the stuff… But yeah, I agree with Itama’s assessment.
I have been assuming that candy corn was candy coated popcorn (only ever seen it show up on American TV shows…oh gravity falls how I adore you)…I feel silly now
Kettle Corn is popcorn covered with a sweet & salty coating and its deadly good; stay away from it if you value your waistline. There’s fiddle-raffle/crunchandmunch which have hard candy shell and peanuts, also very addictive. Then theres also caramel corn, p-corn coated w/ caramel, and Cracker Jacques, which is the former with peanuts, which some people must like… Cracker Jacques are traditional at baseball games because back around 1910 or so a groupie named Katie O’Casey tried to wheedle her date into buying her some and today at baseball games everyone has to stand up and sing about her 7.5/9 of the way thru the game. Seriously. It’s a sacred American ritual. As to candy corn, kids eat it at Halloween because kids and sugar. Although my friend Gerry to like it, so I gave him all of mine. Even at 8 years old I knew it was a scam.
Hell, I’m in the US and didn’t see any candy corn at all this year… or come to think of it, for the past 3 Halloweens. As I recall, it’s more likely to pop up around Thanksgiving hereabouts.
Thanks for your responses. We haven’t traditionally celebrated Halloween in Finland, even thought in resent ten years or so it has started to land here too especially among kids.
It’s happening in many countries. Youre all gonna have to take responsibility for this and not blame American cultural imperialism. In America Halloween has bifurcated: there’s still the traditional festival for kids but also, more and more it’s become an occasion/excuse for adult drinking parties…sometimes w/ “sexy” costumes for women that preserve 1950s fetishes AND objectify contemporary female professionals.
Not really? AFAIK predator usually means exploitative – in power differential cases or cases where consent is not possible, that kind of thing. Joe is all about consent both by his bio and the actions we have seen. I’d say Ruth comes closer than Joe.
Him not being a misogynist jerk to women he’s sexually interested in has nothing to do with why I don’t like him. This fact is constantly brought up whenever people defend him, and quite frankly I’m a bit sick of it. Sure, he’s not as bad when compared to other characters, but he still has his own faults, like the time he said he could “fix” Joyce by having sex with her, and when he tried to pressure her into swearing, and the times where he was very dismissive of Danny’s problems when he didn’t personally think they were a big deal. I’ll probably catch flak for the last one, but you know what? Joe may not have thought they were a big deal, but Danny did, and I thought the way Joe handled things was shitty. The whole “tough love” thing just doesn’t sit right with me.
Generally though, I find his personality abrasive and his obsession with having sex annoying. He is also way too upfront about soliciting sex from others, imo, this strip being one of the more extreme times he’s done so.
So hoist up his gentlemanly attitude towards courting women all you want; it still won’t make me like him. It just makes him not as big of a jerk as he could’ve been. What would make me like him a bit more is if he had as much care dealing with friends as he does with potential fuck buddies.
Joe is very forward with his intentions and what can be expected of a night with him. That turns some people off. I’d be interested to see what happens if he ever catches eels and needs to sustain a relationship longer than a night.
Joe is, in short, always ‘offering’. No pressure, no obligation, just an offer that’s always open. If refused, he moves on. Some people just don’t like the offer – but enough do that he keeps offering.
Yes eels the creatures of the deep! Actually I type comments on my tablet and sometimes my finger slips or I click a letter and it doesn’t type. In this case “feels” became “eels” you can’t edit comments so its eels. Just a sign I should proof read before clicking that post comment button.
I understood what you meant, although it took a while. If I wasn’t capable of understanding the occasional (or in some cases constant) typo, I wouldn’t be able to read about 2/7 of the comments on this site.
OK, so this clearly takes place in Clark wing: Walky contemplates the “do not disturb” sign on Dorothy’s door and is introduced there to Becky via her massive “burp” (her word). After Walky and Becky get friendly, Dorothy pushes Becky away from Walky into … Joe, leering from an open door. Whose? Oh, please let it be Mary’s!
Huh; I wonder if the reason their youth pastor said Joyce is best socialized is that Becky had a bit of a boy-crazy streak in her, and he (and her parents) thought a small religious school would be more appropriate for her.
Thus the ‘No Y’ comments, and her reaction to Walky and (maybe) Joe.
Or my first idea way back when is right, and it’s all a dream while Joyce is face-down in ‘detritus’. Like Willis said last hovertext. 😉
True, I mean thinking she could get Joes parents back together like a movie was quite insensitive and then thinking physical assault is an appropriate way to deal with someones different opinions was a bit much
Joe is in the girl’s dormatory. Presumably, he’s not exactly had the chance for hygene yet and it probably about to make an exit and do some of that.
In the meantime, I suspect he’s not holding his breath to hook up with one of Joyce’s friends. I doubt he’d be opposed necessarily but yeah, Joyce probably isn’t going to watch that happen. Ergo, he’s not going to freak out about appearance (though it’s not clear Joe is particularly vain, I guess? I sort of assume he at least puts in effort usually though).
Most of the time we see Joe he tries to get it on with the women he flirts with. There are a few times (like here, I think) when he uses the same moves to make them uncomfortable or freak out… which is creepy.
Nope. Not really sure where all of this is going. Hijinks have often been derailed in this comic with drama bombs, so I’m kind of tensing up every up date preparing to duck and cover.
Well, men with XYY a thing so why not (even if I wouldn’t call it birth defect rather than… genetics). There are also men with XXY and XX, there are women with X and XXX*. There are also women with XY, but that’s less common. (Oh, and of course there are trans women and men)
From a sex determination point of view, the one important job of the Y chromosome is to add a specific dose of testosterone at a specific time of embryo development. If that dose is given, the embryo becomes male, otherwise it’s female. Therefor there are syndroms when the testosterone dose and chromosomes don’t match up for various reasons and the sex development follows a different path than expected from the chromosomes, with or without complications.
So in conclusion, Joyce and Becky can be forgiven since it’s a common lie in biology textbooks, but saying that someone with an Y chromosome is male is a useful shorthand but not the necessarily true, and not good enough for context when it’s really important (such as determining people’s gender identity or international sport).
*) Even if I could have chosen a smarter google string than “women XXX” in order to confirm that
Joyce and Becky could also be forgiven because they’re also both college freshmen from backgrounds that appear to have little or no science education and oh yeah it’s a joke.
Speaking as someone with XYY, extra Y chromosomes are overrated. All it did for me was make me abnormally tall for my age, prompting doctors to give growth inhibitors so it wouldn’t cause problems later in my life (I could’ve become almost 8 feet in theory) and a bunch of unwanted hair growth on my back earlier than other boys.
Joe should probably reach up to the ceiling with his waist and have more bodyhair than Chewbacca.
I should be asleep, but anyone else notice that Becky seems to have absolutely no attraction to Joe in the slightest (seriously, haven’t read the comments all the way through yet) and actually went from a full smile to a decent frown? I realize he was being a bit more creepy than usual, but I see that as Joe’s natural warning coloration, like “this is as stereotypical as I get, do not approach if uninterested” though it is still… pushing it a bit, Joe. Definitely leaning into common trigger territory, though he probably doesn’t realize that yet.
Well, Joyce never really gave Becky a chance to express any sort of interest, and her words after the encounter seem to be ambiguous in that regard (disgusted or confused?), so the jury’s out.
I wasnt really expecting to like Becky, since, well, I judged her. I thought she was going to be the FAR more Bible toting friend of Joyce who is best friends/slash role model I suppose.
But now I’m getting the sneaky suspicion that Becky isn’t nearly as pure as Joyce is, you know, is more normal then Joyce. Don’t get me wrong, I honestly like Joyce, she has a very great personality, I just thought Becky was going to be pedestal girl, and instead… She seems like she could be more interesting then Joyce.
I only see this ending one of three ways.
1) Becky isnt nearly as goody goody as Joyce thinks she is. Perhaps she’s run away from home to come visit, perhaps she PREFERS the non-christian life style, and it all adds up to Joyce being disappointed in her.
2) Something will happen that will flip a switch in Becky. Some sort of devious sin that she will see that will make her go into full Bible thumping mode that ends up potentially embarrassing Joyce, like while Joyce might have done the same thing before, thought it was natural, now she sees it as overkill, and maybe wonder why she thinks its overkill when she used to be right there with her.
3) Becky stays just like this, minor character, nothing drastic happens, and just gives us someone to work off of.
Also, bit curious, this is hosted via Gravatar, as is obvious by the Get a Gravatar link, and yet my own Gravatar picture isnt showing up. Any clues on why I get a DOA generic pic instead of my own? I’ve used Gravatar before, so I dont see why this is happening.
And being forced to contemplate what would pass for an evil mutant time traveling monkey monster clown’s boner has insured that I will NEVER be aroused for the forseeable future. Thanks for that.
Off-limits because he’s an aggravating jerk?
Off-limits because he belongs to Dorothy?
Off-limits because he belongs to Joyce (secretly)?
Off-limits because HIS BODY IS MADE OF LAVA
I’m torn about Joe. It is not clear that he values women for anything other than sex. Yet, he values women’s sexual autonomy, and is interested in their sexual pleasure, not just his own. So he treats them as full human beings when it comes to sex, but outside of the sexual realm, women seem to be non-entities to him.
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oh come on, Joyce, we know you can take him
[maybe not the way Joe would want, though]
He doesn’t enjoy fisting in that way.
Mike does.
//SPITTAKES
Sometimes you add one and one together and you get… 27.
We’re SRY if you don’t get the joke.
Good thing you apologized – you’re just one SRY away from being Barr-ed.
You know, I would allow your comment to XIST if I didn’t think you were full of HOTAIR.
I think I love this comment section. (please more bio jokes. pleasepleaseplease)
Hi Joe! Bye Joe. Put your shirt down, Joe.
So was he somehow in the middle of putting his shirt on in the hallway, or did he start taking it off when he saw Becky?
Both.
Could have just been scratching, or just be one of those guys that keeps a hand in his shirt a lot. I wouldn’t be surprised, there’s a reason I always notice when guys do stuff like that, and Joe is probably well aware.
I think this is a thing right now, a guy pulling up his t-shirt to expose taut, toned abs is an accepted mating ritual right now. And Joe, he’s all about mating rituals.
Maybe he was putting his shirt on as he was coming out of a dorm room?
Isn’t that from the “Shoe of the Manitu”? With Joe who’s the favorite of Santa Maria, who is basically allowed to do anyting like putting someone else’s pen in his ass?
XYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
just a few steps away from WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Never heard of the W nor R chromosomes before. 😛
One comes from a bird, the other from a space alien.
Z is in all birds and also a bunch of other animals: some reptiles, some amphibians, some insects, etc. Sex determination gets super weird outside the mammals (except the monotremes which are just as weird as their anatomy) and the birds.
E.g. there is a frog, Glandirana rugosa, that has populations that are XY and populations that are ZW. Seriously what the fuck?
oops should have said W, but same diff, Z and W always go together. And of course there is the X0 system (X male, XX female) and the systems that are temperature dependent instead of chromosome-based.
And don’t get me started on the birds and the bees… as a metaphor for human reproduction it’s EXTREMELY confusing.
Interestingly in birds male are the homogametic sex, with ZZ chromosomes, while females are heterogametic with ZW.
DIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Is Roundabout stuck in anyone else’s head now?
i perfer the fist opening and hear than one more
Is that you watching me
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
LES-YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Called that interaction happening days ago. But I anticipated more slipshining to take place as a result.
Just give Joe a little more time.
And that was Joe at before he’s had breakfast. Give him a shower and a shave and who knows what could happen?
facial hair is sexy though…
That’s true, just look at me any time I don’t shave.
Pics?
Nope nows not the time ,the mystery identity of newllend will still remain unknown.
So long as you groom it. When I let mine go wild every November, it turns into a horrible tentacular monstrosity.
That’s where Becky is mistaken, because Joe is all Y chromosome.
Joe is messed up.
All is chromosomes are Y chromosomes.
The doctors give him three months.
…before he starts fucking anything wi- oh wait, hasn’t it been 5 months?
Three months? Hell, no — that fetus is going to spontaneously abort before the blastula stage. You just can’t make much…I mean “don’t get much”…time if you don’t have at least one X.
(Ob. disc. When I was a post-doc (at IU, actually,) I knew a geneticist who had a calico cat named “Merry Lion.” Hands up, anyone who gets the joke.)
I think the real plan for becky is that she can be shipped with every guy in DoA.
She actually looks kinda put off by Joe.
Of course she would be. Look at him. I can smell the man stink through the screen.
“Really let that seep in. What are you getting? Because to me, that’s part man-smell, and the other part is really bad man-smell. I don’t know why, but overall it just smells like the color brown. Your thoughts? “
Why am I imagining an Old Spice commercial with this, and Terry Crews flexing his pecs at Becky incessantly?
..actually that’s not bad, if Joe could (and who says he can’t?!) I imagine him doing this.
My hat off to you, sir.
Tangled is the best thing. Thank you for that.
I think there’s already a decent Joyce and Becky ship so maybe just every person in DoA. I’m voting for Becky is a polyamorous pansexual and ends up dating everyone and it is lovely and no one is ever ever sad again.
If that’s what you’re hoping for, you must be a real masochist for reading a Willis-comic.
Head cannon: it’s an alternate timeline in which the Creator’s characters CAN live happilly ever after. Tho if Creators REALLY torture their characters I have stopped reading, even in the middle of books, and tried to forget what I already read.
Becky: Sexual Savior of the DoAverse. I like it!
*plays “I Wonder Y” on the Muzak*
Y? Y not?
So, “Y? XX?”?
Is Becky on rollerskates?
I don’t think so, but it kinda looks like that the way Joyce is drawn pushing her.
Makes her much easier to push around.
So long as Becky keeps her legs stiff trying to resist being pushed it works because the force of Joyce’s disapproval of the Y’s gives her the strength of 10.
I now want a series of strips where she pushes Becky around like that and around every corner is a different loser guy.
Danny wants to talk about feelings, Ethan quickly closes his browser and puts down a banana, Mike is Mike. Finally Joyce settles on Galasso and lets Becky talk to him.
Their wedding is next week.
*snort* This could happen.
Becky/Ninja Rick forever!
Where the heck is Rick in this universe? Is he the university janitor / part-time sword teacher?
I think janitor would best suit his personality.
Or maybe gym teacher? I mean, my college doesn’t have gym, but maybe some do? ._.
The university could have some sort of martial arts team, and he could be the coach.
You’re failing to never presume that Galasso does not have ninjas at his disposal.
I think it would be funniest if he turned out to be interested in historically accurate ninjas in this universe. It would make a job as a janitor that much more appropriate, although I’d bet the RA’s would be scared of him. Although, to be honest, I’d think everyone would be scared of him.
Rick is not going to appear since he’s based on an actual person.
Seriously?
What does being based on a real person have to do with one’s ability to be a Dumbing of Age character, unless that specific real person requested the omission and Willis adhered to that request? After all, no real persons would mean, just to name a few examples, no Joe (who is in this very comic) or no Mike. (Heck, Mike’s real person even has almost the same name in real life: Jason Michael Warner.)
Anyways, re: the janitor idea, I could see him wielding a mop handle as if it was a sword. 😀
Speaking of which, I vaguely wonder, since Mike’s been in a Slipshine, how (a) the real person felt about that, and (b) what it was like for Willis drawing a character who, even if he has well taken on a life of his own, is at least distantly based on someone who was a childhood friend of his.
Nothing I loose sleep over wondering… But it is a slight curiosity.
Willis has said that characters based on real people won’t appear.
So, as I said, how do we account for Mike and Joe?
Because there’s a difference for a character who was a vague stand in for someone you knew decades ago and doesn’t even resemble who that person used to be and a character who was always basically that person.
You forgot Alex, who just wants to be left alone with his computer but everyone keeps bothering him for some reason.
[Best Man]
Maybe they just waxed the floors.
There are shoes with skate wheels in the heels. I see teens with them often enough.
There is a superpower in this verse; specifically, Joyce can push people. Mundanely. Remember Jocelyn?
“Oh, no, Joyce, i seem to be having trouble with my legs again!”
“RRRR! Aren’t I too old for this??”
“Apparently not!”
That strip made me laugh so hard.
But its only worked on people she knew before college. Making me think that Joyce was the primary mode of transit for people in her church.
Cheaper than an ox cart, am I right?
heelys
Next strip: Becky joins the roller derby and flirts with all the ladies. Joyce is conflicted and confused.
The universe is confused by her red hair and thinks she is actually Carla.
Maybe those Wheelie shoes with the retractable skate wheels. They have to still be a thing somewhere. Why not Indiana?
Picking the lesser evil huh.
The lesser of two ev-Y-ls.
Somehow, I imagine all this Becky-pushing is much easier via the wheelie shoes she is wearing.
Also, dammit Joe, put your Y chromosomes back in your pants.
I remember having wheelie shoes before, not as fun as I thought they would be.
Better or worse than moon shoes?
Moon shoes are more fun, heelies more useful. They do take some practice to zoom around on, though; I never bothered to get the hang of it, and the people I knew who used them usually just kept the wheels in their pockets in case of need and capped the sockets.
Joe’s Y brings lotsa girls to the playground. He once did what you suggest in the Walkyverse and a bunch of female Semme agents were VERY unhappy with him.
After seeing she likes Joe less than Walky (or is just keeping him from trying to seduce Becky in general), I now want to see a chart of a comparison of all of Joyce’s likes and hates.
Joyce hates anything sexual, Joe is all about the sex.
I don’t think Joyce hates anything sexual, I think she’s just afraid of it.
I think that Joyce is a repressed young woman who is still recovering from a sexual assault.
That’s a good point.
She’s been reacting to anything vaguely sexual with violence since the beginning. That’s not fear, it’s rage.
That is also a good point. I forgot Joyce punched Joe. I am learning all kinds of new stuff today.
Some people’s response to fear IS rage.
I wish someone would snarrghl me.
I think you need an extra long tongue to pull that off. 😛
You mean like Gene Simmons from KISS?
That could work. *heh*
I was thinking more along the lines of Venom.
Now I’m just thinking of Venom on the front cover of a new KISS album.
Come to think of it, Venom is like negative / reverse Gene Simmons.
Gene Simmons is Spider-Man?
YES!
What, Venom the metal band from Newcastle? Yeah, I could see that.
Nope. Actual venom, like the kind that snakes and spiders inject into you.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/Venom
Gene Simmons is one of the all time biggest a-holes. I’m pretty sure that he uses that tongue to lick himself when he’s not using it to be say truly offensive and insufferable carp. He’s totes misogynist and totes FIGJAM.
I suspect that he has HELLA iinsecurity that he’s trying to deal with thru monster arrogance.
‘Snarghl’ is the mating call of the jealous rage-beast.
I still think Becky’s down with this “no Y-chromosomes” plan.
I picture Joe’s musk being almost visible, like a heat wave.
Joe doesn’t need to shave…he just put a shade on the light fixture to shadow his face to look like manly stubble.
Not sure if last panel Becky is deeply disturbed by Joe, or sad Joyce is taking her away…
Probably both and she doesn’t understand what’s going on.
I feel reeeeeeeeeally silly, and I DO see the Joe tag, but I don’t see Joe, and am super confused… What am I missing here?
You have a rare mental block that prevents you from remembering what is in panel 3.
Joe is the leering “gentleman” in the third panel.
No no, I was genuinely seeing a different strip, refer to post below.
(Although if that weren’t the case though I could see my brain blocking out panel 3 from my memory)
THANK YOU! I wasn’t the only one!!
We all like to joke but seriously, they’re both probably pregnant just from looking at him.
http://cdn1.smosh.com/sites/default/files/ftpuploads/bloguploads/funny-anime-fansub-pregnant.jpg
(Just posting pic link cuz can’t HTML on phone for some danged reason)
Yyyeah, best keep those two on opposite poles of the planet….
Damnit boomwolf, those are the two biggest ones! She said NO y-chromasomes!
Okay, no, I just refreshed the page to see if anyone responded to me and not only did your replies appear but THE STRIP CHANGED.
I-I think I was having a glitch maybe? Where I was seeing a totally different strip from everyone else? Cuz I swear to God the strip I was *just* looking at involved a not-old strip with Walky being angsty about Dorothy… Even though the tags and title were the same…
…WILLIS WHAT JUST HAPPENED
Malfunctioning computer?…or maybe it is Willis, probably should get our tinfoil cone hats so he doesn’t try to brain wash us.
Tinfoil hats are antennas that amplify brainwashing rays.
Right! you need a Faraday cage for your head. And a lead hat, for the gamma rays.
Had you visited the site with that device/browser since you looked at the older strip? That would be the simplest way you could get a cache glitch that could do that..
a “not-old strip” ?
Was it this one?
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/emergencygirladvice/
or you saw a peek into the future?
or you saw a peek into the future
Yeah I meant a strip not previously-published
I do think I got a glimpse into the future. We’ll only be able to confirm later this week tho if that’s the case.
Or you’ve just developed a very specific kind of clairvoyance, limited to webcomics.
Must be a good week for it then; it’s happened elsewhere too recently.
pyrophobia I was seeing the “future” strip too! It was the next one (Monday’s)!!
Ah yeah. And Joyce is normal?
Outside of being homeschooled fundamentalist repressed female whose parents rule along with the church was almost raped and hiding behind a gay bf.
Um no, still don’t excuse this running your friend up an down the hallway like a hand cart.
Don’t forget giving into the sudden urge to draw dicks up and down her entire dorm hallway, then again who hasn’t done that once in their life.
I honest-to-God haven’t.
I know, I know, I’m a freak.
Let me rephrase that, who hasn’t atleast thought of doing that at least once, because I did that to my cousin once but instead of his door I drew it on his face before he got up early in the morning to go back home after visiting, ha fucker.
I’ve got one better. Me and my friends used to all spend the nigh frequently at one friend’s house, and it was always the same guy who fell asleep first. Finally, we decided to teach him a lesson by enlisting the help of the sister of the friend who lived there to make a realistic fake used tampon and place it on his cheek.
His face in the morning could not have been more priceless.
It wasn’t the guy who lived there, I misphrased that, but every time it was the same person falling asleep first.
And falling asleep is terrible.
It’s right up there with steeling 40 cakes (as many as four tens).
Steeling cakes? I know what my next sculpture in welding is going to be now…
Joyce’s reaction and flight are bit more excusable now that we’ve learned that she’s been using Walky/Ethan as pseudo-protection so that she can handle going outside post Ryan. I empathize.
Of course it doesn’t. Manhandling friends needs no excuse!
joe like candy corn? ‘,:-\
….i have lost all respect….
Awww… Becky likes when Joyce gets jealous of her.
One of these days I have to google what is candy corn. Any good?
no. its the red/orange/white pylon looking candy stereotyped for hollowed.
it’s aweful.
My girlfriend Rachel’s best friend Rachel (which is why I am amused this comic features a pair of Rachels as roommates) loves the stuff… But yeah, I agree with Itama’s assessment.
Depends. It’s basically just pieces of straight-up solidified corn syrup, plus food coloring. Do you like chewing pure straight sugar?
pure sugar (i.e. white table sugar) actually tastes a lot better than candy corn
So wait….no actual corn , just corn syrup????
I have been assuming that candy corn was candy coated popcorn (only ever seen it show up on American TV shows…oh gravity falls how I adore you)…I feel silly now
That’s caramel corn, which (unlike candy corn) is mostly made from actual food ingredients and is delicious.
For comparison, this is candy corn. There is in fact some resemblance to Becky’s outfit 🙂
Sorry for the confusing names. America has a lot of corn-related products.
Kettle Corn is popcorn covered with a sweet & salty coating and its deadly good; stay away from it if you value your waistline. There’s fiddle-raffle/crunchandmunch which have hard candy shell and peanuts, also very addictive. Then theres also caramel corn, p-corn coated w/ caramel, and Cracker Jacques, which is the former with peanuts, which some people must like… Cracker Jacques are traditional at baseball games because back around 1910 or so a groupie named Katie O’Casey tried to wheedle her date into buying her some and today at baseball games everyone has to stand up and sing about her 7.5/9 of the way thru the game. Seriously. It’s a sacred American ritual. As to candy corn, kids eat it at Halloween because kids and sugar. Although my friend Gerry to like it, so I gave him all of mine. Even at 8 years old I knew it was a scam.
What ? Dude how do you not know what candy corn is ? They’re like Octobers trademark candy treat
To be fair, that trademark is only the case in the U.S. I think.
Hell, I’m in the US and didn’t see any candy corn at all this year… or come to think of it, for the past 3 Halloweens. As I recall, it’s more likely to pop up around Thanksgiving hereabouts.
I like candy corn…
Thanks for your responses. We haven’t traditionally celebrated Halloween in Finland, even thought in resent ten years or so it has started to land here too especially among kids.
It’s happening in many countries. Youre all gonna have to take responsibility for this and not blame American cultural imperialism. In America Halloween has bifurcated: there’s still the traditional festival for kids but also, more and more it’s become an occasion/excuse for adult drinking parties…sometimes w/ “sexy” costumes for women that preserve 1950s fetishes AND objectify contemporary female professionals.
Candy corn is like frosting from a cake in triangle shapes but with little flavour – it isn’t as interesting as the name suggests it would be.
Frosting’s way tastier than candy corn. Bleck.
If you’re a cherub, it makes a respectable tooth. But aside from that, it’s evil.
It doesn’t even have any perfect right angles.
Some of us LIKE candy corn. The only problem I have with it is that if I buy a bag, I’m liable to eat the whole thing in one sitting.
Lemme tell you lilith, you’re not missing out. I tried it once and it’s nauseatingly sweet. Like it makes raw sugar taste bitter.
I kind of miss when Joyce and Walky were friends.
God damn it. You’re such a fucking predator, Joe.
Not really? AFAIK predator usually means exploitative – in power differential cases or cases where consent is not possible, that kind of thing. Joe is all about consent both by his bio and the actions we have seen. I’d say Ruth comes closer than Joe.
In that case, he’s a fucking creep and I don’t like him.
He is on the creepy side this time.
This version of Joe has never bullied anyone.
He has never harmed anyone.
He has never had one his dates repeatedly assaulted for being disobedient.
He Has never assaulted anyone of the opposite sex ( or same sex as far as we know ) nor attacked a former date because it didnt go well .
You cant say the same for Joyce, or
Ruth,
or Mike,
or Sal, or even Amber. ( wal-mart parking lot )
Becky would be perfectly safe on a date with Joe. She might get laid, but Joyce held her own just fine
From all accounts he appears to be a sensitive lover, GGG, and has enough respect to call back his dates for new ones.
He also openly considers whether one can give legal consent to be a legitimate reason to back off and does not try to ‘work around’ it.
He is sexualizing a female stranger with his shirt partially lifted; even if it isn’t direct assault, it’s still creepy and threatening.
Thisis why I like Joe because hes a good guy even though others (Joyce) see him as a bad guty
Him not being a misogynist jerk to women he’s sexually interested in has nothing to do with why I don’t like him. This fact is constantly brought up whenever people defend him, and quite frankly I’m a bit sick of it. Sure, he’s not as bad when compared to other characters, but he still has his own faults, like the time he said he could “fix” Joyce by having sex with her, and when he tried to pressure her into swearing, and the times where he was very dismissive of Danny’s problems when he didn’t personally think they were a big deal. I’ll probably catch flak for the last one, but you know what? Joe may not have thought they were a big deal, but Danny did, and I thought the way Joe handled things was shitty. The whole “tough love” thing just doesn’t sit right with me.
Generally though, I find his personality abrasive and his obsession with having sex annoying. He is also way too upfront about soliciting sex from others, imo, this strip being one of the more extreme times he’s done so.
So hoist up his gentlemanly attitude towards courting women all you want; it still won’t make me like him. It just makes him not as big of a jerk as he could’ve been. What would make me like him a bit more is if he had as much care dealing with friends as he does with potential fuck buddies.
Joe is very forward with his intentions and what can be expected of a night with him. That turns some people off. I’d be interested to see what happens if he ever catches eels and needs to sustain a relationship longer than a night.
Joe is, in short, always ‘offering’. No pressure, no obligation, just an offer that’s always open. If refused, he moves on. Some people just don’t like the offer – but enough do that he keeps offering.
Eels? Just what are you implying here? Actually, don’t tell me.
Yes eels the creatures of the deep! Actually I type comments on my tablet and sometimes my finger slips or I click a letter and it doesn’t type. In this case “feels” became “eels” you can’t edit comments so its eels. Just a sign I should proof read before clicking that post comment button.
I understood what you meant, although it took a while. If I wasn’t capable of understanding the occasional (or in some cases constant) typo, I wouldn’t be able to read about 2/7 of the comments on this site.
OK, so this clearly takes place in Clark wing: Walky contemplates the “do not disturb” sign on Dorothy’s door and is introduced there to Becky via her massive “burp” (her word). After Walky and Becky get friendly, Dorothy pushes Becky away from Walky into … Joe, leering from an open door. Whose? Oh, please let it be Mary’s!
Very well could be Mary’s. Pretty sure Joe’s had sex in that room at least once before! (Don’t forget, it is also Roz’s room.)
Mary delenda est
(or, as spellchecker wants me to write, Mary depends eat)
Joe just goes where he feels needed. It’s pretty weird how often he finds himself drawn here.
Joyce is my problematic fave.
You should have met his father he had 54 Y-chromosomes.
His genetic material is VERY persistent.
Huh; I wonder if the reason their youth pastor said Joyce is best socialized is that Becky had a bit of a boy-crazy streak in her, and he (and her parents) thought a small religious school would be more appropriate for her.
Thus the ‘No Y’ comments, and her reaction to Walky and (maybe) Joe.
Or my first idea way back when is right, and it’s all a dream while Joyce is face-down in ‘detritus’. Like Willis said last hovertext. 😉
Ya know, I read that last line in pannel four and much as I can’t stand K. Smith’s later works I couldn’t help but say, “In a row?”
Joyce…you’re too much of a prude. And kind of becoming sexist in a way 😛
She hasn’t exactly had the best experiences with guys so far.
True, I mean thinking she could get Joes parents back together like a movie was quite insensitive and then thinking physical assault is an appropriate way to deal with someones different opinions was a bit much
Yeeeesh, creeper much, Joe?
Yeah. Normally Joe’s not written as creepy. Maybe he’s having an off day. He did forget to shave.
He’s becoming more like his dad.
Joe is in the girl’s dormatory. Presumably, he’s not exactly had the chance for hygene yet and it probably about to make an exit and do some of that.
In the meantime, I suspect he’s not holding his breath to hook up with one of Joyce’s friends. I doubt he’d be opposed necessarily but yeah, Joyce probably isn’t going to watch that happen. Ergo, he’s not going to freak out about appearance (though it’s not clear Joe is particularly vain, I guess? I sort of assume he at least puts in effort usually though).
Most of the time we see Joe he tries to get it on with the women he flirts with. There are a few times (like here, I think) when he uses the same moves to make them uncomfortable or freak out… which is creepy.
Huh.
Nothing else to say?
Nope. Not really sure where all of this is going. Hijinks have often been derailed in this comic with drama bombs, so I’m kind of tensing up every up date preparing to duck and cover.
If by 27 Y chromosomes she means Joe has a birth defect that makes him so testosterone riddled it adversely affects his intelligence… I agree.
Well, men with XYY a thing so why not (even if I wouldn’t call it birth defect rather than… genetics). There are also men with XXY and XX, there are women with X and XXX*. There are also women with XY, but that’s less common. (Oh, and of course there are trans women and men)
From a sex determination point of view, the one important job of the Y chromosome is to add a specific dose of testosterone at a specific time of embryo development. If that dose is given, the embryo becomes male, otherwise it’s female. Therefor there are syndroms when the testosterone dose and chromosomes don’t match up for various reasons and the sex development follows a different path than expected from the chromosomes, with or without complications.
So in conclusion, Joyce and Becky can be forgiven since it’s a common lie in biology textbooks, but saying that someone with an Y chromosome is male is a useful shorthand but not the necessarily true, and not good enough for context when it’s really important (such as determining people’s gender identity or international sport).
*) Even if I could have chosen a smarter google string than “women XXX” in order to confirm that
Yay! You made me learn things!
Cool! Intersex awareness!
Joyce and Becky could also be forgiven because they’re also both college freshmen from backgrounds that appear to have little or no science education and oh yeah it’s a joke.
Joe is down with people, but he’s up with Downs according to Becky.
That’s kinda of a fucked up joke :/
Speaking as someone with XYY, extra Y chromosomes are overrated. All it did for me was make me abnormally tall for my age, prompting doctors to give growth inhibitors so it wouldn’t cause problems later in my life (I could’ve become almost 8 feet in theory) and a bunch of unwanted hair growth on my back earlier than other boys.
Joe should probably reach up to the ceiling with his waist and have more bodyhair than Chewbacca.
Indeed, extra Ys are no good. And if you have five, you might be a platypus.
Thanks for sharing. Seems much more work than fun.
I don’t care where this is going, I’m loving this storyline so far. Can Becky just stay here forever? (please? please?)
The gravatar/comment synergy is strong with this one.
I should be asleep, but anyone else notice that Becky seems to have absolutely no attraction to Joe in the slightest (seriously, haven’t read the comments all the way through yet) and actually went from a full smile to a decent frown? I realize he was being a bit more creepy than usual, but I see that as Joe’s natural warning coloration, like “this is as stereotypical as I get, do not approach if uninterested” though it is still… pushing it a bit, Joe. Definitely leaning into common trigger territory, though he probably doesn’t realize that yet.
Well, Joyce never really gave Becky a chance to express any sort of interest, and her words after the encounter seem to be ambiguous in that regard (disgusted or confused?), so the jury’s out.
I wasnt really expecting to like Becky, since, well, I judged her. I thought she was going to be the FAR more Bible toting friend of Joyce who is best friends/slash role model I suppose.
But now I’m getting the sneaky suspicion that Becky isn’t nearly as pure as Joyce is, you know, is more normal then Joyce. Don’t get me wrong, I honestly like Joyce, she has a very great personality, I just thought Becky was going to be pedestal girl, and instead… She seems like she could be more interesting then Joyce.
I only see this ending one of three ways.
1) Becky isnt nearly as goody goody as Joyce thinks she is. Perhaps she’s run away from home to come visit, perhaps she PREFERS the non-christian life style, and it all adds up to Joyce being disappointed in her.
2) Something will happen that will flip a switch in Becky. Some sort of devious sin that she will see that will make her go into full Bible thumping mode that ends up potentially embarrassing Joyce, like while Joyce might have done the same thing before, thought it was natural, now she sees it as overkill, and maybe wonder why she thinks its overkill when she used to be right there with her.
3) Becky stays just like this, minor character, nothing drastic happens, and just gives us someone to work off of.
Also, bit curious, this is hosted via Gravatar, as is obvious by the Get a Gravatar link, and yet my own Gravatar picture isnt showing up. Any clues on why I get a DOA generic pic instead of my own? I’ve used Gravatar before, so I dont see why this is happening.
You spelled your e-mail addy different than the one you registered your grav with. This post has my grav that I have been using since 2009.
While this one uses my snarky Mike DOA grav for when I’m being sarcastic (except for this one when I’m being informative about my snarky grav).
Danger lurks around every corner, mwah hah hah hah. Reminds me of college.
Currently, most people consider her a “slash role model”.
…
Seriously, that joke was far too obvious.
Seriously, does everyone forget http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-5/01-when-somebody-loved-me/sarcasm/? Becky is very, very sane; she just grew up in a repressive and controlling household. She’s merely grown up healthy despite that — and not just healthy, but contagiously healthy.
God only knows how, though. And I don’t think @damnyouwillis is going to give us a flashback to explain it.
Well, I’m aroused.
And being forced to contemplate what would pass for an evil mutant time traveling monkey monster clown’s boner has insured that I will NEVER be aroused for the forseeable future. Thanks for that.
How can you not get turned on my a redhead in a pixie cut?
BY a redhead, not MY a redhead… Proofread FAIL!
Ha ha, I love Joe. He’s glorious. XD
I’m curious. Was Joe putting his shirt on? Was he taking it off?
Is he just in the practice of flashing his abs whenever he meets a new girl, like a dog presenting its rear?
He is showing a potential mate that he is of good health and would provide suitable protection for their young. How do you flirt?
I do not.
I cannot compete with Joe in ab display. Perhaps I could grow large, colorful feathers from my butt, in a fan-shaped pattern?
First Jocelyn, now Becky. Apparently people going stiff in Joyce’s presence is just a thing.
I refuse to apologise for all the terrible jokes I’ve just made possible. Except for the incesty ones, which I hope no one will make.
Do you mean that Joyce presence make people boring? [missunderstanding on purpose for marginally comic effect]
Becky’s expressions
Panel 1-2: Fun times teasing friend.
Panel 3: Fun times pause, processing.
Panel 4: Nope do not like, wish to unsee.
And there it is, the limit of Becky’s scandalous fling the “real” world.
And Joe continues to be a walking sexual harassment case.
Walky is off-limits, Joyce?
Off-limits because he’s an aggravating jerk?
Off-limits because he belongs to Dorothy?
Off-limits because he belongs to Joyce (secretly)?
Off-limits because HIS BODY IS MADE OF LAVA
His body is made of caramel. This has already been established.
Mmmh, lava-caramel…
Sounds… sticky.
Man, I’m just loving Becky
He has all the Y-Chromosomes.
He caught them all.
I hate Joe so much all the time always.
Why? Hes a good guy
I’m torn about Joe. It is not clear that he values women for anything other than sex. Yet, he values women’s sexual autonomy, and is interested in their sexual pleasure, not just his own. So he treats them as full human beings when it comes to sex, but outside of the sexual realm, women seem to be non-entities to him.
I like the way the third panel makes it look Joyce is bringing Joe another sacrificial virgin to feast on
A reasonable assumption.
Joe was very gracious about it, too
Joe confermed to be part Manotaur?
Only 27? Most males have one in every single cell of their body!