Nah, I popped over to Shortpacked to make sure I had her name right.
Don’t think it’s Sydney; the skintone seems slightly darker. Also, she was smiling.
The Noodles and Co. place is located on Kirkwood Avenue. Galasso’s (Mama Bear’s) is about a mile away on East 3rd Street, across from the IU Music Center. Don’t worry, they’ll be getting there shortly. (and by shortly I mean probably sometime around Christmas, real-world time)
There are legal annulments, too. Like if one or both of you was drunk or underaged when the marriage license was signed, the legal contract which established the marriage is invalid.
Well, it is/was when rich or powerful people did it, most of the time. But it actually does have a meaning aside from that. It’s saying the original marriage was invalid for reasons that would NORMALLY prevent a marriage, but the priest wasn’t aware of them at that time. For instance, if you’re already married, then go through a ceremony with someone else, and your new spouse finds out, the new spouse can easily get an annulment – you can’t have two marriages (by church rules), after all. But your old spouse has no cause for an annulment, because it *isn’t* divorce – your marriage was still perfectly valid when it was signed.
Powerful people could manufacture evidence for this, but it wasn’t just automatically the case that they called a divorce something different. It does actually represent a completely different concept (Even if hegemons could USE IT for the same thing).
Of course, this gets extra messed up when it happens with couples with kids, because then the church also wants both parties to agree that the kids are bastards for it to count as a ‘real’ annulment. Which is super nice to hear from someone you’ve already divorced.
‘Hey, I want to get remarried so… our kids didn’t count, kay?’
And THAT is why King Henry VIII created the Anglican church. You see, Catherine had had a string of miscarriages and stillbirths, and produced only one child, Mary. Henry, the God fearing Catholic he was, decided maybe he should have picked someone else to be his wife. But dear Catherine didn’t want her little Mary to be declared illegitimate, so Henry created divorce (at least in Christian England, I’m sure the concept was around before) just to get around that. Of course his second attempt (Anne Boleyn) wasn’t too successful either (producing only Elizabeth and, again, a string of miscarriages), so he got rid of her the traditional way. By beheading.
Ah, yes, I’m a little fuzzy on that whole incident. Probably because the celebration afterward lasted a fortnight, and involved hitting every pub in a 300 light year radius.
Waiting for them to figure out that it doesn’t have to end, because if Walky gets motivated and applies himself, his chances of getting in to Yale probably aren’t any worse than Dorothy’s.
I think Dorothy would actually spontaneously combust if Walky buckled down so he could go to Yale with her, and then he got in and she didn’t, though.
(I’m guessing you meant Dorothy when you said Sarah)
Although I don’t think Walky would follow Dorothy to Yale since he seems pretty devoted to the path of least resistance, and the whole basis of their relationship is “this is temporary and for fun”, if he actually did go to Yale it’d be under different circumstances than what Danny tried to do, since Walky could actually apply under his own merits, while Danny was going to drop out of school just to stay near Dorothy.
If Walky was going just to stay near Dorothy, I imagine she wouldn’t be okay with it.
I really hope Becky gets more stable before her ability to just rock out despite what comes her way peters out in the face of… All the stuff coming her way. Her dialogue in panel five is funny and heartbreaking all at the same time.
Yeah, it’s really familiar. It’s that, well, I need a job in the next… yeeeeeah, well, keep plugging away and don’t think about what your situation is if you don’t get one. La de l- aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!
Hard to do that with no previous employment, no contact number (though I guess she could give Joyce or Dina’s number), and no address she can admit to.
Uh, she has a high school education. It’s worth nearly nothing, but it *IS* there. She has a G.E.D. Anderson is (presumably) accreditted, and Joyce has the same homeschooling and went to a state college.
Like, there’s a lot wrong with homeschooling, especially of the sort these gals went through, but they DO get the piece of paper that says they got through school, it’s just awarded in a different way.
And ummmm, what’s on these resumes exactly? (Also to the OP, it seems like she was trying for stuff on the Internet yesterday. At least I inferred that from what she said to Dina)
Becky McIntyre, Homeless Lesbian
(No phone)
(No address)
(No verifiable education history)
(No work history)
(No references)
HIRE ME TO HELP KEEP ME AWAY FROM TOEDAD
(The End)
I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s had Internet access before, but probably on a computer with some form of net nanny software, and her evil father frequently observing her activities. She probably has used Joyce’s computer in the past, and Joyce may not have been as restricted.
Yeah, a month is about the right time for turnover. A lot of kids who have never worked before get let go around that time, because either they can’t make school/work balance and need to focus or for…other reasons. She should try Galasso’s.
I’d been thinking that all she needed to do was make it a week or two, and all of the sudden the people who got jobs at the beginning of the semester (either because they didn’t know better or because they misjudged their courses as being easy ones) will have to start quitting.
I sound completely different from all the other people who grew up in the same town as me because I learned to speak from my parents, who were immigrants.
Hetrogloss is actually more accurate but would probably be misunderstood in context because of the “hetro.” It’s a mostly imaginary geographical line separating areas with linguistic differences. You gotta larn them fancy college words before you can abuse them perversely like the good lord intended.
I thinks it’s more she’s a more casual speaker than Joyce than anything else. Becky’s speech is riddled with contractions while Joyce speaks more carefully.
Also, “ain’t” isn’t strictly southern.
Their communication is so awesome to see. They’re doing such a good job figuring out each other’s modes of being and responding to it. And it’s so awesome that Becky has that as she has very little other stability besides that.
It’s funny contrasting her with Joyce, who was in active Romance Seeker mode for the longest time and blundered a lot, but Becky landed with someone she just clicks with in all the right ways
This has already ended up as my favourite pairing in the series.
That’s a good comparison. I suppose one reason is that Joyce is full of internal conflicts about relationships, but Becky knows exactly what she wants (giblets+sickengly sweet+running around like dofuses*)
Mine too, but it’s one of very few relationships that is actually healthy, so it’s not THAT stiff competition.
*) also +dinosaurs, but she didn’t actually know she wanted that from a relationship until she met Dina.
To me, Becky has been interacting with Dina as if she can’t quite believe Dina is real. Dina seems to represent everything Becky didn’t know she wanted out of life. She’s a quiet balance to Becky’s brash nature. She values intelligence and education for its own sake rather than as a means to an end (see Becky’s comment about studying education on the expectation that she would then homeschool her own children; I get the feeling Becky is naturally curious in a way her upbringing stifled). She’s almost completely incapable of deception, so Becky doesn’t have to worry about missing a social cue. And Dina gives no fucks about barriers to sexual preference in a way that allows Becky to relax and feel comfortable about her own sexuality (sure, she nuked her closet from orbit, but there’s probably something liberating about being around someone who never perceived a closet to begin with).
In Becky, Dina sees someone who will never fail to let her know how she feels, who is mindful of Dina’s needs and never forgets she’s in a room, and who doesn’t seem to judge Dina’s passions or tune out of her dinosaur lectures. Becky actually adores Dina for who she is and doesn’t expect her to be anyone or anything else.
By being with each other, they’re discovering what it’s like to actually be themselves without judgment, and it’s a joy to watch.
Have you ever suddenly realized that-in Willis’ things-quite often, characters added just because why not end up being in just about everyone’s top characters list?
e.g.
Dina (addad for dinosaur chick)
Leslie (added for pun name)
(I can’t think of any other examples off the top of my head)
I love Becky’s optimism, but I’m glad that the comic never entertains the notion that Becky is morally obligated to find a job because of her situation. Like, if she didn’t, there’s never going to be a point where anyone’s like “wtf becky dont you know its your fault now”
Not in the comic, anyway. There sure were a lot of Negative Neds in the comments when she first showed up on Joyce’s doorstep. (Not to mention the people who insisted that Toedad was just being concerned.)
Yeah, I’m really surprised by how little of that there is in the comments today, given how much there was when her situation was mde clear. …Is The Willis cleaning them out?
If anyone else was given that 20$, then nobody would be talking about how they should have put it towards any kind of necessity, and besides that, Becky got that haircut because it helped establish her identity. It was extremely important for her.
Legitimately now; what could she even put that towards for any period of time that Becky deserved to be judged for spending it the “wrong way”?
I’m pretty sure that this relationship is going to be one long trial-and-error learning process for Dina. That’s okay, though, because I think that it is also the same for Becky.
Meanwhile, I think that Becky needs to think out-of-the-box when it comes to jobs. Look to the skills she has – Is she not literate and numerate? Sometimes, if you’re willing to go as far as the grey economy, those can be major bankable skills. Especially so for a college town! There may be a market stall out there whose owner really could do with a book-keeper or something!
Prediction: Toedad returns to the campus whilst Becky and Dina are off beating the town for job leads. Everyone he talks to tells him that, yes, Becky was there but she said she was only going to be staying the weekend. The trail seems so strong, he leaves before even finding Joyce, trying to pick up the trail either at Anderson or in their hometown.
It’s just an indication that the hair is partially over her face but isn’t so thick it’s opaque. You can still see her eyes and she isn’t blinded and can see out through the hair. It’s a stylistic convention.
I mean, she’s gonna have to find a job. Just plot wise I’m sure this isn’t gonna turn into a story about the downfall of the economy, following Becky through an entire year of being unemployed while the rest of the cast continues to deal with zany social conundrums with their parents and/or student loans footing the bill.
Just wondering, has anyone noticed Becky’s accent becoming more and more present in her speech? It’s certainly far cry from her first few appearances. Even when she came back, it wasn’t hugely present til after her haircut.
I mean I guess the simplest answer is ‘Willis didn’t know what to do with her five years ago’ but is their some in-universe explanation for it, like Sal has this powerful effect on her, or the hairdresser cast a spell on her as she was working her magic?
Having different registers of speech is common. You talk one way at school \ work, another at home, another to your mother and another when out with friends. Becky is just ggettin’ comfortable with Dina.
Jobs in a college town are hard to find as a student, but someone with open availability (for the time being) might have an easier time of finding some openings. Accommodating schedules is a huge pain in the ass sometimes, and lots of people hate working on weekends when they’re in school.
So in Becky’s line about how textbooks “didn’t censor” supply and demand in Panel 2, is she trying to say that they tried to dissuade her from seeking employment? We know Ross decided on her getting a degree in education so she could homeschool her own kids.
Are Joyce’s parents the same way as her, or are they okay with her pursuing education for herself?
I think she just means that her education didn’t have much of a religious filter put over the economic bits.
She’s talked about how for example about how her textbooks censored a lot of the science around dinosaurs. A lot of facts were very specifically omitted from her textbooks because they didn’t fit the Young Earth Creationist narrative they were trying to teach.
Supply and Demand on the other hand didn’t conflict with her community’s religious views in the same way, so less information was ommitted.
That was the plan, but I think Joyce is going to start pursuing things for herself. If I’m not mistaken Willis talked on his tumblr about how Joyce might actually be a good fit for education, and she might want to pursue it for herself, unlike how Becky was forced into a role she didn’t want.
So this is unrelated to today’s strip, but I’ve spent all day watching the first season of Steven Universe and now I feel like Joyce did when she first watched Dexter & Monkey Master.
How does this one cartoon manage to do everything right?
I was suddenly struck by the idea that on the back of Dina’s parent’s car, they have those “members of the family” stickers: A man, an woman, and a velociraptor.
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I hear Galasso is always looking for new minions
(alternately, Sarah’s looking for a therapist (or should be))
Working for Galasso is quite the experience.
Those floor sharks have to be fed somehow.
Funny. Just found those, and the accompanying jokes about a lake in Indiana, while browsing the Lucy tag after yesterday’s last panel.
Wait, was Lucy in the tags yesterday?
WAIT. Was that SYDNEY YUS in the BACKGROUND yesterday?!
Wait, it might just be the unnamed drunk girl from the party .
Dang . . . there are a lot of characters . . .
Nah, I popped over to Shortpacked to make sure I had her name right.
Don’t think it’s Sydney; the skintone seems slightly darker. Also, she was smiling.
Indeed.
I have worked my way through the Compete Willis and I am now entirely familiar with his comedic oeuvre.
But have you digested it and really thought about it? Has it changed the way you look at trucks and rain and cheese?
A-hem
I’m Batman.
That’s what I’m hoping happens, because this comic needs more Galasso. All comics need more Galasso.
Not just comics, but the world. The world is in desperate need for more Galasso.
Seriously, Galasso 2016,
Dun dun da da dun doot di doot di do do~
“My vice-president shal be determined by the first man to claim my daughter Conquest.”
…she’s sixteen
That’s legal in Indiana.
Creepy, but legal.
Yeah, but you couldn’t do a Slipshine that included her.
Not in this universe, anyway. Walkyverse Conquest is totally Slipshine-eligible.
Particularly if the accurately reflect local demographics.
I feel like if anyone gives Sarah therapy they should have some sort of a degree.
Or protective clothing, at the very least.
A big chunk of the cast could use a therapist honestly.
Danger! Just saying therapist could be a trigger for Joyce.
I’ll take “Ryan” for one hundred, Alex.
aww yiss, missed these guys
GAH, all of the colors in this strip are so bright and vibrant!
I love it 🙂
Also still rooting for Becky working at Galasso’s Pizza (and subs)
The noodle place’s sign is a little eye-watering, huh?
The Noodles and Co. place is located on Kirkwood Avenue. Galasso’s (Mama Bear’s) is about a mile away on East 3rd Street, across from the IU Music Center. Don’t worry, they’ll be getting there shortly.
(and by shortly I mean probably sometime around Christmas, real-world time)
I like that Willis deigned to make a couple that DOESN’T seem have the potential to end tragically.
Every couple ever has the potential to end tragically.
After all, all marriages end in divorce or death. ALL OF THEM.
Not true! Some are annulled. Although an annulment basically declares that you were never really married, so maybe that doesn’t count…
I’ve always thought of annulment as a religiously acceptable* way of saying “divorce”.
* for those religious, such as catholicism, which frown on divorce and have annulments
There are legal annulments, too. Like if one or both of you was drunk or underaged when the marriage license was signed, the legal contract which established the marriage is invalid.
Well, it is/was when rich or powerful people did it, most of the time. But it actually does have a meaning aside from that. It’s saying the original marriage was invalid for reasons that would NORMALLY prevent a marriage, but the priest wasn’t aware of them at that time. For instance, if you’re already married, then go through a ceremony with someone else, and your new spouse finds out, the new spouse can easily get an annulment – you can’t have two marriages (by church rules), after all. But your old spouse has no cause for an annulment, because it *isn’t* divorce – your marriage was still perfectly valid when it was signed.
Powerful people could manufacture evidence for this, but it wasn’t just automatically the case that they called a divorce something different. It does actually represent a completely different concept (Even if hegemons could USE IT for the same thing).
Of course, this gets extra messed up when it happens with couples with kids, because then the church also wants both parties to agree that the kids are bastards for it to count as a ‘real’ annulment. Which is super nice to hear from someone you’ve already divorced.
‘Hey, I want to get remarried so… our kids didn’t count, kay?’
And THAT is why King Henry VIII created the Anglican church. You see, Catherine had had a string of miscarriages and stillbirths, and produced only one child, Mary. Henry, the God fearing Catholic he was, decided maybe he should have picked someone else to be his wife. But dear Catherine didn’t want her little Mary to be declared illegitimate, so Henry created divorce (at least in Christian England, I’m sure the concept was around before) just to get around that. Of course his second attempt (Anne Boleyn) wasn’t too successful either (producing only Elizabeth and, again, a string of miscarriages), so he got rid of her the traditional way. By beheading.
#legalretconning
Not unless that asteroid strike from 65 million years ago happens again.
The very SAME asteroid??
(Sees Dina) “Fuck, I missed one.”
I am picturing a malevolent asteroid with googly eyes stapled on.
Unless Dexter and MM is based on a real story, that would be rather unlikely.
That asteroid is a prick.
Asyou should know Doctor, that was a Cyberman ship not an Asteroid. You know the one that carried your companion Adric to his fiery death?
Ah, yes, I’m a little fuzzy on that whole incident. Probably because the celebration afterward lasted a fortnight, and involved hitting every pub in a 300 light year radius.
Good to see you were as happy as everyone else to be rid of Adric.
As an Adric fan who will be cosplaying him this weekend, both +1 and -infinity to that comment.
I’d say this absolutely has potential to end in tragedy 🙁
Walky and Dorothy aren’t really tragic. They know they’re going to end someday, so they’re making the most of their time together.
It’s remarkably healthy and loving from both of them.
Waiting for them to figure out that it doesn’t have to end, because if Walky gets motivated and applies himself, his chances of getting in to Yale probably aren’t any worse than Dorothy’s.
I think Dorothy would actually spontaneously combust if Walky buckled down so he could go to Yale with her, and then he got in and she didn’t, though.
Uh….
Remember Danny? Remember what about that Sarah was not cool with?
(I’m guessing you meant Dorothy when you said Sarah)
Although I don’t think Walky would follow Dorothy to Yale since he seems pretty devoted to the path of least resistance, and the whole basis of their relationship is “this is temporary and for fun”, if he actually did go to Yale it’d be under different circumstances than what Danny tried to do, since Walky could actually apply under his own merits, while Danny was going to drop out of school just to stay near Dorothy.
If Walky was going just to stay near Dorothy, I imagine she wouldn’t be okay with it.
There’s a subtle but important difference between “following Dorothy when she goes to Yale”, and “going to Yale with Dorothy”.
I really hope Becky gets more stable before her ability to just rock out despite what comes her way peters out in the face of… All the stuff coming her way. Her dialogue in panel five is funny and heartbreaking all at the same time.
Yeah, it’s really familiar. It’s that, well, I need a job in the next… yeeeeeah, well, keep plugging away and don’t think about what your situation is if you don’t get one. La de l- aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!
Hey, I just realized Dina’s wearing a Dinosaur Comics shirt!
Not at all. Dina is just a mech being piloted by T-Rex of Dinosaur Comics, and the windshield is on her torso.
Or else she has taken captive a T-Rex in her tummy prison!
Yeah I spotted that!
That writer does Marvels Squirrel Girl comic now, which is fantastic.
Positions Vacant. Newspaper. Online. Why is her first step cold canvasing?
Gotta get away from ToeDad. Also cabin fever, leave the college bubble.
She could at least print up some resumes.
Hard to do that with no previous employment, no contact number (though I guess she could give Joyce or Dina’s number), and no address she can admit to.
Also, no college degree, and no HS degree, either (thx, homeschooling).
Uh, she has a high school education. It’s worth nearly nothing, but it *IS* there. She has a G.E.D. Anderson is (presumably) accreditted, and Joyce has the same homeschooling and went to a state college.
Like, there’s a lot wrong with homeschooling, especially of the sort these gals went through, but they DO get the piece of paper that says they got through school, it’s just awarded in a different way.
And ummmm, what’s on these resumes exactly? (Also to the OP, it seems like she was trying for stuff on the Internet yesterday. At least I inferred that from what she said to Dina)
Becky McIntyre, Homeless Lesbian
(No phone)
(No address)
(No verifiable education history)
(No work history)
(No references)
HIRE ME TO HELP KEEP ME AWAY FROM TOEDAD
(The End)
References: This cute chick who has lot’s of A+ but won’t shut up about dinosaurs.
Galasso: DAUGHTER – I HAVE FOUND A WAY TO OPEN NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE DINOSAUR WARLORDS. SIRE ME A HEIR WITH THIS YOUNG MAN.
Connie: Oooooh.
SHE EVEN COMES WITH HER OWN ARCHENEMY. THAT IS EFFICIENT.
I never knew how much I wanted this.
Probably because Becky has no experience in job hunting.
Her first access to the internet was yesterday: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/04-walking-with-dina/unfettered/
I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s had Internet access before, but probably on a computer with some form of net nanny software, and her evil father frequently observing her activities. She probably has used Joyce’s computer in the past, and Joyce may not have been as restricted.
Lack of easy Internet access in any way that keeps her mobile and away from her father.
Gotta love Becky’s can-do spirit! 🙂
She’s no Debbie Downer, all right!
It’s odd – these two are both social wrecks, in two extremely different ways, but somehow the two ways seem a perfect lock.
Yeah, a month is about the right time for turnover. A lot of kids who have never worked before get let go around that time, because either they can’t make school/work balance and need to focus or for…other reasons. She should try Galasso’s.
“You wish to work for GALASSO? You FOOL!”
I’d been thinking that all she needed to do was make it a week or two, and all of the sudden the people who got jobs at the beginning of the semester (either because they didn’t know better or because they misjudged their courses as being easy ones) will have to start quitting.
SHIT NO SHES ABOUT TO GET HIRED BEFORE I DO FUCK MY LIFE
I know that feel… it is a sad one…
If it makes you feel any better, I got laid off, so I’m looking for work too. We still have a chance!
No time like the present to ask this, but; if Becky and Joyce grew up together, why does Becky have a southern accent but Joyce doesn’t?
Maybe the isogloss runs between their houses?
I sound completely different from all the other people who grew up in the same town as me because I learned to speak from my parents, who were immigrants.
“Isogloss”? That there’s one a them fancy college words, I bet!
Hetrogloss is actually more accurate but would probably be misunderstood in context because of the “hetro.” It’s a mostly imaginary geographical line separating areas with linguistic differences. You gotta larn them fancy college words before you can abuse them perversely like the good lord intended.
For example, the hetrogloss marks regions of linguistic homogeneity.
“Hetrogloss”? “Heterogloss”? That’s a new one on me, but then I’m an engineering, science, economics, and public policy major, not a linguist.
Yup! Fo schizzle.
It’s a line on a map separating regions with different linguistic features.
Well we know for sure that Joyce was homeschooled and I’m fairly sure that Becky was also. Perhaps one of her parents is from farther south?
I thinks it’s more she’s a more casual speaker than Joyce than anything else. Becky’s speech is riddled with contractions while Joyce speaks more carefully.
Also, “ain’t” isn’t strictly southern.
This.
Becky doesn’t have a Southern accent, she has a Hoosier Hick accent. Believe me, I grew up hearing that a plenty.
$5 says she ends up serving at the altar of Galasso’s Pizza (and subs!)
No bet.
It’s the option most of us are expecting. But probably only to be foiled.
*plays The Silhouettes’ “Get A Job” on the Muzak*
(Or maybe it’s been remade by Sha-Na-Na?)
Yes, it was. Bowser nailed it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRbYjR6afNQ
Yipyipyipyipyipyip
bupbupbupbup
getajob
As Bowser himself said on the band’s TV series–“Don’t look a gift mouth in the mouth!”
Yep, feeling this right about now
Is that Noodles & Company? I love those!
We don’t actually have any in my city, but a friend introduced me when I visited them and it was amazing.
My town has a Noodles & Co. in the same building as a Smash Burger, and more than once I’ve stood at the dividing line, going, “Damnit.“
Heh, I love how they still calibrate their relationship – and that they actually TALK about not understanding each other’s signals.
Their communication is so awesome to see. They’re doing such a good job figuring out each other’s modes of being and responding to it. And it’s so awesome that Becky has that as she has very little other stability besides that.
It’s funny contrasting her with Joyce, who was in active Romance Seeker mode for the longest time and blundered a lot, but Becky landed with someone she just clicks with in all the right ways
This has already ended up as my favourite pairing in the series.
That’s a good comparison. I suppose one reason is that Joyce is full of internal conflicts about relationships, but Becky knows exactly what she wants (giblets+sickengly sweet+running around like dofuses*)
Mine too, but it’s one of very few relationships that is actually healthy, so it’s not THAT stiff competition.
*) also +dinosaurs, but she didn’t actually know she wanted that from a relationship until she met Dina.
To me, Becky has been interacting with Dina as if she can’t quite believe Dina is real. Dina seems to represent everything Becky didn’t know she wanted out of life. She’s a quiet balance to Becky’s brash nature. She values intelligence and education for its own sake rather than as a means to an end (see Becky’s comment about studying education on the expectation that she would then homeschool her own children; I get the feeling Becky is naturally curious in a way her upbringing stifled). She’s almost completely incapable of deception, so Becky doesn’t have to worry about missing a social cue. And Dina gives no fucks about barriers to sexual preference in a way that allows Becky to relax and feel comfortable about her own sexuality (sure, she nuked her closet from orbit, but there’s probably something liberating about being around someone who never perceived a closet to begin with).
In Becky, Dina sees someone who will never fail to let her know how she feels, who is mindful of Dina’s needs and never forgets she’s in a room, and who doesn’t seem to judge Dina’s passions or tune out of her dinosaur lectures. Becky actually adores Dina for who she is and doesn’t expect her to be anyone or anything else.
By being with each other, they’re discovering what it’s like to actually be themselves without judgment, and it’s a joy to watch.
+1
Have you ever suddenly realized that-in Willis’ things-quite often, characters added just because why not end up being in just about everyone’s top characters list?
e.g.
Dina (addad for dinosaur chick)
Leslie (added for pun name)
(I can’t think of any other examples off the top of my head)
That’s a very good view on their relationship, and why it’s completely adorable. Both Dina and Becky scored OH SO MUCH.
“Gimme a few minutes so I can figure out how to get some guy fired!”
Apparently they needed Mike’s help after all.
Oh, they don’t want Mike’s help. The may need Mikes’s help, but believe me, they don’t want Mike’s help.
The gas station on the SW corner of campus is hiring for all shifts.
I love Becky’s optimism, but I’m glad that the comic never entertains the notion that Becky is morally obligated to find a job because of her situation. Like, if she didn’t, there’s never going to be a point where anyone’s like “wtf becky dont you know its your fault now”
Not in the comic, anyway. There sure were a lot of Negative Neds in the comments when she first showed up on Joyce’s doorstep. (Not to mention the people who insisted that Toedad was just being concerned.)
God, I know. I hate the bootstrap argument on my best days, but trying to apply it to a homeless gay kid? It’s messed up.
Yeah, I’m really surprised by how little of that there is in the comments today, given how much there was when her situation was mde clear. …Is The Willis cleaning them out?
If he is then nothing of value was lost.
It’s like, none of this is Becky’s fault. None of this should even be Becky’s responsibility. Why is what Becky “needs” even on the agenda?
I swear, some people think homelessness and poverty are active decisions.
People were a little peeved that Becky was given 20$ and instead of buying food with it, or something to help her situation she got a hair cut 😛
If anyone else was given that 20$, then nobody would be talking about how they should have put it towards any kind of necessity, and besides that, Becky got that haircut because it helped establish her identity. It was extremely important for her.
Legitimately now; what could she even put that towards for any period of time that Becky deserved to be judged for spending it the “wrong way”?
Oy, I remember those. That was appallingly annoying.
Noodles and Company, bah. That place will only ever be the Von Lee Theatre to me.
I’m pretty sure that this relationship is going to be one long trial-and-error learning process for Dina. That’s okay, though, because I think that it is also the same for Becky.
Meanwhile, I think that Becky needs to think out-of-the-box when it comes to jobs. Look to the skills she has – Is she not literate and numerate? Sometimes, if you’re willing to go as far as the grey economy, those can be major bankable skills. Especially so for a college town! There may be a market stall out there whose owner really could do with a book-keeper or something!
Hey, Inkblot, if you’re reading this… CALLED IT!
Prediction: Toedad returns to the campus whilst Becky and Dina are off beating the town for job leads. Everyone he talks to tells him that, yes, Becky was there but she said she was only going to be staying the weekend. The trail seems so strong, he leaves before even finding Joyce, trying to pick up the trail either at Anderson or in their hometown.
So what happens when they walk into a place and Dina is offered a job instead?
Tells them that it’s a package deal and they have to hire Becky too?
Still got my fingers crossed that she ends up working wherever it is that Marcie works.
I hear there’s a lucrative future in being a cam whore.
Yes, hire this woman! She has the power to make an eye appear on her hair.
I was thinking the face arrangement looks a teensy bit off today, in all three panels. I hope this isn’t a sign that she is slowly melting.
It’s just an indication that the hair is partially over her face but isn’t so thick it’s opaque. You can still see her eyes and she isn’t blinded and can see out through the hair. It’s a stylistic convention.
Anyone would melt with constant exposure to that much cuteness.
hell, ive been looking for a job for years and ive got nothing. i hope its not that easy.
Palamdrone says there’s a lucrative future in being a cam whore. But provided no details.
I mean, she’s gonna have to find a job. Just plot wise I’m sure this isn’t gonna turn into a story about the downfall of the economy, following Becky through an entire year of being unemployed while the rest of the cast continues to deal with zany social conundrums with their parents and/or student loans footing the bill.
i mean, id be behind that plot development
I’m sure Gallasso has a reputation that makes it hard for him to find new minions. A reputation Becky won’t know of and Dina won’t care of.
Becky is half stuck under her mask and it depresses me. I knew someone like that.
Almost everyone I know is like that.
Just wondering, has anyone noticed Becky’s accent becoming more and more present in her speech? It’s certainly far cry from her first few appearances. Even when she came back, it wasn’t hugely present til after her haircut.
I mean I guess the simplest answer is ‘Willis didn’t know what to do with her five years ago’ but is their some in-universe explanation for it, like Sal has this powerful effect on her, or the hairdresser cast a spell on her as she was working her magic?
maybe she was speaking without the accent on purpose and now shes just more comfortable with it?
of course if it was just on willis’s end the in-universe explanation would be more like “shes been doing it all along, our viewscreen was just bugged”
It really doesn’t sound like a Southern accent like Sal’s. It’s more like Walky’s where things aren’t as enunciated in a clear way.
Having different registers of speech is common. You talk one way at school \ work, another at home, another to your mother and another when out with friends. Becky is just ggettin’ comfortable with Dina.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/03-men-are-from-beck-women-are-from-clark/change/
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/01-pajama-jeans/full/
It’s definitely not just a ‘who you’re talking to’ thing.
Becks would be the best customer service rep EVER
She would! Funny and loud can be a real asset.
Jobs in a college town are hard to find as a student, but someone with open availability (for the time being) might have an easier time of finding some openings. Accommodating schedules is a huge pain in the ass sometimes, and lots of people hate working on weekends when they’re in school.
So in Becky’s line about how textbooks “didn’t censor” supply and demand in Panel 2, is she trying to say that they tried to dissuade her from seeking employment? We know Ross decided on her getting a degree in education so she could homeschool her own kids.
Are Joyce’s parents the same way as her, or are they okay with her pursuing education for herself?
I think she just means that her education didn’t have much of a religious filter put over the economic bits.
She’s talked about how for example about how her textbooks censored a lot of the science around dinosaurs. A lot of facts were very specifically omitted from her textbooks because they didn’t fit the Young Earth Creationist narrative they were trying to teach.
Supply and Demand on the other hand didn’t conflict with her community’s religious views in the same way, so less information was ommitted.
That’s actually way more likely than what I had to say.
Joyce isn’t pursueing education for herself, she’s passing time while searching for her future husband.
That was the plan, but I think Joyce is going to start pursuing things for herself. If I’m not mistaken Willis talked on his tumblr about how Joyce might actually be a good fit for education, and she might want to pursue it for herself, unlike how Becky was forced into a role she didn’t want.
I would be weirdly happy if they walked past a McAwesome’s. 😛
And Mike worked there.
So this is unrelated to today’s strip, but I’ve spent all day watching the first season of Steven Universe and now I feel like Joyce did when she first watched Dexter & Monkey Master.
How does this one cartoon manage to do everything right?
All it has to be is technically a documentary about a universe not unlike our own…
I was suddenly struck by the idea that on the back of Dina’s parent’s car, they have those “members of the family” stickers: A man, an woman, and a velociraptor.
and an orange velociraptor that is quite a bit taller than everyone else pictured.
I /just/ realized, they talk so differently!