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by David M Willis on September 11, 2010 at 12:01 am
  • 01 - Move-In Day
└ Tags: becky, hank, joyce

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  1. Confuzor
    Confuzor
    September 16, 2010 at 12:13 am | #

    Her dad totally looks like the creepy smiling guy from your Stan Bush music video parody (RAPPITY)

    • MightyPinto
      MightyPinto
      September 17, 2010 at 3:28 pm | #

      Holy crap you’re right…Holger totally looks like Joyce’s dad 😀

  2. BD
    BD
    September 20, 2010 at 9:50 pm | #

    Wow. I need to remember that “invent the internet” line. Classic and gold!

    • Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
      Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
      February 17, 2011 at 11:48 am | #

      LOL! So do I! Totally classic. I had to read that again and again to see if it was actually saying that!

    • Jadedcynic
      Jadedcynic
      December 29, 2014 at 4:23 pm | #

      Agreed – that line is beautiful.

  3. GrassyNoel
    GrassyNoel
    September 21, 2010 at 8:54 am | #

    In 1987 we had the internet at uni, but yeah if you were living on campus you had to cross a highway and enrol in either CS or Eng’g or Psych.

  4. Peregrin
    Peregrin
    September 26, 2010 at 7:44 am | #

    That’s exactly how I felt moving my daughter to college.

  5. Protonos
    Protonos
    October 14, 2010 at 8:41 am | #

    yay interesting new Comic 😉

  6. Cinema Shard
    Cinema Shard
    May 23, 2011 at 9:56 pm | #

    Is her Dad wearing and Indiana University shirt? I recognize the mighty Trident of Semi-Doom.

  7. curiousgeorgie
    curiousgeorgie
    July 11, 2011 at 2:38 pm | #

    Those leany-back chairs are awesome! I still almost fell backwards a few times in freshman year though.

  8. Boilerboy
    Boilerboy
    July 15, 2011 at 1:37 pm | #

    Yeah, its an IU shirt. BOO. lol, Boiler up. But I’m near Bloomington IN right now actualy… internship @ cummins

  9. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    December 12, 2011 at 12:56 am | #

    I would have thought that back when he was in college, the Internet would be strictly for science nerds and computer geeks.

  10. Raen
    Raen
    June 21, 2012 at 12:45 am | #

    I have come to hate this piece of human slime.

  11. Metichi
    Metichi
    January 27, 2013 at 7:02 pm | #

    Oh god, I found this comic through the fanart magnoliapearl [http://magnoliapearl.tumblr.com/] just did and IT’S ALREADY WORTH IT.
    I felt like i had to stop reading and post this right now so you know how soon i fell for it.

  12. Stephen
    Stephen
    March 7, 2013 at 11:47 pm | #

    Here from The Webcomic Overlook.

    Haha, this is awesome, ‘when I was your age, we had to invent the Internet’. I’m gonna tell my kids that.

    • Zack
      Zack
      June 26, 2013 at 1:14 pm | #

      NUFF’ SAID

  13. Lis
    Lis
    May 24, 2013 at 2:10 am | #

    what is equally funny is moving back into to dorms SIX YEARS after the first time you lived there and going. Wait you guys get x standard when I was in dorms… oh wait I’m only six years older

  14. Jenny Creed
    Jenny Creed
    July 19, 2013 at 11:52 am | #

    Whoa, the present storyline has everyone freaked out about meeting characters’ parents and it turns out we already met Joyce’s. A victory for ADD!

  15. Otera
    Otera
    August 17, 2013 at 7:33 pm | #

    I’m doing a reread and I think I picked a perfect time. it’s fun looking at the three year style change on Joyce and her dad.

  16. Leah Rockshard
    Leah Rockshard
    October 18, 2013 at 10:44 pm | #

    Don’t Christians have rules about using God’s name as an interjection?

  17. shparky
    shparky
    October 24, 2013 at 6:15 pm | #

    test

  18. Dragdamar
    Dragdamar
    November 5, 2013 at 7:27 pm | #

    My first year in college I studied programming in ForTran and BASIC. The internet was only a sci-fi concept in 1984. We didn’t even have dorms, I had to live at home and drive 20 mines to classes.

  19. Vree
    Vree
    March 6, 2014 at 12:45 pm | #

    Silly question buut are protestants allowed to use the Lord’s name in vain? Joycedad does it tice right in his first appearance.

    Hit me with your knowledge, oh mouth of truthfulness!

    • David Willis
      David M Willis
      March 6, 2014 at 1:02 pm | #

      Only if you consider his usage here to be taking the Lord’s name in vain. Many only classify saying “god dammit” as such. Others will tell you it depends on context. What taking His name in vain means is a subject of conversation and there is no white or black to it. It’s never spelled out.

  20. Deanatay
    Deanatay
    June 28, 2014 at 3:19 pm | #

    That’s probably how Al Gore did it…

  21. Gadgeteer Smashwidget
    Gadgeteer Smashwidget
    August 9, 2014 at 4:11 am | #

    And her dad was so likable here, too.

  22. brumagem
    brumagem
    December 15, 2015 at 2:36 pm | #

    It’s nice to go back and reread great comics isn’t i–OH GO WAS THE ART ALWAYS LIKE THIS.

    (every webcomic ever)

  23. Mousa The 14
    Mousa The 14
    March 31, 2016 at 9:14 am | #

    And it was also uphill both wyas in the snow you had to walk in order to invent your interwebs.

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