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Divorce

by David M Willis on February 3, 2011 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - Men are from Beck, Women are from Clark
└ Tags: joe, joyce, mike

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  1. addude
    addude
    February 3, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    I could see Joe playing Bass Guitar but not violin for some reason

    • Rogue of Space
      Rogue of Space
      June 25, 2013 at 1:07 pm | #

      I could see a double bass.

      Or I could be Billie and see double. Either one.

      • Koolaid Guy
        Koolaid Guy
        September 1, 2013 at 12:11 am | #

        Or you could be roxy and make double/still see double.

  2. arjay2813
    arjay2813
    February 3, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    Galasso’s =D
    joyce has selective hearing/memory it seems

    • Jen Aside
      Jen Aside
      February 3, 2011 at 12:04 am | #

      It’s called “being naïve”

      • arjay2813
        arjay2813
        February 3, 2011 at 12:18 am | #

        i was trying to point that out, i just couldn’t think of the word (thanks)

      • Shift
        Shift
        February 3, 2011 at 3:36 am | #

        I’m not sure it’s Naive, or just actively refusing to live in the real world.

        • mobyfoo
          mobyfoo
          February 3, 2011 at 8:59 am | #

          Let’s face it, college is next door to the real world, and she’s actively refusing to live there, even.

        • Pat
          Pat
          February 3, 2011 at 12:15 pm | #

          Why would you want to live in the real world if you have another option?
          It’s scary!

          • omegaultima
            omegaultima
            February 24, 2011 at 10:29 am | #

            what’s scary is how well your avatar and what you said fit

      • Rognik
        Rognik
        February 3, 2011 at 1:57 pm | #

        It’s a touch more than just being naïve. Naïve is Joyce not knowing calling her roommate a novelty for being black; trying to reunite two people who drive each other mad is flat-out denial.

  3. TheAlucinaut
    TheAlucinaut
    February 3, 2011 at 12:04 am | #

    Wow, this is actually very sweet, & a bit sad. Love the sudden emotion in those middle panels.

    This is strip really is something.

  4. Alice Macher
    Alice Macher
    February 3, 2011 at 12:04 am | #

    A bit of pathos from Joe in the third panel. Unexpected. Like it.

  5. Coppermouth
    Coppermouth
    February 3, 2011 at 12:04 am | #

    Galasso’s Pizza…what.

    • David Herbert
      David Herbert
      February 3, 2011 at 12:28 am | #

      Oh God, I hope he’s just as insane as a pizza shop owner.

      • Alechsa
        Alechsa
        February 3, 2011 at 1:27 am | #

        I hope he IS! <3 and that their server is Faz!!!

    • creativerealms
      creativerealms
      February 3, 2011 at 7:37 am | #

      Yes and yes to Faz. Maybe Ninja Rick too cutting up pizza with a Katana blade.

  6. Scotty Van
    Scotty Van
    February 3, 2011 at 12:07 am | #

    Apparently, Mother Bear’s has been bought by Galasso in this universe, since it has the same coloration.

    Also…as a child of divorced parents, I REALLY identify with Joe here. Joyce’s naivete hits me.

    • arjay2813
      arjay2813
      February 3, 2011 at 12:11 am | #

      my mom divorced her 1st husband and married my dad, so i’m a product of divorce, so you can probably tell i’m w/you on that

      • gangler
        gangler
        February 3, 2011 at 1:09 am | #

        Yeah, the last thing I need is for my toxic mother to get back together with my drug addicted pi-polar father. They’re both great people, but they drove eachother to actions neither would normally ever do. Quite frankly if it wasn’t for their religion the marriage wouldn’t have lasted a year, let alone the twenty that it did.

        Literally the moment they separated mom’s behavior toned down to casual condescension and Dad’s been clean and consistently taking his medication for five years. They were about as terrible a match as any could be.

        • Joebo
          Joebo
          February 3, 2011 at 9:27 am | #

          pi-polar? he has 3.1415926… different moods? That must get confusing.

    • Malph
      Malph
      February 3, 2011 at 2:01 am | #

      As someone whose parents didn’t get divorced until he was 19 and was thus forced to live with them fighting constantly until then. And then STILL had to deal with them fighting as two people who just hate each other and live in the same house (because my family wasn’t dysfunctional enough as it was) for 4 more months, I have to agree with Joe here.

  7. Ripps
    Ripps
    February 3, 2011 at 12:11 am | #

    So…
    How many years is it going to take before Willis destroys this Joyce’s closed-minded world view. Her inability to see the real world is kinda sad.

    • George
      George
      February 3, 2011 at 1:00 am | #

      She’s out with Mike and Joe. One way or another, she’s seeing the real world tonight.

      • Shift
        Shift
        February 3, 2011 at 3:37 am | #

        I dunno… her ability to reside in her own little world, seems pretty sturdy…

        • Bill M.
          Bill M.
          February 3, 2011 at 12:40 pm | #

          She rejects our reality and substitutes her own.

          • James
            James
            February 3, 2011 at 2:28 pm | #

            In the original Walkyverse (Walkyverse Prime?) it took a clone embodiment of every negative impulse she’d been repressing to tear down her world view.

            DoA!Joyce might take a while.

    • inafets113
      inafets113
      February 3, 2011 at 9:28 am | #

      He did destroy it, in It’s Walky, many years ago. But this story takes place in a world where that never happened. So it makes sense she’s back to her old naive self.

      • Fyre
        Fyre
        February 3, 2011 at 12:12 pm | #

        hence why Ripps said “this” Joyce

        • inafets113
          inafets113
          February 4, 2011 at 12:28 am | #

          oh whoops…my bad

  8. Wackd
    Wackd
    February 3, 2011 at 12:13 am | #

    Bass violin? Really? I always pictured him playing something more..chick-magnety. Maybe a guitar or something.

    Also, I quite like how this is playing out. In Roomies!, Joe found Joyce irritating right off the bat. Here he’s catching on slowly.

    • David
      David M Willis
      February 3, 2011 at 12:15 am | #

      Joe learned bass violin in high school orchestra. You don’t get to play a cool instrument in school.

      • JK9000
        JK9000
        February 3, 2011 at 12:25 am | #

        That can’t be right. My mom assured me the clarinet is the coolest instrument in the universe.

        • Bickendan
          Bickendan
          February 3, 2011 at 2:17 am | #

          It is. Especially the two contras.

      • David Herbert
        David Herbert
        February 3, 2011 at 12:30 am | #

        True, I learnt the flute. Wasn’t actually given a choice, they just one day sent me home with a note saying “We’re teaching your son the flute, so pay us for instrument rental.”

      • Andy
        Andy
        February 3, 2011 at 12:55 am | #

        For some reason bass violin strikes me the same way as bass flute. You know they’re real and out there somewhere, but the concept just seems wrong.

        • Andy
          Andy
          February 3, 2011 at 12:55 am | #

          And that was totally not meant to go there.

        • Bickendan
          Bickendan
          February 3, 2011 at 2:18 am | #

          I see bass violin and I think upright/double bass.

          It is a very manly instrument. I can very much see Joe playing double bass.

          • Hoop
            Hoop
            February 3, 2011 at 6:39 am | #

            Silly readers. You think Joe is actually cool, instead of being a giant dork engineer who pretends to be a cool fratboy type.

            Of COURSE he plays the violin.

            • Wack'd
              Wack'd
              May 24, 2012 at 5:48 pm | #

              Willis has said he doesn’t know about Joe being a closet nerd in the DOA verse.

        • inafets113
          inafets113
          February 3, 2011 at 9:34 am | #

          There is actually not such a thing as a bass violin. Unless Joe is referring to a musical instrument from the renaissance, which is highly unlikely, but would also be by far the geekiest kind of musical instrument you can play. My guess is that he is referring to a viola. Or that Willis is making something up.

          • Trae Dorn
            Trae Dorn
            February 3, 2011 at 6:10 pm | #

            Bass Violin is a really common name for a Double Bass.

      • Herbert
        Herbert
        February 3, 2011 at 6:59 am | #

        The Bass Violin is just another name for String Bass or Double Bass. And it is one of the coolest instruments ever.

        Of course I’m a bit biased because I’ve played that and tuba for 12 years now…

      • Ozzmandius
        Ozzmandius
        February 3, 2011 at 9:16 am | #

        People played an electric guitar at my school!
        That was also with the Jazz Band though.

        There was also Cow Bell.

      • Zehnoda
        Zehnoda
        February 3, 2011 at 10:01 am | #

        Saxophone is the coolest instrument you can learn in school. Which I played.

        • Rognik
          Rognik
          February 3, 2011 at 2:04 pm | #

          I’m with you there on the sax.

          However, I think playing drums is about the “coolest” instruments schools would allow. Even then, percussionists generally have to learn to play dorky instruments, too, like the glockenspiel.

          • Kernanator
            Kernanator
            June 24, 2011 at 1:25 am | #

            No no no, TRUMPET is the coolest instrument. We can hit high notes like nobody’s business!

            • Izzy
              Izzy
              July 20, 2011 at 10:11 am | #

              Watch me go third position on joyce my violin and I’ll show you high notes

      • tom
        tom
        February 3, 2011 at 3:03 pm | #

        Wait. You didn’t just say that the bass is uncool, did you? Because Mingus is the fucking MAN and you’re going to take it back.

  9. NF
    NF
    February 3, 2011 at 12:17 am | #

    Run Joe, run…

    Also, I can’t wait to see how Galasso runs a pizza place to extort the most money from his customers.

    • Cassidy
      Cassidy
      February 3, 2011 at 12:29 am | #

      PIZZA PROTECTION PROGRAM…. 12$
      if you buy one, and your pizza is wrong, it will only cost you 5$ to have it fixed instead of the price of a whole new pizza.

      • Galasso
        Galasso
        February 3, 2011 at 3:58 am | #

        You’re hired!

  10. MM
    MM
    February 3, 2011 at 12:23 am | #

    Wow. I’m guessing most of Joe’s dates never learn that particular bit of trivia. Good work, Joyce…I guess?

  11. Dierna
    Dierna
    February 3, 2011 at 12:23 am | #

    Galasso’s Pizza? Is this where Faz works?

    • Snail
      Snail
      February 3, 2011 at 12:35 am | #

      Oh, FAZ. Do you think he’s still [SPOILERSPOILERSPOILER] in this universe, or is his origin going to be completely different?

      • NF
        NF
        February 3, 2011 at 1:04 am | #

        We don’t even know if [SPOILER] is [SPOILERSPOILERSPOILER] in this universe yet, but I very much doubt Faz’s [SPOILER] is a space pirate.

        Also [SPOILER] are ungulates, and despite the [SPOILER] of their neck, have the same number of [SPOILER] as humans.

        • Rognik
          Rognik
          February 3, 2011 at 2:07 pm | #

          But what about [SPOILERSAPLENTY]? I mean, Dexter [MORESPOILERS], and that’s not even getting into the weird stuff.

  12. PleasingFungus
    PleasingFungus
    February 3, 2011 at 12:26 am | #

    Joe’s eyes seem to have reached escape velocity in the last panel.

  13. Krominof
    Krominof
    February 3, 2011 at 12:32 am | #

    Sadly, Joyce’s view of things is very similar to a great deal of people whom I recently graduated college with.

  14. TheSoundDefense
    TheSoundDefense
    February 3, 2011 at 12:34 am | #

    I think Joyce is going to end up completely broken at the end of this. Then again, you could say she’s pretty broken already.

  15. Penthesilea
    Penthesilea
    February 3, 2011 at 12:37 am | #

    Aww, Joe! Joyce looks so horrified by the idea of yelling (before she promptly resumes Parent Trap mode).

  16. DTComposer
    DTComposer
    February 3, 2011 at 12:45 am | #

    I hate that this is my first time ever commenting on a Willis comic, but:

    Do you mean “bass violin” as in the Renaissance-era precursor to the cello, or do you mean the modern-day double bass?

    If it’s the former, which I’d be very interested in seeing a high school orchestra who was performing on period instruments (I can’t imagine what the rental on such an instrument would be); or the latter, for which I’m surprised Joe would use such an archaic nickname?

    I can picture him playing double bass, for what it’s worth. He’d do well in a jazz trio.

    • David
      David M Willis
      February 3, 2011 at 12:49 am | #

      They used this “archaic nickname” pretty exclusively in the town Joe grew up in. I would know. 🙂

      • LiamKav
        LiamKav
        February 3, 2011 at 8:13 am | #

        I was wondering that. Out of curiosity, what did they call a cello? Or viola for that matter

        • Slyness
          Slyness
          February 3, 2011 at 8:29 am | #

          I’d be willing to bet still ‘cello’ and ‘viola’.

          In my town, they were just basses. If we had to go further we’d usually fall back on ‘non-electric bass’ or ‘bass violin’. But then my town’s junior high and high schools had really active (and popular) jazz bands, so it’s also bizarre to me that the bass could be considered an uncool instrument in the first place.

    • inafets113
      inafets113
      February 3, 2011 at 9:38 am | #

      I was wondering that too. In my highschool one of my friends starting everyone calling my cello a “battle violin” because of the sharp endpin.

  17. Guitar Dude From SD
    Guitar Dude From SD
    February 3, 2011 at 1:11 am | #

    Galasso’s Pizza?
    Awesome

  18. Socks
    Socks
    February 3, 2011 at 1:18 am | #

    joyce’s puppy dog face makes me so sad XD then she totally gets over it in like the next 2 panels lol

  19. Sporkaganza
    Sporkaganza
    February 3, 2011 at 1:28 am | #

    Was not expecting Joe to… well, know an instrument at all, but especially not that. Interesting

  20. dchorror
    dchorror
    February 3, 2011 at 1:46 am | #

    Wall of Teeth.

    I sympathize with Joe, they yell a lot is a completely reasonable reason not to want your parents to get back together.

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      February 3, 2011 at 3:23 pm | #

      That’s not teeth – Joyce’s triangle grin opens up onto an alternate dimension containing nothing but a colorless void.

      Okay, perhaps not, but I’m still quite confident that her triangle grins are open-mouthed.

  21. Merrick
    Merrick
    February 3, 2011 at 1:46 am | #

    Joyce, please, for the love of god, shut up. D:

  22. Charlie Earl Owens
    Charlie Earl Owens
    February 3, 2011 at 1:49 am | #

    In the immortal words of that famed philosopher Keith Olbermann: That woman……IS AN IDIOT.

  23. Iasthai
    Iasthai
    February 3, 2011 at 1:59 am | #

    Might Joe havehidden depth?

    For the first time since DoA started, I have found Joe to be something other than irritating.

  24. Ryanwoofs
    Ryanwoofs
    February 3, 2011 at 2:08 am | #

    I see what you did there. I wish I could eat at Galasso’s next time I’m visiting friends in b-ton. Hopefully the logo is a grimacing Galasso wearing an apron with a bow in his hair (what’s left of it, anyway).

  25. Zap
    Zap
    February 3, 2011 at 2:13 am | #

    Mike plays an instrument as well: your mom.

    • Janos
      Janos
      February 3, 2011 at 3:43 am | #

      With his penis!

      • Soundbucket
        Soundbucket
        February 3, 2011 at 6:01 am | #

        Concert admissions cost one nickel.

  26. Shift
    Shift
    February 3, 2011 at 3:35 am | #

    Okay, Joe… run away. Run FAR away.

    I know Joyce means well and is insanely sheltered, but she is being REALLY inconsiderate here. What person wants to spend a first date talking about their parent’s divorce? I mean, damn woman, you’re making JOE, who is the living human embodiment of college libido, SAD.

    That’s ain’t right!

    And frankly, meddling hair-brain schemes that you come up with from somewhat forgettable Disney Movies, is more of a second date sort of thing.

    • Loki
      Loki
      February 3, 2011 at 10:08 am | #

      Amen to this. Tho Joe looks less sad so much as “eye-rolling annoyed” in that last panel.

  27. gangler
    gangler
    February 3, 2011 at 3:44 am | #

    Reading this a couple times, seeing how she’s momentarily sad and then returns to her previous state of mind something occurs to me. Roomies Joyce was actively blocking out, suppressing, etc the outside world. She was putting a concerted effort into maintaining her innocence.

    I think that’s what we just saw. She encountered something resembling a harsh reality, momentarily elicited an emotional response, and then just started ignoring/denying it away. By this time tomorrow I’m sure she won’t even remember hearing about an unhappy marriage.

    • Andrew Perron
      Andrew Perron
      February 3, 2011 at 5:31 am | #

      I don’t think it’s quite the same. I don’t get her reaction as ignoring/denying it, so much as getting the surface of it but not the depths.

      • Rognik
        Rognik
        February 3, 2011 at 2:12 pm | #

        I think she gets the depths, but is unwilling to swim out them just yet and play in the shallow water. Denial, denial, de Nile.

  28. Gizen
    Gizen
    February 3, 2011 at 4:13 am | #

    I really love Joyce’s expressions in this comic. From the look of her face in the 4th panel, you can almost sense that she knows deep down that the real world doesn’t work the way disney movies do, but she refuses to actually accept it, because that would shatter her world view of how love is the most important thing ever and marriage is always perfect and blissful, leading her to crank her excitement and happy smiling face up to 11 in the last panel. Clearly, the reason why the real world isn’t like the movies is because she’s just not trying hard enough.

  29. Cyth
    Cyth
    February 3, 2011 at 4:47 am | #

    Joyce is quickly becoming the character I want to reach through my monitor and shake violently. I hope Faz comes into play to replace this soon.

  30. turkishproverb
    turkishproverb
    February 3, 2011 at 5:44 am | #

    dear god, she’s behaving like a sheltered Right wing christian version of ROBIN. This won’t end well.

  31. Heather
    Heather
    February 3, 2011 at 6:45 am | #

    Joyce’s expression terrifies me in the last panel.

    Poor Joe.

  32. xainoforgv
    xainoforgv
    February 3, 2011 at 7:46 am | #

    Wow so I think we just found a sweet naive christian girl that joe won’t be able to fix with his penis

  33. ziggy78eog
    ziggy78eog
    February 3, 2011 at 9:06 am | #

    She is just not going to give up on this, is she?

  34. Joebo
    Joebo
    February 3, 2011 at 9:23 am | #

    Do you know what the difference between a violin and a bass violin is?

    • Skullrama
      Skullrama
      February 3, 2011 at 10:22 am | #

      A Bass Violin burns longer.

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      February 3, 2011 at 2:15 pm | #

      Ooh! Ooh! Are we telling musician jokes now? I got some good ones.

      How do you make two flutists play in perfect union?

      • Zagrede
        Zagrede
        February 3, 2011 at 3:23 pm | #

        Shoot one of them.

      • Heather
        Heather
        February 3, 2011 at 3:42 pm | #

        I don’t know- what?

      • Amazo
        Amazo
        February 3, 2011 at 4:59 pm | #

        Shoot one!

        Why are a viola player’s fingers like lightning?

        • Kamino Neko
          Kamino Neko
          February 3, 2011 at 6:31 pm | #

          They never hit the same place twice?

  35. Amurana
    Amurana
    February 3, 2011 at 3:44 pm | #

    I am adoring reading all the band geek replies to this comic. <3

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      February 4, 2011 at 12:14 am | #

      This one time… in band camp…

  36. Ezzy
    Ezzy
    February 3, 2011 at 4:04 pm | #

    ….And now I’m sad.

  37. Amazo
    Amazo
    February 3, 2011 at 4:57 pm | #

    I like the silhouettes in the second-last panel just reminding us that Mike is still there. Watching. Waiting.

    Waiting for face punching.

  38. Begaron
    Begaron
    February 3, 2011 at 5:37 pm | #

    Bass Violin? I don’t know of any such instrument. Does he mean Contrabass or maybe Cello?

    • Trae Dorn
      Trae Dorn
      February 3, 2011 at 6:11 pm | #

      Bass Violin = Double Bass.

      It’s really not that uncommon a name.

  39. Sri
    Sri
    February 3, 2011 at 7:20 pm | #

    I’m not a Joe fan but, as a ex-orchestra geek and cello player, he totally wins points by playing upright bass. One of the coolest and most crushed on guys in my high school was a bass player.

  40. LiamKav
    LiamKav
    February 3, 2011 at 8:04 pm | #

    In my limited experience, if you played the double bass you were guaranteed a place in the orchestra, as no-one played them. If your instrument was the violen or clarinet however, you were screwed unless you were actually good.

    I opted for the oboe. Then gave up after my lips exploded. Stupid double reed.

  41. Zem
    Zem
    February 3, 2011 at 10:02 pm | #

    Panel 1 face: cute chipmunk. Panel 4 face: crazy-ass psycho, ready to take on the world.

  42. Other David
    Other David
    February 4, 2011 at 3:27 pm | #

    Bass Guitar= Boss (I should know)
    Bass Violin= Even more Boss

  43. CyberSkull
    CyberSkull
    February 4, 2011 at 7:20 pm | #

    GLASSO!

    How good is the pizza anyways?

  44. Kelsey
    Kelsey
    March 23, 2011 at 1:06 am | #

    Joyce, sweetie, I think you need a good slap in the face. Mike, if you please….?

  45. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    July 7, 2011 at 11:53 pm | #

    🙁 🙁

  46. BD
    BD
    August 17, 2012 at 1:43 am | #

    A banner of the cast (the “DoA Orchestra”, a la PW:AA’s Turnabout Orchestral OST covers) on the instruments they know how to play would be kickass.

    And I’ve never heard of it referred to as the bass violin. Maybe it’s a regional thing?

  47. Mo
    Mo
    February 23, 2014 at 12:48 am | #

    I could have sworn this said “bass viol” when I read it the first time. Going through my copy of Book 1 and I had to check, and no, but … maybe?

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A comic depicting a dream I had about the current arc of the webcomic Dumbing Of Age by David Willis. 

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Joyce, holding hands with Dorothy, with a pouty face: Sorry, Joe, but Dorothy and I are dating now.

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Joe, raising a finger up thoughtfully: I am very happy for you. Now if you’ll excuse me.

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Joe, running down the hallway, screaming: HEY I NEED TO HAVE SEX CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HAVE SEX WITH ME I REALLY WANT TO FUCK RIGHT NOW THAT WOULD BE SUPER GREAT I WANT SEX PLEASE

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Jennifer, appearing out of nowhere, handing Joyce a beer can: Hold my beer.

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MAN: Dear wife, look! My 18 months of work are done! I designed this one tiny crystal to hold ALL of Krypton’s knowledge!

PANEL 2: The man stands against a white background, still holding the green crystal.
MAN: AND! I designed it to build a “fortress of solitude” out of nothing but ice! AND! I designed it with fully autonomous holograms of us! They can answer any question!

PANEL 3: The man slaps his hand on a metal object next to him, which his wife looks on happily, holding the infant.
MAN: AND! It slots right into this interstellar starship I designed to go to Earth!
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I hope Josh Johnson is given The Daily Show and is allowed to rebuild it from scratch in his own image just like Jon Stewart got to do in 99. He has built his own groundbreaking form of topical comedy, and imitating the style of others is something he is great at, but better than.
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