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by David M Willis on February 16, 2011 at 12:01 am
  • 03 - Men are from Beck, Women are from Clark
└ Tags: joyce, sarah

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  1. Seerow
    Seerow
    February 16, 2011 at 12:02 am | #

    But pajama shorts are sexy 🙁

    • David Herbert
      David Herbert
      February 16, 2011 at 12:29 am | #

      Then they are agents of lust!

      • Mint
        Mint
        February 16, 2011 at 2:35 am | #

        So does this mean Mike has to punch the pajama shorts in the face? Or Joyce? Or Sarah?

        • David Herbert
          David Herbert
          February 16, 2011 at 6:15 am | #

          Probably Joyce, but in the hip.

          • thomas0comer
            thomas0comer
            November 29, 2011 at 7:55 pm | #

            FARRUKON PAWUNCH!

    • Seraph
      Seraph
      February 16, 2011 at 9:00 am | #

      Hip? Mike is nothing if not equal-opportunity (equal-enmity?), and he never misses a chance for a groin attack.

      • Rowen Morland
        Rowen Morland
        February 16, 2011 at 9:09 am | #

        If your pants had a face I’d punch them in the groin?

  2. arjay2813
    arjay2813
    February 16, 2011 at 12:03 am | #

    is she wearing a magic dress, b/c in panel 3 she’s pulling on the shirt w/ the dress still over her shoulders, and in panel 4 she’s slipping the whole thing off. i am impressed though

    • katosen27
      katosen27
      February 16, 2011 at 12:07 am | #

      She removed her arms from the straps with the orange shirt on and stepped out of the dress. Probably so she wouldn’t show her body to Sarah (for some reason, not like Sarah is into chicks)

      • Seraph
        Seraph
        February 16, 2011 at 9:02 am | #

        Modesty is modesty. It’s not about whether Sarah would be interested or not (Joyce probably can’t even conceive of the possibility), it’s about not showing your body to anyone.

    • Kamino Neko
      Kamino Neko
      February 16, 2011 at 12:49 am | #

      You’ve never seen a woman take off her bra without taking off her top?

      • arjay2813
        arjay2813
        February 16, 2011 at 1:50 am | #

        nope, flashdance was never a movie i was interested in

        • Trenton
          Trenton
          February 16, 2011 at 10:52 pm | #

          Well played!

  3. Nikki
    Nikki
    February 16, 2011 at 12:05 am | #

    Girl’s have magical powers and can take things off without removing upper layers of garments. Useful at camp and college and other instances you share space with people.

    • tom
      tom
      February 16, 2011 at 5:05 pm | #

      Yeah… I was in orchestra in high school. My dad frequently complained about the skill with which dozens of teen girls would entirely change their clothes without revealing an inch of skin. My father: master of inappropriate.

    • Tim
      Tim
      February 17, 2011 at 2:09 pm | #

      I learned a similar trick from Mr. Bean. I can now divest myself of boxers of bathing suit without first removing my shorts. When long pants are involved, it gets a little trickier.

  4. cappadocius
    cappadocius
    February 16, 2011 at 12:06 am | #

    You, uh, put the shirt on, then pull the dress *down*. It’s not even a little magic.

    • Crimson Magic
      Crimson Magic
      February 16, 2011 at 12:16 am | #

      Not magic?! You’ve ruined it for me. Forever.

    • arjay2813
      arjay2813
      February 16, 2011 at 1:55 am | #

      i know, i was being sarcastic, but i should have put a link to http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/02-uphill-from-here/shower to show my sarcasm, i just forgot to

  5. halcyon1234
    halcyon1234
    February 16, 2011 at 12:10 am | #

    Great, now I’m hungry for a Hot Dog Firecracker.

    Or 50 Hot Dog Firecrackers, perhaps.

    • Lokitsu
      Lokitsu
      February 16, 2011 at 5:34 pm | #

      I know you’re referring to whatever Sarah is chewing on, but what the heck is it?

  6. Coppermouth
    Coppermouth
    February 16, 2011 at 12:14 am | #

    So, whatever sympathy Joyce may have garnered from yesterday is now gone.

  7. Wolf
    Wolf
    February 16, 2011 at 12:16 am | #

    Doesn’t the fact that Joyce was wearing pajama shorts under her dress imply she may have had some rather lustful plans herself? At least she wasn’t carrying a toothbrush in her purse (that we know of).

    • Crimson Magic
      Crimson Magic
      February 16, 2011 at 12:18 am | #

      The question is: how innocent is Joyce *really* ? Looks like she might actually “struggle” with lust after all.

    • JDX
      JDX
      February 16, 2011 at 12:41 am | #

      Unlikely.

      The truth: Camel-toe is a serious problem, and who knows how many lecherous midgets, insects or amoebas might catch a glimpse up her dress.

    • Alechsa
      Alechsa
      February 16, 2011 at 12:44 am | #

      ….She was wearing entirely non sexy baggy shorts under her dress, as opposed to sexy underwear or a thong or NOTHING….

      She was being one of those girls who wear shorts under their dresses because they expect boys to peek or flip the skirts.

      No, she was not having lustful plans for the evening. If anything, she sabotaged preemptively before even hiring Mike.

    • MM
      MM
      February 16, 2011 at 12:44 am | #

      Nah, I don’t think so. What if there’d been a breeze? Someone might have seen her unmentionables otherwise.

    • Wizard
      Wizard
      February 16, 2011 at 12:46 am | #

      Nah, I think it was more a matter of modesty. Pajama shorts preclude any possibility of flashing panties.

      • wynne
        wynne
        February 16, 2011 at 1:02 am | #

        Agreed. I always wear shorts under skirts if I can get away with it, because then I don’t have to worry about sitting in a “lady like” position.

    • Wolf
      Wolf
      February 16, 2011 at 2:07 am | #

      Huh. Guess I was thinking along the lines of, she’s taking her pajamas with her in case she ends up spending the night at Joe’s place. Shows where my mind is.

      • Kamino Neko
        Kamino Neko
        February 16, 2011 at 2:34 am | #

        That would have been a situation where pyjamas were useless and inappropriate, though/

    • Mary Sue
      Mary Sue
      February 16, 2011 at 11:19 am | #

      Not likely but, it may have implied that she has some chub rub to fight. As a female with huge thighs, I will admit that I’d only wear a dress without bike shorts if I hated myself.

  8. NF
    NF
    February 16, 2011 at 12:25 am | #

    Sarah is going to have the most annoying conversation with Joe sometime the next day.

  9. wnderjif
    wnderjif
    February 16, 2011 at 12:40 am | #

    i harbor perverse sexual lust for that dress.

    • Malph
      Malph
      February 16, 2011 at 2:39 am | #

      We all do.

      • Soundbucket
        Soundbucket
        February 16, 2011 at 6:19 am | #

        With our penises.

        • begbert2
          begbert2
          February 16, 2011 at 10:56 am | #

          Especially the women.

  10. zuche
    zuche
    February 16, 2011 at 12:47 am | #

    Whew! She got off the elevator.

    I gotta say, that dress DOES look pretty good on her bedroom floor as well.

  11. Lord Harlock
    Lord Harlock
    February 16, 2011 at 12:49 am | #

    Oh no, Joyce has joined a group of possibly hundreds! She is a never-nude! Dun-Dun-Dun!

  12. Shift
    Shift
    February 16, 2011 at 1:22 am | #

    And the fact Joyce was bible thumping Joe the entire time and help Mike execute assault and battery, had NOTHING to do with the failed date… Oh yeah, it was completely Joe’s fault…

    • Schmidt
      Schmidt
      February 16, 2011 at 11:03 am | #

      To be fair, that’s what ruined the date for her. Anyways, it was doomed to disaster from the start. The two of them had two very incompatible goals.

      • Shift
        Shift
        February 16, 2011 at 4:33 pm | #

        Yeah, but despite their conflicting views, they could have still had a good evening had Joyce not pushed her beliefs so violently hard.

        • Seraph
          Seraph
          February 16, 2011 at 4:39 pm | #

          …nah. I don’t think so. It didn’t have to end as badly as it did (for which I also blame Joyce), but when one person is trying to get laid and the other person takes it as self-evident truth that Lust Is Bad, it will not end well.

  13. Wackd
    Wackd
    February 16, 2011 at 1:28 am | #

    Is this the first use of “perverse sexual lust” in DoA?

    • Wackd
      Wackd
      February 16, 2011 at 1:29 am | #

      Outside of the polls, I mean.

      • Jack
        Jack
        February 16, 2011 at 5:34 pm | #

        I think so.

  14. DiDi
    DiDi
    February 16, 2011 at 1:51 am | #

    I’m probably one of the only people who like Joyce.

    I like to think it’s both their faults. If she wasn’t bible thumping Joe the whole time.. wanna bet he would have just been hinting at wanting to screw her brains out the whole time?

    Her main problem was thinking that she could change Joe. And hiring Mike. It might have gone better if Ruth had been available.

    • Biker Matt
      Biker Matt
      February 16, 2011 at 1:59 am | #

      You can’t blame a guy for something he might have done, but didn’t…

      Oh, wait, he’s male, so I guess you can.

      • zuche
        zuche
        February 16, 2011 at 8:10 am | #

        He can be blamed for what he did do. If the sign says, “TRESPASSERS WILL BE SHOT”, you don’t keep walking onto the property, especially not after you’ve been shot already for that, without sharing some responsibility for the consequences.

        EVERYTHING that happened to him was foreseeable, avoidable, and a consequence of his actions. It doesn’t matter that the consequences were unreasonable. Right of way is irrelevant if ceding it would have avoided a collision.

        • Crimson Magic
          Crimson Magic
          February 16, 2011 at 3:43 pm | #

          And exactly what *did* he do? Talk about something Joyce brought up?

          And that’s not how fault and right of way works. Like, at all.

        • Jetstream
          Jetstream
          February 16, 2011 at 7:05 pm | #

          He didn’t do anything. They were chatting. He kept getting punched by someone Joyce invited along. Then she helped to punch him just because Mike said Joe did something. Joe didn’t do anything wrong. At all.

          Intentions matter, but he didn’t even GET that far. She didn’t give him the chance to even do anything inappropriate. Joe cannot be blamed for anything here.

    • David Herbert
      David Herbert
      February 16, 2011 at 6:18 am | #

      I think Mike was the issue. Someone else probably would have let Joe get away with looking at Connie’s rack, and Joyce didn’t notice that until Mike pointed it out. Joe probably wouldn’t have gotten any, but he could have had an interesting conversation with Joyce on abstinence vs casual sex.

      • Seraph
        Seraph
        February 16, 2011 at 10:20 am | #

        Oh, it still would have ended badly. The “interesting conversation” would have quickly degenerated into a loud argument. Still, I don’t doubt that you’re right, that adding a violent psychopath to the mix made everything worse. It generally does.

  15. Smile_EZ
    Smile_EZ
    February 16, 2011 at 2:01 am | #

    Ooooh the memories. If you ever want to see funny college kids. Watch a group of hormone ranpaging, teens at a religious school. They joke but an MRS degree is a common option. The utter rebelion from there parents. It starts with a hair cut for the girls them peircings, tatoos. Then touching with boys. Nieve but funny.

  16. goatman95111
    goatman95111
    February 16, 2011 at 2:36 am | #

    Joyce just needs to meet someone (ahem, Walky) that she can slowly work out of her completely sociopathic comfort zone.

    That, or maybe wind up one of a multitude of wives in Utah.

    In all seriousness, I want to see her redeemed, because her innocence isn’t inherently detracting to her character. It’s her bible-thumping, and complete disregard for the freedom of others not to believe.

    I’m tempted to say she should honestly spend more time with Billie.

    • Malph
      Malph
      February 16, 2011 at 2:43 am | #

      I’m thinking it’s a foregone conclusion that Joyce and Walky are getting together eventually. The question is when?

      • Jack
        Jack
        February 16, 2011 at 6:34 pm | #

        Give us the it’s walky couples and Jack will be satisfied.
        And stop referring to himself in the third person.

      • Jetstream
        Jetstream
        February 16, 2011 at 7:07 pm | #

        I don’t think that’s a foregone conclusion at all. This is a new comic, and Willis seems to be setting out deliberately to do things differently.

        • Jack
          Jack
          February 16, 2011 at 8:32 pm | #

          Willis, we command you to put Joyce and Walky together.

          • The E-man
            The E-man
            February 16, 2011 at 8:53 pm | #

            NO! DON’T LISTEN TO JACK! WALKY x DOROTHY PLEASE!

          • Pagannerd
            Pagannerd
            February 18, 2011 at 6:18 am | #

            Am I the only one who wants WalkyxMike, purely because the idea amuses the dark parts of soul?

  17. Mint
    Mint
    February 16, 2011 at 2:38 am | #

    You mean the first man you went on a date with in college is not the man you are going to marry? Joyce, you’re such a whore!

    Didn’t even make him realize Jesus is the messiah. You fail as a Christian, Joyce. You. Fail.

    • Ian
      Ian
      February 16, 2011 at 3:17 am | #

      Are you volunteering to tutor Joyce in the science of obtaining instant conversions?

      • Seraph
        Seraph
        February 16, 2011 at 9:43 am | #

        Kids like Joyce are trained to expect the easy, instant conversion. Ever read a Christian comic or (gods help you) a Chick Tract? In every single one, the conversion-target has never heard the Real Truth about Jesus, and why you should take Him as Your Personal Lord and Savior…if they’ve heard about him at all. That’s why Joyce honestly expected to score a conversion over dinner. It’s exactly as realistic as expecting to find a husband on your first date in college (possibly first date ever), which is, I suspect, the joke.

        • Andy
          Andy
          February 16, 2011 at 1:05 pm | #

          I went to a Christian high school. During one of our (mandatory) religion classes, we were taught and tested on a way to convert people. It basically was “This is The Truth, and why you should believe it.” As it relied heavily on the use of Bible passages, I’m still skeptical as to how useful it will ever be.

          • Seraph
            Seraph
            February 16, 2011 at 3:33 pm | #

            Not very, I would imagine. It’s based on a worldview where the Bible is the ultimate authority (whether or not you’ve actually read it, or know the context for the passages your preacher gives you), so someone who doesn’t accept the authority of the Bible makes the whole thing fall apart.

  18. Heather
    Heather
    February 16, 2011 at 4:35 am | #

    Aaaaand, most of my sympathy from the previous comic went out the window there. She doesn’t feel guilty at all it seems. -sighs-

  19. begbert2
    begbert2
    February 16, 2011 at 11:04 am | #

    Strangely, I’m neither annoyed nor surprised that after the fact, everything is 100% Joe’s fault. Perhaps it’s that Joe is at this very moment saying that everything was 100% Joyce’s fault (instead of the more accurate 97%). This is human nature, folks. Given that there are no longer aliens mind-controlling people around here you can’t expect *anybody* to own up and say, “oh dear, I guess I shouldn’t have brought a psychopathic/dropped my perfect gentleman act for five seconds” immediately after an off-pissing altercation.

    It will be interesting to hear what Sarah thinks about how the evening *actually* went, when/if she finds out. Since Joe really didn’t (have a chance to) do anything wrong.

    • The E-man
      The E-man
      February 16, 2011 at 8:57 pm | #

      I am confused by your post….You first say everything was Joe’s fult and then you say that Joe didn’t do anything wrong….how can he be at fault if he did nothing wrong?

      • taekwondogirl
        taekwondogirl
        February 16, 2011 at 10:25 pm | #

        He’s saying that according to Joyce, Joe was 100% at fault and did plenty of things wrong. According to the poster’s point of view though, Joe didn’t actually do anything.

        • The E-man
          The E-man
          February 17, 2011 at 11:14 am | #

          Ooooohh….that makes sense..Thanks!

  20. iggy_rock
    iggy_rock
    February 16, 2011 at 11:30 am | #

    Why does Sarah have a birthday cake candle in her mouth?

    • Sarah
      Sarah
      February 16, 2011 at 1:08 pm | #

      I think that’s a pen. It looks like she’s been working on homework. Probably would have been better to have had the pen in her hand. How’s she doing dialogue with a pen in her mouth? I know it’s possible, but it wouldn’t be clear.

  21. Sarah
    Sarah
    February 16, 2011 at 1:25 pm | #

    Okay, so most people are down on Joyce for hiring Mike. Think about this: with how naive Joyce is, she probably didn’t expect Mike to actually have to punch anyone. She was probably just glad to not have to pay him. She probably thought that neither she nor Joe would do anything objectionable to where either of them would have to be punched. She probably also didn’t expect Mike to take his job so seriously or to be such a psychopath. Considering how limited her worldview is, I think that this option is a pretty good one.

    • Sarah
      Sarah
      February 16, 2011 at 1:26 pm | #

      Granted, she still shouldn’t have hired someone who would potentially slug her date, but I think considering Joyce’s worldview puts the situation into perspective.

      • Robin
        Robin
        February 16, 2011 at 5:38 pm | #

        Her first choice was Ruth, who was busy, I think she was looking for a certain quality that Mike provided

    • Crimson Magic
      Crimson Magic
      February 16, 2011 at 3:44 pm | #

      She, uh, joined him in the punching.

      • taekwondogirl
        taekwondogirl
        February 16, 2011 at 10:26 pm | #

        After something that violated her world view happened.

      • Sarah
        Sarah
        February 16, 2011 at 11:03 pm | #

        I’m saying that initially she didn’t think anyone would have to be punched. Before finding out that Joe had oggled another girl, she even tried to get Mike to stop punching Joe. She joined in upon hearing that Joe had oggled the waitress when she was ticked off.
        I think maybe Joe should’ve gone after the waitress instead of Joyce. They’d probably make a better pair.

    • Chris Ashtear
      Chris Ashtear
      February 16, 2011 at 8:19 pm | #

      Ill go down on Joyce! Wait, thats not what you said.

      • Sarah
        Sarah
        February 16, 2011 at 11:11 pm | #

        Probably wouldn’t be a good idea anyway…she’d get Mike to punch you.

  22. Bill M.
    Bill M.
    February 16, 2011 at 1:28 pm | #

    Joyce is demonstrating Jean Cocteau’s adage that even the prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off, but I think Jean was implying more in the direction that Joe wanted than the one Joyce is displaying.

  23. Matt of Steel
    Matt of Steel
    February 16, 2011 at 2:04 pm | #

    Again Joyce, your choice in men are going to leave you only with men who wouldn’t choose you. Lust is not the feeling of being attracted, it is the overabundance of that feeling dictating your actions. That’s like calling someone who eats dessert a glutton.

  24. Seraph
    Seraph
    February 16, 2011 at 3:56 pm | #

    Just did a quick pass through the archives of “It’s Walky”, looking for an instance where Mike got his well-deserved beating (he really does get away with far too much). I found one, but the circumstances of “The Best I Could Do” were too tragic to really enjoy it. Anyway, as I was trawling, I remembered that DoA Joyce is the absolute soul of reasonableness and sanity compared to Joyce Prime. Holy crap.

    • Lokitsu
      Lokitsu
      February 16, 2011 at 5:39 pm | #

      What? You don’t want ‘Hurricane Joyce’ to make an appearance in DOA?

    • Cholma
      Cholma
      February 16, 2011 at 8:16 pm | #

      Well, Mike did get beat up once after kicking a little girl:
      http://www.itswalky.com/d/20011104.html
      🙂

      • Gianni
        Gianni
        February 16, 2011 at 11:24 pm | #

        And he STILL won because he made a point with that kick.

        • Animaniac
          Animaniac
          February 17, 2011 at 12:00 am | #

          More accurately, his point was made by receiving the beating…

          • Seraph
            Seraph
            February 17, 2011 at 8:38 am | #

            Still more satisfying. Thanks for that, Cholma.

  25. CyberSkull
    CyberSkull
    February 18, 2011 at 11:09 am | #

    I would say that all of the human race harbors some form of perverse lust. Get over it.

  26. Joebo
    Joebo
    February 22, 2011 at 1:31 am | #

    I just noticed that she used the term PSL… isn’t that meta-comicing?

  27. Lizardtongue
    Lizardtongue
    January 3, 2012 at 12:18 am | #

    *Head Explodes*
    HOW DID SHE TAKE OFF THAT DRESS AFTER PUTTING ON A SHIRT!?!?!!?!

  28. Hinoron
    Hinoron
    December 10, 2012 at 10:10 pm | #

    “The pajama shorts keep the chastity belt from clanging when I sit down.”

  29. newllend
    newllend
    August 13, 2013 at 4:28 am | #

    What where expecting joyce, that he whas going to be the perfect gentlemen, searching for the one isn’t going to be as easy as finding him in the first date you have in college with some random dude you met yesterday.

    For a romantic, she does not have a good concept of love

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Okay, everyone's jumping to conclusions, but Joyce was hit with a mysterious pink gas in Thursday's strip. Now, in recent years, the police are known to increasingly use military grade weapons. Which reminded me of this bit of proposed technology from the 1990s: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb
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