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AUGUST 8

Bone City

by David on August 24, 2012 at 12:01 am
  • 05 - Saturday's All Right for Slighting

└ Tags: billie, joyce, sarah

Discussion (233) ¬

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  1. Kafloobop
    Kafloobop
    August 24, 2012 at 12:03 am | # | Reply

    That is probably a city Dina would love.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      August 24, 2012 at 12:04 am | # | Reply

      Until she finds out what sort of boning it actually is.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        August 24, 2012 at 12:26 am | # | Reply

        Eventually she’d learn to Dig it.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          August 24, 2012 at 12:39 am | # | Reply

          But only if the boners involved are dino-sized. :D

          • NCP19
            NCP19
            August 24, 2012 at 12:50 am | # | Reply

            What dinosaur are we talking here though? Like small compys or t-rex? Cause…that might require…

            I’m just gonna leave that right there and move on.

          • Audiophillie
            Audiophillie
            August 24, 2012 at 3:18 am | # | Reply

            Dina would like that more.

    • Volkai
      Volkai
      August 25, 2012 at 10:32 am | # | Reply

      Here’s the trick: There’s New Bone City, and Old Bone City. Officially they’re both called Bone City.

      Dina is all about Old Bone City. This comic? 100% New Bone City.

  2. Jetstream
    Jetstream
    August 24, 2012 at 12:03 am | # | Reply

    And again, Joyce being strangely comfortable with colloquialisms for things I’d expect her to be uncomfortable even referencing.

    Madness.

    • G-Viral
      G-Viral
      August 24, 2012 at 12:16 am | # | Reply

      Even better is her face in that last panel.

      Look at it.

      • NCP19
        NCP19
        August 24, 2012 at 12:48 am | # | Reply

        You gaze into the abyss and it gazes back

      • ReFlex76
        ReFlex76
        August 24, 2012 at 1:15 am | # | Reply

        (name corrected)

        Tell me about it; it seems even in this universe, Walky brings out the pervert in Joyce.

        • David Herbert
          David Herbert
          August 24, 2012 at 2:23 am | # | Reply

          Imagine if they went drinking together, she’d turn into Hazel from Girls With Slingshots.

          • LuckyStar7
            LuckyStar7
            August 26, 2012 at 11:08 am | # | Reply

            YES

    • Valdrax
      Valdrax
      August 24, 2012 at 2:44 am | # | Reply

      She knows what shipping is. And if you know what shipping is, you probably know what boning… (*thinks back to many fanfics I’ve read written by teenagers*) …okay, you probably have a vague, general idea of what boning is.

      • Ziaheart
        Ziaheart
        August 24, 2012 at 3:44 am | # | Reply

        It’s where the guy puts “his thingie into [her] you-know-what”, right? *smiles like enoby*

        • vlademir1
          vlademir1
          August 24, 2012 at 9:44 am | # | Reply

          *cringes*
          You owe everyone who reads this one new internet for bringing that fic up.

          • thomas0comer
            thomas0comer
            August 24, 2012 at 11:28 am | # | Reply

            I think I am very glad I don’t get this.

            • Dara
              Dara
              August 24, 2012 at 11:51 pm | # | Reply

              Google “My Immortal.” Go ahead. I dare you.

              • Volkai
                Volkai
                August 25, 2012 at 10:33 am | # | Reply

                I pick Truth instead.

              • Raen
                Raen
                August 25, 2012 at 10:54 pm | # | Reply

                These wounds won’t seem to heal, this pain is just too real, there’s just too much that time cannot erase…

              • Valdrax
                Valdrax
                August 26, 2012 at 6:41 am | # | Reply

                Alternately, just read the TV Tropes page for it. You’ll get the idea w/o having to actually “experience” it.

    • kschenke
      kschenke
      August 24, 2012 at 8:47 am | # | Reply

      Even if she didn’t know or wanted to think about “Bone City,” I have a feeling she understands what making out is and can just focus on that part of Billie’s suggestion.

  3. Plasma Mongoose
    Plasma Mongoose
    August 24, 2012 at 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Billie launches a new ship, the UUS Hatefuck.

    • Doctor_Who
      Doctor_Who
      August 24, 2012 at 12:08 am | # | Reply

      Is it a couples’ cruise? Because Joe & Joyce, Billie and Ruth, and Mike and Everyone want to sign up.

    • Angel
      Angel
      August 24, 2012 at 12:11 am | # | Reply

      Sailing straight on course to Bone City.

    • thomas0comer
      thomas0comer
      August 24, 2012 at 12:13 am | # | Reply

      UUS?

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        August 24, 2012 at 12:15 am | # | Reply

        Unidentified Unlikely Ship

  4. Alex
    Alex
    August 24, 2012 at 12:03 am | # | Reply

    All roads lead to Bone City.

    • Alex
      Alex
      August 24, 2012 at 12:14 am | # | Reply

      Alternatively: The road to Bone City is paved with good intentions.

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        August 24, 2012 at 12:30 am | # | Reply

        The road to Bone City has heavy risk but the prize….

      • madd
        madd
        August 24, 2012 at 3:35 pm | # | Reply

        I thought it was paved in gold … but that might only apply to professionals.

        • Boom
          Boom
          August 25, 2012 at 4:29 am | # | Reply

          Only if it rains.

    • badmartialarts
      badmartialarts
      August 24, 2012 at 12:37 am | # | Reply

      The first place you’ll find is a sleaze-pit called Bone City. Now if the earth doesn’t swallow you up first, that place sure as hell will!

      • NCP19
        NCP19
        August 24, 2012 at 12:49 am | # | Reply

        Take me down to the fabled bone city…where the grass is green, and the girls are pretty…

        • Chibi.Squirt
          Chibi.Squirt
          August 25, 2012 at 9:27 am | # | Reply

          If the “grass” is green, you should probably get that seen by a professional.

          • Wack'd
            Wack'd
            August 26, 2012 at 3:59 pm | # | Reply

            They could’ve dyed it.

            Why you’d WANT to, I dunno, but…

    • George
      George
      August 24, 2012 at 1:20 am | # | Reply

      Bone City. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

    • Valdrax
      Valdrax
      August 24, 2012 at 2:41 am | # | Reply

      Just don’t get sidetracked and stumble your way into Locust country.

      • Mrelegos
        Mrelegos
        August 24, 2012 at 7:19 am | # | Reply

        We can’t stop here. This is Bone Country!

    • BD
      BD
      August 24, 2012 at 6:47 pm | # | Reply

      And while you’re there – don’t listen to a word Phoney Bone says.

  5. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    August 24, 2012 at 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Bone City – population, your mom.

    • Kafloobop
      Kafloobop
      August 24, 2012 at 12:05 am | # | Reply

      Taxes? A nickel.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      August 24, 2012 at 12:05 am | # | Reply

      Economy – A nickel.

    • ASP3CT
      ASP3CT
      August 24, 2012 at 12:11 am | # | Reply

      The city hospital specializes femurectomies.

      • Chexwarrior
        Chexwarrior
        August 24, 2012 at 3:37 pm | # | Reply

        But you can’t take my femurs, I need those to live

      • madd
        madd
        August 24, 2012 at 3:39 pm | # | Reply

        And reconstructive surgery for your FAAAAAACE.

    • I.care.0
      I.care.0
      August 24, 2012 at 11:47 am | # | Reply

      FAAAAAAAAAAAAACE. With your mom. Or something along those lines.

      • LuckyStar7
        LuckyStar7
        August 26, 2012 at 11:13 am | # | Reply

        Mike put his penis in your mom’s FAAAAAAAAACE.
        You’re welcome.

        • Wonder Wig
          Wonder Wig
          August 26, 2012 at 3:07 pm | # | Reply

          For a nickel.

  6. Ben
    Ben
    August 24, 2012 at 12:07 am | # | Reply

    So this was all just a backstory to show Dana is Amazigirl, right?

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      August 24, 2012 at 12:09 am | # | Reply

      Now that WOULD BE a twist.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        August 24, 2012 at 12:28 am | # | Reply

        Dana’s been dying her hair. That’s who it is. definitely.

    • NCP19
      NCP19
      August 24, 2012 at 12:49 am | # | Reply

      I misread that as Dina at first. A twist on a twist!

      • Ziaheart
        Ziaheart
        August 24, 2012 at 3:46 am | # | Reply

        I’m so happy you wrote that because I wouldn’t have caught my mistake otherwise.

      • Historyman68
        Historyman68
        August 24, 2012 at 4:10 am | # | Reply

        Dana is Dina! Dana realizes the kindness Sarah’s shown to her (disguised as Dina), and forgives her. The end!

  7. taekwondogirl
    taekwondogirl
    August 24, 2012 at 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Billie just walked herself right into that one.

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      August 24, 2012 at 12:10 am | # | Reply

      But it’s totally different, Billie is tsundere towards Walky while Sarah HATES Raidah.

      • George
        George
        August 24, 2012 at 1:22 am | # | Reply

        But does Joyce know the difference? Or, if she does, is she implying something about Billie and Walky or just getting Billie to drop the subject?

        • LuckyStar7
          LuckyStar7
          August 26, 2012 at 11:15 am | # | Reply

          BOTH. DEFINITELY BOTH.

  8. thomas0comer
    thomas0comer
    August 24, 2012 at 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Do we get to see this hypothetical implementation of the stabbing of everything, or do you just keep teasing us, Willis?

    • Jehosaphat
      Jehosaphat
      August 24, 2012 at 12:49 am | # | Reply

      She keeps promising to stab all the things, but none of the things have been stabbed!!! Except for everyone in Bone City of course, all the things in Bone City have been stabbed, just not with a sharp piece of metal.

      • Leorale
        Leorale
        August 24, 2012 at 1:02 am | # | Reply

        They’ve not been stabbed. They’ve been Joe’d.

        • Raticate5
          Raticate5
          August 24, 2012 at 7:02 pm | # | Reply

          That just changes the way that they scream.

          • Barf Ninjason
            Barf Ninjason
            August 25, 2012 at 12:41 am | # | Reply

            Gah…

          • LuckyStar7
            LuckyStar7
            August 26, 2012 at 11:16 am | # | Reply

            OH GOD

      • Tenn
        Tenn
        August 26, 2012 at 8:09 am | # | Reply

        After the Staffordshire branch of The Royal Society for Stabbing All Things declared the whole thing “a bit silly”, stabbing all things quickly went out of fashion. The very latest in stabbing is Stabbing One Single Thing Repeatedly, expected to be included in the 2016 Summer Olympics.

    • George
      George
      August 24, 2012 at 1:23 am | # | Reply

      Someone needs to do a fan art of Billie stabbing everything.

      • thomas0comer
        thomas0comer
        August 24, 2012 at 1:35 am | # | Reply

        That’s a lotta fanart.

        • Jacob
          Jacob
          August 25, 2012 at 1:51 pm | # | Reply

          Technically, all it needs to be is a picture of Billie stabbing Willis.

          • LuckyStar7
            LuckyStar7
            August 26, 2012 at 11:33 am | # | Reply

            Can Yotomoe draw it?

  9. Amaziboy
    Amaziboy
    August 24, 2012 at 12:10 am | # | Reply

    What experiences has Billie had?

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      August 24, 2012 at 12:10 am | # | Reply

      In shipping or stabbing?

      • ASP3CT
        ASP3CT
        August 24, 2012 at 12:13 am | # | Reply

        Let’s just say she has a wide array of experience in field of penetration.

        • Yotomoe
          Yotomoe
          August 24, 2012 at 12:29 am | # | Reply

          So after bieng “stabbed” by so many people she has learned to use it against others?

          • Drunken Nordmann
            Drunken Nordmann
            August 24, 2012 at 1:17 am | # | Reply

            Evolution just shouldn’t work this way.

      • thomas0comer
        thomas0comer
        August 24, 2012 at 12:14 am | # | Reply

        In shabbing or stipping?

  10. Raen
    Raen
    August 24, 2012 at 12:11 am | # | Reply

    …Billie, is there something you’d like to say about Ms. Lessik?

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      August 24, 2012 at 12:16 am | # | Reply

      “Yes Mistress” comes to mind.

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        August 24, 2012 at 12:24 am | # | Reply

        Don’t think of Billie in a maid outfit, don’t think of Ruth in a dominatrix gear. Better yet, don’t think of any fetish at this moment.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          August 24, 2012 at 12:40 am | # | Reply

          Now you’ve done it.

        • George
          George
          August 24, 2012 at 1:23 am | # | Reply

          DAMMIT AIZAT!

        • antiwesley
          antiwesley
          August 24, 2012 at 1:50 am | # | Reply

          I’ll jump on that ship for a nickel. And if that ship had a Mom, so would Mike. ;)

          • desolation0
            desolation0
            August 24, 2012 at 8:23 pm | # | Reply

            The Mothership

          • Wack'd
            Wack'd
            August 26, 2012 at 4:04 pm | # | Reply

            So Mike would bone Walkyverse!Billie, then.

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      August 24, 2012 at 12:26 am | # | Reply

      Well, it was canon in the Walkyverse…

      It’s only a matter of time.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        August 24, 2012 at 12:30 am | # | Reply

        and Booze.

      • George
        George
        August 24, 2012 at 1:24 am | # | Reply

        Your avatar makes me happy. I seriously love FE. Also, the thought of the character commenting on same-sex shipping is really funny to me for some reason.

        • Regalli
          Regalli
          August 24, 2012 at 4:24 pm | # | Reply

          Aww, thanks! She’s my favorite. And you’re right, just imagining Lyn shipping in general is hilarious.

          Now I have this image of her being a fangirl for some random ship like Florina/Wil or something. She and the Tactician (also a closet
          shipper for the cast, of course, since he/she puts them together for supports) stay up late discussing their various ships after she rejoins the party.

  11. Alechsa
    Alechsa
    August 24, 2012 at 12:12 am | # | Reply

    I’m pretty sure, not certain if it has been said or not, but Raidah and the others got pissed that Dana was taken from school by her father…. because Dana was the supply.

    That being said, Sarah DOES need to be the bigger person and just drop the past and ignore Raidah, letting the girl constantly push her buttons… that does NOT help anything and really? It keeps her connected to her brother. I wouldn’t be surprised if deep down, Sarah fears that she is exactly like him and living a lie of normalcy.

    • thomas0comer
      thomas0comer
      August 24, 2012 at 12:35 am | # | Reply

      Hard to drop it when the other person approaches you and actively harasses you over it a year later.

      • kschenke
        kschenke
        August 24, 2012 at 8:50 am | # | Reply

        Exactly. You can actually understand why Sarah has become even more introverted in this new school year if one of the first times she goes out in public she runs into the girls who will continue to make her feel bad about something that needed to be done.

      • Barf Ninjason
        Barf Ninjason
        August 25, 2012 at 12:46 am | # | Reply

        It’s not over a year later, it’s either about six or ten months later, depending on which midterms Sarah was talking about. Since Sarah had time to get acquainted with Dana’s friends and some time elapsed before she felt compelled to call Dana’s dad, I’d guess it’s been about six months. /nerdmode

        • thomas0comer
          thomas0comer
          September 1, 2012 at 1:08 pm | # | Reply

          Y’mean a year isn’t six months long? Not damn, I gotta get a new calendar!

    • Jason
      Jason
      August 24, 2012 at 2:10 pm | # | Reply

      Brother???

      • agentksilver
        agentksilver
        August 24, 2012 at 11:51 pm | # | Reply

        Yeah, this — what brother?

    • BlueMario
      BlueMario
      August 25, 2012 at 10:30 am | # | Reply

      *read as drop her pants

  12. Confuzor
    Confuzor
    August 24, 2012 at 12:17 am | # | Reply

    Joyce’s face in the last panel…

    • Jehosaphat
      Jehosaphat
      August 24, 2012 at 12:42 am | # | Reply

      I think.. I think she is plotting something!!! RUN AWAY!!!!

    • Sigma Octantis
      Sigma Octantis
      August 24, 2012 at 6:42 am | # | Reply

      Horny Joyce is horny….

      • Raticate5
        Raticate5
        August 24, 2012 at 7:04 pm | # | Reply

        That might actually do more damage to the universe than Billie stabbing all the things.

  13. Bugberry
    Bugberry
    August 24, 2012 at 12:20 am | # | Reply

    take me down to bone city, where the grass is green and the bones are dirty.

    • Oakley
      Oakley
      August 24, 2012 at 10:32 am | # | Reply

      If the grass is green I’d be a bit worried…

  14. Aizat
    Aizat
    August 24, 2012 at 12:22 am | # | Reply

    Hey, with the SS WalkyXDorothy(I couldn’t think of a better name) ship is taking in water, SS Billie still has a shot.

    • Charlie
      Charlie
      August 26, 2012 at 2:08 am | # | Reply

      Can it please be the USS Dorky?

      • Charlie
        Charlie
        August 26, 2012 at 2:09 am | # | Reply

        Am now facepalming my inner nerd for writing USS instead of SS.

  15. Ridureyu
    Ridureyu
    August 24, 2012 at 12:23 am | # | Reply

    Joyce has a point, actually. If you do the right thing regardless of whether or not the other person is being an ass, then you are still doing the right thing.

    • thomas0comer
      thomas0comer
      August 24, 2012 at 12:38 am | # | Reply

      Actually, she has three points; all on her triangle smile.

  16. Aeonitus
    Aeonitus
    August 24, 2012 at 12:25 am | # | Reply

    I don’t see Dina in the panel. I’m going to assume this means they’ve lost her.

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      August 24, 2012 at 12:29 am | # | Reply

      Next week, we find out Dina got bored and wandered off looking for dinosaurs, and Raidah and co. found her.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        August 24, 2012 at 12:31 am | # | Reply

        Dina is actually with another trio of girls entirely.

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          August 24, 2012 at 12:34 am | # | Reply

          You mean like Marcie for instance?

          • Yotomoe
            Yotomoe
            August 24, 2012 at 12:37 am | # | Reply

            no, the heathers. or the kankers…whichever’s worse

            • Luke
              Luke
              August 24, 2012 at 4:59 pm | # | Reply

              The Kankers, if they start teaching her.

            • Raticate5
              Raticate5
              August 24, 2012 at 7:06 pm | # | Reply

              I was thinking Charlie’s Angels.

  17. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    August 24, 2012 at 12:25 am | # | Reply

    Bone city sounds like the best cheesy porn ever.

    • lordphulish
      lordphulish
      August 24, 2012 at 5:20 am | # | Reply

      A porn parody of Dark City?

      • TheLastOutlaw
        TheLastOutlaw
        August 24, 2012 at 11:38 am | # | Reply

        Wow, when you think about it SO many fetishes could be catered to with a Dark City porn parody.

        I mean… I’m appalled, appalled that this is even being discussed. No, I’m not working on a script as we speak, that would be absurd.

        • Wack'd
          Wack'd
          August 26, 2012 at 4:06 pm | # | Reply

          Your print-out, sir.

      • Valdrax
        Valdrax
        August 25, 2012 at 4:16 am | # | Reply

        Sleep now.
        (with me.)

        Oh, geez I just remembered which one was Mr. Sleep… Abandon joke! Abandon joke!

  18. djangermouse
    djangermouse
    August 24, 2012 at 12:30 am | # | Reply

    Man billie would fuck the shit outta walky in a second that’s not even a question

    I don’t know what the fuck is the matter with sarah though jesus christ you literally punched someone in the literal fucking face, woman, the fuck is wrong with you?

    • Plasma Mongoose
      Plasma Mongoose
      August 24, 2012 at 12:42 am | # | Reply

      According to the gospel of Billie, punching leads to scissoring.

      • Yotomoe
        Yotomoe
        August 24, 2012 at 12:54 am | # | Reply

        so stabbing leads to fondling?

        • Plasma Mongoose
          Plasma Mongoose
          August 24, 2012 at 1:21 am | # | Reply

          Which leads to hate which leads to suffering…

          • Roborat
            Roborat
            August 24, 2012 at 2:34 pm | # | Reply

            Which leads to the dark side?

            • Raticate5
              Raticate5
              August 24, 2012 at 7:06 pm | # | Reply

              And cookies!

              • Spazman
                Spazman
                August 25, 2012 at 1:33 am | # | Reply

                screw it. If they have cookies, I’m TOTALLY going Dark Side.

      • George
        George
        August 24, 2012 at 1:26 am | # | Reply

        What does kicking lead to?

        • TheLastOutlaw
          TheLastOutlaw
          August 24, 2012 at 11:32 am | # | Reply

          Sore feet?

        • Usayasha
          Usayasha
          August 25, 2012 at 6:00 pm | # | Reply

          A foot fetish, and all actions associated with it.

          • TheLastOutlaw
            TheLastOutlaw
            August 25, 2012 at 10:18 pm | # | Reply

            Says the sock gravvy…

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      August 24, 2012 at 10:40 am | # | Reply

      I think Sarah’s problem is that she doesn’t say ‘fuck’ enough.

  19. Aizat
    Aizat
    August 24, 2012 at 12:32 am | # | Reply

    Thanks to the Internet, I’m not sure if Billie meant make out as in bury the hatchet or make out as in make out.

    • thomas0comer
      thomas0comer
      August 24, 2012 at 12:37 am | # | Reply

      Good idea, burying the weapon with the body. Wait, sorry, what were we talking about?

      • Drunken Nordmann
        Drunken Nordmann
        August 24, 2012 at 1:19 am | # | Reply

        Burying it so deep that they have to bury them with it.

  20. Blob Marley
    Blob Marley
    August 24, 2012 at 12:32 am | # | Reply

    That was mighty savvy of Joyce. I think I might be underselling her the way I keep telling people not to undersell Walky.

  21. Joe
    Joe
    August 24, 2012 at 12:35 am | # | Reply

    Nicely sniped, Joyce.
    I honestly would have expected her to freeze up at the idea of hatefucking.

    • badmartialarts
      badmartialarts
      August 24, 2012 at 12:41 am | # | Reply

      Joyce has already admitted to liking Twilight. And Twilight is a gateway book to True Blood.

      • Roborat
        Roborat
        August 24, 2012 at 2:35 pm | # | Reply

        And then next, to that abomination called 50 Shades of Grey.

        • Luke
          Luke
          August 24, 2012 at 4:52 pm | # | Reply

          I want to kill you for making me remember anything about that shitstorm of bile, they won’t find your body.

          • Pat
            Pat
            August 26, 2012 at 11:16 pm | # | Reply

            This books sounds *fascinating*.
            I really must read it.

        • Wack'd
          Wack'd
          August 26, 2012 at 4:07 pm | # | Reply

          That’s still an automatic punchline, right?

    • Jackson
      Jackson
      August 24, 2012 at 6:57 am | # | Reply

      They grow up so fast!

  22. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    August 24, 2012 at 12:39 am | # | Reply

    Bone City’s Main import is boners…then exports…then imports…

    • Blob Marley
      Blob Marley
      August 24, 2012 at 1:36 am | # | Reply

      You. I like you.

      • LuckyStar7
        LuckyStar7
        August 26, 2012 at 11:43 am | # | Reply

        WE LOVE YOU YOTOMOE STAY WITH US FOREVER

  23. Jehosaphat
    Jehosaphat
    August 24, 2012 at 12:45 am | # | Reply

    You don’t vacate Bone City. Bone City vacates you!

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      August 24, 2012 at 1:04 am | # | Reply

      and then enters you and then vacates you and then…

      • begbert2
        begbert2
        August 24, 2012 at 10:41 am | # | Reply

        Is this becoming a running gag? Or a cyclic one?

        • Zynkei
          Zynkei
          August 24, 2012 at 11:25 am | # | Reply

          Both. It’s becoming a running, cyclic gag on the hamster wheel of life, which has become detached from the framework of reality and is rolling down the road towards that dead horse people are always beating for some odd reason.

          • Spazman
            Spazman
            August 25, 2012 at 1:34 am | # | Reply

            Wait, we’re in Boner City….that’s not a dead horse!

            • Yotomoe
              Yotomoe
              August 25, 2012 at 4:18 pm | # | Reply

              but it is hung like one.

              • Usayasha
                Usayasha
                August 25, 2012 at 6:02 pm | # | Reply

                We should stop beating off this dead horse…

                • LuckyStar7
                  LuckyStar7
                  August 26, 2012 at 11:46 am | #

                  Why would you BEAT a dead horse? :P

                • Jehosaphat
                  Jehosaphat
                  August 26, 2012 at 8:10 pm | #

                  Wait, that’s not rigor mortis!!! The horse isn’t dead yet!

  24. gangler
    gangler
    August 24, 2012 at 12:55 am | # | Reply

    You should never punch people. Violence is never the answer. Because you’re a girl and you can’t hurt people with your violence. That’s why the right thing to do is to hire somebody to do your punching for you. Go apologize to Raidah for the way you insulted her with your grievous breach of punchiquette.

    • TheLastOutlaw
      TheLastOutlaw
      August 24, 2012 at 11:34 am | # | Reply

      Yea, unless something else happened between Dana’s dad taking her back home and the punch (beyond the verbal needling) Sarah was in the wrong for the punch. I think she handled Dana and her situation as best as it could have been handled but the punching was probably out of line.

      And she failed to yell “FALCON PUNCH!” when punching which is just another level of fail.

    • madd
      madd
      August 24, 2012 at 3:57 pm | # | Reply

      But Sarah’s there on a scholarship! Joyce needs to be more understanding of the situation. Sarah probably couldn’t afford Mike’s punching fees. Especially if he was to punch EVERYONE Sarah disliked!

      • gangler
        gangler
        August 25, 2012 at 7:44 am | # | Reply

        Mike does a lot of work pro bono and is always willing to negotiate prices. You wanna hire one of them highfalutin pugilists with their diploma on the wall that’s another story. Mike’s always there for the people when Big Punching doesn’t have the little man covered.

    • LuckyStar7
      LuckyStar7
      August 26, 2012 at 11:48 am | # | Reply

      A MIKE Gravatar saying ‘dont punch people’?!!

  25. Joebo
    Joebo
    August 24, 2012 at 1:09 am | # | Reply

    And again, “methinks she doth protest too much.”

  26. ReFLex76
    ReFLex76
    August 24, 2012 at 1:09 am | # | Reply

    I’m calling it: Joyce/Walky/Dorothy threesome.

    • BlueMario
      BlueMario
      August 25, 2012 at 10:36 am | # | Reply

      This. I’m not sure if the idea horrifies me, or appeals to me.
      Either way, this.

    • LuckyStar7
      LuckyStar7
      August 26, 2012 at 11:50 am | # | Reply

      THIS. HELL YES.

  27. Random Guy
    Random Guy
    August 24, 2012 at 1:13 am | # | Reply

    I’ve been to Bone City, the weather is terrible, and the streets are sticky.

    • Rex Hondo
      Rex Hondo
      August 24, 2012 at 8:10 am | # | Reply

      That’s why you should always wear a raincoat if you’re going to Bone City.

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        August 24, 2012 at 5:14 pm | # | Reply

        It’s subject to ‘flash flooding’.

  28. Ridureyu
    Ridureyu
    August 24, 2012 at 1:18 am | # | Reply

    “Be good, and you will be lonesome.”
    -Mark Twain

  29. Resne
    Resne
    August 24, 2012 at 1:49 am | # | Reply

    I was unaware Joyce could innuendo.

    • Oakley
      Oakley
      August 24, 2012 at 10:38 am | # | Reply

      insert Evil!Joyce reference here

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      August 24, 2012 at 10:43 am | # | Reply

      Everything Joyce says or does is innuendo; she’s just sometimes subtle about it. I mean, that business with the femurs? Oh yeah.

      • Rex Hondo
        Rex Hondo
        August 24, 2012 at 8:09 pm | # | Reply

        Remember, if it’s only innuendo, you’re still technically a virgin.

        • Resne
          Resne
          August 25, 2012 at 12:30 pm | # | Reply

          Only on Wednesday.

  30. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    August 24, 2012 at 2:32 am | # | Reply

    Good shot across the bows Joyce…didn’t know you had it in you. Billie didn’t like it a bit…which means she does want Walky? I just can’t see that ship. He is so ‘unaware’ and she is so self aware…how do they touch. As for Sarah, nope don’t apologize, you acted on the spur of the moment but that spur has been in your back for a year.

    • Jackson
      Jackson
      August 24, 2012 at 8:21 am | # | Reply

      Wait, Billie’s the self-aware one? Billie? The one who’s trying to get in tight with the cheerleaders and drink her way to the top of the social ladder?

    • thomas0comer
      thomas0comer
      August 24, 2012 at 11:45 am | # | Reply

      Excusable is different from acceptable. Apologizing is the right thing, because Raidah didn’t punch first or anything. Plus, it’ll leave Sarah with a sense of moral superiority that should last for weeks.

      • DagonXIII
        DagonXIII
        August 24, 2012 at 3:25 pm | # | Reply

        An all-natural high!

      • Historyman68
        Historyman68
        August 25, 2012 at 1:50 am | # | Reply

        That’s a sales pitch I think Sarah would buy!

  31. billygoatofdoom
    billygoatofdoom
    August 24, 2012 at 2:34 am | # | Reply

    Don’t know if anyone out there’s voiced this yet, but I’ve just now started to suspect that Joyce’s shipping of Walky/Billie may eventually lead Billie to start noticing things that aren’t there between her and Walky. And all too soon she’ll find herself questioning her feelings for him…

    I actually once did something similar to one of my friends.

    • BlueMario
      BlueMario
      August 25, 2012 at 10:39 am | # | Reply

      You, sir, now have my respect. Or disgust. Depends on if the friend deserved it. Eitherway, this.

  32. Raine
    Raine
    August 24, 2012 at 2:39 am | # | Reply

    A joke!… I NEEDED THIS.

  33. Timothy T.
    Timothy T.
    August 24, 2012 at 2:45 am | # | Reply

    Bone City, sister city of Dick City. http://gunshowcomic.com/353

  34. Aegon01
    Aegon01
    August 24, 2012 at 4:10 am | # | Reply

    Joyce 1
    Billie 0

  35. AJBulldis
    AJBulldis
    August 24, 2012 at 5:53 am | # | Reply

    Am I the only one who read this and started thinking Troll romance?

    • Jackson
      Jackson
      August 24, 2012 at 6:56 am | # | Reply

      No, but now that you point it out, yes.

    • Aegon01
      Aegon01
      August 24, 2012 at 10:52 am | # | Reply

      Nope. I thought about it too.

    • LuckyStar7
      LuckyStar7
      August 26, 2012 at 11:54 am | # | Reply

      BAD ROMANCE

      • Caelan
        Caelan
        August 27, 2012 at 1:59 pm | # | Reply

        TROLLMANCE

  36. narmenduke
    narmenduke
    August 24, 2012 at 6:20 am | # | Reply

    Did…Joyce just make a sexual reference?

  37. Brasca1
    Brasca1
    August 24, 2012 at 7:59 am | # | Reply

    By Billie’s logic she should make out with Ruth. Now that would be a choice, Billie or Walky. That being said I think Joyce is right about apologizing for hitting Raidah because that was uncalled for and perhaps Sarah might want to see someone about her anger problem.

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      August 24, 2012 at 10:46 am | # | Reply

      Radiah been calling for it for months, with a loudspeaker. Sarah still could use a formal chill pill, though; she is the one* character that we’ve seen react to problems with violence. I mean, awesome as it was, that was a baseball bat she was using that time.

      * making the natural assumption that Sarah is Amazigirl.

      • Greenygal
        Greenygal
        August 24, 2012 at 12:45 pm | # | Reply

        The one character? Even leaving Amazi-girl out of it, Joe would like to have a word about his date with Joyce. (Which, as somebody pointed out upthread, makes it ironic that Joyce is the one saying that you should apologize for hitting people.)

        • gangler
          gangler
          August 25, 2012 at 7:57 am | # | Reply

          Ruth probably has a couple things to say about a certain cheerleader’s floor meeting conduct as well.

    • DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
      DudeMyDadOwnsADealership
      August 26, 2012 at 4:17 pm | # | Reply

      It’s worth mentioning that Ruth’s beef with Billie may have more in common with Raidah’s beef with Sarah than anyone realizes.

      Taking the “Make out already, you two!” line a step too literally aside, I’m afraid this may be Homer Simpson accurately predicting the pollution in Springfield’s atmosphere would break down Bart’s killer comet to the size of a Chihuahua’s head all over again…

  38. Amphankh
    Amphankh
    August 24, 2012 at 9:09 am | # | Reply

    Gotta give Joyce credit for finally redeeming herself and sticking by good principles.

  39. Bill
    Bill
    August 24, 2012 at 9:24 am | # | Reply

    You can always tell which girl on the playground likes you. She’s the one throwing rocks at you from the other end!

  40. vlademir1
    vlademir1
    August 24, 2012 at 9:55 am | # | Reply

    Sorry Joyce, I think you’re shipping the wrong Walkerton with Billie for her tastes.

    • sun tzu
      sun tzu
      August 24, 2012 at 5:04 pm | # | Reply

      Nah, Billie is bisexual, so…
      *compares Billie’s perception of Walky to her perception of Sal*
      …Never mind. Wrong Walkerton indeed.

  41. SplashBoogie
    SplashBoogie
    August 24, 2012 at 10:22 am | # | Reply

    I like how everyone passed on the fact that Sarah said she’s “vacating” Bone City

    Which implies she’s had residence there before and is now leaving.

    • LuckyStar7
      LuckyStar7
      August 26, 2012 at 11:56 am | # | Reply

      EWWW
      I noticed that and wasn’t gonna say anything, but now…

  42. Dr.Z
    Dr.Z
    August 24, 2012 at 11:32 am | # | Reply

    But…

    Bone City needs you, Sara!

  43. TK
    TK
    August 24, 2012 at 12:11 pm | # | Reply

    Is… is that something OTHER than complete innocence in Joyce’s Reaction?

    I feel that joy that only comes when you view the first tarnished spot on something pure …

  44. Led
    Led
    August 24, 2012 at 1:21 pm | # | Reply

    Oh, I read this comic and pressed “random”, it showed me another comic about Joyce shipping Walky with Billie :D

  45. Animal
    Animal
    August 24, 2012 at 2:22 pm | # | Reply

    <— Mayor of Bone City.

    • Crumplepunch
      Crumplepunch
      August 24, 2012 at 2:22 pm | # | Reply

      Can’t fight city hall.

    • madd
      madd
      August 24, 2012 at 4:04 pm | # | Reply

      Ooohhhhh … can I be the Sheriff?

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        August 24, 2012 at 5:12 pm | # | Reply

        Who ‘shot’ the Sheriff in the face has a whole new meaning in this city. :D

        • Rex Hondo
          Rex Hondo
          August 24, 2012 at 8:12 pm | # | Reply

          I really, really worry about anybody who wants the job of county coroner, though.

          • Animal
            Animal
            August 25, 2012 at 5:39 pm | # | Reply

            That would be my first wife.

  46. penguintruth
    penguintruth
    August 24, 2012 at 2:31 pm | # | Reply

    Boner City? Isn’t that right next to Cooter Canyon? I hear Mike set up shop there on Your Mom Street. Amazingly, the rent was a nickel.

    • madd
      madd
      August 24, 2012 at 4:06 pm | # | Reply

      Actually,I read that it was closer to Dick City, which has been trying to annex Cooter Canyon for years.

  47. cwDeici
    cwDeici
    August 24, 2012 at 3:12 pm | # | Reply

    Another alternative might have been switching rooms with one of the other girls… if they liked her that much they would’ve said yes.

    Well, maybe Sarah can get a job with her ex-friend’s father later on.

  48. cwDeici
    cwDeici
    August 24, 2012 at 3:13 pm | # | Reply

    if they were really as good friends as they said of course, and don’t place too much on the common sense of status quo.

  49. Ray
    Ray
    August 24, 2012 at 4:06 pm | # | Reply

    Were these people more likable when they were in the Walky! comic? Willis has mentioned not using Malaya in Dumbing because he’s still finding his footing with her and making the parallel universe version of her at this point would throw him off, but hell, half the female cast of Dumbing are already bitter and hostile to everything for no apparent reason, what the hell do we need Malaya for?

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      August 24, 2012 at 5:11 pm | # | Reply

      Of the major characters I can think of?

      Raidah, to the best of my knowledge, is new or was a very minor character in the Walkyverse. Dana was a background one as well.
      Billie was ill-adjusted from the start, but I’m pretty sure she only really became a major character after Ruth died. She was a heavy drinker before, though.
      Ruth was always messed up, but I think she was more bitter and depressed, as opposed to here where she’s kind of evil.
      Joyce had issues, but was WAY better with people from It’s Walky! on. Before, though? CRAZY STALKER. Near-yandere levels. This is actually BETTER than she was in Roomies, because she doesn’t cling onto the first one she meets and never let go.
      Sarah? To the best of our knowledge, she was pretty much always a business-first lawyer type, but without the backstory.
      Sal is less angsty and more “does not like people” here than in Walky.
      I don’t subscribe to J&W, so I can’t say much about Dorothy, especially since it’s unfinished.
      Amazi-Girl is always fabulous.
      Dina… may have been slightly better-socialized in Walky, but was also REALLY bad with relationships. She was the one who dated Mike by keeping him continually drunk, if you read back to the start of the dating story.
      Robin’s probably been one of the biggest changes, since she’s now actually kind of serious and uptight.
      Roz seems a bit less obnoxious here, probably because we haven’t heard her opinions on sex addiction’s existence.

  50. BrunDeign
    BrunDeign
    August 24, 2012 at 4:41 pm | # | Reply

    Oooooo girl got some SASS.

  51. Sporky
    Sporky
    August 24, 2012 at 6:01 pm | # | Reply

    Joyce is quickly becoming the most interesting character in this comic. In some ways she’s even more sheltered than the original Joyce, but in other ways she seems a lot less naive.

    • Zephindabius
      Zephindabius
      August 25, 2012 at 12:50 pm | # | Reply

      First- I am surprised a sheltered girl like Joyce understands the concept of “bone city”, especially under such minimal context.

      Second- she was appalled by the idea of premarital relations in her women’s studies course- so why is she suggesting it as an alternative for her friend now?

      Third- THAT FACE. That does not seem like a Joyce face.

      • Sharogen
        Sharogen
        August 26, 2012 at 11:08 am | # | Reply

        This is actually pretty common among home schooled people. The only thing is that they are normally more self-conscious and it takes a long time for them to come out of there shells. However once their comfortable they can throw banter like this back and forth with the best of them, sometimes better.

        There’s a reason why repressed Catholics are crazy. :P

      • LuckyStar7
        LuckyStar7
        August 26, 2012 at 12:01 pm | # | Reply

        PREMARITAL HANKY-PANKY!!!
        Just getting it out of my system.

  52. Tom Speelman
    Tom Speelman
    August 24, 2012 at 6:22 pm | # | Reply

    Bone City: your getaway destination for all your Hatefucking needs.

  53. Rex Hondo
    Rex Hondo
    August 24, 2012 at 8:15 pm | # | Reply

    I don’t remember, and don’t have time to comb the archives at the moment, but has Joyce apologized to Joe for all the punching on their date yet? Y’know, since she’s all about doing the right thing?

    • Riku
      Riku
      August 24, 2012 at 8:22 pm | # | Reply

      That was different. There was a prior understanding that impure thoughts = punching

      • TheLastOutlaw
        TheLastOutlaw
        August 24, 2012 at 8:33 pm | # | Reply

        Her fists were instruments of the Lord if I remember her attitude at the time.

  54. Nexev
    Nexev
    August 24, 2012 at 10:15 pm | # | Reply

    So I am assuming Joyce apologized to Joe offscreen.

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      August 26, 2012 at 9:10 pm | # | Reply

      As noted above, those were the fists of God. And when God punches you, he doesn’t apologize to you; you have to apologize to him.

  55. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    August 25, 2012 at 1:05 am | # | Reply

    Billy is very self-aware Jackson. She’s so self aware that she hasn’t time to be aware of much else.

  56. Raen
    Raen
    August 25, 2012 at 10:53 pm | # | Reply

    …this is the second time Billie’s brought up lesbian sex to Joyce…

  57. JA
    JA
    August 26, 2012 at 3:53 pm | # | Reply

    Joyce made a comment about sex, and it wasn’t about premarital hanky panky.

    I’m impressed.

  58. 'Los
    'Los
    August 27, 2012 at 9:06 am | # | Reply

    We finally get to see your long alluded plans for Sarah! ::squees:: (but manly like)

  59. HLY
    HLY
    November 23, 2012 at 8:49 am | # | Reply

    ah, the return of evil-joyce

  60. Darren
    Darren
    February 2, 2013 at 8:09 pm | # | Reply

    And then Billie’s phrase took on a whole new meaning….

    • TJ Baltimore
      TJ Baltimore
      February 9, 2013 at 10:59 am | # | Reply

      YES!

  61. nothri
    nothri
    June 4, 2013 at 3:54 am | # | Reply

    And all this time later (SPOILERS!) this remains highly amusing considering what’s going to happen to Ruth and Billie

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