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JULY 17

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by David on November 6, 2012 at 12:01 am
  • 06 - Strange Beerfellows

└ Tags: ethan, joyce

Discussion (206) ¬

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  1. hinoteoni
    hinoteoni
    November 6, 2012 at 12:01 am | # | Reply

    WELP

    • Liam
      Liam
      November 6, 2012 at 12:07 am | # | Reply

      that avatar finishes the sentence for you

      • waldosan
        waldosan
        November 6, 2012 at 3:29 am | # | Reply

        joyce, you’re messed up… but still oddly cute… i wonder if the no crazy rule works for blonds?

  2. David Herbert
    David Herbert
    November 6, 2012 at 12:02 am | # | Reply

    And then she wakes up with damp sheets.

    • Clark
      Clark
      November 6, 2012 at 12:05 am | # | Reply

      I’m guessing it’s just a dream too.

      • Prior Semblance
        Prior Semblance
        November 6, 2012 at 12:10 am | # | Reply

        Well I’d hope so since she has magically switched beds from the last page.

        • thelastnerd
          thelastnerd
          November 6, 2012 at 1:59 am | # | Reply

          Very observant, this one.

          • ryu
            ryu
            November 6, 2012 at 9:56 am | # | Reply

            I noticed the mirror dresser, and said, “hey, that doesn’t belong in a college dorm! i should know!”

        • Geegles
          Geegles
          November 6, 2012 at 11:39 am | # | Reply

          And since that building appears to have some significant structural faults…

      • ShadowWing Tronix
        ShadowWing Tronix
        November 6, 2012 at 12:11 am | # | Reply

        That or the campus is currently warping space/time, and this is the wrong universe for that.

        • NCP19
          NCP19
          November 6, 2012 at 12:15 am | # | Reply

          Ethan not being gay warps space/time. This is why you don’t break canon, even in dreams.

        • Aydr
          Aydr
          November 6, 2012 at 12:51 am | # | Reply

          …the question is, did Willis ever confirm that none of the characters from this universe wouldn’t ever switch universes to one where stuff like universe switching can happen…?

          • Wixvhen
            Wixvhen
            November 6, 2012 at 1:02 am | # | Reply

            True enough point. I mean look at the aliens and such, they’re not even ‘real’. Imagine what other changes could take place here.

        • Furie
          Furie
          November 6, 2012 at 4:00 am | # | Reply

          Depends how hard and fast Ethan re-entered the closet. Chances are this is real and he caused a mini-wormhole to appear on campus.

          Can’t wait to see how Joyce treats Ethan when she wakes up. If she’s a typical woman he’ll get the blame for what she dreamt. Considering her ordeal at the end of book one, that may be pretty bad for Ethan.

          • Tualha
            Tualha
            November 6, 2012 at 4:41 am | # | Reply

            Wow, sexist much?

            • Somewhere, Definitely
              Somewhere, Definitely
              November 6, 2012 at 5:40 am | # | Reply

              Is it still sexist if it’s true? I suppose it could be. Associating negative personality traits with gender, even if a large amount of people share the same experience and can be called upon to validate the aforementioned negative traits… it’s still a blanket observation upon a very large and diverse group. It can’t be proven as a concrete fact no matter how many people come forward to testify its authenticity, because there’s always going to be an exception with individuals.

              On the other hand… humans in general are predisposed towards avoiding blame. Both men and women are just as likely to attribute their problems to another person, and since the user Furie doesn’t specifically say that a typical man wouldn’t do the same thing. His or her statement COULD still be considered correct.

              One could assume it’s a sexist statement, but it would only be an assumption. Without further information on the user Furie’s personal views, we can only guess as to his or her actual meaning. Unless the user Tualha is sexist, in which case he or she is sensitive to any remarks involving the subject and on the look out for them. Do people often find what they look for even if it isn’t necessarily there? Reading too far into imagined tones of voice within written text? Do I speculate far too much on why people get offended over stupid bull****? Perhaps. More speculation may be required.

              • Mercury
                Mercury
                November 6, 2012 at 7:14 am | # | Reply

                This is the best analysis of a three-word comment.

                • Crotonhurst
                  Crotonhurst
                  November 6, 2012 at 7:51 am | #

                  ^this

                • Rowen Morland
                  Rowen Morland
                  November 6, 2012 at 8:44 am | #

                  The only thing missing was “OBJECTION!”

              • GreenVelvetCake
                GreenVelvetCake
                November 6, 2012 at 8:24 am | # | Reply

                No, it’s sexist.

                • ryu
                  ryu
                  November 6, 2012 at 9:58 am | #

                  your icon makes this all the better.

              • begbert2
                begbert2
                November 6, 2012 at 10:42 am | # | Reply

                I think more speculation is required. Best get started!

              • Axel Bordelon
                Axel Bordelon
                November 6, 2012 at 11:49 pm | # | Reply

                Can we be friends?

            • name
              name
              November 6, 2012 at 10:38 pm | # | Reply

              How is it sexist? Way to say nothing and expect it to mean someting. This comic is a bit disturbing (the night invasion, the weird sexual reveral, etc.), but you are a twit begging for attention.

              • kiapdx
                kiapdx
                November 7, 2012 at 12:34 am | # | Reply

                S/he was saying that the previous comment, that the “typical woman” would blame this dream on Ethan and get mad at him, is sexist. They were not commenting on the comic, they were commenting on someone else’ comment.

                It was a pretty sexist comment. I don’t think I know any girls/women who, if they had a sexual dream, would get mad at the guy in it, whether they be religious, virgins, or none of the above.

          • Kryss LaBryn
            Kryss LaBryn
            November 6, 2012 at 10:01 am | # | Reply

            I expect it’s rather more that he’s really there and saying that, but she’s still half asleep and dreaming an entirely different context from what he means.

            Mind you, I think most people who wake up to find the object of their desire in their bedroom in the middle of the night saying “I’m here because you want me to have sex with you” aren’t going to be expecting that to end with “–and I can’t. Ever. Because I’m gay.”

      • G-Viral
        G-Viral
        November 6, 2012 at 12:25 am | # | Reply

        Dream? Ethan just slips out in the middle of the night while leaving Joyce on the wet patch and she THINKS it’s a dream. Then it turns out that it was Mike disguised as Ethan all along, the devious bastard.

        • Zanosuke Kurosaki
          Zanosuke Kurosaki
          November 6, 2012 at 1:08 am | # | Reply

          It would have to have involved drugs too, since that background is A. getting pretty trippy, and B. apparently her room back at home.

        • Exclamation Point
          Exclamation Point
          November 6, 2012 at 11:29 am | # | Reply

          What if it’s Ryan, and she’s only DREAMING its Ethan?

      • Kirt Dankmyer
        Kirt Dankmyer
        November 6, 2012 at 11:36 am | # | Reply

        Given that last panel in particular, yeah.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      November 6, 2012 at 12:06 am | # | Reply

      That dream IS pretty scary.

  3. Jen Aside
    Jen Aside
    November 6, 2012 at 12:02 am | # | Reply

    “I also secretly replaced your loft for ease of sexing.”

    • XMD
      XMD
      November 6, 2012 at 12:22 am | # | Reply

      Because Jesus is a carpenter, ladies.

    • LaurelRaven
      LaurelRaven
      November 6, 2012 at 1:16 am | # | Reply

      …that sounds SO Faz.

  4. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    November 6, 2012 at 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Ethan activated his magic card! Toon World!

    • Regalli
      Regalli
      November 6, 2012 at 12:12 am | # | Reply

      He has the Toon Skull now, for proper boning.

    • addude
      addude
      November 6, 2012 at 12:19 am | # | Reply

      Summon Toon Blue Eye White Dragon

  5. Joe H
    Joe H
    November 6, 2012 at 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Don’t worry, Joyce, you’re allowed to deny these urges, Ethan won’t be the least bit offended.

  6. Kafloobop
    Kafloobop
    November 6, 2012 at 12:03 am | # | Reply

    I kind of thought the clock tower looked like it was screaming. Now all I can think of is that tower watching them, the whole time, horrified.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      November 6, 2012 at 12:04 am | # | Reply

      I think it looks like it wants to eat them.

      • Valdrax
        Valdrax
        November 6, 2012 at 3:59 am | # | Reply

        Now I’m imagining OM NOM NOM NOM to the tune of Big Ben’s chimes.

        • horerczy
          horerczy
          November 8, 2012 at 5:20 am | # | Reply

          thank you for that mental song. it’s epic

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      November 6, 2012 at 12:09 am | # | Reply

      Clock Tower:PREMARITAL HANKY PANKY!!!!!

      • Plasma Mongoose
        Plasma Mongoose
        November 6, 2012 at 1:36 am | # | Reply

        Cannot sleep, clock will eat me.

        • Aizat
          Aizat
          November 6, 2012 at 3:45 am | # | Reply

          CLOCKS DON’T WORK THAT WAY! GOOD NIGHT!

  7. otusasio451
    otusasio451
    November 6, 2012 at 12:03 am | # | Reply

    …Well, that escalated quickly.

    • Resne
      Resne
      November 6, 2012 at 12:24 am | # | Reply

      I can think of something else she wants to escalate quicker.

      • DaJoshMaster
        DaJoshMaster
        November 6, 2012 at 4:11 am | # | Reply

        I can think of something else she wants quick!

  8. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    November 6, 2012 at 12:03 am | # | Reply

    And then the clock tower eats them.

    • Zitseidu
      Zitseidu
      November 6, 2012 at 10:58 am | # | Reply

      Actually had a dream like that once, this would have been over 20 years ago. There was also a giant skeleton in a leathers and chains, with a frying pan trying to cook people.

  9. Xartarin
    Xartarin
    November 6, 2012 at 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Wait, huh, what? Dreams? The clock king?

  10. Platypus
    Platypus
    November 6, 2012 at 12:04 am | # | Reply

    You have just entered… The Twilight Zone.

  11. Mkvenner
    Mkvenner
    November 6, 2012 at 12:04 am | # | Reply

    So she had a libido all along.

    • sun tzu
      sun tzu
      November 6, 2012 at 1:30 am | # | Reply

      She admitted to having a libido pretty early on (see her date with Joe). She just believes it’s evil.

      • Mancuso
        Mancuso
        November 6, 2012 at 7:06 am | # | Reply

        It’s the Evilibido. Libidevilo. Libelvodil. Bidlevi… in any case, it’s baaaaad.

        • Joe
          Joe
          November 6, 2012 at 8:53 am | # | Reply

          Libevil.

        • Kryss LaBryn
          Kryss LaBryn
          November 6, 2012 at 10:07 am | # | Reply

          However, she still seems perfectly willing to give in to it so long as no one finds out. That seems… I don’t think you get to yell “Premarital hanky panky!!” at anyone else and act all outraged and indignant if one is perfectly willing to indulge oneself, so long as you can pretend one didn’t.

          –Hypocritical. Yeah, that’s the word I’m looking for.

          • Eric Burns-White
            Eric Burns-White
            November 6, 2012 at 12:05 pm | # | Reply

            Not really. This is a dream. Things happen and decisions are made in dreams that you would never make when you were awake. Though in retrospect it feels like you were in control, your subconsciousness is really what’s in the driver’s seat.

            Joyce isn’t a hypocrite for dreaming about having sex. Her subconscious and unconscious mind are processing her feelings about having sex. That’s a major function of dreams, right there.

            What this is, if anything, is a subconscious realization that her physical desires aren’t as controlled as she thinks they are. See also the ominous nature of Ethan’s entrance, and the reversion to her childhood bed, and the way the venetian blinds echo bars. This dream has gotten into the prison of Joyce’s desires, tempting the church to engulf and consume her for following those desires.

            Reading the surface explanation into a sequence like this is generally a bad idea. And hypocrisy takes more than having the desire, even if that desire expresses in a dream.

            Whether or not this is a bellweather for actual, waking events? Well, we’lkl see what happens next.

        • Raticate5
          Raticate5
          November 6, 2012 at 10:35 am | # | Reply

          Libeezlebub, Mephilibidopheles

  12. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    November 6, 2012 at 12:04 am | # | Reply

    This Joyce is sure taking this better than the last one did.

    • Jon
      Jon
      November 6, 2012 at 12:22 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, some nice synchronization between the storyline here and at BBR.

    • Buckybone
      Buckybone
      November 6, 2012 at 2:27 am | # | Reply

      For the moment…wait until she wakes up.

  13. Scoops!
    Scoops!
    November 6, 2012 at 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Meanwhile, Ethan is dreaming about Roadblock.

    • sylvestrus
      sylvestrus
      November 6, 2012 at 12:06 am | # | Reply

      This is Ethan’s dream.

  14. Beachfox
    Beachfox
    November 6, 2012 at 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Ah. Dream. Thank god.

  15. Liam
    Liam
    November 6, 2012 at 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Lol, this is not how my dreams go.

  16. Pyr05
    Pyr05
    November 6, 2012 at 12:06 am | # | Reply

    “No, Joyce. Don’t question why your dorm room suddenly became your bedroom from home. Don’t ask me how I know what your room at home looks like.”

  17. diremoi
    diremoi
    November 6, 2012 at 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Tempux the Clock Demon of Lust has infiltrated your dreams, Joyce! Now he will scream silently as you dream of having premarital hanky panky with a gay man.

  18. Doctor_Who
    Doctor_Who
    November 6, 2012 at 12:07 am | # | Reply

    “Your dorm room wasn’t erotic enough, so we’ll be having our encounter here in Tim Burton’s head!…Wait, what’s that?…Okay, Mr. Burton has just informed me that I’ve been recast as Johnny Depp, and you are now Helena Bonham Carter. Here, slather on this makeup to make you look like a silent film character, but save plenty for me, alright? Mr. Elfman will be along momentarily to provide the soundtrack.”

    This post was just supposed to be that first sentence. It…got away from me, yeah.

    • GeekRyuu
      GeekRyuu
      November 6, 2012 at 12:44 am | # | Reply

      I just assumed it was one of those wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey kinda things.

      • DaJoshMaster
        DaJoshMaster
        November 6, 2012 at 4:12 am | # | Reply

        Nope that’s just what happens when Pinky Pie turns up.

        • Andrusi
          Andrusi
          November 6, 2012 at 9:31 am | # | Reply

          If anyone could determine the subtle differences between Pinkie Pie and a Time Lord, it’s Dorothy.

          /and then nobody can continue the chain

          • Muattles
            Muattles
            November 6, 2012 at 1:31 pm | # | Reply

            Challenge Accepted.

            Good thing Akane was around to continue the joke.

            • horerczy
              horerczy
              November 8, 2012 at 5:25 am | # | Reply

              And Zuko completed the challenge in record time.

  19. Chuck
    Chuck
    November 6, 2012 at 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Jeez Joyce, lay off the acid before going to sleep…

  20. Henry
    Henry
    November 6, 2012 at 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Well this just got positively Freudian…

    • L
      L
      November 6, 2012 at 8:02 pm | # | Reply

      Freud weeps at your misrepresentation of his theories :P

      • Henry
        Henry
        November 8, 2012 at 9:52 pm | # | Reply

        Theories are made to be misinterpreted!

  21. Tandel
    Tandel
    November 6, 2012 at 12:08 am | # | Reply

    That last panel made me think of Batman… Somehow his influence permeates through everything Willis creates in my mind.

  22. Azukar
    Azukar
    November 6, 2012 at 12:09 am | # | Reply

    I still think all this is completely real and not at all a dream or anything. Totz real :)

  23. Ragnal
    Ragnal
    November 6, 2012 at 12:12 am | # | Reply

    CALLED IT. :D

  24. MR C
    MR C
    November 6, 2012 at 12:13 am | # | Reply

    i’m confused is this a dream, or a reality, or both? what’s happening?

    if it’s a damn dream then both my predictions were wrong, dammit man TELL ME

    • Zorpheus
      Zorpheus
      November 6, 2012 at 1:39 am | # | Reply

      IS THIS THE REAL LIFE
      IS THIS JUST FANTASY

      • Buckybone
        Buckybone
        November 6, 2012 at 2:28 am | # | Reply

        CAUGHT IN A LANDSLIDE
        NO ESCAPE FROM REALITY

        • L
          L
          November 6, 2012 at 2:49 am | # | Reply

          OPEN YOUR EYES
          LOOK UP TO THE SKIES AND SEE

          • Aizat
            Aizat
            November 6, 2012 at 3:44 am | # | Reply

            Hey, I thought we did that yesterday. But what the heck, Ill do it anyway. I’M JUST A POOR BOY
            I NEED NO SYMPATHY

            • Wack'd
              Wack'd
              November 6, 2012 at 3:51 am | # | Reply

              BECAUSE I’M EASY CUM
              EASY GO

              • Aizat
                Aizat
                November 6, 2012 at 3:56 am | # | Reply

                LITTLE HIGH, LITTLE LOW

                • Kam
                  Kam
                  November 6, 2012 at 7:44 am | #

                  ANY WAY THE WIND BLOWS.
                  DOESN’T REALLY MATTER TO ME.

                • Harrowed
                  Harrowed
                  November 6, 2012 at 8:56 am | #

                  TO MEEEEEEE

                • Kryss LaBryn
                  Kryss LaBryn
                  November 6, 2012 at 10:10 am | #

                  MAMMA, JUST KILLED A MAN

                • Zitseidu
                  Zitseidu
                  November 6, 2012 at 10:39 am | #

                  PUT A GUN AGAINST HIS HEAD.
                  PULLED MY TRIGGER, NOW HE’S DEAD

                • Xydux
                  Xydux
                  November 6, 2012 at 10:48 am | #

                  MAMA, LIFE HAD JUST BEGUN

                • Kernanator
                  Kernanator
                  November 6, 2012 at 10:49 am | #

                  MAMA, LIFE HAD JUST BEGUN. BUT NOW I’VE GONE AND THROWN IT ALL AWAY.

                • Hewlett
                  Hewlett
                  November 6, 2012 at 3:37 pm | #

                  MAMA, OO-OO-OOOH
                  DIDN’T MEAN TO MAKE YOU CRY

                • vlademir1
                  vlademir1
                  November 6, 2012 at 6:07 pm | #

                  if i’m not back again this time tomorrow, carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters

                • lightsabermario
                  lightsabermario
                  November 6, 2012 at 7:19 pm | #

                  TOO LATE, MY TIME HAS COME

                • L
                  L
                  November 6, 2012 at 8:05 pm | #

                  SENDS SHIVERS DOWN MY SPINE
                  BODY’S ACHING ALL THE TIIIME…

                • MLBlue
                  MLBlue
                  November 6, 2012 at 11:02 pm | #

                  Goodbye everybody, Ive got to go, gonna leave
                  you all behind and face the truth…

                • Kernanator
                  Kernanator
                  November 10, 2012 at 1:38 am | #

                  MAMA, OO-OO-OOOO, I DON’T WANNA DIE. SOMETIMES WISH I’D NEVER BEEN BORN AT ALL.

    • Buckybone
      Buckybone
      November 6, 2012 at 2:30 am | # | Reply

      One of those dreams, if you know what I mean…

      • Spazman
        Spazman
        November 6, 2012 at 3:58 am | # | Reply

        a Legos vs. Transformers dream?

        those are awesome.

      • phlebas
        phlebas
        November 6, 2012 at 6:30 am | # | Reply

        One of those dreams where your subconscious realises that Ethan’s gay even if you haven’t consciously figured it out yet?

      • Andrusi
        Andrusi
        November 6, 2012 at 9:33 am | # | Reply

        She’s going to take off her clothes (for sexy purposes) and then suddenly it’ll turn out they’ve been in class all along?

  25. BlueOneTrunk
    BlueOneTrunk
    November 6, 2012 at 12:13 am | # | Reply

    Her bed changed. In the last comic, it was it’s normal bunk-bed self with Lucy probably at the bottom. Now it’s a non-bunk bed. Do they even make non bunk beds? I don’t think they do. Damn you Willis for inventing new types of beds!

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      November 6, 2012 at 12:25 am | # | Reply

      What would Lucy be doing there?

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        November 6, 2012 at 3:56 am | # | Reply

        Maybe she got kicked out of her apartment because she didn’t pay her rent on time and just hanging out until she finishes her novel?

  26. Jim
    Jim
    November 6, 2012 at 12:14 am | # | Reply

    Her room at home? That’s MY room NOW! What the hell are those two doing here!?

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      November 6, 2012 at 12:26 am | # | Reply

      I just imagine they’re literally on your bed and it’s pissing you off.

  27. thomas0comer
    thomas0comer
    November 6, 2012 at 12:15 am | # | Reply

    Panel 2: “I am a human sacrifice, your greatness.”

  28. Onomatopoeia
    Onomatopoeia
    November 6, 2012 at 12:16 am | # | Reply

    Thumpa-sprung.

  29. Melvin Schlock
    Melvin Schlock
    November 6, 2012 at 12:21 am | # | Reply

    Ethan’s preferences mean that Joyce could be in for a very rude awakening.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      November 6, 2012 at 12:23 am | # | Reply

      hopefully not literally.

  30. Wonder Wig
    Wonder Wig
    November 6, 2012 at 12:21 am | # | Reply

    I know how you can tell it’s a dream. The panel edges are all wibbly wobbly.

    • Jim
      Jim
      November 6, 2012 at 1:53 am | # | Reply

      No… I think he was having trouble with the line tool in PShop from drinking too much of Mike’s Hard Lemonade (yeah… THAT Mike! And it ain’t lemonade neither!)

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      November 6, 2012 at 10:48 am | # | Reply

      I like how they don’t get wibbly until halfway through the first panel, to avoid spoilers.

  31. Yotomoe
    Yotomoe
    November 6, 2012 at 12:22 am | # | Reply

    Especially not you. You knowing would be the worst.

  32. Jon
    Jon
    November 6, 2012 at 12:25 am | # | Reply

    Next comic, Sarah awakens. “OK, that’s answers ‘why’, but my next question is ‘how’. While answering, keep in mind this bat had a nice conversation with the last person who insisted Joyce wanted to have sex with him.”

  33. That Damn Rat
    That Damn Rat
    November 6, 2012 at 12:29 am | # | Reply

    …and that’s when she killed him. So he couldn’t talk.

  34. Ryan Balis
    Ryan Balis
    November 6, 2012 at 12:30 am | # | Reply

    that is the biggest mindfuck I’ve had this month

    • Spazman
      Spazman
      November 6, 2012 at 3:59 am | # | Reply

      considering that this is probably gonna be a sex dream, apt description.

  35. Vabolo
    Vabolo
    November 6, 2012 at 12:31 am | # | Reply

    “…No one can know.”

    And then Joyce produced a pistol equipped with a silencer, and promptly shot Ethan; through years of experience, the cleanup was as rapid and efficient as the shot. The cover? Impeccable.

    It would be weeks until the police found the body, and by then, Joyce would be in the French Indies, sipping a martini to the sunset.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      November 6, 2012 at 12:33 am | # | Reply

      after she bangs him, of course.

      • Aizat
        Aizat
        November 6, 2012 at 3:41 am | # | Reply

        So, death by snu-snu?

      • Spazman
        Spazman
        November 6, 2012 at 4:00 am | # | Reply

        after? No, this happens DURING.

    • Buckybone
      Buckybone
      November 6, 2012 at 2:32 am | # | Reply

      Also, Bill Murray was involved somehow.

      Wait, am I mixing my memes again?

      • Harry
        Harry
        November 6, 2012 at 8:02 am | # | Reply

        Your comment was just so much funnier since your av is Dina.

  36. Robert
    Robert
    November 6, 2012 at 12:32 am | # | Reply

    Welcome to my nightmare realm, my child…..Hope you have pleasant dreams……….

  37. Matt
    Matt
    November 6, 2012 at 12:38 am | # | Reply

    It felt so good when I did it with my penis! A girl let me do it, it literally just happened, havin’ sex can make a nice man out the meanest.

  38. SDHero
    SDHero
    November 6, 2012 at 12:39 am | # | Reply

    Wait, no, I’ve seen this one before! She’s not going crazy, she’s in a perfect dream world created by the Mad Hatter. Tomorrow she’s going to try and read a book, but it won’t make any sense!

    • Makkabee
      Makkabee
      November 6, 2012 at 1:15 am | # | Reply

      She’s a college student — you’ve just described at least a quarter of her textbooks.

      • vlademir1
        vlademir1
        November 6, 2012 at 6:12 pm | # | Reply

        That really depends on her class load and her pet subject. Considering what we’ve seen I’m not sure whether she’d follow one of her books or not just being a student… I’d predict partial comprehension.

  39. Kernanator
    Kernanator
    November 6, 2012 at 12:44 am | # | Reply

    Not even herself can know. That’s why she’s going to forget this ever happened.

    • Yotomoe
      Yotomoe
      November 6, 2012 at 12:46 am | # | Reply

      memory wipe x 2

  40. Cave
    Cave
    November 6, 2012 at 12:47 am | # | Reply

    I want to see more Jason

  41. John Madden
    John Madden
    November 6, 2012 at 12:48 am | # | Reply

    Well that was unexpected.

  42. Lumino
    Lumino
    November 6, 2012 at 12:51 am | # | Reply

    Called it!
    *For best results, imagine said in Mr. Popo’s voice.*

    • Kelly
      Kelly
      November 6, 2012 at 9:16 am | # | Reply

      That is hilarious.
      I have just been rewatching DBZ too…

  43. Mykelu
    Mykelu
    November 6, 2012 at 12:56 am | # | Reply

    Still kinda expecting Mike to pop in aaaaany second now.

  44. Drunken Nordmann
    Drunken Nordmann
    November 6, 2012 at 1:01 am | # | Reply

    I’ve overseen the words “with me” the first time I read the comic. “You want to have sex with you” sounded… strange.

  45. Makkabee
    Makkabee
    November 6, 2012 at 1:13 am | # | Reply

    Relax, Joyce. Except for the people who have seen you in the same room with Ethan or heard you talk about him, no one suspects a thing.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      November 6, 2012 at 1:39 am | # | Reply

      So that makes… everybody?

      • Makkabee
        Makkabee
        November 7, 2012 at 7:50 am | # | Reply

        Just everybody she knows. Complete strangers have no clue. She has the entire population of Minnesota completely fooled.

  46. Jehosaphat
    Jehosaphat
    November 6, 2012 at 1:16 am | # | Reply

    Somehow, I am thinking this isn’t a sexy dream. Thinking it might be related to the trauma of the rape attempt. :-(

    • Groove
      Groove
      November 6, 2012 at 4:16 am | # | Reply

      I was thinking it would be related to something similar that happened back at home. Otherwise I’m wondering why she’d be picturing it at home (assuming that is her room at home).

      • Kryss LaBryn
        Kryss LaBryn
        November 6, 2012 at 10:16 am | # | Reply

        I figure the dialogue is 100% real, but Joyce is still half asleep, and her mind is taking what he’s saying and wrapping a dream around it. She’s actually mumbling into a drool-soaked pillow and won’t properly wake up until he says “–can’t because I’m gay.”

        “Wait–WHAT?!”

  47. bunivasal
    bunivasal
    November 6, 2012 at 1:23 am | # | Reply

    Is this the part where her walls and floor turn into her coworkers and start chanting that she killed Fry?

    • L
      L
      November 6, 2012 at 2:54 am | # | Reply

      Don’t worry

      Bee happy

    • Spazman
      Spazman
      November 6, 2012 at 4:01 am | # | Reply

      if she killed Fry, what happened to–right, he’s doing House.

  48. Uniqueantique
    Uniqueantique
    November 6, 2012 at 1:26 am | # | Reply

    Agree, Joyce is not looking as though she is anticipating any fun out of this midnight dream encounter. Near rape attack memories coming through finally?

    • Jetstream
      Jetstream
      November 6, 2012 at 8:32 am | # | Reply

      Doubt it. That’s existential horror at the realization that the desire to have sex can’t be subsumed under the jesus.

  49. Lancer
    Lancer
    November 6, 2012 at 1:26 am | # | Reply

    Yea the first panel also conclusively shows it’s a dream. Note the fact that she’s in a bed… her own bed… not a bunk bed in a dorm room. Her own bed in her own room. I was briefly convinced it might not be, but yeaa…

  50. AsimovSideburns
    AsimovSideburns
    November 6, 2012 at 1:35 am | # | Reply

    And then she wakes up Joe’s bed.

    But Joe is sleeping in the floor like a gentleman.

    Because she pushed him out of bed after sleep-sexing him.

  51. C.
    C.
    November 6, 2012 at 1:39 am | # | Reply

    Joyce, why are you in your room?

  52. Wazat
    Wazat
    November 6, 2012 at 1:40 am | # | Reply

    I refute the assumption that this is a dream. Clearly Joyce was teleported to her home. By science.

    And her home is melting. Also thanks to the wonders of science!

  53. Jim
    Jim
    November 6, 2012 at 1:57 am | # | Reply

    Teleported by Creation Science!

  54. Darth Cariss
    Darth Cariss
    November 6, 2012 at 1:57 am | # | Reply

    I wonder if it’ll be a trick and this is actually Ethan’s dream. That’d be neat.

    • penguintruth
      penguintruth
      November 6, 2012 at 4:38 pm | # | Reply

      If it were Ethan’s dream, Joyce would be replaced with Batman.

      • Andiemus
        Andiemus
        November 6, 2012 at 4:48 pm | # | Reply

        If it were anyone’s dream anyone would be replaced by batman.

        • Kintrex
          Kintrex
          November 6, 2012 at 6:03 pm | # | Reply

          Spoiler alert: they’re both Batman.

  55. Anonymous
    Anonymous
    November 6, 2012 at 1:58 am | # | Reply

    Welcome to the cragged shame pits of the lustwolves.

    • Kernanator
      Kernanator
      November 6, 2012 at 3:00 am | # | Reply

      Welp, that’s it. That’s the best possible comment anyone could make for this comic. Show’s over, everybody, come back tomorrow.

      • Anonymous
        Anonymous
        November 6, 2012 at 4:06 pm | # | Reply

        I’m *blushing*

    • Aizat
      Aizat
      November 6, 2012 at 3:40 am | # | Reply

      We’re not werewolves. We’re lustwolves, a species that is possessed by the spirit of passion and BLOODLUST.

  56. The Pink Ninja
    The Pink Ninja
    November 6, 2012 at 2:12 am | # | Reply

    Yeah, this is how these things work. Even if you stop believing in them you stil have to keep up appearances.

  57. Aesir
    Aesir
    November 6, 2012 at 2:48 am | # | Reply

    This will be revealed to be a suppressed memory of Joyce’s of someone she knew back home, who she’s replaced with Ethan, and it was something traumatic.

    Just wait and see!

    • Groove
      Groove
      November 6, 2012 at 4:22 am | # | Reply

      Yep, my thoughts exactly. As horrible as that is.

  58. Raoullefere
    Raoullefere
    November 6, 2012 at 3:01 am | # | Reply

    Now I’m wondering if Willis ever read the Swamp Thing episode Etrigan (the Demon) guested in. If so, we may be in for a nasty turn.

  59. Originalslugboy
    Originalslugboy
    November 6, 2012 at 3:07 am | # | Reply

    Look here. It’s two tickets to that thing you like. Look again. Now I’m on a horse [moo] …cow.

  60. Aizat
    Aizat
    November 6, 2012 at 3:34 am | # | Reply

    Next thing Joyce knows, Ethan suddenly became Freddy Krueger.

  61. Aizat
    Aizat
    November 6, 2012 at 3:36 am | # | Reply

    Hello Joyce. Look at your man, now back to me. Squint at your man, now look at me in HD.

  62. Aizat
    Aizat
    November 6, 2012 at 3:54 am | # | Reply

    Submitted for your approval: the case of one Joyce Brown. Put on Earth naive, singleminded and an optimistic Christian. In a moment, she will experience something new, wrought by Ethan Spiegel, a toy enthusiast. And, though, it’s a fact that both of them should have stood in bed, they will tempt all the fates by moving into the cold, gray dawn of the Dream Zone.

    • Spazman
      Spazman
      November 6, 2012 at 4:03 am | # | Reply

      despite the fact that they should have stood in bed, they will now lie down in bed. together. repeatedly.

      • Kryss LaBryn
        Kryss LaBryn
        November 6, 2012 at 10:19 am | # | Reply

        “Whoops, I tripped. Oh no, I tripped again. Whoops…”

  63. EspanolBot
    EspanolBot
    November 6, 2012 at 4:03 am | # | Reply

    Joyce: I was feeling done in, couldn’t win. I’d only ever held hands before…
    Ethan: You mean you’d only ever held hands?
    Joyce: I felt there’s no use getting, into heavy petting. It only leads to trouble… And seat wetting…

    • vlademir1
      vlademir1
      November 6, 2012 at 6:24 pm | # | Reply

      Joyce: Now all I want to know is how to go. I’ve tasted blood and I want more.
      Sarah and Dorothy: More, more, more.
      I’ll put up no resistance, I want to stay the distance
      I’ve got an itch to scratch, I need assistance:

  64. DaJoshMaster
    DaJoshMaster
    November 6, 2012 at 4:14 am | # | Reply

    Fapfapfapfapfapfapfap.

  65. Dr.Z
    Dr.Z
    November 6, 2012 at 4:16 am | # | Reply

    Interesting dream.

  66. Aizat
    Aizat
    November 6, 2012 at 4:34 am | # | Reply

    Wait, in panel 4, Ethan just transformed into Slender.

  67. T Campbell
    T Campbell
    November 6, 2012 at 5:28 am | # | Reply

    Joyce’s face in panel 3 is one of the more effective ones in DoA so far.

  68. Jimmy
    Jimmy
    November 6, 2012 at 6:24 am | # | Reply

    Queue the Twilight Zone music.

  69. Volkai
    Volkai
    November 6, 2012 at 6:33 am | # | Reply

    Don’t think that’s gonna be a problem, Joyce. Well, not unless you start telling people yourself.

  70. Tenn
    Tenn
    November 6, 2012 at 7:30 am | # | Reply

    I’d say it’s a pretty normal dream for someone like Joyce.

    The weird part is, it’s actually Dina’s dream.

    • Alex Stritar
      Alex Stritar
      November 6, 2012 at 11:33 pm | # | Reply

      If it was, I’d expect more dinosaurs.

  71. Zuche
    Zuche
    November 6, 2012 at 7:49 am | # | Reply

    This week isn’t going to be pretty.

  72. Count Dracula
    Count Dracula
    November 6, 2012 at 8:15 am | # | Reply

    “I have a confession to make Joyce. It is something I have been hiding from you as long as we’ve known each other. My real name is Dr. Strange, Sorceror Supreme, and I just transported you to the sex dimension. I apologize that I did not come out about this to you sooner. I am sorry about that Joyce.”

  73. Nexev
    Nexev
    November 6, 2012 at 8:15 am | # | Reply

    Like FIRE
    HELLFIRE

    There’s fire in her skin…

    • Andiemus
      Andiemus
      November 6, 2012 at 4:45 pm | # | Reply

      This burning desire is turning her tooooooo sin. Mea culpa.

  74. nitpicker
    nitpicker
    November 6, 2012 at 8:49 am | # | Reply

    I can’t help but recall when when Willis said Joyce was autobiographical.

  75. Harrowed
    Harrowed
    November 6, 2012 at 9:00 am | # | Reply

    Oh Joyce, as one of my religious friends once said. “It’s not that you want you want to have sex, darn near everybody wants to. It’s the fact that you don’t do it.”

  76. Notebooked
    Notebooked
    November 6, 2012 at 9:01 am | # | Reply

    It’s not a dream, Joyce’s house is just a bouncy castle.

    …Which is going to make the sex a lot more mid-air-y and entertaining.

    • Kryss LaBryn
      Kryss LaBryn
      November 6, 2012 at 10:21 am | # | Reply

      *Flashes back to the Dark Shadows movie*

      • Notebooked
        Notebooked
        November 6, 2012 at 4:27 pm | # | Reply

        That one was a bit weird for me. Too many vampire blowjobs and inconsistencies in mood.
        I’m a sucker for redundant titles though. Dark Shadows, Lethal Weapon…

  77. Cooledd4
    Cooledd4
    November 6, 2012 at 10:47 am | # | Reply

    If it wasn’t a dream…PLOT TWIST MAYBE? o3o

  78. ping
    ping
    November 6, 2012 at 11:10 am | # | Reply

    Since Joyce is realizing stuff in this dreams I am calling a “But I won’t ’cause I’m gay” from Ethan. After all, Sarah did make a (cryptic) comment about it when Joyce was around (something about “you’re safe unless you have an Y-chromosome”).

  79. Kaci
    Kaci
    November 6, 2012 at 11:58 am | # | Reply

    I would like to point out! (and hope someone else catches it)

    in the last comic she was in a bunk bed

    now she is not

    dream is obvious.

  80. Locke
    Locke
    November 6, 2012 at 1:47 pm | # | Reply

    Ethan: Sex Genie

  81. kschenke
    kschenke
    November 6, 2012 at 3:32 pm | # | Reply

    Is she saying no one must know about them HAVING sex or that she WANTS to have sex. If the latter, then that’s kind of sad. I mean, to feel immense shame for even being tempted to do something you think is wrong even if you resist that temptation… what a sad way to live. (and I grew up Catholic)

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      November 6, 2012 at 3:52 pm | # | Reply

      I think it’s the latter. And it’s a sad way to live.

  82. kschenke
    kschenke
    November 6, 2012 at 3:36 pm | # | Reply

    Also, of COURSE it’s a dream.

    • begbert2
      begbert2
      November 6, 2012 at 3:52 pm | # | Reply

      Nonsense; what makes you think that?

    • Mogotoo
      Mogotoo
      November 6, 2012 at 4:37 pm | # | Reply

      Well, either that or this is Willis’s way of introducing the Cheese to the Dumbiverse.

  83. Gargamel
    Gargamel
    November 6, 2012 at 4:29 pm | # | Reply

    Abomination!

  84. Krashthemystro
    Krashthemystro
    November 6, 2012 at 7:56 pm | # | Reply

    Gotta be a dream. So out of character.

    • Rognik
      Rognik
      November 6, 2012 at 10:33 pm | # | Reply

      What was your first clue?

  85. Rachel
    Rachel
    November 7, 2012 at 2:51 am | # | Reply

    I’m so confused… she was just in a bunk bed in the last panel. Now it’s a twin bed. Or I’m already high and I don’t know it.

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